WEBVTT - Thrilling Thursday - All Things Dynamite 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:13.080 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network, live. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.799 From San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. You 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.320 are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts Brian 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.720 Alvarez and Mike sempervb. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.720 Right, you're ready, When you're ready. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:26.560 Let's get it off. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.440 How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez here on or Wrestling 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.240 Observer Live. We are here every day Monday through Friday, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.519 New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific six Eastern, Saturday 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:44.839 mornings with Jim Valley to name Pacific one Eastern. 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People don't 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.920 like the death writer storyline. It's it's all his fault. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:39.320 It's not everyone. Let me tell you something. If you're 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.720 watching AW and you think something is awesome, then you 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.000 can thank Tony Kahan. If you watch AW and you 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:51.200 think something sucks, you can blame Tony Khan. The big stars, 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:57.440 you're John Moxley's, you're Chris Jericho's, you're Adam Copeland's. They 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.240 all have a lot more influence than, for example, a 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.480 private party. You're MJFS for example, But they ain't running 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.880 the show. There's one guy running the show. His name 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:08.600 is Tony Khan. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:10.320 The buck stops there. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.480 Yeah, with Tony, not the bucks. I realize there are 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.960 people that people don't like, and so it's always like 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.960 the people you don't like get the blame. But if like, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.680 if you like somebody thinks are going well, it's like, well, 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.200 you know Tony's booking him well or whatever. No, it 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.520 is Tony Khan. It is his company. He's always going 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.280 to run the show. It doesn't matter who they hire, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.600 if they ever hire a new book or whatever, it 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.280 is Tony Khan's show. He's running the show. If you 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.200 like it, it's Tony. If you don't like it, it's 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.800 it's it's Tony. That's the end of the that's the 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:42.480 end of the story. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.520 There are you doing? Mid South nineteen eighty five? Is 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:45.720 that what? 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:46.440 Eighty four? 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.680 Eighty four? Okay, see, you know you probably are never 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.960 going to make it to nineteen eighty five where Mid South, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.760 after really doing well with smaller guys, the Rock and 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.400 Roll Express, the Midnight Express, Terry Taylor, Bill Dundee as 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.160 the booker, they started to get a little bit big 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.880 again and he started to see guys like the Nightmare 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.360 came in and he was the champion, and they started 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.840 going back. I think Bob Sweetan may have come back 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:20.400 at that point, sadly enough. But I look at AEW's 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.600 tag team division and just kind of aw in general, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.320 and boy, they seem to be going big, aren't they? 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.120 Because and I'm not gonna complain about. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.800 This big or old or most Look, here's. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.599 The thing there is I can understand some valid complaints 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.840 about them being quote unquote old. The company has been 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.400 around for five years, so there are a lot of 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.160 people that could have gotten over bigger than some of 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.080 the reactions that some of these old people like Bobby 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.520 Lashley and Shelton Benjamin are getting right now. And Bobby 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.000 Lashley and Shelton Benjamin as your tag team champions going 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.320 up against Brody King and Buddy Matthews. I like that. 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.520 I did notice on Collision that they made sure to 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.200 have the Gates of Agony have a little promo. They're 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.679 big dudes, and I have a feeling that we're going 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.600 to be moving a lot more into that. So if 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.240 you don't like old, you already don't like aw I guess, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.600 And if you don't like Big, well, you're probably not 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:19.800 gonna like what's coming up. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.960 I think Big is the least of our problems. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.839 Big Bill and Chris Jericho. It's happening at some point. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.200 Hey, I'm excited for Big Bill versus Hobbs. You know, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.360 but listen, hold on, need I got some stuff. We're 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.839 getting way ahead of ourselves here. Okay, the big story 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.960 today is not that they missed a shot on Dynamite. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.080 The big story here is is actually this NXT. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.040 Rating Mojoe missed a shot. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.360 Dude NXT at eight hundred and twelve thousand, viewers in 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:53.480 a point two two Okay, do you know what was 0:09:53.520 --> 0:10:00.040 on NXT? Nothing? Well, like, they didn't promote anything. We 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.080 had a Ridge Holland and Tony d for the North 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:07.080 American title that was promoted. We had Lexus King and 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.599 Charlie Dempsey in a Heritage Cup match. This feud must continue. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:17.360 We they advertised the main event obviously with Oba Femi 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:22.040 and Eddie Thorpe. But I looked at the quarters because 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.640 you know, we always have these people on on Twitter 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.560 or whatever that they're there. They got a meme. The 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:31.760 meme this time is Eddie Thorpe is turning around NXT. Okay, well, 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.920 that is why it's important to have the quarter hours. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.200 I can tell you what's what's turning around NXT. And 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.400 it's just like they're they're whatever you think about the show, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.000 hold on, Mike, Gimi, Christmas, let me get through this. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.240 Whatever you think about this show, and I think a 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.679 lot about this show, trust me, the fact of the 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:02.120 matter is to this audience, they are getting p overs. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.240 That's literally the only explanation. You look at the quarters 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:11.440 and it's relatively you know, a straight line. But there 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.600 are certain things that did much better than usual. And 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:21.240 one of them is the women they have done. Whatever 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.480 you think of individual women, you know, we make fun 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:28.520 of Kora Jade's interviews and you know Kilani's there's stuff 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.160 you can like, but you know they're they're all learning. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.040 But the fact is they're getting these characters over. And 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.839 that segment that had that, you know, all that heat. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.559 There was tremendous heat for Roxanne and Kora Jade when 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.280 they came out to square off with Bailey and Julian. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.920 Obviously Bailey was there, but that segment did almost nine 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:56.360 hundred thousand viewers. Trick Williams every time he came out, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.079 they did big numbers for Trick Williams. Let's see what 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.559 did really well, the women's deal and also Trick was 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:10.200 in that segment. We had Jada Parker and Carmen Petrovitch 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.040 did very very well. But that was also a segment 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.360 with like five thousand just characters in it. It was 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.520 it was the end of the Parker match with Petrovich. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:25.040 A metaphor segment with soul Ruka Zaria and Gigi Dolan 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.520 and Tatum again a bunch of women. We had the Brooks, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.360 Jensen and Niko versus di'angelo family and his segment with Axiom, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:37.559 Nathan Fraser, Josh Briggs and Inamura. So that did very well, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.120 and then like the main event, I mean it did 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.120 good as well. It didn't do the highest thing on 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.480 the show, So it's not Eddie, but you know, oba 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.839 Feming Eddie Thorpe for the title did almost eight hundred 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.960 thousand viewers, So it wasn't like the show opened gigantic 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.920 and fell through the show, and that's why the number 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.640 was up. You know, it opened it eight forty six 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.360 and it just stayed there. It went up. When we 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.120 had the women's segment, it dropped a little bit but 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.720 not much. Went back up for the end of another 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.320 women's match, dropped a tiny bit for like a double 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.200 ad break. But by the way, that eight eighty for 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.800 the for all of the women. That was a double 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.120 AD break segment. Do you know how rare it is 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.000 to have a double ad break segment be the highest 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.240 rated quarter on the show. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:24.800 It's like seeing a double rainbow. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.480 So literally, without that double AD break, that would have 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.880 easily done over nine hundred thousand viewers. So they're just 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:36.680 getting people over. I mean that's it, so good for them. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.320 Good for them, it is, and it's another week like 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.120 three or in a row that's up, and that's a 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:50.600 good thing. But I also they often are under seven 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.960 hundred thousand. They'll do like six ninety eight, And if 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.520 they happen to do that next week, it's not an 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.160 indictment on them not doing exactly what you've been saying 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.000 that they've been doing. I just think that in this case, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.560 it could very well be just a little bit of 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.480 a freaky high number. But we'll find out. But if 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.640 it does drop next week, again people that want to 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.120 point to it and say it's not working, that's not 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.000 true because everything you said and you've been laying out 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.200 is absolutely true. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.880 Well, it's also not doing that. The average over the 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:28.560 last ninety days is slightly over seven hundred thousand viewers. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.920 Yeah, but when you go back and you start ticking 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.160 back a little bit, you see six thirty two and 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.040 five ninety three. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.120 Oh, sure, those happen here and there, but that's more 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.560 when they have a giant they have competition that does 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.800 affect them. It doesn't affect them as much as other shows. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.720 But your ninety day average is over seven hundred thousand, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.160 so show's doing pretty well. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.720 It is well, and again for the reasons that you're 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.360 laid out, and they do have intriguing characters and people 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.880 that are easy to get behind. And we made fun 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.360 of sometimes some of the colors and things like that, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.440 but everybody, for as many generic blonds as we say 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.200 that they have, everybody does have somewhat of a unique look, 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:07.560 at least the people that matter. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.880 And then a couple of notes. Rende Thurston had the 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.600 SmackDown quarters and if you look at SmackDown, I mean 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.960 it's it's that last hour dies. It doesn't matter what 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.920 show it is. I mean, the last hour dropped all 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.160 the way down to a one point one million. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.440 That late NBA game is always going to. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.280 That was a double but it was a double ad 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.160 break segment. But the fact is, like the first two hours, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.760 the first two hours of SmackDown do well. And you 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.960 know the segment where they had Jimmy and Carmelo and 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.040 the Bloodline. I mean, whatever people think about the Bloodline, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.480 it's still did one point six million. It was like 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.240 the highest rated thing on the show. So anyway, more 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.800 news after the break Observer Live. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.480 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.240 and Mike simper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.480 This guy goes, what's turning around NXT, my friend, is 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.880 the fact that they actually have somebody who knows how 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:31.000 to book coherently. And the pro promotion is the promotion? 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.400 Is it run by? He's trying to say the promotion is. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.920 Not run Is he throwing shan by? 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:42.560 Infantile behavior? But you won't put this on the show today? Wow? 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.360 Was he talking about He actually. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.840 Talked about infantile behavior? No, he's talking about aw of 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.920 course talked about infantile behavior and then dared me to 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:53.520 put this on the show. That was kind of funny. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:58.000 But listen here, listen, Okay, I gotta say this about 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:10.000 NXT all right. I don't know, man, the show is 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.720 very hit and miss. Okay, I know this is another 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.760 one of those memes. Sean Michael's Booker of the Year. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.879 I mean, there's stuff that he does. Is it's great, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.639 He's doing a good I will say he's doing a 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:27.520 good job. But man, if you watch this show, just 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.480 the booking of the Heritage Cup alone this year should 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.800 disqualify him from best booker. Like, I don't know, if 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:40.800 you guys know this or not, but this so they 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.280 bring the Heritage Cup from nxt UK to nxt here 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.800 in the US. And at the beginning, there's just this 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.680 presumption that we all watched nxt UK and we all 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.560 know everything about the Heritage Cup. Okay, So like every 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.399 now and then they'll throw up a screen with like 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.400 all these like it's a screen like this is big 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.360 of all the Heritage Cup rules. It'll flash up there 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.800 for a second and they get going, and I think 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.080 there's an assumption that, like, we all know the Heritage 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.800 Cup rules, and so after we see a bunch of 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.760 Heritage Cup matches, then we start to think that we 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.080 actually might know the Heritage Cup rules. And then we 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.879 have just like this whole thing. I've ranted about it before. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.760 It's like Ava screws or ay Thorpe gets screwed in 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:32.200 a match. Ava says, I can't reverse the decision. The referees' 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.359 decision is final. Then you know, we have a segment 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.359 where Jada Parker wants a match and she goes, I 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.840 can't let you wrestle twice on one show. Then literally 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.399 the next two shows she forces the tag team champions, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.920 one of them to wrestle twice on the same show. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.199 Then we have a Heritage Cup match that ends via 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.480 DQ and a guy wins the title, and then Ava's like, 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.840 I'm not even sure if the title can change hands 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.880 on a DQ. It's uncertain. And so even though two 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.040 weeks ago she said, you know, I can't you know 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.960 the referee decision is final, she reverses the decision even 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.879 though one of the performers says the referee's decision is final. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.560 And then the cup goes back and like, and then 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.879 on top of that, some of you might remember this, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.080 some of you might not. There was a whole thing 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.360 where everybody on the chat was looking back because everybody 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.040 remembered that there was a match for the Heritage Cup 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:32.680 and one of the participants won, but because he didn't 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:37.280 have a corner person, it didn't count because allegedly the 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.600 rules were you have to have a corner person, okay, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.320 And everybody was looking back to try to find out 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.680 when or where it was. They all remembered this, even 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.480 though I didn't remember it, and but Vinnie remembered it, 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.400 but nobody could find it. And then like, after all 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:55.639 of this discussion, well out comes the champion, the Heritage 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.680 Cup champion came out this week with no corner man. 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.880 It's not mentioned at all that you need a cornerman 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.040 or you do not. I was like, oh my god, 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.760 why is this so hard? Why is this so hard? 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.119 The answer is I don't know why this is so hard? 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.680 Can I refresh your memory trying? 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:16.879 I'd like to hear this. 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.000 Charlie Dempsey wanted to know. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:21.240 This was much further back. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.160 Lexus King wanted to have the match, but he had 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.200 no corner person, so one was assigned to him. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.840 No, he wanted one, No, he wanted one a signed, 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.280 but Avas said, I can't assign you a cornerman. 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:37.160 You have to find. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.200 You have to find when he found Regal Well, apparently 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.080 that wasn't necessary because he came out with no cornerman 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:48.000 this week and it was never mentioned. So no, this 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.879 is not a perfectly booked promotion, not even close. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.080 Well, at least nobody is drinking bleach or getting tied 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.960 up backstage. I guess I don't know, but I think. 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.000 If you watched the show, do you know many people 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:00.640 have been. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:06.479 Murdered, well literally murdered on allegedly allegedly, we do know 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.280 they have a very dangerous parking lot, although they seem 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.920 to have pivoted away from that. All the drama now 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.680 takes place in that little kitchen area where everybody gathers 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.120 there at the peach pit of NXD. And I think 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:23.159 that's the thing about the show. It is like a 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.640 teen NBC ninety show. It is saved by the bell. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.159 It is wrestling the college years. I mean, that's what 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.560 makes the show what it is and what it's what 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.600 also helps gloss over some of the fact that sometimes 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.600 the wrestling is not good. Sometimes the angles and the 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:45.960 stories are exactly the way you explain them, completely ridiculous. 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.760 But it is an easy two hours to watch for 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.600 the most part, and I think people give it grace 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.800 and shoot it bail for that reason, because it's entertaining 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.840 enough to get you through brother. But He's But here's 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.840 the thing. The best stuff that's been going on, whether 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.080 anybody likes it or not, until it is not, is 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.560 still anything associated wrapped up with the bloodline right now. 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:12.120 And if you are going to give out the you know, 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.440 magical Booker of the Year award, it is really hard 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:17.280 not to go and put it in the hands of 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:20.200 the main roster of WWE, whoever you want to give 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:21.119 all of that credit to. 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:26.160 We didn't even mention that Lexus King won the Heritage 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:30.879 Cup via DQ, and Ava ruled, I don't think the 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.760 cup can change hands via DEQ, and so she reversed 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.240 the decision and then announced a match for the Heritage 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:46.600 Cup not under Heritage Cup rules. 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:48.680 Fake. What's going on here? 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.680 Man? I know that the text message Chaine, I'm gonna 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:56.399 get in like an hour. I don't care. I don't care. Now, 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:04.320 Nikki Bella yes votes reporting significant discussions regarding her return 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:09.960 to WWE. She was on TV like three weeks ago. 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:11.960 She's she's ninety nine percent going to be in the 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:15.520 Royal Rumble. So that's the story she's coming back. I 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.720 don't know about Brie, but I guess we shall I don't, 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.920 I don't. We shall see. Now, before I get into 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:25.280 the full Dynamite review, there are two things so we 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:26.200 got to talk about. 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:27.600