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Speaker 1: and we got a lots to talk about here today
Speaker 1: Tonight at XT the follow up to Deadline, and we
Speaker 1: have a number of matches announced for the show, as
Speaker 1: well as the start of the twenty twenty three Men's
Speaker 1: Breakout Tournament. I hope they wrestled better than they cut promos.
Speaker 1: I could say that much. Also go that you would
Speaker 1: turn him Tikita, Lions and more. We'll tell you about
Speaker 1: that today plus tomorrow's Winter is coming Arlington, Texas. Number
Speaker 1: of matches announced for the show, the Von Erics are
Speaker 1: going to be there, and more. Yesterday, of course, was
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw, and they set up two tag team
Speaker 1: championship matches for next week's show, and of course the
Speaker 1: week after is going to be a best of show.
Speaker 1: So next week's Raw is the final Raw of the year,
Speaker 1: and I feel that because it's the final show of
Speaker 1: the year, it's the holiday season, I think we are
Speaker 1: going to have a tag team title change one way
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Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike simperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: Back of the show, Bright Albarez here, Wrestling Observer Live,
Speaker 1: Mike somber vv also Wrestling Observe dot com. Well tonight,
Speaker 1: you know it's everybody's favorite show. We've got NXT and
Speaker 1: to be honest, it ain't much of a lineup here.
Speaker 1: Eddie Thorpe will be facing Die Jack. It should be fine.
Speaker 1: We have lash legend, Oro Mensa and Noam dar versus
Speaker 1: Fallon Henley, Josh Briggs and Brooks Jensen. I don't really
Speaker 1: have high hopes for that one. We've got the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three Men's Breakout Tournament beginning, which you know when
Speaker 1: they did the women's Breakout Tournament, I mean, I couldn't
Speaker 1: handle two women's breakout matches on the single show like
Speaker 1: one's plenty. I'm sure it's gonna be the same thing
Speaker 1: with the men. It's one thing to watch green people
Speaker 1: have matches once a week. I can tolerate that twice
Speaker 1: on one show. I don't know about that one. Brothers
Speaker 1: and Nikita Lyons will make an appearance. He's back. So
Speaker 1: that's not much of a lineup at all.
Speaker 6: What kind of combination do you think we're going to
Speaker 6: get in that Men's Breakout Tournament match there?
Speaker 1: Bro I haven't even looked at the names. I heard
Speaker 1: the promos. I was like, oh my god, there's Milesbourne,
Speaker 1: there's Oba Femi, and there's that bloke that that what's
Speaker 1: her face has a crush on. No, that's a lawyer.
Speaker 1: Lawyer who actually appeared for a couple of shows a
Speaker 1: while back as a lawyer.
Speaker 6: This you guy, the chase you guy who girlfriends got
Speaker 6: a crush on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget anyway, who cares? It's a show? They
Speaker 1: better wow me tonight. We're coming off that great Iron
Speaker 1: Survivor Challenge show. Come on, see what tricks gotta say?
Speaker 1: Then we've got winners coming tomorrow Arlington, Texas. We've got
Speaker 1: three Continental Classic matches. We have John Moxley versus Swerve,
Speaker 1: which should be a blood bath, a blood bath. We
Speaker 1: have Rush versus Jay Lethal, we have Jay White versus
Speaker 1: Mark Brisco, and we have Rijo versus Ruby. Soho Hagman
Speaker 1: versus Roderick Strong. We will hear from Samoa Joe. We
Speaker 1: will hear from Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho. And yes,
Speaker 1: the Vaughan Eric family returns to Texas, and I hear
Speaker 1: they're actually returning to Texas. They're moving from Hawaii. Imagine,
Speaker 1: why would you go that way? Should be going the
Speaker 1: other way. But anyway, that's the lineup for Winter is coming.
Speaker 1: And we can look at the ticket sales here from
Speaker 1: Wressell ticks winter is coming right now?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 1: Three thousand tickets? And the last time they were there,
Speaker 1: well it was final Battle that doesn't really count. Twenty
Speaker 1: six hundred, so they're up from the last time. They've
Speaker 1: sold ninety eight tickets in the last day, so I
Speaker 1: think they're going to finish right around thirty two hundred
Speaker 1: would be my guess. Maybe thirty three hundred, but that's
Speaker 1: Winter is coming. That is the show.
Speaker 6: Looks like no audio has arrived, at least on my
Speaker 6: end of things, which kind of stinks here, but I'll
Speaker 6: try to figure this out here. But Luca Blog, you
Speaker 6: mean no video? No video here?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 6: Uh, Lucha Blog made a really it looks.
Speaker 1: Like you're being punched in the face by a kangaroo
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 6: Luca Blog made a good point when it came to
Speaker 6: Tony having his rh press conference right now that's going on,
Speaker 6: But he says, you know, this is a free question
Speaker 6: for anybody. Last time you swung through Texas, you brought
Speaker 6: in CMLL Star and Mystico, and tickets seemed to move well.
Speaker 6: After this time, there's only a commander in a sixth way.
Speaker 6: Was there any consideration to using more Mexican talent on
Speaker 6: this show. And I kind of have that question too, actually,
Speaker 6: kind of seeing the way that things have worked out here,
Speaker 6: because Mystico did draw so many people, you know, why
Speaker 6: didn't they or what was the I wonder what the
Speaker 6: mentality here is to not have anybody on the show,
Speaker 6: even to draw them for a dark match or something
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 1: I do not have an answer for you, but I
Speaker 1: do know that we have the lineup for Final Battle,
Speaker 1: which I believe is coming up Friday.
Speaker 6: Is that right?
Speaker 1: This coming Friday? I think December? Yes, this coming is
Speaker 1: coming Friday. And I do believe that the women are
Speaker 1: going to be headlining the show. I think it is
Speaker 1: Athena and Billy Starks for the title. And yes, December fifteenth,
Speaker 1: and uh, what.
Speaker 6: Going on?
Speaker 1: What's today the twelfth?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Lord, I don't know if Russell Ticks has an update
Speaker 1: since December eighth, But on December eighth, the show was
Speaker 1: set up for thirty seven hundred and they were at
Speaker 1: one thy fifty six.
Speaker 6: I well, maybe you could have used some Latin American
Speaker 6: talent on that show as well too.
Speaker 1: All right, if there's an update since December eighth, can
Speaker 1: somebody send it to me because that's that's pretty distressing
Speaker 1: right there. So anyway, the lineup is Athena versus Billy
Speaker 1: Starks for the Ring of Honor World Title. We have
Speaker 1: a survival of the Fittest six way elimination match to
Speaker 1: crown a new television Champion, Alton Castle Commander, Lee Moriarty,
Speaker 1: Lee Johnson, Kyle Fletcher, and TVD. We have got Keith
Speaker 1: Lee versus Shane Taylor. And we have Ethan Page versus
Speaker 1: Tony Niece and an iquid match. Now December eight, they
Speaker 1: did add John Moxley, Claudio and Brian Danielson versus FTR
Speaker 1: and Mark Brisco. So my guess is that they are
Speaker 1: well above a thousand right now, but I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna see if I can get an update, and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll find out, because you would think that match would
Speaker 1: move a fair number of tickets, That's what I would think.
Speaker 1: So that's Final Battle coming up on Friday, and then
Speaker 1: Russell Kingdom is coming up. We've got the card for
Speaker 1: the show after this past weekend. Soana A versus Nito
Speaker 1: for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title, the Ocotta Danielson match
Speaker 1: God Forbid Danielson can make it there. We have got
Speaker 1: Will Ospray, John Moxley and David Finley, who will in
Speaker 1: fact be fighting for the iw GP Global Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a moment. Romu will defend
Speaker 1: the junior title against El Desperado. We have go to
Speaker 1: Yoshi Hashi versus Hickoleo and l Fantasmo, and it says
Speaker 1: here for both titles, So it doesn't say that it's
Speaker 1: necessarily a unification match. It is it is for both titles,
Speaker 1: which means, you know they could, you know, the winners
Speaker 1: could defend one set of titles on one show, the
Speaker 1: other set on the other show. But now it is
Speaker 1: just for both titles. We have got Clark Connors and
Speaker 1: Drilla Maloney versus TJP and franssko Akira. Well you've got
Speaker 1: Zack Sabers Junior versus a Roshi Tanahashi for the television
Speaker 1: title and Shingo versus Tomatanga. Now this new belt, this
Speaker 1: new belt. New Japan released a statement from Naoki Sugabayashi
Speaker 1: ANDJPW and JPW Chairman, who says the IWGP US Heavyweight
Speaker 1: Championship came into being in July twenty seventeen to mark
Speaker 1: New Japan's first major event in the United States in
Speaker 1: Long Beach. After its introduction, it became the symbol of
Speaker 1: New Japan competition in the US. In the years at fall,
Speaker 1: the title will be defended in Japan, becoming familiar to
Speaker 1: Japanese fans as well. However, with the introduction of the
Speaker 1: UK Championship this summer, there was confusion among fans as
Speaker 1: to the status of the title. Maybe you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: created a new title with that in mind.
Speaker 6: They didn't. It was an angle for Osprey. They never
Speaker 6: actually created a title with.
Speaker 1: That in mind. Naoki Sugabayashi says the new championship combines
Speaker 1: it ads to the US and UK Championship roles, which
Speaker 1: will be called the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. As it
Speaker 1: has already been discussed in recent business strategy presentation. DU
Speaker 1: Japan is working to ensure that twenty twenty four sees
Speaker 1: our presence grow not just in the UK and the US,
Speaker 1: but throughout Europe, the rest of Asia and Oshanya.
Speaker 6: Oceanmo whatever.
Speaker 1: Anyway, since his name is Hey, that's another story for
Speaker 1: another day. Yeah, kind of ties into that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: they got a new Times today, Sure we got time. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: the holidays are coming. We cant have nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1: So Moxley, will Ospray and David Finley will be fighting
Speaker 1: to determine the first IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. And then
Speaker 1: at the end, Naoki Sugabayashi says thank you, and I
Speaker 1: thank you as well, and we'll be right back Observer Live.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike simper Vivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: How do you say you pronounced that Oceana. That's not
Speaker 1: how it's spelled at all.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of words, so.
Speaker 1: It's it's Oceania, Oceania.
Speaker 6: It's not it's not Oceanny.
Speaker 1: You know what this reminds me of. I'll tell this
Speaker 1: story now. I mentioned this many times. My best friend
Speaker 1: growing up was Chris Waller Death Cab for Cutie and
Speaker 1: uh I the first memory I have with this little
Speaker 1: bugger was we started off on a bat on bat
Speaker 1: footing we were and uh I think it was like
Speaker 1: probably it'd probably have to be second grade, maybe I
Speaker 1: don't even remember it was first but it might have
Speaker 1: been second, but you know they were all of the uh.
Speaker 1: We were looking at the map trying to learn where
Speaker 1: everything was at, and the uh. The teacher points, she goes,
Speaker 1: who knows what this is? And I I raised my hand,
Speaker 1: I said I got it. She goes, yes, Brian, I said,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the uh, the Pacific a keen and
Speaker 1: Chris Walla pipes up and goes, it's not a keene,
Speaker 1: it's ocean. And I was like and then and then yes,
Speaker 1: it might have been on the playground or whatever. He uh,
Speaker 1: and this is this is ironic. Actually, this is incredibly ironic.
Speaker 1: If you listen to the Filthy Tom show. He called
Speaker 1: me Brian shrimp because there is such a thing as
Speaker 1: a Brian shrimp, and my name was Brian, and I
Speaker 1: was small, called me Brian trimp. So man, I had
Speaker 1: enough of that guy. And so I went home and
Speaker 1: I said, h, I said, mom, can you look in this?
Speaker 1: Because we had a student directory back then, it was
Speaker 1: on paper at everyone's phone number. I said, can you, uh,
Speaker 1: can you look up Chris Walla's mother's phone number? I
Speaker 1: was mad and I called his mother.
Speaker 6: And SA, she did it for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think she's gonna do. I wanted
Speaker 1: to call his mother and have a talk.
Speaker 6: Maybe like sit you down and you know, explain some
Speaker 6: things to you.
Speaker 1: I called her up and I said, you know, your
Speaker 1: son's been bugging me at school. He keeps calling me
Speaker 1: Brian shrimp and I don't like it. He's bullying me,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't call it bullying, it's just and he
Speaker 1: was annoying me. So anyway, uh we Actually that's how
Speaker 1: we became friends when.
Speaker 6: Like him apparently, so.
Speaker 1: Here we are. I'm now forty eight. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to pronounce oh, whatever it's called, and it's not
Speaker 1: o'shania probably as well. I should be pronounced there like kinwa.
Speaker 6: That's a q.
Speaker 1: I hope that's how you pronounce that.
Speaker 6: Come quat come. Well that's a little easier.
Speaker 1: I got a lot seth Rawlins could become a free
Speaker 1: agent next year. His WWE contract is said to expire
Speaker 1: in June of twenty twenty four. Fightful reported on Monday
Speaker 1: two sides have not spoken about a possible extension. W
Speaker 1: W is expected to make re signing the thirty seven
Speaker 1: year old a top priority, making Lynch's contract also believed
Speaker 1: to expire around June of twenty twenty four, sign a
Speaker 1: new deal in twenty twenty one, time she spent on
Speaker 1: maternity leave, not expected to be tacked on the length
Speaker 1: of her contract. Oh, that's we'll see about that now,
Speaker 1: won't we see about that? Jesus, I would expect both
Speaker 1: to re sign. I would be flat gasted if otherwise.
Speaker 6: I would figure as much. What is going on in
Speaker 6: your forum? Since I have no idea most of the
Speaker 6: time and you have all of the idea all of
Speaker 6: the time. What is going on with Jack Perry and
Speaker 6: Seth Rollins? And if you already have a Jack Perry,
Speaker 6: do you need a Seth.
Speaker 1: Rawlins Jack Perry and Seth Rawlins.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Look, I saw Jeff Hawkins post something in today's threat
Speaker 6: on Wrestling Observer Live, and I've seen other talk in
Speaker 6: there that there is a debate over if Seth Rollins
Speaker 6: is available, do you sign him? Because does it give
Speaker 6: you anything more than what you have with Jack Perry already,
Speaker 6: which seems insane to me. Yeah, what seems to be
Speaker 6: one of the insane things going on in your forum
Speaker 6: right now?
Speaker 1: Brother, it ain't my forum, and I refuse this even
Speaker 1: discuss this situation here. Sam Punk will be in action
Speaker 1: when WWE's Holiday House Show tour comes to LA later
Speaker 1: this month. Key a forum in Englewood, California announced Uncle Face.
Speaker 1: Anybody know who's a good face?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm, I don't know, you don't know, I don't know. Yes,
Speaker 6: Seth please, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Dominic Mysterio, the hardest working man in WWE.
Speaker 6: Actually, that's pretty cool. That'll be good.
Speaker 1: Yes with the mizz.
Speaker 6: Hey ay la a County.
Speaker 1: Punk hasn't wrestled any matches since returning its Survivor series.
Speaker 1: He made two appearances on Raw, one on SmackDown, one
Speaker 1: on Deadline officially joined the Raw roster. Oops, that's a
Speaker 1: spoiler for the world famous Raw Report and likely Punk
Speaker 1: and Seth rawlins at WrestleMania forty, so he is not
Speaker 1: going to finish Cody's story. This person here notes that
Speaker 1: Punk wrestling in LA for sure a plot to pull
Speaker 1: a bigger audience than aw did a month prior in
Speaker 1: the same building. I don't think they need Punk there
Speaker 1: for that, but I'm sure that that's part of a
Speaker 1: lot of things.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be interesting to see how they build up
Speaker 6: one who is going to win the rumble. I would
Speaker 6: assume that it is Cody and makes his decision. But
Speaker 6: it's gonna be interesting to see how Punk and Seth
Speaker 6: react to each other, because surely that is going to be,
Speaker 6: if not the main event of one of those nights,
Speaker 6: certainly is gonna be the semi main event if they
Speaker 6: decide to go with the Women on Top with Rhea
Speaker 6: and however they decide to do that.
Speaker 1: We got some uh yeah, I'm doing something else while
Speaker 1: you're talking.
Speaker 6: Okay, let me just continue on it. Sure all right, Well,
Speaker 6: there's been a lot of talk on Wrestling Observer Radio
Speaker 6: over who would be the Wrestler of the Year in Japan,
Speaker 6: and that person is not will Ospray. Tokyo Sports has
Speaker 6: voted Tatsuya Naito as the most well, of course they did,
Speaker 6: and the Fighting Spirit Award, by the way, that poor bloke,
Speaker 6: the Fighting Spirit Award went to Keno, And honestly, you
Speaker 6: could argue that Keno is the Japanese MVP, whether you
Speaker 6: include will Ospray or not, because which you have to
Speaker 6: remember with will Osprey is yes, he has had a
Speaker 6: number of great matches in Japan, but he's also had
Speaker 6: a large number of the great matches people are talking
Speaker 6: about this year outside of Japan, and frankly, the match
Speaker 6: with Omega, as great as it was, didn't really mean
Speaker 6: anything in New Japan's business. Obviously interest in things like that,
Speaker 6: but when he came to their core everyday stuff, it
Speaker 6: actually didn't have an effect. So I'm not surprised that
Speaker 6: this happened. I'm a little surprised it was Nayato as
Speaker 6: opposed to Keno. But yeah, as you mentioned, this kind
Speaker 6: of sucks to be Sonata and things have not worked
Speaker 6: out at all with the way they may have wanted
Speaker 6: it to.
Speaker 1: I remember talking about that Sanana earlier this year and
Speaker 1: chastise for anyway, what I was doing was not playing
Speaker 1: angry birds. Boy, we're gonna We're gonna reh We're gonna
Speaker 1: redo a lot of this studio everybody. I know some
Speaker 1: of you don't care, but it's the holidays. What else
Speaker 1: do we have to talk about? What ratings? Some people
Speaker 1: are complaining about Mike's Mike right now, Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna get rid of some of this older technology
Speaker 1: that a while ago was you know, are you back now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was state of the art about fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: But now it's a little bit behind the times, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna make life a lot easier for everybody that's
Speaker 1: going via remote. Hopefully it'll sound as good or better.
Speaker 6: And uh, okay, Greg, what does that mean for me?
Speaker 6: Since we're doing this on air right now? How does
Speaker 6: this affect mean.
Speaker 1: To get rid of that stupid tie lines where you're
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of Okay, you're just gonna need your
Speaker 1: mic and you're scarletting your laptop.
Speaker 6: That'll be it's very old computer, so just remember that.
Speaker 6: Well does it go fairly?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, let's see what goes on? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about these ratings. Everybody's favorite, all right, there's
Speaker 1: not much talk about. Collision actually did fine against the
Speaker 1: Deadline show four hundred and fifty five thousand, which is
Speaker 1: up zero point nine percent from the previous week, i
Speaker 1: ST audience since October twenty eighth, and the best viewership
Speaker 1: the show has ever done, winning the same day as
Speaker 1: a ww E or NXT premium live event Collision at
Speaker 1: a point fourteen in eighteen to forty nine, same rating
Speaker 1: they did last week as well, and the second ice
Speaker 1: rating they've done since September sixteenth, So fine number for collision, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, hey, everybody is taped. Last time they
Speaker 1: did a tape show did poorly anyone goes see even
Speaker 1: though there was like massive competition. Well, this time it
Speaker 1: was taped and there was an NXT show had to
Speaker 1: head and they did fine. So it doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: it's live or taped.
Speaker 6: No, not in most cases. No, although I guess if
Speaker 6: you wanted to have an excuse considering that there was
Speaker 6: no football, you kind of maybe you could have dragged
Speaker 6: some drama into things. Now, as much as this number
Speaker 6: was good, come next week with the NFL running all
Speaker 6: day on Saturday, who knows how it's going to be.
Speaker 6: And then the week after that you have the pay
Speaker 6: per view, so there won't be anything there. So I
Speaker 6: don't know. It's it's gonna be a rough road to
Speaker 6: hoe here with the holidays and with the NFL facing
Speaker 6: you as well. So I guess be happy with this
Speaker 6: because you may not make it back to that for
Speaker 6: a while.
Speaker 1: And we got a rampage three hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: thousand viewers and a point one two What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Dj? I said the tape show could hurt
Speaker 1: and it wasn't even me. It was somebody else that
Speaker 1: pointed out that it's taped, and there's there's tournament matches,
Speaker 1: and so if somebody has to choose between NXT and Collision,
Speaker 1: they'll probably choose NXT because hey, it's taped. I didn't
Speaker 1: make any bets. I wasn't convinced of it. I said
Speaker 1: it was possible anyway.
Speaker 6: AA with those NXT ratings dropping a little bit, now
Speaker 6: maybe we can say NXT's in the mud. They can't
Speaker 6: even knock aw down anymore on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: You think, Michael Booble, I'm gonna listen to you, Not
Speaker 1: a chance. And anyway, Attribute to the Troops did two
Speaker 1: point four million viewers on Fox of sixteen percent zero
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Speaker 1: There is no amount of money. Let's talk about raw
Speaker 1: and oh but up with Jay Uso coming down to
Speaker 1: the ring. He's very excited. He's very excited that he
Speaker 1: got Yeat back because of course another indie wrestler owned
Speaker 1: Yeat and they very quickly got that so he can
Speaker 1: be eaedy again. And so he talks about Sammy's ain
Speaker 1: being out of action called uh said he had a
Speaker 1: partially torn meniscus, which may be real, but Sammy's ain
Speaker 1: was taking time off one way or the other. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be gone for a couple of months, it looks like.
Speaker 1: And then Drew came out and Drew first off says,
Speaker 1: I know that Punk's got to make his decision tonight.
Speaker 1: He says, Aldis you can have him. This guy will
Speaker 1: destroyed this place from the inside out. Everybody booed. Drew says,
Speaker 1: do you know him? I do. I travel the world
Speaker 1: with him. I know how this story ends. But hey,
Speaker 1: it's not about him. Let's talk about Sammy. He got
Speaker 1: done taken out because he talked about my family. And
Speaker 1: he says, how many of you if somebody uh hurt
Speaker 1: your family and did not apologize for it, how many
Speaker 1: of you would be happy with that? And jase Easiert
Speaker 1: enough of this, by the way, he still has not
Speaker 1: apologized to Drew. So it's Drew Mactirren, Jay Us and
Speaker 1: long match went through two commercial breaks. Jay hits the
Speaker 1: Kicks Out of the Future Shock, Drew takes off a
Speaker 1: corner pad, tries to Claymore, gets speared. The ref goes
Speaker 1: to put the corner pad back on like he's got
Speaker 1: a bunch of zip ties and ends up with Drew
Speaker 1: raking the eyes of Jay and then Claymore and pin him.
Speaker 1: It was a good match, near falls at the end,
Speaker 1: We're good and that's uh. Drew moving up to get
Speaker 1: a World Championship match on the first Raw of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Day one Raw no longer a pay per
Speaker 1: view now just a raw. Nakamura did a promo and
Speaker 1: he essentially said, I have been reborn thanks to you.
Speaker 1: I must bring your story to an end, and always
Speaker 1: remember that you asked for this. He says, he's the
Speaker 1: real nightmare. Oh, Cody, Yeah what I say?
Speaker 6: Nobody.
Speaker 1: Finn yelled at Jad and Tom. He says, Man, ree
Speaker 1: and I are gun for one week and the wheels
Speaker 1: are falling off the wagon. You guys lost last week.
Speaker 1: Tom lost the North American title and Preece says, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, losing sucks, but you know what else
Speaker 1: sucks not showing up for the show. And he says
Speaker 1: Finn and I were not gonna take the creeds lightly.
Speaker 1: And Rhea says, you know it seems you're the leader
Speaker 1: and uh saying you're the Leader's much easier than being
Speaker 1: the leader, isn't it? And Priest is mad and he
Speaker 1: starts chewing her out, and Finn in the background's giggling
Speaker 1: at these guys yelling at each other. But then she says,
Speaker 1: stop not talking about you in particular, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: all of you. We need to show the world we
Speaker 1: still run this place. I don't let many one of
Speaker 1: my division disrespect me, So I'm gonna go take out
Speaker 1: Maxine tonight. And then Ivy told Maxine in another segment
Speaker 1: that she was gonna be there for tonight. So Ivy
Speaker 1: was there for But you do a damn bit of good.
Speaker 1: You know who was supremely happy watching Raw last night? Gravity.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh, poor Maxine, God bless her.
Speaker 1: This was the worst match of the year.
Speaker 6: No ocean cyclone suplexes.
Speaker 1: No oceanic cyclone suplexes. A man. She got in there
Speaker 1: and mistimed every single solitary spot she tried, and they
Speaker 1: didn't do much, and like every single one of them,
Speaker 1: Rhea did not look happy, and she put her in
Speaker 1: the prison lock refused to let go. I've hit the
Speaker 1: ring for the stare down. Holy smokes. Yeah, Caana Katana
Speaker 1: did a video package. They liked a party. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're aware of that or not. Adam Pierce
Speaker 1: came out of the ring contract called out cm Punk.
Speaker 1: So cmpunk comes out. He talks about his history in
Speaker 1: this building. It's all been bad. He debut here and
Speaker 1: got sent to Ohio Valley and then he walked out
Speaker 1: during the Royal Rumble and let everybody down. Didn't mention
Speaker 1: he at his first UFC fight and got smashed, and
Speaker 1: he says, you know, couldn't write a better television show.
Speaker 1: Ten years to the day Punk walked out. Now he's
Speaker 1: walking back in and he's signing that contract. I'm going
Speaker 1: to RAW. So Seth then came out. They went face
Speaker 1: to face and Seth did his version of the Hangman promo,
Speaker 1: which is it's so funny when you really think about it.
Speaker 1: So Seth does this promo and he goes, don't talk
Speaker 1: about how this is your house. He says, you spent
Speaker 1: ten years slannering me, everybody in that locker room. You
Speaker 1: abandon this place. Now you're gonna call it home. It's
Speaker 1: not your home, it's my home. I've been here ever
Speaker 1: in the back that my brothers and sisters. I'll do
Speaker 1: everything in my power to protect this place from people
Speaker 1: like you. Let me make this clear. I want no confusion.
Speaker 1: I will say it plainly with every fiber of my being.
Speaker 1: I hate you, and if you are going to be
Speaker 1: a part of w W again, I do want you
Speaker 1: on RAW because the truth always comes out.
Speaker 6: Pal.
Speaker 1: I know you know everybody else knows this is your
Speaker 1: last chance. One of two things is gonna happen, you're
Speaker 1: gonna self destruct, expose yourself. I'll be the guy to
Speaker 1: slam the door on your legacy. Or if by some
Speaker 1: miracle you have changed, well, if you've got any gas
Speaker 1: left in that old tank, maybe one day you'll be
Speaker 1: lucky enough to get in the ring with me for
Speaker 1: the world title. I will expose you for the fraud
Speaker 1: that you are. I will show you there are levels
Speaker 1: to this. I will wrestle circles around you. I will
Speaker 1: let you understand in real time what it means to
Speaker 1: be the best in the world. And Punk says, are
Speaker 1: you done? That's your one pass to stand here, speak
Speaker 1: to me disrespectfully without me coming after you. I've never
Speaker 1: asked for anything to be handed to me. Always done
Speaker 1: things the hard way. That's definitely one thing about seeing Punk.
Speaker 1: He has always done things the hard way. He's entering
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble, and when he wins, maybe Seth he'll
Speaker 1: be coming after him. I thought this segment was outstanding
Speaker 1: out I.
Speaker 6: Thought you'd say bootlooker or veruse hypocrite or something like that.
Speaker 1: That was great. It's a great segment. Actually it really
Speaker 1: was another great little match. It was short, but boy
Speaker 1: was it sweet Ivar and Bronson Reid. Literally the spots were,
Speaker 1: Let's run into each other. Let's run into each other again.
Speaker 1: Let's hit each other as hard as we can running
Speaker 1: at each other. And then they fought up top. Bronson
Speaker 1: Reid gave him a super plex off the top rope
Speaker 1: pinned him.
Speaker 6: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Why does this thing keep going in a subscriber and
Speaker 1: subscriber only mode? I don't mean nuts.
Speaker 6: When I was a kid, they used to give us
Speaker 6: King Kong, Bundy and Kamala as a as a gift
Speaker 6: of two big guys who were bad guys, just slamming
Speaker 6: into each other at top speed. And I can tell
Speaker 6: you this, their top speed nothing like what you're getting
Speaker 6: right now. Bronson, Reid and Ivar doing a hell of
Speaker 6: a job going up against each other. This is a
Speaker 6: kind of big cord fete.
Speaker 1: I like, we had Judgment Day doing a promo and
Speaker 1: poor Truth comes out he's acting stupid, and so they
Speaker 1: game three weeks. Then they killed him. He was absolutely destroyed.
Speaker 1: The Creeds ran down to make the save, which actually
Speaker 1: you know now they think about it. I wonder if
Speaker 1: Truth will cost Judgment Day the match next week and
Speaker 1: give the titles to the Creeds. Don't think that's impossible.
Speaker 1: Punk ran into Drew and uh, the story years at
Speaker 1: Punk kind of you know, nobody there really wants him there,
Speaker 1: which sounds like another storyline I remember from recently. Katan
Speaker 1: and Kaden beat Candice in Indie. That was quick. They're
Speaker 1: getting a title shot. Next week, we had Becky coming
Speaker 1: down to the ring and she calls out Naya Jacks Brian.
Speaker 6: Look, I know you like them, but why all the
Speaker 6: bad gymnastic routines. I mean, they have got to let
Speaker 6: you you're the only one, brother, because everybody else has
Speaker 6: got such apathy towards them that you know, they don't
Speaker 6: care if they want a party or not.
Speaker 1: No, they're they're they're much much improved, and they they're
Speaker 1: gonna work rings around Uh. I don't know about that,
Speaker 1: but I ain't gonna work rings around vocas Chelsea. Chelsea
Speaker 1: is gonna rings worked around her. Becky came down to
Speaker 1: the ring and she calls out Naya, and Nica says,
Speaker 1: you know I'm here, I'm not fired anymore. She says,
Speaker 1: I punched you, and you know what was the best
Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to you? And Becky says, I
Speaker 1: don't hold anything against you. You've injured several people, almost
Speaker 1: entered a few careers, And I said, that's why we're
Speaker 1: still talking about me two years later. You have me
Speaker 1: to thank for your career. Now, Becky's mad and basically
Speaker 1: she wants to prove that she would have been the
Speaker 1: man with or without Nya knocking her out. And she
Speaker 1: says I came here for a fight. There's Nya to
Speaker 1: hit her again. Nic says you need this more than
Speaker 1: me and she leaves.
Speaker 6: Becky said it all already.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: The whole deal with her is if the fans, once
Speaker 6: the fans, once the blood dried up, the fans would
Speaker 6: have left if they didn't care about me. And the
Speaker 6: best Night could come back with is you need this
Speaker 6: more than me. God, I hope they get rid of
Speaker 6: this quick.
Speaker 1: Then we had Imperium versus DIY and the MIZZ. Seems
Speaker 1: like there's great confusion about whether Twitch should be subscribers
Speaker 1: only are free for this show. I thought it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be free. Am I wrong?
Speaker 6: I thought it was free if you had the Twitch gimmick.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway they can argue about that. While
Speaker 1: I talk about this did I not mention the other day?
Speaker 1: I did, in fact mention this. I'm sure that I
Speaker 1: don't have time to really go into all of this,
Speaker 1: but you can listen to the Bryana Beannie Show Sunday.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of great things about AW when
Speaker 1: they started that they're not doing anymore, and one of
Speaker 1: them was, you know, let's find all the things that
Speaker 1: dry people nuts about w WE and let's not do it.
Speaker 1: And one of them was beating people in their hometown.
Speaker 1: And it became a deal where like every time you
Speaker 1: had to manchine your hometown in AW always won and
Speaker 1: the fans were happy, there was never a problem with it.
Speaker 1: And then you know, now it's like people are losing
Speaker 1: in their hometown frequently in AAW, including you know at
Speaker 1: that show that collision taping, which had like what twenty
Speaker 1: four hundred people or whatever in the building, and you
Speaker 1: bring out two point zero and they're so impossibly over
Speaker 1: and you beat them, like you couldn't beat Commander, who
Speaker 1: loses every single week. Commander beat them. And I pointed
Speaker 1: out that, like it's kind of amazing, like all the
Speaker 1: things that were great about AAW, you know, now WWE
Speaker 1: is doing it, and AW is not doing it. Now
Speaker 1: AW is beating everybody in their hometown. And here we
Speaker 1: have Imperium versus DIY and miss And you know, I
Speaker 1: had a guy going, well, you can't beat Commander and
Speaker 1: uh Penta, they're gonna be going for some belts or something.
Speaker 1: It's like, you could make the same argument about gunthern Imperium,
Speaker 1: but they had no problem beating them. Here with Di
Speaker 1: Y and the Miz in the mizz and Johnny Gargano's
Speaker 1: hometown and the fans were so happy.
Speaker 6: And anyway, you don't actually have to book the match too, Like.
Speaker 1: That's the other one. Yeah, you didn't have to book
Speaker 1: two point zero against guys who don't want to beat.
Speaker 1: That's that's like the exact same thing we used argue
Speaker 1: about WWE. It's like, why'd you meet this person the
Speaker 1: home down, Well, we can't be the other guy. What
Speaker 1: would you put the match together for give the hometown
Speaker 1: guy someone they can beat. We said the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: It's now flipped. It's amazing. So anyway, d I Y
Speaker 1: and Miss one and now miss is gonna get another
Speaker 1: shot at Gunther. And then the main event was Cody
Speaker 1: and Shinske and Shinsky blew the mist after like eighteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I was ready, just like I can't take it after
Speaker 1: a match that long, and the feud is just beginning.
Speaker 1: Knockamur and Cody. That's what Cody has to do until
Speaker 1: the Royal rumble back in the mom with more Observer Live.
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Speaker 1: talk about. Granny will be on as always and also
Speaker 1: we will be reviewing the December eighteen, nineteen eighty two
Speaker 1: edition of World Class Championship Wrestling. Season one, Episode fifty
Speaker 1: two is what we'll be watching tonight. We're watching all
Speaker 1: the shows leading up to that big nineteen eighty two
Speaker 1: Christmas cage match with Rick Flay and carry Von eric So.
Speaker 1: Tonight once again, December eighteen, nineteen eighty two, Season one,
Speaker 1: episode fifty two is what we will be watching so
Speaker 1: you can watch along. We'll review it tonight the rest
Speaker 1: of the fun stuff as well. I'll be posting on
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Speaker 1: Granny segment here tonight, So that's coming up, and then
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Speaker 1: No Dave, so may just be me going solo talking
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Speaker 1: So that's the plan for the next couple of days,
Speaker 1: and then we'll have a lot of mic shows the
Speaker 1: week after because I'm going to be gone. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I will be unavailable for shows for a week. Oh
Speaker 1: the things that you can talk about, Oh the things
Speaker 1: you can think, Mike, All the.
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