Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Elvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: thank you. As always a lot to get into here
Speaker 1: as we steam into a very busy weekend. W w
Speaker 1: E Clash at the Castle and Cardiff, Wales, along with
Speaker 1: n x T World's Collide and of course a e
Speaker 1: W all Out Dynamite was last night. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a very good show leading into this weekend. Lots
Speaker 1: of news taking place today. Tony Cohn had his big
Speaker 1: conference call and we've got some notes on Matt for you,
Speaker 1: as well as some news on some personnel changes possibly
Speaker 1: coming to both w w E and a e W.
Speaker 1: Bobby Fish's contract doesn't look like it will be renewed,
Speaker 1: but bron Stroman maybe back in ww and maybe something
Speaker 1: that's even better for wrestling fans. Ryan Katz looks like
Speaker 1: he will be back in w w E in some form.
Speaker 1: He announced that on his podcast that he has with
Speaker 1: road Dog. That is good news for a lot of
Speaker 1: people because universally when they started making cuts, he was
Speaker 1: one of the names that people both passed and present
Speaker 1: that worked with him, and we're working with him. Said
Speaker 1: was a very confusing decision for w W to make
Speaker 1: because he was incredibly valuable. But he looks as if
Speaker 1: he's going to be headed back to the company. And
Speaker 1: I've got some some very very sad news for for
Speaker 1: many of you out there. Fozzy is going to be
Speaker 1: postponing their next tour. Somehow. In my mind, there's a
Speaker 1: tie in with Chris Jericho and Jack Harlow. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to figure out how I can put those two
Speaker 1: things together. I'll do that during the break. We'll be back.
Speaker 1: Receives are rely back on the show. Mike Semper BB
Speaker 1: here with your wrestling observe Alive Big Bossman Brian Alvarez.
Speaker 1: You know where he is right now. He's coming to Jesus.
Speaker 1: Have you looked at this man's Twitter recently? He posted
Speaker 1: this morning that it finally hit him those boots that
Speaker 1: he was talking about buying when Dave Meltzer was talking
Speaker 1: about the passing of former wrestler and bootmaker and gear
Speaker 1: maker Bill Ash, Brian talked about the fact that he's
Speaker 1: had the same boots for well over twenty years. It
Speaker 1: finally hit him this morning that those boots are much
Speaker 1: older than his partner. Coming up Friday night for Black
Speaker 1: Label Pro and g c W Billy Starks as they
Speaker 1: face Filthy Tom Lawler and Killer Kelly. I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that you're going to want to stay kind appeal
Speaker 1: to Brian's Twitter throughout the afternoon, into this evening and
Speaker 1: into tomorrow as well, because I have a feeling there's
Speaker 1: going to be several adventures and misadventures that get posted
Speaker 1: up there, not the least of which is if he
Speaker 1: actually crosses paths with Filthy Tom Lawler in that hotel,
Speaker 1: leading into that we may not have a match on
Speaker 1: Friday night. We're gonna have any Fazzy concerts either, at
Speaker 1: least for the foreseeable future. Chris Jericho has a bruised larnox.
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to make any Chris Jericho jokes here.
Speaker 1: Read this is straight news. It's probably good for everybody
Speaker 1: in the music business. Half Jericho said to have sustained
Speaker 1: the injuried height W s quake by the Lake on
Speaker 1: August ten. He was defeated by John Moxley in an
Speaker 1: a W World Championship match that night, and he scheduled
Speaker 1: to face Brian Danielson this Sunday at All Out UH
Speaker 1: Fozzy released the statement on Thursday announcing that they are
Speaker 1: delaying the start of their Save the World tour to
Speaker 1: September twenty nine. The tour was originally to kick off
Speaker 1: on September eighth in Columbus, Ohio. All postponed shows have
Speaker 1: been pushed back to the Spring of Tree, so the
Speaker 1: rescheduled dates can be found at Fazzy rock dot com
Speaker 1: and UH. They make sure to point out in the
Speaker 1: release that Chris unfortunately, even though the injury is healing
Speaker 1: and not permanent, is it unfortunate that it's not permanent
Speaker 1: when it comes to look, Chris Jericho and I have
Speaker 1: had a very adversarial relationship. I have this problem with
Speaker 1: a lot of people in Western Canada. Lance Storm is
Speaker 1: another one. Although I can actually tolerate him. Don callis.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to him later on in the show.
Speaker 1: That's a completely different barrel of fish or something else
Speaker 1: that stinks too high heaven. But yeah, Fozzy, Unfortunately, because
Speaker 1: of this Jericho injury, he went to a larinologist. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know there were a larinologist, but he recommended
Speaker 1: that they postponed the first two weeks of the tour.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the news on Chris Jericho
Speaker 1: and Fozzy. Chris Jericho obviously a lot more important and
Speaker 1: wrestling fans eyes with what he does in the ring,
Speaker 1: and it will be wrestling Bryan Danielson on Sunday. And
Speaker 1: as always, before we lead into these paper view weekends,
Speaker 1: Tony Khan has spoke with the media. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to hear the whole call this morning. Thankfully
Speaker 1: our crew over here at Rustling Observer dot com has
Speaker 1: got all of the notes posted up. I believe it's
Speaker 1: Josh Nason who put up the information that about Tony
Speaker 1: Khan's media scrum here or audio presser, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I did have to laugh about one thing, and it's
Speaker 1: its own separate headline on the website right now if
Speaker 1: you go to it, it's aws. Tony Khan is less
Speaker 1: optimistic about w w E collaboration after how they've treated him,
Speaker 1: and this stems one would figure from the fact that
Speaker 1: w w E reportedly had contacted talent that was under
Speaker 1: contract recently, and Con said he was quote pretty optimistic
Speaker 1: when they first made the change, but I'm less optimistic
Speaker 1: now given how they treated me. And Tony con has
Speaker 1: been able to work with everybody, you know, New Japan,
Speaker 1: and that was a real dicey situation at the start
Speaker 1: of a w IMPACT and Triple A. Of course, he
Speaker 1: mentions plenty of promotions and shows clips from plenty of
Speaker 1: promotions where their talent goes to the pock and the
Speaker 1: whole deal with keep Sabian. Some of that was over
Speaker 1: from the UK, so Con can work with everybody. But
Speaker 1: to me, this is always his promoter's mouth when he
Speaker 1: speaks about ever doing anything with w w E. And
Speaker 1: I know that they've had detent when it comes to
Speaker 1: letting Brian Danielson, you know, talk about who was having
Speaker 1: the ceremony. Was it Ray Mystereo? I believe it was
Speaker 1: for his anniversary or or I believe that's what the
Speaker 1: situation was, where they had a couple of people on,
Speaker 1: including Brian Danielson in the big show, Uh speaking that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Okay, and there's that should happen, But
Speaker 1: like any thought that there's going to be some sort
Speaker 1: of super Bowl of Wrestling or anything like that, I
Speaker 1: don't know why Tony Khan, even other than the fact
Speaker 1: that he's a promoter, even entertains any of that stuff
Speaker 1: or things that he can work with ww E on anything.
Speaker 1: Because Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are still on the
Speaker 1: family tree of Vince McMahon and they would certainly like
Speaker 1: it if there may be competition out there. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't on national TV, and it didn't have any money
Speaker 1: to take any of their talent, and it didn't uh
Speaker 1: take away some of the fans attention, which of course
Speaker 1: a W has done. So those two ever working together,
Speaker 1: I can't see it happening. What I can see more
Speaker 1: people that are now signed with a W wanting to
Speaker 1: go back to w W E, and we've heard lots
Speaker 1: of rumblings of that and different people that may or
Speaker 1: may not want to go back. You know, Bobby Fish
Speaker 1: didn't have a whole lot of great things to say
Speaker 1: recently about his situation in a W And in fact,
Speaker 1: i'll i'll jump away from Tony Kahn's comments during this
Speaker 1: press conference and just get right to Bobby Fish's contracts status,
Speaker 1: which reportedly is not being renewed. And this morning on
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Radio, Brian noted that he believed that today
Speaker 1: was the last day on that deal. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: on TV since August three, when he and Adam Cole
Speaker 1: and Kyle O'Reilly we're all on TV, and that's set
Speaker 1: up the turn of the Young Bucks, which led to
Speaker 1: eventually Kenny Omega coming out there and them reuniting. Fish
Speaker 1: had first come to the company only last year. It
Speaker 1: was October six when he made his debut on Dynamite
Speaker 1: against Sammy Gavarro for the t NT Championship, and when
Speaker 1: Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly debut for a W, the
Speaker 1: looked as if we were going to get a full
Speaker 1: undisputed era uh uniting and and doing something and it
Speaker 1: never really ended up happening. There was an l Vation
Speaker 1: taping in July that he worked. But what happened here?
Speaker 1: Weren't we supposed to get the Young Bucks and Kenny
Speaker 1: Omega and undisputed era. Weren't we supposed to get fishing
Speaker 1: O'Reilly matches against the Young Bucks against FTR. Weren't we
Speaker 1: supposed to get FTR in the Young Bucks three. I
Speaker 1: don't know what is going on there, but maybe we
Speaker 1: didn't get FTR against Fishing O'Reilly because fishing dex are
Speaker 1: but don't get along. Fish noted on his podcast recently
Speaker 1: that he had a backstage altercation with Dax at an
Speaker 1: episode of Dynamite, and also on that show offered praise
Speaker 1: to Triple H. He's also been critical about Hai a
Speaker 1: w had treated him and presented him during a K
Speaker 1: and S Russell Fest autograph session earlier on this month.
Speaker 1: So Bobby Fish looks like he's out. Adam Cole is
Speaker 1: signed in their long term, Kyle O. I Ellie is
Speaker 1: still around. Nobody else is saying anything as of now,
Speaker 1: but interesting situation here. Roderick Strong by the way Fish's
Speaker 1: partner does it apparently is going to be on the
Speaker 1: sidelines for a little while to gonna That has not
Speaker 1: been put out there as much yet, but he may
Speaker 1: have suffered an injury that's going to keep him on
Speaker 1: the shelf for a while. We'll see if he's on
Speaker 1: n x T coming up this week. He's been involved
Speaker 1: with obviously the Diamond Mind and some issues going on
Speaker 1: there with both Damon Kemp and the Creed brothers, So
Speaker 1: we have that situation going on now. It was seemed
Speaker 1: to be a lock for a lot of people that
Speaker 1: once Roderick Strong, you know, his contract, which I believe
Speaker 1: he had renewed sooner rather than a long time ago. Uh,
Speaker 1: once he would be gone, he would be a natural
Speaker 1: fit to go down to a W because all of
Speaker 1: his whole former friends are there and they've been booking
Speaker 1: his wife, Marina Schaffer on Dark and Elevation tapings. But
Speaker 1: maybe that situation has changed too. We don't know what
Speaker 1: Bobby Fish is going to do, but if we see
Speaker 1: him back in the ring, it certainly won't be with
Speaker 1: a W. It's probably going to be back in n
Speaker 1: x T. We'll get back into what Tony Cohn spoke
Speaker 1: about with the media, as well as some more personnel changes,
Speaker 1: including bron Stroman rumored to be coming back to Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw. We'll be back Wrestling Observer Alive, back on
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Speaker 1: back to Tony Cohn's media call. Here's our own. Josh
Speaker 1: Nason has written up some notes on the front page
Speaker 1: of the site. Tony did talk about that talent meeting,
Speaker 1: and without saying w w E by name, did allude
Speaker 1: to a major point of conversation being that w w
Speaker 1: E tampering claims with contracted aw talent that has emerged
Speaker 1: over the past few weeks. I'm sure everybody has heard
Speaker 1: rumored names. I think I know of at least two
Speaker 1: that I would feel comfortable about saying. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that was they were part of that there, But as
Speaker 1: I said, I have a feeling we're gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of this will be meeting its way out here
Speaker 1: in the in the near future. Rampage ratings were discussed.
Speaker 1: He was asked about those numbers and concept he had
Speaker 1: to put his biggest stars in angles on Dynamite due
Speaker 1: to all the injuries this year and wasn't able to
Speaker 1: offer big matches on Rampage that he used to. He's
Speaker 1: excited and wants to reset after this weekend due to
Speaker 1: the renewed roster strength. He's going to put his full
Speaker 1: attention on improving the show after this weekend. These are
Speaker 1: just sound bites that Josh is writing up right there.
Speaker 1: But even with all the injuries, I ask you out
Speaker 1: there as wrestling fans, do you believe that he and
Speaker 1: everybody else has put their best foot forward with Rampage
Speaker 1: And is it a solid enough excuse that because of
Speaker 1: all the injuries, Dynamite was the one who needed all
Speaker 1: of the matches. I mean, if you think of some
Speaker 1: of the segments and some of the talking promos and
Speaker 1: some of the things like that that have been on Rampage,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you can put it all you know,
Speaker 1: and obviously injuries do play a huge part of this,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure if that's the issue for that show.
Speaker 1: But well, we'll see what you think out there. Zero
Speaker 1: Hour the pre show leading into all Our concept. The
Speaker 1: reason for that name returning on Sunday is because he
Speaker 1: wanted to tie in the history of All In and
Speaker 1: All Out at the Now Arena and something new and fresh.
Speaker 1: He emphasized that Zero Hours not just a pre show,
Speaker 1: but its own event. He may, he said, he may
Speaker 1: also add another match on Friday to the pre show
Speaker 1: or even on the pay per view. Please don't three
Speaker 1: matches on the pre show or enough and I think
Speaker 1: what they have lined up on the pay per view
Speaker 1: is enough here. That's okay. If you're concerned about having
Speaker 1: not enough matches for Rampage, then maybe if it's a
Speaker 1: big match or a really great idea, you may want
Speaker 1: to save it for one of those shows. Uh. Punk
Speaker 1: Moxley Build con did say that the ratings were great
Speaker 1: for Punkin Moxley and the world title match two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and that a W has never done at pay per
Speaker 1: view build like this before. He thinks there's increased interest
Speaker 1: and Sunday's rematch as a result, and there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of talking the aftermath of the quick result as
Speaker 1: has been rumored or I guess has was rumored, and
Speaker 1: we talked about it here on the show. John Moxley.
Speaker 1: This idea may have come from him fightful report. Uh,
Speaker 1: let us know about that one. And I don't think
Speaker 1: it was a bad idea. I know there are some
Speaker 1: people that have been really critical about how this whole
Speaker 1: thing has gone down, But as a way, especially with
Speaker 1: everything else that was swirling around with a W, for
Speaker 1: Moxley to get that quick victory kind of out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: And I think the fact that there was so much
Speaker 1: else swirling around for a W at that time. If
Speaker 1: there wasn't all this stuff about Hangman Page and and
Speaker 1: beefing with CM Punk, and there wasn't all this stuff
Speaker 1: about Eddie and Sammy and this meeting and that meeting
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff, I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: maybe this would have been a little bit more impact Bill,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't really matter at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: A Steel came on last night. It all made for
Speaker 1: great TV. We're having the match we originally thought we
Speaker 1: were going to have and for a guy that lost
Speaker 1: in his hometown town the last time around to m
Speaker 1: jf CM, Punk walking out of there on Sunday with
Speaker 1: that championship probably would be a good idea concept that
Speaker 1: Punk and FDR were originally set to face. Well Aspret
Speaker 1: will Aspray and Austi opened several weeks before Forbidden Door.
Speaker 1: He also said he had a Punk Hiroshi Tanahashi tag
Speaker 1: team match idea that would have been a Match of
Speaker 1: the Year candidate given the opponents that he still may
Speaker 1: do at some point. Well, you put Roshi Tanahashi in
Speaker 1: any match with almost anybody, there's a really good chance
Speaker 1: you're going to get a Match of the Year candidates.
Speaker 1: So if you want to listen to the full audio,
Speaker 1: it is up on the site. Just go ahead and
Speaker 1: click on the Tony con media call link that Josh
Speaker 1: has up there, and it's at the bottom over those
Speaker 1: highlights that I just read, and you can hear all
Speaker 1: of Tony's words, uh in his own voice talking about
Speaker 1: everything leading in to Sunday's All Out. We spoke about
Speaker 1: Bobby Fish's a E W situation, and I did mention
Speaker 1: at the top of the show. Ryan Katz looks like
Speaker 1: he's going to be returning to w w E. He
Speaker 1: worked as a creative producer in n x T from
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen up until January of this year,
Speaker 1: when he was let go. After that, he started co
Speaker 1: hosting the Oh You Didn't Know podcast with road Dog,
Speaker 1: and during the most recent episode, uh, the two were
Speaker 1: talking about their released from w w E. They were
Speaker 1: actually released on the same day as part of those
Speaker 1: n x T cuts, and actually confirmed that Cats would
Speaker 1: be headed back to w w E in some way. Uh.
Speaker 1: He noted that he wasn't sure what he was going
Speaker 1: to be doing for w w E upon his return,
Speaker 1: but mentioned that he's supposed to start on Thursday. I
Speaker 1: was supposed to start on Thursday, but the return was
Speaker 1: pushed back a little bit, and and uh, so there
Speaker 1: you go. You know, as I mentioned at the beginning,
Speaker 1: he was one of those guys creatively that everybody had
Speaker 1: something positive to say about once the releases were done.
Speaker 1: He was one of the names that people thought, like,
Speaker 1: you know, Pat Buck left. It was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different situation because Pat Buck put in his
Speaker 1: resignation and then immediately went to go work with a
Speaker 1: w When all that stuff was said and done in
Speaker 1: the dust cleared because there was no wait for him.
Speaker 1: He was able to just move right in because he
Speaker 1: was an agent, and there were a lot of people
Speaker 1: that were curious as they if Ryan Kats would be
Speaker 1: contacted by a w or would show up there because
Speaker 1: of his reputation, but that ended up not being the case.
Speaker 1: He started doing the podcast with road Dog and now
Speaker 1: it looks like he is back Uh in w w E.
Speaker 1: So another person that Triple H had relied on when
Speaker 1: he was running an XT is now back in the fold.
Speaker 1: For him, Bron Stroman, Well, he's a little bit more
Speaker 1: polarizing at least he comes to the fans and some
Speaker 1: of the reaction that I've seen online today. According to
Speaker 1: a report from p w Insider, multiple sources are confirming
Speaker 1: that the former Universal Champion is scheduled to be in
Speaker 1: Kansas City on Monday night for RAW. Earlier on this week,
Speaker 1: Fightfull Select had reported the w w E discussed the
Speaker 1: idea of Stroman's return. Ww E sources have reportedly said
Speaker 1: that currently Uh looks ring ready and better now than
Speaker 1: when he was in w w E. Well, he's had
Speaker 1: the time to work out. I'm not sure how many
Speaker 1: shows that Control Your Narrative have run. But he's had
Speaker 1: a little bit of free time on his hands to
Speaker 1: go fishing and grill meets and and pump iron. I
Speaker 1: guess during his time away from w w E he
Speaker 1: did Wrestle for Control Your Narrative and also popped up
Speaker 1: on r O h's Final Battle pay per view last December.
Speaker 1: Um year's the thing with Stroman? Yeah, he is as
Speaker 1: we were talking about yesterday with Brian. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's more mobile and uh a far better professional wrestling
Speaker 1: character than some of the other giants that they have
Speaker 1: him walking right back in much like W. Morrissey into
Speaker 1: a e W. I mean there's a position for him,
Speaker 1: there's a spot for him when it comes to a W.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else you got? You got stotten him
Speaker 1: saying you got Lance Archer, got Wardlow. Well, you know W.
Speaker 1: Morrisey's now it is not as good as Lance Archer,
Speaker 1: but he's a lot younger. Sttenham Sing is not even
Speaker 1: anywhere near ready yet, and you need to have somebody else.
Speaker 1: It's okay to have two giants, especially if they kind
Speaker 1: of stay on, you know, opposite sides of each other
Speaker 1: for a while. And you can build something up, something
Speaker 1: up between a Wardlow and Morrisey. To me, that's fine
Speaker 1: with bron Stroman, same sort of situation. He's one of
Speaker 1: those guys like Carrie and Cross. He's one of those
Speaker 1: guys like Dexter Loomis that let's see what we do
Speaker 1: here with him, because is he going to sign for
Speaker 1: three years five years? I don't know if I want
Speaker 1: to see bron Stroman for three or five years, you know,
Speaker 1: if he signs for a relatively short term deal or
Speaker 1: if he only signs for a year. Okay, let's see
Speaker 1: what we can get out of him. But I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think that I'm trying to think of a situation
Speaker 1: that i want to see bron Stroman in. I want
Speaker 1: to trying to think of a few that I want
Speaker 1: to see bron Stroman in, and I'm I'm not sure
Speaker 1: it's there. Even hossing about with guys, I mean, we
Speaker 1: got Walter. Now, we have guys who can work a
Speaker 1: lot better, who can I'm not saying hit a lot harder,
Speaker 1: although in the case of Walter, he absolutely can, but
Speaker 1: I mean, t bar We've had Donovan die Jack there
Speaker 1: for a long time and he hasn't been utilized. I
Speaker 1: know he's been teaming up with Shelton Benjamin on on
Speaker 1: whatever their version of Heat or Metal or Jacked or
Speaker 1: whatever they call it now Velocity, whatever the hell they
Speaker 1: call the show main event. I know he's been on there,
Speaker 1: but he's one of those guys where it's like, why
Speaker 1: not give him the shot? I don't know. It looks
Speaker 1: like so Losko is going to be getting a shot though,
Speaker 1: which thank god, hopefully they change his name and he
Speaker 1: could become an USO considering you know, he's brothers with
Speaker 1: Jimmy and j Uso and the son of Rakishi. But
Speaker 1: p W Insider I believe officially broke this news. I
Speaker 1: know Fightfull Select had confirmed that they had talked about
Speaker 1: it a while ago. I know people at this site
Speaker 1: for sure have been told the same thing, that his
Speaker 1: call up is imminent. Um it may even mean, uh,
Speaker 1: he makes an appearance for Tonight's or tomorrow night's SmackDown
Speaker 1: at Little Caesar's Arena in Detroit. He hasn't wrestled since
Speaker 1: August second, and by the way, that show was taped
Speaker 1: last week. But I'm not sure what they're going to
Speaker 1: be actually inserting into the show. He hasn't wrestled since
Speaker 1: August two, when he was reportedly signlined with a PCL
Speaker 1: strain that he suffered during the Falls Count Anywhere match
Speaker 1: against Vaughan Wagner. So that is it for that. We'll
Speaker 1: get into the a other e W Dynamite review, as
Speaker 1: well as a few other things we get back from
Speaker 1: Break Wrestling hims over Alive back on the show, mike'sz
Speaker 1: embervib here with your Wrestling Observe Alive will be with
Speaker 1: here with you solo tomorrow, as well as Brian Ready's
Speaker 1: up for his match on Friday night alongside Billy Starks
Speaker 1: against our own Filthy Tom Lawler and Killer Kelly. A
Speaker 1: whole bunch of other matches on that blpg c W
Speaker 1: card as well, but that's the only one you need
Speaker 1: to see. It's les See what happens with Brian, See
Speaker 1: how bad he cowers behind a young girl's back as
Speaker 1: Filthy Tom comes to get him. You know, let's be
Speaker 1: honest here, Killer Kelly might be able to take Brian
Speaker 1: out as well. So Billy Starks, girl, you still got
Speaker 1: time to try to find a new partner and get
Speaker 1: yourself out of this thing somehow. I think all this transfer,
Speaker 1: all these transportation issues she apparently is having on Twitter,
Speaker 1: I think those are second thoughts. He's trying to figure
Speaker 1: out a way that she can have an excuse not
Speaker 1: to show up to Chicago and Brian can go out
Speaker 1: there on his own. Because he stuck his big foot
Speaker 1: in his mouth so many times, He's probably gonna eat
Speaker 1: the feet of Killer Kelly and filthy Tom Lawler with
Speaker 1: stomps to the face before he gets choked out. But
Speaker 1: none of that has anything to do with last night's
Speaker 1: a E W Dynamite on TVs from the Now Arena
Speaker 1: and Hoffman estates Illinois, And first things first, before the show,
Speaker 1: Eddie Kingston and Sammy Guvara met together. They have agreed
Speaker 1: to move on from their most recent dispute. According to
Speaker 1: p W Insider and other sources, Kingston and Guvara sought
Speaker 1: each other out backstage. They talked, they apologized to each other,
Speaker 1: They shook hands and agreed that the issues between them
Speaker 1: are now in the past. So that is that, And
Speaker 1: maybe we get Eddie Kingston and Sammy Guvara as we
Speaker 1: were supposed to seemingly get for this all out show
Speaker 1: now with some renewed energy to it with everybody that's
Speaker 1: going to be buzzing around about all this, even though
Speaker 1: we know everything has been put to rest behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: them being spicy with each other on the microphone, I'm
Speaker 1: still all for it. So we'll see if they decided
Speaker 1: to go back to Kingston and Sammy. John Moxley started
Speaker 1: the show by coming out Rocus Reaction and see him
Speaker 1: Punk's hold hometown of Chicago. Max told the crowd that
Speaker 1: he had they had no idea how much it hurt
Speaker 1: him to see Punk not be the returning hero that
Speaker 1: the crowd wanted him to be. He said, Punk wasn't
Speaker 1: what anyone wanted him to be when they quote gave
Speaker 1: him a second chance and the greatest sport in the world,
Speaker 1: it just didn't work out end quote. But he has
Speaker 1: zero sympathy for him because he's got a fragile ego,
Speaker 1: a fragile body, and a fragile mind and spirit. So
Speaker 1: that said, he's got a contract that's open for anyone,
Speaker 1: any place, anywhere, anytime, and he threw it down in
Speaker 1: the middle of the ring and got out of there
Speaker 1: and was gone. And at that point, the camera then
Speaker 1: switched to the announced desk so ex Caliber and Taz
Speaker 1: and Jim Ross could run down the rest of the show.
Speaker 1: And as they started to do that, Ace Steele, who
Speaker 1: works for a w and as many people know, one
Speaker 1: of the original Second City Saints alongside Punk and Cold Cabaner,
Speaker 1: the trainer of those two men. He came out, got
Speaker 1: into the ring, got the contract, was very upset, stuck
Speaker 1: it in his pocket, stormed back to the back. We
Speaker 1: then go to a promo with Chris Jericho that was
Speaker 1: interrupted by Daniel Garcia. Garcia apologized to Jericho for his
Speaker 1: immaturity last week and says he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for Chris Jericho, and he tells Jericho that he
Speaker 1: believes in him, and he believes that Jericho can defeat
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson on Sunday without having to resort to dirty tricks.
Speaker 1: Jericho says all is fair and wrestle in Romance references
Speaker 1: his days working for cancerro ten Rouse grouping in Japan.
Speaker 1: And there's a story in Jericho's book The Around the
Speaker 1: World in spandex one where there's a story about ten
Speaker 1: Rue that I'm going to, Uh, I'm not sure I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read the book again. Tonight, and I'm gonna figure
Speaker 1: out a way to actually say this on the air
Speaker 1: tomorrow without without getting bleeped too many times. But it's
Speaker 1: a it's certainly a unique one that led into Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho or I'm sorry, Chris Jericho against Grace, Jake Hagar,
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson against Jake Hagar, and look, it's Jake Hagar. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's not exactly the most dynamic presence in the ring,
Speaker 1: but when you're in there with Brian Danielson, he brings
Speaker 1: your game up. And I thought it was a very
Speaker 1: solid match. William Regal and Chris Jericho were both at
Speaker 1: the commentary table. I believe that Regal told Excalibur that
Speaker 1: he was gonna stop him up with a biscuit. He
Speaker 1: didn't put it in those terms, but I had a
Speaker 1: feeling that's what he meant. But I thought it was Again,
Speaker 1: it was a good match, to which Danielson got the victory. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: Minard and Parker ran down, which caused Claudio and wheel
Speaker 1: Er you to come down and they fought everything they
Speaker 1: fought back off in the crowd, and that ended up
Speaker 1: leaving Brian Danielson in the ring by himself. Trying to
Speaker 1: recover as his back was turned. Chris Jericho ran down
Speaker 1: from the commentary table, chair in hand, went to go
Speaker 1: after Brian Danielson, but he was stopped by Daniel Garcia,
Speaker 1: who said, Chris, you don't need this. You just don't
Speaker 1: need this stuff. Jericho was, of course upset. He turns
Speaker 1: around into a knee strike from Brian Danielson, laying him out.
Speaker 1: Danielson of course has a big grin across his face
Speaker 1: as he walks by Daniel Garcia on the way back
Speaker 1: to the locker room. Garcia he looks upset, he knows
Speaker 1: he's screwed up, but then again he's also looking at Jericho,
Speaker 1: knowing that Jericho probably screwed up bringing that chair down there.
Speaker 1: We'll see how this whole thing plays out. It's gonna
Speaker 1: end up at some point, I hope with Daniels Carcia
Speaker 1: choking out Chris Jericho. But I thought that was a
Speaker 1: really good segment, really nice match to actually start the show. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: when we got back from a break, the Wingman, we're
Speaker 1: standing in the ring, Ryan nemofed and like with J. D.
Speaker 1: Drake and Peter Avalon and saysar Benoni and they were
Speaker 1: holding protest signs saying they demanded more TV time. Long
Speaker 1: story short, here W Morrissey's music hit and he came
Speaker 1: down to the ring quickly cleared it out. As he
Speaker 1: was doing this, a very intrigued looking Stokely half Away
Speaker 1: made his way down to the ring, and after Cass
Speaker 1: had cleared everybody out of it, Stokely handed him one
Speaker 1: of his business cards. They left together. Tony Schivanni tried
Speaker 1: to stomp uh Stokely on the ramp and ask him,
Speaker 1: you know what's going on with all these business cards
Speaker 1: you're handing out. Stoke didn't take too kindly to this
Speaker 1: that it was none of his business with Tony said, hey,
Speaker 1: it's National TV, it is my business. Stokely snatched him up.
Speaker 1: Tony couldn't do anything back because W. Morrissey started to
Speaker 1: menace him, and that was that. Even though that crowd
Speaker 1: was chanting Tony, he wasn't gonna make another move. So
Speaker 1: it looks as if Stokely Hathaway's crew was getting a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger, and it's a motley crew right now.
Speaker 1: With some of the cards he's been handing out. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see exactly what this crew looks
Speaker 1: like by the time that he's done, But he's got
Speaker 1: his monster and w Morrissey coming in. Alex Marvez then
Speaker 1: interviewed Will Osprey and also opened in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and that's when Don Callis walked in and he did
Speaker 1: a hell of a job gassing up Osprey, saying he's
Speaker 1: not the next Kenny Omega, He's his own man. He's
Speaker 1: will by God Osprey. He did throw a little shade
Speaker 1: in there, noting that he did get pinned by the
Speaker 1: one wing Angled Angel the only time that he and
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega faced off in the singles match, So he
Speaker 1: got a little bit of shade in there. But the
Speaker 1: way things are going right now with the big baby
Speaker 1: faces through the crowd that the young Bucks and Kenny
Speaker 1: Omega are, where does Don Kllis fin into all this
Speaker 1: Don Callis with connections to New Japan Pro Wrestling? What
Speaker 1: is he thinking about all this stuff? He's a very
Speaker 1: devious man, that Don Callis is. So I have a
Speaker 1: feeling this is a situation that we might want to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. We got a pre tape package
Speaker 1: of keep Saban and Pock the tool face off of
Speaker 1: the all the Atlantic Championship coming up at All Out
Speaker 1: the Car Rushida and Tony Storm then defeated Britt Baker
Speaker 1: and Jamie Hayter. All four of these women will be
Speaker 1: involved in the interim Women's title match coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Britt went for the glove and when she did, and
Speaker 1: this was a great shot. She went down to get
Speaker 1: the glove, the camera focused in on Reva or Rebel
Speaker 1: putting it on her hand, and as she did, you
Speaker 1: see Sheida in the background jump up to the top
Speaker 1: rope and then all you see is a it in
Speaker 1: Britt Baker's face laying her out. Sheeta ends up getting
Speaker 1: the pin. I thought this was a really good match.
Speaker 1: I don't know what direction they're going to go on Sunday.
Speaker 1: You know there's money to me in Jamie had against
Speaker 1: Britt Baker. The problem is they're such a good unit together,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking Tony Storm comes out of this match
Speaker 1: on Sunday with the championship. You can tease some tension
Speaker 1: with Britta and Jamie, but you can still have another
Speaker 1: Tony Jamie Hayter match. You can still have some things
Speaker 1: going on there where you can keep Baker and Hater together.
Speaker 1: And maybe hold storm off for Rosa as you can
Speaker 1: continue to tell the stories. But last night was a
Speaker 1: great example. You just watched Jamie Hayter in there and
Speaker 1: she's going to zillion miles an hour. Again, no offense
Speaker 1: to anybody else, but you know the amount of effort
Speaker 1: she puts in two moves outside the ring and putting
Speaker 1: her body on the line, and how good everything looks.
Speaker 1: Big fan of Jamie Hayter there. And again, you know
Speaker 1: the four were women that they have here. I know
Speaker 1: there were some people that were, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: taking shots at Sheetah's reaction coming back last week, saying
Speaker 1: she didn't get much of her reaction and it was
Speaker 1: a little bit more disappointing. But I think we heard
Speaker 1: it this week. You know she's back now. As long
Speaker 1: as she's treated with respect and in the mix, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the fans back behind her. She's got natural
Speaker 1: charismas so guy with a ton of charisma, Miro standing
Speaker 1: in the shadows still. Miro is the one guy in
Speaker 1: pro wrestling where when it comes to these promos, I
Speaker 1: don't need to see him wrestle. I love these promos
Speaker 1: that he keeps having. I think he's great doing them.
Speaker 1: Darby Allen came out, this was very interesting, very interesting
Speaker 1: to point out. Darby Allen pointed out to Malachi Black
Speaker 1: that Brodie King and Buddy Matthews don't need him anytime
Speaker 1: that Brody King has been reckoned shop, Malachi hasn't been around.
Speaker 1: Sting comes out to say that at showtime they leave,
Speaker 1: and then Miro stands alone to say he's going to
Speaker 1: wreck fools and pagans. They'll come in wearing their masks
Speaker 1: of fear and they'll be leaving ring masks of oxygen
Speaker 1: if they do. Hopefully they don't put him on the
Speaker 1: foreheads like they did of him, like with m JF.
Speaker 1: We then got CM punks promo where he came out
Speaker 1: to the and everybody's heard about this already. Came out
Speaker 1: looking disheveled, came out looking disappointed. He said he was hurt.
Speaker 1: He broke his foot. He was disappointed. Had you know
Speaker 1: that he had to be on the shelf for a while.
Speaker 1: Then he comes back against Moxley and he fails and
Speaker 1: he hurts his foot again, and no, it's not that bad.
Speaker 1: He could still continue to wrestle, but man, he's all
Speaker 1: inside of his feelings. Bag, and that's when A Steele
Speaker 1: came out and said, look, you know we talked backstage.
Speaker 1: He had that contract in his pocket. He said he
Speaker 1: had it ready to go for Moxley, and Moxley is
Speaker 1: just now changing his mind. Now he's feeling bad about himself.
Speaker 1: He figures he can't do it anymore. Uh, he fires
Speaker 1: up Moxley. He dropped, He fires up CM Punk snatched
Speaker 1: him up, dropped an F bomb. But by the way,
Speaker 1: I think it was the only curse on the show,
Speaker 1: which gave it even more impact because it sounded like
Speaker 1: it's slipped. Doubt. It sounded like a mistake. If it
Speaker 1: wasn't a mistake, and again, if it was a mistake,
Speaker 1: well okay, it was natural. If it wasn't a mistake,
Speaker 1: he came across perfectly. And long story short, see him
Speaker 1: Punk signed the contract, uh by A Steele doing the
Speaker 1: Sam Kinison sign it. Sign it to see him Punk,
Speaker 1: because if you know, Punk was Rodney Dangerfield back to school.
Speaker 1: I got a little bit of a pop out of that.
Speaker 1: But see him Punk went into the crowd, said that
Speaker 1: Moxley wasn't gonna be the one that kills him. He
Speaker 1: signs a contract that's that we move on to a
Speaker 1: sit down between Christian Cage and Jungle Boy. It was very,
Speaker 1: very close, but it was the best of Jungle Boy
Speaker 1: because of the situation that it was, because it had
Speaker 1: a chance to be edited, and because the only he
Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to wander, he didn't have a
Speaker 1: chance to meander. Bottom line is when Christian Cage, he
Speaker 1: doesn't know if he ever actually cared firm or not,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to Sunday Night, he ain't getting
Speaker 1: Jungle Boy, He's getting Jack Perry, which I'm sure made
Speaker 1: Jim Ross very happy sitting there here in that FDR
Speaker 1: and Wardlow killed Silas Young, Wren Jones, and Vicaprie. Silas
Speaker 1: Young wasn't even in the match whatsoever. When we got
Speaker 1: back from break, John Moxley accepted the challenge of CM Punk.
Speaker 1: We then went into a locker room interview with the
Speaker 1: Dark Order, in which and drawd A offered Evil Uno
Speaker 1: in ten jobs. When they turned him down, they attacked
Speaker 1: both of them. Evil Luno was going to fill in
Speaker 1: for ten in the Trios Tag Team Championship match coming up,
Speaker 1: or in the Tag Team title tournament because he couldn't
Speaker 1: do that Alex Reynolds and John Silver were wondering what
Speaker 1: they were going to do when Hangman Page stopped by
Speaker 1: and said, you know, if you need a friend, um
Speaker 1: right here for you. So he'll be the one teaming
Speaker 1: up on Friday night when that crew goes and battles
Speaker 1: the best friends get into the final two matches on
Speaker 1: the show. When we get back from break Wrestling Observe Alive,
Speaker 1: Ye back on the show, Mike Zember viv or whether
Speaker 1: you're wrestling Observer Alive, put a bow on this a
Speaker 1: e W Dynamite show. Wheeler, you don't want a four
Speaker 1: away match against Dante Martin, Ray Phoenix and a Ruche
Speaker 1: to earn a spot in the Casino Ladder match on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night. Look at those four names in the match
Speaker 1: and it would be everything that you thought it was,
Speaker 1: moves flying all over the place. And then Wheeler, you
Speaker 1: to ends up getting the victory by reversing an armed
Speaker 1: drag of Dante Martin into the lake trap seatbelt submission
Speaker 1: to get the victory. And that was that. The main
Speaker 1: event of the show. Trio's titled Tournament Semifinals. Will Osprey
Speaker 1: and also opened against the Young Bucks and Kenny Omegan.
Speaker 1: Of course, as you already know, the Young Bucks and
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega got the victory. Any time that Kenny Omegan
Speaker 1: will Osprey we're in the ring with each other, it
Speaker 1: was amazing. Omega ended up hitting the one Winged Angel
Speaker 1: on Kyle Fletcher to get the victory, but that was
Speaker 1: wild and it again Austie opened was awesome. There's nothing
Speaker 1: against the Young Bucks, but every time that Osprey and
Speaker 1: Uh and Kenny Omega touched, the crowd was electric. We
Speaker 1: will be seeing that match in a W. We will
Speaker 1: see that match in New Japan. I can't believe that
Speaker 1: it won't happen at some point. Whenever Kenny Omega and
Speaker 1: all that stuff he's able to go over there, We're
Speaker 1: sure to see it. And I know down the line,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see that match here in the States on
Speaker 1: an a W show as the main event, or well again,
Speaker 1: it might as well be the main event, because I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what's going to be able to follow it.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what follows this show on Sports
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