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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, you know what that means a whole
Speaker 1: lot of news to get into. And I think we
Speaker 1: have reached the point where the Vince McMahon News Watch
Speaker 1: is officially over with now, not to say that we're
Speaker 1: not going to get more news on Vince McMahon and
Speaker 1: n d a's and unpaid moneys and all sorts of things, uh,
Speaker 1: stemming from the w w E boards investigation, But it
Speaker 1: certainly seems as if since this last round where there
Speaker 1: was five million dollars that was unreported that was donated
Speaker 1: to the Trump Foundation for Donald Trump's involvement in the
Speaker 1: Bobby lashly Umaga hair versus hair match with Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: back at Rustlemania, way back a long time ago. Seems
Speaker 1: ever since then things have truly quieted down. So what
Speaker 1: are we going to do for news? Thank god, there's
Speaker 1: Tony con who will appear on radio shows to hype
Speaker 1: up tonight's a W Dynamite. He did his appearance on
Speaker 1: Busted Open and spoke a little bit about the CM
Speaker 1: Punk Hangman page controversy that has been swirling around that company.
Speaker 1: And we have news that has broken on the tonight
Speaker 1: with a e W. There's going to be a talent
Speaker 1: meeting and we'll get into some of the details about
Speaker 1: that Fightfull Select has reported that that there is going
Speaker 1: to be talent meeting before tonight's show. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's going to be an airing of the grievances
Speaker 1: or not, but we'll get into the details on that,
Speaker 1: as well as a whole bunch of other stuff and
Speaker 1: professional wrestling right now, not the least of which is
Speaker 1: the vaunted n x D two point Overview, which is
Speaker 1: going to be coming at you Tiffany Stratton, Wendy to
Speaker 1: Lights Out made Event, get into all that stuff we
Speaker 1: get back from break Wrestling Observer Live anyway having sex
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Speaker 1: blame shot around. It's gonna be Oh, welcome back to
Speaker 1: the show. Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Senter VV here with you.
Speaker 1: The Big boss Man Brian Alvarez is off today, which
Speaker 1: is good for him. He wouldn't want him to hear
Speaker 1: what was taking place during the commercial break. Producer Tom.
Speaker 1: It's just definitely a terrible, terrible influence for all those
Speaker 1: uh who are listening out there to Sports Byeline for
Speaker 1: actual sports radio. Well, hopefully you're not a fan of
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Speaker 1: of which is you're losing now fourteen to nothing. Uh
Speaker 1: in the uh the bottom of the eighth inning here
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Speaker 1: people listening out in the Bay Area our home here
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Speaker 1: on this show, No we talk about professional wrestling, and
Speaker 1: when he comes to Wednesdays, it's Tony Conde. That man
Speaker 1: is everywhere. I don't know if he is uh sniped
Speaker 1: at Josh Nason yet our own Josh Nason about anything
Speaker 1: he may have tweeted out there. Tony loves doing this stuff.
Speaker 1: I know some people think that he's crazy. He may be,
Speaker 1: but he's a promoter. That's what he does. And I
Speaker 1: did a solo show on Friday when a lot of
Speaker 1: the news was breaking and coming out about CM punk
Speaker 1: and his Wednesday night promo where he was going to
Speaker 1: hype up and did hype up the upcoming match with
Speaker 1: John Moxley, but had to make sure to get in
Speaker 1: some shots there on an old hangman page. And that
Speaker 1: led to a whole bunch of speculation and controversy and
Speaker 1: conjecture and actual reporting. It's just been all over the
Speaker 1: place when he comes to that stuff. But there was
Speaker 1: a part of me that is thinking, you know, for
Speaker 1: anything that's true about any of this stuff, there's probably
Speaker 1: a nice thick layer of pro wrestling that is being
Speaker 1: iced across that cake. And I don't know if anything
Speaker 1: I've heard today has changed my mind on that, and
Speaker 1: I guess we will begin at the beginning. UM see him.
Speaker 1: Punk has addressed rumors regarding that promo last week. He
Speaker 1: did so in an interview with Sports Illustrated. It was
Speaker 1: tied in with this website, and Punk was asked if
Speaker 1: he was creatively fulfilled in a W. His response was, yes,
Speaker 1: you try not to put too much stock in Internet rumors,
Speaker 1: but for a W I definitely think that's a part
Speaker 1: of our audience. Twitter is not real life though. On
Speaker 1: top of that, a lie makes its way around the
Speaker 1: world twice before the truth puts its boots on or
Speaker 1: gets out of bed. He's just mixing them all up there,
Speaker 1: uh he. Punk also addressed reports at backstage friction in
Speaker 1: the company, uh, noting what has been made public is
Speaker 1: just quote one side of the story. It's one side
Speaker 1: of the story. Punk said. My locker room is never closed.
Speaker 1: It's always open. Anybody who wants the d M meltzer
Speaker 1: some bs can come talk to me about it. It's
Speaker 1: not Macho's stupid bs. I'm an adult. Come talk with me.
Speaker 1: Punk also addressed reports that he went off script what
Speaker 1: he called out Hangman page on Dynamite last week. He
Speaker 1: said his motivation behind the promo was to quote, make
Speaker 1: people see what happens next and sell tickets. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm here to do, make people want to see what
Speaker 1: happens next. I'm trying to sell tickets to the live events.
Speaker 1: That goes back to me saying Twitter isn't the real world.
Speaker 1: Twitter is a bunch of people that really don't care
Speaker 1: about your opinion. They want to find like minded opinions
Speaker 1: that share their worldview. I'm trying to tell stories, sell tickets,
Speaker 1: and get people to tune into Dynamite A President. Tony
Speaker 1: Khan was on Busted Open Radio today on Sirius XM
Speaker 1: and also addressed Punk's comments towards Hangman, saying that Punk
Speaker 1: has unresolved anger towards hanging Man Page and talking about
Speaker 1: Punk's promo last week that set up Wednesday's title Unified
Speaker 1: Asian match between Punk and interim champion John Moxley. Cohn
Speaker 1: was asked about Punk dragging Page into it, and he
Speaker 1: says he thinks it's unresolved anger from the world title
Speaker 1: Matchet Double or Nothing. We haven't really tied up all
Speaker 1: those issues. There was clearly some stuff that didn't get
Speaker 1: resolved at Double or nothing MHM. Dave Meltzer obviously reported
Speaker 1: afterwards that that promo was not planned and came as
Speaker 1: a surprise to everybody, said there was no plan for
Speaker 1: punk and page two it all out boy, A lot
Speaker 1: of that all just sounds like pro wrestling there, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: But then we got this report also today from Fightfull Select.
Speaker 1: It was reporting that some things are going to be
Speaker 1: addressed today when it comes to the locker room and
Speaker 1: Tony Khan, and there's a mandatory talent meeting. Apparently Tony
Speaker 1: Khan will be present, but not many other details at
Speaker 1: this point are known. The talent, from what they are hearing,
Speaker 1: expects it to address some of the rumors of unrest
Speaker 1: and contract inquiries and personal issues and leaks and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, But again no details right now
Speaker 1: on what exactly is going to be going down. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of talent that is there, but it's not
Speaker 1: like all of the talent was flown in for this
Speaker 1: mandatory meeting. One person who I don't believe is there
Speaker 1: because I believe he's still in the UK is Cult Capana,
Speaker 1: who has been whether he wants to or not, at
Speaker 1: the middle seemingly of all of this stuff. He's been
Speaker 1: over in the UK doing some wrestling commentary based comedy
Speaker 1: I guess would be the right way to put it.
Speaker 1: He and another gentleman are doing UH bad comedy about
Speaker 1: bad wrestling. Is they do commentary I guess on some
Speaker 1: stuff that they watched his Mystery Science Theater or three
Speaker 1: thousand like if they believe punks done that multiple times before.
Speaker 1: So that show is on the road and I don't
Speaker 1: believe that he is there, but I guess everybody that's
Speaker 1: in Cleveland tonight UH is going to have to hash
Speaker 1: out their issues and we'll see what the some of
Speaker 1: the reporting is from that to Obviously, Fight is gonna
Speaker 1: stay on it. We here with Dave Meltzer and Brian
Speaker 1: Alvarez are going to be on it. They are going
Speaker 1: to be up after Dynamite, way after Dynamite, probably about
Speaker 1: five am Eastern time on Thursday morning. Dave Meltzer will
Speaker 1: have his full wrap up in review of a W Dynamite,
Speaker 1: including anything he hears today as well as anything he
Speaker 1: hears after the show goes off the air, so you
Speaker 1: can look forward to that. For subscribers of the website tomorrow,
Speaker 1: there will be clips up surely for free for all
Speaker 1: your freeloaders out there over at YouTube dot com. Uh,
Speaker 1: there should be some stuff up there, So we'll just
Speaker 1: have to see what happens here. Oh yeah, they're they're
Speaker 1: building to an all out pay per view that they
Speaker 1: don't have a whole lot of matches for. So last
Speaker 1: week's show I thought was good, especially a book ended
Speaker 1: incredibly well. I thought that first hour was fantastic. Let's
Speaker 1: see what they got for tonight. Uh. John Moxley and
Speaker 1: cmpunk a w world title. They decided to go ahead
Speaker 1: with this at the last minute. According to Fightful Select
Speaker 1: and another report that came out today, Moxley was all
Speaker 1: in favor of the mood of including one source saying
Speaker 1: it was his idea to move the match to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Uh and eventually this is the quote here quote eventually
Speaker 1: see him Punk agreed to it. Uh end quote We
Speaker 1: haven't learned. Uh. This is according to Fightful. If this
Speaker 1: was connected to any of the reported issues with cm
Speaker 1: punk last week, so grab cities. Will Washington had noted
Speaker 1: on his show that there was an idea a few
Speaker 1: days ago to increase ticket sales and add buzz to
Speaker 1: the Cleveland show. I didn't wasn't not checking on ticket
Speaker 1: sales for it. So I'm not sure exactly where it
Speaker 1: sits right now, but obviously hopefully for their sake. If
Speaker 1: they were having an issue with ticket sales, putting John
Speaker 1: Moxley and CM Punk in the world title match on
Speaker 1: this show would probably be a good idea. And who
Speaker 1: knows where they go with this, I mean, on paper,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, right now, it would feel like we're
Speaker 1: going to have a non finish tonight, which leads into
Speaker 1: all out, could we have Hangman Page stick his nose in,
Speaker 1: want his rematch? And all this stuff kind of dovetails
Speaker 1: together and we get that, I guess we could do
Speaker 1: you want to water down a possible singles match with
Speaker 1: punkin Page by doing something like that? Now, I guess
Speaker 1: that's a debatable as well too. But they need a
Speaker 1: good show tonight, and I don't think that the pay
Speaker 1: per view is going to be suffering too much from
Speaker 1: anything that's been going on now. I don't think that
Speaker 1: they're hard cores have turned on them, that everybody now
Speaker 1: is looking the w W A E Wave and going
Speaker 1: I'm done with this stuff. I'm back on Ron SmackDown
Speaker 1: and I'm ready for Clash at the Castle to hell
Speaker 1: with all out. I don't think that's really gonna happen here.
Speaker 1: I think everybody that's gonna buy that pay per view
Speaker 1: is going to do it. But there seems to be
Speaker 1: a lot of concern from a lot of observers out
Speaker 1: there that a W is a little cold right now.
Speaker 1: We'll see if any of this works. We'll get into
Speaker 1: the details of the show as well as a lot
Speaker 1: more when we get back from break Rusting Reserve Alive.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show Wrestling Observer Alive here on
Speaker 1: the Sports Filine Broadcasting Network. My name is Mike Semper.
Speaker 1: Babe Brian Alvarez is off today. He will be back
Speaker 1: with me tomorrow to review everything that takes place tonight
Speaker 1: during a e w's Dynamite. You know, we do this
Speaker 1: show right here for an hour at a time, but
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Speaker 1: F four W the broadcasters at Sports Byline USA and
Speaker 1: if you love pro wrestling at mid Atlantic pod So.
Speaker 1: I do my cleansing here of everything. I gotta deal
Speaker 1: with on this show when it comes to the news
Speaker 1: and on paper, Tonight's a W Dynamite show is a
Speaker 1: good one. C him Punk and John Knoxley, obviously for
Speaker 1: the Undisputed a W Championship. We'll see if that kicks
Speaker 1: off the show, if it main events the show. Do
Speaker 1: they put it on right at the the hour crossover,
Speaker 1: especially if you're not going to have a clean finish
Speaker 1: or this is actually going to lead towards all out.
Speaker 1: We'll see exactly where they decide to go ahead and
Speaker 1: put this thing. They got some other really good stuff
Speaker 1: on here, not the least of which is the a
Speaker 1: W Trio's quarter final between Death Triangle, poc Penta and
Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix against will Osprey and Aussie opened the United
Speaker 1: Empire over from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Will Osprey had
Speaker 1: one hell of a g one climax tournament, as everybody knows,
Speaker 1: losing to Okada in the finals. He and Aussie opened
Speaker 1: in there against Death Triangle. Those guys are going to
Speaker 1: be flying all over the place. That is going to
Speaker 1: be surely a fantastic match, as well as Dax Hardwood
Speaker 1: and Jay lethal Is. I bet you're going to be
Speaker 1: a fantastic match, just in a completely different way twenty
Speaker 1: minutes of those guys going at it, exchanging holes. I
Speaker 1: know J Lethal, he is a certainly a polarizing figure.
Speaker 1: There's people like me and Brian Elpress examples, big fans
Speaker 1: of watching J Leathal go out there and work. My
Speaker 1: partner on the I'm in my big audio nightmare, Adam
Speaker 1: Summers and not so much. And I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people interact with on the forum online. He
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything for me, doesn't work for me. Eve
Speaker 1: been around too long, all that sort of stuff. I'll
Speaker 1: wash on all that. Tonight, Saw Harwood and J Leathal
Speaker 1: are gonna put on a wrestling clinic. I would be
Speaker 1: pretty sure of that and probably going to end up
Speaker 1: leading with the leading into Sottenham Singh and Sanjay Dudd
Speaker 1: getting involved, which will lead to Cash Wheeler, big Ass
Speaker 1: Wardlow back home in Cleveland getting involved as well. Billy
Speaker 1: Gunn against Colton gun Father births son Um. I can
Speaker 1: see it with and again, there's a lot of matches
Speaker 1: that still need to be announced for the pay per view,
Speaker 1: but I'm starting to wonder if Billy Gunn and the
Speaker 1: Acclaimed against Colton Gunn and Austin Gunn or that match
Speaker 1: Colton gun and Austin Gunn against the Acclaimed isn't going
Speaker 1: to be one of the pre show matches uh leading
Speaker 1: into the pay per view Britt Baker against Kylien King
Speaker 1: tonight as well, and Ricky Starks is going to speak
Speaker 1: and Chris Jericho and Daniel Garcia are going to have
Speaker 1: a face to face and I thought that was official
Speaker 1: last week and Jericho challenged him, but it wasn't actually
Speaker 1: made official until yesterday, uh where or on social media
Speaker 1: Tony Cohn in a w announced that it was going
Speaker 1: to be taking place. This all stems from last week
Speaker 1: when Garcia lost the two out of three falls match
Speaker 1: to Brian Danielson. Uh he prevented Jericho from laying the
Speaker 1: boots to Danielson more after the match, and Jericho wants
Speaker 1: to know where Garcia stands when it comes to the
Speaker 1: Jericho Appreciation Society. So this is all from the Wolstein
Speaker 1: Center in Cleveland, Ohio, one week away from All Out
Speaker 1: four and again hopefully we have a lot better vision
Speaker 1: on where we're going to be going for that show.
Speaker 1: A little bit of ratings news here Monday nights. W
Speaker 1: W RAW on USA. This came out right after we
Speaker 1: got off the air yesterday, very very good number, two
Speaker 1: million viewers on average of one percent from the week prior.
Speaker 1: UH finished with two point o o five million viewers.
Speaker 1: As far as cable went, RAW was the second amongst
Speaker 1: people eighteen and forty nine with a point five five
Speaker 1: rating about seven and seventeen thousand viewers. If you include
Speaker 1: broadcast television, it ranked a third. The Bachelor on ABC
Speaker 1: was the top ranked show over on Monday night, point
Speaker 1: seven six and people eighteen to forty nine in an
Speaker 1: audience of over three point three million people on average.
Speaker 1: On cable, the ESPN broadcast of the Jets Falcons game
Speaker 1: was the top thing on cable, finishing in a point
Speaker 1: six one and eighteen to forty nine and two point
Speaker 1: to eight nine million viewers overall. But w W E
Speaker 1: has been really holding their own and again slowly trying
Speaker 1: to chip away and slowly stay at over two million
Speaker 1: viewers all the time. And it's gonna be tough here
Speaker 1: now that we are in the football season, or damn
Speaker 1: near it. UH. The only demos were WW finished behind
Speaker 1: any other cable show. We're Women between the ages of
Speaker 1: twelve and forty nine, which was won by v H
Speaker 1: one's Hip Hop Love and Hip or VACH one's Love
Speaker 1: and Hip Hop Atlanta, which was on from eight to
Speaker 1: nine Eastern, although it should be noted that Rod did
Speaker 1: beat the two episodes of Love and Hip Hop Miami
Speaker 1: which followed that episode, and beat them across the board.
Speaker 1: Eight PM two point oh six million viewers, the second
Speaker 1: hour two point oh four million viewers on average, and
Speaker 1: ten PM one point nine two million viewers, As was
Speaker 1: noted on the Wrestling Observer front page on Tuesday afternoon
Speaker 1: by Dave Meltzer, Raw avoided the big third hour drop
Speaker 1: that they have been noted for for quite some time,
Speaker 1: and it was really impressive in several categories. Women from
Speaker 1: eighteen to forty nine, we're up from our I'm sorry
Speaker 1: eight Women eighteen to forty nine were down uh from
Speaker 1: our one hour three. But men were up, which is
Speaker 1: where women twelve to thirty four we're up. Men twelve
Speaker 1: to thirty four we're up. That's apparently very unusual. So
Speaker 1: people over fifty were down ten percent. Hopefully all of
Speaker 1: them turned out for n x D two point oh
Speaker 1: last night. So amongst younger malor demos. The Third Hour
Speaker 1: ended up being a big success. Obviously Edge and Damien
Speaker 1: East and uh that did that have anything to do
Speaker 1: with it? Likely? You know, you got a big match
Speaker 1: in edges hometown. People probably thought something was gonna go down.
Speaker 1: So good times right now for w w E. Uh
Speaker 1: again the even there, And this blows my mind because
Speaker 1: I usually don't look at like the shows. I don't
Speaker 1: really even think about the Legend show, the whole A
Speaker 1: and E lineup on Sundays. It blows my mind that
Speaker 1: A and he has got a Sunday w w E lineup.
Speaker 1: But the Edge documentary on Sunday, the biography that they
Speaker 1: had four hundred and fifty three thousand viewers, which was
Speaker 1: down big apparently, you know, down a quarter of the
Speaker 1: people that that watched the one on d X. But
Speaker 1: you look at that four fifty three number, you compare
Speaker 1: it to the what four seventy that Rampage got on
Speaker 1: Friday night, and it's like, man, you know, when you
Speaker 1: look at those kind of numbers, it's I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was just kind of surprising. Blows my mind that
Speaker 1: smack talk, maybe I knew about this. Smack talk is
Speaker 1: still being aired. It's the third uh part of that lineup,
Speaker 1: which also features w W E rivals Smack Talk A
Speaker 1: hundred forty four thousand viewers on average, about fifty two
Speaker 1: thousand between the hes of eighteen and forty nine ranked
Speaker 1: show on Cable if you include broadcast primetime TV A
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty. I had no idea that that show
Speaker 1: was the capper of Sunday night's programming on A and E.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what they even talk about on
Speaker 1: that show. Not a clue. This has become that UH
Speaker 1: w W E show that Brian's got no idea about
Speaker 1: that's on Peacock in the network. Uh So, I not
Speaker 1: a clue here when it comes to those shows, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people are watching them, including that Legends
Speaker 1: biography show, which is many people watches Friday Night Rampage
Speaker 1: and Rampage obviously is going to have the six man
Speaker 1: coming up to the more pieces coming together for the
Speaker 1: tree House Tournament. Obviously we're gonna find out more tonight.
Speaker 1: UH to lead into Friday, I'm gonna switch gears here
Speaker 1: to New Japan as Alex Coglan was announced and then
Speaker 1: pulled from the upcoming NUCH Fan Pro Wrestling Burning Spirit Tour,
Speaker 1: which is taking place between September two and the twenty five.
Speaker 1: Coglan was announced to face kose Fujita on the very
Speaker 1: first night in Yokohama, but took the social media to
Speaker 1: say that he's not quite ready yet. He tweeted, sorry
Speaker 1: if anyone got excited, but there was some sort of
Speaker 1: mis communication. I won't be ready to return to the
Speaker 1: ring for a little while longer. Recovery is going well though,
Speaker 1: I'm doing everything I can. I will be back, though,
Speaker 1: and I will be back stronger than ever eventually. Cogland
Speaker 1: has not wrestled since June, when he teamed with the
Speaker 1: d k C, Kevin Knight and yuya Uemura in a
Speaker 1: losing effort against Max Castor and the Gun Club during
Speaker 1: the Forbidden Door pay per view pre show. And when
Speaker 1: the or begins, it's actually going to be the d
Speaker 1: k C who takes his place in that show opener
Speaker 1: against Fijita. And I would assume that this was a
Speaker 1: honest mistake, but you remember Koda Obushi's comments from a
Speaker 1: few months ago talking about how New Japan advertising him
Speaker 1: and was advertising him for matches. They absolutely knew that
Speaker 1: not only he could not work, but they would not
Speaker 1: be able to pressure him into working. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the case here with ax Coglan, but apparently
Speaker 1: some sort of miscommunication went down there. But he will
Speaker 1: not be a part of that upcoming tour. But there
Speaker 1: will be cheering that's going to be coming up and
Speaker 1: DDT has long ago opened up their fan base to cheering.
Speaker 1: New Japan has announced that they are going to be
Speaker 1: allowing vocal vocalization I guess you could say at their show,
Speaker 1: and now Pro Wrestling Noah has followed suit. They announced
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago that, beginning on August thirty,
Speaker 1: cheering and return to the shows. The company is still
Speaker 1: requesting that fans wear masks is and practice proper social distancing.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's nice to see all of that falling
Speaker 1: because I know there are some people that will hold
Speaker 1: steadfast and say I concentrate so much on the action
Speaker 1: inside the ring. That performance is one of them. There
Speaker 1: for the crowd is nice, but it's not essential. And
Speaker 1: that's true. You can you know, we we've watched fights
Speaker 1: for years on The Ultimate Fighter. They can be great fights,
Speaker 1: but there's something about having that whole crowd cheering. There's
Speaker 1: something about having that instant reaction. There's something about having
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. That's why professional wrestlers love to perform,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's hard for them to walk away,
Speaker 1: because it's the spotlight, it's the reaction, it's being able
Speaker 1: to take people on a journey in the way that
Speaker 1: they want to and thankfully that's coming back to Japan.
Speaker 1: Seems to be all good here in the States, and
Speaker 1: as we go into the fall and winter season, who
Speaker 1: fully it stays that way. You know what's next the
Speaker 1: n x T two point overview when we get back
Speaker 1: Wrestling Hims are alive, back on the show Wrestling Observe alive,
Speaker 1: Mike Simper be be here with you. And of course,
Speaker 1: if Brian Alvarez isn't going to be here, it's probably
Speaker 1: going to be on a Wednesday when it's time to
Speaker 1: review an x T two point oh on the the
Speaker 1: USA Network at the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. And boy,
Speaker 1: let's take the last thing first, Producer, John, if you
Speaker 1: could please put this picture up there of of Tiffany
Speaker 1: Stratton here and I mean, my god, look at her here.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I gotta bring this up myself here, Tiffany
Speaker 1: Stratton gotta makeover before the n x T show yesterday
Speaker 1: with these these these braids that she has here, and
Speaker 1: look that that is. That is certainly uh that that's
Speaker 1: certainly a decision um to to make. But I wonder
Speaker 1: to myself, is that the worst cultural appropriation that professional
Speaker 1: wrestling has ever given us? Mm hmmm, I don't know, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe not. Sorry, boss Man, appreciate you. Producer John, Hopefully
Speaker 1: you're still here tomorrow. Let's believe it. Non producer Dom
Speaker 1: Brian will be so upset he he won't know what
Speaker 1: name is which. So the show opens up, But then
Speaker 1: I see JP and braun Breaker coming down to the
Speaker 1: ring and cutting a promo. He mentioned his match last
Speaker 1: week against j D McDonagh before immediately calling out the
Speaker 1: n x t U K champion Tyler Bait. They also
Speaker 1: put McDonough over before getting down to business that he
Speaker 1: was the first n x t U K champion and
Speaker 1: he'll be the last. With n x T Europe around
Speaker 1: the corner. He feels that there's no way to better
Speaker 1: kick that off than to unify the two championships, and
Speaker 1: long story, short Breaker agreed challenged him for a title
Speaker 1: vers title match in two weeks and n x T
Speaker 1: Worlds Collide, and the segment ended with a two facing
Speaker 1: off against each other holding up their belts. A video
Speaker 1: package on Gallus then played, which led in their n
Speaker 1: x T Tag Team title match with Josh Briggs and
Speaker 1: Brooks Jensen. But his Briggs and Jensen were about to
Speaker 1: head to the ring, we went to the back where
Speaker 1: the pair was helping to break up a fight between
Speaker 1: Fallon Henley and lash Legend before they all headed to
Speaker 1: the ring after commercial. Eventually the champions made their way out,
Speaker 1: So this version of Gallus in the tag match was
Speaker 1: Wolfgang and Mark Coffee with Joe Coffee, who I believe
Speaker 1: was wearing Sergio Tuccini. I believe that's what that logo was.
Speaker 1: Outside the ring, first two and a half minutes of
Speaker 1: the match was Gallas beating down Jensen until he was
Speaker 1: able to make a hot tag and was able to
Speaker 1: clear the ring, but we went to picture and picture.
Speaker 1: By the time we were back in full screen, Jensen
Speaker 1: was being beaten down again. At exactly the eight minute mark,
Speaker 1: we got another hot tag and that was at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the end. Briggs ran wild for a bit,
Speaker 1: but then lash Legend came back down to the ring
Speaker 1: started getting into it with Henley. When Briggs and Jensen
Speaker 1: went out to break it up, they were jumped by
Speaker 1: pretty deadly, and the referee is standing there and does
Speaker 1: not call for the bell at all. Nothing. And I
Speaker 1: thought the rule was if somebody from the outside attacked
Speaker 1: somebody who wasn't in the match, the match continues. But
Speaker 1: if somebody comes from the back and attacks somebody in
Speaker 1: the match, then we've got a disqualification. We don't get that. Instead,
Speaker 1: as those six brawl to the back, he counted breaks
Speaker 1: and Jensen out, So at the eighth minute mark Gallos
Speaker 1: complained to the raft. They were jumped by Diamond Mind
Speaker 1: the Creed brothers and Damian Kemp were the ones who
Speaker 1: actually did the jumping, while Robert Strong was on the
Speaker 1: outside cheering him on. They sent Gallas packing went to
Speaker 1: another break. When we got back, we got a segment
Speaker 1: with Chase you andre a. Chase introduced a guest student
Speaker 1: that they met when the whole college went to the UK.
Speaker 1: It's Charlie Dempsey. And as soon as this guy comes
Speaker 1: on screen, You're like, okay, And I wasn't watching the
Speaker 1: n X t U K. I completely forgot that this
Speaker 1: guy was signed. This man is schooled and the catches
Speaker 1: catchkan tradition as well. He should be because his real
Speaker 1: name is Bailey Matthews. He's the son of Darren Matthews,
Speaker 1: better known as William Regal And damn does this guy
Speaker 1: not look like a professional wrestler. Man. I don't know
Speaker 1: what his experience level is. I have not seen him before,
Speaker 1: but this dude, if nothing else, has got the look down.
Speaker 1: And this whole thing was really cheesy at times. It's
Speaker 1: Chase you, so there was some cheese involved with the reactions.
Speaker 1: Shots of the students of Dempsey tearing people up. He
Speaker 1: quickly tapped one out before beating up on Bodie Hayward,
Speaker 1: including snatching his nose while he was in a choke.
Speaker 1: Chase broke him up. Told Dempsey then maybe they got
Speaker 1: the wrong guy to come in and do a demonstration.
Speaker 1: Dempsey called the class off and told him to do
Speaker 1: some homework by googling Billy Robinson. So probably gonna get
Speaker 1: Dempsey and uh and Bodie again. If not Uh Dempsey
Speaker 1: and uh Andre Chase and you know he's in this
Speaker 1: role now and he's been you know again, every time
Speaker 1: I see Andre Chase Russell, I remember, you know how
Speaker 1: good he is and how fun it is to actually
Speaker 1: watch him. So a match between these two, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be all four. Then it was time for the Grayson
Speaker 1: Waller Effect, his new talk show segment. So he's on
Speaker 1: the cutting edge of content innovation. While other shows may
Speaker 1: be about the guest, this one's all about him. He
Speaker 1: then brings out Apollo Cruise and Paulo calls him a
Speaker 1: low budget version of the news, which the crowd chanted
Speaker 1: at Waller. Waller asked him how he feels to go
Speaker 1: home and tell his kids that daddy couldn't cut it
Speaker 1: on Mondays and Friday. So now he's back in n
Speaker 1: XT and thinking to myself, man, he really kind of
Speaker 1: ran down n XTI there, you don't really want to
Speaker 1: do that. Sure it's developmental, but do you really want
Speaker 1: to give that impression? But Cruise did a good job
Speaker 1: shooting back on him and saying that he tells his
Speaker 1: kids that on both of those days he's been a
Speaker 1: champion and when he comes to be Tuesday's soon enough,
Speaker 1: he'll be a champion there too, And he punched Waller
Speaker 1: in the face and rolled out. This was a lot
Speaker 1: of this went on for a while to probably went
Speaker 1: on pardon me for too long, but Waller was is
Speaker 1: really good at what he does, and he's going to
Speaker 1: be He and Carmelo Hayes. I would think at some
Speaker 1: point Tiffany Stratton will get to her a little later on,
Speaker 1: throw her in the mix of some of the names
Speaker 1: that are down there right now who you would think
Speaker 1: could be ready to go to the main roster. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Tiffany Stratton is ready by work Rise
Speaker 1: or Grayson Waller for that matter. They could absolutely stand
Speaker 1: to use more time. But you look at the packages
Speaker 1: of all three of those people, and it's really hard
Speaker 1: to not to believe that they look he was up
Speaker 1: there already with a J. Styles, and in fact, he
Speaker 1: mentioned that, you know, reference that in the deal that
Speaker 1: he did to air when AJ Styles came down to
Speaker 1: wrestle him on the next t TV. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: sooner rather than later before he ends up on the
Speaker 1: main roster. Gallus was then escorted through the back by
Speaker 1: security and Pridley deadly stopped them. They just fired him
Speaker 1: up some more and they mocked him as security dragged
Speaker 1: Gallus off. Mackenzie. Mitchell then interviewed mister Stone and von
Speaker 1: Wagner backstage. Wagner said there won't be much left of
Speaker 1: Tyler Bait by the time he gets through with him,
Speaker 1: and he still wants brawn breaker. Cameron Grimes defeated Javier Bernal,
Speaker 1: who was a person that they're going to be doing
Speaker 1: a little bit with here, looks like, at least before
Speaker 1: the match, they showed Bernal talking to a security member
Speaker 1: and we'll get to him uh last week about how
Speaker 1: he was going to challenge and beat up Grimes this week.
Speaker 1: Up in the catbird seats there, Joe Gacy and the
Speaker 1: die Ad were watching and before the match they wished
Speaker 1: Grimes good luck. He didn't need much of it. Match
Speaker 1: went three minutes and five seconds and Burnell got in
Speaker 1: a little bit of offense, but Grimes took over and
Speaker 1: at the end delivered the cave in double foot stop
Speaker 1: for the pin. After the match, he stared down Gaycy
Speaker 1: and his goons. It was then time for a Blair
Speaker 1: Davenport angle showcasing who or a vignette showcasing who she is?
Speaker 1: Uh For anybody who has never seen her work on
Speaker 1: n x t U k or as her work is
Speaker 1: b priestly over in Japan and the UK and everywhere
Speaker 1: else for that matter. After the show went to break,
Speaker 1: we got vignette of all the fire who she comes
Speaker 1: from a family of fire keepers in Scotland, and she's
Speaker 1: going to continue to rep Scotland and apparently she's going
Speaker 1: to continue to bring up the name of lash Legend
Speaker 1: who she mentioned. And uh, I guess there's still a
Speaker 1: possibility that they will be handcuffed together. I have seen
Speaker 1: enough of those matches. Blair. Davenport then went on to
Speaker 1: defeat Indie Heartwell, and you know that the match was
Speaker 1: secondary here when he came to in the r well.
Speaker 1: At one point during the match, Heartwell was coming back
Speaker 1: in the ring and Davenport went for like a roll
Speaker 1: of the dice neckbreaker through the ropes and Heartwell look
Speaker 1: like she just about spiked herself. Later they showed the
Speaker 1: replaye she didn't hit the mat, but the way she
Speaker 1: twisted it was very very awkward looking. On the finish
Speaker 1: unfortunately looked worse. Davenport went for a high angle brainbuster,
Speaker 1: but even though Heartwell went up for it, Davenport just
Speaker 1: couldn't get her up and very quickly spiked her on
Speaker 1: the shoulder got the win. After the match, Davenport delivered
Speaker 1: a v trigger and threw Heartwell out of the ring.
Speaker 1: She didn't grab the mic and cut a promo and
Speaker 1: being number one contender in the UK and said she'd
Speaker 1: be happy to take the n x T Women's Championship
Speaker 1: here in the States. That brought out Mandy Rose, who
Speaker 1: sauntered down to the ring while cutting a promo. She
Speaker 1: said she's the most dominant women's champion out there and
Speaker 1: demanded Davenport's put some respect on her name. She was
Speaker 1: then cut off by music, and that music was of
Speaker 1: Mako Satamora, who got in Mandy's face. Long story short,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a triple uh threat match at World's
Speaker 1: Collie between Davenport's Satamora and Mandy Rose. I'm not putting
Speaker 1: my money on Mandy Rose, but we'll see what happens here.
Speaker 1: Mackenzie then if interview Tiffany Stratton, who was sporting that
Speaker 1: new hairstyle, the pink Parades corn Rose thing, whatever that
Speaker 1: thing was, my lord, but it may have made sense
Speaker 1: because of the light that they had over the ring.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that. J. D mcdonog cut of promo.
Speaker 1: While he was hanging upside down because he's a weirdo,
Speaker 1: I guess about not being done with b Breaker. Wes
Speaker 1: Lee was talking to Caine Carter and Katana Chance right
Speaker 1: after that long story short. There seems like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be McDonough and Lee here coming up soon. They finally
Speaker 1: come back inside the in the arena in the heartwell
Speaker 1: apparently never left ringside after all this was going on.
Speaker 1: She's sitting on the apron. She asked if this is
Speaker 1: what rock Bottom feels like. She's blaming herself for everything.
Speaker 1: When lo and behauled from behind her, you see him
Speaker 1: in the distance raise up from the other side of
Speaker 1: the ring. It's Dexter Loomis. The crowd goes crazy. She
Speaker 1: turns around, sees him in there. They both threw the
Speaker 1: little Dexter slither into the ring. Their eyes lock, They embrace,
Speaker 1: she kisses him, and then they leave together. He carries
Speaker 1: her up the ramp into the backs. Index is back
Speaker 1: together or are they? Afterwards we get a shot of
Speaker 1: Vix Joseph he's too happy, Wade Barrett, he's too sour. Overall, this,
Speaker 1: but then they cut to the back again. Dexter put
Speaker 1: Indie down. He entered her a note and opens the
Speaker 1: doors to the Performance Center, where there's red and blue
Speaker 1: lights and there's cops telling him to put his hands
Speaker 1: behind his back. Apparently was able to snake miss out
Speaker 1: of the building, has taken him to an undisclosed location
Speaker 1: and has been on the lamb ever since. But true
Speaker 1: love has brought him back to the Performance Center. He
Speaker 1: hands her a note and it's his goodbye for now.
Speaker 1: Goodbye Indie for now. I hurt you forever. So everybody
Speaker 1: wanted Index to return. I kind of wanted that too,
Speaker 1: but they're doing whatever they're going to be doing with
Speaker 1: extra Loomis on the main roster. But I love Indie heartwell,
Speaker 1: she's got a long way to go. In some ways,
Speaker 1: I wish she would leave there, go get some experience
Speaker 1: because she's got a good look. But bottom line is,
Speaker 1: if she doesn't go anywhere and get some more season
Speaker 1: and experience, get dextra back to n x D because
Speaker 1: those two together are great. We're coming up here on
Speaker 1: the break and the match between the Diet and the
Speaker 1: D'Angelo family was sure. It was only about five minutes
Speaker 1: die I got the victory basically led to Tony D'Angelo
Speaker 1: running down Legato da Phantasma and as they leave the
Speaker 1: building a little bit later, on car pulls up, window
Speaker 1: comes down Santos Escobar. He would never forget about his familia.
Speaker 1: Get in, let's ride. Everybody looks like they're driving to
Speaker 1: the main roster. Now, I would assume on SmackDown. I
Speaker 1: think they would be a great fit for that. I
Speaker 1: am still upset that we never got a good series
Speaker 1: of Swerve Strickland and uh Santos Escobar matches in n
Speaker 1: x T. I think we got one, it wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: But Tyler Bate then went on and defeated von Wagner
Speaker 1: in a non title match big battle size versus Experience
Speaker 1: here and Bate ended up getting the clean victory. Wagner
Speaker 1: looked good. That leads into Brett Bates match against Braun Breaker,
Speaker 1: and when we get back from break all this alliteration,
Speaker 1: we'll get into the main event. Tiffany Stratton Wendy two
Speaker 1: Lights Out Match wrestling Himserver Alive back on the show
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live. The main event of n x D
Speaker 1: Lights Out Match Tiffany Stratton windy you anything goes now.
Speaker 1: Usually when there's a lights out match, it just means
Speaker 1: it's unsanctioned. They flashed the lights, the lights come back up.
Speaker 1: You have a match that nothing the company wants nothing
Speaker 1: to do with. If somebody gets hurt, it's the blood's
Speaker 1: not on our hands. In this case, they actually turned
Speaker 1: the damn lights out and they had a blue light.
Speaker 1: And this is why I'm wondering if they decided to
Speaker 1: go this route with stratton sair, because at least it
Speaker 1: was reflecting off in the lights that they were using.
Speaker 1: It was this weird blue and black light that they
Speaker 1: add and at times I didn't really have a problem
Speaker 1: with it, and I never had a problem with the
Speaker 1: Sinkara thing too, but I can understand why people didn't
Speaker 1: like it. And this was much much darker than that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was an first time they were doing
Speaker 1: this whole thing, craziness happening, and yet all the wacky
Speaker 1: spots trash can over Stratton's head and she beats it
Speaker 1: with a tennis racket. There was a pink steel chair
Speaker 1: turn buckle tightening bar that you used was trying to
Speaker 1: choke out Stratton with and break her face with Wendy's
Speaker 1: bed at some point got closer to the ring. They
Speaker 1: had two huge pillows in them that had legos inside
Speaker 1: of them, which Stratton tried to follow a slam on
Speaker 1: chew into them. She missed, so she just went body
Speaker 1: slammeder on top of it, which looked like it sucked.
Speaker 1: And the finish it came when Tiffany tried to throw
Speaker 1: powder outside the ring, Gotta kicked it back in her face.
Speaker 1: She then gave her a choke slam through the headboard
Speaker 1: of the bed that she had laid out, rolled her
Speaker 1: back in the ring hit the good Night splashed for
Speaker 1: the win in thirteen o eight, so they gave it
Speaker 1: a little bit of time and as the show went off,
Speaker 1: the air had the contracts being signed for the Triple
Speaker 1: Threat Women's Unification and the Men's Unification match coming up
Speaker 1: in two weeks and n x T World's coll Eide.
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