WEBVTT - Dynamite Hot Show/New Japan Strong 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.760 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:15.560 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.920 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.320 Monday through Friday, New Psimic three Stern Sunday, three Pacific, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.720 sixth Eastern. Well, I'm not here every day, but I'm 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:29.680 here today. There's a here in this program. I feel 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.319 like death, but I am here, and I'm gonna talk 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.479 about all these shows here today. No, I don't have COVID. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.599 I took another test today. What I have is two kids, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:49.120 these vectors. Everybody has gotten it. I was the last holdout. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:53.800 Now I have it. You know what? Back here today, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.800 mostly because I don't know where Mike is. He's probably 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.680 not gonna be here today, but anyway, who cares. We 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.320 had a lot to get into today we have. You know, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.520 it's most sad about yesterday missing the show as I 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.200 couldn't do the n x T report. So maybe I'll 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.520 talk about it a little bit today. If not, you'll 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.240 have to wait till the Bran and Vidya show tonight. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.800 But we have got a w Dynamite from last night 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.280 a big show. It was weird. There was some good 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.520 wrestling and a hot crowd and then there was whatever 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.080 that last forty five minutes or so. Was so all 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.320 night about that, And uh, we'll talk about the ratings 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.480 for the n x T spring break in show, talk 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:39.360 about non spoiler rampage for Friday. We've got tickets going 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.240 on sale for shows. We have got an a w 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:48.080 power failure and it actually affected the Dark Elevation tapings, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.400 but did not affect the main show, thankfully. And New 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.360 Japan New Japan Strong this week was supposed to be 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.640 a a special two hour episode, and boy was I 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.240 not happy about that. There's so much stuff that I 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.200 gotta watch every week. I did I need two hours 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:08.560 of New Japan Strong. And the wrestling gods heard my plea. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.120 They probably thought, this poor bastard sick. Let's give this 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.839 guy a break. So instead it's it's gonna be split 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.359 into two shows, so to one hour shows. Everything's back 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.760 to normal and we've got a lot more to get into. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.799 So let's do this, everybody. Let's get it on Wrestling 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:45.680 Observer Live. Back in the show, Bran Albert is here 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:52.760 Wrestling Observer Live, Mike sumber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:54.359 Let's do a little bit of news here and then 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.280 we'll get going today and then I'm gonna tap out, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.799 you know I did before the show. I napped. I 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:07.320 never do, Yeah, I know, alright. The spring breaking edition 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.080 of n x T six d sixty one thousand viewers 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.800 in the USA network, up fourteen point six from last week, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.960 highest viewership number of the show has done since January 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.480 four thirty third on the cable charts point thirteen and 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.560 eighteen to forty nine. Obviously, the NBA playoff did very, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.200 very well, and UH special had a big increase with 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:34.280 females up from last week. People o were fifty, which 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.360 was the main reason for the viewership increase. The average 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.400 age of an n x T viewer remains like sixty 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.600 sixty two years old or whatever. And I don't think 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.200 I'm gonna review all of n x T. I don't. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.920 Mike did it yesterday, but I later later on if 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.240 I have time. I gotta make a point here, and 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.040 I'm actually not even sure I can make on national radio. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.360 I'm gona try anyway. So more cold medicine before you 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.640 do it. You want to make it entertaining. Oh dude, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.920 I'm already in the mood. I already had one guy 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.440 banned from the chat for just to look the way 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.680 you started this show. Oh Am, I gonna be here. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.040 He probably won't be here. Who cares? I'll remember that, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.760 your bastard. I didn't mean who cares, like you're not 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.160 gonna be here. I'm like, who cares about anything? Right now? 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.440 Just get the show done. A W suffered a power 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.000 failure during Dark Elevation on Wednesday. Two matches scheduled for 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:34.200 the show were unable to be filmed. The problem it 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.760 was not the Dynamite main event. During a match between 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.920 Cheeseburger and Max Castor continued as Nyla rose Face sky 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.520 Blue an entrance the announcing place, all of a sudden, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.720 everything went dark. They did the match Max Castor one 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.720 these it's okay to give you spoilers everybody, because you're 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.599 never gonna see the match. It's not gonna air. It 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.080 wasn't taped, so Max cast one and they had another 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.720 match and they announced the matches only for you fans 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.160 in the arena. It will never air. So I think 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.240 I'm all right. Given the spoilers for those two am 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.640 I not? And then the power came back on, so 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.400 you know things happen? Did Max castor cut a blue promo? 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.560 Did he take that opportunity to go all Luther Campbell 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.240 and in curse somebody out? I don't know, I don't know. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.679 We'll never know, We'll never know. And then New Japan 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.000 Is announced to change of plans for this Sunday's episode 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.440 of Strong. So Strong was gonna be a two hour show. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.479 Two hours. You guys realized there's a w w E 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.000 pay per view this weekend. You probably don't realize that 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.839 because it's like the worst bill do a pay per 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.440 view a long time, But there's a w w E 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.880 pay per view this weekend, a UFC pay per view, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.600 and Stardom was last night, which I have to watch 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.280 for the filthy show and I don't need two hours 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.160 of Strong. I'm sorry, and thankfully it's not anymore. They 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.680 split into two shows, so this Saturday it's Tom Lawler Jr. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.960 Cradles and Royce, Isaac's versus Fred Ross for Elex Coglan, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.760 the d k C, Jonah versus Blake Christian and Hikolo 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:10.160 and Chris bab versus Bateman and Barrett Brown. And then 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.720 next week we've got j White versus Hikkoleo, Fred Rosser 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:21.360 versus Royce, Isaac's and Jarrell Nelson handicap match, and Rocky Romero, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.599 Adrian Quest and Elexicoglan faced JR. Crados, Black Tiger and 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.200 Danny Limelight. Was there a philosophy as to why this 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.240 thing was going to be two hours because of the 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:37.080 Philly in d C shows? I mean, no clue. Well, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.640 I've actually they made the right decision, to be honest, 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.320 So yeah, they did make the right decision. So that's 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.920 the news everybody. I guess those forbidden door tickets went 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:52.080 on sale and blasted away, so that's nice. And guys, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:57.680 what do you want enemy? What do you want here? Oh? My, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.200 you know what I'm gonna make. I'm gonna I'm to do. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.120 I know everyone's like furious about this, but just bros, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.000 chill out. I'll do I'll do a w and have 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.400 a full segment. But since we got a few extra 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.600 minutes here, okay, I gotta make mention as something from 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.560 from n X T Okay, it's not even a segment, 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:21.520 so just listen, bros. Okay, I realized that, you know, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.040 you know, it's in charge of n x T right 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.880 now is Shawn Michael's. But I can't blame him because 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.560 I don't think that's coming from him. But you know, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.560 he's a nice Christian man. Probably isn't going a lot 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.440 of porn sites. Right in that theory, I should probably 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.960 ask Craig. But so I'm watching this n x T show, 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.320 you might see another Sean Michaels. And they're doing this 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.000 segment with J. C. Jane and G. G. Dolan and 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.840 they're at the beach and they're practically they got no 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.720 clothes on, and they're doing this segment and they're running 0:07:53.720 --> 0:08:01.440 around and you know, spilling out everywhere. And we just 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.800 had that interview with Ember Moon where they were told 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:08.520 to dress more like Mandy Rose and Mandy Roses is 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.280 the champion and they're always out there posing and she's 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:16.000 always in her her outfits and everything like that. And uh, bro, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.240 there's no young people that watch this show. There aren't 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:26.400 any the average this show is. The viewership is so old. Okay, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:35.240 so hold on now, you know it's like I was, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:36.560 I was actually you know what I was gonna do? 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.800 Is I was gonna have you I'm not gonna do 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.000 this because it's just like I can't bring myself to 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.640 do it. I was gonna have you name a type, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.880 and then I was gonna see how quickly I could 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.240 find that type nude on the internet. Okay, it would 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:55.480 take me. You could name brunette, uh whatever. Okay, it 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.520 takes it take me. And it's not just me, it's 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.280 anyone listening to this right now. It's gonna take you 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.000 two seconds to find an example of someone that looks 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.920 like this nude probably doing a lot more than just 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:12.280 being nude on the internet. Okay, bros, it's okay. Your 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:17.480 idea to get young viewers is to put women in 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:27.199 bikinis on television. Brother, guys, I'm I can't believe it. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:32.839 It's not gonna work. Bro. If anybody wants to see 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.400 good looking women or men for that matter, wearing a 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.160 lot less than anyone's wearing on n x T, it's 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:45.120 two seconds on the internet. Okay, this ain't gonna work. Now, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.480 let's move away from pulkratude. You guys know yesterday was 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.319 it was? It was May four? Okay, some of you 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.520 nerds probably have heard May the fourth be with you 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.160 at Star Worst Day. Okay. Now, I'm one of those 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.320 nerds now because my daughter loves Star Wars. All right, 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.240 So my daughter's like totally in all this Star Wars stuff, 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:09.839 but I don't want to. I don't want to watch 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.680 in the movie where some guys getting his hand chopped 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.839 off with a lightsaber. So I try to find everything 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.520 I can that a kid could watch, all right. So 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.520 one of the things I found the other day, no, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.240 so just let's just bear with me. One of the 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.440 things I found the other day was a documentary about 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.920 the making of Star Wars. Okay, and they're interviewing George Lucas, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.760 who was the guy that created Star Wars. And he's 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.440 talking about film studios in the in the late sixties 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.880 and the early seventies. Now, everything was changing, okay, and 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.160 all the old people. Does this sound familiar? All the 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:46.239 old people were retiring, okay from these studios. These studios 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.720 were being sold, you know, George Lucas says, he goes, 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:55.560 they discovered that what young people wanted was movies made 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:05.160 by other young people. Huh, So you're telling me, you're 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:10.120 telling me what young people wanted was movies made by 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:17.040 other young people. And meanwhile, we've got you know, n 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.040 x T is just one example, but we've also got 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.240 w w E, which I know everybody thinks nobody but 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.000 children watches. There ain't no children watching w w E. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.960 It's also all old people, and yeah, a w there's 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.959 a lot of older people as well, but I mean 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.120 at least we're talking, you know, late forties, not sixties. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:42.360 And what we've got here is wrestling booked by old people. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:48.000 TV shows created by old people. N x T old 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.560 people running this show, and all they can come up 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.120 with to get young people is not young people booking 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.880 the show. Oh let's just put random women in bikinis. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.920 That'll work. Well, it's not. It's time for a change. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.640 I think everybody knows what it is. Back in a 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:10.599 moment of Server Live, I got one last thing to 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.080 say that I'm moving on, So don't jump in, Michae. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:18.600 Let's just move on a w I am not anti old, Okay. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.520 If I had a billion dollars and I started a 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.839 wrestling company, I'd hire Seawan Michael's maybe before anybody else. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.520 And you know what, I'd hire Vince two. I wouldn't 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.840 have book but I had asked him like, what do 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.280 you think about this or that? I mean, the guy 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.680 has been doing this for a million years. But my 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:38.600 point is if you want to attract a young viewer, 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:44.120 then the person writing the shows in their late seventies 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:50.360 probably it's gonna have a hard time, all right, A 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.600 W dynamite. The show was a mix of highs and lows. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:00.560 Brother Oh and Hard Bobby Fish or own Herd Foundation 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:06.160 Cup qualifier. Jeff Hardy and Bobby Fish was a It 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.719 was a weird match. Jeff Hardy looks like he is 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.680 in tons of pain and he is slow, but the 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.080 fans love this dude, and like every time he did 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.800 one of his high spots he went crazy. Every time 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.440 he teased anything, they went crazy. He had this the 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.840 cent on. They went crazy and he won and then 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.200 the young bucks came out and they they had a 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.440 moment with the hard Ease and then they moved on 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.559 and check on Bobby Fish. And from watching Jeff move around, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.600 I mean, if we're gonna do this match and a W, 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.680 let's do it quick. So I think that match is 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:43.400 coming here pretty soon. We had a fabulous William Regal 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.720 video package. This was so awesome training This poor bloke 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.560 Wheeler Utah, and then Bryan Daniels and John Moxley Wheeler. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.520 You to beat the Butcher of the Blade and a Hellico. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.079 I don't care what happened during Picture and picture, Okay 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.680 on television, they ruined these guys. They smashed him, they 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:06.200 pummeled them, they bloke them all up, and then they 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:12.560 did the triple submission and uh Danielson triangled as a 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.680 regal calls him Angelico and got the wind. So they're 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.520 getting the big push here and we gotta talk about 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.880 rankings later. Okay, don't let me forget Mike. We had 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:29.520 Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs meeting with Jungle Boy luch 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.200 Source Christian Cage, and Jungle Boy said, listen, you guys 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.080 want to take title match. We've been thinking about it 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.680 and we will give it to you, but on the 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.880 condition that I get a shot at Ricky Starks ft 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.840 double your title next week. So that's on. Word Low 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.760 came out. Fans are absolutely so into this word Low bloke. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.360 He comes out, he gets in the ring, and yes, 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:56.360 they bring out w Morrissey, the former Big Cast and 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.160 he's seven ft tall as promised, and you can't teach that, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.600 and he gets in the ring and he's pummeling Old Wardlow, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:10.400 and fans are are channing for Wardlow. They're actually chanting, Uh, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.040 we want Enzo. No, we don't. And Big Casts also 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.440 does not win Enzo. He's screaming these fans and just 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.520 shut up about this little nerd and uh. Finally Warlow 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.240 makes a comeback. Big Moon Salt Power bombs him once 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.920 and pins him, and then they send out I'm not 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:31.080 joking here, twenty security guys sit the ring. Wardlow kills 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.480 every single one of them, and he tells him Jeff, 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.440 he's not gonna quit till he gets his match, and 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.200 and MJF says, all right, fine, I will give you 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.840 the match, but only under certain conditions. And I'm not 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.840 giving you geeks in this town the conditions. You will 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.040 aft to tune in next week in Long Island. We'll 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:53.360 do a contract signing. I laughed, and I'll give you 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:58.680 the conditions there. His gimmick is that he's ready to 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.560 go to w W E. So all of this is heat. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:07.080 We had a segment sending up rampage with the women, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.400 which I'll leve old font le Roy. God, I I 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.720 could use font lor for this whole show here today. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.720 Hangman page to the promo and hangman page. I don't 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.920 know if he's fully turning heel, because he's done a 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:24.080 few kind of sort of helish things over the last 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.840 couple of months, but this was like he's all in 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.640 for this feud with Punk. He's not going to be 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:34.000 doing these Masterbatry Brent Hart tribute matches. He's not gonna 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.760 go in there and shake this guy's hand, and he's 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.920 not gonna talk about how excited he is to be. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.560 He's gonna go in there. He's gonna kill this guy. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.480 And he goes, you, if you've got your C on 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.160 Punk shirt by the time this match is over, you're 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:50.200 gonna be burning that thing. And he says Punk's not 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.960 here tonight. He's out making some movie. He's he's playing 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:58.960 the UM. I guess Roman rains Rule actually when brock 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.800 Lezard was never there. And he says Punk's gonna get 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.760 the fight of his life at the Rock. Basically, yeah, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.800 he's playing John Cene into the Rock here, except I 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.040 think John c was supposed to be a baby factually. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.240 You know what, see him punk in the Rock? Wasn't that? 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:21.200 See him punk? It was Yeah, Jericho and Santana at 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.719 a match, and uh, dude, they got to be building 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:29.800 towards this war games, because my god, there's interference. It 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.879 was like a bullet club match early and it was 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.640 a bullet club match late. Everybody is getting involved, The 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:40.040 appreciation society is out there and uh, there's actually the 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:44.920 only person out there for Santana's ortiz because Eddie Kingsons 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.760 got his eyeball burned off, and so uh ends up 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.440 with distraction there. At the end, Jericho hits a low 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.440 blow Judas effect gets to win. They beat both guys down. Afterwards, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.600 fans are waiting for Eddie, but there's no Eddie. He'll 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.000 be back, though, does he a cartoon? He burned it off, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.080 He didn't burn it out, he didn't burn the eye. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:05.760 He just burned it right off his face. I don't 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.399 know what he did saying that. I don't have an 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.880 update on his eyeball condition we had. Oh my god, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.200 this is where the show started to fall off. Varsity 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:19.639 Blonde come out and poor Brian Pillman cuts a promo 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:24.159 and nobody cares, and you know the you know the problem. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.320 You know what, I'm gonna just finish the report. I'll 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.440 talk more about this in a while, but anyway, outcome 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:35.600 the House of Black and they attack Pillman and Garrison 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.399 and uh, you know, they're expecting Julia Hart to turn 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.959 and hit him with a chair, but she doesn't, and 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.879 so they intimidate her and they make her cry and 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:52.280 they rip off her I patch and I'm waiting, I'm waiting, 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:58.480 and nothing comes of it. And then they actually go 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.720 to a backstage segment with Jake Cargill and they come 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.520 back and she's still in the ring and it's a 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.680 Ray Phoenix versus Dante Martin match. So like the fact 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.280 that she was still in the ring after the break 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.359 and she's covering her eyes so we don't see what's what. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:16.800 You know, she's clearly got the eye gimmick that um 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:21.360 Maliki has, but they're they're teasing this forever, but she's 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.439 still out there, and so I thought, okay, well, you 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:29.320 know she's gonna blow that missed Ray Phoenix cost him 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:34.560 to match, but no, she vanished and we never saw 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:39.560 her again. And so Ray Phoenix and Dante Martin. It's like, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.560 I'll talk about this match later too, but like, if 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.280 you want to see the most incredible moves you ever 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.639 saw if I got the match for you, But like, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.560 as a match, it wasn't even a match at all. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.320 It was like, hey, you do a crazy move, and 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.240 then I'll do a crazy move, and then you do 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:00.399 one and the crowd's going crazy. So like, I have 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.239 a lot to say about this. But anyway, Ray Phoenix one, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.639 and so he moves on in the tournament. So here 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.440 are the brackets for the tournament. The tournament matches are, Yeah, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.760 it was Cercy so late, Ray Phoenix versus Kylo O'Reilly, 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.440 Jeff Hardy versus Darby Allen, Adam Cole versus Dax Hartwood, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:23.560 and Samoa Joe versus the Joker. Who could the Joker be? Hm, 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.280 I know, I think it is. I don't think it's 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.840 Kitty Omega, but we'll get into that. Then we had 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.920 a thunder Rosa promo. My god, so it wasn't even 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.439 so much of the promo, but like, how much time 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.400 did they devote to this? She's out there talking forever 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.040 and nobody cares and then she calls out Serena Deep, 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.240 and Serena Deep comes out and she starts talking forever 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.680 and nobody cares. I didn't think it was really bad. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.800 It certainly would have been a lot better shorter, and 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.680 it would have been a lot better off, be well cared. 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.320 But they set up the match at double or nothing, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:07.160 and uh, you know, I'm watching the clock and it's like, dude, 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.560 we got a unification match still to come, and these 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.720 two are still talking. And they talked and they talked 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.040 and they talked, and I thought, you know, we're running 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:17.600 out of time. Maybe they're not going to plug the 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.880 matches for next week, but they did, and uh, and 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.040 you know, Excalibur is no longer going three thousand miles 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.960 an hour. So they they take us through the Rampage 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:30.480 line up, and they take us through the Dynamite line up, 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:34.240 and they, you know, they just took their time, and 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.000 I'm like, dude, we are running low here. And then 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.040 they go backstage for John Silver, Johnny Hungy does a 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:44.840 promo and there taking their time. So by the time 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.240 Mercedes and Diana got in the ring, they have nine 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.879 minutes of TV time left. Nine and the bell rings, 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.440 and uh, the first thing Diana does, she backs off, 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:03.800 She listens to the crowd, and then they slowly begin 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:12.120 to circle each other, like what is happening? And then 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.360 the answers are like, we're gonna stay here as long 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.600 as it takes. And I'm thinking, do they actually really 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:19.600 get an overrun for one, because they always say that, 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.560 but they never actually go past the top of the hour. 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:24.360 And bro, they are they're working a match like they're 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:27.480 gonna go twenty and I'm looking at my watchers, like, bro, 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.040 there's there's no time left. They go to commercial, they 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.760 come back, there's six minutes left, and uh, and you 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.240 know the match, like Diana is a really good worker 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:41.560 and and but then nobody cared about this match at 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:46.440 all and uh. And finally the literally the last second, 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:51.719 with moments left, Uh, Mercedes Martinez curb stomps her and 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:53.960 she goes for the Dragon Sleeper. At least everybody knew 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.520 the Dragon Sleeper because they actually woke up for there, 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:01.000 like ah. And then Diana taps and Mercedes gets the belt. 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:03.439 He holds him up there off the air. So I 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:07.160 understand that like two belts on the line, they wanted 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.639 to make this a big main event. They wanted to 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:13.560 give respect to the titles. Fans did not see it 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:16.080 that way at all. So last forty five minutes of 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:20.480 this show yikes. I expected to U die a death 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:22.639 in the quarters, but I've been wrong before about that. 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:26.200 I'm talking more about specific segments after the break ups 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:38.280 were like back in the show, right, Alberre is here, 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:42.400 Rustling Observer Live, make some REVIEVI also Wrestling Observer dot Com. 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:46.560 Let's get this full array thing over to day. Give 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:53.360 me a crap today, you old Rich Baker, Jimmy at 0:23:54.960 --> 0:24:01.240 Wow speaking the Deutsche absolutely idiot. I wanted Dutch, you moron, 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:04.680 Deutsch German. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:08.800 another more on. You're all idiots. Try this again, Jiminy Christmas, 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:12.159 Dr Britt Baker, D M D and Jamie Hayter versus 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:17.119 Tony Storm and Ruby Soho Canosa Ka Takashita versus j 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:22.440 Lethal Hook versus J. D. Drake Owen Heart Foundation Cup qualifier, 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:27.640 Riho versus Yukasa Kazaki. I hope you feel better soon, Daddy. 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:34.280 Don't even start that. What was I gonna talk about 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:37.240 on this show? I can talk about something on this show. 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:39.520 What did I want to get into? You had a 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:41.480 bunch of things that you decided to put off until 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:45.560 this third segment. I did. I'm a professional and I 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:49.200 got the timing perfect for the entire Yeah, I did. 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:52.640 I literally ended the review right as the music hid 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:56.359 because I were feeling you didn't have a time to write. No, 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:59.080 I actually did. I had n't have a time perfectly, 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.840 thank you? All right? I actually did you want me 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:04.919