Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, New Psimic three Stern Sunday, three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. Well, I'm not here every day, but I'm
Speaker 1: here today. There's a here in this program. I feel
Speaker 1: like death, but I am here, and I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about all these shows here today. No, I don't have COVID.
Speaker 1: I took another test today. What I have is two kids,
Speaker 1: these vectors. Everybody has gotten it. I was the last holdout.
Speaker 1: Now I have it. You know what? Back here today,
Speaker 1: mostly because I don't know where Mike is. He's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna be here today, but anyway, who cares. We
Speaker 1: had a lot to get into today we have. You know,
Speaker 1: it's most sad about yesterday missing the show as I
Speaker 1: couldn't do the n x T report. So maybe I'll
Speaker 1: talk about it a little bit today. If not, you'll
Speaker 1: have to wait till the Bran and Vidya show tonight.
Speaker 1: But we have got a w Dynamite from last night
Speaker 1: a big show. It was weird. There was some good
Speaker 1: wrestling and a hot crowd and then there was whatever
Speaker 1: that last forty five minutes or so. Was so all
Speaker 1: night about that, And uh, we'll talk about the ratings
Speaker 1: for the n x T spring break in show, talk
Speaker 1: about non spoiler rampage for Friday. We've got tickets going
Speaker 1: on sale for shows. We have got an a w
Speaker 1: power failure and it actually affected the Dark Elevation tapings,
Speaker 1: but did not affect the main show, thankfully. And New
Speaker 1: Japan New Japan Strong this week was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a a special two hour episode, and boy was I
Speaker 1: not happy about that. There's so much stuff that I
Speaker 1: gotta watch every week. I did I need two hours
Speaker 1: of New Japan Strong. And the wrestling gods heard my plea.
Speaker 1: They probably thought, this poor bastard sick. Let's give this
Speaker 1: guy a break. So instead it's it's gonna be split
Speaker 1: into two shows, so to one hour shows. Everything's back
Speaker 1: to normal and we've got a lot more to get into.
Speaker 1: So let's do this, everybody. Let's get it on Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Live. Back in the show, Bran Albert is here
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live, Mike sumber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com.
Speaker 1: Let's do a little bit of news here and then
Speaker 1: we'll get going today and then I'm gonna tap out,
Speaker 1: you know I did before the show. I napped. I
Speaker 1: never do, Yeah, I know, alright. The spring breaking edition
Speaker 1: of n x T six d sixty one thousand viewers
Speaker 1: in the USA network, up fourteen point six from last week,
Speaker 1: highest viewership number of the show has done since January
Speaker 1: four thirty third on the cable charts point thirteen and
Speaker 1: eighteen to forty nine. Obviously, the NBA playoff did very,
Speaker 1: very well, and UH special had a big increase with
Speaker 1: females up from last week. People o were fifty, which
Speaker 1: was the main reason for the viewership increase. The average
Speaker 1: age of an n x T viewer remains like sixty
Speaker 1: sixty two years old or whatever. And I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna review all of n x T. I don't.
Speaker 1: Mike did it yesterday, but I later later on if
Speaker 1: I have time. I gotta make a point here, and
Speaker 1: I'm actually not even sure I can make on national radio.
Speaker 1: I'm gona try anyway. So more cold medicine before you
Speaker 1: do it. You want to make it entertaining. Oh dude,
Speaker 1: I'm already in the mood. I already had one guy
Speaker 1: banned from the chat for just to look the way
Speaker 1: you started this show. Oh Am, I gonna be here.
Speaker 1: He probably won't be here. Who cares? I'll remember that,
Speaker 1: your bastard. I didn't mean who cares, like you're not
Speaker 1: gonna be here. I'm like, who cares about anything? Right now?
Speaker 1: Just get the show done. A W suffered a power
Speaker 1: failure during Dark Elevation on Wednesday. Two matches scheduled for
Speaker 1: the show were unable to be filmed. The problem it
Speaker 1: was not the Dynamite main event. During a match between
Speaker 1: Cheeseburger and Max Castor continued as Nyla rose Face sky
Speaker 1: Blue an entrance the announcing place, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: everything went dark. They did the match Max Castor one
Speaker 1: these it's okay to give you spoilers everybody, because you're
Speaker 1: never gonna see the match. It's not gonna air. It
Speaker 1: wasn't taped, so Max cast one and they had another
Speaker 1: match and they announced the matches only for you fans
Speaker 1: in the arena. It will never air. So I think
Speaker 1: I'm all right. Given the spoilers for those two am
Speaker 1: I not? And then the power came back on, so
Speaker 1: you know things happen? Did Max castor cut a blue promo?
Speaker 1: Did he take that opportunity to go all Luther Campbell
Speaker 1: and in curse somebody out? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll never know, We'll never know. And then New Japan
Speaker 1: Is announced to change of plans for this Sunday's episode
Speaker 1: of Strong. So Strong was gonna be a two hour show.
Speaker 1: Two hours. You guys realized there's a w w E
Speaker 1: pay per view this weekend. You probably don't realize that
Speaker 1: because it's like the worst bill do a pay per
Speaker 1: view a long time, But there's a w w E
Speaker 1: pay per view this weekend, a UFC pay per view,
Speaker 1: and Stardom was last night, which I have to watch
Speaker 1: for the filthy show and I don't need two hours
Speaker 1: of Strong. I'm sorry, and thankfully it's not anymore. They
Speaker 1: split into two shows, so this Saturday it's Tom Lawler Jr.
Speaker 1: Cradles and Royce, Isaac's versus Fred Ross for Elex Coglan,
Speaker 1: the d k C, Jonah versus Blake Christian and Hikolo
Speaker 1: and Chris bab versus Bateman and Barrett Brown. And then
Speaker 1: next week we've got j White versus Hikkoleo, Fred Rosser
Speaker 1: versus Royce, Isaac's and Jarrell Nelson handicap match, and Rocky Romero,
Speaker 1: Adrian Quest and Elexicoglan faced JR. Crados, Black Tiger and
Speaker 1: Danny Limelight. Was there a philosophy as to why this
Speaker 1: thing was going to be two hours because of the
Speaker 1: Philly in d C shows? I mean, no clue. Well,
Speaker 1: I've actually they made the right decision, to be honest,
Speaker 1: So yeah, they did make the right decision. So that's
Speaker 1: the news everybody. I guess those forbidden door tickets went
Speaker 1: on sale and blasted away, so that's nice. And guys,
Speaker 1: what do you want enemy? What do you want here? Oh? My,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna make. I'm gonna I'm to do.
Speaker 1: I know everyone's like furious about this, but just bros,
Speaker 1: chill out. I'll do I'll do a w and have
Speaker 1: a full segment. But since we got a few extra
Speaker 1: minutes here, okay, I gotta make mention as something from
Speaker 1: from n X T Okay, it's not even a segment,
Speaker 1: so just listen, bros. Okay, I realized that, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, it's in charge of n x T right
Speaker 1: now is Shawn Michael's. But I can't blame him because
Speaker 1: I don't think that's coming from him. But you know,
Speaker 1: he's a nice Christian man. Probably isn't going a lot
Speaker 1: of porn sites. Right in that theory, I should probably
Speaker 1: ask Craig. But so I'm watching this n x T show,
Speaker 1: you might see another Sean Michaels. And they're doing this
Speaker 1: segment with J. C. Jane and G. G. Dolan and
Speaker 1: they're at the beach and they're practically they got no
Speaker 1: clothes on, and they're doing this segment and they're running
Speaker 1: around and you know, spilling out everywhere. And we just
Speaker 1: had that interview with Ember Moon where they were told
Speaker 1: to dress more like Mandy Rose and Mandy Roses is
Speaker 1: the champion and they're always out there posing and she's
Speaker 1: always in her her outfits and everything like that. And uh, bro,
Speaker 1: there's no young people that watch this show. There aren't
Speaker 1: any the average this show is. The viewership is so old. Okay,
Speaker 1: so hold on now, you know it's like I was,
Speaker 1: I was actually you know what I was gonna do?
Speaker 1: Is I was gonna have you I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: this because it's just like I can't bring myself to
Speaker 1: do it. I was gonna have you name a type,
Speaker 1: and then I was gonna see how quickly I could
Speaker 1: find that type nude on the internet. Okay, it would
Speaker 1: take me. You could name brunette, uh whatever. Okay, it
Speaker 1: takes it take me. And it's not just me, it's
Speaker 1: anyone listening to this right now. It's gonna take you
Speaker 1: two seconds to find an example of someone that looks
Speaker 1: like this nude probably doing a lot more than just
Speaker 1: being nude on the internet. Okay, bros, it's okay. Your
Speaker 1: idea to get young viewers is to put women in
Speaker 1: bikinis on television. Brother, guys, I'm I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna work. Bro. If anybody wants to see
Speaker 1: good looking women or men for that matter, wearing a
Speaker 1: lot less than anyone's wearing on n x T, it's
Speaker 1: two seconds on the internet. Okay, this ain't gonna work. Now,
Speaker 1: let's move away from pulkratude. You guys know yesterday was
Speaker 1: it was? It was May four? Okay, some of you
Speaker 1: nerds probably have heard May the fourth be with you
Speaker 1: at Star Worst Day. Okay. Now, I'm one of those
Speaker 1: nerds now because my daughter loves Star Wars. All right,
Speaker 1: So my daughter's like totally in all this Star Wars stuff,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to. I don't want to watch
Speaker 1: in the movie where some guys getting his hand chopped
Speaker 1: off with a lightsaber. So I try to find everything
Speaker 1: I can that a kid could watch, all right. So
Speaker 1: one of the things I found the other day, no,
Speaker 1: so just let's just bear with me. One of the
Speaker 1: things I found the other day was a documentary about
Speaker 1: the making of Star Wars. Okay, and they're interviewing George Lucas,
Speaker 1: who was the guy that created Star Wars. And he's
Speaker 1: talking about film studios in the in the late sixties
Speaker 1: and the early seventies. Now, everything was changing, okay, and
Speaker 1: all the old people. Does this sound familiar? All the
Speaker 1: old people were retiring, okay from these studios. These studios
Speaker 1: were being sold, you know, George Lucas says, he goes,
Speaker 1: they discovered that what young people wanted was movies made
Speaker 1: by other young people. Huh, So you're telling me, you're
Speaker 1: telling me what young people wanted was movies made by
Speaker 1: other young people. And meanwhile, we've got you know, n
Speaker 1: x T is just one example, but we've also got
Speaker 1: w w E, which I know everybody thinks nobody but
Speaker 1: children watches. There ain't no children watching w w E.
Speaker 1: It's also all old people, and yeah, a w there's
Speaker 1: a lot of older people as well, but I mean
Speaker 1: at least we're talking, you know, late forties, not sixties.
Speaker 1: And what we've got here is wrestling booked by old people.
Speaker 1: TV shows created by old people. N x T old
Speaker 1: people running this show, and all they can come up
Speaker 1: with to get young people is not young people booking
Speaker 1: the show. Oh let's just put random women in bikinis.
Speaker 1: That'll work. Well, it's not. It's time for a change.
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows what it is. Back in a
Speaker 1: moment of Server Live, I got one last thing to
Speaker 1: say that I'm moving on, So don't jump in, Michae.
Speaker 1: Let's just move on a w I am not anti old, Okay.
Speaker 1: If I had a billion dollars and I started a
Speaker 1: wrestling company, I'd hire Seawan Michael's maybe before anybody else.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I'd hire Vince two. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have book but I had asked him like, what do
Speaker 1: you think about this or that? I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: has been doing this for a million years. But my
Speaker 1: point is if you want to attract a young viewer,
Speaker 1: then the person writing the shows in their late seventies
Speaker 1: probably it's gonna have a hard time, all right, A
Speaker 1: W dynamite. The show was a mix of highs and lows.
Speaker 1: Brother Oh and Hard Bobby Fish or own Herd Foundation
Speaker 1: Cup qualifier. Jeff Hardy and Bobby Fish was a It
Speaker 1: was a weird match. Jeff Hardy looks like he is
Speaker 1: in tons of pain and he is slow, but the
Speaker 1: fans love this dude, and like every time he did
Speaker 1: one of his high spots he went crazy. Every time
Speaker 1: he teased anything, they went crazy. He had this the
Speaker 1: cent on. They went crazy and he won and then
Speaker 1: the young bucks came out and they they had a
Speaker 1: moment with the hard Ease and then they moved on
Speaker 1: and check on Bobby Fish. And from watching Jeff move around,
Speaker 1: I mean, if we're gonna do this match and a W,
Speaker 1: let's do it quick. So I think that match is
Speaker 1: coming here pretty soon. We had a fabulous William Regal
Speaker 1: video package. This was so awesome training This poor bloke
Speaker 1: Wheeler Utah, and then Bryan Daniels and John Moxley Wheeler.
Speaker 1: You to beat the Butcher of the Blade and a Hellico.
Speaker 1: I don't care what happened during Picture and picture, Okay
Speaker 1: on television, they ruined these guys. They smashed him, they
Speaker 1: pummeled them, they bloke them all up, and then they
Speaker 1: did the triple submission and uh Danielson triangled as a
Speaker 1: regal calls him Angelico and got the wind. So they're
Speaker 1: getting the big push here and we gotta talk about
Speaker 1: rankings later. Okay, don't let me forget Mike. We had
Speaker 1: Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs meeting with Jungle Boy luch
Speaker 1: Source Christian Cage, and Jungle Boy said, listen, you guys
Speaker 1: want to take title match. We've been thinking about it
Speaker 1: and we will give it to you, but on the
Speaker 1: condition that I get a shot at Ricky Starks ft
Speaker 1: double your title next week. So that's on. Word Low
Speaker 1: came out. Fans are absolutely so into this word Low bloke.
Speaker 1: He comes out, he gets in the ring, and yes,
Speaker 1: they bring out w Morrissey, the former Big Cast and
Speaker 1: he's seven ft tall as promised, and you can't teach that,
Speaker 1: and he gets in the ring and he's pummeling Old Wardlow,
Speaker 1: and fans are are channing for Wardlow. They're actually chanting, Uh,
Speaker 1: we want Enzo. No, we don't. And Big Casts also
Speaker 1: does not win Enzo. He's screaming these fans and just
Speaker 1: shut up about this little nerd and uh. Finally Warlow
Speaker 1: makes a comeback. Big Moon Salt Power bombs him once
Speaker 1: and pins him, and then they send out I'm not
Speaker 1: joking here, twenty security guys sit the ring. Wardlow kills
Speaker 1: every single one of them, and he tells him Jeff,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna quit till he gets his match, and
Speaker 1: and MJF says, all right, fine, I will give you
Speaker 1: the match, but only under certain conditions. And I'm not
Speaker 1: giving you geeks in this town the conditions. You will
Speaker 1: aft to tune in next week in Long Island. We'll
Speaker 1: do a contract signing. I laughed, and I'll give you
Speaker 1: the conditions there. His gimmick is that he's ready to
Speaker 1: go to w W E. So all of this is heat.
Speaker 1: We had a segment sending up rampage with the women,
Speaker 1: which I'll leve old font le Roy. God, I I
Speaker 1: could use font lor for this whole show here today.
Speaker 1: Hangman page to the promo and hangman page. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's fully turning heel, because he's done a
Speaker 1: few kind of sort of helish things over the last
Speaker 1: couple of months, but this was like he's all in
Speaker 1: for this feud with Punk. He's not going to be
Speaker 1: doing these Masterbatry Brent Hart tribute matches. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: go in there and shake this guy's hand, and he's
Speaker 1: not gonna talk about how excited he is to be.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go in there. He's gonna kill this guy.
Speaker 1: And he goes, you, if you've got your C on
Speaker 1: Punk shirt by the time this match is over, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be burning that thing. And he says Punk's not
Speaker 1: here tonight. He's out making some movie. He's he's playing
Speaker 1: the UM. I guess Roman rains Rule actually when brock
Speaker 1: Lezard was never there. And he says Punk's gonna get
Speaker 1: the fight of his life at the Rock. Basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's playing John Cene into the Rock here, except I
Speaker 1: think John c was supposed to be a baby factually.
Speaker 1: You know what, see him punk in the Rock? Wasn't that?
Speaker 1: See him punk? It was Yeah, Jericho and Santana at
Speaker 1: a match, and uh, dude, they got to be building
Speaker 1: towards this war games, because my god, there's interference. It
Speaker 1: was like a bullet club match early and it was
Speaker 1: a bullet club match late. Everybody is getting involved, The
Speaker 1: appreciation society is out there and uh, there's actually the
Speaker 1: only person out there for Santana's ortiz because Eddie Kingsons
Speaker 1: got his eyeball burned off, and so uh ends up
Speaker 1: with distraction there. At the end, Jericho hits a low
Speaker 1: blow Judas effect gets to win. They beat both guys down. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: fans are waiting for Eddie, but there's no Eddie. He'll
Speaker 1: be back, though, does he a cartoon? He burned it off,
Speaker 1: He didn't burn it out, he didn't burn the eye.
Speaker 1: He just burned it right off his face. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he did saying that. I don't have an
Speaker 1: update on his eyeball condition we had. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is where the show started to fall off. Varsity
Speaker 1: Blonde come out and poor Brian Pillman cuts a promo
Speaker 1: and nobody cares, and you know the you know the problem.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna just finish the report. I'll
Speaker 1: talk more about this in a while, but anyway, outcome
Speaker 1: the House of Black and they attack Pillman and Garrison
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, they're expecting Julia Hart to turn
Speaker 1: and hit him with a chair, but she doesn't, and
Speaker 1: so they intimidate her and they make her cry and
Speaker 1: they rip off her I patch and I'm waiting, I'm waiting,
Speaker 1: and nothing comes of it. And then they actually go
Speaker 1: to a backstage segment with Jake Cargill and they come
Speaker 1: back and she's still in the ring and it's a
Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix versus Dante Martin match. So like the fact
Speaker 1: that she was still in the ring after the break
Speaker 1: and she's covering her eyes so we don't see what's what.
Speaker 1: You know, she's clearly got the eye gimmick that um
Speaker 1: Maliki has, but they're they're teasing this forever, but she's
Speaker 1: still out there, and so I thought, okay, well, you
Speaker 1: know she's gonna blow that missed Ray Phoenix cost him
Speaker 1: to match, but no, she vanished and we never saw
Speaker 1: her again. And so Ray Phoenix and Dante Martin. It's like,
Speaker 1: I'll talk about this match later too, but like, if
Speaker 1: you want to see the most incredible moves you ever
Speaker 1: saw if I got the match for you, But like,
Speaker 1: as a match, it wasn't even a match at all.
Speaker 1: It was like, hey, you do a crazy move, and
Speaker 1: then I'll do a crazy move, and then you do
Speaker 1: one and the crowd's going crazy. So like, I have
Speaker 1: a lot to say about this. But anyway, Ray Phoenix one,
Speaker 1: and so he moves on in the tournament. So here
Speaker 1: are the brackets for the tournament. The tournament matches are, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was Cercy so late, Ray Phoenix versus Kylo O'Reilly,
Speaker 1: Jeff Hardy versus Darby Allen, Adam Cole versus Dax Hartwood,
Speaker 1: and Samoa Joe versus the Joker. Who could the Joker be? Hm,
Speaker 1: I know, I think it is. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: Kitty Omega, but we'll get into that. Then we had
Speaker 1: a thunder Rosa promo. My god, so it wasn't even
Speaker 1: so much of the promo, but like, how much time
Speaker 1: did they devote to this? She's out there talking forever
Speaker 1: and nobody cares and then she calls out Serena Deep,
Speaker 1: and Serena Deep comes out and she starts talking forever
Speaker 1: and nobody cares. I didn't think it was really bad.
Speaker 1: It certainly would have been a lot better shorter, and
Speaker 1: it would have been a lot better off, be well cared.
Speaker 1: But they set up the match at double or nothing,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I'm watching the clock and it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: we got a unification match still to come, and these
Speaker 1: two are still talking. And they talked and they talked
Speaker 1: and they talked, and I thought, you know, we're running
Speaker 1: out of time. Maybe they're not going to plug the
Speaker 1: matches for next week, but they did, and uh, and
Speaker 1: you know, Excalibur is no longer going three thousand miles
Speaker 1: an hour. So they they take us through the Rampage
Speaker 1: line up, and they take us through the Dynamite line up,
Speaker 1: and they, you know, they just took their time, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, we are running low here. And then
Speaker 1: they go backstage for John Silver, Johnny Hungy does a
Speaker 1: promo and there taking their time. So by the time
Speaker 1: Mercedes and Diana got in the ring, they have nine
Speaker 1: minutes of TV time left. Nine and the bell rings,
Speaker 1: and uh, the first thing Diana does, she backs off,
Speaker 1: She listens to the crowd, and then they slowly begin
Speaker 1: to circle each other, like what is happening? And then
Speaker 1: the answers are like, we're gonna stay here as long
Speaker 1: as it takes. And I'm thinking, do they actually really
Speaker 1: get an overrun for one, because they always say that,
Speaker 1: but they never actually go past the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: And bro, they are they're working a match like they're
Speaker 1: gonna go twenty and I'm looking at my watchers, like, bro,
Speaker 1: there's there's no time left. They go to commercial, they
Speaker 1: come back, there's six minutes left, and uh, and you
Speaker 1: know the match, like Diana is a really good worker
Speaker 1: and and but then nobody cared about this match at
Speaker 1: all and uh. And finally the literally the last second,
Speaker 1: with moments left, Uh, Mercedes Martinez curb stomps her and
Speaker 1: she goes for the Dragon Sleeper. At least everybody knew
Speaker 1: the Dragon Sleeper because they actually woke up for there,
Speaker 1: like ah. And then Diana taps and Mercedes gets the belt.
Speaker 1: He holds him up there off the air. So I
Speaker 1: understand that like two belts on the line, they wanted
Speaker 1: to make this a big main event. They wanted to
Speaker 1: give respect to the titles. Fans did not see it
Speaker 1: that way at all. So last forty five minutes of
Speaker 1: this show yikes. I expected to U die a death
Speaker 1: in the quarters, but I've been wrong before about that.
Speaker 1: I'm talking more about specific segments after the break ups
Speaker 1: were like back in the show, right, Alberre is here,
Speaker 1: Rustling Observer Live, make some REVIEVI also Wrestling Observer dot Com.
Speaker 1: Let's get this full array thing over to day. Give
Speaker 1: me a crap today, you old Rich Baker, Jimmy at
Speaker 1: Wow speaking the Deutsche absolutely idiot. I wanted Dutch, you moron,
Speaker 1: Deutsch German. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: another more on. You're all idiots. Try this again, Jiminy Christmas,
Speaker 1: Dr Britt Baker, D M D and Jamie Hayter versus
Speaker 1: Tony Storm and Ruby Soho Canosa Ka Takashita versus j
Speaker 1: Lethal Hook versus J. D. Drake Owen Heart Foundation Cup qualifier,
Speaker 1: Riho versus Yukasa Kazaki. I hope you feel better soon, Daddy.
Speaker 1: Don't even start that. What was I gonna talk about
Speaker 1: on this show? I can talk about something on this show.
Speaker 1: What did I want to get into? You had a
Speaker 1: bunch of things that you decided to put off until
Speaker 1: this third segment. I did. I'm a professional and I
Speaker 1: got the timing perfect for the entire Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: I literally ended the review right as the music hid
Speaker 1: because I were feeling you didn't have a time to write. No,
Speaker 1: I actually did. I had n't have a time perfectly,
Speaker 1: thank you? All right? I actually did you want me
Speaker 1: to rewind the show with Tom? Did I not have
Speaker 1: that time perfectly? With the music? You? Will? You kissing
Speaker 1: at you? I mean, it's not like it didn't happen
Speaker 1: and everyone heard it. I think I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: day off tomorrow. I'm feeling ill right now having to
Speaker 1: do this show with you. I'm starting to catch the
Speaker 1: vapors through the internet here from you, vapors, whatever it
Speaker 1: is you got. All right, So this Julia Hart thing, guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on here. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: I know what's going on here. Here's the thing. They
Speaker 1: take their time, okay, and they're clearly taking their time
Speaker 1: with this one here. But this segment, I mean, it
Speaker 1: starts out with Brian Pillman doing a promo and absolutely
Speaker 1: nobody cares about this guy's promo. And you know, part
Speaker 1: of the problem is, which actually brings me back to
Speaker 1: n x T two point Oh. He's not over and
Speaker 1: the way people want him to. This spooky stuff sucks. Okay,
Speaker 1: it sucks. Do you guys remember Bray whyat? I know
Speaker 1: you know one guy who was all man, he was
Speaker 1: like whitt was the most over guy. Bro, he was
Speaker 1: not the most over guy in the company. I don't
Speaker 1: care if he sold some shirts. Bro. If this guy
Speaker 1: was the most over guy in the biggest merchandise seller
Speaker 1: and the biggest all of that, you don't fire that guy. Okay,
Speaker 1: they took him off TV and they fired him all right?
Speaker 1: Then who was the female fiend Alexa Bliss? Where's she? Oh?
Speaker 1: She's nowhere to be seen. Then we got, uh, what's
Speaker 1: his face on n x T Joe Gazy? He's the
Speaker 1: new spooky guy, you guys seeing the quarter hours for
Speaker 1: Joe Gacy stuff, bro collapsing and nobody cared about Joe
Speaker 1: Gacy and Braun Break Run Wednesday. I don't care about
Speaker 1: some of you that like this. This The greater audience
Speaker 1: does not care about this spooky stuff. And Bro, when
Speaker 1: poor Brian Pillman has to go out there and he
Speaker 1: has to do the line about how ah, how do
Speaker 1: you describe he was like they her life force has
Speaker 1: been what did he say about Julia Hart anybody? He
Speaker 1: said something about how you know, something spooky had happened
Speaker 1: to her and it had sucked out her life force
Speaker 1: or something. She's standing there all sullen and like nobody
Speaker 1: cares about the spooky. Okay. So he's doing this promo
Speaker 1: and nobody cares. And then he gets all fired up,
Speaker 1: and I thought when he got fired up, he actually
Speaker 1: did a decent prom When he got off, he's all,
Speaker 1: I'm turned my life around, and let's let's do this.
Speaker 1: So he calls out the House of Black. So how's
Speaker 1: the Black come out? And they get in the ring? Okay,
Speaker 1: And they're in the ring and Brian Pillman Jr. And
Speaker 1: Griff Garrison are there, and Pillman's got his fists up
Speaker 1: and he's just challenged them to a fight. So he
Speaker 1: challenged them. They show up and he just stands there
Speaker 1: and finally that's the Blacks like, all right, fine, and
Speaker 1: they beat the heck out of this guy and his buddy,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, God, this poor guy looks like such
Speaker 1: a geek right now. And they pummel him and they
Speaker 1: pummel him and they beat him down, and then you know,
Speaker 1: I think you know, all the fans are expecting that
Speaker 1: Julia Hart's gonna turn, but she's still with Pilman and Garrison,
Speaker 1: so it's not even like, you know, I was waiting
Speaker 1: when they're standing there with their fists up. I was
Speaker 1: expecting her to do the double low blow or something
Speaker 1: and that would be the big turn. But she didn't.
Speaker 1: And so then now it's not even like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a surprise. The house, the black just goes up
Speaker 1: to and they give her a chair, So she gets
Speaker 1: the chair and she's standing over. She raises the chair
Speaker 1: over her head and then she puts it down own.
Speaker 1: Then Malik I Blacky like goes over and he starts
Speaker 1: yelling at her, and she started and I'm thinking back
Speaker 1: to all these horrible angles they did with women in
Speaker 1: w w E back in the day, were like they
Speaker 1: humiliate the women and Tristrad is barking like a dog
Speaker 1: and and three minute warning or whatever, and they're just
Speaker 1: they're just she's crying and they're intimidating her and she's ah,
Speaker 1: and no one's saving her. And then Malik I rips
Speaker 1: the thing up and now she just covers her face
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is very uncomfortable. What's the point
Speaker 1: And I'm waiting and I'm waiting, and then it's just like, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to the back for an interview with
Speaker 1: Jake Cargill. I'm like, okay. And then when they came back,
Speaker 1: she's she's still there, she's still covering her eye, and
Speaker 1: so I'm thinking something's gonna happen, and nothing happens. This
Speaker 1: was man talk about a swing and a miss. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was like a swing and a miss. It was
Speaker 1: a horrible segment. It was I mean, is uncomfortable. It
Speaker 1: was horrible. You know I wasn't. It's gone on for
Speaker 1: six months, well yeah, but for almost two years, and
Speaker 1: with because they were far more over than Brian Pillman
Speaker 1: and Griff Garrison are, they're not even close to being over.
Speaker 1: You debut the House of Black, you set it up,
Speaker 1: you get you get Brodie King in there, you get
Speaker 1: Buddy Matthews in there, and it's looking like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. And then they're off TV for god knows
Speaker 1: how long. They're well they're doing Dark or they're on Elevation,
Speaker 1: and it looks like we're gonna get this storyline. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's coming to a head, and then it
Speaker 1: just disappears. How do you expect anybody to want to
Speaker 1: care about this? It has not been consistently in anybody's
Speaker 1: wheelhouse as a viewer. It came, it went the last
Speaker 1: time everybody was in the ring together. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody really cared. They didn't get revenge, they didn't avenge
Speaker 1: of the girl. She just ended up sitting there moping
Speaker 1: on the steps where she could have just remained for
Speaker 1: this entire time. The whole angle has sucked, the whole
Speaker 1: story has sucked. And you bring it and you pull
Speaker 1: it back, and you bring it and you pull it back.
Speaker 1: Either crapper get off the pot, as the old saying
Speaker 1: goes with this. Either have a coherent storyline from multiple
Speaker 1: weeks that's on TV. You see it to a conclusion,
Speaker 1: you try to get people involved. If it's not working,
Speaker 1: then cut it short, or you move it and you
Speaker 1: fix it, or you do whatever you need to do.
Speaker 1: They did none of that here. It just disappeared when
Speaker 1: it really wasn't working in the first place, and then
Speaker 1: bring it back. And it's like we're supposed to expect
Speaker 1: anybody to care. Brian Pillman is not electric on the microphone.
Speaker 1: Griff Garrison's invisible on the microphone. They're invisible as a
Speaker 1: team on the main roster. Julia Hart in their situation
Speaker 1: hasn't been figured out. And then you have the House
Speaker 1: of Black that's sitting there with all of this talent.
Speaker 1: People can tolerate a little bit of spooky out of
Speaker 1: the House of Black. If they're getting these guys and
Speaker 1: feuds that actually fit the level that they're at, which
Speaker 1: they're absolutely not getting. The whole thing has blown and
Speaker 1: to put it on the House of Black all you
Speaker 1: can't really do that. And about the spooky, because it's
Speaker 1: really not. The spooky in this place is how they
Speaker 1: told the story they have, they told the whole story,
Speaker 1: and how they presented these people. It absolutely is. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: it is partly the spooky because every week, every week,
Speaker 1: not every week, but on most weeks, Malachi Black does
Speaker 1: the spooky promo backstage and they're in the shadows and
Speaker 1: you don't know what they're talking about, and it's whatever,
Speaker 1: and bro I never I'm sure listen, but allion out
Speaker 1: of a million viewers, I'm sure some people love the
Speaker 1: Malachi Black promos, but all of the feedback that I
Speaker 1: get is always I don't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I just want them to wrestle. Okay,
Speaker 1: am I wrong? That's what everybody says about it. Can
Speaker 1: we just have to let them have matches? Nobody cares
Speaker 1: about the spooky promos. I'm not wrong about this. Now,
Speaker 1: somebody did ask all right, it was It was not
Speaker 1: even asked. I didn't say that. What I said was
Speaker 1: they can handle a little spooky as long as it's
Speaker 1: being balanced out by the other stuff people want to
Speaker 1: see out of these guys. I don't even think we
Speaker 1: need any spooky, but fine, you can if you want
Speaker 1: a little spooky, that's fine. But someone was like, trust
Speaker 1: the process. Listen the wordlod thing that I brought up.
Speaker 1: The process worked, okay, And you know what they do,
Speaker 1: long slow builds for a lot of those storylines. And
Speaker 1: I actually believe, Okay, I do believe, but you gotta
Speaker 1: build it. Well, hold on, there's well they are building it.
Speaker 1: But this is my point. I do believe. I do
Speaker 1: believe when they pulled the trigger on Julie Hard, the
Speaker 1: place is gonna go nuts. Okay, I do believe that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, but I have seen it does not always work.
Speaker 1: The what the one example will give, which is not
Speaker 1: even a w But years ago when they had um, uh,
Speaker 1: what's his name, uh, Ricardo Rodriguez. Uh, yeah, was He's
Speaker 1: got eighty five different names, Ricardo Ricardo. No, but who
Speaker 1: was he managing? This guy's name? Alberto, Alberto del Rio.
Speaker 1: It was Alberto del Rio at the time, not El
Speaker 1: patron whatever. Anyway, the point is so Alberto was a heel, okay,
Speaker 1: and uh they always wanted him. They wanted another great
Speaker 1: Hispanic baby face. Okay, but you know they had their rules.
Speaker 1: He can't be like Mystico, the only luten or to
Speaker 1: ever win wrestaurant in the year, like God forbid, because
Speaker 1: he's short and he speaks the actual language of the
Speaker 1: you anyway, so they got his Alberto bloke and he's tall,
Speaker 1: and he's handsome and he speaks English right up their wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: But of course he has to be a heel, because
Speaker 1: the only way they know how to get anybody overs,
Speaker 1: you're a heel for a long time and then eventually,
Speaker 1: you know, will turn your baby face. So if you
Speaker 1: guys remember his baby face turned, it was like he
Speaker 1: was a heel, and then they teased it and the
Speaker 1: fans got excited. Then they made him a heal again,
Speaker 1: and then they teased it and the fans got excited,
Speaker 1: and they went back again. And by the time they
Speaker 1: turned this guy baby face, nobody cared it didn't work
Speaker 1: because the presumption was, ah, God, we've seen it a
Speaker 1: million times. You can go too long, you can drag
Speaker 1: it out to the point where people don't care anymore,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. So there
Speaker 1: is no trust in the process. There is no let
Speaker 1: it play out. Yeah, we should let the Julia Heard
Speaker 1: thing play out because maybe it's gonna work. But bro,
Speaker 1: last night was was to me one time, way too many.
Speaker 1: It should have happened yesterday. Now I'm over it, Am
Speaker 1: I the only one? Do you remember how they decided
Speaker 1: to get the Alberto dol Rio over as well? No,
Speaker 1: the Christmas episode where he ran over nic Folio Santa,
Speaker 1: That's right, that was he jumped start the next week
Speaker 1: he was a fully vested baby face. You know, somebody
Speaker 1: else made a good comment to that. I didn't think about.
Speaker 1: But I was gonna talk about Ray Phoenix and Donte Martin. Well,
Speaker 1: luckily there's a Brian and Vinde show tonight. But they
Speaker 1: were pointing out that they made a really big deal
Speaker 1: on the show about the Britt Baker match. They're doing
Speaker 1: the tag match on on Rampage, and they made this
Speaker 1: big deal about how it will be the first ever
Speaker 1: women's match to open Rampage, which actually is a big
Speaker 1: deal because you know, at the time that Rampage airs,
Speaker 1: the opening segment is always the highest rating thing in
Speaker 1: the show. It's like the old Saturday Night's main events.
Speaker 1: The main event kind of goes first because people watch
Speaker 1: the main event and they fall asleep, go to bed, whatever,
Speaker 1: and so it's like a big deal that this women's
Speaker 1: matches going on first. But then somebody pointed out bro
Speaker 1: the show airs a two thirty in the afternoon on
Speaker 1: the West Coast, they would be way better off going last.
Speaker 1: But too late. Back in a moment Observer Life, back
Speaker 1: in the show, Bran Elva is here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike simple vide also Wrestling Observer dot com it Brandon
Speaker 1: Brandon Thurston put the Dynamite readings out eight hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty three thousand, h and a point three too. You know,
Speaker 1: so I have you overgoing my Twitter and post these
Speaker 1: numbers like there it's just madness and much idiots being idiots.
Speaker 1: But every now and then, like someone who I believe
Speaker 1: is like totally sincere, we'll just write this missive it'll
Speaker 1: be like, God, I'm so depressed. I just love wrestling,
Speaker 1: and it's so sad to see that it might actually
Speaker 1: be heading towards its demise, like they're they're totally sincere,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, bro, it's the NBA, Like I just
Speaker 1: don't get how you can be on Twitter and not
Speaker 1: have any idea what's going on with these you know what?
Speaker 1: You know what rampage everybody, Rampage is gonna do. Like
Speaker 1: if it breaks three hundred, if it breaks like into
Speaker 1: the four hundreds, like they should throw a party, it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be in the three d. It's gonna do
Speaker 1: a horrible, horrible number. Okay, ros doing poorly SmackDown did
Speaker 1: it's all time lowest demo on Fox. This show got killed.
Speaker 1: Only old people are watching, and I mean, dude, it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen until the the NBA playoffs are over. Being depressed,
Speaker 1: but two things also can be true, because there is,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, a w being in the forties. Obviously
Speaker 1: they have a lot younger fan base to kind of
Speaker 1: go off of. But it is important no matter who
Speaker 1: you are, no matter what wrestling that you like, you know,
Speaker 1: wrestling continue to expand, get bigger. I mean again, there
Speaker 1: are too many people that are still left over from
Speaker 1: the whole Cogan era of being fans like that. Does
Speaker 1: absolutely need to get younger. Wrestling across the board needs
Speaker 1: to find a way to reach out and to grow
Speaker 1: it does. That's actually Drull time everybody. I'm going back
Speaker 1: to bed and we'll talk to you next time. Wrestling
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