Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
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Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. Well, it's Tuesday here on this program, and
Speaker 1: you know that means we got raw to talk about
Speaker 1: from Monday night. And uh, incredibly, I'm here on video.
Speaker 1: If you guys had any idea how we barely make
Speaker 1: it on the air every single time we do this show.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here I am beautiful Cannon Beach, Oregon, celebrating Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Here the Raw Report is noted, and a lot of
Speaker 1: other news as well. I wasn't here yesterday. I presume
Speaker 1: Mike talked about everything, but if not, we got plenty
Speaker 1: to talk about, not the least of which is the
Speaker 1: Let's order the Raw Show. Bruce Pritcher, now the interim
Speaker 1: head of Talent Relations for w w E. John Lord
Speaker 1: Nissan administrative leave, which we figured would happen as a
Speaker 1: result of the situation with Vince McMahon, the w w
Speaker 1: E board, et cetera. We've got SmackDown ratings, We've got
Speaker 1: rampage ratings. I will not talk for thirty minutes about
Speaker 1: rampage ratings, but we will discuss that here today. We've
Speaker 1: got Forbidden Door. We got some new matches. Uh, not
Speaker 1: necessarily a new match, but a new participant. What are
Speaker 1: the matches we already know about? And uh, one of
Speaker 1: the matches that we were expecting, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to happen, so we'll tell you about that. We
Speaker 1: have also got the return of Kushido. We've got notes
Speaker 1: from w w E main event, and and plenty more.
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Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer dot Com. How to go yesterday? Need I asked,
Speaker 1: it went just fine? Actually what disaster? No disasters? Was perfect? Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Producer Dom was playing some some cookout music because of
Speaker 1: the long weekend. It was a fantastic time that we had.
Speaker 1: He played cookout music. What is that like? There were
Speaker 1: scizzling steaks in the background. You actually surprised you played
Speaker 1: the gap bands outstanding? You know something you would hear
Speaker 1: a picnic in the summertime. I guess not in picnics
Speaker 1: with you, because those I guess what are those like?
Speaker 1: You just sit there and yell at everybody for like
Speaker 1: not pulling out the tablecloth correctly to lay on the ground,
Speaker 1: yell at them for forgetting your your steak. They didn't
Speaker 1: pack your steak. Jesus. I like how you took the
Speaker 1: day off. You had no idea. You didn't even tell
Speaker 1: anybody you were taking the day off to skip to
Speaker 1: the beach where people can now give you money for cameos.
Speaker 1: Bro on Friday, I told you you had the show
Speaker 1: by yourself on Monday. I literally the last summer to
Speaker 1: the show. I told you Monday was all yours. What
Speaker 1: did it matter? I was just well, I I came here,
Speaker 1: I did cameos. I worked hard here unquote vacation all
Speaker 1: for you, the lovely listeners of Wrestling Observer Live. And
Speaker 1: I have news for you today. Listeners. If you if
Speaker 1: you didn't miss if you didn't listen to Observer Radio
Speaker 1: last night, or you didn't make it through thirty minutes
Speaker 1: on rampage, I pointed out. So. Bruce Pritchard has been
Speaker 1: named interim head of Talent Relations of w w E,
Speaker 1: as John Lorinitis has been placed on administrative leave. P
Speaker 1: w Inside reported w w E should a memo to talent,
Speaker 1: which is funny actually because you know who usually issues
Speaker 1: those members to talent, John Laura Nitis. I don't think
Speaker 1: that he signed this one. Uh, they should have a
Speaker 1: memo to talent. Pritchard is a new head of Talent
Speaker 1: Relations going forward quote pending the conclusion of w w
Speaker 1: e's Board of Directors internal investigation. Laurnitis has been placed
Speaker 1: on administrative leave. The memo additionally promises Pritchard would provide
Speaker 1: a quote seamless transition. I wonder what Pritchard would say
Speaker 1: if you asked him about that. Laurens was not backstage
Speaker 1: at RAW. They're him and Vince under investigation by the
Speaker 1: board over a three million dollar hush money agreement by
Speaker 1: a former employee allegedally had a sexual relationship with both men.
Speaker 1: Make a man voluntarily stepped down as CEO and chairman.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was voluntary. While the investigation takes place,
Speaker 1: Stephanie has been named interim CEO and chair woman, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So the point I made last night, which I can't
Speaker 1: help but repeat here on the show, and I hate
Speaker 1: repeating my material, but it it ties into uh ties
Speaker 1: into SmackDown actually, where we had Summer Slam coming up,
Speaker 1: and Summer Slam was supposed to be Roman Reigns versus
Speaker 1: Randy Orton, by the way, who has been there for
Speaker 1: twenty something years. We just celebrated his twentieth year. He
Speaker 1: was gonna headline Summer Slam for the title. So U
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Randy Orton versus Roman rains. Randy Orton
Speaker 1: needs back surgery and so as a result, they did
Speaker 1: this uh Matt Riddle match on SmackDown, which we can
Speaker 1: talk about later, and uh in Roman reigns one, Riddle
Speaker 1: can now not get another shot as long as Roman
Speaker 1: reigns as champion. And since Randy Orton is out, well,
Speaker 1: who do we have to replace Randy Orton in a
Speaker 1: match with Roman reigns at SummerSlam? Well, what preparations have
Speaker 1: we done? Who do we have already? Well, there's Drew McIntyre,
Speaker 1: but he's already going to be at the Castle show,
Speaker 1: the Clash at the Castle or whatever. So with him,
Speaker 1: let's see we got uh uh god, damn, we gotta
Speaker 1: go back to brock Lessner. Brock Lesner versus Roman reigns
Speaker 1: for the seventh time on a major w w E
Speaker 1: pay per view because we have nobody ready. Well, all
Speaker 1: this reminds me of when Vince McMahon stepped down as
Speaker 1: chairman and CEO. Well, who do we have to replace
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon. Who do we got ready to step in
Speaker 1: as chairman and CEO? Something were to happen to Vince McMahon. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see, not Triple A g's out of the picture. Um,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's go with Stephanie, who we just
Speaker 1: buried in a nationally published article. Uh, that's a great person.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of we really prepared for the
Speaker 1: you know, world beyond Vince. Let's bring back Stephanie. Now
Speaker 1: John Lornitis has to step away. Who do we have
Speaker 1: to step in as the head of talent relations. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we fired that Corono guy, and uh yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: Bruce Pritchard is now the head of talent relations. This
Speaker 1: company has zero ability to prepare for the future. They
Speaker 1: got nobody ready for anything. They got nobody ready for
Speaker 1: Lord Nitis to replace him. They got nobody ready to
Speaker 1: replace Vincent Man. They got nobody ready to replace Roman Reigns.
Speaker 1: They got nothing except to go back to this same old,
Speaker 1: same old. So anyway, that to me is a takeaway
Speaker 1: from this Bruce Bruce Pritcher story. They just got nobody.
Speaker 1: They got nobody for any position. It's incredible. If anybody
Speaker 1: was listening to you right now, there was a stockholder,
Speaker 1: you know, that would that would sound like a forward
Speaker 1: looking thing that they would have problems. Except anybody that's
Speaker 1: a stockholder at least of major value and holds a
Speaker 1: major amount of stock. They seemingly don't care about any
Speaker 1: of that, Brian. And here's the thing with Vince. You
Speaker 1: can't actually replace him right now. Stephanie has right now
Speaker 1: because that's what he wants, the same way he wants
Speaker 1: Bruce Pritcher to assume Johnny Ace's role in the interim
Speaker 1: because he's comfortable with those people. But we have seen
Speaker 1: where Nick con and there are legitimate people on that
Speaker 1: board who have run legitimate industries that you know, in theory,
Speaker 1: can take over the corporate reins of that company. So
Speaker 1: you're right, you know that they don't have people stacked,
Speaker 1: but in theory, there's the shake up there there there
Speaker 1: could be people in those positions. Those are corporate field positions. Creatively, creatively,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a different story. No Charlotte now,
Speaker 1: no Cody, no Sasha, no Randy Orton. You have nobody else.
Speaker 1: You go back to either who it's either Lashly or
Speaker 1: it's McIntyre. Those two guys are tied up right now,
Speaker 1: or it's brock Lesner. And as soon as the news
Speaker 1: came out about Randy Orton, it was just a matter
Speaker 1: of time, and they went and pulled that trigger on Friday,
Speaker 1: and that whole show worked for Vince, you know, with
Speaker 1: him starting it off and then ultimately they getting the
Speaker 1: number that it did at the end and getting the
Speaker 1: retention that it did. Roman reigns as a star. Brock
Speaker 1: Lessner is about the only other star that you have.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they can ride that number and ride
Speaker 1: any excitement they can out of that. But for a
Speaker 1: lot of people, it is it's better than a lot
Speaker 1: of other options. But man, you've seen this thing so
Speaker 1: many times, how exactly are you going to make this No,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it'd be a good time to work
Speaker 1: on Groom and somebody to take over creative because man,
Speaker 1: if something actually happened to Vince, like we replaced Vince
Speaker 1: with a with a figurehead chairman and CEO, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, somebody asked me, remember when they had that
Speaker 1: hold on Remember when they had iron Man Match with
Speaker 1: the women and uh, you know, instead of calling it
Speaker 1: a a iron Woman match, they called it the Women's
Speaker 1: Iron Man Match. Is she the chair woman or is
Speaker 1: she the women's chairman? I think that we need to
Speaker 1: get that clear. But anyway, so she is now in
Speaker 1: this this figurehead position, a figurehead position as the chair
Speaker 1: the women's chairman, and CEO of this company. But Vince
Speaker 1: is still doing all of his Vince stuff. So like
Speaker 1: if something happened, if Vince went to the moon, who
Speaker 1: is Jeff Jarrett, uh Bruce Pritchard. Are we gonna bring
Speaker 1: back Eric Bischoff? Is Paul Hayman gonna get a chance
Speaker 1: without Vince screwing everything up for him? Like who do
Speaker 1: we have is something went down tomorrow? It depends on
Speaker 1: who lobby's best to whose ear because if there is
Speaker 1: a shakeup like that, obviously Kevin Donne, Bruce Pritchard, that
Speaker 1: old guard is going to want to have some say
Speaker 1: how strong is Triple H in any allegiances he has?
Speaker 1: Shawn Michael's who's with him? Adam Pierce? Is he related
Speaker 1: with someone? Because he could be a good booker or
Speaker 1: working as an assistant a JJ Dillon to somebody's Dusty,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, as an assistant? So where
Speaker 1: does he lie? There are people that can take the throne.
Speaker 1: It's just going to be a matter of who's in charge,
Speaker 1: because if it's Stephanie, she may tend to rely maybe
Speaker 1: on the old Guard, but probably lee at her on
Speaker 1: her husband and whoever's actually you know, affiliated with him.
Speaker 1: That's who maybe who gets those those roles back in
Speaker 1: the moment, everybody Observer Live. That's a v for victory, everybody,
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Speaker 1: I got more news for you. Let's make it quick.
Speaker 1: SmackDown two point two nine million viewers on Fox point
Speaker 1: five seven eighty nine showed it a huge number, and
Speaker 1: as noted on the show last night, the Vince appearance
Speaker 1: did a two point five million viewers, which is very,
Speaker 1: very large, which you would expect given like every news
Speaker 1: show promoted that you would be on SmackDown, so I
Speaker 1: got a lot of free publicity. But the main event
Speaker 1: with Riddle and Randy orton two point eight million viewers,
Speaker 1: which is sky high. And then if you watched Raw,
Speaker 1: you saw the follow up to Riddle doing that sky
Speaker 1: high number, Rampage on Friday in its normal time slot
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty one thousand viewers and a point
Speaker 1: one oh an appalling horrible number. And uh, I think
Speaker 1: the the one minute version of the thirty minute version
Speaker 1: to me is let's see what happens Wednesday and Friday,
Speaker 1: and actually the following Wednesday and Friday as well, because
Speaker 1: based on Game four of the Stanley Cup playoffs, I
Speaker 1: don't think this Wednesday show is going to do very well.
Speaker 1: And uh, I would not freak out yet, but I
Speaker 1: also wouldn't freak out too much. Now I guess that
Speaker 1: means I wouldn't freak out yet, right, But that's a
Speaker 1: horrible number, dude, that's a horrible number. Jesus Christ. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: we got a delay, Mike, and so if I don't
Speaker 1: hear anything, I'm gonna get talking. Why don't you re
Speaker 1: disconnect and reconnect and see if the thing goes away?
Speaker 1: Disconnect and reconnect. We'll see if it's not my fault,
Speaker 1: not my fault. You here, here him disconnect. He just
Speaker 1: disappeared into the ether. Al right. Well while he's uh,
Speaker 1: well he's reconnecting here. Let's talk about Forbidden Door. So
Speaker 1: this is not a spoiler because the match he took place,
Speaker 1: but if she has been added to the four way
Speaker 1: for the a w All Atlantic title, so it'll be
Speaker 1: Mirror versus Pock versus a She and then the winner
Speaker 1: of Malachi Black and Penta, and I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: a spoiler, but the word is that Penta is not
Speaker 1: allowed to work this show, So that would indicate that
Speaker 1: Malachi Black is gonna be the fourth person in that
Speaker 1: uh in that All Atlantic Championship match. We have Moxy
Speaker 1: versus ton Ashi for the interim title. J White will
Speaker 1: be defending the title. It was announced today as if
Speaker 1: we didn't know that already, but we don't know against
Speaker 1: who it is to be determined, and that would be
Speaker 1: on Dynamite Tomorrow we'll find out who that's going to be.
Speaker 1: Thunder Roose versus Tony Storm for the Women's title, will
Speaker 1: Ospray versus Orange Cassidy for the United States title, the
Speaker 1: i w g P United States Title. We've got Winner
Speaker 1: Take All for the Ring of Honor tag team titles
Speaker 1: and the i w g P Tag Team titles. Fdr
Speaker 1: versus The Great o'con and Jeff Cobb versus Rapongi Vice
Speaker 1: and Chris Jericho Minor Suzuki Sammy Gavara will face Eddie Kingston,
Speaker 1: Wheeler Utah and showed Amino. And the only other thing
Speaker 1: I want to say before we test Mike's delay is
Speaker 1: tomorrow on the show. They have announced that Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: is going to be there and he is going to
Speaker 1: address Forbidden Door and he is going to address Blood
Speaker 1: and Guts. And Brian Danielson has not been seen since
Speaker 1: the Double or Nothing pay per view where he suffered
Speaker 1: an injury in the uh anarchy in the arena. Make
Speaker 1: sure I get that right, And he's not been seen
Speaker 1: since we had read. We had initially been told one
Speaker 1: to two weeks and then it was longer than that.
Speaker 1: And nobody will say what the injury is, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we all know what it probably is,
Speaker 1: but it's not confirmed. But what I can tell you
Speaker 1: is that even though they were talking about Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: versus Zack Saber Jr. On Rampage, which was taped last Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and even though he was announced for the show this
Speaker 1: coming Wednesday, the impression that I was given as of
Speaker 1: today is that he is not cleared and he might
Speaker 1: not be cleared for a while. And so they he
Speaker 1: could show up tomorrow and they announced the match and
Speaker 1: he does it with Zach Saber Jr. But at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that the match is not going to take place,
Speaker 1: and I'm also thinking that he may not he may
Speaker 1: not be doing Blood and Guts, but that is not confirmed.
Speaker 1: So I guess we'll find out more when he does
Speaker 1: his promo. I think one way the other. We're gonna
Speaker 1: know tomorrow when he does his promo. Thought, so any
Speaker 1: of this, Mike, how's that delay? I don't know that
Speaker 1: delay is. But I know this is not going to
Speaker 1: be good news for you. This is very bad news
Speaker 1: for you. You with your family out there on vacation.
Speaker 1: You ever see the movie Cape Fear, Brian? You ever
Speaker 1: see that movie? Actually have it? But I know of it.
Speaker 1: Tortures that man on on vacation and Zach Saber Jr.
Speaker 1: Not doing anything right now, I'm gonna want to come
Speaker 1: to this country. And he may be on a plane
Speaker 1: right now, Brian. And if he finds out that Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson is unavailable for the beating and the stretching that
Speaker 1: he wants to lay out while he is in America,
Speaker 1: he may want something else to do. And who better
Speaker 1: than maybe pay a visit to the guy they called
Speaker 1: him Chicken Chest over all of those years, I would
Speaker 1: be uh, I would be aware, Brian Albarez. I would
Speaker 1: stay aware. Well, you know Mike. You know Mike. Uh.
Speaker 1: First off, I have not referred to him as Chicken
Speaker 1: chest in quite a while because he took my advice
Speaker 1: and uh it did some push ups. But I am
Speaker 1: not going to be I will not be in the
Speaker 1: area for that pay per view. But do you know
Speaker 1: who will be across the street from the Forbidden Door
Speaker 1: pay per view? Our own Filthy Tom Lawler, former New
Speaker 1: Japan Strong open weight champion, competing into the g One
Speaker 1: this year. And I can't think of a better match
Speaker 1: than Zach Saber Jr. Versus Filthy Tom Lawler Unforbidden Door.
Speaker 1: A much better match, I might add, than myself and
Speaker 1: Zach Saber Jr. I like that. I would like that.
Speaker 1: I like that much more than the weather when you
Speaker 1: were kicking around, which was of course Filthy against Dr Luther,
Speaker 1: which I still don't know how that really is going
Speaker 1: to be something that people care about. But you know
Speaker 1: we are going to get up. There's ever a match,
Speaker 1: If there's ever a match I want where I can
Speaker 1: get my revenge, it will be against Dr Luther. Well,
Speaker 1: how about against Tori Yano. We're gonna gonna get to
Speaker 1: see Filthy against Look at all of these dream matches
Speaker 1: that Filthy can knock out during this g one. In
Speaker 1: one hand, kazooch go Ocatta, the greatest professional wrestler all time,
Speaker 1: all anybody's life right now except for your Roman Reins fan,
Speaker 1: it's kazooch go Okata. And then on this other hand,
Speaker 1: Tori Yano. I mean, two fantasies come true if you're
Speaker 1: Filthy Tom, and he is going to spend his entire
Speaker 1: paycheck on nothing, but I'd never die merchandise. He's gonna
Speaker 1: come home looking like General Lisa Mo Takada. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fantastic. Yeah, yeah, if you want to know, I
Speaker 1: asked Filthy Tom. The first thing I asked him, in
Speaker 1: fact on the show after he did a bunch of
Speaker 1: lude intros, was which match he was more excited to
Speaker 1: have the match with Okada or the match with Yano.
Speaker 1: And so if you want the answer, Filthy for Daily
Speaker 1: which went up today? And uh, by the way, there
Speaker 1: will be no land Storm show today because of travel issues.
Speaker 1: Lance will be up at ten thirty Pacific one thirty
Speaker 1: Eastern on Wednesday, So that's when you can get all
Speaker 1: of all of the Lance, all of the Lance thoughts.
Speaker 1: By the way. Also after this show today We're Live pal,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be alive on We're Live pal Me,
Speaker 1: who really? Me? Is there gonna be a delay? There
Speaker 1: is gonna be a delay. So will you talk about
Speaker 1: something right now so I can try and fix this
Speaker 1: to lay? Why don't you talk about your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Forbidden Door? I'll be right back. I love it, I
Speaker 1: love it anyway, I guess my thoughts on Forbidden Door.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen today's match between Clark Connors and uh
Speaker 1: Tomi or Ashii, which has now put a she in
Speaker 1: the All Atlantic four way that's going to be taking place.
Speaker 1: But that's gonna be a great match. And I know
Speaker 1: yesterday I lamented the mad lack of singles matches and
Speaker 1: I was curious as the what singles matches are going
Speaker 1: to be on this show? But that four away with
Speaker 1: pack involved is probably going to be pretty awesome. Uh
Speaker 1: Okada not being on the show, obviously pointing yes, what
Speaker 1: about testing the delay? Testing the delay? Yeah? How is it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is there not cast test? Test? What can you hear me?
Speaker 1: I can hear you? When I say one, you say too?
Speaker 1: When I say one, you say to get ready? All right?
Speaker 1: One two. That's still a long time. Well, who cares?
Speaker 1: Keep going, keep talking? How are you trying to fix
Speaker 1: this on the air right now? Exactly like you're just
Speaker 1: like mash Just reconnect together, okay, reconnected? God? You know
Speaker 1: we got a whole raw review that we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be getting to here. Are we going to be doing that? Or? Well? Good?
Speaker 1: You won't say anything during the raw review? That will
Speaker 1: make life a lot easier for me. Can I just
Speaker 1: tap out all together and just go get something to
Speaker 1: eat or drink? Now you know that? Can I ever do?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna reconnect everything after this break, so
Speaker 1: we'll solve that problem here in a moment. But hey,
Speaker 1: cause is back everybody. That's exciting she to return to
Speaker 1: New Japan. Yeah, he confronted uh. He confronted uh tai Jishimori,
Speaker 1: So that should be an exciting match because she didn't Taijishi.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can see that. Do you have a rosin
Speaker 1: bag actually like sitting next to you or do you
Speaker 1: have like some sort of like is there an actual
Speaker 1: Brian Alvarez kung fu grip that you actually have? I
Speaker 1: see you didn't point out how nice room looks now
Speaker 1: that we've totally remodeled it and it no longer looks
Speaker 1: like some you know cabin I've been relegated to. It
Speaker 1: looks beautiful. Actually, it looks exactly like a cabin you've
Speaker 1: been relegated to, like somewhere where, you know. Look at
Speaker 1: all those like worked books, like you've actually read any
Speaker 1: of those. You're just like hiding money. It's my father
Speaker 1: in law's books. But seriously, now that you're just working
Speaker 1: the grip, like, I mean, are you worried are you
Speaker 1: going back and forth here? You're worried about having like
Speaker 1: one huge arm by the time like the week is
Speaker 1: over here? Like what do you like, I know how
Speaker 1: Dave does it because he's a maniac, but like, how
Speaker 1: do you David Tom both do it? How do you
Speaker 1: adjust that he's a maniac too. Okay, get out of here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do raw after the break. We'll get the
Speaker 1: show back on the road. Back in the moment it
Speaker 1: is ever live. Well, we're back here on the show,
Speaker 1: and thank goodness, we just have to do the raw
Speaker 1: report or Mike doesn't have to say a lot because
Speaker 1: for some reason, my internet is uh bottom of the barrel,
Speaker 1: right now. We usually get a thousand up and a
Speaker 1: thousand down, and right now it's twelve up and one down,
Speaker 1: twelve down and one up. And of course when I
Speaker 1: send everything, yeah, I send it with the upload obviously,
Speaker 1: so uh, one up is probably the reason for this
Speaker 1: delay right here. And I have no idea why it's
Speaker 1: so bad, because it was blazing last night. Well, let
Speaker 1: me get this raw report done, Mike, and then I'll
Speaker 1: shut up and you can talk about it and we'll
Speaker 1: try not to actually talk to each other today. It
Speaker 1: might make life easy. So the show opened up with
Speaker 1: Bianca coming out and she announced that Ria RiPP Lee,
Speaker 1: who she was supposed to be facing at the pay
Speaker 1: per view, will not be medically cleared in time for
Speaker 1: the pay per view. So I don't know what that
Speaker 1: means other than she won't be medically cleared in time
Speaker 1: for the pay per view. But they had no other information,
Speaker 1: They had no nothing, and uh, I absolutely am not
Speaker 1: reporting that it is a concussion, but I can say that. Normally,
Speaker 1: when they won't tell you what it is, that's usually
Speaker 1: what it is. But it could be anything. But she's
Speaker 1: off the show. So as a result, they did the
Speaker 1: only literally the only thing that they know how to
Speaker 1: do when they need a challenger for a women's belt,
Speaker 1: and that is a multi woman match. This, I believe
Speaker 1: is the fifth time in a row that they have
Speaker 1: needed a challenger for a women's title and they have
Speaker 1: just done a random multi person match to determine who
Speaker 1: is going to be in it. So it ended up
Speaker 1: with Carmela, Live Morrigan, Oscar, Becky Lynch and Alexa. Last
Speaker 1: week they announced that Oscar and Becky would be an
Speaker 1: a qualifier for the Money in the Bank ladder match.
Speaker 1: We announced it. I think Mike probably ran it down
Speaker 1: yesterday in the show because it was one of the
Speaker 1: only two things announced four Raw was Becky Lynch versus
Speaker 1: Oscar in a qualifier. But they just end up in
Speaker 1: this match right here. So Becky has the win. But
Speaker 1: you know how it isn't these multiperson matches. Carmela hits
Speaker 1: a super kick out of nowhere and Carmela wins, and
Speaker 1: so it is Bianca versus Carmela for the title at
Speaker 1: the pay per view. The last time we saw Carmela
Speaker 1: in the match, it was the second night of WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: and then her only other appearance was doing like some
Speaker 1: uh seven gimmick backstage where she was, you know, doing
Speaker 1: something with truth of all people, but now she's backing
Speaker 1: in the championship picture. Then this is the best part
Speaker 1: of the show. Becky goes up to Adam Pierce and
Speaker 1: Becky says, I was screwed out of that match. I
Speaker 1: should be in money in the bank. Adam Pierre and says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, let's do a match between you and Oscar
Speaker 1: and the winner of that match will be uh entered
Speaker 1: into money in the bank. And Becky says, that's great,
Speaker 1: And then Adam Pierce goes and that match will be tonight,
Speaker 1: and Becky's all angry and furious. So literally, they announced
Speaker 1: a match a week in advance, and then the night
Speaker 1: of the show they shot the angle for the match
Speaker 1: where the participants pretended that they didn't know that they
Speaker 1: were going to be in the match. On this show,
Speaker 1: that's a new one. We had a Roman reigns Riddle recap.
Speaker 1: Riddled then came out and did this promo and uh
Speaker 1: he talked about how he'd let down Randy, he let
Speaker 1: down himself, he'd let down the fans, the whole nine yards,
Speaker 1: and uh he is now going to be in the
Speaker 1: Money in the Bank qualifying match against Omas. Now, for
Speaker 1: those of you that have not listened to any of
Speaker 1: the shows of the last couple of days, the quick
Speaker 1: and dirty he year is that Matt Riddle and Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns did two point eight million viewers for their match
Speaker 1: on SmackDown, the highest rated thing on the show at
Speaker 1: nine forty in the evening, like twenty minutes before Rampage started.
Speaker 1: With Rampage today, horrible number, two point eight million viewers.
Speaker 1: He can no longer challenge for the title, he literally
Speaker 1: says in his promo, I cannot challenge for the title
Speaker 1: again unless I win money in the bank. If I
Speaker 1: win money in the bank, I can cash in on
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns. They have a built in storyline here. It's
Speaker 1: a you know, it's a killing of stipulation, but it's
Speaker 1: still a built in w W storyline. He did a
Speaker 1: huge number with Roman Reigns, and what do they do
Speaker 1: after all that? Well, he gets in the ring with Omas,
Speaker 1: he is squashed for three minutes and fifty four seconds,
Speaker 1: he is tree slammed, he has pinned in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ring. He has tree slammed again. Afterwards, seth
Speaker 1: rawlins then dances down to the ring and he lays
Speaker 1: out Riddle with a curb stop. You couldn't have made
Speaker 1: Riddle into a bigger geek coming off that match with
Speaker 1: the Roman reigns, and they did here and that's the
Speaker 1: follow up to that match on SmackDown that did such
Speaker 1: a great number. Theory does a segment. He's bearing John Cena,
Speaker 1: so clearly it's gonna probably be John Cena versus Theory.
Speaker 1: I presume at SummerSlam, and Uh Lashly shows up behind him.
Speaker 1: In fact, I know it's SummerSlam because it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Lashly versus Theory. At Money in the Bank, Lashly shows
Speaker 1: up sprays him with baby oil. Uh Theory is upset.
Speaker 1: He goes backstage. He says, listen, I will give Lashly
Speaker 1: a shot at this United States title if he can
Speaker 1: win a three man gauntlet tonight against three mystery opponents.
Speaker 1: We had handed Alow Dawkins versus j U So I
Speaker 1: made a bet with Mike, I believe, for five dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't actually know if he even accepted the bet,
Speaker 1: but I know other people Bull had accepted the bet.
Speaker 1: I was sure that Angelo Dawkins was gonna lose to
Speaker 1: Jusso on this show tonight. It makes no sense for
Speaker 1: him to do so. But you know what, this show
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. I was sure that he was
Speaker 1: going to lose, and in fact, Angelo Dawkins beat Jusso.
Speaker 1: So there you go, seven minute match. It was. It
Speaker 1: was fine. Then we had the best thing on the show.
Speaker 1: There's a couch backstage, and sitting on the couch playing
Speaker 1: his guitar is Alias and in walks Ezekiel, and he
Speaker 1: sits down on the other side of the couch and
Speaker 1: these two men have a discussion. And they actually did
Speaker 1: an incredible job with whatever special effects they did to
Speaker 1: get both of these guys on the couch with each other,
Speaker 1: because it's not even like, like I'm old so like
Speaker 1: in the old days, you would have to have like
Speaker 1: a static shot and then you'd film one guy's thing,
Speaker 1: and then you film the other guy's thing, and then
Speaker 1: you you know, put the two static shots together to
Speaker 1: make them look like they're talking to each other. This
Speaker 1: was a shot where they're slowly zooming in on both
Speaker 1: of these guys. So, you know, technology is is significantly
Speaker 1: better nowadays than it was when I was, you know,
Speaker 1: doing video production. But Anyway, they're both sitting there talking
Speaker 1: and then at the end they actually do a fist
Speaker 1: bump and uh. And then they go to the ring
Speaker 1: and there's Alias in the ring for his concert and
Speaker 1: he's about to do his concert and Kevin Owens interrupts.
Speaker 1: By the way, no notes on this, I just remember
Speaker 1: all of this. Kevin Owens comes out and he goes, dude,
Speaker 1: this is I'm not gonna stand for this. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I'm not falling for that thing on the couch that's
Speaker 1: movie magic. This is ridiculous. He goes in the ring.
Speaker 1: They have a quick kerfluffle. Somehow the beer doesn't fall off.
Speaker 1: Ulias gives him the jumping knee, hits him with the
Speaker 1: gimmick guitar, lays him out. Kevin Owens goes backstage. He's
Speaker 1: so few. Recie's angry. He's cut this promo. Backstage, he goes,
Speaker 1: I'll face I'll face Elias, I'll face Ezekiel. Dude, I'd
Speaker 1: face their their other brother, l Ron I believe was
Speaker 1: his name. And as he's doing this promo, up walks
Speaker 1: Ezekiel and Kevin Owens can't believe his eyes and he
Speaker 1: starts pulling his hair out and he's start He's I
Speaker 1: keep thinking l Ron because it's a long story. I
Speaker 1: still get scientology stuff in the mail. This is just
Speaker 1: but that's not something I want to talk about on
Speaker 1: the air. That that lead me down, that lead me
Speaker 1: down a wrong path. But anyway, he's gonna face one
Speaker 1: of these geeks next week on the show. And uh, listen,
Speaker 1: I thought that when they did this whole thing, we'd
Speaker 1: get one moment where during a match with Uh with
Speaker 1: at Ezekiel, Kevin Owens go backstage, Elias would hit him
Speaker 1: with the guitar and that would be the payoff. Bro.
Speaker 1: This is one of those rare examples in w W
Speaker 1: E where what they did is miles better than what
Speaker 1: I expected. This has gone from something that was so
Speaker 1: horrible to easily easily the best thing on this show.
Speaker 1: So next week, Kevin Owens versus l Ron Hubbard. If
Speaker 1: l Ron loses, he must give up scientology. If he wins,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens must become a scientologist. That's actually not the
Speaker 1: that's not the idea, but I think it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Bobby Lashly in a gauntlet match, he beats Chad Gable.
Speaker 1: He beats Chad Gable in six minutes. Then he goes
Speaker 1: eight minutes with Otis, but then Chad Gable runs in
Speaker 1: for the d Q. They beat the guy down, they
Speaker 1: leave him for Dad. Obviously the last guy is his Theory.
Speaker 1: He gets in there, he beats on Lashly for two minutes.
Speaker 1: He goes for his finish and bro the cradle that
Speaker 1: Lashly did off. This finish was so awesome and he
Speaker 1: pins Theory and it is now going to be Lashly
Speaker 1: versus Theory for the US title of Money in the Bank.
Speaker 1: We had a Miss TV with AJ Styles just if
Speaker 1: it is a J Style says, you're just trying to
Speaker 1: make me mad. I'm not gonna snap. Then he snaps,
Speaker 1: beats uping, Miss gets jumped by Chompa. They have a
Speaker 1: four minute match, four minutes as good as you're gonna
Speaker 1: get in four minutes, A J beats him with a
Speaker 1: phenomenal forearm and then Miss tries to hit the ring
Speaker 1: and in his suit, AJ Styles lays out Miss with
Speaker 1: these styles clash, So apparently it's gonna be Miss against
Speaker 1: a J Styles. What as via Mahan promo, nothing but
Speaker 1: what chance? He's trying to get over his catchphrase fear
Speaker 1: vier don't picture that one getting over all that big.
Speaker 1: And then the main event money bag qualifying match, Oscar
Speaker 1: versus Becky Lynch twelve minutes. They had a really really
Speaker 1: good twelve minute match, great wrestling. Oscar boots are in
Speaker 1: the head pins her clean in the middle of the ring.
Speaker 1: There's no interference, there's no distraction. The better woman one,
Speaker 1: Oscar is in money in the bank. Becky Lynch is
Speaker 1: freaking out. I don't know where it's going, but at
Speaker 1: least it's something they're doing with Becky Lynch. Ultimately, she's
Speaker 1: gonna win the title to do the match with ron
Speaker 1: Da Rousing at WrestleMania, but that's a long time from now,
Speaker 1: so they can they can take their time with this one.
Speaker 1: And that was the show. One of those rare shows
Speaker 1: where I expect the third hour to die, but dude,
Speaker 1: that third hour was the best hour of the show
Speaker 1: by miles and I didn't even mention the Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: cameo where he strutted down to the ring, tried to
Speaker 1: get into the ring, almost fell down, then had to
Speaker 1: do a silly jump to show that he was agile.
Speaker 1: But he can only jump off one leg and not
Speaker 1: both of them, and then he does a quick promo
Speaker 1: about John Cena tries to get out of the ring
Speaker 1: and then he almost falls down again, and so he
Speaker 1: wants to show his agility by jumping off the second
Speaker 1: ring step, which they cut away from it as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible, and Casey exploded into debris. This looks out
Speaker 1: of his mind. Yes, he is, well, where is Charlotte
Speaker 1: scheduled to come back? Because there's two spots open and
Speaker 1: both the men's and the women's ladder matches and we
Speaker 1: gotta Leah and shots here are gonna fill one spot,
Speaker 1: but we still have two more remaining, like you're at
Speaker 1: a lack of talent right now. And Lacy's back, She's
Speaker 1: in there and written Carmela is getting a title shot,
Speaker 1: so she's out of the way. I mean, could Dana
Speaker 1: Brooke get in there? Because now the dew Drop has
Speaker 1: got the twenty four seven title, Like, I mean, is
Speaker 1: Dana Brook going to get her? That's as close as
Speaker 1: she can get to a gold watch in that company
Speaker 1: is being allowed to money. Well, but Nikki ash is
Speaker 1: in the same spot. I can see her chasing around
Speaker 1: duw Drop. You know who should be Mike? Who who
Speaker 1: should it be Brian? After a long, awkward delay to pause,
Speaker 1: why it should be Bailey? Pam? Really, are we going
Speaker 1: to get Bailey back? It's time she should be back anytime, dude,
Speaker 1: It's been over a year. It's been plenty of time.
Speaker 1: I'm good with it. Good with it. What about the dudes?
Speaker 1: Get the Bailey in there? What about the dudes? Are
Speaker 1: there more spots for the dude? I'm not even paying
Speaker 1: attention to Money in the Bank. I just did a
Speaker 1: full raw review. I couldn't tell you half the people
Speaker 1: that are in this Money to Bank ladder match. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll do that after the break since we got to
Speaker 1: delay back in the moment. Observer Live. Man in the show,
Speaker 1: Brian Albarez here wrestling Observer Live, Micember Viv also sling
Speaker 1: Observer dot Com. I hope this is not one of
Speaker 1: those deals were like during busy periods, are gonna slow
Speaker 1: this Internet every day, like every day at noon. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be slow and be brutal for this program. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my best. But here is the money
Speaker 1: in the bank. For those of you that are unaware.
Speaker 1: Bianca bell Air versus Carmela for the Raw Women's title,
Speaker 1: Rhonda Rousey versus Natty for the SmackDown Women's title, the
Speaker 1: us OS versus The Street Profits for the undisputed w
Speaker 1: w E tag team titles, Theory versus Bobby lash Lee
Speaker 1: for the US title, and the Money in the Bank
Speaker 1: ladder matches everybody. On the men's side, we have Seth Rawlins.
Speaker 1: I refuse to call him Seth Freaquent Rawlins, which everybody
Speaker 1: has to any time they mentioned his name on w
Speaker 1: w E, which one of those things drives me mad, Shamus,
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre, Omas Shinski, Nakamura, Sammy Zane and three men
Speaker 1: to be announced. And then for the women, we have
Speaker 1: Lacey Evans, Alexa Bliss, Live Morrigan, Raquel Rodriguez, Oscar, the
Speaker 1: winner of Ali and Shotzi, and then two more participants
Speaker 1: to be determined. Mike, Yes, I believe it's only two
Speaker 1: two men that are going to be remaining after Sammy Zane.
Speaker 1: But Riddick Moss, do you reward him with something like that?
Speaker 1: Put him in that type of match? According to this?
Speaker 1: According to this, it's the winner of Nakamura and Zane
Speaker 1: and three others after that. Good lord, good lord, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you can actually just do a money in
Speaker 1: the bank match with less people. That probably the easiest
Speaker 1: solution here, wouldn't it. You could, but Corbin and McAfee,
Speaker 1: that's the one I'm was looking forward to on that show.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody, we're at a time. Want to thank
Speaker 1: you all for listening today. Apologize for any technical difficulties,
Speaker 1: so those will be fixed by tomorrow. Mike has always callers, listeners,
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