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overall it's an awesome pay per view. Five matches on the main show that one could argue was the best match of the night. And it really all depends on what do you like in your pro wrestling. You like, uh, straightforward old school pro wrestling World Championship match, You got that. You want a violent, bloody thumb tax chains, you got that. You want two dudes as lutely just pounding each other

into utter oblivion. Well you certainly got that. You had the the Young Bucks style crazy tag team high spot match and uh they we're watching old school Japanese pro wrestling battle from the eighties. You got that in the opener. So whatever your cup of tea is The amazing thing is not only did you get it, but I think you've got more than you bargained for in virtually every case.

I was so excited for Kingston and Jericho. I was so excited for, like a lot of these matches, but that one in the Moxley Danielson match with the two that I was most excited for, and incredibly, they were both better. Like I had an idea in my brain of what I wanted to see, and both of them were better. So anyway, we can talk about that show here today. There was a lot of fallout, There were

angles on the show. There were no title changes, but they did a couple of things, particularly in the Baker match, which certainly do appear to be leading towards a title change, one would think. So we'll tell you about that, And of course Dynamite and Rampage coming up and Raw tonight. We've got four segments announced for the show. We have more matches for WrestleMania when you can expect him, plus some WrestleMania updates and so much more so stick around

a lot to get into after the break. Rustling Observer live back in the show. Bran Elba is here wrestling Observer Live, Mike's and Berviti, also of Wrestling Observer at dot com. Man, I gotta get off this chat totally smokes. It's actually mostly this Jingo fella. Sherry's a nice I and all but man, one one take after another. All right, so let's get into the pay per view last night. There were twelve matches on the show and it was an excellent show overall. I did not see all of

Layla Hirsh and Chris stad Lander. What I saw wasn't that great, but I'll leave that someone else to review. Hook and QT was absolutely positively exactly what you would expect. And uh it was five minutes and it was perfect match of the night. Of course not but it was Hook going in there selling a little killing q T. Everybody was happy, and that's what you need to do. House of Black versus Death Triangle was like any other show.

This would have gotten, you know, votes for best Match of the night, but because it was the pre show and there were five Match of the Night contenders on the main show, no one's really talking about it. But it was an excellent match and everybody looked good. I don't know if Eric Redbeard's coming back but they beat him in the end, and it looked like he was kind of just you know, he was there until until um once his name comes back Phoenix, but we'll see.

I think he deserves a job. I like this vintner. I don't know if you're aware or not. Eddie Kingston beat Chris Jericho in a freaking great match. I mean, I would not honestly be surprised if that actually won the poll for best match of the night, because it was absolutely in the running, and it had the best heat of any of the other matches on the show because they got the opening the opener spot, and for thirteen minutes and forty seconds they just had an old

school Japanese pro wrestling match. Eddie Kingston beat him with a stretch plum, but then Jericho refused to shake his hand as he had promised and he walked off. So thank god, there's more to come in this feud. Jurassic Express beat Red Dragon and the Young Bucks. Uh complicated match,

simple story. Two heel teams, guess what, they couldn't coexist and as the result, the Durassic Express actually had the advantage and they got the win, and Red Dragon and the Young Bucks continue to implode, which I'm sure we'll continue on as Adam Cole also didn't win the title.

In the main event, Wardlow won the Face of the Revolution ladder match, which, as of today, far as I know, of all the matches in all the spots, the only person who suffered what would be We don't know the severity yet, but Orange Cassidy got thrown like a crazy person, overshot the target, injured his shoulder. He needs an m R. I. Amazingly, nobody else on this entire show was hurt, including Ricky Starks, who got power bombed onto a ladder, leading to award

Low climbing up and grabbing the brass ring. He gets a shot at the TNT title. Jade Cargill beat Ty Conti the only game six minutes, which you know shouldn't have been longer. Can tell you that much. It was not a terrible match, It was not a great match. They made it through, I think is the best way to put it. Fans are very forgiving because I love Jade Cargill. I mean, she is a star to them,

and she beat Tie Conti to retain the title. Ce M punk m JF brutal violent dog Collar match, double juice, thumb tax and finally MGF called out Wardlow for the ring, but Wardlow couldn't find the ring. MGF was distracted by this. He ate the GTS onto the thumb tax and then guess what I found the ring? Wardlow put it on the ring apron cm punk took the ring, he punched MJF and he pinned him to win. Two year storyline,

MGF and Wardlow have broken up. And from the feedback I received and saw on social media, if you were watching this in a theater or a bar Wardlow finding that damn ring was the biggest pop of the entire evening, which is what you want for a storyline that has spanned two years. Britt Baker beat thunder rosa bullet club booking by Ghetto. Here interference, interference, interference, distraction, visual pin interference, interference. And here's what I will say about this, okay, because

I know a lot of people hated it. Believe me, I am not. I am not afraid to say that there was too much interference. But there's a difference here. W w E. You see this all the time because they don't want to beat somebody, and then that's just that's it. That's it. There's no like, oh, it's leading to this or that, or often it'll like lead to something that makes no sense, like hey, you know we're gonna do a bunch of interference and it's gonna lead

to a wrestling match. Well they did all of that because and I can't see this, but looking at a match they have on Wednesday and a location for a match in two weeks, I believe that this leading to thunder Rosea versus Britt Baker in a steel cage match in thunder Rose's hometown. I think even on her birthday, where thunder Rosa is going to defeat Britt Baker and win the a W Women's title. So yeah, you can hate it if you want, but there was a reason they booked it the way that they did, and we're

gonna get that payoff. I think in uh. I think it's March fourteen. I think as St Patrick's Day, Darby Ellen, Sammy and Sting Beat andrawd A, Matt Hardy and Isaiah Cassidy. I believe the whole point of this was Matt Hardy took the l, he apologized. I expect him to take another L. I expect the Hardy Family office to turn on him, and I expect his brother Jeff Hardy to make the save and the Hardy Boys reunite his baby faces.

So we'll see if that happens. Moxley and Brian Danielson, So this is like the freaking best match and Bro. They just went in there and I don't know, I haven't talked to either guy, but my assumption is they went in there with pretty much nothing and they just had an old school calling the ring, beat the living hell out of each other, kick each other to the point where I'm sure both of them probably needed assistance

to get out of bed this morning. But my God, wasn't fantastic and John Moxley beat him with a cradle reversing a triangle. They got in a big fight afterwards, because there are two dudes that are just prideful and violent and who should come out to head butt and slap sents into them. But William regal Bro I've said a million times I look at all these a W shows and they're they're extremely competently booked, as you can see by Tony Khan winning Best Book or two years

straight now. And I was trying to figure out like where they're going and what they're doing and whatever. And I figured Moxi was winning this match because the story was he never beaten Brian Danielson, and Danielson said, I got to bleed with a guy before a team with him, so I knew there would be blood, and I knew there would be violence. So it's like every thing. I knew what was going to happen, but I did not.

I did not think that they were going to continue fighting afterwards and William Regal Lord Regal would come out slap it headbuts sent to them, put them on the same page and they shake hands. It was like a thousand times better than I would have imagined. And I have a friend, by the way, if you love this match, I have a buddy who who texted me you know that this was like just the greatest match he ever

saw in his life. And then this morning he texted me he said, I can't believe I'm saying this, but this might be the second best match I saw this weekend, and I said, that's impossible, and then he explained that the other match was is She and Shingo, And I thought, my god, he might be right. So I gotta watch that match. Holy smokes, if he thought that match was like maybe better than Moxy and Danielson, I just don't

know if that's possible. But if there's a match, if there is a match that could be better than this one, I can believe that would be the match. And finally, Adam Page be Adam Cole in a excellent world title match. You know, the fans were tired. They were doing joke chance, let's go Adam. Adam sucks, but hey, at least it

was heat. But then the longer this went, it stopped being joke chance and it turned into Hangman and Adam Cole Chance and man, they loved them some Adam Cole because when Hangman Page got revenge for being duct taped to the ropes and he tied Adam Cold into the ropes with his belt and started super kicking, the fans turned on the Hangman. I don't think they were expecting that, but he got the win, retained the title. Bro. This meant this show. I mean, it wasn't perfect, but my god,

was it fantastic. Mike's gonna give his thoughts after the break everybody, because we have a break coming up. According to my calculations true, and we'll get into more afterwards. Back in a moment, its ever Live. What do you think of this show? Michael? It was the best e W show there's ever been. I dare say that. I know Full Gear and last Year's All Out, there have been some really good shows, but I thought top to bottom this was pretty amazing for a twelve match show.

And I come from that old New Japan stead where a five hour show quarterly isn't gonna I feel links, not at all, not especially not with the variety that this show had. I understand. Look, I'll take six shows a year that are paired back a little bit. I'm not going to complain about that. I am an old man, but with them only running four shows a year at this level, I completely understand why they did what they did, and I thought they offered so much variety. I don't

think anybody could complain about it. I thought Layla Hirsh Chris stat Lander, it was good, it was solid, it was finishing off telling that little story that they've had between the two. I thought it was you know, in another era, they would have a super show start off

like this with a ten minute draw. I'll take a nine minute and fifty second victory over Layla Hirsh And I don't know what's gonna happen with Lord Regal, but if you wanted to add a woman into the mix as far as giving her something that stands out, boy, I think lay La Hersha around a group like that would work out very nicely. The thing was of the twelve matches by far the twelve pest match on the show, hooking q T Marshall. You know that it was awesome

for what it was. I would have actually, I thought they were going to end the pre show with that. I thought that would have been a perfect way to go off the air with everybody going nuts after him crushing QT. But then again, how they did it with the All Universe Varsity Club of Malachi Black, Brody King

and Buddy Matthews. I mean, they're tremendous, they really are, and there's so many things you could do with them, And because it's not w w E, the odds of them sticking together as a group for a significant period of time is great and I would love to see what they decide to do with them. Eric Redbrard, look, if you want to give him a job it's not

gonna hurt my feelings, not my money. Have no problem with him being on the roster whatsoever and in the mix, But if you don't want to, I do like the idea of bringing him in every once in a while. If it has something to do with the Dark Order, if it now has something to do with the the Death Triangle, if it's got something to do with that, bring him in, you know, as regular basis. They got a lot of people anyway. I don't know if he fits,

but hey, I'm down for anything. Then you get to the main roster and it was just it was ridiculous. Eddie Kingston and Chris Jericho. I don't know if Jericho, being a veteran, looked at this card and said, you know what, let's get out there early. Everybody else is gonna try to steal the show. We'd like to to. I want to open up this show with this crowd being as fresh as possible. And he goes out there and gets thrown in that half and half by Eddie Kingston,

lands on his head. I mean, what a hell of a way to start the show. How he sold that and then it was off to the races. That was great. I thought the tag match was great. Is wordlow winning is what it was supposed to be with that ladder match, and I'm cool with the ladder match. I they have got to get rid of the brass ring. I think A or G c W need to get rid of it. Everybody else that does a take off of the ring.

There's got to be another way. There's got to be a different thing that you can put up there for them to grab. I think it looks so cheap, it looks so cheesy. It's like, you know, here's his owning moment, well the second crowning moment of the night for him ultimately at the end, and he's standing up there holding a big gold glaze donut. And I didn't like it whatsoever.

J Cargils a superstar. That match was perfect to have on there, and A J was a perfect person with enough name value for JA to beat on the main show. You know, another short match. You know that people won't complain about whatsoever. Cargirls a star. She can only go up from here. CM Punk M JF was probably my match of the night. I thought it was absolutely outstanding. Britt Baker, as you mentioned with thunder Rosa that to me is building towards thunder Rosen winning that title somewhere else.

Moxley and Danielson, if you want to call it the match of the night, I'm not going to complain about that either. Just a incredible showing between those two guys going all out doing what they wanted to do when they left w W E. I'm not saying it's the pinnacle for these two guys, because God knows where they can go from here, but I thought that was wonderful.

And with Lord Regal coming out there at the end, the odds that you're gonna have a group with Moriarty and Utah and Garcia, you know that's looking like it could come more to pass. Sting. I remember watching Sting in six when I was ten years old. Last night, I woke up too early on Sunday, so I fell asleep during the pay per view. My old ass at

forty six years old, just turned forty six years old. Meanwhile, sixty three year old Sting as he's about to be in a couple of weeks, here he's doing dives through tables. It was just an absolutely unbelievable performance. The video package they had, and this is another thing when it comes to video packages in two less is more. The less you do them, the more they mean, especially when there is unique. Is what you had there with Darby Allen Sting and that stuff before the match. I thought that

was incredible. One thing you didn't mention Swerve signing his contract coming out there. Will he be a baby face? Will he be a hell? I don't know, but I know for a fact he's a hell in defy. And that match with Nick Wayne is up for free. So if you're looking for something else to watch that took place last weekend that just went up, that's another thing you might want to watch because that was awesome. And then Hangman Page and Adam Cole. I was not a

big fan of the build leading into the thing. All that goes out the window once the bell rings. Very good performance by Hangman Out and Page again. Adam Cole not dead by any means. Got to figure out what you want to do with him. And this whole realm going on that you have with the Elite and the Bullet Club and all these other factions and everything else

going on. I think he needs now. It's time to rebuild him up nicely to get him back at a level that I don't think that he's at right now, even though he had a hell of a match with Hangman Out and Page. So that's enough out of me. I thought it was hell and a hell of a night for them, and I think ultimately up and down, they may have had quote unquote better matches maybe on other shows, especially with the shows that Kenny Omega was on, but I'd say from top to bottom, I think this

was their best showing by far. I don't know if you guys are wherever this or not, but I am a feature writer for Sports Illustrated and I've got a new article coming out here today. He'll be able to find on my Twitter at Bran Alvarez. But I couldn't help a note in that article. Then on the weekend, the day w did this fantastic show, w w E also ran Madison Square Garden. Do you guys remember this story, Well, you know I remember this story. So what happened was

w w E. You know Madison Square Garden. It's there, it's there, you know, their mecca, and they hadn't been drawn all that great, and so they wanted to make sure for this Madison Square Garden show that they did huge business, and so what did they do to build up this show? Everybody? While I went on television and

they ACTU really promoted a house show. They actually talked about MSG this Saturday, and they said, you know what, everybody's expecting that Lesner versus Roman Reigns is going to be a Champion versus Champion title for title match at WrestleMania, the biggest match since Warrior and Hogan, but it might not be title for title because this Saturday, they said at Madison Square Garden, brock Lessner might lose that championship belt to a mystery opponent. They built it up, and

they built it up. It was literally they did. They did the worthy opponent, Paul Hayman said, a worthy opponent.

Their most watched segments with Lessner and Reins, they kept talking about this match in this storyline, and if you if you heard about Madison Square Garden, well what happened was they had a Roman Reigns Championship defense, which was funny because they they actually announced it would be Roman Rains versus seth Rawlins and then they pulled the advertising, but it end up being Roman Rains Versus seth Rawlins. So I actually I don't know, Like there's two options here.

One they're incompetent and they were they they changed their mind, but then we changed it back to the original. Or the other thing is, well, man, if we tell people seth Rawlins, like, you know, so let's not say who it is, and maybe people will think it's like someone else and nailed buy a ticket, you know, Cody, but with seth Rawlins and then the match was like three minutes. It was just like nothing happening match. So you know, we heard from people there that they were disappointed with that.

And then it's time for the big main event that they've been building up on television. Who is going to come out the worthy opponent to challenge and perhaps beat brock Lesner to screw up all of the WrestleMania Champion verse. Austin theory. Austin theory was the big surprise, and you'll never guess what happened in the match. Ruck just brutalizing and killed the guy and beat him. So I mean, I mean, I I was just thinking about this and

it's like, okay, so let's let's forget this show. Okay, let's go back to the last time you did Madison Squadore and you didn't draw very well. Why was that a bunch of matches nobody wanted to see? Lack of stars, just you know, why why didn't you draw? Okay, so now you have an idea you're going to draw this time, which by the way, I don't have the I'm trying to find the exact numbers. But they didn't draw that

well even with all the promotion. So this time you're gonna you're gonna try to get people in that may not have wanted to go in the first place. You're gonna say, you know what, if you weren't thinking of going, well you should think about going, because we're gonna promote it on television and we're gonna have a special secret opponent for brock Listener that could screw up all of

the on storyline plans for for WrestleMania. So you went to the trouble to do that, to try to sell tickets, to boost your image in Madison Square Garden, to get people that weren't thinking of going to go, and that was what you gave them. That was what you delivered

Austin theory against brock Lesser in the main event. So the point of all of this is I watched that a W pay per view, and they they they promised me a lot of stuff, And was there one thing on that show where you got less than you expected? Was there one thing on that show where you got less than you expected? Because I watched that show, and one match after another, I got more than I expected. I got angles, I got surprise debuts, I got matches

that were better than I expected going in. It was amazing to see the contrast between what w W E did for Madison Square Garden and what a W did for The Revolution Paper You Mike Thoughts after the breaks over alive back in the show Bright nowbre is here Wrestling Observer Live Make Number viv also Wrestling Observer dot com. So I just want to mention very quickly that the final number of tickets distributed for the MSG show was hundred.

That's distributed, so the number of tickets they actually sold to wrestling fans was under eight hundred. So overall they were with all that promotion on television and all of the promises and angles on TV for the house show, they were up from December, and that extra that you know,

paid their money. Yeah, see what happens next time they do MSG thoughs on this, Mike, Well, if I'm considering the record to MSG in the last time around, we were going back to the thirties to talk about some of the times that they have drawn less paid attendance, I have a feeling they're not going back to the Garden anytime soon. Now, when they go back to the Rock, or to Barclays or out to the Island, that might be a different story. But I I don't know. I

would have a feeling for the next Garden. I would assume that therey will probably be six months from now, and they probably will have a much better plan going into it, or at least i'd like to hope. So. But remember how we were talking about that whole deal with the w w E schedule, and I said, I know somewhere I have one of those pay per view flyers that they used to send out back in the day to hype all of these events. Remember that, Well, guess what I found one, and it's from two thousand

and one. Finally the Rock SummerSlam here from Comcast. Even it would be the things that they would send out WWFN Natic series that they would have on pay per view the best of WWF all month long. August, Hard Knocks and Cheap Pops, September, Divas and Hedonism. Boy Tris Stratis is nice energy anyway and somehow amazingly actually not somehow she's just has gotten better looking as she has

gotten older. But then again doesn't matter right now. What matters is there was an actual schedule that they did have an entire calendar. Now, unfortunately, you know, you you'd have to go to the observer to actually make up, you'd have to go to the observer to actually get

the cities that they were going to be in. But on this right here, as you see, starting with Unforgiven on September twenty second, two thousand and one, we will scroll up and we have a whole set of shows leading in to Summer Slam coming up August two thousand and two. So so that's from what two thousand one you're telling us about two thousand one. Yeah, and it would have uh nick On's email because I want to

make sure I sent him that poster. So whoever convinced him that they didn't announce shows in advance and that this was a revolutionary concept that would turn to business around somebody call this, I got a bridge out back made of gold if somebody will actually respond to that sale, but you only get the deed anyway. A couple of notes raw Tonight Edge will addresses attack on a j

from last week. The Miss and Logan Paul will throw a homecoming celebration, Jerry Lawler will make a special guest appearance, and Alpha Academy will defend against r K bro and Seth Wallins and Kevin Owens, who are number one contenders, but only in three way matches. Okay, then we got

WrestleMania lineup. So for those of you that haven't bought your tickets yet, but after that MSG show you're clamoring to get a wrestle Menia ticket, we got Night one Saturday, April two, Charlotte versus Rhonda Rousy, Becky Lynch versus Beyond Anka Ray and Dominic versus MS and Logan Paul and Drew mcintyrell face Happy Corbin Night too. We have Roman Reigns versus brock Lessner, Pat McAfee versus Austin Theory, and Sammy Zane versus Johnny Knoxville. For those of you that

are all on the oh Dave was wrong. Vince McMahon was not gonna have well, the line up for WrestleMania internally listed Vince McMahon versus Pat McAfee. So if you're mad, like they'b be mad at Dave Mattet whoever was running that copy machine. But the point of this is, although at this point it is Austin theory versus Pat McAfee,

there's weeks to go before WrestleMania. That way, that's the I would say, it's within the realm of possibility that it was not going to be Vince in the match, but it's going to be somebody representing Vince, whether that the Austin theory, whether they have say Steve Austin decides I'm out, or whatever it's gonna be. Maybe you need something for Kevin Owens, whatever the deal is going to be. Maybe it wasn't actually gonna be Vince wrestling, but obviously

it's going to have something to do with Vince. It's just for Austin theory. And again we're not going to get into this topic because I tend to fall more on your side. But for everybody out there that says, well, tell me you know how you can't screw up braun Breaker or how you can screw up prawn Breaker. Here's

how you do it. You said him with Vince backstage, where you have him go in these ridiculous promo sessions and have ridiculous interactions and have Vince tell braun Breaker that you know, if he does something wrong, he's going to tell his mother and go after his mother or whatever it was that he told Austin Theory. So yeah, I mean, we're seeing it with Theory right now. This is amazing. And I'm sure they're saying he's getting a rub by getting f fived in every which way by

brock Lesner, but it's not. And we're not seeing this guy develop in the way that we know he can and how he should because we've seen him throughout his entire career up to this point. And it's like the only thing that's retarded the process so far is actually sitting next to Vince McMahon. But I watched n x T two pointo, and this guy has been a geek from day one. He was Johnny Gargano's son, his son,

I know. But when they look and when they brought him up and they were gonna do look where he was gonna, I know, and when he was gonna be an acolyte of of uh seth rollins. Remember that short second that he was going to do that. I thought that was a terrible idea too. I just and you just see how they fumble over and over, and I

just I don't get it. I just don't understand. So anyway, Steve Austin may Or may not be doing a match at WrestleMania, but he is at this point still gonna be there, and he's still gonna do something with Kevin Owens, so you know they they want him, man, And uh, I mean, here's the thing, everybody, here's the thing. Here's

the thing. Owen's getting stunned. Okay, So if we want to be semantic about this, there's either gonna be like a segment that leads to a short brawl and Kevin Owens gets stunned, or we're gonna have a short match and Kevin Owens gets stunned. So like, if you're really gonna be all up in arms about it, well, well, you know, they brawled for three minutes and then it was a stunner, but they didn't ring the bell, so he didn't wrestle or they wrestle for three minutes, and

he stunned wrote that you're gonna get one or the other. Okay, they're not gonna do I'll tell you this for sure. They ain't going fifteen minutes. They ain't going seventeen minutes. Okay, if Steve Austin does a match, it's gonna be a relatively short match. I'm not thinking it's gonna be like ten seconds, but it's gonna be on the shorter end, and it's gonna end with a stunner. Or there's going to be a segment that leads to a brawl and there's going to be a stunner. So you don't get

one of the other. Oh how about this, you get a brawl and Kevin owens and saying, you know, have any guts actually faced me in a match. You're gonna show up and find you you've been scared to face me, You're scared to come back. And then Steve Aoston goes, well, hell kid, you know, hit the bell, and then he gives him a stunner and pins him, and then three second match pours the beard and nobody gives a crap because they saw Steve Boston and Kevin Owens and everybody's happy,

you know, especially know who's really gonna be happy. That's gonna be Kevin Owens. So everybody would be a winner in that exchange no matter what they do, as long as Steve Auston shows up. And I know they have not promoted him, they haven't mentioned him. It's all in the fans for hyping this up. But the reality is, damn it, You're in Texas. How can you have a Texas WrestleMania without Stone called Steve Auston? And the way this is going with Kevin Owens, who else is it

gonna be? It ain't gonna be Kevin von Eric Who's going to save Texas? All Right? Gary Hart dead and even if he was a lie, he would be making fun of Texas. There's no Dick Murdock, There's no Dusty Rhodes. Who is going to take up for Texas if not for Stone Cold Steve Auston. Alright. Notes from the press conference last night, Tony Khn does plan to continue a Ring of Honors wrestling operations after acquiring the company, and it says he will serve as the booker. So I'm

not sure what that means for Delirious. I mean, is this gonna be Tony con Is, Vince McMahon and Delirious is you know, Shaun Michaels or whoever, in the sense that you know, Tony will give him the overall picture and he does the day by day or is he not going to be employed? I don't know who's gonna ask about that. I mean, everybody has been released, right do we even know if Delirious is employed? He is employed because he was. He was in charge of doing a lot of the stuff that they were doing on

television in the meantime, So yeah, he was. They just got rid of all of the well and look, and I know people are going, well, he can't do this sort of thing. I know there's a lot on his plate as it is. And it's like, you know, the more frankly looking at this one of a sports point of view, the more he can get out of football and and proper football, and the more you invest himself in wrestling, that might be the best thing for him

and everybody else anyway. And if Ring of Honor is only going to run a couple of weekends or you know, there, it's gonna be a slow motion process to get the thing jump started and kick started. You know who knows Again I I'm not super sour on that, although it's a lot on his plate. But if he again, we'll just have to see how things play out. It's so early right now, we have no idea what direction things are gonna go. Oh all right, hey, what else do

we have here today? Rampage different times slot. Later this month, Friday, March eighteen, eleven, thirty pm Eastern, there'll be the four first run n C Double A men's basketball tournaments on TNT that day, first one starting at one twenty eastern, last one scheduled to tip off at nine at twenty eastern, And so they'll be out of their normal time slot, which last time they are their normal time slot, they actually a better than eighteen forty nine, but worse than

viewers that game in those games tend to sometimes they'll go late, So just check your DVR and if you have an older DVR two that doesn't catch up or has got some sort of issue or something like that, make sure you extend out the time. MSG Gate six hundred thousand was a number, by the way, for all of that work. Six d dollars. Guys know that the douvil or Nothing shows, Broken Million show coming up in May. Tickets just went on sale a couple days ago. Where's

that show at though it's in Las Vegas. Yeah, shows in Madison Square Garden and tickets were ungodly high. Well they were doll gate they've the last time around. They were in that middle of running things way too much. And then because they just added shows on top of shows, and look, I they're full scophy with the Garden. It does not mean what it once did. And it kills me to say a little bit because you know, but look, it's like for boxing, it's just not the mecca for

that stuff anymore. I still love the building, so I love seeing the Knicks and the Rangers in it, but for as far as wrestling goes, I mean, Barclays is

really their spot. And again I have a feeling the next time to go back to the Garden, they're gonna have to give people a reason to go, and they're gonna have to give people a reason for those ticket prices because otherwise there's a help a lot of the things you can do on a Saturday night, man on and we've got Vader going into the w w E Hall of Fame joins the Undertaker, as the other inductee already announced passed away in at the age of sixty three,

one most Improved the Observer Awards and one of the great big men of all time and wrestling. So Vader is going into the Hall of Fame. Shame. Well, you know, I shouldn't say that. Maybe there were some things I'm not privy too, but I know he was one of those guys where there were a lot of people, including himself, that really wanted to see him, get him when he was still alive, And unfortunately that's not the case now.

And they go ahead and they make the move. So hopefully they get somebody who was familiar with him in his career to actually give him a proper good induction, touch on his stuff in Japan, touch on his time in the a w A, in Germany, all these other places where this guy was a true legendary international star, I mean not the highest order, he really really is.

And Carry Silkin has been honors part of the promotion's inaugural Hall of Fame Class Carrie Silkin a special Hall of Fame edition of r O HTV that aired this weekend was presented with the first ever Ring of Honor Hall of Fame Legacy Award. Award will be known as the Carry Silkin Legacy Award going forward, Back in the Up with Mobs or Live Back in the Show. Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live mixumbur bby also Wrestling

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