Are Naomi and Sasha Back?

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I'd just like to say thank you. As always, there's gonna be a lot to get into today, not the least of which is all of the hullabaloo and scuttle but over could it be Naomi and Sasha Banks being added back to the active roster page for w w E. Also, FTR taken out of the A E W video game. Some people who were wondering when they saw that news this morning if that would be causing a ton of controversy. It has not. FTR was well aware that they were

being taken out of the game. It's just that the news has come out now about all that, and we'll tell you all about that, as well as what's coming up tonight on Raw at a chance to watch both SmackDown in Rampage, we can talk about that. I got some news coming up about Samoa Joe as well as some other things, not the least of which is tournament season coming to an end in Japan. We have the finals of the Noah and One all set up, as well us some news on the i w g P

Women's Championship Tournament. The first match has been announced. It is Jazzy Gabert against Eva. We'll get into that a little bit later on as well too. I am tired of holding onto this phone and I'm going to switch back over to the fine microphone and highline method that we usually use here on this program, So stick with me. We'll be back. I'm Mike semper Viv and this is Wrestling Observer Live. There we go. Welcome back Wrestling Observer Live.

Mike Semperviv here with you, hopefully with h D audio. Let me get this now, SMR kids, I need this. Ah. That's for the Big boss Man, Brian Alvarez, who will be back tomorrow on this program. Right now, he is somewhere signing and updating his last Will and testament. Why because he will be facing off against Filthy Tom Lawler, their partners Billy Starks with Brian Alvarez and Killer Kelly with Filthy Tom Lawler coming up this weekend in Chicago.

I guess we're gonna have a heat up for that show take place a little while from now for viewers of Twitch and YouTube, those premium subscribers, and for those of you who listen to the Filthy for dailies over Observer dot com. I believe Brian will be back from doing whatever it is he is doing right now while doing this show, and he'll be doing the show with Bolthy Tom Lawler. So that is going to be certainly something here as we lead into this weekend. It is

a a big weekend. The whole opening segment of this show has thrown me off, but damn it. We have a lot coming up here this weekend as we lead into both All Out four in Chicago and w w e's Clash at the Castle taking place in Cardiff, Wales. There is as well once we hit Sunday, right before All Out, n x T World's Collide that is going to be taking place, and we have a little bit of n x T news to begin the show here. It's not really n x T news, but it does

involve a former n XT wrestler. Santanna Garrett has returned to w w E and this is up on the front page of the website right now, although I'm not looking at it since the show started, so it may have changed because a little Birdie has told me that she is back at the PC, just as a guest trainer. She is not back full time as the article has made it look. Garrett, on her Instagram stories on Monday, spoke about the role and said she was helping a class with new Hires, so it's gonna be uh. Garrett

had been there for a while. She was part of the two thousand seventeen May Young Classic. She signed full time with w w E and two thousand and nineteen she was a regular on n x T. She wrestled on one episode of Raw and was a part of the two thousand twenty one Women's Royal Rumble. But then that was pretty much it for her. She ended up going to a w and working a couple of shows down there. In fact, the front page article said it was four So uh, she's just back as a guest

trainer for now. But we've seen plenty of people who have been part of n x T in the past make their way back. So if this goes successfully for her and everybody is happy, she may get called back again. And who knows, maybe she gets called back for a full time role coming up soon to full time wrestlers that a lot of people would like to see back in the ring, or Naomi and Sasha Banks, And apparently there was a whole bunch of fewer cause when they were added back to the active page of w w

E Talent. I cannot confirm that firsthand, as I rarely like to navigate the w w E dot com website, but their return to the company has been speculated on now for quite some time, and as we come to the end of the very jinxt w w E Women's

Tag Team Championship Tournament. I have a feeling that once we see the finals, we may see Naomi and Sasha Banks doing a challenge and on paper, if your champions happened to be EO Sky and Dakota Kai, matches against Naomi and Sasha Banks may get as close to stardom stuff as we can get in this country. They ought to be fantastic, uh together. So that's the at least

the direction that I'm hoping that they're going. It certainly would seem to be the case if Naomi and Sasha are coming back, because you can go with with those for for quite some time, probably right into a Survivor series. I know we have a w w E Extreme Rules is going to be coming up as well too, but I have a feeling, because of the participants involved, as well as Bailey being in there too, we could be seeing tag team matches and six women matches going right

into Survivor series if you wanted to. That's that's one of the best things. If there's a silver lining in the cloud that happened with Naomi and Sasha and this whole deal with Vince McMahon is, I don't know if they happen to fall into line together or what, but if Naomi and Sasha come back, Look, the Women's Tag Team Championship since then has been a I want to say, a comedy of errors. But there they were. They gonna shelve it. Okay, are we gonna bring it back? We're

gonna bring it back. We're gonna have a tournament for it. They kind of made a non decision having again Nikita Lines and in Zoe Stark, although I kind of understood what they were doing. They're trying to give them ship some shine on national TV that ends up not coming to pass. Toxic trashing comes up, they get hurt. The matches themselves haven't exactly been anything to write home about.

So you know, when this whole thing finally shakes out and falls, you know, frankly, Naomi and Sasha coming back to rile up the new champions and to take their shot at him will probably make everybody forget about how forgettable that tournament has been. Samoa Joe's name has been speculated on for quite some time as to where is he, what is going on, what is happening? Is he upset does he not want to be involved with Ring of Honor as the TV champion? Why is he not on

a W Dynamite. What is happening with Samoa Joe? Well we have our answer. Samoa Joe has been filming a TV show. In June, it was announced that Joe had signed on the rate signed on to play the role of Sweet Tooth in the Peacock live action adaptation of the video game Twisted Metal. On Saturday, the show's show runner tweeted that the filming had all wrapped up and

that's where Joe had been. He suffered a shoulder line a storyline shoulder injury at the hands of j leefal Sttenham singing san Jay Dutt after r o h is July death before this Honor pay per view, where Joe had defeated Lethal in the title defense. So now he

is back. He was in the Owen Hard Tournament. He's only wrestled seven matches since the Owen Hard Tournament for a w but his presence will be welcomed back, not only obviously for Ring of Honor and anything that they plan on doing, but just his name value on a W Dynamite and on rampage the rampage, and I guess I can blast it real quick before this segment ends, because there's not really a whole lot to talk about with it. It was a a solid show. It was

not spectacular. I'm not sure that if you were already dead set on watching your Major League Baseball Pennant Race game or your NFL preseason game, that there was anything that was gonna be on this show that didn't have you going back to watch it on the DVR a little bit later on, or or or maybe even just

skipping it altogether. The I thought, again, I don't know how how banged up Malachi but Black is, and I assumed that they're telling a story where Hangman Page is going to take the place of Ten in this trio's tournament. But if that is not going to be the case, you should have had the House of Black when this thing. But Malachi Black had a knee bar on Ten. When Miro's rams horn hit, he ended up coming out. Buddy

and Brody went to go after him. That allowed Alex Reynolds to get a roll up on Malachi for the pin. After the match, Miro got into the ring, he was jumped by every Bolly Maliki spin picked him and the House of Black was able to put the boots to

him for a little bit before Sting and Darby. Allen made the save which has been setting up or does set up something that has been long rumored that six man match between the House of Black, Sting, Darby, and Miro for the pay per view Wardload destroyed Ryan mf No surprise there they're teasing. Dissension continued between the andrad A Family Office and private party Powerhouse. Hobbs killed a

guy named Ashton Day. Jade Cargill and Athena had a short pull a park in the In the back, it seems as if Cargol has fired Layla Gray out of the batties by just telling her to to get out, basically in having kiro Hogan take her to the trash. Uh that was? That was that Sammy and Tay against him and Tie Mellow against Ortiz and Ruby. Soho it was okay. There was some weird editing at the end of the match. Double jump Cutter by Sammy ended up

getting the victory. And then in the main event r O H Heavy H Championship, Claudio cast No Only defeated Dustin Rhodes Old school finish where Dustin jumped up or duct underneath Claudio and uh hit A slammed him his head into his crotch and that allowed Claudio to get the victory. Yeah, I fumbled that at the end there, but you know what, that's just the way this show is going to be. To day we'll be back Wrestling Observer A live take three Wrestling Observer live in the

Sports Byline broadcast network. That announcment man just said that my name is Mike Semper. Bobe. Bryan Alvarez is not here with me today. He's out doing something getting himself ready for today's show on Wrestling Observer dot com with Filthy Tom Waller Filthy for Daily available for subscribers over on that website. You know, we do this show here

for an hour of time every day. But if you want to try to get us seven and I don't know after this show why you would, you can try to get a hold of me at separ viv on Twitter, the timeline for this show at w O n F four W the broadcasters at Sports Byline USA, and if you love pro wrestling at mid Atlantic Pod. There was a report that came out earlier on this morning that

uh fightful. I believe it was initially reported this that FTR was not going to be a part of the brand new a W video game that's coming out here, that's gotten a little bit of buzz. Apparently won an award not all that long ago, So he does FTR not going to be a part of it. People wondered, when this environment of everything going on, would they be

incredibly upset about this? Well apparently, uh no, No, they were a little bit blindsided by it, according to according to Dax, Or according to Cash, when he and Dax spoke to give me sport, but they talked to Tony Khan, they talked to the legal department, Tony and everybody got back to him. They liked the answer they got, and that's that there is no story here whatsoever, unless your beat is to cover d l c s, which that's

got to be what this is. If they were taking out of the game completely, I'm sure we would have heard about that from Dax in Cash. I believe that that would be a thing. But they're not. They're going to be characters that are very likely going to be downloadable so they can get you to spend an extra three nine whatever it's going to be to get both of those guys and maybe a couple other people. This is a method that I believe all video games used.

I know certainly w w E uses it. I know about the micro transactions and Madden and MLB the Show and in different games like that. So no issue here with with Dax in cash, and no issue for anybody that's going to buy the game and and be upset that they're not going to be in it. Although I don't know. I mean, I again, in this day and age, I have not played a wrestling video game in a long time, at least one that was not a retro and sixty four style video game or virtual pro uh

type of deal. So I don't know if it's insulting that they're not as part of the original roster. I don't know if it's insulting or if it hurts their income not being a part of it and only being part of it as a downloadable. I don't know if that's an issue or not. It seems like, you know, real small potatoes in the grand scheme of things here in the bottom line is if FTR isn't gonna be pissed about this. Probably nobody should be pissed about this.

So that's that on that one. Smell Backdown took place at the Little Seasons Arena in Detroit, Michigan, and we do have some overnights on that. Now, these numbers are bound to change by the time the final numbers come out here probably, I guess it's going to be a little bit later on today. Usually it's right after the show goes off the air. But according to Spoiler TV, the overnights were pretty solid two point three million people. And again, this is baseball at this point locally is

probably causing some headaches. Certainly nationally is not an issue when it comes to SmackDown, but surely the NFL preseason probably cut into this number here a little bit. Last week where they also had competition as well, two point six million people in the eighteen to forty nine demo Friday night show registered a point five rating, which was the same as the previous week. So solid numbers for SmackDown there, and I thought it was a again, it

was a a lid show for sure. The interaction between Sammy Zane and Roman reigns, and we'll get to that later on. Is if nothing else that makes it worth the two hours of fast forwarding through on the DVR portion of the show, at least through the commercials. You shouldn't be you know, fast forward through everything. I think that's what Alvarez does. He says he doesn't, but I don't know about him. That's why I want Filthy Tom to take him out. But the show itself opened right

in the ring with Ricochet and Baron Cordon. They had the introductions for both guys, but we got a match right off the bat. As Corbin was making his way to the ring, they did an old school in st promo. I thought that was cool. This was a rematch from a match three weeks ago that Ricochet won. Both of those guys were also in the UH Intercontinental Championship five way eliminator last week. I thought this was a fun match and went through one commercial break. Ricochet ended up

finishing him off with a beautiful shooting star. S After the match, Pat McAfee used a John Madden style tellustrator to bury Corbin. So Corbin's back on a long losing streak. It looks like here UH in dealing with Pat McAfee poking at him from ringside. But the hope is, and at least this was the hope of David Bryan today on Wrestling Observer Radio, that maybe we're gonna get to see a little bit of a turnaround and fortunes here for Ricochet. I would be all for that. Again, Ricochet

does not have the main event WrestleMania for me. But if you have a mid card where some guys you know they're they're at different levels here and you know you can build your way up, you know, this might be a good time for Ricochet to see what you can get out of him, because what else you gonna

do here with this guy at this point? If you're not going to take him serious now, you may as well just send him down to n x T or n x T Europe or something like that, because I again, to waste him in the way that they have to have him lose instantly and not be able to show off a lot of his skills I think is a big mistake. Hip Profits ran into our the hit row ran into the street profits. We'll have a little bit more on that coming up later on Great Video Package

with Drew McIntyre. I thought this was excellent. A goat went back through his history with Highlight Clips and the first part of it played earlier on in the show. Uh, they covered up until his return to the company. He was followed by a carry on cross promo that was in black and white. He threatened to a race every memory that Drew actually had for good and TikTok, and

that was it for him on the show. Towards the end of the show, we got part two with Drew's WW redemption story that they always liked going over and something by the way, they never mind, I won't even bring up one of his girlfriend at the time. Uh Terran, Yeah, well, Taran Terrell. They were like the they never talked about like the hotel room battles and I think it was the European tour and and everything else that happens. But they do talk about his mother passing away and how

much that way down on him. But they also added some hype for him in Romans Match coming up this weekend to Clash in the Castle. And I'm one of those people that says felt up drew a cash in the Castle. It's not gonna hurt Roman Reigns whatsoever. It's gonna be a big feather and Drew's cap, you know, to end the rain at three. You know it was two years now, we're gonna have the two year celebration coming up on this addition to SmackDown. He's had both

belts now for quite some time. It is time to give Drew the shot because unless this is a story to build to Cody, like the ultimate story where Cody, because I believe we're gonna have another Day one show. I believe it's going to be in Atlanta. If that is going to be the case, what a perfect time for Cody to come back from that peck injury, goes into the Royal Rumble, announces his entrances into that, when

ends that, and then goes ahead and defeats Roman. That would be that unless you're going to do that, I I see no other reason for Drew not to win. I mean, that would be the only thing I would do. The Rock doesn't factor into that for me. The Rock and Roman reigns does not have to be a w W World title match. Maybe to somebody in w W E that's important, but I guarantee you for pretty much the rest of the world, including the world that you're

trying to attract by having the Rock come back. It doesn't matter his battle against Roman reigns, his cousin, his family, his blood in the l A Coliseum or whatever that it's so Fi stadium in front of a hundred thousand people or whatever it is, whatever they're gonna claim. You know, that's all you really need. And then that way, you know you can do Cody and Drew or something like that. But again, it's not important for Roman to have that title if he's going to go ahead and face the Rock.

But if the plan is he and Cody, that would be the only way I don't belt up Drew. There was a last chance fatal four way match only went three minutes. In Italian Sonia Daville defeated Duw dropping Nicky ash Nikki A s H Sully, Brian now Shot, see An Xialie and Dana Brook and Tomina. Natalia reversed the superplex by Nikki as Uh. Sonia made a blind tag sup plex or actually outside of the ring onto a

bunch of people. Sonia ran down Scooper up for Carcass roller back in the ring, got the pin and they advanced to the semifinals. Later on against where Kel Rodriguez and Aaliyah. We had a segment with Shamus who came down for a promo. He was quickly cut off by Gunther. There was Luca Kaiser at gunther side, there was Butch and Ridge Holland at at Shamus's side, and they went back and forth. I thought they had, you know, good good verbiage, kind of these big two guys who are

just gonna beat the hell out of each other. And Gunther says, the Shamus people tell me can't be broken. We'll He's gonna break them and is. He finishes that. Butch just jumps over, jumps on Liquid, starts fighting him. Ridge kind of stands back. Ludwig starts to get the advantage. He knocks Butch out of the ring. He knocks Ridge out of the ring. Ridge grabs his legs and is

all of this car and just just going on. As these guys are fighting, Shamus and Gunther are just facing each other, their eyes that are not leaving each other, and they're going at it. And finally Ridges laid to the side. Butch gets back in the ring with Ludwig. They're staggering and they just get pulled up by the

sleeves by their their leaders. Who again never take their eyes off each other, and that's how they decided to go into Clash at the Castle, and I thought that was a really good way, especially with the sidekicks that they have to build up a match between two bad guys who should thump away a clash at the Castle. We'll go through the rest of SmackDown, as well as a bunch of other news taking place in professional wrestling when we get back break. Restumes are Alive. Welcome back

to the show. Mike simparyvia Restumes are alive. This s show just because it fits in with the the rest of everything today. There is no filthy for Daily Today. Land Storm has let me know this. Apparently Brian said last night on The Brian and Vinny Show, what you could listen to if you're a subscriber to rescumes over dot com. I am, and apparently I should have listened to that show and I would have known that there is no filthy for it. And I can understand why

Tom's a fighter. You are now down to the end the five week. You know, if you don't have to do media. A lot of fighters they hate Diddler. You're cutting weight. You've been you've been stressed out. You haven't seen your woman. You've been you've been holding back in that category. You know you're trying to get to me, your your prime physical condition, and have all of your

focus be placed upon your opponent. So I can understand why filthy Tom Lawler, if he doesn't have to, he is not doing any media, especially not with the judas that is Brian Alvarez before he and Killer Kelly face off against Billy Starks. So I really feel bad for in this whole exchange teaming up with Brian Alvarez coming up BLP show g CW this Friday night, late Friday night on all that weekend in Chicago. That's enough promotion

for that one. Back to SmackDown where Natty and Sonia were being interviewed backstage, and this has been a common theme recently where if you're just concentrating on who is in the the fourth ground in the front of the shot there, you kind of missed some things because in the corner in the background, as Natty and Sonia were cutting their promo, do drop in, Nikki A s h

we're pantomim ing and argument. This is all led into the semifinals by the way of the tag team tournament where Bailey, EO and Dakota came down to join the commentary team. So, whether this means that do Drop and Nikki are going to be splitting up, Whether this means that it's we could see them maybe in an x T or something like that for a trip maybe so they can get themselves together. Not exactly sure, but they have at least in a little bit of an idea

for them right now. When he came to the second tag match, they got a Lee out of way early here. They were not worried about her whatsoever. The real star of that team is obviously Raquel Rodriguez, a mission Oku driver on the floor by Natty uh. That's what took a Lee out early on. Eventually, Raquel overcame the two on one and ended up winning the match after a tana bum on Sonia for the win. Afterwards, Aliah had the full ability to celebrate. She like bounced into the

ring and she was all sorts of happy. So I don't know. She may have fallen asleep there on the floor for a while, but she didn't make it back in, and I guess she'll be okay and ready to go for tonight. Uh when when when they actually face off against EO and Dakota in the finals, Maximum Male huddles, we're doing a photo shoot in the parking garage and

they better figure out something to do with this act quick. Uh. Max Dupri was incensed because he was standing in there and trying to direct this photo shoot and this isn't the parking garage, mind you, there's a bus because it's the parking garage where music is coming out of it. In his mind, Max dupre thought it was hit Rose bus and they've kind of been beefing, and Maxine gives him a look and says, you know what, I know

who to who to get for this job. And she comes back with Los Lotharios who say they know what they can do to to really get a hit Row for bothering Maximum Male models. And they show off having spray paint. Sure, and that would be okay if they

actually like tagged up the bus with anything, but they didn't. It. It looked like, first of all, the bus looked like a white board anyway that you would write on, and it actually looked like instead of spray paint, they actually just had blue sharpie's that they wrote hit Row sucks all the way across the bus. Unfortunately for the Maximum Male Models, um, it wasn't hit Rose because hit Row walked over and challenged them for a match next week.

And then they turned around to find out that the Street Profits walking off their bus were not happy with what they saw. By the way, nothing planned together with the Maximum Male Models and the Street Profits, so I don't know if any revenge will ever be gotten for this. The New Day then cutting in ring promo. Xavier Woods was in a wheelchair. They talked about getting beat up over the last several weeks by the Viking Raiders and then watching their legacy get burned up during the Viking

funeral last week. They seemed to be teasing breaking up when the Raiders came down to the ring to finish them off like the wounded animals they are. Woods tease not being able to get up, but he did, and he had two Kendo sticks with him, and The New Day used them and sent those guys packing. It's time for the main event Sammy Zane and Drew McIntyre, and this was set up earlier on in the show by

Roman Reigns and needing another favor from Sammy. Their interactions have been out standing and Sammy REPLI using Paul Hayman as the fourth tire on that luxury ride that is the Bloodline has been sublime. He has been excellent and Jay still can't stand him. He was on his case about losing last week before Sammy came down to the ring uh for the match. Sammy was pissed about that still, but went out there anyway afterwards after Sammy unfortunately took

the l uh. Not unfortunately, obviously he had to take the l But with the way he's been performing, I need to see Sammy getting some wins here soon, and maybe against ja. I guess if they started going at it but Roman ran down when when Drew was beaten, or after Drew's victory sent him so. But Drew actually got the advantage. And this is one thing that may play into Saturday show is the fact that he did

send him shoulder first into the post. And I know by the end of this segment it was Roman Rain sitting tall in a chair over Drew's body after the USO's and Sammy had had put a beating on him. They they beat him with steel chairs, they put him

over the announced table. UH. They held him so Sammy could deliver the Hlula cook and they crushed him with the ring steps and they did leave him laying but it was the first thing that you saw when Roman went after Drew was him missing a spear and nailing himself and getting put into the ring post and Drew throwing him into the ring pace. So I have a feeling that that is going to be playing in. That's gonna be something that they're going to be bringing up.

When Drew was completely massacred. The final thing that Roman rains due to him was lock on a Gillick team before laying him out and placing the chair over him and sitting down, which is how the show ended. It was a very very strong way to go off the air. I thought the show next week, as we've mentioned, is taped, carry Cross makes his debut. We have Ronda Rousey's final judgment UH where she calls out Adam Pierce. We have

that hit Row Maximum Male Models Match. Happy Corbin is going to have an open challenge as well as the UH. Roman Reigns is two year championship celebration which the USO's and Sandy Zane are going to be hosting. So that's what's going to be taking place coming up on this coming Friday's SmackDown, which is going to be the technically the last go home show leading into Clash at the Castle, but Tonight's Raw is going to be the last last live version of that, and we're going to get the

USO's and Sammy Zane on the show tonight as well. Uh, not much has been offered other than that from the w w E preview, so we're not sure what they're going to be doing, but they're definitely going to be on the show, as is Kurt Angle, because they are going to be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and if they're sticking with you know, obviously we haven't seen it on TV yet, but if they need an excuse for why Adam Pierce isn't there, you know, Kurt Angle's got a little bit

of GM experience. You know, I heard his son is a is a producer backstage. Nobody wants to remember that Angle, but his his former son's tag team partner, Chad Gable Alpha Academy otis. How can we not have some interaction? How can we not have interaction between Kurt Angle and Alpha Academy tonight so I would assume we're gonna get a dose of that as well as we're cal Rodriguez and Elie against Dakota Sky or Dakota Kai and Eo

Sky Um tonight for the w W Tag. And again, it'll be interesting to see if Sasha and Naomi are back. Do you bring them back tonight? Is it's something that you wit on, maybe something you bring them back as a surprise of class at the Castle and then you blitz everybody with advertising and then they make their return next you know, this coming Monday night on Raw. It'd

be interesting to see what they do there. And the one other thing that they've announced for tonight is Matt Riddle having a face to face with Cyes Seth Freaking Rollins. It is written like that backstage by the way folks, Seth Freaking Rollins, And so they're going to be facing off a clash at the Castle. Uh. Riddle has been out with an injury, uh from Seth. I'm trying to think of how far back that goes. Now it's been

a while, uh since Riddle has been actually in the ring. Oh. Also Bobby Lashly against the Miss tonight as well too, So Chompa Suirreley at Ringside as well as Dexter Loomis and hopefully they tie up those strings as well. How did the miss break the grip of Dexter Loomis? How far did he make it while he was being dragged out of the billetling? Did he? Did he make it

to the top of the concourse? And is like the did the Dexter stop to buy a shirt or a soda or some nachos or some thing and kind of like lost a grip of him while he was trying to pay and the miss got away? Uh was was the miss and still in a trunk of a car or something like that by the time that Dexter Loomis was brought over to n x T so he could give his goodbye letter to Indie Hartwell, possibly all of these questions and were being answered tonight on Monday Night Raw,

which again is taking place on the USA. Now we're eight o'clock from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's uh yeah, they they've really got to figure out there's been no social media on that. I don't think there's been nothing to that story like whatsoever at all, Like nothing. You couldn't do one funny skit like anything like Maurice calling Indie like, you know, like where's my husband? What has your man done to my husband? Any of that sort of stuff.

But uh, I guess not Wednesday's Dynamite. We do have a ticket update there. Uh. It's emanating from the Hoffman Arena in uh Hoffman and States, Illinois at the Now Arena. According to Russell Ticks and this is as of yesterday, five thousand, seven hundred and sixty three tickets had been sold for the show, twelve hundred and sixty nine remaining. So the pay per view is I believe sold out. I believe the only thing that is up in the

air right now is our Rampage tickets. They had a bunch of tickets that were bundled together to try to get you to go to both Dynamite and Rampage. Apparently now they have broken up those tickets. Doesn't sound like rampagees sold out yet. We'll get an update on that. In fact, after Raw tonight the Late Night Rustling Observer Radio with David Brian, there may be an update on that. He'll probably have an update on that. Then. Do you want to get this in here for you? Uh? The

Noah and One Victory it is. It is tournament time in Japan. We had the G One that ended not all that long ago, the Zero one Fire Festival. We have the Stardom five Star Grand Prix which is going on, but Noah's and One Victory U League has now come to an end. Kato Kio Mia won the B block and he'll be facing off against Hideki Suzuki, who won the A Block a couple of days ago. Their final encounters will be taking place on September three, uh they will be It's for the End one Victory Final. This

is a It's a relatively loaded show. Up top. There's a eight man tag which on paper looks to be

really good. Naomichi Marufuji Goshio Zaki, Massato Tanaka, and Massaki Masaki Mosuzuki, one of the most underrated guys in wrestling history over the age of fifty years old, who still can perform at an incredible level against kas Fagina, Kendall kash and Hio Del Wagner Jr. And Timothy Thatcher, as well as Kenno Minabu Soya and Tataskey and one of Great Muda's last matches is he teams when No Sawa and the Great Okon, We'll be back to put a

ball on this thing. Wrestling Observe Alive back on the show, Mike Sap for Viva here. Whether you're wrestling Observer live, this has been a much better show if we just would have recorded the break material. I'm telling you, Oh my god, Hey, if you wanna book out Dot Gallows and Carl Anderson, you can. It's been noted that their contracts have come to an end with Impact Wrestling and they have not signed a new deal after what Dave had noted were what he believed to have been the

highest contracts in the company at that time. He noted they are both booked for upcoming new Japan shows, but could legally appear on either A a W or WW programming as soon as this week. You know, Carl Anderson is staring down the you know, barrel, the barrel of feud with his old his old friend Hiroshi Tanahashi. I don't think he no matter what Triple H can do.

After the last time those two guys were there, I don't think you're gonna be seen him pop up on w W t V. But I don't know if you're also gonna be seen him pop up on a w TV either, unless it's somebody to come in and do a loss and have a good match with FTR and take an l as they defend one of their belts.

You know, they are where they should be, probably with New Japan, especially for the Real World Tag Leave if that's gonna be coming up this November, which I believe it is, and frankly whenever it is, uh they can stand to be in there and and maybe try to put over some newer teams that come down the line, use a little bit of the cash that they had and help out some people down the line. For New Japan in the division that I would love to see them kind of rebuild and get done again. So that

is it for me everybody. This show has been jinxed from the start, But that's okay. Why because tomorrow is a new day, Yes it is, and Brian Albrez is going to be back in this chair. I will be at his side, and Producer Dom will be in the studio. Gotta salute him. Producer Jared will be doing video. I gotta salute him, and I salute all of you for tuning in and especially staying with me on this very Jinx edition of Wrestling Observer Live. We shall talk to

you after a while. Everyone, you have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network