Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, sixth Eastern. Well, it is Wednesday here on this show,
and you know what that means. It means I've got my invisil line in and I'm trying my best, but I'm I'm not used to talking yet, which I hadn't taking into consideration because that's sort of my job. So anyway, I'm gonna do my best here to get through this without doing weird stuff with my mouth and everything I got. But we got a lot to get into, so hopefully
everything works out. We got dynamite tonight. We have six segments announced for the show and a seventh because Kenny Omega has been clear as we talked about a couple of days ago, his visa situation is cleared up. He's gonna be on the show, but we don't know what he's doing. We don't know why. So there's gonna be that as well. We'll go over the full line up for the show. We've also got the n x T Report.
My favorite part of the week n x T. It is the go home show for Vengeance Day, which is this weekend, and we'll talk about the show, the lineup for Vengeance Day, all at Also news, Cody has been doing interviews and he's talked about how he's got a dream and after hearing his dream, I more than ever want Cody to win this w w E title and I'll tell you why. Also Coda Bushy update on Coda Bushy. We've got the raw ratings from Monday night which once again big numbers. Because w w E is it's hot.
It's hot right now. mL W and the w w E court case will tell you about that and plenty more. If you want Texas, four to five seven eight zero seven five six six is the phone number four to five seven eight zero seven five six six email Bryant Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Elbers on Twitter. I get ament with more of Observer Live back on the show. Brian Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper Vit also
of Wrestling Observe dot com. I was looking at that Chad during the breaks when people are talking about in I'm still laughing at we Bailey, We God help me. And then of course there's uh, let's talk about n x T and the raw rating and stuff like that. And Okay, first off, for those of you wondering, an XT is not legitimately my favorite show over the week. Okay,
that part is a gimmick, but I do. I do enjoy watching n x T. I I look forward to Tuesday nights watching the show because I find the show to be fun and it entertains me even when it's dumb, and uh, I don't care what anyone says. I don't even want to hear it. That main event last night was really good, the three way tag with Chase, you and uh enters no fe who I don't know if you guys knows or not. He wasn't wearing a shirt and you know, Tad, you know what I'm saying. I
told you that nobody wanted to listen anyway. And also also the schism, and you know I loved most about that main event. It's we have now seen it two times and I really don't know why it is. But for those of you that watch a lot of n x T, do you remember there was there was a show. I can't remember what the circumstances were, but Joe Gacy was put in a position where he had to make a baby face hot tag. Do you remember? This? Was it in the lead up to the six six Way
whatever it was? Bro This guy made such an awesome baby face hot tag. He was unbelievable. So you know, they're doing the storyline with with Chase You and with um with Duke Hudson, where Duke Udson is his he's joined Chase You. But the storyline is, you know, this guy is he's fixing a screwom or whatever. He's you know, he's a he's a wolf in cheap's clothing as they say, and so you know he's he's a bad guy, but he's he's he's working them. Well anyway, here's another one.
They put him in position to make a baby face hot tag tonight, and my god, this guy's baby face hot tag was so awesome, to the point where like both him and Joe Gazing they make this hot tag and I'm like, why are these guys heels like turn these dudes, baby face, they're awesome at it. And I don't know if it's maybe like when you're always a heel and then there's that one day where you're giving something different to do and it's like, oh man, I
get to make odd tags. Wait till you see this, brother, And then you're watching it's like, dude, what are all baby faces make hot tags like this? He was great. So anyway, it's a good show. We'll talk about it later. But the Raw ratings very quickly since they were huge, and yeah it was Joe Gas a team with Cameron Grimes. Yeah, so Rod did two point one one million viewers and it was a point six four and eighteen and forty nine.
So once again know on on cable and network, on all of television, Raw was the most watched show not in its time slot of the day. There was nothing else on Monday on television at any time that did a better eighteen to forty nine number than Monday Night Raw. No, nothing. It was the number one show of the whole day
in eighteen to forty nine. So Raw was first in women eighteen to forty nine, more than doubled everything on cable in men eighteen to forty nine, more than doubled everything on cable in eighteen to thirty four, beat everything but The Bachelor on television in eighteen two thirty four, and uh in total viewers at Trail News, but in
eighteen forty nine it trailed nothing. So yeah, you know, as note, obviously you know there's no football, there's no football competition, and it was the day after the Royal Rumble.
But last year there was also no football, and there was a show the day after the Royal rumble, and rob this year was up in viewers, up thirty four percent from the post Royal Rumble show in eighteen to forty nine and in eighteen to thirty four compared to last year's show, the exact same show the day after the Royal Rumble last year with no football, up forty five cent in eighteen to thirty four. So w W
E is hot those of you that haven't noticed. Two point two two million first hour, two point one seven million second hour, which was a really really good Uh. They basically maintained everybody from our one hour two and then it did fall to one point nine six million an hour three, So there you go, you know, and I don't know you know what it is, because you know it's like I watched the show and it is different.
But even I will tell you it's not substantially different, with the exception of actually, you know what it is in some way substantially different because we can now count on like two hands the number of storylines that they've advertised and changed. Literally it's two, it's two, and last week they would do two to three changes every week. It was like there was no point when Raw was over telling you what was announced for next week because
it just wasn't gonna happen. Now, when they announced stuff for next week, it happens. I guess it would be three times now because it was alts of that cage match, but uh, it happens virtually every single time. So I don't know if it's just they announced what's gonna happen
and then do it. I don't know if there's a portion of the fan base that, you know, people would always say, especially after the Saudi shows, like I ain't watching this, I hate Vince, I cannot support Vince McMahon, and it's always like, you know, they say that, but
I don't know if I buy it. Well, you know, a lot of this year over year changes is all after Vince left, and so it's possible there there is a percentage of fans that are like, you know, he's he's not booking this thing, and he's I guess he's kind of back now trying to sell it. But you know, whatever it is, it's uh, it's way up from where it was a year ago, and good for them. I don't think it's a cop out to say that it's
a little mixed everything everything. I mean, if you look at the economy, if you're going out less and we saw this crunch as we went into the holidays with you know, the with that situation, Well, there's one thing you don't have to worry about paying for if you've already got peacock or you've already got cable, there's you know, the USA network in football is out of the way, and they have been getting hot and there has been a lot of media attention put on them for maybe
somebody who has not been paying attention closely, who heard about all this chaos going on and is wondering, you know, yeah, I haven't seen it for a while. Has it changed, you know since the last time I saw it? I think it's just a really a mix of everything and the fact that they're hot at a time where there's not much competition right now. Obviously the entertainment field is not giving them much to work with. Very disappointed with
Below Deck here. You know, if I was going to give some sort of competition going on, but no, apparently not. You're at a time where college basketball is not cooking yet, the NBA is not cooking. Other than the All Star Break and HL the only thing going on people looking forward to for the most part right now is the
trade deadline in a couple of weeks. So it's like this is a great time for them to shine a light upon themselves and have a really good run and put their best foot foot forward, not only leading into WrestleMania and Elimination Chamber for that matter, but because obviously it seems like the rest of the entertainment industry has seated itself to them. Yeah, is noted here like SmackDown Friday that that show is gonna do huge because it is the follow up to the Big Angle at the
Royal Rumble. What's Jay doing, What's Sammy doing, What's Roman doing? Pretty much? Yeah, we're getting Roman and Sammy in Montreal. So it's got to be announced. They gotta shoot that angle to get going. So that's gonna be a big show coming up on Friday. So Cody did an interview and he says he has a pipe dream. You ready for this? Yes, this guy is the man. He wants to bring back the wing of Eagle Jus just like you, no wonder why you see? That's it. That's why you
kept for this guy all the time. That's why you're out there just putting on the cape for him and and talking. That's what all these people have been talking about with human Cape. Yeah, how how dare I report the factual statement that they sold out of all Cody merchandise all weekend and he was the biggest merchant seller by far. How am I bias for telling you what
actually happened? Why are you mad at me? Bro? If they put well, they're already selling tons of wing deals, tons of them back in a moment they were alive. Sure I could go. I could go on for hours about the chapter during this breakan talk about belts. What
are they doing? All right? Listen, listen, This current WF belt sucks, all right, It's a giant w it's a giant like, it's basically a giant Volkswagen, that thing on the front of your car on leather, Like, Since when did the company logo need to be the centerpiece of the championship belt? Since? Never? Is the answer. Okay, it's a big old w wow. Okay, now listen. I am an advocate of the the Winged Eagle belt. I think it's the best looking belt that they've ever made, but
that doesn't mean it's it's the only one. They that that second Big Eagle they gave to Steve Auston, that was a sweet looking title, you know, the the one of those early undisputed titles. I think, uh, I think maybe uh Brock had I was all right. The Spinner belt was just trash, absolutely horrible. Oh, Mike, Mike's gotta bust out his old n w A belt again. Was the whatever the belt was behind here? The one that they went after, that all black belt that they had
with the gold in the front. I thought that was a really good looking belt. I think wasn't that the undisputed belt for a while or something like that? Yeah, yeah, these people are going you know, I love the Spinner belt, Yeah, you do. If you started watching wrestling when Sena came out with a stupid belt, the spun. But other than people that came up literally right when that belt was the main belt, nobody likes that belt. It's dumb, it's spins,
it's stupid. It's a gimmick, that's all it is. It's cool for him for a minute, that's what it's good for, but it's not long lasting, like the dome Globe or big Gold for example. A belt that looks better than the winged Eagle, not the wing it's winged. Get get with a get with the picture. You know what else is an awesome belt, Not the current one, but the previous i W g P title beautiful belt. The new
belt sucks. The new belt looks like that belt that they made for Jeff Hardy and like and t n A that is his face paint on it or whatever. Stupid looking belt sucks. There was some great n w A the the old Liken w c W World Heavyweight Championship belt that Vader and and Flair as a sweet belt,
those Dave Milliken belts. You know, look, there's been a lot of great belts over time, and very few great belt makers and Reggie par Ks, who passed away, was one of them, and he passed that on to Dave Milliken.
And I'm not sure about all the people out there now that make those types of belts, but Nikita Malkovich way back in the day, I mean, very few people, and they've done some incredible work that obviously, you know, we know to this day we're still talking about right now, not a one picture of belt in you oh wait here, but here it is as they sell them. That's the version up there. I like that. That's that. That's right. It's not as nice as the winged Eagle though. And
you know that other one. Look, hey, hey, show everybody that that that atrocious oval intercondinal title belt. Oh I hate that, dude. That's the ugliest belt you know that is? You know what that is. That's when you go to uh the Seattle Aquarium and you put your penny in that gimmick and you turn the knob and like an elongated penny comes out. That's what that is. And another horrible belt is those old those old tag team belts
that look like pennies and dying pennies. Yes, those were all actually is the ultimate example of going to one of those gimmicks at the beach or the trolley or whatever, and the copper down. It's ridiculous. He tell you something, If I win the tag team titles, which I will with Filthy Tom, I don't want. I don't want two pennies. How about gold? Brother? What do you think I'm in this for copper? Yeah, I'm gonna get a belt that I'm gonna put on my my thing that's gonna turn
green like the Statue of Liberty. What am I wanting a copper belt? Are you sure? Hey? Listen, I don't want. I don't make me mute you again. I don't even want to talk about it. I don't want to be talking. I realized I'm coming back again. But there's a reason for it, and no one's talking me out of it. Do you understand? Thank you? Now you know what I was gonna say about the continental title. Cody, y'all forget.
He's the guy that they got rid of that elongated penny and they brought back the old school intercontinental title. So there's anybody that can get rid of these stupid giant ws. Somebody here goes, yeah, Well, when they hand out a title belt to the you know, they whoever wins the Super Bowl or whatever. Yeah, people understand why they got an evil Oh, because they understand when they got a w oh, here here's a belt with a
W on it. Yeah, that then the common person is gonna go, yeah, well, look what is this really about? When it came then I got it double? What is it? Look, it's it's about them giving look w W across the Look. It's crazy to me too why they wouldn't actually put a plate of the team in there and maybe have w W A on the side plates. But look, and it became an accepted thing in the sports world. We're going to give you our logo to hold up on national TV anytime you have a parade or any of
that sort of stuff. In a way, it was kind of brilliant to do. It's obnoxious, it's ridiculous, but it was actually kind of a brilliant thing to do. Now, did you ever hear the story about that whole logo itself, the Scratch logo? Did I ever hear the story about the Scratch logo? Yes? I don't know. I've heard a lot of stories. What's the story? Brian Solomon, who wrote that chic book and I worked with in the Wrestling News. He used to work for WWF F magazine and they
were going through the whole change. I guess this is a story that he had heard about the old block logo that the WWF had. And remember the legendary story about Vince getting such a low rating on raw that he freaked out. And this was the rating when they were in Europe for a raw that was taped and it did a bottomed out terrible rating. W CW had
a good one and he lost it. This is what opened the door for Vince Russo to come in and around that time, and he's upset and he's looking at the block logo and he smashes it in front of everyone and he scribbled on a white board what basically became the scratch logo that you see the w w F logo that you saw before it became just the ww and underneath it he actually on the white board
because he's Vince wrote a big set of balls. And when they actually came to you know, look for ideas about the logo, they did have to break it to him that no, Vince, we we can't put the balls under the logo. But what we can do is actually create the swirl. So the swirl that was underneath that logo on the original Scratch logo was actually Vince's balls. Uh with with this guy in his own testicles? Like, what's up with this guy? He's got grate? What a
weird guy. It's just a weird creep. Well, yes, yes, got dynamite. You don't even need an NDA to say it dynamite. Tonight, John Moxley versus Hangman, Page my Pants three third time. So uh, I mean, there's there's two possibilities here. One is, for some reason they're doing a blowoff now and the winner is going to get a big match at the pay per view, or we're doing three to do what UFC did, which is lead to a quadrilogy a quad what did what did they call that?
They made up some words super effective, like a quadrug or something like that, which is gonna be coming up in the pay per view, So I guess we'll find out tonight. Yeah, they made up a weird word. What did they call it? Is? Because the one incorporated you know what, hey, listen, I'll look it up on Wikipedia. UFC. What was the last UFC was UFC twenty four was last quadraphia or maybe that's coming up. Was UFC two
eighty three last? There it is? Okay, now they actually they actually wrote it on Wikipedia, which was the funniest thing. They used blown calf or qua UFC two eighty three. Okay, ready, yes, okay, well I'm not oh, okay, I remember when ufc s were in the ones because it was the first one. It was a long time ago. Now, okay, you see flyweight Championship unification tetrology about Oh they changed it a tetrology. They changed it now they're calling it a tetrology. Tetrology.
What is a tetrology? They had made up a word they have brought in us new words. They called it like on the paper they actually called it a quadrology or something like that because it was the fourth time there never been there never been four. Let's see tetrology a group of four related literary or operatic works, or in medicine, a set of four related symptoms or abnormalities
frequently occurring together. Yeah, well they didn't they didn't know tetrology at the time because they called it a quadrology. So if anybody can find where that was written, let me know so I can I can talk about it here anyway, we have that tetrology is only in the Urban Dictionary. Here, Brian Danielson versus Timothy Thatcher, we got Jake Cargill in Red Velvet, Darby Allen and Samoa Joe No holds Barred Takeshi versus Brian Cage and the Acclaimed against t b A. Can we get that belt off
Derby Police? Why? Here's why I love Darby Allen, I really do. But he is to me not the guy that I want to have holding the t n T title. I know he's I'm not sure how he works for ratings anymore. I know at one point he did cause a spike in them, and I would want to incorporate him into the show. But the style that he wrestles, to me, I don't know. He's more of a feature guy.
I would rather see Samoa Joe with that belt out there, kind of bringing back the open challenge or or having a few you know, that's meaningful that way to me. I don't know. That's just the way that I prefer Darby Allen, and I think that's the way you make him last for for longer too, because him going out there every week doing these types of matches. I know you now they're to last. I know, and that's the thing.
And if it's up to him, what I'm saying means nothing anyway, and I know this, but I don't know. That's just my preference. Bro Darby is literally doing what you just asked for, which is an open challenge every week, facing if wanted with him, because I just don't want to see this guy kill himself. I know he's you try to explain away from the top rope that drop kick, and I don't care how you cut it. I don't care if he breaks his fall or not. It's still a kind of a dumb bump to do over and
over again. Well, listen, he I believe he should beat some O Joe tonight, and then I believe that shortly thereafter he should he should be destroyed by Hobbs. Oh, I like, you should become the new T and T champion. But anyway, back in a moment with more horrible takes from Mike, you stop man the show. Brian Elvera is here Wrestling Observer Live MIXCEMPT for Baby also Wrestling Observer
dot Com look on Twitter. Wants to know if this invisitial line hurts n I'm at the point where I don't even notice it until I try and say a word that doesn't work anymore. Like what you're in there? I don't know, just I'm not I'm not keeping track. Well, I mean, you know what, somebody wants to get this thing done? Like, what are they gonna have to run into here? What are you having trouble saying right now? Not certain words? I have my tongue runs into the thing. Hey,
it's also according to a dumb quadrilogy? Is what they called it? A quadrilogy? Yeah? Have that running into your tone? Sally sells Seashells by the Seashore apparently not ses I don't know what it is. Pitch Black match We Bailey No, no, no, no, we Bailey. Alright, we gotta talk about n x T here and then we'll go some other in New Is. That's pretty fun, show man. This in Due Share versus Creed Brothers match. That was one ugly match, brother Man.
They got in there and they battled hosted about and the big spot at the end is uh Ivy Niles on the apron. She's yelling at I think somebody, Oh my hall she's yelling at the hall and then Julius ends up hitting the ropes and man, he knocked her in the next week and he feels all bad, and then he gets hit with their choke slam one two three, they get pinned. So, man, she had been telling them in storyline, you can't beat these guys. You can't beat
these guys. You can't beat these guys. They're finally about to beat them, and she is the reason, inadvertently that they were unable to beat these guys. We had a wacky conversation backstage with Tyler Bate and a kid. I'm sorry, Axiom, but in storyline, everybody knows he's a kid. So they're talking about a kid. Whatever happened to that guy? You know, you remind me a lot of a kid. So they agree to have a match later and then Damon Kemp walks up and makes fun of the British style of
wrestling on a jerk. We had Zoe Stark and Indie arguing over who did better in the rumble? Is this even an argument? And uh, this leads to a match. Zoe beats Indie. It just was kind of there, And I've asked a question every week for months now, What is the point of this indie heartwell thing? What are they doing? What's going on? I don't get it. Boston chanting indie wrestling, or at least a handful of Chance fans trying to chant indie wrestling. Yeah, I don't know.
We had right now. It looked they played off of her slip up in the rumble too. Did you notice that at the end, because I know, look, she's like a you know, baby deer on ice most of the time anyway, But I think that slip on the top rope was supposed to be intentional. So again I can see her going back to being depressed in the Remember she was depressed, she got her fire all of a sudden, she was piste off at everybody. Well, I can see her dripping back into sadness again. And let's go back
to what we were doing before. That wasn't working because he has got to come back and save the day of the Rumble. They didn't do it. He can't walk around with a hatchet on National TV forever? Actually can? I mean, I don't know why not. Apparently it's allowed.
I guess that we had Wesley and die Jack and Von Wagner doing a interview segment and the less said about that when the matter, but it led to Die versus von Wagner, which actually was a fun match, two big dudes, loss of near falls, they did stuff they shouldn't be able to do. Crowd was going crazy, and finally Diject pins Wagner to set up that match and continue the feud with Wesley at the base. Make him a team, make those two guys an ass kicking team.
You know what you need to do is, first off, you just need to get rid of this Diject gimmick. It absolutely sucks. I mean, no, you know what he is. He's an n XT. His his gimmick is literally an n XT wrestler with a bad gimmick who doesn't know how to cut promos because they script out these wooden lines which he then delivers in the most wooden manner possible. It's it's preposterous. It's like he hasn't been It's like he's been doing this for like it's like as a wrestler,
he's been doing it for years. But you know, the actual you know person just now got into wrestling. It doesn't know what they're doing. This character and the interviews are not found the right thing to match the man yet. Okay, and I don't know this dude, but I see interactions with him. I remember him in r o Age and in evolving all that stuff. They they have not found
the right die Jack yet. But which is funny because the man that he beat, Von Wagner, they literally did a segment with Robert Stone, and Robert Stone in the back goes, Von this ain't working. Damn right, it ain't working because he just lost and and then Mr Stone goes, why am I managing you? And Von Wagner's like what And Mr Stone goes, I've been managing you for years and I literally know nothing about you. I know you're big, and I know you grunt, but like other than that,
what what do I know? What does anybody know about you? Like if you want to go further in this business? He said, we need to know more about you. We need to know who this Von Wagner guy is, Like is this a shoot? And then you know, then they steal some line from whatever that stupid Tom Cruise movie was, Help me help you, and then he storms off and and but it's the same thing with with the die Jack.
You're right. But look, if that was kind of a shoot, because what do we know about Finger, then he's a big guy that yeah, exactly, so you know a little is that? What? What that qualifies a little ribbing on the square? I guess not. I don't know. But what matters here is bottom line, you can do something with this guy, and the same thing goes with Dai Jack and to me, if nothing else, you could put them together. And by the way, this person is right n XT did have me at hello. Then we had uh uh
Stacks and Tony D'Angelo. I guess they're going to take care of things. How long does this take? Like you're an underboss, dude, it's been weeks. Whatever you're trying to do, do it. Then we had a hilarious segment. So Mackenzie goes, let's break down this footage of the Nikita lion attack. So they show the footage and they do it in like slow motion, and they pause it and they highlight
certain things and they're looking for suspects. Well, what's funny is they reiterate what Vinny noted on The Brandon Vinnie Show last week, which is it nobody cared the Nikki Lyons was on the ground, crying and holding her knee like. Everyone's just wandering around. Like mckennzill goes, oh, here's uh, it throws out two names. I them mightn't even know, just wandering around. Oh, and then here's such and such just walking away. Oh and in the background you can
see so and so and so and so. They're just standing there. And then hey, look who's peeking their head out of that car. It's uh, the lady that sleeps and drinks the gimmick. She's just watching. I'm like, Wow, what a horrible locker room. Like, I'll punch horrible people. Nobody cares except like indies. She was the only one that cared that Nikita was down. We don't have a suspect, could be anybody that didn't care. And we had Tyler Bait and Axiom. Dude, this match ruled. While it lasted,
Tyler Bait beat him. Booker t has already figured out this. Tyler bates awesome. After last week when he was trying to convince himself he was no good, now he realized he's great. David Kemp runs in, beats up Axiom, Tyler Bait runs him off. Yeah, Isla don and Albifire do some spooky stuff together. I am so so over it. Carmelo and and Hayes do a promo. What what? Yeah? What did what did tricks say? He goes, I ain't shaking as it's cold outside. I'm I'm shaking like a
booty on Friday night. I think I was shaking like booty meat on Friday night, but not because I'm trembling with fear. It's because it's cold outside. The crowd gasped Mackenzie's face, Carmelo's face for that matter. Then we had a sit down interview with toxic attraction rock Sand, and apparently they figured out next week, Callie, these toxic attraction women, when you have them talk instead of Mandy, it's good.
And so they tore it up on the mic last week, and then this week they just they just kept going. They wouldn't even let rock Sand talk. So finally she walks off and then she attacks him and there's a wild brawl. It's a good segment. They they they it's like amazing, all of a sudden, they figured out these this g G and j C can actually do promos.
Who would have thought, Wait a second, that's the one thing that they were good at before they were Yeah, but they always had Mandy do all the talking and she was just there. It's just the normal w W E speak. Nothing happening these two, especially JC kind of j C is always playing a character that's the because you know, she does the exaggerated facial expressions and all this cartoons. Yeah, but I mean she's good at doing that.
But you know, g G is legitimately good, like she legitimately comes off as an actual human being and she's a good promo. So we need more of that. Stevie Turner debuted beat Danny Palmer. It's just debut. Drew Gulak beat Charlie Dempsey after Charlie got sent into Hank got monked, rolled up and pinned. I'll talk about this more tomorrow on The Briant Vinet Show. But this is one of those storylines where it continues on every week like it. It is literally a long term story that they've been
doing segments every week. Yet I have no idea what's going on. I don't get it. Having watched all of them, I'm as confused as as if i'd watch none of it. And then we had a great main event, which is Chase you Die Ad, and uh, you know, I've said it a million times. Whatever you think about the die Ad,
they're a great team. The gimmick just sucks. And then we had Edgerson Malik, and so like you have Andre and Duke who are good workers and uh, and you have the die Ad who are good workers, and you have Ederson Malik who are green but they can do cool stuff. And so there's four other good workers to you know, set up all their stuff. And then you had a good storyline where you know, they got heat on Chase and first he tries to make a tag,
but oh man, you know, uh, Duke's not there. And then he tries to go over and he tries to tag the other two baby face, they get yanked off the apron. They've almost beat this guy, but he finally makes that awesome hot tag to Duke. They had a lot of great spots in this match, and finally the end, Chase you wins. And man, I don't know how it's gonna work out on the main suster, but when Andre Chase does the garbon stump spelling out Chase you do,
this place goes nuts for this chant. And so finally they get the big win with you know, all the great things I said about the match. I don't know
what this finishes. It's it's dumb looking. Hopefully they get a better one, but they won, and then on the big screen, New Day shows up and they hype up the match, the take team title match coming up at Vengeance Day, and then you know what the what the best thing on the show actually was is when this match was over, we had a music video hype package for Vengeance Day and man, I don't know if it
was Borash. I presume it was Borash. There's a lot of stuff that that Borash is doing for n x T, but he's also doing stuff for the main roster, and I at this point, I don't know what he's doing. He used to do all the n x T stuff, but now he's doing main roster stuff too, so it's like I kind of can figure out what he does, but not always. But man, whoever did this did a great job, because you watch his video packs, you're like, man, this thing is hot and I can't wait to watch
this show on Saturday. So they did a great job with that Vengeance Day hip package, and hopefully the show is good. You know, I've had all sorts of issues here with my my camera here and in the in the hook up, so sadly I can't be seen saying this probably, but if when, when Jeremy Barrash retires, or if he ever decides to to step away, whatever it is, I would love to talk to him about some of his Oh man during for years, n X would impact everything that he's done. I mean way back to w
c W Live. I mean, an amazing guy back up with Mores Ever Live. And I know it's gonna make people mad, but I'm an honest man, and I think if you really think about it, you'd agree with me. But somebody asked, you know, h b K booker of
the Year. I would not say that HBK is the book of the year, but bro, I came up watching w c W Russo then like you know, uh, Eric, and then I lived through ten A and it's dirt worst Ken with Russo and Eric and dude, I've watched a lot of badly, horribly booked professional wrestling over the years. And you know, while I would not say he's the booker of the year, Sean's doing given what he's got this developmental roster. He's doing a good job. And Hunter is doing a good job, and Tony con is doing
a good job. And honestly, like right now in American wrestling, like I know people they don't want to like this, they don't want to like that. And yeah they're stupid stuff on all of the shows and everything here and there. But really as far as booking, everything's fine right now.
In in some ways it's good they didn't live through Brian Wait time about the retro roz brow some real stupid stuff in there too, Unless you had maybe Smoky Mountain for a while, that was that was good, but like it was so small and and very few people had access. The American wrestling scene in ninety three is something I hope nobody ever has to live for again. There's a reason that all Japan got so big. Everybody had to look elsewhere. It sucked. It was good stuff,
but a lot of it sucked. Well, we're at a time everybody want to thank you all for this thing. I'll be back later on tonight with Dave back here tomorrow. Best thing of this ever lives. Yeah, you've been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network
