Dynamite Hot Show/New Japan Strong

about all these shows here today. No, I don't have COVID. I took another test today. What I have is two kids, these vectors. Everybody has gotten it. I was the last holdout. Now I have it. You know what? Back here today, mostly because I don't know where Mike is. He's probably not gonna be here today, but anyway, who cares. We had a lot to get into today we have. You know, it's most sad about yesterday missing the show as I couldn't do the n x T report. So maybe I'll

talk about it a little bit today. If not, you'll have to wait till the Bran and Vidya show tonight. But we have got a w Dynamite from last night a big show. It was weird. There was some good wrestling and a hot crowd and then there was whatever that last forty five minutes or so. Was so all night about that, And uh, we'll talk about the ratings for the n x T spring break in show, talk about non spoiler rampage for Friday. We've got tickets going

on sale for shows. We have got an a w power failure and it actually affected the Dark Elevation tapings, but did not affect the main show, thankfully. And New Japan New Japan Strong this week was supposed to be a a special two hour episode, and boy was I not happy about that. There's so much stuff that I gotta watch every week. I did I need two hours of New Japan Strong. And the wrestling gods heard my plea. They probably thought, this poor bastard sick. Let's give this

guy a break. So instead it's it's gonna be split into two shows, so to one hour shows. Everything's back to normal and we've got a lot more to get into. So let's do this, everybody. Let's get it on Wrestling Observer Live. Back in the show, Bran Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike sumber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Let's do a little bit of news here and then we'll get going today and then I'm gonna tap out, you know I did before the show. I napped. I

never do, Yeah, I know, alright. The spring breaking edition of n x T six d sixty one thousand viewers in the USA network, up fourteen point six from last week, highest viewership number of the show has done since January four thirty third on the cable charts point thirteen and eighteen to forty nine. Obviously, the NBA playoff did very, very well, and UH special had a big increase with females up from last week. People o were fifty, which

was the main reason for the viewership increase. The average age of an n x T viewer remains like sixty sixty two years old or whatever. And I don't think I'm gonna review all of n x T. I don't. Mike did it yesterday, but I later later on if I have time. I gotta make a point here, and I'm actually not even sure I can make on national radio. I'm gona try anyway. So more cold medicine before you do it. You want to make it entertaining. Oh dude,

I'm already in the mood. I already had one guy banned from the chat for just to look the way you started this show. Oh Am, I gonna be here. He probably won't be here. Who cares? I'll remember that, your bastard. I didn't mean who cares, like you're not gonna be here. I'm like, who cares about anything? Right now? Just get the show done. A W suffered a power failure during Dark Elevation on Wednesday. Two matches scheduled for the show were unable to be filmed. The problem it

was not the Dynamite main event. During a match between Cheeseburger and Max Castor continued as Nyla rose Face sky Blue an entrance the announcing place, all of a sudden, everything went dark. They did the match Max Castor one these it's okay to give you spoilers everybody, because you're never gonna see the match. It's not gonna air. It wasn't taped, so Max cast one and they had another match and they announced the matches only for you fans in the arena. It will never air. So I think

I'm all right. Given the spoilers for those two am I not? And then the power came back on, so you know things happen? Did Max castor cut a blue promo? Did he take that opportunity to go all Luther Campbell and in curse somebody out? I don't know, I don't know. We'll never know, We'll never know. And then New Japan Is announced to change of plans for this Sunday's episode of Strong. So Strong was gonna be a two hour show. Two hours. You guys realized there's a w w E

pay per view this weekend. You probably don't realize that because it's like the worst bill do a pay per view a long time, But there's a w w E pay per view this weekend, a UFC pay per view, and Stardom was last night, which I have to watch for the filthy show and I don't need two hours

of Strong. I'm sorry, and thankfully it's not anymore. They split into two shows, so this Saturday it's Tom Lawler Jr. Cradles and Royce, Isaac's versus Fred Ross for Elex Coglan, the d k C, Jonah versus Blake Christian and Hikolo and Chris bab versus Bateman and Barrett Brown. And then next week we've got j White versus Hikkoleo, Fred Rosser versus Royce, Isaac's and Jarrell Nelson handicap match, and Rocky Romero, Adrian Quest and Elexicoglan faced JR. Crados, Black Tiger and

Danny Limelight. Was there a philosophy as to why this thing was going to be two hours because of the Philly in d C shows? I mean, no clue. Well, I've actually they made the right decision, to be honest, So yeah, they did make the right decision. So that's the news everybody. I guess those forbidden door tickets went on sale and blasted away, so that's nice. And guys, what do you want enemy? What do you want here? Oh? My, you know what I'm gonna make. I'm gonna I'm to do.

I know everyone's like furious about this, but just bros, chill out. I'll do I'll do a w and have a full segment. But since we got a few extra minutes here, okay, I gotta make mention as something from from n X T Okay, it's not even a segment, so just listen, bros. Okay, I realized that, you know, you know, it's in charge of n x T right now is Shawn Michael's. But I can't blame him because I don't think that's coming from him. But you know, he's a nice Christian man. Probably isn't going a lot

of porn sites. Right in that theory, I should probably ask Craig. But so I'm watching this n x T show, you might see another Sean Michaels. And they're doing this segment with J. C. Jane and G. G. Dolan and they're at the beach and they're practically they got no clothes on, and they're doing this segment and they're running

around and you know, spilling out everywhere. And we just had that interview with Ember Moon where they were told to dress more like Mandy Rose and Mandy Roses is the champion and they're always out there posing and she's always in her her outfits and everything like that. And uh, bro, there's no young people that watch this show. There aren't any the average this show is. The viewership is so old. Okay, so hold on now, you know it's like I was, I was actually you know what I was gonna do?

Is I was gonna have you I'm not gonna do this because it's just like I can't bring myself to do it. I was gonna have you name a type, and then I was gonna see how quickly I could find that type nude on the internet. Okay, it would take me. You could name brunette, uh whatever. Okay, it takes it take me. And it's not just me, it's anyone listening to this right now. It's gonna take you two seconds to find an example of someone that looks like this nude probably doing a lot more than just

being nude on the internet. Okay, bros, it's okay. Your idea to get young viewers is to put women in bikinis on television. Brother, guys, I'm I can't believe it. It's not gonna work. Bro. If anybody wants to see good looking women or men for that matter, wearing a lot less than anyone's wearing on n x T, it's two seconds on the internet. Okay, this ain't gonna work. Now, let's move away from pulkratude. You guys know yesterday was

it was? It was May four? Okay, some of you nerds probably have heard May the fourth be with you at Star Worst Day. Okay. Now, I'm one of those nerds now because my daughter loves Star Wars. All right, So my daughter's like totally in all this Star Wars stuff, but I don't want to. I don't want to watch in the movie where some guys getting his hand chopped off with a lightsaber. So I try to find everything I can that a kid could watch, all right. So one of the things I found the other day, no,

so just let's just bear with me. One of the things I found the other day was a documentary about the making of Star Wars. Okay, and they're interviewing George Lucas, who was the guy that created Star Wars. And he's talking about film studios in the in the late sixties and the early seventies. Now, everything was changing, okay, and all the old people. Does this sound familiar? All the

old people were retiring, okay from these studios. These studios were being sold, you know, George Lucas says, he goes, they discovered that what young people wanted was movies made by other young people. Huh, So you're telling me, you're telling me what young people wanted was movies made by other young people. And meanwhile, we've got you know, n x T is just one example, but we've also got w w E, which I know everybody thinks nobody but

children watches. There ain't no children watching w w E. It's also all old people, and yeah, a w there's a lot of older people as well, but I mean at least we're talking, you know, late forties, not sixties. And what we've got here is wrestling booked by old people. TV shows created by old people. N x T old people running this show, and all they can come up with to get young people is not young people booking the show. Oh let's just put random women in bikinis.

That'll work. Well, it's not. It's time for a change. I think everybody knows what it is. Back in a moment of Server Live, I got one last thing to say that I'm moving on, So don't jump in, Michae. Let's just move on a w I am not anti old, Okay. If I had a billion dollars and I started a wrestling company, I'd hire Seawan Michael's maybe before anybody else. And you know what, I'd hire Vince two. I wouldn't have book but I had asked him like, what do you think about this or that? I mean, the guy

has been doing this for a million years. But my point is if you want to attract a young viewer, then the person writing the shows in their late seventies probably it's gonna have a hard time, all right, A W dynamite. The show was a mix of highs and lows. Brother Oh and Hard Bobby Fish or own Herd Foundation Cup qualifier. Jeff Hardy and Bobby Fish was a It was a weird match. Jeff Hardy looks like he is in tons of pain and he is slow, but the fans love this dude, and like every time he did

one of his high spots he went crazy. Every time he teased anything, they went crazy. He had this the cent on. They went crazy and he won and then the young bucks came out and they they had a moment with the hard Ease and then they moved on and check on Bobby Fish. And from watching Jeff move around, I mean, if we're gonna do this match and a W, let's do it quick. So I think that match is coming here pretty soon. We had a fabulous William Regal

video package. This was so awesome training This poor bloke Wheeler Utah, and then Bryan Daniels and John Moxley Wheeler. You to beat the Butcher of the Blade and a Hellico. I don't care what happened during Picture and picture, Okay on television, they ruined these guys. They smashed him, they pummeled them, they bloke them all up, and then they did the triple submission and uh Danielson triangled as a

regal calls him Angelico and got the wind. So they're getting the big push here and we gotta talk about rankings later. Okay, don't let me forget Mike. We had Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs meeting with Jungle Boy luch Source Christian Cage, and Jungle Boy said, listen, you guys want to take title match. We've been thinking about it and we will give it to you, but on the condition that I get a shot at Ricky Starks ft double your title next week. So that's on. Word Low

came out. Fans are absolutely so into this word Low bloke. He comes out, he gets in the ring, and yes, they bring out w Morrissey, the former Big Cast and he's seven ft tall as promised, and you can't teach that, and he gets in the ring and he's pummeling Old Wardlow, and fans are are channing for Wardlow. They're actually chanting, Uh, we want Enzo. No, we don't. And Big Casts also does not win Enzo. He's screaming these fans and just shut up about this little nerd and uh. Finally Warlow

makes a comeback. Big Moon Salt Power bombs him once and pins him, and then they send out I'm not joking here, twenty security guys sit the ring. Wardlow kills every single one of them, and he tells him Jeff, he's not gonna quit till he gets his match, and and MJF says, all right, fine, I will give you the match, but only under certain conditions. And I'm not giving you geeks in this town the conditions. You will aft to tune in next week in Long Island. We'll

do a contract signing. I laughed, and I'll give you the conditions there. His gimmick is that he's ready to go to w W E. So all of this is heat. We had a segment sending up rampage with the women, which I'll leve old font le Roy. God, I I could use font lor for this whole show here today. Hangman page to the promo and hangman page. I don't know if he's fully turning heel, because he's done a few kind of sort of helish things over the last couple of months, but this was like he's all in

for this feud with Punk. He's not going to be doing these Masterbatry Brent Hart tribute matches. He's not gonna go in there and shake this guy's hand, and he's not gonna talk about how excited he is to be. He's gonna go in there. He's gonna kill this guy. And he goes, you, if you've got your C on Punk shirt by the time this match is over, you're gonna be burning that thing. And he says Punk's not here tonight. He's out making some movie. He's he's playing

the UM. I guess Roman rains Rule actually when brock Lezard was never there. And he says Punk's gonna get the fight of his life at the Rock. Basically, yeah, he's playing John Cene into the Rock here, except I think John c was supposed to be a baby factually. You know what, see him punk in the Rock? Wasn't that? See him punk? It was Yeah, Jericho and Santana at a match, and uh, dude, they got to be building

towards this war games, because my god, there's interference. It was like a bullet club match early and it was a bullet club match late. Everybody is getting involved, The appreciation society is out there and uh, there's actually the only person out there for Santana's ortiz because Eddie Kingsons got his eyeball burned off, and so uh ends up with distraction there. At the end, Jericho hits a low blow Judas effect gets to win. They beat both guys down. Afterwards,

fans are waiting for Eddie, but there's no Eddie. He'll be back, though, does he a cartoon? He burned it off, He didn't burn it out, he didn't burn the eye. He just burned it right off his face. I don't know what he did saying that. I don't have an update on his eyeball condition we had. Oh my god, this is where the show started to fall off. Varsity Blonde come out and poor Brian Pillman cuts a promo and nobody cares, and you know the you know the problem.

You know what, I'm gonna just finish the report. I'll talk more about this in a while, but anyway, outcome the House of Black and they attack Pillman and Garrison and uh, you know, they're expecting Julia Hart to turn and hit him with a chair, but she doesn't, and so they intimidate her and they make her cry and they rip off her I patch and I'm waiting, I'm waiting,

and nothing comes of it. And then they actually go to a backstage segment with Jake Cargill and they come back and she's still in the ring and it's a Ray Phoenix versus Dante Martin match. So like the fact that she was still in the ring after the break and she's covering her eyes so we don't see what's what.

You know, she's clearly got the eye gimmick that um Maliki has, but they're they're teasing this forever, but she's still out there, and so I thought, okay, well, you know she's gonna blow that missed Ray Phoenix cost him to match, but no, she vanished and we never saw

her again. And so Ray Phoenix and Dante Martin. It's like, I'll talk about this match later too, but like, if you want to see the most incredible moves you ever saw if I got the match for you, But like, as a match, it wasn't even a match at all. It was like, hey, you do a crazy move, and then I'll do a crazy move, and then you do one and the crowd's going crazy. So like, I have a lot to say about this. But anyway, Ray Phoenix one, and so he moves on in the tournament. So here

are the brackets for the tournament. The tournament matches are, Yeah, it was Cercy so late, Ray Phoenix versus Kylo O'Reilly, Jeff Hardy versus Darby Allen, Adam Cole versus Dax Hartwood, and Samoa Joe versus the Joker. Who could the Joker be? Hm, I know, I think it is. I don't think it's Kitty Omega, but we'll get into that. Then we had a thunder Rosa promo. My god, so it wasn't even so much of the promo, but like, how much time

did they devote to this? She's out there talking forever and nobody cares and then she calls out Serena Deep, and Serena Deep comes out and she starts talking forever and nobody cares. I didn't think it was really bad. It certainly would have been a lot better shorter, and it would have been a lot better off, be well cared. But they set up the match at double or nothing, and uh, you know, I'm watching the clock and it's like, dude, we got a unification match still to come, and these

two are still talking. And they talked and they talked and they talked, and I thought, you know, we're running out of time. Maybe they're not going to plug the matches for next week, but they did, and uh, and you know, Excalibur is no longer going three thousand miles an hour. So they they take us through the Rampage line up, and they take us through the Dynamite line up, and they, you know, they just took their time, and

I'm like, dude, we are running low here. And then they go backstage for John Silver, Johnny Hungy does a promo and there taking their time. So by the time Mercedes and Diana got in the ring, they have nine minutes of TV time left. Nine and the bell rings, and uh, the first thing Diana does, she backs off, She listens to the crowd, and then they slowly begin to circle each other, like what is happening? And then the answers are like, we're gonna stay here as long

as it takes. And I'm thinking, do they actually really get an overrun for one, because they always say that, but they never actually go past the top of the hour. And bro, they are they're working a match like they're gonna go twenty and I'm looking at my watchers, like, bro, there's there's no time left. They go to commercial, they come back, there's six minutes left, and uh, and you know the match, like Diana is a really good worker and and but then nobody cared about this match at

all and uh. And finally the literally the last second, with moments left, Uh, Mercedes Martinez curb stomps her and she goes for the Dragon Sleeper. At least everybody knew the Dragon Sleeper because they actually woke up for there, like ah. And then Diana taps and Mercedes gets the belt. He holds him up there off the air. So I understand that like two belts on the line, they wanted to make this a big main event. They wanted to give respect to the titles. Fans did not see it

that way at all. So last forty five minutes of this show yikes. I expected to U die a death in the quarters, but I've been wrong before about that. I'm talking more about specific segments after the break ups were like back in the show, right, Alberre is here, Rustling Observer Live, make some REVIEVI also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Let's get this full array thing over to day. Give me a crap today, you old Rich Baker, Jimmy at

Wow speaking the Deutsche absolutely idiot. I wanted Dutch, you moron, Deutsch German. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about another more on. You're all idiots. Try this again, Jiminy Christmas, Dr Britt Baker, D M D and Jamie Hayter versus Tony Storm and Ruby Soho Canosa Ka Takashita versus j Lethal Hook versus J. D. Drake Owen Heart Foundation Cup qualifier, Riho versus Yukasa Kazaki. I hope you feel better soon, Daddy. Don't even start that. What was I gonna talk about

on this show? I can talk about something on this show. What did I want to get into? You had a bunch of things that you decided to put off until this third segment. I did. I'm a professional and I got the timing perfect for the entire Yeah, I did. I literally ended the review right as the music hid because I were feeling you didn't have a time to write. No, I actually did. I had n't have a time perfectly, thank you? All right? I actually did you want me to rewind the show with Tom? Did I not have

that time perfectly? With the music? You? Will? You kissing at you? I mean, it's not like it didn't happen and everyone heard it. I think I'm gonna take the day off tomorrow. I'm feeling ill right now having to do this show with you. I'm starting to catch the vapors through the internet here from you, vapors, whatever it is you got. All right, So this Julia Hart thing, guys, I don't know what's going on here. Well, I mean

I know what's going on here. Here's the thing. They take their time, okay, and they're clearly taking their time with this one here. But this segment, I mean, it starts out with Brian Pillman doing a promo and absolutely nobody cares about this guy's promo. And you know, part of the problem is, which actually brings me back to n x T two point Oh. He's not over and the way people want him to. This spooky stuff sucks. Okay,

it sucks. Do you guys remember Bray whyat? I know you know one guy who was all man, he was like whitt was the most over guy. Bro, he was not the most over guy in the company. I don't care if he sold some shirts. Bro. If this guy was the most over guy in the biggest merchandise seller and the biggest all of that, you don't fire that guy. Okay, they took him off TV and they fired him all right? Then who was the female fiend Alexa Bliss? Where's she? Oh?

She's nowhere to be seen. Then we got, uh, what's his face on n x T Joe Gazy? He's the new spooky guy, you guys seeing the quarter hours for Joe Gacy stuff, bro collapsing and nobody cared about Joe Gacy and Braun Break Run Wednesday. I don't care about some of you that like this. This The greater audience does not care about this spooky stuff. And Bro, when poor Brian Pillman has to go out there and he has to do the line about how ah, how do you describe he was like they her life force has

been what did he say about Julia Hart anybody? He said something about how you know, something spooky had happened to her and it had sucked out her life force or something. She's standing there all sullen and like nobody cares about the spooky. Okay. So he's doing this promo and nobody cares. And then he gets all fired up, and I thought when he got fired up, he actually did a decent prom When he got off, he's all, I'm turned my life around, and let's let's do this.

So he calls out the House of Black. So how's the Black come out? And they get in the ring? Okay, And they're in the ring and Brian Pillman Jr. And Griff Garrison are there, and Pillman's got his fists up and he's just challenged them to a fight. So he challenged them. They show up and he just stands there and finally that's the Blacks like, all right, fine, and they beat the heck out of this guy and his buddy, and I'm like, God, this poor guy looks like such

a geek right now. And they pummel him and they pummel him and they beat him down, and then you know, I think you know, all the fans are expecting that Julia Hart's gonna turn, but she's still with Pilman and Garrison, so it's not even like, you know, I was waiting when they're standing there with their fists up. I was expecting her to do the double low blow or something and that would be the big turn. But she didn't. And so then now it's not even like it's gonna

be a surprise. The house, the black just goes up to and they give her a chair, So she gets the chair and she's standing over. She raises the chair over her head and then she puts it down own.

Then Malik I Blacky like goes over and he starts yelling at her, and she started and I'm thinking back to all these horrible angles they did with women in w w E back in the day, were like they humiliate the women and Tristrad is barking like a dog and and three minute warning or whatever, and they're just they're just she's crying and they're intimidating her and she's ah, and no one's saving her. And then Malik I rips the thing up and now she just covers her face

and I'm like, this is very uncomfortable. What's the point And I'm waiting and I'm waiting, and then it's just like, well, we're gonna go to the back for an interview with Jake Cargill. I'm like, okay. And then when they came back, she's she's still there, she's still covering her eye, and so I'm thinking something's gonna happen, and nothing happens. This was man talk about a swing and a miss. I mean, this was like a swing and a miss. It was

a horrible segment. It was I mean, is uncomfortable. It was horrible. You know I wasn't. It's gone on for six months, well yeah, but for almost two years, and with because they were far more over than Brian Pillman and Griff Garrison are, they're not even close to being over. You debut the House of Black, you set it up, you get you get Brodie King in there, you get Buddy Matthews in there, and it's looking like it's gonna be fine. And then they're off TV for god knows

how long. They're well they're doing Dark or they're on Elevation, and it looks like we're gonna get this storyline. It seems like it's coming to a head, and then it just disappears. How do you expect anybody to want to care about this? It has not been consistently in anybody's wheelhouse as a viewer. It came, it went the last time everybody was in the ring together. I don't think anybody really cared. They didn't get revenge, they didn't avenge

of the girl. She just ended up sitting there moping on the steps where she could have just remained for this entire time. The whole angle has sucked, the whole story has sucked. And you bring it and you pull it back, and you bring it and you pull it back. Either crapper get off the pot, as the old saying goes with this. Either have a coherent storyline from multiple weeks that's on TV. You see it to a conclusion,

you try to get people involved. If it's not working, then cut it short, or you move it and you fix it, or you do whatever you need to do. They did none of that here. It just disappeared when it really wasn't working in the first place, and then bring it back. And it's like we're supposed to expect anybody to care. Brian Pillman is not electric on the microphone. Griff Garrison's invisible on the microphone. They're invisible as a team on the main roster. Julia Hart in their situation

hasn't been figured out. And then you have the House of Black that's sitting there with all of this talent. People can tolerate a little bit of spooky out of the House of Black. If they're getting these guys and feuds that actually fit the level that they're at, which they're absolutely not getting. The whole thing has blown and to put it on the House of Black all you can't really do that. And about the spooky, because it's

really not. The spooky in this place is how they told the story they have, they told the whole story,

and how they presented these people. It absolutely is. Well, listen, it is partly the spooky because every week, every week, not every week, but on most weeks, Malachi Black does the spooky promo backstage and they're in the shadows and you don't know what they're talking about, and it's whatever, and bro I never I'm sure listen, but allion out of a million viewers, I'm sure some people love the Malachi Black promos, but all of the feedback that I

get is always I don't know what he's talking about. I don't care. I just want them to wrestle. Okay, am I wrong? That's what everybody says about it. Can we just have to let them have matches? Nobody cares about the spooky promos. I'm not wrong about this. Now, somebody did ask all right, it was It was not even asked. I didn't say that. What I said was they can handle a little spooky as long as it's being balanced out by the other stuff people want to

see out of these guys. I don't even think we need any spooky, but fine, you can if you want a little spooky, that's fine. But someone was like, trust the process. Listen the wordlod thing that I brought up. The process worked, okay, And you know what they do, long slow builds for a lot of those storylines. And I actually believe, Okay, I do believe, but you gotta build it. Well, hold on, there's well they are building it.

But this is my point. I do believe. I do believe when they pulled the trigger on Julie Hard, the place is gonna go nuts. Okay, I do believe that's gonna happen, but I have seen it does not always work. The what the one example will give, which is not even a w But years ago when they had um, uh, what's his name, uh, Ricardo Rodriguez. Uh, yeah, was He's got eighty five different names, Ricardo Ricardo. No, but who was he managing? This guy's name? Alberto, Alberto del Rio.

It was Alberto del Rio at the time, not El patron whatever. Anyway, the point is so Alberto was a heel, okay, and uh they always wanted him. They wanted another great Hispanic baby face. Okay, but you know they had their rules.

He can't be like Mystico, the only luten or to ever win wrestaurant in the year, like God forbid, because he's short and he speaks the actual language of the you anyway, so they got his Alberto bloke and he's tall, and he's handsome and he speaks English right up their wheelhouse. But of course he has to be a heel, because the only way they know how to get anybody overs, you're a heel for a long time and then eventually,

you know, will turn your baby face. So if you guys remember his baby face turned, it was like he was a heel, and then they teased it and the fans got excited. Then they made him a heal again, and then they teased it and the fans got excited, and they went back again. And by the time they turned this guy baby face, nobody cared it didn't work because the presumption was, ah, God, we've seen it a million times. You can go too long, you can drag it out to the point where people don't care anymore,

and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. So there is no trust in the process. There is no let it play out. Yeah, we should let the Julia Heard thing play out because maybe it's gonna work. But bro, last night was was to me one time, way too many. It should have happened yesterday. Now I'm over it, Am I the only one? Do you remember how they decided

to get the Alberto dol Rio over as well? No, the Christmas episode where he ran over nic Folio Santa, That's right, that was he jumped start the next week he was a fully vested baby face. You know, somebody else made a good comment to that. I didn't think about. But I was gonna talk about Ray Phoenix and Donte Martin. Well, luckily there's a Brian and Vinde show tonight. But they were pointing out that they made a really big deal

on the show about the Britt Baker match. They're doing the tag match on on Rampage, and they made this big deal about how it will be the first ever women's match to open Rampage, which actually is a big deal because you know, at the time that Rampage airs, the opening segment is always the highest rating thing in the show. It's like the old Saturday Night's main events.

The main event kind of goes first because people watch the main event and they fall asleep, go to bed, whatever, and so it's like a big deal that this women's matches going on first. But then somebody pointed out bro the show airs a two thirty in the afternoon on the West Coast, they would be way better off going last. But too late. Back in a moment Observer Life, back in the show, Bran Elva is here Wrestling Observer Live.

Mike simple vide also Wrestling Observer dot com it Brandon Brandon Thurston put the Dynamite readings out eight hundred and thirty three thousand, h and a point three too. You know, so I have you overgoing my Twitter and post these numbers like there it's just madness and much idiots being idiots. But every now and then, like someone who I believe is like totally sincere, we'll just write this missive it'll

be like, God, I'm so depressed. I just love wrestling, and it's so sad to see that it might actually be heading towards its demise, like they're they're totally sincere, and I'm like, bro, it's the NBA, Like I just don't get how you can be on Twitter and not have any idea what's going on with these you know what?

You know what rampage everybody, Rampage is gonna do. Like if it breaks three hundred, if it breaks like into the four hundreds, like they should throw a party, it's probably gonna be in the three d. It's gonna do a horrible, horrible number. Okay, ros doing poorly SmackDown did it's all time lowest demo on Fox. This show got killed. Only old people are watching, and I mean, dude, it's

gonna happen until the the NBA playoffs are over. Being depressed, but two things also can be true, because there is, as we mentioned, a w being in the forties. Obviously they have a lot younger fan base to kind of go off of. But it is important no matter who you are, no matter what wrestling that you like, you know, wrestling continue to expand, get bigger. I mean again, there are too many people that are still left over from the whole Cogan era of being fans like that. Does

absolutely need to get younger. Wrestling across the board needs to find a way to reach out and to grow it does. That's actually Drull time everybody. I'm going back to bed and we'll talk to you next time. Wrestling Observer Live. You've been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.