Dynamite Storylines/Kota Ibushi Update

Last night, a W Dynamite and a lot of Angles shot a lot of storylines leading for their pay per view coming up at the end of the month, which we will be attending. I might add, we'll tell you about a W Dynamite n x T two point oh ratings from Wednesday nights we got some more all time record lows, which, of course, if you're a fan of women's professional wrestling, that's bad news because that was an all women's show. Every single match on the show featured

women and did a record low number. We've also got notes on the A W. Warner media relationship. We have got an update on Coda a bushe and uh, this is not looking good. For Coda Abushi. We'll tell you about that here today Roman Reigns. We talked a little bit about the idea that he is peering down his schedule this summer, and in fact he is perhaps not is uh, perhaps not is dramatically as we had thought, but still fairly dramatic. And uh, there's a key to

this that's more than just him being off shows. We've got n x T returning to touring, more n I L Deals, Hikaru Shida, and plenty more. So, if you're hoping for frivolity on this show, ain't gonna get it. Alison didn't sleep at all last night. Whatever illness I had, I still got in here. And my daughter didn't sleep at all last night. So it's been rough, don't you know what. I'm here and so are you. And so when we come back from the break, we're gonna get

in all of this news. Four to five zero seven, five six six back in a moment more Wrestling Observer Live. You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network, playing the show Bright Albare is here. Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simber VIVI also wrestling Observe dot Com. I try to tell you, but it was too late. I got a buzz, not the right kind of buzz either. You're exactly right.

You know what kind of buzz I need right now, A night cool buzz. This is miserable. Why did you give this to me? How did you give me your sickness that not only now won't go away, that is infecting your family again. How did this happen? I I don't know. It's not affecting them again, the issues that won't go away. Yeah, you switched to the other channel while I get going on all this stuff right here? Alright, Uh yeah, we got a lot of news to get

into here today. So I mean the first story I want to get into the kind of talked about this a W discovery thing and what does it mean? And uh, well, we don't know. But one of the major players that helped a E W expand within Warner Media is leaving the company. Deadline first reported Wednesday. Brett White's general manager of T and T, t B S and True TV, will be transitioning out of his role within the next month after fourteen years within Turner might spend himself with

that position. Following the Warner Media Discovery merger took over as GM when a W launched on TNT helped the guide subsequent expansion with the Rampage and Battle of the Belt, in addition to reviving the John Cena led wipeout on TBS. New environment within the new Warner Brothers Discovery corporate environment to be shaken up due to the fallout from the recently approved merger. So again, what does this mean? We don't know, but I can tell you some facts. This

guy's gone. He helped with the expansion of a W. That doesn't mean a W is being canceled, but obviously, obviously objectively factually, it certainly would have been better if he had been promoted instead of fired. Now, you guys remember the A O L. Time Warner merger and ultimately the death of w CW and all of the people that were booking and et cetera with WCW. They have laid all the blame on the A O L. Time

Warner merger because they can't blame themselves. I mean, they could, but they don't, and so it's all the fault of the merger. Well, What happened was they booked the company into oblivion and it was bleeding millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars of sixty five million dollars had lost in a year. Okay, so yeah, if you if you do a merger and you hire a guy who doesn't like wrestling and the wrestling shows bleeding money,

yeah it gets canceled. Now, a few years earlier, the BCW is grossing a hundred million dollars a year, which back then that was the most lucrative wrestling company in history of the planet Earth. And given we don't know if there's alien life and the history of this universe, no company had ever been more lucrative than World Championship. I was talking w WF in the eighties with Hogan nothing. Ever,

they were number one in history. Now, if there had been a merger then I mean, there's no guarantee that they would have been canceled because they would have been making money. So Rampage and Dynamite are doing very very well given the time slot, what they're what is being paid for the programming, etcetera. So there may very well be people within a Well or UH Warner Media here that don't like wrestling, but it's a business, and if the wrestling is doing well, it doesn't matter if they

don't like wrestling or not. If they're here to do business, then a w is gonna be fine. They may even get a better deal. But that's not a guarantee. Not a guarantee they'll get the same money. None of this is a guarantee. So we'll see what happens. But that is the that is the latest shake up with this merger here. What it is a guarantee in life, Brian, nothing that I'm sick that's guaranteed. Actually it is Koda bush So. I talked about Coda Bushy. He's gonna take over.

When it comes time for a w to make a move, he's gonna make his bid. So there's a lot of stuff out there about Koda Bushi. You know what I am? What's that? I'm a man of facts, Okay, So I'm only gonna tell you what I'm I'm pretty confident is is going on here. He's on Twitter. That is the fact. This guy probably needs to get off Twitter here. So there's been a lot of translations of tweets and I'm not gonna go into any of those because they're just

they're all over the place, all right. But I do know this, as I meant it a couple of days ago. He doesn't like them attempting to force him to come back and work hurt okay, And part of the story that I don't think it's been talked about by anybody is do you remember the G One last year? Bro, This guy was the walking wounded. He was hurting in that g One and uh, and didn't matter. They wanted

him to work the g One. And Uh, this issue that he's had, I mean, I don't know how far it dates back, but it dates back at least to the G One and maybe further back. So he was just like he was in bad shape during the g One, and uh, there was there was a lot of there were issues between the two sides because of that. They wanted him in the g One and uh he was hurting, but he did the g One because that's what they wanted, and uh, you know, he then went on and uh

injured his shoulder. And I think that, you know, there's probably a lot of blame in his brain for that one. Like, Bro, I didn't even want to work this g One you guys made me work this g one. You made me do all this one I don't want to. And then I got hurt, and then he gets hurt, and uh, you know, I think it was a separated shoulder. And you know, I can talk quite a bit about separated

shoulders because I separated both of mind wrestling. And when he talked about bench pressing, I never bench pressed as much as a bush. He did, okay, but uh, for a while there, I could bench a lot. I could bench to eighty and I separated my shoulder and I could not bench that bar for a long time. And uh, he actually need a tweet literally saying the exact same thing I used to bench. I think he said like three pounds or something like that. Now I'm I'm benching like, uh,

you know, a little bit more than the bar. He has no strength. His shoulder is nowhere near recovered. That's what happens when you separate your shoulder. It's serious. And they've been trying to get him come back. He doesn't want to come back. And I think, I don't know, but these puzzle pieces together. This dude's already angry that he got hurt working a match. When he didn't want to work a match, and then as he's recovering and

not recovered, they're trying to get him back again. So that's one of the that's one of that's that's perhaps the crux of the issue. And then this guy's just gotten nuts on Twitter, okay, and uh so he was talking about this uh Cokuchie guy that he claims is uh the booker, and uh, you know, everyone's been under the oppression that Ghetto is the booker. And I don't know, I don't know exactly what's going on. I'm not gonna lie. Okay, Dave says that Ghetto is still the booker and as

of just not that long ago. I mean, if Ghetto wasn't the booker, then the wrestlers didn't know about it, because I had wrestlers talking to me about how Ghetto was the booker. Now I talked to somebody in Japan who told me that when a bushi actually said, is

Cokuchi is a booker, not the booker. And so I don't know what that means if he's in charge of this or that or whatever, but it appears that this Cookuchie is doing something and it wasn't supposed to come out, and so Ibushi coming out with this, and then you know a bunch of other stuff that that he has said on on Twitter. Uh, you know, I don't. I don't. I'm not over there. People over there no way more

than me about the culture. But I was told by somebody who is there all the time, very connected, that this isn't like America, where you know, Cody goes on TV, he says a bunch of stuff about w W and he buries hbody ridicules him. But then his contract comes up and they're like, bro, we want this guy and they hire him. Okay, that's not Japan. The exact wording I was told was he's burned his bridges, as in

not just like New Japan. And I find it hard to believe that nobody would want to hire Code of Bushi. But the culture of Japan is you don't do stuff like this. This is a no no, you do not reveal things. And he did, and so there's kind of this feeling that you know, he may be done. Do I believe the Code of Bushi is never wrestling again. I find that hard to believe. But suffice to say, this is a this is not good at this point

for Coda Bushy. So anyway, we'll getting Mike Stots and talk more about the news after the break Observer Live back in the show, Bright now Bre is here, Wrestling Observer Alive, Mike Sumburvivie also have Wrestling Serve the company. I would just like to make it a budget clear since a lot of people have asked on the on the chat and he's on the show all the time. I've heard zero zilch from Rocky Romero, nothing and I would bet if I asked him he would have no

idea what's going on. But and this is someone over in Japan who is very well connected, who quite frankly, I don't think anybody listened to this way have any idea who this is. So it's not just some random wrestler talking about what they've heard. But anyway, and actually it's from uh two different people in fact, not just one. So anything you want to add or should we just

move on here? The Havam like Big Audio Nightmare, which is available for subscribers at Wrestling Observer dot com, talk a lot about this situation up until the point today. Because we recorded the show after Observer Alive yesterday, So we talked a lot about, uh, the entire situation with him, what he may have been intending to do, who Coochie is and in a little bit of that sort of stuff. Um.

At this point though that doesn't really matter. He what the bottom line is is he is outright trying to get fired and he can now there are maybe things that are being translated that are being alleged that he may be saying that you know, would put a negative light on him wrestling anywhere in Japan, and he is being very outspoken. Now. He is a man with options. One of those big options is coming to the United

States and going internationally and making money. Where Now that becomes an issue is the a W relationship with New Japan, the relationship with anybody who is that dealings with a Bushe that's going to be very very interesting because his best friend, you know, on that don't know these guys personally, but one of his best friends in the whole wide world, Kenny Omega, is the executive vice president with a W. For business reasons that have nothing to do with Japan,

that have no bearing on AW whatsoever. They can say, we would like to bring in Coda, a Boushi and it would make sense, except how would New Japan feel about that? And there's where that whole can of worms gets really, really nasty, and where it now affects American wrestling fans were it affects this show mostly we'll talk about it in the big Audio nightmare when it comes to Japan, But when it comes to this show, it's now going to be the relationship between Uchapan and a

W and Kota Obushi. And if he does leave, then what happens? They've given up dating Roman Rains last night. Rains is off the hell and his Cell pay per view will be wrestling at other pay per views this summer, and he will be doing some TV to be that's nice, nice to see. He'll be doing some angles to build up those matches. But yes, he's gonna be working far fewer dates and uh he's essentially gonna be doing the same number of dates that Lessner was doing when Lesnar

was around, which was not very many dates. And uh me, congratulations on the deal, bro, I mean, it's all nice enough. I have nothing against Roman Reigns. Good for the guy, but Bro, so you guys did a unification match and you unified the two main titles into one title, and now the guy is never gonna be around. Even when Lessner was never around, you had the other champion. So essentially we've iced, We've iced the w w E and Universal championships, and now we rely on the US title.

Who cares anyone know who the U S Champion is and we rely on the inter Continal championship. Anybody know who the inter Continal champion is? And yes it's actually Ricky Rickyche In theory, those are your top champions in w w E. As they attempt to sell tickets, Ricky Shane Page as the Intercontinental champion right now. They don't care about their belts. There props as part of the game. As long as Roman or Brock has got one or maybe Drew, it doesn't really matter. Well hold on his second.

They do care about their belts because they had to have not They had to have a raw and a SmackDown World Champion. They had to have a raw and a SmackDown second. Why did they not unify these belts a long time ago? Because they felt, well, if we go on the road, we've got to have these championship matches. If we have a raw show and a SmackDown touring show.

We have to have championship matches. They believe it was championship matches, but it was a weak argument from them because their championships, if you look at it on paper, didn't really mean anything. They would have the belt on guys sometimes, I mean your gender Mahal examples guys like that that like this isn't gonna benefit you going out on the road, that this person's you're champion of the fact that you have two belts. What would you rather see some geek with this belt or see Roman Reigns

or brock Lessners. So it was a weak argument to begin with. I just at this point with how they run their business and the Muppet Show that they like to create this hybrid sports entertainment universe that that you know, saturates their fan base and makes them happy. I mean, let them do what they want. That's how they're gonna do it. That's how they feel about it. Fine, they don't need multiple belts, they don't need to try to

fake push the US or i CE titles. I mean, we've gone through that how many times and you know where that always leads. So you know, it's nice to Hap. Well, here's the reality, Mike. You're not a w w E fan, You're not stand up for w w E. So I'm sure that yes, in in if you look at if you look at w w E the way you look at every other promotion, then you're right. But you this is the thing that like you, I had the big argument. I've had the argument from me, you're gonna try to

tie ww together with a wrestling promotion. I've I've had this argument with people for like a month now about Cody and the usage of Cody, and I'm still hearing it. How badly they're using Cody. Cody's lost, he couldn't beat Theory and you know he wonld On, hold on, bro, if you go to the thread for any of our shows over and over and over again, Cody is not being used. Well, they've screwed up Cody. Blah blah blah,

and listen. This is a prime example of if you want to put on your new Japan glasses and watch w w E. If you want to put your a W glasses on and watch w w if you want to put your mid South glasses on and watch w Yeah, they haven't done a good job with Cody or anybody. But if you put your w w E glasses on and you'll go, oh, why don't we have to do you know, great w w on a cur Yeah, of course we do. Of course we have to grade w w E in a curve. And the fact of the

matter is the way that w w E books. They are doing a better job with Cody than anyone in the entire company outside of Roman Reigns, anybody. So yes, you have to grade on a and yes, if you look at it in a traditional manner, these belts are meaningless. These belts are useless. However, stand up for w w E. You deserve it. You still got it. Hey, everyone stand up and sing my song. I'm a heel. They do it. Okay, this audience, this audience, these belts means something. Why I

don't know, but they performers. They're hard working. They deserve their belts to fens. They get into this stuff. I don't know why, but they knew. So the fact that we don't have a world champion, that it's gonna be working out shows, going to live events. It's ridiculous. You must have a champion, but they don't. You worked real hard to get around to get to that, and you brought Cody into it, and that was you have degrade on a curve. You have to look at w W

either way. They're fans look at w W E, not how their non fans look at it. I don't know even what you were arguing there, like that these belts mean something to their fans. They're not meaningless Brian, but their fans Also if you said, here's this big story with these two people. Guess what. Romans not gonna be here, but Brock's going to be back for X show at this place and he's going to be facing this person with no title on the line. Would they care. They

wouldn't care. They don't care her. They wouldn't care if Brock Lesser showed up at an out show. The fact that there's no title, they wouldn't care. TV and not having a championship. You're acting as if fans care about the U S or I C titles. They care about these titles. No, they don't, because the company that that that they love so much that they stand up for, they're just props in the game. So they just had a pay per view where they initially teased we're gonna

whoever wins, they're gonna get all the belts. And then that quietly Gett went away and there were no titles on the line, and did anybody care. No, their fans didn't care at all. So the fact that they're not going to have a belt, who cares? It doesn't matter. This isn't a W now a W one on tour. And there were no Hangman page title defenses that would mean something like w W doing it. It doesn't mean a damn thing at all. So I didn't get that now and hold on, no, because you brought this guy up.

I don't know, and I guess I'm not paying attention in the same circles that Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes has been a failure or has been used incorrectly or doesn't hit in the same way that what I don't know, I haven't I haven't paid it. I haven't paid attention, I guess to the stupidest people in the dumbest, most ignorant takes. You've got to be kidding me. Take he

couldn't beat Austin theory. So they're using Cody Rhodes incorrectly. Yes, Yes, where have you been dude, where have you been obviously with rational saying smart people. Well, listen when we when we start running house shows this summer and there's no championships, no no Roman Reigns championship match or anything like that on the house shows or Brock and we will track the attendance and we will see how it does with nothing. I realized that they sell tickets on the brand. But like,

these titles actually do mean something to this audience. Awesome theory may not mean much, but you know what if they did Austin theory versus Kofi Kingston and Kofe Kingston won that title, those fans would go crazy. They would chant you deserve it. They would have a big celebration in the in the out, Yes, that would happen. I'm going to your fans. Can't wait for Natalia and And and Shana as the new tag team champions on Friday. I can't back in a moment with this Dynamite report.

Observer Live in the show right now? Were is here? Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simper viv also Wrestling Observer dot com. Maybe that guy just got banned from the chests. Gonna send me an angry text message like that other guy. Oh boy, he actually was banned for what he was accusing. Anyway, Hey, we got the a W show Adam Cole Dax Harwood, very very good match fifteen minutes and uh Martha Art's

family was there. So they had like a whole bunch of Bretton Owen spots and the sharpshooter and and Dax got sent ribs first into the post, sold his ribs the entire match. Finally he goes for the sharpshooter but his ribs give out and ultimately Adam Cole puts him in the sharpshooter. Ribs are so bad he's forced to submit. This was a great match, so Adam Cole moves on to the semifinals. We had c him Punk, whose gimmick is he hates Long Island, every show in Long Island.

He's a heel. And so he comes out He's got an Islanders jersey on for some bloke that way, and the fans are furious at this guy. And he faces hometown guy John Silver and he beats him with the

buck shot. Larry, and let me tell you something, huge fan of punk, great worker, This is the best working punk there's ever been this guy ain't coordinated and bro, this was a live show and this dude's got balls because he stood on a apron and he stood there for a while and he's in his mid forties and was gonna do a flip over the ropes landed his feet into a buckshot and bro, he stood and mad and he did it and he hit the buckshot and he been this guy. And of course Pages on commentary

is furious. He comes down to the ring and they have a stare down and essentially Punk has said, I'm gonna beat you with the paper, Vin You're gonna shake my hand one way or the other, and he wants a handshake and Page just flips him off. We had Tony Niece versus Dan Housing, so this match was like thirty seconds. Uh, they go down to the ring. Everyone's behind Dan Housing. Uh, Mark Sterling interferes. Dan Housing gets

kneed in the face and pinned immediately. Okay, and uh I saw this and I was like, dude, this guy ain't ready because he shattered his leg in two in uh all around Halloween, So I guess that's why. Nope, he's actually alright. His legs great. So this was just the story they wanted to tell. And I'm very happy that his leg is great, because you know, he snapped that thing two and Sid the guy like Sid never the same again. But whatever they did, he's he's good

to go. So they're gonna be doing a tag match at the pay per view. Hook comes out, he clears the ring of the heels. Dan Housing offers a handshake and Hook shakes and the place goes nuts and Hook Housing is officially a team with the MGF Wardlow contracts

signing cut to the chase, it was great. MGF is demanded that in order for Wordlow to get the match A, he must take ten lashings with a belt next week on Dynamite, and then he has to face Sean Spears in a steel cage match with m jf Is the referee. Then they go to the pay per view, and if Wardlow loses, he can never sign a contract with a e W Wrestling, So there's there's actually only two options. Either his contract is expiring, he's going to of W E,

or he's beating him. Jaff I bet on the ladder. We had Ricky Starks versus Jungle Boy didn't have a ton of heat. But it was a good match, and uh Ricky Starks tried to use the ft W title belt, so Swerve ran down to tell the referee, but he took the referee in doing so, and uh Jungle Boy had a pin with a small package, but no ref and the ref finally gets back in the ring, starts hits ro Shambo and gets to the wind and then

Christian Lucasaurus Starks hobbs the whole crew, Keith Lee. They're all out there, so it looks like a three way for the titles coming up at the pay per view and Jungle Boys just demoralized and everyone's outside the ring except him, and then Christian gets in the ring and Jungle Boys back is turned and Christian looks at him and then gives him a hug because they ain't nothing done quick on this program. Oh look at you, it's happening, brother.

Just wait. We have the Jericho Appreciation Society victory party. So the key is that Jericho makes a comment about Eddie Kingson's wife. As soon as he says it, Moxy's music hits, Moxie comes through the crowd, Jericho makes fun of him. There's only one of you we'll kick your ass. We've got five of us in here. Then Daniel Bryan's music hits. He comes out with Wheeler You two and Regal. It's still five on four. Jericho's like, come on in here. But of course Eddie Kingston with his face all burnt,

Santana Ortiz. They're coming out of the crowd. Jericho Appreciation Society now greatly outnumbered. But in this situation, the fans are just so happy to see these guys get there's Eddie goes right after Jericho Jericho managed to escape, William Regal Pa Bam gives him the power of the punch. No breast nuxs though, and lays out Jericho is awesome. So it looks like, I don't know what it looks like. I presume a multiperson match at the pay per view, and then blood Guts would be my guess. We had

the Tony Storm Jamie Hayter match. Also not a ton of heat for this match here, but it was a good match, and uh Storm ends up cradling her and turning that immediately into the Storm zero and pinning her, And so it is Tony Storm versus the winner of Britt Baker and the Joker coming up here soon Friday. I'll have Fontleroy do that in a while here Dynamite.

Next week we have Jericho and William Regal having a face to face, Kylo Riley versus Ray Phoenix in the Own Hard Cup, Britt Baker versus The Joker in an Own Hard Cup, Somoa Joe versus a Joker. They're calling it wild Card Wednesday, Hangman Page versus Takeshta, Wardlow takes his ten lashes from m JF and Adam Cole face of the her of tonight's main event. Darby Allen versus

Jeff Hardy. We did a segment with Scorpio Sky. We'll talk you know what, I don't even want to talk about this segment because I don't want to talk about There's there's a match coming up Friday, and you know people are so I'll have Funtleroy to the spoilers. I'll talk about everything after Friday. And then we had Jeff Hardy versus Darby Allen. Darby Ellen did this, uh this interview.

He said, dude, I thought we were gonna build up to this one, and he thought, of all these video packages they could do, we should just be both guys doing totally crazy stuff dirt bikes, explosions, falling off the bridge into the river. But he said, Tony wanted tonight, so damn it, We're gonna do our best tonight, and uh they did. And to be honest, yes, and theory would be better to build this up over a long period of time, But bro, I watched this, Jeff hardy,

and just just get this done. I don't know how long this guy is gonna last. He is hurting, and they killed themselves in this match. The worst spot may have been not even the thing off the ladder under the chairs, but the very first spot is uh, Derby running as fast as humanly possible and doing his cannonball topee, and uh, listen, I've been wrestling for a long time.

The worst is what you don't expect. Like even though Darby came off that thing and Jeff went to and they both crashed from the chairs, they both knew what was coming. It may have hurt more. I haven't asked anybody, but the fact of the matter is Jeff was expecting Darby to hit him with this big cannonball. Okay, which is what happened. But what was worse is Darby just flies. It was like a Civil War cannonball. He hit this

dude so hard. And then worse, Jeff takes a bump on the cement and as he lands, Darby then falls on him again, which Jeff Hardy was not expecting that second one, and bro that looked and that was just

the beginning. And then man, they went from there and as noted, you know, Darby came off third wrung from the top of a very high ladder, threw a bridge of chairs outside and Jeff missed a sent on and hit the side of the steel steps that they were just killing each other, and finally, uh, Jeff goes for the or Darby goes for the coffin drop hits it, and now you know, it's really clever. They actually did this cradle reversal in the opener and it was a

near fall. They did the exact same spot in the main event, and it was the finish and Jeff Hardy pins Darby Allen. So Jeff Hardy moves on in the owen hard Cup. Darby Ellen's devastated, but they did shake hands in ug afterwards, and man, if you're only doing this once, I mean dude, these guys, you know, Jim ROSSI, he's talks about how these matches are career shorteners and uh and this one may have been is brutal. So there you go. That was a w dynamite. I thought

an excellent show. Excellent show top to bottom. It was Darby Allen getting revenge for this new generation that has had to lay underneath Jeff Hardy as he comes down like that sack of fertilizer from the top shelf at home depot right down upon you, saying just take this and Darby Allen that the one thing about him is a lot of times with guys who do dives, you know, the setup takes forever, all that sort of thing, and you know, even though they can be spectacular, they can

be very contrived. The one thing that you can say about Darby Allen is he is very believable. And the force and the velocity at which he flies out there to you use his body as an offensive maneuver, it's just one big offensive maneuver is as good as anybody in wrestling. I mean, it's as believable as anybody who can do that sort of thing. It's it's he's absolutely awesome. I don't know how long he's gonna last. He doesn't know how long he's gonna last. Jeff Hardy, you ain't

gonna last too much longer. So as fast as they can get to the young bucks and the hearties, I'm probably good with that. And however, those two other dudes and then wanna you know, go from there. That's on them. You did mention one thing about Wardlow. There is the

outside possibility that he could lose the MGF. He could go to Ring of Honor and almost in like a big Bubba Rodgers sort of way, when he was in the Crockett and then ended up in the Mid South u WF for a while to get seasoning, became their champion there, to get him some experience, and then to have a way to bring him back that doesn't have anything to do with him JF. Oh wait, he can't sign with a w but we'll welcome him in because

he's the r O H champion. It's a you know, in a contract could change that way or something like that. It is a long shot, but it is a possibility that a slim one, but there's a possibility they could go that way. I would just rather see him win. But if you're trying to protect m JF for a reason, you do at least have that option. Well, I guess we should get Old Fauntleroy here to uh do this rampage lineup? Is that the idea, I gotta find him, let me, let me catch him. I don't know where

he's at. Where is this guy? It's like this point in the show every week now should be like on schedule. Well, you know, he's a little idiot, talk about something. She's talking about more little idiots. You anyway at nothing And obviously you didn't plan this out very I've ever seen. I got him, alright, alright, just left, alright, faunt let's

do this. Ready, here we go, Owen Heart, cup Riho versus Ruby Soho, Jade Cargill and the Batties will speak t NT Championship, Scorpio sky See versus Frankie Kazarius, Death Triangle versus the Butcher the Blade and Mark Quinn Sean Spears versus Bear Boulder, Sean Spears versus Bear Boulder. Yep, that's the line up for this coming Friday night. And uh, we'll have more later. But there is a change in the owen Hart Women's Tournament. As Hikaru Shida is out.

The story is she has been injured. Morena come wrestling up her alive back in the show right now. Bert is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Simper v V also of Wrestling Observer dot Com, Sotttery's running out right there,

you're right very quickly here. Uh. N x T two point oh on Tuesday, the All Women's Show, the Women's Breakout Tournament, the Women's Championship, UH take Team Championship match, the Big Car or Not CARSA still know how curs history, The Big Natalia Match, whole nine yards, all women every match point one oh eighteen forty nine three thousand viewers. It was the least watched show ever in n x T history on the USA network. So obviously NBA Playoffs

at HL Playoffs. Uh, the NBA game on t n T three point eight million viewers one point three in So obviously you know, the vast, vast majority of this is UH that they had very very strong competition. But I certainly would not classify this as good news if you're a big fan of of women's wrestling, because we had a full women's only show and it broke the record for the least watch show of all time on the USA Network. Give me the demo that matters here,

give me the sixty five plus that's what I need. Actually, don't have it in front of me. Well, and the problem is an X they didn't hit, they didn't chart, so we don't have any of the other demos damn. So yeah, that would not be good. Also, Piers, we've just got the A W Dynamite ratings from Brandon Thurston forty thousand and a point three three another they're gonna have to close the doors now. Let's talk about it tomorrow.

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