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know what that means. Last night a w Dynamite, the go home Dynamite for the Forbidden Door pay per view, and we have got a rampage show coming up on Friday. But I believe that all of the matches for Forbidden Door are known as of today. So that's pretty much the main thing to talk about here today, Dynamite and Forbidden Doors. So we'll do that. What's the think of the show? You're welcome to contact us for five seven

eight zero seven five six. They added four matches to the show last night, and so at this point we've got quite a few matches on this pay per view.

I guess the two big stories were Brian Danielson announcing that he is not on the show, nor is he on the Blood and Cuts show, and in fact, Will Osprey, I'm sorry, well, Will Osprey is on the show as well, but because it's Golconda showed up and it will be a four way for the i W d g P World Heavyweight Championship, J White, Hangman Page, Adam Cole and

Okada for the title. Those are the two biggest stories, I would say coming out of the show last night, so we can talk about that, as well as notes on the n x T two point oh ratings which were huge. It's interesting because Dynamite last week didn't do well and Rampage did horribly, but SmackDown Raw and n x T all huge numbers and we can talk about that here today. Plus an update on Rhea Ripley, who has gone public with the issues that are keeping her out of the pay per view. We can tell you

about that. Uh And also on the subject of a W injuries, you can add sky Blue to the list. She is injured, Kyle O'Reilly is injured, Red Velvet is injured. There have never been this many injuries at one time at a W. Back in the mout and talk about all of it Observer Live on the show Bright Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live Mike sumbur Viv also Wrestling Observer dot com. If you're watching the Twitch video right now, you just saw Denise. I will be on Denise's show

one ten Pacific for ten Eastern today. We'll be doing a preview of the Forbidden Door pay per view and talk some other stuff as well. So that's coming up today after this show, so you can look forward to that. And uh, we had a lot to talk about from that Dynamite show last night. The show opened with Brian Danielson coming out. You know what happened when that guy came out. Mike's already backing away from the mic. You

know what happened when that guy came out. He said, I will not be at Forbidden Door, nor will I be at Blood and Guts about that DJ. Did I get my apology from the Peanut Gallery yesterday and all of the uh places that were very mad at me for having the temerity to report what ended up being exactly accurate. Did I get my apology? Oh? He's laughing uproariously. It sounds like no, I didn't get my apology. Well, you know what, I don't care. I'm not here for praise.

I'm not here to get apologies. I don't. I don't care one way or the other. Did you apologize to everybody yet for what? Because there are people out there that said that you and your partner on russelling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer led them to believe Kazucha Okada or Cazuchica Okada, depending on how everybody wants to fight over translations. Now, Kazucha Okada would not be there. His wife was pregnant, she's having a birthday. He's not coming over here. But

there he is, like he was. I never said he wasn't going to be there. I said expected it to be a three way. I didn't know what the match was going to be. I mean, you know, Okada Ocada had done an interview where he talked about this, there shouldn't even be a show without him, and then, uh, you know, there was word that he wasn't gonna be there, and uh you know they even had someone on the show say he wasn't gonna be there. For bro, you got over two cares. I got worked by Juice Robinson

too well. I didn't think it was I didn't think it was funny that actually, you know the thing about Juice Robinson is kind of funny because I was sort of worked, but at the same time he actually was telling the truth is New Japan contract had expired at the time. That was all true. Now, the part where he said, you know, I don't know if I want to do this anymore, and everything like that, I mean, I guess I presume that he was. He was working,

but you know, maybe he was just depressed. I don't know. But one way the other, uh, one way the other, one way or the other. New Japan is in put on a show complained about. People need to complain about it, whether they love New Japan or love a W or maybe even worse, hate both of them and love w W E. You know it's gonna be a good show when it's all said and done. We can pick nits over lots of different things. People can cry and say

that politics don't matter when they absolutely do. Unfortunately, in the cope of this thing, I just for anything I want to say, I just feel as though there's going to be one side that just gets all in a tizzy. And I'm sure we'll get into some of this stuff today, but it's just people. NATO's not there. This should happen. This should be a singles match, This should be this Why is this this? Man? Yeah, you know what, let me tell you Okay, let me tell y'all something, all right.

I don't know about Andrada, okay, andrad A seems to think that he was and I guess he said this that he was booked for the show and then he was gonna wrestle Osprey and then uh, and then they put the key bosh, the X and A on it. Okay, but I mean a lot of this, you know, it was not like there was ever a card that had the Luca brothers on it. Okay, I talked about this. It's been known forever that the Luca brothers were not gonna be able to work this show. Most of the

issues with this show have nothing to do with politics. Okay, there are a few wrestlers that can't work the show as a result of politics. But I guess maybe with the exception of Andrade, all of that was known going in. The issues with the booking of this show are almost one hundred percent due to all of the injuries that have taken place that have changed a lot of the

major matches. Uh. They they announced last night an get the card here later, but like a totally random match involving Sting and Darby and the Young Bucks and Hikko Leo is in there and Shingo is in there. Listen. I don't I have absolutely I have absolutely no idea what the New Japan or what the the Young Bucks match was originally going to be. Okay, but they're the a W World Tag Team Champions and they're in a match where Hikolo and Shingo were thrown in at the

last minute. There is no way that was the originally scheduled Young Bucks match. I don't know what it was. I don't know who was originally going to be in it. They announced last night that Kyle O'Reilly uh is injured. He's he's on the shelf. So I don't know if originally the Young Bucks and Red Dragon or I don't

know what the match was going to be. But that was another match that was changed due to injury, The Hangman Page uh the i w g P Championship match that was changed during due to injury, The uh CM punk uh Ton Hashi match changed due to injury. Whatever Moxley was going to do changed due to injury. I mean you can go down the card if you want me to go down the card. I mean there were I'm sure tons of matches that have now been made that were never originally going to be made, and uh,

and other matches. Okay, here, here you go. John Max and Hiroshi Nashi changed due to injury. J White, Okada Hangman and Cole changed due to injury. Malachi Black, Pocmero Nishi. I presume that was that was the original match, thunder Rosen Tony Storm. I presume there were no changes there. Uh, United Empire FTR Rapongi weis. I presume that was the original match. But will Osprey Orange Cassidy changed due to injury, U Jericho Minor Suzuki, Sammy Cavara, Eddie Kingston Wheeler. You

didn't showed a Umano. I presume that was originally a scheduled Zach Saber to be determined changed due to injury. And then Bullet Club versus Sting, Darby Shingo and Haromu Young Bucks Fantasamine Hiccolo or Bullet Club changed due to injury. So how many matches I just rattle off that were changed due to injury? Everyone's complaining about politics and everything, But what really screwed up this show was injuries. I don't know what you canna do brought it. It's been

brought up about. You know, politics has been written about, injuries have been written about, and you know, this is just step one. And I know, like, if we look back ten years from now and this is the only thing that New Japan and a W collaborate on, yeah, I'll probably look back and go, man, I wish there was a whole lot in hindsight that would have been changed.

But this is going to be hopefully step one. And we've seen shows like this a zillion times where groups work together, especially if you're a Japanese fan, now maybe if you're not as much. When you see super shows like these and and groups working together, you get a lot of multiple person matches, you get a lot of tag team matches, and that's what we have here. So no, is Orange Cassidy the person I would have picked to

come off the bench to replace Andrade against wall Osprey. No, But we also don't know what else went behind this as well too, And you do have two separate companies are trying to actually do a bunch of things and protect people and do what they need to do for storylines that have nothing to do with this one night, and then they are going to continue on and may have an effect for later on in the next upcoming months. So it's just the amount of reaction pro and con

push and pull and everybody going after each other. Last night after that show was it was something else, all right. We had to break here in a while. But I want to throw the phone numbers and etcetera here if you'd like to text us four to five seven eight zero seven five six six Brian and Wrestling Observer dot com is the email at Brian Alvarez on Twitter. And yes, if you'd like a cameo from the shores of the

Pacific Ocean home, I'll the All Atlantic title. I will be doing those from the beach at four W online on cameo, so make sure you check that out. And also we're live, pal I was a special guest this week. Check that one out on YouTube later and I'll be on Denise's show and me after this show as well. So man, so much stuff, brother, and we more after the breaks. They're live. Welcome back to the show. Mike' semper viv here Russy Server Live Brian Alvarez also here.

I'm not sure since I don't have the Twitter YouTube chats up if you can see this man's torso right now in your camera lens. That's right now. Apparently the pictures frozen. No, there he is. He's very vascular. You see his forearm. He probably gets a lot of work on that forearm now that he has two kids and his wife doesn't want anything to do with him. Yep, Brian Alvarez and that baby blue shirt. I have no idea what he's doing. He just got up moment months

ago and started fiddling around with stuff. I know this doesn't make for very good radio everybody, but there's an adventure going on the home of Brian Alvarez right now. Now he's looking angrily at his computer. I have no idea what's going on here. He's got no audio apparently whatsoever. I have no idea if I'm even on right now.

But uh yeah, So we'll get back to Brian here in a moment, once Brian figures out exactly what is going on over there, and we can get his world famous and critically acclaimed Dynamite review from from last night. Rick Flair's having a press conference right now because his last match is coming up. They moved it out of the Fairgrounds to Nashville Municipal Auditorium. They're hyping that up

as we speak. Rick Flair's last match coming up part of Money in the Bank weekend taking place in Nashville. So there's that, Brian's forearm and and right bicep and now bell buckle still in the shop. Ah oh man, we shall take it to the front page or the Wrestling Observer newsletter right now. We're men like Ian Carry are putting in work. In fact, Ian just posted up a story not all that long ago about Ria Ripley being back fairly soon following a possible concussion and having

her teeth teeth knocked loose. It was announced on RAW that she would be unable to perform at Money in the Bank due to her injuries. Ripley revealed in an Instagram comment yesterday that she's dealing with brain and teeth issues. Can't see. Can't see a brain injury, stopped being competent at reaching it nothing for those people that said that

Ripley was not injured, she responded back to them. So Dave and Bryan talked about it on this morning's Wrestling Observer Radio or teeth knock loosen to match and had braces put in and unfortunately we're not sure about the other thing. When he comes to her brain, odds are it's a concussion. Hopefully it is a light one and she can return soon, as Brian Alvarez is doing to the show right now. Yes, yes, I am bad. Hello everybody, what happened? My internet just died? It was weird, the

bizarre your internet? Wait when a second bout if your internet died, what exactly is the video wired into? No, the internet on the thing that connects the timeline just dropped the internet and I fixed again, so I rebooted everything. But yes, Ria Ribley is injured. And uh, I don't know, bro, what else could a brain injury be? Like she had never removed and put back in like Shabbada. I think it's Uh, it's one of those things. It's like so weird.

It's like you're allowed to like tell the world you have a brain injury, but don't don't ever use the word concussion. And again, we don't know for sure that Brian Danielson is out with a concussion, but I mean we initially heard one in two weeks now it's been longer. And then the first thing he said about people worried about his his health is that he could read two hundred words a minute and a bunch of other stuff

that air brain. So I presume that he and Rha are both out with concussions, but no one's allowed to say the word concussions. So at the end of the day, what matters is they're both out and reassays she'll be back soon, but I mean, and I hope she is. But Brian Danielson also was supposed to be back soon and he's not back yet, and he it would not be the first person who they figured would be back soon,

and uh, and that's worrisome. It is. It is as a fan of Brian Danielson, And I'm one of those people that said, if he was done, great, you owe me nothing. I've seen it all. I know you want to do more. But you know what, if you stopped today, you were in that top percentile. You won. You're one of those people I can say outright won the professional wrestling business. Um. But he's had a lot of these things. We've talked about it at length for a lot of time.

Everybody knows the time he had to sit on the shelf in w W E before eventually he was cleared and then eventually he made his way to a W. But it's just a scary thought. And uh, you know, hopefully you heard him talking about what he you know, this is these are the things I can do, no matter what my condition my brain may happen to be in. But you're taking a lot of beatings here and how how much longer we'll see? So apparently Brian's Internet is out again. He just gave me the throat slash, so

that's not good. I'm gonna delay on doing anything when he comes to the Dynamite review until we might be able to get him back on here. So yeah, and Rod A, l E Loo and Rayphine ex except for rampage on Friday. No spoilers, of course, we'll let font font Leroy do that one and read down the card possibly maybe a little bit later on. But and Rode and rayphene A plus three additional bouts have been planned

for Friday's a W rampage. They taped the whole thing after uh Dynamite last night and this is apparently this is Androddi's first singles about on TV since losing a coffin match to Darby Allen in April. He did appear at the Casino Battle Royal on the June eighth Dynamite and then defeated Frankie Kazarian on Dark Elevation in the match that actually had aired this week. So again no spoilers, but all of the word is you gotta watch Androtti and Phoenix. Uh no surprise. Dave and Bryant talked about

it this morning. David had heard that it was great. There are a couple other people online who have already seen it and said, yeah, you know, that's when you gotta watch. They're having their pay per view match that a lot of people thought, and Roddy should be having a year against the Wall of Sprey. They had it against each other and apparently he kicked ass. Jeff Cobb faces Cash Wheeler and it's gonna be nice to actually

see Cash in the ring in the singles match. He's becoming like the Marty to to Dax's Sean in some ways when it comes to the praise that Dax gets for his singles matches. But you face off against Jeff Cobb. How is it not going to be awesome? So Cash Wheeler and Jeff Cobb will be facing off against each other, Hook will be facing the d k C from the l A Dojo, plus Serena Deep and Mercedes Martinez tagging up together as it looks like they are going to

be paired off against each other. Uh for the Ring of Honor Women's Championship that's going to be taking place. Now. There's one criticism about aw that's probably true. There are too many belts and as much as I like seeing j Lethal and Samoa Joe involved in something, r O H having a television champion right now, it's kind of wacky. I mean it is right. It's they have no TV. They may never get TV again. They may end up on a streaming service somewhere. Why they still have that

TV title? I don't know what they can do. I don't know, but speculation station. And it's hard to believe that after what Brian Danielson said last night, it's hard to believe that it's not going to be the former Antonio Sazzaro Claudio Castan only it could be somebody else, But it's really hard to believe that. Brian Danielson was not talking about Cesaro last night and the possibility of him coming in and replacing him not only at Forbidden Door against Zach Saber Jr. But also in the Blood

and Guts match. And I'll say this, if it's Cizarro, because he's got a history with Eddie Kingston, you know, you could maybe add some intrigue to the to the match. But you know, I I don't want to see a situation like Kurt Henning and the Horseman in the end w oh back in the day, where he gets in there and he's gonna help defend the honor and then he ends up turning immediately and beating down Flair and all that sort of stuff, slamming the cage door on

the head, doing that routine. I wouldn't be looking forward to something like that, but it would add a little bit of mysterious intrigue in I guess for for some people if you wanted to go in that direction. Uh, if it's him who shows up to face off against Zach Saber Jr. If it's not him, I don't know who else he could be. Because you have Jonathan Gresham on the roster and he's fabulous and he is your ro OH heavyweight champion, and he is the type of

person that Brian Danielson was talking about. But I have a feeling that if it was going to be a Jonathan Gresham, you would have announced that last night and you could have had some sort of face off against Zach Saber Jr. It's just not a big enough name, it's not enough of an impactful name for you to pull that out as a surprise. The only other person

that I could randomly think of. Maybe I don't know his contract status, I don't know his concussion status, but we've seen a lot of guys come back from head and neck injuries that a lot of people thought they'd never come back from. And that's Nigel McGinnis. And like I said, it's such a it's a it's a slight outside shot. I am for X t U K. Well, that's why I wanted to ask you. If I don't know, I don't watch it next to UK. I have no idea if he does announcing, I have no idea about

any of that stuff or or his status. So again, if it's not Gresham, if it's not Zach Saber Jr. You start trying to pull up names from the past and pull up names that you think would be relevant who he could actually be, you know, talking about, and there's just there's just not enough of them. You know, others signed. He's signed a w W E. He's a

commentator for n x T. Well, forget about him. Take him out of the You know a name someone through in here, who Chris Hero just as good as Claudio Because yes, here's a thing like everyone's talking about Gargano and I would have no problem with Gargano. But but but the promo last night from last night, Danielson said, I trust this man to both face Zach Saber Jr. And also like a violent blood guts match coming up

on on on Wednesday. And I'm not saying that that Gargano couldn't do a wild blood and guts match, but that seems more fitting like a big, brutish you know, a cloud eo Chris Hero. And Chris Hero is back taking bookings again, So I don't think it's Uh, I don't think it's Chris Hero, but somebody brought it up in the chat, and uh, you know that's as good, Uh, that's as good a name as any. But I do

think it's most likely Cloudio. You know what, I'd like to see Claudio comeback team with Chris Hero and they face off against FTR. That's what I'd like to see. Well, brother, what I'd like to see as my internet hold up for this last segment because that's pretty worrisome. Back in a moment and I'll do the day W report it is ever live. Well, it made a good commercial, so let's try this. A W. Dynamite opened up with Danielson

coming out. Bryan Danielson said he will not be at the Forbidden Door pay per view or Blood and Guts. That's what he said. I hope he didn't go on social media afterwards to get yelled at, but he said, I have good news. I have the one person I trust to take my place at both Forbidden Door and Blood Guts. But I'm not gonna tell you who it is.

And boy where the fans not happy about that? And uh it was It was weird because, like you know, he he mentioned that he came through the bad guy tunnel and he kind of sort of turned heel on the fans and then like he celebrated afterwards, and and then he got up on that middle rope and his arms in the air and he kind of had that look on his face like I didn't work out the way. But anyway, I thought the promo was actually really really great until it totally fell off a cliff at the end.

But whatever Sabers music played, he came out, he looked at Danielson and uh, and that was it. No promo by Zack Saber Jr. And Dave last night was saying you should have said something or said you know, when

you're back, I'm gonna getch you. And I don't have a problem with him saying anything, but the two things are bro They had so much to cram into this show, and also the fans were already mad that you weren't getting the match, So I'm not sure that if it would have been like better for Zach Sabers Jr. Say Hey, you know, one of these days I'll face you, but I'll see this other bloke on Sunday, and he could

actually said bloke. Right then we had Orange Cassie were Pungy Vice versus will Osprey and Austie opened and once again will Osprey's team lost. But in this case I wasn't bother me because Orange Cassidy got the big win, and they want to give Orange Cassidy credibility because he's facing will Osprey to match that people were not expecting.

It was not originally going to be on the show, and uh, you know, I thought that whatever you want to say, by the actual match, and you know, I said some stuff like I was not expecting, of all people, Will Ospery to face Orange Cassidy. But it's gonna be like probably a great match because everything they did in the match look great. You know, Orange Cassi does his gimmick, but he's actually a very good worker, and I think that people are gonna be, uh maybe surprised by that match.

And then there was a big brawl afterwards. Jeff Cobb, Great o'con United Empire FDR came out to a huge pop to even the odds and this had some This had some great heat. We had the Christian Cage promo. Do you know that if you're a subscriber to Wrestling Observer dot com tonight you will be able to get the Brian and Vinnie Show where Vinnie and I will spend ninety minutes reviewing a W and n x T and suffice to say I'm gonna need that time to

fully talk about this particular promo right here. But the short story for those of you listening for free here Wrestling Observer Live, the short version of the story is, Yes, Christian is angry because well over a year ago he was thrown out of the Sino Battle Royal by the Jungle Boy, and he has been plotting this for over a year and he finally he finally turned on the Jungle Boy. And by the way it was, it was actually explained why he never turned on him until after

Jungle Boy lost to the Belts. He didn't cost Jungle Boy the titles, because in Christian's mind, bro, what a job I had. I tried to come out here and give this geek a pep talk. I made tons of money to stand around ringside. And what really made him mad was not only the Jungle Boy had thrown him out of the Battle Royal and cost him money there, but when Jungle Boy and Lucasaurus lost those titles, man, now I actually gotta work. So anyway, he turned on

Jungle Boy. He did do the line, you know, you may want me for a father figure because you need a father figure because your father's dead. Oh my god, I don't need to see this on two shows, but I will say, you know, and I'm not defending it, but I just want to point out, bro, those fans got so so mad at him for that line. I mean, that was heat for that line. And then Lucasaurus runs out and Jungle Boy says, you know what, you Luca Saurus, you were like a son to me. And this actually,

you know, gives Luca source pause. And so Chris Shin goes to have a talk with Luca Saurus and he makes sure to wink into the camera so we all know he's a horrible person and we will see where this goes. But you know, the line about the dead father aside, I mean, bro, this was a fantastic promo by Christian, Like, this was a fabulous promo because at the beginning, you know, he wasn't getting a lot of heat at the beginning. Let's be honest, man, these people

were like rabid by the end of this promo. So anyway, this was quite the performance by Christian. But I got a lot more I can say about it tonight. Being a Scooby Doo villain didn't look well. He always kind of dresses like that. But Young Bucks and Kylo Riley backstage, and this is when Kyle admitted that he is also not medically cleared, and they announced this, this baffling match the Young Bucks. Think about the Young Bucks. Dude on the Forbidden Door pay per view, I happen what the

Young Bucks. This is what the Young Bucks ended up with. The Young Bucks l Fantasma, who's awesome, and Hikolo, who has improved a lot against sting Darby Allen and I guess you know, they just said, like your buddies who end up being uh Shingo and who's the other one? That's right? And literally, literally, if you watched Darby Ellen's promo, he did exactly what I did. But he didn't totally

forget the name. But if you listen to him rattling off everybody in this match, he was clearly like told about this in the afternoon and he's like, and uh Haromo and uh and Shingo are gonna be with us. It's like, okay, wow, I mean the match is probably gonna be the match is probably gonna be awesome. I mean it's probably gonna be like full out awesome. But boy, what a weird match. When did they get the names

dudes with attitudes? Because they didn't say that during the show all of a sudden afterwards during the show did they know? They may not have. It might have just been the graphic. I just remember that shot back in the day of the Dynamic dudes. And yes, the dynamic dudes of Johnny Ason, Shane Douglas and the Junkyard Dog and Tommy Rich and Sting still huddled around after the sale they were the dudes with attitudes. And now stay it was Sting as the old man in that exchange.

Now it was. It was absolutely on the graphic. But I don't think Darby or Sting ever mentioned that these are their dudes with attitude, Dudes with attitudes. Oh no, I mean she knows definitely a dude in an attitude. Her own was a dude with a different kind of attitude. I wish they were dudes with video packages. And I know some people are like, I know, it's it's a nitpick, and I know a majority I would I would venture a majority of the a W fan base has got

a knowledge of New Japan. But Tamahashi, Okada Horomo, these guys, it's like I don't know. I don't know if we've gotten maximum impact out of everybody, and everything seems a little scattered. This was clearly, this was clearly you know what. I don't know for sure. Okay, but how can I say this. I have been given the impression, but I don't know for sure that when they woke up Wednesday it was not this match. I think I think that

they didn't find out. I think that Kyle was probably supposed to be and listen, don't report this because I don't know for sure. I'm fitting pieces together here. I have this impression that Kyle was probably supposed to be in the match, and they found out Wednesday that Kyle wasn't cleared, and then they had to throw together whatever they threw together out of there with that with that, no, no, no, that was actually that was actually something different. I don't

think they found out about Kyle until yesterday. That's the impression that I was given. So I think that yesterday there was a different match. So for people like you're welcome to complain that there were no video package, because it is a valid complaint, but it's not like I don't think it was because of incompetence and they didn't have a video package. I think it was because everything changed that day and they just didn't have time to get a video package ready for whatever ended up being

announced later on in the evening. I believe, Yeah, absolutely, I believe that to be the case too. I just think, you know, overall, they probably haven't done a good job driving at home. I don't know. I would assume that there's going to be a hype package, you know, half hour hype show. We'll have something rampage, and I bet you and I bet you whatever they do for that hype show, that might be their best one yet because you're gonna get so much footage from us PAN driving

home from Excalibur and everybody else. How good some of these guys are. Because I know JR Is trying to do his best, because I know he is legitimately impressed every time he's seen Tanahashi and Okada. But I just I don't think it's enough for some people who are like, there's a zillion people I never get to see because of the size of this roster. Who are these other guys? I'm not that interested in this. You're not making me that interested in this? All right? We gotta get through this.

We had Malachi Black and Penta for the All Atlantic qualifier. Penta not allowed to be on the show, and so Malachi Black one with a kick, and then we had an appearance by everybody in the match except is She no video, No appearance by Ish, he was nowhere to be seen or lot video package. He still wants Scorpio Sky,

who in fact also injured. We had Hangman Page versus Silas Young in Silas Young he's a local guy and so fans got into him the more the match went, and the longer it went, and the more he did, the more they got into him. And uh, he did fall down near the end, but he still jumped up on the ropes. He he fought to get that headstand and he got it and they popped huge for that, but he ended up missing and then Page hit a

Larry At buckshot. Larry At pinned him and then that's when they shot the angle afterwards where Okada made his big appearance. And so we have got a four way for the I Double d g P title. And man, you know say what you will about you know who we know and who the audience doesn't know. But bro, this audience knew Okada and he got the biggest pop of anybody on the show when that coin dropped. Holy smokes, they went crazy for Ocada. And that's also like this card.

Whatever you want to say about the booking, I think it's exactly like I said literally on day one. You ain't gonna like all the matches like the you know, the matches that are put together on paper, But this show is gonna be over and it's gonna be an awesome show. Tony Store, Marina Schaffer Dave liked this more than I did. I thought it was all right. I think that Tony needed more. She had that that match with Britt that was actually an excellent match, and then

this one was just it's kind of there. It's hard to have a good match with Marina. Tony God damn near killed her with that asked in the corner again and then Uh ended up rolling her up and pinning her, and then we had a kurf fluffle as I like to call it, and a stare down with thunder Rosa

and Uh and Tony storm Rampage Friday. I don't have fault Leroy here, so I'll try to say this is generically as possible, Hook versus d Casey andrawd A versus Ray Phoenix, Serena Deeve and Mercedes Martinez, antag action Jeff Cobb versus Cash Wheeler. Moving on main event, John Moxley Tona Hashi against Jericho and Lance Archer. There's an excellent main event, a lot of brawling with John Moxley and Jericho.

Uh Tanahashi's in there, and dude, bro this guy is old and uh he's barely vaulting over the top rope and it's taken a long time to get in position for the high fly flow. But dude, he's a legend and he knows what to do, and the people were into him, and he he pulled everything off. He pulled all of it off, and I think him and mox are gonna have a great match on Sunday. And uh ended up with him getting the high fly flow win

over Lance Archer. And then afterwards so they had a long brawl and Uh, Dave was saying that this is the idea of this was like straight out of I forget what he said, Mid South or something like that, But I actually think they do another long brawl on rampage. I think and uh, I think that's the one that was supposed to be reminiscent of the old days. This was long, but man, I laughed and laughed in a

in a way where I felt bad for them. Poor Tonahashi and Moxley standing in the ring looking at each other for five straight minutes. That was wrestling history back in a moment Observer Live. Yes, Fujita and Shuzaki thirty minutes stare down, So Moxley and Tonahashi, I believe, would be in second place for the longest stare down in

the history of wrestling with those poor guys. And they kept cutting to them in the ring, and these poor guys start to look at each other at God, the plans that looked at the plan was good, you know, have a fire, a dumpster fire taking place at ringside, carnage everywhere. And then they cut to the shot and those two as you close in, are standing above the fray ready to face off against each other. Just didn't

end up turning out that way. Hopefully they have more of a banger for however, they closed the show on Friday. But from AP reporter to AP reporter, Dennis Gorman just let us know about this Teresa Walker, who covers the Titans for the ap Down in Tennessee, is also covering this Ric Flair final match press conference. And yeah, what a press conference. We did a whole press conference. We

do don't even know where Rick Flair's matches. Rick Flair says he's only worried about his pacemaker getting unplugged and an inner ear issue for his last match, now set for July thirty one. Says he won't take his blood thunder medication that day. Yeah, he also said. He also said about the pacemaker, he just plug it back in. That's you just plug it back in. Sure, Well, you make the phone call, you put the phone up to the chest, it reads it or whatever. Our with that works.

You jump in like a car on his I'm not making it up, by the way, I'm not making that up. They had an entire press conference about Rick Flair's last match, and they didn't even tell us what his last match is. They may not know yet. I called Muda right now. Maybe Muda's on his way over. This is gonna be one of his last ones. But yeah, I mean, I don't know, the hell with it, Let's just let's just try again tomorrow. Brian, I think we need Hey, I

try again every day. I never quit and I'm not gonna quit after this show when I appear on Denise's program. So check that out everybody, And uh, thanks for listening. Thanks, Mike has always callers and listeners. I don't want to thank the Internet. Well, we'll talk to again next time Wrestling Observer Live. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.