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New Pacific three Eastern Sunday three Pacific, sixth Eastern. Well, it's Friday here in this program, and you know what that means. We've got a busy weekend coming up with the a w New Japan Forbidden It Door pay per view which is coming up on Sunday. And you, I'm sure, dear listener will be stunned to hear there's another injury that is that has afflicted this show. Toll me hero is she is off the show. He has been replaced in the All Atlantic four Way by Clark Conners. Who

is she he beat? So we'll go over the full card for the show, and uh, I won't go over everything I went over yesterday in The Brian Viney Show. If you want to listen to the show Wrestling Observer dot com, Video dot f W online dot com, you can. But the gist of it is, I went through this card and based on what I know, whether it be injuries or politics, or changes as a result of injuries

which changed other matches, if that makes sense. I think every single solitary match on this show, with the exception of thunder Rosa versus Tony Storm, was originally going to be something else. Nine out of ten matches ended up being changed from what they originally wanted to do. So anyway,

we'll go over that. We have got the a W ratings which were up this week, and we've also got an update on the SmackDown and Rampage numbers last week, which, if you recall, Rampage was like so low and then people were thinking maybe there was an issue at Nielsen, and in fact, the good news is there was an issue with Nielsen. It affected both SmackDown and Rampage. The bad news is Rampage still today horrible number. So we'll

tell you about that here today. We've also got an update on Stephanie McMahon SmackDown tonight New n x T Tag Team Champions, A virgin is a title holder and so much more. Back in a moment, Observer Live taking that you're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez

and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Better in the show, Bryan Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike sumber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com, and Yes, a she E has been pulled from Forbidden Door after suffering a knee injury, and Bro, if you know anything about Ishi, it's gotta be a bad knee injury to pull out of a show. He'd been scheduled take part in the a w All Atlantic title match featuring Pocmero and Malachi.

He will be replaced by Clark Conners, who was a guy that he defeated in a tournament final on Tuesday at the New Japan Road e Ent in Tokyo. You know, I'm a I'm a huge fan of Clark Connors. No, Clark, he worked around here and uh he actually worked at the pool that Vinnie's wife works at before he got into wrestling. So I'm very very happy to see Clark Connors. Uh. He did the uh elderly people water yoga and boy

do they like Clark Connors. But anyway, uh, he I'm very happy to see him working this forbidden door show. But man, this was an opportunity to go filthy Tom in that four way and it didn't happen. But well, he'll be in the g one right, will be, yes, sir? So another injury and uh, as I noted earlier here today, yesterday, it was like seven of the matches had been changed

as a result of injury or whatever. But I did a tally yesterday and uh, whether it be injury, politics, or someone being moved because of an injury and needed to be replaced in a match. By my account, nine of the ten matches, for sure we're changed from what was originally planned. The only one that I think had been planned from the beginning and is taking place as planned provided none of these two get hurt is thunder Rosa and Tony Storm for the a W World Women's Idole.

Every single other match was changed for one reason or another from what they had originally planned, which is insane when you actually think about it. We've got moxy Tona Hashi. As we're all well aware, j White, Okada Hangman and

Adam Cole. We've got Malachi, Pack Mero and Clark Conners for the All Atlantic title, Thunder Rosa, Tony Storm, Jeff Cobb and Great o'con versus f tr versus Rapongi Vice winner, take all R O H and I W G P Tag team titles, will Osbury, Orange, Cassidy, Jericho, Suzuki, Sammy Versti, Kingston Wheeler. You didn't showed Amino, Zach Saberg Jr. Versus the Mystery Man whoever that might be, Young Bucks, Fantasma

and Hikolao versus Sting, Darby Shingo and Harromu Takahashi. And then to buy in his Max Castor and the Gun Club versus the l A Do Joe. So that is the lineup for the show. I still think it's gonna be excellent show Bell to Bell, but I know a lot of people are disappointed. Some people are claiming they're not going to buy it. It's kind of funny because whenever people go I don't like it, I'm not gonna

buy it. I ever believe that, because I've heard that a thousand times, and then we end up getting numbers and it's like the number of people that actually said that they didn't buy it is low. It's like they either weren't going to buy it in the first place, or you know, the people that actually legitimately change their minds, it's usually very very few people. But it was funny and people go like, well, I expect it to be great,

but I didn't like the build. What so you're gonna skip out on the show that you know is going to be great because you don't know how They don't like how they got to the show that's going to be great. That was one that was a weird one, but whatever. I think most of those people that would say that are going to buy the show anyway. You know.

I think the only time the build hurts is any casual fan that is not a die hard New Japan and slash a W Pro Wrestling and if they only follow a W yeah, the building will matter to them. But most of the people that are frustrated or probably expressing that opinion, and I don't know, your timeline tends to be a little bit more toxic than mine. Uh yeah, I mean I don't believe those people at all. They're

absolutely gonna watch the show. What if she's not going to be there, so all of a sudden, you're not gonna watch the show. No? Is Okada in the dream match that you want him to be in? Is Tanahashi? Is whoever? Maybe not? Is that really going to stop you from watching the show? No, Because you know, whoever Zach Saber Jr. Faces could be. Say it's cesar Oh, say it's Gargano, Say it's whoever it is, It's probably

gonna be pretty great. You know, you look up and down and you go, Is Cassidy the guy I would have wanted to face will Osprey? Probably not, But you know what, the match itself is probably gonna be pretty great. Same goes for for Tanahashi and Moxley. I would have loved for it to be punk, but this is the

handword dealt. And I think by the time Sunday Night is over with, they're going to be people who some people don't know, like a Clark Connors because for the most part, people don't know who the hell Clark Honnors is. People listening to this show may but there's a lot of wrestling fans that don't, and I think they're gonna

see him. They're gonna see l Fantasmo, They're gonna see some of these other guys, and they're going to be really surprised, and they're going to want to see those guys more in a w and mixing it up and again, this is step one on what hopefully is going to be a long path of working together between these two groups. By the way, for this guy that says, I know Tonash, she stands less than zero percent chance of winning, will I watch it? Yes, I would not say that at all.

I don't think he's got zero percent chance of winning or less at all. It's not necessarily predicting him, but that is not a by the way, after everyone's freaked out, hold on. That's one of the interesting things too, and we can get into it later on. If we go up and down this card where the one thing that's for sure is you don't know in some of these cases who is actually going to come out the winner.

I mean, there's a lot of question. You know, you may think, Okay, this person is going to this side is gonna win, but you don't know who's gonna take the fall. And I think there's a lot of stories that could be developed for both companies coming out of this show. So last week, everybody's freaking out about these numbers and Dynamite Wednesday eight seventy eight thousand viewers, up fifteen point four percent from last week, number one on cable with an o point three one, which was up

ten point seven percent from last week. This was up against the Stanley Cup Finals, which did four point six million viewers and a one point three one at eighteen to forty nine up in every demo category except males twelve to thirty four, which declined. Biggest increases were young women females twelve to thirty four up a hundred percent, eighteen and forty nine forty three point eight percent. So, UH, numbers good, so we can move on from that one.

But due to a reporting error with Nielsen, because these numbers on Friday, I mean it was a bizarre. SmackDown was sky high, Rampage was like depths of the Earth, and it turns out that there was a reporting error at Nielsen which affected both shows. So SmackDown, UH as opposed to doing two point to nine million viewers, they did two point three eight nine million, which means that Roman Reigns Riddle Match that did two point eight million.

It probably did actually almost three million viewers for Roman Reigns versus Riddle, the same riddle that they squashed on Monday with Omas and beat him up twice in one show. The Rampage Show actually ended up doing three hundred and sixty nine thousand viewers, which was up twelve percent from what we reported at last week. That's the good news. The bad news is in its normal time slot, still by far the lowest viewership ever in the history of Rampage.

That did allow it to beat two of the shows that were preempted, but this in no way turned the Rampage number into a good number, still at a point one two at eighteen and forty nine, which I guess is good because before it was a point one. Oh, this is at least a point one too, But that is also the lowest demo number the show has ever done in its regular time slot. But it did beat some shows that were preempted. But there's minimal spin you can put on that that that makes it as it

was a holy number. Yeah, the only spin you can put on it is, you know, this is better than some of the times they've been preempted and put somewhere else, but they only went up, you know, thirty eight thousand viewers in this when in SmackDown went up nine hundred thousands. So people, it's whatever obvious, no, but as far as yeah,

but it goes up. You know, they went up to nearly two point four million people from two point to nine and again because of that percentage, you know, yeah, it just unfortunately doesn't go open up for rampage at all. In was it a one week aberration. The show has

been on the decline anyway. They are hamstrung by the fact that there are days that they don't want to run on in issues that they have the Tony Khan, either as a gentleman's agreement with or there's some other deeper reason that he doesn't want to run on certain days up against certain shows. But they're hurting themselves that way because you've got to get that show off of Friday at ten. I don't know where you can put it, what you can do, but Friday attend stinks. I'm on

an observer live condy day. Come come Friday to day that streaking ring. Maybe I I think it's me that there's something that track, But imagine you were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting net work. Back in the show, Brian Alvarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike Simperviva also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Okay, everyone's talking about Tona Hashi. What

percentage chance do I think the tonah she has of winning? Bro, I don't know, And you know what I would do. I would say why. I'll tell you why because what was the originally scheduled match. It was CM Punk versus Hiroshi Tanahashi for the a W title, Right, that was the original match. Yes, CM Punk got hurt and he was removed from that match. Okay, so Tony clearly wanted to see see M Punk versus Hiroshi Tanahashi for the

a W title. Well, now he can't because ce HM Punk got hurt unless you either bring back Tanahashi later when c HM Punk ends up champion again or Tanashi wins the title see M Punk comes back and it all out. You do the match he wanted to do in the first place. It couldn't do see M Punk versus Hiroshi Tanahashi for the a W title and see him Punk wins, So it's not like this has happened before where something throws a monkey wrench in Tony's plans and he swerves to get back to where he was

going originally. So if he really wanted to do that match, then Tanahashi wins the interim title, and when Punk comes back, you do Punk a Tanahashi the originally planned match, and then Punk gets to win. Now I explained that, well, why did I say? Well, the other half of that is that if CM Punk would have wrestled Hiroshi Tanahashi Forbidden Door, I don't think Tanahashi is winning. He was going to lose at Forbidden Door, so that's the other

fifty percent. He wasn't scheduled to win, so he's probably maybe not gonna win this time. But for anybody thinking that tanah she has zero chance of winning the a W title. If you look at history and the way that Tony has handled issues where he could have put together a match he wanted to do, he does his little swerve to get back to the match he wanted to do in the first place. So don't think there's

zero chance. I haven't actually gone and looked at the at the schedule for G one, but hold on, everyone is doing six matches and not eight, okay, And I was told that there's only one Wednesday where Hiroshi Tanahashi is working a G one match, which means, with the exception of one Wednesday, he is a vail. It would be a tough flight there and back. But he could appear every Wednesday except one during the G one, So

it's not impossible that he could win this title. It's not impossible, but it's kindly unlikely because of the G one. And I think if you wanted, if you were a gambler that way and say I'm gonna put money on Tnahashi, I think then you also must look at the odds on the Okada match, because if you look at J White, Okada, Page and uh Adam Cole, you have three aid W guys,

but two aid W guys, J White and Okada. And if you're going to switch the belt and actually have Tanahashi hold onto the a W title throughout the G one, you know, leading into I don't I don't know when all out is, but you know, if you're gonna have that happen, then go ahead and actually swap the belts. And have Hangman Page pull off a big upset so he could have a big match when he goes over to Japan. I think again, I I know what you're saying, and I see that. I just see. This is where

politics start to dribble back in. And you know the importance of those titles, which while G One is going on, you wouldn't think would be important and doesn't Most fans would go, Okay, I can displace this and and put it in this part of my mind. But I don't know if the companies necessarily want that to be the case. And well, he has traveled back and forth with Tanahashi.

I think that is asking. That's asking a lot. Well, he doesn't have to be there for every show, certainly, I mean he doesn't have to do every single Wednesday that he's available. He could do a couple of videos, but he could appear, He's not My point is he is not for sure off a w for six weeks. If he's in the G One, he could make appearances. He could defend the title on Dynamite. And here's the

thing with the G One. Virtually every single time there is somebody that beats the I W G P heavyweight champion during G one to set up a match post G one, I think the champion, I think the i w g P champion needs to work the g one. So you could have j White retained the title. You could have Ocada win the title from j White. Maybe maybe the whole reason that j White won the title was so Ocatta Ocada could win it back on Forbidden Door.

But if you're talking about politics, if Tanahashi wins the a W title, the swap does not need to be an a W guy winning the i w GP heavyweight title. F TR can win the i W g P tag team titles. So the new japan belts that come over here are the world tag team titles and the a W title that goes over there but also stays here because ton she could work shows would be the i w U or the a W championship. So you can make this work with the g one and with a

political both sides get one belt. You could do that. I still believe that Moxy is probably gonna win despite everything I just said, but I'm just pointing out it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Hiroshitanashi wins the au W title. It's not less than zero percent at all. No, not not not at all, not at all.

And I if I had to put money on it, I'm probably putting it on Moxley, and I'm putting it on j White as well to getting I can see more of j Y trying to start his own group for having We're you know, the Bullet Club storyline being involved because of Cole and Page all involved in that too, and Okada somehow getting screwed out of this because I just now that you've taken an off Ocata and put it on White. To me, now it's the build for Okada and he can win it back before January four.

But I can see a story and I can see possibly where that title stays out of his grasp until the end of the year, until those January four shows. But but who knows. We got a long way to go, and Sunday we gotta get out of the way first, and there's enough matches that we can go through without

having the fantasy book out too much. This makes observer Dave Meltz reported the decision to appoint Stephanie as the interim w w E CEO and chairwoman, not the Women's chairman, you're working too art for that one was done by a special committee of the company's board that did not include her family members or Nick Cohn. As Friday, w W announced Stephanie this is the greatest story of all time.

W w E announced that Stephanie would replace her father, Vince on an interim basis as company CEO and chair woman, as a special committee investigation is underway regarding alleged misconduct related to a three million dollar hush fund given to a former employee Slash love Interest. While he made that move voluntarily, he still remains head of Creative and made brief appearances on both last Friday's SmackDown and Monday's. Brian

Gowertz had an idea on Twitter. He said, if he had any say in this, he'd have Vince come out and do a shorter and shorter appearance on every single show from here on out, just a surprise appearance where like plugs w W E shop and then throws the mike and leaves. And I would not rule out another appearance by Vince on Friday. After the numbers they had

this past week, They've wrote. Stephanie McMahon being put in power was said to be based on a decision of a special committee, which would be the eight members of the board that were not Nick, con Vince McMahon, Stephanie or Paul leavec Regarding an unflattering story that I can't

even keep a straight face. Regarding an unflattering story that came out in Business Insider about Stephanie taking a leave of absence in May, Meltzer wrote that quote of the side of the company that buried her on the way out, None of that came from the members of the special committee, but from others in the Penny. So the point of all of this is, do you remember when we were pointing out, well, she left and then first they buried her privately, and then they buried her publicly, and then

they just brought her back. Well, that's the simplistic way of looking at it. What happened was she left, they buried her privately, they buried her publicly, and then the board that didn't bury her brought her back. So, man, if they find out some of the folks that were burying Stephanie McMahon and now she's back, this is incredible.

Who do you think those folks were that buried Stephanie well, I mean, I know, I mean, it's not like a big secret, but it's one of those things were like, you know, they were clearly instructed to get word out. Now who instructed them that? I don't know that. I don't know who who is it, but you know there's people that the people that actually got the word out, This would be a case of of killing the messenger. But I mean, so then why what what was what

would have been? What was the benefit then in doing that? Knowing that he's she is still Vince McMahon's daughter, knowing that there is still power to be wielded by a woman who's going to be on the board of that company until the end of time or unless she pulls a Shane, What was the benefit? What was what was the goal of it? Other than to try to kick dirt on somebody that very likely would have been back in some form after taking this time off that Dave

says she did voluntarily. So what what was the end for these folks? Well, so we talked about this the other day. The the best theory that anyone has given me is that when they when she left, they were concerned that the stock price was going to fall because of McMahon had left the company, and so their theory was, well, if we say that she wasn't good at the job, and we have hired better people to do the job, well, then the stock price won't tank. Okay, Now I don't

know if that's true. All right, that's just the best theory that I've heard. But what money if that is true? If that is true that in order to keep the stock priced table you said that she sucked at her job, but now she's been brought back for an even higher ranking position. Well that would take the stock now, wouldn't it. Back? In a moment Observer Live, you were listening to Wrestling Observer Live IF with Brian Alvarez and Mike simper Viv

on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Back of the show. Brian elber is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. We're gonna have time for for your feedback here today, so text me four to five seven eight zero seven five six six four two five seven eight zero seven five six six Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian elbare is on Twitter at semper viv F four w online on cameo get

your beach cameos today. I'm gonna be doing some tonight, so get your order in now for a Pacific Ocean view beach. Cameo here from lovely Cannon Beach, Oregon. I saw a listener the other day. I was heading into the Mariner Market and you ran Atomy Brian Observer live. He lives here in Cannon Beach. We had a nice conversation, talked about pizza. Nice Mexican joined over there and see side, super nice guy se again and you have down on pizza. Where does he come down on pizza? Well, there's a

there's a really good pizza Feta place. But he had bought in a pizza the Mariner Market and then he bought it and he kind of regretted it. He was like, I should have got pizza fetta. I said, bro, you live here, you can get pizza feta anytime you want. So anyway, maybe I'll get that here sometime soon after I'm done with my four day fast. Look at you? Why why would you do that to yourself? On so fat and blowed. It was disgusting, But I feel much better now and I have not fasted for four days.

But anyway, I want to mention, Hey, you guys ever would of Talk is Jericho. I'm on it along with Lance and as it says in the description, Big Vinny V. We did a special edition of Talk is Jericho talking about classic wrestling albums. Remember Pile Driver. I had to listen all these albums are gonna do this show. So it's a very very fun show. If you want to check it out, Talk is Jericho. It's up right now,

So had up there and check that out, everybody. What's so funny, Mike that you weren't invited in your wheelhouse that you could actually talk about wacky songs? Oh my god, will go there and talk about Bigfoot? I could do that. UFOs Well, I know Chris is bias from what I've heard, so that would be perfect for you to jump on there and talk about with him. Hey, by the way, did you know the Virgin won the n X T

Tag team titles? I heard that. Yes, Josh Briggs and Brooks Jensen the n X T U K Tag Team titles. So good for them. Maybe he'll maybe he'll get some action now. Should take a picture of himself with that belt. But like, no, no, and else just him the belt in his hand, Jesus Boa. That's the that's the gimmick. Yeah, what hold on a second, Mike, you watch this show? Why are you mad at me? That's literally the gimmick. The gimmick was that he had so furiously pleasure to himself.

My kids are downstairs, then he broke his hand. That was his storyline. He wasn't a cast for that very reason. And of all people, you're duck in your head because I'm making some statement about an actual angle on w w E television. I'm not making it up. I'm not calling him a virgin to make fun of him. That's literally his character. That is literally his character. They said. They literally said on television on commentary that this guy had been so backed up for twenty one years he

was ready to explode. They said that on television. You're mad at me. You're like one of the people on my Twitter in my whatever's mentions. Do you know how hypocritical you are? Don't I don't understand because you're right. You don't understand because I am not hysterical. I am not angry. Right now, you just talked about a guy that's been so backed up for so long. That he is losing his mind and actually hurt himself furiously masturbating. I mean, let's just say I don't I don't have

any kids that are impressionable around. I'll just say it for you out loud. That's what you're saying, Brian Alvarez. You you, sir, sound a little bit like you may be backed up in a little hysterical right now. Are you suffering from some of the same issues that you suffering from that, because we saw you try to replace and do whatever you were doing yesterday with trying to get the tailine back on, and we saw that arm that you had there, and it was kind of looking

like when Quagmire around family Guy discovered the Internet. You know what I'm saying, it was. So maybe it's you who are so frustrated and upset you're questioning me calling him a virgin when he walked out on TV four weeks ago with a shirt that said, and I quote virginity rocks. I don't want to hear about Brian. I am actually not questioning that at all. Thank you, Thank you. Eo Sharai and Zoe Stark are expected to return from injury relatively soon, So if you're wondering where Eo Sharai

and Zoe Stark were. They were hurt, not the obsturbation related, and we don't know that. But I don't know about Zoe, but I know that Eo it wasn't she did a moon salt and the last whatever, the last pay per view was it she worked, which I guess would have been standing the liver April two. Apparently she did a moon salt and she hit the announced table, so that because that'll that'll determine a lot. And then Zoe Stark has not wrestle since Halloween havoc in October? Has it

been that long? She had a torn a c L and meniscus and got surgery, so she should be back soon. They need her there. She is very very people there well, they they do, indeed they both both of them coming back would help matters out immensely, because I don't want to see any more albifire lash legend matches. I just don't. This person is saying, basically, Mike is saying that your one forearm is way bigger than the other. You want to know something funny? Do you want to know something funny? Did?

He also would make a drawing for you to explain it. Yes, go ahead, My right forearm is way bigger than my left. Do you want me to tell you why? Sure? Furiously lifting weights when I was young. So what happened was I'm gonna I was like, it's a Friday. Yeah, you wanna know what happened? So I, uh, this would have been I would have been in the fifth or sixth grade when I started watching wrestling, okay, and uh, I

was a big fan of The Ultimate Warrior. So, uh, I got in a seventh grade and I've been watching wrestling for a few years. And uh, very early in seventh grade we did whatever you know, it actually might have been sixth grade. It might have been in p but regardless, we had a new shirts and skins basketball, Okay, And uh I was very skinny. I was. I'll just put it this way. I was one hundred and sixteen pounds when I got my driver's license. That was when

I was sixteen, So imagine five years earlier. I was so skinny, and I take my shirt off, and so we're doing shirts and skins basketball, and uh, yes, it's true. I had a chicken chest. Now. The difference was I was eleven with a chicken chest and not in my thirties. But anyway, it's not a chicken chest. And uh so what I did. I went home and my dad had a guy that worked for his fence company, and uh this sounds kind of weird, but we had a we had a shed in the backyard and he lived there

because he had been down on his luck. Okay, but inside his shed that he lived in, which actually was a nice shed, it was furnished bad everything, he had a weight set, and uh so I said, can I can I work out with those weights? So anyway, I started working out with the weights okay, and uh I had been working out with the weights for about maybe six months or whatever, and you know, I was making progress because you know, I was eleven, twelve years old

lifting weights, You're gonna immediately make progress. And I decided they had the list of no it's nothing like that, jingo, but anyway, so they had a list of after school sports, okay, and I decided I am going to go out for the tennis team. Never played tennis in my life. I

don't even know what it was. So I got a racket, I got a bag, I got some balls and I went out for the tennis team, and I don't know if it was like the first day or whatever it was, but after the tennis practice, I had my bag and I'm sitting there waiting, and uh, of course, like there was like a girl I liked on the bench, you

know whatever I felt. I was like, you know, Brooks Jensen, and my mom and dad show up and I started, hold on, is that the real reason that you decided, of all things to go out for the tennis team was because girlfriend was on the tenn No, I just I thought it would be fun to do tennis. So anyway, I start running to the car because my parents are there, and my bag the tennis racket handle was sticking out of it, and as I ran, I tripped over the

tennis racket. I took a huge bump. Of course, the you know girls watching and so like I jumped up and went, I'm fine, and then you know, kept running in the car. And it's weird because I took this bump, but I was like it didn't bother me or whatever. So I went home and you know, just did whatever, you know, afternoon and it was time for dinner. And then we're eating dinner and my dad it looks over and he goes, why is your arm looks so weird? If you know my dad, the would make a lot

of sense. So I looked out of my arm and this arm it wasn't like totally at a ninety degree angle. Did I just say a word? This, this funny silly arm is bent at like atreeks. My arm was broken. So they take me to the doctor and uh. The doctor gives me the X ray and he's like, dude, your arm is broken, and uh, he goes, but don't worry. I'm gonna I'm gonna break it back and then we're just gonna put you in a cast. And so my arm didn't even hurt. My arm was not bothering me,

but it was broken. Well man, when this bro broke my arm back straight again, that was the worst pain I've ever felt in my entire life. And then they put my arm in a cast. So we go home and I got to be in a cast for like six weeks or whatever. But I'm like, bro, I was exercised, I was working out, I was making such great progress. What could I do with just one arm? So what I did was I did whatever legs I could do,

which wasn't much. It was like that you know those benches, and they got that thing that you can like straighten your legs or whatever at the end. I could do that, and I could do and I could do risk curls and reverse risk curls. That's all I could do. So bro, I start, I start doing all these risk girls just with one arm. I start doing my legs and everything

like that. And then eventually I get the cast off and I I immediately you know, you have a cast on, so your arms like white, it's like completely white, and it's like all shriveled up and pale and skinny. And then I had my other arm and it was like, Doc, are they gonna even out? And he goes, well, you know they should, and a long story short, they never did. So this one has always been and even like my my it's not even like just you know, your forearm,

but my wrists. I got the one wrist and then I got the other risk which is like half the size the actual bone is. Uh if you measured them both, like you know, my I left wrist bone is like six and a quarter and my right is like six and three quarter the actual bone. So Anyway, it is true that I do have one forearm bigger than the other. And that is why now has any keen eye in a locker room ever pointed that out, like, hey boy, you got that one arm that's a little bit bigger.

Nothing like that delivering a big overhand chop or something like that. It's far more vicious with the right hand because you got a little bit more of there. But that was the end of my tennis career. By the way, they're asking when I started gymnastics, Well, actually that was the great benefit to you. If you're trying to put on weight, Tennis is probably the worst sport that you can run. Yeah, that was last to put on weight. So then I went out for wrestling, amateur wrestling, and

I I did. I went out for amateur wresting seventh grade and eighth grade. And that's pretty horrible because I was a pacifist and I was always afraid I would hurt somebody. It's not going to be an amateur wrestler when you're afraid you might hurt somebody. Bro I got smashed six ways from Sunday, but I was I did that.

We were already doing the y w F at that point, and my buddy, uh, my buddy, Chris Kelly, his uh cousin worked at a gymnastics place and uh we in seventh grade, you know, they had you do this different stuff and one of them was gymnastics, and uh it's fun. And so you know, Chris goes, dude, my cousin works in the gymnastics place. And so I went out and I started at gymnastics. Didn't start gymnastics till I was like twelve, and then I did that and wrestling and

the rest is history. Storytime, everybody. I hope you love Fridays. Back in a moment, I got to talk to the FCC Observer Live. You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike semper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. I noticed on the chat here that some people are questioning my story. Okay, so listen. I don't have a tape measure, but dude, if you're watching on video, watch left and then right. All right, bright,

we're just holding up his left hand right now. That's a noticeable difference. Hmm, that's a noticeable difference. Do you have me to go down and get a tape measure and measure for you guys. You've said that before, haven't you. So anyway, it's not the same. God, are you guys blind? God, It's bad enough that people are deaf, now I have to deal with blindness on top of that. Yeah, it's a slow newsday. Won't be. Won't be this weekend though,

because we got a lot coming up. We got SmackDown tonight. Us on SmackDown threw that Drew McIntire has been announcer SmackDown coming up tonight, and we got a full a W rampage which apparently has a fantastic match with andrawd A in Phoenix. Apparently they were told to go out there and have their pay per view match on TV because they ain't have it on pay per view, and according to reports they did so that's apparently awesome and then apparently a big brawl at the end which is

a lot of fun. And uh. Then of course on Sunday we have Forbidden Door. So if you're a twitch homie, Twitch dot tv, slash up for W video, we will be doing a post show. It will be available on all video platforms, all subscriber video platforms. You have to be a subscriber Twitch dot tv slash up for w Video, which you can sign up for using your Amazon Prime account.

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