Jeff Hardy Arrest/G1 Lineup

sixth Eastern. Holly Smokes, it's Monday here on this show. And if we ever got a lot, a lot to talk about here today, Mark Romandi on Twitter. A w star Jeff Hardy arrested Monday in Florida on three charges, the most significant a d u I, its third offense in the last ten years p online court records that is a third degree felony. Hardy is currently in custody bond. Hardy's first court appearance scheduled for one thirty local time Tuesday.

The other charges driving while licenses canceled, suspended or revoked, violating restrictions on his driver's license. Both of those are misdemeanors. How do you schedule for a tag team title ladder match with his brother Matt on a W Dynamite on Wednesday in St. Louis also said the headline Triple as Big Triple Media Stadium Show and T one on Saturday tag team match with Matt Noward in the stats of

these matches. This story is just now breaking. So as of this moment, there has been nothing official from a W But I would presume that a there ain't gonna be a ladder match performance by Jeff Hardy on Wednesday, and I guess we'll find out what happens. But this is not good obviously in a lot of ways. I mean the Tammy Sich situation. I mean, this guy cannot

be driving, absolutely cannot be driving. And it's amazing when you think about his departure from w W E when he walked out of that match, and they immediately assumed that he must have been on something, and he and his brother and his family, they were immediately like, you know, released the drug test, release a drug test, release a drug test, because apparently wasn't actually on anything. He just was done with it. And he walked out and then he goes to a w and now here we are

another d u I arrest, third in ten years. So yeah, that's just the beginning of everything we got to talk about here from this insane weekend. So back in a moment with more Observer Live. You're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez and Mike Szemberviev on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. The show Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike'snumber VV and not here. He's attempting to connect. If it does not work, I'll try to reset everything

after this break. But I'm not sure how much you'd say in this segment anyway, because there's a lot obviously is noted the situation with Jeff Hardy, third d Y in ten years, third degree felony bond court appearance scheduled for Tuesday. Charges driving while licenses canceled, suspended, revoked, violating restrictions on the driver's license. I I don't no. I mean, as everyone's talking about here today, there's Uber, there's lift, there's Taxis, there's multiple people here on the chat noted

you're Jeff Hardy. You can get a ride. So as noted, nothing official from a w WE. May hear something during the show. I don't know that they're going to release him, but I would not be surprised if they released him. So we will see what happens as we get going here today. Not the only release this weekend. Two times Troy two times Donovan released from w w E a quote polishy policy issue and uh he was told I guess too, lay low and maybe in a year we

can do this again. But he confirmed the release in the tweet Monday morning. Thank you to everybody who has reached out. Mistakes happened, lessons are learned, A bump in the road does not define me, though, I will be back. So now we just have Stacks and everybody in Legato del Phantasma who is now part of Tony d'angelo's crew. Uh an x t uh. This hasn't really been much

of a story, but it should be a story. At XT has started touring again, which is good because everybody there, you know, the Tony d'angelo's and basically everybody with the exception of Eroderick Strong's and such, you know, they need they need to get matches in, they need to work they need to get on the road, and that began this weekend and everybody's getting an opportunity to get more

ringtime in front of a live crowd. And uh and Tony D'Angelo Uh this weekend went down with what appeared to be a shoulder injury, and as of right now, it appears he's fine. Uh. There were essentially two stories out there, one story that he was working the injury, the other that he was injured, but it actually wasn't a bad injury at all. But he appears to be fine. So so he'll be back on on on the show

on Wednesday, presumably. And on the subject of that, By the way, Brian Danielson finally did do an interview and admitted that he worked the entire thing when he felt Actually it wasn't It wasn't Danielson. It was somebody else who who did the interview. I can't remember, but anyway, they they also confirmed that Brian Danielson never was stuck

between the ramp and the ring. Uh. They claimed that he uh, he actually did slip, and then once he slipped and got stuck, uh, he decided he was going to work it from there, which I mean that may very well be what happened. I I kind of was under the oppression that the entire thing, from start to finish was it was a work. But suffice to say, he didn't really get stuck, he didn't really injure his leg. He just decided that he was gonna go with it and and he did so. Anyway, he's okay, and Uh,

Tony DeAngelo appears to be okay. So that is all good news. Uh. Lot of shows this weekend. We can talk about Rampage later, SmackDown later, both good shows. Uh Dominion as well, and there were a number of title changes. At the Dominion show. Jay White won the i w g P World Heavyweight Championship from Okada after hitting a blade runner, And so that means that it is not going to be Hangman versus Ocada in a a singles

match for the title. It is going to be we don't know, but probably probably a triple threat or a four way. My guess is it will probably end up being Ocada, j White, Hangman Page, and Adam Cole in a four way for the i w g P World Heavyweight Championship. But we will find out more on Wednesday. But it's definitely not gonna be the singles match for

the title of Hangman Versus Ocada. We also had will Osprey him meeting Sonata to win the vacant I w g P United States Heavyweight Championship, and it's a weird story because Juice Robinson had won the title, Juice Robinson was the champion. Juice Robinson then went down with appendicitis. Then, for reasons I cannot explain, they announced that he was going to defend the title at Dominion, but then it

turned out he wasn't ready due to appendicitis. But then because he had been billed as defending the title, now because these are the rules in Japan, now they have to strip him of the title, So they just never announced that he was going to defend the title. He would still be the champion right now, so presumably they wanted to do a storyline where he was stripped of the title and then obviously he's going to uh to come back to fight for it when he is better.

But the new champion is will Osprey. He defeated Sonata. We also have a new never open weight champion, Carl Anders and beat Tomatanka to win the title. So this is the first ever singles title for Carl Anderson in New Japan coming off COVID by the way, So so that is that we have new i w g P Heavyweight tag team champions Great o'con and Jeff Cobb beat Bad Luck Folly and Chase Owens. So probably some sort of match involving Great Ocon Jeff Cobb FTR something like

that at the Forbidden Door pay per view. And then for the provisional title, it was the King of Pro Wresting provisional title and whoever got the most counts in ten minutes was going to end up the winner, and Shingo beat tai Chi And this match actually was a pretty great match. And if you've watched a lot of the King of Pro Wrestling title matches, they are not

usually great matches. But I think the key to this one is they had a had a ten minute time limit, so they put the clock up on the screen they only had ten minutes. They actually didn't start going for

pinfalls immediately. They kind of built up to a little bit and then you know, they had the score on the bottom, and it was funny because the announcers did not trust this score keeping that was on the screen, so you know, Chris Charleston's furiously writing down how many pinfall attempts and numbers each guy had, But it actually was it was exciting, it was well worked, and uh yeah, if you normally avoid the kop W championship matches, that

one actually was pretty good. And then obviously the big one because as a W title ramifications, Hiroshi Tanahashi in fact beat Hiroke go To. So it's gonna be uh tana Hashi versus Moxley for the interim title coming up at the Forbidden Door pay per view, and uh, you know, I'm not gonna say it's a spoiler, but I'm pretty

sure that Moxley is winning that interim championship. I I thought that, like if it were me, I put the belt on Tanahashi, But now I'm not sure to put the belt on Tanashi because the whole reason that they have created this interim title is because c M. Punk has uh uh surgery on his lower leg, which apparently that was something Jim Ross came up with on the fly as he was doing commentary, because I guess they use that terminology like in the college football. But anyway,

uh apparently broke his foot. That's what's Max Caster said at least, But anyway, he's out of action for a while, and since he's he's unavailable, they're creating an interim title. So the issue is if Tanahashi wins that interim title, he has already been announced for the G One and that's gonna be six weeks exclusively in Japan. So I'm not sure if you're going to create an interim tie because ce him, Punk is going to be unavailable and then give it to a guy who's going to be

unavailable working the G One. So my presumption is this means that Maxy is getting into the champion. But we can go over the full lineup for the G One after the break. There's hight entrants, four blocks, so everyone's essentially gonna have six matches, but they're over there for six weeks for the tour, so it's gonna average out to about a match a week, although obviously they got the stuff at the end of the tour as well.

But the big name, we all know, the big name of the G One this year my main man, Filthy Tom Lawler. So anyway, we're getting all this after the break, try and get sent for Vivian back in a moment it was over live. You're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike Simper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Begging the show. Brian Olverarez here, Wrestling Observer Live. Still trying to get Mike connected, but I'm here and if we can't get him, maybe you'll be

here as well. I'll open up them phone lines. But let's get into the rest of this news here. This is the lineup for the g One. What are guy sinking of this lineup? We got Okada, Tanahashi, Nighto, go to Toma Tonga, Shingo, Chase Owens, bad Luck, Folly you Jero, Evil, Filthy Tom Lawler, who got a huge pop by the way from the crowd, even though they're not supposed to

hop they did. They gasped, Juice Robinson, Jonah, Yoshi Hashi, Toru Yano, is she E, Jeff Cobb, Everyone's main man, the Great o'kan Well, Osprey, Aaron Hannare, Sonata j White, Kenta, l Phantasmo, Taichi, Zack Saber Jr. Land Sarcho got the biggest pop of anybody, and David Finlay that's the lineup for the G One. What are you gonna think of this lineup? Dave was somewhat let I don't know if let down is the right word. I don't want to speak for Dave anyway. I didn't think it was the

greatest G One lineup of all time. And I would say with you know, there's no uh Ibushi in there, there's no Minor Suzuki. But you know what, if you look at all of these names, even the ones that aren't like big names like David Finlay is an awesome rest lur and uh you know, I've seen nothing but

great matches from Jonah, New Japan Strong, and uh. I think at the end of the day, it's still gonna be a pretty damn good tournament, especially because everyone's gonna get more time to rest up between matches, so you know they're gonna go out there and they're just gonna go nuts. And uh, as noted there's going to be four blocks and uh yeah, largest number of entrance into

the G One ever. So that's the lineup there. We also have details of the qualifying match for the A E W All Atlantic four away coming up at Forbidden Door. If you were not paying attention. There's a new belt in a w the All Atlantic Championship, and we got an exclusive match from wrestlers live on an island in the Pacific Ocean. So what they're gonna do is there's there's four matches. The winners are all going to a

four way. So, uh, it's going to be two qualifying matches which will take place on the June New Japan road card in Korakin. The first will be Ishi versus Yoshinobu Kanamaru and uh hone Ma against Clarke Connors. The winners of those matches will then face off the following night at Corrican Hall. The winner will then qualify for the four away match at Forbidden Door on June in Chicago. Now, I think it's either got to be Clark Honnors or

is she okay? And I love Clark Honnors, but we cannot have a Forbidden Door pay per view without Tomo Hero is She? We just can't. So let's I got another match for that guy. If he loses, I mean, he's he's got to be in this match. Now, I could see them doing a different match with him and putting Clark Connors in the four way I could see them doing that. But for a W We've got we

had Pocket beating Buddy Matthews, so he's in. And then this week on Dynamite We've got Mirror versus Ethan Page and then the final match will end up with Penta versus Malachi Black and of course the pay per view June United Center Chicago, John Moxley versus Tanahashi a w Championship interim championship will be determined on that show. It is not official, but Zach Saber Jr. Has challenged Brian Danielson for the show. It was a backstage interview after Dominion.

He said, American Dragon, can you take some time out of your busy golfing schedule at the Blackpool Country Club to find out who the best technical wrestler in the

world is? But I'll tell you now, Darling. I can't say what he said, but he says it's him, So of course, the Best Technical Wrestler Award is named after Brian Danielson in the Observer Awards, and he won the He won it his own award from two thousand five to which I guess why it's named after him, which, by the way, begs a question why the Best Book

Award is named after me? Three times I've won that award and then uh, it was named after Zach Saber Jr. From two thousand fourteen through and then Danielson wanted again last year. So you know, I it'll it'll all be political who ends up winning the match. You know, it'll it'll it'll come down to whatever you know, Ghetto and Tony kN agree on. But I can tell you one thing, if Daniel Bryan had his way, Zach Saber Junior is winning that match. So we'll we'll see if he's got

the power to make that happen. But anyway, hopefully that match has announced soon because you don't you don't do that tease and you don't have a match that people want to see because you know, like I said on this uh, on this show, you ain't gonna get all these dream matches that you want. You're just not. I said that from day one. But I'm not saying you can't have any And I think that this is a

great match to put here on this show. So Mudo was gonna do an announcement at the Cyberfest festival, and of course KGI Muto is fifty nine. He's he's basically, you know, had no knees for probably about twenty five years now, and so everybody figured, well, he's gonna announce that he's going to uh retire, and he did, but he will retire next year. So he's still got a whole bunch of matches, but he's letting you know that

next spring he is going to retire. But apparently he as five more matches that he wants to do before his retirement. I did not mention if one of them would be with me, but you know, I guess him available. But anyway, he's gonna be announcing uh next year. And uh returned to action after recovering from a left hip injury, so add that to his list of maladies his him.

So that's the update on him. Uh. We had a bunch of interviews over the last couple of weeks about the n W A always ready pay per view, and we were wondering as late as Friday, what in the world are they doing for the main event of the show, because of course it was supposed to be Nick Ald this versus Matt Cardona, but Matt Cardona not only tore his vicep but had surgery so he he would be out, and so what happened was they did a four way and the four way ended up being Trevor Murdoch, nick Eldis,

sam Shaw who was the Rmer, Dexter Loomis, and Tom Latimer and so they had a four way for the vacant title and it ended with Trevor Murdoch penning Nick Aldis to become the new n w A World Heavyweight Champion. And afterwards Cardone showed up and he was supposed to vacate the title, but he refused and Billy Corgan basically told him, you're vacating the title. Brother, So a vacant he stormed off and obviously when he returns he will be facing whoever is the n w A World Heavyweight

Champion at the time. Also uh Kinzie Page and Ella Envy pretty empowered. They defeated Alison Kay and Marty Bell to when the women's tag team titles and the Commonwealth connection Harry Smith and Doug Williams, the same Harry Smith that apparently w W he wanted to brand what do they want to call him? The uh Stampede Stu. Anyway, they beat Bestia Say Say Says and Uh, Micha Wolfe to win the End of World Take Team titles for

the first time. So they're the champions, and uh that's the main news coming out of the n w A show. W w E also announced the second class of their Next in Line program, fifteen college athletes from fourteen universities, seven n C Double A conferences, seven sports, and uh, you know this is our deal where you know, we give people these these contracts and then they continue to go to school or whatever, including high school as we

learned on the next team. But anyway, I like that they have this list of fifteen and you know, they got all their real names and they're going to change them obviously to these uh horrible fake n x T names. And when I look at these, and some of these names are pretty cool. We got case Hatch, he's six ft one. Which, by the way, they list all of these names here, including uh, thunder Keck. That's the real name,

thunder Keck. They're gonna change it anyway. They list all of these names, and then of course the first thing, the first they don't announce, like you know, thunder thunder Keck is a football player from Northfield, New Hampshire. No. The first thing they tell you is how tall they are and how much they weigh. Thunder Keck six three and two, Rachel Glenn six ft, Mikhaela Hall five ft five, Molly car six five and two forty five pounds. Because

you know, it's all about size. You can always tell who the men are and who the women are by the size. You know this uh uh you know five four probably a female, six five to probably a dude. You know what they're looking for. But anyway, fifteen new uh n I L deals have been have been signed. So there you go, everybody. The future of this promotion thunder Keck. Like in a moment Observer Life, you were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike

semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Well back here the show, Brian Alvarez here, No Sam, I can't forget what is uh his issue is, but we're working on it. Actually we're not work on it. He's gonna try and work on it. We've done all we can, but it is time for you, you, my friends, to join the show. Phone number if you want to text four to five seven eight zero seven five six six that is four

to five seven eight zero seven, five six six. If you want to call eight four four nine one three seven, that is eight four four at nine one three twenty seven, twenty seven and so busy. I didn't get a chance to look at the chat. I don't want to call anybody out. But of course the first thing I see when I look at the chat is some bloke going Brian talked about Jeff Hardy Yet why do you tune in late? And then asked if I talked about what was obviously the top story of the day. I mean, hello,

of course I talked about it. Somebody helped me out here on the phone. Let's go to Portsmouth. You're on the air. What's up is the friends the Brandon. I'm happy a Blade birthday to you. Man, Um, yeah, man. And I want to ask, do you think the fans would turn on Athena if she gets booked to be the one who does the throne um Jake Cark kill Um. I know for sure sad Lander has been very over you can tell by her reactions, and it does resemble what MJF was kind of talking about in that probos.

It's all very interesting. So he just look at your aowtsome that do I think the fans would turn on her, Yeah, like if Athena gets the belt instead of Statlin. I see, I see, I see, I see. Well I want to I want to thank you very much for the call. See. I don't think they would turn on her for that. You know. They they turned on Ruby because Ruby was in the match and they wanted stat Lander to win,

and so Ruby took the brunt of it. But you know, if if ember Moon is is facing Jade and stat Lander's just like you know, nowhere in sight, I don't I don't know. I don't think they would turn on on Amber Moon. I could be wrong, and quite frankly, I mean if you if you watched double or nothing. They really only turned on Ruby for for that night. Uh you know, by by the time the pay per view came along, you know, Ruby was super over again. So um, the only one they really turned on and

they kept turning on was was Red Velvet. But uh, you know, Red Velvet she kept getting turned on because they kept booking her to beat popular women in their hometown. It was almost like it was by design. I don't know if it was or not, but it happened so frequently that it was almost like there's no way that she's supposed to get cheered, Like she's just one popular hometown woman after another that red velvets going in there

and beating So I don't I don't think so. All right, let's go to Uh the phones, Little Rocky are on the air. What's going on? Go ahead, you're on the air. Oh right, what's up, Brian, what's happening? Uh? What do you think about? Well, it's kind of a two folk question. What do you think about a W diminishing the value of the interim championship and should really the j White Switchblade in JPW title match really go on last and be the main event? What do I you you feel

they've devalued the interim title? Well, yeah, I mean a little bit. I mean there was a whole debacle with the Battle Royal and you know, the questionable entrance on. Maybe, like Dave said over the radio, like maybe they should have just had like a few active previous a W World champions and just have a match there and then the Winter be the interim. Well yeah, I want to thank you very much for the Calso here's a deal.

First off, it's hard to value something that has no value yet, so I can't say that they've devalued the title. Whether the title will have any value will depend on who wins it and uh and what they do with it after they after they win it. So would it have been best for them to just have announced here are the three available former champions, They're going to have a three way and the winner is going to be

the champion. Yes, that would obviously have been the easiest way to do this, but we have a Forbidden Door paper you that's coming up at the end of June, and so the Soul Punk thing obviously wasn't planned. It wasn't planned for him to get injured. It wasn't planned for him to have to, uh, you know, do the interim championship deal. But once that was done, okay, well, now we gotta figure out what are we gonna do

for this interim title. And you know, because of Forbidden Door, they wanted a new japan guy, and they wanted an a w guy and uh, and then you had to figure out how to get there. And yes, I would have the Battle Royal. The winner faces Moxley a match on dominion, Like there's a lot of stuff going on, But I think the idea was, listen, we're in this situation right here, and and what can we do to like capitalize on it? And clearly their idea and you know,

Dynamite did a very good number. It was number one on cable this week. You know, the idea was we we do a Battle Royal at the beginning of the show, and then we do the winner against Moxley at the end of the show. That's big matches on the show. And then you know, New Japan can do a Dominion match, which you know, maybe you can you know, garner some interest for Dominion by doing in in a w UH qualifier there. So it's just a lot of different things

to try to bring eyeballs. Was it was it perfect? No, doesn't have any and and it really does no bearing

on on what happens with the championship. If John Moxley wins that interim title and this bro goes on a tear and he's smashing dudes and having great matches on TV, and you know, he can bring a lot of value to the interim title, and then you know, if he's a great interim champion and then Punk comes back, I mean, it'll feel like a big match when they do the unification, So it is too early to determine if there is

an issue with the interim title. If you want to say that has been too convoluted, like my explanation, just now go for it. I would agree there's too much stuff going on, but there's a reason for it. It's not just done for the sake of being convoluted. Dagan, you're on the air, bro what's up? What's going on? No one else could possibly be calling from Bellows Falls. I don't think there's any other anybody else listening to this show from Bellows Falls, Vermont. But first off, Brian,

happy birthday, my friend. I wanted to get that out of there. Working on that song for the contest tomorrow, so that should be fun. Um, wanted to get your thoughts on this, g one. Uh, we have four blocks now, so do you think that they will have the top point getters in each block face off in sort of a semifinal thing where you have like A block winner versus B block winner, and then C block winner versus D block winner on the other side, and then the

two face off in the finals. The winners of that How would you book this, Brian? You know what? You know? What I do? You know what I do? What would you do? Brian? Alright, so we got we got four blocks, which we don't even know the blocks yet. Okay, but let me let me get some names and completely at random.

I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna pick four winners. So let's say that, digging out of here so you can get the next bloke on the line, Let's say that your four winners end up being Okada wins a block, Tanahashi wins a block, Nighto wins a block, and Filthy Tom Lawler wins a block. Four winners. What do you do with four winners? Well, you could do a four way I don't like that idea. So what I would do?

You know what I do? I would say, here are your four winners, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna leave it up to the fans, and you let the fans pick the two semifinal matches with those four individuals. So may be the fans want to they want to see Okada versus Filthy and Tanahashi versus Nito, or maybe they want to see nights O versus o'kinda for the five fifth time and Tonahashi versus Filthy. You let the fans pick those two semis and then babam do you

have the finals. That's what I do, just to have a little bit of something different. You know what I'm saying. It's already different. There's already twenty eight guys in four blocks. We could do something different. So yeah, that's what I do. I'm a man, you know what I am. Everybody, I'm a man of the people. That's what I am. Let's go to uh, Honolulu, you're on the air. What's going on? Hey, hey,

happy birthday? Thank you. This might be an unpopular opinion here, but I don't think any title should exist if it doesn't have a purpose. Well, what's the point of a t NT champion besides a ethically what You're the best wrestler on TNT. Well, uh, you know, based on the name of the belt. Yes, he's I guess the best wrestler on TNT. Wouldn't that just be the heavyweight champion? Though? Well, here's here's the deal, my friend. You're you're you're you're

you're right. But but here's the deal. So you have a you have a world heavyweight champion. Okay, this is the pinnacle of the sport, your World Heavyweight Championship. It is a belt that everybody should want to vie for. You get into this business because you want to be, in storyline, the world heavyweight champion. In real life, you get into this business because you want to make a

lot of money and provide for your family. But in storyline, you want this this belt made a Cubic, Zirconian whatever. So that's the main title. Now. To keep the prestige of the main title, that main title should largely only be defended on major events pay per views, you run some show in a stadium with twenty five people, etcetera, etcetera. But you should also have a title that is defended more regularly on television. So I don't have a problem

whatsoever with having a secondary TNT title. Okay, Now this is because of the size of the roster. Okay, I don't have a problem with Jade Cargill having a TBS championship. They're like being a secondary women's title. But if you have a far fewer number of women, you may only need one big belt that they fight for. But you know, it's all about equality. Even though it's it's about equality,

except the rosters aren't equal. Like if there were a hundred women and a hundred men, then it would be equal. Then you would have an equal number of championships. But if you have a hundred women in twenty men, we still have to make it equal even though it's unequal. But anyway, but then we move on. Now we've got this. Uh you know, we have the ft W title, which really is is you know, people complain about that with everything,

but it doesn't really count. It's like it's a belt that's only gonna be in Taz is stable, it never changes hands, it's rarely defended. It's just kind of like a you know, part of Taz's gimmick. We don't need it, don't get me wrong, but you know when people make a list of titles and they're complaining, it's like they don't ever really do anything with that belt. But this all Atlantic title? Have you ever? You know what's scarcity is? You know what that is? You know there's a you

want a certain car but you can't get it. There's like it's back ordered for three years. I mean, you could go to the car dealership and just grab a car, but you know, you want the car you can't have. It's scarcity. That's that's what this championship thing should be about. The championships should be scarce instead, now it's like there's fifty championships. Oh, you know, I really wanted the world title.

But actually it's a storyline. I really wanted the world title, but I'll just go for the T and T title now and then we're gonna have the all a Merry, you know, the all all Atlantic titles. They haven't said a storyline, but it's basically like, you know, you guys weren't in the the Battle Royal for a shot at the main title, because now you're in a tournament for this you know, tertiary title. So like the more titles you have, the less value. All of the titles have,

not just the world title, but all of them. So anyway, we don't need this belt. It's it's uh, it's unneeded. You know, I'd be okay with Trio's titles, but we have way too many singles titles as it is, and uh that takes away the the titles being special, which is what you don't want to do. The title should be the number one thing, and you know what making people happy? Oh, let's have a belt for these guys.

Too bad. It's not about making everybody happy, It's about making that title special and not everybody gets it back at a moment. Observer Live, Yeah, it taking that back. You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alfarez and Mike Simper Vivian on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network and the show. Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. We're trying to figure out with Simper vvs so we can return tomorrow. But a couple of text messages, are

you going? Are we going to give Jeff Hardy unlimited chances to not learn his lessons and watch how this ends as they all usually do? Well, who's we? But no, I don't think that's going to happen. But nothing is official at this point. Marcella says, Brian agreed on the title what makes it so special, as well as the talks on who should have had the title and who did it? I mean, if Arne had ever gotten the heavyweight title, would he be as relevant as he is today?

Or a Jack Swagger also Stampede's That is my favorite Braser's film. Hope you had a good day, thanks or Solo. Firstan says, I'm baffled They're doing Riddle versus Roman on SmackDown next week and not Money in the Bank, which is in Vegas, which is in Riddle's hometown. They can build him up and do their favorite thing, beat him in his hometown. Well, the bigger issue is, uh, you know, I want to make money, and uh they've already made

their money off Peacock. So you know, putting Roman Reigns on money the bank means absolutely zero to w w E. They don't make one dime if more people watch because Roman Reigns is on there. But if they do big SmackDown ratings as a result of Roman Reign defending the title on the show, well then it comes time to renew your television deal and you make even more money. So, uh, you know, we knew this was gonna happen when they sold the Peacock, and that is that you ain't gonna

get those pay per views he used to get. You know, you're gonna get something, and they're gonna give you matches, but like the big stuff, I mean, it's gonna be at WrestleMania or it's gonna be in Saudi Arabia or you know wherever they gonna get the most money for this stuff. They don't make any more money on Peacock. They've made their money. They're done, so that's why, Hey, listen,

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