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rain record today. Yeah, no, I'm not putting the microphone stand back up now. The this vacation is going to go on forever. It's just reminds me of being sitting there on that rocking chair with old Vinny um Man. Anyway, Hey, we got a lot of news to get into today. It's Monday here on the program, and you know what that means. We got Monday Night Raw coming up tonight, and we actually have a match announced, believe it or not, which is Damien Priest defending his uh his title against

Finn Balor. And also Edge is going to be on the show. That's literally all we know about it. So that's my Raw preview for tonight, and we've got all of the news. We've got more matches for WrestleMania, as in, they're gonna tell you what day the matches are, because you know they're trying to sell tickets desperately here to the point that they're bringing back, of all people, Vince McMahon. Vince McMahon scheduled for a match at WrestleMania, although all of the news today is how full of it w

w E is. We've got updates on the utification match, which apparently isn't really gonna be much of a unification match. And we've got updates on Vince McMahon wrestling although he's apparently not gonna be wrestling, and a bunch of other stuff as well. So if you're looking to, uh, if you're looking to buy a ticket to not get what's advertised, if I got the big show for you everybody, we'll tell you about that here on the program today. Also what day you should buy a ticket for if you

want to see Becky Lynch and Bianca bel Air. We have a e w's announcement. Uh they're heading to the West coast. So we'll give you some upcoming dates for for a w and uh, of course we got smacked down rampage and plenty more. So stick around, everybody. We're

back Wrestling Observer Live, begging the show. Bring Albert is here, Wrestling Observer Live Mixemburg Baby also Wrestling Observer at dot com and we're gonna talk about this, uh, this West Coast swing here for me w here a little while by No, for the guy that asked on the chat, that is not the big announcement that Tony's gonna have on Wednesday, And that's something else And I don't know what it is. Do you know what it is? Mike? I don't. Do you think Dave knows what it is? No,

Dave was really weird last night. It's like there's a lot of rumors. I don't know what he said, but it was like he did. I don't think he knows what it is. He's heard rumors, but I haven't even heard rumors. I don't know what it is, am I Matt to lunch mm hmmm, I don't know. I needed to not look at the chat. There's so much stuff going on and everyone all even can talk about is my hair and I didn't do anything. That's a point Brian's hair was blonde in Hawaii, but it's gray in Seattle.

What's going on? Maybe it didn't change color, blokes, Maybe you're imagining things like I've been telling you for weeks. Now, now let's get into the news here, because we've got two top stories that are just they're incredible w w E stories. I was gonna read this word for word from Wrestling Observer dot com. On the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer give an update on w w e's title unification plans for WrestleMania thirty eight and

it's aftermath. W w E Champion Brock Lesner and Universal Champion Roman Reigns are set to face off in a winner take all championship unification match at Mania thirty eight, but it doesn't appear that w w E will only have one men's world championship for long. Meltzer noted on Sunday's Wrestling Observer Radio that he has been told w w E does not believe it is quote feasible in the modern environment to have one world champion for both raw and SmackDown quote. The deal here is it. It

is a unification match. From what I am told it's the same idea as the last time he unified the titles. Remember like twenty years ago, eighteen years ago, and they did that, and then like a week later, they just handed a belt to Triple H. I was told that it is not feasible in the modern environment to not have each brand given the two networks have a champion, so this would be a unification match, and then they will not forget about it, but there will be two champions.

So we're gonna have a unification match at WrestleMania, but we will not have a unified champion for any length of time, which brings us to a match between Vince McMahon and SmackDown announcer Pat McAfee looks to be on

the cards for WrestleMania thirty eight. Dave Melton reported this afternoon the match between McAfee and m command is listed in the internal schedule for WrestleMania, as follows a post wrestling report from Friday, where it was reported that a program between the two is expected to start and lead to WrestleMania. Dave then noted that very unlikely Vince is actually gonna have a wrestling match. There's gonna be a

lot of smoke and mirrors. So you're telling me that we got two matches now that we're advertising for WrestleMania where they're not gonna give you what they're advertising. I've mentioned this before. I've mentioned this before, but I have never in my life seen arresting I should say a wrestling company, because I'm sure that they're actual, real companies out there that are like this. But I have never seen a wrestling company that made life so willingly difficult

for themselves. Never, not one time ever. Like you know, Impact Wrestling, life was difficult for them, but they were like completely incompetent. Okay, and uh, you know WCW life got difficult for them also due to incompetence. But the funny thing about WW is the guy the very top, you know, God bless the guy. He's completely incompetent. But

there's like a lot of smart people working there. But man, I hear so much stuff from this company me and it's like, you're smart, but you you come up with all of these ideas, these circuitous ideas that they going this big circle and just make life way more difficult than it needs to be. This thing here about how I want to read the exact quote, it is not

quote feasible in the modern environment. Do not have each brand given the two networks have a champion bro How many times have we heard, oh, man, you know Fox doesn't know that Brock is now going to be on Raw. Oh SmackDown wants to make sure that they've got Ronda. Dude,

I listen, I'm out in the meetings. Are you actually telling me that, like these people are insistent, like these network executives are insistent that we have a very specific and very limited roster, and were for that over being able to have everybody. You honestly are telling me that if you went to Fox and you were like, listen, all right, we'll give you Ronda and Roman, but like Brock's largely gonna be we gotta give u say something.

And then you go to us and you're like, you're gonna get Brock, but like we gotta give you know, Fox, you're telling me that they would prefer that to you going to them and saying, you know what, we're gonna We're gonna unify these two rosters and Fox bro you're gonna get Lessner and and Bianca bell Air and Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks and Brock Lesner and Roman and guess what USA, You're gonna get Roman and Brock. You're telling me that each network is gonna go no, no, no, no, no.

Hold on a second, Hold on a second. I prefer not to have all of the biggest stars. I'd rather have half of the biggest stars exclusively. You're telling me that that's what they prefer. So anyway, we have this problem, you know, the modern era, you just can't have one champion in the modern era, you have to have what whatever, who cares. But anyway, we're advertising a match that we're gonna deliver in the moment, but then it's gonna be just like whatever. The belts are gonna go back to

each brand afterwards. So you know, pay your money for the one night to see which guy is gonna win, and then we'll go back to the way things used to be and that Vince McMahon match. Make sure you buy your ticket. We don't want to get stuck in fifty five thousand and have Brian be right here, So make sure you buy your ticket to see Vince McMahon wrestle.

But then he's not gonna We're just gonna do a bunch of gimmicks, but you'll still bow to him and uh and thank him for everything that he's done for this business. I got nothing more to say. Aren't they passed fifty five thousand a night? I think they're barely past fifty five thousand. Look at least they're being transparent about everything this year. They're not even hiding the fact that you know they're just they said it, it's impossible in this environment to have only one champion. So you

know that match is going to lead to nothing. It's gonna lead to a backlash match maybe or whatever. But at some point, Belt goes off and he'll say, whoever wins this match, I only want to be on this brand. Why am I working so much? I'm done with this. However, they decide to go do things. They're bringing back Vince McMahon, Vince McMahon, They're bringing back Stone Cold, Steve Austin, They've already brought back ron Da Rousey. There's no bones about what this year is. It is We're gonna put on

the wackiest Johnny Knoxville for the Intercontinental title. We're putting on the wackiest show we possibly can. We are running a Rustlemania show during WrestleMania. That's what we're doing. All these other promotions that run these wacky shows, we're doing the same thing, except it's going to be WrestleMania. And what will it mean the next day? I guess we'll find out on Raw. That's just to me. That's what a lot of this is. It's a lot of stuff and in a on Wrustlemania Night one in night two

is gonna be something, I guess. But it's like, I mean, for the future again, how many times are you gonna continue to try to do this? How many times you're gonna be able to pull something like this off? How many more names can you pull back from the past? Is Santino Morrella. We're bringing back seventies six year olds and we can go on for a long damn time pulling people are we bringing back? I mean, as Santela,

Santino Morella a big enough name. You've exhausted everyone. Now you've exhausted everyone except for Rock who who knows if he comes back. But if Austin comes back, who that's it? So, I mean, it's just the law of diminishing returns. With bringing all these people back, I mean, Steve Austin's name was said, wwes product is so cold right now, I guess maybe it hasn't it the mainstream. Nobody is saying

a word about it now. They're hoping Vin and Pat McAfee, because it can be promoted on Fox, is going to be the thing. You know, at some point you're gonna need to create stars and said over and over if you had a bunch of stars, you wouldn't have this problem out of here, back in the moment of Server Live, Jimminy Christmas, I'm trying to create new stars here like handheld mix. You geeks can't handle any change. Fine, back on the stand, you all happy now? If not mat

of focus anything else? Watch this? Everybody see that that anyway? Lift up your sleeve again. Lift up your sleeve again. What is going on there with that? With that cuff? You put your thumb in it? Bro? What are you a sixteen year old girl? Would there be a problem? You know? What's funny about this whole feasibility thing is okay, fine, you you go to you go to Fox, and you talk to all these geeks in USA and they're like, no, damn it, we only want half a roster. How there's

no way we want all the stars. We're being one point three billion between the two of us. We only want half the stars. Okay, don't even argue, we only want fine. All right, fine, you get half and you get half, but the biggest star is gonna be the champion. They're gonna wear both shows, right feasibility. You know, somebody inside w W right now is going Brian Varez, what do you know about anything? What do you know about

bus this? We've been able to sell these fools on the fact we are only giving them half a roster, and then whenever they perk up, then we go, oh, well, Brock will work both or Roman is gonna show up or whatever it's gonna be. So maybe maybe they're just geniuses. And the fact that they've been able to get a billion dollars for a half pass roster with really no stars whatsoever except for what to Brock Lesner and Roman

reigns and that's about it. It's amazing. They've had Ria Ripley and they've had Bianca, and Bianca obviously had to deal with the fact that, you know, when they brought Becky back, they just completely mashed her over and of course. Well that's supposed to gonna rectify itself at WrestleMania. Sure, maybe it will, but let's see what actually happens after that. They've had Rhea and and Bianca for this long. You think with a roster they would have those two. Charlotte Sasha.

I mean, it's just it's amazing. Becky in theory should be a huge star right now. It's amazed they have these women and they still need Ronda Rousey. You think if they were firing on all cylinders, they would even need Rohonda Rousey. The answer is actually no, no, they wouldn't. But they have done nothing to develop so many of those women I just mentioned. And it's funny, by the way, as I know this person being sarcastic, but what he says, Hey, Brian,

how's your territory doing? Well, you know what, you're right on, have a territory, But you know what I have is uh business, brain business, okay, and you know you know I don't have a territory. You know who did have a successful territory back in the day, Well, his name was Vince McMahon in a very successful territory. It was it was, and his business was absolutely on fire. It

was called the Monday Night Wars. It was in terms of like popularity of professional wrestling, it was the the absolute peak of this business, much much, much more popular. Not financially successful because television deals weren't what they are today, but in terms of pop already pro wrestling. Would you argue that Vince McMahon's nine was more popular than today, So it's a pretty popular territory in nine, Tell me

it was. You know what happened in Well, they had a show called Raw and they had a show called SmackDown, and they were on different networks. I was on USA and SmackDown was on UPN and somehow, and I don't know how, it was feasible then but not now. Why they had everybody working both shows on both networks and they had one champion that's worked both shows in that very successful territory. But that was twenty three years ago. Twenty three years ago. They lived twenty three years ago.

Nothing has changed in this company. They still wish it was twenty three years ago, except in this case it's it's completely, absolutely positively unfeasible to do what they did. By the way, my wife got me this this top here Severn shut up about it. So once again she got it for herself and you've decided to like take it out of the closet. She bought it for me. There's a gift. M Two women's championship matches are set

for Night one of WrestleMania thirty eight. So if you're a fan of women and then I've got the WrestleMania night for you. W W has announced Becky Lynch and Bianca bell Air's Raw Women's Championship match will take place Rustlemania thirty eight Night one this April. A T n T. Stephen Arlington, Texas is hosting the two nights, Saturday April two and Sunday April three. That means that Lynch versus Bellair will be happening on the same night as he SmackDown.

Women's Championship match between Charlotte Flair and Ron Drousy brock Lesner and Universal Champion Roman Reigns winner take all title unification match has been announced for Night to of WrestleMania. So now you know what to buy your ticket for. I don't know, I don't know. Just the way to see what happens with Johnny knox Hill that's really gonna be the thing that pushes me over the edge on which night I'm going to buy and go down for Bro. Sammy Zane kicked this guy in the head so hard

on SmackDown, like they they did. Uh. Johnny Knoxville comes out and he challenges Sammy Zane and Sammy says no, and they get into this. Uh, they get into this brawl and I can't help. But you know, think about all the concussions Johnny Knoxville has had and uh and in his words, almost dying of a brain hemorrhage like a year ago when he was filming this movie. And maybe he was exaggerating a little bit, but any of you blokes out there watch Johnny knoxvilln't think that guy's

never had a concussion. Raise your hand. If so, there's that hole in my shirt again, raise your hand, everybody? No one? Okay, Well, anyway, he's been cleared by w W E And so I'm watched in this angle and Sammy Zane throws him in the corner and he goes for this running mafia kick because I like to call it Kuza kick, and and Bro, he misses by a mile. I mean, he's nowhere near Johnny Knoxville's head. And at first, I'm like, god, Lee, they don't usually uh, you know,

they don't usually get shots like that. For like, for once in an eternity, they didn't cut the camera ninety two times during the kick. They just left it one continuous shot and you could see that it missed, and I was like, man, well that's good. I don't want to see the guy kicked in the face, so, you know, then Sammy Zane puts him in the corner again and he goes running and he kicks his dude right in the face and it's the It's like a baseball bat

hitting a tree. I was like, oh my god, that sounded brutal, and I thought this, you know this, Sammysane, what do you want to say about the guy? Man, he can slap a leg. Then they go check this out from before the break. And what likes to do I've mentioned this a million times is their replays are always weird. Like you know, any other sport. If there's like a big you know, some guy gets punched in

the head. In UFC, they turn on the four K cam and super super duper slow motion and so you see the thing go and the whole guy's face does whatever and spit goes flying. It's gross, but not w w e w w EI. There's like a big move and they're like, watch this move in slow motion and you see the guy's foot coming into the guy's face in super slow motion and all of a sudden goes bamn in super fast meats so you can't see anything

at this time. They got out that four K cam and you just see Sammy's aid's foot just go right into the face of Johnny Knoxville. John Knoxell goes, he falls down, the refere he goes to make sure he's alive. I'm like, did someone smart enough Sammy's that this guy had sixteen concussions and a brain hemorrhage because him and he Christmas, he kicked him as hard as he couldn't a head. No, I have a match of wrestle media.

This is like the WrestleMania where it's like, well, we made it through this pandemic, so let's roll every dice that we've got. That's what Vince in the ring. That's when the guy with the brain hemorrhage in the ring. Let's get stone cold Steve Boston, who was told in two thousand two he should never wrestle again because you cant con paralyzes. Let's put him in the ring twenty years later. Well, I mean edge edges held up all right, But they are rolling the dice on this show. Thank god,

this is not my show. Mm hmm. They don't have a territory. Thank god. They're not rolling the dice. They're just literally no, they are rolling the dice. Mike, No, no, no, no, like rolling the dice would mean they're put they're making it a risk. There's no risk here. Really, what they're they're emptying out the toy box is what they're doing. Look, Brian, how many tickets have already been sold? How much money

has already been? Talking physical risk for a seventy six year old guy who was told a decade ago, no more bumps. A guy who had a brain hemorrhagy a year ago is in the ring doing a match. A guy who was told not to wrestle because he could get paralyzed twenty years ago is back wrestling again. Are they gonna put Hunter in next? Yes they might. I'm not even joking. What's next? Now? They're gonna bring out next hunter to be out there when Cody faces whoever

he's gonna face, this guy says they're rolling one die. No, bro, you don't get it, okay, especially in the case of Vince McMahon. Physically, Yes, this guy, this guy is the boss. Okay. He's gonna get in the ring, and once he's in the ring, he's gonna do whatever he wants. All Right, that's it. It doesn't matter if he was clear, that doesn't matter if he was given restrictions. The moment that guy gets in the ring, maybe he'll be smart and

he's not gonna anything stupid. But once that guy gets in the ring, there's nothing you can do about it. He got headbutted by Kevin Owens his last physical appearance in the head but open bled everywhere. Yeah, shoot, headbutted by Kevin Owens. I can't believe the night, night night. What's the word naive night, naivety, not my whole naivety of these people here they're taking no whatever whatever naive Okay,

so naivety. On the Wednesday after this year's Double or Nothing pay per view, a double is gonna make its Los Angeles debut. It was announced today the Wednesday June one episode of Dynamite will be at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Double or Nothing taking place in Las Vegas Sunday, May n I'll be there and in my episode will be the first ever eight Double You show to take place

in California. Also inst today the Toyota Arena on Ontario, California, hosting the Double or Nothing Fallout edition of a Rampage. I got a big list of upcoming shows. We'll do that after the break. Observer Live back at the show. Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive, Mikes and burviv

also Wrestling Observer dot Com. A w you know this, Tony Con guy finally took a finally took some of the advice a old Nick Con of w w E. Nick Con, I don't know if you guys are aware of this or not, came up with the brilliant idea to announce your dates in advance. Never before in the history of wrestling were dates announced in advance. But Nick Con thought, you know what I think we should do might help draw fans, just to announce dates in advance,

and so we have. Actually we don't even have all of the dates for even though Its funny I remember to have all the pay per view dates for the upcoming year. Anyway, So a W has got some shows coming up. We got March second in Daily's Place, Jacksonville, March three, Orlando, Florida, March fourth, Orlando as well, Revolution

pay per views in Orlando. Then we've got March nine in Florida, Estoria, Estero, Florida, and many many more we've got I'm not gonna read all these, but we got Garland, Texas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Nevada, a couple of shows in Nevada, and then yes, Inglewood, California, Ontario, California. And then they head on June three to the Little Caesar's

Arena in Detroit, Michigan. So I can't really call it a West Coast swing, but we are gonna get some shows in in California, and I am I am surprised we haven't had dates in you know, the Portland area. Dude, Seattle would do huge for a W, but not yet. We will have to wait. Maybe they were there were logistical reasons why. He knows why when it comes to some of these buildings and all that sort of stuff with with Covid all that, and maybe that was part of the reason as to why maybe they did think

about having a swift. Who knows what it is, but it doesn't matter. Right now, they're coming to Detroit, They're coming to southern California, and that's how That's all you had to say. They're they're they having their debuts and at some point, I'm sure they are going to run Portland and Seattle and all the places that they haven't been. But for right now, you know that that Southern California swing is gonna be a big deal. You know, Las

Vegas is what whatever. That Sunday is, the twenty nine, So they still have a show to announce as far as Dynamite goes and wherever that taping is going to be. You have rampage at the Toyota Center, so it'll be interest thing to see where they pick. You know, as far as they're run in Vegas, do they run Glendale, do they run Alburquerque? You know, do they run somewhere else in California? Before they decided to run in in at the Toyota Center for that live rampage, This person here,

says Brian Covid is still a thing. What has that to do with running the West Coast. I'm missing something here. Heavier restrictions maybe, I don't know. I don't know. So we've got I want to wish the best to Alex Zane. He suffered a significant eye injury during Saturday's g c W Cold This Winter Show. Tweeted today he's suffered a ruptured globe. There's one thing that would ever suffer it is a ruptured globe. He was doing a death match.

Four panes of glass broken. One piece of glass went through his eyeball, and so he had to have it removed and then his eye put back together. I don't get it, dude, I don't get it. Lass doesn't listen too good, that is for absolutely sure. And you know, it looked as if the cut that he got on his arm was bad enough. But then you know, and again I don't know if if piece of glass went up and got caught up there or whatever it is, but something, you know, violated the actual globe of the

eye itself. How long he's gonna be out for I don't know. I'm sure he's going to be wearing an eye patch for a while as well, too. That's gonna be something he's gonna have to get used to. So it was a certainly a ultimately an expensive deathmatch, that is for sure, for him to have his very first one. Col Raderick had his first a week before when much more swimmingly than it did, although some of the spots

weren't exactly the same thing either. Alexane, you know, doing a huge twisting splash, you know, over Jimmy Lloyd on a painted glass. It's uh, you know, you just can't predict where shards are gonna go. Sometimes there's nothing that happens. A lot of times nothing happens. Sometimes really bad things can happen. Here's a good example. Alright, Uh, we're gonna go to the feedback here we can talk about rampage

and smacked in if you'd like to as well. Eight zero seven five six six is the text message line zero seven five six six Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com And uh, Tony here as a point, and I'll just read it then I'll talk about it. He says. When they started the brand split in two thousand two, the business started going down. Now, I would not I would not say that the reason that things collapsed after the Attitude area after the Attitude era was because of

the brand split. There were many many things that happened, the death of World Championship Wrestling UH, the death of UH, the Invasion when w w F bought w CWU, Stone Cold Steve Boston, turning Heel, the Rock, going to Hollywood. I mean, there were there were a thousand reasons and things started going down, but it did go down after the brand split, So it's not like the brand split

remedied anything slowed anything down. I mean i I I've been an advocate of getting rid of this brand split for a long time now, especially because one of the main reasons that they claimed that they needed a brand split was because you couldn't run to house show tours unless you had two rosters, even though the eighties they

ran four house show tours with only one roster. What was required was to think and plan a little bit, which there is an inability to think and plan today apparently, because unless you have a brand split, you just can't possibly run two different tours. But anyway, they were on house shows. Now they're all super shows, they're all combined

brand shows. So the only the literally the only reason to have a brand split today is this claim that Fox in USA want to pay uh six million dollars each for half the roster, which I mean, if that's what they want, and my money, but I find that hard to believe. I'll just if you're gonna do a brand split, actually do a proper one. You know, you could if you actually treated your championships and actually held them in some regard and actually had some thought, you know,

put into some of these things. You could have a world champion on both brands. You could have a U S Champion that goes to or sorry, Intercontinental champion that goes to both brands. You could have tag team, and you could actually have stars wearing these belts because you've actually built up stars, and you could actually have two rosters that are fighting so they could go back and forth and make more money and have more prestige and be seen on both shows and do more things like that.

If you're gonna have a brand split, do something with it. They've never been able to do anything with it, and they have never been able to stick to their guns when it comes to having any sort of long term planning for anything. And it's worse now than it's ever been. But nothing means anything. Literally, nothing means anything. Only brock And and Roman and where they are deciding to show up and obviously Brock being on both shows especially. You

know what does that tell you? First? Here, says Nick Wayne versus Blake Christian, this match was awesome. You love everything about it except for commentary making fun of you at the beatning of the match. What did they say? And who was it? I am sure that Dave praise Ach only says nice things about you, well normally he does. Was it praise Act. Actually it wasn't Praiseach. It was Lenny Leonard. It was Leonard. Yeah, it was Lenny Leonard and Kevin Gil. Kevin may not have said I want

to I need a recap. Now tell you what, Nick Wayne, awesome match. I didn't. I didn't see to five fifty. I don't know where I can see that. It is that down the streaming service. I don't know, but I gotta see this match with Shane Strickland. He just had had a match with Ethan HD last weekend and Jordan Oliver last weekend as well to both sides of the Country Prestige Wrestling and g c W last weekend. Nick say it It's been said a zillion times, keeps putting

on incredible performances for his age. It's amazing that people want to work with this kid. I get veterans that have been around more than double his age, triple his age, you know, and they actually want to work with him. It's an amazing thing. I'll never forget. After that Joey Janella match, Joy Janellis said that Nick Wayne was the best wrestler he'd ever been in the ring with. That's what Joey Janellis said during the Let's see what do we have here? Bryan, can you give me one and

reason to watch WrestleMania this year? This from Dagan, I can tell I have zero interest in anything w W is putting out right now, knowing full well none of it matters. Well, listen, if you're gonna watch any w W show, then you should watch Wreustlemania. But you're not gonna have a whole lot that matters on any of the shows because it's at this point about creating content.

It's not about doing long term storytelling. It's just you know what, the funny thing is, every now and then they actually do some long term storytelling and people get mad about it, like Bianca bell Air getting beaten in twenty six seconds of Summer Slam and then having to climb from the bottom Soul Survivor Survivor series win the Royal rumble. Why anybody believe in anything that they try to do. Yes, well it's happened so far. You gotta live in the mall. You could give me a break, Brian.

We're looking at a look, excuse me, look at the stuff that they have done with Becky. Look at the sorry interludes and Becky, I mean this whole thing was coming off of I guess she's got her mojo back after looking like a puts against Leeda. She's slepping out there like a loser, after looking like a loser with Charlotte talking down to her and Ronda talking down to her, saying that they're not even she's not even worth her time. Boy, this has been fantastic. What a great build. Look, the

bottom line is they haven't done a great build. What they found about was whether it was accidental or not. Bianca bell Air and do Drop have great chemistry, and that's been the thing that has been at least going on, is the fact that Bianca is winning and she actually has had do drop out there to look good against and thank God for that because that's been the only thing she's had. That's it. That's all. Listen, everybody, listen to me. If you don't like what they've done, fine, Okay,

that's your opinion. But the fact of the matter is, Brian, let's play out. They did a storyline where Becky Lynch returned and beat Bianca bell Air in twenties six seconds at SummerSlam, and the story was a Bianca would fight her way back to the top and win the title at wrestle Media. If you don't like the way that they did it, that's fine. Sole Survivor Survivor Series, she

won the Women's Royal Rumble. Hey, listen, If she loses a WrestleMania whatever, okay, but I expect her to beat Becky Lynch at WrestleMania, and she probably hope she does in a place where plans change, though it's hard to really believe that. I don't know if this has been so pure from them the entire time. I I can't believe that. Look how many times they've changed their minds on other things and decisions that they've made I'd like

to believe that that's the case. It's hard to give them any credit for it, though, it really is, especially with the way that they've done Becky, especially with the way this thing's gone along. It really hasn't gone to make Bianca really any better. It just gives her a victory again. She's I don't think, in any better position now than she wasn't. That's unfortunate. Sheep should be a lot bigger star than what she is. Person says who has left for Roman Reigns after Brock, mad Cap, Moss

bro We all know who's left for Roman Reigins. Nobody, okay, and it's not new. It's not new. This has been the case for the last year. Oh we need someone for Roman Reigns. Well, you know, let's pluck to Sorrow out of the bottom of the card and we'll give him a three week push, and then he's gonna have a match and no one's gonna believe he can win, and then he'll be defeated, and then we'll move on to the next guy we pluck out of the mid card.

That's all that's gonna happen until next year, when they think they're getting a Rock but I'm telling you right now my prediction for it's not gonna be a rock and Roman reigns in WrestleMania back in a moment of Server Live back in the show Bright nowbur is here Wrestling Observer Live Mixcember V also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Firstance, Brian, what is your prediction on the Tony con announcement on Wednesday? I I honest to god, I have no earthly idea.

He says it's not about one specific guy. It's good for the whole industry, which would include w w E. By the way, I don't know streaming service. How's that good for w w E. I mean, he didn't specifically say w w even he say it would be good for the entire business. Well, the business a lot of times doesn't mean w w E when people talk about it. So I say the whole business. That's w w E.

New Japan stardom a necessarily because it benefits the bit. Look, if he's to buy let's say Shimmers Video Library from from Dave Prazak, right, and he's to buy Ring of Honor, or he's to buy whoever's he's to buy whatever. Okay, Sinclair's sucking it on the whole deal that Fox got over on him with the with the with the sports from networks. They they're hemorrhaging money. We saw that they shuddered a lot, even though they did a lot for

Ring of Honors. Say it's a right. Let's just say hypothetically, it's at that's better for the wrestling business realistically than ww having it bearing it. It's not good for ww E, but it's good for the wrestling business because this stuff survives instead of going to a vault and dying, because it would be a new service that he's providing and he's got content and brings value to it. So yeah,

it would actually be that way. I don't think when a lot of people talk about like it's gonna be better for the business, they don't mean w w E. He's he said that this is this is an equivalent of the first dance CM Punk returning to this business after eight years selling out the Chicago or the whatever

they call it. I mean if he came on TV and said I bought the Shimmer Tape Library or they r Wage Tape Library, I mean, that would be great to keep it alive, But would fans see that the same way they saw the return of CM punk to wrestling. I have no idea what it is, no clue. I gotta talk to Dave anyway, right time Banks, Mike is always Colors lest something you know, Tek new summer skims over live. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.