New Japan Heats Up/RAW Report

other night. But still you have all been warned and I probably should get a good night's sleep before I before I make decisions next time. But anyway, we got a lot to get into here today. Last night was raw. What's in the raw show? There are slow and steady changes. It was a it was a three hour show. I would not say it was a great show. I would not say it was a bad show. It was a three hour raw show. Although the the good things we've noted is nothing is being ripped up and torn up

and changed. Everything that they built up last week and advertised for this week they actually delivered and they are doing a I don't know how long term, but they are doing a long term storyline with Ray and Dominic. They're actually getting the balls in motion as I sneeze ready, Hello, Anyway, they got a I got a storyline plan with those guys. So we'll tell you about the raw show from Monday night. We have also got j White off too new Japan

shows due to heat stroke symptoms. And uh, it's been hot. It's been very hot over there, and a lot of people have been complaining about the heat, so that one doesn't surprise me. Sometimes you see somebody being pulled off shows and he gives some sort of excuse and you're kind of like, oh, yeah, really, I don't doubt this one at all. It's hot over there doing these shows. We have also got n x T tonight, a w

Quake of the Lake tomorrow. We've got ratings for Battle of the Belts, Rampage, and SmackDown this week and plenty more so if you'd like to give us your thoughts here today four to seven zero seven five six six four to five seven eight zero seven five six six Back in the Moment, Observerer Live, Back in the Show, Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike and burviv also Wrestling Observe dot com. Is that you furiously typing over there? Mike? It was what's going on over there?

Are you writing a book? If I did? Do you think it when the Wrestling Observer newsletter Book of the Year world only if I were the co author? Quite frankly, only if you know what's you know? It's funny about being as famous as me? What's up? Well? I like when when people tag me on the Internet to alert me that I got a match coming up, Like I didn't know, Hey, Brian, did you hear you're wrestling? Damn right, I'm wrestling. It's a game changer. I didn't even know it was a g c W that was all black

label pro. But it's a g c W black label show just coming up on September two, Grand Sports Arena and Hoffman Estates, Illinois. So if you're going all out weekend, even if you're going to Rampage on Friday night, Rampage ends at ten Central. This show starts at eleventh Central and ain't that far away. So you have your opportunity two come see me and Filthy. Oh yeah, that's right, you have me and Filthy. I don't know if you

have those times right. But no, I did ten nine central be a bad time had by you, It's not gonna be a bad time had by me. You know what, I will admit. I will admit that yesterday I only got four hours of sleep and so probably wasn't the best stay to negotiate a wrestling match with Tom. I probably should have waited still have a full night's sleep, and I was in a you know, a competent state of mind, not all hiked up on five hour energy,

but too late. What's done is done. But the fact of the matter is the second, the second, and I'm I am not I am not too proud to admit this. The second Jonah dumped that dude on that barricade, I was like, now's my chance, dude, that guy is gonna come back from Japan a wreck, a wreck, and uh I am not above taking advantage of that. So uh it was like, oh, I hope Bright put CDs in his pants. Do this at a comedy match, you dorks.

You know what happened. You know what happened years ago, years ago, Filthy and I were training together when when I was down in Vegas at whatever syndicate, or whatever, and uh, it was me. It was filthy, and I brought Wang okay, because Wang was also training and he was Wang, so it was like, I gotta bring this guy and he was really excited to go roll with Tom. Okay. So Tom just ruined Wang. Okay, he ruined him, but he didn't ruin me. Okay. Now, to be fair, I

didn't ruin him either. Okay. But this guy goes on the show yesterday and you know, there's there's two rules. It sounds like comedy, but these are real rules. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and what happens in the gym stays in the gym. This was a gym in Vegas. And not only that, he goes on the early lies. He said he tapped me out, So dude, I'm not happy about that, and even admitted he lied later. But I mean, I'd already open my mouth. But the

fact of the matter is that made me mad. You want to know how to push my buttons, well, that's a good one. And also calling me lazy, those are the two things. So you see some lazy match, some lazy comedy match with Tom, think again, it ain't gonna happen. What about a loof to wreck this guy? What about that one? Does that apply to you? To me? Yeah, listen, I'm a lot of things. I ain't know loof, terrible friend. I'm not a terrible friend. A terrible friend? Was Tom

lying on the show yesterday. No, you're not. You just admitted that you want to take advantage of a guy who won't be a hundred percent coming back from Japan, instead of like if you were really this guy's friend and you actually had that much, you know, belief in your own skill and talent at this point in your life. You know what I'm saying. Let's let's be honest here. They we're gonna move on actual news. Let me ask

you a serious question. Okay, yes, do you think that in a fair fight, a two hundred pound filthy Tom Lawler versus a one hundred and forty five pound Brian Alvarez, do you think I got much of a chance? No? Okay, So he's injured and he's coming off a tournament. So if anything, this makes it a fair fight. Right, Who wants to see me go in there and just get slaughtered? Nobody? Don't even open your mouth. Hey, we got other news. Here I've talked about J White. J White has been

removed from two up here's another one. J White removed from two upcoming New Japan events due to heat stroke symptoms. Guess who else is wrestling in Japan in the heat Filthy Tom J White was scheduled. And actually this was weird because last night I saw for some reason, I went to UM I went to the New Japan website for something. It was in the middle of the Dave Show. I don't even know what, you know what. I was going up there to find out when Filthy Is match

with Kada was. But anyway, I'm looking around on uh, the New Japan website and I just I fell into a rabbit hole. I don't know what Dave was talking about. So hopefully I didn't miss anything last night, but I'm gonna read some of this a little bit later. There's the bio of Filthy Tom is incredible. But anyway, I was up there and there was a page and sithing like it was like J White pulled from g one shows and I clicked on it and then it had

been removed, and I was like, that's weird. And then I looked online and there was nothing about it, so they must have put it up and then pulled it and then put it up again. But he's out with these heat stroke symptoms. He will be off the August nine and ten card due to an abundance of caution. He's also going to be taking a COVID test, although that the first one he took came back negative. And his next tournament match is August sixteen, so he has

a while. He has almost a week before he needs to be in the tournament, so this is not going to script the g one at this point, but he is in the lead in the b B Block four zero. So all the best to J White. That sounds like no fun? Should I read part of this bio? All right? So first off, they had all of the wrestlers and uh, you know they have they have the lineup for the matches, and uh, it's Tom Lawler teaming with Lois Isaacs l O I s MA it was Lois Isaac. Something got

lost in translation for that one. Then we've got the bio of Filthy Tom. Are you ready for this? Okay teams by the way, with Lois Isaac's Okay h belonging Unit Team Filthy signature move rear naked choke pek major title wins. It says here first New Japan Strong indiscriminate champion. You know what I don't describe tom as it is indiscriminate. The leader of Okay, this is bio ready, I couldn't

have written a better one. The leader and whoever wrote this niece to write a book, Maybe he's your co author. The leader of Team Filthy, who mows down opponents with joints and sharp blows. He debuted as a professional mixed martial artists in two thousand seven, active in UFC since two thousand eight. At the same time, he joined the American professional wrestling organization m l M. In seventeen. He won the m l M I Hope Courts not Listening

World Heavyweight Championship in twenty nine. He must have been an excellent multi level marketer. When he appeared in New Japan Strong in June two thousand eight, this was off by ten years. He formed Team Filthy in April two thousand nine, also ten years off. He won the New Japan Cup USA and reigned as the first New Japan Strong open weight champion. Remember he first entered his head by the way this is all this coming to fruition

in two thousand and eight. In his mind, he he really did know the UFC was not going to be the answer for him. He had this all planned out. Do you know that long rain that he had his new Japan Strong open weight champion and he just destroyed everybody week after week. Well they describe it here. He defeated Satoshi Kojima and others to hold the title for over a year. That is the story everybody of filthy Tom Lawler. You know that guy writes a bio for

me before that match. You're gonna get beat by Killer Kelly. You know that, right? Men versus men, women versus women. All Right? Hey, by the way, did you see Billy Stark's take that bump from the top rope to the floor. Yeah, I'm gonna uh suggest you don't do that anymore. Can you talk to her about that stuff? Bro dude? You know the people that have been around here that I've tried to talk sense in two over the years. It's

it's a it's it's a it's a pointless endeavors. You know, with it being a joint show, the idea that you could actually get skewers in your forehead. Not happening, bro Stop, this is a mixed tag match. Filthy and I are going to grapple. Yes back in a moment it was over live. Well, we got an x T two point out. Tonight, everybody's favorite show, Tony D'Angelo and Santo Escobar will have their final accord. The heck is that? So we start versus Cora Jade. We've got realms match, West Leave versus

Trick Williams. Huh yeah, it was just this has got something to do with the boxing Globe. I assume not. You know, World of Sport, I don't know. I guess we'll find out. And Nikita Lions versus Kanada James. Oh boy, man, oh man. I can't wait for that one. I think Kiana James needs to beat her because Nikita Lions is moving up to SmackDown for that women's tag team tournament. As they called up Nikita Lions and zoeyst Of all of the people in n XD tow boyo, Nikita Lions

and Zoe Stark is a team. I get it. Here's why I get in what way? It gives them a taste both to be on the main roster, they will probably lose. Who are they facing. Yeah, regardless, it gets him up there and he gets people a chance the rest of the universe to see Nikita Lions. They are going to rush her and lash legend. They have been way too fast. That is going to continue, so to dip their toe in the water to see how the main audience reacts. Plus to see Zoe Stark in a main,

big stage, main ring. You know, we know she's a good worker, we know she's one of the better ones there, but can't she translate on a bigger stage, you know, personality wise? The look of Nikita Lions, it's gonna get her, you know, a certain way. But we'll see her in the ring on w w E show, main show. And I'm okay with that because if they're just gonna go up for that live match, because if they're just okay. But here's the thing of all the women on the roster,

at least half of that team. When he comes to Zoe Stark, are you find with them having a live match, would you be Zoe Stark? Course, So you know what's gonna happen in that match, Then she's gonna end up being the word horse Nikita Liance comes in, gets the big spot of like the big roundhouse kick and all that sort of stuff, and hope they try to protect their weaknesses the best they can. Well we'll see now because of look, who else is gonna go up? Brian g G and j C. Who would actually be a

worse scenario there? They are a main roster act. They absolutely are. They can't go certainly not the way that's always Starky in. Yet who else is there? Wait a second, you're telling me that you think that a match with those two would be worse than a match where one half of the team is Nikita Lyons. I think here's the here's the thing. So first off, I got I got a couple of questions. But who are they facing? As you should know that too. Who are they face?

Oh my god, I'll find it here. But like the I'm sorry to make you work wrestling man, the point is, well I didn't have it, and you're you're, you're, you're. I gotta do this when I'm trying to be telling some story here whatever, I got no hours of sleep, I still fish. All right, here's your stupid brackets, bro, Thank you. We got Tamina and Dana versus Eo Sky

Dakota Kai. We already did that one, Alexa Bliss and Oscar versus Nikki and Dewdrop, Raquel and Aaliyah versus Really and SHOTSI so it's not them, it's Natty and Sonja versus Zoe and Nikita. Okay, so let Natty and Zoe do a bulk of the work. I mean the point god, actual looking Monday. We'll get to it on the show. But how good as good as Dakota Kai and in Eo Sharai are? How good was that match? The which match Monday? Yeah, it wasn't very good against Mena and Dana.

It wasn't. No, so this looks far worse. I don't I don't agree. I don't know. I could be dead wrong about it, but it doesn't really Why don't we argue? Who else? Are you gonna bring up? Who else? The point is it's a tournament for the the w w E Women's Tag Team Championships, So bring up an actual tag team from n XD to be in the tournament? Who the former champions? Toxic Attraction? Okay, dude, they were appience forever. How did they not get in this tournament?

I get it. But you know what, this is something that I'm probably talking about later on when it comes to people's reactions to carry and Cross and to Dexter Loomis being back. We'll find out about Dexter Louis. I'll get to them later. Bron Breaker could be on the main roster right now, Carmelo could be on the main

roster right now. I would like to actually get them see more and better seasoning where they're at, and I don't think there's a need to put them up there, even though those are two guys who are the future of your company. They are, they absolutely are, at least on paper right now. They are. So to bring in and bring back a carrying Cross that's going to be a body in that mix as you develop these other people and bring them up and bring them up carefully,

because that's the other thing too. People want to see a bunch of names up there, but don't just bring names up and do nothing with them and have them flounder. I want to see them up with impact. I want to see them up with force. And if you can kind of muddy the waters right now by bringing back a loop misseeing what you can get out of them, big guy maybe do something. I'm okay with that, and

the same kind of goes with this thing. I don't need to see toxic attraction on the main roster yet, especially not in the match with again that I don't think it is going to be that much better if you do it the right way, which is have Zoe and to tell you do the work and leave the other two outside the ring. For the most part, the problem, bro is a toxic attraction have been on n x T forever. We've seen them champions multiple times. There's literally

nothing else we can do with them there. But that's not true. Take Mandy Rose out of that mix and just stick with those two, and you're telling me those two don't need more experience and couldn't use more experience, Because if you're gonna do that, then there's a lot of people that you can let the floodgates down and let come into that that door. And if you're gonna do that, I guess that's okay. But Mandy Rose is

the weakest part of that group. Mandy Rose is the one that you've exhausted pretty much all options whatsoever on so and there's the other thing too, she goes up there. I mean, I don't know. If you're gonna bring Toxic Attraction up to wrestle in that match, then I want to see Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville somehow do something together, because that's the only saving grace you continue to have with Mandy Rose. Otherwise, what are you supposed to do

with her? They have been they have been there doing tag team matches for uh one year now, and Gi Dolan has been in n x T since she's been there for a year and a half. How many good matches has she had down there? Well, listen, then then I don't know what to do. It's like at some point she has to be called up to the main roster. How how long you want to give her down. There's gonna be like a Leo where she's there for six years, because that was two damn long dude, either, Alica shouldn't

even be on the main roster. She was there for so long. They brought her up because they didn't know what else to do with her, and then she she's in the position she's on on the main roster. She should be gone too. And look, if you want to open up those floodgates and let Toxic attraction, and then you have to let bron breaker and you have to let well hold on, not call them up. Dude, I'm saying, have one n x T team, an actual n XT team in the tournament. If they lose, fine, they don't

go back up to the main roster. They're just there for the one match in the title tournament instead of a total random hodgepodge team of of two people that have never interacted a single time on n x T. Is that too much to ask? I don't think so. All Right, Hey, you got the whatever they call it, Quake of the Lake, John Moxley Chris Jericho for the interim a W World title, And dude, we gotta figure out what's going on with this this all out because we're now like three weeks away from all out, and

uh if if John Moxley wins, is it punk? Is Jericho winning? If Jericho wins, he was he gonna wrestle? What is the plan? We're three weeks away, we don't have a main event yet. Jake Cardgill versus Madison Rain for the TBS title, dar Yellin versus Brody King in a coffin match, Luca Brothers versus Andrade and Rush in a Tornado tag team match, Ricky Starks versus Aaron Solo, and an appearance by FTR that is coming up on Wednesday.

And we've also got all of the ratings Battle of the Belts four thirty seven thousand viewers and a point one two. It ranked twelve in the cable rankings on Saturday and was down almost from the last Battle of the Belts. So you know, I loved that, I love that tokesh the match with Claudio, But at the end of the day a w Battle of Belts was headlined by a Ring of Honor championship match, and uh, I

didn't do a great number. So I don't know what that means, but it seems, you know, we've been want to tune in for an our WAG match, meuse they're cold and their shoulder programming no matter what it is, isn't popping right now. And us it's a pay per view. That's just flat out that's the way it goes. Because I'm looking at the front page, it's like, well, the audience re tension from the previous nights Rampage, which aired on the same station, was percent of total viewers, and

the key down. They put on a show that nobody really wanted to see. Half of their main fan base on Dynamite wanted to see it, and that's unfortunate for them because they are cold right now and it was a solid show. Nobody could should complain about the names that were on there and the the match that was on there. Again, for die hards, they were excited to see Claudio and text you to go at it, but unfortunately not enough people did. And I don't know what

the competition was like for him. I know the NBA playoffs are going around, you know last time around when they did almost a hundred thousand people. More. So, this is a greater problem than just this show. It is a weekly problem on Friday nights. They have got to figure out a way to mobilize and get the buzz going and get the buzz better. And again, they are a busy program and unfortunately sometimes they have so much going on they trip over themselves in the builds to

things and how they go about things. And like Brian mentioned, we're come closing and close here and it's like, what is the status of CM punk. You know, that better be determined tonight, you know, And to try to figure out where we're at here. Rampage did four hundred sixty eight thousand, which was up from the week prior point one five and eighteen to forty nine, which was also up thirty six, So pretty good number for Rampage, although still it's four hundred sixty eight thousand and a point

one five so it's not that great. And then SmackDown two point one million and a point of four nine, down slightly. It was number one in all of television in eighteen to forty nine. Back in them with Everyone's Favorite Raw Report, I was ever live. Well, let's talk about this raw report here from Monday night, Everybody's favorite segment here on the show. So we did have an announcement of the Take Team Tournament with brackets, so that is a that is an improvement that we had brackets.

Now all those brackets were that's another matter entirely because forget the fact that we have some random Hodgepodge team from n x T in the tournament. One side of the bracket, we've got EO Ski in Dakota Kai and uh Alexa Bliss and Oscar, which to me that would be a great final, but they're both on the same side of the bracket, so I presume EO and Dakota

are going to the finals. So the finals of this tournament and Clash at the cast Soul will be EO and Dakota versus either Raquel and Aaliyah, Zai Lee and Shotzi, Nikita and Zoe, or Natty and Sonja. None of those matches feel bigger than EO and Dakota versus Alexa and Oscar, And actually, I guess the now that I think about it,

I guess that match. The finals aren't at Clash of the Castle because they did an angle at the beginning of the show where Alexa, Oscar and Bianca came out and Bailey and her crew came out and they agreed to have a six woman match at at Clash of the Castle. So I guess that works if both teams were eliminated from the tournament and we just got a spoiler, But otherwise, I guess the finals wind up on on Raw or something like that. So anyway, that was the

opening segment. The only funny thing is a mistake that apparently I made, a mistake that Mike made, and now a mistake that Bailey made, calling them EO and Dakota Sky. Then she had to correct herself. This Dakota Kai and EO Sky. Maybe that Io Sky wasn't a good idea

after all. So that was the opening segment, and we had a brawl, by the way, which you know was the sooner they can get rid of whoever is responsible for those I don't ever just uh flat out says it's Kevin Dunn, and I'm sure that you know he's part of this, but I was told there are other people there that like the shaking and the zooming and the cuts, and that you shouldn't expect that if Kevin Dunn left tomorrow, then it would suddenly we wouldn't have

that anymore. People there like it. I have no idea why. It's absolutely horrible. It's vomit inducing. You have no idea. You can't even see what's going on. It's like, what are you are you trying to cover for people missing punches or whatever? Okay, well, then maybe don't even have

brawl because I can't even see the brawl. You cut the cameras so many times, so why even bother came so many times that you end up catch sing you know, huge whips and a bunch of you know, light good comes through punches and kicks, because they just randomly cut back and forth, so that happens anyway. It's ridiculous. And we had seth Rawlins and Angelo Dawkins. Last week, seth Rawlins beat Montez Ford. This week, seth Rawlins beat Angelo Dawkins. He beat both of them on successive weeks, so I

don't listen. I shouldn't presume anything, but obviously seth is being built up for the match with Riddle. Riddle returns next week. They'll do Clash to the Castle and maybe maybe the storyline is that Angelo and Montez have tried going out on their own and they didn't do well, so they've determined they'll redouble their efforts as a team. Because I don't want these guys to break up yet, I think they got a waste to go as a team. So I watched it. I saw the finish, I thought,

there's a reason for this. I don't know what it is yet, we'll we'll find out. Match is pretty good. We had Edge and the mysterios backstage. Edge was a apologizing for accidentally spearing Dominic. Dominic wanted to hear none of it and he shoves Edge and uh It storms off and Ray says, I'll go talk to my son. Kevin Owens destroyed Ezekiel. He beat him up, He power bombed him on the ring apron Ezekiels sold it like his legs didn't work anymore. They brought out the the

stretcher neck brace stretchered him off. Owens did a promo afterwards saying he wanted to remind people who he was. So it looks like this Ezekiel thing may be done. Things don't look good for this guy, but things do look good for all Kevin Owens, which is good because a strong, badass Kevin Owens is a good thing every once in a while doing the comedy. The stuff he did with Ezekiel shows off how good he can be. But him cutting hard promos again with Triple H coming

on board right now. For a guy like Kevin Owens perfect this is the best you can do with him is make him serious and him make him a threat. We had a promo with the Judgment Day and this led to Ray telling Edge, I can't get ahold of Dominic I'm gonna go out there, and he says, well, if you need me, I'll be there. So it's Finn Baler versus Ray mystereo. They got fourteen minutes and it was good early, it was great at the end. They got a bunch of really cool spots and uh, finally,

Priest keeps trying to interfere. Edge runs down. He chases Priests through the crowd. Ray and Balor in the ring together, and Balor ends up. He tried six one nine or I'm sorry. He tries to Kuda. Ray avoids that. He goes for the six one nine. Ria drags Dominic's bloody body. They got makeup on him. It looks like he's bleeding. They dragged him out on the ramp. Rays distracted, Finn hits the nineteen sixteen, the Kuda gras for the wind. We never saw Dominic actually getting beaten up. We only

saw it Ria dragging him out there. So it looks like they are actually finally going to pull this trigger on the Dominic turn and uh, and we'll see what they're doing. Dude, it's the same thing. It's like, what more can we do with the Mysterious as a tag team?

What's left? It's time to do something Dominic. I mean honest, I try to do what I mean, you better put a mask on him, cover them up, because going out there and getting yanked up by your hair in front of your family and getting yanked out of a room by Rhea Ripley. And I know that's a big woman and she's strong and she can beat up a lot of dudes, but I mean, come on, and then you go out there and you get dragged out there again.

So we're gonna go another story with this guy being an acolyte for these people, and then Ray will probably end up saving him. I just I am not interested in dominic mysterio in the least, and by putting him in this storyline, sure maybe it'll work. Well. Yeah, if you if you're not interested in the least, we gotta

try something. You want to just see the same thing you don't care about over the down next day, you want to bring up people from that next there's a guy who could probably use to go down there, because what are else hee going to do on the main roster. So he's a flunkey on the heel side, So what well, let's see what happens. Maybe it'll be good, Maybe he'll be a great heal. You know what, we gotta try. I'd rather try making him a heel with this group than just send him down to n x T without

even trying. Maybe he'll be a great heel. Who knows. We had Sarah if youwing Tamina and Dana. My god, this promo Holy smokes Dana. This led to EO and Dakota versus Temina and Dana, and it is not very good. They are trying to have Tamina work like more stiff and and mean, and uh it was what it was for what They did have a spot where EO was going to try a the palm thrust and bro I don't know what happened, but she did about this fast and they just kept going like what was that? So anyway,

she finally EO hit the moon salt. They win. They go on and face the winner of Oscar versus Dewdrop and Nikki. We had a No One's promo and you could see in the background a car had crashed backstage, but to their credit, they didn't call any attention to it. You had to be paying attention and Nikki and Dewdrop were checking on this car. I don't know why them. I guess she's a superhero. We had this happened to be there at the time Bobby Lashly versus chomp On.

So that afternoon, Chompa did this tweet and he said he was dedicating his match to Harley Race. So of course Triple h is a huge idolized Harley Race, as he could tell by his facial hair for a few years, which looked fine on Harley Race and horrible on Triple Asia. And uh they so they did that, and then you know when he dedicated it to Harley Race and came out in a Harley racist robe, I mean, I thought

he was winning. And that was the ida they wanted you to think that this is not just gonna be the old Chomper, the old main roster chomper just coming in here and doing the job or whatever, he's gonna win. And so watching it was very clever, like they did all of these spots, and you know, Lastly would do this, and then chomp It was his NXT finishers and the red and lastally kicks out of the last second, and then they do a couple of other things and Lastly

goes something to chomp it kicks out. You're like, okay, here it is chump It's another one. Lashly kicks out and even at the very end when finally there was another reversal and Lashly got him in the hurt lock, they still had chomp A dancer on the ring and his his foot skulled like this, it's about to get on the rope. Then he tapped. I thought they did a great job because this entire match, I I had no idea who was gonna win, and I thought it

was gonna be Chompa. But it was good and it was the best thing they've ever done with chomp on the main roster. Match was good. Give him a win next week, give him. That's all I want. Look, you know, have them you know, faced Lashly again, but give this guy some credibility. Back him a big dub back, you know, coming off that loss, that you should do it. And I think they did do a good job that way, because I was kind of convinced to you're gonna do

all this dedication to Harley Race. But the triple h his credit, you know, good, use it for the heat. But so your your hero didn't actually you know that the sire of your hero didn't actually end up winning the match. I thought that whole thing would turn out to be really good, and we had Omas meeting two dudes. It was whatever. I mean, this has something to do with Hunter, but he was a little better here. He did a he did a fine two on one handicap match,

which three six months ago he couldn't do. So I still don't want to see him wrestle like real match progress. It is progress. I don't know la gainst progress. Progress only counts if it's like, give me a progress of Moss, that's what you're gonna you know. I can't believe he is. He's gotten a little bit better. Dude shouldn't be there, Brian, I know he shouldn't be there, but he got a

little bit better. Why is everyone so annoyed at the idea of getting a little bit better pitching and moaning about the possibility the Nikita Lions and and Zoe Starr could stand out, And then you go well on the same side and you want to see new people come up, and it's like, well, man, hopefully this works with Dominick. You gotta do something, you most, you gotta do something. Yeah, you don't have to call him up from the n

x T in a hunch. Don't have a big man Hollywood match for AMAS that can get on ESPN or something like that. Then he doesn't need to be there period. M v P needs some new guys period. Okay, fine, but like they hired him, they're paying him a lot of money. They're gonna do something with him. I want to see him get better. I don't want to see the Omas from six months ago on my TV every week. I'm happy that he's getting a little bit better because

I gotta watch him every week. Dolph Ziggler Chad Gable six minutes match was great for six minutes. They all amateur wrestling early, then it turned into a pro wrestling match. And then in his home town dolve Ziggro slipped behind on the angle slam and he superciate the duty pined him in the middle of the ring, and then Otis tried to get to him and he got away. This was good. Then we had a j Styles versus the Miss and uh, it just was great and MS was he was better than usual. Am I allowed to say

that MS is better than usual? Or might gonna get yelled at for that one. I don't even like the guy, but he was better than usual in this match. And uh, in all sorts of stuff, and finally he goes for the figure four and had a skull crushing finale, and he goes for the Kendlestick shot figure four. Styles Uh kicks him into a chair in the corner, hits the styles clash pins him and then I watched this on the West Coast, so all I heard all day was how subtle w W E was about the debut of

Dexter Loomas. So I'm watching it waiting for this subtlety. And granted there was subtlety earlier. The car crash was subtle. They did an angle back stage. Also, some cops run by. That was that was fairly subtle. Bro this was not subtle. There's a brawl in the crowd. A j stops celebrating to rubber Neck. He's staring out, oh what's going on here? And then they grabbed Dexter Loomis and Dexter's got the giant Dexter faces. He being pulled away and he as

to go, is that dex Dexter Loomis. I think it was Dexter Loomis. That was subtle. Brody hit me over the head with a cement block, But yes, Dexter Loomis is back and speaking again. Hit over the head. I'm getting hit over the head with his music all right right here, back in a moment, Observer Live back on the show. Bright now bre is here Wrestling Observer Alive Mixember Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot com. So, uh,

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