RAW Recap/Academic Challenge/Wrestlemania 38 Schedule

night Raw show that aired last night. I told you guys yesterday the segment with the Ark Bro and alph Academy what they call it, the Academic Challenge. I told you guys yesterday I was gonna be awesome, and in fact it, uh, it was quite awesome. So it's besting on the show that in the Randy Orton versus Otis match. So we're gonna talk about both of those things here tonight on the show this afternoon. And in addition to that, a lot of other news we've got n XT coming

up tonight. We got the Wrestle Media thirty eight schedule, which you talked about yesterday. But I have more to say about that. Because there's been a there's news on that coming out of w w E, which is actually gonna be the top story today. I'll explain why here in a while. Brian Kendrick has requested his release from w w E. Add him to the list. We got the SmackDown ratings, we got the Rampage ratings, Triple A doing multiple Triple Menia events coming up this year, and

we've also got his noted raw and SmackDown. Actually, we have the SmackDown in Rampage ratings. We're talking about those, and also the raw report for for last night. So a lot to get into here today for those that have asked, I believe I don't know this for sure because you never know what might happen, but I think we're actually going to be doing the prediction and show on Friday, So if you've been waiting to participate in that,

I think that's going to be Friday. So I'll give it the details on that here coming up pretty soon, but we'll go over the predictions from last year. Who was a prognosticator, who was a fool, awarded me My Prize and so much more so. Anyway, rest of the show coming up after the break Stick Around Observer Live, Man, I don't know how much I made it back on time. Hello everybody, we're live. Sorry about the opening segment. Have

you ever had one of those days? I started talking to the mike and there was no level on it, and then I, uh, I started trying to do the whole open of the show. We'll try to figure out why I had no audio. So if you heard the opening segment, you're like, what's this guy babbling about? Like can't he get a sentence out? I was trying to do two things at the same time, fix something, and got back here, and I don't know what the heck the problem is with that thing over there. Who's the

engineer over there? You know it is to be the engineer around the host at the same time. Holy smokes. I know a producer who's just sitting there, who could you know, use some work right now? Who whose name is Rob Bro? If Robert the producer, there'd be no audio. That's not on Twitter. I go, I told you so, and then Rob tweeted, he goes, would you tell me? And boy had a thousand things. I didn't say anything. How about show up for class being number one of them? Well, Yeah,

that's up there. Hey, listen, I gotta talk about the top story today. Why is this the top story? I gotta have something to complain about. And when I heard this brow I mean this one. I'll just read this, okay. This year's schedule for WrestleMania thirty eight week continues to take shape, with p W Insider reporting a discussed change regarding n x T that would have seemed unfathomable just a few years ago. Well, whoever wrote this article on

the front page is unfathomable. Now forget a few years ago. The website said that while this is still preliminary in the planning this year's n x T Stand and Deliver, it's currently planned for Saturday, April two, on the first night of WrestleMania thirty eight. While the venue is yet to be determined, the idea is the show would be a matinee running from noon to three. If that happens, it would be the first time since n x T began running events during WrestleMania weekend that one of its

centerpiece shows wouldn't have its own night. P w i Insider also reported the preliminary land is there the Hall of Famos ceremony and Freya, who cares about that? All right? Listen, matters a little bit. List hold on a second, bro Okay, listen. I never worked for Vince McMahon, but I know a lot of people who have worked for Vince McMahon, okay, and they all say the same thing, and that is that when you work for Vince McMahon, this guy is out of his mind. Okay. I saw the other day

there was an article. I can't remember where it was, but you know, the headline was, w E is Vince McMahon still exercises at seventy six at three am? Apparently it's a news story. But the point of this is this guy. It's like, you know, let's see like collapses and naps or whatever. I mean, it's seven for this guy, and so when you work for him, you know expected to seven for you. If he calls at four am,

you better be ready to take the call. It's like, this guy lives breathes the total w W E bubble. All right. When you live and work work in a bubble, I've heard what happens is you believe that everybody else lives and works in your bubble. So if you're if you're Vince, you know you've got this idea that well, you know, underesting for living and everybody, Bro, nobody wants to watch. Nobody wants to watch w w E for

nine hours on his Saturday. Okay, maybe Vince does. Maybe his uh you know, his right hand man are like, yeah, great idea of Vince. You know, maybe there's some real hardcore stand up for w w E blokes that just can't wait to watch from noon to ten o'clock at night. But bro, here's the deal. You can do whatever you want. Okay, but this is not the real world. Let me tell you about the real world. Okay. So every year we do a Royal Rumble post show and my buddy Mark

joins us on the show. It's Brian, Vinny, Craig and Mark. Okay, so I don't know if he's heard the Sunday Brian and Vinney Show. But the show starts and I explained everybody that, well, we're gonna do our normal show this week, but next week things are going to be different because this Saturday is the Royal Rumble. Vinny then had a

nuclear meltdown because life and double booked him. He couldn't do Saturday, and so then none of you were privy to this where there was a text chain with myself and Vinnie and Craig, and Craig's like, bro, do we have to do Saturday? Why do we have to do Saturday. I'm like, well, dude, Saturday we go right after the Royal Rumble. We're gonna have multiple more viewers and listeners than if we go on Sunday. Vinny can't go on Saturday. Craig would rather go on Sunday. I talked to Mark.

Mark don't even know it's on Saturday anyway. Long story short, the Royal Rumble post show is not gonna be a post show this Saturday. It's gonna be a post show on Sunday. Craig is like, dude, why are these shows on Saturday? Like, I got friends, I want to go do things on Saturday night. Now I gotta eight times this year. I gotta sit on a Saturday night and watch a w w E show and then do a

post show. And it's like, yeah, that they've decided. Listen if you like it, that's fine, but it is horribly inconvenient to have these pay per views on a Saturday night. Oh hey, you want to go to someone on Saturday, wife, Oh, I gotta be back at three thirty because there's a w w E pay per view on Saturday night. Now, now some of you go, oh, well, you know UFC run Saturday night. You're right, it does run Saturday night.

And you know what if I host a pay per view party on my house for UFC and Saturday Night, I got a dozen people that will come over, lickety split, I say, I gotta have a Royal Rumble party. Royal Rumble. I might get a couple of people. But what's the next pay per view? Elimination Chamber. I go, I'm watching Elimination Chamber live on Saturday night. You know, may people are gonna come over to the house to watch it. None. Okay, UFC and w w E are not the same thing

in terms of gathering your crowd on Saturday night. Elimination Chambers on Saturday. All my buddies are gonna go out on Saturday night. They're not gonna come over to watch a pay per view. So now the idea is, well, Saturday night, April whatever. You know, if you had planned Saturday night, you want to watch wrestling, like you know, cancel your plans because WrestleMania is on Saturday and Sunday.

But now they think that you are gonna sit down at Nude on a Saturday to watch an n x T take Over two point oh show and then you know, get some need or whatever, then come back for a two hour pre show and then a four hour main show for wrestle Media. Bro this idea horrible. I hate this idea. Ah got out of my system. How much time I got left? And just go go through the break while you're at it. Look I usually do, Um,

I can't our first world problems. You're exactly right. They have all the right in the world to change it to whatever day they want. There's always been boxing and wrestling or different things on Saturdays. Of course, their events,

you know, events to get people to come over. The problem with everything with WW right now, except for WrestleMania in the name, what else is really gonna be drawing people to come over your house and hang out and watch it and make it like that big event that Saturday night usually is that aside and our frustrations with our schedules and that stuff. Aside n XD stand and Deliver being on on a Saturday during the day would have meant something when it was strong. Now it would

have been predatory. You w W would look at this as retaliation. Well, it's our weekend. Everybody's invaded it now for their collectives and they're this, and they're that, and their i WTV and their Fight TV stuff, all this sort of stuff. It's our weekend, and this is what we're gonna do. We're putting the Hall of Him on Friday. We're gonna load up Friday with stuff. We're gonna do n XT Saturday during the day with a huge card with guys like Adam Cole and Roderick Strong and these

big things we've been building to blowing up. And you know what, Yeah, you may not like it as a fan, but it's our weekend. We're gonna show it off and then you have WrestleMania that night. It's still not a great idea, and it's still asking fans to really who do want to do other things that weekend? Who do want to see other shows? You know, it does limit them to your product, and they may not like that, but at least when the product was strong, you can

make the case for it. Now and I hate to say this, And I don't mean to demean anybody personally in n x T. It's just like one of those other indie shows during the week when there's like seven of them going on, and you go, do you want to see this young guy Tony D'Angelo, you know, he

just started his career. You want to see these new guys to Creed Brothers, Like, I hate to say it, like this replaces the Evolved show during the day for me, unless they're gonna do some thing incredible like it's to me twelve noon to three pm, Brian in a lot of ways, and I know you have attached your wagon to this and feeling though you have to review this show and you have to keep up with it and you have to watch this. I mean, I hate to

say it. I think to a lot of other people, this is just now another indie show in a lot of ways on the weekend, I don't have to watch affiliated wrestling and something. And that's the thing. And I don't think they are and I think they actually do a lot of damage to themselves this way. If you think I'm crying about this, I'm asking about everybody else who is gonna watch two of these shows back to back. I put a poll up on my Twitter at Brian Alvarez.

Go up there and vote how many people are watching NXC Standing Deliver and then sticking around for WrestleMania both on the same Saturday afternoon back in a moment, it's ever live, all right, now, I got two poles. You ever met a man had two poles? While you're looking at one right now? The first pole on my Twitter at Arez, who is gonna watch n XC Standing Deliver as a Saturday afternoon matinee and then watch the first

night of WrestleMania immediately after? Oh, it's not immediately after Everyone says whatever, close enough, it's close enough, eight percent saying not me, nineteen point six percent saying me. And of course you have the blokes on the comments. Well, real wrestling fans will bro. I am a real wrestling fan. I'm the only one. I'm literally the only one with any association of Wrestling Observer Live, including the listeners that actually will watch n x T two point oh and

would like to watch Stand and Deliver. But no, I'm not spending bro. Listen, when you when you don't have a life, you only have a job. Okay, like Vince. Then then that's it. But you know what, a lot of people have a life, and no, I'm not gonna take a day a Saturday and go wife and two young children. Sorry, i can't go anywhere and do anything with you this Saturday because I'm gonna start watching wrestling at nine am and I'm gonna watch it until you know,

ten pm. So I can't put the babes too bad, I can't go nothing. I'm not gonna No, I'm not doing that, and I'm not. The point is I'm not the only one. That's my point. I'm not the only one who's like, what are we talking about here? But we have lives, do you understand? I need you to look at this from a different perspective, though now you're still gonna come up with the same you know you're

gonna end up in the same place. But still you have to look at this from the aspect of wrestling fans who are going to be going there, who are going to be in the mix down there, who were going to want to see all these shows, the types of wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, after going to bed at four o'clock in the morning, after seeing all these shows that take place beginning on Thursday,

WrestleMania weekend. Okay, for those people, the question is, say, I know F Thee's big gay Brunch is usually Sunday, but let's say that Saturday. Okay, let's say Beyond has got a really amped up show where whatever, you know, you got all this stuff going on with all these big names that that are all over the place, all

the legendary names that are all over the place. To me, forget about you know, it's screwing up your schedule and wanting to do things as a home viewer, and I know most of the people watching will be doing that. To me, this is all about that day. And I know n x T is gonna have its fans, but you're telling me, look at these shows. Will Osprey and Nick Wayne is obviously going to be a Joey Janelli's you know, spring break main event at night, but let's just say they have a spot during the day and

that's when they're gonna do that match. It will be for some bizarre reason on a Jersey Championship Wrestling show that they happen to be running that weekend down there with everybody else. That's where n x D has got its biggest problems. That's where the attention is pulled away. That's where who do you want to see? You want to see j White or do you want to see

lash Legend? You know what I'm saying like this? You know you're exactly right with what you're saying, because I'm not waking up and and wanting to see where this product has gone. I'm not doing that from noon to three and then watching Rustlemania at night, especially when I have to watch Rustlemania that night. I don't have to watch n x T. I can find out if it was any good. I can hear if it was any

good and catch the highlights and care about that. To me, the damage that's being done to n x T is how many people Unless you load this up all of a sudden with like brock Lessner showing up at the n x T show, That's where the problem is. Like that live show and with all the buzz that's going on down there. Man, if there's three shows taking place at noon, that could very well it will easily be

the third one that nobody cares about. You know, the long as the show goes, the more I calm down and I actually don't care because I ain't gonna watch it. Good good, Bro, I can't like this. This is not one where oh I don't have time on Tuesday to watch n x T TV show. Of course I have time on Tuesday night to watch the n XT TV show. But Bro, I'm not spending all day Saturday sitting on my couch. Now. If I went to wherever the where's

it at Texas this year? Wherever it's ad Alice. If I actually went to Dallas and it was like Effie's Big Gay Brunch, and then n x T and then you know, some other show, and then I hit every single one of them if I could. But I'm not sitting on my couch on a Saturday and swatching wrestling for ten hours. Okay, I'd be absorbed into the couch. You're here by those people that like they're on the couch for so longer their their skin gets absorbed into the couch. I'm not making it up. I'm not doing

this shows now. I will say. I will say of the house I am. I am surprised the results of my second poll. I I I better night for w w E pay per views. Seventent are voting for Saturday and are voting for Sunday. Now, it's possible that a contingent of folks from overseas invaded my poll and they're all voting for Saturday because they don't like to stay

until five am on on Monday morning. But right now, uh, the the poll results show that Saturday is the preferred day for these uh, these w W pay per views, which tells me that I may have a lot of Twitter followers with no friends or family, or maybe they just like doing stuff on Saturdays. Man, maybe maybe they want to do something on Saturdays and you're not gonna sit at home and watch a pay per view, that's

the point. No, Well, look, some people, you're just killing this Saturday thing because it doesn't fit into your schedule. And I understand that, but still, and my my point, Mike is, yes, it doesn't fit into my schedule, Okay, but I'm trying, hold on, I'm trying to figure out how it fits into other people's schedules. Like you don't do anything on Saturday, Like Saturday nights, I was like, I got nothing to do, I'll just watch a pay

per view. Like you don't have any friends that are like, hey, let's go ahead to eat or let's go whatever on Saturday. You don't have any friends to do that. That's actually my question. But I don't feel like I'm the only one here. I understand that. But you act as if though everybody's got the same sketch, set schedule all the time. Okay. I live in essentially a resort area. Okay, basically down

at the beach. There's a lot of random times where you know, you go in and you'll work Sunday through Thursday, and maybe you get Friday and Saturday. Often you've already gone out on Friday, so Saturdays like your Sunday night. Everybody's situation is different. I think the question is more we should be having. Is this because of traditional wrestling

used to be on Monday's. Boxing pay per views used to be on Monday nights because they wanted to take advantage of Las Vegas and people traveling there, and they come in after work on Friday and they have Saturday Sunday and they would have the big event on Monday. That's when people look back like, well, the Royal Rumble was on Monday night. Yes, that's when they would do things. The times and things have shifted, and yes, Sunday became the night for pro wrestling. Absolutely, boxing in the UFC

became Saturday night things. They tried them on Friday nights. Boxing tried on Friday night, it just didn't work. Saturday became that night. I think it's do you do yourself damage? Overall? I think that's the better question. Is forget about the fact that people will find your event if it's big enough. And that's the thing. If if they had something going on, if there was something really strong, okay, that would make

more sense to have more events on Saturday. Okay. Did this have anything to do with the fact that football season got extended out in the a f C, n NFC title games, which, if if the games go as they did last week, w W would have been buried even more underground with trying to grab some attention for their pay per view that was taking place that night. I I don't I don't know, I don't know, but I think to put it on people and go, well, you know, does this fit you? Does this fit your schedule?

You know, to to some of the people listening right now, maybe not. But I think when you look overall, I don't think that's I don't know if that's exactly the question we need to be asking here, because I think for a lot of people they go, yeah, I finally get off on Saturday night, I'll go do this and I don't go out. And again, everybody's lives are different.

It's got family obligations and everything else. Because a lot of your problems with a lot of this stuff come down to the fact that you've got to deal with family stuff. Ever since they started putting Rustlemania back at the start time of what one thirty in the afternoon or eleven thirty in the morning, with the hell time they started with about Samania, you started hating this because you've got children's No, it's not I got to deal with family stuff. It's I want to deal with family stuff.

Oh yeah, I just want to go on the ferry of the Islands. Sorry we can't. I'd like to do family stuff right now. But I'm working my job, okay, and that's what I gotta do. Work week Saturday night, you, hey, do business doesn't get you know how you enjoy your Saturday night, Brian, Going out and doing these things with your family and your friends is because somebody else is working serving you trying to put out this stuff. So hey, look,

people work on Saturday's. Okay. People actually have to serve people like you. It's not all about you and your schedule, Brian, Look look at these. Look at these for saying get out of the bubble. I'm in the bubble because I want to do something on a Saturday night like the rest of them. Is literally what we've come to. People wanted to do stuff on Sunday. What if people want to do stuff on Sunday? And now these people are rejoicing over this. You want me to do a poll,

what day do you do more social activities? On Saturday or a Sunday? You better be careful, I will, like weld on, you better be careful about asking that with social activity when that's a day that a lot of people will make sure that they're not working and actually do social activity during the day. Okay. Now, a couple of people have noted that having to stay until midnight is harder on a Sunday because there's work the next day than is Saturday. Okay, that's fine, because I do

live on the West Coast. I do live on the West Coast, but you know, you know, to solve this problem, have pay per views go from you know, till eleven like they used to. Right, do they need to go four and a half hours and go to midnight or later? I mean ask the question for you. No, they don't. Three hours is more than enough time. Wasn't the old deal that, oh, WrestleMania is too long one day, so we'll do two shorter days. Now we're just gonna do

two four and a half hour days. So now the show's nine hours, Why don't we just do two six hour days while we're at it, because apparently nobody has a life. Just keep running them shows all night. You know they should do us really stupid twenty four hours of WrestleMania, twenty four hours of WrestleMania. Dude, there's gonna be a twenty four hour raw before that happens, doesn't bottom out in the ratings. Did you just pretend to cry that you watch n x T, because in fact,

that is your gimmick. So I don't know who you're making fun of except for yourself what I'm making fun of you, and I don't even have to make fun of yourself to everybody again. Albarez localized problems hyperlocalized issues with Brian. It's the first world problem that I want to do something on a Saturday night. Yeah, yeah, we'll do that in the third world country. The second tough guy. When you used to have to watch UFC s you weren't you know, did you went out on Sunday or

you did it on another day? Sorry? Brother, some people actually have to work. I get what you're saying, but you're taking it to an extreme as if this is all about you, Brian albrezz It's not all of out you. I'm not the one who's not reviewing an XT brother in the show Bright Now were is here Wrestling Observer Live like simper viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Love what Mike pretends to be a man of the people. I fight for the working man. So I sit here

talking to this microphone. Get saved for it. I guess where I'm gonna be going tonight at midnight? Oh yeah, where's that work at eleven o'clock. I'm going to work overnight and want to go teach jujitsu tonight. Yeah, eleven o'clock, manning. That's what I'm gonna do. And I'm gonna come home and I'm gonna deal with family stuff, and I'm gonna take a small nap and then I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna do this show, and then might get

done this show. I'm gonna see how my kids day was at school, okay, and then you have then and then I have dinner, and then I got some more work I gotta do, because you know, work doesn't stop into support. My family got to do work like the same people that some people have to do work on Saturday nights, you know, watching a show in the comfort of their own couch, and then they walk up stairs to their own little home studio, and then they get to complain about how hard their life is. You better

stop with that stuff. Yeah, you a lot more. There's a lot more like me and Craig and real hard working out there and with real men like filthy Tom Lawler as opposed to people like you on your gilded little boats. So you, you and Craig are gonna be a tag team. Huh Is that right? The hard working men? Yeah? Well, guess who the most has the most hatred and anger for Saturday night pay per views? Working man Craig Uh huh, you know who he's got more anger towards you, and

it's all built up inside him. After all these years and all those nasty said that things you've said about can I move on? Here? Remembers all of them. He's gonna throttle you. M JF. Fielded a little bastard, and now you're gonna talk about m jeff. It's amazing how you two don't hear each other. You're excited for a second. You know what m JFF wrote. The fact that Satura is winning is the prime example of the fact that Wrestling Observer newsletter subscribers are virgins and have nowhere to

go on a Saturday night. I never said anything like that. By the way, that's m JF right there. Don't look at me. I slipped one past the goalie. You slipped two past. It's amazing. And then someone immediately asked if he's gonna be in the Royal Rumble. No, MGM is not gonna be in the royal rumble. Why are people doing this him and Cody? Stop it? Just for that, you know, I'm dear everybody. I guess I should do

the news. I was gonna punish you all with the raw report, but actually Rob was pretty good last night, including all at least, if I'm gonna cover one segment, I'm gonna cover the best segment on the show. But very quickly, here's the news. Solo Suco and Boa tonight on n X t nod Q falls count anywhere. So we have two of these over the next couple of days. We have Adam Cole versus Orange Cassidy on Wednesday and

Solo Sakoa and Boa on Tuesday. Perhaps I can put a ll up about the match quality of those two. Cameron Grimes versus Tony D'Angelo number one contenders, a match for the North American title. UH Toxic Attraction against any Heartwell Percha Parata and Kaylee Ray wes Lee and Nash Carter against Jacket Time Grizzly Young Vets versus Chase University Jacket Time Christ that's their name. They both wear jackets and they travel through time. What do you want me

to do? Oh? Add this to the list. Brian Kendrick has reportedly requested his release from w w E and is waiting to have the request granted. But I'm the bad guy as usual. Kendrick hasn't been a recent n X teacher of five life shows after requesting his release. Anything to do with him, Well, you know, I'm I'm upset that n x T two point ohs thing is on Saturday. I'm not gonna watch it, and I'm vilified this guy want to quit n x T. Scotty too,

HATTI look Scotty too. Hottie was the one with the right foresight there, I think, to see what was taking place. And I'll tell you what, if Spanky is released, I look forward to seeing be inducted to the Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame next year and seeing him go out there on the indies helping people out what he is seemingly was doing in n x T and being a

trainer and uh capitalizing on his past. That's what I would really like for that man, as opposed to being told that he needs to look younger as a trainer or whatever the hell it is that they do there. But I can't figure out is nobody that, not one person there thought of putting Spanky with Jack at time? Yeah? Yeah. Rampage on Friday five thousand viewers at a point to four, which doubled n x T this past Wednesday. SmackDown did

where is it? Here two point to five five million viewers at a point six four and eighteen and forty nine. Its a very good numbers for Rampage and SmackDown on Friday. Now let's talk about the best. Actually, there were several good things on RAW. I'll just do the whole Raw report. Oh, it's pretty good this week. First we had a Bobby Lashly brock Lessner way in, which was great. Rock Lesser shows up dressed as a Cowboy's got a big old hat on and this giant jacket because apparently it's colder.

He's at cowboy boots. Corey Graves tells him you should take some of that off for this way in for a fight with no weight limit. Brocks like, I'm not. I'm not gonna go nude. So anyway, they weigh in and then they go back and forth, and you know, Brock calls him Bobby who, and you know, Bobby's all frothing in the mouth. He can't wait to kill this

guy at the pay per view. It's funny because if if you showed a normal person this that didn't know anything about w E, they'd go like, man, I hope Bobby just beats his ass because Bobby comes off as the bullied baby face, but in this story, Brocks the baby face and Bobby's the heel. It depends on what world you live in, and my world, Bobby Lashley is the complete baby face in all of this period. Point plank.

That's it, and that's all. And I think we know, like Corey Graves was cleared because at some point brock Lesner is going to kill him. Then we had Bianca beating Zalina and they're teasing that she will be the first person in twenty four years to repeat as a Rumble winner, because in fact, multiple person's people have repeated, just none in the lass twenty four years. We had Damien Priest and Kevin Owens. You got to watch The SmackDown?

Do you see that show? Do you guys watch the SmackDown? Anybody? Mike SmackDown was on the road. They's a horrible finish where Natty stomped on what's her face and got d Q for beating too much ass. Well, you know it must have gotten over because he did the same thing here, Kevin Owens beats Damian Priest. So here's the thing. Remember I said it was many a season, So now Ron

SmackDown could be on the same brand. Well, they sent Kevin Owens and seth Rawlins to SmackDown on Friday and they worked as baby faces, and you know, two point three million people watched the show. So now Kevin Owens shows up on Raw to face baby face Damian Priest. But now everyone thinks Kevin Owens is a baby face. Plus they booked Damian Priest like an idiot. He gets d cute for stomping on Kevin and not breaking. They booed Damian Priest out of the building. He walks out.

All I rate the match was good, but it's w W E booking. They beat him. Why they beat him with Kevin Owens last week? Why if you're just match It's just so completely stupid and ridiculous. When he keeps getting d cute anyway because he can't like hold himself together, that's when they should have threatened him with the title match. So you gotta put this title up on the line and if you get just qualified, you lose it to Owens. They never had to pin this freaking guy, but this

is what they do. It's just stupid, stupid. We had Dana Brook rear Ripley Live Morgan, it's too mean it Nikki and Carmela. This is the one to watch everybody, if you have if you have a friend who thinks wrestling is real. And I got the match to show them to twenty three and they botched ninety spots. Was pretty amazing. And then re Ripley submitted Carmela. So both both of the tag team champions were defeated on this show by individuals who will not be teaming up to

get a championship match, although maybe they will. But we had the greatest thing all time, all my life, the Healpha Academy Academic Challenge, which was awesome for a million reasons. So Chad Gable and Otists come out and they're gonna do a spelling bee with Randy Orton and Riddle and uh. This may have been the highest rated segment on the show. So Riddle and Randy come out and uh and Chad Gables awesome on the mike. By the way, this is the best. This was the best Chad Gable of his career.

So Otis has to go first, and the word he has to spell is a mental which is something about cheese. Okay, So I never even heard this word I would not have been able to spell it. And so the gimmick is that Otis is supposed to be an idiot, but he spells it right. So he spells it E M M E N T L. He shoots spells it wrong, but as a work, he was supposed to spell it right. That's when they said, oh, you spelled it right, Otis, and they just keep going. So then we go to

Riddle In. His word is calibration. He doesn't know what this means, and so uh. The the the funniest, one of the low key funniest things in this segment is the actual uh definition that Patrick gave for calibration. It's just the biggest hodgepodge of random words. It's like it's not even a definition. So Real goes oh, I get. It's like if you're weighing, you're everyone goes ah, he's talking about weed. So he spells it right. So then

we go to Chad Gable. He's got a four point oh and you know he graduated college during the pandemic, you know, two master's degrees or whatever. And his word is disillusion. Well, in fact, there's disillusion and there's dissolution. So Kevin Patrick offers to give him the definition, but Chad Gables, I know what it means. Are you kidding me?

And he spells the wrong dissolution, and so he's wrong, and he's furious, and uh so, now all Orton has to do is spell one word, and they claim he's gonna get one of the most misspelled words in the English language. No, it's not separate. He has to spell dumbbell and so he says d U M V B E l L and he spells it right and they win, and then as great as it is now, Chad Gable is furious. He starts screaming at Patrick, it's all your fault. What did you say? You gave me the wrong word.

You said it wrong, said it wrong, and I was like, fun funny, funny, funny, funny, funny. He says that because when I was in the spelling b I don't know if you guys know this or not. I went all the way to regionals and I lost on the word philanderer. I was in the sixth grade. I don't know what a philanderer was, and I thought the guy said philanderer. So I spelled p A P H I L A N D E r A, No, it's e er what you said it wrong. So I was all in check

Gables camp. He got screwed in his spelling be but anyway, otis lost anyway, so they were screwed. But anyway, there's a big ker fluffle and everything like that. And then uh, we have Randy Ordon versus Chet Gable, which is awesome. Great Matson went fourteen minutes and then Randy Jordan gives him the greatest r KO ever right on literally the top of his head, so he's dead. And then they announced it next week, which is preposterous because the baby

faces one, Chet had Gables idea. Now they get to pick the next idea. It's two out of three, so it's a scooter race. It's a scooter race in its academic challenge because in school, I mean, you gotta go to pe. So the point of this is it's two out of three, so Chad Gable and ODIs have to win the scooter race. So we got two weeks in

a row. This was the best thing on w w E TV, like as far as like creativity and and you know, writers and everything like that in eons, Like I think you gotta go back to Rick Flair on on Musical Chairs Chas, oh Man, this was the greatest And don't even tell me that I'm just wanting to say that I'm right. You all know, you all know. This segment was awesome. Everything they took away from otis they slowly is coming back with him in this goofball gimmick. God,

it was great. Then we had uh alexiblist segment absolutely sucked. A j bea Dawson theory seventeen minutes. It was good, but we did not need like six minutes of of Austin theory. Working the guy over a j one with four arm Becky Lynch and do Drop interview. They did like the face to face like you do on on Rampage or UFC or whatever, and it was good. De Drop was really good. Becky was good. I thought this was a very very good segment. We had the Ray

and Dominic Street Profits deal, which is dumb. This is the only thing they're doing to build up the Royal Rumble is these nerds keep rustling each other and then throwing each other over the top rope. That's like you're built to the Royal Rumble and Ray can't figure out, Wait, what do you mean, my son could throw me out. What do you think you can tie? You can't tie Ray along? How many rumbles have you done, buddy? And then Maurice's extravagance of course Edge and Beth Phoenix ruined

the party and and beat up some security guards. And if I'm not here after the break, I love y'all Observer live back on the show. My sympathy V here with you. That empty chair right there is where the big boss Man, Brian Alvarez used to be. But he's got some some things he needs to take care of as if it was a Saturday night. Already, boss Man gone out of here. But don't worry, he will be back with me tomorrow in that chair right there, hosting

this show. And a couple of notes before we get out of here for everybody, for n XD talents, because I don't think Brian said this at the beginning of the show. Scheduled for the SmackDown tapings tonight or for Friday SmackDown tapings, p w I Insider reporting that EO Sharai, Dakota Kai, Robert Strong in l a Night will be at the SmackDown tapings this Friday in Kansas City. This would mark Sharai's first main roster match since Survivor Series

two thousand and nineteen. Think about the time on that, Think about how ridiculous that is. And also another little note here following up with some things that took place at the Game Change or wrestling shows over the weekend. As a lot of people know, but he starts, looks like she was scheduled to be in the Battle Royal. Nick Wayne was certainly scheduled to be part of the Scramble. Unfortunately, as has been reported now, an anonymous email was sent

to the New York State Athletic Commission on Thursday morning. Uh. Since Nick had previously worked the the IMO night show that g CW had held in Queens, they didn't think it was going to be an issue with him appearing on the show. Apparently somebody dropped dime to the New York State Athletic Commission, and unfortunately for Nick, he found out during fourth period at high school. So you want to see how that ruined his day and how it

ruined his weekend. Uh, there it was. But as we also mentioned, with what Joey Janella put online on Twitter saying that they were going to make this up, to Nick and trying to schedule a match against anybody he wanted. Nick chose Will Osprey will aspreys for it. So maybe wrestle Mania weekend we get to see Nick, Wayne and will Osprey and uh. I think for anybody who decided to be a cop caller on this too, they can

go get bent. So that was are my only words, and we shall talk to you again after a while. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network