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Park because something wanta watch. The show was on Sci Fi. We'll talk about that here in a while. We got a lot of news to get into. I do want to mention that tonight, ninth Pacific, midnight Eastern, only for subscribers to either YouTube or Twitch if you're a Twitch homie, if you're a top tier YouTube subscriber, at nine Pacific midnight Eastern, you can watch the WrestleMania nine TOEA party live on the video service of your choice. It will be myself, it will be Vinny, it will be Craig

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be a lot of fun. So as note, you can sign up for the video service on YouTube or Twitch, whichever you want to do, And it's gonna be a lot of fun here tonight reviewing WrestleMania nine today on the show we got I don't want I don't usually like to talk too much about ratings because nine times that attendants are relevant. But I do want to get it out of the way early because this Raw rating is gonna come in this afternoon ain't gonna be good at all. And I do not want to hear people

talking about how oh the ship is sinking. No one cares about wrestling. I don't want to hear any of that shows on sci Fi. So we'll tell you about the end. We've got the Winter Olympics, which affected both SmackDown I Rampage. This week we got notes on next week's raw, Rhonda Rousey talking about the fans, n x T tonight and tons more back in the moment Observer Live back on the show. Bran Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Live Mix and for VB also Wrestling Observer dot Com.

So what about an hour we're gonna get those raw ratings and uh likely it's gonna be whole the show aired on sci Fi and uh, the Winter Olympics obviously pre emptions. It's gonna take a massive tool on all of these shows. So if you go on social media and seas somebody talking about how oh this is failing,

this is sinking the Nah, It's just this happens. SmackDown two point one five one million viewers, which actually it's not bad, down three percent from the previous week, but it was the lowest audience they have drawn since Christmas Eve and the lowest number for live show since December ten point five one in eighteen forty nine lows since Christmas.

They were head to head with the Winter Olympics. We had Rampage five dred and forty thousand Down ten percent, second lowest audience for the show so far in two eighteen to forty nine a point to oh lows and the demo since December thirty one. It was up against the Winter Olympics. Then of course we had RAW last night, and because of the Winter Olympics, Raw was moved to

I FI and my God. They were determined to try to not do the lowest number ever because they did the one hour commercial free gimmick first hour no commercials and uh oh, my god and insufferably long hour and they didn't have commercials, but it was like the I put commercials in quotation marks. They they had what they do on Peacock, which is if you if you pay

four nine you get commercials like I don't have. I don't pay the fort nit nine tier because I'm rich, but I think they are like, you know, a car commercial or whatever, and so I I splurge for because I don't want to watch commercials, and instead I see some random, you know video for Omas. Oh, here's Omas growing up or whatever, and it's like, what a waste of time. It's pointless. So you're getting commercials one way or the other. And they had video packages and video

packages and blah blah blah blah blah. But still it was like that hour fell like three hours and then there was two more hours. But anyway, the point is they're trying to avoid getting the lowest rating of all time, and maybe they won't. I guess we'll find out. But tonight also we have got also on sci Fi, we have n x T two point oh and bro, nothing saving this show. I mean, we got Mandy Rose Kaylee Ray for the n x T women's title, and I

I don't know. I don't think it's impossible that Kaylee Ray beats Mandy Rose for the title, But I guess we'll find out tonight. Rose experiment and would be over then if that case, Bro, that Manny Rose experiment was over for me when I watched that show last week, and it looked like it was over for her to like she was just done with it. But we got

braun Breaker Santos Escobar in a championship summit. We got m s K versus Malik, Blade and Dress and No Fee in the Dusty Classic semifinal, Creed Brothers versus Grizzled Young Vets in a uh Dusty uh semifinal. In the match. I'm going to like the most Sarai and Dakota Kai, Wendy Chi and Tiffany Stratton, l A Knight and uh and Songa. Uh. You know. I didn't want to say, however, that I really like the team of Eddress, No Fey and Mallik Blade outside the Ring. Okay, this is the problem.

This is the problem everybody with this show. Okay, there are people on this show, on this n x T two point oh that actually are like really great characters, like uh, what's his name? The no the gangster, Well, Trick too, he's awesome as well, but uh, Tony D'Angelo, dude, it's a goofy gimmick, but like he doesn't really well. And backstage Malik Blade and Eddress and no Fay, I mean, they're very, very fun, charismatic characters. And uh, who did

you mention? Oh yeah, Trick Trick Williams, you know, fantastic talker. But they're all greener, absolutely greener than grass. And what happened to lash Legend? Like I even liked her segments of all things Greener than grass? So that's the problem. Like you you you want to watch these characters, but then they get in the ring, it's like, oh my god, like dude, but that's that's the that's what's going on. Yeah, even f c W. It's like you're exposing these people

on national television long before they're ready. I know it, and it doesn't help them. And that's been my thing from day one with a lot of this is how is this going to help people? When your braun breaker like one is enough like and he had natural gifts in a background and all that stuff, and still it takes a long time to really get it as great as braun Breaker is, you know, months into his career or whatever it's been now weeks into his career, you know, combined,

so you know, one is another Grayson Waller. To have all of these other people like that, it just doesn't do anybody any good. And I do want to rewind back to hold on before you do that. I want to throw in Grayson Waller here because he's not as green as the other guys, and with the right opponent, he can have a good match. But he carries himself like a superstar and he's he's a great talker, but you know, being able to be carried by AJ styles,

I mean, dude, unless your name is Omas. Mike could be carried by a j styles, so he's still got a waste to go. But I do like Grays and Waller as well. And on the women's side, who do you have to carry that load? You know? I guess it's EO, you know, for right now, But it's just it's it's frustrating on that side of the ledger too, because you see women's wrestling everywhere else and you see

they have really talented women like Saray. There's a reason that they signed her, Like Kaylee Ray, there was a reason that they signed her. And are they maximizing them? Are they getting them ready for stardom or an even like that? No, they absolutely aren't, unless you mean they're getting ready to them ready for stardom because once their contracts up, they can leave and go to stardom. And actually,

you know where I hope Tony Storm ends up. And I don't know what the status is with her and her contract or anything like that, but boy, that's a name I would like to see back in that mix, you know, in Japan, as opposed to what she was doing in w w E where frankly, I mean, that's when you look at that whole roster men or women like that's as much as you can try to aspire

her to. In some cases is Tony Storm. You make it to the main roster and they forget about you, or they don't know what to do with you, or they embarrass you or whatever it is. I mean, it's just it's such a mess right now, it really is. I know a lot of people are are fans of coraa Jade and everything like that, and it's nothing personal to the actual course I've talked about her character on this show. Her character on this show is so dumb

and a loser. That's her character. So they're getting it ready for the main roster that way, because that's what they're filled with a bunch of. Now. The only thing they have to teach her is how to be bad with money to complete all of the cycles that they have up there, you know, when it comes to their people. The thing with core Jay does there's another great example of somebody who's got, you know, some experience, and she's somebody that you should be pushing and being really careful

with and really building up and establishing. And they're not. They're doing exactly what they're actually doing on the main roster, which is just embarrassing her and beating her like that's actually going to help her, like she's going to overcome something. I mean, it's ridiculous. Look a Live Look a liv Morgan, the Live Morgan thing from last night. She had a shot. She's all done. If I'm being honest, that laws almost broke me. But it didn't. What even the stuff they

give her. And that's the other thing too, is how are these people ever going to develop? They when you never get a chance to figure out who you are and you are given something and then said you have to be in this box, learn how to to be in this box, you never you never actually are able to express yourself. The fans really liked Live Morgan. They really are attached to her. But the more it goes on, the more it slips away because they give her dialogue

she can't do. That doesn't sound like it's coming from her. The dialogue they do give her that she's trying to fumble out is always bad. It's always you know, her overcoming because she lost, and it's like she's a loser that talks about being a loser. But if she gets that one more chance, and it's like, how are you building any support for her? How are you getting any swell behind her? And unfortunately most of the characters are like that. They're so overly flawed in their mess. They

don't know how to build baby faces. It's that simple. Is it true that they sent Live Morgan to the local cricket store before riot? Is that actually true? And then they beat her on the show? I mean, it shouldn't be surprised. But I'm gonna talk about Denver. They didn't crush anybody with him. That's a guy who could use a win that people pop for. He could have murdered somebody on that show and he didn't get to run a second. But I got a preview for tonight's

Toga Party. I'm gonna talk about these characters because we're watching Raw from and there were a lot of dumb characters coming and going. I'm gonna talk about these characters I had. I had. My mind was blown when I watched Menia nine in the Filthy Observer live. Well, let's do this Raw report, everybody, Let's get this out of the way. I mean, the first semeon of the show

was absolutely fantastic. The quiz Bowl because everybody involved in the quizzble Is is fantastic and even believe it or not, like when they turned Otis heel and they took away everything that was awesome about him as a baby face like you, you blokes are out of your mind. He's not back there yet, but he is now. He's gotten close. He's gotten close. So I'll give it to Otis. Chad

Gable is fantastic. Randy Orton and Riddle both play. I was gonna say they're characters, but they're just both you know themselves, and they're fantastic in these And you know what, this dork, Kevin Patrick is the greatest dork. I love this guy. Don't call him a dor. They only hire you. He said, you don't know anything about real sports. Let me tell you what he has been. He's been a thorn in the side of a lot of people. You

remember that, especially Kevin Owens and people like that. One of the reasons why he is because Jim Gray, that's who he to me, he is modeled after almost to a t, the way he was rolling up on people asking him questions after they lost in being that guy who was a thorn in the side of people, he hasn't gone full geek Byron, so out Kevin Patrick. Second, just because you're gonna you can't compare him to Byron Saxon. And then CONFU, who are you comparing this poor guy too?

Who do you think? Have you ever watched him? They only hire you if you're a dork, and that's what they do. They hire him maybe a dork and he's a great. So anyway, they do this, uh, this quizzble, and uh, I thought it was absolutely awesome, except I totally thought they dropped the ball on the most obvious thing ever, which is they're going back and forth, and uh it ends up being four and two in favor of the Heels, and so, uh, four or three actually

is where it was here. So it's Randy Orton's turn. They're down by one and if they miss it, then the other team gets a chance to to get it right. So Randy Orton asked for these sports? Uh the deal? And uh they ask sports question involving Denver, Colorado, which is where they are. And so even though I think in storyline Orton knew the answer, what he did was

he pulled the crowd. Okay, which is ridiculous because they said you don't have a lifeline because Riddle tried to uh he wanted to call somebody or something like that, and so, uh, he pulls the crowd and they all help him with the answer. John Elway and Chad Gables like, you can't do that. That's cheating. You can't pull this crowd.

That's ridiculous. So the next question is metric conversions, and the question is, uh, how many how many grahams in and ounce and uh, you know, straight laced Chad Gable four point o g p A, you don't know the answer. And I thought, this is a perfect opportunity to do the same thing that Orton did and pull the crowd. Now the key is as long as in real life, you know he knows what the answer is going to be,

you can work it. Because the answer is twenty eight grahams and the options were like twelve, sixteen, thirty two. So Chad Gable has act like he doesn't know the answer and he tries to pull the crowd and they'll be going sixteen and so of course then he says what the crowd says and he loses, and so they

screwed him. It would have been so great now if by chance the crowd stupid and they're actually helping the heel by chanting twenty eight, then that's when Chad Gable just go, I don't trust you fans the answer sixteen. And then of course it turns out it is twenty eight, and then he's even more fears. I thought, God, how could you have dropped the ball on this? But that

was the only problem. The segment was awesome, and uh, anyway, Gordon and Riddle win in the end h with another weed joke, and and Chad Gables all upset and they keep buzzing this thing and he's acting like he has a heart attack every time there's a buzz. This segment was just great. It was awesome. So we had two hits and one miss. You're counting because a scooter race was just stupid. But like Orton being the stoner and messing up his own line, Yeah, he was so stoney.

Screwed up his line about you're not the only one who bakes Riddle anyway with Otis too, and it's still I like how ham was a trigger word for Otis And you're right. You look, this is one thing I've been saying about this ascension of Chad Gable and this team with Otis is the fact that they're slowly, very slowly creeping out more old Otis And I don't know if we're ever going to get the shakes and waits Otis again. But I hope they're not doing this to

turn either Chad Cable or Otis on each other. I like them as a team. I think they should stick as a team for as long as possible, and considering they don't have any might be a good idea. Bro, the guy that wrote this game sounds dumb if you didn't watch Rang, I don't even want to hear your criticism about this game. This game was awesome and these fans were super into it. Like when someone shose sports as a category, they're like, yeah, you actually see people

up and up and down. This was not crowd sweeting. They loved this sag and they went it went twenty minutes. We've had a lot of opening satements with talking going back and forth that have gone twenty minutes that weren't anywhere near as it's you know, as fun as this. So and I also, by the way, too before we getting further into this, and we're never gonna get this done. But go ahead, well hold on, because we have a

whole rest of the show to talk about this. The only thing I really have to say about the rest of this is that hour was not that bad to me. I thought they did a good job with everything in it. I thought the tag match they came after it was exciting, and I thought, I know you're gonna bash the first hour, but I didn't think it was that bad. I thought the problem though, came later in the show when he got into the second hour and the third hour, where it was like, oh God, kill me. I thought they

did a good job at the first hour. I thought the rest of it was where you had the problem. All right, let me get going then, so we have the show with you. I even here because I'm trying to get this so we can get it on YouTube without having to go through a commercial break, and then you can do all your thoughts when we come back from the break. Why don't you actually let me know? This is just because I do it every week. We had Alpha Academy versus The Street profits they went five

minutes and Gable got the pinfall. So keep this in mind. By the way that they got the the win here this is non title match. We had a Lashly m v P segment his hometown and Lashly super over and so what do they do with Lashly his hometown? Well and beat him, that's nice, But other than that, they did nothing. They talked and we never saw the guy again. We had a god awful series of segments with Alexa Bliss, who, by the way, a little while ago to an interviewed

asking us to let it play out. Ro how long do I have to let this play out? It's been like five weeks now and it's only getting worse. So the more I let it play out, the worse it gets. She cried because they took the replica doll away from her. She talked about how she was trying to control her anger and failed. Whatever. A j and Damian Priest non title match. They got five minutes and a J Styles pins him clean in the middle of the ring. It is the fourth straight loss for Damian Priest after he'd

been undefeated for a year. They have now beaten him four straight times. I'm not a fan of this elimination chamber announcement. They've already thrown in uh five women. One more will be determined here on this show and as seth rawlins Kevin Owens deal their friendies Miss TV with Miss and Maurice and Ray and Dominic. This damn thing went on for like nine hours, literally built around the baby faces calling Miss a cheater and misinsisting he's not

a cheater. And finally Dominic gets in his face he wants to rematch, Miss gives it to him. They go one minute and forty seconds of which one minute is Maurice getting ejected, and then Dominic mysterio school boys him and pins him. Big win for old Dominic. Here on this show, Bianca beating Nicky ash for in It's ko d nothing match we had in our truth to Mina to Zawa Data Brooke Reggie segment, they're doing a romance angle with Dana and Reggie. She likes him, but she

only wants to be friends. He's lost in her voluptuous lips. But then they're chased off again. So this I can't say this will continue because probably know they'll drop it next week. Kevin Owens Austin theory, you know Austin theories in the elimination chamber after beating Kevin Owens, but his w w E so we gotta go fifty fifty. Kevin Owens nine minute match, beats him clean in the middle of the ring with the stunner, because of course he did.

We are we just talking about and I told you all this would happen, but no one likes to listen to me. We had Alita Becky Lynch segment, which, uh, you know, Becky does the old deal. Oh, I you were my teenage hero. I have so much respect for you, but I want to beat you and I'm insulted that you want my title. And long story short, they had a her fluffle and lead a later out with the twist of Fate and then went up top and hit the Moon Salt. They gave it all away, whatever doesn't matter.

They're gonna wrestle at the at the pay per view save the Moon Salt brother for Saudi Arabia. Nope, they can't even do that. What then, I think she's gonna win the title? No, but you can at least have a near fall off her finally hitting the moon Salt after she tried it at the Rumble and was foiled, and then she tries it here and Becky should have rolled out of the ring. And now they they just hit it. Kevin Owens in storyline, may not be at WrestleMania.

According to Sonya Deville and Adam Pierce a two night WrestleMania, We're gonna have a spot for Kevin Owens. That's the storyline. Do you drop beat Live Morgan with a Vader bomb? So those of you, uh, you know, hoping for that big Live Morgan push, You're not gonna get it. And uh. Then in the main event, Riddle faces seth Rawlins. They go eight minutes and then Kevin Owens just runs in for this qualification. Then they come back. It is now a tag match Seth and Kevin Owens against Riddle and

Randy Orton. They go eight more minutes, and you'll never guess what happens to the number one contenders to the tag team titles, who, after four weeks have finally earned their shot at the tag team titles. Seth Rons curb stomps and pins Riddle clean in the middle of the ring, because of course he did. And that was a show that was Monday Night Raw. When we come back from the break, Mike, I'm gonna allow you to break down every segment that you want to here on this program.

And perhaps tell me why leader should have hit that moved soult, which I thought was ridiculous back in a moment, Server life. You're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike semper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Listen, it doesn't matter, okay, but because stuff is so simple and they can't do simple right, it's Lida versus Becky Lynch in the elimination chamber. Is there anybody on the face of this planet that thinks that Leta is gonna

beat Becky Lynch for the raw women's title? Anybody? No, of course, not except for the gimmicks. Okay, So listen. She went up for that moon salt at the Royal Rumbole, and she got shoved off the top and eliminated. She goes up top to hit the moon salt on Becky Lynch, and Becky Lynch rolls out of the way. You just get people wanting to see Leta's big move. What other move does lead to? Have everybody the twist of fate which we've already seen. What else d d A d

d T Hurricane Rana? She didn't do a Hurricane ra does a spinning head scissors. But her big move is the moon salt and the twist of faith. Who are you to de mean her wrestling repertoire, I said, those are big signature moves, the big ones at the end of the match, the moonsal and the twist of faith. Those are fishing minute. Let me just finish. All you have to do is make people want to see the

moon salt, and then you go to Saudi Arabia. She makes a big comeback, shoves Becky off the top, she hits her big moon salt, and you've got a great near fall. That's all you have to do. They finally get to see their moves, so you get a big pop because they finally saw it, and you get the big pop because the big near fault. But no, now we've seen the twist of fate and we've seen the moon salt. So literally, the only reason to watch the matches to see if she's gonna win, and we all

know she's not gonna win. Whatever doesn't matter, but she many Christmas is not hard, and they make everything so hard. You're turning simple arithmetic into calculus. Here. You really have taken that one too far. Look, she's not. So what's the big deal about the fact she got pushed off in alimity? That was bad? But then she goes out, Yeah,

nobody thinks she's got a chance to win. But you know what, maybe she does because she did hit the moon salt and you know what, probably now you know what you're doing the only so she hits it at at the pay per view and guess what does she get a win? No, that's when Becky kicks out. You're right, it's not that big of a deal. Why you're so hung up on And I don't know when you can use it as a near fault because she already hit it, improved she can beat the champ. She didn't prove she

could be the champion. She didn't move. She proved she could beat her with her move. No, she didn't look did she pin Becky Lynch with the moon Salt? She just hit it. She was able to hit it. Well, I don't know why you're making such a big deal out of this. Why because I tried to explain this. There there are there are three things. She beats Becky. She hits a twist of faith. She ain't gonna hit she ain't gonna pin her We've already seen the twist

of faith. There's literally one thing that you can say for this match for the fans, and they gave it away. And you're sitting here talking about how I'm doing. You're trying to tell me that because she hit a moonsalt on Raw, now people believe she's gonna beat Becky. Anybody here, no one? Okay, you have turned the stupidest thing into a talking point. I gotta problem. That actually really is a sign of your amazing success. It really is the

smallest little It's not them, Yes it is. It's a philosophical difference in booking because I actually can look at that and go, she hit the move on the champion. She's there for three appearances. One was a royal rumble. Okay, she didn't hit it. You're really making a mountain out of a molehill about that. It was a way for her to get eliminated. Then in a match that you're right, nobody thinks she's going to win. I mean, the funny part is is if you apply this to Lance Archer

and Hangman Page. You were all about him laying out Hangman Page. Well, guess what for a match that everybody knows he's not gonna win. Well, here's Leada hitting a move on the champion, proving she can do it. So when she does do it at the pay per view, it's still going to get the same response. It's going to get the pop up she almost did it. It's a it's a difference in philosophies, Brian. This isn't something where everybody's such an idiot because they don't believe with

what you say. Okay, period, did you're bringing up Lance Archer? Yeah, okay, Lance Archer. I don't think he's going to win. Okay, but he could win. Okay, he could, Like maybe Hangman's got some serious if Hangman has an injury, because now you're doing the thing where it's fake, so nobody think no Leta and and Lance Archer or not winning the titles. Period. You can't. You don't try to say, well, maybe Lance Archer can do this, well, maybe lead A can to.

Then if if Hangman Page has an injury and he can't wrestle, they could put that title on Lance Archer. Okay, but you know what if Becky has an injury and she can't wrestle, they're not putting that title on Lida Becky will go out there and vacated. There is zero chance, zero in in any universe that Lead is becoming the raw women's champion. None. So the issue here is not

about the moon salt. The issue is that there is a simple way of booking that is lost because everybody has watched w W E screw it up for so many years that now they just accept everything. Oh she had Oliver moves going to the pay per view. Who cares? It doesn't matter, it's pointless, like, actually, you could have saved something, You could have saved one thing for that

pay per view. But now Rosaiana, if you're pulling back the onion on their booking, the fact that they need Leita to come back, when you have Bianca bel Air, when you have Riha Ripley, when you have Eo Sharai, when you have you name them, like, that's the bigger issue. So I mean, I'm sorry, I mean, you're right about their you know, pathetic booking approaches. But I mean again, you're you've made a mountain out of a mole, would

you all rather? I got mad at the fact that they spent weeks building up Riddle and Orton becoming number one contenders and then beat him clean at the end of the show. Is that a mountain out of a mole hill? I mean, it probably is because nothing matters. But you know, that's remarkably impossibly stupid as well. What about on SmackDown? Is it a mount out of a mole hill? When I say, you know, they had the Viking Raiders, who no one thinks I have any chance

of winning the tag titles. They did a one on one match with one of the US and beat the guy. He didn't don't only beat him, but he did a splash where he like did the number one just joking around in midair and pin the guy cleaning. Is that a mountain out of a mole hill? No, that's remarkable, not to posterously stupid as well. You're exactly right, that's

preposterously stupid. I don't think the leader thing is. And I think that's the bottom line on that, and we should probably move on because we bored everybody to tears. I don't care about boring them to tears. I'm trying to explain this business that everyone's forgotten. Can we get on some some people to discuss it. You know, it's a great worker people to discuss that is a great worker. M JF. You wanna know why, because he does all

these we have eyes. He does all the old stuff that people have forgotten, and he's bringing all that old stuff back. Yeah, they have get out of your gimmick in your hand and the referees and they give falls out. Bro. These people in the twitch, especially the YouTube chat actually, and I've never seen that in their lives. Nobody's forgotten to get out of here. I don't know, man, I got a whole Twitter feed that I I know. I

don't forget about it. I know there's a lot of other wrestlers and performers and bookers and people in that business that that don't forget about that stuff either either. And you're right, MJF is a great worker because he's allowed to be. You know, he's he's allowed to be. And that's the biggest thing with w w E. And we spend all this waste a little time talking about w w E and their crappy booking. You know, we

could talk about any other promotion. We could spend this time talking about anybody else other than w w E being incompetent and giving them more oxygen and letting them have more of the space when there's so much other good stuff to talk about. Well, you know what I'm talking about, what I want to talk about here. It's gonna draw these listeners except Midnight Man four seven three, who quit the show because I was talking about good good riddens. Get out of here. You ain't tough enough

to listen to the show anyway, You cowered. Takes a real tough guy to listen to this show for an hour. Yeah, this coward? What a door? Will you stop? I'm not kidding. Da Rousey opened up. Oh here. Rhonda Rousey feels the same way as I do. Open up about her relationship with the fans. During a Sunday Facebook stream where she was playing video games and answering questions, Ronda said that while she plays a character in w w E, it's

still her, which can make taking critiques difficult. It's hard not to take things personally from the fans because I don't go out there as I mean, I do go out there as a character, but I'm also actually ron Da Rousey. I don't play Ronda Rousey on television, so sometimes I take it personally from the fans. Not so much from the wrestlers, but the fans I do, She said, Uh, I believe what do we got here? There's a lot of words in this article as well, um where are

we here? In August one, Rousey referred to w w WE fans is ungrateful idiots following bray Wyatt's release in situ, wating it was them who caused him to be released. She acknowledged her change and ring gear dressing all black, which was a departure from which she supported before. She said the change was due to having her first child four months ago and not feeling confident enough to wear it.

She said she is working towards it, but quote, it's hard when you are coming back and being judged directly to how you looked three years ago. See, I have no idea what she's talking about there, because number one, I don't even remember her old outfit. I thought she always were all black, And furthermore, she gave birth four months ago. I think she's looked fantastic. So I don't know what she's talking about in terms of of her gear and people being critical of what she's wearing. But yeah, yeah,

I didn't even know that was a thing. But I guess. I guess it always is. You know, you're in a cosmetic business. And I'm sure she's got a ton of people that are probably you know, sniping at her about how she looks in her weight. I mean all women do. I mean everybody in wrestling does, so, you know, I that's unfortunate, but that's I guess that's just part of your game that you have to try to shut out.

And that's I think that's the bottom line. And that's obviously something that she understands now, is she's got to do a better job trying to just close the door on social media and a lot of the comments and things like that. Once you get into of the arena, you know, you've got to deal with him that way. But as far as all the other you know, chatter and nonsense and all that sort of stuff, you got to try to block it out, you know, especially in

you know, in anything, but but in wrestling too. I mean, she had but she had these issues in m m A as well too, with people thinking, you know, she thought the fans turned on or there, you know, with the home fight and all that sort of stuff. Certainly thought that the media had turned on her. So you know, that's just the way she is, you know, wired personality wise, and there's gonna have to be people that are veterans who you know, have have been through some of the

mental things she's gone through. They're just gonna have to try to coach her through this and help her out a little bit. She did an interview with Steve Oh of Jackass in April and said she was questioning why she was continuing to take time away from focusing on her family, quote, instead of spending my time on my energy on a bunch of bleeping, ungrateful fans that don't even appreciate me. Bro, she ain't gonna be coming to the conventions. I'm thinking, get out of here with that.

They're fans. It's not all the fans anyway, the fans. You know, the media said about the fans. Come on, the media is responsible, the fans are responsible. Maybe I don't know. I should mention, by the way, that New Japan has announced the full card for Saturday's New Japan Strong continuation of the New Beginning USA series. This week. It will be Josh Barnett versus Renn Narita, Juice Robinson, and David and Leave versus Jonah and Bad Dude Tito and hikol Ao versus Cody Chun. I went to the show.

I'm sure you guys are all aware. The show was awesome and the first series of matches aired on this past Saturday. So if you do not watching New Japan Strong this past Saturday, go watch it now and watch the show this coming Saturday, because all three of these matches were also awesome. So check it out Nuchpan Strong and JPW world dot com. That's a non w w E promotion, it is. And by the way, everybody go over to Filthy Tom Lawler's Twitter and look at supporting

him when he does his virtual signing. Uh so you can find out all the information there. In fact, I'll have it all for you after the break. You should have had that ready to go. Chopping roll park I retweeted it yesterday back in a moment, was it were live back in the show? Right? Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot com. This person wants to know why doesn't Observer Live ever talked about the lizard people. Bro Come on, get out

of here. But you know I will say one thing. I will say one thing. I don't think it's impossible that in an infinite universe there could be somewhere in the universe where men are lizards. Okay, but it is impossible that the sun is cold anyway. Nick Gage is signed an exclusive multi year contract with g c W

Fightful first report of the news Monday. According to the report, the deal will reduce the amount of matches the forty one year old gauge needs to work while also keeping him in g CW, currently half of the company's Take Team title holders, along with Matt Tremont and de Bilt from the Briscos. At last month's World on GCW, in a surprise appearance, Brett Lauderdale, the company owner, told the website he is against the idea of contracts in GCW,

but made an exception from day one. He says, Nick has put his body and literally his life on the line for the fans inside the squared circle. He deserves and has earned the right to be rewarded for twenty plus years of hard work and sacrifice. This historic contract will do just that, allowing him to continue his entering career at a pace that is beneficial to his health while beginning to focus on opportunities to take him towards

the next phase of his career. I believe he said this will be the first and last contract ever offered by g c W, So congratulations Nick Gauge. It's at a rough time. I'm here and there, so hopefully it all works out for him and we're out of time. Everybody tonight nine Pacific, midnight Eastern. It's a toga party WrestleMania nine. Hopefully Mike's watching watching along here with this in a tog of his own. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Check it out YouTube and Twitch, so

it's gonna be a lot of fun. Thanks. Mike has always callers and listeners over to the studio to show me's top tears on YouTube. That guy who got are u N N O F T. We'll talk to you next time Wrestling Observer Live. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.