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today is no exception. Well, we got lots. Last night was n x T two point oh. Tonight is a e W Dynamite, the return of John Moxley and the return of Cody as well. And of course we've got the line up for tonight's show. We'll tell you all the matches there. We got some notes on raw airing on Sci Fi and February as a result of the Olympics. What were those stand up for? W W A blokes, We're gonna say when rod is a horrible number on Sci Fi, I'm sure they will blame it on the

booking and claim that the ship is sinking. That's what they'll do, right, They won't. They won't know that designed a different network and thus probably isn't gonna do as well. Surely that won't happen, and the Rampage ratings SmackDown as well. Scotty too, Hattie talking about his time and at n x T and how Vince McMahon wanted the trainers to look younger because of course he did. And yes, everybody, we're gonna talk about Gunther Stark anyway, that's gonna come

up after the break. You want Texas here today, you want to contact us, well, it's easy. Four to five seven eight zero seven six is the phone number. Four two five seven five six six. Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com adds Brian Alvarez on Twitter. Believe we'll have a special guest later on in the show today, but it won't be Cody Rhodes. I gotta figure that out as well, because I had a lot of stuff going on. Man, every day. Back I'm on with more Deserver Live sometimes

love back in the show. Brian Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike Simper bv also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. I want to mention, by the way that before I get into gun thirst Stark. I would like to mention that we had an article on the front page about Cody and UH. At the end of the article it said that Cody was going to be the guest on Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Milton and Bryan Alvarez today.

I read it, I was like, he is, yeah, and then I texted Dave and they said, I don't know that's all about either. I thought he was gonna be at Observer Live. I was gonna text you to find out. And so anyway, neither Dave or I have any knowledge of this whatsoever. So I think I think that that at some point somewhere on a show, someone said something that was misinterpreted, but Cody Cody is not you know what I think it was now they think about it.

I think that at some point when we were talking about the UH Cody Rhodes story, UM, Dave said He's gonna be on the show Wednesday. I think that was misinterpreted as he was gonna be on this show or Observer Radio. The show that we were referencing was a E W Dynamite. So anyway, there is UH. It is unlikely that Cody is going to be on the show today.

Now that might disappoint some people for this show, but Adam Abdala is gonna be on to talk about the Orange Crushed books that he puts out as well as g c W at the Hammerstein and the Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame, so we have that coming up later on. So right, all right, well, I suppose I should talk about gun Thirst Stark, right, is that what I should do?

What's funny is um, I'll just read the article from the front page of Wrestling Observer dot com and then I'll get going here and a lot of people in the check going, oh, how long is this Brian gonna rant for? I don't know what I'm gonna do. I never know what I'm gonna do. Guys, there's no plan. I don't know if you figured that out. And on the show. So this from Wrestling Observed dot com. The end of n x T saw Walter announcing a new

name for himself. Walter announced himself as Gunther after defeating Roderick Strong on tonight's n x T with an air raid, crash and a power bomb. After Walter announced the name change, Fabian Eichner and Marcel Bartel ran in and attacked strong the Creed brothers and ran in and the team's brawl to end the show. On January thirteen, at w W filed a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark

Office for the name Gunther Stark. And is also the name of a Nazi military commander during World War Two who died after his vessel sunk in the English Channel in nineteen forty four. The last name was not mentioned on tonight's show. I like to tell these stories the way that the stories unfolded to me, you know what I'm saying. So yesterday I got a random text. Because I don't watch these shows live because I'm on the

West Coast, I have to watch him on delay. And somebody texted me out of the blue and said, I don't want to spoil you, but there's a new gimmick and someone has a new name. Good luck. I thought, what's going on here? So, you know, I don't mind spoilers, and shows always get spoiled for me. So then they started looking around, and everywhere I look on our board, which are etcetera, I'm bombarded with the fact that w w E has renamed Vaulter. They have given him the

name of a Nazi. Now I mean listen, I mean listen. There were a lot of Nazis, okay, you know, lots of them, and they had a lot of names, obviously, but this particular Nazi was was famous enough that like, you google him and he comes right up. He's not some random Nazi. So I was like, what, wait a second. I hate to laugh about this, but like this is a new level. I mean it's not every day that you know, w W E renames Vaulter, they name him after a Nazi. Not every day that that happens that

I have to admit as a new one. So I'm like what And you know, so I started watching the show, and the show starts and they announced tonight Roderick Strong will face Vaulter. Like okay, So then the announcer started talking about it's Roderick Strong versus Vaulter tonight. So I'm watching the whole show, no mention of the name Gunther Stark and uh. And then fine, it's time for the main event, and you know, the ring announcer says, coming

to the ring, Vaulter. It comes down to the ring, and uh, Like I'm watching this whole show and I'm like, okay, this is like something that you know, I imagined, He's actually still still Vaulter. I don't know what everyone's all

angry about. And then of course at the end of the show, he announces she's about to announce him the winner because in fact, he beat Roderick Strong, and he announces, no, the winner of this matches Gunther and then him an imperium, you know, beat down Roderick Strong, and I was like, my god, he's actually he's he's gun the stark they have they have trademarked the name of a Nazi for Rodick, for for for Vaulter. So then, you know, I'm just thinking,

what in God's name? And then I started getting messages from from a number of people and uh, this is this this story is is baffling to me because is there this is literally a I can't even believe I'm saying this, but a polarizing topic. Okay, because there's the one side that is that is absolutely appalled, the w w E has trademarked the name of a Nazi for Vaulter.

And then and this was not one person, I might add, I had I had several people, a number of people in fact, that don't see this as a big deal at all. Okay, and you're probably wondering, well, how could they not see this as a big deal. Well, the first argument was, well, you know the talent, he gets to pick their name, so you know, Vaulter, and we don't know this for sure, but I mean, you know, in in most cases what happens is they say, okay, you can no longer be Vaulter. Come up with like

ten names, and then we'll pick one of them. So Vulter writes down ten names and they go, oh, you know, I really like this gunther Stark. That sounds like a cool name. And so then you know, he ends up being gunther Stark. So the first argument was, well, everyone's mad at Vince and w w E, but you know, there's a pretty good chance that Voulter himself is the one who came up with the name gunther Stark. Okay, now no one said one way or the other, but that was that was the first deal. Maybe this is

all Walter's idea, all right. So then the other argument was, well, you know they never called him gunther Stark. They only called him Gunther like well, they trademarked the whole name. So the thing that baffles me is, okay, all right, let's say that this was not a w w E idea. Let's say that this was not Vince or whoever saying, Hey, I got an idea, let's name him after a famous Nazi.

You know it was his idea. If if you, the listener, owned w w E and somebody came up with a list and you narrowed it down to Gunther Stark, Okay, there's nobody in this billion dollar company who's tasked with typing a name into Google. Okay, right, Like you don't want you don't want some some woman to uh debut on the main roster is Jenna Jamison? Right, that's a famous female porn star. You don't want your your your superstars named after porn stars. Right. You don't want some

kids saying, oh man, I like that Jennet Jamison. Let me Google and all of a sudden, you know what comes up? That doesn't happen? Right? You would think that they would want to make sure that whatever name somebody came up with was not like an infamous name. I would go as far as to say that Gunther Stark would be an infamous name. So the first question is you're telling me that nobody bothered to google the name

Gunther Stark. Okay, well, then maybe you know, and we'll talk about why it's possible no one bothered to google this name. So in you know, you trademark that, you go all the way to trademarking the name of this Nazi, and then of course word gets out that you trademark the name of a Nazi. So you're telling me that to avoid controversy, your plan is not to save Walter. We need a different name. But it said ago, Well we'll just call him Gunther. There's more I'll get you

after the break Observer Live. I can't even believe here. I'm still going here. Michael Joy is here at some point here. But I look on the chat here and I gotta going, Well, he's not a famous Nazi. Bro Listen, he's not Adolph Hitler. Okay, but how many Nazis do you think there were? Okay, plenty of them. If you google her name, nothing's gonna come up. You google gunt

Stark's name and it comes up immediately. Of course, now you have to search back a few pages because now when you google gun Their Stark it's all w w E in stories about w w E. But anyway, the point of this is, again, if it were your company and someone came up to you and they wanted to be named Gunther Stark, A, no one googles it, and b when you start to get blowback from fans, you don't just give him a totally different name, but you keep the Gunther. Now it's okay, that's the idea here.

Then people arguing that, I'm like, well, what if what if you'd come up to you and said I want to use the name Adolph Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Are you okay with that one? Benito Mussolini because his favorite baseball player was Benito Santia. No, they get no, get nothing on this. No idiot spittake. Somebody banned spittake. He goes, you know, Gunther is a common German name, right, Well, yes, but they didn't trade mark Gunther. I am the trademark

Gunther Stark. And the chances are, since they trademarked the whole name that if they hadn't gotten blowback, he would have been gun Thur Stark. But they got blowback, and so they dropped the Stark part so do you. That makes it okay. So if if if Walter came up to and he goes, hey, you know what, I got a great name for a character, Adolf Hitler. All right, let's trademark Adolf Hitler for entertainment purposes. Because when you

do a trademark, that's what it's for. So you trademark Aidolf Hitler and then fans go, what you trademark the name Adolf Hitler for entertainment purposes And they're like, oh, I'm embarrassed now as a company, Well we'll just call him Aidolf. Now that's okay. M interesting. They get no benefit of the doubt. I don't care if Walter wanted to call himself that you still have to go through. If I say something on air, I'm gonna be named

as part of the lawsuit. But if somebody wants to sue, they're coming after Brian, okay, because that's where the buck stops. So that's how that works, and it's they were the ones responsible for this, and they're the ones that actually

went ahead and trademarked the whole name. And if it wasn't people yesterday, a couple of people kind of cringed when I said, you know a lot of the old white guys that prop up Martin Luther King and they never actually make their way past that, and they look at that as this is what we know about culture and race, and then everything else be damned like actual real issues. And this is how we end up with crime time and Mexic cools and Hirohito. Do you remember

that one, Brian? Do you remember Hirohito were two ace yes, Kenzo Suzuki and do you know why they stopped that? They got blowback, and do you know how they responded to that blowback? Apparently Vince was pissed that he got blowback for this wonderful idea of Hirohito as the Kenzo Suzuki is his grandson looking for revenge on you know, the bombs being dropped on America. He's gonna take this out on wrestlers. They get no benefit of the doubt

because of how they've done everything. This was not an oversight or a mistake. Obviously it was. But I'm sorry. When you continue to play these games and you continue to do the things that you've done, sorry, you get no benefit of the doubt for this. And bottom line is it's a sloppy shop anyway, because even if everything you take it at face value, that this is because more than one person has said to me, well, what if Gunter really wanted this, that's fine, but somebody's got

a sign off on all of these things. On top of the fact it's a stupid idea. I care if he didn't want to be Walter. He's been Walter on the Royal Rumble, he was Walter for the entire show. Why now, why? Now? You know, I gotta add one thing here because somebody made a good point there in the h in the chat. And this is also a chance to get a plug in if you're in the bottle area. We got a yoga studio he've opened up

in conjunction with thekarate and jiu jitsu school. So if you want to do some yoga and bothel free trial and go to cedar tree yoga dot com. What does that have to do with all of this, I'll tell you. So when we uh, when we decided we were gonna branch out to do this studio, Uh, the guy that owns the school says, well, what do you want to use for a name? And so does this sound familiar? What do you want to use for a name, and so we had to think of some names, and uh

we we thought. I got an idea about cedar Tree Yoga, and the first thing this guy said was, well, we don't. We're gonna have to google it, because before you can register it as a business name, you have to check to see if there's any other Cedar Tree Yoga in the state of Washington. So this, by the way, this kind of you know, the idea that oh, well, you know, someone came up with the name gunser Stark and nobody

bothered to google it before the trademark did. That's impossible because before you go to trademark the name, you need a Google to see if there is another gun th Stark or whatever name you came up with. So, in fact, the idea that oh, we didn't know until after it was trademarked, no, you would have had to have googled the name before you can go to try to apply for a trademark for the name. Oh my, the way ties into another nx T story. I got material for

hours today. So then we had, you know, I had the people yesterday going on maybe they didn't know or or you know, you do realize that this name company that didn't know that Adam Cole's contract expired, and and all of these other clerical errors, which stems from a situation like two thousand seven when the Rocks contract expired. They let the Rocks contract expire and when asked, they claimed it was a clerical error. MH. So anyway, they've

had a lot of clerical errors lately. Meanwhile, that was a sour time between the two parties. But the point is they have had legitimate clerical errors, like you know, whoever, I think it was Kenyan Seamen actually was the guy that woke up and realized that, you know, Adam Cole's contract was expiring far earlier than they realized. And you know, I think you got fired over that or anyway, it was a big to do. But there have been many

legitimate clerical errors in this billion dollar company. So the latest, I don't know this is a clerical error or not, but you realize On n x T two point oh last night, besides the debut of Nazi commander gun their Stark, they also announced a women's Dusty Cup. But they have no teams. They haven't figured out, they haven't figured out who's even gonna be in this tournament. You know who returned on the show last night out of the blue,

Rockel Gonzalez. You do real is that she's on her way out and uh they had to bring her back because they have no teams for a tournament that they announced. So they're trying to figure out and I'm not talking about like you know, a long time ago. I'm talking about today, who is going to be in this tournament. We have announced a tournament, but we have no teams. So you know, if you want to argue that maybe you know, with this whole gun there Stark thing one

hand didn't know what the other hand was doing. I mean, there is evidence for that because we didn't announce a tournament for women with no women. But considering the main roster has got one tag team for the Tag Team Championship and then nobody else. The person want to know who's duty company. We're talking about the n x T Women's Dusty Cup. They don't have enough teams. They were

discussing bringing down Rhea Nikki, who broke up. By the way, I'm pretty sure that one's out, but I would put nothing past them because they need somehow get you know, eight teams, right, eight teams one too, at least eight. Yeah, so they need sixteen women. They need eight female take teams that they don't have. So that's why you don't have brackets, because they don't have any teams for a tournament that they already announced on television. Do you think

Sirey is gonna team with the spirit of her grandmother? Yes, siree. A lot of people are mad about sire But Sailor Moon, I mean, we haven't seen what her actual entring gimmick was. I mean, maybe that's what she actually wears for street clothes. We don't know this, But yes, she's back. She explained, I could never win, so I left and went home. But now I'm now I'm back, she says. Now she'll

be a winner. And she found some pendant that her her strong grandmother once owned, and this is gonna give her strength to succeed here in n x T that in her school girl outfit, help her succeed with these t two year old men that watch this show. Well, yeah, I'm sure it will help or succeed with them. I'm sure that's right up there, Alley. I'm sure somebody in creative is around that age, A couple of them in fact, that are around that age coming up with that sort

of stuff. But yeah, I mean, of all the things, I just I don't. I don't. I don't get it. I don't why why why Karen Qes deal? And I know it's cute, it's cute, and it's was amusing. Once I'm already done with it. I'm already done with it. I know, well, Orange Cassidy, no, I I have more faith in Orange Cassidy the character and all that was

built up before he was on a w TV. I'm looking at this creation and going, okay, you know, I just they have nothing but losers on the main roster, Guys and women that can't hold onto their money, people who don't know how to win, people who don't know

to have how to have friendships and relationships. I mean, they are doing a great job in n XT and getting people ready for the type of characters who are going to be on the main roster, that's for sure, except with a lot more, a lot less experience that Creed Brothers, Brooks and Jensen or whatever the hell they're called match. It was ugly, you know, it was. It could have been a lot worse. But I see, you know,

four guys in there. They're just basically clubbing and thundering with each other, and it's like, God, bless you know, seeing those guys on the main roster. You know they get called up. Randy weren't gonna want to get thrown around by the Casper brothers. I don't know about that. I look at I look at what they're developing, and I just I cringe. And it's not this talent's fault. You can see there's a lot of puppies with big paws.

It's just unfortunate that they're gonna be locked in a box and they're not gonna be able to develop in most cases. Back at the moment, everybody Obserer Live look in the show. Bran Eva is here Wrestling Observer Live mixuperviv, also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. Adam abdalls here on the show today talking g c W Orange Crushing much more. What's going on? Adam, Hey, guys, thank you for having me. Hey, are you gonna do an Orange Crush about gunther Stark?

I'd love to do one about Vaulter, but gunther Stark and I don't know, man, I don't think that's gonna sell a lot of copies. The Adventures of Gunther Stark. Not to my current audience. It's weird. It seems to be going into this weekend. Game Changer Wrestling has a little bit more positive momentum than n x T or really anything taking place in w w E that doesn't have Brock's name on it. J W ever use a

Nazi character just out of curiosity. Has g c W or j c W Not to my knowledge, no or j c W. I guess there is a guy on the Indians up in Jersey called Crazy Ivan many many years ago. There might have been iteration of j c W that he participated in, but that was long before my involvement. Well, let's talk about this. This show coming up this weekend. This is a it's a big one pay per view. Absolutely, it's uh, you know, the largest crowd of the modern era at the Hammerstein ball Room.

I believe Wrestle Ticks clocked it at two thousand and five tickets. Salt um. It's gonna be on Fight TV but also traditional pay per view for the very first time. I think it's a watershed moment for independent wrestling. So the return of Mocksley is happening tonight, but unless he wrestles, this is his first match since, uh since he took a leave of absence from wrestling, so that has to

be exciting. Yeah, it's super exciting. I mean John Moxley's who was also on the cover of Orange Crush Volume two, um is you know g c W World Champion, So it's obviously fitting that he would defend the belt on the biggest show in the company's history, and we're really

excited to have him back. Not only is it going to be a big weekend obviously for g CW for running the Hammerstein, one of the most interesting things to me was actually this creation of the Indie Rustling Hall of Fame, which you know, it doesn't I don't know if there's going to be a physical version of this, but I love the idea for a weekend on the big show, you get to pay homage to so many people, and there's so many people that over the years are

going to be able to how did this thing come about, how did you get involved in it? And is this something we're going to be seeing every year? Does this and does this mean we're going to be getting a Hammerstein Show every year from g CW. Well, I can't confirm that, but I can tell you that given the success of the Hammerstone Show, Brett Um as well as other people on the team, including myself, really wanted to create a moment to honor the legends of independent wrestling

that help us get to this moment um. So we decided to have our own banquet at the Cutting Room in New York City on Saturday night and really think about a diverse group of workers who have kind of left their mark on the business, both in the ring and outside. So, UM, we're excited. There has been talk about a physical version of this that Brett's working on, UM,

but that's something probably not in the immediate future. You're gonna you're gonna have a physical hall of Fame before w W E has a physical hall of Fame at this point, I think that's probably likely. UM. But and furthermore, uh, you know, I I think, um, it's probably very likely that we will do this every year moving forward, at least the Hall of Fame. I can't speak for Hammerstein. You know, that's a big commitment and that's really Brett

Lauderdale's decision. But you know, Orange Crush and g CW are definitely committed upholding the Gadee Hall of Fame. Yeah, I'm gonna go over these matches here and I want you to tell us all a little bit about them. Is a preview for this coming weekend, John Moxley and Homicide for the g c W Championship. Yeah so, uh, Homicide one um a special kind of royal rumble style match on the last g c W show on New Year's Day to earn a shot at the g c

W World title. Um. I think we all remember when Homicide won the Ring of Honor World Championship in two thousand and six at Final Battle against Brian Danielson and the legendary match. So you know, how fitting is it for Homicide, who is kind of one of the legends of independent wrestling, Who's gonna be inducted into the Indie

Hall of Fame by Chris Dickinson on Saturday night. Um to have like one last shot, uh, in one of the biggest indie shows of all time at the world title against you know, we're the biggest stars in the world. We got Jonathan Gresham defending the r O Wage title against Blake Christian and this footage will eventually be airing on Ring of Honor television, right, I believe So, I think I think g c W and Ring Honor have a deal in terms of being able to syndicate the

title matches that take place at the shows. Yeah, this is gonna be an incredible technical wrestling match. UM. Last weekend in Chicago, Blake Christian actually defeated Bandido, who is the kind of linear or you know on crowned Ring of Honor Champions since he had COVID prior to his final defense. So you know, in theory, this is really kind of determined who the legit world champion. As a Ring of Honor, We've also got Gringo Loco Flamita and

r Rez versus Bandido as f and Laredo Kid. Yeah, this this is gonna be you know, I mean, Brett Lauderdale is a huge fan of Luca Liebra. I don't if you saw this, and but we actually announced um in February, Moscara Dorada will be debuting in GCW as well as his ninety days are up. Um, so you know, he's a huge fan of Lucha Libre. Some of the best matches in the history of the promotion have been Luca Libre six man tags, including an amazing match at a show called Two Cups Stuffed a few years ago

in Chicago. Um, and I think this is gonna just blow people away. We've got Allie Catch and Ruby Soho. Yeah, Ali Catch, you know, this is her dream match, she called her shot. She put out a video on social media that was directed and produced by John Carla Diomo that did probably over a hundred and fifty views. Um, that kind of mirrored the Ruby Soho introductory video to a W and people are super psyched for this matchup. It's got a tremendous amount of buzz and we're excited,

excited for Alie to have her moment. You know, this show has a lot of kind of parody between like the stars of g c W who have helped get us and helped help Brett, you know, get his company to this moment with kind of you know, mainstream stars and helping elevate their stars. So I think that's it's

a cool duality Joey Janella and Matt Cardona. Yeah. I don't know if you've been following the storyline online, but essentially, um, there's been kind of a very parallel storyline to the WrestleMania eight UM storyline between Riclaire and Mandy Savage, where Joey Janella Um exposed photos of him and Chelsea Green that took place prior to their recent weddings. Um, but quite literally are very similar to the photo. I hope these are photos the same way they were in uh.

I forget the term that they used in in in because prior to photoshop. But I think that wants these things photo shop. I don't know if they are though, we don't. Yeah, we don't know, that's question, right. So there's been a lot lot of heated back and forth

between Joey and Matt Cardona. They also had a wild brawl um at Super Gabby's like uh storage facility in New Orlando, because both Joey and Matt are kind of famed like toy collectors that you know was released earlier this week, you know, in the same vein of like stone called Tivoston and Book of t at the supermarket. So I think, um, you know, there's a lot of buzz online for this match. There's a lot of really fun promo is going back and forth, and I think

it may just steal the show. Oh yeah, doctored photos was how they described it. They had been doctored. Well, hey have photo doctor. We got the Briscos Open Challenge for the g c W Tag team titles. Yeah, the Briscos have been coming in hard since uh since joining uh g c W. They won the CIPPI Tag team titles and they very first matched tank Out, Matt Justice and man Swarner. And you know, I don't know who

they're facing. You know, Brett keeps it very close to vest, but they've gone absolutely nuts every time out and I expect expect no less at the Hammerstein bar Room. Actually, the last time I saw them there they wrestled um Tongaloa and Tomatonga in like a classic match. So now, Adam, I look, a w's in Washington, d C. Which is, you know, very very close geographically to Sussex County, Delaware. I'm just do we know where FTR is right now?

Do we know where the Briscoes are right now? Well, I mean FTR is probably getting ready for Dynamite tonight, Mike, Yeah, imagine the TV. Can I imagine the Briscoes are at home? But you know, I don't know. I don't work for at W. I don't see asking where the chop and roll expresses, Mike, Well, because one of yours, right, I guess one of us is right here, But that doesn't

mean nothing. Hey, you know what an airplane it means. Actually, Adam can tell you about the kickoff match, which I think you would be keenly interested in, since there's somebody who's uh whose son is going to be wrestling in there, who you're very familiar with. Talk about this ladder match here, No, not the ladder match. The ladder match. We do have a grab the brass ring ladder match. But what Mike is referring to is our scramble match on the PBR

Kickoff Show, Nick Wayne. Yeah, So, so what happened was, I've got the lineup here, but it does not include the kickoff match. So I was looking through the lineup, but I didn't see Nick's name, and so I didn't know if I should ask on the air or not if he was actually gonna do the show, because I knew he was gonna do the show anyway. So he's

on the show. He's just in the scramble match. Yeah, Nick Wayne versus Jack cart Whale versus Alexane versus Ninja Mac versus Dante Leone versus New York Legend the grim reef So Show, which will be by the way live and free on YouTube. Yeah, so, if you want a free taste before the pay per view, check out the scramble match, check out the PBR kickoff. It's gonna be give you a real kind of sense of the atmosphere and as well as the type of action you can expect.

I'm GCW pay per view. So this ladder match is Jordan Oliver, Jimmy Lloyd, Alex Cologne, Leo Rush p c O and Tony Deppen. Correct, And there's been a lot of confusion online because you know a W adapted the Grabbed the Brass Ring gimmick um with Scorpio sky one earlier this year. But actually this gimmick was first introduced at Joey Janelle's Lost in New York in two thousand eighteen, with the winner getting to pick their shot at spring break and in this iteration, I believe the winner can

pick their shot anytime, anywhere. And finally we have Effie and Jeff Jarrett. Absolutely Jeff Jared has been on a rampage. He's returned to professional wrestling and g c W UM in a very aggressive way, dressed in all black, um stalking some of GCW's top talent. I mean, he has referred to him as a cloud vampire trying to stay relevant by you know, kind of trying to squeeze their juice,

so to speak. Effie had denied the match up until last week, but Jeff Jarrett actually attacked Ali Cat in Chicago when EFFI was actually not on the show, um and finally pushed them too far. So they're gonna they're gonna cooke it out at the Hammerston. And I'm real quick. We've mentioned a lot of those younger names that are on the come up for g c W. I just thinkuse cog are not announced for a match yet, but is a focal piece of that future. Jordan Oliver is

going to be in a match, I guess. Just very quickly talk a little bit about the young guys and g c W, as well as what you're doing with j c W as a sister promotion. Yeah, so technically my involvement with g CW is that I am the co owner and partner in j c W, which is on the sister promotion of Game Change of Wrestling. We have a lot of overlap in terms of kind of like are undercard wrestlers, a lot of our younger wrestlers.

And I'm also technically the New York promotional partner for GCW, so I'm partners and putting on the show in New York City. So um. You know, there's so many fantastic talents on the independence these days that Brett I think felt the need to kind of expand and create more opportunities for um, you know, up matches just in general for these guys, UM and different geographic opportunities as well

for local talents to cultivate cultivate them. So he created two promotions, one j CW with me UM and also l A Fights on the West Coast, so you know, people like Charles Mason out of the h O G School, UH, people like Everett Connors and Charlie Evans, people like Lucas Riley in l A. You know, we really have a whole kind of GCW universe that's emerging with all these sub brands and they all kind of, you know, come together and you'll see a lot of those talents in

one way or another on the show this weekend. So these show is available on a number of different platforms. We're gonna talk about that when we come back from the break, but it's this Weekend the World on g c W pay per view, Fight More Back in a Moment, Observer Live, Back in the show. Brian Evera is here

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I just released the new edition of Orange Crush. We have three limited edition covers with Eddie Kingston, Orange Cassidy, and thunder Rosa m Our annual book looking at the cross Section between Contemporary Art Professional Wrestling UM is out now at Orange Crush dot Art. Also features profiles of Leo Rush, Lee Moriarty, Drew Parker, Jimmy Lloyd, showed at

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best of luck with everything the show this weekend. I think a lot of people if you check out our chat right here very interested in UH and checking it out, you'll see Mocksley in action, the Briscos and and everything else. So best of luck and lay down again for the show sometime. Thanks for doing the show here today. Quite a day to come on, but you took our minds off a lot of things, so stark, but try alright. Well, thanks everybody for listening. Mike has always colors and listeners

ever the studio. 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