Roman Reigns Challengers/Stephanie McMahon News

none of it is about Sasha and Naomi. No update today whatsoever, So we can talk about other things. And there's plenty of things to talk about today. We got news, not the least of which obviously, is the departure of Stephanie McMahon from w w E. She is taking a leave of absence, and we'll give you some details on that.

And what details we don't give you, well, I guess we can ask Dave Meltzer about it, because he will be on the show in the second segment of the program today talking about all of the biggest news in the newst edition of the Wrestlings. A guess probably means we will have to talk about Sasha Naomi here today, but also in the final segment of the show, we will be joined by j Bradley, one half of the fixers at Tag Team, along with Wrecking Ball Logurski. I

believe may have once feud with Bruno Sammartino. But anyway, we got a lot of fun stuff to get into today. So all the news we got the A W Dynamite ratings show did very well. We have got to look at who the next likely challengers are for Roman reigns, because you know, we ain't got none, but the three challengers spoiler here are pretty much the three challengers that we've been talking about four weeks now as potential challengers for Roman. Rais Rick Flair talked about criticism of his

scheduled match at Star Cast five or Is. He essentially said, it's not about the money, and I'm not sure anybody actually I thought he was only doing it for the money. I think the criticism was more you have a pacemaker and you want to wrestle at seventy three. But anyway, he talks about that, we got a lot of stuff

to get into. Mikes and Pervid join us after the break lots of folks joining the program today, O kaick it off after the break Observer Live back in the show, Bran Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mikes and Burvivi also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Thank god, stephan even command is taking leave of absence so I don't have to open the show talk about Sasha Naomi today. Oh, come on.

In the new edition of the Wrestling Observer newsletter, Dave Meltzer provided an update on Stephanie McMahon's leave of absence from w w E, which she announced yesterday and which in fact cut most people in the company off guard. She announced Thursday she's taking a leave of absence from quote the majority of her responsibilities with w w E. She wrote she looks forward to returning to the company after taking this time away to focus on her family.

Melts reports he leave of absence was one Stephanie's choice and had been coming for some time, even though the announcement was a surprise to most, he wrote, this came out of nowhere. Most talent and those in the office and creative didn't know about it until they heard that she tweeted it. There were definitely a few people who knew and knew the background, but they weren't saying much past. There is more to it, but the basic reason given,

we're not inaccurate. The part about leaving a focus on her family is definitely part of it. Was obviously a tough year with Paula Veck being out for so long, and she had to pick up a lot of the responsibilities and obviously had to deal from a family standpoint with his health issues. Is back in the office full time now, so he's in the office full time, but she's taking a leave of absence. There's no time frame for return. We are told she is returning. All kinds

of speculation has transpired. You know what I need this week is more speculation. The only thing we were told directly and that this was her choice. This has been coming for some time, not something that happened out of nowhere, even though it would appear because ovitually nobody knew anything except a few who had kept it totally quiet until just before she released the info. But she was on four store pressure. It was her choice. As far as what it means for the future, that at this point

would be all speculation. She was the public face of the company had been pushed by the company to be positioned as one of the leading female sports executives in the country. Company President Nick con will be taking over her duties and those who reported to her will now

be reporting to him. Stephanie besides being chief brand officer, what if Brandy is available to take that job over for a while member of the company's board of directors, and aside from Vince, was the only original McMahon family member still working for the company. She owns two point five percent of the company, which would be valued at this point. That was yesterday. Yesterday it was a hundred

sixteen million dollars who knows about today. In a role as Chief Brand Officers, she's responsible for ensuring w w e's global brand strength and growth. Although let's be honest, Stephanie McMahon was not responsible for ensuring the global strength and growth of w w E. Many many people are responsible for that. But best wishes to her. Hopefully everything works out great and she can return soon. At the update on Stephanie mc man, it's gonna be a nutty

day now. It sounds like you gotta beef with the sources. Man, What are you talking about? They were they report things. That's where the speculation comes in. And now I'm talking about speculation from these fans, it runs rampant. I'm turning into a w w E heel. These fans are driving me out of my mind, you know, maybe out of

her mind right now. When you have three kids, you know, all only a couple of years apart, and she's had a long year, and that's something that a lot of people, you know, they talked about triple HP and out and everything, and Stephanie continuing on and how this affected n XD

and all this stuff. But it's you know, because we sometimes don't put it in, don't think about this of this is a family with three young kids twelve, fourteen, and sixteen years old, that it's tough and this may be the best time to try to take a break, because I would assume Stephanie Man, even though she's got a lot of options outside w w E, is going to be back inside w w E until that company is sold and you know, until I mean, I don't know when you're you're scheduled to take a break again

in a in a business that's relentless, with a focus like her father, that is relentless it is every day, every moment, you know, spent thinking about wrestling and trying to drive the business forward. When are you going to take another break again? So maybe with what happened with Triple H it was a stein to stop and go, hey, you know, appreciate what you got right now, Slow up,

he's back to work. Let's ease off the pedal here a little bit and take some time before we go back and and kick this thing back into year again. And you're obviously in safe hands. No matter what anybody wants to say about Nick kN being the reaper of the McMahon family and forcing people out and all that other nonsense. I mean, my god, he's a great businessman. He's been fantastic for that company. They obviously worked together

great to get the TV deals through. They hire them from CIA or where William Morris wherever exactly he was from, and he's been nothing but a success for them. So it's Vince mc ants company. Nikkoon is doing great for them. If there's a time to step back, this is certainly a good time to do it. You know. I I uh, I made a big mistake yesterday. I broke my own rule. I I went and I read some of the comments on yesterday's Observer live on on YouTube. What a stupid

thing to do? How was it? Well, you know, normally, like you know, I'll argue with people and everything like that, but it's rare that I really get irritated. But man, somebody on there made some comment about you had mentioned, well, how come there's not the fury over Tony Storm? And this guy goes, well, it's because she's white, and dude, I was like, bro, on the list of differences in the two situations, the color of their skin is at the bottom. Okay, Like yes, Tony Storm decided she did

want to do this anymore and she went home. Okay, you guys realized that like she was putting. We talked about the storyline actually where they wanted to rip her shirt off and everything like that, which they didn't do. They ended up doing the pie in the face or whatever. But like she endured that storyline. She was put in

a feud with Charlotte Flair for the title. She lost a match or she I can't remember what the first match was, but they had one match and it was d Q ending, and then they built up to a championship match on TV where she was gonna go in and she was gonna do the job. Okay, now, if Tony Storm had showed up in the building and then fifteen minutes into the show, when she was told that she needed to do a job, she quit and walked out. Well, you'd you'd be close to what happened with with Sasha

and Naomi, but she didn't. She showed up the building, she was told she had to do the job, She went into the ring, she did the match, she did the job. She literally finished out the entire storyline. It was done. And then afterwards, when the show was over, she went home. And and and so the conclusion you've come to, why why there is there is you know, a different reaction to what you know Sasha Naomi did when they showed up at the building, were given us,

given a one month storyline. And I don't even get into this thing about how you know there were no plans after Helen his Cell given it. There are no There were no plans for them Monday, and they were given plans. But apparently having no plans after Helen his Cell is worse than having no plans right now. But anyway, they showed up and they were they were Actually they weren't even told they were doing a job. Naomi was gonna win, and they decided We're gonna walk out at

the beginning of the show and just leave now. Somehow some of you see this as the same thing. How and then when it's obviously not the same thing. Literally, all you can come up with is to why the reaction is different. Is well, Tony Storm is white get out? Do you understand though, why people of color, especially women, may have a distinct different opinion on some of this matter and may factor in other things, uh, to to

have the reaction that they do. Can you see why some people with the history of w W, how people are treated, even again, even if Sasha has been up strappers in the past, do you see why they may be looking at this, seeing Naomi doing this and having a certain feeling or feeling a certain way. I I find it difficult that you can't understand why there may be some cynicism over the reports they came out. Not cynicism, This is trolling somebody. Okay, serious, you're battling, You're trying.

There is disingenuous people out there that will use anything that is true. But there are again, two things can be true, and how somebody looks at something, I mean they there is a reason that some people are looking at this in the way that they are, and looking at it with a side I with it and not just jumping right in and seeing what w W. How they responded when they've never responded like that before. They built it into their show on Monday when they didn't

have to. They made the big deal out of this. So again, they walked out at the beginning of the show. They walked out five minutes into the show. They quit in the middle line did you bring this up back at a moment? Observer begging the show. Bright alb is here Wrestling Observer Live Mix, umber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Day. Let's talk about Stephanie or something. What

do you want to talk about? Well, what's up? She's taking a leap of absence um to spend more time with her family and other reasons which I'm not exactly fully clear of, but that's the public reason. And she'll be back some time, and that's about it. She's not gone forever, but I don't but there is no date for her return either. But Triple Ah is going to continue to work full time in the office. Yes, he's still working full time in the office. Yes, well, I

guess we'll see what happens here. But would would you describe what she did as uh more a figurehead rule? I mean, how big, how big issues is gonna be her leaving and everyone had taken up her in in in what's I mean? She was the public face of the company in the sense that like if they had you know, like uh, um, let's just say like somebody, somebody wants a w W person to uh you know, do a symposium or something, she would be the one that they would send. You know, she would do the

buzzwords and everything like that. Um, you know, it's very you know, public relations with key people and everything, you know, keep in touch moves, you know, things like that. I mean, creative wise, she had nothing to do with creative at all. You know. Sometimes like you know, and obviously you know in the past she ran creative, but that's years and years ago. Sometimes when people go Stephanie Mcanhn blah blah blah creative and it's like that was a very valid

point ten years ago. But she is I mean, like you know, she has like literally nothing to do with creative So it's not in that sense. I don't think you'll be seeing any changes. But you know, as far as if you were, um, you know, one of the main sponsors or a media person or something like that, you know, it's a it's probably the person in the company who may have been your contact point. Yeah, alright,

so obviously knew she of the observers up. If you want to read more about Stephanie, it is in the Observer Wrestling Observer at dot com and uh and a ton about Sasha Banks and Naomi. We're trying to avoid that topic here today. Is there anything new this morning? If there's no, just say no and we'll move on. Absolutely, there's nothing new this morning on it that that isn't in the issue. And I guess if you if you haven't read the issue, there's a ton in the issue.

But but since I wrote the issue, I don't I know nothing since since last night. Okay, So the Roman reigns needs opponents even though he's not around. Well, he doesn't need opponents because he's gonna be working three shows this summer. So yeah, he's gonna be working three shows this sung. You know, maybe maybe maybe, maybe a TV or a house show two but three three big shows? Yeah? Right, so who do we got to? The obvious? Riddle? Riddle,

Orton and Drew McIntyre the leading candidates right now. Yeah, it's great, great idea to pin Riddle in that six man. Well, I'm not sure we're not gonna see him pinning again a couple of times. You're probably right about that. So what is what is roman schedule for this summer? And is there any discussion about splitting these belts up so we actually have a champion again, which I never thought I would say, because I advocated putting the championships together.

But I expect the champion to then leave. Yeah, well everyone expected, you know, I mean, like the whole thing was just they're eventually gonna have two champions. But um, I don't know when. But his schedule was July twond you know. I mean, he's gonna work TVs to build up these shows. But his three big matches July second, Vegas, July thirty in Nashville, and September three in Cardiff, you know, the three stadium shows. Um. I don't think he's gonna

be doing any pay per views besides those. Um, he's not in Chicago. Um, and after that, you know, I wouldn't be surprised to people Survivor series and then uh, you know, um, we'll see what happens. You know, obviously in a world rumble and Wrestleman, he'll be all over. We were talking about the XFL and Saudi shows. Help

he worked the Saudie shows, would you know? Almost for sure? Yes, we were talking about the XFL deal, the new TV deal and the season kicking off and everything like that, and uh, I gotta thinking, I don't know what your thoughts are, but you know, Rock's got a very very busy filming schedule. Yes he does, but he's also got the kickoff of the XFL, so to speak, which is

going to be very time consuming. Yes, And so my my thought was, you know, is it possible that he is going to do zero movie commitments for the first quarter of which would allow him to do WrestleMania without having to worry about movie commitments and also have the time to help launch the first season of the XFL. So actually, the timing for doing a WrestleMania match would be excellent this year because he has two different projects which would require him to uh uh, take time off

from movies. Well, I'm sure at this point he doesn't know anyway, you know what I mean. It's like it's like ideas will come to him if and you know, depending on what the projects are that he has to do. I mean, WrestleMania is not going to be number one on his priority list. Um, if he's got some big blockbuster movie thing coming up for a new TV show, he's got a film, he's got young Rock, you know, things like that. I mean, um, thankfully the travel isn't

so bad. I mean, the travel tuation is so bad, like last year when you know, he wanted to do a show but he was in Australia and he couldn't go back and forth. But um, I mean, you know it's always you know, until January, it's you know, if he's gonna do WrestleMania against Roman Reigns or not, that's you know, until January, it's just a hypothetical. You know, in January, I'll have a better idea. But now you know, it's six months from really knowing if he'll be able

to do it. I I'm still skeptically he's gonna do this match. But if if he if he doesn't What in the world do they have for WrestleMania next year? Well, I mean a lot of times in July they have no idea what they're gonna be doing a WrestleMania next year. But well, I mean, even if you have no idea, what idea could you come up with? You got you gotta get somebody. Really, you've crushed everybody. Braun Breaker wins

the Rumble braun Breaker Gable Steveson. I don't know. I mean, it's like, you know, you know, I mean, maybe there's another celebrity that we haven't thought about the like, can't even come up with a name bad Bunny to push this movie and his new action role. Right, yeah, yeah, this seems to be a Cody I mean right, yeah, I think it's it's it's more likely Cody than Braun I should be um, yeah, yeah, I would say, I would say, if it's not Rock, I would say Cody

is the favorite. Yeah, which means you have to protect Cody and make sure that he is untouchable for them get out of here. Would be ridiculous. I'm just saying it would be. Well, if it was I mean he should, but if it was me, I would I would make him untouchable, but that's gonna be very challenging for people who thrive on booking to do that. I mean, he

could lose. He could lose if it's done the right way a couple of times, you know, but I wouldn't want to do Actually, maybe once, but you know, well, I mean we've we're gonna find out a lot in a couple of weeks because it'll be the third Seth rollins Cody match, and Cody has won both of the other matches. So in a fifty company, I mean, he's either losing or we're gonna get a very rare guy wins all three matches against top star, which I think they should do. It's like I think Seth I make

any difference whatsoever for him. I think that there's no argument for Seth winning this match. I don't think there's an argument. There's no logical argument. But the argument would be, well, Cody beat him twice, so he's that's not that's not that's not a valid argument. It's not a valid argument. Telling you what their argument would be because they're all about yeah, but the thing is the thing the thing is is that without a doubt, Cody going for the

championship is something that they're going to do. Okay, so until they get there, Seth Rollan shouldn't beating him. I mean afterwards, like let's say Cody gets his run whatever, um, Seth can beat him then. But now, no, no, I mean it doesn't make it. I can't. I cannot come with a valid argument to beat before or he gets a championship match. Well, if it's just a matter of he gets beat by a better man because it's not a gimmick match, you don't give Seth and out that way,

then what do you do with Seth? Then? What Seth? Seth's next step on that rock? He works with somebody else that's been in that positions, like Kevin Owens. Those guys that are kind of recycled, they work with other people, you know, I mean Seths not wrestling Roman Cody is. So Cody should win. Well, let me ask you this, since we're talking about the lack of depth on the roster, and they always go back to what they know. A guy that they can always go back to that people

really believe in, is Kevin Owens. Is there a way that even though we've seen things a zillion times with Kevin Owens and pretty much everybody except for Cody. Is there a way to always bring Kevin Owens back like Lazarus in case you need him to be a World championship contender for a pay per view? They could do it. Yeah, they could eat somebody up. Um. It would be tough, but you know, I mean, the brand draws anyway. It doesn't even matter the matches that much. If you call

it WrestleMania, people are gonna buy ticket. So yes, Kevin's very talented and they you know, I wouldn't think you would be high on the list, but I don't think if worse comes to worse, can you put him there? Of course you can. Yeah, what the hell happened to this? Uh? Women's audience for n XT this week? Good god, what happened? What what do you mean? I mean you mean the rating being up or no, the women's viewership was like all time, all time record lows. Oh, I did not

see that. I didn't even look closely at the at the numbers. I just know that the n XT number itself was way up from the week. Yeah, the NXT number was way up, but I think it was a women eighteen and forty nine was a zero point zero five. They've done that before. They've done that before. So all the dudes heard it was an all women show and decided to come back to the show. And all the women said, I heard it was an all women show. We hate Tiffany Stratton. We're out of here. Is that

what happened? Brian? I don't know. I haven't They've done They've done Um, they've done lower than that with women before. I mean, like I normally, I mean the eighteen to thirty four number that they usually do is like you know, o point oh seven anyway, and it's more guys than women, So that's that's not that unusual really, I mean it's just you know, um, yeah, that's not that's not that an unusual over number. That is a very low female

viewership for a program. Yeah, well, listen to New Observer. Everybody is available Wrestling observer dot com right now if you want to hit up and check it out. Yes, if you want to read about Sasha and Naomi, that's the top story and Dave's got all of the details in there, so you can head up there and check it out. Plus all the other news. There's forty words of news and information in every Observer and you can grab a print copy peel Box one two to eight, Campbell, California,

zero nine. Back in a moment with more Observer live at the show right now is here Wrestling Observer Live mixumbur viv also over Wrestling Observer dot Com. Very happy today to be joined by j Bradley. When we talked some n w A here and really the Boss, the Boss o duds. We're we're trying so hard to not to talk about the Boss on this show here today, but I will allow you to be the Boss. Just no talking about Sasha Banks. That's the other rule in

the show. No swearing and no talking about Sasha Banks today. Man. Anyways, that's fine, all right. Listen when I when I, uh, you know, I was, I was looking at all this information everything like that, and you mentioned, uh the Fixers tag team Wrecking Ball of gir Sky. Years ago, I was approached by somebody to have a match with Larry Sweeney. It's about two thousand seven, and at the time I

didn't know who Larry Sweeney was. And I heard the name Larry Sweeney, and I thought, this guy has got to be like fifty five years old, like you know, he had to start working like the sixties or seventies, Larry Sweeney, and it turned out he was younger than I was. But wrecking Ball Lagursky. Are we sure that he didn't feud with Bruno San Martino. I think he'd probably be right up Bruno's alley back of the day. You know, little ethnic origin to the name from the Northeast.

I'm pretty sure if you know Vince sr. Was around, he had his eyes on wrecking Ball Laskey to face Bruno in the garden and h Boston and uh the big one for his people that don't know Madison Square Guarden. You know people know that kind of stuff. Well, Mr Mr Bradley, I don't know if if you're if you're aware of this boss, but uh, the boss here on

this Brian Alvarez. He wants Barton stormed around the Ohio Valley area, a place that you spent a significant period of time and alongside people like Danny Davis and Rip Roger Shirley and of course Al Snow, people Brian has has run across in the past. What was that like for you? Certainly a unique group of men, all three of those men are certainly they are throwbacks, much like a wrecking ball. Lagursky, name is, what was it like for you dealing out there with ov W and what

did you learn? I learned a lot in O v W. I think it's it's probably one of the top end places to learn the business of pro wrestling in general. UM. I consider Danny Davis and al mentors to this day, so you can blame them for all of my antics. Uh and then you know, pass up blame to Lagurski as well, because it's usually one of them that have made me you what I do. UM. You know, it's it's a very unique place, unique personalities, but it's very old school as far as its approach. UM, as far

as you know, working uh a territory. They still employ that as far as you know, with the live event structure they look to have. And then how you place it off of television, UM, on a weekly episodic television format, so you get that experience on top of you know, the standard wrestling training that you're gonna get it just about any academy or school out there, so um, you know, and I've always dug the Louisville area. It kind of reminds me of some places of Chicago and a much

smaller scale. So always felt at home there. So I do try to venture down there here and there. I haven't lately, Um, but I was there prior to COVID and on and off with some other antics that I had going on in my career, and um, I always enjoyed my time there. You know, you've you've been around for a long time. And uh, you just called? Did you just call? I didn't say you were old. I said you've been around for a long time. Well, of

course you're a you're a grizzled young veteran. But yes, you when I look at this, you know deep South Ohio Valley and uh, you know Florida Championship Wrestling and and now in w A and w W and everything like that. I mean I did wrestle. Yes, he doesn't know about you, and you do your homework. I did. Well. Listen, if I rattled off all the places you've been, the

segment would end. But my point is, as a man who who has been to these various places during his career, this business has changed so much and I want to get your your thoughts on that, because when Mike mentioned like the old school O v W and Danny Davis and Rip Rogers, and you know, I'm I'm looking at these names and I watched the show every single week. They would send me the the DVDs of the ov W TV show and I watched that every single week.

Jamin all Events is the champion. I mean. But when you look back at it, I mean, that was a different business in a lot of ways than it is today. So what are your thoughts on on all of the changes that you've seen during your career? Oh wow, that's a that's a deep question. You you wrote that one down earlier in the week, didn't you know it's one of my go to use. Oh okay, well it's a good go. Do you put that in your pocket for later? Yes? I you can't help if you've been in there. I

know you've been around the business for a while. To Brian, you know, as a fan and then you know doing your stick here reporting on it and interacting and publicizing. Um, you know, I got in this business over twenty years ago. And you know, even if you put a start point where I signed with w B and I was in Deep South like that, you know what what happens in that ring, you know, has been the same in a

way since the beginning of time. You know, it's competitors, and we're putting in an athletic competition to to to an end supposed to mean something that's supposed to you know, push a story forward or uh, you know, elevate a talent, you know, whatever you want to spin an ads. But ultimately it all comes down to selling tickets and putting eyes on your product in your match. But you know, I said, go back to that start point of Deep South, Like,

you know, social media wasn't a thing. YouTube I think broke right around that time, and that was like taboo, you know, Twitter, and you know, I think Facebook and MySpace were just in its infancy phases. Tom. So it's like Deep South searching for a television outlet when I was there, but we were still filming TV to air

at a later date. Now it's just you know, anybody, you know essentially can have some sort of television product on YouTube or a streaming service, um, depending on what quality you're going to get or the production of values. But the opportunity is there and the exposure is there for you know, new companies and existing companies, talent and otherwise.

With with social media. Um so, I would say, like all the all the stuff around the businesses altered and changed dramatically, but what it does inside the ring or inside the arena is still damn you're the same, um you know. With that, it's like, you know, how do you how do you how do you keep people's attentions?

How do you keep people watching? You know? What I mean is that your character is it you know, me and laguers Ky goofing off and and and hosting a episode of you know, Power or USA and introducing matches or or is it you know thirty second reels and clips on social media now? So you know, the way fans interact and what they expect from a performer is different too. You know, they want to have a lot of access to you via those social media's and upfront

interactions and whatnot. So um but it's for a lot of things though too. I think you know, even like you know, if you're in a you know, pop culture, whether it's music or comics and movies and all of

that change. It's a whole other layer a business to consider. Well, no matter what, experience is the best thing that you can have in your arsenal, and you have a massive amount of it with a unique number of people, whether it be teaming with Madman Pondos or being an O v W or so many things up until what you're doing now in the n w A and elsewhere. But I do have to ask you because it's like a fever dream now to me, these old Andocchi Genome shows,

And am I crazy? Or did you and Bobby Lashly make a visit over to Japan for a Anocchi Genome show? Am I hallucinating that? Or did that really occur? Because it feels like it's forever ago now, Yeah, it was probably about it is about ten years ago. I think it was about two thousand, twelve thirteen somewhere in there. And yeah, talking about a misfit band of Guy Jean, it was me, Bobby Lashly, Vladimir cause law Uh Andcera. I'm sorry, my my pupping is over here going nuts

like Logursky when there's no food at g Yeah. But yeah, and then you had some other pro kickboxers like Peter Arts or Arts. I thine he's a he's a Dutchman, just lumberjack. Yes, yes, yes, and very Hodgepodge show, but decent, decent audience for almost a sellout my first trip to Japan and very interesting for me and educational, So yeah, you got on. It is a little bit of a of a hallucination there, like a bad meth trip of

pro wrestling and m m A. But it happened. Well, how are you tapped for something like that, because it seems to be it's a lot easier to make connections now, to at least make a connection to get over to Japan. I mean, how were you even brought up for something like this? Uh So a blip on the radar in my career was I had a brief stint at the original and Oki Dojo in Los Angeles, um like Santa Monica area, Los Angeles and what they termed it as

when Anochi owned New Japan. Um I was there for a few much training and things just going well for me personally and wasn't working out for me professionally, but I had made some connection obviously with the Anoki family and other people um Anti. I first came across Dave Marquez from out that way from Championship Wrestling from Hollywood

and his u W n network. Um, but that's all the connection was made, and there's you know, there's a good business and you stay connected with people and networking and that just became easier with social media, where you know, you cook on a button and there's your old buddy or an old rival or old promoter, booker, trainer or whatever, and you guys can stay connected on you know, the interwebs or what I mean. Even the Grocy can do that. I mean we watched us at point in quick. He's

better at Internet than I have. He learned stuff, like teaches me stuff like that all the time. But yeah, so that's kind of how it was. You know, I still had some contact with the family, particularly Simon, and uh, you know you come across my social media and made a deal. That is the worst breaking of k fame that I've ever heard that King Ball Lagursky is good on the internet. Well look a look at I tell you. I tell other people about Lagurski. Here's the thing. He's

not dumb. He just has a very he has a very smart single track mind. So like you get him going on one track, he's an idiot savant. But if you do it, you derail that train. It's it's like a nuclear meltdown. It's like a train wreck with a with a wrecking Ball with a train Hey, June eleventh, All the Way is ready on pay per view the n w A and I'm not sure exactly how much has been announced yet, but what can you tell us

about about your participation at this ship? Well, there's there's been I think they just announced my uh my beat down on Rock and Roll this past week, so it would be myself and wrecking Ball Lagurski versus uh the old Kentucky waterfall icon himself, Ricky Morton and his entitled son carry. I don't know if you saw that recently, with Wrecking Ball beating up on Old Old Punky a couple of weeks ago or last week on on n

w A USA on Saturdays. Um. And then there's a third variable that's getting be interesting with I think it's George Costanza's son, a J. Costanza uh and a mystery partner. So I don't know who this mystery partner is. I don't know why he's in the match. I'm not even gonna ask Wrecking Ball on that because it might make him growing blows wheel starts spinning. It like I said, the hamster will fall off the wheel and we're done. Well, listen, hold that thought. We got a head to a commercial

break here in his radio. We'll be back in a moment to finish the plugs. Wrestling Uber Live bagging the show. Bright nowbre is here, Wrestling Observer Live mixumber VV also Wrestling Observer dot Com. The Boss joining up today The Boss. Bradley rest on that that's right, Jun eleventh, always ready on pay per view, the n w A and the National Wrestling Alliance. You and the Rocking Ball, I be tearing it up on that show, dropping that ball on

everyone's heads. So let's get some bloods in here. Did you Did you just say that you just want me to ta dropping the wrecking ball on their heads? Yes, holy smokes, Hey tell us about the show. You're on social media, whatever's on your mind. So we got a big three way tag match. Like I was saying before these these ads rudely interrupted. Yes, what I was about

to say. So you got this guy e Costanza with the mystery partner in one corner, and one corner you got me, and with Sky another corner, you got nobody. Because it's only three way, not four, and in the fourth you got Punky Rock and Roll, Ricky Morton and that entitled Millennial Bratt Kidd is carry Morton and it's gonna be a three way. We've got a lot of variables. Like I said, there's a it's three if you know, you know right after two there's three instead of two.

And then there's a mystery man and now there's rumored to be the winner is going to get a shot at the n w A Tag team titles, which are also on the line in Knoxville that same night with Law Rebellion versus Doug Williams and Harry Smith or also known to some as Davey Boy Smith Jr. So that's gonna be a lot of tag team shuffling going on that match or that night. I don't know about you, Alvarez, but I think I got the inside track. Wink wink, nudge, nudge.

You might want to put some money on me and Wrecking Ball, because you know what, we're fixers business, and we fix any problem. And I see a lot of problems in our run sheet. Well we got a problem here and that's we're out of time. But I want to thank you so much for doing the show today. Everybody for listening. 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.