Shane McMahon/RAW Ratings/NXT 2.0 Results

three Pacific, sixth Eastern. Well, it's Wednesday here in this program. You know that means we have the A E. W Dynamite coming up tonight and we're gonna tell you about that show, the line up thus far, all that good stuff, and also the rest of the news. I don't know if you've heard or not, but Shane McMahon. We're talking

about Shane McMahon the last couple of days. First Shane McMahon reappeared at the Royal Rumble, and then Shane McMahon was scheduled for like now, I've heard three different feuds that Shane McMahon has been discussed for but at this exact moment, none of them will be happening, as Shane McMahon at this moment is gone from w W. E will tell you all about that. We've got the ratings for RAW on Monday. Raw no longer has competition from the NFL, and so normally at this time of year

there is some sort of bounce back. Sometimes he bounce back is is uh big. Sometimes the bounce back is not big. But the story of the show was not only is there no NFL, but is the uh the whatever you call it fallout show for the Royal Rumble And Rhonda Rousy had been promised for the show. She was gonna make her to Issian about who she was going to face at the Royal Rumble. How did the show do? We'll tell you about that here today. Brian

Kendrick will be debuting for Dynamite. You've got a Sammy Zane incident with Johnny Knoxville at the Jackass Forever premier. And yes, we have the n x T two point oh results from last night, and a little bit later on we'll tell you what's going on with the women's Dusty Cup. Got so many texts and emails last night. What's going on with the Women's Dusty. We'll tell you about that after the break back. In a moment Observer Alive, I'll talk about n x T for a full hour.

Now I'm gonna talk about Shane. Get off my back, everybody, all right, listen, Shane McMahon is gone on. So here's here's the story. As quickly as he reappeared in w w E, Shane McMahon is now out of w w E. Dave Meltz reported the news Wednesday, confirming an earlier report by Ringside News. Elser said McMahon is out of the company, but it is unknown whether his talent deal was terminated or if the plans for him the next two months

were simply dropped. After nearly a year away from entering action, fifty two year old Shane McMahon made his return in Saturday as a Men's Royal Rumble entering at later eliminated by Brock following the Rumbles said on Observer Radio there was a lot of heat on Shane due to his booking of the Men's Royal Rumble, a role which he has performed and has helped within the past. Well. Meltzer

didn't have all the details at that time. He said McMahon quote had an idea of what the rumble was going to be, and then a lot of that ended up being changed, which rubbed some people the wrong way. Andrews Arian tweeted, there were numerous changes for what number Bad Bunny would be in the rumble, bro, this is not one of the big issues with this royal rumble. This was a cause for concern people within w W WE were upset. Ww A doesn't want to come off

negatively with such a major outside star. US in theory effectively replaced McMahon. Here's the problem with the rumble, Bros. Is boring. It doesn't matter if Bad Bunny was in first or eight. It was boring. It doesn't matter when Shane McMahon showed up. It was boring. It's a boring rumble. And I mean why well, I mean part of the problem was their own fan base started expecting a munch of a w stars which wasn't gonna happen. And then

I tweeted about that made people mad. I'm sorry, I should have lied and then got you really excited and nothing happened. Then you would have been even more angry. You had you had. You had twenty nine people in the rumble that not one fan thought had any chance of winning. Maybe maybe there was one guy McIntire, but I couldn't think of who else in that rumble. When you were watching the room, we thought, oh, you know what, that guy might win this year, Bob rude, Oh he

might take it. So when you have here's a problem your geeks, when you book a promotion and you let like two guys get over, then you're gonna have a boring rumble because everybody knows nobody is gonna win that royal rumble. Nobody. Nobody was gonna think that bad Bunny was gonna win the rumble. Nobody was gonna think that Johnny Knoxville was gonna win the role. I guess my buddy Mark thought Zammy Zane was gonna win. But come on,

no one thought anybody was gonna win that rumble. It was a bunch of dudes just going in and and doing whatever is boring. I said it was boring on Sunday, made some people mad that It turns out they thought it was boring, so boring in fact, that the combination of a boring rumble, Shane trying to book a rumble around himself at fifty two years old ends up getting the guy out of here? Did you hear the ideas of matches? I've now heard three different matches for Shane

McMahon for WrestleMania. Can you want to know what they are? The three matches I heard over the last couple of days for Shane McMahon, which also changed countless times, Bobby Lashly, Bobby Lashlely, seth Rawlins, and Austin Theory. Bra Listen, I'm not the biggest fan of Shane going to WrestleMania to face Bobby Lashly or Austin Theory or seth Rawlins, But dude,

maybe this guy was irritating. And I know he was irritating because I heard all about it, irritating trying to put this match together and he pissed people off and and all this and that, like that's all fine and good. But bro, if you fired him because the rumble was boring, that's a scapegoat. That's what that is. Anyway he's gone

for now, would it not be remarkably shortsighted too? I Mean, I know you're a family member at all, but still you're like, there's the possibility that the rumble went so sideways that they fired Shane outright. I don't believe that for a second. And I don't know anything about any of these situations. It wasn't all it was. It wasn't all that it was boring, but it was like he tried to take charge and he irritated people and tried to make it about himself. I heard all sorts of

things about this guy. I mean, he had tons of heat that night. Well, you know, I can't I don't have any first hand knowledge or even secondhand knowledge of any of that, so I can't. I can't really speak on it, but to I mean, if this is going to be the end of Shane, uh, it stems from the rumble. I mean, I just what kind of what

a mess? Wasn't an absolute mess? Uh? You know, Shane and Austin theory as a feud can make sense, you know, you can, may I mean as far as getting Vince's heart or something like, there's a way to play that where you can actually maybe elevate Austin theory in theory. The problem is he's got to then work with Shane mcmannon. I don't see how that helps him at all inside

the ring. It would be a purely storyline thing, and I they aren't good with that for the most part, so I don't know, it's just a it's a wild story. Him being involved in booking the Rumble makes absolute sense. He's been there for thirty years, uh, you know, for the most part, and and him having a knowledge of doing you know, spots, and that makes sense. Now him being involved in it, and the possibility of him facing any of those three guys, especially Bobby Lashley, is baffling

to me. Think the same thing with Shape with Seth, although you know, there's at least a little bit of a line you can draw because we've seen Shane and Kevin Owens, so I can imagine, you know, Seth Rollins just doing amazing things, you know, trying to to make Shane McMahon look good. But the one with Bobby Lashley, it's like, how do you make that work other than

Bobby kills him in seventeen seconds. Bro, He's going for the title that time that Shane McMahon w E champion, even he deserves it after all these years of phone off and even in stupid wrestling land where you could try to come up with a reason. I mean no, I mean, this is a completely different situation. But a w decided, well, we're gonna have Lance Archer face Hangman Page and they just come basically shoved him into a position. Now after three weeks we're having a Texas death match

for the title. That was a little much for me, but it's not the end of the world, not really that big of a deal. I can shake it off. How you put Shane McMahon in a World Championship situation against Bobby Lashley, who's coming off facing the brock Lessner's and the you know, those people of the old I mean, I you know that that's a bridge too far. Even with w w e's creative aspect, they'll put on in a We're all the show or whatever they're gonna say.

It's just bizarre. And even if he was going for the title, he still should get killed in about seventeen seconds period. Crazy. Well, you know, there's uh, what year is this we have here? I know that, but like WrestleMania thirty what what what WrestleMania is this thirty eight or something like that, thirty seven, thirty eight five, So yeah, whatever the is trying to find out something here, which

I guess I'll I'll find it out later. Somebody was like, well, you know, if they would have gone to WrestleMania, I mean, Austin theory would surely have beaten Shane McMahon. But surely my point is surely. Yeah. I remember when they did Shane McMahon versus The Miss, and this was WrestleMania thirty five, which would have been Remember who won that match is Shane McMahon. False came anywhere Shane McMahon beat the Miss at WrestleMania because of course he did, because then he

was booked as the best in the world. Guys, remember that when he was the best in the world. I do that was absolutely horrible, horrific, horrendous storyline. He was the best in the world. Let's see what they did last year? Was he around last year? I'm trying to point out here that anyone thinks that the idea that, oh, you know, for sure he'd be elevated. I guess he lost a Bronze Stroman last year, Remember that guy, Remember bron Stroman. I heard he's changing his narrative now, is

that right? What's that mean? He's hanging out with what is uh there? Good story, Broye, you didn't know who it was. I didn't know what you were talking about. He said, he changed his narrative, which is in fact a very common term. I don't know if you're aware of, is what's happening in your world. We're changing your narrative. So listen, we're gonna talk after the break about Raw because the Raw ratings are out and they're interesting. Back

in a moment, Observer Live. Okay, you are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper VIV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Back in the show, Brian Albert is here are Wrestling Observer Live. Like some for viv also Wrestling Observer dot com. People are just now fighting out that Brian Kendrick believes crazy things. Well, you don't realize he was on this show a couple of years ago and he explained to me that the

sun was cold. That was Kendrick, right. Not everybody heard that show, Brian, not everybody. And you know what, that's a goofy one. That's kind of funny. That's when the person would call in the art bell was something wacky, But then the person would call in with other things.

And it's those other things that are easily findable that have come out of Brian Kendrick's mouth that either people had forgotten about or flat didn't know about because they were buried and they were small time and they were

whatever they were. But you know, when you start talking Zionists and all that sort of stuff, and I don't you know, I'm sure we're not going to get into it deeply here, but when you know, you got all that sort of stuff, I mean, it's real, dude like And that's another reason people may not have wanted to think about it, because they liked him as a wrestler.

But then he says what he says about other things, and uh yeah, so maybe not a bad release for w w E in this case, right after the Royal Rumble. At one point eight six million viewers, point four seven and eighteen and forty nine, first place for the night on cable. Well, that's good news, best viewership for Raw since the week after Summer Slam last year, But the eighteen nine has to be considered a disappointment, barely up from last week's point four six, and there were weeks

against the NFL to beat that during the fall. So it's got a bunch of notes here, but the important thing is that the first third hour drop was twenty one point six percent, the largest in recent memory and among the biggest drops in the history of the show.

If you recall, the show opened and it was the fallout from the Royal Rumble, and the first hour did the biggest first hour number and I don't even know how long two point one million viewers for the first hour of Raw two point one million viewers, And the show opened and they announced that Rhonda Rousey was gonna be on the show, and I don't know if they actually announced, I feel like they did that she was gonna make her decision about who she was gonna face

at WrestleMania, which she didn't do, by the way, but they announced at the beginning the show, and the show then proceeded to lose um five viewers over the next three hours two point oh eight million first hour, one point eight eight million, third hour, second hour, and the third hour with the promised Rhonda Rousey appearance to announce her opponent for wrestle Mania one point six three million viewers.

So it's one week. I don't think that anyone needs to panic or write a big story about this yet. But it is absolutely notable that Rhonda Rousey returned at the Royal Rumble and did absolutely positively zilch to hold over viewers for her big announcement about who she was going to face and WrestleMania. Obviously, I can say nobody cared, but one point six three million viewers for the third hour of Raw with a tease of run A Rousing announcing a WrestleMania opponent. Bro, there ain't no way to

spend that is anything good. The whole outweighs to some of its parts, even in this case with Rhonda Rousy, especially because we've already seen her in there one so it's not even unique and special because the ww fans have already seen it once. And I wouldn't panic with it either. I wouldn't say that bringing Rhonda is any sort of failure. I wouldn't not put her in a WrestleMania main event or somewhere where you can maximize all of the media that you can get from her and

all the attention that you can get from her. But this is the same problem we talked about. I don't know how long ago where I would point out that drop and now dramatic that drop is. The overall rating is bad. The eighteen to forty nine is bad, and the twelve too. You know, when you break down even smaller demos, there's cause for concern about growing the company and making new fans going forward. But it's that that three hour raw I mean, in and of itself is

a disaster area. And then you have no stars whatsoever. You have no there's no reason to stick around with the show. You offer all of these different ways where people can see highlights of what they may have missed on the show, and that's great, you know, and if somebody misses something, now I'll catch it on the DVR. I'll see what happened on the YouTube clip. I'll see if it's on the front page of the F four w The w w E officially put out Top ten

Moments or whatever it is. That the SmackDown reel and the raw reel that they have, there's no reason to stick around for that show. There's no drama, there's no surprise, is there's no great wrestling, there's no stars unfortunately, so there is no reason to stick around. And that doesn't matter who it is. And because Ronda Rousey in the realm of w w E. Yes, she's a star, she is a big name, But is she? I mean, who could they bring in? Who could they bring in that

would actually move something? You know what till you get very Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury does the same exact thing. You could bring in almost anybody. I don't see anybody making a difference because that whole package is just lacking so badly. Right now, you can jump in the car, but the tires are flat. Schedule for the Dynamite Show on TBS tonight, Chicago, Illinois, the middle of a blizzard.

The show is still on. We have see him Punk versus m jf Pack and Penta versus Malachi Black and Brody King, Nila Rose versus Ruby Soho, and Yes, John Moxley versus Brian Kendrick has been released from w W E AH. It looks like the two have never wrestled a singles match, this being Kendrick and Moxley. They did team together and a dragon Gate USA show in March against Jimmy Jacobs and Paul London. So that is scheduled

for tonight unless there is a change. We also had Sammy Zane crashed the Jackass Forever premiere in Hollywood, California, escorted out following a confrontation with Johnny Knoxville and the rest of his crew. Wow about that. Johnny Knoxville was good in that royal rumble. I didn't think he was gonna win, but like, he was way better than I expected.

He took bumps, he threw a forearm like he was chopping, like he was Walter chopping some bloke which we'll get into here by the way, in the moment, did you design his outfit? His outfit? Yeah, Knoxvills. Did you remember he was wearing one bro. I didn't that That outfit is like, you know, water to the bridge after what I saw Becky wearing on raw. Dude. I love Becky Lynch and all and she's great, but dude, like I mean this, like, with all due respect, somebody's got a

smartener up. Like God, do you realize I don't know if you guys are wear this or not. You should be since it won Best Book in the Wrestling Observer News Center Awards. But I wrote a book called one Hundred Things The w w E Fans should know and do before they die. It's available on Amazon dot Com. Pullet Serprize Caliber Writing Better. I'm a better writer. I'm I'm a better writer. I'm a better writer than Talker

had a mike to get that line out. But anyway, do you know it's on the cover of that book, smack dab in the middle Becky Lynch. That was a decision made by the publishing company because we're like bro She's the biggest star they got in the entire company. Because there was a period where she was the biggest

star in the entire company. This was before like you know, Roman did his his gimmick that he did, he came back and was the head of the table or anything like that, and now he's like, by far the biggest star in the company. I guess him and Brock, but you could consider Brock and outside as far as regulars. It is like Roman reigns Now, but a few years ago it was Becky Lynch. Becky Lynch was the biggest forget men women. Becky Lynch was the biggest star in

the company. Then she left and she came back and she decided that she wanted to be Steve Austin in two thousand one, she wanted to go heal and like, nobody's into it and she's having fun. But she's out there and she's got this outfit on and just looks like a clown and she's doing these comedy bits. Is

is an alleged heel and Rhonda Rousey that segment? I mean, I bro I I just like God, if it were like if you were all alive in two thousand eighteen, two thousand nineteen and you stepped into a time machine and you showed up in the crowd for Raw Monday, you would be like, what is happening? This is Becky and Ronda? Nobody cares. It's not over. It's like, I don't even know what it is. It's like a Saturday

Night Live parody of of Becky and Ron. I mean, dude, Becky needs to go back to me in the Man as a baby face, get rid of the goofy outfits. It's bad enough with Seth now we have to watch it with Becky and then Ronda just needs to go full heel, just like full heel Hunter per that He'll maybe this could be salvaged. But Rhonda is the baby face who hates life. Against Becky is the top heel. That's you know, playing doink or whatever. It's not gonna work.

I'm telling you, Blue Doink. You know what's funny is you go on the w w E network, Becky can do this and everybody else go back and watch the Man in twenty nineteen and compare that to what we got today. It's not working. With all due respect, it's not working and it sucks. Fix it now. Wrong. Your hair looks nice. You got that going. She's in great shape, her hair looks great. Beautiful woman and talented as hell in the ring people want to cheer for. Yeah, yeah,

if can we just make Rhonda this angry? Sir? Why am I yelling? Why are you right now? Geez? You want me to calmly explain it because that ain't working. Back in a moment Observer Live. You know, one of the big problems with w w E is breaking an n x T. Here is the massive egos possessed by the people in charge. Okay, if you do something and it turns out that you made a mistake, okay, especially in something like pro wrestling, which broke fabe yesterday, but

it's fake. So if you make a mistake and you you recognize it. You know that because it's fake, you can just go back to what it was like before. But the egos involved in the upper level of w W are such that they make a mistake and it's like, no, we're gonna keep going. Otherwise we we acknowledged that we did something wrong, their egos will not allow him. So like Becky Lynch and Seth Rawlins are not I could tell you this, They're not dumb people. Both of them

being heels is dumb. Okay, Why do I say that, Well, you may be entertained by Becky, you may be entertained by Seth laughing with that stupid jacket on. But the fact of the matter is in both cases, in both cases, neither of them have been in the universe of being as over as they were when they were baby faces. Becky as a baby face was multiples, like maybe a

hundred times more over than she is right now. Seth Rawlins, we actually saw it a couple of weeks ago when they did that tag match with the us OS and so like, for one night, Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins were baby faces and this dude like he was moreover in that one six man tag on SmackDown than he's

been for like I don't even know how long. Because some people, whether it's a natural likability, whether it's the way that they work, the the style of wrestling, they are much better suited to being baby faces than heels. In the same way, there are certain people, and Charlotte Flair would be a good example. They're much better served being healed. You know who else fits that? Mold Rhonda Rousy. Okay, I can go through the roster here. I won't bother.

But I mean, you know, a Sammy Zane for example, Sammy Zane, he can be a heel and he can be an entertaining heel, but bro he has never been one tenth as over as a heel as he was when he was a baby face. But they have decided that they are going to go a certain way, and because of their their ego there there, they refuse to go. You know what, this was a mistake. This was a mistake to turn Becky Lynch hell. This was a mistake to turn Seth roll and steal. This is a mistake

to have Ronda Rousey be a baby face. It's frustrating because oh we don't have any baby faces. Well, actually you did, but you turned them and now you won't turn them back, and now you can't figure out how to make other baby faces. Round is not getting over. Oh it's the fans. Now, maybe she's a better heal, then she is a baby face. It's not the fans, that's my point. That's my point. It's not the fans fault.

It's the point that she's obviously not best suited to be a baby face, right, you're she is better suited to be a baby face. Oh no, Becky, I mean, but in Ron is better suited to be a heel. I think Seth Seth was Seth is a good heel. He really he is. I mean we saw it after

they broke up the shield. And as far as him being a cocky slimy, yeah, look, I'll just drop it there because I know we need to move on to n XD and I know you need to redeem your wrestling fandom and your inspiration from it by reviewing Wendy Chew and Tiffany Stratton's few that they have going on now. But yeah, I look, it looked they that they have tried to turn Becky Lynch against the fans before. She was wholeheartedly for it this time because her man had

already come back. And even though we everybody thought, you know, media wise, seemingly and critically that well Seth should come back as a baby face now with this kid and everything, and didn't happen. And then Becky the same way, and it's it's disappointing. You know, you can ran all you want about it, They're probably not going to change it, and I don't know the results are what they are.

So the next day time, I like, how of all people are You're the one that's constantly pushing me to actually talk about n x T. And then you complain that I talked about it. Hey, let's could have talked about and there is w w E based program. We could have talked about anything today, but all the news now listen, look at this guy screaming and turning purple. Here's the deal, everybody. There are actually some news coming out of n x T, which is, uh, what's the word.

It is a microcosm of the entire company here. So I don't know if you guys are aware of this or not, but you know what's supposed to start yesterday, The Women's Dusty. Do you know what didn't start yesterday? Hold on a second. What didn't start yesterday was the Women's Dusty because, as I've explained you guys, they don't have they don't have do I have to keep muting you? They don't have any teams? Okay, you know you know it was on Saturday, everybody. Do you know what aired

on Saturday, the Royal Rumble? Do you know what happened leading up to the Royal Rumble? They didn't have any women. So what we have here is systemic incompetence. Oh, let's fire eight seven wrestlers and then be confused or flabberg acid or stuck. We don't have enough wrestlers for a women's Royal Rumble or a women's Dusty. So the Women's Dusty has not been dropped. I can tell you that because they're shooting angles for it, which I'm gonna get

to here what an angle they shot? But they are eventually everybody there will be a women's Dusty when they can come up with enough women. Because you know what's funny when you fire people and then call them and go, can you please come back? We need you? They tell you to f off. They tell you to crawl up my hole. That's what they do. And then you know you're like, oh man, god, we don't have enough women. It must be the fans fault. There's it's it's a

fans fault. There's not enough women for a women's Royal Rumble and a a women's Dusty. You guys don't give the whole reference. NYA. Jack's God, don't have to spell everything out. So the show actually opened with a great match, BRO. If you're only gonna watch one thing, I think you should watch Imperium Gunther, who the fans chanted Walter for all night. Gunther, Marcel Bartel and Fabia Nichner against RODERI

Strong and the Creed Brothers. If you guys didn't see the Creed Brothers match with J B and b J, that was like UFC one, just four green guys just smashing each other. At least here you have the Creed Brothers in with Imperium, who will hit them very hard, but they can also keep the match like pretty much in line. Bro. This match was awesome, and Gunther got the big win, just power bomb the absolute hell out of one of these Creeds and then pinned him. Oh

it was glorious. The Creed brothers are no joke, folks. I mean they are real high level Division one n c A tournament caliber wrestlers. And you could see where they were hawsin about with Walter, and they have no idea what they're doing. That was from the opening, when somebody had come to Walter realized I'm jumping the wrong guy. He basically turned right around, went the other way, jumped somebody else, and they fell out of the ring. They

have no idea what they're doing. But they were also in a position where as big as they are and as talented as they are, as far as like being able to kill a normal human being, Walter, I don't want to say man handled them obviously, because they were all working, you know, the best they could with each other. But like, there was no way that those guys were getting out of this with like imperium. If they were stiffed at any point, they gave of it back. I

can tell you that's for sure. They were not intimidated at all. There was no fear with imperium. They dominated the situation well. And then we had a show long segment with Kaylee Ray and uh and Mandy and toxic attraction, which to cut to the chase, Kaylee Ray runs around the baseball bat she kidnapped G G and j C in a car and then we never saw him again, by the way, so I don't know where they're at.

And then she went back and forth with Mandy all night, including a food fight where she dumped spaghetti on Mandy Rose's head and then try to put a cake in Mandy's face, but Mandie actually blocked the cake. Oh and God bless Mandy, Like, God bless her. I'm sure she's really nice. You know, she's pretty good in the ring, but I can't tell if like she has no grasp of the English language or if it's a gimmick. But all night she's doing these promos and the verbiage is

like screwed up. In every single one of them, she goes all whim and inspire to be me. I'm like, it's aspire, not inspire, it's a spire. And they're like multiples of these during her promos all night, Like is this the gimmick or what is going on here? But anyway, uh duds like the stuff they write for live. They give them so much stuff they can't that they're not naturally able to pull off anyway, and then they give them so much of it and they get jumbled and

it makes them look bad. And then you go, how does this help anybody? The same way, how does it help anybody? When she's on her knees at the end of the show going are you doing this to me? Like it's just god? Then then then okay, so we're trying to find this is the best part about the Dusty Classic, by the way, for the women. Okay, in real life they don't have enough women and they can't get their act together. Okay, in storyline, nobody wants to

be in it, like Raquel Gonzalez. She's got court Jay begging for her to be your partner and core and and Raquel, it's no part of this tournament. And uh, forget who the other one was. There was another woman who, like she wanted no part of oh Iso Sarai, you know, wants nothing to do with this tournament. I'm like, wow, this is prestigious tournament. So anyway, Cora Jade wants a team with Raquel Gonzalez, but Raquel wants nothing to do with her or the tournament. So last week, Raquel she

they did this totally hokey. She tries to slap her and Raquel has already got her hand up like the timing away. So, uh, core wants a match. I'm gonna I'm gonna wrestle you tonight. Raquel quels like why Coral goes, I want to prove and I'm tough enough and that you and I could win this tournament. So they go in there and have a match, and bros, I mean you had to tell you what happened or can you like figure this out on your own. Core Jade goes in there and Raquel just beats the urine out of her,

just pummels her. You know. Corey gets a spot or two, and then Raquelle just picks her up and she just chokes slams her straight down, pins her in the middle of the ring. Because they know they need new young stars. What better way to do it than a squash and beat him in the middle of the ring. And then of course after like, of course, whole point was I'm gonna prove I'm tough enough to win this tournament. She gets squashed and pinned, and now Raquel's like, we make

a great team. Let's go win this thing. So now they're a team. In the dusty Sara is back. Remember you were all mad that she was a Japanese school girl. Well, the gimmick is that I said this in the back, that's just her street clothes. I think she's a college student. But then she's backstage and she's got her whole get up on, and then she starts to walk through the smoke to the aisle and in the smoke it's like the Bermuda triangle boom, the old Sara vanishes and Sir

Ryan her gear comes out. So she doesn't wrestle as a Japanese school girl. That's her street clothes. So anyway, she beat up Kayla Inlay, which listen to everybody, I say this a lot. God bless Kayla Inlay. I'm sure she's very very nice. I am begging you go watch this match. Please go watch Kayla Inlay. Cameron Grimes segment with Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes. We had a Malika Blay. You know, they're trying to get Mollik and Eddress and no Fe over, same way they're trying to get b

J and j B over. They're horrible with women. That's their plan, and there's a there's arousal comedy in this one. After Mandy Rose falls on Molly Blade and Joe Gacy b l a night I wish I had time for, would eat you back in a moment Observer Live. All right, I got two quick things here main event Braun Breaker and Tamasa Champa versus Legato del Phantasma. That was worth going anyway to see, very very good match. And Santo Tesco bar on the on the outside reacting to uh,

I think it was Mendoza. No, it was wild got put through a table off the post of the end, and Santos is a reaction was just awesome. This was really good. So I would watch that wended you listen. I like Wendy Chew. I think she's a good worker. I think she does fun stuff. If you absolutely love the gimmick, okay, that's fine. But do not fool yourself and try to tell me that this is not their

version of Orange Cassidy, because it is okay. And here's the problem, right, Orange Cassidy's comedy stuff gets over bigger than his wrestling. If you if you watch him do his comedy, place goes nuts. They cheer for his wrestling, but his comedy gets over more than his actual wrestling. Wendy, you absolute opposite. She came out and she did this spot where like she went for a single leg and then hugged the leg and put her head down like she was going to sleep because for GIMMI, because she's

sleeps everywhere. Absolute deadly silence in this crowd, Like none of this stuff got over with the crowd. But then when she started wrestling, guess what got over with the crowd. The wrestling. Okay, So this is an example. If it works, it works right now, the sleeping gimmick is not working for wendych The wrestling gimmick is working. Maybe they can make it work, but right now the crowd just watches it like what is this? Why is she sleeping on her leg? So we'll see. Hey want to thank you

for list today. Hey, thanks Mike. Yeah, Callers and listeners over to the studio where your head, where you're here, plugs tomorrow. 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