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that show. Apparently it's Shark Week. We've got a shark cage where the Jericho Appreciation Society will be spending. Is it one giant shark cage? Is it multiple small shark cages? Are we gonna jam a bunch of them into a four foot five five ft box? What are we gonna do here? Tonight? We'll find out what is they barbed wire death match Eddie Kingston and Chris Jericho. There will be blood tonight. So you don't like that, I don't

know what to tell you. There's gonna be blood tonight and a bunch of other matches as well, which we will get into We've also got some notes on Rick Flair and of course having his last match, but he's also the interview talking about being removed from the w w E Open and then being put back in, which is interesting, probably not for the reasons that you're thinking what I'll talk to you about that. Today. We've got

the raw ratings from Monday night. Rod did much better than expected, going head to head with the home run derby a shockingly good number and as it pertains w W and shocking that n x T Women's Battle Royal. It's not gonna win a single vote for Match of the Year, don't get me wrong, but that was so much better than I expected it to be, and we had a surprise winner and the crowd loved it and

nobody got hurt, which is the most important thing. So we'll tell you about that as well as the n x T two point out review today, So a lot to get into. You can Texas four to five seven zero seven five six six back in a moment with more Wrestling Observer Live back in the show. Bran Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Live, MAXI for bb also Wrestling Observer, and we got a lot of news to get into here today. But I am gonna start with a note

on n x T two point out. I realized I say it's my favorite show, It's really not my favorite show. But I think it's are to say that I enjoy the show more than most. Would that be fair? I think I enjoy the show more than most. But listen, Okay, there's there's there's being a gimmick, and there's being honest. Okay, And I don't want to hear anybody try to tell me that that Battle Royal was bad? Okay? Was it

the match of the year? Absolutely not. You know what, I've been ridiculing the idea of this Battle Royal for a week now. Okay, there's absolutely no reason that this thing should be any good at all. They have a whole they have twenty women. Probably i'd have to look at the whole lineup, but I mean probably half of

them shouldn't even be on TV right now. And they're all in a chaotic match, which you really I mean, you could practice to a degree, but it's not like practicing a one on one singles match you can choreograph. I mean, there's there's just things everywhere. It's it's chaotic. They have to be thrown over the top rope to the floor. This was a recipe, a recipe for quite frankly a lot of material. Okay, but was it Sarah Matto who put this together? Whoever put this together needs

a raise immediately, Okay. So they had twenty one women, actually because Zoe Start comes out as a surprise number twenty one. She hasn't been around since November when she tore something in her knee. I can't remember which which ligament it was, but she's been out for eight months and she comes back as the big surprise final person to enter this Battle Royal. So they do this Battle Royal and it is impossibly booked where the women that should not be on TV. I mean they're lifted over

the top, that they're helped the entire way. They got him out of the thing as quickly as possible, and then all of the women who are capable of doing a Battle Royal. They had some very clever spots with all of the women that could actually competently work this Battle Royal. So I'm watching it, I'm going to holy smokes, it's like way better than I expected. And then you know, it comes down to the final four or whatever, and uh, then we've got we've got Tiffany Stratton and Zoe Stark.

They're the last two in there. And it wasn't perfect. And the funny thing actually, is it. Tiffany Stratton was like an excellent high level gymnast and she's so tired she can't do a skin the cat at the end. That was something to see. But then she immediately does a round off two back hand springs into the corner.

She could pull that off somehow. But anyway, they're going back and forth and they're throwing each other and there were some dumb spots, like you know, Wendy che gets thrown over the top, but she lands on her own pillow, but they don't count that as being on the floor, which I've argued this so many times. It's preposterous. I mean, so, yay, she gets back in the ring and then she gets thrown out again. So Tiffany Stratton, she gets thrown up,

but only one foot touches. They're doing the you know, back and forth and whatever, and finally she gets tossed out and Zoe starts and everyone starts cheering She's the winner, blah blah blah, and then she's cheering. Just like in every Battle Royal you see the diabolical Cora j who just turned. He'll sneak into the ring and she's down in the corner and she's ready to pounce, and I was like no, And she runs at Zoe Start and Zoe ducks boom and she throws her over the top

of the floor and eliminates her. It was so good. And then the fans like going crazy because they like saw this miracle Battle Royal and then you know, everyone's cheering for Zoe Start and Zoe Starts. She goes her and she points at Mandy Rose who's on the whatever, and they point out Mandy Rose and Toxic Attraction are the ones that jumped and injured Zoe Stark eight months ago. Now Zoe Stark has won this Battle Rose, she gets a shot at Manny Rose for the title. I was like,

what the heck? How did they pull this off? How? But I am a man who's only to say I was wrong. I was wrong. I thought this was gonna be horrible. I was just I was so excited to watch this match. I was just I was more giddy than I am right now. I'm like, oh, man, let's see what's gonna happen. I can't just wait to see what you'll listen to aone does in this match, and dude, they pulled it off. It's like if they would have done this Battle Roylla hundred times, I'm not sure any

of them would have been better than this one. It was good. So anyway, that was a main event of n x T two point oh and they did it so good for them. I am nothing if not a fair man. Oh yeah, I am, And I was not looking forward to that, but that's a lie. I was looking forward to the Battle Royal because I thought it was going to be a bunch of knees and elbows and fist flying backfists in people's faces and a foot catching somebody in the nose as they get tossed over

the top rope. But we didn't get that, and the build up to it we only heard from a handful of people, the people you would expect to hear from Nikita, lions Lash Legend, those types of people leading into a Tiffany Stratton, So you knew it was going to be about the bigger names when it all shook out, and it was Zoe Stark makes her Redbut and I know probably there are people that have their favorites in n x D, and Zoe Stark may not be one of them.

I would say, give me anybody on that roster and forget about who's got the most w w E potential a year to three years down the road. Whatever Vince likes. But I'd argue I put Zoe Stark against anybody else on that roster for the most part. Yeah, put her against Mandy Rose. I'm taking Mandy Rose. Put her against Cora Jade. I'm taking Zoe Stark, not because Rose Zoe starts. I'm taking over Mandy Rose, Zoe Stark, I'm taking over Cora Jade all over a lot of people right now.

So I don't know she's going to be the perfect person that actually ends dethroning Mandy Rose, and maybe Roxy will have to see. But I like the fact that there's another threat to Mandy. And I like the fact that Zoe's back because she is good. We're not gonna get Eo back. So Zoe the next best thing. I don't know, but with her experience level and the fact that she can work with everybody, it's a plus for me. Yeah, I got one of the thing I gotta say about

this Battle Royal. They We'll talk about the rest of the news. We'll do the full review of the show later. But what was amazing is they they did simplify a lot of things to make sure that nothing went wrong, but there were a couple of things that they didn't idiot proof and and they still managed to pull them off. That I think was what was the most impressive, because they did a spot with Alba Fire and Lash Legend.

Albi Fire goes up, Lash Legends got in power bomb position, Joe starts as a hurricane Rana on Lash Legend over the top rope and they both tumbled to the floor. If they tried that a hundred times, I'm not sure they would hit it times. But and they hit it, and it was so good. I thought they messed it up. Honest to god, I'm like, was that supposed to happen?

That was exactly what was supposed to happen. And once it sinks in for a second, it's like, well, that spot one perfectly, and it's like it sounds like an insult to lash Legend, but let's be honest here, it's not her fault. She went out there with no experience whatsoever. And yes, Alba Fire has got a lot of it. But it is very difficult to work with somebody, especially

somebody the size of lash Legend. You know that you're not used to throwing around and getting in there and in messing with and you're supposed to be doing spots with that person who's inexperience. It's very difficult. We have a w Dynamite tonight, and we have more added to this show. We've got the barbed wire death match obviously Eddie Kingston Chris Jericho with Jericho Appreciation Society suspended above the ring in a sharp cage. You've got Lucasaurus and

Christian Cage versus the Varsity Blonde. Brodie king will be facing Darby Allen, John Moxley and Wheeler. You to take on the best Friends. Is it true? I think they said the best Friends have never lost on Dynamite in a tag team match? Is that right? I find that hard to believe. That's I could be wrong about that. Jade Cargill, Kiara Hogan and Layla Gray will face Athena Christad Lander and Willow Nightingale, and we will have the

swerve in our Glory championship celebration. So that is the lineup for Dynamite tonight, and I guess we'll find out who the next challengers will be. I'd presume for swerving our glory because something. I mean, maybe those come on and celebrate. That'd be new. They celebrate they dropped the comfetti in the balloons. They go, we did it, and then they go to the back. Then we go to another segment. Oh yeah, confetti skeptical. That's that's exactly what's

gonna happen right there. Hey, Brian, are you now Comfy Kingston? Are you stealing that nickname from Wendy chu That. Yes, that's because like Kofi Kingston always had the spots in the Royal Rumble, That's what it was for Wendy Choya. Hey have you been tanning? Dude? I've been out in the sun NonStop. Is baking outside. I'm not sure if I mentioned it here on the show, but my daughter as COVID. My wife has had symptoms for days but refuses to test positive. So we're just hanging out here

in the sun all day. It's been worse, I can tell you. Back in a moment Observer Live hack in the show. Bright Albert is here wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper Viv also wrestling Observer at dot com. Do you remember a long time ago Stephanie McMahon was doing some something and she made the comment, I don't remember what the comment was. It was something like charity work is uh the new marketing or whatever you whatever, something like that new ad. Yeah, can you remember exactly what she said?

Someone find it for me and put it here on the chat, because yeah, that was that was an interesting statement. We don't need charity work, like, you know, to be nice. I mean we do to a degree, but mostly it's for you know, marketing and for publicity. And look, she said the quiet part out loud. I mean, let's let's be honest about this. Yes, anybody, any major corporation it does charity. They have more money at their disposal to give out, to donate, to do things with. But every

single last one of them. That's why every single ribbon has got a color attached to it. There is a marketing campaign attached to charity and depending on the size of it, like a Susan G. Coleman, and depending on what they do with that money. That's where it starts to really, you know, come into play on what are you really doing this for? But she even though it was maybe nasty for people to hear, that's that's everything here is, every single one of them. Philanthropy is the

future of marketing. It's the way brands are going to win. Yeah. Yeah, Hey, Look, we always talk about the battle for public opinion and how you look in the public eye and all that sort of stuff. I mean, we see it on Twitter every day with companies making the right choice wrong choice on how to advertise or how to celebrate something or how to my point is, I always thought that philanthropy should kind of just be about philanthropy, you know what I mean, really is That's what I mean. But here's

my point. The first place you actually have a point. Yeah, what you got? Well? Rick Flair says he met with Vince McMahon because there's nobody he was more charitable you Ane, can I finish? Rick Flair said he met with Vince McMahon recently and thanked him for putting his woo back into the w w E signature opening. It had been removed from the video last September following the airing of a Dark Side of the Ring episode on Playing or two twos Playing Right from Hell two weeks ago, the

WOU was added back again. Flair spoke about what this meant to him on Tuesday's edition of Busted Open Radio. He also mentioned having visited with McMahon on Monday when w w E was in Tampa. I went and saw Vince yesterday to personally thank him because they were in Tampa. Flair said, it made me feel like my world had changed again. It made me feel a lot better than when they took me off. I can tell you that everything Vince McMahon has ever said to me is in

in his entire life, has come true. And he said, quote, I promise that I will put you back on it. So when he took him out, he took him out soul Lee because of the controversy controversy and not because of any like. You know, he shouldn't be in here. What he did was wrong. We should remove him. It was all, well, we're gonna take him out because you know people are mad, so we'll take him out. But I'm gonna promise him at the time, don't worry, I'll

put you back in whatever of course he did. So anyway, you wasted our time with that. I didn't waste everyone's time. I'm pointing out the way this company operated. How does this tied end with Stephanie by the way, Well, when he comes to legitimate giving money to charity, you know, they do their good deeds, but they do their good deeds because it's good marketing. And uh, he did his good deed of taking Flair out while promising him don't worry, I'll put you back in. I'm only taking you out

because you know, other people are mad about it. Look how people will donate to go fund means and things like that. Some people don't donate anonymously. Some people have got to have their name there. Thank you. I'm pointing out that all of these things are performative. Thank you, dude. Come on, what that's a revelation now all of a sudden that everything that a revelation for everybody I said

for that matter is performance art. I mean every corporation does this there, that's all performance art in the same w W is just an extra special layer of it. And to do anything with Rick Flair, who was so his his professional career was placed into question, into his mind when Vince took him out of the opening, spend more time with your family, folks. It is important for him to be in the opening. It is it is

very important for Ricky. And you know what opening. I can't even tell you one of the person in it right now except Rick Flair because he just mentioned it. Probably girl a monsoon, I mean, and that's still in there. Possibly possibly unless they throw a fit and take him out for some reason or something like that. I mean, my god, it's just it's it's craziness to me, it's crazy. This is all crazy. Rick Flair his nuts, absolutely bat

s nuts. Well, yeah, now you're talking talking about revelations. I know, I know, Raw against the Home Run at Derby one point seven seven million viewers point four six at eight to forty nine. This is a shockingly good number. Why did they take Rick Flair out in the first place. You want to remind everybody that because of the plane ride from hell or whatever is swinging around on the plane and the how do we get back to this allegations made by that woman? I well, you know, Vincent,

Rick probably had a lot to talk about. And look, Rick Flair probably is absolutely telling the truth. When he says Vince has never lied to him, because to Rick, when Vince said I'm gonna pay your taxes for you, and he did it. And there's lots of things where, you know what, I'm not throwing shade on Ric Flair for, you know, saying that Vince has always kept his word to him. I can absolutely believe that. It's just look at the two people who are in on the conversation.

What good guys. Well, anyway, these ratings, and I was talking about here, the show against the Home Run Derby did a good good number one point seven eight million, first hour one point eight one million, third hour one point seven million. In the third hour. You know that means? What's that mean? I hate to tell you this Austin theory people want to see. It absolutely had nothing to do with Austin theory. But people tuned in to see

Logan Paul Oh come on, no, they did. I'm positive, Oh man, that was that was an incredibly strong third hour. That's what I want to see. I don't know if I believe this. Now we know what I watched a show, brother, and it wasn't because anything else in that hour, I'm telling you, do you think people actually stayed at the very end of it with those two going back and forth with each other. Well, if it did one point

seven oh million, yeah, I don't know. Bro. The show open at one point seven eight million, they ended at one point seven oh million, so they lost virtually nobody during the show and gained people in the second hour. So that's that's a that's a shockingly good number for raw. But they didn't stick around for missing mrs this time. I guess in mass like they usually do. Well, you know,

they've seen one sleb, they've seen miss once. How many times we need to see that guy during the day, I'll tell you how many zero, but we're forced to

see him at least once. Oh. Home Run Derby six point oh two million viewers, So don't think that shouldn't have taken a chunk out of this one point seven two and eighteen and forty nine on ESPN Kid Loves the Big Bats pre show for Home Run Derby, the pre show the pre show for the Home Run Derby four million viewers and a one point one three And they did a Derek Jeter documentary which did one point

eight four million at a point five seven. So the Derek Jeter documentary beat Raw in viewership and eighteen forty. Maybe they need to bring that guy in. Maybe he needs to do a seleb match coming up here at SummerSlam. I'm sure he'll be first in line to do that. Well, you know, money talks, brother John Kroc, you know. So there you go. I'm saving my full n x T review for the next segment. It wasn't all perfect, though it was. The thing was not like the Battle Royal.

I didn't I didn't say that at all. No, I didn't say that. You said that. I'm just saying that to the people that they believe that you may have said that earlier, even though you didn't say that. People people don't ever misquote me. Amos Here says I'm in the same boat as you. Brian expected the n XT Female Battle Royal to be a car crash, which he wrote in one word in all caps. But I ended up being just fine, in fact, enjoyable. The finish was smart despite the usual w W E trope finish. Cora

Jade got hers in the end. She sure did, Yeah, she sure did. She got dumped over the top of rope like she dumped those tag belts into the garbage age. They have to just be getting rid of the tag titles. Let's hope. So, I mean, there's no there's no other reason to crown new champions, break them up a week later and then have one half of the champions throw her belt in the garbage can Sasha Banks And if the plan is to keep the belts, oh, Man, Yeah, I don't think. I don't think Sasha is going in

x T tell you that much. You see those cheese I can report Sasha Banks not going to n x T, as reported by Brian Alvarez. Man, I think that's the true one. But you see the cheese crisps in the trash can there? Do you ever have those? Do you ever have the it's just cheese that they hide rate And it literally is taste like you chopped off a block of cheese and just put it in your mouth. It's the most disgusting thing I've ever had in my life. It absolutely is. What are the odds? I'm trying to

move on from cheese Kords? If you had cheese it that would be perfect. What are the odds? Cheese Edge rejoined Judgment Day and praises them that they were ruthless enough to overthrow him. That at Angle smells like cheese crisps. I would be honest with Mike. Please, can I get moving here? One of the odd Edge rejoins Judgment Day

edges Uh. I think they've already got rated our superstar merch, so I'm pretty sure that he's returning as the rated art supers are now what that means as a baby face a heel, I don't know, but I don't think he's coming back to Judgment Day, especially because he left Judgment Day, which is ironic. He left because he don't want to be involved anything spooky, But then they haven't done anything spooky, so I don't know what's going on.

Aren't they doing spooky time vignettes to lead to his return, Like there's a flannel over here, there's a rated r KO shirt over here. Are they doing some some some mystical things that probably play wild in the minds of Finn Balor and the and and Damien Priest. I don't know what's going on, but I do know we'll be back in a moment with more Observer Live again the show Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live Wrestling com sad to see nobody given x T two point o

a chase. It has improved. It was miles better than Ron SmackDown this week. Who are you talking about? And you don't know if people are are taking well, You've been talking to Dom during the break. I've been reading the chat. Now, man, let's talk about this show. It opened up with j D mcdonnaugh and Cameron Grimes, which was a good match because, in fact, Cameron Grimes is a great worker. J D mcdonne actually did not look particularly good in this match. I think he's I think

this is his second match in three months. He had one match on the House show with Brum Breaker, and then he's he's in here doing this and uh uh looked like actually one he took like some move. I think it was like a kind of a Ura Nagi spinning yar Nagi. Looked like he smashed his head on the mat. So he ends up hitting his uh Saito suplex or whatever and pins Grimes. I will get more into this in a bit, but Grimes loses. We had

a Nikkia Lions promo and then we had Cora Jade's promo. Listen, I heard from a lot of people that Cora Jade's promo was at atrocity. Okay, it wasn't good. I would not go as far as it was an atrocity. She does. She at least explained everything, which was that, you know, she's jealous of Roxanne Perez. She brought roxand here Roxanne wins the tag titles. She was all excited to defend them. But the first thing rock Sand wants to do is fight for the singles title. She's upset about that, and

so she had to take her out. She called herselfish and worse, and so she uh beis her makes fun of her and says, this is what I think these tag belts now. It throws a tag belt in the garbage. So, like I said, I presume this is the end of the women's tag team titles because they're worthless at this point.

But and I don't I don't know how long the promo was for, but that's exactly what she's going to be doing on the main roster, which is regurgitating words that are not her own, and I thought she did a solid job with it. I think the inflection of her voice is the most heel thing about her, because she's able to say things and make it sound like

fingernails on a chalkboard. But you know, it was a long promo and it was drawn out for quite some time because she's trying to remember all of the verbiage. But she did a good job repeating all of it without any mess ups. But man, you could tell it

was all on a piece of paper for her. We had Zion Quinn doing a promo saying that Apollo Cruz couldn't cut it in the big leagues and they will be having a match next week on ed X. T any Heartwell did a pro momo and uh actually made fun of herself without directly doing it, but she said there's been ups and downs and slips and slides because of course she slipped off the ropes and fell down last week, and she vowed to win the Battle Royal tonight and turn the ship around. We need Dexter back,

yes please. We had Roderick Strong and Damon Camp and this match was fine. It was not like a great match because it was essentially Roderick Strong doing a very simple grappling basic style match with Damon Camp, but everything

they did look good. Damon kemp Is is totally fine in the ring, and Uh what happened at the end is the the they cut backstage and the Creed Brothers have been beat up, and Roderick Strong and Damon Camp, who are part of Diamond Mine, they're obviously they're both distracted by the video wall, and what should happen is our buddies are getting beat up. We need to stop this match and run back and help him. Instead, as they're both distracted, Roderick does a jumping knee to his

own partner and pins him. Then he runs to the back, and then Damon's like selling his his chin because he's all rattled from getting hit with the guys finished, and he stumbles backstage and Roderick's bearing him for taking too long to get back there to help everybody. So the Diamond Mind storyline is a good storyline. They're they're doing a good job with with Roderick Strong. You just want to see all of Diamond Mind turn on him and beat him up. I'm sure he's hoping that happens too,

so he can just get out of here. But uh, this was this was pretty good. Rhyme's people A lot of you. Roderick Strong, I believe pretty deadly. My one of my honest to god, one of my favorite teams against Josh Briggs and Brooke Jensen and uh the match was longer than it needed to be, but they're trying to teach people how to work, and they got the heat on Briggs and actually got the heat on the

Virgin I think for a long time. And then he gave the hot tag to uh to j B because now I remember their names because the other one's never getting any brooks Anson. So anyway, he makes a big comeback, crowd goes crazy for it, and then uh, uh there's a tug of war with uh, what's her name? I can never remember her name because Alon Henley, That's right, I remember because she she's she's like got a farm, so she works with hens. That's how I'm trying to

remember Fallon Henley. So anyway, she's got a tug of war and uh ends up with Briggs school boying uh kit Wilson or whatever his name is, pinning him. Actually know they hit the high low and pin him. But this is fine. Thank god you remembered his name because I hate to say this because they're both Prince and kit Wilson. It's Elton Prince. And then the other guy,

but it's Elton Prince who really stands out. I know you need, you need both of these guys to make it work, but my god, Elton, Elton Prince and Kits Wilson, they're the greatest Timberland mixed with like what was the Lances guy from a team of Foundango, Oh, Tyler Breeze. He's got like he's like this weird mix of people. He's amazing. List of all of the people that I've ever said are can't miss on the main roster, literally pretty deadly. They have to be at the very top

because there's nothing. There's nothing that Vince could want to change. I guess maybe he could want to be a little bit bigger. But they're tall, they have great hair, they're good looking. They've got a total sports entertainment gimmick. They work, they work his total up his alley style, just every basic pro wrestling, old school tag and Vince is a tag team fan. There perfect for Vince McMahon. I don't know what they're doing stuck here. Oh my god, can

you imagine bringing them up? They'd be immediately be maximum male models. Then we've got that's fine. That might actually turn that act around that might save maximum male models. Let's get Ginny in there first, or whoever it's going to be, Maxine. Joe Gazy reveals the former grizzled young vets as Jagger read and Rip Fowler. Jagger read and Rip Fowler and they got one contact or something, and they got new haircuts, like one with long hairs like a priest. And then the ball guys like a zombie

or something light or something with the blue eye or cyborg. Okay, so then we had braun Breaker in the ring and j D McDonagh shows up on the screen and he's got a mannequin behind him, and if Broun breakers in the ring, He's like, what's going on? And I can't even say this is a straight face. J D mcdone apparently is like a surgeon. That's news to me. And so he gets his marker and he says, it isn't exactly what he said, it's it's essentially what he said.

He goes, braun Breaker, are you aware there's eight muscles and tendons in the shoulder girdle and braun Breaker looks like he actually didn't know. And not only did he not know, he doesn't care and he's looking at the fans like what and McDonald starts drawing on the shoulder of this mannequin showing up he's going to dissect the shoulder of braun Breaker and Brown Breakers, like, dude, just come down, you're gonna beat your ass and j D

McDonald refuses, and so they're gonna have a match. But I know this is gonna be like a title program. But dude, j D mcdonnaugh is tiny and braun Breaker is huge. I realized they're doing the bad shoulder and gimmick with a braun Breaker. But bro, if you can sell me on this match, good luck. I don't buy it for a second. That promo and that interchange what

it was almost so bad. It was good because Braun was looking like you would think somebody would look hearing all of this slow motion nonsense come out of the face of Jamie mcdonnaugh, But like the way it was juxtaposed with Braun being in the arena and then barking back at this very slow talking JD McDonagh who says he's going to do this to you, Braun, and you're a meathead and I know exactly what you're good and Braun's losing it and absolutely losing it. It's exactly what

you would expect. But boy was it long and not good? Yeah, thing too is Uh, it's one thing. Listen, everybody, everybody does these suplexes, everybody and every match. I guess it's one thing. If if Carrie and Cross is going to use that sup plexes is finished or whatever, he's a big, jacked up dude or whatever. But j D mcdonnaugh, this

tiny little dude. His finish is a suplex. Axiom debut the former a kid, and uh they debut and gets Dante Chen and it was fine, but Axiom needed a way different opponent to have, like a big boom boom boom, high spot, flip whatever to get himself over. This is just a basic match with a couple of high spots. Didn't get the guy over. He now has a mask like Luchador, and I know people are upset about that, but listen, the whole point of this n x T is to get people ready for the main roster. Okay,

Vince takes one look at a kid. I don't care what he can do. He's even smaller and he's not nearly as big as Ricochet and look where Ricochet is. Okay, so if you want to mask this guy up and put him in a costume and hope that he can be like another ray Masterio, fine, because it's not gonna work as a kid, it's just not. But he does need better opponents to showcase what he can do, and

this was not that. Then we have like nineties segments in a row Lash legend, Giovanni Vinci's man at Chase You, Trick Williams in the barbershop, and uh god, they were Wait a second, you do know where they're going with some of these feuds because they just right in your face. It's like, okay, here we go. It's Chase You, Giovanni Vinci.

Why because the buses balking Vinci in the parking lot. Yeah, Cameron Grutt or Trick Williams are talking about whatever they're the barbershop segmentory's good, but I don't know what they're talking about. Toxic Attraction does an interview and then one by one women from the Battle Royal show up, and then uh and that leads us to the Battle Royal.

The only other segment we didn't talk about is they're doing a story with Cameron Grimes where he keeps losing and he's lost it and he's sick of it, and he's leaving and he's just gonna go home. He's done with this. But he gets stopped by, of all people, Joe Gays, who's trying to recruit him for his group. So I don't know if they're actually gonna recruit him for the group or if you're gonna do a Cameron Grimes Joe Gacy feud, which at least in the ring

would be good because because Joe Gacy can work. God, that Joe Gaze character is television death death m so that's an X to everybody. Ah, So he's got like a cult thing going on. He's trying to recruit people. You see what he's done to the Grizzle young veterans. Maybe because Grimes is still so rich. I I assumed that he is some of his investments have panned out because he's obviously not taking home the winner's share of the purses. Maybe Joe Gacey just wants to use him

for his money and try to drain him of that. However, this works, like you mentioned, the work and the ring is gonna be really good because those guys are really good inside the ring, but my god, everything else about this whole deal, including seeing the new grizzled young Schism be involved in it, no, thank you. I mean, trevorle is gonna get bounced around like a basketball trying to get those guys over and trying to make this thing work.

And even though he'll probably be the conquering hero in the end, it's gonna be a long way to get there. I have a feeling. So that was that and uh an x T two boy. No, I do think the Dynamite is gonna be better tonight. That is my prediction. I think it's safe bet. I think it's probably a safe bet. Mandy Hubert says if Brody Lee could see his son perform as negative one, he would be quote

just bubbling over the moon. Did an interview, Brody Jr. Spoke about the tribute show held in honor of his father, holding the belt that my dad held it just to be in the moment was definitely. It's very hard. I want to be just like him, he said. He also knows that when he's older he wants to grow a big, bushy beard just like his father as well. Use Moisturizer Kid, a man of fireback of critics who accused a debilt exploiting Rody, I personally don't feel they've exploited him or

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