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that they launched last night. You know, we had some good rows and such lately. I don't know what happened on I don't know what happened last week, but SmackDown and Raw. My god, SmackDown had no wrestling. It was like thirteen minutes of wrestling in a two hour show. And granted Raw on Monday had more than thirteen hours of wrestling, but oh my god, they had so many talking segments, so many boring talking segments leading to two matches with the lamest finishes. So anyway, we'll rant about

that today. But also we've got to a w Dynamite tomorrow night. We've got the lineup for that show, lots of matches, including the first T and T title defense of Horde Low. He'll be facing Orange Cassidy. We've also got a n x T two point oh tonight with a women's title match, Mandy Rose versus Roxanne Perez and more. It's coming on Wednesday on Dynamite. They'll be announcing all of the information about the All Out pay per view, which is coming up on Sunday, September four. You're gonna

be there. I'm gonna be there. Also be talking about the best moments w w e's best moments in the sp Awards. We've got four uh contenders here. What do you think was the best w w E moment of these? We'll eat those out. And there was an issue involving the Great Collie and a hole worker. What happened, Well, we'll tell you about it here on the show, plus ratings and so much more if you want to Texas four to five seven eight zero seven five six six four two five seven eight zero seven five six six

back in a moment with more. Observer Live Simes lovel and then Joe brand Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper be the also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. I actually can't wait to tear a part Rob, but I'll wait till the next second. I want to make sure I got a little time. Do you want to your your usual show opening chuckle Mike, No, should I mention the buzz? No? Okay, hey, don't you mention that? Before we started there? I just noticed with there was

a loud commercial in the background. I thought it might just be uh, you know, poor production on one of the commercials. Instead, it was a poor production on my show. Tony con announced were those first T and T Championship defense is coming up tonight tomorrow night, what's today? Tuesday Wednesday on a W Dynamite. He will be facing Orange Cassidy for the T n T title. I would not expect a title change. Orange Cassie has got a lot

of big wins lately and good performances. I expect him to go in there and shouldn't have a fun match, but he'll be He'll be roundly defeated. I would presume we've also got John mox Lee versus Two Keshta for the A E W. Actually it's not for the title, but if it's catch twins. Uh what do they call these? A contenders match? Championship contenders match. If he wins, he'll get a title shot. We've got Young Bucks versus Shane Strickling and Keith Lee against Will Hobbs and Ricky Starks

in a three way four the tag team titles. You know, the Young Bucks put the titles on the line. Jake Hager versus Cloudio Castignoli, Serena Deep versus Anna j Luca Source will be in action and Christian Cage will be cutting a promo. Chris Jericho also will be cutting a promo on the show tomorrow. So that's Wednesday night tonight an x T two point Oh, We've got Mandy Rose and Rock San Perez for the n x T women's title.

We have got Apollo Cruz, Giovanni Vinci to see he was more athletic, and Solo Sakoba will face Von Wagner, my favorite and next team names. So that's the lineup. If I look at all these matches here, I think that Ward Low should win. I think that Takeshta, he maybe should beat John Moxley. I haven't, I haven't. I haven't decided a hundred percent yet but he gets more over every time he gets in the ring. The fans

are super behind the guy. He has great matches, and I think that a rare victory over the champion to set up a title match which he would then lose. I think that that might be a pretty fun idea. Young Bucks should retain, Mandy Rose should lose the title to Roxanne Perez, but I don't think that she will. And those are my big predictions for the next couple of days. How long is Zoe starkout for? Are you? Do?

You know that she was out in November, November, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, probably a month out so mcl injury terror that happened into her. I am all four. I mean, Roxane Perez is the future of women's wrestling there because of her age and because of her talent level already, So she's gonna have a long lifespan there. And I would be more for putting the belt on her if she didn't win the tag titles, and I think they have a

story going with that. And I like Zoe Stark a lot, and I don't know if she's a a long term person for them. I don't know if we'll see her on the main roster, but I thought she was very strong when she was there. She's very skilled, and I think when she comes back, she's gonna make an impact on that division. So if it is only going to be August and we're only really looking at six weeks away, even though I haven't been enthralled with the Mandy Rose

title reign, I can wait another six weeks. If if she comes back and it's the surprise and Roxy keeps that uh, you know, money in the bank or whatever they call it, the futures, you know, championship shot in her back pocket and holds onto it for a little bit. Also on Wednesday, w is gonna announced their next pay per view. It was revealed during this week's A E W Control Center? Is that like the bump? What is

the A E W Control Center? Well, you remember watching Stark, you know, leads the star kid in the Great American I know what a control center is, But where's the A W Control Center? Probably YouTube? Probably in front of a green screen on YouTube with Tony Siani. Announcement of the company's next pay per view will be made on

Dynamite this Wednesday, night. Next pay per view will be all out schedules a place Sunday, September four, Dave and I will be doing a live Q and A that weekend, So if you're making plans to go, you know, you

know it's great about it too. We're gonna do that live Q and A. And then immediately after the Life Q and A, you can go back to your hotel on Saturday afternoon over a will the weekend in Chicago and sit there by yourself and watch the w w E pay per view that they're running that same weekend on Saturday. Doesn't that sound exciting? Is that? Technically on the itinerary for everyone who's going to be joining you out there? Now? It's not in Vegas either dude, or Nashville.

Where the hell? Where's it's It's likely going to be Chicago. We'll find out tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be in Chicago. And then that they seem to draw well there, don't they. Clash of the Clash at the Castle will be taking place Saturday, and a w all out will take place on Sunday. Clash of the Castle we headlined by Roman Reigns against either Drew mc attire or perhaps Shamus. What is the official start time Eastern

time for that? I don't know, but I know it's gonna be right after our Q and A. They're gonna hold it up for us. So if we run on, yes, hopefully they give you a little bit more time than TBS gave Dyingmite last week. We're just cut off at the end. Actually the game extra time, I know. And they still got a cut off at the end. Uh the w w E the Speeds Best w w E Moment Award, it started with a bracket of sixteen. I didn't even know that. Now that now it's down to four,

so I try and find the bracket of sixteen. No, no, I'm gonna all right, okay, So here's here's the bracket of sixteen. We had brock Lessner wins Men's Royal Rumble versus Bianca. Oh I I see what they're doing here. So on our site they actually put the brackets together, so it was brock Lesser wins the Men's Royal Rumble, Bianca bel Air wins the raw women's title. John Cena returns at money to the bank. Ronda Rousey wins the Women's Royal Rumble. W w E welcomes back live crowds.

Steve Austin stunts everyone at WrestleMania thirty eight Night To Roman Reigns wins the title at WrestleMania thirty eight. Cody Rhodes returns at WrestleMania thirty eight. Roman Rains becomes the undisputed Oh, I see he won the other title. I got it. Biggie cashed in money the bank to win the w w E title. Miss turns against Logan, Paul Becky Lynch returns at SummerSlam. Undertaker gets inducted into the

All of Fame. Edge Beats, seth rawlins at Helena Cell Crown Jewel, we Man Body Slam Sammy Zane at WrestleMania thirty eight. There We Go. Lessner returns at Summer Slam one and Stone Cold Steve Buston returns to the ring at WrestleMania thirty eight. Night one sounds the original bracket, So it's down to four. Okay, it's down to the last four. Wait here with the last four? Are am? All right? Cody Rhodes returns at WrestleMania thirty eight. All right.

Steve Austin stunts theory Vince and Pat McVie and wrestle maybe a thirty eight night too. That would be in my final four Undertaker Inductor into the w w E Hall of Fame. I get it? And uh was this even listed in the first ones? I read Biggie catches in Money in the Bank. I don't think it was. How did that get in there? I don't know. Wait a second, where's we man? Well? We men didn't make the final four? Dude, that's what's very sad about that. Okay,

what happened. But when we go back to these brackets we had, how did someone get in the final four? Maybe I had to buy hold on a second. Oh, there it is. Yeah, Biggie catches in Money in the Bank against the misturns on Logan Paul. Okay, so anyway, it wasn't there. But the point is, everybody, what do you think is the greatest w w E moment? When I look at all of those, I would I would say, because I'll remember it for the rest of my life.

When Stone Cold stunned everybody at WrestleMania Night to including Vince McMahon, taking the final worst stunner anyone's ever taken in the storied history a professional wrestling. That would be my vote. Well, you guys can you guys can make your vote anyway. Back in a moment, we'll talk Raw Observer Live Hack in the show. Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live mixumb for b B. Also Wrestling Observer dot com. What was that? If you were watching? Video?

Is a classic film? The radio show? Everybody, there's commercials. I know some of you were young. You don't know what the radio is or commercials. My two year old gets angry watching coke mill. She goes, what another AD's already upset about ads? She's too, Well, let's talk about this, uh, this Raw show now. The opening segment was very good.

Brock Lessner came out and everyone loves him. He talked about the match at Summer Slam, talks about he's gonna slaughter Roman reigns like a hog, and then out comes Paul Haman. If Paul Hayman starts doing this promo, Paul Hayman is doing everything in his power to try to make you care about another Roman Reigns brock Lesner match. And he actually does a line that I'm not gonna say on the air, but it involved anyway. Lessner is howling with laughter at this line, and he's about to

repeat it when, of all people, Theory comes out. Theory wants to make it clear he's gonna cash in against either of these guys. He's very upset at brock for throwing him off the elimination chamber, which, by the way, they showed a bunch of replays, but they don't show the landing because he got thrown off in land on his feet, and I guess I thought it didn't look dramatic enough. God forbid the guy kill himself, But so they show him flying through the air and then the

screen goes black and here Klang. He gets to use your imagination for what happened. So then Chad Gable and not to show up and they jump brock Lessner. Brock Lessner no sells it. He destroys both of these guys, soup plex his chat everywhere f five otis on the announced table, kills him. Both crowd goes nuts. Hayman's all worried. This was a very good opening segment, and that's that's

about where all of the very good stuff ends. We had Damien Priest and Finn Balor and Ray Mystereo and Dominic out there and Damian Priests and Finnbaler talked and talked and talked and talked, and they're trying to convince Dominic to join the judgment day. We also noted that in a couple of weeks it's raymisterias twentieth anniversary of his w w E career Madison Square Gard They're gonna

celebrate his twentieth anniversary. So I think we can all probably figure out what might be happening to Ray on that day. So it led to Finn Balor versus Ray Mysterio, and they had a good match. This was a good match, and Finn Balor ended up pinning him clean in the middle with the Kuda gras they do this, And of course the storyline here is that, hey, look Tom, your dad is old and he sucks and he can't win,

so you should go with us. A great way to get over you know, I should say, I shouldn't say young Ray, but a good way to get over a legendary Ray Mysterio for his twentieth anniversary coming up in two weeks. I hope Producer Dom was actually paying attention to this segment, because if he just overheard that he's gonna have some questions for you when we go to break. Never heard what the legendary Ray mysterio? What sure? Not? Nothing? Never mind? Go ahead? What I say? Tom? How how

dare I interrupted? I didn't. I didn't swear today. No, I didn't say you never mind? He's everybody on the chat has absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Thank you for that interjection that only you. Becky Lynch kind of promo. She's standing on top of the announced table and uh, she's upset that she uh, whatever, you know, I can't get a title shot. She says, I don't care who wins this match tonight. I want the championship match at SummerSlam. So she sits there to do commentary.

It is Bianca versus Carmela, a match we have seen before. It is for the women's title. I don't know why, nor do the announcers. This match went eleven minutes, and for about nine minutes it was much better than their pay per view match. But then as a match just keeps going, and it keeps going and going and going, and they're kicking out and kick it out and kick it out, and it just keeps going. It just keeps spinning around and finally, why not so long I remember

what happened? Oh yeah, So they're outside the ring and Carmela and Bianca are brawling and Carmela rakes her eyes, which of course is illegal, and then she rolls into the ring and then Bianca is going to roll into the ring the rest right there, she's counting seven eight, and right then Becky comes up and she starts yelling at Bianca and they're arguing, and so the ref doesn't say, hey, get out of here, Bianca or Becky or whoever. He just keeps counting, and so of course Bianca's counted out.

She loses to Carmela, and then of course Carmela parades around with the title. Corey Grace says that she's the champ. Everyone else says she isn't. This crowd was dead for this segment here. Then we had Miss TV with Chompa. So first we have a long Miss TV segment. They talk and they talk and they talk. Mrs Angry at well, actually he's he's gonna give Logan Paul one more chance. Next week, Logan Paul is going to be on the show.

He says, Logan has one more chance to agree to be his tag team partner, otherwise he's gonna be in trouble. And uh, they're going on and on and on. AJ Styles interrupts and there was actually a great line here where MMS somehow, and it's never even explained how the match that has been signed is MS and chompa versus a J in a two on one handicap match. Who signed this? Why a J agreed? None of this is made clear. So a J uh once Ezekiel to uh or I guess Ezekiel comes out to be his partner.

But anywhere, some somewhere in here, MS, you know, uh, a J saying, hey, you know, MS, I see you have to have a friend here to help you out. You can't do this one on one? You know what that makes you? Miss? That makes you? And MS says, don't say it, And a J says that makes you and missays don't say it. So a he says that makes you a coward. Msic goes, oh okay then, and then a J goes a coward with tiny balls that of course MS is all angry, but MS totally not

caring that he was called a coward. That was a great moment. So anyway, Ezekiel comes out and now it's gonna be a tag match. Mrs angry that it's a tag match, and even though whatever, so they do this match, and I swear to God, this is the finish. A J bear with me. Here, a J and the MS are in the ring in this tag team match. A

J puts him in the calf crusher. MS is about to tap Mrs partner in this tag team match, breaks up the hold, and the re free calls for the bell and that's a Corey Greece or screaming what was that? Why was that a d Q? What's going on here? What a horrible call? Then they go, oh uh, you know, Champa can't contain his anger because he's now he's pounding on h even though this long after the disqualification. Then they start talking about well, the illegal man, the illegal man.

Bro There was nothing but tag team match on the show. It was one guy breaking up a pin after another. But man in this match, it was a disqualification. The crowd is booing ah. And this whole segment between all of the talking and the match twenty four minutes. I set for twenty four minutes for all of this to have a disqualification when a when a tag partner broke up a hole in a tag team match, now I was human. We had Alexa Bliss and Oscar versus Dewdrop

and Nicky Ash. The whole match is Corey Graves saying, you know, Alexa was a lot better before. She just became normal. And then she wins. She pins Nicky Ash with a DDT in the middle of the ring, so we may get spooky Alexa Bliss again with they're teasing. We had a long USO's promo. They got the gist of the show. Yet long USO's promo. They go on and on and on. The street profits come out, my shoulder wasn't down. They go on and on and on. Who's gonna be the referee SummerSlam? They go on and

on on. Then our Truth comes out. He wants to be the referee. He's got a ref shirt on, a bunch of comedy, bunch of whatever. And then the us so so say, hey, can you get that? Uh what do they call him a joke ass or something like that? They called him something. So this makes Truth so mad that he wants to fight. But then he notes only if it's three on two. Well, then outcomes m v P and Omas. You know along this is gone by

the way. M v P and Omas come out. So Omas ands up being the third man on the USO's team. So what is the USO's and Omas versus the street prophets and our truth? Anybody want to guess the finish? It is the USO's and Omas against the street profits in truth. What do you think the finishes? Huh? Well, if you guessed Omas pinned truth wrong, Omas pinned Topkins, Topkins clean in the middle of the ring. What sweating profusely at this point all the windows opening this house

and turned the air on. I was dying. Seth wrongs promo bunch of laughing. You know how I feel about that laughing? Another cryptic video package? Is it Edge? Is it uh Bray? Is it the two of them? Is it Alexa? Who knows? And then find ten thirty five pm time for the main event? Hey got twenty five minutes for the main event. Well, ten thirty five Lashly comes out. Thank god for our front page report for

this this breakdown. Ten thirty five Lashly comes out, ten thirty seven, Riddle comes out ten thirty eight commercial break, ten forty three replay of Riddle giving role as inn r KO. Ten forty four. Rawlins comes out, ten forty five, Theory comes out, ten forty five. Main event finally begins. Main event begins ten forty five. We sent ten minutes, ten forty nine commercial break. Finally ten fifty two. Oh height,

not yet, we gotta plug freddicks t this week. Finally a ten fifty three the return of the main event. So we got about eight minutes of television time and uh Lashly and Riddle beat Rawlins and Theory, and uh Riddle got the win. Bro I'm out back in a moment Reserver Live. Back in the show. Brian elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simbervi also Wrestling Observer dot com. Did I mention how much I hated that raw show? I mentioned that, you know what's funny about it is

when they actually did stuff, I liked it. But dude, there they waste so much time on this show. It is exactly it is exactly what we talked about for years. So what's the ideal length of a show ninety minutes? If they took out every bit of BS on this show. It would be a ninety minute show. But my god, and someone was like, I wish Brian had this much rage for n x T two point out. Bro, I prefer n x T two point out of this show. It's only two hours, so I save an hour of

my life watching it. And you know what, whatever you want to say about n x T. At LEAs East, they do a segment and then they go into the next thing, and then they go into the next thing and they keep the show moving. Dude, this is you know long, three hours is okay when they when they it would be one thing. If you did like a three hour n x T two point Oh, okay, that's still too long because it's three hours, but at least it would be a three hour show that was three

hours long. This is somehow a three hour show that's five hours long. It takes for It feels like you're watching this show for years because nothing happens for minutes on end. And they do this. They do this every week, that third hour because our our front page who writes this on the front who writes the front page report. I'll plug him in a second, but the point is they do this every week. He points it out. They always at at ten thirty five, it's time for the

main event. And and by the way, he didn't even put in the commercial before the first entrance. At From ten twenty to eleven o'clock, there's nothing but filler in about eight minutes of wrestling, and you wonder why that third hour dies every time brutal. I wonder how much the average fan fast forwards and what they fast forward through because all of the video packages there's so much of that filler, and I don't I guess it's working. I guess it's something that they have fallen upon that

seems to be working for them. I just here's a ring entrance, and then we're gonna go to commercial. Then we're gonna come back with a video package hyping something that's got to do with w W E shop or this or that, to an interview to this, then we get back to the ring. It just it. I am still not used to that kind of flow. I know, I'm old. If it's working, I guess I can't say anything. It's just it's hard it. As a viewer, I can't believe I'm the only one that yes, uh, I guess

you could stick around for it. But when you have a DVR, I mean to me, that's like ten minutes you could be doing something else, checking scores, go, doing anything else. And I wonder how when people are watching this on DVR, how much their fingers just on the fast forward button until they get to the match itself or somebody that's cutting a promo that they actually like, because unfortunately, too many of these promos are also just

mindless filler, especially the backstage ones. It's not really pushing anything across. I don't want to I don't want to add to my complaints, but like, if we pretend this is real, they're absolutely completely incompetent because dude, they had like no matches for the show. Every single match had to be set up by some angle, some angle where people came out and talked. Other than that apparently would add no matches. If nobody would have come out to talk,

we wouldd no matches on the show. And if annything is we had the lineup on what day? Was it? Monday? Yeah? And then later in the afternoon two of the matches vanished. They stopped advertise you it was Sunday. I did the Light Up Sunday Night with Dave they had three matches. They had three things announced on w W dot com Sunday night. By Monday they were down to one. They just took out two of the things. It's the Muppet Show. It's the Muppet Show. What's gonna happen? We don't know.

Gonzo has got a plan of everything that's gonna happen, Kermit's ready to do, and then something goes sideways and this happens or that happens, and that's that's w W. That's at least Raw Smackdowns pretty much the same way, but certainly ras the it's a sports entertainment variety show. You might see some wrestling, who knows, But we got personalities. At least they have a few personalities. I like seeing Dolph Ziggler back. Um, I know he's done everything he

is talking about that. But that's the thing with Dolph is at least for what they want Austin theory to be, he's the right guy to work with. The thing is this whole time where his dolphin you couldn't have like come up with an idea where he was kind of floating on the side to be brought in here too.

It's just out of nowhere, his music hits, he walks out the middle of the match, he sits down, and then he he's now all of a sudden, he's got a beef of theory after the last time we saw him, he had a beef with who wasn't uh somebody that was helping out somebody was going against the miss or something like that. Him and Bobby Rude. So where's Bobby Rude? You know, it's funny, Mike, it's funny. You know, I thought watching that what you do. I'm sure you've said

it many times, but I know you've said it before. Huh. Well, look at these WrestleManias. They they brought back Goldberg, they brought back brock Lessner, they brought back this, they brought back that. Right, Well, what are they gonna do? You said, who are they going to bring back down the road when these guys can't be brought back anymore? Well, we're getting our answer Dolph Ziggler here, because literally they brought him back. Act like he was a returning massive star

of the past. Dolph Ziggler. Well, I mean, here's the thing. You bring Dolph back ten years from now at WrestleMania. Well, actually, I guess you can do that. There's they can do anything that they want. They can do anything that they want. But what would be you know, probably more behooved than more is actually have Dolph Ziggler show up on TV every once in a while, get a win. He doesn't

have to be tied into a storyline. He just stays strong and I just I don't know he and Bobby Route both you know, why have a tag division no teams when you have Dolph Zigler and Bobby Rude right there? Why are Dolph Zigler and Bobby Rude not full time in n x D Because we talked about that before

several times. Who would have been perfect to go down to n x T two point oh and be a regular down there and hang out and all that sort of stuff and try to help these guys get better, including guys like Damon Kemp and other guys who have actual amateur pro wrestling backgrounds in the same way that Dolve Zigler does. But they didn't decide to do that. Hey, let's talk about this Great Collie and we'll do some

ratings slapping people with that big hand. Great Collie has issued a statement regarding an altercation he had on Monday with toll workers in uh Ludhiana, Punjab, India. A video of the incident was published on media and which Collie could be seen arguing with several toll workers. According to a translation of the video by The Tribune, one toll worker can be heard asking Collie why he slapped one of the other employees. The video does not show Collie

slapping the person. However, you were asked to show your ID cards. Show the ID card, the toll employee tells Collie, to which he replies, you are blackmailing me. The employee then says, we're not blackmailing you. Why did you slap him? Show the ID card if you have it. Colli was reportedly traveling from Johal and dar And Punjab to Carnal

at the time. Collie then took to social media on Tuesday and said, quote, hello friends, yesterday while going to Carnal, told tax employee of phil our stopped my car and misbehaved for selfie. When I denied selfie, he ruthlessly passed racist comments, also used bad words. That's all I want to say, thank you. According to police, neither party has filed a complaint regarding the incident. So that's the latest

on the great colleigue. What's your take on that, Brian never slapping toll uh No, But these TOLD workers have a have an issue with the It's not told necessarily a constructions construction guys. The construction guys have a beef with wrestlers. Well, remember Steiner tried to run that guy over. I think it was Scott Steiner had a beef with the UH with the ground screw there the d O

T crew. But even if the d O T was at fault and maybe they were poking the bear with Scott Steiner, I mean, it just can't be driving over people, and you just can't be slapping him around, even though well hold on, we don't know if he slapped him around. There's no video of There is no video that. There's an allegation and act well, and I mean, look what Collie had said in in response. Look, he was denied, he denied himselfies because they were acting a certain way.

And if they did actually hit him with racist comments, I could see a slopping taking place. So I'm not trying to to hit Colie here with this, you know, and hopefully he didn't hit anybody else and well, you ever seen that guy throw into those overhand chops. He would have slept this guy. That guy be dead. That's

not true. I think that slow that thing was coming so slow, are you sure about that he could have tried to get out of the way a little bit because how slow that thing is caught him a little bit. I think call He's got a good case. The evidence, the video evidence we have shows and if you would have hit this guy with that chop, that guy would be dead. You don't have that video evidence. You just said you're not even sure if he threw a chop listening to me, are you saying that you're client through

a chop? Mr? Alb Rows, Are you listen to me? We have video evidence from his long wrestling career that when he throws that overhand slap chop. Deal, dudes are done. Okay. We have no evidence that he threw a chopped slap whatever. There's no video evidence that he attacked this guy. Okay, right, and if you add guy'd probably be done for so. I think all evidence is that the Great Callie is innocent. There's really only one way to answer this and to to try to fix this whole thing. And to try

to finish it all off. And that is, of course a Punjabi prison told booth match N A and E. The Legends documentary of The Undertaker five eight two thousand viewers actually a pretty good number, although it's down a little bit from the eight episodes air during the first season. But I'll tell you one of those five thousand wasn't Granny. She watched a little bit of it and was bored. I don't like him when he's normal, she said. Showsn't like Mark Callaway. No, she likes the Undertaker, big take.

But until the day point one four and eighteen to forty nine seventeenth on Cable Sunday, and then uh we had the Rivals show afterwards Breton Shawn three sixty eight and a point one oh which are and then afterwards uh Smack Talk which follows Rivals where they have some of their talking heads talk about the shows point oh seven and to twenty two. So there you go. SmackDown two point one to nine million viewers, down point six percent.

Point four seven and eighteen to forty nine did top all English language programming in eighteen forty nine and eighteen to thirty four. Rampage four or twenty eight thousand down eleven point nine percent, point one five and eighteen to forty nine down six percent. So still the third highest rating in that category since April. But uh, string that we had there of of everyone doing great numbers for like a week or two, seems to be settling back

to normal. So we'll see how Dynamite does. Tonight did a million a couple of weeks ago, a little under a million last week. We'll see what they do for the show this week. You ever watch anything on any Nope? Never, not sixty days in, not the first forty eight, none of that sort of stuff. Bro, I'm watching three hours of raw. The first thing I'm gonna do what I'm done is not gonna watch more TV. I got enough TV to watch one other shows that Brian Alba has

watching it all. Do you watch any TV at all? No? I don't, not single watching wrestling, and then I go, I go outside, not even the weather channel to see what it's gonna be like before you go, Who watch is a weather channel? I got an app just asking, just asking. I know you're not a movie guy, not a TV guy. This person here says, in your opinions it's this whole vents TV or since this whole Vent

story broke. Was last night's Raw, the first show that seemed to be all over the place and completely not make any sense. Wait a second, Wait a second, dude, Hey listen, what we had, ironically was a string of like three or four weeks of pretty decent episodes. Okay, but uh, let's not forget you know, a couple of months ago, a couple of years ago, things have been way Listen. I hated that show last night, but it was just because it was so much of a waste

of time. But like the actual content of the show, aside from those two finishes, I mean, the wrestlers all worked hard, some of the matches were good. It wasn't this is not the bottom of the barrel that we've seen before. Just too much of a waste of time. Back in a moment, it's over life on the show right now. But is here wrestling Observer Alive Mike simple Boeb also wrestling Observer Dot comes Firs, says Brian, just like to say, I saw a video of the supposed incident.

It does not look like Collie. He's a far worse worker. Oh, come on, damn your Sarai tweeted today rumors. Does that mean anything? Well, I think she's trying to suggest that the rumors of her having, as Dave noted, one ft out the door are incorrect. But you know, we'll see what happens. I like the rumors with a barfing face that she tweeted out there, So yeah, she doesn't like rumors.

Let's see if you had to guess, do you see a w all out of the usual now arena or bring it to the United Center or bigger capacity, or maybe do a baseball stadium in Chicago. Well, I got a stadium coming up shortly thereafter. Ah, they're doing Arthur Ash again, So I don't know. I guess we'll see, but I would expect I shouldn't say anything. I have no idea what they're gonna do, and it probably depends on,

you know, what kind of match. It probably will end up being punk versus uh mocks Lee to unify the titles, and I guess they they can make a decision how big a match they feel that's going to be. So we canna find out on Wednesday one way or the other, because they're gonna make the announcement on Dynamite, So when that happens, we'll talk about it. On Thursday and tomorrow Mike gets talked about n x T two point Oh. I am sad every time I miss a Wednesday because

I do like talking about it. But at least I can do it. Scheduled a lot for Wednesdays now, aren't they. Well, that's what happens, dude. I got kids, bro, So we're gonna wrap it up. The thing Mike is always callers and listeners over the studio. All my friends and co workers, the Romans and the countrymen who lend me their ears each day. I appreciate it. We'll o you next time Wrestling Observer Live. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network