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guess what is scheduled for SmackDown. But first from the front page Pressing Observer dot com the wrestling world this morning, the passing of Adam Bernie Arski, wrestled as the Royal stud Adam Windsor, at just forty one years old, slam rustling reporter. He died due to a heart issue, the details of which are not known. Worn in England, trainee of Neil Adams Dory Funk Jr. Top starring champion in his Florida based Bank promotion from through two thousand five.

Also champion of the nw A Florida promotion run by Howard Brody. Later married Jade Adams, the daughter of Chris Adams and Jeanie Clark. Neil was Chris's brother. They had three children. Worked three w w E Florida House Show matches in two thousand one, had one match in the then n w A t n A in addition to

n w A wild Side Day Meltzer Road. After his original training and Funk Junior putting him over as a local champion by two thousand two, became a coach at Funk Junior School, producer local television show, was co booker the promotion until the two split up in two thousand five.

Funk Junior got him some outside dates during that period, including the match in Calgary for Stampede Wrestling Revival promotion in two thousand two, where Funk Junior, the age of sixty one, team with Windsor against Teddy and Bruce Hart. I had not heard his name in a long time. Turns out his last match was back in two thousand eleven. But certainly heard the name Adam wins Or a lot in the early part of the two thousands. No details has noted, but a hard issue forty one years old.

So all the best to his friends and family. And uh, if you have anything you want to write about Adam Windsor you welcome to do so. Seven eight zero seven s six is the phone number zero seven six Text messages only. Do not call that number. Brian and Rusling Observer dot com at Bran albert Is on Twitter, back in them on with mike's umber Vive, the news and

more Observer Live night. You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alfarez and Mike semperviving on the Sports Byline Broadcasting network bag In the show, Bran olbur is here Wrestling Observer Live Mix simper Viv, also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. Well, does anyone want to guess what they're advertising for SmackDown tonight? Anybody? Can I go out of limb go for it? Contract signing? Eight contracts signing has been added to tonight's SmackDown. Head of Wrestle Media Backlash.

Tonight's SmackDown will feature Charlotte Flair and Ron Da Rousey taking part in a contract signing for their match at the pay per view. We've already had a match at the pay per view. I feel like we've already had a contract signing for this exact same match. But anyway, we got a contract sighting between Charlotte and Runda Rousing. Riddle will face j Usso this week, Drew m Guitar faces Sammy Zane in a lumberjack match, and Mad decap Moss faces Angel It does not have a last name.

I think they should do, and like that's you know, that's why you know, w w E beats the NFL and social media whatever their latest gimmick was. I think the NFL needs to drop everybody's last name. They only all the players need to only have a first name. That I think is is what the NFL is is need in the NBA as well. Can you imagine? I mean, actually it's true. You know, he got over because he was Shock, not because he was Shaquille O'Neil. We all knew I was his name, but he got over because

of Shock dropping that last name. Lebron you know Magic. Yeah, these guys are all in a first name basis. So I think That's that's what's going on right here. But it needs to happen more in the NFL. I just need to drop everybody's first name golf. Nobody calls him Tiger Woods. He's just Tiger right for for all the people out there, just you know, it's you've got multiple you know, Mike's and Peter's and you know things like that, multiple Brian's. Are you going to insist now everybody also

have a a unique way to spell their name to No. No, if there's there's multiple Brian's on a team, one of them is got just changed his name. That's all there is to it. That's true. That's how Lancecade became Garrison Cade because Lance Storm was standing in his way with his first name. See Larry Bird, for example, would have been much more famous if he was just Larry Larry Yeah. But then Saturday, let's sit down and watch Larry. Yeah.

But but maybe if somebody might think you want to watch like Frees Company and like Larry hanging out with Jack at the Regal Beagle, you know, won't this cause confusion in the marketplace? I don't know. Or Bird. They could just call him bird, you know, but not bird Man. I'm gonna get some tickets to go see Bird. Are we going to the zoo? No basketball game? Bird is playing? Okay? Wow? Anyway, let's get to the actual news here. More important than ever FTR I I there's a lot going on. This

is FTR thing. FDR says they pitched the idea of facing each other in an own Heart Foundation tournament qualifying match, but are not interested in ever breaking up their team. Appearing on the three episode of the Arresting Perspectives podcast, Cash and Dax spoke about having to fight for being able to face each other in the tournament. It was our idea, Hartwood said, we had a fight for it, but that was completely our idea. We've always wanted to have a match, but we didn't want to just have

a match just to have a match. There to be a reason, and this is the perfect reason to do it. The Heart Family means a lot to both of us personally and professionally, and so being able to show respect tow and Heart of his whole family. What better way to do it then allowing the two biggest Heart Family fans in the world to compete like how everybody thinks they're the biggest Heart family fan. And by the way,

does anyone not know the finish of that match? I'm not gonna say it here, but I think it's patently obvious what's gonna happen. And then he discusses more about how they don't want to break up in etcetera, etcetera, And then of course there is this Brett Hart is believed to have signed a deal with w W E and that prevents him from appearing in a e W. Hart is advertised to be an FDRs corner for a

Big Time Wrestling show on June tenth. He is not expected to play the same role in a W However, our own Dave Meltz reported in Friday as Observer newsletter, Hart is believed to assign a deal with w w E that prevents him from appearing in a W but

allows him to take independent bookings. The reason this is on an indie show and not a W is that those in a W over the belief that Heart quietly signed a lucrative w W E deal that would ban him from appearing on a e W shows, but he is allowed to do indie shows, so that loophole allowed this to happen. So yes, a W announce and Owen Heart Foundation tournament. They had all of those teases on television about Brett Hart, and so w W E throw a bunch of money in him and more power to him.

I mean, that's the game. It's business here, I mean, and they don't need him to be there to celebrate Owen Hart. This is about Owen Heart, the Foundation, Martha, her kids, what they are doing. Everybody else. You know, it would have been nice if he was there, but that's okay. This is about Owen anyway. And I don't blame Brett. I don't blame w w E, you know, or really anybody any of these parties here. They all are individuals who do have themselves to look out for.

You know. F trs with a W for quite a while now, I believe at least a year to two more years. I think I got another year than a one year option. And there was that story out a week ago about how w W was really interested in FTR. I was like, yeah, I mean, fel so funny about this story. There's a lot of things, but so they had FTR. FTR was in n x T having incredible wrestling matches. FTR gets called up to the main roster. Their gimmick is that they are wrestlers. Deb of WU

has no clue what to do with them. They had that thing on the that one show where they were humiliated by d X or whatever just taken off television. They just desperately want out w W E. Finally, you know, they end up going a W. And then you know they do in a W. They have great tag team wrestling matches. They didn't get new gimmicks, they didn't get anything. They're the exact same team doing the exact same thing that they were doing, but a W let them do it.

Now they're super over with the a W audience and now w w WE wants them back for what to do, what you could have done with them before they left. I was just thinking about this yesterday and it was just it's actually mind blowing to me. I mean, you add them, it's not like you know, you you let somebody go and then they get a new look, a new makeover, a new character, a new whatever. Cody, for example, you know, they they had Cody doing star Dust and

all this other stuff those day. W becomes a big star. He's the American Nightmare. Cody Rhodes and they let him come back with everything he was doing in a e W which is also funny by the way that you know he got over there and you want that guy. I mean, that's fine and all, but like FTR are doing nothing different than what they absolutely could have done the exact same thing with you, and you wouldn't let him do it, and you froze him off television and

you humiliated them, and now you want him back. I was just like, okay, whatever, I'm sure they don't want him back. But this is why it is a you know, no matter what they do with Cody, because you talked about that how important it is that they treat Cody in trying to bring over other people, and you are right about that, But there's also the underlying piece of if they want you back and they point to Cody and say, see, you know everything's gonna be fine, No,

it may not be for you. And with FTR, with the type of wrestlers that they are, the fact that they are wrestlers, not sports entertainers, and that's the whole part of it. That's only going to go so far. So they are far better off where they are. And there are another group now that things are opening up worldwide. I don't know how much they would like to travel. Tellan Arn didn't travel that much and go to Japan, but they did go, and I would love to see

f TR take a trip over there. I love to see even go to the UK and continue to do what they do best. A moment of Deserver Live. You're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Right in the show. Brian Elbarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike sembur Viv also Wrestling Observer dot com. Dynamite Wednesday nine thousand of viewers, down four from last week. As far as total audience,

it was the second lowest of the year eighteen forty nine. However, point three seven same as last week and uh most watch show on cable excluding the NBA, because the NBA is killing every show. Dynamites numbers were even with last week and most categories, so uh compared to the same week in viewer, but steady in the eighteen to nine demo. That's the update on the Dynamite numbers. Darius Martin out of action for qude a lengthy period due to injury.

According to report from Fightful Select, two year old sustained a leg injury fairly recently. The nature of the injury not currently known, but he will be out a significant amount of time. Second time in fourteen months he will have been sidelined for an extended period of time. February he suffered a torn a c L. Just returned on March second, so it's been about six weeks. And actually his last match was on April fifteenth, so it was about five weeks before he seriously injured his leg again.

So best of luck with him, and uh, that's the update there. And also the Observer this week noted that there have been talk of Daniel Garcia joining the Blackpool Combat Club. However, Chris Jericho personally picked Garcia to join the Jericho Appreciation Society, and so that's how he ended

up with that group. If you recall, UH, Daniel Brin and John Moxley, Bryan Danielson had been talking about wanting to form a faction and they had thrown out various names, including Wheeler Utah, and one of those other names was Daniel Garcia. So uh, it's I mean, I I have no idea I mean, if I have no idea if it would have been better if Garcia had been with the Blackpool Combat Club and Wheeler you to have been

with the Jericho Appreciation Society. But I do both of them with the Blackpool Combat Club and somebody else with Jericho that would have probably jelled better. Well, I'll say this, hold on, here's the thing. I think that Daniel Garcia's style it works better in the Blackpool Combat Club based

on what he had already been doing. However, the idea that you've got a guy like Daniel Garcia who just does a total you know, shoot style pro wrestling style, plane trunks, plane boots, plane hair like plane everything, and he's the guy in the group that brags about being a sports entertainer and not a wrestler. I like it. So I think it's working out. It should yeah, I mean his his sports entertainment aptitude should go up being around uh, Chris Jericho, that is for sure. But yeah,

I mean I don't know. I guess it's six of one half dozen of the other there. As long as they're featured more, both he and Utah, you know that's gonna be good. Lee Moriarty, you know, got some shine this week before getting beaten up by the rest of the Blackpool Combat Club. But he's another one in that, you know, realm of guys to keep an eye on as they continue to move forward. Alright, we're gonna go

through all of the feedback. I may even open up the phone lines, and you've been a long time since we did that. That would be fun to seven eight zero seven five six six is the text message line. Don't try calling yet. I'll open up those next. Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Alvarez on Twitter. I wonder how many of these questions will be about font Leroy and your treatment of font Leroy. None. I treat him great, Brian. Did Brett Hart sign a new contract? Yeah,

we just talked about that. That came in. I got a better question for you, Brett Verse, Shawn, all this stuff right now taking place, everybody loading up behind Brett Hart. You don't find many Shawn Michael's backers anymore. When people ask who the greatest of all time is? What are you talking about? Year? A lot of people saying that if you really yeah, I don't know. Everybody seems to be talking about Brett right now, yeah, the own Hard Cup tournament is coming up, and you've got see him

Punk and FTR doing a bunch of matches. Uh. And that's that's led to a lot of people talking about Brett by Far always being better than Shawn Michael's. It's never been. Well, the problem is poor Shawn Michaels is running n x T which sucks right now. Poor Shawn Michaels, well, yeah, he didn't want this job at all. He was talked into doing this job by Triple H. Triple H begged for a favor from his friend. So Sean goes to help his buddy, and then the whole thing that he

signed up for, they they they they rebrand it. They take out all of the great wrestlers, They fire a Triple H and all of his friends, and now Sean's running a thing that he never wanted. Are you say sucks? Are you saying he is as broke as Stephanie McMahon said he was And that's why he had to come back. He was just he wanted to help out his buddy. Why doesn't he just stop helping out now? Then? If you well, I mean he's being paid, he's it's his job.

I'm sure he enjoys the people he's working with. I'm sure he liked it were the old way. I mean, trust me, if you think listen, I've never spoken to Shawn Michael's I don't even think in my life about anything. Maybe I did once, but anyway, I can tell you for a fact that that there are among the people that are still working there that we're there before. I don't think they're rejoicing in n x T two point Oh. They're longing for the days the back in the day.

It is the past and it's gone, alrighty. I feel Bird would have been a better name than Larry Well, take your pick, dude. I mean, Riddle is probably better named than Matt, but perhaps others would have been better the other way. No shock on w W E approaching Brett trying to undercut something the fans want, plowing forward with their nonsensical box of gimmicks, b S booking, Bruce Vinska,

bro Listen, guys, let's get in the real world. If a W is doing an Owen Hart tournament and they are constantly teasing at heart, and you find out that Brett Hart is not signed with a W, what do you think they're gonna do. Like obviously Bret Hart would be of great value to a w and this tournament and the promotion managing FTR. They don't want that to happen. So they threw the guy a lot of money. Of the guy, and he's signed with them, and now he's making a lot of money, so all the best of

him as well. This is business. Is what happens in a company that he is always identified with, and he has always wanted to identify himself with. You know, it just I I don't know I the timing of whatever. I just people. I I guess he's just a pawn. This particular move is just a pawn in the in the game of people that we'll just continue to battle this back and forth. I just look at this as separate entities with Owen Hart and what they're doing. I'm

just looking at it in that direction. I'm not trying to add in every other Heart member to this, even Brett. It doesn't at the end of the day, it doesn't matter he's in the match with ft ARE for Big Time Wrestling or wherever it is. They will probably do the same somewhere in the South. I wouldn't be fall over shocked about that. If they do that, that's good enough. Isn't that enough? I mean, really, does Brett really have

to be there on a w TV every week? Why it doesn't matter At the end of the day, none of this matters. I got a pull here who is better Brett Harder Shawn Michaels here on the twitch feed and it's currently Bret Hart and five percent Shawn Michaels, which is actually a lot farther part than I would have thought, but even better. In the chat, people are angry at the people who had the temerity to vote for Is this what this world has come to? So

you've been missing all of this. I tried to tell listen, hey, if you think that Brett Hart was better than Shawn Michael's like, that's fine, But what happened in this world where all of a sudden it is an insult to believe that Shaun Michaels was a better worker than Bret Hart. Dude, back in the nine these there were a lot of people that they thought that Sean Michaels was a better worker than Bret Hart. This is not like saying who's the better worker, Brett Hart or a great Collie and

then you're like, who voted for Collie? That I can understand Bret Heart and Shawn Michael's here, you'd always get egghead Japanese guy in there too, where it's like, well you're both wrong, it's Mussa or somebody like that, where it was just like, it's not muddying the whole thing. Oh, now now the Shawn Michael's votes are all coming in. Are you gonna blame me for skewing the poll? Now? That fr things It's like Michaels FTR thing is like when a child doesn't want to play with their toy

until they see some other child playing with their toy. Well, like I said, I'll give you a great example a lot of Okay, I realized he didn't do a great interview the other day. But if you guys ever saw Juice Robinson when he was in an XT and he was named after Pamela Anderson's character on bay Watch. I don't even know why. And then then he went to to New Japan and it was like a total transformation. I mean, way more charismatic, way better worker, way better matches.

Everything about him was multiples better when he went to New Japan. If they would have saw him and went, guy, we want this guy back. Is great, that's one thing, But there was no gimmick change. There was literally they're doing exactly what you didn't want them to do when you had them. Now you want them back. I mean, bro, if I read in the place, I'd wanted back too. But I'm just baffled, Like, what did it do when you get him? Do you remember when they wanted the

Young Bucks? Remember that that's totally different. They didn't have the Young Bucks before. They said about the same teams doing the same thing, with the same look and the same gimmick. They did nothing with them nels and they want to do something with them. Well, why did you do someone in the first place, same philosophy, the same reason you would never sign those guys. You didn't want anything to do with him. You can't teach him anything. There, this, that,

and the third. But oh now we want you. Look, you know what this is. It's business, it's pettiness, it's trying to get one over. It's just basically trying to hurt the other guy. And I don't think FTR is down with them back. In the moment of is ever live come game come come by name. Freaking people may range and I think it's me that can give my gosh, it's nothing that I won't track, but I'm imagine you were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and

Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. M Back in the show, Brian Elba is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mikes and Berviv also Wrestling Observer dot com. I'd like to give us a call here today. The phone lines are open eight four four nine one three twenty seven twenty seven, eight four four nine one three twenty seven twenty seven, and in fact, the phone lines here we go. Tony are on the air. What's happening, Brian, Mike? What's

going on? Guys? So Hey, So, before I get to my main point, I want to give a w some credit. With Stottenham Singh, they at least used his real name when they listed his accomplishments. They didn't give him a sake name and say he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks like they did with what's his name, Damon kemp Gable stepson's brother. That's good. The others thing is uh, Seriously, when it comes to n x T two point. Now,

I personally, this is my personal opinion, Brian. I know you have your opinion on it, but I don't think it should be on television anymore. I think that they should really just move it back to the network because you really can't get any emotional investment in characters that are just gonna get new gimmicks and get new name changes constantly. There's no real point in washing it if it's just gonna be like O E W when it was on some local Kentucky station UH in the mid

two thousands. I just don't think there's any value of being on television when it could just go back to the network. And I just want to get your thoughts on that. Well, Bro, there's a big problem with your theory, brother, And that is the reason it's on the USA network is because they're making thirty to forty million dollars a year for it, and on Peacock they already got their money. It doesn't matter what they do. When when they're going to promote a pay per view and they do all

their angles and everything, you're like, I don't care. I mean they don't care either. It doesn't matter if if you and a hunter of your buddies sign up for Peacock w w EC is none of that. They got paid up front. So if they take it off television and they put it on Peacock, they're just out thirty to forty million dollars a year. They get no extra money for people watching it on the network. So I mean, by the end of the day, this is all about money. That's it. It's all about we need to make the

most money. Are we gonna make more money with raw at two hours or three hours? The question is not is raw gonna be better at two hours or three hours? Raw will be better at two hours, but they make more money at three hours. So we suffered through three hour ras. We got a developmental show, which, by the way, when you mentioned O v W back on those Kentucky stations, those developmental shows were multiples better than these n x

T shows. These people are so green, the booking is whatever, but they're making thirty to forty million dollars a year, and so that's differences. You know, he wasn't Leviathan when he came up to the main roster. Now he was a deacon when he came up to the main roster first, but we'll forget about that. He became Batista, you know

what I mean, And there was where in theory. What they're doing now is really what they want to do with the main roster because they want braun Breaker to be braun Breaker, And I know they change where kel Gonzalez name they are they are. They're going through a little phase there, but for the most part, that's exactly what they want on n x T. That's what they want these people to be when they come to the main roster, and some cases they're not gonna last as

long as others. You know, again, we're going into May here, and I cannot believe we're not going to have some series of cuts, including some people that may have been featured in the last couple of months on n x T that you know, we're only gonna give you X amount of time and you're gonna be gone, you know. I uh, I think I've mentioned this before, but you know, the ideal length of Arresting Show is is probably about

ninety minutes. It is about the perfect length. And if you guys watch Raw on Monday night and you skip through every video package and uh not even every entrance. But if you skip through every replay, video package and commercial, you literally can watch an hour of Raw in thirty

minutes and the show ends up being ninety minutes. So that's something you can and it's actually it's uncanny that, like every every single hour on Raw, as long as I've been tracking this, there is exactly thirty minutes of viable content in each hour of the show. If you it's like, I don't even know how they do it. It's timed quite frankly, it's time perfectly where you're gonna get thirty minutes and the other thirty minutes is gonna be filler and commercials on every single hour of every

single Raw, in every single SmackDown. I think n x T, TWOUP n x T has that overrun. So it's a little bit more. And uh, you know who did the best version of Raw besides obviously w w E when they were at their peak Memphis Memphis ninety minutes show, which would feature wacky things and longer interviews and interactions would beating, you know, between people at the desk. And obviously you scale this for what you know things have become, but like that is the ultimate in a ninety minute

perfectly timed wrestling show. I mean as far as getting your fill of a little bit everything. So I wonder if we have anybody else calling in, go to the phones on the air. What's going on? He going once, Yes, what's up? Hey? How's it going? Good? It's going than sure, it's not going right now? What's going on? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?

No really, fact, I would just like to talk about how how great they only put the cap on the story of um the black the Blackpool Combat Club, I believe after acquiring after Tony acquired ro O h and you sign a guy like Samore Joe to come and

back you up. Booking a match like him versus Monoral Suzuki was a great decision, not only for a w but for even the thought of UM ringa barn are doing more shows like the ones that they're planning in Chicago in June, And honestly, if you think about the tag team division and where it is right now, you would think the best thing to do would would be to put the Blackpool Combat Club uh. And it's uh newly invigorated for him through weirder utah and how he's

been is tremendous honestly appreciate Uh. Um. Actually I feel honored to watch that match with him in John Motley because that was just beautiful the way that ended. It didn't have to end that way. He didn't have to tap out, but it happened. Um. And honestly, I believe that you put them up against the Young Bucks soon.

I believe we could finally move on from seeing UH matches over and over and over again, because I'm think in the back of my mind that's what I'm afraid of seeing out of a w moving forward, seeing the same things. And you know, now we're thinking about who's getting pushed for what, who's on their way out the

door and everything like that. And if you think about who's deserving of a championship opportunity at tag team championship opportunity, UM, I believe the Blackpool Combat Club would definitely be a front runner. UH next the names like the Young Bucks again and who else would you rather see? Well, let me say this, let me say this. I want to I want to thank you very much for the call. So listen, the other day we were doing Observer radio and uh, you know, Dave was saying, you know, he's

a big fan of the Blackpool Combat Club. Their matches have been great, and we need to get the belts on those guys as soon as possible. And uh and when he said that, I I I also thought no, And here's the deal. Listen, you should get belts on them as soon as possible, but it should be the

six man titles, which we don't have yet. But we need a s A P. Because the fact of the matter is, you know who's a hot tag team right now is f TR and they got FTR, and they got Red Dragon, and they got um FTR, Red Dragon

and Durastic Express obviously the champions. And I got all these ideas in my mind leading to the pay per view of a three way feud, all three belts, Triple Crown, and I don't even know if they're gonna do any of this, but when I think of all of these things that they could do with those three teams and all of these random sets of belts that they have,

they don't need multiple tag team champions. Unify those titles at least for the time being, and then Blackpool Combat Club it's one of like fifty six man teams that they've got, so do the Triple Crown of the tag team titles. If you need to give the Triple A belts back or whatever, you can, but I mean Ring of Honor. If they're gonna tour, they need to sell tickets. So oh, I don't see any reason why FTR can't

be regulars on Dynamite. And also new matches in a Ring of Honor is the Double Crown Champions or Triple Crown or whatever. And then your other set of belts is the six man titles. We have so many six man teams. Blackpool Combat Club first ever six man take team Champions great solves that problem. So that's what I would do, but ain't my company, and I disagree with a little bit of a caller and that we we're

scared to see too many repeats. I think that's been one of the problems I've had with FTR is one, I haven't seen them wrestle and tag team matches enough on you know, the main shows. And two we didn't get a whole lot of young bucks in FDR. We didn't get a whole lot of FDR and anybody. Because they have so many people, things get spread around a little bit and sometimes you forget about things. I mean, honestly, the whole field. The feud with Serena Deep and her

car rush has been good. But I forgot they were actually feuding when they did the video package because they have so much other stuff going on, So I don't think that's really as much of a concern of seeing the same things over and over again. First, here wants to know if I'm going to the Forbidden Door show with Dave if so I can treat you to some real Chicago food. Well, first off, I don't know if I'm going. I might. It actually sounds like a lot of fun. But I had real Chicago food last time.

Where did you go? I went to a lot of different places, went to Domino's, Burger King, different places. They're shameful, horrible person, horrible. Let's see, I have no idea what this person wrote. Sometimes like to go to the phones because these text messages just like gobbledegook. It's like they you know, I hate about phones. What's that? God, It's been a long time since I've gone off on something I and it's weird. It's weird because I just hate phones.

So you know, I got the phone tape on it write a text message that stupid key and uh and this stupid, absolutely stupid auto correct. Okay, but you know it's worse than auto correct when it doesn't auto correct. I hate them. I hate them both. Never in my life if I ever wanted to use the word ducking, what am I gonna write? Some guys shooting at me? I'm ducking? Why would I ever use the word ducking ever in my lifetime? And no matter how many times

I fix it, it doesn't save what I fixed. And then I turn off auto correct, and then oh it's a real mess because then it doesn't correct any of my mistakes. God, I hate these phones. Oh man, I think if you, if you put those words as a contact, it will make it much easier and it won't auto court. That's in a bunch of my context. That doesn't work. All right, Let's go to Fayette Vili're on the air. What's going on? Well? I am not hope hope here? Do you know yesterday was National to Get off my

Grass Day? Because it was Hey, I feel assuming you I understand the frustration of autocorrect and that kind of thing. Also, when you have big fat fingers, you cannot use one of those keys. But I have skinny, womenly, womanly fingers, dainty. I'm like a skeleton with skin. But are you nimble like everybody else? I guess can you do needle point

and things like that you have? I don't try needle point, but the fact is I have perfect fingers for using that keyboard on the phone and it still doesn't work. Go ahead, John, you're pain. I totally fail your pain. I was gonna say, I love this upcoming Forbidden Door thing, and I think it's gonna be good for all parties with things opening up again. And I'm with Mike on the FTR thing. I think there's probably a chance that they will entertain the idea of venturing over to New Japan,

and I'm all for that. I am all for seeing more of them, And I'm with you on the Blackpool Combat Club thing. They don't need to be the tag team champions. Six man is fine. We need to get that thing going, like you said, because we've got multiple endless arrays of trios and multi man factions that can make this thing work, and it would be an exciting way to to boost up different things within the shows of Dynamite and Rampage. All right, Well, thank you, so

much for the call. We gotta have to break everybody Observer alive. Mm hmm. You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike Semperbebe on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. You know, I do remember that. Um about a week ago, my wife and daughter went to the zoo, and of course I was here working and not spending time with my family and they went to the zoo and I'm trying to call him and they were over by the waterfowl. Anyway, it was so loud.

I finally just hung up and I just texted, would you shut that duck up? Solve that problem? So, hey, we got more? Do we have to na? It's its what a week everybody. I hear the gym Valleys in Vegas. So tomorrow Wrestling Observer Live with Jim Valley, Teddy and Pacific one Eastern is gonna be a great show. I don't know what he's gonna talk about, because he certainly had nothing to talk about today. Even Dave's hoping for big news for once. We got a contract signing tonight,

so we do that contract braining. So make sure you check that out because that's gonna be really exciting. They're gonna go to sign a paper and then a fight's gonna break out, and Ron is gonna look like she doesn't want to be there, is gonna talk, Charlotte's gonna take a bad bump, and we can talk about all of this this weekend on Wrestling Observer Radio and Wrestling

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