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there some great wrestling on that show. If you're a fan of wrestling and violence, I got the show for you. We'll talk about that here today. Full review of Dynamite more tonight on the Brian viny Show only for subscribers Wrestling Observer dot Com, Video dot for w online dot Com.

Sometimes I review the shows here on this show or elsewhere. Oh, I can't believe they didn't talk about I got a limited amount of time a national radio But tonight on the podcast, we do not have limited time, so much more detail obviously on the Brian and Vinney show, but I will go over all of the main stories on the program here today. We've also got to the n x T ratings from this past Tuesday night. N x T did not do as well as RAW did. Raw had a huge number for their go home show. N

x T did what it normally does. I'll tell you about that. And also we have the full lineup for the Stand and Liver Show, the full lineup for Night one and Night two of WrestleMania, and obviously there's a big SmackDown tomorrow night with DeAndre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal and this poor geek Ricochet. We'll be facing Umberto and Angel in a match he asked for a three way facing an established tag team that's coming up tomorrow.

We've allays gotten notes on Nick con You talked a lot about w w E, and of course it's uh, you know, it's Nick kNN talking about w w we's we can tell you about that. I got a new U w w E scripted series that's coming out and uh, what an irony, What an irony. We'll tell you about that later on and so much more. MIXIV joins us after the break back in the moment, Everybody Observer Live back in the show. Brian Albert is here Wrestling Observer

Alive MIXIMBURMV, also of Wrestling observer dot com. So we had some some bloke he's actually I don't know. I started to tell with these these twitch geeks whether they're they're trolls or or geeks. You know what I'm saying, Well, whether they're being ignorant to be ignorant, or whether they're ignorant. Well, some people just say such stupid things that it's like they can't possibly be serious. But then there's such a consistency to their stupidity that then you start thinking, is

he actually this dumb? So anyway, one of these guys goes, aren't there eighty thousand tickets out both nights for WrestleMania? Eighty thousand? Ruh, here's the numbers for WrestleMania right now, Night one, Night one? And by the way, do I need to throw out in my original prediction for WrestleMania was fifty five thousand both nights. Do I need to remind everybody of that? Yes? Okay, well Night one, Night one is it fifty eight thousand, one d and fourteen?

And uh night to is that fifty seven thousand? So you're wrong? No, I'm actually dead on because you don't get in. Everybody was talking about how this I shouldn't say everybody, but people were very confident that this we could do eighty thousand both nights. And I said, brother, it ain't gonna do eighty thousand both nights because I ain't the only one who's not flying down there, because

I'm not doing two nights in a row. And here we are fifty eight thousand for night one and uh, fifty seven thousand for night to Now, as I said at the beginning, yes, if you're running a business, then should we use some math here? I'll have to use a calculator because I'm not very good at it. Fifty eight thousand plus fifty seven thousand, Uh, They're they've sold a hundred fifteen thousand tickets. So in fact, uh, this is the most tickets ever sold ever for wrestle media.

So yeah, if you want to look at it from that perspective, that's great. But what they have also done is it is true unless you are one of those people that you can't passly believe that there's fifty eight or whatever thousand the first night and a completely different fifty seven thousand one night too. And nobody is going

to bull shows. I think we all know deep down that what has actually happened here is as opposed to having eighty to eighty five thousand people flying in for wrestle media, now we've got fifty five thousand people flying in for wrestle media. So you've actually you actually what you've done here is in terms of like people that are interested in going and traveling traveling to Mania, there's

actually less here than there's been in forever. But you have successfully sold more tickets than you've ever sold because the fewer number of people that want to go are buying tickets for two nights. That's what's happened here. So from a business perspective, you can look at this however you want. Obviously, the way w w E is looking at it is the short term. We sold hundred fifteen thousand tickets way to go, We've broken all of our records. We can tout it on social media. It's the most

attended to wrestle media. However, they're gonna put it or whatever, and of course you know they'll they'll inflate that to thirty thousand tickets sold. But the fact of the matter is this is the short term thinking. The long term thinking would be, we really want to move from eighty thousand people willing to travel to now whatever. That's where we're at. You're you're right, but you're right and you're wrong.

I think there's actually I'm right and I'm right. Whichever one you think is the way to look at it is is you're right or wrong, but they're both. They're both true. There's less people going, but they made more money and sold more tickets. But they've been looking at this. But you say it's short term. They have been looking at this for a long time, and they did jump

ahead of everybody by going to two nights. And you can debate that as a fan and as a viewer, whether it is a good production, whether it gives you your time's worth, all that sort of stuff. But the flip side of that is it's a lot easier to contract it to this point than it is to expand, and we'll find out with Los Angeles next year being

a really good example of that. With having the Rock there, you only need to have it, Okay, if that happens the Rock and Roman range, you only really need to have one night, and to me, you would want to maximize that. But they probably won't. They're going to go with multiple nights because this is what their plan has been, and it is not that it is not solely WW that's done this. We brought it up many times. This

is the way a lot of these events have. This is the way that they've gone, and they want to dominate every night. So you're right, it has shrunk, but the fact is that number was probably going to shrink and contract a little bit anyway. So now you have given the people, if you look at this from a marketing point of view, the ability to show up any night and see Rustlemani and the ability to show up any day and see multiple WWE things happening. So it's

a catch. It's again, I see how they want to extract as much money as possible out of the most amount of people, and that's what they're doing right now. And it's a lot easier for them to shrink this back to one night if they want to, as opposed

to running to you know, two nights. Look, they could lose their minds and go three nights at some point if they think it's going to make business and financial sense, and god knows, maybe they will, because they still have about sixty thousand people that have flooded that area for Rustlemania, and that's what they're there for. So I don't know. Well, all I know is they they got fifties seven and fifty eight, and uh, next year, I mean, I don't

think they're gonna have Stone Cold Steve Austin. I still don't think they're gonna have the Rock. So what are we gonna have next year? Johnny Knoxville comes back? What else? I mean? Look at these cards and what do they do to get these? Uh? Fifty seven and fifty eight? I got Becky and Bianca, so I'm sure next year they're big match is gonna be Becky and Rhonda. They're

hoping that's gonna be a big one. We've got brock Lessner and Roman Reigns, and obviously next year they want Roman Reigns and the Rock, which I don't think it's gonna happen, but they think it's gonna happen. So, uh, you know, what else do we got next year? We got Omas, the giant Omas, the undefeated Omas against somebody Omas and brock Lessner. Is that gonna be their big match next year? Uh? Edges already come back? You know, we've got Pet McAfee. Maybe you can come out of

the booth again. Yeah, we got we got Cody, who they're not even announcing, and that's on Night one. But anyway, here are the lineups Night one, Becky and Bianca, Ray and Dominic versus MS and Logan, Paul Drew McIntyre and Happy Corbin, Ussos versus Knackamar and Boogs, New Day versus Shamus and Ridge Holland, Seth Rollins versus Cody and Charlotte Flair versus Rhonda Rousey and apparently, as always, as always, the left hand does not know what the right hand

is doing. Kevin Owens and run A Rousey both believe they are the main event of WrestleMania. So we'll see what happens on Saturday Night Sunday. We got to multiple main events, don't they? I heard this story with Ronda

being told she was in the main event. I mean, don't they Don't they look at their shows as having like three main events on each Well, you know, I think if they if if they consider Ronda Rousey like the kiss Demon, They're signed a contract that you always be in the main event, so they put him on second and said they called it a main event even though it's on second on the card. Yeah, you could do that if you wanted to. But I'm pretty sure that Kevin Owens and Ronda Rousey both believe that they

are going on last. Well, I think you tell Ronda Rousey anything and then she can get angry about it later on down the line. But yeah, closing the show, if it's not Steve Auston in Texas, I mean, it's well dumb. We have got Lena Carmela versus Sasha, Naomi versus Rhea and Live versus Natty and Shana this night too, Johnny Knoxville versus Sammy's an then goes Pat mcvieouson theory. By the way, no Vince, So unless they do something on Friday, which they could do because Pat McAfee is

of course the commentator there. I mean, I guess we'll see what happens, but he was always supposed to be there, so we shall see. R. K. Bro Street prophets alph Academy Triple Threat for the tag titles, Edge and A J. Bobby Lashley and Omas and Lessner and Roman Reigns for the universal title. So that is the that's the lineup. I hope Shane McMahon's music hits first when seth goes out there, I really do. I hope he comes dancing

out there. Then everybody loses their mind, and then Cody comes out and then hits them with a sledgehammer or

whatever it is Cody's gonna do. They also have the n x T Show pre show Toxic Attraction versus Raquel and Dakota Carmelo, Santo Sesco, bar Solo, Sakoa Grays and Waller Cameron Grimes for the North American title and the ladder match Tomasa Chump and Tony D'Angelo and Chomp his last match, Mandy Rose, Cora, jade Eo, Shirai, Kaylee Ray four Way for the Women's title, Imperium versus Creeds versus M S K for the tag titles, l A. Knight versus Gunter, and Delve Ziggler versus bron Breaker. That next

t at nine am Pacific, How fun. Everybody back in a moment. It is ther Live back in the show. Bran Elvarez here, Wrestling Observer Live, Mike umber viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com and x T. Tuesday six six thousand viewers down slightly from last week, still the best studience for the show since January eleven. There's a bill to stand in the liver. Point one were in eighteen

forty nine, which is about what it's been doing. That's that's good, by the way, for a next it's compared one down four point three and overall viewers down to thirty three at eighteen to forty nine. I think we're comparing a year to year where they were going head to head with Dynamite. They're doing worse. Remember when they got rid of Hunter, Remember that, and they got rid of that guy, and they rebranded it and they made it all colorful, and they came up with a bunch

of stupid gimmicks and everything like that. Now it's doing much worse. That's weird. And it's not even had to ad anymore. Think about that. It's got a better theme though with wallet or now it's been young pay that much. That's true. During a podcast appearance, Nick Cohn was asked about an address complaints from wrestlers that have left the company,

citing negative experiences and preferential treatment. Speaking on The Town podcast, con said everyone is treated humanely because you know, I was I don't like to hear about places that treat people inhumanely, but that's what he said. These are These are exact quotes. Everyone is treated humanely, and he adds they deserve to be treated that way. We don't stick

him in the bell tower anymore. I'm sure someone's gonna get really mad at me for this, but I'm actually reading these are the words that Nick Con said, So like, I don't know why you would get mad at me, but let me read that again. Nick CON's responses to wrestlers who say that the soiling green is people said, he said, this is a direct quote. Everyone is treated

humanely and deserves to be treated that way. Oh no, God, And you know, I I hope they actually turned that back and they they really start wrestling tear eating wrestlers inhumanely. So Sarah McLaughlin can have a song and we can have a slow montage of sad w W E faces like Ricochet getting beat up in a hundred and five seconds, and just a whole line of those things. Just well,

may I continue. Sure. He compared their situation to win the NBA's l A Lakers at Superstars Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neil at the same time, noting that they weren't treated the same as some of their other teammates. Was Scheck treated better than any other player other than Kobe? Said Nick con Yeah, that's the way it is. He then brought up Will Smith was not removed from the Oscars following his slap of Chris Rock partially because he

was a star. Well, that's a very complicated story, because according to the Academy, they asked him to leave and he refused, so they didn't make him. Then. Of course, there are others that say they actually never asked him to leave officially. You unofficially asked him to leave. Listen in an unofficial capacity. Could you leave after slapping that guy? No? Al right, well, anyway, we got a Best Actor award for you, so stick around. Anyway. He co produced the

show too, it said. Uh, he says, here was Shock treated. Oh yeah, I heard that. It's the same with us. It is a meritocracy. If you're at the top of the card, maybe you have a bigger dressing room than someone at the bottom of the card. Everyone has the same opportunity to earn their way there, he said. He also said the company is open for business when asked him about a potential sale. It's not like I've been saying that for like a year and everybody thought I

was an idiot. Open for business, everybody's been saying it. Come on, he says. There a treasure trove of I p go there, he said. The Vince McMahon Netflix docuseries is set to debut in three w w E is for the masses, he said, and the company can never lose sight of that, he said. He said this publicly. The average viewer is someone that grew up in the eighties or nineties and went to public school because of the availability or lack thereof, of cable in many times.

What what does that mean? Con talked about how he came to w w E. This is way a nice way to say demographic is they're old and broke, which used to be the whole stereotype of wrestling fans as they were well broke. He's not necessarily saying they're broke today. They were broke then. Didn't we all grew up broke? Nick Con? You know, poorer than he was. He was poorer than dirt, which is very poor, although dirt is rich in nutrients now that I think about it. But anyway,

that's a story here. I'm sure this is I'm sure he's a great guy. I actually have nothing against Nick con But you know what this is, this company is being permeated with people that know nothing about a wrestling That's what we've got here. And and maybe, you know, maybe we're gonna find out. Let's be honest here, maybe we're gonna find out because historically this has certainly been the case, then you don't need to know anything about

wrestling to run a wrestling company. We might find that out. Maybe times have changed because it's always worked out really really well. Yes, um, one thing he's he's he said that was absolutely right. That I don't know if anybody wants to flex about, and I'm sure somebody's in their feelings about it. Is the whole thing of the meritocracy and all that's all true, that's all fine, that's all fair.

And to have a bunch of stars, you know, you want to pack your team with stars at the expense of maybe you know, the other role players on the team don't get the shine. You know that that's all fair. That the whole thing is the opportunity to succeed because in sports, if somebody started out shoot Kobe and somebody

started to run up and down the floor. Look, the Showtime Lakers are a good example of this, and the whole deal on HBO right now, the Winning Time uh documentary, that's a documentary, whatever the hell you want to call it, the movie that the miniseries that's taking place where Norm Nixon was an all star guard for the Lakers. But then Magic got there and then it wasn't really long after that the Norm Nixon was gone. But they put

him in the same backcourt. They wanted him to see who's going to be that guy who's going to be there with Kareem you know, who would be shock in that equation, and they let them. They really did give them an opportunity to go out there and win the job. And that's would w W E doesn't do. And that's where all that bs that he talks about, all that business stuff is business makes perfect sense even to a

wrestling fan if it doesn't tickle your wrestling sense. A lot of what nik Con does and as far as if you're looking at this from a w W point of view, a lot of what Nikkan says makes a lot of sense. Hey, do you know is pissing on you and and thinking that it's raining because the people on the outside don't see why that's all bs and what he said and look at the show from an an an ignorant point of view, a fair you know, just an ignorant and not knowing point of view, and

and believe what he's saying. And that's the thing that we all know is is a croc a crap. And the thing that really hurts them, do you know that they they let Tony Storm go Wohn Moxley, Yeah, keep going, let me go on. But you know what, I could not help but notice, but well, yesterday we read an article where the one guy whose name I've forgotten, God,

that dude. Sure he's a nice guy as well about how you know, we don't needed wrestlers, we need we need to get these young athletes straight out of college on our ni L deals because you know, this business is easy. We can teach it to anybody. You said to be able to do a flip, We can teach you how to be a great worker. So anyway, I can't help, but knows I read that article yesterday and then I read this article. Today, w w E is producing a new scripted series based on a fictional pro

wrestling promotion for NBCUniversal. It was announced today w w A Universal Content Productions have partnered together for a drama series called Penned. Here is the description of the show and adrenalized. I'm gonna trying to read this because this is a lot of words. And adrenalized upstairs downstairs soap that gives a behind the scenes look at fictional wrestling promotion. Come out, I gotta mute you. I can't do this twice.

And adrenalized Upstairs downstairs soap that gives a behind the scenes look and a fictional wrestling promotion and the unforgettable characters that populated Pinned offers a front row seat into the eccentric wrestling culture and the mayhem that exists between the locker room and the boardroom. God, that was excruciating. Go ahead. Upstairs Downstairs was a show from the seventies, the seventies that was played on PBS. Well, they didn't

capitalize upstairs downstairs, so that's a term. Mike, Okay, I thought they look with with the way that they to this day referenced things from the eighties to their fans, as if their fans most of them have any idea of what the hell they're talking about is something. So I thought that was right in line with with some of their thinking. But I mean, are you surprised talk about controlling your narrative? Actually, yeah, very surprised at speak

series about pro wrestling. Dude, right up their alley. This is where they're at in this day and age. And you know what they'll be able to say, Brian too, when everybody comes to the production and they roll this show out and everything and heaven forbid, god knows if it's successful and last more than one season with like, you know, three episodes before it gets canceled. The crazy part about this is the fact that they will now take this and look and go, this is what wrestling.

This is the fake wrestling. This is what we do for real, where all these other people in independent wrestling, the way that people actually come up and become professional wrestlers. They are going to further teach the public that know, all you need to do is go to college, be somewhat of an athlete, will give you an n I L deal and then that's how you get into wrestling, such a great bastardization and another controlling how to break

Observer Live back in the show. Ran Elbare is here Wrestling Observer Alive mix and Ervini also of Wrestling Observer

dot Com. I know I was killing you of that last segment there, but the bottom line, you know, when w W used to say they took everything out of the smoke filled buildings and all that stuff, and it was all b s. What they're gonna do with this show, even if it's mildly successful, much like Tough Enough, where they just this is just another marketing campaign and how they positioned themselves and continue to look at things and wrestling fans are going to hate it. But I'm not

surprised about it at all, not not at all. And the more, I don't know why you're so surprised about this, really Vince's own look, he is again anything that he used to do, all that stuff gone now? Am I surprised? Because you know, I got a great idea for a scripted program involving professional wrestling. It's actually two programs. It's called Ron SmackDown. Oh stop. I know does talk about how we ain't pro wrestling, we don't do pro wrestling.

We don't want pro wrestlers. We don't want Now he's gonna do a show about pro wrestling, Well, I got a pro wrestling show for you. He's doing a parody of pro wrestling now, and that's not gonna stop. Like you wanting him to make raw and SmackDown and make it. Those shows are what they are, and this is the vision that they've had for them, and this is the way it's continued to go. Whether everybody else's kicking or screaming, or whether we talk about it every day on the

show or not, that's what they're going to do. So it doesn't surprise me with some of the other moves that they've made outside of the wrestling, outside what they should be looking at it was the in ring product and those shows solely. And I see what they've done and some of the other ventures they've gotten into and how they play a wrestling and how they play their product in other places, and I'm not surprised about this at all. Why why should you be? I really don't

don't explain it one more time. I'm to talk about Dynamite because the guy has done everything in his power to distance himself from pro wrestling. The literally, the only thing he has not done is take the word wrestle out of WrestleMania, and now he's gonna do a scripted program about wrestling. Yes, very ironic. Why would he not horror this if? Why are you yelling at me? You asked me why I thought it was weird? I told you because it's like if he's pimped out the product

for everything else. You said, he's trying to distance himself and he's used it to wave it around. Why are you surprising to do a cop show or something? Do a show about I don't know, building, building whatever. We did that, But bro, if you want to do something about pro wrestling, and how about you do a pro wrestling show? They have to watch every week? Because I'm sick of dude this. You're acting like you gotta you gotta watch this new show or I'm not gonna watch

this new show. He kidding me, But I'll tell you what I did watch because I got to do this dynamite. What do they call it? A new show? Two point oh? Then all of a sudden you want to see it? How much caffeine did you have today? Brother? A lot? Did you go back to get another m R I and they shot you up with some fentinill or something. That's now can we do this diet? To my report, we can't dive to have on the Molly anymore. This

show was full of excellent wrestling matches. See him Punk and Max Cast very good match, although on this show it was kind of low on the very good match scale because there were so many other great matches, but they had a good match. They gave Max Cast a lot see him Punk sold got him with the antikon de Ice submitted him, and then Tony Schavan he gets in the ring for the w w E promo. What did that mean when you went like this last week?

Punk goes or not? Idiots? I want the championship and I don't know who's gonna be the champion, but whoever it is, I want a shot, and before my time here is over, I will be the champion. So he's next in line. We had a segment with m j F and FTR. They're clearly on their way to a breakup, but they didn't do this week nothing. Nothing is rushed in this promotion I've noticed, including the J Lethal heel term J Lethal John Moxley. Lethal is all upset that

he's been losing the big ones. They have a really, really good match. John Moxley ends up pinning him with the paradigm shift d D t J. Lethal is so disgusting himself that when John Moxley offers a handshake, he almost doesn't give it to him, but he does, and then he hangs his head and shame and walks out wait a Marina Schaffier video package. They're deviewing her here on the main roster. Soon FDR versus the gun Club match was that's pretty good. FTR is excellent gun club

and it can be carried to a good match. Billy tried to get involved. Um In the middle of the match, Wardlow showed up starts beating up security guys, runs through about two dozen security guys where they finally stop him from ding nam JFMGF is screaming at him. On commentary, there's a big kurf fluffle. FTR wins with a big rig. MGF comes to celebrate and FTR is furious at him. Dude, why do you have to do this to our friends? They like ward Low, they were buddies, so they're furious

and Finally cooler heads prevail. MGF raises their hands, but I don't know there's gonna be a big rig and mgf's future. Maybe they won't give us that one. But this, this crew is not long for the world. We had Jericho Appreciation Society. They were making fun of the fact that we're tease. Santana and Eddie Kingston were gone for good. And of course there they are behind the curtain and we have a gigantic brawl. And at first the three of them beat the hell out of the Jericho Appreciation Society.

But then finally old Jake Hager shows up. He runs rough shod, they grabbed the bat. They absolutely beat the hell out of these guys, and so once again Kingston, Santana Ortiz are left laying. We had Jake Cargil and Mark Sterling backstage. They asked who's gonna be number thirty. Mark Shirling says it's gonna be in the library, and Leva bates. Even Jake Cargill cannot stand for this. She says, get the hell out of here, who's number thirty really

gonna be? And Mark Sterling sheepishly responds Maria Schaffer, He's not confident but Jade's confident. She says, get her out here, so that's gonna be apparently number thirty Jade Cargill and Marina Schaffier. All right, Bryan Danielson and Wheeler Utah was the most glorious violence I've seen in quite some time. Call Lee Brian Danielson. I think he saw what Wheeler You was wearing for tights and he was like, this guy is gonna suffer. And boy, he beat the absolute

piss out of this poor guy. He pummeled him, he smashed him. Then Wheeler You makes a comeback and the place goes absolutely nuts for Wheeler You just come back. Danielson cuts him off again and he goes to stomp his head, and Wheeler spits the most disgusting Like even Brett Hart was envious of this lookie that got spit on Brian Danielson. It's just all down his face and Danielson, covered in drool, just stumps the hell out of this guy, puts him in the yes lock, pulls on his nostrils

and submits him. Collie, this guy deserves to be in the Blackpool Combat Club for this beating. The Instributed Championship celebration even they're not champions, they do their celebration out comes. Uh uh. First we had who came out first, Hangman and then he runs wild on all three guys, but then they overwhelmed him. Then we have uh, let's see Luke Stores in Christian Cage come out and they beat up the heels and at the end of the day,

the baby Faces get all of their belts back. So we're undoubtedly doing another Adam Cole versus Hangman page match, and Red Dragon. We'll be getting the shot against uh, Luca Source and Jungle Boy, which I suspect probably end up being a title change, but I guess we'll see. We got that thunder Rose interview everybody was waiting for last week. Remember, guys were all angry she didn't get a chance to talk. Happy now she says she's gonna be the foundation of this company. What I thought it

was underwhelming A little bit. I would say it was underwhelming, but I mean, everybody was so angry she didn't get a chance to talk, and then she just did a generic promo said she was gonna be the champion, and then said she was the first ever Mexican born champion, which of course is ridiculous, But I think this is like one of those w w E deals were like Charlotte has was undefeated on pay per view even though

she lost eighty five times on TV. Thunder Rose Up is the first woman in a major United States wrestling promotion who is a Mexican born woman who has won a women's title. Do you believe that it may be of a case of a w w E speak sort of thing and she just like kind of jumbled her words in this spose. I'm sure she jumbled her words in this book, but that's that's what that's what she is here. So for those who wondering, by the way, just to shoehorn this in here because I thought it

was kind of random. All Japan Women the classic uh women's promotion. Speaking of women's wrestling, i w TV has picked up the entire back catalog of that and they're going to be airing it. And so if you like women's wrestling, All Japan Women's what Dave talks about and goes on rants about on these shows that with Brian, you'll get a chance to see some of that stuff. Now, we had the debut of Tony Storm in a Owen Hart Foundation tournament qualifier, and this place absolutely lost it

for Tony Storm. And then they did not care one bit about her match with the Bunny because I think they've seen a lot of great matches and they had zero. They had there wasn't one person if the Bun his family were there. They didn't think she was gonna win. So they just watched them do their match and then cheered when she won. And she cried because she couldn't believe what a reaction she got after they didn't do anything with her in w W E a broken record.

You said it right with Dave last night. They were just waiting for her to win. It really wasn't a referendum on the match. They just a pop for Tony Storm. They wanted to pop for her again in victory. Then we had on rudd A versus Darby Allen. This was this was in some ways perhaps more violent than that Brian Danielson Wheeler you to match Andreda is now legitimately about two violent at the buffet. This guy is enormous and Darby is uh, probably shoot my size eating like

he's got that kind of money, and he does. And they had a fight and andred A destroyed him, and Darby made these striking comebacks. They had a striking battle with all these slaps. I hate these slaps, but they did it. And then finally the end we had Jose tried to interfere. No respect this Jose gets, by the way, not that he deserves a lot necessarily, but you don't

get none. They had the graphic for this match and it says Darby allen with Sting Versus androwd A with Jose, and they announced coming up next Darby Versus Andradi and the answers go and Sting is gonna be there. What about Jose, He's gonna be there. I don't care about Jose anyway. Jose, Is that what they're saying. Jose tried to interfere. Sting beat him up. Then Butcher and Blade

act text Sting. Darby laid them out with the dive, but of course in getting back into the ring he was killed d D T and pinned by andrad A. And then we have the big smash maas with the androwd A, which, by the way, here in that front page report it says, a H. There's no H in this a FO anymore. It's AFO now Part he's gone.

They beat up Darby and Sting. Private party starts to run down the ramp and everyone initially cheers because they're like, oh, they're coming to Oh wait a second, they're bad guys, and so they joined in the fight and then they hit the Hardys music and then the place goes nuts again. Jeff Hardy and Matt come down. Twist of fate sent on. They just killed poor Mark Quinn with the sent on He's dead and the show went up there with happy ending. I like this show a lot. I had so much

fun watching this show. Am I the only one? No, it was a good show. It was a really good show in the fact that when you have long, good matches like that, and they weren't like checked in clear, so I gotta make sure they weren't obscenely long or anything like that. But it makes the other stuff that you do on the show stand out more, the other segments stand out more, and you know, it was just a really it was just a really really solid show. And how can you go wrong? I mean, John Moxley

and j Lethal. I don't know if Lethal's going heel. I guess it depends on what they decided to do. With Ring of Honor because him saying, man, I gotta get my mojo back, you know where you know, and then he goes again. That could play into some of this stuff too. But see Him Punk probably a good idea every single week, Darby Allen, see Him Punk, Brian Danielson, find a way to start the show with those guys, because it really does make a difference in my opinion

as far as the energy of the show goes. Somebody's asking about Jeff sent on listen. I don't know anything about what's going on with Jeff Hardy and everything like that, but he's been doing this forever, and uh, he's probably got some some injuries. And if you guys recall Randy Savage, you see that flying elbow and he wouldn't touch you until he started hurting really bad, and then he landed on you with all of his might because he didn't

want to land on the mat. So you know, you do a cent on bomb, you're young, and uh hits the mat, you get old, you hits the guy back in a moment as were alive. Well, according to Mike, I was right. Yeah, so, uh, two weeks ago when he killed Isaiah Cassidy, I think it was with a swanton. I made a tweet and and said that Jeff Hardy kind of hit swanton bombs like a forty pound bag of fertilizer falling off the top shelf at home depot, and seriously watched some of his in slow motion, and

you don't know exactly what I'm talking about. And people responded that he was on the edging Christian pod of awesomeness and said he used to have a nice soft swanton. But sometime in two thousand and eighteen or so, after hurting his shoulder, Jeff said, quote, I had to start thinking about me. And now he kills people with him. He calls it a cruton bomb. I guess because of

the way he makes people crumble with it. And I guess one of the lines he had was I'm going to protect myself and you basically you'll survive, just maybe with broken ribs and a stern um holy smokes. Well there you go. Just as I thought as a man, I used to do the cent on bomb all the time. Shoe that tailbone is, I guess, uh bad shape? Well

I was. I was a gymnast, and so actually the way I did it was a giant dive roll, so I would go up high in the air and then I would I would basically roll out so that my head hit the but so they didn't feel a thing and I didn't feel a thing any either, because I rolled by the way he did it was you go up and you just bash your whole body on the ground. No good? Oh man? Have you were you ever able

to get in the rain? Did you ever do the deal where like Berto does where he kind of like slides through the first and second rope and does the headstand and never touches the ropes? Can you do that? Slide in through it? Do stand? I'll send you the video. I didn't do anything complicated. You kidding me. We're at a time get those wrestling WrestleMania cameos in everybody. Now's your chance. I know you've got buddies at your WrestleMania party. Oh they pop if they got a cameo for me.

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