Vince On Smackdown

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If I really would have planned this out better, I would have had like Jazzy Jeff and Rob Basse and some other things pulled for bumper music can tell how old I am, But I didn't plan on talking about any of that today. I planned on talking about wrestling news, and there's a lot of it to get into today on the program. In case you have not heard uh in the midst of being investigated by his own board

of directors. Vince McMahon made his appearance on Friday Night's SmackDown, and we'll get into that whole spectacle and when we get back from break, but a little bit of sad news to start the show with. Right on the heels of long time referee and agent Dave Heppner's passing away last week, on Sunday, it was announced that former w w E referee and agent Tim White passed away at

the age of eighty six. White was with w w E from until two thousand and nine and referee some of the biggest matches in company history, including the infamous Mankind undertaker Helen a Cell, although his side jobs were almost just as famous as his refereeing. Before becoming a full time rep for the company, he worked as Andre the Giants agent and appears in many of the documentaries

about Andre. And He also owned a little bar called the Friendly Tap in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and anytime w w E was anywhere near Rhode Island, they would go into that bar and completely wrecked shop, especially if the A p A was around. Lots of news to get into, including Sunny's lawyer quitting ratings, a w new Japan, and a whole lot more. We'll be back Wrestlings ever Alive. You're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and

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will be back tomorrow. In fact, he'll be back today, I believe, with Filthy Tom Lawler, who's got a lot to talk about frankly right now. And if he's not back for that, he will certainly be for subscribers after Raw tonight with Dave Maltzer Wrestling Observer Radio. His Twitter is at Brian Alvarez and we'll just get right into it. We have legal news today. It's not Vince McMahon's. It is Tammy Sitch is for lawyer has asked the court

to withdraw him as legal representation. It was almost good English right there, according to p W Insider, as has written up here at the fw online dot com front page. Stephen de Laroche filed the motion on June six. He noted the following in his filing. One, an impass has been reached in the handling of the case, making it impossible for the client an attorney to continue to work cooperatively on the case. Sonny can't get along with anybody, uh.

Number two, the client has not complied with the terms of the employment agreement with this attorney. Not surprising there. And number three of the client will not be prejudiced if the undersigned is permitted to withdraw, So there you go. Tammy Sitch has been charged with one count of d u I manslaughter, one count of causing death while operating a vehicle with a suspended license, three counts of d u I causing property damage, and four counts of d

u I causing personal injury. The charges stemmed from an incident on March twenty five, when a vehicle driven by Sich crashed into the back of another vehicle that was stopped at a traffic light. The driver of the other vehicle, seventy five year old Julian Lasseter, died from injuries sustained in the collision. Sitch has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and hearing held on June one. She has been in

jail since having her bond revoked on May thirteenth. There are also civil filings already by the Lasseter family as well. So that is the latest in the update on Tammy Sitch's situation, which continues to grow darker by the day. No word at all about Vince McMahon's situation as we come on the air with you today. Vince under investigation from his own board of the directors appeared as advertised

on Friday Nights SmackDown Live on Fox. Came strutting out to his theme music as Mr McMahon gave a little, uh, a little gunshot over there to the uh, the lady announcer. I can't remember what the announcer's name is, but but she did his announcing, and he grabs the mic from her, and and there it is. We finally get to hear from Vince McMahon. What is Mr McMahon going to say?

And he just says, it's a privilege as always to stand before you here tonight the w w E universe, especially privilege to be standing here in US ring in Minnesota. Why that would be anything extra special because he killed Vern to really hotshot his company so many years back, I don't know. But he said, I'm simply here to remind you of the four words we just saw in what we call the w w E signature. Those four words then now forever, and the most important word is

together Welcome to SmackDown. And he throws the mic and with arms flapping, goes up the ramp and goes to the back. And that's that, And the bottom line is the show in Fast overnights, and we'll have more of of the details of this coming out today. It averaged

two point to seven two million viewers. The previous week's SmackDown ended up with a final average of one point nine four so a similar increase would put this show in the two point four to two point five million range when final numbers are released at some point today. The Fast Nationals showed something else that's very important to point out. Two point one eight six million in the first hour, two point three six two in the second hour.

Not only did they they stick around from the first hour to see what Vince had to say, but they also stuck around to watch Roman Reigns defend that World Heavyweight Championship against Matt Riddle. So this is going to be smackdowns best rating probably since May of last year. So that's certainly something. I mean, what did we learn nothing at all? You know, Mr mcmannon in Roman Reigns

or Big Universe Stars. We already knew that. I guess if you want to look at this from a a very short term and small perspective, in in Vince, I guess you could say, in some ways he kind of one. If you're especially a Vince supporter. Uh, you know, you have an investigation like this going on. The ww releases a press release early in the morning, crack of dawn on Friday, saying he's temporarily stepping aside that Stephanie is

going to fill in. Then a short time after that, they issue another press release saying that Mr mcmahn is going to appear on SmackDown, And from there it got everyone talking about what he Vince McMahon was going to do as his wrestling persona Mr. McMahon, which is based on his real persona. And that was it. So we got defiant Vince being as defiant as he could possibly be in these times, and it got people to tune in,

and to their credit, they kept those people. And when those people got to the end, they got the gift of rock listener. Now, whether that's a gift of the same socks that you got last year from your aunt, or whether it's you know, a gift that you been waiting for us since there's been no Charlotte and we're not gonna have Randy and we're not gonna have Cody and all that sort of stuff. You know that that's to be determined, but when it comes to the w

w E stock. You know, last week, before the Wall Street Journal story broke, it hit a near fifty two week high of sixty eight fifty and I will look right now, it's at sixty two fifty one. So the stocks value is down three point six percent for the day, but it's still up two point six percent for the month.

It's up thirty percent over the last three months, and it's over two uh increased over the last five years, which for a lot of people interested in ww e's business affairs, that's the only only thing that they're worried about. And events can get away with this from a big slap on the hand and and nothing too damaging is released in those n d A s And that's certainly

to be determined yet. But if he can get away with this with a slap on the wrist and a stern warning that if anything like this ever comes out and happens again, that you are gone, he might be able just to skate away with this because they've got these billion dollar deals and he brought on Nick con and the formulas work, and look what we're doing pal Pal's. We'll see, we'll see as far as the show itself

went from the entertainment portion of the proceedings. Roman Rains Matt Riddle undisputed title in the match that Riddle dedicated to Randy Ordon with the stipulation that he can never face Rains again if he lost. He lost. Good match, good crowd, near fall near the end when Rains went for the spear, but Riddle hit the r K. Oh, that was fantastic. Riddle then went for the floating bro hit it, but then tried another RKO instead of going

for the pin. Rains pushed him off. Riddle tried to springboard off the ropes, but Rains caught him with another spear for the pin. After the match, Rains grabbed the mic immediately said there's no one left. Said he told everyone two years ago he'd rocked everyone and leave, and that's exactly what he's doing now that Riddle's done. Said he's out, told the crowd to acknowledge him, and began to leave. When Cowboy Brock's music hit and they were

in Minnesota, so those people were amped. They faced off. Brock smiled, took off his hat, extended his hand to Roman. Roman didn't want to take it. Then, you know one he said, hey, why not? And he went ahead and he went to shake Rock's hand, and Brock picked him up and F five killed him. The crowd went nuts. The USOS ran in the ring. He killed them as well too, and there brock Lesner was standing tall at the end of the show. So how will this play

into ROTS to night. We don't know yet. I'm sure it's going to be talked about, but we have a couple of things planned, which we'll get into when we get back from Break Wrestling Observer Live back on the show. Mike's Umber VV here with your Wrestlings are alive. Holiday weekend June tenth, Father's Day weekend. Only one early baseball game on a Monday. The New York Mets lead the Miami Marlins for nothing, bottom of the six. I don't know if hockey is going to play any uh havoc

on raw tonight. I would tend to doubt it. W W fans tend to be w W fans no matter what. But the Colorado Avalanche with the two oh lead on the Tampa Bay Lightning, they may have played into a w's ratings last Wednesday, but we'll we'll get to that here in a little bit, I gotta first open up this red bull because I didn't do that for the

sm our kids yet. There you go, a couple of more things to get into that from SmackDown on Friday, And if you want Brian's thoughts about this, He's going to be talking about him for sure with Brian with on the Brian and Vinny Show as well with Filthy

Tom Lawler. A couple of things. First and foremost for me personally, Kyle Caleb Braxton's interactions with Sammy Zane have successfully replaced her banter with Paul Hayman, which was always one of the small victories of SmackDown, no matter what else happened on that show, like them going back and forth, it was always great and I think saying he's saying

and her doing it as fantastic as well. We had a segment with Shamus, Drew McIntyre, and Adam Pierce where Pierce announced that Shamus was in the money in the bank ladder match, and of course Shamus immediately cut Pierce off and started rubbing that into Drew McIntyre, who sent him over the top rope. Pierce then said, well, now that he can continue, McIntyre is in the match as well,

so that's that. In the women his money in the bank qualifier, Raquel Rodriguez defeated Shane of Baslor in three minutes to join Alexa Bliss, liv Morgan and Lacy Evans, who was on commentary as qualifiers for that Ladder match. After he lost again to Mad Cat Moss, Baron Corbin challenged Pat McAfee, reminding him that he once called him bomb ass Corbin and said that he was undeserving of Pyro.

Both things fair to be honest, I don't want to get blocked like Brian is, but come on, says if he doesn't watch himself that he's gonna kick McAfee's ass, and McPhee, being former an NFL player and a Trip Rogers train professional wrestler as well, then said okay, I'll call your bluff on this and then led the crowd into laughing at Corbin right as he slunk to the back as the New Day walked by and came out for their match against Gender Mahal and Shanky and bottom

line of this matches, every time Xavier plays his trombone, Shanky just he just gets that feeling and it just starts moving through his body and he can't control himself. He can't help himself. He's got to move, he's got to dance. So we get the shaken of Shanky that Brian calls shankly. So we've got shaky Shankly who should be shanky, but Brian calls him shanky or whatever it is. But he's dancing now and that gender mahal. They lose

the match. You know what, out of everybody sat in him sing just by existing in a w is looking better and better when it comes to who might be the one to help take over the Indian audience. But ludvig Isiser announced on behalf of Gunter that the Intercontinental Championship will never again be held by an American. I'm fine with that, Sammy's aint, Kevin Owens, you know, anybody else you know, I'm I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. Natalia makes says she can make Rohnda Rousey tap.

I don't believe that's going to be the case. And I don't believe there's going to be anything that happens in the build up for their match that's going to make me believe that Natalia is going to get the victory. Max Dupre was announced with the spotlight over the ring. But then we go to the back where the former l A Night is running down Adam Pierce for not having top flight acoustics and lighting the type that titillates the juices of your guilty pleasure. Those were his words,

not mine. Also, the Viking writers are going to appear in re debut on SmackDown next week, So that's what you missed on SmackDown. That is what Brian and Tom are going to be talking about in a lot more hilarious way than than I just did it there. Uh. W W back to TV raw tonight Pinnacle Bank Arena on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. Becky Lynch takes on Oscar and the Money in the Bank qualifying match, and I will read directly from what

w W wrote about this on their website. The w w E Universe will once again walk with Elias as Ezekiel's older brother returns to perform one more concert with certain w w E superstars. Still under the impression that Ezekiel is Elias, the w w E Rookie intends to put the controversy to rest once and for all when he stands side by side, side by side with his brother in the ring. Will the two brothers put on a concert of a lifetime or will a skeptical Kevin

Owens interrupt the reunion find out Monday night on Raw? Now? Did they tip their hand here? In one? In one sentence there they seem to be promising that we will see Elias and Ezekiel arm in arm kind of waving back and forth, singing one of Eliza's hit songs of which I can't remember a single one of them. But they're gonna walk together, they're gonna talk together, they're gonna sing together. At least they're going to plan to do that.

But will Kevin Owens do something before any of this takes place, like complete road runner wildly coyote style that just screws everything up so we don't even get it, like we we don't even get like we just get a slight tease of it. Or will they go through and actually do the special effects? Will we have the hologram? Will we have something instead of just Ezekiel in a beard that happens to be glued on or something like that,

or is there really a twin brother out there. I mean, let's be honest here, there could be you guys didn't really know all those angles were floating around out there until they appeared on the show. At least did any that really looked like Kurt? Did you? For those people that remember those all those angles, Eric and whatnot from the Attitude days, I don't know, but uh, that's all they have planned so far for tonight. I also watched a w rampage as well that was taped last Wednesday.

After Dynamite, John Moxley opened up the show defeating Dante Martin in a good match. Tony then interviewed Keith Lee and Swerved Strickling about their team when they were interrupted by Powerhouse Hobbs and Ricky Starks, who remind Lee and Swerve they keep losing to him, so that feud is

going to continue. Got a pretty good video package of the House of Black and the Death Triangle cutting promos on each other, and it was Max Castor who did get a little bit of a wrap off and was able to in one of his bars make a reference to an n D a uh. He and the Gun Club defeated Leon Ruffin in Bear Country, who were named roughen hit. I don't know why that made me laugh when those small things. Dan Housing then cut a promo

for Hook about facing a new Japan Dojo members. So that's gonna be interesting to see who they take for that and if we get a series of these things, because I would love that and I think it would be great for Hook's career if he does get to have some experience working with new Japan Dojo guys, maybe meets Shabaa, that would be that would be good and very good for his future. Jake Cargill, in the main event, defeated Willow Nightingale to retain the TBS title and raise

her record to thirty three. You know, abviously I take that back. This this was the semi main event. Stokely half Away was on commentary, had to try and fight to get in words with Chris Jericho being up there. Felt like a lot of this match actually happened during

the commercial breaks, but Jade got the win. Afterwards, Kia Hogan got in the ring started helping Jade beat Willow down when Athena appeared, followed by Chris stat Lander who chased the heels from the ring, and then a video package aired of j leafal sat in him saying and Sanjay Dutton talking about Samoa Joe and the main event of Darby Allen against Bobby Fish. And one thing you can say about Darby Allen, much like the Creed Brothers, they make everything look believable. I believe it hurts. I

believe it hurts for real. Sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes it's not. With the Creed Brothers, you cringe a little bit more because their rookies and god, you know, positioning matters and inexperienced matters. When it comes to Darby, it's just everything he does it's like being shot out of the cannon. And you know, one of the things about dives for years people have said it takes so much time to set up. You do lose, you know,

when you're really into something. Sometimes you you do lose being in the moment when somebody is setting up a bunch of moves or springboards or something like that. With Darby Allen, you almost never have to worry about that because everything he does, you know, he's he He just does it to the nth degree and has no problems putting his body on the law line. So heck of a main event, he ends up defeating Uh Bobby Fish and then ultimately afterwards Bobby Fish calls out Kyle O'Reilly

with a chair. They try to do some damage to him, but the lights go out. When they come back up, of course it is Sting who helps chase off Kyle O'Reilly. Then Uh Darby Allen got the chair put it around Bobby Fish. His ankle did a coffin drop off the top rope after the match, which pilmanized his leg and that was that. The show went off the air. We'll see how it does in the ratings. That hasn't been doing too good. Dynamite last Wednesday on TBS and not good.

I mean, this was disappointing. It had to be seven and sixty one thousand viewers on average. You know, I think when when it really started, if you said if they could get between seven and fifty and a hunt in a million, boy, that would be really great. And then they started high. They durbbled down a little bit, but then he got to the point where it's like if they're doing between nine hundred and a million and everything is okay, sixty one thousand, that's tough down almost

from the week before. Did the Stanley Cup Finals have anything to do with that? They got a five heart fire, a far higher rating than a lot of people thought it was going to. So I don't know if that was it or not. But we've got a lot more to get into and we get back break, including news out of New Japan that's got a lot of effects on a w moving forward. Wrestling Observer, a live back on the show Wrestling Observer, a live Mike Semper VV

here with you. I do not believe there's going to be a Brian Elverrez Filthy Tom Waller Filthy four daily today, So the next time you hear Brian will be overnight.

We're tomorrow morning. However, wherever time zone you're in Wrestling Observer Radio wrapping up everything taking place tonight during Monday Night Raw, including any news bits Dave has picked up over the weekend about the Vince McMahon's story or any other stories floating out there, including Sasha Banks, who uh still as of this moment, is in limbo right now, There's been no news on Naomi moving whatsoever, and ever since Raj Geary released the news that Sasha was being released,

there has been a standstill right now nobody can confirm anything other than she apparently is still on the inactive portion of the daily roster that w W E has, So you know, take that for what it's worth. One thing is for sure, you're not going to be seeing her coming back. I just I can't fathom that happening,

but we shall see. One thing you will never see, apparently is new Japan and CMLL working well with Triple A and a w's Andrade Lao says he was suspended or suspended, said he was supposed to face will Osprey Forbidden Door, but the match was changed for political reasons. That is the reason we are going to get Orange Cassidy and will Osprey. Will Osprey and Andrade seemed to

make a lot more sense. Andrade appeared on Hugo Savinovich's Lucha Libre interview show Friday and said that he was set to apply to Japan to shoot the angle for the match with Osprey, but then plans changed and credit to Lucha Blog for the translation here. This story also as many stories are up at FOURW online dot com. Put up there by Joseph Currier, put up there by Brian Rose, Josh and Nason and all the other hard working people over at the website, but here it is.

The translation says that the change is a result of the complicated political situation involving New Japan's alliance with CMLL as A w has a working relationship with Mexico's Triple A promotion, and rad A worked one match for Triple A and one and one match so far this year, last appearing a Triple Many UH in Monterrey on April the In the interview with Savinovich, Andrade also expressed frustration with Triple A, as he says they have not booked him as they said they had would, leading to a

situation where he cannot work for New Japan due to that relationship, So there you go. And Rode says he was scheduled to be on this weekend's Triple Mania show, but that that booking was canceled, so high drama always taking place, uh and rode bottom line is is Androdi won't be on Forbidden Door and will Osprey and and

Orange Cassidy will be. There was a winner Takes All r O H I w g P World Tag Team Championship match that's been added to Forbidden Door, which you probably already know by now FDR the R O H Tag Team Champions, the i w g P Tag Team Champions, The Great o'con and Jeff Cobb will face off against Ra Pongy Vice, Trent Burretta and Rocky Romero in a triple threat match at Forbidden Door with both sets of titles on the line. As of now, there are six

matches announced for the show. Everybody is waiting on that seventh match to be announced. And when I say that it is not the i w g P Heavyweight Champion Chip match, that sure, if that gets added, that's fine. Everybody wants Brian Danielson and Zach Saber Jr. We still don't know if Brian Danielson has been cleared yet. Dave and Brian this morning for subscribers of Wrestling Observer Radio UH indicated that he was not, but we'll have to see what the week brings. There are six matches so far.

John Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi for the interim a W World Championship, the Women's World title, Thunder Rosa and Tony Storm the US title for the i w g P U S Title, Will Osprey and Orange Cassidy, the All Atlantic Championship, and that is starting to come into focus here, which we'll get to in a moment. Miro and Poc are the only people so far UH that that are

in the match. From a E W side, we are closer to having a new Japan representative UH, and then a fourth person is going to be added down the line. There's also a r O H as I mentioned the World Tag Team Championship match with the i b g P Tag titles and then a six man between Chris Jericho, Minoro Suzuki and Samy Guvara against Eddie Kingston Wheeler Utah

and showeda Umino. So no idea how large this card is going to be less, maybe more, you know, three matches added, four matches added, that probably should be good.

I'm hoping it's some more singles matches probably will not be In the case of the i w g P Heavyweight Championship match, it's nothing against Adam Cole, and I know there's Adam Cole's always up for banter or his name is always up for some sort of banter, whether it be about his body or how he's been booked or with this that in the third, but I was hoping to have a one on one match. I can

understand why they're not, but I really would have preferred that. Obviously, if we get Brian Danielson and Zax Aber Jr. That's another one. But I hope there's a couple of more singles matches as well. Probably won't be. I have a feeling if we get more matches added, it's probably gonna be heavier on the multiple person side of things, So we shall see. It's been announce that thunder Rosa is going to be going to Tokyo Joshi Pro uh to go apply her trade over there Tony Storm. You know,

it's interesting. If she gets the win here, Rosa can still go to Toshi Tokyo Joshi Pro and man I'd like to see Tony Storm and start them again, you know, I'd like to see some sort of scenario there at some point down the line. Obviously, Stardom has got that one championship where it's only defended against foreigners, so that's something the s w A Championships, So that is something that people that are clamoring to see Stardom talent come over to the country, you know, are looking to see

some interaction between a w wrestlers and stardom. I mean, that's a certainly a place where you know, something can certainly happen over that championship. So we'll have to see how things go. This Wednesday's Go Home Dynamite, they've announced some things including John Moxley teaming with Hiroshi Tanahashi against Chris Jericho and Lance Archer. So that's a pretty good

match right there. This past Wednesday, of course, Jericho and the Jericho Appreciation Society UH interrupted Moxley and Tanahashi's face to face and eventually Archer joined in and Desperado of Suzuki Goon, which led to Jericho then announcing the Sixth Man that was going to be taking place at Forbidden Doors so well as Brain also open. We'll face off against Orange Castide and Rapongi Vice, and then a All Atlantic Championship eliminator between Penta Oscuro does anybody call him that? Still?

Pentagon against Malachi Black and off of the All Atlantic Championship eliminator match between Penta and Malachi, I shall transition over to Monday's Today's New Japan road Show, which took place in Tokyo, generated some news. They're both Tomahiro as She and Clarke Connors have advanced to the a e W All Atlantic Championship match, which will take place qualifying match which will take place tomorrow at another New Japan

road show. So I mean, look, we've got Miro, We've got pack Miro facing off against the She's the only thing that makes sense here to me. Now, you could definitely give Connors an upset win over She and springboard him into the match, and he could be the guy that takes the fall, but it would still be a big deal. I just no, no, don't do that. Everybody wants to see She and this thing. I would have liked to just see a tournament or something where this

whole thing came down to Miro Nachi. I think that would have been a pretty hype match to have it forbidden door, pretty awesome one on one match to have. But they want to go with multiple countries in there for the the the belt with the multiple flags on it, the all the Atlantic Championships. So that's that from there.

But there's also a little bit more news as United Empires, Will Osprey and the Great o'con and Jeff Cobb are stomping around here as well as Assie Open their Junior Heavyweight UH partners of t J P and Francesco Akira won the i w g P Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on this same show this morning when Akira pinned Master Watto. They defeated My Watto and Rice Skate to Gucci, you've held the title since February with when Akira becomes the first Italian born champion of night w g P

history and h Wrestling New Japan in Italy. They always had a pocket of fans in Italy and at times New Japan was incredibly popular there during the Tiger mask years, that was the case, and then he kind of had a revival and when Tiger masked for started becoming a thing in New Japan, he became popular over there as well. To Juician Liger was always popular over there as well. So Francesco Akira becomes the first ever Italian born i

w g P champion UH. He made his debut in this year's Best of the Super Juniors alongside Wheeler, Utah and and and Ace Austin and Alexane and a couple other people. And I tell you, I think people are going to be looking back at this past I w g P or this past best of the super juniors, and I think history is going to be very very kind to it. Again, there was not a whole lot of hype going into it, but once it got going, there's a little bit of a sluggish start, I think,

but the fans of Japan took to almost everybody. All of the new people that were appearing, they seem to take too really well. The matches got better and better as it went on. There were some great performances by Desperado. There's great performances by l Phantasmo, including all the teases that put him in this year's G One, and I will use that as a transition. Look at me today

on the holiday weekend, just looping things together here. I'll take that as my chance to talk about the fact that the four blocks of next months G one Climax thirty two tournament have been announced. So how this is going to work this year. There's going to be four blocks with seven wrestlers in it each. The winners of each block are then going to advance to one on one matches on August normal bracketing two semifinals matches, and the winners of those will move on to August at

Tokyo's Buddha Canal. The A block, This is the block that matters, at least here on this website, at least here in my heart. The A block, this is the block of death because ooch Go Okada, Torriano, I know what you're saying. Wait what what Jeff Cobb, Jonah bad

luck Folly and you saying Mike bad luck Foal. All large men there imagine having to face bad luck fal After facing Jeff Cobb and Jonah and then staring then in the battle of the Barrel of Lance Archer, but most importantly Filthy Tom Lawlor, he gets multiple dreams coming true as well as I. He gets to face Torriano, and he gets to face kazuch go Okada, and we get to see him mix it up against some other foreigners who are the future of New Japan. Guy Jean,

Jeff Cobb, Jonah, the old School with Lance Archer. That's a hell of a hell of a block. B Block, j White Shi, Sonata Tonga, Great ocon Ches Owns, Taichi C Block, Tanahashi Goto, Nito, Zach Saber Jr. Aaron Harnare Kenta and Evil d Block, will Osprey Yoshi Hashi, Shingo to Kagi, David Finley, Juice Robinson, l Fantasmo, and Yujuro Takahashi.

So this whole thing is gonna kick off July. The winner of the tournament will receive a briefcase with a contract in it for the i w g P Well Heavyweight Championship match coming up in January at Russell Kingdom. Soothing sounds on the way out to Break. You're almost back to the cook out, folks. We'll get you there. I'll be your bridge wrestling reserver alive. Oh my Mike, except for baby back with your wrestling deserver alive. If you could only hear some of the things that producer

Don will say during Break, you wouldn't want to know. Uh. But we do now know that one of Vince McMahon's legal issues is out of the way. If you go to the front page of Wrestling Observer dot com, it has been posted since this show has began that Vince McMahon and Oliver Luck are not headed to trial after all.

As was first reported by the Sports Business Journal on Monday, McMahon and Luck have reached a settlement and Luck's wrongful termination suit Luck was the commissioner of McMahon's XFL revival, was seeking approximately twenty four million I believe was twenty three point eight million in compensation that he was still owed from Vince McMahon. The financial terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. They must have signed an n DA.

The party has reached an agreement to resolve this case today. LUXE attorney Paul Dobrowski wrote in the filing last Friday, Well Good Vince at least wanted to tie something up. Last Friday, Dobrowski was seeking a judicial order to permanently seal records in the case. Lux contract as XFL commissioner was personally guaranteed by McMahon. He was fired just days before the XFL folded amid the COVID nineteen pandemic and

twenty twenty. McMahon claimed that he fired Luck due to gross the neglect of his job during the pandemic, personal use of a League assistant cell phone and signing wide receiver Antonio Callaway, despite Callaway having legal issue use uh Luck has said that there was no policy in place when he signed Callaway, and anything about the cell phone went right out the window when a judge ruled that none of it was admissible, so Luck sued, McMahon countersued,

and here we are. A settlement conference took place last Wednesday, only lasted nine minutes. They were done, but apparently last Friday's other news sparked Vincent to maybe thinking I don't want to go to trial with these guys in July. There you go, everybody. Thank you, Producer Dom, Thank you to everybody out there listening and watching this broadcast. My name is Mike Semperviv. We shall talk to you again

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