What's Going On With Roman Reigns?

three Pacific, sixth season. Yes Friday, here in the show, and we got a lot to talk about here today. And I am flying solo as Mike's semper Viv has been stricken with illness. He's still stricken and so he's not gonna make it here today, but hopefully back on Monday. And uh, I got it handled here today because in fact, we will be joined in the second segment of the show by Dave Meltzer talking all of the news from the newest edition of the Wrestling Observer News that are

available right now at Wrestling Observer dot com. So if you want all of the latest news, that's the place to go for words of news and information on pro wrestling and mixed martial arts. Tons of stories, including what's going on with the Roman Rains. That's the top story, and The Observer will talk to day about all of this here today and the rest of the news as well. We have an update on Shinjiro Otani and the news is not good, so we'll tell you about that still

paralyzed from the neck down. We have an update on Tammy Sitch. Nothing involving Tammy Sitch is ever good, but she is no longer free, which based on history, is good news. So she will not be driving a car anytime soon as she heads to her trial and xt returning to touring for the first time in two years. We've talked about this a bit. We'll tell you a

little bit more about that story. SmackDown lineup for tonight as well as the new Japan lineup for tomorrow, Capital Collision on Fight TV, and of course the Dynamite ratings as well. Lot to get into today. If you want Texas four to five seven eight zero seven five six six. That is four to five seven eight zero seven five six six. Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Alvarez on Twitter and maybe in the final same for the show. It's Friday. They we'll take some phone calls.

We'll see how it calls. A lot to get into after the break stick around Wrestling Observer Live. You're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez and Mike Semper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Bagging the show. Brian Albrez here Wrestling Observer Alive. No Mike sepper vvs recuperating at home. Bes wishes to him and his family on his illness, but he should be back on on Monday.

He's been texting me incessantly today. The sickness sucks. I don't know if you guys are aware of this or not. We've been talking about it for for me, it's been weeks now. But away we go with the news. Shinjirotani has issued his first statements and suffering a cervical spinal cord injury last month. Forty nine year old was injured in the main event of a zero one event April t after taking a German suplex into the corner. Remained motionless after taking the move. Has not regained use of

his arms. Or legs surgery was performed to prevent further deterioration of the injury. On April thirteenth. It is uh it is May thirteenth today. It's been a month there one post. His statement from Otoni on Friday also confirmed he is still paralyzed from the neck down. Translation of his statement reads, to all the hot professional wrestling fans who love professional wrestling, and to all the people involved in the professional wrestling industry. I'm really sorry for the

inconvenience and concern caused by my injury. Also, I am grateful to everyone for their warm feelings. Now, I am working hard every day for treatment and rehabilitation so that I can return to everyone as soon as possible. I will definitely return in front of you. We look forward to your continued support of Zero one and professional wrestling. I don't think he needs to apologize for being an inconvenience to anyone as a result of his injury. A benefit show will be hell June four at the Oda

Word General Gymnasium in Tokyo. Eugena Gata, Tomlwaukee hone Ma Togy Macabe from New Japan. Her schedule to take part progressing no will also be sending wrestlers to the show. So all the best to shinjiro Otani. I hope that I hope that he can make a recovery. But it's been a month and still paralyzed from the neck down, So he needs all the good wishes and thoughts that he can get because that's a that's a rough injury, and it is quite frankly, not a great update. So

all the best to him and his family. Sunny back in jail, we talked about this story. Uh, they they allowed her out on bond T fifty million two or fifty dollar bond quarter of a million dollars, and of course everybody was outraged about that because you know, she's been prohibited from driving and she continues to drive. And they got her toxicology report back and her blood alcohol content was over three times the legal limit when she was involved in this most recent accident, which led to

the death of seventy year old man. So the state argued that there is a substantial probability that six committed dui manslaughter in a March twenty five crash that killed a seventy five year old man, and that Sich posts a threat of harm to the community due to her long history of d u I offenses. A judge made the decision to revoke her bond, granting the State of Florida's request for pre trial detention. The judge ruled there was no reasonable way to keep the public safe from

six other than complete bond revocation. She was arrested May six after her toxicology results came back blood alcohol level point oh eight is the limit she was at point to eight. Oh that's over three times, three and a half times. She has posted the She had posted two hundred and twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollar bond and

uh that has since been revoked. So, of course the March was the accident and driver of the vehicle who failed to stop Tamara Lynn Sich and Julian Laster, sevent year old seventy five years old was killed in the crash. So she will be in jail until I can't say this is resolved, but she will be in jail as she awaits trial. So that's the update on Tammy Sitch talking about n x T and UH, these this this brand need to go on the road because these wrestlers

are not learning how to work right now. The restaurants are learning how to choreograph matches for a life television show, and then they choreograph matches for the next live television show. And uh, if you watch the show and sometimes you think, like you know, quite frankly, you know that person has had nine matches, and I'm not I'm not exaggerating by the way. You know that person's had nine matches. Well

that wasn't so bad. You know. Some would even argue, well, just let them, you know, just do this every week. Well the problem is they get called up to the main roster eventually, some of them, and you ain't gonna get a week to practice your match. You may think you have a week, you may have a match, a match announced for the following week, but you know, then the old guy shows up on Monday and changes your match, and then everything you worked on it's out the window.

So you've got to be able to You gotta be able to work, at least to a degree. So they need to go on the road and they will be returning to touring for the first time and over two years. Post Wrestling is confirmed and XT will return to the

road with house shows in Florida in June. So we talked about this on Observer Radio and uh, you know, the feeling then was that it's probably gonna be what they used to call the Coconut Loop and just small shows and tiny buildings around Florida, because you know, when n x T was n x T one point oh and they had some of the best wrestlers in the world having great matches and you know what, what to

the audience would be considered big stars. I mean, they did tour and they didn't do all that well outside of if you ran like a takeover. But you know, they came to Seattle, and normally in Seattle, these these w w E shows are in these giant buildings, and for n x T they ran the local Paramount Theater and it was a cool theater and there was you know, there were people there and they were hot. But this was not a five thousand seed building. This is not

a ten thousand c building. So the reality is they're not going to draw on the road at all with this n x T two point oh crew. It's just not gonna happen. So they will be doing these small buildings and uh, that will be July of twenty one. Dave reporting the newsletter last June, uh that they would be going on the road, and uh, it's been almost a year they didn't go on the road. Now we got to go back on the road again, and it will be as noted the Coconut Loop and small buildings.

We've had a couple of people here on the chat saying that their local building was on the Coconut Loop. And you know, if you want to make fun of n x T being on national television and being able to sell like two tickets to a show, I mean you can if you want to, But bro, I don't care if there's twenty five people in the building and these wrestlers need to go and work in front of twenty five people and learn how to do matches. Uh great,

I'm all for it. And quite frankly, what they should do is, uh it should be a requirement that if you're on this little loop, you gotta work a different person every night, and you don't just get to work that same match over and over and over again. I know that if you go to a w W E S show back in the day, I mean everybody just worked the same match over and over again. But you did have more freedom on house shows, and uh, for developmental it's even more important to not work the same

match every night. I don't. I just feel that like, if these wrestlers are gonna get any better, they should be on this Coconut loop with the green people, with the more advanced people, the advanced people trying to teach them how to work, have a finish call in the ring. You just gotta learn. The matches maybe horrible, you may only draw twenty five people, but that's the way that this has to be done. So we'll see what they end up doing on these Coconut Loop shows, but I

think that's the way that needs to be done. SmackDown is tonight. Are you ready for SmackDown? Well, we've got r K Bro confronting the Bloodline. This of course is over unifying the tag team titles, which they teased for a month and then did not deliver. Now they're teasing it again, and uh, internally, the idea is, well, you're gonna get the match, but we ain't gonna unify these titles. So I don't even know what the point of doing the matches if you're not going to unify the titles.

Is advertised, but you know, plans do change. Maybe they will unify the titles and then ununify them shortly thereafter. But we've got Sasha and Naomi defending the women's tag titles against Nattie and Shana Basler. I'm not telling you it's going to be a title change, but I don't think the title changes out of the question. And Kofi Kingston will face Butch who was returned from Miss Hiatus.

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nothing major, just just catching up on things. Well, the top story the Observers about Roman reigns and we've been talking about this story on Observer Radio also at Wrestling Observer dot com. And uh, he's gonna be working a more limited schedule, and there's a lot of details in the new issue, but I couldn't help a note that, like the number of pay per view shows that that he's gonna be doing this year. You know, you had written what we're talking maybe six or something of that nature. Uh,

six to eight. Yeah, Um, there is a number that they've agreed to, but I don't know what the exact number is, but I think six states somewhere in that range. I brought up seven and they said close. I guess that's why I said six eight. So so okay, so he's working six day pay per view shows. You mentioned that he would do some SmackDown shows to build up the pay per view shows, and he'll do He'll do TV. He'll do TVs in conjunction with the pay per views,

like what Lesnar and Goldberg do. Yeah, and occasionally he'll he'll show up on raw probably yeah. Yeah. I mean he's got he's got dates. Um, they and they'll start being announced soon, I presume. Um. You know, he was pulled from all advertising for everything except for Money in the Bank and SummerSlam, but um, he will be advertised, probably relatively soon for the dates that he will be

appearing on the shows. We could be doing a lot of match you know what I think on t VS, I'm gonna guess he's I don't know that he's gonna be a complete Lessner in Goldberg where you never do a match on TV, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's close to that. And and of late, if you notice on SmackDown he rarely was doing matches on television. So I got no problem with the guy that has earned the right to essentially have a schedule like this. Good for him, Okay, good for him, But I mean

the obvious question is chon what not? Just that? Like the same, the same, the same, the same reason why Lessner was but but less Goldberg. They they had a title and there was another title on the other show. Like to me, the whole point of unifying a title is that you have a champion that can then appear on both shows and prop up both shows. But as as dual champion, he's largely still a SmackDown wrestler. He's making rare appearances on Raw. He's not gonna be doing

anyhowse shows. He's not even gonna be doing all of the pay per views, And you know, people would talk about how Lesnar hijacked the title. Wellus, I'll find it good if you have another champion, but they don't, So we've unified the titles to put it on a guy who's barely going to be there and not going to even be on the other show. It would make sense to have a championship on somebody else, especially since Rains

doesn't really need it, um at least until WrestleMania. I think that, like, you know, to put the title on somebody else through like October November, and then if the idea is if you're gonna do Rock and Rom and um Roman Reigns and you want that to be a championship match, get the title back on Roman Reigns, you know, towards the end of the year, maybe at the Rumble or whatever. That makes perfect sense to have it on

him now when you have all these pay per views. Uh, you know, I don't know, I don't I don't know that it needs to be on him, But that's the decision they made. And then of course we've got smack Down tonight and they are teasing the unification of the tag team titles, which you also reported they have plans to deliver them act but not the step. Well, they may deliver the step, but that but that was the That was the idea a week ago was that they

weren't playing on unifying the titles. But they are going to do the unification match I'm gonna guess in Chicago on the pay per view. You know, it's come to the you know, come the week of the show or whatever. They may end up unifying the tag titles. I don't know that they won't, but you know, the idea that was discussed was it's probably not It's probably a good idea to set the champions with two different shows. So they made that decision about the tag team champions of

another actual world champion. Yeah, well, I mean I can see the argument of having one world champion. Um, I can almost see the argument of one tag champion, but I would disagree with it at this stage. Um, just because the tag title doesn't mean that much. It's better to have two of them, you know, one for each brand, so there's all the tag teams can it's it puts more tag teams in a position to be relevant. Um,

I can you know the one world title? Is that with the idea that you've got, you know, like in in you know, the king, the real king, and you go after the real king. Of course I would want the world title and someone that's they're all the time.

But you know, I mean again it's you know, you can certainly make the argument in the n w A era that you know, the world champion was made special because you only saw him, you know, once every month or two rather than um every week, and and you know he might be in your city you know, six times a year, you know, or or something like that, you know, back in the days when like they did

monthly shows or in some cities weekly shows. So there's an argument in the precedent that that keeping it, you know, the championship max is sparing in your local market, meant that it meant more and gave it more prestige. But none of that, I don't think that's any of that's really relevant today. So the other big story is what's going on with Coda Boushi. And uh, you know, thinking about this story the other day and I kind of thought like, if you don't like it, you know, I

guess you could just quit. But uh, I mean, clearly he doesn't want to quit. He wants to get fired. That's what's going on here. He he's trying to get out of his contract so he can wrestle somewhere else. He doesn't want to give up wrestling, but he's very unhappy with New Japan, and um, yeah, I mean that's the basic situation. So he's uh, I mean, he's published text messages. I mean, there's he's he's uh, he's burned a bridge here. It appears he's attempting to burn a bridge.

And he had signed what they had described as a lifetime contract. I don't even know what that even means. It wasn't year contract, a twenty year contract. No, I think he's under contract until the end of this year actually, so he actually could have set it out and maybe that'll be what happens, you know, And he's you know again, he's got to get his shoulder back, you know. I mean, he's still he doesn't want to wrestle until his shoulder is close to ready. And it's you know, his stroulder,

his shoulders a week. So um, you know, there's you know, and I think they probably want him to wrestle, or would hope for him to wrestle. They wanted him obviously they wanted him back to the new Japan Cup. So why why was it annalys that he'd signed a lifetime contract if it was actually three years? I don't know. What do we know about the status of it's pro it's pro wrestling. There's a lot of things said aback contracts that may not be accurate, um, especially more now

than ever before. I think, I mean, they could only just say a long term contract. They specifically said lifetime, lifetime. They did say, they did just say lifetime. What did you do that for? I don't know, there's no I mean, who has a lot even the undertaker, I don't think it's a lifetime contract, although I think it's like a fifteen year contract, which is which you know, it's a

lot of his life left. Yeah, a good percentage of it probably, So obviously the question, I mean, I've always been on the oppression that Codabushi's family like they have a lot of money, and so this is not like his his he'd be okay if he didn't wrestle again, he'd be okay. But I guess, but where do you want to wrestle that? If you don't want to move to the US? I mean, to do indies around Japan, D d T. What's he gonna do? I don't know, I don't know. I don't know even know if he

knows what he's gonna do. UM. I think he's just I think he's just frustrated, you know. I think it's a combination of whatever it is. You know, I think he feels disrespected by New Japan. And also, you know, you got to remember that these guys, you know that the Koda bushy level, there's there's when you get to be that good, there's there's something that's you have certain driving thing that that most people can't really fully understand, and that that that makes you that good. And so

he's got that. And then when you're injured and can't perform, it does a double whammy on you. And so he's he's in that state where you know, it's like and and and even worse for him, it's not just the wrestling, but you don't look like Koda Bushi unless you've got like this training whammy too. So he's got the wrestling wammy and the training women he can't do either. So

he's probably depressed as all hell. And I think that that's part of what's going down here is that he's probably severely unhappy because he can't lift weights and train

like he wants to. He can't wrestle, which is his outlet, and he feels disrespected by the company that you know, he worked with when he got hurt, and maybe you know, blames their pressure for him coming back early from the pneumonia, and maybe that had a part in him getting hurt, you know, in the g One when he wasn't when he wasn't nearly and he was and he did that

growing G One tournament. Well, I do like about this, whatever he's doing, is that we do actually finally have somebody's taking a stand against this culture in Japan of hey, if you're hurt, you just work unless you're like badly hurt. And then because we always heard that like if someone missed a show, something must be really bad, really bad they missed a show, and it's actuallyiculous. It's like, if

you're hurt, you shouldn't be working a show. And and it's a culture that probably would be much better off if we had more people like a Boush He was like, I'm not coming back if my shoulders destroyed. Yeah, look I saw people who were literally on crutches backstage after surgery, going the ring and attempt to wrestle and wrestle very poorly because of it, because of the mentality that you don't miss advertised dates there yet, I mean, that's another era,

but not that you know much of another era. So yeah, I mean I've seen some stuff in Japan that is uh. I mean I've seen in the United States too, but it but it probably is more severe in Japan than than the United States as far as the mentality that you don't mismatches due to injuries unless you're like completely incapacitated. Yeah, I mean quite frankly, the the rule that they have where if you're advertised for a title match and you can't make the title match, your strip to the title

it seems kind of a little bit severe. But hey, if you advertise a match that you can be there, I mean, that's that's but that's that's the same in UFC too, sure, but I mean that that's all fine and good. But if you're a low if you're a sheety or whatever, you've got no title and you're hurt, I mean, you should be able to not wrestle until you're not hurt. I mean, I mean, I mean, at the end of the day, you do have the ability

to do so. Um, they're always gonna and that's that's you know again, Like how many times have you heard in the United States the same thing where where somebody has had, like to say, knee surgery and they say you need to be out for eight months, and four months later the promotion calls him up. We need you back, we need you back. I mean, I've heard that my whole life in American progressing industry. White, Well, listen, we

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on the line against Fred Rosser. Red Rosser who is lost twice twice two filthy Tom Lawler twice, both times, by the way, voted match of the Year for New Japan Strong, and they're gonna do it one more time on Tom's birthday? Does he have what it takes to do this one more time? We're gonna a special show Monday, one way or the other, either a celebration or a memorial to Tom's rain as strong open weight champion. Got a lot of people in the line, so let's uh,

let's do this Portsmouth, You're on the air. What's going on? Hey, what's up? This is a Brandon here in Portsmouth. Um? Well, first of all, I can't wait for Monday. It's gonna be a great, uh podcast? There was Tom? Now? Um, I understand if they do Rock versus Roman. Um, if they do that match, that the title being on the line,

that would be the mark he met. But I feel like if the titles on the line, I don't believe there's any chance the Rock wins that match, But if the title isn't on the line, because maybe Roman has lost the title for whatever reason and it's Rock versus Roman, for like who's really the head of the table. Roman may end up still winning, but I still be like, well, there might be a chance and maybe the Rock wins that.

So it kind of things like it would make better sense to not have the title on the line, And maybe coming from that perspective, well, I want to thank you very much for the call. I mean from my perspective, I mean, there ain't nothing they can do that makes me think that Rock is gonna win that match. I mean, I guess maybe if it were like, you know, Roman Reigns is gonna retire and it's his last match ever, and uh, in that case, you know, probably would't matter

if you put over the Rock. But I mean, if Roman is not retiring, I just cannot see him losing to the Rock un or any circumstance. Rock is there to put over Roman Reigns and U And it is funny because there this Roman Reigns push and uh, you know,

beating Brock, unifying the titles, never getting beaten. I mean, the idea here really is supposed to be to build up Roman Reigns as the absolute, unbeatable greatest champion of all time, which in theory also makes the title that he holds the most prestigious, valuable title anywhere in all of pro wrestling. But it does not feel that way to me. I mean, it probably does to the w w E audience and everything like that, because I'm sure

they think somebody deserves that belt. But you know, I don't think that if you do the Rock versus Roman Reigns and WrestleMania in Los Angeles, you don't need that title on the line. I think it's it's it doesn't you don't need it, like try to create a you know, a new superstar with that title in another match. Romans already top of the food chain, So I don't know, it's uh, I don't think you need the title for that match one way or the other. And I don't

think title or no title. I think that that rocks winning one way the other. But you know, trying to predict the winner or w w E match is a exercise and folly. Austin, Texas, You're on the air, what's

going on? Hey, Brian shoutouts in twitch as um. Frankie Kazarian is going to be at the Impact tapings this weekend, and I'm wondering if this is just a one off to reciprocate for Diana Prozo and w Moore CBN on Dynamite, or if this is like the beginning of a main like you know, talent exchange, things that are going to be doing again like long term. Well, I want to

thank you very much for the call. I I don't know, I never I never asked my guests would be probably more are similar to what you said first, the one time exchange, because it doesn't appear that we're we're in that. A while ago, it was like, you know, people are going back and forth, storylines, back and forth. But now it just appears, you know, they're they're Impact and a

Double are on the same page. And if a double wants to borrow someone, they can ask and probably get that person and then they'll exchange somebody and Frankie because can go and do a job for somebody or whatever. But you know, I would presume that's what it is. But I can I can try to find out. But I haven't seen much of an indication that people are gonna be sent over for longer periods of time, but but perhaps they will be all right, let's go to

uh not Ryan, Ryan, you're band, No, you're banned. I know you're listening right now. You have been banned from the show. So it's like coda Bushi's contract, Like you've got to take a break. You and your brother are both banned. All right, let's go to Chatsworth. I think that's correct. You're on the air. What's going on, hey, Brian, what's up now? Much? What's happening? I just have one question for you. Uh, what one wrestler do you really

want to see go through Surrey's magic white smoke? Oh? Man, I thought this is gonna be a trolling question, but this one's right up my alley. Well, honestly, I mean, who's gonna top body Heyward going through and becoming a cheerleader? I mean, actually, I can think of a few wrestlers that I would like to go through her transformation tunnel.

Unfortunately they've both been fired. I would have liked to have seen Harlan to go through that tunnel and come out in some silly costume and have to do something wacky. That would have been fun I would have liked to have seen Dexter Loomis go through that tunnel. He actually would have been He might have been better than Body Hayward going through that tunnel. If if if Dexter Loomis had gone through the tunnel and come out the other side dresses like uh, you know Indie Heartwell, I think

it would have been fantastic. But I got some suggestions here. Not Tony D'Angelo. I don't think it'd be as funny. Orange Cassidy, Uh, Joe Gacy, Huh, No, I want to see something. I want to see somebody. You have to have somebody that has like the stoic gimmick and and then they come through and they have to be like completely totally different. That's that's what I think is uh. Not omas No, he already tries to have a No,

not elstra Black. Honestly, I think that my my, my, my, my two were the best to Harland and uh and the creep from the Creep Farm, Dexter Loomis. But Norris Suzuki, actually he would do a great job. He would do a great job coming through that that tunnel. It actually would be great. If Ezekiel showed up, but he went through the tunnel and he became a Lias. That would have been fantastic, But that's a pre tape you can't do because we would have heard about it by now.

I think that those are the see you guys hate n x T two point oh, but you know you're thinking about it, Gunter. I actually would love to see Valter come through the tunnel. He'd be a good one. He'd be a great one. Or yeah, just like everybody that has the worst gimmick on the main roster, they could go through the tunnel and be their old great gimmick again, like Sammy Zane, he's all annoying and he goes through the tunnel, he comes back because the baby

face Sammy Zane from that'd be great. And uh yeah, all right, who else do we have? Oh nobody else on the line. Let's go to text messages. Actually, first we should mention Dynamite. On Wednesday night, it was upo point eight percent in viewers eighty thousand viewers eighteen forty nine that at a point three three they were fifth on the cable charts. Uh. They had, of course NBA competition,

but also the season premiere of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Yeah, they also did a point three three, but had slightly more viewers in the demos, So that would mean that, you know, usually the season premiere is kind of the peak unless it like really catches on. So I would guess that they probably won't be defeated by the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills going forward, but you never know. And those are the numbers. Back in the moment, Observer Live.

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