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think about it. I may be on the show tomorrow. I gotta see when my flight leaves. But anyway, I'm heading to LA on Friday for WrestleMania weekend. I arrived at about four forty five pm, so after the Supercard of Honor show has already started. I'm gonna see if I can get there, see if I can get out there and attend that show. But if not, I will be going to NXT Takeover on Saturday, that is confirmed.

Going to WrestleMania Night one the same day, So I think I'll be watching approximately i'd say about eight hours of WE on Saturday, and then I'll be heading out Sunday for Night two of WrestleMania, then I head back. I will not be staying for the Raw after WrestleMania. And you know it's funny Raw after wrestlemaniaus to be a really big show and then it become a period where it really wasn't that big a show. And I actually have a feeling that this year's Raw after WrestleMania

is going to be a pretty newsworthy show. But I'm not going to be around for it, but I will be watching it from home and we'll review everything here as always. But WWE finally announced the full cards for both nights of WrestleMania, and so we know what the what the matches are. We still know the main event of Night one obviously, the main event of Night two is Roman Rains versus Cody Rhodes. Well, we'll give you the full lineup for the shows. Update on Don Callis,

who was pretty he's seriously injured. He's fine, but it was a pretty serious injury that he suffered at the Dynamite show last time. Of course, a Dynamite report as well, aw All Access debuted. We'll talk about that show and a lot of other news as well. There's a lot to get into here. Today. Hopefully we can get through all of it, So stick around, everybody. Back in a

moment with more Wrestling Observer Live bragging the show. Bryan Alberre is here Wrestling Observer Live like someber bb also Wrestling Observer dot com, even though he is a despicable, horrible, terrible moose trader when it was our best to. Don Callis was injured last night on the a W Show.

He was doing a segment backstage with the Blackpool Combat Club and he tried to get a handshake from John Moxley and Moxley clabbered him and in taking the bump, Don was unaware that there was a lighting rig right behind him and he went head first into a lighting rig and he got gashed open. It was described to me as looking like he was hit with a hatchet. He had a cut from here to about here, straight down. Allegedly, his doctor told him it was so deep you could

see his skull bleeding everywhere. They took him to the hospital and he was there until three am. And he wasn't there till three am because you know they were checking him. I mean they checked him for concussion everything. He didn't have a concussion, but he was till three am because it took them that long to put his head back together. Are you laughing over there, Mike, No, I'm cringing honestly. And he's got that big fat bald head of his two Oh my god, the staples and

the and the stitches. Although I got to be honest, he can only help his looks. Well, he's he's back home apparently. I guess he's all right. Hopefully he'll be back on TV soon. And guy, I don't know how he can get a concussion. I mean, really, when you longed, Oh my god, say I heard about it because I watched everything on the West Coast and I heard, you know, did don really get hurt? It's the first thing I heard. And then I got a text from somebody there and

it was like, man, this dude got hurt. He gashed himself open. So I knew it happened, but I didn't know any of the circumstances. For all, I knew he might have been wandering around backstage and banged into a lighting lighting rig. So I'm watching it on TV and Mox goes to shake his hand and dude, he gets walloped and you don't even see him hitting the thing.

You just see him fall off screen, but then the sound that you hear off screen, and then they cut back to him and he's like he's on his stomach and he's like holding his head, and then you know, this guy's a pro. So he's alive obviously, but you know, as soon as he recovers, at least to a degree, he immediately turns and just looks straight up towards the ceiling. So you just see all this blood pouring down his face. Hey,

if you're still breathing, you're still working. When we were when we were kids doing the White WWF, we filmed everything, and especially we're gonna do something crazy, was like, make sure you get it on film. Like, if I'm gonna get killed doing this, at least make sure you get it on film. Yes, that's what happened here, all right. We got both Knights of WrestleMania the lineup so far, and I know some people have said, ah, did it take so long to tell me what's on both Knights? Listen,

let's put it this way. It would have been nice if we would have known in advance. But if you've looked at the ticket sales for WrestleMania with the exception of like three hundred people. I mean, the both Knights have the exact same number of tickets out. It's like there's a very small number of people who are going to one night or the other. Like if you're going to WrestleMania, you're getting a ticket for both shows. That's what the numbers show us. And so in that case,

it's like you knew the Roman Rains. We all knew the Roman Rains match was the headlining night too, and we knew a couple of others. But now here's what we know for sure. Night one is Austin Theory versus John Cena in the opener. We don't officially know what the main event is, and for all I know, they

may decide the day of the show. But it's I mean, you've got both the Rea Ripley Charlotte Flair match and the USOS against Kevin and Sammy both on Night one, and as I've said before, I think that you should end with Kevin Owens and sam Yusane. It's the bigger match. It's been built up far longer. It's it's it's a far bigger draw than Rea Ripley Charlotte Flair. That's nothing against them. I think if you asked them, you know, I'm sure they'd say they want to go on last.

But I don't think they're gonna tell you that the Sammy and Kevin Owens and usso's and Bloodline story and not that big a deal. It's a big one. We also have Becky Leda and Trish versus Bailey, Dakota and Eo seth Rawlins versus Logan, Paul ray Masterio versus Dominic Braun, Ricochet, Street, Prophets, Gable and Notice, and the Viking Raiders four way a

Russell Mania Showcase match. So that is Night one, Night two as Roman and Cody Bianca versus Osca Gunther against Drew mcnire and Shamus in a triple threat Edge versus Finnbalor in Brood versus the Demon. I would presume rock Lessner and Omas and the Women's Showcase with Live and Raquel Naddi and Shotzi rond Rousing and Shana Ronda with her broken arm, and Sonia and Chelsea Green. So that's

the two nights of Mania. Well, you know they treat it like concerts now, you know, Bruce Springsteen is coming to year Town for three nights, and he's got so many songs and such a catalog. You're not going to get the same stuff each night. You may get one song or a couple of songs for both nights, but you know that that's how it goes. And looking at this night too much stronger, I think overall, on paper,

at least to me, it is. But I echo your sentiments, and I think we're all in the majority on this. I think most of wrestling, you know, fans are in the majority on the fact that how do you not close with Kevin and Sammy against the USOS again unless you're going to do something that's going to impact the next night later, you know, after the main event or at some other point, which I think is ridiculous at this point, just let it go to me, that's got

to close the show. It's not the way that. But listen, everybody, and I've had a few people say, well, you know, the Royal Rumble winner is guaranteed the main event of WrestleMania. Do they say that or do they say the winner of the Royal Rumble is guaranteed a title match at WrestleMania, Because that's what it should be, because the other way to look at this is if it's me, if I'm if I'm Rea Ripley or Charlotte. I mean, I don't know. If you really got a big ego, you want to

you want to finish or whatever, close the show. But but to me, it's like, you know that the fans are going to unleash an extraordinary amount of energy, and that Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane versus USO's match, you want to follow that? Yeah, I mean yeah, I guess they can put on like some something with Snoop and the Miss or whatever, because 're gonna do something with Snoop and the Miz. You can do a buffer or whatever Men's tag. I mean, you know, you can do

this bring him down thing and everything like that. But I would not want that match to go on earlier and then have to main event the show because you just know you're not going to get that reaction. And that's nothing against them, It's just it's the nature of the WWE audience. I've seen it a thousand times at WrestleMania. I've seen, you know, a match go on last that

you know doesn't get the crowded reaction. If something that went on earlier, and when it's over, everyone says, you know, this match should have closed the show, and most of the time it's like, well, you probably knew that going in that there's always the argument, you know, I think I've seen it, you know, a few times. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. But I think that the strongest match the match to the fans are gonna be most passionate about, the match of

the fans are the most interested in. I think that match should gone last. And it's not like it's not a title match. It is for the tag team titles.

So and looking on this, you know they're already saying they're going to open with Sena in theory, So to me, it's like, okay, open with that, have the women's six you know, the six woman comes next, Ray and Dominic, the men's tag in there, then Seth and Low, then rein Charlotte, and then have the USOS and the tag matches the main To me, that's very simple to lay out. That's my fantasy booking idea for Night one. We'll see what happens, but you know, it seems logical. So a

lot happened last night. We'll do the Dynamite report later, but the official debut of aw All Access took place last night, and in general, I thought it was a really good show. By one complaint, and it's not even really I hate to say it's complaint because everybody knew this going in. It should have been patently obvious. They can't talk about anything involving CM punk. They can't even

say that the Young Bucks were suspended. Literally, if you have, if somehow you don't know what happened here, you turn on the show and they show the thing where Tony Kahn said because of you know, I regret I can't remember what he said, but essentially he said, you know, we have to strip them of the titles, and then they're just coming back and like, if you don't know what happened, it's like, well, what happened? I mean, did they fail a drug test? Like, you don't know anything,

and they can't talk about it. So, you know, literally all we got out of Matt was I don't ever want to talk about it. And then it's just the story of their attempted return, trying to get back into the ring, trying to fight their way back to ring shape and it's just a giant mystery. Back at the moment with more Observer Live ring the show. Bran elre is here Wrestling Observer Live, miembervib Elsom Wrestling Observer dot Com.

Regarding our debate yesterday, Mike, there really was not a lot of drama here on the show, but they did address the Brig Baker thunder Rosa thing, which I thought was interesting because you know, obviously thunder Rose as fans and they don't like Britt Baker, and obviously Britt Baker has fans as well. But I couldn't help but notice that with all of the fan drama regarding Britt Baker, it was always directed entirely at Britt Baker. But if you watched the show, every woman on this show was

upset with thunder Rosa. Soreya was upset with thunder Rosa. Britt Baker was upset with thunder Rosa. Jamie Hayter was upset with thunder Rosa. Tony Storm was upset. They were all saying the exact same thing, and the point of

it wasn't really to bury thunder Rosa. I mean, they were burying her and everything like that, but the the story behind the show was more about these women are all working hard, they're working injured, they're they're trying to make this division something and thus they were upset that thunder Rosa was not coming to work in their words. And they also had the scene where you know, Britt Baker's getting shot up with whatever their courts own or whatever.

They're shooting her up because you know, she has a back injury and she's had a back injury for a

long time. She wrestled as champion for like four months with a broken wrist, and so yeah, if you want to get angry at Britt Baker, you can, or you know, he can look at what Britt Baker was dealing with and what she was thinking about when you know thunder Rosa in her words is like I'm not coming to work, but I'm flying all over the country doing seminars in etc. So that's what they addressed on the show, and really it was only for like maybe a minute, and you

know the rest of it was, you know, everyone's dealing with this or that. Adam Cole. Really the show, it seems to me, is a vehicle to get over the comeback of Adam Cole. Because that was the whole point of this episode. He's been gone. They acknowledged that he was out with two concussions in three weeks, although they didn't acknowledge a lot of other stuff, like, you know, Kyle O'Reilly is mysteriously gone. He had a mysterious surgery. We don't know anything about it, We don't anything on

his status. We just know what happened. But they tell us everything about Adam Cole and all the things he's trying to do to return. At the big climax of the show is he really wants to come back for full gear and he goes to the doctor and the doctor basically tells him I ain't gonna happen, brother, And so now he has to get in the car and you know, deal with the fact that maybe I can come back some day, maybe I can't. I really want to come back now, but realistically, if I come back now,

I may start over at day one. I may never be able to wrestle again. And so that's kind of your cliffhanger going to the second episode, although they spoiled it by previewing the next episode, and he's back, but I thought overall it was it was a very good show, especially if you know what's happened. Like if you if you don't know what's happening, you review the show and you hate it because you don't know what's happening. Well, there's lots of they didn't tell you, But if you

don't know what's happening, it was a good show. I only saw little parts of it, so I don't want to judge it in its entirety. But I just going back to the women, you know. I know you were talking about a lot of the heat that Britt Baker was taking online, and I wonder if part of that is the fact that she gets pushed back as a character and has gotten especially during that time too, was getting pushed back as a character that she sucks all the air out of the room, and a lot of

it not her fault. They can't get anybody over but her,

that sort of thing. I think maybe that mixes into it somewhat too, with what you're remembering, but also too, you got to remember a lot of people really didn't know what was going on and didn't know how much back they're finding it out now, you know, And why is the women's division MESSI for so long I mean, obviously the people listening to this show, you know, we're generally aware of it, but I don't know how many fans really know because unless they were listening to thunder

Rosa on Busted Open, which I mean, what's the reach of Sirius XM. You know, I love it, I love us, but you know, you know what was the reach of that to the general aw fan or to the person even on Twitter? You know what I mean? So I think there was so much during that time going on with those women and backfighting and was injuries and all that sort of stuff. A lot of people were reacting to what they thought they knew but actually had no idea.

And I think brit it's like the starting quarterback on a team for right now until they established more stars. Like anything that happens in that women's division, good or bad, it's going to be on Britt Baker. Like you know, she is the lightning rod for everything, and she's got big, strong shoulders. I was going to say a strong back, but unfortunately she doesn't of all the injuries she has

had since she started. Now we find out about her back and it's like, you know, it's too bad, but you know, she is really the face of that division. To an interview, she said, unfortunately, my back is getting worse now. It's a neck and a back problem. It's manageable. I'm tough. I will always find ways to work. My championship rain was with a broken wrist. I'll figure that out one way or the other. You've got to work around it. Sometimes, maybe trick your body and think an

ad doesn't really hurt that bad. Stand by everything I said, because I still have the same questions. You're traveling all over the place for the projects where you're not coming to work when you are the champion. This is regarding thunder Rosa. This was an interview that she gave recently to Slam Wrestling. I want to know why. I'm just asking the question because I'm very passionate, very protective of aw.

Anybody can call me a bully, but I stand by that, and that question still has not been answered to this day. People like Adam Cole would have killed to be able to come back to work. But he can't travel. It's not like he was going in and doing a signing or a convention or a seminar. They're not coming to work, and he wasn't even able to leave the house. You know. One of the big things on the show was, you know, Adam Cole wanted to come back, and she was very

protective and would not let him come back. But what did not happen was nobody was very protective of Britt Baker because I'm broken wrist, dude, that you're working on. She's a dentist. Somebody should have said, bro, don't do anything until your wrist is heal. You want a broken wrist, like, deal with a broken wrist for the rest of your life as a dental hygienist. Get the earlier arthritista. Yeah,

I mean, man, let that thing heal. Dude. Hey, look that's and that's actually a great point here too, because you know, I don't know if my kid has got eyeballs on wrestling, but I know there's a lot of people who listen and watch this stuff. They want to get into the business. And you hear it over and over again where you know, make sure you go to school, make sure you got something to fall back on. This

is a great example. Woman is thirty one years old, and to be honest, look, if she wants to have a family, you know you want to be able to like carry your kid to term, you know, with a good back and be able to bend over and play with them. It goes for both members of that family. And she's only thirty one years old and she's got her career outside of this, and Casey needs it. And this is a great, one of the highest shining examples of make sure you got something to fall back on

as you get into the wrestling business. Not everybody is Nick Wayne or Billy Starks, but you know what, they're going to school too, well, they're finishing high school. I don't know what's gonna happen look at yeah, but they're being forced to, you know, take this stuff seriously and make sure you have something to fall back on and make sure you have a direction, you know, because again,

they're very lucky for their positions that they're in. Not everybody's going to be that lucky, but everybody will look at them as the example of you know, I can do that, because I'm sure there's a fifteen or sixteen year old kid right now going I want to be in this business, you know, and I know I can get in, I can do this, I can do that. But you know what, don't forget about what these old people say, and these old wrestlers say about making sure

you got some them. April fifth Dynamite as the Guns and FTR titled Versus Career, Jamie Hayter versus Jo Ricky Starts, Juice Robinson, Blackpool Combat Club will speak with the newly turned Brian Danielson and m j F. Day. I'm sure that's gonna go well that guy And speaking of Tony, Kahn did an interview and he said he considered the idea that's with the La Times. He considered the idea of going baby face with MJF, but he said ultimately he feels AW is at its best when MGF is

at his worst. He said, I listen to the fans when the reactions were so massive. I do, at least think about making him a good guy. But MJF is the world's best young pro rustler, one of the best wrestling heels of any age I've ever seen. I think its ability to antagonize the other wrestlers in the crowd is unparalleled. AW is at his strongest when MGM is at his worst as a villain. Now, I would argue this because and I did argue it, and I'm gonna

tell you why I'm arguing it again. Oh here we go. Okay, we don't know if he is at his best as a villain because they didn't try. There was a short period where the fans organically got totally behind this guy, to the point where they had to do pre tapes where he would bury the crowd to make sure that they might boo him during the show. And that was the closest that we got. Like as soon as it was time to shoot the angle, he was right back

being a heel again. And here's the thing, everybody, And this is why I mentioned this now again not just because Tony said it. This weekend is WrestleMania and one of the biggest matches on the show is Sammy Zane and Kevin Owens versus the use host for the tag team titles. The biggest match they've had so far this year was Emmy Zane versus Roman Reigns at Montreal. That match, in the finish of that match was painfully debated before and after, and do you realize that none of that

was supposed to happen? And the reason we had Montreal, the reason we've got this match coming up at WrestleMania. The reason for all of this is because they had a two to three week plan for Sammy Zane and it got over organically and they went with it. So the point we're now the big argument on the board is Dave Off handedly the other day mentioned on Observer Radio goes, you know, Sammy's a bigger star than anybody else in the promotion, and people were like bigger than

Cody and started arguing back and forth. But the fact that that's even a talking point is because they had a plan. Sammy started to get over, they went with it, and he became a massive, massive baby face. We don't know if that could have happened with MGAFF because they didn't go with it. Back in a moment of is there Alive and the show, bran elbur is here wrestling Observer Live. Mike Simberviv also rustling Observer dot Com. We're

gonna do Dynamite, but something's up with Koda Bushi. He did a tweet which when you translate it appears to say that he reinjured his injured shoulder and he's got a match with Mike Bailey. I think is it tonight or is it tomorrow, tomorrow at four o'clock. All right, the last I heard, is it the match is still on? But I guess we'll find out. I'm a liar. It is today. I'm sorry it is today. Well, I guess we'll find out what's going on tonight if he does

the match or not. Hm, I mean it's it's three eastern, so like, is he doing the match or not? That's kind of a question. You got about two more hours if to me, Look, here's the one thing. If they have to scramble to find somebody, this is a good weekend to try to pick somebody up and call him and say, hey, can you show up at the show? So man, yeah, I'm not sure how much more? How much more does he have scheduled for this weekend? Is he scheduled to face Joe? Is it on Joey Janella's show?

So yeah, So then there's that on either Friday or Saturday. I have to see when that is. So yeah, not not good if that's the case. But you know, sometimes translations DJ said it earlier in the chat, and he's exactly right. Sometimes Google Translate can be a little bit flaky, and sometimes koto bushi can be a little bit flaky, So we'll see if this isn't just something that is h blown up a little bit and it's only mild drama,

all right. So the Dynamite Show but up with Matt Hardy and Jungle Boy, which was a fun match, and we had the return of Hook to help out jungle Boy as Ethan Page was distracting, he brawled at the back with him to set up their upcoming match, and then Jungle Boy ended up hitting his new finisher, which is kind of like a hidden blade, kind of goes the other way back of the head, and he got

the win. And then afterwards MGF came out and they had a long interview segment back and forth, and the gist of it is that MGF was very upset at Jungle Boy for saying he had an easy road at the top. He said he didn't, said that he'd done everything he had to do, and they had had a match in twenty twenty double or nothing, and he'd given Jungle Boys some advice and Jungle Boy said yes, the advice was nice guys always finish last, and MGF said yes, and you were a nice guy and you hung out

with all these yeeks and here you are. I'm the best wrestler in the world, AW champion, You're just the Jungle Boy still And so Jungle said, you know, if I have to take my time and get to the top the right way, I would rather do that than to stab people in the back and end up the biggest jerk in all of a w And so MJF said, you're a massive disappointment. I talk to your Girlfriendana J. She says, you're weak between the legs. So when I get a big brawl, Jungle Boy stumps a mudhole in him,

it's hilariout MJF bales and good segment. It went a long time, though, I think he could have done this same segment in less time, especially because Jungle Boy, he's not a bad interview, but he's not like good enough where you can go twenty minutes and you're gonna keep the fans engaged when a guy's getting yes chance, when the Jungle boys getting yes chance. To me, the segment went on to long. You know, one of from one of my counterpoints for something you said in the last

segment about MJF and making him a baby face. In my point of view, you can make more baby faces with him, and I thought last night he did that was some of the best j JF on the microphone when he comes to putting over jungle Boys, especially because Jungle Boy can't go out there and cut that twenty minute promo, and I thought he did a great Ric Flair esque job in making sure he was putting him over on top of insulting him and then really getting into the MJF dig At the end, we had Marvez

interviewing Callous. Callous is like he's trying to explain to Kenny that this was all a misunderstanding and he might be getting through to him, but then he does a line you know me right, And as soon as he says zat Kells is like, yeah, this guy is a despicable, horrible, awful man to Tilba moose Trade or whatever you call him. And so then Don realizes maybe I shouldn't have said that, and he goes, oh, that's fair, but anyway, it was an accident I slipped. He goes, I'm gonna go tell

a hangman right now, I'm gonna apologize. Off he goes to his doom. As it turns out, and he claimed Jericho appreciates Society. They're out in the town Jericho Appreciation Society trying to recruit the acclaimed, and they're gonna get an answer next week, and I don't like their chances. Thawn Castle and the Boys versus the Blackpool Combat Club. Blackpool Combat Club destroyed them, massacred them, left them for dead,

and left Hangman's doing a promo. So we got a real injury with Matt, which is a biceps injury, and we have a fake injury with Nick which is a separated shoulder, and he says, hopefully they'll heal and Callis shows up. He tries to give a handshake, and before Hangman can consider it, the BCC shows up again. They killed a Hangman. Tom's just standing there with his hand outstretched the entire time, and then Hangman's Hayman's dead. So he's like, I get a handshake from Moxley, Moxley kills him.

He's dead. Gashed open Kenny Omega Jeff Cobb I WGPUS title. You know he gonna get with keny Omega. A great match and not always the same match. This match was totally different from last week, and it was totally great in a completely different way. Jeff Cobb looked awesome. He did a running delayed spinning brainbuster. At one point, V trigger of his own tried the One Winged Angel. Kenny finally hit the V trigger and somehow got this guy

up hit the One Winged Angel and pinned him. And then the BCC they show up again and they start stomping a mudhole in Kenny and then Danielson's music hits. At first, the fans go quiet because they're like, what, they don't even think he's actually there. But then he comes out and they go nuts. And then he gets in the ring and he's backing up the hangman and you know, he's kind of looking at the hangman and the fans are like, no, don't turn. But then he

turned and they cheered. He's horrible fans. He killed him, Yes, Locke smothered him to death. So all of the Blackpool Combat Club, including Daniel Bryan or now heels and you know, there's a lot of debate about well, wasn't Brian always a heel? Here's the deal with the Blackpool Combat Club. They were This is my interpretation. I can't say, you know, this is a fact or anything, but they've always for

a while, they were always baby faces. But they're baby they're like Steve Auston baby faces, like they don't care that you put them in the ring. They're gonna kill you. And even even Brian's character was like, you know, he's a he's a spiritual man, he's meditating, he's kind, he doesn't want to hurt anything. But when the bell rings, like run, that was always his character. Well now his character is whether the bell rings or not, you better run.

That's the heel turn of this Brian Danielson character. He's a he's a bad guy beating up that poor hang man. Asked, boys did a promo talking about next week. Top guys out next week, they say, because his title versus career Butcher and Orange Cassidy International title, you know who's great? Orange Cassidy and the Butcher. I thought they had a very very good match. There was a lot of interference by the Blade, and so finally he ends up hitting

Orange with a crowbar. Butcher hits a choke breaker. Everyone thinks it's over, but Orange kicks out. Best friends run down. They're taking out the blade. One of them clonks the Butcher with the crowbar. He gets his just desserts Orange. It's the Orange punch pins him. Very good match. Orange still the champion. Remember I was ranting about Jade Cargill, Well, this week she was gotten to. This week she was selling.

This week she was angry. She's very angry. This tie of Valkyrie doesn't like her, wants to get rid of her. And then Mark Sterling says, Tie, have you used the jaded on Friday? That's it, We're suing. This is a much needed promo. Here we had Willow and Ruby, which man I thought this was a hit because these fans love Willow Nightingale. They were so into this match, and granted you had tons of interference, like the heel's interfered fifty times. No friends out for poor Willow, and finally

there's another distraction. Ruby rolls her up and pins her. And then finally, I don't know what they were doing, Riho and sky Blue run out. They start to make the same but they get killed because it's three on two, And finally they hit Jamie Hayter's music in this place and they just they went nuts, and she comes down to the ring and she's killing blokes. One on three, she takes out all of the heels single handedly. The fans were going nuts for this comeback, and then she

stands triumphant there at the end. Overall, I thought that was a real good segment, and it was in the death spot, so we'll see how it ends up on TV. But they're into the baby faces here, I'll give him that much. Adam Cole his return match against Daniel Garcia. There was a spot early where they were on two different pages, but once they got past that, I thought this turned into a really good match. I thought they

did a good job telling the story. You know, Daniel Garcia keeps dropping him on his head like with a pile driver and then a cross arm pilot driver. A man was he making sure this guy didn't really land on his head, which is what you're supposed to do, And so Cole escapes this, he escapes that finally hits. The Panama's sunrise hits, the boom gets the pin, everybody's cheering, they're dropping confetti from the sky. Outcomes Britt Baker, They hug,

they kiss, everyone's so happy. And then Jericho's music hits and he comes down to the ring and he checks on Garcia and he pulls his man out of the ring and he starts to help him to the back, but man, he's angry. And then he just turns and he looks at this Adam Cole. So Chris Jericho and Adam Cole probably gonna be the pay per view match, Probably gonna be great. I like this feud. Give Adam Cole a big win as he works his way up this long ladder, and I liked it. It's a good show.

And not only that, who would you rather work with coming back from injuries? I mean, there's a lot of talent in aw, a lot of guys do a lot of crazy things. But if I'm coming back from the type of injuries that Adam Cole is coming back from, give me the old pro please, you know what I mean. You know, Chris Jericho is not gonna do any you know, seven hundred and twenty moonsalts on top of your head or whatever, So that's gonna be good for him. The

acclaimed in Billy Gunn. The talk about FTR and all that stuff with the guns and the belts and are they better off and all that sort of stuff. The acclaimed against Matt Manard and Parker with Billy Gunn and Jake Hager squaring off in purple hats like you didn't

need belts for that. And I think this is where they acclaimed are really valuable, and this is where Manard Parker are probably going to show themselves to be really, really valuable too, because yes, is it undercard mid card Phil on a show, Yes it is, but it provides you that comic relief that you need. So I'm actually looking forward to those you know, crews going at it

and the match with Jeff Cobb and Kenny Omega. Jeff Cobb is such an enigma, and I know it's probably because of his situation where he wants to work for both New Japan and in other places, but damn, you know, if I ran a promotion, I would try to make Jeff Cobb full time and I would do a lot more with him. Every time we see him in aw just you know the nature of the beast. He's usually losing, you know, and they don't have much for him right now New Japan, so you know, it's always a little

bit tough. So talk about a guy that's better to see on the indies, Jeff Cobb shows up. Watch him. Do you remember when Steve Bosson was feeding with Vince McMahon and it was a big hit. Some of you youngsters might remember this feud, and the story was it

was the common man against his boss. And you, as a viewer, if you didn't like your boss man, you could watch that show and you could just watch Steve Bosson give the boss a stunner every week, and no matter what happened, every week, your boss was going to get a stunner. Well, raven Sirio did an interview on The Jason Show, and Ravens Stereo said, I am not making this out. The beating that I give my son is dedicated to all those fathers that are putting up

with their kids like I am. You hear that? Ain't what? What? Back? In a moment of Deserver Life back of the show, Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. MIKESIMBERBB, also of Wrestling Observer dot com. Well, how do the NXT showd on Tuesday? Everybody? Well, I don't know. Here we go six hundred twenty thousand viewers fast audience for the show since February fourteen, eighteen to forty nine eleventh on Cable point one six, which is pretty good. Second highest rating

of the year in that category. NBA Game went head to head and XT ratings up in every demo from last week females twelve to thirty four up one hundred and thirty three percent. Wow. Compared to the same week in twenty twenty two, they were up point three percent of total viewers and fourteen percent in eighteen and forty nine the shows. The show's on the rise. Everybody at XT is on the rise, so the moon. So I am very excited to go to uh that show on Saturday.

Both happy, he's he's waiting to debut. It'll It'll probably be Monday. Quite frankly, where shinska, Dude, I don't know what's Kno. Commerce, probably got some mystery injury, you know, carrying Muda's backs, probably thrashed. Well, he's was carrying boots for so long too. Hey, listen, guys, if you do not see the actual final match of the Great Muda, including the post match with Choo Bro, this was the

greatest thing I ever saw in my life. I never had so much fun watching a retirement match as I did with that Great Mooda match. And the funny thing is when Daver's reviewing it, he's talking about how it's very emotional, and you know, Muda was very emotional. I didn't see any of that. I saw a guy that was like, Ah, who cares, I'm done. I'm gonna go out there and have some fun and then have this this comedy thing with Choo here at the end. I loved it. Go find it everybody. It's great, and we're

out of here. I'll talk to you at some point. Everybody, have a good WrestleMania week. We'll talk to you again after a while. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.