Wrestlemania - Night 1 and 2 Recap

Observer Lives since Friday. Lot's happened since then. We've had Night one of WrestleMania, We've had Night two of WrestleMania. We've got Raw to Night, n XT Standing Deliver on Saturday, SmackDown on Friday, the Hall of Fame, Ring of Honor, Supercard of Honor, about fifty other shows in the area. We got a lot going on on Raw tonight. I've been told a few things so we can tell you about.

And also the retirement, the official retirement, laying his boots in the ring of Triple H injury to boogs aj styles slashed open on the weight of the ring. He was not happy about that and yes, Pat buck quit one of the the w w E agents had just had enough after WrestleMania and he's out of there. So we'll tell you about that here today, and uh really anything else you want to talk about. So I I

often plug the subscriber area. I'm not gonna do a big plug here, but it's Wrestling Observer dot com for audio and newsletters, and of course we've got video dot for w online dot com as well, and of all weekends. Like you know, if you really want to know everything that happened WrestleMania weekend, you're better off being a subscriber because I can't get into all of it today. It's impossible.

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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. Back in a moment Observer Live. Thank thank hey everybody. You are right back in the show. Bran, Now we're here. Let's get going today. We've got a lot to get into. It's been a long weekend, all right, how them begin? Yeah, so WrestleMania was this weekend? Did you guys know that it was a WrestleMania this weekend?

It was two nights, and uh, you know, we gonna start with here today very quickly, is uh how all the shows did this weekend? And uh, you know, I was going over my timeline for the show started, and I was, I was, I was actually fixing to get really mad and start. I responded to one guy, which was one guy too many, a historian who was angry that we were given the real numbers for WrestleMania, which is one of the funnier tweets I've seen in a while. Carl. But I was gonna get really mad at a bunch

of people. But then, you know, I really started think about this, and I thought, you know, like, if you can't deal with the actual numbers for WrestleMania, I mean, I could get mad at you, but the fact of the matter is if you can't deal, you've got some problems in your life. So I have sympathy. So I'm just gonna ignore it and move on. WrestleMania Night one, they distributed sixty five thousand, seven hundred and nineteen tickets. That's distributed. The actual paid was between fifty five and

sixty thousand. The fake attendance, which is a fake attendance. It is not the number of tickets distributed, plus the people who sell popcorn, and the security and this and that that people do. This is a fake number. Okay, I don't care what Bruce Pridget said on his podcast. Okay, the guy who runs his company, his name is Vince McMahon. You guys all bow to him at WrestleMania after he has a bad match, he said, Vince, Okay, not me. He has said flat out that the attendance is for entertainment.

It is part of the entertainment portion of the show. It is fake, it is made up. Okay, four times a year they do an earnings call, they release actual numbers of the full attendance for the quarter, and in fact, if you do the math, they do give the real number for WrestleMania, and it's never the fake number that they put on the screen. Which was particularly funny on night too, because they put one fake number on the screen and then the announcers had a different fake number,

so we had to fake numbers. They couldn't even get their stories straight. So anyway, first night, sixty five thousand tickets out between fifty five and sixty paid. Uh. Second night sixty seven nineteen I'm sorry, sixty five six fifty three out between fifty five and sixty thousand paid, and

they had to fake numbers for that night. But basically they added twelve thousand people to the attendance, which is in fact what they do every year, and they have done every year since the beginning of time, and they admit this, but it's my fault. So that's WrestleMania tonight raw. They have got nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty two tickets out and the building is set up for ten thousand, four hundred and six, So there's six hundred seventy four

tickets available. They're probably gonna sell out. So that's the urra after wrestlemans we're talking about in a moment, n XT stay and deliver four thousand, three sixty six. Somehow they did not have fifteen thousand popcorn sellers and security and etcetera, etcetera. U to get that four thousand, three d sixty six in the building? Um, I mean compared to what they normally do on Tuesday nights in Florida.

That's a great number. But if you look back at the you know n x T takeover wrestlemany weekend shows when Triple H was in charge. There is no way to spend this as and improved n x T. It is. It is worse off in every single conceivable way. This n x T two point oh. I do not want to hear arguments. Friday Nights, SmackDown did a great number twelve thousand and eleven tickets. They were completely sold out for the SmackDown show in the Hall of Fame, the

third best SmackDown number since returning to the road. According to Wrestle Ticks quote, a tremendous number which it was, and a Ring of Honor Supercard of Honor with Tony Cohn in charge, one thousand, nine d and seventy eight tickets out. So Tony Khan mentioned two thousand of the media scrum, he inflated it by uh twenty two tickets. Apparably there were only twenty two security guards, popcorn sellers and anyway. So those are the numbers for for the weekend.

So the good, the bad and everything in between. Now the shows. I told you these shows are gonna be pretty good. Night one was better than Night too, but I was entertained by both shows. Night one we had the use O's beating Shinsky Nakamura and Rick Boogs. When Rick Boogs injured his leg, they had to go to the finish early. He has suffered an injured patella and torn quad and he is going to be out of action for a long time. Best wishes too, Old Boogs.

They had to change the finish. They had to shave time off the match, and so they filled that time with copious video packages and then ran out of time later. It's actually like that a w show where they had a fake stand by match and by puting the fake stand by match on the show. They actually ran out of time and had to cut some other stuff later in the show. Drew mc terrby Dappy Corbyn. I thought the match was good. It wasn't a great match, but

it was good. Drew McIntyre one and then chopped the ring ropes with his sword, so we got to see some special effects. Missing Logan Paul beat Ray Mysterio and Dominic Mysterio way better than anybody could have expected. Because of Logan Paul. This dude outworked the Miss. If you showed any random person this match and said name the one guy who's you know, uh not a wrestler, they

would have picked them is Logan Paul. Looked great. They had a fun match, uh they they they won Missing Logan Paul one, and then Logan Paul, who's just like he's the greatest heel, Miss turns on him. I guess to turn him baby face, but everyone cheered the Miss, so the whole thing is just total miss. I think Logan Paul is coming back, so I'm even more baffled than they that they shot this angle at the end,

but they did. Bianca beat Becky. Ma'am talking about this one for months and all I heard was not gonna happen. I'll believe it when I see it. Well, I hope we all believe it now. Because she beat her clean in the middle of the ring with the ko D she won the title. They finished off a story that they started at WrestleMania, and I thought it was an excellent match. I thought Becky did everything in her power to get Bianca over. Bianca looked like a huge star.

She had the best women's match on WrestleMania now two years in a row. So congratulations to her. The new Raw Women's Champion Seth Rollins versus Marco Stunt. Big surprise, No, of course, not everyone. It was Cody Rhodes and they hit his music and the place went crazy for this guy and he was massively over and they had a very good match and Cody beat him. Yeah, Cody did not do a job as first night in beat him with the Crossroads. Came off like a massive superstar. He's

going to appear on Raw tonight. He's going to talk about everything, and I would expect there to be references to a W, although I don't think he will actually say the letters A E W. But we shall see it. Was a home run segment. I know people don't want to hear that, but it was Charlotte versus Ronda Rousey better than I expected. It wasn't a great match or anything like that, but I mean they certainly worked hard,

they tried. No one half asked it. Charlotte beat her with a boot after run Da Rousey had gotten a pin, although the referee reversed it because he saw the foot on the ropes, and then she had a submission while the rough wasn't around, So she had a pin and a submission and then got booted in the face and lost. So it looks like they're gonna be heading towards a

submission match. Steve Auston beat Kevin Owens. They actually did a match, and there's a guy there that a big sign melt ser fierce facts on a weekend where we got Vince McMahon versus Pat McAfee and stone cold Steve Auston versus Kevin Owens in an actual match, and man, for a guy that hasn't been around eighteen years if he's seven years old, he did a hell of a job.

This was a retirement match. To be proud of. Kevin Owens looked great as well, worked his ass off for stone Cold Stunner finished in the middle of the ring, Austin took soup plexus on the cement the whole nine yards Holy smokes. I thought this delivered. I mean, it didn't deliver as much as the Jackass match, but it over delivered. So I thought this was this was excellent. And uh, before I go on, Mike, before the break, what do you think of that first night? I really

enjoyed the first night. I mean, wrestling wise, I thought it was a better night. You know, Cody and Seth they bought Cody Rhodes, And when you buy Cody Rhodes, you buy all of Cody Rhodes, and you buy the logo, the music, the whole presentation, which I thought was great. I thought that's what they needed to do. If you're bringing in Cody Rhodes, you want to shock the system a little bit and and and get people talking. That was the best way to do it. And I think

maybe he does mention the words a w tonight. This might be the only time he does it, but maybe we actually get to see that to night Logan Paul, I don't know what direction they're gonna go with Logan Paul and the Miss. At some point they're probably gonna have to figure out a way to make Miss the good guy in that exchange, because I don't think that

fans are gonna stop pouring onto Logan Paul. So he did a spectacular job and just not you another person with bad Bunny, Floyd Mayweather and some others of people from the outside who have done a great job of WrestleMania. Magre in a moment, Observer Live, Light in the show, Bright El Brez here, Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simper Vide, also Wrestling Observer dot Com. So despite the fact that Night one had two and a half hours of video packages and entrances in a four hour show, I thought

it was a pretty great wrestle media night too. Not quite as great, although there was great stuff on the show. R K Bro Street Off It's alph Academy, excellent opening match, r KO is all over, r K Bro got the win, retained the raw tag team titles. That's one to go out of your way to see. If you want to see horrible things, there was plenty of that on the show. Bobby Lashing, Omas Holy Smokes, This match is horrible, and uh,

you can't have match good match with aj styles. It's it's time to cut bait, take a break, go back to that performance center because Omas cannot have a bad good match. This match with Lashly horrible and then Lashly beat him so so much for that wind streak. Dude, what's he gonna do down there? I mean, honestly, and I don't want to break, but like to me, if he's not gonna be then you probably need to cut bait because I he does not seem to have lateral movement.

There are just things that unless he's just going to be a guy who walks in and choke slams into his bodyguard and serves that kind of role, which you can do. You can bring him out every three months or so and have him go crush some body. People would lose their minds. Like to me, that's it. Other than that, I mean, it's I mean, can you imagine, look almost in vinced they should get together and have a match. That would be amazing. Johnny Knoxville, Sammy Zane.

I mean, I could talk for hours about this. In fact, if you're a subscriber to Wrestling Observer dot com, myself and filthy Tom Law this afternoon. It's actually gonna be a two thirty Pacific today, half hour late to thirty Pacific, five thirty Eastern. I bet we could spend an hour on this match. But suffice to say, and this is what I will say about the full deconstruction of that match. This is a this is a backhanded uh. It's not even a compliment. This is just uh, you know, this

is a reality. W w E as a tendency to advertise things and either under deliver or just deliver what you would expect. And every now and then they over deliver. And an example of that, in fact, would be Kevin Owens and Steve Austin. They they advertised that it was going to be just a talk show segment and they delivered a legitimate, good, no holds barred Steve Boston versus Kevin.

So they over delivered, which is rare for w w E. I'm not sure in all the years that I have been watching w w E, and I started watching in I don't think there's ever been a match that more over delivered than this one. Here is Johnny Knoxville, Sammy Zane, anything goes. We all knew that it would be pie pans and trash cans, and you knew there was gonna be a taser to the balls and this and that. I did not expect fireworks in the ass. I did not expect of the giant hand. I did not expect

we Man. It was like UFC one in there. This guy is just stiffing people right and left, and then Sammy Zane just booted him. Like the only way this boot would have been worse is if he would have booted him with the toe of his boot, which is like, you're not supposed to ever kick someone with the toe. You was kicking with a flat part of your boot. Man, he kicked this dude. We Man didn't even turn his head. It was just the boot goes right into his nose.

You know, I think his nose went into his brain. Oh my god. They were absolutely killing each other. And yes, they did slow motion play that too forever. Yeah. Usually what they do is, like you know, they they show real slow motion, then right when there's about to be impact, they speed it up so you can't really see what happened. Not this one. It was like slow and then they slowed it down even more than you stopped. All right, Oh my god. And then the giant mouse trapped the

giant hand, it flew in it. I was dying. I was dying watching this match. Loved it. I just loved it. I mean it was total, absolute pro wrestling stupidity. It was a human cartoon. Oh man, that was something else. Take that spring break, Janella. They outdid every indie they did for then the most areposterous match of the week. This this whole, that whole two days of WrestleMania there was.

It was a absolute spectacle in this look. Logan Paul delivered, Steve Austin delivered, Uh, you know, I Johnny Knoxville delivered a lot of the stuff that look. I would have taken a great one day, five hour wrestling show that was classic top to bottom stuff. I would have taken that.

I absolutely would have. If you had going to go ahead, if you would have taken these two WrestleManias, these two nights, and you'd have put only the best stuff on one show, and it would have been the greatest WrestleMania of all time by multiples. Yeah. But if you if you trimmed the fat off of both of those shows at to night, and you could have taken off an hour off of each show and not missed a beat, and it probably would even flowed better. But what I was gonna say is, look,

they promised this year a spectacle. They made no bones about the fact, with the exception of a couple of matches headlined by Brock can By Roman, that this is a spectacle show. This is not from you, Mr hardcore pro wrestling fan. This is for the masses. And from that point of view, they delivered. And then some the

Johnny Knoxville stuff. I haven't seen Jackass in years, so to see we Man with this little we gut doing a body slam on Samy Zane and this is another thing too, And I just want to throw this out there about Sammy Zane and Kevin Owens resigning. Bottom line with Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane is they can walk into Canada anytime w W runs and be the biggest things in all of professional wrestling. Barnon, they walk into Quebec, you know, they're They're like, God's there. A W doesn't

have that reach in Canada, they don't. And they these are two guys that like their job, they like the people they work with, they like where they're at in their lives, and there are a lot of people that are upset that we're not going to get to see Generico and Steen again and a W doing stuff that you know what, that's a okay, And you see why maybe yesterday and the day before of why these guys were so completely fine with resigning with w w E

and possibly even finishing out their careers there, depending on what direction they decided to take. But if you told me the next three years, I would do absolutely nothing a job to every person on that roster. But I got to be in the ring with Stone Colt Steve Boston at WrestleMania for his last match. I'm sorry if I'm Kevin Owens. It's all worth it, alright. We had Sasha Naomi versus Len and Carmelo VERSUSI, and Live Morrigan versus Natty and Shana. Sasha Naomi won the women's tag titles.

It was a match that was on the card edge b DJ Styles. They did not go eighteen, they did not go. They went, and uh, it was excellently Here's the thing, it was excellently wrestled. Were people bored, Yeah, some people were bored by the middle of it. I thought it was a very very good match. The finish sucked. Damian Priest appears, a j is distracted, he has a springboard and gets speared out of midair and pinned. And now we got Edge and Damien Priest as a duo,

and Lord, I don't need that crap on WrestleMania. Do those stupid finishes on ron SmackDown. Come up with something creative for the biggest show of the year. Shamus and Ridge Holland versus The New Day. This match got bumped from Night one because they had two and a half hours of video packages on a four hour show. Well, on this show, New Day comes out dressed as Biggie when he won the title tribute to their fallen friend,

they showed the footage of the the guy's broken neck. They go one minute and forty seconds and the New Day is beaten clean in the middle of the ring. Pat McAfee defeated Austin Theory. This match was good. Pat McAfee was great, but if you saw the Adam Cole match, you would have expected that Austin Theory did a great job with him. Pat McAfee rolled him up for the pin.

This led to the worst match in the history of WrestleMania, bordering on the It may actually be the worst match I've ever seen, and I don't want to hear one excuse about how it shouldn't count in the year end of voting. Dude, it was horrible. Vince is absolutely completely immobile. He's out there as jacked up as he can be. At seventies six. He puts his arm out and Pat McAfee runs into it numerous times. Pat McAfee has a

cell for this guy. And then Vince mcmah takes a football and boots it into his ribs and pins him. He pinn Pat McAfee in the middle of the ring. So then of course they hit stone cold Steve Auston's music. Thankfully, Steve Auston came out Austin theory takes the greatest stunner in the history of man, and then it's time for the McMahon Austin stunner. And if you've ever seen Vince McMahon work, he's horrible, so horrible, I almost dropped an

F bomb right there. He's the worst. He's absolutely twenty five years ago, this guy couldn't do any thing in the ring, but he was Vince. So of course everybody sold for him, and he punched him as hard as he couldn't face and all that kind of crap, but he could never, ever, not one time ever take the stone cold stunning, right, and we're talking twenty five years ago when he was in his fifties and not his mid seventies. So they do the spot, Austin boots him.

It's honestly like Vince's a wax statue. He just tips over backwards, starts falling to the ropes. Steve Auston who bumped and he did everything, but the one thing he didn't do yesterday on Saturday night was run. Now he starts running. He's sprinting like it's it's like a track meet. He's trying to get ahold of this guy. Then he's trying to deadlift him off the mat, which is impossible. He finally gets him in position. Vince McMann takes a

stunner by sitting down. I got so many messages from wrestlers yesterday crying like Austin was not the only one crying with laughter. I mean people were crying and I was too, And you know what, I wouldn't want it any other way This was the only way to end this rivalry was for Vince take one more of the absolute worst stunners ever in the history of man, and he did and we all went home happy. And then Roman reigns Lessner. Hey, if you didn't see the show,

close your eyes. Imagine Roman reigns versus brock Lessner for twelve minutes and fifteen seconds. That's exactly what happened. And then Roman spirited him and pinned him and his noted yesterday in the Bruin Vidi show, Roman was announced as he entered the ring as the undisputed Universal Champion. He won and was billed as the new Undisputed Universal Champion. So after all that time, they couldn't figure out what to call it, nor did they have a new belt.

So yes, he unified the titles, but they're just gonna split him up again, probably sooner rather than later. But damn it, we got that that biggest match of all time back in a moment of life. Hey, well that was the two Knights of Rustlemania. Everybody, and we also had at X T stand and Deliver, and uh, I got a couple of things I want to talk about here. So I only saw the I only saw the ladder match in the main event, didn't have time to watch the rest of the show, but this is what happened.

Raquel and Dakota Kai beat Toxic Attraction on the pre show and won the n x T Tag team titles, so they're the new champions. Cameron Grimes did in fact win the North American title as I expected, beating Carmelo Hayes Santos, and it was the only finish. O't care any says it's the only finish beat Santos, Joaquin, well

actually Jaina Solos, Akoa, Grayson Waller. Anyway, a lot of stuff happened in this match, interference, like crazy amounts of interference, and finally, Cameron Grimes climbed up in one for his deceased father, the final promise he made for him. They did a great job with that storyline the last few weeks, so I was very happy to see that Tomasa Champa lost to Tony di'angelo, so he's out of there, probably showing up on Rod and I for all I know.

MSK beat Imperium and the Creed Brothers to win the tag team titles, so everyone thought the Creed Brothers gonna be champions. They in fact, it did not win the belts MSK did, so that was a surprise hit. The four away we had Cora, Jade, Kaylee, ray Eo Sharai and Mandy Rose and Many Rose one to retained the title because you know, they want to create new young stars. Thankfully Cora got the rub but just being in the match over WrestleMania weekend, she didn't need to win. God Forbid,

so Many Rose is still the champion. Coonter bt L a night I heard it was all right, Dave did not think it was a very good match at all, and he's, you know, fan of he's he's rating it on the Walter scales, which is a pretty high bar. And then yes, in the main event it is Dolph Ziggler versus Broun Breaker and uh and Broun Breaker got ran into an exposed turn. The match was so stupid when you think about it. I mean, the work was was pretty good, but Robert Rude interferes and the referee

says you're out of here, ejects him. Then Robert Rouge just comes back and the referee, the referee is is like he's helpless. Well, if I if I just qualify him. You know, broun Breaker can't win the title, so I really wanted to just qualify him. This is the stupidest, absolute stupidest rule. The rules are so dumb. It makes everyone looks so stupid. So he just keeps interfering. I mean, no big deal. And then roun Breaker gets his eyes raked. He gets thrown into a buckle and Ziggler super kick

him and pins him. Roun Breaker was defeated. And I know that we got some some fell on. In fact, someone's saying it right here, Braun is screwed. This person says Brian is screwed. Is that right? I don't know about that. I'll put it to you like this, everybody, I'll put it to you like this. If you've got your thousand dollars queued up for whale scout, transfer those funds over to your bank account tonight and talk to me in the morning. So that was the That was the n x T. That was the n x T

two point out show. There we also had the Ring of Honor Supercard of Honor. I did not see the the entire show, but FTR and the Briscos, Holy smokes, dude, there ain't no match this weekend better than that match.

That match was the most unbelievable tag team match. And you know these guys, all of them, you know, they put a lot of pressure on themselves and the goal was to like, you know, have a blow away match, and they were you know, that was a lot of pressure they put on themselves, and they went in there and they delivered. And like the highest praise that I can give it is this was This was a classic nineteen eighties style pro wrestling match with two work and

high spots. I mean, it was so awesome and I don't want to hear dude, go watch the match and get back to me. This was not you know, oh it was. He only thought it was great because there were a lot of flips, or is bro No. It was an old school, fantastic double juice tag team match between two teams that weren't there to look cool. They weren't there to show off. They were there to get a fight and to see who the better team was. And it was awesome and FTR one the Ring of

Honor tag team titles. The Young Bucks showed up afterwards and attack the Briscos. So I don't know, I don't know what they're gonna do with the Briscoes. I don't know if they can end up in uh in a w but it appears the Briscos are with Ring of Honor. I believe the Briscos are also gonna be with Impact. A w is working obviously with a company that Tony con owns a Ring of Honor, and they're working with

Impact Wrestling. So you're gonna see the Briscos versus the Young Bucks, which is a match all four of them want, and they're gonna tear the house down. And on Wednesday, you're going to see FTR versus the Young Bucks with the Ring of Honor and the Triple A titles on the line. Dynamite. I do expect FTR to win that match, but that's gonna tear the house down. And they also shot the angle. For those who've been watching Dynamite this it wasn't as slow as I thought. Jay Lethal turn

heel on the Ring of Honor Show. He's a full heel. He has a line with his best friend's son, Jay Dutt is an evil duo Samoa Joe then debut at the end of the Ring of Honor show. So he's gonna be a Ring of Honor regular man this show. I didn't see the whole show, but what I saw, I mean, this was some awesome stuff. So that was the Ring of Honor Supercard of Honor show. Did you see that picture of Tony presenting some o Joe was Smojoe was walking out on stage. He was so excited, dude.

Never seen a happier man in the world. And look, I'll right over here, not not the Doctor of Style Slick, which I also have on my chest right here, but right underneath that Sergeant Slaughter and Don care Noodle against Ricky Steamboat and Jay young Blood. And I began watching wrestling at a very young age and in the magazines that was the thing that that and Rick Flair were of the things that really made me a pro wrestling fan.

I loved Steamboat and young Blood and their few of Slaughter and care Noodle is amazing and it's available in its entirety. You can watch pretty much the whole thing leading up to it, including the match that they itself that they have in Greensboro, and it's some of the

best work of all time. It was proof that you can main event any territory with tag team wrestling because it's about the story, it's about the emotion, it's about the work, the psychology, the whole nine yards and the Briscoes and FTR both cosmically go back to that time. They are products of the teams that they watched in the eighties, aren't in Tully, the Bulldogs, the Midnight Express, the Fantastics, the Sheepers, the Rock and Will Express, the Midnight Express. You can go on and on and on.

There were so many great ones, and I hope, I hope some promotion out there. There's so many indies out there, there's so many places out there that look at tag team wrestling and look at a story like this and it's something that they could build around. Always driving me nuts with aw so many great tag teams, seems to be messy a lot of the times. They have focused on maybe one thing, but then everything else gets messy.

New Japan, same way. Terrible utilization of the talent. As great as Zax, Saber Jr. And Taichi were as a team, can you imagine if you built up a couple more so. One of the reasons right now, I'm actually bullish on Edge and Damian Priest together. I kind of like instead of Damian Priests building out there in the ether. I like this idea, don't like how they got there. As Brian said, the finish of that match was absolutely garbage

for a WrestleMania and just completely ridiculous. You want to have a hand for the jackass match, come out of nowhere to pop the crowd. Okay, explain how Damian Priests just shows up there and nobody knows how he got there, especially aj Styles who was climbing up to the top rope right next to him. But digress on that. Bottom

line is tag team wrestling is fantastic. FDR and Briscos have been, in my opinion, two of the best in the world for a long time, and I don't know how you can work to Briscoes into to a w and Ring of Honor. Maybe it's through impact, but I'd like to see them match up with a lot of other these teams out there that they haven't been able to mess with for a long time because they've been solely in Ring of Honor. You know, I saw that picture of Tony and I saw the comments from the

various nerds, Oh look at Tony, what a geek. Well, God, forbid, we have someone running a wrestling company that loves and respects wrestling and loves everything about it. I'd much rather have a guy running the company that hated wrestling and and dis dane for the fans and who mistreated his wrestlers. That's what I'm looking for in a company, not a

guy who loves this business. And like I put on Twitter, it's like, even if you don't like Tony Conner e W, why don't you find something to be that happy about this weekend with all of this wrestling going on, find a way to be that happy naturally, maybe with a

little bit of help. Who cares be happy? And and the thing with w W and I saw it last night with the stunner of like people like all that stuff and Cody debut, it's you can like w W E without immediately dumping on a W and vice versa, and with so much stuff over the weekend, you know, again, if you can't be happy, let's go seek some professional help because that's on you. Well, let's talk more so. J got cut open on the stage. He was walking out and his face got sliced up, and boy he

was angry, as noted Boogs was injured. He tried as funny because I actually did a spot in the ladder match on an x T two point oh where Solo Sakoa tried. He did the same spot where he's got one guy up in simone drop, which, by the way, I hate the spot because it's so contrived. It's like you got one guy up and then the other guy runs over and leaps on the guy's shoulders. It was so dumb. And in both cases, Solo Sakoa collapsed but he didn't get hurt, and Booze collapsed but he did

get hurt. But that's the thing. It takes too long. It looks like crap unless you're big. And I'm sorry, I just want to throw this out. There's a reason that football teams have stopped doing the dead carry a lot of times. It's because of that reason. It is completely Again, there's lot of spots that are completely insane. That's one that again, very they are just pulling it out too often with guys that just think they're a lot stronger than they really are. All right, So we

had that, and then there's nobody. In the beginning of the show, Pat buck quit. He was the guy who he was an agent. And if you recall, like way back when they started using Adam Pierce Moore, uh pat Buck, I think I think they might have been considering him for the role because like he was all over TV for a short period of time and then they decided they were going to use Adam Pierce instead. But pat Buck quit, and uh, you know, the story I was told, there's no Hey, you hear stories. Do I an you

to talk about Rhonda? I hear that a minute. But the story I was told was, I mean, I don't want to say the job sucks, okay, but these these agents, all of them, they work raw and SmackDown. So like most you know, the vast majority of the wrestlers, except for like the women's tag or whatever. I mean, they they work raw and then they go home or they work SmackDown and then they go home. But all of

the agents they have to fly in. They have to work raw and then they they're home for like a second, and they have to fly back and they have to work SmackDown and then they have to fly in. They So anyway, the story I got was just like it's just too much like never home, always there, and he just had enough and he quit. So that was Pat Buck. I must say, I must say something about Rhonda, okay, which, by the way, Pat Buck was the agent for apparently

the both main events on both nights. Some people don't understand how this whole reporting thing works and right and wrong. Okay, Listen. I have friends who are friends with Rhonda, okay, and they've they've been talking to me about Rhonda's and she came to w W E all right. I was told that Rhonda was furious that she was not main eventing WrestleMania. Okay. I didn't say she almost quit. I saw stories all over the place about I never said any of that, Okay.

I was told that she was furious about it, and she left the Hall of Fame on Friday night and did come back Saturday and ended up doing the match. All right. Ronda then did a post and said she was honored to work underneath stone cold Steve Austin, and she said that the reason that she left the Hall of Fame was because I guess she had to put her baby to bed or remember what this was her baby? Okay, Well,

you know the story is, that's the story. The story is that her friends, friends of hers told me that she was furious about it. She says she wasn't furious about it. That's the story. Which one is right, which one is wrong? Where's the truth in all of this? I don't know, but I'm telling you what happened. So that's it. If you want to say that I was wrong, I know one should be calling Rondall liar any There's no lying going on here, there's no stories being made up.

There's two sides to this story, and you can decide which side do you want to believe. That's it. Observer Live Back in the show. Brian Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Live Miximburviti also Wrestling Observer dot Com. So, UM, I don't know what's gonna happen on Raw tonight. I mean I've heard things, and uh I hinted one of them. So Cody will be on the show and he's gonna do an interview talking about whatever he's gonna talk about.

He's gonna explain what's going on, I guess, and there's gonna be I'm sure some people called up and there's gonna be some some big surprises on the show tonight. But you know, as they as they say, nothing's official till it's official, So so we'll see what's going on. Nice job teasing that. Though, if if people don't get a chance to see it for themselves tonight on Raw, where can they find out about everything that happened on

tonight on Raw? Well, of course you can listen to Wrestling Observer Radio with myself and Dave Meltzer at Wrestling Observer dot com. I'll be doing a post show coming up tonight, and obviously we'll be here on the show tomorrow talking all about it and collicking my money. But wait a second, Brian, Wait a second, what if What if I want to know what happened on Raw but in a more comedic way, and I want you to tell it to me personally? How could are you trying

to plug my cameo? Well, I'm not gonna sit there and do a raw report on cameo. You kidding me? I'm gonna do it on this show, or I can make the big box. But I did do a bunch of cameos this we can add some fun. Yeah, there's always sometimes I get like, just you know, some nothing happening, you know whatever. But of the time I get all this information and boy, it's just just winding me up and I can go for and go for a while.

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