WWE Improving? NXT Lineup

Monday Night Raw. See how much Vince rips up today? He ripped up a little bit apparently on the SmackDown Show on Friday, but the show largely went off as planned, and in fact, it was miles miles better than Monday Night Raw. I can only hope that maybe Raw was an aberration. I won't hold my breath. We'll find out more tonight. But in fact, we have got the NXT len for tomorrow as well. We've got five segments announced for that show, and we've got a lot of news

from the weekend. What do we have this weekend? Rampage, SmackDown, the Battle the Belts Show, Battle the Belt six, New Japan it's current genesis with in fact a new IGP World Heavyweight Champion in the form of Sonata, and so we can talk about all of those shows. Lots of review there. Plus we've got Nick Wayne. We have a debut date for Nick Wayne in a w and a first opponent, although as Swerve noted on Twitter, it will

not be a championship match. The defied title will not be on the line, but they'll be having a match coming up for aw Dynamite July twelfth. Well, Osprey wants to wrestle on the Wembley Show all in What's tell what he has to say about that. Kenny Omega's going to be doing what it's gonna be, facing the winner of an upcoming at number one it contenders a tournament logan. Paul is back under contract with WWE. Why do I

laugh while I laugh? Because ESPN states he has signed a multi year deal, which is funny because the last deal he signed was allegedly a multi year deal and it expired in a year. So I don't know what to make any of this. Well, we got a lot to get into today, so stick around. Mike Zimbervivi joins us after the break Wrestling Observer Live. Back in the show. Brian Alvarez here Wrestling Observer a Live. Mike Zimberviv also of Wrestling Observer dot com. What's that face for over there? Mike? God,

look at you? Look at your face? Happy Eastern to you too, Happy East Her. I just started talking and you just are like, oh, I started talking. So it's usually my reaction. Yeah, you know, what's what do you think my job is? My job is to talk. Bu Yeah, I know, I know, so do a lot of talking. I'll see you in eight minutes and thirty five seconds. I just finished an hour long podcast, so I've been talking for an hour already. Now I gotta do this show you'll see. But I gotta do the Lance show

coming up an hour. I gotta do a Dave show later on. Thank god. I want to talk about during that show. Why do you have to do a land show? What do you mean it's Monday? Oh no, it's Tom. Tom's Tom. Remember your old partner. I do, remember my old my old partner. Yeah, we're talking about New Japan. It's corea Genesis. I'd like to talk about that. Tom Tom matches on that show. And then uh, SmackDown. I just scared the heck out of Lance apparently why. I

guess he thought the show is today. Anyway, we got a lot to get into Raw is tonight. I don't know what's on the show. I look for a lineup, couldn't find it. Did anybody know what's on Raw? Twitch homies to think that people pay for this program here? Well, you know what? I can tell you one thing. I can tell you one thing, and that is that NXT

tomorrow has a number of big matches. I got a four way to determine the number one contender, Tom Carmelo Hayes's NXT title with Dragon, Lee, j D mcdonnaugh and two mystery names. Who could those two people be? We have Elbow Fire and is La Don against Fallon Henley and Keyana James for the NXT women's tag team titles, which reminds me by the way I figured out, I think why I liked that Keana James so much? Oh? Yeah, why's that I got married at the key on a Lodge?

Do you know that? Yeah? Elia Dragonov versus von Wagner, where von Wagner loses, mister Stone will walk away? Oh no, ye, Chase um VP ceremony for Duke Hudson and Corey Jade appearance. I got a prediction for this Dragonov von Wagner match. Yeah, yeah, I think what's gonna happen is that is that Von Wagner is gonna win with help from somebody else who

is going to replace mister Stone as his manager. So Von Wagner is going to get a new manager or maybe a partner or something, and he's gonna beat Elia, but still they're gonna destroy mister Stone afterwards, so we'll get idea. Yeah, that's what I think it's gonna happen here. No offense to mister Stone, old Robbie e there, but he has lasted a lot longer than I really thought he was going to, So God bless him and God's speed.

Maybe he picks up a new a new client or something like that, but I'm all for von Wagner getting away from him. Look's a talented guy, but they ain't doing much with him, and they even talk about in storyline. They're like, yeah, you know, I don't know anything about you, Vaughan, just so you're tall and you you grunt or something like that. That's what he said and that was enough for you know, him to get his name on the Dottam line, for him to you know, be his client.

I mean, what exactly then? What does that say if you're von Wagner about the guy who's representing you. I mean, come on, didn't you make any effort to know what kind of person you're representing? This is why Stokely Hathaway with other whatever name he was in WWD far better manager and NX Steve than Robert Stone was. That's funny. Everyone here angry. I'm talking about the NXT lineup. I asked you guys what the raw lineup was, and I don't see one person here telling me what the raw

lineup is. So if you want me to talk about something other than that, oh, here we go. Thanks to b C. Night, he says, allegedly is Bianca versus EO, Judgment Day versus l D f oh Legato del Phantasma. The women's tag title match, which is Raquel and Live challenging for the titles against Becky and Leda. Cody will challenge Brock. I don't remember that. I just remember Cody saying he was going to talk about his future and the MS and Matt riddle and then it says, here,

Sammy's ane and solo. Is that right, Sammy's ane and solo has been added. M Let see what happens. It's pretty good card though, honestly, well that's actually if it actually hands out. Yeah, Vince, Vince was not at SmackDown in Portland. He can't go to that town. But he did rewrite portions of the show, but not a lot. And if you watch the SmackDown show, it was it was miles miles better than Raw. And of course he was at Raw because it was a raw after WrestleMania.

And so I don't want to I don't want to be that guy, but I should at least. You know, some people don't like any sort of positivity or potential positive thinking at all, but I like to think about what could happen. And you know, if if Triple H. And I'm skeptical to even say this, but I may as well if Triple H is gonna be writing this show every week, because he has in the last eight months, and Vince is gonna you know, skype in or whatever, and uh, you know, acts this, acts that, But in

general it's largely the same show. You know, I'm I'm not happy that Vince is back, but I will accept that. I don't need Vince ripping up the entire show and screwing everything up like you know he has done in the past. But you know, if he's if listen, I don't trust Vince as far as I could throw him. I don't even know what that old saying means, but that's how a little I trust him. But he did say that he would not be in the Weeds, whatever that means, and of course the last time he said that,

it was a lie. He said that Eric Bischoff and Paul Hayman were going to be writing the show and he wasn't gonna be in the weeds. And meanwhile, Bischof set in catering the entire time, and I'm sure Paul was just madly frustrated. Vince just did all of his usual stuff. So we'll see what happens this time around. Because triple H, you know, is I mean, he's actually that's his role, you know, that's his his his contracted role. You know, when they send out, oh, Paul Lavec is

the you know, someone in charge or whatever. I forget the exact title they've given him, but that's his job. So you know, I'd be okay if he actually did that job and then Vince, you know, came out of the weeds and changed the thing or two and then went back into the weeds again. Let's see what happens tonight. I just need to keep a triple H upright, you know, keep him healthy, keep him in position, because if he decides to go on in an extended vacation or something happens,

then what now with Vince back in the picture. Is it him and Bruce and the old cronies by committee or do we go with Adam Pearce and then some of the people that have been acting as agents? You know, And I don't want to say, look, let's just go you're Jason Jordan's and I'm not sure who else is doing the agenting right now, but do you at some point, you know, do we have a backup plan? Who is that backup plan? Is it only Vince or is there

somebody else? Are there actual new eyes that could possibly descend on this product who's not related to a McMahon. You know, We'll see. But it's very interesting here going forward because this is the back end for Vince at some point, you know, even though he's here, even though he's going to linger possibly forever. I mean, it's not going to be forever. And Triple H also isn't going to be forever. It is interesting to see what this company could do as it goes along here in endeavor,

because it's a lot different than it was before. If there's no Stephanie, if there's no other McMahon or McMahon said,

you know Acolyte involved. Well, you know, I always think about Tony Khan and how when he was in junior high in high school, he was just busy writing wrestling storylines all the time, and he ended up getting aw and he had no booking, like legitimate with a company booking experience, And you know, whatever you want to say about Tony's booking, I mean he's done it, and you know he's one booker of the Year a few times.

And you know, Triple H when he took over an XT, what booking experience did he have other than being there in the room when Vince did all of his his wild things. So I'm not saying it's but you know what that's it is it is, but he booked totally different from Vince when he ran an XT totally different. And the fact is that I'm not saying the job is easy, but I'm also not I'm also saying it's not a job where like there's eight people on earth

that could do it. Yeah, but there's one hundred people on your back in a corporate weird environment like that too. Mack in a moment with more Observerer Live back in the show, Brian Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike SEMBERBB also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Nick Wayne One that if I title this weekend, it'll be making his a W debut on the July twelve aw Dynamite, a couple of

days a first Dynamite after his eighteenth birthday. It will be in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and he'll be facing Swerve Strickland. Swerves stated he wants his rematch, although he's made it clear it as not for the title. Defy title so uh, holy smokes, talking about right out of the gate, what a summer vacation. This kid's gonna have straight to work for a W. Good you have your passport in order. I have my passport in the order. But I'm mu sure, I'm gonna make it to that show. Oh come on,

when is this kid gonna it ain't gonna happen. You don't think I'm gonna see Nick Wayne if I don't go to this show? Are you kidding me? You're not gonna see Nick Wayne debut for aw against Swerve Strickland in Saskatoon. I saw Nick Wayne's debut in the ring when he was five, diapered buttocks into the ring. Any times that kid beat me in that ballpit. Oh man, fantastic genetics with that kid, and a fantastic support system

around him. And you know, Swerth Strickland is a real bastard if anybody knows the history between Swerve and in Nick Wayne. So you know, I'm hoping for Nick Wayne's sake he has learned from that and does not get laid out and slaughtered like the last time there with Swerve, you know when he was which just had his head there held. Okay, he wins the title from him, but now what happens, He's going to be pissed. Nick be careful.

You'll need more than Brian Alvarez there. Maybe get Filthy, hey, Saskatoon, Maybe Brock could be there, watches back. Well, he's a Saskatchewan He's a cowboy now and where is brocka living? Is it in Saskatoon? I'm sure he spends his time in Manitoba's small locales. Well, Osprey wants on the card when presents All In from Wembley on August twenty seventh. Twenty nine year old told Dark pro Red Flosian recently that he is hopeful there will be an opportunity for

him to perform on the show. Says, I'm a guy that pops in all the love in the world to all those It's amazing crew. I hope there's an opportunity as one of the guys that flies a flag forever where I go to do that would finally make my dad proud. He has been out of action since a shoulder injury caused him to withdraw from the New Japan Cup last month. New Japan recently announced he'll participate in a four person single elimination tournament to determine Kenny Omega's

next challenger for the US title. First matching the tournament will see Archer and Juice Robinson face off a collision in Philadelphia on Sunday. He will then wrestle hiroshutan Ashi and Resurgence in Long Beach on May twenty one. Winners will wrestle each other in the finals at Dominion Osaka Joe Hall Sunday, June four. The winner of that match will challenge Omega on a date that is yet to be determined. I would think that osprein Omega for the

United States title in Wembley Field. I'd be a pretty damn big match myself. I don't know about the rest of you well, and I'd advocate for it. How about this, You can still advocate for that, but how about advocating that it happens. Oh, I don't know at Forbidden Door first, because the way those dates start to move along falls right into place. Maybe you could have a match there

and then have a third match at Wembley. I don't think anybody would get sick of seeing those two Russell, especially if Osprey, you know, coming home to the UK big match with Omega. Maybe you never know, So let's see nap. I here's a thing. I mean, you could

absolutely do that. But what I would do is I would announce after he wins a tournament that he will be getting a shot in Wembley, and I'd start selling tickets and then for been Door, I would do what New Japan usually does before a big title match, and that is a tag match where it's like Kenny Omega. You can even do a six man Kenny Omega and the Elite against will Osprey and whoever, and sure, and then away you go against uh, go ahead and do Davis and Fletcher. You know, they just won the tag.

Sure they've been They've been fantastic. And we haven't seen that one yet, have we? Have we seen the young Bucks and Fletcher and Davis? I mean, everybody else who Fletcher and Davis's face. It's been a really good match, no matter who their competition is. So I'm all for that. All right? What else do we have here? A lot, by the way, I guess, and after the break we'll talk about all these shows. Logan Paul officially back under

contract with w WE. He has signed a new deal after his contract expired at the end of WrestleMania thirty nine ESPN No. His new contract is a multi year deal. This follows his last multi year deal, which lasted a year. You know, I made a joke with Dave about this. He didn't fall for it. I said, maybe the multi year deal was twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, one year, the rest of twenty twenty one and then half of twenty twenty two. That's multi year. That's twenty

twenty one and twenty twenty two. He said, nah, it'd be one year, So I don't know. But he claims this is a multi year deal, and Triple H says, yeah, he's great. So anyway, Logan Paul's resigned. Everybody any more match to come with that guy? All right, well let's talk a little bit a bit about this screw at Genesis show. So funny the way we're just limping into this Monday. I'm not limping into the Monday. Oh yeah, yeah, this is a big Easter hangover going on right now.

Oh no, I watched a lot of great stuff. Except now I can't find my Acura Genesis notes. Why Why is that? Because it's Monday. I think it's because I did a poor copy and paste. Oh you know what it was. It hadn't fully loaded when I did the copy thing because I wrote so many words. All right, scour Genesis was all the title matches and Mercedes beat a Zumi and A Zuki, which I thought was good, And U don't want to talk too much about it because you know how it goes, Mike, you know it goes.

There's gonna be people out of the woodwork. I know, I know, yeah, but I will say that A Zooming and Zuki looked great. And Mercedes she did a good job hanging in there with them and like doing all the spots and everything like that. But there was a sizeable gap I felt between the Stardom women and Mercedes, but they they got through it there. Then we had a great match, a great match, like from this point

for all of these matches were great. But I know the tag match is probably, like you know, objectively, the subjective best match. But I thought Zach Saber Jr. And Showed Umino was so great because it's such a simple story showed to Umino wants his TV title. He's beating Zach but he has not won the title, and they go in there and he's just he's getting closer, and he's getting closer, and he keeps teasing this death rider, and Zach keeps avoiding the death rider, and finally he

hits his big Tornado DDT. He goes for the death rider, Zach kicks out showed and then goes for a cradle. DDT tries a death rider again, Zach rovers into a cradle, pins him clean places just like ah. But you know what's funny about this match that well, I saw this match and also saw Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes okay, and in both of these matches the person the fans

wanted to see win didn't. Okay, So in this match showed his guinny He's getting closer and closer and he gets cradled to people like, ah, dang it, he'll get him next time. But the Cody Roman match, Cody's getting closer and closer, hits two of the uh. The Gibbicks up comes solo next him, Roman spears him and the reaction was, ah, like what and they just got out of there. Afterwards they were angry, totally totally different reactions

from the crowd. Won't be the only time you'll be able to draw a parallel from that show to a you know, a match taking place on Secura Genesis. Well, what else do we have on the show. The tag match, which was great. Assie opened beat Goto and Yoshi Hashi for the tag titles. When Fletcher did a moonsault busted open his head that he fights his way back into the ring and all of a sudden, I mean, I think they were gonna chant for Ossie Opened anyway, but man,

they were. This Japanese crowd loudly, repeatedly chanting for Ossie Opened to win the match, which they finally did with the Korelis, they won the titles. This match was awesome. Haromo and Robbie Eagles, this match was awesome. Awesome, man, Robbie Eagles took ninety of this match, just destroyed this poor guy, and and he put him in the Ron Miller special at the end, and it was like it's over, dude. No can escape, as they say in jiu jitsu. But somehow,

somehow Haromo got to the ropes. Eagles tried to get a Roma rolled through time bomb pinned him. Holy smokes. They good. They could have put this title on Rob Eagles here and this these fans would add no problem with it. I would have no problem with it. I love Rob Eagles. Let's see what they have for the best of the super juniors. Ye're coming up as far as competition for Haromu. But man, I like Rob Eagles a lot. Then we had Okada Sonata for the IWGP

title and it was a great match. O'cada is great. It's not a I mean, athletically, he was great. I will say that. You know, the criticism of Sonata has always been he just doesn't have the charisma of these tippy top guys. And here he was in this title match, He's gonna win the title, and like, he did a great job. But it was the same story that was not that. Oh my god, look at this Sonana. He's finally I mean, he won the title. It was great

and all, but not about the charisma. It's about the projection, and he was projecting. He did a good job. We'll talk. We'll talk to you about this after the breakas over live pros. Come on now listen. I am not saying. I am not saying that Sonata is bereft of charisma. I'm not saying. What I said was he does not have the charisma of the tippy top guys. Now, if you want to argue this with me, let's play a game. Hold on, hold on, let's play the game. Let's play

the game. I will name a top star that I have seen in a Japanese wrestling main event of late, and I want you to tell me if that person or Sonata? Who has more chrismas Sonata or that person? Okay, okay, here we go, Yes, Tetsuya, Nito, Nito, okay, Kgi Mutoka. Oh, get out of here, Get out of here, Kgi, Muto. Let me do some more. Choo Choo choo on commentary, Choto on commentary, Chono doing nothing, just sitting there in a chair, whearing aeratris stuff looking like Chono. Of course

it's Chono. Why are you doing this? You know this isn't fair. It's of course it's fair. Maki Ito Huh, that's what I thought. Who else do you want me to go with? Okada? Yeah, Hiroshi, Tonashi, filthy Tom Lawler. You want me to make people mad? Great Okahan huh Yeah. Look so anyway, everything that you're saying has nothing to do with Sonata being a worthwhile in erstwhile IWGP World Heavy. I advocated for him to win the title, and he has. And here's the thing, he was projecting a lot more

than he does in some of his other matches. With that said, regardless of what you think of him or what anybody else thinks of him. He's a lot more over and his charisma is a lot more accepted by the fans over in Japan. We shall see over the span of the next couple of months here whether he's able to actually take the ball, run with it, do what Okada did with it and elevated, do what Tanahashi did with it and elevate it. We'll see what he does. If he fails, it's very easy to take it off

of him and slide him into something else. But you making comparisons to some of the biggest, most charismatic superstars in all of us, why not just say Dusty Rhodes in Sonata, Rick Flair in Sonata. My god, you should be ashamed. I mean, he is the IWGP heavyweight champion right now, That's what he is right now. Yeah, he needs You were the champions Derby City, were the most charismatic man there. I was not the champion of Derby City.

Kidding me, Hey, well, in all of techs arcana, you were not the most entertaining man even when you had the title. That would have been Larry Sweeney. But you know what they put it on. You're sorry, but anyway, Oh yeah, is that right? I didn't have the charism of Larry Sweeney. H No, you didn't do That's beside the point. Am I the i WGP heavyweight champion? Nah?

I didn't think so? Ye champion? Now because you ran to the back, you go take a pee, and you didn't listen to anybody when they told you the titles were on the line. Would you prefer I peed in the ring mic, because I don't think anybody would have want to see that. Well, didn't we learn anything from that XPW show? You certainly crap the bed proverbially now that a let's talk about let's talk about rampage in

Battle of the Belts. There's some good matches on these two shows, and honestly, I think the best match of the night involved somebody that I heard a lot of criticism about when he joined up with Powerhouse Hobbs QT Marshall. Oh my god, huh here we go, dude? You tell me QT and Powerhouse Hobbs versus the Lucabros was not an awesome match. That match was awesome. You tell I've watched Qt Marshall for a lot of years. QT Marshall

was actually the first person Avery ever heckled. Every they ran the Future of Honors show out and people were chanting, QT sucks. So Avery's little at the time he went along QT socks and Qt's looking at him and then looking at me saying like, you know, what kind of father are you? Then the next day at work, Avery actually sent me a text from Jessica's phone that said, remember, daddy, QT sucks. That's how good of a time he had

at the show. So you know, it's funny. You know, it's funny as people people like to argue with me so much. Then as I read these texts right here, QT is great at getting heat q TV forever hold on, QT rocks. QT is greater than Hobbes. Who that's the problem, that's the problem. Is greater than Roman. This person says, Oh, I like the QT vignette. So now here's my question. Here's my question. What QTM Marshall or Sonata? Everybody? Huh Sonata? Will you stop? Oh? Now, I see now that's Les Taca.

Is they lost that damn match Brian in Powerhouse Hobbs. Look if they have a great long term plant, fine, But I saw this dude. Actually everyone's voting, and I was voting QT over Sonata. Oh Jesus, because he had a bunch of trolls on Monday. He had the Book of Hobbes. He didn't need QT, So then they put him with QT. And this badass who's talking about getting

shot at all of these struggles in his life. Then all of a sudden, he's sitting there in a Harvey Leven type of TMZ situation with a bunch of goobers talking about he used a man's credit card to go buy himself a truck. Come on with this nonsense. The bottom line is those two lost and Powerhouse Hoops shouldn't be a part of no losing on TV. Oh, get out of here. I thought this match was great? What

else was great? You know what else was great? I wouldn't call it great, but was actually you know what, if you're on the Jade Cargill scale, this was great. Jade Cargill and Billy Starks like, dude, this as a man and the had any right to be as a match. What would you say? Two and three quarter stars? Maybe maybe three, But if you look at the career of Jade Cargill, I mean this was in the very tippy top tier of matches she has had. She's sold a

ton for Billy Starks. She did beat her, but then afterwards Tier ran down, Tya goes for her move and Jade Cargiles scadaddled she got out of dodge. So as far as like, from the beginning of the match to the end of the match and the post match where she sold for her next opponent, this may have been the best Jade Cargiles segment I ever saw. I agree right down to her scattering out of the ring, and you know, Jim Ross saying she was smart for doing it.

I think you were absolutely right. And at some point Billy Starts is gonna be all elite to at some point down the line for sure. We had Dualistico and Orange Cassidy for the aw International title. Though this was a very good match, and the story is that Orange Cassidy hurt his punching hand last week, he hit the punch again this week and now the hand'sn't even worse shape. And then he gets challenged by Buddy Matthews, which presumably he's going to take place on either Dynamite or Rampage

coming up here. Very soon and they're teas in that man. Now another champion being worn down. Is he going to retain or is he not? At this point in your life, if you hurt your punch in hand, you'd be pretty lonely for quite some time. I'm very interested to see if Orange Cassidy holds onto that title because he is now replacing Eddie Kingston at the Collision Show in Philadelphia, and if he goes and he wins this match against Buddy, then he'll actually have to put that title up on

the line against Carl Fredericks. So I'm all for that. Carl Fredericks, I mean not Carl Frederick said, who the hell is he facing? Damn it, No, you can't remember. Let me guess it's Monday. Well maybe it's Sonata, Carl Fredericks or Sonata Sonata. All right, you win that one, all right. Then we had Hook and ethan Page anything goes match, which they got like twelve minutes, and it was good. It's probably the best hook match I've ever seen as well. Brawled all over the place and look

at it. Look at you fought all over tables, chairs, crowd, super in. The hook hits the red rum gets the submission, and they had a table in the corner and they didn't break it, so you were thinking, can't be over yet, but it was. And then he gave him the exploder through the table for good measure, which I like that psychology teaching the fans you know what a match can end before you break all those tables. That's what we learned here, Darby Ellen and Lee Moriarty. Darby Ellen got

hit by a car. They just tell us this, and like, was this news before they announced this on television? Can anybody help me with this? Because I was gone all day Friday? Was this like we did? Anybody liked what he hear about this before they announced it on television? No? I did not know, okay, all right because I they it was so nonchalant the way they announced it, Like, you know, I got hit by a car this afternoon. Now he's wrestling. I guess it was a previous afternoon.

Woke up this morning, you know, fell out of a window. Now he's here. But apparently he was like skateboarding in a tunnel or something in a fast car like smashed him. And then he like he came back and wrestled the next night and then took a brutal flying spitting f five by Brian Cage on the ramp. Looked like he landed right in his head. And so the embassy and Mogul affiliates have merged. Prince Nana is out there. They need to do more with that. Prince Nanna. That was

a great time. Get something going with Swerve too while you're at it. Perfect combination. Let him go. Forget all the other nonsense, forget Trench and all this other you know, and forget about what Dave was saying about, well we need to have Keith Lee. It's no, we don't. Let did it go something new? Let's go with Swerve. Let's go. You know. A funny thing about aw Actually there's a lot of funny things about AWE and w WB. For

a long time they even want managers. And when they actually had a manager like Paul Hayman, they don't call him a manager. He's an advocate or he's the wise man.

Like they didn't want managers. Aw It's like they have all of these managers, but like the idea behind a manager is like they do all the talking, and granted Swerve can talk and everything like that, but what is the point a Prince Nana being there and not talking, and it's not just him, It's like they have a lot of managers, like Vicky Guerrero was there for a while and what did you do two promos? Maybe? I mean, they have a lot of managers that don't actually apparently

do any managing. I want Prince Nana promos or I want him to sing We're in the money again because that was the highlight of his aw career so far. I'm all for it. Can we get mo Green back out from movie W two while we're at it? He may as well. There's a lot of it. There's a lot of great managers out there that are they are underutilized. And then Julia Hart and Anna j which was not

a particularly good match, was the main event. I was surprised they put in the main event position, especially because like, you know, you can go well, you know, they've been kind of feuding and doing angles well, so Hook and Ethan Page trying to keep thirsty men late, that's what

they were doing. Plus it's a it's an anything goes match where you could have ended with that and then went right into the second show, but you know, they opted not to do that and uh, you know why, and Julius sprayed missed and won with a cradle and then that led directly into the Battle of the Belt show. So that was that, and then a quick note on SmackDown.

Really the most important thing on the show was just the main event angle where Sammy was going to wrestle Jay Usso, and you know, Paul Hayman essentially told Solo either Jay beats Sammy tonight and takes care of the Sammy problem, or we take care of our problem teasing. They're gonna kill jus So. Jay wins after Solo hit the thumber the throat and then Solo goes to thumb Sammy and Jay stops him. Man, he says that's enough, and so the fans think, oh man, he's gonna see

the light, but instead he's super kicks. Sammy tell Solo to get a chair. They go to kill the guy, but Riddle runs down to make the save. So I think, if if the chat here is correct, it's Sammy and Solo tonight in a tag match coming up on Friday would be my guest. But anyway, back in the boat with more here on a Monday, observe her live, I got the show. Brian Alberez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike sempre bb elsom Wrestling Observer dot Com. So this is funny.

Fella here works in ticketing and you got this email the Ticketmaster client newsletter and they highlight recent successes and announced new features, etc. And they got a blurb about the success of WrestleMania at Sofi, including using the gimmick attendance number. It says here Sofi Stadium and WWE host most successful WrestleMania of all time. Ww arrived in LA this weekend at WrestleMania thirty nine took place at Sofi

Stadium in Hollywood Park. The two nights sold out performance sent a new live attendance record for the stadium, welcoming one hundred sixty one tho eight hundred ninety two fans to the event. With it adds one hundred percent of fans utilizing mobile for entry. Then has all these other, all these other records, viewership, gate, sponsorship, merchandise, social media,

the most successful WrestleMania ever. I'm not gonna go. They're celebrating one hundred percent of fans utilize mobile for entry, which is funny for two reasons Number one, Well, of course you had to use a mobile. It won't let you in otherwise. That's like saying that was like a NASA sent at a press release and said one hundred percent of astronauts use their rocket to get to the moon this year. It's like, no, shoot, are you gonna drive? And then the other funny thing, Yes, the other funny

thing dom is that it's true. It's not true because I also got into WrestleMania and I merely went up to that that ticket counter and I gave him my name and they let me in. I did not utilize mobile for entry Ticketmaster. So I demand you change what you have written here in this newsletter and make sure you get had all the facts next time. And after all this talk in the last couple of hours, I got to take a break. I may need to take

a couple of daybreak. But thanks for Mike. As always, callers and listeners over the studio, We'll talk to you next time. Wrestling Observe Alive. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.