WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.519 This is Action Demolition and I'm Smash of Demolition and 2 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:10.839 you're listening to the Solo Monster. It's business time, baby. 3 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:15.400 You are listening to Solo Monster sounds up. It's such 4 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:21.440 good shit. Monster dude like a woman. You got grown 5 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:24.719 ass wrestlers in the back going on Twitter. Come over here, 6 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.519 Oh speak bitch, Come on now you have legs. They've 7 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:32.119 made Solo a monster. I was ninety nine percent positive 8 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.280 it was just chessed up. Now I want out of 9 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:40.560 my contract if I don't care what I want my 10 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.759 Thanks to Steve Mellow for getting that legendary shout out 11 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.439 from one of the best damn tag teams of all time. 12 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:51.759 Acts and Smash Demolition future WWE Hall of Famers. They 13 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:54.759 appear to the Petersborough Comic Con this weekend. That was 14 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.439 a nice surprise. And this is episode eight eighty seven 15 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:03.960 of the Solo Mon Sounds Off apparently for Sunday, November tenth, 16 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:07.680 twenty twenty four, celebrating seventeen years of the Sound of 17 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.840 All through the month of November. I also got to 18 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:12.879 give a shout out to Sarah, who I know is 19 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.519 listening right now. Sarah the Songbird. She was the one 20 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.159 who had the sign on SmackDown Friday Night. At the 21 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:22.480 beginning of the show, I sang the Solomonster jingle. That 22 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:26.400 was Sarah. You've heard her voice before for many many 23 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.439 years on the show. This little ditty right here, the 24 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:35.040 Solomonster sounds off. That was the Solomonster jingle. And she 25 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.760 was there in Buffalo on Friday night. So very cool 26 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.359 to hear from her and get that on TV. I 27 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.040 had some minor surgery a few days ago. I still 28 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:47.640 have stitches in my mouth. I'm not supposed to be 29 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:50.359 doing a lot of speaking, I was told, which is 30 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.920 kind of what I do. So if this show ends 31 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.359 up a little light, you'll know why. But I think 32 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:59.079 we've got enough meat to get into this week. Meat 33 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.680 being something I can can't chew for the next ten days, 34 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.519 so I'm living on yogurt and applesauce. If you would 35 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:07.719 like to make a PayPal donation, you may do so 36 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:11.000 on thesolo monster dot com ten dollars or more. We'll 37 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.879 get you a nifty little wrestling nickname and a shout 38 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.479 out here on this worldwide podcast. I want to say 39 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:21.319 thank you first and foremost to Peb. You know who 40 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:25.599 you are. Peeb. Thank you very much, Big B. Brian Pisera, 41 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.639 The Diamond, Dallas Dance Machine, Harrison Soap, Velvet Revolver, Robert Murray, 42 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:34.240 the Portland pop Star, Paul Hamilton, Knight Stalker and if 43 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:38.240 Alsafar the Chicago Slayer, Willie Eichord Best in the Game, 44 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:44.639 Trey Porter, Killshot, Keith Hart Ironman, Joshua stark Weather, Welcome 45 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:50.560 to the PayPal family. Same to mean, Mark Dodson, shout 46 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:53.080 out to Jake the Snake who wants to give a 47 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.479 shout out to his grandfather JB for always supporting and 48 00:02:56.599 --> 00:03:01.439 helping him when life gets toughen. Jarrett, I just sent 49 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.159 you an email back, Jarrett. He bought a copy of 50 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.840 Hardy the Horse to read to his daughter who has 51 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:09.719 not even been born yet. Daughter is coming into the 52 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.560 world this April. So again, Jarrett, congrats to you and 53 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.520 your wife. And if my mother was still here, she 54 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.479 would be saying the same. It is that time of 55 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.000 year where we are getting very close to the Tokyo 56 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.840 Dome show for New Japan Pro Wrestling, and boy it 57 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.360 does not feel like a Big Wrestle Kingdom show, but 58 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.759 the company is basically in reset mode right now. Zach 59 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:35.159 Saber Junior is the IWGP World Champion for the first time, 60 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:38.120 and they are trying to build new stars. One of 61 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:41.479 those new stars is show To Umino, who will be 62 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.840 challenging Saber for that title in the main event on 63 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.400 January fourth. You look at the main event for the 64 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:52.719 past few years. Last year was Sonata against Nito. Before that, 65 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.439 it was Jay White against Okada, Shingo against Okata, Nito 66 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:03.080 against Kode Bushi, and so on. Saber against Umio doesn't 67 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.479 scream big match, main event for the Dome, but you 68 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.120 got to start somewhere. They have to rebuild. This is 69 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:14.240 what that looks like. It's like a baseball team that 70 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:18.279 fails to make the postseason after all these years of success. 71 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.720 Got to rebuild, got to rebuild and think long term, 72 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.759 think for the future. Umio Pinsaber and the g One 73 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.680 Climax back in July. So to that end, it makes 74 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.319 sense for them to do the match. But yeah, that 75 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:35.920 is the weakest Tokyo Domain event that they have booked 76 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:43.560 since Wressell Kingdom four maybe five. This is Wressell Kingdom nineteen, 77 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.560 just to put some context to that. But Ricochet made 78 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.399 a surprise appearance that their power Struggle show this week 79 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:54.040 and laid out Saber with a springboard clothes line before 80 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.480 saying that he wanted a title shot, and the match 81 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.839 has been made for Wressell Dynasty, also with the Tokyo Dome, 82 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.480 but that is taking place the next night on January fifth. 83 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:07.519 That is a joint show with talent from New Japan 84 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:13.279 aw Ring of Honor CMLL Stardom. Honestly, that show is 85 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.800 shaping up to be bigger than the actual main Tokyo 86 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.959 Dome show on January fourth. He've got Ricochet challenging Saber 87 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.120 for the IWGP title, assuming that Saber retains the night before, 88 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.600 the Young Bucks have already been announced for the show. 89 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.519 They're going to make their return to Japan for the 90 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.839 first time in five years, and Kenny Omega, who has 91 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.079 been out for nearly a year, he might be making 92 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.120 his in ring return, not in an aw ring but 93 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:41.600 for New Japan on that January fifth show. He too 94 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:43.879 made an appearance of Power Struggle this week, and he 95 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:45.959 said that he would be able to wrestle again soon. 96 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.480 He called New Japan the king of pro wrestling, the 97 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:53.079 home of the best pro wrestling on the planet, and 98 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.720 that even though he's an AW wrestler, New Japan is 99 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.600 his home, and then later there was a confrontation backstage 100 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:04.399 between him and Gabe Kid. So while nothing is official yet, 101 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:06.879 it looks like Omega's first match back is going to 102 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.600 be against Gabe Kid at the Tokyo Dome. Now, it 103 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.480 is a joint show with AW Talent, so you could 104 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:16.240 argue Omega is wrestling on behalf of AW on that show, 105 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.399 but it's still wild that. You know, he's an AW star, 106 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.160 he's been out for so long and he's here putting 107 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.079 over in New Japan is the best wrestling on the 108 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.040 planet and probably making his comeback there and not here, 109 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.079 that is certainly a choice. The good news though for 110 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:36.399 Tony Khan is that Kenny Omega is on his way back. 111 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:40.319 He has been missed and Kode and Bushi has said 112 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.519 that he won't come back until Kenny comes back, So 113 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.399 if Omega is going to be back soon, that probably 114 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:49.439 means Abushi is too. We know The Royal Rumble is 115 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.959 coming to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis next year and 116 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.480 WrestleMania is coming back to Las Vegas, but there's another 117 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:01.519 show in between those two called Elimination Chamber. WWE is 118 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.839 bringing Elimination Chamber to an old WrestleMania venue, the Rogers 119 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:11.319 Center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, formerly the SkyDome on Saturday 120 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:16.879 March first, twenty twenty five. They held WrestleMania six and 121 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.560 eighteen there. This will be the fourth straight year that 122 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:24.680 the Chamber ple is held from an international venue, with 123 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:31.120 Saudi Arabia, then Montreal, then Perth, Australia, and now Toronto. 124 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.759 The ticket on sale for the general public is Friday, 125 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:39.759 December sixth. The website on location already has some ticket 126 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.800 packages listed for the show, including their Champion Package, which 127 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:47.240 includes two front row seats on a non hard cam 128 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.879 side for as much as nine thousand dollars per ticket. 129 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:57.839 That's eighteen thousand dollars for both. I would imagine hardcam 130 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.439 side tickets are a lot more than that. And you know, 131 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.360 my one time that I ever attended I never went 132 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:06.480 to a wrestling event at the SkyDome. But by one 133 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:10.199 time I ever attended an event at the SkyDome, I 134 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:13.920 went to a Toronto Argonauts football game. It was the 135 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:18.560 Argonauts against the BC Lions. It was August fourteenth, nineteen 136 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.560 ninety five. And I know this because I still have 137 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:25.639 my ticket stuff. I dug it out. You know what 138 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.439 I paid for that game. I paid a cool five 139 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:32.240 dollars for my seat that was in Aisle one, forty 140 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:35.840 as far away from the field as I was. I 141 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:37.720 don't think it's going to matter how high up you 142 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.519 are for this show. You're going to be paying a 143 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:44.840 hell of a lot more than five dollars. WWE also 144 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.240 released more tickets this week for Saturday Night's main event 145 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.679 at the Nasau Coliseum on December fourteenth. In the email 146 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:56.159 that WWE sent out announcing the ticket dump, they noted 147 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.240 that they were bringing back that quote old school look 148 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.759 and feel for the show, and per Mike Johnson, a 149 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.720 PW insider, that's not just hype. They really are going 150 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:07.879 old school with the presentation of the show, not just 151 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.679 on NBC. Yeah, Like they might have Obsession, which was 152 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.960 the original theme song. I'm hoping they do. Even the 153 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.080 second theme, which was I think was a Jim Johnston 154 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.039 theme the second Saturday Night's main event theme. I might 155 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.159 like that more than Obsession. Honestly, I wouldn't mind if 156 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.399 they used either one of those, so as old school 157 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:29.840 of the presentation on TV might be in the building, 158 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.159 the setup of the coliseum itself. Apparently they're going old school, 159 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.399 you know whatever that means. But the show is going 160 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:40.720 to feature full arena seating as opposed to the portion 161 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:44.600 of the arena typically that's closed off for Titan tron staging. 162 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.399 Normally you would see that kind of thing. For our SmackDown, 163 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:53.480 they're going to be utilizing full arena seating. See, it's 164 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.519 not old school to me unless they have Nasau County 165 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.840 State Police escorting the wrestlers to the ring while holding 166 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.679 the fans back from touching them. See if that's old 167 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.679 school when people are trying to put their hands on 168 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:08.279 the wrestlers and the cops have to get in between 169 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:13.320 them and the fans, that's old school. But that's awesome. 170 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:15.720 They don't need a fancy setup for this, you know, 171 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:17.720 just pack the building in with as many fans as 172 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.879 you can and just use one of the regular entrance 173 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:23.240 ways as the aisleway. Keep it simple, less is more. 174 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:25.759 And you know what else they need. They need Jesse 175 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.919 Ventur on this show, if only to do commentary for 176 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:34.039 one match or interview somebody, you know, like he did 177 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.480 a wrestle maybea twenty whatever. You gotta have him on 178 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:40.360 the show. He just signed a Legends deal. He was 179 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:42.960 on the very first episode of Saturday Nights made event 180 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.720 in that very same building. He has to be part 181 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.440 of the show in some way. I think that's where 182 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:51.519 we get the Randy Orton Kevin Owens match. They shot 183 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:55.000 an angle on SmackDown on Friday Night, a big injury 184 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:58.279 angle to take Orton off television for a while, probably 185 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:02.360 through Survivor series, with Owens giving him a pile driver, 186 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.559 not a very good one. The Undertaker's tombstone on Hulkogan 187 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.080 at Survivor series, where his head was like six inches 188 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.960 up off the ground. That was better than this. He 189 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.759 protected him well, but it just did not look good, 190 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:17.759 to the point where they didn't actually show the moment 191 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.480 of impact on the replays. They cut it out. They 192 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.559 just showed. They showed you from like the stomach up 193 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.919 because they knew it was bad. But it was a 194 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:29.879 great angle. It was a great angle because of the 195 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:33.919 way that everybody sold it, from Orton to Owens, who 196 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.320 sold it like he had blacked out for a minute 197 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.240 and regretted what he had done to Cody Rhodes coming 198 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:43.200 out to check on Randy stretching him out of the 199 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.840 building into the ambulance. Michael Cole and Corey Graves on commentary. 200 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.679 I mean, they really put this over in a big 201 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:53.120 way because we don't see pile drivers on WWE television 202 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.679 unless you were Kane or the Undertaker. You know, the 203 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.440 tombstone was the closest thing that we got banned the 204 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:04.240 move in the early two thousands, and very, very seldomly 205 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.000 did we see one. The last time was twenty thirteen. 206 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:10.519 It's a great match between CM Punk and John Cena 207 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.519 Raw and Punk gave sena pile driver in that match, 208 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:16.679 and they got a lot of heat for that. But 209 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.720 you know, when you don't do something, or you don't 210 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:23.200 abuse it, and then you finally do it, it means more. 211 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:27.120 It's far more effective. That goes for anything, that could 212 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.759 go for blood, that could go for cussing, that could 213 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:33.080 go for weapons. You know, we see that stuff all 214 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.919 the time everywhere else, to the point where you're just 215 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.759 numb to it. So a simple pile driver here, they 216 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.480 can turn it into a serious injury angle and that 217 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:46.679 should lead to Cody Rhoades now defending the WWE Championship 218 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:50.279 at Survivor Series against Kevin Owens coming out of that show, 219 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.320 you could do Orton against Owens on Saturday Night's Main Events, 220 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.759 since we never actually got the match at Crown Jewel, 221 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:03.120 but the official storyline diagnosis for Orton is cervical cord neuropraxia. 222 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:06.200 I wonder which one of the writers looked that up 223 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.080 in the dictionary when they were figuring out what to 224 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:13.120 call it. One day after TKO announced it's quarterly earnings, 225 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:17.440 Endeavor President and COO Mark Shapiro, in an interview with 226 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:22.279 CNBC's Alex Sherman, was asked about Vince McMahon, who was 227 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:27.759 still under federal investigation for now, not likely for much longer, 228 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:33.039 and Shapiro revealed that he actually had breakfast with McMahon recently, 229 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.639 just to check in, coming off the Netflix docu saries 230 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:39.559 on him that dropped. He said he had not heard 231 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:41.440 from Vince in a while and he wanted to see 232 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:47.600 where he was with everything. That makes me nervous. No, no, 233 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:55.519 stay away, keep away, He said. McMahon has some litigation 234 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.960 that he is working through. Well, isn't that the understatement 235 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.759 of the century. Yeah, he's got a little bit of 236 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:06.320 litigation that he's working like, he's been sued for copyright infringement. 237 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.879 He's got a couple of parking tickets, he's got some 238 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.960 litigation that he's working through, and frankly, he said he 239 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.720 wants the privacy and the time to work through it, 240 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.399 which is great because in the meantime we're going to 241 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:25.559 keep building TKO and WWA. He could not have been 242 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:28.960 more cooperative, He could not have been nicer. I mean, 243 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:33.320 he was a total pro at breakfast if you will, Yes, 244 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:39.039 he is the world breakfast eating champion, total pro. He 245 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.519 reiterated that Vince is out of the business. He does 246 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.200 not make decisions, he's not on the board, he does 247 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:49.240 not opine. They don't consult him for anything. Let's keep 248 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:53.879 it that way. I'll just say this, if the government 249 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.799 plans to indict this man, or if they planned to 250 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.919 indict him sometime next year, I think that's pretty much 251 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.320 out the window now. The US Attorney in the Southern 252 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.159 District of New York is a presidential appointee, so I 253 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.399 assume the new president can replace him with somebody else, 254 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:14.879 should he choose to do so. The Janelle Grant lawsuit, 255 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:18.559 though that's a separate issue. I'm talking about any charges 256 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.240 that the Justice Department might want a file because remember 257 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:24.799 they serve Vince with a federal grand jury subpoena. They 258 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:27.519 executed a search warrant on this man's home, they took 259 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:31.360 his phone, and then they went to Janelle Grant's lawyers 260 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.000 and they asked her to pause her lawsuit until December eleventh, 261 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.879 which is coming up quick. We'll see if they ask 262 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.759 her to extend that pause. But Janelle Grant is free 263 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.759 to do whatever she wants. She wants to pursue this case. 264 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.559 You know, her lawsuit against Vince McMahon, she can continue 265 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:50.440 to do that. That's a civil suit, that's not anything 266 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:55.279 criminal or federal. But if I'm Vince McMahon, I'm breathing 267 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:56.960 a lot easier today than I would have been a 268 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:01.799 week ago. Now. Shapiro, in that same interview, also revealed 269 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:05.000 that the advertising slots for Raw on Netflix. A lot 270 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.559 of people have been asking about ads on Netflix. Are 271 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:10.080 they going to have ads? Are they're not going to 272 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.679 have ads? He said, starting in January, all the ad 273 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.919 slots are already filled up. So for anybody wondering the 274 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.159 answer to that, the answer is yes. But I think 275 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.120 some people were holding out hope that that might not 276 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.720 be the case, they've already sold their spots and the 277 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:29.200 ads are ready to roll, according to Shapiro, he did 278 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.759 say starting in year two, they're going to be able 279 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:37.120 to use personalized advertising, so focusing basically on users based 280 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:41.039 on data as opposed to just more general ads. They 281 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:43.039 don't have the ability to do that right now, but 282 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:45.360 starting in year two they plan to have a much 283 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.879 more targeted way to deliver ads to people that are 284 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:54.639 relevant to each user. Dave Meltzer broke the news this 285 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:57.879 week that two of Paul Levek's right hand men behind 286 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:01.600 the scenes in WWE have been sidelin, Bruce Pritchard and 287 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.640 Michael Hayes. They are both said to be on temporary leave, 288 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.119 he says. According to the company, Pritchard's absence is due 289 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.160 to a family emergency, while Hayes is said to be 290 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.599 out due to personal reasons. He's apparently been missing for 291 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:20.200 weeks only now it got out. He's usually the point 292 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:23.519 person as agents go for all of Roman Reigns' matches, 293 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.440 a lot of the bloodline stuff, and obviously Paul Hayman 294 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.920 is heavily involved in the bloodline stuff as well. He 295 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.559 was not on the trip though, of Saudi Arabia Michael Hayes, 296 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.720 but again he's been missing for a while now. Mike Johnson, 297 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.200 a PW insider, added to this and said that both 298 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.839 are still with the company. The Hayes absence is believed 299 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:47.000 to be medical in nature, which also caused him to 300 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:50.000 pull out of this weekend's big event convention on Long Island, 301 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.599 and with Pritchard, there has been no change in his 302 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.160 status with the company other than he is not expected 303 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:58.839 back at least until the end of November, if not longer. 304 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.359 Because when the new this first broke that Prichard and 305 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:05.160 Hayes were gone, you know, some people were immediately just 306 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.440 assuming that that meant that they were gone gone, you know, 307 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.920 like the acts had fallen on two more members of 308 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.519 the old regime. If the new regime didn't want anybody 309 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.079 from the old regime around, then they would have been 310 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:21.079 gone after Vince left, like Kevin done. Now, he didn't 311 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:23.359 get fired. Kevin Dunn opted to leave, but he saw 312 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:25.839 the writing on the wall and he got the hell 313 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:29.319 out of there, and the shows had been better off 314 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:33.200 for it. The Triple H likes Bruce, that's why he 315 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:37.640 keeps him around. He's like a comfortable old shoe. So really, 316 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:39.680 there's nothing to see here. If you hear about this 317 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.519 and again, you're gonna hear people who were, oh, this 318 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.279 means they're gone, and you know, what's the real story here. 319 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:50.519 That's the real story. There's nothing to see here. And 320 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.799 Meltzer did break the news first. But this was not 321 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.720 a good week for Dave Meltzer. We got to talk 322 00:18:56.759 --> 00:18:59.680 about this. This has not been a good year for 323 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:02.960 day Meltzer, let alone a good week, but this was 324 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.759 one of his more embarrassing weeks. He started the week 325 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:12.000 on Monday by tweeting twenty twenty five Backlash will be 326 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:15.279 at the Tokyo Dome. Now, I'm sure the minute that 327 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.240 he saw Tokyo Dome he did a happy dance and 328 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:20.480 he couldn't wait to break the news. The problem is 329 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:24.319 what he saw was a fan made fake logo for 330 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:29.200 Backlash Japan, which was posted by a spoof Twitter account 331 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:33.839 called wessel Votes. Evidently he thought it was Wrestle Votes. 332 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:39.279 It was not Wrestle Votes, it was wessel Votes. I'm 333 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:42.440 not sure what's worse the fact that he fell for 334 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.400 a fake Wrestle Votes account, the fact that he posted 335 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.880 without giving credit to the original source, which made it 336 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.279 seem like he was breaking the news himself, or the 337 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:54.640 fact that he didn't bother to verify the news before 338 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:57.680 he tweeted that out to his three hundred thousand followers. 339 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:01.839 He clearly he doesn't have the sources that he used 340 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:03.720 to have in that company. But you mean to tell 341 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:07.920 me something as big as that, if you're gullible enough 342 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.279 to fall forward in the first place, that you can't 343 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.519 pick up the phone and call somebody or text somebody 344 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:19.640 who works there to verify that. Nine minutes later after 345 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.960 he posted that, he posted a follow up tweet, and 346 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:25.359 both tweets have been deleted as far as I could tell, 347 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:31.000 But he said backlash tweet apparently was a fake. Yeah, 348 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:37.400 no shit, Dave. Apparently he never linked to or quote 349 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.640 tweeted the original tweet anyway. So someone who follows him 350 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:43.920 and not wessel votes, I sound like fucking Elmer Fudd 351 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:46.519 every time I say that. Somebody who follows him and 352 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:49.640 not wessel votes would not even have any idea what 353 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.200 he's talking about in that follow up tweet, Like what 354 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:57.759 tweet are you referring to your own? The one tweet 355 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.599 that is still up. He posted a third tweet to 356 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:04.440 tell us that he confirmed with WWE that the Tokyo 357 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:10.039 Dome thing was a fake. It was your tweet. Oh, 358 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:13.559 I gotta be careful. I can't laugh. I can't laugh 359 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:18.440 or the stitches might come out. You tweeted it. Of 360 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.720 course it was fake. What has happened to this man? 361 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:25.880 He should have put his phone down for the rest 362 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.720 of the week for that alone. But a few days later, 363 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.759 the ratings came out on Thursday for the NXT Dynamite 364 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:35.400 head to head. Both shows went head to head on 365 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:38.400 Wednesday night. Okay, so NXT got bumped out of its 366 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:40.960 usual time slot and they were head to head from 367 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:43.880 eight to ten pm. And as I predicted, and I'm 368 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:46.920 sure I wasn't the only one. NXT, even though it 369 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:50.480 was not in its regular night, they invaded aw's turf 370 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.559 on Wednesday, and they actually beat them. Remember when Dynamite 371 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:57.359 ran on Tuesday last month, they got absolutely shell ackt 372 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:01.039 NXT runs on their night and they still get shrounched 373 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:04.599 AW does, although not as badly as they did last month. 374 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:08.759 Last month was just an annihilation. This wasn't an annihilation 375 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.200 per se, but they got beat on their own night. 376 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:14.960 NXT averaged six hundred and nineteen thousand viewers on the 377 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.640 CW network and an zero point one seven rating in 378 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.160 the coveted eighteen to forty nine demo, as compared to 379 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:27.680 Dynamite in its regular timeslot, which averaged five hundred and 380 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:31.720 twenty three thousand viewers on TBS with an zero point 381 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:34.440 one six rating as opposed to an zero point one 382 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:38.480 seven rating in eighteen to forty nine. Now, neither number 383 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.720 is anything to saying home about that. That goes for NXT. Also, okay, 384 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.000 it's like fighting over the ugliest girl in the class. 385 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:48.039 But that AW rating it ties the second lowest eighteen 386 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:50.839 to forty nine number in the history of the show. Overall, 387 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:54.759 it was the lowest rating in the history of the show. 388 00:22:55.839 --> 00:23:00.240 Five years of Dynamite. That is the low point. There's 389 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:03.599 no two ways about it. That is embarrassing for AAW. 390 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:06.640 It's like having home field advantage in getting beat by 391 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:10.480 the visiting team. Don't tell that to Dave Meltzer. He 392 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:14.960 felt compelled to defend AW against some random person on Twitter, 393 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.440 and I swear this is what he said. If I 394 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:23.240 worked at TBS, I would say that AW one Warner 395 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:26.720 Brothers Discovery when it does internal ratings. It's based on 396 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.480 eighteen to forty nine as a percentage of homes that 397 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:34.359 get the station. I've seen copies in the standings how 398 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:37.359 they would have it, which is the statistically fair way 399 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.039 to look at it, It would be zero point three 400 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:43.680 nine to zero point three eight. But I don't work 401 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:49.119