Steve Carrier on January 23, 2019
X-Pac opens today’s show by sharing some thoughts on this Sunday’s Royal Rumble event. He points out that he’s been enjoying a lot of the women’s work on WWE programming lately, especially some of the backstage brawls, but he’s looking forward to both the men’s and women’s Royal Rumble matches equally. He points out that the female talents are hungrier these days and that is developing into some great content.
He points out that the quality of the women’s rumble match should be great, especially because the stakes are so high. He really thinks that the winner of this Sunday’s women’s rumble match will be in the main event of WrestleMania. He suspects we might see a triple threat match between Ronda Rousey, Charlotte and Becky Lynch close ‘Mania this year.
On the other hand, he notes that maybe a Title vs. Title match would work, with the RAW and Smackdown Champions facing off. He thinks Rousey is a lock for the match on the RAW side, and either Lynch or Charlotte representing Smackdown can create a “money match” if WWE books it right.
X-Pac addresses whether he thinks Andrade will win the men’s rumble this Sunday. He says, “I don’t see it”. He points out that Andrade’s doing great right now, but he doesn’t see a rumble win in Andrade’s imminent future.
He points out that a lot of people are talking about the WWE Title match between A.J. Styles and Daniel Bryan, but he’s really looking forward to the Universal Title match as well. Some fans have written Balor off, but X-Pac thinks Balor and Lesnar will have a great match.
Moving on to some thoughts about NXT Takeover, X-Pac doesn’t see any problem at all with Bianca Belair defeating Shayna Baszler for the NXT Women’s Title, if that’s the route NXT officials decide to go.
There’s no doubt that Baszler can stay in NXT and dominate there for a long time, but X-Pac notes that from a performer’s standpoint, Baszler needs to feel like she’s making progress in the form of a main roster call-up.
X-Pac admits that he didn’t even know the NXT Takeover card match by match, but he’s still willing to bet that it will blow away the Royal Rumble, at least in terms of match quality.
X-Pac welcomes David McLane to the show.
McLane’s new all-female wrestling show, W.O.W. (Women of Wrestling), debuted this past Friday on AXS TV. McLane was also the founder of G.L.O.W. in the 1980s.
McLane informs that the G.L.O.W. documentary that was produced nearly 5 years ago played a big part in the development of Netflix’s GLOW series. The women who developed that show for production were actually inspired by the documentary, not the original series. McLane also feels that the documentary played a role in the development of his new show, W.O.W.
McLane informs that his roster consists of some terrific in-ring talent such as Santana Garrett and Tessa Blanchard. He adds that it’s also very important to have characters too, as well as star-powered phenoms such as “The Beast”. X-Pac says every part of Blanchard’s game is on point. She’s as good as anyone in the business right now in X-Pac’s opinion.
McLane informs that they had thousands of women show up for try-outs. He works from a character-driven mindset and he has several gimmicks in mind that he hasn’t found the right woman for yet. He says it’s important for talent to have a combination of skills, as well as a good work ethic and a good personality.
In developing this show, McLane spoke with fans who told them they wanted to see the fun put back into wrestling again. Other fans said they wanted to see an all-female show where the women were treated as the Superstars. The response to the show has been unbelievable thus far and he urges fans to keep watching to they can not only keep the show on the air, but expand and possible transition to live broadcasts in the future.
That sums up today’s episode of X-Pac 1, 2, 360. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya next week for another recap!
January 23, 2019 11:19 pm
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