It is Wednesday, June fifth, twenty twenty four. I am the Solo
Monster. Thank you for tuning in here for your AW Dynamite fix. As
I was getting ready to go live here, I saw the news update per
the Wall Street Journal, we have breaking news, breaking television news. Per
the Journal, the NBA is nearing an eleven year, seventy six billion with
a b seventy six billion dollar media revenue deal with ESPN, NBC, and
Amazon. And what that means is that TNT is out of the NBA business
after next season. So you get one more year the NBA on TNT.
So enjoy Inside the NBA next season. Enjoy Ernie in Shack and Charles Barkley
and the other guy. Enjoy that show because you we're only going to get
it for one more season. And now we wait and see what effect this
is going to have on AW going forward as they finalize their Meteor Rightes deal
heading into twenty twenty five and beyond. This is a story. I mentioned
it because it will have an impact in some way on AAW. Some people
think it may not have a positive effect. I'm not one of those people
who happens to think that. I think that if anything, it would have
a positive effect, not a negative effect. But the bottom line is nobody
knows for sure until the deal is done. But that is a massive deal.
Seventy six billion dollars is a lot of money. I'll go out on
a limb right now and say that AW is not going to get seventy six
billion dollars. That's not going to happen. They certainly are not going to
get seventy six billion dollars for this fucking show tonight. That we got Kenny
Smith. Okay, I see, I don't want them align Kenny Smith.
That just his name popped out of my head. Fellow New Yorker. I
know, I know, but I mean, come on, it's not Shack
or Sir Charles, so easy to forget. But anyway, that is the
TNTF date on there. Tonight's show was built around two things. There was
a World Championship match, but the big draw was the return of MJF,
who we saw at double or Nothing for the first time since December, and
then he wasn't even on the show last Wednesday, but they were all waiting
for tonight. They were promoting his return to Dynamite for tonight. They were
in Colorado and his opponent for Forbidden Door. Now they did not say Forbidden
Door, but it appears to be building towards Long Island, and his opponent
for Forbidden Door is not somebody that you would expect, unless, of course,
you watched Dynamite last week when you saw Roushe in the back call out
MJF. That probably was a giveaway about where this was going. But yes,
Rush Rush was the one who came out to interrupt MJF in mid promo
tonight, and it appears that they are saving that match, I would assume
for the pay per view was not announced for next week, and so I
can only imagine that they are saving it for Forbidden Door, because you know,
MJF is certainly not going to be left off that show at the Ubs
Arena. You know he's going to be home. He's got to be in
the ring in a match against somebody, and I could think of worse people
for him to be in the ring with than Rousche. So I actually think
that'll be a fine match and a fine first opponent for him to notch a
w over his first win since he was the world champion late last year.
I don't see any issue with that, but you know, he also in
his promo called out two of the top baby faces, really the two top
babyfaces in the company other than himself, and potentially tease they match for Wembley
Stadium with one of them. And I certainly hope that I'm wrong about that
and that we don't get either one of those matches that he was teasing,
because to do it at Wembley Stadium, I think would be premature and it
would be not the right place to do it. It would also be a
slap in the face of the man who currently holds the world title. So
hopefully what that was was setting up matches for the future. That's what he
did tonight. He set up matches at least two, if not three,
potential matches for the rest of the year, maybe even into next year,
but hopefully not for Wembley Stadium against the two babyfaces that he name dropped.
MJF did not declare his intentions to be in the owen Hart Tournament this year,
but he should be in there. Did not say anything about the owen
Hart Tournament. One person who did, though, was Brian Danielson, and
this was one of my big takeaways from the show. It was a backstage
segment. It was inserted later in the show. It was relatively brief,
but it was impactful and I was happy to see. One of the things
that I've been talking about since Tony Kahan made the announcement with Martha Hart at
Double or Nothing. This new stipulation that they have added to the Men's and
women's Owen Heart Cup tournaments where the winners will go on to Wembley Stadium at
All in London to challenge for the World Championship, Women's World Championship, aw
World Championship. I like it. I think that's a great move. I
think that should be the permanent move going forward. But I've been saying the
last couple of weeks, if they're gonna do this, then then we need
top tier talent in this tournament. We need big names, we need former
world champions, we need people who you could see potentially becoming world champion.
Hard to believe that. Brian Danielson, for all the great matches that he
has had in this company, and all the people who have held that title,
John Moxley, Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, Hangman, Page, mjf
cm Punk, all these different people that have been the AW World champion.
Brian Danielson's never held that title, and he has been talking about this is
it for him as a full time active performer. He's not quitting the business,
but as far as him being in main events, as far as him
competing for or holding world championships, you can't be a part time world champion
unless your name is Roman Reigns or brock Lesnar. So Brian Danielson is not
going to be holding the AW World title very likely unless he is full time.
So this is it. This may be his last shot. And he
said I'm going out. I'm going out, and I'm going to go for
it all. So he is going to be in the Owen Heart Tournament.
I love that move. And I said MJF should be in there as well.
All the big names should be in there. But I was very excited
to have that name added to the list. Hey oznglorious, Thank you very
mum. I'm very happy they're actually showing up on screen tonight. Thank god.
Fucking YouTube was on the fritz the other night and then we had Chris
Jericho. Chris Jericho made a comment I think on the show last week during
his TV Time segment in the ring. He wasn't kidding when he said that
he wants all the segments on aw television. If he had his way,
he would be in every segment on the show. He damn near was tonight.
Four fucking segments they devoted to Chris Jericho the learning Tree on this show,
each one progressively worse than the one that came before it. And now
he's threatening to bring back another TV time segment on the show next week,
so we're gonna get even more of it, although hopefully they keep it to
just the one segment. Easily, the worst shit on the entire show tonight
were these Jericho segments, which either were supposed to be funny and weren't,
or went off exactly the way they were supposed to, supposed to be cheesy
and over the touch, which I'm sure they are supposed to be that way,
but it's just fucking awful. I'm sorry, it's just fucking terrible.
And to have four of them on one show. You know, he walks
around, he calls people branches, Oh, you're my branch. I was
sitting here wishing I had a branch that I could beat myself over the head
with by the time we got to segment number three. This was a show
that after the first segment, which was the MJF segment, so they opened
hot, you know, with him coming out for his promo. This is
a show where after that first segment, it just it flat lined. This
show just flat lined until the main event. The main event was good.
Main event was a very good match. It was Swerve Strickland out there defending
the AW World Championship. Another win for him, defending the title against Roderick
Strong. Look, I will take a championship match over another fucking eliminate.
Okay, We've had enough of those for the IWGP title and the AW World
title and the International title. Hey, at least we got a championship match
on this show. But it was a championship match that was set up and
made official by Tony Khan on Collision last Saturday. And it was Roderick Strong,
who last time we saw him was a double or nothing when he lost
the International title to Will Osper. And so I'm watching Collision on Saturday,
and I see Roderick Strong walking through the back and he stumbles upon Tony Khan.
He makes a b line for Tony Kahan at the gorilla position because everybody
knows that that's where Tony Khan sits. He's got his head set on right.
This was three days after they shot the angle on Dynamite last week to
annoint Christopher Daniels as the new interim EVP acting on behalf of Tony Khan.
And as he said, and that's segment last week. If I come out
here and I make a decision, or any decision I make, you know
that it was either cleared through him or it's coming from Tony's basically Tony Kahn's
surrogate in effect. So I'm watching this segment on Collision. I see Roddy
go up to Tony Kahan and demand a World Championship match. Reason being,
I'm next strong, and I know that you're next strong because Tony got dumped
on his head and that was enough for Tony con to say, you know
what, you know what, that sounds a great idea, Roddy, You're
gonna get a World Championship match against We're on Collision or Dynamite, whatever,
whatever the fuck. And I'm sitting here and I'm thinking to myself, boy,
you know, would it not have made more sense to have Roderick Strong.
Oh, I don't know. Go find the Young Bucks and say,
hey, I think I deserve a shot at the AW World Championship, and
have the Young Bucks say, you know what, you do deserve a shot
at the AW World title. We saw what happened to you at Double or
Nothing and that wasn't right. So we're gonna put you in a match with
Swerve World Championship on the line this Wednesday on Dynamite, right, because they
did the same thing with Christian Cage. That's how we got the main event
a double or Nothing. Christian Cage lost his TNT title to Adam Copeland,
did nothing to did nothing after that to earn the right to challenge for the
world title, but he was gifted a World Championship match. And the Young
Bucks have been, you know, trying to fuck around with Swerve, and
Swerves been getting up in their face, which I like, you know,
he should be standing up to the EVPs. And I was just puzzled by
this that Tony Kahan, not even Christopher Daniels, who's supposed to be acting
on his behalf and making decisions like this, is just standing there silent,
And Tony Kahn says yeah, you know what, that sounds like a great
idea. That's how we got this match tonight. For those of you who
may have been wondering, maybe you don't watch all the shows and you're thinking,
well, why would Roddy get a world title match? That's why because
Tony Kahn says, your next strong, okay, I'll give you a world
title match, And that's how we ended up with our main event on this
show. Nobody says it has to make sense, but boy, I sure
wish it did. This is aw Dynamite your review here for Wednesday, June
fifth, twenty twenty four. I am the solemn monstern, but you already
knew that you like that Tony Convoy. That's what he sounds like to me
every time I hear him speak. I was happy to see Christopher Daniels basically
take over as his his surrogate last week. And it wasn't even not even
a week goes by and Tony Khan is already back on TV making matches and
making decisions. Why even have Christopher Daniels in the role in the first place?
Why ask why subscribe? Like super chats are open and they are once
again appearing in full view on screen, which they were not on Monday.
You could thank YouTube for that. But they're back and so am I.
So let's get into this here. Dynamite immediately. And when I say immediately,
big bang theory ended. Dynamite came on the air and the first thing
you heard was mjf's theme music, and out he came in his leather jacket.
So they were wasting no time. After he missed Dynamite last week,
they held him off for a week. They wanted to, I guess,
build anticipation. So out he comes, his first Dynamite appear into many months.
He said. If you're wondering why his eyes are all squinty, they're
in Colorado. Tonight said he's here to put everybody on notice. He was
sitting at home on the most magical place on Earth, Long Island, New
York, watching a bunch of children making bold claim on his show. He
said, one calls himself the Rainmaker, and yet it looks like he can't
even afford a gym membership. Then there's another one swerving around whose friends in
the Mogul embassy turned on him, and he said, Swerve refers to himself
as a business mogul says, business moguls tend to go to school, but
if he did, he must have skipped his course on public speaking. But
the most egregious claim was from a Cockney cockhead. It's what he called him,
Cockney cockhead calling himself the best in the world, Brev, which is
interesting because last time he checked, he isn't Chris Jericho, he isn't John
Moxley, he isn't Cody Rhodes, Samoa and Joe, Brian Danielson, Kenny
Omega, Adam Cole or Hiroshi Tanahashi. But you know who managed to beat
every single name on that li That was MJF. So the next time you
want to come on his show, he says, and lie through those British
teeth of his watch your tone and check your mouth, because silly billy,
you're not the best in the world, Bruv. He is. He became
the face of aw over the past five years, and he created some of
the greatest matches, the greatest moments, and the greatest memories in the history
of the sport. He became the most hated man walking this planet, only
to become the most beloved. And that don't happen by accident, So imagine
how he felt when he goes home to heal his wounds from carrying this place
and people have the audacity to try to smear his name. At that point,
he was interrupted by Rushe, who walked out on stage and he say,
cut a promo. This is the first time I think in all the
time that Rushe has been signed to aw that he actually had live promo time
on Dynamite out in front of the arena, not in the backstage segment,
but he had the chance to walk out there on stage and cut a promo
let alone on one of the biggest stars in the company. So this is
a big moment for him, he said, like all these stupid ugly Americans,
MJF never shuts up. He told MJF. While he's been gone,
he's been here working hard. So now he comes back and he gets a
big celebration, where's my celebration? He wants to know where's his big moment.
He deserves mjf's spot, So now he's going to take it. Because
when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. So he didn't
say herns like he did last week. He said horns this time MJF said,
I didn't get any of that. He asked the crowd, did you
get any of what Ruche said? He said, no, I didn't.
I didn't get any of that, and he asked him to run that by
him again, and when Ruche began talking, MJF told him that they don't
give a shit. He said, Rush comes out here in his dime store
suit, making his bank account real dry, like every woman he's ever slept
with. But he's not gonna stand here and pretend that he doesn't know who
the man is. He says, you know, at one point, I
paid you a lot of money to take out Brian Danielson. He knows how
talented Ruche is. He says he comes from a wrestling family, wrestling royalty.
His father is a wrestling legend. Now, he says, some people
might call him a Nepo baby for that, but not him. And there
were a few fans who chanted that in the craw. I think that was
the whole point. He's gonna wait and let the fans chant for it.
Some of them did, not everybody, but he's proved that that's not the
case when he sold out arena after arena in Mexico. Then he came to
the US in a record time, he became a Ring of Honor world champion.
He came to aw and managed to bludgeons some of the best that this
sport has to offer. The problem is, the problem is he's not one
of the best. He's the best. But out of respect and admiration for
Rush, he wants to let him know how him interrupting him really makes him
feel. And then he said something clearly very nasty to this man in Spanish.
I think he said it got censored. I think he said something about
the man's mother. Rush hit the ring. They started slugging it out until
Christopher Daniels and a bunch of security geeks came down to the ring to separate
them. That didn't work. They had to pull Rush back. Then MJF
jumped on top of him. Then they ended up rolling around on the mat
until finally they got separated. So what did we get here in this MJF
promo? He came out here. He's got his brand new T shirt that
he plugged. He also plugged the pay per view which is on Long Island,
so he made sure he mentioned that. But he came out here and
he ripped into the Continental Champion, setting up a potential match with Ocata at
some point. And look, that could be the match at Forbidden Door,
that could be the match at Wembley. Now, if MJF is not going
to be in the main event, I would not have him in the main
event. He could wrestle Okata. You know that that could be for the
continental title. I figure they're keeping that title warm with Okata until Kenny Omega
comes back. But we don't know when Kenny is going to be back.
Unfortunately, it seems very unlikely we're going to get that match in London.
But that doesn't mean that they can't do Okata and MJF on that show.
But he dropped that first little hint that we're going to get that match at
some point. And then he called out the two biggest babyfaces in all of
aw outside of himself. Three top baby faces right now, indisputably or as
Keith Lee would say, indubitably right He loves to throw those words out there,
Three biggest babyfaces in this company, in no particular order, MJF,
Swerve Strickland and Will Ospry. Case closed, and he called out the other
two and either of those matches could potentially be a main event at Wembley Stadium
this year. You could get end up with MJF against Will Osprey. If
Osbury beats Swerve, if Forbidden Door, you could get MJF and Swerve at
Wembley Stadium. Remember the segment last year they had that backstage meeting between them,
that back and forth promo segment. This was in the weeks leading up
two World's End. That was the first tease. Nothing came of it because
MJF had to go away. Now Swerve is the champion, could potentially be
the match at Wembley Stadium, although it's hard for me to imagine them not
wanting Osprey in the main event this year. So he set up three future
matches and then of course set up the future match with Ruche, which my
guess would be is going to take place at Forbidden Door. And I don't
have an issue with that. I think Rush is someone who we don't get
to see very often, and I think at one point there may have been
a visa issue. I know he got hurt as well. More recently he
had that hamstring injury that was coming out of the Continental Classic. I know
he got hurt during the tournament, so there may have been reasons why it's
been very start and stop with him, but he's a tremendous talent. Nobody
I think believes he's gonna go over MJF, but that doesn't mean that that's
not a perfectly fine first feud for him. I still think MJF, though,
should end up in the Owenhart tournament. Whatever happens with Ruche Rush is
a fine first opponent, but everybody should be gunning for the aw World title,
especially MJF because he wants to get his belt back. So I don't
have an issue with them doing this match. If for Biddendorf, that's going
to be the match, I think that's gonna be a great match. We
have Kyle O'Reilly, Orange Cassidy, Ray Phoenix, and Jay Lethal in a
four way match for the right to challenge for the International Championship on next week's
episode of Dynamite. Hey shout out to RECINCN, who is in the chat.
I see you, So we were going to get a number one contend
I should note I just mentioned the people in this match, right, I
mentioned Ray Phoenix, and we've got Kyle O'Reilly and Orange, Cassidy and Jay
Lethal. Jay Lethal yet to win a match this year in aw We are
six months into the year. We are just about at the midway point of
twenty twenty four. This man has yet to win a single match in AW
all year. But he was one of the four men chosen for this match,
and you had to know coming in why he was chosen to be in
this match. And if you still don't get it, it would become pretty
apparent here. Momentarily, Lethal immediately hip tossed Phoenix clear to the floor and
then tease the dive opted though for a Fargo shrut instead. I know I
bust out into a random Fargo shrut various times during the day, even when
I used to be in the office. You know, I have to get
up and go to the bathroom. Perhaps on the way back from the bathroom,
as I'm passing by that Hue girl at her desk, I might do
a little Fargo strut, you know, back to my seat. Don't do
that, It's a bad idea. So this led to Cassidy flying in with
the top rope, crossbody and a dive out onto Phoenix. O'Reilly jumped in.
He targeted Cassidy's arm. Kyle saved Phoenix from a lethal injection, but
ate a thrust kick for his troubles, and we got a wild series of
kicks and lariots by Phoenix and O'Reilly. Everybody was down. Heading into the
commercial break, Cassidy connected on a stun dog Millionaire on Lethal tried one on
Kyle, caught him though in an armbar. Phoenix flew in with a splash
to break it up. Lethal came diving in with a top rope elbow spinning
ddt attempt by Cassidy got countered into a figure four by Lethal. O'reiley though
applied to guillotine on Phoenix at the same time the match broke down, Cassidy
blasted O'Reilly with an RNA punch, Lethal caught Kyle with a lethal injection,
and then Lethal went for a figure four on Ray Phoenix. Phoenix, though
countered into a roll up for the flash pin and the win, and of
course, who takes the losing fall here in this match, Jay Lethal Literally
the only reason that Jay Lethal was in this match, literally the only reason
Jay Lethal, frankly is in most of the matches that he is in.
On those rare occasions. You see him on aw television more often than not.
It is to eat the pin, it is to take the losing fall.
It's a shame. He's a talented guy, but that's his role on
the show. So I don't even need to know who he's going to be
in the ring with. As soon as I hear that music and I see
him come out and I see Sanjay Dutt, I know that he's on job
duty and that was no different here. And honestly, you know, when
I saw the lineup here for this match, you know Kyle O'Reilly just recently,
only a few weeks ago, had a shot at the international title,
maybe a month ago, So I knew it wasn't gonna be him. Jay
Lethal again the man. If you gave the man, if the man played
the lottery and you gave him all the winning numbers, he would still lose.
Okay, he's not winning anything. So you eliminate Kyle, you eliminate
Lethal. That leaves Phoenix and Orange Cassidy. Orange Cassidy has an issue with
Trent Boretta and the Kallis family, and frankly, what the fuck do we
need to see Orange Cassidy back with the international title for right, He's already
had plenty of time with that title. So Ray Phoenix was honestly the kind
of the de facto winner when you looked at this lineup coming into this,
so I figured it was going to be him. Now, look, will
Ospray might not be getting the match that he wants with Ricochet. Okay,
he's practically on bend de knee trying to convince Ricochet to come to AW so
the two of them can work together again. I don't think that's gonna happen,
but he's going to get the next best thing he's getting Ray Phoenix.
Were going will Osprey and Ray Phoenix in the ring next week for the international
title on Dynamite. So for all of the crazy insane matches that we have
seen in this company in these last five years, and there have been a
lot of them, and there have been a lot of multiman matches, this
match next week that we are about to see between these two men may seriously
end up being the most insane one on one that we have gotten to date
in AW. When you consider who is in this match and what they are
probably going to do, this is going to be pure insanity next week and
I can't wait to see it now. After the match, Trent Bretta came
out with Don Kallis to attack Cassidy with a chair. Cassidy went outside.
He grabbed a chain from underneath the ring, climb back inside. Now here
comes Chris Statlander and Chris Statlander gets in between them two keep them apart and
to hold back Orange Cassidy. We hear Stokely Hathaway's voice and he comes walking
out with a microphone says that Statlander is going to put her foot so far
up his ass he'll be coughing up shoe leather. Statlander then decked Cassidy and
then Willow Nightingale sprints out from the back Statlander and Halfaway veiled. Stokely ended
up piggybacking on Statlander's back as they backed up the ramp, and that was
the end of that. From this point on, boy, this show was
I don't know. This show was a mix of terrible like these Jericho segments
and just you know a bunch of segments that just wasn't terribly exciting really,
not until the main event. So we had our first of four I said,
four segments on this show with Chris Jericho. I didn't ask for one.
We got four. We had a black suv. I never thought I
would sit here and tell you that I wish that the young Bucks would have
walked out of the suv. That's who I thought it was. At first,
I thought it was going to be the elite. Instead, we have
a black suv that pulls up in the parking lot outside and who comes out
Chris Jericho. And Jericho is way. He's got that big cheesy smile on
his face. He's got the FTW title around his waist, shirts open and
he's waving. He's waving at people, waving at the Cameras he walks up
to the driver's side window, he reminds the driver that you have to come
to a full and complete stop. Big Bill and Brian Keith they joined Jericho
outside the car, and Brian Keith was upset because he thought the cameraman's work
was very shaky. I guess this was disrespectful to Chris Jericho to Jericho took
the camera from him and he was filming Big Bill. Bill said the sun
was shining and he loves the little things in life. Brian Keith told the
cameraman that he wouldn't have a shaky ass camera if he respected Jericho. So
I guess this is his gimmick. Now. Not only is he a bounty
hunter, but the gimmick. Now, he's got this comedy gimmick where he
is irritated by everything and everything is perceived to be disrespect towards Chris Jericho,
and he's just he's like an angry little elf. You know, he's got
that look on his face and he's just very upset. That's his, uh,
chronically angry gimmick now that he has. So Jericho gives the camera back
to the cameraman and tells him follow me into the building. This is awful.
I wrote that here. I said, this is awful. Now.
I thought that Jericho was going to come into the building, he was going
to come out to the ring, cut a promo. That would have been
the end of it. Little did I know we'll get back to him in
a bit. Renee interviewed Willow Nightingale in the back, who said that Mercedes
Monet is the TBS champion, but there is a score to settle someday.
Because she had Mercedes pinned in their match at double or nothing. She had
her down for a good eight count. That was when Stokely had the referee
distractor, or Stokely in Statlander had the referee distracted. So Willow said that
she would have trusted Chris Statlander with her life, and she betrayed that.
Orange Cassidy walked by, gave her a weak little fist pump, and walked
off. Christopher Daniels, the new interim EVP in AW comes walking out onto
the stage. He even got an entrance, he got a video music.
He walked out on stage to announce that on June thirtieth at Forbidden Door they
will crown a new TNT champion, which was already announced. They're going to
crown a new TNT champion in a ladder match, and they're gonna have a
series of qualifying matches. Now we already have the first qualifying match on Friday
on Rampage. Last week, Kenoski Takeshta. He beat Penta, who I
don't even think can be on the show because of some sort of political issue.
I guess does he work for Triple A maybe, And with CMLL being
on the anyway, I don't even think Penta can can be on the Forbidden
Door show. So he was never gonna go anyway, but Takeshta beat him,
so Takesha has already advanced into the ladder match. On June thirty,
he said, right now, we're gonna have another qualifying match, and that
brought out the Ring of Honor World Champion Mark brisco who walked out. His
opponent was Brian Cage, and the announcers, you know, like ex caliber
tried, oh oh, Brian Cage. Right, he comes out, looks
like a million bucks. But again the problem is the Jay lethal thing where
he doesn't win. He doesn't win. So yes, of course he looks
like he can rip you apart, you know, and then or swap hole,
but he never wins. So as soon as he walked out, you
knew, you knew. Plus again the Ring of Honor World Champion is not
going to get beat by Brian Cage. So predictable as it was, they
still still had a good match. Cage controlled early with the power game,
Brisco countered with the baseball slide through the ropes. Brisco threw a chair into
the ring. Paul Turner, though quickly removed it, and this allowed Cage
to recover and take control. Briscoe mounted a comeback with some redneck kung fu.
They showed Don Kallis with Kenoski Takesha. They were up in the crowd
washing and scouting scouting the competition. Briscoe now was bleeding from the mouth.
He sent Cage crashing outside. Then he set the chair up in the ring
Saboo style, hit the ropes and then did a somersault off the chair somersault
dive onto Cage. Then they cut to Jack Perry, who was in the
back on a flat screen monitor. The jade driller got blocked by Cage,
who hit a ripcord elbow and a sit out pump handle slam for two.
Spinning lagerbomb got another two for Brian Cage, who then wanted the drill claw,
but Briscoe floated over, hit a rolling DVD and then the froggy bow
for the win. The backstage, they cut back to Jack and Perry was
applauding Briscoe's win as he's looking at the screen, and then he turned to
face the camera and he said they won't matter, as nobody is willing to
make as big of a sacrifice for aw than I am. And he said
that he is destined to win the TNT title. No matter what Tony Kah
thinks. Now he cut this promo with Mark Briscoe watching his promo in the
background on the screen. I feel like this is some sort of weird inception
here. So as Jack Perry was talking on the monitor right behind him,
right over his shoulder, you saw Mark Briscoe in the arena standing on the
ring steps looking up watching the promo, which I thought was actually a very
unique way to shoot this. And again it's a minor thing. Most people
may not even notice it, but I thought that was a very cool,
very unique way of shooting that that I've not seen before. So again we've
got TAKESHTA. Now we have Mark Briscoe, and we know that Jack Perry,
whether he has to qualify or not, is going to be in the
ladder match. He'll make three. I don't know that they've said how many
people are going to be in this match. If it's going to be six,
it's going to be eight, five. I would imagine probably six people
are what we're going to have in the ladder match. We'll see who else
qualifies. Perry is still my pick to win the title. Yeah, before
Adam Copeland got hurt I was saying it. Then I think all roads lead
to him dropping the title to Jack Perry. Just because he got hurt.
It doesn't mean that you don't follow through. If that was the plan,
then you see that plan through to the end. It only makes sense.
You know they're pushing Jack Perry. They already have gold in the elite.
He should bring the TNT title into the elite. It's what makes sense.
Don't deviate from the plane. Rene was in the back with Samoa, Joe,
and Hook and asked if it was safe to call him Hook's new mentor.
Joe said that he wouldn't call this a mentor ship, but then he
was quickly interrupted by Tony Nice, Aria Davari and smart Mark Sterling. When
was the last time we saw these men on dynamite? They've been hanging around
on a ring of honor. What the hell are they doing here? But
there they were, and Tony Nie said, you've got to be kidding me.
That's what I said when they walked into camera frame. He said,
You've got to be kidding me. After all these years, you would think
that Hook would stop eating this crap and start taking things a little more seriously.
Hook was standing there this whole time, eating what looked like from a
bag of onion rings. I mean, I don't know if they were onion
rings or not. They look like it. Boy, I haven't had onion
rings probably twenty five years. I mean I've had onion fried onion rings,
I mean like out of a bag though, haven't had onion rings in a
very long time. But anyway, so he was chowing down, so Nice
then took the chips right out of his hand. Davari then said that he
looked over at Hook and said, what's the matter. You ain't got your
daddy to protect you, so you need the former champion. So Joe had
to hold back Hook and then he said that they're going to handle that,
but they're going to do it on their time. I should note that Tony
Nice, I said before Jay Lethal has yet to win a match this year
on AW television. I'll do you one better. Tony Nice has yet to
even have a match on AW television. You can say the same thing for
Aria Davari as well. So what they say doesn't exactly carry mush weight.
Let's just put it that way. Backstage, it was another Learning Tree segment.
Chris Jericho, Big Bill and Brian Keith. They run into Matt Minard
and Angelo Park, two former members of the Jericho Appreciation Society. Jericho said
they were two of his favorite branches, like there were a couple of fucking
libraries. He said, their careers are now bigger and better than bigger and
better than ever. That's what he said. Minard, I should mention Matt
Minard just replaced Chris Jericho on commentary on Rampage. So if you tuned out
of Rampage a long time ago, I mean, you have many reasons to
tune out of Rampage, But if you tuned out of Rampage because you were
tired of the incessant screeching of Chris Jericho on commentary, fear not. Because
Matt Minard has now taken over for him full time. And I've heard nothing
but good things about Matt Manard on commentary. What commentary I have heard of
him, he was very good. So it sounds to me like that's a
role that he could be very good at. Not that that means he's not
going to wrestle anymore, but good for him. I'd rather listen to him
on commentary than Jericho anyway. So Jericho told them to enunciate their words when
they speak. Big Bill then sounded the word out, whatever the word was,
and then matt Manard told him to shove it up his ass. Jericho
and Bill agreed that that was a good one. And Jericho gave parenting advice
to Angelo Parker, who is expecting a little one with Ruby soho, and
then they walked off, and Brian Keith told Angelo Parker he better make sure
that the baby respects Jericho and that he walked off. Oh boy, this
was only the second segment. We had two more of these. The Acclaimed
made their way out to the ring with William Gunn. Max casters started rapping
about the EVPs and saying mean things about them. When Matthew and Nicholas Jackson
appeared on the big screen, they cut the music, cut cut him off
right, They cut him off. In mid rap, Matthew said that the
employee handbook says not to disparage the EVPs, and he told them to leave
the arena because their segment has been cut. And so they left and that
was the end of that. Now, I'm not sure why they are allowed
to get away with doing this when they have already established to us that Tony
Kahan is present and sitting at Gorilla every single week. They established that very
clearly on Collision last Saturday. They established it a double or nothing, And
when Jack Perry walked right up to him and dragged him out into the arena,
and Tony Khan went rolling, rolling, rolling down the ramp before Jack
got set on fire. So they make it very clear. We know where
Tony Khan is, right, he's back, he's on headset, he's doing
his job, he's doing his thing. And it's just one of these things
where how is it that Tony Khan trumps the Young Bucks because he's the president
and CEO of the company. Right, whatever EVP power the Bucks have,
Tony Khan can certainly overrule them, or he can then come right back and
rule in a different way. So why is it that the Young Bucks are
allowed to get away with this? Right? It's just one of those things
when you have multiple authority figures like this, it just gets very messy and
there really is no logical explanation for it. You just have to roll with
it. I know what they're doing here, I know what they're going for.
They're setting up a match an eventual match and a feud with the Young
Bucks and the Acclaimed, and the Acclaim can use something right now because the
Acclaimed have been severely cooled off they, i mean, their peak of popularity
passed a while ago, and they need to come up with something for them
to do. And clearly they're building towards a tag team title match with the
Young Bucks and the Acclaimed, and so this is why they shot the angle
here that they did. There was a segment later on in the show where
the Acclaim tried to get at them, like, oh, we're not here
to talk. They just wanted to let them know that basically, we're gonna
get you soon enough. You know, we're gonna get our hands on you.
So they're building to a match. But again, this is why if
you're gonna if you're gonna do an angle on TV where you take Tony Kahan
and you drop him on his head and you injure him this big injury angle,
he should be out for a while and then let the Young Bucks run
rough shot on the show for a while, you know, until either he
comes back or he sends a surrogate in his place. But they did this
the week of the NFL Draft Apparently they were filming some kind of documentary and
there's foot they were following Tony Kahan around and that's why they that's probably part
of why they did the angle. But Tony Kahan was out for days,
not even weeks. Days. You all got dropped on his head. He's
still smiling, had the neck brace on. But it would make more sense
if you would at least let the man stay out for a little while and
then do stuff like this. But when you bring him back so quickly,
it's just silly. He's back, He's already back. How is he okay
with this? How is he okay with the young bucks abusing their power and
cutting a segment out of the show when he is sitting there at the desk
in the back, because he's sitting there going ah shit, all right,
well, I guess, Matt Nick. They just cut this segment out of
the show, all right, onto the next It's just silly. I'm sorry,
dish is very silly. So that was the end of that, and
then it was on to Renee in the back to speak with the aw world
champion Swerve Strickly. Finally, somebody I wanted to see said that his title
will be on the line in the main event against Roderick Strong. She wanted
to know how he was feeling heading into the match. First, he welcomed
back MJF called him a little bitch. Well, he likes using that word,
right. He called the young Bucks, said it was a bitch move
what they did to Tony Kahan. Now he calls MJF a bitch. Said
that he finally showed up to work and he mentions his name, says,
you mentioned my name, You're gonna deal with me, and not in the
way that you're gonna like. He also had a Manila envelope in his hand
and he handed it over to Prince Nana. It was the contract sign sealed
and delivered for an aw world Shipchampionship match if forbidden door with will Osprey.
He told Prince Nana send it to will Osprey in the United Kingdom. I'll
even pay for the postage. Well, boy, it's a good thing he
didn't lose his title in the main event. If he would have already mailed
that contract now, that would have been embarrassing. If the contract went all
the way overseas to the UK. He lost his title in the main event,
which I'm sure, so many of you were expecting him to do.
Wow, boy, was that a bullet dodge. So anyway, he hands
the envelope over to Prince Nana and he said, tonight world title match with
Roderick Strong. Understand you are dealing with the mountain of professional wrestling. He's
letting him know he's not just gonna knock him off of it, He's gonna
bury him under it. Also, what's been on his mind lately is the
EVPs said he was disappointed to see Team AW lose at Anarchy in the arena,
But make sure the next time that you assemble a Team AW to represent
AW, that you include the AW World Champion, which is sound advice,
by the way, would only makes sense for the AW World Champion to want
to represent his brand. And the first thing I thought of when he made
that comment, I thought of blood and Guts. They're going to be doing
a blood and guts match. I assume maybe in the next month month and
a half, Right, it's usually around this time that they do it.
Maybe they're setting up for Swerve to be on Team AAW this time around,
right, has to be building to something, so Blood and Guts will be
here before you know it. What other story makes sense for blood and Guts
if not the Elite against some semblance of an aw team. The swerve may
be on it this time. But this was good, the good promo here
from the champion in the back, and the more airtime, the more FaceTime
he gets on the show, the better. Now, ex Caliber informed us
that the match at Forbidden Door, which is now official with Mercedes Monet and
Stephanie Vicaire, the reigning CML Women's World Champion and new Japan Strong Women's Champion,
is going to not only be champion against champion, it will be title
for title now I believe, and actually, now that I think about it,
I don't know if he specified this. If he did, then feel
free to let me know in the chat. But Thecaire has two titles.
I believe it was in reference to the new Japan Strong Women's title, not
the CMLL Women's title, but again I could be wrong, So I don't
know if that means that both of her belts are going to be on the
line. But I took that to mean that the Strong Women's title would be
on the line and the TBS title would be on the line. But in
any event. That's going to be a great match. We already knew that.
Now the stakes have been raised now that we know it's going to be
title for title. Then we got a video package showing the history of both
women with some commentary provided by Mercedes herself and how she defeated Vicaire in the
semi finals of the New Japan Strong Women's Title tournament last year. That was
the same night that she broke her ankle in the finals with Willow Nightingale.
She said that she is taking the title that she was supposed to win last
year, and it is the strong title. Okay, that's what I thought.
That's what I thought, So I think it's only Vicaire's new Japan Strong
Women's title. Mercedes is going to win that title. Mercedes was going to
win that title last year had she not gotten hurt. So this is really
just getting back to the original plan. They wanted her to be the first
champion. That didn't happen. That couldn't happen, So now she'll get the
belt that she was supposed to get a year ago, because Stephanie Vicaire is
now winning the TBS title. But I am looking forward to that match it's
gonna be a great one. We had the Blackpool Combat Club which included the
IWGP World Heavyweight title, John Moxley, Brian Danielson, Claudio Castignoli, and
the returning wheeler Udah, who has been out of action for six months.
He had lingering concussion symptoms, had a really bad concussion some time ago and
has been out for quite a while. He just got medically cleared, so
it was good to see him. They took on Team CMLL, which was
Magnus Volador, Junior, Ruhido and Esfine the Sphinx four on four it's Forbidden
Doors season, and also we had the Blackpool Combat Club against Team CMLL at
Arena Mexico back in March, which Uda was not able to be a part
of. That's when Matt Sidel stood in for him and the CMLL guys won
that match. So if you're looking for a reason why why is this match
happening? Those are the reasons why there was already an issue between the two
sides. And again there is CMLL involvement in Forbidden Door this year on like
previous years, so we're gonna start to see some CMLL talent on TV.
So that's why this match is taking place. So you threw the first shot
and all eight men brawled outside the ring to kick things off here. Late
in the match, Volodor hit a destroyer on Claudio for a near fall that
got a good reaction. Moxley dropped Magnus with a paradigm shift. Volador put
Claudio down with her coirana and then ran into a busaiku knee from Brian Danielson.
You'da ended up pinning Ruhido with the seatbelt. You can see my you
can sense my excitement level here for this match off the charts. I just
I just can't get into this, but I will say, you know,
for someone who's been out for six months, I thought you to look good.
It looked like he didn't miss a beat you. You could tell he's
been dying to come back. I'm sure he's been waiting and waiting, and
he made the most of it tonight. I thought he looked good. But
that's really all I have to say about that. You know, it was
a win for the Blackpool Combat Club. That's it. I don't got nothing
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of the Learning Tree Chris Jericho. We already had two segments. This was
segment number three in the back he walks up to a random branch, as
he is now calling them, these are all his branches. He walked up
to a random branch who was scooping up some food from the buffet. Jericho
said that, as a guy who's been eating chicken and dumplings for many years,
I'm not going to say anything. As a guy who's been eating chicken
and dumplings for many years, he wants to show him how to scoop it
properly. He goes, you get it all the way to the top and
then you put it in your bowl, and that's the best way to dollop
it out. And he said, thanks guys, and he walked off,
because that's his line now, even if there's only one person there. The
punchline at the end is thanks guys. And he walks to the and he
walks off. He disappears. I wish I could disappear, you know.
I would say at this point, now, this was the third one that
we had on this show, and I would tell you that I thought it
was getting old. But the minute the Jericho stepped out of the suv,
it was already old. And I thought, okay, that's gotta be it,
right. But it wasn't. Like I said at the beginning of this,
I wish I had a branch that I could beat myself unconscious with and
then when I wake up, the segments are up. We had a Daniel
Garcia video package that aired. He talked about being home in Buffalo and how
it brings him back to when he was a twenty year old wrestler making long
trips to independent shows. He recalled the car accident that nearly killed him and
broke both of his legs, which Jericho actually contributed to the GoFundMe just why
he ended up in the Jericho Appreciation Society, that's a true story. He
said he's grateful for that moment because he realized life is too short to wait
for opportunities to come to you. And he talked about challenging will Ospray for
the international title and said that you can't outgrind or outwork him. So we'll
see. I guess when that happens to me, maybe that could be a
forbidden door match. Even though Osprey's already in the main event, that does
not mean that he cannot defend his title. I'll talk more about that later
because I was thinking about this Matthew and Nicholas in the back, were joined
by Christian Cage, Nick Wayne kill Switch, and mother Wayne in their office.
Cage said that if there's anyone he can trust, it's the EVPs.
By the way, a great hour long interview Chris van Vliet posted earlier today
with Christian, I haven't gotten through the entire thing yet, but anyway,
if you have not already checked it out, it's a great interview and he's
very candid in it, more candid than I think I've ever heard him ever
in any interview like this, So go check that out. I'll tell you
what though, you know, just as a little side note here. And
I think they started this maybe during the pandemic, but Copeland and Christian they're
in business together. They have an exercise product. It's like a piece of
exercise equipment. I am not someone who planks, I know planking is a
thing, but it's basically like a plank board. I think it's called pure
plank is the name they gave it. It's interesting because it's got handles on
it, I guess to help you know, kind of cushion your arms when
you're down on the ground. I don't know if anybody watching this or listening
to this has tried it or has bought it specifically their product. But if
so, I'd love to hear from you, because I was considering it.
It's expensive though, it's like one hundred and twenty bucks. I could get
on the floor right now and fucking plank without a board, But I would
consider because it looks like an interesting product. But I don't know if anybody's
actually tried it. So if you have, let me know, because you
know, a lot of these things are gimmicks and stuff. But I saw
Copeland just had surgery for his fractured tibia, and Ever the promoter, he
posted a video and he's like twelve hours out of surgery. He walks into
his garage and what does he do. He's on the ground on his plank
board. His foot is in a cast and he's planking on his board.
Ever the self promoter, he is. So anyway, we have the patriarchy
here talking to the young Bucks, and Christian said that he was screwed out
of the World Championship at double or nothing. He wants another shot, wants
one more shot at swerve Strickland. Matt said, look, you guys are
one of the best factions. All of you deserve gold. If we could,
we'd have a belt for you, and a belt for you, and
a belt for you. I mean, isn't that the awa a belt for
you, a belt for you, a belt for me, a belt for
her, a belt for him, a belt for that kid right there,
he goes. If we could do it, we would do it. He
said. They tried to take care of a friend, that being Jack Perry,
but Tony Khan screwed it all up. Matt said that they still have
some pull and they would see what they could do. In the meantime,
he said, you keep scratching our back and we'll scratch yours. And off
they went. Mariah May with timeless Tony Storm taking on Sorea with Harley Cameron
and Sorea's brother Zack in her corner. Tony Storm gave Mariah a kiss for
good luck before joining the commentary booth. Sorea attacked Mariah before the bell,
but Mariah quickly fired back with a forearm shot. Tony Storm tells Mariah May
to smash Sorea's tits, and she also said that aw is where the breast
wrestle. This woman is a national treasure. This woman needs to be protected
at all class. I can't believe there are people out there. There are
some people who are tired of the timeless Tony Storm gimmick and think that she
should just end the entire thing. How How are there people who don't appreciate
Tony Storm. Whatever she sits in on commentary, it's gold. I would
sit through a thousand Tony's Storm on commentary segments over the fucking learning tree?
Are you kidding me? Aw? Is where the breast wrestle this guy?
I mean, that's the only way Tony Khan may be able to boost the
Dynamite ratings, although I will say the ratings were up quite a bit this
week this past week. We'll see what the numbers are this week. I'm
very curious. But anyway, Mariah had a spinning side souplex, Soreya was
forced to regroup outside, and so the chase was on. Harley Cameron missed
de Lariot Sorea, though caught her with a thrust kick to take control of
the match. During the commercial break, Mariah mounted a comeback and connected with
some sweet cheek music for two. Soreya applied the inverted sharpshooter with the double
chicken wing. As Tony on commentary was pleading with Mariah, she goes,
you can't be in that move for very long. It's a very painful haul.
And finally Mariah May gave up. And I'll tell you what I know.
It shouldn't because Soraya is the more established of the two, and Soraya
is a former AW Women's World Champion. But this felt like an upset to
me. I mean this, this really did think of the TV time that
has been devoted in the last couple of months to Mariah May, the wins
that she's been racking up. We how how often have we seen Soraya on
AW Dynamite in the last several months, right, I mean not very often.
Her last singles match was in December. So this this felt very much
like an upset to me. Tony Storm rushes into the ring bothman entertainment.
How can one not love timeless Tony Storm? I agree? I agree.
So Tony gets into the ring to go check on Soirea though and Harley Attack
put the boots to the bulk of them. When here comes Mina Shirakawa of
stardom. She comes running down to the ring and she cleans house, and
then she goes over and she comforts Mariah May. Tony's Storm is in the
corner and she kind of shakes off the cobwebs, looks over and she sees
this. She sees Mina with Mariah. Now Mina is challenging Tony Storm for
the women's world title of Forbidden Door, so they're going to be on opposing
side. So Tony Storm sees this, she gets up and she rushes over
to Mina and they go tits to tits, and Mariah then ends up stepping
between them to play peacemaker, and she rests both of their heads on her
bosom, and each woman then played tug of war, essentially tug of war
pulling Mariah's head to their chest. So the match at Forbidden Door technically is
for the aw women's World title, but really, if we're being honest here,
it's for the heart of Mariah May and the bosom of Maria May,
which is something a lot of us, I think would be willing to fight
for. We were not done yet with the Learning Tree. I said there
was one more. Chris Jericho was in the back and he approached private party.
He told Cassidy and Mark Quinn that parties are more fun when they are
open to everyone, and he said, maybe you guys should call yourselves Public
Party. Cassidy said they don't really fit the private party vibe. Big Bill
said that those who need advice the most don't realize that they need the help,
and Jericho invited Private Party to be on his TV Time talk show segment
next week, Wonderful Can't Wait. Backstage, Brian Danielson is standing there all
by himself and he puts over a Wheeler Yudah, winning the match for his
team. Earlier tonight said that he couldn't be prouder. He said eight months
ago he said this was his final year as a full time wrestler, and
to be honest, it hasn't been what he wanted. He lost to Christian
Cage for the TNT title. He lost in the finals of the Continental Classic.
He lost to Okada in the Tokyo Dome. Every big match he didn't
he lose, also to Zach Saber. I thought he lost the rematch to
Zach Saber Junior. Every big match he says, he loses. And the
straw that broke the Camel's back was losing an anarchy in the arena. Danielson
said his career is not over yet, so when Tony Cohn announced the winner
of the owen Hart Tournament gets an AEW World title shot at All in London,
that got him excited. He said, this could be his last shot
and if he's going out, he's going out on top. That's right.
This was great, This was great. And the first big name to throw
his name in the hat or the owen Hart Tournament is Brian Danglson, someone
who somehow has never been the AW World champion before and would certainly be deserving
of at least a short run with the title. I don't know that he'll
ever get it, but I'm very happy that he is in the tournament.
And there's any number of ways this can go, because I don't see Danilson
winning the tournament. You know, a year ago before Wembley, I thought
the direction and I think since then we've learned that. I think it was
talked about, but Brian got hurt and he wasn't on the show. But
Danielson against Nigel McGinnis I thought was going to be the match last year.
I still think that's going to be the match this year. I think Nigel
would love to have a match with Wembley. God knows. Now for the
last year he's been healing on Danielson on collision, you know, on commentary
every chance he gets. It's got to be building to a match between the
two, and Wembley would be the perfect place for it. So I don't
see Danielson winning the tournament, but I'm damn sure happy he's in it,
and let's see who he ends up fighting too, because again, you put
some big names in this thing, and we could get some really great fucking
matches in this tournament. That's the other reason I'm excited if you get big
names in there. You get eight big names in this tournament, let's say,
and it's like the Continental Classic. I mean, you can get any
number of interesting matchups in it, and you could spin them off, even
into matches that could happen at Wembley or you know, some other time.
So that's where I think the Owen tournaments can end up being a lot of
fun. But very happy to hear that Danielson is going to be part of
that tournament. The main event was Swerve Strickland defending the aw World Championship against
Roderick Strong with Matt tavin and Mike Bennett in his corner. This was very
good stuff from these two. No surprise there. Strickland tried a house call
kick early, only for Roddy to take a powder outside. Matt Tavian ran
distraction, Roddy hit a backbreaker across the top rope. Strong hit a baseball
slide only for Swerve to catch him. He catapult him into the ring post
outside, leading to one final commercial break. Hey there's Uncle Saudi. Everybody
say hello to Uncle Saudi. Always good to see him drop in here on
these streams. Every time he drops in on stream, I get a fifty
million dollar payoff. I like seeing Uncle Saudi on here. So Strong took
control during the break. Swerve, though fired off a desperation swerve stump for
the reset, hit the leaping upper cut from the middle rope, and then
did the rolling flatliner and brainbuster for a near fall. Strickland wanted big pressure,
but Bennett distracted and Strong was able to avoid it. Tavid and Bennett
again ran distraction out at ringside and they caught Swerve on a dive, but
almost didn't. It was a very sloppy catch. They almost dropped him.
Ex Caliber said, well, they're not being ejected by the referee because they
technically did not do anything to swerve right right outside of the gazillion distractions and
all the attempts to interject themselves into the match, they haven't done anything so
far, so we'll take the heat off the referee. Sure, sure thing.
So this allowed Roddy to hit a flipping soup plex. The xplex onto
the edge of the apron, landed like neck first Swerve did right on the
edge of the ring that looked brutal. So back inside Strong hit a code
breaker off of a rolling flatliner attempt, and then it followed with the angle
slam, tiger driver and sick kick. Combo only got a two count out
of it. Both men went to the apron, Swerve swept out the legs,
so Roddy was dangling off his feet were under the bottom rope. Swerve
slingshot over the top rope, hit a stomp to the floor. Back inside
Strong side stepped the house called, but Swerve caught the pumpkney and finally hit
the house call kick for the win. And so I know you're all going
to be very shocked by this. But to the surprise of absolutely no one,
Swerve Strickland beats Roderick Strong and retains his aw World title, and it
will be Swerve Strickland one on one with will Osprey at Forbidden Door. Prince
Nana can go to the post office now in the morning and he can fire
off that contract to will Osprey over in the UK, and the show ended.
I should mention this, The show actually ended with Swerve and Prince Nana
out at ringside with an old lady, an old woman who was sitting front
row ringside, and they were swerving with the old lady. Old lady was
getting into it in the front row. Always good to see stunt Granny out
there. I haven't seen Stunt Granny in a while, but there she was
enjoying herself. So now that we know it's official, where are they going
to go with this? This is the million dollar question here because this is
going to have very big implications for all in London. We have Swerve and
will Osprey. I have no issue with them doing this match in the main
event of Forbidden Door. I think it's great. I think it's great.
It keeps Swerve front and center. Now for the rest of the month.
This is going to be the main event Clearcut main event on that show.
Right It's not Swerve against the CMLL talent, it's not Swerve against the New
Japan talent. It's an AW match for the AW World Heavyweight title. What
do you do? What you do? And the reason I think I hope
that they're doing this match now and not waiting until London is because we're gonna
get more than one match out of it. Swerve Strickland needs to win this
match. I feel it would be a huge slap in the face if he
walks in there and loses the title. You know, he won the title
of Dynasty. He had one pay per view title defense so far. That
was against Christian Cage. He's had a couple on TV against Claudio and against
Roddy. But now he's going to go in there against will Ospring, who
is riding this wave of momentum, undefeated since signing with AAW International champion,
one of the biggest baby faces, if not the biggest babyface in this company
right now. It's either him or MJF. I can't say Swerve. As
popular as he is, Swerve is two or three. He's not number one
now, but he's up there. Those are your top three. I would
not take the title off Swerve at forbidden door. I think that would be
a mistake. I think Swerve needs to win. He could win by cheating.
I mean, hell, if they want to turn him back heel again,
but he has to win. You've got the Owen Hart Tournament coming up.
Before I even knew they were gonna do this match this quickly, I
had will Osprey peg to win that tournament and going to the main event at
Wembley, challenging for the world time. I would not change a thing.
I still think that will Osprey should win the Owen. He should be in
the Owen. He should go to the main event at Wembley. He should
win the championship at Wembley Stadium. That is the place for him to win
it, not in New York. It would be booking foolishness to put the
world title on will Ospray on Long Island when you're two months away from Wembley.
It's like, you don't do that. That would be very dumb.
The only thing I'm unsure of as I look at the timing of everything,
this main event is not taking place until June thirtieth, that's the very last
day of this month. The finals of the OH Win. The finals are
taking place on July tenth in Calgary, that's less than two weeks later.
This tournament is going to start in a few weeks. So is will Osprey
even going to be in the tournament? It wouldn't make any sense right for
him to be in the tournament if he's already got a World championship match of
Forbidden Door. How do you justify having him in the tournament if he's already
got a title shot. That's the only thing that concerns me and has me
thinking there's a chance maybe he won't be in that tournament, But I think
he should be, and I think he should win, and that's how he
gets his rematch and then you can put the title on it. Yeah,
it's the same thing with Samoa Joe. Samoa Joe had this short run,
relatively short run a few months as the aw world champion, didn't have that
many title defenses. But I love Joe as the champion. Joe just looked
the part, sounded the when he was out there. He was out there
spitting fire on the mic, cutting promos, the guy's a fucking boss.
I loved it. And at Revolution they did that triple threat with him and
Swerve and Hangman, and I said, man, you know what, it's
too soon. You don't want to take the title of Samoa Joe yet.
And they did fast Forward, not even I mean, what was it not
even a full two months later Dynasty right late April. It was time February.
I'm sorry, the beginning of March wasn't the right time. By the
time we got to Dynasty, it felt like Swerve's moment. There are just
times where it's like it doesn't feel right, but then it does. Now
it would still be a relatively short run for Swerve. I know some people
would be upset if he goes to Wembley and loses the title, but I
think that's exactly what's going to happen, whether it's to will Osprey or MJF
or somebody else. I think though, that now would be the wrong time
to take that title away from him and to put it on will Osprey New
York Again. To me, that would be very dumb. One thing that
you could do if you wanted to give him a little bit of an out.
He is the international champion. Now, if he wants to defend his
title at Forbidden Door, he could defend the international title in the opening match.
You could put him in a match with somebody, give somebody a crack
at the international title, you know, maybe even somebody from New Japan,
and he wins right, retains his title. But he just went through a
grueling fifteen to twenty minute match at the beginning of the show. So if
he comes back and loses in the main event, you could even use that
as an out. I'm not even saying you need to do that, It's
just an idea, you know, if you wanted that title defended on that
show, because it's not going to be title for title in the main event.
So that's another possible, you know, thing that they could look into
there. But that's how I see things playing out. Maybe it's just me
hoping. I was listening to MJF and that opening segment, and boy,
you know, it certainly sounds like there's a chance they could be angling for
you know, MJF against BRUV for the championship at Wembley Stadium. I think
that would be a not that it wouldn't be a big match, but I
think that would be a huge mistake to rush right into that. I would
absolutely not be doing that. So hopefully that's the way it plays out.
Everything is there, with the Owen and everything. It's just it's set up
perfectly. I'm just again a little unsure about the timing of when those Owen
matches start, you know, if Osprey's even going to be in the damn
thing. I'll tell you what I was surprised by. They did not announce
I don't believe a single match for Collision. They announced some stuff for rampage,
nothing for Collision, which is rare. They usually announce at least one
thing for Collision, but there was nothing that they announced on this show.
I just was not a fan of the show overall. I like the open,
I like the end, and I just didn't care all that much for
what can in the middle. You know, two segments does not make a
great show. So I thought this episode was a swing and a miss.
Not that they didn't forward certain stories they needed to forward, They're just I
just there's just nothing there. There's just nothing to get excited about. It
was very dead, very dead in the middle of the show. They opened
strong, they close strong, but everything in the middle completely missible, especially
the Jericho stuff. Do yourself a favor, just skip over that it's not
worth your time. Here's a din of my poll. Forty percent thumbs up
for Tonight twenty four twenty four point six in the middle, thirty five percent
thumbs down. That's pretty close. Those numbers are all pretty bunched up there.
That's with twelve hundred plus votes in. I'm sure there's a lot of
comments in the comment section. I'm sure a lot of divided opinion about this
show. Definitely not what I would call it great episode of dynamite. Tonight
did not like it. Was not a fan of this show overall. Sorry,
didn't do it for me. Hopefully it did it. Hopefully it did
it for you. Hopefully it was better for you than it was for me.
All right, let's get to your messages here. Let's forget the learning
tree. Uh smoking dried chicken without flavor is starting us off here. The
acclaim should consider planning stink planting. He means, he said planning You forgot
the tea planting stink bombs inside the Bucks locker room. And he says,
I would love to give Soreya a bucket of fried chicken from KFC, so
I can enjoy watching her eat it, and okay, I'll admit it.
Cool ain't the right word for NXT. I mean those messages, we're all
over the place, but thank you, thank you all the same, Dick
the Cock Johnson. Nigel McGuinness costs Brian the Owen Final against Hangman, I
am calling it. No, I don't know. I don't see Nigel getting
involved in like running in there and costing him, although that would get Nigel
some heat if Dangleson was this close from winning the Owen and then he got
fucked over by Nigel McGuinness. But I don't know what would be the impetus
for him even doing that, unless the story is that Nigel is just so
desperate to get a match at Wembley Stadium and he hates Brian so much that
it just overwhelmed him and he just decided to randomly get up off the commentary
desk and just go interfere in the men's match. It just feels a little
forced to me. I would think that they can come up with a more
simpler story if they want to get to Brian Danglson and Nigel McGinnis for a
match Oz, and Gloria says, shout out to all the branches, thanks
guys, and normalize tribalism and shout out to the droning drones in the chat
to Oz with the five dollars super chat. I have never seen Page wrestle.
How were or are her matches compared to Soirea matches in aw She seems
to move a little bit slower than everybody else she is. I think she's
always been a little tentative in the ring. I mean maybe a little more
so now because it's understandable given her neck issues in the past. Honestly,
I mean her matches. Her matches now aren't radically different from the matches I
remember her having in WWA. I can't say that there's a huge difference.
To Juliette. Oscar posted a photo of what looked like her knee post surgery
in Embrace and seemingly on a hospital bed. Tough break for Oscar. Yeah,
Osca is dealing with a kneat problem that's been plaguing her for several months,
So hopefully she'll heal quickly because they need her back as soon as possible.
I mean, think about it. The raw women's division has now lost
Rhea, Ripley, Becky Lynch and Oscar. And here I was coming out
of the draft saying, holy shit, look at what Triple Ah did to
the Raw women's division. Right he moved all of damage control over. He's
got Becky, He's got Rha. They called up Lyra Valkyria. This is
what happens. You know, you get bit by the injury bug, or
in the case of Becky, you know the contract expired and she's going to
go away for a while. Shit happens, and all of a sudden,
you're right back to the way things were. Not a lot of depth in
the women's division on Raw all of a sudden, So they need Oscar and
Riha back as soon as possible. Paul Carpenter with the five dollars, has
anybody or is I guess he says, is anybody? Is anybody going to
talk about how Adam Cole got buried? But anyway, watching old ww eclips
when he was the wing angle brought in and what I don't know what that
means, and Adam Cole is hurt. I don't know what you want them
to do. The Undisputed Kingdom has been a colossal failure. The Undisputed Kingdom
sucks. Okay, that's the bottom line. I don't blame Adam Cole for
that, but it sucks. But there's only so much they can do with
somebody who's hurt and can't really do much. I mean, now, at
least he's able to walk around. He took a bump from MJF at double
or nothing. That's a good sign. But he is still not ready to
come back. That's why they did what they did. They basically blew the
angle off because he's not going to be ready to come back for a while.
But the Undisputed Kingdom is shit, and I would say, let's wait
until Adam Cole comes back and can actually get involved again before we say that
the man is buried. Eric Perkins, thank you for the dollar ninety nine
HBKC eighty three. What is the best heel versus heel match that you have
seen? Not too many great ones that jump out to me. Heel against
heel, I don't know, heel against here, I don't know none that
stand out to me. Is being any great shakes that I could really recommend
to you, like a list of my three or five favorites. Nothing jumps
out of me. I'm sure there's been some very good ones, though.
Devin from New Jersey Desolo wear polos. You must not be watching every stream,
because occasionally I have war polos right here on these on these streams,
Doubles Bro, your Tony con impression had me in tears. Thank you for
the laugh. I'm glad you are entertained. I hope you were more entertained
than you were watching Dynamite tonight. Oznglori is lol at the logan Paul Apologist
crying about Rushe Solomaster the only fair imbalanced creator left. Thank you, Oz,
Jerome Ugenio. When Mariah and Tony Storm split up, who will be
the face and who will be the heel? That is a very good question,
and I feel like if it is based off of all about Eve,
then I guess Tony would be the babyface and Mariah would be the heel.
Now that doesn't mean that's the way the fans are gonna take it, I
would think though, I mean I would think, just based on the story
that it would be Tony as the babyface. But again with the fans,
the fans are going to gravitate to whoever they're going to gravitate to, and
they could be very unpredictable, so I don't know who they're going to side
with, but I would think Tony storm Oz and Glorious Solomoster against Onions.
Twenty twenty four finish the story Dark Effect with the one hundred dollars super chat
from earlier on in the stream Dark Effect Man, I salute you, thank
you very much. Your idea with the Bucks and Tony Kahan makes too much
sense. Having con out for a while when the Bucks run roughshot. That's
not what AW is about. The only story they're invested in is for fourteen
year old boys. I apologize if this sounds mean. I am just frustrated
with AW. Brother. You convent all you want to. If you are
a fan, then you care, and if you care, sometimes you're going
to be frustrated and sometimes you're going to be happy. I think the the
worst thing that if you are Tony Kahan, or if you are AW,
or if you are a wrestler, the worst thing in the world would be
apathy. And people who just don't care, you know, they can't even
bring themselves to care enough to give a shit or really be invested at all.
Apathy is the last thing that you want. You want that passion,
you know, and sometimes the passion is going to be directed in a negative
way, and sometimes the passion is going to be directed in a positive way.
And some people can take the positive and they can't take the negative.
There's a lot of AW stars on that roster who can't take the negative.
We all know who they are. I don't need to name names. That's
just the way it is. But brother, you con vent all you want
to. Man, that's what fans do. There ain't nothing wrong with that.
Ted Evans, just like hearing this superchat, keep up the good work.
Thank you again, Ted Bender mc simpson. With the four ninety nine
with Swerve, Osprey and MJF. The main event seeing in AW is set
for years to come. If they can stay healthy, then absolutely, But
the way they have been just obliterated with injuries, I would like to hope
that their injury problems are going to slow down. They have been hit by
just a deluge of tough injuries. A lot of people still out, still
going to be out for a while. I hope to God these three guys
can stay healthy. And if that's the case, then you got three solid
names right there at the top of the car that Tony Khan can depend upon,
Oz and Glory is. I'd rather see one hundred Learning Tree segments than
listen to one more second of Daniel Garcia mumbling about grind potential and or winning
anything. And Timeless Tony Storm is the best thing on TV period. She
is great, Hoffman says, how can one not love timeless Tony's I don't
know. That's a great question. I don't know, Oz says Mariah on
a Pole match bro we may end up with something like that. It may
be Mariah may out a pole Dark Effect with a twenty five spot, just
showing the love Solough. I haven't had a chance to catch the live streams
lately. Life has been rough, but love the channel and the podcast.
Thank you for what you do here every week, Dark Effect, Thank you
very much. You know where to find me anytime you need to kick back
and decompress. That's what these streams are good for. Smoking dried Chicken says
Private Party is going to ask for hbk's number. No cap If Osprey beats
Swerve, this run has been a failure. Amongst countless other world champions for
aw look, Swerve is putting the work in every time he goes out there.
Man, he's having kick ass matches. He's doing everything right, He's
doing everything he can. You know, he was on Busted Open Radio this
week and I saw I saw a couple of clips and I saw Bully Ray
made a comment. Again, honestly, it's not even a big deal,
but he made a comment and he I think he was referring to either double
or Nothing or Forbidden Door coming up as their upcoming pl and Swerve corrected him
and said, no, we don't do pls. We do pay per views,
and Bully sounded like, you know, he was not happy about being
checked by Swerve and again in the grand scheme, it's not a big deal.
But like this guy, you know, he's setting people straight, like,
hey, we don't do that here, that's the other guys. We
do pay per views, which is true. I just paid fifty bucks for
the last one, so he's not wrong. But like he's been out there
doing interviews, and he's been out there representing as the champion, representing the
brand and representing the company and doing a fine job. And yes, if
he drops that title at forbidden door. I think that is the biggest slap
in the man's face that Tony Khan could possibly give him. I think it's
I just think it's the wrong move. I think it would be a big
mistake. I think it would be very short sighted. And I'm hoping and
expecting that that will not happen. But you know, Tony Cohn may be
looking at Wembley and he may be looking at that and going, man,
I want to sell more tickets, and now I'm looking at the shiny new
toy, which is well, you know, this would be a great match,
but man, this match would be a bigger match. Dan, this
match would be a dream match. We got to go with this match,
and you know, all of a sudden you go to pivot this way and
Swerve is left out in the cold. And I'm hoping that is not the
case. I don't want to see that. I think you take him at
least to Wembley at least, and then if you want to change the title,
you change the title. There dev to Dust Buzzer or Bell Darby Allen
against Mike Ausoin. Oh my god, that's a huge bell. Are you
kidding me? Do you know what Mike Austin would do to Darby Allen.
Can you imagine Darby Allen taking an awesome bomb? How far he would probably
be thrown? Arabian night After that Andrade tweet Tony Khan be like, hmm
okay, I'm gonna push Rush in a program with a non Latino and our
top guy. Follow that, triple h tweet is incoming, smoking dried chicken
with the five fuck it, I'm setting the bar real load tonight. This
chicken here would watch the Bella or Garcia twins over the Bucks, Bremode and
Rack Attack City. You know, be careful what you wish for. I've
seen Nikki Bella in interviews talk about the possibility of maybe coming to aw one
day. It's not far fetched that the twins may end up there at some
point for a short run. You know, Bree's husband is there. They
don't have any connections to WWE anymore. Barry m Case has just watched the
opening match to the two thousand and five Great American Bash where Lod beats Eminem
for the tag team titles, and it's just really sad seeing Animal without Hawk.
Yeah, you know I felt that way also whenever I occasionally come across
Hawk in the early nineties in Japan with Power Warrior. You know when he
and Animal had their split. It's just not the same. It's just not
Yeah, when you have an iconic team like that, you can't replace the
other person and expect it to be the same. It's just not. Hoffman
says, hopefully it was better for you than it was for me. Something
you don't want her to say. Well, I said it about Dynamite tonight,
but that is true. You make a good point. No cap mjf
undisputed Kingdom feud over for the time being. Yes, but it's just on
the back burner right now. Adam Cole is not ready to come back.
Kevin Jordan, what's your thoughts on the main event of Wembley being a triple
threat match? Now? No triple threat match with Danielson, Swerve and Osprey.
I think that would be an excellent match, but I am of the
mindset that it should be one on one. We don't see very many three
ways, not that they don't do them, but they don't abuse them in
the way that WWE or did. So Look, it would be a great
match. I'm not saying it wouldn't be I think, I just really I
would love to see Nigel get that match with Danielson. You get two big
matches out of it instead of instead of one, So I wouldn't do it.
I want it to be one on one b com see clearly, that
was Serray's best match in a while. To be honest, it was okay,
I mean yeah, it was her best match in a while. When
was the last time we saw Siray at a one on one match on Dynamo?
By default, it was her best match in a while. Mariah May
has been having very good matches on TV, so you know it was good.
But I can't say it was anything more than that smoking dried chicken carry
and Cross being moved to raw equals the best decision. Well, the jury
is out on that. I still have not seen anything all that differ from
what he was doing on SmackDown. So let's see where this New Day story
goes before we start judging carrying Cross's move to raw. Paul Carpenter with the
five when was the Winged Eagle title brought in? I was watching old clips
and saw Hogan with the title, and it wasn't the Winged Eagle I started
watching in eighty seven, eighty eight. So the introduction of the Winged Eagle
is very weird because the very first appearance that that title ever made on television
was on NBC the night that Hogan had his rematch with Andre on the main
event. Some people think it was WrestleMania four. They had the tournament.
Robin Leech was out there, he brought the belt down to the ring.
The first appearance of the Winged Eagle was on the main event in February of
eighty eight. It was February fifth of eighty eight. What's weird about it
is Hogan was in the back for a promo supposedly right before, and he
was still wearing the old belt. When he came out for the match,
he had the Winged Eagle on. It's just it was very strange, like
he was with one belt in the back and then he came out with a
totally new belt. There was no pomp and circumstance. There was no big
unveiling or big introduction or anything like that. It just was there. It
is like, holy shit, he's got a new belt. And that was
the introduction of the Winged Eagle. So that would have been the beginning of
February of eighty eight, OZ and glorious great stream tonight solo Monster, Thanks,
thank you, oz OZ was all over the stream tonight. Man.
I like seeing it smoking dry chicken. We can agree to disagree, but
NXT is hot, cooking and sexy. I thank Shawn Michaels for catering to
a young and youthful hip crowd. Hip crowd is sexy, red hip because
I heard her music. If that's what hip is, then I don't need
to be hip. Hoffman says Bully ray Field, Swerve talk down to him.
Well, then, I say, and then he dropped the bully the
clown. There you go, Buffman, thank you, give me backshot,
Salibonster. Have you watched Javon Evans thoughts on him. I've only seen a
couple of matches of his, and I think there's potential there. I can't
say that I see him blossoming anytime soon into a major star. He's still
very young. We have to give him time. But I think that he's
got certain skills and certain you know, elements to him and his character that
he's playing on TV. I think that could work very well for a babyface
on TV, So I think there's potential, but it's too too early to
say anything more than that. Bony, you need to understand these Jericho segments
are necessary to build him up so that he can eventually take the title from
Swerve or Osprey at Wembley. Well, fuck me, I mean, how
did I not see it? Bony? You know what, Bony is absolutely
right. I think I've misjudged this entire thing. Now it all makes sense.
We're all gonna be sitting under the learning tree that could actually bring a
giant tree into Wembley Stadium and have it hanging standing next to the ring,
and the tree will overhang the ring. Yeah, that'll be great. Bass
Bears Heel versus Heel, Randy against edge On Raw in two thousand and seven
from the RKO Days rated RKO JBL against Angle Last Man Standing. Also,
Orton, Batista and Brock did a porno God Orton, Bautista and and Brock
did a promo in twenty fourteen, But that's not a match, though what
I said was very very different. Orton, Batista and Brock did not do
a porno. They did a promo in twenty fourteen, and if they did
do a porno. Then I have no knowledge of that, Barry MK.
Also, if you don't know already, wece posted the WCW dot in full
to YouTube. I did see it. If you are interested in watching that
first episode of Who Killed WCW, because God knows that topic hasn't been beaten
into the fucking ground, you can watch it. The first episode of this
new season is up on the Vice YouTube channel. I am halfway through the
episode. It's not anything that I'm gonna be doing like a full blown review
for like I did for Dark Side of the Ring, because I mean,
honestly, there's there's nothing to review. But I am watching it. I'm
not done with the episode. I mean it's well done, you know.
And they have some They actually do have some exclusive footage at the very beginning
that's never been released before. They actually opened the episode with it behind the
scenes at the very last nitro in Panama City Beach, so like, there's
some cool footage like that, But again, it's just regurgitating the same story
that we've heard a gazillion times before. I always loved the Eric Bischoff thing.
Also, by the way of walking into that meeting at Turner and there's
Ted Turner, and there's all these executives at Turner Broadcasting, and Ted Turner
turns to him and says, Eric, what do we need to do to
compete with the WWF? And Eric didn't know the question was coming, and
he goes, well, you know, they're airing in primetime on a Monday
night. We're airing at six oh five on a Saturday. We can't compete
with them. And Ted Turner turns and tells one of his stooges. He
says, I think the guy's name may have been Eric. Eric, give
Bischoff two hours TNT every Monday night. And that's a nice story. I
mean, it's a cute little story, except for the fact that Raw was
not two hours and Nitro was not two hours in ninety five. So I
don't know where he got two hours from. Maybe he just told that story
so many times over the years that he actually believes it, or it was
an hour, but he says two hours for some reason. Even Nitro wasn't,
you know, two hours week to week at the very beginning. I
mean, Row didn't go two hours until ninety seven. Anyway, I always
get a kick out of that. So those are the super chats there you
go. Thank you guys very much for the support tonight. I appreciate it
very much. We are currently sitting at four hundred and nineteen likes, which
I like to see that because that's enough for us to do some be the
booker. I thought we might have to get out of here without doing it,
but thank you for the likes. So let's go ahead and make it
happen. Let's be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen. It is now time
to be the booker. Yep Raw and Nitro were both an hour in the
early days. They didn't go to two hours until later on. So maybe,
hey, you know what, maybe maybe Ted Turner said to the guy,
give Eric two hours, and maybe the executive was like, no,
we'll give him an hour. Maybe that's what happened. Uh, Wrestlers and
their stories, you know, as soon as they announced the series and they
showed and there's tons of interviews, like they interviewed Brett Hart and Goldberg and
Conan and DDP and Bishoff and Kevin Sullivan and all these different people, Kevin
Nash and I'm like, how many different lies and variations of stories are going
to be told in this series? I wonder, doesn't look like they interviewed
Hogan, so the lie count is only going to go so high. You
know, if Hogan were on there, the lie count would be through the
roof. I don't think he was interviewed for this. Okay, here we
got tag team be the Booker. We begin with Cactus Jack and Terry Funk.
This was them from their Dumpster match or WrestleMania of forty or fourteen,
not forty. We did not have the ghost of Terry Funk at WrestleMania this
year. I stand corrected. All right, Cactus Jack and Terry Funk going
to be taken on the New Day. Look, I'm tired of the New
Day, like I know many of you are at this point. They've been
together for ten fucking years. But their resume speaks for itself. Certainly one
of the best tag teamswe has had in the last twenty years. And you
put them against Cactus Jack and Terry Funk, that would be a big match,
no matter what you may think, no matter how played out you may
think the New Day is. Right now, that would be a marquee match.
All right, Women's beat the Booker. Let's move over to the lady's
side, and we begin with Lana. Lana is gonna go one on one
with Willow Nightingale. I hate to do this, I really do, because
I like Willow a lot, I really do. I like Willow Nightingale,
but she ain't no miracle worker. Not even Willow Nightingale can work miracles.
And that's a buzzer. That's a bummer and a buzzer. Sorry, all
right, made of vent time, here we go. Let's do it.
Made of vent time. We begin with Eli del Vi Kingo, the former
Triple A Mega champion Vikingo out currently nursing a knee injury, which is not
surprising given the style that he works, but that is where the Kingo has
been Vi Kingo has been out. So it looks like tonight, hear and
be the booker. We're booking ourselves a Rampage main event. The Kingo in
the Rampage main event is gonna be wrestling Kenny Omega. Well, that's a
main event that you could certainly put on Dynamite. Actually, we did get
that match on Dynamite, right, We got that match. I think in
March of last year. We had Kenny Omega against Vikingo. On Dynamite.
I do remember that, and that was a hell of a match too.
But Kingo and Kenny Omega, this is the second stream in a row,
I think where we have gone two for three based Bearus, God of Seduction.
I mean, WrestleMania thirty was technically WrestleMania x x X. Well you
really want that porno, don't you. Hey, whatever floats your boat.
I was at that WrestleMania. Okay, don't go sullying that wrestle media.
That actually was one of the greatest WrestleManias they ever did. What is my
opinion on the Coffee Brothers. I just say that, I say that out
loud. I just pictured that. I just picture them walk into the ring
like with a big bag of beans. But what's your opinion of the Coffee
Brothers and Wolfgang from NXT Gallas? Yes, I think Gallas is good.
I like Gallis. I don't have anything against Gallus. Look, I wouldn't
be shocked to see Gallis end up with Drew McIntyre on the main roster.
You know, Drew Mane needs some backup to protect him from cmpunk fucking his
world title chances over a clash at the Castle next weekend, which I only
just realized today, by the way, that I actually will not be around
next Saturday, so I will not be watching Clash at the Castle live,
which I don't know how. I I don't know how I didn't realize that.
But that's for next weekend. Bass Beers be the Booker. Fatal four
away was fun. Waiting for Painmaker Jericho to make another appear ensued. Yes,
Painmaker is in be the Booker. He is unmistakable. Whenever we have
landed on him in the past. It's hard for me to keep a straight
face, but he is in there. You know what I'm gonna have to
do now. I think I'm gonna have to add the learning tree to be
the booker. I think so. Smoking dried chicken, says Billy the puppet
from Saw, giving you three options. Go through flaming tables for one million
dollars, walk barefoot on thumbtacks for five thousand dollars. I will go through
the flaming table because you didn't say anything about not putting any flame retardant.
Whatever that stuff is. It's some kind of grease or lotion or whatever whatever
that's called. Like Jack Perry had it all over himself at double or nothing.
He didn't say there's no rule against that. So as long as I
am well protected, I'll go through the table and I will take my million
dollars. Gel that's the word. What did I say? Lotion gel,
flame retardant gel that they rub on you? Devin from New Jersey coming in?
Does brawl out and brawl in live rent free in Solo's head? Apparently
not since the other one who brought it up, I haven't mentioned it in
months. I think it lives rent free in your head. My friend,
you got to move on, brother, you got to leave that in the
past. Chris Manson thirty seven months of channel membership says, who do Britt
and Jamie hater feud with when they come back? Tony versus Mariah has to
be the all in match. Yeah, Tony and Mariah is going to be
the all in match. You know, Britt and Jamie. I guess part
of it depends on whether they come back as heels or baby faces. I
would think they come back as baby faces, but it's only a matter of
time before we see Britt and Mercedes mix it up. See this is why
I really I liked the idea of putting Camille with Mercedes as her enforcer,
and you have built eventually and you still could do it, you know,
build eventually to Mercedes and Camille against you know, Britt and Jamie. I
think that could have been something. Again, not to say they still can't
do it, but doesn't look like they're going to base. Bierras says,
buy or sell Teddy Long or Vicky Guerrero as the GM of SmackDown Teddy Long,
Gotta go Terry Teddy Long fire lotion. Yes, no, it's it's
you know, maybe they should call it that. They should call it fire
lotion. They could sell that over the counter. Everybody always needs to keep
a bottle of fire lotion on him. You never know when you may need
it. I think we may have hit on a new product here. Her
problem solver exactly. Camille could be her problem solver, or she has a
problem, Camille solves it for her. I don't know what's going on with
Camille. I don't know where she is. I don't know what she's doing.
I have no idea. I see Britt and Jamie coming back as baby
faces. Yes, I am of the same opinion. Did I watch the
WCW doc. As I just said, I am halfway through the first episode,
so I have not finished it, but I am watching it. I
don't know if I'm going to talk about it on Sunday, because there isn't
much to talk about. I might give some very brief thoughts on it unless
in the last half of the episode Bishov says something so fucking egregious that I
just can't help myself. But from what I saw, it's pretty straightforward stuff.
It's pretty much what I expected. You know. I kind of laughed
because Rock is in it. Now. I know it's Rock's production company that's
making the show, but I'm like, Rock has no business being in this
sect. Every guy, Gus Rock is in there to give the WWF perspective
on things, But the fuck is Rock doing in this? Like the hell
are you in there for? I saw him, I'm like, what the
fuck is he doing in there? Austin? Now, Austin, I could
see Austin worked for Bishoff, he worked for WCW. He could talk about
being fired and leaving and going to work for the other company and cashing fire
and taking off and leading the Attitude era. But I don't know that Rock
had to be in that. Did I see FX show clipped Solomonster you had
Al Bundy playing old Clipper team. I have no idea what you're talking about,
Joey, I need you to translate. Brother, I don't know what
you're referring to. Bass Beer says, early nineties Vader against twenty eleven Mark
Henry who you got Vader Vader all the way? I've said it many times
in the past. You want the ultimate kind of dream match. You take
that early nineties big Van Vader and you put him in the ring with Brockleisner.
Really, it could be Brock from any era, even two thousand and
two Brock. But you take that Vader and you take Brock. That would
have been a match. I don't think it would have lasted very long,
but that would have been a hell of a match. Rock only on it
because he's the EP of the documentary. Yes, I know, that's what
I just said. Doesn't mean he has to be in the actual show.
You could be the executive producer in Stay Off Camera, Miguel says. The
only part that still makes me mad is Bishoff blaming Sting for WCW. Stark
ninety seven. Yeah, I mean it's just it's always been just fucking nonsense.
I understand that Sting may have been going through some shit during that time.
I think his marriage was falling apart, and you know, he who
knows he may been doing stuff you shouldn't have been doing. I'm sure a
lot of those guys were. But the idea that he he what he always
tries to do is cover for Hogan. That's all he's doing. I mean,
if you understand the idea that if Hulk Hogan were walking down the street
and he stopped short, that Eric Bischoff would have brown all over his nose.
If you understand that, then you get it, you know, because
he will always try to cover for Hulk. Their buddies, their friends,
their business partners, they work together, even in TNA, they you know,
they came in together. He will defend that man to the death.
And we all know why things went down the way they did at Stargate,
and you didn't have to be moseying around the backstage area, I think to
have a good sense of why things went down the way they did. They
went down the way they did because of one man, and that man was
not Stink. That man was Hulk Hogan, that's it. And if you
don't believe that, and you think there's any other explanation for why that all
went down the way it did, you're being very naive. I think most
people understand that. And Grant says, not tonight, Brother Hulk at Starcade.
The thing that some messed up about it, he lost that night,
he still lost the title, but just the way he went about doing it,
It's like, dude, if you're gonna look like literally went with the
worst possible outcome to that entire situation. It just, even all these years
later, it still boggles the mind how badly that was bungled. But it's
all ego, all ego, and I'm not talking Ethan Page. It's all
ego. That's all it ever, That's all it is. That's all it
ever was. Anyway, good stuff, good questions. Thank you for the
support, always appreciated. I will be live with you back here on the
Channel on Friday night. We're gonna be talking SmackDown Hopefully is a better show
than last week, although that was a great closing angle, But even SmackDown,
I think SmackDown last week was like, eh, a lot of these
shows now, I don't know. I know what's going on these last few
weeks, man. I say eh, Raw had some good stuff on Monday
night. Let's hope we get a good SmackDown on Friday, and then I
will be at the House of Glory show on Saturday, and then we got
the podcast on Sunday, and then we got RAW next Monday, and then
we got TNT with me and JD next Tuesday, and then we have Dynamite
next Wednesday. Train never stops, man, it just keeps going. Hop
on doors open, last stop, Hop on the train. I will see
you guys on Friday. If you missed the RAW review, go back and
check it out. If you missed TNT with me and JD, we had
some good discussions on his channel last night. Let's do it again Friday night.
Until then, take care, guys,