It's Tuesday. You know what that means. It's time for Ignition with a
w fan Hub. And in this episode, we'll be talking about some of
the hot topics in the AAW fan Hub community and will also preview tomorrow night's
AW Dynamite Valentine's Day edition from Austin, Texas. This is Kelson and this
is Alex and yeah, let's get right into it. I think we both
want to talk about three big free agents that we know are coming into AW
in the next one to six weeks time. We're gonna have Mercedes, Monet,
Okata, and Will Osprey showing up. Will Osprey just finished up New
Japan. He had that. I watched the event the other day that Jose
an insane, absolutely insane cage match. And I don't think like New Japan
doesn't do hardcore matches typically. I think they had one with like John Moxley,
but it's not. And this match was just insane. It was like
Wrestle Dream the Christian cage match where okay, he'll depart the ring and like
all that insanity with Darby. It was like that, but with ten guys
in the ring. And yeah, it was madness, so so we'll Ospray
lost at the end, he looked the beating up. I saw like him
his exit, you know from the arena where he was basically thanking the crowd
and bawling his eyes out, which I love that kind of respect from the
wrestlers to the audience, you know. But I did get to see the
match. Yeah, No, he gets such a great reaction in Japan,
like, and he was crying. He was very emotional. They all when
his music plays, there's this one part where everyone just like yells a spray,
which we'll see if that continues in AEW. I hope so. But
yeah, I mean he's one of the biggest stars in New Japan. I
think he's tremendous. He's only thirty years old. He's like the same age
as like Sammy Guvara. He's right, you know, he's really one of
the younger guys on AW roster in like in the wrestling industry, and he's
an established top talent. And now he's coming into AW in the next couple
of weeks. Well they said not tomorrow night, but the twenty first Dynamite,
the twenty first next Wednesday. He is slated to make his debut Okay,
so it's it's basically announced he's gonna have a match at least show up.
He's gonna at least show up because he is going to be wrestling at
Revolution and they need to set something up for him before he gets here.
Okay, So yeah, I guess putting our fantasy booking hats on and thinking
about what they're gonna do with Ospray, and we'll talk about Mercedes Money and
Ocata as well. But so Osprey's coming in and he's already kind of established
himself as part of the don Kallas family, right, But I feel like
he's not gonna be coming in as the bad guy and he's not going to
be coming in as a gel as part of the don Kallis family. That
just feels like that would be wrong in my opinion, because I feel like,
you know, he's a hot talent that's gonna be like one of their
main events going forward, and I just feel like it would be a mistake
bringing him in as a bad guy with the don Kallis family. So I'm
predicting that he gets debuted, like saving saving Chris Jericho, interjecting himself into
that feud so to set up a three way or sorry, a trios match
at Revolution with Sammy Guvara, Jericho, will Osprey versus Kyle Fletcher, Powerhouse
Hobbs, and Kenoski Dakeshta as the Don Callis family. So that's I mean,
part of me it thinks that that's kind of a disappointing start for Osprey,
but I think it's also just a good way to feature him and kind
of slowly integrate him into things and then he can do move on to bigger
and better things after that. But that's kind of my prediction for how they
bring in will Osprey, And I'm wondering what you think, Kelson. Well,
Alex, look, I'm kind of with you and I'm but I got
a little bit of a different take. As we know when you look at
the Don Kallus family final, Fletcher has not been doing well. Uh he's
kind of gotten the ire of Don Gallus because of losses. Yes, he's
the Ring of Honor television champion, but he just recently lost to Christ Jericho,
so he's not getting the job done. What I think is going to
happen is that you'll bring out Don Kallas and Powerhouse Hobbs and Kenoski Daqushta and
Iole Fletcher, and maybe they do the whole thing where they have the portraits
covered in ah in, you know, with the drape, you know,
and this is where this is where Don Kallas has our house hobbs At Takeshta
moved to beat up Kyle Fletcher. Well who comes out to save Kyle Fletcher
but his old running mate basically not a partner, but running mate, but
Will Osprey, And I think what you set up there is going to be
Kyle Fletcher and Will Osprey against Pakeshta at hobbes At Revolution, you know,
and I like mine a little bit better because, you know, frankly,
I really don't want to see Jericho in that kind of match because it's been
done before, you know. I want to see, you know, somebody
and maybe you know, something else happens. I don't know if Mark Davis's
recovered from his injury. I did look it up, but I really can't
find much on him. But if Callus brings somebody else into the Don Callis
family, maybe we have Mark Davis come in to stand next to Osprey and
Fletcher. You know, Ossie open, let's do it, you know,
like I like your idea. Yeah, I like your idea a lot better
than mine. I just feel like Jericho. I feel like he has some
poll in what happens in his matches, and god, I just imagine him
being involved because he's already there with the Donkllis family doing whatever. But I
like you, I like your idea a lot better. I get real uncomfortable
with Jericho because, look, he's earned every ounce of respect that he can
possibly get. But there comes a time where absence makes the heart grow fonder,
and you know, he needs to take a break and he needs to
recharge the engines. I guess it's the best way to put it. So,
Alex, let's talk about another. So we know that Osprey is going
to debut on February twenty first, next week's Dynamite Big Business. I believe
pretty much everybody believes that Mercedes Monett is going to debut. This one's a
little bit tricky for me, But what about you. What do you think
is going to be Mercedes Bonett's first feud or maybe even an alliance. I
think he's gonna just basically very similar to how Dianna Prazzo debuted. I think
she's gonna slide right into the feud with Tony Storm. I think Tony Storm's
gonna definitely retain the belt at Revolution, and I think her versus Mercedes Monet
could be a really interesting feud because I think Mercedes Monet she's this big star,
and then Tony Storm with her weird, you know, old timey starlit
thing, now she can become like the jealous waning star who's kind of jealous
of Mercedes Monett who's now showed up and like outshine Tony Storm. So I
think it's a way to pretty much put the title on Mercedes Monet right at
the next pay per view after Revolution, have her have a pretty cool feud
with Tony Storm, have Tony Storm descend even further into madness, and it
kind of sets Tony Storm, maybe like Mariah May, ends up costing Tony
the belt, and now we have Mercedes Monet as the champion, and it's
hard for me to predict where they go with Mercedes after that point, but
I think to me, that's kind of what makes the most sense to me,
is putting the belt right on her because she's a big deal and just
kind of establishing her right away and I think, yeah, they could be
a pretty fun viewed with Tony Storm in there. So, Kelson, what
is your prediction for Mercedes Monette? Once again, I am almost totally on
the opposite spectrum as you are. I do not think that she's going to
be going after the World Championship belt because I don't think that AW wants to
shoot their shot that soon. I think they want to build something with Mercedes
Monet. I think with Mercedes mone you're going to see her be I don't
want to say disruptive, but she's going to change the culture in the women's
division and maybe even in the men's division. I really do think that she's
to come in as the boss, as the CEO of the women's division.
And the first thing that's gonna happen is that they are going to announce,
you know, much to the chagrid of a lot of people, but something
that I've been wanting for a long time. They are going to announce the
AW World Women's Tag Team Title Belt. They will probably uh get announce a
tournament because you know, Tony Connin loves tournaments and and get that off the
ground. I think that Mercedes Monette will probably uh I want. I want
to say that she's going to maybe even sit this one out. I think
she's just gonna run things and she's just gonna insert herself. I don't know.
I don't see unless they bring somebody in, whether like Megan Baine or
Camille to be your tag partner. I don't really see any of the current
women in aw And the reason why I say that Mercedes Monet is going to
go for the World Championship is because we've already set things up with Diana Parozzo.
You got thunder Rosa, who never lost a championship, but Tony Storm
got it in a tournament after Rosa got injured. She's sitting there waiting and
ready. So I think you're I think we're going to put an emphasis on
the tag team division here for the women. What I do think is going
to happen, if anything, as I said, I don't think that Mercedes
is going to go after the Women's World Championship. I don't think she's going
to go after the TBS Championship either. If anything, she will start a
feud, but I think it's going to be slow burn. I really do,
and I do think the first championship belt that she goes for while she's
in AW is going to be a forbidden door. She's going to go over
after the iwgp UH Women's Championship with against Mayo Huatani. I believe, I
really do believe that that's going to be her first title shot. Mm hmm.
So yeah, so that's true. That's my that's just my thoughts.
I mean, I just don't think that AW is gonna shoot her shot with
Mercedes because if she goes and she wins the championship right away, where do
you go from there? Yeah, that's true. I think like the three
of them, I just kind of I felt like one needed to be right
in the championship picture, and she kind of made the most sense for me.
But I mean, I have no idea. I'm just making stuff up,
and I think we're both in the same boat. But yeah, and
I really like the tag team idea. I was just running through my head,
like who are the tag team the women tag teams? Oh god,
there's tons of them out there that Willow and stat Yeah, Willow and Staff,
Juliet Sky you have. You could have Tony Storm and Mariah May.
You could have Thunderstorm comeback, Tony Storm, and thunder Rosa. You know,
something could happen there. Yeah, Nile Rosa, Marina Shaffir. Of
course, you got Billy Starks and Athena, the Renegade Twins, my gosh,
I mean you got you know, you could even throw like I would
love to see a Karashida and Serenade team up. That would just be amazing
to me. That would just get a pop from me. You know,
you know, Rijo and Yukosaka Zaki could could be a thing. Megan Meghan
Bain and Gionna Parazzo or I mean, there's just there's so many things that
they can do. They really can. I mean, I'm just throwing names
out there, but some of them make absolute sense. Some of them don't
make any sense at all. Yeah, that's cool when you just have two
random people you throw together and se what happens. I guess like Page and
the Sorry Sorayah and the other the last remaining outcast Ruby so they don't get
no. I think I think Ruby so may have disbanded the out o.
Harley Cameron, Yeah, Harley Cameron. I don't know if she can actually
wrestle, but she can. She's done some matches. Yeah, Okay,
cool cool. I mean so I mean you've got you got you've got tag
teams out there, yeah, very few. Hey, you'd never know,
maybe uh Tymello comes back and j Yeah. Yeah. So so I mean
there's there's all kinds of things that could happen. Yeah. No, I
really like that idea. That's cool. So then Fightful Select this is the
one that I really don't have a clue at. Fightful Select is reported that
Okata is also coming to a w What are they going to do, Alex?
What are they gonna do with with Okada? I think here, do
you want to go first? I think I went first the first time.
I'll go first again. Of the three, I think Okada is going to
come in as the biggest of the baby faces. M h Ausbrey is going
to be a baby face, but he's going to kind of be like one
of those you know, love to hate him or hate to love him kind
of guys. You know you just can't get away from, kind of like
the way you were with MJF. I mean, you either hate it or
be loved it, but you could wait to see him, you know what
I mean. Monette is just gonna be Monette and I think that she's of
the three, I think she's gonna be presented the most as the outright heel
because she's going to come in with attitude, ego and she's going to rub
people the wrong way because of it. And I think that's where she's not
going to have a specific feud. I think she's gonna tick off half the
women's locker room k fad, you know what I mean. So with Okada,
I kind of see him. I want to say that he's going to
be joining the Blackpool Combat Club, and the Blackpool Combat Club is going to
kick Wheeler DA out of the out of the uh faction, and I think
they want to get something in there. And I think you're gonna see Okada
replace Wheeler Youda. I'm reaching here, mm hmm, you know, because
I just don't know. I mean, so if they kick Wheeler DA out,
what is Wheeler you to do after that? The same thing he's been
doing for the last several weeks. Nothing, I mean, they if you're
not going to use him, put somebody in the spot. That's my whole
thought process behind it. If you're not going to use a wrestler to buy
a black Bulkamma Club. Put somebody in the spot that you will use that
should have hurt like that. I don't think so. I just think he
has been around. Look, and I understand that Okata is not going to
be like a full time wrestler. He is going to go back and forth
to Japan, and that's, you know, something that's been widely speculated about.
But even if he wrestles three weeks every two months, that's still more
to Wheeler you just put in. Yeah, I don't know, So where
are you thinking with Okada? Alex I I had something pretty similar but kind
of the opposite in a way. I thought, you know, they're gonna
bring him in and like you said, he's gonna be kind of the super
babyface, which is interesting because like how well does he speak English and how
well is he going to fit into an English speaking program? So that that's
a big question mark because obviously he's like the biggest star in Japan coming here
a big deal. He has the he has everything to be the possibly the
biggest babyface in ae W, but can that translate to an English speaking audience?
So yeah, that'll be interesting. But I think, yeah, I
think he's gonna come in and actually feud with the Blackpool Combat Club and it
kind of gives him And I'm kind of assuming that Wheeler you To kind of
reappears from wherever he's been, who knows. And I've always been a Wheeler
you To hater. I always felt like Daniel Garcia should have been in the
black Pool Combat Club instead of him. Uh, but I kind of like
Wheeler das as that just piece of crap, like cheating, and I feel
like it suits him because he just kind of comes across like that to me.
Yeah. Anyways, Yeah, Okata versus the Blackpool Combat Club and kind
of working his way through them like he can. He can fight Wheeler Youda
and beat him. He can fight Claudio beat him and then set up like
a pay per view match against John Moxley where Okada can just beat John Moxley
fair and square and just really like establish him right off the bat as a
big deal because he beat all these high level guys in ae W. So
that's kind of what I'm imagining would be a good start for him. But
yeah, I don't I don't think having him go against Brian Danielson again would
make sense because that's like the one match that we've already seen him have in
w recently. So yeah, i'd like to see him them lead up to
like a big match and Hangman Adam Page would be another guy that you'd want
to see him fight and be clean to really establish himself. But he's already
doing other things, so right, all that, I think I said this
earlier, I don't think that I think is going to be the last two.
Probably maybe at the end of March. Yeah, I just see him
being a part of big business, like debuting I guess later in the night
maybe or even like kind of as a surprise, because everyone is pretty sure
Mercedes is showing up, but now they're adding Okada as well. Yeah.
Fortunately Mercedes would come out like right at the end, right at the beginning
of a show, and uh, and then if Akata came out later in
the show, that would be something. Yeah, that's that would be my
guess. But I guess we'll see there. They might be smarter for them
to space things out a little bit. Yeah. So we talked a little
bit about Okada and Monet and Ausprey, and here's the thing that all three
of them have in common. Their last there's a couple of things they have
in common. Their last promotion that they worked for was Overseas mm hm.
And they were all in talks with WWE and signed with a W instead.
So we had a lot of discussion about this on the AW fan hub community
social networks, and a lot of people had different theories. Is when you
look at it, AW is killed it in the free agency market and ww
WE really has it other than well, I'll get into that. Well,
see, they signed cm Punk, but AW fired Cmpunk. I don't think
that was really a free agent thing that they got from AW. It was
more of a free agent thing that AW just let them have. He's your
problem now kind of thing. I don't want to talk about that too much.
And Drade showed up there as well recently. That makes sense though,
because Rodi's wife works there, you know. I mean, and I think
Tony Kahan did make an exception for our Dottie because the ninety day do can
not compete was obviously waived. M hm. You know. So, but
what are you thinking? Do you have any theories as for maybe one or
two reasons? Why do you think, Alex that AW is getting these big
name free agents? Uh huh and not WWE. I think I think there's
there's a different reason that I have for why they got Mercedes versus why they
got Okata and Osprey. And for Ocata and Osprey, I think aw's close
relationship with New Japan. I think Rocky Romero, who's been like the go
between between AW and New Japan's like been signed officially to the AW office,
right that was kind of just announced recently, So I think that relationship is
a big part of it, and maybe specifically with Osprey, because they've already
brought Osprey in, they gave him a big match it all in, They've
given him big matches that forbidden door two years in a row, and they've
treated him like he won. I think all his matches that he's had on
those big shows, so like, Osprey's been treated well by them. He
doesn't really have as much experience in the American wrestling scene, so maybe just
that that level of comfort and the fact that the money is probably if not
more in AW, it's probably at least the same as what WW he was
offering. So maybe that comfort factors like a big part and probably similar for
Okada and o'cada. Knew a lot of these guys, like he had a
pretty good, strong relationship with the Young Bucks from their New Japan days,
So I think that's probably a big part of it. But yeah, that's
kind of what I think for the those guys specifically, all right, yeah,
did you have any thoughts on them? Or do you want me to
talk about what I think about Mercedes? Go ahead with Mercedes. I'm interested
to hear what you have to say about Mercedes. So when Mercedes left WWE,
it was not under good circumstances. I think he felt like they were
disrespecting her, and then there was rumors about, you know, they went
to speak to management and they disrespected them even more, and she left with
like a bad taste in her mouth. And I don't and I think,
you know, maybe Vince McMahon was part of that, and he's gone,
but there's still a lot of people in the office that probably she didn't have
great experiences with, and I think that that's a big part of why she
didn't go back to WWE. And I think, yeah, they're probably willing,
and Tony Kahn's willing to pay a lot of money, So I think
money is a big thing. But I think for her there's also bad blood
between her and WWE, right Yeah, so yeah, those are That's kind
of how I feel like why these three people played out. And I kind
of think it's like on a case by case basis, But aw, Tony
Kahn's got deep pockets, so he's able to compete with WWE, and he's
offering like he's he's still able to offer like national TV exposure and all the
same things. And aw maybe it's not lighting the world on fire these days
like it was two years ago, and WWE's pretty hot right now, but
things change in the wrestling world. Like sure, I think bringing these guys
in is going to just ring AW up a couple of notches, and like
a year from now, two years from now, the whole disc course about
wrestling can completely change. Yeah. I mean, had Auspury, he had
Ouspury and Okata and Money gone to WWE instead, they would not have had
as much of a profound effect on WWE as they would potentially have at AW.
I have two things that I wanted to bring up. There's multitudes of
things that reasons that they've signed, and I'm sure eventually those will come out,
But in my opinion, there's two things that stand out, and this
goes for all three of them. As I said earlier, they've all well.
Osprey's from England, Okada is obviously from Japan. Money has stated emphatically
that she wants to wrestle in Japan some more. They can do that.
They could go home. Look at what they've done with Karoshida and Rijo especially.
They can go home. They've let Ray, Phoenix and Penta go to
Mexico. You know, they can go home. Yeah where when you're If
they were WWE, they wouldn't be able to go home, and I think
that has a profound effect on their decision. The other thing is, and
this is something that neither of us is mentioned, had they went to work
for WWE. And I may be off base here and correct me if I'm
wrong, whether it's you or somebody in the community listening to this, but
had they gone to wd WWE, technically they wouldn't be signed by WDWE.
They'd be signed by Endeavor, And in my opinion, I don't think Endeavor
wants to shell out the money. We'll look at it. Look at this,
They've got the ratings, they're filling up the buildings. What are they
say the game by adding more people to the roster. Look, they've got
a pretty bloated roster too. Of course they've got an XT, but you're
not going to put the likes of Ausprey, Mercedes Monett and Okata and NXD.
So that means you add three, you've got to make space for them.
AW also needs to make space for them. Just being honest with you
here, Uh, they got to make space for these three. So either
somebody is going to go, or somebody is going to get a lot less
TV time and they're going to be on the indie circuits holding their craft a
lot more. But that's my two things. I think that the opportunity to
go home and do things, you know, with their family and not have
to uproot their entire lives to wrestle for AW is one thing, especially for
Okada and for Ausprey. And the other thing is is that I personally just
don't think that Endeavor wanted to shell out the money. I think that they're
content with what they've got right now, and they know that AW is,
let's face it, they're pretty far behind as far as the ratings and the
attendants and things like that goes. And if these three do what they can
do. They're probably still not going to bring up the ratings and the attendance
to the point of WWE just yet. You know, So aw's got a
way to go. But the thing is it's couraging is that AW seems to
be moving in the correct direction where WWE, in my opinion, seems to
be flatlining a little bit. They're just that, I use the word,
they're content, and content is a good place to be, but it's not
great for business. Yeah, yeah, I wonder, like, because you
know, Okata and Osprey and Mercedes Monet, they're all coming in as like
three of the biggest names in AEW and yeah, you wonder if a year
or two years from now, we're going to look back and say, wow,
like WWE really dropped the ball not picking up at least one of these
people, because yeah, it's gonna be a big swing once these guys get
going in AEW it's gonna give them a lot of momentum in that case,
and the tides can change pretty quickly in the wrestling business. Like it seems
like e WWE's like solid and they're going into a hot WrestleMania, But yeah,
things change pretty quickly. Yeah, And speaking of changing very quickly,
I want to jump right into our Dynamite preview. I don't want to spend
a whole lot of time on Dynamite, but it is a fairly decent card,
especially since they just added a couple of new matches today. Alex and
you and I were talking before we started the show, and I had a
big problem with Collision this past week. Let's we'll just touch on Collision.
I'll say what at my piece, I'll get your your opinions on this Collisions
card. It was good wrestling, you know, there was some interesting things.
But here's the thing with Collision. You had five wrestlers on the show,
Shane Taylor, Bunominata, kiro Hogan, the Outrunners, and Top of
Heroes and combined, if you just look at the main shows Rampaged, Dynamite,
Collision and the pay per views combined, those five wrestlers have three wins
and forty one losses. That would have been fine for me if one or
two of these wrestlers had won their matches on Saturday night, but all five
of them lost, or well six of them if you count the Outrunners of
courses, two people instead of one, though they seem to apparently have the
same sharing the same brain, but that's their gimmick. But they're three and
forty one. And then the other thing that I did mention to you is
that we also had this really good promo from the bounty Hunter Brian Keith saying
that he was coming for everybody using those stayed statistics, Dynamite, Collision,
Rampage and pay per views. Brian Keith is eight and a w matches,
So so taking that at consideration the wrestlers, that's six people or seven if
you want to count seven with the outrunners that are combined three wins and forty
nine losses, and none of them won match on Saturday night, it just
seemed like, hey, let's pad the let's pad the rankings night, and
I just didn't enjoy it. Yeah, it is we because you think like,
if you're gonna have a low card and a mid card, you're gonna
have the lower card guys fight each other and the mid card guys fight each
other. But in aw, especially some nights like on Collision or a weaker
Dynamite, you'll just see just Adam Page versus Brian Keith, like matches that
you just know there's no chance in hell that the bigger guy, bigger name
guy is gonna lose, And they do that a lot, and it's uh,
yeah, it's questionable. It's not a good way to build those people
up. Like Shane Taylor, just put him in some matches with someone that
maybe he wins once in a while. Exactly. Well, I'll give you
another example. We had Tony Storm Pudachi fight. The match was against Quetomenada.
Yeah. Then you had Diana Parazzo gets Kira Hogan. Nobody's talking about
those matches. They were meaningless. They were good, there were there were
decent matches, but there was no meaning to them. However, if you
had Kira Hogan against in a match against Queen Amanada, we may be talking
about that. Yeah. Yeah, like people want to see Queen Amanata get
a win. You could have Tony Storm fight someone else, Yeah, and
that'd be way more interesting, Queen Emanata getting her first win. Yeah,
it's unfortunate. By the way, what I gave when I said that the
records win lost, records of the of the people that were in Collision were
three and forty one. One win was by Ische. He had a tag
team match that he won on one of the main shows, and two of
the wins were by Kira Hogan. So the outrunners, Shane Taylor and uh
who was the other one, Queen Amanada have never won a match an aw
on the on the main shows. They've done some of them done fairly well
at r OH, but I don't count that. So let's let's just jump
right into Dynamite. Then let's keep this a little bit short. Oh,
we got a really good card. Do you think it's a good card,
Alex, Like it's it's not as good as last week's because last week was
just amazing, But yeah, it's a good card, especially with the last
two editions, the Dax Horwood and John Moxley in Orange Cassidy and Matt Tavin
in a Texas Death Match for oh god, you know, let's talk about
that match. Go ahead, Yeah, what are your opinions about this match?
Because we're both kind of giggling at this. I guess the I guess
because it's in Texas, it's the Texas Death Match. It seems like the
craziest two people to put in a like Orange Cassidy death match. King and
Matt even who I don't think we've ever seen have a singles match on Dynamite
or Collision ever. Do you really think this is gonna be a singles match?
I guess not. This is gonna be bes Friends versus. Yeah.
I think you're gonna see you know what, here's this is what my pre
is, my spicy prediction. We're gonna see the return and the absolute mayhem
of Chucky Taylor. He's gonna come in and clean house and save Orange,
Cassidy and the best friends, and he's gonna walk out of that match tomorrow
night the hero. Nice. Yeah that will we get a Sue do sighting?
Maybe she is the one that drives him down the ramp and the the
white Uh what is it a van or is it an sup I think it's
an s van? Yeah yeah, so I mean, hey, you do
whatever you have to to get a good pop, you know. Yeah.
Yeah, this match could be a lot of fun. It could be really
good. I can see, I can I could see Sue driving the van
down the ramp, well not all the way down the ramp and everybody in
the crownthics it's Osprey and Chucky Taylor gets out boom. Uh. So I
think he just needs to walk out just you know, so that there's no
suspense and no chance for disappointment, you know. And then we got Dax
Hardwood against John Moxley. Where the hell did that come from? That makes
no sense. Well, ft randomly showed up to challenge John Moxley and Claudio
Castan only so maybe they're setting up something that's right. Yeah, maybe maybe,
but like I like it, but yeah, it is. It is
weird. I hope and I know there's no chance in hell, but I'd
love to see Dax Horowitz beat John Moxley. That would make my day.
But they were a chance, no chance, I mean, I mean,
I mean Moxley bled Moxley bleed the other night. It's like the all is
right with the world. Moxley was bleeding, not much, but he did
bleed. Uh huh, Yeah, I mean it was. It was a
pretty decent match with Esfingy and Starboy Junior's not like Claudill cas. You look
like you got to a fight with Wolverine. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Wonder if that's gonna leave a mark because then that you know what people
and you know, he'll be walking down the street, women will be fawning
over him. Because of the scar, because it's so sexy looking. You
know, if I had that scar to be like, look at that horrible
looking guy with that awfully, awfully ugly scar. I can't pull off the
scar like that caught. Yeah he can't. Yeah he looks good. Hopefully
it sticks around. I'm high up. But you know, back to the
match. I'm hoping Hartwood has a good match against Moxley, But yeah,
I don't know. I have a feeling that that's gonna be There's gonna be
more to the Texas Death Match that meets the eye. And I think there's
gonna be more to this than meets Who knows, Maybe Wheeler Yuda comes out
and Rex Cash Wheeler and uh and I. But I do have a theory
about this match is that they put this match into place just in case Cash
Wheeler can't make it to UH Revolution due to you know, strenious circumstances,
that they've got a match lined up. So yeah, moving on, Yeah,
yeah, it would be moving on to sky Blue versus Willow Nightingale another
match, and I think there's gonna be more to it that meets the eye.
Will Julia Heart come out with a railroad spike and drive it into Chris
Statlander or Willow Nightingale's head. I mean, look, we know you're gonna
have Stokely, you know you're going to have Julia. Something's got to happen.
This has got to be setting I think it's setting up a match.
This is going to be a match, setting up a match between Julia and
Sky versus Willow and Chris Statlander for revolution. I really do believe that.
Yeah. I think it's a cool match because they have a lot of history,
Willow Nightingale and Skyblue. They were kind of like the pair of women
that would lose all the matches to the outcasts for a few months, nons
in a row. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to this match because it's
one of the rare women's matches on like Dynamitic Collision where you don't know who's
gonna win, and that if I had to guess, I could see sky
Blue winning after some nefarious actions by Julia Hart. I honestly hope that this
is a clean win for either Sky or Willow. That's all I want.
Let it be a clean win and then have the you know, extracurricular activities
happen after the match to set up you know the major feud. Well,
let's have a Let's have a it's the only women's match on the card.
Let's have a clean match. I mean, there is another women's segment on
the card. It's something that I know that I mean you, you just
won't shut up about it, Alex. I mean the wedd Ink, the
new movie film film from Tony's Storm. But I'm saying, because you have
not mentioned a single thing about Tony Storm and wet wedding at all, do
you do you care about this? I mean, uh, I have to
say I have not enjoyed her movies too much. This movie, I'm curious,
just like, what does wedd inc mean to me? That's like contract
signing. I really like their promo where she's laying down in the middle of
the ring on collision. I'm a big Tony Storm fan, so I'm always
excited to see what she does. But yeah, I haven't really enjoyed her
movies so much. It's just like her like acting weird in our room by
herself. Well yeah, yeah yeah. And then we have the Young Bucks
versus Top Flight. Now, I am a huge top Flight fan. Do
I think Top Flight's gonna win this match, hell now. But I am
a huge top flight fan and what thing that I will say about. And
I don't know if you saw this, but on Rampage this past Friday,
Matthew and Nicholas Jackson or Philippe at Francois Jackson owned as I like to call
him, wrestled on the show. And Friday Night's Rampage got higher ratings than
Collision. Really high ratings go higher rate it's got. It's got higher ratings
than any Collision this year. Wo. So, So I don't know if
that was due to you know, matt Jackson and Nicholas Jackson being there,
or if it was something else but either them or it's mystico mystical h cmll
Mexican fans tuning in. But yeah, it could be them. I wouldn't
it would be as not being facetious. That very well could be. When
you got, you know, heroes of the Mexican community wrestling in a big
company, they're going to tune you know, totally makes sense that they would
tune in. Oh boy, yeah, So I mean I'm not looking much.
I'm looking at a good match here, but I think it's a foregone
conclusion that that the Chexions are going to win. Mm hmmm do you agree?
Do you agree with that? Alex? Yeah, I think they're gonna
They're going to brutally cheat and probably continue their like, uh horrible series of
actions that they're committing against the aw roster. I don't know if you watched
that match on Rampage, but Nicholas Jackson was very careful to not let his
hat fall off during the entire match. So I'm looking yeah, I'm looking
forward to seeing if he can keep the match on for keep the hat on
for the whole match. Well this is he should uh fight either Hangman,
Adam Page or Swear Strickland. They'll staple that sucker right on. It won't
fall off. Yeah, yeah, And I don't know if you saw it,
Brandon Cutler has been posting like tweets Oh god, yeah, hysterical.
So so Adam Copeland and Eddie Kingston head on Collision, Uh came out and
spoke about against the vile actions of the young Bucks and they and he posts
that there's rumors that like Adam Cokeland and Eddie Kingston is speaking out a turn
and rubbing the locker room the wrong way, and people on Reddit. People
were like, oh my god, I wonder who. I wonder who leaked
that to the posted by Brandon Cutler. It's just funny what I saw it.
I was like, Oh no, people are gonna think this is serious,
and I'm like, oh god, I thought I was like prepared for
the insanity to happen. Oh God, I'm just it's unbelievable. Speaking of
Adam Copeland, we are going to see Adam Copeland against Daniel Garcia, the
winner of whom will go after the TNT Championship owned by Christy Cage. Who
do you have in this match? What would you like to see happen in
this match? I love Daniel Garcia and I'd want to see him win any
match he's in for the most part, but it just makes more sense for
Adam Copeland to win, you know. Uh yeah, so I think Adam
Copeland's definitely gonna win here. Hopefully Daniel Garcia looks good, but yeah,
it's got to be Adam Copeland, right I You know, you think with
your head and you think with your heart. My head, says Adam Copla.
My heart wants Daniel Garcia. But even then, if Daniel Garcia wins,
I'd be a little bit heartbroken for Adam Copeland. And if Adam Copeland
wins, I'd be a little bit heartbroken for Daniel Garcia. This is a
tough one because you've got two guys that are popular with the crowds. I
wouldn't call them baby faces, especially Garcia. I wouldn't call them go so
far as I call them ultimate baby faces. But it's hard when you got
two guys that are like this. You know, look, Daniel Garcia significantly
younger than Adam Copeland and he's got a lot of years ahead of him.
Maybe it's not Daniel Garcia's time, but you know what, I believe Adam
Copeland will work his ass off to make Daniel Garcia look like a world beater
winner lose. Yeah, and that's what you look forward to. Mm hmm.
Yeah, it's going to be a fun match. It's going to be
a great match. And like Daniel Garcia, he's one of those guys that
I know we were talking about all the people doing jobs on collision and losing.
He's the guy that definitely started out that way and now we see where
that has gotten him. And and yeah, good for Daniel Garcia. I
love him the Yeah, well, I think I think we are going to
be seen exactly. I think we are going to be seeing in the coming
weeks, months, and years, uh, surging Daniel Garcia because he's he's
got he's just got it. You know, he's got the he's just got
it. And he has to do is give rid of that dance because that's
one day. But that's kind of what you know in a way, it's
it was how he found himself and and got over as like a baby face.
Yeah. Wow, most guys don't find themselves that way. I'll stop
right there because I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say how most guys do find
themselves. Uh well, okay, but anyway, and of course, we
do have one other segment that's planned, and that's a we'll hear from segment
with Hangman, Adam Page, Samoa Joe and Swore strictlyt Do you expect anything
out of this other than them just staring at each other and being growling.
Uh yeah, Like I'm curious just to see where where each guy is coming
from. Like you know, we we know Hangman ad Him Page just hate
Swear Strickland swears Stricklands just wants the title, and Samoa Joe we need to
see how he kind of fits into all of this. Is hanging in at
him page like going to happened to, like a more evil version of himself,
the stop swerve of Strickland as best he can. Like, I think
there's some interesting things that could be going on here, but it might just
be the three of them coming out and talking and just filling up time.
You know, through all this, Samoa Joe has been kind of the forgotten
person. He's the world champion, he's been a freak on person. I
actually went on YouTube and I wanted to see if anybody was talking about Samoa
Joe, and somebody actually was, Well, they weren't talking about him.
They made a Samoa Joe Nope compilation dating back to Days and Ring of Honor.
It's it's absolutely hysterical. I mean, he's done the Nope to a
lot of the top wrestlers in both a w A and w w A and
New Japan. Uh It's it's absolutely hysterical. So if you are, if
you get a chance, anyone who's listening, go on YouTube just type in
search for Smojoe. Nope, compilation. You won't be disappointed because it's several
minutes of just hysterical stuff and and he and it's not evolved very much.
It's but basically it's but basically the same move throughout the years. So anyway,
but yeah, I think do you think Samoa Joe will still be the
champion after Revolution? Do you think title? N you do? Okay,
I do believe Smojo will retain in the championship. I do believe that that,
uh Samoa Joe will lose the championship to swear Strickland in a couple of
months. Mm hmm. Yeah, I don't think I do. It's like
I did. Do you do you have any kind of scenario where you think
that hangman Adam Paige wins the championship anytime soon? No? No, I
think that really no one wants to see that. I don't think I wouldn't
mind seeing it. I mean, he was a good champion, and I
like Adam Page. You know, I think it's great that he can wrestle
a debriated you know, but uh, because I certainly couldn't. You know,
it's kind of like his energy juice. But uh, if they make
him more evil and like kind of make him the bad guy in all of
this, and then they put the title on him and then Swerve Strickland goes
to feud with him and that's who he beats. I can see that making
sense. But yeah, you know that's that's the weird thing about this whole
situation is that square Strickland is. It's he's got so much support and he's
been he's like, he's like MJF. Honestly, he could be the biggest
scumbag in the world of people will still love him and that is a talent
man. Yeah, and it's even weirder because NJF was always funny, even
when he was being horrible to people. He he was always kind of funny.
We're Strickland just broke into Adam Page's house and threatened baby and it wasn't
in a funny way. No one was laughing. So yeah, yeah,
it is kind of strange that he has all the fans support in the world,
and it makes complete sense that hang me in Adam Page is as angry
about it as he is. Yeah. I just want to see Adam Page
get on the mic and as people are cheering for swear like, what is
rob with you people to kind of do one of those speeches like he broke
into my house and he threatened my baby, you know, and you're cheering
for him. How would you feel if you did it to you? God?
Or how would you feel if I did it to you that that aw
security comes out and arrest him. But anyway, I like it. It
could be an interesting show tomorrow night. Pell You know, Alex, it's
these kind of shows sneak up on you. I think this is a really
good, interesting card. There's nothing on it that I'm like, Oh,
that's a bathroom break, There's I mean, there's some interesting stuff going on
tomorrow. I'm interested to see what happens. You know. I think that
I don't know, Alex, I don't know about you, but I kind
of think do you think that the anticipation of Mercedes Monett showing up and Will
Osprey showing up is putting a little bit of a damper on the shows?
The people that don't know maybe expecting Mercedes to show up and Asprey to show
up on Collision this past week and on Dynamite this week. You know,
they're definitely not It's something else man, I think the anticipation is going to
be kind of rough until March thirteenth, because I think Ausprey is going to
be there next week, and that's going to put a lot. He's going
to have a lot on his shoulders to pacify people until Mercedes gets here,
and then Mercedes may have some pacification to herself until Okata gets here. It's
gonna be a really interesting next several weeks in a I'm interested to see if
AW fans get anticipation burnout or not. Yeah. Yeah, let's pate that
up. That's not a clinical term. Yeah, Unfortunately. You know,
sometimes I wonder when when they have these leaks, like Okada being leaked is
coming to AW, you kind of wonder if that's like WWE people were somehow
involved in getting that information out there, because you know, if you're AW,
you want that to be a surprise. You don't want people expecting it.
I mean, obviously, them announcing big business happening six weeks from now
with boss signs like that was their own doing. I don't know if you
have you been watching have you seen any of the interviews that Tony Kinda did
in Las Vegas on during Super Bowl week I saw I saw one of them.
I heard him definitely say boss Din. Yeah, he said Boston,
and people have been asking specific things and he did. Somebody was somebody was
talking about that. This was like earlier in the week, somebody was talking
about Osprey and mormonet and he was just kind of nodding, yeah, yeah,
yeah, And then they mentioned o'cada. He raised his eyebrows like something's
up there. But this was like like the day before the news broke that
Ocada was signing with AW. So oh my god. Wow. You wonder
when he knew about it, because he did post his like twenty twenty four
is going to be a good year, and he had him like smiling or
something. So yeah, I wonder when he knew all these Mercedes and Ocado
were coming. Was a few weeks ago or recently, you know, before
he sign off. If I wanted to make a point going back to our
original discussion that we had one of our original discussions, you know, talking
about how AW is getting these free agents and wwe isn't. It just blows
my mind that things just are falling in weird directions. So it was reported
that Camille was going to go to WWE, and then last week, then
like a couple of weeks ago, she was backstage at at AW show,
and last week, late last week it was reported that she's no longer going
to WWE's and she's in deep discussions with AW. Now, then you look
at Julia, people had her going to WWE. Now with Ogawa Rossi being
fired from stardom and supposedly starting his new promotion, Julia is more than likely
you to go to that promotion and she's gonna lead WW hanging there too.
It's amazing. It's you know, WW can't catch a break. Yeah,
Like, yeah, it is really weird because these people, like like if
Ospray or Ocatta, if they went to WWE, I know, people say
they'd get lost in the shuffle, but I don't think WWE's men's roster is
really that exciting. And I would say aw's men's roster is better than WWE's
from top to bottom. And and I think, you know, if they
did pick up a guy like Ospray or Okata, they would slot right in
there. It's like one of the biggest names in WWE, just like AJ
Styles did like years ago. So yeah, that's really really interesting. How
things have gone and things are tumultuous over them there for sure, with you
know, the Vince McMahon stuff, and he knows it'll be interesting. It'll
be interesting about I would say six months from now to reassess how these three
free agents have affected aw you know, I would say six seven months,
right around the time of all in. Yeah, how is this going to
affect with effect A and one thing like thinking about that. You know,
we had Jay White who was kind of in a similar spot. He was
rumored to be going to WWE and ended up in a w and I would
say, arguably he hasn't made as big of an impact as people probably thought,
so some of these guys could go that way. But I kind of
predict that Okata and will Ospringer bigger names and it'll make a bigger impact than
Jay White did. You're probably right. You're probably right. Well, we
will see for sure in the next several weeks just how this begins to play
out, because it really is a beginning. It's going to take a while
to see the effects of it. I think long long term effects. So
it's gonna be interesting and I think what that will end the show? What
do you think Alex. Yeah, sounds good, Kelson, let's end it
all right, all right, buddy, Well, we'll see you tomorrow night.
For all lead Talk, This is Kelson and this is Alex. Good
night, everybody. Good nay.