Hey w Dynamite. Tonight was a show carried not by the matches in the
ring. It was a show carried by the promos. A lot of promo
work on tonight's show as they continued the build to Revolution, which is well
less than two weeks away. I guess it's coming on not this weekend,
but next Sunday. We had tonight a promo involving Christian Cage and Daniel Garcia
after we got the official announcement that at Revolution it will be Daniel Garcia,
not Adam Copeland, challenging for the TNT Championship. So in fact, it
was exactly like what I figured last week with that Cocerto angle that was done
as a way to write off Copeland, and so they're going to wait a
little bit longer before they put him in Christian back in the ring together.
Instead, Daniel Garcia is going to get the shot. Daniel Garcia went out
there tonight and he had a live mic on Dynamite and he cut what I
thought was a pretty decent promo. It's not the sort of thing that he's
used to doing, but it's the sort of thing that he needs to do
more of, and he has been mildly getting over more and more each week
with the crowds. So that was one promo segment on the show. We
also had a segment evolving Sting in Darby Allen, and they were not in
the arena live tonight, but we did hear from Sting for the first time
since he was attacked by the Young Bucks a few weeks ago. Him and
his kids were attacked by Matt Nick, and it was a very kind of
low key, subdued intense promo. Subdued and intense are two words that kind
of run counter to each other, but that's the best way I could describe
it. He looked dead in the camera and he cut one hell of a
promo, and he also made the announcement that his father had just recently passed
away, so unfortunately his father will not be able to see his final match.
But I thought it was another good hard sell for that tag team match
that is the real main event coming up at Revolution next weekend. It's not
the three way for the aw World title. It's the Sting Darby Allen,
the Young Bucks tag team match, the final match of Sting's career, and
I thought he did a hell of a job in that promo tonight and somebody
else who did a hell of a job I thought was Wardlow. Now this
undisputed Kingdom is on life support right now. No Adam Cole on the show.
They didn't wheel him out there tonight. We did get the Kingdom.
We got Matt Tavid and Mike Bennett. Mike Bennett was the one wrestling tonight,
and like Matt Tavan last week, he lost. Wardlow comes out by
himself, though later in the show he takes a live mic and he proceeds
to cut the best promo I've ever seen him cut in his entire career,
in aaw just burying anybody in everything, talking about how pissed off he is.
I'm glad that Wardlow on TV is pissed off. I was pissed off
for him. Watching him fall from grace from where he was at one time
in this company to where he is now is a disgrace. And frankly,
I've been wondering why is it taking this long for Wardlow to get pissed off
on TV? If I were him, I would have come out there on
television have been pissed off a long time ago. But now they send him
out there now they have him playoff of what I'm sure is some very real
emotion, because if anybody has a right to feel frustrated and pissed off,
it's Wardlow. When you look at the trajectory of his career over the last
two years, I mean, holy shit. But I thought he did a
hell of a job with his promo too. Now what it's leading to in
the near term, I don't know. I don't know where he fits into
this world title picture. And we'll talk about what he said and more importantly,
who he mentioned in his promo. But there were also two potential injuries
coming out of this show. One involved Madison Ring, who came into the
show tonight having not wrestled in an AAW match in over a year, and
it's been a little bit less than that, but still, she hasn't wrestled
a Ring of Honor match since August, so I'm not sure she's had any
ring time since the summer. Now, maybe that would account for some of
the the ring rust, if you want to call it that. She didn't
look good in that ring tonight at all in her match with Deanna Parazzo,
and that was before she dropped herself on her head a very scary spot,
but according to aw it was the move of the night. And then at
the end of the main event tonight Big Trios match, it was Samoa Joe,
Swerve, Strickland partners. Can they coexist out there teaming up with Brian
Cage against Hangman, Page Hook and Rob Van Dam. We need somebody to
do the job. Let's call RVD. You can imagine how that match ended.
But at the very end of the match it looked like Hangman may have
suffered a legitimate injury. I hope not, and Tony Kahn hopes not because
he's one third of your World Heavyweight Title Magic Revolution. He's the guy that
I have. You know, we talked about this last week. He's the
guy that I have taking the loss in that match. And so all of
a sudden, if Hangman is seriously hurt and unable to wrestle at the pay
per view, that leaves you with Samoa Joe and Swerve one on one,
and I'm not so sure that Tony Kahan is ready just yet put the title
on Swerve. That could create some very big problems. If Hangman is hurt,
We'll talk about what happened and what Hangman was saying audibly to the cameraman
near the end of that match. But we also have some other news.
We had news that actually broke before tonight's episode of Dynamite. Now, some
of you may have seen the news last week that Jennifer Pepperman. She has
worked as a senior writer and producer for a number of years, going back
to twenty seventeen in WWE. Last week, Adam Pierce actually put a tweet
out putting her over and thanking her for her time. It was pretty clear
that she had left or she was leaving, and had some supporters, you
know, wishing her well on her way out. So she was with WWE
for a number of years and primarily was involved, I guess with the SmackDown
Women's division at least more recently. But it was said to be her decision.
This was not a situation where she was let go. She was fired
for some reason. She made a choice that she wanted to leave WWE,
and now we know why. Aw issued a press release earlier this evening announcing
that Jennifer Pepperman has joined the company as its new Vice president of Content Development.
She will be working alongside Tony Kahn on development of content for Dynamite,
Rampage and Collision. She's won multiple Emmy Awards. She comes from the soap
opera world, so she's written for soap operas in the past before her time
in wrestling. Now, Meltzer last week mentioned that she's very close with Mercedes
Manet, and of course it just so happens that Mercedes is very likely I'm
going to be making her aw debut in Boston next month at their big,
big Business show, Big Business at set of Dynamite that's coming up on March
thirteenth, And so all of a sudden, it seems to make a lot
of sense. Not only does this woman in Mercedes, is she getting the
big debut treatment from Tony Khan, but now she's bringing a friend along that
I'm sure she's going to be working very closely with if that's the case behind
the scenes in aaw so, she's getting the star treatment here from Tony Khan
as well she should. But it's not just a good move for Mercedes.
It's a good move for Tony Khan to get somebody in there who has experience
in wrestling, working with the women you know, and working with the women's
division somewhere else, and I think if that's what she's going to be doing,
And it didn't say anything in the press release about her working specifically with
the Ladies only, but I do think getting somebody like that behind the scenes
to help him can only be a plus for Tony Kana, whether it's her
or whether it's somebody else, whether it's a male, whether it's a female,
him bringing in more help when it comes to the content the creative to
help out, because we are we've heard the stories about Tony Kahn, right,
he's responsible for this. He's doing Ring of Honor stuff, he's got
three different aw shows, and he's got Fulham and he's got a statistics company.
He's got all these things going on, all these irons in the fire,
and a lot of people have been talking about the aw creative direction for
a while now and how it's very Jekyll and Hyde, you know, as
far as the creative direction of this company, And so I think him bringing
in help like that can only be a positive thing. And I can't speak
to this woman specifically because I don't know what story she was working on in
her time with WWE, you know, I don't know what credit she gets
for certain stories in that company, you can. I mean, you have
writers in that company who may have come up with stories that suck, and
you have people that may have come up with stories that were fantastic, and
they'll never get any credit for those because their name isn't attached to it.
It's not like an artist who can sign his or her name in the corner
of the painting. It doesn't work that way. So I can't speak to
her specifically, but I do think this is the sort of move that's going
to be a big positive for AW Now. It is worth mentioning the fact
that Pepperman was also one of the many defendants named in a racial discrimination lawsuit
filed by another former WWE rider, who I talked about previously on the podcast,
Britney Abraham's last April. So it's less than a year ago that she
brought that lawsuit against the company. Eventually, the lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice,
which means it cannot be refiled at a later date. A lot of
people took that to mean that she must have settled, and when her lawyer
was reached for comment at the time, the only thing that her lawyer would
say is that they resolve things in an amicable way. So that says to
me settlement anyway. That's just a little side note there that she was one
of many people, including Vince and Stephanie and other writers who were named in
that lawsuit. But I'll bet that's what Vince McMahon is hoping for when it
comes to the Janelle Grand suit, hoping for some settlement to make that go
away. The only thing is when you got the Feds poking around settlement or
no settlement, that ain't gonna go away so fast. This is your aw
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here we go, let's get into the review here. We kicked things
off with the Blackpool Combat Club, John Moxley and Claudio Castignoli coming out for
a match against FTR, and what a way to kick off the show here
tonight. This was the best match on the entire show, and they kicked
off with it. Tonight. Harwood had a bunch of athletic tape on his
right shoulder. I feel like both members of FTR are just kind of constantly
in a state of injury, all kinds of tape all over their body.
Moxley hit a suicide dive that was meant for cash Wheeler. Harwood, though,
shoved his partner out of the way and he took the bullet instead.
Back inside. FTR isolated Moxley and there were some audible booze from the crowd,
and I think Taz even admonished the Crop on commentary for booing these two
men. So Moxley came back with a big clothes line. He tagged out.
Claudio worked over Harwood. He was setting up for the giant swing.
Wheeler ran in. Claudio ended up picking up both members of FTR in a
show of strength and he dumped them both on their back. They ended up
outside BCC did with Harwood and they connected on a spike pile driver to Dacks
on the floor and that took us into the commercial break. Wheeler put Moxley
down after the break with a brain buster. Justin Roberts announces that fifteen minutes
have gone by in this match. Didn't feel like it. Fifteen minutes have
gone by. We now have five minutes remaining. FTR set up for their
sup plex and splash combo, the powerplex combo, Shout Out, Power and
glory. Castignoli, though broke it up. Would ended up sending Claudio into
the corner which crouched Moxley, and then he superplexed Moxley. Wheeler hit a
top rope splash, but Moxley got the knees up. Claudio got a giant
swing on Dax, who ate a kick from Moxley in mid swing and he
covered Dax for another near fall. Moxley put Harwood in a chokehold and Wheeler
entered the ring to try to stop it. Claudio, though, put him
in a chokehold and Wheeler powered up. Claudio sent him crashing into Moxley to
break the hold. Harwood put Moxley in a sharpshooter. Claudio kicked Harwood once,
nothing, He kicked Harwood a second time, nothing. Harwood would not
release the hole, so Claudio puts cash Wheeler in a sharpshooter and he's facing
Harwood. They're staring at each other. Those two end up exchanging slaps.
They let go of their respective holes. Harwood put Claudio down with a pile
driver. Moxley then flipped off Dax. He hit the ropes and as he's
coming off, FTR is about to hit him with the shatter machine. But
before Dax could get Moxley up for the move, the bell rings, so
he picks Moxley up, but like in mid move, he just stops.
Instead of following through on the movie, he just stops. He has no
idea what's going on, but we get the announcement that the match has ended
in a time limit draw, and of course the crowd booze because that's not
the finish. They wanted to see crowd chanted for five more minutes, but
fuck you, you don't get five more minutes. That's not how this works.
Both teams started brawling. Wrestlers ran out, producers ran out, security
ran out, try to separate them, and they did for a little while,
but then they got loose outside the ring and just a peer six brawl
broke out. And the crowd here in Oklahoma was for it. They were
cheering this. They love this. So this was an awesome match. A
wild postmatch brawl we see, you know, pull apart brawl all the time,
but this was well done. Crowd was super into it. This was
basically a tornado match because I kind of lost track at different points of who
the legal man was, and they didn't seem to care either, which is
not exactly a rare problem, it's actually quite common in aaw So even though
it wasn't technically a tornado match, that's basically what this ended up being.
Now. I didn't even realize that they were that close to the time limit
until Justin Roberts made that time call. And look, it's a good reason
to give these two teams, you know, an explanation for why they would
have a rematched revolution, which clearly they're setting up a rematched revolution. We'll
get to that in a second. So it's a good reason to give us
a rematch, but it shouldn't make a habit out of this. We just
had a thirty minute time limit draw two weeks ago with Hangman and Swerve right,
that was a great match. This was also a great match, and
so I don't mind them doing it here. But I also don't want to
see them make a habit out of doing the time limit draw thing two offen,
because then you've run it into the ground. So hopefully that that doesn't
become a common occurrence here. But you know, a well placed time limit
draw every now and then is fine. One thing that AW does the WWE
does not do that I like is they have normalized the time announcements, so
you know, sometimes it may feel a little disruptive, but you have Justin
Roberts usually at the fifteen minute mark announcing fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, if
it's a longer match, twenty five minutes, and so they remind you that
the time limit is a normal thing in WWE. When we get the occasional
time limit draws, it's just patently obvious what they're doing because they don't draw
any attention to it, because it's just not something that they have that they've
done over the years. Only when you know it's going to a draw will
they draw attention to Oh, wait, we only have so much time left
in the match, right, I mean, so I like the fact that
they normalize it, and so when it does happen and again it should be
a rare occurrence, but it just feels like a normal part of the show
and it's not like, you know, they're trying to insult your intelligence,
like, oh, we're doing a draw tonight, really because you never mentioned
the time limit before. So I like that now. Renee was in a
hallway backstage with Orange Cassidy. Doc Samson was standing by. We were gonna
need the good Doctor many times here on this show tonight. So Renee started
to run through a laundry list of Orange Cassidy's very hectic schedule that he has
been keeping over the last several weeks, including a trip to the UK because
he just went to the UK with Darby and Tony Khan to promote All In
at Wembley, and there was a couple of photos online of Cassidy and Darby.
I guess they were the guests of Tony Khan. Was it a Fullham
game? Might have been a Fullham game. I don't know. I don't
know if it's in season. They went to a game and they did.
They look completely unenthusiastic to be there. But while they were there, they
stopped at a RevPro show and Orange Cassidy also, I think it was a
title defense, defended his international title in a seven way match at the RevPro
show. Tony Kahan was there too. He was up in the VIP box
and he was, you know, geeking out at different points and getting into
it because he's a fan. So she's running down all these different things.
By the way, they'll probably count that Rev Pro match in the rankings,
I'm sure the doctor said the Cassidy h he meets their requirements, the minimum
requirement, the minimum requirement to be cleared medically. But he does meet the
bar so he can wrestle tonight. And I gotta I gotta give a shout
out to Bliss fan here because I noticed Bliss fan made the comment in the
chat that these aw doctors, if they could, would clear Triple H to
have a match. I'm pretty sure that's pretty bang on. Like a Triple
H was on this show. Doc Samson would look at this guy, right,
he would draw some blood, all right, he would check for his
heartbeat, pulse up, sounds good, blood pressure looks good. All right,
you can get in there. You're cleared. It wouldn't take that much.
I wouldn't think to get that guy in the ring. He's good to
go. Put that man in the ring. Alex Marvez was backstage with FTR,
and FTR said that they came here to kick the Blackpool Combat Club's asses.
Dax suggested another match a Revolution. When Moxley and Claudio showed up.
Now they were being held back, they were being restrained, and that FTR
had to be restrained. And so again we had a little pole apart situation
here between the two teams, and we got no clarity. We got no
further clarity on the challenge, at least not in this segment for Revolution.
But obviously we're getting a rematch a Revolution, and I'm all for it.
Again. I thought the match tonight was great, so imagine what they can
do on the pay per view. Speaking of Orange Cassidy, he was an
Action Next title against Mike Bennett of the Undisputed Kingdom with Matt Tavan in his
corner no Adam Cole. This week, the announcers talked about how the Undisputed
Kingdom laid out Chuck Taylor, they laid out Rocky Romero, and then based
on what we saw at the end of the show last week, tren Bretta
was not cleared, so that left Cassidy flying solo tonight. He charged up
the ramp before the match even began. Bennett tried to hit him with a
belt shot. Cassidy ducked and he made a bee line towards Matt Tavan who
was behind him, and he dropped him. He blasted him with an orange
punch, so the match officially began. In the ring, Bennett quickly took
over on offense. Cassidy, though hit the stun Dog Millionaire spinning DDT Roderick
Strong hit the ring. He distracted the referee long enough for Bennett to hit
Cassidy low and he hit a pile driver for a two count. Bennett controlled
through the entire commercial break, and then he grabbed a headset from commentary like
he's the rock. He puts the headset on, he's cutting the promo and
the fans are booing him. Well, that little distraction there wasted time,
and so when he turned his attention back to the match, Cassidy caught him
with a pair of suicide dives. Bennett responded with a spinebuster on the apron
and a death valley driver on the floor back inside, Bennett took too long
to follow up, and Cassidy exploded out with a desperation orange punch. Bennett
was able to fight off the beach break. He hit a Gotch style pile
driver for a close near fall. Cassidy countered another pile driver attempt into a
beach break out of nowhere and picked up the wind. So another loss here
for the undisputedly mediocre Kingdom. Here on this show, Matt Tavin hit the
ring with Roddy. They just pounced on this guy when all of a sudden,
we hear music. I don't know who's mused this is. I have
no fucking idea, but I look up at the tron and the fans are
cheering. The fans are going nuts here. And I look up at the
tron and I see Jake Hager, and I said, my brain couldn't comprehend
the reaction that I was hearing and the name Jake Hager, And it took
me a few seconds to remember that they were in Oklahoma tonight, and that
Jake Hager is from Oklahoma. He's not from Tulsa, where they were,
but he's from Perry, I believe, Perry, Oklahoma. He's an Oklahoma
boy, hometown boy. So he got a hometown reaction on his way out.
Thankfully, no stupid bucket hat on his head, although he did come
out wearing shades and no shirt and Jim Schwartz, which is that's certainly a
look. And he ran down to the ring. He took out Matt Tavian,
he took out Mike Bennett, Roddy bailed, and the place went nuts
because again hometown hero tonight for one mat only. And he helped Orange Castidy
to his feet as they began to play this man's music. Ex Caliber on
Commentary says that Tony Khan has informed him that on Rampage this Friday, the
match is made and it's going to be Jake Hager one on one with Roderick
Strung, and not only did they make the announcement, but they had the
graphic up on screen already. They already had the little graphic up in the
corner of the screen ready to go. So are we supposed to are we
supposed to process this as the match had already been made but not announced,
And so Hagar came down to the ring to make the save and more so
to attack Roddy because Roddy is his scheduled opponent for Friday. Or are we
supposed to believe that this man here in his hometown, his home state,
came out to make the save as a surprise for Orange Cassidy And in the
span of literally twenty seconds, if that Tony Khan made the match announcement and
they got the graphic whipped up, I'm not sure which either way, it
was very silly, but that match is official now for Rampage, which of
course is being taped tonight. So Hager gets to match in his home state.
No Jim Ross on the show, even though they were in Oklahoma.
For those who don't know Jim Ross's recovering, he suffered a broken hip and
he is on the mend, so best wishes to JR. I don't know
what that means as far as his chances of, you know, being at
Revolution in a few weeks. It's not even a few weeks, like I
said, it's next weekend. I know he and Tony Shravanni were hoping to,
if not do the pay per view, they were hoping to at least
call Stings match in the main event. I don't know if he'll physically be
able to do that, which would be a shame because JR and Shravanni were
the announced team for the first thing in Rick Flair match in that building back
in nineteen eighty eight, so it would have been nice, yeah, a
little callback there to have the two of them doing it. But if he
physically can't do it, then he physically can't do it. But all the
best to JR. So Renee was back stage with Angelo Parker and she was
asking him are you ready? Are you finally ready? And I'm like ready
for what she said, are you ready to finally go on that first date
with Ruby? Soho and I had completely forgotten about this storyline, but they
have been doing that storyline for a little while, and Ruby showed out and
she was all dressed up like she was ready to go out for a night
on the town. As they went to go leave, a white escalade pulled
up behind them, and Ruby turns around and sees this, and she says,
is that for us? And he says, no, I actually called
the lift. I don't see anything wrong with that. So they walk off
to go find the lift. Meanwhile, the camera is still focused on the
escalade and they're shooting and I love this, and again I know why they
do it. I'm just again I'm picking knits here, but they do this
on every wrestling show. Cameraman walks up to the escalade and instead of just
having the cameraman stand there and shoot the shot of the door, he shoots
the feet like he's got his cue. You got to shoot the feet and
then you do the dramatic right the raise up so you can see who it
is. And the person who steps out of the car is Rick Flair.
Now, we have not seen Rick Flair on television, thank god, in
many weeks, which he doesn't have to be on television every week. When
Tony con announced that Flair was going to be a part of Sting's retirement right,
I want to hitch my wagon to use thing. I want to be
a part of this retirement tour. I was a little worried that they were
going to put Flair on TV every week, which would have gotten old like
Flair, but they haven't. They've kept him off TV for a while.
They bring him back in doses here and there. So he was by himself
and he was walking into the building when they return live. Renee caught up
with Flair inside the arena and she said, you know, Revolution is just
around the corner, and she wanted some thoughts on Sting's final match that was
coming out, and Flair was uncharacteristically solemn and subdued, and he's very serious,
and he said that he was actually very disappointed because when he signed up
for this, he thought that he would be more involved. I could,
by the way, I could totally believe that that's true. This was like
the realist Rick Flair promo I've heard in a while like that. I could
totally see Flair being upset that they're not doing more with him, like legitimately.
So he said he feels that he should be right in the middle of
everything again again workshoot right there. I'm sure he really does feel that way,
and he said that he hasn't been around the last three or four weeks,
so that's been very disappointing. So now he's just going to explore his
options. And he went knocking on someone's door and the Young Bucks opened the
door. They want to know, what are you doing here? And Flair
asked them if they had some time, and they welcomed him into their locker
room. This was actually a real to me because one of the things I've
been talking about one of the things that I was kind of afraid of that
Tony kh might do, and not that he still can't do it, but
they kind of, I think, took that away. Tonight is we get
the swerve at Revolution, where if Sting wants to lose. I really think
that Tony Khan is willing to give Sting whatever he wants. He lets Sting
pick his opponent for his final match. He wanted the Young Bucks. Sting
probably wanted Flair to be along for the ride. Kevin Nash talked this week
about Sting called him up and said, hey, I want you to come
to the show and be a part of my last match. Probably just like
in the front row or something, and Nash said that he couldn't. He
asked WWE and it was a no go. They're not actually going to let
him be there. So I think Tony Khan is going to let Sting do
whatever he wants. And if Sting says, look I gotta lose, I
got to go out on my back it's the right thing to do, then
Sting is going to go out on his back. And I'm thinking, Okay,
Flair might just turn on Sting one last time he helps the Young Bucks
win. Maybe they do a deal where Sting challenges him to a match on
the spot, they do an impromptu match right to send the fans home happy
or something. The fact that they had Flair here walk into the Young Bucks
locker room as if he might actually side with the Young Bucks, I think
takes that possibility away. It makes that a lot less likely, which is
good because I've already seen Rick Flair turn on Sting five thousand times before,
I don't really need to see it again. But now we're left to wonder
what exactly are they talking about there in that locker room. That Tony Schavani
was up next in the ring and he welcomed Daniel Garcia to the ring for
a special interview here. By the way, I just to go back to
the Nation thing for a second, Like I get that Kevin Nash, I'm
sure he's signed to a Legends deal. All these guys are signed to Legends
deal except Flair. Flair used to be apparently didn't pay enough so he wanted
out of it. But even still in a situation like this now, I
don't know ultimately who's making the final call here. It may be Nick Con.
Yeah, Triple H is the chief content officer. Triple H is not
running the company per se. I don't know who that final decision rests with,
if it's Nick Con, if it's a combination of the two of them.
But you would think as close as Triple H and Nash are, and
this being a special circumstance, if Kevin Nash, a member of the Click,
picks up the phone and calls WWE or reaches out directly to Hunter,
and I would think that if anybody, he would have reached out directly to
his buddy Paul, and they still won't let him be a part of the
show, just to even be there, not even necessarily be a part of
anything physical or not that he could do anything physical at this point. But
I mean, how ridiculous is that. Think about the amount of time relative
to his entire career the Nash actually spent in WWE. It's actually a relatively
short period of time. Came into the company in ninety three, he left
the company in early ninety six. He came back in two thousand and two.
That didn't last all that long, right, that went basically into three.
The majority of his career was spent in WCW and in TNA more than
WWE. And yet WWE is like, Nope, you can't go. We
got you under lock and key. I guess he doesn't want he doesn't want
to give up the paychecks. So there you go. Sting won't have Kevin
Nash there for his final match. I guess we won't get that Wolfpack reunion
a revolution. That's too bad. So Daniel Garcia comes down to the ring
and he said a week ago, Garcia and Adam Copeland, they fought to
decide on a number one contender for the TNT Championship, and we all saw
what happened. Shavanni mentioned that Copeland on the shelf after the concerto from Christian
he is unable to compete. However, However, at Revolution, Daniel Garcia
is getting his TNT title match one on one against Christian Cage, and he
congratulated him and the crowd chanted you deserve it. At Garcia Garcia said,
a lot of the time he feels he doesn't deserve it, so he genuinely
thanked the fans for saying that. It means a lot to him. Says
people always told him that he was going to be great, but he started
to lose that confidence a few months ago when he was at his lowest point.
But he knew that going through all of that three seconds, three seconds,
it's all that it takes. It's all he needed. And at the
end of the Continental Classic, he said, he got those three seconds and
it changed his life. Every time he got down, the fans picked him
back up. Every time he danced, they danced with him. He thanked
the fans for helping him restore that feeling. And Adam copelands, he says,
no one knows how that match between you and I would have ended before
the patriarchy ran in and interfered, but he has full confidence that he would
have made him tap out, and he said he's going to see him again,
but the next time he'll be holding the TNT title, and that brings
him to Revolution. He had a message for Christian, but before he could
get it out, Christian and the rest of the patriarchy interrupted walked out on
stage. We had Mother Wayne, We had Nick Wayne. We had Wayne
Newton and Wayne Gretzky and whatever other Wayne Wayne Hart, Right, isn't their
heart brother named Wayne. They got about sixteen of them, so I'm sure
one of them's named Wayne. They had Wayne, they had Smith, they
had Dean, they had Owen, they had Bruce, they had Brett,
whom I missing. Is at least six more of them so anyway, and
Killswitch can't forget the Dinosaur. He was out there as well. Christian said
that Copeland will never have another shot at his TNT title ever again. He
said Garcia stands there as the number one contender for his title at Revolution.
Says that Garcia has been on a hell of a run recently, racking up
wins left and right, but as much as he would love to step into
the ring with him, he really doesn't think that it should happen at Revolution,
so It's not that he doesn't think he's not worthy, he just doesn't
think he's ready. He likes his dance moves, he says. Garcia likes
his dance moves and his girations, but they're just distractions. He just wants
to entertain the fans. Christian just wants to leave the arena every night as
the most dominant TNT champion of all time. He said, he knows something
that these people don't know. That Daniel had a pretty dark childhood, didn't
you, Daniel? At that point you just knew, uh, oh,
we know where this is headed. He says, you didn't have so many
happy memories. Do you know a Jackie Garcia that lives and he gave a
specific address. Do you know a Jackie Garcia that lives in Buffalo, New
York? And can you confirm to me that Jackie was married to David Garcia?
And I understand that David Garcia is your father and your father is dead.
Now wouldn't it be a fairy tale ending at revolution for you to hold
that title above your head in memory of your father. But your father wasn't
so great now was? He says, your father was actually a piece of
crap. He was a loser, alcoholic who lost his life to the bottle,
and unlike him, I don't want to hurt you, Daniel. I
want to help you. Unlike him, I want to make sure you realize
your full potential. So revolution I don't want to be your opponent, Daniel,
he goes, I want to be your father. This man is a
menace. Garcia said, Yeah, I would have thought that by now i'd
kind of be tired of this, but I'm really not. Actually, I
fucking love Christian Cage. Every time he comes out and picks up the mic,
I sit here and pay attention to every single word the man says it.
Even though I could see the line coming from a mile away. The
one thing is it's become very predictable, and so again you would think,
like, all right, it's not gonna really hit the way that it used
to. I could see it coming, and even still when it hits,
it hits like fucking crack. I love it. I love it. Garcias
said, since you know so much about my dead father, why don't you
come down to the ring, And he said He'll put Christian in the ground
right next to him, which was a pretty pretty badass line there. Christian
sent Nick Wayne to the ring instead, and Garcia immediately took him down and
put him in a sharpshooter kill. Switch was down to the ring next,
but before he could get inside, Matt Menard hit him in the back with
a chair and made the save. He and Garcia held court in the ring.
Each one would steal chairs. They held back the patriarchy. There it
is the non ranked Daniel Garcia, nowhere to be found in the rankings,
is now the number one contender for the TNT Championship. This week's episode is
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one, which I prefer. I wasn't sure if they might turn it into
a three way like the world title match. I'm glad it's one on one,
and i don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that we're gonna
get a new TNT champion a revolution. Yeah, I'm not ready to commit
one way or the other to a prediction on who I think is ultimately gonna
win. Kind of on the fence right now, leaning towards Christian, but
Daniel Garcia can walk out of there with that TNT title of Adam Copeland was
to show up and play a role in the finish of that match. If
kill Switch and or Nick Wayne tries to get involved, and Copeland makes his
triumphant return to stop that from happening. And Daniel Garcia, who is riding
a I don't want to say a wave of momentum, like you know,
he's the biggest star in the business right now, he's not, but he's
getting more and more fan support as time goes on as a babyface, especially
coming out of the Continental Classic, you know, kind of the underdog coming
out of that tournament. He does the stupid, silly dance, but the
people have been getting a little bit more behind him. But he is one
of those young guys on the roster that Tony Khan is obviously very high and
he's very talented in the ring. They have been trying with him to have
him with the dancing stuff, you know, be a little more charismatic and
show off a little more of his personality, which he has to. I
think that's a good thing. But you know what, if you want to
get over one of your young guys, you're young quote unquote homegrown guys,
well this is the way to do it. Somebody like Christian Cage, who
I love Christian's whole stick right now and I think he's great. But if
you want to put over one of the young guys. You have one of
the vets go in there and do the honors for it, and you put
that TNT title on Daniel Garcia, because that's really what that title should be
for. It should be a championship that helped elevate people like Daniel Garcia,
who are right there in that middle of the card level, but you want
to try to elevate them to upper mid card. You want to try to
elevate them to that next level. When the TNT title started out, that's
not really what it was necessarily designed for. You had people like Cody Rhodes
and Darby Allen, and Cody in particular, because he couldn't wrestle for the
world title because he made that dumb decision that while I lost, so I
can never again challenge for the aw title, he made the TNT title his
own. You know, Cody was one of the biggest stars in the company.
He was one of the EVPs, so you couldn't really call it a
mid card title at the time. But I think that's really what that title
now is designed to try to do, or should be, is to try
to l someone like a Garcia or like a Ricky Starks or like a Powerhouse
hops to that next love. I thought that would be the case with Wardlow.
We'll get to him later. Didn't quite work out that way for Wardlow.
But they're obviously saving the Copeland Christian rematch for Double or Nothing. Who
says it has to be from the TNT title. Why do we need to
see Adam Copeland go on to become TNT champion. We already saw it.
We saw it at World ten. He won the title already. Now,
granted it was only for a few minutes, but so what, he held
his first gold since twenty eleven. It's already been done. He doesn't need
a title. What the fuck do you need to put a title on him
for? So? Yeah, I think they could easily take that title off
of Christian and still do Christian and Copeland in some kind of gimmick match at
Double or Nothing. There's nothing wrong with that. Rene was backstage with Hangman,
Page Hook and Rob Vandam ahead of their trio's main event tonight. Page
said that they wouldn't be there if RBD had beaten Swerve in their hardcore match.
A while back. RBD rambled on about something I don't know what he
was talking about. It sounded like he maybe was celebrating a little too early.
He catched my drift, but then again, he always sounds like that.
We had timeless Tony Storm in a warm up match for Revolution non title
against Sidney Winnell. Tony hit a corner splash and then a running bulldog.
She hit the running hip attack in the corner. She hit the Storm zero
pile driver. Could have ended it right there, chose not to. She
applied an ankle lock, which she is dubbed break a leg, and then
she let go and she opted instead to pull back on both arms and Winnell
gave up immediately in the Venus de Milo submission, that is, of course,
Diana Parrazzo's submission instantly gave up, so an easy win for the champion,
and that brought out her challenger, her opponent at Revolution, Deanna Parazza,
who we were also told would be an action tonight, and we got
this awesome split screen shot as Dianna made her way down to the ring.
She and Tony. As she was entering, Tony looked like she was leaving
and they cross pads and they had on screen half the screen on the Dianna
side was in color. Half the screen on the Tony side was in black
and white. That was awesome, And I have to really compliment their production
because with this Tony Storm character, some of the things that they have done
with the black and white stuff, I think has just been fantastic. So
that was a great shot. Parazzo wel one on one with the returning Madison
Rain and this was not good at all. This was not a good match.
There was a terrifying spot where Madison spiked herself. She did it to
herself, she spiked her right on top of her head. But even before
that, you can't even blame it on the injury. Even before that,
she was very sluggish, moving in slow motion. I don't know what was
going on now. Again, I mentioned it earlier. This is her first
AW match televised match in over a year. You have to go back all
the way to last February, the last time she had an AAW match.
She had a Ring of Honor match last in August. I don't know that
she's wrestled any matches since then. You know, she works as like a
coach or an agent for the women behind the scenes in the company. So
maybe you could chalk it up to Ring Russ and the fact that she just
hasn't been working a lot. I don't know, you can attribute it to
whatever you want. She did not look good here in this match Prazzo and
Rain. They did a double clothesline spot and then came the spot that I
was referring to where Deanna looked like she was going for a flat line.
That's what it looked like to me. She wasn't really doing it any differently
than any normal flat liner that you would see. And for whatever reason,
Madison tucked her head on the way down and she landed right on top of
her head. And it was not even just that she landed. She spiked
herself down into the mat right on top of her head. And just to
give you a sense of what this looked like here, that was the moment
of impact as she landed right on her head and as you could see there,
they made it the move of the night. This was their move of
the night, presented by TurboTax. Are these people for real? This was
the move of the night. A near death experience here for Madison, Rain
and Doc Samson was at Ring, so he came over. He didn't get
into the ring, but he came over immediately to ask the referee if he
was needed. And Madison must have told Paul Turner that she was okay because
she called the doctor off. I mean only went another fifteen seconds anyway.
She probably just wanted to get the finish done. There's no way that she
was okay after this. I mean, I'm hoping, you know, nothing's
broken or fractured or anything like that or can cussed. But at the very
least she obviously rang her bell. I mean, how could she not look
at this? So they went right to the finish anyway, which was Deanna
applying an ankle lot which is the break of leg submission that Tony storm uses,
and Madison tapped out. So this was bad, but hopefully she's okay.
The most important thing is that hopefully she is all right. That was
very, very scary. After the match, Tony tried and attack Dianna,
knocked her down and then Pirazzo went after Mariah May In doing so, that
allowed Tony to apply the break a leg on Pirazzo's left ankle. Referee managed
to pull Tony off and Tony started. She's laying on the mat up against
the ropes, looking at Dianna who was sitting on the mat against the ropes
on the opposite side, and we got another cool shot where they again right
down the middle, one half of the screen in color, the other half
of the screen in black and white, and Tony begins to smear lipstick all
over her face. She's doing her best Chelsea Green as Laurel van Ness and
TNA impression, smearing it all over her face, and then she rolled out
to the floor. I just I still can't believe they chose that as their
move of the night. That was certainly a choice. Holy shit, who
made that call? They replayed the Young Bucks attack from two weeks ago,
that great angle at the end of the show, after Stinging Darby won the
tag team titles, where they laid out Darby and Sting and stings offspring,
Stinger number one and Stinger number two, and then they cut to a pre
taped Darby promo and he he ends Sting. He said, have been looking
at some old photographs, and he looked, I guess over at Sting off
camera and asked for Thing's permission if it was okay if he showed the Bucks
some of these photos and Sting said it was okay. And he showed a
photo of Sting and his sons Garrett and Stephen back when and Darby said,
at that time they were the same age that your kids are now, Matt
and Nick. And it looked like a photo from the Wolfpack era because thing
was there. He had the red face paint on, so this was obviously
from probably ninety nine or something. Then Sting walked into camera frame and he
was very reserved and subdued, but he just had this intense look in his
eyes as he was staring into the camera. He said, in all his
years in wrestling, no one has ever messed with his own flesh and blood
until the young Bucks. He said, He's had lots going on in his
personal life over the last few weeks. Besides this, he said, seven
days ago or so, another family member of his father passed away. Christ
don't let Christian know. He said, he was a hero to him.
He taught him right. He makes him think a lot about his own mortality.
He used to think he was so invincible. The time catches up with
everyone, and it caught him up. It caught up to him for sure.
He said, he knows truly that he is not invincible. But one
thing he does know also is that everything he's got left in him he is
bringing to revolution and it's going to meet the Bucks face to face. He
says, they have a fight on their hands, the fight of their lives.
This is a great segment and also condolences to Sting. Obviously, that
is very shitty news and shitty timing too, because he's got his final match
coming up, and I'm sure he would have wanted his I don't know if
his mother is still alive, but he would have wanted his father, I'm
sure to if not be there to see his final match, and now he
won't be able to. But that's very sad. But he showed some great
intensity here and fire, but again in a way that's different. When I
say somebody shows fire and intensity in a promo, he thinks Samoa Joe going
out there and looking into the camera and screaming and just you know, putting
people in their place. This was different though. This was a different type
of intensity, and it's hard. It can be hard to emote in a
mask or with face paint on. I couldn't tell if he was tearing up
or crying or not. But just looking dead into the camera and as serious
as could be, delivering a stern message to the young bucks, basically saying
that, you know, in so many words, like I'm going to kill
you revolution. That's what I read from the look on this man's face.
And that's exactly what this should have been when you considered the attack two weeks
ago. He beat up Stinging Darby, but these two bozos beat up the
man's kids, So Sting should be upset. And Sting doesn't have to come
on here and scream and shout. All he needs to do is come on
here and do exactly what he did and say, look, I've been through
a lot of personal shit recently. What you did is something that nobody has
ever done to me in my entire career. And so I make this vow,
I make this promise to you that I'm coming for you and it's going
to be the fight of your life. Perfect all this needed to be.
And I am actually very much looking forward to this match. I'm a little
worried because I don't know what Sting is going to do. We've seen some
things that Sting has done in matches before. He usually makes it out not
all the time, he usually makes it out unscathed. The last time when
he jumped off that ladder and he undershot the table was ridiculous and I think
he knocked out some of his teeth. But whatever he's got planned, this
is it for him, and I truly believe that. I know we kind
of make fun of wrestling retirements sometimes like it's the end for now and then
be back. No, I trust that this is it and he realizes it.
So there's no telling what he's going to do in his final match,
but I am very much looking forward to it, and again, make no
mistake about it, that is your main event. I was wondering a few
weeks ago if they would close with that, but there's no doubt that they're
going to close with that match, and it is. It's the right main
event for that show. And frankly, it's another reason why I'm not expecting
a world title change on the show. I don't think there should be one,
but if there was going to be, how do you not close the
show with that? If you're going to change the world title, it just
doesn't make sense. So the timing for that doesn't even it doesn't even fit
after a break Tony Shavani was back in the ring. And now we go
from that great promo to another great promo. And it's almost like the tale
of two promos, because I just got done talking about Sting being very subdued,
a subdued intensity from Sting. This was not a subdued promo from wardlow
Wardlow was his guest. He came out by himself, well no other members
of the Undisputed Kingdom. He immediately got in the ring, grabbed the mic
and told Tony that he needs to get his old ass out of there if
he doesn't want to get knocked down again. He said that he was pissed,
and you could tell because he was pacing back and forth and he was
very angry about something. He said. He was pissed because two years ago
he had thousands upon thousands of people chanting his name city after city in a
manner that hasn't been heard or seen in decades. He was the next big
thing. They strapped the rocket to his back, but apparently they strapped the
rocket to his back upside down, which I actually thought that was a funny
line because that is kind of what they did. They strapped the rocket upside
down. Instead of going up, it sent him the other way. Ever
since, he's been driven into the ground and screwed over and over and over
again. You would think the one true homegrown a megastar would have been champion
a long time ago, and yet he's never received an opportunity for the heavyweight
title. And people back there need to be fired and jailed for that fact.
There might be some people in WWE who need to be fired and jailed,
although for very different reasons. But I stopped myself here and I said,
wait a minute, wit a minute, Hold on a second. It
is true that Wardlow has never gotten an aw World championship. Correct me if
i'm roy it's been a few years. Was there not after CM Punk?
I believe it was after CM punk wrecked his foot, and maybe it was
the second time he got hurt. I don't know. But there was a
situation where there was a Battle Royal and the winners or the final two,
and the Battle Royal went on to have a singles match I think to crown
a number one contender for the interim title. It was some hodgepodge like that,
And if I remember, I don't think Wardlow either was in the match.
Or maybe there was a promo where he said he didn't want to get
a shot that way, or that's not the real time or something like that.
I just remember vaguely, like, why would Wardlow at that time and
that situation not want to be part of something like that. It didn't make
any sense to me. So I was thinking to myself here, Yeah,
but you may have passed on an opportunity once before, but it is true
he has never had the chance to compete for a world title in adem.
He said. There's been a lot of met arounds here, he refused.
Okay, see I knew I wasn't crazy, he refused, That's what happened
on TV, he refuse. He turned down the tournament. So I don't
want to hear this nonsense about how I've never gotten an opportunity. You fucking
idiot. You turned down an opportunity. I remember it now. It's right.
We ranted about that at the time. How stupid it was he shot
it down. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Don't think we didn't
forget about that. I mean I kind of forgot a little bit, but
he reminded me. So thank you. He said, there's been a lot
of men around here claiming to be the best. There's kings, there's gods.
So what does that make him? Because the best in the world,
the real world heavyweight champion, I beat his ass like nobody has in his
entire career. He said, his body is still falling apart from me,
which brings me to our former champion, the guy who's better than you and
you know it. I squashed him like an insect, and I beat him
like nobody ever has in his entire career, which brings me to the most
dangerous man in the room, the King, the current aw world champion,
Samoa Joe. Can somebody remind me what happened when him and I were in
the ring? That's right, I choked his ass out and I beat him
too. Oh and by the way, he says, big shiny titles and
custom suits look a hell of a lot better on me. So again I
ask, and again I'm not going to replicate the screaming that he was them.
He was loud and angry as he was running through this promo, a
lot angrier than I sound right now. So again I ask, what does
that make me? Because it sounds like I'm the best in the world.
It sounds like I'm better than you, and you know it. It sounds
like I'm the most dangerous man in the room. I am the uncrowned aw
king and it's time that I start eating like one because I have been starving
and I am done being fed scraps. He said, look at me,
Look at me, and he pointed up to the tron, and they showed
him and he was looking and admiring himself. He's looking at himself. He
says, I'm the baddest son of a bitch to lace up a pair of
boots. There is no one that can stop me. If anybody wants to
get in my way, just know this is no longer wrestling. This is
war. Holy shit, where has that guy been? Where's that wardlow bit?
This is the guy that I've been waiting for for a while. That
was the best promo I've ever seen him cut. And I love that they
had him rightfully call attention to the shit booking that he has had to deal
with for the past two years. I like the fact that they're at least
acknowledging it, because everybody else is already acknowledging it. May you can't ignore
it. You may as well embrace it and use it as part of his
stories, part of his character arc. Why wouldn't Wardlow be pissed off and
upset about the way that he has been treated in aw over the last two
years. He has every right to feel that way, and we've seen it.
We watched when he hit the peak of his popularity. It was the
night that he powerbombed MJF ten fucking times and double or nothing, and he
beat the piss out of that guy. He went out, remember the upside
down oxygen mask. They had to carry him out right. That was the
peak for Wardlow. And at that point it's like a fork in the road,
you're gonna go left, you're gonna go right. He didn't go left,
he didn't go right. He dug a hole and he jumped inside and
he's been buried ever since that. There have been things that have happened.
I remember at one point they had their international tour and they went to Canada
last year. He couldn't go, I think because his car was broken into
at one point, and his passport was stolen, and there was an injury
at one point. So it's been a combination of bad booking and bad luck.
But the last two years for this man has been absolute dog shit,
and he was getting genuine reactions from the crowd, like big star reactions from
people who liked this guy and wanted to get behind him, and they could
have done something with him, and they did nothing with him. He had
the TNT title. I think he had it three times. I can't remember
anything memory about any of the times he had the TNT title. It's all
just a blur. The fact that Tony Kahn squandered something that he organically had
in this man is one of his greatest booking failures in the last five years
of aw Wardlow is right there at the top of the list. So he
should come out here and he should be pissed off now. He talked about
beating these men. He never beat cmpunk. Cmpunk and Wardlow never had a
match where Wardlow pinned him or beat him that he did. I think beat
up cm punk. I think it was during the feud with MJF. He
probably power bombed him. That's what he was referring to. So you know,
technically, I don't think he actually beat cmpunk, But the MJF thing
is just ridiculous. And if you think back to what happened that weekend.
Again, it was all about MJF because he no showed an appearance and then
there was a lot of talk about his contract status, and unfortunately all of
that ended up completely overshadowing Wardlow. MJF showed up on television that Wednesday like
nothing ever happened. The guy got power bomb ten times and needed oxygen and
he showed up on dynamite, not a stitch, not a bruise. He
cut that promo. He called Tony Khanna fucking Mark. Everybody was talking about
him in that promo. Nobody was talking about Wardlow, and he never recovered
from it. And I'm not putting all the blame on MJF for that,
because Tony Khan is as responsible, if not more, for not following up.
But he was never the same. I mean, you could draw a
straight line to that double or nothing pay per view in twenty twenty two,
I guess it would have been and it's just been downhill ever since. So
this is the intensity and this is the promo. I've been waiting for this
guy to cut. He came back, and what has he been doing.
He's been doing the same thing he did at the beginning of his career.
He comes out, he powerbombs guys, and he leaves. I've been waiting
for him to get on the mic and say what he said here. So
I thought this was great. And now the question, of course, is
what's next for Wardlow. That's a great promo, But how are you gonna
follow up on this? It's not like he's getting a world championship match of
Revolution. So what are they gonna do if Samoa Joe retains a revolution?
You can do Samoajoe against Wardlow, two heels against each other for the world
title, a double or nothing. I don't think so. Now instead of
Revolution, they're doing what they I think ex Caliber on commentary said is something
called meet madness, and they laughed because they had no idea what that meant.
But I assume he'll be in there with somebody like Miro or Hobbs or
some big guys. Meet madness is what we're gonna get with him at Revolution.
I don't care about meat madness so much. I care about what happens
after meat Madness. How are they gonna follow up on this promo? How
are they gonna keep this guy hot as an attraction? And as a possible
number one contender, especially if he's not getting a shot for a while.
You know what do they have lined up for him? Going fok? He
is still a heel. He is still part of the Undisputed Kingdom, even
though he was out there by himself tonight. But it goes back to what
Adam Cole said when he first cut that promo and they had their mission statement
right, he said, the Kingdom have the Ring of Honor world tag team
titles. Wardlow is gonna win the World Championship and then he's gonna hand it
to me. Remember that was the story. Wardlow goes after the world title
and when he wins it, he gives it to me. Remember Wardlow's reaction
at that time, it was like, yeah, okay, they planted that
seed. The only question is when does he go after that world time?
Now Swerve wor to win the title at Revolution, they could set up Swerve
and Wardlow for double or nothing. I just don't see that title changing hands
yet, and I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't take it off Joe.
So as long as you have a heeled Samoa Joe as the world champion,
you gotta still keep Wardlow out of the picture until you get that belt back
on a babyface. But this was great, This was long overdue. Rene
was backstage again and this time she was with the Don Callus family. You
know Skate Takeshta Powerhouse, Hobbes. Callous talked about Takeshta facing Will Osprey is
coming up at Revolution, said that they would both be part of the Callus
family when it was over. Callus said that even Tony Khan was there to
watch Osprey over the weekend at the Rev Pro show. He said everyone thought
Osprey would fly back to the United States with Tony, but the Callus family
will pick him up in the UK and bring him back for the match.
And Callus spoke about Hobbes briefly, and then he called Sammy Gavara a little
cuck and that got a rise out of everybody in the live crowd. Callus
said they had a score to settle and he would be keeping an eye on
Gavar. That led us to our main event of the night. Samoa Joe
Swerve Strickland opponents of Revolution tag team partners to and can they coexist? Teaming
up with Brian Cage the Mogul Embassy taking on Hangman, Page, Hook,
and the returning Rob Van Dam. Kind of a weird collection of people here
thrown into this match. I was waiting to see what they would do.
Hook wanted to start out with Samoa Joe, and so they did, and
Joe slammed Hook down multiple times. Hook switched to body shots and a flying
clothesline that took Joe down. Joe was able to turn the tables on him
tagged in Brian Cage, Hook was able to escape and made a tag to
RVD, and he had a little back and forth with Brian Cage. After
a series of switches, Page made the blind tag and he came face to
face with Swerve. After RVD sidestepped a flatliner attempt after a commercial break,
it was Hook being held up in a delayed vertical supplex by Brian Cage for
a two cop. Cage wanted a death Valley driver, but Hook countered enough
into a DDT, which led to a hot tag from RVD that pissed off
Hangman that he didn't get the tag. RBD ran wild hit rolling thunder on
Swerve in a five star frog splash on Brian Cage for a two count.
Joe argued with the referee Rbrey Edwards as Swerve blindsided Hangman on the apron with
a running boot. We got some quick tags from Team Joe that took us
into the second commercial break here of this match. RVD was isolated the entire
commercial break before Joe missed the charge and RBD hit a spin kick into the
double down Page and Cage. They made the double tag and Page sprinted right
at Swerve trying to get his revenge before dropping Brian Cage with a Hurrican Rana
swerve sidesteff the slingshot died. Page though hit a pump kick to counter a
rolling flatliner by Swerve. Back inside, Hangman dropped Brian Cage with a death
valley driver and Samoa Joe was there to clabber him with a running boot,
so things broke down. Everybody was hitting big moves at this point, and
there was a moment here where Hangman Page had the chance to end the match.
He had the chance to go and hit the buckshot to Brian Cage,
or he could hit the Orihara moonsalt on swerve, and he chose swerve,
so he went up top. Cage cut him off though before he could hit
the move and Hook was there. We ended up getting a tower of doom
spot with Hangman on the worst end of it. He got sup flexed over
Hook sank in red rum on Brian Cage, who made a blind tag to
Joe Hook Ate a pop up power bomb from Cage and a house call kick
from Swerve. Hangman flew in with a Buckshot lariat to Brian Cage, so
Joe, Swerve and Hangman were left alone in the ring. Swerve and Joe
took out Hangman, who rolled to the floor. Joe hit a tope.
Swerve went for a pump kick off the apron, but he missed Hangman.
He took out Joe by accident, and Hangman grabbed Swerve and he power bombed
him off the apron through the announced table and the table shattered upon impact.
Joe ducked the Buckshot back inside and he hit a snap power slam for two.
RVD took out Brian Cage with a slingshot Splash made the tag. Joe
was waiting but did not see Hook waiting and he ate an exploder. RBD
went up top for the five star frog splash. Brian Cage shoved him off
and wiped out Hook with the discus lariat, Joe sank on the the Coqina
clutch, RVD faded and passed out, so RBD eat the losing fall here.
No surprise there, but there was a spot here where Joe went for
the musclebuster to Hangman page and Hangman slipped out of it. So Joe didn't
do anything. Hangman slipped out when he landed on his feet, though it
looked like he tweaked his ankle and he stumbled forward, and that's when he
made the tag to UH. I guess it would have been RVD. So
Hangman was a non factor for the remaining minute or so of the match.
He went out to the floor. Joe's holding up the aw world title in
the ring and celebrating. Swerve is on the outside. He's smarting. He's
staring up at Joe. He doesn't look very happy. Meanwhile, I'm looking
if you look at the hard camera view, I'm looking directly ahead to see
on the other side of the ring outside if there are people around Hangman,
and there's nobody around Hangman. But the cameraman goes over to Hangman and he's
got the camera on him. So I'm waiting for them to switch the camera
shot, and they do. When they put the camera on Hangman, Hangman
is clutching his ankle and he's looking up at the cameraman, maybe not realizing
he's on TV yet, and he is waving him off, and he's waving
the guy off and he's telling him stop, stop, don't shoot me.
Don't shoot me, like like the cops of Theirs or something. That's not
good. It didn't look good when he landed on his feet and he fell
forward. It looked like he may have tweaked his ankle or he tweaked his
knee. The fact that he was waving off the cameraman, don't shoot me.
He's clutching the ankle. I'm hoping that he just maybe rolled it sprained
it. And look, you could have a really bad sprain too. I
don't want to minimize an ankle sprain, because there is some serious ankle sprains
that take a long time to recover. From my point is hopefully is nothing
serious, because the timing could not be any worse. If Hangman is hurt,
hurt enough that he can't work. You know, he is one third
of your world title match on the pay per view, which is less than
two weeks away, so the timing would not be great. It is a
three way match, so if Hangman were to go down, he could turn
into a singles match with Joan Swerved. But again, the dynamic here is
such that I was not expecting anybody except Hangman to take the losing fall on
that match, and so if you take him out of the equation, and
it really wouldn't make sense to put anybody in his place. It's a world
title match, You're not just gonna put somebody in there. It presents an
interesting conundrum for Tony Kahn because I would not be beating Swerve, but I
also don't think it's the right time yet to put the title on Swerve.
So it really spruce things up. If I'm right and Hangman is in there
to take the losing fall, it really potentially messes things up here. But
that did not look good. Hangman, interestingly was still playing babyface for much
of the match, and the crowd was mostly cheering for him. They were
not booing him, although that one spot where he elected to try to hit
the moon Salt on Swerve instead of getting the wind again, it just illustrates
how obsessed he is with getting revenge on this man. So if he is
going to go full heel, and maybe he won't, but if he is,
I don't expect that transformation to happen until revolution, and that's assuming he'll
even be a revolution. But I will say, you know, I was
waiting to see what they would do here in this match because the match when
they announced that last week just felt thrown together. And now having watched the
match, I don't really see what the point of this was other than just
to put these guys in some kind of match just to get them on TV.
It didn't do anything to further my excitement for that match. You know,
I was already looking forward to it. I think, you know,
it's going to be a very good match. But I can't say that what
they did here did anything for me. Didn't really serve much of a purpose
as far as furthering that story much. It was kind of more of the
same. We know Hangman is obsessed with Swerve. I didn't need them to
do what they did here to tell me that. So it was a fine
main event though otherwise, RVD Hook, Brian Cage, they were just background
players in the overall story. And that's how dynam I went off the air.
It was it was a very up and down show. I thought it
was a decent show. Again, it was very promo heavy, but the
promo stuff on the show was very good. It was very good, especially
the Sting stuff and the Wardlow stuff, more so than the Daniel Garcia one.
But I thought that that stuff was the highlight of the show. The
best match was the opening match with FTR and the BCC. So it was
good. It was good, but it was also one thing I didn't like
about it. And they've done a good job of slowing things down a little
bit on most weeks because this show, I mean, it just had this
reputation for going one hundred miles an hour, and they don't give you a
chance to just stop and really process what you just saw. You know,
I'm looking at my notes as I'm going along here and I'm like, wait
a minute, I'm like two segments behind, like what they're moving on to
the next one already. You know, you go to Renee sixteen times in
the back and then you come back and boom, boom boom, and they
just don't give things a chance to breathe. And they had been doing a
better job of that recently, and tonight it was right back to that just
frenetic pace that I don't like. I just wish they would slow down and
maybe not try to fit so much stuff into the show. And I didn't
even mention everything. I mean, there was a segment that was very quick,
like a quick hit in the back with the Bang Bang Scissor Gang to
set up something for Rampage who gives a shit? So there were a couple
of things I left out that just weren't really worth mentioning here. But yeah,
just noticeable how much they try to really squeeze in and they just go
boom, boom boom from one to the other. Here. Well, let's
check out the poll now, if you didn't see the RAAR review I did
on Monday night, I'm doing the polls a little bit differently, at least
for the weekly shows. I might do thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs
in the middle for the pay per views, but I'm doing a star rating
system now. I only have four options on Twitter, so I can't go
five stars. It's four stars, three stars, two stars, one star.
I did that for Raw and Rostell did a pretty good score. Let's
see how Dynamite, did tonight not nearly good? Wow? Twenty eight percent
of you gave tonight's show for so well, this was not a four star
show. I agree with the thirty five percent that gave it three stars.
I think that's fair. Seventeen point eight percent two stars and eighteen point eight
percent one star. That is with over one thousand votes in so far at
Sola Monster. Let me know how many stars do you give? Give Dynamite
all the stars or no stars? You let me know. We're gonna go
this so we're gonna do our own little star ratings from now on, change
things up. It was something that someone suggested and I thought that was an
interesting idea, so that is what we are going to do. It was
a very story driven episode to that, but not everything hit the way that
they probably hoped that it would. Right here with orhon and by the way,
the the gold tonight was four hundred likes. Do hit that thumbs up
if you have not done so, we are currently sitting at three sixty ish,
so we got a waste to go there. Orhan says, uh,
buy or sell eight to ten, eight to ten, it's my dumbass,
my mistake, buy or sell eight to ten Orton or Tribal Chief Roman Reigns.
I mean, I look, I love the the Orton characters stuff that
he was doing in nine, not so much the WrestleMania match that he had
with Triple eight. I don't know. It's tough because Orton was full time
at that time and we don't get to see Roman very much. I was
enjoying Roman's stuff more than I am now until it just started to get a
little long in the tooth. But I know they're both great. You know,
they're both great characters. I think if I had to choose, though,
between the two of them, I would go at Roman, but Randy
was doing some pretty good work during that period. I'd go at Roman Reigns
myself. Noel Mulligan says, all right, boy, Solomonster. That's quirk
slang for hello Hello. What was your first wrestling event? Mine was Dublin
nineteen ninety five, the best year. My first wrestling event was Madison Square
Garden the day after Christmas nineteen eighty seven. That was my first live event.
Bender mc simpson. On Monday, someone asked who swings a chair harder
than the rock balls Mahoney in ECW swung the hardest chair shots I have ever
seen. Well, you were probably watching more balls at the time that I
was, so I probably didn't see a lot of Balls's. I probably didn't
see a lot of Mahoney's work from that period. I've seen obviously some of
his stuff, but I wasn't like a huge ECW guy, So you're probably
right, But I still say the rock is somewhat The rock was an absolute
menace with that chair. Barry says aw was about to put out four new
songs based off eras of Sting will be on YouTube an hour after I send
this super chat. Well, then by now they should probably be up right,
that was fifty seven minutes ago, so it should be going up four
new songs based on the eras of Sting. I mean, they don't have
the rights to the best song of all, So I mean, if you're
not going to have man called Sting, what are we even doing here?
He does this, he does that. I mean, the lyrics are just
legendary. The real CS says, in my opinion, these constant time limit
draws, which starting to get far more annoying than the cheap DQ finishes.
It's getting repetitive. Well, we've only had two of them recently, but
my point still stands. I agree in that you don't want to overdo it.
So if we get another one in the next few weeks, I'll start
worrying at that point because then they're just going to run it into the ground.
I don't mind it yet, but you can have too much of a
good thing. Barry just saw from Wrestle ops on Twitter that a taped episode
of Collision will go head to head with Night one of Wrestle Maybe good luck
with that. Good luck? Well, look, I mean, they don't
make those decisions. It's a network thing, so you know it's probably out
of their hands, but obviously they're gonna have their work out for them that
night. Food Hive with the nineteen ninety nine good to Hear from food Hie
Long Time. The restaurant I am a chef at was visited by TikTok food
critic Keith Lee when he visited Dallas, and I'm in the video. I'm
the one with a beard and a hat, spoken like a true wrestling thing.
Brunch of Halics is the restaurant. We've been busy as fuck. Thank
god. Well that's awesome. Congratulations Is the video up? I assume the
video must be up. Now send me a link. Send me a link,
and I'll look for the guy in the beard and the hat. I
want to see this brunch of halicks. That's very cool. Libido Bell has
been fined by Brian Danielson. Actually no, that's hbk C eighty three was
fined by Brian Danigelson. This super chat is sponsored by the energy drink Solo
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Banana. Oh, blissban definitely banana. You got that one right, hey,
Libido Bell, Thank you, Mancy. Those flavors, those flavors would
sell. I think we may be onto something. I think we may be
onto something here. You got Lady Fire Panda Lemon, right, we can
come up with some other ones or han. Why did Triple H beat CM
punk in twenty eleven, who then lost two more paper beats? What are
you asking me for? I didn't book that shit. I talked about it,
I ranted about it at the time. There's still no good reason for
it. There's still no good reason for it. Chris Manson with the ten
dollars super Chat says, honestly, what do you do with Warden? Swerve
has to be the next champion, then after Swerve maybe Osprey, so possibly
Wardlow can take it from Osprey. But that seems like early next year at
best. Now, I mean you could have if Swerve gets it next maybe
Wardlow beats him for it, and then Osprey could beat Wardlow. What you
don't have to put the belt on Osprey so soon. There's no need to
rush the belt onto him. Like Tony Kahan. He got his guy,
and I'm sure he's got him locked in for a few years. Like Ospray
will get the belt at some point, but you don't have to rush it
onto him. Hbk C eighty three is Christian undoubtedly the greatest TNT champion of
all time. He is in my book. He is in my book Wapatappa.
I should damn, I should have listened to you, so I should
always listen to me. I'm looking out for you, guys. I don't
steer you guys in the wrong direction. You should always look out for good
advice that I'm trying to give you, good life advice. Should always listen
to me, I have your best interest in mine, Isaac. Have you
seen open AI's text video model Sora. Everything that you just said to me
in that super chat is a foreign language. I have no idea what you're
talking. So the answer is no, I have not. And Marios rumileotis
dropping ninety nine cents. Marios, thank you very much. I think that
might have been his. Was that his first one? That was third?
His third super chat ever? Thank you, Marios, much appreciated. Let's
see where we are on the goal right now. We are at four three.
Boy, just getting in there at the last second, aren't you,
guys? Huh, just getting in there at the last second. I see
you, guys. All right, let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen.
It is now time to be the booker. Hey, Dara, I
think Dara's right. I think that super chat may have been written by Ai.
You never know these days, You just never know these days. All
right, be the booker. Time. Let's do it. Let's kick things
off tag team style. That's the way we do things around here. This
is it, this is how we do it. And we are going to
begin here with the former former tag team champions undisputed tag team champions Cody Rhodes
and his oose j So. Main event jay Usso. Here we go.
I like the way we're kicking this off. Cody Rhodes and jay Usso gonna
be taken on Damian Priest and Finn Balor of the judgment day. I feel
like that's wasn't that the match? Isn't that the match that we saw?
Or I guess the judgment they beat them to get the belts be the booker
is very in tune with w W booking to give us Cody and j Usso
against Finn Valor and Damian Priest. It's a very appropriate match. All right,
women's beat the booker. Time. Let's see here. We begin with
Trish Stratus WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus, the lovely Trish Stratus, Lovely
as always, always good to see Trish. Trish Stratta is gonna go one
on one with Bailey Bailey challenging for the WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania. That
never happened, did it? We never did get Trish against Bailey. I
don't believe we did. I don't think so. I think we only got
it. Maybe in tag team for him, but never in a singles form.
Okay, so what is that? That's two for two? Right?
We had a clean sweep on Monday, didn't We didn't we? I'm keeping
my mouth shut. I'm not saying anything. That's it. That's all I'm
gonna say. I'm not saying a word. Let's see, let's see how
we do. Men's be the Booker. We begin with the man called Sting,
one of the many eras of Sting. This is the era of Sting
that I grew up on, Surfer Sting, Surfer Sting with that hair and
that face paint. Look at the who's interviewing him. Look who's there in
the corner, Tony Schavann, Your little baby face, Tony Shavanni. He
doesn't look a day over twenty two. Very appropriate that we talked about Sting
on this show tonight, and Sting is in Be the Booker, and now
we find out his real retirement match. Who is going to be his final
opponent? Sting one on one with the man they call Vader, Yes,
sing Invader. One of my favorite all time feuds from WCW, The White
Castle of Fear, Strap Match, The King of Cable tournament final. These
two men had three fantastic matches in WCW nineteen ninety two Sting Invader, and
that means tonight we got ourselves the clean sweet Sting Invader. I mean,
what a fucking match, what a main event. You can't get any better
than that. As far as like a Sting opponent, Vader's got to be
his best opponent ever. Those two those matches that they had. By the
way, if you are a newer fan, or if you weren't watching WCW
at that time, if you got a peacock subscription, just do yourself a
favor, go look those matches up. Those matches were fantastic. They had
some bangers, said the Juliet Yes they were, Yes, they were agreed.
Vader has been on fire, has been fire, and be the booker.
That's right, we did. What was the other match that we did?
Vader was in the main event on Monday? He was who was it
against? I forgot, I ever forgot who it was against? Was it
Brock? Because Vader and Brock is like it. That's that's like that would
have been the dream match right there. But who did Vader land on for
an opponent on Monday. Remind me somebody you uh you do that? While
I look up some of these other super chats here Bender mc simpson, it
was Brock. Okay, so it was Brock. Yeah, Oh my god,
Brock Invader's thing. Invader. We need one more opponent now for Vader
on Friday. Vader against who on Friday? Who should it be? Try
to think of who else's who else is in there? Maybe Bobby Lashley,
Maybe, I don't know who would be like to see Vader against and be
the booker on Friday. Well, if we if we go three for three
on Friday, that's our first full, full week clean sweep, which we've
never done before. We came very close last week and then I screwed it
all up. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything else because I end
up jinxing these things. Bender says, what do you think of having Okata
and Mercedes come in as a power couple? Mercedes can do most of the
talking, and they have money themes a power couple. H I don't think
that's necessary. I don't know that we we need them as a power couple
romantically or otherwise. I don't I don't think we need to do that.
I don't think it's necessary. Zachariah sitchen Osha Jackson Junior's comments about AEW is
valid. And also I knew Tony Khan would flip out and call him out
with a tweet. For all that is good and decent, someone take away
Tony Kahan's phone. He did make some good points and I will talk more
about that probably on Sunday, as I will what the Juliette mentioned here in
his super chat. Have I seen seen his comments on Howard sterned by Vince
McMahon. Yes, you can go on my Twitter to find out what I
thought about that, but I will be talking about that more extensively on Sunday.
It's not something it's not appropriate for me to get into it on the
Dynamite stream, but I did post something on Twitter earlier today, so you
can go and check it out there. Friday night, here's the way things
are going to go down. Friday night is a taped SmackDown, but I
am planning on going live when it's over, so that'll be Friday night.
The plan for Elimination Chamber on Saturday. It's a five am Eastern start for
the pay per view I'm planning on going live around noon. It'll be some
time between twelve and one during lunchtime in the afternoon, so that'll give people
some time to watch the show wake up. I think that's a better time
to do it, so that is when I will be live. It'll be
a rare early afternoon scream on Saturday. Episode eight hundred and fifty of these
things it's dropping on Sunday, and then of course live again for the raw
review on Monday night, so you guys have a lot of content Thursday tomorrow
really is my only day off between now and Monday, so you got plenty
of solemn, moster content coming your way. Thank you for hanging out with
me here for the Dynamite stream. I appreciate it. We'll come back and
do it again next Wednesday. Until then, be well, stay safe.
I'm gonna go get some sleep and I will see you back here for the
SmackDown stream on Friday night, an elimination chamber on Saturday. Until then,
take care, guys,