It's Tuesday night. You know what that means. It's time for ignition with
AW fan hub. I'm Kelson and I'm here with Alex. I don't know
how to even I don't even know how to begin because it's so preposterous.
Yeah, it's stupid, you know, it's it's aggravating. Look, I'm
of course talking about the body shaming and even the body worshiping of the wrestlers,
not only in AAW but everywhere. I mean, it's it doesn't even
have to do with wrestling, it could be anything. But Deanna Barrazzo made
her your debut on Collision against Red Velvet, and look, I'm not going
to sugarcoat it was just a shit storm. Would you agree with this?
I mean, I don't know how to begin. Yeah, I think I
guess what happened on Instagram was just so many negative comments about Deanna Prott those
body or weight and I didn't even see them. I just read about after
the fact that AW had to actually shut down their Instagram comments and even Deanna
Parozzo had to respond to it. Yeah, and I think it's just awful,
and it's she didn't have to respond to it, and I respect her
for doing it, because it was so stupid you shouldn't even give it the
time of day. Yeah, And I thought her response was very you know,
it was almost like humorous, like taken very well, taken in stride,
and she looked really good, I thought her response to it. And
it's unfortunate that she even has to respond. Frankly, Yeah, I mean
look ed. We're kind of narrowly down to Deanna Parozzo here, and I
really don't want to do that because, let's face it, it's not even
a men or a women thing. It's it's ghost to the men too,
because they get just as much flack. Look, you know, I'm just
so dumbfounded by this. I don't know where to begin, So I'm just
gonna lay it out there. You watch wrestling. I watch wrestling personally.
I watch wrestling for what wrestling. I enjoy the stories, of course,
and I enjoy the wrestling. If a wrestler could wrestle, I really don't
care if they have a pretty or handsome face. I don't care if they
have an eight pack, six pack or whatever. If they can wrestle,
they can wrestle. I don't understand this. And then you have these people
to come onto the internet and look, they should just make Hey, if
you're gonna say something about body shaming or body worshiping this because when I'm talking
about body worshiping, they people will say, oh, I would love to
get that in this. You know what I mean. I mean, like
you stand a shot in the world of doing that. People should be required
to post their pictures or the naked body when you make comments like that,
you see, you know what I mean. It's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah,
And it's almost surprising from wrestling fans because wrestling fans aren't generally I think
the popular kids in high school, like you think they'd have a little bit
more common sense and be able to look at themselves in the mirror and be
like, why am I holding other people up to these unrealistic standards? Yeah,
I mean I made this. Look. We had an interview. It's
on the aw fan hub subreddit right now. It was a post that I
made with an interview that somebody did with Eddie Kingston, and I apologize for
not remembering who. But he deleted his Twitter account not recently but fairly recently,
like within the last year, and they interviewed him. They asked him
why deleted his account, and he was specifically talked about the things that were
being said about ReHO. God, yeah, you know. Now, look,
let me lay this out to you, and I'm gonna use myself as
this example. Okay, is Riho smaller than I am? Yes? Okay,
she's small. She's small, Okay, And she's a lot smaller than
I am. That being said, she is a better wrestler than I would
ever be. If you're coming down and you're putting your opinion on Riho saying
she can't wrestle because she's too small and she weighs under one hundred pounds,
get your ass in the ring against Riho and see what happens. She'll run
circles around, You'll be exhausted at about thirty seconds, and then she'll kick
you in the freaking face and it's done. Yeah. Yeah. And And
I think taking that example of people saying someone's too small, like you look
at Hook and Hooks wrestling Samoa Joe and Hook's a smaller guy. But if
he can pick up Samoa Joe and suplex him, then what does his size
matter at all? Like it doesn't. And if someone's you know, a
bigger person and they can last a whole match. They have the agility,
like they have the ability. It doesn't matter what someone looks like or it
just matters what they can do in the ring. And I think we all
need to and I'm guilty of it too. I think I've been a little
bit overly critical in my head sometimes about Brian Keith just because he's a little
bit on the shorter side, And I need to even remind myself, like
that doesn't matter if he can do the things he does in the ring.
Like we need to stop judging people based on how they look. There are
different types of wrestlers. You'll agree with this on you know, you've got
technical wrestlers, You've got lucha libre wrestlers. You've got the heavyweights. You've
got the guys that look like they don't leave the gym but only to sleep.
Yeah, you know Brian Cage, Tony Nice. Yeah, I'd even
put Ethan Page in that They're all going to have different styles of wrestling.
You look at somebody like Keith Lee and you just looking at him without seeing
him wrestle at all, just looking at him, there is no way you
would I believe most people won't believe what that man is able to do in
the ring, you know, But it's as simple as that. But let's
say that Keith Lee couldn't do what he does in the ring, and I
mean talking about jumping over the top rope and all that crazy stuff that he
does. He's still a wrestler that could squad pretty much anybody their wrestling ring
that makes these comments on social media. It's preposterous. These people are spewing
off at the mouth and they have no wrestling knowledge other than oh, I've
been watching it on TV since you know, I was twelve years old.
A big deal. You have no training. M It's now. Sure there
are people that probably do have boxing training or whatever, but guess what,
your opinion still doesn't matter because it's it's far fetched. You look on behalf
of the internet wrestling community that has two working brain cells. Anyone that has
more than two working brain cells will know that what everybody said about Diana Parazzo
was totally wrong and preposterous. And I hope that you agree with that.
I know you do, yeah, yeah, absolutely, And it's just sad
and I feel bad for the wrestlers that have to put themselves out there on
Instagram to try to, you know, build a fan base, but then
also at the same time they're subjecting themselves to just stupid cowards who just stay
under the guise of anonymity like whatever they think that they can get away with.
Uh. Yeah, it's it's sad. It's just sad. If you've
ever seen the movie Idiocracy, this is what it reminds me of this kind
of talk. It's just yeah, look, I don't want to talk about
this anymore because I'm just gonna get more and more pissed off. You don't
want my med Italian to come out. Mm hmm. You know, it's
just one of those like so I'm gonna take some deep breasts and Alex,
what do you want to talk about? Yeah, I guess maybe we can
just go through some highlights from the weekend of wrestling from I thought they put
on a great show on Saturday with Collision and Battle of the Belts. Sometimes
you don't know what to expect going in, but I thought especially Battle of
the Belts really kind of surprised me. But yeah, I just thought it
was a great night of wrestling. I think the first thing that I want
to talk about was the cope open. I don't know if you have any
thoughts about the cope open. I really don't. I don't like it,
you know, I really I don't like it because you're wasting cope. I
think to me, it's I imagine that it was probably Adam Copeland's idea,
and I think it's like a way to get him working with some younger guys
that otherwise he's probably not going to have a chance to wrestle with. You
know, first week we saw Griff Garrison kind of come out of nowhere,
and I thought giving him a little mic time and a match, and I
thought he looked good and I thought that was fun. Here here's my problem
with it. So Adam Copland thought had a match against Lee Moriarty. Yeah,
is that right? Yeah? Shaneler Promotions, Shane Taylor Promotions. It
was the opening match of the night, was it not? Wasn't? I
think it was the very I think it started things off. Yeah, I
think you're right. I you know, having Adam Copeland come out that was
good. But I just can't see people sticking around on TV with everything else
was going on to see Lee Moriarty at Adam Copeland. I'm sorry when when
you're trying to build something your first match, you can't put a squash match
in your first match. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I
see what you're saying, and I think I even had the same thought.
Especially Yeah Lee Moriarity, he hasn't been very successful in aw It's same with
Shane Taylor and having them both out there, it's great that they get the
opportunity to try to do something. But leading leading with that, I see
why you'd have a problem with that. I want to go back to what
you originally started this discussion off with. Was I got the impression and correct
me if I'm wrong, please that you thought Battle the Belts was a better
show than Collision. Yeah. Like I would say the last thirty minutes of
Collision was probably the highlight of the night for me, because I love FTR
and I love the House of Black, and when I realized that they were
coming out with like thirty minutes left and that they were going to get like
time to put on an awesome match, and I thought they completely delivered.
But other than that, I thought up to that point it was kind of
like a mediocre show for me. I mean, there was a couple,
so, I mean it was nice with the ottoparazzo and red velvet. You
know. Yeah, it was a cool match. It was a cool It
was a cool match. But yeah, the House of Black and FTR just
tore the place apart. That was That was the best part. Yeah,
of collision, and then we went right at the Battle of the Belts with
that street fight that actually took place in the street for like pent of it.
I was like, you know, I thought that match was just over
the top five. Yeah, like any other night, that would have been
the best match. But I love FTR and getting them did wrestle for thirty
minutes is awesome. But yeah, that street fight was was wild. That
that spot with uh them wrecking Ret Titus's car, well yeah, they're really
doing the whole windshield stick for bleeding it for all the money it's worth,
aren't they? Yeah? Yeah for sure. Yeah, no, don't park
your cars near an aw arena for sure. How about that bump that Semi
Gafara took. Oh my god, geez, I'm like, you go on
Twitter and you go on Instagram. You know, whether you like Semmi Guevar
or not. You could tell that people are like, hey, do you
do know that you just haven't had had a kid. Why are you trying
to kill yourself? You know, you know, it's just like people are
like really worried for Semi. Gafar's like he said he was gonna take be
more careful. Yeah, well you threw that out the window in his second
match back right. Yeah, And like you know, they say to save
your big bumps for big moments, and this is not, by any means
a big show. It's not a pay per view, it's not even a
Dynamite. It's the hour after collision on Battle of the Best. And he's
like, yeah, wow, he's a wild man. Yeah. Well,
you know I will say this is that the FDR and House a black match,
and the Texas not the Texas. Everything seems like it's Texas at aw.
The street fight wasn't a Texas street fight. It was just a street
fight. Those did seem like pay per view matches to me. Those are
more more like pay per view matches than most a lot of the matches that
were our World's End Yeah, yeah, for sure, Like and I was
disappointed at worlds End we didn't get an FTR house. The Black Match and
they really made up for it, like giving them thirty minutes just to go
out there and just tear the house down. And that match just kept going.
It had like different valleys and peaks, and by the end, like
I had no idea who was gonna win, and House the Black winning was
great, and yeah, I love that match and Buddy Matthews got the pin.
Buddy Matthews is like to me, I look at Buddy Matthews as this
great wrestler who has his duty is to get this to eat pins. Whatever
the House of Black loses, it's Buddy Matthews. It eats the pin and
he never gets the pit. He finally got a pin. I was so
happy for Buddy Matthews. Buddy Matthews is incredible, Like, yeah, he's
If I had to fight anyone in ad W, I think the last person
I would want to fight is Buddy Matthews. He's so strong and quick,
and he just doesn't look happy. He haird that persona. I mean,
he's got his character down because he always looks absolutely busible. I think he's
got a splitter on the bottom of his foot. Yeah, and I think
he probably realizes he doesn't have the tattoos that the other guys have, so
he has to really double down on looking bad or angry whole time. Your
word. Not the first person that said that. Yeah, somebody said that
over the weekend in our live chat, going to make up. Yeah,
so let's what do you want to talk about next, Alex, Let's keep
this ball rolling. Yeah? Sure, so so the next thing I prepared.
And I think faction has been a big talking point, and and it
seems like the number of factions just keeps on going up and up in aew
without any signs of slowing down. And we've seen like Acclaimed and Bullet Club
Gold talking about the importance of factions and then possibly joining ups Gang. Yeah,
yeah, Bank Bank Scissor Gang exactly. Yeah. I thought it'd be
fun if we Yeah, I just went back and forth and picked out who
we think are the best factions in ae W. Sounds good, so yeah,
I I I'm thinking we start off you give me who you think is
the best faction and who you think is your favorite faction. So the best
faction, like, who's the top faction in ae W? But then who
is your favorite You know, there's two factions really that stand out to me,
and they're kind of equal favorites. But I will say, from top
to bottom, I'm going to go House of Black as my number one pick.
The reason for that is, from top to bottom, even Julia Hart,
she's a TBS champion. You got these three guys and Julia that are
just good. My second would be the Blackpool Combat Club kind of the same
thing. But I hate to say this, but Wheeler Yuda is probably not
quite up to the standards of Julia Hart as far as you know, the
success and the character and everything like that. But I I do believe he
will get there. And that's not a dig on on on you. I
just think that it. Uh, that's it's all. I would go.
House of Black is number one, and uh closely followed by the black Pool
Cowby Club. What about you? Yeah, no, that's that is exactly
my two picks, because How's the Black? I don't How's the Black.
I feel like they've been a bit hard done by. They deserve so much
more in my opinion, and they've been a little bit stop and start.
But to me, that's my favorite three guys. Well, how Black can't
stay healthy? That's the problem with House of Black. I guess. Yeah.
We had Brody King break his hand, and Malachi's had his back issues,
and Eddie had a toward muscle in his calf I think was his most
recent of course. Uh, Buddy Matthews had a separated shoulder. Oh yeah,
yeah. But I mean even if one guy's injured, you just put
the other two guys in a tag team and you still have Julia with them.
Like, and my favorite thing about House of Black is just I don't
know how many songs they have, three, four, maybe even five between
the four of them, right, all of them I love, especially I
mean Malachi Black's original song that they come out to. I think when it's
him and Buddy is a tag team still yeah, yeah, but yeah,
for sure, House of Black's my favorite. I don't think that they're they're
not the top team because I think if House of Black faced the Blackpool Combat
Club in a three on three match, I would I would bet on the
Blackpool Combat Club to win, just based on how the shows go, you
know, right, Well, my reason for the back love for saying House
of Black over to Blackpool Combat Club is because I just enjoyed the dark psychological
warfare that they do MM which Black Book Comback Club does it too, but
House of Black just takes it to another level. Yeah, And sometimes we
get too much of the House of Black talking and saying cryptic, scary stuff
and it doesn't lead anywhere. But having the House of Black threatening Dax's daughter
and that stuff in playing better mind games than I think we've seen them with
some of their other feuds. I actually, you know, also the stuff
with Daddy Ass going back to their feud with the Acclaimed, that was pretty
good too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I love House of
Black. They're for my top group in AW definitely, but I just feel
like I want them to get the opportunity to shine even more, like on
pay per view. They weren't booked at worlds End, right, No,
they weren't. Well what about what about? Uh? So we kind of
agree on House of Black and Black Hole combat Club. That's the top two.
I mean, although you may put in Combat Club at BCC ahead of
House of Black. Uh what about the third? Who would you put at
three? Yeah? Okay, I have I have two picks. I'm gonna
come at it from different angles. I think in terms of how they've been
treated and how they've been shown in storylines and how I think they're going to
be created going forward. I think Undisputed Kingdom I say that they're not my
favorite. I I am a little bit hesitant of how they're going to be
going down the end of the future. But I think Undisputed Kingdom is gonna
be featured heavily on TV and they're going to be winning a lot of matches
and winning some titles, especially once Adam Cole is healthy. I think that
top three of like Adam Cole, Wardlow, Roderick Strong is a strong top
three for a for a stable. But yeah, what are your thoughts on
that? I wouldn't even list the Undispeeded Kingdom in my top five. And
the reason why is they haven't done anything yet. Well, he won,
he did lead us on for months and months attacking MJF and under masks,
and they did win a championship on one against an injured foe with help.
I'm sorry that just did not impress me too much. They honestly, they
haven't done anything as individually. Yes, they have done stuff. Wardlow has
been on a run. Roderick Strong, well, not so much. He's
gotten his butt handed to them quite a bit. Here lately too. You
know the Kingdom Bag team. Not impressed, Just be honest with you,
not impressed. They're the weakest link. Goodbye anything. Uh No, I
wouldn't even put but you said you had you said, but you said you
had another one too. Yeah, So that that's kind of my my pick
based on who I think is gonna end up featured heavily and pushed and winning
matches. But my my pick would be the Don Kallis family. I think
those three guys are and I'm leaving off will Osprey because I don't know if
he's actually going to be part of them going forward once he actually shows up.
But Kyle Fletcher, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Kenoski Takeshta. Those guys are
all like future World Championship level guys in my mind. And having them lose
to sting in Darby, I do think hurts them last Dynamite, But those
three guys, I just think the sky's the limit for them. Yeah.
I do think that Will ospro well Osprey is still on the painting. He
is so right now. Don Kallis Family are not in my top five with
will Osprey because the reason they're not in my top five. Because I can't
come up with the top five. I can only say here's the thing without
will Osprey, the Don Kallas family really isn't that impressive because they haven't really
been used that much. Did beat Kenny Omega that's like a title, that's
almost like an a W championship in my opinion. Yeah, but that was
how long ago? And what has he done since? Nothing other than Jericho
with a bat. Uh, Fletcher has done nothing. He won the uh
the Rig of Honor TV Champion TV Championship. It was really good. And
man Commander another guy. You know, we go back to the whole.
If Rio is a man, it would be Commander. And he killed me
in a wrestling ring. And yet people's at he's too small and shut up.
Anyway. Look, my whole thing is like, look, the Don
Collis family needs will Osprey or they need something else to go for them.
Uh, you know, they need something to happen. And it's you know,
the same thing with the Undisputed Kingdom. They haven't really done anything.
As a fact. I don't go by individuals here. I'm talking about as
a faction, as a faction, Blackpool Combat Club, House of Black Work,
as a faction don Kallis Family, They're they're not focused. I'll just
Peter Kingdom haven't had a chance to do anything yet. Look, ball Club
Gold is missing Juice Robinson. If they do team up with the acclaim that
Daddy hasn't make that Bang Bang Scissor Gang faction that they that has potential,
but it hasn't been reached yet. He hasn't even been formed yet. You
know. It's kind of like the Outcasts. To me, Outcasts had a
really really interesting dynamic. They had a lot of potential and they didn't do
anything at all with it. So I can't give credit where credit is due
until they actually do something to earn the credit. So house a Black Blackpool
Combat Club for me, and then three four five six whatever is dot dot
dot fill it in when it happens. Well, I think the one and
one that we forgot to mention or we haven't mentioned yet. And I I
feel like, based on your criteria for what makes a good faction, you
might be a fan of theirs. The patriarchy, Well, the patriarchy is
uh, let's face it is that what you're gonna think. Christian Cage and
Shana Wayne, I've done more than kill Switch and Nick Wayne combined. Well,
yeah, Nick Wayne, I don't think he's had a match and I
don't know how long. But yeah, it's like it's the same kill switches.
I love kill I love the dynamic between Christian Cage and kill Switch.
And I'm excited to see where that leads. Yeah, but you know,
would you agree that they've it's time to see where that leads. I mean
it's kind of got on for too long. Yeah, it has gone on
for a long time, and it's almost like it was going they were seeming
like they were pulling the plug and then they just stopped it and now they're
hinting at it again. And yeah, it is a little bit of like
bitter get off the pot, right. Yeah, Like I said, I've
said it and I'll stick by it. Also, Black Black Book, Copy
Club to me, are the only two factions of no right now. There's
others that have tremendous potential, but they haven't either done anything at all,
or they haven't done anything in a while. I think the Undisputed Kingdom could
be great. I think the Bank Bank saysor Gang could be great, but
they haven't done anything yet. You know, that's my point I'm going by
now, there's really only two factions that are doing anything to me for me,
Yeah, I see where you're coming from. I think I think factions
do just play a prominent role in AW and I think saying that they haven't
done anything is a little bit tough on them. But I do agree that
there is a clear cut two factions that kind of rise above everybody else.
And I agree with you. Like, and I'm not a huge Blackpool Combat
Club fan. I don't really want to see Mocks and Danielson and Claudia win
against more exciting, you know, younger guys, but it's undeniable that they're
they're kind of three main event level guys that are, you know, holding
it down and and House the black is just they're my favorite. What can
I say? Yeah, I mean it's as simple as that. You know.
Let's let's move on. Let's talk about dynamite real quick, because uh,
well there's some I don't know how to put it. Somebody's matches seem
odd on dynamite. I mean they just seem I'm not saying they're bad matches,
they just seem odd. Let's look right away at Samoa Joe versus Hook.
I mean, Hook is the FTW champion. Of course, Samoa Joe
is the AW World champion. I just I don't see how Samo Joe's not
going to lose the belt the Hook, we know that. I mean,
what so the only point in this match is for something to happen beyond the
match, you know what I mean? I honestly, I hope that this
doesn't even end in a pinfaller or submission. I hope they go back and
forth for a little while and then maybe Hook does a fireman's carry on Samoa
Joe to show that he's not a small weak wrestler, and Samoa Joe escapes
from the you know, red rum, you know, to show that he
can not only put on a submission hold, but could also get away from
one. But you know, you got Adam Page waiting in the back back
there. You've got Swerve Strickland waiting in the back back there, both of
whom, in my opinion, are more deserving of a title shot that book,
especially Swerve Strickland, because we're beat Hagman Page. Let's look at facts
here. Yeah, but I don't think this. I don't think this match.
I think it would be best in my what I'm hoping for is for
something to happen with Swerve and Hangman before Hook gets submitted in the ring or
destroyed, or maybe they do a KFE injury and some Ojoe goes to beat
him down. I don't know, but I just don't want to see this
match, and I wanted to see it be a no contest. Yeah,
I can't really see that happen. I feel like AW doesn't do a lot
of no contest endings, especially for like a big main event title match.
I don't I think it could be interesting if they did. And obviously,
you know, Samoa Joe versus Hook is not their main event program going forward,
and I don't see Hook being the champion, So it's pretty much a
foregone conclusion that Samoa Joe is gonna win here. Well, can I let
me ask you a question? Yeah, because you're the same thought that I
am that Hook is not gonna win. Does Hook gain anything at all by
losing this match? I think if Hook, Like, we haven't seen a
lot of long matches from Hook, we haven't seen a lot of important matches
from Hook. He's just kind of he's been there. It was kind of
in the beginning, it was Wow, this guy actually can do some things,
and then he's just kind of not really done anything too exciting since then,
and I think this is an opportunity to just have him in the main
event, put on a longer match, hopefully show something that gets people excited
for the future. That's kind of what I see this as, just being,
you know, a rub for Hook, but obviously he's gonna lose.
Yeah, I mean, I don't see a world, you know, if
the multiverse was a real thing, I don't see the need to mention where
Hook wins this match, so it'd be interesting to see what they come up
with to make it interesting. Yeah. One other thing I think about this
match is they've been talking about, you know, wins and losses should matter,
and Hook's one of those guys with a lot of wins and not a
lot of losses. So I think part of putting him in this spot is
just showing that they're acknowledging records again, whereas they maybe weren't taking that into
consideration for the past year or so. Yeah. Well, I what I
think is, I really don't know what they expect from this, but we're
gonna hear from Foolipe at Francois, you know, otherwise known as the Young
Bucks because they completely changed their looks. I mean they look they look like
they look like, you know, up tight Fred Chefs. I don't know
about you, but you so we're getting We're getting the box against stake A
Darbiel and a Revolution. What do you think? Just putting on the spot.
I want to hear what you think about this? Yeah, I like
it. I I think there was and I think I mentioned this on the
last podcast, but I was a little bit worried we were going to get
Les Sex Gods Chris Jericho versus Sting in his last match, and I was
worried about that. And I feel like this is a much more exciting match
and the Young Bucks are really going to make Sting look good and put on
a very fun competitive match, and I don't appreciate it. Do you see
any world where stak In, Darby Allen lose this match. No. I
think if it was against you know, Keno, Skate Takeshta and Kyle Fletcher,
then I could see them losing in the last match. But if it's
the Young but Young Bucks don't need to win. They're founders of the company.
They're one hundred time titled holders. They don't they don't need to win.
And yeah, there's no way that thing in Darby lose. Yeah,
you know, I'm looking at it. You know, I've got real excited
about this match, But then when I think about it, there's really not
anybody that I could think of to put against Darby Allen and Sting that I
would be excited about. No, I don't know. I don't know another
way to put it. I heard it suggested, you know, Sting versus
Darby Allen in the last match. There's no sense in making Darby Allen a
heel on his Sting's last match. No, and you watch Ding the last
maybe a few months or a few handful of matches that he's had recently.
He does there's not too much that he can do. He can do some
crazy jumps and stuff, but he's he's this he's in his sixties right,
like he's he's up there, he's sixty four. Yeah, but what do
you think do you think that the Philip and Francois are going to do something
like a face move too on this? Like I can't think of anything that
some people wouldn't like to see more than the Bucks put Rick Flair through a
table. I don't know Rick Flair wants to be put through a table.
He said that in a couple of interviews that I've listened to, So he
specifically says, I want to be put through a table. Well, who
better to put him at the table than the young Bucks. Yeah, I
don't think they would have any problem putting him through a table. I don't
know if he can survive being put through a table, but that's what he
wants. I just thought he was like, I don't know. If they
do something, they need to do it early in the match, have him
carried to the backs with that. The attention is on Sting through this match,
and I hope Sting has a really good match, and I hope the
fans enjoy it. And I kind of look forward to what happens after the
match with the Bucks probably you know, paying homage to Sting. Darby Allen's
probably gonna and uh, and then he'll cry and dive off the ring,
apron the steel steps and then and then Sting will just uh, you know,
standing able to ring for ten minutes, waving at the crowd and getting
all all sorts of love which he deserves. And that's that what you go
to questions for you about this? So do you think this match goes on
last? I do think it'll be the main event because the revolution is being
built around it. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's pretty much a given.
Who would you want to who would want to follow that match? True?
Yeah, very true. And then the other thing I'm wondering is do
you think it's gonna be like a street fight? I know a lot of
strings things matches have been street fights or hardcore matches, So do you see
this being a traditional tag or something more hardcore? I think it's gonna be
Uh, you know what I'd like to say, I'd like to see a
lumberjack match because it would get We would have the opportunity for different wrestlers to
be around the ring and being able to kind of pay homage to Sting where
the fans could see it. Yeah. Do you think I think that'd be
cool? Like wrestlers from things past? Even like that would be a really
cool idea. That would really be a really cool idea. That's a really
neat idea, you know that is I've never even thought of that that's a
good idea. Yeah, I just I don't No, I'm not going to
say it's a good idea again because I said it about twenty times already,
and so yeah, sounds kind of dumb, but no, yeah, I
like it, like you know, Rick Flair, I guess. But but
also maybe some younger people who from TNA or w c W guys who are
still around. Yeah, well, everybody wants to see the disco inferno out
there, that's for sure. Love to get the paycheck, but thank God
to give it off bag well and uh, you know Lex Luger gets rolled
out sting lands in his lap. I don't know, yeah, yeah,
just some I know Lex Luger was the first one that popped into my mind.
But then it'd be kind of sad. I really I think that a
lumberjack match with I just came up with that. I wasn't even thinking about
it. I think that's my idea. That your idea about who should be
there, and we need to call Tony he tk. We have a heck
of an idea. How much how deep are your pockets these days? After
citing Mercedes Bonde, do you have anything left? Oh boy, let's move
on because this is a match that I this is kind of like Samoa and
Joe to me, and that is the Gates of Agaty at Bright Age against
Bullet Club Gold, which is Jay White and Austin and Colton Gunn for the
Ring of Honor six Man Tag Team Championship. This one kind of puts me
in between a rock and a hard place. There is no way that the
Gates of Agaty Brian Cage should ever beat Bull Club Gold, but the Bullet
Club Gold becomes the Ring of Honor six man Tag Team Championship champions Where do
you go from there? And it just doesn't make any sense to me.
This match is get another one that's got I have to put it in a
no contest zone and hopefully somebody comes out and attack the text Bullet Club Gold
and the Acclaim come out and save them, and now we have the birth
of the faction. Yeah. To me, this is leading to the Acclaimed
and Bullet Club Gold joining up. And what this is my prediction based on
this match, and I seem to usually be wrong, but my prediction is
that Bullet Club Gold wins. They take the ROH six Man Tag Team Championship
and then now they challenge the Acclaimed or the Acclaim challenge them to unify the
titles, because like the ROH World six Man Tag Team Championship, probably the
lowest rung of titles maybe the ROH Here Championship in AW. I don't think
there's a need for two prios titles in AW or ring of Honor, So
it would make sense to consolidate those bills belts and just just to only have
the AW Trios Championship. And it also lets Bullet Club Gold go to the
Acclaimed or vice versa and say, hey, the winner has to join our
stable. So Bullet Club Gold, if they beat the Acclaimed Acclaimed has to
join Bullet Club Gold, or if the Acclaimed beats Bullet Club Gold, Bullet
Club Gold has to join the Acclaimed. That's that's where I see this leading.
Yeah, you know I when you get we talk about the Trios Championship,
I'm just gonna keep saying this, and I'm gonna keep saying it.
I'm gonna keep saying until people just tell me to just shut up. A
W does not need a Trios Championship. They need to Trios Champion. I'm
talking about AW. I don't talk about a I don't talk about r O
H you know at all really, but they got these floating around too,
so it doesn't you you have to agree it makes sense to at least get
rid of one. If they were gonna get rid of one, you get
rid of the a W and leave it on leave it, leave it at
ring of honor and have them defended on ring of honor. Tv AW needs
a women's tag belt. They don't need a men's trios belt because it hasn't
been really any good. I mean, it's a good way to get wrestlers
out onto you know, when you have a trios match, you got six
wrestlers out there at once, sometimes more if you have more than two teams
out there. But the problem with it is that the belt doesn't mean as
much. I am going to go right out on the limit and say AW
has too many belts that don't mean much and they have to add. And
what I mean by that is, well, let's look at a battle of
the belts. And I don't know if you agree with me on this,
but Ricky starts a big bill er singles champions that have tag team belt.
There's singles wrestlers that have a tag team belt. They're not a good tag
team. They won that match, but did they really because the don Kallas
family helped them out on a couple of occasions to save them from losing that
match. They got soundly beaten and should have lost that match had it not
been for outside interference, which was really never explained. And I guess we'll
get to that. But the tag team belts right now are just total bunk.
The Trio's belts right now are total bunk. I might even go out
and say that they need to pay attention to more to belts when you look
at the belts that have been defended since World's End, all right, which
was what one with World that was it December thirtieth? Yep, yeah,
okay, okay, so we're now two and a half weeks ago. Ponies
Storm has done absolutely nothing with that woman's belt, absolutely nothing. I'm not
saying she's not a good champion, but I'm just saying she hasn't been booked
to do absolutely anything with that belt that should be. You know, I'm
saying, you've got the men's championship. Some old Joe's out there, you
know, and great, and I'm just gonna say this Tony Storm. I
love her character, but there's always so much you could do with it before
it gets repetitive and boring. And if you're only going out there and you
know, talking in black and white about Chid's tits and shoes, then it's
just gonna get boring. It's repetitive. Well, I think they got they
got big plans for Tony and I think she's been a good champion. And
I don't think when you're talking about too many belts, I don't think the
woman's belt is the problem. I feel like it. No, no,
no, no no. What I'm saying is that they're concentrating on the wrong
belts they should be concentrating. And I'm not saying in any way that Tony
Storm is not a good champion. As a matter of fact, Diana Parozzo
and Anna Jay are having a match on Dynamite tomorrow night, and Tony Storm
is going to be on commentary, So that'll be interesting and I hope there's
some kind of confrontation there and that'll be interesting. But you know, we
need to see the champions in matches. You know, look at you know,
Julia Hartz defended twice already, it had a tag match after a World's
End, you know, so the TBS belt is not you know, like
what are the top belts. Christian Cage with the TNT title has done a
lot with the TNT title. There's intrigue and interest behind it, you know.
And he's actually in a match tomorrow night with Dustin Rhodes, which is
another interesting match that I don't understand. I guess they're doing just to get
Dustin Rhodes out there, you know, in Charleston, uh, South Carolina.
So but other than that, I really don't understand why they're why they're
doing that match, because you know, there's gotta be other this Tomorrow night,
up and down the Line Hook and Samoa Joe. There's got to be
something else that happens. Yeah, Christian and I mean really Christian and Dustin
Road, something else has got to happen the Gates of Bagadine and Brian Cage
against Bull Club Gold. Something else has gotta happen. Beyonda Parazzo and Anna
Jay with Tony storm on on on commentary, something else has gotta happen.
Yeah, I think I look at that card for Tomorrow night and I see,
Yeah, I see a lot of story that needs to happen, and
it's probably gonna happen to fill in the gaps and kind of give us a
clear picture of where we're headed for either the next pay per viewer, the
next like Special Dynamite. Right now, I don't know, man, it's
it's something else. Let's let's make our spicy predictions for tomorrow night. Let's
get into that. I'll go first, and I really don't know where to
begin, but I guess my main spicy prediction will be that the acclaim that
Bullet Club Gold something's gonna happen between them because I just don't see the reason
why Bullet Club Gold would ever beat Gates of Bagatin and Brian Cage become Ring
of Honor Tag team champions or are six man tag champions, and because it
doesn't benefit Bull Club Gold at all, So there's got to be something else
that goes on. Maybe the Don Kallis family gets involved, Maybe something else
happens. I don't know, because Donald Kallis family seems to be getting involved
in a lot of people's business. So that's my prediction. I think that
something's gonna happen and Brian Cage leave that match with the titles. I absolutely
most people want think that Bull Club Gold is the better, more interesting team
and they should win. I just don't want Bull Club Gold to win the
Ring of Honor six man Tag Team Championship, and and uh and then it's
it's why. It's kind of like, you know, coming in second place
at the Old Hart Foundation, who cares? You know who came in second?
That's right, nobody knows who has a ruby. So and I'm just
saying I was like, who knows, you know, who cares? You
know, that's a you know, that's a whole the other thing you do
to go on the heart and you know, Willow wins and then it's like,
Okay, we'll see you next year kind of thing. That's not a
yeah. But anyway, so what's your spicy prediction for tomorrow night. I'm
gonna go I'm gonna say one hundred percent Bullet Club Gold wins the ro Oh
World Take Team one hundred percent. I'm gonna yeah, I will. I'm
betting everything on it if I yeah, if Vegas legalized wrestling betting, I
would put a substantial sum on Bullet Club Goal to win that. I just
think it only makes sense too. We're gonna have to start at gofund me
for everything that you're gonna lose tomorrow night. So well, we're definitely gonna
find out tomorrow night. I guess yeah, yeah, I'll put my money
my mouth is, but yeah, I'm pretty confident in that. Usually I'm
not so confident, but this one, it just it's the only thing that
makes sense and gets of Agany and Brian Cage. I'm just who cares well,
they aren't a long they've they've been there for a long time doing it.
I don't know, maybe maybe Lance Archer comes out and destroys, you
know, when the gates Vagany and Brian Cage come out to the rig,
maybe kates A Magani comes out, Brian Cage comes tumbling down, with Lance
Archer following closely behind him. I don't know, you know, I don't
know. I mean, I love I love Lance Archer. I just think
he's just he's just still convincing to me, you know, And I just
love watching the guy, you know, even if he does something stupid like
losing by count out the Orange Cassidy on a pay per view. I'll never
forgive Tony Khan for booking that Tony. Okay, but anyway, God,
that's still to this day that just ticks me off. I'm like, you've
got to be kidding me that poor Lance Archer. Pin him in the center
of the ring or something. Don't make him stand on the apron to get
counted out, My god, especially in the track record that the track record
that the U a W referees have had, you know, three blind mice
and all compassed one human being. Oh my gosh. Anyway, so so
you're you are betting the bank on Bulk Gold. Yeah, they can't lose
the match, and yeah, it's I'm gonna go out out of the live
and say that, go out of the limit and say that. I'm not
gonna say that there's gonna be no contest in this in this card to barn.
But what I ha to say is that this card with Samoa Jahook and
Bull Club Gold and Gates of Baga named Brian k and even like Anna Jay
and Gianna Parazzo, Uh, there are a lot of matches in this that
could could end in a draw or no contest and it would make perfect sense.
I mean, we get over under for for no contests tomorrow night zero.
I don't think there's gonna be any draws or no contest tomorrow night.
But look at the Hook and Samoa Joe said it was a twenty minute time
limit draw on that and they fought to a draw. That would be very
interesting. Yeah, I mean, you could have Samoa Joe absolutely beat the
actual crap out of Hook all twenty minutes but never get the pinner to submission
and it doesn't hurt Samoa Joan. It legitimizes Hook. So that is my
spicy prediction. I'm gonna make it official. I'm going to take since you
made a spicy prediction about Bullet Club Gold, I did too, but I'm
gonna changed my spicy prediction. I am going to My spicy prediction is that
Hook and Samoa Joe ends in a time limit draw. Is it? Is
it a twenty minute I don't know. If it's a twenty minute match,
it's gonna end in a draw. If it's a you know, with a
one hour time limit, no, because I don't think. I don't think.
I don't think either of those guys. Yeah, I guess we'll know
at the beginning of the match. If they do a twenty minute time time
limit I don't know fast rules and one other thing in uh in Bullet Club
Gold's favor. Apparently they're debuting a brand new song that is true. That's
exciting. Yeah, I wonder if it's gonna be Duran team Western theme.
Yeah, well it's bullet Club and he got the guns mm hmmm. You
know, and you've got that famous Australian Australian a Jay White, who's just
go with it. Yeah. I thought that was hysterical what he said.
No, he wasn't. They said he was from Britain. They said he
was from the u K. Yeah, and he's from the It was a
renakend. Piquett said, no, he's He's from New Zealand. And Jay
White's like, just just go with it, just go with it. Yeah,
that was that was really good. That was maybe the best moment of
j White we've gotten so far. Yeah, I mean it's I think it's
cool the way they're making uh Billy Austin called gun just to be idiots and
that's how they come across in Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, well we
will see. I mean it's going to be a pretty good show, although
it's going to be filled with chances for no contest and time women draws mm
hmm. I don't know, man, it's gonna be It's going to be
something, really, it will be something for sure. Well that's ignition for
tonight, Alex. Thanks for joining and it was a great discussion. I
hope you didn't offend anybody. It's nothing like you know, calling everybody six
scumbags at the beginning of a the beginning of a of a podcast and and
say, well, nobody is listening right now because we've already But you know
what, I'm proud of it. I own up to it. It had
to be said, it should have been said. Nobody should be acting like
that. No, no, shame on you all, same on you.
Shame, shame, shame. Boo boooooooo. I tell you what I've just
dumbfounded over here, I really am. I'm just so pissed off at everything
because this has got to stop. It's one thing not to like somebody because
they you just don't like their style, you don't like their wrestling, or
you think they can't wrestle, but not because of the way they look.
That has nothing to do with it. Swear to God, prothetic Boo boo,
You'll tell you what, jeez. Anyway, that's the show for tonight.
Thanks again Alex for for Alex. This is Kelson. Good night everybody,