Tonight was the New Year's Smash episode of Dynamite, the final AEW Dynamite of
twenty and twenty three and the final Dynamite before World's End on Sunday at the
Nassau Coliseum, and we had some developments tonight. In the final segment of
the show, was supposed to be MJF and Samoa Joe teaming up to defend
the Ring of Honor World tag team titles against the Devil's Henchmen, two of
the Devil's mass Men, and you knew that it was going to be more
of an angle than a match for two reasons. Number One, MJF is
dealing with an injury and so you're very stupid to put him in an actual
match three days before the pay per view. That would be dumb. But
also they sent them out there at ten pm, and you knew the overrun
wasn't going to be more than maybe five or six minutes, and so the
question was were we going to get a title change or not. MJF came
out to the ring, but there was no Samoa. So Oa Joe was
laid out in the back. He was writhing in pain. He was holding
his knee right This all sounds very familiar. We've seen the Devil initiate attacks
like this in the past. MJF said, I don't care, I'm gonna
defend the titles anyway. And what ends up happening is they pinned the aw
World Champion on television three days before he defends his world title in the main
event on Saturday. Now, there's a good aspect to that, and there's
a very bad aspect to that. The very bad aspect to that is that
you just pinged your world champion by two nameless, faceless individuals on television three
days before your pay per view to tell the same story that you just told
a month ago at Full Gear, where the champion is hurt, he's wounded
going into his main event match against Switchblade ja Oh. Here we are now
the following month, it's the same story again, where the champion is wounded
going into his main event on pay per view. The good aspect to what
they did is they finally got those Ring of Honor World tag team titles.
The fuck off of MJF. Sayonara, finally he's rid himself of the Ring
of Honor tag team titles that I like. But the way they went about
doing it questionable. However, as it turned out, Samoa Joe was not
hurt, and we got the big reveal which you could see coming, you
know, as the devil flashed on screen when it was all over, and
the words pleasure doing business with you appeared on screen and you could see it
coming, and Samoa Joe smashes MJF right across the back with a steel chair,
lays him out, and the final parting shot of the show to night
is Samoa Joe's standing over his dead body with his foot planted firmly on Mjf's
chest, holding up the AW World Heavyweight title. Samoa Joe unlikely to become
the AW World champion at world's end on Saturday. All I will say is
this, I was not convinced. Everybody was trying to convince me, Oh,
it's Adam Cole. Adam Cole is the devil. It's Adam Cole,
and I was unconvinced because I said, first of all, Adam Cole is
I do believe that Adam Cole is hurt. And I also just looked at
it and said, well, you know, they're dragging this out for so
long. I wonder if they're going to go in a different direction. They're
gonna give us a little bit of a twist. I just can't see it
being Adam Cole if he is that injured. The only logical explanation that one
would be left with, based on the way they went off the air with
this show tonight, is that Adam Cole is the Devil. I guess with
an outside shot that it could potentially be Britt Baker. A lot of people
have thought maybe it's Britt Baker. That's really the only logical conclusion one could
be left with, because if you remember when this all started and MJF finally
agreed to give Joe his shot, let Joe be his partner and defend the
titles, go ahead and give Joe that shot, it was Adam Cole.
Adam Cole is the one who talked him into it in the first place.
It's about what Joe wasn't just working with the devil for one week. He's
been working with him this entire to or hurt this entire time. So I
will sit here and tell you now that yes, actually the person, the
name or names that make the most sense for the Devil reveal would be Adam
Cole and or Britt Baker because then you could tie it all together. All
I know is this, we need to get the Devil reveal on Saturday at
World's In. We've heard Wardblow talking about how your world is coming to an
end, right, really teasing that he's tied in and involved in this in
some way. If he's not the Devil, that he could be, you
know, one of the Devil's henchmen. And I'm looking at the big picture
here, Okay, how could this all play out? If it all plays
out on Saturday? Are we looking at Adam Cole and or Britt Baker as
the Devil? And we're looking at Matt Tavin and Mike Bennett as your new
Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions, Because I'll bet you anything they were
the ones supposedly under the mask, right under the black masks tonight. They're
probably the new Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions. You get Adam Cole
leading Roddy and the Kingdom, and Wardlow could be tied in there as well,
because he doesn't like MJF. That may be your crew. It could
be Cole and Britt with the Kingdom and Wardlow that could be the Devil's Crew.
That's what's looking likely to me here as we head into this weekend.
But that was how they went off the air. The best part of the
show tonight was nothing that happened in the closing segment. The best part of
tonight's show was the Continental Classic. And this really has been the case for
Dynamite and Collision for that matter, for the entire month. Continental Classic has
given us some great professional wrestling on television, and Danielson has had just match
after match after match, just going out there and delivering every single time.
We saw Mark Briscoe going out there week after week, even though we couldn't
win a fucking match to save his life until the very end, having great
match after great match. So many different people you could say that about in
this tournament, but the one person that we should have been looking at from
day one is the one that I think a lot of people, myself included,
really were not looking at. And it was the guy who was the
one to initially go out there and say, I'm putting my belts on the
line this tournament. I'm putting my ring of Botter World Championship in my new
Japan Strong open Weight title on the line. It was Eddie Kingston, right.
He was the one who made that announcement in full gear last month.
This entire tournament has been the Eddie Kingston story from day one. It was
never about Swerve Strickland, it was never about Jay Wye's, it was never
about anybody except Eddie Kingston. That came into full focus on the show tonight
because we are now heading into a final this weekend of John Moxley one on
one with Eddie Kingston, and I know a lot of people are going to
be very upset that Swerve didn't win, or Jay White for that matter.
I was kind of pulling for a Jay White whin. To be honest with
you, did I have any great interest in seeing John Moxley go all the
way to the finals? Fuck? No, What does John Moxley need to
be in the finals for Until you see the story that they're telling play out
tonight and that promo segment, and then it makes sense. I loved what
they did with the Continental Classic tonight, both matches and the promo we got
with Moxley and Kingston, which I will talk about was excellent. So you
take away the Continental Classic stuff and this was not a good show, because
there really wasn't anything else on the show that I would say was very gripping
going into this pay per view, you take that stuff away. This tournament
has carried AW television now for over a month, and I can only hope
that as this tournament comes to a close this weekend and we get that big
reset at the beginning of January, as we kick off a brand new year
for AW, that Tony Kah has got some really good stories and really good
plans in place. He's not going to be able to lean back and rely
on this tournament anymore. Starting in January, we're going to turn the page
the calendar flips to a new month and a new year, and I hope
that he's got some really solid stories to take us into that Revolution pay per
view. At the beginning of March. Speaking of Revolution, one other thing
here, it became I think a little bit clearer what direction they may be
going in with Sting for his final match. We may have gotten a very
big clue as to what Sting will be doing and who he will be wrestling
at Revolution on March third. This is your AW Dynamite review. It is
Wednesday, December twenty seventh, twenty and twenty three. I am the Solemn
Monster. Thank you so much for joining me for the final Dynamite screen of
twenty twenty three. Fun having you guys along for the ride. Even when
you don't like Dynamite, right, you always like the streets. So let's
have another good one tonight. Because we opened with the Gold League final in
the Continental Classic, John Moxley, Swerd Strickland, and Switchblade J White,
all competing for a spot in the finals at World's End on Saturday for the
Triple Crown. No time limit for the two final matches that we had on
the show tonight. It's always been twenty minute time limits for every other match
in the tournament, not for either one of the finals here tonight on the
show. One thing I wanted to point out they have started using this elevated
hard camera angle, and I first noticed it on Collision this past Saturday,
where it has sort of a downward view of the ring, like an elevated
downward view instead of more kind of more of a level view. They didn't
use it for the entire show, In fact, they used it for very
little of the show tonight, but they did open with it. They came
back to it a little bit later on, so it feels to me like
they're just experimenting with something new. I'm not really a fan of it,
but I will say, you know, for a company that gets a lot
of criticism of late for not doing enough to differentiate itself from WWE and not
doing enough to make it an alternative to WWE and every other promotion that we
see on TV, I appreciate the fact that production wise they're trying something different.
Even if it's something that I don't like, at least they're trying something
different, So that aspect of it I do like, and I want them
to do that. I want them to try and experiment with new things and
new ways of shooting the show. You never know what might stick, so
that aspect of it I like. Did J White tried to exit the ring
once the bell rang. Swerve, though, beat him to it and he
blocked his path. Moxley sent Jay out to the ringside area, Swerve back
into the ring. He rolled up Moxley for a quick two count. Moxley
and Swerve they ended up fighting at ringside, and they teamed up to toss
Jay over the barricade and into the crowd. All three men ended up brawling
into the crowd here at the beginning of this match. And I think it
was ex Caliber on commentary who made a comment saying, this is not what
I expected from this match. I just thought, really, have you not
seen a John Moxley match. You've called most of his matches in this company.
How do you not see a John Moxley match devolving into a brawl in
the crowd? What have you been watching? That's exactly what I expect from
a John Boxley match, especially a match like this where there's no disqualifications in
a triple threat match. So Moxley crouched Jay on a guardrail. Swerve ended
up sitting Moxley down in a chair. He was biting at his forehead.
He backed up a little bit and he got him with the double knees.
Taz said that referee Paul Turner was being very lenient and he understood the stakes
in this match. And again I said, how is he being lenient if
there's no disqualifications in this match? Boy, that's mighty nice of him to
be lenient. Can't disqualify them anyway. It's a triple threat match. He's
got no choice. All he can do is tell them to get back in
the ring. If John Moxley looks at him in the face and says,
go fuck yourself, there's nothing he can do except smile and say thank you,
sir. He may have done that. All three men got back to
ringside and Jay Chopp blocked the back of Moxley's leg. Swerve, who was
on the apron, drilled Jay, who was on the floor with a knee
strike. All three men got back into the ring. Moxley flipped off Swerve,
who bit his finger in response. Swerve sent both men to ringside.
Then he went up top and he flew Tanahashi style with a high fly flow
took both men down on the floor into a picture and picture break, a
little tribute to the new President of New Japan, Hiroshi tanahash Moxley. He
flew in with a toepey on Swerve. When Noik came back from the break
back inside, Moxley hit a stalling pile driver for two and the anvil elbows
followed with a transition into a key lock, which Swerve was able to escape.
He went up top and when he came off though, he dove into
a kick and a paradigm shift for a two count. So now Moxley was
very frustrated. He took Swerve outside. He went over by the table,
over by the time keeper's arey. He pulled the tablecloth off and whatever it
was he was about to do, he was about to give him a power
bomb. Maybe whatever it was, Jay White comes over and hits him in
the back with a steel chair, and then he smashed Moxley's leg he was
on the ground. He smashed his left leg with a chair. So the
John Moxley threat was temporarily neutralized. In the ring, it was down to
White and Swerve. Rope four point fifty splash by Swerve a few moments later
connected, but Moxley flew into break up the count with a stump to Swerve.
All three men were down. That took us into yet another picture and
picture. After the break, Moxley got Jay White trapped in a sleeper hole.
Swerve, though, came flying in and broke it up with a house
call kick. Swerve avoided a blade runner, Jay White avoided a JML driver,
and he sent Swerve hurling towards Moxley, who took his head off with
a King Kong lariat. Then Moxley immediately got dropped with a blade runner and
j White tried for the pin. Swerve, though interrupted to break up the
count, so the match continues to j White. Now he's frustrated. He
goes outside the ring and he grabs the chair, brings it inside. He
flattens Moxley with it. Then he wedges it in between the buckles between the
top rope and the middle rope. He went to go send Swerve into it.
Swerve, though, reversed him headfirst into the share Hard and Swerve then
got a super close pinfall attempt on Moxley and they went out it toe to
toe. Swerve tried for the JML driver, Moxley fought out of it.
Strickland got him down. He went up top he was setting up for the
Swerve stump. Here comes j White. He gives him a shove and he
sends Swerve crashing down to the floor. Moxley in response, nearly beheads Jay
White with a lariat and then hits the death rider. He goes with the
pins. Swerve cannot make it back into the ring in time to break up
the fall, and John Moxley wins the Gold League and moves on to the
finals of the Continental Class. This was a hell of a match. Let's
talk about that first. The match itself was great, back and forth.
We had some dramatic near falls in here. I love the match, and
I will say that at least they did not pin Swerve. I didn't think
that they would because that would have been insanely stupid, but they did not
pin Swerve. Now, I was not upset about him losing, because it
became very clear after collision on Saturday that Swerve was not winning this match.
After Keith Ley b Brian Cage on Saturday, he was in the ring,
he cut a promo. He had a cinder block in the ring. He
never mentioned Swerve's name, but he was clearly talking about Swerve, about what
Swerve did to him a year ago when he came off the top rope with
a Swerve stomp stomped the cinder block across his chest. I think back then,
Swerve still had what was it, Trench and what was the other guy's
name? Remember when he had his two Why don't you call him his his
heavies, his minions, whatever you want to call them. Remember, one
of the guys was Parker Boudreau from NXT he got fired and aw picked him
up or so we thought he was going to be one of Swerves guys and
his faction. Yeah, that didn't last very long. That was a year
ago. They're coming back to this now. But Keith Lee made it very
clear he was not done with Swerve and he was going to be coming to
Dynamite to confront him. I thought he was going to cost him the match,
but whatever they were going to do, I said, okay, well,
obviously we're going to get Swerve and Keith Lee at World's End because this
guy's not winning in the match on Wednesday. The only question is is it
Moxley or Jay White that goes to the finals. And I was thinking and
pulling for Jay White because then we either get a first time ever match with
Jay White and Brian Danielson, or we get a rematch between Jay White and
Eddie Kingston from the match they had in New Japan earlier this year when Jay
White lost, and stipulation was that if he loses, he can never again
wrestle for New Japan. Of course, the way around that would be if
we got a rematch in the finals. In the World's End, j White
wins the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown is meant to be defended in aw
Ring of Honor New Japan, right, that could be Jay White's way back
into New Japan to wrestle some matches in New Japan. So I would have
been fine with the Eddie Kingston final or a Jy Brian Danielson final on Saturday.
But then I look at what they did later in the show, because
at this point I'm like Moxley, like, why, why is that necessary
they have John Moxley in the finals of this tournament. Then I see what
they did later in the show, and I have a different viewpoint on it.
We'll get into that when I talk about the Eddie Kingston Brian Danielson.
But the match itself here to open the show, this was a fucking great
match. Now, when they came back from the break, Tony Schavani was
in the back with Prince Nana in a very pissed off swerve Strickland. Strickland
said he wanted this so bad as the Continental Classic was breathing life back into
the wrestling business. Then he brings up keigh Lee wanting to pay him a
visit tonight, and he said, look, I'm not busy on Saturday.
I'm gonna be on Long Island and I'm not busy. I got nothing to
do. Travanni said that, actually, keithh Lee is here tonight, but
he said that in case he misses Swerve, and then he pulls out a
contract. He says he has this contract for a match at World's End,
and Prince Nanna was furious because this did not get his approval. They did
not run this by him first, and Swerve conned him down and said,
let's see if he shows up on Saturday, and they walked up and they
put a graphic after this, they put a graphic up on screen showing Swerve
against Keigh Lee. So apparently, even though he didn't sign the contract,
the match was already made official. Apparently there was no need for a contract
in the first place, because Tony Kahn in the said, you know what,
put the graphic up. We're doing this match. Here's the thing I
don't understand. Keith Lee said, I'm coming to Dynamite on Wednesday. I'm
gonna be taking your house down brick by brick, right, which I took
that to mean if he doesn't attack Swerve, he might attack Prince Nana next
right, he took out Brian Cage on Saturday, so maybe he's gonna threaten
to take out Prince Nana and that's going to be a distraction. Like there
were any number of boys they could have gone with this. We never saw
Keith Lee on the show tonight, and yet Tony Shavanni and this promo said,
well, actually Keith Lee is here tonight, but in case he misses
you, I happened to have this contract on me. Well, if Keith
Lee was there tonight, there, where the fuck was he? It just
makes it look like he's afraid of this guy. If Keith Lee was there,
why did he need Tony Shavanni to give him the contract? Why couldn't
he show up? Why couldn't he go face to face with Swerve hand him
the contract? Now, if something happened and Keith Lee couldn't be there,
he got sick. I don't know what the deal is. I don't know
why they said he was there. If they knew he really wasn't there,
or worse he was, and they just didn't use him, that doesn't make
any sense to me at all. So I'm not sure why they even had
Tony Shavani reinforce the idea that he was there. That was very lame.
I'll tell you something that's even more lame, though. You know what else
is lame the fact that they did that angle I mentioned a year ago on
television and you expected Keith Lee to miss a few weeks, right, it
was an injury angle. We never got the match. Keithley eventually came back,
no match, no match. They had him doing other things. They
had him doing tag team matches with Dustin Rhodes. Now lately they seemed to
be giving him a little bit of a push as a singles I know he
wrestled Shane Taylor on the Ring of Honor pay per view recently. Good for
him. It'd be nice to see Keith Lee get a singles push. But
here's what I want to know. Why did it take a year to get
back to this. Why do they expect that people are still going to care
about this in the way that maybe they did a year ago twelve months later.
That's why it makes me think there was some kind of a health issue
involved here. But it's not like Keith Lee just vanished from television. It
wasn't being active. He was active it's just they just moved on. Now
they're revisiting a dead angle. Swerve feels like a man on the ascent.
This feels like it's beneath him. This feels like he's actually going backwards.
We're gonna get the match finally, I guess, better late than never.
We're gonna get Swerving Keith Lee at world's end. It only took a year
to get the match done. I don't understand it, but here we are.
We're getting Swerving Keith Lee. This weekend, Renee was on stage and
she welcomed Mariah May and wanted to know why she attacked ReHO last week,
and Mariah May said that she did so to support Tony's Storm, which is
something that all of us should be doing. Mariah said that she did so
well. She said in twenty twenty three, it wasn't very glamorous for her.
That's also part of the reason why she's so supportive of Tony's Storm.
But yet for her twenty twenty three, it wasn't a lot of glamour in
this year. But twenty twenty four is going to be a better year for
her, and that's why she's here to announce that she's going to make her
in ring debut next week. On the very first Dynamite of twenty twenty four.
There were people in the crowd who booed, which was the only noise
I heard for this entire segment. But they booed. Reho's music hit,
and then the chase was on. Mariah ran into the ring. ReHO chased
after her. Mariah was begging off and then here comes timeless Tony Storm and
I love how when they showed Tony Storm running down to the ring, they
immediately switched to black and white. Tony got into the ring, tried to
hit ReHO with her aw Women's title. ReHO ducked it, and then Tony
ended up in the ropes in position for the six to one nine. Luther
is standing there instead of doing something to actually rescue this woman, He's just
standing right in front of her, going no, no, no. ReHO
comes off the ropes. Tony gets out of the ring just in time.
Luther then pulls her to safety. Riho goes up to the top, drops
them both with a cross body block to the floor, and then the segment
ended with ReHO posing with the women's championship in the ring. That is going
to be your Women's World title match on Saturday. It's fine, it's someone
for Tony Storm to beat. The story is not Tony Storm and ReHO.
The story is Tony Storm and I was gonna say May Young, That's definitely
not the story. The story is Tony Storm and Mariah may That is the
longer term story that they're telling here. Although I am still holding out hope
that we will get another Tony Storm. Jamie Haterman, I'm still waiting for
Jamie Hater to come back. I can't believe she's been gone for half the
year. I remember when she first got hurt. They made it sound like,
oh, she's got a little shoulder trouble, nothing too serious. Seven
months later, this woman is still gone. How bad was that injury.
Hopefully we get her back very so. Hopefully we get her back in time
for Revolution. But those of you who don't like Rejo, you're not gonna
have to worry because Rejo will be defeated on Saturday and Tony will move on
to the next So calm yourself down. Well, the Rejo regime is gonna
come after you. We got a video package for Miro who said that once
the Continental Classic was finished, he would look to fight Androd l Idolo.
He doesn't want to fight Androde because he's a client of his wifes, which
doesn't sound right. His wife has been has been managing Androde's that's what he
means. That's what he means by client. That could be taken so many
different ways, but that's not why he wants to wrestle Androde. He doesn't
want to wrestle on because he's a client of his wife's. He wants to
fight him because Androde is an asshole. And so that match is now official
for Worlds and we didn't have too many matches official for this pay per view
coming into this week. This is what AW does most of the time.
They wait until the week of and then they finalize half the car. That's
what they did tonight. We got the rest of the card filled out tonight
here three days before the pay per view. By the way, I should
mention this CJ. Perry Miro's wife, for those of you who don't know,
she was in the hospital last week with a pretty serious, pretty nasty
infection in her finger. She says she gotta I got it from a splinter.
I guess at work. She was at a taping. I don't know
how she got the splinter, and somehow it developed into a very serious infection
in her finger, and she posted the photo, which I didn't need to
see, but she posted it, and it was all It was all nasty
and the problem is the infection started traveling up her arm. That's not good.
It sounds like a staff infection. So she was in the hospital.
She underwent surgery. I know. They sent her home the other day,
so she must be on the mend. So hopefully she's doing better. That
could turn into something very bad, very quickly. So thankfully she seems to
be doing okay. Tony Schavani was in the ring for this next segment,
and Tony said that he was told they would be doing a celebration for Boxing
Week. Now, for those who don't know, Boxing Day is a national
holiday in Canada the day after Christmas every single year. Of course, today
was December twenty seventh, not December twenty six, so they turned it into
Boxing Week. Is that a thing? I thought it was just Boxing Day?
Were they just taking creative license with that? According to him, it
was Boxing Week, and he introduced Don Callous into Don Kallis family. He
comes out with Powerhouse Hobbs, Kenoski, Takeshta, and Kyle Fletcher, who
just won the Ring of Honor television title of Final Battle. So they had
four easels set up in the ring behind Tony and behind everybody with photos or
paintings you know, that were covered by a black tarp. Callous immediately took
the microphone away from Shravanni and said that he had something important to say.
He said, there's been a lot of family stuff going on outside of the
wrestling business the past two weeks and it's been a difficult time for him.
At times like this, you need your family and he could not have gotten
through this without having his family with. I thought he was going to insult
Kenny Omega for being in the hospital. He never mentioned Omega. He has
to celebrate Boxing week in Canada. He got them some gifts and he unveiled
the first painting, which was of him looking ripped with Powerhouse Hobs. His
gift for Takeshta was one of him and Takeshta Takeshi I think, had like
a Samurai sword. And then Callous was sitting down in front of him and
he had the Roman reigns Samoan tribal tattoos on his body. Then the next
photo was him. The next painting was of him with Kyle Fletcher. He
was missing the tattoos, so anyway, he says, his family feels complete.
Sammy gavar is music and outcomes Sammy for the first time since becoming a
father, and he did not look happy. Fatherhood will do that to you.
It was also his first time back on TV since the concussion that he
suffered at Wressel Dream. We have not seen him since. Then. Callous
said, it's like Christmas all over again. Sammy is here, and Sammy
cut him off and said, a long time, no talk. Don Callus
said, you didn't get the gift I sent you. He said, well,
I got a gift for you. I've been hauling it around for the
last two months thinking that you were actually going to come back to work.
And he told Sammy to go ahead and pull the tarp off of his painting,
and he did, and it was a painting of Sammy holding his newborn
baby and all the other members of the Callous family were standing behind him in
the It reminded me of what was that movie Three Men at a little lady.
Remember that? Remember that movie? So Ted Danson and it was Steve
Gutenberg and who was the other one? I forgot who the other one was?
This whole family with Sammy and the new baby. So Sammy was upset
and he asked him who the hell told you to put my baby on there?
Callus said, let's be honest, you're not exactly mentally capable of being
a parent. You're gonna need all the help you can get, and so
that's what we're here for. Sammy said, we had Will Hobbs over here,
who beat Chris Jericho. We have Kenoski Takeshta, who has two wins
over Kenny Omega. Yeah, who's pointed that out to you recently? Two
wins over Kenny Omega. But nobody remembers that because Callus has to always make
it about himself. And then he complained that he hasn't heard from Callous at
all since he got concussed. Tom Sellick, there you go. How could
I forget? Magnum p I, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted
Danton. Callous talked about his disappointment that Sammy dropped the ball when he got
hurt, and then he was gone on maternity leave, and yes, that's
not that's not my mistake, he said, maternity leave. So he gave
him the choice, either choose your other family or you choose the don Kallis
family. But before he answers, he says, I want you to think
long and hard about your answer, because if you answer this question wrong,
you're gonna be remembered as just a big failure, just as big of a
failure as you are as a parent. Sammy didn't like that, so he
knocked Callous down on his ass, and of course the other members of the
Callous family then jumped. They pounced on Sammy and attacked him, laid a
beat down on him until Chris Jericho runs down to the ring with his baseball
bat and the heel scattered. Jericho, Uh, I think he got a
shot in on Takeshta. Didn't get a shot in on Takeshta and Hobbes.
I thought he hit both of them. But anyway, he then smashed three
of the four paintings that were in glass. Was it real glass? I
don't know. Let's ask our friend Jack, Jack was it real glass?
Now? He says no, He shakes his head no, but he smashed
each of them, and whatever it was glass went flying, so poor Grandma
Esther sitting in the front row might have some shards glass in her eye now.
Before he got to the fourth portrait, though, he gave the bat
to Sammy. He let Sammy do the honors, and Sammy smashed the painting
of him with the baby and everybody else. So Jericho and Sammy come face
to face. Last time we saw them, Sammy had turned on him and
gone healed. This time it looked like they were coming in for a handshake,
and Sammy instead went in and he gave Jericho a big old hug.
So just like that, Sammy gabbar back together with Chris Jericho once again a
baby face. But the reunion did not last very long because who comes out
Ricky Starks and Big Bill. They attacked both men from behind him, beat
them both down. Now the lights go out. Tony Kahn loves it when
the lights go out. Lights come back on, and it's Sting and Darby
Allen in the ring. Sting has his baseball bat. He clubs Big Bill.
This was hilarious. So he hits Big Bill with the baseball bat,
and Bill now is standing there he turns towards Jericho because the spot is that
Jericho is gonna take his bat and now he's gonna hit him with it.
So he feeds himself into Jericho. He's waiting and Jericho hits him with He's
being hit with baseball bats, right, So what does he do instead of
going down? No, Now he gets hit the second time with the bat.
Now he walks over towards Sting and gives Sting his back and he waits
for Sting to hit him with the bat. Still does him go down,
though, So then Sting takes the bat, hits him in the knee,
and finally Big Bill goes down. It looked like he didn't know what was
going on. And then finally he rolled out of the ring. And you
know, I'm like, way to kill the baseball bag gimmick. I don't
give a fuck a the guy's seven feet tap. When you get hit with
a baseball bat, especially the second and third time, you should go down
instead of making it obvious that you're feeding for your opponent. Finally this guy
goes down, he rolls outside. As far as what they did here,
Tony Kahan was put in a tough spot because he had already announced a tag
team title match for this pay per view coming up on SAT. It's gonna
be Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega against Ricky Starks and Big Bill. Kenny Omega
got stricken with diverticulitis. He ends up in the hospital, right, Nothing
Tony Khan can do about that. Now, you can just take the title
match off the show and not replace it with anything involving those men and just
wait for Kenny to heal up and come back. Or you could take Jericho.
You could put Jericho in a singles match with Ricky Starks. It's already
been done before Tony Kahn had to go to a plan B. His Plan
B was to go with Sammy Gavar being flipped back to babyface so that he
could link back up with Chris Jericho. And, to be perfectly honest with
you, if Kyle Fletcher now is going to be a member of the Kallus
family plus Hobbs plus Takeshka, there really was no room left for Sammy anyway.
Sammy's gonna feel like he's playing the you know, the fourth man,
fifth man, even behind Callus. Callus is number one in that group,
right, So sam you would be number five, right, he doesn't need
to be number five. So the best thing for him, frankly, at
this point was to get him out of the group. So yes, it's
ridiculous that they just turned him and now they're turning him back, But you
know what, I'm going to give him a pass on that just because of
the circumstances. And in that moment, what I thought is, Okay,
well they flipped him because we're going to get Jericho and Sammy against Ricky Starks
and Big Bill because what did Jericho say on television last week? Right?
Do you remember what Jericho said? Jericho said, I have a signed contract
for a match and I think he said tag team title match at World's End.
So don't think you're going to be getting out of it that easily,
right, I still have an open contract. I'm going to find myself a
partner. So at the end of this, you're thinking, okay, well
that's the partner. They flipped Sammy back. Jericho and Sammy now challenge at
World's End for the tag team titles, except later in the show they announced
that the match on Saturday is going to be an eight man tag not for
the tag team titles. I thought the open contract was for the tag team
titles. Apparently not, so now we're getting an eight man tag instead.
It's gonna be Sting, Darby, Jericho and Sammy against Ricky Starts, Big
Bill, Powerhouse Hobbs and Kyle Fletcher. Kyle Fletcher just him being in the
match just screams, I'm taking the pin. Team. Sting isn't losing.
They mentioned the fact that Sting has not lost a match of the twenty some
odd matches he's had since he debuted in this company. He has never lost
the match. He's retiring in March. There's no drama here. Sting is
not losing on Saturday. He might look he could potentially lose in March.
I still don't think he's gonna lose that either. He could potentially lose in
his last match and put somebody over, but he's not losing this weekend.
So that's why Kyle Fletcher is likely in the match. It better be.
It better not be a case where fucking Powerhouse Hobbs is gonna be the one
taking the pin. But you know, again, it's just bizarre to me.
I just think back to what Jericho said last week and I guess Tony
Kahan said, well, instead of a tag team title match, we'll just
do an eight mantag instead, so we can get Stinging Darby on the show.
I can't imagine that was the plan from the get go. You know
that it was going to be Jericho and Omega and Stinging Darby is what it
would have turned into. So I don't get it. I don't understand why
they didn't just turn it into Jericho and Sammy. If they went through the
trouble of doing the Sammy turn, it just very bizarre. But there was
a line in this promo where Sammy mentioned, when talking about Don Kallis that
everything is about him, and he specifically mentioned you have Powerhouse Hobbs who beat
Chris Jericho squashed him in fact, and you have Kenny Omega losing twice to
Kenoskate Takeshta, and basically you've squandered those wins and made it all about yourself.
They're taking reality and they're weaving it into the story. Look, I'm
glad that they're self aware, and they mentioned that because I mentioned that for
several weeks now. In fact, I have a whole clip up on the
channel with the headline, what happened to Takeshta. I've been wondering that myself
three months after he beat Kenny Omega actually probably closer to four months at this
point at all out back to back, in fact, it all in and
then all out Kenoski, Takeshta is actually in a worse spot now than he
was three months ago. How is that even possible? You know, even
if it was a case of, well, you know, we may have
had plans with Omega, Omega and Jericho, we're gonna win the belts at
World's End, and then maybe they would have defended them against Hobbes and Takeshta.
That's why Hobbes and Takeshta have been teeming lately on Rampage a few weeks
ago. Anyway, I'm not so sure now because the obvious plan for Saturday
is not the plan that Tony Khan went would see, know what, I'm
not gonna give him credit for something that never happened. Maybe that was the
plan, maybe it wasn't. All I know is that Takesha is in a
worse spot now than he was three months ago. And what Sammy said in
this promo is a shoot. It is one hundred percent fact they have squandered
whatever those victories were worth over Jericho and Omega on television on pay per view
have been squandered for no reason. But at least they're self aware enough to
admit it and weave it into this promo here. But I said at the
beginning of the review that Sting's opponent or potential opponents for Revolution after this show
tonight have come into focus a little bit here because where I think this may
be headed, Jericho and Sammy may end up winning the tag team titles.
I think a lot of it really boils down to how long is Kenny Omega
going to be out for? Because he looked I mean when he posted from
the hospital, he looked like he was in a bad way, And diverticulitis
is not something that you just bounce back from in two weeks. He could
be gone for a few weeks. He could be gone for a few months,
right, We just don't know how long. But if they could get
Kenny back relatively souit, I wonder if the idea is to have the tag
title switched over to Kenny and Jericho in the match for Revolution, right to
give Sting a match with some big names and a big star power, and
a big match for him to go out on is Sting and Darby in Greensboro
challenging for the AW tag team titles against Chris Jericho and Kenny o'meaga. Now
you could do Chris Jericho and Sammy Gevara. Omega would be a bigger star
goo to put in that match, or it could very well be Ricky Starts
in Big Bill. But to me, you know, for that to be
the final match of Sting's career, honest Lee, Jericho and Omega would pack
more of a punch just from a star power perspective. But it seems to
me like Sting may be winning the tag team titles in his final match and
retiring his champion. I mean, Tony Kahn revers him, and I think
that he looks at Sting. I don't think he wants to beat him at
all. I think he wants Sting to be the only man in AW history
to come in and to retire undefeated. And he's probably gonna send Sting out
with a tag team title win and then after Revolution they could vacate the belts
and have a tournament, right because he loves tournaments, so they could have
a tournament to cry new tag team champions. That's where I think this is
going. I mean, I never thought Sting was going to be in a
singles match. He hasn't done a singles match, right, They protected him
and had him in tag team matches. I think, frankly, that's by
Sting's choice. I don't know that he trusts himself to have a long sort
of you know, pay per view singles match at this point. So Sting
and Darby, instead of them wrestling each other, Sting and Darby is partners
winning the tag belt. I'm kind of surprised, frankly, they haven't won
the tag belts yet. I think that's what Tony Conn is saving for Revolution,
and I'm fine with that. Whoever it's against Jericho and Omega, if
it's Ricky and big Bill young Bucks, whoever it would be against sending Sting
out like that, I think is fine. I think that would be a
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was backstage with Roderick Strong and The Kingdom. They were showing off their bulletin
board of who is and is not the Devil all signs he said, pointed
to MJF as the devil, and he promised to expose Max. I have
to assume that the bulletin board here was inspired by It's Always Sonny in Philadelphia,
the Pepe Sylvia thing. I'm sure that was the whole point of doing
the segment the way they did it. That's a famous scene from that show.
Then we have the Continental Classic Blue League Final with Brian Danigelson going one
on one with Eddie Kingston. Loud chance for Eddie Kingston. This was a
very pro Eddie crowd here in Orlando. Booze for Danielson, yay's for Eddie
Kingston. And they showed a replay of Danielson grabbing and holding up a sign
many weeks ago when he beat Eddie in the Continental Classic and he grabbed a
sign and you see it here in the artwork Tonight. Shout out to Steve.
He held up a sign from the crowd that said Eddie is a bum,
and they made it a point to show that sign. It was like
a flashing neon sign that said Eddie is getting his wind back. Eddie is
getting his wind back, because that was the story. It's the redemption arc
of Eddie Kingston in this tournament. So Eddie hid an early saido supplex and
then he wrecked Danielson on a suicide died. Both men actually went backwards into
the steel guard rail. Danielson battled back and hit Kingston with a flying knee
off the apron, and then Danielson stood over him and taunted the crowd,
heading into a picture and picture break. As if there was any doubt about
who was playing the role of heel in this match, Brian Danielson left no
doubt. Danielson caught Kingston in the labellock and Kingston reached the ropes to break
the hold. Brian got Eddie up on the top turn buckle facing the crowd,
and Danielson joined him on the ropes. He was going to go for
a side supplex in mid sup plex, though in mid stride Kingston turned his
body and landed on top of Danielson. And Danielson sold it as if he
had landed on the eye, because he still has the it's not really a
patch, but he's got the bandage around the eye, so he sold it
like Eddie landed on the eye. We got a double down here, took
us into picture and picture, and during the picture and picture, both men
came face to face and Danielson just spat right in Eddie's face. Then we
got a chop battle between the two of them, and they were just brutalizing
each other, and Kingston got Brian down on his knees and just kept chopping
away and chopping away, and Danielson's chest was all bruised and bloody underneath the
skin, but he grabbed Kingston and he delivered a shoulder capture supplex for an
ear fall. So now Danielson starts laying in the yes kicks and then Eddie
Kingston, from his knees, looks up and spits in Brian Danielson's face right
just for what Danielson did to him. He spat right back in his face.
So Kingston ends up turning Danilson inside out with a lariat. He followed
that up with a Northern Lights bomb but Danielson kicked out and they mentioned on
commentary that's how Kingston beat Andrade in the main eventive collision this past weekend.
So Danielson connected with the bussaiku knee, He stacked Eddie for the pin and
Eddie Kingston got a shoulder up to stay alive in this match. After this,
Danielson started raining down the hammer in at anvil elbows. Bryce Remsburg is
there to check on Eddie and make sure he's still conscious or else he's gonna
call it off. Eddie is telling him no, no, no, I'm
fine, I'm fine. And then Brian looked to the crowd and said it's
time to kick this man's headed, and Bryce was and he proceeded to do
just that. Bryce Remsburg again is checking on him to make sure are you
are you alive? Are you conscious? Can you continue? And just to
show that in fact, he is still in this he lifted his middle finger
up at Brian Dangels and Danielson had a nice little smile at that. He
enjoyed that loud chance of Eddie. Brian then backed up into the corner and
when he came in for another busaiku knee, he ran right into a spinning
backfist and then a half and a half soup plex. There was another wild
backfist that connected, and then Kingston hit a Kuwata style power bomb with a
high stack to pin Brian Danielson and win the Blue League Final. That sends
him to the finals of the Continental Classic on Saturday to challenge his good friend
John Moxley, who made his way down after and before I even get into
the postmatch though, let me just talk about this match. Great great stuff.
I enjoyed this even more than the opener. This was a fantastic battle.
This was better than the match these two had on television a few weeks
ago, and I thought that was an excellent match. They topped it.
This was even better. It helped that the crowd was firmly behind Eddie because
Eddie is the under dog in this tournament, which sounds kind of weird,
because Eddie is the one who came into this and said, I have two
titles, I'll put them both on the line. He's the champion, he's
the defending champion. How could he be the underdog? Well, that's the
story they've been telling with him, and so the fact that the fans were
so into it and they were so behind Eddie. You would hope that that
was the case, otherwise it would kind of fuck with the whole story.
But it was great. And again Danielson had been like bullying this guy heading
into this match. You don't have enough heart, You're not the kind of
person. You're not gonna beat me, You're not going to go to the
finals of this thing. And in the end he took that and he shoved
it right back in his face and said, fuck you, Yes I can.
So I thought the match was fantastic. We get to the postmatch.
John Moxley comes down to the ring to check on Danielson, his fellow Blackpool
Combat Club member. Then he looks up and he locks eyes with Eddie Kingston
and he grabs a microphone and he says, Eddie, all I've ever asked
of you is one hundred percent your best. And for a guy who's angry
at the whole world, you sure do have a lot of people who love
you. Yeah, listen to these people. Listen to this crowd. Right,
everyone here in Orlando loves Eddie Kingston. Aw Fans across the country,
across the world, they love Eddie Kingston. Everyone on Saturday at World's End
is gonna love Eddie Kingston. He said, they deserve your maximum effort.
The problem is, I know you better than you know yourself. I know
that you can't beat me, and you know that you can't beat So you've
already lost, You've already given up. You're already making excuses. But that's
not gonna fly this time. A couple of years ago, I gave you
the shot of a lifetime and I let you off the hook. I let
you go out on your shield. I let you die a warrior's death when
I didn't have to, because I wanted you to come back stronger, because
I believed in you. This time, you're not gonna get one single favor.
You want to be a triple Crown champion, just like all you're here,
You're gonna have to earn every inch. And I assume that he was
referring to their title match Your Full Gear three years ago, so it was
actually three years ago instead of a couple of years ago. But I assume
that's the match he was referring to. So then Eddie grabs the microphone out
of Moxley's hand and he tells him You've talked enough goes. Let me tell
you something, dog, don't come out here and treat me like your young
boy, bitch yudah, because I'm no young boy. Remember something, I'm
your SEMPI I broke in before you. You're lucky I let you breathe.
But you're right. I hate myself more than I hate anyone else. But
on Saturday, the King of the Bums is gonna push you. You told
me one time when I wanted to quit aew, You're not allowed to You're
not allowed to quit because we need guys like you around to shape the younger
guys. I'm gonna give you everything I have. You better show your fighting
spirit. I'm gonna show you mine, and I'm gonna bust you up and
enjoy it. That he said, that's my outline. Tofer to tell him,
that's my outline, play my music, and they did, in fact
play the man's music. Wow, that was a great fucking promo. That
right there is a promo to sell you on a pay per view match from
two guys who were masters at John Moxley there. I can't tell you how
many times over the years that John Moxley and I feel like even if you
are not someone who likes John Moxley's matches. If you just don't like him,
you don't like always a death match guy. He can't wear you.
His promos on these go home shows going into so many pay per views over
the years, have been excellent. He knows how to take home a promo
heading into a big pay per view fight. This was no different hit.
All the high notes made it very clear. Look, you and I went
to Tow three years ago. I let you live this time. I'm not
going to be so nice. You can't win the big one. You can't
beat me, basically is what he was saying. I know you. And
then Eddie with the comeback letting him know you know every I mean, it
was just it was perfect. It was exactly what it needed to be to
help sell you on this match. So I thought that the match itself was
excellent. I thought the promo was great. And again, here's a guy
who was on the brink of elimination at the beginning of this tournament. You
know, he put his belt up on the line. He couldn't win a
match to save his life at the beginning of this thing. And I think
there was one point during this tournament where he was one loss away from being
mathematically eliminated, and so from the brink of elimination, you know, this
guy was able to fight his way back, the big valiant comeback all the
way to the finals in New York. That's not New York City, it's
Long Island, but still Boxley's an Ohio guy. Eddie's a New York guy.
Plenty of people from the city are going to be coming in for that
show. I don't know how many tickets they have, so they'll probably have
ten thousand or so in the building, which you know is a good number.
I wouldn't call that great, but it's a good number. I don't
know what they have it set up for. I know the capacity is a
lot more than ten thousand, but there's gonna be a lot of people coming
in, a lot of Eddie Kingston fans at that show on Saturday. He
will be the hometown favorite at world's end, and so it's the big comeback
story, a guy who really nobody gave a chance. If you watch the
beginning of this thing, makes it all the way to the funds, right,
That's why I said before, he's the underdog going into the finals this
weekend, and not only now is he one win away from winning the entire
thing, but he's one went away from not only keeping his titles, but
winning this brand new championship that they're creating out of thin air. And they're
merging them all together and calling at the triple which, as I've said,
means nothing to me. That'll be on Tony Kahn and aw a year from
now when we come back for the Continental Classic Part two, that by then
this Triple Crown actually means something, right, that's up to them to make
him mean something. It means nothing to me, But to Eddie Kingston that's
a different story. Because Eddie Kingston grew up a fan of All Japan Pro
wrestling, not just Japanese wrestling. He was a huge mark for nineties All
Japan. The two most important things to Eddie Kingston that he loves the most
in his entire life, I'm sure other than you know, is he married,
or he's got a girlfriend or a wife other than his mother or maybe
his girlfriend's slash wife, the two things most important to him DMX and nineties
All Japan. And so here's this guy now going into the finals where he
could become a triple Crown champion. You know that to him, that does
mean something more than anybody else in this entire tournament. It means something legitimately
to Eddie Kingston. That's cool. That's cool that he would make it all
the way to the finals as somebody who actually cares about that sort of thing
and who would really mean something too for real. What it also does is
it ties up, or potentially ties up, a longer term story between Kingston
and Moxley. These two guys, they've been friends, they've been enemies when
Kingston first came into the company that first year in twenty twenty, right,
they went toe to toe and again Moxley gave him a title shot. And
even just a few months ago it was Eddie Kingston trying to convince John Moxlay
that he did not need to be part of the Blackpool Combat Club with that
jerk Claudia trying to convince him to leave the faction. Right, that was
only a few months ago, and then it looked like they got away from
that story. So now they're coming back to it. At least that's not
as egregious as waiting an entire year like with Swerve and Keith Lee to come
back to it. This has been an ongoing story off and on involving these
two. So you have this longer term story here that hopefully they'll be able
to tie up in some way on Saturday at World's End. So I like
that aspect of it. In one promo, they sold me on the match
where when Moxley won that opener at the beginning of the show, it was
like, Moxley, what about Jay White again? Swerve? I wasn't expected,
but now they have me interested. They have my attention now, especially
after that promo. I think Moxley and Kingston could be could potentially steal the
show on Saturday, especially if the crowd is as into that match as I
think they will be. And we'll get to see with this Continental Classic belt,
the Continental title I guess they're calling it. We'll get to see what
it looks like on Saturday. They've had it covered up now for the last
several weeks. I'm surprised, honestly, they have it right there at the
head of the aisleway. I'm surprised that there's been nobody in the crowd that's
just went fuck. It just reaches over and pulls, just pulls a pulls
the cover off of it, just to show everybody what it looks like.
Not that I'm advocating that. Shout out to Isa, I see you acknowledge
her. There you go, she'll appreciate that. After the break, Lexi
Naire was in the back. She was supposed to do a sit down interview
with Christian Cage and Adam Copeland. Christian Cage was there and we had Nick
Wayne and as he calls her mother Wayne, she was there. No Adam
Copelan He's been waiting the whole show. Where's Copeland? Copeland finally shows up,
He's not in the mood to talk. He immediately attacks Christian. He
ended up beating him up into the hallway, and we had the mid Card
cruise show up to try to break the two of them up, so we
never did get the sit down interview that we were promised. They didn't do
a very good job though, because Copeland broke free, ran down the hallway
and ended up attacking Christian a second time, and so the mid card crew
once again comes over and breaks them up, and Christian yelled out to him,
called him a coward. I did spot Brian Keith in there, and
I spotted the von Erikson there as well, but Chris Statlander against the newly
healed sky Blue. Stokely Halthaway sat in on commentary as ex Caliber talked about
him trying to drive a wedge recently between Chris Statlander and Willow Nightingale. Okay,
if you say so. After a delayed vertical supplex by Statlander, Stokely
was talking about her toughness coming back from injuries while his cousin Leon works at
AutoZone and he twisted his ankle. It has been out for five years.
Well help Leon is collecting workman's comp Skyblue gained control before picture and pictures.
By the way, I have to ask the question, since he says here,
I wonder what she thought got Tell me what you thought of Don Callous
in those paintings, or at least one of the paintings. He had the
Roman Reigns tribal tattoos on himself. She probably thought that was sacrilege. I'm
sure that she wasn't very happy about that. I thought he wore it.
Well, I don't know. I don't know what you think, but sky
Blue got controlled before picture and picture. Statlander fired back with a series of
closed lines and connected with a chaos theory for two. Sky Blue answered with
a Code Blue for a near fall. So sky Blue wanted a second rope
hurrican Rana. Statlander countered it into a power bomb and they fought in the
corner after this, where sky Blue slid out of a superplex attempt and then
she took the referee, so now the referee is distracted. Here comes Julia
Hart the TBS chain from underneath the ring, and Julia claubred Statlander with her
TVs title, and sky Blue ended up winning with an avalanche Code Blue.
I thought the match was fine. I have no idea what's going on here,
nor is any of this interesting enough for me to go out of my
way to watch Rampage and Ring of Honor on a weekly basis to follow this
story. But this story has now bled over into dynamite and I have no
idea what's going on. But that's fine. That's my fault. Like I
said, if I was interested enough to figure out what story is being told
here, I would watch the other shows, but I ain't got time for
that. When it was over though. When the match was over, sky
Blue and Julia attacked Statlander before Willow Nightingale ran down to the ring and cleaned
house, and as Heart and Blue retreated up the ramp out, came Abadon,
who is challenging Julia for the TVs title at World's End on Saturday.
And so that was a little preview of what we are getting on set.
Renee was backstage with Ruby, soho and Sore Oh my god this segment.
This segment backstage with Ruby and Sorea, and Renee asks Ruby about her match
coming up with Marina Shaffir a rampage of this bread and Sorea interrupted Ruby in
mid sentence to tell her, look, she's so excited. I got a
present for you because Ruby's birthday is coming up next month, which is true.
I believe Ruby's birthday is coming up on January ninth, and so she
got a gift. She got a present for her. But what is this
present? It is Harley. Now. I know there are some people who
are watching this who really don't pay attention to some of the mid card storylines,
saying who the hell was that this? Harley Cameron. She was part
of Qt's crew before QT said peace out, I'm out of here. She
was part of his crew. Remember, they did like a They even showed
him music video that she did that was back when they were feuding with the
Acclaimed anyway, that's who that was. It was Harley Cameron. And she
walks in. She's standing next to Soirea, and she said, she's a
good little helper who will do anything she goes. She's really good with her
hands, and Ruby said, yes, so I've heard. And then she
suddenly got a phone call from Angelo Parker, who I get you know in
storyline is her new boyfriend here. These two have been hot, they've had
the hots for each other now for weeks and weeks. So she goes off
to talk to Angelo, and now we're left with Sorea and Harley. So
she asked Soirea, how did this partnership come about with you and Harley?
And then inexplicably, Charley Cameron pulls out a butcher knife. I swear to
god, she pulls out a butcher knife, and Soreya then had to calm
her down and they walked off. What the fuck was this? Why did
she pull out a butcher knife? What are these stories that are playing out
here on these other shows that I'm clearly out of the loop on here is
her background. Now she's a serial killer? All of a sudden, is
she gonna come down to the ring with this butcher? As? You know,
it's not Halloween. I mean, I guess you got abadant walking around,
so it's Halloween every week. I don't know why she had a fucking
butcher knife. That sounds like something Tony Kahan should probably make a ruling on
what it is. Banging myself on the table here, I don't know what's
going on here, and I'm all spook. Now a butcher knife? All
right? Then? The main event was supposed to be MJF and Samoa Joe
defending the Ring of Honor World Tag She's the new butcher, Okay, I
guess so yeah, I guess the butcher is gone and we now have a
new butcher. Her name is Harley. The main event was supposed to be
MJF and Samoa Joe defending the Ring of Honor World Tag Team titles against the
Devil's Henchman with the Ring of Honor Tag Team titles. By the way,
there was an update today on liv Morgan, who was pulled over in Florida
a few weeks ago with the Devil's Lettuce and some more information about the arrest.
Apparently, she told the arresting officer that the vate pen in the back
seat that they found her with was not hers. She says, I have
a lot of people in and out of my car. I don't know where
that vate pen came from. And then they arrested her. So that's the
update on Livemore. That apparently was the word going around the locker room that
week that the bait pen didn't belong to her. So I don't know why.
That just made me think of Live Morgan for some reason. So that's
the update on Live Morgan. This did not start until ten PM, so
you knew this was going to be more storyline than match. So the Devil's
henchmen entered through the crowd. I like, by the way, the little
addition here they had the white Devil's mask imprinted on the back of their shirts.
I wonder if the Devil is going to open up his own store on
pro wrestling teas. Maybe he'll start selling T shirts. Hey, you know,
maybe he's got the entrepreneurial spirit. I guess. Just so we're aware
that they are with the Devil, we needed to see the Devil's mask imprinted
on the back of their shirts so that MJF was out next, and then
Samoa Joe. They played his music. The only problem is no Samoa Joe.
So then they showed Joe up on the big screen and he is lying
on the ground in the back, writhing in pain, clutching his knee and
MJF says, you know what, fuck this, I'm gonna do this match
by myself. We're doing this right now, by myself. Ring the bell.
So they ring the bell and just like that, the ring of honor
World tag team titles are on the line. Now. He had a wrap
around his left shoulder, the shoulder with the torn labram, and he was
doing a fine job by himself. Tried to pull the mask off one of
the men when he got him outside the ring, but while the referee,
I guess, was being distracted on the inside, another mass man rolls out
from underneath the ring and he's got a pipe and he hits MJF and the
shoulder with the pipe, and then the mass man crawls back underneath the ring.
One of the legal mass men then hit MJF. That got him on
the apron. He hits MJF with his own heat seeker, spikes him and
then he covers him for the pin with his feet on the ropes and the
other mass man holding the feet for leverage, and he pins MJF. He
pins the AEW World Heavyweight Champion to win the Ring of Honor World Tag Team
Times three days before the pay per view. After the match, all three
henchmen attack MJF. When Samoa Joe's music plays again, and here comes Samoa
Joe and he's hobbling down to the ring. People are trying to hold him
back. No, no, no, you're heard. He's got a chair
in his head and he hobbles all the way down to the ring with a
chair, and the henchman bail and Joe helps JF. You could see where
this was going. He helps MJF to his feet. All of a sudden,
the Devil appears on the big screen. It's the same footage of the
Devil. It's like that little three second video of the Devil. And then
they take it off the screen and then a message flashes on the screen that
says pleasure doing business with you, and they cut back to the ring and
MJF is looking up at this and he's all confused, and Joe is standing
behind him with the chair and g I wonder what's gonna happen next, And
Joe gets this look on his face and he takes the chair and he rears
back and he smashes MJF in the back with the steel chair. Down goes
the champion. So then he takes MJF into the corner and he says,
I did this to you. He picks him up, puts him on his
shoulders, he delivers a musclebuster, and then he picks up the aw World
Heavyweight title and he plants his foot on mjf's chest and he poses with the
championship to close out the show. The only positive thing about this is that
they got the Ring of Honor World Tag Team titles the hell off MJF because
those belts weren't doing nothing for him, So that's a good thing. Everything
else about this questionable at best. Pinning MJF going into World's end really not
very bright. And I know, oh the story they're trying to tell.
They're trying to tell the story where MJF ment he just lost his Ring of
Honor World Tag Team titles and broke his promise to his best friend, and
he got pinned and he's injured. The stack is decked against him. No,
the deck is stacked against MJF going into World's End. That's the story
they wanted to tell. I get that, that doesn't make it good,
but I see the story they're trying to tell. It's the same story we
got a month ago to Full Gear where MJF was hurt. We didn't even
know if he was gonna be able to come out and wrestle Jay White in
the main event, but he did on one leg and he still won.
So now here we are into another pay per view and the champion is hurt,
and all I could think is this guy beat Jay White with one leg,
so he's gonna have no problem with Samoa Joe at World's End. He
already beat Samoajo a Grand Slam when he was healthy. Now he's got the
bad shoulder, didn't stop him last month against Jay White. He'll be fine.
So again, the champion is wounded going into another pay per view made
event. So now we know that Samoa Joe he's a devil, but he
is not the devil. We can rule him out. He is not the
devil. That we now know. The question is was he working with the
devil this entire time or was it just for the one week. My read
on this is he's been working with whoever this devil is this entire time.
It's why I go back to Adam Cole. And maybe it is in fact
as simple as Adam Cole is going to be the devil, which is what
most people predicted from the word go on this because Adam Cole is the one
who talked MJF into giving Joe the shot that he wanted. Joe said,
I want to rematch for the aw world title. I'll watch your back,
I'll be your partner, I'll watch your back. You got to give me
my rematch. He was not going to do it, he told Joe piss
off. And it was Adam Cole sitting in the ring in the chair,
in his cast with his crutches. He said, no, no, no,
no, no no, You've got to do this. You've got to
give him his shot. So it sounds to me like this has all been
the plane the entire time. Adam Cole maybe is the one pulling the strings.
Maybe he is the devil after all. He and or Britt Baker end
up being revealed as the Devil. The thing is, I have no reason
to doubt that the injury to Adam Cole is as they say. He is
hurt, He did have significant surgery. He very likely is not going to
be able to get back in the ring for a very long time. If
that's the case, that means that they're going to drag this story out even
longer. This is a story that needs It's not gonna end on Saturday,
but this is a story that needs an end to the current chapter and to
turn to the next one already. That has to happen at World's End this
weekend, which means there has to be a reveal of some kind, Like
I know, the story doesn't just end at World's End, but it has
to open the next chapter of the story as we go into this new year.
Now, if that means that it's Adam Cole and then he'll just be
the Devil and send other people at MJF until he's ready to come back.
Yeah, but when is that going to be or have they been swerving us
and the injury wasn't as serious as we were led to believe. I honestly,
and I know this's gonna sound silly if this is the one thing I'm
basing this song, But like, I just I know, I know how
important his twitch audience is to him, and how he tries to keep the
two things separate and be on the up and up with them, And I
really don't think that he would just kind of lie to those people for the
benefit of putting over a wrestling angle. Like everything about this has told me
that this guy really fucked up his and he's going to be gone for a
while. And that's why Tony Kahan had a pivot. We've had all these
weird turns in this story because whatever his original plans were got shattered literally at
Grand Slam. But if it ends up that he pulled the wool over our
faces and it's Adam Cole, and Adam Cole is ready to get back in
the ring very soon, then hey, egg on my face. I really
don't think so, though, But my god, do we need to reveal
already for this story and to move it along to whatever the next chapter is
going to be. And as I look ahead now, if it is Adam
Cole, I mean, Adam Cole, you have the Kingdom, and you
have Wardlow and that to me would be at this moment the scenario that makes
the most sense to me. The two men who won the Ring of Honor
World Tag Team titles tonight are nameless and faceless. They could call them that
too, call one nameless the other one faceless. It's it's probably the Kingdom.
It's probably Tavin and Bennett. I always thought the end game was going
to be them getting the belts anyway. I mean, that's where I thought
this was going. I thought Roddy was going to step in as the de
facto partner for mjf Right, Adam, I'm gonna step in for him for
even though I don't like this guy, and then he would do something to
throw one of their matches when they were wrestling the Kingdom. The Kingdom win
the Ring of Honor World Tag Team titles. They didn't do it that way,
But we may have just seen them win the belts tonight. We just
haven't had the reveal yet. But if I had to take a guess right
now as we go into this weekend, that would be my best guess as
far as who's involved here. That we do have a pay per view on
Saturday, it is the final aw pay per view, the final wrestling pay
per view of twenty twenty three at His World's End from the Nasau Coliseum.
Let's do predictions. We have the full card now. We had a bunch
of matches added to the card and made official tonight. So let's run through
this and I will give you my predictions as we go along. We have
the zero Hour Apprecia. They have added a Tony Kahan special. They have
added a twenty man Battle Royal. The winner of that Battle Royal will get
a shot at the TNT Championship anywhere, anytime my hands are clasped together.
Takeshta, Takeshka should win this Battle Royal. They intentionally kept him by the
way out of the eight man tag on Saturday. You would think it would
be Hobbs and Takeshta tagging with Ricky Starks in Big Bill. No, no,
no, it's Hobbes and Kyle Fletcher that leaves Takeshta without a match.
Put him in the Battle Royal. Let him win the entire thing. Then
he'll have a TNT title match in his back pocket. Then he'll have something.
Right now, he's got nothing, at least, then he'll have something.
Hook is gonna defend his FTW Championship against Wheeler Yudah. I got hooked
going over here. Julia Hart defends the TBS title against Abadon. You can't
take the title of Julia Harts, just one damn thing. Julie is going
to retain. Christian Cage defends the TNT Championship no disqualification against Adam Copeland.
I think they do the title change. I think Copeland is gonna win the
TNT title. That'll be his first championship, I believe since twenty eleven when
he retired the first time. They could always stretch this out to a third
match. I think we're gonna get a title change though on Saturday. And
by the way, if Copeland wins the TNT title, and let's say Takeshta
wins the Battle Royal, if he could cash in on that title shot anytime
anywhere, who's to say he doesn't do it on Saturday, right, I'm
just saying technically, it's like a money in the bank. He can cash
it in anywhere anytime. Copeland could win and then immediately lose. Miro goes
one on one with Andrade l Edelo, and I'm thinking Andrad is getting the
win here. Tony Storm defends her aw Women's World title against Rejo. Tony
Storm is not losing to ReHO. I'm sorry, Riha regime members. Yes,
you've done well at for Combat. There you go. You're gonna be
going out on your second tour. Yeah. Rejo is not winning the championship
on Saturday. Stand down. Tony Storm is retaining her title. Swerve Strickland
goes one on one with Keith Lee. A match that has been more than
a year in the making is finally happening. It says if Tony Kahn awoke
from a coma, He's been in a coma for a year. He woke
up and said, oh boy, I better book this Keith Lee Swerve Strickland
match, and we're finally getting it on Saturday now. I like Keith Lee.
I don't want to make it sound like if Keith Lee wins, Swerve
is buried, Swerve is done. Swerve was in the Continental Classic, he
lost to John Moxley. He failed in the finals. This man should be
groomed for a World Championship match in the first half of twenty twenty four.
I don't want to see Swerve go worlds in and lose to keithh. Lee.
Swerve is a man on the ascent right now. Keith Lee is not,
and I would like to see Keith Lee get pushed. But this is
a match that Swerve should win. Swerve needs a rebound win, and that's
the win that he should get on Saturday. I'm picking Swerve to go over
in this match. I think anything else would be a mistake. Doesn't mean
that he's buried, but he should not be losing this match. He is
the one right now with the momentum. He is the one that should be
in line in these next few months for a world title match. We have
Sting, Darby Allen, Chris Jericho, and Sammy Gebara. They're all going
to be teaming up to take on Ricky Stark's Big Bill, Powerhouse Hobbs,
and Kyle Fletcher. So so much for the open contract that Chris Jericho said
he had, presumably for a tag team title match, I guess he's gonna
hold off on that. He's very loyal to Kenny o'meag. He doesn't want
to wrestle for those titles without Kenny had his son, so we're getting an
eight man tag. Sting is not losing before Revolution. Sting is undefeated.
Sting will remain undefeated. They're gonna pick up the win. We've got the
finals of the Continental Classic all set. It's gonna be John Moxley going one
on one with Eddie Kingston, a match that twenty four hours ago I would
have said, all right, but not really excited for it. Now they
sold me on it. So as far as like a go home show selling
you on a key match for the pay per view, I can't say that
what they did with the main event stuff sold me anymore on the main event.
I mean, I like the idea of Samoa Joe challenging for the World
Championship in the main event, like I dig that the angle they did tonight
did nothing to get me any more excited for that match. But for the
Continental Classic, that promo, that back and forth between Moxley and Kingston sold
me. I am looking forward to that match honestly more than any other match
on the show this weekend. And I think Eddie Kingston is going to win
the Triple Crown this whole tournament. It was right in front of your face,
not realizing that this has been the Eddie Kingston story. And yes,
They could have used this tournament to put over somebody new as somebody younger who
could have benefited and needed it more. But that's clearly not what this tournament
was designed to do. You can't say, though, that the Continental Classic
was devoid of any story. You can't say that. You can't say that
now. Honestly, you couldn't say that before either. The only people who
would say that are the ones who haven't actually been watching the fucking tournament.
They have been weaving stories into this tournament, even Daniel Garcia, who went
winless until he finally beat Brody king last weekend. Right, that's a story,
the story of Eddie Kingston coming back from the brink of elimination trying to
win the Triple Crown. He grew up a wrestling fan watching people win and
defend the Triple Crown. That's a story. You may not like that story,
but that doesn't make it any less of one. Eddie Kingston is going
to win the Continental Class and in the main event, MJF defends the aw
World Championship against Samoa Joe. I thought there was a chance that Joe would
win this title. I did. I thought that might give Joe a token
run, MJF then gets the belt back. MJF is not losing on Saturday.
MJF is going to persevere even with the injury, just like he did
last month. He's going to retain the aw World title. I believe and
my hope is that when World's End goes off the air on Saturday, the
final show of twenty twenty three, we have the Devil reveal that will set
things up heading into twenty twenty four. Whether it's Adam Cole, Brit Baker,
Jack Perry, Roderick Strong, or whoever it may be. My best
guess Adam Cole with the Kingdom and Wardlobe, that's what we're gonna get for
the reveal, whatever it is. I hope we get that reveal at the
end of this show. And then heading into twenty twenty four, you know
you've got MJF and Wardlow coming up soon, and you've got MJF and Swerve,
which they tease last week, and we'd be very upset if they don't
deliver on that match sometime, whether it be Revolution or even Double or Nothing,
Double or nothing is still a ways away, but hopefully we will get
that Swerve an MJF match at some point in the first half of next year.
Seems to me like that was just the tease for something longer term,
and MJF is going to have some other people to run through first before he
gets to swerve. But that's your World's end preview for Saturday, and I
will be live on YouTube as soon as the pay per view goes off the
air at three o'clock in the morning. You can come on back here to
the channel and I will be recapping the good, the bad, and the
ugly of the show. I will not be at the Nasau policy I've been
to my fair share of shows at the Nasau Coliseum. I will be right
here so you'll get the live RecA as soon as the show goes off the
air. Here's the Twitter poll for tonight not a great score, fifty nine
percent thumbs up, forty one percent of you I've given the show a thumbs
down, so you can go ahead and vote. At Solomoster, bliss Fan
says, what if MJF is actually a free agent on January first? So
bliss Fan Apparently bliss Fan believes that MJF could very well be done, which
means he would lose the title. I could take the title off of him
on Saturday. Well, I don't believe that MJF is done as of January
first. I am in the camp who believes that MJF re signed a long
time ago, because Tony Kahn would be out of his fucking mind not to
already have him resigned and still have him in the position that he's in.
So I believe he's already I know he has said otherwise, but what else
would he say publicly? So I didn't ask him about it, because you're
not gonna go I'm not gonna ask a question that I are already know the
answer to. That's for other people to do. I believe that he's already
resigned, But I guess we'll find out, won't we. We're not that
far off from January first. We won't have to wait that much longer.
Hey, Del Fuego is at the Arena tonight in Orlando. Del Fuego,
let me know what you thought of the show. Bliss fan says, the
coliseum has become a dump has become Have you been to the coliseum before?
Dump may be a little bit, a little bit strong, but I wouldn't
exactly say it was a sprawling oasis even before the renovation. I just hope
that we get an actual crowd that has a pulse, because the Nassau Colisseum
does not always have the best reputation when it comes to lively crowds. I
mean, it's not quite Corps Is Christie, but it's pretty close. But
MJF. You know, he's a Long Island guy. He's in the main
event, right, Eddie Kingston. I think we'll get a good crowd on
Saturday, I hope, so we'll find out. We'll all find out together.
World's in. You know, all this talk about how AW is moving
to an every month pay per view model, apparently not all those people who
were so sure of that. We have January coming up, there's been no
pay per view announced. We've got February coming up, there's been no pay
per view announced. Shows you that those people know what they're talking about,
don't they. That's right, And they also tease them MJF and Hangman,
So that could also be a potential direction, all right. And by the
way, if you have prediction for World's End, you could also get those
on in and I will I will read them if you want to shie in
By the way, people have asked me about The Iron Claw. I did
see The Iron Claw yesterday, and I'm going to have an Ironclaw review going
up here on the channel tomorrow, probably in the afternoon at some point,
so watch for it. My full Iron Claw review on YouTube tomorrow afternoon.
Those of you who have been asking me about the movie, Lady Fire panded
with a twenty dollars super chat. Saw some people on x talking about wanting
an Iron Claw style movie on Chris Benoit, so that I think about what
Cayman said, three people died that night, Nancy and Daniel had no choice
to die. He did fuck him. Well, his thoughts pretty much marror
mine. Yeah, we don't need that. They were gonna make a movie
about Benoir. Remember that was a movie that was being playing and then it
got shelved. And I think on the shelf is work alongs Jackie Fowler chiming
in her with a sixty two dollars super chat. Hey Jackie, thank you
very much. What do you think of a match between Cody Rhoads and AJ
Styles, the former face of AW against the former face of TNA. The
story being both men carried their companies, but AJ can say he was a
world champion in his everything Cody has done AJ has done first. So two
things about that. Number One, I think a Cody AJ match would be
great and I would love to see it. Uh, but they are not
going to base their fewd in WWE on the fact that Cody was in AAW
and AJ was in TNA. Never gonna happen, nor should they because they
don't happen because the WWE audience doesn't give a shit. They don't they don't
give a shit about their past and other companies. AJ's been how long has
AJ been in WWE now, he's been there now for like seven or eight
years? Is he's so far removed from TNA to bring it up now would
be silly. So they will absolutely not do a feud based on that.
The closest you might get is if they're going back and forth on the stick
and AJ throws a little dig in there about about that, that just maybe
for like the fans who know, but it's not going to be based around
that. There's no way. There's no way that would happen. Steve Joseph,
would you have a review up on the Iron Claw? Yes, tomorrow
it will be up tomorrow. I will have an audio review up on the
channel tomorrow, so watch for it. I will give you my thoughts on
the movie and get into a lot of the Von Eric history that was not
included in the movie, including an entire Von Eric that was not included in
the movie. Steve says, what was better the Wrestler or the Iron Claw,
the wrestler wild Bird or my suggestion, AW needs to establish a weight
class division like New Japan. I don't think they do. I don't think
that that's the answer to the problem of why people are not as excited for
the AW product. I don't think he needs weight classes. Has nothing to
do with weight classes. Is not going to improve the product or make it
any better or any worse. It's not necessary. Also, I have a
problem with AAW. They need to stop overexposing their top tier talent every week.
Give them the brock Lessner and Roman Reigns schedule. Doesn't Tony Conn already
do that? Don't we have people who show up and then don't show up
for weeks at a time. I thought he was already doing that. I
have a solution, he says, to prevent overexposure in AW for twenty twenty
four. The most valuable top tear talent should have their own tour date posted
on social media. What does that even mean? Their own tour dates?
What are they singing? They're at a band. Jericho has his own tour
dates. Is Malachi Black going to go on his own I don't know what
that means. You mean like independent dates? If anything, I would want
my top tier talent to not be going on tour. All that does is
risk injury. Tony CON's had enough injuries this year. Uh zay ninety seven,
Thank you for the ten bucks. I recently got back into wrestling since
WWE put the belt on Gender in twenty seventeen. That got you back into
wrestling? Was gender Mahal is the WWE champion? God bless you. I
only regret missing the bloodline story? Is there any oh okay I miss read.
I misread your superchat. Okay, thought, but you got back into
wrestling because of gender Mahal. I was about to say, you're so,
You're the one he got out of wrestling because they put the belt ungeon.
Well, that makes more sense. I completely misunderstood your super chat. Is
there any moments, matches, et cetera that you recommend from twenty seventeen to
twenty twenty two. I'm gonna leave the majority of that to the chat.
I mean, I can't possibly name everything. I mean, you missed a
lot of quality, a lot of quality matches in that time. I can't
possibly name them all. I mean, from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two,
even when the television was at it's worst as far as stories at twenty
eighteen was twenty eighteen was pretty bad, but I mean, just looking at
WrestleMania, there were some really class matches on some of those shows. I
mean twenty nineteen, what you missed was the whole KOFE media thing at the
beginning of the year where the fans really got behind KOFE Kingston and he beat
Daniel Bryan or WrestleMania and won the championship. I could tell you from being
in the building that night. It was an emotional thing for a lot of
the people who were there, and the KOFEE media thing. I mean,
he held the title for six months after that, but yeah, the really
fun part was the story getting there. So that was the first few months
of twenty nineteen, the COVID era. You know, look I don't think
a lot of people are going to be looking back on the COVID era like,
oh, I can't wait to go back and watch all those empty arena
shows. Wrestling is not meant to take place in an empty arena, so
I don't know that I would look back fondly on that period. But that's
not to say that there were in some quality matches during that period, you
know, and even with the Bloodline stuff, they would do things on TV
in the Thunderdome with no fans, but you could hear them, right,
Roman was talking during his matches, right. They had the freedom to do
stuff that they couldn't do otherwise, so they tried to make the most of
it. Check out the Boneyard match from WRESTLEMANNI A thirty six with Undertaker and
AJ Stiles. But I'm sure the chat will chime in with other things you
should check out. Prince Vegeta. Why does Tony kah overprotect Moxley? Is
it really that necessary to give him a win here than someone on the Rise
Life Sword? Well, again, he has his stories that he wants to
tell, and Moxley is probably one of the highest paid guys in the entire
company. He's re signed until twenty twenty seven. Moxley is one of his
guys, so he feels the need to protect him. John Moxley has been
the most protected guy on the roster since day one when he first came in.
I mean last year. You look at his win loss record, it
was ridiculous. He really does. He goes out of his way to protect
Moxley, which I kind of respect honestly, that he would have one top
guy he would protect that much, with the hope that when he does lose
it means something like the Saturday when he loses Eddie Kingston, hopefully it'll mean
something a wild bird maybe Private Party is helping out the devil. Food Hid
early to the party, So what's up? Chat? That was from Food
High two hours ago. Food Hi's still with us? What's going on?
Food Hid? What are you cooking up tonight? Hyper Cam. Hope Mariah
they gets to be creative with her character. Have not seen anyone make a
generic sexy gimmick nearly as hilarious as she did in Stardom. I hope so
too. Moroa with a ten dollars super Chet was a great show with a
bad ordering of segments. Devil stuff should have started, followed by the three
way everything else in the same position with Danielson against Eddie closing and Moxley and
Eddie promo. I do wonder if part of it was also just that well,
I mean, I think the Devil thing is their top storyline right now,
so that's why they want to end with it. But also you run
the risk if you're going to close out with the promo and you're already in
your overrun if they go over you don't want that promo getting cut off and
bet promo. I would actually rather that go on when it did, so
that way, something else gets cut not that sick. So I'm actually okay
with the ordering on the show tonight for that reason. Devin from NJ Racing
Queen is going to be my wedding song. If my bride says no to
it, then that marriage will not work for me and I will divorce her
right then and there. Well, that right there is a smart man.
I agree with you. Let me know how it works out. Also want
Solo Baine to be the one who marries us that I don't know about.
You might have lost me on that Misfit Wrestling podcast. I still prefer Jay
White finding his way back to New Japan, and I feel like this was
the loophole. This would have been the loophole. But it doesn't mean that
he can't find his way back at some point. I'm sure he will.
It's wrestling. They'll always find a way, no matter how stupid it might
sound. Paul Carpenter, So Samoa Joe was on the floor for no reason
apparently, Yeah, he was throwing them off the scent. He's a good
actor, right, That's why they cast him to play the what's his role?
Sweet tooth right and Twisted Metal. I think that guy has a future
in Hollywood. Rodham his prime swerve against Lee on Saturday. Cool. Other
than that one year too late. That said, I'm pulling for Eddie to
also win Dylan Hensley with the twenty dollars super Jed. I should have mentioned
before that sometimes Ricky Starks will visit the Academy, since that's where he graduated.
I was at first nervous to meet him, but I always try to
ask for advice, and the best advice he gave us was to work out
well, because he knows how important that is if you want to get television
time you got to look apart, but smart advice. Maybe you should get
on the same diet that Randy Orton and aj Styles were all when they came
back to TV. I don't know if you could afford it, though,
See they could afford it. Thank you, Dylan. That's very cool though
that there Ricky graduated from the same school. I did not know that,
Uh Markwah in nineteen seventy six, dropping by to say happy holidays to everybody
despite being sick as a dog right now. Well, that's so, I'm
sorry to hear that. Happy holidays to you too. I hope you.
I hope you're well by the New Year. I'm gonna be here with all
of you on New Year's Eve. I hope you're better by them and you
can join us. The Juliette Scotti too Hotty made aw debut in a dark
match. Guess what they need? Actually, Scotti would probably be a good
coach for them in the ring. Yeah, I don't know about that,
uh Samoan fan. I predict that the Devil will cost MJF the title at
World's End and will unmask as Brandy Rhodes. The fans fucked her over and
so she screws them over back. You know, Brandy would technically be a
free agent. She's not tied to a WWE contract, so she could sign
with AW if she wanted to. I think that's a terrible idea, but
she could technically do that. I despise Babyface MJF. I am sick of
it. Bobert reviews Boozball is the devil, it says Mama Bouche, Ali
Mohammad, Power Call and Britt leading Spears Wardlow And it doesn't have to be
Spears. I think it would be leading Wardlow and the Kingdom and Roddy and
that's your crew. B D Skeleton Doctor. Britt Baker is the devil.
Very possible. After tonight, I could see it. I could see it
food high. I love that the company is improving its flaws. That might
get you some heat. I know there are a lot of people who disagree.
Based on the feedback. Barry MK four hundred eight, what was worse
the boxing match from wrestle Many of fifteen or the sumo match from wrestle Mania
twenty one? The sumo match from WrestleMania twenty one, And that's not even
a question. You know why you know how I know that because I'm still
scarred. You know why I'm scarred because I still remember that moment where Big
Show got thrown out of the ring and we got a nice ass shot and
he wasn't wearing anything except the sumo gear. That doesn't that doesn't leave your
brain, that sticks with you. The boxing match was I mean, it
was over like that butter being knocked him out and it was over harmless,
maybe not the bar done, but harmless. Big Show. I'm still scarred
all the It's almost twenty years later. I'm still scarred. Man. I
saw more Big Show that day than his wife does. Nash dts, I
know you hated the new Godzilla movie, but maybe I didn't say. I
didn't say I hated the movie. Who said I hated the Godzilla? All
I said was it was a good movie. I didn't rave about it the
way other people raved about it because to me, I was expecting a different
kind of movie at the beginning, more of an origin type thing, and
it wasn't that, and so I didn't like that aspect of it. But
I never said it was a bad movie and I hate it. And by
the way, he says, maybe you'll like Shin Godzilla. As soon as
I came home the next day, I watched Shin Godzilla for the first time.
I actually enjoyed Shin Godzilla more. That doesn't mean I hated the new
Godzilla, but I thought Shin Godzilla was actually really good and was more in
line with the kind of Godzilla movie I was hoping to see. The only
thing I would say about Shin Godzilla if you've seen it, is the first
appears of Godzilla in that movie when he makes landfall. I thought it was
a joke. When they showed dirt face Godzilla, I said, what the
fuck is that? And then but I guess the story is that he was
He was like morphing and he was in he was in agony or because as
the movie went on, he looked more like Godzilla. I saw that.
I said, am I watching a comedy? Like? You gotta be kidding
me? Is it because it has a low budget? Why does he look
that way? It looked awful, not as awful as Rick Flair in this
Iron Claw movie, but still pretty awful. But I actually like shim Godzilla
a lot. Dirt face Godzilla, that's what he was. That's what he
was. Uh, d H sires, this is a better version of retribution,
is it though? Is it? Food Hive? What was for er?
What was for dinner? Chicken cutlets and Pillsbury Crescent Rooms? Nick Grosso.
After tonight, I think the Devil is going to swerve Samoa Joe and
cost him the title at World's End. Well, however, however, it
goes down. I don't think Samoa Joe is walking out with a championship,
not after tonight, d H sires. To be honest, this Devil's story
has gone downhill since Punk showed up at Survivors here, simply because of the
slight chance it was Punk, it would be the most shocking and wild.
It was never going to be seam and Daddy Ugarte Actually, yes, yes,
I did, Yes, I did, said Solo wanted to see teenager
Godzilla bitten by a radioactive radio active lizard turned into Godzilla my minus one.
Yes, yes, no, Actually, you know what I wanted. You
know what I thought this movie was. I thought that it was going to
be more of an origin story coming out of the war, and you know,
the bombs have fallen and there's all the RADI you know, the radioactivity
and everything and we really do get something of you know, like what what
is that? Instead of it just like in the first five minutes of the
movie, like oh it's Godzilla, Like what I miss something here? Why
did we Why did we go to like chapter twenty? And maybe that's my
fault because I didn't want any spoilers going into this movie. I didn't watch
the trailer. I just saw all the positive feedback for it, and I
said, I got to see it for myself. So maybe maybe it was
my fault. But anyway, DH, it was never gonna be If you
thought it was going to be a CM punk, that's on you, man.
You set yourself up for that. It was never going to be CM
punk Ali with the two Bucks. If not Cole or Britt, then who
Now there's Jack Perry. Why else have they held him? Held him back
from television? He still hasn't come back yet. He has history with MJF.
MJF said that you basically, uh, you know, lack the killer
instinct to be to be me. I mean they could always tell that story.
I don't know that it would be any good because I don't know if
he can handle that role as a lead heel in the company but if not
Cole or Britt Jack Perry would be my guess. Benjamin Espinoza, what's good?
Hefe be awesome work. I will Godzilla the College Years right? Tell
me that wouldn't be a good movie. Look, they have this Godzilla versus
Kong movie coming out. I have no interest in seeing you. I don't
know why. I just don't. Magician Sapphire, why is Orange Cassidy not
defending the International Championship at World's End? Whatever your opinion is about the title,
it should have a place on the card now it feels cold? Yeah,
no shit. Why haven't they had Ta Keshta challenging for the title?
Good question? Right? At least that would have been something for him to
fight for. That's why I'm pulling for him in the Battle Royal on Saturday.
At least then maybe he could be aligned for a tnc title match.
I mean, why wouldn't he be Why wouldn't don Kallus want one of his
men in the Battle Royal to try to bring gold into the Kllous family.
Why wouldn't he want that? You've already got Hobbes and Kyle Fletcher in the
other match. They're not gonna win. Shit. In that match. He
should want to catch it in the battle. Royal and Dylan, thank you
for the dollar ninety nine. The Juliet, Gunther and Jinny are now parents.
Oh did they break that news today? I did not see that.
Congrats to the Happy Company. Now he gets to teach his son that the
mat is sacred. Moroa. Curious to know the answer to your question to
MJF about the hate that they get from the likes of Cornette and Bischoff,
I mean Cornett and bish I'm not gonna answer for Cornett and Bishoff. They
have there's no changing their minds. They have their they have their audience.
They know what their audience likes to do. It's all part of the ship.
But as far as my thoughts on you know j answer about it being
different in that you know that being the reason for a lot of the hate.
I gave my response. So if you want my response to what MJF
said, you got to check out the last episode of the Sound though it's
on episode A forty. It went up this past Sunday. I played the
audio of the interview, and then right after the audio from the interview,
I gave my response Nick Grosso where did this Stoply Hathaway storyline come from and
does it lead to a possible Chris Statlander heeltern sounds to me like maybe at
least a will On Nightingale heel turned. As far as where it came from,
I assume I assume some combination of Ring of Honor and rampage, because
I wasn't familiar with it either. The crib is sacred, says Matthew Miller.
There you go, the crib is safer. Frizzo, Well this was
an odd this was odd, he says. I turned on the stream and
the first thing I hear about is big Show's ass I love you. So
that means you miss the entire actual review. Now you gotta go back and
rewatch the review from the very beginning, otherwise I'm going to be very disappointed.
I'm not saying Willow Nightingale should be I'm just saying I wonder I would
think that maybe she would be the one going heel in this whole thing.
I still feel like she should be the one to beat Athena, even though
she already lost. I don't know who the hell else beats Athena for the
Ring of Honor. Women's style who else is there? If not Willow,
then who Prince vegeta watch? Uncle Dave? Give Tony Kahan Booker of the
Year. Again, it's not I give them. Do people still think that
Dave is the one who get those awards out? I thought we've already established
it's the readership who gives that award. I think people actually think that Dave
is the one giving the awards out. I mean you could say that his
audience, his readership, is influenced by his own writing and opinions, but
he is not the one who gives those awards. I thought this was well
established on b com see clearly three questions. Number one, why is athenis
still in a ring of honor? Beats the hell out of me? Number
two? Where are the guns? Beats the hell out of me? Number
three? Where should aw go? If not TNT or TBS, Happy Holidays,
Solo and Chat family, they should go wherever Tony Kahan can get the
most money for his television programming, because otherwise they're going to be in a
lot of trouble and that roster is going to have to undergo some changes because
he will not be able to afford the as it currently stands if he does
not get more money for his television Jews. So wherever that is he needs
to go. Wherever he's going to get this, that's where he needs to
go. Whether it's streaming, whether it's television, he has to go where
he's going to get the best deal. Red Emissary of Darkness by or Sell
Devil or Dark Order. The Devil storyline is not over yet. Ask me
after this weekend, I am I can't. I can't say dark The Dark
Order went through a phase when when Rody Lee was the leader and he beat
Cody and he won the TNT title, where that was something outside of that.
I have no idea the dark Samoan fan Godzilla minus one had well written
human characters. I thought it was great because even without Godzilla, I was
hooked on the sad story. Well, they definitely had some good human characters
in the movie, but it does not change my opinion of the movie.
And again I didn't think it was a bad movie. I just didn't like
it the way that other people liked it. Sue me, tar and Feather,
I said what I said morea. I think Orange Cassidy is not defending
the title because they are teasing a best friend's breakup. They showed tension between
OC Trent and Rocky on Rampy. Well, you know what, we have
rampage on Friday, don't So it's possible that they could still add an international
title match twenty four hours before the paper game. They can very well add
that to the free show. SAMO and fan buy or sell eighties Brett against
two thousand Kert or WCW Brett against Perk. Well, that's that's a good
question. Either one of those matches would be great. Brett wasn't quite seasoned
yet the way that he would be in the nineties, So I'm gonna go
WCW Brett and per Gang. I'd buy on that match. And Daniel Malcolm
must have fought Ali on that. Randy and AJ, oh shit, you
know what, that's right. I saw that picture he posted a photo Ali
did from the gym the other day, and he looked like a totally different
person. I thought he took his head and stuck it on someone else's body.
You know, if he would have looked like that when he was in
WWE, I think Vince McMahon would have fifth McMahon would have done something with
him holy shit. I don't know. I don't know what he did,
but he fucking blew off. He didn't see that go on his Twitter.
He posted the photo the other day. But I'll leave you know he's going
on this world tour and that he's got more dates booked than anybody else so
far from all the people who's non competes expired this past week. I mean,
this guy through March or April is just booked out everywhere. I mean,
he's crisscrossing the country into Canada, he's everywhere. He's in high demand.
I do wonder, though, you know, if he's going to maintain
that that size that he has, Now what effect that's going to have on
his n ring style, Because it's going to have an effect. It's gonna
slow him down a little bit. He's been Yeah, he's been taking his
vitamins and saying his prayers. I guess so, I guess so. Well,
the goal tonight was four hundred legs. We are at four fifty one.
Thank you for that. Do you hit that thumbs up so we can
get ourselves into the algorithm so other people can stumble upon this video and can
listen to me talk about big show's asst WrestleMania twenty one. I'm sure that'll
get them to subscribe. Let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen. It
is now time to be the booker, all right? So the final be
the booker for a dynamite stream, hopefully not the final be the booker for
twenty twenty three. We got two more streams left to go this weekend,
so we're not done yet. Here we go, be the booker again.
There was no Raw on Monday, and there's no SmackDown on Friday, so
we don't come back again until Saturday night. I gotta say, not having
to sit here and watch RAW on Monday and having the night off to myself,
I enjoyed that. Not gonna lie. All right, here we go.
We begin with the former undisputed tag team champions. This right here is
gonna be one of your matches at Wrestlemandy of forty the USOS, Jimmy and
Jay Yeat. We got the USOS. Wwe would tell you they are the
greatest tag team in WWE history because they are the longest reigning tag team champions
in history. I'm here to tell you that just because you are the longest
reigning. Anything does not make you the best. Usso is gonna be taken
on Team hell No, Cain and Daniel Bryant, Team hell No and the
Ussos. That probably was a match back then, right, they must have
had at least one match. I would think that match happened at some point.
All right, women's be the booker here we go, kick things off
here with maki Itto flipping off her replace that Cheta. I think that's her.
That's her. Her opponent there, maki Eto. This might be the
first time we've had machi Eto here, and be the booker. Machi Eto
flipping the bird. She's learning all the curse words and all the curse gestures
here in English. Machi Eto, get the fuck up her opponent. It's
gonna be machi Eto against Becky Lynch. Oh man, imagine Becky Lynch back
in twenty eighteen when she was cutting those promos, cutting promo on machi Eto.
I think machi Eto against twenty eighteen Becky Lynch on social media would have
been entertaining. All right, all right, so far, so good.
Two for two. We come to the main event. This is our world's
end main event. Kick things off well, wouldn't you know our world's end
made event. Jim Cornett. That's probably the look he has on his face
when he watches AW every week. According to some of you people, this
could be the Devil on Saturday, Jim Cornett. Let's see, let's see
who it's gonna be. Could be Kenny Omega, It could be one of
the Jacksons. Jim Cornett. Let me stepping into the ring to go one
on one with Hunter hearst Elmsley. That's a terrible main event. Almost had
it. We were this close to a perfect night. Cornett had to fuck
it all up. Honestly, there were only two options. It would have
had to have been Omega or Vince Russo. Then I would have given it
the belt because both of them are in be the booker. But it was
not to be close enough though. Hey, del fuego, have a good
nightmare. Oh man, two out of three? Not bad, not bad
at all. Well, no SmackDown on Friday night. It's another clip show,
so there will be no stream, but I am gonna be back with
you. We're doing back to back on Saturday and Sunday. We're closing out
this year with three straight streams. Saturday night after World's End, come here,
we're gonna talk about the pay per view. Sunday, Episode eight forty
one of the sound Off will not be the usual audio show. It will
be a live stream for New Year's Eve on YouTube. We're gonna combine the
usual New Year's stream with an episode of the SoundOff. So whatever news there
is to talk about, we'll cover the news. But I'm gonna be doing
predictions. It is the annual Prediction Show, or I give my predictions for
twenty twenty four. Come with your own predictions, share your own predictions,
start thinking about what you think is gonna happen in the wrestling world next year,
and we'll hang out and we'll ring in the new year together on Sunday
night. I don't know. Maybe the drinks will be flowing. You never
know. But it's our annual Make It Till Midnight podcast Episode A forty one.
And then Monday night, the first raw of twenty twenty four. It's
the Day one edition of Raw. I'll be live after that as well.
So you're gonna get me back to back to back. Bring those likes.
Maybe we'll get to do be the booker back to back to back the trifecta.
That's right anyway, Keep an eye out because tomorrow, at some point
later in the day, my Ironclaw review, once I get it recorded,
will be up for you guys. So if you want to know my thoughts
on the movie, the Good and the Bed and whether I think it's worth
seeing, it'll all be in that review, So keep your eye out for
it until then, be well, stay safe. Thank you all for the
love, Thank you for hanging out with me all year long on these Dynamite
streams. For what is this the fourth year in a row? When did
Dynamite start twenty nineteen? Right October? So it hasn't quite been a full
Well we'll carry on into twenty twenty four. We'll have another great year of
Dynamite recaps. You guys will come by you know the drill. I got
you covered every week. But for those of you who maybe have plans you're
not going to be around this weekend, let me just take a moment here
to wish you all a very happy new year. Thank you all for your
support all throughout twenty twenty three. Hopefully you'll be back with me in twenty
twenty four. And for those of you who will be here. I will
see you then. Until then, take care guys.