Hello everyone, This is Memphis Mark coming to you from Mullet Manor and of
course I'm with Maintenance Maverick out of Parts Unknown over there. How you're doing,
Maverick, It's been pretty good, man. It's been a little bit
hot over here lately. But you know what, perfect time to stay inside
of the acon just watch them wrestling. What about you, Mark Man?
It is braining cats and dogs. I met a guy named Noah earlier had
a boat. It was it's been every weekend. It's been that way.
But I did get to see collision and it it looked like a good crowd.
It was in Saskatchewan. Said, that's two times in a row.
I've said it correctly. Regina and uh And the show starts off going straight
into promos. I kind of, you know, I kind of liked them.
You know, it's something different to start a show off. I mean,
what do you think about it? So they've been doing this, I
feel like since the one Hard Tournament has started, and I really enjoy seeing
just having opponents go at each other a little bit, just jaw jacking in
separate interviews. I guess in a way, just see separate promos. Really
love it. It's a great way to start the show off, just to
give you a little hint at what we have soon to come later on.
You have any more thoughts on the man, Well, yeah, Actually it's
kind of an old school way of doing it because it would make you go
ahead and hurry up and get back from the kitchen, you know, and
sit down because you start hearing the promos and you don't want to miss nothing.
And so it's kind of a little old school field. But I'll tell
you what. They go straight into powerhouse Hobbes and Ricky Starks, and man,
this match did not disappoint. I mean, I'll let you start off
on this one. So Hobbs versus Starks. Looking at my notes from the
beginning, it felt like it was a The size difference was a big part
in this. They were kind of playing on Okay, start seeing the small
guy, Hobbs being the bigger guy. They're kind of having Hobbs bully starts
a little bit throughout of it. I was pretty enjoyed. I liked seeing
Hobbs playing the brick house bully. I really, you know, it works
for him. He's kind of what I would have wanted out of Mark Henry
for a few years in WWE, but you know, they have their own
separate type of matches that they liked to have him do. And Stars,
I thought he sold very well. There's a couple of times during a picture
and picture I saw like, um, Hobbs standing on for a second.
The way he was screaming, it seemed kind of realistic. I really liked
the way that was going on. Having a listen to the crowd as well.
Their reactions are spot on for what it should be. He's playing a
great heel. Hearing the fans blew him with every single strike. That was
really cool to hear and just to see like, Okay, he's doing his
job. They you know, they're giving him the pop that he's supposed to
have. There was a great power bomb from Starks off the top rope.
I was not sure if he was going to be able to hold onto him
because you know that's a big guy in Starks he's not the biggest guy,
but man, he really held him up. Andrey Edwards, Uh, she
does a really great job as a ref. I really enjoyed watching her just
the way that she kind of performs into the show. She really does help
out with it help with the flow. She actually has her own character,
it feels like at this point, but I felt like the maginal the story
in the end that being he's been winning by interference by QT Marshall, now
he's going to lose by interference from Qt Marshall. And then seeing that turn
at the end that kind of made me questions he going to go babyface now
or is he going to continue on this four path maybe just try to go
on his own? What do you think, Mark Man? I thought it
was classic writing. It is something they probably went back in the files and
just pulled out an old script or not a script, but an old storyline.
And because it had all the feels of old school yeah and Hobbs,
Yeah, you gotta let him because he's so big, you gotta let him
throw him around and starts so old. He's sold good. He had his
little birchs uh. And then you have at the end, of course,
like you said, you win that way, you lose that way, and
you have the turn you got what is it, Aaron Solo coming in to
try to save him and he gets a spinebuster for his efforts. And then
you had hardly running in and eventually saving him and he storms off. I
mean, it's it's it was. I thought it was great. I thought
it was great. Uh a solid match and a good starting match. So
I mean, you can't ask for him more to start it off, except
when you throw h Muro, you throw Muro in and uh, I believe
it was no. Yeah, he came after that, Muro did his uh,
his his great promo. I loved that he uh he of course has
no one to love and uh he has a double jointed hot wife. Uh
So what else can you ask for in a promo, right right? He
Honestly, I really enjoyed this promo. I like the way that Miro was
going. I gave this promo a seven out of ten for my rating scale.
The whole thing being kind of sent around I have nothing left to lose
right now. It kind of seems like and it kind of reminded me of
a quote that I heard a long time ago, not sure who it's from,
the quote being if you have nothing to live for, you'd better find
something to die for. That's kind of the vibe that I'm getting from Miro
at this point, and I'm really excited to see where he goes next with
this, and I believe that led into Athena and Willows promo that had next.
What the thoughts do you have on that? Well, just anybody with
the name Nightingale immediately makes me go get a refill of a drink or something.
But anyway, he exact, they had got her out there. She's
injured, I guess, and of course they've got to bring somebody out there
a thing that to give her a little time, because I think they were
supposed to have a match, and you know how it got put off by
the injury. So it gives a thing a little air time, you know,
the Ring of Honor Women's Champs, So you know it doesn't matter.
But they're they're setting up an angle, setting up an angle. Yeah,
I agree, man, they're setting up at least something for the future.
And I remember seeing Athena when she was Ember Moon. I saw her live
once at a WWE house show, and I remember just thinking, this girl
can perform. And you guys all know that I am a fan of Willow
Nightingale. I would love to see these two have a match. I don't
know if they have before or anything. Maybe somebody could you know, d
I mean, let me know if that's already happened before. But I'm excited
to see when these two go at it because I know they both can't perform.
They both are pretty athletic. Yeah, I'm excited to see what comes
up next for them. Our first disagreement, our first disagreement, I like
it. I like it. Then enough, Yeah, they're they're setting up
a blood and guts coming up. They did a nice little probo on that.
Of course, then you have Julia Heart going against your BRONI one Bamby
Hall and with that opening, I have to let you start it off,
all right. So in my notes, the first thing that I did was
Julia Hard versus and I couldn't quite hear her name at first. I put
question mark, and then when I finally heard them say Bamby Hall, I
wrote in Bamby next to it. But honestly, it's just another job or
really. Then, looking at the size difference, it just didn't feel right
in the beginning how the match was going. It just kind of looked strange
to me. And I also wrote down in my notes, this match starting
off feels like a junior high school chick fight. I don't know, I
just wasn't a fan of it in the beginning, and then at the end
of it, I put Wednesday Adams wins is kind of a boring squash.
I'm glad it ended with submission. At least that felt a little bit realistic
that you know, if the small, smaller person in the match is going
to put you in an armor or something, you're gonna tap out because you
know they're gonna break it type of thing. Uh what were you thinking during
that mark? Well, it did show a little bit of Julia heart She
can actually move a little bit, and uh, I believe the girl's Bamby
there. She slaps her a couple of times and puts I think they call
it the Heartless Lot and Bamby taps out. But it leads into a promo
though with Malachi Black and and I'm gonna let you take this name little yeah
what he said. And of course they're trying to get that mask back.
Uh, and you know he's back, you know, Andre he's back there,
he's in backstage. He says he's a businessman and he doesn't hide behind
the mask, but the mask is everything to him because it's about his family,
his culture, his country and uh, so you know that's that's his
standing up point. Now. I did like the way he spoke clearly,
slowly and got his point across, because I know that English has been hard
on him. But I think he did Actually, I think he did good
in this promo. I mean, what did you think about it? So
I really enjoyed this angle that they're going for because it's making me question where
they're going. This feels like it is fresh and it's not something that I
have seen before, just because I'm kind of seeing the House of Black.
It feels almost supernatural, like how came the Undertaker? Were many moons ago
as well as um, you're kind of seeing Andrade just saying like, no,
that's not what that mask is to me. It is how I honor
my family, how I honor my culture. And it just seems like,
all right, this is something new. This is I'm not sure how this
is going to work out in the end, but I'm really enjoying watching it
unfold right now. It feels like every week I'm seeing this and it's like
I want to tune in for this again, and I'm really excited to see
where it goes from here. The whole mask thing This could go either way.
It could be NOMS normal guy who wants a while, likes to wear
a mask, what's a big deal. Or it could be that, you
know, maybe they end up joining forces and creating some sort of new faction
to go against maybe Dark Order or something, and then have just one faction
lead over AW having that darker tone to them than Supernatural. I don't want
to call it abilities, but you know what I mean, Yeah, no,
it's great. I think it's it's kind of like the closest thing we've
seen to an Undertaker or maybe when Bray first come out or something like that.
I mean, it's as close as we've had to that. And what
did Andretti says he takes his mask off and it's time to fight and win.
So and he said it clearly, so we can't ask for anything more
than that. But man, Maverick, Man, did we get a match?
To start off? I'm gonna say to start off, I'm gonna say
it is the best match I've seen this year. FTR and the Bullet Club
go baby, uh and just Dax and man, look, do you just
go ahead and get started because I've got like five pages of notes onone so
you go ahead and started off. All right, so starting off, So
as soon as I heard what the stipulation was that, uh that what was
it? It reminds me of defied denial rules, which was something in right
years ago. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead,
okay, so, uh yeah, it reminds me of defied defied denied
rules years ago in r OH. I remember it had something to do with
basically, if you're going to face the champion, if you win, then
you get your title shot, but if you lose, you're going to absolutely
deny them. They're not allowed to emper challenge you as long as you're still
the ringing champion. I remember earlier in the match there was one slip up
that I saw where Cash had to redo a flip from the armhold, But
that was the only thing that I saw that was a little bit sloppy.
Beyond that, this match was almost perfect, and by the end of it,
I was sad that it ended. I was like, this reminds me
of years ago an NXT there was a match between Sammy Zane and Shinsky Nakamura,
and I remember seeing those two going in and hearing the crowd for the
first time, chanting fight forever and thinking, man, this is actually a
match that I want to see. I don't want this to end, and
neither to they. I feel like the crowd probably felt the same way.
So going through the whole match itself, I really enjoyed just the small things
that they did that may have seemed a little bit indie at times, but
you know what, it was a good and I really enjoyed seeing it.
Things like little dosy though they did when they were when FTR was thrown into
each other, it was interesting. It's something I haven't seen in a while.
There's a couple of great hot tags and whatnot that went on. I've
written down that there was an interesting knee maneuver that FTR did against Bullet Club
Gold. I believe it was Deck's grabbed Switchblade by the hair and threw him
into a Cash Wheeler's knees as he was holding them up while sitting on the
ropes. There was a lot of great just tag team wrestling they were going
in whenever the ref wasn't looking both sides. It felt like both sides were
taking as much advantage as possible of just stepping in the ring whenever they could
to help out their partner. The supplex in the corner. That looked very
brutal that I saw, And during this match I started to realize as well,
the announcers have improved greatly on the show. Did you notice that as
well? I feel like in the first episode of Collision they were a little
lackluster. Did you think that they improved some? Yeah, I think they've
gotten I was down the first show I did not like the announcers, but
slowly yeah, I agree, you know, but man, this match,
it would I think anybody could have called this match. Yeah, I agree.
Oh, we get your point across, Bud. Before I even start
into my ramble, I got one more thing to talk about real quick.
So eventually they started leading into the bigger moves and seeing things like the brainbuster
that was hit. God, that was perfect, high jacks, the tag
team superplex off the top rope, and then the splash once again from FTR.
It was just awesome, And I remember I'm actually sitting on the edge
of my chair for once again and thinking this is wrestling, and that's what
I was hearing the crowd chant as well, and I'm thinking, God,
I am so happy that I'm watching this again seeing the rebound power bomb as
well. It was very nice and I swear at one point looked like Jay
was foaming at the mouth. Both sides the great during this match. I
give it a nine out of ten because I loved this and it is probably
the best this year, and also really enjoyed the post match promo that happened
right after. What were you thinking, Mark Man, It's look, I'm
just I'm just I'm throwing my notes in the year. Uh, It's just
I can't This was a five star banner match. Everything you could ask for.
You had Juice with his left hand of God, you had sleeper supplexes,
you had everything from belly to belly supplexes to I mean just if anything
you wanted to see, and the kickouts towards the end, you kept thinking,
oh, I see where this is gonna. Oh, oh, I
see it right now. It's good. Oh. I mean they kept making
some some old people like me, They're going, oh I here it is,
I see it. And then they just kept on and on and that
was wow. Uh. And this regal pleux, I mean, just I
can't go through, you know, and try to keep up. It was
it was by far the best match I've seen this year, the best match
in AW I've seen for sure. Uh. I was not the greatest Switchblade
fan, but after this match, I've changed my opinion. I don't know
any other way to put it. Uh, definitely, uh. You know,
of course the winner was the Bullet Club Gold. Uh. And I
don't know how they could even top it, but they did. When not
top it, but then they come back, like you said, with that
promo. And I'm really becoming a big fan of Juice. I just really
his hair. He uh, just everything about him screams U seventies wrestler.
To me, he's a throwback, not too big, not too muscular,
but he's gonna throw his arms up like he is. Uh. And what's
he called? He has the Juice Box. Yeah, what can you ask
for? I mean? And the promo afterwards. Uh. And there was
a lot of hands shaking in the show, you know, and shaking,
and I kept waiting for it and it will get to it, but it
finally catches up to someone. But yeah, the whole match good. The
after promo and poor Sean Spears. They put a promo with Shan Spears and
Christian in between. Uh and I guess, I guess in writing, I
guess that makes sense. Uh, but you know, it was a good
little promo with Shan Spears and and Christian before that. And then of course
though the two out of three falls next week, U the FDR and Bullet
Club are gonna have for the belts And uh what did what did they call
him? Fuzzy Wuzzy's They called Das Fuzzy Wuzzy. I couldn't remember what he
called cash Wheeler, but there was some other nickname for him. I believe
as well. You gotta love somebody that walks out, calls you fuzzy wuzzy
and then shapes your hand. I'm not buying a used car from them,
I can tell you that. But yeah, fuzzy wuzzy, all right.
And then after that, in this John Spears promo, we've got Scorpio Sky
and Action Andrette. He say, I didn't say it that way, but
yeah, man, Scorpio Sky I thought, look great. Uh looked like
a seasoned veteran and like somebody that they could really build off of. And
even the end of the match he did the class move and just man,
I loved I'm a Scorpio Sky fan. What about you, my friend,
So I'm also a fan of Scorpio Sky. This match it felt a little
bit slow at the start, and then I realized why because we just finished
up FTR versus Bullet Clip Gold and how can you follow that up? That's
got to be such a hard weight on their shoulders. But it was a
good match overall. It was solid. Actually on the day, I feel
like or Andretti. I believe it's how it's pronounced for him. I believe
he is good, but I kind of feel like he would excel right now
as a tag team if we can find somebody similar to him, you know
what I mean, there's just everyone once while there's one of those guys who
he's doing good. It's just I feel like as a tag team he would
do a little bit better for some reason, like a Bobby Eaton, he's
just universal stick him into a tag team maybe. Yeah. During the match,
I thought the Spanish fly that Andretti hit it was absolutely beautiful, pitch
perfect. Scorpio Si Scorpio Sky sold it pretty well. Yeah. I thought
that Scorpio Sky as well. When he came into this match, he looked
telfy. I think he definitely bulked up some. And yeah, at the
end of it, both parties looked good. There was you know, Scorbias
Sky doing the honorable thing and shaking his opponent's hand before walking out. It
definitely helps out with him as a face. Yeah, I feel like at
the end of this match, nobody's getting buried, nobody's you know, being
raised up too much. I feel like this is going to be a slow,
gradual build and it's gonna work for both of them in the ends,
but for Scorbius Sky is just gonna be a little bit faster. Yeah.
Yeah, And I do think uh Sky's bolt up a little bit since him.
I hadn't thought about that, but since you brought that up, I
agree with you. And yeah, that class move at the end so makes
him look like the gentleman, and I'm sure he is. But hey,
we get another we get another one man, And it's unusual to have two
or three really solid matches on a card, and it's just it's just pure
accidents alone. It's hard to put on some shows like they did last night.
But yeah, we get to Samoa Joe and mister Collision Cimpunk Uh coming
out and even the whole thing had a different feel, but he kept dropping
those little pipe bombs, kind of like where I'm gonna give it my full
effort or I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna leave it all in the ring,
and even his opening monologue when he came out and did his little interview
at the at the first of the show, it was a little different,
uh, you know, he sounded a little old school punk and then a
little uh water down punk too, but you know, still, it was
a good, great match, And I'll let you take it from here,
man, and I'll come back in on the back end there, brother.
So I enjoyed this match a lot, uh, knowing about the rivalry,
and I have been following these two guys careers since I basically got into wrestling.
I remember growing up watching Samoa Joe in TNA and CM Punk being in
WWE on the other end, and to me it was almost like just compute
companies, just watching back and forth and thinking, man, these two guys
would have had a great match together. A little did I know they already
had an ROH a couple of years prior. I just didn't know about that.
I haven't really seen ROH yet. So at the beginning, it felt
like there was some feet of strength style and of course Joe was winning,
makes perfect sense. And then they said something at one point during the match,
the announcers dude, they said that Samoa Joe used to spar with ya
who was it Ortiz from a UFC. That confused me a little bit,
thinking about It's like, I wonder how true this is. I need to
do some research. If anybody just knows for sure, you'll free semi message
or whatever. And then watching during the crossbody that CM punk was trying to
hit, it looked really good the way that that whole transition happened, seeing
CM punk jump off and Joe kind of doing a heal thing, just looking
up walking away like, no, you're not going to hit this on me
today. Joe used his size to bully Punk around very well. Sampunk was
selling very well as well. And then there's one point did Sampunk bite his
tongue or something because there's just a random amount of blood coming out of nowhere?
Did you see that? Yeah? I saw that, and the announcer
just said, you know, he spotted it down. Then when they when
the blood got on his tape, he said something about it. But I'm
not sure, you know, it could have been one of those little needs
that he took or that. No, it was a punch just before that,
so it was probably either the punch or the fall right right. And
I also wrote down that it was interesting to see Punk doing some high flying
stuff more than his normal amount. It felt like he was going to the
top rope and they're kind of playing into Sampunk size. He needs something extra
here. He's running around more, he's jumping off of things to try to
get more of a hit on Samoa Joe, and it makes sense to me.
Something I also did write down that also had to do with Sampunk's promo
in the beginning. I didn't really speak much on this, but is a
Ew kind of kissing Canada's butt right now? With all this Owen Hart stuff?
Are they trying to really brown those with Canada's audience to make them really
want to see more of this and to get them more involved in the show,
because I heard them chanting oh and Hart multiple times throughout the show,
and it just makes me wonder, is this a new tactic of theirs.
Are they kind of just really trying to make Canada be over on aw?
What do you think about that. Well, you know, Punk did bring
it up for the crowd to say to chant oh and Hart, so I
think that was some of the part of hearing that. But yeah, they
did. There was some suckage going on there. I do that to agree
with you and not to downplay the match, because the match was good.
It was a I mean, if we didn't see what we saw, we
have FDR and Bullet Club. I would say this was by far the best
match of the night. But yeah, they they were definitely bringing up the
Canada and every time they could, they were bringing up Owen Heart, which
you know, God bless him and his family, you know, but you
know it did sound a little funny. Uh. And but the match,
man, the match was great. Uh. You know, you're right.
Punk was jumping off stuff and we did not. The first time Punk went
to jump, all I could think about was the sting jump. I was
like, oh, no, old man, the old man of Top.
I was like, no, please, But Punk pulled it off and pulled
it off, and we didn't see an old man going into a table that
doesn't move. Uh. And so yeah, you know, with a Punk
got to bully him around and show at the end that he well, at
the end, he's over there holler and what was it? I've always been
better than you? So it stills. Yes, there's still gonna be a
storyline there, you know. I mean it's because of the oh man,
you beat me, so let me shake your hand. And there again,
like I mentioned earlier, a lot of handshaking going on, but this time
it played out because it ends up in a choke hold and we get a
good a good ending, and then of course he's gonna do what he did
too. What was it Roderick Strong last week? You know they put him
out supposedly, so he looks like he's gonna take that angle and then FDR
does the running and the saved and then they they ended with the stars,
you know, standing up there looking out. So I kind of liked the
little twist, you know, a little twist at the end there. What
do you think? Yeah, I really liked that aftermath because it shows like,
okay, they were partners what a couple of weeks ago, and they
were you know, on screen friends at this point, but now they're gonna
have to go against each other. It kind of seemed like the starts want
to run down to potentially help. Where is he just im up his opponent
right now? Maybe a little bit of both, who knows. But the
one thing that I also did write down about the end of the match was
it was a roll up finish in a way. That's something that you know,
me and the Gardener we kind of feel strongly about when you see it
a lot. This one felt okay. This is the first time I've really
seen it in a w and I wrote under there as a note, please
don't let it become a habit. Aw. I don't want to see a
million roll up finishes for these big matches. This was fine. They had
a good enough match, and yeah, as well as for Joe doing the
heel thing at the end, it works for his character. We're going to
see a great storyline after. I'm excited to see where this goes next.
Always love seeing Joe and Punk as wealth. Yeah. I like the roll
up in this situation because he set the roll up up with him not being
able to get him up for the GTS, so you know it's you know
what I mean? The roll up looked okay in this situation because his knee
is supposedly out, he can't pick the big guy, but he can roll
them up and and and he didn't. I don't think aiden put the angle
out of him holding the tights. That would have been good, that would
have given him a little something extra to add on to. But man,
overall, man, this was a great freaking show. And I hate that
Michael and Rocky uh that you know they had those rls. Man. Uh,
they got to get out there and do what they gotta do. So
hopefully next week we can get them back in and get their opinion on this.
But what did you think of overall? Show? Show? Overall was
very good. I was enjoying myself watching. The one thing I kind of
started wondering about after the tag match was over was did this run longer because
they didn't have a women's match lined up because of Willow's injury or was this
just planned the whole time? That's that's interesting. Actually, Uh yeah,
I wonder if that could have changed. Uh, you know, I don't
know. That's that's that's a good point because they could have told the guys,
you know, we need you to go, you know, an extra
seven or something. Who knows, that'll be something that we'll have to read
them down the road and right right. But yeah, so watching through it,
it's very fun to watch. Uh. We didn't really cover too much
of the Licosaurus and h Christian Cage uh promo there, but uh when I
put in my notes, was I just write them as Lucia Cage. At
this point, I think that it's really being some summed up now by something
that Christian Cage said that you know, it was a scripted slip up saying
you will know about my hour title reign, and feeling that's the best way
to sum it up at this point is my slash hour rain. Yeah,
yeah, it was. Yeah, it's it's definitely complete and and if that
they just had to put that into the show after a five star match,
and and it just got covered up in the same way with the Sean Spears
promote. I thought his was a good spot on him. So yeah,
it's just it's it's kind of hard after you've been breathing hard wait for that
finish to that other match, and then they just throw that in there.
You kind of look over it a little bit, but boo, all right,
well, uh well what did you get anything else? You got anything
you want to plug or anything you want to throw out there? Didn't anybody,
Oh right, So I want to give a shout out. So one
of my best friends growing up the same was Eric Winchell. I just wanted
to remind you, man, you and I used to actually have like a
backyard wrestling matches and stuff. And I remember, for my mom had this
giant fence dog cage, so I think we used to have our quote unquote
cage matches back there. We had our own stupid rules for it. We
would try to like climb the cage and everything because it was a good like
ten feet tall. It was just a giant metal fence in our backyard really
that went up against another fence. Remember, we just used to have the
most fun watching wrestling and then trying to be wrestlers. And then that leads
to my next shout out being to my uncle Tim because I remember, I
think it was like eight or nine years old. He started showing me how
to hit certain wrestling moves because he was a wrestler in the Indies for a
little bit, and he was starting to show me how to do like a
flying hitsers and how to do monkey flips. And he tell me, like
I was hitting the flying hitsters is perfectly and he really really helped me with
inspiring me and bringing me into this. So yeah, I just want to
say thank you. And I don't think he really understands how much that really
meant to me as a kid. Yeah, what about you, Mark,
You got anybody to hit up while you're on the air here with me?
Man, I'll tell you what. It's the same old, same old with
me. It's just my ending and take care of the pets out there.
But ma'am, I believe we've done it. I think we have done another
an update or a you know, a little review of collision for seven eight,
and I think we've done as well, just just ended here. What
do you think there, Bud? Yeah? I agree, Man, anybody
out there listening, you can reach me at a maintenance mav on Twitter.
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