WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.799 It's going night, guys. This is your AW Dynamite review for Wednesday, 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:09.160 September thirteen, two thousand and twenty three. I am solom Monster. Next 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:12.960 week, AW was back in New York City. They're back at Arthur ash 4 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:17.640 Stadium for Grand Slam, and that is what tonight show clearly was all about 5 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:21.000 pushing. It was about pushing Grand Slam next week, including the main event 6 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:25.719 tonight, which was the finals of the Grand Slam Eliminator Tournament. The winner 7 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:31.079 would go on to challenge MJF next Wednesday for the AW World Championship. Would 8 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:35.320 it be Samoa Joe, Would it be Roderick Strong? They were the only 9 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:39.439 two possible options and this tournament. Both of them have stories that are ongoing 10 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.920 right now with Adam Cole and MJF. And in the end, it was 11 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:49.520 Samoa Joe booked like an absolute stone cold killer going over in the main event. 12 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:53.119 He will now challenge for the AW World title next Wednesday. And I 13 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:56.640 will tell you that I for one, would not mind if they wanted to 14 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:00.520 do a title change and put the AW World title on Samoa Joe next week. 15 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.519 I don't think that's what Tony Khan has in mind, but Joe has 16 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.400 just been on an absolute tear in the work he's been putting in recently. 17 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.519 I would not mind at all. In fact, if it were up to 18 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.000 me, I would do the title change next week. I would put the 19 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:18.719 belt on Joe Hey, even if it's only for eleven days and MJF gets 20 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:22.239 it back at Wrestle Dream, just to shake things up a little bit. 21 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.040 I wouldn't mind that at all. But when this show was over, MJF 22 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.120 was not in the building. He was not on the show tonight. Adam 23 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:36.760 Cole was, and we ended up with Adam Cole being choked out by Samoa 24 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:41.799 Joe. Samoa Joe's said that he was gonna make MJF pay, he was 25 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:45.840 going to take everything from him, and so what he did tonight is he 26 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.439 tried to take his tag team partner away from him. As I am attempting 27 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:55.200 here to stop up my little mess here, spilled a drink. So I 28 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:59.519 got so excited about Samoa Joe's win here on this show that I accidentally knocked 29 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:04.959 my knocked my glass over, and so now I am attempting to clean up 30 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.760 the mess that I have made here. All right, I think I think 31 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:13.159 we're good but yes, Joe and MJF is our main event for next week, 32 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.879 and really the entire Grand Slam card for next Wednesday is fantastic. You 33 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:21.319 look at that card on paper, it's a very strong pay per view caliber 34 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.680 show. We have Joe and MJF for the aw World title. We have 35 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:30.719 Ray Phoenix challenging John Moxley for the International Championship, which of course they did 36 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:35.960 the injury angle prior to Wembley Stadium with Ray Phoenix and now he wants revenge 37 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.439 and we know that. You know, you put Ray Phoenix in the ring, 38 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:42.280 you're gonna get madness every time. We have Claudio and Eddie Kingston. 39 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:45.680 Now I wasn't sure if they were going to save this for Rampage and do 40 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:50.599 Rampage Grand Slam next Friday. That would have been terrible to do. Claudio 41 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.240 and Eddie Kingston, champion against champion, title for title. You do that 42 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.879 on the live show, you don't do it on the tape show. Thankfully, 43 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.919 they are doing it on the live Dynamite next Wednesday, so we're gonna 44 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:02.960 get it in New York City. Eddie Kingston may become the Ring of Honor 45 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.560 World Heavyweight Champion next week but I am digging this card. They also took 46 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:14.280 a little bit of time tonight to build to some matches on Wrestle Dream, 47 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.560 which is their next pay per view coming up on October first in Seattle. 48 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:22.560 We got the official announcement tonight that it will be Swerve Strickland and hang Man 49 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:27.280 Adam Page going one on one at Wrestle Dream. They did a tease for 50 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:31.439 a Cano skate to kesh the match with Kota Ibushi and all but told us 51 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:36.120 it will be taking place a Wrestle Dream. That's in addition to the Bryan 52 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.840 Danielson Zach Saber Junior match that has already been announced. So Wrestle Dreams shaping 53 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.879 up to be a pretty strong card as well. But maybe the best part 54 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:49.120 of the entire show was MJF in a taped segment from last week, giving 55 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:53.280 us some Steiner Math. You're a fan of the Scott Steiner Steiner Math promo 56 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.000 and Samoa Joe from many years ago and TNA that you are in luck this 57 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.319 was the show for you. I enjoyed the show. I thought that as 58 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:06.439 far as really pushing Grand Slam next week, I thought it did a good 59 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.800 job. There are some good matches on the show. I had an issue 60 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.719 with some other things, which we'll get into, including the women's match, 61 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.600 But on the whole, I think they did a good job of promoting the 62 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:23.680 bigger show for next week. I enjoyed the show closing angle. We'll get 63 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.319 into that and everything else. Again. This is your Dynamite review. Do 64 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.160 me a favor. Hit that subscribe button and to hit the like button as 65 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.920 well, if you would be so kind. Super chats are open. We've 66 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:35.759 got some new ones. There is a brand new fifteen dollars one as well, 67 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:40.600 so you can find those in the description down below. We'll hang out 68 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:46.199 later and read whatever may or may not come in. Dynamite was in Cincinnati 69 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:50.959 tonight, and if you are in the know, you know that John Moxley 70 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:55.199 is from Cincinnati, so they opened the show with the hometown boy, John 71 00:04:55.199 --> 00:05:01.079 Moxley coming out first to defend his aw International Championship against Big Bill, who 72 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:08.199 had Ricky Starks in his corner. Luck he wants to know while I review 73 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:14.639 Impact one thousand on the podcast now, I have no plans to do so. 74 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:18.040 So Tas said that John Moxley and Big Bill they were friends who lived 75 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:23.120 together many years ago. Once upon a time they used to be. They 76 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:28.000 were roomies back in the day. Bill got the better of Moxley early on. 77 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:31.519 He booted him out to ringside. Starks worked in a cheap shot at 78 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.800 ringside because Ricky Starks was in the corner of Big Bill, so he got 79 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:40.040 a cheap shot in while the referee was distracted. When they came back from 80 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.480 commercial, Moxley was a bloody mess. I mean, now, look, 81 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:47.040 I understand that they were in Moxley's hometown. I get it, and of 82 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.879 course he was gonna believe he wants to bleed in his hometown. It was 83 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:55.360 completely unnecessary. There was no reason. I mean, he wasn't just bleeding, 84 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:59.600 Like his entire face was covered in blood after the first commercial break. 85 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:04.079 This was totally unnecessary. I know it's John Moxley, but totally unnecessary. 86 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:10.319 In this match, Moxley superplex Bill. He fired up, ended up, 87 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:15.879 walking right into a boss man slam. Moxley responded with a cutter and Bill 88 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:19.319 exited to the floor. Moxley went up top Starkstow tripped him up and Moxley 89 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:25.160 got crotched on the top rope. Bill hit Moxley with a big boot and 90 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:28.199 he got a near fall out of it. Brian Danielson had seen enough, 91 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.519 so Brian Danielson comes running out from the back. He charges down to the 92 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.279 ring. He attacks Starks from behind. Moxley meanwhile rolls up Big Bill, 93 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.240 who's distracted by all this. He rolls him up for a two count. 94 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:45.759 Stark sent Danielson into the ring. Steps Bill chokeslam Moxley. He got a 95 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.560 close near fall out of that, and even though Bill was on offense, 96 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:53.360 Moxley caught him in a triangle. I think Bill leaned over. I think 97 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.399 he leaned down and Moxley grabbed him in a triangle. He would not let 98 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.079 go. He tried to fight out of it. Starts outside the ring. 99 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.279 He's trying to claw his way back in. Danielson's holding him back. It 100 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:09.360 starts his begging Bill, don't do it, don't tap out, don't do 101 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.519 it. But in the end Big Bill had no choice. He tapped out 102 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:19.839 and John Moxley retains his championship. After the match, Bill and Starks almost 103 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:25.560 at Bill and Ted Bill and Starks they attack Moxley and Danielson together. Here 104 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.560 comes Claudio cast Ignolli, the other member of the Blackpool Combat Club. No 105 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.240 Wheeler Utah on this show. He got in the ring. He powers Bill 106 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:38.120 up onto his shoulders, which is nothing for him. I mean, we've 107 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:42.480 seen this guy deliver freakish feats of strength before. I mean, the guy 108 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.199 body slammed the Big Show out of the fucking ring at the Andre Battle Royal 109 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.600 for crying out loud. So he powers him up onto his shoulders. Bill 110 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:56.680 wiggles free and he lands on the apron, so Claudio gets goozled. He 111 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.800 breaks free, delivers a European upper cup. Bill go backwards, but he 112 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.720 holds onto the top rope. He does not fall in the ring. Claudio 113 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.639 and Danielson they're squaring up. They're standing ready for Bill if he gets back 114 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.920 in the ring. Ricky talks him out of it. He drops down to 115 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.360 the floor and they left together. So they are keeping Ricky Stark's heel. 116 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:18.839 If there was any doubt about what they were going to be doing with him 117 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.879 now that CM punk is gone, they are keeping him heal. I thought 118 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:24.720 maybe they would go in a different direction, maybe they would turn him back 119 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:30.399 baby face and make him one of the top faces on Collision. For now, 120 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:35.320 anyway, he's still a heel, but he's still working at least temporarily. 121 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.360 He's still working with Brian Danielson, so that's obviously not such a bad 122 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.240 thing. Otherwise, I thought it was a decent opener. You know, 123 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.399 Bill. Bill has looked good in recent outing the matches that I've seen him 124 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:50.240 in, and we don't get to see him in a lot of singles matches 125 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.600 on Dynamite, but he's an impressive guy. You know, he got himself 126 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.200 back in shape. Obviously he had fallen on tough times, got himself back 127 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:01.799 in shape. He is one of the physically more imposing people that they have 128 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.919 on their roster. This is not a roster that is filled with people that 129 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.559 look like Big Bill. You have people like Lucasaurus and Brian Cage and others 130 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:16.399 who you know are are big in some way. Cage is not even tall 131 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.080 so much. She's obviously very muscular. But there aren't too many people who 132 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.919 look like Bill, which I think presents a problem for them because I think 133 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.320 in many ways they almost don't really know what to do with him. He's 134 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.320 pretty much been stuck in these these groups and these teams for so long. 135 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.480 So now they have him paired up with Ricky Starks and that's fine for now, 136 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:41.360 but you know that's not going to last. So temporarily that's okay, 137 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.000 but in the long term, it just doesn't feel like they have any real 138 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.120 plans for him. But I thought it was a decent opener. So we 139 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:52.360 go to Missus Moxley in the back. She was there to interview Roderick Strong, 140 00:09:54.159 --> 00:10:01.279 who was accompanied by The Kingdom Mike Bennett, Matt Taven. Adam Cole 141 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.879 interrupted and told Roddy, look, you wrestling Samoa Joe tonight with your neck 142 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.000 the way it is, This is a bad idea tried to talk him out 143 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.120 of it. Strong said, oh, now you care about my neck health. 144 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:15.639 All of a sudden you care. And he said that he would beat 145 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.519 Joe and he would go on to become the AW World Champion because I am 146 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:26.840 a wrestling legend. Did not work out too well for him. Tony Shavati 147 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.679 was in the ring to introduce Don Callis and Canoski to Keshti. Now the 148 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.960 painting from last week. You remember they had a backstage segment on the show 149 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.960 last week. There was a painting that was hidden on an easel and Kallis 150 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:45.440 said that he would wait a week and the painting would reveal to us who 151 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.519 their next target was going to be. So the painting was already in the 152 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:54.879 ring. He was on the easel, he was covered up. Callis took 153 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.720 the microphone away from Shavanti right away and said, we just beat Kenny Omega 154 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.919 twice in one week, and he demanded respect. Kalas said that he's learned 155 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.799 a lot about Japanese culture. He's learned that when you are the top guy 156 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:13.919 in a promotion, they call you the ace. So I started this saying, 157 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:18.000 wait a minute, we know there's going to be some new japan talent 158 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.559 on this Wrestle Dream Show. We already have one. As soon as he 159 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.639 said ace, I said, wait a minute, they are they doing Tanahashi 160 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:28.720 and Takeshta, because that's not really the match that I wanted to see. 161 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.120 But then I realized Tanahashi's already booked that day, as most of the new 162 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.360 Japan Stars are. Most of the new Japan stars are already booked Okada Sa 163 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:41.919 Nata, Tanahashi, Shingo. So that's not where he was going with this. 164 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.679 So he said, he's talking about when you are the best in Japan, 165 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:52.080 they call you the ace. And he says, there's been a lot 166 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.080 of aces, got a lot of top top guys in different promotions called, 167 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.840 you know, call themselves the Ace. Becase Tekeshta is better than all of 168 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:03.159 them them And he ran through a bunch of names, including Okada, and 169 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:09.240 he mentioned Innoki. He mentioned Antonio Aoki says, when you beat Kenny Omega, 170 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.919 they call you the Ace. When you beat him twice in seven days, 171 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:18.360 they call you the Alpha. He pointed to the big screen and they 172 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.440 had the Alpha on there. Then I started to worry about Chris Jericho because 173 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.080 when they did the Jericho Kenny Omega Magic Wressell Kingdom, I guess it would 174 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:33.000 have been five years ago, it was Omega and the Alpha. And I 175 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.039 said, okay, we're getting Jericho into Keshla. Where's this going here? 176 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:43.159 They had befooled a couple of different times. Here, he says, henceforth, 177 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.879 te Kesha will be referred to as the Alpha. He says he is 178 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:50.279 a real Alpha, not a fake one like Chris Jericho. So then they 179 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:56.559 shot off streamers all over the ring. Callus tells Kenny that beating him twice 180 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:03.240 wasn't enough. They broke his body. Now they're going to break his heart. 181 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.519 Callous removes the cover from the painting, and it is the former IWGP 182 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:16.799 heavyweight champion Kota Ibushi. And in the painting, we see Callous, we 183 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.960 see Takeshta, and it's an image of the two of them standing over Ibushi, 184 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.759 who's in his wrestling gear, and he's kneeling down on his knees looking 185 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:31.240 up kind of cowering underneath a sword that Takeshta is holding above his head. 186 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:37.799 Callous says, the while they destroy Ibushi, Omega will be at home watching 187 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.879 like the pathetic cuck that he is. Yes, he called this man a 188 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:48.519 cuck. They didn't say why Kenny Omega would be sitting at home. Is 189 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.159 there some sort of injury that they mentioned somewhere along the way that I'm not 190 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.799 aware of. Why Why wouldn't Omega be there? Where's he been since? 191 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.519 All out? So he called him a pathetic cuck And then he pulled out 192 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:07.159 a screwdriver. He stabbed the screwdriver into the image of Eubushi in the painting 193 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:11.159 and left it there. He went over to a stage hand on the side. 194 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:16.039 He grabbed some flowers that he probably stole from someone's grave site. The 195 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:20.000 slimy little shit that he is, and he turned around that he handed them 196 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.559 to Tkeshta. Ta Keshta then shoved the flowers into Tony Shirvani's face and handed 197 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:30.200 them off to him, and the two of them left together. The fans 198 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:35.879 did not give a shit about anything that this person talked about in this segment. 199 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.000 Don callis when he comes out. Typically in most cities, when Don 200 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.919 Callus walks out, he gets incredible heat. Right we see the heat Dominic 201 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.960 Mysterio gets in w w E. The closest thing in aw is Don Callos 202 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.919 and usually he comes out if he goes to speak, especially, he usually 203 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:58.080 gets incredible heat. That was not the case here this place, this building 204 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:03.080 in Cincinnati. These ends didn't care. They were very very quiet for this 205 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:11.000 entire segment. Callus insulting and it's Samoa bro eight. Thank you, Zachariah. 206 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.120 Callus insulting Anoki was I think the giveaway, even though they haven't made 207 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.320 it official yet, that's the giveaway that this match is going to be taking 208 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.320 place at Wrestle Dream in Seattle. Wrestle Dream, Tony Khan has already talked 209 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:31.080 about Wrestle Dream the genesis of it being held on the one year anniversary of 210 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:35.480 the death of Anoki. It's basically like a love letter to Antonio Anoki, 211 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:41.399 who Tony Khan has said was the greatest dreamer of all, which I think 212 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:46.519 Tommy Dreamer might object. So name dropping Anoki here, I think was a 213 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.639 little nod to the fact that this will be taking place at Wrestle dream and 214 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:56.000 looking Bushi against Teksha sounds great depending on the version of a bushi that we 215 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.639 get. I thought he looked a little bit better at all End than he 216 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.519 did in Blood and Guts. But again, this is going to be a 217 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:08.639 very different situation because he has only had two matches singles matches this entire year. 218 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.000 Those two singles matches that he had came Wrestlemani a weekend. Those were 219 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.639 the first two matches of any kind that he had since twenty twenty one when 220 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:22.159 he injured his shoulder, and that was months ago. He came back in 221 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:27.399 July Blood and Guts there were ten men and then all in he's in a 222 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:32.080 trio's match. So this is going to be a test for Aboushi as much 223 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:37.639 as anything, because he has not really been tested in a single situation in 224 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:42.360 a very long time. So what version of Koda abushi are we going to 225 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:47.279 get in Seattle. It's easy to think back to the abushi that we remember 226 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:52.039 from New Japan a few years ago when he was the Intercontinental Champion in the 227 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.200 IWGP Champion, this is an older Kode Aboushi who's I believe still hurt. 228 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:00.320 I still don't believe he's fully healed up from his injury. I think that 229 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:03.759 has a lot to do honestly with what we've seen from him so far. 230 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:10.279 But we'll see on paper again. That sounds like a fantastic match and I'm 231 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.359 looking forward to it, but again, a lot of it just depends on 232 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.680 which version of a bushi we're going to get. When we get to see 233 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:22.680 Adam Alex Marvez was backstage good Old Alex. He was with Brian Danielson, 234 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:27.160 John Moxley, and Claudio Castingnlie. Danielson issued a challenge to Ricky Starks and 235 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:33.440 to Big Bill for tag team match on Collision this coming Saturday against himself and 236 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.359 Claudio, so that match is now official. Marvez noted that Moxley would be 237 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:44.599 defending his aw International Championship against Rape Phoenix at Grand Slam next week, well, 238 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:48.720 Claudio would defend his Ring of Honor World Heavyweight title against Eddie Kingston and 239 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.599 Moxley, who is still kind of reeling from his match and all bloody and 240 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.200 kind of out of it. Although I think he was kind of born that 241 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.960 way, it's just kind of how he looks. He downlid their title defenses 242 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.680 and said that they would be like a day off for them. Ray Phoenix 243 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.519 showed up and he had to be held back. It had to be restrained 244 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:14.200 by Penta and Alex Obrajantes. He wanted at John Moxley. Meanwhile, Eddie 245 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.400 Kingston, while Eddie Kingston suddenly just shows up in the background and he's having 246 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.960 a silent stare down with Claudio. While in the four ground, all these 247 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:29.559 men are being separated and they're being taken away. Claudio is standing there, 248 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.839 Eddie is standing there. They're staring each other down, and finally Eddie just 249 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:38.920 says one more week and he breaks out into laughter as he walks off, 250 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:44.759 and Claudio has a concerned look on his face. So it is happening. 251 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:48.640 It is happening at Dynamite Grand Slam. I'm very happy about that. It 252 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:52.440 would have been completely stupid to do that match on a taped show. It's 253 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.039 a lot on the line in that match. You know, two titles are 254 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:57.960 on the line. In that match. You have the new japan Strong open 255 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.960 weight title that Eddie as in the ROH World title the Claudio has. So 256 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.200 I don't want to say we're guaranteed a new champion, because we could always 257 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.079 get some kind of fluky finish, you know, like a like a draw 258 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:15.240 for something. It's not a no holds bar, no disqualification. There must 259 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:21.839 be a winner type situation. So don't assume that we are going to get 260 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.079 a new champion next week, because they could very well do a finish like 261 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.319 that. But it is likely that somebody is going to walk out with two 262 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:33.000 titles. I'm hoping and I'm thinking that it's going to be Eddie Kingston. 263 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:37.720 I think in New York City at that stadium, he already lost a Claudio. 264 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.279 It's Supercard of Honor earlier this year. This is a moment that has 265 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:45.000 been a long time in the making, and it might have been a situation 266 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.000 where Tony Khan wanted to save it for a Ring of Honor pay per view, 267 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.880 But you're not going to get more visibility than you will on your a 268 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:57.359 show on television. In a venue like that, you're not going to have 269 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:02.680 twenty thousand people like it did two years ago. At Arthur Ash they're struggling 270 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:06.720 to sell tickets. They're doing two for one ticket deals in New York right 271 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:10.160 now for Grand Slam, trying to get more people into the building. I 272 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:14.359 don't know what the current count is. I haven't seen an updated attendance figure 273 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:18.039 in about a week. Last I saw it was between five and six thousand, 274 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.440 which is which is not good. You know, when they had twenty 275 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:25.240 thousand two years ago, they had about thirteen thousand last year. If they 276 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:29.880 had six thousand, there's no way to look at that and justify that and 277 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.480 say, oh, that's a good number. If you go into most buildings 278 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:36.240 for Dynamite and do six thousand people, yes, that would be a good 279 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:38.440 number in Arthur Ash Stadium, No, I don't consider that to be a 280 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:42.759 good number. So they have a week to try to beef those numbers up 281 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.480 and get them maybe, you know, as close to ten k as they 282 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:49.599 can. But it's still one of the bigger aw shows that they do all 283 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:52.880 year, and I think that that would be the perfect place you know, 284 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:57.039 for Eddie Kingston to finally win the big one and walk out with the roh 285 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:00.839 World titles. So I'm glad they're doing that. On Wednesday enough Friday, 286 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:04.400 now, Renee was in the back and she was about to interview Hook, 287 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:11.400 who at Wembley Stadium regained his FTW title from Jack Perry, who will go 288 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:17.839 down in AW history is one of the most significant figures who knew in the 289 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:23.279 history not only of AW but one of the more important figures, frankly in 290 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:26.400 the history of wrestling, at least modern day wrestling. If you look at 291 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.920 what happened, we haven't seen him. He's still under suspension. We haven't 292 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.599 seen him since all in. But before a Hook could even answer her question, 293 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:38.519 here comes Orange Cassidy, who strolls on it. He still has a 294 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:42.640 bandage on his head from last week. Just walking around. He says he 295 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:48.640 saw Hook looking all mad and he doesn't understand it. He goes, why 296 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:52.920 why are you so mad? He says that you've got a title. He 297 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:56.039 said, I used to have a title. Hook then spoke, He called 298 00:21:56.079 --> 00:22:00.400 him a great champion. Orange Cassidy's thank you man, you are too, 299 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:04.920 and the two of them fist bumped each other, Book left, and Renee 300 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:10.240 asked Orange Cassidy if he's okay, and he just said he's still so tired. 301 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:14.200 So I guess you know, they're flying him in for these shows and 302 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.680 he's just sort of wandering around aimlessly in the back. The poor guy's so 303 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:26.200 tired. Let them take a vacation. Apparently he's still walking around. We 304 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.960 had Britt Baker, Tony Storm, Kikiashita, and Nila Rose with Marina Schaffier 305 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:36.759 in her corner four way to decide who would challenge Sterriya next week a Grand 306 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:45.359 Slam for the aw Women's World Championship. Tony Storm came out to the Outcast's 307 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:52.759 Titan Tron for lack of a better term and their theme music. Even though 308 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.200 she is clearly no longer part of this faction, she's still coming out to 309 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:03.279 the Outcasts music. Nyla wiped out Britt Baker and Sheeta early on Baker and 310 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.599 Sheeta, they fought back, sending Nyla to the outside. Tony Storm then 311 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:14.759 sent Sheeta into Baker on the apron and everybody ended up all bunched up together 312 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:19.279 outside. Sheeta did a dive out onto Nyla. Tony Storm and Marina Schaffier 313 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:25.599 heading into the commercial break speaking of wish. Look at that, there's Orange 314 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:30.079 Cassidy on screen right now. It's funny how that works. He thank you, 315 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:33.519 by the way, to all of our new subscribers. We are inching 316 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.480 closer to seventy five thousand, so I don't know if we'll get there this 317 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:40.000 weeker next week, that's up to you guys, but we are getting very 318 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.720 close, so I thank you for that. So we go to commercial Storm 319 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:48.799 and Nyla. They controlled the action during the picture and picture until Britt Baker 320 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:52.880 sent Nila Rose into the corner. Tony Storm then came charging in for her 321 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:59.279 sweet Cheap music. Storm got dropped by Sheeta and we had a brief little 322 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:03.839 face off between britt Baker and hit Karashida, who have had their issues of 323 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:08.519 late, until we got stereo shop blocks from Tony Storm and Nyla Rose to 324 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:12.880 put a stop to that. Rose laid out Storm with the beast bomb and 325 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:17.359 then a choke slam on britt Baker. Sheeta, though, rolled through a 326 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:22.079 beast bomb attempt into a roll up for a two count. Sheeta hit the 327 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:26.720 katana to Nila Rose and britt Baker hit it awkward curve stomp on Nyla or 328 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:34.640 I'm sorry, Unshida Storm season opening, she sneaks in and she's schoolgirls. 329 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:41.319 Britt Baker rolls her up and gets the pin to win the match and become 330 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:47.559 number one contender for the aw Women's World Championship. When the match is over, 331 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.799 they had cut away to a shot of Tony Storm in the aisleways she's 332 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:56.240 backing up the ram and she's celebrating her win. She's kind of yeah, 333 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.400 she's kind of all shocked and everything. They cut back to the ring and 334 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:04.039 we see that Sheeta has she's basically mounted on top of Britt Baker and she's 335 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.119 beating the hell out of her on the floor, and at first the announcers 336 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:11.480 aren't even acknowledging this. Eventually they finally said, oh, okay, you 337 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:17.640 know, Karashida's very upset. No shit, you could have fooled me. 338 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.440 So she's beaten up. Britt's kind of pushing herself away and now she'd is 339 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:29.400 yelling at her. I guess she's very upset about Brit kicking her or whatever 340 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:33.160 accidentally earlier in the match, and Britt ends up just leaving the ring. 341 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:37.160 She kind of pulls herself out to the floor and exits the ring, And 342 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.480 meanwhile, Tony is on the ramp posing like a Hollywood starlet, and she's 343 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.200 going to Grand Slam next week to wrestle Soria for the title. The match 344 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:51.720 itself, from start to finish, the match lasted six minutes. We got 345 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:56.720 about two of that, maybe two and a half that actually aired full screen 346 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:02.680 and forget the picture and picture bullshit, okay, full screen, full attention. 347 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:07.680 About two minutes of this match actually aired on television. For a match 348 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.720 that had such high stakes. You're crowning a number one contender, if you're 349 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:17.440 a big Grand Slam show next week, and you have some of the biggest 350 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:21.440 names in your women's division are in this match, all of whom I believe, 351 00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:25.319 I think every single one of them are former a W World champions in 352 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:30.720 the women's division, and you give them two minutes is basically what they got. 353 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.440 You gave them two minutes on television, which is absolutely ridiculous, and 354 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.680 it felt like a throwaway match for a match that had such high stakes. 355 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:41.519 It certainly was not treated like a match with high stakes, which is a 356 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:48.240 problem when it comes to the women's division. So they gave them two minutes, 357 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:51.960 and I mean, I didn't care for the match. I'm glad that 358 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.319 Tony Storm won. She was my pick to win. I'm glad she got 359 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:57.559 it, and she's going a Grand Slam next week. I think that's the 360 00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:03.720 right move. But the match was a complete throwaway. I just I don't 361 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.559 understand, you know. And we fast forward a little bit later on in 362 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.039 the show. It was a tag team match later in the show with Darby 363 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:15.920 Allen and Nick Wayne wrestling Mattminard and Angelo Parker, and they set up an 364 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:22.400 angle for a match at Grand Slam next week with a Christian Cage promo. 365 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.319 We're gonna get Christian a Lucasaurus against singing Darby Allen. You could have done 366 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:33.400 that on Collision four Rampage, but you could have done it on Friday. 367 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.519 You could have done it on Saturday and given this match more time, because 368 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.000 that match got more time than this one day. Darby Allen and Nick Wayne 369 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:48.079 against Angelo Parker and Mattminard. It's seven or eight minutes a four way match 370 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.400 to the crown of number one contender for your women's world title gets I mean 371 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:55.720 again, let's be honest. I got two minutes. You could have cut 372 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:02.839 that match and given this match more time, But Renee was backstage with Siria 373 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.720 and Ruby Soho. Soria said that once Tony Storm lost her Women's title, 374 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:11.720 she also lost her mind and she is going to lose a Grand Slam as 375 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.079 well, leaving Storm with nothing. If this woman is not part of this 376 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:19.480 group anymore, please get her new music. She should have like this whole, 377 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:23.799 big, like Hollywood esque entrance. I hope they're working on something like 378 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.400 that. Maybe next week, maybe in New York City, they'll debut a 379 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.039 whole new entrance for Tony Storm. Literally, they can roll out the red 380 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.400 carpet for her as she comes down. The all have paparazzi on either side 381 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:38.119 snapping photos. I mean, you gotta do it right. It's gotta fit 382 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:44.759 the gimmick. Chris Jericho and Sammy Gavar They were out to the ring next 383 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:51.400 in street clothes for one last promo before their friendly battle at Grand Slam next 384 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:55.759 week. The challenge was made on Rampage for those who don't watch Rampage, 385 00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.319 which I'm sure is a lot of you. On Rampage, Chris Jericho does 386 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:03.839 commentary. Sammy Gavara came out, the challenge was made. They're gonna fight 387 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.880 it out next week to get it out of their systems. They've been having 388 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.839 issues with each other, and the ideas that we're going to have a match, 389 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:12.720 We're gonna beat the hell out of each other, and when the match 390 00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:15.880 is over, we're gonna shake hands, and then we're gonna go on to 391 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.720 become the greatest tag team champions of all time, or at least that's the 392 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:27.839 idea. So Jericho pitched it to a short video package with highlights of the 393 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:34.599 whole Jericho Gavara relationship going back to the very beginning of AW. After it 394 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:37.880 was over, they came back live. Sammy admitted he still doesn't know the 395 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:45.119 lyrics to Judice. Jericho says. On October twenty one, twenty eighteen, 396 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:52.440 he was watching the NWA's seventieth anniversary show. This is back in the good 397 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:57.640 old days when the NWA didn't have fucking Tyrus as their world champion, who 398 00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:03.440 thankfully is world champion no more. On the other hand, they forced me 399 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:04.920 to root for EC three. It was one of these things where what do 400 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.200 I do here? I don't know what to do. The less the lesser 401 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:14.000 of two evils here, what do I do? But back in the old 402 00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:18.000 days of twenty eighteen, when they did not have Tyrius as their world champion, 403 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:23.759 they had their seventieth anniversary show and he noticed a young star in one 404 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:27.160 of the prelimb matches that he had never seen before. But he was very 405 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:33.839 impressed by a man by the name of Sammy Gavar and he was blown away 406 00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:36.119 to the point that he called Tony kh and said, look, you need 407 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:40.720 to sign this kid. He didn't really enjoy the giant panda head that he 408 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:44.440 was I do remember the giant panda head that he used to wear, but 409 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:47.559 he knew that Sammy had what it took, so he wanted to help him 410 00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.119 out as much as he possibly could. And he said, over the years 411 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:56.000 he has watched Sammy grow from a boy to a man. Sammy has matured, 412 00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:00.160 he's won titles, he got married. Now he's about to have a 413 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.440 baby. That he corrected himself and said that Sammy's wife is about to have 414 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:08.680 a baby. Thank god, Thank god. Jericho clarified that because I would 415 00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:15.240 have been very confused to Jericho said, he's proud of him, and Sammy 416 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.880 knows that typically we trash talk each other when we come out here in the 417 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.799 ring. That's what we do. That's what wrestlers do. He goes, 418 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.240 I'm not going to do that because you inspire me. He used to do 419 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.440 codebreakers in his mom's backyard. So he just wants to thank Jericho for changing 420 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.839 his life, for changing everyone's life. He said, without Chris Jericho, 421 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:40.720 there is no aew. But he didn't come out here just to beat Jericho's 422 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:45.160 sidekick. He wants us to look at him the way we look at Jericho 423 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:48.839 and the other top names that Kenny Omega's and the John Moxley's of the world. 424 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.559 But he knows that's never gonna happen as long as he is in Jericho's 425 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:57.240 shadow, which is why he needs to beat Chris Jericho next week. Jericho 426 00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.160 tells him that he was never brought here to his sidekick. He says, 427 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.480 he was brought here to be a main event draw, a money making mega 428 00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:07.960 star, and he's getting closer every week. Told him months ago, Sammy 429 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.640 has to do it on his own, and next week he has the biggest 430 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:15.400 opportunity to do that. Sammy has to beat Jericho. But if he's going 431 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:20.519 to beat Jericho, he'll have to be the best Sammy Gavar, better than 432 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:24.119 he's ever been before. Jericho says, I don't think you're ready yet, 433 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:29.240 and this upset Sammy Gavara. He said, you see, this is what 434 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:31.279 I'm talking about. This is why I need to beat you next week, 435 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:37.240 said Jericho doesn't truly respect him like Sammy respects him. So next week he'll 436 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:44.200 beat Jericho as this man, not the twenty eighteen version, but the man 437 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:46.920 in front of Jericho right now, say he's gonna earn his respect. They're 438 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:50.200 gonna shake hands, they're gonna hug, and then they're gonna go on to 439 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:54.680 win the tag team titles. So Sammy puts his hand out, Jericho shakes 440 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:59.640 it, but then he pulls Sammy in close. Jericho says he'll give Sammy 441 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:01.480 the match of his life, but he's not going to go easy on him. 442 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:05.880 Says he's gonna beat the living hell out of him. He'll punch him 443 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:09.839 harder than he's ever been punched in his life and expects the exact same thing 444 00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:14.440 back from him, and Sammy said that he would not have it any other 445 00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:20.359 way, and they walked off together. I thought it was a fine segment 446 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.480 to remind us of the history between these two. These two have a legitimate 447 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:29.440 history in this company that goes back to the genesis of aw and the genesis 448 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:34.400 of the Inner Circle. And this is the first singles match that we are 449 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:37.720 getting between these two, which is why I thought they were put it off 450 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:44.079 until Full Gear Wrestle Dream. So I was surprised, and frankly, I'm 451 00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:47.839 still surprised that they're doing this on Grand Slam. It may not be the 452 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:51.279 only time we see them in the ring together. It could be the first 453 00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:55.279 of several matches these two have. But I think as far as giving us 454 00:33:55.279 --> 00:34:00.000 a history lesson here and you know, kind of getting us prepped for the 455 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:04.400 match next week, I thought they did what they needed to do. We 456 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.239 didn't need the you know, the pull apart because that's not what this is. 457 00:34:07.679 --> 00:34:12.599 I mean, they've had their disagreements and their and their miscommunications and stuff, 458 00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.280 but these two in storyline, they're still friends, so you're not going 459 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:21.880 to do the traditional pull apart brawl between them. This is supposed to be 460 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.239 a friendly exhibition between two friends who when the match is over, whoever wins, 461 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:30.239 they're gonna go on to become tag team champions, right that's the idea. 462 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.159 I don't see it working out that way. I think here's how I 463 00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:38.880 see it playing out. I think Jericho is gonna win. I think Jericho 464 00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:45.440 Jericho lost to will Ospring at all in. I don't think Jericho even had 465 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:50.880 a match at all out, which that may well be the first aw of 466 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:54.400 pay per view that Chris Jericho didn't have a match on. But now we're 467 00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:58.599 going into this show if it is the first of what may end up being 468 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:00.920 multiple matches. You had say Emmy in this promo saying I need to beat 469 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:04.760 you right. What does that remind you of? That's exactly what Adam Cole 470 00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:08.039 said to MJF ahead of their match at Wembley Stadium, which is which is 471 00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:10.920 the same thing Stone Cold said to The Rock, which is what reminds me 472 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:15.679 of that. But he says I have to beat you right, and he 473 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.920 didn't. Sammy has to in his mind, he has to go in there 474 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.000 and be Jericho to earn his respect and prove that he's more than just a 475 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.440 sidekick. And Jericho says, I don't think you're ready. I think Jericho 476 00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:30.800 wins. It's a close match, but Jericho proves to be correct. You 477 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:35.519 know that Sammy is not ready, and I think that could be the catalyst 478 00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:37.119 for a turn. I think one of these guys is going to turn, 479 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:43.639 and of the two, I think Sammy is the likeliest, and it could 480 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.760 be precipitated by him losing to Jericho and he just he can't handle it. 481 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:50.639 Jericho wins and says, all right, see, we got it out of 482 00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:52.840 our system. Now we're gonna go. Sammy says no, no, no, 483 00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:57.639 right, he can't let it lie. And that's why I think, 484 00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.000 well, we'll end up with more than just one match between these two. 485 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.039 But for what this was meant to do, I thought that the served its 486 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:07.679 purpose. I thought it was fine. We had footage that aired from backstage 487 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:13.119 last week of Rene in the trainer's room with MJF being tended to by the 488 00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.760 trainer for his bad neck. Adam Cole was there as well. The trainer 489 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.440 said that he would not be able to work next week, but he would 490 00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:24.840 be next week, being tonight, but he said that he would be cleared 491 00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:29.679 and he would be good to go for Grand Slam. MJF was stoked. 492 00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.119 He goes, dude, I don't fine by me. I don't I get 493 00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:37.320 a week off and then he talked about tonight's finals between Samoa Joe and Roderick 494 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:43.000 Strong. He mocked Roddy for being bland, called him Roddy the simp, 495 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:46.159 Strong faking a neck injury. He said, if Strong makes it to Arthur 496 00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:49.639 Ash, he would rip his head off and stick it up his ass. 497 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:53.079 As for Samoa Joe, he promised that if he won the tournament, he 498 00:36:53.119 --> 00:37:00.880 would choke Joe out. And then he proceeded to reenact the old Steiner Math 499 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:07.320 promo for many years ago in TNA, which may be the greatest promo in 500 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:13.039 the history of the business. I'm thinking, I mean it probably is. 501 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:20.199 Think of all the classic promos you ever saw, Dusty Rhodes, Rick Flair, 502 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:27.280 Roddy Piper, everybody in between, right, all these classic promos, 503 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.119 How are any of them better than Steiner Math. I mean, come on, 504 00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:34.039 how the people in that segment even kept a straight face when he was 505 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:36.719 talking. I'll never know. I would love to know how many takes that 506 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.880 took. I always cracked up at the part where Steiner says I'm not normal, 507 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:45.400 right, like this applies to normal people, but I'm not normal. 508 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.159 I mean, he's talking about the obvious statement of the Year. But yes, 509 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:52.239 he proceeded to it, and I'm sure he was reading off a fucking 510 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:57.559 teleprompter or something, but he did a good job reenacting the Steiner Math thing. 511 00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.320 I just love the fact that it was a promo that Steiner cut on 512 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:05.840 Samoa Joe, and so here MJF cut the same promo on who Samoa Joe. 513 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:07.840 So I enjoyed that. I thought this was great. Now, the 514 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.880 best part about this whole thing may have been watching Renee as she stood there 515 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.760 trying to absorb everything that m JF was saying and trying to follow along and 516 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.719 failing miserably. So I thought this entire segment was great. Anytime we're talking 517 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:27.559 about a Steiner Math reenactment, it's going to be great. And no they 518 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:31.000 no, there was no. There was no mention of Joe being fat. 519 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:37.480 That wasn't even the Steiner Math promo. Right. That was a main event 520 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:45.039 Mafia sit down, Right, wasn't it like the Darkened Arena no fans recorded 521 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:46.679 earlier in the day with Mike Taney in the Rings sitting there with the main 522 00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:54.079 event Mafia members. Steiner starts going off on Joe being fat. No, 523 00:38:54.239 --> 00:39:00.920 there were there were no fat jokes here about Samoa Joe hang Man Adam Pay 524 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.760 against Brian Cage. We had Page in Cage Part three. This was the 525 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.400 rubber match of their series. Cage won their first match on Dynamite many years 526 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:13.280 ago. Page won their second, which was a Double or Nothing in twenty 527 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:19.760 twenty one, and that match was great. This match not great, but 528 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:22.239 it was still very good. Just did not It did not rise to the 529 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:29.159 level of their Double or Nothing match. But this was Hangman Page's first singles 530 00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:35.559 match on Dynamite in seven months. The last time Hangman Adam Page had a 531 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:40.559 singles match on this television show was in February against Kip Sabian. When I 532 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:45.920 saw that, I couldn't believe that, but it's true. Springboard clothesline on 533 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:51.920 the apron sent Cage outside. Page wanted a slingshot dive, but Cage caught 534 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:57.159 him posted him. Page returned the favor by turning a power bomb attempt into 535 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.519 a Hurrican Rana, and the rana sent Brian Cage curling forward into the ring. 536 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:06.519 Post back inside. Cage try to pop up power bomb, which Hangman 537 00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:13.280 countered into another rana. Page wanted the buckshot but swerved Strickland's music Kid and 538 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:16.440 he walked out on stage with Prince Nana on This distracted Hangman long enough for 539 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:22.280 Cage to hit a German supplex from the apron back into the ring, so 540 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:27.159 it was all Cage during the commercial until Cage hit a snap power slam and 541 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.960 then he missed the follow up moonsault from the middle rope. Hangman battled back. 542 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:37.159 They both spilled out to the floor. Cage wanted or Page rather wanted 543 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:43.519 his Oriri Horror moonsault to the floor, but Brian Cage rolled back inside and 544 00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:50.400 he caught a cross body attempt crossbody block attempt. Hangman countered into a crucifix 545 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.719 bomb and Cage rolled out to the floor. Page finally did hit the Ori 546 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:59.440 Horror moon salt back inside. Page managed to hit a top rope cross body. 547 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.559 Cage, though kicked out. Brian Cage hit a release German and wanted 548 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:08.119 it outside in supplex. Page though swept the legs and then he tried for 549 00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:14.239 the buckshot LARRYT. Cage counted into an F five attempt, which Hangman then 550 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:19.000 countered into a small package. Page was up first and he picked up Brian 551 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.159 Cage dropped him with a dead eye right on his head and he pinned him 552 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:27.519 to pick up the wind and he wins the series two matches to one. 553 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.480 So again, this is a good match. It just was not at the 554 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:34.480 level of match number two. I have no memory of the first match. 555 00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:38.679 The only thing I remember about their first match is that Brian Cage won, 556 00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:43.880 but I don't actually remember the match itself. Second match, though, was 557 00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:47.239 very good, and this one was good. After the match was over, 558 00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:52.159 Hangman got on the mic and he said he was addressing Swerve, who was 559 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:57.559 standing on the ramp. He said, last week Swerve wanted his spot, 560 00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:01.760 but yet he set Brian Cage Age to fight him instead. And Page thought 561 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:07.280 that Swerve had balls, but clearly he's keeping them in Prince Nana's burger King 562 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:13.519 Crown. Strickland said, those sound like fighting words, but he's dumber than 563 00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:16.679 the Cincinnati education system. If he thinks that he's going to be fighting him 564 00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:21.280 tonight. Strickland says, he picks the where and the when, and he 565 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:23.880 said that it's going to be in his hometown of Seattle at wrestl Dry. 566 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:29.719 Swerves said that he would make sure that Page didn't get too comfortable before then 567 00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:35.119 he goes, Ain't that right? Brian Cage and right on Q Cage attacked 568 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.519 Hangman from behind. So Cage and Nana they're both putting the boots to Hangman. 569 00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:46.039 Page Nana stopped and he started to do a dance in the ring. 570 00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:51.119 While that's going on, the Young Bucks show up. They get into the 571 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:54.079 ring, double super kicks for Brian Cage. Nana has no idea that this 572 00:42:54.159 --> 00:43:00.280 is going on. He's continuing to dance. Finally he turns around and the 573 00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:04.280 Young Bucks dropped him with super kicks as well. So there's no need to 574 00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:07.719 overload the card next week. In New York. They've got a more than 575 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:13.400 solid lineup for Dynamite next week, So doing the Match of Wrestle Dream instead 576 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:16.639 and being in Seattle, Swerve's hometown, that makes a lot more sense. 577 00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:21.119 Because you got this pay per view coming up eleven days later. You don't 578 00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:24.000 want to give everything away next week, so we're getting the Match of Wrestle 579 00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:27.880 Dream. It's nice to see Hangman at a proper feud. He's been on 580 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:32.000 the backburner for so long. Not only good to see him have a new 581 00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:36.039 feud to sink his teeth into, but Swerve as well. You know, 582 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.719 and we've seen Swerve. He's been more visible on the show these last few 583 00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:44.079 months. He took the losing fall in the tag team coffin match of Wembley, 584 00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:46.760 but he's moved on now and this is a fresh match. It's a 585 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:50.199 fresh feud, it's a fresh match, and I think these two are gonna 586 00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.679 go out. They're gonna have a great match, So I'm looking forward to 587 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:58.280 it. Renee was in the back with Daniel Garcia and wanted to ask him 588 00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:01.519 about Jericho and Sammy's match week, which upset him. You know. He 589 00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:05.840 says, everybody wants to ask me about other people. Nobody wants to ask 590 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:08.079 me about me. And I guess he mentioned I guess it one of the 591 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.800 was it one of the football games this weekend? Somebody was doing his stupid 592 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:19.679 dance. I didn't write down which game he was referring to, but he's 593 00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:23.679 talking about people doing his dance and we should be talking about that. Don 594 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:30.199 Callous interrupted and he said he knows how Garcia feels, considering he knows the 595 00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:35.320 ultimate narcissist that is Chris Jericho. He says he's creating a meritocracy in the 596 00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:39.679 Don Callis family and Before he could go any further, Garcia stops him, 597 00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:43.400 puts his finger to his mouth and stops him, and then he proceeds to 598 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:49.559 do his stupid dance and then he walks off and Callus tells Renee, that's 599 00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:54.400 money, and he goes to chase after Garcia. That is not money. 600 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:58.559 It might be entertaining, but one thing it is not. It is not 601 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:04.079 money. Today's episode is sponsored by Better Help. Have you ever found it 602 00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:08.119 hard to fall asleep because your mind is just racing. 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He walks out on stage with Lucasaurus. He 621 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:34.119 takes a seat at the announced this Menard and Parker. They make frequent tags. 622 00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:38.119 They're picking apart Nick Wayne, we skip ahead here. Darby hits a 623 00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.840 code read on Angelo. Parker only gets a two count. Parker try to 624 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:47.039 roll up on Darby, who kicked off and Wayne connected with Wayne's world. 625 00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.239 Darby wiped out Matt Menard with a somersault, sent on to the floor, 626 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.840 and he made as he made the tag with Nick Wayne hitting a moon salt 627 00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:01.320 onto Menard and Hager Darby hit a coffin drop onto Angelo Parker to win the 628 00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:06.920 match for their team. So not much to this, which is why I 629 00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:09.199 made the comment before about how this match did not need to take place on 630 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:14.599 this show. You could have taken this match and put it on one of 631 00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:19.280 the shows later in the week and given the women's four away another five minutes. 632 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:22.000 So I mean, my god, there's nothing you can do about the 633 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:23.920 commercial break, right, You're gonna have the commercial break, although it always 634 00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:29.239 seems to no matter what, it always seems to fall on the women's match, 635 00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.559 right, which is kind of funny. But that match could have benefited 636 00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:37.800 from wartime just because so little of it actually aired full screen on the shelf. 637 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:39.960 So again this I don't think this had to take place tonight. But 638 00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:44.159 when the match is over, A Christian got up from the announced desk, 639 00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:50.519 took the microphone, and he talked about how he was scrolling through Nick Wayne's 640 00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:57.840 mom's Instagram account, which is a little creepy, and he was disappointed. 641 00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:05.679 He said that she doesn't post enough bikini photos. He says he's pissed off 642 00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:12.000 that there's still talk about stinging Darby's win at all in because it's embarrassing, 643 00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:19.599 although not as embarrassing as the Bengals losing to the Browns, but it's still 644 00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:23.320 embarrassing. Nonetheless, he pointed out that he didn't take the losing fall on 645 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:27.679 that match, which he did and it was swerved, nor did he have 646 00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:31.320 his regular partner in that match. So he challenged Darby and Sting, who 647 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:36.119 was not there tonight, but he challenged Darby and Sting to a tag team 648 00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:40.559 match at arthur Ash next week against himself and Lucasaurus. Now on commentary during 649 00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:47.119 the match, the announcer has really put over how beat up and how thrashed 650 00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:52.559 Darby's back is, because Darby's talked recently, even going into the Wembley Show, 651 00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:58.400 about how fucked up his back is, and but then coming out of 652 00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:00.920 Wembley he did that cough and drop on top of the casket and then he 653 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:05.440 said that you know, his spine is all messed up now, and I 654 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.840 don't doubt it. I mean, they could be exaggerating it and playing it 655 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:13.000 up for storyline purposes. All you need to do is just watch Darby in 656 00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:15.119 the ring and when he takes these sick bumps. I'm sure his spine is 657 00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:19.880 all fucked up, but the announcers were really playing it up, which felt 658 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:22.000 like that was the real reason for you even doing this match, just to 659 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:27.039 give them the chance to talk about how beat up Darby's back is. And 660 00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.480 clearly that's going to play a role probably in the outcome of the match next 661 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:36.079 week, because I'm thinking that it will be Christian a Lucasaurus, who pick 662 00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:39.599 up the win in that match. So we'll see how how the injury plays 663 00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:44.360 into things next week. But I think this will be a recoup win for 664 00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:46.679 Christian Cage next week, and then you know, Christian's going to defend the 665 00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:52.239 TNT title probably well. I mean, I guess maybe the Dinosaur could well. 666 00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:55.880 I guess we'll see. Could Christian legally defend the TNT title on his 667 00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:02.719 behalf though, because I'd rather see him in the ring with Darby, So 668 00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:06.800 that'll be interesting. Because I think wrestle Dread's gonna whatever it's gonna be, 669 00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:10.679 it's gonna be a wrestle dream. You're talking about Darby, Nick Wayne, 670 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:15.400 both of them right from the Seattle area. I don't know if they'll do 671 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.360 a triple threat. I don't know why Nick Wayne would even be getting a 672 00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:24.960 TNT title match this early, but there is a Seattle connection there, so 673 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:30.079 I'm sure we'll get that match. The main event of the show was the 674 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:35.800 finals of the Grand Slam Eliminator tournament. It was Samoa Joe or Samoa bro 675 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.719 whatever you call him. He's a fucking badass. He came down to the 676 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:43.559 rain to face Roderick Strong, who does very much when he walks out, 677 00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.760 does not look like a badass, especially not with the neck brace on. 678 00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:52.360 Once the bell rings, Roddy is a beast. But you compare the two 679 00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.320 of them, you know one looks a certain way the other one does. 680 00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:00.280 But this was first shot at the aw World Have You Weight Championship because MJF 681 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:05.199 next week in New York. Joe was the man. Let us not forget 682 00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:08.920 who broke poor Roddy's neck all those many weeks ago, So this was Roddy's 683 00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:14.119 chance for revenge. This went about as well for him as their last encountered 684 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:17.280 dude. Joe got the better of Roddy in the early going. He forced 685 00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:23.639 him to regroup outside with his fellow Kingdom members. Strong tried a chop battle. 686 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:28.239 Joe, connected on a head button, controlled the match heading into the 687 00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:35.239 final commercial break. Strong was able to ground Joe after a series of strikes 688 00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:39.639 connected with a missile drop kick only got a one count. Joe came back 689 00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:45.400 with his Manhattan drop, big boot, running sent on combo flattened Roddy with 690 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:49.599 a snap power slam for two. Strong floated over a power bomb and hit 691 00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:54.800 a series of charging four arms and Joe finally just crumbled. Joe countered an 692 00:51:54.800 --> 00:52:00.599 angle slam attempt. Roddy, though connected with a running lariat. Joe is 693 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:06.079 able to avoid the stronghold and then hit the st Joe. The st Joe 694 00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:09.679 in the corner put Roddy down very hard. He backed Roddy into the opposite 695 00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:14.639 corner and he was setting up for the muscle buster. This poor fucking guy 696 00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:16.760 with a broken neck, He's gonna give him a musclebuster. So we have 697 00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:22.639 Mike Bennett to save the day. He jumps up on the apron to run 698 00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:27.239 distraction. He gets knocked down off the apron. Roddy comes back with an 699 00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:30.840 angle slam and then a running kick off the ropes takes Joe down for a 700 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:35.960 near fall, booted him right in the face. Strong tried for a leaping 701 00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:38.159 knee strike. I think this might have been my favorite part of the match. 702 00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:43.280 So it looked to me like he was getting ready to deliver a leaping 703 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:49.360 knee strike. As Roddy goes to jump up, Joe just swats him out 704 00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:53.119 of midair with a hilariously stiff, larious, just fucking clotheslines the shit out 705 00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:59.320 of this guy, and down goes Roddy and then Joe sank in the cocina 706 00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:02.360 clutch with the body scissors. There was no getting out of this. Roddy 707 00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:08.320 quickly tapped out and Samoa Joe picked up the winds. Samoa Joe advances to 708 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:13.199 Arthur Ash. Next week he will wrestle MJF for the aw World title. 709 00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:17.480 Joe grabbed a microphone and the match was over, and he had some words 710 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:23.599 for Young Maxwell. He said, oh Max, he said, it seems 711 00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:30.000 my little prophecy has come true. And next week I go to your backyard 712 00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:34.119 and I'm coming for you because I'm gonna walk you down, I'm gonna beat 713 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:39.599 you up, and I'm gonna take everything that you have kid everything. So 714 00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:44.960 with that, Joe parted ways with us. He walked to the back. 715 00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:52.239 As Joe left disappeared into the back. Adam Cole comes out the opposite side 716 00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:54.639 of the stage and he's on his way down to the ring. In the 717 00:53:54.760 --> 00:54:01.000 ring, the Kingdom is with Roddy and they're checking on him to see how 718 00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:07.440 he is and everything. So Cole is rushing down to the ring and you 719 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:12.360 can see Roddy. He kind of looks behind him and he spots Cole coming 720 00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:19.280 to the ring, and Roddy takes a phantom bump. He just he collapses 721 00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:24.639 to the mat. He's screaming in agony. He's clutching his injured neck. 722 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.599 This as soon as he spotted Cole, he just dropped. He dropped like 723 00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:34.559 a rock. Doctors came into the ring. They put Roddy back in a 724 00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:37.800 neck brace. They stretchered him, put him on a stretcher, stretchered him 725 00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:43.239 out of the ring. He was yelling Adam incessantly over and over again, 726 00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:47.840 yelling Adam Cole's name, looking for him. Meanwhile, Tavan and Bennett don't 727 00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:52.039 want him even to come near them. They're like, you've done enough, 728 00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:58.960 leave us alone. On commentary, unless I misheard here and I don't remember 729 00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:05.480 who it was, but on commentary. They tried to blame the sudden sharp 730 00:55:05.599 --> 00:55:13.360 turn that Roddy took when he turned and spotted Cole as the possible reason why 731 00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:20.639 he got hurt. So the Kingdom continued to verbally attack Adam Cole. They 732 00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:24.119 left the ring and they were walking alongside the stretcher as Roddy got wheeled to 733 00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:30.480 the back and the entire time Cole is trying to plead his case. And 734 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:36.679 now Cole is on the stage looking off again, trying to address them and 735 00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:39.800 call them back or whatever. All of a sudden, back out from the 736 00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:45.159 locker room comes Samoa Joe. He sneaks up behind Adam Cole and he locks 737 00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:50.119 him in the cocina clutch and he takes him down to the ground and he 738 00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:53.679 puts him out, and he looks dead in the camera and he tells MJF. 739 00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:58.559 He screams everything right because he said he's gonna take everything from this kid, 740 00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:04.920 says everything, I'm taking everything from you, And while Cole was laying 741 00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:08.519 unconscious on the ground, Joe put his foot on him and he started to 742 00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:15.159 flex like he was fucking Hogan ex Caliber. Then ran down the card for 743 00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:19.519 next week. They had a lot of time left. Like, when the 744 00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:22.559 match ended, it was nine fifty five, so we had another five minutes. 745 00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:25.280 You knew something was gonna happen. With the time they had left, 746 00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:29.920 ex Caliber ran down the card for next week and they went off the air. 747 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:34.639 I like the closing angle. They are playing it up for comedy, 748 00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:38.119 and you know, part of me is like, should you be doing that 749 00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:43.800 with your main event feud? The thing is with Joe, there's no comedy 750 00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:47.760 involved. The comedy is Roderick Strong, and frankly, it's the best way 751 00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:52.280 to get people interested in whatever Roderick Strong is doing. Because as great of 752 00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:55.199 a wrestler as Roddy is, the things that MJF says about him, calls 753 00:56:55.280 --> 00:57:00.239 him bland. You're a default call. You're a generic white guy. I 754 00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:04.400 hate to break it to you, but everything he is saying is true. 755 00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:07.880 He does look like a default call. He does look like a generic white 756 00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:13.320 guy. The bell rings, the guy can go, But how do you 757 00:57:13.400 --> 00:57:19.840 make him interesting? This is the most interesting he's been in forever, So 758 00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:22.719 I mean, I get a kick out of the angle. Obviously he's not 759 00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:27.840 the one going on to challenge for the championship next week. The guy challenging 760 00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:31.400 for the championship. It don't get more serious than Samoa Joe. There is. 761 00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:36.199 There's nothing funny about any of the stuff that Samoa Joe is doing, 762 00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:38.559 so I don't have an issue with that. It keeps the story going with 763 00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:44.440 Roddy and Cole, and then we get Joe and MJF next week. I 764 00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:47.760 wasn't sure they could have gone with Roddy and save Joe for Wrestle Dream, 765 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.239 but they're going to do the match next week. I think that's the right 766 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.559 move, and I said it at the beginning of the stream. If it 767 00:57:54.599 --> 00:57:59.719 were up to me, I would very seriously consider doing a title change and 768 00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:02.760 its pull the trigger on it. Shake things up a little bit, even 769 00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:07.119 if he only holds the title for eleven days and MJF gets it back in 770 00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:10.880 Seattle. I'm not even sure if MJF is defending his title in Seattle. 771 00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:15.679 He didn't defend his title in Chicago. Who's to say he's going to defend 772 00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:19.079 it in Seattle. They may wait until Full Gear and do a title match 773 00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:23.679 there, but man, it's an opportunity for them to shake things up. 774 00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:29.000 Put that world title on Joe in New York City. Some sort of miscommunication 775 00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:32.639 maybe involving Cole and Roddy. Yeah, there'd be some fuckery involved in the 776 00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.239 finish. I don't get the sense we're getting a world title change next week, 777 00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:40.920 but that's the match that I was hoping that we would end up getting, 778 00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:45.440 and I enjoyed the promo battle between them the week before. Now we'll 779 00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:47.679 get the match. I'm loving this run that Joe is on. You know, 780 00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:52.039 he's been able to stay healthy. We've seen a lot more of him 781 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:54.880 on television. He's still the Ring of Honor television champion. But they're not 782 00:58:55.039 --> 00:58:59.000 hiding him away. I mean, you look at the difference in how Joe 783 00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:02.639 is being booked compared to someone like Athena. Athena was on the pre show 784 00:59:02.679 --> 00:59:07.719 in Chicago. Well, we don't see Athena on Dynamite, we don't see 785 00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:10.840 Athena usually on Collision. We don't see her on Rampage, right, not 786 00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:15.559 every week anyway, She's being hidden away. She's being hidden behind a fucking 787 00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:20.519 paywall, which is a crime, because she's one of the best they have 788 00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:23.559 in that women's division. Joe, on the other hand, and Claudio Claudio 789 00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:29.480 as well. Claudio usually makes the main aw shows and he's the ring of 790 00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:32.760 Honor World Champion. We're getting to see a lot more of Joe of loving 791 00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:37.880 the work that he's putting in Collision. On Saturday, Brian Danielson and Claudio 792 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:43.239 take on Ricky Starks and Big Bill FTR defend the AW Tag Team titles and 793 00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:47.159 what else a fucking open challenge. They put an open challenge out there to 794 00:59:47.199 --> 00:59:50.880 any young tag team who wants to step up to them. They'll get a 795 00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:53.880 tag team Championship match. And the first team coming up is the former Bear 796 00:59:53.960 --> 01:00:00.760 Country, the Iron Savages. They wrestle FTR on Saturday. Next Wednesday, 797 01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:04.280 it's tight to My Grand Slam. We get Joe and MJF for the world 798 01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:09.000 title, Moxley and Phoenix International Championship on the line. There, Chris Jericho 799 01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:15.880 takes on Sammy Gavara for the first time. We get Soria defending the AW 800 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:20.559 Women's World Championship against Tony Storm. And I'm telling you, I want to 801 01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:22.960 see that new entrance. You've got to have the red carpet, you gotta 802 01:00:23.039 --> 01:00:28.480 have the photographers, you gotta really do it up man, do it the 803 01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:34.320 right way, and then Champion against Champion title for title. Claudio Castignoli puts 804 01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:37.400 his Ring of Honor world title on the line against Eddie Kingston, who puts 805 01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:40.840 his new japan Strong open weight title on the line in New York City. 806 01:00:42.280 --> 01:00:45.400 That's a pretty fucking strong lineup. I'm looking forward to Grand Slam very much. 807 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.400 Last week last year I was at Arthur Ash. I was actually at 808 01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:54.679 Grand Slam last year, and you know, I had fun. But I'm 809 01:00:54.760 --> 01:00:59.719 very happy to not be schlepping back all the way over there, and I'll 810 01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:04.159 be year with you. I'll get to be live with you next Wednesday night 811 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.800 the way it should be when the show is over. Honestly, you know, 812 01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:10.840 they do these shows over at Arthur Ash and if you're not really familiar 813 01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:15.760 with the area over there, it's just the parking situation is just a fucking 814 01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:21.400 nightmare because there's really no parking for that steady if you gotta park over like 815 01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:23.679 where the Mets played by City Field and then walk all the way around. 816 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:29.920 So anyway, it's just it's kind of a nightmare over there. But I'm 817 01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:32.519 very curious to see how many more tickets they move. Now that the cards 818 01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:38.079 has really come together, they've announced what feels like the full card for next 819 01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:42.639 week. We know what the main event is going to be it's gonna be 820 01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:45.840 Joe and MJF. Does that make a difference, you know, does that 821 01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:49.519 move extra tickets? And if so, how many more do they move? 822 01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:55.559 Because again, to go from twenty thousand, thirteen thousand, maybe six thousand, 823 01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.679 you know, you're you're going down. You put this on a fucking 824 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:05.159 chart. It's not hard to see like that's not the direction you want to 825 01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:07.639 be going in. I mean, you're you're never you know, your second 826 01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:12.440 time and third time in that market, in that building, you don't expect 827 01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:15.400 to do what you did the first time. It's no different with Wembley by 828 01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:21.239 the way, right eighty one thousand people Wembley Stadium, You're not getting that 829 01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:24.400 next year, You're not You're not not even going to come close to that 830 01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:29.599 next year. The question is and can we repeat what we did last year? 831 01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:35.800 The question is how how big will the drop be from what they did 832 01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:38.920 this year to what they will do next year? So there's always a drop 833 01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:44.920 that's expected. But if those numbers hold, I mean, that's that's a 834 01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:49.800 pretty steep drop and that's just not that's not a good sign that that's not 835 01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:53.159 the direction you want to see. Those numbers going in. Here's the Dynamite 836 01:02:53.159 --> 01:03:04.480 poll sixty seven percent thumbs up, thirty three percent thumbs down or Dynamite tonight 837 01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:09.800 at solomn Monster on Twitter, we have a flurry of activity today, tweeting 838 01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:13.920 up a storm about a whole bunch of different things. So go follow me 839 01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:19.159 on there, chime in, chime in on the conversation. A lot of 840 01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:22.559 very intelligent people on there that I interact with, and then there's some real 841 01:03:22.719 --> 01:03:27.920 fucking morons too. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, you take the good with the bad. 842 01:03:28.719 --> 01:03:31.000 That's why I want you guys on there. We need more goods. 843 01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:38.719 You guys are good, right, you guys are the smart ones, but 844 01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:44.639 there is a lot of brain rot on that platform. Unfortunately, I can 845 01:03:44.639 --> 01:03:54.760 attest all. Right, let's take a look at your super chats and we 846 01:03:54.840 --> 01:04:00.199 will wrap this bad boy up. By the way, the goal for tonight 847 01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:09.760 was four oh five and we're three twenty. So it looks like be the 848 01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:13.079 Booker is gonna have to wait until next week because there's no stream on Friday 849 01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:15.559 night. I'm not gonna be here, so the next time I'll be live 850 01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:18.519 with you is not going to be until Monday. So you may you may 851 01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:21.159 be waiting a while for be the booker if we don't hit the gold tonight. 852 01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:27.639 But Christian chiming in with a nine ninety nine says, Okay, it 853 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:32.400 just randomly hit me for some reason. What if Logan Paul is La Night's 854 01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:38.119 Mania match, I wouldn't say that's far fetchable. I think you need to 855 01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:41.159 check out episode eight twenty five of the sound off from this Best Sunday. 856 01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:44.719 That's what I think you need to do, because I literally just got done 857 01:04:44.719 --> 01:04:47.000 pitching and talking about that very match. So yes, it is. It 858 01:04:47.079 --> 01:04:54.920 is very much a possibility. Uh GMB with the two Bucks says, do 859 01:04:54.960 --> 01:05:00.960 you think Wesley is main event materially? Says I do main event material and 860 01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:03.519 NXT yes, main event material on the main roster. Look, he's got 861 01:05:03.559 --> 01:05:08.400 all the talent in the world. Who I think he will be a main 862 01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:14.119 event player on the main roster. I'm less certain about that. I think 863 01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:17.000 in the long term he's got a chance, but I'm gonna say no, 864 01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:25.760 I don't think so. But his talent is off the charts. He's a 865 01:05:25.840 --> 01:05:29.880 tremendously talented guy. I just I can't sit here now and tell you that 866 01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:33.559 when Wesley finally gets the call up six months or a year later, he's 867 01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:36.960 going to be in main events. I just don't see it. Nick Grosso. 868 01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:42.400 Looking forward to Grand Slam next week, the card looked strong. It 869 01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:45.480 should be a good show. Do you think we see a big debut next 870 01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:49.519 week, like Mercedes, maybe to confronts Raya for a match at wrestler Dream. 871 01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:55.960 Yeah, it's possible. I mean, she's kept her injury and her 872 01:05:55.960 --> 01:06:01.320 injury status very close to the best. She was at Wembley and her foot 873 01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:04.880 was still in a walking food so I don't think we're going to see her 874 01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:10.599 wrestle for a while. It wouldn't surprise me to see her pop up at 875 01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:15.280 Arthur Ash though, given that she was already at Wembley, and have her 876 01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:17.800 come out and confront the winner of the Women's championship match. I could see 877 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:23.440 that doing the match a wrestle dream, though that I don't. I don't 878 01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:27.800 think so. I just don't think so. I think that if she was 879 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:31.119 to show up and there was a face to face confrontation, we could get 880 01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:34.880 that match maybe a full gear. So if she still needs some time to 881 01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:39.559 recover from her injury, you do it at full gear. I mean, 882 01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:42.599 look, if you're gonna bring her in, she should make some appearances on 883 01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:46.239 the actual television show, right, maybe even wrestle a couple of matches. 884 01:06:47.519 --> 01:06:51.480 Wrestle dream is eleven days later. You don't really have time to do much 885 01:06:51.480 --> 01:07:00.760 of anything, so why rush into it? Shutterbug Fae with the four ninety 886 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:08.159 nine, says Roderick Strong. Works that neck brace like Bob Orton did with 887 01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:12.599 that cast years ago. That's right, good old Ace, good old Ace. 888 01:07:13.000 --> 01:07:16.800 He wore. He wore that cast or dealer with the chess protector after 889 01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:26.000 Dan Severn stretched him right, the same thing, Sad Roddy Strong, But 890 01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:29.280 the seven bucks. Whenever you're having a bad day, just remember you could 891 01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:32.599 be me. I'll see now I feel I feel sorry for the guy now, 892 01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:39.920 Thank you, Sad Roddy. Marcus Robinson Johnson starting my new job today. 893 01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:44.079 Okay, show tonight. I enjoyed the mjf Steiner Matt segment, and 894 01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:50.079 Sheeta's assets seemed to have gotten more pronounced. Really, I had not noticed 895 01:07:54.280 --> 01:08:02.280 Abk with the two hundred and five dollar super chats again mentioned the OVW documentary, 896 01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:05.880 which is currently up on Netflix. I have not watched it. I 897 01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:10.280 don't have any current plans to watch it, but I get some time, 898 01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:14.159 I might try to check it out so you can. Right now, it 899 01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:16.960 is up on Netflix. Lady Firepan coming in with a whole bunch of super 900 01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:24.640 chats about thirteen dollars worth. Thank you, Lady Firepan, and thank you 901 01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:28.640 ab k At A baby k still with us, but thank you to him. 902 01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:34.680 Zachariah is Sitchen, how's your dad there? It is blocking out the 903 01:08:34.760 --> 01:08:41.239 superchat. Zachariah says, did you hear about the did you hear about all 904 01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:45.159 Ends total attendance debate? I figured Tony Kahn did pay for Mercedes ticket. 905 01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:48.520 I get he's got a wine and diner, but seventy two k still in 906 01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:51.680 Milestone. He should not have labeled the show as he did in my humble 907 01:08:54.319 --> 01:08:59.000 Yeah, that was a freedom of information requests that was filed and the local 908 01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:04.079 government in London came out with the actual turnstile number. So the number of 909 01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:09.920 people who entered through the turnstiles we're all in at Wembley Stadium was seventy two 910 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:12.960 thousand. I think they have the number here. I think it was seventy 911 01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:18.479 two thousand, two thirty five Was that the number? Two sixty five seventy 912 01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:26.199 two thousand, two hundred and sixty five was the turnstile attendance number for all 913 01:09:26.279 --> 01:09:34.359 in Now the paid attendance number was said to be eighty eighty one thousand, 914 01:09:34.399 --> 01:09:42.159 whatever was. But here's the thing. AW was talking about this being the 915 01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:50.239 biggest wrestling attendance of all time, obviously excluding the North Korea shows many years 916 01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:55.880 ago, which was a forced attendance situation. So they had one hundred and 917 01:09:55.960 --> 01:09:59.199 fifty thousand, They had one hundred and ninety thousand that will never be topped 918 01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:06.640 where hardless. But if the talk was that the turnstile number for WrestleMania thirty 919 01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:14.399 two in Dallas was eighty thousand, seven h nine and AW was claiming eighty 920 01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:18.760 one thousand, well then they can't claim that anymore. So, yes, 921 01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:24.399 it sounds like WrestleMania thirty two as far as anybody knows, WrestleMania thirty two 922 01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:28.399 may still hold the record. But like you said, seventy two thousand, 923 01:10:28.439 --> 01:10:31.000 if that's the legitimate number, that's nothing to sneeze at. Right. Their 924 01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:36.439 first time at fucking Wembley Stadium, their first time running London. But you 925 01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:40.560 can't go well, I mean I guess you can WWE always does, but 926 01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:44.079 you can't go around saying that you got the all time attendance record if it's 927 01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:47.920 going to come out, you didn't have the all time attendance record. And 928 01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:53.399 I only first saw this a few hours ago, so maybe I'll be corrected, 929 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:56.920 but that's what it looks like. It looks like they fell short of 930 01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:03.840 the actual attendance record and WrestleMania still holds the rancor. I'm sure that people 931 01:11:03.880 --> 01:11:09.680 will have a very civil discussion about this on social media. I have not 932 01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:14.600 even looked yet to see what the conversation is on Twitter about this, whatever 933 01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:17.960 it is, I'm sure it's very civil and very respectful, as these debates 934 01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:24.239 always are between the WWE tribalists and the aw tribalists on social media, I'm 935 01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:31.239 sure they're having a very adult debate about this. Fire Panda, Thank you. 936 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:38.760 Peter Cordieri with the four ninety nine. I was waiting on callous to 937 01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:43.319 talk about the Ace. Bob. That's right, that's the one Ace did 938 01:11:43.359 --> 01:11:47.760 not mention. He did not mention. Bob Orton. Jacob Donnelly with the 939 01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:54.239 fifteen dollars Naiah Jack's super Chat, our newest one. The one thing about 940 01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:58.960 Edges debut and aw as we are guaranteed one of the most annoying ex Caliber 941 01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:03.960 calls ever. Just thinking of him screaming it's Adam Copeland makes my ears bleed. 942 01:12:06.439 --> 01:12:13.359 I thought we already talked about this. He's gonna be Ledge. I 943 01:12:13.479 --> 01:12:17.680 still don't think Edge is coming to a w I'm gonna I'm gonna stand by 944 01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:21.000 that. I still feel like at the end of the day, Edge is 945 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:28.319 not going to come to AID. But he is still under contract to WWE 946 01:12:28.319 --> 01:12:30.319 through the end of the month. So whether he is or he isn't leaving, 947 01:12:30.359 --> 01:12:39.840 he's not going anywhere for at least another three weeks, although that could 948 01:12:39.840 --> 01:12:44.560 be interesting because his contract is said to be up either the very end of 949 01:12:44.640 --> 01:12:47.079 September or the first day of October. His contract is up by let's say 950 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:53.319 September thirtieth, a w has a pay per view on October one in Seattle, 951 01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:57.920 so what a place to debut right the first let's say, if that's 952 01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:02.760 the first day that he's officially free of his contract, technically there would be 953 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:08.720 nothing stopping him from making an appearance on that show. But I just I 954 01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:15.560 just don't see it. Rojobert, do you feel it Swerve's program with Hangman 955 01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:23.319 was meant for Jungle Boy, because I believe so. I have no idea. 956 01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:29.399 I mean that's it's a good guess, but no clue. I'm glad 957 01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:31.079 it's Swerved because I think the two of them are gonna have a kick ass 958 01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:36.880 match. What their plans would have been for Jungle Boy coming out of all 959 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:42.359 in, would he still have been fighting with Hook for the FTW title. 960 01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:45.840 I think it's possible. I think it's possible they would have extended their feud 961 01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:49.439 a little bit longer. But I don't know. I don't know if it 962 01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:54.880 would have been Hangman or not. Zachariah says here, I am hoping Tony 963 01:13:54.960 --> 01:13:58.279 Khan does the right thing and gets the title off of Srea. We all 964 01:13:58.319 --> 01:14:01.840 know she only won the belt because Amy Hayter got injured or does her smoking 965 01:14:01.880 --> 01:14:06.760 Mirror's title reign. I don't think she's holding that belt for very long, 966 01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:13.159 just because again, we don't see her wrestling very often, and I don't 967 01:14:13.159 --> 01:14:16.840 know that Tony Khan is gonna want to have a brock Lessner or Roman Reigns 968 01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:25.800 esque champion in his women's division. But I could see her holding the title 969 01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:30.359 for a little bit longer. I would say the latest that Sarrea will hold 970 01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:36.920 that title is full gear. She'll either lose it next week or she'll lose 971 01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:41.079 it in November. At full gear. I don't see her holding it longer 972 01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:43.239 than that. This is not going to be a six month reign. In 973 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:48.680 the Women's chapel, somebody mentioned, for example, Mercedes before. If Mercedes 974 01:14:48.720 --> 01:14:51.159 is going to come into work a match, it might be against Siya, 975 01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:55.239 you know, if they're gonna do that again. I could see that being 976 01:14:55.239 --> 01:15:00.399 a full gear, but I don't see her holding the title much longer than 977 01:15:01.319 --> 01:15:08.439 Edwyn With the nine ninety nine mox is making up for the time in WWE 978 01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:12.720 that he could not bleed. He said, it's like if you've ever held 979 01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:15.800 down a cat's tail, just put your hand down on the cat's tail, 980 01:15:15.960 --> 01:15:18.159 leave it there for like twenty seconds. As soon as you lift your hand 981 01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:24.079 up, tail just goes nuts. That's John Moss, all these things he 982 01:15:24.119 --> 01:15:27.720 couldn't do in WWE, and now you just sort of let him loosen this 983 01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:30.560 new environment and he just goes crazy. No, you gotta do it every 984 01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:34.880 night, in every match, on every show. You don't there was no 985 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:42.960 need for him to fucking bleed in that match tonight, it's just ridiculous. 986 01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:47.520 Stupid Magician Sapphire, what's your honest opinion on why aw ticket sales are in 987 01:15:47.600 --> 01:15:53.359 decline because they're running the same markets too many times. Maybe they should run 988 01:15:53.399 --> 01:15:58.199 Grand Slam in a new, different city next year. Well, there's a 989 01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:01.479 whole bunch of different reasons, and I think could just also be just the 990 01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:08.479 general lack of interest in some of the storylines. But I think that you 991 01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:11.760 hit the nail on the head there as far as they run these markets, 992 01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:16.920 and they also run markets in big buildings, so in some cases they're running 993 01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:23.840 these buildings that fit a lot of people and they're filling I don't know half 994 01:16:23.840 --> 01:16:27.960 of it maybe, and then sometimes they'll run a smaller venue that maybe it 995 01:16:28.039 --> 01:16:31.359 only fits about like three thousand or something. I don't know what the magic 996 01:16:31.520 --> 01:16:35.439 number is, but I think they need to start running some smaller venus if 997 01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:39.319 that's gonna happen, And you can have your big shows and the big vetus, 998 01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:43.439 but you don't want to have a bigger building that's only had full. 999 01:16:45.039 --> 01:16:48.119 So I think part of the problem is the buildings they run. But also, 1000 01:16:48.199 --> 01:16:51.199 yes, I think they're going back to these same markets over and over 1001 01:16:51.239 --> 01:16:56.319 again, and after a while, it's just the law of diminishing returns. 1002 01:16:56.399 --> 01:16:59.159 Unless you have a product that's super hot, it's just not gonna work. 1003 01:16:59.199 --> 01:17:01.720 And like right now, the WWE product, I mean, as far as 1004 01:17:02.079 --> 01:17:05.840 ticket sales go, I don't remember a period where their product was hotter, 1005 01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:13.720 even in the attitude. Like they're doing these raw SmackDown shows every week and 1006 01:17:13.800 --> 01:17:18.079 they're either selling out or nearly selling out every single week. Obviously the pay 1007 01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:23.079 per views do really well, and they're doing stadium shows fucking half a dozen 1008 01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:27.520 times a year now, not just WrestleMania. They just didn't as Royal Rumbled 1009 01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:30.000 today is coming back to Tropicana Field, this time with actual people in the 1010 01:17:30.039 --> 01:17:34.800 building. So that's a stadium show. Summer slams a stadium show. WrestleMania 1011 01:17:34.880 --> 01:17:41.560 is a stadium show. The Saudi shows or in stadiums usually Flash of the 1012 01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:45.960 Castle was a special show that was in a stadium. I mean, the 1013 01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:50.640 tickets are flying like never before. That's a hot product, whatever it is. 1014 01:17:51.600 --> 01:17:56.680 You know, it's resonating with the audience. That's just not happening right 1015 01:17:56.680 --> 01:18:00.560 now with aw you know, I'm liking for the most part, the key 1016 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:04.880 stories like the MJF. Adam Cole stuff. But it could also just be 1017 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:09.680 the fact that part of the product they're just not connecting with people. They're 1018 01:18:09.720 --> 01:18:13.600 just not interested in some of the stories they're telling, or maybe they feel 1019 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:20.279 in some cases like not enough stories or good stories are being told. It's 1020 01:18:20.319 --> 01:18:25.399 a whole multitude of different issues that you could point to, but the issue 1021 01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:29.479 that you've brought up about the markets I think is one of the bigger problems 1022 01:18:29.479 --> 01:18:35.680 they have. Sonic Youth, as always, you are the man solo a 1023 01:18:35.800 --> 01:18:41.800 Sonic Youth. Thank you, brother Daniel Malcolm, thank you for the super 1024 01:18:41.880 --> 01:18:45.800 chat. Ed Weber says. Will Osbury just posted a video on Twitter showing 1025 01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:50.279 his tattoos celebrating eighty one k he landed in Japan, to news that it 1026 01:18:50.399 --> 01:19:00.800 wasn't the actual attendant. Oh no, well, you know, hey, 1027 01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:03.600 look, when you tattoo something on your body, you do run the risks 1028 01:19:04.640 --> 01:19:11.560 that eventually you might want to get that ship lasered off. I don't think 1029 01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.399 he's gonna care. Honestly, that was a big moment for him. That's 1030 01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:19.079 the attendance they announced. I think they'll be fine with it. But it's 1031 01:19:19.119 --> 01:19:25.159 like Undertaker getting his ex wife's name tattooed across his atoms apple. I don't 1032 01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:28.439 know why you would do that. Like I can understand getting your girlfriend or 1033 01:19:28.479 --> 01:19:31.439 your wife's name tattooed on your body somewhere, but like, why would you 1034 01:19:31.479 --> 01:19:36.640 get her name tattooed across your fucking atoms app He had had that ship lasered 1035 01:19:36.680 --> 01:19:41.720 off. I'm sure that didn't feel too good. Don't do that. You're 1036 01:19:41.720 --> 01:19:45.800 gonna get a tattooed, don't get one there unless it's just like a like 1037 01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:51.520 a picture of something. Don't get somebody's name tattoo that's a bad idea. 1038 01:19:54.199 --> 01:20:00.319 No regrets, no regrets. Yeah, those are actually kind of funny. 1039 01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:03.039 Those are kind of funny. When you have something tattooed and it's misspelled, 1040 01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:11.680 that's unfortunate. Chris AXC to me, AW has surpassed T and A in 1041 01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:15.760 the annals of history and overall success. Do you think they will surpass WCW 1042 01:20:15.960 --> 01:20:21.319 success or have they already? That's a loaded question. I think in some 1043 01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:28.840 ways they absolutely have. Yes. Some of the business accomplishments that they have 1044 01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:34.600 notched in these last four and a half years, they've already surpassed WCW in 1045 01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:41.760 many ways. But as far as you look back in wrestling history and the 1046 01:20:41.800 --> 01:20:45.680 most prosperous period, and I know, I'm understand WWE's business right now is 1047 01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:56.560 booming, but the most prosperous period in wrestling was the war between ww E 1048 01:20:56.680 --> 01:21:00.800 and WCW during the Monday Night period back in the in the late nineties. 1049 01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:05.960 And WCW actually did something that even Tony Kahn never did. They were beating 1050 01:21:06.039 --> 01:21:11.800 Vince McMahon at his own game for eighty three straight weeks. They were not 1051 01:21:11.880 --> 01:21:15.319 just competitive with them, they were beating him. They had his back up 1052 01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:19.720 against the wall. Ww's back has never been up against the wall when it 1053 01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:25.680 comes to AW. So that is something that WCW and Eric Bischoff and all 1054 01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:30.119 of them can can claim until the day they die. And that's something AW 1055 01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:33.359 will never be able to play. So I can't sit here and tell you 1056 01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:38.479 that they have totally surpassed WCW. They have in some ways. In other 1057 01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:43.000 ways, I think if you lived through that period, you would understand how 1058 01:21:43.039 --> 01:21:46.439 big that was, how big WCW was at its peat, you know, 1059 01:21:46.479 --> 01:21:54.880 with the nWo stuff staying in Goldberg when I look at it that way, 1060 01:21:54.800 --> 01:22:00.840 They're still up here and AW is still a level below. I can't give 1061 01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:06.520 you one black and white answer to that questions. There's layers to it. 1062 01:22:08.520 --> 01:22:11.640 In some ways, yes, in a lot of other ways. In a 1063 01:22:11.640 --> 01:22:15.720 lot of other ways, they never will. Chris also says, do you 1064 01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:18.960 think there is a talent loss that they could not recover from at this point? 1065 01:22:19.239 --> 01:22:24.439 Or are they Teflon? Even the elite leaving to me, would not 1066 01:22:24.640 --> 01:22:31.079 kill the company. No, I wouldn't kill the company. I don't. 1067 01:22:31.359 --> 01:22:34.199 I wouldn't say they're Teflon. I mean, look, if they lost MJF, 1068 01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:38.039 they lost a couple of big names, Oh yeah, they would take 1069 01:22:38.079 --> 01:22:43.920 a fucking hit. Absolutely, would it kill the company. No, one 1070 01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:46.920 person, one one wrestler leaving, I don't care who it is, is 1071 01:22:46.960 --> 01:22:51.720 not going to kill WWE, And it's not gonna kill a The companies are 1072 01:22:51.720 --> 01:22:58.199 big enough where even if you take away some of the big names, they're 1073 01:22:58.239 --> 01:23:00.119 not going to shrivel up and die what hurt them. Yes, it would. 1074 01:23:01.319 --> 01:23:04.760 I have every reason to believe that MJF has already signed a new country. 1075 01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:08.880 I mean, they're gonna play up the whole bidding war twenty twenty four. 1076 01:23:09.359 --> 01:23:15.000 That's the storyline. I think he's already signed. That's just this is 1077 01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:19.279 my opinion. Losing him, though, would be would be a huge blow 1078 01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:25.119 today company. Would it be a death blow. No, it would be 1079 01:23:25.119 --> 01:23:30.079 a death blow, but it would be a terrible loss for them. Look, 1080 01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:33.399 they just lost CM Punk. CM Punk was one of, if not 1081 01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:39.079 their biggest start. They fired him. Is the company a death's door. 1082 01:23:39.359 --> 01:23:45.000 No, They're gonna survive and be just fine. You know, no one 1083 01:23:45.359 --> 01:23:50.159 talent is bigger than the company itself. Bobert, thank you for that. 1084 01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:57.199 Eighteen bucks, Big Armada, nineteen eighty eight. I get that the schedule 1085 01:23:57.279 --> 01:24:01.279 for aw talent is supposed to be more flexible, but at time like Miro's 1086 01:24:01.319 --> 01:24:04.960 one. At times, though, it can hurt the show when talent disappears 1087 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:11.239 for weeks to do others side endeavors. Jade Cargill is a proof of this. 1088 01:24:12.399 --> 01:24:14.840 No, I don't think Jade is a good example of that. Jade 1089 01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:20.119 was undefeated sixty and ozer right five hundred plus days as the champion. She 1090 01:24:20.279 --> 01:24:28.399 finally lost because she took some time on. I mean it didn't it didn't 1091 01:24:28.439 --> 01:24:30.399 impact the show at all. It wasn't like she was in like a big 1092 01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:34.159 feature angle or anything like that. She was on television, She was the 1093 01:24:34.239 --> 01:24:38.399 champion for a long period of time. She finally lost the belt and she 1094 01:24:38.439 --> 01:24:41.920 took some time off, and now she's back, and I wouldn't cite her 1095 01:24:41.960 --> 01:24:45.520 as as a good example of that. I agree with you that there are 1096 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:48.960 people who will show up on the show and will wrestle, and then maybe 1097 01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:53.880 they'll be on the show the following week, and then we won't see him 1098 01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:59.119 again for sixty eight weeks, and not even because they're hurt. I don't 1099 01:24:59.119 --> 01:25:04.000 know why. It's not necessarily because they've booked outside projects. There are guys 1100 01:25:04.039 --> 01:25:09.199 that they cycle in and out, but they're not on television long enough to 1101 01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:12.520 build up any real stories for them. And the people sometimes who do have 1102 01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:15.119 stories. Like Andrade, it looked like he was finally getting a push, 1103 01:25:15.159 --> 01:25:19.520 We're seeing more of him, and then they just disappeared that maybe there was 1104 01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:24.359 a personal reason for that. I know there was some rumors about his marriage 1105 01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:26.920 with Charlotte. Again, those were just rumors as far as I know. 1106 01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:30.399 Sometimes people have to go away for a reason. But this is something we've 1107 01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:35.119 seen in aw with Tony Kahan for a while. Now there are people who 1108 01:25:36.079 --> 01:25:42.000 are there and will appear once and then we won't see him again for weeks. 1109 01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:47.640 As a viewer, you need to really invest in these people and consistently 1110 01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:51.920 get them on television and get them involved in stories. You can't just pull 1111 01:25:51.960 --> 01:25:56.319 them, you know, they can't just vanish. Like I said, some 1112 01:25:56.319 --> 01:26:02.680 people have a good reason for it. Other people like Wardlow is another one. 1113 01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:08.880 Apparely Wardlow. When he had his passport stolen that was legit many months 1114 01:26:08.880 --> 01:26:11.239 ago, he wasn't able to make the trip to Canada. They went on 1115 01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:15.199 this month long tour of Canada and he couldn't go. I don't know what 1116 01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:18.039 his passport status is now. I assume that's why he couldn't go to Wembley 1117 01:26:18.039 --> 01:26:21.159 either. For all In, Well, all In was already a few weeks 1118 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:26.840 ago. Where's Wardlock? He's not hurt as far as I know, he 1119 01:26:26.960 --> 01:26:30.520 still isn't back yet. I mean, this guy was on top of the 1120 01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:33.680 world at one point, and now it's like I almost forget he's even employed. 1121 01:26:35.720 --> 01:26:42.560 What's the excuse for him? Why has Malachi Black not had a singles 1122 01:26:42.560 --> 01:26:45.960 match and over a year? Is it because he has a bad back? 1123 01:26:46.119 --> 01:26:49.960 I thought he was over his bad back. How has he not had a 1124 01:26:49.960 --> 01:26:59.359 singles match and over a year? That's insane, Sean d I get the 1125 01:26:59.439 --> 01:27:01.920 feeling that Roddy might be faking it. You know, I'm starting to think 1126 01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:11.520 you might be right. What gave you that impression? I think you may 1127 01:27:11.560 --> 01:27:16.119 be right? Cameron Johnson, have you seen the OVW documentary on Netflix and 1128 01:27:16.159 --> 01:27:19.279 now you're going to cover it on the podcast No Plans right now? I 1129 01:27:19.279 --> 01:27:23.960 have not seen it yet. I might try to check out the first episode, 1130 01:27:24.039 --> 01:27:27.199 but I have not watched it. I did, however, watch the 1131 01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:31.640 Kurt Angle documentary on Peacock and you have not seen it. It is very 1132 01:27:31.640 --> 01:27:35.199 good. Although if you saw the A and E biography on Kurt last year 1133 01:27:36.359 --> 01:27:43.720 this that biography was lifted from this documentary, so there are there are a 1134 01:27:43.720 --> 01:27:45.920 lot of things in there that you would have already seen. But it's an 1135 01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:51.199 excellent documentary if you have not watched it. Dylan Hensley always look forward to 1136 01:27:51.279 --> 01:27:57.960 Dylan's wrestling updates here. Last Friday, we had another round of practice matches, 1137 01:27:58.239 --> 01:28:01.319 but this time we were told ours have changed. To emulate a wrestler 1138 01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:06.760 no show, we had to call everything in the ring. It sucked. 1139 01:28:09.439 --> 01:28:14.680 You know what, though, that's interesting. That's very smart. I think 1140 01:28:14.920 --> 01:28:23.319 teaching people how to react on the fly. I think that's an important part 1141 01:28:23.359 --> 01:28:27.640 of being a pro wrestler, to know how to adjust and adapt when certain 1142 01:28:27.680 --> 01:28:30.520 situations present themselves. Like it's no different if you wanted to. Let's say 1143 01:28:30.520 --> 01:28:33.680 we run a drill and maybe they'll do this too. Where if you're in 1144 01:28:33.720 --> 01:28:39.199 a match and your opponent gets hurt, what do you do if the match 1145 01:28:39.239 --> 01:28:42.520 doesn't just instantly get stopped, but you have to go home or you have 1146 01:28:42.560 --> 01:28:45.439 to wrap it up a lot quicker, what do you do? Right? 1147 01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:50.039 It's smart. I think to teach people like put them in situations like that 1148 01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:56.840 and see how they react, and just teach them how to call an audible. 1149 01:28:57.199 --> 01:29:00.880 Some people can't do it, but I think if you teach that, 1150 01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:03.520 then they're better prepared for a situation like that. So that's interesting. I 1151 01:29:03.560 --> 01:29:06.319 think that's actually a very smart thing to do. I'm sure it did suck, 1152 01:29:08.439 --> 01:29:10.920 but I think you'll be a lot better off for having known how to 1153 01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:15.920 do it. Matthew Garrett, what are your thoughts on Ari's comment on Vince 1154 01:29:15.039 --> 01:29:23.159 knowing his time and that he is not CEO and chairman. I did not 1155 01:29:23.279 --> 01:29:27.239 hear that comment, so I don't know the context. I would need the 1156 01:29:27.279 --> 01:29:33.119 exact quote, but I think Vince he knew what he was getting into with 1157 01:29:33.199 --> 01:29:41.039 this whole relationship with Endeavor, so I'm sure he's fine with it. Paul 1158 01:29:41.119 --> 01:29:46.880 Carpenter cmpunk is officially a member of the d w L roster. Duffy Wrestling 1159 01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:55.880 League currently going under the name Ricky Rabies. Is that from Heels on Stars? 1160 01:29:56.600 --> 01:30:00.239 Now? He's on that show. DH sires thoughts on the NX made 1161 01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:01.720 event last night if you saw it, I did see it. I enjoyed 1162 01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:05.199 it. I thought it was a good match. I'll do more of her 1163 01:30:05.199 --> 01:30:12.520 review on it on Sunday. And I don't mind what they did putting the 1164 01:30:12.600 --> 01:30:18.199 NXT Women's Championship on Becky Lynch provided the Tiffany Stratton gets her rematch and gets 1165 01:30:18.199 --> 01:30:21.960 the belt back in pretty short order. I could see her getting the belt 1166 01:30:21.960 --> 01:30:28.079 back in No Mercy, which is only a couple of weeks away. I 1167 01:30:28.119 --> 01:30:33.439 don't think it's something that they should be leaning into and relying on going forward 1168 01:30:33.439 --> 01:30:40.439 too much. Like right now we have two main roster stars holding NXT tiles, 1169 01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:45.319 Becky Lynch and Dominic the Sturia. Earlier this year we had the New 1170 01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:50.319 Day holding the NXD tack team Tis. I would not make this a recurring 1171 01:30:50.359 --> 01:30:57.520 thing, but the reason they did it was they wanted to pop some big 1172 01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:02.439 numbers, which they did that overrun last night, the NXT over wrote they 1173 01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:06.239 did a million viewers. When was the last time NXT did a million anything? 1174 01:31:08.119 --> 01:31:12.520 That's why they're doing it. So now Becky gets to say that she's 1175 01:31:12.520 --> 01:31:15.920 a Grand Slam champion. And the match itself I thought was good. I 1176 01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:17.640 mean, it had a few rocky moments in there. Tiffany Stratton is still 1177 01:31:18.439 --> 01:31:23.840 you can see she's still in experience, but the progress that she has made 1178 01:31:23.960 --> 01:31:27.119 from when she came in in twenty twenty one to where she is now is 1179 01:31:27.640 --> 01:31:30.720 incredible. And she's going to be a big star on the main roster when 1180 01:31:30.760 --> 01:31:33.359 her time. When her time comes, she's not ready for that yet, 1181 01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:41.720 but I enjoyed the match. Obviously, they're doing it to get more eyeballs 1182 01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:45.439 on NXT, and it certainly worked last night if you look at the numbers 1183 01:31:45.439 --> 01:31:51.159 that they did. Luis with ten dollars. Super Chest says, if WWE 1184 01:31:51.239 --> 01:31:57.800 goes to ABC, better end up on Tuesdays or Thursdays again after a wheel 1185 01:31:57.840 --> 01:32:02.640 of fortune. Shout out to everyone that works at Belmont High School. Happy 1186 01:32:02.760 --> 01:32:16.800 one hundredth anniversary to all the sentences. Sean R. Buy sell or rent 1187 01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:23.760 on the better feel good moment in w w E Macho and Liz reuniting at 1188 01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:28.600 Wrestle Media seven, fully getting the rock with his own catchphrase on Raw in 1189 01:32:28.680 --> 01:32:38.399 two thousand, Sammy Zane breaking the bloodline with Bussy. It's Macho and Liz 1190 01:32:38.439 --> 01:32:41.359 reuniting a Wrestle Media seven. That's one of the all time great moments in 1191 01:32:41.359 --> 01:32:48.399 the history of the company. That's an easy buy. And the other feel 1192 01:32:48.520 --> 01:32:57.439 good moment. I gotta go with Sammy breaking up the blood He wasn't just 1193 01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:01.840 breaking up Jussa. He was breaking up everybody in that frigging rag. They 1194 01:33:01.880 --> 01:33:06.239 were They were doing everything they could not to break, and he was doing 1195 01:33:06.239 --> 01:33:12.000 everything he could to break them. So I would rant on that, I 1196 01:33:12.000 --> 01:33:16.119 would sell on the other one. Uh. Ed Weber just did some digging 1197 01:33:16.159 --> 01:33:21.039 into a trademark surge. WWE let Edge lapse in twenty twenty. They then 1198 01:33:21.119 --> 01:33:27.000 trademarked rated Our Superstar instead of re upping his name. They also do not 1199 01:33:27.119 --> 01:33:33.840 own his altar bridge Sulu the gold tonight we were, we were aways away 1200 01:33:33.880 --> 01:33:40.279 from it, and you guys came through. Four oh five was the goal. 1201 01:33:40.359 --> 01:33:45.720 We were four oh eight. You just snuck it in there like the 1202 01:33:45.840 --> 01:33:49.560 Jets went in the other night. Somehow, some way he pulled it off. 1203 01:33:49.560 --> 01:33:54.159 All right, let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen. It is 1204 01:33:54.239 --> 01:34:00.720 now time to be the booker. I didn't think we were gonna get it. 1205 01:34:02.439 --> 01:34:08.159 You guys pulled out the shock or here at the end, So let's 1206 01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:12.119 go ahead and be the booker. Yeah, I mean again, I'm still 1207 01:34:13.279 --> 01:34:18.239 NXT is the gourmet, the gourmet meal. I think naughty. Someone has 1208 01:34:18.279 --> 01:34:21.800 to take Naughty Delicious out for an actual gourmet meal to show him what a 1209 01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:26.520 gourmet meal is like. Because if you're telling me that NXT is like Filet 1210 01:34:26.600 --> 01:34:30.119 mignon, I got a bridge over here in Brooklyn that I could sell you. 1211 01:34:31.119 --> 01:34:34.079 All right, be the booker. Here we go. Oh, look 1212 01:34:34.079 --> 01:34:41.960 who it is, Look who it is, everybody. It's Phil. I 1213 01:34:42.039 --> 01:34:46.560 have signed Chicago Phil because he is now unemployed, so I have given him 1214 01:34:46.560 --> 01:34:49.800 a contract. He's now part of our little organization here. I have booked 1215 01:34:49.880 --> 01:34:56.520 him. He is out of work he is looking to he's got to make 1216 01:34:56.520 --> 01:35:00.960 some money. Has he gonna make a living for himself? So we have 1217 01:35:00.039 --> 01:35:06.840 CM Punk. I believe this is his be the booker debut. I have 1218 01:35:06.880 --> 01:35:11.239 to keep an eye on him, though I already see out of the corner 1219 01:35:11.239 --> 01:35:14.920 of my eye, I could see there's some people crowding around him here in 1220 01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:17.039 the back, and he's getting a little angry. I gotta watch him. 1221 01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:20.039 I gotta watch make sure a monitor doesn't go flying and hit me in the 1222 01:35:20.039 --> 01:35:31.000 head. CM Punk gonna go one on one with big E big Ee against 1223 01:35:31.039 --> 01:35:35.119 CM Punk. I think it'd be cool just to get Biggie back in the 1224 01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:43.039 ring, So I give that the automatic bell. There you go, CM 1225 01:35:43.119 --> 01:35:48.039 Punk and big Ee. What do you think about that match? Is ace 1226 01:35:48.119 --> 01:35:53.600 steal with him? Now? I refused a contract for him. I made 1227 01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:57.119 it very clear, you either come in alone or you don't come in at 1228 01:35:57.119 --> 01:36:02.199 all. And no, he is not invited to the scrum. Later, 1229 01:36:02.239 --> 01:36:06.119 I told him to just go back to the hotel. I did order some 1230 01:36:06.199 --> 01:36:10.439 muffins. They'll be waiting for him. Keep him happy, but no, 1231 01:36:10.560 --> 01:36:13.199 he will not be at the scrum. After tonight's edition would be the book 1232 01:36:13.720 --> 01:36:16.520 all right here we go. We got this will please everybody. Look it 1233 01:36:16.680 --> 01:36:23.199 is Nikita Lions. I don't know who she's sitting on. I can't I 1234 01:36:23.239 --> 01:36:27.319 can't tell who that is. But there you go. This is this will 1235 01:36:27.399 --> 01:36:33.279 no doubt, this will please everybody here in this chat. Holy shit, 1236 01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:40.560 it is Niquita Lions. Who I think she's been out for a while. 1237 01:36:40.840 --> 01:36:43.439 Did she have a torn acl? I don't even remember the nature of the 1238 01:36:43.479 --> 01:36:53.760 injury. Look, look, look at the Look at the response. Ring 1239 01:36:53.760 --> 01:36:56.079 the bell? Do you want to read the bell? I'll ring the bell. 1240 01:36:56.119 --> 01:37:00.079 There you go, he said, ring the bell. I guess it's 1241 01:37:00.079 --> 01:37:09.399 over Maga the Stallion. I like that. That's actually pretty funny. All 1242 01:37:09.439 --> 01:37:12.560 right, here we go. Let's see who she's gonna wrestle. It is 1243 01:37:12.600 --> 01:37:17.720 an Acl. Okay, yeah, she's been out for a while. Matthew 1244 01:37:17.720 --> 01:37:24.479 Miller says, it should have been me. I like I like Maga the 1245 01:37:24.560 --> 01:37:27.880 Stallion though. That got me. All right, here we go. Nakita 1246 01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:33.920 Lions gonna take a Luna Bashawan. Well, we already gave it the bell 1247 01:37:34.039 --> 01:37:43.039 before, right, so I gotta give it the bell. Nikita Lions and 1248 01:37:43.279 --> 01:37:51.560 Luna Bashawan onto the tag teams. We go kick things off here with the 1249 01:37:51.680 --> 01:37:59.399 Midnight Express, Beautiful Bobby and Sweet Stand. And then right there in the 1250 01:37:59.439 --> 01:38:03.079 middle, look at that young chap. How young was he in this photo? 1251 01:38:04.119 --> 01:38:14.920 Jim Cornette with the Midnight Express, Bobby and Stand. It's gonna be 1252 01:38:15.000 --> 01:38:19.239 hard to fuck this one up. The Midnights are gonna take on the Heart 1253 01:38:19.359 --> 01:38:25.399 Foundation. Oh, I think you just got one of our all time great 1254 01:38:25.439 --> 01:38:30.039 picks here would be the booker. How fucking great is that? The Heart 1255 01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:38.079 Foundation against the Midnight Express. I think if you were booking one of those 1256 01:38:38.319 --> 01:38:45.079 fantasy warfare cards between the two promotions back then, I mean, that's that's 1257 01:38:45.159 --> 01:38:46.399 the match you would book, right, that's one of the matches you would 1258 01:38:46.399 --> 01:38:55.520 look to Heart Foundation and the Midnights. That's one of the best matches we've 1259 01:38:55.520 --> 01:39:01.960 ever booked. Three for three. Give yourselves a round of applause. You 1260 01:39:02.000 --> 01:39:05.159 were part of history tonight three for three, and be the booker. We 1261 01:39:05.279 --> 01:39:09.720 got a few more super chests to get through. Yeah, this is our 1262 01:39:09.800 --> 01:39:13.680 last time together live for the rest of this week. What am I going 1263 01:39:13.720 --> 01:39:19.479 to do without all you guys? Sean Glenn Roderick Strong's gimmick reminds me of 1264 01:39:20.760 --> 01:39:26.680 reminds me a lot of my crazy ex girlfriend. Adam Cole needs to run 1265 01:39:26.720 --> 01:39:31.720 far away as fast as he can. Your ex girlfriend also faked the neck 1266 01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:40.039 injury and Warnick christ Arabian Night. Where is Keith Lee, Wardlow, Rush 1267 01:39:40.199 --> 01:39:45.520 and Bandido Bandino? I know had surgery for a broken wrist, although I 1268 01:39:45.520 --> 01:39:47.800 think he had the pin taken out or pins taken out a few weeks ago, 1269 01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:54.239 so he should be back any week now. As far as Rush and 1270 01:39:54.319 --> 01:40:00.720 Wardlow and Keith Lee's around, He's not doing much, but he is around. 1271 01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:03.720 Didn't he have a promo on the Collision? I think he did a 1272 01:40:03.720 --> 01:40:11.279 backstage promo on Collision on Saturday. But I don't know. You're looking at 1273 01:40:11.359 --> 01:40:14.880 me. I got the same questions that you do. I don't know. 1274 01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:26.079 Doctor Bropio Punk banned me from recording the be the Booker records. He still 1275 01:40:26.119 --> 01:40:30.079 has the power to ban people from Collision. That super chat is still in 1276 01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:36.399 there and want o compo, he says. Bro listen, Bro. In 1277 01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:45.000 nineteen ninety nine, I had I had booked the rock Strong heading into the 1278 01:40:45.039 --> 01:40:49.600 fall, otherwise he would have lost momentum. Bro, It's just wrestling, 1279 01:40:50.960 --> 01:40:59.760 It's just wrestling. Bro. Who cares? Bro? It won't. Thank 1280 01:40:59.800 --> 01:41:08.039 you Austin in the chat, I would say that's a pretty loaded question. 1281 01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:13.720 Their favorite Bret Hart match of all time. It's hard to narrow it down 1282 01:41:13.760 --> 01:41:20.600 to just one, but for me, it's probably between the cage match at 1283 01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:25.920 Summer Slim In ninety four and the WrestleMania match with Steve Aoston at thirteen. 1284 01:41:26.560 --> 01:41:31.960 I might go WrestleMania at thirteen against Steve Auston. Traill Mexican three oh five, 1285 01:41:32.039 --> 01:41:34.760 Hey, Solo, I just wanted to show love to you as I 1286 01:41:34.800 --> 01:41:39.079 am at work tonight listening to the review. I am sure that better help 1287 01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:43.920 is helping folks. Your reviews have been a major help to me. Thank 1288 01:41:43.960 --> 01:41:45.960 you and good night. Well that's very nice to you to say that. 1289 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:51.000 Traill Mexican. Thank you. Listening to the sound Off at work, It's 1290 01:41:51.039 --> 01:41:56.159 an easy way to pass the time. And yes, I am doing the 1291 01:41:56.199 --> 01:42:00.560 show on Sunday. I met live streams. It won't be live again until 1292 01:42:00.600 --> 01:42:04.720 Monday night, but episode eight twenty six of the Sound Of dropping later on 1293 01:42:04.760 --> 01:42:10.760 Sunday, as it does every single week. Naughty Delicious Chicken with Flavor NXT 1294 01:42:10.960 --> 01:42:15.159 is cooking steak, rice potatoes, grilled chicken, aw is cooking burgers, 1295 01:42:15.279 --> 01:42:18.359 fries and fried chicken. Well, I got news for it. Most people 1296 01:42:18.960 --> 01:42:24.319 in this country, they'll take the burgers and the fries and the fried chicken. 1297 01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:30.239 Not that the other stuff doesn't sound good, but that might sound better. 1298 01:42:31.520 --> 01:42:34.039 So I don't know. I don't know that that's the flex you think 1299 01:42:34.079 --> 01:42:42.000 it is, all right. I think we're all caught up now on your 1300 01:42:42.000 --> 01:42:45.920 messages. I appreciate all the all the love, some good questions tonight. 1301 01:42:45.800 --> 01:42:50.000 Thank you for hanging out with me. I thought it was a solid episode 1302 01:42:50.000 --> 01:42:56.920 of Dynamite. Good good way to get everything hyped up and all lined up 1303 01:42:56.960 --> 01:42:59.720 for next week's Grand Slam show, which I am very much looking forward to. 1304 01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:01.800 I think that's going to be a great show. So that'll be next 1305 01:43:01.840 --> 01:43:08.079 Wednesday. Unlike last year, I will be here after Grand Slam, so 1306 01:43:08.119 --> 01:43:11.880 that'll be good. And as I said episode eight twenty six to the sound 1307 01:43:11.960 --> 01:43:14.800 off coming up on Sunday, the reason there will be no SmackDown review on 1308 01:43:14.840 --> 01:43:17.319 Friday, I will be at the House of Glory show House of Glory fallout. 1309 01:43:17.399 --> 01:43:23.159 We have the Kingo coming back. Matt Cardona will be defending his hog 1310 01:43:23.319 --> 01:43:26.920 World Haveyweight title. We got the Vaude villains reunited for the first time in 1311 01:43:27.000 --> 01:43:31.119 six years. We got a lot, man, We got a lot all 1312 01:43:31.199 --> 01:43:35.000 hyped up and ready to go for Friday Night. And you can buy your 1313 01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:40.840 tickets and come to the building, the NYC Arena. If not, it'll 1314 01:43:40.840 --> 01:43:45.399 be streaming live on Premier streaming Network. And I'll be back on commentary for 1315 01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:48.319 now that I'm no longer kidnapped, I'll be back on commentary for all unless 1316 01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:53.119 I get kidnapped again between now and then, I'll be back on commentary for 1317 01:43:53.159 --> 01:43:57.399 the entire show. So that'll be good. So be well. Stay So 1318 01:43:57.520 --> 01:44:00.600 I got hey commissioner duties. What can I say. I'm a man of 1319 01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:02.800 many hats, which is kind of funny because I don't wear a hat. 1320 01:44:04.159 --> 01:44:10.359 I feel like I'm one of the few who doesn't. But anyway, yes, 1321 01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:12.720 I will see you guys back here real soon. Be well, stay 1322 01:44:12.760 --> 01:44:16.880 safe, and we'll do it all over again next time. Get that sub 1323 01:44:16.960 --> 01:44:23.039 button. We're getting close. Seventy five K help me get there. Have 1324 01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:24.399 a good night. I'll see you next time. Guys.