WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.000 Aw was in Montreal for Canada tonight for the very first episode of Dynamite two 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.080 em and eight from Montreal. Technically last night was their debut. They had 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:14.039 a Collision taping last night, so the episode of Collision that's going to be 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.239 airing this Saturday is already in the can That episode has already been taped. 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:23.480 But they were in Canada tonight, and in Canada we had a match between 6 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:29.079 two Canadian legends. We had Adam Copeland one on one with Christian Cage, 7 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:34.799 their first singles match in thirteen years. The last time we saw these two 8 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.520 men in the ring together was on an episode of Monday Night Raw and it 9 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:43.399 wasn't even the main event. Just in the middle of the show, Copeland 10 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:48.039 and Christian for the TNT Championship. What did I tell you? I told 11 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:52.759 you keep an eye on Nick Wayne's mob, keep an eye on SHANEA. 12 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:56.759 Wayne, because you know that she's going to be moseying on down to the 13 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.520 ring after what Copeland did to her son. This kid's brains in a few 14 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.760 weeks ago, right in front of her, killed her son right in front 15 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:10.239 of her, And how are they going to get out of this without putting 16 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:14.599 the title on edge. Well, as you saw tonight, you saw Nick 17 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:17.719 Wayne's mom make her way down to the ring, and what did she do. 18 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:23.079 She took the TNT title and she hit Adam Copeland in the head with 19 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:30.359 it, and the crowd goes mile. You could practically hear everybody in the 20 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:38.079 building grown in unison. The thing is, story wise, it does make 21 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.640 sense for all the reasons that I told you in the first place that this 22 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:46.359 was probably going to happen. Because last time we saw Nick Wayne on TV, 23 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.760 Copeland gave him a concerto right in front of his mother, and then 24 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:56.239 Copeland went and he took out the dinosaur. He made him extinct. Christian 25 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.400 had no backup, He had nobody And so you think coming in it is, 26 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:04.680 well, it's a fair fight one on one, Copeland's gonna win the 27 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.240 title. But oh no, right, there's always an ace up to sleeve. 28 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:12.000 And that was Nick Wayne's mom. Now was Nick Wayne's mom actually with 29 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.719 Christian? Are they aligned? You know they didn't look aligned at the end 30 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.159 of the show tonight. We didn't get Christian making out with Nick Wayne's mom 31 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.400 like he did Trish Gratis to WrestleMania when she turned on christ Jericho almost twenty 32 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:29.240 years ago. We didn't get that at the end of the show. Although 33 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:32.120 there are a lot of people who are fans of Nick Wayne's mom, I 34 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:37.240 will not pass judgment on those people. Nick Wayne's mom she's a final lead, 35 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.520 but we didn't get that. That doesn't necessarily mean what she did tonight 36 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.080 that she's with Christian. We'll have to wait and see if she's going to 37 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.319 be aligned with him or not. There is a way to make sense of 38 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:50.719 that. You know, in a way, you think, well, what 39 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.639 sense would that make? Why would she be with this man who has corrupted 40 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:59.319 her son and said all of these awful things about her dead husband. There 41 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.840 is one way to rationalize it, which is that in order for her to 42 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:07.080 get her son back, the only way may be for her to join with 43 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.560 them. She's already lost the husband, she doesn't want to lose her son. 44 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:15.280 She's willing to do whatever it takes to gain her son's trust back so 45 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:20.000 he can welcome her back into his life. Right. I mean, there's 46 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.159 always a way to explain. But I will not lie when I tell you 47 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:27.439 that. When the show is over, I was rolling my eyes almost into 48 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:30.400 the back of my head. I look like the Undertaker. Just because it 49 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:35.520 made sense doesn't necessarily mean that it was a good way to end the ship. 50 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:42.000 It's very lame the idea that the first Edgend Christian match that we get 51 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:47.199 in thirteen years ends with interference from a wrestler's mob. Imagine if you would 52 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:55.080 Judy Bagwell getting involved in this match, Imagine Shelton Benjamin's mama getting involved in 53 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:00.280 this match. Imagine the shit that Vince McMahon w get. Imagine the shit 54 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:08.319 that WCW would get for something so ridiculous. So just because story wise it 55 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:12.759 might make sense, does it make it good. But that's what we got 56 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:14.919 at the end of the show. The one good thing that it does do 57 00:04:15.279 --> 00:04:19.879 is it prolongs the eventual rematch, because what they did at the end of 58 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:24.639 this match, they even did a little thing right before the three count where 59 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.839 Christian put his foot on Copeland's neck and said, I'm gonna break his neck, 60 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.519 and he stomped on his neck and then he pinned him. And so 61 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:36.680 that tells me that everybody, assuming that we're gonna get the rematch at World's 62 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:42.920 End, I wouldn't be so sure about that. Maybe we will, maybe 63 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.199 at the end of the month, we'll get the rematch. That almost felt 64 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.639 to me like they're gonna send Copeland off television for a while because they want 65 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:55.360 to prolong the rematch even more. Maybe we don't get Copeland and Christian at 66 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.639 World's End. Maybe we get Copeland and Christian at Revolution. Revolution is shaping 67 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.519 up to be a very big show. We have Sting's retirement match on that 68 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:05.879 show, we don't know who against. Maybe they want to push the eventual 69 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:10.959 rematch with Copeland and Christian off for a few more months. That's kind of 70 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.360 what I read into the whole you know, stomp on the next thing there, 71 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.319 because otherwise, what's the point of him doing that instead of, you 72 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.639 know, having Shane hit him with the belt and then give him the kill 73 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.240 switch and then pin the guy. Now he stomps on his neck. So 74 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.839 we'll have to keep an eye on that and see if they keep Copeland off 75 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.439 television for a while. But that was our main event. At the end 76 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.120 of the show, Christian KG still your TNT champion, to the surprise of 77 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:39.720 No. One. We have three more matches in the Continental Classic as well 78 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.720 Gold League. Because the Gold League matches happen on Wednesdays, The Blue League 79 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:48.360 happens on Collision on Saturdays, and again, if you are a fan of 80 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:53.319 this tournament, when this thing kicked off, if you're a fan of the 81 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.480 g One, if you're a fan of round robin tournaments in wrestling, you 82 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:01.079 know that you are going to get very good, good pro wrestling matches every 83 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.439 week on TV. And if that's what you're looking forward to, then this 84 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:11.079 was another great week of pro wrestling Inside the Ropes because we had Jay White 85 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:15.439 and Jay Lethal, the Battle of the Double Jays. We had John Moxley 86 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:18.399 and Rouche. We had Swerve Strickland as well on this show against Mark Briscolle. 87 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.439 Mark Briscoe frankly has been the MVP, I think, at least on 88 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:26.519 the Gold side. Every match that he has been in, I would argue 89 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.800 is the best match so far in the tournament, at least in the Gold 90 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:34.519 League. And yet Mark Briscoe has zero points. Mark Briscoe has been mathematically 91 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:41.600 eliminated from winning the Continental Classic. However, he and Jay Lethal now have 92 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:46.480 something in common. Now they can play the role of spoiler because they're not 93 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.680 going to be winning shit in this tournament. John Moxley, Swerve Strickland, 94 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.800 they are now at the top of the rankings. On the Gold League side, 95 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.160 they are going to be wrestling each other next week. And this is, 96 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.680 you know, the thing that I was looking forward to most about this 97 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:05.360 having their version of a g one. It's exactly what we've been getting on 98 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:09.800 these shows because you can always count on these shows and you get it with 99 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.319 Brody King. Brodie King has been sort of a breakout name on the Blue 100 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:16.920 League side. Brian Danielson, of course, is Brian Danielson. He's always 101 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.600 going to have at least a very good match when he's out there, if 102 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:24.120 not a great match, but you knew what you were going to get when 103 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.120 this thing starts, and we have gotten so far from great pro wrestling. 104 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.240 They are telling some stories in the tournament. We're seeing a story play out 105 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.839 right now on Collision with Eddie Kingston. Eddie Kingston is going to be wrestling 106 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:38.040 Claudio on television this weekend. Eddie Kingston has yet to win a match, 107 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.040 and so you look at him and you say, well, here's the guy 108 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:46.560 who put both of his belt in the pot to the winner go the spoils. 109 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.480 They're doing this triple crown thing. If Eddie Kingston doesn't at least make 110 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:53.560 it to the finals. He's no longer the Ring of Honor World Champion, 111 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.800 he's no longer the new Japan Strong openweight champion. Surely he has to start 112 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.959 winning matches at some point. That's the story they're telling with him. And 113 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.319 I'm not even getting into any spoilers or anything for Collision, but I look 114 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.000 at what they've done with Eddie Kingston so far, right, you know that 115 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.279 at some point he's gonna have to go on a roll and he's gonna have 116 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.439 to come from behind if he wants to make it to the finals of this 117 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:20.319 tournament. So they are telling stories within the confines of the tournament. But 118 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:26.399 great wrestling on the show tonight, And then we had MJF and the Devil 119 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:31.680 stuff. Now they promised us a tag team match this week with MJF and 120 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:37.720 Samoa Joe taking on two hand picked henchmen of the Devil after the silly angle 121 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.720 they did last week with the writing on the screen, you know, will 122 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.879 you be the hero? Will you be my hero? Fucking Bonnie Tyler over 123 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:50.080 here holding out for a hero, and we didn't know who the two men 124 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.759 were going to be. The Men in Black were going to be against Joe 125 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:54.360 and MJF. Well, as it turned out, it didn't matter because we 126 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.519 didn't get a match, and I have an issue with that. And I'm 127 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:03.200 not even so prized by what they did, but I have an issue with 128 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.879 the way that they went about it. And I'll tell you what, but 129 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.120 we have to first get into the beginning of things here. This is your 130 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:16.279 aw Dynamite review for Wednesday, December the sixth, twenty twenty three. We 131 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:24.080 have three Gold League matches in the Continental Classic and they opened with one of 132 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:30.480 them, first time ever encountered between John Moxley coming in with six points and 133 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:35.279 Ruche coming in with three, and Rush had his left hamstring taped uf. 134 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.279 You remember in the match last week when I was talking about Rouge, it 135 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:43.600 looked like he hurt his leg and I wasn't sure if it was just part 136 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:46.120 of the story of the match, if it was, you know, he 137 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.840 was working an injury or what. It looked to me like he really did 138 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.679 tweak his leg. Maybe he pulled a hamstring. I'm guessing he did pull 139 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.279 something. Obviously nothing too serious. He was back in the ring this week, 140 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:01.360 but he did have the left leg taped up. Both men wasted no 141 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.960 time throwing chops. Moxley got dropped on his head, Actually it looked more 142 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.200 like he got dropped on his shoulder with an overhead belly to belly. So 143 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.320 to the floor they went. Action spilled into the crowd and the referee was 144 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:20.039 being very lenient here. He did not want to see this match end at 145 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.440 a count out. See, he was very lenient as these men were brawling 146 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:30.080 in the crowd. Ruche splashed a drink from a fan in Moxley's face before 147 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.240 getting back in the ring. Rush connected with the stalling boot and then he 148 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.799 struck his pose on the mat. Moxley did not like this, so he 149 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.519 got up, but he flipped him the double bird. Moxley got a near 150 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:46.080 fall off of a superplex, and then he blocked an overhead belly to belly, 151 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:50.080 ended up getting one on the floor anyway, right into the barricade, 152 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.559 so that took us into the first break. After Ruche was controlling throughout the 153 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:00.279 entire commercial break, Moxley answered with the DDT take back control, but then 154 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:05.120 he got stuck by a pile driver by Ruche for two. Rusche returned the 155 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.360 favor from earlier. He had a superplex of his own off the top. 156 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.399 Moxley escaped the DDT, though, and he sent Rooch to the floor. 157 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:16.559 He connected on a suicide dive. Both men barely beat the count back into 158 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.360 the ring before ten. Rushe went for bulls horns, but as he was 159 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:26.879 charging into the corner, Moxley pulled himself up and just took his head off 160 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.200 with a lariat, and then he picked him up. He gave him death 161 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:35.480 rider. Rush kicked out Moxley, though immediately slaps on the rear naked choke. 162 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.679 He locks it in. Rush eventually passes out, or so we were 163 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:41.240 told. I mean, he was still moving around and struggling. It's not 164 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.919 like he went limp. But Paul Turner called for the bell. Anyway, 165 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.159 Rushe got up. He was furious. He had no idea what happened. 166 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.759 He didn't tap out, but he did lose the match. This is a 167 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.159 hard hitting affair here between these two, as most of Rush's matches are. 168 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:00.000 Let's be honest, if you watch a Rooche match, it almost doesn't even 169 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.519 matter who it's against, it's probably gonna be a hard hitting affair, and 170 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:09.960 this one was no different. This was Moxley's best match in the tournament so 171 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.919 far. And I enjoyed the first match he had with Mark Briscoe, but 172 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:18.080 this was even better. And now he sits atop the leaderboard on the gold 173 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.000 side. He's got nine points here in this tournament. And that means that 174 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:28.320 for Jay Briscoe or Mark Briscow excuse me, Mark Briscoe and Jay lethal easy 175 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.600 mistake to make. Going into their matches later in the show, it was 176 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.639 make or break because they had to win or they would be mathematically eliminated. 177 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:39.559 Now it's a round robin, so it's not like they're out of the tournament 178 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:45.000 completely. They will still be wrestling people every week. That they would then 179 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:46.799 play the role of spoiler, they wouldn't, and believe me, as a 180 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.679 Mets fan, I know what it's like to see your team play the role 181 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.480 of spoiler more often than not. And so that really kind of amped up 182 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.240 the drama a little bit for the two of them. Heading into their matches 183 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.879 later in the show, they had to put some points on the board or 184 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:07.799 they were done. Now. Renee brought Roderick Strong and The Kingdom out on 185 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.960 stage for an interview, and she said that Roddy had asked for the time 186 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:18.799 to address the audience, and so what's going on? And Roddy said that 187 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.639 it's obvious that MJF Is going to put his dagger into the heart of his 188 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:30.720 best friend by proxy, Samoa Joe. But Joe's a big boy, and 189 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:35.480 if life has taught him anything it's that actions have consequences. And tonight Joe 190 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.799 is going to put his hands on a hot stove and it's gonna burn. 191 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.440 Renee asked them, yet, but what if Max isn't the guy that you 192 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:48.320 think he is, and he said, every decision has consequences. He goes 193 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.320 look at me, Look at me, he said, said, he's in 194 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.159 this wheelchair because of decisions that he's made. This is his life, every 195 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:03.080 single day, sitting in this wheelchair until now. And then he rose to 196 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.919 his feet up out of the wheelchair, and then Matt Tavin took the wheelchair 197 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.879 and wheeled it right off stage. It's a miracle Roddy can walk again. 198 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:16.320 Although he still has the neck brace on. That's gonna be his Dilo Brown 199 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.440 chess protector. That's gonna be his ace orton cast on his arm. He's 200 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.799 gonna be wearing that neck brace the day he goes into the Ring of Honor 201 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:28.519 Hall of Fabe, he'll still be wearing that neck brace. So he rose 202 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:33.639 up out of the chair and said that the wheelchair has held him down for 203 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:39.840 far too long, but no longer. We got a video package for the 204 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:45.519 upcoming Jay White and Jay Lethal match which touched on their history together. There's 205 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.919 some history there from their Ring of Honor days together, so I like how 206 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.120 they tied that in here, so it's not a totally It is a cold 207 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.559 match, but it's not a totally cold match, and that there is some 208 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.799 history between the two of them. Tonight, though he said that he's getting 209 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:05.639 the three points in the Gold League. Jay White said Lethal realizes his back 210 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.759 is against the wall, and he said that it is a must win for 211 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:16.240 him now. Back from the break, Renee was outside of mjf's locker room 212 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.799 when Hangman Adam Page came walking by, the first time we've seen him on 213 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:26.440 TV since the loss in the Texas Deathmatch at full Gear, and so she 214 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:30.919 decided to talk to him instead, and he said that he had something to 215 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:35.120 say to Swerve after full Gear because you know, you broke into my hope, 216 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:41.759 you went into my son's room, but you beat me in a Texas 217 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.240 deathmatch at Full Gear on pay per view, and he said he can recognize 218 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:50.639 that he got beat. He recognizes that he lost, but he said the 219 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.919 two of them are bound by something bigger than the both of them. He 220 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.240 said, this is not over. He said he knows what Swerve is after, 221 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.159 and his mission now is to make sure that he never gets it. 222 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:11.080 That is a surefire away to turn yourself. Heel. If your mission is 223 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:18.799 to stop Swerve Strickland from the ultimate goal that he has, forget the Triple 224 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:22.080 Crown. Triple Crown doesn't even exist. You're creating it out of thin air. 225 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.960 Forget the Triple Crown. The ultimate goal for Swerve Strickland is and should 226 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:33.960 be to become the AW the first African American AEW World heavyweight champion. Right. 227 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.240 He's talked about this before in his promos. That is his goal, 228 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.519 and I believe it will happen. In twenty twenty four, you're looking at 229 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:45.320 your next AW World whether he is the next one or not, in twenty 230 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.799 twenty four, you're looking at the next AW World champion. So if Hangman's 231 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:53.120 mission is to stop him from doing that, with all the momentum and the 232 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:59.000 fan enthusiasm frankly that Swerve has right now, even though he is still technically 233 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:03.720 a heel, it's gonna turn Hangman heel. Maybe that's by design, but 234 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:10.240 I don't think that the fans are gonna react very positively if he ends up 235 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:17.720 costing him the chance to win that championship. So MJF e merged from his 236 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:22.680 dressing room and he said hello to his old friend's seabiscuit, talked about how 237 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:26.240 compelling it was to watch Hangman had Swerved battle it out to see who could 238 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.519 pick up the most STDs. Page says that he doesn't have thirty minutes to 239 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.599 talk to him, and he went to go walk away. So off he 240 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:37.279 went, and MJF is still talking to Renee, and he tells Renee the 241 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.720 reason he needs thirty minutes is to wake the crowd up from the boredom of 242 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.240 Hangman's promo, and Hangman heard that. He didn't like that very much, 243 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.920 so he came back into camera frame and they started arguing back and forth. 244 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:56.960 MJF recalled beating Hangman, who he called a white trash hic. He recalled 245 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:00.960 beating him to win his very first dynamite. I'm in ring back in twenty 246 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.720 nineteen, and Hangman says, well, it made him so upset that he 247 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:10.039 went out and won the world championship. MJF called that cute and said, 248 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.799 what what did that last? Was it six months? You were the world 249 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:18.720 champion for six months? Maybe? Hangman said that MJF will be seventy years 250 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:26.119 old at home telling his ninth cat about his one year as the aw world 251 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.279 champion. I know MJF has at least one cat name named Piper. I 252 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.839 don't know, he might have multiple cats, but he's got one cat named 253 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.039 Piper, and I suppose, yes, if he's seventy years old, Piper 254 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.359 will be long gone by then, so he may well be on his ninth 255 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.720 cat by then. I don't know. I don't know how many cats he's 256 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.839 had prior to Piper. I had two. I can't go through that again. 257 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:53.839 But MJF said that out of everybody in the locker room, you know 258 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:59.440 what, he thinks that Hangman is the man in the devil mask. And 259 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:03.240 Hangman's said that MJF has been a manipulator as long as he's known him, 260 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:08.640 and he assumed that MJF was actually the devil. So now Samoa Joe shows 261 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:11.359 up. Things look like they were about to get physical between the two of 262 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:18.319 them and Samoa. Joe intervened and he told Hangman, MJF is his responsibility. 263 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:21.640 Now that he turned around, he was super pissed off. He turned 264 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:26.880 around to MJF and said, what's wrong with you? Joe told MJF, 265 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:32.000 We've got other business tonight that does not involve Hangman. That was reminded, 266 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:33.480 you know, watching this promo, I hadn't really thought about it, but 267 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:38.960 it's been a long time since we've seen any real interaction or a match between 268 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:41.920 MJF and Hangman Page. You'd have to go all the way back to the 269 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:47.200 very first full year of AW all the way back in twenty nineteen. In 270 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.960 fact, I think on that first double or Nothing show in Vegas, right, 271 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.640 they had a battle Royal I think now were they the final two? 272 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:57.519 I don't remember now, but their history goes back to the very beginning of 273 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:02.599 the company, to the Dynamite Diamond ring match they had later in the year, 274 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:07.640 which MJF won. So it's been long enough that if they wanted to 275 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.400 do something with these two, even though it just it felt very random, 276 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.799 it's almost like if they don't end up doing something in the next few months 277 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:18.160 with them, then I don't know what the point of this was, because 278 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.519 again, it just we're in a position right now where MJF of all people, 279 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.960 is working so many different angles right The stuff with Adam Cole is on 280 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.759 the back burner right now because of the injury. Get the Devil stuff going 281 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:37.319 on. He's wrestling Samoa Joe at the Nassau Coliseum. He's got you know, 282 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:41.799 Wardlow breathing down his neck. Now he's got this backstage run in here 283 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.400 with Hangman Page. So he's got a lot of things going on as it 284 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:52.720 is. But if they are teasing something with them next year, Hangman would 285 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.240 likely be the heel in that feud. And so it makes me wonder if 286 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:02.519 you know, if Tony Kahn sees that the fans maybe are getting more and 287 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:07.440 more behind Swerve Strickland, wouldn't it all surprise me if by the beginning of 288 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.599 twenty twenty four, you know, we're in position where Swerve Strickland is turned 289 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:17.240 babyface by the audience just because they like him so much, and he goes 290 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:21.599 babyface and maybe Hangman goes heel, right, And I'm not sure that he 291 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:25.359 couldn't use a heel. Turned quite frankly, that could be just what he 292 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.559 needs. So maybe Swerve goes babyface, Hangman goes heel. We see Hangman 293 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:36.359 working with mjf or or if I'm right and if we get a Swerve Strickland 294 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:40.480 aw world title run in twenty twenty four, we could come back around to 295 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:44.680 Swerve and Hangman, only this time the roles are reversed and Hangman is the 296 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.200 heel and Swerve is the babyface. So again, this felt randomly inserted, 297 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.279 but I'm thinking that it wasn't as random as it came off, and it 298 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.759 could be a harbinger of things to come. Perhaps it's something to keep an 299 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:03.400 eye on there. We had our second Gold League match of the night in 300 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:11.680 the Continental Classic with Mark Briscoe one on one against Swerve Strickland. Brian Cage 301 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:15.799 and Prince Nana were out on stage with Swerve, although they were not allowed 302 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:21.519 down to the ring with him because in the Continental Classic no managers, nobody's 303 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:26.200 allowed at ringside no interference. This was even better than the opener, and 304 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:30.000 I enjoyed the opener too with Moxley and Rouche. This was even better. 305 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.160 This right here was the best of the Gold League matches that we had on 306 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:41.920 the show. This week. We also got a WCW mentioned on commentary by 307 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:47.960 Tony Schavanni, which was bound to happen. I'm surprised, frankly, it 308 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:52.119 took this long for it to happen. Four years in not bad, not 309 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.279 bad. Jim Ross was only a few matches in. He was calling Kenny 310 00:22:55.319 --> 00:23:02.279 Omega the WWE champions, so it's all good, It's all good, Tony. 311 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.680 What happened is he said there were guys in WCW that would love to 312 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:10.400 play spoiler, and Taz corrected him and had a good laugh at his expense 313 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:15.519 as ex Caliber did so both men went to the apron. They traded strikes 314 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:19.880 until swerves sent Briscoe into the front row, and while standing on top of 315 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:26.279 the barricade, Strickland hit a superplex to the floor and that took us into 316 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:33.720 the commercial break, and during the break it was all Strickland. He had 317 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:38.160 control all throughout the break. Briscoe, though, escaped an armbar with some 318 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:42.519 redneck kung fu, and then he started to run wild with a charging boot 319 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:48.680 in the corner, followed by a fisherman's buster for two Strickland fought back with 320 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:52.559 a step over gut wrench german. Then he hit a rolling flatliner, then 321 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:55.720 he hit a busaw kick, got a close near fall out of that. 322 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.440 That's right, yes, mister dynamite. I forgot about that. Yes. 323 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:06.359 Jim Ross also called it WWE dynamite. One week brisco took control, Strickland 324 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:10.640 rolled through a J driller attempt into a house call. Briscoe, though, 325 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:14.519 got the knees up on a four to fifty splash, almost got a roll 326 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:18.079 up for two, almost got him a three count. Yeah, he wanted 327 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:22.640 a froggy bow. Strickland got the knees up on the way down, and 328 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:26.319 we got the five minute time call from Justin Roberts. Both men went to 329 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.160 the apron at that point, where Strickland fought off a J driller into a 330 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:36.160 DVD on the apron and Strickland then connected with the swerve stomp back inside to 331 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:41.000 finally pick up the win. An excellent match here between these two men. 332 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:45.880 It sucks that brisco has gone winless so far in this tournament, especially again, 333 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:49.359 He's consistently had some of the best matches in the entire tournament, and 334 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:53.359 he has absolutely nothing to show for he has no points, and he may 335 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.319 well go the entire tournament without any points. But you know what, if 336 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:02.440 he keeps cranking out matches like this, that's okay. But that was the 337 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:04.799 right decison. I don't think anybody would argue that it was the right call 338 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:10.359 having Swerve go over in this match. And Swerve's momentum just continues, and 339 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:14.559 with that win, now he ties John Moxley at nine points, top the 340 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:18.319 rankings here in the Gold League, and right now, look, Swerve can 341 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.640 do no wrong. When you're hot, you're hot. You know, the 342 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.359 guy's on a roll right now. He may not win the entire thing, 343 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.000 but I think it would be a sin and it would be the wrong decision 344 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.400 for him not to at least go to the finals at World's End. You 345 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:36.039 have to at least send him to the finals on the pay per view. 346 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.279 I think it would be booking malpractice to do this any other way, whether 347 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:42.240 it's against Brian Danielson or somebody else. I think Danielson. Swerve is the 348 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:48.400 likely final here, even if he doesn't win the entire thing, but he's 349 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:49.400 got to go to the I mean, he's got to go to World's End 350 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:55.960 otherwise what's he doing? I mean, you're gonna do Swerve Hangman three at 351 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:00.319 Nassau. I'm sure we will get Swerve Hangman three at some point, but 352 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.599 maybe it's in twenty twenty four when the roles were reversed. It doesn't have 353 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:07.079 to be at World's End. He beat him too straight. There's no reason 354 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:12.559 to go right back to it. Renee was backstage with Mariah May and asked 355 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:17.400 her what she talked about with Tony Khan last week. We saw RJ City 356 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:21.319 last week, you know, wishing her luck as Mariah May knocked on the 357 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:25.640 door and walked into Tony Khan's office, and so she wanted to know what 358 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:30.920 the nature of their conversation was. Knows he knows. He She said that 359 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.039 Tony, I guess Tony mentioned what a big fan he was of Japanese wrestling, 360 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.119 which I mean, no shit. I mean, you just watched the 361 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.279 product that he books. You could tell Tony Khan is a big fan of 362 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:45.920 Japanese. Right. The two things that Tony Khan was a big fan of 363 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:51.880 as he was growing up as a young wrestling fan, One was E CW 364 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.519 and you could see that influence all over these shows every single week with all 365 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:00.440 the blood and the tax and everything else. So and he's talked about being 366 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:04.759 at the ECW arena with his dad and the other one who's Japanese wrestling, 367 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:08.960 and so she mentioned that, you know, he obviously was a big fan 368 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.400 of her work. Renee asked, well, what about the plans you discussed 369 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.039 for your debut match? What can you tell me about that? And Mariah 370 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:21.000 told Renee that it was none of her business. But tonight it's all about 371 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.400 Tony Storm and her title match against sky Blue, which came up a little 372 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:29.400 bit later on. We had a tag team bow where we were supposed to 373 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:33.079 have a tag team out here, supposed to be the aw World Champion MJF 374 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.599 teaming up with his World's End opponent Samoa Joe to take on two of the 375 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.759 Devil's henchmen. That Joe was out to the ring first, and he gets 376 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:47.799 inside and the lights in the arena begin to flicker, and then eventually the 377 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:51.039 lights go out for a few seconds and then they kind of come back on. 378 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:55.920 It's like almost like a spotlight in the ring on Joe, and all 379 00:27:55.960 --> 00:28:00.720 of a sudden, the Devil's men have the entire rings surround. Joe is 380 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.599 all alone by himself in the ring, and there's a man on each side 381 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:08.480 outside. Lights go out again. When the lights come back on about ten 382 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:12.039 seconds later, Joe is in the ring, but the Devil's men are gone. 383 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:18.319 More spooky magic. It really does feel like retribution, doesn't it. 384 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.519 I don't mean that in a good way. Either gives me bad flashbacks. 385 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.000 Then the Devil appeared very briefly on the tron and the Devil mask. Then 386 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:33.279 he quickly disappeared, and they cut to a shot of the parking garage and 387 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:38.960 we see that the world champion MJF has been laid out. He's face down 388 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:42.160 on the ground. The belt is on the ground next to him, and 389 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:49.319 we see the remnants of a shattered beer bottle, broken glass, real glass, 390 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:55.880 broken glass all around and MJF is down. Joe, of course, 391 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:00.000 is alarmed by this because he sees his meal ticket there. He needs him 392 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.359 to be healthy when he goes to World's End and beats him for the belt, 393 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.599 so he immediately leaves the ring that makes a bline to the back. 394 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:11.359 You knew there had to be some sort of angle here when they announce this, 395 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.559 because we know that MJF is hurt Okay, if you take everything that 396 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.559 he's tweeted and that they've said of face value. He's got very real injuries 397 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.200 that he's dealing with right now, the main one being a labroom tear in 398 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:27.720 his shoulder. Now I think Meltzer was the one who said that the tear 399 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:32.880 is worse than they originally feared. We don't know, because we haven't gotten 400 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:37.160 any sort of medical update from MJF or from AW on the nature or the 401 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:41.160 extent of the injury. If it's a really bad, severe tear, that's 402 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:45.440 not good. He may need surgery. He could be gone for a while. 403 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:49.359 Other wrestlers if the tear isn't so bad, they don't get surgery and 404 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:52.759 they just keep working and they let it heal on its own, which is 405 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:57.440 probably what he's hoping to do. But he's got a very serious injury. 406 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.759 And he also probably has a hip. I'm sure that's bothering him because he 407 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:07.720 dislocated it doing that diving elbow at full gear. So he's all beat up 408 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:12.599 right now. It's very stupid to put him in the ring at all. 409 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:19.039 Between now and World's End. He should be rehabbing and recovering and cutting promos 410 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:25.519 on television and not actually getting in the ring and wrestling. So I'm not 411 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:27.799 faulting them for not wanting to put him in the ring. The issue I 412 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:33.680 have with this is the fact that it bothers me when you have your world 413 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.720 champion and really anybody, but especially somebody in his position, that you're advertising 414 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:42.200 for a match on this show, and you advertise it all week long when 415 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:47.920 you never had the intent on having him wrestle in the first place. This 416 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.680 match never even should have been announced, you know, if they wanted to 417 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.400 do Samoa Joe stepping in and saying, look, I told you I want 418 00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:00.599 you at one hundred percent for World's end. You or my responsibility Now, 419 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.319 I'm not gonna let anything happen to you. So no, you're not gonna 420 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:10.000 wrestle next week. I will wrestle one or both of the Devil's henchmen. 421 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:12.079 You can be in my corner if you want. You could have done the 422 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.200 exact same angle. Now you're still not doing the match, so I guess 423 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.799 it gets you back to the same place. But advertising a match a week 424 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.319 in advance with MJF and then not delivering to me, I don't like that. 425 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:26.359 I don't like that but again, they had to find their way out 426 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.079 of this because he shouldn't be working. You've got to protect him before your 427 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.559 pay per view. It's insane to put him in the ring and have him 428 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.640 working matches before December thirtieth. It doesn't make any sense. And so that's 429 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:38.680 what they did. That was their way of getting out of it. Here. 430 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:44.000 Now, the question is, as I was looking at MJF laying there 431 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:51.279 on the ground, the thought occurred to me because he wasn't my first choice. 432 00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:53.880 But it makes you think, Okay, maybe they are gonna go with 433 00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.759 MJF as the devil. Maybe they're gonna go with the most obvious choice, 434 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.279 which would be a letdown if at the end of all this it's just like, 435 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:06.559 oh, it was MJF all along, right, because he's been telling 436 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.079 us that he's a scumbag and he's the devil, and at the beginning of 437 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:13.720 all this, everybody thought it was him. But then as time has gone 438 00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:16.119 on, people I think have gotten further and further away from that. But 439 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:19.880 I'm watching him laying there on the ground. You know, a segment like 440 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.079 this makes you think, well, how could it not be it? Right? 441 00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:28.160 It's exactly the sort of thing that somebody like him would do. It 442 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:32.200 fits his mo to a t, but it would also put him back in 443 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:37.519 the heel column, and I'm not sure they're really especially before Adam Cole comes 444 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:38.839 back. I'm not sure they want to do that because he's got a lot 445 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.440 of opponents lined up, He's got a lot on his plate. He's still 446 00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.200 over as a babyface. He's the top baby face in the company right now. 447 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:54.119 Some might say Sweve or Danielson, But do they really want to turn 448 00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:58.599 him back heel this quickly? I'm not sure that they do. The broken 449 00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.839 bottle was interesting because you had that segment earlier with Hangman, and so is 450 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.039 that their way of yeah, they're gonna do an angle now where Hangman is 451 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.240 being framed. They want you to think it's Hangman or whoever did it, 452 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:15.480 want MJF to believe that it was Hangman Page when of course in reality it 453 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:19.559 wasn't. So maybe that's why that was the purpose, I guess with the 454 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:23.480 beer bottle there to try to frame Hangman, but still can't disqualify the possibility 455 00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:29.240 that it was MJF all along, even though again it makes sense if you 456 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:31.920 think about that character. 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Moxley said that he would do 492 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.519 the same and Swerve blew him a kiss before walking away. That's a must 493 00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.960 see match next week. That's a must see match next week between those two, 494 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:15.559 I believe, believe their first encounter. It cut to a segment with 495 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:21.840 Ben Mankowitz, who has been a hote now. He's the kind of guy 496 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:24.320 I have seen him before. If you put his picture in front of me, 497 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:27.920 I would say, I know that guy from somewhere, but if my 498 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.400 life depended on it, I couldn't tell you what his name is. It's 499 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:35.320 like those character actors you see in movies, like I know that guy, 500 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:38.679 like he's in everything, but I couldn't tell you his name. That's Ben 501 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:44.199 Mankowitz. He's a host on Turner Classic Movies, which shows a lot of 502 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.599 old films, and I mean, hence the name right classic movies. So 503 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:52.239 they got him to do a segment here. Nifty little note, by the 504 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:55.079 way, I heard about this earlier today. I was not aware of this, 505 00:36:55.239 --> 00:37:01.960 but mister Mankowitz over here is the grand net few of Joseph Mankowitz. 506 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:08.239 Joseph Mankowitz is the one who wrote and directed the movie All About Eve on 507 00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:15.320 which this whole Tony Storm Mariah May storyline is based off. So that's an 508 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:22.079 interesting little side note. He recorded this from the TCM studio. He said 509 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:27.920 that every generation a performer comes along that redefines what it means to be human. 510 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:34.519 To some, it could be Garbo, Brando, Raucho, but it 511 00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:38.719 could also be Tony Storm. Every slam or pile driver paints a picture. 512 00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:45.480 And he listed off the various silent films that Tony Storm has been starring in 513 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:51.760 of late, and then he said, chin up, chest out, and 514 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:57.880 watch for the shoe. They couldn't get Ben to say tits out. He 515 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:01.239 refused to say tits out, or they didn't ask him because they were afraid 516 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:06.000 of what he would say. I'm gonna guess that, he said, I'm 517 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:09.800 not gonna do that, so he said chest out could not bring himself to 518 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:14.679 say tits out here, so I'll say it for him, tits out or 519 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:15.880 what did I say that one time? When I botched it, I said, 520 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:21.719 watch for the tits, watch for the tits. I do love how 521 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:24.719 they have gone all in on this movie starlet stuff. The one thing you 522 00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:30.119 can't say as far as Tony comes booking with Tony Storm, and maybe he's 523 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:34.519 taken a liking to her because of her name because they share the same name. 524 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:37.320 But they've gone all in on this character, with the vignettes and the 525 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:44.320 black and white and bringing this guy in. I'm still loving now. Justin 526 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:49.920 Roberts in the arena introduced her from stage seven at Warner's Studios and outcomes Tony 527 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:57.559 Storm with Luther and Mariah may Or her title defense against Sky Blue. Storm 528 00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:02.000 decked sky Blue with a forearm until Blue answered with a tilta world head scissors, 529 00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:08.880 and Tony went outside to regroup got cut off with a dive. Luther, 530 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:15.760 though, placed Tony on his shoulders. This was an innovative little spot 531 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:20.800 here. Luther's on the ground outside, Tony's on the apron. Tony now 532 00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:24.719 is on his shoulders. Sky Blue is on the apron. Tony grabs a 533 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.119 hold of sky Blue and as Luther starts running right, Tony of course has 534 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:35.159 sky Blue and she ends up charging with her and throws her, and sky 535 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:38.760 Blue takes a bump off the apron into the floor. So now with Blue 536 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:43.360 set up against the barricade, Tony connected with the sweet cheek music and that 537 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:50.000 took us into the commercial break. Storm avoided Skyfall a little while later hit 538 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:53.119 a release German that sent sky Blue into the corner. Blue avoided a hip 539 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.719 attack and hit a sweet cheek music of her own. I'm sure everyone, 540 00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.719 I'm sure everybody in this chat boy, your heads must exploded, your head, 541 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.840 your loins, I'm sure this was your favorite match on the entire show. 542 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:07.519 You get a sweet cheek music from Tony Storm, you get a sweet 543 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:13.679 cheek music from sky Blue, you got Mariah May on the outside. I'm 544 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:21.320 surprised you people haven't passed out from oxygen deprivation. So now she goes with 545 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:24.760 the code blue and it connects. She hits the code Blue. It looks 546 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:30.559 great, got the closest near fall of the match. Storm then cut off 547 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:37.000 Blue in the corner. Speaking of Blue, that's an appropriate word, judging 548 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:44.400 from some of the comments I see every week sky Blue. Anyway, Storm 549 00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.000 cut off Blue in the corner, hit a superplex, and then she hit 550 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:52.039 another sweet cheek music, but sky Blue briefly got a roll up, only 551 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:54.639 for Tony to counter into one of her own, and she got the win. 552 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.199 So this was one of sky Blue's best matches today. I don't want 553 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:01.719 to say her best match. I haven't, Frankly, I haven't seen all 554 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:06.320 of her matches. She's wrestled a lot on Rampage, and I mean, 555 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.800 come mine now. I ain't got time for that. But I can't put 556 00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:14.599 this above the triple threat for the TBS title of Full Gear. But this 557 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:17.480 was one of the better sky Blue matches that I've ever seen. And that's 558 00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:24.239 and that Code Blue that she hit Chef's Kiss, that look great. You 559 00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:28.199 know, you really need the cooperation of your opponent. I've seen her a 560 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:30.039 couple of times try that move, and if the other person isn't in the 561 00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:34.119 right position or doesn't kind of go over for it, you know, I 562 00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:37.159 could get botched very easily. It looks very awkward. But I thought that 563 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:42.239 Code Blue looked great, even though she didn't win with it and Tony Storm. 564 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.679 I mean, look, Tony Storm knows her character just to a hilt 565 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:51.000 and everything, just the little things, the mannerisms and the things that she 566 00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:55.119 does during the matches themselves. And now she's got Luther in on the act 567 00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:58.960 and everything. I just think it's just it's perfect. It just makes it 568 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.840 so much fun to watch, just seeing how committed she is to the character. 569 00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:08.119 So she celebrated after the match until we had a big aw return. 570 00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:15.239 This was a monumental return here on this show. You will not believe who 571 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.679 we had back on the show tonight. They hit Cult of person out No 572 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:25.920 no, no wrong cult thinking of the wrong cult not enough. The ReHO 573 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.880 regime has a lot of members to it. Some of you may be part 574 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:35.480 of it. Yes, ReHO is back. We've not seen ReHO on this 575 00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.400 show. She had a match in April for the Championship against Jamie Hayter. 576 00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:45.639 That's the last time we saw ReHO on aw Dynamite. ReHO was back and 577 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:47.519 she got a very good reaction from the crowd. The people like to see 578 00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:52.920 Riho. So ReHO comes down to the ring and she ends up drop kicking 579 00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:59.840 Tony Storm to the floor. She was teasing a dive out to the floor, 580 00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:05.719 but Luther pulled Storm away and Riho was left patting the women's title that 581 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:09.719 Tony Storm left behind in the ring. Now, I know a lot of 582 00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:14.119 people are gonna shit on ReHO. You know. Look, I'm having some 583 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.039 fun with it here myself. But the thing about Riho is she always gets 584 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:22.679 it a very nice reaction from the crowd. They hit her music, especially 585 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:24.599 if some time has gone by and we haven't seen her. Sometimes she goes 586 00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:28.239 back to Japan, I think, and she disappears for a few months. 587 00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.079 I don't know if that's what happened here, you know, it probably was, 588 00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:37.079 but she came out and again she got a very positive reception from the 589 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.800 crowd. So at least with the aw audi and she's over. And what 590 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:46.679 it does is it gives Tony Storm a solid babyface to work against. I 591 00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:51.639 presume they're going to have a mag of World's End. I don't know what 592 00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:54.159 Riho would have done to deserve a title shock, but they don't have rankings 593 00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:58.320 in this company anymore, so I guess it doesn't matter. But it gives 594 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.760 her a solid baby face to work with. Sky Blue Sky Blue, I 595 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:04.039 mean, is she a babyface or is she a heel? I don't know. 596 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.599 It's been a little in between of late. Rijo is you know, 597 00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:12.719 she's a solid baby face for Tony Storm to beat, So I don't have 598 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.119 an issue with it. The match that I'm waiting for, and it's gonna 599 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:19.159 take a little while longer to get there because she's obviously not ready to come 600 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.519 back yet. Is Jamie Hater and Tony Storm? Now? Jamie Hayter and 601 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:27.320 Tony Storm had an excellent match at Full Gear one year ago. That was 602 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:31.199 a very different Tony Storm. She's playing a totally different role now on TV. 603 00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:36.239 Actually the roles are reversed now or Hater would be the baby face and 604 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:39.400 Tony would be the heel. But that's the match I'm hoping that we get 605 00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:45.079 to see before Tony loses the belt. Months ago, the last I heard 606 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:49.360 was that Jamie might be back by February. I don't know if that's changed. 607 00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:52.079 I don't know if it's gonna be later than February. February is not 608 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.920 that far away, and in fact, that could be the Revolution match at 609 00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:00.599 the beginning of March. If Jamie Hayter can be back in time, it 610 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.000 could be Jamie Hater and Tony Storm for the women's title of Revolution. That's 611 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.519 the match I want to see. So what do you do with Tony Storm 612 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:10.079 in the meantime? Right, she already beat sky Blue on this show. 613 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:13.599 I thought they were gonna do this match at World's In. I was surprised 614 00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:17.880 they blew it off here. Little did I know that the ReHO regime would 615 00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:22.280 be in full force and Riho would be back. Right, we should all 616 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.280 salute the ReHO regime. I'm telling you, the ReHO regime. It's a 617 00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:30.079 very real thing. So anyway, I'm hoping that Jamie Hater will be back 618 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:35.599 by then. She is very much missed in this women's division. There's been 619 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:39.320 a lot of talk lately about the aw women's division and Mercedes Monet and is 620 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:45.639 she gonna come in or not? And you know, all in they invited 621 00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:51.199 her to be at Wembley and they showed her multiple times on TV. And 622 00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:52.159 if you would have asked me then I would have said, well, for 623 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:57.599 sure, they obviously have some sort of at least a verbal agreement, and 624 00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.760 when she's healed up and ready, they're obviously going to bring her in. 625 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:06.559 That was in August here we are now in December, and not only does 626 00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:10.880 it not feel like Mercedes is going to AW, I don't know that it 627 00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:15.199 makes sense for her to go to AAW unless she just wants to maintain that 628 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:20.159 level of freedom where she can work AAW and still work Japan if that's important 629 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.480 to her, and I know that was a very important thing to her, 630 00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:27.480 but she's already done it. Yeah, maybe she got it out of her 631 00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:30.599 system and she's ready to go back home. Because it feels to me like 632 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:36.079 if we see her back on television soon, it's gonna be on WWE television, 633 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:39.880 it ain't gonna be on AAW television. And there's a few matches with 634 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:45.639 her I would love to see in AW, but it doesn't feel It's almost 635 00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:49.079 like a one to eighty from the feeling back in August. Now it's like 636 00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:53.679 it shifted totally in the other direction to where there's actually an ongoing story in 637 00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:59.559 WWE right now that would be perfect for her to come back into, involving 638 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:04.760 Bailey and Damage Control. It's right there, right going into WrestleMania, going 639 00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:08.519 into the Royal Rumble. It just doesn't feel to me like we're going to 640 00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:15.360 be seeing Mercedes on an aw television anytime soon. Could be wrong, though, 641 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:21.039 right we know she's coming back. She dropped a return training vignette on 642 00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:24.199 her social media earlier in the week, so we know that she's all healed 643 00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:28.559 up and she's ready to come back. What decision is she gonna make? 644 00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:32.440 Only she knows. WWE, though, would feel like the better place for 645 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.840 her right now. Match number three, the final match and the Gold League 646 00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:45.039 Tournament. Here tonight on Dynamite. It was between Jay Lethal and j White, 647 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:52.159 the Double Jys. It was heel against heel. Lethal battled back after 648 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:55.559 a commercial break with a lethal combination into a torture rack and he hit a 649 00:47:55.559 --> 00:48:00.920 top rope elbow. Jay White kicked out. Lethal wanted a lethal injection, 650 00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:06.599 but fired off kicks instead, and White answered with a knee breaker and a 651 00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:10.000 sup plex and to the corner. Then a brainbuster got him a two count. 652 00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:15.440 We got a chop exchange between both men, and then we got ee 653 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:21.079 rakes. Hulk Hogan would be proud. That's all his offense used to be 654 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:24.119 when he was the top babyface in WWE. You know what Hulk Hogan's signature 655 00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:31.280 moves were, I rakes and back rakes. Fucking heel. How did I 656 00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:36.840 not see that man? Maybe because I was five? It's all you ever 657 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:42.920 did? I Rake back, Rake, This is the man that I looked 658 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.280 up to as a young wrestling fan. This is the man that I wanted 659 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:49.440 to emulate when I was a young wrestling fan. This was my influence. 660 00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:58.119 So both men traded finisher attempts to j White chop blocked the leg as Lethal 661 00:48:58.239 --> 00:49:02.800 was midway into a Lethal and Jack, so he chop blocked him, and 662 00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:07.679 then they traded pin attempts. White got the high stack and he got the 663 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:10.800 pin to win three more points in the tournament that now gives him six points 664 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:15.280 total. This did not have the heat of the earlier two matches that we 665 00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:20.119 had on the show because they haven't done anything to make you think that Jay 666 00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:23.440 Lethal is a credible contender in this tournament. We know Jay Lethal is very 667 00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:27.440 talented. We know Jay Lethal had a lot of success and Ring of Honor, 668 00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:30.239 but it doesn't mean anything because he goes out there every week and he 669 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:37.159 loses. So nobody in their right mind thought that Jay White was losing to 670 00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:40.880 Jay Lethal. So there was no drama there. But the work was very 671 00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:44.880 good. I had no issue with the work. It's just in a lot 672 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:46.480 of ways. It was a very cold match compared to the other two. 673 00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:51.639 This was the worst of the three matches of the tournament on the show tonight, 674 00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:57.400 But then we had our main event, which was Adam Copeland one on 675 00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:01.559 one with Christian Cage for the TA Championship. The last time Edge and Christian 676 00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:06.079 did battle in the middle of the ring in a singles match was all the 677 00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:10.559 way back in twenty ten. No what else happened in twenty ten. That 678 00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:17.840 was when the Nexus debuted and attack John Cena. Twenty ten is the year 679 00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:22.599 that Shawn Michaels retired from wrestling, never to come back into the ring again. 680 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:28.719 People talk about twenty eighteen something happened. I have no memory of that. 681 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:34.960 It never happened. Shawn Michaels retired in twenty ten against the Undertaker WrestleMania 682 00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:38.119 at twenty six. That's how far back you'd have to go to find an 683 00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:44.960 Edgend Christian match, and that was in another company altogether. So they found 684 00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:47.920 themselves back in the ring here in Canada, of all places, they were 685 00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:54.559 in Montreal. Adam starts with a huge slap to the face, locks on 686 00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:58.880 a sleeper gets them down on the mat. Christian gets to the ropes to 687 00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:02.480 break it. Now he's out on the apron. Copeland hits the ropes and 688 00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:07.320 then he hits a tackle that sends Cage flying off the apron to the floor 689 00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:12.880 and into the barricade. Copeland follows. He slams Christian face first on top 690 00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:17.960 of the announced desk a few times, and then Copeland sends Cage back inside. 691 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.320 He is pleading for mercy. Is the TNT champion he's begging off. 692 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.719 He tries for a low blow. Of course, Copeland knows exactly who he 693 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:30.559 is, right They've known each other for forty years, so he's able to 694 00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:35.519 catch it. He stomps the hand. Copeland then sends Cage back out of 695 00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:37.840 the ring. He whips him into the barricade. Christian, though is able 696 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.920 to gain control off a whip into the ring post, and that takes us 697 00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:46.679 into the final commercial break of the show. Cage sidestepped a spear through the 698 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:52.199 ropes and he wanted a pendulum kick, but Copeland countered hit a diving clothesline 699 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:57.280 off the second rope. Both men end up on the floor outside the ring. 700 00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:04.440 Cage answered a drop toll ho into the ring steps and back inside. 701 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:07.079 He ended up hitting a frog splash, got a two count out of it. 702 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.400 Caje wanted a spear. Copeland, though countered into an impaler DDT. 703 00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:14.840 So as he came in for the spear, he caught him. He hooked 704 00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:17.679 him, and then he picked him up and hit the impaler, got two 705 00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:22.360 of his own. Christian cut Copeland off from the corner. Copeland, though 706 00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:27.159 slid underneath him, and he connected with a running Liger bomb which looked great. 707 00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:31.360 Out of the corner. Christian dough kicks out. So now Christian tries 708 00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:36.519 for the kill switch and Copeland counters out of that gets an inside cradle only 709 00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:40.679 two. We got another kill switch countered into an ed dramatic for two. 710 00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:46.599 I mean they were going through their greatest hits here in this match. Copeland 711 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:50.559 locks on the cross face, but Christian got his foot on the bottom rope 712 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:54.800 with the brake. Copeland tried to cave Christian's face into the mats. Christians 713 00:52:54.800 --> 00:53:00.119 out on the mat. Then he's dropping forearms here like the whole as Michael 714 00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:06.119 called back in the day, would say the pounding ground, not the grounding 715 00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:08.239 pound. It's the pounding ground. He's trying to pound him into the ground 716 00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:14.079 with four arms. Then he stood up and Copeland went to the corner, 717 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.400 and he got that crazy look at his eyes. He got the crazy eyes. 718 00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:22.960 You're setting up for the spear. Christian, though, leap frogs over 719 00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:29.000 Copeland as he comes in, and then he finally connects with the kill switch. 720 00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:35.760 Copeland kicks out. Now Christian is in the corner and Christian is setting 721 00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:38.039 up for a spear of his own. Copeland, though, dives out of 722 00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:45.159 the way as Christian comes in, and Copeland made contact with referee Bryce Remsburg. 723 00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:49.159 I didn't bump him to where he knocked him out, but he bumped 724 00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:52.119 Bryce. And now Bryce is I don't know if he got, you know, 725 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:57.519 something in his eye or something, but he's got his back turned and 726 00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:04.679 Christian sees this, and the sniveling little shit that he is, Christian sees 727 00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:08.320 the referees back turned, and so what does he do. He kicks Bryce 728 00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:15.199 Remsburg from behind in the balls and down goes the referee. Not only did 729 00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:16.840 he kick him in the balls, he went out of his way to do 730 00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:23.320 it. That's a heel. So now the referee is down, Christian goes 731 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:28.199 to the floor he grabs the TNT title, he brings it back into the 732 00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:32.920 ring and he's going to use it to knock out Copeland. Copeland, though 733 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:37.679 ducks the belt shot. Both men hit the ropes a couple of different times. 734 00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:42.000 They end up colliding in mid air on spear attempts. They both have 735 00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.559 the same idea, and so they slammed into each other and we got a 736 00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:50.719 double down. And at this point I was just I'm just looking at the 737 00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:52.639 aisle and I'm just waiting. I'm saying, where is she? Where is 738 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.760 she is? What Christian does? Right? Where is she? I know 739 00:54:55.840 --> 00:55:01.679 she's coming. I know she's coming because the referee is down. Christian is 740 00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:08.400 down edges down. Here comes Mama Wayne. SHANEA. Shanna basilis Shana Wayne 741 00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:13.760 Nick Wayne's mom is on her way down to the ring and in no great 742 00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:16.639 rush to get there either, by the way. So she starts walking down 743 00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:22.519 to the ring right on cue, and she gets in the ring and she 744 00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:27.360 picks up the TNT title. Christian is on the ground on his knees. 745 00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:30.679 He's begging off. She's motioning like she's gonna hit him, but then she 746 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:36.360 motions like she's gonna hit Copeland. And then she turns back to Christian. 747 00:55:36.440 --> 00:55:39.199 She's waiting for Copeland to get back to his feet. And as soon as 748 00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:47.639 Copeland is vertical, Nick Wayne's mother hits Adam Copeland with the TNT Championship, 749 00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:55.239 and as I said earlier, the crowd goes mild. You could just hear 750 00:55:55.320 --> 00:56:02.280 the universal disappointment in their voices. So Christian picks up Copeland, hits the 751 00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:07.840 kill switch. Then he rolls him over, face burst down on top of 752 00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:14.119 the TNT title. He places his boot on his surgically repaired neck and he 753 00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:17.000 shouts that he's gonna break his neck, and then he stomps on it. 754 00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:22.880 Then he rolls him over. Bryce now is back over, and Bryce Remsburg 755 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:29.719 counts. The three to retain the TNT Championship is one. Christian Cage, 756 00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:37.239 still your champion, still your father. So we got no makeout session here. 757 00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:42.960 There was no kissy kissing between Christian and Shana. Christian looked surprised like 758 00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:47.559 he didn't know this was gonna happen, and so she left. So now 759 00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:53.280 the question is was the next spot where he stomped on Copeland's neck did he 760 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:59.159 do that? Because the idea is to prolong this beyond World's End, and 761 00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:00.880 they're not gonna do that match of Worlds In. They're actually gonna wait, 762 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:06.679 maybe do it at Revolution. They could just as easily bring him back in 763 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:08.679 two weeks, right. I wouldn't expect Copeland to be on the show next 764 00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:13.199 week, but could he come back in two weeks and then set up the 765 00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:19.280 rematch for the Nassau Coliseum? Absolutely? Why rushing? You just did the 766 00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.719 first match tonight, right, It's December sixth. Do you really need to 767 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:27.519 run the match back right away at the end of the month. I mean, 768 00:57:27.559 --> 00:57:30.559 why not prolong it a little bit? Do the match on pay per 769 00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:36.079 view? Do it in March? Right, do it at Revolution. You 770 00:57:36.119 --> 00:57:38.320 could find a couple of people for Christian to defend his title against in the 771 00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:44.239 meantime on TV, or one person for him to defend it against. So 772 00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:46.320 I don't know, I don't know what they're gonna do here. I think 773 00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:50.440 that that spot though, gives them it out if they want to keep Copeland 774 00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:52.840 out for a little while. But if not, then I guess we're gonna 775 00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:58.760 get the rematch of World's In. But yeah, the thing about this finish 776 00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:02.639 here, I mean I predicted this finish I'm sure a lot of people did 777 00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:07.400 because it made sense. I'm not saying it doesn't. The reason I predicted 778 00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:12.400 it is because the story was right there. When Copeland gave Nick Wayne a 779 00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:17.639 concerto, Nick Wayne's mom was in the corner watching it happen right in front 780 00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:22.800 of her eyes, and so it was obvious that as soon as Copeland took 781 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:28.920 out his two lackeys, he was gonna need somebody to interfere in this match 782 00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:32.480 because Christian Cage was not losing the TNT Championship ta I had no point. 783 00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.880 Should anybody have honestly believed that Christian was going to lose the TNT title of 784 00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:39.559 Montreal. So how did they get out of it? They could have done 785 00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:44.519 a cheap finish and had him kick the referee in the balls, face to 786 00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:47.400 face, and then the referee calls for a disqualification, but that would have 787 00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:52.239 been a pretty lame finish. I'm not sure this finish was all that much 788 00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:58.119 less lame, But there was no other way to do this except have somebody 789 00:58:58.119 --> 00:59:00.639 else, And the only other person that would have made sense in this story 790 00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:06.760 was Nick Wayne's mom. The fact that it was Nick Wayne's mom is fucking 791 00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:12.519 lame. But that's the story they told. And I don't know if she's 792 00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:16.519 going to be part of Christian's crew or if she was just sticking up for 793 00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:20.599 her son as a one time thing. You know, I'm not doing it 794 00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:22.239 to help him. I'm doing it because of what you did to my baby 795 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:29.159 boy. Now, if she ends up joining with Christian and Nick Wayne and 796 00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:32.679 the Dinosaur, you know, is it ridiculous. Of course it's ridiculous. 797 00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:37.280 It's ridiculous because this man has corrupted her son. It's ridiculous because this man 798 00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:44.079 has made horrible comments about her dead husband. But you could always justify it 799 00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:51.159 or explain it in storyline by simply saying, Okay, her son disowned her. 800 00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:54.519 This woman already lost her husband. She doesn't want to lose her son 801 00:59:54.599 --> 01:00:01.440 to and so she did what she did in order to maintain a relationship with 802 01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:06.880 her own son. And so she'll be with them not because she wants to 803 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:10.239 be, but because she feels like she has to be. And that's how 804 01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:16.000 you can tell that story in a somewhat logical way, because I would suspect 805 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:21.880 that we're going to be seeing her more often now on television. But again, 806 01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:25.039 you know, I watched this and I just thought to myself, Okay, 807 01:00:25.639 --> 01:00:30.440 this is how the first Egend Christian match in thirteen years comes to an 808 01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:36.960 end by having another wrestler's mom interfere in the finish. It's pretty lame, 809 01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:40.800 right, It's pretty fucking late, makes sense, predictable is all shit. 810 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.880 But it did make sense for the story and now we wait to see when 811 01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:50.159 we get the eventual rematch between the two of them. The match itself was 812 01:00:50.199 --> 01:00:52.960 good. The work in the match I thought was good. It was not 813 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:57.679 the best match on the show by far. It was not the best match 814 01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:01.719 on the show. And this is not the same end in twenty twenty three 815 01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:05.360 that we had in twenty ten, the last time these two were in the 816 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:09.000 ring together one on one. He's thirteen years older, so is Christian. 817 01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:14.000 But you know what, to his credit, I've enjoyed the matches that Christian 818 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:15.679 has had here in the latter part of his career more than I have the 819 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:20.440 matches that Edges had. Doesn't mean I've hated the matches that Edges had, 820 01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:24.760 but I think that Christian has had the better, stronger matches Christian has not 821 01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:30.519 missed in aw so far. The matches he had with Kenny Omega, including 822 01:01:30.519 --> 01:01:35.360 the one on Rampage where he beat him to win the Impact World title. 823 01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:37.960 Then they had a match it all out. I believe it was the matches 824 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:44.320 that Christian has had with other people like Darby Allen and Brian Danielson and Jack 825 01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:47.679 Perry, right the Buried Alive match or whatever they called it that they had. 826 01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:53.559 Christian has had some excellent matches in AW so far, so we know 827 01:01:53.639 --> 01:02:00.000 he can still go. But you know, again, thirteen years later, 828 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.199 they're thirteen years older. You can't expect them to have exactly the same kind 829 01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:07.480 of matches that they were having all those years ago. But it was good. 830 01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:12.000 It was still a good match, I thought. And now we look 831 01:02:12.039 --> 01:02:19.000 ahead to Rampage coming up on Friday, we have Kenoski Takeshta and Powerhouse Hobbs 832 01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:23.320 taking on Matt's sidel and Christopher Daniels, and you know, I get that 833 01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:27.880 he wasn't in the tournament and so they really just at the moment, he's 834 01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:31.880 kind of shelved until the Continental Classic is over. We're going through this weird 835 01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:38.760 period now. Kenny Omega is wrestling Ethan Page on Collision this Saturday, and 836 01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:44.320 I'm all for pushing Ethan Paige. If Tony Kahm would actually push Ethan Page, 837 01:02:44.599 --> 01:02:47.000 I doubt that's what this is. They were in Canada, so they're 838 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.920 doing a match between two Canadians. It's a way to get Kenny Omega on 839 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:52.760 the show. Right They had their match last night, it was already taped. 840 01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:57.159 It's gonna be airing on Saturday on Collision. Right now, you've got 841 01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.239 Kenny Omega on the back burner. Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho won a shot 842 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:04.920 at the tag team titles. I have no idea. I guess they're gonna 843 01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:07.800 wait until World's End. I guess, But you know, in the meantime, 844 01:03:08.920 --> 01:03:13.239 we have this entire period that's going by where it just feels like we're 845 01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:19.400 sort of on ice until we get there. But you've got Knowski Takeshka doing 846 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:22.960 matches like this when he should be involved in something, and he's on the 847 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:25.480 back burner right now, and it's very annoying to see this. I get 848 01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:29.320 they have a tournament going on. I understand that, but they should have 849 01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:32.320 found something else for him to do instead of him just being relegated into the 850 01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:36.880 background. And I could say the same thing about Powerhouse Hobbs. Powerhouse Hobbs 851 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:40.519 joins the don Kallis family and people thought, well, okay, maybe this 852 01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:45.800 will be the moment that finally they do something meaningful with Powerhouse Hobbs because he 853 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.960 was part of Team Taz and that only got him so far. And then 854 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.880 he was with q T. Marshall and that didn't do shit for him. 855 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:55.280 Now he's part of the don Kallis family. IM okay, okay, Well 856 01:03:55.480 --> 01:03:59.920 what has it done so far for Powerhouse Hobbs. It hasn't done a damn 857 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:05.199 thing. But he'll be on Rampage on Friday. Abadon takes on, Trisha, 858 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:09.880 Dora, Orange Cassidy and Dan Hausen are going to be on the show. 859 01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:14.800 Every time they show Dan Housen or Dan Housen and Orange Cassidy on screen, 860 01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:17.599 you hear in the background gets a big pot from the crowd. And 861 01:04:17.679 --> 01:04:24.159 Brian Danielsen is going to be wrestling on Rampage on Friday against Daniel Garcia in 862 01:04:24.199 --> 01:04:28.199 the Continental Classic. Then on Collision the next night, which again was already 863 01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:31.840 taped, Danielsen is going to be wrestling in another tournament match. This time 864 01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:36.519 it's going to be against andredde Aledolo. We also have Claudio taking on Eddie 865 01:04:36.599 --> 01:04:42.679 Kingston in the Blue League. Kenny Omega takes on Eaton Page, Willow Nightingale 866 01:04:42.719 --> 01:04:47.480 takes on Mercedes Martinez, probably the only Mercedes that Tony Kahn will be able 867 01:04:47.519 --> 01:04:53.920 to sign. Wardlow takes on Willie Mack and we have Penta. We have 868 01:04:54.079 --> 01:05:00.639 Commander taking on Angelo Parker and Matt Menard and that is the line for Collision 869 01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:05.639 coming up on Saturday. Now. Next Wednesday is Winter Is Coming Annual Winter 870 01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:10.519 Is Coming episode of Dynamite. We have John Moxley against Swerve Stricklan, which 871 01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:14.360 is gonna be fucking great. We've got Jay White taking on Mark Briscoe, 872 01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:17.440 which is gonna be great because Mark Briscoe has yet to miss in this tournament 873 01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:23.760 even though he has no points. Rusche takes on Jay Lethal, Hangman takes 874 01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:29.960 on Roderick Strong, and the von Erics Ross and Marshall von Eric will be 875 01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:32.719 on Dynamite next week with Kevin von Eric. They're gonna be in Texas, 876 01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:38.320 and so they're trotting out the von Erics, and not just because they're in 877 01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:42.760 Texas, but I kind of expected this. The Iron Claw comes out in 878 01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:45.079 a few weeks December twenty second is when the Iron Claw movie comes out, 879 01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:49.719 that's about the Von Eric family. MJF has an executive producer credit in the 880 01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:54.599 movie. He's actually in the movie. He plays the fake von Eric cousin 881 01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:58.280 Lance von Eric. And so they're gonna be on the show next week. 882 01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:00.920 I am sure there's gonna be a lot of promote for the Iron Claw and 883 01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:04.559 we'll see if there's any interaction between MJF and the Von Erics. Maybe, 884 01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:09.960 hey, maybe the von Ricks are some of the mass the Devil's Minions. 885 01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:12.880 Right, Maybe they're gonna bring Ross and Marshall in and they're going to be 886 01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:16.760 revealed as some of the Devil's Men, Right, that's possible. We'll see 887 01:06:16.760 --> 01:06:20.440 if they have any interaction with MJF on the show. But that is the 888 01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:27.159 Winter is Coming episode of Dynamite for next Wednesday. Here's the Twitter poll for 889 01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:32.840 Dynamite tonight Dynamite from Montreal. Sixty six percent thumbs up and thirty four percent 890 01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:39.960 thumbs down is the current score as it stands. So at solo Monster on 891 01:06:40.039 --> 01:06:45.880 Twitter to vote in the poll. We are running about thirty like shy of 892 01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:50.719 the four hundred goals so far, So get those lives on in If we 893 01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:55.159 get four hundred, we will do be the booker later on. But we're 894 01:06:55.239 --> 01:06:59.039 a little behind right now, so go ahead and hit that thumbs up. 895 01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:02.599 Let's take a look at your messages right now. What did you guys think 896 01:07:02.599 --> 01:07:10.119 of this show tonight? Ross and Marshall can't be the Devil's Minions. The 897 01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:15.840 Devil's Minions had shoes on. That's a good point. I think that the 898 01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:21.599 von Erics are incapable of wearing footwear. They should have gotten Matt Riddle to 899 01:07:21.639 --> 01:07:24.840 play one of the von Erics in the movie. He actually kind of looks 900 01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.480 like a modern day Von eric Ay. I'm kind of surprised that they didn't 901 01:07:29.519 --> 01:07:31.559 cast him in that movie, but then again, he was working for WWE. 902 01:07:31.559 --> 01:07:36.599 They probably would have said no. Actually, given all of his issues 903 01:07:36.599 --> 01:07:42.519 and all the controversy around him, it was probably for the better. Groovy 904 01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:45.960 Goose. Maybe the reason the Hardys are not getting TV time is because Jeff 905 01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:51.800 is too busy dancing around in the back. Maybe you might be onto something 906 01:07:51.840 --> 01:08:00.000 there, Steve Joseph was the hype real? Did you like the Godzilla movie? 907 01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:04.679 I saw Godzilla? What was it? Godzilla Minus one? I did 908 01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:12.119 see the Godzilla movie. I saw it in Imax last night, and I 909 01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:20.880 enjoyed it is good. Is good. I think that there was a lot 910 01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:26.439 of overhype around this movie. I think I just I don't know. I 911 01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:31.039 came out of it after reading all of the glowing reviews, and I was 912 01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:35.479 expecting I was expecting a little more. I will say this, and I 913 01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:40.600 won't. I'm not giving away too much in the way of spoilers here, 914 01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:45.920 but I'll just say this. I was very surprised by how quickly they threw 915 01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:51.439 Godzilla out there at the beginning of the movie. Like the movie basically just 916 01:08:51.479 --> 01:08:56.880 started and it's like, WHOA, Okay, I wasn't expecting this. See. 917 01:08:56.920 --> 01:09:00.319 I came into it and I was expecting more of like, you know, 918 01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:05.359 the sort of backstory tied into the war and the radiation and everything, 919 01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:09.159 and then you kind of build to the first appearance. And it was not 920 01:09:09.520 --> 01:09:13.319 what I expected. So that was surprising. But I mean, look, 921 01:09:13.359 --> 01:09:15.680 it's good. It's good, but I can't sit here and tell you that 922 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:19.960 it's the greatest thing I've seen all year or anything like that. So I 923 01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:25.039 think the really hardcore Godzilla fans probably liked it a lot more than I did 924 01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:32.159 as I sit here just waiting for that Cloverfield sequel to eventually go. Steve, 925 01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:35.840 thank you for the question. Tommy Kolela with the ten dollars super check. 926 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:42.680 Today is my forty first birthday, and my wife gave me the best 927 01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:45.960 gift possible. I'm going to be a dad for the first time. How 928 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:48.680 about that? Says I will make sure my child will be the Solemn Monster 929 01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:56.159 listener. That is very cool, Tommy, congratulations, very very cool. 930 01:09:58.039 --> 01:10:05.199 A little Solemn Monster fan in the make. I'm sure I'm not the only 931 01:10:05.239 --> 01:10:10.479 one to I U said, I give it a mid review. I'm not 932 01:10:10.479 --> 01:10:14.159 even saying it's mid. I'm just saying, like, it's not the like, 933 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:17.720 holy shit, what a fucking movie that everybody was telling me that it 934 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:21.800 was. I really thought it was gonna be more of, I guess, 935 01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:27.960 like an origin story kind of buildings of the big moment, and and I 936 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:30.079 don't know, it just wasn't. It just wasn't what I was expecting. 937 01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:33.399 And I stayed away from the trailer and everything, like, I went into 938 01:10:33.479 --> 01:10:38.840 the actual film as cold as I possibly could outside of all the blowing you 939 01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:43.159 know, you got to see it reviews, and yeah, I guess I'm 940 01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:48.800 a little colder than most people were coming out of it. So we'll see. 941 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:51.039 Though I'll probably see the Iron Claw in a few weeks. We'll see 942 01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:58.800 if I like that better. Uh Gandre King Cannon, What was the plan 943 01:10:58.920 --> 01:11:03.000 for Benoi against Punk? Was ben Wa gonna turn heel? I don't think. 944 01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:05.600 I don't know about ben Wa turning heel, but I believe the plan 945 01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:09.800 was for ben Wall to win the belt and be the ECW champion. He 946 01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:12.960 was gonna be the face of the ECW. Brandon and a lot of the 947 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:15.079 news stories at the time painted it as, oh, he was upset that 948 01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:20.680 he was being demoted, as if like he did what he did and wiped 949 01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:25.319 out his family because he was upset that he was being demoted to the ECW 950 01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:30.640 roster. Like again, I could just rant all day about the media coverage 951 01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:32.880 of that story. But he was gonna win the title. I don't know 952 01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:36.520 about the heel term, but he was gonna win the title. That Uh. 953 01:11:36.640 --> 01:11:43.680 Lady fire Panda with a twenty dollars super chat screw Taylor Swift Solemn Monster 954 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:47.600 as my person of the Year. Very nice of you to say that. 955 01:11:49.319 --> 01:12:00.399 At least I got one fan in Lady Fireman Achu, bless you. That's 956 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:08.279 good. I like that. Becauz in Titan sling caption, Adam Cooper plan 957 01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:20.119 against Chit What Chris Chris Chinkane? Oh? I see okay? That was 958 01:12:20.119 --> 01:12:26.199 for the main event Tonite. The sling caption for the main event Tonite, 959 01:12:26.439 --> 01:12:35.039 Adam Cooper Klan against Chris chin Kin. Yeah, that's pretty bad. Rojo 960 01:12:35.159 --> 01:12:39.880 bet I hope Tony signs the von Eriks. I love their work in MLW. 961 01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:45.000 Yeah. Again, they haven't wrestled in god I mean maybe a year 962 01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:47.319 and a half. I don't even know what their interest level is in wrestling 963 01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:49.479 at this point. I mean it's been so long. It's not like they've 964 01:12:49.479 --> 01:12:55.640 been working independence or anything like that. Bobert reviews, thank you for that 965 01:12:55.680 --> 01:13:00.560 thirty two dollars drop from earlier Samoe and Fan. Have you seen the new 966 01:13:00.600 --> 01:13:06.560 Godzilla movie. We've talked about that already. I have, indeed, justin 967 01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:11.119 g hear me out. Nobody is talking about Swerve being the Devil. I 968 01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:14.800 mean he wants the title. Someone shows up, but he's on it. 969 01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:24.000 No, I don't see Swerve being the Devil. I don't see it. 970 01:13:25.279 --> 01:13:30.359 I don't see it. Eric Deshaun missed the show tonight, was Hornswaggle revealed 971 01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:35.399 to be the Devil? Not yet, There's still time. I'm a registered 972 01:13:35.439 --> 01:13:40.680 hyper game. Riho has been helping a startup FED in Singapore. Okay, 973 01:13:40.760 --> 01:13:44.800 so she has not been in Japan. She's been in Singapore. Look at 974 01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:48.359 this. Is there nothing this woman can't do? She's wrestling, She's setting 975 01:13:48.439 --> 01:13:57.520 up promotions in other countries. Look at this? How can you not be 976 01:13:57.560 --> 01:14:02.439 a fan of Riho? And puts the work in the Juliette says, rest 977 01:14:02.479 --> 01:14:06.520 in peace to the legend and icon Norman Lear. Yes, very sad to 978 01:14:06.520 --> 01:14:11.239 hear that he passed away one hundred and one years old. I mean you 979 01:14:11.279 --> 01:14:15.760 can't say he didn't live a full life. I mean, once you crossed 980 01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:19.239 the century mark, it's like you pretty much just rolling the dice at that 981 01:14:19.319 --> 01:14:23.359 point. I mean he lived a pretty fulfilled life, I would say. 982 01:14:24.600 --> 01:14:29.840 And All in the Family just obviously one of the all time great television shows. 983 01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:34.640 Evan Watson, it was hard to watch Men's wargames after the Texas Death 984 01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:40.079 Match? Should wargames feel more violent seeing how much they hype it? Maybe 985 01:14:40.119 --> 01:14:44.319 fake blood? Now we don't need fake blood. If they want to have 986 01:14:44.439 --> 01:14:46.920 real blood. They don't allow real blood though, and fake blood people are 987 01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:49.239 going to see right through it. I don't think he need fake blood. 988 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:55.720 Should wargames be more violent? Yeah, it should, it's wargames. Do 989 01:14:55.760 --> 01:15:00.680 you see the things that they do to each other in wargames? Kind of 990 01:15:00.399 --> 01:15:03.800 hilarious that you don't see more blood in those matches for all the things that 991 01:15:03.800 --> 01:15:08.079 they do to each other. The blood that we do get, it's very 992 01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:10.359 limited. But the blood we get is real. I mean, there is 993 01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:14.319 some real hard waight blood. But you know you're getting a PG war games. 994 01:15:14.319 --> 01:15:17.560 That's what it is, you know, I mean, that's what WWE 995 01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:21.479 is. I don't know if that'll change over time now that Endeavor owns it, 996 01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:26.680 if they'll kind of loosen the reins a little bit around stuff like that, 997 01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:29.760 But for now, you know it's a PG product. You get PG 998 01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:40.079 war games. Roberto Binney, I want a Willow Run. I assume he's 999 01:15:40.159 --> 01:15:45.039 referring to Willow Nightingale and not Willow. We don't need that Willow Run. 1000 01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:50.920 Dan richards Edge was in the greatest match ever. Check me. Oh you 1001 01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:55.680 got me there, that's true. I forgot about that. He was in 1002 01:15:55.800 --> 01:16:08.399 the greatest match ever a Bu Sikha Shane o' wayne. Yes, the ghost 1003 01:16:08.399 --> 01:16:14.720 has returned. Thank you Abu Sika. Always good to see the little ghost 1004 01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:20.920 and first name John with the nine ninety nine. Wasn't in the mood for 1005 01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:25.640 a bunch of marathon matches tonight. Not enough promo time on this show for 1006 01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:32.359 me. Edge against Copeland. Edge against Copeland wasn't very good in my opinion, 1007 01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:40.079 with a shite ending. Well it was a shite ending, but I 1008 01:16:40.119 --> 01:16:42.479 didn't mind. The match was good. I didn't mind the match team. 1009 01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:47.239 I wasn't expecting the look you're not gonna get with it with a Copeland match. 1010 01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:49.560 You're not going to get the knockdown, drag out that you get from 1011 01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:55.239 a lot of the other eight members of the AW roster. I enjoyed seeing 1012 01:16:55.279 --> 01:16:58.039 the two of them back in the ring because it's been so long since we've 1013 01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:02.560 seen it, and I wasn't expecting this to be their best anyway, because 1014 01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:09.279 I know it's building to a paper. It's like we saw Punk and MJF. 1015 01:17:09.319 --> 01:17:14.159 For example, the first Punk MJF match was not the Dog Collar Match 1016 01:17:14.239 --> 01:17:17.600 or Revolution. It was a television match in Chicago, and as I remember 1017 01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:21.079 I think it was a very good match, but you've got to leave some 1018 01:17:21.359 --> 01:17:26.000 for the rematch. So, you know, even though they were in Canada 1019 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:28.239 and I'm sure they wanted to go out there and they wanted to, you 1020 01:17:28.279 --> 01:17:31.560 know, tear down the house, that's not what tonight was about. Tonight 1021 01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:35.520 was more setting things up for the angle at the end and then building to 1022 01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:39.880 the rematch. And I think if you knew that going in and you kind 1023 01:17:39.920 --> 01:17:43.840 of had those expectations going into it, I still think they had a good 1024 01:17:43.840 --> 01:17:47.640 match, not a great match, but I do agree with you on the 1025 01:17:47.720 --> 01:17:55.920 ending, even though I saw it coming a mile away, it was a 1026 01:17:56.039 --> 01:18:00.920 very lame ending. And rieq Gotti, what did you think of Rick Flair 1027 01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:03.359 being on Joey Merlino's podcast. I don't even know who Joey Merlino is. 1028 01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:08.640 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know who that is. 1029 01:18:10.199 --> 01:18:12.520 I'm not aware of it. I didn't see it. I didn't hear it. 1030 01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:16.439 I know Flair was on THEO Vaughn's podcast a little while ago, so 1031 01:18:16.600 --> 01:18:23.279 was Hogan. I talked about Blair walking off the Kiltony podcast at a whole 1032 01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:28.920 segment on that, But this I don't know, I haven't seen it. 1033 01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:34.119 I haven't heard it, so I don't know, John, that was a 1034 01:18:34.279 --> 01:18:39.239 work You're talking about Danilson being injured. Yeah, there were some reports going 1035 01:18:39.279 --> 01:18:43.079 around that Danielson got hurt. He might have been busted open in his match 1036 01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:47.319 last night on the Collision taping against androde But all this talk about him being 1037 01:18:47.399 --> 01:18:57.079 hurt again and everything, that's just just part of the storyline. I'm not 1038 01:18:57.119 --> 01:18:59.800 even sure it's part of the storyline. It's just I think people saw that 1039 01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:02.319 they just sort of ran with it and thought that, you know, he 1040 01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:10.079 was seriously injured, and apparently that's not the case. Although with Brian, 1041 01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:15.079 look the rate he's been getting hurt this year. Can you really blame people 1042 01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:19.079 if they if they thought that he suffered another injury there would really be that 1043 01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:24.159 hard to believe. I don't think so. Unfortunately, he's had quite a 1044 01:19:24.159 --> 01:19:31.279 few of them recently. We got a couple more coming in here. Let 1045 01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:35.960 me see where we are on the likes. We are at four to ten. 1046 01:19:38.359 --> 01:19:45.119 Very good, so always good to see that. But let's just get 1047 01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:47.640 to a few more of these. We had a whole influx of them just 1048 01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:53.680 now here. Let's see Samoan fan coming in with the two dollars super Chow. 1049 01:19:53.800 --> 01:20:02.279 One thing Rijo cannot do is find a man, lol. One thing 1050 01:20:02.439 --> 01:20:08.039 Riho can't do is find a man. How do you know she's not married? 1051 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:13.439 How do you how do you know that she's not you know, in 1052 01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:16.479 a in a relationship right now? How do you how do you know that 1053 01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:24.039 ReHO isn't you know dating Jungle boyers? Well, I guess, and a 1054 01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:27.039 Jay would have something to say about that. Maybe they have like a little 1055 01:20:27.039 --> 01:20:32.439 three way thing going on here. You know, you don't know. Robotech 1056 01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:38.039 guy with a ten dollars super chat says, will the Solo verse expand to 1057 01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:42.800 other live platforms such as Twitch? Or is it YouTube? For life? 1058 01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:46.880 Great work as always, Well, life is very long, so I can't 1059 01:20:46.920 --> 01:20:50.479 say for life that it will only be YouTube. Yes, no, it 1060 01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:58.399 is YouTube. For these streams, it is YouTube. There is a Twitch, 1061 01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:06.520 but no plans to sim will cast At this moment. HBKC eighty three 1062 01:21:08.319 --> 01:21:15.039 with the five dollars super chat was watching a few Sting matches back in TNA. 1063 01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:19.239 I wanted to ask, could a heel Willow against Sting and TNA work 1064 01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:26.880 back? Then? You mean heel Willow as in Okay, Willow Jeff Hardy, 1065 01:21:27.079 --> 01:21:30.000 No, I mean, Jeff Hardy never should have been a heel in 1066 01:21:30.039 --> 01:21:35.039 the first place. Jeff Hardy is a babyface, and so turning Jeff Hardy 1067 01:21:35.079 --> 01:21:44.119 heel was a dumb idea to begin with. Rigotti says that Joey Merlino is 1068 01:21:44.159 --> 01:21:49.600 a former Philadelphia mob boss. Okay, well, I'd never heard of him 1069 01:21:49.640 --> 01:21:55.199 before you just mentioned his name. I know people like Sammy the Bull. 1070 01:21:56.840 --> 01:22:00.600 I don't know Joey Merlino. I have not Rick Flair on his podcast. 1071 01:22:03.960 --> 01:22:10.199 Near says happy Hanukkah to everybody celebrating. It's good to hear from Near. 1072 01:22:11.760 --> 01:22:16.439 Thank you, Sarah, Same to you, Rumpel Maine, shanea Wayne Feet, 1073 01:22:18.039 --> 01:22:23.560 which is sort of going down the list. Here are we, Rumple 1074 01:22:23.600 --> 01:22:30.199 Maine sud He's gonna send one and it's gonna say May Young's feet. That's 1075 01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:34.079 what I'm just gonna have to cut you off at that point. That that 1076 01:22:34.239 --> 01:22:42.079 right there is gonna be one too far. And jazz Jack Rabbit, who 1077 01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:47.600 is now officially banned from Collision Great Live Events, Dynamite better Show, though 1078 01:22:48.079 --> 01:22:51.760 you could cut the tension during the main event. Not sure why Tony Kahan 1079 01:22:51.880 --> 01:22:59.439 wanted two shows in the biggest NHL arena, there was a noticeable difference in 1080 01:22:59.479 --> 01:23:03.239 attended. Yeah, I mean, look, that's the problem when you book 1081 01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:08.720 buildings that are that big and you only fill them halfway, you can frame 1082 01:23:08.760 --> 01:23:13.039 it on the hardcam where you can. TNA was the master of that back 1083 01:23:13.039 --> 01:23:15.600 in the day when they first started going on the road. I mean, 1084 01:23:15.640 --> 01:23:19.520 they were running buildings that were pretty big in some cases and putting very few 1085 01:23:19.520 --> 01:23:23.640 people in them, but they would on TV shoot them in a way where 1086 01:23:23.680 --> 01:23:27.399 it looked great, and so there are ways to do that. Look, 1087 01:23:27.439 --> 01:23:30.000 I remember when TNA they ran a show I think it was Bound for Glory 1088 01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:36.399 at the Alamo Dome, the fucking Alamo Dome, which fits like seventy thousand 1089 01:23:36.399 --> 01:23:42.039 people, and they sectioned like they curtained off a little corner of it. 1090 01:23:42.079 --> 01:23:46.279 I think they had seven thousand people there in a seventy thousand seat building. 1091 01:23:47.079 --> 01:23:53.479 Like I would not advise doing that. So, yes, running bigger buildings 1092 01:23:53.479 --> 01:23:58.039 and filling them only halfway is not the way to go. I don't know 1093 01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:00.680 if there just wasn't a smaller building of in Montreal for him to run, 1094 01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:03.039 or if he just you know, he may have looked at it when he 1095 01:24:03.039 --> 01:24:06.600 booked it and thought, well, it's our first trip there, and so 1096 01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:11.640 the first trip to Montreal will do well like their first trip to Toronto. 1097 01:24:11.720 --> 01:24:15.880 I think did well. Right. I can see that being the logic. 1098 01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:21.800 But the problem is when you have a product that is not hot, and 1099 01:24:21.880 --> 01:24:25.960 it's certainly not hot in a way that it used to be. There was 1100 01:24:26.000 --> 01:24:29.079 a period of time where they could have put more people in that building than 1101 01:24:29.079 --> 01:24:32.279 they did tonight, and especially last night, I saw some of those pictures 1102 01:24:32.279 --> 01:24:38.439 and it just was embarrassing. You have to adjust, you know, and 1103 01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:43.840 in some cases you have to just start booking smaller buildings because if you have 1104 01:24:43.880 --> 01:24:46.600 a smaller building that you're able to fill in, it's just going to look 1105 01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:54.560 and feel so much better on television. It's going to sound better. Just 1106 01:24:54.720 --> 01:24:58.199 visually, it's going to be more appealing. Nobody wants to look at a 1107 01:24:58.239 --> 01:25:02.159 half empty building. And right now they're having attendance issues where they really should 1108 01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:05.960 not be running bigger buildings unless it's a very big show. Right they can 1109 01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:10.880 book Wembley Stadium and they can put forty fifty fifty thousand people in there, 1110 01:25:11.479 --> 01:25:14.600 but as far as running events, live events here in this country, and 1111 01:25:14.640 --> 01:25:18.039 evidently now even in Canada, they really need to start booking smaller buildings. 1112 01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:21.880 And I'm not saying they all have to be two thousand seed buildings, but 1113 01:25:24.039 --> 01:25:29.159 clearly they're having issues right now. And you know, they could always charge 1114 01:25:29.239 --> 01:25:32.039 higher ticket prices, so even though they're selling fewer tickets, they're making more 1115 01:25:32.079 --> 01:25:35.800 money off of it. The point is though it just it looks, it 1116 01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:42.840 doesn't look good. It's a bad look for the company. That's an issue 1117 01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:45.560 that Tony Kahan has to address going forward as they book these different venues. 1118 01:25:49.439 --> 01:25:56.880 Oz Glorious says, Great Stream as always down with pneumonia right now, so 1119 01:25:57.199 --> 01:26:00.279 this is extra appreciated. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you feel 1120 01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:02.920 better soon. I thought, for a second there, I thought you were 1121 01:26:02.960 --> 01:26:09.239 reciting like a song lyric down with pneumonia, like I didn't realize you're actually 1122 01:26:09.279 --> 01:26:13.199 you're down with pneumonia. So I'm sorry to hear that. Feel better soon. 1123 01:26:15.000 --> 01:26:19.640 Jazz Jack Rabbit again, Daddy Magic super Over on Dark Match. Love 1124 01:26:19.720 --> 01:26:24.600 him, but he's a Canadian, right Look, it makes sense if they're 1125 01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:28.279 in Canada, Moa, Bro, they're in Canada that he would be over 1126 01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:35.600 Lady Firepan to thank you for the twenty dollars Samoa bro healed Jeff Hardy was 1127 01:26:35.680 --> 01:26:39.960 great. I don't care what you say. Also, his immortal belt was 1128 01:26:40.039 --> 01:26:45.159 kick ass ps. Another another me is Jeff's best theme song. I did 1129 01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:49.720 like his heeled theme song. I won't lie. I thought it was actually 1130 01:26:49.760 --> 01:26:54.680 a very good theme song. But Jeff Hardy as a heel was never gonna 1131 01:26:54.720 --> 01:27:00.560 last. Some people are just meant to be a baby face are not meant 1132 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:08.520 to be heals. I feel like Jeff Hardy falls into that can drunk guy 1133 01:27:08.600 --> 01:27:13.359 says down with the sickness, yes, Oz, and Glorious unfortunately is down 1134 01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:15.840 with the sickness. Eric the Shawn I figured it out. The devil is 1135 01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:24.880 none other than Jim Cornett. Long term booking at its finest. You want 1136 01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:28.520 to put some money on that. You want to put some real money on 1137 01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:33.079 that. I don't think you do. All right, let's be the booker, 1138 01:27:34.159 --> 01:27:42.399 ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker. It 1139 01:27:42.520 --> 01:27:45.279 is time to be the booker. We have hit our goal. I thank 1140 01:27:45.319 --> 01:27:53.800 you very much. All right, let's see what we got here on a 1141 01:27:53.880 --> 01:27:59.279 Wednesday night, shall we? We've got a tag team match to book. 1142 01:27:59.319 --> 01:28:01.960 Here, I'm gonna push. I have a magic button right here. I 1143 01:28:02.000 --> 01:28:05.119 don't know what's gonna happen when I hit this button. Remember Conan O'Brien used 1144 01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:09.800 to have that lever that he would pull for the Walker Texas Ranger clip that 1145 01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:15.239 he would play. Push this button here and see and we have William Regal 1146 01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:23.039 and to Jerry or a stone cold Steve Austin would call him Ty Jerry. 1147 01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:31.720 William Regal and Ty Jerry former Raw tag team champions, gonna be stepping into 1148 01:28:31.720 --> 01:28:40.920 the ring and defending those belts against Hollywood Hogan and the Worm Dennis Rodman. 1149 01:28:44.039 --> 01:28:49.520 Hogan is a pro, Regal is great. Those two alone, forget even 1150 01:28:49.520 --> 01:28:55.119 to Jerry, those two alone would carry the match. Rodman doesn't have to 1151 01:28:55.119 --> 01:29:00.720 do much. So you've got enough star power in them, and you have 1152 01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:02.840 enough people in there who know what they're doing to where I think you would 1153 01:29:02.920 --> 01:29:12.399 end up with an entertaining match. Might even see Tajerry missed Rodman spray the 1154 01:29:12.439 --> 01:29:20.760 poison missed in his eyes. I give that the belt ladies be the booker, 1155 01:29:24.680 --> 01:29:30.600 all right? We have got oh is that a Lundra Blaze and bul 1156 01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:34.479 Nakano. I See, yeah, they don't get enough credit for the matches 1157 01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:38.520 they had. Even I, as a younger fan, didn't really fully appreciate 1158 01:29:38.560 --> 01:29:43.279 it back when they were happening in ninety five, But you look back on 1159 01:29:43.359 --> 01:29:46.520 it, and honestly, some of the best stuff in WWE that year probably 1160 01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:50.319 were was when these two were in the ring together. But we've got Bull 1161 01:29:50.520 --> 01:29:58.520 Nikano, a fantastic worker in her day. If you saw a picture of 1162 01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:05.119 her now, you probably wouldn't even reckon it's actually a beautiful lady. We've 1163 01:30:05.199 --> 01:30:14.319 got Bull Nakano going one on one. Uh oh uh oh. We have 1164 01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:21.560 landed on triple threat, which means we not only have one more opponent to 1165 01:30:21.600 --> 01:30:28.119 pick, we have two. So bul Nakano will be in a triple threat 1166 01:30:28.159 --> 01:30:31.840 match, and now we will have to spin and find out who it is 1167 01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:39.439 that she is going to be against. A rare stipulation here in be the 1168 01:30:39.439 --> 01:30:46.760 booker we have. Well, well, well how about this. We've got 1169 01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:50.840 Bull Nakano, We've got Eo sky I like where this is go? We 1170 01:30:50.840 --> 01:30:55.119 could just end it right here. We don't even have to pick another person. 1171 01:30:57.079 --> 01:31:02.439 All that picking one more person will do is ruin the match. What 1172 01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:05.319 can I do? I'm I'm bound by the stipulation. We have to pick 1173 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:15.960 one more Buon the Kano Eo Sky. Oh man, this is either gonna 1174 01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:30.079 be really really good or really really bad and Live Morgan. I'm not gonna 1175 01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:33.960 hate and Live Live is most definitely not at the level of Eo Sky or 1176 01:31:34.039 --> 01:31:41.239 Bone Nakano. But she doesn't ruin the match either. So there you go. 1177 01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:43.920 There's your triple threat match. What do you think about that? Buon 1178 01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:53.399 Nakano, Eosky and Live Morgan. We are two for two with an unexpected 1179 01:31:53.439 --> 01:31:59.920 stipulation always you gotta love that. You gotta love that. Now we can 1180 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:08.399 to mends be the booker. Here we go, Here we go. It 1181 01:32:08.520 --> 01:32:13.840 is time to pick our main event. We begin with the American Dragon, 1182 01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:18.680 Brian Danielson. I feel a kinship with this man. I used to go 1183 01:32:18.760 --> 01:32:21.680 to Ring of Honor shows and people used to say, you look just like 1184 01:32:21.760 --> 01:32:26.119 Brian Danielson. I would go, no, I don't, and they would 1185 01:32:26.119 --> 01:32:29.039 say, yes, you do. This is before he had the facial hair. 1186 01:32:29.640 --> 01:32:35.039 They called me baby Dragon. Piss off Brian, Brian Dragon Right. 1187 01:32:35.399 --> 01:32:43.359 Brian dangleson one on one with let's get a drum roll. We always like 1188 01:32:43.439 --> 01:32:51.319 the good dramatic drum roll. Here Brian Danielson gonna go one on one with 1189 01:32:51.720 --> 01:33:04.439 Bobby Lashly. He almighty Bobby Lashley. There you go. Bobby Lashley, 1190 01:33:04.560 --> 01:33:08.479 who is what? What is he now? Forty eight years old or something? 1191 01:33:08.520 --> 01:33:13.119 He looks exactly the same. If anything, he actually looks better somehow. 1192 01:33:13.159 --> 01:33:17.319 This guy looks he's like etched out of granite. This guy, he 1193 01:33:17.359 --> 01:33:25.600 looks amazing. I want to know what his secret is. Bobby Lashley and 1194 01:33:25.680 --> 01:33:30.520 Brian Danielson. There is your main event, and that ladies and gentlemen completes 1195 01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:38.520 the clean sweep. And I don't know that I could be any happier than 1196 01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:45.399 I am with that card right there. That is amazing. A bony with 1197 01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:50.960 the two bucks coming on in. Is William Regal allowed on WWETV next month? 1198 01:33:51.119 --> 01:33:55.399 I believe he is. I believe he was supposed to not be on 1199 01:33:55.479 --> 01:33:59.479 TV for a year, and so if they wanted to use him, I 1200 01:33:59.479 --> 01:34:01.159 believe as of next month or maybe this month, I think they can. 1201 01:34:03.319 --> 01:34:06.600 I'm going to be back with you on Friday night. We're going to talk 1202 01:34:06.640 --> 01:34:12.159 about SmackDown. I do want to let everybody know. For those who were 1203 01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:16.239 maybe having issues streaming or downloading any of the audio show. Sunday show, 1204 01:34:16.319 --> 01:34:20.640 the Raw review, which did go up as it normally goes up on Tuesday 1205 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:26.359 in the morning. There were issues on the speaker end yesterday and the feed 1206 01:34:26.520 --> 01:34:30.359 was broken. So when I logged in at the end of the day yesterday 1207 01:34:30.359 --> 01:34:32.439 to take a look at the numbers for the Raw review, and I saw 1208 01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:36.680 that the Raw review, after whatever it was, twelve or thirteen hours, 1209 01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:45.079 had eleven downloads. I wanted to throw myself out the window. So that 1210 01:34:45.319 --> 01:34:48.520 was terrible and that put me in a very bad mood. And it wasn't 1211 01:34:48.600 --> 01:34:53.520 until earlier today that it finally got fixed. So everything should be working now 1212 01:34:53.560 --> 01:35:00.000 on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music and Google and all usual places you 1213 01:35:00.039 --> 01:35:03.680 guys get the audio shows, including these reviews. When they go up the 1214 01:35:03.720 --> 01:35:08.560 next day. Please let me know if you are still having issues. It 1215 01:35:08.600 --> 01:35:12.239 could take a while maybe to still push out to certain platforms, but everything 1216 01:35:12.760 --> 01:35:17.279 should still be working. Everything should be in working order now, So I 1217 01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:23.319 apologize for that anyway. Friday night, like I said, we'll do this 1218 01:35:23.399 --> 01:35:27.760 again after SmackDown. It is the tribute to the Troops episode, but it 1219 01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:32.159 is not what I would call I don't think it's like a throwaway episode in 1220 01:35:32.239 --> 01:35:35.840 the past when they've done matches on the Tribute to the Troop shows all the 1221 01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:40.880 Babyfaces win. It's just a feel good thing. It's not really storyline driven. 1222 01:35:41.600 --> 01:35:44.960 I don't really think that's the way it is anymore. In fact, 1223 01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:46.920 there's talk that this could be the week that AJ styles possible. I've been 1224 01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:50.479 hearing this for a month now. But we'll see if AJ pops back up 1225 01:35:50.520 --> 01:35:55.880 on the show on Friday night. But we'll talk about that. And then, 1226 01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:59.239 of course, when is the next aw pay per view? That is 1227 01:35:59.279 --> 01:36:03.199 World's End, That is on December thirtieth, which is going to be very 1228 01:36:03.239 --> 01:36:12.520 interesting because I there's actually something I've been invited to that night, kind of 1229 01:36:12.560 --> 01:36:16.760 a New Year's thing that I will probably say no to. I'll probably be 1230 01:36:16.880 --> 01:36:21.039 here with you for World's End, but that Sunday, you know, we're 1231 01:36:21.079 --> 01:36:24.600 gonna be doing a New Year's Eve stream. I'll let you guys know. 1232 01:36:24.680 --> 01:36:28.119 Now, we've been doing it the last three or four years, really since 1233 01:36:28.159 --> 01:36:30.840 the first like pandemic year, so I guess this would be year three. 1234 01:36:31.000 --> 01:36:35.600 I guess we've been doing our make it till midnight New Year's Eve stream. 1235 01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:40.720 I'm gonna be live again on New Year's Eve as I have been the past 1236 01:36:40.720 --> 01:36:45.000 few years, but because it's a Sunday, and because there's an AW pay 1237 01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:49.239 per view the night before, and you know how late those AW shows go, 1238 01:36:50.560 --> 01:36:55.760 what I'm thinking about doing is I'll be here. We'll go through World's 1239 01:36:55.840 --> 01:37:00.119 End on the thirtieth that Sunday, the thirty first. What I think we'll 1240 01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:06.840 do is we will do a live sound off on YouTube. Instead of doing 1241 01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:11.640 the regular sound off audio show that day, we'll do the sound off on 1242 01:37:11.680 --> 01:37:15.119 YouTube that night. I have a feeling that's gonna be the Prediction Show, 1243 01:37:15.159 --> 01:37:18.479 the annual prediction show that we do. And so we'll hang out on New 1244 01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:23.840 Year's Eve as we always do. We'll count down until midnight and we'll do 1245 01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:26.840 a SoundOff that night. So there you go. That's the current plan right 1246 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:30.239 now. If that changes, i'll let you guys know. But that is 1247 01:37:30.279 --> 01:37:34.439 what I am that is what I am thinking for New Year's Eve. So 1248 01:37:34.520 --> 01:37:38.880 if you have no New Year's Eve plans, you can spend your New Year's 1249 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:41.479 Eve here. I'm sure it will be a lot of familiar faces in the 1250 01:37:41.520 --> 01:37:47.399 live chat and you get yourself a live SoundOff, how about that? Because 1251 01:37:47.439 --> 01:37:50.560 the plan right now is I'm going to be doing my top matches of twenty 1252 01:37:50.600 --> 01:37:56.399 twenty three in kind of a year in review plus the news of the week 1253 01:37:56.720 --> 01:38:00.279 on Christmas Eve. I'm not waiting until the end of the year to do 1254 01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:02.840 the match the top matches countdown. I just don't want to let it bleed 1255 01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:05.680 into the new year. Once you get to January, it's like nobody gives 1256 01:38:05.680 --> 01:38:09.720 a shit, you know what I mean. It's twenty twenty four. No 1257 01:38:09.760 --> 01:38:13.760 one's thinking about twenty twenty three anymore. So we're gonna do the top matches 1258 01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:17.960 on Christmas Eve. That'll be that episode, and then New Year's Eve live 1259 01:38:18.000 --> 01:38:20.840 on YouTube will do predictions. That way, I can bring you guys into 1260 01:38:20.920 --> 01:38:25.640 it too, and you guys can also send in super chats and messages in 1261 01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:30.039 the live chat with your predictions for twenty twenty four to start thinking about what 1262 01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:34.800 your predictions are gonna be for the wrestling world in twenty twenty four. Jazz 1263 01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:41.159 with the final super chat here. Not sure if you touched on this, 1264 01:38:41.279 --> 01:38:45.720 but was reading about it today. Danielson Injury is a work he wrestled on 1265 01:38:45.159 --> 01:38:50.239 rampage tonight. Yes, I did mention that before that. It was all 1266 01:38:50.359 --> 01:38:55.720 storyline. People were concerned coming out of the tapings last night. But he 1267 01:38:55.840 --> 01:38:59.640 is. He is as okay as can be. I mean, obviously, 1268 01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:04.199 he's never fully okay, But yes, Danielson is not re injured or anything 1269 01:39:04.279 --> 01:39:10.000 like that. He'd better not be. He's got a big match coming up 1270 01:39:10.000 --> 01:39:14.760 with Okada at the Tokyo Dome, so he can't get hurt. He can't 1271 01:39:14.800 --> 01:39:20.279 get hurt before the Tokyo Dome. He's gotta be okay. We got to 1272 01:39:20.319 --> 01:39:27.079 protect that man at all costs. All right, guys, come on back 1273 01:39:27.119 --> 01:39:30.359 on Friday. We'll do it all over again. This audio should be up 1274 01:39:30.399 --> 01:39:33.920 by late morning tomorrow for those of you who want to download the audio, 1275 01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:38.319 and even if you watched it tonight. It does help me out a lot 1276 01:39:38.600 --> 01:39:42.000 on Spreaker. I always like being in the top shows on Spreak, so 1277 01:39:42.119 --> 01:39:45.319 make sure you support the show there as well, and I will see you 1278 01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:50.119 back here live for more sound off after SmackDown on Friday night right here on 1279 01:39:50.159 --> 01:39:53.079 YouTube. Take care, guys,