It was five years of AEW That is what the promotion was celebrating this weekend,
the first double or Nothing back in twenty nineteen, and this very building
that they were in last night, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and
it gave us a little bit of everything that I think represents aw In these
first five years. One of the hallmarks of this company has been consistently excellent
pay per views. The one thing you can say about AAWM. You can
say whatever you want about aaw but the quality of their pay per views,
in terms of the matches, in terms of the n ring, I would
put that up against any other promotion in the world. I mean, they
have put on some tremendous shows over the years, and what we had last
night was another and a long line of quality shows. I thought it was
very good. It was not their best show, but I still thought it
was a very strong show last night. It had blood and violence. This
is something that aaw has become known for. They loved their violence. They
love their thumbtacks and their plunder and their hardcore matches and their crazy stunts.
They love their blood. Lots of blood. They should start their own blood
bank. If you were looking for violence and gore and blood. Then you
were in luck because you got plenty of that. Last night. You had
an anarchy in the arena match, you had a barbed wire cage match.
Let me take your pick, and that wasn't even all of it. So
you had that on the show. You also had some insanely stupid stunts because
it wouldn't be an aw show without them. So case in point, you
had Adam Copeland nearly breaking both of his legs diving off the top of the
cage as he defended the TNT title against Malachi Black. And he was way
up there, okay, however high it was fifteen feet a little over fifteen
feet, and I'm watching him. I'm thinking, to my cell I'm thinking
to myself, what is he thinking? Get I'm thinking to myself, what
is the going through this man's head as he is standing up there and he
is surveying the situation. It's the same thing that he must be thinking,
what the fuck have I gotten myself into? Because I guarantee you he was
thinking the same thing standing up on top of that cage. Once he was
actually up there, and he looked all the way down and he realized that
he had wrapped this man in barbed wire so he couldn't put himself through the
table. He was up there thinking, oh shit, because I can't climb
down. Now I've got to commit myself to the stunt. Here. We
had that, We had Darby Allen literally setting another man on fire. So
you had those stunts on the show. These are all hallmarks of Tony Khan's
company. And do you know what else is a hallmark of Tony Kh's company,
MJF. MJF is their biggest homegrown star. MJF went down with an
injury at the end of last year. He lost the Aworld time to Samoa
Joe. We have not seen MJF on television since, and his presence has
been felt in terms of his presence not being there on the shows that It's
not like they don't have other people who could step in and take his spot
for a period of time. They got plenty of people on the roster,
but there was nobody else on the aw roster like MJF. And we got
him back on this show, nobody. I guarantee you as happy as I
was to see him on TV, and I was not expecting him back this
soon, but there he was, and as happy as I was to see
him, I can guarantee you that there was nobody more happy than Tony Kahan
to see MJF back on TV because now, after this laundry list of injuries
that all of his talents have, I mean, people have been going down
left and right. You look at the list of all the injured talent right
now in aw you could put together one hell of a talent roster and MJF
was at the head of that list. So to get him back at a
time when the ratings are going this way and that way, and to get
him back at a time when they can really use him. Believe me,
nobody is happier to have this man back on his show than Tony Kahan.
And he has been missed because not only does he have one of his top
stars back now from the injured list, but he has one of his top
stars, if not frankly his top star. I keep calling him one of
MJF is his top guy. And to have him back on TV and also
have him out there basically playing raw ra for aaw and pulling up his pant
leg and showing a tattoo that he now has on his lower leg the AEW
logo. The AW name is tattooed now on this man's leg. At least,
I will say this, I will say this. At least he was
smart enough to get it on his leg where it can be hidden in five
years, and he had enough sense to get it there and not on his
neck like Cody Rhodes. But he out there mister aw man. He was
waving the flag, showing the tattoo. Everybody was going nuts. He felt
out there like mister aw And that has to make Tony Khan feel very good.
Now. Of course, he's had him under lock and Keith for a
while now. Most people, I think already expected that he had re signed,
probably a couple of years ago, and so and when they dropped the
whole bidding war of twenty twenty four stuff a while back, I think we
all figured that. So he's had him under contract now for a while.
But Tony kh now doesn't have to worry about MJF. He doesn't have to
worry about MJF leaving. All the talk about people leaving, I mean,
you hear it about a lot of people. You hear it about Ricky Starks.
You hear it about Wardlow, you hear it about Malachi Black. Some
may leave, some may not. These people are unhappy. These people may
be unhappy. You don't have to worry about that now. MJF made it
very clear. He is AEW, tried and true and he is here to
stay, and that has to put a smile on Tony Khan's face. We
also have new champions, two new champions on this pay per view last night,
which also means that all three of Tony Kahan's big signings this year are
champions because we have Okata who is the Continental champion. We have Will Osprey
is the brand new International champion, and Mercedes Monet is the AEW Women's TBS
Champion, TBS Champion, whatever the fuck they call it. You have the
women's world title. Now you have the TBS title. Mercedes is not the
Women's World Champion, but she is the face of TBS now, which I
think to the surprise of no one. I mean, come on, did
you really think that Tony Kahan was going to bring this woman in, sign
her for probably millions of dollars and beat her in her first fucking match.
I mean, use your head, Come on now, I like Willa just
as much as anybody else. But she had no chance of walking out of
Las Vegas with that title unless she goes and buys herself a TBS title replica.
Okay, that she drown her sorrows away and take the replica belt home
with her. But Mercedes was always going to walk in and walk out with
that championship. And so now they all have gold. That was going to
make a difference. I don't know. I mean, he signed all these
people. It hasn't really seemed to make a difference in terms of the actual
shows, but titles for everyone. Everyone's got a title. Now look at
that. I got two titles right behind me on the wall. There you
go. I took the Solemn Monster one down though we had that up for
King of the Ring yesterday, but I took it down. We'll bring it
back later this week. Was it a perfect show? No? Was it
their best show? No? But I did think it was a strong effort.
I enjoyed it overall. But the one thing I did not enjoy,
and it has to be said because it remains my biggest pet peeve with these
shows, as great as they can be, it was eleven o'clock last night
and the first of three what they built as three main events. They said
there was a triple main event on this show. The first of the three
main events on this show was still in the ring at eleven o'clock at night,
which means we had the two other main events yet to come, and
it was already eleven pm out on the East coast. That is ridiculous,
that should never happen, and yet there it was swerving. Christian went out
after that, and then we still had anarchy in the arena and they were
only first getting started with that at midnight. It was a very long night,
as is the case usually with these aw shows when you have an anarchy
in the arena. Match because the thing in the time management on these shows
is just awful, absolutely fucking awful. When you have a show that has
an anarchy in the arena, match cool, that's the big attraction on the
show. We know this because it's been three years in a row now that
we've had anarchy in the arena. We also had a barbed wire cage match,
as I mentioned, two hardcore tight matches, two hardcore attractions that people
can pay to see. When you have two matches like that, You do
not also need an FTW title match with more garbage and more tables and more
bullshit. You don't need to do it. That match did not need to
be on this show. There were at least two matches that one in the
Orange Cassidy match that did not have to take place on this pay per view,
And you could have trimmed some of the fat and the show would have
gotten, you know, a little bit a little bit shorter in terms of
the runtime, and it can make a difference in terms of the you know,
when the show is over and you look back on it and go,
man, that was a good show, but fuck it was exhausting. There
are just matches that don't need to be on these shows. And you know,
he tries to give people their money's worth, and he tries to again
fill the cards up as much as he can, because Tony Kahn's goal is
always to go out and have the best pay per view ever, right,
everything is the best ever, And so I get that that's his mentality,
but it's completely unnecessary. And it's the one thing, if I had to
pick the one thing that bothers me that I wish I could the power to
change out these shows. That's what it would be. Again, I understand
the mindset behind it, because look, I will say, I paid fifty
bucks for this show too, and I can understand that. Well, we
want to get people their money's worth, right, They're paying their hard earned
money, and so we want to give them the best possible show that we
can, right. I understand that. And I am one of the people
who paid for their show. Now you should see some of the messages that
I got last night and even into this morning. I was getting messages from
people and all the fucking in cells that were tweeting me, you paid for
this show. You actually paid for this show. I didn't pay for this
show. What an idiot? You paid for the show. Yeah, you
should see the fucking messages that I got from people last night when I mentioned
the fact that you know, I actually paid the fifty bucks that you have
to pay YouTube or fights because now the show you can buy it on fight
and Bleach report, leach a report. I don't bother with that anymore.
Uh, But yes, I paid for the show. So I had to
deal with all the incels saying you know, haha, you paid for the
show. Yes, I did pay for the show. You know why I
paid for the show, because I actually worked for a living and you might
too. You might actually get hired if your fucking resume was not written in
crayon with fucking grease stains on it, you fucking weirdos. So I just
wish that these shows would be a little bit shorter, and I think they
would be a little bit more enjoyable for it and not just for me as
a content creator. But even if look, I didn't go live last night
and it was still a long show. Obviously, I usually do go live
when it's over. That's why you're getting me today here on Memorial Day and
not late last night, because what I mean, there was no point fucking
do a scream half dead. I mean, what's the point in doing that?
Uh? But in any event, that's the one uh, that's the
one thing I would say about that less is more, I always say,
and I do believe that less is more. Look, I paid a hell
of a lot more than fifty bucks, okay, to go to WrestleMania,
and I felt the exact same way. I didn't sit there and go well,
God, I paid hundreds of dollars for this ticket and the airfare and
the hotel. Boy, give me fifteen fucking matches. No, I'm sitting
there sometimes going what the fuck? Thank god? Now it's two nights.
That's the one reason I liked the two nights, because it just got to
a point with these shows where it just got to be too much. Less
is more. The show should not start at seven o'clock and end at twelve
thirty three in the morning. I mean, that's just ridiculous. Well,
let's get into it here. I promise you it will not be a five
and a half hour stream. This is your aw double or nothing twenty twenty
four review. I am the Solemn Monster. So they had two matches on
the buy in pre show, and yes, this is stream number one.
I should I thank you fire Panda for the reminder this is stream number one.
I will be better with you later tonight after Raw because we have the
post King of the Ring edition of RAW, so that will be later on
tonight. But you got me now here during the daytime. Hey ga,
thank you for the super chat says screw them in cells bro, I saw
the tie. I'm still the tweets are still coming in. It's actually hilarious
to me. It's hilarious to me. You should see it mainly on the
Copeland Wait until I get to the Copeland stuff. You should see the bullshit,
the mountain of absolute bullshit that I have seen by posting what I thought
of the Adam Copeland die from the top of the cage. Oh boy,
oh boy, people got They got a lot of sand in their vagina.
Holy shit. When you see how hot and bothered people got by this,
it's a beautiful thing. It really is. But we'll get to that later.
So there were two matches on the Bayan pre show, Deanna Pirazzo and
Thunder Rosa. They had their issues of late tonight. They went one on
one. Deanna picked up the wind how did it go down? Parazzo spun
out of a Tijuana bomb into the Fujiwara arm. Bar Rosa, though,
escaped and then applied a cobra crossface. But as Rosa went to go kick
away from the ropes to avoid Deanna getting the rope break, Dianna spun over
close to the ropes on the other side and grabbed onto the bottom rope to
steal the pin, and the referee never saw it, so it was a
win for Deanna. Parrazzo, Billy Gunn and the acclaimed. They picked up
a win over Brian Cage and the Gates of Agony and we had the heels.
They hit a triple power bomb on Billy and total Leona had him beat
Bowens, though broke up the pin. Brian Cage went to ringside and he
grabbed a chair, but the Vegas Golden Knights mascot, the Golden Knights mascot,
took the chair away from Brian Cage. And I don't know what the
hell the mascot is supposed to be. Maybe somebody can fill me in.
It looked like a fucking dinosaur to me. I don't know. I don't
know what it is. Maybe it's some kind of gecko or I don't know.
But whatever the mascot is, I think the mascot's name is Chance,
I believe from what I was from what I was able to say. Anyway,
this was not the first time the mascot has had a run in with
Brian Cage this year. There was an episode I believe of collision earlier this
year. They were in Vegas and the mascot was doing the Prince Nana dance
when Brian Cage attacked the mascot from behind and knocked him down, so I
guess he didn't forget Cage went after the mascot cast their hit Cage with a
famouser on the floor. Inside, Billy caught one of the members of the
Gates of Agony with an inside cradle and got the three count to win the
match for Billy and the acclaimed. There was also a segment there was some
news here on the pre show. There was a segment where and this is
another this is another one of these situations where it's a gilla monster. The
fuck is that a gilla monster? I don't know what that is. Okay,
I'm being told it is a gilla monster. Is that similar to a
solo monster? Okay? Well, you learn something new every day. I
don't know what that is. But in any event, this is another thing
I tweeted about this. Tony Kahan made an announcement on the pre show,
and it just completely devolved into WWE fans and AW fans just sniping back and
forth like a bunch of fucking losers. But I actually thought that this was
a good announcement. So Renee was out on stage. She introduced Martha Hart
and Tony Kahan and Martha noted that it has been twenty five years since the
founding of the Owenhart Foundation. It's been twenty five years since Owenhart passed away.
I talked about that on episode A sixty three yesterday. Hard to believe
it's been twenty five years. And she said that she and Tony had something
special in mind this year for the owen Hart Cup because they're bringing it back.
This is gonna be the third year in a row and they're going to
be doing the finals on July tenth back in Calgary at the saddle Doome as
part of the Calgary Stampede. So she said that they had a special announcement
to make, and then Tony Kahn spoke and Tony Kahn said that it was
back on Christmas Eve that Martha told him. I think he said Martha told
him. This is what he claims, Okay, that Martha had this great
idea and then Martha Hart told him that we should do something special for the
tournament. What they came up with is that the winners of the Men's and
the Women's owen Hart Cup this year will each receive a World Championship match at
aw all in London at Wembley Stadium. Now I should say he didn't really
say this announcement. He screamed it as he usually. He's so awkward with
these things. So you know what, they really do, They need a
commissioner or somebody who could just kind of come out and make these announcements.
He's just he's so fucking weird. But anyway, so after screaming the announcement,
I love it. I think it's great. Let's raise the stakes.
Let's raise the stakes, right? Did we just did that this weekend?
Let's raise the stakes for summer Slam. Let's raise the stakes. Were all
in London. So I like the announcement, just like I did you know
what wwe did with the King of the Ring this year? And as I
said before, people were sniping back and forth, Oh you know how convenient?
Where did I hear this from? You know where? And it's like,
who gives this shit? It was the right move to make. Now
did they come up with this idea seven months ago? Five months ago,
six months ago? That's what he claims. I don't know, I don't
care. I like it. But here's the thing, it's not enough to
just say that the winner of the men's tournament gets a world title match,
and the winner of the women's tournament gets a world time. What you need
to do in this tournament because I look back to what they did last year,
and you had CM punk was in the Menzo and Cup, and you
had Samoa Joe in the Menzo and Cup, and even a guy like Ricky
Starks who was not at their level but was seemingly at the time I guess
not anymore a star on the ascent, and he went on to win the
entire thing. But you had some big names in that tournament. But in
the same token, you also had Setoshi Kojima and you also had Dustin Rhodes.
All due respect to those two men because they're legends, and again I
respect the hell out of both of them. You do not need to have
Satoshi Kojima and people like that and people like Dustin Rhodes in this fucking tournament
if a World Heavyweight Championship match is up for grabs and its stake in the
main event of all in London at Wembley Stadium. So they need to do
a better job this year of including bigger names in this tournament to make it
a little less obvious when somebody is going to take the l So hopefully they
will stock this thing up with mostly big names on both sides, but especially
in the men's tournament. Get some big names in there, you know,
I know you want to have a spoiler, and not even a spoiler,
I mean you want to have, you know, a name in there that
can lose. You don't necessarily want to put every single top guy that you
have, because then people have to lose. You may not want to beat
them. You know. I understand that there are political implications to putting these
brackets together, but as long as they do that, then I'm all for
it, and I think it's a great idea and I don't have an issue
with it. As far as early predictions, I mean, to me,
you asked me right now, who do I think is going to win the
OER in this year. I think Will Osprey has got to be the favorite
on the men's side. I think Mariah May has to be the favorite.
On the women's side. We'll see, because we're still seven or eight weeks
away from the finals, not even maybe about six weeks, six or seven
weeks away from the finals. We don't even know who's in the tournaments yet,
but those would be the early favorites for me. So we get into
the main card here. Thank you, by the way, to all the
folks who gifted channel memberships, I appreciate you very much. We had people
who did that last night, and Super chatted last night too when they thought
I was going live, So Jerome and everybody else who was in the chat
last night, thank you as well, and we'll get to all your messages
here in a little bit. The main card opened with Roderick Strong defending the
International Championship against will Ospray. This was a very good opener and it almost
went horribly wrong less than five minutes into this match. So when I talk
about stunts being a hallmark of a lot of these aw shows and seeing a
lot of very stupid things that shouldn't happen, we got our first example of
it in the first five minutes of this main card here on this show.
This is one of the dumbest spots that I have Actually, you know what
I was going to say, This is one of the dumbest spots I've seen
in a long time. But it was the dumbest spot I saw until the
TNT title match later in the show. So Don Kallis is on commentary for
this. Osprey tried for a hidden blaze right away, right at the beginning
as Roddy was posing during his entrance, but he missed. Ospray flew outside
and he quickly disposed of Matt Tavn and Mike Bennett. Okay, because the
Kingdom were outside in Roddy's corner, so Strong tried to slam Osprey on top
of the top part of the barricade. By the Timekeeper's aream, Osprey flipped
over it, though, and then wiped out the members of the Kingdom.
Osprey was in control until Roddy in the ring took the referee, and this
allowed Mike Bennett to hold Osprey up on his shoulders outside in a doomsday device
position. Okay, so he's got will Ospray up on his shoulders. Matt
Taan, this was this was so stupid for so many reasons. Matt Tavin
gets in the ring. Now, this is not a notice qualification match.
Okay, keep that in mind. Matt Tavin gets in the ring and Matt
Taven, who's going to hit the ropes and he's going to do a dive
out over the top rope and wipe out will Ospray. Okay, that's what
he's going to do. The referee is over by the ropes, kneeling down
with Roddy on the side of the ring where Matt Tavan is going to hit
the ropes. There is no way that this referee does not know. Okay,
even if you check your brain at the door. With these shows,
there is no way that this referee does not know that Matt Tavan is hitting
the ropes. Yet he has to pretend like he doesn't know, which therefore
makes the referee, and they do this all the time in this company,
makes the referee look like a fucking geek. But the referee has to pretend
he doesn't see it. Okay, there's no shadow, he doesn't see the
ropes moving, he doesn't see it. So that's the first stupid thing.
Matt Taven hits the ropes and he comes flying off and it looked like his
feet clipped the top rope as he sort out over the top. He wipes
it out Ospray, and it looked like will Ospray landed right on top of
his head. And I think he got his hands down to cushion the blow,
but it looked bad. The announcers were like, oh shit, you
know, please go check on him, and you could tell there's like a
little a little bit of a hush uh with the crowd here. So as
dumb as that was, that the referee having to play stupid here and pretends
he didn't know what was going on. You see the spot and again Tavan
almost killed himself. Osprey almost killed himself, absolutely just brain dead, stupid
spot for so many different reasons, including the stuff with the referee, and
it nearly killed one of their top stars in the first five minutes of this
show. Very dumb. Thankfully, Osprey was okay. He avoided a backbreaker
into a corkscrew kick. Tavan and Bennett again distracted the referee, and Wardlow
took forever because Osprey's in the ring with his back turns, He's motioning,
come on, come on, come in the ring, and it's like they're
stalling, and I'm like, what's going on here? What are they stalling
for? And they were waiting. Wardlow was a little late. Wardlow gets
in the ring. He took forever to come up behind Osprey to attack him,
and he was about to power bomb Will Osprey. The referee stumbles backward.
I don't even know why he stumbled backwards, but he stumbles backwards,
and he bumps into them and turns around. Then he sees Wardlow and so
he starts, you know, yelling at Wardlow to get out of the ring
and go to the floor, and Wardlow Wardlow sold it like oh gee,
golly, oh okay, all right, oh gee. You know, it's
not like he sold it like he was oh, oh shit, I got
caught, or he was upset or he was angry. He was like,
oh, oh, okay, all right, sure, no problem, Okay,
I'll leave the ring. So Osprey followed with a sky twister press onto
the Kingdom on the outside of the ring. Finally, Bryce Remsburg does eject
Wardlow and Matt Tavian m Mike Bennett and security escorts them out back inside.
Osprey hit the wall walk in Ziguri into a Fisherman suplex. He tried to
leap of faith, but he landed on his feet, jammed his knee in
the process, and Osprey wanted hit and blade Roddy, though rolled through into
a Texas clover leaf. So Strong hit a superplex held on into a torture
raged backbreaker for a two cop Roddy hit the Fireman's carry gutbuster, but as
he went for the sick kick, Osprey countered into a power bomb. We
got a crazy sequence of counters until Will fired off an oscutter could not follow
up. Now, for some reason, Bryce Remsburg decides he has to check
on rodd He's very concerned about Roderick Strong did look like anything out of the
ordinary. But he goes over and he's he's checking on this man and Osprey.
They zoom it on his face and he like mouths the words like,
oh not again. You know, after what happened in the match of Dynasty
with Brian Danielson where he hit him with the tiger Driver and he was so
apologetic after it. He could you know, he was so upset that he
nearly paralyzed this man. He thought, oh, oh my god, it
happened again. So he's in the corner and he's waiting over there, and
Don Kallos gets up off commentary and he goes over to Will Ospray and he's
telling him to go snap this man's neck. He said, he's already going
to the hospital break his neck and Osprey shoves Bryce out of the way.
It looks like he was gonna go hit the tiger driver, but he hesitated
and that allowed Roddy to hit another gutbuster and a sick kick for a close
two count. Ospray countered the end of Heartache into a herd Conrada pin for
two. Roddy popped up with the knee lift and then again went for the
end of heartache. Osprey, though landed on his feet. He hit a
hidden blade and the storm Breaker for the wind to crown a brand new AEW
International champion. The exact right move to make here was putting this title on
Will Osprey. It should not have gone down any other way. And Callous
is out there going we won, we won, you know, like he
did something big here. So Osprey strikes gold for the first time in his
AW career. It will not be the only gold that this man holds this
year. You can mark that down. I mean, it doesn't take a
rocket scientist, I think, to make that prediction. But I'm gonna make
it right now. His first taste of gold and not his only taste here
in twenty twenty four, but with the momentum he has. This was a
no brainer. You know, you don't worry about putting over Roderick Strong.
You put over will Osprey and you keep him strong and you keep his momentum
going because he's the guy. Right now, Roddy is not the guy.
Will Osprey is the guy, and now he could take this title and he
can move on to bigger and better. I thought it was a hell of
an opening match. I'm not going to point off though, for that dumb
doomsday spot at the beginning. Now Wardlow got ejected, and I'm going to
be watching to see if Adam Cole calls him out on Wednesday because he failed
to do his job. Remember what happened after Wardlow lost his title shot to
Samoa Joe and Adam Cole said, you had one job, you had one
job, and you couldn't even do that. And so now your only job
here in this group is to make sure that all the other members, Roddy
and the Kingdom, they keep their titles. That's all you need to do.
Well, he failed to do that, So what will happen now?
Adam Cole should be coming out on television this week, you know and calling
him out for it. And again they didn't have to do that here on
this show. They didn't have to give that away. They could save that
for TV, especially with what they had planned. In the very next segment
that came after this, which had a lot of people talking, Adam Cole
was out to the ring by himself and he was walking pretty well, which
is good to see. He said it was story time with Adam Cole,
and he told the Las Vegas crowd that they all suck. He said he
should be checking on Roddy or hanging out with the Kingdom since they just got
thrown out of the building, which begs the question why wasn't he Why did
he come out here? I mean, I know, I know, but
I mean, if you think about it, why did he come out here?
He really didn't have any reason to come out here and address the audience.
It's almost as if they had this all planned. So he said that
he should be home resting so he can get back in the rings sooner.
Then he pulled out the devil mask from the angle with MJF and he said,
you know, there's a little devil inside all of us. And he
said that when he is one hundred percent, we will give the devil,
his due and his name is and then the lights went out. A video
played on the tron with a figure walking down. It's from a first person
perspective, so we couldn't see who it was, although we saw a hand
and I could tell just from the hand, I could tell who it was.
So this person is walking down a hallway. There's a door that's a
jar, and this person pushes the door open. And in this room it
has it's just showcasing various MJF artifacts, his diamond ring, they have the
giant poker chip that he won in that ladder match it all out a few
years ago. The dog collar was sitting on a shelf, obviously from his
match with cmpunk. And then there was a mannequin in the middle of the
room. Because who among us does not have a life size mannequin that we
put our clothing on, in our jacket on in the middle of our house.
So on this mannequin there's a red sports jacket and the Birdberry scarf is
around its neck. Then the person pulls out I guess from maybe the jacket
pocket. He pulls out a partially torn photo of Adam Cole and then he
lifts up the other torn half of the photo to show MJF, and you
could hear the fans in the arena. They react big to that. They
cut back to the arena, they play mjf's music and the fans erupted and
outwalks MJF dressed like Triple h when he returned from the Torn squad at Madison
Square Garden back in two thousand. I mean right down to the same outfit.
He had the denim vest over the leather jacket. I mean, this
could not have been any more obvious here what he was going for. And
he walks out there. He's in fantastic shape, obviously, he's you know,
been hitting the gym and getting ready for this return. The man was
shredded. MJF got in the ring, he looked down at the Devil mask
for a moment, which was on the mat crowd's channing. Holy shit,
MJF is looking at Cole, who wanted a big hug, and so the
crowd chanted you fucked up at Adam Cole. MJF decided to give him a
hug, and then he promptly kicked this man in the balls. Pull's first
bump, by the way, his first real bump since getting hurt. MJF
picked up the microphone, he knelt down and he called Cole a noodle arm
bobbleheaded son of a bitch, and he called for someone to get this shit
stain out of his ring. See I wonder where he got that from.
So trainers helped Cole to the back while MJF stayed in the ring. And
I do wonder if that was more an issue of sort of putting a button
on the issue for now temporarily with Adam Cole. If Cole is not ready
to get back in the ring. And I I mean, there's been no
reports about any health updates on him where he is in his progress from his
surgeries, and because there was a very very bad injury that he stained last
year. I think it was more than one surgery that he had, so
we don't know how close. I mean, he's walking around now, which
is great, but we don't know how close he is to an in ring
return. So this may have been their way of saying, Okay, get
this fucking guy out of my ring. I'm moving on to something else with
the time. Be just the thought. Maybe maybe that's what that was.
But MJF said that he trusted Cole. He says that will never happen again.
He said Cole didn't take him out, he merely woke him up.
He said, now he remembers exactly who he is. He said he's the
greatest wrestler on God's green Earth and a generational talent. He said that unlike
all of the schmucks in the back, he didn't need a New Japan or
a Vince McMahon to make him because MJF made MJF his first promo back and
he's out here dressed like Triple H and name dropping Vince McMahon. He couldn't
help himself. He said, no more haha, no more friendship, no
more kangaroo kicks, no more bullshit. He said he was back to being
driven by what makes him the best. That he wasn't talking about love.
He was talking about hate. Hate, hate, hate, and when he's
driven by hate, nobody is safe. He picked the devil mask up off
the mat. He called it stupid and goofy. He said the masks are
adorned by cowards who are hiding. He said he's done and apologizing for being
the best. He said it's not his fault that all the fan favorites suck
a big old bag of Donkey Dix compared to him. I may have to
start using that. I like that insult. MJF said that he would need
to mask, or need a mask, to prove that no one is on
the level of the devil. He said the mask makes him think of the
end of twenty twenty three and it turns his stomach in knots. He took
his jacket off. He said the mask could go straight to hell. Put
the mask on the mat, and he proceeded to do a Rick Flair strut,
well, which was really a Fargo shrut, but he did the Flare
strut, dropped the elbow like Flair used to drop on the inanimate objects.
Well, Flair used to drop it on his jacket. I know once he
dropped it on it was either his book or Mick Foley's book. I think
he dropped the elbow on it. Flair does that now, but he does
it when there's no cameras around because of me. He's of that age.
Yeah, he just does it. So anyway, So then he picked up
the mask, he spat on it, and he tossed it into the crowd.
He said, he's been betting on himself day one. He said that
he's all in double or nothing, and regarding his contract status, he pulled
up one leg of his pants. He showed off a tattoo that read bet
on yourself and it had the AW logo in the middle. I think it
might have been a poker chip, but it had the AAW logo in the
middle. And he said he's not fucking leaving, and the fans roared with
approval. This was a tour de force performance right here and exactly. This
was exactly what AAW needs right now. They needed this man back in the
worst way, and the timing could not be any better for them now heading
into the summer and heading into their next Wembley Stadium show. They dropped the
whole bidding war of twenty twenty four stuff a while back. It's not like
that's a new thing that they just stopped talking about. They stopped talking about
it a while ago. Nobody believed that this man was leaving. Nobody who
actually took a second to really think, I think expected that MJF was going
to leave because also, look, I said, he resigned before he even
came back in twenty twenty two. I didn't know that, but that just
common sense. He came back, they put the AW world title on him,
Tony Kahn ran with him as his champion for a year. He's not
doing that unless he has a long term commitment to this man and he has
him under lock and key for a certain period of time. He's been burned
too many times by WWE trying to fuck with them, right, That's all
he ever talks about is how WWE fucks with him and does this and that
and contract hampering. Do you think they would have ran as hard as they
did with MJF as long as they did if he didn't know that he was
safe and he had him under contract for an extended period of time. It's
just common sense. But for him to go out there and articulate that finally,
instead of going out there and saying, oh, hey, my buddy,
Nick Kahan and hey, Paul levk you don't call me yoh, instead
of doing that stuff like he was doing before, he goes out there now
and he is just the biggest cheerleader for AW and he is saying this is
the place to be, this is my home, this is where I made
my name, and this is where I'm going to be for the foreseeable future.
So whether it was twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, whether it
was January. Of course, MJF is locked in and he's not going anywhere
for a while. Do I think that MJF is going to be AW for
life? Very few people in wrestling stay in one place for the duration of
their career. Do I think one day he'll be in WWE? Absolutely.
Do I think that's going to be in the next five years. Probably not.
But do I think it'll eventually happen, of course. But it's good
for Tony Khan that his biggest star now is locked down and he can go
out there and let the fans know this is the place to be and put
over AW as a number one. So that was very important, I thought,
but now more than ever, Tony Khan needed somebody to go out there
like that and make that kind of a statement. And injuries have been a
very big problem for Tony Kahn. As I mentioned before, he lost Adam
Cole, he lost Kenny Omega, then he lost them JF among others.
MJF is the biggest star they have, biggest star, they have bar Nunt,
biggest home grown star that they have is MJF. And doing this segment
here on this show, even though you know it may have for some people
gotten lost in all the noise of last night because there was so much other
shit that came after this, I think it was smart because now it creates
interest going into Dynamite on Wednesday. You know what they're trying to do is
they're trying to drum up interest in Dynamite and Collision and get the numbers up
again. He's in the middle of a negotiation period with Warner Brothers Discovery.
This is the most important year in the history of this company right now,
so he needs all the help he can get to try to get those numbers
backed up, make them look as sexy as possible going into this this very
important period. And so you don't want to give away the store here,
but you put MJF on the show and you let people know he's back and
he's probably going to be on TV that I would imagine he'll be on TV
this week. I mean, you certainly want people thinking that he's going to
be on TV this week. So I thought that was smart. You know,
get some eyeballs back on the show. Hopefully the fans treated him here
like the biggest babyface in the world. That does not necessarily mean that he
is going to be a babyface, and I certainly hope he is not going
to be a babyface the way that he was last year. That version of
MJF needs to die. He is evolved from that now. We can leave
that in the past. The stuff with him and Adam Cole, it worked,
you know, it was organic, It took off. They ran with
it. They got to work a Wembley match in the main event against each
other. It ran its course. It's over. This is the version now
of MJF that we need on TV. We don't need the sappy comedy guy
kangaroo kick all that bullshit, like he said in the promo, that's dead,
that's buried, it's over, it's done. This is the version of
MJF that we need to see. Adam Cole should be his first target in
theory because of the way that things were left at World's end, but again,
not knowing what his injury status is, they may not be able to
go to that. Otherwise I would say that would make sense as the Wembley
match for MJF this year. You know, won't be the main event,
but you run it back one year later MJF against Cole. He can beat
Adam Hole and then move on to something else. But it just may not
be possible. But keep in mind they're also doing an angle right now involving
the elite and their takeover. Basically, it's like a hostile takeover of the
company in many ways, which is strange because Tony Kahn is back, and
you would think that if the president and CEO of the company, who would
have seniority over any EVP, Why are the young bucks allowed to run rough
Shot over this company? But why ask why? If the elite are running
rough Shot and MJF is mister aw you would think that they're going to butt
heads at some point very soon. Him in the Bucks, him and Jack
Perry right, only a matter of time, and that would be one way
to spice that angle up is to get MJF involved. But Tony Kahn just
got a big gift and that is getting this man back on TV. For
the Unified Trios titles, it was Switchblade, J White and the Guns taking
on Death Triangle, Pack Penta and Ray Phoenix. You can believe it.
This was Death Triangle's first match together as a unit since January of twenty twenty
three. Jay White bailed from having to face Pack at the beginning. He
didn't want any part of this man. The Lucha Bros made quick tags on
Austin Gunn Colton tagged in. He suffered the same fate. Austin took a
diving double stump low from Penta before Penta and Phoenix hit double dives outside.
White tried to blindside Pack with a blade runner, but instead hit a DDT
that violently spiked Pack into the mat. Pack was isolated until Penta made the
hot tag and the low brows ran wild. Taz said that well, this
was kind of funny because the Phoenix did a move. He did the ropewalk
kick and then a splash off of his brother's shoulders onto Austin, and Taz
made a comment on commentary that he did that move in training once with Spike
Dudley, so I chuckled at that. White tagged in immediately ate a bounce
back kick from Phoenix and a spinning Fireman's carried jackhammer by Penta for two.
Pack tagged in dropped j White with a bounce back German but from there the
match broke down. All six men ended up down. White ran into a
thrust kick by Pack, but he avoided the black Arrow. As Colton and
Austin were dropped with German suit plexes, White got spiked with fear factor.
As the guns tried to bring their golden baseball bat into the ring, referee
Rick Knox tried to stop them. He was distracted. Now it's Rick Knox.
A ball of yarn would distract Rick Knox, but at least in this
situation, he actually had good reason to be distracted. So for once I
could say good job by Rick Knox. He actually had a reason to have
his attention diverted. Usually it doesn't take more than again, the ball of
yarn, a laser pointer, you know, a hot woman in the crowd.
Doesn't take much to distract this man. So while he was distracted,
Pack went up for the black Arrow, only to be crotched by the returning
Juice Robinson. He is back. The juice is loose. He's been out
for months. He had back surgery, I think back in November. So
White finally connected with Blade Runner and got the pin on Pack to retain the
titles. The action was good. More importantly, though, the Gang got
Juice Robinson back, so now the squad is once again complete. I still
am hoping we get a singles match, though between j White and Pack,
they certainly were teasing it here. I have to hope and think that we'll
get it on TV in these next few weeks, maybe even this week.
We had Timeless Tony Storm against Serena deeb for the AW Women's World Championship.
Deep tied Storm up with the Paradise lock early on maybe the most polarizing move
in all of wrestling, and then drop kicked her in the ass to break
the hold. Storm fought back by sending Deep to the apron and leveling her
with a hip attack. And this was quite the hip attack here because it
knocked her off the apron at like halfway nearly into the barricade. So Deep
came back with a flying octopus hold as Luther got the crowd behind Tony,
who got a rope break by biting the rope, and at that point Serena
zoned in on the left leg. Tony wanted a choke bomb, but Deep
countered into a triangle choke. Tony got free and sank in a clover leaf.
After a rope break, both women slugged it out. Deeb won the
exchange and was toying with Tony and we got another strike exchange. There was
a little miscommunication that led to Tony hitting a choke bomb for a near fall.
So Serena was able to dodge the Sweet Cheek music into a single leg
crab and was slamming the knee down repeatedly on the mat, and Tony Storm
was screaming and crying out in pain. Mariah May was about to throw in
the towel on the outside, but she got stopped by Luther. Luther would
not allow her to do it. And now this is similar to how Tony
Storm did the same thing for Mariah May a few weeks ago, throwing the
towel in, so she was gonna return the favor here Luther put a stop
to it. Tony got to the ropes and she went outside to regroup,
and she looked up and she saw Luther holding the towel, and she scolded
him and called him a bastard, and then actually tossed the towel into the
crowd, never knowing that it was actually Mariah May who wanted to toss the
towel in a little foreshadowing going on here. Back inside, Tony hit a
snap, German deep flipped her off, and Tony ultimately hit storm zero for
a close two. Tony wanted one on the apron, but her knee gave
out, and Serena hit deep toks on the apron and then a proper one
back inside for the closest of two counts, which popped the crowd. Both
women went to the corner up the ropes, Tony hit an avalanche Storm zero
and then a proper one for the wind and Tony celebrated, went on stage
with Mariah May and the two women were rolling around in confetti on the stage,
which was quite the visual. It was quiet in the first half.
They really won the crowd over with some of those near falls though in the
second half. This is a very well worked match, and I think maybe
the best Tony Storm match in the timeless gimmick since she started doing it like
mechanically. It was a very good match. We also had the nice little
call back there with the towel spot, and I think we should start seeing
little hints of things like that as we get closer and closer to Wembley,
and if I'm right and Mariah May is the favorite to win the Owen,
you know, instead of doing like a turn where Tony brates her and then
shuns her or beats her up, or Maria May turns on Tony, it
could be as simple as Mariah May winning the Owen right, and now there's
real drama here because now she's next in line for a shot at Tony's title.
That's how I would play it. I wouldn't have one person turn on
the other. In this case, we had Orange Cassidy against Trentperetta, one
of those matches I mentioned that did not need to be on this show,
but it was. Don Kallis was on commentary. Back on commentary for this.
They played Cassidy's theme, he didn't come out. Then they played his
old where is My Mind? Them by the Pixies, and he made his
way out. We'll see if that's a one off or if the old music
is back. I hope it's just the one night thing. Both men slugged
it out right at the bell, which at least that's the way it should
be in a grudge match like this. Cassidy had a run of offense.
Bretta gouged the eyes and then grabbed Cassidy's arm from ringside and pulled his throat
first into the turnbuckle the bottom turn buckle. Late in the match, Cassidy
threw the light kicks and then some heavy kicks at Barretta before hitting him with
a running dropkick. Cassidy went up top. Trent rolled to the apron to
avoid him. Cassidy jumped from the second rope. He got kicked by Barretta,
who then performed a pile driver on the apron, and hey, if
a pile driver on the ring steps isn't going to do shit to this man,
then a pile driver on the apron ain't nothing for him. Back in
the ring, Cassidy faked the hug when Trent came in. He had a
Mitchinoku driver for two. Bretta hit the half and half in strong zero but
only got two. Trent mocked the hug, but then ran right into a
beach break. Cassidy wanted an orange punch, but ran into a go go
plata, and Cassidy used the bottom rope to float over and get the flash
pin. Another fluke wind for the Orange Man here with Trent Burretta again we
already saw that on television a few weeks ago. They did the same thing
here. After the match, Bretta was on his knees. He was looking
down at the mat in frustration. He just couldn't believe it. Barretta rolled
to the apron. He sat there for a moment before making his exit.
As he was leaving, and he kind of went on the side of the
stage and it was heading into the crowd. Rocky Romero came out. He's
trying to get his attention and talk to him. Here comes Renee, and
Renee comes out and wants to get a word with him, and he said,
I'm not doing this. I'm done, and Bretta exited through the crowd.
I don't think anybody honestly believes that Orange Cassidy, no matter how hard
Don Callus tries to recruit this man. I don't think anybody honestly believes that
Orange Cassidy is going to join the Don Kallis family. But they're still playing
this angle out. There was no big development here on this show as far
as that angle. The match itself was, it was okay. I mean,
it was nothing special. I just don't care about this. We are
he saw Cassidy get the win over him once, now we got it again.
As far as Trent, it looks, based on what they did here
like they're doing an angle where he's gonna quit. They're certainly teasing that idea
based on what they did here. But later in the show, Don Kallus
was in the back. Don Callous he got more FaceTime on this show than
half their roster. This was like the fourth time on this on the show
that we saw this guy, fourth or fifth time. So Don Callous is
in the back with Lexi Naire and said that based on what he saw from
Cassidy's match on Wednesday, he's going to be presenting a contract to the newest
member of the don Kallus fan never actually said who it was going to be,
so I still say it's going to be Trent. It just seems the
obvious route to go here that they're trying to swerve everybody by making you think
that Trent is gonna quit. Trent is gonna go his own way. Callous
wants Cassidy of course, if they do go that way, If they do
go that way where he actually brings Trent into the fold over Cassidy. If
you think about it from a logical perspective. Orange Cassidy has now beaten Trent
Burretta twice in a row, so why exactly would don Kallus want Trend Burretta
in the don Kallis Van. They're gonna have to work this a certain way
if they do it. Yeah, Like maybe he is going to present a
contract to Cassidy, but then Trent shows up and fucking murders this man and
don Caallous is so impressed he presents the contract to Trent instead. Maybe they
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threat match triple threat match here for the FTW title. The for the world
title, as Chris Jericho is now calling it with the Larning Tree. Chris
Jericho defending against Hook and Kattiori Shabada. Hook and Sabada briefly took turns just
kicking Jericho's ass to start this match. Hook hit a released German on Shabata
before setting up a table at ringside. He wanted a t bone off the
apron on Jericho, but Shabbada booted both men to the floor. Jericho brought
a bag out from under the ring, and they want you to think it's
gonna be thumb tacks. So they want you to think it's gonna be hockey
pucks like it was a few weeks ago. It wasn't taxed, and it
wasn't hockey pucks. It was dice, dozens and dozens of dice strewed all
over the mat. Because we're in Las Vegas, of course, Jericho was
then promptly suplexed onto the dice that he himself brought into the ring. The
Hook and Shabbata took turns sup flexing each other onto the dice. They both
retrieved kendo sticks from under the ring, but Jericho reappeared with one of his
own. Hook and Shabata no soul Jericho shots and then lit him up.
Shabada brought a table into the ring. Jericho got set up on top of
the table as Shabada tried for an avalanche. What he was trying for here
was an avalanche death valley driver. Jericho's laying there, He's looking up.
He's probably thinking, oh, fuck, don't hurt me. And he's looking
up at this and Shabada is taking forever. Now, I don't know if
he was having second thoughts. I don't know if he just couldn't get Hook
in the right position. And you know, you don't want to launch the
guy and hurt him or hurt your opponent or hurt yourself. So he's trying
to get him and it's just taking forever. And then finally he takes him
over for the avalanche move and Hook nearly he overshot the target basically, and
Hook looked like he nearly landed on his head. The table didn't break,
it just kind of fell over, so Jericho fell over and Jericho ended up
after this setting the table up against the turnbuckles in the corner, and Shabata
put him through the table. So they were determined to break the table,
and they ultimately did, but thankfully nobody got killed on that spot. Shabada
shot a double leg on Jericho and applied to Mudlach while also simultaneously having an
ankle lock on Hook, and with the dice still scattered all over the ring,
Jericho still hit a codebreaker on Hook for two. Hook dodged the Judas
effect and sank in red rum, but Big Bill appeared and he hit an
elbow to break it up triple threat match, so no disqualifications in a triple
threat match. Bill brought Hook to the apron. And remember there was a
table early in this match that was set up in front of the announcers outside
the ring. That table is still there. Bill and Hook are out on
the apron and Bill is going to attempt to choke slam this kid through the
table. Hook instead hits a t bone off the apron and puts Big Bill
through the table, who was very lucky that he did not get impaled by
one of the table legs. But you see this big guy go sailing through
the air. It was a big spot back inside. Shabbata locked in a
figure four on Jericho, but Hook applied red rum at the same time.
Suddenly a mask man hit the ring and he placed a trash can over Sabata
before hitting a running sent on onto him and the trash can. Hook got
taken out with the Judas effect and the mask man. The cameras zoned in
on him, and the mask man pulls the mask off to reveal Brian Keith
Wampwamp. It was the bounty hunter Brian Keith underneath the mask. The same
Brian Keith, who was on the losing end of the eliminator threeway on Wednesday,
he lost to hook In Shabato that sent Hook and Shabbat It into this
match. There was absolutely, by the way, no reason for Brian Keith
to be hiding behind a mask. Like I can understand it if you have
a big reveal, like it's a big name or somebody's coming back from an
injury and it's like, oh my god, I can't believe this person is
here. I can't believe they're back, right, But in this case,
there was no reason to put a mask on this guy. And then when
he pulled it off, it's like, oh, so, I don't understand
the logic behind that. But they wanted to go for a dramatic effect,
I guess, and it just didn't really work. So Jericho ended up pinning
Shabata, who was still inside the trash can when he pinned him, to
win the match and retain the title. And I knew it. I knew
it. As soon as they added Shabbata to the match and they made it
a three way, I changed my prediction and I said Jericho's going to win.
Remember when the predictions I said as soon as they added Shabata, that
was it. I knew Jericho was going over. I knew they were going
to keep this going and Jericho was going to hold onto the FTW title,
and that's exactly what they did. I did not care for this match.
You know, I guess Jericho has hired himself a bounty hunter. He's Jericho's
latest recruit under the learning tree. In the long run, it will not
make a lick of difference. It did not make a difference for anybody else
in the inner circle. It did not make a lick of difference for anybody
else long term, make a difference for anybody in the Jericho appreciation society.
We've already been down this road with Jericho twice before. No stars were made.
This will not be any different more than making any new stars or getting
anybody over. This is just a it's a Jericho, you know, vanity
thing. I guess. I mean, it's just to give him something to
do and to keep him involved in some way, because in theory, it's
like, Okay, Jericho, if he's going to be on these shows,
I'd rather him be working with like younger talent people. He hasn't worked with
before. If he must be on the show, I still think he should
go away for a while. But does anybody honestly believe that at the end
of all this big Bill is going to be better off for it, Brian
Keith is going to be better off for it. No, of course not.
It's just something for Jericho to do. But on a show where we
already had a lot of really violent, bloody, hardcore stuff coming up later
on in the show, did we need this? No? No we did
not. Speaking of bloody, I know someone who loves blood. His name
is John Moxley, and he was up next, the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion,
not defending the title because it was a non title match. It was
an eliminator match against Kenoski Takeshta. Takeshta immediately zoned in on the heavily wrapped
arm of Moxley, which Takeshta pilmanized on television the night before. Takeshta violently
slammed Moxley down on the ring. Apron just jerked him down, shoulder first
into the canvas. Callous then went over to Takeshta. He said, I
think his arm is broken. Takeshta then pinned Moxley's arm. He thought I
was going to say something else there, right, you know, I think
it's that. Come on now. He pinned Moxley's arm in a chair and
he booted it against the railing Moxley fought back with his good arm. Takeshta,
though no sold and crumbled Moxley with a forearm brainbuster connected. Moxley started
waking up, though after absorbing multiple shots. Moxley sidestepped the charge into a
cutter. Takeshta spun out of a pile driver into an arm breaker, but
Moxley countered into a triangle. Takeshta hit a power bomb into another arm bar,
but Moxley got the ropes. Takesha argue with the referee, which was
long enough for Moxley to send him outside and then hit a dive back inside.
Takeshta try to charge, he ran into a King Kong lariat. Takeshta
spun out of a paradigm shift, hit the strong zero into the wheelbarrow german,
but as he went for the power drive knee, Moxley met him with
a desperation paradigm shift. Takeshta did ultimately connect on the power drive knee Moxley,
though, kicked out and Moxley dodged the home run forearms sank in the
bulldog choke, after which he wanted death rider, but the arm gave out
and Takeshta posted him and then hit the home run forearm and then Takeshta hit
a death rider on Moxley and spiked him for a very close near fall.
Callus signaled for the end. Takesha started throwing chairs in from underneath the ring.
I mean Don was directing traffic the entire time, telling him what to
do. So Takeshta starts throwing chairs into the ring. Rick Knox proceeded to
toss them out, but as his back was turned, it allowed Moxley to
hit a curb stomp onto one of the chairs, followed by a death rider
and he pins kenoskate Ta Keshta to win the match. There will be no
IWGP Championship match for kenoskate Ta Keshta. Thanks for coming. The story the
announcers told is that Don Kallis cost Ta Keshta the match because he kept calling
play and had he not tried to retrieve those chairs at the end, he
would have won the match. Right. That's what they were trying to get
over here. You know, it's bad enough that he lost in an eliminator
match, couldn't even win the right to become number one contender, but he
lost to a one armed man. That just makes it that much worse.
Now. I have to think that there were political implications here. There were
political considerations to be made, and New Japan didn't want their IWGP champion to
be pinned at all, you know, not unless the time comes that he's
ready to lose the title. So that may have been why they couldn't have
Takesha go over on Moxley. But then it also begs the question of why
even do the match in the first place. You know, they're they're heading
into forbidden door. So I'm sure New Japan is very sensitive to what Moxley
is going to be doing, who he's going to be facing. I know
he's defending the title in a few weeks against Evil God for fucking bid Evil
wins the title. I don't think anybody wants to see that. Maybe EO
Sky, but I don't know anybody else that does. So, yes,
I'm sure there were probably political considerations involved here, and Takesha he otherwise look
great. I mean, it's not like he was booked like a pushover in
this match. He always has great matches, but boy, they did this
man absolutely no favors by putting him in this match, beating him and him
losing to a one arm man, and now it's like, okay, so
he lost just like Hobbes did. The Hobbs got hurt. So I don't
know what they would have had planned for Hobbes, probably nothing, but he
got hurt. Where are they going to go now with Takeshka What is takesh
to do? Don Callous has the Callous family. Callous family, you know,
seemingly Will Osprey is still technically a part of the Callous family, or
at least he's loosely associated with them. Kyle Fletcher is part of the family.
Hobbs is out hurt. Takesha's in there now, but he's basically directionless
at this point. It doesn't seem like they have any obvious direction for him,
unless the announcers saying what they said at the end is an indication that
Keshta maybe soon leaving the Callous family. I don't know. I don't think
this did him any favors at all. I really don't. We had a
barbed wire steel cage match for the TNT Championship with Adam Copeland defending against Malachi
Black A GS GS Hudson. It's good to see you, my friend,
and everybody else here, all thirteen hundred plus joining me here on Memorial Day
weekend. It is still technically Memorial Day weekend, even though it is Monday.
I hope you guys are off from work or school or whatever you would
normally be doing on a Monday. There was barbed weire wrapped around different parts
of the cage and all around the top of the cage. South of heaven
By. Slayer played Copeland out to the ring as he rose up from the
stage surrounded by a ring of fire, and the words the Brood were shown
on the big screen a little obviously here in homage to the old Brood entrance.
So both men swung chairs right away. Black wanted the end, the
end kick. I wanted the end this pay per view, but he wanted
the end kick, but Copeland dodged and grabbed some barb wire. Black tried
to power bomb him out of the corner, but Copeland raked the barb wire
across his face, and Malachi was already bleeding. We were but a few
short minutes into this match, and already the blood is flowing, which you
had to know. I mean, it's a barbed wire cage match. You
knew that these men were going to bleed. Copeland charged for a corner's spear,
but landed in the ropes, had his legs swept and came face first
down onto the bar, which opened him up as well. So now we
got double juice. Black grabbed a barbier bat that was hanging on the cage
and he raked it across Copeland's head before trying a concerto with the bat,
but Copeland dodged and smacked Black in the ribs with it. Copeland returned the
favor and raked the bat across Malachi's head before placing him on a table.
Copeland climbed the ropes, but Black kicked the legs out and crotched him,
and then he managed a sunset flip power bomb through the table. The end
kick missed for a third time, this time with Copeland countering into a spear
for two. Copeland set up Black on another table in the ring, and
this time he wrapped him and the table in barbed wire, so Malachi Black
is trapped, he's flat on the table. And then came the why would
you do that? Award of the night. Now, if you would have
told me coming into this show, who do you think you're going to award?
The why did you do that award? To on this pay per view
without hesitation, I would have said, Darby Allen, That's what I would
have said. I wouldn't have even had to think about it. I would
have said, of course, it's going to be Darby Allen. Darby Allen
is going to win the award, and you would think he would be a
shoeing, but in fact that was not the case. This would be the
equivalent of Polly Shore beating out Marlon Brando for the Oscar, Like it would
just never happen. You wouldn't even conceive of it. But that's what we
had here. Copeland climbs to the very top of the cage and he takes
his time looking down, no doubt, contemplating the very stupid thing that he
is about to do. And honestly, he should know better. He just
sat down for an interview, and a great interview that he did with Chris
Van Vliet. They talked about a whole range of different topics and subjects.
Among them, Chris brought up the spot in the cage match back in two
thousand and five with Edge and Matt Hardy at Unforgiven where Matt did a diving
leg drop from the top of the cage and talked about how Matt really messed
himself up. He messed up his hip, his hips and everything, and
still to this day he doesn't quite walk the same way. I mean,
he really fucked himself up on that. So it's not like Copeland is oblivious
to the risks involved in doing a stunt like that from very high up,
you know, at the top of the of the cage. Look, this
is a guy in Adam Copeland who tore his achilles he ruptured his achilles tendon
doing a leap frog in a match. Now he's standing all the way up
there on top of this cage. And I guess once he was up there,
that's it. Like you're committed to it. He's not gonna climb down.
You know. Maybe if you're a heel, do you want to get
some heat and get boot out of the building. I guess you could do
that, But you're not going to climb to the very top of the cage
and then you know, fucking climbed down. So now up there, now
you've committed yourself to it. And so he jumped, and he jumped from
what had to be a good fifteen feet in the air, maybe more,
and it looked like he almost hesitated in mid air, like as he jumped
and he came off the top of the cage, like he realized, oh
shit, I shouldn't be doing this. And if I splash this man or
I do a regular diving elbow drop, I'm going to sever organs in my
body. Because I have wrapped this man and this table in barbed wire.
I may saw myself in half. So I can't come straight down on this
man. So what I'll do then is I'll come straight down on my fucking
ankles. That's what I'll do. And so down comes Adam Copeland from high
above, and I said this on Twitter. I said, you know,
Randy Savage did the same thing in WCW, and it was very dumb then,
But Randy Savage did the same thing in WCW off that rickety ass cage
and he blew out both of his knees, and he was six years younger
than Adam Copeland was here. Now, he was also a hell of a
lot more roided up and probably I'm sure that didn't help, and had knee
issues, but blew out both of his knees, and arguably it was never
the same. Again, he was six years younger than Copeland is here at
the age of fifty. On the way down, he did stick his arm
out, and he did put Black through the table, but it was more
like an elbow fall than an elbow drop, I would say, And after
a delayed cover, Malachi, it wasn't even the finish. Of course,
these things are never the finish, and Malachi Black, after a delayed cover,
kicked out it too. And so I have to pause here and say
this, because I said, I got a lot of dumb comments from people
you know on on social media about some other stuff. But to all the
weirdos who tweeted me last night and tweeted me this morning, to tell me,
why do you care about what other people do with their bodies? It's
it's weird. The man is a grown adult, He could do whatever he
wants. Why do you care? Why is it your business to comment?
And to talk about it's not your knees. You shouldn't tell him what to
do. This is what I do. I sit here and I talk about
pro wrestling, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and I
comment on these shows, and I comment, and I give my thoughts and
I opine. This man is not going to give you a hand job,
no matter how many times you may try to kiss his ass. I mean,
you know, for God's sake, I was just amazed. I was
amazed by all of the stupidity that I saw. It's just it's it's just
wild how many of these freakazoids there are out there? All right, I
promise you, it's almost feeding time. Okay. Put the pacifier in your
mouth. Your mother is gonna squeeze one out and you'll eat very soon.
You're probably very angry. I understand that right now. Okay, but let
the adults do their thing. Put the pacifier back in and you'll eat soon,
and then you can go to sleep. Let me do what I do.
I don't need to be lectured by people about. Oh, you can't
comment on that. What is it your business to comment on that? Hell?
Dare you comment on that? You people are fucking weird as shit.
You know that you really are. You really need some psychological help. I
can't give that help to you. I can't help you out. I'm sorry.
There isn't much I can do for you. Holy shit. Anyway,
Copeland charge for a spear. Black finally hit the end, only for Copeland
to kick out of his finish. Black pulled out a spool of bar and
he tried to stab Copeland with it, but was unsuccessful. Copeland was placed
up against the cage door. Black kicked him through it hard enough that it
broke the lock off the door, and Copeland went tumbling outside the cage to
the floor. At first, I thought the match was over, and then
I realized this isn't WWE with that dumb escape the cage finish. So the
match continued. So they end up outside the cage, and as Black went
out after him, Copeland fired off a desperation spear. Both men were down.
Here come Brody King and Buddy Matthews, the other members of the House
of Black. They stand beside Malachi, and then they switched to the other
side and they stand beside Adam Copeland. Malachi is sitting on the ground and
he can't believe it, right, and everybody is. Everybody's going nuts for
this, right. They think, oh my god, we're going from the
House of Black to the House of Cope, more like the House of No.
No. It was all a ruse, and Buddy and Brody beat the
hell out of Copeland. Brody just wiped him out with a lariat. Everyone
went back to the ring. Black placed Copeland's wedding ring around his neck,
the same wedding ring that he stole from him the other week. Put the
wedding ring around his neck. Copeland had a crown of barbed wire placed upon
his head when the lights suddenly went red and the lights began to flicker,
and that's when Gang Grell came up from underneath the ring. Gangrel the Ageless
wonder. I think this man is really a vampire because he didn't really look
much. I mean, he's a little older in the face, but for
the most part he looked exactly the same. He had the fangs and everything
got a nice reaction. So he doled out in paler dts to Brody King
and Buddy Matthews. But then he got dropped by the end by Malachi Black.
Copeland then speared Malachi and then he wrapped the barb wire around Malachi's face
and he trapped him in the cross base until black Well faded to black and
the referee called for the bell. Adam Copeland retains the TNT Championship in a
violent, bloody war Malachi Black. This whole story was that Malachi Black wanted
to bring the dark side back out of Adam Copeland. He knew it was
buried deep within and he wanted to help bring it out of him. And
he got the dark side of Adam Copeland, who ripped the wedding ring from
Malachi's neck. His wedding ring from Malachi's neck, and what was very noticeable
here is that he was limping very badly. He could not put any weight
on that leg, so he posed with Gangrel, hobbled over to hug him,
and Gangrel helped him to the back. I can't say that this was
sicker or more violent than the Texas Death match that we got with Swerve and
Hangman at full gear, because it wasn't. But this is up there among
the most violent matches and bloody matches in aw history. And we had a
blood bath on Wednesday right a literal bloodbath in the ring on Wednesday, the
old blood bath that we used to see, and we had a brood entrance
tonight, and so the only thing missing was Gangrel and so I was happy.
I was happy that he got his cameo because Copeland had inadvertently fucked him
out of a spot with AW many years ago. If you don't know that
story. And again there was no malice involved, you know, it's not
like Copeland did it on purpose. But a few years ago, I think
back in twenty twenty one, I want to say, Gangrel was scheduled to
make an appearance on Dynamite. He was very excited and everything was, you
know, in motion, and he was going to I forgot what he was
going to do, but he was going to be on the show. And
then that was the year at Summer Slam where Edge came out and did the
old brood entrance before his match with seth Rawlins, and at that point AW
got back to him and said, idea, we're not doing this. So
Gangrell got screwed out of a cameo on AW television, and who knows,
it might have been a one off, or maybe it would have led to
something, but we'll never know. And so when he told Copeland this,
Copeland was very upset and apologized to him. And I didn't know. You
know, we had been working on that entrance for a few months and whatever.
Gangrel's like, yeah, whatever did, It's not your fault. So
I was happy because I am sure, I am sure that this was Copeland's
idea. I am sure that Copeland was fighting to do something with him and
get him on the show in some way, and I'm glad that he was
able to do it, and that was kind of like his little make good
there, and we got a well we got a brood reunion. But look,
I mean the other member of the Brood was in the building. He
just wasn't a part of the crew here. We only got two thirds of
the Brood. So at some point, I think at least one more time
we got to get the band back together and get Christian and Copeland and Gangrell
for at least one more entrance. So the entire Brood was there. Funny
enough, how many years later, twenty five years later, but we only
got two thirds here in this segment. I was not surprised that Adam Copeland
went over. That's why I had him in my predictions. This never felt
to me like they were fully invested in doing a title change, in putting
the belt on Malachi Black, And I do wonder personally my thought my opinion.
I do wonder if Tony Kahn thinks or feels or knows that Malachi is
gone whenever his contract is up, whenever that may be. It's the Ricky
Starks thing, where why am I going to push you? Why am I
going to put a belt on you? Why am I going to invest all
this television time in you and make you a champion in my company? If
I think that you may not be here soon? Did that factor into things?
I don't know, because my opinion, I do think that he will
be headed back to WWE when he's free and clear to do so, just
how I feel. But I think that Jack Perry, I think it's just
inevitable that Jack Perry is probably going to be the one take that TNT title
away from Copeland. And I also think that, look, if you're trying
to push Jack Perry, which they very clearly are based on what they did
in the main event tonight or last night on this show, then you've got
to go all the way and that TNT title should be reserved then for someone
like him. Copeland should be losing it to someone like him. Copeland should
not be losing it back to Christian. He should not be losing it to
another big former WWE guy. You want to put over some of these newer
guys, these younger guys, these homegrown guys. Harry right now is a
big part of the elite and the elite story that's going on. I only
hope that if that's the case, that Copeland can actually drop it to him
and that we don't see Jack Perry win the TNT title in a Battle Royal
or a tournament because Copeland blew out his ACL. I've been looking for updates
on him. Tony Kahn was asked about him at the scrum last night and
he didn't say no, no, he's okay. You know, he's just
a little banged that. He did say he's banged up, but he was
like, knock on wood. Hopefully, we're all hoping for the best,
you know, we're all hoping he's okay. I mean, that didn't exactly
inspire a lot of confidence there. So I don't know what the latest update
is on him, but Hopefully he'll be all right, but the way he
was limping there at the end, that did not look good. We had
Mercedes Monette in her awn ring debut one year over a year after she last
wrestled, challenging Willow Nightingale for the TBS Championship. Before Mercedes entrance, there
was a video that talked about believing in yourself and being the change that you
want to see, as they showed various historic female figures. Amelia Earhart was
in there. Then a drum line came out wearing flashing lights and they played
on stage and they played her out along with I believe I saw some Vegas
showgirls in there. I do believe, Stokely half Theway and Chris Statlander.
They carried out a huge friendship bracelet for Willow entrance. So Mercedes suckered Willow
into a chase, hit a step up knee, and we had Monette with
multiple arm drags. Willow was no selling some strikes. She stopped a third
arm drag attempt and then waffled Mercedes. Both women missed dives to the floor
as Nightingale dodged a baseball slide and hit a gut wrench power bomb on the
edge of the ring. Back inside, Nightingale wanted an avalanche power bomb,
but Monette swept the legs and shot blocked the leg Backstabber got a near fall
from Mercedes as Willow countered with an abdominal stretch into an ankle lock, and
so Monette rolled out charged, but Willow absolutely launched her with a pounds That
was great and they showed it on replay here she went flying through the air,
so that was a great spot. Both ladies scaled the ropes and Monette
slipped out into a power bomb. For two, Nightingale rolled to the apron
and Mercedes tried a double stump. Willow moved and hit a knee breaker on
the edge of the ring. There was an inverted clover leaf into a giant
swing for a great visual. As Willow hit a DVD into the corner but
then missed the follow up sent on, Mercedes hit a meteora off the second
rope. For two, Willow rolled outside where Mercedes hit a second MEDIORA.
Chris Statlander was out there cheering Willow on and she got shoved in the process
and Stopeley Hathaway argued with Aubrey Edwards about this, got up on the apron.
Willow meanwhile hit a doctor bomb that's her finish, and she had the
visual pin on Mercedes, but her fucking manager has the referees attention, and
Willow is just sitting there going what the hell's going on here? So he
cost her her title in effect because she should have had the three count,
but there was no referee and by the time Aubrey made her way back over
and Monette kicked out, Willow went for another doctor bomb, but Mercedes countered
into her old bank statement finish. Willow eventually got to the ropes to break
the hold. Mercedes went up the ropes, got cut off by Willow,
who joined her on the ropes, only to be shoved to the mat.
Monette was able to hoist Willow up on her back and hit her money maker
finish or her monet maker whatever she calls it, the gory bomb into the
face plant, I guess, and then got the three count to become the
new TBS champion. After the match, in the ring, Hathaway through a
tantrum until Statlander shoved him down on his ass. Helped Willow her best friend
out of the ring, and as she's helping Willow up the ramp. They
started to make their way up the ramp when Statlander pulled the Kevin Owens on
Sammy's ain on Owen's very first night in the company, very first night in
NXT, and she shoved Willow down hard backwards to the ground. Hathaway sat
in the ring and he's sitting there with a big smile on his face,
and Statlander hit Willow with a discus lariat on the floor, stood over her
and posed with Stokely, who came over. I thought we were going to
get the Statlander turned a dynasty, or even earlier than that. They've been
teasing it for a while. This has been hints at it for a while
now, so it wasn't a surprise to see Statlander go heel, we got
it, you know last night? Instead the question now, I guess,
was Chris Statlander the mystery person who attacked Mercedes in that backstage segment all those
many weeks ago. I don't know. We may never know, We may
never know. It may end up as one of those forgotten angles I said
on the podcast. It could be the new White Hummer from WCW. One
would think that she may have been the one behind it. But at least
Willow now has someone to feud with because she's no longer the TVs champion,
and you would hope that they have something else for her, keep her in
the mix, keep her visible on TV. And now she's got a feud
with Chris Statlander. Now they relegated to rampage. Hopefully not, but at
least that gives her something to do. I wish that Willow was able to
have a longer run. I think she's great. I don't understand some of
the Willow Nightingale hate. And there is Willow Nightingale hate. I saw a
little bit of it last night. And not everybody. You don't have to
like the same people that everybody else likes, but like, there are some
people who just don't think she's good. They don't think she's a good wrestler,
she's reckless or whatever. I don't see that. And I think she's
a very good performer and she's got a great personality and she's a star for
them in that division, and hopefully she will not be forgotten. But there
was no way that Tony Kahn was not putting this title on Mercedes. Once
the title match was announced, then you could talk about how why was Mercedes
getting a title shot in her very first match. It's a valid criticism why
indeed, but putting that aside, that's neither here nor there. At this
point, once the match was made official, you are not going to beat
Mercedes in her very first match. It's just not going to happen. So
you had to know coming in that the title was going to change hands.
At least Willow got a month. I wish it were longer, but it's
better than nothing. I actually think they protected her pretty decently by at least
giving her that visual pin because she had the match one. Were it not
for Stokely up on the apron, she theoretically would have won the match and
kept the belt. So they protected her with that visual pin. Not only
did they protect her with the visual pin, but they gave her a logical
reason to want an immediate rematch, and I'm hoping we will get a rematch
now. Yes, that means that Willow will lose again, probably with some
shenanigans from Statlander and Stokely, but I would like to see them run it
back one more time. Look, I thought this was a hell of a
match, so if they want to do it again. Let's do it again,
Let's run it back on TV in the next few weeks, because she's
got a logical argument to make that. Look, I had this match won,
I had her dead to rights were it not for him getting involved.
I don't think we've seen the last of these two as far as Mercedes goes.
You know, for someone who missed the year of her career due to
a pretty significant injury, significant enough that she claims that she was told by
her doctors, you'll never come back, You'll never come back to the ring,
which makes for a great story. And again, maybe they did tell
her that. I don't know, but she looked great in the ring.
I didn't know what to expect if there would be a lot of ring where
I mean, there were a few, maybe a couple of clunky spots in
there. But I thought she looked great. I thought Willow looked great last
night. This is what I've been waiting to see, you know. In
the ring is where she shines. I've not been impressed by any of the
promo segments she's been a part of. I thought the contract signing a few
weeks ago was very good, but the other stuff that Mercedes has been doing
over the last couple of months is just fucking garbage. It hasn't been good.
I've been waiting to get her back in the ring. This is what
I wanted to see, and I thought that she delivered. I thought she
had a great performance. I still think putting someone like Camille, who I
think is coming in, I think putting a bodyguard in her corner is something
that would make sense. I still would like to see them do that.
It's a way to not only put more heat on Mercedes, but you can
help elevate somebody else. You know, eventually, when the eventual split goes
down, maybe we'll still get it. We'll see. But this was excellent.
I thought both the women shined here, both women's matches on the main
card on this show. I thought we're top notch quality stuff. And then
we had our second of what they billed as three main events here on this
show. Hey Alex, with the Judgment day interruption here thirty two dollars super
chat from Alex. I hope you are having a great Memorial Day. You
know, I will agree with some people in the chat though her finish.
I'm not a fan of Mercedes New finish. I just think that it has
to be hit on someone who is probably smaller, and Mercedes is herself not
the biggest person in that division, so it really depends, I think,
on the opponent and how the opponent takes the move. It could look good,
but a lot of times it just doesn't look that great. It looks
clunky. So I will give you that. I will agree. I don't
think that's I don't think that's a great finish. But we had Swerve.
Strickland, his first pay per view as the aw World Champion, does not
headline, but he goes on second to last against Christian Cage. Swerve got
the special video package treatment, just like Mercedes did before her match. Before
his entrance here, which saw Prince Nana walk out, he was clanking some
empty beer bottles together, saying Swerve come out to play like in the movie
The Warriors, and Strickland comes out. He walks out with gear that was
in inspired by the film. A lot of stalling early on, Strickland wanted
a submission hold, Cage bailed to the outside to regroup. Cage suckered him
into trying to dive to the floor, where he sidestepped swerve, and Swerve
crashed into the barricade. Back inside, Christian kept Strickland grounded as Nick Wayne
got a cheap shot in Swerve, pulled Cage's turtleneck over his head and hit
a neck breaker through the ropes. Taz said that Cage looked like Kenny from
South Park, while Tony Schavanni made a Cornholio reference Holy nineties here man,
Well, actually the Warriors. I mean that goes back even earlier than that.
We had a Warriors. We had a Warrior's reference here, we had
South Park. I guess south Park is still on and beavi Us some buddet
I think is still on. Right, they brought it back, didn't they
bring it back? I think on Paramount plus, what's old is new again?
I just talked on the show yesterday about how I just watched the trailers
for Beetlejuice and Beverly Hills Cop. You know, as as an eighties guy,
I love this shit, but it's also kind of weird to be talking
about all this old stuff here. I don't know what it says about the
new stuff. Anyway. As this was happening, Strickland connected on a Fostbury
flop outside Strickland then winked over at Mother Wayne, I mean, can you
blame the guy? But then he missed the house call, allowing Cage to
sink in a sharpshooter. Strickland fought out, but both men bonked heads.
Mother Wayne grabbed the aw title belt, but Prince Nana took it away from
her, and Nick then showed the referee, hey, look, he's got
the belt, and Nana got caught red handed and the referee ejected Prince Nana
from ringside. Cage threw Strickland to the floor, took the referee as kill
Switch and Nick attacked. Kill Switch tried a headbutt, but he hit Christian
by accident. Nick got dropped with the back body dropped to the floor as
Christian dodged a Swerve stomp in the ring and hit a spear for two.
Nick took the referee as kill Switch was about to interfere yet again, but
the referee caught him and he ejected the entire patriarchy, so Swerve connected on
a rolling flatliner for two. Christian rolled outside, tried to set up the
ring steps, but Swerve was there waiting for him. Cage raked the eyes
wanted a power bomb off the apron, but Strickland caved his chestin instead with
a double stump. Retro is Retro has always been cooled. Retro is cool.
Man. I tell you man, I got my me u mini.
I'm playing old fucking Nintendo games. Genesis games can't beat the classics. So
Strickland tried a spear through the ropes. Cage side stepped him, and Strickland
flew through the ropes and he smacked the steps instead. It's okay though,
because his face broke the fall. Cage pulled at the turnbuckle pad, which
drew the attention of the referee. Meanwhile, Nick Wayne returned and he hit
Swerve with a cutter and then rolled him back inside Cage hit his kill switch
finish and that was a great near fall that he got out of that.
So Prince Nana comes back out with a pipe in his hand and he chases
Nick Wayne over the barricade and through the crowd. Cage cleared off the Spanish
announced desk and pulled Swerve on top of it. Christian went for kill switch,
but Swerve countered into a standing double stump on the table and the table
did not break, or at least it did not collapse. Both men beat
the count back inside cage went for another spear. Strickland, though hit a
house call out of mid air, which looked fantastic. This led to a
Swerve stump and one final house call kick for the wind and Swerve retains.
It started slow, and it built nicely to where the crowd was fully behind
Swerve here at the very end, and popped big for the finish. I
mean they were behind Swerve the entire time, but they were loud, they
were up for him here at the end. Christian was I thought, a
fine first pay per view challenge for Swerve on a show where nothing was going
to be able to follow Anarchy in the arena, and you see what they
did in that main event, and you look at the past anarchy in the
arena matches that they've done. It has to close the show, just all
of the pure insanity of it. You can't follow that with anything. So
Swerve as the defending champion, it's not ideal for him to not be in
the main event, but they had no choice, you know, once they
announced Anarchy in the arena and so no, I mean his main event.
They called it a triple main event. I mean, that's nice and all,
but you know, the main event of the show was not this match.
It was anarchy in the arena. Christian though made for a fine first
opponent. Now we look ahead to Dynamite this Wednesday. They have already announced
a Casino Gauntlet match, and the winner of this Casino Gauntlet match is going
to be the number one contender for the AW World title at Forbidden Door.
Hiroshi Tanahashi was at the show last night. It was actually funny because Tony
Kahan, when he came out during the press scrum, brought Tanahashi with him,
Tanahashi San, and they came out and Tanahashi sat there and basically,
I mean barely anybody asked him any questions, and he couldn't understand some of
them anyway, but he just sat there. So as they were parade out
here comes timeless Tony Storm doing hershtick. Here comes well Osprey and Swerve and
your person after person. Tanahashi is just kind of sitting there chilling. It's
like he's probably thinking, what am I doing here? You know, do
I why do I need to be here? Anyway, Tanahashi was in town
because Tanahashi was a surprise partner for Daniel Garcia and Claudio on Collision Saturday Night
against Lance Archer and the Righteous, which means he's still in town. And
I'm thinking, and I'm not saying that this is what I want to see.
I don't want to see this. I don't want to see this.
But I think that we are going to be in for a Tanahashi win in
the Casino Gauntlet on Wednesday, and we may be getting Swerve and Tanahashi at
Forbidden Door for the AW World time. Tanahashi has a win over Swerve Strickland
on Collision last year, so there's a little bit of history there. Tanahashi
has also challenged for the AW World Championship. At the first two Forbidden Door
shows. He wrestled John Moxley for the interim title he wrestled MJF so this
would be his third straight Forbidden Door challenging for that AW World title. You
don't think it's very possible that we may not end up with Tanahashi against Swerve.
I hope that's not the match. That's not the opponent that I won
for Swerve at Forbidden Door. But as far as the Casino Gauntlet, we
don't know who's in it. If I had to make a prediction, that's
my prediction. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. There were
people telling me, oh, well, it should be Shino Takagi, Shingo
to Kagi and Night though they're at a New Japan show on Thursday in Tokyo,
so that would be one hell of a turnaround. It ain't going to
be possible. It ain't going to be possible unless they pull them from the
show. It's just logistically not going to be possible for it to be Shingo
takag I'm sorry to say, because Shinko and Swerve would be a great match.
But even Shingo and Swerve, and I said this yesterday on the podcast,
it's not even a matter of who the better opponent is who's gonna give
him the best match. It shouldn't be about, well, who's gonna givehim
the best match. Swerve needs to be involved in something at a high level
story wise, to go another month and just you know, promote Forbidden Door
with Swerve against the New Japan guy who won't even be on TV on most
weeks. That doesn't do it for me, and Swerve should be doing more
than that and the position that he is in, and I fear that what
they risk doing if if that happens and all the focuses on the Elite and
now all the focuses on MJF being back, is as Swerve ends up getting
lost in the mix, and I just I don't want that to happen,
you know, I just don't see how that does him any good. But
we'll see. They have not made any of the announcements about who is going
to be in the match yet, so we'll say. But that's where I'm
leaning. And in the main event of this show. Finally, it was
midnight last night and we came upon our main event with the Elite, the
Young Bucks, Jack Perry and Kazuchka Okada taking on FTR. We had FTR
Bald and FTR Hair. We had Brian Danielson, and we had Darby Allen
with his gimpy foot and his broken nose taking the spot left behind by Eddie
Kingston when he broke his leg and tore his MCL and tore his I mean
basically his leg exploded a few weeks ago. So Darby Allen was like,
I'll step in. As he limped his way all the way to Las Vegas.
Justin Roberts did the introductions and introduced us to, as he called it,
the upcoming shit Show. The Elite were just about finished with their entrances
when Danielson and FTR attacked Jack Perry Darby Allen ran out wearing a face mask
with thumbtacks on it because of course it's Darby, and his music continued to
play as it usually does. That's the gimmick with the anarchy in the arena
mashes. I was wondering, now. What I said was I was hoping
that Tony Khan would be willing to pay for Final Countdown and they would loot
Final Countdown a few times. But I said it would probably be Darby's music.
So it was Darby's music and that Eventually Matt Jackson took the mic and
he demanded they cut Darby's terrible music and play their entrance theme instead. Danielson
attacked, and then he told the production people to turn that shit off and
play the greatest song in the history of wrestling, and Final Countdown, his
legendary theme, began to play over the PA system. The crowd went nuts,
money well spent unless of course, Tony has to turn around and cut
another ten people and it's not money well spent. But I was very happy
to hear Final Countdown again. Matthew and Dak Sokatta and Danielson, Darby and
Perry, Nick and Cash. They all paired off in different parts of the
arena as Hardwood smashed beer and a trash can over Matthew's head. Darby flew
off the balcony onto a pile of guys down below with a coffin drop,
which the cameras missed. The visual, by the way, Brian Danglson standing
in the middle of the crowd with his song playing, with Final Countdown playing
and everybody in the building doing the y s chant throwing their fingers up in
the air was a fantastic visual. Matthew screamed at the cameraman to cut the
music because that's costing them two hundred thousand dollars every time the song loops,
which may be a shoot, I don't know, but they cut off the
music. That was it for the music. Jack, Perry and Darby Allen.
They fight out of the arena to the back, while everybody else fight
around ringside, including Okada who had a sign in his hand that said rain
maker drive on it before he got a running start, and he did his
charging dive over the barricade onto Danielson in the crowd. So now we go
to the back with Jack and Darby, and Darby throws Jack Perry into a
random tub of ice water that just so happens to be sitting there, and
he tries to drown this man. He holds him under the water and he
is attempting to murder Jack Perry, who was able to finally come up above
water. Perry smashes him with the pipe. Now they're venturing over into the
parking garage. We cut back live to the arena. The bucks hit the
shatter machine on hardwood for a two count. Danielson tried to dive onto Olkada
outside but ate a chair shot in mid air that was very safe to the
point where it actually looked it looked bad. We cut back to the outside
and what do we see in the parking lot area? In the parking garage
area, what do we cut back to see? A small bus with the
word scapegoat spray painted across the side of it, crashing through a pile of
debris as ex caliber on commentary wonders if Darby Allen was in the pile.
Jack Perry was driving that thing like a New York City bus driver, so
he attempted to murder Darby Allen, who does a pretty good job of trying
to murder himself, and somehow he still lives. But that was what they
left us with. Back to the ring from the chair shot earlier, Danielson
now is bleeding. Harwood is bleeding. Although I didn't see how Okata faked
the rain maker pose and he flipped the crowd off instead, he hit Wheeler
with a picture perfect dropkick and a tombstone. Eventually, here comes Darby Allen
and Darby Allen back from the dead after being hit by a bus for the
second time in less than a month. Stumbling down the aisle as Okada goes
right after the ankle. Darby fights back with the code read for two.
The Bucks trip him up and hit a double power bomb through chairs. The
Bucks now drag Darby back up the ramp. They place him on the elevator
platform that they use to make their entrance the Cody Vader. Okay, they
place him on the They place him on the elevator, and they tell somebody
whoever is controlling it to lower him, and then we see Darby like he's
being lowered into his grave. Danielson now is all by himself. Nicholas sends
him flying off the stage and it's not a big drop, but throws him
off the stage. The bucks end up hitting Danielson with a Tony Kahn driver
on top of one of the giant poker chips from the set. Wheeler sets
up a table. Okada, though appears, hits a DDT, sets wheeler
up. Nicholas and Okada then hit double dives through tables onto both members of
FTR. So now Jack Perry. The last time we saw Jack Perry,
he had just driven the bus into this pile of debris, and when the
cameraman rushed over to the bus to peer inside, Jack Perry looked like he
was a drunk or asleep at the wheel. He was keeled over. I
don't know what was going on there. I guess he knocked himself loopy.
So now Jack Perry appears once again. He is soaked. Okay, now
you would think he is soaked from the water earlier when he was put in
the ice tub, although as it turned out, he was soaked, but
it was with a different substance for a very different reason. So it was
smart actually for them to do that ice water spot. He's in the back
and he is walking through the gorilla position and he stops to grab Tony Khan.
I said, oh no, don't tell me that Tony's taking a bump.
Don't tell another bump, or even worse, don't tell me we're getting
the Eric Bischoff swerve. Now, I didn't think they would actually do it,
like when they did the initial angle at Daly's place where they pile drove
him. I was talking about the possibility that maybe they would pull a stunt
like that, and I was like, I didn't think it they would do
it. But then I saw this and I'm like, oh no, no,
this is the last thing we need. So he grabs Tony Khan.
Camera cuts away. Darby reappears on the stage with his flame thrower and right
as Jack Perry comes out through the tunnel with Tony Khan and he throws him
down and Tony Khan goes roll and roll and rolling down the ramp. Perry
does not see Darby and his flamethrower, and Darby sets fire to Jack Perry's
legs, and his legs go up in flames and he roasts probably for a
good five seconds before the Bucks they have fire extinguishers and they put him out.
Well, you know, we look the first anarchy in the arena.
If you remember that iconic spot where a bloodied he looks zombified. Eddie Kingston
is coming back down to the ring with a giant gas can. All Darby
did was I mean he saw that and said, well, I got a
one up him somehow, Right, Eddie tried to set somebody on fire.
So what I'll do, I'll actually go ahead and set somebody on fire.
I'm the only thing that surprised me isn't even that he set somebody on fire.
It's the fact that he set somebody else on fire and not himself,
because I kind of feel like he would have enjoyed that. So Darby now
is taken to the ring by the Bucks, who rip off his thumbtack mask.
Nicholas missed the four to fifty splash onto a garbage can. When Darby
moved, Okada missed the rain maker. Darby hit him with a low blow
and a coffin drop, but the Bucks saved him. The Bucks call for
a hook, not hook, but a hook to be lowered from the ceiling.
And now they hogtie Darby by his feet, so he's hanging upside.
Now FTR make the save with a shatter machine on Nicholas. Okada, though,
breaks up the pin. Right as Dax was about to hit a pile
driver on Okada, Matthew swung a chair and it exploded the old exploding chair.
You know, I would love to know, by the way, I
have to say, the bucks are listening. I would love to know where
the uh exploding chare comes from. Where one can purchase an exploding chair.
I can't wait to use it at the next family barbecue. I can't wait
to see what happens when Aunt Mary sits down on the chair. Franky,
old bitch. Meanwhile, Okada put a thumbtack sleeve over his arm. He
hit a rain maker with it on cash wheeler. Okada brought out some of
the bucks new reback rye back. He brought out the rye back pumps,
the rebock pumps. They have new rebock pumps that they're very excited about.
They're on sale today, and they have thumbtacks in the bottom of them.
They raised Darby upside down in the air, and I was worried here.
I was worried that they were going to do a repeat of the Jay Briscoe
spot from Ring of Honor. If you remember when the Age of the Fall
was formed, I think is when they that angle and they hogtied Jay Briscoe
and they hung him upside down, and Jimmy Jacobs they get his white you
know, jacket on is standing underneath while the blood drips down on top of
him. I was like, oh, we don't need to see this,
so I was a little worried about that. Thankfully they didn't do that.
The Bucks proceed to hit him with superkicks like a pinata. Danielson rolled back
in. Matthew accidentally struck his brother with a superkick with the tax as Danielson
grabbed one of the shoes and leveled them with it. Danielson hits the busaiku
knee with a chair for two of Kada made the save. Darby, now
by this point has been hanging upside down above the ring for a good five
minutes. Okay, bleeding and all the blood right well, of course,
all the blood is rushing into his head crowd is chanting, please help Darby.
Nobody does, and the announcers claim that everybody is afraid for their jobs.
They're fearful that if they get in there and they help, that the
elite will fire them. Okatta hit a rain maker, the bucks hit an
EVP trigger, and then Jack Perry reappears and he hits the charging knee to
pin Brian Danielson to win anarchy in the arena for the elite, and the
show finally ended at twelve thirty three East Coast time. They went thirty minutes
in this main event. When they hit the ring, it was midnight,
okay, so they went thirty minutes with this main event. Did not even
get going until the stroke of midnight. If you were looking for anarchy,
like legit anarchy in the arena, then that's what you got. You got
anarchy in the arena. It lived up to its name, one of the
wildest matches that you will ever see. Whether or not you enjoyed it is
a matter of personal taste. Some people enjoy these types of matches, some
people don't. I enjoyed it for what it was. I knew what to
expect coming in. I remember watching the first anarchy in the arena that they
did, and I thought that it was wild fun. I had a lot
of fun with it. Each year they do it, it's sort of the
log diminishing returns. The more you do something, it just doesn't have that
same feel to it. But I enjoyed it for what it was. I
mean, I thought there were some fun spots in there. There were some
other spots that were just you know, had to be shaking my head.
But again, nothing was going to be able to follow this, so you
had to close out the show with this. The elite wins, of course,
because you can't beat the elite. You get to keep this angle going.
You got to keep them strong, right, You can't beat them now,
that would be stupid. You beat them now there's no heat. The
whole point is to keep getting heat until one day they get their comeuppance.
Today was not that day. Speaking of heat, Jack Perry, Jack Perry,
after being set on fire, comes back and wins the match for his
team. They are trying to get him over. They are trying to get
him over, you know, as someone big, which is what they should
be doing. I mean, look, if they've committed themselves, he's part
of the Elite. This is their top angle in the company. They want
to try to put as much heat on this guy as possible, then this
is what they should do. That should be one of the goals of this
angle is to get Jack Perry over as a main eventor is Jack Perry going
to get over as a main eventor maybe not? I don't know. I
don't fault them for trying, though they're trying. You know, he was
a big part of this match. He beats Brian Danielson and goes over on
him here at the very end, and I think he should be next in
line to challenge for the TNT Championship. Where the Elite goes from here,
we will have to wait and see who their next target is going to be.
Is it going to be Swerve, Is it going to be MJF?
I don't know. But what I do know is they usually have a blood
and guts match around this time of year. In about a month's time is
when they usually have blood and guts, and it would be just complete overkill
for them to do what they did before, which is have anarchy in the
arena and then go to blood and guts and then have a stadium Stampede match
at Wembley State. It's too much. It's too much. There's no need
for that. I hope they don't do that. Got to let these things
breathe, especially stadium Stampede and anarchy in the arena. They're basically the same
fucking match. Yeah, at least blood and guts. You got two rings
instead of one, so it's a little bit different. But overall, I
thought it was a very good show. It was not my favorite of all
these aw pay per views. It was not their best, but I did
think it was a very good show. It was overkilled though, having three
different hardcore type matches on the same card, But they got their biggest starback
in the fold, and Tony Kahn should be ecstatic about that. Now,
let's take a look at this Twitter poll that I put up last night and
already had a few thousand votes. What did you think of Double or Nothing?
With twenty six hundred votes and counting fifty seven point five percent thumbs up
for this show, twenty three percent thumbs in the middle, just shy of
twenty percent thumbs down nineteen point six percent. You know, if it were
me, it's definitely higher than a fifty seven percent show to me, I
don't agree with that, but again, opinions are going to vary based on
the hardcore stuff and the types of matches they had on the show. The
booking is certainly questionable in some cases, especially on the Takeshta stuff, So
I get that. I did think it was a little bit stronger than that,
though, But you can vote cash you vote. It's because I felt
that way doesn't mean that you do. So let your voices be heard,
and don't forget to hit that like button. Smash that like button if you
have not already done. So, all right, let's take a look at
your super chests, as promised. As promised, I will read through all
of your messages here, and I do thank you. Not all of them
are in this list, but let me just move up to where we will
be starting from here. All right, let's go back in time, because
I said we had some that came in last night, so I want to
make sure I get those guys, including Jerome Eugenio. I didn't forget about
you, brother said we'll be listening to your review tomorrow, staying up late
as a young man's game, and Jerome is just finding out that there was
no review and there's a live review now. So Jerome, I don't know
if you're with us now or now, but thank you brother for the five
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I think he may have ducked out, but Dark Effect, thank you for
the ten bucks. Cheers to the iron Man of podcasters. Marathon of content
this week. May you keep your sanity. It is hard. But what
all the wrestling there is? You know? We had King of the Ring
obviously on Saturday, episode A sixty three went up. We had Double or
Nothing last night. We're live here. We're going to be live again tonight
after Raw, got TNT with JD tomorrow night. We got Dynamite on Wednesday,
SmackDown on Friday. So it's a never ending train. Men, there's
a lot of wrestling. I got you covered, mister O with the four
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I'm very sorry to hear that losing a pet sucks very tough. I'm not
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the entire division in front of me, but you've got thunder Rosa right,
You've got When Britt Baker comes back and Jamie Hater, my guess is they'll
be babyfaces, so you put them on that list. Serena deeb She's really
not a heel. I mean she technically is a babyface. Tony Storm is
not really a babyface, but the fans have made her one, and I
guess by association. Mariah May you would consider her a babyface. The Willow
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about at me, Doctor Bropio, Swerve against Evil, at Forbidden. Oh
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a mannequin in my house that I turned into a life size Michael Myers.
Yeah, but see that that at least is acceptable. I will accept that
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five dollars super chat. I'm probably alone on this as a New Japan fan,
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feel like AEW's NXT. I can see that you've got the IWGP champion in
the middle of the card the show, on a show filled with titles,
and I know it wasn't a title match, but you know, positioning is
important, and I could see where a new japan fan would look at that
and it would bother them. So you're not wrong in that. You're not
wrong in that the real cs MJF knew what he was doing by putting that
tattoo by his ankle. His boots will be covering it, so if he
eventually does go to WWE, it will not be awkward. He will eventually
end up in WWE, and again it will not be a big deal.
It will be covered up. It will not be an issue. And bass
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There you go. So that's the h the message portion. Hey,
doctor Bropio TK called in better help and MJF answered, well, Tony CON's
got other issues that even better help can't fix, so he's gonna have to
deal with that. But anyway, thank you for the six hundred and fifteen
likes. I know it would have been probably busier last night, and there's
probably other streams and whatnot, but thank you to those who stuck with me
and supported here of this stream. I do appreciate that. And right now,
let's go ahead and well, we got Marios coming in before we move
on here, get a couple more super chats coming in. Let me get
to these first, out of curiosity, have there been any other wrestling podcasters
that you have encountered issues with? Love the stream? No, not for
ten years since you know who. So it's been. It's been good.
I get along with most everybody because I'm easy to get along with. As
long as you're not a dumb dumb on social media, I'm pretty easy to
get along with. And Bender mc simpson with the four ninety nine Mercedes reminded
me of a lot of people, or reminded a lot of people how great
she is star making performance from Willow loved the Swerve and Christian match. Yeah,
it was a great pro wrestling match. It was fine. Yeah,
there was really there was nothing wrong with it. Hopefully bigger and better for
Swerve from here. But I thought it was fine. It was just a
very very late spot for them in the show, you know, not being
in the main event. But let's go ahead and be the booker, ladies
and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. We get I
know you guys have been waiting for it since last night, so let's not
keep you waiting any longer. I don't know, I don't know. Do
you think we'll have two be the bookers and one in one day? That's
going to be up to you, guys. If you guys come back and
support tonight, we'll see. I guess this is kind of like when WWE
back in the day, they would have these Mattinee shows. They'd have like
the A Crew, the B Crew, the Screw and you would have.
They would run Boston in the afternoon and then New York at the Garden at
night. This is the Mattinee show that you're getting here. On Memorial Day.
We begin with the Golden Lovers. Look at this Kenny Omega and Kota
Ibushi, two of the stars that are currently on the injured reserved list right
now. For Tony Kahan, Oh, those were better days, better days
physically better days, just in general. For Omega and for Ebushie, it'll
be the Golden Lovers taking on beautiful Bobby and stan Lane. I love it.
I love it all the midnight. You know, this ride here would
be a fantastic professional wrestling match. Now, of course, Jim Cornett is
managing these two guys against Kenny Omega, so that would be kind of wild
if you had Cornett managing the heels opposing Kenny Omega. I don't know what
he may do with that tennis racket to Omega. He may chase Omega around
the building with the racket. He may rap barbed wire around the racket and
chase after Omega. That would actually be kind of funny Jim Cornett and Kenny
Omega in the same match. Oh boy, all right, women's be the
booker. See what we come up with here. I love the random nature
of it all. You never know what you're gonna land on here. See
we begin with wow, did you hear that? I don't know if you
heard that. That was a sonic boom. Yeah, it's pretty nasty weather
here in New York, and holy shit, that was like an explosion.
Look at this ash by Elegance bringing the explosions here. This is Dana Brook.
I may have I may have soiled myself. Let's go here, Dana
Brook gonna go one on one with Awesome Kong. Yeah, power spying games
man, you got it right. Buzzer incoming, Buzzer incoming. All right,
made event time, and see you guys don't even have to wait until
midnight for it. Be the booker, made event. Let's do it.
Let's do it. We got Doink the Clown and this is the original Doink.
This is born, this is the Doink Doink the Clown. It's that
kind of it's that kind of day here and be the booker. Doink the
Clown gonna go one on one with Dominic Mysterio. You know, I actually
would love to have seen that match, just not in the main event.
It's not the match you're gonna headline the show with. But if I had
the chance to book that as an attraction on my show, Original Doink against
Dominic, I would book that match. I would fly them in, but
they would not be my main event. I'm sorry, you cannot. You
cannot justify that as a main event match. As much as I love Evil
Doink, Hey magician, Sapphire. Thank you for the ten dollars, says
thank god for the sound off and ots I tap out at eleven thirty pm.
I couldn't do it after working a twelve hour shift. Yeah, that's
that's rough, Darth panic. What is that painting or poster on the wall
behind you? That one right there. I've talked about it before. I
forget off hand the name of it, but Nick Flucker, I believe,
is the artist's name. It's hard to I guess maybe it's hard to tell,
but what it is. It's a forest scene and there's like a little
astronaut man who is walking through the forest, and each of those trees you
could kind of tell, has a different like a different colored doorway that's like
glowing. So there's like a blue entrance way in a red and a yellow
off in the distance there, and it's like he's walking through this weird forest
with different portals to other dimensions. I love it. I think it looks
great, looks even better in person. There you go, Nick Flucker.
I think it's fl u k e R. He's got other art that has
the astronaut man if you look them up. Bass Beera, says Cornett.
Would turn that racket. To turn that racket sideway. Yeah, Cornett would
turn that racket sideways, he says. And Devin from New Jersey. My
source was telling me that the expiration date on food is meaningless because that's what
we have our five senses for. Do you agree? Now, I go
by the expiration If it's I mean certain things that they're expired and it's been
a few days or a week, it's fine. And then there are certain
things where if it expires, it goes in the fucking trash. It just
depends on what kind of food and how perishable it is. So anyway,
there you go. Boy, it is really coming down outside here. Man.
It is pouring on Memorial Dan And of course I have to go out
in a couple of hours, because of course I do. But I'm going
to be back here. I may look like a wet rat, but I
will be back here tonight after Monday Night Raw because we have to talk about
the post King of the Ring edition Post King and Queen of the Ring episode
of Raw, So that will be later on tonight. Do me a favor,
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Bass beers, says Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell. I'm not a Will
Ferrell guy, really, so I'll go Ben Stiller. Actually I'll go Jerry
Stiller over either one of them. And Marios is excited for tonight and TNT.
You and JD do great work. Yes, that will be tomorrow.
I'll be live with JD for TNT on his channel at eight thirty tomorrow night.
I'm sure there will be plenty to talk about WWE and AEW, so
you're gonna get a lot of content out of me this week. I hope
you will be around for it. Then, be well, stay safe.
Hopefully it's nicer where you are and you enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day.
And I will see you guys for the Raw review the Raw post show
later on tonight live on YouTube. Until then, take care, guys,