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It was five years of AEW That
is what the promotion was celebrating this weekend,

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the first double or Nothing back in
twenty nineteen, and this very building

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that they were in last night,
the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and

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it gave us a little bit of
everything that I think represents aw In these

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first five years. One of the
hallmarks of this company has been consistently excellent

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pay per views. The one thing
you can say about AAWM. You can

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say whatever you want about aaw but
the quality of their pay per views,

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in terms of the matches, in
terms of the n ring, I would

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put that up against any other promotion
in the world. I mean, they

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have put on some tremendous shows over
the years, and what we had last

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night was another and a long line
of quality shows. I thought it was

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very good. It was not their
best show, but I still thought it

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was a very strong show last night. It had blood and violence. This

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is something that aaw has become known
for. They loved their violence. They

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love their thumbtacks and their plunder and
their hardcore matches and their crazy stunts.

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They love their blood. Lots of
blood. They should start their own blood

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bank. If you were looking for
violence and gore and blood. Then you

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were in luck because you got plenty
of that. Last night. You had

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an anarchy in the arena match,
you had a barbed wire cage match.

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Let me take your pick, and
that wasn't even all of it. So

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you had that on the show.
You also had some insanely stupid stunts because

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it wouldn't be an aw show without
them. So case in point, you

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had Adam Copeland nearly breaking both of
his legs diving off the top of the

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cage as he defended the TNT title
against Malachi Black. And he was way

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up there, okay, however high
it was fifteen feet a little over fifteen

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feet, and I'm watching him.
I'm thinking, to my cell I'm thinking

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to myself, what is he thinking? Get I'm thinking to myself, what

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is the going through this man's head
as he is standing up there and he

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is surveying the situation. It's the
same thing that he must be thinking,

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what the fuck have I gotten myself
into? Because I guarantee you he was

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thinking the same thing standing up on
top of that cage. Once he was

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actually up there, and he looked
all the way down and he realized that

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he had wrapped this man in barbed
wire so he couldn't put himself through the

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table. He was up there thinking, oh shit, because I can't climb

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down. Now I've got to commit
myself to the stunt. Here. We

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had that, We had Darby Allen
literally setting another man on fire. So

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you had those stunts on the show. These are all hallmarks of Tony Khan's

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company. And do you know what
else is a hallmark of Tony Kh's company,

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MJF. MJF is their biggest homegrown
star. MJF went down with an

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injury at the end of last year. He lost the Aworld time to Samoa

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Joe. We have not seen MJF
on television since, and his presence has

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been felt in terms of his presence
not being there on the shows that It's

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not like they don't have other people
who could step in and take his spot

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for a period of time. They
got plenty of people on the roster,

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but there was nobody else on the
aw roster like MJF. And we got

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him back on this show, nobody. I guarantee you as happy as I

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was to see him on TV,
and I was not expecting him back this

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soon, but there he was,
and as happy as I was to see

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him, I can guarantee you that
there was nobody more happy than Tony Kahan

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to see MJF back on TV because
now, after this laundry list of injuries

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that all of his talents have,
I mean, people have been going down

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left and right. You look at
the list of all the injured talent right

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now in aw you could put together
one hell of a talent roster and MJF

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was at the head of that list. So to get him back at a

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time when the ratings are going this
way and that way, and to get

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him back at a time when they
can really use him. Believe me,

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nobody is happier to have this man
back on his show than Tony Kahan.

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And he has been missed because not
only does he have one of his top

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stars back now from the injured list, but he has one of his top

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stars, if not frankly his top
star. I keep calling him one of

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MJF is his top guy. And
to have him back on TV and also

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have him out there basically playing raw
ra for aaw and pulling up his pant

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leg and showing a tattoo that he
now has on his lower leg the AEW

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logo. The AW name is tattooed
now on this man's leg. At least,

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I will say this, I will
say this. At least he was

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smart enough to get it on his
leg where it can be hidden in five

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years, and he had enough sense
to get it there and not on his

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neck like Cody Rhodes. But he
out there mister aw man. He was

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waving the flag, showing the tattoo. Everybody was going nuts. He felt

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out there like mister aw And that
has to make Tony Khan feel very good.

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Now. Of course, he's had
him under lock and Keith for a

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while now. Most people, I
think already expected that he had re signed,

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probably a couple of years ago,
and so and when they dropped the

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whole bidding war of twenty twenty four
stuff a while back, I think we

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all figured that. So he's had
him under contract now for a while.

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But Tony kh now doesn't have to
worry about MJF. He doesn't have to

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worry about MJF leaving. All the
talk about people leaving, I mean,

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you hear it about a lot of
people. You hear it about Ricky Starks.

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You hear it about Wardlow, you
hear it about Malachi Black. Some

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may leave, some may not.
These people are unhappy. These people may

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be unhappy. You don't have to
worry about that now. MJF made it

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very clear. He is AEW,
tried and true and he is here to

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stay, and that has to put
a smile on Tony Khan's face. We

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also have new champions, two new
champions on this pay per view last night,

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which also means that all three of
Tony Kahan's big signings this year are

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champions because we have Okata who is
the Continental champion. We have Will Osprey

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is the brand new International champion,
and Mercedes Monet is the AEW Women's TBS

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Champion, TBS Champion, whatever the
fuck they call it. You have the

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women's world title. Now you have
the TBS title. Mercedes is not the

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Women's World Champion, but she is
the face of TBS now, which I

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think to the surprise of no one. I mean, come on, did

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you really think that Tony Kahan was
going to bring this woman in, sign

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her for probably millions of dollars and
beat her in her first fucking match.

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I mean, use your head,
Come on now, I like Willa just

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as much as anybody else. But
she had no chance of walking out of

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Las Vegas with that title unless she
goes and buys herself a TBS title replica.

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Okay, that she drown her sorrows
away and take the replica belt home

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with her. But Mercedes was always
going to walk in and walk out with

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that championship. And so now they
all have gold. That was going to

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make a difference. I don't know. I mean, he signed all these

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people. It hasn't really seemed to
make a difference in terms of the actual

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shows, but titles for everyone.
Everyone's got a title. Now look at

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that. I got two titles right
behind me on the wall. There you

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go. I took the Solemn Monster
one down though we had that up for

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King of the Ring yesterday, but
I took it down. We'll bring it

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back later this week. Was it
a perfect show? No? Was it

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their best show? No? But
I did think it was a strong effort.

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I enjoyed it overall. But the
one thing I did not enjoy,

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and it has to be said because
it remains my biggest pet peeve with these

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shows, as great as they can
be, it was eleven o'clock last night

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and the first of three what they
built as three main events. They said

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there was a triple main event on
this show. The first of the three

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main events on this show was still
in the ring at eleven o'clock at night,

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which means we had the two other
main events yet to come, and

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it was already eleven pm out on
the East coast. That is ridiculous,

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that should never happen, and yet
there it was swerving. Christian went out

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after that, and then we still
had anarchy in the arena and they were

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only first getting started with that at
midnight. It was a very long night,

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as is the case usually with these
aw shows when you have an anarchy

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in the arena. Match because the
thing in the time management on these shows

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is just awful, absolutely fucking awful. When you have a show that has

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an anarchy in the arena, match
cool, that's the big attraction on the

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show. We know this because it's
been three years in a row now that

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we've had anarchy in the arena.
We also had a barbed wire cage match,

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as I mentioned, two hardcore tight
matches, two hardcore attractions that people

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can pay to see. When you
have two matches like that, You do

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not also need an FTW title match
with more garbage and more tables and more

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bullshit. You don't need to do
it. That match did not need to

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be on this show. There were
at least two matches that one in the

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Orange Cassidy match that did not have
to take place on this pay per view,

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And you could have trimmed some of
the fat and the show would have

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gotten, you know, a little
bit a little bit shorter in terms of

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the runtime, and it can make
a difference in terms of the you know,

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when the show is over and you
look back on it and go,

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man, that was a good show, but fuck it was exhausting. There

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are just matches that don't need to
be on these shows. And you know,

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he tries to give people their money's
worth, and he tries to again

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fill the cards up as much as
he can, because Tony Kahn's goal is

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always to go out and have the
best pay per view ever, right,

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everything is the best ever, And
so I get that that's his mentality,

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but it's completely unnecessary. And it's
the one thing, if I had to

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pick the one thing that bothers me
that I wish I could the power to

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change out these shows. That's what
it would be. Again, I understand

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the mindset behind it, because look, I will say, I paid fifty

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bucks for this show too, and
I can understand that. Well, we

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want to get people their money's worth, right, They're paying their hard earned

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money, and so we want to
give them the best possible show that we

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can, right. I understand that. And I am one of the people

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who paid for their show. Now
you should see some of the messages that

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I got last night and even into
this morning. I was getting messages from

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people and all the fucking in cells
that were tweeting me, you paid for

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this show. You actually paid for
this show. I didn't pay for this

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show. What an idiot? You
paid for the show. Yeah, you

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should see the fucking messages that I
got from people last night when I mentioned

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the fact that you know, I
actually paid the fifty bucks that you have

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to pay YouTube or fights because now
the show you can buy it on fight

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and Bleach report, leach a report. I don't bother with that anymore.

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Uh, But yes, I paid
for the show. So I had to

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deal with all the incels saying you
know, haha, you paid for the

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show. Yes, I did pay
for the show. You know why I

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paid for the show, because I
actually worked for a living and you might

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too. You might actually get hired
if your fucking resume was not written in

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crayon with fucking grease stains on it, you fucking weirdos. So I just

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wish that these shows would be a
little bit shorter, and I think they

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would be a little bit more enjoyable
for it and not just for me as

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a content creator. But even if
look, I didn't go live last night

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and it was still a long show. Obviously, I usually do go live

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when it's over. That's why you're
getting me today here on Memorial Day and

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not late last night, because what
I mean, there was no point fucking

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do a scream half dead. I
mean, what's the point in doing that?

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Uh? But in any event,
that's the one uh, that's the

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one thing I would say about that
less is more, I always say,

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and I do believe that less is
more. Look, I paid a hell

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of a lot more than fifty bucks, okay, to go to WrestleMania,

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and I felt the exact same way. I didn't sit there and go well,

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God, I paid hundreds of dollars
for this ticket and the airfare and

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the hotel. Boy, give me
fifteen fucking matches. No, I'm sitting

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there sometimes going what the fuck?
Thank god? Now it's two nights.

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That's the one reason I liked the
two nights, because it just got to

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a point with these shows where it
just got to be too much. Less

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is more. The show should not
start at seven o'clock and end at twelve

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thirty three in the morning. I
mean, that's just ridiculous. Well,

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let's get into it here. I
promise you it will not be a five

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and a half hour stream. This
is your aw double or nothing twenty twenty

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four review. I am the Solemn
Monster. So they had two matches on

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the buy in pre show, and
yes, this is stream number one.

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I should I thank you fire Panda
for the reminder this is stream number one.

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I will be better with you later
tonight after Raw because we have the

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post King of the Ring edition of
RAW, so that will be later on

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tonight. But you got me now
here during the daytime. Hey ga,

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thank you for the super chat says
screw them in cells bro, I saw

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the tie. I'm still the tweets
are still coming in. It's actually hilarious

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to me. It's hilarious to me. You should see it mainly on the

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Copeland Wait until I get to the
Copeland stuff. You should see the bullshit,

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the mountain of absolute bullshit that I
have seen by posting what I thought

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of the Adam Copeland die from the
top of the cage. Oh boy,

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oh boy, people got They got
a lot of sand in their vagina.

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Holy shit. When you see how
hot and bothered people got by this,

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it's a beautiful thing. It really
is. But we'll get to that later.

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So there were two matches on the
Bayan pre show, Deanna Pirazzo and

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Thunder Rosa. They had their issues
of late tonight. They went one on

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one. Deanna picked up the wind
how did it go down? Parazzo spun

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out of a Tijuana bomb into the
Fujiwara arm. Bar Rosa, though,

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escaped and then applied a cobra crossface. But as Rosa went to go kick

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away from the ropes to avoid Deanna
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close to the ropes on the other
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steal the pin, and the referee
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win for Deanna. Parrazzo, Billy
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a win over Brian Cage and the
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They hit a triple power bomb on
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Bowens, though broke up the pin. Brian Cage went to ringside and he

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grabbed a chair, but the Vegas
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took the chair away from Brian Cage. And I don't know what the

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hell the mascot is supposed to be. Maybe somebody can fill me in.

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It looked like a fucking dinosaur to
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know what it is. Maybe it's
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But whatever the mascot is, I
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I believe from what I was from
what I was able to say. Anyway,

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this was not the first time the
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Brian Cage this year. There was
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year. They were in Vegas and
the mascot was doing the Prince Nana dance

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when Brian Cage attacked the mascot from
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guess he didn't forget Cage went after
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famouser on the floor. Inside,
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Gates of Agony with an inside cradle
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match for Billy and the acclaimed.
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news here on the pre show.
There was a segment where and this is

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another this is another one of these
situations where it's a gilla monster. The

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fuck is that a gilla monster?
I don't know what that is. Okay,

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I'm being told it is a gilla
monster. Is that similar to a

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solo monster? Okay? Well,
you learn something new every day. I

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don't know what that is. But
in any event, this is another thing

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I tweeted about this. Tony Kahan
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and it just completely devolved into WWE
fans and AW fans just sniping back and

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forth like a bunch of fucking losers. But I actually thought that this was

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a good announcement. So Renee was
out on stage. She introduced Martha Hart

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and Tony Kahan and Martha noted that
it has been twenty five years since the

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founding of the Owenhart Foundation. It's
been twenty five years since Owenhart passed away.

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I talked about that on episode A
sixty three yesterday. Hard to believe

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it's been twenty five years. And
she said that she and Tony had something

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special in mind this year for the
owen Hart Cup because they're bringing it back.

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This is gonna be the third year
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be doing the finals on July tenth
back in Calgary at the saddle Doome as

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part of the Calgary Stampede. So
she said that they had a special announcement

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to make, and then Tony Kahn
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back on Christmas Eve that Martha told
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him. This is what he claims, Okay, that Martha had this great

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idea and then Martha Hart told him
that we should do something special for the

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tournament. What they came up with
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the Women's owen Hart Cup this year
will each receive a World Championship match at

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aw all in London at Wembley Stadium. Now I should say he didn't really

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say this announcement. He screamed it
as he usually. He's so awkward with

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these things. So you know what, they really do, They need a

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commissioner or somebody who could just kind
of come out and make these announcements.

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He's just he's so fucking weird.
But anyway, so after screaming the announcement,

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I love it. I think it's
great. Let's raise the stakes.

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Let's raise the stakes, right?
Did we just did that this weekend?

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Let's raise the stakes for summer Slam. Let's raise the stakes. Were all

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in London. So I like the
announcement, just like I did you know

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what wwe did with the King of
the Ring this year? And as I

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said before, people were sniping back
and forth, Oh you know how convenient?

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Where did I hear this from?
You know where? And it's like,

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who gives this shit? It was
the right move to make. Now

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did they come up with this idea
seven months ago? Five months ago,

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six months ago? That's what he
claims. I don't know, I don't

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care. I like it. But
here's the thing, it's not enough to

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just say that the winner of the
men's tournament gets a world title match,

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and the winner of the women's tournament
gets a world time. What you need

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to do in this tournament because I
look back to what they did last year,

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and you had CM punk was in
the Menzo and Cup, and you

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had Samoa Joe in the Menzo and
Cup, and even a guy like Ricky

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Starks who was not at their level
but was seemingly at the time I guess

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not anymore a star on the ascent, and he went on to win the

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entire thing. But you had some
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the same token, you also had
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All due respect to those two men
because they're legends, and again I

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respect the hell out of both of
them. You do not need to have

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Satoshi Kojima and people like that and
people like Dustin Rhodes in this fucking tournament

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if a World Heavyweight Championship match is
up for grabs and its stake in the

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main event of all in London at
Wembley Stadium. So they need to do

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a better job this year of including
bigger names in this tournament to make it

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a little less obvious when somebody is
going to take the l So hopefully they

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will stock this thing up with mostly
big names on both sides, but especially

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in the men's tournament. Get some
big names in there, you know,

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I know you want to have a
spoiler, and not even a spoiler,

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I mean you want to have,
you know, a name in there that

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can lose. You don't necessarily want
to put every single top guy that you

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have, because then people have to
lose. You may not want to beat

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them. You know. I understand
that there are political implications to putting these

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brackets together, but as long as
they do that, then I'm all for

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it, and I think it's a
great idea and I don't have an issue

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with it. As far as early
predictions, I mean, to me,

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you asked me right now, who
do I think is going to win the

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OER in this year. I think
Will Osprey has got to be the favorite

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on the men's side. I think
Mariah May has to be the favorite.

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On the women's side. We'll see, because we're still seven or eight weeks

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away from the finals, not even
maybe about six weeks, six or seven

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weeks away from the finals. We
don't even know who's in the tournaments yet,

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but those would be the early favorites
for me. So we get into

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the main card here. Thank you, by the way, to all the

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folks who gifted channel memberships, I
appreciate you very much. We had people

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who did that last night, and
Super chatted last night too when they thought

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I was going live, So Jerome
and everybody else who was in the chat

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last night, thank you as well, and we'll get to all your messages

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here in a little bit. The
main card opened with Roderick Strong defending the

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International Championship against will Ospray. This
was a very good opener and it almost

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went horribly wrong less than five minutes
into this match. So when I talk

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about stunts being a hallmark of a
lot of these aw shows and seeing a

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lot of very stupid things that shouldn't
happen, we got our first example of

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it in the first five minutes of
this main card here on this show.

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This is one of the dumbest spots
that I have Actually, you know what

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I was going to say, This
is one of the dumbest spots I've seen

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in a long time. But it
was the dumbest spot I saw until the

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TNT title match later in the show. So Don Kallis is on commentary for

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this. Osprey tried for a hidden
blaze right away, right at the beginning

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as Roddy was posing during his entrance, but he missed. Ospray flew outside

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and he quickly disposed of Matt Tavn
and Mike Bennett. Okay, because the

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Kingdom were outside in Roddy's corner,
so Strong tried to slam Osprey on top

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of the top part of the barricade. By the Timekeeper's aream, Osprey flipped

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over it, though, and then
wiped out the members of the Kingdom.

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Osprey was in control until Roddy in
the ring took the referee, and this

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allowed Mike Bennett to hold Osprey up
on his shoulders outside in a doomsday device

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position. Okay, so he's got
will Ospray up on his shoulders. Matt

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Taan, this was this was so
stupid for so many reasons. Matt Tavin

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gets in the ring. Now,
this is not a notice qualification match.

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Okay, keep that in mind.
Matt Tavin gets in the ring and Matt

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Taven, who's going to hit the
ropes and he's going to do a dive

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out over the top rope and wipe
out will Ospray. Okay, that's what

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he's going to do. The referee
is over by the ropes, kneeling down

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with Roddy on the side of the
ring where Matt Tavan is going to hit

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the ropes. There is no way
that this referee does not know. Okay,

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even if you check your brain at
the door. With these shows,

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there is no way that this referee
does not know that Matt Tavan is hitting

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the ropes. Yet he has to
pretend like he doesn't know, which therefore

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makes the referee, and they do
this all the time in this company,

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makes the referee look like a fucking
geek. But the referee has to pretend

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he doesn't see it. Okay,
there's no shadow, he doesn't see the

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ropes moving, he doesn't see it. So that's the first stupid thing.

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Matt Taven hits the ropes and he
comes flying off and it looked like his

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feet clipped the top rope as he
sort out over the top. He wipes

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it out Ospray, and it looked
like will Ospray landed right on top of

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his head. And I think he
got his hands down to cushion the blow,

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but it looked bad. The announcers
were like, oh shit, you

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know, please go check on him, and you could tell there's like a

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little a little bit of a hush
uh with the crowd here. So as

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dumb as that was, that the
referee having to play stupid here and pretends

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he didn't know what was going on. You see the spot and again Tavan

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almost killed himself. Osprey almost killed
himself, absolutely just brain dead, stupid

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spot for so many different reasons,
including the stuff with the referee, and

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it nearly killed one of their top
stars in the first five minutes of this

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show. Very dumb. Thankfully,
Osprey was okay. He avoided a backbreaker

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into a corkscrew kick. Tavan and
Bennett again distracted the referee, and Wardlow

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took forever because Osprey's in the ring
with his back turns, He's motioning,

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come on, come on, come
in the ring, and it's like they're

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stalling, and I'm like, what's
going on here? What are they stalling

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for? And they were waiting.
Wardlow was a little late. Wardlow gets

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in the ring. He took forever
to come up behind Osprey to attack him,

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and he was about to power bomb
Will Osprey. The referee stumbles backward.

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I don't even know why he stumbled
backwards, but he stumbles backwards,

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and he bumps into them and turns
around. Then he sees Wardlow and so

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he starts, you know, yelling
at Wardlow to get out of the ring

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and go to the floor, and
Wardlow Wardlow sold it like oh gee,

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golly, oh okay, all right, oh gee. You know, it's

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not like he sold it like he
was oh, oh shit, I got

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caught, or he was upset or
he was angry. He was like,

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oh, oh, okay, all
right, sure, no problem, Okay,

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I'll leave the ring. So Osprey
followed with a sky twister press onto

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the Kingdom on the outside of the
ring. Finally, Bryce Remsburg does eject

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Wardlow and Matt Tavian m Mike Bennett
and security escorts them out back inside.

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Osprey hit the wall walk in Ziguri
into a Fisherman suplex. He tried to

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leap of faith, but he landed
on his feet, jammed his knee in

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the process, and Osprey wanted hit
and blade Roddy, though rolled through into

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a Texas clover leaf. So Strong
hit a superplex held on into a torture

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raged backbreaker for a two cop Roddy
hit the Fireman's carry gutbuster, but as

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he went for the sick kick,
Osprey countered into a power bomb. We

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got a crazy sequence of counters until
Will fired off an oscutter could not follow

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up. Now, for some reason, Bryce Remsburg decides he has to check

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on rodd He's very concerned about Roderick
Strong did look like anything out of the

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ordinary. But he goes over and
he's he's checking on this man and Osprey.

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They zoom it on his face and
he like mouths the words like,

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oh not again. You know,
after what happened in the match of Dynasty

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with Brian Danielson where he hit him
with the tiger Driver and he was so

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apologetic after it. He could you
know, he was so upset that he

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nearly paralyzed this man. He thought, oh, oh my god, it

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happened again. So he's in the
corner and he's waiting over there, and

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Don Kallos gets up off commentary and
he goes over to Will Ospray and he's

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telling him to go snap this man's
neck. He said, he's already going

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to the hospital break his neck and
Osprey shoves Bryce out of the way.

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It looks like he was gonna go
hit the tiger driver, but he hesitated

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and that allowed Roddy to hit another
gutbuster and a sick kick for a close

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two count. Ospray countered the end
of Heartache into a herd Conrada pin for

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two. Roddy popped up with the
knee lift and then again went for the

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end of heartache. Osprey, though
landed on his feet. He hit a

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hidden blade and the storm Breaker for
the wind to crown a brand new AEW

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International champion. The exact right move
to make here was putting this title on

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Will Osprey. It should not have
gone down any other way. And Callous

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is out there going we won,
we won, you know, like he

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did something big here. So Osprey
strikes gold for the first time in his

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AW career. It will not be
the only gold that this man holds this

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year. You can mark that down. I mean, it doesn't take a

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rocket scientist, I think, to
make that prediction. But I'm gonna make

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it right now. His first taste
of gold and not his only taste here

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in twenty twenty four, but with
the momentum he has. This was a

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no brainer. You know, you
don't worry about putting over Roderick Strong.

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You put over will Osprey and you
keep him strong and you keep his momentum

406
00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:32.559
going because he's the guy. Right
now, Roddy is not the guy.

407
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.640
Will Osprey is the guy, and
now he could take this title and he

408
00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.119
can move on to bigger and better. I thought it was a hell of

409
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.960
an opening match. I'm not going
to point off though, for that dumb

410
00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:48.799
doomsday spot at the beginning. Now
Wardlow got ejected, and I'm going to

411
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.799
be watching to see if Adam Cole
calls him out on Wednesday because he failed

412
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:57.640
to do his job. Remember what
happened after Wardlow lost his title shot to

413
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:03.920
Samoa Joe and Adam Cole said,
you had one job, you had one

414
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.839
job, and you couldn't even do
that. And so now your only job

415
00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:10.240
here in this group is to make
sure that all the other members, Roddy

416
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.279
and the Kingdom, they keep their
titles. That's all you need to do.

417
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:17.359
Well, he failed to do that, So what will happen now?

418
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:21.759
Adam Cole should be coming out on
television this week, you know and calling

419
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:26.640
him out for it. And again
they didn't have to do that here on

420
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.000
this show. They didn't have to
give that away. They could save that

421
00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.039
for TV, especially with what they
had planned. In the very next segment

422
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.920
that came after this, which had
a lot of people talking, Adam Cole

423
00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:44.160
was out to the ring by himself
and he was walking pretty well, which

424
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.319
is good to see. He said
it was story time with Adam Cole,

425
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:52.680
and he told the Las Vegas crowd
that they all suck. He said he

426
00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.039
should be checking on Roddy or hanging
out with the Kingdom since they just got

427
00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:59.440
thrown out of the building, which
begs the question why wasn't he Why did

428
00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.559
he come out here? I mean, I know, I know, but

429
00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:07.319
I mean, if you think about
it, why did he come out here?

430
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:10.160
He really didn't have any reason to
come out here and address the audience.

431
00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.599
It's almost as if they had this
all planned. So he said that

432
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:18.799
he should be home resting so he
can get back in the rings sooner.

433
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.599
Then he pulled out the devil mask
from the angle with MJF and he said,

434
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.920
you know, there's a little devil
inside all of us. And he

435
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:32.079
said that when he is one hundred
percent, we will give the devil,

436
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:37.000
his due and his name is and
then the lights went out. A video

437
00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.839
played on the tron with a figure
walking down. It's from a first person

438
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.880
perspective, so we couldn't see who
it was, although we saw a hand

439
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.079
and I could tell just from the
hand, I could tell who it was.

440
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:53.359
So this person is walking down a
hallway. There's a door that's a

441
00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:59.640
jar, and this person pushes the
door open. And in this room it

442
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:04.799
has it's just showcasing various MJF artifacts, his diamond ring, they have the

443
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:11.119
giant poker chip that he won in
that ladder match it all out a few

444
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.880
years ago. The dog collar was
sitting on a shelf, obviously from his

445
00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.599
match with cmpunk. And then there
was a mannequin in the middle of the

446
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.240
room. Because who among us does
not have a life size mannequin that we

447
00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:26.000
put our clothing on, in our
jacket on in the middle of our house.

448
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:32.920
So on this mannequin there's a red
sports jacket and the Birdberry scarf is

449
00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:37.720
around its neck. Then the person
pulls out I guess from maybe the jacket

450
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:42.519
pocket. He pulls out a partially
torn photo of Adam Cole and then he

451
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:48.799
lifts up the other torn half of
the photo to show MJF, and you

452
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.359
could hear the fans in the arena. They react big to that. They

453
00:31:52.400 --> 00:32:00.240
cut back to the arena, they
play mjf's music and the fans erupted and

454
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:06.720
outwalks MJF dressed like Triple h when
he returned from the Torn squad at Madison

455
00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:12.079
Square Garden back in two thousand.
I mean right down to the same outfit.

456
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:16.880
He had the denim vest over the
leather jacket. I mean, this

457
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.279
could not have been any more obvious
here what he was going for. And

458
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:27.319
he walks out there. He's in
fantastic shape, obviously, he's you know,

459
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.240
been hitting the gym and getting ready
for this return. The man was

460
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:36.400
shredded. MJF got in the ring, he looked down at the Devil mask

461
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.160
for a moment, which was on
the mat crowd's channing. Holy shit,

462
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:44.640
MJF is looking at Cole, who
wanted a big hug, and so the

463
00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:49.440
crowd chanted you fucked up at Adam
Cole. MJF decided to give him a

464
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:54.839
hug, and then he promptly kicked
this man in the balls. Pull's first

465
00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:59.599
bump, by the way, his
first real bump since getting hurt. MJF

466
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:02.519
picked up the microphone, he knelt
down and he called Cole a noodle arm

467
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.680
bobbleheaded son of a bitch, and
he called for someone to get this shit

468
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.920
stain out of his ring. See
I wonder where he got that from.

469
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:16.160
So trainers helped Cole to the back
while MJF stayed in the ring. And

470
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:22.440
I do wonder if that was more
an issue of sort of putting a button

471
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.079
on the issue for now temporarily with
Adam Cole. If Cole is not ready

472
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.240
to get back in the ring.
And I I mean, there's been no

473
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:32.400
reports about any health updates on him
where he is in his progress from his

474
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:37.039
surgeries, and because there was a
very very bad injury that he stained last

475
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:40.119
year. I think it was more
than one surgery that he had, so

476
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:44.079
we don't know how close. I
mean, he's walking around now, which

477
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.759
is great, but we don't know
how close he is to an in ring

478
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:49.839
return. So this may have been
their way of saying, Okay, get

479
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.279
this fucking guy out of my ring. I'm moving on to something else with

480
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.440
the time. Be just the thought. Maybe maybe that's what that was.

481
00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:00.000
But MJF said that he trusted Cole. He says that will never happen again.

482
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.200
He said Cole didn't take him out, he merely woke him up.

483
00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:07.319
He said, now he remembers exactly
who he is. He said he's the

484
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:12.679
greatest wrestler on God's green Earth and
a generational talent. He said that unlike

485
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.880
all of the schmucks in the back, he didn't need a New Japan or

486
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:24.199
a Vince McMahon to make him because
MJF made MJF his first promo back and

487
00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:30.440
he's out here dressed like Triple H
and name dropping Vince McMahon. He couldn't

488
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:35.000
help himself. He said, no
more haha, no more friendship, no

489
00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:38.679
more kangaroo kicks, no more bullshit. He said he was back to being

490
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:42.679
driven by what makes him the best. That he wasn't talking about love.

491
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:47.599
He was talking about hate. Hate, hate, hate, and when he's

492
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.320
driven by hate, nobody is safe. He picked the devil mask up off

493
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:57.079
the mat. He called it stupid
and goofy. He said the masks are

494
00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:00.519
adorned by cowards who are hiding.
He said he's done and apologizing for being

495
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:05.119
the best. He said it's not
his fault that all the fan favorites suck

496
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:09.159
a big old bag of Donkey Dix
compared to him. I may have to

497
00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:14.280
start using that. I like that
insult. MJF said that he would need

498
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:16.679
to mask, or need a mask, to prove that no one is on

499
00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:20.880
the level of the devil. He
said the mask makes him think of the

500
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:24.119
end of twenty twenty three and it
turns his stomach in knots. He took

501
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:28.559
his jacket off. He said the
mask could go straight to hell. Put

502
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:30.639
the mask on the mat, and
he proceeded to do a Rick Flair strut,

503
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.159
well, which was really a Fargo
shrut, but he did the Flare

504
00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:38.119
strut, dropped the elbow like Flair
used to drop on the inanimate objects.

505
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:42.280
Well, Flair used to drop it
on his jacket. I know once he

506
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.079
dropped it on it was either his
book or Mick Foley's book. I think

507
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:49.679
he dropped the elbow on it.
Flair does that now, but he does

508
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.320
it when there's no cameras around because
of me. He's of that age.

509
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.639
Yeah, he just does it.
So anyway, So then he picked up

510
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:58.280
the mask, he spat on it, and he tossed it into the crowd.

511
00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:00.440
He said, he's been betting on
himself day one. He said that

512
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.840
he's all in double or nothing,
and regarding his contract status, he pulled

513
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.320
up one leg of his pants.
He showed off a tattoo that read bet

514
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.039
on yourself and it had the AW
logo in the middle. I think it

515
00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:15.760
might have been a poker chip,
but it had the AAW logo in the

516
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:21.840
middle. And he said he's not
fucking leaving, and the fans roared with

517
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:28.760
approval. This was a tour de
force performance right here and exactly. This

518
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:35.159
was exactly what AAW needs right now. They needed this man back in the

519
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.000
worst way, and the timing could
not be any better for them now heading

520
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:44.079
into the summer and heading into their
next Wembley Stadium show. They dropped the

521
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:47.880
whole bidding war of twenty twenty four
stuff a while back. It's not like

522
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:52.119
that's a new thing that they just
stopped talking about. They stopped talking about

523
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:55.000
it a while ago. Nobody believed
that this man was leaving. Nobody who

524
00:36:55.079 --> 00:37:00.440
actually took a second to really think, I think expected that MJF was going

525
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:02.440
to leave because also, look,
I said, he resigned before he even

526
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:09.079
came back in twenty twenty two.
I didn't know that, but that just

527
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:13.920
common sense. He came back,
they put the AW world title on him,

528
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.719
Tony Kahn ran with him as his
champion for a year. He's not

529
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:21.360
doing that unless he has a long
term commitment to this man and he has

530
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.239
him under lock and key for a
certain period of time. He's been burned

531
00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.159
too many times by WWE trying to
fuck with them, right, That's all

532
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:30.239
he ever talks about is how WWE
fucks with him and does this and that

533
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:32.239
and contract hampering. Do you think
they would have ran as hard as they

534
00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:37.079
did with MJF as long as they
did if he didn't know that he was

535
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.639
safe and he had him under contract
for an extended period of time. It's

536
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:45.599
just common sense. But for him
to go out there and articulate that finally,

537
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:49.199
instead of going out there and saying, oh, hey, my buddy,

538
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.039
Nick Kahan and hey, Paul levk
you don't call me yoh, instead

539
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:54.880
of doing that stuff like he was
doing before, he goes out there now

540
00:37:54.880 --> 00:38:00.480
and he is just the biggest cheerleader
for AW and he is saying this is

541
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:05.159
the place to be, this is
my home, this is where I made

542
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.159
my name, and this is where
I'm going to be for the foreseeable future.

543
00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:12.920
So whether it was twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, whether it

544
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:16.679
was January. Of course, MJF
is locked in and he's not going anywhere

545
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:20.679
for a while. Do I think
that MJF is going to be AW for

546
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:24.079
life? Very few people in wrestling
stay in one place for the duration of

547
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:28.480
their career. Do I think one
day he'll be in WWE? Absolutely.

548
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:30.599
Do I think that's going to be
in the next five years. Probably not.

549
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:36.360
But do I think it'll eventually happen, of course. But it's good

550
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:39.679
for Tony Khan that his biggest star
now is locked down and he can go

551
00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:44.920
out there and let the fans know
this is the place to be and put

552
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:50.239
over AW as a number one.
So that was very important, I thought,

553
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:53.599
but now more than ever, Tony
Khan needed somebody to go out there

554
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:58.840
like that and make that kind of
a statement. And injuries have been a

555
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:01.480
very big problem for Tony Kahn.
As I mentioned before, he lost Adam

556
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:07.199
Cole, he lost Kenny Omega,
then he lost them JF among others.

557
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:13.960
MJF is the biggest star they have, biggest star, they have bar Nunt,

558
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:20.719
biggest home grown star that they have
is MJF. And doing this segment

559
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:23.599
here on this show, even though
you know it may have for some people

560
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:29.360
gotten lost in all the noise of
last night because there was so much other

561
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:34.159
shit that came after this, I
think it was smart because now it creates

562
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.199
interest going into Dynamite on Wednesday.
You know what they're trying to do is

563
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:42.480
they're trying to drum up interest in
Dynamite and Collision and get the numbers up

564
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:45.960
again. He's in the middle of
a negotiation period with Warner Brothers Discovery.

565
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.920
This is the most important year in
the history of this company right now,

566
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.960
so he needs all the help he
can get to try to get those numbers

567
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:57.440
backed up, make them look as
sexy as possible going into this this very

568
00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:00.800
important period. And so you don't
want to give away the store here,

569
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:04.599
but you put MJF on the show
and you let people know he's back and

570
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.440
he's probably going to be on TV
that I would imagine he'll be on TV

571
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:09.760
this week. I mean, you
certainly want people thinking that he's going to

572
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:14.519
be on TV this week. So
I thought that was smart. You know,

573
00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:17.800
get some eyeballs back on the show. Hopefully the fans treated him here

574
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:22.119
like the biggest babyface in the world. That does not necessarily mean that he

575
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.519
is going to be a babyface,
and I certainly hope he is not going

576
00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:30.320
to be a babyface the way that
he was last year. That version of

577
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.840
MJF needs to die. He is
evolved from that now. We can leave

578
00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:37.320
that in the past. The stuff
with him and Adam Cole, it worked,

579
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:39.360
you know, it was organic,
It took off. They ran with

580
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:43.559
it. They got to work a
Wembley match in the main event against each

581
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:46.840
other. It ran its course.
It's over. This is the version now

582
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:51.719
of MJF that we need on TV. We don't need the sappy comedy guy

583
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.400
kangaroo kick all that bullshit, like
he said in the promo, that's dead,

584
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:58.960
that's buried, it's over, it's
done. This is the version of

585
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.199
MJF that we need to see.
Adam Cole should be his first target in

586
00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:06.599
theory because of the way that things
were left at World's end, but again,

587
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.239
not knowing what his injury status is, they may not be able to

588
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:13.679
go to that. Otherwise I would
say that would make sense as the Wembley

589
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:15.119
match for MJF this year. You
know, won't be the main event,

590
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.679
but you run it back one year
later MJF against Cole. He can beat

591
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:22.840
Adam Hole and then move on to
something else. But it just may not

592
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:28.199
be possible. But keep in mind
they're also doing an angle right now involving

593
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:31.400
the elite and their takeover. Basically, it's like a hostile takeover of the

594
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:37.559
company in many ways, which is
strange because Tony Kahn is back, and

595
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:42.639
you would think that if the president
and CEO of the company, who would

596
00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:47.039
have seniority over any EVP, Why
are the young bucks allowed to run rough

597
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:52.920
Shot over this company? But why
ask why? If the elite are running

598
00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.000
rough Shot and MJF is mister aw
you would think that they're going to butt

599
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.880
heads at some point very soon.
Him in the Bucks, him and Jack

600
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:06.360
Perry right, only a matter of
time, and that would be one way

601
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.880
to spice that angle up is to
get MJF involved. But Tony Kahn just

602
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:15.880
got a big gift and that is
getting this man back on TV. For

603
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:20.000
the Unified Trios titles, it was
Switchblade, J White and the Guns taking

604
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.039
on Death Triangle, Pack Penta and
Ray Phoenix. You can believe it.

605
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:30.000
This was Death Triangle's first match together
as a unit since January of twenty twenty

606
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:35.960
three. Jay White bailed from having
to face Pack at the beginning. He

607
00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:38.119
didn't want any part of this man. The Lucha Bros made quick tags on

608
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:43.519
Austin Gunn Colton tagged in. He
suffered the same fate. Austin took a

609
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:47.920
diving double stump low from Penta before
Penta and Phoenix hit double dives outside.

610
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.519
White tried to blindside Pack with a
blade runner, but instead hit a DDT

611
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:59.119
that violently spiked Pack into the mat. Pack was isolated until Penta made the

612
00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:02.880
hot tag and the low brows ran
wild. Taz said that well, this

613
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:09.199
was kind of funny because the Phoenix
did a move. He did the ropewalk

614
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:15.840
kick and then a splash off of
his brother's shoulders onto Austin, and Taz

615
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.440
made a comment on commentary that he
did that move in training once with Spike

616
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:23.880
Dudley, so I chuckled at that. White tagged in immediately ate a bounce

617
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:30.119
back kick from Phoenix and a spinning
Fireman's carried jackhammer by Penta for two.

618
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:34.400
Pack tagged in dropped j White with
a bounce back German but from there the

619
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:38.119
match broke down. All six men
ended up down. White ran into a

620
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:43.800
thrust kick by Pack, but he
avoided the black Arrow. As Colton and

621
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:47.840
Austin were dropped with German suit plexes, White got spiked with fear factor.

622
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:53.519
As the guns tried to bring their
golden baseball bat into the ring, referee

623
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:59.039
Rick Knox tried to stop them.
He was distracted. Now it's Rick Knox.

624
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:04.679
A ball of yarn would distract Rick
Knox, but at least in this

625
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.719
situation, he actually had good reason
to be distracted. So for once I

626
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:13.559
could say good job by Rick Knox. He actually had a reason to have

627
00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:17.000
his attention diverted. Usually it doesn't
take more than again, the ball of

628
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:21.960
yarn, a laser pointer, you
know, a hot woman in the crowd.

629
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:27.000
Doesn't take much to distract this man. So while he was distracted,

630
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.159
Pack went up for the black Arrow, only to be crotched by the returning

631
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:37.320
Juice Robinson. He is back.
The juice is loose. He's been out

632
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:40.280
for months. He had back surgery, I think back in November. So

633
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:44.800
White finally connected with Blade Runner and
got the pin on Pack to retain the

634
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:47.559
titles. The action was good.
More importantly, though, the Gang got

635
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:52.960
Juice Robinson back, so now the
squad is once again complete. I still

636
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:55.960
am hoping we get a singles match, though between j White and Pack,

637
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.360
they certainly were teasing it here.
I have to hope and think that we'll

638
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.480
get it on TV in these next
few weeks, maybe even this week.

639
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:12.360
We had Timeless Tony Storm against Serena
deeb for the AW Women's World Championship.

640
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:16.679
Deep tied Storm up with the Paradise
lock early on maybe the most polarizing move

641
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:21.880
in all of wrestling, and then
drop kicked her in the ass to break

642
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:24.679
the hold. Storm fought back by
sending Deep to the apron and leveling her

643
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:30.159
with a hip attack. And this
was quite the hip attack here because it

644
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:36.679
knocked her off the apron at like
halfway nearly into the barricade. So Deep

645
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.760
came back with a flying octopus hold
as Luther got the crowd behind Tony,

646
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:44.760
who got a rope break by biting
the rope, and at that point Serena

647
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.719
zoned in on the left leg.
Tony wanted a choke bomb, but Deep

648
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.039
countered into a triangle choke. Tony
got free and sank in a clover leaf.

649
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:55.039
After a rope break, both women
slugged it out. Deeb won the

650
00:45:55.119 --> 00:46:00.199
exchange and was toying with Tony and
we got another strike exchange. There was

651
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:06.599
a little miscommunication that led to Tony
hitting a choke bomb for a near fall.

652
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:10.360
So Serena was able to dodge the
Sweet Cheek music into a single leg

653
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:15.280
crab and was slamming the knee down
repeatedly on the mat, and Tony Storm

654
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:20.239
was screaming and crying out in pain. Mariah May was about to throw in

655
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:24.199
the towel on the outside, but
she got stopped by Luther. Luther would

656
00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:28.599
not allow her to do it.
And now this is similar to how Tony

657
00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:30.280
Storm did the same thing for Mariah
May a few weeks ago, throwing the

658
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.800
towel in, so she was gonna
return the favor here Luther put a stop

659
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.840
to it. Tony got to the
ropes and she went outside to regroup,

660
00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:43.559
and she looked up and she saw
Luther holding the towel, and she scolded

661
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:49.360
him and called him a bastard,
and then actually tossed the towel into the

662
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.920
crowd, never knowing that it was
actually Mariah May who wanted to toss the

663
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:57.719
towel in a little foreshadowing going on
here. Back inside, Tony hit a

664
00:46:57.719 --> 00:47:00.960
snap, German deep flipped her off, and Tony ultimately hit storm zero for

665
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.400
a close two. Tony wanted one
on the apron, but her knee gave

666
00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:09.079
out, and Serena hit deep toks
on the apron and then a proper one

667
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:14.519
back inside for the closest of two
counts, which popped the crowd. Both

668
00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:17.199
women went to the corner up the
ropes, Tony hit an avalanche Storm zero

669
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:23.679
and then a proper one for the
wind and Tony celebrated, went on stage

670
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:30.360
with Mariah May and the two women
were rolling around in confetti on the stage,

671
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:35.039
which was quite the visual. It
was quiet in the first half.

672
00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:37.760
They really won the crowd over with
some of those near falls though in the

673
00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:42.480
second half. This is a very
well worked match, and I think maybe

674
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:47.119
the best Tony Storm match in the
timeless gimmick since she started doing it like

675
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:52.360
mechanically. It was a very good
match. We also had the nice little

676
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:54.639
call back there with the towel spot, and I think we should start seeing

677
00:47:54.679 --> 00:47:59.920
little hints of things like that as
we get closer and closer to Wembley,

678
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.239
and if I'm right and Mariah May
is the favorite to win the Owen,

679
00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:09.119
you know, instead of doing like
a turn where Tony brates her and then

680
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:15.920
shuns her or beats her up,
or Maria May turns on Tony, it

681
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.360
could be as simple as Mariah May
winning the Owen right, and now there's

682
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.159
real drama here because now she's next
in line for a shot at Tony's title.

683
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.679
That's how I would play it.
I wouldn't have one person turn on

684
00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:31.320
the other. In this case,
we had Orange Cassidy against Trentperetta, one

685
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:34.920
of those matches I mentioned that did
not need to be on this show,

686
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.639
but it was. Don Kallis was
on commentary. Back on commentary for this.

687
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:43.840
They played Cassidy's theme, he didn't
come out. Then they played his

688
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:46.719
old where is My Mind? Them
by the Pixies, and he made his

689
00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:50.800
way out. We'll see if that's
a one off or if the old music

690
00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:54.199
is back. I hope it's just
the one night thing. Both men slugged

691
00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:58.039
it out right at the bell,
which at least that's the way it should

692
00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:01.360
be in a grudge match like this. Cassidy had a run of offense.

693
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:07.559
Bretta gouged the eyes and then grabbed
Cassidy's arm from ringside and pulled his throat

694
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:12.239
first into the turnbuckle the bottom turn
buckle. Late in the match, Cassidy

695
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.559
threw the light kicks and then some
heavy kicks at Barretta before hitting him with

696
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:19.400
a running dropkick. Cassidy went up
top. Trent rolled to the apron to

697
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.199
avoid him. Cassidy jumped from the
second rope. He got kicked by Barretta,

698
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.960
who then performed a pile driver on
the apron, and hey, if

699
00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:29.880
a pile driver on the ring steps
isn't going to do shit to this man,

700
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.679
then a pile driver on the apron
ain't nothing for him. Back in

701
00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:37.880
the ring, Cassidy faked the hug
when Trent came in. He had a

702
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.880
Mitchinoku driver for two. Bretta hit
the half and half in strong zero but

703
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:45.360
only got two. Trent mocked the
hug, but then ran right into a

704
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:49.480
beach break. Cassidy wanted an orange
punch, but ran into a go go

705
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.800
plata, and Cassidy used the bottom
rope to float over and get the flash

706
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:59.199
pin. Another fluke wind for the
Orange Man here with Trent Burretta again we

707
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:00.880
already saw that on television a few
weeks ago. They did the same thing

708
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:05.360
here. After the match, Bretta
was on his knees. He was looking

709
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.360
down at the mat in frustration.
He just couldn't believe it. Barretta rolled

710
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:12.639
to the apron. He sat there
for a moment before making his exit.

711
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:15.159
As he was leaving, and he
kind of went on the side of the

712
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:20.360
stage and it was heading into the
crowd. Rocky Romero came out. He's

713
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.199
trying to get his attention and talk
to him. Here comes Renee, and

714
00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:27.320
Renee comes out and wants to get
a word with him, and he said,

715
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.440
I'm not doing this. I'm done, and Bretta exited through the crowd.

716
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:36.239
I don't think anybody honestly believes that
Orange Cassidy, no matter how hard

717
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.559
Don Callus tries to recruit this man. I don't think anybody honestly believes that

718
00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:47.119
Orange Cassidy is going to join the
Don Kallis family. But they're still playing

719
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:52.880
this angle out. There was no
big development here on this show as far

720
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:54.639
as that angle. The match itself
was, it was okay. I mean,

721
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:59.880
it was nothing special. I just
don't care about this. We are

722
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:01.960
he saw Cassidy get the win over
him once, now we got it again.

723
00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:05.400
As far as Trent, it looks, based on what they did here

724
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:08.280
like they're doing an angle where he's
gonna quit. They're certainly teasing that idea

725
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:13.519
based on what they did here.
But later in the show, Don Kallus

726
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:16.960
was in the back. Don Callous
he got more FaceTime on this show than

727
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:22.079
half their roster. This was like
the fourth time on this on the show

728
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:23.639
that we saw this guy, fourth
or fifth time. So Don Callous is

729
00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:29.159
in the back with Lexi Naire and
said that based on what he saw from

730
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:35.639
Cassidy's match on Wednesday, he's going
to be presenting a contract to the newest

731
00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:40.559
member of the don Kallus fan never
actually said who it was going to be,

732
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:46.000
so I still say it's going to
be Trent. It just seems the

733
00:51:46.039 --> 00:51:52.320
obvious route to go here that they're
trying to swerve everybody by making you think

734
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:57.000
that Trent is gonna quit. Trent
is gonna go his own way. Callous

735
00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.599
wants Cassidy of course, if they
do go that way, If they do

736
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:06.519
go that way where he actually brings
Trent into the fold over Cassidy. If

737
00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:10.639
you think about it from a logical
perspective. Orange Cassidy has now beaten Trent

738
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:16.519
Burretta twice in a row, so
why exactly would don Kallus want Trend Burretta

739
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:21.199
in the don Kallis Van. They're
gonna have to work this a certain way

740
00:52:21.239 --> 00:52:23.440
if they do it. Yeah,
Like maybe he is going to present a

741
00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:29.920
contract to Cassidy, but then Trent
shows up and fucking murders this man and

742
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.119
don Caallous is so impressed he presents
the contract to Trent instead. Maybe they

743
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:37.960
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threat match triple threat match here for
the FTW title. The for the world

777
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title, as Chris Jericho is now
calling it with the Larning Tree. Chris

778
00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:21.480
Jericho defending against Hook and Kattiori Shabada. Hook and Sabada briefly took turns just

779
00:55:21.639 --> 00:55:25.840
kicking Jericho's ass to start this match. Hook hit a released German on Shabata

780
00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:30.440
before setting up a table at ringside. He wanted a t bone off the

781
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:34.920
apron on Jericho, but Shabbada booted
both men to the floor. Jericho brought

782
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:37.679
a bag out from under the ring, and they want you to think it's

783
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:39.199
gonna be thumb tacks. So they
want you to think it's gonna be hockey

784
00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:43.559
pucks like it was a few weeks
ago. It wasn't taxed, and it

785
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:51.199
wasn't hockey pucks. It was dice, dozens and dozens of dice strewed all

786
00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:54.880
over the mat. Because we're in
Las Vegas, of course, Jericho was

787
00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:59.719
then promptly suplexed onto the dice that
he himself brought into the ring. The

788
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:04.599
Hook and Shabbata took turns sup flexing
each other onto the dice. They both

789
00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:07.519
retrieved kendo sticks from under the ring, but Jericho reappeared with one of his

790
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:12.320
own. Hook and Shabata no soul
Jericho shots and then lit him up.

791
00:56:12.719 --> 00:56:15.960
Shabada brought a table into the ring. Jericho got set up on top of

792
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:20.760
the table as Shabada tried for an
avalanche. What he was trying for here

793
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:27.039
was an avalanche death valley driver.
Jericho's laying there, He's looking up.

794
00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:29.880
He's probably thinking, oh, fuck, don't hurt me. And he's looking

795
00:56:29.960 --> 00:56:34.199
up at this and Shabada is taking
forever. Now, I don't know if

796
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:37.000
he was having second thoughts. I
don't know if he just couldn't get Hook

797
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:38.440
in the right position. And you
know, you don't want to launch the

798
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:44.800
guy and hurt him or hurt your
opponent or hurt yourself. So he's trying

799
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:49.239
to get him and it's just taking
forever. And then finally he takes him

800
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:57.199
over for the avalanche move and Hook
nearly he overshot the target basically, and

801
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.519
Hook looked like he nearly landed on
his head. The table didn't break,

802
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:07.159
it just kind of fell over,
so Jericho fell over and Jericho ended up

803
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:12.119
after this setting the table up against
the turnbuckles in the corner, and Shabata

804
00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:15.199
put him through the table. So
they were determined to break the table,

805
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:19.440
and they ultimately did, but thankfully
nobody got killed on that spot. Shabada

806
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:23.280
shot a double leg on Jericho and
applied to Mudlach while also simultaneously having an

807
00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:28.039
ankle lock on Hook, and with
the dice still scattered all over the ring,

808
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:31.599
Jericho still hit a codebreaker on Hook
for two. Hook dodged the Judas

809
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:36.119
effect and sank in red rum,
but Big Bill appeared and he hit an

810
00:57:36.119 --> 00:57:40.480
elbow to break it up triple threat
match, so no disqualifications in a triple

811
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:45.280
threat match. Bill brought Hook to
the apron. And remember there was a

812
00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:49.079
table early in this match that was
set up in front of the announcers outside

813
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:52.280
the ring. That table is still
there. Bill and Hook are out on

814
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:58.119
the apron and Bill is going to
attempt to choke slam this kid through the

815
00:57:58.159 --> 00:58:04.360
table. Hook instead hits a t
bone off the apron and puts Big Bill

816
00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:08.440
through the table, who was very
lucky that he did not get impaled by

817
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:14.000
one of the table legs. But
you see this big guy go sailing through

818
00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:16.800
the air. It was a big
spot back inside. Shabbata locked in a

819
00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:21.119
figure four on Jericho, but Hook
applied red rum at the same time.

820
00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:27.039
Suddenly a mask man hit the ring
and he placed a trash can over Sabata

821
00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:32.039
before hitting a running sent on onto
him and the trash can. Hook got

822
00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:37.840
taken out with the Judas effect and
the mask man. The cameras zoned in

823
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:45.079
on him, and the mask man
pulls the mask off to reveal Brian Keith

824
00:58:46.159 --> 00:58:52.280
Wampwamp. It was the bounty hunter
Brian Keith underneath the mask. The same

825
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:55.840
Brian Keith, who was on the
losing end of the eliminator threeway on Wednesday,

826
00:58:55.920 --> 00:59:00.599
he lost to hook In Shabato that
sent Hook and Shabbat It into this

827
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:05.280
match. There was absolutely, by
the way, no reason for Brian Keith

828
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:09.519
to be hiding behind a mask.
Like I can understand it if you have

829
00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:14.159
a big reveal, like it's a
big name or somebody's coming back from an

830
00:59:14.199 --> 00:59:15.760
injury and it's like, oh my
god, I can't believe this person is

831
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.760
here. I can't believe they're back, right, But in this case,

832
00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:22.360
there was no reason to put a
mask on this guy. And then when

833
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:24.880
he pulled it off, it's like, oh, so, I don't understand

834
00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:29.480
the logic behind that. But they
wanted to go for a dramatic effect,

835
00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:32.639
I guess, and it just didn't
really work. So Jericho ended up pinning

836
00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:37.199
Shabata, who was still inside the
trash can when he pinned him, to

837
00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:39.119
win the match and retain the title. And I knew it. I knew

838
00:59:39.119 --> 00:59:42.400
it. As soon as they added
Shabbata to the match and they made it

839
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.519
a three way, I changed my
prediction and I said Jericho's going to win.

840
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:49.119
Remember when the predictions I said as
soon as they added Shabata, that

841
00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:51.719
was it. I knew Jericho was
going over. I knew they were going

842
00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:54.840
to keep this going and Jericho was
going to hold onto the FTW title,

843
00:59:55.400 --> 00:59:59.480
and that's exactly what they did.
I did not care for this match.

844
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:05.920
You know, I guess Jericho has
hired himself a bounty hunter. He's Jericho's

845
01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.440
latest recruit under the learning tree.
In the long run, it will not

846
01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:13.440
make a lick of difference. It
did not make a difference for anybody else

847
01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:16.119
in the inner circle. It did
not make a lick of difference for anybody

848
01:00:16.119 --> 01:00:22.159
else long term, make a difference
for anybody in the Jericho appreciation society.

849
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:25.840
We've already been down this road with
Jericho twice before. No stars were made.

850
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:30.400
This will not be any different more
than making any new stars or getting

851
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:36.599
anybody over. This is just a
it's a Jericho, you know, vanity

852
01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:37.719
thing. I guess. I mean, it's just to give him something to

853
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:42.440
do and to keep him involved in
some way, because in theory, it's

854
01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:44.679
like, Okay, Jericho, if
he's going to be on these shows,

855
01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:47.559
I'd rather him be working with like
younger talent people. He hasn't worked with

856
01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:52.119
before. If he must be on
the show, I still think he should

857
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:57.079
go away for a while. But
does anybody honestly believe that at the end

858
01:00:57.119 --> 01:00:59.960
of all this big Bill is going
to be better off for it, Brian

859
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:02.960
Keith is going to be better off
for it. No, of course not.

860
01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:07.760
It's just something for Jericho to do. But on a show where we

861
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:12.360
already had a lot of really violent, bloody, hardcore stuff coming up later

862
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:15.480
on in the show, did we
need this? No? No we did

863
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:22.400
not. Speaking of bloody, I
know someone who loves blood. His name

864
01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:27.920
is John Moxley, and he was
up next, the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion,

865
01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:30.599
not defending the title because it was
a non title match. It was

866
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:37.360
an eliminator match against Kenoski Takeshta.
Takeshta immediately zoned in on the heavily wrapped

867
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:44.559
arm of Moxley, which Takeshta pilmanized
on television the night before. Takeshta violently

868
01:01:44.599 --> 01:01:47.519
slammed Moxley down on the ring.
Apron just jerked him down, shoulder first

869
01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:52.239
into the canvas. Callous then went
over to Takeshta. He said, I

870
01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:57.320
think his arm is broken. Takeshta
then pinned Moxley's arm. He thought I

871
01:01:57.320 --> 01:01:59.519
was going to say something else there, right, you know, I think

872
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:05.320
it's that. Come on now.
He pinned Moxley's arm in a chair and

873
01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:08.519
he booted it against the railing Moxley
fought back with his good arm. Takeshta,

874
01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:14.719
though no sold and crumbled Moxley with
a forearm brainbuster connected. Moxley started

875
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:20.199
waking up, though after absorbing multiple
shots. Moxley sidestepped the charge into a

876
01:02:20.239 --> 01:02:23.199
cutter. Takeshta spun out of a
pile driver into an arm breaker, but

877
01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:29.440
Moxley countered into a triangle. Takeshta
hit a power bomb into another arm bar,

878
01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:32.360
but Moxley got the ropes. Takesha
argue with the referee, which was

879
01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:37.840
long enough for Moxley to send him
outside and then hit a dive back inside.

880
01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:44.280
Takeshta try to charge, he ran
into a King Kong lariat. Takeshta

881
01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:49.440
spun out of a paradigm shift,
hit the strong zero into the wheelbarrow german,

882
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:52.440
but as he went for the power
drive knee, Moxley met him with

883
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:58.599
a desperation paradigm shift. Takeshta did
ultimately connect on the power drive knee Moxley,

884
01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:02.199
though, kicked out and Moxley dodged
the home run forearms sank in the

885
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:07.960
bulldog choke, after which he wanted
death rider, but the arm gave out

886
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:14.199
and Takeshta posted him and then hit
the home run forearm and then Takeshta hit

887
01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:17.320
a death rider on Moxley and spiked
him for a very close near fall.

888
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:22.280
Callus signaled for the end. Takesha
started throwing chairs in from underneath the ring.

889
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:25.719
I mean Don was directing traffic the
entire time, telling him what to

890
01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:31.360
do. So Takeshta starts throwing chairs
into the ring. Rick Knox proceeded to

891
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:36.840
toss them out, but as his
back was turned, it allowed Moxley to

892
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:39.519
hit a curb stomp onto one of
the chairs, followed by a death rider

893
01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:45.719
and he pins kenoskate Ta Keshta to
win the match. There will be no

894
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:53.480
IWGP Championship match for kenoskate Ta Keshta. Thanks for coming. The story the

895
01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:59.679
announcers told is that Don Kallis cost
Ta Keshta the match because he kept calling

896
01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:01.880
play and had he not tried to
retrieve those chairs at the end, he

897
01:04:01.920 --> 01:04:04.719
would have won the match. Right. That's what they were trying to get

898
01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:11.119
over here. You know, it's
bad enough that he lost in an eliminator

899
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:15.079
match, couldn't even win the right
to become number one contender, but he

900
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:19.039
lost to a one armed man.
That just makes it that much worse.

901
01:04:21.119 --> 01:04:28.000
Now. I have to think that
there were political implications here. There were

902
01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:33.800
political considerations to be made, and
New Japan didn't want their IWGP champion to

903
01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:39.360
be pinned at all, you know, not unless the time comes that he's

904
01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:44.280
ready to lose the title. So
that may have been why they couldn't have

905
01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:46.679
Takesha go over on Moxley. But
then it also begs the question of why

906
01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:51.079
even do the match in the first
place. You know, they're they're heading

907
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:56.000
into forbidden door. So I'm sure
New Japan is very sensitive to what Moxley

908
01:04:56.079 --> 01:04:58.000
is going to be doing, who
he's going to be facing. I know

909
01:04:58.039 --> 01:05:01.599
he's defending the title in a few
weeks against Evil God for fucking bid Evil

910
01:05:01.639 --> 01:05:09.199
wins the title. I don't think
anybody wants to see that. Maybe EO

911
01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:12.960
Sky, but I don't know anybody
else that does. So, yes,

912
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:17.119
I'm sure there were probably political considerations
involved here, and Takesha he otherwise look

913
01:05:17.159 --> 01:05:21.559
great. I mean, it's not
like he was booked like a pushover in

914
01:05:21.639 --> 01:05:26.440
this match. He always has great
matches, but boy, they did this

915
01:05:26.559 --> 01:05:30.559
man absolutely no favors by putting him
in this match, beating him and him

916
01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:32.840
losing to a one arm man,
and now it's like, okay, so

917
01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:38.159
he lost just like Hobbes did.
The Hobbs got hurt. So I don't

918
01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:42.079
know what they would have had planned
for Hobbes, probably nothing, but he

919
01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:45.880
got hurt. Where are they going
to go now with Takeshka What is takesh

920
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.960
to do? Don Callous has the
Callous family. Callous family, you know,

921
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:54.199
seemingly Will Osprey is still technically a
part of the Callous family, or

922
01:05:54.199 --> 01:05:58.960
at least he's loosely associated with them. Kyle Fletcher is part of the family.

923
01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:02.599
Hobbs is out hurt. Takesha's in
there now, but he's basically directionless

924
01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:06.880
at this point. It doesn't seem
like they have any obvious direction for him,

925
01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:11.079
unless the announcers saying what they said
at the end is an indication that

926
01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:16.920
Keshta maybe soon leaving the Callous family. I don't know. I don't think

927
01:06:16.920 --> 01:06:21.840
this did him any favors at all. I really don't. We had a

928
01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:30.920
barbed wire steel cage match for the
TNT Championship with Adam Copeland defending against Malachi

929
01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:36.960
Black A GS GS Hudson. It's
good to see you, my friend,

930
01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:43.119
and everybody else here, all thirteen
hundred plus joining me here on Memorial Day

931
01:06:43.159 --> 01:06:46.320
weekend. It is still technically Memorial
Day weekend, even though it is Monday.

932
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:53.000
I hope you guys are off from
work or school or whatever you would

933
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:58.360
normally be doing on a Monday.
There was barbed weire wrapped around different parts

934
01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:02.039
of the cage and all around the
top of the cage. South of heaven

935
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:09.159
By. Slayer played Copeland out to
the ring as he rose up from the

936
01:07:09.199 --> 01:07:15.239
stage surrounded by a ring of fire, and the words the Brood were shown

937
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.679
on the big screen a little obviously
here in homage to the old Brood entrance.

938
01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:26.360
So both men swung chairs right away. Black wanted the end, the

939
01:07:26.440 --> 01:07:30.159
end kick. I wanted the end
this pay per view, but he wanted

940
01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:33.920
the end kick, but Copeland dodged
and grabbed some barb wire. Black tried

941
01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:36.760
to power bomb him out of the
corner, but Copeland raked the barb wire

942
01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:42.599
across his face, and Malachi was
already bleeding. We were but a few

943
01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:45.719
short minutes into this match, and
already the blood is flowing, which you

944
01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:49.440
had to know. I mean,
it's a barbed wire cage match. You

945
01:07:49.519 --> 01:07:55.039
knew that these men were going to
bleed. Copeland charged for a corner's spear,

946
01:07:55.079 --> 01:07:59.239
but landed in the ropes, had
his legs swept and came face first

947
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:01.079
down onto the bar, which opened
him up as well. So now we

948
01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:05.559
got double juice. Black grabbed a
barbier bat that was hanging on the cage

949
01:08:05.559 --> 01:08:10.840
and he raked it across Copeland's head
before trying a concerto with the bat,

950
01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:15.800
but Copeland dodged and smacked Black in
the ribs with it. Copeland returned the

951
01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:18.760
favor and raked the bat across Malachi's
head before placing him on a table.

952
01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:24.520
Copeland climbed the ropes, but Black
kicked the legs out and crotched him,

953
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:29.800
and then he managed a sunset flip
power bomb through the table. The end

954
01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:32.960
kick missed for a third time,
this time with Copeland countering into a spear

955
01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:36.800
for two. Copeland set up Black
on another table in the ring, and

956
01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:45.079
this time he wrapped him and the
table in barbed wire, so Malachi Black

957
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:53.039
is trapped, he's flat on the
table. And then came the why would

958
01:08:53.079 --> 01:08:56.199
you do that? Award of the
night. Now, if you would have

959
01:08:56.239 --> 01:09:00.960
told me coming into this show,
who do you think you're going to award?

960
01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:04.319
The why did you do that award? To on this pay per view

961
01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:09.520
without hesitation, I would have said, Darby Allen, That's what I would

962
01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:12.399
have said. I wouldn't have even
had to think about it. I would

963
01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:14.560
have said, of course, it's
going to be Darby Allen. Darby Allen

964
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:17.600
is going to win the award,
and you would think he would be a

965
01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:23.079
shoeing, but in fact that was
not the case. This would be the

966
01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:30.760
equivalent of Polly Shore beating out Marlon
Brando for the Oscar, Like it would

967
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:34.479
just never happen. You wouldn't even
conceive of it. But that's what we

968
01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:40.119
had here. Copeland climbs to the
very top of the cage and he takes

969
01:09:40.119 --> 01:09:43.720
his time looking down, no doubt, contemplating the very stupid thing that he

970
01:09:43.800 --> 01:09:48.199
is about to do. And honestly, he should know better. He just

971
01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:51.079
sat down for an interview, and
a great interview that he did with Chris

972
01:09:51.159 --> 01:09:56.039
Van Vliet. They talked about a
whole range of different topics and subjects.

973
01:09:56.680 --> 01:10:00.319
Among them, Chris brought up the
spot in the cage match back in two

974
01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:03.079
thousand and five with Edge and Matt
Hardy at Unforgiven where Matt did a diving

975
01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:08.199
leg drop from the top of the
cage and talked about how Matt really messed

976
01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:11.359
himself up. He messed up his
hip, his hips and everything, and

977
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:15.279
still to this day he doesn't quite
walk the same way. I mean,

978
01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:20.439
he really fucked himself up on that. So it's not like Copeland is oblivious

979
01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:25.920
to the risks involved in doing a
stunt like that from very high up,

980
01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:29.479
you know, at the top of
the of the cage. Look, this

981
01:10:29.560 --> 01:10:32.960
is a guy in Adam Copeland who
tore his achilles he ruptured his achilles tendon

982
01:10:33.079 --> 01:10:40.039
doing a leap frog in a match. Now he's standing all the way up

983
01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:44.239
there on top of this cage.
And I guess once he was up there,

984
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:45.920
that's it. Like you're committed to
it. He's not gonna climb down.

985
01:10:46.680 --> 01:10:50.039
You know. Maybe if you're a
heel, do you want to get

986
01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:53.359
some heat and get boot out of
the building. I guess you could do

987
01:10:53.399 --> 01:10:56.800
that, But you're not going to
climb to the very top of the cage

988
01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:00.760
and then you know, fucking climbed
down. So now up there, now

989
01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:04.439
you've committed yourself to it. And
so he jumped, and he jumped from

990
01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:09.039
what had to be a good fifteen
feet in the air, maybe more,

991
01:11:10.079 --> 01:11:15.800
and it looked like he almost hesitated
in mid air, like as he jumped

992
01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:17.800
and he came off the top of
the cage, like he realized, oh

993
01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:24.239
shit, I shouldn't be doing this. And if I splash this man or

994
01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:30.279
I do a regular diving elbow drop, I'm going to sever organs in my

995
01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:33.640
body. Because I have wrapped this
man and this table in barbed wire.

996
01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:40.359
I may saw myself in half.
So I can't come straight down on this

997
01:11:40.439 --> 01:11:43.560
man. So what I'll do then
is I'll come straight down on my fucking

998
01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:49.760
ankles. That's what I'll do.
And so down comes Adam Copeland from high

999
01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:53.840
above, and I said this on
Twitter. I said, you know,

1000
01:11:55.039 --> 01:12:00.520
Randy Savage did the same thing in
WCW, and it was very dumb then,

1001
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:05.039
But Randy Savage did the same thing
in WCW off that rickety ass cage

1002
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:10.239
and he blew out both of his
knees, and he was six years younger

1003
01:12:11.199 --> 01:12:13.960
than Adam Copeland was here. Now, he was also a hell of a

1004
01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:17.239
lot more roided up and probably I'm
sure that didn't help, and had knee

1005
01:12:17.239 --> 01:12:21.800
issues, but blew out both of
his knees, and arguably it was never

1006
01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:26.640
the same. Again, he was
six years younger than Copeland is here at

1007
01:12:26.680 --> 01:12:30.880
the age of fifty. On the
way down, he did stick his arm

1008
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:32.920
out, and he did put Black
through the table, but it was more

1009
01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:39.159
like an elbow fall than an elbow
drop, I would say, And after

1010
01:12:39.199 --> 01:12:42.439
a delayed cover, Malachi, it
wasn't even the finish. Of course,

1011
01:12:42.920 --> 01:12:46.119
these things are never the finish,
and Malachi Black, after a delayed cover,

1012
01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:50.439
kicked out it too. And so
I have to pause here and say

1013
01:12:50.479 --> 01:12:54.960
this, because I said, I
got a lot of dumb comments from people

1014
01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:00.920
you know on on social media about
some other stuff. But to all the

1015
01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:06.840
weirdos who tweeted me last night and
tweeted me this morning, to tell me,

1016
01:13:08.079 --> 01:13:12.680
why do you care about what other
people do with their bodies? It's

1017
01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:16.399
it's weird. The man is a
grown adult, He could do whatever he

1018
01:13:16.479 --> 01:13:20.039
wants. Why do you care?
Why is it your business to comment?

1019
01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:24.520
And to talk about it's not your
knees. You shouldn't tell him what to

1020
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:29.800
do. This is what I do. I sit here and I talk about

1021
01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:32.479
pro wrestling, the good, the
bad, and the ugly, and I

1022
01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:35.439
comment on these shows, and I
comment, and I give my thoughts and

1023
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:39.760
I opine. This man is not
going to give you a hand job,

1024
01:13:39.880 --> 01:13:44.479
no matter how many times you may
try to kiss his ass. I mean,

1025
01:13:44.880 --> 01:13:49.079
you know, for God's sake,
I was just amazed. I was

1026
01:13:49.119 --> 01:13:55.520
amazed by all of the stupidity that
I saw. It's just it's it's just

1027
01:13:55.600 --> 01:14:00.760
wild how many of these freakazoids there
are out there? All right, I

1028
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:03.760
promise you, it's almost feeding time. Okay. Put the pacifier in your

1029
01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:09.479
mouth. Your mother is gonna squeeze
one out and you'll eat very soon.

1030
01:14:09.520 --> 01:14:14.119
You're probably very angry. I understand
that right now. Okay, but let

1031
01:14:14.119 --> 01:14:16.720
the adults do their thing. Put
the pacifier back in and you'll eat soon,

1032
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:20.359
and then you can go to sleep. Let me do what I do.

1033
01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:26.159
I don't need to be lectured by
people about. Oh, you can't

1034
01:14:26.199 --> 01:14:29.239
comment on that. What is it
your business to comment on that? Hell?

1035
01:14:29.399 --> 01:14:33.600
Dare you comment on that? You
people are fucking weird as shit.

1036
01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:39.359
You know that you really are.
You really need some psychological help. I

1037
01:14:39.399 --> 01:14:44.640
can't give that help to you.
I can't help you out. I'm sorry.

1038
01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:50.159
There isn't much I can do for
you. Holy shit. Anyway,

1039
01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:56.079
Copeland charge for a spear. Black
finally hit the end, only for Copeland

1040
01:14:56.079 --> 01:15:00.800
to kick out of his finish.
Black pulled out a spool of bar and

1041
01:15:00.840 --> 01:15:03.960
he tried to stab Copeland with it, but was unsuccessful. Copeland was placed

1042
01:15:04.039 --> 01:15:08.079
up against the cage door. Black
kicked him through it hard enough that it

1043
01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:13.199
broke the lock off the door,
and Copeland went tumbling outside the cage to

1044
01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:15.079
the floor. At first, I
thought the match was over, and then

1045
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:19.159
I realized this isn't WWE with that
dumb escape the cage finish. So the

1046
01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:25.279
match continued. So they end up
outside the cage, and as Black went

1047
01:15:25.319 --> 01:15:30.359
out after him, Copeland fired off
a desperation spear. Both men were down.

1048
01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:33.960
Here come Brody King and Buddy Matthews, the other members of the House

1049
01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:40.920
of Black. They stand beside Malachi, and then they switched to the other

1050
01:15:41.119 --> 01:15:46.199
side and they stand beside Adam Copeland. Malachi is sitting on the ground and

1051
01:15:46.279 --> 01:15:49.520
he can't believe it, right,
and everybody is. Everybody's going nuts for

1052
01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:54.680
this, right. They think,
oh my god, we're going from the

1053
01:15:55.279 --> 01:15:59.800
House of Black to the House of
Cope, more like the House of No.

1054
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:05.079
No. It was all a ruse, and Buddy and Brody beat the

1055
01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:11.520
hell out of Copeland. Brody just
wiped him out with a lariat. Everyone

1056
01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:15.399
went back to the ring. Black
placed Copeland's wedding ring around his neck,

1057
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:18.159
the same wedding ring that he stole
from him the other week. Put the

1058
01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:24.239
wedding ring around his neck. Copeland
had a crown of barbed wire placed upon

1059
01:16:24.319 --> 01:16:29.640
his head when the lights suddenly went
red and the lights began to flicker,

1060
01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:35.680
and that's when Gang Grell came up
from underneath the ring. Gangrel the Ageless

1061
01:16:35.720 --> 01:16:40.760
wonder. I think this man is
really a vampire because he didn't really look

1062
01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:42.720
much. I mean, he's a
little older in the face, but for

1063
01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:45.119
the most part he looked exactly the
same. He had the fangs and everything

1064
01:16:46.239 --> 01:16:50.079
got a nice reaction. So he
doled out in paler dts to Brody King

1065
01:16:50.119 --> 01:16:55.000
and Buddy Matthews. But then he
got dropped by the end by Malachi Black.

1066
01:16:55.239 --> 01:16:59.479
Copeland then speared Malachi and then he
wrapped the barb wire around Malachi's face

1067
01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:05.520
and he trapped him in the cross
base until black Well faded to black and

1068
01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:11.439
the referee called for the bell.
Adam Copeland retains the TNT Championship in a

1069
01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:17.560
violent, bloody war Malachi Black.
This whole story was that Malachi Black wanted

1070
01:17:17.560 --> 01:17:20.760
to bring the dark side back out
of Adam Copeland. He knew it was

1071
01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:26.319
buried deep within and he wanted to
help bring it out of him. And

1072
01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:30.840
he got the dark side of Adam
Copeland, who ripped the wedding ring from

1073
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:36.439
Malachi's neck. His wedding ring from
Malachi's neck, and what was very noticeable

1074
01:17:36.479 --> 01:17:42.920
here is that he was limping very
badly. He could not put any weight

1075
01:17:43.000 --> 01:17:47.520
on that leg, so he posed
with Gangrel, hobbled over to hug him,

1076
01:17:47.520 --> 01:17:50.960
and Gangrel helped him to the back. I can't say that this was

1077
01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:56.760
sicker or more violent than the Texas
Death match that we got with Swerve and

1078
01:17:56.800 --> 01:18:00.319
Hangman at full gear, because it
wasn't. But this is up there among

1079
01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:05.039
the most violent matches and bloody matches
in aw history. And we had a

1080
01:18:05.039 --> 01:18:10.239
blood bath on Wednesday right a literal
bloodbath in the ring on Wednesday, the

1081
01:18:10.239 --> 01:18:13.960
old blood bath that we used to
see, and we had a brood entrance

1082
01:18:14.000 --> 01:18:18.239
tonight, and so the only thing
missing was Gangrel and so I was happy.

1083
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:23.680
I was happy that he got his
cameo because Copeland had inadvertently fucked him

1084
01:18:23.680 --> 01:18:26.159
out of a spot with AW many
years ago. If you don't know that

1085
01:18:26.239 --> 01:18:30.279
story. And again there was no
malice involved, you know, it's not

1086
01:18:30.359 --> 01:18:32.880
like Copeland did it on purpose.
But a few years ago, I think

1087
01:18:32.920 --> 01:18:39.880
back in twenty twenty one, I
want to say, Gangrel was scheduled to

1088
01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:43.560
make an appearance on Dynamite. He
was very excited and everything was, you

1089
01:18:43.600 --> 01:18:45.880
know, in motion, and he
was going to I forgot what he was

1090
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:48.479
going to do, but he was
going to be on the show. And

1091
01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:53.560
then that was the year at Summer
Slam where Edge came out and did the

1092
01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:58.920
old brood entrance before his match with
seth Rawlins, and at that point AW

1093
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:01.039
got back to him and said,
idea, we're not doing this. So

1094
01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:05.079
Gangrell got screwed out of a cameo
on AW television, and who knows,

1095
01:19:05.079 --> 01:19:08.079
it might have been a one off, or maybe it would have led to

1096
01:19:08.119 --> 01:19:11.239
something, but we'll never know.
And so when he told Copeland this,

1097
01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:15.079
Copeland was very upset and apologized to
him. And I didn't know. You

1098
01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:18.000
know, we had been working on
that entrance for a few months and whatever.

1099
01:19:18.039 --> 01:19:20.199
Gangrel's like, yeah, whatever did, It's not your fault. So

1100
01:19:20.319 --> 01:19:25.800
I was happy because I am sure, I am sure that this was Copeland's

1101
01:19:25.800 --> 01:19:29.800
idea. I am sure that Copeland
was fighting to do something with him and

1102
01:19:29.840 --> 01:19:32.159
get him on the show in some
way, and I'm glad that he was

1103
01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:35.560
able to do it, and that
was kind of like his little make good

1104
01:19:35.600 --> 01:19:40.359
there, and we got a well
we got a brood reunion. But look,

1105
01:19:40.359 --> 01:19:43.960
I mean the other member of the
Brood was in the building. He

1106
01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:45.359
just wasn't a part of the crew
here. We only got two thirds of

1107
01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:48.840
the Brood. So at some point, I think at least one more time

1108
01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:55.359
we got to get the band back
together and get Christian and Copeland and Gangrell

1109
01:19:55.439 --> 01:19:59.880
for at least one more entrance.
So the entire Brood was there. Funny

1110
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:04.039
enough, how many years later,
twenty five years later, but we only

1111
01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:09.640
got two thirds here in this segment. I was not surprised that Adam Copeland

1112
01:20:09.640 --> 01:20:12.359
went over. That's why I had
him in my predictions. This never felt

1113
01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:15.680
to me like they were fully invested
in doing a title change, in putting

1114
01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:19.720
the belt on Malachi Black, And
I do wonder personally my thought my opinion.

1115
01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:25.359
I do wonder if Tony Kahn thinks
or feels or knows that Malachi is

1116
01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:29.199
gone whenever his contract is up,
whenever that may be. It's the Ricky

1117
01:20:29.199 --> 01:20:30.800
Starks thing, where why am I
going to push you? Why am I

1118
01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:33.600
going to put a belt on you? Why am I going to invest all

1119
01:20:33.640 --> 01:20:36.880
this television time in you and make
you a champion in my company? If

1120
01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:42.359
I think that you may not be
here soon? Did that factor into things?

1121
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:45.399
I don't know, because my opinion, I do think that he will

1122
01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:50.000
be headed back to WWE when he's
free and clear to do so, just

1123
01:20:50.039 --> 01:20:56.560
how I feel. But I think
that Jack Perry, I think it's just

1124
01:20:57.479 --> 01:21:00.159
inevitable that Jack Perry is probably going
to be the one take that TNT title

1125
01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:03.560
away from Copeland. And I also
think that, look, if you're trying

1126
01:21:03.560 --> 01:21:06.800
to push Jack Perry, which they
very clearly are based on what they did

1127
01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:12.560
in the main event tonight or last
night on this show, then you've got

1128
01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:15.119
to go all the way and that
TNT title should be reserved then for someone

1129
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:18.840
like him. Copeland should be losing
it to someone like him. Copeland should

1130
01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:21.520
not be losing it back to Christian. He should not be losing it to

1131
01:21:21.560 --> 01:21:26.840
another big former WWE guy. You
want to put over some of these newer

1132
01:21:26.880 --> 01:21:30.279
guys, these younger guys, these
homegrown guys. Harry right now is a

1133
01:21:30.279 --> 01:21:34.640
big part of the elite and the
elite story that's going on. I only

1134
01:21:34.680 --> 01:21:39.079
hope that if that's the case,
that Copeland can actually drop it to him

1135
01:21:39.359 --> 01:21:42.800
and that we don't see Jack Perry
win the TNT title in a Battle Royal

1136
01:21:43.159 --> 01:21:48.000
or a tournament because Copeland blew out
his ACL. I've been looking for updates

1137
01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:50.800
on him. Tony Kahn was asked
about him at the scrum last night and

1138
01:21:51.680 --> 01:21:55.319
he didn't say no, no,
he's okay. You know, he's just

1139
01:21:55.359 --> 01:21:57.960
a little banged that. He did
say he's banged up, but he was

1140
01:21:58.039 --> 01:22:00.560
like, knock on wood. Hopefully, we're all hoping for the best,

1141
01:22:00.920 --> 01:22:04.359
you know, we're all hoping he's
okay. I mean, that didn't exactly

1142
01:22:04.840 --> 01:22:09.000
inspire a lot of confidence there.
So I don't know what the latest update

1143
01:22:09.039 --> 01:22:12.199
is on him, but Hopefully he'll
be all right, but the way he

1144
01:22:12.279 --> 01:22:17.079
was limping there at the end,
that did not look good. We had

1145
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:24.640
Mercedes Monette in her awn ring debut
one year over a year after she last

1146
01:22:24.680 --> 01:22:30.399
wrestled, challenging Willow Nightingale for the
TBS Championship. Before Mercedes entrance, there

1147
01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:35.520
was a video that talked about believing
in yourself and being the change that you

1148
01:22:35.600 --> 01:22:41.319
want to see, as they showed
various historic female figures. Amelia Earhart was

1149
01:22:41.359 --> 01:22:45.319
in there. Then a drum line
came out wearing flashing lights and they played

1150
01:22:45.319 --> 01:22:51.079
on stage and they played her out
along with I believe I saw some Vegas

1151
01:22:51.079 --> 01:22:57.119
showgirls in there. I do believe, Stokely half Theway and Chris Statlander.

1152
01:22:57.119 --> 01:23:02.119
They carried out a huge friendship bracelet
for Willow entrance. So Mercedes suckered Willow

1153
01:23:02.159 --> 01:23:08.000
into a chase, hit a step
up knee, and we had Monette with

1154
01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:13.800
multiple arm drags. Willow was no
selling some strikes. She stopped a third

1155
01:23:13.960 --> 01:23:17.960
arm drag attempt and then waffled Mercedes. Both women missed dives to the floor

1156
01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:23.199
as Nightingale dodged a baseball slide and
hit a gut wrench power bomb on the

1157
01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:28.680
edge of the ring. Back inside, Nightingale wanted an avalanche power bomb,

1158
01:23:28.720 --> 01:23:31.840
but Monette swept the legs and shot
blocked the leg Backstabber got a near fall

1159
01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:36.039
from Mercedes as Willow countered with an
abdominal stretch into an ankle lock, and

1160
01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:43.760
so Monette rolled out charged, but
Willow absolutely launched her with a pounds That

1161
01:23:43.920 --> 01:23:46.439
was great and they showed it on
replay here she went flying through the air,

1162
01:23:47.479 --> 01:23:54.399
so that was a great spot.
Both ladies scaled the ropes and Monette

1163
01:23:54.399 --> 01:23:58.079
slipped out into a power bomb.
For two, Nightingale rolled to the apron

1164
01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:01.079
and Mercedes tried a double stump.
Willow moved and hit a knee breaker on

1165
01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:04.600
the edge of the ring. There
was an inverted clover leaf into a giant

1166
01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:09.439
swing for a great visual. As
Willow hit a DVD into the corner but

1167
01:24:09.479 --> 01:24:14.319
then missed the follow up sent on, Mercedes hit a meteora off the second

1168
01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:17.399
rope. For two, Willow rolled
outside where Mercedes hit a second MEDIORA.

1169
01:24:18.439 --> 01:24:25.239
Chris Statlander was out there cheering Willow
on and she got shoved in the process

1170
01:24:26.399 --> 01:24:30.239
and Stopeley Hathaway argued with Aubrey Edwards
about this, got up on the apron.

1171
01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:35.199
Willow meanwhile hit a doctor bomb that's
her finish, and she had the

1172
01:24:35.279 --> 01:24:44.199
visual pin on Mercedes, but her
fucking manager has the referees attention, and

1173
01:24:44.640 --> 01:24:47.920
Willow is just sitting there going what
the hell's going on here? So he

1174
01:24:48.119 --> 01:24:53.359
cost her her title in effect because
she should have had the three count,

1175
01:24:53.439 --> 01:24:57.640
but there was no referee and by
the time Aubrey made her way back over

1176
01:24:57.680 --> 01:25:00.680
and Monette kicked out, Willow went
for another doctor bomb, but Mercedes countered

1177
01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:04.920
into her old bank statement finish.
Willow eventually got to the ropes to break

1178
01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:09.760
the hold. Mercedes went up the
ropes, got cut off by Willow,

1179
01:25:09.800 --> 01:25:12.560
who joined her on the ropes,
only to be shoved to the mat.

1180
01:25:13.439 --> 01:25:16.399
Monette was able to hoist Willow up
on her back and hit her money maker

1181
01:25:16.479 --> 01:25:23.399
finish or her monet maker whatever she
calls it, the gory bomb into the

1182
01:25:23.399 --> 01:25:26.600
face plant, I guess, and
then got the three count to become the

1183
01:25:26.680 --> 01:25:31.039
new TBS champion. After the match, in the ring, Hathaway through a

1184
01:25:31.079 --> 01:25:35.960
tantrum until Statlander shoved him down on
his ass. Helped Willow her best friend

1185
01:25:36.680 --> 01:25:43.119
out of the ring, and as
she's helping Willow up the ramp. They

1186
01:25:43.119 --> 01:25:46.199
started to make their way up the
ramp when Statlander pulled the Kevin Owens on

1187
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:50.000
Sammy's ain on Owen's very first night
in the company, very first night in

1188
01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:58.520
NXT, and she shoved Willow down
hard backwards to the ground. Hathaway sat

1189
01:25:58.560 --> 01:26:01.560
in the ring and he's sitting there
with a big smile on his face,

1190
01:26:02.159 --> 01:26:06.439
and Statlander hit Willow with a discus
lariat on the floor, stood over her

1191
01:26:06.520 --> 01:26:12.039
and posed with Stokely, who came
over. I thought we were going to

1192
01:26:12.079 --> 01:26:15.039
get the Statlander turned a dynasty,
or even earlier than that. They've been

1193
01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:17.239
teasing it for a while. This
has been hints at it for a while

1194
01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:21.279
now, so it wasn't a surprise
to see Statlander go heel, we got

1195
01:26:21.279 --> 01:26:25.640
it, you know last night?
Instead the question now, I guess,

1196
01:26:26.039 --> 01:26:30.239
was Chris Statlander the mystery person who
attacked Mercedes in that backstage segment all those

1197
01:26:30.279 --> 01:26:34.199
many weeks ago. I don't know. We may never know, We may

1198
01:26:34.239 --> 01:26:38.399
never know. It may end up
as one of those forgotten angles I said

1199
01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:43.239
on the podcast. It could be
the new White Hummer from WCW. One

1200
01:26:43.279 --> 01:26:45.800
would think that she may have been
the one behind it. But at least

1201
01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:49.720
Willow now has someone to feud with
because she's no longer the TVs champion,

1202
01:26:49.760 --> 01:26:54.720
and you would hope that they have
something else for her, keep her in

1203
01:26:54.760 --> 01:26:58.319
the mix, keep her visible on
TV. And now she's got a feud

1204
01:26:58.319 --> 01:27:02.880
with Chris Statlander. Now they relegated
to rampage. Hopefully not, but at

1205
01:27:02.960 --> 01:27:06.560
least that gives her something to do. I wish that Willow was able to

1206
01:27:06.600 --> 01:27:10.880
have a longer run. I think
she's great. I don't understand some of

1207
01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:13.520
the Willow Nightingale hate. And there
is Willow Nightingale hate. I saw a

1208
01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:15.520
little bit of it last night.
And not everybody. You don't have to

1209
01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:18.680
like the same people that everybody else
likes, but like, there are some

1210
01:27:18.760 --> 01:27:23.960
people who just don't think she's good. They don't think she's a good wrestler,

1211
01:27:24.239 --> 01:27:27.319
she's reckless or whatever. I don't
see that. And I think she's

1212
01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:31.920
a very good performer and she's got
a great personality and she's a star for

1213
01:27:31.960 --> 01:27:36.399
them in that division, and hopefully
she will not be forgotten. But there

1214
01:27:36.439 --> 01:27:40.760
was no way that Tony Kahn was
not putting this title on Mercedes. Once

1215
01:27:40.800 --> 01:27:44.520
the title match was announced, then
you could talk about how why was Mercedes

1216
01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:48.000
getting a title shot in her very
first match. It's a valid criticism why

1217
01:27:48.039 --> 01:27:53.039
indeed, but putting that aside,
that's neither here nor there. At this

1218
01:27:53.159 --> 01:27:57.199
point, once the match was made
official, you are not going to beat

1219
01:27:57.359 --> 01:28:02.159
Mercedes in her very first match.
It's just not going to happen. So

1220
01:28:02.239 --> 01:28:06.000
you had to know coming in that
the title was going to change hands.

1221
01:28:06.279 --> 01:28:11.600
At least Willow got a month.
I wish it were longer, but it's

1222
01:28:11.640 --> 01:28:15.239
better than nothing. I actually think
they protected her pretty decently by at least

1223
01:28:15.239 --> 01:28:19.359
giving her that visual pin because she
had the match one. Were it not

1224
01:28:19.399 --> 01:28:23.880
for Stokely up on the apron,
she theoretically would have won the match and

1225
01:28:23.960 --> 01:28:27.199
kept the belt. So they protected
her with that visual pin. Not only

1226
01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:30.840
did they protect her with the visual
pin, but they gave her a logical

1227
01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:34.760
reason to want an immediate rematch,
and I'm hoping we will get a rematch

1228
01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:40.640
now. Yes, that means that
Willow will lose again, probably with some

1229
01:28:40.680 --> 01:28:44.840
shenanigans from Statlander and Stokely, but
I would like to see them run it

1230
01:28:44.840 --> 01:28:46.119
back one more time. Look,
I thought this was a hell of a

1231
01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:48.359
match, so if they want to
do it again. Let's do it again,

1232
01:28:48.399 --> 01:28:51.680
Let's run it back on TV in
the next few weeks, because she's

1233
01:28:51.720 --> 01:28:55.960
got a logical argument to make that. Look, I had this match won,

1234
01:28:56.359 --> 01:28:58.960
I had her dead to rights were
it not for him getting involved.

1235
01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:02.920
I don't think we've seen the last
of these two as far as Mercedes goes.

1236
01:29:03.720 --> 01:29:08.640
You know, for someone who missed
the year of her career due to

1237
01:29:08.920 --> 01:29:15.319
a pretty significant injury, significant enough
that she claims that she was told by

1238
01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:17.560
her doctors, you'll never come back, You'll never come back to the ring,

1239
01:29:18.239 --> 01:29:20.520
which makes for a great story.
And again, maybe they did tell

1240
01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:24.920
her that. I don't know,
but she looked great in the ring.

1241
01:29:25.159 --> 01:29:27.439
I didn't know what to expect if
there would be a lot of ring where

1242
01:29:27.479 --> 01:29:30.119
I mean, there were a few, maybe a couple of clunky spots in

1243
01:29:30.159 --> 01:29:33.319
there. But I thought she looked
great. I thought Willow looked great last

1244
01:29:33.399 --> 01:29:36.520
night. This is what I've been
waiting to see, you know. In

1245
01:29:36.600 --> 01:29:40.880
the ring is where she shines.
I've not been impressed by any of the

1246
01:29:40.880 --> 01:29:43.960
promo segments she's been a part of. I thought the contract signing a few

1247
01:29:43.960 --> 01:29:46.439
weeks ago was very good, but
the other stuff that Mercedes has been doing

1248
01:29:46.479 --> 01:29:49.920
over the last couple of months is
just fucking garbage. It hasn't been good.

1249
01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:54.119
I've been waiting to get her back
in the ring. This is what

1250
01:29:54.199 --> 01:29:57.039
I wanted to see, and I
thought that she delivered. I thought she

1251
01:29:57.079 --> 01:30:00.720
had a great performance. I still
think putting someone like Camille, who I

1252
01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:05.279
think is coming in, I think
putting a bodyguard in her corner is something

1253
01:30:05.319 --> 01:30:08.800
that would make sense. I still
would like to see them do that.

1254
01:30:09.079 --> 01:30:11.840
It's a way to not only put
more heat on Mercedes, but you can

1255
01:30:11.840 --> 01:30:16.199
help elevate somebody else. You know, eventually, when the eventual split goes

1256
01:30:16.239 --> 01:30:21.039
down, maybe we'll still get it. We'll see. But this was excellent.

1257
01:30:21.199 --> 01:30:25.560
I thought both the women shined here, both women's matches on the main

1258
01:30:25.680 --> 01:30:32.039
card on this show. I thought
we're top notch quality stuff. And then

1259
01:30:32.079 --> 01:30:38.880
we had our second of what they
billed as three main events here on this

1260
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:46.520
show. Hey Alex, with the
Judgment day interruption here thirty two dollars super

1261
01:30:46.600 --> 01:30:53.039
chat from Alex. I hope you
are having a great Memorial Day. You

1262
01:30:53.079 --> 01:30:56.560
know, I will agree with some
people in the chat though her finish.

1263
01:30:56.600 --> 01:31:00.560
I'm not a fan of Mercedes New
finish. I just think that it has

1264
01:31:00.600 --> 01:31:06.920
to be hit on someone who is
probably smaller, and Mercedes is herself not

1265
01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:12.439
the biggest person in that division,
so it really depends, I think,

1266
01:31:12.439 --> 01:31:15.760
on the opponent and how the opponent
takes the move. It could look good,

1267
01:31:15.800 --> 01:31:18.279
but a lot of times it just
doesn't look that great. It looks

1268
01:31:18.319 --> 01:31:23.119
clunky. So I will give you
that. I will agree. I don't

1269
01:31:23.119 --> 01:31:28.319
think that's I don't think that's a
great finish. But we had Swerve.

1270
01:31:28.399 --> 01:31:32.039
Strickland, his first pay per view
as the aw World Champion, does not

1271
01:31:32.159 --> 01:31:36.640
headline, but he goes on second
to last against Christian Cage. Swerve got

1272
01:31:36.640 --> 01:31:43.640
the special video package treatment, just
like Mercedes did before her match. Before

1273
01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:47.159
his entrance here, which saw Prince
Nana walk out, he was clanking some

1274
01:31:47.960 --> 01:31:56.079
empty beer bottles together, saying Swerve
come out to play like in the movie

1275
01:31:56.079 --> 01:31:59.800
The Warriors, and Strickland comes out. He walks out with gear that was

1276
01:31:59.800 --> 01:32:03.479
in inspired by the film. A
lot of stalling early on, Strickland wanted

1277
01:32:03.520 --> 01:32:08.800
a submission hold, Cage bailed to
the outside to regroup. Cage suckered him

1278
01:32:08.800 --> 01:32:13.119
into trying to dive to the floor, where he sidestepped swerve, and Swerve

1279
01:32:13.199 --> 01:32:16.960
crashed into the barricade. Back inside, Christian kept Strickland grounded as Nick Wayne

1280
01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:21.079
got a cheap shot in Swerve,
pulled Cage's turtleneck over his head and hit

1281
01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:26.199
a neck breaker through the ropes.
Taz said that Cage looked like Kenny from

1282
01:32:26.279 --> 01:32:31.920
South Park, while Tony Schavanni made
a Cornholio reference Holy nineties here man,

1283
01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:34.479
Well, actually the Warriors. I
mean that goes back even earlier than that.

1284
01:32:35.960 --> 01:32:39.800
We had a Warriors. We had
a Warrior's reference here, we had

1285
01:32:39.840 --> 01:32:44.520
South Park. I guess south Park
is still on and beavi Us some buddet

1286
01:32:44.560 --> 01:32:46.479
I think is still on. Right, they brought it back, didn't they

1287
01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:50.439
bring it back? I think on
Paramount plus, what's old is new again?

1288
01:32:50.479 --> 01:32:54.800
I just talked on the show yesterday
about how I just watched the trailers

1289
01:32:55.079 --> 01:33:00.159
for Beetlejuice and Beverly Hills Cop.
You know, as as an eighties guy,

1290
01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:03.439
I love this shit, but it's
also kind of weird to be talking

1291
01:33:03.479 --> 01:33:06.520
about all this old stuff here.
I don't know what it says about the

1292
01:33:06.560 --> 01:33:12.520
new stuff. Anyway. As this
was happening, Strickland connected on a Fostbury

1293
01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:17.319
flop outside Strickland then winked over at
Mother Wayne, I mean, can you

1294
01:33:17.359 --> 01:33:21.560
blame the guy? But then he
missed the house call, allowing Cage to

1295
01:33:21.600 --> 01:33:26.359
sink in a sharpshooter. Strickland fought
out, but both men bonked heads.

1296
01:33:26.840 --> 01:33:30.319
Mother Wayne grabbed the aw title belt, but Prince Nana took it away from

1297
01:33:30.319 --> 01:33:32.359
her, and Nick then showed the
referee, hey, look, he's got

1298
01:33:32.399 --> 01:33:38.920
the belt, and Nana got caught
red handed and the referee ejected Prince Nana

1299
01:33:39.319 --> 01:33:45.600
from ringside. Cage threw Strickland to
the floor, took the referee as kill

1300
01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:48.520
Switch and Nick attacked. Kill Switch
tried a headbutt, but he hit Christian

1301
01:33:48.560 --> 01:33:53.479
by accident. Nick got dropped with
the back body dropped to the floor as

1302
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:57.159
Christian dodged a Swerve stomp in the
ring and hit a spear for two.

1303
01:33:57.840 --> 01:34:00.800
Nick took the referee as kill Switch
was about to interfere yet again, but

1304
01:34:00.840 --> 01:34:05.800
the referee caught him and he ejected
the entire patriarchy, so Swerve connected on

1305
01:34:05.840 --> 01:34:10.600
a rolling flatliner for two. Christian
rolled outside, tried to set up the

1306
01:34:10.680 --> 01:34:14.920
ring steps, but Swerve was there
waiting for him. Cage raked the eyes

1307
01:34:15.039 --> 01:34:19.880
wanted a power bomb off the apron, but Strickland caved his chestin instead with

1308
01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:27.479
a double stump. Retro is Retro
has always been cooled. Retro is cool.

1309
01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:30.119
Man. I tell you man,
I got my me u mini.

1310
01:34:30.079 --> 01:34:39.159
I'm playing old fucking Nintendo games.
Genesis games can't beat the classics. So

1311
01:34:39.239 --> 01:34:44.239
Strickland tried a spear through the ropes. Cage side stepped him, and Strickland

1312
01:34:44.399 --> 01:34:48.199
flew through the ropes and he smacked
the steps instead. It's okay though,

1313
01:34:48.239 --> 01:34:53.600
because his face broke the fall.
Cage pulled at the turnbuckle pad, which

1314
01:34:53.680 --> 01:34:57.760
drew the attention of the referee.
Meanwhile, Nick Wayne returned and he hit

1315
01:34:57.840 --> 01:35:00.640
Swerve with a cutter and then rolled
him back inside Cage hit his kill switch

1316
01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:03.920
finish and that was a great near
fall that he got out of that.

1317
01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:11.159
So Prince Nana comes back out with
a pipe in his hand and he chases

1318
01:35:11.239 --> 01:35:15.800
Nick Wayne over the barricade and through
the crowd. Cage cleared off the Spanish

1319
01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:18.279
announced desk and pulled Swerve on top
of it. Christian went for kill switch,

1320
01:35:18.319 --> 01:35:23.840
but Swerve countered into a standing double
stump on the table and the table

1321
01:35:23.920 --> 01:35:29.920
did not break, or at least
it did not collapse. Both men beat

1322
01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:32.520
the count back inside cage went for
another spear. Strickland, though hit a

1323
01:35:32.560 --> 01:35:35.840
house call out of mid air,
which looked fantastic. This led to a

1324
01:35:35.880 --> 01:35:42.479
Swerve stump and one final house call
kick for the wind and Swerve retains.

1325
01:35:43.159 --> 01:35:47.920
It started slow, and it built
nicely to where the crowd was fully behind

1326
01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:50.520
Swerve here at the very end,
and popped big for the finish. I

1327
01:35:50.560 --> 01:35:54.199
mean they were behind Swerve the entire
time, but they were loud, they

1328
01:35:54.239 --> 01:35:57.479
were up for him here at the
end. Christian was I thought, a

1329
01:35:57.560 --> 01:36:03.520
fine first pay per view challenge for
Swerve on a show where nothing was going

1330
01:36:03.560 --> 01:36:08.640
to be able to follow Anarchy in
the arena, and you see what they

1331
01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:11.560
did in that main event, and
you look at the past anarchy in the

1332
01:36:11.600 --> 01:36:15.119
arena matches that they've done. It
has to close the show, just all

1333
01:36:15.159 --> 01:36:19.680
of the pure insanity of it.
You can't follow that with anything. So

1334
01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:24.239
Swerve as the defending champion, it's
not ideal for him to not be in

1335
01:36:24.239 --> 01:36:27.000
the main event, but they had
no choice, you know, once they

1336
01:36:27.000 --> 01:36:30.760
announced Anarchy in the arena and so
no, I mean his main event.

1337
01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:32.680
They called it a triple main event. I mean, that's nice and all,

1338
01:36:32.720 --> 01:36:35.000
but you know, the main event
of the show was not this match.

1339
01:36:35.000 --> 01:36:39.439
It was anarchy in the arena.
Christian though made for a fine first

1340
01:36:39.439 --> 01:36:45.039
opponent. Now we look ahead to
Dynamite this Wednesday. They have already announced

1341
01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:48.399
a Casino Gauntlet match, and the
winner of this Casino Gauntlet match is going

1342
01:36:48.399 --> 01:36:54.079
to be the number one contender for
the AW World title at Forbidden Door.

1343
01:36:56.319 --> 01:37:01.439
Hiroshi Tanahashi was at the show last
night. It was actually funny because Tony

1344
01:37:01.520 --> 01:37:04.960
Kahan, when he came out during
the press scrum, brought Tanahashi with him,

1345
01:37:05.479 --> 01:37:10.960
Tanahashi San, and they came out
and Tanahashi sat there and basically,

1346
01:37:11.119 --> 01:37:15.399
I mean barely anybody asked him any
questions, and he couldn't understand some of

1347
01:37:15.439 --> 01:37:19.039
them anyway, but he just sat
there. So as they were parade out

1348
01:37:19.079 --> 01:37:24.399
here comes timeless Tony Storm doing hershtick. Here comes well Osprey and Swerve and

1349
01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:29.840
your person after person. Tanahashi is
just kind of sitting there chilling. It's

1350
01:37:29.880 --> 01:37:31.279
like he's probably thinking, what am
I doing here? You know, do

1351
01:37:31.319 --> 01:37:35.920
I why do I need to be
here? Anyway, Tanahashi was in town

1352
01:37:35.960 --> 01:37:42.520
because Tanahashi was a surprise partner for
Daniel Garcia and Claudio on Collision Saturday Night

1353
01:37:43.199 --> 01:37:46.600
against Lance Archer and the Righteous,
which means he's still in town. And

1354
01:37:47.159 --> 01:37:50.159
I'm thinking, and I'm not saying
that this is what I want to see.

1355
01:37:50.239 --> 01:37:53.920
I don't want to see this.
I don't want to see this.

1356
01:37:55.239 --> 01:37:59.760
But I think that we are going
to be in for a Tanahashi win in

1357
01:37:59.800 --> 01:38:03.520
the Casino Gauntlet on Wednesday, and
we may be getting Swerve and Tanahashi at

1358
01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:09.439
Forbidden Door for the AW World time. Tanahashi has a win over Swerve Strickland

1359
01:38:09.439 --> 01:38:13.920
on Collision last year, so there's
a little bit of history there. Tanahashi

1360
01:38:13.960 --> 01:38:17.399
has also challenged for the AW World
Championship. At the first two Forbidden Door

1361
01:38:17.439 --> 01:38:24.720
shows. He wrestled John Moxley for
the interim title he wrestled MJF so this

1362
01:38:24.760 --> 01:38:30.159
would be his third straight Forbidden Door
challenging for that AW World title. You

1363
01:38:30.199 --> 01:38:32.600
don't think it's very possible that we
may not end up with Tanahashi against Swerve.

1364
01:38:32.960 --> 01:38:35.600
I hope that's not the match.
That's not the opponent that I won

1365
01:38:35.680 --> 01:38:41.159
for Swerve at Forbidden Door. But
as far as the Casino Gauntlet, we

1366
01:38:41.199 --> 01:38:44.239
don't know who's in it. If
I had to make a prediction, that's

1367
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.000
my prediction. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. There were

1368
01:38:47.000 --> 01:38:50.760
people telling me, oh, well, it should be Shino Takagi, Shingo

1369
01:38:50.800 --> 01:38:57.760
to Kagi and Night though they're at
a New Japan show on Thursday in Tokyo,

1370
01:38:58.199 --> 01:39:00.960
so that would be one hell of
a turnaround. It ain't going to

1371
01:39:01.039 --> 01:39:03.880
be possible. It ain't going to
be possible unless they pull them from the

1372
01:39:03.880 --> 01:39:08.199
show. It's just logistically not going
to be possible for it to be Shingo

1373
01:39:08.239 --> 01:39:12.279
takag I'm sorry to say, because
Shinko and Swerve would be a great match.

1374
01:39:12.319 --> 01:39:15.720
But even Shingo and Swerve, and
I said this yesterday on the podcast,

1375
01:39:15.760 --> 01:39:17.439
it's not even a matter of who
the better opponent is who's gonna give

1376
01:39:17.479 --> 01:39:20.560
him the best match. It shouldn't
be about, well, who's gonna givehim

1377
01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:25.479
the best match. Swerve needs to
be involved in something at a high level

1378
01:39:25.520 --> 01:39:30.880
story wise, to go another month
and just you know, promote Forbidden Door

1379
01:39:30.920 --> 01:39:33.279
with Swerve against the New Japan guy
who won't even be on TV on most

1380
01:39:33.319 --> 01:39:38.720
weeks. That doesn't do it for
me, and Swerve should be doing more

1381
01:39:38.760 --> 01:39:41.399
than that and the position that he
is in, and I fear that what

1382
01:39:41.479 --> 01:39:45.319
they risk doing if if that happens
and all the focuses on the Elite and

1383
01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:49.520
now all the focuses on MJF being
back, is as Swerve ends up getting

1384
01:39:49.600 --> 01:39:53.720
lost in the mix, and I
just I don't want that to happen,

1385
01:39:54.199 --> 01:39:58.239
you know, I just don't see
how that does him any good. But

1386
01:39:58.319 --> 01:40:01.439
we'll see. They have not made
any of the announcements about who is going

1387
01:40:01.479 --> 01:40:04.159
to be in the match yet,
so we'll say. But that's where I'm

1388
01:40:04.199 --> 01:40:10.680
leaning. And in the main event
of this show. Finally, it was

1389
01:40:10.760 --> 01:40:16.960
midnight last night and we came upon
our main event with the Elite, the

1390
01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:23.920
Young Bucks, Jack Perry and Kazuchka
Okada taking on FTR. We had FTR

1391
01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:28.119
Bald and FTR Hair. We had
Brian Danielson, and we had Darby Allen

1392
01:40:28.680 --> 01:40:32.960
with his gimpy foot and his broken
nose taking the spot left behind by Eddie

1393
01:40:33.039 --> 01:40:38.560
Kingston when he broke his leg and
tore his MCL and tore his I mean

1394
01:40:38.560 --> 01:40:42.680
basically his leg exploded a few weeks
ago. So Darby Allen was like,

1395
01:40:43.039 --> 01:40:46.680
I'll step in. As he limped
his way all the way to Las Vegas.

1396
01:40:47.720 --> 01:40:53.039
Justin Roberts did the introductions and introduced
us to, as he called it,

1397
01:40:53.079 --> 01:40:58.680
the upcoming shit Show. The Elite
were just about finished with their entrances

1398
01:40:58.720 --> 01:41:04.159
when Danielson and FTR attacked Jack Perry
Darby Allen ran out wearing a face mask

1399
01:41:04.239 --> 01:41:13.319
with thumbtacks on it because of course
it's Darby, and his music continued to

1400
01:41:13.319 --> 01:41:15.840
play as it usually does. That's
the gimmick with the anarchy in the arena

1401
01:41:15.920 --> 01:41:20.199
mashes. I was wondering, now. What I said was I was hoping

1402
01:41:20.239 --> 01:41:24.720
that Tony Khan would be willing to
pay for Final Countdown and they would loot

1403
01:41:24.800 --> 01:41:28.399
Final Countdown a few times. But
I said it would probably be Darby's music.

1404
01:41:28.880 --> 01:41:31.600
So it was Darby's music and that
Eventually Matt Jackson took the mic and

1405
01:41:31.640 --> 01:41:36.880
he demanded they cut Darby's terrible music
and play their entrance theme instead. Danielson

1406
01:41:36.920 --> 01:41:42.000
attacked, and then he told the
production people to turn that shit off and

1407
01:41:42.079 --> 01:41:46.199
play the greatest song in the history
of wrestling, and Final Countdown, his

1408
01:41:47.399 --> 01:41:53.079
legendary theme, began to play over
the PA system. The crowd went nuts,

1409
01:41:53.520 --> 01:41:57.520
money well spent unless of course,
Tony has to turn around and cut

1410
01:41:57.560 --> 01:42:01.880
another ten people and it's not money
well spent. But I was very happy

1411
01:42:01.880 --> 01:42:08.359
to hear Final Countdown again. Matthew
and Dak Sokatta and Danielson, Darby and

1412
01:42:08.399 --> 01:42:13.600
Perry, Nick and Cash. They
all paired off in different parts of the

1413
01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:19.960
arena as Hardwood smashed beer and a
trash can over Matthew's head. Darby flew

1414
01:42:19.960 --> 01:42:24.880
off the balcony onto a pile of
guys down below with a coffin drop,

1415
01:42:24.880 --> 01:42:29.560
which the cameras missed. The visual, by the way, Brian Danglson standing

1416
01:42:29.560 --> 01:42:31.960
in the middle of the crowd with
his song playing, with Final Countdown playing

1417
01:42:32.039 --> 01:42:35.479
and everybody in the building doing the
y s chant throwing their fingers up in

1418
01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:41.880
the air was a fantastic visual.
Matthew screamed at the cameraman to cut the

1419
01:42:42.000 --> 01:42:45.119
music because that's costing them two hundred
thousand dollars every time the song loops,

1420
01:42:46.479 --> 01:42:49.960
which may be a shoot, I
don't know, but they cut off the

1421
01:42:50.199 --> 01:42:56.439
music. That was it for the
music. Jack, Perry and Darby Allen.

1422
01:42:56.520 --> 01:42:59.920
They fight out of the arena to
the back, while everybody else fight

1423
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:02.560
around ringside, including Okada who had
a sign in his hand that said rain

1424
01:43:02.640 --> 01:43:08.119
maker drive on it before he got
a running start, and he did his

1425
01:43:08.960 --> 01:43:13.119
charging dive over the barricade onto Danielson
in the crowd. So now we go

1426
01:43:13.159 --> 01:43:18.680
to the back with Jack and Darby, and Darby throws Jack Perry into a

1427
01:43:18.840 --> 01:43:21.920
random tub of ice water that just
so happens to be sitting there, and

1428
01:43:21.960 --> 01:43:27.439
he tries to drown this man.
He holds him under the water and he

1429
01:43:27.520 --> 01:43:31.680
is attempting to murder Jack Perry,
who was able to finally come up above

1430
01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:36.039
water. Perry smashes him with the
pipe. Now they're venturing over into the

1431
01:43:36.079 --> 01:43:40.439
parking garage. We cut back live
to the arena. The bucks hit the

1432
01:43:40.439 --> 01:43:45.279
shatter machine on hardwood for a two
count. Danielson tried to dive onto Olkada

1433
01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:47.640
outside but ate a chair shot in
mid air that was very safe to the

1434
01:43:47.680 --> 01:43:53.159
point where it actually looked it looked
bad. We cut back to the outside

1435
01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:57.159
and what do we see in the
parking lot area? In the parking garage

1436
01:43:57.159 --> 01:44:01.640
area, what do we cut back
to see? A small bus with the

1437
01:44:01.680 --> 01:44:08.000
word scapegoat spray painted across the side
of it, crashing through a pile of

1438
01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:14.520
debris as ex caliber on commentary wonders
if Darby Allen was in the pile.

1439
01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:19.319
Jack Perry was driving that thing like
a New York City bus driver, so

1440
01:44:19.399 --> 01:44:24.199
he attempted to murder Darby Allen,
who does a pretty good job of trying

1441
01:44:24.239 --> 01:44:28.800
to murder himself, and somehow he
still lives. But that was what they

1442
01:44:28.880 --> 01:44:31.680
left us with. Back to the
ring from the chair shot earlier, Danielson

1443
01:44:31.720 --> 01:44:35.920
now is bleeding. Harwood is bleeding. Although I didn't see how Okata faked

1444
01:44:35.960 --> 01:44:40.640
the rain maker pose and he flipped
the crowd off instead, he hit Wheeler

1445
01:44:40.680 --> 01:44:45.920
with a picture perfect dropkick and a
tombstone. Eventually, here comes Darby Allen

1446
01:44:47.039 --> 01:44:50.399
and Darby Allen back from the dead
after being hit by a bus for the

1447
01:44:50.439 --> 01:44:56.319
second time in less than a month. Stumbling down the aisle as Okada goes

1448
01:44:56.399 --> 01:45:00.279
right after the ankle. Darby fights
back with the code read for two.

1449
01:45:00.600 --> 01:45:03.479
The Bucks trip him up and hit
a double power bomb through chairs. The

1450
01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:09.359
Bucks now drag Darby back up the
ramp. They place him on the elevator

1451
01:45:09.399 --> 01:45:12.680
platform that they use to make their
entrance the Cody Vader. Okay, they

1452
01:45:12.680 --> 01:45:15.000
place him on the They place him
on the elevator, and they tell somebody

1453
01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:19.600
whoever is controlling it to lower him, and then we see Darby like he's

1454
01:45:19.640 --> 01:45:26.600
being lowered into his grave. Danielson
now is all by himself. Nicholas sends

1455
01:45:26.640 --> 01:45:30.119
him flying off the stage and it's
not a big drop, but throws him

1456
01:45:30.119 --> 01:45:32.920
off the stage. The bucks end
up hitting Danielson with a Tony Kahn driver

1457
01:45:33.199 --> 01:45:38.520
on top of one of the giant
poker chips from the set. Wheeler sets

1458
01:45:38.600 --> 01:45:41.880
up a table. Okada, though
appears, hits a DDT, sets wheeler

1459
01:45:42.000 --> 01:45:45.479
up. Nicholas and Okada then hit
double dives through tables onto both members of

1460
01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:50.600
FTR. So now Jack Perry.
The last time we saw Jack Perry,

1461
01:45:50.600 --> 01:45:55.359
he had just driven the bus into
this pile of debris, and when the

1462
01:45:55.399 --> 01:46:00.279
cameraman rushed over to the bus to
peer inside, Jack Perry looked like he

1463
01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:04.319
was a drunk or asleep at the
wheel. He was keeled over. I

1464
01:46:04.359 --> 01:46:08.520
don't know what was going on there. I guess he knocked himself loopy.

1465
01:46:08.720 --> 01:46:13.479
So now Jack Perry appears once again. He is soaked. Okay, now

1466
01:46:13.520 --> 01:46:17.319
you would think he is soaked from
the water earlier when he was put in

1467
01:46:17.359 --> 01:46:20.399
the ice tub, although as it
turned out, he was soaked, but

1468
01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:25.159
it was with a different substance for
a very different reason. So it was

1469
01:46:25.159 --> 01:46:29.239
smart actually for them to do that
ice water spot. He's in the back

1470
01:46:29.880 --> 01:46:35.439
and he is walking through the gorilla
position and he stops to grab Tony Khan.

1471
01:46:35.520 --> 01:46:41.760
I said, oh no, don't
tell me that Tony's taking a bump.

1472
01:46:41.920 --> 01:46:45.479
Don't tell another bump, or even
worse, don't tell me we're getting

1473
01:46:45.520 --> 01:46:49.000
the Eric Bischoff swerve. Now,
I didn't think they would actually do it,

1474
01:46:49.039 --> 01:46:51.960
like when they did the initial angle
at Daly's place where they pile drove

1475
01:46:53.000 --> 01:46:56.279
him. I was talking about the
possibility that maybe they would pull a stunt

1476
01:46:56.319 --> 01:46:58.560
like that, and I was like, I didn't think it they would do

1477
01:46:58.600 --> 01:47:00.960
it. But then I saw this
and I'm like, oh no, no,

1478
01:47:01.600 --> 01:47:04.760
this is the last thing we need. So he grabs Tony Khan.

1479
01:47:04.920 --> 01:47:13.039
Camera cuts away. Darby reappears on
the stage with his flame thrower and right

1480
01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:18.319
as Jack Perry comes out through the
tunnel with Tony Khan and he throws him

1481
01:47:18.359 --> 01:47:24.319
down and Tony Khan goes roll and
roll and rolling down the ramp. Perry

1482
01:47:24.359 --> 01:47:30.359
does not see Darby and his flamethrower, and Darby sets fire to Jack Perry's

1483
01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:34.520
legs, and his legs go up
in flames and he roasts probably for a

1484
01:47:34.520 --> 01:47:41.479
good five seconds before the Bucks they
have fire extinguishers and they put him out.

1485
01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:45.840
Well, you know, we look
the first anarchy in the arena.

1486
01:47:45.880 --> 01:47:54.760
If you remember that iconic spot where
a bloodied he looks zombified. Eddie Kingston

1487
01:47:54.880 --> 01:47:58.760
is coming back down to the ring
with a giant gas can. All Darby

1488
01:47:58.760 --> 01:48:00.840
did was I mean he saw that
and said, well, I got a

1489
01:48:00.840 --> 01:48:03.279
one up him somehow, Right,
Eddie tried to set somebody on fire.

1490
01:48:03.319 --> 01:48:06.720
So what I'll do, I'll actually
go ahead and set somebody on fire.

1491
01:48:08.439 --> 01:48:11.840
I'm the only thing that surprised me
isn't even that he set somebody on fire.

1492
01:48:11.880 --> 01:48:14.600
It's the fact that he set somebody
else on fire and not himself,

1493
01:48:14.640 --> 01:48:17.560
because I kind of feel like he
would have enjoyed that. So Darby now

1494
01:48:17.600 --> 01:48:20.640
is taken to the ring by the
Bucks, who rip off his thumbtack mask.

1495
01:48:21.800 --> 01:48:26.079
Nicholas missed the four to fifty splash
onto a garbage can. When Darby

1496
01:48:26.119 --> 01:48:29.560
moved, Okada missed the rain maker. Darby hit him with a low blow

1497
01:48:29.560 --> 01:48:31.640
and a coffin drop, but the
Bucks saved him. The Bucks call for

1498
01:48:31.720 --> 01:48:38.159
a hook, not hook, but
a hook to be lowered from the ceiling.

1499
01:48:39.920 --> 01:48:44.520
And now they hogtie Darby by his
feet, so he's hanging upside.

1500
01:48:44.600 --> 01:48:47.680
Now FTR make the save with a
shatter machine on Nicholas. Okada, though,

1501
01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:50.800
breaks up the pin. Right as
Dax was about to hit a pile

1502
01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:58.399
driver on Okada, Matthew swung a
chair and it exploded the old exploding chair.

1503
01:48:59.600 --> 01:49:00.399
You know, I would love to
know, by the way, I

1504
01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:04.720
have to say, the bucks are
listening. I would love to know where

1505
01:49:04.760 --> 01:49:11.000
the uh exploding chare comes from.
Where one can purchase an exploding chair.

1506
01:49:11.359 --> 01:49:15.600
I can't wait to use it at
the next family barbecue. I can't wait

1507
01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:20.479
to see what happens when Aunt Mary
sits down on the chair. Franky,

1508
01:49:20.560 --> 01:49:25.600
old bitch. Meanwhile, Okada put
a thumbtack sleeve over his arm. He

1509
01:49:25.680 --> 01:49:30.319
hit a rain maker with it on
cash wheeler. Okada brought out some of

1510
01:49:30.319 --> 01:49:35.359
the bucks new reback rye back.
He brought out the rye back pumps,

1511
01:49:35.960 --> 01:49:42.600
the rebock pumps. They have new
rebock pumps that they're very excited about.

1512
01:49:42.600 --> 01:49:45.680
They're on sale today, and they
have thumbtacks in the bottom of them.

1513
01:49:46.479 --> 01:49:49.479
They raised Darby upside down in the
air, and I was worried here.

1514
01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:54.439
I was worried that they were going
to do a repeat of the Jay Briscoe

1515
01:49:54.520 --> 01:49:57.279
spot from Ring of Honor. If
you remember when the Age of the Fall

1516
01:49:57.520 --> 01:50:01.600
was formed, I think is when
they that angle and they hogtied Jay Briscoe

1517
01:50:01.640 --> 01:50:06.439
and they hung him upside down,
and Jimmy Jacobs they get his white you

1518
01:50:06.439 --> 01:50:12.079
know, jacket on is standing underneath
while the blood drips down on top of

1519
01:50:12.159 --> 01:50:14.359
him. I was like, oh, we don't need to see this,

1520
01:50:15.199 --> 01:50:16.680
so I was a little worried about
that. Thankfully they didn't do that.

1521
01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:23.479
The Bucks proceed to hit him with
superkicks like a pinata. Danielson rolled back

1522
01:50:23.520 --> 01:50:28.079
in. Matthew accidentally struck his brother
with a superkick with the tax as Danielson

1523
01:50:28.079 --> 01:50:30.840
grabbed one of the shoes and leveled
them with it. Danielson hits the busaiku

1524
01:50:30.920 --> 01:50:34.800
knee with a chair for two of
Kada made the save. Darby, now

1525
01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:42.439
by this point has been hanging upside
down above the ring for a good five

1526
01:50:42.520 --> 01:50:45.000
minutes. Okay, bleeding and all
the blood right well, of course,

1527
01:50:45.039 --> 01:50:49.279
all the blood is rushing into his
head crowd is chanting, please help Darby.

1528
01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:55.680
Nobody does, and the announcers claim
that everybody is afraid for their jobs.

1529
01:50:55.680 --> 01:50:58.239
They're fearful that if they get in
there and they help, that the

1530
01:50:58.520 --> 01:51:01.880
elite will fire them. Okatta hit
a rain maker, the bucks hit an

1531
01:51:01.880 --> 01:51:06.880
EVP trigger, and then Jack Perry
reappears and he hits the charging knee to

1532
01:51:08.039 --> 01:51:13.319
pin Brian Danielson to win anarchy in
the arena for the elite, and the

1533
01:51:13.359 --> 01:51:21.239
show finally ended at twelve thirty three
East Coast time. They went thirty minutes

1534
01:51:21.520 --> 01:51:25.000
in this main event. When they
hit the ring, it was midnight,

1535
01:51:25.159 --> 01:51:27.960
okay, so they went thirty minutes
with this main event. Did not even

1536
01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:32.119
get going until the stroke of midnight. If you were looking for anarchy,

1537
01:51:32.279 --> 01:51:35.760
like legit anarchy in the arena,
then that's what you got. You got

1538
01:51:35.760 --> 01:51:40.039
anarchy in the arena. It lived
up to its name, one of the

1539
01:51:40.079 --> 01:51:44.000
wildest matches that you will ever see. Whether or not you enjoyed it is

1540
01:51:44.239 --> 01:51:47.119
a matter of personal taste. Some
people enjoy these types of matches, some

1541
01:51:47.159 --> 01:51:49.960
people don't. I enjoyed it for
what it was. I knew what to

1542
01:51:50.039 --> 01:51:55.399
expect coming in. I remember watching
the first anarchy in the arena that they

1543
01:51:55.439 --> 01:51:59.399
did, and I thought that it
was wild fun. I had a lot

1544
01:51:59.399 --> 01:52:01.159
of fun with it. Each year
they do it, it's sort of the

1545
01:52:01.239 --> 01:52:04.479
log diminishing returns. The more you
do something, it just doesn't have that

1546
01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:09.720
same feel to it. But I
enjoyed it for what it was. I

1547
01:52:09.720 --> 01:52:12.079
mean, I thought there were some
fun spots in there. There were some

1548
01:52:12.119 --> 01:52:14.920
other spots that were just you know, had to be shaking my head.

1549
01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:17.399
But again, nothing was going to
be able to follow this, so you

1550
01:52:17.479 --> 01:52:21.000
had to close out the show with
this. The elite wins, of course,

1551
01:52:21.079 --> 01:52:24.760
because you can't beat the elite.
You get to keep this angle going.

1552
01:52:25.439 --> 01:52:28.319
You got to keep them strong,
right, You can't beat them now,

1553
01:52:28.439 --> 01:52:31.720
that would be stupid. You beat
them now there's no heat. The

1554
01:52:31.760 --> 01:52:36.000
whole point is to keep getting heat
until one day they get their comeuppance.

1555
01:52:38.000 --> 01:52:43.319
Today was not that day. Speaking
of heat, Jack Perry, Jack Perry,

1556
01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:45.479
after being set on fire, comes
back and wins the match for his

1557
01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:49.159
team. They are trying to get
him over. They are trying to get

1558
01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:55.439
him over, you know, as
someone big, which is what they should

1559
01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:58.319
be doing. I mean, look, if they've committed themselves, he's part

1560
01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:01.000
of the Elite. This is their
top angle in the company. They want

1561
01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:03.479
to try to put as much heat
on this guy as possible, then this

1562
01:53:03.560 --> 01:53:05.680
is what they should do. That
should be one of the goals of this

1563
01:53:05.800 --> 01:53:11.359
angle is to get Jack Perry over
as a main eventor is Jack Perry going

1564
01:53:11.399 --> 01:53:15.159
to get over as a main eventor
maybe not? I don't know. I

1565
01:53:15.199 --> 01:53:18.239
don't fault them for trying, though
they're trying. You know, he was

1566
01:53:18.279 --> 01:53:23.199
a big part of this match.
He beats Brian Danielson and goes over on

1567
01:53:23.319 --> 01:53:26.159
him here at the very end,
and I think he should be next in

1568
01:53:26.239 --> 01:53:30.479
line to challenge for the TNT Championship. Where the Elite goes from here,

1569
01:53:30.520 --> 01:53:33.119
we will have to wait and see
who their next target is going to be.

1570
01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:36.560
Is it going to be Swerve,
Is it going to be MJF?

1571
01:53:38.319 --> 01:53:43.960
I don't know. But what I
do know is they usually have a blood

1572
01:53:43.960 --> 01:53:46.560
and guts match around this time of
year. In about a month's time is

1573
01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:50.960
when they usually have blood and guts, and it would be just complete overkill

1574
01:53:51.000 --> 01:53:54.880
for them to do what they did
before, which is have anarchy in the

1575
01:53:54.920 --> 01:53:59.319
arena and then go to blood and
guts and then have a stadium Stampede match

1576
01:53:59.359 --> 01:54:04.000
at Wembley State. It's too much. It's too much. There's no need

1577
01:54:04.039 --> 01:54:08.760
for that. I hope they don't
do that. Got to let these things

1578
01:54:08.840 --> 01:54:13.239
breathe, especially stadium Stampede and anarchy
in the arena. They're basically the same

1579
01:54:13.279 --> 01:54:15.199
fucking match. Yeah, at least
blood and guts. You got two rings

1580
01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:20.239
instead of one, so it's a
little bit different. But overall, I

1581
01:54:20.279 --> 01:54:24.039
thought it was a very good show. It was not my favorite of all

1582
01:54:24.039 --> 01:54:28.319
these aw pay per views. It
was not their best, but I did

1583
01:54:28.359 --> 01:54:30.239
think it was a very good show. It was overkilled though, having three

1584
01:54:30.359 --> 01:54:35.359
different hardcore type matches on the same
card, But they got their biggest starback

1585
01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:40.800
in the fold, and Tony Kahn
should be ecstatic about that. Now,

1586
01:54:40.840 --> 01:54:45.600
let's take a look at this Twitter
poll that I put up last night and

1587
01:54:45.720 --> 01:54:48.760
already had a few thousand votes.
What did you think of Double or Nothing?

1588
01:54:48.760 --> 01:54:56.000
With twenty six hundred votes and counting
fifty seven point five percent thumbs up

1589
01:54:56.119 --> 01:55:00.920
for this show, twenty three percent
thumbs in the middle, just shy of

1590
01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:05.560
twenty percent thumbs down nineteen point six
percent. You know, if it were

1591
01:55:05.600 --> 01:55:10.880
me, it's definitely higher than a
fifty seven percent show to me, I

1592
01:55:10.880 --> 01:55:15.199
don't agree with that, but again, opinions are going to vary based on

1593
01:55:15.439 --> 01:55:17.520
the hardcore stuff and the types of
matches they had on the show. The

1594
01:55:17.560 --> 01:55:23.399
booking is certainly questionable in some cases, especially on the Takeshta stuff, So

1595
01:55:23.520 --> 01:55:27.079
I get that. I did think
it was a little bit stronger than that,

1596
01:55:27.119 --> 01:55:32.760
though, But you can vote cash
you vote. It's because I felt

1597
01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:38.199
that way doesn't mean that you do. So let your voices be heard,

1598
01:55:38.680 --> 01:55:42.560
and don't forget to hit that like
button. Smash that like button if you

1599
01:55:42.600 --> 01:55:47.159
have not already done. So,
all right, let's take a look at

1600
01:55:47.159 --> 01:55:53.760
your super chests, as promised.
As promised, I will read through all

1601
01:55:53.800 --> 01:55:56.840
of your messages here, and I
do thank you. Not all of them

1602
01:55:56.880 --> 01:56:00.279
are in this list, but let
me just move up to where we will

1603
01:56:00.319 --> 01:56:08.119
be starting from here. All right, let's go back in time, because

1604
01:56:08.159 --> 01:56:10.439
I said we had some that came
in last night, so I want to

1605
01:56:10.479 --> 01:56:14.479
make sure I get those guys,
including Jerome Eugenio. I didn't forget about

1606
01:56:14.560 --> 01:56:18.079
you, brother said we'll be listening
to your review tomorrow, staying up late

1607
01:56:18.119 --> 01:56:23.800
as a young man's game, and
Jerome is just finding out that there was

1608
01:56:23.880 --> 01:56:28.439
no review and there's a live review
now. So Jerome, I don't know

1609
01:56:28.439 --> 01:56:30.720
if you're with us now or now, but thank you brother for the five

1610
01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:33.800
ace of Masta. With the nine
to ninety nine real fire, he says,

1611
01:56:33.920 --> 01:56:39.680
crime your River. Dark Effect,
who I know is with us.

1612
01:56:39.680 --> 01:56:41.760
I think he may have ducked out, but Dark Effect, thank you for

1613
01:56:41.800 --> 01:56:48.039
the ten bucks. Cheers to the
iron Man of podcasters. Marathon of content

1614
01:56:48.119 --> 01:56:55.399
this week. May you keep your
sanity. It is hard. But what

1615
01:56:55.439 --> 01:56:59.600
all the wrestling there is? You
know? We had King of the Ring

1616
01:56:59.600 --> 01:57:03.800
obviously on Saturday, episode A sixty
three went up. We had Double or

1617
01:57:03.840 --> 01:57:08.279
Nothing last night. We're live here. We're going to be live again tonight

1618
01:57:08.319 --> 01:57:12.720
after Raw, got TNT with JD
tomorrow night. We got Dynamite on Wednesday,

1619
01:57:12.760 --> 01:57:15.720
SmackDown on Friday. So it's a
never ending train. Men, there's

1620
01:57:15.720 --> 01:57:24.560
a lot of wrestling. I got
you covered, mister O with the four

1621
01:57:24.640 --> 01:57:29.000
ninety nine driving two hours right now
to Savannah Georgia for Raw tonight. Thank

1622
01:57:29.039 --> 01:57:31.079
you for making the drive go by
fast with the double or Nothing review.

1623
01:57:31.840 --> 01:57:35.720
Now you are very welcome. Alex
with the four ninety nine. Some way,

1624
01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:39.720
somehow, I am still tired from
the show last night. Thanks for

1625
01:57:40.000 --> 01:57:44.880
two streams today. That is Alex
from Lewiston, Maine. Alex, thank

1626
01:57:44.880 --> 01:57:49.840
you very much. Bace Berris says
by herself, Firespot ECW One Night standoh

1627
01:57:49.960 --> 01:57:58.720
five or WrestleMania twenty two. I'm
trying to remember what the fire Spot even

1628
01:57:58.920 --> 01:58:00.359
was. It was the Dudley Boys, right, it was a three D

1629
01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:05.199
in the main event. I'm gonna
go wrestle Mania twenty two on that one

1630
01:58:05.720 --> 01:58:10.760
outsider kid with the five bucks.
This is a show where I really felt

1631
01:58:10.800 --> 01:58:15.520
how long it was, like past
twelve midnight. Yes, it was a

1632
01:58:15.640 --> 01:58:28.000
very long show. It was indeed
a very long show. Geo Geo Ninja

1633
01:58:28.039 --> 01:58:31.359
Gaiden eighty six Lol, screw them
in cells bro, Yeah yeah, tell

1634
01:58:31.399 --> 01:58:39.399
me about it. Thank you,
Geo. Juliette says Julia having surgery on

1635
01:58:39.479 --> 01:58:44.000
her broken wrist. I did see
that. I question how quickly she'll be

1636
01:58:44.000 --> 01:58:45.520
able to come back, but hopefully
she'll be able to be back very soon.

1637
01:58:47.520 --> 01:58:53.439
Bace bears got a seduction, great
stream and framart well, thank you

1638
01:58:53.600 --> 01:58:56.920
very much. Thank you to Steve
Mellow for all his help. As always,

1639
01:58:58.439 --> 01:59:01.319
I did the thumbnail, he did
the lay out. We are the

1640
01:59:01.840 --> 01:59:08.319
powers of Pain make a good tag
team. Oz Glorious thirty six months acknowledge

1641
01:59:08.399 --> 01:59:12.359
me thoroughly enjoyed Double or Nothing and
felt like I got my fifty dollars worth,

1642
01:59:12.399 --> 01:59:18.039
even if it wasn't perfect. And
Oz says Solo Monster is better than

1643
01:59:18.119 --> 01:59:26.239
Gila Monsters or Vincils. I gotta
I gotta learn more about these Gila monsters.

1644
01:59:27.840 --> 01:59:31.600
Sam with the twenty dollars no message, Hey Sam, thank you very

1645
01:59:31.680 --> 01:59:36.119
much. OZ and Glorious shout out
to Bliss fan who knows that Mariah is

1646
01:59:36.159 --> 01:59:43.680
better than Alexa. Uh oh,
Bace Beersa's Penta probably not pleased with mjf's

1647
01:59:43.680 --> 01:59:48.560
take on masks just Penta. I
mean, they got plenty of lutidors on

1648
01:59:48.600 --> 01:59:54.560
that roster. Maybe that's his first
feud. It's gonna be MJF against all

1649
01:59:54.560 --> 01:59:59.680
the lucha talent. Jessica Herrmann,
thank you for the five I had to

1650
01:59:59.680 --> 02:00:02.439
put my dog down on Friday,
so this stream is helping to deal with

1651
02:00:02.479 --> 02:00:04.960
the grief. Good show last night, Thanks for all that you did.

1652
02:00:04.960 --> 02:00:12.319
I'm very sorry to hear that losing
a pet sucks very tough. I'm not

1653
02:00:12.359 --> 02:00:17.079
gonna go through that again. Although
having a pet is great, but yeah,

1654
02:00:17.119 --> 02:00:20.159
that part of it is not fun. Thunder Force says, how many

1655
02:00:20.159 --> 02:00:26.920
top babyfaces are left in the aw
women's division. Well, I don't have

1656
02:00:26.960 --> 02:00:30.399
the entire division in front of me, but you've got thunder Rosa right,

1657
02:00:30.479 --> 02:00:32.800
You've got When Britt Baker comes back
and Jamie Hater, my guess is they'll

1658
02:00:32.840 --> 02:00:39.800
be babyfaces, so you put them
on that list. Serena deeb She's really

1659
02:00:39.800 --> 02:00:43.680
not a heel. I mean she
technically is a babyface. Tony Storm is

1660
02:00:43.720 --> 02:00:46.760
not really a babyface, but the
fans have made her one, and I

1661
02:00:46.760 --> 02:00:53.039
guess by association. Mariah May you
would consider her a babyface. The Willow

1662
02:00:53.159 --> 02:01:00.000
Nightingale. I know there's more,
but those are the main names that John

1663
02:01:00.000 --> 02:01:04.600
about at me, Doctor Bropio,
Swerve against Evil, at Forbidden. Oh

1664
02:01:04.640 --> 02:01:08.479
my god, why would you even
say that? Why would you even put

1665
02:01:08.479 --> 02:01:16.920
that into the atmosphere? How would
be fucking terrible? Isaiah Duzan listening to

1666
02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:20.039
you at work and heard that you
mentioned people owning a mannequin. I have

1667
02:01:20.079 --> 02:01:24.800
a mannequin in my house that I
turned into a life size Michael Myers.

1668
02:01:25.479 --> 02:01:29.680
Yeah, but see that that at
least is acceptable. I will accept that

1669
02:01:30.520 --> 02:01:36.520
because you are a Michael Myers fan, so I will accept that. I

1670
02:01:36.520 --> 02:01:43.439
have a mannequin head from many years
ago when Al snow and Head was all

1671
02:01:43.479 --> 02:01:49.039
the all the rage. I still
I borrowed it from a department store.

1672
02:01:49.640 --> 02:01:56.359
I still have it up in the
closet somewhere. Daniel Malcolm Roll Roll,

1673
02:01:56.520 --> 02:02:00.640
Tony Kahan gently down the stream.
No, we don't have that superchat,

1674
02:02:00.640 --> 02:02:06.880
but there is a twenty two dollars
one that we have. Fantastico TV with

1675
02:02:06.920 --> 02:02:10.840
the nine to ninety nine no question, been listening to you since two thousand

1676
02:02:10.840 --> 02:02:13.640
and seven. Thank you for being
the soundtrack that got me through all my

1677
02:02:13.760 --> 02:02:17.720
rough times. Best wrestling podcast,
hands down, well fantastic, Oh thank

1678
02:02:17.760 --> 02:02:30.560
you for the fantastic superchat. Duff's
VIDs Roasted Scapegoat sounds delicious. Mercedes versus

1679
02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:34.079
Willow is my match of the night, Pure wrestling, no garbage or weapons.

1680
02:02:34.119 --> 02:02:44.039
Thanks Solo for the reviews. Thank
you brother. Project Libertad sent a

1681
02:02:44.119 --> 02:02:46.520
five dollars super chat. I'm probably
alone on this as a New Japan fan,

1682
02:02:46.560 --> 02:02:51.479
but Moxley is IWGP Champion is a
huge mistake and it makes New Japan

1683
02:02:51.560 --> 02:02:58.600
feel like AEW's NXT. I can
see that you've got the IWGP champion in

1684
02:02:58.600 --> 02:03:01.800
the middle of the card the show, on a show filled with titles,

1685
02:03:02.439 --> 02:03:06.680
and I know it wasn't a title
match, but you know, positioning is

1686
02:03:06.760 --> 02:03:11.039
important, and I could see where
a new japan fan would look at that

1687
02:03:11.239 --> 02:03:15.960
and it would bother them. So
you're not wrong in that. You're not

1688
02:03:15.039 --> 02:03:19.640
wrong in that the real cs MJF
knew what he was doing by putting that

1689
02:03:19.720 --> 02:03:24.039
tattoo by his ankle. His boots
will be covering it, so if he

1690
02:03:24.119 --> 02:03:30.680
eventually does go to WWE, it
will not be awkward. He will eventually

1691
02:03:30.720 --> 02:03:32.600
end up in WWE, and again
it will not be a big deal.

1692
02:03:33.640 --> 02:03:40.000
It will be covered up. It
will not be an issue. And bass

1693
02:03:40.039 --> 02:03:43.880
Beer shout out to Jessica Herman.
Sorry to hear feel better. All dogs

1694
02:03:44.039 --> 02:03:46.399
go to heaven. Well, that
is very kind to you, and thank

1695
02:03:46.439 --> 02:03:49.159
you based for the nine bucks.
Is that it? I guess that's it.

1696
02:03:49.159 --> 02:03:54.720
There you go. So that's the
h the message portion. Hey,

1697
02:03:54.720 --> 02:04:01.760
doctor Bropio TK called in better help
and MJF answered, well, Tony CON's

1698
02:04:01.760 --> 02:04:06.439
got other issues that even better help
can't fix, so he's gonna have to

1699
02:04:09.119 --> 02:04:15.079
deal with that. But anyway,
thank you for the six hundred and fifteen

1700
02:04:15.359 --> 02:04:19.920
likes. I know it would have
been probably busier last night, and there's

1701
02:04:19.960 --> 02:04:25.479
probably other streams and whatnot, but
thank you to those who stuck with me

1702
02:04:25.520 --> 02:04:30.600
and supported here of this stream.
I do appreciate that. And right now,

1703
02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:38.479
let's go ahead and well, we
got Marios coming in before we move

1704
02:04:38.520 --> 02:04:43.319
on here, get a couple more
super chats coming in. Let me get

1705
02:04:43.359 --> 02:04:50.039
to these first, out of curiosity, have there been any other wrestling podcasters

1706
02:04:50.039 --> 02:04:57.239
that you have encountered issues with?
Love the stream? No, not for

1707
02:04:58.000 --> 02:05:03.039
ten years since you know who.
So it's been. It's been good.

1708
02:05:04.239 --> 02:05:08.760
I get along with most everybody because
I'm easy to get along with. As

1709
02:05:08.800 --> 02:05:13.159
long as you're not a dumb dumb
on social media, I'm pretty easy to

1710
02:05:13.199 --> 02:05:18.560
get along with. And Bender mc
simpson with the four ninety nine Mercedes reminded

1711
02:05:18.600 --> 02:05:21.760
me of a lot of people,
or reminded a lot of people how great

1712
02:05:21.800 --> 02:05:29.159
she is star making performance from Willow
loved the Swerve and Christian match. Yeah,

1713
02:05:29.199 --> 02:05:31.119
it was a great pro wrestling match. It was fine. Yeah,

1714
02:05:31.159 --> 02:05:36.359
there was really there was nothing wrong
with it. Hopefully bigger and better for

1715
02:05:36.399 --> 02:05:42.239
Swerve from here. But I thought
it was fine. It was just a

1716
02:05:42.359 --> 02:05:46.600
very very late spot for them in
the show, you know, not being

1717
02:05:46.640 --> 02:05:53.680
in the main event. But let's
go ahead and be the booker, ladies

1718
02:05:53.720 --> 02:06:00.159
and gentlemen. It is now time
to be the booker. We get I

1719
02:06:00.159 --> 02:06:03.520
know you guys have been waiting for
it since last night, so let's not

1720
02:06:03.600 --> 02:06:08.479
keep you waiting any longer. I
don't know, I don't know. Do

1721
02:06:08.479 --> 02:06:12.600
you think we'll have two be the
bookers and one in one day? That's

1722
02:06:12.640 --> 02:06:14.640
going to be up to you,
guys. If you guys come back and

1723
02:06:14.680 --> 02:06:17.960
support tonight, we'll see. I
guess this is kind of like when WWE

1724
02:06:18.039 --> 02:06:21.079
back in the day, they would
have these Mattinee shows. They'd have like

1725
02:06:21.119 --> 02:06:24.840
the A Crew, the B Crew, the Screw and you would have.

1726
02:06:25.039 --> 02:06:28.119
They would run Boston in the afternoon
and then New York at the Garden at

1727
02:06:28.199 --> 02:06:33.319
night. This is the Mattinee show
that you're getting here. On Memorial Day.

1728
02:06:34.520 --> 02:06:40.319
We begin with the Golden Lovers.
Look at this Kenny Omega and Kota

1729
02:06:40.399 --> 02:06:44.960
Ibushi, two of the stars that
are currently on the injured reserved list right

1730
02:06:45.000 --> 02:06:50.319
now. For Tony Kahan, Oh, those were better days, better days

1731
02:06:50.359 --> 02:07:00.479
physically better days, just in general. For Omega and for Ebushie, it'll

1732
02:07:00.520 --> 02:07:05.840
be the Golden Lovers taking on beautiful
Bobby and stan Lane. I love it.

1733
02:07:05.960 --> 02:07:12.119
I love it all the midnight.
You know, this ride here would

1734
02:07:12.159 --> 02:07:18.439
be a fantastic professional wrestling match.
Now, of course, Jim Cornett is

1735
02:07:18.520 --> 02:07:26.760
managing these two guys against Kenny Omega, so that would be kind of wild

1736
02:07:26.960 --> 02:07:31.600
if you had Cornett managing the heels
opposing Kenny Omega. I don't know what

1737
02:07:31.680 --> 02:07:35.279
he may do with that tennis racket
to Omega. He may chase Omega around

1738
02:07:35.319 --> 02:07:40.279
the building with the racket. He
may rap barbed wire around the racket and

1739
02:07:40.359 --> 02:07:45.600
chase after Omega. That would actually
be kind of funny Jim Cornett and Kenny

1740
02:07:45.600 --> 02:07:48.479
Omega in the same match. Oh
boy, all right, women's be the

1741
02:07:48.520 --> 02:07:54.159
booker. See what we come up
with here. I love the random nature

1742
02:07:54.199 --> 02:07:57.960
of it all. You never know
what you're gonna land on here. See

1743
02:07:58.439 --> 02:08:05.680
we begin with wow, did you
hear that? I don't know if you

1744
02:08:05.760 --> 02:08:11.479
heard that. That was a sonic
boom. Yeah, it's pretty nasty weather

1745
02:08:11.520 --> 02:08:18.800
here in New York, and holy
shit, that was like an explosion.

1746
02:08:20.520 --> 02:08:24.159
Look at this ash by Elegance bringing
the explosions here. This is Dana Brook.

1747
02:08:26.479 --> 02:08:31.800
I may have I may have soiled
myself. Let's go here, Dana

1748
02:08:31.840 --> 02:08:39.039
Brook gonna go one on one with
Awesome Kong. Yeah, power spying games

1749
02:08:39.079 --> 02:08:46.640
man, you got it right.
Buzzer incoming, Buzzer incoming. All right,

1750
02:08:46.680 --> 02:08:48.920
made event time, and see you
guys don't even have to wait until

1751
02:08:48.920 --> 02:08:52.039
midnight for it. Be the booker, made event. Let's do it.

1752
02:08:52.119 --> 02:08:58.640
Let's do it. We got Doink
the Clown and this is the original Doink.

1753
02:08:58.680 --> 02:09:09.039
This is born, this is the
Doink Doink the Clown. It's that

1754
02:09:09.159 --> 02:09:13.760
kind of it's that kind of day
here and be the booker. Doink the

1755
02:09:13.800 --> 02:09:22.199
Clown gonna go one on one with
Dominic Mysterio. You know, I actually

1756
02:09:22.279 --> 02:09:26.119
would love to have seen that match, just not in the main event.

1757
02:09:28.119 --> 02:09:31.000
It's not the match you're gonna headline
the show with. But if I had

1758
02:09:31.000 --> 02:09:35.159
the chance to book that as an
attraction on my show, Original Doink against

1759
02:09:35.239 --> 02:09:39.479
Dominic, I would book that match. I would fly them in, but

1760
02:09:39.479 --> 02:09:43.159
they would not be my main event. I'm sorry, you cannot. You

1761
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:48.439
cannot justify that as a main event
match. As much as I love Evil

1762
02:09:48.479 --> 02:09:52.520
Doink, Hey magician, Sapphire.
Thank you for the ten dollars, says

1763
02:09:52.840 --> 02:09:58.039
thank god for the sound off and
ots I tap out at eleven thirty pm.

1764
02:09:58.760 --> 02:10:03.439
I couldn't do it after working a
twelve hour shift. Yeah, that's

1765
02:10:03.560 --> 02:10:09.239
that's rough, Darth panic. What
is that painting or poster on the wall

1766
02:10:09.359 --> 02:10:13.000
behind you? That one right there. I've talked about it before. I

1767
02:10:15.199 --> 02:10:18.520
forget off hand the name of it, but Nick Flucker, I believe,

1768
02:10:18.600 --> 02:10:22.560
is the artist's name. It's hard
to I guess maybe it's hard to tell,

1769
02:10:22.800 --> 02:10:26.520
but what it is. It's a
forest scene and there's like a little

1770
02:10:26.720 --> 02:10:31.159
astronaut man who is walking through the
forest, and each of those trees you

1771
02:10:31.159 --> 02:10:37.479
could kind of tell, has a
different like a different colored doorway that's like

1772
02:10:37.560 --> 02:10:41.279
glowing. So there's like a blue
entrance way in a red and a yellow

1773
02:10:41.319 --> 02:10:46.880
off in the distance there, and
it's like he's walking through this weird forest

1774
02:10:46.960 --> 02:10:50.359
with different portals to other dimensions.
I love it. I think it looks

1775
02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:54.439
great, looks even better in person. There you go, Nick Flucker.

1776
02:10:54.479 --> 02:10:58.520
I think it's fl u k e
R. He's got other art that has

1777
02:10:58.560 --> 02:11:03.800
the astronaut man if you look them
up. Bass Beera, says Cornett.

1778
02:11:03.840 --> 02:11:09.960
Would turn that racket. To turn
that racket sideway. Yeah, Cornett would

1779
02:11:09.960 --> 02:11:16.000
turn that racket sideways, he says. And Devin from New Jersey. My

1780
02:11:16.079 --> 02:11:20.800
source was telling me that the expiration
date on food is meaningless because that's what

1781
02:11:20.840 --> 02:11:26.239
we have our five senses for.
Do you agree? Now, I go

1782
02:11:26.319 --> 02:11:30.760
by the expiration If it's I mean
certain things that they're expired and it's been

1783
02:11:30.760 --> 02:11:33.079
a few days or a week,
it's fine. And then there are certain

1784
02:11:33.079 --> 02:11:37.159
things where if it expires, it
goes in the fucking trash. It just

1785
02:11:37.199 --> 02:11:41.279
depends on what kind of food and
how perishable it is. So anyway,

1786
02:11:43.239 --> 02:11:46.159
there you go. Boy, it
is really coming down outside here. Man.

1787
02:11:46.199 --> 02:11:50.720
It is pouring on Memorial Dan And
of course I have to go out

1788
02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:54.560
in a couple of hours, because
of course I do. But I'm going

1789
02:11:54.640 --> 02:11:56.880
to be back here. I may
look like a wet rat, but I

1790
02:11:56.920 --> 02:12:01.399
will be back here tonight after Monday
Night Raw because we have to talk about

1791
02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:03.760
the post King of the Ring edition
Post King and Queen of the Ring episode

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of Raw, So that will be
later on tonight. Do me a favor,

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if you have not already done so, do go ahead and hit the

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like button on the way out.
You could drop a super chatter, a

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super thanks, or just share the
link out with other people, other wrestling

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fans you think may enjoy the review. That's the easiest thing you could do.

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Bass beers, says Ben Stiller or
Will Ferrell. I'm not a Will

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Ferrell guy, really, so I'll
go Ben Stiller. Actually I'll go Jerry

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Stiller over either one of them.
And Marios is excited for tonight and TNT.

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You and JD do great work.
Yes, that will be tomorrow.

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I'll be live with JD for TNT
on his channel at eight thirty tomorrow night.

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I'm sure there will be plenty to
talk about WWE and AEW, so

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you're gonna get a lot of content
out of me this week. I hope

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you will be around for it.
Then, be well, stay safe.

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Hopefully it's nicer where you are and
you enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day.

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And I will see you guys for
the Raw review the Raw post show

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later on tonight live on YouTube.
Until then, take care, guys,