It's Tuesday. You know what that means. It's time for ignition with the
aw Fanhub podcast. Team got a lead into Double or Nothing with tomorrow night's
Dynamite. Boy. It's just like everybody just go out there. It's like
it's just a pack card. So we're gonna talk about Dynamite, but first
we're going to talk about something else. But before we get into that,
let me introduce myself. This is Kelson and this is Alex and yeah,
tonight, we don't have a lot of news to talk about since we last
had a last podcast. One thing worth mentioning is we had a Eddie Kingston
lost his last of his three titles, last of the Triple Crown to Gabe
Kid the New Japan Show on Saturday. I haven't seen the match. I
know after the match happened. We had a beat down by the Young Bucks.
They showed up on the New Japan Show Young Bucks and Jack Perry.
They attacked Eddie Kingston after the match. And now we've found out that he
has an actual leg injury which is going to keep him out of Double or
Nothing. Maybe they haven't confirmed that yet, Okay, it's not confirmed.
They got their finger aw has their fingers crossed, that'll be able to perform
it double or nothing. That's the last I read. Okay, interesting because
that's coming up in the next you know, under two weeks now, yeah,
two weeks. Yeah. So if it's a legitimate injury, you would
think, I mean, if I just sprained my ankle, maybe I'd be
okay to come back in two weeks. But if it was a real,
real injury, then I can only assume he wouldn't be good to go.
Well, yeah, probably. Towards the end of the match, Gabe kid
Uh did a souplex through a table on Eddie Kingston from the ring apron onto
the floor, which of course the table was on the floor opened up and
he went and when Eddie Kingston went through it, he kind of like immediately
clutched at his leg as soon as as soon as the spot was over.
You could see that spot on Twitter X. You can, you know,
look up Eddie Kingston injury and then you'll see the video of it. It's
not a nasty thing. It's more one of those things. It's not like
it broke or anything like that, or at least not noticeably, but you
could tell that, I mean, it was a pretty pretty hard hit,
let me put it that way, and that table disintegrated and but yeah,
it didn't look real good. Yeah, in Eddie's defense, he's had like
a pretty intense run over the last you know, year, since the Continental
Classic, and he's been in New Japan Wrestling as well at all their big
American shows. So he and he participated in the g One in Japan.
So he's had a pretty intense schedule and he's not a spring chicken by any
means. So, you know, hopefully a lot of the majority of Eddie
Kingston's career has occurred before joining a w he did. It was kind of
like his last opportunity to really make something of himself, but beyond the indie
wrestling. So and then he came over here. You wouldn't do much over
there. Where Where did you say he was before? I thought he was
with A Oh maybe yeah, we traveled. Yeah, as you just said,
Alex, I think he was well traveled. So, Alex, so
what's this hypothetic? Say, let's pretend that Eddie Kingston isn't going to be
able to perform at a double or nothing. Do you have anybody in your
mind that maybe able to join, you know whatever. Yeah, you're gonna
call him Team a W. I guess he may. I guess that's what
they are. Yeah, it's a little weird because it doesn't feel like they
completely represent ae W, especially like FTR. But the first guy I would
pick, and I kind of had him penciled in before Eddie Kingston even got
announced and before Brian Danielson were announced, was Daniel Garcia because he's had a
lot of relationship with FTR before this. He's a young guy with a lot
of momentum behind him, so I just thought he would have been an interesting
pick. Really, I never he never even crossed my mind. Alex mm
hmm. Yeah, so that's the that's my guy. I'm wondering who else
some of you guys have audio Claudio, Yeah, because Claudia protect his little
buddy, the he's so worried about. But uh, yeah, Daniel would
be a great, great addition. But I don't know this. This is
one of those This is one of those matches where it always seems like somebody
gets hurt. So who can they afford to lose for a while is the
question you might want to ask, because m M and they could put Eddie
in there and just let him be in for what five minutes to get hurting
and that playoffs where the injury happened here instead of over there. But who
knows, you know, my son, you know what you just said is
like, okay, so if Eddie Kingston is in this match and they have
to protect him, he could just like get hit lay on the table for
forty five minutes. Now, I don't really want to see that. I
want to see somebody actually participate, you know, yeah, oh yeah,
yeah, that's I mean. My my pick is the Falling Angels Christopher Daniels.
He has history with him because he took him and Kat him and kaz
uh the Bucks took them out, and I think you know, and also
the next also tomorrow they have a match with him or yeah, so you
know at this funny history there. He he represents aw not only as a
wrestler but as a staff and I'm sure he's close to Tony. So that's
my choice, but but that'll happen. He's older. But I would love
to see just the best moon salt ever off of a poker ship or something
like that, just for old time sake. Well, okay, do you
think that they tomorrow night on Dynamite. Yeah, do you think there's a
chance that they're gonna just come out and say Eddie Kingston will participate or Eddie
Kingston will not participate? I thouble or not thinking? Or do you think
they're gonna probably hold that off for maybe collision or even next week before they
make that decision, you know what I'm saying. I mean, yeah,
see, I don't understand the reasoning for Eddie Kingston to be really even in
the match. In my opinion, I don't think he needs to be in
there, so it's kind of the price in the first place, but I
think they should if they're gonna make them move, they need to rip the
band added off and said hey he was hurt. You know, you could
blame it on the young the young bucks and not and just say you heard
them. That's there's revenge for getting involved because in the backstage interview and just
use it that way. But but they're going to do it. They didn't
do it soon to keep on building the story. Yeah, well, you
know what, that is probably the biggest Eddie Kingston here so net I mean,
hypothetically speaking, let's just say that Anythingston is not going to be able
to participate at double or nothing, Indianna or an arena. Before I give
my pick, i'd like to hear yours. M M. I was listening
to what everyone else was saying, and I was really thinking about it,
and I think the the obvious choices would be Hangman or Aboushie, but I
don't think it's gonna be one of them. I think it's I'm more towards
what I believe. Alex was saying that it's more than likely Daniel Garcia and
that, yeah, I think so after after considering it, I can see
him being in the in that fight, So I think maybe him, and
it'll be a nice surprise. Well, I have a very interesting pick for
you, because, as one of the guys said earlier, you don't want
to make a risk. I'm gonna go with the non roster wrestler. You
know, a special guest wrestler, somebody that's uh, somebody that is not
on the roster of course, and that person is the ultimate Warrior. Oh
yeah, the Ultimate Warrior. Yeah, I always dead, I'd always dead.
But yeah, it's still a better wrestler than Eddie Kingston. Oh so
much for last week. I mean, man, that was just like,
wow, you never know with me, you never know po I mean,
look as I posted on the a w fan ub sub at it when I
posted about Eddie Kingston, you know, and being in this is actually serious.
Whether you like a wrestler, you don't like a wrestler, You hate
to see a wrestler get injured, oh yeah, you know you hate to
see it. Honestly and sincerely, I hope that Eddie is not hurt to
where he can't perform. But if he can't perform, I hope he has
a speedy recovery. That's all I can say about that. And that's sincere.
That really is sincere. I just figured out who they need to put
in there. Oh yeah, who Britt Baker again, a better repectico you
know, definitely not could be an interesting choice. You can decorate the ring
with his uh streamers and start the party, right. Yeah, It's gonna
be interesting to see who they bring in, you know, because I have
a feeling, unfortunately, and I do mean this sincerely, I'm a feeling
unfortunately. Even if Eddie Kingston said eighty percent, they're not going to let
him go in there. I really don't think they are, because why risk
you know, again, as I said last week, when he goes out
there, the crowd is into it. He's definitely a crowd favorite, so
why risk him going in there and going from eighty to forty. It just
doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Yeah, Like, another realistic option
I could see is Eddie Kingston coming out and announcing Mark Brisco taking his spot,
because they have that buddy buddy relationship and he's kind of reminds me of
Eddie Kingston just in terms of like that bb face guy that's pro ew Eddie
Kingston does have better teeth mm hm, you know, and I guess Mark
brisk goes arguably a better wrestler arguably depends on well. The one thing about
this match though, this isn't a wrestling match. This is a brawl.
So in Brisco can brawl, and I love it. He's a great brawler
too. That's the only thing that's probably that I had took exception with your
pick Alex of Daniel Garcia. In a regular resting match, Daniel Garcia makes
perfect sense. But in a brawl, maybe not so much. Yeah,
but in a goofy brawl, there's lots of opportunities for him to bust out
a dance in some weird situation. So did you see by the way dot
the before we go on to our next segment where we're going to preview Dynamite,
did you see that last week somebody actually tried to attack him when he
was doing his dance outside the ring. That's unbelievable. I don't know if
he was trying to attack him. He might have just entering been going into
the ring to also be dance. The funny part is, I'm not sure
which one it was, but if you go back and listen to it from
the broadcast, somebody in the was it Nigel. Somebody said something and you
saw just like a bunch of people jump in the ring and I'm like,
like, that was kind of odd. That doesn't seem to fit what they're
doing. But then you find out later it's some idiot from the crowd.
Yeah, it was funny because he jumped into the rig and just absolutely sprawled
out his face and somebody on the aw fantom sure it said he had all
the grace at athleticism of a sea lion. I thought that was just a
perfect description of it. Then they were are crazy. We're gonna ask the
same thing. I'm gonna ask, what is it with the Canadian fans?
Man? They've been they've been like you never hear of any issues really up
until the last two shows, and then you had the dudes ripping on sky
Blue and then this dude jumping into the thing and this, you know,
what the hell? That don't make any sense? Yeah? My only thought
is that both those cities have teams in the NHL playoffs right now. That's
not altogether common, and they're probably just really drunk because of it. That
is a really pathetic excuse. It's it's not slightly the real reason that's that's
you know, I just I just that is actually a really good excuse because
but you know, it's just like what is going on in Canada? And
I don't know what did they put your timprtons? God anyway, Alex,
let's move on. What do you want to talk about? We're gonna do
a preview of the Dynamite tomorrow night. What do you want to talk about
first, Buddy? Uh? Yeah, let's lead with Adam Copeland and Malachi
Black are gonna have a segment. Obviously, Adam Copeland has challenged Malachi Black
to a steel cage barbed wire match, which is pretty cool. I don't
think we've seen that before. Who knows what their rules are? Is it
an escape the steel cage match or I hope not? Ye as well,
at least if it is, at least let's you know, explain the rules
before before ten minutes into the match. Mm hmm, yeah absolutely. But
yeah, I'm really excited for this. And I really loved the end of
Collision where you had it was like really subtle. It was Adam Copeland holding
on to Kyle O'Reilly's hand a little bit too long after congratulating him on his
victory, and then Kyler Riley's trying to pull away and then you see just
a little bit of blood dripping from edge his mouth. Yeah, that was
a good visual. So Alex, let me ask you a question though.
So let's say we do have Malachi Black against Adam Copland in the steele kh
barb wire batch and whatever rules that there are win I mean, right now,
just put you on the spot. Who wins that? I mean,
who would you like to see win that? You know, would you like
to see Copeland retain or Malachai win. Uh yeah, Adam, Malachi Black
has to win that match. To me, he's just he's not that he's
been floundering, but I feel like he's been in AW for a long time
now. He's held the trios titles, but he hasn't really been the threat
that he early on in his AW career, and I just I just feel
like, give him something, make him a big part of the show.
And he's a great wrestler, and I hope he puts on a great match
here and it gives him something to do, carrying that title and maybe having
like open house matches for for a few months. But yeah, it would
just be a lot more important for him and Adam Copeland can move on to
other things afterwards. Like White Christian, I gotta agree with you, because
look, would you look at the House of Black over the last six months,
Julia Hart's been by far the biggest star in the House Black and she's
out now. They need somebody to make the House of Black relevant, you
know, and it's Malachi Black. That's that's my opinion too. Who else
has an opinion on that? You know? Who should win this match?
I think it should be Maliica he definitely do he it. It will give
them more. I mean, it's not like they haven't done anything. They
were the Trios tagged, they were the Trios Champions for a little while,
and they've gotten involved in different aspects of the show. But it's definitely time
from Malacca to have a title. He deserves one. He put He's one
of those guys that comes out, puts on a hell of a show every
time he comes into the ring, whether he's winning or losing, and I
think he deserves to get a win and I think it would be amazing to
see him do that. I agree he deserves it his time. What about
you, MK, Do you have any opinions on this one? Thank thank
you lose it? So Malicha Black, Malachoi Black deserves to, uh basically
had a title. He didn't have them any single so why not? Right?
Well, you know, just I'm just gonna go ahead and move on
because there's a lot of stuff going on on this show tomorrow night. In
Dynamite. Another segment that they've announced is that Roderick Strong and Will Ausprey are
going to have a face to face. Now, in my opinion, this
match should be called off because it's a no contest. I mean, I
just have zero interest really in Roderick Strong as I don't even know what what
is it? The International Champion? Yeah yeah, I mean if Roderick Strong
wins this match, why would you why would you ruin Will Osprey for Roderick
Strong. That's just my opinion, that's it. I mean, Will Osprey's
the future of aw Roderick Strong is not. No, he needs to lose.
Roderick Strong needs to lose. They need to send those guys back to
r O each on a full time because they bring nothing to the to the
TV. They bring absolutely nothing to aw TV. Their gimmick is no good.
Uh. You know, we saw Adam Cole return to walking status,
but he's doing nothing and without him, they're just three scrubs that have no
business being on aw TV. You're taking up time for from guys like everybody
else. Well, sad, let me ask you this had had Adam Cole
not gotten injured and had been revealed as the devil healthy, do you think
the other speed a Kingdom would have had a better run than they have and
be will they be relevant? Okay, so as a group with Adam Cole
active and wrestling and challenging for the title and everything else. They the group
would have been more relevant. But I'm sorry, those three just have no
business. I mean, they're they're they're boring. They have not seen anything
from the three of them that give them any like, any kind of merit
as to why they're being on TV. I would rather see Eddie Kingston versus
anybody instead of them, anybody. Hell, I'd even like to see Baker
more than them. And you know how I feel about Britt Baker. For
somebody to don't like Britt Baker, you've brought her up like that's the second
time already. I know, because I keep hearing rumors she's coming back soon
and you yeah, well you know. I don't think Roddy's that bad,
but kay Then and Bennett need to stay down and bring a bonder. I
don't under I don't understand the purpose. This ole stable has gone down the
draint since the beginning, even with Copeland, I don't sorry, sorry,
even with the wrong Adam Uh, even with pol I really I really don't
think that this seems very good Wardlow, they've made a mockery of Wardlow.
I think he has potential, but they've done nothing with it. I think
the best bet was would be for till what would be there, but just
to cut the whole gimmick and just don't mention them anymore because they they're lost.
No one cares. I like roder Tron, He's bringing something to the
table, but the other three in that stable just are our charisma vacuums.
I don't want to watch them. They maye goofy with their Giraffe and next
Strong and stuff, but I feel like at the Pet Project and their Adam
Cole's friends, and that helps a little bit. But you know they weren't.
You know, Undisputed was great in the other company, but it hasn't
transferred to overhere. Yeah, and you only they only really have roder X
Strong continuing over Like Adam Cole's out of the picture. There's Kyle Raley's not
part of it, Bobby Fish. So yeah, Like I I like Roderick
Strong. I love him as a wrestler, and like on Collision, I
thought he was a lot of fun on commentary. I'm sure most people won't
agree with me, but I enjoyed him. I don't mind him yelling and
being stupid. I think they missed an opportunity to have him not part of
the Undisputed Kingdom, and he could have you know, turned baby face when
it was revealed that Adam Cole was the Devil instead of having him along for
the ride with that. I think the whole Undisputed Kingdom thing is a disaster.
It's been a disaster since it was revealed. They could have gone in
a bunch of different directions than it's and it's really bad and it hasn't helped
anybody. I agree with Mike Bennett maybe not being great, but I think
Matt Tavin has a lot of potential. But I don't think that's a great
tag team and it's not not maybe ae W quality, But I do like
Roddy, I see potential with Matt Tavian. I think it's gonna be a
really good match, and I think it's interesting how they're setting up the match
with the you know, Will Osprey not using the the Haiger Driver ninety one,
but he's gonna start using the storm Breakers, so there's some cool parts
to it. I'm excited for the match, but I understand the disdained for
the Undisputed Kingdom. Not you haven't spoken yet. I mean for you team
Roderick Stronger. Do you or do you zone out for the Undisputed Kingdom?
I zone out for all of them. I'm not been a fan of any
of them. So I'm your favorite? Dare you none of them? I
don't like any of them? Wow? Who likes everybody doesn't like the Undisputed
Kingdom? Yeah? I am sitting here beside myself. Well man, well
uh that's surprising, Alex. What do you want to talk about next?
Uh? Yeah, let's work our way up the card next week of Hook
returning. Okay, so I'm just being funny. Well, okay, so
he's going to fight with who knows what he's actually gonna do. Is he
gonna have a match against the JOBB or is he just going to confront Chris
Jericho? Yeah, I don't know. I'm expecting to be pleasantly surprised with
whatever happens here. Uh h. I'm not like as high on Hook as
most people. I feel like he has a lot of potential, but I
don't feel like he's like a guy I love to see on TV. Right
now. I'm more excited for future Hook than I am for present day Hook.
But I am excited about this Jericho stuff, so we'll see where it
goes. Well, you know, I gotta break in here because I'm not
going to say anything about a Hook specifically, I'm going to say something about
Hook's graphics. In the past, we've seen just everybody else gets their face
off here on the aw's official graphics. Hook a few weeks ago, he
got like just the Hook batsignal thing. Today, if you look at the
graphic, and I encourage anybody that's listening to this, go look at his
graphic. That's not even a picture of Hook. It's like a really bad
watercolor painting of him. It's really horrible. It's like, what is it
with AW? Just it's not that hard to take a picture of somebody painting,
you saying. If you zoom in on the graphic, you could clearly
see that it's not a picture of Hook. It's it's a drawing. Everybody
else has a picture. Hook is just like a cartoon caricature. It's just
the weirdest thing I've ever seen. But that's my that's my whole spiel about
this segment. I honestly, I think they've missed the boat here with Hook
because they he was great when he didn't talk, came out, did his
did his thing and left. That was when he was the best. Now
they get him doing too much talking. He needs to the way he was
when he first started and build on that some more. That's just my opinion.
Totally disagree. He has to change something. You cannot stay stagnant and
just be has his son. You can't. He has to have a good
feud and I'm not one once younger boy, he has to grow up.
I mean, I don't I know people to explain me what is the magnetism
besides Taza's son that Hook has on fans because yes, he's good at the
judo type of you know, the throw around stuff like that, but he's
not that great of a wrestler. And I know he's still young. But
what if you just tell me in what do you guys see that is great
about Hook? And why is he still loved? First, he doesn't,
he does not. Hook does not use the fact that he is TAS's son
at all. He stayed away from that entire time and Taz is not interfered
in anything or came across as being where it's because he's my son that he's
doing what he's doing. That's not evident in any way in anything that Hook
has done. Hook's that way. I think. I think his appeal is
because he has that new nonsense. He comes out to the ring, he's
no nonsense. He comes out, he does what he does. Younger fans
love him, the women think he's cute. It's just that's just what I
see as it is. And that's why I say, if he continues,
it seems to me that getting involved with Jericho on his part has been a
bad thing. I think that's his goal. I mean, you can only
do so much with a rock. I mean you can throw it, you
can I mean much you can do. He has to put in the effort
and he had, and I think I don't know. I mean, would
he be here if it? I mean, I don't. He just baffles
men. I'm sorry, I don't. I don't get the pill. I
never will. But you know, being cute for the girls isn't going to
get you over. It's going to be the way you wrestle and the way
you talk. Charisma gets you over. And if he can't talk or you
know, then I don't I don't see the point in him unless you put
him with someone who can talk and a manager and then let it be that
way like Barack Lesnar and Paul Paul Hayman or something like that. You can't
have him on his own and not talk. Well. Look, you know,
Sudden, you mentioned that the girls may think that that Hook is you.
We happen to have a woman here with us tonight. Net. I
mean, look, I am I am one of those people. You know.
Look, I've never really looked at Hook. Had said, Well,
you know, he's a good looking guy, but he's not gorgeous like Squsha.
What do you think you Thinksha is a foid looking woman? But what
is your opinion? Hook? Hook? Hook? You people with these one
syllable names just try to be nuts. Hook is handsome, but he you
know, he's Okay. I know that my twenty something year old daughter thinks
that the sun rises and sets on Hook. Okay. Yeah, I think
he has the appeal of the young ladies who are wrestling fans. Okay,
but you know, I mean I think he could do more wrestling wise.
I liked him a lot when he first debuted, and then he's just kind
of fizzled out. He needs to find something to do. To make him
more interesting. So you're saying that he probably way I'm understanding. You're saying
that he needs to grow as a wrestler, you know at Borderer's Repatral.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fine to look good in everything, but
you gotta you know, I like wrestling too, so you have to get
out there and be entertaining. You can't be all good looking unless you're like
Ta Casta, you know, then that's okay. But yeah, yeah,
like with Hook, now I get a little bit of a reminder of like
shades of Jack Perry after the Christian feud when he was a good guy,
just kind of feeling like he's missing something like character wise. Yeah, you
know, then it's hard. Yeah, maybe he needs to fight someone and
get suspended and come back. You know, Alex, I know you're gonna
be jealous because I get to Doubtce the the next segment. And you know,
we have anarchy and the arena, we have stadium stampedes, we have
the ocage barbed wire matches, but nothing, and I mean nothing. It's
more exciting to aw fans and a good old contracts me. And we've got
we got Willow Nightingale and Mercedes Monet at a contract signing, and I'm just
gonna come out and say it right now. I do not give a ship.
Mmm, I'm yeah, I don't. I don't care about the contract
signing. They're they're good. Why you know, you get out there,
you sign the contract, then you get into a fight. It's yeah,
whatever. Maybe they'll switch it up a little bit, maybe Willow will sign
the contract in our blood. But you know what really gets my goat about
this, this is weird. Now. Will Stardom got in contact with Tony
Khan and they said that after Forbidden Door they want to have a match with
a w in Japan, and Tony Kahan apparently said, hey, let's do
it now instead of after Forbidden Door. That's what's actually going to happen.
Will All Nightingale is going to get on a plane and she's going to Japan
and she's going to have a match against Tamu or tam Nikana Nakano. Now
here's the thing, this is my problem with this. Ti Kano is a
much better wrestler with a lot more experience, and just there's no way that
will All Nightingales should be Nakano, right, Like she's is on the p
w I Women's two fifty. Tanakana was ranked fifth in the world. Oh
hell, you know she's that good. You know, she was just a
just a couple spots behind Julia and Julia is rear Ripley was one, Julia
was two. I forget who was three and four, and I apologize for
that, and that was tem Ncanna. Now, to be fair, Willow
Nightingale was actually ranked pretty high herself, like eleventh or something like that.
Eighth, I'm looking at the list now, four. I thought it eight.
Yeah, and look, well did not deserve eighth. I'm sorry.
She didn't do much last year to deserve eighth. You know, she had
a actually she had a pretty long losing streak last year. But yeah,
I mean, like, you Watchnacano and you watch Willow Nightingale, and I
love Willow Nightingale. Don't get me wrong. This isn't about any disrespect towards
Willow Knighton. It's just the fact that Tim mcanno is a damn good wrestler.
She's right up there with the best, and she's she's just just having
her lose this match in Japan just doesn't make any sense to me. Frankly
speaking, what I'd like to see is Temnacana win this match and then maybe
at at at double or nothing, No at double or nothing, we have
a three way or something like that, or even Forbidden Door or something,
because having Tim Ncanna wrestle below Nightingale makes no sense to me whatsoever, especially
having even if it wasn't this match with Tim McConnell, she could have been
wrestling a rookie at Startup. Why in the hell are you gonna this is
the same thing to happen with Eddie Kingston. Why before, arguably you're one
of your biggest pay per views of the year, are you sending one of
your champions clear across the world to wrestle and risk injury and then come back
and have to wrestle again the next week at a pay per view. Yeah,
I'm sorry, I can't. I can't even drive to the grocery store
without getting exhausted. I can't imagine traveling in Japan. Yeah, because they've
been building up this Mercedes Monete debut match. She's been basically feuding with Willow
Nightingale since she showed up at Big Business. Yeah, and it's also interesting
because, like you said they they asked if they could have this match,
and then aw said, yeah, let's do it as soon as possible.
And that to me suggests that they know that Willow's losing the title after Double
or Nothing, so they have to do the match now while she still has
the title. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna go ahead and say this too,
Alex And I don't know if you'll agree with me on this, but
Actulia that heart back got injured. I believe have been will over, I
mean, Mercedes versus Julia Hard at Double or Nothing. I really believe that
it feels like, you know, they they had Mercedes Moneque come out I
think at the very first match to like help Willow Nightingale fend off Julia Hart.
So I guess you can make the argument either way, but it does
feel like they've been setting up specifically this match. Yeah, I was definitely
coming, but I think that they wanted Mercedes to beat Julia and go into
the next match or whatever match with with Willow as the champion, you know.
So I don't know, it is kind of weird to give Willow the
belt and then take it off of her this quickly, like really just four
weeks later, so yeah, yeah, it's weird. I mean, I
don't know this. I'm interested in hearing what you guys feel about this,
not only the contract signing, which I'm sure everybody is just, you know,
on pins and needles waiting for that, but also the whole Willow versus
Tabnikano and Japan. Literally what ten days before or just eight days before the
pay per view pay per views? On what day the twenty sixth? I
honestly I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, the twenty sixth, So we're
twelve days away from the pay per view, right, She's going to wrestle
her this weekend. She's wrestling her Saturday. I don't I don't make any
sense, you know, with this being with this being the women's secondary belt,
I can understand them taking it off of Willow in a month's time.
I mean, like, I think, like you said, I like Kelsen.
I think it was supposed to be Julia because without her being injured,
she didn't she wouldn't have lost that match. I don't believe, right.
I like Willison, I like Willis Carry, I like Willow. I don't
think she's a strong enough person to be that champion. She's to me,
she's got way more down than she has up. Her bubbly personality is great
and all, but I just I don't know. It's just one of those
things that are you familiar with tab the Connor already at start off, I've
seen some stuff for her, And you're absolutely right. And if this was
full on, full on out, she destroyed, she destroy uh poor Willow
maybe to be fair, to be fair, this is not a slight against
well. She would destroy most of the women's roster at aid. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, you're right. And and the thing is, it
doesn't make any sense. But the thing I will say about that is Tony
doesn't have the greatest track record for doing the right thing when it comes to
women's division. I mean, really, he's had some issues. So and
and did they did they specifically ask? That's the simple thing that that that
I don't know did they specifically ask? Did it be for that? For
that? Did it be Willow or was it Wrestle somebody? I believe it
was Wressell somebody They want to do so why not send? Why not send
your best? Start them? Wanted to have a match after I think before
forbid door after forbidden door in Japan, and Tony said, let's do it
now that's what I read and over there now, so I send STU,
I think this is a good warm up match or willo before she goes and
and faces uh Mercedes. I I really hope Mercedes Monette does good because right
now she can't do the mic very good. So hopefully she comes out gun
the blaze and puts on a good show. Uh. But we don't know
if she's ready. She had stepped in the ring, so how are we
going? That's what scared me. What if she has ringed Russ and is
not as good as well she has been mk Uh Mercedes Monet has been wrestling
our training rather stringently and with Miya Yamashida from Tokyo Tokyo Joshi Pro Joe Tokyo
Joshi Pro Wrestling. So and me you is really good as a matter of
fact, that she was the one that beat thunder Rosa in those and that
eliminated eliminator match went thunder Roussa went to Japan, and then me you came
here to face thunder Roussa went. Thunder Rossa was the world champion and and
eventually lost in d a w ranked to uh to thunder Rosa me, it
was a very very, very very good wrestler, and I think that Mercedes
will be ready to double or nothing to put on a good match. Why
can't we do something like like Willow? Because to me, Willow is good,
but she's she's not as strong as a lot of the other women's wrestlers.
Suppose that there's some kind of switch and she gets quote unquote injured in
this match in Japan, and maybe stat Lander steps in to fill in her
place and she ends up wrestling Monet. I mean, that will be a
pretty big switch. But that do you see a problem. How far is
it by playing to Japan? Is it something like sixteen or eighteen hours you
know the West Coast this week? Yeah, But what I'm saying is you're
flying all the way to Japan wrestling and match, flying during one of their
bigger shows and startom shows, and then coming all the way back and then
you have to go and do a a pay per view. I mean that
just seems like it's almost unfair to Willow. Maybe if she gets hurt over
there, she won't have to fly back and stat Lander will step in and
take her place. Well, she gets hurt over there, then probably Tabnakana
will have the belt and she will have to come back and take her place.
Well yeah, yeah, or you know, is a title match,
but I will say this and of course is probably just oh it is a
title It is absolutely a title match because Tabnakano you know, of course she
would say this because she's promoting the match. But Tamna Kano did post saying
you know that she's going to be the TBS champion and she will be a
forbidden door. But of course any wrestler would say that she could win it,
and then she could come over here and russell money. I mean,
anything is possible. She needs to say she'll be the TVs champion and be
a double or nothing. Right, well, well I'm not going to be
in America for double or nothing. Kind of gives away the end result of
the match for the TVs Championship on Saturday. Yeah yeah, m And now
one last thing to mention, Willow's had some really really good promos, Like
she's been really good. Just to shout out her promo work, her acting
and stuff like that does put her on another level compared to some of the
other women in aw For me, yeah. Well, also, did you
see the video of her where she visited the wrestling Yeah, yeah, that
was really that was that. That was really awesome. So kudos to Willow.
It's just that I just don't think it's fair that she's got to go
all the way to Japan and back and then wrestle at the pay per view.
And she's not only just going to the Japan, she's wrestling Taen Nakano
of all people. I mean, put her in there with something like you
know, Meu Amasaki, a rookie or somebody doesn't you know, that would
be a believable win, you know, for Willow, I'm sorry say you
know, if you put her up against they're putting her against what the best
they got. Well, and and what I'm saying is if you put her
up against the rookie, there's a chance she could get hurt, more of
a chance of her getting hurt than if she's going against a consummate professional that's
on that level they can be you know, put her over, not have
to worry about getting her hurt and that kind of thing. So that's one
way to look at it. There's one way to look at it. Something
but I will say there's a rookie in excuse me, right, a rookie
at Stardom is not a rookie in a W or w W A, but
it that way. They're that good. Yeah, okay. And also like
for the start OFM a W relationship, it is kind of weird to send
AW wrestler to go there and beat their best wrestler, one of their main
event people. It is just kind of funny. Yeah. Well. The
other thing about that, Alex is that Merrigold, the promotion started by former
founder of Stardom. Their first event is on the twentieth, which I believe
is two days after the Willows. You don't want somebody from another company coming
and beating one of your top stars and have Marigold. I really do believe
that. I really do believe that if the partnership between Stardom and AW is
that strong, Tam nccatto needs to win this match. Doesn't make any sense
Otherwise, here's another thing. Who's in Stardom, who's her biggest rival?
Tam. Stardom is a little bit different than AW. Startup is very faction
being okay, so so like you would never have like a Claudio versus Eddy
kind of thing there. You would have more of a blackfull combat club against
the elite and its body. Here's my thing. This may not even be
a match. She may go over there, there may be an attack beforehand.
You know, there's a whole bunch of different things that could happen to
keep the belt where it's at and make it sure that she doesn't lose.
Yeah, they just don't do that over as Stardom though. Man, they
just don't. I mean, but what but here's something about stardom that let
me interrupt you here, because there's one thing that Stardom does that other wrestling
promotions do not do. They have a ton a ton and when I may
say a ton aton, it means a ton of time on it draws.
So it could come down to that too. Okay, they that's probably what's
gonna happen, leading to leading to a possible ability of with or without the
title or rematch at Forbidden Door. M hmm. Yeah, time limit is
good. That's what Rick Flair used to do and w a title. Yeah,
I mean that's an option because they do quite a bit of title mcbrows
there. Mm hmm. Okay, I think we we've said a lot about
this match. We said a lot more about the It's not even a match.
It's about a contracts love the contract sign It's it's the highlight of the
show. Who's going through the table? We didn't decide that this is This
has been ignition. So I'm going no one goes to the table. I
think Willow will get Mercedes monet on her shoulders and then Mercedes Mourney will uh
squirm loose and no one will go for the table. Stokely, Alex,
let me ask you this. So let's say that Willow puts Mercedes through the
table. M m. That means Mercedes is gonna win at double or nothing.
Advice versa, Mercedes puts Willow through the table. That means Willow is
gonna win at double or nothing. Do you agree with that because it's like
it's it's that's what happens the reverse logic. Yeah, yeah, I think
that. Yeah, you're you're definitely right. So if anyone goes through a
table, it'll be Willow. There's nobody booked telegraph books like Tony Khan.
He does this every time. Let us go into a match. Tony,
if you're listening to this, and I know you are, because you're such
an a w FT mark. You know. Listen, give us a match
that somewhere on this card where we don't know the winner before it gets the
gets the match, thank you so much, you know. But I mean,
rest, that's pretty predictable if you look at it. I've never,
you know, very very rarely have I seen upset. So it's nothing at
a part this. This could be a very good promo wise, this could
be a very good uh segment, but uh action WHI. They'll get notsed
and I don't see them doing anything before because they don't want to risk Mercedes
being accidentally hurts nothing, probably because she hasn't done too much entering. It's
been talking, so I wouldn't want to jeopardize that. But we'll see what
happens. We'll see, we'll see. But I'm saying what I'm saying MK,
is that this match Willow versus Mercedes is one of those matches where going
into double or nothing right now, it's like who's gonna win this match?
It's a toss up. You don't really know who's gonna win this match,
right but they're gonna do something to telegraph it. That's what I'm worried about.
All right, Alex, what do you want to talk about? Uh?
Okay, We're getting a very NJPW focused match with John Moxley and Danielson
versus Kyle Fletcher and Jeff Cobb. The Jeff Cobbs come. I guess who's
he replacing here? Oh? Will Hobbs as the big guy for Don Kyle's
family, So him and Kyle Fletcher were both part of United Empire, so
there's that angle to look out for. And then John Moxley's the new Japan
Champion. Yes, I think there's some interesting dynamics in this match. I
think definitely Moxley and Danielson are are going to win. But what I'm wondering
is what are we going to see Moxley doing at double or nothing? Is
he going to have a match? Is he going to be involved somehow?
Is he going to defend the new Japan title? That's a really good question.
Yeah, I wonder too what is he up to? Maybe that's what
was that that gay I said? He deserves a break every once in a
while. Now, I don't see route for him in two weeks, but
they'll find out for him to do. But he needs a break and because
he's been going full speed. Hmm. I think there's been talks of like
Takeshta wanting a shot at the new Japan title. Yeah, because to catch
this part of the callous family. And so is this uh Kyle Fletcher Jeff
copp thing is kind of sort of part of the callous family. So that's
the whole thing is it's it's to revenge the injury that he caused to hobb
That what this whole thing's about. Yeah, we just saw a video of
Hobbes by the way of post surgery and he's already working out. He's he's
working his upper body, obviously, but he's already at it. Dude was
probably working out during the third Dream. He's sitting there with the with the
dumbbells working out while they're doing it, and he's like, nah, dout
getting hurt and meet keep going. Look more power to Hobbs. Because I've
said it before and I'll say it again. The guy just strikes me as
just one hell of a good guy, you know, and you can't help
but roof for him. Hobbs. I know you're listening to this along with
You're probably sitting on the couch with Tony listening to this, you know,
get well soon, good luck. Has there been anything mentioned about how long
he's going to be out for it? He didn't say anything, but he's
he's wrapped up pretty good. It doesn't look like he's going to be back,
like within the next several months, just from just looking at it.
I mean, he's not moving, you know, he's his upper body's fine
though, you know so, and he was working a hell out of it
at the gym, That's what this was. But you know, he wasn't
doing much with his legs. They purposely did show him hobbling around hobbs the
hobbler. They didn't show it hobbler. Oh god, I know, I'm
so embarrassed. Well do you think going back? Do we think that,
you know? Or are we kind of seems like those are the talk so
far are pretty much an agreement that this match is gonna maybe set up something
for John Moxley, maybe something with Takeshtas for double or nothing. My thing
about the Kallis family has been in the last few weeks, they really haven't
been a family, I mean really dysfunctal, because usually when you had,
you know, before the Mockley and Hobbes match. They would come out,
they'd beat people up. They haven't been out to back each other up in
a while. I mean on Sunday on Saturday they had will Or Osprey's getting
he got beat up and left in the ring with the United Kingdom and nobody.
Fletcher didn't come out, Nobody came out. They just let it happen.
And you know, I get the fact that that they're they're playing the
angle where Osprey's gonna leave, but it's becoming less and less believable that this
is actually a functioning group other than just callous and whoever he decides it's going
to be his buddy that week, you know what I mean, Well,
he's doing the Orange Cassidy Trump Baratta thing. He's not even get that.
But what happened to the rest of his boys? Yeah, you know what
I mean, It just doesn't make any sense. So it's it's like,
I don't know what happened, But like a couple of weeks ago, they
were getting all this stuff was working really well for everything, and then it
was like, what did this whole EVP thing and everything else started to fall
apart? They stopped it just seems to me like they stopped the storylines and
just kind of like everything else crumbled away and it's just that, which is
kind of scary. Yeah, well, it's kind of weird. How like
logically, how is Don Kallas not involved with the evp's targeting Kenny Omega?
You know, like you really think about it. His whole thing is hating
Kenny Omega, and he's not involved in them beating up Kenny Omega. So
yeah, yeah, I mean maybe that's they're not They're not just so weird
because you would figure especially when Shane when Shane Taylor beat him up, isn't
he going to russell Shane Taylor this week? Yeah, Osprey, I guess
the collision, I think. Yeah, So it'll be interesting to see what
happens. Why I fifty to fifty match, anyone could win. I know
what you're gonna say, and I agree. I agree with you. If
Osprey has a stroke in the middle of the ring, he'll win, the
Taylor will win. Another one of those groups of people that don't belong on
aw TV. I'm sorry, but I think what I said. Why was
you've got a pay per view coming up next week? Why are you having
arguably your biggest star right now wrestle in a match that means absolutely nothing.
You know, it doesn't make any sense, It does not make any sense.
It's Osprey's side, I guess that. Do you have anything to step
that? Do you have anything to say about Jeff Cobb and Kyle Fletcher against
John Boxley and Brian Danielson. I like all of them. I think it's
gonna be really really good match. I'm excited to see that. That may
be one of my favorites. Really, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, I've
never seen him before. No, you haven't seen him wrestle. He's been
on a a few times, and he's actually really really good. He's he's
he's a shorter powerhouse. He kind of reminds me a lot of Rhino with
better agility, very very good comparison. Yeah, So look, I we
have four more matches to go, so I want to move on because I
want to get to all of them. These four matches, by the way,
are part of our throw the rankings out the window block because none of
them make any goddamn sense at all. Seriously, look at them, like,
what the a minute, No, wait a minute, I see here's
there there. You you're missing the point. Okay, the the that's just
not the match or yeah, so let's take let's what we're doing the let's
go in order here, okay, so let us talk about you know,
I'm so happy for myself because not only did I get to announced, you
know, to lead into the contract signing match, I also got to lead
into Harley Cameron against Tony Storm. Because Harley Cameron got her ass kicked by
Mariah May last week and somehow managed to get a title shot for this week.
You know, hey, throw to throw the here, hey throw the
tight the rankings right out the window because okay, so look, Harley Cameron
is you know, is is uh. She's a character, you know.
I gotta give it to her. She's she's fun to watch, you know,
because you just never know what's going to come out of her mouth,
you know. And I like that because I'm kind of fun to watch too,
because you never know what's going to come out of my mouth or my
other end either. But this match, it's it's being called a grudge match.
I guess that's the only way they can explain giving Harley Cameron a world
title shot. Actually, I don't know, I don't think. I don't
think it is a world title match. I think yeah, I don't know.
Hates Harley Cameron for because she touched her child. Yeah, but anyway,
this is gonna look my opinion, this is going to be an entertaining
match because she got Pony Storm. You never know what's going to come out
of her mouth. Yeah, Harley Cameron never was gonna come out of her
mouth. It's probably gonna be a squash, but it's gonna probably be you
know, entertaining to say the least. Yeah, yeah, goofy fun.
Also, you're missing that someone in, someone involved in that match will probably
come down. She's a crazy too, never come in her mouth, and
that's Sarah so Ray s a Riah Ada Patado. But look she's she's funny
to listen to. When you get three crazy people in the ring, you
get entertainment. So har be on camera and be on TV to get more
exposure and stuff. Does you deserve a non title grudge match? You know,
but they're kind of for Tony Storm to face, so you know,
you know, stuffs right down to But why, I mean, you've got
a double or nothing coming up in a week, and did basically ten days
from now, you know, or twelve days from now, whatever it is,
and less than two weeks, and you've got every single champion wrestling or
doing something on Dynamite or in Japan. It just does not make sense to
me at all. It's like, you know, you're playing Russian Roulette with
these wrestlers. You know how to come out, do a little talkie talkie,
slap each other in the face, don't put them at risk. I
think this is gonna be a lot of fun. Like, they don't even
need to have a match, just give them like mics and just let them
take goofy things to each other. I guess Serenade will come out at the
end in some way to further their feud for double or nothing, but right,
Oh yeah, yeah, I think this could be the funnest segment of
the night. For sure. It'll be the funnest match because you just you
have two blithering idiots in the ring and probably a couple of blithering idiots outside
the ring too. You know, it's just gonna be fun, poitless but
fun. Yeah. I don't think anybody really has much more to say about
this one. Alex, why didn't you go on to the next one and
make sure you stay the name right, Yeah, Kazluchika Okada. I think
I said it right, Yeah, Yeah, I'm excited for this match.
The one thing that worries me is or Ocada's chest. If Dax really lays
in his his his chop, I don't think. Yeah, I feel bad
for Okada because yeah, he doesn't deserve that. But yeah, you know,
obviously Okada is gonna win. I don't think Dax Harwood is going to
take the title off Okada. But this is kind of a you know,
it's like a low key dream match, and I'm excited for it. M
Oh my god, you know. Yeah, I mean, but where does
would get Howard? Why does Hartwood get the shot? I don't get it.
Go ahead. That That's all I have to say. I don't understand
it because of the family. I mean, if anybody deserves a singles match
and to prove that he's not just a tad wrestler and can and can go.
And he had a good match I hear against the his nephew and in
the room, and he's safe. He's not gonna hurt Okada. He's not
going to you know, he's gonna put on a good match and make him
look do we know he's gonna lose? But this, you know, this
is one of those storylines that involved I know the Elder are gonna get involved.
I'm hoping they don't injure him to in storyline and keep on playing off
that because I want to see this match, and I want to see him
go and put on the planet because he reminds me a little bit of Brett
Hart and his moves and Dispatcher and the way he goes about himself. So
but he puts on a match and and can and can keep people saying maybe
it will lead to the revealing of who replaces Eddie. That's a good point
because by the time this matter, and I wouldn't be surprised if this is
the main event, even though I got I think it should be. It
should be because you're gonna have stuff that's gonna happen afterwards. We already know
that this is gonna end up being You're gonna have the EVPs come out and
possibly even Jungle Boy, so you're gonna have their all four there, and
you know that's going to bring out Dash and everybody for that side is going
to come out, but Eddie can't. So maybe that's how they'll reveal who
the fourth guy is going to be if Eddie can't go. That's a good
thought. It makes more sense to do it, well, I said.
I want to say it makes more sense to do it as the main event,
but they don't always do that that way, so maybe it will be.
But it should be a very interesting match. But I agree with you
MK, I think it will be a good match. Oil Boy, anybody
else, I mean, does anybody else have it? I like that the
idea that this may set up who's going to replace Eddie? But yeah,
I like that. So there's another tag team match. Yeah, so let's
move on to the other tag team match. In our next throw of the
rankings out the window, we have an eliminator match between the Young Bucks and
Christopher Daniels, the Fallen Angel and Matt Sidell, who hasn't want to match
this just before and I think the week before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It's better God's agency. That's the At this point, I'm like,
has as betside I'll ever want to match in his life ever, it's just
trying to get ridiculous, but anyway. Uh so, uh, Christopher Christopher
Daniels a betside all are gonna lose, and Uh that's it. That's that's
pretty much all. I gotta say. What else is there? Segment?
Yeah, there's a segment on Collision where Christopher Daniels did not allow the Young
Bucks to berate him backstage setting up this match. Yeah. Like Christopher Daniels,
he's uh, he's obviously a legend, like a t NA legend,
ring of honor. He had that s c U run and and he was
a big part of the beginning of a w and I missed a lot of
that, to be honest, though her Daniels is like a legend who I've
never really seen to have a good match personally or never seen be interesting for
me. I hope they they bring out like the best of him and they
just have an awesome tag team match and make me care more about Christopher Daniels
in that sidel as well. But uh, yeah, like I'm going and
open minded, I don't know what to expect. Yeah, I'm sorry.
It's gonna build up a lot of heat against the EVPs because Christopher Daniels is
kind of a legend around Seattle and oh, you know, people people love
to hate him, but he is very very well known and and respected.
So he's gonna have the crowd behind him one hundred percent, and it's it's
gonna bring a lot of a lot of you know, negative if there could
possibly be any more negativity with our ev e vps at this point. But
yeah, I don't see them winning, but you know, I don't see
Christopher Daniels in good old Matt Sidell winning, but I think it's gonna be
an overall good Matt. Yeah, they're a cheat to one of course,
and uh, the Young Bucks are, but I you know, like I
said before, those guys have history. I think that'll be a very good
tag team because they've yelled together, they've been down the road together a lot.
I don't know how close matts Sidell is with Young Bucks, but Young
Bucks and Daniels are very familiarly together that they're good friends. And I loved
it. You know, I love seeing Christopher Daniels because he you know,
he's been there where t and a Ring of Honor, he was a Ring
of Honor champion, he was a TNA ex everything excellent. He never won
the world I think he won both. Be honest about it, He's been
everywhere. Yeah, let me let me say this on the aw fan Hub
subreddit and also on the Greatness of subret Greatness of Wrestling subreddit today I posted
a question asking who was your favorite Who was your first Who was the first
first wrestler that became your favorite wrestler? Right, And of course you had
a lot of the Hulk Hogans, and you had a lot of the Edges
or Adam Copland where you had a lot of the Brian Danielson's and things like
that, but you also had a couple of believe it or not, Christopher
Daniels. Yeah, so he he When people were getting into wrestling, you
got to give Christopher Daniels credit. They obviously still obviously still remember him,
and they were his favorite and he was their favorite wrestler. No, you
can't dispute that. Yeah, he's Paul and Angel Gimmick I love oh yeah,
and its tag team his trios tag team with Elix Skipper and oh Man,
Uh Frankie, I can't remember the other guys. Huh was it Frankie
Frankie low key? Okay, I think they made a mistake in this but
God and finished him king. Oh uh yeah. I mean he's been around
and he and he's loved I'm wanting to see him get a little bit of
revenge on them. And that's why really I am picking him take Eddie's because
he deserves to be in the match. If if anybody here, here's where
I think they missed the vote in this, because you had at one point
in time when you had SCU in a w in the beginning, it was
Christopher Daniels and Frankie Gazarim where the Major was the tag team for a while,
and they named Frankie as the Elite Killer for six months after after lost
the tag titles. That's what they had him doing, was going around,
just going after the Elite would have been a perfect opportunity to tag them back
up again for this match. Yeah, but he went to DNA. Yeah,
is he still over there? Yeah, he decided to leave and do
TNA, and I guess he's doing good. I don't know. I don't
pay atention to that company, but yeah, he decided to leave full time
and leave AW for good. I remember watching uh back to Sinker build everything
back when TNA was in its big phase. They used to have in in
Cleveland. They had a wrestling a Cleveland Area Wrestling that you could go and
join the gym and you could actually wrestle if you wanted to. And they
were affiliated with TNA, and he used to be there a lot, so
I got to see him wrestle like once. They only had shows like on
TV once a month, but it was it was fun watching Christopher Daniels because
he was very, very fun to watch. Cool mm hmm yeah, me
and my wife sorry, uh so she's like newer to wrestling, so she
obviously didn't know Christopher Daniels before AW And we always joke because every time Christopher
Daniels was on TV, I'd be like, that's Christopher Daniels. He's like
blah blah blah, and she would never remember the next time he was on
TV, I'm like, who's that you wouldn't know? So we just haven't
cunning joke that every time he's on TV, even though she kind of knows
who he is now, he just pretends to not have any idea who he
is. Well, we've established an Alex mansplains wrestling to his wife to go
Alex. Yeah, yeah, of course, she says, I man explain
everything. So there you go. It's our duty as men to make total
fools of ourselves. Man's plating stuff that doesn't matter. Yeah, the man
explaining how I'm not actually man explaining exactly. That's not masplaining. I'm just
telling you. I catch myself to it all the time, So I'm making
fun of myself here to tickle myself to death. Alex, We've got one
more eliminator. Throw the rankings out the window. Match, let's talk about
it. Is this the first eliminator where someone will actually win the match?
The challenger? I don't think so. I think this is a zero.
I was like, wait, what, Yeah, Swerve versus Brian Cage,
this could be a really good match. I'm hoping Swerve brings the best out
of Brian Cage here. He can do a lot of cool things in the
ring. But what I'm most interested in in this match is what is the
status of Prince Nana. Is he gonna come out? Is there a chance
he betrays Swerve? Is he gonna align himself with them at the Embassy?
Yeah, that's That's what I'm interested about here, Alex. Though, if
if that was a portray Swerve don't you think you'd do it at double or
nothing? Why would they do it on Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Yeah, but you know, we might just see a hint of that or
yeah, no I did. That's the story here that I'm most interested in.
But yeah, that would be way more interesting to have it done it
double or nothing. For sure. There actually might be this actually might be
the eliminator that the challenger wins because you can't count out Christian interfering. Yeah,
so you may have the entire patriarchy come out. You might just have
kill Switcher whatever the hell he's called himself now and his other sons come out
and interfere and costs Swerve the the match. But it could be a good
match. I like Brian Cage. I've seen him do some good stuff in
the ring, but he just seems to be He's kind of like in the
same place as Wardlow is anymore. He's just there. He's had some good
matches though, I'm like, you know, Wardow has some decent matches,
but I remember when it was Cage versus Hangman Page and those two have pretty
good match match together. He can go. He just I don't know what
he He's one of those. He has just one thing missing and I don't
know what it is, but if they uh huh, it's Taz. When
he was part of the Taz's group, he was great and he did a
lot of good stuff. It's part of that group. And then they turned
on him. Man, that was when he started just becoming like I mean,
I love don't get me wrong, I love Wardlow, and I think
he's going to be great down the road, but he's kind of in the
same boat. He hasn't really done anything since then. So you're saying he
needs a mouthpiece. It's not so much that he needs a mouthpiece, but
to be honest with you, I don't see that that that that that he
fits in with this group. You know, it's the Gates of Agony and
Brian Cage. He's part of that group, but he's one of those like
I've been thrown in this group because they didn't have anything else to do with
me. So you know what I mean. It's they made a trio out
of a do out of a duo that they really didn't need to do,
and he needs to be he needs to get apart from that. Maybe if
you put him in Wardlow together as a tag team, that would be a
great thing. Maybe, Yeah, yeah, it could be good because yeah,
I agreed, like they've never gelled. It's been like years. I
think they've been together now at this point. Yeah, and they do that
like throw throw him for the throw the guy for the power bomb to Brian
Cage and he finishes that off. It doesn't Brian Cage, it takes the
loss. Yeah, it's such a weird group. Like those two guys together
look good, Brian Cage looks okay, but together it doesn't make any sense.
And yeah, yeah, I agree. Well that Do you have anything
to say about this patch? Oh yeah, yeah, I just saw Swerve,
so I'm kind of still starstruck. But I don't I don't know what
did you say? Was it? Yeah? Yeah, he was. He
was at DeFi, and you know, while we're talking about our world champion,
I have to say he is a really nice person. When he came
to DeFi, he stayed after the show. He wasn't wrestling or anything,
and he stayed and took pictures and signed autographs with every single person at that
show. And there were at least two hundred people there, so that it
was a surprise appearance. He wasn't nobody knew he was going to be there,
so it's really nice. But yeah, I feel bad for Brian Cage
because he he seems all alone in this world. He doesn't really fit anywhere.
I feel bad for him. I don't know, they need to do
some development with him because he's not a bad wrestler. Yeah, he's one
of those guys that really surprised you because his size, he can do some
amazing stuff for the guy his side. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of
people have compared Brian Cage to Wardlow, and I personally don't see that comparison
because Wardlow has accomplished things more consistently to Brian Cage does. Where I look
at Brian Cage, I see him as a comparison with like a parallel comparison
with Lance Archer. Right, two really really good wrestlers who are workhorses that
just can't catch a win. Yeah, they're you know, and they're you
know and you know, and you make if you go like on Twitter and
you mentioned Brian Cage or Lance Archer, they're going to respond to you.
I'm gonna tell you that right now. They are good guys and you can't
help, but root for them. I root for them, and I just
like to see them succeed. I really want to see them succeed. They're
it's not because they're good guys, because but because they're good guys and they're
excellent wrestlers supposed to Lance Archer and and Brian Cage. I just want to
see them succeed. I know, I know you don't like the I know
you don't like the trios. I got a trio for you, Lance Archer,
Brian Cage and Wardlow. I thought you were going to say that would
be under date the guidance. They could become the monsters and they could just
that would be a hell of a group. That's true, that's a good
idea. I mean they would be they would be unstoppable. Yeah. They
find a way to lose anyway. That's how they get. It doesn't matter
how much how much it seems to be. Like you could put Brian Cage
against Sir Pentico in a meaningful match and Sir Penteca would walk away. They
will find a way for Brian Cage to lose. Let's Lance Archer lost to
Orange Cassidy by a count out. How freaking stupid was that match. That
was just like, Okay, I absolutely hate Orange Cassidy now because they book
him like an idiot. Yeah, you know that. Honestly, that match
there maybe hate Tony Kahan. Honest to God, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna lie to you. I was like, what the hell are they doing?
Lance Archer beat the shit out of Orange Cassidy and they did that to
Lance Archer And that's kind of the same thing they've been doing to Brian Cage
this whole time too. It's just like, you know, it's like a
donkey with a carrot being dangled before their nose. You know, it's just
like almost there, I almost get the carrot, and then boom, there's
a wall. Yeah yeah, and that's the point. Well, look,
we're gonna wrap this up now. Thank you for listening to edition. Thank
you everybody on the aw Fan podcast team for being here. I'm looking forward
to talking about the show to Mark. I mean, tomorrow, I can
have a lot of stuff happening to it, you know, but we'll see,
we'll see. It can either be a rocking good show or it could
just be okay, that kind of thing, I think, And it's gonna
be a rock and good show. I'm looking to see every segment on this
may have except for maybe the hook segment, you know, as yeah,
they're gonna I'm sure with hook they're gonna have something with the what do you
call it, the intelligent shrubbery or whatever it's called, you know, but
you know, yeah, the learning tree, the learning tree. I'm sorry,
I know it has something to do with leaning or learning Bill. There
go Big Bill, which is, let's face it, big Bill. It's
the most original name in all of wrestling. So anyway, William, oh
gosh, I can't wait for the show tomorrow night because there's just gonna be
a lot going on. Yea, even Picture Picture is probably gonna be something.
Uh yes, so don't turn off your TV during Picture and Picture.
But anyway, this has been ignition. This is Kelson. Good night,
everybody night, Yo, good night,