Today is the one year anniversary since the passing of Jay Briscoe, thirty eight
years old. It was one year ago today. I was screaming right here
on this channel when the news came in and broke live. One of the
saddest stories, unfortunately not the only major loss, but one of the saddest
stories to come out of wrestling in twenty twenty three. And tonight on Dynamite,
Mark Briscoe walked out on stage and he introduced Jay Briscoe's kids, his
son and his two daughters, including the daughter who the older daughter who they
said might never walk again, she walked out there on stage tonight during Dynamite
one of the most emotional moments that you will ever see on a wrestling television
show. It's an amazing moment, bittersweet and sad, but also something that
was great to see because honestly, we hadn't heard much of anything about the
daughters since last year. We know that they were very badly injured and they
were in the hospital, they got released from the hospital, and there really
haven't been very many updates on them since then. So to see them on
the show tonight with smiles on their faces, being able to walk out there
side by side with their uncle. It was just one of those moments that
it was very very cool, as sad as the story is, you know,
one year later, still a very very awesome moment. What else was
awesome tonight was the main event, which was Samoa Joe defending the aw World
Heavyweight Championship against the twenty eight and one Hook. A lot was made about
this match last week. All the social media garbage Tony Kahan and Gender Mahal
and all that stuff, and Hook and Gender kind of got sucked into the
whole thing and it became this tribal war between warring fan factions about who's better
than who, who deserves a title match. Tonight, all that shit washed
away. You know, we had the title match on Monday. We had
a title match. Tonight had a big fight feel. When these two guys
came down to the ring, Tony Kahan announced that it was commercial free,
so we got no commercial breaks during the main event. It was ten minutes
for these two to go out there and do their thing. And I loved
this main event. This was an excellent, excellent main event. It achieved
exactly what it had to do. Samoa Joe went out there tonight, he
looked like a killer, and when it was over, he retained his AW
World Heavyweight title, which of course he was going to. It's only it's
his first title defense. He's not losing to Hook. So he won and
retained his championship. But Hook, in the process, came out of the
match tonight, even in defeat, only his second defeat. He came out
of this match better off than he was going into it. Joe did everything
in his power there towards the end. He even let this kid kick out
a musclebuster at one and a lot of people are gonna nitpick that. They're
gonna they're gonna hate that. That didn't even bother me. The crowd expl
I mean, the people were hanging on to every near fall and they wanted
to see a title chain. I mean they came in Joe came to the
ring tonight. The entire building was chanting Joe. Not that they were boeing
Hook, but Joe walked in there like this conquering king coming back, you
know, to claim his land. Everybody was cheering for him, and by
the end here everybody in that building wanted to see Hook walk out with that
title. And I saw some people before comparing it almost to Jeff Hardy and
the Undertaker on Raw and the Ladder Match back in two thousand and two.
We didn't get the big endorsement there at the end, but there were a
lot of similarities between what happened on Raw that night over twenty years ago and
what we saw in this main event tonight. And I just can't say enough
good things about that main event. I can't say enough good things about Joe
as the aw champion. He's only had one match so far as the defending
champion, but just his presence when he comes out just feels like a world
beater, and that's exactly what he was during this match tonight. And then
at the very end, when Hangman Page comes out and Swerve Strickland is in
the crowd, we get a sense of exactly where they're headed for revolution as
far as a triple threat match with Joe defending against not one but two men,
So I love the finish of the show. That was not the only
title match. We actually had three title matches on the show tonight, including
another very good match and a title change. Unfortunately, the title that changed
hands is the one that was the most meaningless out of all of them,
the one that is most unnecessary out of all of them. But we did
get a title change tonight top Flight in Private Party, they had a tag
team match. I believe that might have been their first tag team match together,
at least in an aw ring, I believe. With Mark Quinn back
after over a year on the shelf, it was nice to see him back.
But also we got a very interesting tease. It was in a very
quick video package towards the end of the show, but we did have a
tease of where they are seemingly going for Stings retirement mat Revolution, and yes,
it might involve the Young Box, but it also involves the idea that
I pitched last week, the idea that I've been pitching for more than a
week. But I saw that segment and that put a smile on my face.
I enjoyed Dynamite tonight. I thought it was a good show. I
was entertained. I liked more than I didn't like, whichre's always the goal
when I watch these shows. I want to be able to like more than
I hate. I didn't hate anything, and we'll talk about all of it.
This is your aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday, January seventeenth,
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Tony Shavani's normally sitting next to ex Caliber and Taz at the commentary desk
at ringside. That was not the case tonight because Tony was home sick and
in his place was Ian ric Abanni. Always enjoy listening to Ian, so
it was good to have him on the call tonight, and they opened the
show with the first of three title matches on Dynamite Tonight, this one for
the TNT Championship, with Christian Cage defending against Dustin Rhodes. This is a
match that was set up in a backstage segment on Collision after Dustin picked up
a win over Willie Mack, he was confronted by Christian and the patriarchy.
It led to this match here on this show. You know, Dustin,
It occurred to me now as we have flipped the calendar, we are now
in twenty twenty four that the year before last, at the end of twenty
twenty two, Dustin publicly said that he was planning on retiring in twenty twenty
three, and so Dustin Rhodes, his retirement went the way that most wrestler
retirements go. Twenty twenty three has come and gone, and here we are
at the beginning of twenty twenty four. Not only is Dustin Road still wrestling,
he is challenging for the TNT Championship. So he had a little change
of heart. He's gonna go a little bit longer, but look, the
man can still go right. Dustin he's slowed down. He has slowed down
a little bit, but he can still crank out a great match when he
has to. Tonight was a good example of that. Christian baited him in
for a test of strength, which of course led to a cheap shot,
and Dustin responded with a snap power slam. Christian took a break outside the
ring to catch his breath. Dustin went on offense until Christian fought off a
superplex and that sent Dustin to the floor, followed by a dive from the
top by Christian onto Dustin on the floor, so Christian was in control through
the picture and picture break. He dodged a crossbody attempt, but then Dustin
avoided a top rope head butt. Dustin hit a Manhattan drop and hit his
signature running bulldog for a two count. He avoided an ipoke and then he
slingshot Christian into the corner and Dustin wanted the crotch kick that he does,
the shatter Dreams. I know he doesn't call it that anymore, but that's
what it is. He wanted the shattered Dreams Yambag City as Taz would call
it, but Cage got free. Dustin responded with a dropped down punch and
a code read for a two count. He teased the dive as he was
about to launch himself through the ropes, though Christian caught him and cut him
off with a right hand, and then he had a frog splash. Christian
did only got a two count, so Christian grabbed the TNT title. He
was arguing with Aubrey Edwards who took the title away from him. Dustinn't got
a visible cradle. He had dead to rights. He had Christian dead to
rights referees. Back was turned. Nick Wayne gets into the ring and he
reverses the cradle pin. Dustin kicked out it too anyway, so Dustin watted
another bulldog Christian Dodge did. He went to the second rope, he got
his legs swept and this time Dustin got the I guess he calls it the
unnatural kick. He got the unnatural kick. Dustin then got a superplex immediately
just you know, you see seth Rollins when he's in the ring, hit
the superplex. Immediately gets up into the falcon arrow again. Dustin you know
his bones are older than boast in this company, so he hits a superplex.
He's taken equally as bad of a bump as the person he's superplexing.
But he gets right back up. He brings Christian up with him, and
he has him in position for a crossroads, and he hits the crossroads,
which got a reaction. Of course, you knew it would got a reaction
from the crowd, and he got a very close near fall out of it.
Nick Wayne tripped up Dustin from the outside. As Christian took the referee,
Dustin went out after him. He got goozled by kill Switch. He
fought off kill Switch, and then he gave Nick Wayne a Canadian destroyer on
the floor and he got all of it. I mean, he looked like
he spiked this kid right on his head outside the roun. Of course he
didn't because he's a pro, but it looked great and that was the end
of Nick Wayne. Back inside, Christian was in the corner. It looked
like he was trying to pull the middle turnbuckle pad off. I don't know
what he was doing. He had his back turned. It looked like he
was doing something in the corner, hopefully hopefully nothing dirty. But as Dustin
came in, he sidestepped Dustin. Dustin ran into the corner and then Dustin
just awkwardly stood there. He had his back turned so he's in the corner.
He's facing the crowd, kind of crouched over a little bit. Again,
I didn't know what he was doing. I just thought, okay,
he's taken a few seconds. And he stood there, and he stood there.
He stood there a little bit longer, for like an awkward period of
time, and I guess either maybe he got the wind knocked out of him
legitimately, or he was just selling for a long time. But eventually he
turned around and then he walked right into a spear. Christian then hit the
kill switch, not to be confused with the kill switch outside the ring.
He hit the kill switch. He had the match one, but Dustin kicked
out. He kicked out very late, but he kicked out. Christian yelled
at him, he pulled him up, Dustin flipped him off, and so
Christian hit one more kill switch and then finished him off to retain the title.
If I had one criticism, now that I go back and I remember
what they did here at the end of this match, they basically did the
same thing in the main event, right, So here you have Dustin kicking
out of Christians finished. I didn't kick out of it at one, but
he kicks out of his finish. He flips him off. That's exactly what
hooked it in the main event to Samoa job. So maybe I would have
avoided doing that here and just saved that for the main event. But I
thought it was an enjoyable opener, hot crowd to start things out. I
don't know how many more of these Dustin has left again. He wanted to
hang it up last year. Obviously he had second thoughts. I don't know
if he's going to go the entire year this year. I don't know.
I don't know how many of these he has left. But he did tell
Sports Illustrated that every time he has a match now, it takes him about
a week to recover. Although he did admit he was still feeling the he
may have just been saying that he was saying he was still feeling the effects
of the swerve of Strickland match. He was kind of in and out of
character in the interview, but he says it takes about a week for him
his body to really recover when he has a match. So, but he
had a really good one here tonight. You got two veterans in there right
showing what they can do. That's off to them. No, Adam Copeland.
Copeland has been doing this open challenge gimmick on collision. It's wrestling these
random matches and it feels very random, but again it's part of the story
because Christian basically sent him to the back of the line, and so now
the story is that Copeland he's got to just start racking up wins so he
can work his way back up into title contention, which of course is a
goofy idea to begin with, because we've had people on this show. I
mean, we had Daniel Garcia not that long ago, right issue a challenge
to MJF to an aw World title match. I was gonna say Hook,
but Hook has a twenty eight to one record, so you could at least
say that Hook has built up his record enough to where if he wants to
call out the champion, it makes sense. But I guess Copeland has to
work his way back up into title contention. But he was not on the
show tonight, So we got to the back and they gave Renee a workout
tonight because she was interviewing people. Left it right up and down this show.
Renee was there to interview Swerve Strickland, and she asked if he would
have his eyes on tonight's main event with Samoa Joe and Hook, and he
said he would be foolish not to be paying attention. He says, whoever
wins, it doesn't matter because he's laser focused on winning the AW World Heavyweight
title. He said, coming out of the Continental Classic, he's the one
that everybody has been talking about. Everybody's been talking about Swerve. He said
he's going to go after that title. Renee said, Hangman Page is another
man going after the AW World title, and Swerve said that he's got his
eyes on everything. He's got his eyes on it everything. He's got his
eyes on every one. And he put over Hangman. He put over Hangman.
He said, all the men he's beaten. He mentioned Kenny Omega and
Brian Danielson. He said, even John Moxley in at Texas Deathmatch. More
recently he's beaten Roderick Strong and J. D. Drake and Claudio Castignoli.
He said, if God opened up the clouds above us, and he descended
from the heavens and challenged everybody to face him. He said Hangman might have
a chance. He said, all of these things are true. He's beaten
them all except him. He's beaten all these people, but he has not
beaten Hangman, or he's not beaten Swerves. Swerve has beaten Hangman twice,
and he says whose house Swerve's house. When they came back, they aired
highlights of the street fight for the aw World Tag Team titles that aired on
Well it was technically after a collision. They had their Battle of the Best
El special on Saturday night and they had Sammy Gevara for the finish. He
jumped twenty five feet in the air off a lighting truss next to the stage.
He crashed through the stage. Powerhouse Hobs pulled Ricky Starks out of Harm's
way because Sammy and Jericho have issues with the Kallis family, and so Takeshta
got involved and he hit Jericho with a kendo stick. Jericho and Sammy did
not win the tag team titles. And I have to just say here what
I said on the podcast this weekend. I watched that street fight on Saturday,
and it was an actual street fight. Very rarely do we get street
fights in wrestling these days that will start out in the streets. Yeah,
maybe they'll start in the ring and they'll brawl into the crowd. If we're
lucky, they'll go backstage. They started in the streets outside the arena.
They were out there for a while. They did the old Howard Finkel spot
where Howard Finkel his poor rental car out in Manhattan, parked right outside of
the Manhattan Center back on Raw ninety three, Sean Michaels and Mister Perfect.
They ended up on the car, broke the windshield. Nobody told Howard they
were going to do that. We even had a Howard Finkel reference on commentary
when they did that spot. But they broiled out there for a while,
then they brawled back stage. Eventually they made their way into the arena.
I thought it was great as street fights go. That's exactly what I would
hope to see if you're going to have a street fight. So actually,
I actually really enjoyed that match. On Saturday Now back Live, Renee was
in the back with Chris Jericho, who put the blame on the don Kallis
family for their loss and for Sammy being out hurt. That's why he was
not on the show tonight. He blamed Takeshta for hitting him with a kendo
stick to cause him to get power bomb through a table. He said,
So what do I get to use on you for revenge? Maybe a barbed
wire baseball bat, maybe a pane of glass, maybe a pizza cutter said
he's gonna seek and destroy his ass. So, if I was to ask
you, who do you think showed up to interrupt Jericho? And we did
this multiple choice? Remember when you were back in school, and maybe I'm
dating myself here, but when I was back in school and we would take
these official tests, they had the scantron. Remember the scantron sheets had to
fill in the little bubble at your number two pencil. If I was to
give you a multiple choice, quitz who interrupted Chris Jericho backstage? And I
said, choice A, don Kallis, Choice B Kenoski Takeshta, Choice C,
Kylie Ray or choice D Matt Sidell. Who would you guess interrupted Chris
Jericho here in this segment? If you chose option D Matt Sidell, which
none of you would have done, then you would be correct putting fucking,
fucking random interruption here in this segment. So Matt Sidell shows up, and
he says, boy, Jericho, you know you're losing it. He goes,
this isn't you. I know you says you're better than that, says
and to get over this loss, you've got to get back in the ring.
And you've got to get back in the ring and fight somebody who has
beaten you before, like me, He said, Nick Housman. Yeah,
I should have had Nick Housman as an option. But would Housman have the
guts to show up and interrupt Jericho? That's the question. I don't know
if he would actually have the guts to do it. But no, he
was not an option on the on the exam. Stop adding options to the
exam. I'm the teacher, now you so, Jericho says, Look,
I respect you as a wrestler. Says some would even say that you were
born to do this. Uh huh. He said, maybe you're right.
Maybe we do need to do this match, Maybe we need to do it
right here in North Charleston, South Carolina, Friday night on Rampage and he
told him be careful what you wish for. So, I mean, are
we supposed to now? On the television show, they don't really acknowledge the
fact that Rampage is a taped show, So it was a little weird because
he said, how about we do the match right here in North Charleston,
South Carolina. We'll do it on Rampage on Friday night. So I guess
are like in k Favor, we supposed to believe that they're going to run
the same city in the same venue on Friday or are they just basically admitting
the show's taped. I don't know. This felt like a very forced way
to get Jericho in a match on the taped show. That's what this was.
Last week when Jericho came out, they played the music throughout the entire
segment as he fought right with the Big Bill. We all know why they
did that, right, They did that very clearly. They did that to
mask any negative reaction from the Dailies Place crowd to Chris Jericho. So they
played the music and then on Rampage or on Collision, they started the match
outside and they spent the majority of the match outside the building and the back
of the building before they got into the building. And I'm sure that played
into their calculations as well. They are going to great lengths to do whatever
they can to protect Jericho when he comes out with the hope, and I
actually think they're right. I think what's gonna end up happening is as time
goes on, this is all gonna wash away and Jericho's gonna come out and
the booze are gonna go away. That's what's gonna end up happening. But
for the time being, they want to avoid the chance, they want to
avoid the booze, they want to avoid any kind of negativity. And so
Jericho is going to wrestle on Rampage. Wasn't the last time we saw Jericho
wrestle on Rampage. Isn't he normally doing commentary on So now we're getting a
Chris Jericho match on the taped show, so that should there be any negative
reaction, And I didn't hear any because they had the live crab reaction when
he was in the back. I don't know if they turned the volume down,
which is possible, right. I wasn't in the building, so I
can't say for sure if they boot him or not. But they're gonna do
the match on Friday night so that they can edit out any negative reaction.
That's why Jericho is wrestling Matt side of all people like, where the fuck
did this match come from? That's why Jericho is gonna be on Rampage Friday
night. You're not getting You're not getting one over on me. I know
what you're doing. You can be sneaky about it, but I know exactly
what you're doing. Orange Cassidy and Trend Burretta in a tag team match against
Penta and Commander, and they had Ray Phoenix out there with them. Ray
Phoenix is still recovering from injuries. He'll be back soon. Commander escaped a
tree of Woe and sent Burretta to the floor. He launched Cassidy into the
corner. Penta made the hot tag. He ran wild with some sling blades.
He got a stalling Maid in Japan on Cassidy and Commander wiped out Trent
with a dive. Bretta saved his partner from an assisted fear factor, and
Cassidy laid out Penta with the Round the World DDT. Penta blindsided Barretta with
a punk kick and a step up Canadian destroyer. Commander hit a rope walk
splash for two, which Cassidy was the one who broke up the fall,
so Commander wanted a Phoenix splash, Bretta avoided it and hit a running knee
to turn Commander inside out. Penta tried a springboard, Cassidy shoved his partner
aside and hit beach break. An orange punch sent Commander into Barretta, who
hit the Crunchy to pick up the wind for best Friends. After the match,
Roderick Strong and the Kingdom came to the ring. Strong told cast City
to take off his glasses heed, which he never did, by the way,
and he questioned if being the International Champion maybe has become a little too
much for him since he's now doing tag team matches, and Strong said that
title belongs to him, said that he is coming for the title. Cassidy
said, all right, fine, we'll do the match right here, right
now. Of course, everybody popped because they wanted to see another title match
on the show, and the logical thing to do here as the heel.
If you're Roderick Strong and Orange Cassidy is offering himself. He's offering you a
title opportunity after he just got done wrestling a match. You would think that
Roderick Strong would take him up on that offer, but oh no, roder
Rick Strong said, We're not going to do the match, said night,
We're going to do the match on March third at Revolution, and I'm going
to let you spend the next six weeks knowing that that title is coming to
me. Okay, I don't know what kind of warped logic and that is.
Obviously they wanted to save the match with the pay per view and that's
the way that they went about doing it. But I just think it made
Roddy look like an idiot. No surprise though, that he would be next
in line for a shot at the title. They only had Adam Cole come
out on television twice and tell us flat out that Roderick s Troung was going
after the international titles, So of course we knew this match was coming.
If the Undisputed Kingdom is being positioned as the top heel faction in this company,
and you could argue that the Kallis Family is still the top faction,
right because really, what has the Undisputed Kingdom done so far? Right?
Nothing yet, nothing of note. But if they're going to be the top
heel faction in this company, then they have to deliver on their promises.
They have to bring gold into the folder. They have the Ring of Honor
World tag team titles. Who gives a shit? Okay, who cares?
And frankly, they already had the titles anyway before the faction was even formed.
I'm talking about from when Adam revealed himself to be the devil. He
sat in the ring and he told us, right, we have Roddy is
going to go after this title, and Wardlow is going to go after that
title, and when I'm recovered, he's gonna hand me the aw World title.
That's probably not going to happen, but you need Roderick Strong to at
least deliver on that promise and bring the international title into the fold. Otherwise
this faction has gone limp already. I'm not even sure why Orange Cassidy needs
to have the title anymore at this point. So Roderick Strong should go to
Revolution and absolutely win the international title, not because Roderick Strong needs it,
but because the Undisputed Kingdom needs it. If they can't beat Orange Cassidy,
then why the fuck are we supposed to believe that they're gonna beat Samoa Joe
or Swerve or whoever it is and bring in the AW world time. They
need the international time. Rene was backstage with hanging Adam Page, who said
that, you know, holding championship gold has not always been your main focus,
but that's exactly what you've honed in on. So why the change?
And he said that he treated that AW World title with reverence. He said
he needed it, He needed the AW World title. But what he's realized
about himself is that he wanted to win the championship back then. But here
in twenty twenty four, not only does he want to win, he will
hold it. He will put his name on it, and he will keep
it there as long as he can. Renee brought up Swerve's comments earlier that
he can't beat him. He said, you can't beat him, You've already
lost twice. Hangman said, I don't think about Swerve at all. But
even if I can't beat that guy, it doesn't matter because Swerve is not
the AW World Champion. Samoa Joe is. So that is my focus.
He said, maybe after tonight it'll be hook. He said, God be
with you if it is. Back in the ring, we have the segment
of the night. Justin Roberts stood in the ring and he introduced Mark Briscow
and the Briscoe family, and Mark Briscoe walked out on stage, no family
with him. When he initially walked out, they did cut to a shot
at ringside and in the front row you saw members of the Briscoe family.
You saw Papa Briscoe was there and his mom. I think his kids were
there. I don't know if all of his kids were. I think Mark
Mark's got like eight kids. I don't know if they were all there or
not. But they cut back to Mark on the stage and Mark said that
he comes to us tonight representing the baddest tag team in history, the brisco
Brothers that got dem boys chants from the crowd. He said, tragically,
one year ago tonight my partner, my brother, he passed on car accident.
Moved on to the next level of existence. They say, generations come,
generations go, he goes. Men, my nieces were in that truck
with him, and you could hear a pin drop at this point in this
crowd, I mean, they were paying attention to what this man had to
say. And he said, tragically, they told his oldest niece that she
would never walk again. However, and at that point, Jay's son and
his two daughters, Gracie and Jaylee, walked out. I think they had
dem Boys' shirts on. Also. Now again, these are two girls who
were in the truck with him when he died. It was a terrible wreck.
And I know his oldest daughter did cheer. He would go to her
cheer practices and stuff. She was very active. And those pictures the family
posted on Facebook of them in the hospital, embraces on their legs, it
was it was horrible, you know. And again the report was that the
doctors didn't know if she would ever walk again. Right, that's a shoot.
That's what they said at the time. They did not know, but
it wasn't looking good. Not only did they walk out there Mark Mark got
emotional, they weren't emotional. They had smiles on their faces like they were
genuinely happy to be there with their uncle and just genuinely happy to be able
to walk out their period. And so they walked out on stage. Mark
teared up. He said, God is on the throne. We dem boys,
damn it, we won't stop. We can't stop. We ain't going
nowhere. And then he thanked everybody and they all hugged, and then they
cut to a tribute package for Jay Brisco that I believe might have been the
same one they aired on television last year. I was not expecting to be
so emotional during a segment here on Dynamite, But I said, I knew
it was the anniversary and I was going to open and mention it, but
I didn't know that they were to do something on the show. Now Tony
Kahn did acknowledge it on Twitter earlier today, but I didn't know they were
going to do this segment on the show. And I'm really happy that they
did. It was very cool to see the daughters out there and all of
them on stage, embracing and you know, getting that kind of reception from
the crowd, and you look for something positive out of such a shitty experience.
I mean, there's nothing happy about what happened a year ago. It
was a terrible accident. It was a terrible tragedy. It caught everybody by
surprise, and they have a huge family. You know, when you have
kids involved, that makes it even worse because you have young kids involved now
who one day their father is here, the next day he's not, and
you ask why, and there's no good reason why. Thirty eight years old.
He should still be here. And like I said, Mark has a
ton of kids. It's a huge family they have, and Mark's really struggled.
He's talked about that, you know, his entire career, it's been
him and his brother. They've traveled the roads together. He still gets very
emotional and he has to get ready to leave and go to the airport.
You know, he talks about this. You know it's been a year,
but a year is not really that long. Yeah, I'm not sure you
really ever get over something like that. So out of that horrendous experience,
it was nice to see something positive here on this show. So this this
was the segment of the night. Nothing could touch this. This was just
great to see. And we went back to Renee. We went back to
Renee for the third time tonight. I said, they kept this woman very
busy here on this show. So we go back to Renee and she's sitting
down with the young Bucks. This was one week after the Bucks walked out
at the end of Dynamite. Last week, you remember Staying Darby against Takeshta
and Powerhouse Hobbs. They had that Tornado tag team match. Sting got the
win for his team, Tony Shavanni got in the ring and he asked Sting,
who do you got in mind? Or do you have anybody in mind
as your final opponent for revolution? Because they hadn't really addressed it up until
this point. That's when the Young Bucks walked out on stage. They have
a bit of a new look. They shaved their faces and they have these
weird, fucking Vince like mustaches now, which is easy heal heat, although
these days just walking out period is probably good heal heat for the Young Bucks.
But they never addressed the crowd right, nothing was said. They left
it to lead you to believe that the Bucks are going to be Sting's final
opponents or revolution. So here with Renee, she said, you guys requested
this time, and before she could even say anything else, Nick Jackson cut
her off and asked her to call them by their god given names, Nicholas
and Matthew Jackson. You see, he said, executive vice presidents around here,
and it's time to take these jobs a little more serious. If only
they had had that attitude a year and a half ago, or if only
they had had that attitude a year ago, if they took those jobs as
EVPs, a little more seriously, maybe we could have gotten everybody in the
room together, but that's that's for another day. Rene brought up the temper
tantrums and the public meltdowns. You know, they lost their full gear.
The rumors, right, She mentioned the rumors without actually mentioning what the rumors
were. So Matt cut her off and said, some of these rumors all
fake. But let's say, hypothetically, hypothetically speaking, let's say that some
of the rumors are actually true. What would you do to preserve and protect
your life's work, your baby? Right? You and Joy have a beautiful
daughter, don't you. What would you do? And what would you be
willing to lose relationships with your friends and coworkers? How about your reputation or
your legacy out the window? Would you be willing to do that? In
hindsight if you knew that there would be a sustaining, thriving wrestling company called
AW. Says hell yeah, and I would do it all over again.
By the way, you got your paycheck this week. Good right. He
was making a point, says you're welcome. So Redee brought up sting and
Matt said, when we started AW, we said that we were going to
change the world. And that's exactly what we did. It was out with
the old, in with the new, and somewhere along the way we did
lose our way. He said. It was like the culture shifted and the
toxicity crept into the locker rooms, and the perception of the company was just
different. Different. The perception of the company was different. Now, this
is a very interesting if you pay attention to the words that he was using.
This is very very interesting. Is going to get a lot of people
talking here. They talked about the perception of the company change, and he
said he thinks he knows why. It's because they started to lean on yesterday
self serving, superficial, cancerous superstars, and he says, you mentioned Sting.
He said, Sting is none of those things. Sting is none of
those things. He's great, he's a role model employee. Sting is awesome.
And he's actually envious of Sting. He's envious about the way that people
talk about this man. It just maybe people will talk about us that way
one day, But it's about what Sting represents. The image of Sting is
not in line with what they wanted to do here in aw You. So,
unfortunately for Sting. We are going to have to say goodbye to Sting
and everybody likes Sting and we, he says, we the Royal We would
never ask anybody to do something that we weren't willing to do ourselves. So
Renee asked them, is that an official call out? Are you officially calling
out Sting for his retirement match or revolution? Nick then pulled out his phone.
He showed Matt something on his phone. He said, as EVPs,
we'll pull some strings. And then they got up to go leave, and
Matt told her we've got a meeting to go get to that. People are
going to be very upset about this promo. People are going to be upset,
and that's the point. That's the whole fucking point of the promo is
to upset people. A lot of people don't like the Young Bucks, and
a lot of people don't like the idea of the Young Bucks being Stings Bottle
opponents, So they're leaning into it. They're leaning into it, even though
you pay attention to what he said here right, what he said here,
what Matt Jackson said here really should make them babyfaces to their fans. But
because there is this hatred of the young Bucks, and because they were so
smug about it here in this segment, it's supposed to get them heat.
And I think this heel turn, I said this a few weeks ago,
This heel turn is exactly what the young Bucks need because the young Bucks are
ice cold right now. The young Bucks have no direction. Hangman Page is
off doing something else. Kenny Omega is still laid up healing up from diverticulated,
so when he comes back, he's gonna jump right back into the Kallus
family stuff, not gonna have anything to do with the young Bucks. So
then what are the Bucks gonna do? You got to come up with an
idea for the young bucks as baby faces. There just isn't anything for them
to really do, and there's already this hatred for them, so why not
tap into that and use that? Why not use that to your advantage?
And that's what they're starting to do here. This heel turn is exactly what
they needed to do. I think actually leaning in on the EVP stuff is
a smart thing to do. It's not like the aw audience doesn't know that
they're EVPs in the company, and it's not like it hasn't been brought up
on television before anyone. Right, people know the aw audience, they know
they know that they're EVPs, so why not lean into it. Right,
everybody knows, everybody's aware of the different controversies that have taken place over the
past year and a half. And if there's one thing that people don't like,
it is executive And this is a good life lesson too, not just
in wrestling, But if there's one thing that people don't like, it is
executives that abuse their power, or the perception that you are an executive and
you are in some way, shape or form abusing your power. And no
matter what certain fans believe, and you already have fans online, you have
people from a certain cult who believe in their heart, there's no way that
Sting chose the Young Bucks as his final opponents. This is clearly a situation
where the Young Bucks have politic their way into this match a revolution against I
guess, against Sting's will, or they planted the idea in the man's head,
even though every other report that has come out so far contradicts that and
says that Sting wanted the Young Bucks as his opponents, that the Young Bucks
were not even supposed to be back on TV. Yet that the Young Bucks
were called back early because they accepted the offer when Sting came to them and
said, hey, would you be my final match in aaw But if you're
the Young Bucks, then why the hell would you say no to that?
Of course you're going to say, of course it would be an honor,
It would be an honor to share the ring with you in your final match
at Revolution. But you have people who don't believe that. No, no,
no, it can't be Trip, it can't be Trip. Or people
said turning on Sting and saying, well, then Sting, there's a reason
why Sting's not a booker. Tony kan should have stepped in that and overruled
Sting, and he should have given Sting a different opponent. But you know
that if it came out that Tony Khan was going against the wishes of Sting
and wanted to do something himself, oh well, Tony Kahan, how could
he do such a thing. He's disrespecting a legend here. Let Sting do
what he wants in his final match. But because it's the Young Bucks,
oh well, if this is true, I mean Sting's an idiot, like
he should be overruled. You got to put somebody else in there. I
love it. I just love seeing the comments and seeing the meltdowns on social
media that I have seen over the past week. It's been very amusing to
me, very very entertaining. I have to say what I would like to
see. I would like to see the Young Bucks wrestle like he and I
don't mean wrestle like heels all the other times they were heels. I mean
cut out the excessive super kicks, cut out all the dives and all the
flashy stuff, the majority of the flashy stuff. You could leave some of
it in there, but really wrestle like heels. Like we need a new
and improved Young Bucks, right, Coke they just came out with, like
Coke zero or some other new coke, which I'm sure will go over like
every other fucking version of coke they'd come out with over the years. Why
not put a fresh coat of pain on the Young Bucks and actually have them
work their matches differently than they normally do, so beyond the character aspect like
a typical Young Bucks match, why not work a different style, work a
style that will get them more heat by teasing certain things and then not delivering
on it. I would enjoy that. I would enjoy it if they changed
up their style a little bit here during this run. That's just me.
That's just something, a personal thing I'd love to see. I think that'd
be a good But the character change here is a good first step in that
direction. Now, later in the show, I'm skipping ahead here because there's
another segment that aired that ties into this. So I'm skipping ahead to the
Darby, Allen and Sting video package that aired before the main event. We
got a video package that was showing highlights of many of the matches that Sting
and Darby have had over their time together. Here twenty plus matches in aaw
and Darby was nar rating over the video, and there was a key line
not talking key Lime, Okay, we're not talking Pie. The key line
in the video was that Darby said, and I want to make sure I'm
quoting him here, the story will end with him. Oh, here we
go again with stories. By the way, Sting and Darby are going to
finish their story before Cody. At this rate, I think everybody who's going
to finish their story before Cody, Sting and Darby are going to finish their
story by becoming the AEW Tag Team Champions, and they up back to ex
Caliber on commentary when the video is over, and ex Caliber questioned who Sting's
final opponent is going to be at Revolution, So they're planting doubt that maybe
it won't be the Young Bucks because in the video they showed Ricky Starks and
Big Bill, who are the reigning AW World Tag Team Champions. So maybe
it won't be the Young Bucks, but we know it will be. And
so you start thinking, well, they wouldn't put that line in there unless
that was the direction they were going in, and so well, well,
well, well, well well how about that whot the one who's been crowing
now for weeks about the right story for Sting going into his final match,
and it's not a singles match with Darby, and it's not anything but Sting
going for the AEW Tag Team titles in his final match and winning them,
retiring undefeated he and Darby. I'm I mean, he and Darby have never
challenged for the tag team titles before, which is to me, but here
we are now heading into their final match and finally they are staking their acclaim.
We are going after the aw World Tag Team titles, and they're gonna
give the people of Greensboro a great moment there. With Sting winning and retiring
as tag team Champion, they can vacate the titles and Tony Khan can do
what he loves to do and have a tournament after revolution. That's fine,
but the Young Bucks have to win the tag team titles before revolution unless they
do a three way and it's Stinging Darby, the Young Bucks, Ricky Starks
and Big Bill. I don't like that. It's it's not clean enough.
We need a clean match, one on one, two on two that's in
none of this triple threat fatal four way eight man tag bullshit. I don't
want to see. If the Young Bucks are Sting's choice for Revolution, then
the Young Bucks should win the aw Tag team titles from Ricky Starks in Big
Bill, they have six weeks to go until revolution. You get those belts
on the bus. The Bucks go to Revolution, they defend the belts against
Sting and Darby. Sting and Darby win, they go out as tag team
champions, and then you can do whatever the hell you want to do coming
out of Revolution. But that's why that line was put in there. It's
the right story. That's why I pitched it, because it makes sense.
It's the feel good story. Not everybody who retires has to go out on
their back, putting somebody else over. Sting is not going to have a
singles match. I might feel differently if it was a one on one match.
I certainly wouldn't want Sting winning the world title and then you retire.
You know, he retires and you vacate the world title. But you know
that Sting is doing a tag match. He does not feel that he can
do a singles match. If he did, he would have done one.
Tony Khan would have given this man whatever he wants. If Sting wanted to
stick out one more year at aw and he wanted a pay raise, Tony
Khan would have been he would have backed up the brinkstruck. He would have
given this man anything he wanted. Sometimes you go with the best story.
You give the people what they want. And the people in Greensborough are gonna
want to see Sting go out a winner. They're gonna want to see him
go out a champion. It's the right move to make. Now we wait
and see if they get the belts on the Bucks beforehand, or if they
go about this some other way, because it's not gonna be Stinging Darby against
Ricky and Bill. The Bucks are gonna be in there in some way,
but I would much prefer they do a straight tag match and none of this
triple threat nonsense. We had Bullet Club Gold, They've got new music against
Brian Cage and the Gates of Agony for the Ring of Honor six man tag
team titles. If you're wondering what the hell happened to Juice Robinson, Juice
has a bad back. He had back surgery and he may be out for
a while. At the time, it was said that it wasn't overly serious
that would keep him out for six months or a year. I believe he
only had the surgery maybe a month and a half ago. I don't know
how much longer he'll be out for, but he it's back surgery. So
look, when you have back surgery, you're gonna be out for a while.
So that's where he is. I'll tell you what I don't understand.
I don't understand why we still have Ring of Honor titles being defended on aw
television. I thought that we were getting away from this, and here we
are we have the Ring of Honor world six man titles being defended here on
Dynamite. And so here's my question to Tony Kahn. If you are going
to defend Ring of Honor titles freely on aw television, If you're going to
do that, here's my question. Why do we never see the Ring of
Honor women's world title defended on any of these shows? Why is a theme
of the one person who literally is exclusive? I mean, I guess she
was in the Owenhart Tournament last year, but it feels like she is the
only one, the only champion, the only real star on that roster who
truly is exclusive to Ring of Honor. Why is that? Why do we
watch this and see the Ring of Honor six man tag team titles on television,
but we can't see Athena defend her title. What's the difference. I'll
tell you what the difference is. The difference is that I guess it would
exceed the quota or whatever whatever benchmark Tony Khan has said for the maximum number
of allowable women's matches on the show week to week. He can't go beyond
that number. Evidently, I don't know, I can't come up with any
other good reason for Brian Cage. By the way he was in this match.
He was wrestling with a torn lap muscle, which sounds like a very
bad idea. He's somebody, especially somebody who does power moves, to be
wrestling with with a torn anything. But he mentioned that on his social media
that he tore his lat in a match a few weeks ago, and he's
still out there wrestling Austin Gunn. He would isolated through the commercial break in
the middle of the match. I mean they certainly worked the match like babyfaces.
I mean clearly they were the baby faces here in this match. And
look, I mean, if they're gonna go through with this whole Bang Bang
Scissor Gang union with the Acclaimed and Billy Gunn, then I guess they would
have to be babyfaces. When things came back, Austin made the hot tag
to Colton, who ran wild and actually got a nice reaction. Colton showed
off his athleticism some corner splashes, he hit his father's old one and only
finish only got two. Colton wanted a famouser. He turned his back,
though, and was met with a pounce from toa Leona. We got a
swinging assisted power bomb that led to a Bishop Cone air raid crash for a
near fall. Cage tried to whip Leona into j White and Austin Gunn,
who both dodged it, and Leona flew over the barricade into the timekeepers area.
Cage got dropped with the three ten to Yuma by the guns, leaving
Cone in White alone. Prince Nana then tripped up Jay White, which allowed
Cone to hit a fireman's carry gutbuster for two. Cone took the referee and
Nana wanted a belt shot, but here comes Anthony Bowens and Bowens sprints down
to the ring and he took the title away from him. Jay White then
laid out Cone with a blade runner and he pinned him to win the match
and the Ring of Honor World six Man titles for Bullet Club Gold. After
the match, the acclaimed and Billy Gunn they stood on stage with their aw
Trios titles because we got two of them. We have two sets of trios
titles now on this show, and Bullet Club Gold had their belts in the
ring. They realized that it was Anthony Bowen's assist that helped get them the
win. So now we have two sets of trios champions on this show,
which is completely unnecessary, but obviously this is going to play into the story
they're telling with Bullet Club and the Acclaim. Then they're gonna tease it out
for a while and eventually we're probably gonna get the union between them, or
Bullet Club Gold will just sucker them in and say, hey, fuckers,
you know you fell for it, and then they'll go back to being heels,
which honestly is what I would prefer. I kind of hope that it
is all just a swerve and we're not gonna get Jay White roped into this
nonsense. But if they're gonna do this, if they're gonna do what I
think they're gonna do, which is build to a match of revolution between the
two sides, just unify the belts. At that point, Do we really
need two sets of trios titles, even Ring of Honor itself, even if
they were just on Ring of Honor? Do we need Ring of Honor six
men tag team belts? I mean, you could argue, do do we
even need aw Trio's belts at this point? If you were gonna keep one
over the other those would be the ones that you would keep. We don't
need two sets of belts, we really don't. And I feel like we
see these belts at least as much, if not more so, on AAW
than we even see the mun Ring of Honors. So just unify them,
Just unify them into one. Adam Cole was backstage with Wardlow, who Cole
said has not even scratched the surface of what he is capable of being in
the Undisputed Kingdom makes Wardlow unbeatable. He said that Wardlow is going to go
down as the most dominant AW wrestler of all time. Wardlow will mow down
everybody until there's no one left in the AW. World title is the property
of the Undisputed Kingdom, and Wardlow, in response to all this, used
Adam Cole's line and simply said boom to close out the promo. Vince McMahon's
vision has finally been realized. It hit me like a ton of bricks as
I'm watching this segment. I'm watching Adam Cole stand there in the back next
to the big Man cutting a promo for him like a mana and it just
hit me like a bolt of lightning that Vince McMahon's vision has been realized.
Adam Cole is a manager for the Big Guy. It took a while,
but he finally got there. This is where we are. Adam Cole is
officially a manager. See he was right all along. I guess he knew
all along. Timeless Tony's storm. I love Timeless Tony Store one of my
favorite parts of the show. She was out to do commentary with Luther and
Variah May standing behind her. Out to do commentary for Dianna Pirazzo one on
one with Anna j. Parrazzo was honing in on Anna's taped up right shoulder.
After dodging a corner charge, Jay had a neck breaker through the ropes
on the apron before they went to the picture and picture break. Pirazzo mounted
her comeback with a knee left leg sweep combo and then followed with a pump
kick for two. Jay answered with the backstabber and then Piazzo sank in a
fujiwara ar bar, but Ana Jay was able to make it to the ropes.
Both ladies got up. They traded four arms. Perazzo sidestepped the home
run shot and then sank in the venus de Milo for the verbal submission,
so another win here her second win for Deanna Parazzo. She got her first
win on Collision over Red Velvet and now Here over Ana j Tony Storm.
Though during this match they would cut back to her and Tony Storm. She
was wild. On commentary, she was feeding macaroons, which were very good,
by the way, coconut macaroons, fucking awesome. I'd love for her
to feed macaroons to me. How do I get that job? Ian Rick
ABBONI, Hey, he had the job, the job of the night tonight.
He sat there on commentary he was being fed hand fed macaroons by Tony
Storm, who thought that Ian was Tony Shavanni, and she was complimenting him
on his new haircut and shaving his beard, called him chevone. She thought
he was Tony Shavanni but looked better. And then at one point during the
match, she also said to Ian, I don't know what you're doing with
your feet under this table, but please do it harder. Everyone. I
don't care what you do in life, whatever it is that you do for
a living. When you wake up in the morning and you go to work,
everyone should aspire to have as much fun at their job, as Tony
Storm is having at hers because she is clearly enjoying herself and clearly relishing in
this gimmick, and I'm loving It's one of my favorite things on AW television.
So after the match, Renee got in the ring and asked Dianna Pirazzo
if she had anything to say to Tony's Storm, and Dianna said that she
doesn't know what's gotten into Tony. They used to be like sisters, and
it's clear since she arrived in AW that Tony has changed, but so has
she. She said, you might have been friends with Dianna Pirazzo, but
you have never met the greatest technical women's wrestler in the world. Mayu e
Watani. No, she said, the greatest technical women's wrestler in the world,
the Virtue wolfso and so Tony Storm. On the outside of the ring,
she took the mic and she said technical, you want technical, And
at that point Luther picked her up on his shoulders and she called Dianna an
artificially tenned hag. My past is none of your concern. I ought to
march into that ring and sock you right in that box. But we must
go to commercial Darling, so chin up, tits out and watch for the
shoe. And she threw her shoe at her in the ring. Dianna then
threw the shoe back at her. I think it landed in the front row
somewhere, might have hit somebody in the head. And Luther carried and she
was still talking in the mic, and she carried Tony to the back on
his shoulders. I mean, what more can be said? What more can
be said? She's out there feeding macaroons to Ian Ricaboni, She's talking about
hitting people in their box. You know this woman. What can't this woman
do? There's no limits to what this woman can do. She doesn't even
need the title at this point. Honestly, it's almost like the title is
being wasted on her. You can put the title on somebody else and just
let her go out there and Sho'll be the star of the division no matter
what. But I'm still hoping we get Jamie Hayter back soon, even though
they are telling did you mean the slow burn with Mariah May? Maybe Mariah
May will be the one to beat her for the belt, But at some
point I would like to get a Jamie Hayter Tony store match again that was
a very different Tony Storm, but full Gear two years ago. The last
time we saw them Wressel we had Private Party against Top Flight. Speaking of
full Gear from two years ago, that would be around the time that Mark
Kwen got hurt. So it's been they were thirteen months since we have seen
him and they finally you know, I couldn't remember what the injury even was.
He was out for so long, and yeah, I would see him,
he would visit at the House of Glory shows and I didn't, you
know, I'd talk to him briefly, but I didn't want to get into,
like I was the injury and all that stuff. I left him alone.
But it was a torn peck. For some reason, I thought it
was maybe a shoulder injury or a bicep for something. Was a torn peck.
And so over thirteen months on the shelf, it has been that long
since we have seen Private Party in the ring together. So it's been a
very long time. And you know, you also hear you had Top Flight
and Private Party. Top Flight has had their share of injuries too. Darius
Martin was snaked bitten for a while. Dante with that disgusting injury at the
Ring of Honor pay per view almost a year ago. So all of these
men, except maybe Isaiah, they've all dealt with their share of injury issues,
so it was nice to see them all healthy for a change. Mark
Quinn hit four dives at one point, consecutive dives. He went from one
side of the ring to the other because each member of Top Flight was outside
the ring out opposing sides, and so he hit dives out on both sides.
Then back in the ring, he hit a four to fifty splash only
got a two count. Dante answered with a ripcord jumping knee and a thrust
kick, and then Darius got a flatliner for a two count of his own.
Isaiah Cassidy entered. He laid out Dante with a corkscrew kick and then
the gin and juice Darius, who was the legal man he jumped in.
He got immediately rolled up by Mark Quinn, who grabbed a whole of the
rope. He grabbed a hold of the rope right at the last second for
that little bit of added leverage to get the pin and to steal the wind
for private party. After the match, Action Andretti came to the ring.
Top Flight was very upset over the finish. Meanwhile, Private Parties out there,
they're dancing around, they're celebrating and partying in the crowd with the fans,
the announcers. At first they weren't sure if he grabbed the rope on
purpose or by accident, and look, what the fuck are you watching?
Of course it was on purpose, and then they aired a replay and it
was pretty clear he did it on purpose. Maybe the smirk is what gave
it away, but yes, he grabbed the ropes on purpose. So does
this mean a heel turn for Private Party? Not necessarily, but it's possible.
I don't know if they're gonna do that or not. But one thing
I do know, I'd like to see more from these two teams, and
the way they did the finish here in this match leaves it open for them
to do more matches. These are two of the young teams in this company.
Private Party was set back because of the injury to Mark Winn and Isaiah
Cassidy was doing stuff with the hard Ease brothers. Zay, you know,
at least he had something to do, so the injury is what set them
back. Top flight again besieged by injuries over the last couple of years.
If they can stay healthy, these are two teams that Tony Kahan should be
focusing on in that tag team division. Private Party against Top Flight could be
an AW tag team title match down the road at some point if those titles.
If I'm right and we go to Revolution and Sting and Darby win the
belt and then vacate them and they have a tournament Top Flight in Private Party,
who's to say they don't meet in the finals of that tournament or during
the tournament at some point. So I'd like to see more from these two.
And then it was main event time, commercial free main event for the
AW World Championship Samoa Joe defending his new title against the twenty eight and one.
Hook had a big fight feel here with the big ring introductions. Before
the match started, the crowd was chanting Joe over and over again, and
as soon as the bell rung, Hook took it to Joe right away.
He didn't waste any time. He went right after the champion. There was
no colord elbow tie up, there was no handshake. He took it right
to Joe. Joe threw him out of the ring. Hook jumped off the
barricade at ringside when Joe came out and took him down with a forearm.
Back in the ring, Joe annihilated this kid with a running back elbow.
I mean, he just wiped him out. Joe fired away with body shots
in the corner. He whipped him into the far side, hit another charging
elbow and then a kick to the head. Joe hit a PK and then
covered him, but Hook slipped out. Hooke got up. He tried for
a te bowe but Joe put a stop to that. He did put Joe
down though, and he hit a sliding clothesline, so they both ended up
outside, at which point Hook got up on the apron and he did a
running, diving forearm off the apron that took Joe down. He tried for
another t bone. Now this time Hook was trying to t bone him onto
or through the announced desk. They were right in front of the announcers,
right in front of Taz. Joe stuffed the attempt and he'd delivered No,
it's not even It wouldn't even do it justice to sit here and tell tell
you that he delivered a urinagi. We see a urinagi in almost every match.
Okay, we see Joe do it. We see Solo so Cooed do
it. We see Jay White do it. We see Uranagi's all the time.
What we got here was a spinning Urinagi and Joe. I mean he
wrecked him. He absolutely wrecked him onto the lid of the announced desk,
which you would think, all right, the lid is there to protect him.
He hit the edge of that fucking table so hard the table collapsed.
He didn't even land on the table. He got thrown into the table and
the table collapsed. I've seen people land on the table and do far more
and the table does not collapse. I mean he really did. He had
these red welts on his back. Joe was so proud of himself. I
mean he's flailing it. He looked like Vince mcmay's flailing his arms as he's
circling around the ring. And the referee goes over to check on Hook.
So Joe marches back over, and when he marches back over, Hook looks
up at him and he flips him the double bird. Right, we saw
that with Dustin Rhodes. That's what I was talking about earlier in the opener.
So he flips him off. So Joe picks him up at a power
bomb position and he power bombs Hook on the ring Apron. He gives him
an Apron power bomb, and now Hook is down flat on his face on
the floor. Referee is checking on him. The doctor comes over to check
on him. Taz said, look, I'm gonna put my headset down because
ex Caliber said, I'm sure this is tough for you to see. And
Taz is like, you know what, I'm gonna take my headset off for
a second, obviously expressing concern for his boy. So Joe got back in
the ring. Bryce Ramsburg now begins his count and when Bryce got to the
count of nine, Hook was back up to his feet. He shoved Doc
Samson away and he dove back into the ring. Joe got off a snap
power slam and he covered him. Hook kicked out. Joe then got him
up on his shoulders and he dropped him with a death valley driver, and
again Hook kicked out. Joe got hooked seated on the top rope, and
you know what that means. He got him up on his shoulders in position
for the muscle buster, and he dropped him and that was it. That
should have been it right, he hit the musclebuster on this kid. That's
his finish ninety nine, it's all over. We've seen Joe win titles before
with that move. Hits the muscle buster, he covers Hook. Not only
was this not it, Hook kicked out at one. Joe let this fucker
kick out of the musclebuster at one. Right. That says a lot.
I mean when I say Joe gave him a lot and made him look like
a million bucks. This right here is the biggest reason why that's a big
deal. Because you might say, people who didn't like the fact that Hook
was even getting a title matter, thought it was a joke, like what
has he ever done? Right? Well, again, at least they've taken
care to build up a record for him where you could at least justify the
fact that, Okay, this kid's twenty eight to one. He's spitting out
a challenge. Okay, all right, fine, right, but when you
do something like this, this is how you help get somebody over. You
don't just do that for anybody. He was doing him a huge solid by
letting him kick out of that move. And because of that, because we
never see people kick out at one, usually, not even at three from
the musclebuster, the crowd erupted. Joe had a look on his face like
he couldn't believe it. So Hook gets up, He hits the ropes.
He comes off with a clothes line. He comes off again with a second
clothes line. He comes off again with a third clothes line. He's building
momentum. Now you can hear the crowd. It's building right now. They're
getting behind this kid. They want to see him win that championship. Taz
is on commentary. He cut obviously. I don't know what he said what
they censored it, so obviously he said something. Hook got Joe up and
he took him over for a t bone souplex. The fans at this point
they were losing their minds. Hook tried to lock in red rum, but
he countered out of it, and Joe locked on the Coquina clutch, and
that's never a good thing. He got him trapped in the clutch right in
the middle of the ring. Hook tried to fight out of it, he
faded. Eventually he went out. Bryce Ramsburg lifted the arm once, He
lifted the arm twice. He lifted the arm for a third time, and
just like MJF at World's End, the arm went down and still your AW
World Heavyweight Champion Samoa Joe. Joe leaves the ring and Hook starts to get
back up, and he's he's screaming at Joe, that's all you got,
That's all you got. Joe gets back in the ring, he kicks this
kid right in the crotch, puts them back on the top rope, gets
him back on his shoulders, and he delivers a second musclebuster. Hook is
getting up again. He's starting to get up again this time though. As
Joe slides back into the ring, we hear Hangman pages music and he sprints
down to the ring. Joe bails and as Joe is retreating up the ramp,
he looks over back at ringside in the crowd, he can see Swerve,
Stripland and Prince Nana, And now his eyes get all large because he
realizes that he is surrounded here in the ring and in the crowd by challengers
to his throne. He is surrounded by people who are gunning for him.
He's got a target on his back and his front. These two men want
him and they want that AW World title. So Joe left Hangman turned his
attention to Swerve in the crowd. They stared at each other. Swerve smiled
and he ended up leaving. Hangman went to go help Hook to his feet.
They played Hook's music. Hook lightly push him back, I don't need
your help, and Hook left on his own with his FTW time and he
got a nice reaction on the way out. This went a little under ten
minutes. It was very nice to have the commercial free aspect here. It
would have really killed the flow of the match if we had to do a
you know, one last picture in pictures. So it was nice to not
have to worry about any commercials here during this match. This is a great
main event. This was a great main event. Joe came off like a
killer. Hook got to show a ton of guts. Everything Joe threw at
him, he kept coming back. He flipped him off, He kicked out
at one. Is that all you got? Because they knew you he was
losing. Hook has not lost very often. He's lost one match before,
which was who was It was a Jack Perry? I think right, I
think that that was the one blemish on his record. I think coming into
this match tonight, I think it was against Jack Perry, but they knew
he was losing. So how do you protect this kid and make him look
good in defeat? If everything about him has been about his record, Now
he's gonna lose, how do you protect him? That's how he hasn't backed
down. He took it to Joe from the opening bell and he never let
up. He t boned this guy. I mean, he had the crowd
in the palm of his hand. Hook has not been this over in many
months because he's definitely cooled off from when he was at the apex of his
popularity. There he was like this phenom who came out of nowhere and then
he kind of came back down to earth and he hasn't been this over in
a very long time. He lost nothing from this lost to Samoa Joe today.
He gained is what he did. And I agree with the people who
made the comparisons to the Undertaker and Jeff Hardy thing from two thousand too.
Joe didn't endorse him or anything like that when the match was over, but
it was very similar. You know when that match, Undertaker gave Jeff a
lot They really built. Everybody was dying to see the Undertaker lose that title,
and this could be Jeff's big moment, This could be his breakout moment
here, and then it wasn't he fell short but undertaker. When that match
was over, man, he knew that he was in a fight, and
even though he was a heel, he didn't pick him up and beat him
up kick him in the balls, although I guess that's what Joe did here.
He kicked him in the balls. But you know, he basically said,
all right, you earn my respect. Good job, kid, And
it was a very similar thing here tonight with Hook. So Hook's gonna be
just fine. You know, there's a lot of promise in his future.
He's still a long ways away from even being considered as far as being a
world champion. I mean, he's still very new and very green, but
obviously there's something there and if they continue to take their time and build it.
Honestly, I think somebody like him made this comment about Charlie Dempsey.
A few weeks ago. Regals Kid wwe worked out a deal to send Regals
Kid to All Japan and he wrestled for the Triple Crown against Nakajima, and
from what I saw of the match, they had a hell of a match,
and I thought, man, what a shame, What a shame that
Regals kid is in developmental right now in Orlando, because he is someone who
I think would have thrived if he would have gone to Japan first. And
I don't mean just like a one off match. I mean go over there
and do tours and work over there. He would have thrived, and then
he would have been a beast by the time he decided to come either to
WWE or AW but he would be a good fit. I feel like someone
like Hook would benefit from spending some time in Japan. I just feel like,
again, he's a young guy, and so why not. Why not
say it was almost like sending him on an excursion, you know, to
Japan for a little while there. I feel like someone like him would really
benefit, like just the style he works with, the soup plexes and everything.
But again, I love this main event, and now it's pretty clear
we are heading for a triple threat at Revolution Samoa, Joe Hangman, Page,
Swerve Strickland. I think they're going to keep the belt on Joe for
a while. I hope they do. You know, Swerve's time will come.
It does not have to be at Revolution, and especially because Revolution is
not going to be headlined by the AW World title. I don't believe.
I believe that they're going to headline with Sting's match, whatever it is,
especially if Sting is going for the tag team titles. You're building everything around
Sting. You're in Greensboro. The show has sold almost sixteen thousand tickets so
far, we're still six weeks out. That doesn't happen, at least not
domestically. It doesn't happen with AW shows six weeks out from a pay per
view or an episode of Dynamite or something. They've sold ten thousand, fifteen
thousand tickets. That's Sting. That's the of Sting wrestling his final match.
People want to be part of it. And so if that's going to headline
the show anyway, you could do an AW World title change second from the
top. You may as well save it for double or nothing. There's no
harm in giving Joe a run, a real run, give him a run
for several months, and then he can drop the belt. So I think
that's your co main event at Revolution. It'll be a three way between those
guys for the AW World title. So I enjoyed the show tonight. I
why doesn't Page go after the UK the Undisputed Kingdom because he wants the world
title, He'll go after them. It would make sense for him to go
after them. I think after he loses it Revolution, he'll probably end up
going after Wardlow because he's got a bone to pick with them. Yeah.
Paul Brett Hard against the one two three Kit on rob Back in ninety four
is another good example. Absolutely. But I enjoyed Dynamite tonight. I thought
it was a good show. It's a strong effort. I enjoyed the main
event. The Mark Brisco segment obviously was very emotional for obvious reasons. The
TNT title match was very good. Timeless Tony Storm is great top flight and
private party. I enjoyed that match. Good to have those guys back.
So I thought it was a very good show. Now, Rampage coming up
on Friday has Chris Jericho taking on Matt Sidel. Chris stat Lander takes on
Queen Almanada, Penta takes on Anthony Henry, and Darby Allen wrestles Jeff Hardy,
which I believe would be the first time that they have wrestled since the
Owen Hart tournament. I believe right before? What was that? Would that
have been right before Jeff got popped for his duy? I think it was
right. So we'll have Darby and Jeff and then on Collision. On Saturday,
Eddie Kingston and Orts take on Brian Danielson in Claudio, Buddy Matthews takes
on Daniel Garcia, and John Moxley returns. I didn't even know he was
gone. What was he gone? For two weeks? He was in Japan.
Well, I know he's been back. He was at Battle in the
Valley. So we'll get John Moxley back on Collision. Have you missed him?
Have you missed John Moxley? He hasn't been gone long enough for us
to miss him, and here he's making his return. Eighty percent of you
have given tonight's Dynamite a thumbs up score, twenty percent thumbs down. That's
that's an excellent score, the best score Dynamite has gotten in a while at
solom Monster. Go ahead and vote again. The likes goal for tonight is
four hundred, and we're not there yet. So if you want to do
be the booker, you only got a few minutes left. Get those likes
and we're three to sixty. We don't hit fourred, we don't do be
the booker. It's very simple, all right, let's get to your superchats.
Doesn't look like we have a lot to go through here, so we
might be getting out of here early. The Winston slip says, we'll start
with him. If Hook went to WWE, he would have a pirate gimmick,
well back in the day he would have probably not today, but yeah,
if you went to WWE ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty
years ago, you would have a hook Bobby's world. I just want to
say, Dianna Parrazzo is stunning and a damn good wrestler. Fight me,
not you solo, just anyone else, fight me. Yeah, there were
a lot of people when it comes to Dianna Parazzo. There were a lot
of people who really showed their ass and made some very stupid comments. This
week, Lady Firepen to thank you for the twenty dollars. Pigeons don't exist,
birds are government spies? And when are we getting the solemn monster bowling
video? No comment, No comment. Prince Vegeta says Hook kicking out of
one of the musclebusters is ridiculous mid Carter's kickout of finishes too much. In
aw it didn't bother me. It does bother me in certain situations. In
that situation there, it didn't bother me. I thought it worked. I
do agree that just kicking out of finishers in general is overdone. It might
bother some people. I'm sure it will. That did not bother Barry says,
is is Eddie and Ray at WrestleMania twenty one the best opening match in
WrestleMania history? Or is there something better? Yeah, it's called Brett Hart
and Owen Hard at WrestleMania ten. It's either Brett Hart and Owen Hart at
wrestle many A ten or Triple h and Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania fourteen or fourteen.
I'm thinking twenty fourteen, WrestleMania thirty in twenty fourteen. But I still
say it's Brett versus Owen. I don't think anything's topped. Be calm.
See clearly, I'm a two time victim slash survivor of gun violence, a
two times survivor. Be calm. Where do you live? How does that
happen twice? Well? I'm glad you're still with us. If that's the
case, I don't know the circumstances. I don't know where you live,
but I mean, that's like being struck by lightning twice. Well, I'm
sorry to hear that, but I'm glad that you're with us. A shout
out to Issa in the chat Samoa, Joe killed a guy. He damned
killed a guy tonight. I said, I don't think I've ever seen somebody
hit the edge of the table like that, like the way that hooked it.
And the table just basically gives up and says, all right, it's
somemojoe, So we're gonna collapse. And the table just collapsed on the spot,
Bender mcsimpson. Unless the plan is to unify the aw and Ring of
Honor six man titles, this is a waste of Jay White. Even if
that is the plan, it is still a waste of Jay White. Uh
yeah, I mean, Jay White is a champion now, but it doesn't
mean anything because those belts don't mean shit. So hopefully they'll come up with
something a little bit better for him. But it looks like that's gonna be
the story going into revolution. They're gonna stick with this acclaimed bullet club Gold
stuff again, it looks like their babyface or going babyface, and maybe it'll
be a Swerve and then they could do a unification and then Bullet Club Gold
can win and unify. The else Bender also says Swerves promo gave me Jacob
the snake votes. Eh. I don't know if I'd go that far.
But Dylan Hensley Good News just had a meeting with Pops our head trainer and
promoter, and my debut was on the horizon either February thir or February tenth.
He meant third, February thir or February tenth. Well, you let
me know. I have a feeling it will be on February third. But
that is very cool though. Congrats. You'll keep us posted. Oh I
like that. Nash DTV four ninety nine. I wanted to ask, as
a Mets fan, how do you deal with your team letting you down every
year? Like my Dallas Cowboys always let me down. Well, after a
while, you would think the Cowboys fans would be used to it by now,
you would think the Jerry Jones would be used to it. I don't
know, man, Look, they get your hopes up. Sometimes you think
this year is going to be different, and then they let you down.
I've always said, you know, when my time comes, and hopefully it
won't be for a very long time, but when my time comes, I
want the New York Mets to lower my casket into the ground so they could
let me down one more time. I think it's something the Mets fans and
the Cowboys fans have in common. Ruby Goose to think the last time someone
in a Mets jersey won a championship was Vince Russo in WCW. Thanks for
the screams, Bro. Was he wearing a Mets jersey? Isn't he a
Yankees fan? I thought Russo was a Yankees He's sure. Who wasn't wearing
a Yankees jersey? I know Russo is a Yankee fan. I don't think
he would be wearing a Mets uniform. M Mills again, thank you for
the twenty eight dollars, Vic Joseph Boots. Has it been determined who is
in the championship committee that Joe mentioned or is Samoa Joe the championship committee?
They have not mentioned the original man from Atlanta twenty twenty four. The Joe
Hook match reminds me of the Undertaker selling for Jeff Party. Yep. I
heard a lot of that tonight. Omar Hook against Joe gave me Jeff Party
against Undertaker vibes yep, yep. Rumpelmaine, don't even do it. Don't
even do it retro Koh, what is your favorite Survivor Series tag match?
I am split between Team Austin against Team Bischoff or Rob Versus SmackDown from five.
Team Austin against Team Bischoff, and O three is tough to beat.
I mean that was not only was it the last great Survivor Series elimination match,
it may well be the great Survivor Series elimination match. I mean I
had some favorites. You know, the one where the Undertaker debut in nineteen
ninety that came down to Breton Debasse was always a favorite of mine. I
just I always liked it. I always had a soft spot for it.
Yeah, you know what it may well be. It may well be the
one from O three. I'm struggling to come up with one that I think
would be better. And Egghead show Joe putting Hook on the tape made me
WinCE or in the table. Yeah, I was gonna say he kind of
put him in the table more than he put him on the table. Vince
Russo is a San Francisco Giants fan. Yeah that sounds about right. Guy
from New York is a San Francisco Giants fan. That sounds about right.
Omar says, Russo wore a Yankees helmet and a Giants top. Okay,
so yeah, I mean he wasn't wearing He wouldn't be wearing Mets stuff no
matter what. Now he just reminded me that Vince Russo won the WCW World
title, and now I'm pissed off all over again. Let's be the booker,
Ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. H
former WCW World Champion Vince Russo. Need I say more? Need I say
more? Boney with the two bucks better return twenty ten Brett or twenty eighteen
Seawn twenty Brett. I'm including Brett's entire return from the moment he came back
on Raw, not not just the awful wrestle media match with EVI Vince McMahon.
I still say Brett. All right, tag team, be the booker.
Here we go. We begin with Los Matadors with El Turito. There
he is. Look at the tail. He's got the tail hanging down,
He's got the horns. Look at this The person who the person before who
wrote in and said that if hook had gone to WW they would he would
have had like a pirate gimmick. Yeah, I give you exhibit A would
have been right around the same time as this shit. Right here, El
Taurito and Los Matadors are going to be taking on FTR. If it was
almost anybody else, I think I would have given that the buzzer. FTR
though against the Mattadors would have been actually a very good match, and then
they could have lifted the bull up in the air and given him the shatter
machine, so that probably would have made the whole thing worth it. All
right, women's be the booker. We have Victoria. Victoria is not in
the Hall of Fame issue, I don't believe. So. I don't believe
Victoria is in the Hall of Fame yet. All Right, we have former
Women's champion in both WWE and aw We're not aw TNA Victoria taking on Shana
Basler SHANEA. Bazil give me the Killer SHANEA. Basler from that NXT title
run against Prime Victoria. I'll take that. Then I'll take that, And
men's be the booker. It's main event time, commercial free. You got
a commercial free Maine event here, Men's be the booker. Begins with,
oh my god, he showed up for work. This Isa still here,
she might she might explode. Roman Reigns, the undisputed WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion,
has actually showed up for work. Here in be the booker. I
feel so blessed. Who will he step into the ring to defend his title
against? I don't know. Let's find out if I can get this thing
to work. The wheel didn't want to spin another drum roll. Let's pretend
that didn't happen. Roman rains one on one with Pack. Roman Reigns and
Pack for the undisputed championship. Pac Man that war, pac Man, I
bought myself. Oh I bought myself. I love it, I love it.
I was gonna say Pack though. You know he had that great WWE
title match on Raw with Seth Rollins back in twenty fifteen, and I'm sure
that he and Roman Reigns could put on a banger. And by the way,
if you're wondering where Pack is, he has been spotted recently behind the
scenes. He is on his way back very soon. He's obviously state side,
so we should be seeing him. Of course. Esa says that Pac
is going to get smashed. He said, do you wish that you would
get smashed by Roman reigns? I bet you do, right well. I
like that main event, and that, my friends, is what you call
a clean sweep. A clean sweep. We have gone three for three and
be the booker. That is how you do it. We got a super
chat coming in here from SB the Bully. Was there a mention of Taz
and Joe's TNA history during the build up of Joe and Hook? Would that
be an interesting twist should they revisit the feud. I don't recall them mentioning
it, and it would be interesting. I mean I would have mentioned it.
Maybe they didn't. I just you know, again, and didn't hear
it. I don't think that they mentioned it. And it's clear that Taz
is not going to get physical in any way, like even in the slightest
way, He's not going to get physical. He's not going to take a
bump, you know. Otherwise they could have easily worked a spot into the
main event tonight, even postmatch where maybe he put his hands on Taz and
you know, for what he did to his kid, they didn't do that.
I would have mentioned it, but again I don't remember. I don't
recall them saying anything about it. Taz mentioned that he used to manage Joe,
so he did okay, So apparently Taz mentioned it just kind of threw
it out there on commentary, not so much in the build up. So
but they did mention it before the match tonight, I'm being told. So
there you go, the bastard and the tribal chief wrestlemaning a main event.
Indeed, well, we are still waiting for an update on the condition of
seth Rawlins, and I kind of feel like the silence is not a good
thing. They put an update out, and this was a little bit different
because they had a match stoppage on the show, so they wanted to let
people know. When Austin Theory and carmel O Hayes last week had their little,
you know, botched finish there where they bopped heads and they canceled the
match, they updated people on social media that they were okay. Here,
it was never acknowledged that Rollins may have injured his knee on Monday night,
but he did, and supposedly he went to go get an MRI. That
was on Monday. He would have maybe had the MRI yesterday. We haven't
heard anything yet, so the silence can mean nothing, or the silence can
mean something bad. We don't know, but that is going to be a
big story to follow, because if in fact Seth Rollins is injured, how
badly is he injured. Is it a minor thing where he has to miss
the rumb and maybe even the chamber, but he'll be okay for WrestleMania,
or is it worse? You know, they've been plagued by knee injuries.
They have been plagued by ACL injuries lately. Cory Jay just went down to
an ACL injury. She's going to be gone for a year. Charlotte Flair
is already in rehab. She had a torn ACL. She's gone until at
least October. It was somebody else, Oh God. In n xteen,
Naketa Lyons just came back from a torn ACL. I think soul Ruka is
still out with a torn ACL. So you hope it's nothing that serious on
that level, because that would shake up the WrestleMania card if Seth Rollins is
going to be out. So hopefully that's not the case. Once we know
more, though, we will talk about it. But I don't know.
Every day that goes by that we don't get an update to me, I
get very worried. Rumpelmane says Bukaki Wednesdays. That's from the Bukacki Ghost,
which is in the UH super chats thanks to our friend Abusika. Wherever Abusike
is shout out to him. Yeah. So Sonya Deville's another one. Yes,
Sonya Deville. She's been spotted at the PC rehabbing. She also is
coming back from a tour in ACL So unfortunately the knee injuries, they do
not discriminate between men and women. I just feel like we've been hearing about
ACLS a lot lately, and I certainly hope that's not the case. Uh
Friday Night, come on back because I'm gonna be live with you after SmackDown.
We are having a contract signing. I know Hesa is excited. Roman
Rains is gonna be back on the show Friday Night. We're gonna have Roman
Randy aj Styles La Knight signing. The did we already have a contract signing
with Roman Reigns and La Night in the lead up to Crown Jewel. Right,
remember when La Knight took the seat at the head of the table for
the contract signing. We're getting a second contract signing between La Night and Roman
Reigns. And then Episode A forty four of the podcast on Sunday, and
then next week I'll keep you guys posting on what's going on because I'll be
in Tampa, Tampa Saint Pete. I will be at the Royal Rumble and
going live for my review either very late that night or the next day.
I don't know which yet, but it's gonna be a lot going on.
It's gonna be very busy, very busy weekend next weekend. All right,
thank you guys very much. I'm gonna leave you be well, stay safe.
Thank you guys so much for all the support. Come on back Friday
night. We'll do it all over again for SmackDown. Until then, take
care, guys,