Well, tonight was not one of the stronger go homes for AW, although
it was a hell of a lot better than the one that we got on
Monday. We have two pay per views this weekend. First on Saturday its
Night of champions that's Saturday afternoon. Of course you'll get sound Off episode eight
ten on Sunday, and then Sunday Night is AW Double or Nothing, which
is what tonight was all about, trying to push forward the programs and the
key matches for Double or Nothing. Coming up on Sunday, we have the
Four Pillars match for the AW World Championship with MJF, Jungle Boy, Darby
Allen, and Sammy Gavara, a match where none of the three challengers feel
like they have a realistic shot of walking away with the AW World Championship.
There is not a single person in that match who feels as if they have
a legitimate chance of walking out in dethroning MJF to win that title on Sunday
gonna be a great match. Not buying into the idea that old Jungle Boy,
Old jungle Jack is going to walk out with the AW World title.
And don't even get me started on Sammy Gavara winning the championship. Darby Allen
is the one guy who the fans were at least somewhat behind, which is
why I was a little confused with how his part of the segment tonight ended,
which we will talk about when we get to the Four Pillars. We
also have anarchy in the arena with the Elite taking on the Blackpool Combat Club.
Blackpool Combat Club lost to the Luca Bros. In the main event tonight
for the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championships. Ring of Honor World Tag
Team Titles being defended in the main event here of this aw Go Home show,
but at least it was done for a storyline purpose. The Young Bucks
prevented Claudio in Wheeler Unit from walking out with Tag Team Gold, and then
John Moxley went into the ring and he cut the best promo of the entire
night. John Moxley cut a money promo to sell the anarchy in the arena
match and really made you believe in what he was saying. John Moxley brought
a certain level of intensity to that promo tonight that nobody else had in all
of the promos, and there was a lot of talking on the show tonight.
It was the closing ninety seconds or show or show or so up tonight
show, But it was those final ninety seconds that I thought did the best
job of selling any of the key matches on the show on Sunday. It's
almost as if this John Moxley guy is pretty good at cutting promos and getting
people to invest in his matches. We also have an unsanctioned match on Sunday
with Chris Jericho going one on one with Adam Cole, and they had their
contracts signing tonight for their unsanctioned match. Why do you need a contract signing
for an unsanctioned match, Well, we were told that AW washes their hands
of the entire thing. They don't want to bear any responsibility for what these
two men are going to do to each other on Sunday, and so therefore
they had to sign a contract. And then when it was pointed out that
Adam Cole doesn't exactly have the amount of backup that Chris Jericho has with all
the members of the Jericho Appreciation Society, Adam Cole says, you know what,
You're absolutely right, and that's why I have recruited somebody to watch my
back and be in my corner on Sunday. Somebody who I idolize as a
kid, somebody who is homicidal, genocidal and suicidal. An outcomes Sabo Saboo
randomly appears on Dynamite tonight and he is going to be in the corner of
Adam Cole on Sunday in the unsanctioned match. Why don't know, Well,
actually I do know. I do know. I know exactly why. I'll
tell you exactly why when we get to that point in the show tonight.
There's a very there's a very good reason I'm sure why we are getting Saboo
on Sunday, not that it makes any more sense, because it doesn't.
And I was never the biggest Sabboo fans, so you'll have to excuse me
if I curbed my enthusiasm for this. But I know a lot of people
were very excited to see Sadboo tonight. There were people in the building in
Vegas tonight who made a lot of noise and we're very excited to see Sadboo.
Good good, but a very weird decision there. But also tonight was
about Tony Khan's announcement and Tony Khan was going to announce to us. We
were told last week that tonight we would get the location for the very first
episode of AW Collision coming up on June seventeenth. Where would that show be
held? Now we know, based on all the reports that have been out
now for months, that AW already booked the United Center in Chicago, because
at the time that they did that, they were betting that cmpunk would be
making his return on that show and it would be the second coming. Right
we had the first dance, now we have the second coming. They would
be able to pack the building and they're going to build an entire roster,
an entire show around Cmpunk. And then last week we heard all the reports
that things weren't looking so good. There was even more drama involving cmpunk and
the possibility that Ace Steele had already been rehired by the company and Tony Khan
was not going to let him come to the buildings, and cmpunk didn't like
that very much, And all of a sudden, it was almost as if
they were back to square one. What would Tony Khan do? Would he
book Daily's place? Would he book a different building? I told you last
week. It what should have been obvious, which is that if Tony Khan
went on television tonight and announced Chicago, whether it was the United Center or
Flea Market, if they were in Chicago, that meant that cmpunk was back.
Well, Tony Khan went on television tonight and he announced it on June
seventeenth, aw Collision will be debuting from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois,
which all but guarantees the return of cmpunk. On that night, there
was no mention of cmpunk. There was no announcement that cmpunk is going to
be on that show. But cmpunk is going to be on that show.
Tony con does not go on television tonight and announce the United Center if he
doesn't know that he has cmpunk in his back pucket. So we're gonna talk
about all of that, including Punk. I'm not going to spend too much
time on him. Frankly, I'm about as tired as I know many of
you are and even hearing this man's fucking name at this point. So we'll
talk a little bit about Punk and then we'll move on. But one other
thing I wanted to mention here, which is the passing. Unfortunately, earlier
today of one Tina Turney talk about legends, right, people saying, oh,
sab Booze on the show tonight, sab Boo's a legend. Now you
want to see a legend, you look at Tina Turney. Tina Turner.
Unfortunately she passed away earlier today at the age of eighty three, which I
was very sorry to hear about. I always have we don't need another hero
Thunderdome. I always have that hued up on my playlist in Spotify every time
I'm at the gym. It's a great song, one of the many great
tunes of Tina Turns. So rest in peace to her. I am a
solo monster. This is your AW Dynamite Review four Wednesday, May twenty fourth,
two twenty three. So let's talk about very briefly. Let's talk about
the cmpunk stuff, because earlier today Fightful select at a report about cmpunk,
saying that Punk and AW remained in contact over the past week after all the
drama that took place last week, and their conversations were believed to have been
productive. People close to Punk believe that he will be at the first episode
of Collision on June seventeenth, which again seems like the foregone conclusion after the
announcement we got tonight. Raj Geary earlier in the week said that AW had
sent a legal letter to Punk, and there was a lot made about what
Raj said and how accurate it was. Well. Fightful followed up on that,
and Fightful noted that there were documents sent to Punk, which I guess
technically would be legal documents. I think people construe that as being some sort
of threat of a lawsuit or something. That's not what it was. They
were documents sent to him which supposedly covered speaking about certain subjects. Gee,
I wonder what that could be, disparagement clauses and ensuring that he appears at
scheduled television dates. And the documents were said to be produced to protect AEW
in several situations, but there was no indication that they contained any sort of
legal threat. So basically, let's boil this down here. Basically, Tony
Kahn had CMPUNK sign at least one I'm sure NDA regarding brawl out, nobody
has been able to talk about brawl out. Kenny Omega hasn't been able to
talk about it. The Young Bucks have not been able to talk about it.
Supposedly the Young Bucks did say some stuff about it as part of the
aw All Access show, and it was cut, which is why it was
so awkward. Whenever they would talk about, oh, we missed two months
and we've never been out this long in our entire careers, and we didn't
know if the fans were going to react to us when we got back,
and oh my god, what are we gonna do? Right, give me
a break, It's two months gonna be a break. Well, the reason
it was so awkward if you're a new viewer who's never seen aw before,
or if you're a casual viewer and you have no idea what happened after all
out last year, You're watching this going why were these guys suspended? Why
did they miss two months? It was never explained. Well, evidently they
may have addressed it, but it was cut. So they have been very
very strict about what is said, what is a allowed to be said and
not said about that entire situation. So what's happened here now is that it
sounds like Punk has signed an NDA and probably not the only one to sign
an NDA about this entire situation. So for all the people who think that
with Cmpunk coming back, it means that he and the Elite, eventually they'll
work together, even if the Bucks they'll want to work with him right now.
Eventually they'll all work together and they'll they'll play off of the whole brawl
out thing. They'll turn it into an angle. Well, this should put
that ship to bed once and for all, because now they put pen to
paper and I'm sure nobody is allowed to say anything about that situation. So
that doesn't sound to me like a situation where they're going to turn this into
an angle and we're gonna hear about this on television. Oh, it was
a work the entire time. No, it wasn't. And there's still a
lot of sore feelings and this is not being turned into an angle on TV,
which is why Punk is being kept apart from the Elite on a completely
different show. So we can put that idea to bed once and for all.
So let's move on. That's the update on Punk. That is the
update on Punk and Dynamite. Tonight open with the International Championship on the line.
As we have seen many times before, we've seen Orange Cassidy defending this
championship in the opening segment on the show multiple times over these several months,
and it has taken its toll on this poor bastard. He walks out there
now he looks like he's about to just drop dead. So tonight he defended
the International title against Kyle Fletcher, one half of Aussie Open, And we
got some news to share about Assie Open, because unfortunately Assie Opened, they
were forced to relinquish not one, but two sets of tag team titles this
past week. They were forced to relinquish the new Japan Pro Wrestling Strong open
Weight tag team titles, and they were forced to relink pushed the IWGP tag
team titles as well, due to an injury to Mark Davis, which is
said to be a meniscus terror and it shouldn't keep him out for a terribly
long time. I mean, I've read projections that he could be back in
as little as six weeks, but nonetheless, they were both forced to vacate
bull sets of tag team belts. Fightful had a report out today though that's
the bad news, right, that's the negative news. It sucks that Mark
Davis got hurt, but there's some positive news too. Fightful had to report
out today that Aussie Open has been working for New Japan all this time without
a contract. They've been working contract free for some time and WWE evidently,
and I don't see why they wouldn't, but WWW had interest in signing them.
Now, if you remember a few months ago, I think it was
back in February, I think it was Mark Davis who went on Twitter and
said, we have a bunch of bookings Open apparently like they were and booked.
All of a sudden, nobody wanted to book them, and I thought,
this is ridiculous. They're one of the best tag teams in the world.
When they wrestled FTR late last year, Dax Harwood got on the mic
when the match was over and said, you two guys, you made be
the best in the world right now. You two guys are the future of
tag team wrestling. And I remember reading that and thinking, how are these
guys not booked all over the place? These are two guys that should not
be hurting for work. WWE should be calling them, AW should be calling
them. And they've been working with AW as well, but here and there
again not with a contract. So I remember that. So now we come
to find out the WWE did in fact have interest in potentially signing them,
to the point where they retained a representative to help with negotiations. The latest
Defightful heard was that AW was very confident that Aussie Open would sign with them,
and in fact, Fightful was told that Tony Kahn personally paid for Mark
Davis's even though Aussie Opened were not under contract to AW, so Tony Khan
was under no obligation whatsoever to pay for anyone's surgery, but he elected to
personally pay for Mark Davis's surgery, which, think about it was a very
smart move and it looks like it was very effective. It's very effective of
sometimes a kind gesture can go a very long way. It never hurts to
be nice to people, which I think is a good life lesson, not
only in wrestling, but just in general, even when you don't have to
be, even if you don't have an ulterior motive, it's never a bad
thing to be nice to people. You never know when it may come back
around to you. Well, it looks like it came back around to Tony
Khan because he made the announcement late this evening that Aussie Opened is now all
elite, so indeed they are now under contracts, signed, sealed and delivered
to a aw which is very cool to see and hopefully we get to see
a lot more of them on TV. Hopefully Mark makes it back very soon.
We had them in the House of Glory not too long ago. Again,
these guys were all over the place for a while there, and they
are an excellent tag team, so I'm very happy to hear that they landed
somewhere where we should be able to see them on national television going forward.
But in this match here it was Orange Cassidy and Kyle Fletcher. There was
an early brainbuster right after the opening bell that almost took Cassidy out right from
the drop. Later in the match, Fletcher wanted another brainbuster. Cassidy countered
into one of his own oc hit a Mitchioku driver, but the roll up
allowed Fletcher to hold onto a cradle and then he dropped Orange Cassidy with back
to back tombstone pile drivers. He gave him one tombstone pile driver, went
to go give him a second tombstone pile driver, which ended up being a
jumping tombstone, So two tombstone pile drivers in a row and he goes for
the cover and Orange Cassidy kicks out. Then they went to the corner where
Fletcher dropped Cassidy with an Avalanche Mitchie Noku driver, covered him, and again
Orange Cassidy kicked out of the Mitchie Nocu driver off the roads. It would
be ridiculous enough for anyone, anyone to be kicking out of all this,
let alone somebody who in storyline now for months has been as beaten down and
just beaten down and beaten down as Orange Cassidy has been. Right. I
mean, this guy, like I said before, every week, he looks
like he's dead to the world. He's coming out. He's got different body
parts all taped up. It's like he's being held together by rubber bands and
paper clips. And he takes back to back tombstones, kicks out Avalanche Mitchie
Noku driver and then kicks out of that. It's just ridiculous. So the
Fletcher went for the grimstone, Cassidy spiked him with a DDT. Cassidy wanted
an orange punch. Fletcher, though, counter tried again for Grimstone and Cassidy
countered into a roll up for the pin. So he's not winning a lot
of these matches decisively. He's kind of getting by by the skin of his
teeth. It certainly feels like we are getting a new champion in this Blackjack
Battle Royal coming up on Sunday. He's putting his title on the line against
twenty other man. It's a twenty one man battle Royal. I assume he's
one of the twenty one. So he's defending his championship against twenty different people
on Sunday. Doesn't look very good for Orange Cassidy to be holding onto his
championship, so he continues to find ways to survive. I didn't like this.
I was liking the match up until the last ninety seconds or so.
Up until that point, it was a good opener, and then the last
again ninety seconds or two minutes happened and I didn't like I didn't like that
at all. I still know. I still think Tony conn has done a
much better job of booking the International title than he has the TNT Championship.
Yeah, I will continue to say that because that championship really is the de
facto number two titles singles title in this company right now. But kicking out
of back to back tombstones and then kicking out of an avalanche Mitchioku driver.
It's just ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's too much. And you know,
on top of that, it was the the opening match. You would think
this was a main event. It was the opening match of the show,
and this guy's kicking out of you know, these big spectacular moves like they're
nothing. You would think that these guys were closing out an episode of Rampage.
But especially in the state that he is he's been in just storyline wise,
and watching this going what is what is the logic behind this? Like
I understand he's scrappy and he's just it's all on instant he's running on instinct
and barely kicking out of things. But is it really necessary to do these
these big moves like this and then just have him kick out of it like
it's nothing. I just think it's stupid. Completely took me out of the
match. So not a fan of what they did here. In this opener,
Renee was backstage with Ricky Starks. Ricky Starks, I don't believe is
on the card on Sunday unless something gets added at the last minute. I
don't believe he has a match on Sunday. So them doing the match you
know on television with him and Jay White and the disqualification finished they did,
which clearly was setting up another match between them. Less they announced something that
I miss is apparently not happening on the pay per view on Sunday, which
is surprising. She was backstage with Ricky who talked about being double team by
Bullet Club Gold and he's sick and tired of it, and he said if
nobody is going to do anything about it, he was ready to take matters
into his own hands. Well, it's too bad he didn't announce Taboo to
come and watch his back. Now he's been scooped. Adam Call already got
him soon. Now he's gonna have to find somebody else. He said that
he would be part of the twenty one man Blackjack Battle Royal. Well,
there you got there, answers my own question I forgot. He announced with
the Battle Royal. So that's why we're not getting a rematch between them.
I assume that would mean that Jay White and Juice Robinson are both in that
Battle Royal as well. But he said he'll be part of the Battle Royal.
A double or nothing for the International Title. All of a sudden,
Juice Robinson and Jay White, they jumped him and they hit him across the
back with a steel chair. They told Stark's Bullet Club Gold wasn't quite done
making his life a living hill. I would not be Now, I'm not
saying this is what they're planning undoing, but based on what Starks said here
in this promo, would lead one to believe that he's going to recruit some
help to help him ward off Bullet Club Gold and even the odds a little
bit. And who would that person be, Hopefully, I mean, who
knows, Maybe it's Action Andretti or somebody like that. But I would not
be opposed to reuniting Starks and Hops. He used to be together as part
of Team TAZ. They had that big blowoff match at Grand Slam. I
was in the building for that. I was looking forward to that match.
I stayed in that building even though it was twelve thirty in the morning when
they sent these poor fuckers out there to have a match. And to their
credit, they kept the crowd whatever was left of the crowd at that point.
At Arthur Ash, they kept the crowd. They had that big blowoff
match right, and then they went their separate ways. A lot of bad
blood there between the two of them. Well that was almost a year ago.
I would not be opposed to reuniting them, not to be a tag
team, although they could certainly do tag matches together, but to be a
tag team, but just reuniting them as two guys coming back together to watch
each other's backs. I think that could be mutually beneficial for the both of
them. I don't get the sense that's the plan, because my sense is
they're keeping hobbs with QT. Marshall and qt's crew, so I don't think
that's going to happen. But I would not be opposed to that if they
wanted to put the two of them back together to sort of look out for
each other, given that there's a history there, there's a mutual respect.
We got Jungle Boy Jack Perry sitting down in the back for a promo talking
about making the drive to Las Vegas. They were in Vegas tonight. They
were of course they're in Vegas on Sunday, but they were also in Vegas
tonight talking about making the drive to Las Vegas. Remembering wrestling with his friends
when he was younger, just a few years earlier, his world was turned
upside down. Going into Double or Nothing. The ring gives him a purpose.
It allows him to be the man he wants to be and live the
life that he chooses to live. Come Monday morning, on his drive home,
he says that he will do it as the AW World Heavyweight Champion.
I guarantee you he will't. We had the AW World Tag Team Champions FTR.
They were out to the ring next to address their title defense at Double
or Nothing against Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal. Cash Wheelers said that it would
be easy to say that Jarrett and Lethal got where they are by playing politics
in wrestling. The truth is they've outsmarted FTR every step of the way,
but at Double or Nothing their luck runs out. Dax Harwood said that Jeff
Jarrett has broken a million guitars but cannot stay relevant. Broke six thousand guitars,
never drew a dime. Shout out to Mike Graham. Harwood said that
Jared decided then to attach his name to the greatest tag team in the world
to stay relevant. If Jared thinks the head of the tag team division will
be two rejects from TNA that's not going to happen after double or nothing,
Jarrett will have to call the Queen of the Mountain for job security. And
he said that he doesn't mean Jared's bitch wife Karen. He's talking about Dixie
Carter. So we got a Dixie Carter. We had a Dixie Carter name
drop. Tonight we had a Sabo cameo. I don't know what's going on
here. Mark Briscoe came to the ring. The Wheeler said, look,
you have every right to be mad after what happened before. That was the
angle they did where Dax got blinded. It was Sanjay who spit te quila
in his eyes and so he was briefly blinded. Didn't realize that the person
he was giving a pile driver too was Mark Briscoe. I don't remember if
that was last week or the week before, so that's what that was.
In reference to Wheeler said that they went to hell and back with Mark and
his brother three times, and Briscoe asked, Dax, he goes that pile
driver. What did the pile driver me. Dax said that it was a
mistake. He wanted a handshake. Briscoe slapped him in the face as Wheeler
tried to play peacemaker and told Mark, don't let them get inside your head.
Don't let them play you for a fool. So Mark went to go
leave. As he was headed up the ramp, here come the heels and
they got smiles on their faces, right because they think they got Mark Briscoe
in their back pocket. He's gonna be he's the referee, see the referee
or the enforcer. I think he's the referee for their tag team title match
on Sunday. So Mark is going up the ramp. The first person he
encounters is Karen Jerry and oh boy, Bobbert Reviews has unlocked brex mode.
Thank you, Bobert, appreciate that. So the first thing that Briscoe does
he pushes down Karen Jarrett and he does the same thing. He shoves Sanjay
out of the way. Then he goes and slaps Jeff Jarrett. Is Jeff
is coming in for now. This is hilarious to me because did Jeff not
see what this man just did to his wife? Apparently not, So Jeff
is coming in for the big hug, and Briscoe slaps him across the face
that knocked Jared down to the floor. And then he walked up to Jay
Lethal and he didn't hit Jay Lethal because he and Lethal are friends. They
go back a long way, right. That was the opponent that he chose
that first appearance he made on Dynamite after Jay Briscoe passed away. He wanted
to wrestle Jay Lethal and they were very emotional. So Lethal and the Briscoes
they go back a long way and he said to Jay. He goes,
look, you and me are still boys. But he told him I'm tired
of this bullshit, and then he made his way. He walked right past
Satin him sing and he walked to the back. So a pretty basic angle
here. I can't say that they did anything here to get me overly excited
for this tag team title match on Sunday, But this was the final angle
to sell the goomfar Oh Jerry Mohler loves goonthar All heilfar All Heil. Drew
Johnson, it just dropped a fifty dollars super chat. Very excited. He
is to see CM Punk back. CM Punk is back, Bay Bay,
says Drew Johnson. Drew with the Amber Jimmy Snooker's music. Drew is here
with the Super super super chat and Drew, thank you. I haven't heard
from Drew in a few weeks. Good to see you back. Always good
to see goon Thar. So they really want you to think that Mark Briscoe
is gonna end up costing FTR the Tag Team titles, which he won't.
By the way, I mentioned satenham Sing. I should mention this here.
You know, I told my Nightmare Factory story on the podcast at the beginning
of the show on Sunday, my trip to Atlanta last week, why I
was there and what we did and all that. So if you want that
whole story, go listen to the podcast. But one thing I did not
mention is that while I was at the Nightmare Factory, Satinham Sing was there
as well, and so satenham Sing. We were more in the area where
the rings were, but they have a gym there, and Satnam Sing was
there from the moment that we got into the Nightmare Factory, which was earlier
in the afternoon, to the moment that we walked out the door. He
was there the entire time by himself, working out. And you can't miss
him because he's fucking huge, right, I mean, he's as big in
person as you would expect him to be. So it's very striking when you
see this man in person, just how big he really is. But dedicated
to man again, working out from the moment we set foot in that place,
still working out the moment that we were packing up to leave a man.
So Renee was backstage and she was backstage with Sammy Gavara. She told
him that MJF wanted to relay a message through her to Sammy. The offer
still stands for Gavar to lay down for him at double or nothing, and
Sammy said, hell, no, he's not for sale. He's not going
to lay down for anybody, says his whole life. People wanted to buy
him out of his dreams, and he said that MJF can shove that offer
up his ass and he is the man who will take the aw championship from
MJF. Spoiler no he won't. So then we had the trio's championships were
on the line with the House of Black defending against a R. Fox,
Blake Christian and Medealik we have seen working together on a Ring of Honor television
before, So this for those there was one person who was wondering before in
the chat. You know, did they just slap these guys together? Have
they been a team before? Yes, they have. They've been a team
before. So this was contested under house rules, which means twenty counts,
no rope breaks, and the challengers get to choose the final stipulation, which
in this case was one man in, one man out. Tags were not
necessary. They improved the lighting from the first one that they did. The
lighting was a little bit too different this time and almost was like striped lighting,
if that makes sense. So most of the arena was still darkened.
It's more of a spotlight. It's not like they turned the entire building into
one ridiculous color that hurts your eyes or anything. The spotlight is on the
action in the ring, and then there were like streaks of light that were
highlighting some of the fans that were in the crowd. I thought it was
an improvement over what they did the first time. Brodie King got drop kicked
to the floor with everybody else outside except r Fox. Ar Fox connected with
an implosion sent on which will never not be cool to see. A little
while later, Buddy Matthews locked in an inverted clover leaf. So Ria Ripley
I see has been teaching him the prison lock, so he had the prison
lock applied. Open house rules though meant no rope breaks. So Malachi Black
sank in a knee bar on Metal League. At the same time Blake Christian
comes in. He tries to break things up with kicks to no avail.
Matthews just no sold it. Brody King got him on the apron and Brodie
King applied the hangman's choke to Blake Christians. So if you remember first time,
first time I saw him use that move was in one of these Battle
Royals they did months ago, and it was Brodie King and Darby Allen,
and he got Darby in that choke and Darby is just dangling at his feet
are just He's dangling over the apron until he passes out. And then Brody
just let go and he went splat on the floor. Actually, that was
a Battle Royal that Brodie King won to get a championship magic as John Moxley
I believe. So he did the same thing here to Blake Christian until Christian
went out, he let go, he went splat on the floor. Stereo
submissions. Meanwhile, in the ring at the same time, the knee bar
On Metal Leak and Air Fox is the one who tapped out to the House
of Black Routaine. I like that finish. I like that just the visual
of the stereo submissions going onto the ring while this man is basically being hung
out to dry over the ring apron and then dumped like a sack of garbage
on the floor. So just a pretty dominant win for the House of Black,
who again, as of this moment, I don't believe has an official
match on Sunday, but they do keep winning. I'd like to see them
locked into an actual program. I still maintain that I would like to see
them doing more with Malachi in singles matches. It's pretty clear it's not going
to happen so long as they have those trios titles, which makes sense,
But at some point I want Malachi Black doing singles matches, and I would
think that Malachi Black would want to be doing more singles matches, and I
don't want to speak for him, but there's just so much more that he
could be doing on this show and to get him into an actual dedicated program
with somebody. Maybe he'll end up on Collision, maybe he'll end up doing
something with Cmpunk on Saturday nights. That's a feud I'd like to see of
all the possible opponents. Were Punk to be in the ring with other than
the obvious ones Cmpunk and Malachi Black, I think that would be a hell
of a program. We got a video recap of the Elite reuniting last week.
From there, we went backstage to the Blackpool Combat Club. Brian Danielson
opens things up talking about tonight's objective. Tonight's objective being to win the Ring
of Honor tag team titles from Penta and Ray Phoenix. However, the objective
on Sunday is to end the Elite, and John Moxley said that the Blackpool
Combat Club does the job the way that it's supposed to be done. There
is no one in this business better than they are. It's stepping up to
the plate when it counts. The BCC will deliver on Sunday. In a
storm of violence, he says, they will stay calm and they will show
the world the difference between professionals and amateurs. This is a good promo.
He would have a better one though. Later in the show. I said
John Moxley was the star of the show as far as promo work tonight.
For all the promos and the talking that we had on the show tonight,
Moxley's work was the strongest. So after a break, the aw World Heavyweight
Champion MJF was out out to the ring, but not before making a pit
stop first at the announced desk, where he picked up a drink and took
a sip, and then he proceeded to splash that drink on Tony Shivani.
Why because he's a dick and that's what he does. So from there,
MJF made his way down to the ring. He said, he looks around
here at the crowd in Sin City, thinks that they're gonna have to change
the name to Virgin Vegas. They already had a hotel called Virgin Vegas,
right, isn't Richard BRANSONO owned the hotel? He said, he's been asked,
you know, how does it feel to have the deck stacked against him
at double or nothing? This Sunday? He said that he feels like he
wants Sammy Gavar to keep shoving his tongue out until it goes into a light
socket. He feels like he wants Darby Allen to get his wish granted to
climb Mount Everest with his shoelaces untied, and he feels like he wants jungle
Boy Jack to get thrown into an echo chamber and be forced to speak that
way he can bore himself to death. And that one right there, that
line right there was that was the low blow here of this promo and not
completely untrue, which is why I think that line hurts so much. He
said that people throw around the word homegrown a lot. He said that doesn't
get any more homegrown than him. Darby Allen, Jungle Boy and Sammy Gavar
talked about how they never appeared on national television before. They didn't have a
cheap code like other people in this company who had years of exposure on national
television. Nobody knew who they were. They were all there from day one
in this company and nobody which is not true about MJF because MJF was already
making waves in MLW and other places. So I get what he's saying.
On a national level, Yes, nobody knew who he was, but there
were plenty of people talking about MJF before he started to become big on AW
television. He said that they're not just a part of AW. These four,
he goes, they are adw and he had the entire crowd sharing for
him. It was like a baby faced promo. This is MJF. So
just when it looks like he's going baby face, he reminds everybody that he's
an asshole. And so after he says that, he admitted that I'm also
kind of sick of this place. He said, I'm sick of AW and
I'm kind of bored due to the lack of competition and the fans not showing
him the respect he thinks he deserves. He said, Tony Khan knows that,
and he also knows that Daddy's contract is coming up. He said that
it's not a coincidence that he's facing three other men and does not have to
be pinned to lose his championship. He said the fans should be worried because
he might just take his ball and go home. He said it's his ball
and he's earned it, and he ran with it faster than anybody can keep
up with. He said the fans would see on Sunday that his challengers are
extremely talented, but none of them are on the level of the Devil.
So Darby Ali made an entrance. Alan said that he's lost a lot in
his life, but he's never lost his mind. I'm not so sure about
that. I think you might want to reconsider that statement. I've seen Darby
Allen do plenty of stupid shit that makes me wonder if he, in fact
has lost his money. He said, I know exactly who Darby Allen isn't
where he's going. And he talked about graduating high school and listening to people
who told him to play the game. He said he listened and it led
him to working at the ninety nine cents store cleaning toilets. I always used
to get a kick out of the ninety nine cents store, you know,
back in the day, in my younger days, I would go into the
ninety nine cents store, which was amazing. Right, they had all these
items. Right you think, oh, it's only ninety nine cents. No,
it's not. It's two dollars seven. I used to say, why
don't they call it the dollars seven store? It's false advertising. Ain't nothing
in that place ninety nine cents. Maybe it is in your state where you
live, but here in New York. Once the tax is added, in
it's a dollar seven, so don't give me that ninety nine cent ship.
He said. He moved to Atlanta and he lived in his car. He
said he felt he needed to do so until he made it as a pro
wrestler. He said, no other company would let him skateboard with Tony Hawk,
no other company would let him jump over his house in a car.
No other company would let him climb Mount Everest, which he is serious about
doing. He talked about that in an interview last week. Darby Allen is
planning on climbing Mount Everest next year. Just so you know, over three
hundred people have died climbing Mount Everest, So he is going to attempt this
endeavor at some point next year. I assume he'll have to disappear for a
while. He may disappear permanently if he climbs Mount Everest the way that MJF
said, with his shoelaces untied. Darby said that he wants to be the
face of AW and he has to win the AW World Championship. He said
he's taking mjf's title, and he might even do it with a headlocked takeover.
MJF didn't like that last line. And he kicked Darby in the balls,
who apparently was too dumb to see it coming, even though we have
seen MJF do this time and time again. He stood there, he took
a kick to the dick and he crumbled into a heap. Why because he
is a dummy. He looked so stupid for not seeing that coming. Sammy
Gavara ran out. MJF quickly got out of the ring. Jungle Boys music
played. He walked on stage. MJF tried to hit him with the big
Burberry belt. Jungle Boy ducked. It knocked m JF down. Then he
picked up the belt and he stared at it, and he stared back at
the ring, and that's how things closed. Mjf's part of this was fine,
there was nothing wrong with it. But this was a pretty forgettable segment.
And I just don't think that they have done a terribly great job in
convincing me. I'll speak for myself. They have not done a great job
of convincing me that any one of these men have any realistic chance whatsoever of
walking out of this pay per view on Sunday with the aw World Championship.
Not a single one of them, and the week way that they booked Jungle
Boy last week, where he had a fight from underneath. I think Rush
even got out of the snare trap, which is his main move. I
mean the way they booked Jungle Boy last week to win almost like a slip
on a banana peal type finish, almost was ridiculous for a guy that we're
supposed to believe is going to contend for this world championship and walk out with
the world title on Sunday. I was confused by the way they booked him
last week. As much as they gave Rush and I like Rusche, but
as much as they gave him in that match, it took away from Jungle
Boys. So you can bind that just with some of the other things they've
done again, Darby is the one who the fans most want to see walk
out with that championship. It's not Sammy Gavar and it's not Jungle Boy.
Darby. Allen is the one that the people have really been behind and he's
the one that has really taken the lead on in these promo segments from the
baby face side, even more so than Jungle Boy Darby. Darby's promo work
has been some of the best promo work we've seen out of it, But
I don't believe for a second that he's walking out on Sunday with the title
and what they did with him here. He's the one that the fans I
think are most looking to to be the one to take the belt from MJF
and they have him get kicked in the balls and not even see it coming
when everybody else in the world did so. Even the way they booked Darby
in this segment was just confusing to me. Now, I think the match
will be excellent. I'm expecting an excellent match from these four on Sunday,
but I'm just not buying it. I'm not buying that any of these three
have a real shot. We got a quick video package on the Wardlow Christian
Cage feud for the TNT title. They're gonna have a ladder match, which
I am looking forward to on Sunday. Wardlow said that he has spent his
entire life climbing ladders and he is the face of the Revolution. Ladder match
winner arn Anderson told Cage and Lucasaurus to imagine the damage that Wardlow can do
to them with a ladder in his hand. We had tie A Valkyrie against
Lady Frost fresh off Ring of Honor television. If you've not seen Lady Frost,
I've seen some of her work, She's very good. She was very
good here in this match as well. Tie A challenges Jade Cargill on Sunday
for the TBS titles. So what they did here served its purpose as far
as giving the challengers some momentum, a momentum boost heading into double or Nothing.
Jade Cargill, Leila Gray, Mark Sterling all walked out on stage in
the middle of the match as they went to picture and Picture and it was
all Taia during the commercial break until Lady Frost cut her off with a spin
kick and a somersault. Sent on, Frost went up top connected with a
tornado, but Tia popped right up into a spear and then both ladies were
down. We had a forearm battle between the two of them. Tya ended
up winning out and she capped it off with a sitout slam. She cut
off Lady Frost with a backbreaker and then connected with the Road to Valhalla,
which is Jade Cargill's jaded and she got the win. So well again,
Lady Frost looked good. Tya looked good, and she picked up a wind.
And on Sunday she will be allowed to use her finish. If you
remember the stipulation in their first meeting, she was not allowed to use Jade's
move, right, Mark Sterling had a banned you can't use it. This
time she'll be able to use her move. It's not gonna make any difference,
though. The outcome is not to be any different. I don't see
tay of being the one to break the streak on Sunday. I think they
said Jade now is sixty and oz, so if she's sixties, she'll be
sixty one. She looks great for sixty one now. I think if she
beats Thia, she'll be sixty one and on. That's what I'm expecting on
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dot Com slash Salom Monster. So then we went backstage for the big Tony
Kahn announcement. Aw President Tony Khan told us that last week he announced some
of the cities for their opening tour for AW Collision, but tonight was the
location for the debut episode. That's what they were here to announce. He
said. The debut episode of Collision on June seventeenth will emanate from the United
Center in Chicago, Illinois. The worst kept secret and wrestling, and so
there it is. They are not running that building without cmpunk. There was
no mention of Punk. They didn't even tease it. They didn't mention anything
about the second coming tagline that we've heard rumored. Nothing, just straight straight
up United Center, Chicago. Ex Caliber said tickets go on sale on Friday,
and that was it. But that will be the return of cmpunk.
So clearly they worked out For now, they've worked out whatever issues they had.
I guess documents have been signed, so that fire has been extinguished until
the next one pops up. All Tony needs to worry about right now,
though, is getting to Chicago on June seventeen, get that first show under
his belt, and then you just go from there. You know, he
wanted cmpunk back. It looks like he got cmpunk back, and with cmpunk
comes the added baggage of whatever's going to come with cmpunk. That's the risk
that Tony conn is taking, but he feels it is a risk that is
worth taking ex caliber. Like I said, he mentioned tickets go on sale
on Friday, so if you want to possibly go to the show, that's
the date to watch out for it. I am very curious how they do
as far as tickets are concerned. History would dictate that the first time you
have a big event like this and they do really well, which has been
the case with aw before. I mean, look, they're going to Wembley
Stadium for the first time in a few months and they've already moved over sixty
thousand tickets. They've already more than quadrupled. I think we're close to quadrupled
they're all time attendance record. Maybe not quadrupled, they've tripled it. I
think they've tripled their attendance record. I'm getting ahead of myself. They may
end up quadrupling it, but that hasn't happened yet. But they sold a
massive amount of tickets to Wembley Stadium because it's the first aw All in it's
the first time for them overseas and it's the first time for them in the
UK. It's like go Bigger, go home, right, their first time
in the Toronto market. Their first time in the New York market at Arthur
Ashe Stadium, they put twenty thousand people in Arthur Ashe Stadium. When they
came back the second time, still had a healthy crowd, but it wasn't
twenty thousand. You expect things to go down. The wild card here is
the fact that cmpunk has been gone for nine months. They say absence makes
the heart grow fonder, and all these reports and all these rumors and all
this drama if you've been following it, is that going to create this ground
swell of support and is it going to create this intense desire to buy a
ticket and go see Cmpunk's first appearance in almost a year. That's the question.
I'm very curious. I would expect the first time they were in that
building was the first dance, and it was for Cmpunk's debut. They had
fifteen thousand people in that building. I am not expecting them to get fifteen
thousand people in this building. I would expect them to do double digits,
So I would think it getting at least ten k should be You know,
if people think cmpunk is going to be there, even if they don't announce
him, because they didn't announce him the first time either. I would think
ten k should be easy for them, but I'm not expecting them to do
as well as they did the first time, and that's only natural. Second
time around, usually things go down. Maybe this will be different. They're
in Chicago. Maybe people are so starved for CMPUNK that they sell out their
allotment of tickets. I mean, that building fits a lot more than fifteen
thousand people, but they'll probably only have it open for about fourteen or fifteen
thousand, So very very curious to see how many tickets they sell. I
don't think they're going to have a problem of packing it in pretty well,
but I'm not expecting members like we had for the first dance. So Alex
Marvez his backstage with Hangman Adam Page Pirate Page, who still had the eye
patch on, asking him about the status of his friendship with Kenny Omega and
the Young Bucks. He said that his relationship with the Bucks was always the
best of friends. Him and Kenny, they were different, he said.
He viewsed them his family, and they find themselves at anarchy in the arena.
They've tried to take his eye, They've hurt Matt's arm Nick Shoulder cost
Omega don callis at double or nothing. The Blackpool Combat Club will pay in
blood, so says the Hangman. So this was fine, very basic stuff
here from Hangman page. I want to shout out, by the way again
for those who joined late. We had Silver Tower before I went live,
right before I went live, give fifty channel memberships. So there are going
to be people who are streaming into the chat in and out who may see
that they have a badge next to their name. Their name may be in
green, and they don't know why you have Silver Tower to thank for that,
because the gift thing is totally random. So it's gonna be interesting when
people see that and they wonder. I wonder who it was. It was
probably Silver Tower. So I want to thank him again for that was very
cool. And again, don't forget to hit that like the gold tonight will
oh boy, hoy shit oh hell. And you know Drew Johnson, I
guess he was just he's trying to one up Silver Tower. Here is what
he's trying to do, dropping another fifty dollars goonthar bomb on me here on
a Wednesday night. Now, this is encouraging because Monday night was such a
fucking bore watching that show, and even even on the stream, we had
a lot of people in the stream, but like not a lot of activity
was going. And I think people literally may have been bored to sleep by
what they were watching on Monday night. So it's nice to see that people
woke up here tonight, but they are actually conscious. That's always encouraging.
You could tell I didn't like that show on Monday, Thank you, Drew.
Tony Schavani was in the ring to host the contract signing for Double or
Nothing's going to be an unsanctioned match between Chris Jericho and Adam Cole. Adam
Cole came out, He had Roderick Strong with him. Chris Jericho came out.
He was out there with the Jericho Appreciation Society by signing this contract.
For those wondering, why do you need a contract for an unsanctioned match,
aw was not responsible for what happens on Sunday. This is a personal contract
we were told between both parties between Chris Jericho and Adam Cole. So Cole
immediately grabbed. He wasn't waiting at all. He grabbed the contract, he
signed it, and he slid it down the long table over to Chris Jericho.
Jericho is sitting there. He's got his feet up on the able.
He has this stupid look on his face. Cole says he wondered for weeks
why Jericho handcuffed him to the bottom rope and made him watch while britt Baker
was beaten with a kendo stick. He said, maybe it's because Jericho is
a scumbag and a disgusting human being. He said, the actual reason is
that Jericho believes he is invincible. Cole said that he would find out how
invincible Jericho is when he beats the living hell out of him. He said,
aw should be happy that the match is unsanctioned because the blood will be
on his hands, just the way he likes it. So, between this
and the Elite and the Blackpool Combat Club stuff, we're getting the promise of
a lot of blood and gore and guts on Sunday, So this may not
be a show for the squeamish. Cole said that we would find out if
Jericho could walk, because he would break his legs. He said that he
would find out if Jericho could talk, because he's going to shatter his jaw.
He would find out if Jericho could write, because he's going to break
his hands. He says, if I were you, I would hurry up
and sign the paper. Bitch. That's how he said it, bitch.
So Jericho stood up and Shavanni reminded him. He said, you agree no
physicality. Jericho said he's not a bitch because he's not from Las Vegas,
and the crowd booed. Jericho t signing, and then he said Cole's head
injury may have affected his memory. Said what happened to britt Baker did not
go down as you remember it, and he had the footage air over again
on the big screen, and then he asked what kind of a man would
allow the love of his life to get the crap kicked out of her just
inches away from him. Cole lunge towards Jericho, but he got held back
by Roddy. Jericho dared Cole to touch him, and then he called him
a coward. Jericho said Cole can beat him, and he knows it.
He signed the contract, and he said Adam Cole was out smart because there's
five of us, there's only two of you. Cole said, you know
what you're right. That's why I made a phone call somebody who lives right
here in Las Vegas, somebody who I idolize growing up, and one man
who's crazier than all five of the Jericho Appreciation Society combined. He said,
this man is homicidal. This man is genocidal. This man is suicidal.
And then outcomes former ECW World Champion Sabboo, who still had his backstage visitors
pass around his neck. Saboo makes his entrance. He's wearing a white suit.
Taz is on commentary, obviously tazn' Sabboo. They have his three together
in ECW. He said he has goose bumps. Talked about how tough Sabboo
is. Cole toss Sabboo a chair once he got in the ring, and
Sabboo through the chair. Matt Minard's face and the heels fled the ring and
the crowd chanted for Sabboo. So that was completely random. That was totally
random. I was certainly not expecting Sabboo to be making his Dynamite debut tonight,
but here we are. So the story, I guess is that Cole
idolized him as a kid, which you know, I questioned his idols,
but he questioned or he uh I question? He idolized Saboo as a kid,
and he needed back up, and he knows that Sabboo is local,
so he picked up the phone and he called Sabboo to watch his back on
Sunday. Here's what's confusing to me. Later on in the show, when
they were running down the matches for Sunday and they put the graphics up on
the screen, they had the match graphic for this match. They had Jericho
and they had Adam Cole, and they had Saboo in between them, so
he was not behind Cole. He was directly in between the two of them,
and above his head they had in the graphic special Enforcer. So either
he's the special enforcer for the match or he's in Adam Cole's corner, which
is verbally what they said the announcers said. The announcers told us that Sabo
is going to be in the corner of Adam Cole on Sunday. I don't
think those two things can be true. I don't think that he can be
the special enforcer but also be an Adam Cole's corner because that seems patently unfair
to me. So I'm a little confused by exactly what the what the point
of that was of announcing him or putting in the graphic that he's a special
enforcer. I'm not going to make the argument about why Adam Cole would want
a broken down fifty eight year old man to be the one to watch his
back against at least five other men, because we have seen Sting, who
was older Sting, I think a sixty three or sixty four. We have
seen Sting come out and kicked people's asses. Although I would I would argue
that usually when Sting comes out, he's got a baseball bat in his hand.
Saboo, you can say Sabo has a chair, I guess, but
so you know, look it is, it is what it is. The
pay per view is in Las Vegas. I know Sabo lives in Las Vegas,
and I said at the beginning of the stream, I'm gonna tell you
exactly why Sabo is in this match on Sunday. No doubt in my mind
the reason why Saboo is in this match on Sunday. Tony Khan is a
very big ECW fan. He's publicly talked about the fact before he used to
go to the ECW Arena. I think his father took him at least once.
He was a big ECW fan back in the day, so he grew
up watching Taz and Shane Douglas and Sabbo and the Sandman and Cactus Jack and
all of these different people. So that's why we're seeing Sambo on Sunday.
Look, I can appreciate the fact that Tony was a big ECW fan.
He wants to give Sabboo a payday. I think that's cool, and I'm
sure Saboo is more than happy to get the exposure and take the money.
So look, I can appreciate what he's doing here. I was never a
huge Saboo guy. So I see Saboo come out, I scratched my head.
I wasn't exactly jumping up and down all excited. I know there were
some people who were very excited to see him. I just am confused by
this. I'm confused by the choice, but I'm assuming that's the reason why.
It's just Tony Kahn wanting to sort of pay it pay it back.
I guess to the people that he grew up watching, he was a big
Saboo guy probably, and so hey, why don't you come on in.
We'll get you in for a shot. You'll do a few spots to get
a pay day out of it. Everybody will cheer, no harm, no
foul. But was it totally random? Yeah, yeah it was and Sabo
Sabo has been in rough shape. I mean he walked to the rain,
he didn't have to be helped or anything like that. But he's had some
pretty significant health issues. In fact, there was some kind of incident not
that long ago, I think only a matter of weeks ago. I think
it's some I don't know if it was a comic con type event or something,
and then sab Boo had to go on social media and thank everybody for
their concern. I don't remember exactly what happened there. But he's had some
health struggles for sure. And I know the lady that he was with,
I don't know if they were married or now, she passed away not too
long ago, so you know he's been through some stuff. Yeah, fifty
eight years old going on seventy eight. Because that was the style that he
worked, I mean, sab Boo beat the fucking shit out of himself over
the years. I mean, what else do you expect. So of course
he's going to have problems with his body. I don't know what they're going
to have him do, but I'm sure he'll get involved physically and he'll do
something. Hopefully he doesn't do some kind of big dive through a table.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure that he can survive it at this point.
But there you got. Sab Boot was going to be a double or
nothing on Sunday. So if you're excited about that, good for you.
I can't say that i am. But that led into Roderick Strong one on
one with Daniel Garcia, so those two stayed behind because they were already out
there. So Roddy stayed behind. We had this match coming up next.
Strong connected with a backbreaker and he was controlling the action before he missed a
baseball slide. He got tossed into the ring steps and Daniel Garcia, at
this point, because he's a sports entertainer, decided to dance for the crowd,
and his dance looked familiar. I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
And then Taz went and name dropped Alex Wright, and I said,
that's exactly what it is. He was doing the old Alex Wright dance from
WCW, not nearly as good as Alex Right used to do it, but
he started dancing and it backfired on him too. He shouldn't he shouldn't have
wasted his time dancing. Later on, Garcia applied his Dragon Tamer submission,
Strong escaped and Roddy hit a gut buster, followed up with his end of
heartache finish and scored the pin. And this is where ex Caliber confirmed that
Roddy and Saboo both would be an Adam Cole's corner on Sunday. So again,
is he the enforcer? Is he not the enforcer? I don't know.
We got mixed messages from them on the show. The match itself here
it was fine. This is now the second straight win that Roddy has gotten
over a member of the JAS. But Roddy is not the one with a
match. On Sunday, we got a video of Willow Nightingale winning the new
Japan Strong Women's Championship, becoming the first ever Strong Women's champion. On Sunday
night, she beat Mercedes Money in the finals. Both women had won their
earlier matches. They both went to the finals, they got an amazing ovation.
If you remember the WrestleMania match with Sasha Banks and Bianca bell Air with
the bell. I think the bell rang first, but they just stood there
and they got this two minute long, sustained ovation from the crowd, and
they were getting very emotional over it. They got a very similar type of
reaction at the Pyramid on Sunday where they were just standing there and you know,
it didn't have the crying and all that that the WrestleMania match did,
but they were just soaking it all in. This crowd was going crazy for
these two women because they realized, all right, this is a big moment
here, we're about to crown the first ever champion, first ever meeting between
these two women. That was the finals match. I was hoping for.
I was looking forward to it. That's why I was watching the show.
And so it was unfortunate that Mercedes got hurt when she fell off the top
rope. We still don't have any confirmation on what the injury is. The
rumor was a broken ankle. She's going to be out for a while.
So it was unfortunate. Willow was not supposed to win the title. Mercedes,
I mean that whole championship was created. Mercedes, she was going to
be the first ever Strong women's champion, and then she got hurt. She
called an audible because she realized, I just can't put any weight on my
legs, so we'll have Willow go over. And Willow looked as surprise as
anybody, even when she got on the mic that night to cut the post
match promo and she was kind of rambling on and repeating the same stuff over
and over. You know, she did the best she could, but she
wasn't shocked. She wasn't expecting. She wasn't planning to go out there and
do a winning promo. It's like a politician who thinks they're gonna lose and
they have their concession speech written and then they win and they go out there
and they're like, I don't know what the fuck does say other than thank
you. I wasn't expecting to win, but she did. And I was
very, very happy that they showed highlights of this match and they acknowledged it,
and they even showed a Willow promo at the end of this video package
where Willow said that it's time to show the world just how strong she really
is. It's very happy that they showed this because it would have been very
easy for Tony Kant to just ignore it. It didn't happen in his company.
It wasn't even the planned result, so we'll just ignore it. It
has nothing to do. We have a pay per view to promote on Sunday.
When stuff like this happens, you need to take advantage of it.
They have Willow. Under contrary, Willow Nightingale is very very good, and
now she's just got this big win. She won what maybe her first major
championship that I am aware of. Take advantage of that. Get her on
television. Let her bring out the belt and wear the belt out. You
know you're heading into Forbidden Door. That's your next pay per view after this
weekend. It's a joint pay per view between your company and New Japan Pro
Wrestling. So if ever there was a time to send somebody out there wearing
a New Japan belt on TV, even though there's already plenty of belts,
now is the time you were handed this. It was never planned, but
it happened. Take advantage of it. Use it to help get her over
that much more on TV. Get her on Dynamite don't just put her on
Ring of Honor, get her on Dynamite, let her start racking up some
wins. Maybe she'll have a match at Forbidden Door. Maybe she'll defend the
title at Forbidden Door. It's unfortunate because I'm almost positive Mercedes wasn't just gonna
win the Bell, but she was probably gonna be at Forbidden Door. I
don't know what the match would have been if it would have been her in
Jade or if I don't know what the match would have been, but obviously
that's not happening now take advantage of this. So the fact that they showed
this, I was very happy to see that we had the main event on
this show the Ring of Honor World tag team titles. It was Penta and
Ray Phoenix, the Luca brothers defending their championships against Claudio Castignoli, the reigning
Ring of Honor World Heavyweight champion, and Wheeler Utah. This is, of
course the product of Claudio beating I believe it was Phoenix, and as result
of that the losers the loser would have to defend their title against the winner.
Hence why Claudio is getting a tag team title match on the show.
Pentend Phoenix. They hit early stereo dives. After the final commercial break,
Claudia performed the swing on Phoenix and he released him into a codebreaker from Utah.
We had alex Abrajants bickering with the referee while Pent and Phoenix set up
for their Finnish on Utah. All of a sudden, the Young Bucks peered
from under the ring and they grab a hold of Claudio's legs. They will
not allow him to get into the ring to break up the attempt, so
they've got him and that allows the Luca Bros. To hit their double stump
fear Factor finish and pen Utah to retain the tag team titles. There's a
lot of good action in between all this, so it was a good match.
But why is there a Ring of Honor tag team title match here headlining
the show? It was because of this. It was because of the angle
at the end of the match. They wanted to give the Elite something,
some way that they can screw over the Blackpool Combat Club and piss them off
going into the show on Sunday, and this was their way of doing that,
and it got the Luca Bros. Some FaceTime on television. Tonight.
The Bucks delivered double super kicks to Claudio after this, and they fled into
the crowd. As John Moxley ran down to the ring, Brian Danielson joined
him. Brian Danielson had been on commentary. Excuse me, he'd been on
commentary. So Moxley and Danielson ran down to the ring. The Bucks are
in the crowd. Moxley is fuming mad and he asked for a microphone.
He cut a promo on the young Bucks. He said, you laugh,
you smile, Go ahead, laugh and smile while you still can go back
to your room, go FaceTime you're family, while they can still recognize you.
Because this Sunday you're gonna get plastered on the pavement on Las Vegas Boulevard.
He said, Anarchy in the Arena will be the most violent match in
aw history, because they will not accept anything less. If you think the
Blackpool Combat Club has gone too far, if you've been offended, if you're
squeamish at the sight of blood, he said, buckle your goddamn seatbelt because
you have not seen anything yet. So it was short, it was to
the point, and I thought it was a very effective promo to send things
home and close out the show. If John Moxley is promising violence and gore,
then you know that violence and gore is what you are going to get
on Sunday. So again, I thought it was very effective for what it
was. But I thought the show overall was a mixed bag. I mean,
we got some good wrestling, and the Moxley promo I thought was fired
at the end there. But and and also, some people are gonna like
the Sabboo cameo. They're gonna mark out for it because they liked Sabboo or
they grew up watching Samboo and that's cool. But I thought the four Pillar
stuff was weak. And the problem with that is that that's your main event
on Sunday. I assume they're going to close out the show with that.
It's always possible. I guess they could close with Anarchy in the Arena because
the biggest angle they have right now is the Blackpool Combat Club in the elite.
That's bigger than anything they've been doing with MJF. But I'm assuming that
the MJF match will, you know, headline the show. That's your main
event, and I thought the four Pillar stuff was very weak, as as
you know, not much really also to write home about as far as the
other matches on the show. We have little video packages, you know.
Again, they did mention each of the key matches, and they had videos
as well, but it just didn't feel like, you know, a terribly
great push to really drive as much interest impossible in some of these matches as
they could have done. In my opinion, I was not left any more
excited to see this match on Sunday. I have my matches that I'm looking
forward to. I'm looking forward to the Anarchy in the Arena that was one
of my favorite matches last year, the Christian Cage match. I'm looking forward
to that match as well. I think the unsanctioned match is going to be
a lot of fun as well. Jericho and I mean, it would be
impossible for Chris Jericho and Adam Cole to not have at least a good match.
The Four Pillars match on Sunday is going to be excellent, even if
the outcome is predictable. So it was a mixed bag, trending on the
positive side for me as far as the show overall tonight, Now the Double
or Nothing line up, let me run through what the lineup is officially as
of this moment, and we have Rampage yet to come. Well as Rampage
airing on Friday, I didn't pick up on whether or not the show is
back in its normal time slide. I don't think so. I think the
show is still being bounced around, but there should be a rampage before double
or nothing, and maybe we'll get another couple of matches announced. But as
of this moment, we have the Four Pillars match for the Championship. We
have Anarchy in the Arena, we have the unsanctioned match. We have Jamie
Hayter defending the AW Women's Championship against Tony Storm. We have FTR defending the
tag team titles against Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett. We have Wardlow defending the
TNT title against Christian Cage in a ladder match. We have Jade Cargill defending
the TBS Championship against Taya Valkyrie. And we have the twenty one man Blackjack
Battle Royal for the International Championship with Orange Cassidy against the World. You know,
Ricky Starks is in there. Beyond that, I'm not sure who all
twenty men are going to be or if they're going to have a joker entrant.
I don't believe they mentioned that I'm gonna have predictions for the show on
the podcast on Sunday, So that'll be on episode eight ten, will run
through the final card and do predictions. Let's take a look at the Twitter
poll. Overall a positive score for tonight's show with over eight hundred votes and
so far sixty seven percent of you I've given the show a thumbs up and
roughly thirty three percent of you have given the show a thumbs down. So
overall positive score for Dynamite tonight. At Salom Monster on Twitter, you guys
know the place to go. You guys can go ahead and you can vote.
So let's address Jay Cooper, who is in the chat right now,
says Salom Monster is so in the tank for the elite, he is so
anti punk and he refuses to say all this is Tony CON's fault and not
cempuns. Well, let me explain something to you, mister Cooper. Let's
hang with mister Cooper here for a few minutes. Shall we clear? You
have not been paying attention to what I have been saying. And here's the
thing that really just pisses me off. If somebody has an opinion that's different
from yours, that's cool, right, because everybody has different opinions on different
things. We're not talking about opinion, We're talking about ignorance. And if
you're gonna come at me and you're gonna claim that I'm in the tank for
this guy or I blame punk and I don't blame Tony Khan, then you're
not paying attention and you really just don't have any clue what you're talking about,
because if you did, you would know that I have blamed Tony Khan
for this plenty of times, going all the way back to what happened in
September. How many fucking times have I blamed Tony Khan for what happened?
How many times have I blamed Tony Kann for not stopping that scrum in the
middle of it as it was going on, and putting his foot down and
doing something about the situation? Right? You've heard me talk about this,
except mister Cooper apparently has not done that. So let me school you and
let you know that I have all taking Tony Khan to task for his role
in this entire situation. He is not blameless. Punk is not blamed.
Nobody is blameless in this situation. It's not a matter of me being in
the tank for the elite. It's me stating facts and that rubs people the
wrong way, especially cmpunk fans who cmpunk can do no wrong. And so
anybody who says anything negative about cmpunk is a hater. You sound like an
idiot. Don't be an idiot. It's not a matter of being in the
tank for one person over the other. All I have done is I have
explained why Tony Khan is taking a risk by getting back into bed with cmpunk,
because this is not the first time that there's been some sort of an
issue, and there is great potential for this to happen again at some point
in the future, which I'm sure is why Tony Khan has him signing all
kinds of legal documents try to protect himself from something like this happening again.
Now, if cmpunk can show up to work and get along with everybody,
I'm sure cmpunk could do big business for Tony Kahn. And that's why Tony
Khan wanted to bring him back, give him a second chance, because he
realizes that cmpunk is a star he has buildings that he has already booked for
these collision shows and feels he needs cmpunk. The reality is he does need
cmpunk. He does need cmpunk if he wants to sell as many tickets as
possible in these buildings. He needs cmpunk if he wants to sell tickets in
the United States. I've never denied that, of course he does. Cmpunk
is a star. But cmpunk just because he is a star does not mean
that he gets to get away with murder and he can do whatever he wants.
Or if a steel is brought back and then Tony Kann doesn't want to
let a steel come to the buildings anymore, that he can pitch a fit
and get what he wants. Even though it looks like he may have gotten
what he wants, we don't know. We don't have all the details here.
This is not a situation where you need to pick sides. Here.
Everybody looks like a fucking idiot in this situation. Everybody looks like just just
juvenile bullshit on all sides. It's not a matter of picking one side over
the other. I play. I played for Team Punk, I played for
Team Elite. I'm not on a team I don't like teams. Why do
you think I host my show by myself? Amazing? I don't work well
with us all like doing my own thing. Oh hell too. Me and
goon thar about to fuck some ship up around you. So again I see
these comments, and I saw yours, and I said, you know what,
why not just address the elephant in the room right now? Put this
ship to bed once and for all. You don't take Tony con to test
a fuck out here. You clearly don't watch my streams, You don't listen
to the podcast, So I can't take anything you say seriously if you honestly
believe them. Where have you been for months? This is the comment that
you make, all the comments that you can make to me, that's the
comment that you make. Jazz. We'll start with jazz here in the super
chesch Jazz Jack Rabbit, thank you for the four bucks. What is the
first WWE shirt that you ever got? Mine was HBK in ninety three because
they did not have mister perfect. Looking forward to hearing about yours jazz.
The earliest shirt that I have is the original WrestleMania shirt. Father and my
grandfather went to Madison Square Garden for WrestleMania one. I still have the shirt
as the original WrestleMania logo on it, so that would be the earliest wrestling
shirt that I have. The Comedic Genius says drop alike for be the booker,
watch all your videos work. That's very cool. I appreciate that.
We I believe we've already hit the goal. So the goal tonight was four
hundred. We already smashed that. So yes, we will be doing be
the Booker in a little bit. Shaquille Oatmeal says, buy or sell the
Four Horsewomen or aw four Pillars. I gotta I mean I'm a fan of
the Horsewoman. I'm a fan of Sasha and you know Becky when she was
on that run. And yeah, I mean I'm a fan of the Pillars
too. Don't get me wrong, but I gotta go with the Horsewomen on
that one. Dick Grosso not a very eventful show, but it was great
to see sab boo. He's gonna turn on Adam Cole. Isn't he any
chance that RVD shows up on Sunday? I believe RVD maybe under a Legends
deal with WWE. So if that's the case, then no, we will
not be seen. We just saw him on television with the Draft a few
weeks ago, so no, I'm going to assume he's under some kind of
contract with them. So we have got naughty delicious Chicken with flavor. It's
crazy how New Japan Pro Wrestling has thirteen championship title belts. One thing,
the one thing respect about it. They value the in ring competition so much.
Yeah, they have a lot of championships. They have a lot of
titles, so you're not wrong about that. Hey, Gordon Smith, thank
you at the four ninety nine. I appreciate that. Brother says, who
do you want? Who do you want to be? The Collision Announced break,
Jerry Mohler loves Goon far a magnificent Oh hell damn Drew is coming in
hot tonight? Man? Was that? I think that's the fourth goonthar tonight?
Drew, Drew, Drew's an og. Drew always comes in, always
comes in in the clutchair on these streams. Drew, I'm gonna get to
all your messages here because we go along. But you are you are the
man. The Collision Announced team, He says, Nigel has to be one
of them. Rickabanni and Caprice would be very good too. Yeah, I
would love to hear Nigel on Collision on the Collision announced team. I know
Jim Ross said that he hopes that he gets to work on Collision. I
think the ideal t I don't. I don't want ex caliber on show.
We got enough ex caliber asis, I think. But I also don't see
them just taking the ring of honor team and doing it. I think Ricabanni
and Caprice they're they're very good announced team. I would like Nigel to be
on color and as far as the play by play man on the show,
that's a good question. I mean, I wouldn't mind if they wanted to.
I guess have Rickabani being the play by play guy. I just don't
really have an appetite for more ex caliber. I think he does enough for
them as it is. I think you want Collision to be as different from
Dynamite as possible. That's why I would love for them to have a different
set, different type of set, just a kind of a different look overall
for the show. And I think the soundtrack needs to be different as well.
By soundtrack, I mean commentators, commentators. I don't know what other
played by play guys they have access to right now. I know some people
are gonna say, Mara Ronaldo, but Marrow and Nigel back together from the
NXD days, I don't know that. I don't know that you know,
Morow would would want to do weekly tell him, you know, it might
be better off not having Vince McMahon in his ear, But I don't know
that he wants to do it. I don't know that it's necessarily the best
thing for him to be doing if he was interested. I would absolutely love
to have Morrow and Nigel back together the announcement, but I just don't know
how how likely it is. Jazz Jack Rabbit. Your take on any TV
changes that Mike Mansury has initiated. I don't know that I've seen that many
crazy, crazy changes. I wish they would fix their audio. They're still
having audio issues on most weeks. But I mean, as far as some
of the changes since Mansuri joined the company, I've noticed maybe a few different
camera angles that they've been using, But I don't think we've seen any radical
changes production wise since he came into the full But again, the way they
shoot television is not really the issue. Really is more an issue with the
audio usually that it is anything on videos, So I don't know what massive
changes he would have initiated. If it's something that he's done, it's been
under the hood, and I just don't know what that is. We've got
Jacob Donnelly. I'm not Canadian, but if Regina is pronounced that the way
Tony con says it, that is hilarious. Indeed, it is Regina.
It is Regina. I had it wrong at first. I was saying Regina
for a while. I was corrected. I was told it is. It
is pronounced the way that you think it is pronounced naughty delicious chicken with flavor.
Tonight, I am making a bold prediction new Japan's women's division. I'd
predict by next year New Japan will have fifteen female wrestlers under country. Well,
I mean, I don't know. I mean Stardom is owned by the
same parent company, and they're the all female promotion and there. Now that
they've added a strong women's championship, it would certainly make sense for them to
ramp up the number of women. I don't think they're gonna have fifteen.
I think you're overplaying the number a little bit. I do think they'll have
some more but I think fifteen's a little high. Daniel Parker with the ninety
nine Saboo made the whole show for me too. Many classic hardcore matches flashed
through my mind seeing him first, in particular Funking Saboo where he tore his
arm open and wrapped it up to finish. Didn't he glue it shut?
Good? He's super glued the wound shut. Dennis Diaz shout out silver It's
right, Silver Town, Silver Tower. And Drew Johnson Men, those two
guys are the stars of the show. To Aj Lupo with the nineteen ninety
two, Thank you, AJ, I look forward to Muffin Men Punk returning
next month. Also, why is Jamie still with Brit? She needs to
get out of her shadow. I hope Jamie can break out soon, should
have broken out a long time ago, But now BRIT's a baby face and
so they're probably just gonna keep them together until one of them goes heal.
Naughty Delicious Chicken with flavor screw it aw will make MJF champion for a thousand
day So are they better? Not? No more? No more of these
thousand day runs. Hey Thomas Rond and thank you brother for becoming a sound
off superstar Daniel Parker. The house always wins, especially when Buddy uses RHA's
submission Chef's Kiss. I noticed that right away, as soon as he locked
on the move, I said, she's been giving him lessons Nick Rosso coming
out of double or nothing. Any chance that Jungle Boy Jack Perry, he
turns heel, and maybe Sammy Gavara turns face and leaves the JAS. It's
a very weird situation right now because he never left the Jericho Appreciation Society,
which is a heel faction. But he's been booked like a baby face now
for weeks. So when he loses on Saturday or on a Sunday rather,
does he just go back to being a heel with the jasn't? I don't
think so. I think he goes back to the JS. But he's a
different person now, and they can play a whole angle around him not feeling
entirely on board with some of the stuff that Jericho is doing, and they
can slowly build to him splitting away on his own. You know him and
tiemelow boat, but he's just so easy to hate. I'm not saying he
can't be a great baby face he's just so easy to hate. I don't
know if people are going to take to it. Jungle Boy going heel I
can see. I think Jungle Boy goes heel, him and Anna J.
You put them together as a package deal. I think that could work.
I'm not convinced that he's ready to cut a heal promo though, but I
don't know that he'll get good at it unless he has the chance to actually
go out there and do it. I have not seen it in him yet
on the promo sides. Promos have gotten better, but that doesn't mean they're
great. Can he go out there and cut a great heel promo? I'm
not so sure about that. I'm not sure he's ready for that. Daniel
Parker said it last week and I'll say it again. Let Mero eat first
meal is Orange Cassidy and he maims him. No offense to Cassidy, just
the redeemer. We If he's in the Battle Royal on Sunday, he could
win the international title there Naughty delicious Chicken with flavor. I like Orange Cassidy.
I have no personal issue with him. Tony Kahn has to be careful
of pushing him down. Everybody's throws. His run is coming to an end.
You're not gonna have to worry about that much longer. But he's one
of their big stars on the show, So even when he loses the championship,
you're still gonna see Orange Cassie. You know, the people who don't
like him, they're just gonna have to get over. Bobert reviews, thank
you for that twenty five dollar Brimode. Super chat says, keep drawing those
dimes. Try and Briga with the two bucks. Thank you. Grega snow
dog in the chat wants to know how would you turn Jungle Boy heel without
it looking forced. I'm very simple. I think you could even do something
as early as this Sunday if you wanted to. You can work a spot
in the main event where let's say Darby has the match one and Jungle Boy
breaks it up, which he has every right to do, and then post
match, you know, maybe Jungle Boy or do it the other way where
Jungle Boy has the match one and maybe Darby or Sammy breaking up. You
know what that works better if Darby is the one to break up the winning
fall for Jungle Boy, because if Sammy, if he beats up Sammy.
I don't know that people are gonna care. But if you have Jungle Boy
lose his shit, whether it's after the match or on the next episode of
Dynamite, he just goes ballistic on Darby Allen. Darby is a fan favor.
People love Darby. If Jungle Boy were to target the right person,
the people would boom. He's not you know, he's not boo proof.
Like he goes after Darby Allen in some sort of vicious attack because he feels
Darby cost him the chance to become the aw World champion, and he just
goes nuts on the sky. That would be one way I think the crowd
would turn against after that. It's up to him verbally if he can carry
a promo and yeah, well, I don't know if it's the U People
promo or or what he would say in the promo, but it's not that
hard. I don't think it would be very hard to get people to boo
him. You know, he's look, he's this pretty boy, and if
he embraces it and he starts walking around is like Hollywood Jack Perry. Believe
me, the people are gonna boo him. Hollywood Jack Perry with Anna Jay
at his side. You don't think people would boo him. This was a
dredge. I think this was Drew Johnson's first, first or second fifty dollars
bomb here talking about to see him punk being back. Thank you, Drew,
Tuxedo t Servo, thank you for the five bucks and Naughty Delicious Chicken
with flavor, House of Black against the Hardsease and Isaiah Cassidy is coming up
next most likely. Dan Richards Gargano was heard saying Orange Cassidy's kickouts a bit
much, when Johnny Garganos saying that, you know it's a bit much Turtlehead
with the four ninety nine. Do you think aw would benefit from monthly pay
per views? Now? He says it seems as though it's hard to keep
people's interests in storylines for two to three months. What say you two to
three months and now? I don't think it's an issue keeping people's attention for
two to three months. I think it's an issue with bipolar booking, where
people will appear on the show and then they'll disappear. That's the issue that
Tony Khan has to fight again. Gomfar Jerry Muhler loves Goonthar a magnificent All
hell Goofar, All Hail the mighty Drew Johnson, who just dropped another bombs
You are an incredible man, Drew an incredible fellow. Is this Drew Johnson
dropping another fifty bucks? You're on the street bombs away? To answer your
question, now, I don't think AW needs it. I know it's the
way things are now. WWE has monthly UFC god UFC. It feels like
they have weekly fucking pay per views. It may be inevitable that that's the
direction they go in, especially if they do eventually land a streaming deal with
Max. If that eventually happens, I could see them moving to monthly specials.
I don't think it's necessary. You ask me if I think it's needed.
I don't think it's needed. They could certainly add a couple more,
but I don't. I don't have the great desire to watch monthly shows.
As if it's something that this company desperately needs, I don't think they do.
It's actually one of the things I appreciate about AW is the fact that
they don't have monthly papers and they stretch things out. Now, I don't
mind them if they want to add a sixth annual show. If they went
up to eight, I wouldn't go higher than that. Then it's up to
them as far as how they spread those eight shows, because now they have
five. Do you include Forbidden Door right now they have five? Six to
eight I think would be palatable beyond that. I just don't think it's even
Moroa with the twenty dollars super Chat says to Keshta and Don callis aligned with
the black Pool Combat Club at double or nothing, and then Blood and Guts
we get five on five Elite mystery partners revealed to be Kuta Ibushi. It's
clearly he meant Cooton unless that's Ebushi's evil Quinn also, Adam Cole should be
mjf's next few. Keep up the good work. Those are both things that
I have already pitched you and I are thinking along the same lines. I
said, I think the main event for all Out is Adam Cole and MJF
and the Koda Abushi idea. I've been laying that out now for weeks.
I think you're onto something. Drew Johnson with the fifty bucks Salo Manster,
You're the man have not been around because of work. I listened to your
streams on my fifty minute commute. I remember those. Glad I can support
the channel when I'm here. I'm glad that you made it. I'm glad
you're back. I remember those commutes. I don't miss them. Darius Roby
with the four ninety nine, the same people clamoring for Cmpunk's return. Now
we're going to be the same hypocrites, hating his guts with a passion.
After his first week back, Boomerang, I was dying when I saw Mark
Briscoe do like Bernie Mack in head of State to Jeff Jarrett and Sanjay Dutt.
Bernie May, I miss Bernie Mack. MH Nova, Delta Solo and
gwo Oscar has the most w w E main event pay per view wins by
women with four. Mercedes is oh for five and pay per view main events.
What would your match order be for double or nothing? Well, let's
take a look here. I have the lineup right in front of me.
I would open the show with the Blackjack Battle Royal. I would follow that.
Well, again, it's tough because I don't think this is the full
card. I think there's gonna be a couple of matches added, I would
follow the Blackjack Battle Royal with the TBS title match. I'd want to space
out the women's matches, so i'd have Jade and Tia go on second.
After that, I would say, after that, we go with the tag
team title match with FTR. Then I would go to the ladder match.
I would go to the Yeah, it's tough because you got anarchy in the
arena and you got unsanctioned, which you're kind of similar in that anything goes
right, and in both instances we were promised blood. I wouldn't want to
do those back then, so I don't know exactly. I don't know where
I would slot those. I would probably go with the unsanctioned match first and
then do Anarchy in the arena a little bit later on. See I don't
know what they have planned for the finish of Anarchy in the Arena. If
it were me, just based on my feeling of the hype for this show,
I would be inclined to do Anarchy in the arena last. I really
would. I think that's going to be a tough match to follow. I'm
personally am most excited for that match. I would hate to take away because
we would talking about how, oh it's cool we're gonna get the first ever
main event of an aw pay per view with you know, all original talent,
and then not put them in the main event. But I'm thinking if
it were me, I'd put Anarchy in the arena on last. I think,
I really do. I really think that's what I would do. I
think I would put that match on last. Drew Johnson again, the fifty
bucks man. Thank you, sir, says I love CM punk and I
loved you keep it real and that's why I listen to you. Oh holy
shit, Oh my god, we're having a party here on haw Where's Barry
Harrow? It's oh my god, it's our it's our friend. Silver Tower
just dropped a one hundred and fifty dollars I believe, one hundred and fifty
that's that's what the conversion is. One hundred and fifty dollars super chat from
silver Tower after gifting fifty channel memberships earlier in the day. I don't know.
It looks like he may have gotten a late tax return or something.
I don't know, man, but holy shit, Silver Tower, you got
me speechless, Silver Tower, you have got me absolutely speechless. All right,
we're gonna we're gonna put an end to that. What can I say,
Man? What can I say? Thank you very much. I appreciate
that more than you know, Silver Tower. If I had a hall of
fame, maybe one day we will. We'll have like a sound off hall
of fame. I'm itching your name. You're getting You're getting a name plate
on the a giant hall of fame wall. Fucking hey, man, Ultra
Diamond, I think we may have to upgrade Ultra Diamond the ghost of John
Gotti. You may this may be the new This may be Professor John Gotti
under a new alias. They had a sin Professor John Gotti into the Witness
Protection program and he became Silver Tower. He did get a lot of disposable
income this way, while I thought so, I appreciate it, man,
I appreciate it more than you know, man, especially in a busy week
like this. It shows me that you know, what I'm doing is meaningful
to some people. So thank you very much. Oafman Entertainment on behalf of
the mods our bad Now. I just I just took care of you.
I was gonna let it slide, but then it became clear you know,
I thought we were actually having a legitimate dialogue, but then it became clear
it was just the troll. So unfortunately we had to we had to get
rid of it. Zeno Slayer, Hey slom Monster. Have you seen the
new Spider Man two gameplay today? It looks beautiful. I have not.
No, I have not. I did see the gameplay though, for Fight
Forever, which is officially out on June twenty ninth. At long last,
we have a release date for this game, and so I saw some of
the gameplay. It was Evil Uno and Orange Cassidy. They were on a
stream playing the game. But what I saw look pretty good. I mean,
it's again it's hard to tell until you actually get hands on with these
games, but I like the arcade style play for it. I know some
people are already complaining, Oh, it's not like WWE two K the graphics,
the graphics look bad or whatever. It's like I want to I want
to get hands on with the game and see for myself, but that doesn't
bother me so much. Again, the whole the whole game was supposed to
be kind of based off of No Mercy from from all those many years ago.
Everybody raves about no mercy to this day, and if this is anything
like no mercy, I would think a lot of people are gonna end up
being very happy. Drew Johnson, So you keep it real, Let's go.
Solemn Monster is my man. We've got dead as dads looking forward to
Night of Champions or Double or nothing more. I'm looking forward to bull shows.
I would say if I had a rank one over the other, that
I am looking forward to the most which show am I looking forward to?
Of the two? I am looking more forward to double or nothing. I
think the wronger of the two cards on paper is double or nothing, just
with the anarchy and the arena match alone, the unsanctioned match before Pillars matched
the ladder match. Look, I'm looking forward to the Jamie Hayter match too.
You know her and Tony Storm had a hell of a match the last
time they were in the ring together. I'm looking more forward to that than
I am. You know, Riha and Natty Bianca and Oscar should be good
again. We've already seen it. Toody and Brock Roman going for the tag
team belts. I gotta put double or nothing easily. We have got Moroa
again, not that I want to see an ECW reunion or RVD on Sunday.
But I believe the Legends contract did not stop Brett Hart appearing on the
inaugural twenty nineteen double or nothing. Well, the way the contracts are now,
I don't believe he would be able to beyond the show. And I'm
not sure Brent was under a Legends deal at that Moore, But if he
was, I think the deals may be a little bit different now than they
were back the specifically to avoid something like that from happening. Trill Mexican three
oh five, Here at work, once again listening to your review since I
didn't watch Awesome, as always questioned, it was the bigger bust WW we
signed during the Attitude era, Vader or Doctor Death. Well, doctor Death
never got any main events like Vader did. At least Vader got a summer
Slam match with Shawn Michaels. You know, he got some big matches.
Doctor Death never never competed for a championship, He was never featured in any
kind of major angle. And then you look at what happened to him in
Brawl. For all it was, it was an embarrassing situation. I mean
to say that it didn't work out the way they had hoped would be an
understatement so easily Doctor Death and Vader was also excused and never reached his full
potential in WWE, but he had more success than Doctor Death. Kareem says,
what did you eat today? It's a weird question. What did I
eat today? Food? What did you eat? Chris See was up solo
brett on Goldberg as a wrestler one out of ten. He is a zero.
Yep that sounds like Brett naughty, delicious chicken with flavor. Anarchy in
the arena. Will be a bloody and violent match. Moxley will chainsaw Matt
Jackson and Kenny o'mage will pour acid on Claudia can't wait. Drew Johnson with
the fifty dollars super chats makes perfect sense. Solo Monster. It is going
to be Sammy against Jericho and Perry against Darby after double or nothing. Yeah,
I mean, after talking about it two minutes ago, I think I
may have sort of walked into that. I think it makes all the sense
in the world. Mjf retains Jungle Boy. Maybe either turns heel or starts
a heel turn feuds with Darby and the story with Jericho and Sammy and Sammy
slowly breaking away from the Jas can play itself out. He basically will get
the Daniel Garcia story, only they never paid off the Daniel Garcia story,
so they can go with Sammy instead. Silver Tower again with that one hundred
fifty three dollars super chap, because I know Sambo is not your cup of
tea, but this got me super into the Call Jericho match and looking forward
to Yeah. I mean, it's like I said before, I just was
never like I said that about I used to say that about New Jack.
People ask me, what do you think about New Jack? I was never
a New Jack guy, and I never can understand why people were so into
new Jack considering some of the things that he did. But you know,
sab Boo's another one. I just was not very big Sabboo guy. But
there were a lot of people who loved Sabboo and they grew up watching him
and saw all of his matches in ECW. To think that Saboo had a
match with John Cena once upon a time in w WA, It's just not
for me, But if it's for you, I think that's cool. Clearly
he had a lot of fans in the building tonight. I mean they popped
for it Moroa with Aussie Open signed. Do you think we see the two
of them with will Ostbury against House in Black and a house rules match?
It either Forbidden Door or all in. All in is too far down the
road to predict what the trio's title matches to be. I would think if
they get Osprey on that show, they would want him in a singles match
Forbidden Door. Same thing. I mean, I wonder about his health because
apparently his shoulder is still not great. He has some sort of ac joints
injury of some kind. But he's going to be wrestling Lance Archer in a
few weeks. The winner of that match is going to challenge next the IWGPUS
title, probably a Forbidden Door. It just seems to me we're gonna get
Omega and Osprey a Forbidden Door as long as Osprey is physically able to do
it. That's the match i'd let. I wouldn't want to see I personally,
I have no interest in seeing him in a six man tag. I
want to see him one out of one, and the match I want to
see is Osprey and Omega. So I hope that's the match we get next
month. A puppet, just subscribe, you are now, you are now
my puppet. Thank you for the sub QB. Would you open double or
nothing with the Four Pillars match? I think I would open with the Battle
Royal. It's the amazing goom far Jerry Muller loves, Oh my God,
oh hello, hb K is still better than Brett. I knew at some
point we were gonna get that. I was just waiting. I was waiting
for Drew to kind of sneak that into Can I say, look at all
the love he's dropped on me to night. I think you've turned me into
a Shawn Michaels over Brett Hartman for one night only. As far as opening
with the Four Pillars match, I wouldn't do it. It's not something I
would do, even if I don't headline with it. I don't think I
would open the show opening with that is your World Championship match. Just wouldn't
sit right Moroa. If Harry turns here and goes, Holly would with Anna
Jay would stokely becoming his manager to do the talking for him be a good
idea. I wouldn't hate that. I actually think that would be a pretty
good idea. I think he needs to learn on his own. I think
they want him to be able to cut promos on his own, but at
least initially if he had a mouthpiece with him. Stokely half away is great,
Doctor Scorpio. I heard they are remaking Lord of the Rings trilogy,
one of them called the Two Silver Towers. I will show myself out.
Thank you, Doctor jazz Jack Rabbit with the four bucks. What is the
scheduling for this weekend? I'm sure if you're reviewing right after the pay per
views, looking forward to tuning into your reviews live this weekend. The schedule
is as follows. The Night of championshow airs at one on Eastern, so
I figure it'll be over around four probably as soon as Night of Champions is
over, either four four thirty somewhere in that range, I will be live
on YouTube. So I will be going live right after that show is over.
We'll review that, and then on Sunday we have the regular podcast.
Sunday night is double or nothing. I'm already dreading how late the show is
going to go. Most likely I will not be going live until after midnight,
but whenever that pay per view is over, same thing, I'll be
live. So to answer your question, as soon as the show's are over,
you can come back here. We'll have the page up and try to
get the pages up at least a few hours before, so you guys can
hang out and interact, because we've got a whole community here. We always
have a couple of bozos we pop up, but when you bounce them out
of here, it's actually quite funny. So you guys will get to hang
out and wait for me, and then we'll we'll do the reviews. So
it's gonna be a busy weekend. And Drew Johnson with the fifty dollars drop
from a couple of minutes ago, HBK is still better than Brett. Good
night, my friend, good night. Thank you for all the luck to
Naughty Deliciousness. Imagine AW bringing in the House of Torture the heat that Evil
would get in front of the American crowd. Don't put that on. Don't
put that evil on me or any of us. Nobody is asking for Evil
to be on AW television. AW has enough of an issue with their own
talent getting them on the shows We don't need evil on these shows. Is
there a SmackDown review on Friday? Yes, there is, so we'll be
here Friday night as well. We're gonna be here well, obviously we're streaming
tonight, We're streaming Friday night, We're streaming Saturday afternoon, un podcast,
Sunday live stream Sunday night, streaming on Monday night. Oh my god,
I just realized. It's a lot. That's a lot. But as long
as you guys are here, I'll be here too. We can close the
month out strong. I want to close the month of May out strong.
I want to close this month out on a high note. I can't do
that without you guys. Tonight, let me tell you something, tonight,
who's going a long way to doing that? With all the memberships and all
the super chats men, you guys knocked it out of the fucking park tonight.
So we smashed the goal earlier for be the booker, as if there
were ever any doubt. So let's go ahead and be the booker. Ladies
and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. It is time
to be the booker. There is Tony Storm. She will be competing for
the Women's World Championship on Sunday, and perhaps we'll land on her when we
do. Women's be the booker here in a little bit. I don't know,
let's find out. Let's start with the men. Let us start with
the men. My god, so much content, so little time. We
got Dynamite tonight, we got smacked down, we got Night of champions we
have Double or Nothing, we have Monday Night Raw, we have and don't
forget there's also an NXT show this weekend which I will not be watching live
because it's literally airing at the same time Double or Nothing is. We have
NXT Battleground on Sunday night. I don't know when I'll get to that,
but I'll get to that at some point. We begin with Samoa Joe,
who is going to be part of the aw Collision roster on Saturday nights.
Obviously, the rumors where that cmpunk wants to work with Joe. I don't
know if that means a match or a full program with him, but that
is supposedly that is what cm punk is interested in, to be Samoa Joe
one on one with Cody Rhodes, The American Nightmare and Samoa Joe one on
one about that there's a main event for you. How about the promos between
Cody and Joe. There's a feud we missed out on on the women's side
of the equation. Here we kick things off with I'm not her again,
Nikki Ash. I feel like, didn't we just land on her on Monday?
Was it Monday or was it last week? I feel like we just
picked here. Recently a terrible gimmick that was Nicky Ash against Willow at Nightingale.
I'll tell you what I don't like the Nicky Ash gimmick. I absolutely
hate, but Nicky Cross. Nicky Cross is good. You get Nicky Cross
in the ring with Willow, who just won the Strong Women's Championship, and
I think that could be a very good match. It's funny how we landed
on Willow. I just got done talking about her. I think this is
the first time that she's come up here and be the booker. So I
gave this the bell because I actually think it can be a good match.
Even though I hate that fucking gimmick. I think these two would have a
good match if they just let Nicky Cross be Nicky Cross. I think that
could be pretty good. On the tag team side. We begin with We'll
look at what we have here. We have the body Donna's and right smack
dab in the middle next to Chris Candido is Sunny. That is going to
be the first episode of the new season of Dark Side of the Ring,
which kicks off next week. You know what that means. That means the
Dark Side of the Ring reviews are coming back. First episode Chris Candido and
Tammy Sitch. This was Chris Candido and Tammy Sitch in happier times. It's
gonna be the body Donna's taking on the natural disasters. You know what I
do like about this, though, is that we just head back to back
tag team title pictures. Here with the old school w w F tag team
title belts. These were the best ones. These right here are what tag
team belts should look like. But the body Donnas and the natural disasters and
then I'm sorry, that's not that's not gonna cut it. Two out of
three. We went two for three. I would be very happy if Kevin
Owens and Sammy's any if they just merge their red and blue belts into those
belts, slap the current logo on them. You want to kind of update
it a little bit, but like bring those belts back as the singular unified
tag team times. I would be in favor of that. I don't know
why all the classics just look so much better. I don't I don't understand.
It shouldn't be that way, man, it shouldn't be that way.
All right. We got naughty, delicious chicken with flavor, a lot of
wrestling this weekend. Best of the super Juniors this year got interesting, Doctor
Scorpio. I think Raw broke our new membership shriek that was going dating back
to late summer last year. That's how bad Raw was. Are the ultimate
maniacs and be the booker I you know, I I don't think so.
Lucky phil A Renalen in my guts, don't need Cody. Got slap nuts,
very good, very good. Well you're gonna get Cody on Saturday.
You get slap nuts on Sunday. Juan Ocampo, solomn Monster, the typical
WWE water carrying shill on Mondays and Fridays, now carrying water for AW and
the Elite on Wednesday. Christ Who's next? Tna Hey. I used to
put over impact quite a bit when I was enjoying it. In twenty twelve,
twenty thirteen, I was carrying water. I guess you could say I
was carrying water for impact for a time, even when the TNA soldiers went
to war with me for reasons that are still unknown to me. When the
TNA soldiers declared war on yours, truly, that one guy with that fucking
uh Russian that Russian look what was it called the Russian looking hat? Looks
like he was sitting in a bunker somewhere trying to hatch plans to like break
into some kind of government system or something. He's called the General I think
right. He was the TNA general. He was the general of this great
army. He really was. Yeah, like the Russian army because they're doing
so well these days. Oh, the TNA general. I heard he was
killed on the battlefield. I heard that he was he was lost in combat.
So perhaps we should have a twenty guns salute for the TNA General.
Did Silver Tower do it again? Oh my god, Silver Tower just gifted
just gifted another twenty channel memberships. That brings the total. Now you know,
you could also pay for member I just want people to be aware of
the fact they could also pay for memberships if they want to support that's that's
still allowed. But that brings the total tonight to seventy two. Seventy two
new members tonight alone. I don't even know what to say to that.
Naughty Delicious is Samoa Joe against Cody Rhodes. Winner gets to play WWE two
K twenty three with Solomonster. Hey, they're more than welcome to play with
play. I should rephrase that they're more than welcome to play the game with
me anytime they want to. I'm probably gonna be really bad at it,
but I've played two K twenty three with Samoa Joe and Cody Rhodes. I
feel like I'm gonna have to build an actual, like little tower back here
and put like have a little like voodoo dollar or something. I'll put silver
towers face on it. We'll put them on top of the tower. He'll
be like sitting right behind me. I have to come up with what has
been my favorite match from doing be the booker Kurt Angle against Kurt Angle.
This has been a while that turned into a wild night. I will tell
you that, and I'll tell you what. We're more than made up for
the slow night on Monday, but we got two pay per views coming up
this weekend, so hopefully you guys will be back here. And we also
have smacked Down on Friday, which I know is a taped show, but
we'll hang out anyway and we'll talk about SmackDown. You never know, they
may they'll insert something interesting into the show. Sometimes on these tape shows they
insert some kind of promo segment or something. I don't know. We'll see.
We'll see what they give us on SmackDown on Friday. I stayed away
from the spoilers, so we shall see. Thank you for hanging out with
me again. If you missed episode eight or nine of the podcast on Sunday,
it was a good show, covered a lot of ground. We have
a lot of clips up on the channel right now, but that's not everything,
so go back and check the podcast. Give the podcast if you would,
a five star review on Apple Podcast. That's always a very cool to
see. And I am going to be back with you on Friday night for
the SmackDown review. So until then, be well, stay safe, Dennis
and Seth and the KUP and Max, all of you. Thank you for
hanging out. Max, enjoy your European vacation, safe travels to you and
the missus, and we'll be back here on Friday night to do it all
over again. Till then, take care, guys,