Last week was one of the worst episodes of AW Dynamite that I have seen
in a very long time. A very boring show. Tonight not boring at
all. Actually, we had a pretty noteworthy show with some great in ring
action and nice combination, I thought. But that does not mean that there
were not some plot holes in tonight's edition of AAW Dynamite. For example,
why we would have Switchblade Jay White ten days before he challenges MJF for the
AW World Heavyweight Championship willingly putting his title shot on the line in the main
event against Mark brisco simply by asking for it. Mark Briscoe said, look,
I want to wrestle Jay White, and I want J White to put
his title shot on the line, and he did. That was very generous
of him, was very generous of the Switchblade to put his title shot on
the line just because he asked for it. Of course you won. I
don't think anybody watching that made event tonight expect it otherwise. J White is
still going to full gear to challenge for the AW World title, but it
still doesn't make much sense. And then there was the Devil. Now we
have seen the Devil making appearances on the show going back many many weeks their
brief he'll show up in the Devil mask and they'll cut away. But they're
really dragging this out right. This is almost like they're who ran down Stone
Cold storyline, And much like that storyline from nineteen ninety nine, I'm almost
positive that Tony Kahan and aw does not exactly know who they want the Devil
to be, or at least they're changing aspects of the story en route to
getting there. And I'll tell you why, because what we had at the
end of the show tonight was MJF cutting a promo on Jay White after j
White picked up his win, and they cut to the backstage area and in
the back we see all of the Devil's henchmann dressed in all black. This
is what we saw the very first time that the Devil made an appearance.
He had his cronies and they were beating up Bullet Club Gold. That was
the first time we saw them. Right well, tonight they were attacking the
Acclaimed and Billy Gunn in the back and they took poor Anthony Bowens and they
threw him through a glass window. They threw him through a glass window.
I wonder if it was real Glass, I think I just figured out who
the devil is. I think I just figured out who the devil is.
And you know AEW was going to be in Chicago on the eve of Thanksgiving.
They're going to be in Chicago in two weeks time. What a place
it would be for Jack Perry to make his AAW return. So that's my
guess as far as who the d is going to end up be. But
we shall see if it is indeed Jack Perry. But I said, you
know, plot holes. I was talking about plot holes and things that don't
really make a lot of sense. After the attack, when we saw the
acclaim laid out MJF, he ran to the back, right, Oh my
god, I can't believe this is going on. And he ran to the
back to go help his friends out. An ex caliber on comment it was
an ex Caliber or Tony Schiavanni might have been ex Caliber On commentary who made
the comment that whoever helps MJF is in harm's way. And I thought to
myself, that's that's weird because the first time we saw all the henchmen attack
anybody behind the scenes, it was Jay White. They attack Switchblade. Switchblade
is hardly a friend of mjf's, so it's almost as if that they are.
It's like the storyline is shape shifting as we go along here, which
is why I say aspects of this story and who it is and who it
may end up being, I think are evolving, because that line didn't really
make a whole lot of sense considering the first person we saw these guys attack
is mjf's arch rival, so that was very strange, and again that's what
makes me think that this story maybe is not quite finished or has undergone some
changes as far as Tony Kahan wanted to be. But that is how the
show went off the air tonight, and we also had MJF on the show
defending the AW World Heavyweight Championship in the opener against Daniel Garcia. We had
Samoa Joe defending his Ring of Honor television title against Keith Lee the Battle of
the Bulls. This is the match I was looking forward to on the show
tonight. Not the best match on the show, those honors go to Swerve,
Strickland and Penta, but I enjoyed seeing Samoa Joe go one on one
with Keith Lee and after five hundred and seventy five days as the Ring of
Honor World Television Champion. Samoa Joe is no longer of Honor World Television Champion.
But that does not mean that Keith Lee is Keith Lee lost. Samoa
Joe beat him, and then he promptly vacated the Ring of Honor television title,
to which I say, and all UTNA fans out there are going to
appreciate this reference. Basically, Samoa Joe, he cashed in option ce.
You know what option see is he gave up one title in pursuit of another.
And I'll tell you what, There's gonna be a lot of divided opinion
about this and how it makes the Ring of Honor television title. Look,
I will tell you just from my perspective, I don't give a shit how
it makes the Ring of Honor television title. Look. I loved it.
I thought it was a great move. Samoa Joe no longer has to be
weighed down by the Ring of Honor wagon that has been hitched to him now
for the better part of six hundred days. And I know this, Samoa
Joe, He's a legend and Ring of Honor, he's in many ways he's
been mister roh, and that's been great for Ring of Honor. You know
what, five hundred and seventy five days is Ring of Honor Television champion is
more than enough. And it's about damn time that we got Joe back proper
on AW television without having Ring of Honor attached to him. I am in
favor of this move. You know who else I hope follows suit Athena let
her give up her women's championship and make her way over to AW television as
well. She should have been there a long time ago. She's basically in
hiding right now, so I hope Athena follows suit. But I have no
issue with Joe vacating the Ring of Honor television title in pursuit of MJF and
the AW World title, even though he probably won't win that title. But
it's a move that I don't mind. And for the people who are against
it because of how they now, it's fair to say that if you're a
Ring of Honor fan, you may not like the way that they went about
doing it. I will agree that if Joe is just going to come out
and vacate the title, I'm not sure why he had to go through beating
Keith Lee first and then doing what he did. He could have just come
out and cut a promo and vacated the title. But I'm not gonna sit
here and argue against getting Samoa Joe against Keith Lee. We got a good
match on the show tonight. I'm not going to complain about that. But
Joe no longer having that title is a good thing. Maybe not for the
title, but I don't care about the title. I care about what they
do with Samoa Joe on AEW television. I watch AW television a hell of
a lot more than I watched Ring of Bonners, So excuse me if I
don't give a shit what they do with the ROHTV title. I loved it.
I thought that was the right move to make. And Mariah May from
stardom. There were some rumblings about her several weeks ago, about what she
was gonna do and if she was gonna sign possibly with AW. Well,
it is official. Mariah May is all elite. She made her debut in
a backstage segment tonight on Dynamite and they're actually doing it. Remember the idea
that I pitched. I pitched the idea of bringing her in as an understudy
Tony Storms, and they are in fact doing a storyline where she is Tony
Storm's biggest fan. Now, she didn't get to see her tonight. She
was very upset about that, but they are clearly doing something with her and
Tony Storm, and I could not be happier. I think that's that's gonna
be a great role for her. And by the way, that is a
quality pickup for the AW Women's division. I can only hope that Tony Kahan
makes good use of her. She doesn't end up relegated into the background like
so many other people on this very bloated roster. Bloated because he clearly doesn't
know what to do with half the people that he has under contract. But
Mariama being an AAW is a big deal for that women's division. And again,
I love what they did here. It was a backstage segment. It
was not a lot of glitz and glamour and stuff like that. But you
got to understand something. There's a lot of people who don't know who Mariama
is. You can say the name Mariah May, you can run a video
package for her. That's fine. It could have gone that route if they
wanted to. Wouldn't have made a lot of sense though, if they want
to link her up immediately with Tony Storm. But a lot of people are
not going to know who mariam A is. Tony's Storm right now is one
of the most popular acts in the entire company, so I failed to see
how this is a negative by linking immediately linking her up with one of the
most popular stars that Tony Khan has on his roster. I said she could
be her understudy. So when Tony Storm can't wrestle or can't work, she
broke a nail, She's tired, right, she has to go lay down,
she's dehydrated. That's where Mariah May steps in for her genius. I
hope that's the direction they go in with it. So there was a lot
to like about this episode of Dynamite. It wasn't perfect, but it was
a big improvement over the show that we got last week. So let's dive
into it. This is your aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday, November
eighth, two thy and twenty three. I am the Solemn Monster. By
the way, the strike is over, John Cena and the Rock can go
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But for those of you who are not aware, the strike is over.
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face, So thank you for that. And we'll be going through that a
little bit later on. We got a cold open to the show tonight with
Tony Shavani. He was in the back to introduce us to the eight EW
World Champion MJF and he talked about being pinned by Jay White in that tag
match last week, and he promised that that would never ever happen again.
So then he got a phone call and it was Adam Cole, and so
he told them to put the clip up on the screen. Cole was up
on the screen before he even finished his sentence, so, boy, they
got him up on that screen awfully quick. So he was concerned. Adam
Cole was very concerned about MJF going into full gear and he told him that,
look, I think you ought to really take Samoa Joe up on his
offer to be your partner and be your friend and watch your back. And
MJF refused and he said he didn't need him before he was promptly interrupted by
Daniel Garcia, Matt Monard and Angelo Parker. Tonight it was MJF against Garcia
for the championship. So this was a match made after Daniel Garcia issued the
challenge last week. And this is kind of like the markin Brisco thing I
just talked about where he said, hey, you know Jay White, he
wanted a match with Jay White, and you know the full gear title shot
would be on the line. It's like why why? Right? So here
you have Daniel Garcia that Daniel Garcia has been teaming up with Matt Minard and
Angelo Parker for a while and he's been doing the dance, the stupid dance
that he does on TV, so it's not like he hasn't been around.
But he issued the challenge to MJF last week to a match for the AW
World Championship, which I'll talk more about that in a second. MJF told
him, you know why I agreed to give you that shot, because it's
talent over tenure, and you remind me a little bit of myself. He
only wanted to know would we be getting Daniel Garcia, the pro wrestler or
would we be getting Daniel Garcia the sports entertainer, and Garcia said that we
would be getting the pro wrestler and the three heels. They walked off Minard
Parker Garcia. When Roderick Strong got wheeled in by Matt Tavin and Matt Bennett
or Mike Bennett and Mike David however you want to say, the Kingdom,
they wheeled him on in, Roddy was screaming for Adam. MJF made a
quick exit. He was gone like the wind, and Roddy saw Adam Cole
up on the screen. He told him the devil would walk away exactly the
way that MJF just did. Did you see that? And with that Adam
Cole ended the call, Roddy got pissed. He looked into the camera to
tell us it's time. It's time that he reminded the world just who the
hell that he is. And so we had MJF defending the AW World Championship
against Daniel Garcia. That was the opening match of the night. So,
as I said, Garcia issued the challenge, MJF accepted. But think about
this, Daniel Garcia got a win on Rampage over Trent Barrett. You would
have to go back all the way to the month of May. Okay,
Daniel Garcia. Prior to the win, trend Peretta had not had a singles
match on AW television since a loss in May to Roderick Straw. Since then,
it's been a bunch of tag matches and trios matches, no singles matches
prior to last Friday. You would have to go back six months and all
of a sudden, this guy's on this show here tonight and he's challenging for
the AW World Championship. I appreciate that we are getting to see MJF on
television in the ring more often. We used to joke about the fact he
got the greatest contract in the World. We would never see MJF in the
ring on television, right, He was like, what kind of contract does
this guy have? So I like the fact that we get to see him
more often, and I like the fact that we get to see the aw
World title defended on TV from Tom to Tom. I think that's great.
Right. We have the opposite of that on SmackDown right now with Roman Reigns.
I'm not saying that he should be defending his title every other week,
but boy, it would be nice every now and then to have a bone
thrown our way for spack Down, but we don't have that. So I
like the fact that we have that here on this show, but I wish
that we had some kind of mechanism to better decide who gets a title match
and who doesn't. I wish we had a situation here where Daniel Garcia could
have gone in there and won some kind of a meaningful match to become number
one contender, or I mean, Jay White technically is number one contender,
but to win the right to challenge for this championship instead of just beating Trent
Barretta, which I mean, okay, he beat Trentperetta, who gives a
fuck, and then he cut that passionate promo. I saw the promo.
I went back and I watched the promo from Rampage. But again, it
would be nice if we had more of a meaningful explanation for why somebody like
Daniel Garcia deserves to be in the ring this close to full gear for the
title, instead of him going out there and beating somebody and cutting a promo
on a show that can't even get three hundred thousand viewers last week to ninety
eight for Rampage, and here he is on Dynamite wrestling MJF for the world
title. That's all I'm saying. So Garcia out wrestled MJF early, and
he nearly did his little dance. Matt Minard cut him off. He told
him to focus and not to do it. MJF applauded him. He offered
a handshake out of sportsmanship, and Garcia slapped his hand away and then teased
doing the dance. MJF thund him right in the eye and from there,
MJF went to work on Garcia's arm. Garcia mounted a comeback. It a
released German sup plex, allowing him to do a one arm dance before planting
MJF with a brainbuster. Garcia got a series of near falls before a pile
driver attempt that he couldn't hit because again he had the injured arm, so
he was selling the arm, but he had a sayido suplex. Garcia charged
into the corner. MJF escaped, hit a double stump to the elbow and
an underhooked shoulder breaker amerlock cradle DDT got two. Garcia scrambled out of the
salt of the Earth and the heat seeker. MJF hit the corner superkick,
missed a Panama sunrise, which led to Garcia chopping out the legs of the
champion, and Garcia planted MJF with a one arm pile driver, got a
close two count before sinking in the dragon tamer. MJF was able to counter
out of it into the salt of the earth armbar. He wrenched back on
it and Garcia tapped out, so MJF retained the aw world title, to
the surprise of absolutely nobody. After the match, he offered his hand out
of respect, offered his hand to Daniel Garcia. Garcia was about to shake
it, Minard and part why don't mean you know shake it, yeah,
shake the hand. So Minard and Parker they stop him, They cut him
off and stop him from doing so, and MJF asks Garcia, you're really
gonna follow their lead. You're really gonna listen to these two guys, and
there was a chant for Daniel Garcia. Garcia tried again to shake his hand,
but he was stopped by Parker and Minard, and then all three of
them left the ring. So they went ten minutes in the opener. Here's
a very good match for the time that it lasted. H And it looks
like, here we are again, we're doing the Daniel Garcia will he or
won't he? Sweepstakes? Here we went through this before. We've been burned
before, right. I was invested in that storyline with him and Jericho,
will he won't he? Is he the pro wrestler? Is he the sports
entertainer? Is he gonna turn against Jericho and his group? And here we
are, we're doing the story again. Are we gonna get a resolution this
time? Are we gonna get another swerve? Are they just gonna drop it?
I don't know. I hope not. I hope whatever they're building to
here we actually get a resolution this time? Instead of what they gave us
last time. We had Sting in Darby Allen, a rare Sting match on
television and one of the last ones. Sting in Darby Allen. They took
on the Beverly Brothers. No, I'm sorry, it wasn't the Beverly It
looked just like the Beverly Brothers to me. You could have fooled me.
They claimed it was this group called the Outrunners. I don't know. It
looked like the Beverly Brothers to me. They called themselves Truth, Magnum and
Turbo Floyd. This was Sting's first match. Ex Caliber shared this bit of
information with us on the broadcast, courtesy of Jim Valley. He said that
this was Sting's first match in Portland since nineteen eighty nine when he challenged Rick
Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. And as you can see in this
photo, as you could see in this picture, not a lot of people
in the building. That not. I think they had about two thousand people
in the venue. But even rowdy Roddy Piper showed up. Look at that
right in the middle of the ring. Piper. Of course, I mean
Portland used to be his old stomping ground. That's where he cut his teeth
in the wrestling business. So he always had a connection to Portland where Roddy
Piper showed up. This was in January of eighty nine. He was back
in WWE two months later, Remember he appeared to WrestleMania five. He did
Piper's pit brother Love was on there. Morton Downey Junior, who used to
host the popular talk show I think Jerry Springer. That was Morton Downey Junior
back in the day. But there you go, a piece of history right
there, Stinging Flair, Pyper Piper. When he came back in eighty nine,
he was in better shape than he was the first time he was in
WWE from like eighty nine to ninety two. Actually, you know when he
had that matter of brat at WrestleMania, he was in the best shape of
his career. Anyway. Floyd and Magnum, they got the upper hand on
Darby and we allowed chance from the crowd here of we want Sting. Floyd
took too long to deliver a sup flax, and while Darby was still upside
down, he reached out and he blind tags Sting into the match, and
Sting saved him. Sting no soled a double back elbow. He just stood
there. Then he pounded his chest and the outrunners posed. They didn't realize
that Sting was standing behind them. We got dueling Stinger and coffin splashes in
the corners from Sting and Darby before Sting sank in the scorpion deathlock on Floyd
for the submission. The fans wanted to see Sting, they got to see
Sting. And now it is on to Collision, where Sting and Darby and
Adam Copeland are going to team up one time before full gear. They're gonna
be taking on Lance Archer and the Righteous, which, if he didn't watch
Collision, that is Jake the Snake Roberts new crew Lance Archer, who had
a match with Darby Allen and lost. He lost to a man half his
size who has a supposedly fractured shoulder, and still Lance Archer could not pick
up the win, so he loses. And then Jake Roberts says, well,
I have two other people that I want you to meet, and he
brings out Vincent and Dutch. So now Jake has his own little evil faction,
which is all well and good it's not like they're doing anything else with
him. But again, I said this on the podcast on Sunday, I
don't know why if you were gonna do that, you would have Lance Archer
lose to Darby Allen. I don't give a shit that Darby has a match
on the pay per view and Archer doesn't. Doesn't matter. Guys in there,
he's got a bum shoulder. The least you can do is put Lance
Archer over and then have Jake Roberts announce that he's expanding his family. So
now they're gonna go in there their first match together as a team, and
they're probably gonna fucking lose. Way to go well, at least I'm hoping
for this though. This may be the first time we get a face off
here between Staying and Jake Roberts since Halloween havoc in the coal Miners glove match.
That could be something, right if we get a little face to face
between them. Tony Schavanni was backstage earlier today. Tony Shavanni probably called that
match. He was probably ringside calling that match ninety two, right. Would
he have been doing commentary on the pay per views back then? Probably so.
Tony Chevanni was backstage earlier today in Black and White by the request of
Tony Storm, with Tony and Hikarushita to talk about their upcoming Women's World title
match and sign the contract for full Gear. Shei'dah wondered what happened to you?
What happened to Tony? And she says she's still upset about what happened.
It all in and she vowed to become the first three time women's champion
in aw history. Tony signed the contract, as did Sheitah, who said
that what will happen is what will always happen, which is that she will
beat Tony Storm at full gear. And Tony said, chin up, tits
out and watch for the shoe, and then Sidah smacked the shoe out of
her hand. We had swerve strict always watch for the tits. Oh I
not watched. I'm sorry. I watched her catchphrase. It's watch for the
shoe. That's what I What did I say? Watch? What did I
say, watch for the tits? Well you should do that too, watch
But I see I like that better. I'm going to amend Tony Storm's catchphrase
and co opt it for myself. That's my new catchphrase watch for the Tits,
Swerve Strickland one on one with Penta l Zero Miato. Excl Are said
that due to now this was great. Okay, so this is another one
of these lapses in logic and all I could do is just laugh. Excliber
informs us that due to Swerve and Prints Nana breaking into Hangman Page's home is
to think about this. They acknowledge that he broke and entered into this man's
house where his family dwells, where his child was sleeping. Suppose it because
of this, Hangman Page is banned from ringside for this match. So I
love that Seemingly Nana and Swerve faced absolutely no consequences for breaking into this man's
home, but it's Hangman who is barred from ringside because of what he might
do during this match. Make it make sense, Make it make sense.
Penta started a chop exchange show a Swerve stomped on the hand to put a
stop to that. Penta fought back with a backstabber that sent Swerve outside,
but as he went to go dive, Swerve cut him off. I think
it was with a forearm. Penta, though, did finally hit a somersault
dive that took us into a commercial break and coming out of commercial, Swerve
countered. They made him Penta, and Penta countered out of the JML driver
right, so a little tit for tat again tits out, so pent To
hit multiple sling blades before hitting a fireman's carry jackhammer for two. Swerve was
sent crashing outside. Penta followed with a crazy springboard destroyer from the ring to
the apron. I don't even know what I just saw. I just know
it was wild. Penta then hit a top rope double stop and Strickland,
though kicked out at two. So Penta tried for a float over in the
corner. Right, So you throw somebody into the corner. They grabbed the
top, they propel themselves into the air and normally they'll kind of go back
over their opponent. So he tries in the corner with a floatover, but
Strickland he flips Penta's legs over onto the top turn buckle and so on his
way down, Penta got folded up and he landed right on top of his
head, and that looked brutal and not in a good way. So,
with Pentan now hung up, Swerve hit a slingshot double stomp to the floor
before missing a four to fifty splash. Back in the ring with Penta trapping
and snapping the arm back made in Japan, connected for a super close near
fall. Strickland countered a fear factor attempt, this time into a power bomb
position, and then he maneuvered Penta into position for a death valley driver.
He dropped him for the DVD before getting paidback by snapping Penta's armback, and
from there the Swerve stop connected off the top rope and Swerve Strickland picked up
the win. After the match, Strickland was about to take off pent his
mask. He started untying it when Hangman appeared with a chair because now the
match is over, right, he was barred from ringside for the match.
Now he's here after the match, He's got a steel chair. He starts
swinging wildly. Nana and Strickland bailed, only Nana got away. Hangman caught
up to Swerve on the ramp. He blasted him in the back with a
chair shot, and then he picked him up and he connected with a dead
eye off the ramp, threw a table on the floor down below, and
Hangman kept screaming that Swerve was a dead man. He may be after that
dead eye. So this was fucking great. This was an excellent match.
This was the best match on the entire show. We got some innovative offense
here. We know Pent is great, Swerve is fantastic, and the Swerve
run continues. Big win over Hangman Page at Wressel Dream. He's been featured
prominently on television every single week. He's had a couple of great television matches
since then, including the one here against Pent on this show. And he's
got the rematch with Hangman coming up now in ten days of full gear,
which my guess is he's probably going to lose. What I would like to
see, though, is Tony Kahan have some balls when it comes to making
this decision here and have Swerve go over Hangman for a second time. Let
Hangman lose twice. Let's Swerve beat him twice, because Swerve is the one
going into twenty twenty four who could be one of your top players in this
company. Now, it's not as if if he goes in there and loses
the Hangman, that up, that's it. He's done for right. At
worst, they're tied at one win apiece, and it would be an excuse
to do a third match, which wouldn't be so bad. And don't forget
we have Winter Is coming in December and then World's End on pay per view
at the end of the month, so they could very well be setting up
for a rubber match between these two. But I think it would be fantastic
if Swerve went in there and he beat him again and then he moved on
to something else, because Swerve is shaping up to have a very big twenty
twenty four and it's about damn time. He's one of those guys who's been
hanging around for a while. You wouldn't get to see him very often.
It's like they didn't either know what to do with him or just didn't know
what the best way was to feature him. But I'm happy that over the
past few months he's finally found his groove and Tony Kahan has been consistent with
him, and he is going to be one of the big players for them
in twenty twenty four. As long as they play their cards right, so
far, so good, we'll win at full gear though. That would be
pretty big. That'd make a pretty big statement right there, that Wressell dream
was not a fluke. Now I beat you twice. So Alex Marvez was
backstage with Bullet Club Gold and Jay White said he watched collision. He mocked
MJF and he said MJF searches his own name online in hopes of appeasing all
of his insecurities. White said that he will always be better than MJF.
And he said he's truly elite, and we'll show that against Mark Briscoe later
tonight. We got a video package for next week's street fight with Kenny Omega,
Chris Jericho, Code Amboushi, and Paul White taking on the don Kallis
family, and we heard Don Kallis narrating and doing the talking here, and
they spliced in throughout the video package. They went back and forth. They
spliced in footage from the new Like a Dragon Guiden video game. I take
it that is the new Yakuza game. They're calling it the Like a Dragon
Guiden street Fight next week. So this is this is basically tantam out to
what WWE does when they have a Cinnamon Toast Crunch match. It's their sponsored
match next week on the show. I would say that this Like a Dragon
game though, is it's cooler than Cinnamon Toa's Crunch. But hopefully, like
what they did with Cinnamon Toa's Crunch, they don't just have a demo of
the game playing up on the videotron for the length of the match. So
Renee was backstage with the Golden Jets, Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho. And
if you're like me, you're probably wondering Golden what? And I was educated
by certain people earlier today, so thank you for that. I had to
be educated that it is a play on the Winnipeg Jets. They have an
ice hockey team called Winnipeg Jets, and of course Jericho and Omega they have
ties to Winnipeg, right, They came up in Winnipeg, so hence the
name. They said that next week is the Final Boss Battle. Once Jericho
started talking here, he was immediately cut off by the young Bucks. Thank
you, hey, Jacob Donnelly, thank you for the twelve bucks. Brother,
good to hear from you. Yes, this is the Sega sp sponsorship.
We all know what happened the last time we had a sponsorship on this
show with the Texas Chainsaw massacre. We all know what happened there. Let's
hope we don't have a repeat of that next week. Sometimes these sponsorships don't
go the way that we hope. But Matt Jackson showed up with his brother
Nick, and Matt made fun of their Golden Jets name and brought up another
name, the Elite. Have you forgotten about the Elite? And Jericho said,
if he recalls, it was all four of them who started aw because
Matt Jackson said, you know, the Elite were the guys you started this
whole thing, and Jericho said, actually, all four of us started this
thing, and Matt said it was typical Jericho taking credit and cashing a big
check. Jericho reminded Matt who he's talking to and said that he still thinks
Jericho at Omega could beat the Bucks. Matt and Nick then issue a challenge
for Full Gear. I was wondering when we're gonna get around to this,
because you've got a pay per view in California. You know the Bucks are
going to have a big match on the show. We're ten days out,
and there was no mention up until now of any kind of match for them.
So they threw down the challenge, and Jericho said why why don't we
sweetened the pot a little bit? When we win that guaranteed tag team title
match that you guys have been hanging on to for a while, you've been
sitting on. That goes to us, it goes to Jericho and Omega.
Matt said, well, when we win, the Golden Jets are no more
and we get back to the elite, no more of this, and we
get back to being a group again. So Kenny Omega, who's standing there
the whole time and he looks completely depressed and uncomfortable by what's going on,
Kenny Omega speaks. He said, the Bucks, you guys are the greatest
tag team of all time. You get no argument out of me. I
don't want to fight you. You guys are the best as far as tag
teams go. But if you're asking me if I think I can beat you,
he said, We've been down that road before. I've already done it.
He mentioned Heboushie and Hangman. He goes already done it before. And
Omega took issue with the Bucks attitude and said, maybe they'll start acting like
real adults instead of a bunch of sissy, whiny, bitchy children. The
young Bucks acting like children. I don't think that's the first time they've been
accused of that, maybe the first time on television. So Omega said that
he thought the Bucks needed to hear that from someone like him, and he
said that he would see them in La he walked off. Jericho said he'll
be glad to take the Bucks to the woodshed and beat their spoiled asses.
By the end of this, Omega looked a lot more comfortable than he did
at the beginning of this segment as he was telling the Bucks off. This
is a simple way of setting up a pretty big tag team match for full
gear. Omega and Hangman against the young Bucks is still one of the best
matches in the history of this company from Revolution in twenty twenty, so we
know what Omega and the Bucks can do when they're on opposite side to the
ring together. This time it's Jericho instead of Hangman. Jericho does to move
around like Hangman. Hangman's a young men compared to him. So I'm not
gonna go out on a limon say that it's gonna be as good or better
than the Revolution match. But given the four involved here, I think it's
safe to say that We're gonna get an excellent match from these four full gear,
so I'm looking forward to that. We had Samoa Joe against Keith Lee
for the Ring of Honor World Television Championship, another Ring of Honor title here
defended on an aw program. Both men took turns colliding on shoulder tackles and
Joe got an ipoke that led to his Lee came back. He flattened Joe.
Joe came back and lit him up with punches, and then Keith Lee
got a leap frog dropped down and a crossbody that sent Joe scrambling to the
floor, and that took us into the commercial break back. From the break,
Lee unleashed corner strikes. Joe responded with a sitout knee breaker. Keith
Lee tried fighting back, but a dragon screw floored him. Joe went for
his usual combo of the man hot meant man hot and drop the Manhattan drop
watch for the tits. He hit the Manhattan drop at a big boot,
but Lee was ready for the sent on. Joe does that running sent on
right, he says. As soon as Joe fell, Keith Lee grabbed him
and he picked him up, hit a released German souplex. Both men slugged
it out before Lee planted Joe with a pop up power bomb for a close
two count. Lee wanted the ground zero, but Joe got free. He
locked in the Cookina clutch and Keith Lee passed out. We got a ref
stoppage here, Samoa. Joe retains his Ring of Honor World Television title in
a battle of the Big Man which I quite enjoyed, and I enjoyed what
came after the match was over. Joe takes the microphone tells the crowd that
he is the greatest Ring of Honor Television champion of all time. He said
he didn't come here to merely be the television champion. He said, hungry
defines the greats, and he is officially hungry. And he then announced that
he was vacating the Ring of Honor World Television Title. He placed the belt
down on the mat. He said, the next gold on his shoulder will
be the AEW World Championship. Whether MJF likes it or not, It's like
that little kid who told the British Bulldog back at Wembley in nineteen ninety two,
the British Bulldog is going to beat at heart, whether he wants to
or not. Samoa Joe shares a similar message here for MJF, so he
went with option C. I mean, look, you could take the star
out of TNA, but you can't take the TNA out of the Star.
Joe spent enough years there that it's kind of ingrained in him, right,
It's in his blood. You can't take it out. Once it's in,
you can't get it out. I love it. I love it, and
as I said, now, we just need Athena to do the same thing
with her women's title. I'm glad that we have Joe back on aw Television
full time now hopefully and divorced from the Ring of Honor stuff. I'd rather
see him on AWTV. But you know, again, him vacating the championship
as opposed to losing it, it's not hard to see why Tony Kahan did
it the way that he did. You may not agree with it, but
the logic behind it is Samoa Joe is being protected for whatever is about to
happen with him and MJF. Right, and this was not the last time
we saw Joe on this show. We'll get to that later. But if
Joe is gonna be hanging around the world champion, if Joe is gonna be
possibly teaming up and best friends with the world champion, if he's gonna be
challenging for the aw world title. Tony Kahn does not want Samoa Joe to
go in there and get pinned. He doesn't want him to go in there
and lose to Keith Lee or anybody else. I get it, I understand
it. So the only thing I would have done differently is and again it
would have deprived us of the match, although you could have still done the
match later on, it didn't have to be for a championship. I'm glad
we got Joe and Keith Lee. But if he was just gonna come out
and give the belt up anyway, I don't know why he had to go
through the whole battle with Keith Lee first, only to then dump the belt
on the mat. But again, him giving up the world title or the
TV title has ever to do with protecting him for an eventual world title match
with MJM. And It's look, it's be like if Gunther came on television
next week on Raw and said, you know what, there's no challengers left,
right the Miz just won a four way match on Raw Monday Night.
Who cares the mis he sucks. You know what, I've got bigger aspirations.
I'm gonna go after the World Heavyweight Championship after five hundred plus days as
the Intercontinental champion, and he laid that title on the mat. I would
have an issue with that. I would have an issue with that because there
are still stories. There is a story in particular left to be told with
somebody beating Gunther to win that intercontinental title. He has done a masterful job
with what they have asked him to do. The booking of Gunther has been
perfect for over a year now. They've really built something special with this guy,
and I would hate to see it end like that. That's a different
situation, right, There are situations like that where I would not approve of
them doing what they did here in this segment. But let's not pretend like
we haven't seen this before. You know, Osca, once upon a time
was undefeated. She was the NXT Women's champion. There was nobody in NXT
who could beat Oscar. And then one day when it came time for her
to be called up to the main roster, she stood in the Ring on
NXT television with William Regal, and she vacated the women's championship. It's not
as if we haven't seen people holding the NXT titles before who were called up
to the main roster and they still dropped their belts. But in Oscar's case,
they didn't want to beat her, so she vacated the title. Did
it do anything to diminish the NXT Women's Championship? I don't think so,
you know, certainly not in hindsight. But then you look at something like
Steve Austin and what he did with the Intercontinental title back in the day,
where he basically just dumped. He just gave it to the rock here.
I don't want this anymore. I've got greater aspirations. So there are certain
situations like that. If it's done a certain way, yes, it could
diminish the title. In this case, I'm just being honest. I don't
care about the Ring of Honor television title. What I care about is the
story that we are getting right now with MJF and Samoa Joe, and the
fact that Joe wants to challenge for the top title in the company, so
he should not be going in there and losing. So I'm not upset at
the way Tony Kah decided to handle this because again, it's not as if
we haven't seen this sort of thing before and in the end everything will be
just fine. Austin and Colton gunn against the Bollywood Boys. I was not
expecting to see the Bollywood boys on the show tonight, but they got a
big reaction from the crowd. We got a Bollywood We've got a Bollywood boys
chant. They did these two dirty because this match was over in seconds.
Austin and Colton hit the three ten to yuma after attacking them right at the
bell, went right to their finish and they beat the Bollywood boys. They
did them dirty. You couldn't give them something, You couldn't give them a
little bit. Come mind. So after the match, the Guns called MJF
a liar who has been lying to fans for years, which is not something
that a generational talent does. They ran down their resume and called themselves generational
talents. Austin called MJF an embarrassment and said that in full gear, the
Ring of Honor tag team titles come to a real tag team. MJF was
shown watching in the back and all of a sudden, right behind him.
He didn't see him at first. Samoa Joe is standing there and Samoa Joe
is smirking MJF season and he just walks off. This week's episode is sponsored
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Moxley said that he's been getting calls to let Orange Cassidy off the hook
to give him a break, as Cassidy didn't know what he was doing when
he won back the international title. Moxley questions the example, though that he
would be setting for young you to hear if he doesn't beat the piss out
of Orange Cassidy. Moxley then issued a challenge next week for himself and DA
in a tag match against Orange Cassidy and Hook. You'd have said that Hook
messed with the wrong crew and said that he'll see Hook and CALLI. So
I guess that's official now for full get You know, it's still hard for
me to take him seriously in this group. You know, when Moxley speaks,
when Claudio speaks, even Danielson, when he speaks and gets all fired
up, that's the Blackpool Combat Club. Then he starts talking and it sounds
like a kid, you know, it sounds like a kid and his parents.
And now the kid is able to you know, he's getting the kind
of promo on the guy like, yeah, you know, that's what I
think of when I hear Willer you to speak. Even after all this time,
I still can't get over, Still can't get over. Daniel Garcia would
have been the better fit, but they elected to go in a different direction.
So we got a Wardlow video package, and he said that his first
three years in aaw were a living hell, as they spliced in footage of
all the times at MJF tortured him and mocked him and made fun of him
and made him do things he didn't want to do. He said it was
because he had a foot on his neck. He said his potential was wasted.
Yeah, tell me about it. Fuck, I mean, if find
me words Truer words have never been spoken on this show. He said his
potential was wasted and he felt worthless, and it's all because of MJF.
He said, MJF won't know when or where, but once he finds out,
it will be too late. He said that the days of the devil
ruling over aew are coming to an end. We shall see. You know,
the way that he's been talking, it makes you think that when the
day comes that MJF does lose the aw world title, it could be world's
end that Wardlow is going to factor into that in some way. Because he's
talking about costing him everything. You won't see it coming. I'm gonna take
it away from you. Like that's the kind of a verbiage we're hearing from
him. So if it isn't him personally, which I don't think will be,
he sure is making it sound like he will play a role in his
eventual downfall. So he had Julia Hart against Red Velvet. This was Red
Velvet's first match since February. Plot twist. It's Tony Kahan in the mask.
Well, he's got the build for it. We know it's not a
very big person under the mask. Velvet fired off a series of arm drags
and was working the arm of Julia's start things out here, but Julia rolled
through. Both women did the splits, got a stalemate here, they did
the splits. They were staring at each other. Julia escaped some corner punches.
She pulled vel Its legs out from under her and she went crashing down.
That allowed Julia to control the match. During the commercial break, Velvet
mounted a comeback with the leg lariat, the wheelbarrow bulldog, and she ran
into a corner back elbow, but she flattened Julia. For the finish,
Julia connected with a thrust kick. She went up top and she hit her
moon salt for the wind. After the match was over, we got some
confusion. I'm confused. So Julia locks on her heartless submission hold even though
the match is over, and here comes sky Blue. Sky Blue feels to
me like she's going through her teenage angst face. Well, the makeup on
her face. She comes out, she's got an attitude, and you don't
know, you don't know what's going on with this girl. So here comes
sky Blue. We got a face off in the ring with sky Blue and
Julia Hart and they're staring at each other. Nothing is happening. And they're
staring at each other and nothing is happening. So now here comes Chris Statlander,
the TVs champion, and Willow Nightingale. Willow goes over to help Red
Velvet, so she helps Velvet to the back. Statlander is in the ring.
She kind of is now in between the two women, and Julia Hart
just ends up walking away. So this was very confusing. And I know
that this story has been playing out now across all the shows for several weeks.
I'm no more clear on what's going on here. Is sky Blue supposed
to be a heel? Is she's supposed to be a babyface because they did
a segment on TV where they wanted you to think that she was about to
turn, but then she didn't. But now she's back to doing this and
I don't know, I don't know, and honestly, I'm finding it hard
to give a shit. I just wish that they would have something better for
Chris Statlander to do. Unfortunately they don't. RJ City was backstage and he
said that we may have heard rumblings, and the rumblings are true, and
he was honored to introduce us to AAW's newest acquisition, Mariah May. Those
who don't know, Mariah May has spent a few years in stardom, and
I've only seen a few of her matches. I'm not totally familiar with her
entire body of work. I mean, obviously she's you know, she's a
beautiful woman and she could talk, but she's also pretty damn good in the
ring too. So this is a big pickup for the women's division. But
Mariah May walks in and she says that she's so excited to be in AW
and RJ asks her what her plans are and her goals, and Mariah says
that she's a big fan of RJ's work with Tony Storm, all those segments
that he did with her and the Silent Films and all that, and she
said that Tony is the reason why she is a AW And she was like,
she was fangirling right, she was marking out for Tony Storm, and
RJ lets her know that Tony just left, but next week he'll introduce the
two of them, and she got so excited she planted a kiss on his
cheek. What a lucky guy he is, and she was ecstatic that she
would get to meet Tony Storm next week. Couldn't they have made a bigger
deal out of her introduction? Yes, but I love what it looks like
they are about to do with the two of them. That's why I pitched
the idea when I first heard this Mariah May stuff, and I went and
I looked up more of her work, and I said, you know,
she would be a great pickup for them. And I love the idea of
her being brought in as the understudy of Tony Storm. I mean, you
might look at it almost like an attrition mickey kind of way. Maybe that's
what it ends up being. Maybe she ends up being kind of more and
more of a talker than anything else. But I love the idea of her
being the understudy because Tony's going around thinking that she's this big movie star,
and so if she follows her around like a little lap dog, Tony could
put her to work right when she can't she can't perform, who steps in
for her, Mariah May. It's a great way to introduce her because Tony
Storm is one of the more popular acts in the entire company right now.
I would much rather they do what they did here and link her up with
Tony Storm than just introduce her cold. You know, they could give her
a video package and maybe you can get some footage from stardom and she can
come to television and she could have a big match and she looks great,
and then what happens. She ends up for the next six weeks wrestling on
rampage. Maybe she'll get a match on Collision here and there, and she
gets kind of lost in the background. I don't want to see that.
I'd rather see her linked up with someone like Tony. That way, she's
guaranteed to have a presence on television and I think, frankly, it would
be are you entertaining? So this was only the first segment, but I
like where this is head and again it's a big acquisition for that women's division
picking her up. But very excited to see where they go with this timeless
Tony Storm and Mariah May. She needs her own nickname, something with an
m timeless Tony and what something Mariah gotta come up with something. Switchblades J
White against Mark Briscoe is our main event on this show. Good to see
Mark back from his knee injury that took him out back in July. He
had surgery and he recently came back. This was four Switchblades title shot at
MJF at full gear, which again was incredibly dumb why he would even agree
to this in the first place, but he did. We had a fast
start by Mark Jay White got forced outside to go regroup with his Bullet Club
buddies. White tried working ahead block Briscoe easily escaped, fired off some chops.
He sent j White outside again and this time Briscoe hit a diving elbow
off the eighth excuse me off the apron juice. Robinson took the referee and
Colton Gun tried to trip up Jay or Mark Briscoe rather allowed J White to
connect on a DDT. Briscoe fought off a super PLEXI scored on a middle
rope drop kick, and Briscoe counter to Uranagi into a Fisherman's buster for a
close near fall. J White raked the eyes hit a dragon screw to go
after the previously injured knee, and Briscoe, though wasn't down for very long.
He had a rolling death valley Driver. He went up. He hit
froggy Bow for a two count. Brisco went for the j Driller, but
White spun out into a Uranagi and both men were down and we had Juice
Robinson outside the ring. He was screaming for a Kiwi Crusher. White obliged.
J White wanted a Blade Runner, but brisco spun out, hit an
exploder and a big lariat. White back dropped out of a Jay Driller and
connected on a sleeper supplex, followed by a brainbuster, and Mark chopped his
way out of blade Runner, could not dodge another sleeper suplex, straight jacket,
brain buster, and then finally the Blade Runner put him away. No
doubt about the outcome. Good match, good match, a fine main event,
but again no doubt about how this one was going to end up going.
Now, after the match, mjf's music hits and Bullet Club Gold,
they look up to the ramp. Of course, when that happens, you
know that the guy is coming from behind. Everybody can figure it out except
for the heels. So MJF comes from behind, and he's got the dynamite
diamond ring on his finger, and he ko's the guns and he Ko's juice,
and now it's just him and j White in the ring. He bailed
quickly. MJF took the mic. He said, playtime is almost over with
Jay White dressing up as a top guy. He said, he'll go down
as the greatest aw World champion of all time, and Jay White is going
to have to kill him to beat him for the first time in his life.
MJF is fighting for everyone that has been on this journey with him since
day won. He says he isn't just a scumbag, He's the fans scumbag.
The only question is will j White be the first man to pull the
trigger at full gear? Then the lights went out. Tony Kahan didn't pay
his electric bill again. Lights come back on and we see the acclaimed in
Daddy Ass. They are having their asses handed to them by a bunch of
men dressed in all black. The Black Ninjas. They're back. The Ninjas
were back, and they were physically bigger. Did you notice they were physically
bigger than they were the last time we saw them? So either they've been
eating their wheaties, they've got a needle stuck in their ass, or it's
a bunch of different people altogether. Take your pick. So they grabbed Anthony
Bowens and they launched him through a plate glass window. And so now Billy
Gun is down, Max Castor is down, Anthony Bowens is down. They
cut to a shot of the Devil, who was not there with them.
The Devil was elsewhere, and it was just a very quick shot of him
in the mask looking at the screen, and they cut back to the ring.
MJF. He can't believe what he just saw, so he sprints back
to the locker room area and he finds all of his new friends. They're
all laid out. He's beside himself. He doesn't know what to do.
Samoa Joe shows up. He seems pretty happy, and Samoa Joe walks up.
He said, it looks like the champ is running out of friends,
and he laughs and he walks away, and that is how they went off
the air. I mentioned at the beginning the comment that I think it was
ex Caliber who made the comment about whoever helps MJF is in harm's way,
which completely flies in the face of the first time we saw these guys beating
somebody up. They were beating up j White. So again it makes it
sound like they have been trying to figure out what this story is or who
they want the devil to be. I didn't actually expect that they had kind
of finalized who it was that they wanted it to be on day one,
and it's like, WWE and the whole storyline about who ran down Stone Call.
Now they had a year to figure that one out. They knew they
had time to figure it out, and they went with probably the worst possible
choice. They were trying to get a new star over it didn't work.
But here that differs from what we saw at the beginning of this story.
So now it looks like they want the story to be that whoever they attack
is a friend of MJF. So Samoa Joe ends up teaming with them.
If he relents and Joe becomes his friend, he becomes his partner. It
puts Joe in harm's way if he Joe is the next one to get laid
out, right, If that's the story, anybody who gets close to him
gets laid out. I was still leaning in the direction of Roderick Strong this
entire time. I thought from day one, if I had to take a
pick, who do I think it was? No, I didn't think it
was Adam Cole, And no, I don't think it's Cmpunk. My pick
would have been Roddy. But after the glass spot, and given the small
frame of the person who is in the devil mask and the fact that we
have not seen him come back yet to television, I'm sure he's no longer
suspended. I'm thinking the Devil may end up being Jack Perry. Now,
who the other guys are? I have no idea who the other guys are,
frankly is completely irrelevant. It could just be a bunch of random people
that you know, he recruited to be his hitman. You know, it
could be anybody. I don't think that's really so important. But as far
as the Devil, if it's not Roddy, now leaning in the direction of
JA. But what's great about a story like this is you get people thinking
and talking and speculating, and you know, if they really continue to build
it up right, they could sell a lot of pay per views potentially when
it comes to World's End. If they saved the reveal for world's end.
Maybe maybe we find out then who the devil is. Maybe the devil cost
him the championship. So it's good to have a story like that because you
have episode of television here. You want that one story hook to keep people
guessing and to keep people tuning in. I don't know if this story alone
is necessarily helping to keep people tuned in just based on the numbers. It
certainly hasn't driven the numbers of the show up. But it's a smart story
for them to go with. So we'll see what happens with the devil stuff.
But on the whole again, a much better episode, much more digestible,
much more interesting. To me. Last week I just thought was a
fucking bore, which is unusual for Dynamite. Know, it's weird. I
made a comment the other day, and I have people saying, you know,
one bad episode, you make it sound like they all haven't been bad,
right, People thinking that every episode of Dynamite it sucked. Now,
every episode of Dynamite does not suck. Not Everything on the show makes fucking
sense, and I call that shit out when it happens. I'm not a
fan of everything they do, but by and large, Dynamite is a good
show. Sometimes it's great, other times it's not. Last week was a
miss. Tonight was more of a return to four. Much better show than
last week. Now. Rampage coming up on Friday has FTR taking on el
e Ho, Del Vikingo and Commander. Collision on Saturday has rush Andraalistico taking
on the Workhorsemen. Sting Darby and Adam Copeland take on Lance Archer, Vincent
and Dutch. When did Collision turn into Rampage? I mean, my god,
my god, unbelievable. Dynamite Next week has Omega Jericho Ibushi is back
and Paul White is getting into the ring and I hope he knows what he's
doing after what we saw of him last week. They're gonna be taken on
the don Kallis family in a street fight, and we have John Moxley and
Wheeler Youda stepping into the ring against Orange, Cassidy and Hook. That's your
lineup for next week. Dynamite Tonight on Twitter sixty six percent thumbs up,
thirty three almost thirty four percent thumbs down, with seven hundred and fifty votes
in counting in so far, so get those votes in at Sola Monster,
What did you think that's I'll tell you what. That's not a great score,
but it is a much better score than the one that Dadamite got last
week. Dynamite was sub fifty percent last week, so I would say sixty
six percent is an improvement over what we saw last week Wednesday, real glass
call crime me a river. That's right, Although that was not real glass
tonight. But as soon as I saw the glass, I said, hmm,
I wonder, I wonder. All right, let's take a look at
your super chats here. I'm sure you guys have some thoughts about all this.
Let's start with Roca Will broke a Will, what what are you gonna
do? Hey, bred we have to interrupt. We have a big announcement.
We have a major announcement here. Bred Hart, who has been a
channel member for twenty months. That's why he's got the red skull. He
has a huge announcement. He has renewed his membership to the chat. I
would say that's a big announcement right there. Let's give the man a hand.
I can get behind that announce I like that. I Hey Brett Hart,
thanks, that's right, Rocca Will greeting solo the Goat. Do you
think Tessa Blanchard is on a mission to be a topic on a future Dark
Side of the Ring episode now that she has burnt bridges with Triple A and
her ex Daga. Well, you know, Conan is a little gossip dis
guy. Don't ever tell secrets to Conan if you have something that you want
to tell him in Competence Films, because invariably it will end up spilling out
on his podcast. I mean, it's great if you're a fan of that
kind of stuff or you're a content creator, it's great content. But he's
a little gossip this guy. Yeah, he talked about Tessa supposedly cheating on
Daga and that's why they got a divorce. And he doesn't want to bring
her back to Triple or bring her into Triple A because he wouldn't want to
do that to Daga. I would make him feel weird. I think Tessa
just started with CMLL, so she would not be going to Triple A anyway.
Yeah. I think Tessa, unfortunately for her, she burned a lot
of bridges a very long time ago. Well, you talk about wasted potential,
wasted potentially, you think of someone like velveteen dream and you think of
someone like Tessa Bland. You can get a dark side for each one of
them. Crypto in poker. If SmackDown leaves Friday night, can you see
Collision moving to Friday? Well, I mean Rampage is on Friday, So
then what do you do with ramping It wouldn't make much sense to move Collision
to Friday and Rampage to Saturday. I mean, I guess they could.
Then you would have a live show on Friday and the tape show on Saturday.
But again, you'd have to do something with Rampage. Hopefully not a
three hour block either, but I could see it potentially, but you just
would have to flip flop the two shows. See, I don't think that's
what TVs or t I guess it's on TNT. I don't think that's what
TNT wanted though. TNT wanted two hours of live wrestling on Saturday nights,
So would they want to flip the show to Fridays? That's the question.
I don't know. Ace of Mastda Kazuma Kiu is all elite, that's right?
Yeah, who's a that's right? Peter Mason with a twenty dollars super
chat must say this was awesome. Great to see my first aw show live.
Awesome show. My question who do you think attacked the acclaim? Also
awesome work. Has always been a fan since twenty twelve, Peter. I'm
happy that you enjoyed the show because Peter was in the building live and we
just talked about the devil. So hopefully that answers your question about who I
think the devil might be. Dick the Cox Johnson Bowen's was thrown through real
glass. By the way, real glass prime me a river. I'm still
thinking Roca will roscoed pe Coltree with the nine fifty five. A little excited.
We've got tickets to wwe Perth. We will be wearing our solemn Monster
shirts. That's what I like to hear. That's what I like to hear.
Finally, a good reason to break them, says thanks mate for the
fantastic content. As always, you are very welcome and I look forward to
seeing you rock in those Solemn Monster shirts. Although I don't know where are
you going to be sitting? Am I gonna see you on camera? You're
gonna be up in the in the cheap seats. Are any seats cheap these
days at WWE events, I see some of these ticket prices and it makes
me want to puke. I don't even know are there are there actual affordable
tickets anymore to these shows? Even aw in a lot of shows seemed to
price people out. Tyler. People are saying Punk is the devil? Lol?
Imagine. Oh, people were saying Punk is the devil before he left
data. Why should they say any differently now? Oh, you mean the
devil? You mean the devil in the mask? Oh? Jsh five bucks.
It is unlikely that it happens at full gear. So do you put
the TVs title on Julia a World's End or hold off until Revolution? I
don't know that I put the title on Julie at all, but if you're
going to do it, I think World's End would be a good place for
it. Paul Carpenter, it's sugar Glass crime your ri. That's right there,
you go, Sid Fishy. Can you see Cody winning at WrestleMania of
forty in a dusty finish? I see Triple H restarting the match and stealing
the thunder by being the savior of the story. I don't know, no,
and I think that would be a terrible Landea. I would not do
that. Keep it simple. There's an expression, keep it simple stupid.
I subscribe to that theory. You've built this up for so long, You're
gonna have so much interference from the bloodline, and there's gonna be plenty of
other stuff going on without having to do a Dusty. I would not do
that. Peter Mason with the twenty bucks, I gotta say now, seeing
AW and WWE both in Portland, I enjoyed AW Live way more, crowd
was amazing at the Manda Center Solemn Monster. Which event did you enjoy seeing
Live more AW or WWE? As always, you are number one, Peter.
I appreciate that I have been to way more WWE shows than I have
AW, but I have been to both. I was at the first Double
or Nothing in Las Vegas. I was right there in the third row.
That was the Cody and Dustin match and the John Boxley debut. At the
end he came through the crowd. It was amazing. It was one of
the best live experiences that I've ever had, that first Double or Nothing.
But I've been to a lot of great WWE shows. Look, I was
lucky. I got to go to a lot of those old Raws War shows
at the height of the Monday Night War, when Austin was rocking and rolling.
We're talking ninety eight ninety nine. Can't beat that. I mean,
it's hard to top those shows, right, So I got to go to
those. I got to go to eight WrestleMania's Royal Rumbles always a fun one
to go to. I'm sure this one will be no different in January.
I mean, I don't really want to choose because I've had fun in both.
And I've also been to a lot of crappy WWE shows that were kind
of fucking boring. Cuts both ways, but I've had fun at both.
You can't really choose one over the other. Uh, mister Notorious Chico.
This is why I wanted the Elite to go to wweight. Now, now
are we doing Kenny in some tag team variation against the Bucks? Again?
Shaking my head? Where are the AEW tag teams? I think WWE's tag
team division is in a position now where I think you could argue they've surpassed
the AW division. You could certainly make the argument Triple H is taking great
pains to really load up that tag team division seems like Tony Khan is going
in the other direction. Got a lot of great teams. I mean,
the Bucks are there, You've got FTR and then you've got let's see who
else you got the Guns. You've got Ricky Starks and Big Bill, which
you know they're temporary Team Hena and Ray Phoenix. They're not really teaming up
as much. But I mean, I guess you could count the Lutra Bros.
If you want. So. There's a lot of quality teams that are
still in the company, but I don't know, doesn't feel like it used
to. You know, Derek Jones MJF and Garcia should have just been an
eliminator match. Would not have changed anything. Probably would have made more sense
at being a champion than it being a championship match. Yeah, I'll guarantee
you it didn't make a look of difference in the ratings. They were looking
for a ratings bump by putting a title match on there. I don't think
this made a lick of difference. Having Dangle Garcia challenge for the aw World
title isn't gonna matter. Give me backshot salomonster Mark Henry's three six Mafia theme
is the best wrestling theme of all time. How shocked were you when he
beat Orton for the title and his run overall? I was pretty I was
pretty shocked and I was shocked and how clean it was too? Or I
mean, Orton really did the honors for him, not only in that match
at the September pay per view, which I guess what would that have been
maybe clash clash of champions maybe, but then in the hell in a celle
match as well, Orton lost I think two or three matches to Mark At.
I was happy for him too. The Hall of Pain run was the
best run of his career, and unfortunately, like every other run that he
had, it was derailed by injury. It just the wear and tear,
the age, the injury, it just it just caught up with him.
What that Hall of Pain run was top notch, easily the best run of
his career, and I'm glad he got to be a world champion. He
could say that he was a world heavyweight champion. Jacob Donnelly with the twelve
dollars random question, what were your thoughts on the shan o'haered Devil's advocate gimmick
was reward those old vignettes and realized there was a lot of potential there there
was, and I think that's kind of how I would remember it is wasted
potential. They could have done a lot more with it than they did.
I thought it was interesting, but again he didn't really do anything. It
was just a bunch of vignettes. So I can't really sit here and tell
you, oh, it is such a great gimmick, like he never had
the chance to really flesh it out. There was definite potential to it,
and it just sort of fell to the wayside. Jazz jack Rabbit wanted to
see Swerve at Hog, but all the front rows are sold. Woe is
me? Not expecting their hack bum commissioner to help? Oh see, you
are my only hope. Well, you keep talking like that, the commissioner
is not going to let you in the front door. Yeah, front row
is gone. I actually have that check to see where a second and third
row are. We have, however, added stage seeding. We had stage
seating at our show back in August for the first time, and a by
popular demand, stage seating is back. Trying to get as many people in
as we can for the next Hog show on December first, we got swerve
coming into wrestle Speedball, Mike Bailey, don't be a fun show, Christopher
Smith. Adam Cole has a deeper history with Roddy and Tavin than he does
with MJF, and Cole has teased turning on MJF. Also, Bucks should
be healed. I agree, I agree, ABK with the four hundred eleven
dollars super check. Fuck Yeah, ABK, you're the man. Just imagine
the devil mask wrestler is CM Punk, and Punk says to MJF. The
greatest thing the Devil ever did was make you people believe he did news the
usual suspects a great movie. Well, I'll tell you, Daddy Ugarte,
we've had vlad Vladimir has been to House of Glory before. He was at
our Terminal five show last August Blad. Blad is always invited to our show.
Anytime Blad wants to take in a House of Glory show, we would
love to have. But ABK, I'm gonna I'm gonna say that if you
are expecting Hunk to be the devil, you are likely to be very disciplined.
But it would certainly get people talking, not necessarily in the best way,
but It would certainly get people talking. Thank you, brother for the
huge support. Much appreciated Sonic you what are your thoughts on Nirvana? I
like Nirvana. I was a fan of their music. I don't know what
else to say. Fortunately they didn't go longer than they did for obvious reasons.
We have got Arabian Night two thousand. What if Devil Mask group are
Coal, O'Reilly and fish, I don't see it. I mean, they
would have to be pulling the wool over everyone's eyes on this Adam Cole stuff.
It would be quite the swerve if they pulled that off. I just
I don't think so. Rumpel Maine another day, another Tyler water challenge request.
You can keep requesting at all you want. The answer is no,
brother, The answer is no because nobody wants to see that. I don't
care how hard you try. I finally watched the video to see what it
was. It ain't happening, Warhawk Rambo with the five bucks. What's more
boring watching Roman wrestle or sitting on a hold on the phone. His booking
is so repetitive. Wwe needs to move the hell of ro Bet. I
would be very disappointed if the devil is Jack Bear he is a waste of
talent and Tony Wow Wow, and Tony Kahan should focus on actual talent like
Ricky Starks and Powerhousehoks. Well, damn, that's pretty much straight to the
point right there. From Roo Beart and Omen. We are at three seventy
on the like, So I don't know, it looks like no be the
booker. Tonight's try again on Friday. Marcus Robinson Johnson going to my first
New Japan show this Friday, and I'm very excited to see Mayu Ewatani,
Shingo Takagi and Zach Saber Junior live. Well that sounds like a good time.
Enjoy Marcus. Report back and let me know how the show was.
Wapatapa ae w the cholo. I don't want to go though, Abusika stuck
your luck or go straight for the cash? Thank you, Abusika. Paul
Carpenter, I was at that twenty eleven Night of Champions Mark Henry beat Rko
Buffalo, So it was Night of Champions and Chris AXC. What do you
see from the SmackDown side at Survivors Series? So can we please get aj
back? The A show feels a bit lost without Roman on regularly. What
are your thoughts. I wouldn't be surprised if we had aj Styles back on
the show this Friday. I think we get him back on TV this week.
And what they should do since apparently the Bloodline is not going to be
involved in wargames, they should do Roman and AJT Survivor series with aj wanting
revenge for what the Bloodline did to him and putting him out of action.
But if Roman is not working Survivor series, then that makes it kind of
different. But as far as SmackDown goes, I said, you know,
we're gonna get raw wargames and the SmackDown women are gonna get the other wargames.
They're gonna get the women's war games now and we'll end up with damage
Control. Kyrie will probably be in there with them. On the other side,
we'll have Charlotte, maybe Shatzi Bianca. Oscar Falls will be interesting.
There's been talking about Oscar linking up with EO and Kyrie Juice Georgio with Before
ninety nine, the backstage footage was very reminiscent of Summer slam O two.
The backstage footage of what specifically which backstage footage. You're referring to, uh
wapatapa. Why does Seamus's racist rant never get condemned? No idea what you're
talking about? We have got love, Lie says. I saw someone say
that wwe will have Roman beat Bruno by using his defenses as the new Undertaker
streak. You see this happening. I hope it will. No, I
don't know who. I don't know who said that, But you're listening to
the wrong people. I don't know who this someone is. You should not
be listening to whoever that someone is. That does not happen, albe,
That's exactly what's gonna happen. If they do. Roman and Aj' don't expect
an outcome any different than every other Roman Reigns match. With the interference and
the bullshit. That doesn't mean that he still should not be defending that title
against AJ at Survivor Series. That should be the match. They could always
do it at the Royal Rumble, but he should be on that Survivor Series.
Ship Jazz says, If mean Gene is number one, who is number
two? Is it Mooney? Is it Renee? So you're talking specifically backstage
interviewers, then does that I mean Meme Gene would occasionally do commentary as well,
and even ringing out. I mean he did it all. He did
ring announcing, he did commentary, he did interviewing backstage. Meme Gene is
absolutely number one. I don't know that I have a solid number two.
It's kind of like Meme Gene and then there's everybody else. You know,
Renee is very good at her job. Think about Renee though, especially lately
in AW I don't know, there's just she's not allowed. I shouldn't say
not aloud. It feels like we're not getting to see her personality as much
shining through the way it did in WWE. Now it's just like they go
back to her in the back and it's like I'm here with my guests and
it's just there's nothing, you know. And I'm not saying that it should
always be about her. Her job is, you know, the focus should
be on the talent. I get that. I don't think we're really getting
Renee, you know, her personality shining through in these segments the way that
we used to do. But Renee is is very good. She's very good
at what she does. I don't really have a number two behind Meme Gene.
For me, it's Gene, and then there's everybody else who's kind of
fighting for number two. I enjoyed Sean Mooney. I enjoyed Todd pettent Gil.
I thought Pet and Gil did a very good job. Some people were
annoyed by him, but I like Todd. I like those Slammy intros he
did in ninety six and ninety seven. Slammy Song Renee is very good.
And yeah, beyond that, I don't really know. Sonny says, I
have a pretty solid number two. Well, then you shouldn't be sitting here.
You should go take care of that. It's not good to hold it
in the Juliet says sag After and studios have a deal strike over, which
is I mentioned that right at the beginning of the stream. So I beat
you at the punch, But that is very good news. Indeed, the
strike is over, I guess as of right now it is officially midnight on
the dot, so I believe, as of this very moment, the strike
is over. And Juice Georgio Hunter coming out to check on HBK, MJF
parallels I see, and then ultimately it was revealed that it was Triple h
who was behind the attack of Shaun Wycke. Yeah, there are some parallels
there, there are, but it would be quite the stretch. I mean,
whenever we have seen the Devil just physically, it's pretty obvious it's not
MJF. If they slot him in there and it was him all along,
I think that would be very lame. That would be very lame. Hofman
Entertainment. It's November ninth, happy twenty sixth anniversary too. They fooked him,
they foked Brett. Oh, it's the screw Job anniversary. We haven't
heard about that enough. Thank you very much, Oofman. I appreciate and
we got one more coming in here from Arabian Night popping up here any moment.
Arabian Night says, did you hear reports today about La Knight's attitude?
I did not. I will look into that, but I did not hear
anything negative about La Night today. So until I see it from a reliable
source, I would not put much stock into it, but I will look
into it and talk about it on Sunday if there's anything to it. But
no, I have not heard anything about La Night's attitude. Nick Grosso,
thank you for that. Four ninety nine, Nick just dropped, did you
hear about this beef with Flair and Hayman? Supposedly Flair got upset about Okay,
yes I did, so let me let me uh if you didn't hear
about this, I mean, it's just so ridiculous. So Rick Flair is
very upset with Paul Hayman. Why is Rick Flair upset with Paul Hayman.
He is upset with Paul Hayman because of the comment that Hayman made. And
this was like months ago when he was on First Take with stephen A.
Smith and I think Steven A mentioned Bobby Heenan, you know, being number
one or you're better than Bobby. I forgot exactly what he said. You
mentioned Bobby, and Hayman made the comment about, oh, he's dead,
who cares about him? Right? I talked about it at the time,
and it was just it was perfect because absolutely something I'm sure Bobby Heenan would
have loved and would have done himself, Okay, And it was obviously tongue
in cheek. Paul Hayman has nothing but total reverence for Bobby Heenan. He's
talked about Bobby before. He considers Bobby to be the best manager of all
time. I don't know how it came up in this interview that Flair did,
if he brought it up or if he was asked about it, but
he talked about it as if you know, I don't like that, that's
offensive and both. Yeah, all of a sudden, he's all super sensitive
now, is Rick Flair? Right? He got up on the Kill Tony
podcast. I'm not gonna sit here and tolerate saying negative things about people like
he hasn't said negative things about every fucking person under the sun. So that's
what bothered. He's got heat with Hayman because he thinks Hayman disrespected Bobby Heenan
as if that's the last person that Paul Hayman would disrespect. I guess you
might say that Rick Flair is a mark. Rick Flair is a Mark Hey.
Shockmaster is now banned from Collision Love Li said some Rando on X,
but wwe always has me about the La Night stuff. You don't, don't
that's your first mistake believing Rando's on X. Shock Master with the seven Bucks,
I pop in on a Friday for the SmackDown post show, but I
will be going to see aw with my buddy from high school on Friday,
so I will probably be very drunk by then. Well that's a good excuse.
Yeah, Rampage is live on Friday, a rare live episode of Rampage,
So they may go from two hundred and ninety eight thousand that they did
last week. Maybe they'll have four hundred this week. Maybe probably not though,
right and Nick Grosso, Oh, I already got to nick. Mark
Flair says slap. Yeah, mister Dynamite, I said, see, I'm
punk is still banning people from Collision. It was a provision in his contract
that he is still allowed to ban people from the show even though he technically
does not work for the company anymore. So you gotta be careful, all
right. Well, it looked like we were going to fall short, but
the likes have hit four oh four, and so therefore you guys have pulled
it out of your rear. Ends here at the last minute. The buzzer
beater, unlike the Knicks in pretty much every single game. So let's be
the booker, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.
It is time to be the booker. You guys wanted it, ask
and you shall receive. It's how things work around here. I always give
the people what they want, unless it's the Hilow Water Challenge and you're on
your own. Be the booker begins, Oh my god, The Tribal chief
says, pick a damn stipulation. Oh my god, Roman Reigns has spoken.
Would you look at that? The Tribal chief says, we have to
pick a stipulation. Well, there it is. We'll pick the step and
then we'll make the match. That's how it works. What stipulation will we
land on? Though? That is the question. It will be a TLC
match. All right, here we go. Let's see what this is gonna
be. This next match is going to be a tables, ladders and shares
match, as per the Tribal Chief, and it will be Chad Gable.
There, Hea is your future Intercontinental champion. You never know what you're gonna
get here and be the booker. A tech nationian just gifted a membership to
Sonnyman. Welcome, Welcome, thank you TECHNATIONI Chad Gable in a TLC match
against Menoru Suzuki. Oh tell me you don't want to see that match?
Tell me you would not want to see that fucking match. You're a liar
if you say no, I don't care. I'd pay to see that match.
Chad Gable and Minora Suzuki tables, ladders and shares. Oh my,
oh my, there's one I bet you weren't expecting. All right, over
to the ladies. You know, I should probably add Should I add Mariah
May? What do you think? Should we add Mariah May to the list?
Going forward? We begin with Alisha Fox. Well, all right,
let's see Alicia Fox go'na be taking on Oh boy, I'm not even gonna
say it. I'm not even going to say it. Alicia Fox against Tessa
Blanche. Tessa, don't say it. Don't say it, Tessa, don't
do it. Whatever you do, don't do it. Let's move on here
where she gets us in trouble. All right, that was a close one.
Never know what's gonna come out of her mouth? All right, tag
team be the booker. We have the Kings of the Black Throne, Malachod
Black and Brody King. That's a great team. Who will they be matched
up with? Kings of the Black Throne against men on a mill? Come
on, after I just put those two overs a great team. You give
us Mow and Mabel. You give us Mow and Mabel. There's no saving
that, no saving that. I'm sorry, man. We got the first
one. At least we have our TLC match. Everything else, though,
is a complete failed one for three. Oh boy, well what look?
You know? It would be the booker that happens sometimes, you know,
Hey, jazz Jack Rabbit. I was at Survivor Series ninety seven with my
brother. He was a Brett Hart fan and I HBK. It was his
birthday and it was the most confusing ending to a pay per view ever.
Happy birthday to my brother. Well, you happen to be in attendance for
one of the most famous, well probably the most infamous wrestling match of all
time. You were a part of history that night, so you should be
grateful that you were at that show. I hope you still have your ticket
stuff. You know, back then they had actual ticket stubs. Now you
just scan things with your fucking phone where you print out the confirmation from the
ticketmaster website. It's on a piece of paper. See I'm old school.
I like the actual physical ticket stubs. I still have all my ticket stuff
for every wrestling event. I've ever attended, every WWE show, every WrestleMania,
the aw shows, all the Ring of Honor shows. Remember those of
you who used to go to the Ring of Honor shows in Manhattan at the
Manhattan Center. It would be different color each time. It could be red,
yellow, green. I have all of them. I have the ticket
stubs from some of the earliest WWF house shows that I went to in the
early nineties. It's history. Juice Georgio Solo. Have you checked out six
feet Under with I have not? I have not, Jano Compo. Happy
twenty ninth birthday to my brother. All right, good times Friday night.
Friday Night, we have SmackDown. It is the first SmackDown coming out of
Crown Jewels. So we will find out what the Survivor series Wargames landscape looks
like from the SmackDown side. But again, my guess is the SmackDown ladies
are going to get the other Wargames match. So we'll find out and I'll
be here to go over the whole thing with you guys. That'll be on
Friday night. That's the next time I am live, and of course on
Sunday for episode eight thirty four, I've done so many of these fucking things.
I don't even know what number I'm up to. I think it's episode
eight thirty four, eight hundred and thirty four that's coming up on Sunday,
and again, I would be very surprised if we do not see the return
of AJ Styles on Friday. You heard it here first. Until then,
be well, stay safe. Thank you guys for all the love and all
the support tonight. It means a lot. I'd very much appreciate it.
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