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You know, it's not very often
that we are watching an episode of Dynamite

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and we have a main event that
looks like it was ripped out right from

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one of our Be the Booker segments
at the end of these streets, right,

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Didn't it feel like that? Tonight
we got a be the Booker main

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event on Dynamite. We had Adam
Copeland one on one for the first time

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and probably the only time ever against
minor of Suzuki. And the way the

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sal came about. He went to
Tony Conn and said, Hey, do

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you think we could get Suzuki?
And it was that simple, and Tony

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Conn said, I don't know,
let me make a phone call. And

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as soon as he got the call
back and he got the okay, he

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went and made the announcement without even
telling Adam Copeland. It was John Moxley

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who came over to Copeland in the
locker room last week and said, hey,

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you're working with Suzuki next week,
and Copeland got all excited. He

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was marking out because he's been doing
the Cope Open. Adam Copeland is in

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the middle of doing an open challenge
as he tries to climb the ladder back

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into contention for Christian Cage and the
TNT Championship, and so he wanted Minora

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Suzuki and he got him, and
we had the two veterans in the ring

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beating the hell out of each other. S Azuki. Look, I believe

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Copeland what he said at the end
of his match tonight that he has never

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been he has never been hit so
hard in his entire life. I believe

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it. Two of them had a
very enjoyable main event, and even better,

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it was commercial free, so there
were no interruptions during tonight's main event.

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I just love I love the randomness
of it, like it fits into

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the story of the Open Challenge,
but yet the match itself was just so

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random. And it's just one of
those matches that if you would have told

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me even six months ago, when
he was still in WWE, let alone

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four or five years ago and he
was still retired, that one day we

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would see Adam Copeland against Minora Suzuki, I would have put down the pipe.

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But here we are. Samoa Joe, the aw World Champion has multiple

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challenges coming after him. Two of
those potential challengers were in action on the

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show tonight, Hangman Adam Page and
Swerve, strickland Wardlow as well, but

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really the focus tonight was on Hangman
and Swerve. Swerve got into the ring

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for a one on one match against
Jeff Hardy. I could not even tell

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you the last time that Jeff Harty
was on Dynamite. It has been a

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while. There's been some controversy around
how frustrated the two of them are.

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Is it more of a storyline,
is it more reality being blended over into

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a storyline. The Hardys have been
very upset that they have not been featured

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on Dynamite. Well, Jeff Hardy
had his moment tonight, and he had

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the right opponent, because that was
the best match that Jeff party has had

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his entire career so far in aw
I have not seen a Jeff Hardy match

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that good in years. And credit
to both of them. I'm not gonna

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just give all the credit to Swerve, but Jeff Hardy had the right opponent

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tonight because Swerve has been on a
roll. He's been on fire. Everything

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he touches turns to gold no matter
who you put him in the ring with,

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whether it's Hangman, Page, all
the people he wrestled in the Continental

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Classic, it doesn't matter. Swerve
right now is firing on all cylinders,

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Bell de Belle. Jeff Hardy was
the beneficiary of that tonight, but he

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stepped up. He stepped up and
put in the performance that he needed to

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put in. Now. Whether or
not that's going to equal more appearances for

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him on this show, I don't
know. It may be a situation where

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he is in the process of earning
that trust because the last time Tony Kahn

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tried to do something with him,
he got burned. And so Jeff Harty

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went out there tonight and maybe in
his head he had it like, look,

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I need to go out there and
have the match of my life,

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the best match at this stage of
my career that I could possibly have,

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because I want more of this.
I want to make more appearances. I

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want more matches on this show.
Whether he earned it or not, I

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don't know, but he and Swerve
had a very good match tonight. We

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also have some clarity on the situation
involving Sting and Darby Allen and that little

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line last week during the promo package
where Darby Allen said that he and Sting

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are going to be the aw World
Tag Team Champions, and we had tonight,

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a promo that led to a challenge
being accepted by the Tag Team Champions.

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And so in two weeks they're going
to be in Phoenix, Arizona on

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Dynamite. It will be Big Bill
and Ricky Starks defending the aw World Tag

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Team titles against Sting and Darby Allen. They are not waiting until Revolution.

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We are not doing a three way, at least not yet at Revolution.

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They're doing the match in two weeks. We'll talk about that and what that

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could mean as far as the Young
Bucks are concerned. But they were in

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Savannah, Georgia tonight in a venue
that last night checked had about two thousand

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tickets sold, and the last time
they were in this venue in Savannah they

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had almost double. They had closer
to four thousand than two thousand. And

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you could tell just by listening to
that crowd tonight this was not a very

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enthusiastic crowd for this show. No
Life, No Energy. And you watch

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these episodes of Dynamite, and if
you watch consistently as I do, and

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I'm here with you every week watching
these shows, you know that a hot

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crowd that is invested in what they
are seeing can really make a huge difference

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in a show. Just the atmosphere. You know, they were back of

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Daily's place only a few weeks ago, right, great atmosphere. There more

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people too, but great atmosphere.
We didn't get that tonight. It felt

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like a very dead show. And
it was not a bad show. I

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didn't think it was as good as
last week, but it was a good

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show. A good show with a
bad crowd that for whatever reason, maybe

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it's just that there were so many
empty seats in the building. I don't

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know what the capacity of the building
is. The acoustics and the sound did

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sound a little weird, especially at
the beginning of the night when they first

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went on the air. But whatever
that life is that normally these shows would

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have it wasn't in Savannah tonight.
I can tell you that this is your

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aw Dynamite review for January twenty fourth, two thousand and twenty four. I

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land on Adam Copeland and Minora Suzuki
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busy forty eight hours, more so
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recorded a forty five covering the Raw
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of TKO, The Rock appearing on
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and check that out. Dynamite open
with the AW World Champion Samoa Joe the

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King himself coming out in a suit
on his way down to the ring.

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As the announcers talked about how Hook
pushed him to the limit in last week's

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main event, which was a very
good made event on that of my last

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week, Joe told the crowd that
he stands before them, the undeniable AEW

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World Champion. No longer will opportunities
be given Alexander. There you go,

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Alexander to subscribe to the channel.
I see you, brother. No longer

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will title opportunities be given. Instead, they will be earned, and Joe

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said that anybody who earns a title
match against him will suffer the same fate

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as Hook, choked, unconscious and
everything taken from them. Hook's music interrupted

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and we got the Hook signal up
on the roof. He walked down to

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the ring with a mic in his
hand, which is very unusual because we

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don't hear very often from Hook.
We hear from him a little more often

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now than we did in the beginning, but he's not a big talker.

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He wasn't a big talker tonight either. He came down. He said,

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last week you won, I lost
very good. He shook Joe's hand and

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then he leaned in and he said, I don't know when, I don't

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know where, but I will see
you again. Joe told him, I

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bet you will. Now, if
you'll excuse me, I've got to survey

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the field as he looks at his
prospective challengers, and he said security.

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He told security to get in the
ring to get the unworthy out of his

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ring. The unworthy, he says. Joe left the ring. Security swarmed

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Hook in the ring and he took
each of them out with supplexes, and

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he took one of them out with
red rum. This fell very flat.

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The crowd was flow well, I
mean the crowd was flat. For a

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lot of things on the show tonight, the crowd was flat. The sentiment

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just came off as very paint by
number of stuff. No, but he

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really seemed to care about that part. But that was how they followed up

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Hook's appearance from last week and his
loss to Samoa. Joe. All I

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can say is it's better than not
showcasing him at all, which I fully

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expected. I was expecting Tony Khan
to leave Hook off the show completely.

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When I looked at the lineup for
the show tonight, I mean they had

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about nine different things listed. This
person will speak, this person will speak,

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this trios match, and a bunch
of singles matches. It was a

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loaded lineup and I didn't see Hook's
name anywhere. So at least they got

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him on the show. And he
came down to the ring and he delivered

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a missive to Samoa Joe and said
again, I don't know where or when,

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but this will not be the last
that you see me or hear from

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me. And then he put a
bunch of people down and he walked out.

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Not the most exciting thing in the
world, but at least they found

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something for him to do. But
the key is now Tony kh has to

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find something for Hook to do every
week. It can't just be that he

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came out here tonight and said,
one day you and I are going to

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do this again, and then he
vanishes and we don't see him on Dynamite

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doing anything meaningful for the next three
months. The goal is that he has

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to work his way back up,
even if they don't do it anytime in

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the near future, which I don't
expect them to, but he's got to

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get in the hunt. And it
doesn't matter who he works with. You

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can pluck anybody from the roster.
Go to AW dot com or AW wrestling

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dot com, whatever the url is. Go go there and look at the

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roster and they have a gigantic roster. Okay, just the men's roster alone,

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and go scan through every name on
there. You can blindfold yourself and

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pluck a name out all right.
Hopefully you don't land on Tony Shavani or

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something like that. It doesn't matter
whoever it is. Just get him involved

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in something meaningful, Get him involved
in a story, get him involved in

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a program with somebody where he can
begin to rack up wins. But it

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can't just be the obligatory send hook
out there and do the wardload thing where

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he racks up wins and he You're
at a point now, this guy is

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very green, still very young,
very inexperienced. He's gotta you know,

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the way he carries himself. You
know, he's got that that swagger about

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him. But at the end of
the day, he's still someone who's very

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as they say, wet behind the
ears, and he needs experience. He

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needs to be doing more. He
needs to be talking more. The little

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doses that we get of him talking. I mean, that's fine in little

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microbites, but I wouldn't say he's
a great promo. So he's got to

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just continue to work on those things. The only way you're gonna do that

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is by getting him on TV so
people don't forget about him. And I'm

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not talking about taping matches for Rampage. So that's on Tony Kahan going forward.

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That's one of his challenges. He
has to find something for Hook to

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do. So that what we saw
last week with Samoa Joe. Samoa Joe

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let him kick out of a musclebuster
at one one. Don't squander that.

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Take this kid and do something.
So Hook left and Joe took a seat

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at the announced desks for the opening
match between Hangman, Adam Page and Penta

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El Saromado. Joe asked who raised
that animal in the ring he was talking

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about Hook and Taz chuckled and he
told him you know who raised him.

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So after a break, Penta wanted
a double stomp rolled through into a death

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valley driver by Hangman. After some
punches in the corner, Hangman bit him

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on the head. Penta fired back, had a spinning death Valley driver of

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his own, and he wanted to
snap the arm and Hangman fought it off.

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He had to sit out lagerbomb.
Both men fought to the apron.

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Hangman avoided a fear factor, Penta
avoided a dead eye, and Hangman sent

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Penta back inside. He tried for
the buckshot lariot, but Penta countered into

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the maid in Japan for a three
count. That's why I'm calling it a

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three count, even though it was
not counted as a three count. Because

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it was a three count. I
will dispute that because not only was it

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close, it was damn close.
They only called it a two and a

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half count. I honestly, made
in Japan should be his finish. I

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mean it looks very similar to the
JML driver, but made in Japan.

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If you're gonna use that in the
match, that should be the finish.

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And I know we see this a
lot in wrestling these days. We look

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at a move and say, how
could that not be the finish? How

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could a destroyer not be a finish? You're spiking somebody on top of their

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head, but that ship has sailed. It's like the DDT at this point,

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you know the destroyer is what it
is. The code read You're never

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gonna get that back. But something
like made in Japan, I think would

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be a perfectly fine finish for him
to use on a regular basis. So

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Pano wanted a springing destroyer on the
apron page that were reversed into a dead

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eye. He followed that with than
Ori harra moon salt to the floor back

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inside. Hangman got the sling shot
in for the buck shot, but pentaducked

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it, and so Hangman's siffed the
hell with that. He just delivered a

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normal lariot and he took him down, ran right back out onto the apron.

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He tried again, and this time
he hit the buck shot and Hangman

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picked up the three. Uh.
The first half of this was fine.

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The final few minutes of this,
though, was really good. About the

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second half of this match was better
than the first half. And Hangman improves

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now three and zero for the year
so far in singles matches, and that

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brings him one step closer to an
AW championship match, although on commentary,

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Samojo said that he doesn't think Hangman
still is championship worthy, and Hangman looked

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down at him from the ring.
He shouted that that title was coming to

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him. Obviously, they are building
to what appears to be a three way

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revolution with him and Swore and Samoa
Joe. But you, and with that

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knowledge in mind, you knew that
Penta wasn't winning this match. I got

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a mail bag question a couple of
weeks ago from somebody saying, do I

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think that one day Penta could be
a main eventor in AAW? I like

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Penta. I have liked Penta since
I first started watching him on Lucha Underground.

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I think he's great. The answer
is no, Penta is not going

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to be a main eventor in AW. Penta is in a certain spot on

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the show and I don't see that
changing. Could he be a main eventor

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if he had been pushed differently,
if they went a darker route with the

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character, Yeah he could be.
I'm not saying he doesn't have the ability

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to do it, But is he
going to be a main event player in

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AW? No, he's not,
and they use him a lot in situations

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like this to lose to other people. So with his brother being out,

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they're not doing any Lucre Bros.
Matches. They're kind of just buying time

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until Phoenix is ready to come back. But that's the role for Penta.

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On the show, the backstage Renee
was with Orange Cassidy and asked him about

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Roderick Strong wanting him at Revolution in
a match for the international title. Cassidy

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said, that's fine, He'll wrestle
Roddy at Revolution on March third. He's

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not sure why he has to wait
another five weeks or six weeks, whatever

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it is. I think five weeks
to wrestle him. But in the meantime,

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that doesn't mean he's not going to
wrestle, And he said he went

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to Tony Kahan and asked him to
get some of his friends and some of

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his enemies together. His friends and
enemies, and the winner of a match

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involving all of these individuals will then
go on to challenge him on Saturday on

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Collision for the international title. And
we did learn later on in the show

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it is going to be what they
are calling a freshly squeezed foreway with Kip,

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Sabian Commander, the Butcher, and
the KINGO. Now, I'm sure

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that there is history with all of
these men and Orange Cassidy, like I

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know there is with him and Kip
Sabian, for example, and they'll say,

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well, these are all friends and
enemies of his, and so that's

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exactly what he said in the promo. Still, you know, they throw

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the graphic up for it, and
I'm looking at him like, okay,

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there's the butcher in Kip Sabean and
it just feels like, okay, you

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know, they took these four guys
and they just threw him in a match,

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you know, and now we'll get
an international title match on Saturday.

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There they're gonna try because Saturday there's
another event happening on Saturday. I forgot

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what it's called. The Royal Something
Rumble is on Saturday. Collision is on

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Saturday. They have to try.
They don't have any control over the schedule.

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They're contractually obligated to do this show
unless there's a sports preemption. They

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don't have any say in the matter. They have a television show that they

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have to book for Saturday. It's
not an ideal situation because the Royal Rumble.

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I feel like, even for casual
fans, might be the one show

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other than maybe Wrestle Mayani, The
Royal Rumble is probably that one show a

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year where even if you don't really
watch much WWE these days, where you

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don't watch it consistently, you want
to tune in and see the Royal Rumble.

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So there's gonna be a lot of
interest in this pay per view this

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weekend, and they're gonna go head
to head again. They're gonna try,

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though, They're gonna try. They're
not only doing an international title match.

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They have added Brian Danielson against Eugene
Nagata talking about random matches, and they're

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doing and Escape the Cage elimination trios
match with FTR and Daniel Garcia against the

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House of Black, which sounds like
an awesome match. Too bad, I'm

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not gonna see it. But they're
trying to load up the show on Saturday

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and they're gonna do whatever they do. I don't think they're gonna do very

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well, but there you go.
Coming out of a break, the Young

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Bucks were walking through the hallway backstage
stage hand handed them a format sheet.

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They were looking it over with approval, like they're the ones running the show.

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Alex Marvez approached them for comment,
and Nick said that Marves should show

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them more respect by calling them by
their passport names of Nicholas and Matthew Jackson.

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Matt said that they are the two
surviving EVPs. He also said the

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backstage morale is through the roof,
and they took credit for the improved catering

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situation. They asked Marvez catering.
Catering's better now than it used to be.

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So then Dante and Darius Martin top
Flight they walked by. They're in

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their street clothes, and the Bucks
accused them of showing up late. Darius

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said, we've been here since one. This was supposed to be hypocritical because

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the Bucks had just showed up.
They showed up to the building and they're

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criticizing somebody else for being late.
That was the idea. Then the Bucks

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gave them a hard time for not
being in their gear, for not having

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their credentials on them. Dante said, you hired us who we need credentials

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for. Then the Bucks they started
laughing, They loosened up, and they

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said that they were just kidding.
So their douche gimmeck continues. Although some

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people might say it's not a gimmick. It's a lot of people they don't

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like these two, but they're hamming
it up. They're leaning into it,

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they're gonna use it for heat as
they go into this match with Sting and

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Darby Allen in Revolution. Wardlow is
out next with the Undisputed Kingdom, including

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Adam Cole on his crutches in his
walking boot, hobbling down to the ring.

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Where are all those people? By
the way, I would like to

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know who insisted to me on social
media in the lead up to even Full

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Gear let Alone World's End that Adam
Cole was not really hurt and they were

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just playing it up for the big
reveal. He'll be the devil and he'll

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jump him and he'll challenge him for
the title, but he's not really that

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hurt. I haven't heard from these
people in a while. It's like they

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disappeared. I don't know where they
went. Maybe they're hibernating. I would

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say it's winter, it gets cold, but it's going to be fifty degrees

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here in New York tomorrow. It's
not that cold here yet. So he

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was out. Wardlow was to wrestle
Trent burretta Wardlow was man handling him.

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He wound up for a big lariot. Bretta caught him with a knee strike

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and sent him out to the floor. Beretta hit a suicide dive that failed

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to knock Wardlow off his feet,
and Trent grabbed a chair. He slammed

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it across Wardlow's back on the outside
of the ring, And you might ask

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yourself, why was this not a
disqualification because referee Rick Knox was being distracted

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did on the other side of the
ring and did not see it. Because

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Rick Knox is completely incompetent at his
job. So that's why Trent was able

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to get away with it. So
back in the ring, Verretta went for

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a top rope crossbody block Wardlow,
though caught him, power slammed him.

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Wardlow finished him off with a last
ride power bomb. Trent was just dead

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weight. He was dead weight up
there. He was sandbagging him. He

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was completely out cold, and Wardlow
picks up the win. After the match,

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Orange Cassidy, Rocky Romero, and
Chuck Taylor, they got in the

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ring to check on Trent, Tavian
Bennett, Roddy they talked Wardlow into leaving

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the ring. You know, for
what is supposed to feel like the new

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Hot Heel faction in the Undisputed Kingdom. They haven't been around for very long,

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but for what's supposed to be the
new hot heel group in this company.

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Boy do they feel cold? Boy
do they feel flat? Right now,

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they're trying to rebuild Wardlow. They're
having them go out there and kill

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dudes. Adam Cole is still hurt, so he can't wrestle. He got

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roddy. They've already told us that
we're basically in this suspended animation state until

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Revolution because it's not challenging for the
international title for another six weeks. And

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then there's Tavin and Bennett and there's
just not a whole lot going on.

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I'm not saying they have to be
the nWo twenty twenty four come out and

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beat everybody up, but it just
feels like a cold faction. You know,

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MJF went away. He's going to
be gone for a while. We

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don't know how long. Cole can't
wrestle. He's still hurt, which was

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always going to be the problem making
him the devil because he is hurt and

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he is not going to be wrestling
for a very long time. So they

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have to take it upon themselves to
find ways to keep things interesting. And

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unfortunately, right now they're already only
a few weeks in They're already running into

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a rut. We're not even at
the end of January yet. All these

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people that seemingly wanted a piece of
Adam Cole, they wanted a piece of

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this group Hangman right for what they
did to him. They're occupied right now

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Hangman Swerved. They're occupied with Samoa
Joe and the aw world title, and

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so right now it's just the Undisputed
Kingdom coming out and having Wardlowe beat up

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random people. That's gonna get very
old, very fast. If they don't

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pivot to something specific, they don't
pick an issue, pick a fight with

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somebody soon, somebody with a name. This is gonna get old real fast.

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Renee was out on stage next to
introduce Dianna Parrazzo. Tony Storm came

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out after that. They had to
face to face on stage, even though

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they were seated in director's chairs,
while Renee was in the middle sort of

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moderating Deanna. This is now Tony
Storm. Addressing Deanna Parrazzo, Tony said,

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Deanna, I believe you are recently
body shamed, which I think is

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ridiculous because there's so much more a
shame about you. Yes, we do

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have history, but that doesn't mean
that you can just waltz in here and

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use our past friendship to get yourself
a title shot. I have had many

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friends, and all of them less
talented than me. That's something me and

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Tony Storm have in common. You
may be the greatest technical wrestler in the

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world today, but let me make
one thing clear. If you step into

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that ring with me, I will
twist your lips so hard you'll need an

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epidoral. I don't know what lips
she was referring to. We're talking about

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Tony Storm here. This woman is
unhinged some of the things that she says

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when she's out there on commentary.
You have to ask these questions. I

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don't know exactly specifically which set she
was talking about, but that's what she

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said. These questions need to be
asked. I'm sorry. So Deanna said,

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this is insane. I didn't come
to aw to make friends. I

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came to make money. Yeah.
She didn't steal that line from someone.

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She said, the Bang Bang Scissor
Gang. Yeah, that's another one,

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the Bang Bang Scissor Gang. Yeah, they're pushing that now on TV.

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Deanna said, I didn't come here
to make friends. I came to become

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the AEW Women's World champion. It
just so happens that the champion used to

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be my friend. But I have
no problem earning a title opportunity and winning

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arm by arm. She said,
You see, this isn't the Tony Storm

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that I want to wrestle, this
delusional sham. I don't want to wrestle

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that Tony Storm. I want the
Tony Storm that lived on dojo floors with

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me. I want the Tony Storm
whom moved to America and lived in my

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house. I want the Tony Storm
that was arguably one of the best in

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the world. And that Tony Storm
is the one that I want to beat

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for that AW Women's World title.
So I'm begging you dig down deep and

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find that version of yourself. And
if you need any further reminder, she

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said, take a look at your
ankle, because I'm sure as hell sure

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that it looks a lot like mine. And this is what we saw.

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Top image. You see there clearly
in black and white, that's Tony Storm's

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leg and on the bottom is Deanna
Parrazzo's ankle. She revealed a tattoo that

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matches the same one on Tony Storm's
ankle, identical tattoos. Now, it's

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hard unless you're really straining to look. It can be hard to look at

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what it is. I'll be honest
with you. When they first flashed on

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screen, the image of her ankle, I thought it just the first glance,

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I thought they were uh, you
know, like Asian Asian characters,

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like in an Asian line, like
like in a foreign language. And I'm

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looking, I'm like, wait,
those are not letters. They're ducks.

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They're ducks. If you want to
tell the story behind this, because I

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was curious. Deanna Parrazza didn't interview
a few years ago, about four years

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ago with sports Keta, and the
story behind it is very simple. It's

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not really very sensational. She and
Tony did the Download Festival and in the

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VIP section they had a free tattoo
booth and they went in there and they

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said, oh, you know,
we'll get tattooed, so let's see what

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we want to get. But they
couldn't draw things because I guess there were

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just so many people there they couldn't
take the time to just sit down and

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draw whatever they wanted. So they
had a board and on the board they

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had all these generic tattoos and so
on both ankles. What you are looking

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at there, each one has a
drunk duck that is holding a beer.

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And again it's hard to see,
but as tattoos go, you know what,

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that might actually be better than the
American nightmare one on Cody's neck.

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A drunk duck with a beer in
a tank. It's not bad. Maybe

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I should get one of those.
You know, I'm flying out to Tampa

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in the morning. I probably shouldn't
be doing this stream right now. I'm

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flying out early in the morning.
Uh well later later in the morning.

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I won't get in until the afternoon. But I'm going to Florida. And

404
00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:49.160
so maybe what I'll do when I'll
land is I'll find a tattoo shop.

405
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:52.240
And I wonder if I went in
there and I said to the guy,

406
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.279
look, I want to get a
drunk duck holding a beer. Maybe not

407
00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.759
even a beer, like me,
give me a drunk ducking a can of

408
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.720
like WU Energy. How would that? What do you think that would look

409
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.519
like? Like right here, like
this part of my neck, like Cody,

410
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:12.759
like in this area here a drunk
duck with a can of WU Energy

411
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:21.559
in its head? What do you
think about that? Get it? Really

412
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.839
all right, we'll see. Tony
said, you know what, Dianna,

413
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:33.039
you could take your little to two
that's what she called it, and you

414
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.160
could blow it out of your bumhole. And then she threw her shoe at

415
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.920
her, and so Dianna took her
shoe off, and Dianna threw her shoe

416
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:48.839
at Tony, or at least she
tried to. I think she actually hit

417
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.799
Luther with it because it completely missed
Tony's Storm. So then Deanna tried to

418
00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.880
take her down for the arm bar. Mariah May ran over to pull Tony

419
00:31:55.920 --> 00:32:00.400
to safety, and when Dianna threw
a punk kick at Mariah, Mariah ducked

420
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:05.000
out of the way and she hit
Luther with the kick instead. So Mariah

421
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:07.160
and Tony they fled to the back. That left Dianna to pose with the

422
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:12.720
aw Women's World title, and then
she threw the belt down. Luther picked

423
00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:17.160
it up and he took the belt
to the back. So that was the

424
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:22.960
segment. Deanna Pirazzo is trying to
rack up some wins as she prepares to

425
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:27.240
challenge Tony Storm for the Women's World
title. That's going to be a revolution

426
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:34.200
match. We still have five weeks
to go until revolutions, so plenty of

427
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.799
time for her to rack up wins. But I am still very very much

428
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:45.920
enjoying the Tony storm antics on these
shows. Still one of my favorite parts.

429
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:51.759
We need a Channel member emoji for
that duck. Is there no duck

430
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:57.000
emoji already? There should be they
have it. I mean they have emojis

431
00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:02.880
for everything else. They have a
mouse, some og, they have spiders,

432
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:13.640
bugs, Godzilla. Jean Moxley was
in the back for a promo.

433
00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.920
He said the Blackpool Comeback Club has
won a lot of matches and titles since

434
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:22.279
forming, but the number of victory
parties they have had is basically zero.

435
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:27.440
He says they don't spend time patting
each other on the back because they're always

436
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:31.279
looking out for threats that are around
every corner. That's what it takes to

437
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:35.880
be the best, to be elite, something that some people who come to

438
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:39.559
aw have failed to realize. In
twenty twenty four, He's gonna pulverize and

439
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.759
torture anybody who can't get with the
program and keep up with him in the

440
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:47.319
ring, he said, this Friday
night, he'll cut his own heart out

441
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:52.559
and bleed. Of course you will. What else is new I'd be surprised

442
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:57.200
if he said I'm not gonna bleed. He said he'll cut his heart out

443
00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:59.839
and he'll bleed if he has to
do for the fans that pay to see

444
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:05.400
the best wrestling in the world.
And he said that he'll do it every

445
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:07.280
single time. And then we were
told that Moxley is going to wrestle Lee

446
00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:14.599
Moriarty on Rampage whatever for the match, but the promo is pretty good.

447
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:21.039
Max is always always good on these. We also had a very quick backstage

448
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:25.280
promo with Johnny TV, who I
swear to God I keep forgetting he's employed

449
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:32.599
by this company, John Morrison and
Tya Valkyri and they Tya said, allow

450
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:39.840
us to reintroduce ourselves the most TV
ready couple in aew. Tyas said that

451
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:44.760
she's pissed off that Deanna Parrazzo is
trying to cut to the front of the

452
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:49.079
line, and Johnny said, no
butts, no cuts, no coconuts.

453
00:34:52.079 --> 00:35:00.639
This is the first time that we've
seen Johnny TV on Dynamite in ages and

454
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:07.880
he says, no butts, no
cuts, no coconuts. I suspect this

455
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:13.239
will be the last time that we
see Johnny TV on Dynamite for a very

456
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:19.400
long time. Tia said that she
was challenging Perrazo to a match next week

457
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.159
on Dynamite. I guess his only
hope is going to be being in her

458
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:27.840
corner. Otherwise we ain't gonna see
him on the show again for a while.

459
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:30.039
He fulfilled his quota with that line
here on the show. Now,

460
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:35.199
now we can wait six months before
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com slash solemn Monster. Swerve Strickland
against Jeff Hardy, who came out with

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his brother and he went to go
do the Jeff Hardy pose that he does,

483
00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:08.440
but then he stopped himself and he
thought about it, and instead he

484
00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:15.519
did the Matt Hardy delete post.
They've been working an angle where Jeff Hardy

485
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:22.519
and really both Hardy's have fallen on
hard times and they're trying to work their

486
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:27.639
way back up to Dynamite on Wednesdays, and they have voiced their frustration on

487
00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:32.719
television. They have voiced their frustration
on social media with not being utilized better

488
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:38.480
and not making appearances on Dynamite.
How much of that is storyline? How

489
00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:44.719
much of that is real life bleeding
over onto television. I'm gonna say the

490
00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.920
latter. They're turning it into an
angle, but there's not a doubt in

491
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:52.440
my mind there was legitimate frustration there
on the part of both Matt and Jeff

492
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.119
Hardy that Tony Khan is not doing
more with them. They go out,

493
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.239
they do signings. Probably, they
go to events, they get to the

494
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:02.079
buildings and see them. Defens still
go crazy. Probably when they see oh,

495
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:05.880
Jeff Hardy, right, they go
nuts for these guys, and in

496
00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:09.719
their minds they're thinking, well,
our names still have value, and they

497
00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:15.159
do. That's why Tony Khan signed
the Hardys. That's why Tony Khan signed

498
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:20.320
Jeff Hardy because he wanted to reunite
the Hardys and he wanted them to become

499
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:24.639
aw World Tag Team champions. I'm
sure that was the plan from day one

500
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:30.920
when Jeff signed with the company and
they likely would have already become AW World

501
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:37.039
Tag Team Champions, were Jeff not
in a position three months in to completely

502
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:45.000
fuck it all up. And so
Tony Khan did not fire him, but

503
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:46.800
he did say that he's got to
go do what he has to do,

504
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:53.199
rehab whatever, get himself back in
working condition, clear his head, do

505
00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:58.039
what he has to do, and
then he'll bring him back to AAW,

506
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:02.719
which is what he has done.
But Tony Khan has been rightfully hesitant to

507
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:09.039
do anything meaningful with them on television. They might be on Rampage, they're

508
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:14.760
on Collision. Rampage has basically become
the Hardy Show for months. I don't

509
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:19.079
blame Tony Khan at all. That's
one thing that you cannot blame Tony Khan

510
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.079
for. I don't blame him for
not wanting to put the Hardy's or Jeff

511
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:27.480
Hardy specifically back on television every single
week or put him come up with some

512
00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:31.800
kind of a story, an ongoing, long term story for them, because

513
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:39.039
that trust was broken. Will the
day come that they get that tag team

514
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:43.320
title run, they get that big
tag team title win. My guess is

515
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.400
yes, I don't think Tony Khan
is going to let them go or let

516
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:51.960
their contracts expire without attempting to do
what he originally wanted to do, which

517
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.400
is to get the belts on them
so that when they retire and they're done,

518
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:59.360
they can say that they were the
WWE Tag Team Champions, they were

519
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:04.119
the Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions, they were the WCW Tag Team Champions.

520
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:09.320
Because I believe they held those two
after they folded WCW into WWE,

521
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:14.360
so that really doesn't count. But
whatever that's like saying, that's like saying,

522
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.360
what was the Kurt Angle? Right? Kurt Angle won the WCW title,

523
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:22.239
I think on SmackDown for a Week
or something like that, Like who

524
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:27.039
looks back at Kurt Angle and says
that this guy is the former WCW World

525
00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.280
Champion. Give me a fucking break. But the Hardys won all these titles,

526
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.119
and so I'm sure Tony Kahn wants
to be able to say they were

527
00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:42.639
also tag team champions in my company. Maybe one day, But if he's

528
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:46.360
hesitant to do anything with Jeff Hardy
on this show, I got no issue

529
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:52.840
with that. I'd be hesitant too. And if tonight was any kind of

530
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:59.880
an audition for Jeff Hardy. I
think he did very well because Jeff Hardy

531
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:01.840
out there tonight, and I think
he had his working shoes on, and

532
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:06.400
he knew how important this match was. Could not have asked for a better

533
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:12.320
opponent. We got dueling chance to
start. Swerve was caught off guard by

534
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:15.880
Jeff's attempts to cheat at the beginning, and then he drove Hardy down with

535
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:21.639
a backbreaker. He wanted to snap
the arm, but Matt ran distraction that

536
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:24.880
allowed his brother regained control. Both
men fought out to the floor. Swerve

537
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:29.239
went back to the apron. He
got tripped up by Jeff, and Swerve

538
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:35.000
took this nasty looking bump not only
on his head, but like his next

539
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.000
sort of bent on the way down. He was like over selling it,

540
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.559
but it looked like he almost broke
his neck. He ended up outside the

541
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.239
ring, up against the barricade.
The steps had been pulled out a little

542
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.000
bit. Jeff backed up, built
up ahead of steam, he charged forward.

543
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:52.920
He jumped off the ring steps,
did a whisper in the wind,

544
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:55.039
or not whisper in the way.
I guess it would have been poetry in

545
00:41:55.119 --> 00:42:00.719
motion into Swerve against the barricade.
Jeff went over the barricade. Swerve was

546
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:04.000
supposed to go over the barricade,
but he didn't make it, and so

547
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:07.920
he just sort of dangled over the
barricade, and that took us into a

548
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:10.199
picture and picture break. Both men
fought on the ropes. Coming out of

549
00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:14.159
the brake, Jeff knocked Swerve off
and then hit him with a whisper in

550
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:16.400
the wind. He then went to
the middle rope. Swerve, though,

551
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:21.719
shoved him onto the apron and then
ran him into the ring post, and

552
00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:24.239
Swerve stood on the ring steps that
had been pulled away from the post.

553
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:30.119
He pulled Jeff up there with him. Jeff countered whatever Swerve was attempting to

554
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:34.840
do, and he put him down
with a twist of fate on the ring

555
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.920
steps That got a reaction from the
crowd. One of the few times all

556
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:45.480
night that the crowd genuinely reacted big
something was that spot on the steps.

557
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:49.440
Jeff brew Swerve back inside. He
tried for the Swanton bombs. Swerve,

558
00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:52.599
though, avoided it, and Swerve
hit Jeff with a house call kick covered

559
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.360
him only got a two count.
Jeff rallied. He got a couple of

560
00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:00.559
pen attempts, and then he hit
three jawbreakers before Swerve put him down with

561
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.440
a flat liner. He went up
top, he hit the Swerve stomp,

562
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.840
and he picked up the win.
As soon as Hangman won his match against

563
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:12.079
Penta earlier in the show, you
knew that Swerve was beating Jeff hart I

564
00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:15.039
mean, you knew even before the
show went on the air tonight that Swerve

565
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:19.760
was beating Jeff Hardy, but especially
after Hangman got his win at the beginning

566
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.199
of the show and Swerve, I'm
gonna start calling him the magic Man.

567
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:28.440
He worked his magic tonight. He
went in there and he brought Jeff Hardy

568
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:32.159
the best match that he has had
his entire career so far in aw and

569
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:37.480
credit to both men. Swerve is
great. Jeff Hardy obviously he knew tonight

570
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:42.400
was a very important night for him
because maybe, just maybe, if he

571
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:45.320
goes out there and he can steal
the show, if he goes out there

572
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:51.239
and has a really great match with
Swerve, maybe he'll get another and then

573
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:54.360
another and another, and maybe now
the Hardys can start to build some moment.

574
00:43:55.880 --> 00:44:00.400
So for him, for Swerve,
it's just another win for Jeff Hardy,

575
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:05.320
though, I think you know,
pull the curtain back. I think

576
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.840
that this was a much bigger win
for him. Even though he lost,

577
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:14.760
it was a bigger win because he
went out there and he killed it that

578
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:19.760
he definitely look, he's moving slower. That's just the product of age and

579
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:22.960
it's the product of what he's done
to his body over the years. You

580
00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:27.280
know, Matt and Jeff, they're
not moving around like they used to.

581
00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:31.360
But he was moving around better than
I've seen him in a very long time.

582
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:37.840
This is a very good match.
I don't know again if it's going

583
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.039
to be enough to get him back
on Dynamite on a weekly basis, But

584
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:44.639
if this was an audition, if
he was coming in to try out for

585
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:50.599
a part, I think he may
have landed the part. So backstage,

586
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:54.079
Renee attempted to interview Hangman and noted
that he is three and zero so far

587
00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:59.199
this year. She said the rankings
will be released at the end of the

588
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:04.719
month, so let's talk briefly about
this. I addressed this on the podcast

589
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:07.559
that was exclusive to the podcast.
I didn't put anything up on the channel.

590
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:12.239
Little things like that are on the
podcast, so you got to listen

591
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:17.280
to the full show. But Tony
Khan is bringing the rankings back the rankings

592
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:22.199
that they abandoned two years ago by
simply not updating the website. In fact,

593
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:25.079
still people who still have the link
to the page when you go back

594
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:30.519
there, because I guess it's still
active. They may have taken the link

595
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:35.519
off the main page, but it
still listed the last rankings which had Swerve

596
00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:38.559
in our glory as the reigning aw
World Tag Team Champions. That's how far

597
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:44.039
back these rankings go. When they
just stopped using them and they stopped acknowledging

598
00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:47.079
them. Why did they do that
Because they were getting in the way of

599
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:52.039
what Tony Khan wanted to do.
There were certain matches he wanted to make,

600
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:53.599
there were certain people he wanted to
push. It was getting in the

601
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:59.079
way of creatively what he wanted to
do. It was no longer convenient for

602
00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:02.079
him, so they stopped using the
rankings. Now they're gonna go back to

603
00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:07.199
the rankings. And this is a
product of coming out of the Continental Classic

604
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:12.760
wanting to them, wanting to incorporate
more sports like elements back into the show.

605
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:16.239
And I also think that gender Mahall
and that whole thing just broke his

606
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:22.599
brain and that whole debacle on Twitter
when gender mahaal suddenly was challenging for the

607
00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:27.960
World championship, and Tony Kahan went
haywire because in his mind, where's all

608
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:32.880
the rage? Because I saw outrage
over hook being named challenger to Samoa Joe.

609
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.440
There was no outrage, not at
the level that he was making it

610
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.039
out to be. There was no
outrage. It was only in his head.

611
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:45.840
But that whole thing blew up,
So I think it broke his brain.

612
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:46.920
And now he's like, we gotta
bring the rankings. Now, we're

613
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:50.360
gonna we're gonna show them, We're
gonna do it the right way. We're

614
00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:53.239
gonna we're gonna go back to our
roots. And I used to endorse the

615
00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:58.119
idea of the rankings. I don't
think it's a bad idea in theory to

616
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:02.760
try to have some sort of ranking
system to explain why certain people are getting

617
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.760
title matches, incorporate them into the
storylines, and say, man, this

618
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:12.800
guy's only ranked number five and he's
trying, you know, he's trying to

619
00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:15.880
work his way up. Look what
they're doing with Adam Copeland right now.

620
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:20.880
He has this open challenge every single
week. He wants a TNT title shot.

621
00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:24.039
If they had ranking specific to the
TNT title like, let's say a

622
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:28.880
top five. The way that I
used to pitch it when I was still

623
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:32.800
gung ho about this idea until they
tried it and it fucking failed. The

624
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.920
way that I used to pitch it
was, you have a top ten for

625
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:44.480
your two world titles or your men's
world title, your women's world title in

626
00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:46.519
a world where there used to be
just one of each now there's fifteen of

627
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:51.599
each. But you have a top
ten for that, and then for your

628
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:58.400
secondary titles Intercontinental, US, TNT, TBS, you do a top five.

629
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:04.159
You can break it down by championship
like that, and I think that

630
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.800
there's a way to make that work. This is not gonna work. I

631
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:12.119
don't know how long before they abandon
it again, but they will abandon it

632
00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:16.079
again. So I can't get excited
for this because the same exact thing is

633
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:21.960
going to happen. When it becomes
inconvenient to follow the rankings, they're simply

634
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:27.480
going to ignore them, or because
well, the rankings reflect that this guy

635
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:30.320
is all the way down here.
We want to push that guy. So

636
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:34.760
then we'll find a way to circumvent
it. You know, we'll have some

637
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:37.440
kind of a match and you can
leap frog into a spot higher on the

638
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:42.639
list. It's only a matter of
time. These rankings are not going to

639
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:46.239
be around long term. They will
end up back where they were before,

640
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:51.400
and then maybe years after that,
they'll dust them off and try it again.

641
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:54.400
So I'm sorry, I can't get
excited about any of this because it's

642
00:48:54.400 --> 00:49:00.599
going to go exactly the way that
it did. Swerve imprints Non showed up

643
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:05.639
though, to interrupt Hangman before he
could really say anything, and Swerve pointed

644
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:07.360
out that he is unbeaten this year, and he asked Hangman who is the

645
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:13.440
last person to beat him, and
Hangman said he said something that I might

646
00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:19.079
start quoting this myself. He yelled
at him and said, it's new year,

647
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:24.400
new me, dumbass, just the
way he said it. So page

648
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:30.320
Uh had that very witty comeback.
Renee informed both of them that they would

649
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:36.880
be in Dealer's Choice matches next week, where Hangman would get to pick swerves

650
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:43.000
opponent and Swerve would get to pick
Hangman's upon So that's coming up on Dynamite

651
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:52.199
next week. Thunder Rosa one on
one with Red Velvet. Coming out of

652
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:57.159
a break, Rosa fought back and
hit double knees in the corner. She

653
00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:01.480
followed with a charging low drop kick
and a Northern Lights for two. Red

654
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:06.360
Velvet fought back hit a double stomp. She tried a springing bulldog, but

655
00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:12.039
Rosa avoided it and took way too
long to try her finish, which allowed

656
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.679
Velvet to backdrop out of it.
Rosa hit a shotgun dropkick and hit her

657
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:21.480
Tijuana bomb finish for the wind,
and that was her second attempt at doing

658
00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:24.519
so. After the match was over, Rosa looked into the camera and said,

659
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:30.840
when is it my time, Tony
storm Or? And as I was

660
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:37.360
waiting for her to say Julia Hart's
name, she never did, And she

661
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:42.840
never did because it looked like she
forgot her name. So it took forever.

662
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.039
As she's sitting in the corner and
the camera's right there on her,

663
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:49.639
and I'm waiting for the line and
there's no line. It's like this awkward

664
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:53.440
period of time that went by until
finally the camera just cut away from her

665
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:57.519
and they cut to a crowd shot
and you could hear Rosa she finally spit

666
00:50:57.559 --> 00:50:59.639
it out. I didn't hear what
she said. She said something in the

667
00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:04.480
back, but the camera had already
cut away. Now, even if I

668
00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.519
don't know if she was doing that
on purpose to kind of put down Julia

669
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.119
Hart, if that was the idea. I don't think that was the idea.

670
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:15.239
I think she just forgot But whether
it was intentional or not, it

671
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:19.400
just came off very awkwardly. And
so instead they cut to the crowd and

672
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:22.199
they had a shot in the front
row. You would not believe. Who

673
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:27.719
is it Dynamite tonight? They cut
to the front row and they showed us

674
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:35.639
members of the Savannah Bananas baseball team
in the front row, the Savannah Bananas.

675
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:40.199
And I had to look up the
logo for this team, and I'm

676
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:43.880
going to put that logo on the
screen right now. I'm gonna keep it

677
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.079
there for a while. This is
officially now for the from now until the

678
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:52.480
very end, this is now the
Savannah Bananas podcast. Here it is.

679
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:59.840
That's the real logo, and that
is a real team. That's a that's

680
00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:05.800
a very angry banana and not even
close to being the worst logo I've ever

681
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:14.280
seen in sports. I love that, actually, the Savannah Bananas. Look.

682
00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:17.119
It was good to see Rosa on
Dynamite. This was a rare Dynamite

683
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:21.199
appearance for her. It's good just
to see her back because she was gone

684
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:25.400
for so long. But this was
not great. I didn't think either one

685
00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:29.360
of them looked their best here in
this match, and Velvet especially, I

686
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:32.239
don't know what was going on with
Red Velvet. I was watching her specifically

687
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:36.480
as the match was going on.
It looked like it almost looked to me,

688
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:39.280
and I don't think she did,
but it almost looked to me like

689
00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:43.519
did she hit her head, did
she, you know, get her bell

690
00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:49.599
wrung or something, because she was
moving like it in slow motion. So

691
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:52.039
I don't know what was going on
with Red Velvet here those last couple of

692
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:58.239
minutes of this match that that did
not look good. But yeah, I

693
00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:00.480
don't know. I don't know.
Just I think this is the first time

694
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:04.480
ever match with these two. I
don't believe they've worked together before. This

695
00:53:05.199 --> 00:53:12.360
was not great. Unfortunately, Tony
Shravanni was in the ring to introduce Sting

696
00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:17.199
and Darby out. Darby took the
microphone away from Tony. I don't even

697
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:21.480
know why they bother. I mean, I guess they just want him to

698
00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:24.239
yell Sting's name. Otherwise, I'm
not even sure what the point is to

699
00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:29.039
send Shravanni out of his chair to
get into the ring for these things.

700
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:35.079
But Tony got into the ring,
or he got into the corner and let

701
00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:38.079
Darby do his thing. And Darby
said, whenever he does interviews, he

702
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:43.159
goes out, he does marketing and
pr and that kind of stuff. People

703
00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:49.000
always ask him what's it like to
team with Sting? Which I totally believe

704
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:52.400
that they're more interested in asking him
about Sting than probably anything about Darby himself.

705
00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:59.480
And they also tell him to slow
down because he's going to end up

706
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:06.280
retiring before Sting. And then he
laughed, He laughed it off. He

707
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:12.280
won't be laughing in fifteen years.
He won't be laughing then. So he

708
00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:16.199
talked about watching Sting suffer what looked
to be a career ending neck injury back

709
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:22.199
in twenty fifteen, and he wondered, what if that was me? What

710
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.320
if my career was over on an
injury like that. I'm shocked that hasn't

711
00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:31.239
already happened. You see some of
the bumps this guy takes. So then

712
00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:36.840
he heard that Sting was coming to
aw and he wasn't really sure about that

713
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:40.719
because he was of the impression that
Sting was not cleared and that he was

714
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.800
physically not able to come back,
and he asked to hear us, You'll

715
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:49.639
remember this. He looked over at
Sting and says, you'll remember this.

716
00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:53.679
He flew to Sting's house in Texas
and they were rolling around in the ring

717
00:54:53.719 --> 00:55:00.360
that Sting has down there, and
what did he tell state? Within five

718
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:06.679
minutes, he told Sting, you
still got it, and he told him

719
00:55:06.719 --> 00:55:10.000
to get back in the ring and
finish his career on his own terms.

720
00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:14.960
And now look at them here.
They are now twenty seven and oh they

721
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:21.679
are undefeated. That's a better streak
than the undertake, and the rankings are

722
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:27.000
back. He said he thinks that
that puts them in position to challenge Ricky

723
00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.880
Starks and Big Bill for those aw
World Tag Team times. So, just

724
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:34.920
like all those years ago in Texas, He's gonna look Sting in the eyes

725
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:39.079
and say this one more time,
you still got it. And the only

726
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:43.719
difference is I'm not alone this time. I've got all of Savannah at a

727
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:47.679
chant. You still got it.
Exactly what happened ends in Savannah, Shannon,

728
00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:52.840
you still got it, Its Sting. They also cut briefly to the

729
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:54.719
young bucks in the back. I
guess they were at the gorilla position.

730
00:55:54.760 --> 00:56:00.159
They had headsets on. They were
running the show they were watching on an

731
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:04.239
I thought they were gonna cut Darby's
mic, but they didn't do that.

732
00:56:04.239 --> 00:56:06.679
They just cut to a shot of
the bucks and then they cut back to

733
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:09.159
the ring. So he goes,
what do you say, Sting? Do

734
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:15.239
you want to end your career as
AEW tag team champions? It's all you

735
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:22.400
men. He handed the microphone to
Sting. Sting said, all right,

736
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:28.679
Savannah, I'm all in. And
I said, no, that's Wembley in

737
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:37.880
August. You're retiring in March.
It's revolution, it's revolution. It's not

738
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:46.920
all in anyway. I don't know
what was going on with Sting's face paint

739
00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:52.360
down by his neck. Anybody else
noticed this? It was very noticeable to

740
00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.920
me. I'm looking at Sting because
they got a close up shot of his

741
00:56:55.000 --> 00:57:00.159
face and he has the face paint
on and down by his neck. It

742
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:04.559
looked like he ran out of shaving
cream and he used the bottle of motor

743
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:08.400
oil instead. I don't know what
was going on there. Good promo from

744
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:13.280
Darby. I don't think Darby gets
enough credit for his promos. The thing

745
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:16.000
about Darby when he comes out not
saying he's the best promo in the company.

746
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:21.599
He's not in the top three,
he's not Samoa Joe, he's not

747
00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:25.360
Joe, he's not MJF. But
when he comes out, he's real.

748
00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:30.000
Like I don't listen to a Darby
Allen promo and think, man, this

749
00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:34.760
sounds manufactured. It sounds forced,
it sounds phony. Yeah, almost like

750
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:37.719
he's out there playing a part or
something like that. He doesn't believe what

751
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:42.320
he's saying. They send him out
to the ring and he sounds it sounds

752
00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:45.079
like something that you would expect Darby
Allen to say, and he says it

753
00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:49.000
with convictions. So you know,
just when we talk about people who are

754
00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:52.679
good promos and who are good communicators
on these shows, I don't think we

755
00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:59.199
mentioned Darby's name enough, but we
should because I actually think he's very good.

756
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:01.960
Now after the break, Ricky Stark's
in Big Bill, just to tie

757
00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:07.280
it back into this, they were
in the back Bill thanked them finally showing

758
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:12.199
respect to the champions by acknowledging us
and mentioning our names. And as far

759
00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:15.719
as your challenge goes for a match
for the aw World Tag team titles,

760
00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:21.800
we accept your challenge. And Ricky
said it's fitting that Sting started his AW

761
00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:25.679
career against him and a partner of
his. Didn't mention who that partner was,

762
00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:31.679
but he said that now, of
course he's got the best partner he's

763
00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:37.920
ever had, and they're the ones
that are going to end Stink said,

764
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:40.079
Sting is not making it to Revolution, so he may as well lay down

765
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:45.000
so that they can walk over him
and Darby Allen. So there it is,

766
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:49.519
challenge accepted. And we found out
a little bit later on in the

767
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:54.000
show that the match is going to
happen on Dynamite their return to Phoenix in

768
00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:59.719
two weeks. AW World Tag team
titles will be on the line. Ricky

769
00:58:59.719 --> 00:59:04.199
Starr some big bill defending against Sting
and Darby. And so now here's the

770
00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:07.199
question. We know the Bucks are
going to be in the ring with Sting

771
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:12.119
and Darby at Revolution. They have
not made it official, but clearly that

772
00:59:12.239 --> 00:59:15.760
is the direction that they are building
towards. Now. I thought when Darby

773
00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:20.159
mentioned that line last week, they
would either find a way to get the

774
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:23.039
belts on the Bucks between now and
then Sting and Darby would beat the Bucks

775
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:28.639
and Sting would get to retire as
tag team champion. He and Darby finally

776
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:31.880
get that big title win. Right, What a happy way for the fans

777
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:37.880
in Greensboro to see Sting go out. Or maybe they would turn it into

778
00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:40.239
a triple threat. I don't really
have the appetite for a triple threat.

779
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.519
I'd rather it be two on two, one on one. This is different.

780
00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:50.480
This could go a couple of different
ways. They emphasize the fact that

781
00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:53.400
Sting and Darby are unbeat twenty seven
and zero trying to go twenty eight.

782
00:59:54.920 --> 01:00:00.599
Either they win the tag team titles
and go to Revolution and defend them,

783
01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:04.760
or they lose and get fucked out
of a title win. Now, if

784
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:09.000
they beat Ricky Starks in Big Bill, If they beat Ricky Starks in Big

785
01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:12.559
Bill, and that's it for Ricky
and Bill and they don't even have a

786
01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:15.199
match at Revolution. I mean,
I already said in my predictions at the

787
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:19.719
beginning of the year, I think
Ricky whenever his contract is due, I

788
01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:22.039
think he's gone. I don't know
how much time he has left. I've

789
01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:25.679
heard he might have he might have
a lot of time left. And before

790
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:30.719
I you know, hopefully hopefully not, because I'd like to see him at

791
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:37.079
least negotiate himself a better position but
whatever the case may be, uh Sting

792
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:40.199
and Darby, if they win the
tag team titles they go to Revolution,

793
01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:44.559
then I see the Bucks winning.
I think Sting is going to put over

794
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.960
the Young Bucks and people's heads are
going to explode if that happens. But

795
01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.440
if they go into that show as
the defending tag team champions, that I

796
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:54.440
think the Bucks win. And I've
said it before, keep an eye out

797
01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:58.320
for Rick Flair because Rick Flair is
going to be there, and we may

798
01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:00.760
yet get if Sting is going going
out on his back, if he's going

799
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:06.760
to lose, we may yet see
one more Rick Flair turn on Sting.

800
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:12.039
I don't want to see it.
I don't have any interest in seeing it.

801
01:01:12.039 --> 01:01:15.880
It's happened before and I could see
it happening again. That is a

802
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:22.000
very real possibility. And then the
Bucks become Tag Team Champions, they get

803
01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:24.920
the belts onto them, and then
they go on to have their heel run

804
01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:29.159
as Tag team champions, since it's
been a while since they've had the belts,

805
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:30.920
so that's one way for it to
go. The other way for it

806
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:35.400
to go would be they're gonna do
the match in two weeks and they're gonna

807
01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:38.480
suffer their first loss, and they're
gonna suffer that first loss at the hands

808
01:01:38.519 --> 01:01:42.440
of the Bucks because the Bucks are
the ones who are gonna screw them out

809
01:01:42.440 --> 01:01:45.760
of a win. Ricky and Big
Bill retain. We get Sting and Darby

810
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:51.840
against the Bucks at Revolution because now
now there's real heat on the Bucks for

811
01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:57.719
costing Sting his first match in aw
he's no longer undefeated in that situation,

812
01:01:57.880 --> 01:02:01.519
then I think that they have Sting
and Darby go without the belts on the

813
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:06.639
one and then Stink can get his
revenge and he gets to go out a

814
01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:10.000
winner and everybody is happy. So
I think those are the two scenarios we're

815
01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:14.800
looking at here, and if I
had to take a guess as to which

816
01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:19.320
one it's gonna be, I think
we're looking at stings first loss in two

817
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:22.480
weeks. I think the Bucks are
going to factor into that finish. But

818
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.039
again, it really all boils down
to do they want the belts on the

819
01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:29.159
Bucks? If they want the belts
on Matt and Nick, they may go

820
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:32.119
the other way. Either way,
it's all about getting heat on the Bucks

821
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:37.920
as much as they possibly can going
into Greensboro. So when they walk into

822
01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:40.119
the arena, that night. They're
gonna have almost sixteen thousand people in that

823
01:02:40.199 --> 01:02:45.079
building. The goal is the goal
should be when you get there, if

824
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:47.400
they're going to be the opponents,
even if you don't like it, at

825
01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:52.360
least try to get as much heat
on them as possible. I'm talking like

826
01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:55.280
people throwing shit at them. I'm
not advocating it, but like I'm thinking

827
01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.679
those old school heels and they would
come out. You want people so riled

828
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:02.320
up, man, they just they
want to jump the barricade and beat the

829
01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:07.159
fuck out of these two guys.
Like that kind of heat, old school

830
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:13.239
heat in Greensboro. When the young
bucks walk out there, they need to

831
01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:22.559
maximize that in some way. Brian
Cage, Bishop Cone and toa Leona Kates

832
01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:28.119
of agony. They made their entrance
j White, Austin Gunn, Colton gun

833
01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:30.800
They walked out onto the stage.
They have new music. I noticed that

834
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:37.280
last week for the first time.
But they're basically babyfaces now because they're all

835
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:40.320
buddy buddy with the acclaimed and Billy
Gunn. Is it a ruse? Are

836
01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:44.320
they gonna turn on them? Is
it gonna lead to a trios title Magic

837
01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:49.800
revolution? I hope? So I'm
not into this whole Bang Bang scissor gang

838
01:03:49.880 --> 01:03:54.159
stuff, Jay White being a babyface, not now, not now, not

839
01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:59.880
yet. It just feels wrong.
I'm sorry, it's wrong. Let them

840
01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:03.719
lull them into a false sense of
security. Lower the boom. They could

841
01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:09.039
do a match of revolution. You
unify both sets of six man titles,

842
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:13.679
because you don't need two of them, you only need one. And they

843
01:04:13.719 --> 01:04:16.519
wrestle each other, they unify them, you give the win to Bullet Club,

844
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:21.400
and you move them on to something
else, on to the next.

845
01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:27.280
Hopefully that's where this is hid.
But for now they're all on the same

846
01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:30.199
page and they're all babyfaces. Max
Caster came out, he wrapped on his

847
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:34.400
way to the ring. He told
Prince Nana. He told the Nigerian Prince

848
01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:42.480
to stop sending emails to his mother
trying to scam her. But it was

849
01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:46.679
Billy Gunn and the Acclaim defending the
aw Trios titles against Brian Cage and his

850
01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:54.239
torn lat still out there wrestling every
week with the torn lat him and the

851
01:04:54.239 --> 01:04:58.559
gates of agony. J White and
the Guns did not come down to the

852
01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:01.199
ring with them for this match.
Bowens was knocked off the apron, heading

853
01:05:01.239 --> 01:05:06.920
into a picture and picture break the
embassy controlled throughout the entire break, and

854
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:11.800
Bowens made a comeback. As soon
as things came back, he made a

855
01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:15.880
comeback. Billy Gunn made the hot
tag. He ran wild a little bit

856
01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:20.760
there. Total Leona cut him off
from attempting a famouser to Brian Cage.

857
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:27.719
Bowens came right back in. He
planted or planted with an F five.

858
01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:32.079
Everybody took turns delivering all kinds of
big moves. Cone hit a pedigree on

859
01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:38.199
Billy for two. Prince Nana threw
a chair in the ring, and Aubrey

860
01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:43.239
Edwards was distracted by Bishop Cohne.
Nana then took the referee. Cone wound

861
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:46.159
up, but here comes Switchblade j
White. He runs back down to the

862
01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:49.920
ring. He runs out all the
way down to the ring, and he

863
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:55.360
makes the safe. He makes the
safe for the acclaim and he pulls the

864
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:59.239
chair out of his hands. Gun
hit the one and only on Cone.

865
01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:02.239
Nana got carried off by Austin and
Colton. I think from the apron they

866
01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:06.519
basically had him up in a power
bomb position and they very safely, very

867
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:13.320
gently put him down through a table
that was right behind the barricade in the

868
01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.559
timekeeper's area and he crashed through the
table, so that took care of Prince

869
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:21.000
Nana. Jay White was watching on
on stage as Cage got dropped from behind

870
01:06:21.079 --> 01:06:27.760
by Bowen's and there was a famouser
the arrival, the mic drop elbow,

871
01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:31.800
and that gave the Acclaim the wind
to retain their titles. So I guess

872
01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:38.719
you would say the Bang Bang Scissor
Gang was successful here in their first outing

873
01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:45.239
as allies. But again, they're
heels. Bullet Club are heels. They

874
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:50.039
cannot possibly be roped into this in
any kind of long term way doing all

875
01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:55.880
this goofy baby face bullshit. They
when the time is right, will strike,

876
01:06:56.760 --> 01:07:00.639
They will turn on them. We
will get a unification match. It

877
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:02.880
is a unification match. So I
no longer have to see these Ring of

878
01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:08.960
Honor six man titles defended on AW
television. Is it a big deal to

879
01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:11.880
me? No, because honestly,
I don't give a shit about the Ring

880
01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:15.559
of Honor six man tag team titles. It annoys me. It annoys me

881
01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:20.840
that they are being defended on AW
television. We already have a set of

882
01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:26.679
six man titles. So I would
like for two, as the Spice Girls

883
01:07:26.679 --> 01:07:33.320
once said, I would like for
two to become one. We had a

884
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:39.760
commercial free main event. Looking forward
to this the most random match that I

885
01:07:39.800 --> 01:07:46.760
have seen all year. Adam Copeland
one on one with Minoru Suzuki. Both

886
01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:54.440
men wasted no time in slugging it
out. Copeland was the first to crumble,

887
01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:57.800
so he switched to chops first.
It was four arms that it was

888
01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:03.840
chops, and there was another forearm
from Suzuki that again dropped Copeland. Suzuki

889
01:08:03.880 --> 01:08:09.800
wanted the gotch pile driver. Copeland
back dropped out of it and Suzuki suckered

890
01:08:09.880 --> 01:08:14.320
him into the ropes for an armbreaker
attempt, but Adam fought free. He

891
01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:17.279
hit a big boot. He tried
for a spear. Suzuki sidestepped it into

892
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:23.399
a guillotine and he took him through
the ropes to the floor, still with

893
01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:29.760
the whole apply so he still has
the hole sinched in and Copeland he took

894
01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:34.279
his body weight and he charged forward
towards the barricade and both men ended up

895
01:08:34.319 --> 01:08:39.680
crashing through the barricade. Now,
if you picture Suzuki's right, he's got

896
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:44.000
that front face lock. They fall
backwards. Suzuki was fine, but it

897
01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:49.279
looked like Copeland got spiked headfirst into
the concrete. It looked nasty. Bryce

898
01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:54.119
Ramsburg got to a nine count.
Both men were able to dive back into

899
01:08:54.159 --> 01:09:00.960
the ring to keep the match alive. Suzuki rose with ale on his face

900
01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:04.880
and more fore arms from both men
from their knees. As they rose to

901
01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:09.720
their feet. The foe arms continued. Suzuki, though, switched to slaps

902
01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:13.760
open hand slaps, and eventually they
both connected at the same time. They

903
01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:17.960
both collapsed. Suzuki rose up first
and he lit up Copeland with open hand

904
01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:21.600
strikes. Tried for an armbar.
Copeland spun out of it into an impaler

905
01:09:21.720 --> 01:09:27.399
DDT, so he got dueling chance
from the crowd. Copeland wanted a spear.

906
01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:31.319
He ran right into a Fujiwara armbar, and Copeland got the ropes.

907
01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:35.439
Suzuki wanted a rear naked choke.
Copeland, though shook him off, hit

908
01:09:35.479 --> 01:09:41.319
a spear, only got two and
he couldn't believe it. And then as

909
01:09:41.399 --> 01:09:45.800
he's sitting there and he is stunned
and he cannot believe that this man kicked

910
01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:49.920
out of the spear, Suzuki rises
behind him. You can't see him.

911
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:55.319
He rises up like Michael Myers.
He rises up like the Undertaker. And

912
01:09:55.359 --> 01:10:00.319
then he reaches forward and he grabs
Copeland and he sank in the rear naked

913
01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:05.800
choke. Copeland was fading, his
face was turning purple. He looked like

914
01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:12.159
brock Lesner. After ninety seconds,
the arm only dropped once, though.

915
01:10:12.239 --> 01:10:16.000
Copeland then drove Suzuki face first into
the corner and the exposed turn buckle.

916
01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:19.720
The turn buckle had been exposed by
accident earlier in the match. Copeland I

917
01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:24.199
think it was pulled off the turnbuckle
pad, so you knew they were gonna

918
01:10:24.199 --> 01:10:26.800
come back to that. That was
gonna factor into the match in some way.

919
01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:30.760
Copeland then delivered a kill switch and
got the pin. It was very

920
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:36.479
clunky. Suzuki did not take the
move right, and it's unfortunate because I

921
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:43.279
was enjoying this match. This match
was a lot of fun. Unfortunately the

922
01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:45.760
finish looked like shit, but what
are you gonna do? Everything else that

923
01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:49.640
came before it, though I was
here for I was into it. I

924
01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:56.399
was more just watching this with just
a sense of disbelief that we were even

925
01:10:56.439 --> 01:11:00.479
getting this match. And then I
saw that these two actually worked really well

926
01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:03.720
together, and I was like,
well, how about that? Whose who

927
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:06.279
else would we like to see Copeland
get in there with. You know,

928
01:11:06.359 --> 01:11:10.279
time is ticking away here. He
doesn't have a lot of time left,

929
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:14.640
and so he's thinking of different people
that he could possibly work with. I

930
01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:16.520
mean, Tony Khan is like the
genie out of the bottle for him.

931
01:11:17.039 --> 01:11:20.319
All he has to do is go
to Tony Khan and say what about this

932
01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:24.880
guy? Now? What do you
think about this guy? And he knows

933
01:11:24.920 --> 01:11:27.800
that Tony Khan can pick up the
phone and try to make it happen.

934
01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:31.880
So he's been able to work with
his best friend. Now he's picking people

935
01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:36.680
like Suzuki. Hey, keep it
going, keep this open challenge going a

936
01:11:36.680 --> 01:11:41.520
little bit longer. See who else
he can bring it? Who else could

937
01:11:41.520 --> 01:11:46.960
they bring in to wrestle this guy? So Christian Cage was shown backstage with

938
01:11:47.039 --> 01:11:51.239
a very disgusted look on his face. There's no way Christian was in the

939
01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:56.119
back today, There's no way.
I swear to you. That's the exact

940
01:11:56.159 --> 01:12:00.000
same footage that I have seen them
use before. That is the stock footage

941
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:04.079
of Christian Cage that they have recycled
here on this show. Is literally just

942
01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:10.199
him with his arms crossed looking on
a monitor, looking disgusted. So then

943
01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:13.720
they cut back to the ring.
Copeland grabs the microphone. He says,

944
01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:16.640
he's never been hit that hard before
in his life, and he offered his

945
01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:24.439
hand to Suzuki to show respect.
Suzuki just growled that literally growled at him,

946
01:12:25.479 --> 01:12:30.000
grunted at him, and he left
the ring, and Copeland said,

947
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:32.239
honestly, I would have been a
little disappointed had he actually shaken my hand,

948
01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:35.600
So I'm glad he did. And
he told Christian Cage. He looked

949
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:43.000
into the hardcam and he told Christian
he's still coming for it. So I

950
01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:45.399
enjoyed that main event. I enjoyed
the fact that it was commercial free as

951
01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:48.319
well, and we didn't have to
watch it in a little tiny box,

952
01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:53.159
so that was good. I know, they can't do the commercial free thing

953
01:12:53.199 --> 01:12:56.439
all the time, and you know, typically when they do commercial like if

954
01:12:56.479 --> 01:13:00.720
they do a commercial free first hour
like WWE does sometimes mondays, you're gonna

955
01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:06.039
pay the price for it an hour
two or hour three. So that's where

956
01:13:06.079 --> 01:13:10.479
you get the pain, right on
those long raws. Oh the first hour

957
01:13:10.600 --> 01:13:13.800
is commercial three, It's like,
all right, well that's great. You

958
01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:15.960
know, no commercials in the first
hour, but then you know, in

959
01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:23.319
the next two hours you're just gonna
be flooded with commercial breaks. But here

960
01:13:23.359 --> 01:13:27.520
it wasn't too bad. And yeah, again it was not a bad show.

961
01:13:28.319 --> 01:13:31.880
I enjoyed the main event. I
enjoyed at least the last few minutes

962
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.640
of the Hangman Penta match I thought
was very good. The Swerve match with

963
01:13:35.720 --> 01:13:42.159
Jeff Hardy, like I said,
best Jeff Hardy match in years, also

964
01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:47.439
very good. They did the thing
with Tony Storm and Dianna Pirazzo to set

965
01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:50.840
up their future match. They set
up a few things for future matches,

966
01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:56.119
but those were the key things on
the show. But just there just was

967
01:13:57.479 --> 01:14:02.239
no real life to it through different
chunks of the show. And I think

968
01:14:02.279 --> 01:14:05.399
it was being in that building.
And I don't know what the capacity is

969
01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:09.279
for that building, but there were
parts of the show early on where I

970
01:14:09.319 --> 01:14:13.199
could hear an echo in the building. So I don't know if that was

971
01:14:13.239 --> 01:14:16.039
simply the case of having so many
empty seats. I don't know how many

972
01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:19.880
empty seats there were. I don't
get the sense that it was a gigantic

973
01:14:19.920 --> 01:14:25.000
building they were in. They were
having audio issues at the beginning. It

974
01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:30.720
cleared up after a little while,
but it just sounded very, very dead

975
01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:35.279
in that building. Yeah, you
watch these Dynamite shows over the years,

976
01:14:35.560 --> 01:14:40.199
and when you get those really hot
episodes of Dynamite where the crowd is losing

977
01:14:40.199 --> 01:14:44.399
their minds, you're getting great matches
and maybe there's a great promo battle or

978
01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:47.479
something on the show, and you
know, people are going crazy and everything,

979
01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:51.640
and it's a different vibe. That
vibe was not there today. That

980
01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:56.159
vibe was missing, That vibe was
kidnapped. It's in the trunk of a

981
01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:59.520
car in Mexico somewhere, I don't
know, but it was not on the

982
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:05.439
show too. So unfortunately, a
good show that was marred by I guess,

983
01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:10.079
not a lot for the people in
Savannah to get excited about. So

984
01:15:10.159 --> 01:15:15.720
hopefully they'll come back stronger next week. Rampage on Friday is gonna have Kip

985
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:21.119
Sabian Commander the Butcher, and Elo
del Vikingo wrestling for a shot on collision

986
01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:27.680
at the International title. John Moxley
takes on Lee Moriarty, Kenoski Takeshta will

987
01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:33.279
take on Christopher Daniels, and Ruby
Soho takes on Ana J. Bliss.

988
01:15:33.319 --> 01:15:42.199
Fan is saying eighteen hundred, Yeah, Aw's lowest paid attendance ever. Well

989
01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:45.800
if it sure sounded like it.
If it was, it definitely sounded like

990
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:49.560
it. It felt like it tonight. I'm one of the people who has

991
01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:56.119
advocated for them to run smaller buildings
because you cannot run these NBA sized arenas

992
01:15:56.199 --> 01:16:00.800
and only fill them up pathway or
less. It's not even a case where

993
01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:05.439
if you have an NBA building that
fits twenty thousand people, they're getting ten.

994
01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:12.720
Now it's twenty thousand people and they're
getting three or four. You cannot

995
01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:15.600
do that. So they absolutely need
to run smaller venues. But if you're

996
01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:19.840
gonna run smaller venues, you've got
to try to pack those smaller venues.

997
01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:25.960
If you're running smaller venues and you're
still not packing them, you have a

998
01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:30.640
problem. And that problem is gonna
have to be addressed by Tony Kahn because

999
01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:35.039
he can sell forty thousand plus tickets
so far or close to forty thousand for

1000
01:16:35.279 --> 01:16:40.520
this year's Wembley Show, and they're
sold out or damn near sold out for

1001
01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:44.239
Revolution, that's gonna be a big
Nights Things retirement match. That's great,

1002
01:16:45.159 --> 01:16:48.159
right, first million dollar gate probably
ever at the Greensboro Coliseum, and that's

1003
01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:57.079
history. That's terrific. That's March
third. What happens that week on Dynamite

1004
01:16:57.479 --> 01:17:00.760
on March fifth or sixth or whatever
that Wednesday, is how many people are

1005
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:02.520
they going to have in the building
that night and the week after that and

1006
01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:06.960
the week after that. What about
collision. It's a definite problem, There's

1007
01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:12.800
no doubt about it. They're running
certain buildings in certain towns and they are

1008
01:17:12.840 --> 01:17:16.319
barely able to get a decent number
of people. I mean, that would

1009
01:17:16.359 --> 01:17:21.439
be great for an independent show.
We'd love to have eighteen hundred people or

1010
01:17:21.479 --> 01:17:27.840
twenty one hundred people per show,
But for aw running these buildings on live

1011
01:17:27.880 --> 01:17:32.640
television, that's not good. And
again, I see complaints from people online

1012
01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:35.760
in some of these places where they're
selling tickets to these shows, and they're

1013
01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:40.439
like, I didn't even know that
Dynamite was coming to town. I mean,

1014
01:17:40.479 --> 01:17:43.479
it's not like they don't do any
local promotion. I know they do.

1015
01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:46.800
Obviously they're not doing enough of it
in some of these places. But

1016
01:17:46.840 --> 01:17:50.359
it goes beyond just local promotion.
You know, you have to be giving

1017
01:17:50.399 --> 01:17:56.359
people something that they want to see. Now. I'm enjoying certain aspects of

1018
01:17:56.399 --> 01:17:59.359
the show, some aspects I don't, some aspects I really don't give a

1019
01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:08.479
shit about but the fact is it's
a recurring problem that is going to have

1020
01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:14.319
to be addressed. You got to
run smaller buildings, but you got to

1021
01:18:14.319 --> 01:18:17.439
be able to fill those smaller buildings. Otherwise it's gonna sound like shit,

1022
01:18:17.520 --> 01:18:20.159
it's gonna look like shit, it's
gonna feel like shit. When you watch

1023
01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:24.079
these shows, they get very lucky. Sometimes. They ran that one show

1024
01:18:24.119 --> 01:18:27.600
in Canada when they had that Canadian
tour last year, and I don't remember

1025
01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:31.159
if it was Calgary, I don't
remember what province it was. It was

1026
01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:36.239
a very small building, I believe, and they might have had about two

1027
01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:40.359
thousand people twenty five hundred people there, but my god, you would think

1028
01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:44.239
there were five or ten thousand people
in there. That's what I mean.

1029
01:18:44.279 --> 01:18:46.439
A crowd can help lift the show
in some places, people are going to

1030
01:18:46.479 --> 01:18:50.920
be more vocal, but you got
to run the smaller venues. You cannot

1031
01:18:50.960 --> 01:18:56.279
continue to run these bigger buildings if
people are not buying tickets to come to

1032
01:18:56.319 --> 01:19:00.600
the shows. You just can't.
You can't do that. I mean,

1033
01:19:00.600 --> 01:19:03.560
that's the sort of thing the TNA
was doing when they went on the road,

1034
01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:06.560
and eventually they stopped going on the
road because they were losing money.

1035
01:19:08.479 --> 01:19:11.359
But they started to go on the
road many years ago, and in a

1036
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:14.520
lot of places they were not doing
very well. I remember one year they

1037
01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:19.159
ran Bound for Glory at the Alamo
Dome in San Antonio, Texas. Do

1038
01:19:19.159 --> 01:19:23.600
you know how many people fit in
the Alamo Dome. I'm pretty sure it's

1039
01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:30.039
upwards of seventy thousand people. They
had seven thousand. They sectioned off,

1040
01:19:30.079 --> 01:19:35.600
they curtained off a small little sliver
of the Alamo Dome. And I don't

1041
01:19:35.600 --> 01:19:39.960
remember what year it was, it
might have been twenty eleven or twenty twelve,

1042
01:19:40.399 --> 01:19:43.279
but they did that for Glory,
and I remember reading that going,

1043
01:19:43.359 --> 01:19:47.319
wait a minute, they're running the
Alamo Dome and you're only running it with

1044
01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:54.800
seven thousand people. Why would you
do that to be able to say that

1045
01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:58.560
you're running the Alama. I don't
really understand the logic behind that. It

1046
01:19:58.640 --> 01:20:01.520
just it blew my mind. But
yeah, no, I mean, look,

1047
01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:10.760
it's something that can't be ignored.
Can't be ignored. Collision on Saturday

1048
01:20:12.039 --> 01:20:15.720
is going to have FTR Daniel Garcia
take on the House of Black. That

1049
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:23.239
is a six man escape the Cage
elimination match. Brian Danielson takes on Eugene

1050
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:28.520
Nagata, Orange Cassidy defends the International
title against the winner of the Rampaid four

1051
01:20:28.560 --> 01:20:32.359
Way Serena Deeve will be back in
action, and Mariah May takes on Lady

1052
01:20:32.439 --> 01:20:40.039
Frost and Dynamite. In two weeks
of course has the tag team title match

1053
01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:46.079
where Sting and Darby will challenge Ricky
Starks and Big Bill. So that is

1054
01:20:46.119 --> 01:20:51.039
what is on tap for ADW And
of course next week that's in two weeks

1055
01:20:51.079 --> 01:20:56.520
one week from tonight, Swerve and
Hangman will pick the opponents for each other,

1056
01:20:57.359 --> 01:20:59.600
so that's coming up. Then all
right, we're gonna take the Savannah

1057
01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:04.319
Banana away there, say goodbye.
Say goodbye to the banana. Take a

1058
01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:11.479
look at the Twitter pool fifty five
percent thumbs up score for Dynamite tonight with

1059
01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:16.840
eleven hundred plus votes in so far, and we got about forty five percent

1060
01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:25.840
thumbs down. So again, these
Dynamite scores ain't what they used to be

1061
01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:31.039
on some weeks, that is for
sure. And that's pretty much, you

1062
01:21:31.039 --> 01:21:35.119
know, more or less in line
with what I felt tonight's show deserved,

1063
01:21:36.199 --> 01:21:41.760
and it wasn't a bad show.
But I thought last week was better.

1064
01:21:43.000 --> 01:21:49.079
That's what I think. But I
am but one person, right, so

1065
01:21:49.279 --> 01:21:54.399
what do I I have only been
doing this for how many years? Now?

1066
01:21:57.079 --> 01:21:59.600
All right, let's take a look
at your super chats again. The

1067
01:21:59.640 --> 01:22:05.239
goal to for be the booker was
four hundred and uh we're around three eighty,

1068
01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:11.479
so so we're lagging behind the goal
we want to do be the booker.

1069
01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:14.239
Go ahead and hit that thumbs up. Let me take a look at

1070
01:22:14.239 --> 01:22:16.000
your super chats here. It doesn't
look like we have too many of them.

1071
01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:20.399
Tonight kind of a dead night,
so let's zip on through this year.

1072
01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:25.600
Mister GMB is back with a two
dollars supercow. What was the most

1073
01:22:25.800 --> 01:22:33.039
jobber filled Royal rumble? To you? The most jobber filled royal rumble might

1074
01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:38.760
have been that one from twenty eleven. That was the one and only forty

1075
01:22:38.840 --> 01:22:42.760
man rumble in history. I know
we got some cameos in that one.

1076
01:22:42.800 --> 01:22:46.079
Booker T was in there, Diesel
was in there. They had some big

1077
01:22:46.159 --> 01:22:53.399
name But when you expand it out
forty you're just I don't Maybe jobber is

1078
01:22:53.560 --> 01:22:56.600
a little strong of a word to
use, but you're expanding it out with

1079
01:22:56.920 --> 01:23:01.600
even more people who have no chance
of winning Thankfully they abandoned that and they

1080
01:23:01.640 --> 01:23:11.680
never went back to me. Ed
Swaggle, is the sound echoe because attendance

1081
01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:16.680
is so low? Well, yes, yes, because like I said,

1082
01:23:16.720 --> 01:23:19.880
that was something I noticed. I
could tell that the crowd was very small

1083
01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:25.720
when Samoa Joe was cutting his prumple, just based on the acoustics. But

1084
01:23:25.800 --> 01:23:29.760
there was an audio issue. There
was an echo on the commentary when Joe

1085
01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.119
got on commentary. It was with
Shavani ex Caliber. It didn't matter who

1086
01:23:32.239 --> 01:23:35.840
was talking, it was some kind
of an echo. And I'm sitting here

1087
01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:39.640
going, man, I just don't
understand five years ago, this company still

1088
01:23:39.680 --> 01:23:43.399
can't figure out their audio. I
just don't understand it. Thankfully, though,

1089
01:23:43.399 --> 01:23:45.600
they were able to get it fixed
after the open say so it was

1090
01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:54.279
a combination of book we got tuxedot
Servo. Hey, thank you for the

1091
01:23:54.319 --> 01:23:58.439
ten dollars, super chet Tousedo.
I appreciate that very much. Jazz Jack

1092
01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:02.319
Rabbit says, thanks the sound off
extras today. Do you think having the

1093
01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:11.600
rock Border directors for TKO paved the
way for a TKO endeavor acquisition of the

1094
01:24:11.760 --> 01:24:18.399
UFO Not now, I do not
know long term, who knows, but

1095
01:24:18.680 --> 01:24:25.720
that's not anything I'm expecting in the
near future. The Mount Vernon Kid Christopher

1096
01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:28.359
Bennett, Hey, Solo, I
just want to say, have a safe

1097
01:24:28.399 --> 01:24:33.039
trip and enjoy yourself. Also,
I question, do you think Bretta is

1098
01:24:33.079 --> 01:24:38.239
going to turn? Heel? My
gut keeps telling mehs based on the way

1099
01:24:38.279 --> 01:24:44.600
they've been using him lately, it
feels like there's a field turn com Do

1100
01:24:44.680 --> 01:24:48.359
I care? Honestly, do I
give a shit? I don't. I

1101
01:24:48.439 --> 01:24:53.760
just don't care. But I do
think there's one coming. John Sturneker,

1102
01:24:54.079 --> 01:24:57.680
I will be at Birds this Saturday
in Tampa. Who would win in a

1103
01:24:57.800 --> 01:25:03.079
game of Solomon in a game?
All? In a game all Sola Monster

1104
01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:09.479
or Xavier Ward Xavier Winds. You're
gonna put me in there against the guy

1105
01:25:09.479 --> 01:25:16.439
who plays games as he basically plays
games for a living, right, I

1106
01:25:16.479 --> 01:25:20.119
mean, it's not the only thing
that he does. You're gonna put me

1107
01:25:20.199 --> 01:25:33.359
up against him. I'm going to
get massacred. Rodamus Prime Copeland against Suzuki

1108
01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:36.479
is something I thought I would never
see. What kind of world are we

1109
01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:45.159
living in? Regardless, I loved
it. Rodamus also says with the Rumble

1110
01:25:45.199 --> 01:25:49.199
on Saturday, is it fair to
say that this is the most anticipated since

1111
01:25:49.279 --> 01:25:56.239
Royal Rumble two thousand and one.
No, I wouldn't say since two thousand

1112
01:25:56.239 --> 01:26:00.439
and one. I mean I look
forward to the Rumble every year, and

1113
01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:02.359
there have been some really good rumbles
in recent years. I wouldn't say since

1114
01:26:02.399 --> 01:26:05.640
two thousand and one. I remember
looking forward to the one in twenty twenty

1115
01:26:05.640 --> 01:26:16.119
a lot for the Brock Rumble Arabian
Night. I see what Tony Kahan is

1116
01:26:16.159 --> 01:26:20.159
doing, bringing in new Japan talent
this week for Dynamite and Collision, probably

1117
01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:28.439
will continue to do so for another
couple of weeks. Wink wink, you

1118
01:26:28.439 --> 01:26:31.800
may be onto something there. Paul
Carpenter Gunther will be at the Rumble on

1119
01:26:31.920 --> 01:26:36.439
Sunday, not Saturday. He changed
the schedule, hitty, Well, nobody

1120
01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:40.960
told me my ticket says Saturday,
So there better be a fucking show on

1121
01:26:41.000 --> 01:26:46.520
Saturday or I'm not gonna be very
happy. Ed Swaggle, the Savannah banana

1122
01:26:46.720 --> 01:26:59.880
kind of looks like Chris Jericho boots. Should we all get matching GWO tattoos?

1123
01:27:00.439 --> 01:27:08.640
I dared you, Gevlin. Husband
just got to Miami for the Jericho

1124
01:27:08.720 --> 01:27:12.079
Cruz. Hope all as well.
Tony Kahn needs to do something to fix

1125
01:27:12.119 --> 01:27:18.359
attendance issues. Well, have fun. Joy. I have not been on

1126
01:27:18.399 --> 01:27:23.159
a cruise since well since that cruse
that I went on in twenty twenty.

1127
01:27:23.680 --> 01:27:30.119
Pick Grosso, I really enjoyed your
Royal Rumble prediction stream with Denise Salcedo.

1128
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:32.439
You guys are the duo I did
not know I needed. So hopefully we

1129
01:27:32.520 --> 01:27:39.560
get more Denise and Sola Monster collaborations
in the future. Yeah, my thanks

1130
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:43.119
to her. I popped up on
her channel earlier this afternoon to talk a

1131
01:27:43.159 --> 01:27:47.840
little Royal Rumble. I will be
doing most likely my own separate rumble predictions

1132
01:27:48.119 --> 01:27:51.880
stream here on this channel, maybe
adding a little bit to it. Maybe

1133
01:27:51.920 --> 01:27:56.720
we'll answer some questions and some other
stuff. Might do that during the day,

1134
01:27:57.600 --> 01:28:02.439
maybe late morning on Friday. But
it was good to talk to Denise

1135
01:28:02.439 --> 01:28:10.960
earlier. Good streak, Glad you
enjoyed it. B com see clearly,

1136
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:15.439
if anybody says something bad about Moxley, I will find you. John Moxley

1137
01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:19.520
is my favorite wrestler, and no
he doesn't bleed too much. I love

1138
01:28:19.640 --> 01:28:34.199
Moxley. I could tell you love
Moxley like Tony Atlas loves Boots, and

1139
01:28:34.279 --> 01:28:42.840
I don't mean boots from our chat. I mean actual Boots Dylan Hensley with

1140
01:28:42.920 --> 01:28:46.960
the twenty dollars super Chat. Last
Monday, Jerry Lynn visited the Academy for

1141
01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:53.880
a seminar. I learned a lot
about psychology and Matt structure. Jerry also

1142
01:28:53.960 --> 01:28:58.479
made his opinions clear to us about
modern wrestling looking to choreographed and less like

1143
01:28:58.520 --> 01:29:02.960
a fight. Well, more power
to Jerry Lynn, because he's one hundred

1144
01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:09.640
percent right. Jerry Lynn is a
man who knows what he's talking about.

1145
01:29:11.319 --> 01:29:15.439
But that's very cool, very cool
that you got to sit under the learning

1146
01:29:15.479 --> 01:29:21.000
tree for a while. Alexander Fitzgerald. I went to Dynamite in Portland in

1147
01:29:21.079 --> 01:29:25.079
November and I would not have known
that a show would be there if I

1148
01:29:25.199 --> 01:29:30.439
wasn't on Twitter. Marketing needs to
be better. It's a definite issue.

1149
01:29:30.479 --> 01:29:32.560
A lot of people have talked about
it. I didn't even know the show

1150
01:29:32.640 --> 01:29:35.880
was coming. I didn't see anybody
on the local newscasts. I didn't see

1151
01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:42.680
any advertising for it. It's one
of the things they have to do a

1152
01:29:42.680 --> 01:29:46.000
better job of doing. It's just
it's a must, absolute killer if you

1153
01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:50.880
don't have the right advertising in some
of these local markets. And again I

1154
01:29:50.960 --> 01:29:54.359
know they do it. It's not
like they don't do any of it,

1155
01:29:55.279 --> 01:29:58.560
but clearly you have some places where
they're not doing enough of it or it's

1156
01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:04.600
just not getting through. And jazz
Jack Rabbage twenty twenty five will bring about

1157
01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:10.920
an evolution to the term Netflix and
chill wrestling nerds are going to cause a

1158
01:30:10.920 --> 01:30:16.960
whole lot of confusion on the dating
scene, or you're assuming that they're going

1159
01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:24.840
to date. But jazz thing.
Thank you for the three bucks. Somebody

1160
01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:29.159
said that the Savannah banana looks like
Jericho, and I have to see now

1161
01:30:30.600 --> 01:30:33.600
you know what it is. I
do see it. It's the bat,

1162
01:30:33.880 --> 01:30:39.600
because Jericho now walks around with a
bat, so the banana has a bat.

1163
01:30:41.079 --> 01:30:44.600
But the thing with the banana is
I don't think that the banana stays

1164
01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:49.239
up and drinks vodka until they pass
out every night. So not quite the

1165
01:30:49.279 --> 01:30:56.359
same thing, but maybe a little
bit, maybe just a little bit.

1166
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:04.399
All Right, we uh hit our
goal. We are officially at four oh

1167
01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:11.600
five on the likes, which again
they help out the stream quite a bit.

1168
01:31:11.840 --> 01:31:14.720
So do hit that thumbs up.
I appreciate it. And so let's

1169
01:31:14.720 --> 01:31:18.640
get rid of the banana and let's
go and be the booker. Ladies and

1170
01:31:18.680 --> 01:31:28.119
gentlemen it is now time to be
the booker. All right, let's do

1171
01:31:28.239 --> 01:31:32.199
this. Let's not waste any time. This solo monster has to get some

1172
01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:40.840
sleep. This solom monster is not
done packing, which I probably should be

1173
01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:45.319
done packing by now, but I'm
not. All right. Here we go,

1174
01:31:45.520 --> 01:31:47.640
tag team, be the booker and
what away? We begin be the

1175
01:31:47.640 --> 01:31:57.199
booker with booker Booker t Stevie Ray
Harlem Heat ten time WCW Tag Team Champions.

1176
01:31:57.199 --> 01:32:05.760
I believe ten or eleven. I
forget which Harlem Heat taken on the

1177
01:32:05.880 --> 01:32:15.279
East West Connection? Jesse Ventura and
of course right there we had a dark

1178
01:32:15.319 --> 01:32:17.520
side of the Ring episode on Adrian
Adonis. Not that long ago? Was

1179
01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:20.439
it last season? In fact,
I think might have been last season.

1180
01:32:21.640 --> 01:32:28.600
That was an AWA thing the East
West Connection. Good shit, that's a

1181
01:32:28.600 --> 01:32:34.199
solid match right there. Not that
Jesse was the most dynamic in ring performer

1182
01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:39.960
from what I saw of him,
but a Donnas could work, especially before

1183
01:32:39.960 --> 01:32:43.600
he put on all the weight.
Even when he put on all the weight,

1184
01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:48.399
he was bumping around in there like
a cruiser weight. Our women's be

1185
01:32:48.479 --> 01:32:55.680
the booker. We begin with soul
Ruca, who is currently on the injured

1186
01:32:55.680 --> 01:33:03.680
list with what else a torn acl
it's like a virus going around. Soul

1187
01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:09.399
Ruca should be back in a few
months, hopefully. I don't remember when

1188
01:33:09.439 --> 01:33:14.600
she had her surgery. I don't
remember what month it was. I don't

1189
01:33:14.640 --> 01:33:17.880
recall. Actually there was a wrestler
in TNA, and I forgot who it

1190
01:33:18.039 --> 01:33:23.800
was. I forgot who it was. She just posted the other day that

1191
01:33:23.840 --> 01:33:34.399
she suffered at torn Aco sol Ruka
against Jamie Hayter. Jamie Hayter can't wait

1192
01:33:34.439 --> 01:33:42.800
to get her back on TV.
And sol Ruka still very inexperienced. But

1193
01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:45.720
what little I saw of her,
she got a great finish. That finishing

1194
01:33:45.760 --> 01:33:49.680
move. It's a little over the
top as far as the setup for it,

1195
01:33:49.720 --> 01:33:55.640
but I think it's a great looking
finish. She's very athletic. You

1196
01:33:55.680 --> 01:33:59.439
could see that she's got a lot
of raw talent that they really just you

1197
01:33:59.439 --> 01:34:01.920
know, they have and put all
the pieces together yet. But in time

1198
01:34:01.960 --> 01:34:05.399
they might put her in the ring
with Jamie Hater and let Jamie just beat

1199
01:34:05.399 --> 01:34:09.319
the hell out of her, let
her pay her dues. Here you go,

1200
01:34:11.079 --> 01:34:14.279
there you go. She'll she'll put
her through the ropes. She'll teach

1201
01:34:14.279 --> 01:34:20.560
her a few things. Yeah,
Hater, Hater wins that one. Easily.

1202
01:34:21.399 --> 01:34:25.000
And now men's be the booker who
has been fine. Look at all

1203
01:34:25.039 --> 01:34:28.720
these fines that Brian Danielson has been
dishing. It is that Colin Colin has

1204
01:34:28.800 --> 01:34:35.039
been fined by Brian Danielson. You
better pay up too. All right,

1205
01:34:35.039 --> 01:34:39.680
here we go, Men's be the
booker. We begin with Doink the Clown.

1206
01:34:40.880 --> 01:34:43.600
We had a Dark Side of the
Ring episode on him too last season.

1207
01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:48.239
And see that's Matt Bourne. That's
the original. That's the og Doink

1208
01:34:48.279 --> 01:34:56.880
the clown. Doink is gonna be
in our main event if it's evil healed

1209
01:34:56.960 --> 01:35:00.840
Doink and else. Some people we
might think that's an automatic buzzer, but

1210
01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:08.760
it's not. Evil Heeled Doink was
great. It's just he needs the right

1211
01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:21.520
opponent. So let's see who that
opponent is going to be Healed Doink again.

1212
01:35:21.600 --> 01:35:30.520
So then nature Boy Rick Flair,
look at that winged eagle. You

1213
01:35:30.520 --> 01:35:32.600
can tell me that isn't the best
looking title that company's ever had? Are

1214
01:35:32.640 --> 01:35:38.039
you out of your mind? Look
at that thing? Compare that to the

1215
01:35:38.079 --> 01:35:48.279
ship that we have today in this
company. What a beautiful belt? Where

1216
01:35:48.319 --> 01:35:55.359
did we go wrong in WWE when
it comes to title designs? How did

1217
01:35:55.359 --> 01:36:01.319
we go from this to what we
have to Giant logo belts, Rick Flair

1218
01:36:01.359 --> 01:36:09.640
and Doink gets a bell from me. Two old pros Man two old pros

1219
01:36:09.720 --> 01:36:16.439
Rick Flair, Matt Bourne. That's
a solid card right there. That's a

1220
01:36:16.439 --> 01:36:20.680
solid car three for three. There
you go. You guys got a good

1221
01:36:20.680 --> 01:36:26.039
one tonight, jan O Compo.
Actually we'll start with Colin. Colin with

1222
01:36:26.119 --> 01:36:29.239
a five dollars super chat. There
might be a way you can jump up

1223
01:36:29.359 --> 01:36:32.960
in the aw rankings and storylines by
winning a three or four way match involving

1224
01:36:32.960 --> 01:36:40.840
other contenders. Just they thought,
well, hopefully they'll put as much thought

1225
01:36:40.840 --> 01:36:44.319
into it as you, you and
some others I've seen have been doing.

1226
01:36:44.680 --> 01:36:47.600
But I just think they're gonna end
up. They're just gonna end up going

1227
01:36:47.640 --> 01:36:50.199
to the wayside like they did before. I mean, look, they want

1228
01:36:50.199 --> 01:36:55.000
to try it, there's no harm
in trying it, but I'm not gonna

1229
01:36:55.000 --> 01:37:00.279
get excited about it. Wan O
Compo, thanks for taking my question for

1230
01:37:00.319 --> 01:37:06.560
the mailbox. Could not help but
laugh on your done rant. Well,

1231
01:37:09.079 --> 01:37:14.279
I had to share that story because
it's just such a great story. But

1232
01:37:14.359 --> 01:37:19.760
that was the Girl's Gone Wild segment
that we did. I should clarify the

1233
01:37:19.800 --> 01:37:25.199
Girl's Gone Wild segment where we talked
about the old pay per view. I

1234
01:37:25.239 --> 01:37:28.640
did not do a girl's Gone Wild
segment on my show where I flashed everybody

1235
01:37:28.720 --> 01:37:32.159
or anything like that. But yeah, in the course of doing that whole

1236
01:37:32.600 --> 01:37:40.680
segment, I shared a great,
wonderful Kevin Dunns story that is just priceless.

1237
01:37:41.079 --> 01:37:47.439
So always love sharing that story.
Anyway, one, thank you very

1238
01:37:47.479 --> 01:37:53.520
much. I appreciate it. See
the Plumber is not available anymore because the

1239
01:37:53.520 --> 01:37:59.279
Plumber now is the Plumber has his
own dedicated super chat, So I'm not

1240
01:37:59.319 --> 01:38:02.960
going to step all over that.
You want to hear the Plumber, it's

1241
01:38:03.000 --> 01:38:06.760
down below in the description, but
he's still around. He's still floating around.

1242
01:38:06.840 --> 01:38:12.279
And Jake Finn, how would you
feel if you were Tony Khan hearing

1243
01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:17.439
the news of Raw on Netflix.
If I'm Tony Khan hearing that news,

1244
01:38:17.560 --> 01:38:21.079
I'm using it as a learning experience. You know, WWE is going to

1245
01:38:21.119 --> 01:38:26.279
basically be the guinea pig when it
comes to wrestling, and if things were

1246
01:38:26.319 --> 01:38:29.600
to go well with Netflix, I
think he might learn a few things from

1247
01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:32.720
it. A few years from now, we could see aw programming on streaming,

1248
01:38:33.520 --> 01:38:39.159
maybe on Nex. So I think
for him he if he were smart,

1249
01:38:39.239 --> 01:38:42.840
and he is a smart guy.
He's not a stupid person. I

1250
01:38:42.880 --> 01:38:46.159
think that he's paying very close attention
to what's going on, and I think

1251
01:38:46.159 --> 01:38:51.880
that he will take away from that
whatever he feels he could then take and

1252
01:38:51.920 --> 01:38:57.119
apply with his own product that could
potentially benefit AW. Maybe that's something that

1253
01:38:57.159 --> 01:39:01.279
they might, you know, jump
into at some point down But I mean

1254
01:39:01.439 --> 01:39:04.239
Raw. The only thing that if
I'm Tony Khan, I might be concerned

1255
01:39:04.239 --> 01:39:09.359
about is the possibility that Raw could
move nights. And so if Raw were

1256
01:39:09.399 --> 01:39:15.359
to move, let's say to a
Wednesday, I think that's unlikely but not

1257
01:39:15.439 --> 01:39:18.960
impossible. That is something Tony Kah
needs to in the back of his mind

1258
01:39:19.760 --> 01:39:25.640
be at least a little bit concerned
about. Hopefully Raw will stay on Mondays.

1259
01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:27.840
Though. It's just it wouldn't feel
right if they moved it to any

1260
01:39:27.880 --> 01:39:31.079
other night. Just it just would
feel wrong, you know, it just

1261
01:39:31.079 --> 01:39:38.039
wouldn't feel right. But at some
point this year, you know, he

1262
01:39:38.159 --> 01:39:42.760
needs the hope if they sign a
new deal with Warner Brothers, discovery that

1263
01:39:42.800 --> 01:39:45.039
there is a streaming component to it, you know, maybe they shift their

1264
01:39:45.039 --> 01:39:49.680
pay per views to streaming. I
don't know that they'll have a dedicated show

1265
01:39:49.720 --> 01:39:55.439
on there. But people have been
talking about this potential Max deal for two

1266
01:39:55.560 --> 01:39:59.079
years now and there's been nothing.
And they're building every year that goes by,

1267
01:39:59.119 --> 01:40:02.000
they're building up a big your library
of content of past Dynamites and other

1268
01:40:02.079 --> 01:40:06.520
shows pay per views. So he
needs to get himself a streaming deal with

1269
01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:12.960
Warner Brothers. Discoveries what he needs
to do for his pay per views and

1270
01:40:13.039 --> 01:40:21.680
his library of content. B B
Balla coming in with a five dollars says

1271
01:40:21.720 --> 01:40:29.600
easy. Couldn't the aw rankings be
bypassed if the champion challenges somebody, If

1272
01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:34.479
the champion challenges someone and puts the
title on the line, Yeah, I

1273
01:40:34.520 --> 01:40:40.079
mean theoretically. Joe was talking about
a championship committee a few weeks ago when

1274
01:40:40.119 --> 01:40:44.199
they did the Dailies play show.
What happened to that idea? One week,

1275
01:40:44.239 --> 01:40:47.359
we're gonna have a championship committee the
next week or two weeks later.

1276
01:40:47.399 --> 01:40:51.239
Now we're bringing back the ranking system, So what is it? Are people

1277
01:40:51.279 --> 01:40:57.039
working their way up the rankings to
contend for titles or do we just have

1278
01:40:57.079 --> 01:41:00.520
a committee that's going to make a
decision about who deserves a shot. Apparently

1279
01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:09.079
they've already abandoned the idea, which
probably shows you how quickly they made that

1280
01:41:09.119 --> 01:41:14.439
decision. Yeah, there will be
no SmackDown stream on Friday night. I

1281
01:41:14.479 --> 01:41:16.239
did mention that the other day.
There will be no SmackDown stream on Friday

1282
01:41:16.319 --> 01:41:20.560
night. I am planning. I'm
probably going live earlier in the day,

1283
01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:28.039
like during the daytime, to do
a quick like a rumble prediction stream SmackDown.

1284
01:41:28.079 --> 01:41:30.239
Though. I will not be U. I will not be around for

1285
01:41:31.479 --> 01:41:36.600
Devin from New Jersey, says Solo. The movie plot, Solo wakes up

1286
01:41:36.640 --> 01:41:41.960
in another life where he was never
a wrestling podcaster but still talks like Vince

1287
01:41:42.039 --> 01:41:51.920
Russo Kevin Finnerty inspired Kevin Finnerty.
The test Stream just talked about that a

1288
01:41:51.920 --> 01:41:57.960
few weeks ago, the test Stream
episode of The Sopranos. Yeah, I

1289
01:41:57.960 --> 01:42:00.640
mean, if I had to walk
around sounding like Vincecruze So, I would

1290
01:42:00.680 --> 01:42:05.319
just throw myself into a woodship.
I mean, come on, that's like

1291
01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:12.560
the seventh circle of Hell. I
can't tolerate that. Imagine hearing that,

1292
01:42:12.840 --> 01:42:17.399
Just hearing that voice, Bro and
all the bros too. Imagine hearing that

1293
01:42:17.479 --> 01:42:24.640
every single day of your life,
morning, noon, and night. My

1294
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:31.840
God, sounds like a horror movie
plot. What about Rampage? Yeah,

1295
01:42:31.880 --> 01:42:41.960
no, I will not be watching
Rampage on Friday. Great funny, nice

1296
01:42:42.079 --> 01:42:49.000
try. It's wrestling, Bro,
We're talking about wrestling. It's only wrestling,

1297
01:42:49.119 --> 01:42:54.439
Bro, all right. So again, no SmackDown stream on Friday.

1298
01:42:55.399 --> 01:42:59.439
Rumble predictions. Earlier that day,
I will be at the Rumble, which

1299
01:42:59.479 --> 01:43:01.520
is why I'm going down to Florida. I will be at the Royal Rumble

1300
01:43:01.520 --> 01:43:05.239
the Tropicana Field on Saturday. So
look for me. I'm sure. I'm

1301
01:43:05.279 --> 01:43:11.039
sure you'll find me in a see
of fifty thousand people. I Am going

1302
01:43:11.119 --> 01:43:14.079
to be doing a Royal Rumble recap. It will either be very late that

1303
01:43:14.199 --> 01:43:16.399
night when I get out of the
stadium, or it will be the next

1304
01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:20.039
day. I will keep you guys
posted on Twitter about that. But there

1305
01:43:20.039 --> 01:43:23.880
will be a Rumble review at some
point this weekend. That will be the

1306
01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:28.479
podcast. I've already done two podcasts
this week. I'm not doing a sound

1307
01:43:28.560 --> 01:43:31.000
off, proper sound off on Sunday. There will be no sound off,

1308
01:43:31.319 --> 01:43:34.960
only the Rumble review. I come
back on Monday. I'll be back in

1309
01:43:34.960 --> 01:43:40.199
time for Raw Monday night, and
we'll cover the post Rumble episode of Raw,

1310
01:43:40.720 --> 01:43:45.079
which has a tag team title match
with DIY challenging the judgment day for

1311
01:43:45.119 --> 01:43:49.159
the undisputed tag team titles, and
of course we will find out We'll find

1312
01:43:49.159 --> 01:43:53.479
out who is going on to WrestleMania
to challenge for the title of their choosing.

1313
01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:56.399
It's gonna be a big weekend,
gonna be a fun weekend. We

1314
01:43:56.520 --> 01:44:00.319
usually do very well for the Royal
Rumble. So even if I am going

1315
01:44:00.359 --> 01:44:02.880
on a little bit late or a
day late, whatever it is, I

1316
01:44:02.920 --> 01:44:06.760
hope you guys will make time to
join me live. I expect to see

1317
01:44:06.760 --> 01:44:12.000
you back here in the chat.
It's gonna be a fun weekend. Hopefully

1318
01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:15.479
it'll be a very good Rumble.
Doctor Bropio says, bring a solemn Monster

1319
01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:21.359
sign. Lol, What an asshole
I would be if I brought a sign

1320
01:44:21.359 --> 01:44:26.560
for myself. I'm not going to
do that, but you know what would

1321
01:44:26.600 --> 01:44:29.319
be cool if you're going to the
Rumble. If somebody is going to the

1322
01:44:29.399 --> 01:44:33.239
Rumble who's listening to this or watching
this, and they bring a solemn Monster

1323
01:44:33.359 --> 01:44:38.520
sign and I see you, I
will have to come over to you and

1324
01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:43.119
say hello and take a picture with
you. I want to see the sound

1325
01:44:43.199 --> 01:44:48.880
off signs in the stadium, not
holding one. How lame would that be?

1326
01:44:48.960 --> 01:44:55.000
By the way, I show up
with my own sign. Yeah,

1327
01:44:55.000 --> 01:44:59.720
I'm not gonna do that, all
right? You well, Stacy, You

1328
01:44:59.720 --> 01:45:02.359
guys of the worst ideas, That's
why you listen to me. My ideas

1329
01:45:02.359 --> 01:45:05.319
are so much better. You guys, these ideas. I don't know where

1330
01:45:05.359 --> 01:45:10.399
you got these ideas. That's why
you need me to set you straight.

1331
01:45:11.880 --> 01:45:14.439
All right, Be well, stay
safe, have yourselves a good night,

1332
01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:18.479
and I will see you along the
way for more content coming up this weekend.

1333
01:45:18.600 --> 01:45:20.680
Until then, take care, guys.