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I guess you would say battle Ground, but tonight it's the first show
after the raft and I have to say, uh, you know, a
Zoe Stark I think showed up and showed out. I like like that.
Uh So, uh, I guess we can just go ahead and jump into
the review. Uh. Tonight they started off with a you know, Indie
was there, uh you know, uh talking about or they did the recap
of her relinquishing the belt and setting up this tournament they're gonna have now.
H they're gonna have a women's top eight for the title, uh for the
for the ladies, uh you know, championship and uh so the first match
is gonna end up being uh a Trish Stratton and Gigi and um, you
know, Trish has come a long way. Um. I normally refer to
uh you know because when they first got in, I have to say her
soul, you know, and this the new young lady that just come in.
You know, they're gymnast and they're coming in, but you have to
take the bumps. And uh, everybody can do it in school while they're
down there and going through the training. And I know most of these people
are professionals already and to have traveled through the indie circuits and everything. But
um, as far as the gymnasts that come in, these these people have
to learn to take the knocks for a long period of time. Anybody can
come in there for six weeks and go, hey, I did it.
You know, look at me and they're in shape. But maintain that shape
and then carry on. But anyway, I'm getting off course. But as
far as to nice tonight's match, Trish, I really think uh kind of
took it up a notch man. She had a you know, some strong
she had a strong stomping there that I saw she did with a really hard
version of the moon sauld. I mean it's she had a solid match.
She's sold good. Um, I can't complain on anything on that. But
now Gigi can do the promos and she can do all the pictures and do
all the Instagram and do everything, but as far as in ring, she
just seems a tad bit slow. And I know they were playing off the
bad shoulder to night and uh and everything, but just uh, I don't
know, I don't know. I think she I think Trish may have surpassed
somebody like an an ex Lady Tag Team champion that should be far above Trish,
I would think. But no, uh, but uh, all right,
you know so uh. And then there was one other thing. I
hate to harp so much on this, but when Gig did get a chance
to make her push her offensive push, I'm getting a little tired of now
shinshk. He does a deal where he buries himself in the ground and says,
come on, and he does the finger motion come on, And I'm
seeing a lot of these wrestlers using that finger motion, come on, come
on. But now they're directing traffic in the ring, and it's it's a
little funny. I think Gig was It's like, okay, now come for
you know, come towards me, and uh, it's like directing traffic.
And I don't like it. I think they're overdoing it a little bit.
But that's there again, that's just an old guy's opinion. That's my get
off the lawn moment, or get off my lawn moment. But they go
into a Diads gives them a moment, a little promo, and uh,
look, Gaysey comes out and and he says it, look he's gonna take
Ava's advice, and um, he's gonna do something for himself. Right.
So I'm thinking maybe you know Camcoon, you know Aruba, you know Turk's
cacos, you know, something like that. But you know, I don't
know, but he does have terrific looking glasses. If you're seventy one or
above. Look, if you're over seventy, these are the coolest. I'm
sure they block every ray. But anyway, they do the good little promo
and and Gasy, you know, says, hey, we're gonna send Ava
out to the ring and you just do what I would do, because you
know, they are four roots one tree. Uh. So, after good
little promo, uh and then and then they got trick and mellow and they
got him in the barber shop. I think it's called a cut wise or
something like that, you know, and uh, you know they're chilling in
the in the barbershop, and and uh, you know, that's a common
thing, and it's a great place to go. It's a I don't know
for the female side because I've never done it that way, but I can
say on the male side, some good conversation or you'll hear some outrageous UF
story. You never know when you go into the barbershop, at least the
way the way I go and the way I was brought up. But anyway,
they're they're chilling at the barbershop, and uh and and Trick comes out
and says, hey, you know, uh uh I'm on a new level.
But I mean, you know, he's saying he's been training and and
and he's ready because you know, he's you know, I'm on a new
level. So uh you know he's ready for Braun and uh so and and
Mellow goes, you know, hey, I'm you know, I'm not medically
clear to to uh to compete, so uh you know, hey, we've
got a match for our main event, which will be Trick Of versus Braun,
a breaker, so uh yeah. Then after that we've got a tag
team championship match. And this actually is a good match you got dad,
which is of course part of skis them. Uh and uh you got Eva
out there too, and you've got the tag champs you you know, so
you know, you've got the old school guys out there. You know,
you got the Coffee Brothers, you got wolf Gang and uh and they come
out there and this, you know what's gonna be a good match, and
it actually actually is a good match. Uh. This is one if you
have a short on time and you want to go back and look at uh,
you know, a shorter version of the show. You know, this
is the first one you start off with diad uh and uh in Gallus and
uh, it's a great match. Look you have Booker t making a free
Bird reference. Uh, so you know that's how they you know, that's
a that's pretty high accolades. I mean, you know, uh, you
know ps Michael Hayes and uh, well back then I knew him as Michael
Hayes and Terry Bam Bam bigel not Bam big Oh my goodness, but Terry
Bam Bam. And you know they always had they had a couple different guys
uh in their trio. But look in the Dallas area, the free Birds
toward up they saved the territory towards the end. So that's a very high
praise. But anyway, we go back to the match, and uh,
the match is actually good. Gallus of course is old school. They've got
that tie app wrap it up. Uh. They give you that feel of
of Billy Robinson. Uh you know uh uh you know the younger people would
you know, well, your parents, your younger people's parents would know Stephen
Regal, Steve Regal when he wrestled, I mean that European tough style.
Uh and uh man, they pull it off to a t uh. And
so the match is a few minutes in, and then you've got Stacks and
Thorny d Thorny. You know, they're up in the muffett, the the
Abe Lincoln Sweet up in the top of the place, you know. So
and uh and and from up there, I'm sure they can see mister Fowler's
of dad's is freshly shaved head because he's tan in that that head man.
Anyway, Look, he looked pretty funny on a big screen TV when he
got into headlock. But uh, yeah, good match man a wolf Gang.
Wow. I mean these guys are old school. Uh, you know,
they just never disappoint you. Got a little taste of like a Ole
and Arn versus the first time the Rock and Roll Express come in. They
were doing some moves and Ole and Arn were they tied up and ground in
pound or maybe the Midnight expressor input your own tag team that was popular for
a four or five year period in your younger years. And that's what I'm
referring to. The dad did some great moves, some flips, some uh
you know guy ducks down somebody. Uh, he's able to use him for
a stepping stone up for a big move in a corner. So yes,
some good tag team wrestling. You know, Mark Coffee though, is just
a beast. He's as strong as can be, you know, So a
good match. And then Ava Ava gets involved. And then during this they
did play a little clip to where like the Creed Brothers are making in fun
with mask with Ivy Now and she told him, you know, it ain't
funny. So Ava gets involved in this match. One time she pulls a
foot under or whatever it may be. And then the second time she climbs
up on the apron and that's when Ivy Now comes out and lays the smack
of down with and so it causes distractions, distractions, big move by Gallus
bang, Gallus wins. So that's how that goes. A little chase you
promo after that with the guys wondering where Andrea is and uh, and you
know they're waiting on Duke because he's grading papers. But big body Ivey comes
in trying to get a little airtime there, and he when he talks to
Duke when he arrives after grading papers, which THEA apparently got an eighty eight
on kind of not digging this so much, but they did turn it into
a match. A big body is setting it up, going, hey,
when you do take over chase you and Duke does have a slip up,
so they are setting that up somewhat. Uh. And then yeah, the
match. You got Duke and hive and look Thea's nuts. Uh, they're
both good. Uh. You know, um, it's kind of self explanatory
on how the match is gonna go. Hive's gonna sell, Duke is gonna
have some big moves. Duke doing the razor ramone, the cutting edge.
You know that That's how I remember that move, you know, I just
remember that Scott Hall really took it to another level because I'd seen other people
do it, when Scott Hall did it before, Raiz Ramon the bad guy
before all that. Uh, so you know, uh Duke wins Uh you
know. Okay, so you had the match, the Gallups match earlier.
I told you to go watch, all right. So and then they they
bring von Wagner and mister Stone in and they do a little promo with him
and uh, they're they're doing a little word association and doing a little something.
Okay, filler time, I'm not bad with it. And then they
keep bringing Vaughan's picture back up, a childhood picture where he had had some
surgery, and they bring some Gibernian uh to make a joke about it,
and of course Vaughan's gonna snatch him up, and they have a comical in
to that. So yeah, uh you know. Of course after that,
after Ivy gets involved, you got a little clash with the Gallus guys and
the Creed brothers. So uh, they got to talk a little smack them
and they will have another match. But hey, look they've got Eddie Thorpe
and and Damon Kemp coming out for a match. And look, you know,
Eddie Thorpe is following in the Native American theme. He comes out with
a modern version of what I used to see Why Who McDaniel are several other
uh Indian native Indian wrestlers that would come out and they would wear their uh
native ring garb and everything. It was it was a great show. They
you know, it was a three or four minute entrance uh and everything.
So uh, Eddie Thorpe a great kid. Uh looks really like a modern
day why Who McDaniel with the big chops and everything. So uh and he
got Damon Kemp, which is freaking great ring wise because of his MMA background.
But look, Damon's been working and he's it's like he's in time,
but he's a little slow. I mean, he's that close. I can
see a faction or something coming up because he's almost ready. But look they
had a pretty good match. You know. Uh, Eddie gets the win
in this, so Damon is going to give him the push. But you
know, um, Damon keeps impressing me. You know, he's a solid,
solid prospect, uh you know, so you know, and and and
of course after that, they do a little Braun promo and bronze uh kind
of you know tweets out or Instagram or whatever. These wacky kids are doing
today. But he puts out a message that he's going to put Trick in
the same hospital that he put mellow. Uh. So that is the update
on that. So we go from there to a dragging Off and die Jack
match, and look, drugging Off is freaking great. I love him.
I love him, you know, uh, since finding him about a year
ago and uh and uh going back through some tape and everything, I freaking
love him. Uh, you know, and Jack Jack's big uh. And
so they have a match and they're building their building died Jack, but they
got a match. Uh, Dragon Off comes out man and his chops.
Uh you know Dragon you know, his entrance is great and everything, but
man, he starts off the match with just echoing chops to the chest,
just lights died Jack's chest up. Uh. And then and Jack took it
tonight, you know, for a while, you know, you know,
and and you know and and of course you know, everybody's got to sell.
But tonight I saw a you know, and not a young by Backlan,
but I saw a season Bob Backling with dragging off, dragging off.
Uh. So, man, it was it was just a good match because
man, look uh uh dragging Off is not gonna let you down, die
Jack. You know, he had a he threw dragging Off at one point
in the match, and he threw him like a rag doll. Uh And
that was pretty impressive on that, you know, uh, that one thing.
But the ending, the ending was weak. The ending was weak.
Um d Jack goes that and gets a chair. He you know, he
brings a chair in, He throws the ref uh. He he gets him
outside, he does the uh. I guess you'd say the Alabama whoop.
I own him outside. I just the he pushed the stairs over and you've
got a gap in there, and and it just didn't look good. They
penned uh, they penned Tyler. I mean they penned dragging Off up under
the uh uh the uh ring steps and uh and dragging Off got up and
stood on him victorious and and all of that good stuff. It just it's
almost like he had enough room for a puppy up under there. So I
just it wasn't a good look. Weekend Weekend but mentioned mentioning Tyler bait,
which man, you put Tyler bait and dragging Off together, you got the
modern day. Uh, you know, Hollywood blondes or something like that.
But anyway, you got to Tyler. A little promo with Tyler baton Westley.
Westley lets him know that, hey, you were there for me last
week. I will be there. But uh, you know, west drops
a little good one. He They're in the steam room, you know,
and Tyler's doing meditation and everything, and he walks in and he goes,
I hadn't seen this much smoke since I was hanging around with riddles, So
I kind of like that, you know, good little reference there, getting
back on some drugger have there if they anyway, they go from that to
a Charlie Dempsey and Tyler bait match. The megaleleg guy man that he looks
like freaking tree stumps Charlie Dempsey. Just another reference back to Billy Robinson.
Man. Just a solid wrestler, a solid match. As you go back
and watch this one. This is two matches now that you can watch European
style. Just good match, just freaking u you know, they got a
Claudio type spin by, you know, I mean, it's just a good
match. Now. Dempsey's going to end up winning this match, but it's
not without controversy. So of course you gotta get gays involved, and then
West gets involved, and then Drew gets involved, and I'm blaming it on
Gaysey's glasses, but yeah, Gasey gets a cheap shot in rolls up.
Uh, you know, dragging off, you know, it is what it
is. Dempsey wins the match, uh, and in their building towards it.
So I, you know, I got no problem with this, but
this is not a good you know, bad match, And so go back
and watch watch this, you know. Uh, they come back with a
little quick promo that Mellow sees the tweet that Braun put out, so he
decides not to get lined up tonight. And he's just gonna going back and
and and and and stand by his man so or stand by his friend.
Uh so yeah, so they go back that and after that they're going to
a Brooks and Briggs you know, Josh Briggs and Brooks Jensen, uh,
going against Hank Walker and Tank Ledger and uh, Tank Ledger, you know,
tough guy, you know, loses a tooth in this match. So
you gotta love a guy that if he didn't lose it, he sold it.
So so Hank Walker and Tank say they want to get some you know,
some repetition they need in ring time, so you know, they get
the match with their good old buds and uh they start off like a haymaker.
They just go into it and they're tearing butt up. So good start,
you know, good energy with the whole match. Uh, you got
some young guys, but nia in this situation, Brooks and uh and and
Briggs are both the elder statesman as you would say. But yeah, pretty
good match. They kick a little butt tank loses the tooth and they shake
hands. Sounds like a a tipin County or a Memphis Friday or Saturday night
in some places I ran back in the day. But they go into a
promo with this number or no m dar uh and uh. You know they're
really pushing him, and you know they got him with dragon Lake coming up.
But Nathan Frazier comes looking like a freaking rock star out of this good
segment there. He's even passing the torch on the uh the little promo segment
of the little talk show too, dar and uh and just good. You
know, I think uh, mister Frasier's is called enlightened. I think it's
what he calls it. But wow, good good segment. Not just a
filler in time, and then they go back for the you know, the
second round of the qualifying matches for the Ladies title against Yanna James and Lyra
Vicara. And then look strong match and this is another go back and watch
because I'm gonna tell you both these ladies, Um, you know, they
could be competing in the main rosters. Uh. Look, man, they
they put on a hell of a match. You know. I gotta say
I was, you know, pleasantly surprised. Um. Uh you know,
I hold it to a Charlotte Flair kind of degree of everything. But look,
man, it was a great match. U Both ladies I think got
over h you know, I mean it's just it was solid solid uh you
know, uh Val wins Um. You know, I didn't like to set
up towards the end, but hey man, these ladies are going to be
knocking on some doors. Uh. So they go from that to ah,
you know, Tony din and Stacks. They just they just roll up in
Gallis's Pub and and try to get a title shot. And they roll up
in there and Joe Coffee, you know, I think he takes a little
uh a little offensive, you know, and uh, you know, and
Tony lets them know how your state side. You know you're here, I
got friends and uh and then towards the end, there's a tire checker,
a eighteen wheeler tire checker that's brought up or I call it an attention getter,
and um and some other backup comes up and the guys decide to hey,
you know, live to fight another day. So from there, you're
gonna have a trick and Braun in a in a a good match. You
know. I got to say, the crowd was really behind trick, of
course, but man, uh Tricks got to look. Uh, he's really
got He's so close on the mic. Uh you know that you know Ben
from Memphis whoop that trick is played at all of our athletic events and everything.
It's a Memphis song and uh so yeah, they were hollering that,
you know, with the good luck. You know. Hey, but hey,
look, Braun, I'm really digging the switch. I really liked the
switch. And Braun's taken to it pretty easy. Uh so, uh you
know, hey, you know, could he pull an upset tonight? You
know, but when they start the match out, Tricks comes out strong and
uh, he's picking Braun up and moving Braun and a lot of times,
like when when they were doing the Goldberg push, whenever Goldberg they did put
him up against somebody that tried to give a good look. He didn't look
right. When they were like shoulder you know, shoulder tackle him or moving
him into the corner to set up for move. He just, you know,
he just didn't look right. And early in Brock's career, you know,
the same type. So you know, you can go back to some
of the MMA guys back from the nineties, Kim Shamrock. But they learned
and they they got to it, and and and and Broun showed me that
he uh, you know, he had that like, oh my gosh,
I can't believe I'm getting picked up kind of look, you know, And
I think it would sell. I think he's, uh, he's really pulling
this off, you know. I mean the crowd was behind Trick. Uh.
You know, Trick had a couple of big, you know chances towards
the end. You know, you know, I like it. I like
the match was good. I mean I definitely say go back and watch it.
So he got three matches out of this, uh show that I recommend,
you know, two ends one, ladies. Uh, you know,
Broun brings up the kind of Scott Stuna. Look, you know some of
his actions. You know, he does the push ups and uh you know
he can do it all day, you know, and you know, so
Braun maybe kind of on a different level in this kind of dear uh you
know deal. But yeah, he gets a big spear. Uh you know,
he does the recliner, uh, the Steiner recliner, and of course
he's going to go back after the match and uh and throw down on him
and put him in the hospital. And uh, once he gets started,
Melo of course comes out and Melow does his thing, and he does a
couple of little things, but then he gets caught and he gets caught coming
off those ropes with his move and uh speared out of his boots. Braun
looks great. The show goes off the air, So that is going to
give you a little a little review there of the end x T show this
week. Uh So, guys, I hope this sounds okay. I had
to do it from a different studio today, so I hope everything sounds okay.
Uh. And you know, as always, we're just going to end
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