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Today should have been a very positive
day for AW. Today, of course,

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was the big Upfronts presentation for Warner
Brothers Discovery right here in New York

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City. As a matter of fact, it was a Madison Square Garden,

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WWE's home away from home. The
big announcement about their new television show,

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which is now official. AW Collision
is going to be coming on June seventeenth,

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premiering on TNT two hours of live
wrestling every Saturday night for the first

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time my Turner Networks in well over
twenty years. And that should have been

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the big news of the day.
We did not get any other news about

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a television deal. We did not
get anything about streaming. A lot of

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that has been rumored and talked about. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't.

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But instead of talking about the Collision
announcement, as people were doing earlier

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in the day, we end up
talking about cmpunk because it always seems to

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come back down to cmpunk. There
was no cmpunk mentioned in the announcement today,

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although there were indications that as of
this morning, the original press release

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was going to have cmpunk's name in
it, and Cmpunk's likeness was in the

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artwork until it wasn't. And now
as the day went on, we have

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all of this news and reports leaking
out about drama and how Punk was pulled

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from the announcement and that there could
be trouble in Paradise and maybe now his

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return is in jeopardy and maybe now
we won't be getting cmpunk back in AW

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and all of this just nonsense around
cmpunk once again, just marring what should

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have been a positive day for AW
and Tony Kahn. All I can say,

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as far as Tony Kahn is concerned, as you get what you pay

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for, you get what you pay
for, guarantee you this will not be

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the last time that's something like this
happens. We still don't know exactly what

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the hell is going on. But
Tony conn was on the show tonight to

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make some announcements. Talked about it
last week like there were going to be

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a couple of really big announcements coming
up, and honestly, it was just

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more of what we already knew,
pretty disappointing. Nothing really knew from Tony

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Conntnital, though we'll talk about what
that was as far as the dates of

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future collisions coming up. Tonight was
also supposed to be Don Callis coming to

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the ring at the end of the
show to explain to us why he did

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what he did to Kenny Omega at
the end of Dynamite last week, why

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he betrayed his friend, why he
took a screwdriver to the man's head.

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We didn't get that explanation from Don
Callis. He was interrupted by the Blackpool

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Combat Club and by Kenny Omega and
the Elite, who were joined by their

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old friend Hangman Adam Page. Pirate
Page made his return for the first time,

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probably in about a month. We
hadn't seen him in many weeks.

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He was out there with the ipatch. The only thing he was missing was

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the bird on his shoulder. Anarchy
in the Arena is now official for Double

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or Nothing on May twenty eight,
Las Vegas, which I am very happy

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about because Double or Nothing last year
had the first Anarchy in the Arena and

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it was one of my favorite matches
of the year. I was not expecting

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to enjoy that as much as I
did considering the parties involved here in the

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match this year. This year will
probably be even wilder than it was last

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year, so I'm looking forward to
that. You know what, else.

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I was looking forward to tonight.
I wanted to know what kind of false

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count anywhere match Chris Jericho and Roderick
Strong were going to put together. I

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love the false count anywhere stipulation.
My beef is that so many times we

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see false count anywhere matches and they
don't take advantage of the stipulation. We

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didn't have that issue tonight. Jericho
and Roddy had a true false count anywhere

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match. Not just false count anywhere
in the building. This was just lat

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out falls count anywhere in the building, out of the building. They went

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all over the place. I enjoyed
the hell out of that match tonight,

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I really did. We also had
the challengers for the AW World Heavyweight Championship,

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The Pillars, Jungle Boy, Darby
Allen, Sammy Gavara, all of

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whom were in action tonight, all
of whom had different challenges, different types

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of matches. MJF was there.
We didn't hear from him. He didn't

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do anything. He didn't wrestle,
he never wrestles. But the other three

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did, and it was varying degrees
of success. They were all successful,

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but all of the matches were different
in some way. Darby Allen had a

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tag team match, Sammy Gavara had
a quick squash, and then there was

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poor Jungle Boy who got busted open
bleeding against Rusche who was basically having his

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way with this kid. Not exactly
a dominant win for Jungle Boy, but

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all three of them did pick up
wins. As they tried to explain that

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they're all on the same page,
they realized that somebody has to take that

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championship from MJF at double or nothing, and it doesn't matter who it is

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as long as it's one of them's. Basically the story of their teal.

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We also had a match tonight with
Switchblade J White and Ricky Starks, which

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I was surprised they even had this
on the show tonight when they announced it

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last week. It caught me by
surprise. I figured they would hold off

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until the pay per view. They
had the match tonight, very good match,

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disappointing finish, but it sure sets
up a rematch, which I hope

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they do a double or Nothing now
because the finish was so lame between those

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two, but a very good match, and honestly, when the show was

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over tonight, it felt like a
newsworthy show. I thought This was a

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very good episode of Dynamite. A
lot of the matches in the ring and

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I guess technically out of the ring. The false Can't Anywhere match was my

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favorite, but the Jungle Boy match
was very strong. The Ricky Starks match

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was very strong. They had the
big angle at the end to set up

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the anarchy in the arena match,
So I thought overall this was actually a

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very strong show, which again is
going to be overshadowed come tomorrow morning.

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People are not going to be talking
about this show. People are probably not

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even gonna be talking much about Collision. They're gonna be talking about someone else,

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and that's a damn shape. This
is your aw Dynamite review for Wednesday,

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May seventeenth, twenty twenty three.
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here in the stream, super chats
are open, so if you have any

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thoughts about today's news, do you
have any thoughts about tonight's show. I

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want to hear from you. What
did you think of this show. We'll

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go to the Twitter poll later and
we'll see what everybody thought of tonight's Dynamite.

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But before we get into Dynamite,
we do want to I think we

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do want to start out with this, as you saw at the beginning of

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the stream, and they actually broke
into the show tonight to break this news.

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It was Rick Flair who made the
announcement first on Twitter. Superstar Billy

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Graham WWE Hall of Famer superstar Billy
Graham, who would have turned eighty years

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old next month, passed away.
I assumed it was earlier this evening.

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He was in very rough shape for
many, many months. He's been in

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the hospital for several months. I
believe he had some sort of skull infection,

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and it just his whole body seemed
to be shutting down. Every update

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every week sounded more and more bleak. I know he had gone deaf,

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and he was losing weight, and
there were just there were infection problems.

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Yeah, and this is a man
who has had quite a few health issues

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in his day. He had a
liver transplant in two thousand and two I

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think there was a young woman who
died in a motorcycle wreck if I remember

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correctly, and he got a new
liver over twenty years ago. But his

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wife Valerie said in a Facebook post
on Monday that he was on life support.

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The doctors wanted to take him off
of life support and she refused.

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She was holding on to hope.
It just, you know, it sounded

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like wishful thinking, and that's what
it turned out to be. You know,

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again, what can you really say
in the span of a minute or

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two here about Billy Graham. He
certainly was a controversial figure in recent years

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some of the comments he's made,
but one of the all time greats as

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far as charisma, as far as
promo ability, as far as his personality

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is concerned. Couldn't tell you a
single superstar Billy Graham match that I ever

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saw that really stands out to me
as being an all time great. But

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he was an all time great.
Personality is physique prior to me, he

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had that. He just had that
gift of gab when it came to his

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promos in an era where there were
just not that many people, frankly,

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who could pull that off and who
sounded like he did. Now he's in

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the same realm as guys like Dusty
Rhodes, And in fact, he was

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an influence on a lot of those
people. You know, Jesse Ventura,

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Whole Coogan, these people have talked
about the fact that they grew up watching

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Superstar Billy Graham, Scott Steiner's I
mean, so many other people emulated him.

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So think about that. Some of
the biggest stars in the business.

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Their look, their character, their
persona, their promo ability, their promo

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style, they modeled it after this
man. That's how much of an influence

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he was overall on the wrestling business. So you're gonna be reading a lot

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about him and hearing a lot about
him. I'm sure I will have more

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to say about this on the podcast
coming up on Sunday. So very unfortunate

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news. But whatever you thought about
the man, the one thing you cannot

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say is that he did not leave
a mark on the wrestling business. He

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most certainly did, and they broke
the mold when they made Superstar Billy Grahams

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So indolences to his fami on their
loss. The news of the day was

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going to be whatever was announced at
the Warner Brothers Discovery upfronts. The theater

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at Madison Square Garden is where they
were held. I said it was very

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symbolic that there would be some big
AW announcement happening in New York City at

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Madison Square Garden, of all places. We just didn't know what it was

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going to be beyond collision. We
didn't know if they were going to announce

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anything about a new media rights deal. Because there is going to be a

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new media rights deal, whether it's
with Warner Brothers, Discovery or someone else.

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Their deal is coming up in the
not too distant future, so they're

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going to need a new media rights
deal. And certainly the way that Warner

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Brothers Discovery has gone all in on
AW giving them more content. We have

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aw All Access that just wrapped up
right their big reality series. Now they're

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getting two hours of live primetime television
every Saturday night starting June seventeenth. They

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wouldn't be doing that if they were
not all in with this company. So

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clearly, if there has not been
a new deal signed yet, there will

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be. We still just don't know
the terms. We don't know the monetary

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figures. With the years all to
talk about a potential billion dollar deal.

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Just because it wasn't announced today doesn't
mean it still can't happen. Right,

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Maybe it'll be a billion, maybe
it won't be a billion. They just

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did not make that announcement today,
but it is coming at some point because

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it has to. Time has taken
same thing with WWE right there, They're

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now entering into a new phase of
their own rights negotiations where I think the

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exclusivity window just ran out with Fox
and with NBC, So now they're going

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to open it up to everybody.
And who knows where WWE may land.

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Who knows how that might impact aw's
negotiations if in fact there is no deal

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official yet with them and Warner Brothers
discus, Hey, maybe Warner Brothers Discovery'll

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swoop right in and they'll make a
deal with WWE. I mean, stranger

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things have happened. But that's not
what tonight or today, I should say,

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that's not what today was about.
Today was about AW Collision. And

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now on your screen right now,
you see the AW Collision logo, And

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if that logo looks very familiar to
you, there's a really good reason for

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that. There is a very good
reason for that. It is a very

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WCW Monday nitro esque logo clearly inspired
by the original WCW Monday nitro logo,

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which coincidentally was the best WCW Monday
nightro logo. So obviously a very similar

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look in a similar color scheme.
But that is the logo. We already

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knew the date and the time in
the network, right, We've been talking

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about this now for for so long. So now that we have that bit

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of information here, I just want
to read from you the official announcement that

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was made earlier today, and this
is directly from the AW website. Here

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as we scroll down, TNT launches
a second night of Wrestling with AW Collision,

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featuring headliners. And it's interesting that
they use the word headliners for thunder

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Rosa, Miro, Samoa Joe,
Powerhousehobs, and Andrade El Dalo on Saturday,

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June seventeenth, because practically none of
these people, with the possible exception

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of Samoa Joe, could you call
a headliner in this company. None of

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these men have been headliners in this
company, with the exception of Joe.

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Joe's headlined the number of Dynamites before. But even Joe Joe is the ring

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of Honor Television Champion. He technically
is not even a member right now of

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the AW roster, but they're all
headliners here for this new show. T

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NT launches a second night of wrestling
with a new tent pole series called AW

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Collision, announced today by Kathleen Finch, Chairman and Chief Content Officer for US

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networks group Warner Brothers Discovery during their
upfront presentation at Madison Square Garden in New

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York City. More stories, more
action, more milk and more and more,

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what what other? What other turns
will you come up with here?

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This is a super all the hyperbole
here to try to hype up the show.

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In only four years following the launch
of Dynamite, aw's footprint has more

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than doubled across TNT and TBS.
Along with Dynamite, Friday Night's Rampage,

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a recent series A Wall Access,
and now Collision, TNT and TBS delivered

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the best matches and the most entertaining
moments in professional wrestling today. AW has

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reached twenty three million total viewers so
far this year across all of its shows

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on TNT and TBS. But the
thing I want to bring up, and

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there's Cody, you know, Cody
should take a bow, right, Cody.

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Cody's part of this whole thing too. Cody was part. He was

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one of the founding fathers of this
company, So Cody can give himself a

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pat on the back for this too. But I want to I want to

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scroll down here because there's a quote
that I think it's very interesting from the

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president of the Networks Sky, Jason
Starlanis, who made a commentary. He

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said, aw's roster of talent has
expanded so quickly, so quickly that we

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felt it needed another night to bring
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and stars they love to watch.
Adding Collision, two hour programming mix

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on TNT will allow us to satisfy
the massive demand we have felt from our

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hardcore fan base and be the ultimate
compliment to Dynamite on TBS. Now.

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That I think is very interesting because
he's singling out hardcore audience, right.

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We hear from a lot of people
who talk about, well, how is

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AW going to grow its audience if
all it does is focus on their hardcore

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fans, right, the existing hardcore
wrestling fans, and what a terrible thing

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it is that this company, in
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and I agree, you want to
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can. That was the purpose behind
All Access. All Access was in part

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to try to attract new fans the
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Whether it accomplished that, I don't
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ideas behind that show. But the
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the network who's talking about the fact
that again we are doubling down on our

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hardcore fan base and the type of
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when we see a match like we
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and Kenny make a locked in a
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broken glass, barbed wire, and
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for some people. And those aren't
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like a lot of that garbage type
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is what this audience wants to see. The numbers for that match went way

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up at the end of the show
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audience wants and the network is okay
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they allow the violence, they allow
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and it hasn't gotten them in trouble
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Discovery is embracing. It. They
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more hours on Saturday nights. So
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or if you're Tony Khan, I
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that the network and the company they're
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board with what Tony's vision is.
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a second. I do want to
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to the old ww Monday Nitro logo. Since Tony con is so interested in

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adopting a Nitro ESK logo, I
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esque stage and set the one that
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of Nitro. It's one of my
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for a wrestling television show. It's
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nothing giant or anything like that.
They hit a little ramp in the

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stage area with the WCW sign that
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and there was just something about that
setup that I always thought visually was very

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pleasing. I would love to see
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You want to differentiate these two shows. You want to differentiate Dynamite and Collision.

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You can do that by having a
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and segregating certain talents to one show
or the other. But you also

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when that show goes on, you
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it needs to look different, It
needs to feel different the moment you

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put that show on. So I
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Is not just having the same you
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used for Dynamite. Really change it
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and make it look different. That's
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There was a poster on social media
that accompanied the announcement, and I got

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some questions about this, so I
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were asking me, are they having
separate champions on these shows because they featured,

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you know, the Trio's Champions of
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they were in the advertisement FTR the
Tag Team Champions, they were in the

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advertisement. What does that mean?
The women's champions weren't in there. The

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women's champions were not featured in there
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front and center, and they had
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is the champions will be on bull
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type of split, maybe it's kind
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soft split where there's certain talents who
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other. The champions will be allowed
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show. MJF can be on Collision, he could be on Dynamite. They're

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not going to do a ww I
certainly hope that they're not going to do

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a WWE has done and have separate
champions. WWE has now gone and created

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a third fucking championship. Okay,
we don't need more of that. You

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already have your champions and so let
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appear on bull shows. That's why
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these other people and that poster,
and not beyond that. I wouldn't really

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read into it any more than that. Conspicuous by his absence from this press

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release here, and from that poster
was cmpunk. Cmpunk was conspicuous by his

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absence. Here's what we know about
the c And I really don't want to

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spend too much time on this guy
because I feel like we've already talked so

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much about cmpunk, more about cmpunk
in the last whatever. It's been nine

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months that he hasn't even been on
television. But cmpunk is believed to be

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on his way back to the company, and it's believed that the first location

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for Collision is going to be Chicago
at the United Center, the same place

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where cmpunk debuted for aw for the
first dance. We've heard that this first

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edition of Collision is going to be
dubbed the Second Coming, Right, Well,

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what else would that be in regards
to if not the return of cmpunk.

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Right. We've been hearing this now
from you have some reputable sources now

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for many weeks, and then this
announcement comes today and there's no mention of

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him, and so what does it
all mean? Here's what we know.

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What we know is that cmpunk was
originally listed in the press release that was

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to have gone out this morning,
but he was not included in the final

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release once it actually went out to
everybody. Connor Casey of Comic book dot

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Com reached out to Warner Brothers Discovery. Sometimes, you know what, you

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just go straight to the source.
He reached out to Warner Brothers Discovery and

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he was told cmpunk is not affiliated
with TNTs AW Collision. And then there

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was an update from Mike Johnson of
PW Insider, who says, for those

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who have asked what happened to cmpunk, the rumor making the rounds is that

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Punk and AW or once again at
odds The hell you say? Once again,

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the two sides are said to be
at odds now over the status of

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the return of Ace Steele. Again, this is just a rumor for now,

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this is not confirmed. But the
fact that Mike Johnson is now addressing

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it tells me that there may be
some smoke here to this fire, because

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you know, normally he's someone who
typically does not just go out with the

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rumor of the week. Let's put
it that way. So he goes on

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to say, the belief among those
we've spoken with is that a Steel was

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expected to return, which I can't
believe. Just the fact that the fact

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that we are even talking about the
possibility of this man who bit somebody coming

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back to the company when the issues
with Punk and the Elite, among others,

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are still said to be simmering and
unresolved, and now we're talking about

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the potential return of a Steel.
Just blows my mind. So he says.

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The people he's spoken with claim it's
in regards to Steal expected to return

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in conjunction with Punk next month.
Working behind the scenes. However, the

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story making the rounds in aw backstage, so this is going around with the

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talent and the people who work in
the company as of today, is that

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a decision was made that Steel would
not be working backstage at the actual Collision

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tapings. That he would not be
backstage. I guess in the flesh,

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right, and clearly he loves the
flesh, that he would not be backstage

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in the flesh, he says.
As you might imagine, that left Punk

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in aw on opposite sides of the
discussion, which in turn led to Punk

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being removed from all promotional material released
for the Collision series. Today, one

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person believed that MJF replaced Punk in
the promotional graphic. That's the poster I

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mentioned, But we have not been
able to confirm that with multiple sources.

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We do know that Impact Wrestling sources
noted they had interest in bringing a Steel

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in for a tryout, and when
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their belief was that meant he was
going to AW or to WWA.

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So the timing fits in that a
return was on the table for a Steel.

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Time will tell if the two sides
can work things out in advance of

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June seventeenth, but Warner Brothers Discovery
issued a statement today to coomicbook dot com

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stating that Punk was not affiliated with
Collision and as of this afternoon, Mike

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Johnson says, based on what we're
hearing, that would be correct. We

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go from that update to Sean rossapp
a Fightful, who had an update of

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his own, says, Fightful was
told that there was a meeting this week

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between AW and CMPUNK and it was
extended to Punk that a Steel would have

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the ability to be with the company
and to work directly with Punk. However,

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it was made clear that a Steel
would not be permitted to be at

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AW Television. We have not learned
specifically how Punk reacted to this, outside

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of him not being in agreement with
it. We have not been told if

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this is tied to Punk not being
featured on the Warner Brothers discovery materials or

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the statement that they made today about
him not being affiliated with the brand.

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There were plans for an AW camera
crew to film material at Punk's home earlier

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today, but we have not been
told if that has actually happened. So

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again, this day, which was
supposed to be a happy day for AW

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about this brand new television series,
right, two more hours of television,

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completely overshadowed now by all of this
drama and all of this bullshit surrounding CM

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Punk, which is not all of
his doing. Right, all the people

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who were reporting on this and the
rumor mongering and stuff, they're as guilty

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as anybody. They're as guilty as
anybody for feeding the beast. Right.

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No, there's no innocent party involved
here. But again, positive newsday for

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AW completely fucked by drama and bullshit. And if you think this is going

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to be the final time that that
happens, think again. This is going

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to continue to happen over and over
and over again. I've been saying it

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for months. Tony Khan wanted to
keep cmpunk. Maybe the network wanted him

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to keep cmpunk. Ultimately it was
his call to make. Wouldn't it be

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a kick in the balls if Tony
Kahn was going to keep cmpunk and use

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him as a way to get this
brand new television show that was going to

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be built all around him. They
were literally going to build this show and

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a roster, a friendly roster,
all around cmpunk and his friends and his

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buddies, only for Cmpunk possibly at
the end of all this to basically turn

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around and say, fuck you,
I'm not coming back. And if that

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ends up happening, then Tony Khanna
has nobody to blame but himself because all

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of these reports about him bringing Punk
back when Punk and the Elite they were

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still not on working terms and they
hadn't even had a meeting yet, and

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apparently legally they're not being allowed apologize
to each other. This is childish bullshit.

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Is This is something that would never
ever ever happen in WWE. The

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one thing I will say for Vince
McMahon, he would never allow this bullshit

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to go down that for that reason
alone, it was complete lunacy that they

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were going to bring this person back
and build an entire show around him,

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and now it seems to be blowing
up even more in Tony Kahn's base that

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Punk did not take this lying down. Punk went on Instagram, we have

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more Instagram stories. He's going to
have so many stories from Instagram he can

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put he could put a book together. At the end of all this,

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he went on Instagram and he had
a lot to say. Cempunk was very

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chatty. He was very chatty here
on Instagram today. He said one more

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before I go really quick. This
was actually not his factually. Let's start

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with the first message. He said, Look, everyone, Brian Alvarez doesn't

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like it when misinformed internet trolls make
up rumors about him, so please stop

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making up rumors and stories for clicks. Well, Brian makes up rumors and

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stories for clicks. Okay, he's
married, for God's sake. By God,

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that man has a family. And
then he put in parentheses, Brian

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Alvarez shut the fuck up and stop
talking about me. Challenge day one,

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and he said, friendly reminder,
I have not been on television in nine

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months and you all still can't stop
talking about me. Maybe stop you'll feel

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better. Love hate, it's all
the same. I don't enjoy being the

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sole person that props up entire misinformed
clickbait industry based on toxic gossip from lying

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sources. But what can you do
when you're the king? It comes with

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the crowd king of what I don't
know? And he also said that one

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more before I go really quick,
the parasocial relationship that some fringe wrestling fans

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is unhealthy. I get the tribalism, but picking sides is silly. You

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don't know me, you don't know
anybody else, So go touch grass.

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That was the message today from cmpunk. The one thing I will agree on

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that he said their tribalism sucks.
Tribalism is an absolute cancer on the wrestling

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industry. It's an absolute cancer on
wrestling on social media that he and I

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are one hundred percent in lockstep agreement
with, and I certainly hope everybody in

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the live chat can agree with that
as well. We see it every day.

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I see it in my mentions every
day I get accused of it.

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Right, The tribalism is very real
and it is very poisonous, and so

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we can agree on that. Here's
what I don't understand. I just read

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you two updates from Mike Johnson.
And Sean Ross sat right. They had

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more to say today about cmpunk than
Brian Alvarez did, and yet Punk chose,

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for whatever reason to target alvarezm maybe
he said something on Observer Live that

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was apparently triggering for cmpunk. What
that would have been exactly, I don't

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know, but he certainly didn't have
as much to say about Punk day as

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the other two did. He didn't
go after the other two. He specifically

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what after Brian Alvarez. He even
leaked in one of his Instagram stories.

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He leaked an old email supposedly that
I guess Alvarez. It looked like Alvare

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has sent an email to some maybe
some other wrestler, and he referenced Punk

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in this email. This email goes
back over a decade and in the email,

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00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.880
Alvarez referenced Punk and said if you
happen to talk to him about this,

406
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:29.480
and you probably won't, or if
you do, Punk probably won't give

407
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.440
a shit. I mean, there
was nothing in the email that was derogatory

408
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:36.519
about Punk in anyway. If anything, it was actually very complimentary of him,

409
00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:38.599
and Punk chose, I guess,
to leak the email, to leak

410
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:42.640
this private email that Alvarez years ago
had sent to somebody and mentioned Punk.

411
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:47.279
I have no idea what the point
of that was. I have no idea

412
00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:49.279
what that was in reference to.
All I know is that it again,

413
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:53.680
it just feeds the beast, feeds
the beast. That gets people talking even

414
00:31:53.759 --> 00:32:00.839
more about who CM Punk. Same
thing when Punk showed up backstage at RAW

415
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:04.640
all those weeks ago. Oh he's
from Chicago. Raws in Chicago. There's

416
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:08.759
nothing here. You're looking too deeply
into this, even though WWE has been

417
00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:14.799
running Chicago for fucking nine years since
Punk left the company. At a time

418
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:17.160
when people were starting to talk about
Punk possibly coming back, he shows up

419
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:21.279
at RAW. He's making amends with
the miss and he wants to make amends

420
00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:24.559
with Triple h As if, of
course that wouldn't leak and people wouldn't be

421
00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:29.799
talking about and I said it,
then this man knows how to get people

422
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:34.079
talking about himself. He's very good
at it. He's very very good at

423
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:37.759
it. And if he didn't want
to feed into all this stuff, and

424
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.839
everything was copasetic and you're just waiting
for AW to make the announcement, then

425
00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:46.279
you wouldn't say anything. But clearly
there is something going on here. Exactly

426
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.799
what it is nobody knows, but
all it is it's just more unnecessary drama.

427
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.240
But the thing that just strikes me
is the ACE Steel stuff. And

428
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.720
if there's any truth to that,
if there's any truth to the A Steel

429
00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:01.519
stuff, that CM punk wants him
back and this potential hang up is hinging

430
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.799
upon that, that is the most
ridiculous thing I have ever heard. If

431
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:09.960
that is true, then Tony Khan
needs to cut his losses as far as

432
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:16.400
cmpuck is concerned, and finally move
on. Because think about it like this.

433
00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:22.160
A Steel was the one person who
lost his job because of the brawl

434
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.440
out stuff, because of what he
did, allegedly what he did, he

435
00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:31.359
lost his job. Tony Khan doesn't
fire anybody. Tony Khan rarely, if

436
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:37.680
ever fires anybody, He'll just let
their contract expire. He'll ghost them.

437
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.200
Apparently, I won't say anything.
And yet they fired a Steel So what

438
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:45.799
does that tell you? And yet
they're talking about or even entertaining the possibility

439
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:52.279
when things are still this toxic of
bringing this guy back. Oh well,

440
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:54.039
he won't physically be there, so
it'll be okay. He'll only work with

441
00:33:54.079 --> 00:34:00.680
this one person. What is he
his personal trainer. You can't bring that

442
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:07.160
guy back. This is a powdered
keg. It's just waiting to explode.

443
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:13.119
I couldn't even believe it today,
of all days, that we're even talking

444
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:17.079
about a steel is ridiculous. And
to me again, if it's true,

445
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:22.280
it just shows that there's very little
hope. There's very little hope in making

446
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.559
this work. This is all a
huge distraction at a time when Tony Kan

447
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:30.599
does not need the drama. He
didn't need the drama nine months ago,

448
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:32.760
he didn't need the drama three months
ago, and he doesn't need the drama

449
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.360
now, and he certainly doesn't need
it next month when Collision actually debuts,

450
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:39.280
and then they have Forbidden Door and
they're gonna be working with New Japan.

451
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.960
They got their big All In show
coming up at Wembley Stadium. All to

452
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.679
talk about how well they need cempunk
for that show. Hey, look,

453
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:50.320
in a perfect world, I'd have
cmpunk on that show. You don't think

454
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:53.599
I'd love to see cmpunk against Samoa
Joe, or cmpunk against Kenny Omega or

455
00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:59.519
cmpunk against Brian Danielson. Of course
I would. But if we've learned one

456
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:01.719
thing in the last few weeks,
they sold sixty five thousand tickets for a

457
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:07.519
show without a single fucking person being
announced, including cmpunk. So don't tell

458
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:12.000
me all they need cmpunk for that
show. They don't. They don't.

459
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:14.960
And if this bullshit continues, like
I said, Tony Kunn, he needs

460
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.079
to cut his losses and move on
because this isn't doing anybody any good.

461
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:23.719
You've got a roster filled with really
talented men and women who were looking for

462
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:27.880
opportunities, and they're looking for more
television time. And they have a roster

463
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:31.519
with Miro and thunder Rosa and all
these people that you know, these disruntled

464
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:37.400
employees and all these people who want
more from AW and they want more television

465
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:42.000
time. You've got a roster full
of talent that you can fill both of

466
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:45.800
those shows without any problem whatsoever.
And you can focus on that talent.

467
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:49.760
And you've got the Elite, and
you've got the Blackpool Combat Club, and

468
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:54.199
you've got all these different people.
AW will not wilt and die if cmpunk

469
00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:59.880
is not around, and it's a
shame because we're not. For all this

470
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:04.400
stuff. CM punk would help lift
AW even higher. I don't hate cm

471
00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:07.960
punk. I don't, I really
don't. But at some point you have

472
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:15.920
to say enough is enough? Is
this that point for Tony Kahn? Probably

473
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.119
not. Next week, Tony Kann
is gonna let us know where that first

474
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:25.039
collision is taking place. If he
announces it for Chicago, that would be

475
00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:29.440
a sign that everything is gonna be
full steam ahead. I can't imagine they

476
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:35.039
announced Chicago at the United Center if
they don't have Cumpunk back. My guess

477
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:39.159
is we're finding out next week and
not tonight, because whatever happened today,

478
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:45.400
they need another week to try to
smooth it all out. For his sake,

479
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.679
I hope it happens. I don't
know what else to say about this.

480
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:52.480
It really is just a very big
embarrassment for this company. But by

481
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.719
the way, on top of everything
else, on top of everything else,

482
00:36:55.760 --> 00:36:59.599
we get the announcement tonight. I
don't know if you've heard about this.

483
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:06.599
We got the announcement tonight that cmpunk
is going to be honored in August by

484
00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:10.639
the Califlower Alley Club. Cmpunk is
going to be the recipient of the Mike

485
00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:17.639
Masurski Award at their annual banquet.
So if cm Punk, whether he comes

486
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:22.039
back to aw or not, I
guess he'll be at the Califlower Alley event

487
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.719
accepting his award in August, so
that is where he will be, although

488
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:30.639
I think it actually might be taking
place the weekend of all In I don't.

489
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:32.559
I don't have the date of the
banquet in front of me right now,

490
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.599
but if it is, that is
actually very interesting. That is very

491
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:43.559
interesting if it falls on the same
weekend as the Wembley Stadium show. One

492
00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:49.400
more thing about this Collision stuff that
we can get into dynamite here Andrade on

493
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.840
Twitter. Andrada el Elo is one
of the names announced as part of the

494
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.760
Collision launch. First thing Andrade did
when the news broke earlier, he went

495
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.320
on Twitter and he said he had
no idea about any of this news.

496
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:05.320
He said he had no idea that
he was being announced for a return to

497
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:09.320
aw Apparently nobody told him so,
unless he's working this into his new gimmick

498
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:15.760
where he is just chronically disgruntled here
with this company. Apparently he was as

499
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.480
surprised as anybody to see that his
name was mentioned there. He had He

500
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:22.159
had surgery back in November, he
torres peck. He's been out ever since,

501
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:27.480
so, I mean it's May now. I would think that this is

502
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:30.559
around the time he'd be cleared to
come back. I don't know what his

503
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:36.480
medical status is beyond that. Like
I said, there was no mention of

504
00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:38.280
any sort of new media rights deal. I am still hoping there is some

505
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:44.159
streaming component to this next deal that
they make. One thing that is very

506
00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:49.519
interesting is that aw all Access is
going to be on the Max service.

507
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:54.000
They're launching their new streaming service next
week May twenty third, Max is launching

508
00:38:54.760 --> 00:39:00.320
and as of June ninth, aw
All Access will be archive there for people

509
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.079
to streams. If you want to
go back and watch any of the six

510
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:06.880
episodes from that first season of All
Access that just ended, you'll be able

511
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.639
to stream it on Max. That
will be the only aw content as of

512
00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:15.440
now on Max. And it was
pointed out that Roads to the Top Season

513
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.719
one is already on HBO Max if
you want to go there and stream it.

514
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.079
Well, there was supposed to be
a second season of Roads to the

515
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:27.519
Top until Cody left and so awall
Access effectively took its place, which has

516
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:31.039
me wondering if maybe the reason that
All Access is up there on Max is

517
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:35.840
because it's sort of under the same
deal that Roads to the Top was under.

518
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.119
So technically there is aw content on
there. It just it may not

519
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:45.079
be the content that you want to
watch, but it is technically on the

520
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:46.679
service if you want to go watch
that there. All right, So let's

521
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:51.119
get into this Dynamite show here because
I have to wake up in a few

522
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:53.639
hours for a business trip. I
got to wake up at five am,

523
00:39:53.760 --> 00:40:00.320
so let's get going here. Dynamite
kicked off with the TNT champion Wardline on

524
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:07.480
his way to the ring to address
Christian Cage's comments from last week. He

525
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:12.519
wanted Christian to come to the ring
to deliver on what he promised. Christian

526
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:15.400
said he would spit in Wardlow's face, and so Wardlow wanted him to come

527
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:20.400
on down and do just that.
Christian and Lucasaurus they came to the ring.

528
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.519
Wardlow dared him to spit in his
face. He almost did. We've

529
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:28.800
seen Christians spitting people's faces before.
In fact, he's spitting Randy Orton's face

530
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:31.000
and ended up winning the World Heavyweight
championship one year at money in the bank

531
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:36.000
because of it. When Orton lost
his ship and basically I think he kicked

532
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.960
him in the balls and that's how
Christian won the world title. Such a

533
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:45.280
great few Orton and Christian twenty eleven
men great few. So he went to

534
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:50.280
go spit at him, and Wardlow
stopped him. He fought off the dinosaur.

535
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:52.239
He went to go give Christian a
power bomb. Lucasaurus, though,

536
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:57.679
came back and broke it up,
but he ate a headbut and Christian then

537
00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:01.400
gave Wardlow a low blow. Lucasaurus
dragged the ladder out from under the ring.

538
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:06.440
He handed it to Christian, who
hit Wardlow in the face with it,

539
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:10.239
with that top flat portion of the
ladder right into the head. They

540
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:16.519
set the ladder up against the ropes
in the corner and Lucasaurus choke slam Wardlow

541
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:21.440
onto the ladder. It got all
bent and they laid the ladder flat on

542
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:24.519
the mat. Christian gave him a
kill switch onto the ladder made a great

543
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:30.079
loud noise. No blood, no
blood. I mean, we see people.

544
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:35.159
It's amazing. Yeah, you watch
this aw show and we see people

545
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.960
bleed all the time. It's almost
like you kind of you blow on their

546
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.159
face and the blood starts pouring right. People are bleeding left, right,

547
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:44.280
and center on this show. This
guy gets hit in the head with the

548
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:49.599
ladder and then takes a kill switch
face first down onto the ladder, and

549
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.039
he doesn't bleed, So I just
thought that was kind of funny considering how

550
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:57.079
much blood even tonight on this show
we had blood, but Wardlow did not

551
00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:01.239
bleed. Wardlow was not very bright
turning his back on the Dinosaur, which

552
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:05.960
ultimately led to his downfall. But
otherwise I thought this was a perfectly fine

553
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.000
opening segment, and I'm down for
Christian getting the match at double or nothing.

554
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:13.199
I thought they were going to blow
it off on television and then it

555
00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:19.599
would lead to Wardlow and Lucasaurus,
or maybe Wardlow Lucasaurus and Powerhouse Hobbs in

556
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:23.039
a triple threat match, but Wardlow
and Christian one on one in a match

557
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:27.639
that really is Christian specialty, right. How many ladder matches has Christian been

558
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:30.280
in over the years. In fact, I think when he won the World

559
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:35.679
Heavyweight title in WWE for the first
time my memory serves, I believe it

560
00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:42.840
was in a ladder match against Andrade
Andrade Alberto Alberto del dipshit. I think

561
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.639
that was in a ladder match,
and of course all the TLC matches,

562
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.320
so I'm sure on commentary they'll be
emphasizing the fact that this is right up

563
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.079
Christian's alley, you know, given
his experience in ladder matches. And while

564
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:58.840
I would love to see Christian get
a run at some point with the TNT

565
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:02.440
Championship, it would be a killer
for Wardlow for him to go in there

566
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:07.119
and lose it. Really it would
be a It would be a killer for

567
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:12.320
him. We had Darby Allen and
Orange Cassidy, who have teamed up together

568
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:15.840
recently on at least one of their
live events. They've been doing some house

569
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:20.920
shows, teaming here on television for
the first time against Lee Moriarty and Big

570
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:25.719
Bill. No longer with the Firm
because the firm has been deleted, right

571
00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:30.880
They lost the Firm deletion match from
the Hardy Compounds, so the firm technically

572
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:32.920
doesn't exist anymore. Yet for some
reason, these two were still together.

573
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.119
So Orange Cassidy had even more tape
on his body this week. He is

574
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:40.519
the walking wounded, this man,
So this week not only did he have

575
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:46.559
tape on his hand, he had
tape also elsewhere, I think on his

576
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:52.400
back he had some of the Kenizia
tape, you know. You The tape

577
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:54.719
on his hand was just white athletic
tape. You give it a few more

578
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:59.480
weeks. This guy's gonna look like
the YETI in Wc's gonna walk out to

579
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:01.440
the ring like this. He's gonna
be all bandaged up. That's gonna be

580
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.119
when Orange Cassidy comes out of the
Battle Royal in Vegas. He's gonna fucking

581
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:12.960
come down like the fucking Mummy from
WCW. So they had quick back and

582
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:17.320
forth pin attempts to start the match
here from Cassidy and Moriarty, and that

583
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:21.239
led to both men tagging out.
Big Bill was, I mean, he

584
00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:24.199
was tossing around Darby Allen like he
was a stuffed animal, just throwing this

585
00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:29.800
guy around. He wanted to test
his strength and Darby slapped him in the

586
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:34.159
face and then he and Orange Cassidy
connected on double dives on the floor.

587
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.239
Cassidy tried to float over in the
corner, but he landed on the apron

588
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:42.400
and Big Bill connected with a big
boot to take control into the commercial.

589
00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:47.320
Cassidy need his way out of a
suplex attempt, he tagged in Darby and

590
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:53.400
Moriarty had taken the referee for the
distraction so didn't see the tag, right,

591
00:44:54.239 --> 00:45:00.440
wasn't official Moriarty and Big Bill.
They miss corner charges Darby the hot

592
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:04.400
tag. He ran wild. He
was just throwing his body at the two

593
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:08.440
of them. He tried to code
read on Moriarty. Big Bill almost countered

594
00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:15.119
into a choke slam, but Darby
fought free to the ropes and Darby jumped

595
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:20.119
right into a boss man slam by
Big Bill. After that he took out

596
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:24.360
Bill's legs that allowed Cassidy to hit
a satellite DDT. Moriarty jumped in.

597
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:30.760
He applied the border City stretch and
Cassidy escaped. This all built to a

598
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.159
huge There was a great spot here
where there was a stunt. Doug Millionaire

599
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:40.039
by Orange Cassidy into a code read
on Big Bill and Lee. Moriarty got

600
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:45.639
planted with a beach break and a
coffin drop, and then Darby applied a

601
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:51.320
side headlock takeover on Moriarty and he
pinned him, pinned him with a side

602
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:55.559
headlock. I liked that callback to
Darby's history with MJF, the whole side

603
00:45:55.559 --> 00:46:00.239
headlock thing. Yeah, if you
go back to their match from full year

604
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:04.400
back in twenty twenty one, I
think MJF hit him in the head first

605
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.440
with the Diamond ring, but he
beat Derby that way. He beat Derby

606
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:13.639
with a side headlock takeover and pinned
him. So I like that little callback,

607
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:16.079
especially going into Double Nothing. Now
he's going to be back in the

608
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:20.239
ring with MJF. He's showing him
that, hey, I've got you scouted,

609
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:24.400
you know, a little call back
to their previous encounter. I enjoyed

610
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:27.599
the match. I thought it was
fun. I think Big Bill is being

611
00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:30.920
completely wasted. I don't know why, especially if the firm is no more.

612
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:35.280
I don't know why he's teaming with
Lee Moriarty. I guess it gets

613
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:37.360
him on television, but my hope
is that they're going to have this extra

614
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:43.159
two hours of television now on TNT. He's one of those guys who hopefully

615
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:46.079
can get more exposure breakaway on his
own. You know, he's a big

616
00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.480
man who does the big man power
moves, but you know he can move

617
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:53.159
around in there. He's not like
a big lug and I think there's definite

618
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:57.719
potential in him to be doing more. So I don't really see how it's

619
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.920
benefiting him by continuing to be in
this tag team. It does nothing for

620
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:07.760
him, absolutely not. Alex Marvez
was in the parking garage and he was

621
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:14.159
trying to get a word with the
young Bucks and he wanted to know more

622
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:17.800
about the condition of Kenny Omega after
the attack at the end of last week's

623
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:23.440
show, and before they could really
answer the question, we saw in the

624
00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:28.559
background the Blackpool Combat Club. We
saw John Moxley, we saw Claudio,

625
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:32.239
and we saw Utah. They all
show up and he doesn't. They don't

626
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:35.840
see them at first, but then
they turn around and they see them,

627
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:39.039
and the Bucks act like, we
don't want to fight, and they take

628
00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:45.239
their suitcases and they chucked them and
they try to fight them off. Two

629
00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:46.440
on three. I didn't see Daniels
in in there. I think it was

630
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:52.519
three on two. They tried to
fight them off, but didn't work out

631
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:54.880
too well for them. They dumped
Nick Jackson onto the hood of a dodge

632
00:47:54.920 --> 00:48:00.639
Ram and then they slam Matt's injured
arm. He at a brace on his

633
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:06.679
elbow, slammed. Well, it's
not even the elbow. He had bicept

634
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:10.559
terror that he's been rehabbing, so
they slammed his arm on the truck hood.

635
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:15.480
Moxley looked into the camera and said
that we are the only elite in

636
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:21.960
this business. So then Missus Moxley
was elsewhere in the building. She was

637
00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:23.760
in the trainer's room with Wardlow,
who had an ice pack on his head.

638
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:28.719
Arn Anderson showed up and he grabbed
the ice pack and he threw it

639
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:32.280
against the wall and he asked Wardlow, what are you prepared to do about

640
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:37.199
what just happened out there. Wardlow
said, well, I'm gonna beat him

641
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:38.800
at his own game, and he
said, Christian, you want to pull

642
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:42.800
out ladders, then let's play with
ladders. You and me Double or Nothing

643
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:49.719
TNT title in a ladder match,
which made the match official after a break.

644
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:54.199
Renee was with a very tired Orange
Cassidy, who they pointed out,

645
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:59.199
you know, he got jumped by
Kyle Fletcher of Ossie opened last week backstage,

646
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.119
and he's one of many, she
said, who wants a shot at

647
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:07.079
Cassidy's International championship. Cassidy said,
if anybody wants a shot at my title,

648
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.239
go find Tony Kahn and I'll take
him on a double or Nothing,

649
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:16.199
and ex Caliber on commentary pointed out
he really drove home the point of how

650
00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:20.880
banged up he is. And they've
been doing that on commentary now for many

651
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:24.800
weeks just how you know, how
much of a beating he's taken all of

652
00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:30.239
these title defenses on television, and
he's all taped up and he's always looking

653
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:34.280
half dead to the world. So
this is a story that they've been telling

654
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:38.760
for a while now. That is
a building very soon to an excuse as

655
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:43.320
to why he will drop his championship. But one man can only take so

656
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:50.599
much. Sammy Gavara, he was
in action against Exodus Prime, not to

657
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:57.000
be confused with Optimus Prime or Rodimus
Prime from our live chat. I don't

658
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.639
know if he's here with us right
now, but shout out to Rodimus Prime.

659
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:05.400
Sammy beat him quickly with the a
g T. See. If Ronimus

660
00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:08.000
was in there, this match would
not have gotten this quick. Ronimus would

661
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.159
have at least given he would have
at least tried to put up a fight.

662
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:15.960
This was over in seconds. Beat
him with the GTH. Kavara took

663
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:19.239
the microphone after the match and he
cut a baby face promo, which is

664
00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:22.159
still very weird to me because as
far as I know, I believe he

665
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:28.159
is still part of the Jericho appreciation
society unless I missed something where he told

666
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:30.199
Jericho, I'm going to go out
on my own. He's still part of

667
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:37.079
one of the biggest heel factions in
this company. He's still a heel now.

668
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.000
I've seen a few episodes of AW
All Access, and I know the

669
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:44.719
stuff with him in Timello. Sammy
really is portrayed as a baby face on

670
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:49.079
that show, not on this one. That might be All Access, but

671
00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:52.519
that's not on Dynamite. But this
was a total baby face promo here.

672
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.719
They were in Texas tonight and he
talked about wrestling on the Texas independent scene,

673
00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:59.679
all the struggles that he went through. He said it all brought him

674
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:01.679
to where he is today. He
said, he knows he's not perfect,

675
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:06.039
and he's made a lot of mistakes. He said. The Texas fans saw

676
00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:08.960
him grow up in front of their
eyes. They saw his mistakes firsthand.

677
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:14.079
Sometimes it takes a few wrong turns
to get to the right place, and

678
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.559
the right place is double or nothing. He said. He's never listened to

679
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:21.119
the naysayers. He listens to his
heart, which tells him that he will

680
00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.480
be the new AW World Champion.
I think he may need a heart transplant

681
00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:30.159
if that's what his heart is telling
him. But again noticeably pushing him as

682
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:34.480
a baby Face. Over these last
couple of weeks, I am wondering if

683
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:37.599
it's just for this one pay per
view, this story they seem to be

684
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:43.159
telling where all three of the other
pillars are almost coming together with this understanding,

685
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.239
like, all, we may not
like each other, we may not

686
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.559
get along, but we got to
beat this guy, all right. This

687
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:52.159
guy's a jerk, he's a douche. We have to take that championship from

688
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:55.559
him. So they're all, they're
all going baby Face, right. Darby's

689
00:51:55.559 --> 00:52:00.199
already in baby Face and jungle Boy, so Sammy they feel like, well,

690
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.320
we have to portray him as a
baby face too, because MJF is

691
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:07.199
the top heel in this company,
and they just they have to take this

692
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.000
belt off him. No matter what. When the pay per view comes and

693
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:14.360
goes and MJF retains, is Samy
going to go right back to being a

694
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:17.800
heel. That's kind of how it
feels to me that he might just fall

695
00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:23.320
back into heel mode. Tony Schavanni
up next, was in the ring.

696
00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:30.840
He introduced Jeff Jarrett, Jay lethal
Sanjay Dutt who he pronounced it as Sanjay

697
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:37.519
Dutt and sat him sing. So
they made their entrance and Sanjay came out.

698
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:43.480
He had two guitars with ftr's names
on them. FTR ran out behind

699
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:45.800
them as they were making their entrance. They grabbed Satin him saying they knocked

700
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:50.960
him off the stage and he went
crashing through these two tables down below,

701
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:54.079
so that took him out of the
equation. They went after Jay Lethal,

702
00:52:54.119 --> 00:53:00.159
they went after Jeff Jarrett. Wheeler
got in some chair shots on Jaret.

703
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:05.719
Harwood stripped Lethal out of his suit
that he was wearing. So FTR was

704
00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:08.920
setting up for the big rig to
Jeff Jarrett. All of a sudden,

705
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:15.000
as they're setting up for the big
rig, we see behind FTR Bald,

706
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:21.199
we see a woman enter the rash. It might have been behind FTR hair,

707
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:27.519
but we see a woman entering the
ring and it's Karen Jarrett. Karen

708
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:31.000
Jarrett has not been a character on
AW television, so this was effectively her

709
00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:37.119
a W debut. Karen Jarrett gets
into the ring and she's posing for the

710
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:40.880
crowd a little bit, and then
she gets down and she delivers a low

711
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:46.360
blow to Cash Wheeler. Harwood sees
this when he turns around, Jarrett then

712
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:51.880
grabs him. Jeff does not.
Karen grabs him from behind gives him the

713
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:58.480
stroke. Now we see Satin him
saying he has recovered from his stage dive

714
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:02.119
and he is not very happy about
it. So he marches an angry giant

715
00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:07.000
marching down to the ring. He
gets inside and he grabs both members of

716
00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:12.039
FTR by the throat, gives them
a double choke slam. Lethal and Jeff

717
00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:16.400
hit simultaneous guitar shots on FTR who
were on their knees, so they get

718
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:21.840
whacked with the guitars smashed over their
heads and the heels posed with the tag

719
00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:27.199
team titles to close out the segment. I like the addition of Karen Jarrett,

720
00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:31.639
which is probably just temporary. I
would imagine I'm okay with it because

721
00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:37.480
she knows how to get heat.
She plays her role very well. And

722
00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:40.760
I felt that way too when they
had Jarrett in there with Jay Lethal against

723
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:47.519
Rick Flair and Andrade in Flair's final
match last year. Karen was part of

724
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:51.880
those segments in the build up to
it, and she was there that night.

725
00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:54.800
In fact, she was ringside for
the main event, and she's very

726
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:59.760
good in her role. She plays
her role well, So they're gonna do

727
00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:01.119
it. Arrott match on this pay
per view and it's only for a few

728
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:06.239
weeks. I don't see the harm
in it. Otherwise, a pretty standard

729
00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:08.119
angle to put some heat on the
heels going into the pay per view.

730
00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:15.239
Renee was backstage after this with Darby
Allen and he did reference the headlock finish

731
00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:19.920
in his match earlier. He said
it was a message to MJF. All

732
00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:23.480
of a sudden, Sammy Gavarro walked
in and he said, look, I

733
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:29.800
respect you, I respect Darby Allen. He said he knows Darby doesn't trust

734
00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:32.320
him, but I'm not going to
lay down for m JF. And he

735
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:36.400
says all that matters a double or
nothing, is that MJF does not walk

736
00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:40.519
out with the aw World Heavyweight Championship. And he put his fist out and

737
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:45.440
Darby said, may the best man
win, and he fist bumped Sammy back.

738
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:52.639
We had Tony Storm and Ruby Soho
It's Soreya in their corner against Doctor

739
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:58.519
Britt Baker, DMD and Hikarashida.
This was originally built as a trios match,

740
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:01.920
was going to be Britt Baker,
Sheeta and Jamie Hayter against all three

741
00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:07.119
members of the Outcasts, and then
even as early as this morning or as

742
00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:09.280
late, I should say, is
this morning it was still being advertised,

743
00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:14.559
and then during the day they announced
that there was a change and Jamie Hayter

744
00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:16.760
due to injury. She was not
medically cleared. She was pulled from the

745
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:21.400
match. We got this tag match
instead. She is not wrestled since April

746
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:24.239
nineteenth. There was a match on
television that did an injury angle with her,

747
00:56:24.280 --> 00:56:28.800
with her and Tony Storm up against
the ring steps where Tony Storm went

748
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:32.039
after her arm and she was helped
to the back. That night, Tony

749
00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:35.920
Storm was helped to the back by
the trainers. She was selling her arms.

750
00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:38.320
So clearly this was all you know, even before they made the announcement

751
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:42.119
later about you know, them doing
a match at the pay per view.

752
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:46.000
Clearly this was all just part of
the storyline. There were some people I

753
00:56:46.039 --> 00:56:51.119
saw online saying, oh, you
know, now Hayter is injured, and

754
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:53.760
I don't know if they just don't
watch the show's week to week and they

755
00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:57.559
didn't know that they did an injury
angle with her. But that's all this

756
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:00.320
ever was. This was all just
an injury angle. Sheeta was super over

757
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:06.119
with the crowd here in Texas.
Sheeta hit a jumping knee strike on Ruby

758
00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.360
covered her for a two count,
and then she hit a falcon arrow for

759
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:13.079
another near fall. Britt Baker tagged. Then she went for lockjaw, but

760
00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:17.079
Soho rolled onto her for a two
count. Soho hit the No Future kick

761
00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:21.760
and tagged out. Britt Baker put
Tony Storm down hit her with a stomp.

762
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:27.199
Sorea was bickering with the referee while
that was going on, Ruby slid

763
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:31.760
a can of spray paint Green spray
paint Tony Storm, who spray painted Britt

764
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:37.199
right in the face. Storm then
hit Storm zero on Brit and pinned her.

765
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:43.039
Good match and again Sheeta was super
over with the crowd not counting the

766
00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:45.039
match that she had on the Jericho
Cruise a few months ago. This was

767
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:51.960
a Carusheeda's first match on AW television
since December, and I'm not even sure

768
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:53.960
that match in December was on television. That might have been a dark match

769
00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:59.280
or a Dark Elevation match December.
You'd have to go all the way back

770
00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:02.239
to that match. I know she
goes back and forth between the States in

771
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:06.239
Japan, but I don't know why
it's been such a big gap since we've

772
00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:09.400
seen her wrestling on TV. Now. Later on in the show, Renee

773
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:14.639
was in the back with Tony Storm
and Tony Storm. It was mentioned that

774
00:58:14.679 --> 00:58:20.360
Tony Storm has won four matches in
five days, which apparently is something that's

775
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:22.880
never been done before here in a
Have they even had that many shows in

776
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:27.400
five days. I guess they had
some house shows. Maybe that's what they're

777
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:31.639
talking about. So Tony Storm challenged
Jamie Hayter to show up in Las Vegas

778
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:37.400
and put her Women's championship on the
line against her. It was Hayter who

779
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:40.360
beat Tony Storm to become champions,
so there is history between the two of

780
00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:45.320
them, and Tony was very animated
in laying down this challenge. She said,

781
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:49.639
yeah, four wins in five days. I'm showing up and putting in

782
00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:52.840
the work, unlike our champion.
So you show up in Las Vegas and

783
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:57.320
put your title on the line.
I'm surprised. I figured that they were

784
00:58:57.360 --> 00:58:59.800
going to save the trio's match for
the pay per view, But I'm fine

785
00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:01.960
with this. You know, the
two of them had a great match.

786
00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:05.199
Was it full gear? I think
it was, and they had a great

787
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:09.760
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Monster. Renee was backstage yet again.

806
01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:28.679
You know, I hope they I
hope they pay her well for all of

807
01:00:28.679 --> 01:00:31.960
the backstage stump. He used to
be Tony Schivanni who would have to teleport

808
01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:35.920
back and forth for all these segments, and then finally when they hired her,

809
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:38.559
they were able to lessen his workload
a little bit, and now it's

810
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:43.960
her running all over the place doing
these interviews. But Renee was backstage with

811
01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:49.039
Orange Cassidy again, and she informed
Cassidy that since they last spoke earlier in

812
01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:52.360
the show a few segments ago,
twenty different men went to Tony CON's office

813
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:58.559
and answered his challenge for double or
Nothing. Cassidy said, whoa boy,

814
01:00:58.599 --> 01:01:01.960
that's a lot. He said,
you know it's it's Las Vegas, right,

815
01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:07.280
So why don't we make it a
twenty one man Blackjack battle Royal at

816
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:13.239
double or Nothing for the International Championship. And he even offered Renee a spot

817
01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:16.960
in the match, and she politely
declined, well, I'll say this if

818
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:22.400
they want to get the belt off
this guy without pinning him, this would

819
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:24.320
be one way to do it.
I don't know if they're gonna do it

820
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:28.119
at double or nothing, or if
you're gonna wait to do it until Forbidden

821
01:01:28.159 --> 01:01:30.840
Door, but seems to me like
the way they've been talking about him on

822
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:36.599
commentary, putting him in there in
a match like this sure feels like we're

823
01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:38.639
gonna get a new champion. To
me, I can't even comment on who

824
01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:42.880
who it would be because I don't
know who's gonna be in the Battle Royal.

825
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:45.960
Let me take your pick. There's
a lot of really talented people on

826
01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:51.719
this right, Miro just came back, right, Apparently they're saving Miro for

827
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:57.960
collision. I think Miro is international
champion would be great, you know,

828
01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.679
ideally you might want to, you
know, start racking up some wins first,

829
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:07.079
but he's one of many, many
people who would be I think,

830
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:10.480
a perfectly fine choice to take that
championship away from Cassidy. Again, I

831
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:13.559
just don't know who it's going to
be until we know who's in the Battle

832
01:02:13.639 --> 01:02:15.400
Royal, which my guess is we
will not know until the day of the

833
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:22.280
show. And then it was Tony
time. We're not talking about Tony Storm.

834
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:27.559
We're talking about Tony kan time to
hear from Tony kN and yet another

835
01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:31.679
pre taped backstage segment. He called
today one of the greatest days in AW

836
01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:37.360
history. My guess is this was
this Maybe this was pre taped before today.

837
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:40.320
I don't know that I would today
should have been one of the greatest

838
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:45.079
days in AW history. I don't
know that we could call it that now.

839
01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:47.639
But he said today was one of
the greatest days in a w history,

840
01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:52.800
and he mentioned the Collision premiere for
June seventeen. He said, after

841
01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:55.320
that first Collision show, they're going
to be on the road in Canada,

842
01:02:55.360 --> 01:03:00.519
which we already knew. They have
a Canadian tour coming up, followed by

843
01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:04.440
a return to the US at the
Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

844
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.519
And as for the Collision premiere next
week, he said that he will tell

845
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:16.039
us where that event will be taking
place. Another announcement about the announcement,

846
01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:21.159
gave another announcement yet to come next
week. We're gonna have announcements every week

847
01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:24.480
until we get to the Collision premiere, So that announcement will be made on

848
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:30.480
Dynamite next Wednesday. So the Canada
dates we put them up here. The

849
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:35.800
Canada dates were already announced, but
those Saturday dates, which looked like they

850
01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:37.880
would have been live events, we
pretty much figured, no, those are

851
01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:42.199
going to be collision shows. Well, yes, they've been converted into collision

852
01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:46.320
shows. So June twenty fourth they're
going to be in Toronto at the Scotia

853
01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:51.639
Bank Arena. June twenty ninth is
a Thursday, so I guess that week

854
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:54.840
they're taping Collision. That's going to
be from the First Ontario Center in Hamilton,

855
01:03:54.920 --> 01:04:01.559
Ontario. Saturday July eighth, from
the Brand Center in Hold on a

856
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:06.800
second, we got Saskatchewan. Is
that Saskatchewan? I believe it is.

857
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.840
I believe it is Regina? Is
it? Is it? Regina? Regina?

858
01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:16.719
Regina? Right, Regina, Regina, Saturday July fifteenth from the Saddle

859
01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:19.440
Dome. And I'll get that right
one of these days. Saturday, July

860
01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:24.480
fifteenth, from the Saddle Dome in
Calgary, Alberta. That was the side

861
01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:30.960
of the side of the Canadian Stampede
back in nineteen ninety seven, and again

862
01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:35.360
July twenty second back in the US
at the Prudential Center in Newark. I

863
01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:40.679
was expecting more out of this announcement. This was pretty ho hum stuff.

864
01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:44.760
I mean, look, if you
don't live and die by every every little

865
01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:48.079
rumor, every little news article on
social media and all the wrestling news websites,

866
01:04:48.119 --> 01:04:53.320
if you're just a very casual fan
of AW, maybe you didn't know

867
01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:57.000
about this collision stuff, and this
is the first time you're hearing about it,

868
01:04:57.719 --> 01:05:00.360
and so you find out about that
and the dates, and it's enough

869
01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:02.760
of an announcement for you. But
again, there was that quote in that

870
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:06.360
press release that they put out earlier
today from the president of the network talking

871
01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:13.039
about the hardcore wrestling fans, the
hardcore AW fan base, which is primarily,

872
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:15.519
let's be honest, I mean,
it's primarily made up of people like

873
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:18.639
you and me. It's primarily made
up of people who consider themselves to be

874
01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:24.280
die hard wrestling fans. And so
as far as die hard wrestling fans go,

875
01:05:25.480 --> 01:05:28.599
this was disappointing. I mean,
I thought there would be some clarity

876
01:05:28.639 --> 01:05:30.679
maybe on the Wembley show. I
mean again, I thought that he said

877
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:34.280
he was going to have a follow
up as well, follow up on one

878
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:39.440
of the biggest announcements in AW history, in addition to whatever this other big

879
01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:45.519
announcement was going to be. So
I guess silly me for reading too much

880
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:47.280
into it, but just the way
that he framed it last week, I

881
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:53.079
thought we were getting more than what
we got here in this segment here.

882
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:59.119
So again, if there really are
problems with punkin aw they have a week

883
01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:01.280
to work it out, because he's
got to go out there and make the

884
01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:04.480
announcement next week. If it's going
to be in Chicago. I don't see

885
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:09.360
how you do a Chicago show for
that premiere unless you know you have Cmpunk.

886
01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:14.159
I mean, I think at this
point you run the United Center if

887
01:06:14.159 --> 01:06:15.599
you have him, and if you
don't, you pick a different venue and

888
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:20.639
you run somewhere else. I'm sure
there'll be a lot more that comes out

889
01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:25.519
this week about that whole situation.
We'll know for sure by next week.

890
01:06:26.199 --> 01:06:30.519
Then came my favorite match of the
entire night, Chris Jericho one on one

891
01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:34.360
with Roderick Strong, Falls Count Anywhere, the Jericho Appreciation Society, and Adam

892
01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:41.159
Cole, all of them banned from
the building. Strong attacked with chops.

893
01:06:41.199 --> 01:06:45.159
He was charging with four arms.
I mean, Jericho did not even have

894
01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:48.559
his jacket off and Roddy was just
kicking his ass. He almost ran down

895
01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:53.039
Aubrey in the process, he was
going back and forth, back and forth,

896
01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:58.039
so he almost got the end of
heartache backbreaker. Jericho countered into the

897
01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:00.880
walls, Strong, got a rope
break, and both men fought into the

898
01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:05.199
crowd during the picture and picture break, one of the few picture and picture

899
01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:09.480
breaks, right. I tried to
really focus and pay attention to what was

900
01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:13.239
going on here because I saw that
they were they were starting to make their

901
01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:16.960
way up the staircase, so they
brawl through the stands. Ex Caliber at

902
01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:23.280
this point delivers the unfortunate news that
superstar Billy Graham has passed away, just

903
01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:28.840
as Chris Jericho is delivering a suplex
through I think it was a merchandise table,

904
01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:33.440
so he supplexes him. The table
breaks, and then you at the

905
01:07:33.480 --> 01:07:38.800
same time have Tazz and Tony Schavanni
on commentary who were shocked by the news

906
01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:42.559
and they're offering their condolences. So
it wasn't the ideal timing for this,

907
01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:46.159
but yeah, look, it's when
you're given that responsibility to announce something like

908
01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:51.519
that and you have to very quickly
switch from cell mode and commentating on what

909
01:07:51.559 --> 01:07:56.679
you're seeing to you know, delivering
this horrible news. It's not an easy

910
01:07:56.679 --> 01:08:00.440
thing to do. So this is
the point in the show where they and

911
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:02.480
credit to them to break into the
show and make mention of it, you

912
01:08:02.519 --> 01:08:06.320
know. So this is where they
made the announcement. So they continued their

913
01:08:06.320 --> 01:08:13.360
brawl onto the concourse and Roddy fought
back. He dumped Jericho backwards with a

914
01:08:13.400 --> 01:08:17.239
backsup plex on top of the concession
desking where you go up to get your

915
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:20.640
food and drink. He just dropped
him with the backsup plex on top of

916
01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:25.800
the desk. From there, they
fought their way into a stairwell, and

917
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:29.600
in this stairwell was a ledge.
I don't know how many inches it came

918
01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:31.239
out. I mean it probably came
out. It may have come out by

919
01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:34.479
about a foot. Yeah, they
had a decent amount of room on that

920
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:39.800
ledge to fight. What a great
fucking place though, if you saw it,

921
01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:42.560
you gotta kind of picture it.
But a great place for them to

922
01:08:42.600 --> 01:08:45.439
fight. Teasing them, maybe one
of them would kind of go over the

923
01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:48.800
edge and fall down the stairs.
So that was a great little area for

924
01:08:48.840 --> 01:08:54.720
them to a brawl. I love
shit like that. They fought their way

925
01:08:54.760 --> 01:09:00.439
back onto the concourse and Roddy threw
ice cream in Jericho's face, because they

926
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:02.319
brawled over where they had. I
don't know if it was an ice cream

927
01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:06.319
float or what it was, but
he threw ice cream in Jericho's face.

928
01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:11.079
Jericho, he looked like something out
of the first Ghostbusters movie. When the

929
01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:16.039
State Puff marshmallow Man exploded. Everybody
was just covered in marshmallow goo. So

930
01:09:16.079 --> 01:09:19.840
he had that all over his face. And at the same time, Tony

931
01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:26.560
Schavanni begins to mark out for mister
Softie. I mean, this guy was

932
01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:32.159
he was so happy to see this
ice cream all over Jericho's face. Jericho

933
01:09:32.279 --> 01:09:35.720
then walks over. He's practically blind, right, he can't see where he's

934
01:09:35.760 --> 01:09:40.640
going. He's got the long hairs
covered in white shit all over his fin

935
01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:44.279
There's a visual for you. His
face is covered in white shit. And

936
01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:49.359
he goes over to a garbage can, and I'm hoping, I'm hoping this

937
01:09:49.479 --> 01:09:56.319
was a planted garbage can. He
reaches into the garbage can and just grabs

938
01:09:56.399 --> 01:10:00.119
it was some kind of paper that
was on top to wipe the ice cream

939
01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:04.560
off of his face. That seems
very unwise to me, So I'm hoping

940
01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:09.159
that they had planted that there for
him, because otherwise, I don't know

941
01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:14.479
why you would do that. So
they ended up then outside the arena,

942
01:10:14.640 --> 01:10:17.960
and Roddy is is like begging off. Now he's the baby face, right,

943
01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:21.000
the baby face doesn't beg off,
So right away you can tell,

944
01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:25.439
okay, something's up here, right, and you start putting two and two

945
01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:29.199
together and you realize that when a
minute the stipulation was that Adam Cole was

946
01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:31.960
banned from the building. Well,
now they're outside the building, and sure

947
01:10:32.079 --> 01:10:38.319
enough, there you see behind Jericho
in the background there's Adam Cole and Chris.

948
01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:42.520
Jericho has no idea and he's yelling
at Roddy and he's talking trash,

949
01:10:42.600 --> 01:10:46.640
and he turns around and he sees
Adam Cole. Adam Cole attacks Jericho.

950
01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:51.119
Since the rule no longer applies,
he can attack Jericho, beats the crap

951
01:10:51.119 --> 01:10:56.279
out of him, and he delivered
the last shot to the back of Jericho's

952
01:10:56.279 --> 01:11:00.319
head as Jericho was on his knees
on this dirt mound, and Roddy covered

953
01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:04.239
Jericho and pinned him to win the
match. I loved this match, I

954
01:11:04.319 --> 01:11:09.520
really did. I loved this match
because finally they lived up, someone lived

955
01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:15.000
up to the stipulation. A real
falls count anywhere match. So many times,

956
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:18.720
especially in WWE, I've seen these
false count Anywhere matches where yeah,

957
01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:24.760
they'll brawl up the staircase into the
crowd, maybe they'll go in a little

958
01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:27.520
backstage area, and then it's right
back out to the ring. They don't

959
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:30.800
take full advantage, right, How
many times do they really brawl out of

960
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:33.640
the building anymore, you know what
I mean? Like, not very often,

961
01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:38.479
not very often. So they took
full advantage of it. And what

962
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:40.880
this reminded me. I think this
is one of the reasons I liked this.

963
01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:44.720
It reminded me a lot of the
Christian of the Chris Jerich, of

964
01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:50.319
the Chris Benois Kevin Sullivan false count
Anywhere match from Great American Bashi in ninety

965
01:11:50.319 --> 01:11:56.159
six. The only thing it was
missing was Dusty Rhodes on commentary freaking out

966
01:11:56.199 --> 01:12:00.359
at the sight of there being a
woman in the men's bathroom. I'll never

967
01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:01.439
forget that for the right for the
rest of my life. I will never

968
01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:03.720
forget that as long as I live. Just I could hear it in my

969
01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:09.439
head right now, Dusty's commentary.
He was so just blown away by this

970
01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:14.039
that there is a lady in the
men's bathroom. But I love that match

971
01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:18.640
that was just ten minutes of pure
chaos between those two. This reminded me

972
01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:24.000
of that in a way. And
I also love how the baby face outsmart

973
01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:28.439
at the heel. I talked about
dumb baby face syndrome on these wrestling shows.

974
01:12:29.279 --> 01:12:32.399
No dumb baby face here. Roddy
lured him into a trap. Adam

975
01:12:32.439 --> 01:12:36.279
Cole was there waiting for him,
and it paid off in the end.

976
01:12:36.359 --> 01:12:41.359
So I like how the baby Faces
came out of this looking smarter and not

977
01:12:41.479 --> 01:12:45.960
looking dumb the way so many other
baby Faces, like Wardlow and the opening

978
01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:49.600
segment of the show looks stupid when
these segments rote. So this was good

979
01:12:49.600 --> 01:13:00.319
ship. We had Jungle Boy Jack
Perry one on one against Ruche William have

980
01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:11.399
you have you never seen the match
with Ben Wah and Sullivan. You gotta

981
01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:15.479
fight. You gotta hop on peacock
and watch that man. You gotta hop

982
01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:19.800
on there right now and we're done
here and go watch that match. So

983
01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:26.079
Jungle Boy against Ruche. Ruche wasted
no time going after Jungle Boy right at

984
01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:29.600
the bell and Jose the assistant was
out there with him. He pulled a

985
01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:32.239
cable cord out from under the ring. Ruche was just I mean he was

986
01:13:32.319 --> 01:13:35.640
kicking this guy's ass. He was
throwing him head first into the barricade.

987
01:13:36.640 --> 01:13:41.880
So this led to Jungle Boy being
busted open. He's busted open pretty badly

988
01:13:43.399 --> 01:13:46.439
and he never really never even got
out of the gate by the time they

989
01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:50.520
got to the commercial break. He
tried to fight back with a comeback Lariot

990
01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:57.239
Ruche had that scouted, so then
Jungle Boy delivered a chop and then there

991
01:13:57.319 --> 01:14:02.039
was kind of an odd moment here
where he went for a cup check right

992
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:09.079
in front of the referee. He
grabbed Jungle Boy by the balls. Have

993
01:14:09.079 --> 01:14:13.560
you ever been to the doctor before? Right the doctor sometimes will he'll grab

994
01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:17.520
it and go cough. Maybe he
was playing doctor in this match, I

995
01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:23.119
don't know. But the referee just
stood there and stared. I don't know.

996
01:14:23.199 --> 01:14:26.399
Maybe he liked it, I don't
know. He stood there and watched

997
01:14:26.439 --> 01:14:30.039
as this took place. So a
little bit later on, Jose is out

998
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:34.159
there and Jose grabs Jungle Boy's leg
again in front of the referee, who

999
01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:40.880
does nothing. So Jungle Boy ducked
a charging Ruche and he was able to

1000
01:14:40.920 --> 01:14:44.640
lock on the snare trap. Ruche
managed to make it to the ropes.

1001
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:50.920
Both men ended up on the apron. Rouche had the blood from Jungle Boy's

1002
01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:55.279
face. He was licking it.
He was licking the blood, which is

1003
01:14:55.319 --> 01:14:59.920
just fucking disgusting. Jungle Boy charged
at him and Ruche hit an overhead belly

1004
01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:03.439
belly suplex to the floor. The
people reacted big time to that. He's

1005
01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:08.520
lucky he didn't land on his head. He tried fighting back the Jungle Boy,

1006
01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:12.439
but he again, he was just
getting wrecked in there. This is

1007
01:15:12.479 --> 01:15:15.000
a guy who's in the World Championship
main event coming up on this pay per

1008
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:18.239
view, So again, it was
a little odd to see him in there

1009
01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:24.159
struggling so much when Darby Allen didn't
struggle this much and Sammy Gavard didn't struggle

1010
01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:28.319
at all. He had a throwaway
match on this show. He had a

1011
01:15:28.399 --> 01:15:31.439
job match on this show. Jungle
Boy didn't have a night off. Jungle

1012
01:15:31.479 --> 01:15:34.960
Boy. He was fighting for his
life in there, And maybe they're trying

1013
01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:39.000
to tell a story here as far
as the different pillars and what they've gone

1014
01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:42.520
through to get to this point.
I mean, Darby and Jungle Boy have

1015
01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:46.039
been pretty similar as far as you
know, having some tough challenges, but

1016
01:15:46.119 --> 01:15:51.760
certainly for tonight Jungle Boy. He
must have pulled the short straw because he'd

1017
01:15:51.800 --> 01:15:55.840
barely survived. He survived, I
did. He didn't even win this match.

1018
01:15:55.880 --> 01:15:59.439
He survived this match. He got
the win with a schoolboy into a

1019
01:15:59.439 --> 01:16:01.840
flash pay, and I think he
may have had the trunks. Not a

1020
01:16:01.920 --> 01:16:06.800
very convincing win for somebody who's challenging
mjf in I think what two weeks less

1021
01:16:06.800 --> 01:16:11.840
than two weeks now after the match, Preston Vance, Jose and Rouge,

1022
01:16:11.840 --> 01:16:15.119
they all attacked Jungle Boy until Darby
Allen hit the ring. He found himself

1023
01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:19.039
being choked out by that cable chord
that Jose had brought out earlier. Sammy

1024
01:16:19.079 --> 01:16:24.279
Gavar made the save. He took
Ruche out on the ramp. Darby took

1025
01:16:24.279 --> 01:16:28.600
out Jose with a scorpion death drop. Preston Vance got wiped up by Sammy

1026
01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:33.880
and Darby, and all three challengers
for the AW World Championship were standing tall,

1027
01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:40.920
staring each other down to close out
this segment. A good match again,

1028
01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:44.560
A little strange as far as the
Jungle Boy booking. I guess they

1029
01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:47.239
just want him to fight through adversity
before he gets to this match. But

1030
01:16:48.359 --> 01:16:53.720
it certainly was not an easy time
for him compared to the other two on

1031
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:57.680
this show. But and again,
those moments with the referee, This is

1032
01:16:57.840 --> 01:17:00.640
a recurring problem in a lot of
these matches. There are moments like that

1033
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:05.119
where the referee is in full view
of something that should not be happening and

1034
01:17:05.159 --> 01:17:10.960
should not be allowed, and you
can't you can't lean on the fact anymore

1035
01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:15.079
that well aw doesn't do disqualifications.
They did one tonight. They've leaned into

1036
01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:19.319
the disqualification a little bit more.
There's a lot of moments like that where

1037
01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:24.520
the referees are just made to look
incredibly stupid, you know, with some

1038
01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:27.760
of these spots that they do in
these matches. This is another example of

1039
01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:31.279
that. So Renee was in the
back. She approached MJF, who was

1040
01:17:31.319 --> 01:17:36.199
watching this all play out right.
He saw the three pillars standing tall,

1041
01:17:36.319 --> 01:17:41.880
staring each other down in the finale
of that previous segment. She goes over

1042
01:17:41.880 --> 01:17:45.239
to MJF. She wants to know
how he's feeling ahead of the championship match

1043
01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:49.119
coming up in double or nothing.
MJF says nothing, He looks pissed.

1044
01:17:49.439 --> 01:17:56.279
He smacks the microphone out of her
hand and he walks away very rude.

1045
01:17:58.119 --> 01:18:06.199
That's the most we got out of
MJF tonight. I said the word adversities.

1046
01:18:06.279 --> 01:18:11.680
Everybody is thinking now of the rubber
Chicken. Yeah, poor Cody,

1047
01:18:12.520 --> 01:18:15.039
Poor Cody. I look like the
smartest man in the room. Every day

1048
01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:19.600
that goes by, every day,
I feel so validated and vindicated after the

1049
01:18:19.600 --> 01:18:25.319
ship that I got after Night two
of WrestleMania. Every day that goes by,

1050
01:18:25.399 --> 01:18:30.399
I look smarter and smarter. So
we had Ricky stars one on one

1051
01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:34.159
against Switchblade j White. This was
another This was the second best match on

1052
01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:38.239
this show tonight. The Jericho match
I enjoyed the most. This one I

1053
01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:43.119
enjoyed the most after that, except
for the finish. But I think the

1054
01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:45.560
finish was done the way it was
for a reason. Starts fired out of

1055
01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:49.119
the corner with a lariat, hit
a Manhattan drop, charging me in a

1056
01:18:49.159 --> 01:18:54.840
back elbow. J White charged right
into a belly to belly soup plex and

1057
01:18:54.880 --> 01:18:59.279
a Tornado DDT for two. It
took Ricky too long though, to follow

1058
01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:03.039
up. Jay White draped Ricky over
the top rope, followed with a huge

1059
01:19:03.199 --> 01:19:08.520
urinage for a near fall. J
White was signaling from Blade Runner, but

1060
01:19:08.640 --> 01:19:13.319
Ricky elbowed free until j supplexed him
over the top rope to the floor back

1061
01:19:13.319 --> 01:19:17.279
inside. Ricky almost got a quick
roll up for a near fall. Follow

1062
01:19:17.359 --> 01:19:23.199
that with a snap neck breaker.
Ricky hit a mister X slam that almost

1063
01:19:23.199 --> 01:19:28.680
got three is a very close near
fall. Juice Robinson was outside in Ja

1064
01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:32.319
White's corner. He tripped up Ricky
long enough for j White to try blade

1065
01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:36.760
runners starts, though got a roll
up for two. J White gouged the

1066
01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:42.279
eyes of Ricky at another point when
Ricky got him up with the row chambau,

1067
01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:46.199
so the referee is reprimanding him for
that. While that's going on,

1068
01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:50.560
Juice Robinson grabs a chair and he
gets into the ring. He tries to,

1069
01:19:51.600 --> 01:19:56.319
doesn't try to. He takes a
swing and tries to take Ricky's head

1070
01:19:56.359 --> 01:19:59.960
off, almost does. Ricky ducks
it. He gets possession of the chair

1071
01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:04.079
and he ends up hitting Jay White
in the mid section with it and then

1072
01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:09.279
smacks him across the back with it, and that got him disqualified. So

1073
01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:13.319
Jay White, still undefeated in this
company, picks up the DQ win.

1074
01:20:13.880 --> 01:20:17.600
Disappointing finish to what I thought was
an otherwise strong match. I enjoyed the

1075
01:20:17.640 --> 01:20:24.520
match itself. It was good to
see how how with Ricky the crowd was

1076
01:20:24.560 --> 01:20:28.960
for some of those near falls in
the latter stages of the match. I

1077
01:20:29.119 --> 01:20:32.279
just again, I'm not impressed by
the booking of Ricky Starks ever since that

1078
01:20:32.399 --> 01:20:35.640
Jericho feud. It just feels like, even though J White, I still

1079
01:20:35.680 --> 01:20:41.159
look at J White as a pretty
big star. You know, Ricky had

1080
01:20:41.159 --> 01:20:45.640
a lot of momentum going into the
Jericho stuff, and he came out of

1081
01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:48.319
the Jericho feed with a win.
But again, it feels like he has

1082
01:20:48.359 --> 01:20:53.359
been knocked down a couple of notches, which is they're not focusing on him

1083
01:20:53.399 --> 01:20:56.880
as much as I would like to
see them focus on him. So if

1084
01:20:56.920 --> 01:21:00.880
there is going to be a benefit
to having that extra two hours of television,

1085
01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:06.119
I'm hoping that he and Powerhouse Hobbs, among others, can be the

1086
01:21:06.119 --> 01:21:11.119
beneficiary of that, because I just
have not been impressed with the booking.

1087
01:21:12.159 --> 01:21:16.000
If Ricky Starks very good match,
and clearly, you know with this finish,

1088
01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:18.840
they can't leave us hanging like this. I hope they run this back.

1089
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:25.399
I'm expecting them to run this back, maybe with a stipulation, although

1090
01:21:25.439 --> 01:21:29.239
I don't think it needs one at
double or nothing, because I was surprised

1091
01:21:29.239 --> 01:21:31.039
they even announced this for television.
I figured they would just save it for

1092
01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:36.520
Vegas. So they have to run
this back. And the closing segment was

1093
01:21:36.680 --> 01:21:44.039
Tony Shivani introducing us to Don Callous. Came down to the ring. As

1094
01:21:44.119 --> 01:21:49.600
Don Callis was making his way down, they had on the screen behind him

1095
01:21:50.039 --> 01:21:56.479
they were replaying the callous actions of
Don Callous. See what I did there,

1096
01:21:56.680 --> 01:21:59.600
the callous actions of this man at
the end of the show last week

1097
01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:03.520
when he betrayed Kenny Omega. So
they're replaying that. On either side of

1098
01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:09.600
the aisle. They have a line
of security people and then once Kallis got

1099
01:22:09.600 --> 01:22:13.680
into the ring, all the security
people were guarding the ring to prevent Kenny

1100
01:22:13.680 --> 01:22:15.760
Omega, I guess, from getting
or anyone from the elite from getting involved.

1101
01:22:17.640 --> 01:22:20.520
So he said he wanted to talk, but he didn't want to talk

1102
01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:25.039
about what he did to Kenny Omega, but rather what Kenny Omega did to

1103
01:22:25.119 --> 01:22:30.640
him, because you see, he
is the real victim here, says after

1104
01:22:30.680 --> 01:22:35.319
all he did for Kenny IWGP champion
because of him, Tokyo Dome against Chris

1105
01:22:35.399 --> 01:22:40.680
Jericho because of him. When he
won the aw World Championship for the first

1106
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:45.640
time that was him. At this
point, we hear Kenny Omega's entrance music.

1107
01:22:45.279 --> 01:22:49.359
Kenny comes out on stage, and
of course he sees all the security

1108
01:22:49.479 --> 01:22:54.439
blocking his path and he decides to
try to plow through all of them,

1109
01:22:54.479 --> 01:22:58.239
and he starts, but then he
gets jumped from behind by the Blackpool Combat

1110
01:22:58.239 --> 01:23:00.960
Club, including Brian Danielson. Again, I didn't see if Danielson got physical

1111
01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:04.119
or not, but he was out
there this time. It was all four

1112
01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:09.880
members of the BCC. Moxiley gave
him a paradigm shift on the ramp.

1113
01:23:10.279 --> 01:23:13.960
Moxley, Danielson, Claudio and Judah. They all came down to the ring.

1114
01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:17.840
Callous disappeared. We never saw Don
Callis. We never heard from Don

1115
01:23:17.880 --> 01:23:21.600
Callis. Again, we don't know
if he's affiliated with the Blackpool Combat Club

1116
01:23:21.600 --> 01:23:28.680
in any way. My guess is
no, not not officially. But we

1117
01:23:28.720 --> 01:23:32.960
still have not gotten the explanation from
Don Callis. Although I'm pretty confident we're

1118
01:23:33.000 --> 01:23:38.640
going to get that explanation from Don
Callis long before we ever get an explanation

1119
01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:44.680
from brock Lesner about why he attacked
Cody Rose. I could almost guarantee you

1120
01:23:44.800 --> 01:23:48.840
we will get the explanation from Don
callis before we ever get that. But

1121
01:23:48.960 --> 01:23:53.960
tonight was not that night. So
Moxley warned Omega till Kenny stay down.

1122
01:23:54.439 --> 01:23:59.039
He said, we are the elite. The young Bucks music played. They

1123
01:23:59.119 --> 01:24:03.600
limped out with a garbage can filled
with weapons, so they each grabbed the

1124
01:24:03.600 --> 01:24:08.479
weapon. Nick Jackson grabbed a two
by four. Matt Jackson grabbed a pipe

1125
01:24:10.720 --> 01:24:14.760
he use as a weapon, not
a different kind of pipe. Kenny Omega

1126
01:24:14.800 --> 01:24:18.960
grabbed the trash can lid. Then
Hangman Adam Page's music hit to a big

1127
01:24:19.039 --> 01:24:24.800
pop, and out came the cowboy
in a leather jacket with an eyepatch.

1128
01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:29.680
He was out there looking like Snake
Plisken, only not as cool. And

1129
01:24:29.800 --> 01:24:33.760
the elite handed him a broomstick,
because nothing says cool like a fucking broomstick.

1130
01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:40.319
But all four of them now have
weapons, and they charged the ring.

1131
01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:44.279
They beat up the heels and ended
with the Bucks delivering a BT trigger

1132
01:24:44.359 --> 01:24:49.640
to Utah Utah then ate a buckshot
lariat from Hangman. Hangman grabbed the microphone.

1133
01:24:49.680 --> 01:24:54.239
He shouted, we are the heart, the soul and the spirit of

1134
01:24:54.279 --> 01:25:00.319
this place. We are the elite, So run and hide while you can,

1135
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:02.720
because of double or nothing. It's
the Elite and the Blackpool Combat Club

1136
01:25:02.800 --> 01:25:11.079
anarchy in the arena. Everybody cheered. This is a great angle predictable outcome.

1137
01:25:11.119 --> 01:25:15.359
As far as the match, I
figured it was probably gonna be anarchy

1138
01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:18.600
in the arena because last year's went
so well. They did it for the

1139
01:25:18.600 --> 01:25:23.880
first time last year, and it
ended up being and I did not think

1140
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:26.640
it would be, but it ended
up being one of my favorite matches of

1141
01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:29.680
the entire year. When I did
my Top fifteen countdown at the end of

1142
01:25:29.680 --> 01:25:33.640
twenty twenty two, I had that
at number eight on my list of favorite

1143
01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:38.560
matches for the entire year. See
that that's probably the spot that on this

1144
01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:42.000
year's list will end up going to. Like Damian Priest and Bad Bunny.

1145
01:25:42.439 --> 01:25:45.439
You just you have those matches that
are just so entertaining. It's like a

1146
01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:49.880
sports entertainment match, but it's just
so fucking fun that you can't help but

1147
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:54.960
rank it. So I'm glad they're
bringing it back. Last year's a lot

1148
01:25:55.000 --> 01:25:57.479
of fun. And when you consider
who's involved in this one, this one's

1149
01:25:57.520 --> 01:26:02.880
gonna be probably pure insanity this year
given who's involved. So we still need

1150
01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:08.439
to hear from Callis. I'm looking
at this and I'm saying no explanation yet,

1151
01:26:09.119 --> 01:26:12.840
although there's still another week or two
to get one. So we know

1152
01:26:12.920 --> 01:26:15.479
the first match is going to be
anarchy in the arena. Is that where

1153
01:26:15.520 --> 01:26:20.319
Canoskate te Keshti returns. Does he
help the Blackpool Combat Club beat the Elite?

1154
01:26:20.359 --> 01:26:24.720
Is that the next swerve that we're
in for where we find out that

1155
01:26:24.760 --> 01:26:30.279
he's basically accepted Callis's invitation because Callis
has been recruiting him for months very quietly.

1156
01:26:31.039 --> 01:26:33.960
Does he show up last time we
saw him, he was busted open

1157
01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:40.000
by the Blackpool Combat Club. I
could see te Keshta getting involved at Double

1158
01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:45.880
or Nothing and helping the Blackpool Combat
Club to a victory because they should win.

1159
01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:48.039
If they're going to run it back
and do a second match and do

1160
01:26:48.079 --> 01:26:53.960
Blood and Guts in June or July, then the Blackpool Combat Club the Heels

1161
01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:58.319
have to go over in this first
match. There has to be a reason

1162
01:26:58.479 --> 01:27:01.239
for the Elite to want to fight
their way back to beat these guys again,

1163
01:27:02.039 --> 01:27:05.319
and so I could see t Keshta
being on the side of the Heels.

1164
01:27:05.800 --> 01:27:10.119
That would then pave the way for
the Elite to bring in Koda and

1165
01:27:10.199 --> 01:27:14.720
Bushi. We've heard about. Bushi
has flat out said number one priority for

1166
01:27:14.800 --> 01:27:19.560
him is a w and the Golden
Lovers. He said this last week.

1167
01:27:21.880 --> 01:27:26.840
Well, the stage is set,
the path is very clear if he wants

1168
01:27:26.880 --> 01:27:29.520
to come in, and I'm sure
Tony Khan would love to have him and

1169
01:27:29.600 --> 01:27:32.640
Kenny would love to bring him in. There you go five on five blood

1170
01:27:32.640 --> 01:27:36.880
and guts to Keshtaw on one side. Who's the fifth man on the baby

1171
01:27:36.920 --> 01:27:44.119
face side, Koda Bushi. It's
all right there. So I enjoyed the

1172
01:27:44.159 --> 01:27:46.760
closing angle. I enjoyed the show
overall. It was a very good episode

1173
01:27:46.760 --> 01:27:51.520
of Dynamite. Rampaged on Friday night. I'm sure it's not in its normal

1174
01:27:51.560 --> 01:27:59.760
time slot because this show has just
been completely decimated for six weeks now.

1175
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:03.479
I can't remember the last time Rampage
aired in its normal time slot, but

1176
01:28:03.560 --> 01:28:09.119
I believe it is airing on Friday. We have Moxley, Claudio and Utah

1177
01:28:09.439 --> 01:28:14.680
taking on best Friends in Bendido.
We'll hear from the Hardies, the Acclaimed

1178
01:28:14.680 --> 01:28:18.159
and Billy Gunn take on the Varsity
Athletes, and Ari Davari Jade Cargill Open

1179
01:28:18.279 --> 01:28:29.640
Challenge for the TBS title and Bishop
Cone battles Dustin Rose. Dynamite next week

1180
01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:34.600
has a Ring of Honor Tag Team
championship match because when Claudio beat Ray Phoenix

1181
01:28:34.680 --> 01:28:40.640
last week, it was a double
Jeopardy match, so the loser would have

1182
01:28:40.680 --> 01:28:44.960
to defend his championship against the winner. Ray Phoenix is one half of the

1183
01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:49.560
Ring of Honor Tag Team champions.
Claudio and Utah will be challenging Penta and

1184
01:28:49.640 --> 01:28:53.680
Phoenix for the belts on Dynamite next
week. Why we're doing a Ring of

1185
01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:57.560
Honor Tag team title match on Dynamite
when they have a Ring of Honor television

1186
01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:02.560
show. Don't ask me. I'm
not the one who booked it. I'm

1187
01:29:02.600 --> 01:29:06.319
sure it'll be a fun match,
but doesn't make sense now. It doesn't

1188
01:29:08.399 --> 01:29:12.319
now when they're supposed to be a
real separation now between these brands, and

1189
01:29:12.399 --> 01:29:15.079
you have a weekly Ring of Honor
television show. I don't know why this

1190
01:29:15.119 --> 01:29:21.039
is on Dynamite, but it is. Here's a Twitter Paul seventy eight point

1191
01:29:21.079 --> 01:29:26.079
five percent thumbs up for tonight show
twenty one point five percent thumbs down with

1192
01:29:26.119 --> 01:29:30.079
over eight hundred votes in so far. Go ahead and vote at solom Monster.

1193
01:29:30.039 --> 01:29:33.439
You'll see the lightning bolt. That
means it is the official account that

1194
01:29:33.560 --> 01:29:38.960
is yours truly, so that is
where you can go to vote. I

1195
01:29:39.000 --> 01:29:44.279
also want to just point out that
I will not be doing the SmackDown stream

1196
01:29:44.279 --> 01:29:49.000
on Friday Night. Mentioned this on
Monday House of Glory duties are calling upon

1197
01:29:49.119 --> 01:29:54.439
thee. We'll be back on Fight
TV doing commentary as well. House of

1198
01:29:54.439 --> 01:29:59.800
Glory be where the Fury, Matt
Cardona, the Indie God coming into Challenge

1199
01:30:00.520 --> 01:30:03.680
two or the House of Glory World
Championship. A little countdown there in the

1200
01:30:03.720 --> 01:30:09.479
middle. Time is ticking down.
You can order the show on Fight A

1201
01:30:09.479 --> 01:30:13.239
lot of great matches, MotorCity machine
Guns are coming in as well, a

1202
01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:15.760
lot of good shit on that show. But that is where I will be

1203
01:30:15.920 --> 01:30:18.960
on Friday night. So the next
time I'll be live with you will not

1204
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:24.920
be until next Monday for Monday Night
Raw, So just be aware of that.

1205
01:30:25.800 --> 01:30:30.439
Be hanging out next Monday. Talked
about Raw Lightning Bolt. Yeah,

1206
01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:32.880
I don't have the blue check mark
on t I don't pay for no check

1207
01:30:32.920 --> 01:30:42.199
marks on Twitter, so less mister
Musk wants to gift me a check mark.

1208
01:30:42.279 --> 01:30:46.800
But unfortunately check marks on Twitter,
they they don't mean shit anymore.

1209
01:30:48.000 --> 01:30:51.560
Everybody's got one so they don't mean
shit anymore. So I said, yeah,

1210
01:30:51.600 --> 01:30:59.600
well we'll go with a Lightning Bolt
because I think it's cool. T

1211
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:03.159
Whitley. We'll start with T.
Whitley kicking us off here with the super

1212
01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:12.159
chats We've got buy our sell on
the better Healed promo HBKO five in Montreal

1213
01:31:12.479 --> 01:31:19.399
or Hollywood Rock O three in Toronto? What is HH rock? I mean?

1214
01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:23.239
Is it whole Coogan Rock? Oh
three? Are you talking to Hollywood

1215
01:31:23.319 --> 01:31:30.399
Rock? That one was great,
but we'll go with HBK in Montreal.

1216
01:31:33.479 --> 01:31:36.119
Bryce, thank you to the ten
bucks. Bryce, I appreciate that very

1217
01:31:36.199 --> 01:31:45.560
much. Dorian Moore match we got
robbed a strong against Gable. Yeah,

1218
01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:48.680
Roddy, Roddy was dead the minute
he ever hit the main roster. He

1219
01:31:49.279 --> 01:31:55.880
under triple H he would have fared
a little bit better, but Roddy was

1220
01:31:55.920 --> 01:32:00.640
never going to have much success on
the main roster. In WWW. Tyler

1221
01:32:00.880 --> 01:32:06.399
Rest in Peace Superstar Billy Graham talked
about him earlier. Naughty Delicious Chicken with

1222
01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:14.399
Flavor says that Effett let the Civil
War happen Team Dynamite against Team Collision,

1223
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:21.079
which wrestling content is stronger for the
audience. Hey, Michelle Mills just gifted

1224
01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:26.319
five channel memberships. I want to
thank her, and I want to thank

1225
01:32:26.760 --> 01:32:30.600
all of the others. I did
see it, I just did not acknowledge

1226
01:32:30.600 --> 01:32:32.920
it as it was happening earlier.
I know we've got other gifted memberships as

1227
01:32:32.920 --> 01:32:38.520
well, so thank you to everybody
who's gifted memberships. He also says the

1228
01:32:38.600 --> 01:32:42.319
roster is getting too big, the
wrestling politics is getting out of control,

1229
01:32:42.359 --> 01:32:47.960
and big egos need to separate since
some people cannot work together. Welcome to

1230
01:32:48.000 --> 01:32:54.880
the wrestling business. Tony conn he
says, needs to hire two bookers,

1231
01:32:54.880 --> 01:33:00.920
one for Dynamite one for Collision.
Tony Kunn's booking mojo is declining. Well,

1232
01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:04.920
Tony Kahn is booking all of the
shows. He's going to continue to

1233
01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:12.199
be the lead booker, apparently for
all three shows. I hope he gets

1234
01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:18.079
enough sleep. Oz and Glorious with
the five dollars super chap beyond Glad to

1235
01:33:18.079 --> 01:33:20.800
see j White in the main event, plus having a week off from the

1236
01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:26.680
JAS and QTV was pure bliss.
Hangman returned with such a great moment.

1237
01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:36.319
Let's fucking go a Bliss fan.
I love those emojis. I love seeing

1238
01:33:36.399 --> 01:33:45.840
that old dirty sausage two weeks in
a row of great AW dynamites. My

1239
01:33:45.920 --> 01:33:51.640
only complaint is more tag team wrestling. Tony Kahan hopefully on collision Maybe you

1240
01:33:51.680 --> 01:33:59.600
know, I have to say WWE
has really made a little quiet efforts.

1241
01:33:59.640 --> 01:34:03.600
You kind to flip the script on
the tag team division as compared to AW.

1242
01:34:03.800 --> 01:34:09.479
I feel like the WWE tag team
divisions has caught up with and might

1243
01:34:09.520 --> 01:34:15.159
actually be better, might actually be
stronger at this moment as a whole than

1244
01:34:15.319 --> 01:34:20.000
the not counting trios. Just the
tag team division in AW, and the

1245
01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:25.600
tag team division in AW used to
be stacked easily the best tag team division

1246
01:34:25.600 --> 01:34:30.520
in all of wrestling doesn't feel that
way anymore. It's like ww the pendulum

1247
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:34.960
has swung in the other direction.
Rob g New York Rangers fan all in

1248
01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:43.399
on the Florida Panthers. Frankie Rodriguez, do you feel like Wheeler Uda is

1249
01:34:43.439 --> 01:34:46.319
getting a bit stale in the Blackpool
Combat Club? If you could replace him,

1250
01:34:46.520 --> 01:34:51.760
who would fit in better? Samoa
Joe. It's not gonna happen,

1251
01:34:51.800 --> 01:34:56.239
but Samoa Joe would fit in better. Yeah. Uta basically is kind of

1252
01:34:56.239 --> 01:34:59.600
their whipping boy at this point.
He was the one who took the bte

1253
01:34:59.680 --> 01:35:02.840
trade here. He was the one
who took the buckshot lariot, and yeah,

1254
01:35:02.840 --> 01:35:06.840
I guess you kind of need somebody
in there who can be the whipping

1255
01:35:06.840 --> 01:35:11.880
boy. Sometimes not gonna be Mock's
lead. It's not gonna be Danielson a

1256
01:35:11.960 --> 01:35:15.479
Campy Claudio. He's your Ring of
Honor World champions So again, it kind

1257
01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:20.680
of falls on Utah to be the
one to take the abuse. The mount

1258
01:35:20.760 --> 01:35:27.119
verning kid Christopher Bennett a solo.
I wasn't a fan of how they book

1259
01:35:27.199 --> 01:35:30.800
Jungle Boy tonight. Everybody else looked
worthy to be in the upcoming main event,

1260
01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:33.640
however Jack did not. Yeah,
I agree it was very weird,

1261
01:35:33.680 --> 01:35:38.279
but I know what they were going
for. I don't necessarily agree with how

1262
01:35:38.279 --> 01:35:42.840
they did it. You know,
they wanted him to bleed and to struggle,

1263
01:35:43.800 --> 01:35:46.760
but you know him to have rouche, and I like Rouche, but

1264
01:35:46.840 --> 01:35:49.880
to have Rouche take eighty five percent
of the match and then have Jungle Boy

1265
01:35:49.920 --> 01:35:56.119
win on a roll up flash pin
is not the way I would be booking

1266
01:35:56.159 --> 01:36:00.399
my challenger for the World Championship on
my paper. So I agree with that

1267
01:36:00.159 --> 01:36:04.239
that was not the way to handle
that. Nick Grosso with the nineteen ninety

1268
01:36:04.319 --> 01:36:09.319
nine. I just want to say
rest in pace, Superstar Billy Graham and

1269
01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:15.039
your thoughts on the latest drama surrounding
CM Punk. We talked about that at

1270
01:36:15.039 --> 01:36:19.680
the beginning of the screen verse forty
minutes in fact, so I hope I

1271
01:36:19.720 --> 01:36:24.960
answered all your questions. Nick Tuxedo
t Servo with the ten dollars Super Show

1272
01:36:25.119 --> 01:36:30.039
was replaying the Don Callis entrance an
interview when my cat yacked up a hairball,

1273
01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:34.000
proving that even cats know when a
carny piece of shit, No,

1274
01:36:34.279 --> 01:36:42.399
a carny piece of shit when they
see one. Cats are weird. Yeah,

1275
01:36:42.399 --> 01:36:46.000
when I had my cat, I
could tell before she was about to

1276
01:36:46.079 --> 01:36:50.079
vomit. I could, I could
hear it before it happens. You get

1277
01:36:50.119 --> 01:36:56.000
that kind of warning period. You
hear that noise. You know, it's

1278
01:36:56.039 --> 01:36:59.760
about three or four seconds of that, and then of course it's on the

1279
01:36:59.840 --> 01:37:04.159
run, always on the run.
Arabian Night two thousand never knew Ruche Dralistico

1280
01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:11.119
and Dragon Lee are brothers. I've
mentioned that on the show before you Indeed

1281
01:37:11.119 --> 01:37:20.239
they are. Kallios will see him
Punk ever behave at this. He is

1282
01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:26.720
who he is. That is not
going to change. Manic Game Magician is

1283
01:37:26.720 --> 01:37:31.720
Saloh the monster in Be the booker
brit sucks. Sal Oh the Monster is

1284
01:37:31.720 --> 01:37:35.680
not in Be the Book. He
is in Soundove Gamer. He has,

1285
01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:42.159
unlike Wwei Enforce, a strict brands
book, so he is exclusive to soundove

1286
01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:49.479
Gamer. He's not allowed to appear
anywhere else. GM forty six five dollars

1287
01:37:49.520 --> 01:37:53.359
super chat. What do you think
of the legend of Zelda series? And

1288
01:37:53.399 --> 01:37:56.479
do you know of the new one
that came out last week, Tears of

1289
01:37:56.600 --> 01:38:01.039
the Kingdom CODI is a big Zelda
fan. I know my brother got it

1290
01:38:01.159 --> 01:38:06.800
for Switch. I have not played
a Zelda game since the first one on

1291
01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:11.880
the NES and I never beat the
first one to this very day. It's

1292
01:38:11.920 --> 01:38:16.920
still gnaws at like I beat Super
Mario, I beat Sonic the Hedgehog,

1293
01:38:17.119 --> 01:38:23.239
like all those old classic Nintendo in
Genesis games. I never beat the original

1294
01:38:23.319 --> 01:38:29.119
Legend of Zela. Bugged the crap
out of me. Bryce. Thank you

1295
01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:32.680
for the super Chat, Lady fire
Panda, thank you for the twenty dollars

1296
01:38:32.720 --> 01:38:38.680
almost twenty one dollars. Guess this
breaks my strength because this is the only

1297
01:38:38.720 --> 01:38:41.920
super chat I'm sending tonight, but
just wanted to say rest in peace to

1298
01:38:42.199 --> 01:38:50.039
a superstar Billy Daniel Parker the ninety
nine. Was it just me or did

1299
01:38:50.039 --> 01:38:54.880
anyone else catch a scare when rush
belly to belly jungle Boy off the apron

1300
01:38:54.960 --> 01:38:58.560
way too close to landing on his
head, gave me the biggie scares.

1301
01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:03.439
Yeah, he's very lucky. He's
very lucky he arched over just in time

1302
01:39:03.560 --> 01:39:12.399
because it was heading in a bad
direction. Definitely not the only one.

1303
01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:21.600
There's a Jara Hogan, Jim Hockenberry
with the four ninety nine. Thank you.

1304
01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:28.359
Jim also says another four ninety nine
says aw dropped the ball. Collisions

1305
01:39:28.359 --> 01:39:31.840
should air at six oh five Eastern
Saturday nights only on the superstation TVs.

1306
01:39:33.079 --> 01:39:35.800
Well, I don't think it was
their decision on which network it aired on,

1307
01:39:35.840 --> 01:39:39.319
but I agree with you. Six
See, I see a lot of

1308
01:39:39.319 --> 01:39:42.079
people comparing this thing. Oh,
it's great. It's just like back in

1309
01:39:42.079 --> 01:39:45.600
the day when when WCW Saturday Night
was one. No, it's not because

1310
01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:50.199
WCW had it right. WCW aired
at six oh five, which meant that

1311
01:39:50.239 --> 01:39:56.920
you could watch WCW while you ate
dinner. The shows over at eight o'clock,

1312
01:39:57.560 --> 01:40:00.520
and now you can go you can
go out, you can go hang

1313
01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:04.880
out with friends or your girl friend
or whatever. Now the show goes from

1314
01:40:04.880 --> 01:40:10.760
eight to ten, and then if
you're gonna stream it the review, you

1315
01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:15.800
go live to ten. Your whole
night is fucked. You should have gone

1316
01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:18.239
to WCW route. It's six oh
five to eight o five, six o

1317
01:40:18.399 --> 01:40:23.119
five to eight pm. People have
live, sometimes people want to go out,

1318
01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:28.520
sometimes people have plans Saturday night for
Godson, It's not the same thing

1319
01:40:30.319 --> 01:40:35.399
Naughty delicious. If Vince McMahon handled
the brawl out situation, everyone would either

1320
01:40:35.439 --> 01:40:40.439
get fired or have to eat food
like the taste of it as punishment.

1321
01:40:42.399 --> 01:40:45.159
That's the one thing I will say, Vince McMahon never would have tolerated this

1322
01:40:45.239 --> 01:40:50.279
ship. He would have put the
fucking kibosh on this on day one.

1323
01:40:51.119 --> 01:40:55.560
This would not have lingered as long
as this has. I think he learned

1324
01:40:55.560 --> 01:40:59.800
from the Gret Shawn stuff in ninety
seven, which frankly I think he.

1325
01:41:00.520 --> 01:41:04.399
I think he kind of egged them
on because he liked creating that kind of

1326
01:41:04.520 --> 01:41:09.479
drama with some of his top stars. Probably thought it brought the best stout

1327
01:41:09.479 --> 01:41:12.960
involved, brought brought the best down
the worst stout involved. But I think

1328
01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:17.199
he learned his lesson after that,
there's no there's no world like an envision

1329
01:41:17.199 --> 01:41:27.039
where he would tolerate something like this. Lazy bookings. A Saturday night is

1330
01:41:27.039 --> 01:41:30.880
where Solo parties. Actually, Saturday
night is usually where Solo is struggling to

1331
01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:32.560
wrap up all the work he has
for the podcast on Sunday, which is

1332
01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:34.840
why I'm pissed, and now I
have more work on top of that.

1333
01:41:35.520 --> 01:41:38.520
But that's true. I mean,
that's what people do, man, They

1334
01:41:38.600 --> 01:41:41.000
go. I mean, Friday night
is a bad enough night as it is

1335
01:41:41.000 --> 01:41:45.039
for a lot of people. Now
you're asking people to if you stay in

1336
01:41:45.079 --> 01:41:51.359
and watch the show on Saturdays.
It's a lot to ask Bryce. Thank

1337
01:41:51.399 --> 01:41:58.560
you, Daniel Parker. Orange Cassidy
needs to drop the championship, but not

1338
01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:01.600
in yet another battle Royal, but
to the Redeemer, just destroying no offense

1339
01:42:01.640 --> 01:42:12.079
to Orange Castle boots. Is Orange
Cassidy the fifth pillar. They're certainly booking

1340
01:42:12.119 --> 01:42:15.720
him like it. They're booking him
as like the number one, the number

1341
01:42:15.720 --> 01:42:18.520
two pillar behind him JF. Pretty
much at this point, the whole building

1342
01:42:18.640 --> 01:42:23.319
is going to fall down. If
you take the pillar out of the equation

1343
01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:27.319
here, the whole building is going
to tilt. Silver Tower tell the Snowman

1344
01:42:27.399 --> 01:42:32.039
that we want aw shows in British
Columbia. I will let him know.

1345
01:42:34.880 --> 01:42:46.239
I will personally deliver that message to
him myself. William with the ten dollars

1346
01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:55.560
super chat. Bret Hart against Tiger
mass Juty two was in my YouTube meet

1347
01:42:55.600 --> 01:42:58.760
and I was struck by Bret Hart
wearing gray, not the pink and black.

1348
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:02.720
Recommend any other notable part New Japan
or Stampede bouts. Thank you.

1349
01:43:03.520 --> 01:43:09.880
He had some great ones with Dynamite
kid, and I think ladder match him

1350
01:43:09.920 --> 01:43:14.000
there if I'm not mistake there,
So go find any of those bread Dynamite

1351
01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:16.960
matches from Stampede. That's where that
spot comes from. The super plex out

1352
01:43:17.000 --> 01:43:20.520
of the top rope where you're by
the ropes to do the vertical super plex

1353
01:43:20.560 --> 01:43:25.640
and both men go tumbling over.
First time I ever saw that, and

1354
01:43:25.720 --> 01:43:28.840
I didn't see it obviously until many
years later. I didn't watch Stampede when

1355
01:43:28.840 --> 01:43:32.079
I was a kid, But the
earliest match I ever remember seeing that in

1356
01:43:32.199 --> 01:43:36.920
was a bread hard Dyna my kid. So I mean, unless that was

1357
01:43:36.960 --> 01:43:42.840
something people were already doing in Japan
or something, those two may have innovated

1358
01:43:42.880 --> 01:43:47.880
that spot. They innovated a lot
of stuff back then Near it says you're

1359
01:43:47.920 --> 01:43:51.479
the man, thank you for your
support. Yeah, Near is going through

1360
01:43:51.479 --> 01:43:55.439
a tough time right now. Family
wise, there's some stuff going on,

1361
01:43:55.560 --> 01:44:00.840
so Near as a member of our
little family here, So spare him some

1362
01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:04.159
positive vibes, send some good energy
his way. He could really use it

1363
01:44:04.239 --> 01:44:11.199
right about now, Doctor Scorpio,
I did not refresh the stream, and

1364
01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:15.000
I thought we were stuck on fifty
nine likes this entire time. Silly me,

1365
01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:19.199
that would be that'd be pretty embarrassing
if we were stuck on fifty nine

1366
01:44:19.199 --> 01:44:23.720
the whole time. But we've already
broken the be the Booker goal, so

1367
01:44:24.079 --> 01:44:30.119
we'll do that in a second.
Here we have doctor Devon Devin from NJ.

1368
01:44:30.159 --> 01:44:33.960
What would happen if a WWE producer
told Salom Monster that he needs to

1369
01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:43.960
fix his attitude? Salo Monster would
no longer be working for WWE. Salom

1370
01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:48.640
Monster don't need that stinking job.
Yeah I'm not. I'm not going to

1371
01:44:48.680 --> 01:44:57.119
tolerate that shit. I'd have to
really badly want to work there to tolerate

1372
01:44:57.159 --> 01:45:03.039
bullshit from somebody who I don't like. Uh, Naughty Delicious as Blackpool Combat

1373
01:45:03.079 --> 01:45:10.039
Club needs new members. The Mighty
don't kneel. United Empire and just five

1374
01:45:10.159 --> 01:45:17.600
Guys are way more legit than the
Blackpool Combat Club Arabian Night. Which recent

1375
01:45:17.680 --> 01:45:20.960
signing do you wish went to w
W E? J White or Bandido?

1376
01:45:24.399 --> 01:45:31.880
If I had complete faith and trust
that Vince McMahon would not have input into

1377
01:45:31.920 --> 01:45:34.880
his booking, I was looking forward
to seeing J. White go to w

1378
01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:45.800
W. A stupid didn't work out
that way, Slo Monster would walk out.

1379
01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:48.319
That's right, I would. I
would pull a Sasha and Naomi.

1380
01:45:48.880 --> 01:45:51.199
I'd be out of there. I
put my belt on the desk, I'd

1381
01:45:51.199 --> 01:46:00.920
say audios, and I'd be out
of there, not taking ship from nobody,

1382
01:46:01.720 --> 01:46:06.039
and they grosso. Are you all
caught up with the Yellow Jackets show?

1383
01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:10.880
And who are your favorite characters?
Mine are Natalie and Misty, both

1384
01:46:10.960 --> 01:46:15.359
teen and adult versions. I am
all caught up on Yellow Jackets. Yes,

1385
01:46:15.479 --> 01:46:19.239
it's currently in its second season.
I am. I guess. There's

1386
01:46:19.239 --> 01:46:23.520
been seven episodes so far this season. I'm all. I'm actually gonna catch

1387
01:46:23.600 --> 01:46:32.479
up on episode seven tomorrow. It's
some as far as favorite characters later,

1388
01:46:32.760 --> 01:46:44.199
the kind of current version of Misty
and I don't know, there aren't that

1389
01:46:44.279 --> 01:46:47.279
many likable characters on this show.
I don't know, maybe it's just me.

1390
01:46:48.119 --> 01:46:51.039
There's not too many likable characters on
this show. But it's a great

1391
01:46:51.079 --> 01:47:01.960
show. I am enjoying what I
have seen so far. So there you

1392
01:47:01.960 --> 01:47:05.000
go. Thank you for the super
chats. Appreciate it. Made it out

1393
01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:12.239
of their unscathed from the super chat
section. And as I mentioned before,

1394
01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:16.439
we did hit our goal tonight for
be the Bookers, so thank you for

1395
01:47:16.760 --> 01:47:20.880
getting us over the finish line there. I appreciate that very much. On

1396
01:47:21.079 --> 01:47:29.199
that note, it is time to
be It is time for Bremode Ladies and

1397
01:47:29.279 --> 01:47:39.119
gentlemen, it is now time to
be the booker. Always time for Bremode

1398
01:47:41.960 --> 01:47:45.600
a Yukio Rules. Thank you very
much as keep up the great work.

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I appreciate that kick things off here
with the men's match is the final stream

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of the week, so we have
to try to end on a high note.

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Begin with Solo Sakoa. I like
guys that are named Solo. Some

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01:48:11.000 --> 01:48:15.720
of my favorite wrestlers are named Solo. Of course said he's the only one

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01:48:15.800 --> 01:48:18.920
right now that I know with that
name. But Solo Socoa, the enforcer

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01:48:18.960 --> 01:48:28.199
of the bloodline getting a big push
right now. Solo Sakoa One on one

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01:48:28.319 --> 01:48:35.199
with Tired Mike Tyson. How tired
he is, how bored he is?

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01:48:36.800 --> 01:48:41.600
Mike Tyson, come on, man, this is double or nothing, one

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01:48:41.600 --> 01:48:44.319
of their big annual pay per views, like a board, Mike looks.

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01:48:45.239 --> 01:48:48.439
It's no wonder. He made that
comment on his podcast a few months ago,

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01:48:49.800 --> 01:48:55.399
said that he'd rather he'd rather do
something with WWE, even if Tony

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01:48:55.439 --> 01:49:00.439
Kahn paid him more money. It
was quite the burn. Now I can

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01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:01.720
see why. But see, I
gotta give it the bell because you got

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the enforcer against the enforcer here mean
you got Mike Tyson and Solo Sakoa.

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Come on, man, I can't
give the buzzer to that. I hope

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Mike get some sleep, though it
looks very tired, all right. On

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the lady side, to begin with
former Women's Champion, the innovator of the

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Women's Revolution, Stephanie McMahon, the
former CEO briefly CEO of WWEIGHT. She

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01:49:34.800 --> 01:49:39.479
didn't last too long. Once her
father came back. She said, peace

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01:49:39.520 --> 01:49:53.039
out. I'm done here. Stephanie
McMahon One on one with nicky ash No,

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thank you, keep that off my
television. Thank you very much.

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You're moving on, moving on to
the tag teams. I love some good

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01:50:08.399 --> 01:50:14.359
tag team wrestling, and we start
out with one of the greatest tag teams

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01:50:14.359 --> 01:50:19.520
of all time, the greatest tag
team in Ring of Honor history thirteen times,

1423
01:50:21.039 --> 01:50:29.279
Jay and Mark, the Briscoe brothers, got to call their final match.

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That's one of those things I never
thought i'd I would say, it's

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01:50:35.199 --> 01:50:39.800
terrible that I can sit here and
say that, but I did get to

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01:50:39.800 --> 01:50:45.399
call their final match ever ch happened
in the House of Glory. Brisco is

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01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:53.760
gonna be taken on RAPUNGI vice.
I mean, it's a Brisco's match.

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01:50:53.880 --> 01:50:58.000
Come on, you didn't think I
was going to give them the buzzer?

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01:50:58.079 --> 01:51:02.920
Now, come out of me?
Really, series Briscoes match. If Briscoes

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01:51:02.960 --> 01:51:08.319
are in the ring, it's gonna
be a good night Reach for the Sky

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01:51:08.399 --> 01:51:12.960
indeed, Arabian Night two thousand.
What do you think is the most underrated

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01:51:13.039 --> 01:51:17.000
ladder match people do not talk about
personally? The Ziggler Harper match in twenty

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01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:23.960
fifteen was amazing and very violent.
That was a very stiff match. I

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01:51:24.000 --> 01:51:27.119
think that was the TLC pay per
view, was it not. I think

1435
01:51:27.159 --> 01:51:31.680
that might have been TLC in twenty
fifteen that's actually a good choice. I

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01:51:31.960 --> 01:51:33.920
don't know that I would have thought
of that one, but that one,

1437
01:51:34.720 --> 01:51:42.960
that one might be my answer as
well. So a lot of the matches

1438
01:51:43.000 --> 01:51:45.479
I'm thinking of right now are pretty
well regarded. I don't think that they're

1439
01:51:45.520 --> 01:51:48.439
underrated. You know, people talk
about obviously, people are going to talk

1440
01:51:48.479 --> 01:51:51.359
about Sean E. Raiser, They're
going to talk about the TLC matches.

1441
01:51:54.920 --> 01:52:00.560
Jericho Benoa from Royal Rumble in two
thousand and one is another favorite. Jericho

1442
01:52:00.640 --> 01:52:04.479
and Shawn Michaels from No Mercy in
two thousand and eight, and there have

1443
01:52:04.520 --> 01:52:08.359
been some great, you know,
money in the Bank ladder matches as well.

1444
01:52:09.159 --> 01:52:12.359
But again, I wouldn't call any
of those underrated. I think those

1445
01:52:13.079 --> 01:52:16.279
got the amount of attention they deserved. But the Ziggler and the Harper one,

1446
01:52:16.359 --> 01:52:20.600
that's a that's a good one.
That's a very good one. You

1447
01:52:20.640 --> 01:52:25.319
know, maybe I will throw one
in there, the Cody and Sammy one

1448
01:52:25.960 --> 01:52:29.279
before Cody that might have been Cody's
last match actually in a w the match

1449
01:52:29.319 --> 01:52:31.399
they have to the TNT Championship on
Dynamite. That was a crazy match.

1450
01:52:33.079 --> 01:52:39.439
So I want to show some love
to that match as well. Bony is

1451
01:52:39.479 --> 01:52:44.479
there still heat between AJ and Paul
Hayman. I don't know. You'd have

1452
01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:49.359
to ask AJ. I have no
idea. And Naughty Delicious says Stephanie against

1453
01:52:49.399 --> 01:52:55.920
Nikki ash Loser has to cook breakfast
for everyone in the chat. You said

1454
01:52:55.920 --> 01:52:59.720
it, not me, Well,
I mean, as long as they're not

1455
01:52:59.760 --> 01:53:04.119
cooked Naughty Delicious chicken, they're not
gonna jack your gimmick. And I think

1456
01:53:04.119 --> 01:53:09.439
we're good. Undertaker Jeff Hardy is
another one yet, but again, Undertaker

1457
01:53:09.520 --> 01:53:13.800
Jeff Hardy has still talked about to
this day. I think that gets just

1458
01:53:13.880 --> 01:53:20.800
about the right amount of love that
it deserves. Mays, who's been a

1459
01:53:20.880 --> 01:53:27.119
Channel member for twenty three months.
Mays has a red skull in the chat

1460
01:53:27.239 --> 01:53:30.640
one month shy of two years.
He's going to a con this weekend that

1461
01:53:30.720 --> 01:53:35.640
will feature Sergeant Slaughter and Demolition.
I will try to get you shout outs,

1462
01:53:35.720 --> 01:53:40.000
yeah, please do. I got
to interview Demolition as part of a

1463
01:53:40.079 --> 01:53:44.800
wrestle con about six or seven years
ago, which was very cool for me

1464
01:53:44.880 --> 01:53:47.760
because Demolition is my all time favorite
tag team. I grew up with them,

1465
01:53:47.800 --> 01:53:51.439
watching them, and to be able
to interview them for a few minutes

1466
01:53:51.520 --> 01:53:55.560
was very cool to crime. They're
not in the Hall of Fame. I

1467
01:53:55.600 --> 01:54:00.279
know why. I think it's very
petty and very stupid. Yeah, by

1468
01:54:00.279 --> 01:54:02.760
all means, if you if you
think you can go for it, I'd

1469
01:54:02.800 --> 01:54:10.520
play it here on the on the
stream, TLC three is underrated, says

1470
01:54:10.560 --> 01:54:14.039
Winston. Well, you know why
that is. You know why that doesn't

1471
01:54:14.079 --> 01:54:16.239
get a lot of I don't want
to say love because it is a really

1472
01:54:16.239 --> 01:54:19.960
good match. But TLC three is
one of those matches you will never hear

1473
01:54:20.279 --> 01:54:26.840
spoken about on television ever. Again. One of the greatest matches in Monday

1474
01:54:26.920 --> 01:54:31.880
Night Raw history was a tag team
match with Austin and Triple H against Jericho

1475
01:54:31.920 --> 01:54:36.199
and Ben Wah And it will never
be talked about, never be talked about

1476
01:54:36.239 --> 01:54:43.880
again. Yeah, Chris, your
your skull is gold. If you hover

1477
01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:46.039
over the skulls in the chat,
it will tell you. I think.

1478
01:54:46.079 --> 01:54:48.800
I think it will tell you either
how many months or what the different levels

1479
01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:51.800
are. I forget if the goal
I think the gold is the goal the

1480
01:54:51.880 --> 01:54:57.760
highest one, I forget. It's
either the red of the gold your special

1481
01:54:57.800 --> 01:55:02.960
either way. Anyway, thank you
guys very much for hanging out with me.

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01:55:03.159 --> 01:55:08.319
Here on the Dynamite stream, we
covered a lot of news, a

1483
01:55:08.359 --> 01:55:12.800
lot of stuff up front here on
the stream that frankly I wish, I

1484
01:55:12.800 --> 01:55:16.119
wish we didn't have to cover,
I really do, but we dove into

1485
01:55:16.159 --> 01:55:19.359
that. We'll wait and see what
more comes out in the days ahead.

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01:55:20.079 --> 01:55:24.920
I am sure I'll be talking more
about the collision and sempunk stuff on the

1487
01:55:24.920 --> 01:55:29.279
podcast on Sunday, and we'll get
more information in the next few days.

1488
01:55:29.720 --> 01:55:31.560
Please go ahead and leave a like
on this video if you have not already

1489
01:55:31.600 --> 01:55:35.520
done so. It does help the
video out when you do that, and

1490
01:55:35.600 --> 01:55:40.760
go back and check out the new
soundof Gamer. Episode episode seven is up

1491
01:55:40.880 --> 01:55:46.319
right now again. It's about an
hour long. We are finally making our

1492
01:55:46.359 --> 01:55:49.960
way back to ww WE. We
had a little invasion in the latest episode.

1493
01:55:50.880 --> 01:55:55.199
Sean Michaels won't hire me back,
so I had to take matters into

1494
01:55:55.239 --> 01:55:59.479
my own hands. Go check out
the episode. I think you'll enjoy it.

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Thank you for the two bucks.
Your thoughts on CON's Ring of Honor

1496
01:56:03.239 --> 01:56:09.439
show on Honor Club. I watched
the first few episodes and I thought the

1497
01:56:09.479 --> 01:56:12.479
wrestling, you know, the wrestling
was good, but I'm not keeping up

1498
01:56:12.479 --> 01:56:15.439
with your week to week. There's
just there's nothing about the show that's must

1499
01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:19.319
see right now for me, and
with all the other wrestling and all the

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01:56:19.319 --> 01:56:24.560
other stuff I have going on now, Collision, it's just not a priority.

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01:56:26.079 --> 01:56:29.600
So I can only tell you from
what I've seen it was good,

1502
01:56:29.760 --> 01:56:32.720
but it was not enough to keep
me watching consistently every week. You know,

1503
01:56:32.720 --> 01:56:35.720
it's one of those shows where I
miss a week or two, and

1504
01:56:36.680 --> 01:56:40.800
you know it's not that big of
a deal, so I catch it when

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01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:45.039
I can. Keyshawn Johnson with the
Dollar ninety nine Austin against Undertaker nineteen ninety

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01:56:45.039 --> 01:56:51.079
seven is underrated? Are you talking
about the Oh what pay per view is

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01:56:51.119 --> 01:56:56.640
that May? It was May of
ninety It was that cold day in Hell?

1508
01:56:58.000 --> 01:57:00.640
Is that Cold day in Hell?
May ninety seven? I love the

1509
01:57:00.640 --> 01:57:04.399
finish of that match. That finishing
sequence of that match was fucking great.

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01:57:05.279 --> 01:57:10.359
Austin comes off the ropes, Undertaker
scoops him up for a tombstone, falls

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01:57:10.399 --> 01:57:15.079
backwards. Austin's got him in position
for a tombstone. Then he falls backwards.

1512
01:57:15.159 --> 01:57:18.000
Undertaker gets him in position for a
tombstone, drops him right on his

1513
01:57:18.079 --> 01:57:21.680
head. The building is shaking.
If you go back and watch the finish

1514
01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:26.760
of that, and we've seen other
people now do that spot multiple times,

1515
01:57:26.840 --> 01:57:29.880
but at the time it was I
just remember thinking, man, what a

1516
01:57:29.920 --> 01:57:33.239
fucking great spot that was. Then
the Heart Foundation ran in. They were

1517
01:57:33.279 --> 01:57:35.600
sitting in the front row. They
ran in when the match was over to

1518
01:57:35.640 --> 01:57:43.439
attack Silver Tower. You get the
last word here. Thank you for the

1519
01:57:43.439 --> 01:57:46.960
final super chat. Silvertower. Always
supporting here on these streams, especially with

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01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:51.680
the Gifted memberships, so very much
appreciated. All Right, I'm gonna get

1521
01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:56.119
out of here. I gotta early
wake up in the morning, flying out

1522
01:57:56.119 --> 01:58:00.560
of here. I'll be out of
town on business. So be back with

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01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:05.079
you for SoundOff episode eight o nine
coming up this Sunday. Until then,

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01:58:05.199 --> 01:58:10.800
be well, stay safe and have
yourselves a fantastic rest of your week.

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01:58:11.239 --> 01:58:14.800
We'll see you back here next week
for more live streams. Take care of this