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Speaker 2: Hey guys, it's Jay. I'm here to do your NXT
Speaker 2: review for May twentieth, twenty twenty five. And before we
Speaker 2: get into anything, I just want to apologize for last
Speaker 2: week of having a lot of stuff going on in
Speaker 2: my personal life. Dad's in the hospital, back in and out,
Speaker 2: in and out, so I wasn't able to get to
Speaker 2: the review last week, and I did apologize to Matt.
Speaker 2: But I am here this week for the review and
Speaker 2: I'm glad I'm reviewing this show because this was a
Speaker 2: great show. This was This was our go home episode
Speaker 2: to Battleground, which is happening on Sunday night at eight
Speaker 2: o'clock Eastern time, and this is turning out to be
Speaker 2: a really packed show. At Battleground, we do a little
Speaker 2: bit of predictions. I mean, I'm not labeling this a
Speaker 2: prediction show, but I am going to do a little
Speaker 2: bit of prediction for as we go through. Uh just
Speaker 2: kind of you know, in in in the conversation for Battleground,
Speaker 2: especially the TNA World title match between Joe Hendry and
Speaker 2: Trick Williams, because who knows. But we'll get into that
Speaker 2: before I forget. I just wanted to, you know, wish
Speaker 2: my heartfelt get well too, zoways Stark. Everybody at this point,
Speaker 2: everybody has seen what happened was Zoe on Monday night.
Speaker 2: Raw Wow. I mean felt so bad. I felt so
Speaker 2: bad for all three of them, because I mean you
Speaker 2: can you could tell that both that all three of
Speaker 2: like the Riha and Kyrie Sane were really upset too.
Speaker 2: So you know, my heart heartfelt. But we'll just go
Speaker 2: out to Zoe and I hope she comes back sooner.
Speaker 2: But I tell you, after seeing it, and of course
Speaker 2: we have view after view after view of of what happened,
Speaker 2: and I mean after seeing the view of what happened
Speaker 2: to her knee, I can't imagine she's gonna be back
Speaker 2: anytime soon. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think
Speaker 2: I am, unfortunately. But anyway, we're here to talk n
Speaker 2: x T and the NXT episode on the twentieth of
Speaker 2: May was a really good Tuesday was really good. It
Speaker 2: was a fantastic episode which started out with them with
Speaker 2: an amazing match, which one by a gentleman who not
Speaker 2: many people have heard of, aside from the Royal the
Speaker 2: Battle Royal that happened a few weeks ago that Miles
Speaker 2: Bourne won. This is why I think people should watch Evolve.
Speaker 2: I watched a couple episodes. I do want to get
Speaker 2: back into it again, like to start from just start
Speaker 2: from now, start fresh from now. But there are a
Speaker 2: few episodes that I watched of Evolve. We're really good,
Speaker 2: Like they're really wrestling focused. I mean, yeah, they do
Speaker 2: they do some storylines. I mean obviously they can't not
Speaker 2: do storylines. But there's a lot of people coming up
Speaker 2: to NXT soon that I can't I can't wait for
Speaker 2: them to get here because it's gonna be really really cool.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about Tuesday Night NXT. We So anyway,
Speaker 2: let's go, let's like just do this. This is the
Speaker 2: thing that I always do. We We had the NXT
Speaker 2: from the Performance Center in winter Park, Florida. We had
Speaker 2: our commentators Vic, Joseph Booker, t and Corey Graves and
Speaker 2: we are re announcer of course is Mike Rome. Thank
Speaker 2: god Mike Rome is on NXT. I have to tell you,
Speaker 2: I like the guy on SmackDown. I forgot his name.
Speaker 2: I don't really care for Alicia Taylor. I've mentioned that
Speaker 2: many times, but the guy on SmackDown is really good
Speaker 2: for a new guy. But my attend to me. To me,
Speaker 2: Mike Rome is the best of the three and I'm
Speaker 2: glad we have him on an XT. This show started
Speaker 2: out with, to me, the match of the night and
Speaker 2: I'm I understand why they did this first because they
Speaker 2: couldn't do it last, but the entire Jo Hendry Trick
Speaker 2: Williams saga understandably so. But the match was between as
Speaker 2: a triple threat match, apparently unofficially for the for number
Speaker 2: one contender ship for the NXT North American title, which
Speaker 2: apparently then became official as the show went on. The
Speaker 2: whole thing was weird. It was Javon Evans, Sean Legacy
Speaker 2: and Ashanti the Adonnas now a Shanta the Adonnas. I
Speaker 2: you know, I've been back in wrestling now for about
Speaker 2: two and a half years. Yeah, I think two and
Speaker 2: a half years and Shanda the Adonnas. Prior to well,
Speaker 2: when I first came in, was part of it, was
Speaker 2: part of the tag team with Top Doll and be Fat.
Speaker 2: I can't I can't remember what their names were, whatever,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. But and then ever since he's been on,
Speaker 2: he got sent down a NXT. He and Cedric g
Speaker 2: Alexander got sent down NXT at the same time Saja
Speaker 2: Alexander was cooking and then they let him go, which
Speaker 2: I don't understand. And I don't be surpris And I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people don't. They listen to this,
Speaker 2: don't watch a w but I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 2: you saw him with Bobby Lashley and MVP and Shelton
Speaker 2: Benjamin and the Hurt Syndy Kate and Amy w if
Speaker 2: you do watch that. But that's just a thought that
Speaker 2: I had. But and I don't watch a w but
Speaker 2: I follow generally like I listened to. I listened to
Speaker 2: a whole lot of wrestling podcasts for me and also
Speaker 2: from how to help Me prepare for expressing how I
Speaker 2: how I feel things are going with you guys. So
Speaker 2: I listened to other podcasts just to kind of get
Speaker 2: an idea of what you know just kind of rehash
Speaker 2: in my mind. And one of the podcasts that I
Speaker 2: am that I had heard said something about maybe Tajrick
Speaker 2: Alexander ending up int a w with the Hurt Syndicate.
Speaker 2: So but then they also had a shot to the
Speaker 2: Adonis come down NXT. And he has been in the
Speaker 2: some in this weird romantic thing, either with Karma Petrovitch
Speaker 2: or other other people, and it was just I don't know,
Speaker 2: the whole thing was weird, I have to tell you though.
Speaker 2: And so he really got a chance to really shine.
Speaker 2: But you put him in the ring. This is a
Speaker 2: Chanta the Adonis if you put him in the ring.
Speaker 2: But number one Javon Evans. Now, as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 2: Javon Evans is the champion and waiting. I have said
Speaker 2: to you and I am not changing this. I have
Speaker 2: said to you that the person who is going to
Speaker 2: dethrone Oba Femi at some point is Javon Evans. That's
Speaker 2: that's not even a question. The question is when probably
Speaker 2: you know, I can see Oba Femi holding this title. Well,
Speaker 2: the respect to Miles Born and whoever else you know
Speaker 2: wrestles Obafemi in the next year. I I expect Obafemi
Speaker 2: to hold this title for a year until Javon Evans dethrones.
Speaker 2: I'm probably at stand and deliver next year. Again, I
Speaker 2: could be wrong. That's just that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 2: He's Javon Evans to me, is the champion waiting. But
Speaker 2: you put a Shanta Theodonnas in a match with Javon Evans,
Speaker 2: and then and then Sean Legacy. Who is Sean Legacy.
Speaker 2: Sean Legacy's on Evolve. I've seen Sean Legacy. He played
Speaker 2: a couple of times when I watched Evolve. He's good.
Speaker 2: And if you don't think he was before, like if
Speaker 2: you watched the match last night, he kept up with
Speaker 2: Javon Evans the entire Obviously, Javan Evans is a different stratosphere.
Speaker 2: Javan Evans is bouncing like bouncy right, the whole bouncy thing.
Speaker 2: He's like going, you know, doing all these things, like
Speaker 2: just back and forth like the man. The man he's
Speaker 2: almost he's barely a man. He's eighteen nineteen. I don't
Speaker 2: know how old he is, but he's he's doing his thing,
Speaker 2: jumping around and and Sean Legacy did such a good
Speaker 2: job a keeping up with Javon Evans b also making
Speaker 2: Cedric Or making Shanti the Adonnas look good and which,
Speaker 2: by the way, he was good in his own right,
Speaker 2: but again, wrestling with these two guys made him look
Speaker 2: even better. This match was the triple threat match between
Speaker 2: Javon Evans Sewn Legacy and a Shanta Diadana's was by
Speaker 2: far the match of the night. Other things happened shenanigans,
Speaker 2: let's say, but really didn't have a lot to do
Speaker 2: with the participants in the match. But if you haven't
Speaker 2: seen the episode and you're just listening to this, go
Speaker 2: watch that. Just watch that match. I mean, the rest
Speaker 2: of it was interesting and we'll go through it, but
Speaker 2: watch watch that match. That match was was so good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not I'm not gonna sit here and
Speaker 2: say back to the Year contender, but like, definitely an
Speaker 2: honorable mention for sure. Before the match comes out, though,
Speaker 2: we have Ricky Ricky Saints, I forgot his name, Ricky
Speaker 2: Saints coming to the arena and a car. He immediate
Speaker 2: walks out to the arena and sits down in a commentary.
Speaker 2: So he's gonna commentate this match, because again, this is
Speaker 2: match is officially and officially a number one contender ship
Speaker 2: for the North American Championship, so he's doing commentary. The
Speaker 2: match starts again, fabulous match. I'm not gonna go move,
Speaker 2: but move because this is they would take forever. But
Speaker 2: eventually what happens is excuse me, eventually what happens is
Speaker 2: what's his name? Ethan Page, Ethan Page, greatest heal in
Speaker 2: the game. Sorry, John Cena, You're not as good of
Speaker 2: a heal as Ethan Page. Eathan Page jumps the barricade
Speaker 2: behind the commentator's desk and starts beating the crap out
Speaker 2: of Rickey Saints. The match is going on, there's security,
Speaker 2: there's everybody trying to separate these two. As the match
Speaker 2: is going on, Javon Evans decides I'm going to get
Speaker 2: involved in that too, and Suicide dives over the top
Speaker 2: rope and takes out security spears not spears. Security, Ethan
Speaker 2: Page and Ricky Saints all gone like draw on the floor.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile in the ring, we had a shantiviodonnas and showing
Speaker 2: legacy continuing them. There they're back and forth and it
Speaker 2: was match ends. What is the move? I gotta figure
Speaker 2: out the move? That Sean Legacy won the match with uh,
Speaker 2: what is it called the shambles? It's called the move
Speaker 2: is called the shambles, which is basically a suplex into
Speaker 2: a stunner. Like I don't I don't know exactly how
Speaker 2: to explain it. Cool move, and let me say, shown Legacy,
Speaker 2: he looks the part, he plays the part. He's really good.
Speaker 2: And apparently he is according to later in the show,
Speaker 2: he is going to get a shot at the NXT
Speaker 2: North American Championship against well, I guess against Rickey Saints.
Speaker 2: But there's a whole caveat to that, which I'll go
Speaker 2: into in a second. And then and then so yeah,
Speaker 2: that was like again, great match, one awesome match. So
Speaker 2: then we go back after after that match is over
Speaker 2: and I keep talking about it, but I'm not going
Speaker 2: to just watch if you haven't seen it, watch it.
Speaker 2: If you have seen it, comment like, amazing. Again again,
Speaker 2: there's a reason why that match was in the beginning.
Speaker 2: I think that on a normal if they were going
Speaker 2: to do a match like that, normally would be at
Speaker 2: the end. But because between the whole trick and Joe
Speaker 2: Hendry thing, I can see why they didn't do that.
Speaker 2: But that better to put it in the beginning than
Speaker 2: the end. Then we go back to ABA's office and
Speaker 2: Stevie Turner says it's a big victory for bull Legacy
Speaker 2: and Evolved, and Ava agrees with Stevie, but she's not
Speaker 2: happy with the Ricky Saints Ethan page brawl. And Ava
Speaker 2: gives a big congratulations to Jasper Troy and then in
Speaker 2: Tyra May uh tyram May steal on being the newest,
Speaker 2: uh sorry, newest additions to NXT roster because they won
Speaker 2: season one of w w W w LFG. By the way,
Speaker 2: Jasper Troy is a big dude tearing around a JYD
Speaker 2: chain around his neck. And if you know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about, then you know what I'm talking about. Jyd
Speaker 2: for the record, in case, in case you're too young,
Speaker 2: Junkyard Dog back in the eighties carry a chain, but
Speaker 2: this chain's even bigger. This chain is massive, and I
Speaker 2: don't mean like I don't mean like a necklace, I
Speaker 2: mean a chain. So both of them will be making
Speaker 2: their debuts over the next coming weeks and Tyra's beyond excited,
Speaker 2: but Jasper tells Ava that he is planning on making
Speaker 2: an impact on n x T starting tonight, so that'll
Speaker 2: be interesting to talk about that. Then we have a
Speaker 2: promo for Jordan Grace. I'm not gonna talk about the promos.
Speaker 2: They did a promo for Jordan. So last week we
Speaker 2: had a tag team match to you know, the whole,
Speaker 2: the whole could they co exist between Jordan Grace and
Speaker 2: Stephanie Vacaier blah blah blah. It's the same thing they
Speaker 2: do before every match between like two baby faces or
Speaker 2: two heels they do, they do the whole. Can they
Speaker 2: co exist in a tag team match? So so this week,
Speaker 2: all they did between the women's title match, they had
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace cut a promo and then Stephanie VC Coorge
Speaker 2: and did an interview slash promo as well. You know,
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace just she talked about the people that she
Speaker 2: that she you know, admires the people that came in
Speaker 2: with her. To be honest, the only reason why Jordan
Speaker 2: Grace is and and maybe this will change on Sunday
Speaker 2: and I'll talk about that later, but the only reason
Speaker 2: why Jordan Grace is in the NXT Champion right now
Speaker 2: is just because Stephanie is there. And Stephanie is Stephanie
Speaker 2: like Stephanie is Stephanie. Oh oh, I forgot to mention,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, obviously now we're the women's roster in
Speaker 2: n X Tier two women short because now officially Roxanne,
Speaker 2: I mean, to the surprise of no. One, to the
Speaker 2: surprise of zero people, Roxanne Perez is now signed with
Speaker 2: RA and Julie is now signed with SmackDown, Great excellent. Please.
Speaker 2: And I've been I've been saying for months, and I
Speaker 2: think I said it again two weeks ago when I
Speaker 2: did my last my last review the women's roster main
Speaker 2: of main the women's main event rosters, main show rosters.
Speaker 2: They need a shot in the arm, and Julia and
Speaker 2: Roxanne will definitely and they have already been the shot
Speaker 2: in the arm for for both the visions. Roxanne has
Speaker 2: already qualified for her money in the bank. And don't
Speaker 2: be surprised if Julia qualifies too. I'm not saying she
Speaker 2: definitely will. I'm not even saying she'll definitely win it.
Speaker 2: But I do see a lot of similarities between Roxanne
Speaker 2: and Tiffany Stratton from last year. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 2: see how that goes. Anyway, they do, they do the
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace promo. He Yeah, it's great. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was like it was a good promo. I liked it.
Speaker 2: There was no they you know, they weren't there together
Speaker 2: in the arena. They didn't go after each other. They
Speaker 2: didn't you know, Stephanie didn't hold the belt up in
Speaker 2: Jordan's face. None of that happened. It's just promo. We
Speaker 2: have a match on Sunday. Here's the promo. Then we
Speaker 2: have Lola Ice telling Stephanie that she's she's in for
Speaker 2: a real battle this Sunday, and Lola is putting her
Speaker 2: her money on Stephanie. Stephanie then appreciates uh Lola say
Speaker 2: and tells Lola that she'll talk to her before her
Speaker 2: interview shot to her. After her interview, Lola runs into
Speaker 2: fatal Influence. Jacy Jane says that Lola can suck up
Speaker 2: to the champion all she wants, but she won't get
Speaker 2: her a title shot, and Fallen Henley says that they'll
Speaker 2: they'll be the ones taking the title away from Stephanie. Lola.
Speaker 2: Then she said, Lola SE's otherwise with how they performed
Speaker 2: last week in the main event, and Fallen is not
Speaker 2: taking blame because she didn't get pinned Lola says that
Speaker 2: Fatal Influence can pretend to be a tig team, but
Speaker 2: in reality they get in each other's way. It's really embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Jace says that Lola can think however she wants, but
Speaker 2: like Fallen, thinks she's the leader. Fallen reminds jac that
Speaker 2: she was the Nxteam Women's North American Champion. Jacy has
Speaker 2: a great idea, why didn't Why doesn't Fallon take on
Speaker 2: Lola tonight and prove that she's proved why she's behind
Speaker 2: them when it comes to nxt WA's championship and Lola
Speaker 2: tels fall and she'll see her in the ring. By
Speaker 2: the way, where's Jasmine Nicks? Where is she? Like? She's
Speaker 2: not around? I don't understand, Like you're supposed to be
Speaker 2: three of them and I just and and for some reason,
Speaker 2: Lola Ice called them a tag team? Was Jasmine next
Speaker 2: part of the cuts? I don't remember that. I don't
Speaker 2: remember that she was anyway. By the way, if you're
Speaker 2: if you're following any of the people that were cut, Blaired,
Speaker 2: I've been following Blair Davenport and and uh cour Jade
Speaker 2: and a bunch of other people. They're they're so NXT
Speaker 2: has a thirty day no compete clause, so like they're
Speaker 2: ready to go. They all have, they have bookings, they're
Speaker 2: ready to go. If you're the main roster, it's a
Speaker 2: ninety day no compete clause. So it's just let me
Speaker 2: tell you, they're all gonna end up someplace, even if
Speaker 2: it's just independence for a while, Like I'll go see
Speaker 2: an independent shows means that courage jaide is gonna show up,
Speaker 2: all right. So tonight then we had we had two
Speaker 2: musical things happening tonight. One of them was a rap
Speaker 2: performance by Trick Williams. I don't particularly sorry if I
Speaker 2: offend you. I don't particularly care for rap, and really
Speaker 2: all all Trick Williams was doing is rapping to the voice.
Speaker 2: That was actually part of like he wasn't He wasn't.
Speaker 2: He was rapping to the person rapping on the recording,
Speaker 2: which was really weird. A lot about being, you know,
Speaker 2: going against an average joe, Like, I mean, can we
Speaker 2: be a little more creative please? I don't know, like
Speaker 2: I like Trick, I like, I respect him so much
Speaker 2: just to see him have just to see him do this,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, I guess it's kind of hard
Speaker 2: because I'm a musician. I went to school for music
Speaker 2: at a college and Albany. It's now closed because of COVID.
Speaker 2: You know, they closed after COVID was over, and like
Speaker 2: it was just it was not good, and he just
Speaker 2: did it and he left. So that's what happened when
Speaker 2: we had Trick Williams of the rap performance to it
Speaker 2: to basically insult Joe Hendry. Yay uh oh my god,
Speaker 2: they actually have the thing that I'm reading actually has
Speaker 2: all the words. Then me go to the locker room
Speaker 2: Aria and Joe Hendry says that the gloves are off
Speaker 2: while he is strumming his acoustic guitar. Then Kelly Kenny
Speaker 2: has a backstage interview with Josh Briggs. Briggs knows that
Speaker 2: it's been a while since he's been a singles competition.
Speaker 2: He wishes that Yoshiki an Amora we're here, but he's not.
Speaker 2: Things haven't been fun for breaks since Inamora went back
Speaker 2: to Japan, and Briggs is not. Is now dedicating this
Speaker 2: match to Inamora tonight. So the second match we have
Speaker 2: of the night is Sean Spears versus Josh Briggs. This
Speaker 2: match was good, it wasn't you know it was? It
Speaker 2: was okay, it was it was to use match terminology,
Speaker 2: it was fine. It is really what it was the
Speaker 2: end of the match Josh Briggs and ends up losing
Speaker 2: to Sean Spears and the Color. And then afterwards, you know,
Speaker 2: Josh gets ticked, starts attack, starts attacking Sean Spears. The
Speaker 2: rest of the calling come in start beating him up.
Speaker 2: They all still take turns beating up Josh Briggs, and
Speaker 2: then Hank k and Tank come out and and get
Speaker 2: the calling out of the ring, which then in turn
Speaker 2: sets up a match between the guys of the calling
Speaker 2: versus hankin, Tank and Josh Briggs. And I believe that's
Speaker 2: a battleground on Sunday. I'll have to double check that.
Speaker 2: I'll find out. But it was a it was a
Speaker 2: decent match, Like I said, it was fine. It was fine.
Speaker 2: Sean Spears winsor via pinfall. Then we have Zaria and
Speaker 2: sol Ruka running into Colonnie Jordan in the women's locker room.
Speaker 2: Colonie says, just to be clear, when Colonie beat Zoria tonight,
Speaker 2: she'll face so for the NXT Women's North American Championship
Speaker 2: at Battleground. Soul agrees to the terms last week, and
Speaker 2: Colonnie said that she wouldn't be surprised if Soul went
Speaker 2: back on her word. Zaria says that Soul is the
Speaker 2: most genuine person in w w E. Saul is not
Speaker 2: gonna go back on her word, just like Colanie won't
Speaker 2: be going to Battleground. Zaria then says that she'll be
Speaker 2: Colonie once again. Colonie tells Saul that she'll that she'll
Speaker 2: see her at Battleground. Bea Hale comes out and confronts
Speaker 2: Tatum Paxley and she wants to know what's up with
Speaker 2: her behavior. Now, Okay, I din't you get a chance to
Speaker 2: talk about this last week, so I'll talk about it now.
Speaker 2: So they had the cut, right, they had the releases
Speaker 2: and two well, one of the releases was Gigi Dolan,
Speaker 2: who everybody should know if that follows an XT was
Speaker 2: a tag team with Tatum Pasley and then another. It
Speaker 2: wasn't a cut necessarily, it was more like your contract
Speaker 2: is up and we're not resigning you as Shatzi. So
Speaker 2: the three of them kind of had this like bond
Speaker 2: thing going on. And now the two of Gigi and
Speaker 2: Shatzi are now gone, and so Tatum is by herself
Speaker 2: and I I have mixed emotions. I have mixed emotions,
Speaker 2: Like I think it's really cool that they're incorporating their
Speaker 2: releases in the storyline with Tatum Pasley, like she's sad
Speaker 2: because all of her friends are gone. I mean, she
Speaker 2: doesn't really say why, but we all know why. On
Speaker 2: the flip side, though, on the flip side, I think
Speaker 2: it kind of sucks that they're using the fact that
Speaker 2: they cut peace people, that they fired people as in
Speaker 2: part of a story and an active storyline. Like most
Speaker 2: of the time, other people leave the company for whatever,
Speaker 2: for whatever various reasons, and they're just never mentioned again,
Speaker 2: I don't until the next time, Like I like, for instance,
Speaker 2: Alistair Black, like Alistair Black was going it was an
Speaker 2: aw for however long many years it was three, four
Speaker 2: or five, I don't remember how well, they never mentioned
Speaker 2: his name once until magically comes back, right, So you
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying they're mentioning Gigi and Shazi,
Speaker 2: but the fact that they're kind of a part of
Speaker 2: the storyline even though they're not there, it's interesting to me.
Speaker 2: But then it's also kind of rude. Tell me what
Speaker 2: you think. Is it good or bad? I think it's
Speaker 2: it's different. It's different. I'll say that it's different. So anyway, uh,
Speaker 2: Tatum says that THEA doesn't understand the toll it takes
Speaker 2: to lose everyone you're close to, and THEA says she'll
Speaker 2: agree to do disagree on that notion because THEA also
Speaker 2: lost Duke Hudson and Riley Osbourne, who were both with
Speaker 2: her in Chase. You now Adrian Chase. That's a whole
Speaker 2: separate thing. I don't really particularly care for the current
Speaker 2: storyline that they're going through. But but THEA Chase's partners,
Speaker 2: Duke Hudson and Riley Osbourne both have gotten released in
Speaker 2: the last few months, So yeah, she does understand. Then
Speaker 2: Jada Parker blessed THEA with a hypnotic out of nowhere
Speaker 2: and and Jada says something like, oh, okay, you feel
Speaker 2: bad for you? She goes, oh you were, and Tatum's like, oh,
Speaker 2: you really feel bad for me? She's like, nah, bitch,
Speaker 2: Like what's the point of that. I mean, Jada Parker
Speaker 2: went from like going for the NXT women's title at
Speaker 2: Standon's delivery to now like I mean, listen, don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong. I love the Ahale and Tatum Pasley, like
Speaker 2: like that's an hot that's those those two are both awesome.
Speaker 2: But like I feel like Jada was just like downgraded
Speaker 2: because she really was the odd I mean I said
Speaker 2: this during during standon Delivery season. She really was the
Speaker 2: odd woman. Now, I mean of you know, of we
Speaker 2: had Julia Jordan Grace, Stephanie Vacier, and then Jada Parker.
Speaker 2: Janna Parker is good, but she's not on their level. Okay,
Speaker 2: who talking a lot because I didn't get a chance
Speaker 2: to talk last week. Our third match is oh Tim
Speaker 2: versus Calee Dixon and you're Riah Connors. So right now,
Speaker 2: so right now, Milesbourne is on the process of trying
Speaker 2: to go against Obafemi. So there's no really no quarter
Speaker 2: Catch crew tag team and I'm more left. So now
Speaker 2: there's no Josh Briggs and a more a tag team.
Speaker 2: Who's a tig team anyway? The College, I guess, I mean,
Speaker 2: they're not really a tag team. They're a group that
Speaker 2: has a tag team part the Dark State, but they're
Speaker 2: not really a tag and they're a group. So so
Speaker 2: now they're trying to rebuild OTM. I don't. I mean
Speaker 2: OTM is Listen. I went through a long time where
Speaker 2: I didn't particularly care for Hank and Tank and show A.
Speaker 2: Michaels did his magic and made me care for them.
Speaker 2: So right now I'm kind of feeling the same about OTM,
Speaker 2: and I'm also feeling the same about Chase You. I'm
Speaker 2: not even gonna talk about Chase You to I because
Speaker 2: the whole thing was just weird. But I don't this
Speaker 2: was a match where I don't care. Like I didn't care.
Speaker 2: I don't care about OTM. I don't care about kill
Speaker 2: Dixon and Uri Connor in Chase University, like Chase University
Speaker 2: with the Duke, thea Riley and Adrian Chase. That to
Speaker 2: me was Chase University. I don't know what this is.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this is. It's it's funny right
Speaker 2: now NXC has so many awesome things going on, and
Speaker 2: then they have so many things. It's just like, I
Speaker 2: don't care. You've got two hours to fill use them wisely,
Speaker 2: and it's two hours on the dot. And I've said
Speaker 2: this before, like ten o'clock comes boom, the news is
Speaker 2: on anyway, But the bottom line is at the end
Speaker 2: of the match, OTM get gets the win against the
Speaker 2: guys from Chase University. There you go. I don't really
Speaker 2: have much more to say about it. There's so many
Speaker 2: good things that happen in the show that I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm kind of just glossing over the things that were
Speaker 2: just okay or less than okay. Then we have a
Speaker 2: segment between Obafemi and Milesbourne. Now I'm gonna say this.
Speaker 2: Once I said this, I'm gonna say this a million times.
Speaker 2: Miles Bourne and the spoiler alert, Miles Bourne has no
Speaker 2: shot in hell of beating Obafemi. Uh, if you want
Speaker 2: a big payout, put some money on Milesbourne. If if
Speaker 2: you're in New York you can't do this, but other
Speaker 2: states you can. And listen. I am not condoning gambling,
Speaker 2: and I don't think you should really do this, But
Speaker 2: if there's a sure bet, the sure bet is is
Speaker 2: on Obathemi and he's probably only getting a one one
Speaker 2: to one, one to two or one to two winnings. Anyway, Yes,
Speaker 2: I like I have fallen and liked with Miles Bourne.
Speaker 2: I like what he's doing. I like the fact that
Speaker 2: they're kind of pushing the fact that he can overcome
Speaker 2: this disability that he has, and yeah, I think he'll
Speaker 2: put on a I think he'll put on a decent match.
Speaker 2: Who out there actually thinks that Milesbourne is gonna beat Obafemi?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess we kind of said that about
Speaker 2: Tony di'angelo and he ended up winning the North American title,
Speaker 2: But that's only because Obafemi had to win the NXT title.
Speaker 2: You know. They they just didn't do the same thing
Speaker 2: did with Stephanie vac Care, but the with the double championship.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Again, I like Milesbourne. There's no universe
Speaker 2: where I see that he wins against Obami and if
Speaker 2: he does, cool cool. I don't know. Anyway, Let's let's
Speaker 2: let's see what they said. So oba Femi says, Miles,
Speaker 2: I see you came alone tonight. I can't quite tell
Speaker 2: if that makes you stupid or brave, perhaps both, but
Speaker 2: I do I also do confidently feel that it's exactly
Speaker 2: why you made this made it this far, even even
Speaker 2: though a lot of these people don't believe in you
Speaker 2: were you didn't didn't believe you were gonna make it
Speaker 2: this far. I certainly believe that you that you couldn't
Speaker 2: make it this far. But look look at you now,
Speaker 2: you were a member, you were the number one contender
Speaker 2: for the NXT Championship. And it's also in my understanding
Speaker 2: that this match is not just a fight for the title.
Speaker 2: There's also a fight for everybody. You're going to try
Speaker 2: to inspire and uplift again. Yes, yes, he definitely should
Speaker 2: inspire an uplift. Let me tell you, it's he's partially deaf.
Speaker 2: He's partially deaf enough where he's got a speech impediment. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we've all we all see that, and to not be
Speaker 2: able to hear both your opponent going back and forth.
Speaker 2: If you're not being able to hear your you know,
Speaker 2: the crowd reactions and to make sure you're doing something
Speaker 2: good like fine. But yes, he's definitely going to inspire
Speaker 2: an uplift. It doesn't mean he's gonna win the title. Uh.
Speaker 2: And I find it and I find that to be
Speaker 2: admirable but also very very misleading. Life is cruel, Miles.
Speaker 2: Good things always happen to good people, and I know,
Speaker 2: deep down in my heart that you are a good person.
Speaker 2: But however, this is not a Disney movie. You do
Speaker 2: not get the happy ending. You don't get the dream
Speaker 2: become true. You don't get to run off into the
Speaker 2: sunset with my title. No, no, no, Because your dream
Speaker 2: was two weeks ago when you won the Battle Royal yep.
Speaker 2: Your dream was last week when you beat Ethan Page yep.
Speaker 2: But make no mistake, This Sunday, when you step into
Speaker 2: the ring with me and that bell rings, your dreams
Speaker 2: will die because you will realize very quickly that you
Speaker 2: are standing in the ring with the ruler, the destroyer,
Speaker 2: the bringer of war. And I'll be merciless, relentless, and
Speaker 2: unforgiving because you want me to treat you like everyone else.
Speaker 2: You want me to treat you like you're just like them. Right,
Speaker 2: So be it. Join the line, join the lists of victims.
Speaker 2: Your fate will end in the destruction at the hands
Speaker 2: of Obafemi. I will be in then, Miles respond. I
Speaker 2: will be out here by myself, Oba. I might be
Speaker 2: out here by myself, Oba, but I'm not alone to
Speaker 2: Tavian Ran and Charlie have been helping me train day
Speaker 2: and night. They're not only the ones. They're not only ones.
Speaker 2: I have my back. I have an entire community. Every
Speaker 2: kid who feels different. Every parent who worries about their
Speaker 2: child isn't going to fit in. Yeah. Oh, but you're right.
Speaker 2: This is more than just winning a championship. It's about
Speaker 2: making a statement. So go ahead write me off as
Speaker 2: just another victim. Underestimate me, and like I said before,
Speaker 2: certainly wouldn't be the first doctors, nurses, and they misunderstood,
Speaker 2: misunderestimated me. Every opponent I stepped in in front of
Speaker 2: an amateur wrestling underestimated me. Hell, I'm pretty sure some
Speaker 2: of the coaches at NXT Tryout underestimated me. But I
Speaker 2: proved them wrong. And at Battleground it's going to be
Speaker 2: the toughest match of my career. And I've been surviving
Speaker 2: battles ever since I was born. Oba, But you're right,
Speaker 2: this ain't a Disney movie. But every ruler falls and
Speaker 2: I might be hard of hearing, but when I shot
Speaker 2: the world at Backleground, they're going to hear the one, two,
Speaker 2: three loud and clear. I like this promo. It was
Speaker 2: just this guy speaks, says what he says. This guy
Speaker 2: speaks says what he says, and then they then they
Speaker 2: walk out of the ring. No shenanigans, there's no beating
Speaker 2: anybody up between the two of them. It was just
Speaker 2: this is what I'm saying, this is what you're saying. Okay,
Speaker 2: buy good, good good promo. Then then after Milesbourne leaves
Speaker 2: the ring, Jasper Troy from LFG, the guy who went
Speaker 2: LG I talked about before, the guy with the big chains. Uh.
Speaker 2: He drops Obafemi with a running body block and nails Uh,
Speaker 2: nails Femi with a black hole slam. Born then storms
Speaker 2: back into the ring to make the save. Femi refuses
Speaker 2: help from Born, and Borne hands the NXT title back
Speaker 2: to Femi. Femi and Borne have a standoff to close
Speaker 2: the segment. Okay, this segment they I'm about to talk
Speaker 2: about just piss me off. I don't understand. So we're
Speaker 2: in Av's office. She's pissed at Ricky Saints and Eaton
Speaker 2: Page because they are fighting again, and Saints wants to
Speaker 2: finish the back and forth. Pages is having too much fun,
Speaker 2: and Saints offers to put the NXT. So, okay, so
Speaker 2: this is what happens. Saints says, he wants to fight
Speaker 2: you some, Paige, and he wants to put the NXT
Speaker 2: North American title on the line. Page says he likes
Speaker 2: us out of that. Then Ava reminds them, okay, fine, fine,
Speaker 2: Ava reminds Paige AND's think that they don't make the matches.
Speaker 2: She does, and Sean Legacy has a claim to the
Speaker 2: title after the victory tonight, and then she makes the
Speaker 2: match that they ask for in the first place. She says,
Speaker 2: so the American title will be on the line. So
Speaker 2: she complains because they're making a match for the NXT
Speaker 2: North American title. So she complains that they don't make
Speaker 2: the match. She does, and then she ends up making
Speaker 2: the match like what And I'm sitting and I'm sitting
Speaker 2: there watching this, going I can't wait until the podcast,
Speaker 2: until I until I do the podcast, because it's gonna
Speaker 2: be like, what was the point of that. I know
Speaker 2: that Shawn Michaels can't be on TV and can't be
Speaker 2: like the prominent figure, but Ava's got to go, or
Speaker 2: at least somebody who's giving her lines needs to give
Speaker 2: her better lines, because she just that that was the
Speaker 2: stupidest sounding thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
Speaker 2: Then we have a problem with Tony D'Angelo. Tony D'angelo's
Speaker 2: going against Stacks at Battleground as well, guess it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good match. I'm not gonna say that,
Speaker 2: but I have to. I have to tell you. Nobody
Speaker 2: knows where Cruciphena is. Adrian and Rizzo who to me,
Speaker 2: she's the reason why we watched the family. Get my point.
Speaker 2: She's nowhere to be found. She's locked up in a
Speaker 2: safe house. She's not in a safe house. I don't
Speaker 2: know what's going on. The problems back and forth are
Speaker 2: getting old. It's like I said that Tony and Sax
Speaker 2: is gonna be a great match at Battleground. I think
Speaker 2: I think Sax is gonna win. That's my that's my
Speaker 2: impression that Sax will win. To kind of throw at
Speaker 2: a prediction in there, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I don't care, I really don't. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 2: interesting sort of the fourth match of the night. Now,
Speaker 2: this match would have been the match of the night
Speaker 2: if the triple threat from earlier what didn't happen. This
Speaker 2: was a great match between No I'm thinking of a
Speaker 2: wrong match anyway, it doesn't matter. Folla Hanley versus Lolavice
Speaker 2: great match. I was thinking of a different match. I
Speaker 2: will talk about that later Foula Mattress Fella Hanley versus
Speaker 2: Little Ice. This was a great match, but a lot
Speaker 2: of good back and forth stuff. At the end of
Speaker 2: the match, Lola wins with the with the spinning backfist
Speaker 2: which comes out of nowhere and like all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's I think who else does that? It's like uh,
Speaker 2: Carrie saying, I think she does a spinning backfist too.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great move. I love Lola Ice.
Speaker 2: Please push her like once once Stephanie leaves, give her
Speaker 2: a title shot like she I think she deserves it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so anyway, the winner of that match was Lolavice.
Speaker 2: Then Kellik and Kaid had to sit down interview with
Speaker 2: Stephanie for Care. This was like Stephanie's promo. She talked
Speaker 2: a lot about, you know, all her journey through the
Speaker 2: through the wrestling world over the years and all the
Speaker 2: trials and tribulations she went. There was a really great interview.
Speaker 2: Should definitely watch it. I'm not gonna go through the
Speaker 2: whole thing, but it's to set up, obviously, the final
Speaker 2: set up between Stephanie and Jordan Grace. Now hold my
Speaker 2: feet to the fire. This is what I think. I think,
Speaker 2: I don't know if if Roxanne and Julia weren't just
Speaker 2: signed by the main roster shows how I was going
Speaker 2: to say that Jordan Grace wins the title and Stephanie
Speaker 2: like goes up to the main roster. There's enough women
Speaker 2: to carry that, to carry Jordan Grace as the champion
Speaker 2: with everybody else gunning for her, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: stand by that. I honestly do think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't, like, because you know,
Speaker 2: I think Stephanie enjoys her time in NXT, but after
Speaker 2: the two matches she had on in it ROSS, Stephanie's
Speaker 2: clearly ready for the main roster. She needs to get
Speaker 2: up there. She needs to give him a boost, she
Speaker 2: needs to give herself a boost. Jordan Grace, excuse me.
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace is very content and doing well in the
Speaker 2: n XT, and I think she would make a great
Speaker 2: champion and go against somebody like Zaria or Lolavice. There's people,
Speaker 2: there's people, so feats and fire. Jordan Grace wins the
Speaker 2: title and Stephanie eventually in the draft or whenever. However,
Speaker 2: that's gonna happen. She'll go up to the main roster.
Speaker 2: That's what I believe is gonna happen. Fifth match of
Speaker 2: the night was Zaria versus Klannie Jordan. This is the
Speaker 2: match I was going to talk about. Was a great match.
Speaker 2: This If Claudie wins, she got the North American Women's
Speaker 2: title match. Long story short, she does win the match.
Speaker 2: It was a great match, back and forth the whole time.
Speaker 2: Zaria is clearly setting up something with soul Ruka for
Speaker 2: the future. I can't wait to see that love so
Speaker 2: Ruka loves Zaria. Sorry, I'm waiting for Zaria versus Jordan Grace,
Speaker 2: to be honest, that's the match I want to see.
Speaker 2: But for now they're focused on the North American Women's Championship,
Speaker 2: which is fine. Colonie Jordan does end up winning the
Speaker 2: match at the end with via roll up, which now
Speaker 2: grants her a title shot at so Ruka's North American Championship.
Speaker 2: Do I think Colonie Jordan's gonna win? No, I think
Speaker 2: so Ruka is going to retain the North American Championship.
Speaker 2: To be honest, she really hasn't defended it. I don't
Speaker 2: know if she's defended it at all since Dannon delivered
Speaker 2: like she had one non title match and then Zaria
Speaker 2: has been fighting her battles so that they need to
Speaker 2: figure that out. But it was this. It was a
Speaker 2: really good match. And again, if it wasn't for the
Speaker 2: triple third match in the beginning, this this could have
Speaker 2: been the match of the night. So this is the
Speaker 2: match card and these are my predictions before we get
Speaker 2: into the end. We have so Ruka versus Colonia Jordan
Speaker 2: for the NAMA TE Women Championship. I just said so,
Speaker 2: I think so Ruka will retain. We have Hank and
Speaker 2: Tank and Josh Briggs versus The Calling and a six
Speaker 2: VN tag match. I think the Calling is gonna win
Speaker 2: only because Hank, Tank and Josh are really not a
Speaker 2: group and the Calling is. I think that there's shenanigans
Speaker 2: and the Calling ends up winning the match with shenanigans. Again,
Speaker 2: we talked about Tony and Stax Tony versus Stax. I
Speaker 2: believe that Stax is gonna win, but I flip a coin.
Speaker 2: Tony could win, Stax could win. I could see where
Speaker 2: Stax wins and and uh like uh, Christophina comes out
Speaker 2: and beats up Tony for Stax, maybe even her and
Speaker 2: maybe even him and Adrian Rizzo who knows Adrian Rizzo
Speaker 2: who cares. We have the women's championship Matt Stephanie versus
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace again. I think that George, I think that's
Speaker 2: Jordan could win. I honest think that Jordan could take
Speaker 2: the title so that Stephanie can move up because that
Speaker 2: would be good for everybody. I believe we have all
Speaker 2: but Femi and the champion versus Miles Bourne. Again. There's
Speaker 2: no chance in hell of Miles Bourne winning this match
Speaker 2: if he does. To be honest, to be honest, if
Speaker 2: Milesbourne pulls this off, okay, cool, it's a travesty. It's
Speaker 2: a travesty like especially and and by the way, you
Speaker 2: can kind of tell them that Oba's gonna win too,
Speaker 2: because the only way that Milesbourne is gonna win is
Speaker 2: if is if the dude from LFG comes back in Troy.
Speaker 2: He comes back in and and and costs over the match.
Speaker 2: I truly believe that he's not going to that. OBA
Speaker 2: will just be Miles Bourne and then they'll set up
Speaker 2: the match between the two of them. Were your maagine
Speaker 2: going from LFG like directly into the main events scene
Speaker 2: at uh at franticst and then we have the Joe
Speaker 2: Joe Hendry versus Trick Williams for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 2: I've avoided talking about this subject except for the whole
Speaker 2: Trick rap thing. We had a concert with Joe Hendry.
Speaker 2: He comes out, he sings a song, great, it's a
Speaker 2: funny song. He shows a video of him of Trick
Speaker 2: and mellow like running through that. I remember that the
Speaker 2: haunted house thing. And then Joe Hendry's face comes as
Speaker 2: Trick screams and tricks. Trick gets a little butt hurt
Speaker 2: and he comes out and starts complaining to Joe Hendry.
Speaker 2: They have a little bit of a tussle. Trick Williams
Speaker 2: goes for the trick shot and Joe Hendry takes a
Speaker 2: guitar and just bashes him in the knee and the
Speaker 2: guitar obliterates and Trick Williams complicitly is like holding his knee.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't think it truly was hurt. I
Speaker 2: think it was a ruse. It was a you know,
Speaker 2: but but yeah, no, So Trick Williams first he gets
Speaker 2: a guitar to the knee, the guitar obliterates, and then
Speaker 2: Joe Hendry does standing ovation on choke slam on Trick
Speaker 2: Williams now at the end of NXT, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: the show ended as soon as that was done. At
Speaker 2: the end of NXT, Joe Henry stood tall before Battleground. Now,
Speaker 2: if you go with the way things go with last
Speaker 2: episodes before ples, not all the time, but the majority
Speaker 2: of the time, the person who is standing tall at
Speaker 2: the end of the go home episode is usually the
Speaker 2: one that loses the next match. If that's the case,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it will be, but if that's the case,
Speaker 2: that means that Trick Williams could be the TNA World
Speaker 2: Heavyweight Champion. Really you think like he would have to
Speaker 2: go on both brands, right, Like, how does that even work?
Speaker 2: If Trick Williams was the North was the NXT World
Speaker 2: to everyweight champion, how would that work? Like, I'm so
Speaker 2: excited to see what happens. I have no by and
Speaker 2: by the way, and I was listening to Busted Opener
Speaker 2: earlier and and Dave lok Greco was talking about the
Speaker 2: cool thing about this match is you have no idea
Speaker 2: who's going to win this match, which makes it like
Speaker 2: you want them. Oh and by the way, let's not
Speaker 2: forget too that NXT background is going head to head
Speaker 2: with Double or Nothing in a w in the same night.
Speaker 2: This is the aw pay per view and Doubler and
Speaker 2: Battleground NXT is on the same night at the same time,
Speaker 2: So that'll be interesting to see about the numbers. But
Speaker 2: I don't who wins. Who wins the match? Okay, if
Speaker 2: I have to do a prediction, I said Trick Williams wins,
Speaker 2: and he's the NXT or he's the TNA World Everyweight Champion.
Speaker 2: See if I'm right. And that's the end of the episode.
Speaker 2: Tell me, guys what you thinks. I I may or
Speaker 2: may not do, depending on how things are going in
Speaker 2: my life. I may or may not do a Battleground.
Speaker 2: So it's on Sunday night at eight o'clock and I
Speaker 2: have to go to work Brighton early the next morning.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to do a
Speaker 2: review for Battleground. If not, it may just be an
Speaker 2: instant reaction after the show is over. And then but
Speaker 2: there's a there's a lot of matches on this card.
Speaker 2: There is hold on there is one, two, three, four
Speaker 2: or five. There's six matches on and usually the nxt
Speaker 2: pl is only go two and a half hours, so
Speaker 2: it's gonna be interesting to see how that goes. But
Speaker 2: I but I think that I think I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: to I'm gonna try to do even if it's just
Speaker 2: an instant reaction after the after the PLA, and I'll
Speaker 2: send it to Matt and have them post it because
Speaker 2: I have to work on Monday and Tuesday. Why should
Speaker 2: not app Sorry, I actually Monday is a holiday. I
Speaker 2: will have a review for the on the holiday. I
Speaker 2: will send it out to you. I almost forgot. That's
Speaker 2: so exciting. I have a day off on Monday. I
Speaker 2: hope you guys have a day off on Monday too.
Speaker 2: And in the meantime, I will talk to you this weekend. Bye.
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