WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:05.360 This was the final Wednesday Night residency here the twenty 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:09.039 three hundred Arena for a while. Actually, I guess Collision 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.439 would be, but the final Dynamite at the twenty three 4 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.839 hundred Arena. This this is I think the third week 5 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.800 that they have had this building packed in nine hundred 6 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:21.120 people whatever it is. And so we end up with 7 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:26.800 another All Star main event tag team match, but this 8 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:32.840 time we had money on the line. Oh boy, yeah, 9 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.759 we had five hundred thousand dollars up for grabs in 10 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:40.520 the All Star eight was eight man? How many people 11 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.399 were in there? Ten man? I don't fucking know. There 12 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.200 were a lot of people in there. You would think 13 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.479 that Tony Kahan might have taken something away from the 14 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.920 fact that last week's show did record low numbers for 15 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.079 Dynamite with another one of these All Star multi person 16 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.520 main event matches, but instead, evidently not, because we got 17 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:02.520 it again here in the main event, only this time 18 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.959 with five hundred thousand dollars on the line. And when 19 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:09.439 it was over, it was all to build to Daniel 20 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:13.959 Garcia joining the Death Riders, the man who tried to 21 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:17.280 do things the right way and it just didn't work 22 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:20.920 out for him. He kept losing and losing and losing, 23 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:26.879 until finally he was corrupted by the evil John Moxley, 24 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.319 who has convinced him to join the Death Riders, which 25 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:36.480 means the Death Riders have grown by one. We are 26 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.799 now officially adding new members to the Death Riders. When 27 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.519 we submede we should be subtracting from the Death Riders. 28 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.799 We are only growing this group now, which is terrible news. 29 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:51.239 And also Daniel Garcia proceeds to deliver a curb stomp 30 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.159 that was supposed to be onto a chair. Darby moved, 31 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.439 he moved to the right or the left or whatever 32 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.079 it was. It was bad that they had to redo 33 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:03.040 the spot. This was supposed to be like the big 34 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.760 impactful spot where he was going to drive this man 35 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.879 face first right down into a steel chair. And then 36 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.240 Darby just goes down into the mat and Garcia is 37 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:14.960 standing there and he's looking at Moxley like, I think 38 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.159 we need to redo the spot. So they redid the 39 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:19.240 spot and then they got it done the right way 40 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:21.400 and then they flet and that is how the show 41 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.919 went off the air tonight. You know, my thoughts on 42 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:27.759 adding new members to the Death Riders. I am not 43 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.000 a fan of it Daniel Garcia coming out of the 44 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.120 end of the show, pulling his hood down to reveal 45 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:38.319 himself to you know, the most mild reaction that you 46 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:42.000 could possibly ask for. I would say it was funny 47 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:47.000 if it wasn't just kind of deflating honestly. As a 48 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.280 show closing angle does beg the question though, is Chris 49 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.159 Statlander going to follow, because we've had teases of her 50 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:56.199 being recruited by the Death Riders as well. They got 51 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.080 their one new male member. We might get a new 52 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.520 female member as well to the Riders very soon. We 53 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:06.879 also have our AW World Championship match now official for 54 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.159 All Out. He's going to be Hangman Adam Page, and 55 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:12.639 I think we kind of knew this is what I 56 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:16.400 said last week. Some people thought maybe Kenny Omega would 57 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:19.520 be back in time. We get Omega and Fletcher. They 58 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:21.520 did the angle last week to write him off TV. 59 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:25.080 As we now know, it'll be Hangman Page defending the 60 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:30.280 AW World Championship in Toronto on September twentieth against the 61 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:34.680 Proto Star TNT champion Kyle Fletcher. They're putting him in 62 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:36.879 a position to challenge for the world title that he 63 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.520 will not win obviously, it's a big spot for him 64 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:42.400 to be in. It's a big opportunity for him to 65 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.159 go out there show what he can do against the 66 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:49.360 world champion. So that match is now official. Most of 67 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:51.719 the other matches on the show tonight did what I 68 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:58.560 would say was a perfectly serviceable, perfectly average job of 69 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.400 building to you know, some of the other matches that 70 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:05.080 are coming up on the pay per view. Nothing that 71 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.400 had me terribly excited, though for this All Out show 72 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:11.800 coming up. We get great matches on every AW pay 73 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.000 per view. I can't say that this show that's coming 74 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.759 up as it currently stands. We don't have the final 75 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.439 card yet, of course, but the card as it currently stands, 76 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.800 there's really nothing about it that jumps out at me 77 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.639 that that screams, you know, anything different than I would 78 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.120 get from you know, some of the more recent AW 79 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.720 pay per views, and less so because at least some 80 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.480 of those there were some major stories that they were 81 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:40.240 building to, especially in Texas at All In, and I'm 82 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:43.120 not really feeling that right now for All Out. There's 83 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.360 still you know, a little bit of time left and 84 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.240 the card is not yet complete. But again, I can't 85 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.000 say that I'm gonna sit here and say that I'm 86 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.920 as excited as I was, you know, going into all 87 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:58.199 out in previous years. They're assembling a card. You know, 88 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.319 we've got certain stories playing out, certain feuds playing out, 89 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:04.839 Ricochet and the Gates of Agony and the Hurt Syndicate. Okay, 90 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:07.639 MJF and Mark Briscoe, we're not going to know what 91 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.800 the stipulation is for their match until Collision this Saturday. 92 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:15.120 MJF was not on the show tonight. Copeland and Christian 93 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.519 against FTR. I don't know what we're doing here. There 94 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.720 was no Copra Christian on the show tonight, but there 95 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:25.399 was a segment with FTR and Stokely Hathaway. I'm still 96 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.240 confused as to exactly what this was supposed to be, 97 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.839 other than FTR and Dax's Harwood going out there and 98 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:34.600 trying to play tough guy with the with the big 99 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.319 bad fans in the old ECW arena. I have no 100 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.720 fucking idea what the point of that segment was. I mean, 101 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.839 it was just a bizarre segment that did nothing to 102 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.079 further the story with them in Copeland and Christian. So 103 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:53.319 that was very weird, But what more can they do? 104 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:55.720 The tag team titles are not on the line in 105 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.480 that match. It's a grudge match, right, Cope and Christian 106 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:03.439 banding together to take on Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler. 107 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:07.720 Sure it'll be a great match, but what more can 108 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:12.839 be done between now and then? It feels like there's 109 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.439 not much left to do at this voice. Then you 110 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:17.399 end up with segments like the one that we had 111 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.000 on the show tonight. One person who was not on 112 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:21.720 the show, and I do want to address this. His 113 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.879 name was never mentioned. He was not on the show tonight. 114 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:27.680 He was not on the show last week, and that 115 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.160 is Wardlow. And I asked the question last week, I said, 116 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.399 have you seen this man? Where is this man? He 117 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.639 made his big return after a year and a half 118 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.319 at Forbidden Door. He joined the don Kallis family. He 119 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.399 showed up on that first Dynamite coming out of Forbidden Door, 120 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.399 but he was fixing his cup links and he was 121 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.600 adjusting his suit jacket and he was standing like the 122 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.399 hired help in the background. What are we doing here? 123 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:55.079 And then we find out this past week and again 124 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.720 aw and Tony Kann have not made any kind official 125 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:01.319 announcement generally on this stuff. They don't. They keep it 126 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.040 very close to the vest, but there was a report 127 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:09.680 from Fightful. Others have confirmed it that there is an 128 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:13.600 injury with Wardlow. Wardlow has not wrestled the match yet. 129 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.079 He made one that one appearance at Forbidden Door, and 130 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.920 the fear is that he may have torn his pectoral muscle, 131 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.800 which if he did, depending on the severity of the tear, 132 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.519 means we're not going to be seeing Wardlow at least 133 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.480 not in the ring, but we may not be seeing 134 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:33.040 Wardlow for a while. He may go right back on 135 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:37.160 the shelf where he was before. If this guy didn't 136 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.120 have bad luck, he would have no luck at all. 137 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.000 I don't even know what to say. Like when I 138 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:45.160 read the report and I saw the Fightful report about this, 139 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:47.720 I had to do a double take because I thought 140 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.720 it was a joke. I thought it was like KFE 141 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:56.199 news or something. I'm like, injured, he just came back. 142 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.480 What has he even done? What do you mean injured? 143 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:03.800 Evidently he got injured on the first move that he 144 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:08.160 did when he closedlined Prince Nana at Forbidden Door, after 145 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:11.439 which he hit an F five on someone, he hit 146 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:15.000 a power bomb on someone, He did some stuff. No 147 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:19.519 indication that he was injured in any way, adrenaline is 148 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:23.839 a hell of a drug until it wears off. But 149 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:28.279 apparently that's where the injury took place. The specific nature 150 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.480 of it not yet confirmed, but that was the fear. 151 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.639 The fear is that it could be a peck tear. 152 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:36.480 I guess we'll wait to see what the update on 153 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:39.360 that is. But evidently we're not going to be seeing 154 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.960 Wardlow for a while. And what that means for, you know, 155 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:47.639 his future, I don't know. I honestly don't know. Because 156 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:51.720 before we saw Wardlow at Forbidden Door, I had completely 157 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:56.600 forgotten about him. He was forgotten. Then he showed up 158 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.679 and I was happy to see him, and I was 159 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.960 happy for him, and I'm sure he was happy to 160 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.159 be back. And then you hear about this and I 161 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:07.240 feel bad for him, and I wish him well and 162 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.279 you know, happy healing, and hopefully he can come back. 163 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:15.759 At this point, I think the idea of him eventually 164 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.919 reaching what I thought his potential would be in aw 165 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.799 I don't see it happening. I just don't see it happening. 166 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.720 I My hope for him is that he can come back. 167 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.279 If he wants to wrestle, he can come back, and 168 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.960 he can have a productive career. You know, he can 169 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.960 have a solid, productive career in the ring. But I 170 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.480 think this idea that one day he's going to reach 171 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:41.879 the pinnacle, you know, no pun intended, or you know, 172 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:46.799 be a top champion in AW with each passing year 173 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.879 and each injury, and it just seems less and less likely. 174 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:54.840 Kind of, if it's within reach, it gets farther and 175 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.360 farther away. And I hate that for him, but that's 176 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.799 just that's just the way it is. You know, these 177 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:04.480 are the circumstances that have befallen him, So hopefully he 178 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.519 could just come back and just produce for them in 179 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:12.600 some way. I've given up on wondering, you know what 180 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:15.600 his ceiling is. His ceiling is whatever his ceiling is 181 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.080 going to be. But he's got to be healthy in 182 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.360 order to be able to get back in the ring 183 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:25.320 and actually do that. So it sucks. But that's why 184 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.799 we don't see him on the show now, and we 185 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:29.720 will not be seeing him on the show for a while. 186 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.879 This is your AW Dynamite review. It is Wednesday, September tenth, 187 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.879 twenty twenty five. I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you 188 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:40.600 for being with me. Brian Danielson. He is now a 189 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:44.000 full time official member of the Dynamite broadcast team. We 190 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:47.200 found out about this last week. The only question was 191 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.159 were they going to make it a four man team, 192 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:51.720 which would have been ridiculous, or was he going to 193 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.279 replace someone. If you replace someone, that someone would have 194 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.320 to be Tony Shamani, because you're not going to get 195 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.360 rid of X caliber. If he's your play by play 196 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.120 guy and Taz is great, why are you going to 197 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:05.720 replace Taz? Tony Shavani is already doing play by play 198 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:10.159 on Collision. Just keep him on Collision and on Dynamite. 199 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:15.159 He can do in ring interviews, backstage interviews probably the 200 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.679 odd in ring interview because backstage is pretty much that's 201 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.879 Renee's realm. She's pretty much doing all the backstage stuff 202 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:26.279 and every now and then Alicia Toot will pop up, 203 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.879 but I think she's on her honeymoon right now. So 204 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.639 Brian Danielson came out. I think this is a great move. 205 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:33.960 I thought he was very good tonight. You know, he 206 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:37.200 brings an insight to it as somebody who not only wrestled, 207 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.279 but wrestled at a very high level. It was a 208 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:42.159 very big name, and it gives him an opportunity since 209 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:46.759 he's done wrestling forever. No, I mean forever is a 210 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:51.519 long time, but he's basically when I say he's retired, 211 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:52.919 I don't mean that we're never going to see him 212 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.600 back in the ring again, but he's basically retired. So 213 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:58.080 this gives him an opportunity to still be a part 214 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.279 of it in some active way. And I think that, 215 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.559 you know, he's able to contribute certain things on commentary 216 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.519 that you won't get from a Tony Shavanni. So I 217 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:11.559 like the move, and he did indeed replace Shavanni. So 218 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.480 we only have a three man booth, which is fine, 219 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:16.759 But as soon as Danielson sat down, what did they do? 220 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.559 They trotted out don Kallis for the opening match, so 221 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.320 we ended up with a four booth anyway here, and 222 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.639 the opening match was Hangman Adam Page, the aw World champion, 223 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.200 opening the show one on one and what they billed 224 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.000 as a grudge match. This was advertised all week as 225 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:40.600 a grudge match against Josh Alexander. Now it was Hangman, 226 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.759 so I was thinking grudge match. It was Hangman who 227 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:49.799 beat Alexander when Alexander made his debut back in April 228 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.399 in the owen Hart Tournament. So This man evidently has 229 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.799 been harboring a grudge for about five months now, but 230 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.440 also on the Hangman side after what happened to Kenny 231 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.960 Omega la week, even though it was Kyle Fletcher really 232 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.559 who did it to him, Alexander being a part of 233 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.600 the same crew, they called it a grudge match. Fine 234 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:14.120 Hangman dodged a running crossbody from Alexander, tried to moon 235 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.279 Salt off the apron into a tombstone, but Alexander slid 236 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:21.440 out into an ankle lock. Page escaped, clotheslined him over 237 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:24.919 the barricade into the front row, and Alexander, though he 238 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.120 got in some brief offense after this, got sent back 239 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:32.759 to the floor. Page hit a slingshot plancha. Alexander created 240 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.519 enough space to recover. He dragged Hangman outside and successfully 241 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.919 connected with a brainbuster to the apron. He did this 242 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.960 while standing on the floor, so it wasn't as devastating 243 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.679 as if he were standing on the apron doing that. 244 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.080 Later in the match, Alexander fought off a dead eye 245 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:55.120 and a buckshot, countering into rolling Germans until Hangman pulled 246 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:58.679 them both to the apron. Alexander held on with another 247 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.279 German still maintained the grip. He wanted one more German 248 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:06.159 in the aisleway. Hangman, though, was able to flip over 249 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:08.679 lands on his feet and then dropped him with an 250 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.080 exploder into the guardrail. Both men beat the count back 251 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:16.320 in before ten Alexander ran into a pop up lagerbomb 252 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:18.840 for a near fall, and then as both men fought 253 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:23.720 up the ropes, Alexander managed an avalanche rolling fireman's carry 254 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:27.799 that's a mouthful. Only got two though before sinking in 255 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.000 the ankle. Lock Page got the ropes. Both men went 256 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.639 back to the apron. Alexander wanted to see four spike. 257 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.600 Page though countered into a dead eye and then hit 258 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:44.440 the Orijara moonsalt out on the floor. So Don Kallas 259 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:49.320 is running distraction now on the referee Lance Archer and 260 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:55.080 Rocky Romero. They tried to intervene. They failed too successfully intervene. 261 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:59.480 Romero got back dropped off the apron onto Archer. Yeah, 262 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.960 they remind me of those cartoon villain henchman. You know, 263 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:05.600 you tell them like get him, and they can never 264 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.000 do it. It's like the gang that can't shoot straight. 265 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.320 They always fuck up. That's basically their role here in 266 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.879 the callous family. Page connected with the buck shot Lariyot 267 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.919 and he pinned Alexander to put the match away. So 268 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:21.200 it was a good opener, predictable finish. I mean, we 269 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.679 knew coming into this show that Alexander was not the 270 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:27.639 one who was getting the championship match in Toronto. They 271 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:31.960 didn't make it official until actually this next segment, but 272 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.559 I think we knew coming in that he was not 273 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:36.360 going to be the callous member who was challenging for 274 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:39.480 the title. It all out. He was somebody that hangman 275 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:42.519 can beat before he gets to the actual challenger. And 276 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:44.960 on that note, we had an angle here. When the 277 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:48.120 match was over, Page took the microphone. He said that 278 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.559 he didn't spill a gallon of his blood to win 279 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.639 the aw World title just to have someone like MJF 280 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:59.279 change the stipulation to his matches. He didn't give everything 281 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:02.679 he's had to this title to have someone associated with 282 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:07.399 the Don Kallis family getting involved. The most important word 283 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:12.720 in aw IS Wrestling Page is the All Elite Wrestling 284 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:17.240 Men's World Champion. Kyle Fletcher walked out with Don Kallus 285 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.080 saying that it was a nice sentiment to have, but 286 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:23.759 it doesn't matter. While Page holds the title the callous 287 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.799 Family runs AW sure feels like it, and he brings 288 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:31.639 up his challenge on Collision Fletcher he threw down the 289 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.840 gauntlet on Collision for a championship match. It all out, 290 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:39.279 so Page said, Fletcher is lucky to not have his 291 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.320 ass flighted out of here after what he did to 292 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.720 Omega last week, but he understands it. Fletcher wanted to 293 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.399 make a point, so Page told him to get in 294 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:50.919 the ring and face him eye to eye, and Fletcher 295 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.559 whispered to don kallis I got this and he got 296 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:57.919 into the ring. Page said that when he looks at Fletcher, 297 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:00.960 he sees potential, but he also see someone who can't 298 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.119 put on a pair of socks, and they showed that 299 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.559 he was wearing loafers with no socks. This guy thinks 300 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:13.079 he's the rock. Page put over Fletcher for being built 301 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:15.960 like a brick shit house, someone who has all the 302 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:19.559 tools to be the future, even seeing himself and him 303 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.359 like when he stood across the ring from Chris Jericho 304 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.839 in the early days of AW Chris Jericho nam Drop. 305 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.279 Page said that Fletcher isn't ready though, which Fletcher said, Oh, 306 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:32.519 I've heard this before. I've heard this my entire life. 307 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.440 He goes, I'm twenty six years old. My prime is 308 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:39.279 when I say it is, and that's right now. Page said, 309 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:41.920 if Fletcher truly wants it, he'll give him a shot. 310 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:44.440 He will give him the shot at all out. But 311 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:47.359 he needs to do it himself. If he's going to 312 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.519 do it, he needs to earn it without the Callus family. 313 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.839 So Fletcher said, you know what, Hangman might think that 314 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.039 makes a difference, but he doesn't need anybody to beat him. 315 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.799 So he has his word that it all out. It'll 316 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.079 be one on one and he will not fail time 317 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.960 after time like Hangman did before he finally won the championship. 318 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.720 And he said that Hangman will say his full name. 319 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:15.880 So as we sat, as we saw later on in 320 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.119 the show with Ricochet and the Gates of Agony, a 321 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:25.960 heel giving their word is completely worthless. It doesn't mean anything. 322 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.359 So the fact that he's saying, you have my word, 323 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.119 I'm not gonna have anybody from the Kallus family at 324 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.400 ringside to help me out, it doesn't mean shit. Okay, 325 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:37.319 but let's take him at his word. Let's say he's 326 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.400 telling the truth. If anything, I think they actually in 327 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:42.240 the eyes of some may have made the match less 328 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.640 interesting now because while I could appreciate there being no interference, 329 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:52.200 it's almost like Continental rules. Nobody believes that Kyle Fletcher 330 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:55.920 is going to win the championship. Less people believe that 331 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.720 Kyle Fletcher is going to win the championship in a 332 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:02.000 fair fight. If he was to have any chance of 333 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:04.920 winning the championship, it would be because somebody would interfere 334 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:08.880 on his behalf. So I don't know that that's necessarily 335 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:14.240 going to inspire people to think that maybe we're gonna 336 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.960 have a title change here. If anything, I think it 337 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.640 does the opposite. But for Kyle Fletcher, you know, if 338 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:21.519 he goes in there, then he has a competitive match, 339 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:27.240 a great match twenty five minutes, thirty minutes, and fall short, right, 340 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:30.440 it doesn't do damage to him. Him working with the 341 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.400 world champion, going out there and having a competitive match 342 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.000 is only going to raise his stock that much higher. 343 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.160 It is not the most attractive World Championship match they 344 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:43.000 could be doing. It really isn't the right time for 345 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:45.480 Kyle Fletcher to be wrestling for the world title. That's 346 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:49.440 a shoot, But he is, and so he gets to 347 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:51.400 go out there now show the world what he can do. 348 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.160 He's not going to win, but hopefully he'll be able 349 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.680 to come out of it in a better position than 350 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.720 he was going into it. It's not what I would do. 351 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:02.759 I would not be taking my TNT champion in this 352 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:05.720 situation and putting him up against the world champion in 353 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.559 a match that he has no chance of winning. But 354 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.039 this is the match that they're doing because they're putting 355 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:14.160 off the MJF stuff in the contract for a little 356 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.440 while longer, so it's an opportunity for him to go 357 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.480 out there and have a great show because throughout the 358 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:23.000 year they've been taking steps with him, going back to 359 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.119 the cage match with Osprey. When this year is over, 360 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:27.720 we will look back at it as the year that 361 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:31.160 Kyle Fletcher really did come into his own as a 362 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:34.160 single star. This was really the year that launched him 363 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:36.519 to that next level. Right, he's not yet at the 364 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:39.960 top level, but if he was down here, now he's here, 365 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:42.680 and then in twenty twenty six, that'll be a year 366 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.039 for him to go up, you know, climb up to 367 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.599 the next rung of the ladder. Take your time with him, 368 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.880 because they really have created and again I don't mean 369 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:54.400 this in a derogatory way, but they've created something out 370 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:57.839 of nothing. Kyle Fletcher was one half of a tag team. 371 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:03.039 Now he is a legitimate single star in this company. 372 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:05.200 He never has to go back to being a tag 373 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:10.880 team wrestler ever again. Now they aired footage of Kenoski 374 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.759 Takeshta defeating I'm gonna talk about him later, but they 375 00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:18.240 aired footage of Takeshta defeating Mark Briscoe on Collision with 376 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:21.319 the surprise assist from MJF who showed up on the 377 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.400 Saturday show. As I said what I said last week, 378 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.079 I said, I'm guessing that MJF is going to show 379 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:30.839 up as a surprise on Collision. And this whole thing 380 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.160 about Kyle Fletcher defending the TNT title against Mark Briscoe. 381 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:37.839 If Briscoe can just beat Takeshta, he already beat Lance Archer. 382 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:40.359 Now he's just got to beat Takeshta. He was never 383 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:44.200 getting a shot at the TNT title. This was always 384 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:47.079 going to be designed to get us to Briscoe and 385 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:50.200 MJF one more time, and so they shot the angle 386 00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:53.640 on Saturday. Now we come back with footage from MJF 387 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.079 after the show. This is not live, but it was 388 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:58.440 after the show on Saturday. He's pacing around in the 389 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:02.079 parking lot. He said his wedding was the day before, 390 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:05.079 and his wife asked him, where are you going? Because 391 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:09.079 he was headed out the door, and you know, she's wondering, 392 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:11.240 where are you going. We're supposed to go on our honeymoon, 393 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:14.799 and he told her their honeymoon can't start until Mark 394 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:19.240 Briscoe is dead. His wife said, if you leave right now, 395 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:24.960 we're done. They just got married, and MJF started laughing 396 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:28.359 and he told and I quote that silly little bitch 397 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:32.000 that he was married well before he ever met her, 398 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:35.279 because he's married to the game and he's ready to 399 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:38.680 make Mark Briscoe's life a living hell. Whatever stipulation Briscoe 400 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:42.400 chooses for their match, it all out this Saturday on 401 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:44.359