Speaker 1: Aw had eight thousand people inside Arthur Ashe Stadium tonight
Speaker 1: for its fourth Grand Slam show. Did not feel as
Speaker 1: special as past Grand Slams have felt in many ways.
Speaker 1: It just kind of felt like another Dynamite but in
Speaker 1: a slightly bigger building. But they did tease one attraction
Speaker 1: for tonight's show. December seventeenth, twenty eleven. That was the
Speaker 1: last time that Nigel McGinnis had a singles match, twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: It's a long time ago, and it was tonight coming
Speaker 1: into this match with Brian Danielson. It was a very
Speaker 1: bizarre way to build to a match that was fifteen
Speaker 1: years in the making. It was a very lackluster build
Speaker 1: to this match, very rushed. They took a very bizarre
Speaker 1: path to get there, and there was some question about
Speaker 1: whether or not we were actually going to get a match.
Speaker 1: I was promoted as will Brian Danielson be medically cleared?
Speaker 1: Will he be able to compete in the ring tonight?
Speaker 1: But Tony Kahn is not one who usually will get
Speaker 1: to a bait and switch where he'll promise a match
Speaker 1: and that he won't give it to you, or he'll
Speaker 1: dangle the carrot, but then he won't actually give it
Speaker 1: to you when you go to take the bait. There
Speaker 1: was no bait and switch, there was no angle. We
Speaker 1: got an actual match tonight between these two men, Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson and Nigel mcginnison, not only went out there and
Speaker 1: had a match. These two men went out there and
Speaker 1: they had a twenty minute match to open tonight's show. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it was not the hard hitting, knockdown, drag out physical
Speaker 1: destruction that many of their earlier matches were from a
Speaker 1: Ring of honor fifteen years ago. Nor should anybody have
Speaker 1: expected that that is what this would have been, especially
Speaker 1: in the case in Nigel, you know, given that he
Speaker 1: hasn't been in the ring very much in a very
Speaker 1: long time, and Brian Danielson is being held together apparently
Speaker 1: by bobby pins and rubber bands. That's the story they're
Speaker 1: telling with him every time we see him in the ring.
Speaker 1: You know, he's basically being held by a thread. He's
Speaker 1: about to fall apart. What we got from these two
Speaker 1: men tonight, despite the less than stellar build, shall we say,
Speaker 1: and the rush nature of how we got here, and
Speaker 1: the lack of any interaction between the two of them
Speaker 1: on television coming into tonight. What we ended up getting
Speaker 1: here was a very good professional wrestling match between two
Speaker 1: men who cut their teeth and Ring of Honor many
Speaker 1: years ago made a name for themselves as two of
Speaker 1: the best technical wrestlers in the world, and here they
Speaker 1: are now, all these many years later. They got to
Speaker 1: go out there, They got to dance with each other
Speaker 1: one more time in the middle of the ring. They
Speaker 1: had a decent crowd there to do it, eight thousand
Speaker 1: people here in New York, the same city where they
Speaker 1: had many of those battles, not that far not that
Speaker 1: far from where they were tonight in Queens over in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: many a battle they had many years ago. So it
Speaker 1: was kind of appropriate for them to get back in
Speaker 1: the ring of all places, here in New York City.
Speaker 1: But it was the story of two men whose careers
Speaker 1: for a while there paralleled one another, and they left
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor at the same time, with the expectation
Speaker 1: that they would travel the same roads and they would
Speaker 1: end up in the same place together. You have, on
Speaker 1: the one hand, Brian Danielson, you know, a man who
Speaker 1: went on to leave Ring of Honor and went on
Speaker 1: to superstardom in his career. Headline WrestleMania, won multiple world championships,
Speaker 1: made a lot of money. On the other hand, you
Speaker 1: have Nigel mcginnison man who should have gone on to
Speaker 1: superstardom and because of various circumstances medical circumstances, it did
Speaker 1: not work out that way for him. That was really
Speaker 1: the story that we were left with coming into this
Speaker 1: match here today. The other big story other than these
Speaker 1: two finally clashing in the ring coming out of tonight,
Speaker 1: is that John Moxley is now the new number one
Speaker 1: contender for the AAW World Heavyweight Championship. It was Darby Allen.
Speaker 1: John Moxley said I want your shot, and Darby agreed
Speaker 1: to put his shot on the line in a match.
Speaker 1: But Darby had already become number one contender for the
Speaker 1: world title by winning the Royal Rampage many many weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to get the shop tonight against Brian Danielson. Instead,
Speaker 1: he willingly gave it up to John Moxley in a
Speaker 1: match that he lost. And so now John Moxley is
Speaker 1: going to wrestle Dream. John Moxley is going to Darby
Speaker 1: Allen's home state to headline in the main event and
Speaker 1: to challenge for the aw World Heavyweight Championship. Darby Allen
Speaker 1: looks like the biggest dweeb in the entire world. Now
Speaker 1: that we could take a step back here and see
Speaker 1: what they did, and we see the outcome of that
Speaker 1: main event tonight, putting his World championship match on the
Speaker 1: I know he's a fighting babyface, but putting his World
Speaker 1: Championship match on the line when he did not have to,
Speaker 1: when the man who he was supposed to challenge and
Speaker 1: supposedly was in no condition to defend the title. Here
Speaker 1: on this show. Not only was Brian Danielson on the show,
Speaker 1: but he went out there and he wrestled a twenty
Speaker 1: minute match in the opener. So the award for the
Speaker 1: biggest fucking moron goes to Darby Allen. Now that this
Speaker 1: show was over, I don't really see how this show, frankly,
Speaker 1: did a whole hell of a lot to make Darby
Speaker 1: Allen look smart or make Darby Allen look any better
Speaker 1: than he did coming into this show. I just shook
Speaker 1: my head when it was over and I said, what
Speaker 1: can you say? You know, what is there really to
Speaker 1: be said? The biggest surprise of the show. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes on these shows you get a surprise debut or return.
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson debuted in the ring. His very first match
Speaker 1: in AAW was against Kenny o'mea it was that Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: the one Grand Slam show that I went to a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Sorea made her AW debut and
Speaker 1: came out and got a big reaction. All right, Britt
Speaker 1: Baker was out in the ring and outcomes Soreya. Great
Speaker 1: Mooda made an appearance to come to the aid of
Speaker 1: Sting on that show. So they usually give you something
Speaker 1: on these shows. The big surprise tonight was the arrival
Speaker 1: of MVP, and he's been dropping little hints you know
Speaker 1: that we might see him popping up somewhere else very soon.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us figured this is going
Speaker 1: to be the place where he and Bobby Lashley and
Speaker 1: Shelton Benjamin are going to end up landing. We did
Speaker 1: not see Bobby Lashley, we did not see Shelton Benjamin.
Speaker 1: What we did see MVP. There was the other thing
Speaker 1: I noticed also in this show, a surprising lack of
Speaker 1: promotion for next week's five year anniversary show. Now, if
Speaker 1: Tony Kahn went last week and announced a big match
Speaker 1: with will Osprey against Ricochet their first AW match, their
Speaker 1: first match in many years, and that's the clearly the
Speaker 1: big match should be the main event on next week's show.
Speaker 1: But outside of a Britt Baker's Serena Dee match for
Speaker 1: next week, there was nothing else announced for next week.
Speaker 1: And we didn't even get Ricochet on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: You know, he wasn't even there. So that was surprising
Speaker 1: to me because you know, this show tonight and next
Speaker 1: week are two big episodes of Dynamite. You would think
Speaker 1: they would have given it a little more of a push,
Speaker 1: but strikingly that did not happen tonight. X Caliber mentioned
Speaker 1: something else that I have to bring up here. He
Speaker 1: mentioned this later in the show. Ex Caliber said that
Speaker 1: br Live Bleacher Report is shutting down their streaming service,
Speaker 1: pay per view service, whatever it is, they're shutting it down,
Speaker 1: and so starting with Wressel Dream, you can order the
Speaker 1: AW pay per view at least domestically. I don't know
Speaker 1: it might be different internationally, but at least here in
Speaker 1: this country, you'll have to order the pay per view
Speaker 1: on trailer TV, YouTube or PPV dot com, but you
Speaker 1: will no longer be able to watch the shows. On
Speaker 1: BR Live and I say, good good. You know why
Speaker 1: BR Live is shutting down because it's shit. That's why
Speaker 1: rest and piss. This is your AW. Grand Slam Dynamite
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Review. I am the Solomn Monster. It
Speaker 1: is Wednesday, September twenty fifth, twenty and twenty four. Welcome.
Speaker 1: Good to be with you here on a Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: They were in my backyard tonight they were I'm in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: They were in Queens so not that far away from
Speaker 1: where I am. But I had to be here with
Speaker 1: all of you tonight. Wouldn't have it any other way
Speaker 1: because AW did not waste any time kicking things off Tonight.
Speaker 1: Grand Slam opened with Nigel McGinnis making his way down
Speaker 1: to the ring. He was not, in fact played to
Speaker 1: the ring live by Oasis. Remember there was some confusion
Speaker 1: about a comment he made a few weeks ago about
Speaker 1: how Oasis is going to play me down to the ring,
Speaker 1: and I knew what he meant when he said it,
Speaker 1: but some people may have taken that the wrong way.
Speaker 1: So no, they were not there tonight, but they were
Speaker 1: not wasting any time already going into Nigel and Brian.
Speaker 1: So Nigel comes out again, fifteen years since the last
Speaker 1: match that these two men had, eighteen years since their
Speaker 1: first match against each other, So the history was there.
Speaker 1: Could have done a better job again of exploiting that,
Speaker 1: really playing that up with the two of them, you know,
Speaker 1: live on TV in the weeks leading up to it.
Speaker 1: But clearly a lot of history there between these two.
Speaker 1: Jim Ross was there tonight. He joined on commentary for
Speaker 1: the opening match and the main event, and he sounded good,
Speaker 1: so it was good to hear Jr. Tonight. So Nigel's
Speaker 1: in the ring and he is waiting for Brian Danglson,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they play his music and
Speaker 1: there's no Brian Danielson. Nobody comes out. There is no
Speaker 1: world champion. Nigel takes the microphone. He says that the
Speaker 1: American coward just dropped the ball, and he demands that
Speaker 1: the referee count him out and he wants Brian to
Speaker 1: be stripped of the aw World Championship, even though this
Speaker 1: is not a title match. He wants him to be
Speaker 1: stripped of the title instead. We hear the final countdown
Speaker 1: and then Brian Danielson comes out. Looks fine. I guess
Speaker 1: he just wanted to make the big dramatic entrance. Now,
Speaker 1: Nigel has been in the ring one time in the
Speaker 1: last thirteen years before tonight. We saw him in the
Speaker 1: Casino Gauntlet Wembley Stadium. All in looked good. That's the
Speaker 1: only time that we have seen Nigel McGinnis in the
Speaker 1: ring in the last thirteen years, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: cut him a little bit of slack. But I have
Speaker 1: to say, even though on the whole I thought he
Speaker 1: looked very good. Early in this match, he was throwing
Speaker 1: some slaps and strikes. These were embarrassing. They may have
Speaker 1: been palm strikes. I think they were just slaps, but
Speaker 1: my god, I mean, I have seen six year old
Speaker 1: girls in ballpits, okay at the Carnival throwing harder slaps
Speaker 1: at the other kids. Then Nigel was throwing at Brian Danielson. Here.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, dislocate the man's jaw, but for fuck's sake, Nigel,
Speaker 1: come on, really, really again. I was not expecting the knockdown,
Speaker 1: drag out physicality that we got fifteen years ago from
Speaker 1: these two, which probably took years off their career. But
Speaker 1: these were embarrassing. I'm sorry, these were just embarrassing. Strikes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it woke Danielson up. He smacked the shit out of Nigel.
Speaker 1: Nigel kind of smiled. McGinnis pulled Daniels into the outside,
Speaker 1: targeted the right arm, which was previously broken in the
Speaker 1: match he had with Okada last year. Nigel tried to
Speaker 1: drop the steps the ring steps onto the arm, but
Speaker 1: Brian was able to move his arm out of the
Speaker 1: way at the last second. They channeled back to their
Speaker 1: ring of honor days and they teased the spot, pulling
Speaker 1: each other into the ring post. Thankfully neither man went
Speaker 1: headfirst into the ring post, because we don't have to
Speaker 1: see that ever again. Back inside, McGinnis supplied the old
Speaker 1: London Dungeon top wrist lock. Nigel then tried a Tower
Speaker 1: of London, but Danielson escaped into the Busichu knee, but
Speaker 1: he landed on the bad arm. McGinnis fought off a
Speaker 1: Labell lock by slamming the injured arm on the mat.
Speaker 1: Danielson tried an uppercut with the injured arm and he collapsed.
Speaker 1: But then he did his moon Salt push off the
Speaker 1: top row. You know, he gets whipped into the corner,
Speaker 1: he does that little flip over only for McGuinness to
Speaker 1: club him with a lariat, covered him. Danielson, they'll kick
Speaker 1: out of one. So we got anvil elbows here for
Speaker 1: McGinnis or by mcguinnis who hit the Tower of London
Speaker 1: for a near fall. McGinnis almost applied a London Dungeons
Speaker 1: surfboard combo, but Danielson rolled through into the anvil elbows
Speaker 1: of his own, and for the finish, Danielson worked at
Speaker 1: Labell Locke. Now it didn't look like it was sunk
Speaker 1: in very tight, but he had the hole applied and
Speaker 1: Nigel is fighting it a little bit. And after initially
Speaker 1: fighting the hole, trying to fight his way out of it,
Speaker 1: he appeared to say. Oh. First he appeared to say
Speaker 1: the words fuck you before tapping out. Jim Ross on
Speaker 1: commentary said, oh, it looks like he said thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. So I went back and I watched. It
Speaker 1: actually did look like he said thank you, So I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that that's what he said, even though TBS
Speaker 1: censored the audio, and they did that a few times
Speaker 1: during this match, because Nigel was cussing up a storm.
Speaker 1: So I just assumed that he must have told Danielson
Speaker 1: fuck you. Why else would they censor it, but I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he said thank you. Yes, the censor's got
Speaker 1: a little trigger happy. Tonight, after the match, Christian Cage
Speaker 1: walked out by himself because Daniel again Danielson got him
Speaker 1: to tap out. So the match is over. Brian Danielson wins.
Speaker 1: Here comes Christian Cage by himself. The rest of the
Speaker 1: patriarchy we're not there. He walks out with his Casino
Speaker 1: Gauntlet contract and he pulls out a pen just like
Speaker 1: this one here, and he teases signing the contract, but
Speaker 1: you see behind him, Kip Sabean sneaks up behind him
Speaker 1: and he snatches the pen out of his hand and
Speaker 1: he runs backstage with it, so Christian chases after him.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop here for a second. Why didn't Christian
Speaker 1: sign the contract? If there's a contract inside, why didn't
Speaker 1: he sign the contract the night that he won it?
Speaker 1: Why is he walking around with a contract that has
Speaker 1: no signature on it? What? That's something that I would
Speaker 1: think he would correct very quickly so he could avoid
Speaker 1: this situation to get in the future. But I just
Speaker 1: thought that was weird, Like, why wouldn't the contract already
Speaker 1: be signed, like I would have put my signature on
Speaker 1: it on night one, right, save some time in the
Speaker 1: future when I want to go out there and cash
Speaker 1: it in. So that was weird. So when Christian the
Speaker 1: camera followed him. When Christian ran through the tunnel, he
Speaker 1: ran into Claudio and Pac who were standing there blocking
Speaker 1: his path. He put the brakes on, ended up going
Speaker 1: around them in his pursuit of Kipsabian. As far as
Speaker 1: the match itself, Nigel, let's talk about Nigel here. Nigel,
Speaker 1: he busted out the greatest hits. We saw the London Dungeon,
Speaker 1: we saw the Tower of London, we saw the rebound Lariot.
Speaker 1: So a lot of the old school moves that were
Speaker 1: part of Nigel McGinnis's arsenal, he pretty much busted out
Speaker 1: all those moves here with the finish they did. You
Speaker 1: know what it felt to me like it felt like
Speaker 1: the closure that Nigel was looking for, especially him saying
Speaker 1: thank you, you know, before tapping out to Danielson. But
Speaker 1: I think it was the closure he was looking for
Speaker 1: after all these years, because I mean, he legitimately wanted
Speaker 1: this match for a very long time, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that that means that he's done. He got it
Speaker 1: out of his system and he's retired now. He's never
Speaker 1: going to wrestle again. He probably will, I don't know
Speaker 1: how often, but I would think that we'll see Nigel
Speaker 1: back in the ring still at least from time to time.
Speaker 1: But he got the match that he wanted and he
Speaker 1: made the most of it. He went twenty minutes with
Speaker 1: the world champion. It's very different than going in there
Speaker 1: in a gauntlet match with twelve other people. This was
Speaker 1: one one. There was no safety net, there was not
Speaker 1: a handicapped match. It was not a tag team match.
Speaker 1: It was not a blood and guts match with ten people.
Speaker 1: It was two men. He had Nigel McGinnis on one side,
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson on the other, who was still one of
Speaker 1: the best wrestlers in the entire world, even as he
Speaker 1: is winding down his full time career. He's the world
Speaker 1: champion and Nigel was in their step for step with
Speaker 1: him for twenty minutes. That's not an easy thing to
Speaker 1: do when you have not had a singles match in
Speaker 1: thirteen years. So I thought, all things considered, Nigel McGinnis
Speaker 1: looked very good. Obviously he slowed down a little bit,
Speaker 1: but he looked very good. You know here in this
Speaker 1: match outside of those awful slaps, which I just again,
Speaker 1: I can't review this match and not bring up how
Speaker 1: just atrocious that was. So I enjoyed it. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a very good match. I only wish that
Speaker 1: they would have taken more care with the path they chose,
Speaker 1: because that was likely the last time we're we're going
Speaker 1: to see them in the ring against each other. This
Speaker 1: was it was probably the end, the final chapter for
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson and Nigel McGinnis, and I just think it
Speaker 1: deserved a better television build. It would have been more fun.
Speaker 1: And this is the point that I made the other
Speaker 1: night on the podcast. I made it on TNT last night.
Speaker 1: Everybody who is a hardcore wrestling fan, or if you're
Speaker 1: an old school Ring of Honor fan, right, yes, you
Speaker 1: are already aware of the history between these two men.
Speaker 1: You don't need Tony Kahan to hold your hand and
Speaker 1: explain to you why Nigel McGinnis would be upset at
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson or the fact that they had a lot
Speaker 1: of matches back in the day and there's a history there.
Speaker 1: But it's what makes wrestling fun, right, It's the journey,
Speaker 1: it's the journey. It's the car ride getting there instead
Speaker 1: of just pushing a button and beaming yourself to the locate,
Speaker 1: which would be great, but pushing a button and beaming
Speaker 1: yourself to where you want to go, sometimes you just
Speaker 1: want to take a step back and just enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1: And that's why you know what I look for when
Speaker 1: it comes to these wrestling shows week to week. These
Speaker 1: promotions have many hours each week of wrestling TV of
Speaker 1: phil and so you expect that on those shows, building
Speaker 1: to whatever the big match is going to be, you
Speaker 1: would have a segment like a face off or a
Speaker 1: contract signing, a meeting of the minds in the ring
Speaker 1: with them. It was hard for not Nigel goes out
Speaker 1: there and he has to just cut promos on a
Speaker 1: man who isn't even there. I don't know if there
Speaker 1: was some legitimate family reason why Danielson could not be
Speaker 1: on Dynamite the last three weeks, even the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: but there was really no good excuse for him not
Speaker 1: to be there at least once. So we can get
Speaker 1: these two men face to face, no physicality, but just
Speaker 1: get them face to face and let them talk about
Speaker 1: their past, let them talk about how one guy went
Speaker 1: this way with his career. The other guy went the
Speaker 1: other way. That should have been me. You had the
Speaker 1: career that I should have had. I resent you for it,
Speaker 1: I hate your gut. And then we get to hear
Speaker 1: where Brian Danielson has to say all we ever heard
Speaker 1: from was Nigel McGinnis. We never heard a word from
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson, not one word. That's what was missing from this.
Speaker 1: That's what some people don't understand. You know, they get
Speaker 1: very upset, they get very offended if you know the
Speaker 1: slightest bit of negativity. They're very trigger happy. But that's
Speaker 1: what was missing from there, and you can't get that back.
Speaker 1: You know, we had the match tonight, it was very good,
Speaker 1: but you can't get that back. That, to me, was
Speaker 1: the biggest disappointment about this entire thing. But I'm happy
Speaker 1: for Nigel because he went out there and he had
Speaker 1: the match that he wanted for a very long time.
Speaker 1: I'm glad he got that opportunity, and I think New
Speaker 1: York City was a great place for it to happen.
Speaker 1: Wembley I think would have been better in front of
Speaker 1: fifty thousand people as opposed to eight, but New York
Speaker 1: City was a very appropriate place for these two to
Speaker 1: write their final chap. We had Roderick Strong challenging Hook
Speaker 1: speaking of New York City, Saint Mark's place. Right Hook
Speaker 1: is very well acquainted with New York City. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can make Hook the mayor. Maybe maybe we can vote
Speaker 1: for Hook to be the mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1: Right Hook will take care of things. You can make
Speaker 1: Taz his chief of staff FTW title on the line.
Speaker 1: Matt Tavan and Mike Bennett were outside in Roddy's corner.
Speaker 1: They got involved a whole bunch of times. The numbers
Speaker 1: got to be too much, which led to Roddy launching
Speaker 1: Hook into the ring post that took us into a
Speaker 1: commercial break. Tavan threw a chair into the ring as
Speaker 1: Roddy wedged it in the corner. That allowed Roddy to
Speaker 1: escape red Rum and drive Hook into it again. It's
Speaker 1: FTW rules, All of this is legal. Strong placed two
Speaker 1: chairs together, hooked, though hit a judo throw through them.
Speaker 1: Roddy hit a fireman's carry gutbuster onto the chair, and
Speaker 1: then a sick kick for a close to count of
Speaker 1: his own. Hook floated over an end of heartache attempt
Speaker 1: into red rum and he got Roddy to tap out
Speaker 1: and Hook retains the FTW title. Pretty paint by number
Speaker 1: stuff as far as Hook matches go, wasn't terribly long,
Speaker 1: wasn't terribly special. Yeah, by the standards of Roderick Strong,
Speaker 1: We've seen Roddy have much better matches than this. But again,
Speaker 1: pretty paint by number of stuff. No, when the match
Speaker 1: was over, Strong put his hand out, No, he's a heel,
Speaker 1: put his hand out for a handshake. Hook accepted the
Speaker 1: other members of the Kingdom. They gave him a nod
Speaker 1: out of respect as they left, So that was surprising.
Speaker 1: I was not expecting to see that. Tony Shavanni got
Speaker 1: up at ringside from the announced desk and Hook went
Speaker 1: over to be interviewed by Tony Shavanni on the outside,
Speaker 1: and he brought up this being the eleventh defense for
Speaker 1: Hook and how the FTW Championship was created just a
Speaker 1: short drive from where they were tonight in Queens by
Speaker 1: his father. And for those who don't know the FT's title,
Speaker 1: the first appearance of the FTW title when Tas first
Speaker 1: debuted it, it was May of nineteen ninety eight, and
Speaker 1: it was actually at an ECW event. It was at
Speaker 1: the Elks Lodge in Queens and it was an event
Speaker 1: called it Ain't Seinfeld. Now why would ECW have an
Speaker 1: event called it Ain't Seinfeld? Well, because the night of
Speaker 1: the show was the night of the Seinfeld series finale,
Speaker 1: which had just I don't have the number in front
Speaker 1: of me, but it did a ridiculous audience on NBC
Speaker 1: was probably like fucking sixty million people tuned in to
Speaker 1: see the Seinfeld finale. I don't know how many people
Speaker 1: were tuned into that show because Seinfeld was just a
Speaker 1: phenomenon back then, but anyway, that was the name of
Speaker 1: the show. That was the first appearance of the FTW title.
Speaker 1: So Hook said, all good things come to an end,
Speaker 1: and he thanked everybody that competed for the championship, all
Speaker 1: the fans who supported the championship. But from this moment on,
Speaker 1: the FTW title is officially retired. The FTW title is
Speaker 1: no more. And I do believe that, I mean personally,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you might disagree, but I believe
Speaker 1: at warrnce a yes chant. Finally, he then presented the
Speaker 1: title to his dad, who got up from the announced
Speaker 1: desk and went over and hugged his boy, and Taz
Speaker 1: had just tears in his eyes. He was wiping away
Speaker 1: the tears. So it was a nice moment here with
Speaker 1: father and son, only a few miles from where the
Speaker 1: title was born. Thankfully, though, that marks the end of
Speaker 1: the FTW title once and for all. It's the right move.
Speaker 1: It's something You've heard me call for this now for months. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you listen to these reviews, this is nothing new.
Speaker 1: I've been calling for this now for a while. I've
Speaker 1: been calling for it really since all In because all
Speaker 1: In when Hook had that great moment with he and
Speaker 1: his father where they you know, his father was outside
Speaker 1: the ring, Hook was inside the ring. But they applied
Speaker 1: those stereotas missions at the same time, and they got
Speaker 1: a big pot from all the people at Wembley Stadium
Speaker 1: and Hook retained. And I thought, man, that right there
Speaker 1: would be the perfect blowoff to the FTW championship. Retire
Speaker 1: the title. It doesn't get any better than that. You know,
Speaker 1: he got to share that moment with his dad, who
Speaker 1: created the title. What a great moment, and Hook can
Speaker 1: now move on to potentially bigger things. And then he
Speaker 1: just kept defending the title. But evidently it was because
Speaker 1: they wanted to retire the title in New York City,
Speaker 1: where the championship was born, and I'm okay with that
Speaker 1: because in the end, we got to the place where
Speaker 1: we needed to be continuing to defend the FTW title.
Speaker 1: While I'm sure he thought it would be a cool thing,
Speaker 1: because look, I'm sure he likes to pay homage to
Speaker 1: his father, I'm sure that's a very cool thing for Hook,
Speaker 1: it doesn't do him any good anymore. If they wanted
Speaker 1: to use the title as a tool to help establish him,
Speaker 1: they've done that already. The establishment phase is over. Now
Speaker 1: it's time for Hook to stand on his own two
Speaker 1: feet and try to move on and move on to
Speaker 1: bigger things and try to set bigger goals for himself
Speaker 1: than the belt that his dad made that isn't even
Speaker 1: really an aw recognized title like the other ones are.
Speaker 1: It's time for him to move on. You know, he
Speaker 1: can't move away from this and climb higher if all
Speaker 1: he's going to continue to do is defend the FTW Championship.
Speaker 1: So this was a necessary move. I'm glad that they
Speaker 1: did it, and it was a nice moment here at
Speaker 1: the end of this match. That is Hook's ceiling, says DP.
Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see what his ceiling is in AAW.
Speaker 1: There was some talk many months ago that he had
Speaker 1: a contract coming up soon that he might want to
Speaker 1: explore his options, but I have not heard anything about
Speaker 1: that since, so I don't know what his contract status is.
Speaker 1: Hook going to the PC, though, would be would be
Speaker 1: very interesting. Hook was red hot there for a while,
Speaker 1: and you knew it wasn't going to last. And even
Speaker 1: in the match here tonight with Roddy, I mean you
Speaker 1: could tell he still is very inexperienced. You know, you
Speaker 1: kind of forget how young he still is. He's not
Speaker 1: the youngest guy there, but he's still very you know,
Speaker 1: very young and rough around the edges. What his ceiling is,
Speaker 1: you know, at his current experience level, it's probably not
Speaker 1: that high. I still think he needs some more seasoning,
Speaker 1: you know, it might take some more time. Do I
Speaker 1: see Hook though, as a TNT champion one day if
Speaker 1: he sticks around, Yeah, I do. I do. Beyond that,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say, you know, I don't look at
Speaker 1: Hook and think, Okay, this is a future AW world champion,
Speaker 1: So he's so far away from that. If that was
Speaker 1: to ever happen, and this company is so overloaded with
Speaker 1: talent right now, Thatt. Unless you're bouncing that world title
Speaker 1: around to different people every other month, you know you're
Speaker 1: not gonna see hook at that level of AW World Champion,
Speaker 1: TNT Champion one day though, Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1: So so far, so good up to this point, I thought,
Speaker 1: for Grand Slam and then we had the AW World
Speaker 1: Tag Team Championships on the line, we had the Young
Speaker 1: Bucks defending their titles against the team of Will Osprey
Speaker 1: and Kyle Fletcher, who won a casino tag team gauntlet
Speaker 1: match to earn the shot. I thought that this was
Speaker 1: the best Young Bucks match in forever. There's just been
Speaker 1: something about their matches, at least going back to Dynasty,
Speaker 1: and a big part of it is that they didn't
Speaker 1: defend the titles for four months, so that that kind
Speaker 1: of played a role. But for months now, the Young Bucks,
Speaker 1: it's not like they go out there and have bad matches,
Speaker 1: but they just go out there and there's just none
Speaker 1: of these matches that they've been having have really pulled
Speaker 1: me in as a viewer. It's just kind of there.
Speaker 1: There was nothing terribly fun, there was nothing terribly exciting.
Speaker 1: About them. Tonight was the best Young Bucks match in
Speaker 1: a very very long time, as far back as I
Speaker 1: could remember this year, and a big part of that
Speaker 1: was will Ospray was in the match. And to take
Speaker 1: nothing away from Kyle Fletcher in the Bucks, I mean
Speaker 1: they were all great. All four men are great, but
Speaker 1: will Ospray it's impossible for him to go out there
Speaker 1: and have a bad match. So when you hear me say, oh,
Speaker 1: this was an excellent match and you see that will
Speaker 1: Ospray was involved, nobody is surprised by that. He elevates
Speaker 1: every match that he is a part of because he's
Speaker 1: a special performer and he's super over with the crowds.
Speaker 1: So these eight thousand people that they had there and
Speaker 1: Arthur Ash tonight were hot for this match. They were
Speaker 1: into this match in a major way, in a way
Speaker 1: that people haven't been. I feel like these crowds with
Speaker 1: the Young Bucks in a very long time. Don Kallis
Speaker 1: joined on commentary. He said that tonight will be the
Speaker 1: biggest night of his career. Spoiler he lied, the action
Speaker 1: was fast and furious in this match, just NonStop. Ospray
Speaker 1: signaled for a hidden blade after a standing sky twister,
Speaker 1: pressed to Nick Jackson. Nick though dodged into a corkscrew kick.
Speaker 1: The Bucks hit the swanton bounce back powerbomb spot for two.
Speaker 1: Ospray kicked up out of an EVP trigger attempt into
Speaker 1: a double oscutter. Fletcher turned the Bucks inside out with
Speaker 1: a double clothesline. Nick Jackson countered a liger bomb into
Speaker 1: a facebuster. Osprey then flew in with a four to
Speaker 1: fifty splash. Nick then followed that with a destroyer to Ospray,
Speaker 1: the impact of which knocked him back into a standing position,
Speaker 1: and before he could fall down, Ospray fell forward and
Speaker 1: knocked him out with a hidden blade. And now we
Speaker 1: had all four men were down. This was just a
Speaker 1: wild sequence and it had the entire crowd on its feet,
Speaker 1: giving these guys a standing ovation. The Bucks later dropped
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher with a spike tombstone on the apron, and
Speaker 1: they looked to be content to take a count out win.
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher looked like he might not make it back
Speaker 1: into the ring in time, but of course he did
Speaker 1: just barely made it back in. The Bucks tried a
Speaker 1: TK driver. Ospray and Fletcher, though both countered into simultaneous
Speaker 1: I think it was Styles clashes to a big pot
Speaker 1: but only got two out of it. Ospray connected with
Speaker 1: hidden blade and a storm breaker, but Nick broke up
Speaker 1: the count. Ospray signaled for the Tiger Driver, but Nick
Speaker 1: Jackson saved his brother with a superkick. Fletcher comes in
Speaker 1: with multiple snap dragons. Matt Jackson meets him with a
Speaker 1: running bulldog. Ospray cuts off more bang for your buck.
Speaker 1: Nick Jackson looks to spring for a TK driver, but
Speaker 1: Ospray flew in with a cutter. An oscutter in mid air,
Speaker 1: Corey Allis connects that's the OSSI open finish. Matt Jackson,
Speaker 1: though kicks out. Osprey calls for Fletcher to end it.
Speaker 1: This is it. Let's go for the kill here, right,
Speaker 1: Let's go for the titles and Osprey hits or they
Speaker 1: hit the corner Brainbuster, which of course is the spot
Speaker 1: that softened up Gunther for his first loss on the
Speaker 1: main roster when he lost to Sammy's Ain't a WrestleMania
Speaker 1: was the top ro Brainbuster, but Nick Jackson barely broke
Speaker 1: up the pin, saved his brothers, saved his titles. Nick
Speaker 1: got sent outside with Ospray, Fletcher flew out with a dive.
Speaker 1: Rick Knox, who of course is the referee for every
Speaker 1: Young Bucks match and is one of the biggest just
Speaker 1: goofball referees. The way that they book him in these
Speaker 1: matches is it's quite ridiculous, So of course he's in there.
Speaker 1: He goes to check on Nick. Don Kallus gets up
Speaker 1: from commentary and he goes over to Kyle Fletcher and
Speaker 1: he hands Kyle Fletcher the screwdriver, the dreaded screwdriver, not
Speaker 1: the drink, the actual screwdriver. Callous then goes over to
Speaker 1: the other side of the ring and he takes the
Speaker 1: referee and distracts him, which is not very hard to do.
Speaker 1: All you really need to do with Rick Knox is
Speaker 1: just shine one of those little laser lights, those laser
Speaker 1: pointers on the floor, and that's you know, Rick Knox
Speaker 1: is basically out of commission for the next twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: So while the referee is distracted, Fletcher is about to
Speaker 1: use the screwdriver and he's rearing back to use it
Speaker 1: and Osprey blocks him. He stops him from using the screwdriver.
Speaker 1: That results in Fletcher getting clobbered with one of the
Speaker 1: tag team belts by Nick Jackson, which of course Rick
Speaker 1: Knox did not see, and then the BTE trigger connects
Speaker 1: for the win and the Young Bucks retain their titles.
Speaker 1: The announcers brought up that if Don Kallas did not
Speaker 1: intervene here, very likely that his guys would have won
Speaker 1: the match. Very likely they would have walked out with
Speaker 1: those titles. This was an excellent match. They went kick
Speaker 1: out crazy down the stretch. I was not a fan
Speaker 1: of that at all. I thought that was just I
Speaker 1: didn't like that. I don't want to say didn't mess
Speaker 1: up the entire match. I still thought it was an
Speaker 1: excellent match. But it's just one of those things where
Speaker 1: there are matches where there are a lot of near
Speaker 1: falls and it's okay because they kind of just hit
Speaker 1: that right number. And then you've got matches and I've
Speaker 1: seen this in a lot of will Osprey matches. I've
Speaker 1: seen this in a lot of Young Bucks matches. They
Speaker 1: just go so crazy with it. You get to that
Speaker 1: point where they go one, two, three, four kickouts too
Speaker 1: far and it's just like, come on, Like some of
Speaker 1: the shit they kick out of it is ridiculous, and
Speaker 1: you because you want that reaction where the crowd is like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you bring them to that crescendo and
Speaker 1: then you just go two kickouts too many to where
Speaker 1: you almost shake your head like all right, you know,
Speaker 1: like you had it and then you just took it
Speaker 1: over that line. You went a little too far with it.
Speaker 1: So I wish they would have cut some of those
Speaker 1: out towards the end. It didn't take away from my
Speaker 1: enjoyment of the match though, like I said, the best
Speaker 1: Young Bucks match I've seen in a very long time. Now,
Speaker 1: the story they told her, because there was a story
Speaker 1: that played out here. The story they told and the
Speaker 1: announcers flat out told it was that Don Kallas got involved.
Speaker 1: Had he not done, so, it's very likely that will
Speaker 1: ospr and Kyle Fletcher right now would be the aw
Speaker 1: World Tag Team Champions. But that ignores the other story here,
Speaker 1: which is that will Ospray stopped Kyle Fletcher from using
Speaker 1: the screwdriver. Had he let his partner cheat and use
Speaker 1: the screwdriver, they would all almost guaranteed be the new
Speaker 1: Aworld Tag Team Champion. So there's multiple different ways that
Speaker 1: they can go with this story now going forward. Whether
Speaker 1: they blame callous and that's Kyle Fletcher's way of separating
Speaker 1: from Don Kallous, or they go the opposite way, which
Speaker 1: is that they hold will Osprey responsible and they turn
Speaker 1: their back on him because they blame him and say, look,
Speaker 1: had you not gone soft, and if you would have
Speaker 1: let Kyle do what I told him to do and
Speaker 1: what he was ready to do, you guys would be
Speaker 1: champions right now. Now. Of course you've got your title,
Speaker 1: but poor Kyle over here, now he has no title
Speaker 1: because will Osprey is already the International champion, he doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be tag team champion. This means more to
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher because he's the one who has no gold
Speaker 1: right now. So you could take that story in that
Speaker 1: direction if you want. Now, will Osprey is wrestling Ricochet
Speaker 1: next week on the five year Anniversary show, and I
Speaker 1: think the best way to go with it, considering how
Speaker 1: quickly they're throwing this match out there, what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would have those two wrestle to a no contest
Speaker 1: of some kind. Now, we saw will Osprey go to
Speaker 1: a nearly a time limit draw. It was like two
Speaker 1: seconds shy of a time limit draw with mjf in July,
Speaker 1: and so doing another time limit draw so soon after
Speaker 1: that one. I don't know that I would do that.
Speaker 1: I certainly wouldn't do a sixty minute one. And if
Speaker 1: there was a sixty minute time limit for that International
Speaker 1: title match, I'm assuming that this match next week will
Speaker 1: also have a sixty minute time limit. Then you can't
Speaker 1: you can't do another one. You can't have another sixty
Speaker 1: minute match. I just I wouldn't do that. You know,
Speaker 1: your five year anniversary show, you do want to spread
Speaker 1: the wealth. I think you want to have a fuller
Speaker 1: card than that would allow. Although they've only announced two
Speaker 1: things next week right so, right now, as of this moment,
Speaker 1: we are only aware of two matches on the show
Speaker 1: next week. So it's not like there isn't plenty of
Speaker 1: room for them to go another sixty if they wanted to.
Speaker 1: But whatever they do, I would not have a decisive
Speaker 1: finish in this match next week. I don't think you
Speaker 1: give that away next week. I mean you're already going
Speaker 1: to it a month into too Ricochet's run. Don't give
Speaker 1: them a clean finish. Will Osprey is not going to
Speaker 1: lose the international title. I just want it back. And
Speaker 1: Rikoshet just came into the company. You're gonna put a
Speaker 1: belt on him already, So the best thing to do
Speaker 1: here is not have any clean finish at all, and
Speaker 1: maybe you shoot that angle next week. If they are
Speaker 1: going to turn their backs on will Ospra, you do
Speaker 1: it next week. Doesn't even have to be the cause
Speaker 1: of the no contest, but it could be after the match.
Speaker 1: But I think if it were me, I personally liked
Speaker 1: the idea of Kyle Fletcher and Takeshna and Callous, all
Speaker 1: of them turning on will Osprey and blaming him when
Speaker 1: they really should put the blame on Callous, but they
Speaker 1: put it on a Will instead. Kyle Fletcher could use
Speaker 1: that harder edge. I think the other reason I like
Speaker 1: the idea is what you can do coming out of
Speaker 1: this is have Ospray and Ricochet as allies. They could
Speaker 1: be partners, not like as a permanent team, but they
Speaker 1: could be on the same side together. They could be allied,
Speaker 1: and now you can have Ricochet wrestling Kyle Fletcher. You
Speaker 1: could have Ricochet having a match with Kenoskate Takashta. Put
Speaker 1: that separation for a while between Ospray and Ricochet. Eventually
Speaker 1: you can circle back to it. You do a rematch
Speaker 1: sometime early next year with them maybe at that point
Speaker 1: Ricochet beats Ospray. Maybe. I mean, if it were me,
Speaker 1: I would be going into twenty twenty five with the
Speaker 1: idea that by the time we get to Texas for
Speaker 1: all in, I'm putting the world championship on will Ospray.
Speaker 1: They didn't do it this year, I would do it
Speaker 1: next year. So I don't even know that I would
Speaker 1: have him lose to someone like Ricochet, but he's going
Speaker 1: to have to lose the title at some point. But
Speaker 1: you create that separation. Now they're on the same side,
Speaker 1: they're not enemies. Now they have a common cause to
Speaker 1: fight for, and eventually you circle back to it. That's
Speaker 1: how I would book it. Also, keep in mind that
Speaker 1: we have not seen Mark Davis in a very long time.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's been almost a year. You know,
Speaker 1: the other half of Ossie Open here, Kyle Fletcher's tag
Speaker 1: team partner. He could be back soon. And if he's
Speaker 1: going to come back soon, maybe all the more reason
Speaker 1: to go ahead and you know, do a split between
Speaker 1: Osbury and Fletcher, Fletcher and Davis maybe reunite, we get
Speaker 1: Ossie Open back together their heels. So again that there's
Speaker 1: a few different ways you can go with this, but
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the direction that I would favor
Speaker 1: as far as that goes. But I definitely would not
Speaker 1: give away a clean finish with Rikoshe and Ospray next week.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it, Joey. I'm telling you, man. Joey says, well,
Speaker 1: Ospray and Rikoshet as tag team champions, you could do that.
Speaker 1: You could do that. You can have them win the
Speaker 1: tag team titles at some point. But I mean think
Speaker 1: about what I'm saying though, and especially for the people
Speaker 1: who don't like the fact that Tony Kah is giving
Speaker 1: this match away so soon, it will allow you to
Speaker 1: really build out their story a little bit more, right
Speaker 1: because if they're allied for a while and maybe they
Speaker 1: do win the tag team titles, eventually that will come
Speaker 1: to an end and you'll have a fuller story just
Speaker 1: an AW alone forget whatever they did before they came
Speaker 1: into AW. You'll be able to flesh that story out
Speaker 1: a little bit more so when they finally end up
Speaker 1: back in the ring at Revolution or a Double or
Speaker 1: Nothing or Dynasty or you know, whatever show it might
Speaker 1: be in the first half of next year, I feel
Speaker 1: like it will be a bigger deal even than it
Speaker 1: is next week. You know, to the people who think
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. Some people may not think it's
Speaker 1: a big deal. But for the people who maybe don't
Speaker 1: think that it's that big of a deal that these
Speaker 1: two guys are wrestling next week again, you flush that
Speaker 1: story out a little bit more, take it down a
Speaker 1: different path for a while, come back to it, and
Speaker 1: at that point it might feel like a bigger deal.
Speaker 1: I don't see the downside to it. I really don't.
Speaker 1: Will Osprey is going to be their guy. Ricochet just signed.
Speaker 1: He's signed a multi year deal. He's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: He's not like, you don't have to give away the store.
Speaker 1: You really don't. Tony Shiavanni was on stage and he
Speaker 1: brought out New York City's own Prince Nana no Swerve Strickland.
Speaker 1: But the reason that Prince Nana was here was to
Speaker 1: give us an update on the condition of Swerve Strickland,
Speaker 1: who we have not seen since all out when he
Speaker 1: had his cage match with Hangman Page. He said, mentally,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that can stop the most dangerous man in
Speaker 1: aw but physically he is not clear to come back,
Speaker 1: but he's fighting hard every single day, for each and
Speaker 1: every one of the fans. Then he was interrupted by
Speaker 1: a voice, a very familiar voice, a voice we have
Speaker 1: not heard on TV in a while. It was the
Speaker 1: voice of MVP who came walking out. He was dressed
Speaker 1: in a suit. He had his cane with him that
Speaker 1: we saw him last with in WWE. So he walks out,
Speaker 1: got a nice reaction from the crowd, who sounded surprised
Speaker 1: to see him. He walked out there, and he agreed
Speaker 1: that Swerve is the most dangerous man in aw Not
Speaker 1: only that, but he thinks Swerve is the most phenomenal
Speaker 1: talent to ever set foot in an AW ring eight
Speaker 1: months without being pinned or submitted. Scot wins over Samoa,
Speaker 1: Joe oh Roderick Strong, Christian Cage, will Osprey, and he
Speaker 1: was watching. He says he saw all of it, But
Speaker 1: he also saw a Swerve lose the AW World Championship
Speaker 1: at all in and he also saw a Swarve's childhood
Speaker 1: home burn to the ground. So his question is, why
Speaker 1: are these people still walking around? Why is the man
Speaker 1: who beat Swerve still walking around? Why is the man
Speaker 1: who burned his home to the ground. Why do I
Speaker 1: hear Bremode in my ear stand the man. I hope
Speaker 1: you are having a great day as well, Stan, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. See Stan just says he wants to
Speaker 1: make sure I'm having a great day. I'm having a
Speaker 1: good day, and I hope you are having a great day.
Speaker 1: Oh my guys, it just ends a chill up my
Speaker 1: spine every time I hear it. But he wants to
Speaker 1: out why are these men still walking around after what
Speaker 1: they have done to Swerve. He sees that as more
Speaker 1: of a failure, not of Swerve but of his management,
Speaker 1: who he says, is busy shucking and jiving. So when
Speaker 1: Swerve is ready to be taken seriously again, please give
Speaker 1: him MVP, he says, Please give him my business card.
Speaker 1: He hands the business card to Prince Nana, let him
Speaker 1: know that I will be ready to talk. And with
Speaker 1: that he also said that he will be ready to
Speaker 1: talk business with an emphasis on the word business. And
Speaker 1: he walked off and Prince Nana had a very conflicted
Speaker 1: look on his face. So it is happening, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: happening all right. The Hurt business or the Hurt Syndicate,
Speaker 1: that's probably the name they'll end up using. They can
Speaker 1: say the word business here, but that can't be the
Speaker 1: name of the group. They'll probably be the Hurt Syndicate.
Speaker 1: But they're on the way. They're on the way. MVP
Speaker 1: is in, Bobby Lashley likely now on his way in.
Speaker 1: Shelton Benjamin is likely on his way in. Cedric Alexander
Speaker 1: is not on his way in because he has not
Speaker 1: that long ago re signed I believe with WWE, so
Speaker 1: Cedric will not be joining them. And look, you know
Speaker 1: lash and Shelton, who are super talented. They would be
Speaker 1: too solid additions to the roster. You can't say that
Speaker 1: there would be a bad addition to the roster. Shelton
Speaker 1: Benjamin is not going to be a bad addition to
Speaker 1: anyone's roster, and neither is Bobby Lashley. Do they need
Speaker 1: to fifty year old ex WWE guys right now? Do
Speaker 1: they need them? No? No, they don't. They don't need them.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that Tony Kahan probably doesn't need.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that he's not going to do it, doesn't
Speaker 1: mean he's not going to bring them in, try to
Speaker 1: find a role for them, and I think if he
Speaker 1: finds the right role for them, I think it could
Speaker 1: be fun we talked about the Hurt business run in WWE.
Speaker 1: It was fun while it lasted. I think it did
Speaker 1: help elevate the guys in that group. The main guy
Speaker 1: it was intended to elevate, though, was Bobby Lashley. It
Speaker 1: served its purpose. That's why Vince lost interest and said, okay,
Speaker 1: it accomplished its goal. He doesn't give a shit about Shelton, Benjamin.
Speaker 1: He doesn't give a shit about Cedric Alexander. You think
Speaker 1: he cares? Please, what's that famous story about him having
Speaker 1: a meeting in the back with talent. Somebody stood up.
Speaker 1: I can never remember who it was, and yeah, him
Speaker 1: Tally has a great question Shelton, Only it wasn't Shelton,
Speaker 1: it was somebody else. You think he gives a fuck
Speaker 1: about Shelton Benjamin. The whole point of the Hurt business
Speaker 1: was to get Bobby Lashley in a position where he
Speaker 1: would be the WWE champion and guess what he was?
Speaker 1: He was and then that was the end of the
Speaker 1: Hurt business. So it's been a few years. People, some
Speaker 1: people have been clamoring. MVP we know has been clamoring
Speaker 1: for a return of the Hurt business, and of course
Speaker 1: he would be because what has MVP been doing since
Speaker 1: the Hurt business went down. Nothing. He was repping Omas
Speaker 1: for a while. Triple H doesn't give a fuck about Omas.
Speaker 1: That's why we don't see him on TV. So we
Speaker 1: haven't seen MVP on TV in years. So of course
Speaker 1: he wants to bring back the Hurt business because that
Speaker 1: was I mean, that was really the peak for him
Speaker 1: since he came back, was him and the Hurt business.
Speaker 1: That was his peak run there, and they want to
Speaker 1: try to recreate that here in AW. And Tony Kahan
Speaker 1: obviously feels the same way, and he's going to give
Speaker 1: them the opportunity to go out and do that, even
Speaker 1: though he's got other talent that he's not using that's
Speaker 1: just sitting at home right now that should be used frankly,
Speaker 1: but that's always been a problem. But the bottom line is,
Speaker 1: I think it could be fun, and I think Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashley certainly deserves to get a run somewhere. If it's
Speaker 1: not going to be WWE, then I'm all for seeing
Speaker 1: him get a run here in AW. MVP was really
Speaker 1: underused the last couple of years, and I think we
Speaker 1: saw here in this segment how effective he can be
Speaker 1: in the managerial role. He came out and he put
Speaker 1: over Swerve Strickland in a major way. So we know
Speaker 1: the value that he brings as someone's mouthpiece, as someone's manager.
Speaker 1: I don't really have any interest in seeing him back
Speaker 1: in the ring, I just don't, But I think in
Speaker 1: this role is where he shines, and WWE should have
Speaker 1: done a better job of taking advantage of that while
Speaker 1: they had him under contract because they just did nothing.
Speaker 1: They just weren't using him. It was just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't mind not seeing Omas on TV every week,
Speaker 1: but like, you can find something else for MV to do.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the VIP Lounge for a while.
Speaker 1: But just and maybe I'm just a sucker for old
Speaker 1: school wrestling managers because I grew up, and I grew up.
Speaker 1: I feel like in the golden era of wrestling managers,
Speaker 1: I feel like I was totally spoiled as a young
Speaker 1: wrestling I mean, you had everybody back then. Man, you
Speaker 1: had like Fred BLASTI was on the tail end. Actually
Speaker 1: he was just out of it when I really started watching.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you had him, and you had Albano, and
Speaker 1: you had Jimmy Hart, and you had Bobby Heenan and
Speaker 1: you had Slick, and you had Sherry, on and on
Speaker 1: and on, and there were a bunch of other ones too, Oliver,
Speaker 1: Humperdink and mister Fuji. But just like the golden age
Speaker 1: of wrestling managers and you see the value that they
Speaker 1: can bring, especially the people who may be talking is
Speaker 1: not their strong suit. Maybe going out there and talking
Speaker 1: about themselves and representing themselves is not their strong suit.
Speaker 1: That's where a manager could really have great value. And
Speaker 1: it became a lost star for the longest time, and
Speaker 1: in recent years it's kind of made a comeback. And
Speaker 1: I like Prince Nana would Swerve Strickland. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see them break up that duo. So I don't
Speaker 1: see Swerve, I hope not ditching Prince Nana and then
Speaker 1: going and playing second fiddle. Let's say to Bobby Lashley,
Speaker 1: if Lashley comes into to the company. So this to me,
Speaker 1: as I'm watching this, it just felt more like it
Speaker 1: was setting up a possible program for Swerve when he
Speaker 1: comes back. It's intriguing to see where they might take this.
Speaker 1: And when Swerve is actually going to be back, they're
Speaker 1: going to be in his home state for a pay
Speaker 1: per view in a couple of weeks. You know, hard
Speaker 1: to imagine that he wouldn't be on that show. But
Speaker 1: we only got one Is it one more Dynamite or two?
Speaker 1: We have two more? Two more Dynamites before Wressel Dream.
Speaker 1: We have the five year anniversary next week, and then
Speaker 1: the following Tuesday is when Dynamite is head to head
Speaker 1: with NXT, and then it's Wrestle Dream. So we'll see
Speaker 1: if we get Swerve back in time for Wrestle Dream.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure what the match would be even
Speaker 1: if he was back in time for the pay per view.
Speaker 1: I do not want to see them bring back Swerve
Speaker 1: and throw him right back in the ring with Hangman Page.
Speaker 1: That would be the worst thing they could do. That
Speaker 1: would be the dumbest thing for Tony Kahan to do.
Speaker 1: You need to have separation now for a while between them.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see those two back in the
Speaker 1: ring until and unless Hangman is the aw World Champion
Speaker 1: and Swerve has worked his way back up into title
Speaker 1: contention and to get the belt back he has to
Speaker 1: beat Hangman. That's the only time I want to see
Speaker 1: them back in the ring together. You can't just go
Speaker 1: right back to that so what they have Swerve doing,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think we may have gotten
Speaker 1: a glimpse of it here on the show Tonight Tell
Speaker 1: You Man. There were a lot of great managers back
Speaker 1: in the day. Managers were like one of the most
Speaker 1: fun parts of wrestling, and then the evil Irish asshole
Speaker 1: took it away for so long. Fuck him the way.
Speaker 1: Mariah May one on one with a Yuka Sakazaki for
Speaker 1: the AAW Women's World Championship. Sakazaki she flew off the
Speaker 1: top with a dive before Mariah could even get into
Speaker 1: the ring and took her out on the floor. Mariah
Speaker 1: tried for may Day, Sakazaki rolled through into a backslide
Speaker 1: for what looked like a three count. This was later
Speaker 1: in the match and Mariah didn't really get her shoulder up.
Speaker 1: Aubrey Edwards, though didn't make didn't make the count. Instead,
Speaker 1: we got a rolling penitenth for a series of two counts.
Speaker 1: Mariah didn't get much of a spinning sit out slam
Speaker 1: when she tried for it because Yuka fired a thrust
Speaker 1: kick into a Northern Lights bomb. Yuka wanted the Magical
Speaker 1: Girl splash. Mariah got her knees up, though on the
Speaker 1: landing and followed with a knee strike and then Storm
Speaker 1: zero for the win. After the match, just as Mariah
Speaker 1: was about to level Yuka with her women's title, Willow
Speaker 1: nightingale right and makes the save. And after a stare
Speaker 1: down between Mariah and Willow, Mina Shira cow Is music
Speaker 1: hits and outwalks Mina onto the stage and oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: she was wearing black leather tonight. See this woman knows
Speaker 1: what she's doing. She's not stupid, she knows what she's doing.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, by the way, belated birthday to Mina for
Speaker 1: those who don't know Mina. I saw this on social
Speaker 1: media the other day. Mina celebrated her I think it
Speaker 1: was her thirty sixth birthday the other day, But happy
Speaker 1: birthday to Mina. Shirakawa. Very happy to see Mina back
Speaker 1: on TV, so she walked out on stage and Mariah.
Speaker 1: Because of this distraction, this brief distraction, Willow turned her
Speaker 1: attention to the aisleway it allowed Mariah to waffle her
Speaker 1: right in the back of the head with the women's title.
Speaker 1: So Mariah then ran down the aisle into the arms
Speaker 1: of a very confused Mina Sherikawa and Mina seemed to
Speaker 1: be disappointed by Mariah's actions. Yuka ran down the aisle
Speaker 1: towards Mariah and she was right there, and then she
Speaker 1: just stopped for I don't know why she just stopped
Speaker 1: and she stared at Mina instead. We had a little
Speaker 1: staring action going on here with Mina and Yuka. This
Speaker 1: was the I mean, outside of thirty seven. Is she
Speaker 1: thirty seven? It's either thirty six or thirty sent either way,
Speaker 1: she she looks fantastic. Happy birthday to meet. This was
Speaker 1: the low point of the show, I mean, mash wise,
Speaker 1: This was the low point of the show though compared
Speaker 1: to everything else that we got, and largely because while
Speaker 1: the people in the building did seem to like Yuka,
Speaker 1: like when she first came out and they played her music,
Speaker 1: she got nice little pop, so I think they liked her,
Speaker 1: but they're not invested in her challenging for the Women's Championship.
Speaker 1: She's not a consistent presence on television, and she isn't
Speaker 1: someone who everybody is going to be familiar with. She's
Speaker 1: not on Dynamite all the time. So the lack of
Speaker 1: investment in her as challenger and the lack. Let's be
Speaker 1: honest here, the lack of anyone really believing that she
Speaker 1: had a shot at winning this championship, and that didn't help.
Speaker 1: Those two things did not help. Crowd was kind of
Speaker 1: dead for this. Can't really blame them. But I like
Speaker 1: seeing Willow out there because I like Willow. I think
Speaker 1: Willow Nightingale is great. If we get Willow against Mariah
Speaker 1: at some point, I'm all for that. But I love
Speaker 1: seeing Mina back, and there is a story there. There's
Speaker 1: a history between them, and so there's definitely a storyline
Speaker 1: playing out between Mina and Mariah that will lead to
Speaker 1: a championship match. I would expect it to be a
Speaker 1: wrestle dream. I don't know that this friendship is going
Speaker 1: to last much longer on TV. Look, we saw what
Speaker 1: Mariah did to Tony Storm. Okay, so you can't trust
Speaker 1: this woman as being your best friend. What she did
Speaker 1: to Tony Storm is one of the greatest things in
Speaker 1: the history of dynamite. She will not hesitate to do
Speaker 1: the same thing to Mina. Serri Cow I assure you
Speaker 1: they closed the show because we're already at the main
Speaker 1: event here. They closed the show with John Moxley against
Speaker 1: Darby Allen with Darby's aw World Championship shot on the
Speaker 1: line that he earned by winning the Royal Rampage what
Speaker 1: feels like a lifetime ago. Moxley was just killing this
Speaker 1: guy from really much of the match, but at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the match he was just killing Darby and
Speaker 1: he busted Darby's mouth open, so he had blood pouring
Speaker 1: out of his mouth. This was in the opening two minutes,
Speaker 1: by the way, and we had blood and it did
Speaker 1: not belong to John Moxley. There was an Irish whip
Speaker 1: across the ring where Moxley sent Darby into the far
Speaker 1: side and he went soaring through the ropes, but like
Speaker 1: as he barreled towards the corner, it was like he
Speaker 1: went through the ropes and hit the post and spun
Speaker 1: and then hit the steps on the way down and
Speaker 1: hit the floor and it's just like, I mean, the
Speaker 1: worst possible impact you could imagine, to the point where
Speaker 1: they showed a replay of it. So think about that
Speaker 1: they showed a replay of an Irish whip. Okay, that
Speaker 1: tells you how vicious this was. Darby Dove fought back.
Speaker 1: He had a coffin dropped to the floor. Darby went
Speaker 1: to go set up Moxley on a chair outside marina.
Speaker 1: Shafir stood in his way, and that little delay allowed
Speaker 1: Boxley to hit a body slam on the apron. Moxley
Speaker 1: took the referee as Shafir got some cheap shots in.
Speaker 1: Darby later on exposed one of the top turn buckles
Speaker 1: in the ring. We'll get back to that. Coffin splashed
Speaker 1: from Darby, who applied a Fujiwara armbar. Moxley, though rolled
Speaker 1: out transitioned into a guillotine. Shaffir helped Moxley remove the
Speaker 1: protective mats outside the ring. Moxley was screaming, he's you
Speaker 1: know the Darby asked for this. You asked for this. Actually,
Speaker 1: Moxley asked for this for being honest, He's the one
Speaker 1: who asked for this in the first place. So Moxley
Speaker 1: wanted a death rider on the floor. Alan, though floated
Speaker 1: over and Moxley ran into the ring steps. So Darby
Speaker 1: went into the ring and he tried for a suicide
Speaker 1: dive tried, being the opera of worried well, I mean,
Speaker 1: technically I guess he did dive, but he didn't hit
Speaker 1: his intended target. John Moxley was the intended target. The
Speaker 1: target that he actually hit was the floor. Now, remember
Speaker 1: they had pulled up the protective mats and it looked
Speaker 1: like there were some other kind of mats underneath. But
Speaker 1: even still, I'm sure it didn't feel very good when
Speaker 1: Darby went splat on the floor outside back inside. Moxley
Speaker 1: ran into the exposed turnbuckle from earlier in the match
Speaker 1: and Darby schoolboyed him for two. Darby tried a call
Speaker 1: and drop but jumped into the waiting arms of John Moxley,
Speaker 1: who sank in the rear naked choke and then transitioned
Speaker 1: into the bulldog choke. Darby was visibly fading. His eyes
Speaker 1: were open, but he had that like dead look in
Speaker 1: his in his eyes. So he was fading, and I
Speaker 1: thought he might go out here and this was gonna
Speaker 1: be where they were gonna end the match. Instead, Darby
Speaker 1: begins to smile and he begins like spitting up all over.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just fucking gross. He's got fucking
Speaker 1: gobs of spit hanging out of his mouth, and oh,
Speaker 1: come on. So he crawls over to the bottom rope
Speaker 1: and gets the rope break. A little while later, Darby
Speaker 1: wanted a super plex. Marina Shaffir Tho jumped up on
Speaker 1: the apron for the distraction. That delay was enough for
Speaker 1: Moxley to reverse into an avalanche death rider and he
Speaker 1: spiked him right on top of his head on the
Speaker 1: way down. And that's all she wrote, folks, John Moxley
Speaker 1: pins Darby Allen and guess what Darby is? Shit out
Speaker 1: of luck. And John Moxley now has an aw World
Speaker 1: Championship match that is now official for Wrestle Dream, so
Speaker 1: he is now the number one contender for the world title.
Speaker 1: After the match, doctors ran out to go check on Darby.
Speaker 1: As that was going on. A hooded figure ran into
Speaker 1: the ring, and then we saw that it was no
Speaker 1: hooded figure. It was no ordinary man. It was the
Speaker 1: American Dragon, Brian Danielson, who had a necktie, and he
Speaker 1: began choking Jean Moxley with the necktie. I like the callback.
Speaker 1: At least this time he doesn't have to worry about
Speaker 1: being fired and losing his job, so he's choking this
Speaker 1: man out. Shaffir tried to stop him and couldn't. Hack
Speaker 1: goes out there and Claudio runs out there. They finally
Speaker 1: pulled him off. Here comes private party and command Commando
Speaker 1: commander not command commander. I wish it was commando, Private
Speaker 1: party and commander. They run down to the ring to
Speaker 1: make the save and guess what, folks, guess what happened.
Speaker 1: They were easily dispatched, just like they were last week,
Speaker 1: like scrubs. They come out to make the save and
Speaker 1: they get their asses beat. So Danielson was about to
Speaker 1: hit a bussaiku knee on Moxley. Claudio, though, pulled him
Speaker 1: out of the ring to safety. So now they're fleeing
Speaker 1: through the crowd. Danielson asked for a microphone and he says,
Speaker 1: if John Moxley wants a war, then I declare war.
Speaker 1: And Danielson said, come Wrestle Dream. He's going to kick
Speaker 1: Moxley's fucking head in which they censored, and that was
Speaker 1: how the show went off there. The challenge was accepted.
Speaker 1: The match is official and at wrestled Dream in Tacomba, Washington,
Speaker 1: it will be Brian Danielson in his home state defending
Speaker 1: the world Championship against John Moxley. Darby took his usual
Speaker 1: punishment here, you know, he took his usual sick bumps,
Speaker 1: although these actually felt tame compared to what we've seen
Speaker 1: from him this year. I mean the abuse he put
Speaker 1: himself through, the bump through the glass outside, and the
Speaker 1: match with staying stings retirement, I mean, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just I think in terms of just idiotic, dumb, dangerous,
Speaker 1: stupid bumps. I don't think this year that one for
Speaker 1: Darby is going to be topped. It only would have
Speaker 1: been topped. I think by the stupidity of him climbing
Speaker 1: Mount Everest, and then the broken foot saved him from
Speaker 1: doing that. But he's gonna climb next year, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna climb that damn out and he's already said nothing
Speaker 1: is gonna stop him. So this was tame by Darby
Speaker 1: Allen standards, even though he took some Hillasia's bumps here,
Speaker 1: but it was mostly Darby working from underneath. You know.
Speaker 1: He was just being bounced around like a rubber ball,
Speaker 1: and then he would make various comebacks throughout the match.
Speaker 1: But again, I go back to what I said at
Speaker 1: the beginning of this review, Darby Allen looks like a
Speaker 1: damn fool. I'm sorry you could talk about babyface pride,
Speaker 1: you know, and never ducking a challenge and all that,
Speaker 1: But he earned a World Championship match that he had
Speaker 1: originally for tonight for tonight, And even if Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: was not going to be medically cleared, and they thought
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to be medically cleared, nobody said he
Speaker 1: had to put that championship on the line against John Moxley.
Speaker 1: But damn it, Darby is not one to say no
Speaker 1: to a challenge. Well, who's the full now he just
Speaker 1: looks like an idiot for losing what would have been
Speaker 1: for him a guarantee championship match, if not tonight, in
Speaker 1: the main event of the next pay per view in
Speaker 1: his home state. Now, I'm not even sure he'll be
Speaker 1: on the show. He doesn't have any be His role
Speaker 1: on that Wrestle Dream Show doesn't mean that he won't,
Speaker 1: but right now he has none. Now as far as
Speaker 1: this show tonight, they had originally advertised an open challenge
Speaker 1: for the trios titles where Claudio Pack and Youda were
Speaker 1: going to defend those titles against someone. That did not happen. Instead,
Speaker 1: they just went and they put a graphic up at
Speaker 1: the end of the show and they just announced that
Speaker 1: on Collision, which I'm sure, the match has already been taped.
Speaker 1: It's going to be Claudio Pack and you to defending
Speaker 1: against Private Party and Commander. Now, I'm assuming they did
Speaker 1: that in part because they decided to have an open
Speaker 1: challenge for the TNT titles. So Jack Perry will be
Speaker 1: defending the TNT title on Saturday in an open challenge.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to give away any spoilers on
Speaker 1: who accepted the open challenge, but there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of crazy, wild rumors going around about who it might be,
Speaker 1: or returning talents or whatever. Don't get your hopes up,
Speaker 1: That's all I'll say. Don't get your hopes up. But
Speaker 1: maybe they changed their mind because they wanted to do
Speaker 1: another open challenge. I don't know. I was left just
Speaker 1: wondering who the fuck wants to see Commander and Private
Speaker 1: Party challenging for the Trios titles after the way that
Speaker 1: they've been booked over the last two weeks. Last week,
Speaker 1: they got their asses kicked. Commander literally got gorilla pressed
Speaker 1: into the fucking crowd. Mark Quinn I think it was,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was Isaiah, one of them, I forget
Speaker 1: which one it might have been. Mark Winn got his
Speaker 1: hand smashed with a hammer. Okay, so they got their
Speaker 1: asses kicked. They come out here tonight to make the save.
Speaker 1: What happens they get laid out again? Who wants to
Speaker 1: see these guys challenging for championships? Who could possibly care
Speaker 1: about this match? You can't book them strong for one week.
Speaker 1: Let them go over on the other guys in a
Speaker 1: strong way, put them down with some big you know,
Speaker 1: double team move or something anything. What they actually did
Speaker 1: here wasn't much, So I can't say that I'm terribly
Speaker 1: excited to see them challenging for the Trios title. So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but that match is going to happen on
Speaker 1: Collision on Saturday. Also on Collision, Okada is going to
Speaker 1: wrestle Sammy Gavara is an eliminator match. If Sammy beats him,
Speaker 1: Sammy will get a shot at the Continental title on
Speaker 1: Dynamite next week on the five year Anniversary show. But
Speaker 1: that would mean that Sammy Gavara would have to beat Okada,
Speaker 1: who has not been beaten since he signed with AW.
Speaker 1: That would be very dumb, and it should be Continental rules,
Speaker 1: even though the title's not on the line, which means
Speaker 1: no interference or anything like that. So it should be
Speaker 1: just a straight up one on one match, fair and square.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to be an Okada win. You
Speaker 1: could take Sammy Gavara, who lost to Ricochet on TV
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago and presently is wrestling in Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor, is one of the Ring of Honor, you know,
Speaker 1: one half of the tag team champions, and have him
Speaker 1: be the first person to handle a loss. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Hangman Page against Jeff Jarrett, it will be
Speaker 1: a lumberjack strap match, because a lumberjack match or a
Speaker 1: strap match, it just wasn't enough. We have to combine
Speaker 1: the two, so it will be a lumberjack strap match.
Speaker 1: I thought that was gonna actually happen tonight on the show,
Speaker 1: but it's happening on Saturday. Chris Jericho, Big Bill and
Speaker 1: Brian Keith are going to take on the Conglomerate and
Speaker 1: Jamie Hayter is wrestling Sorea in a Soreya's Rules match.
Speaker 1: Sorea's rules match is very simple. The rules don't apply
Speaker 1: to Sorea, only to Jamie Hayter. Jamie Hayter has to,
Speaker 1: you know, adhere to the ten count. She has to
Speaker 1: follow the rules, break by five, all that stuff. Soreya, though,
Speaker 1: can do anything she wants. So those are the matches
Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday. Now. Next week is the five
Speaker 1: year anniversary of Dynamite. Will Asp is wrestling Ricochet for
Speaker 1: the International title. Britt Baker returns. She will be going
Speaker 1: one on one with Serena deeb. Be aware I will
Speaker 1: not be here next week, so there will be no
Speaker 1: Dynamite review next week. We will be back in two
Speaker 1: weeks the following Wednesday. Hold on a second, though, hold on,
Speaker 1: there is no Dynamite the following Wednesday. I will keep
Speaker 1: you guys informed about what my plans are as far
Speaker 1: as the following week. I was going to possibly watch
Speaker 1: NXT and Dynamite simultaneously and do a double review like
Speaker 1: I did last year, but I wanted to kill myself
Speaker 1: after I did that. It's not fun, so I might
Speaker 1: not do that, So I will have to decide which
Speaker 1: show I will be going live to review on October eighth.
Speaker 1: I don't know Randy Orton is wrestling Javon Evans that night.
Speaker 1: We'll wait and see, but there will be no Dynamite
Speaker 1: review next week, so just be aware of that. Here's
Speaker 1: the poll for Grand Slam. What did you think of
Speaker 1: the Grand Slam episode of Dynamite sixty four percent thumbs up,
Speaker 1: thirty five point seven percent thumbs down. Not the best score,
Speaker 1: but overall it is a positive score. It is a
Speaker 1: thumbs up. I thought it was a thumbs up show.
Speaker 1: It definitely was not a thumbs down show tonight. Can't
Speaker 1: give this show a thumbs down. I thought, on the whole,
Speaker 1: it was actually very good. We got some really good
Speaker 1: matches on this show. There were some stories that were forwarded,
Speaker 1: enjoyed seeing MVP, curious to see where that story is
Speaker 1: going to go. So there wasn't a lot of frills
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. There weren't a lot of backstage segments.
Speaker 1: There were one or two. It was mostly just matches,
Speaker 1: you know, boom boom boom, like you would see on
Speaker 1: a pay per view. But I thought overall it was
Speaker 1: very good. It was not their best Grand Slam show.
Speaker 1: Definitely not a thumbsdown. Let's take a look at your
Speaker 1: super chats. We got a bunch of them here to
Speaker 1: go through. We'll read your messages here, see what's going on. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just an update on the schedule for next week,
Speaker 1: so there won't be a Dynamite review on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: there's no TNT next week either, but I am gonna
Speaker 1: be live next Monday and Tuesday and Friday, so the
Speaker 1: raw review will be as normal. I'm gonna review NXT,
Speaker 1: which is that first CW show Julia's first match, well
Speaker 1: not her first match, but her title match with Roxane.
Speaker 1: I will be live after that show and then for
Speaker 1: SmackDown that Friday, and then bad Blood is that Saturday.
Speaker 1: It's my birthday weekend, so that's what we are covering
Speaker 1: for next week, so just be aware of that. Where
Speaker 1: are we on the likes? I need a likes update
Speaker 1: in the live chat. How close are we to the goal?
Speaker 1: Are we doing be the booker tonight or not? Where
Speaker 1: are we at three forty two? So I guess the
Speaker 1: answer is no, probably not, But let's see where we
Speaker 1: are here when we get to the end of the superchat.
Speaker 1: A Sidrow, Oh boy, our pal Sidrow, Our pal Sidrow
Speaker 1: is with us and he is starting us off. Last night,
Speaker 1: I dreamt I was a muffler. I woke up exhausted. Also,
Speaker 1: before the crowbar was invented, crows had to drunk at home.
Speaker 1: You suck said drug These crowds are getting routier. These
Speaker 1: crowds are gonna get violent soon. Oh my god, he's
Speaker 1: got another one. Did you hear about the archaeologist who
Speaker 1: got fired? His career was in ruins? Also, why did
Speaker 1: Darth Vader go to the dermatologist he had star warts suck?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, brother Fluff Salisbury, save me, he says.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Darby's girlfriend knows that he stole
Speaker 1: her coat and has been wearing it on TV? It
Speaker 1: looked like a bathrobe the first time I saw it.
Speaker 1: Are we sure it's not a bathrobe? And it's an
Speaker 1: actual jacket, so it looks like a bathrobe to me?
Speaker 1: Jerome Mugenio. Love them or hate them, the Bucks are
Speaker 1: still the best tag team out there. They are certainly
Speaker 1: still one of the best tag teams in the world.
Speaker 1: I just have not been terribly excited by some of
Speaker 1: the matches they've been having over the last few months,
Speaker 1: and it didn't help that we went so many months
Speaker 1: without there being a tag team title match. Prince Vegeta
Speaker 1: Moxley has beaten Danielson in every match they have been
Speaker 1: in in aaw even tagging together. Brian takes the losing fall.
Speaker 1: What a fucking injustice. Well maybe it's been building to
Speaker 1: this point where dream he'll finally, you know, get that wing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm trying to trying to look positively
Speaker 1: on this and see a silver lining and all that. Hey,
Speaker 1: Jake Jones dropped a fifty dollars super chap before I
Speaker 1: went live and early bomb from the true best tag
Speaker 1: team of all time. I think it's too early for
Speaker 1: Danielson to drop the belt, But when and who should
Speaker 1: he drop it too? When do you think Darby should
Speaker 1: get the belt since now he's been kind of screwed
Speaker 1: out of his chance. I don't think Darby's going to
Speaker 1: get the belt for a while. I wouldn't put it
Speaker 1: on him for a while, especially if he really is
Speaker 1: serious about climbing this mountain next year and he's got
Speaker 1: his eye on that and he may need some time
Speaker 1: off for that. I'm not putting my world title on him.
Speaker 1: It's too much of a risk. I'm not putting my
Speaker 1: world title on him. I would put it on Hangman
Speaker 1: page I think Hangman should be the one to be
Speaker 1: Brian for the belt retro Koh At this point, rye
Speaker 1: Back and Rikishi should start a new podcast, call it
Speaker 1: Feed Me Shit. Let them both gripe together about Triple
Speaker 1: H and w w A. Is Rye back still complaining
Speaker 1: that he is a shadow band on social media? Is
Speaker 1: he still crying into the abyss about that shouting into
Speaker 1: the void Bobby's world mantar in a sixty minute iron
Speaker 1: Man match? Is the rodent control? I never knew I
Speaker 1: needed play that match at the rats and roaches will
Speaker 1: run screaming from your home. They'll never come back either.
Speaker 1: I may have to try that. I've had I've had
Speaker 1: issues with both this summer. Hey George again, Happy birthday brother.
Speaker 1: Happy fifty ninth birthday to George Sekman, who dropped a
Speaker 1: fifty nine dollars super chat. I hope you had a
Speaker 1: great birthday. My friend Alex with the twenty two Brothers
Speaker 1: solo with Roman appearing on almost every SmackDown episode from
Speaker 1: October eleventh through November twenty second. Do you see this
Speaker 1: as a sign that wargames will be even more pivotal
Speaker 1: this year compared to last year. I don't know about
Speaker 1: more pivotal, but he's got to be here if he's
Speaker 1: going to be in wargames, So whether it's Bloodline against
Speaker 1: Bloodline or Roman, Cody, Randy and Ko against the Bloodline.
Speaker 1: Roman will be in wargames, so we need him on TV.
Speaker 1: We need him to be around. You're going to be
Speaker 1: in the match, then you need to be on TV
Speaker 1: to promote the match. So I'm happy that they've added
Speaker 1: more dates. It's gonna be the most that he's worked
Speaker 1: in many many months. Luis f that tree? And where
Speaker 1: is Jericho? Who gives a shit? Jericho was backstage. They
Speaker 1: taped his match for Collision tonight, so that's where Jericho was.
Speaker 1: Stand the Man? How do he sol a monster? I
Speaker 1: hope you were having a good day. Thank you, Stan.
Speaker 1: I hope you are too. Stand the Man. There's l
Speaker 1: Masse Elle Masse with the fifteen dollars super chat. Whenever
Speaker 1: I feel my job is overwhelming, I just imagine the
Speaker 1: guy who had to edit Meltzer's segments during the McMahon documentary,
Speaker 1: and I don't feel bad anymore. I've only watched the
Speaker 1: first episode, so I've already seen Dave on my screen.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much more he's going to be
Speaker 1: on my screen. I'm sure an episode two he will
Speaker 1: be because he was on the Donahue show, which I'm
Speaker 1: sure they cover. But yeah, I saw Dave on screen
Speaker 1: in the first episode. I said, there he is. I'm
Speaker 1: sure when Vince saw the early cut he was very
Speaker 1: happy to see Melcher's face on there. Anthony went to
Speaker 1: Grand Slam, and I am still here. Collision is taping.
Speaker 1: The show is going to end after midnight. Why when
Speaker 1: did Collision get boring? Collision got boring a long time ago.
Speaker 1: That's why I stopped, you know, paying too much attention
Speaker 1: to it. I watch parts of it that look interesting
Speaker 1: to me, but it's not a musty show. It hasn't
Speaker 1: been for a very long time. And see, that's the
Speaker 1: problem I had when I went to Grand Slam. I
Speaker 1: went to Grand Slam. Dude, we had Ricky Starks and
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs. These guys were out there having a kick
Speaker 1: ass match. It was almost one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: I mean, people were standing up watching so that when
Speaker 1: the bell rang they could just get the hell out
Speaker 1: of there. Ridiculous. Literally, their match was ending. It was
Speaker 1: like twelve forty eight am. It's just like it's it's
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. The Juliet three, sixteen thoughts on Bleacher Report ending.
Speaker 1: I think I made my thoughts on that very clear
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the stream. I don't think I
Speaker 1: could be any more clear than I was at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the stream. Ozen Glory is doing birthday stuff
Speaker 1: with the families, so I can't hang live, but wanted
Speaker 1: to pop in and say Dynamite was a good time,
Speaker 1: much loved Sola Monster. Thanks guys. Well, I'm assuming if
Speaker 1: it's if it's your birthday, Happy birthday. I got a
Speaker 1: lot of birthdays. I'm I'm almost there myself, but not quite.
Speaker 1: And Sidrow, Now, Sidrow says, what do you call a
Speaker 1: couple of chimpanzees sharing an Amazon account? Primemates also name
Speaker 1: the kind of tree that you can hold in your
Speaker 1: hand a palm tree. You suck. It's always that guy
Speaker 1: at the end. Ooh, you suck, Sindro. You're not winning
Speaker 1: them over, You're not winning them over all. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: where are we we are at three eighty seven? Well
Speaker 1: we fell short. Well we shall try again for our
Speaker 1: goal on Friday nights. Leave it to leave it to
Speaker 1: aw for us to fail in our goal. We've been
Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders now the last week and a half.
Speaker 1: And then we hit dynamite and it's boom. We hit
Speaker 1: a wall. But nonetheless, I thought that this was a
Speaker 1: fun show tonight. And I will be back with you
Speaker 1: live for the post show for SmackDown. That'll be on
Speaker 1: Friday night. That is the next time that I will
Speaker 1: be live here on this channel with all of you.
Speaker 1: And episode eight eighty one of the SoundOff is coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend. As I mentioned, I've only watched the
Speaker 1: first episode so far of the Vince McMahon documentary. I
Speaker 1: just the day got away from me, just had too
Speaker 1: much work to do. I'm hoping by Friday I can
Speaker 1: finish it and then I'll figure out, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of the when and where. As far as recording a review,
Speaker 1: I really would I would prefer to review it on
Speaker 1: the SoundOff this weekend. I don't know if that's going
Speaker 1: to be possible, but I will review it once I'm done,
Speaker 1: so will you will get my thoughts on that only
Speaker 1: when I am done with the documentary, but I promise
Speaker 1: I will do a recap on that, so that is
Speaker 1: something to look forward to. But I see that we
Speaker 1: have magically shot up here to four hundred and thirteen likes.
Speaker 1: Look at that It's like magic. How did that happen?
Speaker 1: I guess that means that we have to be the
Speaker 1: booker before we could just skip in and wait until Friday.
Speaker 1: I think we'll do that all right, I'll see you guys.
Speaker 1: How I'm just kidding ladies and gentlemen. It is now
Speaker 1: time to be the booker. I'm just pulling your leg.
Speaker 1: No need to get upset. Say his name, Say his name.
Speaker 1: You should be saying Joe Hendry's name. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: calling my first Joe Hendry match at the House of
Speaker 1: Glory show on Sunday six pm. Trailer TV. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Joe Hendry against Joey Janella. Right now, we're starting
Speaker 1: to be the booker out with some chronic. You guys
Speaker 1: want some chronic. You got some chronic here. Brian Clark
Speaker 1: and Brian Adams, they didn't last very long in Wweight.
Speaker 1: I think they lasted one match and it was so
Speaker 1: bad they were not brought back after that. That was
Speaker 1: the end of their run. It's gonna be chronic taking
Speaker 1: on the mega maniacs of Hulk Hogan and Brutus the
Speaker 1: Barber Beefcake. Nope, not on my card. Onward we go
Speaker 1: Women's be the Booker? Which one died? Brian Adams died crush.
Speaker 1: He passed away many years ago. Women's Being the Booker?
Speaker 1: We begin with, Oh, it's Beth Phoenix. It's angry Beth Phoenix. Ah,
Speaker 1: she's so angry. Look how angry she is. She's so angry.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember who she was angry at? Who
Speaker 1: was she at? What was it Ria? I assume it
Speaker 1: was Ria Ripley. Angry Beth Phoenix. I'm gonna be stepping
Speaker 1: into the ring with Dakota Kai. How are we feeling
Speaker 1: about this? Beth Phoenix and Dakota Kai. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: that the bell. I think I think that deserves a bell.
Speaker 1: Oh the Mizz and Maurice. Okay, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. So it was it was the
Speaker 1: miss and Maurice or was it real? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I've getten conflicting messages now from you people. I
Speaker 1: think it might have been Miss and Maurice. Anyway, made
Speaker 1: event time. Mend's be the Booker? Oh boy, look who
Speaker 1: showed up to work. Everybody. It's Miro. I just got
Speaker 1: done talking about this guy on the podcast. This weekend.
Speaker 1: I can't believe he actually showed up to work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be Miro or one on one with Hook.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, wait a minute, hold on, Hold on my earpiece.
Speaker 1: I'm being told, okay, all right, yeah, yeah, I got yeah,
Speaker 1: I got it. All right. Well, unfortunately, I've been told
Speaker 1: that Miro did not approve of this creative and he
Speaker 1: has left. He has gone home. Apparently he's bought a
Speaker 1: ticket back to Bulgaria. So he said that doesn't work
Speaker 1: for him, brother, which means that we have to book
Speaker 1: a new opponent. We have to book a new opponent
Speaker 1: for Hook because Miro did not approve of the creative.
Speaker 1: Hook taking on Shingo Takagi. Shingo will make that match good.
Speaker 1: Sh Shingo's like a wizard in that ring. Man. Shingo
Speaker 1: is the fucking man when it comes to putting together
Speaker 1: a great match. You can depend on Shingo. I have
Speaker 1: faith in Shingo. Breaks my heart though. To see that
Speaker 1: belt compared to the previous IWGP belt, that just it
Speaker 1: breaks my heart. Why would you change away from greatness?
Speaker 1: Why would you do that? I'll never understand it, I
Speaker 1: really won't. Hey, Robert, Robert, Fox with the five dollars
Speaker 1: super chest. No Mercedes Monet on Dynamite Tonight's Hallelujah. Everything
Speaker 1: about her in aw has been awful so far. Uh you.
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised that I don't even think she
Speaker 1: was mentioned. But yeah, no Mercedes tonight. You got a
Speaker 1: reprieve from her this week? Yeah, I mean that previous
Speaker 1: IWGP belt. I guess it's like version four is. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just a gorgeous belt. I just don't know why
Speaker 1: you would change joy from it. Mar Kwa nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: Tell Miro he can't leave. We bought his house. That's right.
Speaker 1: That's right, the fans bought his house. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for helping me hit our goal tonight and all
Speaker 1: of your support and hanging out with me on a
Speaker 1: Wednesday night was up, Harry. I hope you're having a
Speaker 1: good night as well. I won't. I won't be looking
Speaker 1: for that video either. Tuxedo Tuxedo t services. I won't
Speaker 1: be looking for that video. Yeah, I'm sure I'll be
Speaker 1: tagged in it, but I won't be looking for it
Speaker 1: myself either. Anyway, As if he couldn't get any weirder. Friday, night.
Speaker 1: Come on back here, we'll talk about smack Down. We'll
Speaker 1: see what's next for Roman Reigns and Cody Rhoads. Right,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. I guess we have a bad blood
Speaker 1: coming up, so something's got to give. Take care, guys,