Speaker 1: AW Redemption was the newest pay per view that AW
added to its lineup many months ago. They added it
to the calendar, the last stop pay per view wise,
the last stop before we get to All in London.
Redemption was a pay per view that had no reason
to exist the moment that Kenny Omega beat mjf at
Beach Break to win the AW World Championship. And there
was nothing on this show tonight that we'll change my
mind on that. This was the weakest pay per view
that AW has produced all year, even though we had
plenty of good matches on the show. They've had some
great pay per views. This here and this one I
would have to rank at the bottom of that list.
Certainly one of the weaker shows that they've done. Like
I said, not without some good matches. It was a struggle, though,
I gotta tell you, it was a struggle with some
of the matches on this show. And you could tell
struggle even for the people in the building because they
were very quiet for some of these matches in the
middle of the show. And this is a show, by
the way, that started an hour earlier. Tony Kahn said
he was going to experiment by starting the show an
hour earlier than usual, and they still went almost five
full hours, So it didn't really make a difference in
the end, I mean, at least this time. It didn't
end at one o'clock in the morning, I guess. But
at the end of the day, it didn't really make
all that much of a difference. Kevin Knight rather and
Kenny Omega, they were in the main event tonight. We
had the TNT champion fighting for the aw World Championship.
The outcome was never in doubt. It was never in doubt.
So what do you expect. Do you expect to go
into a match like this two great pro wrestlers to
go out there and have a great pro wrestling match.
But Kevin Knight was always going to be looking up
at the lights at the end of it, and that's
what happened. Kevin Knight lost. My takeaway from the match
tonight is that Kevin Knight is in exactly the same
spot he was in before, which is a great wrestler,
a great young up and comer in this company who's
had a lot of success this year and is going
to have a lot of success in the future. But
he is not ready to be in that spot. He
is not ready to be in the Kenny Omega spot.
He is nowhere near a Kenny Omega. Hopefully one day
he will get there. This is not that time. When
I watched Kyle Fletcher and Hangman page it all out
last year. It was a very similar situation and I
felt the same way then too. Kyle Fletcher, He'll get there,
but he's not there yet. Same thing with Kevin Knight tonight.
Hopefully he'll get there one day. He ain't there yet.
The bigger story came when the main event was over,
because they did this big angle with the Death Riders
coming out to try to kill Kenny Omega. They were
going to put him down, and will Osbury came out.
He would not allow that to happen. Could not bring
himself to deliver the kill shot, even though John Moxley
had warned him earlier in the show that you do
what needs to be done. This is the biggest opportunity
of your career coming up. You need to do what
you need to do. And the plastic bag came out.
We've seen the plastic bag use before here from the
Death Riders. Will Osprey could not bring himself to suffocate
Kenny Omega to death, and so it led to Kenny
Omega in the I mean Kenny Omega's laying there practically
half dead anyway, but it led to will Osprey turning
against the Death Riders. So for all these weeks that
he's been training with them and he's been aligned with them,
and they gave him the patch. Remember they gave him
the patch to make it official, like he joined the club. Well,
he's out of the club now. He beat up all
the Death Riders. He refused to suffocate Kenny Omega and
for his troubles. Once Kenny Omega came too and had
a big smile on his face and the two of
them were showing mutual respect. Right eh, we all talk
about how boyd this is gonna get old real quick
if the next four weeks five weeks is nothing but
a love fest between Kenny Omega and Will Ospray. Who
wants to see that? I don't. And when it was over,
Kenny Omega decided to do what will Osprey couldn't do.
He grabbed Ospray when he least expected it, and he
put him down with a one winged angel and I
saw some people, Oh my god, Kenny Omega turned heel. No,
Kenny Omega did not turn heel. Kenny Omega did what
will Osprey was unwilling to do. Kenny Omega saw the
remnants of the plastic bag laying on the mat and
was very upset about this. The fact that will Osprey
would even entertain the idea of choking him out with
a plastic bag was enough to piss off Kenny Omegas
so much that he decided to drop this man on
his head, on his surgically repaired neck. And so the
one really good thing to come out of this is
that now we have five weeks until we get to
wimbl STU and no more lovey dovey, no more brother brother,
I love you, I respect you. Good luck right, all
smiles and rainbows, no more of this right now, these
two men have reason to have heat with each other,
and that should make the television a little more interesting
than the two of them having a mutual admiration society.
So I was happy to see that. And obviously John
Moxley is going to be waiting in the wings should
will Ospury win that championship, to be probably his first
challenger coming out of Wembley Stadium. So they did shoot
a big angle. They could have done the exact same
thing though, on a big episode of Dynamite. So when
I tell you that this was a pay per view
that did not need to exist, that's what I mean.
Not that there weren't newsworthy things that went down on
this show, but the whole point of this show was redemption,
and as soon as they bumped that match up, the
whole point of the show was lost. They're almost better
of renaming the show next year. They want to have
a pay per view between Forbidden Door and All In
call it something else because it didn't really apply here.
We had two title changes on this show. Willow Nightingale
is the new AW Women's World Champion. I wasn't really
a fan of the way that she won it. I
am happy to see her win the championship. We are
getting the match at all in that I expected that
we were going to be ginning. I've been telling you
it's going to be Willow and Mercedes Monette. Tekla would
have been great, but it didn't seem like that was
what they were really setting up for. Question now, is
Willow going to end up being a transitional champion? I
actually think she won't. We still have five weeks. Maybe
I'll change my mind, But as I sit here right now,
I don't think that people are freaking out. Oh this
is so unfair. She won the title, She's going to
just turn around and lose it and transition it over
to Mercedes necessarily. But we are getting that match, and
now that match is official for all. In the other
title changes that we had Andrede l Edelo is the
new national champion. He beat Mark Davis. I'm devastated. I'm
not happy about this. Rest in peace to the national
title run of Mark Davis and Maya World. The woman
who had no business even being in the finals of
the owen Hart Tournament, wasn't even supposed to be in
the tournament went on to almost win the entire thing.
She had her big coming out party in the finals
against Mercedes. And now she has her first taste of
gold in AAW and I'm happy that it's in aw
and not on the Ring of Honor brand, but in
AW where people will at least be able to see her.
She beat Shidah. She is the new TBS champion. So
we had some title changes on the show tonight. We
had another big match made official for Wembley, which is
Coping Christian. They're going to be defending their tag team
titles against the Young Bucks, and we'll go through everything
else that happened here on what was again a very
weak show by AW standards compared to all their other
pay per views this year. You get some good wrestling
out of it, but I'm watching this show and I'm
just thinking, man, this show really didn't need to take place.
You know, a lot of the things they shot and
a lot of the things they did on this show,
and you got, like the big Grand Slam Mexico show
coming up in a few weeks could have been saved
for television, and then you just kind of build towards
towards Wembley. There were matches on this show that as
I'm watching them, I've just I felt like, I mean,
and we're gonna get into what happened with the Dogs
and the Bang Bang Gang, which is one of the
worst things I've seen on AW pay per view ever.
I fucking hated that match. Usually when I watched these
pay per views, there isn't a match where I go, oh,
I hated that that was garbage, But can't say that anymore.
Let's go through this card. It's late. I don't want
to keep you eyes up all night. They can't help themselves.
So let's talk about redemption. This is your AW redemption
pay per view review. It is now officially Monday morning,
July twenty seventh, twenty twenty six. I am the Soloma,
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all right, let's talk about this show now. There was
a buy in pre show. Good morning, Antran, he says,
good morning, there was a buy in pre show. They
were in Montreal for this show, and they were paying
homage to the Rougeau wrestling dynasty eighty years of the Rougeous.
So they had Daddy Magic Matt Monard come down to
the ring to introduce Jacques and Raymond Rougeau down to
the ring. Tony Shavanni pointed out that ray Rougeau is
the mayor of a nearby city. He didn't tell us
which city, but he told us that he is currently
a mayor. And you could tell that he's a mayor
because as soon as he got the microphone, you couldn't
shut him up. Spoken in French, he spoke for what
felt like twenty five minutes. He just kept going and
going and going and going and going and going and going.
I'm sure Jacques on the inside was burning up. Ray
was infringing on his time. Yeah, the two brothers, they
had a falling out many years ago. I would love
to know what the fallout was was about. But they
seemed to be on good terms now. So after Ray
was done talking and he thanked Tony Kahan, he thanked
a w Jacques took the mic. He spoke in French
and he turned heel. He turned heel on the fans.
Here he said, you can kiss my ass, and he
thanked the fans around the world, who booed them like
all the haters in the crowd. Tonight, Jacques said that
he had a dream and he asked the fans if
they have their phones, so they all held out their
phones and he told the fans to put the flashlights
on on their phones, and then he led the fans
in singing the ololol song. So then Rocky Romero comes
out and he took issue with the fans, celebrating with
the rougeaus like there's something special. He got in the ring.
He said, the only family in pro wrestling that matters
is the Don Kallis family. And then he turned to
Jacques and this was the line of the promo. Here
he turned to Jacques and he said, man if I
had a roll of quarters right now, and before he
could finish, Jacques slapped him and then he held him
while Ray kicked him and gave him like a karate
kick in the gut. I love the role of Quarters
reference if you're not familiar with it. It's the old
story about the backstage incident in WWF in the late eighties,
like eighty eight, probably with the Rougeaus and the British
Bulldogs and in particular Dynamite kid, who was a bully
and just in general not a good person, and Jacques
just got tired of putting up with a shit and
so one day he was kind of hiding out waiting
for him to walk, and he smacked him right in
the face with a roller quarters. I can't remember if
it was just the roll of quarters where he put
him in a sock, but he whacked him good in
the face I think knocked out a whole bunch of teeth.
Dynamite didn't bother him again after that. It's a pretty
famous story as far as the Rougeo brothers. Look, when
I grew up watching wrestling, the Rougeau's were part of
this great tag team division that they had. You know,
in the company back then you had the Hearts, and
you had Stripe Force and Demolition and Powers of Pain
and the Bulldogs and there were the fabulous Rougeau brothers
with great entrance music. So that's my memory of them. Also,
jacquesra Jeau owns a rare clean pinfall wind over Hulk Hogan,
and I'm saying hul Cogan when he was at the
peak of his Hollywood Hogan nWo persona in ninety seven
clean pinfall win. Probably Hogan figure, well, this is not
airing anywhere, it's not airing on TV. Thankfully we have
fancam video out there to prove that it actually happened,
because if it didn't. If it didn't, I don't know
that I would believe this even existed, that it ever happened,
but you can't find it. The only match they had
on the pre show was Orange Cassidy Roderick Stran kylo'
riilly again to j Lethal, Blake Christian and Lee Johnson
for the aw trios titles. The Lethal Twist Newsflash the
Lethal Twist were not successful in winning the trios titles. Yeah,
I have to say it was nice to not have
them overstuff the pre show with like three or four matches.
They had a special segment, they had one match and
that was it. That's the way it should be. If
you don't have a special segment in the future, do
two matches. You don't need to do three or four.
Let's get into the main card here. They opened up
the main card with the six way ladder match, the
crowning number one contender for the I shouldn't even say
number one contender. You get a guaranteed future match for
the International Championship. We had Speedball, Mike Bailey, Jack Perry,
Nick Wayne, Commander, the Beast, Mortos el Clone. Those are
the six men. This was twenty minutes of insane spots
and ridiculously dangerous stunts, and the crowd ate it up.
It was a hot start to the show. Speedball was
the one who made the most sense to win. They
were in his home province. Everything this man did, they cheered.
If anybody did anything to him, they got booed. Didn't
matter who you were, So he was super over in
the building. He talked about later on how he used
to come to this building to watch wrestling, you know,
when he was a small child. At one point, Bailey
landed a moonsaw off a ladder on the stage onto
all five men. Commander, I mean Commander was out there
doing Commander things. Commander is quite great. He hit a
tight rope plancha off the rope right, so he really
from one end of the ring, did the tight rope
walk to the other side, and then did a dive
off through the table that Nick Wayne was laying on
outside the ring. The balance that it takes to pull
off something like that is very impressive, I will say
Jack Perry. At another point, he delivered a Canadian Destroyer
to Nick Wayne off of a ladder onto a ladder bridge,
so basically they tried to kill Nick Wayne in this match.
Mike Bailey, he delivered an ultimate weapon off the top
rope onto the Beast Mortos, who was laid out across
a ladder bridge. Right there was a ladder that was
horizontally placed in the corner he was laying on it.
Bailey comes down right, knees first. On impact, it bounces
him back up and over the top rope. Thankfully he
caught himself or else he nearly killed himself on this spot.
He actually looked kind of cool, but it could have
ended very badly. So he bounced back over the top
rope and landed on the apron. Bailey, They'll got back
in the ring and he very quickly scaled the ladder
to pull down the contract to a huge pop from
the live crowd. They were very happy to see him
pick up the win here, and with that win, he
earns himself a future shot at the International Championship, which
we learned from him in his backstage promo later in
the show. He is going to cash in, I guess
you would say on the Grand Slam Mexico episode of Dynamite,
which is coming up on August fifth, that is when
he will get his championship match against Kyle Fletcher, so
who he owns a win over before, so now we
know when that match is going to be taken place.
That's right. That's what I usually say the end of
these aw pay per views when I look at the
time enough, I find myself saying that very often. How
about it? There he is, there's Pete. How about it?
Thank you? Brother? Who was that? There was a jersey
authentic in the tuxedo t servo breaking in those new
super chats there. I appreciate you guys. So a hot
start to the show, right, Your mileage is going to
vary when it comes to the uh, you know, the
car crash ladder matches. If you like those matches in general,
this was a very enjoyable one. If you don't, then
you won't because again it's just a collection of very
dangerous spots where I find myself sitting here hoping that
they don't kill each other. But as these ladder matches go,
it was very good. Then we got into John Moxley
and Will Osprey against the Young Bucks. No elevated entrance
for Osprey. This is the first time I can remember
him entering with Moxley doing the traditional death rider entrance
to Monchley's music. So there was a collision early on
here between Osbury and Nick Jackson where they bunked heads
and it was planned and so Nick was worse for
wear really for the rest of the match. This became
the story of the match where he just wasn't quite right.
Later on, Osprey was in with Nick. Nick was on
dream Street and the referee was trying to stop Osprey
from doing any further damage to him. He shoved the
referee out of the way. He was about to kill
this man. Matt Jackson gets into the ring. He covers
his brother to shield him and he's telling Osprey enough,
like Cody just did right enough, so Osprey backed off.
He tagged Moxley in, who had no hesitation whatsoever. He
dumped Matt Jackson out to the floor. He gave Nick
a curb stump and he covered him, but he kicked out.
Another theme of this show, the kickout. There were many
of them on this show, so we got the bulldog
show complied. Crowd is not happy about this. They're booing Moxley.
Matt Jackson gets back in. He superkicks Moxley to break
the hold, so they ended up out on the floor.
Osprey ducked a Matt Jackson superkick, but in doing so,
Marina Shaffir ate the kick instead, so they get back inside.
Moxley hits two Paradigm ships and a death Rider on Nick.
Instead of covering him, Moxley goes outside. He grabs a
chair and the referee tried to take it away from him.
Moxley basically used it to shove him down and he
was going to hit Nick with the chair. Osprey, though,
took it away from him. He said, no, no, this
is not what I signed up for, so Matt superkicks
the chair back into Osprey's face. The Bucks then superkicked
Moxley who flipped him the double bird. He ate a
double superkick. Really, they peppered him with kicks until finally
Matt or Nick rather fell on top of Moxley and
they got the three count. So this was a very
different kind of Young Bucks match in some respects. I
liked it. I liked what they did here. Instead of
the usual party match, they slowed things down. They were
telling a story with the Nick Jackson injury, as ridiculous
as it was, because the way he was selling it
like he you could tell, like the way he was
selling it, if you were the referee in this match,
there was no way you would allow this man to continue.
He was selling it like he was concussed or possibly concussed.
He wasn't in his right frame of mind. And the
referee allowed the match. I mean the referee allowed him
because a tag match you could always keep him out.
The referee allowed him to continue to wrestle and he
allowed the match to continue. So if you can put
that out of your mind. As ridiculous as that was,
I expected the Bucks to win because they're going to
be challenging for the tag team titles in London, which
is now official. It wasn't before, But I mean, anybody
who's been paying attention could have figured that was gonna
be the match. So to me, it just didn't make
any sense for them to go in here against these
two and lose. Why would you do that? Right, Moxley
and Ospbrey have won all of their matches. They have
been having these enhancement matches, these quick squashes on TV.
What do you think it's been building towards It has
to be building to them losing. There's got to be
a reason for them to be in there winning all
these matches, right, Make them lose because that's gonna make
things more interesting. I don't want to just see them
keep going in there and winning if they're not going
for the tag team titles, and what do I give
a shit? Right? They have to be teaming for a
reason because eventually they're gonna lose and it's gonna cost
some sort of rift. It's gonna cost some sort of
drama between the two of them. Tonight was the night
for that. So they came out on the losing end
of this match. Osprey the story here. He could not
bring himself to go for the kill shot on Nick Jackson,
Moxley had no such reservations right. He was not worried
about that at all, and in the end it cost
him the match, and it led to a much bigger
angle later in the show. After the main event, which
we'll talk about when we get there. Kyle Fletcher defended
the aw International Championship here against the Ring of Honor
World champion Bendido. Fletcher agreed to have all the members
of the Don Kallis family barred from ringside because he
wanted to show that he can do it on his own.
So there was a brainbuster on the apron at one
point by Fletcher and Bandido's outside the ring. Is he
going to make it back in in time? He gets
up to his feet. I think the referees count was
up to like six or seven, and Bendido he kind
of staggers to his feet and he's staring at this
young boy who's in the front row. They're basically like
head to head here, and the boy is giving him
some encouragement. You got this, And Bendido is able to
roll back into the ring before the ten count. Fletcher
grabbed him. He gave him a last ride power bomb
only for a near fall, but only for a near fall.
Now that I think about it, that should be the
title of Tony Khan's eventual memoir. But only for a
near fall by Tony Kahan. There was a twenty one
plex attempt. Fletcher was able to shrug that off, another
brainbuster on the apron. There was a lot of dropping
one on their head here in this match, and Bandido
was able to get out of that situation. There was
a sunset bomb attempt to the floor. Kyle was fighting
it and fighting it, but in the end he ate
a power bomb on the floor. So Bandido went up
to the top rope. Kyle was down on the floor
outside and he hit this fucker hit a frog splash
from the top rope all the way down to Kyle
Fletcher on the floor outside. And that did not look
like it was a fun move to take. For your
forearms on the landing, I mean, that's a rough landing.
I mean I said shit when I saw him do that.
And this is the guy who had wrisk surgery before
I go. Please, please don't get hurt, So that was
kind of a crazy spot. Later on in the match,
Bandido hit an avalanche fallaway slam into a moon salt
press for a near fall, follow that up with a
GTS for another near fall. We had already reached a
point by the way in this match where it was
complete overkilled, like we're already past that point. I don't
remember the exact move that it was, but there was
a moment in this match where I was like, Okay,
this match should no longer be going on now. It's
just getting very over indulgent. Both men were jockeying for
position on the ropes. There was an avalanche Mitchinoku driver
by Fletcher for any ear fall. Fletcher went for a
buckle brainbuster Bandido's head, though it barely glanced the turnbuckle
pad on the way down, but thankfully that was the
finish finally and Fletcher retains the international title. This would
have been a great fifteen minute match. That was my
thought coming out of it. This would have been a
great fifteen minute match, but they didn't go fifteen minutes. Instead.
They can't help themselves because every match on this show,
on these shows has to go minimum twenty, it feels like,
no matter how early in the card it may be.
And so these two went out there and they went
almost thirty fucking minutes when they had absolutely no reason
to go. Almost thirty minutes they went over, not over,
but almost thirty minutes here in this match, especially when
you consider how we arrived here, I might be willing
to excuse it if it was you know, say, the
blowoff to a long simmering feud between these two men.
You know how this match was set up? It was
set up on television, maybe two weeks ago, maybe because
Kyle Fletcher was cutting a promo backstage and Bendido had
the audacity to come wandering by and interrupting his shot.
And so ultimately that is what led to these two
having a championship match here on this show, not exactly
a riveting backstory to how or why we got here,
and then they go out there for twenty six minutes.
Why you got ten matches on the show? You have
matches on the show that have more story and backstory
to it than the than this one does with these two.
This is what I mean. There are matches on this
show that end up being good when they could be great,
or they end up being you know, not great when
they could be great, because they just keep going and
going and going, and you just get to a point
where it's like, why is is this still happening? This
should have ended three and a half minutes ago, five
minutes ago. That's how I felt here. They had a
really good match, they had a really strong match. It
could have been even better, but they went too long.
And I also hate this. I hate that Bandido because
Bandido is fucking great, and I hate that Bandido is
someone who they can just put out there because they
know he's always going to have great matches and they
always get over, but he constantly gets beat. We had
the same situation at Forbidden Door. They put him in
there with Moxley, I believe, right for the continental title
and he lost. They put him out there with the
international champion, and you knew he wasn't winning this match
because everything is set up for a three way in
London with Fletcher, Takeshta and Okada at the very least,
to Kasha's coming back from the g one and getting
a rematch for the title, So you knew there was
not going to be a title jed, why are you
sending the Ring of Honor World champion out there to
just keep getting beat like a drum? I don't understand
that Can we not do that? Can we start feeding
him some significant wins? One of the better guys they
have on this roster. I wish they would protect him more.
And then we had the double chain match. We had
Switchblade J White and Juice Robinson representing the Bang Bang
Gang taking on David Finley and Clark Connors representing the
Dogs in a match that was set up on Dynamite
this past week. I hated this match. I hated this match.
I didn't care for the feud between them to begin with.
Coming into this, I cared even less about the stupid
stipulation even when they announced it the other night. Oh,
We're gonna have a double chain match. I'm like, why, why?
Who cares? Why do we need this? Okay, fine, maybe
they'll go out there and they'll find a way to
make the stipulation work and make it compelling in some way,
and they'll go out there and they'll they'll change my mind.
They didn't change my mind. They did go out there
and they beat the hell out of each other. They
did do that, But for the majority of it, it
sounded like most of the crowd cared for this match
about as much as I did, which is to say
not at all. There was a dominator spot in this
match at one point where David Finley gave Jay White
you know the old Ron Simmons or I guess Bobby
Lashley depending on your frame of reference. And where the
fuck is he by the way, Holy shit, I just
said his name out loud. I completely forgot to even
work for this company. Where the hell is the Hurt Syndicate?
Holy shit? Talk about out of sight, out of mind. Anyway,
he went to go give Jay White a dominator. He
almost paralyzed him. It was a very scary landing. Hopefully
he's okay. Pretty sure he's okay, but with Jay White,
I mean again, this guy's had injury issues before, so
I worry about this sort of thing. Hopefully he's okay.
Clark Connors he wrapped the chain. Now they were bound
by the wrist because again it was not a dog
collar match, so they were bound by the wrist and
Clark Connors he wrapped the chain around Juice Robinson's throat
his neck and he started choking. And meanwhile Finley, who
was attached to Jay White by their chain, was trying
to keep him at bay unsuccessfully. So Jay White ends
up taking out Finley with a sleeper suplex so he
could save his partner. So this devolved into two on
one beat down here on David Finley, and they are
just whipping him repeatedly over and over again with these
chains and to make a bad match worse right, you're
watching this year, like, how could they make this match
actively worse? Hm? Why don't we send out Wheeler Dah
and Daniel Garcia to interfere in it? That'll do it.
So the Death Riders see crew, they show up to
get involved here in this match. They pull Switchblade out
of the ring, then Dah drops him with a terrible
looking Bussiku nie that barely grazed him. Here comes Austin
Gunn and Colton Gunn to even the score of Marina Shaffir.
She passes Finley the Schillale and he blasts Juice with
it and he gets the three count to finally put
an end to this. I was just bored more than
anything else. I felt nothing watching this match and another
match here on this show that has to go twenty minutes. Now.
I could excuse it if the match was exciting, but
there was nothing exciting about the match. And so when
it's not. It just feels like an eternity. That's what
this match felt like. It sucks because this is the
second time now in the span of about a week
that Jay White had a match that I think they
really crap the bed with that match he had with
Clark Connors last week on the Dynamite. I didn't think
was a great match. I was bored by that match,
and so now he's out there, He's in this tag
team match. They got the chains and everything, and I
again I'm not a fan of this match. I'm actually
debating about which j White AW match is worse, because honestly,
these are two of the worst matches I think that
I've ever seen in AW this one and the singles
match he had on Dynamite that one time many years
ago with Billy Gunn. I'm pretty sure the Billy gun
match still clears the bar on this. But unfortunately both
matches Jay White was involved. This absolutely did not need
to take place here on this show. When eighteen minutes right,
because if this was on television, if this was on Collision,
if this was on Dynamite, they're not getting eighteen minutes.
It would get a little less time. They would have
been able to tighten it up a little bit, maybe
it would have been a little more palatable. I probably
still wouldn't have had much interest in it, but it
would have been better off actually in this This is
one of those rare cases where this would have been
better off on television. They would have benefited from having
a little less time on the television show instead of
being able to go out there and have eighteen minutes
to bore people to death. So yes, I did not
like this match. The Dogs had to win though, because
if they're setting up a singles match, which I assume
they are at some point between Jay White and David Finley,
which hopefully Switchblade will win, the dogs had to get
a win here. They had to throw them a bone,
and so they did. So. I mean that at least
was good that they gave the Dogs the win, because
you got to give them something. But yeah, this is
the worst thing on the entire show. I hated this match.
Renee Piquette was backstage with Will Osprey who brought up
Nick Jackson's head injury. Osprey said that Nick clearly had
head trauma and he didn't want to take advantage of that. Then,
mister Renee Piquette walks in and Osprey said, look, I'm
not trying to kill anyone. Bruv. Moxley said that Nick
has a history of head trauma. I'm so sorry, Nick.
Welcome to pro wrestling. It's a tough way to make
a living. Moxley said that Osprey has a once in
a lifetime opportunity at Wembley Stadium. He told Osprey, you
can't be everyone's friend or turn your back on anybody.
Moxley said that he doesn't want Osprey to learn this
lesson the hard way. He said, if Osbury won't pull
the trigger, he will, and he walked off. Hikarushda and
Maya World for the TBS Championship. Today, by the way,
was Maya World's birthday. Had I known that coming into
this show, I would have changed my prediction for this match.
I did not realize that today was her birthday. Maya
had control under over Shida when Sida suddenly went after
Maya's knee and we even got a stretch my on
the top rope by Sheida. You don't see that very often.
Chidah was taking every short cut that she possibly could.
She was biting her, she was raking the eyes. Chidah
was looking for a falcon arrow. Maya counter with a
cradle for a two count, but the knee was still
bothering her. She'da got a single leg crab applied, and
I thought I took it as a good sign that
the crab was actually rallying behind Maya. Here, Maya hit
Shechidah with a shining wizard. She'da rolled out of the
ring to avoid being pinned, and she'da grabbed her kendo stick,
but Maya stopped her from using it. Maya got Chida
back inside the ring. She went for a moon salt.
She'da though got her knees up, and then she followed
with a katana covered for a near fall. Fans did
not react to that at all. She'da hit a tombstone,
only got a near fall. Then she got her tbs
lock applied, and when it looked like Maya was going
to tap out, she'da got cocky and she hooked her
arm so that she couldn't tap out, just so she
could dish out some more punishment. She'da hit repeated running
knee strikes, one after the other after the other. Maya
was basically dead and the referee could have stopped it
if they wanted to, she'd have hit a falcon arrow
had the pin. Maya, though, grabbed the bottom rope. So
many near falls in this match. Chidah was bickering with
the referee and then she charged at Maya, who picked
her up for a fallaway slam into a bridge and
into the pin to get the upset win and claim
her first championship. Here in aew, we have a brand
new TBS champion. It wasn't always pretty. There were definitely
some sloppy moments in there. But I enjoyed it more
than I did the last match, I'll tell you that much.
I thought this was solid stuff. The finish surprised me
just because she'da won that Survival of the Fittest match
only a few weeks ago. You know, she's only been
championed for I mean less than a month, twenty five days,
twenty six days, something like that. By the way, Sheida
now owns the record for the shortest reigns as AW
Women's World Champion and AW TBS Champion. Now she had
like over a year as the world champion, but one
of her use she's been a three time world champion.
I don't remember if it was her last run or
her second run. I believe it's still the shortest run
that anyone has ever had with that title. It's like
twenty five days. And so now she owns the shortest
TBS title run. Not the best record to have, I suppose,
but she owns the record now. I was not, honestly,
and you guys remember me mentioning this when she'da won
the belt a few weeks ago. I was not a
big fan of Sheida being the one that they chose
to go with to win the TBS Belt in the
first place. I would have much preferred Persephone or Queen Amanada.
So I wasn't really a fan of the decision to
go with Chidah. Anyway, her losing the TBS championship here
and giving it to my world, I'm okay with that.
I have no issue with that whatsoever. It's a good
way to capitalize off whatever momentum Iyas still had coming
out of the ozho and final against Mercedes Monette. And look,
it's a great story, you know, the success that she's
been able to have. It's someone new having the championship now,
someone who has not been a champion before here in
this company and more importantly, it keeps her on AW
television as opposed to because they had teased the possibility
of her maybe feuding with Athena in Ring of Honor,
and I suppose they could still do that at some point,
but I would much rather see her on Dynamite or
on Collision right. And now she's got the TBS Championship,
so she will be on TNT and TBS and not
relegated to the Ring of Honor. Brent, I consider that
to be a good thing, so good for her. We
had Adam Copeland and Christian Cage against Claudio Castignolium Pack
of the Death Riders for the AW Tag Team Championships.
The majority of this match were the heels taking turns
beating up the babyfaces, with Cope and Christian selling. Copeland
selling is basically most of his matches these days. Not
the same. Copeland put Pack down with it in paler DDT,
another one to Claudio onto Pack. There was also a
spot where Claudio lifted Copeland into a neutralizer position while
Pack went up to the top rope. He came off
for a spike neutralizer. Christian raced over to break up
the pin attempt. Christian then speared. Claudio Pack charged at Christian,
who popped him up into the air into a spear
from Copeland, and Copeland got the pin to retain the titles. Again.
It was mostly a handicap match for a good eighty
to ninety percent of the match where they were ganging
up on the baby Faces until the Babyfaces made a
comeback and they retained the titles in the end. But
it was a good match. There was no reason to
believe the Belts or in any real jeopardy at any
point during this match. Copeland and Cage, they were celebrating
their win. The Young Bucks came out and they got
into the ring and they were pointing at the Tag
Belts and Copeland was shaking hands with them. Christian refused
because Christian doesn't do that sort of thing, and they
put the graphic up so it is now official. It
is now official for Wembley Stadium for the first time ever,
Adam Copeland and Christian Cage will wrestle the Young Bucks
and the aw Tag Team titles will be on the line.
They could end up adding more teams. It's entirely possible.
FTR may come back and may get worked into the match.
There could be new teams debuting imminently in aw and
maybe they get added to the match, but as of
this moment, it will be two on two for the
tag team titles at Wembley Stadium. And I think we
all knew this. This was the big first time ever
Dream Attraction right edgend Christian against the Young Bucks, right
a generational battle. I can picture it now with Copeland
selling for eighty eight percent of the match. But it
seemed very clear that this was the direction we were
going in. And now it is official, as there will
be many matches that are going to be made official now,
so we'll see what impact that has on ticket sales.
I believe the current update has the UH attendance count
I believe at like thirty three thousand. I'm still sticking
in my count of a little over forty for that show,
somewhere between like forty and forty two, maybe somewhere in
that range. We had The Painmaker Chris Jericho against Tamaso Champa,
No holds barred. Jericho entered to Painkiller by Judas Priest,
so he got Tony Kah to break out the checkbook
for this one. He was wearing a wacky mask. He
came out, he had a spiked jacket, barbed wire baseball bat,
and what followed had to be I mean, maybe outside
of one of the blood and guts matches that he
would have been a part of, but I was kind
of going over it in my memory bank. This had
to be the most violent, like hardcore match that Jericho
has ever been a part of. Has there been one
that was more violent than what they did here in
this match? Jericho hasn't been a part of very many
death matches like this, so unless I'm forgetting one, got
me think about what we had here, Between the blood
and the barbed wire and the thumbtacks and the fucking
power drills and the glass mirrors and the table spots,
some pretty brutal table spots, this had to be the
most violent match of Jericho's career. Champa he hit a
fairy tale ending at one point, and this was early
in the match. Off the apron put Jericho through a
table face first. Champa starts throwing weapons into the wing
and a hockey stick, which got a huge pop, obviously
in front of this Montreal crowd. Champa then put on
a Boston Bruins jersey, which got a lot of heat
and he started beating up the stuffed animal version of Upie,
the mascot for the Montreal Canadiens. Yes, he was beating
up the mascot in a stuffed animal form. Big heat
for that. Then he emptied out a bag of thumbtack
covered hockey pucks. Jericho pulled the jersey over Champa's head.
We got a hockey fight. He sup plexed him onto
the pucks, and then Jericho used sandpaper to rake the forehead.
Now I think Champa was already busted open, but now
he's just bleeding all over the place as he's sampapering
this man's forehead. Jericho put the Bruins jersey into a
trash can. The crowd wanted him to set it on fire,
but he pulled the barbed wire table out instead. Champa
threw one of the tack covered pucks at Jericho, and
you could see after there was a tax sticking out
of Jericho's out of his forehead or his eyebrow. Champa
grabbed a sack of his own that had an elbow
pad in it that was covered in thumbtacks. Jericho, though,
sank in the walls of Jericho before he could use it,
and he forced Champa to crawl through the tax and
the barbed wire to get to the barb wire bat
and he starts smacking Jericho in the back with it.
They fought to the apron. Jericho hit a depth valley
driver off the apron through the barb wire table back inside.
Champa kicked out, which I mean was just fucking ridiculous.
But this whole match was ridiculous. I think Jericho may
have stabbed him in the leg with a pencil at
one point. That's, you know, look, that shit doesn't go away.
I got stabbed right in the middle of my hand
by a kid when I was in elementary school many
years ago, and I could still literally still see the
lead in my hand. That shit don't go away. It
stays with you forever. I'm pretty sure he stabbed him
in the leg with a pencil. Then he brought in
a giant mirror into the ring, and he made a
bridge with two chairs. He put the mirror between them.
Champa caught him though with a low blow and then
followed with an air raid crash onto the mirror. Jericho,
of course kicked out. So while the doctor is over
checking on Jericho. Champa pulled out the power drill. I
told you, I told you we're gonna get it. You
see it in the artwork I put together because I
knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. I said,
I gotta get a picture of Champa with that fucking
power drill, and I'm gonna put it in the layout.
And sure enough, out comes the power drill and the
crowd starts chanting, this is murder. I thought maybe there
was a Jimmy Snooker appearance. I thought maybe he rose
from the dead. So Champa went to go use it. Jericho,
though spat green missed at his face. Either that or
you know, he's been hit by this cyclosporiasis outbreak that's
been going on. But he spat some green shit in
Champa's face and blinded him, and then he hit the
Judas effect and say it with me now, Shampa kicked out.
I know I was as stunned as you are. So
Jericho brought out another mirror, this one wrapped in barbed wire,
and he smashed it across Champa's back. Jericho then put
the thumbtack covered elbowpad on and he hit the Judas
effect and again again. Champa kicked out Jericho then grabbed
the power drill and he used it on Champa's forehead.
Aubrey Edwards calls for the stoppage. I guess I couldn't.
I couldn't tell if Champa hadly submitted or if she
just made an executive decision here and decided enough is enough.
But she calls the match off and mercifully this match
comes to an end as a wrestling match. Their Beach
Break match I thought was much better than this. I
enjoyed that Beach Break match better than this as a
garbage plunder match. I don't know what else they could
have done that they didn't do here, outside of blowing
themselves up with Piro, you know, like MJF and Hangman
did in their Texas Death match earlier this year. I
appreciate them killing themselves to try to live up to
the stipulation, but this just wasn't for me. It wasn't
for me. I don't need to see these two guys
out there doing this type of horse shit. I really don't.
But I get the sense that Champ is out there
having the time of his life because now he's got
the freedom that he didn't have before. He's got the
creative freedom to go out there and get booked in
these types of to begin with, and get featured on
the television show and actually get a pay per view match,
which were very hard to come by for him in
the other place, let alone a singles match on pay
per view. I can't recall there being a single singles
a single singles a single singles match on a pl
that he ever had in WWE that wasn't part of
NXT Black and Gold, right, or maybe NXT two point
zero when they blew up Black and Gold. All that
to say, I think he's probably enjoying himself a lot.
He probably enjoyed himself in this match taking the abuse
more than I did watching it again, some people, your
mileage is going to vary on whether or not this
match was for you or not. We go backstage. Oh
my god, this I forgot about this. Yeah, oh boy.
We go backstage to Mick Foley and he's standing by
with the women's tag team champions Divine Dominion Megan Bant. Yes, yes, Eric,
I was saying that during the Champa and Jericho match,
not even on like the power Drill and all that
but on the kickouts, I was screaming that enough enough.
When we go backstage, Nick Foley is with Megan Bain
and Leana Cross, who offer him a seat. They tell
him to sit down. They pull up a chair, They
tell him to sit down, and they ask him have
you ever seen two women more dominant than them? And
Folly thinks about it and he says, well, maybe the
crush gals, but no none recently. So Bain asked him,
have you ever seen two women who were more violent
than us? Folly said I had not. Bain said that
they're undefeated and they just are wondering why there weren't
two women around to face the two of them, and
Fully said, well, actually there are two women that would
be the brawling Birds. So Lena asked if Fully really
thought the birds stood a chance against them. Fully said,
well maybe, and Baine then told Foley to bow down,
and McK foley, former WWE Champion, WWE Hall of Famer,
the Beloved Mick Foley proceeds to start barking like a
dog literally and going woolf wolf bow Wow over and
over again, rough bow Wow. The only thing missing here
was a neck collar and a ball gag. And I
don't need to see what Mick behind closed doors. I
don't give a shit. I don't care what his kinks
may be. I don't know if this this felt like
some humiliation ritual to me. I know the sickos will laugh. Ago,
come on, it's comedy. It's comedy. Sure, this was embarrassing,
is what this was. I don't know what the fuck
this was supposed to be. I don't even have the
words for this. This was sad. This was sad to watch.
We had Mark Davis against Androde l Edelo for the
aw National Championship. Can you imagine that though Mick Foley
on his hands and knees on all fours on a
dog leash with like a ballgag in his mouth as
Lean Across and Meghan Bain lead him around, if they
asked him to do it, I think he would do it.
I really do. He would take one for the team.
Androde nearly scored the instant win in the first ten
seconds of this match. He caught Davis off guard with
the spinning back elbow. Davis, though kicked out. Thankfully they
didn't job my guy Davis out here. I mean, I
know some of these a lot of these matches on
this show didn't need to be as long as they were.
But come on, man, you know you know I get
to beat my guy here in ten seconds. Hat of discipline.
You make a very good you make a very good point.
Why would I want to imagine that? You well, my
point is you don't. You don't want to imagine it.
But after what we saw tonight, I could actually see
something like that happening. I wouldn't be shocked if this
was mixed creative contribution to the show. And Tony Kahn's
got his cup of java in his hand that he
he I think it's glued to his hand every time
I see him. He's got that fucking cup in his hand.
Oh that sounds a great idea. Make sure for it.
Go for it. Bow wow. David set up for a
power bomb of the apron. Androde countered with a hurk
and rona that sent Davis hurling forward into the turnbuckles,
Androtte then raced up top. He hit Davis with the
moon salt over the ring post to the floor back inside,
Androte took his pants off. This got me, you know,
me saying that coming off the mc foley stuff, I'm like,
what the fuck did I watch? What did I spend
money on tonight? What is going on here? So Androte
takes his pants off and he reveals trunks with how
you know, on the back of them. He tried for
a frog splash, Davis got the knees up. Davis set
up for a pile of driver, Androte used a hurk
and rona to hook him into a pin for a
near fall, and then Androte hit the spin back elbow
and he followed with the DM to win the championship.
I knew it. I knew it was coming. I knew
this was the end of the line from Mark Davis
as the national champion. After the win, they shot off
Pyro on stage. I thought the match was good. Androde
finally strikes gold for the first time in aw for
Mark Davis, this is the end of his run as champion.
I hope it's not the end of him being used
in a singles capacity. I could see them just putting
him in Jake Doyle back together, because that was the
original idea Davis and Doyle, you know, in the in
the tag team ranks. And I mean, look, I'm not
opposed to it. I just hope this doesn't you know,
mark the end of him being featured in singles matches
at all on these shows, because I enjoy his work
and I don't expect him to win this belt back.
He may not win another belt period, unless it's a
tag team belt, that's point. But I enjoyed this little
run that he had, and a lot of the matches
that he had on TV, especially that will Osprey match
he had when they were in the Owen together. As
overbooked as that was, that's some of the most fun
I've had watching Dynamite all year, and he was a
part of that. We had Tecla against Willow Nightingale for
the aw Women's World Championship. They showed Mercedes Monette up
in one of the luxury boxes in the crowd. She
had her Owenhart Foundation belt over her shoulder. It was
an early pounce that launched Tekla out of the ring.
She came back though with a curb stump to give
her a chance to regroup and collect herself, and then
she started ripping at Willow's stitched up ear and it
started bleeding. Late in the match, Willow landed a death
valley driver for a two count, but then pulled down
the straps. She was setting up for the doctor bomb. Techla,
though was able to avoid it, and the champion rolled
Willow into a pen and grabbed the bottom rope for leverage.
The referee They'll caught her. Came back with a spinebuster
and then went for a top upe Moonsalt, but she missed.
Tecla went for a spear. Willow counter with the doctor
bomb and she covered her and had the match one
when Sky bleww reached in and pulled her out of
the ring. Actually no, she placed Tecla's leg on the
bottom rope thinking of a different spot in a different match,
but she broke up the pin attempt. Is the point,
no Julia Hard here because Julia Hart is she may
be over there now. I know she's on her way
to Japan. If she isn't already there, she's taking part
in the Grand Prix. So that's why we didn't get
any Julia Hard on this show. Willow went to the floor.
She gave Sky a doctor bomb, then rolled back inside
and immediately ate a spear from Tecla, and Tecla went
for a stomp. Willow moved and she won the title
with a fucking backslide. After the match, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong,
Kylo Riley, they all came out to conglomerate with her
and to celebrate with her because she is affiliated with
the conglomeration. Mercedes Monette was again shown up in her
luxury box and they put the graphic up. It is
now official at All in London. It will be Mercedes
Monet challenging Willow Nightingale for the Women's World Championship and
Orange Cassidy gave Willow a backpack that she immediately stuffed
the belt into. Wonderful. We had the men's world title
in a briefcase for a year and now we got
the women's world title in a fucking backpack. Lovely look.
I thought they had a good match. I'm just not
a fan of how rush this all felt. For Willow's
first world title win. And I know she's won matches
before with the backslide. I'm aware of that. It doesn't
mean I have to like it as far as that
being the finish for the first time that she wins
the World Championship. She wins on a fucking backslide. Are
you for real that's the finish of this match? You
do that in a TV match. You don't do that
in a pay per view match when you're winning the
world title for the first time. The sad part about
this is her beating Mercedes and winning the TBS Championship
on that New Year's Smash episode of Dynamite felt like
a much bigger deal than this did here in Montreal,
all on this pay per view world title on the line,
and that moment and that win and that finish felt
like a much bigger deal than what we got here.
And that's sad. So that part of it. I did
not like Willow against Mercedes, though it always made sense
to me, is the match to do at Wembley. I've
been saying it ever since she came back and won
that gauntlet match at Beach Break, and I don't think
that Mercedes should win the belt on that show. In fact,
as I sit here right now, and you can call
me crazy, I promise you I don't have anything too
strong in this cup here. I think will Everyone's worried
about Willow being a transitional champion and all that. As
I sit here right now with five weeks left to
go before we get to Wembley Stadium, I don't think
Willow is going to be a transitional champion. I don't
think it's a foregone conclusion that Mercedes is winning the belt.
I understand that she won the Owen last year and
she went and she lost. Why would they do that
again two years in a row. Wins the Owen and loses. Yeah,
I think this is a very real possibility of that. Now,
if she goes in there and loses, then yeah, that sucks.
But put the belt on her for the first time
and take it away five weeks later, that's pretty shitty.
But don't assume that Mercedes is automatically getting the belt.
There were a lot of things that you could assume
coming into this pay per view tonight. You could assume
that Kenny Omega was not losing to Kevin Knight, right.
You could assume Adam Copeland and Christian Cage were not
losing their tag team titles. Don't assume that Willow is
going to lose her championship to Mercedes Monete. I'll just
say that Tekla, she had over one hundred and sixty
day as the women's champion. I remember, for the longest
time when she first came in, I didn't know what
the woman sounded like I didn't hear her cut a
single promo. Now you can't shut her up, and she's great.
She's got more personality than most people. I don't just
mean on the AW roster. She's got more personality in
charisma than most people in wrestling today. She's become a
favorite on the many of these Dynamite shows, and she
had a good run again. One hundred and sixty days
is nothing to sneeze out. There is speculation on social media.
People are they're chattering, They're talking about the possibility that
maybe now that she's not the champion, they could be
setting up a match involving her and Kyrie Saye for
all in London. If Kyrie is coming in. Kyrie, by
the way, has retained the services of one Barry Bloom
and there is a lot of speculation that that will
lead to her eventually ending up in AWAW has the
working relationship with Stardom. If Kyrie went to Stardom, right,
that could also kind of be her back doorway into AW.
And Tecla right now is one third. I believe right
the artist of Stardom right those the trio's belts. I
believe she's a champion in stardom. She still has her
long running feud would start them. There could be something
there maybe with her and Kyrie and if So, and again,
right now it's all speculation, but if So, I could
see that, you know, and I could get behind that.
But she should most definitely have something for that show.
She should be factored into that show in some way.
Just because she's not the champion anymore doesn't mean that
Tecla goes away. I don't want to see that. But
Willow and Mercedes always felt like this is the match
to do babyface against heel instead of doing two heels
against each other. The main event of this show had
Kenny Omega defending the AW World Championship against the Jet
Kevin Knight, the reigning TNT champion. Knight hit Omega from
behind during the ring intros and choked him with his
wrist tape, and as Night was throwing punches at Kenny's gut,
we got the obligatory diverticulitis mentioned from ex Caliber drink Omegas.
By the way, I don't know what was going on
with Tony Schavanni. He sounded like a fucking pullstring doll
on this show, like he contributed nothing on this show.
It's very weird. The commentary situation was very weird. Nigel
was fine and then halfway through the show they swapped
him out with Taz and Taz is always great, but yeah,
Chevanni was just like, I mean, you could cut his
mic and not miss anything on this show. Omega stood
on top of the announced desk at one point, or
he was over by the announced desk. He delivered a
Snapdragon supplex onto the desk. Ex Caliber said that Omega
had to get staples in his head after Knight had
hit him with the belt on Dynamite, which is true.
You remember that last spot at the end of Dynamite
on Wednesday where they had that short ramp to the
ring and Knight flew out, I mean he fucking flew
out and whacked Kenny in the head with the belt
might have been the TNT belt and Kenny came up bleeding,
So that's what he was referring to there. Omega set
up for a top rope Dragon suplex. Night, though, fought
free and he tied up Omega in a tree of woe,
went to the opposite corner and he delivered his Coast
to coast dropkick. So late in the match, Knight went
to the floor and he grabbed both belts. He placed
one of the belts under the ring skirt and the
referee caught him with the other belts, so Knight tossed it,
tossed it away and when the referee went after it,
Knight grabbed the other belt and he went to go
hit Omega with it. Kenny, though, kicked him, and Kenny
went for the One Winged Angel. Knight slipped out. He
delivered to Urinagi onto the TNT title and then Kevin
slid the belt out of the ring. He covered Omega.
Referee made the count only for a near fall, so
Night went for a UFO splash. Kenny got the knees up,
Omega went for the One Winged Angel again. Night slipped out. Ultimately,
though Kenny caught him with a leaping knee strike and
he did finally hit the One Winged Angel and picked
up the win. To the surprise and shock of absolutely
no one. Kenny Obega retains the aw World Championship, a
title that he should have retained without question, no one
will deny that, but a title that he really should
have won on this show, and there may have been
reasons why it didn't happen. Again, MJF maybe has the
bad leg and it was injury related and he wanted
to make sure that he had plenty of time to
rest and rehab and get ready for all In, And
that may well be the case. I'm just saying maybe
there was nothing Tony Ka can do about it. It
doesn't change the fact that on a show called Redemption
Kenny's home country, where he came out there and he
was beloved, the moment that that creative changed and Kenny
beat him weeks early to win the championship. That's why
I said at the beginning of this review, the entire
need for a show called Redemption went out the fucking window.
It just it didn't hit the same way as if
he would have won that belt in that building tonight.
It's unfortunate because that would have been a great moment
in the right place at the right time. It didn't
work out that way. What we got here was a
very good wrestling match, and Kevin Knight was very impressive.
Kevin Knight is not where Kenny Omega is. He's not
where Will Osprey is. He's not there yet. Hopefully he'll
get there. He's got the tools, he's got the talent,
and Tony Kahan obviously believes in him. He's been getting
pushed all year long and he's held multiple championships and
that's great. But this did not feel like your typical
aw pay per view Maine event. This felt like it
would have been an excellent television main event. This was
not a pay per view main event that you go
out of your way to think, oh man, this is
a big deal here, like that's not what this was.
But what it did do when it was over, was
it set up an angle when the match was over.
Because when it was over, Wheeler you To and Daniel
Garcia they were back. They ran out and attacked Omega,
packing Claudio. They joined in on the beat down. John
Moxley and Marina Shaffir they came out. So the young
Bucks ran out to try to help, and they were
quickly dispatched. Claudio wrapped a chair around Omega's head. He
was laying face down on the mat and so Claudio
places the chair around his neck. Will Osprey enters and
he gets in the ring and he shields Kenny and
he's trying to tell the death Riders to back off,
don't do this. Da tells Osprey it's okay, it's okay.
He embraces him, and then he shoots a look over
to Claudio, like go ahead and kill him. Claudio went
to go kill Omega. Osprey, though, shoved him down to
the mat. He pulled the chair off Omega's neck and
he starts swinging the chair and the death Riders they
all scatter. So John Moxley gets into the ring. Osprey
is standing in front of Omega with the chair, and
I'm watching this because Kenny is he's still he's still down,
but he's you know, he's awake, barely, he's kind of dazed.
And Osprey's back is turned to him and he's got
the chair in his hand, and I'm like, oh, don't
tell me. I'm like, don't tell me. There's no way.
There's no way they're turning Osprey heel five weeks out
from Wembley, right. I thought for sure my wrestling brain
was telling me the way, just what he was positioned,
like Kenny's gonna get to his feet, Osprey's gonna whack
him in the head, which you know, when when you
really think about it, there is a way to tell
that story where he listened to what Moxley told him
earlier in the show and he decided, you know what,
Moxley is right, And so as soon as Kenny gets
back up to his feet, you have Osbury whack him
in the head with a chair. He'll be a heel
in the building tonight, but you still have five weeks
to where he can sort of wake up right to
where he wouldn't be going into Wembley as the heel,
so it wouldn't be like a proper heel turn, maybe
a heel turn for a few weeks until he wakes
up and realizes that the Death Riders have been feeding
him a bunch of bullshit, and then you shoot the
angle where he kind of breaks away from them. So
there was a way where you could have done that.
But in the moment, I'm like, I hope that's not
what this is, and thankfully that's not what it was.
But then Moxley pulls out the dreaded plastic bag of doom.
We haven't seen the plastic bag in a while. We
haven't seen Brian Danielson in an active capacity on the
show outside of being a commentator since they put the
plastic bag over his head, right. I guess, well, I
guess last year in the Hangman match, I guess he
ran in. He did it with Sakuni, I believe. But
that's really what put him down as a full time
pro wrestler was the angle they shot where they tried
to suffocate him to death. So he pulls out the
plastic bag and I'm sure striking fear in the hearts
of all of the lawmakers in New York who have
banned such a thing. But he hands the plastic bag
over to will Ospray and he gives Osprey a kiss
on the cheek. Osprey now is staring at this bag.
He is staring intensely at the plastic bag. He's looking
down at Omega, He's looking back at the bag. What
is he gonna do? Ultimately he rips the bag in half.
Osprey turns to Moxley and he drops him with a punch.
He has made his decision. There will be no more
death riders for will Ospray. Marina Shafir gets in the
ring and he immediately throws her right out of the ring.
Uda and Garcia they charged him, and Osprey lowbridged them
to the floor. Claudio charged at him. Osprey back dropped
him over the top rope and then he dropped Pack
with a hidden blade, and the death Riders retreated. Ospray
now is looking down at the AW World Championship, which
is laying on the mat in the corner, and he
picks up the belt. Omega pulls himself up to his feet,
and Kenny looks and he finds pieces of the plastic
bag laying on the mat, and so Osprey holds out
the belt. Kenny's got the plastic bag remnants, Like, what
the fuck? He grabs the belt from Ospray. Osprey. Then
he accepts the handshake that Kenny offers him. But then
he leans in and he tells Omega says, from this
moment on, it's about you and me and the two
and them. They go to different corners of the ring
and they're posing and it looks like, yeah, the pay
per view is ending at this point, right, it looks
like the show's going off the air. As Osprey is
posing on the turn buckles in the corner, Omega he
slips underneath him and he delivers a one winged angel
and he drops Osprey down in the back of his
neck and the fans boot this, by the way, actually
boot Kenny Omega for doing this. He picks up the
plastic bag pieces and he's like talking shit and he's
pointing at them, and the young bucks get into the
ring and they're talking to him, like what are you doing?
And they end up posing together and that's how they
go off the air. So let's make one thing perfectly
clear here, because this was this was not a heel turn.
I know, in the moment it kind of felt like,
oh my god, Kenny Omega's going heel, and the fans
did start booing him a little bit, but that's not
what this was. I will also tell you I appreciate
their self restraint only having this main event go twenty
five minutes, which is a big surprise for an aw
pay per view. To let your main event only go
twenty five minutes took a lot of self control by
Tony Kahn Okay and the wrestlers. I am grateful for it.
I'm grateful that the match only went twenty five I
thought for sure they were going forty. Thankfully that didn't happen.
The match itself, I thought was very good, not at
the level of their typical like top pay per view
main events. We've had a lot of great pay per
view matches and great pay per view main events from
this company this year. They're sort of their own worst
enemy in that regard, right, because it's only natural that
as these shows take place, like you may compare and say, oh, well,
this was not as good as that. This was not
as good as that match, and so their reputation on
pay per view is very good. You know, you're gonna
get quality matches up and down these shows most of
the time. And I'm not saying this was not a quality, man,
it was just not up to snuff, you know, from
what you would normally get in a main event spot
here on the show. But as I said before, it
would have been an excellent DYNA my main event. It's
too bad we didn't get it there on this show.
Knowing that the outcome was never in doubt here, it
needed something more. It didn't have that. I mean, it
had the post match angle, but that had nothing to
do with Kevin Knight. We knew coming into this that
Kevin Knight was a great athlete. We knew that maybe
he's a future world champion, right, there was nothing that
I saw from him here in this match. That makes
me feel any different, Nothing that makes me feel any
different than I felt coming into the show. He doesn't
come out of it looking all that much better, he
doesn't come out of it looking worse. He comes out
of it. I think it's almost like he's in the
same exact spot he was in before, except he's the
TNT champion and he just got beat And there's no
shame in losing to Kenny Omega. There's no shame in
losing to the world champion. But I don't know that
he needed to be in this position, and I do
I'm going to assume that if MJF was healthy enough
to work this show, the matches would have been Kenny
Omega against MJF and Darby Allen against Kevin Knight. And
instead they did Darby and Kevin Knight on television this week,
and Kevin Knight just beat him. So plans plans unfortunately
changed for this show as far as the postmatch stuff.
In the end, the message here is that John Moxley
was correct in what he told will Osprey earlier in
the show. This is the biggest opportunity of your life.
You're going into London. You need to be on point.
You cannot be soft, you cannot be friends with people.
You have to have eyes in the back of your head, right,
That was the message he was trying to tell him.
And look what happened, Kenny Omega dumped him on his
fucking head. So the message is that John Moxley was
telling the truth. He knew exactly what he was telling
talking about and he turned out to be right. Right.
You have to be willing to go for the kill shot.
If not, the kill shot will come get you, which
is what happened with Osprey. With Kenny, he told the
doctors after he hit the move, go check on him.
So it was like he was upset about the plastic bag.
That's what he was upset about. I don't know if
he was upset that Osprey almost used it on him
or he took too long to kind of think about
whether or not he should use it on him and
that pissed him off. But I'm going to assume that's
the story we should hear from Kenny on TV this week.
So that's what happened there. But now we have some
real tension between them. And here's the thing I liked
about the angle forget the fucking plastic bag or the
little minute details of what they did. What I like
about it is this, It's very simple. Now we have
some real tension between Omega and Osprey. Heading into this show.
We don't have the brother brother I love you, I
respect you, you know, blah blah blah blah blah fucking
gag me. Okay, like Mick Foley. So we don't have that.
Now we want some real tension. Now we have it.
And I said, John Moxley is going to be the
catalyst to it. I didn't know it was going to
go down exactly the way it did here, but Moxley
was always going to be the one that was going
to cause problems between these two. Osbury made his choice
on this show that he is done with the death
Rider seemingly, but as soon as Kenny saw that plastic bag,
he took umbrage, right, he took offense. How could you
even consider doing something like that to me? I thought
I thought we were friends. I thought we were brothers.
That's going to be the story now coming out of
this show, and we'll see where they take it, where
John Moxley fits into all this. Who's Moxley going to wrestle.
Who's Moxley gonna defend his Continental title against? Are they
just going to run back him? And hangmen, we're Swerve, Right,
There's a lot of questions here that we don't have
answers to. That was another thing about this show. You
could feel that there was some really big names missing
from this card, like MJF, like Hangman, like Swerve, like
Okada Ta Keshta. Right, they were missing. They were missing
a lot of names here on this show. But at
least now we've got a new wrinkle here in this story.
That's a good thing at least. And look, we have
to get the eventual match between Osbrey and Moxley because
not not just because the story dictates it, but because
Will's got to get that win back from Dynasty. It's
gonna happen at some point. So that was the redemption card,
a pay per view that really did not need to happen.
We got some we got some good wrestling, We got
some stuff that I fucking hated on this show. You
know what that is? We went We went over it already.
This is going to end up being at the bottom
of the list this year when it comes to aw
pay per views. This will probably be rock fucking bottom,
at least on my list, it will be. I don't
think I was all that enamored with Forbidden Door, but
I feel like there was more stuff I enjoyed on
that show than I did, and that cage match, to
be fair, that cage match at Forbidden Door, it turned
out to be a lot more fun than I expected
it to be. We didn't have anything like that on
this show. They were parts of the show where I
was fucking bored watching it, so was the crowd. And
then there were just other things on the show that
I just didn't care for, you know, whether it was
some of the stuff we saw in the Jericho match,
whether it was that awful chain match, just not great.
But the stuff that was really good was really good.
So I don't know where it ranks for you guys.
For me, it's somewhere in the middle, but definitely on
the lower side than the higher side. That was the
story of Redemption, and that redemption is in the books.
We don't care about Redemption anymore. Now. It's all about
All In. It's their biggest show of the year five
weeks away, and the card will start coming together very quickly.
Now that there are no more pay per views between
now and then, although we do have the Grand Slam
Show at Arena Mexico coming up on August August fifth,
so we'll see how that goes. All right, Let's take
a look at your super chats and then I will
get you guys on out of here. It doesn't look
like we're gonna hit that likes goal, so it's looking
like a be the Booker free night tonight. Unfortunately, we'll
try again with Raw tomorrow, but let me get through
your messages here. We have Athena versus Maya World at
Wembley Stadium. You know you do that match, you're running
into the same problem with like the bandido thing. Like
Athena really isn't somebody who should be eating L's if
she has this Ring of Honor World Championship that she's
had for like, you know, ten thousand days. But I
also don't want her going in there and beating my world,
so I would actually avoid that match personally. Thank you,
Rectangle Joseph Stewart showing some love tonight, Happy Sunday to
you as well. Appreciate it. Yes, Ryan Gosling is going
to play ghostwriter in the in the New Ghostwriter movie
and my thoughts on Doom and Magneto finally being in
a movie together. It sounds cool. I mean, there were
two of my favorites when I used to collect the cards,
so I think that's okay with me. What are your
thoughts on Dominic Mysterio turning on El Grande Americano last
night at Triple A. I did not see Triple A,
so I have no comments on it. I assume that's
the match at Triple Mania, and El Grande Americano should
win the Triple A Mega title from dom on that show,
and so long as he is the Triple A Mega Champion,
Dominic Mysterio should not be losing the fucking Dan Housen
at SummerSlam next weekend. Do you think Nick Wayne is
going to be a big star and cross No? No,
he's not crossover into Hollywood? Have you lost your mind?
Do you think Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight are going
to be big stars and crossover starting? No? No. Do
you remember w WE had a Cane action figure in
the nineties where you can remove his mask and his
face was burnt. That might be worth something today. I
don't have that myself. I did not see that. I
didn't see those movies, Joseph, so I can't really comment
on Julian's performance in though. Did you see the picture
of both Dallas with Matt and Jeff Hardy at an
autograph signing? I did. He's a free agent. Now he's
a free man. We'll see if he decides to keep wrestling.
And he's got some birthday shout outs for some lovely
ladies and says, I hope you had a great weekend
solo monster. I did, and now it's over, unfortunately, but
thank you, Joseph. Philip Bowman, I mentioned Dark Side of
the Ring last stream, and I just wanted to add
Joe saying he agreed to do the match with necro
Butcher to hang with his girlfriend now wife cracked me up.
It was the best line of the entire episode. I
talked about it in my full Dark Side review on
the sound Off today. Go check it out. He says,
what artists or bands could you personally apply and not
apply the separate art or separate the art from the
artist's mindset to I think there were people that would
say that about Michael Jackson, whose music is iconic and
timeless and great. I think that might. That's probably one
of the better examples that you can think of. I'm
sure everybody will have their own personal favorites though that
they can chime in with. Says. I still enjoy Deftones
guitarist being a flat earther aside, but I'll never listen
to RHCP because of Anthony likes some young Keatis. Yeah,
fuck that guy, Misfit Wrestling podcast with a ten. You
mean to tell me the same? Will Osprey that hit
Kenny Omega with a screwdriver that forbidden door a few
years ago to win the United States Championship, that suffocating
him as going too far? Evidently it is. Evidently it is.
That's right, the dreaded screwdriver Zach the jet first time
chatter here. I gotta be honest, Aw has fumbled Osprey's
character heading into all in with this melodrama stuff with
the death Riders. Well, I mean, this is the bed
that they made months ago, and they decided to go
with this story. They decided to go in that direction.
I'm glad they're actually adding some story to it. Though
I'm not gonna hate on that. I understand the story
they're telling I think it's fairly easy to follow, especially
after what happened tonight, and I'm glad that there is
a story. If this is the match they were gonna do,
you know, two babyfaces with him and Omega. You gotta
create melo drama somehow. At least now we have some.
I'd rather there be some The none boots Lexi Naire,
Oh my goodness, don't let Big Bill hear you. He's
gonna come stomp you out with his boots soon. WWE
will buy Solemn Monster Sounds Off. It will be called
WWE Sounds Off. Never Never Gonna happen. Ben Tucker says
the first time in one of your live shots, Well, welcome, Ben.
You picked a late one. I don't like it when
we go this late, but if it's an aw pay
per view, then you can rest asshirt. We're gonna be
going on late. I usually don't even cover a lot
of these shows because it's it's not worth it to
stay up so late to talk about sometimes, but I
figured this one. It was a new one. They bumped
the start time up earlier, which means maybe it'll end earlier.
Silly me. I mean it ended earlier than Forbidden Door did,
but it's still went five fucking hours. This was the
Tuesday in Texas. Yeah, Tuesday in Texas didn't have ten matches, though,
tux Et Servos is. When I saw your first start time,
I was wondering what you were drinking for the show. Hey,
at least the review started before midnight Central Time. As
always looked forward to the review. I knew the show
was going to midnight. I knew it. I knew it
in my heart. I knew it was going to midnight.
Jersey authentic. These five hour pay per views are not it,
and wwepls are no better. Wwepl e's are largely fucking terrible.
I spoke a lot of weed nine here. He is
add to be the booker. Match has been thrown out
due to insert wrestler rep friends. Insert wrestler comes to
even the score. Teddy Long has made this a tag
team match player. That's not a bad one. Actually, that
wouldn't be a bad one to head. I'll have to
take that under advisement. Eric Dashawan with a twenty a
rare night for me to be up this late, might
as well give you some love so well. I appreciate
that love, and I'm happy that you're hanging out with
us tonight and retro Koah Solomoser just wrote the plot
to the adult video Cactus Sack. That is a video
that should never ever be made, and I hope to
god it never does get made. Yeah, the Mick Foley
thing was fucking weird. Holy shit, was that weird? But
I'm sure you'll get people like, oh, it was funny,
all right, listen. Uh. We had a brand new sound
off that went up early episode nine three, talk about
the busted Open Radio, WWE or WWE radio situation, Summer
Slam predictions, Dark Side of the Ring review. You want
to hear the Lost media That is the Global Force
Gold video audio that Jeff Jarrett recorded many years ago.
You can hear it at the beginning of the SoundOff.
I'm only sorry I didn't find it early enough to
include it in my Dark Side review last week, but
I included it on the SoundOff earlier today, So go
back and check that out. We got a lot of
content coming this week, Raw Post Show, Uncrowned Wrestling Show
on Tuesday, Tuesday Night Titans, the Dynamite fall out to
this pay per view SmackDown, Friday, Summer Slam next weekend.
Oh my god, there's a lot coming up, and I
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I'm gonna get out of here. We'll try again tomorrow.
We'll try to hit the goal tomorrow and do something.
Be the Booker. I had it all revved up and
ready to go. It was ready to go for a spin,
and now it's just gonna sit idle until tomorrow night.
Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of
your night, and I will see you tomorrow night for
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