Speaker 1: Oh man, you know, before I even say a word,
Speaker 1: I actually feel like I owe some of you in apology.
Speaker 1: I really do. I feel like I owe some of
Speaker 1: you in apology because when we were done with Revolution
Speaker 1: and we had John Moxley against Adam Copeland in that
Speaker 1: you know, fucking borfest, at the end of that pay
Speaker 1: per view, I thought, there's no way, there's no way
Speaker 1: that we get to Dynasty and they don't do the
Speaker 1: right thing and change the championship away from John Moxley
Speaker 1: and onto somebody else, that person being Swerve Strickland. Because
Speaker 1: Swarve beat Ricochet, he earned the right to become number
Speaker 1: one contender for this title. Surely, there's no way that
Speaker 1: they are going to drag this out until July, until
Speaker 1: they get to Texas, until they get to all In.
Speaker 1: There's no way, There's no way. I cannot think of
Speaker 1: another storyline in the history of this company in the
Speaker 1: five years that AW is been in existence that has
Speaker 1: just sucked the life out of me in the way
Speaker 1: that this one has. And this is your top storyline.
Speaker 1: John Moxley is the AW World Champion, right we have
Speaker 1: not seen the title since October when he wanted a
Speaker 1: wrestle Dream. It's been locked away in a briefcase. Supposedly,
Speaker 1: we haven't even seen the belt, and the death rids
Speaker 1: come out week after week after week after week after week,
Speaker 1: and it is consistently the worst television that AW puts out.
Speaker 1: It actively drags down the rest of the show. A
Speaker 1: few weeks ago was John Moxley wrestling Adam Copeland in
Speaker 1: a rematch with a fucking board with nails sticking out
Speaker 1: of his back. Why because, oh, I don't fucking know why.
Speaker 1: It's John Boxley. Why does he do the shit that
Speaker 1: he does? We had a revolution last month, which is
Speaker 1: a shame because on so many of these pay per
Speaker 1: views they put out a lot of great wrestling matches,
Speaker 1: right there was some tonight on this show. We may
Speaker 1: have had the greatest triple threat match tonight in the
Speaker 1: history of and yet again for the second straight month,
Speaker 1: it is going to be completely overshadowed by a dog
Speaker 1: shit ending to their pay per view. There was a
Speaker 1: time when AAW, if nothing else, you can rely on
Speaker 1: them for great pay per views top to bottom, beginning
Speaker 1: to end. That was something that they had over the competition.
Speaker 1: They've been very consistent with this throughout their existence. No more,
Speaker 1: no more. And you know what actually pissed me off
Speaker 1: the most. I can't even sit here and tell you
Speaker 1: that it was even just the ending itself that really
Speaker 1: pissed me off the most. What piss me off the
Speaker 1: most is that I'm sitting here and I'm watching this,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, this match is starting, and
Speaker 1: it is ten minutes before the stroke of midnight here
Speaker 1: on the East Coast. They were in Philadelphia for this
Speaker 1: show tonight, so they were on the East coast. I'm
Speaker 1: in the East Coast. It is midnight, and you are
Speaker 1: forcing me here because I've already made it this far.
Speaker 1: You are forcing me here to sit here and watch
Speaker 1: John Moxley defend the AW World Championship in the main event,
Speaker 1: and it is twelve o'clock in the morning. The only
Speaker 1: way that you could salvage this, the only way that
Speaker 1: you can say that this is worth my time, is
Speaker 1: at the end of all of this, Swerve Strickland is
Speaker 1: standing with the AW World Championship held high above his head,
Speaker 1: and we could finally end this long nightmare that we've
Speaker 1: all been in since October of twenty twenty four. That
Speaker 1: is the only acceptable ending to this pay per view
Speaker 1: when you are going until almost twelve thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: and they give us the ending that they gave us
Speaker 1: tonight on a Sunday night. Do you how many people
Speaker 1: were probably in the building tonight, let alone watching this
Speaker 1: at home who have to wake up for work in
Speaker 1: the morning. I might even talking about myself. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about all the other people out there who have to
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning to go to work. And
Speaker 1: the fucking show is still going on, and it's twelve ten, twelve, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twelve twenty, and that is the ending that you give people.
Speaker 1: Tony Kahn doesn't give a shit. That's what came across
Speaker 1: to me at the end of this show tonight. He
Speaker 1: doesn't care. He doesn't care. He books what he wants
Speaker 1: to book. He allows John Moxley to do whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck it is that he wants to do. He thinks
Speaker 1: that the story that he has is legitimately great. That is,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what he believes. He believed it with
Speaker 1: the Elite, he believes it with the Death Writers. He
Speaker 1: thinks this is good. He thinks this is good television.
Speaker 1: He thinks John Moxley and The Death writers are getting
Speaker 1: great heat. He thinks that this is going to generate
Speaker 1: new fans for AW, that this is somehow going to
Speaker 1: bring in new viewers to the television show. This is
Speaker 1: the worst shit that this company has ever produced. And
Speaker 1: I don't even know how this is possible on a
Speaker 1: show where you have a match like Kenny Omega and
Speaker 1: Ricochet and Speedball Mike Bailey, when you have people like Timeless,
Speaker 1: Tony Storm and will Osprey and Hangman Adam Page, how
Speaker 1: is it possible that on the same show you can
Speaker 1: have something like this. I mean, it doesn't even make
Speaker 1: sense to me. It's like two totally different companies fuse together.
Speaker 1: They went off the air at almost twelve thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning, with the Young Bucks making their AW return,
Speaker 1: interfering in the main event and costing Swerve Strickland the
Speaker 1: AW World Championship, and yet again John Moxley steals another win.
Speaker 1: Maybe this time it wasn't because of the Death Riders,
Speaker 1: but he steals another win. And for what? So they
Speaker 1: can drag this out until all in so that now
Speaker 1: we can get the Young Bucks and the Death Riders
Speaker 1: against Swerve and Hangmen and the Ops at anarchy in
Speaker 1: the arena probably a double or nothing. Right, I could
Speaker 1: see it now. They're gonna milk this for all its worth.
Speaker 1: They're gonna milk this like Bessie the fucking Cow until
Speaker 1: we get to Texas, and then maybe I can't even
Speaker 1: sit here and say for sure, maybe at that point
Speaker 1: the winner of the Owen, whoever that is, will go
Speaker 1: on to finally win the aw World Championship. And you
Speaker 1: know what the saddest part is about the entire thing,
Speaker 1: I don't even care. I don't even care, I really don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get upset about this stuff because I
Speaker 1: sit here and I look and I say, how is
Speaker 1: the time management on these shows so fucking awful that
Speaker 1: Adam Cole and Daniel Garcia go out there and they
Speaker 1: wrestle to crickets? Why is it that these shows are
Speaker 1: stretched so long and he feels so compelled to It's
Speaker 1: like trying to shove ten pounds of shit into a
Speaker 1: five pound bag. He feels like he has to just
Speaker 1: overflow these shows with matches, and then you get to
Speaker 1: the point where the crowd fatigue sets in. All right,
Speaker 1: you bring him down, maybe you bring him back up,
Speaker 1: and you bring them back up for what we got
Speaker 1: in the main event tonight. He should be ashamed of himself.
Speaker 1: This company will never learn. They will never learn it's
Speaker 1: embarrassing to have back to back pay per view endings
Speaker 1: like this is a fucking embarrassment. There really is no
Speaker 1: other way to put it. So, yes, John Moxley is
Speaker 1: still your aw World Champion. John Moxley will be going
Speaker 1: on to All In as the champion because at this
Speaker 1: point we're so deep into this shit. There's no fucking
Speaker 1: way he's losing the title before then. So now we
Speaker 1: have to deal with this for a number of months
Speaker 1: longer as the death Writer's story drags out. Now we
Speaker 1: have to wait and see why did the Young Bucks
Speaker 1: do what they did? The Young Bucks haven't been seen
Speaker 1: in months. Why are the Young Bucks here? We'll have
Speaker 1: to tune into the show to find out. I wish
Speaker 1: I could bring myself to actually give two shits, but
Speaker 1: I can't, But I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: Tony Kahn and this company have completely lost the plot,
Speaker 1: absolutely completely just gone goodbye. They if they have it
Speaker 1: learned by now that they'll just never learn. You just
Speaker 1: keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. If
Speaker 1: he's content to do that. That's fine. I do think
Speaker 1: it's offensive to your fans, though, honestly, to have a
Speaker 1: show that goes this late and give them a finish
Speaker 1: like that, that is such a slap in the face
Speaker 1: to the audience that it's almost inconceivable to me that
Speaker 1: this is the same company that has branded itself as
Speaker 1: being fan friendly, and Tony Kann the ultimate fan himself,
Speaker 1: that I have to believe he does this intentionally because
Speaker 1: he wants there to be this kind of reaction. He
Speaker 1: wants people to talk about his company no matter what.
Speaker 1: All publicity is good publicity. If it gets people talking,
Speaker 1: if it gets people emotional about it, right in his mind,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. I genuinely, honestly, I genuinely don't
Speaker 1: see how this can be viewed in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form as any kind of positive for this company.
Speaker 1: Genuinely done. They see this as a long term story.
Speaker 1: By the time John Moxley maybe drops that championship in Texas,
Speaker 1: this story will have been dragged out for nine months.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine nine months of this shit? Nine months?
Speaker 1: It's atrocious and it's gonna cast a shadow over everything
Speaker 1: else now because this is what the discourse is going
Speaker 1: to be for the rest of the week, all about
Speaker 1: that main events, like it was a revolution. The more
Speaker 1: things change, the more they stay the same. They just
Speaker 1: don't learn. And like I said, we had maybe the
Speaker 1: best triple threat match in the history of aw tonight
Speaker 1: with Kenny Omega defending his international title. We have three
Speaker 1: owen Hart Tournament matches. We had a heel turn, not
Speaker 1: only by Tony Kahn but by FTR. Predictable as it
Speaker 1: may have been, we have the heel turn. They turn
Speaker 1: heel on Adam Copeland, took him out of action. We
Speaker 1: probably won't see him for a while. Fine, I really
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. I'm not even in
Speaker 1: the mood to talk about everything else that happened on
Speaker 1: this show. Like I don't even why don't even want
Speaker 1: to talk about some of this stuff. One o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning and I have to talk about this. It's
Speaker 1: a waste of my time. We'll go through this. This
Speaker 1: is Your Dynasty twenty twenty five review. If there's one
Speaker 1: thing I hate, If there's one thing I hate, it's
Speaker 1: investing my time in a wrestling show, especially a four
Speaker 1: and a half hour fucking show. To get that kind
Speaker 1: of payoff at the end. I just I cannot get
Speaker 1: over that. I really can't. And I will say it again,
Speaker 1: the time management on these shows is fucking terrible and
Speaker 1: he has to do something about it. Is it is awful.
Speaker 1: It is awful. It is as bad as I've ever
Speaker 1: seen it in any rest company ever. Seriously, I know
Speaker 1: he doesn't see it as a problem because, oh, it's
Speaker 1: great wrestling matches, right, nobody does pay per view like
Speaker 1: aw True. True, that's not always a good thing. This
Speaker 1: is your Dynasty twenty twenty five review. You know who
Speaker 1: I am. I don't have to tell you. Like and subscribe.
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Speaker 1: if not whatever, Let's get into the zero hour. We'll
Speaker 1: start from the very beginning. We to zip through this
Speaker 1: until we get to that Dogship main event. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna zip right through this. We're gonna start with the
Speaker 1: pre show. They had two matches on the pre show,
Speaker 1: Nick Wayne, Leo, Rush, Action, Andretti. They took on ar
Speaker 1: Fox in Top Flight. Ar Fox doesn't win anything. He
Speaker 1: didn't win tonight either. The other match was Max Castor
Speaker 1: Best Wrestler in the World Open challenge. He's been doing
Speaker 1: this gimmick now for I don't know, a few months now,
Speaker 1: several months now. It's comedy gimmick. So he tried to
Speaker 1: get the crowd going with his chant that he does.
Speaker 1: They didn't cooperate, so he scolded them. He revealed that
Speaker 1: he was wearing a Ben Simmons jersey who used to
Speaker 1: play for the seventy six ers. And no longer does
Speaker 1: lights go out, Lights go out. I'm gonna find out
Speaker 1: who's going to answer this open challenge. And as it
Speaker 1: turns out, actually it was the right call here because
Speaker 1: this was all building to the return of Anthony Bowens.
Speaker 1: So he had new music. He came out, he had
Speaker 1: Billy Gunn with him. He got a great reaction here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Outcomes Anthony Bowens. So they get in the
Speaker 1: ring together. Bowens is in one corner, Castor is in another.
Speaker 1: This did not go very long. This did not even
Speaker 1: last a minute. Anthony Bowens picks up the win over
Speaker 1: Max Castor. It was the right call to make, but
Speaker 1: for a match between two former tag team partners. Okay,
Speaker 1: these two men were former aw Tag Team champions. It's
Speaker 1: kind of weird that they get this first meeting and
Speaker 1: it's over in whatever it was, fifty eight seconds. Maybe
Speaker 1: they'll run it back again, but again pre show stuff.
Speaker 1: Caster's been doing a comedy gimmick. How long was this
Speaker 1: match supposed to go? I said it when they were
Speaker 1: on the precipice of breaking up the claim. They had
Speaker 1: not yet broken up, but they were clearly going down
Speaker 1: that road, and everybody said, oh, Max Caster, Max Caster
Speaker 1: can get a singles run. Well, maybe he can, but
Speaker 1: I was focused on Anthony Bowens. I was focused on
Speaker 1: Anthony Bowens having the higher ceiling of the two of them.
Speaker 1: I think Anthony Bowenes could be a breakout babyface for
Speaker 1: Tony Kahn if you knew what the fuck he was doing,
Speaker 1: And maybe he will. Maybe Anthony Bowens will get lucky
Speaker 1: in the way that Kyle Fletcher has. Kyle Fletcher, they've
Speaker 1: done well by him and he's been established as a
Speaker 1: great heel as part of the Kallis family. Maybe they
Speaker 1: could replicate that with Anthony Bowens on the babyface side.
Speaker 1: But there is definite potential in him as a singles
Speaker 1: babyface to break out on his own. If it were
Speaker 1: up to me, I would start building him up right
Speaker 1: now to compete for the TNT Championship later on in summer,
Speaker 1: So it was good to see him back again. He
Speaker 1: got a great reaction here in Philadelphia, and that was
Speaker 1: the pre show. Now we get into the main card.
Speaker 1: We had the first of three Owenhart Foundation Tournament. I'm
Speaker 1: so fucking pissed at that ending. Uh take a swig here,
Speaker 1: I you know, I just I hate it. I hate
Speaker 1: it when smart people make stupid decisions, and I hate
Speaker 1: it when you have, in this case, a promoter who
Speaker 1: has such little regard for the audience that again they
Speaker 1: would have you sit through a show like that and
Speaker 1: build up everything through a show like that to give
Speaker 1: you a finish like what they did tonight. It's like
Speaker 1: we're back in WWE in twenty nineteen, like some of
Speaker 1: these finishes. Seriously, it's like we're back in the fucking
Speaker 1: dark cages here, right, remember those rants. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's where we are now, and there's no reason for it.
Speaker 1: With Will Osprey against Kevin Knight. Kevin Knight was a
Speaker 1: replacement for Jay White, who unfortunately broke his hand and
Speaker 1: so he was bumped out of the TORNT to legitimate injury.
Speaker 1: He either had surgery or was about to have surgery.
Speaker 1: He was on Collision the other night. His hand was wrapped.
Speaker 1: I think he already had the surgery. So Kevin Knight,
Speaker 1: who just signed with the company, he just debuted, He
Speaker 1: just wrestled Jay White on Collision last week, took his
Speaker 1: spot here in the tournament. Jim Ross joined on commentary
Speaker 1: for this match. He took Tony Shavanni's place. Think about this.
Speaker 1: Up until a few days ago, Kevin Knight didn't even
Speaker 1: didn't even know he was going to have a match
Speaker 1: on this show, let alone a match with Will Osprey
Speaker 1: on pay per view. Quite the come up for him,
Speaker 1: given that he just signed his contract. So of course
Speaker 1: he had lots of big moves here. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to get into the blow by blow, but suffice it
Speaker 1: to say that when this was all said and done,
Speaker 1: will Osprey picked up the win. He demolished Night at
Speaker 1: the end there with a hidden blade. I thought it
Speaker 1: was actually a very good opener. I would say Osprey
Speaker 1: made him look like a million bucks, but I almost
Speaker 1: feel like that would be offensive to Kevin Knight, because
Speaker 1: Kevin Knight more than held his own. I thought that
Speaker 1: he did a tremendous job here. The fans were super
Speaker 1: into this Osprey. He paid respect to him when the
Speaker 1: match was over and tried to put him over there
Speaker 1: a little bit at the end. But for somebody who
Speaker 1: just had his first pay per view match, his first
Speaker 1: big pay per view match here in this company, I
Speaker 1: thought Knight knocked it out of the park. Even though
Speaker 1: he lost. Then everybody knew he was going to lose,
Speaker 1: But I thought he did a fine job here. And
Speaker 1: for the people who didn't know much about him coming
Speaker 1: into this, now they have a better sense of what
Speaker 1: kind of performer he is. If you already knew who
Speaker 1: he was, if you saw him on this New Japan
Speaker 1: punk hater, why does he hate punk so much? What
Speaker 1: did he ever do to him? If you saw him
Speaker 1: in New Japan, or if you saw him on the Independence,
Speaker 1: you know what he can do. And so tonight, just tonight,
Speaker 1: only reinforced what you knew he was capable of. But
Speaker 1: the outcome here was never in doubt. This is this
Speaker 1: is Osprey's torn him into loose. It's either Osprey or Hangman,
Speaker 1: And after tonight, I think it only reinforces the idea
Speaker 1: that this is probably gonna go well. Osprey's way because
Speaker 1: I could see it in their mind that the idea
Speaker 1: may well be to get to Texas and have Osprey
Speaker 1: be the one to beat Moxley, which is a nice
Speaker 1: idea in theory, of course, but July is still a
Speaker 1: ways away. Yeah. The idea is that when you're building
Speaker 1: a story like this, it should be fun. It should
Speaker 1: be fun. I've said this before, right, I talked about
Speaker 1: the lackluster WrestleMania build up until this past week, and
Speaker 1: how you know John Cena. He's not on all the
Speaker 1: shows the Rock. We haven't seen him. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, the fun is really in the journey where
Speaker 1: you're trying to get to your destination. You're trying to
Speaker 1: get to that WrestleMania match. Okay, well what happens in
Speaker 1: the four weeks or six weeks between now and then, right,
Speaker 1: that should be the fun part this Death Riders thing,
Speaker 1: it's missing the fun. Where's the fun? I would like
Speaker 1: to know where it is? For as long as this
Speaker 1: thing has been dragged out for, you would think that
Speaker 1: this is the greatest story they've ever come up with.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing it's missing is fun. Whatever the
Speaker 1: payoff ends up being, whoever it is that's going to
Speaker 1: stand tall at the end of all this victorious over
Speaker 1: the death Riders. To me, it almost doesn't even matter
Speaker 1: at this point. It's like you're beating the life out
Speaker 1: of so many people by failing to see what's right
Speaker 1: in front of your face. So maybe it's going to
Speaker 1: be Osprey. I still think it's his to lose, but
Speaker 1: I thought this was a very good opener for this show.
Speaker 1: We have the Hurt Syndicate against Big Bill and Brian
Speaker 1: Keith for the aw World tag team titles. Not much
Speaker 1: of a match here. It was a means to an
Speaker 1: end to get the MJF spot in to further that story.
Speaker 1: Because he did show up. This was his big role
Speaker 1: on the show. He popped up in the front row,
Speaker 1: so Keith. He wasted no time tagging Bill in. We
Speaker 1: got some back and forth with Bill and Bobby Lashley. Anyway,
Speaker 1: This set up a spot for a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: There was actually a one arm vertical suplex spot from
Speaker 1: Bobby Lashley, which was not the only spot like that
Speaker 1: that we had on the show, but it was the
Speaker 1: first one. So Bill and Lashley they end up outside
Speaker 1: over by the barricade. MJF must have been crouched down
Speaker 1: hiding because he popped up and he had the Dynamite
Speaker 1: Diamond ring on his hand and he walloped Bill right
Speaker 1: in the head with it. This did not make Lashly
Speaker 1: or Shelton Benjamin very happy when they saw what happened.
Speaker 1: But with Brian Keith all alone in the ring, he
Speaker 1: got dropped with a German big spear by Lashly and
Speaker 1: that allowed Benjamin to get the pin to retain the titles.
Speaker 1: This was more like a dynamite match or collision match.
Speaker 1: And this is one of those things I was talking
Speaker 1: about where time management is such an issue on these shows.
Speaker 1: It is such an issue on these show where we're
Speaker 1: not talking about Wressell Kingdom, which happens once a year.
Speaker 1: We're not even talking WrestleMania, which at least is divided
Speaker 1: into two fucking nights. This is every single fucking month
Speaker 1: with these shows. You have these matches that don't need
Speaker 1: to be on here, you have these matches that are
Speaker 1: just there to pad the card. This could have been
Speaker 1: a television match, you know. Originally, supposedly the plan was
Speaker 1: to do the Hurt Syndicate against the Murder Machines, which
Speaker 1: also would have been a television match. Ten minutes here,
Speaker 1: twelve minutes there, seven minutes there. It can make a difference.
Speaker 1: So that's what this match felt like. They just wanted
Speaker 1: to do the MJF angle. If you remember from Wednesday
Speaker 1: lastly made a comment about, you know, MJF, we don't
Speaker 1: really need you unless you can prove your worth or
Speaker 1: why you why we need you? I don't want to
Speaker 1: see you. So this was Mjf's way of showing him, Hey,
Speaker 1: I can be useful. I could be helpful to you guys.
Speaker 1: Wherever the hell this story is going though, beyond that,
Speaker 1: I have no fucking idea. We have Mercedes Monette against
Speaker 1: Julia Hart, current TBS champion against former TBS champion. This
Speaker 1: was a first round match in the Owen Hart Foundation tournament.
Speaker 1: They showed Harley Cameron watching on backstage with her mini
Speaker 1: Monet puppet. As the winner of this match, we'll meet
Speaker 1: the winner of Cameron against the Athena. That's the other
Speaker 1: first round match on that side of the bracket in
Speaker 1: the Owen There was a small slip up early when
Speaker 1: Mercedes she tried to scale the ropes and she slipped.
Speaker 1: She like slipped on the bottom right. It's not like
Speaker 1: she fell on her ass or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: she you know, she had a little slip on the ropes,
Speaker 1: and the fans began to boo. Now it's Philly, so
Speaker 1: the fans are going to boo anyway, and they boot
Speaker 1: fucking san a clause one time. I mean, they booed
Speaker 1: fucking Wheeler, you to who's from Philadelphia, and they bowed
Speaker 1: the shit out of him in his match. But the
Speaker 1: fans started to boo, and Taz on commentary, you know,
Speaker 1: he starts to talk about how uh you know, why
Speaker 1: don't why don't you you fans try it? Like? I
Speaker 1: love how they get so defensive. You ever noticed that?
Speaker 1: Especially in AAW I notice it more in AAW They
Speaker 1: always get so very defensive, right, as if a wrestling
Speaker 1: fans aren't allowed to boo. If you're a wrestling fan
Speaker 1: and you're at these shows, right, It's different if let's
Speaker 1: say a wrestler is standing there and you look them
Speaker 1: dead in the eye and go, you know, you you
Speaker 1: fucking suck, or you know something really like over the
Speaker 1: top like that. But if you're a wrestling fan and
Speaker 1: you go to these shows, boo and sheer for whoever
Speaker 1: and whatever you want, and don't pay any attention to
Speaker 1: this noise, please. So the first half of this match
Speaker 1: was pretty flat, but the fans did get into the
Speaker 1: near falls down the stretch. They were actually really behind
Speaker 1: Julia heart Mercedes wanted three amigos. Hard escaped after the
Speaker 1: second amigo and tried a standing moon salt. Mercedes got
Speaker 1: the knees up, so skipping ahead a little bit, Mercedes
Speaker 1: missed a corner charge. She flew through the ropes to
Speaker 1: the floor. Julia hit a dive to the floor onto
Speaker 1: Mercedes quickly got her back inside and hit a DDT.
Speaker 1: Tried to repeat the move. Mercedes countered into a lung blower.
Speaker 1: Both women were down, so Julia rolls through a monet
Speaker 1: maker gets a jackknife cover only for two, and both
Speaker 1: women made their way back up to their feet. Julia
Speaker 1: got a tarantula in the ropes. Taz gave a shout
Speaker 1: out to Tajiri. Then we got an octopus hold applied
Speaker 1: by Julia. Mercedes collapsed in the corner and sent Julia
Speaker 1: headfirst into the turnbuckle. So she's stomping on Mercedes, stomping
Speaker 1: her on the mat. She goes up top Mercedes, though
Speaker 1: hits the double feet to the face when she comes
Speaker 1: off on the moonsalt attempt kicked her right in the face,
Speaker 1: so we get two backstabbers from Mercedes. Julia fights off
Speaker 1: a third one. Both women traded statement maker and heartless attempts,
Speaker 1: and by this point in the match here there was
Speaker 1: a point here where Mercedes got the statement maker locked on,
Speaker 1: and these fans were solidly behind Julia hart right, they
Speaker 1: were chanting Julia. I mean, unless they were unless they
Speaker 1: were thinking that a different Julia was about to show up.
Speaker 1: You know. It was nice to see that kind of
Speaker 1: support for her here in this match, and she did
Speaker 1: manage to escape into a roll up for a two count.
Speaker 1: Mercedes then used the seat belt pinning combination. We've seen
Speaker 1: Yuda use this before, and she scored the three count
Speaker 1: and she advances to the next round of the tournament.
Speaker 1: They had a couple of rocky moments here, but I
Speaker 1: actually thought it turned into a pretty good match. Definitely
Speaker 1: not the best of the Mercedes matches that we've seen
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Speaker 1: It was nice to see the crowd get behind Juliet.
Speaker 1: If this one thing that I would have changed I
Speaker 1: probably would have had Julia pass out in the statement
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Speaker 1: seat belt. But outside of that, I had no issues
Speaker 1: with this. I thought it was good. This week's episode
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Speaker 1: Death Riders. I didn't think it was possible for me
Speaker 1: to hate a group more than the Aces and Eights
Speaker 1: that had more go away heat with me, but can't
Speaker 1: say that anymore. We had Claudia, we had Pac and
Speaker 1: we had Wheeler. You to defending the aw Trios titles
Speaker 1: against Adam Copeland and FTR. Wheeler Yuda is from Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned before, he got more heat than almost
Speaker 1: anybody else on this show outside of the finish of
Speaker 1: the show. So these people did not like him. They
Speaker 1: booed the shit out of this guy. Nigel McGinnis joins
Speaker 1: on commentary for this and we are told that referee
Speaker 1: Paul Turner drew the assignment despite having issues with Dax
Speaker 1: Harwood in recent weeks. DA's remember he got fined? Was
Speaker 1: it ten thousand dollars? Handed him a check on TV
Speaker 1: the other week? Is that how it works? When you
Speaker 1: get fined, you give the money directly to the referee?
Speaker 1: I didn't know it worked that way. Is that what
Speaker 1: you do in sports? You just give the money to
Speaker 1: the umpire, slip it to him. You know what? Though
Speaker 1: the aces An eights angle was an all dog shit,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of it was, you know, and
Speaker 1: it certainly turned into it. But I could at least
Speaker 1: find certain angles that they did in certain aspects of
Speaker 1: that story that were good. Even their music. I like
Speaker 1: their music. I can't think of anything about the death Writers.
Speaker 1: I like presentation, matches, music, nothing, no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the idea because their heels right, except it
Speaker 1: makes for terrible TV. So anyway, packing Harwood, they got
Speaker 1: a quick exchange to kick things off here. Before Dax
Speaker 1: scrambled out of a brutalizer attempt, Copeland tagged in and
Speaker 1: he quickly got taken over to the death Rider's corner.
Speaker 1: We got some quick tags between Wheeler and Copeland, and
Speaker 1: Harwood ended up joining them. They did a double team move.
Speaker 1: Wheeler ended up getting isolated for a little bit until
Speaker 1: he went to go make the hot tag to Copeland,
Speaker 1: but Harwood jumped in and he stole the tag away
Speaker 1: and he ran wild to no reaction from the crowd.
Speaker 1: Tony Schavanni drove home about how that tag was meant
Speaker 1: for Copeland. Claudio no sold some lariots from Dax. He
Speaker 1: tried to pop up uppercut. Harwood countered into a backslide
Speaker 1: you'd have tried to make the save. Copeland caught him
Speaker 1: in the grindhouse while Harwood trapped Pack and the sharpshooter.
Speaker 1: Claudio had Wheeler in one as well. Harwood and Claudio
Speaker 1: they started swinging at each other while they still had
Speaker 1: their submissions applied, so it got broken up and Claudia
Speaker 1: tags you'd it in. They did the giant swing into
Speaker 1: the dropkick on DACKX. Harwood was able to dodge Claudia,
Speaker 1: who came charging in and he dove for the hot
Speaker 1: tag to Copeland. He drops packed with an impaler DDT
Speaker 1: for a two count. So we had the babyfaces on
Speaker 1: offense here for a little bit. Da wanted a Busaikuni
Speaker 1: and he ran into a shatter machine Pack got planted
Speaker 1: with a spear. Claudioa broke up the count. You'd a
Speaker 1: leap frog to spear. And when he did that, Copeland
Speaker 1: had to stop short because he almost collided with Dax right,
Speaker 1: but he stopped himself. But then he got shoved into
Speaker 1: Dax in the corner and they hit Harwood with a
Speaker 1: Bussiku knee Uda did and the Death Riders got the win,
Speaker 1: and no surprise there. I figured they were going to
Speaker 1: retain here and we were going to have some kind
Speaker 1: of angle when the match was over, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what we got. When the match was over, Death Riders,
Speaker 1: they celebrate. They go through the crowd on their way
Speaker 1: to the back. Wheeler is standing in the ring. Copeland
Speaker 1: offers his hand to help Harwood up because he's down
Speaker 1: on the mat and rated FTR stands tall. Wheeler is
Speaker 1: about to go leave. Right, so it looks like everything
Speaker 1: is okay. Everything is copasetic here with these three, and
Speaker 1: it looks like cash Wheeler is about to leave. Dax
Speaker 1: Harwood has other ideas. He grabs Copeland and he pile
Speaker 1: drives him totally safe, gives him a pile driver. Then
Speaker 1: he goes outside. He grabs two chairs and Wheeler is
Speaker 1: looking at this like, what are you doing, dude? And
Speaker 1: he gets back in the ring with the two chairs.
Speaker 1: He wants to give him a concerto. Wheeler shoved stacks
Speaker 1: down onto his ass and goes back over to check
Speaker 1: on Copeland. But when he goes to help Cope instead,
Speaker 1: he pulls him in for a shatter. Machine and so
Speaker 1: FTR are on the same page. They have officially turned
Speaker 1: on Adam Copeland and then they hit a spike pile
Speaker 1: driver to Copeland onto the chair. Harwood went to go
Speaker 1: finish the job. Wheeler stopped him and said, allow me,
Speaker 1: and he hit the concerto instead. There's a doctor who
Speaker 1: ran into the ring. Wheeler delivered a second concerto for
Speaker 1: good measure. Then he mockingly took the neck brace that
Speaker 1: they brought out for Copeland. He put it on himself
Speaker 1: health and Dax went and gave him started giving him
Speaker 1: chess compressions. Wheeler ripped off the neck brace and told
Speaker 1: the doctor he needs it more than I do. Ftr
Speaker 1: walked to the back. Copeland did a stretcher job. The
Speaker 1: match itself was good. I thought it was a good
Speaker 1: match with the turn that probably everybody saw coming in
Speaker 1: the end. You can't say they didn't telegraph this for
Speaker 1: weeks on television. As far as the heel turned itself.
Speaker 1: You know what I could appreciate from New Day to
Speaker 1: DIY and now FTR. Right, all three of these examples,
Speaker 1: partners who fight together turn heel together. All of these teams, right,
Speaker 1: they've all gone healed in the last few months, and
Speaker 1: they've all stayed together. And the idea that maybe they
Speaker 1: would break up FTR, if some people thought that, is
Speaker 1: so ridiculous. It's just so preposterous, Like can you even
Speaker 1: imagine breaking up Dax in Cash? You honestly think they
Speaker 1: would thrive on their own. They would get pushed on
Speaker 1: their own. They're dead in the water. You're not going
Speaker 1: to split them up. So either they were going heel
Speaker 1: or Copeland was going to go heal so that he
Speaker 1: can partner with Christian as a heel. Instead, they went
Speaker 1: the predictable route, which is fine. They took out Copeland,
Speaker 1: which is also fine because frankly, I think he can
Speaker 1: stand to be off television for a month or two. Now,
Speaker 1: the question is if the direction is Texas Copeland, Christian
Speaker 1: reunite to take on FTR. How do you get there?
Speaker 1: How the hell are you going to get Copeland and
Speaker 1: Christian in the next three months back on the same page,
Speaker 1: especially coming off of Christian and his crew costing Copeland
Speaker 1: the championship not once but twice. I don't know, they'll
Speaker 1: have to figure out a way, or maybe they won't.
Speaker 1: Tony Connell just do it right because he don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck. But whatever happens, that's clearly looking to be
Speaker 1: the direction for Texas. Cope and Christian reunite. They take
Speaker 1: on FTR on that show, and I would hope that Copeland,
Speaker 1: after what we saw in this show, is going to
Speaker 1: disappear for a while because this definitely had the stretcher
Speaker 1: job and everything. This definitely felt like an injury angle
Speaker 1: to get him off TV. We had timeless Tony Storm
Speaker 1: defending the aw Women's World Championship against Megan Bain. After
Speaker 1: Bain's entrance, Justin Roberts introduced us to our feature presentation
Speaker 1: and they showed Tony she was out running the streets
Speaker 1: and training like Rocky fucking Rocky Balboa on the streets
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia. Storm then entered dressed as Rocky Luther was
Speaker 1: with her. He was dressed as Mickey. The trainer Nigel
Speaker 1: McGinnis said that Tony has been drinking eggs and beating
Speaker 1: meat and take that how you want. So Storm tried
Speaker 1: a very quick star Bain though right off the bat
Speaker 1: shoulder tackle, showing her power. She had the power and
Speaker 1: the size advantage. So Luther is tending to Tony on
Speaker 1: the outside. Bain hits a big topey su aceta wipes
Speaker 1: out Luther. Back inside, Penelope Ford trips up Tony. That
Speaker 1: allows Megan to hit a pump kick to regain control.
Speaker 1: Ford got in more shots until finally Luther recovered. He
Speaker 1: ended up carrying Penelope Ford on his shoulders to the
Speaker 1: back and so now Meghan Bain was on her own,
Speaker 1: so that allowed Tony to hit a fes press and
Speaker 1: a DDT out of the corner. Bain avoided Storm zero
Speaker 1: sent Tony into the or onto the apron, where she
Speaker 1: hit a backsupplex from the outside in. Bain took way
Speaker 1: too long going up on the ropes, which allowed Tony
Speaker 1: to recover and hit a nearly disastrous German supplex off
Speaker 1: the ropes. This could have ended very very badly. It
Speaker 1: was a released German supplex. Actually, the fact that Megan
Speaker 1: kind of over rotated, excuse me, over rotated and landed
Speaker 1: on her face is probably what saved her, because she
Speaker 1: could have landed directly on top of her fucking head,
Speaker 1: so that it was a very scary bump. Thankfully she
Speaker 1: was okay. Bain came back connected on a falcon arrow
Speaker 1: for a near fall. Sweet cheek music hits Baine, no
Speaker 1: sells it, so Tony fires off ahead butt three more.
Speaker 1: Sweet cheek Music's in the corner each time. I mean,
Speaker 1: you watch it just looks devastating, like the way the
Speaker 1: head whiplashes and the speed that she comes in at.
Speaker 1: So she whiplashed her three different times. Storm zero connects,
Speaker 1: Bane kicks out of one, and Tony can't believe it.
Speaker 1: She's got a look on her face. What do I
Speaker 1: have to do to beat this woman? So Bain starts
Speaker 1: hitting herself over and over and over again, like she's
Speaker 1: trying to fire herself up. She stands up and she
Speaker 1: clabbers Tony with two lariots and a laggerbomb, and then
Speaker 1: she looked for her fate's dissent finish, which is her
Speaker 1: f five. Storm counters into a small Package gets the
Speaker 1: flash pin and retains the title, and Babe can't believe
Speaker 1: it because she got caught, so she can't believe what happened.
Speaker 1: They showed Tony Storm on the outside. She can't believe
Speaker 1: it either, but she is still the AW Women's World Champion.
Speaker 1: This was a very good match. I enjoyed this, and
Speaker 1: they told a very simple story, you know, coming into it,
Speaker 1: where the challenger had the champion's number. No matter what
Speaker 1: Tony threw at this woman, it wasn't working. She actually
Speaker 1: got pinned by her in a tag team match on
Speaker 1: the show last week. What is she gonna have to
Speaker 1: do right to beat this woman? She's undefeated so far
Speaker 1: in her run in AAW. It was a very simple
Speaker 1: pro wrestling story, and in the end, it's a roll
Speaker 1: up finish that I don't hate. And the reason I
Speaker 1: don't hate the only thing I hate about it is
Speaker 1: the fact that they did the same fucking finish in
Speaker 1: the match with Tony and Mariah when Tony won the
Speaker 1: belt back at Grand Slam, and that was only what
Speaker 1: is it what's today? April seventh, not even two months ago.
Speaker 1: That's how they ended that match with a roll up,
Speaker 1: and so they did the same thing here that I
Speaker 1: don't like. But what it does two things. Number One,
Speaker 1: it protects Megan because it was a clean win, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't a decisive win. It wasn't like she just
Speaker 1: hit Storm zero and Pinder right she got caught. It
Speaker 1: wasn't so much that she beat her as much as
Speaker 1: she survived her. And so it leaves it open for
Speaker 1: a rematch. I don't know if they're going to do
Speaker 1: a rematch. Maybe it doesn't make sense to do a
Speaker 1: rematch because in the rematch, you'll have to beat Megan Baine.
Speaker 1: Maybe they did it this way so they don't have
Speaker 1: to beat Megan Baine in a decisive way. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what their plans are. If they want to
Speaker 1: get one more match out of it at double or nothing,
Speaker 1: maybe with a stipulation. They could certainly do that if
Speaker 1: they want to, But they made the decision. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't want to do a title change. We want
Speaker 1: Tony Storm to be our champion going into All In,
Speaker 1: So when we roll into Texas, she's going to be
Speaker 1: our champion. That's what I got out of this finish tonight,
Speaker 1: Because if they wanted to, they could have gone all
Speaker 1: the way with Megan and had her win. But everything
Speaker 1: they did up until this point indicated that they were
Speaker 1: going to do the exact opposite. As dominant as she was,
Speaker 1: I just found it very hard to believe company that
Speaker 1: they would come into this show and then still have
Speaker 1: her beat Tony. So I didn't hate the finish. They
Speaker 1: tried as best they could to protect Megan, and this
Speaker 1: was her best match so far, so I enjoyed this.
Speaker 1: We had one final Owen Hart Tournament first round match
Speaker 1: with Kyle Fletcher against Mark Briscoe. This is a rematch
Speaker 1: from Collision last month. This was basically it was crazy
Speaker 1: spot after crazy spot to the point where I just
Speaker 1: gotten set, to the point where I just got numbed
Speaker 1: to it. Boy, this guy, really, he really does have
Speaker 1: the best move set, doesn't he. I hear about it
Speaker 1: all the fucking time, move after move after move, kick
Speaker 1: out after kickout. You just kind of get numbed to
Speaker 1: this shit. After a while, Fletcher landed a nasty brainbuster
Speaker 1: on the apron and a proper brainbuster back in the
Speaker 1: ring for two. Briscoe floated over an avalanche brainbuster. He
Speaker 1: wanted a cutthroat driver. Fletcher held onto the ropes. Brisco
Speaker 1: hit froggy bow, only got a near fall. He wanted
Speaker 1: a jay driller, Fletcher spun out of it. Brisco hit
Speaker 1: a cutthroat driver flush Fletcher, though wisely rolled outside. So
Speaker 1: Brisco that's not going to stop him. He goes up
Speaker 1: top and he hits a froggy bow onto a standing
Speaker 1: Fletcher on the outside and then back inside. He tried again,
Speaker 1: but Fletcher got the double boots up. Finally he hits
Speaker 1: the avalanche brainbuster on the top turn buckle and picks
Speaker 1: up the wind. It is a tournament, so of course
Speaker 1: that means Mark Briscoe was going to lose, and lose
Speaker 1: he did, but at least we got some good action
Speaker 1: out of it. They were out there, they were killing
Speaker 1: each other. They were popping off near falls for big
Speaker 1: moves like they were in the fucking main event. And
Speaker 1: this is a prom on all these shows, like some
Speaker 1: of these matches like they're all gonna have near falls,
Speaker 1: but you just you get to that point where it's
Speaker 1: like it's one too many, and I was feeling that
Speaker 1: here in this match. Yeah, they were. They were throwing
Speaker 1: so much at each other and it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: do we really like this match? Do we really need
Speaker 1: to take it to that level? But they did and
Speaker 1: look the crowd. The crowd liked the match. I thought
Speaker 1: they went a little too crazy with it, but another
Speaker 1: good showing for Fletcher that moves him into the next
Speaker 1: round where he will wrestle either Hangman Page or the wildcard,
Speaker 1: whoever the wildcard is going to be. If that person
Speaker 1: beats Hangman, then it'll be that person against Kyle Fletcher.
Speaker 1: We have Chris Jericho. As if I haven't suffered enough,
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho defending the Ring of Honor World Championship here
Speaker 1: on this AW show against Bandido title versus Mask. They
Speaker 1: save this at this point in the show for nearly
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. They gave this nearly twenty minutes on this show.
Speaker 1: And this is one of the things that I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: This is a Ring of Honor World Championship match. Why
Speaker 1: do we need this match on this AW show? Why
Speaker 1: this late in the show? Do we need twenty minutes
Speaker 1: devoted to Chris Jericho defending the ROH World title? Why
Speaker 1: we don't? Yeah, they have a Ring of Honor pay
Speaker 1: per view coming up on May second Supercard of Honor.
Speaker 1: They'll probably just run this back again. There, Bendido went
Speaker 1: over to kiss his mom and sister, who were in
Speaker 1: the front row again as they were for what was
Speaker 1: supposed to be his brother Gravity's match with Chris Jericho
Speaker 1: last month on Zero Hour, Jericho right at the bell,
Speaker 1: Jericho hit a code breaker only got a near fall
Speaker 1: out of it. They did a spot where Bandido did
Speaker 1: a one hand installing vertical suplex, even though we saw
Speaker 1: Bobby Lashley do the same thing earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: but in this case, Bandido did it for a full minute.
Speaker 1: We got a running boot on the apron from Bandido,
Speaker 1: who tried it again, but Jericho scooped him up and
Speaker 1: he power bombed him off the apron and Bandido splatted
Speaker 1: on the floor. And this was such a stupid spot,
Speaker 1: especially after Bandido can cussed himself doing something similar and
Speaker 1: it wasn't even on the floor. It was in the rain,
Speaker 1: that was when he came back on the ROH Show,
Speaker 1: I think it was, and he did the springboard you know,
Speaker 1: dropkick off the top, smacked the back of his head
Speaker 1: on the mat and he was gone again. It's just
Speaker 1: it's such a stupid, unnecessary spot. Jericho grabbed the camera
Speaker 1: one of the TV cameras, and he filmed Bandido's family
Speaker 1: as they were crying in the front row. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they were crying over watching their son and
Speaker 1: brother gets splatted on the floor, or if they were
Speaker 1: just crying because they were sitting there at this point
Speaker 1: for three and a half hours. I don't know. Jericho
Speaker 1: kicked his feet up in the corner. He took a
Speaker 1: breather as Bandido broke the count of fifteen. They reminded
Speaker 1: us on commentary, it's roh rules, so it's a twenty
Speaker 1: count instead of a ten count. Honestly, it should be
Speaker 1: a twenty count for All Wrestling AWWWE, because they already
Speaker 1: do it in New Japan. It really should be a
Speaker 1: twenty count everywhere. Bandido got crouched in the corner as
Speaker 1: Jericho hit ten punches. He tried a Hurricanana. Bandido held
Speaker 1: on to him and he looked for a power bomb. Jericho, though,
Speaker 1: countered with a snap Hurricanana in mid air, so that
Speaker 1: was nice. Jericho again opted to pose, which will allowed
Speaker 1: Bandido to hit a gorilla press slam and a frog
Speaker 1: splash for a two count. Bandido tried another torneo, but
Speaker 1: Jericho got the double knees up for the double down.
Speaker 1: Both men found themselves back to back. They did this
Speaker 1: spot previously and it got over big. They did it here.
Speaker 1: It didn't get over nearly as much. But you know
Speaker 1: the old Western standoff where you go back to back
Speaker 1: and you kind of look back at the other guy
Speaker 1: and then you do the march right ten steps into
Speaker 1: the corner. Only this time Jericho's the heel, so he
Speaker 1: doesn't even wait for Bendido to make it to the corner,
Speaker 1: and he turns around and just attacks him from behind.
Speaker 1: So Bandido recovered. He wanted the twenty one plex, which
Speaker 1: is his finish, and he didn't get the rebound on
Speaker 1: it that he usually gets, so he tried to rebound
Speaker 1: back over and then he just lost his momentum and
Speaker 1: it looked all fucked up. So a little bit of
Speaker 1: a botch there, but Jericho rolled through anyway. It didn't matter.
Speaker 1: He rolled through into the walls of Jericho. Bandido got
Speaker 1: the ropes. As Jericho argued with Bryce Remsburg. Here comes
Speaker 1: Brian Keith, who already got annihilated by the Hurt Syndicate earlier.
Speaker 1: He limps his way back down to the ring. Gravity, though,
Speaker 1: soon follows now. Wherever Jericho goes, gravity follows. So Gravity
Speaker 1: comes down to the ring and he brawls with him
Speaker 1: at ringside, and with the referees attention diverted, Jericho grabs
Speaker 1: his baseball bat and Chris Jericho takes this baseball bat
Speaker 1: and he blasts Bandido in the face with it. Now,
Speaker 1: I know he's got a mask on, but he's not
Speaker 1: the man in the iron mask. Okay, he gets blasted
Speaker 1: in the fucking face with a baseball bat, and Bandido
Speaker 1: is down. So Jericho hides the evidence in between the
Speaker 1: ring steps, and the ring just kind of slides it
Speaker 1: right down in between, and he slowly crawls over and
Speaker 1: he covers Bandido. It felt like this took forever, and
Speaker 1: he still, you know, he covers him, and he's waiting,
Speaker 1: and the referee comes over and the referee counts there
Speaker 1: and Chris Jericho wins the match. He retains the Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor World Championship, And I'm thinking, Okay, you know what,
Speaker 1: as stupid as this is, it's the first unpredictable finish
Speaker 1: that we've had on the entire show, because everything else
Speaker 1: has been predictable up until this point, but we weren't
Speaker 1: done yet. After the match referee Aubrey Edwards, who was
Speaker 1: not the official in the match, she's out there in
Speaker 1: the front road talking to Mama Bandido and Bendido's sister
Speaker 1: and she's talking to them and they're trying to communicate
Speaker 1: to her what happened and where the baseball bat is hidden.
Speaker 1: So they allowed the mom and the sister to enter
Speaker 1: the ringside area to show Aubrey where the bat was,
Speaker 1: and Bryce Remsburg, Aubrey Edwards, and Justin Roberts, they're all conferring,
Speaker 1: and Justin Roberts makes the announcement that this match will continue.
Speaker 1: We are, in fact, not done yet. Jericha reaches through
Speaker 1: the ropes. He grabs Bandido's sister by the hair. She
Speaker 1: slaps him, and that allows Bandido to hit the reverse
Speaker 1: gts and the twenty one plaques, and this time he
Speaker 1: hit it perfectly, and he wins the match, and he
Speaker 1: wins the Ring of Honor World Championship. Tony Schavanni said,
Speaker 1: not often our matches restarted in aw but justice has
Speaker 1: been served. Like he's a sid justice sitting here at ring.
Speaker 1: Tony Shevanni's sitting there with his little fucking bow tie.
Speaker 1: Justice has been served. Technically, this was not an AAW match,
Speaker 1: So if you want to really try to apply some
Speaker 1: logic to it, Yes, typically in AW you would never
Speaker 1: see something like this. When does the referee come out
Speaker 1: to help reverse the decision? Right? Never? But technically this
Speaker 1: was a Ring of Honor match, although I don't think
Speaker 1: they do that in Ring of Honor either. Bandido goes,
Speaker 1: he celebrates with his mom and his sister and with
Speaker 1: gravity as Jericho is left seething. It was not a
Speaker 1: bad match, you know, as Jericho matches go these days,
Speaker 1: It was not a bad match. But there was no
Speaker 1: reason for this to go eighteen minutes. They devoted almost
Speaker 1: twenty minutes to this match here on this show. That
Speaker 1: is just completely fucking ridiculous. I love Bandido, there was
Speaker 1: no reason for this match to go almost twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: And if you really want to make the title change
Speaker 1: feel special, here's my suggestion, do it on a Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor show. This is not Ring of Honor, this
Speaker 1: is AW. You have a Ring of Honor pay per
Speaker 1: view coming up on May second, called Supercard of Honor.
Speaker 1: Do it there? Do it there instead of doing it
Speaker 1: fourth from last on an aw show that didn't need
Speaker 1: this match on here. And it's a ridiculous finish because
Speaker 1: for all of the time we see shit like this,
Speaker 1: like why why now right. It's just one of those
Speaker 1: It's just one of those gaps in wrestling logic where
Speaker 1: it's like why here and not somewhere else? Like that
Speaker 1: one time in WWE, God, I don't remember what show
Speaker 1: it was, where they had the referees checking a monitor.
Speaker 1: They pulled a monitor out, like a small little monitor
Speaker 1: from underneath the ring. Something happened and they got the
Speaker 1: instant replay. It was an Alberto Dell dipshit match. I
Speaker 1: don't remember who he wrestled, but they they you know,
Speaker 1: looked at the monitor and I don't remember if they
Speaker 1: restarted the match or if they reversed the decision whatever
Speaker 1: it was. But I'm watching this and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: they should do this all the time, because they did
Speaker 1: it the one time, and of course they never did
Speaker 1: it again. It's just one of those stupid logic hoals
Speaker 1: that the dumb wrestling logic. But you know, they wanted
Speaker 1: the feel good moment, so they gave Ben Dido the
Speaker 1: feel good moment here. This is what they came up with.
Speaker 1: It was the right call as far as the finish,
Speaker 1: it was the right call to make. As far as
Speaker 1: who over, it was the only call to make. Because
Speaker 1: Bandido was not losing his fucking mask once it became
Speaker 1: title versus mask. He kind of knew who was going
Speaker 1: over here. And I suspect we'll probably get a rematch.
Speaker 1: It's supercard of honor for the people who were gonna
Speaker 1: watch it. And maybe that's where we get the real
Speaker 1: beginnings of a Learning Tree implosion, because I can see
Speaker 1: Big Bill and Brian Keith trying to get involved and
Speaker 1: help Jericho get backfires or it doesn't work, and then
Speaker 1: finally we get the Learning Tree implosion. And here I
Speaker 1: thought the Learning Tree was the worst faction. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: The Learning Tree is not even as bad as the
Speaker 1: Death Riders. You know why, because the Learning Tree, you'll
Speaker 1: get the Learning Tree like a New York Minute, whatever
Speaker 1: stupid segment they're gonna do with Jericho. Thankfully he doesn't
Speaker 1: do the uh what was the segment he was doing
Speaker 1: in the ring. He had a name for it, story
Speaker 1: time with Jerika, whatever the fuck it was. With the
Speaker 1: fucking Tree in the background, you know what, Like you
Speaker 1: get periodic segments like that in the middle of the show,
Speaker 1: and it's like whatever, it's not the main event. It's
Speaker 1: not the World Championship, at least not an AW so. Actually,
Speaker 1: the Death Riders have long passed the Learning Tree as
Speaker 1: the worst faction in this company. That's tough. I mean
Speaker 1: that takes some real effort. There. By the way, since
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Jericho, I should mention this, this is
Speaker 1: kind of timely. I don't know if you noticed. Jericho
Speaker 1: is in a contract year. I believe his contract may
Speaker 1: be up later this year. If not, it's not up
Speaker 1: in the too distant future. And he was at some
Speaker 1: sort of wrestle fest or convention or some kind of event,
Speaker 1: and he was asked by a fan if he would
Speaker 1: ever consider returning to WWE now the Vince McMahon is
Speaker 1: no longer there, and his answer was sure, I would
Speaker 1: have considered it even before. And he talks about, you know,
Speaker 1: everything we've done to really build up AW from the
Speaker 1: very beginning and being a part of that and the
Speaker 1: growth of this company. He's really putting over AW But
Speaker 1: he's like, sure, now I'm pretty sure. He's been asked
Speaker 1: similar questions in the past and has had different answers,
Speaker 1: but now it's like, oh yeah, sure, of course I
Speaker 1: would consider it. Of course he'll be back. He'll be
Speaker 1: back in the hall. Let invite him to the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame one day. He'll he'll be back. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I want that. I'm just saying very interesting the
Speaker 1: timing of his answer. Either that or he's very strategically
Speaker 1: putting that out there so when negotiations come up he
Speaker 1: can get more money. He's not a dumb person. We
Speaker 1: had Adam Cole against Daniel Garcia for the TNT Championship,
Speaker 1: no time limit, no interference allowed. The crowd for this
Speaker 1: was completely burned out, totally burned out. They needed a
Speaker 1: basic a break before the next two matches coming up
Speaker 1: after this. This was it. This was the break. This
Speaker 1: was the come doown. This was the time where you
Speaker 1: take a nap right to recharge and then you wake up.
Speaker 1: This was nap time for many of the fans here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Cole wanted a Panama Sunrise off the apron.
Speaker 1: Garcia dodged it. Cole came up limping and he is
Speaker 1: selling the leg it might have been the surgically repaired leg.
Speaker 1: Referee never had time to check on Cole before Garcia
Speaker 1: flew in with a shotgun dropkick started stomping on the
Speaker 1: knee the moment Cole got an opening, though he hit
Speaker 1: a fireman's carry neck breaker on his good knee. Cole
Speaker 1: tried the Panama Sunrise again. Garcia rolled through, nearly got
Speaker 1: the Dragon Tamer, but settled for a lariat that turned
Speaker 1: Coal inside out, so Garcia connected on a twisting Gotch
Speaker 1: style pile driver. Garcia blocked a super kick into an
Speaker 1: ankle lock. Cole, though rolled to the floor. Garcia followed,
Speaker 1: he sent crashing into the ring steps. But as Garcia
Speaker 1: was posing he was a little two cocky here during
Speaker 1: this match. As he was posing that little delay, it
Speaker 1: allowed Cole to hit a neck breaker on the knee
Speaker 1: while both were standing on the steps. Panama Sunrise hit
Speaker 1: off the apron. Cole went to go lower the boom
Speaker 1: back in the ring, but Garcia collapsed and Garcia nearly
Speaker 1: tricked Cole with an inside cradle. But as both of
Speaker 1: them got up, Cole's leg buckled and Garcia hit a
Speaker 1: Panama Sunrise of his own. Garcia lowered the boom on Coal,
Speaker 1: but Cole kicked out and a very visibly frustrated Daniel
Speaker 1: Garcia he slammed Cole's leg repeatedly down against the mat,
Speaker 1: but he had second thoughts when he was trying for
Speaker 1: another pile driver. Garcia went for an avalanche pile driver.
Speaker 1: This of course goes back to his feud with MJF
Speaker 1: last year. MJF did the same thing to him. Cole
Speaker 1: fought out of it though hit Panama Sunrise. Cole went
Speaker 1: to the other side of the ring. He had second
Speaker 1: one before lowering the boom and winning the TNT title.
Speaker 1: And after the match, Cole offered his hand to Garcia,
Speaker 1: who accepted the handshake and he gave Cole the ring
Speaker 1: all to himself. I just I couldn't get into this.
Speaker 1: This did nothing for me. The work. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: work was solid, it was fine. I don't care. I
Speaker 1: couldn't bring myself to care about this. This was a
Speaker 1: necessary title change, though, because the Daniel Garcia run very underwhelming,
Speaker 1: not doing any favors for the TNT title. There's just
Speaker 1: there's no life to it. There's no life, there's no spark,
Speaker 1: and I feel like Garcia is going to be better
Speaker 1: in chase mode as a baby face anyway than he
Speaker 1: is having like a long title reign. So just to
Speaker 1: shake up things with the TNT title picture, and frankly,
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of other people on this
Speaker 1: roster that I think could benefit from holding that championship,
Speaker 1: it was time to transition it away from him and
Speaker 1: onto somebody else. So I'm glad they did the title change.
Speaker 1: What I would do, I said this earlier. I would
Speaker 1: really start now that he's back. I would really start
Speaker 1: pushing Anthony Bowens very hard because I really think he
Speaker 1: could be a baby face that people rally behind, and
Speaker 1: I would start building him up now for an eventual
Speaker 1: match or program for the TNT title with the idea
Speaker 1: of eventually putting that title on him. Try to make
Speaker 1: a new star start. Now, That's what I would do.
Speaker 1: We have Kenny Omega, Rickoshet, Speedball, Mike Bailey for the
Speaker 1: International Championship on a night that is going to be
Speaker 1: remembered for something very different. This right here was like
Speaker 1: the Shining Beacon, and if the crowd was dead during
Speaker 1: the last match, which they were, they woke up for
Speaker 1: this one. Rickoshet immediately bailed, so Omega and Bailey they
Speaker 1: were able to start. He's like, you guys, go ahead.
Speaker 1: So when they all ended up on the outside a
Speaker 1: short time later, Rickoshet got paint brushed back and forth.
Speaker 1: He was getting smacked on top of the bald head.
Speaker 1: People were popping for it. They were kind of taking turns.
Speaker 1: Omega wanted a you can't escape on Bailey, who in
Speaker 1: fact escaped, allowing Bailey to drape Omega over the barricade.
Speaker 1: So he's he's kind of hanging over the barricade right
Speaker 1: like right over his midsection, and Bailey wanted the Moonsalt
Speaker 1: double knees. He climbs up on top of the barricade.
Speaker 1: He's gonna do those fucking moon Salt double knees on
Speaker 1: top of the barricade, like right across the lower back.
Speaker 1: Ricochet stops him and he hits He gets up on
Speaker 1: the barricade and he hits a rolling death valley driver
Speaker 1: and he dumps Bailey on top of Omega, like right
Speaker 1: across the ribs and the lower back. So, with Omega
Speaker 1: left to recover, Ricochet starts trash talking the crowd. He
Speaker 1: puts the boots to Bailey and while trying to keep
Speaker 1: Omega at bay. Ricochet wanted his Northern Lights into a
Speaker 1: brain buster, but Omega returned and we got a neck breaker.
Speaker 1: DDT combo spot Tope Suasieda took out both mena on
Speaker 1: opposite sides of the ring before ricksh grabbed Tony Shavanni's headset,
Speaker 1: grabbed it right off his head and he started gloating.
Speaker 1: He starts talking shit into the headset and out of
Speaker 1: nowhere incomes Mike Bailey's foot and it cracks Ricochet right
Speaker 1: in the side of the head. And then Bailey takes
Speaker 1: the headset, which wasn't even working now because it got
Speaker 1: all fucked up, but he took the headset and he
Speaker 1: was politely apologizing to Shavanni before hitting a missile drop
Speaker 1: kick back inside on Ricochet. Omega was back in for
Speaker 1: the uchant escape, but Bailey dodged the moon salt, Ricochet
Speaker 1: flew in he missed the lion salt. Bailey meanwhile nearly
Speaker 1: pinned both men with a double crucifix pin while Omega
Speaker 1: did a double backslide for two. Everybody popped up, only
Speaker 1: to deck each other with high kicks. We got a
Speaker 1: triple down and at this point, the crowd burst into
Speaker 1: chance of this is awesome. With Bailey and Ricochet down
Speaker 1: on the floor, Omega got the crowd all amped up
Speaker 1: with a terminator dive on both. Then it was Ricochet's
Speaker 1: turn to fly. He did a Fosberry flop as he
Speaker 1: went for a baseball slide. Bailey dodged, sprung up and
Speaker 1: hitting Asai Moon Salt in the ring. Speedball's time adventure
Speaker 1: destroyed Omega and he may have had the match one,
Speaker 1: but before the referee could count three, fucking Rick Knox,
Speaker 1: Ricochet kind of dragged him to interrupt the count. So
Speaker 1: now a pissed off Mike Bailey went after Ricochet on
Speaker 1: the floor. He beat him up on the apron. Bailey
Speaker 1: tried his Moonsalt double knees he missed, and his knees.
Speaker 1: My god, this guy's knees. They slammed hard onto that apron.
Speaker 1: That was not a soft landing. So Rick Knox now
Speaker 1: is outside checkuse he's selling the knees and Rick Knox
Speaker 1: is checking on him. Ricochet shop block Bailey, and in
Speaker 1: so doing he also clipped Rick Knox, who was not
Speaker 1: supposed to get clipped. I don't mean in that way.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a bad referee, but I mean I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take it to that extreme. So he got clipped,
Speaker 1: but he no sold it because he wasn't supposed to
Speaker 1: killing Rick Knox. Here, Ricochet fought with Omega up on
Speaker 1: the ropes. Bailey came back with a wild just a
Speaker 1: wild avalanche poison rauna on Ricochet, but instead of making
Speaker 1: the pin attempt, he went to Omega and even taz
Speaker 1: on commentaries like dude, like what are you doing? Like
Speaker 1: you can get the wind, just go over there. He
Speaker 1: goes to Omega, who dropped the bottom out on Bailey
Speaker 1: and hit a snap dragon. Omega stacked Bailey onto Ricochet
Speaker 1: and hit a double snap dragon that had the crowd
Speaker 1: going wild. They were going ape shit for that, so
Speaker 1: Omega delivered v triggers to both. Bailey got launched from
Speaker 1: the ring during his Ricochet countered the one winged Angel,
Speaker 1: Omega countered vertigo. Bailey dodged a one winged angel as well,
Speaker 1: hit a back heel kick, and they tease the back
Speaker 1: to how Rikoshe and Bailey won their match. If you
Speaker 1: remember the finish, they did like the double pin, so
Speaker 1: they basically did the same spot again, Ricochet gets his
Speaker 1: feet on the ropes. This time though there was a kickout.
Speaker 1: Ricochet wanted a power bomb in Omega, who sent Ricochet
Speaker 1: tumbling outside, and Bailey missed his ultimate weapon, screaming in pain.
Speaker 1: That allowed Omega to sinking a kneebar. Ricochet flew in
Speaker 1: with a springboard four fifty on. Omega only got two.
Speaker 1: Ricochet hit Vertigo. Bailey kicked out though, and Rikoshet couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. Bailey fought to his feet and he struck
Speaker 1: the karate kid crane pose, which I'm not going to
Speaker 1: replicate for you right now, but he did the crane
Speaker 1: pose and then he booted it and Ricochet is like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing, dude, Like that's only in the movies.
Speaker 1: And then Bailey booted the fuck out of him right
Speaker 1: in the face, just boot it, booted him right in
Speaker 1: the right in the jaw. I mean, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: Ralph Manchio would be proud. I'll say that much Bailey
Speaker 1: hits the ultimate weapon, Omega, they'll flew in with the
Speaker 1: V trigger. And then he wanted a one winged angel. Ricochet, though,
Speaker 1: broke it up with a poison rana on Omega. Ricochet
Speaker 1: wanted an Avalanche Vertigo. Omega joined them Avalanche one winged
Speaker 1: Angel to Ricochet because they're all on the ropes at
Speaker 1: this point. But he gives Ricochet and Avalanche one winged
Speaker 1: Angel and as they come off, Bailey is in the corner.
Speaker 1: He falls backwards and now he is upside down. He
Speaker 1: is trapped. His leg is trapped in the tree of Woe.
Speaker 1: And Omega he's right there and he's pinning Ricochet and
Speaker 1: all Speedball can do. He's kind of grabbing at Ricochet's leg,
Speaker 1: but he can just barely touch him. There's nothing he
Speaker 1: can do, and the referee counts three. Kenny Omega pins
Speaker 1: Ricochet to retain his international championship. After the match was over,
Speaker 1: we hear the coin drop out walks the continental champion
Speaker 1: who had no match on this show. He was in
Speaker 1: a suit, Kazuchka Okada. He walks down to the ring.
Speaker 1: As soon as he makes his way into the ring,
Speaker 1: Omega leaves like a heel. That's what a heel would do.
Speaker 1: He leaves the ring. He walks to the back and
Speaker 1: that was it, and Omega and Okada's standing there and
Speaker 1: that he leaves, so nothing happened here. But basically it
Speaker 1: was kind of a callback to when Kenny came back,
Speaker 1: and he also kind of came out he confronted Okada.
Speaker 1: That was the first tease of doing something in Texas
Speaker 1: at all. In so I guess this was Okada doing
Speaker 1: the same thing to him this match here. You know,
Speaker 1: I talk about the Jericho match going almost twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: They gave this match almost half an hour or maybe
Speaker 1: even a little more. It was like thirty minutes, thirty
Speaker 1: one minutes. I think they could have stood to shave
Speaker 1: five or six minutes and some near falls off this match.
Speaker 1: That's the only critique. That's really the only kind of
Speaker 1: like minor critique I would have about it, because it
Speaker 1: was just it was such a great match, and off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, I mean, I'm sure I
Speaker 1: must be missing a few. There was a great triple
Speaker 1: threat match at Wrestle Dream. It was last year with
Speaker 1: will Ospray, Ricochet and Kenowski Takeshna. There there was another
Speaker 1: great triple threat I don't remember offhand who was in it.
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Speaker 1: excellent match. This right here was the best thing on
Speaker 1: the entire show. Excellent stuff all around. I mean it
Speaker 1: got to showcase speedball style perfectly. Ricochet was doing ricochet things,
Speaker 1: and we know what Omega can do. So you take
Speaker 1: all three, it's impossible for them to go in there
Speaker 1: and not have a great match. But there's styles, you know,
Speaker 1: they complement each other very well. Speedball will thrive here
Speaker 1: like this. This is his environment. That's why I said,
Speaker 1: Like when I first read that he was coming to
Speaker 1: AW and not WWE, I said, you know what, that's
Speaker 1: the right place for him. I just think with his style,
Speaker 1: it just fits better here and matches like this show wide.
Speaker 1: So if there's one thing that you should go out
Speaker 1: of your way to watch on this show, this would
Speaker 1: be it. And if this show ended right here, my
Speaker 1: attitude about this show would be very different. It's too
Speaker 1: bad unfortunately it didn't end there. It should have, because
Speaker 1: four years later it was finally time for the main
Speaker 1: event with John Moxley defending the AW World Championship against
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland. One year to the event to the very
Speaker 1: event where Swerve won his first AW World title, and
Speaker 1: Swerve came out here he was dressed as Static Shock.
Speaker 1: That's what ex Caliber told us. Moxley came out dressed
Speaker 1: as John Moxley, which is unfortunate and so we got
Speaker 1: the big intros as they do for the big championship matches,
Speaker 1: and then it was time for the match, and they
Speaker 1: had a wrestling match, which you know what is Actually
Speaker 1: it's a nice contrast to what we sometimes get with
Speaker 1: John Moxley, although down the stretch we got ladders in bullshit.
Speaker 1: So after a while we actually did get the usual
Speaker 1: Moxley match. But they were doing some actual wrestling here
Speaker 1: at the beginning. But then Moxley dump Swerve over the
Speaker 1: announced desk. This was maybe I don't know, five or
Speaker 1: six minutes in ex Caliber got knocked down Moxley and Swerve.
Speaker 1: They were underneath the table together for a while, and
Speaker 1: then after a while Swerve comes up and he's bleeding.
Speaker 1: He was bleeding from the side of his forehead and Moxley,
Speaker 1: now of course, is doing Moxley things, so he is
Speaker 1: biting at the bloody wound, throwing punches at the cut.
Speaker 1: Moxley got Swerve on top of the ring steps and
Speaker 1: gave him a DDT and the referees count got all
Speaker 1: the way to nine before Swerve rolled back inside the ring.
Speaker 1: Moxley gave Swerve a pile driver. He covered him for
Speaker 1: two and at that point I just wrote in my notes,
Speaker 1: I said, we are past midnight Eastern on this show,
Speaker 1: and we really we were just getting started here and
Speaker 1: we were already past midnight, and I'm thinking, Man, this
Speaker 1: better go the way that I hope it goes, because
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, a lot of people are going to
Speaker 1: be very unhappy. Moxley transitioned into a cross arm breaker
Speaker 1: and then a triangle. Swerve eventually powered up Moxley. He
Speaker 1: slammed him to the mat to break the hold. Swerve
Speaker 1: went to go roll into a move, Moxley caught him
Speaker 1: with a cutter. Moxley set up for a death rider Swerve,
Speaker 1: though avoided it, and Moxley avoided a vertebraker attempt and
Speaker 1: then took Swerve down and caught him in a bulldog choke.
Speaker 1: Swerve got to his feet, he rolled out of it
Speaker 1: and then rolled into a flat liner. Swerve hit the
Speaker 1: house call kick and then backed up and he was
Speaker 1: setting up for another one, but Moxley turned him inside
Speaker 1: out with a clothesline when he came in. Swerve did
Speaker 1: eventually hit a house call kick again. So now Marina
Speaker 1: Shaffir gets into the ring and she's got the briefcase
Speaker 1: that supposedly has the aw World Championship inside. She gets
Speaker 1: in the ring with the briefcase. She's looking at Swerve.
Speaker 1: The referee yells no, and I think he ejected her
Speaker 1: from ringside. Prince Nana gets into the ring and he
Speaker 1: got in Marina's face. He turned around to go walk
Speaker 1: away and she clabbered him in the back with the briefcase.
Speaker 1: Moxley went for a cutter on Swerve, but he shoved
Speaker 1: Marina into the line of fire and she ended up
Speaker 1: taking the cutter instead. Swerve then hit Moxley with his
Speaker 1: own paradigm Shift only got a near fall. So at
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen in the morning, what does John Moxley do.
Speaker 1: This fucking guy goes outside the ring and now he's
Speaker 1: pulling a ladder out from underneath the ring. Pulls out
Speaker 1: this ladder, tall ladder two and he sets it up
Speaker 1: over by where he had pulled out the I say
Speaker 1: pull out, like the ring steps that were over by
Speaker 1: where the announcers are earlier when he dedted Swerve, he
Speaker 1: had just kind of pulled him out right. So in
Speaker 1: that area over there, next to where the Spanish announced
Speaker 1: desk would be, he sets up this ladder and he
Speaker 1: places Swerve on one a Swerve is like half dead.
Speaker 1: He props him up and he places him on one
Speaker 1: side of the ladder, and then he goes around to
Speaker 1: the other side of the ladder and he begins to
Speaker 1: climb up with the idea that he it looks like
Speaker 1: he's going to supplex him over onto the Spanish announced desk.
Speaker 1: Swerve stuffs the attempt though, right he blocks it, and
Speaker 1: what ends up happening is he gets in position for
Speaker 1: a Swerve stomp as Moxley is holding onto this ladder.
Speaker 1: Swerve is above him and he comes diving off with
Speaker 1: a double foot stomp and he puts Moxley through the
Speaker 1: table down below with a Swerve stomp and everybody, everybody
Speaker 1: loves that, right, big spot. Fine. Eventually they ended up
Speaker 1: back in the ring and the match went on, so
Speaker 1: it's it's not like it led to the finish, it's
Speaker 1: just it's another spot. So they end up back in
Speaker 1: the ring and they're slugging it out. Marina Shaffir comes back.
Speaker 1: She sends a chair into the ring. Moxley takes the
Speaker 1: chair and he launches it at Swerve, who ducks, and
Speaker 1: the referee gets blasted in the fucking face with the chair.
Speaker 1: So we got our ref bump. Now you know the
Speaker 1: fuckery is coming. Referee goes down, Paul Turner, right, he's out.
Speaker 1: Swerve follows with a vertebraaker to Moxley. Of course the
Speaker 1: referee is down, here comes the cowboy. And I'm visualizing
Speaker 1: this in my head and I'm saying, all right, I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to say that this
Speaker 1: is definitely gonna happen, but man, this right here would
Speaker 1: make for a great ending to this show if it
Speaker 1: goes the way that I think it's going to go,
Speaker 1: which is based on what they did on Wednesday, when
Speaker 1: Swerve admitted, you know what, I got what I deserve
Speaker 1: when you burn my house down. You're right, I deserved it,
Speaker 1: and Hangman looked like holy shit, like he wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: that answer. And I'm looking at this and I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, you want to set up the perfect ending
Speaker 1: to this show. You have the death Riders come out,
Speaker 1: you have all the usual bullshit. Swerve Strickland is. It
Speaker 1: looks like he's going to get fucked over, right or
Speaker 1: maybe not. Maybe he fights back, makes his own comeback
Speaker 1: and he's about to win, because it works either way.
Speaker 1: Here comes Hangman page and it looks like Hangman is
Speaker 1: going to deliver on his promise when he said, look,
Speaker 1: you will never again Bedaw world champion. But now he's
Speaker 1: having second thoughts. Now he's having doubts, and so he
Speaker 1: backs off or he can help fight off the death Riders,
Speaker 1: but he goes crazy. Swerve wins the title. You get
Speaker 1: your happy ending, and the death Riders are no more,
Speaker 1: or at least they're bumped down the cart. Right. It's
Speaker 1: great for all involved. That's what I was hoping we
Speaker 1: were about to get. As soon as I saw him
Speaker 1: coming down to the ring. He gets on the apron
Speaker 1: and Moxley is getting to his feet. Swerve is getting
Speaker 1: to his feet, and he's looking at both of them
Speaker 1: like he's evaluating the situation to see who am I
Speaker 1: going to go after? Who am I going to attack?
Speaker 1: As this is happening, here come the death Riders. They
Speaker 1: attack hang Man, they get him in the ring, they
Speaker 1: hold him for the Bussycu knee. Here comes Wheeler, fucking
Speaker 1: Yudah with the Bussycu knee, but he sidesteps it and
Speaker 1: instead he hits Claudia with the knee pack gets sent
Speaker 1: out of the ring. Page drops Moxley with a dead eye.
Speaker 1: Here come the ops. Remember the ops were there, Samoa
Speaker 1: Joe and hook and cuts you or a shabata. They
Speaker 1: were just there. They were hanging around all night. So
Speaker 1: the ops run out and they're brawling with the death
Speaker 1: riders in the ring. Swerve launches a chair at Moxley's head,
Speaker 1: knocks him down. He drags him to the corner. He
Speaker 1: begins the slow descent or acent I guess up top.
Speaker 1: People are going nuts because they're thinking, okay, here we go,
Speaker 1: here it comes, here's the finish. Our long national nightmare
Speaker 1: is about to end. Goes up to the top. He's
Speaker 1: taking his time too, but he comes off and he
Speaker 1: hits the Swerve stop but he can't make the cover,
Speaker 1: like he's favoring his knee, and Moxley's there. He's over here,
Speaker 1: and he's slowly trying to like pull himself and crawl
Speaker 1: over towards Moxley to make the cover and grabbing at
Speaker 1: his knee, and all of a sudden, the lights go out,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, motherfucker, now what. And honestly, the thud
Speaker 1: did not occur to me to think of these two fuckers,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, who the hell, Who the hell is
Speaker 1: it gonna be? Right, there's gonna be somebody new, There's
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody I'm not thinking of. The lights come
Speaker 1: back on, and what do we see in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ring. The Young Bucks, Matt and Nick are
Speaker 1: in the ring. Each has a hold of Swerve's wrist
Speaker 1: and they have him set up for the BTE trigger
Speaker 1: and they destroy him and then wipe him out with
Speaker 1: the BTE trigger. The Young Bucks leave the ring. They're
Speaker 1: acting all tough. Nick Jackson spits his gum out at
Speaker 1: the cameraman John Moxley in the ring. He's recovering, the
Speaker 1: referee is recovering. He crawls over and he covers Swerve.
Speaker 1: The referee counts three and John Moxley once more has
Speaker 1: retained the aw World Championship. And I sat here, you know,
Speaker 1: when I saw this finish, there was a moment of
Speaker 1: shock because I didn't think that they had the fucking
Speaker 1: balls to do this finish. Call it balls or just
Speaker 1: fucking stupidity, call it whatever you want to. I thought
Speaker 1: they were smarter than that, especially after what they gave
Speaker 1: us last month. But they did it, and so you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of absorb it for a minute, like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: they actually did it. They fucked up. They fucked up
Speaker 1: the finish of this pay per view for a second
Speaker 1: time and threw away so many great possibilities of how
Speaker 1: they could have set things up going into Texas. So
Speaker 1: they do this finish. Obviously, the fans are very upset.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and I'm looking at it at the time,
Speaker 1: and again, I'm most appalled by the fact that this
Speaker 1: show has dragged on for so long and they made
Speaker 1: you wait for the main event for that, Like it's
Speaker 1: one of the biggest slaps in the face. It really is.
Speaker 1: And now I'm just like kind of stunned, and I'm laughing.
Speaker 1: I started laughing a little bit. I'm like this, this
Speaker 1: is just unbelieve. It's like a spectac This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: How fucking dumb are these people? How could people who
Speaker 1: are supposed to be reasonably intelligent be so fucking stupid?
Speaker 1: But here we are, and that is how they go
Speaker 1: off the air. Now I can see it from their perspective.
Speaker 1: They're probably looking ahead and they've got all these story
Speaker 1: ideas about how you know Swerve and Hangman are gonna
Speaker 1: end up being tag team partners, right, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: Swerve and Hangman maybe in Texas in a tag team
Speaker 1: match it all in against the Young Bucks, or even
Speaker 1: before that at double or Nothing next month. You know
Speaker 1: we're gonna get anarchy in the arena and all these people,
Speaker 1: the Ops and the Death Riders and Swerve and Hangmen.
Speaker 1: These are your teams right here, right, these are your teams.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll even get a blood and guts match out
Speaker 1: of it, right, we know they love their blood and guts,
Speaker 1: so like this is this is what they're planning for,
Speaker 1: and all roads lead to Texas, and then maybe they
Speaker 1: will transition the championship away from John Moxley, very likely
Speaker 1: to Will Osprey, who I think has to be the favorite,
Speaker 1: even more than Hangman has to be the favorite to
Speaker 1: win the Owen. And yes, in the moment when it
Speaker 1: finally happens and he gets the pinfall and they get
Speaker 1: that wide shot, everybody's gonna be cheering, everybody's gonna be happy.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be this great moment, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: sitting here and I hope I feel the same way.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be sitting here thinking, you know what,
Speaker 1: this doesn't hit in the way that it should. They
Speaker 1: could have been doing something else. They could have had
Speaker 1: will Osprey against this guy, Swer of Strickland against that guy,
Speaker 1: anything but what they are about to do because of
Speaker 1: this shit sucks. This is fucking terrible, and yet we
Speaker 1: drag on for another month and another and another and another,
Speaker 1: and it really does, you know, in terms of this
Speaker 1: main angle that we have right now in this company,
Speaker 1: it really does feel like the Dark Days. It really does.
Speaker 1: There have been some terrible factions and terrible storylines in
Speaker 1: wrestling history, and where this one ranks. Who the hell knows.
Speaker 1: We're still in the middle of it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in ranking. But I could just watch
Speaker 1: the show and know when something is actively dragging down
Speaker 1: my enjoyment of the show. And I know I'm not
Speaker 1: the only one. I know I'm not the only one
Speaker 1: because I see the comments, I get the emails, I
Speaker 1: see the tweets. For every one person who may enjoy
Speaker 1: this shit, there's fucking seven who don't. And it's terrible
Speaker 1: because you look at all of the talent that they
Speaker 1: have on this roster right now. I mean, they are
Speaker 1: stockpiled with talent. Talent is not the issue. The talent
Speaker 1: is there. The talents are just begging to be utilized
Speaker 1: in the right way. And the fact that this is
Speaker 1: their chief storyline, this is their top storyline. This man
Speaker 1: won the championship in October and this is going to
Speaker 1: drag on into July. I just I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Is there nobody there who could communicate to this man,
Speaker 1: but this is a bad idea, and maybe we should
Speaker 1: pivot and go in a different direction because it just
Speaker 1: seems like he genuinely believes that this is great. This
Speaker 1: is great shit. Pal. You know, it was like Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon when he had a great idea that he loved, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was he was committed to it, and
Speaker 1: there was no chance that you were going to talk
Speaker 1: him out of it. Is that what we're dealing with here?
Speaker 1: Or does John Moxley have some sort of undue influence
Speaker 1: that is just he's got the stranglehold on Tony Kahan
Speaker 1: and he has like full creative control over the Death
Speaker 1: Riders stuff. I mean, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to, you know, wrap my brain around how
Speaker 1: long they've been able to milk this for without realizing
Speaker 1: that it sucks and it will continue to suck. Nothing
Speaker 1: is going to change until they get away from this.
Speaker 1: So a very shitty ending to an otherwise decent pay
Speaker 1: per view, good pay per view, even it was not
Speaker 1: their best. There were matches on here that had no
Speaker 1: business being on here. It didn't need to be on
Speaker 1: this show. As great as that triple threat match was
Speaker 1: that really there was no other match on this show
Speaker 1: that came close to the quality of that match, like,
Speaker 1: not even close by far. That was the star of
Speaker 1: the show. So this will not go down as one
Speaker 1: of the better aw pay per views, not even close.
Speaker 1: That made events sucked. I think you know, you look
Speaker 1: at the match itself before the finish, it was a
Speaker 1: better match than the one that Moxley had with Copeland
Speaker 1: at Revolution, But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because
Speaker 1: it all comes down to the finish. It is not
Speaker 1: how you start, it is how you end. And how
Speaker 1: you ended last month was atrocious. How you ended this
Speaker 1: month was offensive and I almost don't even care what
Speaker 1: they do at this point. And when you have that
Speaker 1: that level of apathy, you know, in your audience. That's
Speaker 1: a bad place to be. That's a real bad place
Speaker 1: to be. And that's just how I feel right now.
Speaker 1: I'm very apathetic. Like who cares? What does it matter.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the Twitter poll. There it is,
Speaker 1: I think that says it all right there, fourteen point
Speaker 1: six percent thumbs up, sixteen percent thumbs in the middle,
Speaker 1: sixty nine percent thumbs down. Dynasty has been sixty nine.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say, I really don't.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys for hanging out with me,
Speaker 1: keeping me company here, commiserating with me. So I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you feel the same way. You know,
Speaker 1: I get made fun of. Actually I get made fun
Speaker 1: of for buying the pay per views, and I always say, like,
Speaker 1: the quality of the pay per views is always so great,
Speaker 1: Like I don't, like, I don't regret buying the shows,
Speaker 1: like you know, but there are you, but you paid
Speaker 1: for the show, right. This is the first time, honestly
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting here and I feel like I really do.
Speaker 1: I feel like a fucking idiot for having bought the show.
Speaker 1: I feel like a just an absolute blithering idiot ace
Speaker 1: of masta. Glad there are some wrestlers that are familiar
Speaker 1: with the Rocky franchise. I could think of one who
Speaker 1: is not. I won't say who that is. Callum Davis,
Speaker 1: says Helen to Sell twenty eighteen ending or Tonight's ending
Speaker 1: by or Sell. I don't remember what the ending was
Speaker 1: to twenty eighteen. You may be talking about twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and they both fucking sucked. I'm not even gonna rank
Speaker 1: one over the other right now. They were both shit
Speaker 1: oz glorious with a pair of super chats. We've definitely
Speaker 1: reached the nineteen ninety eight WCW levels of NW onus
Speaker 1: in AW fun Night Crazy ending. Don't even mind swear
Speaker 1: of losing because Garcia can get fucked to NXT the
Speaker 1: line drive. I always knew AW was going to eventually
Speaker 1: have its twenty nineteen hell and a Cell rage quit moment.
Speaker 1: Every entertainment company does, but I thought it would be Jericho. Yeah, shockingly,
Speaker 1: as awful as the Jericho stuff has been, it was
Speaker 1: not Jericho. Twenty eighteen was Brock breaking into the cell
Speaker 1: against Roman and Braun causing a DQ while Yeah, that
Speaker 1: fucking sucked too. What is what these companies and they're
Speaker 1: in ability to come up with with good, compelling finishes,
Speaker 1: like when Pat Patterson retired and then eventually died, Like
Speaker 1: was he the last great finish guy in wrestling? Because
Speaker 1: all I've ever heard about is what a great finish
Speaker 1: guy he was with wrestling matches, Like, does nobody else
Speaker 1: have the ability to look at these matches and come
Speaker 1: up with finishes that actually, don't, you know, cause people
Speaker 1: to want to put their head through a fucking wall
Speaker 1: or actively ruin the product. Chris Manson, I knew deep
Speaker 1: down Tony wasn't going to pivot, but now it's clear
Speaker 1: Tony wants the feel good moment in Texas. Like you said,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of great names to choose from. It's
Speaker 1: not like they don't have any. I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: Texas right now. I'm worried about the bullshit that I'm
Speaker 1: being fed now and for the next three months. Plenty
Speaker 1: of different things you could do in Texas that don't
Speaker 1: involve the death Riders. Aaron says Swerve should have won Hangman.
Speaker 1: Struggling was great, but that finish sucked. It should have
Speaker 1: ended with Hangman leaving as Swerve one wasted opportunity, wasted
Speaker 1: indeed wasted, also being the condition of the person who
Speaker 1: came up with that finish. I think they were wasted
Speaker 1: when they came up with it. Anderson Blitz aw, you
Speaker 1: either die as a beloved wrestling company or live long
Speaker 1: enough to become Helena Sale twenty nineteen. Well, this was
Speaker 1: certainly their hell in a Sale twenty nineteen moment. Franken
Speaker 1: Wheels fourteen. The ending of this pay per view was awful?
Speaker 1: Will Darby Allen be over and back by all In
Speaker 1: to justify a Cody Rhods WrestleMania forty type ending? Brother
Speaker 1: If Darby plants the aw flag on top of the
Speaker 1: mountain and comes back in time to win the championship
Speaker 1: at all In, it still will not come close to
Speaker 1: the Cody Roads story last year. So is he going
Speaker 1: to be back? I don't know, nor do I really care.
Speaker 1: I really just I don't give a shit. No cap
Speaker 1: give me Shane McMahon, for the love of God, he
Speaker 1: could at least make this death rider's angle tolerable. Swerve
Speaker 1: deserves better Duff's VIDs great pay per views, My ass
Speaker 1: not anymore, Aaron says, I genuinely thought Swerve was winning
Speaker 1: tonight at least we had that banger. Three way speedball
Speaker 1: is unreal. Omega should be the AW World Champion. Dude,
Speaker 1: the guy who delivered my Chinese food the other night.
Speaker 1: I would rather he BEDAW World Champion than John Box.
Speaker 1: Matt Fisher. I just got off work and just got here.
Speaker 1: Please tell me he lost the damn belt. Who wants
Speaker 1: to tell him? Who wants to break the bad news
Speaker 1: to Matt? Peter McNasty, I'm done with AW. Good luck y'all.
Speaker 1: Peter held on for as long as he could. Ryan
Speaker 1: Adams Tony Kah saw the media forty finish and was like,
Speaker 1: let's do that, but do it horribly now. He said,
Speaker 1: let's do that, but in reverse. Now in his mind
Speaker 1: he's gonna save it for his WrestleMania And in the meantime,
Speaker 1: it's you know, we have to just continue to suffer
Speaker 1: through the death riders until we get there. Fire Panda
Speaker 1: with the fifty. What Moxley needs to do next Wednesday
Speaker 1: is come out to the ring and continuously put his
Speaker 1: arms in the air while more and more obnoxious amounts
Speaker 1: of pyro go off, just like JBL did. AW wins
Speaker 1: again a Fire Panda, Thank you, duffs of VIDs. Tony
Speaker 1: Kahn is now Vince during twenty ten's booking, and John
Speaker 1: Moxley is his John Cena without the popularity. Josh Worthington
Speaker 1: says rest in peace, aw or rest and piss. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Rip could be rest in peace or rest
Speaker 1: and piss either way, I don't know. Alex with the
Speaker 1: twenty five meltzer is going to award the main event
Speaker 1: a four and a half star rating. Look up the
Speaker 1: word loathsome in the dictionary and a picture of the
Speaker 1: main event will be next to it. Utterly atrocious. The
Speaker 1: Gary sphere defended aw through thick and thin. Here to
Speaker 1: tell everyone stop watching. Only way they'll learn predicting all
Speaker 1: in venue downgrade. Yes it was that bad. Well you
Speaker 1: know what, They've already downgraded one venue. I mean, can't
Speaker 1: rule it out. I still think they could pack twenty
Speaker 1: k once they start actually announcing matches. Retrokoh, let's all
Speaker 1: get drunk and rattle off random names of people who
Speaker 1: would be better World Champions than John Boxley. I will
Speaker 1: go first, flop, dolla. Well, let's not get carried away.
Speaker 1: Let's not get carried away now, bace beer as Moxley
Speaker 1: is only in the Tony Khan is Tony Kahn's quote,
Speaker 1: Moxley is only in the third inning. Dev to dust
Speaker 1: Nicola Jochik, he gives off gunther vibes can make him
Speaker 1: the champion. I don't know if he can cut promos though.
Speaker 1: CNM thirty four forty three got my tickets pretty early
Speaker 1: for all in thinking there's no way this death Rider's
Speaker 1: shit goes that long, and here we are not the
Speaker 1: way to go if you want to improve on those
Speaker 1: ticket sales drains these shows too, dude, Like when you
Speaker 1: have a show that is that long, you at least
Speaker 1: are are like you if you get to a point
Speaker 1: in the night where you start to get a little fatigued.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, at least I know they're going to
Speaker 1: have like a bang Remain event, right, or at least
Speaker 1: there's something at the end there to look forward to.
Speaker 1: And that is no longer the case with AW. It's
Speaker 1: actually quite the opposite. You know, whatever good will they
Speaker 1: had built up as far as their main events is
Speaker 1: just fucking gone now. Really sad reborn bladder or blater,
Speaker 1: all right, So that that put a smile on my face.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I read it that way. Reborn blater,
Speaker 1: not bladder, and you know what I'm thinking about drinking
Speaker 1: too much, too much water. Here the bladder is reborn,
Speaker 1: says Juwan Hill. Yes, I don't know why this is
Speaker 1: making me laugh. I think I've actually just lost my mind.
Speaker 1: I think tonight I officially lost my mind and something
Speaker 1: as simple as that now is just cracking me up.
Speaker 1: Not an aw fan, but giving you what I can
Speaker 1: for your streams and for sticking it out for us
Speaker 1: on that awful ending. Thanks for the great stuff solo,
Speaker 1: Thank you, reborn bladder. I do appreciate the support man
Speaker 1: Matt Fisher finger poke of doom sting losing in ninety
Speaker 1: seven or mox winning again, which is worse. Well, considering
Speaker 1: the finger poke of doom kind of led that company
Speaker 1: down the path of destruction. I would say that rank's
Speaker 1: higher than Moxley winning tonight, because Tony Kahn wishes he
Speaker 1: was doing the kind of numbers at that time that
Speaker 1: WCW was doing. But they're all fucking terrible. Everything that
Speaker 1: you just named there is awful and should never be
Speaker 1: replicated and should be used as an example of what
Speaker 1: not to do. This This is gonna be my aw
Speaker 1: violin from now on, the tiniest violin in the world,
Speaker 1: right here, right here, and take it with me everywhere
Speaker 1: I go. Becom see clearly, is Kevin Knight gay because
Speaker 1: I want him well, slide into his DMS and find out.
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him, so I don't know, nor
Speaker 1: do I care. Dorian Foley with the nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 1: Evening solo, I'm a big fan. Much respect to you
Speaker 1: and your platform. Thank you. Conspiracy theory question, do you
Speaker 1: think because of the dust uff this week between Swerve
Speaker 1: and Booker t that it made Tony Kahan change his
Speaker 1: mind on Mosley dropping the belt? Absolutely? Not one head
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the other. I promise you one
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the other. This is exactly
Speaker 1: what Tony Kahan wanted to do, which actually makes it worse.
Speaker 1: But this had nothing to do with that linklex I
Speaker 1: owe Cornett, Bischoff and Disco an apology. I'm done. Don't
Speaker 1: ever apologize to Disco Project Graham. I've bought every pay
Speaker 1: per view for four years, but I'm out the bucks. Seriously, sorry.
Speaker 1: My money is better spent elsewhere in this economy. Punk
Speaker 1: was right imagine turning out the lights and thinking that
Speaker 1: in that situation that the Young Bucks. We need the
Speaker 1: Young Bucks to be the big surprise at the end
Speaker 1: of this show, when we fuck every single paying customer
Speaker 1: over who is watching our show like you have to
Speaker 1: have completely law lost the plot. Tony Kahan has lost
Speaker 1: the plot. I'm sorry to say we got goat dog.
Speaker 1: Longtime fan here, watching you brings me joy and I
Speaker 1: need it big time right now. A recent work injury
Speaker 1: has me facing eviction and the uncertainty of not being
Speaker 1: able to keep a roof over my son's head. Sucks.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all that you do. That's terrible. I'm very
Speaker 1: sorry to hear. I don't know what the injury is
Speaker 1: but or or if it's something that you can recover from.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're on the disability or what
Speaker 1: your situation is, but that sucks. Brother. I'm very sorry
Speaker 1: to hear that. I hope things get better. I hate
Speaker 1: hearing about stuff like that, but I think in the
Speaker 1: end it'll it'll be okay. I think you've got a
Speaker 1: good head on your shoulders. You know the situation that
Speaker 1: you're in, I think you're gonna be okay. Rizzo is
Speaker 1: this aw's version of Hell and a Cell with Bray
Speaker 1: and Seth if you want to call it that. That
Speaker 1: was a terrible finish, and so is this? That was
Speaker 1: an insult to the audience, And so is this so
Speaker 1: to that extent? Yes, it was Jeremy Thunderstrikes Man twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. AW was so much fun even twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two and twenty three, I was still hanging on now.
Speaker 1: I don't care enough to tune in. What the fuck
Speaker 1: happened to AAW? I hope it gets fun again? EJ. Slamp.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine if Vince Russo booked this in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, T and A same people would have
Speaker 1: been livid. Who would have been livid? Will somehow justify
Speaker 1: this ending? Oh? Oh they will. Oh, You'll find people
Speaker 1: who will justify this ending absolutely long term storytelling. Like
Speaker 1: in the end, they've got a vision for where this
Speaker 1: is gonna go. It's you know, you gotta let it
Speaker 1: play out, been letting it play out now for what
Speaker 1: six months. You will absolutely find certain sikkos who will
Speaker 1: find a way to justify what they did last month,
Speaker 1: what they did this month. I mean, they could have
Speaker 1: Jean Moxley stand in the middle of the ring and
Speaker 1: take a giant shit right in the middle of the ring,
Speaker 1: and they will, you know, cream themselves, and they will
Speaker 1: find a reason to get behind it. Call it a
Speaker 1: great idea, Lap it up. They'll always come up with excuses.
Speaker 1: Chris ludek Aw is sunk. Moxley's matches are so predictable.
Speaker 1: Interference ref bump, dumb table spot. You know what it is? Actually,
Speaker 1: it's the House of Torture, That's what it is. It's
Speaker 1: the House of Torture in New Japan. This is their
Speaker 1: version of the House of Torture. He says. Moxley can't wrestle,
Speaker 1: he does more harm than good and Tony has no
Speaker 1: idea what he's doing. Awful show, worst company. Duff's VIDs.
Speaker 1: Why did the little girl's ice cream melt because she
Speaker 1: saw the main event and was frozen with disgust? Sad
Speaker 1: but true Duffs VIDs. Sad but true. The House of
Speaker 1: mox They should rename it. They should rename it the
Speaker 1: House of mox Griga. How's it going, Solo? Keep up
Speaker 1: the good work, looking forward to the replay review during work.
Speaker 1: Hey Greek guy, I haven't heard from you in a while.
Speaker 1: It's good to see you. Thank you my right Duff's VIDs.
Speaker 1: I thought Jericho signed a ten year deal or was
Speaker 1: that someone else or a BS report? Or did I
Speaker 1: dream that a ten year deal? I never heard that.
Speaker 1: I think he may have dreamt it. Joel Mulligan two
Speaker 1: euros from Mayfield, Cork, Ireland. Thank you, Noel. I've never
Speaker 1: been to Mayfield, Cork, although one day I would like
Speaker 1: to make it over to Ireland. I kind of look
Speaker 1: like I belong there. Derek J speaks that shit sucked.
Speaker 1: Hate this death writer's crap, but thank you for the
Speaker 1: late night review. Always appreciate all that you do, Derek.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Brother. Casey is Raw thirty eight months of
Speaker 1: channel membership. We need your karate kid crane pose, do you?
Speaker 1: I don't think you do. Arabian night Tony Khan thinks
Speaker 1: Moxley and the Death Riders are like Roman and the
Speaker 1: Bloodline in terms of interest in heat. He might pull
Speaker 1: a WRESTLEMANI a thirty nine, ending it all in and
Speaker 1: have it continue. Well, I mean, at that point you're
Speaker 1: gonna have people just jumping off the ship. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have people jumping off the ship into the water, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna be it. Super pony, says Bob Dylan is
Speaker 1: the goat. Have a good night. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: check out this press scrumb by the way, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure Tony came in and said, man, it's a great show,
Speaker 1: greatest aw show ever. We had a wonderful show tonight,
Speaker 1: great show, excellent show, up and down the card. Maybe
Speaker 1: the greatest night of AW in history. Great show, fantastic show,
Speaker 1: wonderful show, sup herb show, stupendous, Everything's great. Wwe Iceman
Speaker 1: ninety six v. Twelve just getting back from attending Live
Speaker 1: with the Family. Needless to say, the collective disgust in
Speaker 1: the arena after that main event was loud. Oh it
Speaker 1: came through on the TV. We heard it loud and clear.
Speaker 1: Mikey Clayman. Think where Seth and Roman are compared to Moxley? Oh?
Speaker 1: I think I think about that often. HBKC eighty three
Speaker 1: AW leads the pack with the amount of ring apron spots.
Speaker 1: It is ridiculous, dude. It's there's so many just stupid
Speaker 1: fucking things that I see in some of these matches.
Speaker 1: The apron spots are just so played out but just
Speaker 1: some of the dumb shit that they do. It's just
Speaker 1: ridiculous and it means nothing either. They'll do it and
Speaker 1: it'll be on to the next spot, and it means
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. Bret Hart with thirty seven months. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see mox Laid, the Death Riders, and the
Speaker 1: Bucks ever again on AW or wrestling in general. I
Speaker 1: don't care where they go from now. Just leave. We
Speaker 1: got dog Lover, hey solo. I'm not an AW fan,
Speaker 1: but I still hope they succeed. Why do you think
Speaker 1: people want them to fail? Just discovered the channel, enjoying
Speaker 1: the content. Uh, thank you, dog Lover. You know, you
Speaker 1: have a lot of very tribalistic fans who pick sides,
Speaker 1: and so I've never understood it myself because there are
Speaker 1: still people out there who want, you know, AW to fail.
Speaker 1: I don't want a w to fail. That's why, you know,
Speaker 1: I get upset when I see them do stupid shit
Speaker 1: like this, because they have the ability to do some
Speaker 1: pretty cool stuff with some pretty cool people, and when
Speaker 1: they make dumb decisions like this, it just it doesn't
Speaker 1: help their brand and people pile on and then you
Speaker 1: see people make comments like that, Oh I wish they
Speaker 1: would just die, like the wrestling business would be better
Speaker 1: if AW wasn't around, when the exact opposite is true,
Speaker 1: and having that competition at that level, you know, where
Speaker 1: they have a major media rights deal. You know, there's
Speaker 1: nobody else outside of WWE that has that nobody there's
Speaker 1: no other wrestling company in the world outside of WWE
Speaker 1: that has that kind of deal and is making that
Speaker 1: kind of money that AW is. And so if you
Speaker 1: take that away, all you're left with at that level
Speaker 1: is WWE, and that's terrible. I don't care how good
Speaker 1: you think WWE is doing, you always want to have
Speaker 1: at least that one, you know, not backup, but like
Speaker 1: that one competitor kind of nipping at their heels, or
Speaker 1: even if they're not nipping at their heels, a solid
Speaker 1: number two, which is where AW is right now. And
Speaker 1: for the people who say that, you know, they want
Speaker 1: AW to die or you know, wrestling we'd be better
Speaker 1: off without them, I always say, like, those people are
Speaker 1: not real wrestling fans, you know, they're troubles because there
Speaker 1: is no good reason to feel that way. And that's
Speaker 1: to say nothing of all of the people that are
Speaker 1: employed there. To say that you just wanted to die
Speaker 1: or go away. You know it doesn't make you smarter
Speaker 1: than everybody else. It just makes you an asshole. Ozen glorious.
Speaker 1: This is your fault, Solo. If you would have gotten
Speaker 1: on board with Double J winning the belt, we would
Speaker 1: already be there. This is on you. I hope you're happy.
Speaker 1: I'm like mulling over in my head if I would
Speaker 1: take Double J at this point as the champion over Moxley.
Speaker 1: You know what I think I would. I think I
Speaker 1: would baith Beer is again with that ninety dollars super
Speaker 1: chat drop says a wild thing. You make my heart sing.
Speaker 1: Goldberg can be the one to take the title off
Speaker 1: of Moxley. He can have a streak and retire as
Speaker 1: aw champion. Save us Goldberg, or maybe this all leads
Speaker 1: to the rise of the Yudah movement. I wonder what
Speaker 1: Brett thinks of all this. I don't think Brett thinks anything.
Speaker 1: I think Brett is having a nice, quiet night. Well
Speaker 1: he's sleeping right now because he's not dumb enough to
Speaker 1: be up like me at two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: But he's having a nice night with his wife. He's
Speaker 1: not paying any attention to this, nor would he want to.
Speaker 1: He comes see clearly, I think Moxley has checked out. Honestly,
Speaker 1: mox fan here, he may well be. You know, he's
Speaker 1: he's in a great position right now. He's had the championship.
Speaker 1: He doesn't physically have it, but he's had the championship
Speaker 1: for months. He's got his own little group. Apparently he's
Speaker 1: left to his own devices and can do whatever the
Speaker 1: hell he wants. I by were him, I might be
Speaker 1: checked out too. He just wants to go out there
Speaker 1: and have hardcore garbage matches and bleed and and do
Speaker 1: dumb shit. And Tony says, okay, sure sounds good. Bass
Speaker 1: Beers Booker T got in Tony Khan's ear Sorry suckers,
Speaker 1: venom Ktetsu, thank you for forwarding the cat shelter information.
Speaker 1: Sad day. Yeah, that was a very sad story. And
Speaker 1: that is if you follow me on x that I
Speaker 1: retweeted that it earlier in the week. It's still up
Speaker 1: if you want to go check out the link. Mikey
Speaker 1: claiman having the shield wasn't even worth this crap. Brian
Speaker 1: Mahoney with the ten spot. On a positive note, I
Speaker 1: have followed Julia Hart since match number one pretty much
Speaker 1: in her aw career. I feel like I am on
Speaker 1: the journey with her, super big fan and glad to
Speaker 1: see her progress, even still being green. I remember when
Speaker 1: she was the cheerleader. She's made quite a bit of
Speaker 1: progress since those days power spying games. Is it safe
Speaker 1: to call this a reign of terror? Brother? We are
Speaker 1: we are away past that. I don't know what you
Speaker 1: would call this. I'm trying to think of a word
Speaker 1: strong enough to describe this becomes clearly the problem with
Speaker 1: the scene of comparison is Moxley never wins clean against
Speaker 1: credible opponents. Just to have Moxley win clean in his matches,
Speaker 1: how about he doesn't win all of his matches. How
Speaker 1: about he finally loses because this shit sucks. I like
Speaker 1: that better. Hydro Grad, Penta, Phoenix, Black, and russev are
Speaker 1: all laughing right now. Don't forget Ricky uh Kraflo with
Speaker 1: the ten solo is angrier than Tony Soprano was when
Speaker 1: he told the guy in the restaurant, take take your
Speaker 1: hat off. They don't sell hot dogs here. They took
Speaker 1: the bleachers out two years ago, and his loud, angry
Speaker 1: breathing or the noises that he would make when he
Speaker 1: was eating his lasagna, and he's made these weird noises.
Speaker 1: Blue Jay. Imagine booking new Jack against Bruiser Brody. I'd
Speaker 1: love to see that much. Kraflow. Was this show worse
Speaker 1: than the old w w A shows? I didn't watch
Speaker 1: those shows. Wink the Cosmic Grandma. It's renewed their channel membership. Yo,
Speaker 1: yo's up. Thanks for watching that. BS. Can you rank
Speaker 1: the Owen matchups from tonight? Yeah? We had three of
Speaker 1: them on this show, and I would both men's matches
Speaker 1: were very good. Me personally, I would put the Osprey
Speaker 1: match first, and then the Fletcher match, and then the
Speaker 1: Mercedes match. TRG swag Aw was literally a solid number
Speaker 1: two tonight. Matt Fisher, I'm tapping out good night and
Speaker 1: screw Tony Kahan and Justin g. Remember when Moxley was
Speaker 1: the AW MVP. That was nice. Yeah, that was also
Speaker 1: three years ago. It's time to move on, Time to
Speaker 1: move on. Unfortunately he doesn't see it the same way,
Speaker 1: but hey, they have an extra five hundred thousand viewers
Speaker 1: supposedly on average watching Dynamite on Max every week. If
Speaker 1: you believe that I got a bridge, I can sell
Speaker 1: you if you believe that. Thank you guys for the
Speaker 1: support staying up late with me tonight. We are over
Speaker 1: seven hundred likes, so I owe you would be the booker.
Speaker 1: So why don't we go ahead and do that? Now,
Speaker 1: Let's be the booker, Ladies and gentlemen, it is now
Speaker 1: time to be the booker. There he is. Here's the culprit.
Speaker 1: We are approaching three o'clock in the morning here, so
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Let's book ourselves. My god, we
Speaker 1: land on triple threat. So we're going to book a
Speaker 1: triple threat tag team match. This is how we're starting
Speaker 1: out be the booker. We got to pick three teams.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, Brett Art and Bill Goldberg.
Speaker 1: This is before tragedy struck, before catastrophe struck. This is
Speaker 1: like Brett Hard's worst nightmare, forcing him to tag with
Speaker 1: Bill Goldberg. They will be taking on public enemy rock
Speaker 1: o'rock and Johnny Grunge and gotta pick one more. Oh
Speaker 1: fuck you go get bent. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: these guys today. I already saw them once. I have
Speaker 1: no interest in seeing them again. Fuck off. It's the
Speaker 1: young bucks. Women's be the booker. We have Jade Cargill,
Speaker 1: who's gonna have herself her first singles manager WrestleMania this year,
Speaker 1: and Jade car Gill will be taking on Zoe Stark.
Speaker 1: This all feels very appropriate for tonight. I think we're
Speaker 1: in for a clean sweep, only in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: All right, we got one more. This is going swimmingly.
Speaker 1: Bruno Sammartino, the longest reigning WWE champion of all time.
Speaker 1: We need the right opponent. Come. If we find the
Speaker 1: right opponent, I feel pretty good about this. Be the
Speaker 1: Booker is over. After the Wyat six massacred the roster.
Speaker 1: How very appropriate that is how we end be the Booker.
Speaker 1: The roster has been massacred and we have lost every
Speaker 1: single round. Somehow it just fits on this night, of
Speaker 1: all nights, it just fits. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: end this any more perfectly than that. I have said
Speaker 1: all that there is to say. It is very late.
Speaker 1: I have a very early wake up. I am not
Speaker 1: in a good mood. You guys help soften my mood
Speaker 1: a little bit. Hanging out with you guys always puts
Speaker 1: a smile on my face. This show at the end
Speaker 1: there did not put a smile on my face, and
Speaker 1: I think what they did at the end of the
Speaker 1: show was absolutely atrocious and it cast a dark cloud
Speaker 1: over what otherwise would have been a good show. Not
Speaker 1: a great show, but a good show. But I think
Speaker 1: that if you were to give me a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different scenarios of how I could have booked this
Speaker 1: ending tonight, they went with the worst possible ending that
Speaker 1: you could possibly think of. That's actually quite impressive. So unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the death Rids live on. All I can say is
Speaker 1: I'm at a loss. I really, I don't know what
Speaker 1: else to say. I mean, I'm truly at a loss.
Speaker 1: If you did not see that. The new episode of
Speaker 1: The sound Off went up earlier today, episode nine oh eight.
Speaker 1: Please go back and give it a listen. A lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff on that show covered a lot of ground,
Speaker 1: including a dark side of the ring review on the
Speaker 1: Ludwig Boord episode from this past week, a lot of
Speaker 1: talk about aw WrestleMania, among other things. So please go
Speaker 1: ahead and support and go check out the latest episode.
Speaker 1: Leave a like on your way out. I'll see you
Speaker 1: guys Monday for the Raw Post Show.