Speaker 1: You know, four years ago, I sat here with all
Speaker 1: of you live on YouTube for the very first Winter
Speaker 1: Is Coming episode of Dynamite. Nine hundred and thirteen thousand
Speaker 1: viewers for that episode of Dynamite, so you could tell
Speaker 1: it feels like a lifetime ago. They had nine hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen thousand viewers for a show that took place
Speaker 1: at Daly's place in Jacksonville. They were still limited by
Speaker 1: the pandemic, so they were running shows out of their
Speaker 1: home base. That was the night that Stuing made his
Speaker 1: debut in aw Tony Shavanni Stuing. We got the big
Speaker 1: Sting announcement every single week, and Sting came out. It's
Speaker 1: too bad that Sting couldn't make his debut in front
Speaker 1: of like a big arena, in front of actual people,
Speaker 1: But there he was, making his debut on the very
Speaker 1: same night that Kenny Omega became the aw World have
Speaker 1: Weight champion beat John Moxley. You got a world championship
Speaker 1: change on that show. So it was a very big episode.
Speaker 1: And each year progressively they seem to feel less and
Speaker 1: less important, none more so than this year. This one
Speaker 1: is just at the bottom of the of the heap.
Speaker 1: We did not get anything nearly as important as the
Speaker 1: debut of Staying or a World heavyweight championship change on
Speaker 1: this show. But they were in front of actual fans,
Speaker 1: and one thing I can say that is an improvement
Speaker 1: on some of the other places where they've done Dynamite.
Speaker 1: And one of these little things that I noticed is
Speaker 1: that the Crab was lit up a lot better. You know,
Speaker 1: so many of these shows, probably because they're in bigger
Speaker 1: buildings with not a lot of people, it's very dark.
Speaker 1: And I noticed it really in the opening match that
Speaker 1: you could actually see the people in the background. So
Speaker 1: that's nice. I like it when we can actually see
Speaker 1: the people in the audience, so that much I was
Speaker 1: actually happy to see tonight, but we closed the show.
Speaker 1: The main event spot went to the women tonight for
Speaker 1: the Women's World Championship. Mariah May defending her title against
Speaker 1: her former best friend Mina Shirakawa, and they had a
Speaker 1: good match. But it was the postmatch where we had
Speaker 1: the big return of the former Women's World champion, Tony Storm,
Speaker 1: but not timeless Tony Storm. We had the return of
Speaker 1: the og Tony Storm. She's no longer timeless. You know.
Speaker 1: The great thing about it is she could always bring
Speaker 1: it back at some point. She just basically she's like
Speaker 1: back to the future where she was stuck in one
Speaker 1: time period, and she was able to make it back
Speaker 1: to the modern day. But anytime she wants to go back,
Speaker 1: all she has to do is jump in the Dolorean,
Speaker 1: just hit eighty eight miles an hour, and she can
Speaker 1: go back to being timeless Tony Storm again. But it's
Speaker 1: a gimmick that I didn't expect to enjoy as much
Speaker 1: as I did. It was very goofy and over the top.
Speaker 1: But as time went on, I mean, she was fully
Speaker 1: invested in this character, and she after a while became
Speaker 1: one of the most entertaining parts of the entire show,
Speaker 1: and her and Mariah May together became one of the
Speaker 1: most entertaining acts on the entire television show. And she
Speaker 1: played that character perfectly. She was as invested as anybody
Speaker 1: else in wrestling in their character and their persona. So
Speaker 1: she did great with it. But you just get to
Speaker 1: a point where it's like, what more can you really do?
Speaker 1: She did all she could do, and if you don't evolve,
Speaker 1: if you don't adapt, then you die. And so now
Speaker 1: we're back to the og Tony Storm. Obviously this is
Speaker 1: going to set up for an eventual rematch between her
Speaker 1: and Mariah May, which may not be happening so fast.
Speaker 1: So anybody's saying, oh, world's end, World's ended a few weeks,
Speaker 1: don't be so sure of yourself there. But it was
Speaker 1: good to get Tony Storm back on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: We had more good action as well in the Continental
Speaker 1: Classic tonight. It was Claudio Castagnoli and Will Osprey and
Speaker 1: it was Ricochet taking on Brody King. Both Gold League matches.
Speaker 1: We now have a three way tie amongst the top
Speaker 1: ranked participants in the Gold League after tonight's show. MJF
Speaker 1: made his return tonight. You know, one of the things
Speaker 1: that I have not liked about Dynamite is the fact
Speaker 1: that we've been getting these pre tapes of the MJF
Speaker 1: because he's not available. He's not actually on the show
Speaker 1: physically every week. So he was tonight and so that's
Speaker 1: a step up. But he did nothing. I mean he did,
Speaker 1: I mean, he got involved in one of the matches
Speaker 1: on the show, but he really didn't do anything. So
Speaker 1: as flat of a return for MJF as you will
Speaker 1: ever see, and that was very disappointing. We had an
Speaker 1: Adam Cole Kyle O'Reilly match that, while the work was fine,
Speaker 1: just don't give two shits about what's going on between
Speaker 1: these two. This was a means to an end, the
Speaker 1: end being let's just get Adam Cole into the match
Speaker 1: at World's end with MJF. Please, let's just get to
Speaker 1: the match. And that's exactly what we're gonna be getting
Speaker 1: at the end of the month a World's end, it
Speaker 1: will be Adam Cole against MJF. But not just Adam
Speaker 1: Cole against MJF. It'll be Adam Cole against MJF for
Speaker 1: a diamond ring. That really doesn't matter in all this
Speaker 1: because this is not about a diamond ring. This is
Speaker 1: about the issue between Cole and MJF and the history
Speaker 1: between them going back to last year. It has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the diamond ring. I don't even know
Speaker 1: why there's a need to have the diamond ring on
Speaker 1: the line. I'm sure it'll play a factor in the
Speaker 1: finish of their match, but the fact that it's for
Speaker 1: the diamond ring, who gives a shit, right, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's just it's incidental. But it's a lot better than
Speaker 1: getting Kyle O'Reilly against MJF and then making us wait
Speaker 1: another one or two months before we could finally blow
Speaker 1: this thing off between MJF and Adam Cole. This brings
Speaker 1: us one step closer, I hope at the end of
Speaker 1: this month, to the end of this so that these
Speaker 1: two men can move on to other opponents and other stories,
Speaker 1: because this one, this one's done. I know they're trying
Speaker 1: to put, you know, a period on it. They're trying
Speaker 1: to give it a proper ending. They want to extend
Speaker 1: it out. This story has done. This story was done
Speaker 1: six months ago. But at least we're finally going to
Speaker 1: get the match. This was not as good as last week.
Speaker 1: I thought the show was solid. It was definitely not
Speaker 1: as good as last week's show. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you, it's just very hard right now to care
Speaker 1: about a lot of what's going on on this show.
Speaker 1: From week to week, you can pick out a wrestler
Speaker 1: here and there that you might really like. You know,
Speaker 1: Osprey was on the show today, and anytime Will Osprey
Speaker 1: is in the ring on the show, you have my attention.
Speaker 1: Because he has proven himself to be one of the
Speaker 1: MVPs of the company and the in ring MVP of
Speaker 1: this company for twenty twenty four. So I will always
Speaker 1: tune in if he's got a match. You know, he
Speaker 1: wrestled Juice Robinson on Collision a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of performer that osprays. So when I
Speaker 1: see that he's on the show, I'm interested. Okay, you
Speaker 1: have my interest. But there's just very few people like that,
Speaker 1: and very few stories and very few things going on
Speaker 1: right now on Dynamite from week to week that really
Speaker 1: grabs me, and it just makes for a very dull show.
Speaker 1: So the wrestling is fine, you know, the Continental Classic.
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna get very good wrestling every week,
Speaker 1: but there's just not much else there. The Death Riders
Speaker 1: story is playing itself out. I can't sit here and
Speaker 1: tell you it's very interesting because it's not. It's just not.
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet is going to defend her TVs championship next
Speaker 1: week against Anna Jay. Nothing wrong with doing that match,
Speaker 1: but you know, slap together in a few weeks and
Speaker 1: it tried to communicate the story in the backstage promo
Speaker 1: they had on the show tonight and why it's so
Speaker 1: important to her and that's great, but not really a
Speaker 1: compelling feud here between these two, Mina and Mariah that
Speaker 1: seemingly was ended tonight with Mina's loss. Now they're setting
Speaker 1: up a rematch with Tony and Mariah, so that should
Speaker 1: be interesting, you know, whenever we finally get that match
Speaker 1: you got Colin MJF. There's just not a whole lot
Speaker 1: else going on right now, you know, And that's that's
Speaker 1: the problem. This Winter Is Coming episode definitely did not
Speaker 1: feel special the way that past Winter is Coming episodes
Speaker 1: have felt special. And if I had to rank all
Speaker 1: of them, this one would be dead last. This was
Speaker 1: the worst of all of them. Was this would be
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the pile. But it's just a
Speaker 1: it's a reflection of where the product is right now
Speaker 1: relative to where it was four years ago when they
Speaker 1: had the first Winter Is Coming, relative to three years
Speaker 1: ago when we had that hour long Iron Man match
Speaker 1: between Brian Danielson and Hangman Page, or MJF and Ricky Starks,
Speaker 1: when Ricky was really starting to get going as a babyface.
Speaker 1: Right We're just in a very different place right now
Speaker 1: with aaw and in many ways it's just not as
Speaker 1: good as it was before, and I hope they can
Speaker 1: get back there, but they're not there right now, and
Speaker 1: so it's just a reflection on where they were and
Speaker 1: where they are, and that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: But this is your aaw dynamite Winter is Coming twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four review. I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you
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Speaker 1: I've been here with you for every single Winter is coming.
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Speaker 1: The show open with the AW World Heavyweight Champion. We
Speaker 1: didn't have any World Championship title defenses as far as
Speaker 1: the men. We did not have a world championship change
Speaker 1: on this show like we did that first Winter Is Coming,
Speaker 1: but we did have the AW World Champion. In a
Speaker 1: tag team match to open the show, John Boxley and
Speaker 1: Pac taking on Orange Cassidy and Switchblade J White. They
Speaker 1: showed Christian Cage, Nick Wayne, Mother Wayne, and Kip Sabean
Speaker 1: sitting up in one of the luxury boxes. Early in
Speaker 1: the match, you could see them all sitting up there,
Speaker 1: and after a commercial break they cut back up there
Speaker 1: and they showed Christian he was talking to the other
Speaker 1: members of the Patriarch and he sent them off, and
Speaker 1: so Mother Wayne and Nick Wayne and Kip sabe and
Speaker 1: they all left and Christian stayed behind and he had
Speaker 1: a big smile on his face and we didn't know
Speaker 1: where they were off to, but he was up there
Speaker 1: all by himself. Moxley and Cassidy they ended up tagging
Speaker 1: into the match at the same time. Cassidy threw a
Speaker 1: p que didn't exactly connect flush and there was enough
Speaker 1: light there in between Boxley and the kick, and even
Speaker 1: Nigel McGinnis on commentary tried to cover for it and say, well,
Speaker 1: you just kind of grazed him. It was a grazing shot, yes,
Speaker 1: So Cassidy hit a spike DDT to Pack and then
Speaker 1: followed up with another one to Moxley that got him
Speaker 1: in near fall. You could tell that it's winter because
Speaker 1: I I'm a little under the weather, So you'll have
Speaker 1: to bear with me here. If I am, I am
Speaker 1: not at my best. How are you doing, by the way,
Speaker 1: I hope you I hope that none of you are
Speaker 1: under the weather. I hope that you're doing just just
Speaker 1: peachey here on a Wednesday night. Just bear with me. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll try to get through this here. Moxley though, after
Speaker 1: the spike DDT to pack, Moxley got one as well,
Speaker 1: but then he sat up and he got Cassidy in
Speaker 1: a sleeper hold, Cassidy escaped though he had another DDT.
Speaker 1: White took out Pack with the dragons suplex. Cassidy hit
Speaker 1: beach break on Moxley for a near fall. Now Wheeler Dah,
Speaker 1: the little bastard, he jumps up on the apron, tries
Speaker 1: to distract the referee Cassidy, though he shakes off Marina
Speaker 1: Shaffer's interference attempt, and Cassidy hit orange punches to Wheeler
Speaker 1: Dah and to John Moxley, and then wouldn't you know,
Speaker 1: Hangman Page shows up and Hangman Page runs into the
Speaker 1: ring and he attacks John Moxley and the referee calls
Speaker 1: for the bell. We have ourselves a disqualification to end
Speaker 1: this match. He always fun disqualification finish. Here we got
Speaker 1: ourselves a DQ. Yes, it was the lame finish to
Speaker 1: a long match because these guys went about fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: but they didn't want to beat Death the Death Riders,
Speaker 1: and in the very next match, Claudio Castignoli was losing,
Speaker 1: so they didn't want these guys to lose back to
Speaker 1: back matches. So this is what we ended up with here.
Speaker 1: That and they're trying to establish a story among the
Speaker 1: challengers who were all at each other's throat going into
Speaker 1: World's End, So that's why they did the finish that
Speaker 1: they did here. So after the match, Cassidy impacted, they
Speaker 1: start fighting. Cassidy went for an orange punch on Hangman,
Speaker 1: but he ducked and Cassidy hit Jay White by accident.
Speaker 1: Cassidy then put Hangman down with an orange punch. Jay
Speaker 1: White then dropped Orange Cassidy with a blade runner. So
Speaker 1: with White, Cassidy and Page down on the mat and
Speaker 1: they're all bickering, Moxley packed Shaffir and Wheeler. You do.
Speaker 1: They all get back into the ring and they start
Speaker 1: working them over, and then the death Riders leave the ring.
Speaker 1: They hop barricade while White, Cassidy and Page were all
Speaker 1: down on the inside. I would say this is probably
Speaker 1: longer than it needed to be, but the point of
Speaker 1: this was to create tension. They wanted to create tension
Speaker 1: among the challengers who were all vying for the World
Speaker 1: Championship right now. These were all the different challengers that
Speaker 1: they've set up for John Moxley's title. There are no friends, right,
Speaker 1: it's either royal rumble, it's every man for himself, and
Speaker 1: that works to Moxley's advantage. If they're at each other's throats.
Speaker 1: So then after this in the back they made it official.
Speaker 1: We had a death writer's promo. Moxley was back there
Speaker 1: with his crew and he said that he's a mark man.
Speaker 1: He said, heavy is the head who wears the crown
Speaker 1: with a knife tier throat. He wouldn't have it any
Speaker 1: other way. And everybody is all about their ego, wanting
Speaker 1: the next title shot. Their egos run their lives, and
Speaker 1: their egos run all elite wrestling. None of this is
Speaker 1: about Moxley. He says, it's about the people, his people,
Speaker 1: and he said that he'll give them an early Christmas gift,
Speaker 1: World's End fatal four way for the AAW World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 1: So there you go. I mean, we all knew this
Speaker 1: was coming, but now they've made the match official. It
Speaker 1: will be a fatal four way for the AW World Title.
Speaker 1: On December twenty eighth, we got part two after last
Speaker 1: week's vignette. If you remember, I talked about Bandido is
Speaker 1: on his way back to AAW and we had a
Speaker 1: vignette last week where they dressed up this little small
Speaker 1: town like it was the Old West, and we had
Speaker 1: a couple of cowboys walking around talking to each other,
Speaker 1: and they showed a wanted poster and the man on
Speaker 1: the wanted poster was Bandido. And Bandido has not been
Speaker 1: seen a very long time. He has not been in
Speaker 1: a match since June of last year. Broke his wrist,
Speaker 1: had surgery, didn't heal right, had a second surgery, so
Speaker 1: he's been gone for a long time. But now he's back.
Speaker 1: So this was part two, and this time Bendido rode
Speaker 1: into town on horseback and the other cowboys told him
Speaker 1: that he was under arrest. We could do this the
Speaker 1: easy way, or we could do this the hard way.
Speaker 1: Guess which way he chose. Bandido got down off his horse,
Speaker 1: he took off his cape. He was wearing a cape,
Speaker 1: and he ended up laying all four men out and
Speaker 1: then he left. And again this is very straightforward, but
Speaker 1: I like this a lot, you know. I think it's
Speaker 1: a great way to reintroduce someone, make him feel special.
Speaker 1: I mean, they do vignettes for other people. We've seen
Speaker 1: the Julia Hart vignettes over the last several weeks, and
Speaker 1: I think, by the way, all of these are great.
Speaker 1: These are all great. They might be a little hokey,
Speaker 1: but in a way. They kind of remind me of
Speaker 1: Luca Underground. These don't have the production value that Lucia
Speaker 1: Underground had, and it's not I'm not saying it is
Speaker 1: Lucia Underground. I fucking love Lucia Underground. But it's got
Speaker 1: that vibe to it, and I think that it's fine
Speaker 1: to put together, you know, vignettes and segments like this.
Speaker 1: It kind of breaks up all the wrestling on the show,
Speaker 1: but it's a great way to reintroduce Bandido as someone special.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the last one or
Speaker 1: they're going to do more of these. This felt to
Speaker 1: me like it would probably be the last one, but
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing him back in action. Christian
Speaker 1: Cage had a microphone. He was still up in the suite.
Speaker 1: Actually he was kind of sitting in the stands just
Speaker 1: outside the suite. But he's up there in the stands.
Speaker 1: He's got a microphone. He's all by himself, and he
Speaker 1: says that he's got a problem with this fatal four
Speaker 1: way match now that's been set up for World's End,
Speaker 1: and he has issues with all four men in the match.
Speaker 1: They said John Moxley has what he wants. Orange Cassidy
Speaker 1: is a little piss ant. Jay White has unfinished business
Speaker 1: with him, and hangman Page didn't do what he was
Speaker 1: supposed to do when they made their little deal a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. Cage said he's going to drive Oxley
Speaker 1: to drink again and then he'll have to go back
Speaker 1: to rehab while he, being Christian, will have to rehab
Speaker 1: the AW World Heavyweight Championship when he wins it. So
Speaker 1: he turned to go leave, because you leave on a
Speaker 1: high note, you know, when you talk about driving a
Speaker 1: man back to drinking and sending him back to a
Speaker 1: rehab into AA. I mean, it's like, all right, we've
Speaker 1: done our job here. It's time to leave. So he
Speaker 1: turned to go leave. Now he's in the suite, but
Speaker 1: then he turns back around to address the crab. What
Speaker 1: we can see behind him, and he can't see this,
Speaker 1: but we can see behind him because there's a door,
Speaker 1: and through the glass you see Hook standing outside the
Speaker 1: door to the suite. Eventually Christian turns around and he
Speaker 1: sees Hook. Hook takes his arm which was wrapped I
Speaker 1: assume a towel, and he busts the window out. See
Speaker 1: it does what Bill Goldberg should have done. When he
Speaker 1: put his fucking hand through the limousine window on Nitro
Speaker 1: all those years ago, or thunder whatever it was might
Speaker 1: have been thunder, But I don't think he I don't
Speaker 1: think he wrapped his arm or his hand than anything.
Speaker 1: He's like an idiot. He just put it through the
Speaker 1: window and he fucked himself all up. But he busts
Speaker 1: out the window and now Hook enters the suite and
Speaker 1: he attacks Christian, beats the hell out of him. He's
Speaker 1: got his arm in a cast, by the way, maybe
Speaker 1: that's what it was. I'm talking about a towel. I
Speaker 1: think it was a cast. Again. I'm look, I got
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighth degree fever. You got to excuse me.
Speaker 1: So now he's beating the hell out of Christian cage
Speaker 1: and he puts red rum is applied. He tries to
Speaker 1: send Christian flying off the balcony down below. So nothing
Speaker 1: like a good old the fashion act of attempted murder here. Christian, though,
Speaker 1: manages to fight free, and he retreats back into the suite.
Speaker 1: Hook follows him beats him up some more. Now Nick
Speaker 1: Wayne is there, Kip Saban is there. They try to
Speaker 1: fight off hook Hook fights them off Christian. Meanwhile, he
Speaker 1: bolted out of there, so Hook leaves the sweet and
Speaker 1: goes after him, and that's how the segment ended. So
Speaker 1: this was fine. It was Christian being slimy little worm,
Speaker 1: and at least we didn't have Hook cutting a promo
Speaker 1: this week. Hook is not a very good promom and
Speaker 1: every time he has a microphone and he comes out,
Speaker 1: unless it's something very short and sweet where he's saying,
Speaker 1: you know so, and so get your ass out here,
Speaker 1: like that's that's fine. Anything more than that, and it's
Speaker 1: a little dicey. So Hook is at his best one
Speaker 1: he's just going around beating people up, and that's what
Speaker 1: we got here. So that was fine. Now he had
Speaker 1: another Gold League match in the Continent's Classic, and this
Speaker 1: one was between Will Ospray and Claudio Castignoli. As soon
Speaker 1: as the bell sounded, Ospray sprinted into a standing Spanish
Speaker 1: fly and he took Claudio over with it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you knew the match wasn't going to end then and there,
Speaker 1: but they tried to get you with that quick near fall,
Speaker 1: but he kicked out. So Osprey was in control for
Speaker 1: a little bit until Claudio he wrenched the arm and
Speaker 1: he sent Ospray outside. Claudio tried sending Ospray into the steps. Ospray, though,
Speaker 1: cleared the steps and then drop kicked them into the legs.
Speaker 1: He tried to leap off Claudio, though caught and slammed
Speaker 1: him into the barricade. Then he delivered a giant swing
Speaker 1: into the steps, so as Claudio tipped the stairs over,
Speaker 1: he trapped Osprey's arm in them, and then he stood
Speaker 1: on top of the steps, and then he stomped on
Speaker 1: Osprey's wrist and Claudio had control. During the commercial break,
Speaker 1: he got a sharpshooter, replied Osprey, though sprung out of
Speaker 1: it into a springboard hurrican Rana and then a handspring
Speaker 1: corkscrew kick. Ospray missed the hidden blade, but he was
Speaker 1: able to avoid the recola bomb into an octopus. Castignoli
Speaker 1: got the ropes, went back to the arm, hit a
Speaker 1: double stump to the back, and then both men battled
Speaker 1: in the corner. Ospray fought off a superplex attempt and
Speaker 1: then he tried to leap a faith he rolled through.
Speaker 1: He ate an upper cut which turned him inside out.
Speaker 1: So now he's toying with Ospray and Claudio is just
Speaker 1: toying with this man and Ospray all that does is
Speaker 1: just fire him up. So now Ospray hits an oscutter.
Speaker 1: Claudio though wisely rolls outside back inside. Osprey wanted the
Speaker 1: hidden blade. He ran into a pop up upper cut
Speaker 1: for two. Claudio connected on the home run lariat that
Speaker 1: they've done a good job of establishing here in the
Speaker 1: early part of this tournament. That's how he beat Darby
Speaker 1: Allen a few weeks ago, and he's beaten i think
Speaker 1: a couple of other people with it as well. So
Speaker 1: that was the whole point of establishing the clothesline, was
Speaker 1: to set up the first time that somebody would kick
Speaker 1: out of it, that it would be a big deal.
Speaker 1: And so Ospray became the first person to kick out
Speaker 1: of it. Claudio wanted the neutralizer. Ospray got a jackknife
Speaker 1: pin and he got the flash win, and with that win,
Speaker 1: Ospray earns himself three points in this tournament. After the match,
Speaker 1: Claudio attacked him hit a neutralizer and then he went
Speaker 1: outside and he grabbed a chair. Darby Allen comes out,
Speaker 1: he makes the safe with a baseball bat. Claudio just
Speaker 1: runs off through the crowd and Darby was looking back
Speaker 1: at the ring as he was leaving, and he was
Speaker 1: eyeballing Ospray because the two of them were gonna meet
Speaker 1: on Dynamite. They got their Holiday Bash episode coming up
Speaker 1: next week, and I believe that's the first time ever
Speaker 1: matched will Ospray and Darby Allen. I'm actually very much
Speaker 1: looking forward to that match. I think that that is
Speaker 1: going to be an interesting match. It's going to be
Speaker 1: an interesting match in terms of crowd reaction and who
Speaker 1: the crowd sides with, if they pick sides, and just
Speaker 1: how they work together stylistically. So that's the kind of
Speaker 1: match that makes the Continental Classic interesting because you have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get these match combinations that are unique
Speaker 1: in that in some cases we haven't seen before, and
Speaker 1: that's one of the things I like about this tournament.
Speaker 1: So that match is coming up next week. This match
Speaker 1: here was very good as expected. It was nothing blowaway,
Speaker 1: but they've done a good job of building up Claudia
Speaker 1: the past several weeks for that kickout spot on the
Speaker 1: Lariat with him wrestling Darby next week. Though I don't
Speaker 1: think the outcome here was really in any doubt. Renee
Speaker 1: was backstage to introduce Ricochet. Everybody, calm down, Calm down.
Speaker 1: I was joking if I had one hundred and eight,
Speaker 1: I'd be dead. Okay, yeah, seriously, I feel I'll say
Speaker 1: one hundred and eight figuring they'll get the joke. And
Speaker 1: I have people who are like ready to call nine
Speaker 1: one one here in the chat. It just calmed down.
Speaker 1: It's not that it's not that bad. It's not that bad.
Speaker 1: I promise you. I'd be shaking right I'd have the
Speaker 1: shakes right now, I'd be chattering. It would be awful.
Speaker 1: But Renee was in the back to introduce Ricochet, and
Speaker 1: this was embarrassing. And this was embarrassing because he pawed
Speaker 1: when he walked in. He paused for a reaction and
Speaker 1: there was none like, wwe will do this the same
Speaker 1: way where they'll go to the bag. Jackie Redman, Kathy,
Speaker 1: Kelly Renee when she used to be there. You know,
Speaker 1: allow me to introduce my guests at this time, you know, Seamus,
Speaker 1: and then Seamus walks in and you know, they kind
Speaker 1: of ignited, like they acknowledge the reaction they could hear
Speaker 1: from the fans in the arena and it's booze or
Speaker 1: its cheers here it was nothing. It was nothing. It
Speaker 1: was no reaction at all. He says, tonight he faces
Speaker 1: brody King, and this is why he came to AW.
Speaker 1: He came to AW for the competition. He says, brody
Speaker 1: King is big, he's bad, he's scary. One thing he's not, though,
Speaker 1: is Ricochet, implying that Ricochet is not big, he is
Speaker 1: not bad, he's not scary. Got of buried himself there.
Speaker 1: He says, they're both one and one in the Continental Classic.
Speaker 1: And then he looked inside his jacket pocket and he
Speaker 1: pulled that MVP's business card, and he said, tonight he
Speaker 1: has all the cards. And then he made some kind
Speaker 1: of weird bird noise and then he left. That's what
Speaker 1: it was to me. It sounded like it was some
Speaker 1: kind of weird mating call or something, and then he left. Meanwhile, elsewhere,
Speaker 1: someone arrives in an suv in the back in the
Speaker 1: parking area. They step out. This person is wearing the
Speaker 1: Dynamite diamond ring and that could only mean one thing.
Speaker 1: And we see him from the back. We don't see
Speaker 1: him from the front, but clearly it's MJF and he
Speaker 1: is making his way into the arena. Elsewhere, we go
Speaker 1: back to Renee and she interviews Matt Cardona Matt Cardona
Speaker 1: and asks him if he is ready for Chris Jericho
Speaker 1: ad Final Battles. So yes, I didn't want to mention
Speaker 1: it last week because they were taping a Rampage that
Speaker 1: night and the spoilers were already getting out. But I
Speaker 1: didn't want to spoil it for anybody who didn't want
Speaker 1: to know. But not that you really give a shit.
Speaker 1: But Matt Cardona, not Mark Brisco, not Samoa Joe. Matt
Speaker 1: Cardona will be the opponent for Chris Jericho and his
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor World Title of Final Battle, which is
Speaker 1: taking place at the hammer Stein as he would say,
Speaker 1: Ballroom on December twentieth. I will not be watching on
Speaker 1: December twentieth because I will be in Queens while they
Speaker 1: are in Manhattan. I've got other obligations. But Matt Cardona
Speaker 1: is back in aw and he's wrestling Jericho. So now
Speaker 1: you're all brought up to speed. If he didn't watch
Speaker 1: Rampage last week, So he said, it's great to be
Speaker 1: back in aaw He said he's busted his ass to
Speaker 1: reinvent himself over the last five years on the independent scene.
Speaker 1: And now he has the biggest opportunity of his career.
Speaker 1: Try not to laugh facing Chris Jericho at Final Battle.
Speaker 1: And then he challenged Brian Keith to a match on Rampage. Now, look,
Speaker 1: I get that Cardona is trying to He's trying to
Speaker 1: sell this match. He wants he's in the main event
Speaker 1: at Final Battle against Chris Jericho. He wants to he
Speaker 1: wants to make this feel like the biggest thing in
Speaker 1: the world. But if wrestling Chris Jericho for the Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor w title in twenty twenty four is the
Speaker 1: biggest opportunity of your career, you may need to reevaluate
Speaker 1: your career. I'm just saying there was a time when
Speaker 1: that would have really meant something, but at this point
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I'm sorry. We had Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly.
Speaker 1: Now they were the final two if you recall left
Speaker 1: in the Battle Royal, the terribly Boring Battle Royal, the
Speaker 1: Triple b the Boring Battle Royal last week, and they
Speaker 1: wrestled tonight, with the winner challenging MJF at World's End
Speaker 1: with the Dynamite Diamond Ring. I don't know why this
Speaker 1: needs to be for the Diamond Ring. Nobody gives a
Speaker 1: shit about the Diamond ring. And also, you know Kyle
Speaker 1: O'Reilly wants the match too, Kyle wasn't getting the match.
Speaker 1: Now in the back before the match, Renee, who apparently
Speaker 1: is the only person that is available to work these
Speaker 1: backstage segments. I know they have other people. I know
Speaker 1: they have what's her name, the last stuff woman they
Speaker 1: hired our kitty Aura, I think her name is. And
Speaker 1: you've got, oh gosh, who's the other backstage interviewer. She
Speaker 1: just got married to Big Bill the other day. Her
Speaker 1: name just escaped me. Maybe she's on her honeymoon right now.
Speaker 1: Do you mean to tell me there's nobody else in
Speaker 1: the back who could help out Renee and do some
Speaker 1: of these backstage interviews. It's poor woman has to runner,
Speaker 1: and didn't she break her foot recently? She's running around
Speaker 1: with a broken foot doing all these interviews in the back.
Speaker 1: So we're back to her and she's approaching Kyle O'Reilly
Speaker 1: before he comes out for his match. When Mike Tavan
Speaker 1: and Matt Bennett or Mike Bennett, I'm telling you, man,
Speaker 1: my brain is fried. Mike Bennett and Matt Tavan interrupt
Speaker 1: Kyle Tavan said they didn't need to do this. MJF
Speaker 1: is making them look like idiots. Oh, I don't think
Speaker 1: MJF needs to do much to make them look like idiots.
Speaker 1: Bennett said, regardless of what happens out there, we're still
Speaker 1: a family at the end of the day, and O'Reilly said, well,
Speaker 1: you should have thought about that before one of their
Speaker 1: brothers got hurt, referring to Roderick Strong, who we have
Speaker 1: not seen since Full Gear when MJF broke his arm.
Speaker 1: Nothing of any note happened before the commercial break here
Speaker 1: in this match. Back from the break, O'Reilly went for
Speaker 1: a corner charge, but he ate a superkick. Cole wanted
Speaker 1: a Panama sunrise. O'Reilly, though hit a pump knee, wanted
Speaker 1: a brainbuster. Cole responded with one of his own for
Speaker 1: a two count. Cole then faked a high superkick but
Speaker 1: hit one low. O'Reilly, though, recovered and connected on his
Speaker 1: diving knee strike from the apron. Back inside, O'Reilly missed
Speaker 1: a diving knee. Yes, Whiteface says Mike Tavin and Matt
Speaker 1: Bennett are his favorite. I think I just created a
Speaker 1: new tag team here. Solo's fever gets any worse, he's
Speaker 1: gonna start screaming. I'm Matt Tavan. I don't think it
Speaker 1: would ever get that bad. I don't think it would
Speaker 1: ever get that bad. Why isn't Renee the Death Rider's
Speaker 1: personal interviewer that you know what? That's a very good question.
Speaker 1: How come nobody calls this woman out? She does eighteen
Speaker 1: promos in the course of a show. You mean to
Speaker 1: tell me now, one of these restlers is going to
Speaker 1: turn to her and go, hey, Renee, what's going on
Speaker 1: with your husband? Why is he beating everybody up? Why
Speaker 1: is he terrorizing this company? Why is he holding the
Speaker 1: championship hostage? What's going on with him? Nobody? Nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: ask the question. Okay, I just thought I would ask.
Speaker 1: Cole wanted a superkick. O'Reilly dodged and hit a desperation
Speaker 1: flying knee for the double down. After they got up,
Speaker 1: Cole hit a superkick, only for Kyle to hit the
Speaker 1: old Nigel McGinnis lariot the rebound lariot. He got an
Speaker 1: ankle lock applied. Cole, though got a rope break. Then
Speaker 1: they battled up the ropes. Cole headbutted out of a superplex.
Speaker 1: Then he hits Panama Sunrise, but he took too long
Speaker 1: to follow up. Kyle picked the ankle into another ankle lock.
Speaker 1: Cole rolled through and he sent Kyle to the floor
Speaker 1: back inside. O'Reilly collapsed like he was sewn Michaels on
Speaker 1: Raw in nineteen ninety five, and the referee went over
Speaker 1: to go check on him. Cole meanwhile, is kind of
Speaker 1: up against the ropes because he was getting ready to
Speaker 1: lower the boom. He was getting ready for the kill shot,
Speaker 1: so now he's kind of hanging that over by the ropes.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, there's a commotion, right you can
Speaker 1: hear there's a commotion in the crowd and MJF shows
Speaker 1: up and he takes a shot, a cheap shot at Cole,
Speaker 1: who ducked it, and then he caught MJF with a superkick.
Speaker 1: Kyle almost stole a pin because he tried to uh
Speaker 1: schoolboy this man. Cole though, kicked out and then he
Speaker 1: got an inside cradle of his own and he picked
Speaker 1: up the win. Meanwhile, MJF he storms off through the crowd.
Speaker 1: So we never got a promo from him. We got
Speaker 1: nothing from MJF. We got an attempt at a cheap
Speaker 1: shot which backfired and he got superkicked and that was it.
Speaker 1: And the parting shot between these two guys was Cole
Speaker 1: on the ropes looking at MJF and the crowd. They
Speaker 1: were kind of jawing back and forth and MJF was
Speaker 1: telling him this ends at world's end. I'll see you
Speaker 1: at World's end. I'm like, that's it. This was mjf's
Speaker 1: big live return. That's pretty fucking lame. So Mike Bennett
Speaker 1: and Matt Taban they come to the ring to congratulate Cole,
Speaker 1: who then offered a handshake to Kyle O'Reilly. Kyle though
Speaker 1: refused and he left. The match itself was good, again,
Speaker 1: very disappointing that that was it. We finally got MJF
Speaker 1: back live on the show and that was the best
Speaker 1: they could come up with for him. So that was disappointing.
Speaker 1: The match itself, I mean, it was devoid of any
Speaker 1: real heat. I mean, the people were into some of
Speaker 1: the like the high spots and stuff, but you know,
Speaker 1: it was fine. But again, I'm not interested in this.
Speaker 1: I don't care about the Adam Cole Kyle o'reiley drama
Speaker 1: which is now continuing because Kyle would not give him
Speaker 1: a handshake when the match was over. So whatever story
Speaker 1: is playing out here, I know there's a long history
Speaker 1: between these two and it's going to be even longer
Speaker 1: because this story now is still has yet to play
Speaker 1: its itself out fully. The most appropriate place for this
Speaker 1: match to happen is World's End Cole and MJF. It
Speaker 1: was a World's End a year ago that we got
Speaker 1: the Devil revealed and MJF lost his World Championship to Simojo.
Speaker 1: Here we are one year later. In my, oh my,
Speaker 1: how things changed. Look at where we are now. But
Speaker 1: it's kind of fitting that we're getting this match one
Speaker 1: year later at the same show. Is Kyle O'Reilly thought
Speaker 1: of curse to me? Is Kyle o'reiley going to cost
Speaker 1: Adam Cole the match? Right? I mean, he obviously still
Speaker 1: has a big beef with Adam Cole. I'm really sure why.
Speaker 1: I guess you know, he feels he's too obsessed over
Speaker 1: the MJF situation. I guess that's the reason they're sort
Speaker 1: of latching onto. But you would think if there were
Speaker 1: such good friends, he'd be able to overlook that. Now
Speaker 1: that Cole is finally getting this match. This could be
Speaker 1: what he needs. Right, He's so worried about Adam Cole
Speaker 1: being obsessed with MJF. Well, guess what. Now he's got
Speaker 1: his match with MJF. So if he beats him, he
Speaker 1: can get it out of his system and they can
Speaker 1: go back to being best friends again. You would think
Speaker 1: he would be supportive of this. Okay, fine, you would.
Speaker 1: You're obviously not gonna let this go. So now you
Speaker 1: got your match. Now you got to go in there
Speaker 1: and you got to beat this guy's ass. Right, But
Speaker 1: he's throwing he's got the poopoo face on like he's
Speaker 1: like he's a child. Is Kyle O'Reilly going to cost
Speaker 1: Adam Cole in some form or fashion, intentionally or otherwise?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna cost him the match at World's End? God?
Speaker 1: I hope not. God, I hope not. Or are we
Speaker 1: going to see the return of Wardlow? Remember that guy?
Speaker 1: Right here? Here you go. I'm throwing some catch him.
Speaker 1: I'm throwing some member berries at you. You got to
Speaker 1: catch him, you're dropping them. Come on, here you go.
Speaker 1: Here's one. Here's another one. There's another one. I got
Speaker 1: I got tons of Memba Barrris here for you. I
Speaker 1: got one with Wardlow's name on it. Remember that guy,
Speaker 1: Remember he was part of the Undisputed Kingdom. He had
Speaker 1: one job. He failed at that job. He got emasculated
Speaker 1: by Adam Cole. You couldn't even do your one job right,
Speaker 1: go to the back of the line. Your only job
Speaker 1: now is to make sure that all the other members
Speaker 1: of this group don't lose their championships, which they did,
Speaker 1: by the way, because Roddy lost his international title to
Speaker 1: will Ospry. But would they bring back Wardlow to cost
Speaker 1: Adam Cole as revenge and in effect? I don't know
Speaker 1: if he would be realigned again with MJF or if
Speaker 1: he would cost Cole the match independent of MJF. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But are we looking at one of those
Speaker 1: two finishes for World's End? Because I'm not really enamored
Speaker 1: with either one of those. I hope not. We should
Speaker 1: take bets on which one we think it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Either way, I think we know that MJF is probably
Speaker 1: not losing that diamond ring. He has had that diamond
Speaker 1: ring for five years now, Okay, he has had that
Speaker 1: diamond ring longer. Think about this. He has had that
Speaker 1: diamond ring longer than most of Rick Flair's wives have
Speaker 1: had theirs. He has had that diamond ring longer than
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns had his championship for Do you really think
Speaker 1: he's gonna drop it all of a sudden to Adam
Speaker 1: Cole that there won't be some kind of shenanigans involved
Speaker 1: in this mat What should happen? I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 1: what should happen. MJF beats Adam Cole, or Adam Cole
Speaker 1: beats MJF, but preferably MJF I think should beat Adam Cole.
Speaker 1: But either way, and then they move on. They move
Speaker 1: on to other opponents, they move on to other stories
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. That's what I'm hoping we get
Speaker 1: out of World's End is the End? We had another
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho New York minute vignette. We had one of
Speaker 1: these last week. He rattles off a bunch of New
Speaker 1: York references, says that Matt Cardona must be upset that
Speaker 1: they left him laying on rampage last week like a
Speaker 1: used teenage mutant Ninja Turtle action figure, because you know
Speaker 1: Cardon is big to the action figures. Jericho accepts Cardona's
Speaker 1: challenged to a match with Brian Keith and said that
Speaker 1: he'll be on commentary for that match. I'll be sure
Speaker 1: not to watch. Jericho also plug their contract signing for
Speaker 1: Final Battle, which is going to take place on Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor television tomorrow night, and he calls Cardona delusional
Speaker 1: for thinking that he's going to walk out of the
Speaker 1: Hammerstein Ballroom with the ROH World title. Keith said that
Speaker 1: Cardona made a mistake putting his hands on Jericho, and
Speaker 1: he's going to make sure he pays the price. Short
Speaker 1: and sweet, like all Jericho segments should be. This was
Speaker 1: fine if we could. I'll tell you what. If we
Speaker 1: could condense the Learning Tree into a New York minute
Speaker 1: every single week, I'd be okay with that. Tony Schavani
Speaker 1: did a sit down interview with Darby Allen earlier today.
Speaker 1: Darby said that the Death Riders are slowly chipping away
Speaker 1: at everything that makes aw what it is. He said
Speaker 1: that he understands that a lot of young guys don't
Speaker 1: want to get involved because it's the first time they've
Speaker 1: made a living in pro wrestling. Darby said that if
Speaker 1: they don't get involved, then it's just going to keep happening.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he's sitting there and he starts
Speaker 1: punching himself in the face, which is totally normal behavior,
Speaker 1: and he's bleeding now from the mouth, and he says,
Speaker 1: the thing that bothers him, it's not blood and violence.
Speaker 1: That doesn't bother him. The thing that bothers him is
Speaker 1: no one doing anything about it. And he said that
Speaker 1: he needs to win the Continental Classic because it represents
Speaker 1: the passion of aaw. Moxley thinks Aw needs saving when
Speaker 1: it's the company that gave his career a second shot
Speaker 1: and allowed Sting to finish his career on his own terms.
Speaker 1: Nothing fools Moxley better than the lies he tells himself.
Speaker 1: This was good. Darby's going pretty good at these types
Speaker 1: of promos, and so I enjoyed this. I thought this
Speaker 1: was fine. You know again, it keeps you, It keeps
Speaker 1: you aware of the fact that Darby is still very
Speaker 1: much in the mix to challenge Moxley for that championship.
Speaker 1: It feels to me like Darby's going to be the
Speaker 1: one to win the title from Moxley. But we have
Speaker 1: to see what the timeline is going to be here,
Speaker 1: because he is hell bent on doing that Mount Everest
Speaker 1: climb next year. He just talked about it in the
Speaker 1: last couple of days. He said Sting tried to talk
Speaker 1: him out of it. You know why, because Sting has
Speaker 1: common sense. Darby does not, despite all the crazy dives
Speaker 1: that Sting tried when he was in AW on the whole,
Speaker 1: I like to think the man has common sense. So
Speaker 1: if Sting is going to Darby and saying, look, don't
Speaker 1: do this. You don't have to do this, It's it's
Speaker 1: too risky, it's a stupid idea. Darby should listen to
Speaker 1: the man. Darby should listen. Darby could be the AW
Speaker 1: World heavyweight Champion, but would they put the title on
Speaker 1: him if he's got to disappear and start training in
Speaker 1: the next few months for this mountain climb, which I
Speaker 1: want to say I think would take place in April,
Speaker 1: either April or June. I think April. So just keep
Speaker 1: that in mind because that could really have an impact
Speaker 1: on the timeline of things here. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're going to want to put the belt on
Speaker 1: Darby or not, but this just feels tailor made, like
Speaker 1: they're slowly building towards Darby getting that crowning moment. Maybe
Speaker 1: at Revolution one year after Sting had his retirement match,
Speaker 1: Darby Allen goes in there and wins the AW World
Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship for the first time. I suppose he could
Speaker 1: win it and then drop it, because is he really
Speaker 1: going to have a long run with it. He'll probably
Speaker 1: crash and burn in his first title defense. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have that title if he wins it
Speaker 1: for very long, so they can kind of give it
Speaker 1: to him as a token, you know, God forbid. This
Speaker 1: may be the last chance we have to put the
Speaker 1: championship on Darby. But he's determined, man. He is determined
Speaker 1: to not only climb Mount Everest, but he wants to
Speaker 1: literally plant a flag with an AW logo on it.
Speaker 1: He wants the plant the company's flag on Mount Everest.
Speaker 1: But it's a very dangerous risk. It's a very dangerous
Speaker 1: gamble here. There are a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: far more experienced than he is doing that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: who die on that mountain. Like it's brutal. People die
Speaker 1: every year. To him, I feel like it's just this
Speaker 1: is a cool thing. I like to challenge myself, and
Speaker 1: I said, what the fuck, I'll climb Mount Everest. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I hope you know what you're doing. Tony Conn I'm
Speaker 1: sure is just elated at the prospect though, of having
Speaker 1: his company's flag at the top of Mount Everest, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's all for it. In our second Gold
Speaker 1: League match of the night, in the Continental Classic, we
Speaker 1: had Ricochet one on one with Brody King. Welcome to everybody. Here.
Speaker 1: You are a joining late. The snow is falling, winter
Speaker 1: is coming. Well, I guess winter came. I guess winter
Speaker 1: already came, right, I guess we already came. So now
Speaker 1: you're just here for the review. That's how it is.
Speaker 1: Brody King and Ricochet. This was the classic big man
Speaker 1: smaller man match. Ricochet attacked. He just kind of bounced
Speaker 1: off of Brody King. No. Sold some chops and he
Speaker 1: leveled Ricochet with some of his own. Outside. Ricochet tried
Speaker 1: a Hurricanda off the apron. He got caught though, and
Speaker 1: he got power bombed on the apron. It looked like
Speaker 1: he broke this guy's back. King set up for and
Speaker 1: ran through him with a crossbody against the barricade that
Speaker 1: took us into the commercial will break back from the break,
Speaker 1: Ricochet tried a handspring elbow, but King caught him in
Speaker 1: mid air and hit a wild released German suplex for two.
Speaker 1: Brody again flattened him with a chop and told him
Speaker 1: fight back, and he did. Fought back with a low
Speaker 1: bridge and a springboard kicked to the face and that
Speaker 1: sent Brodie king outside and we had the Fosberry flop
Speaker 1: by Ricochet that connected, and then he tossed Brody back
Speaker 1: inside hit a springboard four fifty, but King kicked out
Speaker 1: at one. King slowly rose to his feet. He turned
Speaker 1: Ricochet inside out with a lariat. Ricochet, though wiggled out
Speaker 1: of a gonzo bomb attempt and then hit multiple pump knees,
Speaker 1: and then Brody came back with a corner splash and
Speaker 1: a cannon ball for a two count. They fought on
Speaker 1: the ropes. Ricochet avoided a superplex into a sunset flap
Speaker 1: power bomb, which caused King to pull off the top
Speaker 1: turn buncle pad in the process. Ricochet hit a shooting
Speaker 1: star press, but he couldn't put him away with it. Instead,
Speaker 1: King rose up. He applied a rear naked choke. Ricochet
Speaker 1: fought to the apron. Brody went up on the ropes
Speaker 1: in the corner again, but this time Ricochet hit a
Speaker 1: DDT onto the exposed turn buckle twice and then very interesting,
Speaker 1: something very interesting happened here. Booze for Ricochet, telling you man,
Speaker 1: this is this is crazy. We we have the New
Speaker 1: Day being booed out of the building on Monday night,
Speaker 1: and now we have Ricochet here being booed. Although Ricochet
Speaker 1: would would kill to get the kind of heat the
Speaker 1: New Day guy, but audible booze for Ricochet. That wasn't
Speaker 1: a case where the people didn't like Ricochet, or is
Speaker 1: it more a case as I think that they just
Speaker 1: really wanted to see Brody King win because Brody King
Speaker 1: threw these great matches that he's been having, even going
Speaker 1: back to the match he had it wrestled Dream with
Speaker 1: Darby let alone in this tournament, has been slowly getting
Speaker 1: himself over because the guy's a beast and he goes
Speaker 1: in there and he beats people up, and what's not
Speaker 1: to like about that? Right, he looks like a scary dude.
Speaker 1: He can work his ass off. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: So they booed Ricochet because they could tell like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: this guy's about to win, and they weren't very happy
Speaker 1: about that. So he caught a dazed Brody king with
Speaker 1: a spirit gun not once but twice, which is his
Speaker 1: new finish, and he pinned him to pick up three
Speaker 1: points in the tournament. Very good match. Again, the people
Speaker 1: wanted to see Brody win this match, I believe, which
Speaker 1: is why Ricochet was being booed. And earlier in the show, Ricochet,
Speaker 1: in that promo in the back, he did flash MVP's
Speaker 1: business card. Now nothing came from it. After this, we
Speaker 1: didn't see MVP. He didn't come out, you know, Lashly
Speaker 1: like happened. But maybe he will join the Hurt Syndicate,
Speaker 1: you know, because I was thinking they're trying to recruit
Speaker 1: this guy, and so they're probably setting up him saying no,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get lash Lee against Ricochet after Lashley
Speaker 1: is done with Swerve. But now I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: about that, and I'm not sure that it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a good idea to have Ricochet be, you know, the
Speaker 1: newest member of the Hurt Syndicate and to see Ricochet
Speaker 1: playing more of a heel role. I don't see how
Speaker 1: it can be any worse for him than just being
Speaker 1: babyface Ricochet, which is not to say that he's you know,
Speaker 1: oh he's being buried right He's tied right now, a
Speaker 1: top the leaderboard in the Continental Classic. He's won more
Speaker 1: matches than he's lost. Does he feel special? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: And I think most of us who were talking about
Speaker 1: him when he was supposedly leaving WWE knew this is
Speaker 1: what would end up happening. But he seems to be happy.
Speaker 1: He's happy where he is, He's happy having the freedom
Speaker 1: he has, He's happy being able to work with these
Speaker 1: people that he's not worked with before. But Ricochet was
Speaker 1: not going to come to AW and then six months later,
Speaker 1: you know, still be this huge attraction or a world
Speaker 1: championship contender because AW is filled with Ricochets as talented
Speaker 1: as he is, and he was an innovator in many ways.
Speaker 1: They're probably luchadors and a lot of cruiserweight wrestlers in
Speaker 1: this company right now who modeled themselves after Ricochet and
Speaker 1: looked to him as some kind of an inspiration. Like
Speaker 1: there are certain figures in wrestling who were very influential.
Speaker 1: The Amazing Red, for example, is one of those people.
Speaker 1: Ricochet is another, and so he's got the respect, I'm
Speaker 1: sure of a lot of people on that roster. They
Speaker 1: want to work with him, he wants to work with them,
Speaker 1: but they all work a very similar style. In WWE,
Speaker 1: you have some wrestlers like that, but not a lot,
Speaker 1: so he stood out more. Ricochet had a more unique
Speaker 1: style in WWE because you didn't have a roster full
Speaker 1: of Ricochets. In AW you do, and that's a problem.
Speaker 1: If he wants to try to stand out from the
Speaker 1: rest of the pack, he's going to have to do
Speaker 1: more than just go out there and have these banger
Speaker 1: matches and do these big flips and dives. It's going
Speaker 1: to have to be something more than that. A character change,
Speaker 1: a personality change, a heel turn, something like that could
Speaker 1: be just what he needs to make him more interesting
Speaker 1: than he is right now. So him joining the Hurt Syndicate,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the plan here or not,
Speaker 1: but I think it would be a good move. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd be down to see that if that's where this
Speaker 1: is going now. As the standings currently are, the Gold
Speaker 1: League standings, we have a three way tie with six points.
Speaker 1: Claudio Osprey, Ricochet, they were all tied above the Gold
Speaker 1: League three points. We have Darby Allen and Brody King
Speaker 1: zero points. Guess who's got zero points? Commander. As I
Speaker 1: told you, there was one reason why Commander was placed
Speaker 1: in this tournament when Juice Robinson got hurt, and you're
Speaker 1: seeing why he's in there to take els, nothing more,
Speaker 1: nothing less. That's why they didn't sub Takeshta or Malachi
Speaker 1: Black in there or somebody like that. Commander has one job.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's why he's in this tournament. In the
Speaker 1: Blue League standings, we have Kyle Fletcher alone at the
Speaker 1: top with nine points. One of the things they've done
Speaker 1: a very good job of them, they've gotten right recently
Speaker 1: is this Kyle Fletcher pushed. They are all in on
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher, and I like the I like what they've
Speaker 1: done with him. They are they are actively taking steps
Speaker 1: to try to create a new star, and so far,
Speaker 1: I think they've done a very good job of that.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it continues. Right now, he's at the top of
Speaker 1: the heap. In the Blue League four points, we have
Speaker 1: Kazuchka Okada and Daniel Garcia three points. We have Shelton
Speaker 1: Benjamin and Mark Briscoe and zero points. The Beast Mortos
Speaker 1: Morty dead last with zero points. Guess what we're getting
Speaker 1: on Collision this week, first time ever, we are getting
Speaker 1: Kazuchka Okada one on one against the Beast Mortos. What's
Speaker 1: that match gonna look like? Mortos and Okada? That's an
Speaker 1: interesting match. Now, we were told by ex Caliber that
Speaker 1: we're headed to the back with Leo Rush and Action Andretti.
Speaker 1: So imagine my surprise when they cut to the back
Speaker 1: and we are with the AW World Tag Team Champions
Speaker 1: Private Party. But then they show up. Then there's Leo
Speaker 1: and there's Action Andretti. So that was a very weird segue,
Speaker 1: and they're eyeing the tag team titles and you know,
Speaker 1: it hit me at that moment that you see the
Speaker 1: tag team titles they're sitting on like a I think
Speaker 1: they were sitting on a table and Private Party is there,
Speaker 1: and it hit me. I said, you know, Private Party
Speaker 1: just had the biggest match, the biggest moment of their lives,
Speaker 1: and they beat the Young Bucks to win the AW
Speaker 1: Tag Team titles for the very first time, had a
Speaker 1: great match. And what have they done on Dynamite since then?
Speaker 1: I'm not talking Rampage, I'm not talking Collision. What have
Speaker 1: they done on Dynamite. Nothing. How have they followed up
Speaker 1: that big tag team title win with nothing? They had
Speaker 1: a four way title defensive Full Gear, and I believe
Speaker 1: they've had one match on Collision and that's it. They've
Speaker 1: done nothing to follow up with the new tag team
Speaker 1: champions to try to say, keep them hot. But were
Speaker 1: they really that hot before? I mean they were finally
Speaker 1: they were putting some effort in and trying with them,
Speaker 1: but they're certainly not making any attempt to, you know,
Speaker 1: keep them at the forefront, keep them on people's minds.
Speaker 1: Here on the A show, they've been m I A.
Speaker 1: I saw them here. I said, Oh, Private Party on Dynamite.
Speaker 1: I almost forgot about these fucking guys. It shouldn't be
Speaker 1: that way, but there they were. Top Flight now walks
Speaker 1: in with Leila Gray. They want to know how many
Speaker 1: tag team matches have Leo in Action won to ask
Speaker 1: for a title shot? Who dropped who from the Battle
Speaker 1: Royal right, and they start arguing back and forth. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh god, So Private Party suggests that Top Flight faced
Speaker 1: Leo and Action on Rampage this Friday to see who
Speaker 1: will get a Tag Team Championship match against them. Well,
Speaker 1: this certainly screams rampage. I will agree with that, and
Speaker 1: we'll leave it at that. Renee was backstage because who
Speaker 1: the fuck else would be with Mercedes Bonet and Anna
Speaker 1: Ja head of their TBS title match on the show
Speaker 1: next week, and they both agreed before the segment no Physicality,
Speaker 1: Renee said that Mercedes has defended her title ten times
Speaker 1: and today marks her two hundredth day as the TBS champion.
Speaker 1: Mercedes praise what Anna has accomplished, who went to Japan
Speaker 1: recently to train on excursion, saying it's cute. It's cute
Speaker 1: what she has done at just twenty six years old, Yes,
Speaker 1: but it's not as impressive as what Loan Soto has
Speaker 1: done at just twenty six years old, and now he
Speaker 1: is a member of the New York Mets. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to mention that Mercedes rattled off what she's done
Speaker 1: before she even reached the age of twenty six. And
Speaker 1: then she went to go leave, and Anna stopped her
Speaker 1: and said, you're gonna listen to what I have to say,
Speaker 1: and she put over Mercedes for being one of the
Speaker 1: all time greats. But she's made a living off being
Speaker 1: the underdog and all she needs is three seconds to
Speaker 1: shock the world, not much to it, but this was fine.
Speaker 1: It established. Then Anna is the underdog going into the
Speaker 1: match next week. I don't know if anybody honestly thinks
Speaker 1: she's gonna win. She probably should for her sake, because
Speaker 1: remember when she lost that last match to Mariah May,
Speaker 1: it was under the proviso that she will not get
Speaker 1: another shot at the aw Women's World Championship. So long
Speaker 1: as Anna J is the champion, or so long as
Speaker 1: Mariah May is the champion, Ana J will not get
Speaker 1: a title shot, So that leaves the TBS title. Now,
Speaker 1: she goes in there and loses to Mercedes, she's done.
Speaker 1: Her goose is cooked. That's it. Now. Maybe she'll get
Speaker 1: lucky and Mariah will lose the belt in a couple
Speaker 1: of months, but hopefully not. I don't think she should.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if she loses to Mercedes next week, as
Speaker 1: I figured she is, I don't know what Anna is
Speaker 1: going to do next. She'll have nothing to fight for
Speaker 1: because for her it'll be right to the back of
Speaker 1: the line. So I kind of feel like, you know what,
Speaker 1: maybe there should be a title change next week, but
Speaker 1: we still don't know what's going on. With Camille and
Speaker 1: who attacked Camille. She got laid out a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago on Rampage. Nobody seems to give a shit. Nobody
Speaker 1: mentioned it or Camille and whatever the hell with that.
Speaker 1: They closed the show with the ladies. It was Mariah May.
Speaker 1: It was Mariah May defending the aw Women's World the
Speaker 1: Championship against her former best friend Mina Shiri Kawa. They
Speaker 1: showed thunder Rosa in the crowd and she was holding
Speaker 1: up a sign that said Mariah May, you may not
Speaker 1: and she was screaming that you're not my champion. Mina
Speaker 1: got Mariah wrapped around the ring post with a figure
Speaker 1: four leg locked Brett Hart's style early in the match.
Speaker 1: That took us into the final commercial break. Later on,
Speaker 1: Mariah hit the standing hurri kanrana out of the corner
Speaker 1: spot that Trish Stratus used to do where her opponent
Speaker 1: would be on the ropes. Trish is on the mat,
Speaker 1: but she kind of runs into the corner and does
Speaker 1: like a handstand and then uses her legs to take
Speaker 1: the person off the ropes. Well that's what she did here,
Speaker 1: took Mina off the top with it. Mariah then connected
Speaker 1: on two straight knee strikes coming off the ropes and
Speaker 1: then dropped Mina with may Day, which is her finish,
Speaker 1: but Mina kicked out and Mariah couldn't believe it. In
Speaker 1: the crowd cheered. Mariah got her up on her shoulders again,
Speaker 1: but Mina crucifixed her backwards, but she actually lost her
Speaker 1: I don't know how that happened, but Mariah went over
Speaker 1: before Mina even hit the mat, but she tried to
Speaker 1: pin her anyway, and she kicked out. Mina caught her
Speaker 1: with a sling blade off the middle rope, and then
Speaker 1: Mina signaled for the glamorous driver, got her up in
Speaker 1: the position for it. It's like a reverse DDT position,
Speaker 1: and then lifted her up and she dropped her for
Speaker 1: the driver, and Mariah kicked out it too, so back
Speaker 1: to their feet. Mariah caught Mina with a head butt
Speaker 1: and then a very sudden storm zero put her away
Speaker 1: for the one, two three, and just like that, out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, Mariah may retains her AW Women's World Championship.
Speaker 1: They had a good match. It did feel like the
Speaker 1: finish came out of nowhere, though, but I guess that's
Speaker 1: kind of the point, you know, she hits that Storm
Speaker 1: zero out of nowhere. We've seen her do that a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of times since she beat Tony Storm back
Speaker 1: in August, and it was very appropriate that she did
Speaker 1: it again here because when the match was over, Mariah
Speaker 1: gets to her feet, she gets her hand raised, and
Speaker 1: then we hear Tony Storms old punk rocker theme song,
Speaker 1: and on commentary, ex Caliber wonders, wait a minute, says,
Speaker 1: could it be her, because we've seen Mariah May dress
Speaker 1: up as the og Tony Storm before. But of course
Speaker 1: Maria May is in the ring right now, so this
Speaker 1: ex Caliber guy, he isn't very bright, now, is he.
Speaker 1: But there she was. She comes out on stage and
Speaker 1: it is indeed the real Tony Storm in the flesh,
Speaker 1: the og Tony Storm, not timeless Tony Storm. Now black
Speaker 1: and white Tony Storm. She was in living color. She
Speaker 1: was dressed like the old Tony Storm. She had the
Speaker 1: hat on, she had the black the makeup or whatever
Speaker 1: under the eyes like she was ready to play for
Speaker 1: the Giants. And by the way, the Giants could use
Speaker 1: Tony Storm on their team right now because the Giants
Speaker 1: fucking suck. There she was, she was on stage and
Speaker 1: she was soaking up the reaction, and Mariah had a
Speaker 1: look on her face like she couldn't believe it. They
Speaker 1: show thunder Rosa in the crowd and thunder Rosa held
Speaker 1: up a sign that just said WTF on it. And
Speaker 1: now you know why they closed the show with this match.
Speaker 1: You were wondering, why are they headlining with this? Now
Speaker 1: you know, But there's your Women's World Championship match? Now?
Speaker 1: Is that your Women's World Championship match for World's end?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so because they
Speaker 1: were showing thunder Rosa in the crowd, and it makes
Speaker 1: me think that thunder Rosa is going to be set
Speaker 1: up to challenge Mariah next. They're gonna want to hold
Speaker 1: off on dooing Mariah and Tony Part two until they
Speaker 1: get to Australia in February for Grand Slam, which is
Speaker 1: going to I believe, going to be streaming live on Max.
Speaker 1: I believe that they had a downgrade. They're not going
Speaker 1: to be in a big stadium. They're going to be
Speaker 1: in a thirteen thousand seed building, but they're still going
Speaker 1: to be doing this big show from Australia, and I
Speaker 1: would think you would want Tony storm on that show
Speaker 1: in a championship match. So you do Mariah and Thunder
Speaker 1: at the end of this month, and you set up
Speaker 1: for Tony and Mariah on February fifteenth. That's my guess
Speaker 1: about how the timeline on this is probably going to
Speaker 1: play out. But no more Timeless Tony Storm. And I
Speaker 1: will miss Timeless Tony Storm. I think that the work
Speaker 1: she did with that character was phenomenal. How invested in
Speaker 1: it she was, how how legitimately funny and entertaining, whether
Speaker 1: it was on TV, whether it was at the scrums
Speaker 1: on social media. She was fucking great. But you can
Speaker 1: only do so much and you have to evolve, and
Speaker 1: in this case she I guess she's kind of devolving
Speaker 1: because she's going back to the old Tony Storm. But
Speaker 1: it was time, and she could bring it back anytime
Speaker 1: she wants to. That's the beauty of it. You know,
Speaker 1: she's transported herself back into the modern day. But at
Speaker 1: any point she falls back into a funk, she loses
Speaker 1: her mind, she gets bomped in the bomped in the head,
Speaker 1: and we get timeless Tony Storm back. But it was time.
Speaker 1: It felt like it was time. Now Collision this week
Speaker 1: is going to have Okata, as I mentioned, one on
Speaker 1: one for the first time against the Beast Mortos. We've
Speaker 1: got Kyle Fletcher against Mark Brisco. Willow Nightingale and Jamie
Speaker 1: Hayter are going to be having a match in the
Speaker 1: International Women's Cup Qualifier, that is the Finals. The winner
Speaker 1: will be going on to the Tokyo Dome for Russell
Speaker 1: Dynasty on January fifth, and I was originally thinking Jamie
Speaker 1: would go to the Tokyo Dome, but given all the
Speaker 1: teases with Julia Hart probably going to be Julia costing
Speaker 1: her a way in and Willow Nightingale will end up
Speaker 1: going into that four way mat. It'll be a representative
Speaker 1: from AW, a representative which I believe is Athena from
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor, a representative from CML, and a representative
Speaker 1: from Stardom, and the winner of that four way match
Speaker 1: of Wressell Dynasty, I believe, can challenge for whichever championship
Speaker 1: she wants to challenge for. It's probably gonna be Willow
Speaker 1: Nightingale in that match, and then Dynamite next week is
Speaker 1: the Holiday Bash, will Osprey against Darby Allen for the
Speaker 1: first time ever in the Continental Classic, and Mercedes Monnette
Speaker 1: defends the TBS title against Ana J and that is
Speaker 1: your lineup for next week? What did you think of
Speaker 1: Dynamite Winter is Coming? With over eleven hundred votes in
Speaker 1: so far and counting thirty five percent thumbs up, twenty
Speaker 1: six percent thumbs in the middle, and thirty eight percent
Speaker 1: sent thumbs down. Got a lot of comments from people
Speaker 1: agreeing that it's just you know, the matches are okay,
Speaker 1: the matches are fine, but they're just not They're just
Speaker 1: not invested in a lot of the stories and the
Speaker 1: characters and just what they're doing at the moment just
Speaker 1: not very exciting. It's not very interesting for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. You see numbers like this. I mean it's
Speaker 1: not even just numbers on Twitter or people you know,
Speaker 1: review bombing or whatever people love to bitch about it.
Speaker 1: I mean I get messages about it every day, you know,
Speaker 1: from people who are longtime viewers of Dynamite, who have
Speaker 1: been here from the very first streams, and our fans
Speaker 1: of aw and they say the same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, yeah they like this or that,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's just not hitting the way that
Speaker 1: it used to. And all you got to do is
Speaker 1: just look at those earlier Winter Is Coming shows and
Speaker 1: just compare them and how those shows were doing to
Speaker 1: how the shows do now, and it just speaks volumes,
Speaker 1: you know, it just says it all. I just got
Speaker 1: done talking about the Thanksgiving Eve episode of Dynamite, and
Speaker 1: if you look back at all the other Thanksgiving Eve episodes,
Speaker 1: because Thanksgiving Eve is always on a Wednesday, so you
Speaker 1: always have a Thanksgiving Eve episode of Dynamite, and those
Speaker 1: shows were doing eight nine hundred thousand viewers, just like
Speaker 1: the early Winter Is Coming episodes work. And then you
Speaker 1: look at this year five hundred and thirty seven thousand,
Speaker 1: Where did these people go? Well, they're on the road
Speaker 1: and they're you know, it's Thanksgiving Eve and they're traveling.
Speaker 1: They weren't traveling last year. They stayed home for the
Speaker 1: last three years. Where did these people go? They're just
Speaker 1: not interested? Why why are they not interested? You got
Speaker 1: to get to the root of the problem and just
Speaker 1: blame it on Twitter polls and troll like, it's just
Speaker 1: it's avoiding answering the question. They don't want to answer
Speaker 1: the question because they don't want to acknowledge that there's
Speaker 1: a problem. Clearly, the numbers don't lie and there is
Speaker 1: a problem. And these people went somewhere and they haven't
Speaker 1: come back, and that's the problem. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a look at your superchats. Casey makes a good point, says,
Speaker 1: you can't announce a Moxley takeover like it's a scheduled event.
Speaker 1: I feel like WCW announcing tune in next Monday night,
Speaker 1: the nWo they're taking over Nitro. They're going to take
Speaker 1: over the entire first hour of Nitro. We did have
Speaker 1: nWo Nitro once and it was a fucking failure. This
Speaker 1: is why they never did it again. But all those
Speaker 1: all those times, the nWo would come out of rekavoc
Speaker 1: and chase the announcers away and all the stuff they
Speaker 1: would do. Like imagine if they just announced every week
Speaker 1: that next week, that's what's gonna happen, tune in. I
Speaker 1: still don't understand what that whole Moxley takes over the
Speaker 1: superstation thing was. All that was so fucking lame. I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting for him to take over the superstation. He
Speaker 1: never did take over the superstation. Still waiting for it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start with thank you Retro for the
Speaker 1: super chat. What's the difference between the Grinch and Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 1: One lives on a tall fictional mountain, the other lives
Speaker 1: on a tall mountain of fiction. Very true, That is
Speaker 1: very true. Face bears snow snow in New York City.
Speaker 1: Rain good, good, It's the way that I like it.
Speaker 1: We had a ton of rain today, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that thought didn't occur to me that this could
Speaker 1: easily have been snow. I'm very happy that it wasn't.
Speaker 1: The learning sicko, doctor Bropio. I'll just get this out
Speaker 1: of the way before I disappear again. But that Mariah
Speaker 1: thumbnail looks like she's having a good time. Don't even
Speaker 1: know if that's PG. Mariah always has a good time.
Speaker 1: She seems like a fun person to hang out with
Speaker 1: a spears You really want snow, huh? You could always
Speaker 1: leave New York. They got plenty of snow. You want
Speaker 1: to go up north, you can go skiing. I hear
Speaker 1: Vermont has a lot of snow this time of year.
Speaker 1: Boston can go there. Dark effect with the thirty five
Speaker 1: dollars super check. If you had a pencil in aw
Speaker 1: what would be your first order of business to try
Speaker 1: to heat it up? Who would you Push as your
Speaker 1: top stars. Thank you for the reviews. Thank you Dark Effect.
Speaker 1: It's a hard question because I think you need to
Speaker 1: really sit down and just map out a whole plan
Speaker 1: for this company. And I'm not sure. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: there's anything at the moment under this current regime that
Speaker 1: they could do to really heat things up. Who would
Speaker 1: I build around? You want to build around a person
Speaker 1: like a Moxley, A Moxley, Jesus Christ Osprey. I definitely
Speaker 1: don't want to build around Moxley. They've built around him
Speaker 1: for five years now, it's time to move on. Osprey
Speaker 1: is one. I'll give you another example. There's a perfect
Speaker 1: example of what I talk about so often. Where is
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs. Powerhouse Hobbs came back right several weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Why are we not seeing him on the show every week?
Speaker 1: Why are we not hearing from him on the show
Speaker 1: every week? Where did he go? Where has he been
Speaker 1: the last few weeks? He's not in the Continental Classic.
Speaker 1: They left him out, But that doesn't mean you just
Speaker 1: completely leave him off the shows. So you brought this
Speaker 1: guy back. He was in a couple of matches. Maybe
Speaker 1: he can't keep somebody up by bringing them back and
Speaker 1: then putting him right back on the back burner. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. And I'm talking dynamite, okay, don't
Speaker 1: I'm not talking collision, I'm not talking rampage. He needs
Speaker 1: to be on dynamite. Where's he He's one of those
Speaker 1: younger guys that you can build hero out. Let him
Speaker 1: go on a tear the way that they did years
Speaker 1: ago with wardlow Right, give him a shot. And I
Speaker 1: know that he had a brief run as the TNT
Speaker 1: champion and it was very unremarkable, but that was the
Speaker 1: way it was booked. I don't blame Hobbs for that.
Speaker 1: Where's he at? You could build around somebody like him,
Speaker 1: So there's any number of people that you could try
Speaker 1: to build around as your kind of core nuke people.
Speaker 1: Osprey Hobbes. Those are two names that immediately jump to mind.
Speaker 1: Ricky Starks, if he wasn't being held hostage is another one.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, it's it's a matter of like
Speaker 1: what do you do with them? You got to map
Speaker 1: out all these different stories who they're gonna work with
Speaker 1: under the current regime. I just don't see. I don't
Speaker 1: see what that story would be. That's going to suddenly
Speaker 1: inspire people to get excited about these shows, or lapsed
Speaker 1: AW fans to suddenly go, oh wow, they're doing what
Speaker 1: I gotta start watching this show again. I just they've
Speaker 1: burned through a lot of good will with a lot
Speaker 1: of people who used to give them the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt. I look back when Triple H was running
Speaker 1: the Black and Gold NXT. I trusted. I trusted in
Speaker 1: him that you know what, he knows what he's doing,
Speaker 1: He's putting on these great shows. I give him a
Speaker 1: lot of latitude because rarely did he let me down
Speaker 1: as a viewer. When I watched Lucia Underground, I had
Speaker 1: full faith in the writers of that show. Rarely did
Speaker 1: they let me down. So I said, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know where this is going, but I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: going to a good place because they've got a good
Speaker 1: track record, and I trust these people. And I think
Speaker 1: Tony Kah had a lot of goodwill like that in
Speaker 1: the early days of AW and it's all been squandered
Speaker 1: now and he doesn't have the elite now to fall
Speaker 1: back on, and supposedly hear all these rumors and stories
Speaker 1: about how you know, different people are doing their own thing,
Speaker 1: and there's this lack of oversight and what's true and
Speaker 1: what's not. I don't know, but I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I do know. I don't need to be in the
Speaker 1: back to know this. I watched the shows and they're
Speaker 1: just not as good as they used to be. And
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who will show up
Speaker 1: and then they'll disappear. And it's not always because they
Speaker 1: got hurt, right, There are injuries that we don't know
Speaker 1: about because they don't tell us anything. But it's not
Speaker 1: like everybody who vanishes from the show is hurt, right.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they just vanish and there's no good reason for it.
Speaker 1: It's very frustrating as a viewer when you want to
Speaker 1: invest in some of these people and you feel like
Speaker 1: you really can't do that. It's tough. Yeah. Statlander is
Speaker 1: another one. Chris Statlander have that great match with Mercedes.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen her since Bace Bears the d Riders,
Speaker 1: that's what they are. They're the death Riders, right. Aw
Speaker 1: certainly has a lot of d Riders, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: for sure, but I hear from some of them every day.
Speaker 1: In my mentions, Oz glorious outside of a bunch of
Speaker 1: overrated Polynesians slow dripping a story for the nine years.
Speaker 1: What would rekindle your overall interest in AIW? Well, we
Speaker 1: just talked about this. I'll know it when I see it.
Speaker 1: That's the best answer I can give you. I'll know
Speaker 1: it when I see it. But you know, do I
Speaker 1: have faith that that story is right around the corner.
Speaker 1: I don't. We had the Elite, we have the death Riders.
Speaker 1: It's not doing anything for me. It's not doing anything
Speaker 1: for aw either. The Ruthless Aggression Podcast with a nine
Speaker 1: to ninety nine thank you brother Solo Monster. Would you
Speaker 1: rather drink a Pepsi blue with Big Dick Johnson, a
Speaker 1: Vanilla Coke with Big fat, Oily guy, or a Doctor
Speaker 1: Pepper red fusion with Big Daddy V who has just
Speaker 1: popped a viagra for fun. I think the most disgusting
Speaker 1: part of this super chat is vanilla coke. H it
Speaker 1: sounds awful. I never tried it before. I have no
Speaker 1: interest in trying it. Pepsi, I have no interest Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 1: I've never tried Doctor Pepper, have no interest. I don't
Speaker 1: want to drink any of those things. I think I'll
Speaker 1: sit with my water bottle and uh, me and Big
Speaker 1: Daddy V will share stories of our respective conquests. RAF Yes, RAF,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, RAF showing concern for me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: OZ and Glorious, Thanks, thank you very much. Bace beers
Speaker 1: Mercedes better be careful. CEOs are targets now. Yes, they are,
Speaker 1: unfortunately fortunately for them. Justin g WE super Chat if
Speaker 1: we are abducted, we nine to one one. Your fever, Well,
Speaker 1: that's very kind of you. At least someone cares. It's
Speaker 1: good to know someone cares. Now Seriously, Vanilla Vanilla coke
Speaker 1: is uh ugh, it just sounds like two things that
Speaker 1: shouldn't go together. Ah says we know you'll you'd still
Speaker 1: stream at one oh eight because you love us. I
Speaker 1: probably would if I wasn't completely delirious, I probably would
Speaker 1: stream at one hundred and eight. Base Beer says UFOs
Speaker 1: in Jersey. Is that a thing that's going on right
Speaker 1: now now? Or have UFOs reunited the old WWE music
Speaker 1: group and they're performing in New Jersey? Michael Darcy, is
Speaker 1: there something outside of just tell better stories that AW
Speaker 1: can do to bring interest back to the product. My
Speaker 1: idea would be less DQ finishes and interference and focus
Speaker 1: more on the wrestling, Focus more on the wrestling. This
Speaker 1: is what they do every week. They focus on the wrestling.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they will do these DQ finishes, but
Speaker 1: you get DQ's far less often in AW than you
Speaker 1: do in WWE. Are you sure you're not talking about WWE?
Speaker 1: If anybody has an issue with interference in matches, it
Speaker 1: is WWE okay, and their product may be hot right now,
Speaker 1: but you have shows some weeks where every match exept
Speaker 1: one has some sort of interference or distraction. It's obscene.
Speaker 1: That's a WWE problem as much as it is AW,
Speaker 1: if not more so. Aw's problem is not that they
Speaker 1: don't focus enough on the wrestling. Come on, Michael, you
Speaker 1: can't be serious. But I mean, as far as uh,
Speaker 1: is there something outside of just tell stories? Yeah, slow
Speaker 1: the fuck down. Some of these shows, and again last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks have been better, but just slow the
Speaker 1: fuck down with some of these television shows instead of
Speaker 1: just going from one to the next, to the next,
Speaker 1: to the next, next match that's the next, the next,
Speaker 1: slow down if that means you got to cut some
Speaker 1: shit out, cut some shit out, take your best stuff,
Speaker 1: let it breathe, devote more time to it instead of
Speaker 1: just constantly giving us wrestling wrestling, wrestling, wrestling wrestling. When
Speaker 1: you do that, nobody gives a shit, nobody cares. Look
Speaker 1: at Raw the last two weeks. The wrestling on Raw
Speaker 1: the last two weeks has been below average if you
Speaker 1: just jog like I had people. I had one person
Speaker 1: who showed me a screenshot and it was the Cage
Speaker 1: Match rating for Monday Night Raw this week, and I
Speaker 1: think it was the same thing last week. And they
Speaker 1: showed me the Cage Match rating and it was like
Speaker 1: a four, like a four out of ten. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they were trying to prove some kind of
Speaker 1: point to me, because like the Twitter poll had like
Speaker 1: eighty five percent thumbs up for Raw, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to show me, well, Cage Match says, it's, you know,
Speaker 1: a four point twenty five rating for the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no shit, because Cage Match is rating the matches on
Speaker 1: the shows. Cage Match is not rating the promos and
Speaker 1: the angles on the shows. That's why Tony Kahn loves
Speaker 1: Cage Match and he cites it and he uses it.
Speaker 1: He probably posts reviews on there under a freaking Burner
Speaker 1: account because it's all about the matches, how many five
Speaker 1: star matches. Was it a good match, was it a
Speaker 1: great match? Was it a terrible match? Well yeah, if
Speaker 1: you look at Rob the last couple of weeks, the
Speaker 1: matches were nothing special. But that's not what carried the
Speaker 1: shows and made them entertaining and made them interesting and
Speaker 1: made them fun. So you can't use that as a baseline.
Speaker 1: It's all about just you got to just give people
Speaker 1: entertaining segments on the show, and you do that through
Speaker 1: means beyond just bangor wrestling matches with Ricochet and Commander
Speaker 1: and will Ospray and Claudio, and they're great. A lot
Speaker 1: of those guys I love and I love their matches,
Speaker 1: but there's got to be more to it than that.
Speaker 1: The way they shoot segments on these shows in the back,
Speaker 1: which they don't really do, is not that they don't
Speaker 1: do backstage segments, but this is actually I'll give you
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. This is something I've talked
Speaker 1: about before, and a lot of the aw sikos they
Speaker 1: don't like hearing this because they automatically go, you want
Speaker 1: the shows to be more like WWE, Right, you want
Speaker 1: them to just copy WWE. No, I want them to
Speaker 1: copy a fucking formula that works. And one thing that
Speaker 1: I feel like we don't get enough of on these
Speaker 1: shows is when you have a story. Let's take the
Speaker 1: Death Writers story for example. Okay, whenever we see the
Speaker 1: death Writers on this show, typically they're coming through the
Speaker 1: crowd when they make their entrance, right, they come to
Speaker 1: the ring, when we see them in the back, Like
Speaker 1: tonight we had John Moxley cutting a promo. They were
Speaker 1: standing behind him and he was looking into the camera
Speaker 1: and he's cutting a promo and he's addressing the crowd.
Speaker 1: He's addressing his opponents for World's End. Why can't we
Speaker 1: get segments on the show that are similar to the
Speaker 1: way the WWE does the segments on Rawn Speck. Now,
Speaker 1: where you have the death Riders, they're in their their
Speaker 1: dressing room, right, they have their own dedicated locker room
Speaker 1: because John Moxley is the world champion, so why wouldn't
Speaker 1: he have his own dressing room. And the camera is
Speaker 1: in there, and the camera is sort of like this
Speaker 1: invisible fourth wall here, right that you don't really acknowledge,
Speaker 1: but it's there. You have to suspend your disbelief. But
Speaker 1: there's the camera there, and the Death Riders are just
Speaker 1: sitting around and they're interacting with each other and they're
Speaker 1: having a conversation about something. Wheeler Yuda is like the
Speaker 1: redheaded stepchild of the group. So if you want to
Speaker 1: inject a little bit of humor into things, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying turn it into a comedy angle, but like, look
Speaker 1: at what The Bloodline did with Sammy's eight. It was
Speaker 1: a little bit of levity in that story, and they
Speaker 1: really did a good job of fleshing out those characters
Speaker 1: and those personalities, especially when Sammy was part of the
Speaker 1: group and he elevated everybody's game and then of course
Speaker 1: he just tried to crack everybody up every single week.
Speaker 1: Why can't they do something similar like that with the
Speaker 1: Death Riders where they're sitting around in the back and
Speaker 1: we get a little more insight into what makes them
Speaker 1: tick and what they're talking about, and maybe they're you know,
Speaker 1: we we have a Claudio kind of bullying Dah around
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you you know, but that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. I don't give a shit about Wheeler Uda.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't care what they have him doing
Speaker 1: on television. I don't care when he's on my television screen.
Speaker 1: If he tripped and he fell and he rolled down
Speaker 1: the ramp and he hit his head on the fucking beams,
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. Give me a reason to
Speaker 1: care about Wheeler Unit. We've seen Claudio tell him to
Speaker 1: shut up, and we've seen other members of the group
Speaker 1: bully this kid around. If you want to turn him
Speaker 1: into a sympathetic figure, one way to do that would
Speaker 1: be like character building segments like that backstage take five minutes.
Speaker 1: And this is something Tony doesn't like doing. Because Tony
Speaker 1: Shavanni has talked about this. Tony Shavanni is pitched doing
Speaker 1: you know, like a control center type segment. Tony Coin's like, Nope, Nope,
Speaker 1: not doing it. You can do it on the YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: not on the show. You need match match match, match
Speaker 1: match match, take five minutes and do segments like that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't just have to be with the Death Riders.
Speaker 1: It could be with anybody. Those are some of the
Speaker 1: most entertaining segments. They don't do it. The backstage segments
Speaker 1: they do are fucking awful. They're horrendous. They're terrible. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. They look like something out of a high
Speaker 1: school play. Most of the time. There's one answer the
Speaker 1: Juliet with the two dollars super chat. Happy fifty of
Speaker 1: the birthday to raymystereo. Yes, Rag, just turn fifty, Rage,
Speaker 1: just turn fifty. It doesn't look a day over twenty four,
Speaker 1: but happy birthday to Ray. Justin g Hey. Now Eddie
Speaker 1: Kingston has asked Renee about it? Yeah, what, I guess
Speaker 1: that's true. I guess he has. But Eddie Kinston is
Speaker 1: kind of like the Kevin Owen so aw where you
Speaker 1: know he's got common sense and he actually he talks
Speaker 1: like somebody who has common sense and actually knows what
Speaker 1: he's talking about, and ask the kind of questions that
Speaker 1: a normal person would want to know the answers to,
Speaker 1: and a lot of what he says is not wrong,
Speaker 1: He's actually right. A lot of what he says. Bass
Speaker 1: Beers says Renee is in on it. Why why would
Speaker 1: she be in on it? What would be the purpose
Speaker 1: of that? You're gonna go heal? If she's not gonna work,
Speaker 1: then there's no point b com See, clearly I had
Speaker 1: a dream that Brian Pillman versus Jean Moxley No DQ
Speaker 1: happened and we were praying both guys come out alive. Yes,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of blood. Oh, I can imagine
Speaker 1: if Moxley was involved. Retro says winter came, but did
Speaker 1: Katie Lee? I don't know. I don't know what Katie
Speaker 1: Lee Burchill is up to these days. Alex with a
Speaker 1: twenty five says a non aw question. With four Saturday
Speaker 1: Night's Main event shows each year, do you think the
Speaker 1: overall quality will be diluted or will the booking decide
Speaker 1: that the overall quality be diluted? Do you realize that
Speaker 1: back in the day, Saturday Night's Main Event happen a
Speaker 1: hell of a lot more than four times a year.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were doing them every month, but
Speaker 1: it was damn near like they had multiple Saturday Nights
Speaker 1: made events every year. Now that now, of course, back
Speaker 1: then they didn't have as many pls as they do now,
Speaker 1: and it will be very interesting to see how they navigate,
Speaker 1: for example, having one week before the Royal Rumble, which
Speaker 1: I don't think is ideal, and they got one on
Speaker 1: January twenty fifth, and then the Rumble is a week later.
Speaker 1: But to answer your question, now four of them a year,
Speaker 1: they're quarterly specials. Am I worried about them diluting things
Speaker 1: or being diluted. No, I wish there were more of them. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I wish we were getting more of them. Also, can't
Speaker 1: wait to see Cody walk out with the winged eagle belt.
Speaker 1: I think it's happening. I said it the other day,
Speaker 1: and I think, well, I don't think. I know. Now
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I can't wait for Saturday. Saturday is
Speaker 1: going to be great, Casey, thank you for being a member.
Speaker 1: Alex says, try some tumeric ginger tea to help with
Speaker 1: the inflammation. It's mainly just this cough that I have.
Speaker 1: This is very annoying, freaking choking. Last night, Manny Moxley
Speaker 1: trying to do his hokey shit to the Hurt Syndicate
Speaker 1: which results in them beating the shit out of him.
Speaker 1: That Death Riders could be interesting. Yeah, let's see Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashley just starts shooting on John Moxley and the Death Riders.
Speaker 1: Joseph says, longtime fan, Judgment Day equals nWo nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine black and white. Yeah, that's that sounds about right.
Speaker 1: Power Spying game's favorite and least favorite Christmas song. Favorite
Speaker 1: Christmas song is uh Fealise Navidad least favorite Christmas song
Speaker 1: is Mariah Carry All I Want for Christmas Dark Effect.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thank you for the kind
Speaker 1: words in the email. It meant more than you know. Well,
Speaker 1: You're very welcome and you could reach out anytime, and
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well, and I'm glad that you're
Speaker 1: with me here tonight. Hopefully you'll be with me Friday
Speaker 1: night and maybe Saturday night, and I'm here Monday night.
Speaker 1: But you already knew that though, So you're always welcome
Speaker 1: and you're you're very much a part of our community here.
Speaker 1: So just know that George Freakin segment, Do you think
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia would have been better a better fit for
Speaker 1: them than Wheeler Oh and the Death Riders? Yeah marginally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do not like a lot, but yes I do
Speaker 1: HBKC eighty three. In your opinion, can a wrestler have
Speaker 1: a successful career as a tweener whereas being a babyface
Speaker 1: or a heel a must? Oh? I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was a guy named Stone, old Steve Austin, who
Speaker 1: you know, you could argue was more of a tweener
Speaker 1: than he was a real babyface, and he did pretty
Speaker 1: well for himself. So the answer is yes, yes you
Speaker 1: can and no cap. Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's called die Hard. Die Hard is one, and Jingle
Speaker 1: All the Way is another. That's always a fun way
Speaker 1: and then Home Alone of course, all fine choices. We
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Speaker 1: Keep pitting that thumbs up. And right now, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen. It is
Speaker 1: now time to be the booker. Here we go. Let's
Speaker 1: be the booker and send you guys out on a
Speaker 1: high note. That's what we're gonna try to do. And
Speaker 1: we are kicking things off, folks with a stipulation. We
Speaker 1: have landed on triple threat. We have to book a
Speaker 1: triple threat tag team match. So that is what we
Speaker 1: are going to do. We get to pick three teams.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this cursed image. Brett Hart and Bill
Speaker 1: Goldberg and yes they were at one time WCW Tag
Speaker 1: Team champions. I already know Brett is gonna drop off
Speaker 1: the apron when Goldberg comes in for the tag and
Speaker 1: he's gonna say fuck you and he's gonna drop down.
Speaker 1: So we know they're not winning the match, but they
Speaker 1: are in the match, as are Scottie Too Hottie and
Speaker 1: Grandmaster sex A, Too Cool and the uh oh, Randy
Speaker 1: Orton forces Adam Pierce to add a stipulation to your match.
Speaker 1: Now we have already landed on triple threat, but now
Speaker 1: we have to pick another stipulation and we still have
Speaker 1: to pick the final tag team. So, uh, let's do
Speaker 1: the stipulation first. Okay, is this the first time that
Speaker 1: we have been uh, we've been in a position where
Speaker 1: we've had to choose two stipulations for one match, I believe,
Speaker 1: So this is this has be the look her history here. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we have a triple threat tag team bull rope match.
Speaker 1: How the hell would that even work? A triple threat
Speaker 1: tag team bull rope match? Yeah, this is loaded alright.
Speaker 1: We got to pick the third team too, Greg de Hammer,
Speaker 1: Valentine and Brutus the Barber Beefcake against Bill Goldberg and
Speaker 1: Brett Hart against Too Cool in a triple threat tag
Speaker 1: team bull rope match. This is gonna be such a
Speaker 1: cluster fudd This is going to be a disaster. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know how this is going to work.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to picture this in my head and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't because look, if it's a bull rope match,
Speaker 1: you could have three people at a time tied to
Speaker 1: the bull rope. But if there's tags, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do. Every time you tag out, You've got to
Speaker 1: take the thing off, you got to put it on.
Speaker 1: Then the other person's got to put it on their wrist.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work. This is like a Vince Russo
Speaker 1: special right here. It just doesn't work. It's too messy.
Speaker 1: I think Brett would just beat Bill Goldberg to death
Speaker 1: with the cow bell and that would be the end
Speaker 1: of it. And the other participants would just be so
Speaker 1: horrified that they would walk away and Goldberg would just
Speaker 1: be left in a bloody heap in the middle of
Speaker 1: the ring. All right, Women's be the book Oh, women's
Speaker 1: be the booker. Maxine Dupree is injured. We were going
Speaker 1: to have Maxine Dupree, but she has hurt her ankle,
Speaker 1: and now we need to spin for a second. Chant
Speaker 1: What is going on tonight? Here? What is going on tonight?
Speaker 1: Mike says Brett would never join such a mess. He
Speaker 1: would never agree to it. He would he would pull
Speaker 1: his creative control card. He said, I'm not doing this,
Speaker 1: This is not wrestling. All right, Well, we spin again
Speaker 1: and we have Natalia. We have Natalia who is still
Speaker 1: going to be in a first round match in the
Speaker 1: Women's Intercontinental Title tournament. She could potentially advance in the tournament.
Speaker 1: Very indecisive. Be the book It's gonna be Natty taking
Speaker 1: on Stephanie McMahon. This has been a disaster of Be
Speaker 1: the Booker so far. I don't know what's going on tonight.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is going on here. All right,
Speaker 1: it comes down to our main event. This is it.
Speaker 1: We need to be saved. It's the Fiend, everybody, the Fiend.
Speaker 1: Bray Wyatt is in the main event. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I feel about this, but let's see here the Fiend,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the Fiend against Bill Goldberg. As if
Speaker 1: we needed to see it for a second time. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to see it the first time. We all
Speaker 1: know how it turned out the first time. Fuck this match,
Speaker 1: and fuck Bill Goldberg for what happened here tonight in
Speaker 1: Be the Booker. He screwed us twice. We got him
Speaker 1: in tag team, be the Booker and in the main event. Cursed, cursed,
Speaker 1: that is what this be the Booker was tonight. We
Speaker 1: got the reverse sweep. You never want to get the
Speaker 1: reverse sweep. If we got the clean sweep, just not
Speaker 1: the one we wanted. That result made me irrationally pissed off.
Speaker 1: Thanks Solo, you're very welcome. Well, look, they cannot all
Speaker 1: be winners. We'll just have to do better next time.
Speaker 1: That's it. Be the Booker shows chaos tonight. That'll be
Speaker 1: one that we remember for a while. Not for the
Speaker 1: right reasons, though, If there's ever a time for the
Speaker 1: Rock to take someone's spot, Yeah, why can't we land
Speaker 1: on that? We landed on fifteen stipulations tonight, We could
Speaker 1: have landed on that one. He no sold the first match,
Speaker 1: leaving Brett so he could show up in the main event.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you know, if there was one, if there
Speaker 1: was one sound to kind of encapsulate that main event,
Speaker 1: yowee wowe, Yeah, that would be it right there. Hey, Richie,
Speaker 1: thank you for the five dollars super chat. Richie says
Speaker 1: Batman movie ranking, the Dark Knight is number one. Dark
Speaker 1: Knight is not only the best Batman movie. It's the
Speaker 1: best movie I've ever seen, So for me, it's The
Speaker 1: Dark Knight. Number two is the first Batman with Keaton
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty nine with him and Jack Nicholson. And
Speaker 1: then the third one, well, see, I haven't seen Robert
Speaker 1: Pattinson his Batman yet. I'm going to, I promise you
Speaker 1: I will. I just haven't seen it yet, so I
Speaker 1: can't judge that one. So it's a little unfair because
Speaker 1: maybe I would have that one third on my list.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna stop there. I will just I will
Speaker 1: leave it at that Dark Knight number one and the
Speaker 1: first one from eighty nine is number two. Those are
Speaker 1: my two favorite Batmans. I really I didn't care much
Speaker 1: for the first uh Nolan one. I know, it was
Speaker 1: like a trilogy, the first one. I I really wasn't
Speaker 1: a huge fan of the first one, and then the
Speaker 1: Dark Knight came and I loved it. And then the
Speaker 1: third one came and I I liked it, but I
Speaker 1: didn't love it the way that I liked or loved
Speaker 1: the second one. Yeah, the third one, I just I
Speaker 1: just couldn't get over Baine. I just you know, oh,
Speaker 1: the dark fuck off Man just fuck off, Like I
Speaker 1: just couldn't. I couldn't stand it. I just couldn't stand it.
Speaker 1: So but it's a cool shot, you know, when they
Speaker 1: have the football game and then the earth opens up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the game, and that's a cool shot.
Speaker 1: I'll give him that. Heath Ledger Man, Heath Ledger, he
Speaker 1: was a dynamo in that movie. What a what a performance.
Speaker 1: All Right. The next time I'm gonna be live with
Speaker 1: you guys is right here on Friday Night. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about SmackDown, and then the big night is
Speaker 1: going to be Saturday because we have Saturday Night's main
Speaker 1: event on NBC eight pm Eastern. I still don't know
Speaker 1: if the show is two hours, if it's if it's
Speaker 1: two and a half hours, I haven't I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: that clarified yet. I think it's eight to ten, but
Speaker 1: it could be longer. I'm assuming it's eight to ten.
Speaker 1: If it is, then you know, I'll be around ten
Speaker 1: thirty or so and we'll talk about the show. But
Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to Saturday Night for sure.
Speaker 1: Richie says. My reaction when I heard Hogan turned heeled
Speaker 1: and form the nWo Shock Shock It's just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: I was very surprised and it was a very exciting
Speaker 1: time in wrestling to see where it was going to go.
Speaker 1: Have I watched the Penguin? No, I've been asked about
Speaker 1: this and I was told that I should watch the
Speaker 1: Batman first. So I'm avoiding the Penguin until I sit
Speaker 1: down to watch this friggin' Batman movie that's three hours long,
Speaker 1: and then I'll watch the Penguin. But if I'm going
Speaker 1: to watch the Penguin and not get references from the
Speaker 1: first one, if it ties into the first one, or
Speaker 1: I just I'd rather just watch the movie first and
Speaker 1: then watch the TV series. Thank you guys for the love.
Speaker 1: Be well, stay safe. Winter has come Until next year
Speaker 1: it will come again. Hopefully you will too. I'll see
Speaker 1: you guys back here on Friday night for the SmackDown stream.
Speaker 1: Until then, take care, guys,