Speaker 1: Tonight was the post Full Gear episode of AW Dynamite,
Speaker 1: coming off of the pay per view from Saturday night.
Speaker 1: It was also the kickoff for this year's Continental Classic,
Speaker 1: and that was really the story of tonight's show, and
Speaker 1: also inserting bigger names into the world title picture, which
Speaker 1: is something that we saw at the end of Full
Speaker 1: Gear on Saturday Night. It's one of the things I
Speaker 1: like the most about the angle they did to close
Speaker 1: the show. I know a lot of people didn't like it.
Speaker 1: It was very polarizing. I actually thought that it was
Speaker 1: smart for them to do what they did there because
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now beyond just Orange Cassidy and
Speaker 1: Darby Allen, we have a whole bunch of different people.
Speaker 1: We're in the conversation when it comes to John Moxley
Speaker 1: in the AW world title, and we had a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that on the show tonight. But really
Speaker 1: the show was carried by the Continental Classic, and it
Speaker 1: was very much the same thing a year ago. That
Speaker 1: tournament carried Dynamite right on through Worlds and we got
Speaker 1: some great matches in that tournament, and I have a
Speaker 1: feeling it's gonna be much of the same, just based
Speaker 1: on you know, even just the early matches here and
Speaker 1: what we saw tonight. It was a good knight for
Speaker 1: three people. It was a good knight for Shelton Benjamin,
Speaker 1: it was a good night for Claudio Castingoli, and it
Speaker 1: was a good night in the main event for Brody King,
Speaker 1: who picked up a win over Darby Allen, who fucked
Speaker 1: himself up pretty good on Saturday night when he drove
Speaker 1: that car into the pickup truck in the parking lot,
Speaker 1: busted himself open, knocked himself silly, probably can cuss himself,
Speaker 1: and ultimately the story was it led to his downfall
Speaker 1: here on this show. He has nobody to blame but himself.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Shelton Benjamin. I'm gonna start calling him Benjamin Button.
Speaker 1: This guy does an age. He looks as good out
Speaker 1: there in the ring as he's ever looked. That thought,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start calling this guy. But they earned the
Speaker 1: first points of the tournament tonight. It was not a
Speaker 1: show without its flaws, which we will get into here,
Speaker 1: but it was a definite improvement over the garbage that
Speaker 1: they spoon fed us last week. A show that a
Speaker 1: go home show of all things that was no good
Speaker 1: and I did not like they were in Chicago tonight.
Speaker 1: I should point this out too, because Chicago has really
Speaker 1: been like home away from home for AW. You know,
Speaker 1: you think of home, you think of Jacksonville, you think
Speaker 1: of Daily's Place. But when I think of home for AW,
Speaker 1: I think of Chicago. It's very much like WWE based
Speaker 1: out of Connecticut. But for decades, when you would say
Speaker 1: the home base for WWE, you would think of New York, right,
Speaker 1: people would call the territory of New York, Oh, you're
Speaker 1: going to New York, and you would think of Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden. With AW, I think of Chicago. Chicago is
Speaker 1: where they had their either earliest events. They've had so
Speaker 1: many shows, big shows in Chicago, and these great crowds,
Speaker 1: very enthusiastic crowds, and it's kind of sad, you know.
Speaker 1: When you look now you see that they were at
Speaker 1: the Windterest Arena in Chicago, which is a building they've run,
Speaker 1: you know, many times before, and they've put a lot
Speaker 1: more people into the building than they did tonight. For
Speaker 1: the number of tickets they had the building set up for,
Speaker 1: which is about forty five hundred, I think they had
Speaker 1: around four thousand, so they came close to filling their
Speaker 1: a lotment. But again that even that forty five hundred
Speaker 1: is a lot, you know, less than what you would
Speaker 1: traditionally see here in this building for an aw show.
Speaker 1: And so even in Chicago, you know, even in their
Speaker 1: their home market, in effect, you know, you just you
Speaker 1: see a byproduct of what a lot of people, myself included,
Speaker 1: have been talking about, which is just a lot of
Speaker 1: fans not as invested in the product as they used
Speaker 1: to be, because if they were, they'd be at the show,
Speaker 1: and they weren't. And that's said because Chicago is traditionally
Speaker 1: their strongest market, although they ran Chicago so many times,
Speaker 1: what happens after a while is you kind of run
Speaker 1: it into the ground. So that may be part of
Speaker 1: what we're seeing here as well, but that was very
Speaker 1: noticeable tonight, you know, given where they were. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this show. This is your aw Dynamite Thanksgiving Eve review.
Speaker 1: I am the Solemn Monster. I want to take a
Speaker 1: moment here to wish all of you a very happy
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving as we are heading into the holiday tomorrow. So
Speaker 1: if you are going to be traveling, as most of
Speaker 1: you probably will be, if you are celebrating because it
Speaker 1: is the busiest travel period of the year. I don't
Speaker 1: remember if they say Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving Eve is
Speaker 1: traditionally the biggest travel day of the year. It might
Speaker 1: have been today. But if you're going to be hitting
Speaker 1: the road, be safe. It's going to be pouring rain
Speaker 1: here in New York tomorrow, so I'm not looking forward
Speaker 1: to driving in that. But wherever you may be, be
Speaker 1: safe and hopefully you have a very happy Thanksgiving. Like
Speaker 1: and subscribe. Super chats are open. As they come in,
Speaker 1: you will see them popping up on your screen. I
Speaker 1: did set a goal in the chat. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know again, people are here for the high holiday,
Speaker 1: some people aren't. I did set a goal for a
Speaker 1: bonus be the booker, so you can take a look
Speaker 1: at that in the live chat if you want to
Speaker 1: try to help us reach our goal for tonight. Well,
Speaker 1: let's get into this show here and talk about the
Speaker 1: full gear recap, because they had a full gear recap
Speaker 1: video to open the show set two Guns n' Roses
Speaker 1: November Rain, which Tony Kahan did obtain the rights to.
Speaker 1: And this is the sort of thing that they should
Speaker 1: do after every pay per view because this was very
Speaker 1: well done. And it's a good way to kind of
Speaker 1: bring you up to speed on the key events coming
Speaker 1: out of the pay per view. But then the show
Speaker 1: opened with the Hurt Syndicate. They were the first ones out.
Speaker 1: It was Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin who was the only
Speaker 1: one in gear, you know, dressed for battle because his
Speaker 1: match was coming up first. But it was Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin,
Speaker 1: and MVP coming out. MVP compared his men to Walter
Speaker 1: Payton and Michael Jordan. I think he mentioned that Lashly
Speaker 1: was Michael Jordan. High praise for these two. He talked
Speaker 1: about how his business card is like a golden ticket
Speaker 1: an MVP criticized Swerve Strickland for being arrogant. There was
Speaker 1: a Swerve's house chant that broke out, and he pointed
Speaker 1: out that Lashley beat the snot out of Swerve at
Speaker 1: full gear. If you don't believe me, take a look
Speaker 1: at this footage. And he pitched it to some footage
Speaker 1: of Lashly just basically toying with him and having his
Speaker 1: way with him. At the pay per view, he said
Speaker 1: their mission statement is that they are in aew to
Speaker 1: take championship titles and leverage them to make more money
Speaker 1: and gain more power. He said that they are the
Speaker 1: merchants of misery. Well, Tony Kahn has been a merchant
Speaker 1: of misery on some weeks with some of these shows.
Speaker 1: Thankfully tonight was an improvement. But the Hurt Syndicate are
Speaker 1: merchants of misery and they are in the profession of pain.
Speaker 1: And he said that they hurt people. That's how we
Speaker 1: ended the promo. Makes sense. I mean, they're the Hurt Syndicates,
Speaker 1: so they hurt people. Pretty straightforward stuff. And it was
Speaker 1: in the opening contest Shelton Benjamin one on one with
Speaker 1: Mark Brisco This was a Blue League match in this
Speaker 1: year's Continental Classic. And with that, let me show you,
Speaker 1: hey styles fan, thank you for the super chat. I
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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the Blue League standings here.
Speaker 1: If you want to know who is in the Blue
Speaker 1: League this year. Here it is the current Continental Champion.
Speaker 1: As you can see, Kazushka Okada is obviously in the tournament.
Speaker 1: We also have Kyle Fletcher. We have Daniel Garcia who
Speaker 1: declared the other night. I didn't know you can declare
Speaker 1: for the Continental Classic. Why everybody else didn't declare. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but he did. So the new TNT champion
Speaker 1: has had two champions here in this group, Mark Brisco,
Speaker 1: Shelton Benjamin and the Beast Mortos. You know what that means.
Speaker 1: It means we're gonna get a Beast Mortos Kazuchka Okata match.
Speaker 1: I'm actually looking forward to that. Actually, Beast Morteos against
Speaker 1: Shelton Benjamin sounds pretty badass too. So that is the
Speaker 1: Blue League standings for you coming into this tournament. Ex
Speaker 1: Caliber did talk about the format and some changes that
Speaker 1: they have made this year. So like last year, everybody
Speaker 1: is barred from ringside. The only people who are allowed
Speaker 1: at ringside for this are the two men in the
Speaker 1: ring and the referee and that's it. So when this
Speaker 1: started MVP and Bobby Lashley they had to go to
Speaker 1: the back twenty minute time limits for every match and
Speaker 1: similar to last year, three points for a win, one
Speaker 1: point for a draw, obviously no points for a loss. However,
Speaker 1: this year, instead of just having the Blue League winner
Speaker 1: go to World's End and wrestle the Gold League winner,
Speaker 1: the Gold League winner will now face the Blue League
Speaker 1: runner up and the Blue League winner at World's End,
Speaker 1: will face the Gold League runner up, and the winners
Speaker 1: of those matches will go on to wrestle each other
Speaker 1: later that same night at World's End in the finals
Speaker 1: to crown the new Continental Champion and this year's winner.
Speaker 1: So basically, if you're gonna win this thing, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wrestle twice in one night at World's End.
Speaker 1: And you know, one thing that I like about that
Speaker 1: is the fact that you know, in my predictions when
Speaker 1: I talked about this the other day, I mentioned that
Speaker 1: I think the finals will be Will Osprey against Kyle Fletcher,
Speaker 1: and that is still my prediction for how the tournament
Speaker 1: will will end. And honestly, you know, if you're going
Speaker 1: to really go all in on Kyle Fletcher because he
Speaker 1: got a huge win, the biggest win of his career
Speaker 1: at Full they put him over Will Ospray, if Tony
Speaker 1: Kann is serious about going all in on this guy, now,
Speaker 1: what I would do is not only would I send
Speaker 1: Fletcher and Osprey to the finals against each other, but
Speaker 1: I would have Fletcher beat him again, because what's better
Speaker 1: than beating will Ospray once beating him twice to prove
Speaker 1: that it wasn't a fluke the first time, and I
Speaker 1: would make Kyle Fletcher the winner of the Continental Classic.
Speaker 1: But this with these rule changes here, what this means
Speaker 1: is that, you know, we could potentially get a match
Speaker 1: like Osprey against the Kata at World's End and then
Speaker 1: later that same night get Osprey Fletcher two. So it
Speaker 1: opens up some more options for some big, big matches
Speaker 1: in the tournament to take place at the World's End.
Speaker 1: So I kind of like the change, but that's my prediction.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with that that we get Osprey and Fletcher
Speaker 1: in the final, and like I said, I would have
Speaker 1: Fletcher go over. And again I look ahead. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking ahead to twenty twenty five and very much in
Speaker 1: the camp of will Osprey will win the aw World
Speaker 1: Championship at some point in twenty twenty five. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at that Texas show at Globalife Stadium all In in
Speaker 1: July that very well could be where it happens. But
Speaker 1: I think he will win the title next year. And
Speaker 1: just think about this, like Kyle Fletcher goes in their
Speaker 1: full gear and he beats Will Ospray. If he goes
Speaker 1: in there in the finals of the Continental Classic and
Speaker 1: he beats him for a second time, and then six
Speaker 1: months from now, eight months from now, will Osprey is
Speaker 1: the AW World champion. Kyle Fletcher has already made case
Speaker 1: for why he should be first in line for a
Speaker 1: shot at the AW World title. You run it back
Speaker 1: again in six eight, nine months, a year from now,
Speaker 1: whenever it is, Kyle Fletcher is gonna be right there
Speaker 1: banging on his door saying, hey, brother, I didn't just
Speaker 1: beat you once, I beat you twice. I'm basically the
Speaker 1: uncrowned world champion. And now you've got a whole program
Speaker 1: out of it down the road. So to me, if
Speaker 1: you're serious about pushing this guy, show it, prove it.
Speaker 1: Prove to me that you're serious about Kyle Fletcher. You're
Speaker 1: all in on Kyle Fletcher. You see dollar sides in
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher. Let him beat will Osburg for a second time. Now,
Speaker 1: Mark Briscoe here again, Shelton Benjamin. Mark Briscoe was in
Speaker 1: last year's Continental Classic and he didn't do very well.
Speaker 1: He didn't do very well. He only got three points,
Speaker 1: so that's one win, and that win came over Jay Lethal,
Speaker 1: who got no wins in the Continental Classic. He was
Speaker 1: a loser and that was about as good as it
Speaker 1: got from Mark Briscoe. I would have preferred that they
Speaker 1: find some different people who were not in the tournament
Speaker 1: last year. I understand why you have people like Briscoe,
Speaker 1: Juice Robinson, for example, in the Gold League. They want
Speaker 1: to have people in the tournament who can lose, which
Speaker 1: is exactly what happened with Mark Briscoe tonight. They need
Speaker 1: to have at least a couple of people in this
Speaker 1: thing that can safely put over the other bigger names
Speaker 1: in this tournament. And if it isn't gonna be Mark Briscoe,
Speaker 1: then it would be somebody else on that level. It
Speaker 1: would be a Mark Davis or we know somewhat along
Speaker 1: those lines. So I get why they have him in
Speaker 1: the tournament and Juice and the need to have people
Speaker 1: like that. It just would have been nice to mix
Speaker 1: it up a little bit more because there are a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of names that were in it last year,
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia and Brody King who are in the tournament
Speaker 1: again this year. And there's so many people, you know,
Speaker 1: like I look at both of the groups, the Blue
Speaker 1: and the Gold, and I'll show you the Gold a
Speaker 1: little bit later. One name that's missing from this tournament
Speaker 1: is Kenoski Takeshta. So you know, we have the TNT champion,
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia is in this thing, but the international champion
Speaker 1: is not, and so down in flames goes my hope
Speaker 1: of you know, possibly having Okata and Takeshta meeting in
Speaker 1: the tournament. That's why I'm going with Osprey and Fletcher
Speaker 1: because takesh is not in the damn thing. So that's
Speaker 1: disappointing and kind of surprising. But also, you know, I
Speaker 1: look at Full Gear on Saturday and they had a
Speaker 1: four way match on the pre show and Buddy Matthews
Speaker 1: won that match. It was Buddy Matthews. I want to
Speaker 1: say it was Dante Martin, it was the Beast Mortas
Speaker 1: and I forgot who the other person was now their
Speaker 1: name just popped out of my head. But it was
Speaker 1: a good match and Buddy went over in the match,
Speaker 1: and actually he was very over in New Jersey for
Speaker 1: whatever reason on Saturday night. Yet Brody King is in
Speaker 1: this then I got nothing against Brody King, right, and
Speaker 1: he was great tonight. He's going to have a great
Speaker 1: match with Claudio next week. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: But if You're only going to have one member of
Speaker 1: the House of Black in this tournament. Would it not
Speaker 1: make more sense, especially because Brody was already in it
Speaker 1: last year? Would it not make more sense to have
Speaker 1: Buddy Matthews in that spot? Brody King did not win
Speaker 1: a four way match on Saturday. Buddy Matthews did. Buddy
Speaker 1: Matthews four days ago one a match at full gear
Speaker 1: beat three other people. Why is he not in this tournament?
Speaker 1: And Brody King gets It's just stuff like that that
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1: I kind of wish he got that spot. But otherwise,
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at some of the names in there,
Speaker 1: and again, you can't complain about some of the names.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get some great matches in this tournament, but
Speaker 1: it did leave me with a few questions like that.
Speaker 1: So in the match here, Briscoe went up top, Benjamin
Speaker 1: sprung to his feet, scaled the ropes, and hit a
Speaker 1: super plex that took us into our first commercial. Break
Speaker 1: Up top again, brisco successfully hit the froggy bow, but
Speaker 1: he clutched his own ribs after landing. Benjamin rolled outside.
Speaker 1: Briscoe hit an elbow drop from the apron back inside.
Speaker 1: Briscoe wanted another one, but Benjamin got the knees up
Speaker 1: on the way down. It a series of German sup
Speaker 1: plexes and then avoided the jade driller, hit a step
Speaker 1: up corner knee strike and a thrust kick. Benjamin hit
Speaker 1: one more kick flush before hitting the t bone soup
Speaker 1: plex and getting the win. So Shelton Benjamin first on
Speaker 1: the board here in the Continental Classic, picks up three points,
Speaker 1: and as has been the case with his other matches
Speaker 1: on TV so far, in his brief run, I mean,
Speaker 1: he hasn't even been a full two months yet, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. But in the last let's say six weeks,
Speaker 1: seven weeks, whatever it's been, he's looked great and so
Speaker 1: this match was no different. He looked great here too,
Speaker 1: very impressive, A good match to kick off the tournament.
Speaker 1: I don't expect Mark Briscoe to rack up many more points,
Speaker 1: if any more points, If any points, I should say
Speaker 1: he had three last year. Three might be the best
Speaker 1: he could hope for this year. I'm not expecting much different,
Speaker 1: And same with Juice Robinson in the Gold League. Tony
Speaker 1: Schavani was out on stage two, introduced to us the
Speaker 1: TBS champion Mercedes Money successfully defending her title on Saturday
Speaker 1: against Chris Statlander without the assistance of Camille, or as
Speaker 1: I call her, Camille the Klutz specifically told Camille on
Speaker 1: the pre show, you're useless. You stay in the back tonight.
Speaker 1: And what happened. Mercedes went out there for her match
Speaker 1: and she won without any assistance from Camille, thus proving
Speaker 1: that she doesn't need Camille. Camille truly is useless to her.
Speaker 1: She proved herself right. But now they come out together
Speaker 1: and Camille is poor Camille. I mean, she just looks
Speaker 1: so beaten down here walking out. And Tony says, the
Speaker 1: match between Mercedes and Chris Statlander was the longest women's
Speaker 1: match in AW history, which I had not realized, and
Speaker 1: also some are calling at the greatest women's match in
Speaker 1: AW history. It was definitely the greatest AW match of
Speaker 1: Mercedes career. I would go so far as to say
Speaker 1: it probably was the best AAW match of Chris statlanders career,
Speaker 1: certainly top three. Was it the best women's match in
Speaker 1: AW history? Probably not, I feel like probably not, but
Speaker 1: it's up there. It's definitely up there. They had a
Speaker 1: quality match on Saturday, no doubt about that. So Mercedes
Speaker 1: said that Statlander gave her one of the hardest fights
Speaker 1: of her entire career, proved that she is one of
Speaker 1: the very best in the ring, but she is the
Speaker 1: greatest TBS champion of all time, and at full gear,
Speaker 1: she showed the world how a real woman gets the
Speaker 1: job done right. So that was a little dig at Camille,
Speaker 1: who hasn't been doing a very good job of doing
Speaker 1: her job over the last few weeks. So Mercedes was
Speaker 1: about to fire her. She was about to fire Camille
Speaker 1: here on this show. Camille knew it, and she cut
Speaker 1: her off and told her to shut up, and the
Speaker 1: people cheered, and she asked her, are you stupid or
Speaker 1: are you just dumb? Which is exactly what Mercedes said
Speaker 1: to her several weeks ago when Camille was showing off
Speaker 1: her driving her poor driving skills. So she threw it
Speaker 1: right back in Mercedes' face, and she said, you can't
Speaker 1: fire me because I quit. Only she was saying that
Speaker 1: to Tony Kahan. She was saying that to Mercedes, and
Speaker 1: the fans cheered, and Camille left and Mercedes threw a fit,
Speaker 1: and the fans chanted, you deserve it. At her. I
Speaker 1: told you that when this moment finally came, the people
Speaker 1: are gonna pop. I didn't know how they were gonna
Speaker 1: do it. I didn't know if Camille was gonna get
Speaker 1: physical and punch her, shove her down, hit a finishing
Speaker 1: move of some kind, or just walk off the way
Speaker 1: she did. Hear, But when the day came that she
Speaker 1: finally had enough and she quit and she walked away
Speaker 1: from this woman, everybody would cheer and it would be
Speaker 1: a nice moment. But what has happened over the last
Speaker 1: several weeks has done so much damage to Camille that
Speaker 1: I'm not sure she can recover fully from it. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that people won't get behind her a little bit,
Speaker 1: they won't cheer for her and take to her as
Speaker 1: a babyface. I really feel like when she came in
Speaker 1: as compared to the way she is now, and it's
Speaker 1: only been four months, people now have seen Camille in
Speaker 1: a different light, not in a good way. She just
Speaker 1: doesn't have that same feeling about her as we saw
Speaker 1: when she first debuted. I don't know that you can
Speaker 1: get that back. I don't know that I trust them
Speaker 1: enough in booking her and doing whatever it is that
Speaker 1: they're gonna do with her to restore that feeling. I
Speaker 1: think that feeling is gone. I think it's dead. And
Speaker 1: this pairing, there's no really other way to look at it.
Speaker 1: But you look at this pairing, and this pairing can
Speaker 1: be describe as an epic fail. It's exactly what it was.
Speaker 1: It will go down as an epic fail. Four months,
Speaker 1: four months. It took four months for Tony Kahn to
Speaker 1: mess this entire thing up. The way that they rushed
Speaker 1: through this story is mind boggling to me. Truly is
Speaker 1: it truly is a head scratcher, And I really feel
Speaker 1: you know that right there. I talked about the reaction
Speaker 1: in Chicago tonight as compared to past shows they've had
Speaker 1: in Chicago, and how it wasn't as enthusiastic you know
Speaker 1: at moments at times it is, but just not the
Speaker 1: same level of enthusiasm that you would normally get in
Speaker 1: the city when they've run shows there before. And that's
Speaker 1: just one example of the problem that I think AW
Speaker 1: has in that people just aren't as invested as they
Speaker 1: used to be in some of these stories, in some
Speaker 1: of these individuals. You can you can cherry pick people
Speaker 1: who are over right now, Will Osprey and you know,
Speaker 1: certain people MJF even some of the heels like fans
Speaker 1: react to them in a major way. They're over you know,
Speaker 1: quote unquote. But it's just that that level of commitment
Speaker 1: that people have, I feel like to some of these
Speaker 1: these characters and these stories, the level of investment, it
Speaker 1: just isn't there. It's not there in the way that
Speaker 1: you would see it on on some other shows. And
Speaker 1: big reason for that is stuff like this where you
Speaker 1: can you can cultivate a story over a period of time, right,
Speaker 1: you take your time with something. I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: has to go for a year or years, but you
Speaker 1: take your time with something and you build it up
Speaker 1: in a way that builds these characters and builds these
Speaker 1: relationships between the characters up enough that when the day
Speaker 1: finally comes that you do something like what we had
Speaker 1: tonight where they split and they want you to side
Speaker 1: with Camille. They want you to feel sympathy for her,
Speaker 1: and they want you to root for her because she
Speaker 1: finally stood up for herself. You mean to tell me
Speaker 1: you don't think this story would have been more meaningful
Speaker 1: if this would have been done six months from now,
Speaker 1: Spring or summer of twenty twenty five, maybe at the
Speaker 1: year mark, or even a few months shy of the
Speaker 1: year mark of them being together. They've been together for
Speaker 1: four months and the last month of it has been
Speaker 1: Mercedes basically just trashing this woman. They haven't even been
Speaker 1: on the same page. So, for all intents and purposes,
Speaker 1: we're talking about three months. How do you fuck this up?
Speaker 1: What's the rush? Why are you rushing through this? You
Speaker 1: need to take the time to tell that story otherwise
Speaker 1: people aren't going to care. That's why this didn't really
Speaker 1: feel like a big deal. People are happy, Okay, finally
Speaker 1: Camille's away from her, but who cares? So what? This
Speaker 1: would have meant so much more if they would have
Speaker 1: taken their time with this and they just pissed it
Speaker 1: away and okay, now we have the breakup. What does
Speaker 1: it mean? Okay, now we're gonna get a match? I
Speaker 1: guess what does it mean? You know? Not much? Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: not much. And you don't need to look at WWE
Speaker 1: and the bloodline and stuff like that. All you need
Speaker 1: to do if you're an AW fan, if you're an
Speaker 1: AW siko, all you need to do is look within,
Speaker 1: look at Tony Storm and Mariah May. Look at the
Speaker 1: time that they invested in that story, it was about
Speaker 1: nine months, right, it wasn't even a full year. I
Speaker 1: want to say it was about nine months from start
Speaker 1: to finish. They did a great job with that. They
Speaker 1: had a segment on television at least one every single week,
Speaker 1: whether it was in the ring, whether it was in
Speaker 1: the back, whether it was Tony Storm with another black
Speaker 1: and white silent film. They did that shit for nine months.
Speaker 1: And then when they shot the angle where Mariah May
Speaker 1: turned her back and betrayed Tony Storm and beat that
Speaker 1: shit out of her at the end of Dynamite, My god,
Speaker 1: what a great segment that that will go down as
Speaker 1: maybe the greatest Dynamite segment when this year is over
Speaker 1: and we're getting pretty close to the end of the year.
Speaker 1: If that isn't number one, it's top three for sure.
Speaker 1: And you know why that works so well. Do you
Speaker 1: think that segment would have worked as well if Mariah
Speaker 1: and they would have done that to Tony Storm after
Speaker 1: three fucking months. No, But they took their time with
Speaker 1: it and they built it. It's called character development, and
Speaker 1: so the people reacted to it in the way that
Speaker 1: they did because they were invested in it. It was
Speaker 1: the fans rewarding you for telling a great story. So
Speaker 1: I know it can be done. I know these people
Speaker 1: know how to tell a good story. But why they
Speaker 1: didn't do it here, I don't know. And it's a shame. Look,
Speaker 1: I wish her well, Camille, you know, I wish her well.
Speaker 1: But they really failed these two with the way they
Speaker 1: handled this pairing. And it's a waste. But if this
Speaker 1: is what they were gonna do with Camille, you know
Speaker 1: what better off that they can it instead of just
Speaker 1: dragging it out. The way I would compare it, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're kind of driving down the road and
Speaker 1: you come across a wounded animal who's been hit by
Speaker 1: a car, and it's awful. There's nothing you can do,
Speaker 1: but the animal is just it's alive, but it's suffering.
Speaker 1: You want to put the animal out of its misery.
Speaker 1: Aw put this angle here out of its misery tonight,
Speaker 1: because there really was no other way to handle this.
Speaker 1: There was nothing else that you could do here. The
Speaker 1: damage was already done. Better to put it out of
Speaker 1: its misery and move on. Speaking of putting things out
Speaker 1: of their misery, the learning tree. We had Chris Jericho
Speaker 1: defending his Ring of Honor World Championship tonight against tomohiro Ishi.
Speaker 1: Big Bill decided to join on commentary tonight, and big
Speaker 1: Bill presented Tony shit Vonnie with a sapling tree that
Speaker 1: he said hopes grows over time to become a learning tree.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, God help us, all, that's
Speaker 1: the last thing we need. It's like a horror movie
Speaker 1: villain who finally gets killed off in the movie. Finally
Speaker 1: gets killed off in the movie, and you think it's
Speaker 1: over right, but they spread their seed, and then there's
Speaker 1: that one scene in the movie where the baby is
Speaker 1: born and you realize, oh no, it lives on. Once
Speaker 1: the learning tree here has run its course. The last
Speaker 1: thing we need is another learning tree. So when this
Speaker 1: is finally over, let it die and let's be done
Speaker 1: with this. Please. We don't need another learning tree. We
Speaker 1: don't need that either. George sekmit with Bremode something else
Speaker 1: we need a little bit less of. But I'm glad
Speaker 1: we have it here. From George, thank you for the
Speaker 1: twenty five. George came in a little late after eating
Speaker 1: a thanks at a Thanksgiving buffet. He said I'll be
Speaker 1: having my own Thanksgiving buffet tomorrow at some family's house.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some noodle pudding. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be eating good tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. And
Speaker 1: I'll put in some extra work at the gym to
Speaker 1: work it all off. You know, this is the time
Speaker 1: of year, by the way, where people eat like pigs.
Speaker 1: And then I have to go to the gym and
Speaker 1: all the machines are taken up by all the people
Speaker 1: who decide, oh, you know what, it's a good time
Speaker 1: to go to the gym, and then they go and
Speaker 1: it's a couple of weeks and then you don't see
Speaker 1: these people anymore. But for like two weeks, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to fight over machines because these people decided, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe maybe I should join a gym.
Speaker 1: New Year, knew me, No, New Year, same you. After
Speaker 1: two weeks, it's gonna be right back to the way
Speaker 1: things always works out. That the match begins Jericho and
Speaker 1: is she and it's very similar to the first match
Speaker 1: that they had where it's just nothing but chops that
Speaker 1: you may not realize this, but it was the post
Speaker 1: full Gear episode of Dynamite two years ago, which also
Speaker 1: happened to fall on Thanksgiving Eve, which, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: also happened to take place at the wind Trust Arena
Speaker 1: in Chicago, which is the same exact building they were
Speaker 1: in tonight, I'm sure, with many more people than they
Speaker 1: had tonight, but literally, like the circumstances were all the same.
Speaker 1: First Dynamite after full gear win Trust Arena in Chicago,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Eve, Chris Jericho Ring of Honor World Champion defending
Speaker 1: his title against is She so Here? We are now
Speaker 1: a carbon copy two years later, and the big difference
Speaker 1: being that the crowd was certainly more enthusiastic two years
Speaker 1: ago and again probably bigger than it was tonight. So
Speaker 1: when these two gotten a chop fest couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: the people were going crazy for it. Here, not so much.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they were silent. They were making some noise,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't anything like you know what they had
Speaker 1: two years It's like a cheap copy of what they
Speaker 1: did two years ago, basically, and they did the same
Speaker 1: shop battle, and you know, after a while, it's just
Speaker 1: like they kept doing it and doing it and doing it,
Speaker 1: and it's like, can we get on with this, please.
Speaker 1: This is and I don't find his entertaining at all.
Speaker 1: Both men fought to the apron. Jericho spiked e She
Speaker 1: with a DDT on the apron. You know, you would
Speaker 1: think for a guy with no neck that would have
Speaker 1: no effect on him, but he fell to the ground.
Speaker 1: He was selling his neck back inside. Instead of a
Speaker 1: shop battle, now we get a slap fight, and all
Speaker 1: that did was wake up e She. Jericho was bleeding
Speaker 1: from the mouth. Even after a commercial break they come back,
Speaker 1: these two are still slapping each other. I wrote, is
Speaker 1: this supposed to be entertaining? Jericho hit a superplex, which
Speaker 1: is she no sold? He popped right back up. The
Speaker 1: slaps picked up again, until finally Jericho hit a release
Speaker 1: German sup plex. Jericho wanted a Judas effect. Is she though,
Speaker 1: threw a lariat at the same time both men collapsed.
Speaker 1: Jericho hit a fireman's carry slam into the lion salt
Speaker 1: only for two so finally the Judas effect connects. Then
Speaker 1: a code breaker, but is she kicks out at one?
Speaker 1: So is she managed a code breaker and a wild
Speaker 1: lariat for a two count of his own. Jericho hit
Speaker 1: two more Judas effects and finally pinned him to retain
Speaker 1: the title. Now, when Jericho pinned y She here, you'll
Speaker 1: notice his shoulders were also down on the mat because
Speaker 1: he kind of fell backwards on top of him. It
Speaker 1: was kind of like the Jericho or Not Jericho the
Speaker 1: Michael's Triple h finish from their World Heavyweight title match
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and three, falls backwards, both shoulders down.
Speaker 1: Aubrey Edwards is right there. I mean, she's gotta be
Speaker 1: blind as a bat, legally blind if she can't see
Speaker 1: that his shoulders were down. I mean, it was right
Speaker 1: in front of her, but she counted the pin and
Speaker 1: awarded the match to Chris Jericho. Anyway, and I maybe
Speaker 1: they're gonna use that as the impus to put these
Speaker 1: two back in the ring for a rematch. I have
Speaker 1: no idea why we need to see a rematch. Maybe not.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's gonna be completely ignored. Maybe Aubrey Edwards really
Speaker 1: did not see that Jericho's shoulders were also on the mat.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But nobody is asking for a rematch here.
Speaker 1: This was already a rematch. We don't need a rematch
Speaker 1: of the rematch of the rematch. That's like making a
Speaker 1: copy of a copy of a copy. Each copy that
Speaker 1: you make is going to be worse than the one
Speaker 1: that came before it. I still stick with what I
Speaker 1: said a few weeks ago. I think that this is
Speaker 1: setting up a Samoa Joe return. I think Samoa Jo
Speaker 1: is gonna come back. I think it's gonna be him
Speaker 1: defending Ring of Honor, effectively the honor of Ring of
Speaker 1: because he was mister Roh for many years, and he'll
Speaker 1: be the one to go into the Hammerstein Ballroom at
Speaker 1: Final Battle and beat Jericho to win the Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor world title. I mean to me, anyway, that sounds
Speaker 1: more interesting than just running Mark Briscoe back just to
Speaker 1: win the belt back again. So I'm gonna stick with
Speaker 1: Joe from my prediction for Final Battle. And look, you
Speaker 1: know what fair play to these two. They went in
Speaker 1: there again. Jericho was bleeding from the mouth. I think
Speaker 1: he she was bleeding from the mouth. They beat the
Speaker 1: crap out of each other. I really wish, I really wish.
Speaker 1: I'm pulling for Tony Kahan to get a television deal
Speaker 1: for Ring of Honor, because the sooner he gets a
Speaker 1: TV deal for Ring of Honor, we can do away
Speaker 1: with these Ring of Honor championship matches on aw television.
Speaker 1: If I wanted to see Ring of Honor titles defended,
Speaker 1: I would watch Ring of Honor once they get their
Speaker 1: television show. If they get one, I should say if
Speaker 1: we shouldn't need to deal with this anymore, So Tony,
Speaker 1: I'm pulling for you. Britte was backstage with Swerve, Strickland
Speaker 1: and Prince Nana, and she wanted to know, how are
Speaker 1: you guys going to rebuild after Swerve's lost to Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashley at Full Gear. They cut the background audio out
Speaker 1: for this segment so we couldn't hear the crowd. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they did that, but you couldn't hear
Speaker 1: the crowd here for this segment. So Swerve said, look,
Speaker 1: rebuilding is something that I do very well. He's never
Speaker 1: been hit by anybody as hard as Lashly. So as
Speaker 1: he's talking at that moment, Max Castor comes walking by
Speaker 1: behind him and he's smiling, he's laughing, and Swerve calls
Speaker 1: him out and says, what's so funny? Caster said that
Speaker 1: Swerve was funny. Pointed out that the Prudential Center, which
Speaker 1: is where Full Gear took place on Saturday is where
Speaker 1: Swerve not only lost to Lashley, but the Prudential Center
Speaker 1: is the same building where Castor pinned a Swerve when
Speaker 1: the Acclaim won the aw Tech Team titles from him
Speaker 1: and Keith Lee. Remember him shout out to Keith Lee
Speaker 1: wherever he is. I hope, I hope his health as well.
Speaker 1: I hope he's doing okay. But until just now, honestly
Speaker 1: I had completely forgotten about him. But I hope he's
Speaker 1: doing okay. Castor said, hey, let's do some comedy and
Speaker 1: write some bars, because everybody loves the best wrestler alive.
Speaker 1: And then he said, Swerve, you used to be like
Speaker 1: a house of fire. He stopped. He said, like a
Speaker 1: house of fire, says a house fire. That's a bar.
Speaker 1: So you know you're mocking swerves childhood home being burned down.
Speaker 1: This is obviously only one response, which is that Swerve
Speaker 1: is going to grab him and throw him up against
Speaker 1: the wall, which is exactly what he did. Then he
Speaker 1: tossed him around a little bit. He punted him in
Speaker 1: the head when he was on all fours, and Prince
Speaker 1: Nana finally was able to to pull Swerve away. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're going to split up the Acclaim.
Speaker 1: Anthony Bowens was not here. I feel like Anthony Bowens
Speaker 1: has more singles potential than Max Caster does. It might
Speaker 1: not benefit them to break them up. But the way
Speaker 1: I look at it, the Acclaim right now is very flat.
Speaker 1: There's just, you know, not a whole lot going on there.
Speaker 1: I feel like the whole daddy ass thing it's all
Speaker 1: played out at this point. So maybe they're better off
Speaker 1: taking the singles route, at least as far as Bowens
Speaker 1: is concerned. I don't know if the idea is that
Speaker 1: Castor is gonna go heal. Maybe Castor is gonna end
Speaker 1: up linking up with the Hurt Syndicate. Maybe the Acclaimed
Speaker 1: is going to go heal and join the Hurt Syndicate
Speaker 1: and they're going to be recruited into the group. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly where it's going to go, but I
Speaker 1: do know one thing though, there is no love loss
Speaker 1: between Max Caster and Shelton Benjamin. Because if you remember
Speaker 1: before Benjamin signed with AW and he talked about this
Speaker 1: in the interview he did many months ago with Chris
Speaker 1: van Vliet, that Castor had made some comments online about
Speaker 1: we don't want him. I think people were asking about
Speaker 1: the possibility of Shelton coming in, and he said something
Speaker 1: to the effective we don't want him, and people weren't
Speaker 1: sure if he was just kind of working, but it
Speaker 1: didn't seem like he was. His attitude being that if
Speaker 1: we bring in a guy like him, he's taking a
Speaker 1: spot that could belong to me and I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I don't want him to take my spot, so we
Speaker 1: don't want him. So when Chris asked Shelton about this
Speaker 1: in the interview they did, Shelton was like, look, I
Speaker 1: don't know who this guy is. I've never met him before,
Speaker 1: but you know, you could tell like he was kind
Speaker 1: of bothered by that comment, Like what kind of a
Speaker 1: comment is that to make? So I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: that there's love between those two. And we've seen before
Speaker 1: an AW when people don't get along sometimes it results
Speaker 1: in bad things that happened behind the scene. The last
Speaker 1: thing that AAW needs more of is behind the scenes drama.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, maybe better off to keep those
Speaker 1: two separate. But we were fifty five minutes into this
Speaker 1: show before ex Caliber finally gave us an update on
Speaker 1: Orange Cassidy, one half of the main event from Full
Speaker 1: Gear on Saturday, the man who tried to take the
Speaker 1: aw World Championship. We hadn't heard a single word about
Speaker 1: him until almost an hour into the show here, and
Speaker 1: he said that he's still dealing with injuries sustained as
Speaker 1: a result of the chemicals that were poured down his
Speaker 1: throat by Wheeler Yudah. Because if you remember, when the
Speaker 1: match was over, John Moxley was holding Orange Cassidy. Wheeler Dah,
Speaker 1: who interfered in the finish, got into the ring and
Speaker 1: he had a bottle of what looked like I don't
Speaker 1: know what it was, and he freeze or whatever the
Speaker 1: fuck it was some kind of cleaning chemicals. He was
Speaker 1: pouring it down his throat, he was pouring it over
Speaker 1: his head. So that was the update on Orange Cassidy.
Speaker 1: He's not medically cleared and he's still nursing his injuries
Speaker 1: as a result of what we saw at Full Gear.
Speaker 1: Good to know. I don't know why it took an
Speaker 1: hour to even acknowledge this, but there's update now. Tony
Speaker 1: Schavanni was in the ring to bring Hangman Adam page
Speaker 1: On down for a promo and Hangman gets in the
Speaker 1: ring and Tony brings up the fact that Hangman lost
Speaker 1: to Jay White on Saturday at Full Gear and then
Speaker 1: he put his hands after the match was over on
Speaker 1: Christopher Daniels, which is a no no because he's an
Speaker 1: AW official. Then he comes back out after the main
Speaker 1: event and he's trying to help Christian cash in his
Speaker 1: World Championship opportunity on Moxley to become the AW World Champion.
Speaker 1: So basically, he wanted to know what's going on here?
Speaker 1: What is this all about? Tony? All you had to
Speaker 1: do was listen to the sound off. If you listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast, I would have told you, you would have
Speaker 1: heard it from me. I laid it all out exactly
Speaker 1: what happened and why it made sense. Even for all
Speaker 1: the people who claimed it didn't none of this makes
Speaker 1: any sense, it made perfect sense. I laid it all out. Now,
Speaker 1: if Tony were listening to the podcast, he would know this.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't have to ask the question. I did a
Speaker 1: better job of explaining it than AW did. So Hangman
Speaker 1: just snashed the microphone out of his hand and he
Speaker 1: threatened Christopher Daniels. He said, the next time, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get back up, and he said at full gear.
Speaker 1: He made a deal, and he kept up his end
Speaker 1: of the deal. Had Christian kept up his end, then
Speaker 1: Hangman would be back home for lunch tomorrow eating a
Speaker 1: bowl of stuffing with the world championship around his waist.
Speaker 1: But he failed. I love that image, by the way.
Speaker 1: If Hangman sitting there by himself with that just whacked
Speaker 1: out look on his face at the kitchen table, with
Speaker 1: a bowl of stuffing, with the title wrapped around his waist,
Speaker 1: I feel like he would just wear that thing everywhere.
Speaker 1: He's so obsessed with being the champion, he just he
Speaker 1: wears it. He goes to the grocery store, you know
Speaker 1: it out when he goes for a run, his morning
Speaker 1: run around the neighborhood, sleeps with it, showers with it,
Speaker 1: shits with it, all of it. Just doesn't let it
Speaker 1: out of his sight. So he said he's gonna do
Speaker 1: what he should have done in the first place. His
Speaker 1: intention isn't always has been to be the AEW World Champion.
Speaker 1: It should have never been Swerved Strickland. It should have
Speaker 1: never been Brian Danielson, it should have never been John Moxley.
Speaker 1: It should and it shouldn't be Christians because that title
Speaker 1: has always been his. So he was interrupted by Switchblade
Speaker 1: j White because he banged with it too. Probably yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: although it might get in the way, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe he kind of, you know, turns it around. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I haven't asked the guy. Maybe he could
Speaker 1: send him a DM see on Blue Sky see if
Speaker 1: he'll answer you back. But he was interrupted by Switchblade
Speaker 1: j W, who reminded Hangman that he beat him in
Speaker 1: both of their recent matches. So if anybody is going
Speaker 1: to get a shot at the world title, it is
Speaker 1: going to be Switchblade. But if Hangman would like another
Speaker 1: taste of Jay White, he would happily do it here.
Speaker 1: Tonight in Chicago, Pack shows up her ringside and he
Speaker 1: yanks Jay White down from the apron he attacks him.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile in the ring, Wheeler Da sneaks up from behind
Speaker 1: Hangman Page and he clips Hangman's knee. So now Pack
Speaker 1: and Youda are in the ring. They're double teaming Hangman
Speaker 1: until j White recovers. He ends up dumping you out
Speaker 1: of the ring. He drops Pack on his head, but
Speaker 1: then Hangman wipes out Jay White with a lariat. But
Speaker 1: then Marina Shaffir shows up and she has the briefcase
Speaker 1: since she cracks it over Hangman's skull. She was about
Speaker 1: to do the same thing to Switchblade, but he avoided it.
Speaker 1: He grabbed her was threatening to give her a Blade Runner,
Speaker 1: which the people popped for. They wanted to see him
Speaker 1: beat this woman up, but before he could follow through,
Speaker 1: a John Mock snuck up from behind. He trapped j
Speaker 1: White in a rear naked choke that allowed Shaffir to
Speaker 1: give him a good kick to the ribs. Marina Shaffir
Speaker 1: then gives Switchblade a judo throw or I'm sorry it
Speaker 1: was it was j White. I thought it was hangmane
Speaker 1: for a second, gives him a judo throw and then
Speaker 1: locks him in a choke and puts him out. So
Speaker 1: Marina Shaffir chokes out Jay White, whose eyes were still open.
Speaker 1: Clearly you could see his eyes were open, but he
Speaker 1: was out all right. The lights are on, but nobody's home.
Speaker 1: Then they all ganged up on him. They started putting
Speaker 1: the boots to him and ended with Pack smashing him
Speaker 1: in the head with the briefcase. They keep telling us
Speaker 1: that the AAW they think the AW World Championship is
Speaker 1: in this briefcase. It's like the world's smallest briefcase and
Speaker 1: you know how big that AW World title is. Like,
Speaker 1: it's just it's comical. It's just comical that they continued
Speaker 1: to try to convince us that the championship is in
Speaker 1: this briefcase. I mean, maybe if it's one of the
Speaker 1: kid's toy belts, then maybe, but you ain't fit in
Speaker 1: the AW World Championship in that briefcase. I'm sorry. So
Speaker 1: it looks like we might end up getting Hangman and
Speaker 1: Jay White as reluctant tag team partners. I mean, I
Speaker 1: could see that being a match that Winter Is Coming.
Speaker 1: We're getting the Winter Is Coming episode of Dynamite in
Speaker 1: two weeks. We may get can they coexist with Hangman
Speaker 1: and Jay White taking on two members of the Death Riders,
Speaker 1: so either Claudio and Pac maybe Claudio and Wheeler Utah.
Speaker 1: I could definitely see that being a match. They did
Speaker 1: announce Hangman one on one with Wheeler Yuda that is
Speaker 1: official for Collision, which is going to be airing at
Speaker 1: four o'clock Eastern time on Saturday. I like that we
Speaker 1: have two of the bigger names in the company now
Speaker 1: involved in this program here going after Moxley's group and
Speaker 1: that's two more challengers for Moxley's title. Above and beyond
Speaker 1: Darby Allen, who we know will be challenging at some point.
Speaker 1: He might even win. He might even beat you know,
Speaker 1: John Moxley when the time comes. But again, that's one
Speaker 1: of the things I liked about the finish of the
Speaker 1: pay per views, that they set up all of these
Speaker 1: challengers and one fell swoop. They kind of mapped it
Speaker 1: out for you, like you could see where this is
Speaker 1: going now over these next few months for the World Championship.
Speaker 1: So I like that. So the Death Riders they left
Speaker 1: through the crowd. One member who was not out there
Speaker 1: for this beatdown segment here was Claudio Castignoli. But as
Speaker 1: they were leaving through the crowd, he was entering through
Speaker 1: the crowd because he was in the next match. He
Speaker 1: was coming out for his match another one in the
Speaker 1: Continental Classic taking on Ricochet. And I showed you earlier
Speaker 1: the Blue League, and now what I'll do is I
Speaker 1: will show you the Gold League. There it is. This
Speaker 1: is the Gold League of the Continental Class, Darby Allen,
Speaker 1: Claudio will Ospray, Ricochet, Brody King, and Juice Robinson. So
Speaker 1: you got Darby, you got Claudio Osprey. I mean pretty
Speaker 1: much all of them, honestly, except Juice. I look at
Speaker 1: some of the names in here, and you got some
Speaker 1: pretty big names. You got some heavy hitters in here.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you look at this. We're guaranteed to
Speaker 1: get another match now between will Ospray and Ricochet, so
Speaker 1: so that's great. We're gonna get Darby Allen against will Ospray.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get Darby Allen against Ricochet, Claudio and Brody
Speaker 1: King next week. So we're gonna get some pretty badass
Speaker 1: matches out of this group here, both groups. But this
Speaker 1: is one of the things that I like about doing
Speaker 1: this tournament. You know, we get some matches that we
Speaker 1: haven't seen before, or we get the occasional match that
Speaker 1: we have but you you know, maybe want to see
Speaker 1: it again. So good stuff. But we had Claudio and
Speaker 1: Chet in the ring, and you would think, okay, you
Speaker 1: got two great wrestlers in the ring, and aw Is
Speaker 1: were the best wrestle. So the fans in Chicago, man,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be all pumped up. And the only thing
Speaker 1: the fans here in Chicago were interested in chanting was
Speaker 1: the fact that both of these men were bald so
Speaker 1: we got chance of bald forever, which, yeah, it kind
Speaker 1: of describes the life of Hulk Hogan. Really, I feel
Speaker 1: like he was born well, I mean, most of us
Speaker 1: were most of us were born bald. I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody who came out of the womb with a full
Speaker 1: head of hair, but I suppose it's possible. But Hogan,
Speaker 1: I feel like, from his adolescence on through his adulthood
Speaker 1: has pretty much been bald his entire life. So Ricochet
Speaker 1: has talked about how he's only bald by choice. People
Speaker 1: ask him, well, yo, they send him tweets all the time,
Speaker 1: why you bald? Why you bold? Like the letter why
Speaker 1: you bald? Right, he gets it all the time, and
Speaker 1: he goes, brother, it's a choice because I look better,
Speaker 1: which honestly is true. If you've seen pictures of Ricochet
Speaker 1: from when he was younger and he had hair, he
Speaker 1: looks much better bald. And Claudio also, by the way,
Speaker 1: Claudio had hair in the old days a ring of honor.
Speaker 1: I remember when Claudio had hair, and Claudio looks a
Speaker 1: lot better now than he did then. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I what do you think, Maybe we'll do a
Speaker 1: head shaving here on the stream. One of these days,
Speaker 1: What do you think, bald solo? What do you think?
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll all go bald. I'll even invite FTR Bald
Speaker 1: to come on with me and join me. It'll be
Speaker 1: one big bald bash live on YouTube. That's what they
Speaker 1: were chanting for you. They were chanting, this is bald,
Speaker 1: That's what they were chatting. This is bald, bald forever.
Speaker 1: Those are the chants that were going out through the arena.
Speaker 1: Oh man, why you bawled? After a break, Ricochet hit
Speaker 1: a dive through the ropes. He went up top back inside.
Speaker 1: He was looking for a dive. Claudio caught him though
Speaker 1: into a backbreaker. Claudio wanted to pop up uppercut. Ricochet, though,
Speaker 1: stood on his chest briefly and backflipped out into a
Speaker 1: head scissors and then another dive from the top to
Speaker 1: the floor inside. Ricochet tried to springboard off the second rope. Claudio,
Speaker 1: though hit an uppercut out of mid air for a
Speaker 1: two count. The sharpshooter was applied transitioned into the crossface
Speaker 1: by Claudio. He wanted a Ricola bomb, but Ricochet rolled through.
Speaker 1: Claudio tossed Ricochet out to the floor and into the barricade,
Speaker 1: and he would have been fine with taking the count
Speaker 1: out win here, but Ricochet broke the count. Claudio then
Speaker 1: wipes him out with a lariat and he pins him.
Speaker 1: That's one, two three, just like that. So Ricochet only
Speaker 1: just lost his first singles match in aw T TAKESHTA
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and now within less than a week, he's
Speaker 1: now lost his second singles match. Although this was the
Speaker 1: right call. Claudio is part of the Death Riders. They're
Speaker 1: really building him up as a beast. You saw what
Speaker 1: happened in his match. Was it last week? I guess
Speaker 1: with with Darby where he just fucking annihilated Darby. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're obviously building him up as this unstoppable force, but
Speaker 1: he's part of the top heel faction in the company
Speaker 1: right now, and so they want to make them look
Speaker 1: as strong as possible. I mean, unless you're willer Yuda
Speaker 1: than who the fuck cares. I mean he lost last
Speaker 1: week to Orange Cassidy, but you want to make them
Speaker 1: look as strong as humanly possible. So I agree with
Speaker 1: the outcome here, and that wasn't really so much of
Speaker 1: a surprise to me. But I do think if you
Speaker 1: know Ricochet loses a couple more matches like this in
Speaker 1: the tournament for his sake, maybe they're building some kind
Speaker 1: of comeback story for him. I mean, if anything, if
Speaker 1: there's a comeback story here, it's probably gonna be Darby
Speaker 1: and not Ricochet. And actually, if Rikoshet is gonna wrestle
Speaker 1: Will Osprey, I kind of feel like that would be
Speaker 1: a match Ricochet should win. You know, ultimately Osprey wins
Speaker 1: enough that he makes it to the finals, But if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do Ricochet and Osprey Part two, which they
Speaker 1: are going to do, I feel like that's a match
Speaker 1: Ricochet would benefit more from winning than Osprey would's. That's
Speaker 1: a win that Ricochet, by the time we get there
Speaker 1: at this rate, is going to need a lot more
Speaker 1: than Will Claudia, though he may be the one who
Speaker 1: goes on a tear in this tournament. The finish here
Speaker 1: fell a little flat because he hit a lariat out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, and I don't think people were expecting that
Speaker 1: to be the finish, But it's the same way he
Speaker 1: beat Darby last week, so they're obviously trying to establish
Speaker 1: that as his finish now, and I just feel like
Speaker 1: it's going to take a little while for people to
Speaker 1: get used to, because not everybody was probably expecting that
Speaker 1: to be the end. Rene was backstage with Kyle Fletcher
Speaker 1: and Don Kallis asked about Fletcher's biggest win of his
Speaker 1: career against will Ospray, and Callus said that they destroyed
Speaker 1: Ospray because that's what people do to get ahead in
Speaker 1: this business. They prove what Callus has said all along,
Speaker 1: that Kyle is better than will Ospray and they're just
Speaker 1: getting started. But again you have Fletcher here saying that
Speaker 1: he's better than will Ospray in every single way. I
Speaker 1: told you what they should do. Now we wait and
Speaker 1: see if they do it. Do they have the guts
Speaker 1: to do it? That's the question. Adam Cole came to
Speaker 1: the Ray a little less spray, tend this way. Good, good,
Speaker 1: that's good. We're heading in the right direction now. Came
Speaker 1: out with the Kingdom No Roderick Strong obviously because he
Speaker 1: was left with possibly a broken arm after his match
Speaker 1: MJF on Saturday, but Tavin and Bennett were in the
Speaker 1: ring with him and Cole was not in a good mood.
Speaker 1: He was sick and tired of playing games with MJF.
Speaker 1: Who keeps ducking him because he said he's a little bitch.
Speaker 1: That's what he called him. After what MJF did to Roddy,
Speaker 1: he swears, he swears on his mother's life that he's
Speaker 1: going to beat Max within an inch of his life
Speaker 1: when he gets his hands on him. The conglomeration theme
Speaker 1: plays and out comes Kyle o'reiley and he storms to
Speaker 1: the ring and I'm already bored by this. I've made
Speaker 1: it very clear I don't care about any of this,
Speaker 1: but yet they're telling this story. This is the story
Speaker 1: they're telling. So Kyle O'Reilly comes down to the ring.
Speaker 1: He says, with all due respect, Adam fought Max once
Speaker 1: before and it didn't work out, So let me fight MJF.
Speaker 1: O'Reilly was about to call MJF out, but Cole cut
Speaker 1: him off and he said, you know what, Kyle, what
Speaker 1: you said to me last week, get stuck with me.
Speaker 1: That being that he can't let his friends fight his
Speaker 1: battles for him, he has to be the one to
Speaker 1: fight MJF. And o'reiley said, dude, I'm not doing this
Speaker 1: for you, I'm doing this for Roddy. So all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, MJF has shown on the big screen and
Speaker 1: he's playing a piano. It looks like he's at home,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, we're right back to the pre
Speaker 1: Ta promos again. I thought we were done with this.
Speaker 1: I thought he was back, but he's still sending in
Speaker 1: pre Ta promos. So he's playing the piano somewhere. He's
Speaker 1: like the piano man and he goes, oh, I just
Speaker 1: heard you know what you guys were saying. And he
Speaker 1: declined the challenge from both of them. He said, right now,
Speaker 1: he's more focused on the Dynamite doesn't Battle Royal next week,
Speaker 1: So at least we know he'll be on the show
Speaker 1: next week. At least we know that we have that commitment,
Speaker 1: he said. They he'll play them out. He starts playing
Speaker 1: his theme song. They cut away from him. Cole says, well,
Speaker 1: in that case, I'm going to be the first after
Speaker 1: MJF obviously to enter the Battle Royal next week. Then
Speaker 1: Kyle O'Reilly pops up. He goes, well, then I'm going
Speaker 1: to be the second one to enter the Battle Royal
Speaker 1: next week, and the two of them argue off Mike
Speaker 1: for a little bit until Kyle leave the ring. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this is all part of the overall story with Adam
Speaker 1: Cole and MJF. And that's the match that if anybody
Speaker 1: wants to see anything from this feud, that's the match
Speaker 1: people want to see. But again, the Cole and the
Speaker 1: Kyle stuff, or Cole, Kyle and Roddy you know again,
Speaker 1: I know these three guys have been interconnected in various
Speaker 1: ways for many years across multiple promotions, but it's just
Speaker 1: so played out. It's just so played out, and I
Speaker 1: just can't bring myself to care. So the sooner we
Speaker 1: get MJF back consistently on TV and we can really
Speaker 1: start rocking and rolling with the build to this match,
Speaker 1: I assume for world's end, the better off we're all
Speaker 1: going to be. Next Caliber starts running down the bracket
Speaker 1: for the International Women's Cup four Way just taking place
Speaker 1: at Russell Dynasty as the upcoming match will be one
Speaker 1: of the semi finals for AEW and the other semi
Speaker 1: final that we're gonna be getting is Willow Nightingale against
Speaker 1: Serena DEEB that's gonna be taking place on Collision on
Speaker 1: December seventh. The other match with Jamie Hayter and Queen
Speaker 1: Almanada was the one that we got here on this
Speaker 1: show tonight, so yeah, there's another tournament going on. We
Speaker 1: already we have the Continental Classic has kicked off. We
Speaker 1: have three tournament matches alone tonight, but we have another
Speaker 1: tournament now and then on Monday Night Raw. We're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get another tournament to crown a new women's Intercontinental
Speaker 1: champion that's gonna kick off on Monday next week. We're
Speaker 1: in the middle of a tournament on SmackDown right now
Speaker 1: for the Women's United States Championship, so it is tournament
Speaker 1: main going on right I can't keep track of all
Speaker 1: these tournaments that are going on. It's too much, too
Speaker 1: many tournaments. The finals are going to take place on
Speaker 1: the Winter is coming episode of Collision on December fourteenth,
Speaker 1: which happens to be the same night as Saturday Night's
Speaker 1: main event. I think they're taping Collision that week on
Speaker 1: Thursday and it's airing on Saturday, and the winner will
Speaker 1: then advance to Wressell Dynasty at the Tokyo Dome, which
Speaker 1: is at the two night Tokyo Dome event. Wressell Kingdom
Speaker 1: is on January fourth. Wressell Dynasty is on January fifth.
Speaker 1: We already know the Young Bucks are going to be
Speaker 1: on that show. We know that Kenny Omega is having
Speaker 1: his return match against Gabe Kid. We know Ricochet is
Speaker 1: going to be challenging Zach Saber Junior possibly for the
Speaker 1: IWGP World Heavyweight Championship should he retain his title over
Speaker 1: show to Umino on Night one. And so now we
Speaker 1: have another match that's going to be lined up for
Speaker 1: Wressell Dynasty soon. Ring of Honor is going to have
Speaker 1: a match of their own. Because the point of wrestled Dynasty,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, it's a collaboration across multiple promotions.
Speaker 1: It's basically New Japan's version of Forbidden Door. You'll have
Speaker 1: New Japan Talent, AW Talent, Ring of Honor Talent, CMLL Talent,
Speaker 1: and Stardom Talent. So in this Women's International four way
Speaker 1: they're building to, you're gonna have one representative from AAW,
Speaker 1: one from Ring of Honor, one from CML, and one
Speaker 1: from Start. That's the whole point, and my understanding, I
Speaker 1: think this is what they said is that the winner
Speaker 1: will be able to challenge for whatever championship they choose
Speaker 1: from whichever promotion. I think that's the prize kind of
Speaker 1: at the end of the Rainbow here. I think that's
Speaker 1: what they're fighting for. The Ring of Honor match is
Speaker 1: going to be Athena against Red Velvet against Billy Starks
Speaker 1: against Laila Hirsh. I don't know when that's taking place.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what this CML is going to
Speaker 1: have a match of their own. Stardom will have a
Speaker 1: match of their own. I don't know what they're gonna be.
Speaker 1: But here we had Jamie Hayter one on one with
Speaker 1: Queen Amanada. It was just it was good to get
Speaker 1: Jamie Hater in the ring on this show for a match.
Speaker 1: We don't get to see that very often, and I
Speaker 1: enjoyed this. Amanada late in the match wanted a slam,
Speaker 1: Jamie slid out, tried a big boot, Amanada caught it,
Speaker 1: hit a facebuster, so Almenada was up top and she
Speaker 1: wanted a double stump, rolled through and Jamie Hayter connected
Speaker 1: on a hate breaker as she went for the Haterade,
Speaker 1: though Amanada got a roll up for two. Both women
Speaker 1: scrambled around for pen attempts until Jamie sank in the
Speaker 1: choke or a choke which Amanada was able to roll
Speaker 1: out of. Hater though got up first hit a big
Speaker 1: boot and then Haterade wiped out Queen Almanada for the win.
Speaker 1: So Jamie hater is gonna move on to the finals
Speaker 1: of this AW portion of things. But when the match
Speaker 1: was over all of us sudden the lights went out
Speaker 1: and then a spotlight appeared on stage and it was
Speaker 1: just the spotlight. We didn't see anybody, So evidently God
Speaker 1: has jumped Ship. We saw God against the Shawn Michaels
Speaker 1: right or what, No, it was Shawn Michaels and God
Speaker 1: right against Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon. Was that the
Speaker 1: match of Backlash back in two thousand and six. Remember
Speaker 1: they had the spotlight and they just had the spotlight
Speaker 1: going down the aisleway that was supposed to be God.
Speaker 1: Apparently God his contract expired and was not renewed by
Speaker 1: Nick con and the folks at TKO, so he has
Speaker 1: now jumped Ship. And Tony Kahan has offered God even
Speaker 1: more money to come work for AW. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if that means that God is going to be
Speaker 1: allowed to work Indie dates now the way things are going,
Speaker 1: he may not be. Tony Kahan may revoke his Indie privileges.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but maybe that's who it was. Suppose
Speaker 1: I didn't see Julia Hart. That's who Jamie Hater thought
Speaker 1: it was. But we never saw Julia Hart. I'm only
Speaker 1: left to assume that it was God making his aw debut.
Speaker 1: But that was it. Nobody came out and then Jamie's
Speaker 1: music just started playing again, and that was the end
Speaker 1: of that. I'm gonna make a prediction here, the Willow
Speaker 1: Nightingale match against Serena Deeve. I got Willow beating Serena,
Speaker 1: possibly with an assist from Britt Baker, who's got a
Speaker 1: little feud going on right now with Serena. And we
Speaker 1: get Jamie Hater against Willow Nightingale, which sounds like a
Speaker 1: hell of a fucking match. And I got Jamie Hater winning.
Speaker 1: Jamie Hater will win and go on to punch her
Speaker 1: tickets to the Tokyo Dump and she'll be a part
Speaker 1: of that four way match representing AW. So say, if so,
Speaker 1: it shall be done, That's what I'd like to see.
Speaker 1: Rene was backstage sitting with Mina. Shirakawa wanted to ask
Speaker 1: Mina about the heartbreak that she experienced after what happened
Speaker 1: at full gear when Tony Storm, not Tony Storm, when
Speaker 1: the Mariah May turned on her the way she did
Speaker 1: Tony Storm, or tried to anyway. Mina saw it coming
Speaker 1: tackled her off the stage. They went through a table
Speaker 1: down below, and so she wanted to know Mina's thoughts
Speaker 1: on the situation, and Mina said, look, she knew that
Speaker 1: this day would come. She said that if Mariah could
Speaker 1: do this to Tony, she could do it to her
Speaker 1: as well. And this is unfortunately the real Mariah May
Speaker 1: selfish who feels she has to kill anyone who gets
Speaker 1: close to her. Said, if that's the real Mariah, then
Speaker 1: it's time to introduce her to the real Mina. Well,
Speaker 1: Mariah May charges from behind and smashes a bottle over
Speaker 1: Mina's head and then beats her down with the AW
Speaker 1: Women's World title, and she says, I want Mina. And
Speaker 1: then we're told that it will be Mariah May one
Speaker 1: on one with Mina Shirakawa in two weeks at Winter
Speaker 1: is coming for the AW World Women's Championship. Mister T
Speaker 1: in the chat says God versus the Devil MJF would
Speaker 1: make money. MJF wrestling nobody in the ring the Invisible Man.
Speaker 1: He probably would find a way to get it over.
Speaker 1: For being honest, he would probably find a way to
Speaker 1: make that work. But it's just not the story. That's
Speaker 1: the sort of thing you would see like a random
Speaker 1: indie show somewhere. That's not the sort of shit that
Speaker 1: MJF is going to get involved in. But I think
Speaker 1: he could make it work. The main event of this
Speaker 1: show saw Darby Allen against Brody King in a Gold
Speaker 1: League match in the Continental Classic. Darby enters he's got
Speaker 1: his ribs heavily bandaged up from the stunt that he
Speaker 1: pulled at the end of the pay per view on Saturday,
Speaker 1: when he t boned his car into the back of
Speaker 1: the Death Rider's pickup truck, which is such a smart
Speaker 1: thing to do when you were four days away from
Speaker 1: this round robin tournament that you're a part of. Nobody
Speaker 1: said that Darby Allen was very smart. He takes risks.
Speaker 1: He's got guts. Brains, I'm not so sure about guts
Speaker 1: he's got. He's got plenty of those. He's lucky they
Speaker 1: were and spilled out all over the ground on Saturday
Speaker 1: when he t boned that truck. Also by the way
Speaker 1: his knee was wrapped, I should point that out as well.
Speaker 1: So brody King proceeded to just beat the living crap
Speaker 1: out of him. I don't think Darby got a single
Speaker 1: offensive move off on this guy in the first few
Speaker 1: minutes of this match before they went into the final
Speaker 1: commercial break. During the break, I think it was during
Speaker 1: the break brody King he went for a cannon ball
Speaker 1: up against the barricade, and as soon as he hit
Speaker 1: this cannon ball against the barricade, the audio feed got cut,
Speaker 1: so he took out the audio for the announcers. Specifically,
Speaker 1: they come back from commercial break and we had audio,
Speaker 1: but it was the arena audio, so we could hear
Speaker 1: the crowd like a house show match, but we could
Speaker 1: not hear the announcers. And this went on, I would say,
Speaker 1: for close to ninety seconds before they were able to
Speaker 1: restore the audio. And when I say this, I'm not
Speaker 1: lying to you, not because I wouldn't lie to you.
Speaker 1: I would never lie to you, and I would never
Speaker 1: tell you something that I did not honestly feel. And
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying this to try to be funny.
Speaker 1: I greatly enjoyed those ninety seconds of no commentary and
Speaker 1: when the commentary was restored and I heard ex Caliber
Speaker 1: and Tony and everything, I was disappointed. I could have
Speaker 1: easily watched the rest of this match with no commentary,
Speaker 1: and it would have actually improved the match. I was
Speaker 1: enjoying myself, and I was sorry when they restored the
Speaker 1: commentary to this the commentary did come back. So it
Speaker 1: was Darby who wanted a coffin drop. His legs, though
Speaker 1: got swept out. He ended up in a tree of woe.
Speaker 1: Brody hit his corner cannon ball on him. Brody was
Speaker 1: looking for a superplex. Darby, though bit the hands and
Speaker 1: he bit him on the head and then he connected
Speaker 1: on an avalanche code red got a near fall out
Speaker 1: of that. Brody rolled outside. He immediately got met by
Speaker 1: a wild suicide dived by Darby Allen and then a
Speaker 1: top rope coffin drop. Darby connected on another one on
Speaker 1: Brody King, who was down, and then he went for
Speaker 1: a one back inside the ring, but King caught him
Speaker 1: in a rear naked choke on the way down and
Speaker 1: Darby rolled through got a two count. King, though, was
Speaker 1: right back to the choke and after a while he
Speaker 1: released the hold and then he destroyed Darby with a
Speaker 1: gonzo bomb and he pinned him to win the match.
Speaker 1: After the match was over, King left the ring. Claudio
Speaker 1: Castignoli showed up and he had a chair, and Brody
Speaker 1: King returned and we got to stare down because Claudio
Speaker 1: was standing on the steps. He never got into the ring.
Speaker 1: He stayed there on the steps. Brody was in the
Speaker 1: rings staring him down. That's when ex Caliber filled us
Speaker 1: in on the fact that next week we're gonna give
Speaker 1: Brody King against Claudio in the Continental Classic, and that
Speaker 1: is how they went off the air. So basically, the
Speaker 1: story here is that Darby did so much damage to
Speaker 1: himself that he put himself at a disadvantage and he
Speaker 1: paid for it. He wasn't able to pick up the
Speaker 1: win here, and he's already down in this tournament, and
Speaker 1: really it's nobody's fault but his own. So I guess
Speaker 1: that's why I said before, maybe not Ricochet, but Darby
Speaker 1: I can see being the one who's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be the comeback kid, you know, here in this tournament.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even expecting him to go to the finals,
Speaker 1: let alone win the entire thing. But if he's gonna
Speaker 1: get back in this He's probably gonna lose another couple
Speaker 1: of matches and then he can start racking up some
Speaker 1: points and trying to make a comeback year. And the
Speaker 1: match next week between Brody and Claudio, I think is
Speaker 1: going to be great. I'm looking forward to that. This
Speaker 1: show was carried by the Continental Classic matches. It's exactly
Speaker 1: the way it was last year. They let the wrestling
Speaker 1: speak for itself and then they can weave certain stories
Speaker 1: into it, like the one I mentioned with Darby tonight.
Speaker 1: It was about establishing Shelton and the Hurt Syndicate as
Speaker 1: a dominant force, which they did same with Claudio and
Speaker 1: the Death Riders, and more than putting over Brody king again,
Speaker 1: it was about Darby doing himself in with the stupid
Speaker 1: stunt from Saturday and his obsession with John Moxley and
Speaker 1: getting back at John Moxley ultimately leading to his downfall.
Speaker 1: The Hangman Jay White stuff. I enjoyed that, and I
Speaker 1: just like the fact that they're in the World title
Speaker 1: mix now as they should be. Jay White is somebody
Speaker 1: who should be in the mix there, and Hangman absolutely
Speaker 1: should be in the mix there, and so should Swerve.
Speaker 1: But Swerve right now is going to be continued doing
Speaker 1: his feud with the Hurt Syndicate. Fully expect to rematch
Speaker 1: a World's End with him and Bobby Lashley, especially the
Speaker 1: way things ended on Saturday where he put Prince Nana
Speaker 1: in the Hurt lock and Prince Nana look fine tonight.
Speaker 1: I was a little surprised by that, but clearly they're
Speaker 1: going to build to a second match between those two.
Speaker 1: So Swerve for the time being is not in the
Speaker 1: world title picture, but he's another one who should be
Speaker 1: reintroduced back into that world title picture in early twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Now, Collision a little programming alert for you.
Speaker 1: Collision on Saturday airs at a special start time of
Speaker 1: four pm Eastern Time, And before you start crowing about
Speaker 1: Survivor Series, and they're moving it because of Survivor Series,
Speaker 1: because Survivor Series has an early start time. Just for
Speaker 1: those of you who are unaware of that, six pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: so plan accordingly for Saturday. It's airing earlier than usual.
Speaker 1: But that's not why the aw shows are airing early.
Speaker 1: It's actually Collision for two hours and then an hour
Speaker 1: of Rampage on Saturday immediately after Collision. It's a three
Speaker 1: hour block, and the reason is Rampage is bumped. On
Speaker 1: Friday night there's a NHL doubleheader, and then on Saturday,
Speaker 1: TNT has college basketball. Apparently there's some kind of holiday tournament,
Speaker 1: some kind of double header. I think it's seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: So it's sports. Basically, there's sports that are going to
Speaker 1: be preempting them, so that's why it's airing early, so
Speaker 1: just be aware of that. But on Collision, Okata is wrestling.
Speaker 1: On Collision, he's going to be taking on the TNT champion,
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia in the Continental Classic, so we're getting champion
Speaker 1: against champion at four o'clock in the afternoon on Collision.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, Will Ospray will wrestle Juice Robinson another Continental
Speaker 1: Classic match, Kyle Fletcher takes on the Beast Mortos and
Speaker 1: yet another Continental Classic match, and Hangman Adam Page takes
Speaker 1: on Wheeler Dynamite. Next week has the Dynamite Dozen Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: We know of mjf Adam Cole, and Kyle O'Reilly, they're
Speaker 1: already official for it. Pack takes on Switchblade, Jay White
Speaker 1: and Brody King will take on Claudia in a Gold
Speaker 1: League match. Juliet, I literally just said Survivor series starts
Speaker 1: at six pm on Saturday, So yes, Survivor series also
Speaker 1: airs on Saturday. It's a lot of wrestling, a lot
Speaker 1: of wrestling taking place on Saturday. What did you think
Speaker 1: of the Dynamite after full gear forty six percent thumbs up,
Speaker 1: fifty four percent thumbs down. I'd go the inverse on that.
Speaker 1: It was definitely more of a thumbs up show this week,
Speaker 1: and a huge improvement from what we got on the
Speaker 1: show last week. One of my biggest beats with the
Speaker 1: show last week was the fact that it was the
Speaker 1: final show before the pay per view, you as a
Speaker 1: go home show. It was a terrible show, but this
Speaker 1: was a noticeable improvement from last week. Nobody will ever
Speaker 1: doubt that aw has great wrestling. So when you have
Speaker 1: a wrestling heavy show like this and you have the
Speaker 1: people in this tournament that they have, it's pretty difficult
Speaker 1: to put on a terrible show. Right, Even if it's
Speaker 1: not a great show, it was a good show. It's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to fuck that up when you take
Speaker 1: people like Shelton, Benjamin and Claudio and some of the
Speaker 1: other people were going to be seeing here, like Fletcher
Speaker 1: and Osprey, and you put them in the ring and
Speaker 1: let them go out there and wrestle. Right, it's pretty
Speaker 1: hard to mess that up. Not that it can't happen,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty hard to mess that up. Hopefully Rampage
Speaker 1: ends in January. My understanding is that Rampage is is
Speaker 1: going to be done after next month. I don't think
Speaker 1: aw has officially said anything about that, but that's my understanding.
Speaker 1: So enjoy it while you can. There probably is not
Speaker 1: that much more Rampage left to watch. Hey, Brother Fluff. Saulisbury,
Speaker 1: one of our early superchatters here wishing a happy Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: to everyone, says I got both of my kids together
Speaker 1: in my house since June. Stay safe, yes you two,
Speaker 1: and happy Thanksgiving, Brother Fluff. Josh Carlos with a pair
Speaker 1: of super chats, The Rizzler and Big boom Age. I'd
Speaker 1: rather see on Dynamite than the awful Learning Tree, so
Speaker 1: would I. Big boom aj wrestled with the broken foot
Speaker 1: and he won, and he finished the match, and he's
Speaker 1: coming back for more six to eight weeks. He's going
Speaker 1: to be out, and he said he talked to Tony
Speaker 1: cont already. He's coming back. He's gonna be wrestling even more,
Speaker 1: which means that we're gonna be getting We're gonna be
Speaker 1: getting the wristler. See, I can do that too. The
Speaker 1: Wristler is gonna be coming back. Can't wait. Josh also
Speaker 1: says better movie Ferris Bueller or Home Alone? Won Oh,
Speaker 1: they're both classics. Home Alone, man, that's quintessential Christmas movie.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Home Alone. I like both movies, but
Speaker 1: I gotta go Home Alone. Daniel Stern and Joe Peshi
Speaker 1: together and Home Alone all their high jinks. Come on?
Speaker 1: Can vote against that? The Real CS says, do you
Speaker 1: think the situation with Ricky Starks and Ray Phoenix will
Speaker 1: potentially he pushed some people away from signing with AAW?
Speaker 1: Because if Tony can do it to Ricky and Phoenix
Speaker 1: who says you won't do it again, can it potentially
Speaker 1: push people away from AW? Absolutely? But look at it
Speaker 1: like this, If you're looking at it from the perspective of,
Speaker 1: you know, having the ability to work for a major
Speaker 1: promotion and also work indie dates. You can't do that
Speaker 1: in WWA. You can do that in AW. There may
Speaker 1: be certain places you can't work. There may be certain
Speaker 1: dates you can't book if you're obligated to aaw and
Speaker 1: you got to get permission from them. However, it works,
Speaker 1: but you do have that ability. In WWE you wouldn't,
Speaker 1: So how important is that somebody that could factor into
Speaker 1: their decision as well? But could it push people away?
Speaker 1: The answer is yes, absolutely, Jerome Eugenio, good start to
Speaker 1: the Continental Classic tonight, Absolutely, and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: the rest of the matches. Should be good. Oz inglorious
Speaker 1: forty two months of channel membership, he says, acknowledge me.
Speaker 1: You are acknowledged. Acknowledge me in my green skull? He said,
Speaker 1: you got a green skull. You might want to go
Speaker 1: to the doctor and have him check that out. That's
Speaker 1: probably not a good sign. He also says, my god,
Speaker 1: I need a six month break from Darby, Orange, Cassidy,
Speaker 1: Jericho and everyone else who's been having the same exact
Speaker 1: match nearly every week for five years straight. Sounds like
Speaker 1: you need a break from Adew Brother Styles Fans sixty
Speaker 1: one nine. I had an issue with the Continental Classic.
Speaker 1: Why is Brody King in it and not Malachi Black?
Speaker 1: Why is Mortas in it and not a great wrestler
Speaker 1: like Shabbata or a rising star like Hobbes. Shabbata doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be in it. Mortoas being in it. Tony
Speaker 1: Kahan likes the Beast Mortas, and the Beast Mortos is
Speaker 1: a very good wrestler. And we've also heard that, you know,
Speaker 1: they have their Fox Sports deal with Mexico and they
Speaker 1: were going to be featuring more Lucidors on TV. We
Speaker 1: probably would have Hologram in this tournament. Holograham got hurt
Speaker 1: in that last match he had with Mortos. That's the
Speaker 1: only reason why Holograham is not on the show. So
Speaker 1: that alone, the fact that they might want to feature
Speaker 1: more Luca talent, you know, especially with that TV deal
Speaker 1: they made, Mortos is going to get the nod over
Speaker 1: somebody like Shabbad. You asked the question why not Malachi?
Speaker 1: Why Brody King? I agree with you, but I would
Speaker 1: say Buddy Matthews one a four way match on Saturday.
Speaker 1: At the very least, if anything was at stake in
Speaker 1: that match, it should have been a in the Continental Classic.
Speaker 1: Why is he not in the tournament? I'm not even
Speaker 1: thinking about Malachi. Why is Buddy Matthews not in this
Speaker 1: That would make more sense. And you heard the crowd
Speaker 1: reaction to him on Saturday too. There could be something
Speaker 1: there with him. That's a missed opportunity not having him
Speaker 1: in this tournament. I think that's a big mistake. Bobby's
Speaker 1: World with the twenty one dollars super chat shout out
Speaker 1: to base Beers for the Adam Rose Don't be a
Speaker 1: Lemon super chat. The other night when Rose debuted, I
Speaker 1: told my kids that guy is going to be a
Speaker 1: star boy. Did they think I was a dumbass? Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm the one who pitched the idea months before it
Speaker 1: happened of bringing Camille into AW as the bodyguard for
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monete. How do you think I feel right now?
Speaker 1: Bas Beers and Bobby's World. We could all hang out together.
Speaker 1: Base Beers can buy us a beer, make us feel
Speaker 1: better because we both feel like a bunch of idiots.
Speaker 1: Styles Fan says, by the way, I am Samoan fan
Speaker 1: one oh one. I changed my name WWI Style Ah, Well,
Speaker 1: good to see you, Samoan Fan. I did not know
Speaker 1: it was you. Boucci nine seven three says, Hey, Solo
Speaker 1: love the stream. It gets me through my miserable work days.
Speaker 1: I want to know your thoughts on AW having to
Speaker 1: move their Australia show to an arena. It's embarrassing. It's
Speaker 1: embarrassing in the same way that it was embarrassing in
Speaker 1: ninety one when WWE wanted to put one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: people in the LA Coliseum and they had to move
Speaker 1: it to the Sports Arena and they had twenty thousand
Speaker 1: people instead of one hundred thousand people. They claimed bomb threat.
Speaker 1: I called bullshit. They couldn't sell enough tickets. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: like you go big or go home, right they try.
Speaker 1: I had to go big. It didn't work out, so
Speaker 1: it's embarrassing. It's a black eye for them, but they
Speaker 1: learn from their mistake. They moved the show, and I'd
Speaker 1: much rather see AW in a whatever it is, thirteen
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand seat building than a fifty thousand seat stadium
Speaker 1: and putting ten thousand people in it. So it was
Speaker 1: the right move, but it's embarrassing. Become see clearly. Listen
Speaker 1: to the song TV off by Kendrick Lamar, Okay, I
Speaker 1: will have to do that. Styles Fan Hook should be
Speaker 1: in the Continental Classic. Where has he been lately? I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'd rather he not be in it.
Speaker 1: The Continental Classic is a tournament that should be reserved
Speaker 1: for people who I think it will it will showcase
Speaker 1: their strengths, and the strengths is the wrestling, and Hook
Speaker 1: is not at the level of the people in this tournament.
Speaker 1: So I would rather see people in the tournament who
Speaker 1: can go. I don't look at Hook in the same
Speaker 1: class as a lot of the people that we have
Speaker 1: in this tournament. I know he's somebody that they are
Speaker 1: hoping turns into a big star, and they can maybe
Speaker 1: use it as a way to push him, but I
Speaker 1: don't think the Continental Classic is for somebody like Hook.
Speaker 1: The original Man from Atlanta twenty twenty five says, that's
Speaker 1: Tony Khan's middle name? How do you f this up?
Speaker 1: What is Tony Khan's middle name? Camille? What is Tony
Speaker 1: Khan's middle name? You didn't tell me? Is Camille his
Speaker 1: middle name? George Freakin's segment says, came in a little
Speaker 1: late after eating at a Thanksgiving before I'll catch up
Speaker 1: later with the rest that I missed. Happy Thanksgiving from
Speaker 1: the future in Japan. Hey, George, I hope everything is
Speaker 1: good over in Japan, and I wish you a very
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. It's good to hear from you and thank
Speaker 1: you for the support. nWo Matt, thank you for the
Speaker 1: twenty two dollars super chat solo. That's all, he says,
Speaker 1: that's my name. George, also with the twelve says Deja
Speaker 1: Boo Arabian Night two thousand. Are you ready for Camille
Speaker 1: joining Dianna's group in Ring of Honor? Dianna has a
Speaker 1: group in Ring of Honor. It's news to me. Our
Speaker 1: d beats again. I read his super chat earlier. Dylan,
Speaker 1: thank you for the fifty. That's the big bomb tonight.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that very much. Yuri Triple H wishes God
Speaker 1: the best in his future endeavors. Like God, they have
Speaker 1: future endeavored God. I can't wait for the shoot interview here,
Speaker 1: he says. MJF cutting promos on God would be hilarious.
Speaker 1: I'd be careful what you're going to offend some people.
Speaker 1: Av Wunu with the fourteen says, I meant, how would
Speaker 1: you do Dom against baal Air? Because I think that's
Speaker 1: the move best of seven Punk versus Stone Cold or Orton. Oh.
Speaker 1: He's continuing this from the other night. Hobbes Takeshka the
Speaker 1: Tag Division. How do you heat them? Up, what should
Speaker 1: Fletcher do before Osprey to Fletcher is in the Continental Classic,
Speaker 1: He's gonna end up meeting Osprey in the finals if
Speaker 1: I'm booking it, and then beat him there, So that
Speaker 1: answers that question. Hobbes, the best thing to do win, win, win,
Speaker 1: and win some more and get him on television consistently.
Speaker 1: He wasn't on the pay per view, and he wasn't
Speaker 1: on the show tonight, and he's not in the Continental Classic,
Speaker 1: which has me worried because the next few weeks are
Speaker 1: going to be filled with Continental Classic matches and that
Speaker 1: might mean we're not going to get Hobbs on TV.
Speaker 1: So bringing him back and having him win one match
Speaker 1: and then not seeing him again does fuck all for
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs. Consistency and winning that is the formula for
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs. That is how you build Powerhouse Hobbs as
Speaker 1: a potential top babyface to challenge John Moxley next year
Speaker 1: for the World Championship. Simple as that. This is not
Speaker 1: rocket science. You don't need to be a master of
Speaker 1: brain surgery. That's how you heat up Powerhouse Hobbs and
Speaker 1: get him over Dom and balor if Dom and the
Speaker 1: rest of the judgment day kick Baalor out of the group.
Speaker 1: Baalor goes babyface. Then you do Balor and Don coming
Speaker 1: out of that best of seven punkin Stone Cold, I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're smoking. No, okay, so he's talking
Speaker 1: about not modern day. I thought you were talking modern day.
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you smoking? Brother? Best of seven?
Speaker 1: Punk against Stone Colder, Orton against Brett Hart. Orton and
Speaker 1: Brett Hart. I mean, it's not even a question. Punk
Speaker 1: and Austin are gonna have a great one or two
Speaker 1: match program, three match program. I don't want to see
Speaker 1: them at a best of seven. The fuck do I
Speaker 1: need to see a best of seven with those two for?
Speaker 1: That's not what that feud is designed for. Orton and
Speaker 1: Brett Hart. That's a best of seven. Brian Anthony rivers,
Speaker 1: everyone have a happy and safe Thanksgiving and if anyone
Speaker 1: starts a political argument at the Thanksgiving table, leave That's
Speaker 1: what I plan on doing. Oz and Glorious Camille's pushes
Speaker 1: over because she is a terrible wrestler. She is not
Speaker 1: the best on the women's roster. But this is what
Speaker 1: I mean when I talk about her coming in and
Speaker 1: having a certain aura about her there are ways that
Speaker 1: you can accentuate a person's strengths and try to hide
Speaker 1: their weaknesses, and they've already killed off her strength. So
Speaker 1: good luck, It's all I have to say. Good Luck. Also,
Speaker 1: who needs buddy when you have Yuda and Garcia. He's
Speaker 1: being stark, you better be starcastic styles fan. I'm just
Speaker 1: upset that aw is not using black write dude. I've
Speaker 1: been upset about that for two years now. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're preaching to the choir here. You and I are
Speaker 1: in agreement on that, and I can't explain it, but
Speaker 1: it is what it is. One of many examples of
Speaker 1: people who have been misused in that company. I did
Speaker 1: not see Brett Hart on American Dad. I heard he
Speaker 1: was on American Dad, which I think is awesome, but
Speaker 1: I have not seen it. Have you seen it? Is
Speaker 1: it any good casualties of gaming? What do you think
Speaker 1: happens with Dan Housen once his aw deal is up?
Speaker 1: Since apparently Tony Kahn wanted him to manage and he
Speaker 1: wanted to wrestle. What do I think happens with Dan
Speaker 1: Housen when his deal is up? He leaves? If he's
Speaker 1: unhappy there, he leaves that's it. He'll work independent dates.
Speaker 1: I don't see WWE having an interest. So either he's
Speaker 1: gonna take the aw paycheck if they'll have him. If
Speaker 1: they want to keep him, he can stay. But I
Speaker 1: don't even know if they're going to want to keep him.
Speaker 1: They're not using him. I think it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where Tony Khan doesn't want to fire the guy,
Speaker 1: so maybe they're just you know, he's sitting at home
Speaker 1: until his contract is up, and maybe that'll be the end.
Speaker 1: But if he's not happy there, leave that's it. Leave
Speaker 1: and go somewhere else. Yuri, did you see the ADW
Speaker 1: close up interview Renee did with Hobbs makes him even
Speaker 1: more easy to root for. I did not see it.
Speaker 1: I did not see it. And that is something, you know,
Speaker 1: if he talks about his life story and his journey
Speaker 1: and all that, I think that they should chop that
Speaker 1: up into smaller parts and air portions of it on TV.
Speaker 1: Styles fan says, here's a Vince quote that's creepier now
Speaker 1: than when it first aired. I enjoy destroying lives. It
Speaker 1: turns me on. You know what the sad part is,
Speaker 1: that's not even the creepiest thing. He's ever said. Let
Speaker 1: this be a periodic reminder that Vince McMahon is no
Speaker 1: longer in wrestling, and wrestling today is better off for it.
Speaker 1: I don't miss the old prick. The product is much
Speaker 1: better without him there. Let's hope it stays that way.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for the messages. I appreciate it. You're
Speaker 1: currently at three hundred and sixty likes. We have fallen
Speaker 1: short of the goal tonight, and here I was hoping
Speaker 1: for a Thanksgiving be the booker, but it's it's not
Speaker 1: looking so I will be live with you on Friday.
Speaker 1: There is a smack down one SmackDown left to go
Speaker 1: before Survivor Series, and we are gonna get a face
Speaker 1: to face I don't know if it's a sit down interview,
Speaker 1: but there's gonna be some kind of a conversation happening
Speaker 1: between Roman Reigns and cmpunk in advance of their teaming
Speaker 1: together in wargames, so there should be much to discuss
Speaker 1: coming out of that on Friday Night. Live on Friday Live.
Speaker 1: On Saturday night, when Survivor Series is over, I will
Speaker 1: be live on YouTube for the full review and then
Speaker 1: of course episode eight ninety of the podcast is coming
Speaker 1: up on Sunday. We have got Uri coming in with
Speaker 1: a five dollars super chat says they did that and
Speaker 1: his injury as well, and how it humbled and motivated him. Well,
Speaker 1: then they need to air some of that shit on TV.
Speaker 1: And hopefully they're only just waiting until the Continental Classic
Speaker 1: comes and goes and maybe then they'll air it, because
Speaker 1: that's the sort of thing. I mean, I can go
Speaker 1: on YouTube right now and watch it, which is what
Speaker 1: I'll do. But that's the sort of thing where if
Speaker 1: you're trying to get this guy over, air that shit
Speaker 1: on TV. I don't know how long the interview is.
Speaker 1: That's why I said chop it up into little parts
Speaker 1: or a condensed version. If they're serious about pushing Hobbs though,
Speaker 1: that's the sort of thing they should do. I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: you look at this aw roster right now. There are
Speaker 1: people who are ready to break out. Okay, Kyle Fletcher
Speaker 1: got a big win on Saturday. Now he's in this tournament.
Speaker 1: He's ready to break out. Him and Callous together. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, when when you had Paul Hayman and one
Speaker 1: of his guys, or Bobby Heenan and one of his guys.
Speaker 1: That's what Don kallis is in AW. You know, he's
Speaker 1: their top heel manager. He has his own heel faction.
Speaker 1: And now Kyle Fletcher has become well arguably TAKESHTA, but
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher has become certainly one of the crown jewels
Speaker 1: of the Callous family. So he's got the heel manager
Speaker 1: who gets good heat. Fletcher is a tremendous in ring talent.
Speaker 1: He's trying to establish his own identity. He's still young, right,
Speaker 1: He's got all the makings up potentially a big start
Speaker 1: if they play their cards right. He's ready to break out.
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hops has been ready to break out. There are
Speaker 1: people up and down this roster who are ready to
Speaker 1: break out. Does Tony Kahan have the vision? Does he
Speaker 1: see what the fans see? Does he feel the same
Speaker 1: way about these people that some of us feel. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but the potential is there for some of
Speaker 1: these people. And I'm not talking WWE people. Kyle Fletcher
Speaker 1: is not a WWE guy. Hobbes is not a WWE guy.
Speaker 1: These are AW originals in some cases who are ready
Speaker 1: to break out heading into the new year, and they
Speaker 1: could end up with a very nice mix of veteran
Speaker 1: talent and young original talent if they play their cards right. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the booking does not inspire a lot of confidence. I
Speaker 1: wish I could sit here and tell you that everything's
Speaker 1: gonna be okay, and this guy's gonna be a star,
Speaker 1: and that guy's going to be a star. But they're
Speaker 1: putting more of their focus right now on people like
Speaker 1: Wheeler Dah and Daniel Garcia. I see greater potential in
Speaker 1: people like a Powerhouse Hobbs and frankly even a Kyle Fletcher.
Speaker 1: Oz and Glorias says buy or sell Tony Kahn's fixation
Speaker 1: with Wheeler, Udah and Garcia against Solomaster's fixation and with
Speaker 1: boring Will Hobbs and Athena. Man, your taste is awful, Oz,
Speaker 1: I love you, but man healing on Hobbs and Athena
Speaker 1: two quality talents. I don't know what you're looking for
Speaker 1: in a wrestler, but boy, you sound lost. Brother. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you can shit on Hobbs and Athena,
Speaker 1: but hey, you do you. We all have our opinions,
Speaker 1: even the ones that are bad. Retro koh damn. The
Speaker 1: chat is needs to pick up the like, well, I
Speaker 1: think we actually did hit the likes goal. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: people are typing four hundred in the chat, so I
Speaker 1: think we may have hit the goal after all, Yes,
Speaker 1: we did. We just hit it. We just hit the goal.
Speaker 1: He also says Katrina cosplaying as demolition smash, look behind
Speaker 1: you always trying to stall me? Huhh Is that supposed
Speaker 1: to get me to turn around? By the way, Katrina
Speaker 1: cosplaying as a demolition smash in her black leather O, well,
Speaker 1: actually that would have gotten me to turn around. The
Speaker 1: face paint would have thrown me off, though, that probably
Speaker 1: would be a turnoff. E J Slamp. Will Sola Monster
Speaker 1: be having noodle pudding tomorrow? I mean I said I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course, it's Thanksgiving. It's an annual tradition.
Speaker 1: The noodle pudding will be had. By the way, when
Speaker 1: I say noodle pudding, people always like noodle pudding. What
Speaker 1: is that like, It's a dish called koggle. It's not pudding.
Speaker 1: It's it's not don't don't imagine putting in your head.
Speaker 1: It's actually kind of it's kind of hard, but it's
Speaker 1: just it's noodles that are basically baked together and it
Speaker 1: almost looks like a like if you cut a slice
Speaker 1: of cake. That's basically what it's like, in the shape
Speaker 1: of like a slice of pie or a slice of cake.
Speaker 1: But it's like egg noodles that are kind of matted together,
Speaker 1: and it's got some like cinnamon. And it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to describe because I don't make it myself. I
Speaker 1: just consume it. But it's delicious. It's delicious, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to be having some of it tomorrow and I
Speaker 1: can't wait. I'm more excited for that than I am
Speaker 1: for Survivor series. Devin from New Jersey to Solo think
Speaker 1: that if Heath Ledger had lived, we would still have
Speaker 1: gotten the We still would have gotten the oscar for
Speaker 1: the Joker. Well, we're not getting the oscar for the joker.
Speaker 1: I think he would have gotten the oscar for the Joker.
Speaker 1: It's just the castle role. Well, you can call it
Speaker 1: whatever you want. It's my noodle cast role. Fine, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, it's good. Uri says we read that already
Speaker 1: ed Swaggle twenty two months of channel membership. The building
Speaker 1: they're running out of Phoenix in February is gonna look
Speaker 1: as weird as Daily's play set up on TV good.
Speaker 1: I like the way Daily's place looks. It's a very
Speaker 1: unique setup. Good Josiah Ball. I'm so glad that we
Speaker 1: are getting Osprey against Okada, uh are we because they're
Speaker 1: not in the same group. I expect that we will
Speaker 1: get it at World's end, though, and then Osprey will
Speaker 1: beat him, and then he'll go and wrestle Fletcher. That's
Speaker 1: the way I see NWL Matt. How good would Good
Speaker 1: against the usos be? I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: how great it would. I don't think it would be great.
Speaker 1: They probably get good heat though, plays into the whole
Speaker 1: bloodline story, So I mean, I think they'd have a
Speaker 1: good match, probably not a great match. Ozng glorious TNT
Speaker 1: Champion Book of Hobbes was the worst. I love you,
Speaker 1: ah Mah tribal gee brother. You're talking about a time
Speaker 1: period where they linked him up with QT. Marshall. You're
Speaker 1: gonna blame that on Hobbes, Blame that on the booking.
Speaker 1: I'm not denying that. I'm just saying shitting on him outright,
Speaker 1: as if it was all his fault. I think is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Bas Beer, says Noodle pudding. So what no fucking ZD dude.
Speaker 1: I used to love baked CD. I used to love it.
Speaker 1: I can't have it anymore. I haven't been able to
Speaker 1: have it in twenty years. But I loved the baked CD.
Speaker 1: That was my favorite Italian dish. Broke my heart when
Speaker 1: I couldn't have it anymore. Tuxedo t Servo had my
Speaker 1: kids in town, so just got here. Happy Thanksgiving to
Speaker 1: and those in the chat who celebrate in Tuxedo. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the super chat and at very happy Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: to you and the kids. I hope you have a
Speaker 1: great holiday. All right, Well, we did hit the goal.
Speaker 1: As I said, we didn't hit our extra goal. We're
Speaker 1: halfway to the extra goal. So it looks like only
Speaker 1: one be the booker tonight. But we are going to
Speaker 1: do be the booker. And in fact, we're going to
Speaker 1: do be the booker right now. Ladies and gentlemen, it
Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker. Free Ricky there,
Speaker 1: he is, there, he is. Everybody Oz Glorious says you
Speaker 1: know who loved casserole, Joey peeps. That is true, that
Speaker 1: is true. Well here we go one and only be
Speaker 1: the booker. Attempt here heading into the holiday, I want
Speaker 1: to send you off to your family this Thanksgiving season
Speaker 1: with a smile on your face. There's only one way
Speaker 1: for me to do that. It's a clean sweep. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sweep your right into Thanksgiving. We begin with the
Speaker 1: American Wolves. I like that the American Wolves were a
Speaker 1: very good team, so I am optimistic about this. Then
Speaker 1: I'll get back to your super chats here and the
Speaker 1: ones I missed in a second. So don't worry about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: calm down, all right. The American Wolves they're gonna be
Speaker 1: taking Oh my fucking god, they're gonna be taking on breezeango.
Speaker 1: Why do I always do this to myself where I
Speaker 1: say it out loud and I jinx it. I say
Speaker 1: it out loud and we're not even doing a second
Speaker 1: be the Booker tonight, So we can't even correct the
Speaker 1: mistake that we've made here. There's now team mind is
Speaker 1: five minutes left in the superchet goal. So much for
Speaker 1: the clean sweep. We might be getting a sweep in
Speaker 1: the opposite direction. That's not what I wanted. That's not
Speaker 1: what I wanted. Are you surprised that I would give
Speaker 1: that the Buzzard that you think that's a big marquee
Speaker 1: match to book the American Wolves against Brizogo. But he's
Speaker 1: fucking kidding me. Come on, man, come on, smarten up.
Speaker 1: Women's be the booker. Uh uh, choose four women and
Speaker 1: book a tag team match. Well, well, well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: book ourselves a women's tag team Championship match. That's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I've got a book four women. Now,
Speaker 1: Tony Kahan is gonna have a heart attack. He told
Speaker 1: him he has to book four women on the same show. Okay,
Speaker 1: another tag team match. Yes, this will be our second
Speaker 1: tag team match that we're booking. All right, the first
Speaker 1: team consists of Charlotte Flair. Charlotte Flair is gonna get
Speaker 1: a tag team partner, and that tag team partner is
Speaker 1: going to be Willow Nightingale. Okay, all right, how about that.
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair and Willow Nightingale. That's a hell of a team.
Speaker 1: Big fan of Willow Nightingale got one of the biggest
Speaker 1: pops of the night at Full Gear when she ran
Speaker 1: in during that main event to tackle Marina Shafir. What
Speaker 1: is that? I tell you? Okay, Charlotte and Willow could
Speaker 1: be taken on. Eva Marie all read everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just preemptively buzzed it because I mean, of course
Speaker 1: I'm going to give this the buzzer. Eva Marie and
Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton. Well, you know, Tiffany Stratton on one side,
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair on the other. Mmm. You know what I
Speaker 1: think I may have. I may have prematurely buzzed. I
Speaker 1: hate when that happens. I think I may have prematurely buzzed.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna change that and I'm gonna give it
Speaker 1: the bell Because you got Charlotte Flair on one side, you
Speaker 1: got Tiffany Stratton on the other. I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the WrestleMania match. Got Willow in there. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of talent in that match, So the referees decision
Speaker 1: is not the final. I have reversed my decision. I
Speaker 1: think that's the first time I've ever done that, and
Speaker 1: be the booker. See you guys, you guys bore witness
Speaker 1: to a first and be the booker history. They can
Speaker 1: carry Eva well, no, I mean it's a tag team match,
Speaker 1: so you just keep exactly, you just keep her on
Speaker 1: the apron. Yeah, they could power bomb her through the
Speaker 1: table or something and she could just lay on the outside.
Speaker 1: And that's right. See, now you have somebody in the match,
Speaker 1: you can do the job. When it's over all right
Speaker 1: made event time, we begin with the former and future
Speaker 1: AW World Heavyweight Champion Hangman Adam Page. Loving this new
Speaker 1: Hangman character. This man is obsessed, obsessed, I tell you,
Speaker 1: Hangman Page one on one with Big Bronson read we
Speaker 1: were close. We were close to a clean sweep. Were
Speaker 1: it not for the men's tag team match, we would
Speaker 1: have had it. So we actually ended up doing pretty well.
Speaker 1: I would say Big Bronzon Reid and Hangman Adam Page
Speaker 1: in the main event. That is a good man. I
Speaker 1: like that match. I can dig that. EJ. Slamp with
Speaker 1: the four ninety nine, this will be the first year
Speaker 1: since AEW was founded where I did not go to
Speaker 1: a live show that includes twenty twenty. I'm one of
Speaker 1: the former diehards that they alienated. Well, that's a problem
Speaker 1: because if you're out there, then I'm sure there are
Speaker 1: others like you who are out there. Clearly there are
Speaker 1: others like you who are out there, because as I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the stream, they struggle to even get
Speaker 1: four thousand people in Chicago of all markets, which is
Speaker 1: their market. That means there are not as many people
Speaker 1: going to the shows. So EJ, you are not alone.
Speaker 1: Oz Glorious. I mentioned the Joey Peeps one nWo. Matt
Speaker 1: is insistent that that was a bell. No it wasn't, No,
Speaker 1: it was not. Scott Woodford, channel member for forty four months,
Speaker 1: says I got the CM Punk belt today. That's right,
Speaker 1: Scott was getting the custom CM Punk belt. Now correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. I heard that it spins. I
Speaker 1: hope that's not the case. If it is, I would
Speaker 1: tell you to burn it. Hopefully the belt doesn't spin.
Speaker 1: Belts should not spin tires, spin belts should not spin boots.
Speaker 1: Do the CON's own Daily's Place or can GCW do
Speaker 1: a show there? I think they have some ownership in it,
Speaker 1: but GCW is not doing a show at Daily's Place
Speaker 1: and styles fan. First time you premature buzzed was Dixie
Speaker 1: against Linda. I have no memory of that. But you
Speaker 1: telling me that I premature buzzed for for Dixie, I
Speaker 1: can believe that. I can believe that. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Dixie Karr. She and I share a birthday. We share
Speaker 1: a birthday with Bruno San Martino. What a trio the
Speaker 1: belt does indeed spin? Well, you gotta burn it, sorry, brother,
Speaker 1: Yuri says, not hating on GCW, I enjoy a lot
Speaker 1: of talents there. But why would they think WWE or
Speaker 1: AW would sabotage They let talents work there all the time. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that goes back, and this is not even
Speaker 1: about the Ricky Stark stuff. That goes back when the
Speaker 1: GCW owner was complaining days ago about Tony Kahn booking
Speaker 1: Hammerstein a month before he was scheduled to run Hammerstein.
Speaker 1: And that's not nice. And there's an unwritten rule. And
Speaker 1: as I said on the podcast, I go, brother, all
Speaker 1: you had to do is have it written into the
Speaker 1: contract that you made with Hammerstein if you were so
Speaker 1: worried about something like that happening. Maybe he genuinely didn't
Speaker 1: think it was gonna happen, but it did. You know,
Speaker 1: if you put together a card that people want to see,
Speaker 1: they'll buy tickets to go to your show, and if
Speaker 1: you don't, they won't. That's it. And the idea that
Speaker 1: AW did that to try to sabotage GCW intentionally give
Speaker 1: me a fucking break. Scott says, it spins. Can't you
Speaker 1: take out the mechanism though, isn't there a mechanism in
Speaker 1: there that if you remove it it won't spin anymore?
Speaker 1: You should be able to make it not spin. It's
Speaker 1: not a fidget spinner. It's a championship belt power spying games.
Speaker 1: There was a premature buzz for Bad Bunny and Macho
Speaker 1: Man once, also Giant Gonzales and Hollywood Rock. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not, you have a better memory about these matches
Speaker 1: that I do. I have no memory. I booked a
Speaker 1: match with Bad Bunny and Macho Man. Randy said, there's
Speaker 1: no fucking way I booked that match. I didn't book
Speaker 1: that match. Kevin, Oh my god, Happy Thanksgiving. Thankful for
Speaker 1: all of your hard work. Well, at least somebody appreciates it. Kevin,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I hope that you eat lots of food and spend
Speaker 1: lots of time with family and enjoy the day. Joey says,
Speaker 1: wwe loves spinner belts and I love a hammer smashy smashy,
Speaker 1: Hey film it, film it and upload it. It's like
Speaker 1: mister perfect when he took a hammer to the winged
Speaker 1: Eagle belt on Saturday Night's main event. EJ says, the
Speaker 1: spinner belt is not a bad design if it didn't spin. No,
Speaker 1: I hated the design. The spinning makes it worse. But
Speaker 1: I always thought the I thought the scene belt was garbage,
Speaker 1: and anytime anybody other than Sina held it, it just
Speaker 1: it was like a piece of my soul. Diyed like
Speaker 1: like Triple H when he had it. Or I just
Speaker 1: thought that belt was garbage. You would never prematurely buzz
Speaker 1: Randy say exactly, Well, he may be saying that I
Speaker 1: prematurely hit the buzzer if I hit Bad Bunny first
Speaker 1: and then I hit Savage. But if I landed on
Speaker 1: Randy Savage, there's no way I would ever prematurely hit
Speaker 1: the buzzer Like that just wouldn't happen. In fact, I
Speaker 1: was spending part of my afternoon today while I had
Speaker 1: lunch watching the Macho Man Randy Savage mixtape that they
Speaker 1: put on the WWE Vault channel. I think they uploaded
Speaker 1: that like a week or two ago. I'm still working
Speaker 1: my way through and it's three hours long. It's just
Speaker 1: a collection of random Savage promos and segments and matches
Speaker 1: from WWE and WCW. I mean, there's some stuff in
Speaker 1: that they have a match it's incomplete, so there's no finish.
Speaker 1: It just they cut away in the middle of the
Speaker 1: match because and they put a message on the screen
Speaker 1: that says, this is the most complete version of the
Speaker 1: match that we have. But it's a match I don't
Speaker 1: think I ever saw. And I remember seeing a photo
Speaker 1: of it in an old WWF magazine and it was
Speaker 1: a match from nineteen ninety one, a singles match with
Speaker 1: Savage against the Undertake, And I remember that photo. It
Speaker 1: was right he had Undertaker by the hair and he
Speaker 1: was about to run and do the thing where he
Speaker 1: jumps over the rope and kind of drapes him neck first.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this match from? So I finally
Speaker 1: got to see at least part of that match, eighty
Speaker 1: five percent of which was Undertaker just choking him and
Speaker 1: smothering him on the mat. So that's on there. There's
Speaker 1: some good shit on there. They have some every now
Speaker 1: and then they'll cut to like an outtake of him
Speaker 1: when he was filming like soundbites for the video game,
Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, it's actually acting like a human being
Speaker 1: and laughing and it's just cool. It's just cool stuff.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Yeah, if you didn't see it, that's up
Speaker 1: on the Vault channel. Savage Verse Undertaker is now in full.
Speaker 1: What do you mean now? The match is not in full?
Speaker 1: The match is not in full. If it's in full
Speaker 1: somewhere you let me know. But they literally put a
Speaker 1: message on screen saying this is the most complete version
Speaker 1: of the match that we have, so it ain't full. Richie,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Richie says, there was another message. Let
Speaker 1: me see, let me take a look. I see it. Uh,
Speaker 1: Richie says, do you think that we will ever see
Speaker 1: an Austin and Rock face to face in the ring?
Speaker 1: If not, what would have been the perfect time for
Speaker 1: it to have the perfect time for it to happen
Speaker 1: would have been in April of twenty twenty four at
Speaker 1: WrestleMania this year at Philadelphia, and they didn't do it.
Speaker 1: Austin just had his reasons for not going. It sucks.
Speaker 1: It's a moment that now has been forever lost. It
Speaker 1: was perfect. I mean, it was basically like the WWE
Speaker 1: version of The Avengers Assemble, where you had Cody against
Speaker 1: Roman and then you had John Cena comes out, the
Speaker 1: Rock comes out. It ended with Undertaker instead, but it
Speaker 1: should have been Austin, and I think their plan was
Speaker 1: for it to be Austin, and he shot it down.
Speaker 1: Whatever his reasons were, I know he doesn't really want
Speaker 1: to leave Nevada at this point, which is why he
Speaker 1: said we'll probably seem a WrestleMania next year because WrestleMania
Speaker 1: is going to be in his backyard. But he just
Speaker 1: may not want to travel, you know, to go from
Speaker 1: west coast to east coast. I get it, but man,
Speaker 1: that would have been such an unbelievable moment for him,
Speaker 1: the glass to shatter at that moment. He marches down,
Speaker 1: gives Rock one last stunner. Rock does his over cell
Speaker 1: of the stunner. It's just it's just such a missed opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's just such a missed opportunity. So it should have been. Then,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, May's de great. The Jeff Hardy
Speaker 1: TNA Belt is the ugliest belt ever to me. You know,
Speaker 1: it was not the best belt, But I actually I
Speaker 1: don't hate that belt in the way that some people did.
Speaker 1: I've seen worse. Don't forget Jay usso and shield Rollins
Speaker 1: came out. That's right, Yes, jay Uso came out, seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins came out. It really was. It was like their
Speaker 1: version of the Avengers, And so how are you gonna
Speaker 1: do that and not have Austin of all people show up?
Speaker 1: But sometimes it's just not in ww control. You know
Speaker 1: they wanted him there, and you know they couldn't make
Speaker 1: it happen. So what are you gonna do? Oh Man Styles,
Speaker 1: I mentioned your Dixie chat. I mentioned that several minutes ago.
Speaker 1: We've all commented on it. This was like WWE's version
Speaker 1: of Endgame. I didn't see Endgames, so I saw the
Speaker 1: first Avengers movie. That was it. So you would be
Speaker 1: more well versed in the other Avengers movie than I
Speaker 1: would be movies. Thank you guys for spending your Thanksgiving Eve,
Speaker 1: or part of it anyway with me. I appreciate that
Speaker 1: much love here this holiday season and wishing you all
Speaker 1: a very happy Thanksgiving. I will see you back here
Speaker 1: live on Friday night for spack Down, and then Saturday
Speaker 1: night don't forget early start time for Survivor series of
Speaker 1: six pm. So my guess is we'll be live on
Speaker 1: the channel maybe nine thirty ish probably sometime around then
Speaker 1: the full Survivor series wargames recat looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Will we see the Rock? Will
Speaker 1: the Final Boss make an appearance on Saturday? Leave a comment,
Speaker 1: chime in and let me know. I will see you
Speaker 1: guys back here on Friday night for smack then, until then,
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving