Speaker 1: And nine Ignition six.
Speaker 2: Five four three two one zero all engine running.
Speaker 3: It's Tuesday. You know what that means. It's time for
Ignition with well for the first time. I'm thrilled. I
am actually thrilled to say that Ignition with the AEW
official subreddit and the AW fan hub subreddit. And I
say that because we have a special guest with this tonight,
and I hope this is not the first time that
you're with us. Wressell Girl from the AW official subreddit.
How you doing?
Speaker 4: Everybody so well?
Speaker 3: I think everybody knows some of the things that are
going on in your life personally. How are you? How
are you holding up?
Speaker 1: That's a loaded question. Yeah, I am tired, a lot
going on, a lot to deal with on a daily basis, But.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 1: Something we're going to get through.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 1: Thyroid cancer is very treatable. It's basically considered curable. So
I just got to get through. I don't know how
long it's going to take, but this this temporary crappy part.
Might love to swear, uh, temporary crappy part.
Speaker 3: You just you can't just drop f bombs.
Speaker 1: That's okay? Fair what I'm hoping maybe a year from
now this is all going to be in my rear view.
We'll see.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope it takes a lot less time than that.
And uh and like I said, you're always welcome here.
You know, our communities are two great eight communities, and
we should be doing these kind of things together because
it just makes sense. You know, there's no competition between us.
You know, there's I mean your members or our members
and our members or your members. You've got a lot
more members on Reddit than we do, that's for sure.
But still, you know, but I do have a question.
I needed to ask you, Wrussell girl, because I'm a
bit confused. I have always been confused by this because
I've heard you were referred to as wrestle mom or
a subreddit mom, or as you call yourself the skank
you want a spank, I mean Tony storm Ban. Are
you which which one? Is it?
Speaker 1: All of the above?
Speaker 3: All of the above. I think I'm just gonna stick.
I'm call it stick to calling you wrestle girl. I
think that's fine.
Speaker 1: There's there's kind of a running joke that I'm mom
the subreddit more so than I'm mod the subreddit. Just
kind of roll with it. I call them my wrestling children.
Speaker 3: You're wrestling children. Do you send a lot of them
to the room. Yes, sometimes permanently because I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't prefer. I do not prefer permanent bands,
but I will I will do so if needed. But no, generally,
if you know, I talk to people, I'll be like, hey,
dial it back. Same thing I do with my kids. Hey,
dial it back. They listen eventually, I just did.
Speaker 3: That's one of the things I do when my kids
send them to their room. But well, look, let's just
have some fun tonight. That's all we're here for is
to have some fun. Talk about AW. And speaking of AW,
tomorrow night, AW Dynamite, it's a stacked card. I mean,
there's eight matches. This is a go home show. This
is a go home show, and it's got eight matches.
But after AW Dynamite, be sure to check out Conrad
Cushman and Derek Shelton. Conrad, I mispronounced your last name.
I am sorry. At EPW show their Dynamite review show
on YouTube at EPW show, And I do want to
say to the people on YouTube in the chat, go
ahead and chat with us, you know, talk to us
about what's going on what we're talking about. But before
we get to that, I'm making the sign of the
Cross right now, because Jess, you have a special award
to give to somebody, don't you.
Speaker 5: I sure do. Hey, everybody, greetings from Columbus, Ohio. This
is Jess and I have a bone to pick with
Blubber Ray, who decided to run his mouth on bus
open Radio, calling John Moxley the ace of AEW, a
fraud that he could beat up. I think anybody who
knows anything about John Moxley, the work he's put in
to basically carry AW on his shoulders during its darkest
periods at great personal sacrifice to himself, I don't think
anybody with half of a brain cell couldn't say anything
bad about mox Am.
Speaker 3: I right, yes, absolutely, I'm kind of I distract them.
I'm looking at the chat is blowing up right now,
so I'm real happy about that. So I'm reading.
Speaker 5: But yes, people have been MMA fighters, members of the
Death Riders have been jumping to John's defense, which I
don't think he really needs. But he's Anybody who's like
a super fan of mox like me, knows he is
really an internet guy. So we probably may or may
not even know about any of this, but on behalf
of the official death Writer apologists and John Moxley's number
two fan. I'm not going to try to displace Nora.
Can't be done. I would like to tell Bully Ray
two all together now please shut.
Speaker 3: Boy. That was syncredized so well, you know, we were practically.
Speaker 5: The harmony was beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. Before we go on to the next segment. Here,
give me the chat is absolutely going nuts. We got
Jamie was here saying hello, came from aw official subreddit,
glad to support our fellow wrestling fans. Letters from the
Left says, let's go e p W show. Conrad says, hey, hey,
it's Jocelyn. When I was talking about the a W
already EPW show said well done. Sorry boy, the chat
is actually kind of going crazy. I can't read it.
I can't read the chat, guys, so I will have
to take a break on that.
Speaker 6: And next says Wressell. Girls the queen of the Internet
as far as he's concerned. So there you go, Kirk Wressell,
you're his queen of the Internet.
Speaker 3: Thank you. To go to Chris.
Speaker 4: Now, hey, everybody listen is Chris all you find folks
listening live or on Apple, Spotify YouTube later on. If
you are not already part of our discord, I would
like to welcome you there. We have a great chat
on Dynamite Collision in pay per view, all starts of
wrestling w AW. We have a place for Lucha puro
Reslue Joshi, all the wrestling talk you could want, We
got about ninety percent of it. So come join us.
Speaker 6: All right, kids, gather around and listen. This is Barry
coming to you from beautiful Orlando, Florida. We are going
to be doing bingo once again, this time at Forbidden Door.
So here's how it's gonna work. You're gonna get your
Bingo card. It's gonna generate automatically for you when you
go to the AW fan Hub subredit, so you go in,
it'll generate it automatically. It's linked to your user ID.
Doesn't matter if you leave and come back. It's going
to be the same card till somebody wins. So you
need to watch AW Forbidden Door. The contest is gonna
start with zero hour and on your Bingo card, you're
gonna mark whenever any of the things assigned to you
on your five x five card comes up and when
Bingo's achieved, and that's if you do a straight line
across or diagonal. I think most people who played bingo before,
but there's always some intelligently challenged folks out there who
maybe haven't. You're gonna shot bingo, but where do you
shop bingo? Well, this is where it's important. You can
only shot Bingo on the aw fan hub subreddit live
chat and you can find a link to that in
the community playground box at the top of the subreddit.
Speaker 2: When you visit.
Speaker 6: Small change from when we've tested this contest out previously,
this is going to be exclusive to the aw fan
hub subredd at this time. We've tried some other mediums
and it just was too difficult to do it in
more than one place, so this would be an exclusive
content contest to the aw fan hub subreddit. After you
claim Bingo, which you have to do is send a
screenshot of your completed Bengo card in the live chat
or DM it to Kelson and his information will be
I think it's you underscore Kelson is the name or
how to do that? Kelson sixty four, I'm sorry and
send that over to Kelson and that's how you win.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, let me let me rupt you up because
this this is not for sure. But stay tuned because
we may also be doing this with the aw official
subreddit as well. We haven't come to that, you know,
I haven't quite gotten there yet, but we're trying not
to exclude the community. We're trying to make this all inclusive.
So as of right now, it is aw fan Hub
subreddit only, but maybe we'll add that.
Speaker 2: Let them announce that if it's official.
Speaker 6: Don't take our work set. So for now it is
exclusive to the today aw fan Hub. If that changes,
it'll be posted on those locations, all right, So try
to call out Bingo when it happens in the live chat. Again,
make sure you follow the live chat and participate.
Speaker 2: It's fun.
Speaker 6: It's a bunch of us sitting on the virtual couch
together having a good time. If no one reaches Bingo,
which I find it hard to believe considering it's going
to be a five plus hour show, the contest will
carry over to next week's Dynamite. The winner is going
to be contacted via Reddit DM So once you win,
you'll be contacted by Kelson And here's the prize. You
get to go to shop AW and take a screenshot
of the T shirt you want.
Speaker 2: You're going to want to make.
Speaker 6: Sure that it's a in stock and B your size
is in stock, so make sure don't pick something that's
out of stock or doesn't have your size. Nothing we
can do about that, and then we'll coordinate shipping information
so we can send it to you. We're going to
continue to do these giveaways all the way through all In,
so make sure you listen weekly and we'll announce when
the next ones are. And another thing, Kelson, I believe
we are going to do three winners for the pay
per view.
Speaker 3: Correct, that is correct, three winners for Forbidden Door, probably
going to do three winners for Redemption, and probably go
up as many as five for all in.
Speaker 6: So that's if you're looking to expand your pro wrestling
T shirt collections such as I am I feel like
I'm adding one to two a week. This is a
freeway to do it. You just got to win and
stay tuned for more information. If we have some other mediums,
we'll announce that, but again for now, it's on the
AW Phantom subreddit. And to segue us into the rest
of the show, we are going to start by talking
about the big question that everybody wants answered heading into
Forbidden Door, and that is what's the main event going to.
Speaker 3: Be the main event at Forbidden Door? You know what,
I'm gonna put Russell Girl on the spot right away
on this one. What do you think is the main
event that Forbidden Door? I no, I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm because you know.
Speaker 2: My hamster on the wheel in there.
Speaker 4: I'm real tired.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: My heart wants it to be Kenny versus Zach. It's
probably not going to be, and I don't think there's
going to be a surprise Mark Davis main event. So
my guess is going to be the men's own final,
Osprey versus swarp Ah.
Speaker 3: Really okay that I did not have that on my
bigo card. I don't mean, I mean, I'm not disagreeing
with you at all. I mean that's a that's a
hell of a match. I just didn't really think about it.
Let's hear from others. What do we think is going
to be the main event? Guys?
Speaker 4: He stole my pick?
Speaker 7: Really, okay, I'm trying to think like Joel.
Speaker 3: I tried to try to think like Tony kan, I think.
Speaker 5: Okay, if you're thinking, like, how about tech Love versus
Starlight Kid.
Speaker 1: Is the main event?
Speaker 5: Wow, Tony loves him some Starlight Kid.
Speaker 3: He does love him some Starlight Kid who hasn't gone yet.
Speaker 8: Considering it's the biggest uh forbidden door in them match,
I don't disagree with Jess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tony.
Speaker 6: Tony has a way of like he tries to send
people home happy on the pay per views. So I'm
figuring it's going to be the final of the menzonen
or the cage match, because with that much chaos, I
don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long it'll take them to clean
up afterwards.
Speaker 3: You know, well, they've done a cage match prior to
the main event before. Matter of fact, didn't they do
Anarchy and the Arena at double or nothing last year
in the middle That wasn't a cage match, but they
still had a mess and that was that was done.
You know, that wasn't the main event. I feel like
an absolute idiot because I never even consider I thought
it was going to be between Starlight Kid and Tecla
at second place, and I think, to me, I thought
it was a no brainer. Did everybody was going to
say the steel cage match was going to be the main.
Speaker 4: Event forbidden, I'd like to see the steel cage open
the show.
Speaker 6: That bad, Yeah, i'd like to mean one of the
reasons why go ahead?
Speaker 4: Sorry, the main event is the most important match. The
opener is the second most important, Like that's what's getting
the crowd. You want to get them right from the go.
So yeah, the steel take match would be a perfect opener. Chaos,
it's fakes, it's you know, insane.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's party men the men's own if that
goes with the main event. The reason I think that
makes sense too is especially if you're going to do
a post show angle. So if you do the cage
match earlier, we know whether or not Briscoe's got a
title shot, right because it's for a title shot, and
then coming out of that, you've got you can run
a post show angle, you know, with Will being like,
I got whoever's next, and then brisco'es you know, you
got to get through me or whatever. Have somebody come in,
you know, is Kenny going to be involved to set
him up with maybe a title match again. Senji having
that at the end kind of segues into setting up
next week's Dynamite. I think with a with a good
hot angle coming off that show as well.
Speaker 3: Well, I will say this. People in the chat are
all kind of chiming in Swerve and Osprey, So let's
talk about Swerving Osprey. This is, by the way, this
is the only one I'm going to do. In order
to rest I'm just gonna put in the order I
put the graphics in. But let's talk about Swerve, Strickland,
Will Osprey the Men's owen Hart Finals.
Speaker 5: For some reason, I thought this wasn't going to be
happening until all In.
Speaker 9: Well, the title shot is yeah, owens for the title shot,
I mean, the the finals determined who goes to all
in of course, But.
Speaker 3: Does anybody strictly right, I just have to ask this
out right, does anybody see swear Strickland winning this match? No,
it's okay, then, so let's move on. Seriously.
Speaker 2: I think that's okay too.
Speaker 6: I got I got into a disagreement with somebody on
the discord and didn't think it's too predictable, and it's like,
but this is the story arc, like it was Hangar
last year.
Speaker 2: Like this is the story arc, like Will's going to
be the guy. Yeah, you don't have him win? What
do you do with will for all? You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I tried a couple of weeks ago
if if you don't remember, I tried to come up
with a scenario what if he loses? And it was dumb.
What do you do with them? Right, there's nothing you
can do. This is will Osprey's time to shine. If
if they want to sell tickets for all in you
got to put will Osbury in that match. I mean,
it's just as simple as that. No disrespect whatsoever. It's
just Swear Strickland. But seriously, there's really no discussion here.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I mean it'll be a great match.
We know these two match up well, but I mean
we all kind of we're ninety nine percent store who's
winning and.
Speaker 6: You got a postmatch angle you can run. It's not
like Swear best to disappear after this either.
Speaker 3: No. No, well, let's let's move on because I honestly
feel like we spent way too much time on this
match already, because it's a it's a given. Well, let's
talk about the Steel Cage match. The transitional challenger Mark
Briscoe and his team against the World champion MGF and
his team.
Speaker 5: This is going to chaos, absolute chaos. This one's going
to be for the sickos.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: This was another one where it'll be a really fun
and entertaining match, but it feels like a predictable winner
like Mark Briscow will find a way to snatch victory
from the jaws of defeat and you know, we get all.
He'll get his title match, probably a break.
Speaker 2: Did so did that?
Speaker 6: I was going to ask, did they announce where the
title shot is occurring? Isn't that beach break? I would
think beach breaker.
Speaker 2: I couldn't remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd probably be be beach breaker redemption.
Speaker 10: I mean no, no, no, not no, no, no.
Speaker 2: That's kind of yeah. So so do you give.
Speaker 6: Do you give Mark the pin over m JF in
this so that when he loses to m JF at
beach break?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 6: Is that how you how would you book that finish?
Do you have him score the I mean that's I
figure he's got a spare pin to make it believable, right, I.
Speaker 4: Think he scores the pin, and I I think he
gets the nickens on Dora because then will be able
to blame on Gerarde and that will push him further
towards what everyone wants for him to be. You know
what kind of hockey worthy sexy face what is?
Speaker 6: Yeahs, I don't think you're wrong. I don't think you're off.
I still think Briscoe needs to get the pin on MJF.
But there's enough heat what if on? I think I
think you're right. Andreida is involved in that finish either as.
Speaker 4: They go for that elbow and yeah yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean and Bristow Jackson boom, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: Chris, you know, but I think it needs I think
those three are kind of the key at in the ending.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want to ask Jess and Russell Girl specifically, do
you do you agree that Mark Briscoe is probably going
to get the pin at this match.
Speaker 1: I think y'all are overlooking to Kesta. I think he's
got just as much of a story in terms of
that being all done. Kallas family on the heel side,
the Ketta might might have just as much of a
claim to needing the pin as Briscoe.
Speaker 3: You know, I kind of agree with you, But when
I was looking at who was in this match, I'm
thinking that that Takeshta Kyle Fletcher and Kazuko Okada will
be battling in the back. By the end of this match,
you know, they'll escape the cage and just be just
concentrating on each other. I don't think they'll care about
actually getting up in here.
Speaker 5: No, you can't can't fight.
Speaker 3: Do what I didn't hear you?
Speaker 5: I said the love triangle. Can't fight actually at.
Speaker 3: This love triangle? Yeah, we need to come up with
like a voice clip the love triangle.
Speaker 2: What are the other pairs in this?
Speaker 6: You got Darby and Kevin Knight, right, he got Fletcher
Okata and Takeshaa. He got Doyle and what Orange cast
today lock up?
Speaker 2: Is there an you got?
Speaker 6: There's like they kind of worked some people involved in
angles like already to to kind of weave this in.
I didn't know if there are any other pairings going
into this.
Speaker 4: Well, you also have.
Speaker 5: A feeling you have to have the obligatory Kyle versus
Kyle moment.
Speaker 8: Yeah, oh, I have a feeling Kyle will get taken
out before the match. I don't think they'll make it
to the match.
Speaker 3: That's that's a fair possibility.
Speaker 8: Or someone forbidden door ask to be put in there,
you know, Mark Briscoe calls in a favor or something.
Originally I thought it would be but now he's, you know,
in a match of his own, so I don't have
an answer to who might replace him. But that's I
have a feeling they won't make it to the match.
Speaker 3: But didn't understand what you just said?
Speaker 10: He said wrestler, absolutely not.
Speaker 4: What about.
Speaker 5: Oh yes him?
Speaker 10: No yes, but ya yaho? No no, no, no.
Speaker 4: What about?
Speaker 3: Go ahead? Just I know what you're gonna say, the.
Speaker 5: World famous Lord Yoshi Tatsu.
Speaker 3: That's what I thought you yos Russell. Girl, did you
ever have the probable world famous band on your subreddit?
The guy who just loves Yoshi tattoo? No, my god,
this guy he has like thirteen different accounts and the
only thing he poses about the world famous Yoshi tattsoo.
He's been banned from. But he's been banned from like
every subreddit in the world. I don't know how he
did make his way to your subreddit. He is just
and on our.
Speaker 2: Discord, he's good, he's gonna oh yeah.
Speaker 3: He's a very good time.
Speaker 5: And I will note that he he doesn't get banned
for being offensive. He gets banned just on the power
of being purely annoying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he does have his own Yoshi Tatso subreddit, and
I can't repeat the things that is.
Speaker 2: Let's let's stop talking to this guy.
Speaker 3: I can't. I can't repeat the things that this guy
has said about might be not the subreddit and other subreddits,
but anyway, Yeah, let's move on though.
Speaker 4: E LP.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jamie was here from the chat coming up with
the Kyle syndicate.
Speaker 3: Kyle, so good. Thank you for that because I am
literally the chat is jumping around on me. I can't
read it, so I appreciate you keeping an eye on
the chat for me. Pal. Let's move on to what's
some some people think maybe should be the main event,
and that's Tecla versus Starlight Kid. You know what's interesting
is that we've done a poll on the subreddit and
the poll shows pretty much exactly the split, with Tecla
having eighty seven percent of the votes and Starlight Kid
having thirteen percent of the votes, which coincidentally is exactly
the same as Maya World got and you saw what
my World did. Does anybody see a chance that Starlight
Kid can walk out of this match as the aw
Women's World Champion.
Speaker 4: I would say there's definitely a chance. You know, I
think it's probably about close to what the predictions happened.
But I mean we've seen up such before and it
would do a lot to kind of dispel the people
who are like, oh, Tony Kahan never gives them anything.
If a stardom wrestler tapes the title, you know, holds
it for a little while. And I think this match
has to come after the owen Hart Women's title match
because whoever wins, I feel like it kind of telegraphs
the winner of that match if it happens before.
Speaker 3: We'll explain that for people that are not paying attention.
Speaker 4: I feel like if Tekla the heel wins, we get
the underdog upset victory by a world takes it and
has her path to haul in that.
Speaker 3: You know, like.
Speaker 4: Listen to the reactions she's got the last couple of weeks,
Like you have something there that is kind of organically growing.
I you know, maybe jump on it.
Speaker 2: Russell girl, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Go ahead? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, I really wish just one Tony would do
something completely crazy really like Starlight Kid to win. I
really would, just because nothing surprises me and wrestling anymore,
and that would surprise me. So I'd really like to
see that just for the absolute shock value of it.
Speaker 3: You know, that's Russell girl. I first of all, I
agree with you one hundred percent. But one of the
problems that I've always had with Forbidden Dor in particular
is that there is no suspense and who's going to
win a match and lose a match when it comes
to an aw belt against a non aw roster wrestler.
So I get what you're saying here, is that what
you're saying you'd like to see somebody else win a belt.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not so much the belt thing, you know,
I kind of always have looked at Forbidden Door less
as let's battle for aw belts and more as a
showcase of international wrestlers that a lot of people really
aren't familiar with.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's more of a showcase than like, hey, let's actually
vibe for these belts. I've just been watching wrestling for
so long. I wrestled for long enough that not much
surprises me, and that something like this would surprise me
and I'd enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get you, I get you. Anybody else with
any thoughts on Tekla versus Starlight Kid.
Speaker 8: Yeah, also considering Starlight Kids praises from Tony Kahan, I
don't think he would. I don't think he would mind
putting Starlight Kid in the lineage of Women's World champions.
I'm guilty of being in the eighty seven percent on
Reddit with going with Tekla, but I want Starlight Kid,
and I think with a Starlight Kid victory, I think
there would be so much, so much to play with
after this, after the Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm a big SLK fan, and I'm
of course i'm a big Stardom fan. But I just
think that, as Russell Girls said, just having Starlight Kid
win the match would be a surprise and it'd be
something to talk about, one thing that I do not
want to see. Regardless of who wins or who loses
in this match, this is by far, to me the
most compelling story. It's an ongoing story that's been going
on well before Forbidden Door and should go on after
Forbidden Door. And if you pay attention to what has
been being said at AW over the last several weeks,
a lot of the wrestlers have been tossing around the
word redemption a lot well in order to have redemption,
you have to have something to redeem, and this would
be something to redeem.
Speaker 4: Just my thought.
Speaker 8: It's tough with the five Star Grand Prix coming up.
That would be kind of smack dab in the middle
of or redemption would be smacked up in the middle
of that. But you know who knows crazier things have happened.
They have a I actually did a deep dive on this.
They've shared the ring thirty three times, only two of
those being singles matches, so there's a lot of chemistry
and it makes me want to throw this in the
hat for matches at night. Will and swerve. Makes it
hard to fully call it that or fully predict that.
But listen, I think this has some deep going into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, if they if they let them do a
pure Joshi style match, I think it's going to blow
the mind that a lot of American audiences too, because
we've seen bits and pieces, but I mean I don't
I don't think you've actually seen like a legit Joshie
match on AWTV, and we know it's Starlight Kid well
us on the podcast. The broader audience may not know
what she brings to the table. We've all seen what
that what can do. But coming back to your point, Chris,
I I would be very interested to see where this
is placed on the card. If it's before the finals
of the Owen. I think Tacklo walked away after. I'm
open to a surprise and not now sweet that you know,
maybe they do throw the curveball and go with a
with a title run on Starlight Kid and shake things up.
She would be the third female from Japan to hold
that title, and I think that's a pretty cool step.
Speaker 2: Berry.
Speaker 3: I had to wait a second because I have to
say something here, Barry, I don't know wrong, No, but
I've told you this so many times. Stop calling me sweetie,
damn it. Oh go ahead, Jess, it was important. Come on.
Speaker 5: No very actually sort of touched on it just now,
but I really wish they would have featured Starlight Kid
a little Lord. Maybe your schedule couldn't allow it or something,
but just for the benefit of people who don't aren't
really familiar with her work, I mean, like contrast with
Zach Saber Junior TLDK showed up last week in a
segment He's going to be having a match against Jack
Perry on Dynamite, which two people who may not be
familiar with Zach Saber Junior will give a nice little
showcase on who he is and why you should buy
him pay to see him on pay per view. I
wish they would have I know they gave her a package,
but I really wish they would have done that with SLK.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was kind of shocked to see that she
was not included in a match on Dynamite. It's I'm
interested to see if she shows up in some capacity.
Speaker 4: But also, yeah, there is collision on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that's a little too late to give,
you know, twenty four hours, twenty four hours before pay
per view was a little too late to try to
build somebody. You know. Well, let's move on and we're
going to talk about the match that so many of
us are really excited about, Kenny Omega and Zach Saber Junior. Way, man,
it's a it's an act. There's no belts or anything
involved here. It's based on pride. What do you guys think?
Speaker 2: Kenny?
Speaker 10: Kenny, Kenny wins it all the way.
Speaker 1: Baby.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's going to be all of a match.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't give me Kenny.
Speaker 1: I don't care who wins. I just want to see
them wrestle for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, please give this match a good twenty minute and
you know, I don't care who wins. Just gives them
the time, lets them do their thing, and it'll be max.
Speaker 2: I think. I think this is a safety match.
Speaker 5: It's for the match for Kenny the Zach Saber Junior.
Twenty minutes for a single finger hold.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, and Jesse, you kind of hit the nail on
the head of what I was going to get at
is you know, Kenny, you want to keep his balls
of the walls bangers limited because you know, we all
know where his body is. And Zach's style is a
much more deliberate. It's not as although it's intense, it's
a different type of intense. The hits aren't as aren't
the same as the type of style Kenny run. So
I think this is a good match too. It lets him,
let's the two of them showcase things without Kenny having
to run at the pace that he would against you know,
another competitor from New Japan where he may want to
go a little more intense than he needs to. And
I'm really interested to see how they structure this match
a lot. Do they do a lot of joint manipulation?
Does Zach really work on his midsection? Do we bring
back the divert diverticulateist stuff. There's a lot of options there,
but two handsome fellows locking up.
Speaker 10: It's a good time and it's and it's eight years
in the making. So since the since the last their
last match at the g One, and that one was
I was I was about to curse. Sorry, it was incredible,
that's the that's the right word. So I just, uh,
just by curiosity, I subscribe again to New japan World
and I watched it.
Speaker 2: Again and I was like, my god, my god, my god,
it was good.
Speaker 1: So right, it's Kenny for me.
Speaker 11: Sorry, Okay, anybody else thoughts on this match? I, you know,
just I actually agree.
Speaker 3: With what Barry said. This is the perfect match for
Kenny Omega to be in because he definitely doesn't risk,
won't risk anywhere near what he would risk going against
somebody else. In my opinion, Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be a it'll be a good match. That
Saber is a very safe worker, and I mean the
story's so easy. Kenny goes right at the bell, you know,
crazy sex Saber Junior slows him down, takes it to
the mat, works that over. Kenny, you know, fires back,
but that technical wizardry of Xact Saber Junior catches them
until Kenny is able to overcome and get to victory.
Like the story is simple and perfect, and those two
guys will do It'll be a banger.
Speaker 3: Okay, Uh, do you really want me to give me
my opinion on this? Because I think you know what
I'm gonna say. Let's go to the next mat Yeah, yeah,
let's no. I do have to give my opinion on it.
This is by far the worst match on the card
to me because and it has nothing to do with Kenny.
I just cannot, for a life of me, I fall
asleep like a dead drunk on every Zach Saber Junior match.
I just don't enjoy watching the wressle. I just don't,
you know. And I'm not saying that that anybody else
should feel the same way that I do. I just
don't like the guy. I just don't enjoy his matches.
You know, there's Jess said it twenty minute figurehold that
is not entertaining to me.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I feel the same way about.
Speaker 2: Yes, sometimes somebody style just doesn't click with you, and
that's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's the same thing. I mean,
it is what it is. Let's go on to the
next match and let's talk about well, the AW World
Tag Team Championship, the Dogs facing the champions Cage and Cope.
I'm having a hard time with this match as far
as is there a chance the Cage and Cope could
already lose these belts.
Speaker 4: It's one of those Yes, there's a chance, but it
ain't a hot I like it's you know, eighty twenty.
I say, are the odds they're in favor of taking coke?
Speaker 1: I think judging by the way that they handled Sting
as he wound down his career, I don't think there's
a chance uh dn C Wrestle Factory could possibly lose.
They're they're both have said they're coming up on the
end and they're not gonna They're not gonna have a
tiny little, you know, one one or two month tag
run to finish them out like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with the wrestle girl. Plus, you have
the opportunity, uh if New Day or whatever they have
coming in, if they if they do all in a
four way Tag Extravaganza, which is I think what they're
gonna do with the scene. Would you call him Wrestle Girl,
C and C Music.
Speaker 2: Factory, n C, Wrestle Factory, C and C Rutt thank you?
Speaker 6: That is axt C and C, Russell Factory, New Day
Box and FTR. You know, Tag Team Extravagan's at all in.
You gotta have them keep those titles, you know. Maybe
they even put their careers on the line. It all
in too to Juice still Electra, who knows, but I
don't see them.
Speaker 3: Jess, what do you think about this match?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sorry about that. I just got kicked, but I'm back now.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I have to find myself whether I don't know whether
there is nostalgia or just me going temporarily insane, but
I do kind of dig Cage and Cops old man
energy here. I don't think that the dogs aren't nearly
as fun to me without Gabe Kid around. So I'll
just for the sake of nostalgia in five minutes and
three second poses, I will put my hat in with Cage.
Speaker 3: And Cope Tochi, what about your thoughts?
Speaker 8: No chance for the dogs? I think they're I am
actually having a really good time with the dogs, rooting
against them and watching them get beat up. And I
think that's a good place for them right now, not
as champs, you know. I think that puts them in
a maybe higher responsibility and it kind of changes that
perception of them for me. I mean, yeah, And so
I'm rooting against the dogs, not necessarily for Cajun Cope,
just because I think it's fun that way.
Speaker 4: I hate to inform you, but c nc Wressell Factory
name is already taken. Capreciate Coleman and Cedric Kvick.
Speaker 1: Sand I thought I was so clever.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. I've looked at the chat and.
Speaker 3: They we have three women in the in the podcast,
and people are having trouble differential which one is Russell Girl,
because honestly, it's kind of thrown me off. Jess and
Russell girls do sound somewhat alike?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Do all us women sound the same to you? Wow?
Speaker 4: Different?
Speaker 3: Chris? What Russell Girl?
Speaker 1: I asked? Didn't just say she's from Columbus?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ohio girls sound alike. It's just.
Speaker 3: Do you like our podcasters are from Ohio? We have
somebody from Cleveland as well Cleveland. Oh so you do
consider Cleveland part of Ohio. You still claim it even
though it's Cleveland. Okay. I said that for the benefit
of the guys that aren't here from Cleveland, because I
love raging on them. Yeah, so they did say somebody
did point out that Val was the one with the
French Canadian accent, so it's.
Speaker 2: There was then out right out about that was you
in the chat that said that? Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 3: Okay, I said. The chat is literally jumping around. It's
like an earthquake. So, yeah, we have people in the chat.
I would be mad if cajun cope one that's uh,
it's Jocelyn Uh snakes and says, okay, there's Russell Girl.
She sounds exactly how I imagined, kind of freaky hearing
people's voices for the first time. Barry didn't sound like
anything like I imagine. I thought his voice would be a
lot deeper.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's funny that people imagine what I might
sound like.
Speaker 12: Yeah, what did you go on to aw official subreddit
in the in the post that Russell Girl made about
her being on the podcast night and leave messages saying
you're not what I sounded.
Speaker 3: You're not who I thought what you what I thought
you would sound like. I thought you would sound like this.
And then add a wrestler's name or celebrities name, and
don't put Jack Black or something like that. That's just offenser.
Speaker 2: I'm so upset you thought my voice would be deep.
Speaker 10: Well, I I read somewhere on the discord that I
sounded British. I don't sound British at all.
Speaker 3: Who said that?
Speaker 10: I don't remember, but I remember.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not, Oh god, I mean you're clearly from Australia.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think you now, just like the last freak, I.
Speaker 1: Have a think.
Speaker 5: I have a thing for British accent. I love British.
Speaker 10: Accent and I love when people spoke real British.
Speaker 1: So but I'm not British. Sorry.
Speaker 10: I'm French, Canadian born and bred, and French is my
first language. So when i'm I'm gonna say something in French.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 10: No, it's it's probably gonna be censored. Because when you
spoke at the beginning, just about Bully Ray, I had
my my French in my head saying, you know, you
all said shut up. But I have a French slang
for that, and I don't think it would be it
would I think it would be censor.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna just there.
Speaker 4: You go, tell you what can we drop languages?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, I would.
Speaker 6: I actually kind of wish Val would do it so
like the auto captions would just put in brackets cursing
in French.
Speaker 3: Cursing in French? Oh my god.
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you want to hear No, No, that's not.
Speaker 3: This is this is on track disaster shut and Pack
for the i w GP Global Heavyweight Championship. Unlike the
other matches, there's no chance in hell in my opinion,
the Pack is winning this match. Anybody else agree with me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I agree?
Speaker 4: So literally just won the title light two weeks ago,
not even it was the fourteenth, all.
Speaker 3: Right, moving on, moving on, I mean you know that
gets that gets us. Yeah, it probably will be a
very entertaining match, but yeah, there's no chance back.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Another match that has a championship involved is the a
W Continental Championship match between John Moxley and Bandido. Again,
I don't see Bandido winning this match, but man, I
can't wait to see it.
Speaker 5: The a e W This is going to be so good.
I really hope that Brody will be in a bandido's corner.
Speaker 1: He can't.
Speaker 5: Oh shoot, he can't watch a w I'm just jo
I must have missed that stipulation.
Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, and there's this. Instead of a three count,
there's a six count. You knew that, right, Yes, you
have to carry on and you have to climb a
ladder to do the six count.
Speaker 5: Now you're just being ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yes, because we all know that wrestlers can't climb ladders.
Speaker 5: Really, I guess, I guess all those ladder matches they
were just levitating.
Speaker 3: Well, as a matter of fact, when I was a
when I was a moderator at a w fisial, I
didn't know if you knew that wrestle girl, but I
was a moderator there. I actually had a just a
joke thing. I did Kelson School for wrestlers to climb ladders.
I would have been a thou. I would have made
millions just doing that.
Speaker 1: See, you learn how to levitate instead of climbing the
ladders on like day three of wrestling school exactly.
Speaker 4: This is why.
Speaker 3: Can the advanced stay Day one is running the ropes
of nutshots?
Speaker 7: I think, right, Yeah, the only one, you are a
bona fide ace like John Moxley, do you get your
dark Jedi powers unlocked?
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, though, this is a this is a
legit question because considering that there's no outside interference allowed
or whatever, and considering that Moxley is wrestling Bandido, who
is like one of the cleanest wrestlers you're ever gonna find,
does Moxley bleed in this match?
Speaker 4: I don't think any No, not on purpose?
Speaker 3: Anyway, got on purpose? That's a good point. You can
fall going getting to the ring. Yeah, but you know
it is what it is. Let's move on to this
is a match again, there's no stakes in this match,
but uh, three way tag, Sky Team, Young Bucks and
Unbound Company. Corporation is a company or corporation? I think
it's company. Yeah, I thought it was company and just
don't want to be in be a fool. This is
like a fun match.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, if you want to recreate this
match at home, you just take a six high bound
super balls, get a plexiglass box so you can see
through it, put the balls in the box and shake
it up and just watch them go. That's your match
recreation device. Well, five bounce, the ball is going to
take Shingo, don't die.
Speaker 10: H.
Speaker 1: I think this would be great to open the show.
Speaker 2: I agree, it's a good far.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: One thing I do want to say, very briefly, is
that since Shingo is in this match, maybe we get
that's a boy in a buy in match. But then
it goes on to say it makes so much more
sense than that's a ploy against Tecla than Startlight get
against Tecla, because that's a poy in. Starlight and Techla
have such a long history together.
Speaker 2: I don't know who wins here. Who is who eats
the ten?
Speaker 4: M probably Tom that my heart says listen forever.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. So who eats the ten?
Speaker 4: Probably Shingo and Tom were both part of.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm just thinking, like Tony Town shies away from having
too many new japan folks eat pins, since that's kind
of been the running gag of her problem with this
pay per view generally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think sky Team wins this. I think
that you think wins. I do think Sky Team wins.
Speaker 2: Okay, so who eats the pin in your view?
Speaker 3: Probably Titan I I thought that from the beginning. Yeah,
I mean, you know, I wouldn't be surprised though if
one of the Bucks ate it. I don't know what
anybody else thinks about it, but I think it would
be actually nice to see the Bucks eat a pin
against internationals, even though mister Co and Mescarderata are aw
you know a lot of dual.
Speaker 5: Contract Yeah, they probably would.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see Shingo eating the pin, but yeah,
that works.
Speaker 4: Death Texas and the Young Bucks on pay per view.
Speaker 3: Now, well, let's move on because we've got the women's
owen Hart Finals. My world and I that was not
on my Bingo card, but I'm so happy for her
against Mercedes Monette.
Speaker 5: To my husband, not so much. He is a huge
My husband is a huge Athena fan, and uh he
thinks that, uh, basically Maya going over Athena was a waste.
I don't, I don't, I don't agree with it. I
think I think we're about ready to see it. That
probably the biggest upset in the women's Own Heart Tournament history.
Speaker 4: But you know what, Chris, uh, I have been slaying
Mercedes from before the Bractets were even an ount. But
I am changing my pick. I am going with my World.
I think, I don't know. It's just the Undertel story. Man,
It's it's right there. There's so much you can do
with it, you know. Yeah, I'm going with by a World.
I'm gonna be alone.
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this, Chris and anybody else.
Of course, I kind of would like to see Maya
World win this, But then what do you do with
Mercedes at all in? Is she gonna be part of
the Casino Gauntlet? Is that where you're gonna stick her?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 10: No, no, I don't see her in the in the Gauntlet.
I'm sorry, I really don't know.
Speaker 4: There's there's an easy story. You have my World win,
you know, huge upset victory, she goes into all In.
It's the title. I am saying, put the belt on her,
have Mercedes win the Casino Gauntlet, and then have Mercedes
to beat my World, you know, after like a two
week reign, give her that big moment, and then have
Mercedes actually away from everyone.
Speaker 3: Mhm.
Speaker 10: I got.
Speaker 1: My opinion.
Speaker 10: Maya is not ready. She's not championship material ready against Techla.
I'm sorry at all in, it's Mercedes versus Techla.
Speaker 6: Big agreed.
Speaker 10: She's not ready, and I get I get it after
everything that happens in her personal life, and I'm just
gonna send.
Speaker 1: My condolences to her.
Speaker 10: Nothing against She is absolutely fantastic. And I saw her
with high End at Dynasty and.
Speaker 3: She was absolutely great.
Speaker 10: Against uh Megan Bane and Lena Cross. And I forgot
their their tag team name. I'm sorry, I have dominion
in my head, but I forgot the tag team names.
Speaker 3: I always thinking destroyed Domino's. I don't know why.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but she's not ready and all In is the
It's like the biggest pay per view that AW is
going to produce.
Speaker 1: You need big, big, big, big star.
Speaker 10: And I'm sorry, Mercedes is the biggest star on the
woman's roster.
Speaker 3: At the moment, She's unquestionably the biggest star. But I
think the point was being made is that everybody loves
an underdog, at least in America. We do, you know,
and maya world would be a very compelling story if
she wins this match.
Speaker 2: I see what vals.
Speaker 6: I've been thinking a lot about this and there's a
couple of pieces that I'm trying to sort out because
I'd like to kind of pick something and book backwards
and figure out how they get there. My issue with
my world kind of is what Vals says, I have
not seen enough to think that it's worth putting the
title on her. I think playing playing what taking advantage
of what life has thrown them at the moment makes
sense if you listen. I think it was Sean Ross
sapp or somebody had reported the initial plans was Tony
Storm to win the oen Face Techla for the title
Great Top baby Face versus the Big Bad Great. Tony
gets hurt, Willow is going to be the next person
Top baby Face, Big Bad Great Willow's hurt. I don't
think heel versus heel is the right way to go
it all in. So if that's the case, they got
to turn Tekla, which would be easy because she's over
and people would cheer because she's great, or you have
to turn Mercedes, which is a little bit tougher. So
I'm trying to figure out how they would work that.
Now the other Mercedes Mercedes versus Starlight Kid could be Yeah,
And so that's what I was saying, like, I would
be interested to see where this is placed on the
card because I think that will play into the winner
of the other one the other thing too, And this
has happened a couple of times. Mercedes and Athena have
teamed up a few times and they ganged up a
Maya World after the win, Like we all saw that
angle at the end, and the first thing that popped
into my head was I would really like to see
Mercedes and Athena as a tag team. And if they
go with Maya World here, I don't think she wins
it all in. They have to run, you know, how
do you keep her fresh. There's not a lot of
meat to her as a character on TV, so they
would really have to invest otherwise that's just going to
be a wasted It's going to be a waste of
title match. That's the main hesitancy I have kind of
along the lines what Beal said, I don't know what
they do with her to really establish her because she's
not she's not established as a big time player on TV,
and if you're putting her in this spot, you need
to establish her as a top babyface.
Speaker 2: This is a way to do it.
Speaker 6: I don't have a lot of faith they've got the
storyline to do it, to carry through redemption and all in,
so you know, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Does anybody e a rebuttal to what Barry said? I
guess not. Well, let's go on to the final match,
and it's actually the buy in match, and we just
talked about them the destroying dominant I mean divine Dominion
against Thunderosa and Olympia. Big size difference here. It's a
big size difference here, big host ladies against little ladies,
because Olympia is not a big woman.
Speaker 4: You know, Olympia is huge.
Speaker 3: I could say that on a podcast. I would never
say that to her face or or the top of
her head or whatever looking at but uh yeah, because
she is a she reminds me. I always wondered if
she is said under that mask? Yeah, seriously, am I wrong?
Speaker 4: Chris? No, No, tiny, but she's huge, like.
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace, you know, just a brick house.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Mean she's you know, she's a bodybolder, she's got that
that wide stick.
Speaker 1: She's she's John Silver of the Women's of it.
Speaker 2: The Johnny Female wrestling in Mexico.
Speaker 3: That's a very good point. That means, does anybody see
Donor Rossa and Olympia winning this match?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, unfortunately not.
Speaker 3: I kind of like the idea of that Barry had
maybe Athena and Mercedes team up to beat Lena cross
In and Meghan Baine.
Speaker 2: I think that'd be a heck of a match for
all in Man.
Speaker 3: That really would be. But they've got to make the
story compelling enough to make it matter, because right now
it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: So it's like it's because Mercedes is so established on TV.
That's an easy thing to book, especially with Athena there,
because somebody in the chat was talking about and I
forgot who it was saying the downfall or the crash
of Mercedes, and I can't find the chat right now.
But you know, if Mercedes loses, that's the last thing
she has going for is that she's the defending Owen champ.
So that's it. She's down to zero. Crash is hard.
Athena is the one there to pick her up and say,
we need to start. You want a title, we start
from scratch and we go after the tag belts. You
can get them established as an interesting team real quick,
have them run through the division, tease them crossing paths
of the mind. I mean, that's an easy three month
program to put together. With them, You've got very popular
performers that that books itself almost But I keep coming
back to what Valve was kind of getting at, like,
all right, so that's easy. You got a program for Mercedes, Like,
I don't think there's enough there for for Maya World
to do for three months leading into into All In.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, Verry in the in the chat it
was built, Valor Jaws, I there it is, you found it, okay, Yeah, yeah,
Maya Shocks the World could be matched of the Night
Off done right. Monette has to crash out hard to
get the big win. Mercedes needs to fall super hard.
She gets her big win, big W in twenty twenty seven,
that long from now. Of course, the big W could
come against Tony Storm in twenty twenty seven, you know,
so don't forget. You still got you know the I
do believe that you're gonna have people like Carrie Sane
in the Casito goatlet it all in, So you know,
there's all kinds of possibilities there because that.
Speaker 2: Point, she's out there, Yeah, yeah, available.
Speaker 3: She will be available like a week before All In
starts or the show. So yeah, so anyway, uh well,
we're gonna we're gonna call it, uh This is kind
of an interesting thing because we had Wressell Girl here
with us. Unfortunately, when you're talking about this man, we
don't normally talk. We usually have like three or four
topics that we talk about during the podcast. When you
have all these matches that we're talking about, uh, it
gets a little bit convoluted. We would absolutely love to
have you back whenever you want.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, I think I would come back.
Speaker 1: My kids have been waiting for an hour. They want
to say hi to everybody. Is that all right?
Speaker 3: And what are your kids' names?
Speaker 1: No? Shoot names? No, it's not Stephen Johnson. Okay, is
it Johnson?
Speaker 3: Stephen?
Speaker 1: My name isn't Should we not be that weird in
front of Manny's friends?
Speaker 3: Gosh we will Josh Gosh. Russell Girl just out weirded me,
which is a okay, Well, it's nice to have you
on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Kids, I'll come back. Maybe they will too if they are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I said, we usually get to spend
more time and more people get to say what they
want to say because, like I said, normally we only
go like three or four topics a night. You know,
this one, we had like all these matches we were
talking about so you had to try to rush through them.
But anyway, we will be back next week every Tuesday
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Speaker 2: Pancake.
Speaker 10: That's everybody.
Speaker 5: I just wish Happy Jean.
Speaker 10: That's his day because tomorrow is a holiday in Quebec,
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Speaker 2: Someone's drinking Margarita's after the show.
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