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Speaker 1: All right, everyone, this is Memphis Mark coming to you
Speaker 1: from mullet manor if we're going to do the review
Speaker 1: for seven six for NXT. And it's our second installment
Speaker 1: for the Great American Bash. And I believe our next
Speaker 1: big PPL will be No Mercy in Denver, Colorado. But
Speaker 1: this one they start off with Great American Bash. They
Speaker 1: start off with a recap. They got Old Hank and Tank,
Speaker 1: Hank and Tank doing their little funny comical deeds. They
Speaker 1: do the recap and then they go straight into a
Speaker 1: Pete Done versus Whoop that trick. We got Trick Williams
Speaker 1: in there, and you know, like Pete Dunn said, Trick,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta figure it out, and uh, and
Speaker 1: Trick kind of figured it out in this match a
Speaker 1: little bit. Pete of course, is always gonna give you
Speaker 1: a good match and trick Man looked really good, had
Speaker 1: better chops. You know, he always seems to be improving.
Speaker 1: I gotta give the man that for sure. But in
Speaker 1: this particular match, give us a little twist, a little
Speaker 1: plot turn, because you got big Pete Donn pulling this
Speaker 1: match off over whoop that trick, you know, and you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna cause a little setup for a little
Speaker 1: something something alone down the road. But I like the
Speaker 1: fact since they've taken the belt, they've taken the strap
Speaker 1: off of a trick. Uh he's you know, they're not
Speaker 1: making him invincible, They're making him, uh you know, they're
Speaker 1: building a good, a good superstar in my opinion. So
Speaker 1: we will see, of course how that goes on down
Speaker 1: the road. But uh yeah, then they got some more
Speaker 1: of old Hank and Tank of this particular version because
Speaker 1: they wanted dj Eddie Thorpe in there. But apparently Lexis
Speaker 1: King has sidelined the Big Indian and uh yeah, so
Speaker 1: Lexus is gonna sit in and do a little spinning
Speaker 1: of the uh of the records there and apparently a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't like it. And uh, I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of rock music, and I don't like the way
Speaker 1: Lexus has taken this but uh it is oh what
Speaker 1: it is? Uh uh yeah, and uh you know, and
Speaker 1: they're going into their promotion for Tulsa this coming week
Speaker 1: for SmackDown because they are going to have Roman Rains
Speaker 1: coming back in there, so that should be interesting. And
Speaker 1: then we got a little, uh a little promo with
Speaker 1: Ethan Page and Nathan Fraser, you know, the champs in there,
Speaker 1: and uh they're kind of going back and forth, but
Speaker 1: uh they're wondering where where where's axiom? Uh So they're
Speaker 1: creating the riff in the champs. Slowly they are putting
Speaker 1: the cracks that will eventually let the water through and
Speaker 1: the dam will break. Uh. But that's the way that
Speaker 1: one's heading on down the road. But you're gonna have
Speaker 1: Tatum Pasley and Lanna Jordan the North American champ putting
Speaker 1: her title up. And you know, I gotta say, every
Speaker 1: time I see Tatum Pasley, she surprises me. She's I
Speaker 1: guess she has made herself not look as athletic as
Speaker 1: she is to later on OZ when she does perform
Speaker 1: these moves are the way she does certain things, the
Speaker 1: mannerism and how she does them kind of spooky, kind
Speaker 1: of freaky, kind of that's what they want out of her,
Speaker 1: and she is pulling it out left and right. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was an NXT add on to the Fiend's family
Speaker 1: or I don't know what they're calling themselves, the you know,
Speaker 1: the bray White's bunch over there on another show. So hmm,
Speaker 1: we'll see where Tatum ends up in this particular match.
Speaker 1: Miss Jordan always does good good flip and a good flop.
Speaker 1: You know, she combines her gymnastics and stuff with her
Speaker 1: wrestling and she does better than, you know, than some
Speaker 1: in this one. That's kind of you know, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. But yeah, she's gonna end up winning
Speaker 1: this match. They're not giving Tatum that kind of a
Speaker 1: push yet. She's getting plenty of storyline time, just not
Speaker 1: the waste you know some people traditionally go through it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Atlanta pulls off this match, of course, you know
Speaker 1: you're going to have what ad I write in here?
Speaker 1: What is this? I can't even read my notes? This
Speaker 1: is bad pretty much really good match. Wendy Chew, though,
Speaker 1: is always seeming to be around all of these matches.
Speaker 1: Wendy Chew is popping up in the back of promos
Speaker 1: Wendy chew Is is Wendy chew Is everywhere, and uh
Speaker 1: that's who you know. She attacks Tatum after the match.
Speaker 1: Uh So Wendy chew Is, Uh, she's on her way.
Speaker 1: They're getting ready to bring her back into the ring
Speaker 1: in a big way. Uh, that's for sure. But after
Speaker 1: that you've got or a mensa of a metaphor. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and let me say before that they do in
Speaker 1: the Hank and Tank deal. They did add Stevie Stevie
Speaker 1: Ray uh and mister Stone and what they attempted to
Speaker 1: pull off. Uh. And of course Eva, the all wise
Speaker 1: and all knowing makes a quick appearance. But the worst
Speaker 1: attempt of trying to act like you're having a rear beating,
Speaker 1: wing eating or whatever. They were the worst contest thing
Speaker 1: they could have ever done. Anyway, we'll go back two
Speaker 1: metaphor and oora mensa going against Ethan Page. And that's
Speaker 1: all ego Ethan Page for the title, you know, And
Speaker 1: I've got to say in this now you expect Aura.
Speaker 1: He's around the ring, he's on the top ropes. That
Speaker 1: is his uh, his his niche or that's what he does.
Speaker 1: But Ethan Page is just a basic non Frills does
Speaker 1: everything with the right time and at the right time.
Speaker 1: Just a veteran in the ring and or though it's
Speaker 1: freaking great. Man, if there were still promotions around the country,
Speaker 1: he would be someone one's champ in a in a
Speaker 1: smaller division, not on the big big bigs, but he
Speaker 1: would be that guy that they bring in because he's
Speaker 1: that freaking good. But in this match, all ego is
Speaker 1: just wise and simpler, you know. And he does sell great,
Speaker 1: you know pretty much. Ethan Page would be good in
Speaker 1: any era that you wanted to drop him in. I
Speaker 1: think he could pull it off, you know, with with Mensa.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a high flyer and that came in
Speaker 1: a little later on. But he is, man, he is
Speaker 1: really good. But here's what we get into. This is
Speaker 1: just more and more of how Hunter and the powers
Speaker 1: that be in the Big Towers have robbed AND's t
Speaker 1: and A to a point. Who is I mean, who
Speaker 1: has left and want a great option to be able
Speaker 1: to get some new stars into your program to mix
Speaker 1: with your training stars that you don't have to pay
Speaker 1: as much. Man, they have gotten some talent out of
Speaker 1: tn A, I mean, and the list is gonna go
Speaker 1: on and on as we talk about this show. But man,
Speaker 1: in this one, Ethan Page they get it to the
Speaker 1: outside because of course the challenger can't win on the outside,
Speaker 1: and they they're trying to put Ep is gonna put
Speaker 1: or through a picnic table, and that messes up once,
Speaker 1: and of course they pull it off again and they
Speaker 1: put him through the table. But in this match, you think,
Speaker 1: all right, Epe's gonna pull this off here. No, no,
Speaker 1: they pull it off. They give it you, they give
Speaker 1: you a little more of a tease, and they bring
Speaker 1: you back and then the match ends with I think
Speaker 1: one of the better slips. I think I think you
Speaker 1: can maybe go to do a move and sometime actually
Speaker 1: do the move, if that makes any sense. Like he
Speaker 1: may have wanted to slip and actually slip too, so
Speaker 1: it made the actual slip seems so much more realistic
Speaker 1: for the cameras because it looked good. He slips, Ethan
Speaker 1: Page pounces and pulls off the wind and it's just
Speaker 1: a good a good match. I can't I can't say
Speaker 1: anything but a good match. But I will have to
Speaker 1: say I didn't say something last week, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to mention this real quick. It was in my
Speaker 1: notes Mike Groan, the announcer, what's up with that hair man?
Speaker 1: That's all I That's all I had on that. But
Speaker 1: then they go into an MSK that's right, a Rascals
Speaker 1: promo where mister wes Lee pulls off the tier jerker
Speaker 1: of the year, well maybe not of the year, but
Speaker 1: he pulls off one of a tear jerker the only
Speaker 1: way Wesley can. After that, they go they got some
Speaker 1: more Hank and Tank in there, and you know, they
Speaker 1: got the ladies in the locker room and they let
Speaker 1: some guys come in there and make a butt of themselves,
Speaker 1: and the ladies end up putting them through a table
Speaker 1: because Hank and Tank said no fighting, so the ladies
Speaker 1: just put them to a table. But here we are back.
Speaker 1: We're back at t and A version two point zero
Speaker 1: on NXT sounds like a program for a spyware. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you've got Joe Coffee of the Gallas guys, the Gallas
Speaker 1: brothers of the Gallas crew going against we all believe,
Speaker 1: and Joe Hendry, Joe and Tree comes out in his
Speaker 1: typical manner and takes the crowd over. He has got
Speaker 1: to be a director director's dream because you know that
Speaker 1: you can fill up a segment of your show just
Speaker 1: on the crowd doing the waving of the hands. There.
Speaker 1: But the match, the match, the match is actually good.
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry comes out and jumps on Gallas from the start. Well,
Speaker 1: he actually jumps over the top rope and takes that
Speaker 1: Wolfgang and Mark or yeah, and then Joe Hendry. The
Speaker 1: match is good, going along, great timing, good. Both of
Speaker 1: these guys are just good professionals. I'm learning more about
Speaker 1: Joe Hendry. Coffee I know and have been seeing for
Speaker 1: a while. A great worker. Put him in any situation,
Speaker 1: can sell, can make anybody look good. But when Joe
Speaker 1: Hendry goes into the the archives goes back into history,
Speaker 1: and he pulls off the Eddie guerrero. That's right, folks,
Speaker 1: he pulled off the eddie guerrero. He he fakes a
Speaker 1: chair shot, lands on the desk and a referee. He
Speaker 1: sees Wolfgang and Mark with that chair and kicks them out,
Speaker 1: puts them back to the locker room, and which Joe Hendry,
Speaker 1: because everyone is believing, takes advantage and ends up pulling
Speaker 1: off the match. And then he gets some stick time.
Speaker 1: They got a reporter in the Ring and Joe Hendry,
Speaker 1: you know the way the reporter that says, you know,
Speaker 1: about his time in NXT, Joe Hendry replies that he
Speaker 1: ain't done. He kind of likes it and he ain't
Speaker 1: going nowhere, and so he says he'll be here every
Speaker 1: Tuesday night. So hey, you know, he's like I said,
Speaker 1: he's a great time filler. He will appear. Just believe
Speaker 1: in him and he will appear. And go from there
Speaker 1: to a Chase U promo and they've got a new
Speaker 1: new classroom and it's all due to Ridge Holland. And
Speaker 1: of course Ridge comes in and takes his props and
Speaker 1: then announces that he has procured or he has arranged
Speaker 1: for a tag title match for Chase U, and of
Speaker 1: course Duke and Riley they're all happy. But then then
Speaker 1: Ridge drops the bomb and says, no, no, no, not
Speaker 1: so fast, because it's gonna be Ridge and Andre Chase
Speaker 1: going for the bounce. So there again, we had a
Speaker 1: little little wedge with the with the champs earlier, and
Speaker 1: now we got a little wedge with inside of Andre
Speaker 1: Chase University. So we'll see where that goes, you know,
Speaker 1: on down the road. But from there they go into
Speaker 1: some interviews, well not really interviews, because they're doing the
Speaker 1: Ink and Tank Great American Bash Party and they cut
Speaker 1: into uh, you know to uh Brooks and uh and
Speaker 1: Seawan spears and apparently Brooks is feeling a little pressure
Speaker 1: from Sean, so uh, Hank and Tank come over and
Speaker 1: settle things out. But then uh, well, uh, then you're
Speaker 1: gonna have the ladies getting into them, you know, getting
Speaker 1: into it. And so that's gonna arrange for a match
Speaker 1: because mister Stone has figured out that since Roxanne has
Speaker 1: beat everybody, why not have a battle roll of sense
Speaker 1: uh to of everybody that Roxanne hasn't beaten yet. Well,
Speaker 1: they're really putting a push on her. But then we
Speaker 1: have to have a little fun because it's Hank and Tank.
Speaker 1: So the o C show up, the Good Brothers. They
Speaker 1: show up and they don't like the hot dogs and
Speaker 1: they don't like the lemonade, so uh that offends old
Speaker 1: Hank and Tank and uh so the uh the shenanganishiggins
Speaker 1: begin and they are off to fighting, and then we
Speaker 1: go back into the Wren Saint Clair match going against
Speaker 1: Kendall Gray, and she's got a protege on outside, but
Speaker 1: Ren Saint Clair is trying to get in to the
Speaker 1: No quarter Catch Crew and they're playing an off kind
Speaker 1: of goods. You know, this is kind of comical and
Speaker 1: it's you know, and then this match, this match would
Speaker 1: be a good opening match somewhere, but it is what
Speaker 1: it is. These ladies did put on a you know,
Speaker 1: a pretty good match, a good finishing move by Wren
Speaker 1: Saint Clair after a little a distraction, not interference, but
Speaker 1: a distraction, and Wren Saint Clair is now I believe
Speaker 1: in the No quarter Catch Crew. And that's with Miles
Speaker 1: not being afraid of kendo anymore, where he says, so, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll see where that goes. Uh. But then they've got
Speaker 1: a young profile. Well, they got a profile of Young Og,
Speaker 1: and I guess it's something they've been doing a little
Speaker 1: bit where they're just putting the spotlight on some of
Speaker 1: their young superstars. And uh, you know, Young Og comes
Speaker 1: in and admits, Hey, college wasn't for him. He wanted
Speaker 1: to be a wrestler, and uh, they bring in his coach,
Speaker 1: which I used to wrestle down here. I can't his
Speaker 1: name in Memphis escapes me, but he went up to
Speaker 1: ww E or F then and uh, with all the
Speaker 1: tattoos and he was really big and oh man, I
Speaker 1: can't Tanzu or whatever is what they called him in
Speaker 1: the w B, but here they had another name. Anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a coach now and they bring a little spotlight
Speaker 1: onto him, young Og does and hey, pretty good little promo,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing bad. Uh. And then you got Oba
Speaker 1: uh doing a promo which he kind of walked through
Speaker 1: somebody's promo earlier in the night. And so Oba comes
Speaker 1: out of his meeting with the all Knowing and all
Speaker 1: wise Eva and says that he's got a match next week.
Speaker 1: And just about the time they're going to announce it,
Speaker 1: don't eat the and the family come through the door
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, hey, you want to talk to
Speaker 1: a real star, you know, and he takes over the interviews.
Speaker 1: So there again is another twist that we will see
Speaker 1: on down the road. Ob Fenny not amused by being
Speaker 1: you know, looked over. But then we come to our
Speaker 1: main event. Now we had the tear jerker earlier from
Speaker 1: mister Weslee, which only Wesley can do, and so MSK
Speaker 1: with Trey is Trey and Wesson there going against the
Speaker 1: champs Nathan Frasier and Axiom formerly known as something that
Speaker 1: I won't say on air, but there was a sign
Speaker 1: at the end of the match that someone held up
Speaker 1: that said Axiom's other name. But they in this match,
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna have a good match with these
Speaker 1: you know, light heavyweights. They flying around the ring, of course,
Speaker 1: and Nathan and Axiom there's a reason they're the champs
Speaker 1: because they can put on a heck of a show
Speaker 1: and they can make it look good against opponents twice
Speaker 1: their size. That's not an easy thing to do. And
Speaker 1: they pull it off pretty pretty frequently and pretty well.
Speaker 1: But in this match, in this particular match, they pull
Speaker 1: it off great. But there's a little mess up, a
Speaker 1: little cracking our little chinken arm, or a little crack
Speaker 1: in the wall or in the foundation because there's a
Speaker 1: missed kick by Axiom and Nathan, Nathan almost almost loses
Speaker 1: the titles there. Buddy pulls it out, kicks out, and
Speaker 1: there's several more pens attempts. It goes back and forth
Speaker 1: and back and forth in a good match. But then
Speaker 1: in the end they're gonna pin uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: UH and the champs are going to retain their belts
Speaker 1: and UH with kind of a surprise. The way the
Speaker 1: way this was going, I would have said, this is
Speaker 1: the time that they're going to break the champs up
Speaker 1: and they're going to give the belts to him, to
Speaker 1: the rascals or MSK or Nty or whatever the heck
Speaker 1: you want to call them. Man, I just saw it.
Speaker 1: I saw it. But that's the reason they get paid
Speaker 1: the big bucks, because, uh, you know, the champs get
Speaker 1: out of the ring. The rascals are sitting there wallering
Speaker 1: in pity and sorrow and tears and anguish and it's
Speaker 1: a terrible sight. And they get Weslee up and well
Speaker 1: I didn't see it coming, but they pulled the one
Speaker 1: over on old Memphis Mark because I can tell you
Speaker 1: Weslee does the turn. That's right, Weslee is now bad
Speaker 1: guy coming out of the other locker room, going to
Speaker 1: the other pay window. He is now the villain the hill,
Speaker 1: the most hated because he does the turn. He turns
Speaker 1: on NSK and he whoops them, and he whoops them,
Speaker 1: and then he whoops them some more, and then he
Speaker 1: takes them to the outside and he continues to put
Speaker 1: the other gentleman through the wall. And then his brother
Speaker 1: Tray positions himself against the stairs and wes Lee does
Speaker 1: a sitanic kind of turn and look and then does
Speaker 1: a double knee to the head to the steps, and
Speaker 1: you know he pulled it off pretty good because you've
Speaker 1: got to put your legs exactly on ears and he's
Speaker 1: head's going to go back with your with your outfit,
Speaker 1: but he's going to bang it too. So you got
Speaker 1: the thud, you've got the look, and if the camera
Speaker 1: angle wasn't so perfect, it would have been a perfect move.
Speaker 1: But because of modern technology, it shows that he pulled
Speaker 1: it off perfectly. He pulled it off perfectly, and so
Speaker 1: Tray is left in a puddle of his own anguish
Speaker 1: or whatever, and wes Lee is now the new poster
Speaker 1: child for climbing the lane because he's gonna come back
Speaker 1: out next week with a great dialogue. His promo should
Speaker 1: be good of how everybody's held him down and how
Speaker 1: he got these guys back. So there, henceforth he is
Speaker 1: going to build MSK into something. They're getting ready to
Speaker 1: get the push. You got to get pushed out of
Speaker 1: the boat before you can have the whole journey of
Speaker 1: you getting back on the boat to justify everything. So
Speaker 1: you know, a pretty good show. It went a little long,
Speaker 1: and now I know why because they gave the turn
Speaker 1: to Wesley and he ran with it, folks. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the show this week. You know, they
Speaker 1: are getting ready for the next one, like I said,
Speaker 1: with no mercy in Denver, Colorado building on that. So
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll trick done, get his revenge on. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: we'll trick get his revenge on Pete done. You know.
Speaker 1: You know, will Hank and Tank and oh see continue
Speaker 1: their fight? You know, Will Tatum, Paxley and Wendy you
Speaker 1: have their big match? I mean, what is going on
Speaker 1: Ethan page and or mensa? Is that over all of
Speaker 1: these things they left us with a good you know,
Speaker 1: a good fact Andre Chase and Chase you is that
Speaker 1: crack gonna let the water through? Is there gonna be division?
Speaker 1: You know, so many angles Oba Oba and now Tony
Speaker 1: in the family Tony, so you know where are they
Speaker 1: gonna go? What are they gonna do? We'll have to
Speaker 1: tune in next week folks to find out. So that
Speaker 1: is going to do it for me this week. Uh,
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