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Speaker 2: Hello wrestling fans, you're listening to Wrestling Coast to Coast,
a Pro Wrestling Torch daily cast focusing on in the
Penna wrestling. I'm Chris Maitland and enjoining this adventure is
the Man, the Myth, The McClelland Justin McClellan. Justin, how
you doing today?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Chris.
Speaker 2: How are you doing okay? Here in the are we
in the dog? I'm used to the dog days of
summer being all August, but it's so hot now.
Speaker 3: Also, kids go back to school in August now, so
I feel like everything got pushed back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well for me, I'm used to growing. Yeah, don't
them not being pushed back and being pushed forward. There
they're voting on whether they want to keep daylight Saving time.
Oh really, yes, so it it passed the US House
to abolish daylight Savings.
Speaker 3: Time, so we would stick with winter hours.
Speaker 4: Forever, basically in November.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so basically in November, like right now the clock
is supposed to go back November first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just wouldn't happen.
Speaker 3: Okay, summer nights, like really late summer nights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd have winter the I think the sun when
a rise like nine in the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't think people realize have thought
this through. Like I don't like the light savings time either,
but like if you don't do it, you know, you'll
have like like you said, like the sun either either
the sun rise at nine or it'll set it you know, five,
or it'll rise to like I guess it'll rise at
like five in the summer in Ohio. I know you're
from New York where I remember always watching like The
Late Show with David Lehman, you know, and they would
tape it at like four or something. In the winter time,
it'd be like pitch blackout if you would go outside,
because New York's at the other end of the time,
you know, the same time zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what it would be. It'd
be similar to it'd be like an hour or so different.
But apparently I learned this that they tried this in
the seventies and people hated it and it didn't work. Oh,
I didn't know that, so we'll see. I mean, I
think I think mentally what people think about is the
fact that mentally, I don't think people like coming out
of like it in the winter, it being like dark
at like four point thirty in the afternoon, right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, I hate it, and it is like that hour.
It's like a week always. It takes you to adjust,
you know, to the new time, at least me.
Speaker 2: For me, the hardest part about daylight saving time is
I'm a European soccer fan and I have to figure
it changes my schedule when I watch games, typically games
around ten am Eastern, but they don't do daylight saving time,
so then it's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3: I thought your Europe doesn't change the clocks.
Speaker 2: I don't believe. No, at least doesn't. Yeah, okay, so
messes up my cadence. Very very unfortunate.
Speaker 3: I know, I get it.
Speaker 2: You know, when you're used to something, you want to
stick with it. And sometimes all right, then we want
to see in the same place. But as we've learned
doing this show restling Coast to Coast that at least
in the vein of streaming services, that doesn't always isn't
always the case. We forgot to mention this last week,
but another streaming service has a left officially left Triller
and that was howse of Glory had their last show there,
and they mentioned that their next show, which is on
August seventh, High Intensity, would be and they'd be following
the plan of a lot of other independent shows and
they're going to YouTube.
Speaker 3: Is there any any interesting matches signed.
Speaker 2: For High Into announced Shana Basler will be wrestling shat
C Blackheart and Leo Rush will be wrestling Darren Richardson.
Speaker 3: I see, well, I mean that's a good card.
Speaker 2: More to follow, But what are your thoughts on YouTube?
Speaker 3: There's anybody promotions to go? You know, I mean there
is ib TV, but they don't seem to be picking
up new promotions, and I mean they can only accommodate
so many as it is, and I mean it just
seems like they've decided I don't know that they probably
don't get any money from being on YouTube. I guess
they seems to be like the prevailing wisdom is the
exposure of putting your product out there is worth more
than any like financial games you could potentially get from
being on a you know, a streaming service that people
have to pay to subscribe to you.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I will say YouTube algorithm helps. There
was that was having its debut show. I don't want
to shout it out because I don't know if we'll
do it, but I was just like, oh, this is
kind of how it's supposed to work.
Speaker 4: It'll feed you things.
Speaker 2: Obviously, this is not a good sign for Triller TV,
as they don't have a lot of shows left, a
lot of promotions left. In a way, they're fortunate that
GCW runs so many shows. Yeah that they have a
lot of shows on on a weekend, but they're not
really following, you know, they're not really keeping A lot
of promotions have gone to YouTube. So I know, we
have the the Triller TV package that came remember the
name of it, but we have it, and it's almost
now a dwindling asset because even a promotion like ACW
Awesome Champion of Wrestling that we've covered, I just looked up,
they have a show coming up this weekend, and you
have to pay eight dollars for.
Speaker 3: That additional to the Triller Yeah, okay, so basically it's
just at this point it is really just GCW subscription.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think there are a couple other promotions that
pop up from here to there, but it's primarily just that,
and I.
Speaker 4: Don't know.
Speaker 2: How long they can sustain that.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, GCW I think has does have a
little like more popular than probably like how the Glory
it's like in the national wrestling basis, But I don't know, like,
I just don't think there's that many people out there
who are even going to pay ten dollars a month
to like stay releative, stay current on GCW.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Triller Plus was the name of the subscription service.
So so we'll see. No, we usually have our review
of streaming services, but I feel like we're talking about
them every week because of the promotion coming in and out.
So we'll see what's what's going on, I think.
Speaker 3: And there's not like new ones enter in the game either,
you know, it's just it's still Triller and IWTV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, my you know, my aw has got
out of coverage, but they're not really offering any anything
different than any other existing service you can't find on YouTube.
I did see they finally have full shows, but the
only promotions I could find them having a full current
show from twenty twenty six was C four, which is
also available on it and they don't have the most
recent four show that took place in July, so they're
actually a little bit behind where they were. And one
FW Wrestling, which is a QT Marshall's promotion in Georgia,
which I think we talked about covering at some point.
They are on Chiller still and on my AW, but
they put the episodes up at the same time, so
again not much difference yet. We'll see if my AW
distinguishes itself from these other streaming services you mentioned. House
of Glory will be on YouTube their show High Intensity
on August seventh from Jamaic Queens, New York. We will
be covering that here on Wrestling Coast Coast, and we
will also be covering another show on YouTube later in
the month. I think technically by the time we cover it, it
will be in September, and that is the second ever
NWA Empower show, but he's taking place on Friday, August
twenty eighth from Seerville, Tennessee. It is a collaboration event
when owned by the NWA Women's Tag team champion sisters
Kenzie and Kylie Page.
Speaker 3: So is there is that Has there been any announcement?
Is that going to be a special streaming event or
is it going to just beat their TV.
Speaker 2: Show for it's gonna be it's gonna be the it's
gonna stream live on YouTube. Okay, they are having NWA
seventy eighth anniversary show which is on July twenty fifth,
and that will be for future episodes of NWA Power.
Though as we learned last time, Natty never showed up
on Power, so you have to watch that, so you
have to find other ways to watch that match against
Kenzie Page that we enjoyed. But the hints of other
names potentially being on that show again, I think the
NWA shouldn't. No, maybe they should have. Maybe this will
be a test for them to have more of events
on YouTube, not have the TV taping be so behind,
because last at least as I saw of NWA TV
was setting up the southern sixth of its broken up
settling up Carrie Morton versus Silas Mason, and I've already
seen who's Silas Mason's advertised for for NWA seventy eight,
so I think that it would be better for them
if they had these bigger shows, maybe airing on YouTube
better and keeping the TV more current.
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Speaker 3: I agree. I mean for a while they did have
a pay per view model and then like a traditional
preview model, like they would, you would pay for the
big shows separately, and then they would you do a
TV be taping and you know, the team at least
in theory, but I just don't. I don't think they
can command like a twenty five dollars pay per view
charge like you're saying. But you know, if they would
put a big show on YouTube, that might help drive
people to watch Power, which I think probably in many
ways would be their primary goal at this point because
you know, they've signed with to B and Comment TV
and they I think probably ratings are important there, so
I mean anything obviously you want one to feed into
the other. But I think for them, I agree. I mean,
the most important they need to get like more caught
up on their tapings, like you can't have it. You
can't have it months out, but you can't be advertising
two shows down the road, you know.
Speaker 2: I agree, And we're gonna be covering a couple of
episodes of NBA Power in August, will be after this
July twenty fifth event, so we'll see how they phase
that in. I assume that the episodes we cover will
not seat your matches from this event, but we'll see
how far off they are. We also will be covering
another preview a lot of the shows, and we'll be
covering this NWA in Power show as well as I mentioned,
but also we'll be covering MLW Fusion. It just became
just started up again on YouTube at lwhead basically stopped
running TV shows and it was only running their own
kind of premium live events and then they've gone back
to Fusion. So we will be covering that at some point.
A lot of TV shows cover in the month of August.
This week, we're covering a promotion that I feel this
is kind of like a TV episode in a lot
of ways.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is. I mean, yes, it's a weekly it's
a weekly or sometimes twice weekly program. You know that
this put out just on the IWTV channel.
Speaker 2: And that promotion is Wrestling Open. We're going to cover
episode two hundred and thirty six. Show took place July ninth,
twenty twenty six from Worcestern, Massachusetts, failable on IWTV. Your
commentator was Scott Robinson. He had a host of commentators
joined him throughout the show and.
Speaker 4: This match.
Speaker 2: I should mention before I did appear with way Keller
on the Raw post show this week to talk about Raw,
which is not a great show if you saw it,
and mentioned that we were happy to cover this show
that preview always talk about wrestling Coast to Coast a
preview talk about our show last week in preview this
week's show, and I hadn't watched it at the time
we recorded, but I said we the reason why we
did this show was because we had seen the feud
between the Stetson Ranch and we wanted to see this
blow off match. And I have a lot to say
about that match and what it would lead to, but
we'll get to that the main event when we get there. First,
we start off with Tyler Jordan versus Bobby Cassile, who's
also who's also part of the Stetson Ranch. I've not
seen Jordan before, had you no I, I.
Speaker 4: You have not.
Speaker 2: Okay, he was from what he was listening. He was
listened as being from Ohio.
Speaker 3: Can't Ohio home of the NFL Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: So were we supposed to root for him?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I felt a little hometown sort of
home state. I suppose pride for the guy.
Speaker 4: Fair enough.
Speaker 2: We saw Gasol about a month ago have a baby
face match against Timothy Thatcher, and IF wondered, we've been
wondering if he was going to be a heel for
much longer. Jordan hit a spinning heel kick to the
jaw and a blue thunderbomb. Question for you, justin, did
he win with this with this move?
Speaker 3: He did not.
Speaker 2: I actually and I wrote this in my notes and
it actually played out about the show. I was wondering
if we could chart the amount of time someone hits
a blue thunderbomb in a match and.
Speaker 3: Loses and loses.
Speaker 2: Okay, I feel like it happened at least two or
three times on this show in particular.
Speaker 3: I guess it did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll get there spoiler alert. That's what happened
on this match. Jordan traded pins. Jordan went for a
springboard kick, but Cassal blocked it. He ended up putting
a sleeper on Jordan. Jordan tapped out. The ref either
had a delayed reaction to it or Casal dropped him
before the referee can single for the bell. Some confusion
among the commentators, but Bobby Gasal was your winner in
seven minutes and forty two seconds. After the match, Casal
stated that people have been asking him if he's going
to do the Stetson Ranch. He said he stayed loyal
to the people who have been with him since day one.
Very cryptic from Bobby Kassel, who is your winner? Feeding
Tyler Jordan in seven minutes and forty two seconds?
Speaker 4: I thought, I.
Speaker 3: Thought this was a good match to really put Cassle
over but not squashed Jordan. Even though they painted him
as a rookie, he was. It was kind of a
heel heel match Tyler, you know, even though I liked
him because he was from Ohio and he had shiny
new white and gold gear that uh. The color guy
Devin Reno at the time noted looked like he was
straight from heaven. He acted very much a heel. He
was very like cocky and kind of aggressive. But I
thought I thought he had good charisma as being a heel.
Overall like it was nothing over spectacular, but I you know,
I saw a lot of potential here. I did like
I liked the angle in a vacuum of like kind
of choosing which side KISSOI will choose. But they're running
a couple different like dissension like problems with your fashion
angles in wrestling open at the same time, which I
think is probably too many.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we'll get to the other one because we
haven't covered a full show. I didn't realize how similar
this match, this angle was to another angle on the
show of a long time promotion, So maybe need to
switch that up a little bit.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: They did a very good job.
Speaker 2: I will say during the show of wearing highlight packages
of several wrestlers, many of which not on the program,
so we'll mention them when they occurred. They are the
highlight package of Yeah. Before the next match was Laurence St.
James versus Nessa Ferrari, I mentioned that Nansa Ferrari has
lost three times to Laurence James and wanted to do
it again. I was like, why you can't beat her?
Also make it clear as well, Ferrari is the heel
and James is the baby face, so I was supposed
to leave the Ferrari loses to James and James is
must to be the biggest baby face of all time
and keeps giving rematches.
Speaker 3: We're the smartest. I mean, you can rack up the w's.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, I guess, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: She just.
Speaker 2: Doesn't want to see like career progression, Like you don't
really get anything from being the same person.
Speaker 3: You get you get paid.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 3: It was. It was actually a weird like the psychologically
it was backwards, like it should be like the face
loses a bunch, but he's like, I know in my
heart I can beat this person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are the heels arrogant? Are the heel cheats and
that's why they win. In the face wants another match
because you know, psychology here is kind of backward. On
Commentary has mentioned that they had maybe fifteen matches between them,
and that James are covered from a series arm injury.
You've heard of the term third time as a charm, Yes,
well here fourth time was a charm for James, as
Ferrari went for suplex. But James versus into an inside
cradle for the win. Lauren James is your winner in
five minutes and eleven seconds. After the match, Ferrari grabbed
James look like she's gonna attack her, but held her
arm up in a sign of respect. At this point,
if someone's beating you four times in a row, show
respect and move on.
Speaker 4: Maybe go to.
Speaker 2: Another territory, Nessa Ferrari. But Lauren Saint James is your winner,
Defeatingnessa Ferrari in five minutes and eleven seconds.
Speaker 4: Admit it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like psycho lot of it. Like you said, I'm
not sure, I don't even know where you could go
with this because you're like building to the heel finally
getting a victory over the baby face. That's like the
opposite of an inspiring storyline. Uh, this was another like
real basic match. I think this is especially open, and
I think they do this in a lot of the shows.
It's been a while since I've really watched it, but
they they kind of divide the show. Like the early
part is a lot of very young wrestlers. You're just
kind of trying stuff out and getting just getting repetitions in,
and then you get kind of to the more experienced
people with more more focused storylines. Lauren looked like Lauren
looked like she was fifteen years old basically, but was
built as the titanium woman as you said, she had
apparently had a like an arm injury and so it
had like a titanium plate in her arm, hence the
name A class, you know, the classic Lux leaguer. This
was another like very kind of kind of basic match
that they did. I don't know, like you said, I
don't know where they really go with this storyline. I
get like, if Nessa and Lauren are friends now, I
guess they could do a tag team somewhere, like Nessa
saves Lauren from something and they end up facing them.
Like there's not like a super strong women's division and
wrestling open either they So I'm just not sure, like
it's hard to tell, like what they can do with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel I usually can't maintain that usually maintain
or give a full rap up at the end. But
I fact that the biggest part of the show the opening.
The opening matches are basically just sort of setting up
some younger wrestlers. Yeah, some matches with wrestlers who've been
in and around wrestling open more towards the end of
the show. But so I think, like I like them
having new wrestlers here that you know, we can maybe
see more of in the future. I just like the
psychology of this match. I kind of don't know where
Nansa Ferrari Ferrari goes from here unless you, I mean,
unless it makes a complete baby face his turn, and
that's something. And then also Laurence Saint James, when you
really came out with her for a fifth time, that
would just be.
Speaker 3: No, unless something like they'd have to like do a
double turn or something to really to freshen it up
in some way.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we'll see where they go with that. A
highlight package, as I said, mentioned there at Howard packaged
several wrestlers and they had one of the Stepson wrench.
The next match is Brother of Greatness versus Brian Morris.
Most of the times we've seen Brother Greatness recently on
Wrestling Open or Beyond, he's been a commentator, but Wrestling
here today, the comments even mentioned that they hadn't wrestled
much recently, so I assumed that he was going to.
Speaker 4: Not win.
Speaker 2: Down the middle, and he actually did so, foreshadowing Greatness
was holding his own against Morris. He had a top
rope splash on Morris. He went for another top rope
room over, but Dustin Waller, who had some and I
forgot the name of it. Money in the bank, Opportunity knocks,
Opportunity knocks contract, that's right, which allows him to challenge
for any title at any point. He came out, he
distracted Greatness. This allowed Morris to throw Greatest in the
ropes and hit Angels wings for the win. So, Brian
Morris off the Stetson ranch, is your winning here in
six minutes and twenty six seconds, So yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Mean we're getting the pack.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: This is another match that was pretty basic and like
you said, just kind of, I mean, it existed to
further a couple of storylines you had. Obviously, brother Greatness
and friends are in a feud with Dustin Waller and
the Morris is part of the Stedeston ranch breakup. So basically,
I mean it's just to establish he's there, he's on
the card kind of it was. This was actually weird,
another like weird psychology bit because his brother Greatness comes
to the ring and he's dancing, and Bobby Cassou on
commentary not impressed at all and knows he's like gonna
blow himself up immediately, and then like Greatness pretty well
gets schooled and is immediately like intimidated and was like,
oh no, I shouldn't have been dancing at all, which
is kind of a healish action if you think about it.
But he was the face here. His co Also, Greatness
is like selling is way way over the top, like
almost almost like funny at times, just like he is.
Anything you do to him, he is like screaming and
you're like, you think he's about to lose a limb.
So I mean, he gives it, is all. You can't
not say that he does his coke. I like this
movie is called The Disciples Splash, which is like a
lion salt, but he actually twists in mid air so
he lands basing the opposite direction of what you usually do.
I never quite saw anything like that, so I thought
that was pretty good. So yeah, I don't know, Like
I said, the match more of about the angles furthering,
like what's going on with Brother Greatness and Dustin Waller
than in the match itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that again, this is this match really
set up something that happened on later on the show.
I think I also wanted more to win do the
Stetson ranch involvement in the main event, and.
Speaker 3: Really, I mean Greatness is like a manager more and commentator,
So I don't know that he doesn't need to really
win matches and probably shouldn't win a lot of matches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they came out and it's like, oh wow,
he doesn't really wrestle, Like, yeah, I'll tell sign.
Speaker 4: That this is not going to.
Speaker 2: Be a long deal.
Speaker 3: Either he'll lose or someone will have to like interfere
egregiously on his.
Speaker 2: Behalf the next match. Before the next match, the high
package of Wrestling Open Champion Bear Bronson was shown. Jake
Gray came out for the next match. He asked if
anyone has seen BRG, who he was supposed to wrestle.
No one can find him. He's supposed to wrest him
last week. He wasn't there. BRG was supposed to wrest
him this week, he wasn't there. He says, BRG has
result his way out of wrestling him. He said, instead,
he's going to face a giant, someone who's caused some
problems before. He called out his opponent, Rex Lawless. This
leads to our next match, Rex Lawless versus Jake Gray.
His match was your classic big person versus a little
person match. My little person smaller person not something else.
Lawless was much bigger than Gray, but Gray tried to
use the speed advantage whenever he could. At one point,
Gray hit a few moves and jumped off the top rope.
Laws caught him and hit a buckle bomb. Gray tried
to fight back to a very limited success. Colm He
has even mentioned that the referee might love to stop
the match after a few of Lawless a power moves,
loll also the clothes line, and everyone thought it was over,
but Gray kicked out of two. Lawless went to go
for a choke slam, but Gray was able to get
on his shoulders, remover and position himself into a victory
roll and end up picking the win out of nowhere.
So Jake Gray on a mission to find BRB, but
in the meantime getting a few hard knocked victories, beating
Rex Lawless in seven minutes and twenty one cents.
Speaker 3: So Jake Gray is really kind of an example of
what we say that we were saying they really do
with wrestling open if you stick with it over time
watching I remember watching him probably I think last year,
maybe like late the year before, and he was really
kind of like in the Tyler Jordan role he was
you know, he was a guy who came out and
got slashed by I think rage Azz fairly quickly, and
they've just like slowly been building him up. And now
he's like at a level. I mean, he's not main
event level, but he's at like a mid card levels
that he can like now he can start issuing challenges,
not throwing out challenges, and he's starting to get upset winds.
So you know, so if you stick with it, it
over time, like and I don't you know, he may
not be a guy they move up, but he is
a guy, like definitely. They're trying. They're testing the waters
with him to see like how far they can push him.
So it's really interesting to me and I think kind
of like what classic booking, how you want it to
work even though it's like really hard to get it
to do that. He well, we did see him getting squashed.
He was called the handyman, and did he actually did
dress kind of like a handyman with like coveralls, and
I think, did you have like a toolbox or like
a hammer or something like he was like really leaning
into the gimmick. And now he's still called the handyman,
but he's totally changed his look. He looks I thought
he looked like a skater guy. He's kind of like
got this black like denim suit or dinim outfit and
some more prestigious facial hair. It's not quite like how
New Japan, like a young Lion would progress to a
actual featured character. But he's changing up, but he still
called the handyman. I thought, you know, like this match
was pretty much what I thought it would be, which
is Jake Gray is gonna get squashed quite a bit
and then he'll probably get to pull out a victory
out of nowhere. Uh, And that's what happened. I thought
it was really a good showcase for Rex Lawless, who's
who's a big guy who still has some really good
moves he does. He does like this cool like twisting
spear and he got frustrated with Gray and did like
instead of like the classic sidewalk slam where we fall
down with the guy, he just just like, oh, I'm
sick of this and just like dropped him like a
true sidewalk drop. Jake's outfit, though I didn't know, it
seemed like it would be really hot to wrestle in,
not like CPA hot but kind of uncomfortable. Rote Rex
hit he did, he hit the ropes. Jake was like
leaning on the ropes and Rex hit the ropes in
a way that Jake was like bounced off him and
Rexit clothes line him. A couple of other people do that,
and I think that's a pretty cool move. If for
it for like a big guy to do.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, I'd like I said, you know, this was
kind of like a match. We knew where it was going,
but I thought they pulled it off. Well, I'm not sure,
like if BRG was really like missed the show so
they had to improvise, or I mean, this is part
of a longer storyline with him in BRG, But if
they did have to like pull something together quickly, they
did a good.
Speaker 4: Job of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm assuming that he's gonna call him out for
a couple of weeks and eventually BRG will show up
or he'll attack him in the match. I think they
did one at the tell tal signs. I thought Lawless
was gonna loser. That they mentioned that his his usual
tag team partner DJ Powers, and a car of the
other guys who was with uh they weren't there they
mentioned earlier. I'm like, Okay, this is gonna be probably
a oh, we're not out of nowhere. But again it's
progressing the Gray BRG feud, so it makes sense. Highy
packages was shown of the verdict, Ryan Clancy and Laveauh respectively.
The next match the Haven Jay Onyx and Seawn Knight
versus the Breadwinners, Cash McGinnis and Patrick Wheatman. Haven were
baby faces, all the bread Winners were heels. Another match
I would say amongst newer wrestlers wrestling open, which is
important to get new people asp as people have moved
on to other places or other territories, get other people
on the show. The match had one of the most
contrived moves I've ever seen, and I Washington Pen wrestling.
Alex held Onyx, who was the baby face in peril
part of the match, held Weatman by the legs under
McGuinness after McGinnis missed Bronco buster in the corner and
then obs Onyx grabbed and pulled Wheatman into McGuinness. But
it took him about twenty five years to set.
Speaker 3: This up, Yes, and it was so so he had
him in the sling shot and I was like, okay,
just sling shot him like right there into the guy
right who's you know, stuck in them somehow stuck in
the middle rope, but instead yeah, like he said, he
like maneuvered him all the way, Like he did like
one hundred and eighty degree turn and then had to
like kind of walk him forward so he could sling
shot him directly into the other guy's butt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just yeah, Contrives, I.
Speaker 3: Guess they over your overthought was such an easy like
easy spot.
Speaker 4: These guys, you know, they're they're learning in the ropes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Literally, Mike got in the ring. He got the hot
tag and played the House of Fire. Hennon Germany sloop
lets them both Wheatman and Maginnis. He charged Wheatman and
on ex blind tagged himself in. They hit the doomsday
device for the win and stole the chain from the
bread winners that they had take. They took their chain
back and stole the chain from the bread winners. A
friend of ours that we met in and at the
Paw Pawckete show would have really enjoyed the result of
this match. Uh the haven are your winners? In seven
minutes and twenty one seconds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is another like this is okay, Like it
was weird. The announcers like buried the red Winners as
these young, stupid kids they couldn't understand, and then like Cassally,
I guess got better and tried to make up for
him advice like well, you know, I don't get it,
but they could. There out here, they're doing their own thing.
Wheatman came out with two energy drinks in his pocket,
which I respected. I've had to get up at five
am this week because the coworker is off and I
need to like check to make sure something's running. So
it's like, I get it, buddy, you know I don't.
The match was kind of weird and like it felt
like the focus was really the Breadwinners. To me, even
though it was like the Haven won the match, it
was more about the Breadwinners being kind of dumb and obnoxious,
and then to me it's like the Haven, we're just
kind of guys who were there. McGinnis also like from
the side, he's another person made me feel because he
looked about fifteen in a profile. I did think that
the chain snatching by them was a really good spot,
especially when McGinnis put his chain put on his chain
on Wheatman. The Bronco Busters, I don't know what they
were doing. Those were the slowest Bronco busters I've ever seen.
And it wasn't like he's trying to be slow to
be like arrogant or offensive. It was just like he
did the move in very slow motion. And I don't
know exactly why why it would take you that long
to do a Bronco buster of all things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just feel you guys are green. They're learning
the ropes. They'll get better. There's more to them to come.
I think, I hope at least.
Speaker 3: They seemed to way. I mean, there's kind of a
swipe rightness to them, but I mean they're a long
way from being swipe right.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 2: Next, a video package showing TJ. Crawford turning on Brad
Hollister in a match with the Stetson Ranch to Costs
Big Business, which is Hollister and Lovedug the Restling Open
tag from Titles, and a subsequent match between Crawford and Hollister.
Hollister inadvertently ran into the referee. Hollister applied the ankle
lock to Crawford, who tapped out, but right when the
referee got up, the referee looked like he was giving
the match to Hollister, but instead and form, rich Paladino
that he disqualified Hollister running into him, making this the
first forever to disqualify someone for a ref bump.
Speaker 3: This was a heck of a dusty finished like it
got me even like like a replay. I was like,
I was like, oh, I was like, wow, he beat TJ.
That really that's kind of weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just I mean, they don't do a lot of rest,
They don't do a lot of refugh bumps in.
Speaker 4: Wrestling Open. But and I get it.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I'm always like a stickler for the rules.
But I was kind of like, all right, come on, like,
are we really doing this? But I get it. It
played into what happened next. Rich Paldino was appous to
introduced the next match.
Speaker 4: When t J.
Speaker 2: Crawford comes out, he says he's here to celebrate his
the biggest victory in Wrestling Open history, which is the
said victory over Brad Hollister. He says he has a
few people to think, including Brad Houster's son, who Provert
said has made Hollister fat and lazy. He said that
it's something doesn't have to look up to Haster anymore
when he can look up to Crawford. This, of course
sends Hollister out there immediately to go after him. Crawford
bails from the ring. Halser challenges him to a no
disqualification match. Crawford said he has to earn it, and
to do so, he'd have to win his match tonight.
Crawford said he's gonna sit on commentary to make sure
he does not cheat. The crowd really hates t J. Crawford,
as they chanted some things we cannot repeat here on
resting Thoset coast at him during the segment.
Speaker 3: He's a good heel and he's embraced this more like
I said, a slimy Miami vice. Look he's got he's
grown out his facial hair and he's got kind of
a goate but like it's not connected. It has a name,
but I can't remember what it's called. And like this
pointy chim beer like he just looks like more lowsome.
He's got a good like punch uble face.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, that's it going into the heel. You being
definitely full fledged heel. This is least to our next match.
Brad Holster versus Devin Reno. The crowd chanted bald at Reno.
I may add this to my list of least favorite
wrestling chants.
Speaker 3: It's the worst one. I think, like I don't know,
like say what, I don't know. This is like the
thing I probably blamed Christierricho foremost.
Speaker 4: There's so many things you can blame for. I don't know.
Speaker 3: This bald chant is like it's infecting everywhere because like, okay,
wrestlers are bald, probably yeah, and if you figure half
of them are heels, it's twenty percent, like you get
a bald chant every This is the worst thing to
happen to wrestling since what oh yeah, yeah, at least
chance wise, I mean, I know there's like actual bad
things that happen.
Speaker 2: Well from a chat perspective, especially, I mean, at least
at least the other chance you know that I don't
like are somehow related to the show. Yeah, like Channing.
First of all, some people are bald by choice. Secondly,
some people, you know, it's an easier lifestyle to do
when you fit a certain age in life where that's
where your hair has to go, and it's just sort
of like, you know, yeah, it's crazy. It's just ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: That's like, okay, one of the most popular wrestlers of
the past, you know, the last thirty years. Bald Guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, another one that was also fairly popular, and it
was wrestling up until what last year? Also bald Guy
also yeah, Actually, come to think of it, a guy
who I used to like a lot as a kid
and died recently and haven't liked so much recently because
of things.
Speaker 4: Also bald Guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But anyway, Hollister spent a lot of the matters
being distracted by Crawford on commentary, and Crawford spent a
lot of time on the commentary making disparaging comments about
Hollister's wait. I thought you know it's man producing this. Yeah,
Reno had the advantage. He went for his finisher, which
Crawford seemed excited by when Robinson described it, but Holster escaped.
Holster hit a German suplex on a Reno and hit
two charges at Reno into the corner and follow up
the hip attack, Holster hit an angle slam for a
two count. Reno hit a fourum but Hollister counter with
the spear. This caused Crawford, thinking that Hawser my win,
to run down to the ring. Reno hit the deep six,
which I believe look.
Speaker 4: Kind of like a blue thunderbomb.
Speaker 1: Did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know what that means. He one was
the two count Reno went first finisher, but Holster escaped
and hit a tornado jack camera for the win. Brett
Hoster was your winner in seven minutes of fifty two seconds.
Crawford and I actually liked this immediately went into attack
Holster so quick that Richard Paladino could not even announce
the match the match time. That's how Quickie came in.
Hollister was ready and hit Crawford with the head. But
but Hawser is gonna take out Crawford. But love Doug
came to the ring this loved Crawford to escape. Love
Doug is supposed to be neutral, but Hawser's annoyed with
him and leaves, which I'm guessing is leading We'll lead
to Love Doug turning on Hollister when him and Crawford wrestle.
But for now, Brett Hoster is your winner, defeeding Devin
Reno in seven minutes and fifty two seconds.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this is what I kind of alluded to before.
We've got another group breaking up Big Business, and you've
got kind of the two main guys who've gone their
separate ways, and there's a third guy who's you don't
know which way he's gonna go. This it's a little
The only difference is, I think, I guess like the
heel face alignment's different. It's like the guy who turned
on the group in Stetson Ranches to face and here
the guy who turned on the group and Big Business
is the heel. But otherwise it's it's like very very
similar stuff happening on the same shows. Yeah think, yeah,
on the same show.
Speaker 2: You know, I think, you know, we'll see. My guess
is that one of them is kind of over. So
this might replace it. There are also more people uh
in thus in big business. Maybe business also was a
little bit different because they were heels who became babyfaces.
But I don't want to say too much because of
what I think might happen because it it's in contradiction
to what happened to the main event. We haven't got
there yet.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean there are some different It just
seems like it's so I mean too, You're going to
pay off a divided store, divided loyalty storyline and then
like immediate, not just immediately introduce it, but like on
the same show introduce it like I would have waited
at least wait till the next show to start this
love Doug stuff.
Speaker 2: And to be fair, they even had both I think
both wrestlers. Both matches between Hollis. I think Holliser versus
Crawford was last week, as was Danny Miles or Steven
Stetson and both ended in the.
Speaker 4: Qualifications.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't cover we covered uh Stetson and Miles
on the VIP last week, did not cover Hollister and Crawford,
but we did go over that match here because it
was part of this week's episode. Yeah, but they both
end up in in uh the qualifications. Now, obviously Crawford
and Hollistin did not have their blowoff match on the show,
which made sense, but they both are kind of were
kind of progressing in the same way. Yes, a video
package air to preview the next match between Dustin Waller
and Sammy Diaz. Waller was coming out saying that he
was going to win the Wrestling Open title and then
never defend it in uh, the Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there were There was one of the
Rhode Island shas.
Speaker 2: Yeah with someone the Knights. Diaz, who used to be
friends with Waller as the Miracle Generation, has turned heel
to longtime baby faces, said that he's trying to talk
to him, not as a dad, as a big brother,
and then Waller said, you know, I know you've met
my dad. Amazically insulted d as his father because saying
he didn't was in his life because he was incarcerated,
so Diaz attacked him again. I like the fact that Diaz,
you know, maybe because I watched Raw and I watched
Seth Role's Roman reigns insult each other just to go
back and forth. I love wrestling when someone says something
that's I feel I could cause a fight in like
actual life, and they actually like attacked the person. Yeah,
as opposed to like coming back with a WINNI comeback
because you know again, and there was a fight and
maybe just the way that I grew up in high school,
but you know, you don't need two or three lines
like that to lead to a physical altercation. There was
another match where Dzu Waller's gonna do the concerto on
someone not sure who it was. Lights went out and
Daz came out and made the save, uh, saving gentleman
from a chair attack, and so that he was gonna
beat Waller like his dad should have done years ago.
That leads us to our next match, Dustin Waller versus
Sammy Diaz. Diaz hit a blue thunderbomb for two counts.
Speaker 3: Bad news for Diz.
Speaker 4: Keep that in mind.
Speaker 3: You know what Diaz also did, which I'm gonna start
keeping count What's that he did? His styles clash?
Speaker 4: Oh did he?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: It is open season on that move. It was like
people were waiting for aj Styles to retire, and now
like the damn has burst and it's flooded.
Speaker 2: But I feel like it doesn't like the styles clash.
He first of all, Michelle, then Michelle McCool do a
visual of styles clash he did.
Speaker 3: That's right, Oh my gosh, she did do. Wow, Chris
remember that before I did?
Speaker 2: And yes, only because I remember it coming up in
like an interview not too long ago.
Speaker 3: But the teacher that would be amazing.
Speaker 4: I doubt it. But they were like the only piece, like.
Speaker 3: This is a move I can never fit into my character.
But that was really nice.
Speaker 4: They you know, you don't think that Biker Taker when.
Speaker 3: I wish, I wish, yeah.
Speaker 2: Or American Badass Taker is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: There were a couple of There's an Undertaker obviously the class.
There was the early Undertaker who was like led by
the urn.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: There was the American Badass Undertaker of like two thousand
and one is right, they came out to live Biscuit
no Kid Rock, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then there was Biker Undertaker, and Biker Undertaker was the
one that got like abducted by someone that came back
as like the Undertaker, right.
Speaker 3: I think it was one of the times King murdered him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, Biker Taker is of the famous hands too Low promo.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes to Orlando Jordan, Yes, Orlando Joris Stoodo
with John Cena, like twenty years ago, more than twenty
years ago.
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Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Worry Waller hit a Spanish lie and a handspring cutter.
On the third attempt to try to do this for
a two count, Waller climbed to the top rope, but
Diz rolled out of the ring Smart Wrestling. Waller was
going to do a move on the apron, but Brother
Greatness came out, sort of channeling what happened earlier when
Waller came out during Brother Greatness is Master Brian Morris.
He argues with Waller long enough for DS to escape
it trade strikes on the apron. DZ got Waller up
a Waller fought out and hit a tombstone on the apron.
He rolled DZ vacuum, but DZ kicked out at two.
Waller got on the apron again and Greatness did as well.
Waller slapped him because of Greens to try to follow
him into the ring. The referee intervened. Daz almost super
kick Greatness when Wallder move out of the way, but
he held up. This gave Waller a little bit of
daylight to roll up Daz and hell the tights for
the wins. So Dustin Waller wins in twelve minutes and
eleven seconds. After the match, Das will consold by Brother Greatness,
but I felt like this is almost part of a breakup.
I'll break up our DS, maybe turning on Greatness, feeling
that Greatness cost him the match, but Dustin Waller again
as your winner in twelve minutes and eleven seconds.
Speaker 3: See, I really hope it's not that, because again, it
just it would feel very similar to like what we
just saw with like Big Business. You know, it would
be another group that's just gonna splinter and now Eachi
bought for Ichibon will be caught in the middle. They didn't.
I mean, it seemed like the announcer felt like it
was going that way, but their actions, I mean, it
just seemed like Daz seemed to be like, it's okay,
you know, these things happen. So I don't know, at
least hopefully they like postponed that one for a little while,
you know, just to avoid some over repetitiveness. It feels
like they're really trying to push Waller into a big deal,
like a big deal, like main event level heel. I don't.
We have not seen him wrestle singles very much.
Speaker 4: Have we a few times here or there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, definitely, I mean he's only a heel in
wrestling open. I think at least.
Speaker 2: We saw him wrestle Ben Bishop at the last Beyond show.
Oh that's right, yeah, interfering.
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, But yeah, I mean it seems like
like it felt like Waller's in this program. You know,
he's winning. He's got this money in the bank style contract,
so it's interesting. Definitely going a different direction with him.
It was funny they like they called you know, he
is called Dustin Flash Waller, but the announcers talked about
how he's like since he's turned, he's like slowed things
way down and he does like wrestle much more like
keelish methodical pace.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I like the fact, well one, I like
the fact that I think when we started watching or
we started shifting our show. Actually we haven't shifted yet
because we did Heavy Lights of Crowd twenty twenty one, right, yes,
And I believe on that show, Miracle Generation became the
second IWTV Tag Team Champions or not the tournament.
Speaker 3: They won it after, They won it after because I
think they were supposed to but one of them like
got like a legitimately hurt.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Waller got injured and so Forever won and
they won it later. But we saw them speaking said
up as kind of a good baby face tag team
on the Indies, and they had a long run with
those tag team titles. Reminds you who are the iw
TV Tag Team Champions right.
Speaker 3: Now, that's you know, that's a good question.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe maybe you want to look that up while
I riff a bit. And you know, they had a
thing there as baby Face Champions for a long time.
They had, you know, good matches. I felt there was
at one point they were kind of overtaken by Swipe
right when Swipe Wright came in, and obviously Swipe Wright's
now on NXT. And I want to give Waller and
King credit because they decided to change up their gimmick
a little bit. And we saw them wrestless heels I
remember against the main event at a promotion. But they
they've kind of they've they've kept as a tag team,
so they still wrestled together, but they also do their
heels stuff apart, and I think that's given them a
little bit of a new dimension to them as wrestlers.
I think it's really helpful for them in the long run.
They were probably one of the I think them and
Alec Price were the first we hadn't seen noted with
that show. And yeah, hopefully that they continue their growth.
Speaker 3: So the iw TV Tech Team Champions are banging Matthews,
which occurs to me we actually saw them win the title.
Speaker 4: They won that Heavy Lines the Crown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was the show the next day?
Speaker 2: The rest of over because there was a tournament on
Heavy Lines the Crown and then the winners who do they.
Speaker 3: Defeat Miracle Generation the Generation, but they have not defended
the titles. This is per cage match, but the last
recorded defense of the title was back in March, So
I don't know, it doesn't seem like they're.
Speaker 4: Like, is that an unsanctioned pro.
Speaker 3: No, it was on it was on a Beyond show.
Speaker 2: So and then we've seen you know, banging Matthews will
highlight the ad wrestling GCW other places. So yeah, that's
that's that's weird.
Speaker 3: But hopefully that I mean there there's there's not like
some of these hurt. There's you know, they're wrestling all
the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, hopefully they you can defend the Todle
very soon. Yes, next we have our main event coming up,
and before that, we had a video package showing the
issues among the Stetson ranch. In the video package, you
had Stephen Stetson and Danny Miles arguing, causing Miles to
get pinned, rolled up and lose Miles costing Stetson to
lose a title match when Stetson was wrestling for the
Wrestling Open title against Bara Bronson. Brian Moore is pushing
Miles into Gassal during another run in, and Casal attempting
to break up a fight between Stetson and Miles and
ended up arguing with Miles instead. So Stetson ranch has exploded.
We've had several matches that have had conclusive finishes. So
that leads us to our main event, a Worcester street
fight between Danny Miles and Stephen Stetson. Before the match,
Rich Paladino reminded, everyone is a street fight. Don't be
on your phone. I like that because it's like, you know,
if two guys are barreling towards you. We've been in
a few crowds like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I don't, I famously don't like crowd brawling,
but you know it is. Yeah, really like you should
stay on your way. There's lots of reasons you should
be off your phone.
Speaker 2: Yes, at a show that you've paid for, right, be
on your phone later, old man.
Speaker 4: A rent.
Speaker 3: Unless it is you're like calling your your neighbors. Is
to paraphrace Bobby keenan to let them know that the
Stetson street Fight was on and they needed to like
watch IDW TV right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, so it is streaming later, so you don't have to.
Speaker 3: Do, right, is v O D like anither of us
watched it live?
Speaker 2: So no, we very rarely watched shows live. That's the
whole that's the whole great thing about VOD because sometimes
of their issues and we've had independents shows have been
issue streaming.
Speaker 4: So anyway, Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Matter began and they quickly went to the outside. They
were out there for so long that the commenters had
to mention that you can only win the match in
the ring. Had me ask this existential question justin shouldn't
a street fight be false count anywhere?
Speaker 3: It really should?
Speaker 2: Yes, because if they ended up like would be kind
of ridiculous. They ended up in the parking lot, one
person gets knocked out, if the drag them back to
the ring to pin kind of be ridiculous, right.
Speaker 3: Or like if you put a guy in like a
submission hole, right, but you're outside the ring, but the
guys like I quit, I quit that they should still count.
Speaker 2: Miles missed cannonball into a door bridge, I thought Steps
has moved out of the way. I know this is
bad camera work. Would it appeared that he was pulled
out of the way by Morris. This match became a
very odd too on one match in which Morris got
involved and not all the time, which to me is
one of the issues I have with the booking is
that either you're gonna help Stetson or you're not. Why
there was one point where Miles almost he got a
near fall on Stetson, and I kind of wanted that
to be the because Miles Morris was very clearly looking
at them on the outside and kind of half hardly
dove in the ring to break up the pen. I
would have loved that to be the finish because it's like,
why are you here?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Also, like, there's also a point where Miles had a
crutch wrapped in barbed wire and Morris attacked him and
took it away, but then just like set it to
the side and the announcers had to cover and be like, well,
you know, he's mad at the guy, but he's not
that man.
Speaker 2: It's almost like he was an honorable cheater. Yeah, he's
like I'll cheat, but there's certain things I just won't
do right, and we we we covered the Stetson Ranch
when I believe was is Danny Miles wrestled Eye Eye
black Jack or Steven Stetson I can't remember in the
files of a tournament and basically beat them single handedly.
I thought that, I think, Yeah, I thought the Stetson
Ranch were like no longer to be in the company
and actually d up winning the rest of open titles
the next day or the next show. I thought the
psychologist weird, We're very weird with Morris in and out.
But Miles actually was able to beat them both up.
He even was able to hit a moon salt on
both Morris and Stetson. Morris went to attack Miles with
Miles and the German suplex and a cannonball in the corner.
Stetson closedline Miles and went to pin him, and for
some reason that again my issue number two with the booking,
he pulled them up for a two coup.
Speaker 4: It's a street fight.
Speaker 2: Your partner is in and out helping you hit this
devastating looking you want to win the match. Why did
he just pin him and then you could attack him out.
Speaker 4: For the match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, At least it had hit a blue
thunderbomb that would have been ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yeah in the giveaway.
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Speaker 2: Miles was able to recover and hit a codebreaker. Everyone
was down, so Miles is down, Morris is down, Stetson's down.
Bobby Gasal came down the ring. Which side was he on?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: He grabbed the barbed wire the aforementioned barbed wire crutch
away from Miles and Stetson, and he and Boris surrounded
Miles and Casal lifted Miles up. They were going to
hit a finishing move, but Caassal kicked more It's much
of Stetson's shock.
Speaker 4: Gassal and.
Speaker 2: Miles took out Morris and Stetson and they clutch. Gassell
handed him the Barbara crutch, which Miles put up against
Stetsu's neck, causing stets to submit, which the commentaries mentioned
that was the first time he had submitted. The wrestling
open and Danny Moles as your winner winning the wester
Street fight against you Stet's in twenty fifty seconds After
the match, Miles and Gassal hugged and cheered as the
show ended Danny Miles again your Winner in twenty minutes
fifty seconds.
Speaker 3: So I mean it was had some weird storyline ticks,
but I think the end it ultimately got to a
good place. The good things about wrestling open they always
they're very good at giving their main events this main
event feel, And I really enjoyed Jake gray A the
handyman on commentary, Like he went to some like kind
of weird but places, but he always would like tie
them into the match in really interesting ways. He did
this whole thing about relating how the guys were dressed
to their characters and how it worked in the match.
Because it's a street five but Danny Miles is dressed
just like a like his normal wrestling gear, where Stetson
is in jeans and kind of dressed like more like
street clothes. And so Greg goes on this whole like
actually very like profound thing about Miles is dressed normally
because he knows he's unafraid of the consequences. He knows
there's some pain involved here, but he's willing to endure
it to get to Stetson, and Stetson is scared of
the pain, so he's going to try and dress to
protect himself even though that's going to limit his movement
and be more uncomfortable. I was like, wow, that's some
that's some profound like insight this guy has going on.
He he did a lot like I was like, this
guy's great. He I'm sure he wants to be a wrestler,
but I think he should like pursue commentary because he
was awesome. Miles is a weird guy. Not weird like funny,
but he is built like very stocky. But he like
tries to do a lot of like I don't say,
like early two thousands, like luchador moves almost or like
just light heavyweight moves. He did like he did a
six one nine. He did a frog splash, he did
like a lion salt to the floor, like offside moon
salt to the floor where he lands on his feet.
He did the saboo move where you jump off a
chair and like hit a leg side like leg drop
thing on a guy. So I mean he's a good worker.
He is. He's just I think, like a lot of
people say you should wrestle, he does not wrestle how
he should based on like his appearance. I mean, I
don't think that's necessarily true. It's just kind of an observation,
like he looks like he would be more of a brawler,
and yet he really does do a lot of high
flying stuff. Overall, I mean, like you said, there was
some kind of weird storyline bits in the match, but
we did get I think the right payoff with Kassal
ending up siding with Miles, and now you've you've got
the split two. You can definitely I think they almost
have to do a tag team match, like a tag
team title match off of this, with the remnants of
the Stetson ranch against Miles and Casal. You could definitely
a good way to further this program down the line.
So overall I liked it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's key to note that Stetson and
Morris are the tag team champions Wrestling Open, so you're
setting up an obvious tag team fused for those titles,
and I see that's the direction that'll be going. So
that was Wrestling Open episode two thirty six, available on IWTV. Overall,
I enjoy the show. There was you know, I highlighted
the feud between Miles and Stetson when I was with
Wade on Monday as something that was a good part
of wrestling, that is, doesn't matter what company you're in,
telling a story that people buy into. That caused us
to want to do this match booking issues aside a
few issues that I had, I did like the ending
up finish and the fact that casalad Miles were together
and I could see attactive you developing out of that,
you know, again, doing the big business split kind of
almost like a week behind on.
Speaker 4: The same show.
Speaker 2: Maybe not the choice that I would have done, As
you said, my prediction there that I can say now
is that love Doug will side with Crawford and not Hollister,
so be a bit opposite of what we saw here.
But we'll see when they have their match, I presume
next week. Also, you know, Wrestling Open has a good
reputation of finding some wrestlers, and the first you know,
five matches for the most part, had wrestlers who are
either just starting out and wrestling Open or maybe a
little bit further along, but not two have not been
around too much as opposed to last three matches that
had wrestlers that have been around for quite a bit
or had a bit more of a story to it.
Speaker 4: And another.
Speaker 2: And so I like that fact that they were able
to preview our showcase other wrestlers on the come up,
which is the purpose of independent wrestling. And also I
like the fact that they had a that they had
highlight packages for the wrestlers who were not on the show,
keeping them, keeping them are alive and warming people's minds.
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of the main strengths is is the good continuity and
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been I think come back to the Stetson read Stetson
Ranch split several times over like the past few months,
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the first hours just sort of you guys getting getting
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like that week by week and you know that's been
the strength of the show always and uh to me,
it's always just a really fun two hours to watch.
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