Speaker 1: Let's going on, guys. It is a Tuesday night. I
Speaker 1: am the Solid Monster and this is a very special
Speaker 1: double a review for NXT and AW Dynamite for the
Speaker 1: second year in a row. Now Dynamite and NXT running
Speaker 1: kind of head to head, head to head for an hour.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit of overlap between the two shows,
Speaker 1: but because of Baseball, Dynamite got bumped up by a
Speaker 1: night and so this was the go home show to
Speaker 1: Wrestle Dream. They are a big pay per view coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend, and they went up against an NXT
Speaker 1: show from Saint Louis with a special appearance by Randy Orton,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis's own Randy Orton. And we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: bull shows because I have watched bull shows, including the
Speaker 1: one hour where I had two different screens going at
Speaker 1: the same time. So we're gonna be talking about both
Speaker 1: of these things. This was the second episode of NXT
Speaker 1: on the CW network. Last week was their debut, and
Speaker 1: I was not overly impressed last week with that first
Speaker 1: CW show. This week was a big improvement from last week.
Speaker 1: Actually really liked the NXT show tonight, just the whole
Speaker 1: vibe of the show. They were in a different location,
Speaker 1: they were in a much smaller venue, and I really
Speaker 1: think it made the show. Just the energy in the
Speaker 1: vibe of the show was much improved, and they had
Speaker 1: some great action as well, including the main event, which
Speaker 1: was Randy Orton against Javon Evans, the twenty year old
Speaker 1: phenom in NXT who's been getting a bit of a
Speaker 1: push throughout the year, and he was in there in
Speaker 1: the biggest match of his life tonight, and in the
Speaker 1: biggest moment in what could have been, up to this point,
Speaker 1: the biggest moment in his young career. Because you know,
Speaker 1: all week long he was thinking about it, how are
Speaker 1: we going to do this? RKO spot right. He was
Speaker 1: going to bed every night thinking about this. And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: whatever it was that they had in mind, whatever he thought,
Speaker 1: oh man, this is going to go viral, this is
Speaker 1: going to be huge, it didn't quite work out that way.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, if it was fifteen years earlier,
Speaker 1: Randy Orton would have reacted in a very different way
Speaker 1: than he did tonight. You could tell how Randy Orton
Speaker 1: has matured over the years, because the reaction he had
Speaker 1: to that botched finish was not going to be the
Speaker 1: reaction that he would have had many years ago, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was a very enjoyable show on the whole.
Speaker 1: Over on TBS, we had aw Dynamite, a show that
Speaker 1: they billed as Title Tuesday. That you would think a
Speaker 1: show called Title Tuesday. They also have their Battle of
Speaker 1: the Belts that they're contractually obligated to do four times
Speaker 1: a year, but you would think on a show called
Speaker 1: Title Tuesday, Okay, well, there's going to be some championship matches.
Speaker 1: Well you would be wrong if you thought that there
Speaker 1: would be championship matches being plural. We had one championship
Speaker 1: match tonight, which was for two titles, the TBS time
Speaker 1: in the New Japan Strong Women's title, and that was it.
Speaker 1: One title match on a show called Title Tuesday, which
Speaker 1: is quite absurd. So I'm not even sure why they
Speaker 1: called it that in the first place, unless they were
Speaker 1: referring to the number one Contenders match, which had title
Speaker 1: implications for the Women's World title or wrestl Dream this weekend,
Speaker 1: but that's a bit of a stretch. So yes, we
Speaker 1: had Title Tuesday with one title match, and frankly, it
Speaker 1: wasn't even a significant title and that's what we ended
Speaker 1: up with there, DYNAMI I could already tell from the
Speaker 1: Pole results, and we're going to check out the pole
Speaker 1: results later on from Twitter, so you can go vote
Speaker 1: right now, so I could already tell the reaction is
Speaker 1: going to be mixed. I don't think I disliked this
Speaker 1: episode of dynam by the way that some of you
Speaker 1: may have. I thought, on the whole it was a
Speaker 1: solid show. You know, it wasn't the worst Dynamite I've
Speaker 1: ever seen or anything like that. It just didn't do
Speaker 1: a whole hell of a lot to get me any
Speaker 1: more excited for Wressel Dream this weekend. This was the
Speaker 1: go home show. This was the last ditch effort to
Speaker 1: get people pumped up for Wrestle Dream, which I am
Speaker 1: sure when Wressel Dream comes, as is usually the case
Speaker 1: with these aw shows, it'll be an excellent show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get a lot of quality matches on there, and
Speaker 1: they do pay per view very well. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about that aspect of things. You know, in the ring,
Speaker 1: they can handle their business on those shows, but just
Speaker 1: going into it as far as the stories, as far
Speaker 1: as the key matches, they didn't really do a whole
Speaker 1: hell of a lot tonight to get me excited for
Speaker 1: that show. It didn't make me less inclined to be excited,
Speaker 1: but they didn't get me any more excited for it.
Speaker 1: But we did get a couple of really good matches
Speaker 1: on the show, including one that I was not expecting
Speaker 1: to necessarily enjoy as much as I did, maybe because
Speaker 1: there was just so much wrestling going on tonight, and
Speaker 1: it was a match that you would absolutely just see
Speaker 1: thrown out there on rampage maybe collision. It has absolutely
Speaker 1: no bearing whatsoever on the pay per view this weekend,
Speaker 1: and yet it stole the show from an ring perspective.
Speaker 1: It stole the show between Hologram and Commander. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a rampage match if I've ever heard one. But
Speaker 1: it was the best thing bell to bell on the
Speaker 1: entire show. And then there were some other things on
Speaker 1: the show that were head scratching, but that's sort of
Speaker 1: part of the course lately when it comes to Dynamite.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about both of these shows. If
Speaker 1: I had to pick one over the other, which one
Speaker 1: I enjoyed more, Which one I personally thought was the
Speaker 1: better of the two shows? It was NXT by far,
Speaker 1: but we're going to talk about both of them here
Speaker 1: because again, this is your NXT and Dynamite dual review.
Speaker 1: I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you for hanging out
Speaker 1: with me here for a little bit on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: Usually I'm on a different channel on a Tuesday night
Speaker 1: doing a different show. We're gonna be doing that show
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, that's TNT, but tonight was a special night.
Speaker 1: Had to cover both these shows. Like and subscribe. Super
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Speaker 1: Why don't we begin here with NXT since that got
Speaker 1: the jump on Dynamite, so that is what we are
Speaker 1: going to kick off with here. They were at the
Speaker 1: Factory in Saint Louis, and for those of you who
Speaker 1: don't know, the Factory is a relatively small venue. They
Speaker 1: downgraded from a larger arena. They booked a larger building,
Speaker 1: probably thinking well, WWE is the hot ticket right now.
Speaker 1: We got Randy Orton on the show, he's from Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: and they could barely sell two thousand tickets, and this
Speaker 1: was a big building. This might have been like an
Speaker 1: NBA sized building. So they had to cancel the show
Speaker 1: from there, and they moved it to a much smaller venue,
Speaker 1: hence the Factory, and so it was much smaller, much
Speaker 1: more intimate, and not for nothing, I think it enhanced
Speaker 1: the show. And I just thought the look and feel
Speaker 1: of the show tonight was a lot better than it
Speaker 1: was last week, even though they were in a bigger
Speaker 1: building with more people. It's funny how that works sometimes,
Speaker 1: so I really enjoyed it. The only thing is you
Speaker 1: could tell they really kept the building dark. It's pretty dark,
Speaker 1: and not because they couldn't move tickets, but I think
Speaker 1: what it was they just didn't want people to see
Speaker 1: how small the venue was. And I, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: watching this and I'm like, come on, it's it's really
Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal, you know, just
Speaker 1: lighten it up a little bit. But it reminds me like,
Speaker 1: you know, many many years ago, when times were very
Speaker 1: lean for them, WWF would run these syndicated tapings literally
Speaker 1: sometimes at high school gymnasiums, and you could see in
Speaker 1: the background, like you'd see the windows outside. You like
Speaker 1: you could tell how small the venue was, or they
Speaker 1: would run some other places up and down the East
Speaker 1: Coast that were very small. But yeah, again, it's not
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. I think it would have
Speaker 1: been fine. I wish they would have lightened it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know what, actually this venue
Speaker 1: reminded me. I remember Lowell in nineteen ninety seven, they
Speaker 1: ran two episodes of Raw, one at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, one later in the year, I want to
Speaker 1: say the Lowell Civic Center, and maybe it was a
Speaker 1: different building there, but that episode of Thursday Raw Thursday
Speaker 1: where Shawn Michaels lost his smile, and then later in
Speaker 1: the year it was the episode where Shawn Michaels and
Speaker 1: Triple H had their fake European title match where Triple
Speaker 1: H won the belt. That's what this building kind of
Speaker 1: reminded me of. I couldn't put my finger on it,
Speaker 1: but that's really what it made me think of when
Speaker 1: I was watching this show, just the look and feel
Speaker 1: of it. And the NXT Champion Trigg Williams was out
Speaker 1: first to open the show, talked about how he is,
Speaker 1: of course the new NXT champion after his win last
Speaker 1: week over Ethan Page, and he knows what that means.
Speaker 1: He has a new title around his waist because they
Speaker 1: have new belts made, and the sharks are circling in
Speaker 1: the locker room. Now all eyes are on him. He
Speaker 1: becomes public enemy number one. Wesley interrupted from up in
Speaker 1: the balcony, because you could do that sort of thing
Speaker 1: when you're in a small venue. You can stand in
Speaker 1: the balcony with a microphone and you can look up
Speaker 1: and you can interact with the other person. He says,
Speaker 1: Trick is not the only one with a career defining moment.
Speaker 1: Last week he shed some unnecessary weight plans to become
Speaker 1: a triple crown champion in NXT. He says, right now,
Speaker 1: Trick is the face of NXT, but he's gonna tell
Speaker 1: him something that nobody else has the balls to tell him.
Speaker 1: He ain't it and he plans to take the title.
Speaker 1: So that brought out Jay Usso, because why not, boy,
Speaker 1: this took a turn out comes the Intercontinental Champion, and
Speaker 1: he walks out to the ring and hugs Trick and
Speaker 1: he appreciates him coming out here. After Jay's went over
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods n RAW last night, all fucking four minutes
Speaker 1: of it. Says he knows Jay's tired, but they look
Speaker 1: good with gold around their waist, and we got competing
Speaker 1: chance of yeat and whooped that trick and whooped that
Speaker 1: yeat and eat that trick and whatever it was. They're
Speaker 1: going back and forth. That people were having fun, they
Speaker 1: posed together, and that was it. They made Jay usso
Speaker 1: stay an extra day in Saint Louis just to do this.
Speaker 1: I'd be pissed. I could be home with my kids
Speaker 1: and my family and we never saw him again for
Speaker 1: the rest of the show. What they wanted was they
Speaker 1: wanted Jay there so he could give Trick the rub.
Speaker 1: That's really That's really all it was. And to that end,
Speaker 1: you know, they they did what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1: But the segment itself not much of a segment. Here.
Speaker 1: You know, Wesley calls his shot. He's gonna give Trick
Speaker 1: Williams a great match. I mean as a first challenger
Speaker 1: coming out of last week's title win. You know, Trick
Speaker 1: now is a two time champion and Wes Lee as
Speaker 1: a challenger to kick off the second reign here for
Speaker 1: Trick is not a bad idea. Doesn't leave any doubt
Speaker 1: as to who's gonna win. All Right, we know it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be Wes Lee, but the reality is, you know,
Speaker 1: Trick needs an opponent. Wes is coming off of a
Speaker 1: big win over Zach Wentz in that street fight last week,
Speaker 1: so now he's as strong as he's probably been in
Speaker 1: a very long time as a single, so it kind
Speaker 1: of makes sense why they would want him to be
Speaker 1: next in line. So from this they went directly into
Speaker 1: the entrances for the first match of the night, which
Speaker 1: was the women's North American Champion Colonie Jordan and the
Speaker 1: women's tag team champions Bianca bell Air and Jade Cargill
Speaker 1: taking on Fatal Influence fallon Henley, jac Jane and Jack Nicks.
Speaker 1: The story coming into this basically is that Fatal Influence
Speaker 1: is not a fan of all of these athletes that
Speaker 1: are populating NXT now who have come from other sports
Speaker 1: Klonie Jordan, Jade car Gil, Bianca bell Air. They were
Speaker 1: all great athletes before they ever set foot in wrestling,
Speaker 1: so they would qualify. So that was sort of the
Speaker 1: genesis of all this. So the Heels worked over Jordan
Speaker 1: for a while. Brod wanted Jade, They got Jade. She
Speaker 1: made a hot tag she was a one woman wrecking
Speaker 1: crew in here. She had a fallaway slam on Jasmin Nicks,
Speaker 1: threw her halfway across the ring, got some height on
Speaker 1: a choke slam, choke slam this poor woman. Jacy Jane
Speaker 1: finally took her out with a neck breaker. Jordan took
Speaker 1: out Jace went up top hit a moon sawt onto
Speaker 1: the floor onto a couple of opponents, or at least
Speaker 1: that was the idea. She didn't connect with any of them.
Speaker 1: Not only that, but when she came down on the
Speaker 1: moon saw, she over rotated so much she ended up
Speaker 1: on her back. So I mean, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna give her too much credit for that. In the ring,
Speaker 1: Biaka and Jade they handled Nicks with their combo ddt
Speaker 1: into the released German. But they gave Klanie Jordan the spotlight.
Speaker 1: They allowed her to go up in her split legged
Speaker 1: moonsaw for the wind. And you know, Kalani look good here,
Speaker 1: which should be the objective to make sure the NXT
Speaker 1: talent come out of this looking good. And she looked
Speaker 1: like she belonged, you know, in their rubbing shoulders with
Speaker 1: Bianka and Jade. So as with the opening, segment, yet
Speaker 1: another example of them utilizing main roster talent to try
Speaker 1: to highlight and get over the NXT talent, and that
Speaker 1: would really be a theme throughout this entire show, using
Speaker 1: stars from the main roster to mingle with, work with,
Speaker 1: or wrestle members of the NXT roster to give them
Speaker 1: some shine. That's what they did in the main event
Speaker 1: with Randy Orton. Sarah Schreiber was in the back with Julia,
Speaker 1: asked her about Roxane Perez and Cora Jade and Julius
Speaker 1: started to speak, but then there was a knock at
Speaker 1: the door. Somebody walked in. We could not see who
Speaker 1: it was because the camera mean apparently it was frozen
Speaker 1: in time and refused to move. Maybe he was having
Speaker 1: a muscle spasm. I don't know, but he stayed straight
Speaker 1: with that camera and Julius said, hello, my old friend.
Speaker 1: Tell Sarah that we've got it, and then she walked
Speaker 1: off intrigue. Don't want to spoil the surprise now, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. You know. My first thought when she
Speaker 1: said hello, my old friend, I was thinking it was
Speaker 1: going to be EO Sky or somebody. It turned out
Speaker 1: that was not the case, but that was my first thought.
Speaker 1: So then we had Roxane Perez still the ed XT
Speaker 1: Women's Champion after last week out the ring. Next for
Speaker 1: a promo, she gloated about her win over Julia said
Speaker 1: that an old friendship has reignited, which brought out the
Speaker 1: returning Coora Jade, who made her first appearance in probably
Speaker 1: about nine months, nine or ten months on the show
Speaker 1: last week. She had been out for most of the
Speaker 1: year with a torn acl among other injuries. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think her knee basically exploded. So she's been out
Speaker 1: for a while. So these two used to be friends.
Speaker 1: Now they're friendly again. All of a sudden, Cora said
Speaker 1: she was sick of all this talk about all the
Speaker 1: great women's talent coming into NXT all year. When she
Speaker 1: came back, she wanted to make sure that everybody paid
Speaker 1: for forgetting about her. She said, Roxanne deserves to be
Speaker 1: the NXT Women's Champion. It's the version of Roxanne that
Speaker 1: she always knew she could be. And now they're back together,
Speaker 1: and that's really bad for the deepest division quote unquote
Speaker 1: in WWE. So Julia's music interrupted. She walked about halfway
Speaker 1: down the ramp. Then she stopped and Julia looked behind
Speaker 1: and then we saw on the tron Stephanie Veker. She's arrived.
Speaker 1: We only got her on the tron once before. This
Speaker 1: is her first in person appearance here, her actual formal
Speaker 1: debut here on NXT. And Stephanie comes out. She got
Speaker 1: a big pop. The two of them hit the ring.
Speaker 1: They fought off Roxanne and Cora. Then they both reached down.
Speaker 1: They picked up the NXT Women's Championship. Stephanie had it
Speaker 1: from one end, Julia had it from the other, and
Speaker 1: they held it up as they looked at Roxanne and
Speaker 1: Cora in the aisle, and just like that, just like that,
Speaker 1: they've done a good job of shaking up the women's
Speaker 1: division here in NXT. Roxanne's been the champion for a bit. Cora, though,
Speaker 1: is back after nine months on the shelf. Julia just
Speaker 1: got there. You still got the new car smell with her,
Speaker 1: and Stephanie is brand new. This was her first in
Speaker 1: person appearance on the show tonight. So just those four alone,
Speaker 1: we know who is going to be working with who
Speaker 1: now for the foreseeable future. And this is to say
Speaker 1: nothing of Delta. We got another vignette for her tonight
Speaker 1: as well, from Australia. She's on her way in so
Speaker 1: I mean, they're really rocking and rolling right now with
Speaker 1: his women's division in NXT. But as far as these
Speaker 1: four here, there's any number of combinations that they could
Speaker 1: work here. You could do the obvious tag team match.
Speaker 1: You could pair them off in separate programs, which I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna do that, but that's one way
Speaker 1: you can go with it. Or you could just go
Speaker 1: ahead and set up for a fatal four way match
Speaker 1: at Halloween Havoc, which I believe is taking place in
Speaker 1: two weeks. You know, look, Stephanie hasn't even had her
Speaker 1: first match yet. You know, Seanie, Stephanie will have her
Speaker 1: first match next week. They've already announced that. As far
Speaker 1: as the idea of Stephanie already being involved, you know,
Speaker 1: in a championship match, you know, it's not really all
Speaker 1: that unrealistic when you consider the fact that Juliet had
Speaker 1: one match against Chelsea Green and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden she was challenging for the time, right, So if
Speaker 1: Stephanie goes out there and wins a match next week,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, well, I guess I guess she's qualified now.
Speaker 1: She could challenge for the championship, but that would be
Speaker 1: stupid though, you know, why push her into that right now?
Speaker 1: There's no need to jump right into that. I think
Speaker 1: the way to go is to do the tag team
Speaker 1: match at Halloween Havoc and then you can build from there.
Speaker 1: We had Obafemi defending the NXT North American Championship against
Speaker 1: Tony di'angelo. Tony was the underdog coming into this, as
Speaker 1: anybody would be. I would think against Oba Femi, but
Speaker 1: that was the story they've been telling with him. He's
Speaker 1: the underdog. Tony, though, had the crowd on his side.
Speaker 1: He dumped Oba to ringside. Oba, though, choke slammed him
Speaker 1: on the apron heading into a commercial break, and he
Speaker 1: dominated all throughout the break. Tony reversed the power bomb
Speaker 1: with the back body drop. Stax was out there, all
Speaker 1: of his family members out there with him. So Stax
Speaker 1: was out there, slipped Tony a crowbar, just slid it
Speaker 1: into the ring, and Tony stares at this thing and
Speaker 1: he decides he's not gonna use it. He's gonna go clean.
Speaker 1: He's gone soft. He doesn't want the help. He wants
Speaker 1: to do it all by himself. What a babyface, so
Speaker 1: Oba reversed a spinebuster. Both men ended up spelling out
Speaker 1: to the floor. Alba gave stacks and uh Luca and
Speaker 1: the other one I don't know the other's name, but
Speaker 1: gave them a shove all the members of Tony's family.
Speaker 1: Tony saw this, he got very angry. He speared Oba
Speaker 1: down to the ground, even got the big guy up
Speaker 1: for an overhead belly to belly on the ramp, which
Speaker 1: was very impressive. In the ring, both men brawled to
Speaker 1: the top rope, Oba dumped him out to the floor,
Speaker 1: and then he cleared off the announced desk and Oba
Speaker 1: was goo a power bomb. Tony reversed out of a
Speaker 1: power bomb attempt and he delivers a spinebuster to Oba
Speaker 1: through the table. So Tony drags Oba into the ring,
Speaker 1: only able to get a two count out of it.
Speaker 1: Oba sat up like a monster, grabbed him by the throat.
Speaker 1: Tony reversed the choke slam into a sunset flip for
Speaker 1: the shock Pin to win the NXT North American Championship,
Speaker 1: ending what I believe was the longest North American title
Speaker 1: reign since that title was conceived, since Uh Mommy and
Speaker 1: Daddy got together and nine months later Out popped out
Speaker 1: the North American title, so ends the longest rain in
Speaker 1: NXT history. Tony and the family celebrated after the match.
Speaker 1: He was draped in the Italian flag and it was
Speaker 1: a great moment and everybody was cheering for Tony and
Speaker 1: very happy. And I thought the match itself really good stuff,
Speaker 1: better than their No Mercy match. I did watch No Mercy.
Speaker 1: This was better than that. But if the story sounds
Speaker 1: kind of familiar, if cm punk may not know because
Speaker 1: cempunk evidently has never seen any of the Rocky movies.
Speaker 1: But this was copied directly from Rocky three. Like literally,
Speaker 1: there were segments that they ever sidro, Hey, Sidrow, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Thank you man? There were literally segments on
Speaker 1: NXT television okay over the last several weeks where they
Speaker 1: lifted copy text lines from the movie. They didn't bother
Speaker 1: to change any of it. They were literally quoting lines
Speaker 1: from Rocky three. So that is where the story comes from.
Speaker 1: They've been playing this out now for at least a
Speaker 1: month now, word for word. Didn't even try to hide it.
Speaker 1: So if you follow that story, then he had to
Speaker 1: win the championship. The payoff was always going to be
Speaker 1: him winning the championship, and yet still I call it
Speaker 1: a shock win because a big part of me just
Speaker 1: didn't think they were actually going to do a title
Speaker 1: change here. I thought there was a chance that Tony
Speaker 1: would lose and maybe he would get called up. Him
Speaker 1: and the other family members would get called up to
Speaker 1: raw or SmackDown. You know, he's been down there now
Speaker 1: in NXT for a few years. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: really part of the launch of that whole two point
Speaker 1: zero era, the Rainbow era, when two point zero first
Speaker 1: kicked off and they were doing the goofy gimmicks. He
Speaker 1: was one of those guys. And when was that. That
Speaker 1: was three years ago now it was twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: or twenty twenty two. I want to say it was
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one when they blew everything up. So, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been down there for a while. He's been doing
Speaker 1: this gimmick. You know, he's got a handle on it.
Speaker 1: You may think it's goofy and over the top. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's very good at it. I do think that it
Speaker 1: has a ceiling, it has a shelf life. Once he
Speaker 1: hits the main roster. I think at some point he's
Speaker 1: going to have to drop it or evolve it. But
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as this he's been a heel,
Speaker 1: he's been a babyface. Now he just won his first
Speaker 1: singles championship, which is great. You could see the progression
Speaker 1: in him from where he used to be to where
Speaker 1: he is now. But I thought there was a chance
Speaker 1: that maybe he would lose in and then get called
Speaker 1: up soon. But him winning the title actually makes all
Speaker 1: the sense in the world when you consider what story
Speaker 1: they they borrowed for this storyline. But Oba is the
Speaker 1: one who I think may get the call up soon.
Speaker 1: It's possible they may wait until the next draft and
Speaker 1: just draft him to one of the shows, you know,
Speaker 1: May April or May. That's still a ways off, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they may hold off. I could actually see
Speaker 1: him having a spot on the Royal Rumble, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think Oba Femi. If there's gonna be any NXT
Speaker 1: faces popping up in that Royal Rumble match in January,
Speaker 1: well February, I guess Obafemi I could see him being
Speaker 1: one of them for sure. Absolutely. It's like Keith Lee
Speaker 1: popped up in the Royal Rumble a few years ago,
Speaker 1: you know, and he kind of got the monster spot,
Speaker 1: so that may be him because Oba Femei is the
Speaker 1: real deal. I've been saying that over the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: You really notice it lately, even last week on that
Speaker 1: NXT show and they had the miss TV segment with
Speaker 1: him and with Tony. But you know, even his promos,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like he's a big, scary looking guy.
Speaker 1: But it's not like he's just going out there and
Speaker 1: grunting or you know, cutting very basic, bare bones promos.
Speaker 1: The man can speak, you know, the man can carry himself. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not like he needs a manager or a mouthpiece
Speaker 1: or anything like that. He can work, he can talk,
Speaker 1: he's got size, he's got presents, he has money written
Speaker 1: all over him. When they are ready to call him
Speaker 1: up to the main roster, and he will have no
Speaker 1: shortage of great opponents to work with. I look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing him and Shamus. I look forward to seeing
Speaker 1: him and Drew McIntyre. I look forward to seeing him
Speaker 1: and Seth Rollins and him and Bronson Reid and him
Speaker 1: Gunter like. These are all matches in my head as
Speaker 1: I think of Okay, when he gets called up, these
Speaker 1: are the matches that I want to see. It's really
Speaker 1: just up to them, you know, as far as when
Speaker 1: they feel he's he's ready. But if he's not ready,
Speaker 1: now he's he's getting pretty close. And the other thing
Speaker 1: I'll say about this, you know, and it really hit
Speaker 1: me watching this match. These two guys are a product
Speaker 1: of the developmental system at the pc because Tony didn't
Speaker 1: work indies before he came to nxt OBA. Did not
Speaker 1: work indies before he came to nxt Tony did some
Speaker 1: collegiate wrestling and then he ended up at the pc
Speaker 1: Oba was a champion shot putter and they recruited him.
Speaker 1: He was part of the whole Next in Line NIL
Speaker 1: program and they brought him in and they basically built
Speaker 1: him from scratch. And you see the progression that they
Speaker 1: have made in a relatively short period of time. We're
Speaker 1: not talking like five years here, you know, five, six,
Speaker 1: seven years. In a relatively short period of time, they
Speaker 1: have made noticeable progress from where they were to where
Speaker 1: they are now. And that's a credit to the system
Speaker 1: there because that was not always the case. I can
Speaker 1: think back to a time when I was doing these
Speaker 1: podcasts many years ago, and I would come on and
Speaker 1: say where are the stars that they are generating out
Speaker 1: of that performance center. They're bringing in all of these
Speaker 1: you know names from the independen scene, which was great.
Speaker 1: It was a big part of what made the Black
Speaker 1: and Gold so much fun when you had all these
Speaker 1: guys like Kevin Owens and sammy's Ain and Finn Balor
Speaker 1: and Adrian Neville and so on and so forth. Well,
Speaker 1: I would sometimes stop and say, is Baron Corbin the
Speaker 1: only you know name they've really created? And now here
Speaker 1: we are and you can't say that anymore. You know,
Speaker 1: they are turning out a lot of quality talent. These
Speaker 1: two guys are examples of that, and their main roster
Speaker 1: ready right now whenever they want to call them up.
Speaker 1: All on the Row, Sidrow, Thank you yet again, Sidrow
Speaker 1: with a few different super chats here. Good to hear
Speaker 1: from your brother, Thank you sir. We had another championship
Speaker 1: match here on this show. We had Axiom and Nathan
Speaker 1: Fraser defending the NXT Tag team titles against Austin Theory
Speaker 1: and Grayson Waller. Had a lot of high flying early on,
Speaker 1: but champs were in peril as the show went to
Speaker 1: a break. Axiom trying to rally when the show came back,
Speaker 1: Hot Tag got broken up Waller in Theory, they isolated
Speaker 1: the mass Man, and finally he got the tag to Fraser.
Speaker 1: We got spots galore from Nathan. Match heated up after this.
Speaker 1: Axiom caught Waller in a rear naked choke at the
Speaker 1: same time that Fraser caught Theory in a guillotine and
Speaker 1: he counters Theory suit plexus Fraser onto Axiom to break
Speaker 1: up that submission, and then the end came with the
Speaker 1: champions hitting their tandem finish Spanish flyed by Axiom followed
Speaker 1: by a Phoenix splash from Fraser. Fraser covers and picks
Speaker 1: up the win on Austin Theory. So this was a
Speaker 1: fun match. Fraser and Axiom, they're an excellent team. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of Paul London and Brian Kendrick in them.
Speaker 1: That's what they remind me of, which is a compliment.
Speaker 1: That's what I see when I see these guys, Waller
Speaker 1: and Theory. They have nothing going on right now. They
Speaker 1: were the tag team champions for a while on SmackDown,
Speaker 1: they lost those titles a while ago, and they really
Speaker 1: haven't done anything of note since they're still together. By
Speaker 1: the way, Okay for all the teasers, so of them
Speaker 1: breaking up, these fucking guys are still together. They're not
Speaker 1: doing anything. So them losing here, it doesn't hurt them,
Speaker 1: because how can you hurt them anymore than they've already
Speaker 1: been hurt frankly, especially theory over the last few years
Speaker 1: by the booking, You really can't, you know. But it's
Speaker 1: two main roster guys for your tag team champions to
Speaker 1: work against. And guess what, they just picked up a
Speaker 1: win over the former SmackDown Tag Team Champions. So yet
Speaker 1: another example of using Maine roster talent to give the
Speaker 1: rub too NXT talent. They go overboard with it a
Speaker 1: lot of the time. I think sometimes they rely too
Speaker 1: heavily on Maine roster talent. But right now they're trying
Speaker 1: to get something going here with this show on a
Speaker 1: brand new network. So you know, if I'm them, it
Speaker 1: makes all the sense in the world if I can
Speaker 1: borrow some names, try to really keep this show up.
Speaker 1: We just premiered broadcast TV, right we want to do well.
Speaker 1: We want to try to bring in new eyeballs to
Speaker 1: the show. This is what you do and it's not
Speaker 1: a bad thing, you know, to have your younger talents,
Speaker 1: working with people like Randy Orton right, working with people
Speaker 1: like if jay Uso didn't wrestle tonight, but you know,
Speaker 1: jay Uso comes in and he's one of the most
Speaker 1: popular stars in the entire company. I just feel like
Speaker 1: you don't want to over rely on it too much.
Speaker 1: Sexy Read was up next, and Sexy Read performed a
Speaker 1: song in the ring. I can't tell you what the
Speaker 1: song was or whether it was good or bad, because
Speaker 1: I had this on mute, and then I looked up
Speaker 1: and I saw that Ethan Page walked out, and I
Speaker 1: still didn't care, so I kept it on mute. But
Speaker 1: then I saw that Javon Evans came out, so I
Speaker 1: relented because I don't have anything against Javon and he's
Speaker 1: in the main event, and so I said, okay, let's
Speaker 1: see what this is about. Page said that he doesn't
Speaker 1: give a damn that Evans is wrestling Andy Orton next,
Speaker 1: and he tried to jump Javon, but Evan saw it
Speaker 1: coming and dump Page out to the floor. Segment ended
Speaker 1: with Sexy Red and Evan's dancing in the in the ring.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. Sexy Red is from Saint Louis that's why
Speaker 1: she was on this particular show tonight. I mean, she's
Speaker 1: been on some of the shows before, but she's from
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, so the fact that they were in Saint
Speaker 1: Louis rely on the fact that she's going to get
Speaker 1: a nice reception from the crowd, which she did. And
Speaker 1: everybody is watching Sexy right. Well, I shouldn't say everybody,
Speaker 1: because evidently she had to cancel some of her shows
Speaker 1: this summer because of poor ticket sales. I saw that
Speaker 1: in Billboard. So maybe that's why we're seeing Sexy Red
Speaker 1: on NXT. You know, the touring is not doing so well,
Speaker 1: so she can come to NXT and she can get
Speaker 1: a reaction. We were up to the main event. Javon
Speaker 1: Evans already out there for the match with Randy Orton,
Speaker 1: the biggest match in the young career of Javon Evans.
Speaker 1: Imagine just being not even being told. According to him,
Speaker 1: he didn't even know he was wrestling Randy Orton until
Speaker 1: it was mentioned on TV, That's what he claims. So
Speaker 1: imagine you're just going about your business, you're watching the show,
Speaker 1: where you're at the show, and they're like, oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, when we're gonna be in Saint Louis, the
Speaker 1: hometown of Randy Orton. You're gonna be wrestling Randy Orton.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure he was very excited coming into tonight.
Speaker 1: He was using his quickness to evade Orton at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Here it was getting very frustrating for Randy. Evans went
Speaker 1: for a few rkos of his own. Orton, though, dodged
Speaker 1: all of them, and then mockingly patted him on the head.
Speaker 1: Evans responded with a super kick and then hit Orton
Speaker 1: with a high drop kick heading into the break. Very
Speaker 1: Randy Orton, ask, you might say, with that high drop kick,
Speaker 1: Evans went for a die but he got caught. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean not really, he was supposed to get caught.
Speaker 1: Orton didn't really catch him, but he picked him up,
Speaker 1: lifted him up into the air, backsuplexed him onto the
Speaker 1: announced desk. The crowd chanted one more time, and so
Speaker 1: Orton oblige by delivering three more onto the desk. Evans
Speaker 1: rallied and hit a high cross body and then hit
Speaker 1: Orton with a thrust kick for a near fall. Orton
Speaker 1: blocked an RKO attend he hit Evans with a power
Speaker 1: slam for two hit Evans with his draping DDT and
Speaker 1: then he dropped. He started pounding the mat, So you
Speaker 1: know what's coming up next. I always thought, you know,
Speaker 1: if you look at it from the perspective of, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a real match. Randy Orton is known for the RKO,
Speaker 1: and I would think that if I were an opponent
Speaker 1: of Randy Orton and I heard him pounding on the mat,
Speaker 1: first thing I would do is I would leave the ring.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why you would want to alert Jravon
Speaker 1: Evans that you are setting up for this RKO, but
Speaker 1: there he is, and he's getting ready for the kill.
Speaker 1: And Evans recovered, he super kicked Orton, spit went flying
Speaker 1: hit Orton with a springboard RKO of his own. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, you know, the the finish of the
Speaker 1: match didn't look good, but that looked good. He his
Speaker 1: own jumping, springing RKO, flying backwards towards Orton, and he
Speaker 1: nailed it, you know, and he dropped him. Of course,
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to beat him though, so it wasn't
Speaker 1: the finish. But then came to finish, and again this
Speaker 1: is what everybody was waiting for, right, what are they
Speaker 1: going to come up with right. People still talk about
Speaker 1: that Evan Borne RKO from Raw that was like twenty ten.
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. Some people say it's the
Speaker 1: greatest RKO of all time. I happened to think Wrestlemanni
Speaker 1: is thirty one seth Rawlins the g RKO of Aultame.
Speaker 1: But if you think it's the Evan Bourne one, I
Speaker 1: won't disagree with you. So what were they going to
Speaker 1: come up with here? Well, what Jravan Evans spent his
Speaker 1: entire week coming up with was he went up top
Speaker 1: and he hit a crazy corkscrew. And the idea was
Speaker 1: that when he came off the top, if they just
Speaker 1: timed it right, Orton would catch him in the middle
Speaker 1: of this corkscrew dive and drop him on his way
Speaker 1: down with an RKO. And it sounds like a nice
Speaker 1: idea in theory, but you've got to time that shit
Speaker 1: down to a science, okay, And unfortunately it did not
Speaker 1: work out the way they had intended. He hit the corkscrew,
Speaker 1: Orton was late and he had already hit the mat
Speaker 1: before Orton did, so it looked terrible. Orton got back
Speaker 1: up to his feet, didn't sweat it, picked him right
Speaker 1: back up and then just dropped him with an RKO
Speaker 1: and Evans did a good job. I thought of selling it.
Speaker 1: Almost spiked himself on his head, but not quite, and
Speaker 1: then he pinned Javon Evans. You could tell when this
Speaker 1: match was over that this kid was bummed. He was embarrassed.
Speaker 1: He was bummed, and probably more than anything, he was
Speaker 1: embarrassed because he felt he let down Randy Orton. The
Speaker 1: Randy Orton of old would have pulled a KOFE Kingston
Speaker 1: here and probably called him stupid or maybe dropped some
Speaker 1: four letter words on him when he helped this kid
Speaker 1: up to his feet. You know, you could read lips
Speaker 1: and you could tell Javon Evans was apologizing to him.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and then Orton just said,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it, and he said you're the fucking man,
Speaker 1: and he raised this kid's arm. Now I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: still gonna beating himself up over it. I felt bad
Speaker 1: for him because again, I just you know, you know
Speaker 1: that it kills him that it didn't work out, and
Speaker 1: he feels like he made Randy Orton look bad, which
Speaker 1: he really didn't. But Orton was like man, you got
Speaker 1: nothing to worry about. It's cool, man. Shit happens, and
Speaker 1: if you watch the move, it was damn near impossible.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a tough move to try to time
Speaker 1: it just right. It just the chances of it working
Speaker 1: out the way they had wanted it to were probably
Speaker 1: slim to begin with. They tried it, it didn't work,
Speaker 1: and you know what, with any luck, they'll be able
Speaker 1: to run this back on the main roster in three
Speaker 1: or four years. And at that point, when they do,
Speaker 1: they can try, maybe not this exact spot, but they
Speaker 1: could try, you know, the Rchao spot over again and
Speaker 1: get a second shot at it. So it's unfortunate, but
Speaker 1: it didn't ruin what otherwise I thought was a very
Speaker 1: good match and Randy Orton out there trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: work his ass off, trying to make this kid look credible,
Speaker 1: which I thought he did, even though there was never
Speaker 1: any doubt as to what the finish of this match
Speaker 1: was going to be. And that was the end of
Speaker 1: NXT episode number two on the CW. As far as
Speaker 1: the in ring action, the show was not over yet.
Speaker 1: They cut to Weslee and Ethan Page backstage chatting with
Speaker 1: Ava the general manager, and she booked Ethan Page against
Speaker 1: Weslee against Javon Evans in a Number one contenders match
Speaker 1: on next week's show. So I'm imagining it will be
Speaker 1: wes Lee and that Weslee will be challenging Trick Williams
Speaker 1: at Halloween Havoc for the NXT Championship. That would be
Speaker 1: my guess. But that was the end of NXT. A
Speaker 1: much better show than last week. We had the Obafemi
Speaker 1: Tony d match, which I really liked, and a big
Speaker 1: title change there as well. The tag team title match
Speaker 1: also was very good. The main event was very good.
Speaker 1: We had the first in person appearance by Stephanie Vaker.
Speaker 1: She showed up finally tonight. I mentioned the Delta teaser
Speaker 1: promo She's on her way in shortly. They haven't mentioned
Speaker 1: her name, it was more obvious this week. We got
Speaker 1: some more close up shots of her face and everything
Speaker 1: as far as who it is, so they're stacked as
Speaker 1: far as that division is right now. And again, I
Speaker 1: really like the Factory in Saint Louis as a venue
Speaker 1: for this show. I don't know if they've run wrestling
Speaker 1: there before, but if not, they should definitely run there.
Speaker 1: More often, And I wouldn't mind seeing NXT make this
Speaker 1: another destination, you know, when they go back out on
Speaker 1: the road at some point next year, if they come
Speaker 1: back to this place, I'd rather see them running more
Speaker 1: buildings like this than running just regular buildings like they
Speaker 1: did last week. I just think it gives the show character.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're not talking about a building like
Speaker 1: this was bigger than the PC. They've got to get
Speaker 1: out of the PC more often, right, The PC is
Speaker 1: a fine location. Hopefully it's still standing. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is scary shit. If you've been keeping up with this
Speaker 1: latest hurricane, Hurricane Milton, mean, it looks like it's just
Speaker 1: gonna fucking just go right through Tampa and some of
Speaker 1: these places. And I'm not quite sure where, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as the NXT Performance Center, I know it's
Speaker 1: in winter Park, which I think is a suburb of Orlando,
Speaker 1: so it may not be impacted. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the PC is going to be, you know, damaged or
Speaker 1: impacted by this storm. The facility they have there is fine,
Speaker 1: you know, and it fits I think up to maybe
Speaker 1: three or four hundred people. But a venue like this
Speaker 1: where you can get two thousand people, twenty five hundred people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. That's that fits twenty five hundred people. And
Speaker 1: if you've ever seen a wrestling show in that building before,
Speaker 1: and WWE has ran there before, you know for one
Speaker 1: night's stand and I think at least one episode of
Speaker 1: ECW on Sci Fi. It's not a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but it's enough people that they make it very loud
Speaker 1: and it just makes for a fun atmosphere. And I
Speaker 1: really think that added to tonight's episode. But the episode itself,
Speaker 1: no matter what building it would have been in, was
Speaker 1: in my opinion, much better than last week's show. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it far more so. That was NXT. We un
Speaker 1: pause these here. Thank you guys for the super chat
Speaker 1: love that you are dropping. But that was NXT. Now
Speaker 1: we switch to AW Dynamite. Tonight was a Title Tuesday
Speaker 1: episode of Dynamite, the title Tuesday episode with one title match.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the capacity was, but it probably
Speaker 1: was similar to the Hammerstein. Maybe maybe not even honestly,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they could fit two thousand people in there.
Speaker 1: And I always love the look of that when they
Speaker 1: ran there back in ninety one, I always thought that
Speaker 1: looked great. You know, Dynamite and Tony Kahn. They ought
Speaker 1: to consider doing something similar because they ran tonight. I
Speaker 1: believe this was their first time. Let me see, they
Speaker 1: were in Spokane, right, I think they were in Spokane tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so NXT for their show, I think they had right
Speaker 1: around eighteen hundred people. Eighteen hundred, two thousand, It was
Speaker 1: like somewhere in that range is what they had in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, NXT or AW rather wasn't Spokane. They're in
Speaker 1: Washington as well this weekend in the Tacoma for Wrestle Dream.
Speaker 1: But they ran this venue. They were running a ten
Speaker 1: thousand seat arena tonight, and they had about the same
Speaker 1: number of people that NXT had. The problem is when
Speaker 1: you run a ten thousand seat building and you put
Speaker 1: two thousand people in there, which is what they had,
Speaker 1: not even I think they had eighteen hundred people in
Speaker 1: the building, you hear all the echoes, and you hear
Speaker 1: all the people, and you get that one loud fan
Speaker 1: who starts chanting shit. Right, you could tell when there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of people in the building because it's
Speaker 1: not meant to fit that few people. It's meant to
Speaker 1: fit a lot more than what they had. And I
Speaker 1: think that you could probably run some dynamites and buildings
Speaker 1: like what I was just talking about, and they might
Speaker 1: be better off doing that on some weeks, not every week,
Speaker 1: but doing that on some weeks. But Dynamite kicked off
Speaker 1: at nine pm, so we had one hour of overlap
Speaker 1: here and it opened with a pre tape John Moxley
Speaker 1: promo talking about how he is He's got to be
Speaker 1: the one to tell take out Brian Danielson at Wressel Dream.
Speaker 1: Brian will embrace his dark side. Moxley will be ready,
Speaker 1: says he has to be says he has no choice.
Speaker 1: What he stands for is too powerful. What exactly does
Speaker 1: he stand for? This is what I would like to know.
Speaker 1: This is what hasn't been explained. What exactly does John
Speaker 1: Moxley stand for? He can only hope that one day
Speaker 1: Brian will understand. It's got to be this way. He
Speaker 1: says the stakes are too high. Then it was over
Speaker 1: to a pre tap Brian Danielson promo in the back
Speaker 1: from earlier today, where he mentioned a Sports Illustrated interview
Speaker 1: that Claudio Castignoli did where he said tonight would be
Speaker 1: Brian's last match on Dynamite. Brian said, no, it will
Speaker 1: not be tonight. He and Wheeler Yda are going to
Speaker 1: go through Claudio and Pack and Moxley at Wrestle Dream.
Speaker 1: He's got no idea what he's got coming to. So
Speaker 1: then they come back to the arena. They had Jeff
Speaker 1: Jarrett on commentary filling in for Taz. They shot this
Speaker 1: angle where Taz was attacked I think in the parking
Speaker 1: lot or something by some mystery attackers. But that was
Speaker 1: a cover reason for a very real surgery that he
Speaker 1: just underwent, which was a total knee replacement. I think
Speaker 1: in the past he said that he needs bothanese and
Speaker 1: I think both shoulders replaced. So this was the first
Speaker 1: knee replacement, which apparently went fine. He had a successful surgery.
Speaker 1: So we had Jeff Jarrett on commentary for tonight, not
Speaker 1: for nothing. I thought Jared did a good job and
Speaker 1: I guess we'll be hearing more of him because I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that Taz is going to be back anytime soon,
Speaker 1: so we may be hearing more from Dub a J
Speaker 1: on these shows from here on out. Darby Allen made
Speaker 1: his way to the ring and he called out Brody King,
Speaker 1: who attacked him on Collision. If you don't watch Collision,
Speaker 1: I totally understand, But on Collision, Brody King attacked him
Speaker 1: after Darby had thrown out in open and challenge for Wresseldry,
Speaker 1: so they ared clips of their past battles against each other.
Speaker 1: Darby said that Brody could have just asked nicely. He
Speaker 1: didn't have to attack him, because now the two of
Speaker 1: them are in the ring together. Darby brings up working
Speaker 1: the Indies with Brody staying in Crackhead motels and how
Speaker 1: Brody didn't know how his career would end up. He
Speaker 1: had a kid on the way, he was very worried,
Speaker 1: and he remembers Brody being under a Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: contract at the time. This is before Tony Kahan bought
Speaker 1: the company, and it was Darby who went to Tony
Speaker 1: to advocate for Brody King to be brought into aw
Speaker 1: thanks to AAW both of them have helped their fathers retire.
Speaker 1: Brody was able to buy his first house. But the
Speaker 1: issue is Brody King wants Darby Allen's spot and Darby
Speaker 1: is the face of AAW. So Darby said that I'm
Speaker 1: the one who does promotional work. I'm the one who
Speaker 1: does the talk shows. Brody interrupted and said, you're right,
Speaker 1: said what happens when Darby climbs Mount Everest? Though right,
Speaker 1: Darby said he's gonna go on that mountain climb next year.
Speaker 1: He says, uh, is your dad gonna have to get
Speaker 1: a job again. When you don't come back and you
Speaker 1: die on that mountain, your dad's gonna have to un
Speaker 1: retire and go out and start working again. Ultimately, Darby
Speaker 1: needs somebody to save him from himself. So Darby sat
Speaker 1: in the corner and he's begging this guy, come on,
Speaker 1: attack me, hit your cannon ball, let's go, and Brody
Speaker 1: tells him get up. So he slaps Brodie King in
Speaker 1: the face, which is a no no, and he probably
Speaker 1: got I mean, he got laid the fuck out. Darby
Speaker 1: apparently had a giant rock concealed in his jacket. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was not like a little fucking stone that you
Speaker 1: pick up from the ground. I don't know where he
Speaker 1: got this shit from, but he picks up the not
Speaker 1: to be confused with the rock that we saw this
Speaker 1: weekend at Bad Blood, and he blasts Brody in the
Speaker 1: face with it. And then Brody gets up and he's
Speaker 1: got blood pouring out of his mouth, and now there's
Speaker 1: security in the ring to get in between them and
Speaker 1: break them up. I like Darby drawing on their history together,
Speaker 1: but the baby face using a giant rock on the heel.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I get that Brody attacked him on collision,
Speaker 1: he kind of started it, but I don't know. That
Speaker 1: just felt a little last backwards to me, because Brody
Speaker 1: king came out here and it's not like he was
Speaker 1: being overly aggressive, and then I, you know, two seconds later,
Speaker 1: Darby is cracking him in the jaw with a giant rock.
Speaker 1: I just just felt weird to me. Renee was in
Speaker 1: the back and I thought to myself, holy shit, it's
Speaker 1: Lance Archer and Jake the Snake Roberts. They dust it.
Speaker 1: It's like dusting off one of Tony's old toys. When
Speaker 1: you actually get to see Jake on TV, Renee brings
Speaker 1: up Don Kallus wanting to recruit Lance Archer, and now
Speaker 1: I am totally lost. I assume this has been playing
Speaker 1: out on I have to assume this has been playing
Speaker 1: out on a rampage. But then again, talk about the
Speaker 1: Chris Statlanders shit. I mean, sometimes shit just happens. Sometimes
Speaker 1: shit just is in this company and there's no real
Speaker 1: logical explanation for it. But evidently Don Kallus has been
Speaker 1: looking to recruit Lance Archer, and I'm not quite sure
Speaker 1: why when you consider his win loss record in this company.
Speaker 1: But callous walks in saying that it's an exciting day
Speaker 1: here in AAW because he and Jake Roberts have done
Speaker 1: the first ever talent exchange in the history of the company.
Speaker 1: Look at this shit, How long have I been calling
Speaker 1: for a talent swap between the general managers in WWE
Speaker 1: Tony com beat him to the punch. This is what
Speaker 1: they should do. McIntyre and aj Styles between Ron SmackDown.
Speaker 1: So Lance Archer is now officially a member of the
Speaker 1: Don Kallis family. Because that's worked out so well for
Speaker 1: so many other people, hopefully it will work out a
Speaker 1: little bit better for Lance Archer. Although in fairness. You know,
Speaker 1: Hobbs got hurt, but let's not pretend like Hobbes being
Speaker 1: in the Callous family was such a big you know,
Speaker 1: like a big boon to his career before he got hurt. Okay, bullshit,
Speaker 1: and it's believe me, it's not going to work out
Speaker 1: any better for Archer. So Callous walks off with Archer,
Speaker 1: who gives Jake a final handshake. Jake and Archer have
Speaker 1: been together now for years. Tony Kahin didn't do shit
Speaker 1: with them for the most part, you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit during those pandemic era shows at Daily's place.
Speaker 1: But what have they done with Jake and Archer in
Speaker 1: the last two years? Nothing? Nothing, So they wish each
Speaker 1: other good luck and off Archer goes with Callous, and
Speaker 1: now Jake is left with Renee, and Renee asks Jake
Speaker 1: who'd you get in return? And Jake asked her if
Speaker 1: she likes surprises, because so does he, and uh oh,
Speaker 1: wait until the reveal, Wait until the reveal later on.
Speaker 1: If you thought that this all felt random, it gets
Speaker 1: even better. So up next, we had Hologram one on
Speaker 1: one with Commander. These are two guys who are never
Speaker 1: on Dynamite. Okay, Commander has in the past been on
Speaker 1: the show, but on a regular basis. I couldn't tell
Speaker 1: you the last time that we saw Commander on a
Speaker 1: regular basis making appearances on Dynamite and Hologram. Literally until
Speaker 1: tonight had never made an appearance on Dynamite. He was
Speaker 1: pretty much exclusively Collision, and they pointed out that he
Speaker 1: came into this match undefeated at thirteen and oh, they've
Speaker 1: really been trying to build him up on that show.
Speaker 1: So this was filled with crazy spots. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to name them all, but Hologram went for a four
Speaker 1: point fifty, Commander got the knees up and with Hologram outside,
Speaker 1: Commander tried his rope walk dive that he does, but
Speaker 1: Hologram sprung up. He tried to mid air her karana,
Speaker 1: only for Commander to counter into a power bomb, which
Speaker 1: was a wild spot. Holograham tried to backflip into a slam,
Speaker 1: only for Commander to spike him with a poison rana,
Speaker 1: and there were a bunch of poison rons back and
Speaker 1: forth that followed. Because why not just completely just bastardized
Speaker 1: the move. Commander tried to poison ran a Hologram caught
Speaker 1: him into an airplane spin into a sitout slam, and
Speaker 1: he pinned him for the wind. This felt like an
Speaker 1: old cruiserweight match that you would see on Nitro when
Speaker 1: was at its peak still and they would open the
Speaker 1: show with like a hot ten or twelve minute cruiserweight match.
Speaker 1: That's what this felt like. And that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: You know, those cruiserweight matches, they were the sizzle on
Speaker 1: those Nitro shows, right. That was the match that really
Speaker 1: kind of got you all amped up at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the show, and so you got the great action,
Speaker 1: which was very novel for a lot of fans at
Speaker 1: the time unless you were really tape trading and following stuff.
Speaker 1: You know in Mexico and Japan, you weren't seeing stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, the stuff that we were getting in
Speaker 1: the ring on Nitro back then with the luchadors and
Speaker 1: the Japanese stars, as far as American television, you just
Speaker 1: did not see that. But then it would lead into
Speaker 1: the actual stars and you would see the Macho Man
Speaker 1: and sting in Hogan and Goldberg and all these people.
Speaker 1: So you got a little bit of everything right by
Speaker 1: no means, am I saying that Dynamite today is like
Speaker 1: the nitro of old not even fucking close in many ways. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's like the nitro I would say of late ninety nine,
Speaker 1: early two thousand, But that's kind of what this match
Speaker 1: reminded me of as far as those old cruiserweight matches.
Speaker 1: The hilarity, though, came when the match was out. So
Speaker 1: Hologram wins. Now he is undefeated fourteen and zero, and
Speaker 1: both he and Commander are attacked in the ring after
Speaker 1: the match by Rush Droalistiko and the Beast Mortos. Don't
Speaker 1: you just love saying that name, the Beast Mortos, who
Speaker 1: evidently is no longer the Beast Mortas, which just I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just sacrilege right there, that they would change this
Speaker 1: man's name. But ex Caliber called him Black Mortos. He
Speaker 1: did that twice, and I can't imagine that that was
Speaker 1: a mistake. It's just so much funnier when you say
Speaker 1: the Beast Mortas than Black Mortos, So I may just
Speaker 1: keep calling him that anyway. But they kick these guys asses, right,
Speaker 1: and then who should walk out on stage but Jake
Speaker 1: the Snake Roberts and in the ring the guys they
Speaker 1: did the Los and Gobernables pose with their fist in
Speaker 1: the air, and at first Mortos was a little reluctant,
Speaker 1: but you know, eventually he he did it, and on stage,
Speaker 1: Jake the fucking Snake does the fist for the you know,
Speaker 1: Los and Gobernables post. He fists Rush. Now there, you know,
Speaker 1: he's on stage. Rush's in the ring. But Rush looks
Speaker 1: over at Jake and you know, gives him the salute,
Speaker 1: and Jake gives it right back to him. So apparently
Speaker 1: we got our answer here as far as who Jake got. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're wondering, well, how would he get, like if
Speaker 1: he's worked out a deal with Callous, how does that
Speaker 1: make any sense? Well, if you think back in your
Speaker 1: memory bank, there was a period of time where Callus
Speaker 1: was talking to Rush. And I'll be part perfectly honest
Speaker 1: with you, until this angle here tonight, I had fucking
Speaker 1: forgot about that. I mean, it's not exactly like they
Speaker 1: were heavily focusing on. It's certainly not on dynamite. So
Speaker 1: the fact that Callous had those interactions with rushe once
Speaker 1: upon a time I had forgotten all about it. But
Speaker 1: evidently he had the power or the ability to say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is my guy, I guess, and now you can
Speaker 1: have him. I don't fucking know. Again, there's stuff on
Speaker 1: this show that it's just ridiculous, but no more ridiculous
Speaker 1: than Jake the Snake Roberts now being the manager for
Speaker 1: Rushe Andrealistiko and the Beast Mortos. It's like you remember
Speaker 1: those old tumblers when guys would pick their numbers out
Speaker 1: of it for the Royal Rumble. I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like that's how Tony Kahan does booking sometimes, basically, like
Speaker 1: be the Booker. We do it at the end of
Speaker 1: most of these streams. I don't know if we'll do
Speaker 1: it tonight, but we do our be the Booker segment
Speaker 1: at the end, which is totally random, and I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like Tony Kahan sometimes with some of these angles,
Speaker 1: that's how he books his fucking shows. I mean, can
Speaker 1: you think of a more random The only thing I
Speaker 1: could think of that it kind of reminds me of
Speaker 1: is that very brief period of time where Don West
Speaker 1: managed the Amazing Red in TNA. Again, so random, and
Speaker 1: actually that was a pairing that I remember enjoying and
Speaker 1: it could have worked out, but they cut it off
Speaker 1: way too soon, and Red has always had very complimentary
Speaker 1: things to say about Don. He credits Don West as
Speaker 1: being the reason why he ended up in the video game,
Speaker 1: and you know, he got an action figure finally because
Speaker 1: Don West liked him and really went to bat for him.
Speaker 1: But what a weird, fucking random Perry, right, That's what
Speaker 1: that kind of reminds me of. Oly. This is worse
Speaker 1: now if you stop and think about it. In theory.
Speaker 1: Having Jake the Snake Roberts, who is one of the
Speaker 1: greatest talkers and promo guys in the history of the business. Okay,
Speaker 1: he may have lost a lot of speed on his fastball.
Speaker 1: He's not quite what he used to be. He's a
Speaker 1: lot older now and slower and all that, but he
Speaker 1: is one of the best talkers in the history of
Speaker 1: the business. Pairing him up with some of the Spanish
Speaker 1: speaking talent who you know, maybe they're English, isn't the best.
Speaker 1: Maybe speaking and cutting promos on American television is not
Speaker 1: their strong suit. Pairing him up with somebody like that
Speaker 1: is not the most far out idea in the world.
Speaker 1: The problem is this, We're going to see and you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to see Jake and these guys on TV
Speaker 1: once every six weeks, and none of this is gonna matter.
Speaker 1: So everything that we saw tonight, Don kallis now has
Speaker 1: Lance Archer, and Jake Roberts is now with Roushe and
Speaker 1: with the Beast, More Toast and whatever, It's not gonna matter.
Speaker 1: Do you have faith in Tony Khan that these new
Speaker 1: pairings that he put together on Dynamite tonight are gonna
Speaker 1: stick and we're gonna see them consistently enough on TV
Speaker 1: to where they actually mean something? Fuck? No, So what
Speaker 1: does this matter? Look, I'm glad Jake's got a contract.
Speaker 1: He's got a job. Tony keeps renewing his contract. It's
Speaker 1: probably a good thing for Jake, probably helps keep him
Speaker 1: on the straight and narrow that he's got something to
Speaker 1: do and something to focus on. But it's not like
Speaker 1: he's being used in any truly meaningful way, not on
Speaker 1: camera anyway. So I'm glad he's got a job. But
Speaker 1: do we really think Tony Khan is gonna make use
Speaker 1: of Jake Roberts on a regular basis? No, of course not.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna see Rooshe on TV on a regular basis? No?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna see Lance Archer used in any meaningful way. Nope,
Speaker 1: So why should I give a shit? Why should I care?
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia made his entrance for a promo. Daniel Garcia.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of questions swirling around this kid
Speaker 1: now for a while. Is he going to stay? Is
Speaker 1: he going to leave? We got our answer. Tonight said
Speaker 1: that he would be Uh. He had been sitting at
Speaker 1: home and so he's missed this. He has missed being
Speaker 1: in front of the people. He thanked Tony Khan for
Speaker 1: giving him the time to come out here and speak
Speaker 1: and do what he needs to do. He said that
Speaker 1: when you're sitting at home thinking about what's best for yourself,
Speaker 1: it's not always easy and it's not always popular. He
Speaker 1: said he never wanted to be a guy who just
Speaker 1: disappeared without explanation. He said that it was important to
Speaker 1: him to come out and look the fans in the
Speaker 1: building and at home in the eye and let them
Speaker 1: know what he is going to do. He said that
Speaker 1: he came to the conclusion that he would do what
Speaker 1: he wants because he's one of the best pro wrestlers
Speaker 1: in the world. And he said that he feels that
Speaker 1: because he's one of the best pro wrestlers in the world.
Speaker 1: It's only right that he stays where the best wrestle,
Speaker 1: and as we all know where the best wrestle is
Speaker 1: obviously in AAW. So Garcia said that he wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the same person who was little browed by everybody in
Speaker 1: the bag, nor would it be the same Dangel Garcia
Speaker 1: who cries after he loses matches. He said that this
Speaker 1: is the Garcia who starts changing everything in AAW and
Speaker 1: it starts with gold around his waist. He said that
Speaker 1: he has a message to everybody in the back with
Speaker 1: a championship, which is half the fucking roster. No title holder,
Speaker 1: he said, in the company is safe. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: quite Brett Hart coming out to the ring on raw
Speaker 1: in ninety six when we didn't know if he was
Speaker 1: going to announce that he was staying or if he
Speaker 1: was leaving and going to WW And they really wanted
Speaker 1: you to think that nobody knew. You know, Vince McMahon knew,
Speaker 1: like he knew before Brett walked out there, but he
Speaker 1: sold a great on commentary like he really didn't know
Speaker 1: what Brett was going to say. This wasn't quite that.
Speaker 1: But as you could tell from this segment quite obviously
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia has made his choice and he is going
Speaker 1: to stay in aaw and in all honesty, I think
Speaker 1: that's exactly where he should be. I think that's the
Speaker 1: right move for him to make. Now, this would have
Speaker 1: been confusing to any fans that have not been following
Speaker 1: all of the contract talk on social media and on
Speaker 1: wrestling news websites, because you know, we've seen Garcia involved
Speaker 1: with MJF. He lost to MJF at all out and
Speaker 1: he really hasn't done anything since. There's been no mention
Speaker 1: to my knowledge on commentary or in a storyline perspective
Speaker 1: about Daniel Garcia being a free agent or Daniel garcia
Speaker 1: is contract being up again. If I'm wrong, then let
Speaker 1: me know. If this has been actively mentioned on TV.
Speaker 1: I don't recall it. So if you are not following
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of all this stuff, you probably
Speaker 1: are watching this going wait, what is he leaving? Like?
Speaker 1: What's going on here? I knew what was going on,
Speaker 1: but I just think the average person who maybe who
Speaker 1: might be tuning in probably had or who maybe just
Speaker 1: doesn't follow all the shit online, probably has no idea.
Speaker 1: But then again that's not the audience that Tony conn
Speaker 1: is catering to. You know, he books for the sickos,
Speaker 1: as we know, probably so, I'm sure the majority of
Speaker 1: his audience is hip to what's been going on. But
Speaker 1: for the ones who aren't, this was probably a little weird.
Speaker 1: We had footage of Swerves Strickland training and it's a
Speaker 1: kind of cut with footage of MVP calling out Swerve's
Speaker 1: recent failures, putting it on print, Nana telling Nana that
Speaker 1: he's ready whenever Strickland wants to talk business. So then
Speaker 1: they cut back live in the back we see MVP
Speaker 1: and Shelton Benjamin having just watched this on a screen
Speaker 1: and they're just standing there looking oh yeah, they're looking
Speaker 1: into the screen and MVPs rubbed his hands together. That
Speaker 1: was their role on the show tonight. That's all they
Speaker 1: did with them. We were told, though, that Swerve is
Speaker 1: going to be returning at Wrestle Dream. They did not
Speaker 1: announce exactly what he is going to be doing or
Speaker 1: if he'll be wrestling. I imagine that is probably where
Speaker 1: they're going to shoot the segment where Bobby Lashley debuts.
Speaker 1: But all they said is that Swerve will return at
Speaker 1: Wrestle Dream, which how could he not be on that show.
Speaker 1: I mean they're in Tacoma, That's where he's from, so
Speaker 1: you had to know he would be on the show
Speaker 1: in some way. Now, we were supposed to get a
Speaker 1: match with Britt Baker one on one with Willow and Nightingale,
Speaker 1: and the winner of this match would become the number
Speaker 1: one contender for Mariah May's aw World Championship on Saturday
Speaker 1: at Wresseldreet, Tony Khan went on TikTok and I think
Speaker 1: he said like this was his first TikTok in like years.
Speaker 1: He was so excited and he went on TikTok and
Speaker 1: he made the announcement a few hours before the show
Speaker 1: that Britt Baker was very sick and she was unable
Speaker 1: to travel, so she was not on the show today.
Speaker 1: So the substitute match turned out to be a four way.
Speaker 1: He booked a four way match with Willow Nightingale, Soirea,
Speaker 1: Jamie Hayter, and Nyla Rose. So Willow was going to
Speaker 1: be in the match anyway, her inclusion makes sense. Nyla
Speaker 1: is a former champion, Soireya is a former champion, and
Speaker 1: we had who was the other one, I'm forgetting some Well,
Speaker 1: Willow was not a world champion, but she was TVs Champion,
Speaker 1: so it was all former champions in the match. Basically,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give Tony Khan grief for the
Speaker 1: randomness of this just because he was put in a
Speaker 1: tough spot. I don't know the nature of the illness
Speaker 1: and what's going on with Britt. Hopefully it's nothing serious.
Speaker 1: But if she called up and basically took a sick
Speaker 1: day and it was only a few hours before the show,
Speaker 1: then Tony Kahan had to come up with a backup plan,
Speaker 1: and so this is what he came up with. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bust his balls for that. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of other random shit on these shows I can
Speaker 1: bust his balls for, but this is not one of them.
Speaker 1: So Mariah May joined on commentary for this soirea and
Speaker 1: Harley Cameron was out there in her corner. They attacked
Speaker 1: Willow and Hater before they could even Before Hater and
Speaker 1: Willow could even touch, before they could lock up, they
Speaker 1: got attacked. Everybody ended up at ringside. Nyla dove from
Speaker 1: the ropes onto the pile, which took us into the picture.
Speaker 1: And picture break. Hayter supplex Willow and Rose simultaneously. Siraya
Speaker 1: tried to hit Jamie with a chair, but Jamie took
Speaker 1: it away and worked her over with it, so Soraya
Speaker 1: ran away. Hater followed her to the floor. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Penelope Ford shows up. We have not seen
Speaker 1: Penelope Ford on AW television in two years, but there
Speaker 1: she was, and she hit Jamie from behind with a chair.
Speaker 1: Jamie then chased her to the back. That was the
Speaker 1: last we saw of Jamie Hayter. Penelope Ford is not
Speaker 1: wrestled a match in AW or made an appearance in
Speaker 1: two years. I don't know if there was some other injury.
Speaker 1: What I do know is, and I don't recall exactly
Speaker 1: when they went public with this. I think it was
Speaker 1: last year. I think it was early last year they
Speaker 1: they being her and Kipsabian went public about their miscarriage.
Speaker 1: She had a miscarriage, and obviously that's a very draining,
Speaker 1: very emotional experience, and so I'm not sure she's been
Speaker 1: gone this entire time just because of that. Again, there
Speaker 1: could have been some other medical reason for it, but
Speaker 1: you know, she's been through some shit, so I'm glad
Speaker 1: she's well enough to wrestle again. But I mean, I'd
Speaker 1: be lying if I said that this wasn't random as
Speaker 1: all hell. So I guess now she's going to be
Speaker 1: a member of this new outcasts. I guess with her
Speaker 1: and Sorea and Harley Cameron. I mean, that's how it
Speaker 1: looked to me. Soria and Cameron they had a bitch
Speaker 1: of a time sliding a table into the ring. Eventually
Speaker 1: they set a table up in the corner. Willow battled back,
Speaker 1: put Carle down with a doctor bomb, and then Willow
Speaker 1: put Soraya through the table with a death valley driver,
Speaker 1: and she stacked both women and pinned them to win
Speaker 1: the four way match and become the number one contender.
Speaker 1: After the match, Mariah met Willow on the stage. Mariah
Speaker 1: tried to slow she blocked it, and Mariah headbutted her
Speaker 1: and then whipped her with the aw Women's Championship belt.
Speaker 1: Willow Nightingale and Mariah and May are going to have
Speaker 1: a really good match at Wrestle dream. I was, I
Speaker 1: was thinking that Willow was going to win anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we already saw. We already saw Britt Baker in London
Speaker 1: lose to Mercedes for the TBS title, and it just
Speaker 1: didn't feel to me. It didn't make sense to me
Speaker 1: to just throw Britt into a world title match and
Speaker 1: just beat her there, unless it was some kind of punishment.
Speaker 1: I figured Willow was probably the favorite to win. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe somebody would get involved and that would lead Britt
Speaker 1: into her next program. I don't know how her being sick,
Speaker 1: if that may have changed other things that took place here.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Willow was the one that I was
Speaker 1: expecting anyway, so I think in the end it probably
Speaker 1: didn't change any thing. The same person who was supposed
Speaker 1: to win probably won. And that's one of the matches
Speaker 1: that I think should end up being being very good.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna have a lot of very good
Speaker 1: matches on Saturday, but you know, Statlander and Willow had
Speaker 1: that great match. It all out. I think Mariah and
Speaker 1: Willow could also have a great match. This weekend, we
Speaker 1: had Switchblade Jay White, his first match since July when
Speaker 1: he lost the Hangman Page in the owen Hart Tournament.
Speaker 1: He picked up a win here, a squash win over
Speaker 1: a Jobber with the Blade Runner. After the match, he
Speaker 1: got on the mic and told Hangman that he is
Speaker 1: one of two men who knocked him off his path
Speaker 1: to the aw World Championship, meaning Page is one of
Speaker 1: two wrongs that he now has to right, and he
Speaker 1: imagines that Page will come around, guns blazing and veins
Speaker 1: popping out of his head, and that's exactly what he wants.
Speaker 1: He wants Hangman against Switchblade one more time, and when
Speaker 1: he wins, he's going to move on to correcting wrong
Speaker 1: number two and then move on to the gold. So
Speaker 1: to that, I say, yes, thank you. This is what
Speaker 1: Jay White should have been doing before. Instead of toiling
Speaker 1: around with the trios titles which don't mean shit. He
Speaker 1: should be in the mix for, if not the world title,
Speaker 1: the TNT title right or even the international title. But
Speaker 1: I would like to see him in singles programs. It's
Speaker 1: what I always said about Malachi Black, and we never
Speaker 1: really got an explanation as to why. You know, we
Speaker 1: never got to see Malachi doing any singles matches and
Speaker 1: then I just sort of lost interest. Now, but that's
Speaker 1: what Jay White should be doing. So I like him
Speaker 1: calling out Hangman, and I like him trying to right
Speaker 1: the wrongs of his past and focusing on the world title.
Speaker 1: Because that's exactly what he should be doing. Hook was
Speaker 1: backstage with a camera crew. He said he's tired of
Speaker 1: chasing whoever attacked his father. He wants to know who
Speaker 1: attacked his dad. Kip Sabian stumbled into him by accident,
Speaker 1: said no, no, it's not me, and then he walked off.
Speaker 1: Christian Cage showed up with Nick Wayne and mother Wayne
Speaker 1: and said that, hey, you know we're both family men.
Speaker 1: He said that, look, I lost kill Switch to a
Speaker 1: serious medical situation, which is true. I talked about that
Speaker 1: on the podcast Lucosaurus. His fiance found him passed out,
Speaker 1: I guess in their home, and he got rushed to
Speaker 1: the hospital. Turned out that he had a blood oxygen
Speaker 1: of like eighty, which is a terrible number, like you
Speaker 1: can die at a number like that. And it turns
Speaker 1: out he had pneumonium both of his lungs, so they
Speaker 1: had him on oxygen and I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: still on oxygen, but he's on the end, but it
Speaker 1: may be a while before we see him, so that
Speaker 1: is a shoot. Cage gives Hook his condolences on the
Speaker 1: injury to his fire. He basically said, I'm sorry about
Speaker 1: like losing your dad or something. At first, I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: what did he not make it through the surgery? But yeah,
Speaker 1: he walked off at that point, and I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to think that Christian is the one who
Speaker 1: attacked Taz. Maybe in the end it won't be, but
Speaker 1: that's how they left it. We had Mercedes Monet with
Speaker 1: Camille taking on Emmy Soakra for the TBS Championship and
Speaker 1: the new Japan Strong Women's Title. This was a double
Speaker 1: title match, the only title match that we had here
Speaker 1: on Title Tuesday. Ridiculous. Now, Emmy had not wrestled in
Speaker 1: AW match before tonight since April, and as far as Dynamite,
Speaker 1: not just AW as a whole, but specifically Dynamite, we
Speaker 1: have not seen an Emmy soccer match since November, so
Speaker 1: we're talking almost a full year. So it took a
Speaker 1: little bit for the crowd to get behind this woman
Speaker 1: who nobody ever gets to fucking see. But she did
Speaker 1: a dive out onto Mercedes and Camille, and at that
Speaker 1: point the fans started to come around and get loud.
Speaker 1: Later on, with the referee momentarily distracted, Camille tripped up
Speaker 1: Sokra and Mercedes applied her statement Maker, which is her
Speaker 1: former bank statement submission for the win to retain both titles.
Speaker 1: I really hope that that becomes her permanent finish. Much
Speaker 1: better finish for her to be using than the fucking
Speaker 1: Monette maker that she uses, which looks terrible. Let her
Speaker 1: use the statement Maker. It's a much much better choice
Speaker 1: for a finish, and she could apply it to anybody,
Speaker 1: no matter how big or small they may be. After
Speaker 1: the match, Monette held Sokker for Camille to attack when
Speaker 1: Chris Statlander ran out, and she booted Camille to the
Speaker 1: outside and the Mercedes bailed and had to hold back Camille.
Speaker 1: As far as the match itself, you know, the match
Speaker 1: was okay, it was fine. I mean again, it's just
Speaker 1: one of those things where you have a show called
Speaker 1: Title Tuesday, right, the one title match that you booked
Speaker 1: for this show involves a woman who hasn't even been
Speaker 1: on fucking television since April, and I don't want to hear. Oh,
Speaker 1: she's been wrestling, she's been racking up wins in Japan.
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck, Like, I don't care. Why
Speaker 1: is she getting a TBS title match? Okay, the new
Speaker 1: Japan Strong Women's title. Maybe I can understand that. Why
Speaker 1: is she challenging for the TBS title? Why? What is
Speaker 1: the purpose of this? You know how many women they
Speaker 1: have on this roster in this company that you never
Speaker 1: get to see on Dynamite and you had to go
Speaker 1: to Emmy Soker for this match. I'm not saying Emmy
Speaker 1: is a bad wrestler. I'm just saying she had no
Speaker 1: fucking business being in a championship match here on this show.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand it. She hasn't been on Dynamite
Speaker 1: since November twenty twenty three. What are we doing here?
Speaker 1: And that's the only title match you booked for this
Speaker 1: fucking show. And there are people who will explain it
Speaker 1: away and say, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, don't hate,
Speaker 1: it's fine. No, it's not. Statlander is the other thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring up, because Statlander, for those of
Speaker 1: you who may have missed it, which is probably most
Speaker 1: of you, is now a babyface and no longer has
Speaker 1: Stokely Hathaway. And the only thing they did to explain it,
Speaker 1: I think there was a quick promo on Rampage, which
Speaker 1: nobody watches. Okay, Rampage did its second lowest rating in
Speaker 1: the history of the fucking show on Friday did like
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty thousand viewers. Nobody watches fucking Rampage,
Speaker 1: And that was the only explanation and it wasn't even
Speaker 1: much of one as to why Chris Statlander all of
Speaker 1: a sudden is a babyface and no longer has Stokely Hathaway.
Speaker 1: We saw Chris Statlander have that kick ass match with
Speaker 1: Willow Nightingale at All Out and she won, and the
Speaker 1: whole genesis of this few these two used to be
Speaker 1: best friends, and it was Statlander who turned on Willow.
Speaker 1: Willow was the most likable person in the entire company,
Speaker 1: male or female, Like, how could you hate Willow Nightingale?
Speaker 1: Even her fucking music is so happy and poppy, and
Speaker 1: she comes out and she's all bubbly. Everybody loves Willow
Speaker 1: Nightingale when she comes out. That's the woman that Chris
Speaker 1: Statlander turned her back on him, betrayed. So that's like
Speaker 1: extra shitty, right. The woman who did that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden is a babyface and decided, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go on my own. I don't need
Speaker 1: anybody's help. So now she's a babyface all on her own,
Speaker 1: and the explanation for it is just reasons. This is
Speaker 1: the kind of shit that I'm talking about. No rhyme
Speaker 1: or reason for anything. It's just, oh, you know, we
Speaker 1: want to do this match, or we need an opponent
Speaker 1: for this person, so let's just let's just do it,
Speaker 1: and we'll just come up with the most basic bitch
Speaker 1: explanation that we could possibly come up with. Rene was
Speaker 1: backstage with Private Party, and she also brings in Stokely Hathaway,
Speaker 1: who now needs a new client. He said that he's
Speaker 1: been watching the past few weeks and every time that
Speaker 1: they get an opportunity, these guys they knock it out
Speaker 1: of the park. So he offers them a helping hand.
Speaker 1: Mark Quen, though says that here we go, we got
Speaker 1: yet another person jumping on the bandwagon in the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. Where were you the last five years that
Speaker 1: we've been in this company. He goes, we don't need
Speaker 1: your help. We decline your offer. Stokely says, I think
Speaker 1: you're making a big mistake. I think that you're making
Speaker 1: the wrong call here, and he walked off, and Mark
Speaker 1: Quinn said they don't need anybody in their corner. They
Speaker 1: want this, they need this. They're going to take those
Speaker 1: tag team titles away from the Young Bucks and then
Speaker 1: it's going to be a party that everybody is invited to.
Speaker 1: Tony Schavanni was in the ring. He welcomed the International
Speaker 1: Champion Will Ospray down to the ring, and he brings
Speaker 1: up what happened last week when Ospray had his match
Speaker 1: with Ricochet or the international title and then Kenoski to
Speaker 1: keshtan In and he fucked the entire thing up. So
Speaker 1: Chavanni said that this has Don Callus's fingerprints all over it,
Speaker 1: and Ospray agrees, and he says, Takesha does not do
Speaker 1: anything without Callus giving him the go ahead, So he
Speaker 1: wants answers from Don himself right now. So Callous comes
Speaker 1: down to the ring, he tries for a hug, Osprey
Speaker 1: pushes him away. Callous said last week was difficult for
Speaker 1: him emotionally, and he hates to see Osprey unhappy. He
Speaker 1: brings up when both he and Osprey beat Kenny Omega
Speaker 1: or when they beat Chris Jericho. Ospray said, look, we're
Speaker 1: here to talk about last week, not last year, and
Speaker 1: he wants to know if Callus sent Ta Kesha out
Speaker 1: to attack. Callous kept dodging the question. He wouldn't answer it.
Speaker 1: Ospray raising his voice, he kept pushing it, impressing it,
Speaker 1: impressing it, and then finally Callous gave in and he said, yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: I did. He said he made the call out of
Speaker 1: frustration because Ospray wouldn't listen. He said he had to
Speaker 1: show him who made the decisions in the family. Callous
Speaker 1: brings up two weeks ago being this close to being
Speaker 1: the AW Tag Team champions, but Ospray was mentally weak.
Speaker 1: Ospray said that he brought Callous the international title, but
Speaker 1: if Callous didn't stick his nose in his business, he
Speaker 1: would have been the AW World champion as well. Callous
Speaker 1: said that he had the best wrestler in the world
Speaker 1: in Kenny Omega, and he threw him in the garbage
Speaker 1: for will, so maybe he should throw the best in
Speaker 1: the trash one more time. Ospray said, Callous is everything
Speaker 1: that everybody warned him about. He is utter scum and
Speaker 1: he says, we are done, and Callous smacked him across
Speaker 1: the face. Osprey threw him down to the floor. Takeshta
Speaker 1: hit the ring Kyle Fletcher showed up. He tried to
Speaker 1: talk some sense into Osprey, but the distraction allowed Takeshta
Speaker 1: to hit a release German Suplex dumped Osprey right on
Speaker 1: the back of his head. Callous handed Fletcher the dreaded
Speaker 1: screwdriver for him to use as a weapon, and Fletcher said,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: He refused to use it. Takesha tried to talk some
Speaker 1: sense into Fletcher, who stormed off, and Ospray continued to
Speaker 1: fight with Takeshta until Callous yanked his hair back held
Speaker 1: him long enough for Takesha to hit a foearm shot,
Speaker 1: and Takesha went for the belt shot. When Ricochet ran
Speaker 1: down to the ring and he did a springboard four
Speaker 1: arm off the ropes took down Takeshta, who fled with Callous,
Speaker 1: and Ricochet held up the International title before handing it
Speaker 1: to Ospray. So that sets up three way match at
Speaker 1: wrestled Dream on Saturday. Osprey defends the title against Ricochet
Speaker 1: and Kenoski Takeshta. You know, I would love to see
Speaker 1: Takeshta win gold in this company, in the International title.
Speaker 1: I think would be perfect for him. But here here's
Speaker 1: another example of what we were just talking about with
Speaker 1: this just very bipolar booking in this company, where you
Speaker 1: could have something that's actually really good and then you
Speaker 1: have something that just doesn't make any fucking sense whatsoever.
Speaker 1: What was the match that they were teasing over the
Speaker 1: last several weeks that they were seemingly building to with Takeshta, right,
Speaker 1: it was Okada they were teasing. I mean clearly they
Speaker 1: were building to something between Takeshta and Okada for the
Speaker 1: Continental title, and all of a sudden, we have Takeshta
Speaker 1: involved in a program for the International title. Now that's
Speaker 1: the match on Saturday that I'm most looking forward to.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great match, and maybe Takesha will
Speaker 1: win the championship. I'd love to see him win the title.
Speaker 1: What I'm hoping is that the reason that Tony has
Speaker 1: pivoted away and I know, look, giving him the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt when it comes to some of this
Speaker 1: booking shit is the bad idea. But maybe what is
Speaker 1: going on here is they have made the decision that
Speaker 1: we're going to hold off until the Continental Classic, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have ta Keshta in that tournament. Okada will
Speaker 1: be in the tournament, and we're gonna build to a
Speaker 1: final between Okada and Takeshta, and we'll have Takesha win
Speaker 1: the Continental Championship at the end of the tournament. And
Speaker 1: if that's the plan, I can get behind that plan.
Speaker 1: But if not, and they just decided to just drop
Speaker 1: it cold and go in a completely different direction, that's bullshit.
Speaker 1: So I certainly hope that's what's going on here, because
Speaker 1: they just they just dropped it and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's wrestling for another title, and I'm like, wait, how
Speaker 1: did we go from this to this? He had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with this. Maybe they'll do it in the
Speaker 1: finals of the Continental Classic. If not, then this man
Speaker 1: is out of his fucking mind, because you can't tease
Speaker 1: that shit and then yank it away. Main event was
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson, the AW World Champion, teaming with Wheeler Yudah,
Speaker 1: taking on Claudio Castignoli Impac two thirds of the AW
Speaker 1: Trios Titles Trios Champions rather the other third being Wheeler Udah,
Speaker 1: who was on the other side of the ring tonight.
Speaker 1: They played Briant the ring to final countdown with the
Speaker 1: idea that This could very well be his final match
Speaker 1: on Dynamite. If he loses it wrestled Dream, then he's done,
Speaker 1: because he's been saying on TV, I'm done, I'm retired.
Speaker 1: As soon as i lose, I'm done. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if they played the music here because this really
Speaker 1: is going to be his last match on Dynamite, or
Speaker 1: if he's going to be hanging around for a little
Speaker 1: bit longer. But you don't usually hear the final countdown
Speaker 1: played on a random fucking Dynamite. Uh. I really thought
Speaker 1: in this match we were going to get the whole
Speaker 1: be beat down angle with Wheeler Uda turning on Brian Danielson,
Speaker 1: and they didn't do it. I thought there was a
Speaker 1: really good chance that's what they were gonna do, But
Speaker 1: we had a regular match. Claudio did not want to
Speaker 1: lay a hand on Utah, even after Youda slapped him
Speaker 1: across the face. Danielson ran in with an attack. He
Speaker 1: tried for a dive. Claudio, though, caught him in mid air,
Speaker 1: hit a neutralizer on the floor, and that took us
Speaker 1: into the final picture and picture break here of this match.
Speaker 1: Matthew says they're gonna unify the Continental and international titles
Speaker 1: and make it the new Intercontinental Championship. Now that would
Speaker 1: be hilarious. Well, I'll tell you what if if Ta
Speaker 1: Keshta were to win the International title and they did
Speaker 1: want to unify the two titles, and he went into
Speaker 1: the Continental Classic and won the entire thing, and they
Speaker 1: did unify the two, I'd be okay with that. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna do that, but be fine with me. So
Speaker 1: Claudio tried his best to keep you to grounded without
Speaker 1: actually throwing strikes and you to try for a tag.
Speaker 1: Danielson was still down outside the ring, and eventually he
Speaker 1: did get the hot tag. Danglson flew off the top
Speaker 1: of the missile dropkick. He did his corner charging drop kicks.
Speaker 1: There was a corner hurricane Rana spot off the top
Speaker 1: that Danielson went for, but it got blocked. Claudio held
Speaker 1: on and he tried for an avalanche Ricola bomb, but
Speaker 1: daniels encountered into the hurricane Rana. Danielson calls to kick
Speaker 1: his fucking head in and he starts stomping down repeatedly
Speaker 1: until Pack breaks things up. He looked for a brainbuster,
Speaker 1: Danielson avoided it. Danielson spotted John Moxley and Marina Shaffir.
Speaker 1: They showed up at ringside and that allowed Claudio to
Speaker 1: hit a pop up uppercut to him and then a
Speaker 1: four point fifty splash followed by Pack. Danielson kicked out.
Speaker 1: Now Shaffir took the referee as Pack went to the
Speaker 1: outside to go retrieve the timekeeper's hammer for the bell. Youdah, though,
Speaker 1: took the hammer away from him and Danielson locked Pack
Speaker 1: in the Labell lock and eventually Pack was forced to
Speaker 1: tap out. So after the match, Daniels had hit a
Speaker 1: dive out onto Moxley and they brawled to the back.
Speaker 1: Claudio and Youda, they argued on the apron his pack
Speaker 1: kicked you to the floor. Marina Shaffer even was kicking
Speaker 1: this guy's as she was kicking the shit out of Wheeler.
Speaker 1: Youda just beating the crap out of him. Claudio now
Speaker 1: has the hammer in his hand and he tells Shaffer
Speaker 1: in Pack hold him up, and they hold up Wheeler
Speaker 1: Dah and he hits Da in the gut with the
Speaker 1: hammer once. He hits him in the gut twice. He
Speaker 1: hits him in the gut for a third time. Danielson
Speaker 1: and Moxley. They brawled back out into the arena. Now
Speaker 1: they brought back down to the ring. Pack got sent flying.
Speaker 1: Audio ate the Bussiku knee, Moxley got sent tumbling out
Speaker 1: to the floor. Danielson stands tall, he goes over to
Speaker 1: ten to Wheeler DA helps him up to close out
Speaker 1: the show just as final countdown is playing, possibly for
Speaker 1: the final time here on this show. It was a
Speaker 1: good main event. I like the story of Claudio holding
Speaker 1: back as long as he possibly could from you know,
Speaker 1: really laying into Utah, and then finally when the match
Speaker 1: was over, he was the one who took the hammer
Speaker 1: and he's doling out those hammer shots to him in
Speaker 1: the guts. Quite turn around from somebody who didn't even
Speaker 1: want to throw a strike at the kid earlier in
Speaker 1: the match. But I thought, you know, on the whole,
Speaker 1: it was a good main event. I cannot say that
Speaker 1: they did a whole hell of a lot to get
Speaker 1: me any more excited for this Wrestle Dream Show on Saturday.
Speaker 1: They did what they had to with the top two matches.
Speaker 1: I think everything else is just kind of there. As
Speaker 1: far as the action that the Hologram and Commander stuff
Speaker 1: stole the show. Main event was good. The rest of
Speaker 1: it was just trying to build to the pay per view,
Speaker 1: and I think on the whole, I would say, on
Speaker 1: the whole, like I said at the beginning, a solid show.
Speaker 1: I've seen worse, I've seen better. It was kind of
Speaker 1: in the middle there. They really crammed a lot of
Speaker 1: shit in here on this show, and probably more than
Speaker 1: they needed to if we're being honest. But just the
Speaker 1: word to the wise, if you're going to have a
Speaker 1: show called Title Tuesday, then have more than one fucking
Speaker 1: title match on the show. And if the one title
Speaker 1: match that you are going to book on this show,
Speaker 1: you want that to be one of the main attractions.
Speaker 1: The book a title match that is actually appealing. I
Speaker 1: understand that this was the go home show Mercedes is now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they made it official for Wressel Dream.
Speaker 1: Obviously they're building to Mercedes and Statlander. I don't know
Speaker 1: that it's happening on Saturday. Could have had her in
Speaker 1: there with somebody else or again, one title match on
Speaker 1: this show is inexcusable for a show called Title Tuesday.
Speaker 1: If you're going to do that, then just call it
Speaker 1: something else the next time. You do something like this,
Speaker 1: because it's just it's misleading more than anything. But again,
Speaker 1: the title match that you give people should be a
Speaker 1: match between two AW talents that people know and want
Speaker 1: to see and can get excited about. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are some people out there who are very excited
Speaker 1: to see Emmy Soccer in this match. There was no
Speaker 1: fucking reason for this match to be booked on this
Speaker 1: show other than the fact that Tony Kahn, Well, we
Speaker 1: have Title Tuesday. We have to have a title match,
Speaker 1: so you know, hey, Emmy got a match for you.
Speaker 1: It's just it's ridiculous. It's just ridiculous. Now we have
Speaker 1: two poles. We have one pole for NXT, we have
Speaker 1: one pole for AW. We will start here with the
Speaker 1: NXT pole. What did you think of the show from
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Seventy four percent thumbs up, fourteen point seven
Speaker 1: percent thumbs in the middle, eleven percent thumbs down. So
Speaker 1: a solidly positive score for NXT. Let's see how that
Speaker 1: compares to Dynamite. Wow, well, not much of a comparison here.
Speaker 1: What did you think of Dynamite Title Tuesday? Thirty two
Speaker 1: percent thumbs up, twenty point seven percent thumbs in the
Speaker 1: middle and a whopping forty seven point five percent thumbs down.
Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that you weren't impressed by
Speaker 1: this title Tuesday? Shocking? I know, it's just so weird
Speaker 1: when you consider all of the titles they actually have
Speaker 1: in this company, just an endless supply of championships. Right.
Speaker 1: You have the AW World title, you have the TNT title,
Speaker 1: you have the International title, you have Theinental title, you
Speaker 1: have the tag team titles, you have the TBS title,
Speaker 1: you have the Women's World title. They had the FTW title,
Speaker 1: thankfully they retire that, but you got the trios titles.
Speaker 1: You have all the Ring of Honor belts that they
Speaker 1: defend on TV. We're gonna get a Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: World title match on Saturday, right, You've got belts from
Speaker 1: other promotions that are routinely defended. All the championships that
Speaker 1: I just mentioned, and I'm probably forgetting one, and that's
Speaker 1: what they gave you on this show. Why even have
Speaker 1: all these titles? Hey? Why ask why? Why ask why?
Speaker 1: If I already know I Am not going to get
Speaker 1: a logical answer. All right, By the way, we're hovering
Speaker 1: right around three hundred and seventy five likes, So it
Speaker 1: looks like we're gonna be a little short of our goal.
Speaker 1: Let's we pick up pace here, So go ahead and
Speaker 1: hit that leg button. We'll see where we are with
Speaker 1: be the booker here in a little bit. Let's start
Speaker 1: with food High. Hey, food Hive, haven't heard from food
Speaker 1: Hive in a while, says Mariah May, asking Jeff Jarrett,
Speaker 1: whose world is it? Sent me? Lol? Mariah just kinda
Speaker 1: sends you to a lot of different places, but that's
Speaker 1: Mariah May. Food Hive is also one of our sound
Speaker 1: of legends. So thank you, food Hive. I hope you're
Speaker 1: doing well. Alejandro Santiago, why is Jake aligned with Rampage Jobbers?
Speaker 1: Is Tony High? Yes, he's high on life. You know
Speaker 1: what you need to watch the I know I just
Speaker 1: described it earlier. I said that he was on TikTok
Speaker 1: letting people know about Britt Baker being sick, and he
Speaker 1: was making the four way match. You really owe it
Speaker 1: to yourself to go check out the TikTok yourself. He
Speaker 1: just he makes the announcement and like it's weird, like
Speaker 1: the pitch of his voice, just the way it changes
Speaker 1: as he's making the like he's mentioning Will and Nightingale
Speaker 1: is gonna be in the matter, Jamie Hayterer and now
Speaker 1: the Rose and he's going through all the different names
Speaker 1: in the match. Well, actually, it's funny the Foodhive would
Speaker 1: send in that super check because food Hive knows, right,
Speaker 1: nine days, nine days, such a weird guy. I will
Speaker 1: give Tony a shout out, though, I mean it all.
Speaker 1: You know, we're being funny here. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of really serious stuff going on right now. I mentioned
Speaker 1: the hurricane, not only the hurricane bearing down on Florida
Speaker 1: in the next twenty four hours, but Hurricane Helene, which
Speaker 1: is re havoc in destruction up and down the Eastern seaboard.
Speaker 1: And uh I know Adam Copeland was on Busted Open
Speaker 1: Radio and he mentioned that, you know, Tony was supplying
Speaker 1: you know, like starlink satellites for people to be able
Speaker 1: to communicate in those areas in North Carolina who you know,
Speaker 1: are having difficulty finding people who were still stuck and
Speaker 1: they're cut off, you know. And he's made some some
Speaker 1: big donations recently. I mean, he's been pretty active on
Speaker 1: that and uh yeah, I saw some stories on that
Speaker 1: today which is, which is very cool. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was worth mentioning. I mean, he is a he
Speaker 1: is a weird guy on camera though, but he's been
Speaker 1: doing He's been doing a lot of good stuff. So
Speaker 1: I do want to shout him out for that. Ricky Cornflakes,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Ricky Hologram is officially dynamite, he says, sorry,
Speaker 1: NXT dev to dust. How tall do you think hul
Speaker 1: Cogan was in his physical prime? Well, he was always
Speaker 1: built at six ' eight. I'm gonna say he was
Speaker 1: probably legit like six ' six. He probably wasn't too
Speaker 1: far off from that. He's probably about six to six,
Speaker 1: I would say maybe six seven. And would you rather
Speaker 1: build a Lego set for ten and a half hours
Speaker 1: or three episodes of twenty eighteen Raw back to back?
Speaker 1: I'd rather build the Legos. I mean I've done that before.
Speaker 1: I got it as a gift one year the Sonic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the Sonic the Hedgehog Level. I got that set
Speaker 1: and I at the time, this is before I started
Speaker 1: streaming on Monday nights, I would have Raw on maybe
Speaker 1: like on my phone. I'd be sitting in the kitchen
Speaker 1: at the table and just going through and putting this
Speaker 1: whole Lego set together. It's a lot of work. It
Speaker 1: was very frustrating. Let me tell you. There was more
Speaker 1: than one occasion where yours truly almost took the Lego
Speaker 1: set and smashed it into little Lego pieces all over
Speaker 1: the floor. But eventually I was able to complete it,
Speaker 1: and it was actually quite quite fun. I felt like
Speaker 1: I had really accomplished something. So now I have it
Speaker 1: on display, so I will take Lego over three hour
Speaker 1: rows from twenty eighteen every single time. That's an easy
Speaker 1: one Arabian night, weakest go home show for an aw
Speaker 1: pay per view ever, it was a snoozer. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: wasn't very exciting, bass beers. Thank you for the two
Speaker 1: can't wait for a Brandy Jade Cargill promo. In WWA,
Speaker 1: Alfonso says, marry me, Stephanie Va Kerr. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what you take, Stephanie, I'll take Julia. We'll double date.
Speaker 1: How about that uh Sidrow I was kidnapped by mimes.
Speaker 1: He says, they did unspeakable things to me. Also, never
Speaker 1: iron a four leaf clover. You don't want to press
Speaker 1: your luck. PS won some money at a casino tonight
Speaker 1: playing blackjack well, how much did you win? Never won
Speaker 1: playing blackjack, but I did win eighty bucks on a
Speaker 1: video poker machine, and I immediately cashed out because I
Speaker 1: knew I would never see that money again if I
Speaker 1: kept playing. So I won. I was very excited. I said,
Speaker 1: that's it, I'm done. I took my winnings and I left,
Speaker 1: and I was ahead of the game. And that's the
Speaker 1: way it should be. Sidrow says, hr, did you tell
Speaker 1: your coworkers that you had handmade gifts for them and
Speaker 1: then gave them the thing here me that was a
Speaker 1: gift from my heart. Cidra says he won four to twenty.
Speaker 1: Really says, what kind of bees make milk? Boo? Bees suck?
Speaker 1: Alex brother solo? If Tony and his family joined the
Speaker 1: main roster, particularly SmackDown, can you see Giovanni Vinci benefiting
Speaker 1: by joining the stable? You know what, It can't get
Speaker 1: any worse of what they have him doing now, which
Speaker 1: is not a whole lot of anything. So would he benefit.
Speaker 1: He would benefit to the extent that he could stand
Speaker 1: in the background and basically be background noise for the family.
Speaker 1: And yes, the bar is very very low when it
Speaker 1: comes to Vinci. George Sekman can't stick around for the
Speaker 1: full show, but we'll catch up later. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the fifteen. George Sidrow says, solo, do you blow on
Speaker 1: food when it's hot or do you I blow on
Speaker 1: it but underestimate how hot it is and really interesting. No,
Speaker 1: I don't do the blowing here, So you're on your
Speaker 1: own with that. Ragnarok people clown on chase you. But
Speaker 1: I think they're a solid act and stay over with
Speaker 1: the crowd. Could you see them as a reliable mid
Speaker 1: card act on the main roster? They are very solid
Speaker 1: act in NXT. I don't know how that will translate
Speaker 1: to the main roster. I feel like at first it
Speaker 1: might do okay, but I think in the long term,
Speaker 1: I just feel like that gimmick is going to be
Speaker 1: death on the main roster. I just I don't see
Speaker 1: it translating well. Some of these gimmicks don't translate well
Speaker 1: to the main roster. I just feel like that's probably
Speaker 1: one of them. Bace Bearris, when are you going to
Speaker 1: interview Sexy Red a solo Red crossover? If you ever
Speaker 1: get any Red on this show, it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: amazing Red. It's not gonna be sexy Red Pisco ninety five.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the NIL program compared to
Speaker 1: when they recruited indie wrestlers for NXT. Do you see
Speaker 1: it as an improvement or a downgrade. I have always
Speaker 1: said that there should be a little bit of both,
Speaker 1: so I don't see it as being a negative. But
Speaker 1: I think you don't want to just have NIL athletes
Speaker 1: coming in. You need to have that veteran talent, indie talent.
Speaker 1: You need to have a good mix. It's like when
Speaker 1: they blew up an XT. I was never against them
Speaker 1: using new talent and promoting people like bron Breaker. You know,
Speaker 1: issue was that they just blew the whole fucking thing up,
Speaker 1: kept very few of the old guard around, and they
Speaker 1: literally just started from scratch. You know. They took what
Speaker 1: Triple H was doing and as soon as he was
Speaker 1: out of the picture for a period of time, they
Speaker 1: basically stole it away from him, and you see what
Speaker 1: they did with it now. In the long run, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the long run, you're gonna be able to make
Speaker 1: new stars, and that's what they've done with people like
Speaker 1: bron Breaker and other people like Grayson Waller. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not quite at main event level yet maybe they'll
Speaker 1: get there, But then you see people like Obafemi and
Speaker 1: Tony d and people that are coming up in the
Speaker 1: women's division like soul Ruca and Fallon Henley and Lolavice.
Speaker 1: I just feel like there should have been more of
Speaker 1: a mix of the two, more even mix of the
Speaker 1: two instead of just going balls out the way they
Speaker 1: did at the very beginning, NXT would have been more tolerable.
Speaker 1: So that was my only real gripe with it. But
Speaker 1: you want to create homegrown talent, of course, why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1: Then you can take credit for them yourself. You can
Speaker 1: break them in and teach them the way that you
Speaker 1: want them to be taught. You don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about them coming off twenty years of independent wrestling experience.
Speaker 1: You know you can craft them and mold them and
Speaker 1: shape them in the way that you want them to be.
Speaker 1: Their goal, this is not a doubt in my mind.
Speaker 1: Their goal is to have the majority, if not the
Speaker 1: entire roster at some point in the next five to
Speaker 1: ten years, of nothing but talent that they have created,
Speaker 1: Talent that have come up through the system that they made.
Speaker 1: They're not from the indies, They're not from aw or
Speaker 1: anywhere else or TNA. They want people that they can say,
Speaker 1: we have a roster here, a main roster that is
Speaker 1: ninety percent people that we create. That's their long term goal.
Speaker 1: Oofman Entertainment. How about them Mets? One more for Grimace, right,
Speaker 1: one went away? One went away. I'm trying not to
Speaker 1: think about it too much because I've just been I've
Speaker 1: been through this before, usually in September, though, but there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of heartbreak in the past, so I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be very even keeled about But I was
Speaker 1: watching the game before man, and I'm telling you, this
Speaker 1: team grinds. There's just something special about this team. I've
Speaker 1: had people that have have tweeted me and sent me
Speaker 1: messages like, you know, I'm a Phillies fan, I'm a
Speaker 1: Braves fan, and you know the Mets are the enemy,
Speaker 1: but like, there's just something special. There's like a special aura.
Speaker 1: People talk about Julia having aura, the Mets hav an
Speaker 1: aura about them. This season, it just feels like destiny
Speaker 1: Alex with the five dollars super Chat. What are your
Speaker 1: favorite memories and moments from the two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: Psycho Orton character can you see that version returning when
Speaker 1: he turns here? No, I think that's in the past.
Speaker 1: My favorite moment is when he kicked Vince McMahon the
Speaker 1: fucking head. There you go, Tassie with the ten dollars?
Speaker 1: Have you been to more WWE events or Mets games
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years WWE events. I didn't
Speaker 1: get out to a single game this season. I was
Speaker 1: so busy. I didn't even not even get out to
Speaker 1: the ballpark this season. It's sad retro Koh. Do you
Speaker 1: remember the South Park episode about family guy jokes being
Speaker 1: written by manatees. I think Tony Kahan got high and
Speaker 1: found inspiration. Now, I did not see that. That sounds
Speaker 1: uh bizarre because I have not seen it, But I
Speaker 1: think you may be right. Seawn Dee. He says, duh,
Speaker 1: Chris is a face now because she went up the
Speaker 1: face tunnel. Ah, okay, all right, there you go. Ps
Speaker 1: is the face heel tunnel is still a thing. I
Speaker 1: honestly have no clue now. I don't think it's been
Speaker 1: a thing for a while. Every time somebody says, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the heel tunnel, he came out of the
Speaker 1: heel tunnel. Then I see a baby face come out
Speaker 1: of the heel tunnel. I'm like, dude, these tunnels have
Speaker 1: not been a thing for years. People still think they
Speaker 1: are the Juliet says prayers to everybody in Milton's path.
Speaker 1: It's a very scary storm, powerful one. What was the
Speaker 1: original plan for Shawn Michaels WrestleMania twenty three, if Triple
Speaker 1: H did not tear his other quad and was able
Speaker 1: to face John Cena again as originally planned. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's ever been revealed. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: had necessarily even thought that far ahead. I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever heard what the original plan or if there
Speaker 1: was even an original plan for Sean that year of WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: meaning not that he wouldn't have had one, but just
Speaker 1: that they hadn't really finalized the yet. And Sidro, why
Speaker 1: does a chicken coop only have two doors? If it
Speaker 1: had four, it would be a chicken sedan? Also, what
Speaker 1: do you call a Frenchman in sandals? Philip Flow? Where
Speaker 1: do you come up with these? I just like had
Speaker 1: this image in my head of Sidro just sitting there
Speaker 1: and he's like tripping acid and he's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is great. I gotta write this great. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I think Cidro sounds like Vince McMahon. That might have
Speaker 1: been the worst the thing I possibly could have said
Speaker 1: to him. I apologize Sidro, Ladies and gentlemen. It is
Speaker 1: now time to be the booker. There we go. Let's
Speaker 1: do the deal. You earned it, so here we go
Speaker 1: be the booker. Time at one thirty am, and we
Speaker 1: begin with William Regal and Tajeri former Raw tag team champions.
Speaker 1: That was a fun pairing there for a while, was
Speaker 1: it not. Regal and ta Jerry are going to be
Speaker 1: taken on Roman reigns and seth rawlins of the shield.
Speaker 1: Look at those titles. Those are the classic belts right there.
Speaker 1: Those are tag team titles, and what tag team titles
Speaker 1: are meant to look like? Why is this so hard?
Speaker 1: I don't understand why we had such shitty looking belts
Speaker 1: for so many years. Why oh, why, oh why. On
Speaker 1: the women's side, we begin with Oscar, the former NXT
Speaker 1: Women's Champion, the former Raw women's champion. Was she SmackDown
Speaker 1: Women's Champion? I don't think so. Maybe she was, I
Speaker 1: don't remember. We have Oscar gonna go one on one
Speaker 1: with Sonya Deville of the Pure Fusion Garbage Collective. Well,
Speaker 1: let's go to the main event. See how we do
Speaker 1: their main event time. Then we'll get on out of here.
Speaker 1: Let's begin with one big s ob braun Stroman. Look
Speaker 1: at this, He's in the middle of the Stroman Express.
Speaker 1: What is with people? Shocked that that would get a buzzer?
Speaker 1: Have you not seen Sonya since she came back? This
Speaker 1: has not been Sonya at her best. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. Something is off. She has not been
Speaker 1: great since she's been back on TV. So if that's
Speaker 1: the Sonya Deville that we're going with, and yes, I
Speaker 1: guess the fucking buzzer braun Stroman, maybe we'll land on
Speaker 1: Bronson Reed. We can have a last Monster Standing match.
Speaker 1: Braun Stroman is going to be taking on Dude Love.
Speaker 1: All the fully incarnations, I don't think that would be
Speaker 1: the one that I would go with. It was Cactus Jag,
Speaker 1: even Mankind. I don't know, you know, I could have
Speaker 1: gone either way on that main event, But of all
Speaker 1: the folly gimmicks, Dude Love, I don't know. But then again,
Speaker 1: you know, Dude Love was Dude Love was involved in
Speaker 1: one of my favorite matches of the attitude there against
Speaker 1: Steve Austin get over the Edge. So it doesn't matter anyway.
Speaker 1: We did not get a clean sweep either way, we
Speaker 1: didn't get the sweep. We'll have to try again. We'll
Speaker 1: have to try again on Friday. That's the next time
Speaker 1: I'm going to be live here with you on the Channel.
Speaker 1: That'll be for the post Bad Blood smack review. What
Speaker 1: a SmackDown it should be, because will we see the
Speaker 1: rock we should I hope, and the fallout from Kevin
Speaker 1: Owen's turning heel off camera on Cody Rhodes. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot to sort out on SmackDown this Friday night.
Speaker 1: So that should be a big show. Hopefully we'll have
Speaker 1: a big stream as well. Thank you guys for the support.
Speaker 1: Reacan Son shout out to Recanson, He's been a Channel
Speaker 1: member for thirty five months. It's got to work in
Speaker 1: the morning while a hurricane is coming. Sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: understand jobs, brother, I don't know what you do for
Speaker 1: a living, but if you are in harm's way, then
Speaker 1: unless unless you are someone who is assisting with hurricane efforts,
Speaker 1: no job is worth being in the path of a
Speaker 1: category five store, so you can tell them to fuck off.
Speaker 1: If it's life or death, don't pick the job again
Speaker 1: unless you are a healthcare work or a fireman or
Speaker 1: something like that. If it's just kind of one of
Speaker 1: your regular, run of the mill nine to five type jobs,
Speaker 1: it ain't worth it. Believe me, it ain't worth it.
Speaker 1: But please stay safe. And that goes for everybody who
Speaker 1: may be watching or watching this later. If you are
Speaker 1: in the path of the storm, I wish you the best.
Speaker 1: I don't know you know. At this point, I don't
Speaker 1: know when it's supposed to make landfall. I think it's
Speaker 1: about twenty four hours from now. And there are certain
Speaker 1: areas they told people like you need to leave, like
Speaker 1: you need to be gone. And there's one town in particular,
Speaker 1: one city where I think the mayor, this was on
Speaker 1: the news earlier, where I think the mayor has told
Speaker 1: people that if you don't leave, and if you are
Speaker 1: still there, do us a favor and write your name
Speaker 1: and number and information in a sharpie on your arms
Speaker 1: so we can at least identify you when we find
Speaker 1: your body. Like that's literally what people are being told
Speaker 1: in some of these areas. It is very scary Please
Speaker 1: stay safe and hope for the best. Sometimes these things
Speaker 1: change course, they veer off, they weaken. It's a scary thing,
Speaker 1: but these storms seem to be getting worse and worse.
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys back here on Friday night after
Speaker 1: smack Don. Until then, take care, guys,