Speaker 1: Oh, tonight, it was the return of the AEW Dark
Speaker 1: Pay your fucking Light Bill, Tony. I don't know what
Speaker 1: was going on with the lights tonight, but we actually
Speaker 1: had a lights out main event on this show, which
Speaker 1: is kind of funny that they had issues with the
Speaker 1: lights going out in multiple segments, including a main event
Speaker 1: that was billed as a lights out match, but they
Speaker 1: did not intend for the lights to actually go out
Speaker 1: during said match. But yes, that's what we got. We
Speaker 1: got Hangman Adam Page, and we got Swerve Strickland together
Speaker 1: on the same page on the same team tag team
Speaker 1: partners against Hook and Powerhouse Hobbs lights out, which means
Speaker 1: no rules, anything goes. This match went almost I think
Speaker 1: twenty minutes beyond the top of the hour, so we
Speaker 1: more or less got a two and a half hour
Speaker 1: show tonight, and in the end, Hangman got his revenge
Speaker 1: on Hook for his role in costing him the World
Speaker 1: Championship back at Full Gear. I finally got his revenge no
Speaker 1: Samoa Joe on the show tonight, which probably could have
Speaker 1: used him. We did have MJF and Bandido who had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a face off after Bandido's match.
Speaker 1: Do they of course, have a big World Championship match
Speaker 1: coming up next week that's going to be on what
Speaker 1: they're building the Maximum Carnage episode of Dynamite, and that
Speaker 1: was probably the best part of the entire show, honestly,
Speaker 1: as far as just Yeah, the back and forth between them.
Speaker 1: MJF was his usual self. He had his translator out
Speaker 1: there with him, John Cruz, and Bandido stood tall when
Speaker 1: it was all over. You know, he stood tall. He
Speaker 1: was holding up the championship that he will never have,
Speaker 1: but he was holding it up. It's a match I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to. We all know what the outcome is
Speaker 1: going to be, but it is a match that I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that's coming up next week. We have
Speaker 1: more members though, of the don Kallis family. See, I
Speaker 1: don't think we had enough. I think we needed more,
Speaker 1: and now we have more and I will tell you
Speaker 1: who those members are, so we'll talk about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got some good wrestling tonight, which is pretty average
Speaker 1: for aw. We got some good wrestling tonight. The show
Speaker 1: on the whole was not anything terribly exciting. And the
Speaker 1: issue that I'm having is that there is no real story.
Speaker 1: There's no one story right now that I would say
Speaker 1: is terribly hot. And the one story that I actually
Speaker 1: am invested in is one that they couldn't continue tonight
Speaker 1: because the two players were not even on the show
Speaker 1: because they just came off big matches in Japan at
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Dumb the other night, that being Okata and Takeshida.
Speaker 1: That's two weeks in a row now that we have
Speaker 1: not seen them here on this show. So I am
Speaker 1: hoping that next week we will get them back and
Speaker 1: we can begin to really push that story forward a
Speaker 1: little bit more, because that's the one that really interests me.
Speaker 1: None of the other stories they're telling are trying to
Speaker 1: tell right now, are really grabbing me. So what you're
Speaker 1: left with is some good wrestling matches, which we get
Speaker 1: every week on the show. And that was it. So
Speaker 1: it was a pretty average episode honestly, of Dynamite tonight.
Speaker 1: But this is your aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: of the stream. So let's get into it here. Dynamite
Speaker 1: this week was in Oklahoma. I think they were in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: They open with ex Caliber and Tony Shavanni on commentary
Speaker 1: Nobrian Danielson. This week they threw it to Justin Roberts
Speaker 1: who was in the ring to do the introduction for
Speaker 1: a very special guest who was in attendance on this
Speaker 1: show because they were in fact in Oklahoma, and so
Speaker 1: the special guest was good old Jr. Jim Ross, who
Speaker 1: has not been on the show in a few months.
Speaker 1: I don't remember actually the last time they had him
Speaker 1: on the show. It would have been one of the
Speaker 1: pay per views. I don't remember how many months ago
Speaker 1: it was. Obviously, he's coming off some health issues that
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with, so he got a big ovation,
Speaker 1: you know, given that they were in Oklahoma, as you
Speaker 1: would expect, and he joined on commentary for the remainder
Speaker 1: of the show on a day where Devon Dudley dropped
Speaker 1: his response to JR. Now, if you don't know this controversy,
Speaker 1: Devon Dudley on his podcast, I don't know, maybe a
Speaker 1: month ago, two months ago, maybe if that he shared
Speaker 1: a story and he had done some kind of interview
Speaker 1: with Bubba and this was brought up and it's not
Speaker 1: really a news story, but for whatever reason, it came
Speaker 1: up again recently and then it really blew up where
Speaker 1: I think he was actually asked by Bubba. I think
Speaker 1: that's what it was if he had ever encountered any
Speaker 1: racism during his time in the business and during his
Speaker 1: time specifically in WWE, and he has said in the
Speaker 1: past that he has, and he never specified any names.
Speaker 1: But because of that, and because he kind of left
Speaker 1: it out there hanging, everybody and their mother was just guessing, Oh,
Speaker 1: it must have been Michael Hayes, or it must have
Speaker 1: been John Laurnidis, or it must have been Bruce or Vince,
Speaker 1: and they were all wrong because the person that he
Speaker 1: was inferring and then he flat out came out and
Speaker 1: said who it was was Jim Ross. That certain comments
Speaker 1: were made to him that stuck with him for all
Speaker 1: these years, and Bubba Bubba was there for it, so
Speaker 1: Bubba can back him up on It's not just Jr.
Speaker 1: It's not just the Jr's ward against Devon's. Bubba backs
Speaker 1: him up, Maven backs him up. So it was pretty damning.
Speaker 1: And then Jim Ross again he was I think in
Speaker 1: the hospital. They didn't know that at the time. So
Speaker 1: he came out of the hospital and he resumed his
Speaker 1: podcast with Conrad and then a few weeks ago, Jr.
Speaker 1: Responded and he said that the comments really took him
Speaker 1: off guard, and he doesn't know what Devon's talking about.
Speaker 1: It's not true. It's not something he said to him.
Speaker 1: And he's saying, well, maybe Devons just trying to generate
Speaker 1: some attention for a show. You know, he's desperate to
Speaker 1: get downloads on his podcast. You know, I like Divon.
Speaker 1: I signed him in Bubba and you know they made
Speaker 1: money with them and all this stuff, stuff that Bill
Speaker 1: Watts would say, right, how can you say all these
Speaker 1: things about me? All these wrestlers I had on my
Speaker 1: roster and Jyd was my main star and we made
Speaker 1: money to how can you say all these terrible things
Speaker 1: about me and JR. Of course, I mean you talk
Speaker 1: about the Learning Tree. He sat under the Learning Tree
Speaker 1: with with Cowboy Bill Watts. So anyway, it just was
Speaker 1: a very nasty, ugly situation. So devon today, of all days,
Speaker 1: the day that JR. Returns to TV, it just so
Speaker 1: happened that he dropped a new podcast with Maven It's
Speaker 1: like forty five minutes long, just responding to Jim Ross
Speaker 1: and saying, in fact, no, I'm not lying or you know,
Speaker 1: making it up or pulling it out of thin air,
Speaker 1: I think, is what JR. Said. And he actually got
Speaker 1: even more specific with it, where you know, he mentioned
Speaker 1: that it was it was actually two different incidents. One
Speaker 1: at the WWF New York restaurant in Times Square. It
Speaker 1: might have been the launch, So we're looking at late
Speaker 1: ninety nine, maybe early two thousand and he was there
Speaker 1: with Bubba and he said JR. Was drunk. So they're
Speaker 1: they're downstairs, they're hanging out at the restaurant and here
Speaker 1: comes Jim Ross and clearly he's he's had a few,
Speaker 1: and he comes over to them and says, you know,
Speaker 1: you boys are doing well, And it was some comment
Speaker 1: to the effect of Divon though, I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: about and Divon wasn't sure what he meant by that,
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? We're doing well, but
Speaker 1: you're not too sure about me? And you know, long
Speaker 1: story short, he was implying, you know, I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure about him, you know, because he's black, and Devon said,
Speaker 1: like Bubba had to hold him back, like he was
Speaker 1: in his mind, you know, he was contemplating, Okay, if
Speaker 1: I punched this guy in the face, We're going to
Speaker 1: be fired. And they were still very new to the
Speaker 1: company at the time. If I say something to him,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna probably get fired, and so you know, Bubba
Speaker 1: spoke up, and Bubbaka's sense that this was about to
Speaker 1: get very you know, combustible, and again Jr. Is supposedly
Speaker 1: drunk and whatever. It's just a very weird comment to make, like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you're black, Like yeah, no shit, Sherlock. But
Speaker 1: then there was like another incident he said, in Minneapolis
Speaker 1: or Indianapolis maybe, I think he said, where Paul Hayman
Speaker 1: was there. A bunch of people were there. Apparently this
Speaker 1: was like known by multiple people, and it just doesn't
Speaker 1: it doesn't paint you know JR in the in the
Speaker 1: best light, and as Devon said during his podcast, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing is like when you're drunk and you're making
Speaker 1: comments like that, there is an expression that a drunk
Speaker 1: man's words are a sober man's thoughts, and there is
Speaker 1: something to be said for that. But anyway, he certainly
Speaker 1: did not lay down and just take you know, the
Speaker 1: response from JR. He had his own response and Maven
Speaker 1: was there with him, you know, basically you know, backing
Speaker 1: up what he was saying. So not the best day
Speaker 1: for JR. But at least we saw him back on TV.
Speaker 1: He did commentary. You know, he was quiet for some
Speaker 1: of the matches. He was a little more animated during
Speaker 1: the main event. You know, but at least he's doing
Speaker 1: well enough where he could actually be at the show
Speaker 1: because again, I know, he's had a lot of health
Speaker 1: issues in the last few years. So earlier today we
Speaker 1: got some footage from backstage where we had Renee. She
Speaker 1: was in the back and told us that Jet Speed
Speaker 1: were attacked and that they would not be cleared by doctors.
Speaker 1: There was supposed to be a match tonight where Jack
Speaker 1: Perry was going to team up with Mike Bailey, and
Speaker 1: Kevin Knight to take on Ricochet in the Demand, and
Speaker 1: now that's not going to happen because they were attacked.
Speaker 1: So Jack Perry was once again all by himself. So
Speaker 1: the Demand and Ricochet are they're there feigning concern, and
Speaker 1: Renee brings up the bounty that they put on Jets
Speaker 1: speeds Heads last week. So Don Kallis shows up and
Speaker 1: he says that someone or something just got very rich.
Speaker 1: Mark Davis walks in with Jake Doyle. Jake Doyle is
Speaker 1: the former Jake Something from TNA. He is now officially
Speaker 1: a member of the aw roster. So that was quite
Speaker 1: unexpected there, and Callus says that they're going to kill
Speaker 1: some people. So now this leaves Jack Perry in need
Speaker 1: of some partners heading into tonight's six man tag team
Speaker 1: match against Ricochet and the Demand. Poor Jack Perry, this
Speaker 1: guy just can't catch a break here. First he loses Lucasaurus,
Speaker 1: now he loses Jet Speed. It's like nobody wants the
Speaker 1: team with this guy. So now he's got to go
Speaker 1: out and find some new partners. Let me talk about
Speaker 1: Jake Something here for a second. This was a pretty
Speaker 1: big fumble here. I mean, this was TNA fumbling the
Speaker 1: bag with Jake something. I don't know how you have
Speaker 1: someone like Jake on your roster. I know he was
Speaker 1: hurt for a while, he had like a leg injury,
Speaker 1: but he came back and they really never seemed to
Speaker 1: push him in any sort of real significant way. And
Speaker 1: he's a good wrestler physically, he's very impressive. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you don't find more for someone like that
Speaker 1: to do. Now, maybe they made him an offer. Now
Speaker 1: his contract came due, is what happened. So his contract expired,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if TNA made him an offer.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was no offer made. Maybe
Speaker 1: they made him an offer and he just took a
Speaker 1: better one. But whatever, however it all ended for him.
Speaker 1: There there's more that they could have been doing with him,
Speaker 1: and they weren't doing it, And if they were, there's
Speaker 1: a pretty good chance he would probably still be there,
Speaker 1: especially now you know TNA's going into this big AMC
Speaker 1: debut next week. They could use somebody like him on
Speaker 1: their roster. So I don't know how they fumbled somebody
Speaker 1: like that. We've had him in House of Glory before.
Speaker 1: He's very impressive and now TNA's loss is going to
Speaker 1: be Aw's gain and a roster that's already very big
Speaker 1: and bloated as it is. But he's he's definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: a quality pick up, you know, for Tony Kah. Now
Speaker 1: we could talk about you know, the name Jake Doyle.
Speaker 1: That's his real name. By the way, Doyle is his
Speaker 1: shoot last name. It's let's be honest, Okay, it's a
Speaker 1: better name than Jake Something. Jake Doyle is a better
Speaker 1: name than Jake Something. I mean, you may disagree because
Speaker 1: Jake Something is more established, but it's certainly no worse
Speaker 1: than Jake Something was. The name change doesn't really bother me.
Speaker 1: The issue is that they appear to be pairing him
Speaker 1: up with Mark Davis, and it looks like they're going
Speaker 1: to be a team. There's positives to it in that
Speaker 1: the tag team division in this company is of late
Speaker 1: recent months, has been reinvigorated. They could be a force
Speaker 1: in the tag team division. I question how seriously they're
Speaker 1: going to be pushed if they're going to be paired
Speaker 1: up as a tag team. Mark Davis lost his tag
Speaker 1: team partner Kyle Fletcher because Mark Davis was hurt. It
Speaker 1: gave them a chance to push Kyle Fletcher as a
Speaker 1: single It was the worst thing that could have happened
Speaker 1: to Mark Davis was him getting hurt. That was the
Speaker 1: end of Ossie Open. Kyle Fletcher Now he doesn't need
Speaker 1: Mark Davis anymore. Kyle Fletcher will be a world champion
Speaker 1: on his own one day. So that leaves Mark Davis,
Speaker 1: as you know, way down here in the Callous Family.
Speaker 1: So for him, if he has Jake Doyle now as
Speaker 1: a tag team partner, it's good for Mark Davis. How
Speaker 1: good is that going to be for Doyle? We'll see
Speaker 1: if they start him out that way, but then over
Speaker 1: time they kind of gradually, you know, he climbs the
Speaker 1: ladder and he could be doing more than just teaming
Speaker 1: with Mark Davis. Then that's great. So it may not
Speaker 1: be a bad place to kind of start him out
Speaker 1: in and the Callous Family because they have so many
Speaker 1: fucking members. I mean, they're on television every single week,
Speaker 1: so I mean I could think of worse things for
Speaker 1: them to be doing with him. He could be relegated
Speaker 1: to some banished to some show where nobody will see him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that appears to be the plan for him,
Speaker 1: right now is to keep him in a team. But
Speaker 1: the opening match saw John Moxley against Shelton Benjamin. This
Speaker 1: was a Continental title eliminator match, first time ever match
Speaker 1: actually between the two of them. Shelton had tears visibly
Speaker 1: running down his face as he came out and made
Speaker 1: his entrance. I don't know what that was all about,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty obvious if you were paying attention
Speaker 1: during his entrance. MVP sat in on commentary for this.
Speaker 1: It was a little crowded out there on commentary because
Speaker 1: Danielson wasn't there, but you had ex Caliber, you had
Speaker 1: Tony Schavati, you had Jim Ross, and you had MVP,
Speaker 1: so you had a lot of voices out there on commentary.
Speaker 1: Both men brawled into the crowd early on. Referee Paul
Speaker 1: Turner just followed them instead of laying the count on.
Speaker 1: Moxley went back to ringside. Benjamin met him by leaping
Speaker 1: off the barricade, taking him down with a clothesline. Moxley
Speaker 1: tried to create some distance. Benjamin continued his onslaught with
Speaker 1: a release German supplex. Moxley was able to avoid a
Speaker 1: second one. He sent Benjamin crashing into the ring steps
Speaker 1: and then they teased the count out, which was very
Speaker 1: silly because we just had the referee followed these men
Speaker 1: into the crowd. But now he's interested in it administering
Speaker 1: the count. Before he wasn't, but now he is. Moxley
Speaker 1: was scaling the ropes when Benjamin jumped up to meet him.
Speaker 1: Up there hit an avalanche superplex. Later on, Moxley tried
Speaker 1: a rear naked choke, Benjamin spun out. He tried his
Speaker 1: rewind kick. He missed it, only to catch Moxley charging
Speaker 1: with pay dirt, and then we had supplex city here
Speaker 1: from Benjamin Moxley. Ultimately they'll caught Benjamin with a leaping
Speaker 1: cutter for a two count. At the fifteen minute time call,
Speaker 1: we had five minutes remaining. All these continental matches have
Speaker 1: twenty minute time limits, so we had five minutes remaining.
Speaker 1: Moxley tried ten corner punches. Benjamin power bombed out of
Speaker 1: it into a high stack for two, transitioned into a
Speaker 1: submission hold. Moxley made the ropes. Moxley went for a
Speaker 1: King Kong lariot. He ran into another pay dirt only
Speaker 1: for a near fall Moxley. Later on he got the
Speaker 1: paradigm shift Benjamin, though kicked out. Moxley quickly got a
Speaker 1: bulldog choke applied. We have sixty seconds now, we're told
Speaker 1: left in this match. Benjamin grabbed the ropes, so we
Speaker 1: had to break the hold. Benjamin applied a triangle. Moxley
Speaker 1: looked like he was about to fade, but he stacked
Speaker 1: Benjamin up and he pinned him. He got a flash pin.
Speaker 1: With what they said was five seconds left in this match,
Speaker 1: John Boxley pins Shelton Benjamin and after the match, Boxley
Speaker 1: offered a handshake. Benjamin accepted and the crowd applauded. So
Speaker 1: this was a good opener. Moxley can tinues to churn
Speaker 1: out good matches with this sort of fighting babyface role
Speaker 1: that he's been in. Now really, ever since the Continental
Speaker 1: Classics started, he's had some good matches. I was pretty
Speaker 1: surprised they did not have this one go to a draw.
Speaker 1: I thought this was going to a draw. I thought
Speaker 1: that they would have Benjamin come back with an actual
Speaker 1: championship match, and instead they just beat him, So that
Speaker 1: was kind of disappointing. I would not mind Benjamin challenging
Speaker 1: for the TNT title since apparently he ain't going to
Speaker 1: be challenging for the continental title because he lost tonight,
Speaker 1: which means he doesn't get another opportunity to get a
Speaker 1: title matched. This was not a title match, this was
Speaker 1: an eliminator match. So since he's not going to be
Speaker 1: going after that championship, why not the TNT title. Mark
Speaker 1: Briscoe has that title right now, and frankly, I would
Speaker 1: love to see Shelton Benjamin get a run with it.
Speaker 1: That's what I would like to see. You could do
Speaker 1: Benjamin and Briscoe, you could build to that, and again,
Speaker 1: I think giving Benjamin a run with that championship for
Speaker 1: a little bit would be a fine idea. Or pick
Speaker 1: another title. They have plenty to choose from. Put a
Speaker 1: fucking blindfold on and just point and I guarantee you'll
Speaker 1: land on one of the many championships that you can
Speaker 1: have Shelton Benjamin challenging for. There's a national title, there's
Speaker 1: an international title, continental title. That's not gonna happen. So
Speaker 1: they have the TNT title, pick a belt. Shelton's been
Speaker 1: great since he came back. It's unfortunate that Bobby Lashley
Speaker 1: went down with apparently what might be a shoulder injury. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm not even joking, so he's gonna be gone for
Speaker 1: a while. So rather than just have Benjamin sort of
Speaker 1: bounced around the meander around aimlessly, I'd love to see
Speaker 1: them really find something meaningful for him to do. TNT
Speaker 1: title sounds good to me. We see Darby Allen skateboarding
Speaker 1: backstage looking for pack. The ex Caliber brings up Hiroshi Tanahashi,
Speaker 1: the Ace who wrestled his final match at the Tokyo Dome.
Speaker 1: Wressell Kingdom, of course, was this past weekend just an
Speaker 1: awesome main event against Okada, a fine send off, fighting
Speaker 1: until the bitter end, not giving up, giving it all
Speaker 1: he's got, but falling to the rain Maker in the end,
Speaker 1: and then getting that incredible send off with all the
Speaker 1: different cameos and the parade float. It's a very special night.
Speaker 1: So we got some highlights of that. Don't let TV
Speaker 1: Asahi know, or they're likely to throw aw off the
Speaker 1: air if they find out they were using their footage
Speaker 1: Jack Perry and his Mystery Partners. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you missed it, I did a bonus podcast this week
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes just talking about the key matches that
Speaker 1: I saw from Wressell Kingdom, including that Tanahashi and Okada match,
Speaker 1: but also the Takei match with Yotasuji, the Aaron Wolf debut,
Speaker 1: the women's match, so that is up on the channel
Speaker 1: right now. We had Jack Perry and his mystery Men
Speaker 1: against Ricochet and the Gates of Agony. So the mystery
Speaker 1: partners turned out to be the Young Bucks. So much
Speaker 1: for them getting time off. I thought they weren't cleared
Speaker 1: and we might not see them for a while, And
Speaker 1: two weeks later they're back, came out to their babyface
Speaker 1: entrance music. Of course they are babyfaces now. So this
Speaker 1: was the usual Young Bucks party match, the spot fest
Speaker 1: that you would expect. Too many moves here to mention,
Speaker 1: but there was a triple Samoan drop spot. I did
Speaker 1: want to point this out. I did want to show
Speaker 1: some love for this. At one point we had Bishop Kahn.
Speaker 1: He got Perry and both Bucks with the help of
Speaker 1: his partner Totallyona, but he got all three of them
Speaker 1: on his shoulders and he walked with them and then
Speaker 1: he dropped him for a triple Samoan drop. So that
Speaker 1: was impressive. Ricochet loaded up the Spirit Gun, Perry ducked,
Speaker 1: he ate a pump knee. Ricochet tried the powerbomb death
Speaker 1: valley Driver. Perry, though countered into a poison Runa and
Speaker 1: the Bucks returned for a super kick party on all
Speaker 1: of the demand. As Perry joined in on the fun,
Speaker 1: ricochet got placed on Matt Jackson's shoulders. Nick took out
Speaker 1: Goa outside with a dive. Perry hit a doomsday device.
Speaker 1: We got a BTE trigger connects and an assisted sacrifice
Speaker 1: knee launched Perry into ricochet for the win over the
Speaker 1: national champion. That ought to earn him another crack at
Speaker 1: that title because he just pinned the champion, so he
Speaker 1: better get a shot at that title. After the match,
Speaker 1: guess who hits the ring? Mark Davis and Mark Davis
Speaker 1: Part two. They're dressed the same. They're dressed it's like
Speaker 1: Callus dressed them both wearing black tank tops. And they
Speaker 1: hit the ring and they attacked Perry in the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Kallus is on the apron jumping for joy. Lance Archer
Speaker 1: is at ringside. I think I saw l kloone was
Speaker 1: out there jet speed. Now they show up all heavily
Speaker 1: bandaged up. They're all wrapped up. They hit the ring
Speaker 1: with hockey sticks and they attacked and then the lights
Speaker 1: went out. Not the only time on this show that
Speaker 1: the lights would go out. It would happen at least
Speaker 1: two more times throughout the show. At least here it
Speaker 1: was intentional, though they didn't they meant to turn the
Speaker 1: lights off here. So the lights go off, and when
Speaker 1: they come back on, there is a man standing in
Speaker 1: the ring in a mask, and we already know who
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, come on, but he delivered the
Speaker 1: message to Mike Bailey, and even before he took his
Speaker 1: mask off, ex Caliber on commentary just flat out said
Speaker 1: that's Androde. Ledlow so that he did the dramatic like
Speaker 1: pulling of the mask, scoff his head, probably not knowing
Speaker 1: that ex Caliber just spoiled the surprise. But he pulls
Speaker 1: the mask off, and yes, indeed it is Andrade and
Speaker 1: he is back again in aw So the Callus family
Speaker 1: stood tall FTR. They wheeled out Stokely Hathaway in a
Speaker 1: wheelchair onto the stage and they stared down everyone an
Speaker 1: ex Caliber told us that they have a history with Androde.
Speaker 1: But fuck me, if I can remember what that history
Speaker 1: actually is, I couldn't tell you. But apparently there's history there. Now, Look,
Speaker 1: we already knew that Androte got his full release from WWE.
Speaker 1: He popped up in House of Glory. I think we
Speaker 1: were the first the domestic indie that he popped up
Speaker 1: in after he became fully free. And then after that
Speaker 1: we saw him at the Tokyo Dome. He wrestled on
Speaker 1: the Wrestle Kingdom card this weekend for New Japan, so
Speaker 1: it was only a matter of time before we got
Speaker 1: him back here on TV. And it's actually very impressive
Speaker 1: when you think about it, because Ricochet, we remember Rick
Speaker 1: rud being the man who will go down forever as
Speaker 1: the only man to appear on Raw and Nitro on
Speaker 1: the same night at the same time. That was Rick
Speaker 1: Rud right. Nobody else can ever say that, of course,
Speaker 1: because Raw Nitro doesn't exist anymore. Andrade has made history
Speaker 1: in a very different way. Andrade is the only man
Speaker 1: in history to go from WWE to AW, back to WWE,
Speaker 1: back to AW only to find out that he is
Speaker 1: still technically under contract so he vanished still with WWE,
Speaker 1: but then to end up back in AW. The dude
Speaker 1: should be in the Hall of Fame for that alone,
Speaker 1: like that should earn him a Hall of Fame induction
Speaker 1: all by itself. If he does nothing else in his career,
Speaker 1: that alone should earn him a Hall of Fame induction.
Speaker 1: But this makes three debuts for him here in AW
Speaker 1: so he's managed to pull that off. This return did
Speaker 1: not hit the same, you know, as the first one.
Speaker 1: The first one was a genuine surprise because of how
Speaker 1: quickly he showed up on the other show after being
Speaker 1: what we all thought was released from w w WE.
Speaker 1: It's like, holy shit. On top of that, he debuts
Speaker 1: by attacking Kenny Omega, right one of the biggest stars
Speaker 1: in the entire company. So it was impactful. It was
Speaker 1: an impactful debut, and then he disappeared and nobody said
Speaker 1: a word about it. He comes back this time in
Speaker 1: a segment that just is not nearly as meaningful, on
Speaker 1: a night where they already introduced another new member of
Speaker 1: the Kallis family even before him, in Doyle. So it
Speaker 1: just didn't hit the same way as the first time.
Speaker 1: We get a new member in this group every few weeks.
Speaker 1: It feels like so they both of them are, but
Speaker 1: more so Doyle. But they're both just another face in
Speaker 1: a very expanding crowd of faces, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very difficult, I think to kind of break through all
Speaker 1: that noise. We know at the top, you've got Okada
Speaker 1: and Takeshta and Kyle Fletcher, like those are your three.
Speaker 1: Andrade is probably even more than Josh Alexander, I would say,
Speaker 1: Andrete now is probably the number four. Alexander's right there
Speaker 1: with and maybe number five. And so you got everybody
Speaker 1: else who's fighting for these you know, other spots in
Speaker 1: the group. As far as where they fall in the
Speaker 1: pecking I'm not even counting Wardlow because who the fuck
Speaker 1: knows if he'll even be part of this group by
Speaker 1: the time he comes back. So it's he's one of many.
Speaker 1: When you're part of a group that big, where don
Speaker 1: kallis is really the star, you are one of many.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Andrade's time in this company is
Speaker 1: going to be any different than it was the first time. Again,
Speaker 1: he's like Jake something talented pickup. It all boils down
Speaker 1: to what do you do with them? What are you
Speaker 1: going to do with them or what can they do
Speaker 1: themselves to really stand out from the pack. Otherwise you're
Speaker 1: just gonna come out every week, You're going to be
Speaker 1: in a backstage segment. You are one of many, you
Speaker 1: will be a face in the crowd and that's not
Speaker 1: what you want to be. It might be a good
Speaker 1: way to reintroduce them initially, but it's got to be
Speaker 1: more to it than that. Now they've already announced that
Speaker 1: Omega is going to be back on the show next
Speaker 1: week on the Maximum Carnage episode, So I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see if they pick up where they left off and
Speaker 1: if they're going to do something with Omega and Andrade,
Speaker 1: or if Omega, knowing that Andrade is there, is maybe
Speaker 1: going to go after him or call him out, and
Speaker 1: then we can build to an Andrade and Omega match.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be Andred's first match back. You want
Speaker 1: to give him some wins first. But how do they
Speaker 1: not pick up with that? Like, if they're going to
Speaker 1: be in the building next week, let's presume how does
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega, let's say, not either go after the guy
Speaker 1: or bring up the fact like, hey, why don't you
Speaker 1: get your ass out here? I haven't forgotten about what
Speaker 1: you did to me. You have to resume that. You
Speaker 1: have to pick up with that. Renee was in the
Speaker 1: ring after a break to introduce Willow Nightingale the new
Speaker 1: TBS champion for her Championships celebration here on this show.
Speaker 1: After her win last week over Mercedes Monette, her reign
Speaker 1: is over at five hundred and eighty four days. So
Speaker 1: Willow comes to the ring with her TBS title and
Speaker 1: her AW Women's Tag Team title. Chris Statlander is with her,
Speaker 1: Harley Cameron is with her, and then as Renee begins
Speaker 1: to ask her first question, the lights go out. Now
Speaker 1: they don't go out completely where it's pitch black, you
Speaker 1: can't see anything but the main lights. Anyway, they went out,
Speaker 1: and now it's very dark, and they we end up
Speaker 1: having this spotlight that they shine on Willow as she's speaking,
Speaker 1: so they at least tried to do that, so we
Speaker 1: truly got aw dark here on the show. Willow said
Speaker 1: that now the hard work really begins. You get ready
Speaker 1: for the next challenger. But it's important to smell the
Speaker 1: roses when things truly matter. She's here with her busty,
Speaker 1: badass babe Harley Cameron, and a reunion not just with
Speaker 1: her TBS championship, but with the AW Women's World Championship,
Speaker 1: which is held by Chris Statlander. So we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a good time, she says, She realizes though, it's only
Speaker 1: a matter of time before someone reins on her parade,
Speaker 1: so let's just get it over with, and she invites
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monette out to the ring. And here comes Mercedes.
Speaker 1: She is dressed in like a white veil, like she's
Speaker 1: in mourning, except it's white. You would think she would
Speaker 1: be wearing black, but she's wearing white, like she's walking
Speaker 1: down the aisle to marry Frank the lawyer. So she
Speaker 1: makes her way down to the ring. It's still dark,
Speaker 1: by the way, so Willow puts over Monei's Unstoppable twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. But Mercedes at that point she took her
Speaker 1: hat off and you could see like she's been crying,
Speaker 1: like the makeup is running, and she just crashes out,
Speaker 1: starts screaming, and she starts trashing. There was a table
Speaker 1: in the ring with a cake. She starts trashing the table.
Speaker 1: Statlander quickly grabs the cake away, so she's holding the cake.
Speaker 1: So then Mercedes gives Harley a shove, and Harley shoves
Speaker 1: her back. She stumbles face first into the cake that
Speaker 1: Statlander was holding. So now she's got cake frosting all
Speaker 1: over her face. Kind of reminds me of a certain
Speaker 1: Tony storm when she had a couple of pies thrown
Speaker 1: in her face unsmackdown back in the day by Charlotte Flair,
Speaker 1: and she had pie frosting all over her face. That's
Speaker 1: kind of her parting lasting image from her WWE run.
Speaker 1: So Mercedes had didn't Mercedes hold on a second? Hold
Speaker 1: on a second? Did we not get a segment on
Speaker 1: this show a couple months ago where Mercedes got put
Speaker 1: face first into a cake? Or am I remembering a
Speaker 1: different cake segment? Is this not the second cake in
Speaker 1: like two months that this woman has been put through?
Speaker 1: I just remember. I think she had her own celebration
Speaker 1: and actually it was Harley and stat Lander who were
Speaker 1: out there, and I think Mercedes went through a cake?
Speaker 1: Why are we repeating the same thing again? It didn't
Speaker 1: hit me until just now, the fuck is this gonna
Speaker 1: be a recurring thing now in November? Yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 1: that long ago. Okay, see I'm not crazy. It was
Speaker 1: a couple months ago. Wow. Boy, they gotta get more
Speaker 1: creative with these segments. They're already rehashing something that they
Speaker 1: did in November. But yeah, she ended up face first
Speaker 1: in the cake and then Willow grabbed a screaming monette
Speaker 1: and she hit a doctor bomb onto what remained of
Speaker 1: the cake on the mat, and then everybody, including Renee,
Speaker 1: did a conga line and they danced around Mercedes body
Speaker 1: in the dark, and that was the end of the segment.
Speaker 1: Not really much of a segment. I mean, Willow was great,
Speaker 1: and you know, she's out there having her big celebration.
Speaker 1: It was nice to see somebody other than Mercedes having
Speaker 1: a celebration for a change. The lights going out was
Speaker 1: obviously not their faults. I don't know what happened it.
Speaker 1: Actually it flickered at first and then it went out,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like a power outage, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe somebody, maybe somebody you know, accidentally kicked
Speaker 1: out a chord or something. I don't know. But they
Speaker 1: had issues later on too, so something with the grid.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what happened there, but
Speaker 1: it was a segment that happened. We got video of
Speaker 1: Mark Briscoe at home. He was outside. He said that
Speaker 1: he's had one title defense as TNT champion, but he's
Speaker 1: been spending a lot of time taking in some Continental
Speaker 1: Classic Entertainment since that's over with now, relaxation time is
Speaker 1: over and he's feeling good and dangerous mentally, though he's
Speaker 1: not feeling too good. It's been too long. He's got
Speaker 1: an itch that needs scratching. It's been too long since
Speaker 1: he's beaten someone's ass. So he was tickled when he
Speaker 1: learned that Etcheso was next in line for his TNT title,
Speaker 1: and Brisco mocked Hetchesero's magic. I guess the magic eight
Speaker 1: ball thing that he does. He's like, he's like this,
Speaker 1: He's making all kinds of weird noises. He says, collision.
Speaker 1: I see clearly collision. My title is going nowhere. After this,
Speaker 1: we got a triangle of madness backstage promo with Tecla.
Speaker 1: She was with the Sisters of Sin. Tecla was applauding
Speaker 1: Christatlander for having friends, questioning when she'll turn on Willow
Speaker 1: and Harley, and they put out a challenge for the
Speaker 1: TBS title and the women's tag team titles. Sky Blue
Speaker 1: and Julia Hart. They did their usual very wooden delivery
Speaker 1: for their few lines, and Tecla challenged them to get toxic.
Speaker 1: So that match is official for Maximum Carnage next week.
Speaker 1: It's going to be Tecla, Julia Hart and Sky Blue
Speaker 1: against Willow Nightingale, Chris Statlander and Harley Cameron, the Sisters
Speaker 1: of Sin. Promos are really bad, really bad. Tecla's delivery
Speaker 1: is really good. She's actually a good promo. But whenever
Speaker 1: they have Julia and Sky speaking, you know, and they
Speaker 1: have them speak in this kind of monotone voice and delivery,
Speaker 1: I get, I get it, that's the gimmick or whatever,
Speaker 1: it sucks like. It's really bad. So we know now
Speaker 1: you know what that match is going to be next week.
Speaker 1: What we don't know is what they're going to be
Speaker 1: doing next with Mercedes. Right, it appears that Tecla is
Speaker 1: probably going to get the next TBS title shot against Willow,
Speaker 1: and I do wonder if they would just put the
Speaker 1: title on Techla, Like, is Willow truly going to be
Speaker 1: a transitional champion where she doesn't have the belt for
Speaker 1: very long? They just want to get it, you know,
Speaker 1: off of one heel to get it onto another. I
Speaker 1: would think they would want to give Willow at least
Speaker 1: a few successful defenses before they take that title away
Speaker 1: from her, you know, I mean, she she beat Mercedes
Speaker 1: after five hundred and eighty four days. If she were
Speaker 1: to lose it in her first defense, I think that
Speaker 1: would be pretty bad. But Techla is someone who I
Speaker 1: think would make sense as the next champion, So we'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes. Mercedes, they didn't really give any
Speaker 1: hints about where, you know, her direction may take her next.
Speaker 1: She's crashing out right, we're in that part of the story.
Speaker 1: She's got other championships. I'm sure that she'll lose, but
Speaker 1: as far as AW television goes, there was no real
Speaker 1: hint as to who she's gonna be sparring with, because
Speaker 1: they're not going back to her in stat Lander, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like they're going back to her and
Speaker 1: Willow even though she got her face put in a cake,
Speaker 1: because Willow has other people to defend against. What the
Speaker 1: fuck would be the point of doing Willow and Mercedes Again,
Speaker 1: she's not getting the belt back, So I don't know
Speaker 1: what's next for Mercedes. She's gonna just keep crashing out
Speaker 1: for a few more months now. Last week Bandido had
Speaker 1: a warm up match here on this show against the
Speaker 1: Beast Mortoas and this week it was against Sammy Gavara. Now.
Speaker 1: I looked it up because I was curious, had to
Speaker 1: do some research. When was the last time do you
Speaker 1: think that we saw Sammy Gavara wrestling on an episode
Speaker 1: of Dynamite? Right, he's been hanging out in the Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor. I think he's done stuff on Collision, But
Speaker 1: what about Dynamite. Dynamite is the main show. Dynamite's the
Speaker 1: a show, It's the original show. It's the show that uh,
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega and Cody Rhades helped create
Speaker 1: an usher in that era at the time on TNT
Speaker 1: now TBS. And actually, Sammy Gevarro was, I believe in
Speaker 1: the very first match ever on Dynamite. So I looked
Speaker 1: it up. The last time that Sammy wrestled the match
Speaker 1: on this show September of twenty twenty four. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been a while. Jim Ross said, the first time he
Speaker 1: saw Bandido, he thought that he was another Eddie Guerrero,
Speaker 1: which is pretty high praise. And it got me thinking,
Speaker 1: what would that match look like? What would prime Eddie?
Speaker 1: And I guess depending on how old you are, your
Speaker 1: kind of vision of Prime Eddie Guerrero might be different.
Speaker 1: Some of you listening to this might think that Prime
Speaker 1: Edi Guerrero was two thousand and four Eddie when he
Speaker 1: won the WWE Championship. Other people might think that prime
Speaker 1: Edi was like when he was wrestling Ray as a
Speaker 1: heel in the for the Cruiserweight title in WCW in
Speaker 1: Like ninety seven. To me, that was probably Eddie at
Speaker 1: his true like in Ring Peak ninety seven ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Imagine that Eddie Guerrero against Bandido of today. That would
Speaker 1: be a sick match, that would be fucking amazing. So
Speaker 1: late in the match, Gavara went up top. He connected
Speaker 1: with the shooting star press to the floor. Crowdhanded you
Speaker 1: still suck at him. Back inside, Gavara tried a gtch.
Speaker 1: Bandido countered into a cradle. Then he looked for a
Speaker 1: twenty one plex. Gavar had it scouted perfectly though, with
Speaker 1: a springboard cutter out of mid air for a two count.
Speaker 1: As Bandido came off the ropes, the GTCH was avoided again,
Speaker 1: this time with a massive pop up cutter. Bandido tried
Speaker 1: the twenty one plex. Sammy landed on his feet. He
Speaker 1: flipped Bandido off. He had a huge knee strike turned
Speaker 1: Bandido into side out. Bandido caught a kick that Sammy threw.
Speaker 1: He backflipped Sammy and then midair hit him with a
Speaker 1: pump knee and that led to the twenty one plex
Speaker 1: and the win. This was fine, you know, it was fine.
Speaker 1: We all knew what this was going to be and
Speaker 1: I'm sure we will not see Sammy on this show
Speaker 1: again for a while. He made the most of it.
Speaker 1: He made the most of the one match he was given.
Speaker 1: After the match, mjf's music hits, he was not I
Speaker 1: don't believe he was advertised for the show. Maybe he was,
Speaker 1: but I didn't see him advertise for the show. So
Speaker 1: I heard his music, I said, okay, good, we're going
Speaker 1: to get something in the ring with the two of them.
Speaker 1: He power walks to the ring, but he's not alone. Now.
Speaker 1: In the past, we would occasionally see him with his attorney,
Speaker 1: Smart Mark Sterling. This was not smart Mark Sterling. This
Speaker 1: was Jonathan Cruz, who was basically his heel translator or
Speaker 1: has been his heel translator slash manager when he has
Speaker 1: been in CML and at Arena Mexico Wrestling Mystico. So
Speaker 1: if you saw any footage of their matches, he was
Speaker 1: the guy out there with like the big Abe Lincoln
Speaker 1: looking hat on his head. Well, so here's something you
Speaker 1: may not know. Some of you know this. He was
Speaker 1: ster Pentaco. John Cruise was under the mask. He was
Speaker 1: ster Pentago. John Cruise is the guy who went viral
Speaker 1: because he wrestled Samoa Joe in that match where they
Speaker 1: did the Nope spot and as he's flying through the air,
Speaker 1: he's looking like wild. It's like this, that was him.
Speaker 1: He's played many roles in this company over the years.
Speaker 1: So MJF gets in the ring with him and he
Speaker 1: calls Bandido a talented little luchador. Said, if anybody knows
Speaker 1: about Lucha Libre, it's MJF, someone who has sold out
Speaker 1: Arena Mexico and dog walked Miss to Go multiple times,
Speaker 1: making MJFA Luca Libre legend. It's true, very true. He
Speaker 1: got a lot of heat at Arena Mexico, sold a
Speaker 1: lot of tickets for that last match with Mystico. MJF
Speaker 1: said he's a bigger star in Mexico than Bandido. Ever,
Speaker 1: will be no offense. He respects his culture and his country.
Speaker 1: Say he brought his translator out with him, Jonathan Cruz
Speaker 1: and MJF thanked him for coming to a dump like Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and everybody booed. So MJF brings up his six dynamite
Speaker 1: diamond rings. After Cruz said some stuff in Spanish to Bandido.
Speaker 1: They went back and forth, but MJF brings up his
Speaker 1: six dynamite diamond rings and he said, Bandido's ring, it
Speaker 1: doesn't belong on his finger, belongs on mine. That ring
Speaker 1: belongs to me. He says, so hand it over and
Speaker 1: we'll just skip the match next week because we all
Speaker 1: know what the outcome is going to be anyway. We
Speaker 1: all know that you don't have a prayer, so if
Speaker 1: you do the right thing, scouts on her. He says,
Speaker 1: I'll take Tony con to the side. I'll put Bandido
Speaker 1: over and I'll say that Bandido will wrestle me on
Speaker 1: pay per view five or ten years from now. That's
Speaker 1: going to be a big match, Tony. It'll be me
Speaker 1: and Bandido. So Bandido ends up cutting off Cruise and
Speaker 1: he says I can speak English, and he calls MJF
Speaker 1: a stupid son of a Bitch's MJF. He's begging off
Speaker 1: briefly until he punts Bandido low and Bandido crumbles to
Speaker 1: his knees or he might have been flat on the mat,
Speaker 1: but he reaches down and he pulls the gun in
Speaker 1: my diamond ring off of his finger, so now he's
Speaker 1: got the ring on his pinky finger, and Cruise is
Speaker 1: holding Bandido and he's going to hit him with the ring.
Speaker 1: But Bandido, of course, he ducks MJF cl Cruise with
Speaker 1: the ring instead, so Bandido returns the favor. He punts
Speaker 1: mjflow and he takes his ring back, and he ended
Speaker 1: up actually hitting both of them with the twenty one plex.
Speaker 1: Cruse took this great bump for it too, where he
Speaker 1: got folded up. MJF took the bump. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it'll always look silly when somebody gets in position like
Speaker 1: early for the move right and they're just kind of
Speaker 1: standing there like bent over like that for it. Like
Speaker 1: MJF he gets up and he's holding the middle rope
Speaker 1: and he's all bent over and ready for this move,
Speaker 1: and he's standing there like that for like ten seconds.
Speaker 1: I'm like, but it's like anybody whoever ends up in
Speaker 1: position for a six to one to nine, you know
Speaker 1: from ray mystereo where it's so telegraphed, and it's like
Speaker 1: but anyway, he hits them both with twenty one plex,
Speaker 1: and then he holds up mjf's World Championship and he's
Speaker 1: actually shaking his head no, like he doesn't want it.
Speaker 1: I assume he means he doesn't want that belt. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I mean, that belt looks great. That
Speaker 1: is the second best looking belt in wrestling today. What
Speaker 1: is wrong with Mjf's belt. I would keep it. I
Speaker 1: don't see anything wrong with it. So, I mean, this
Speaker 1: was good. This was one of the highlights of the show. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I really thought they were gonna go there. I thought
Speaker 1: that this was gonna end up title versus ring. Not
Speaker 1: that the ring means anything, but I thought that's where
Speaker 1: they were going to go with this. Where MJF says,
Speaker 1: you put your ring on the line if you got
Speaker 1: any guts, and that's how we get title versus ring.
Speaker 1: MJF beats him and he takes the ring, and now
Speaker 1: he's got seven of them. Right, they didn't do that.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean they still can't, but they didn't do that.
Speaker 1: Now watch him take the ring anyway next week. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Something tells me Bendito ain't gonna be walking
Speaker 1: around all year wearing that diamond ring. We had timeless
Speaker 1: Tony Storm against Marina Shafir. Shaffir controlled things through a
Speaker 1: commercial break. When they came back, though she whiffed badly
Speaker 1: on an attempt at a tiger faint head scissors in
Speaker 1: the ropes, so she just kind of kicked her in
Speaker 1: the head to try to save the spot. So she
Speaker 1: was mocking Tony's tango that she has been doing recently
Speaker 1: with Orange Cassidy, and then Shaffer spun and slammed Tony
Speaker 1: and Jim Ross on commentary begins to question Marina's pace
Speaker 1: here during this match, and he says she's standing and
Speaker 1: looking around a lot, and I thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: He's not wrong, She is kind of standing around and
Speaker 1: looking around a lot. So Storm fired back with a dropkick.
Speaker 1: She teased a running hip attack. Storm though turned her
Speaker 1: back briefly, and that gave Shaffer a chance to hit
Speaker 1: a boot. Tony responded with a head butt and her
Speaker 1: big package. But remember remember who hasn't beaten Daniel Garcia.
Speaker 1: He's outside the ring along with Wheeler. You to Wheeler,
Speaker 1: you to reach us in When it looks like Tony
Speaker 1: might have the match one with the big package and
Speaker 1: he pulls the referee out of the ring. And how
Speaker 1: does Paul Turner respond to this? Now, minds you, this
Speaker 1: is a company where we rarely have disqualification finishes, so
Speaker 1: you would think like you really have to do something
Speaker 1: fucked up to get disqualified, right, The referee gets pulled
Speaker 1: out of the ring by Wheeler Yuda. He disqualifies Marina
Speaker 1: Shafear for this lame, very lame. So Mina sheerra Kawa.
Speaker 1: She rushes down to the ring because Tony had got
Speaker 1: put down by Marina, so Marina's just standing there, She's
Speaker 1: got her back turned to the aisle. Mina runs down
Speaker 1: to the ring and as soon as she gets into
Speaker 1: the ring, Marina kicks her in the head, and Mina
Speaker 1: takes this just comically like absurd bump where she stumbles
Speaker 1: like halfway across the ring, just to make sure that
Speaker 1: when she falls down, she falls down on top of Tony,
Speaker 1: who was on the opposite side of the ring. So
Speaker 1: now she's laying down on top of Tony's storm and
Speaker 1: Luther crawls in to make the save, and as he
Speaker 1: was about to suffer the same fate, Roderick Strong sprints
Speaker 1: down to the ring and Orange Cassidy, who doesn't sprint,
Speaker 1: but walked at a brisk pace down to the ring
Speaker 1: and the Death Riders were going to bail until Claudio
Speaker 1: Power walked out from the crowd and he had to
Speaker 1: be held back by Garcia and Yuda. Cassidy helped Tony
Speaker 1: up to her feet, had his arm around her and
Speaker 1: she was thanking him, and he did the same with Mina,
Speaker 1: had his arms around both. Love bombs. Quite the ladies, man,
Speaker 1: this guy is yeah, something about blonde. I guess this
Speaker 1: was very boring. I thought this was very boring. Look,
Speaker 1: I've given Marina Shaffir her props recently for coming from
Speaker 1: nothing and developing this character. I mean to the extent
Speaker 1: that you can develop a character when you rarely speak.
Speaker 1: It's not like she speaks a lot. It's not like
Speaker 1: we see her interacting with a lot of people, you
Speaker 1: know socially on the roster. She's the silent but deadly
Speaker 1: enforcer of the group. But still she has a character.
Speaker 1: She plays it well. She's in a much better position
Speaker 1: than she was before she joined the Death Riders, and
Speaker 1: she's had some matches that she's been a part of
Speaker 1: where it's it's not like they're terrible or anything. You know,
Speaker 1: she she knows her role, but she was very up
Speaker 1: and down here in this match. You know, I mentioned
Speaker 1: the Tiger faint spot, but just like, eh, this was
Speaker 1: not a great outing here. It's like I'm watching raw
Speaker 1: Monday night. I'm watching Becky and Maxine and they've had
Speaker 1: matches before that were actually not bad. And on Monday
Speaker 1: they go out there first for all the New Year,
Speaker 1: and they have the worst match that they've ever had together.
Speaker 1: Like I thought that was just it was a bad match,
Speaker 1: and this was a bad match, it says, not one
Speaker 1: of the better segments that they've had Tony Storm involved in,
Speaker 1: let's just put it that way. And the finish did
Speaker 1: not help. The finish of that match was just fucking terrible.
Speaker 1: So Renee was backstage with Pack asking when are we
Speaker 1: going to get the rematch with Darby Allen and Pack
Speaker 1: said that I've wrestled him twice. I've beaten him twice,
Speaker 1: there's nothing left to be said. Darby shows up and
Speaker 1: he says, I've beaten all the death Riders in the
Speaker 1: last few years, or it feels like a few years.
Speaker 1: He says, over the last five years, I've beaten all
Speaker 1: the death Riders. Now over the last year, he's beaten
Speaker 1: all the death Riders except Pack. Pack's the only itch
Speaker 1: that he cannot scratch, and so he wants this match.
Speaker 1: Pack said that Darby isn't the one who calls the
Speaker 1: shots run along, so he goes to leave. I don't
Speaker 1: know why you would turn your back, but he turns
Speaker 1: his back, and so of course Darby attacks, actually sprays
Speaker 1: him with the fire exting, sure is what he did.
Speaker 1: And he's down on the ground right by this door,
Speaker 1: like the exit door, and he puts Pack's legs ankle
Speaker 1: in the door, and he's threatening to slam the door
Speaker 1: and break the man's ankle unless you give me the
Speaker 1: match that I want, and he's about to do it,
Speaker 1: and then finally Pack relents and says fine. He reluctantly
Speaker 1: agrees to give him the match, and then Darby sees
Speaker 1: the other Death Riders rushing in and so he runs away.
Speaker 1: So we're going to get another match between Darby and Pack.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that had they wrestled each other as
Speaker 1: they were supposed to in the Continental Classic, that was
Speaker 1: probably going to be Darby's match where he would have
Speaker 1: gotten his win back. So now they'll do it some
Speaker 1: other time. I don't know if they did. They officially
Speaker 1: announced that for next week. I assume that's going to
Speaker 1: probably happen next week if it hasn't been announced yet.
Speaker 1: So then Justin Roberts did the introduction for the lights
Speaker 1: out main event, and he told us that lights are
Speaker 1: going to go out when they come back on. Aw
Speaker 1: is not responsible, there's no rule, anything goes right, all
Speaker 1: the usual stuff that he tells us here at the
Speaker 1: beginning of this. But this was Hangman, Adam Page and
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland teaming up together to take on Powerhouse Hobs
Speaker 1: and Hook and the lights went off all right. Now,
Speaker 1: Initially when they turned the lights off, it was very brief,
Speaker 1: like the lights went out and then they immediately went
Speaker 1: back on. It was like, you know, symbolically to signify okay,
Speaker 1: now we are officially in like non sanctioned lights out mode.
Speaker 1: But then they started flickering like fucking strobe lights. I
Speaker 1: felt like I was back at the club. I felt
Speaker 1: like solid monster man. He's with the pop collar. I'm
Speaker 1: back at the club man. I got the jacket coke
Speaker 1: in my hand right, I'm looking around, I'm dancing around
Speaker 1: like what the fuck is with these lights? So the
Speaker 1: lights are flickering and then all of a sudden it
Speaker 1: goes dark again, just like it did during the Willow
Speaker 1: Nightingale segment where there's some light. It's not like pitch black,
Speaker 1: but like the lights are out and they have like
Speaker 1: a spotlight, but you can't like they're all moving around
Speaker 1: out there in different parts of the ring in the
Speaker 1: ringside area, you can't just keep a spotlight on them,
Speaker 1: so it's a little hard to see what's going on,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine in the building also for some
Speaker 1: people anyway, it was probably a little difficult to follow
Speaker 1: what was going on here. So this lasted about I
Speaker 1: don't know, three or four minutes, maybe five before they
Speaker 1: finally came back on. So the lights did come back on,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was multiple times tonight that they had
Speaker 1: issues with the lights here on this show. We need
Speaker 1: to see Solom Monster in the summer of ninety eight. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was a good summerman Highway to Hell Solom Monster
Speaker 1: at the Clubmen with some ac DC blaring as we're
Speaker 1: on the Highway to Hell. The summer Slam. Oh, that
Speaker 1: was the Summermen. That was the summer solo monster in
Speaker 1: the club hitting the Alex Right dance. Hey, that in
Speaker 1: ninety eight that would have been the hot thing back
Speaker 1: then doing Alex Right Dance. I'm sure he got all
Speaker 1: the ladies. So after a commercial break, there's a table
Speaker 1: that's leaned up in the corner against the middle turn buckle,
Speaker 1: and Hook suplexes Hangman through the table with an overhead throw.
Speaker 1: And you know that Jim Ross is on commentary when
Speaker 1: you get hit with the obligatory line where he says,
Speaker 1: you know there's someone at home saying, oh, they know
Speaker 1: how to fall. He's been saying this line for like
Speaker 1: thirty years now. I mean it's like, okay, it's like
Speaker 1: an obligatory Jim Ross line though, so swerve. He passed
Speaker 1: a staple gun. What did I say on TNT last night?
Speaker 1: Staple gun? It's like, fuck hatchesaro, I got my own
Speaker 1: crystal ball, Like I could see into it. I know
Speaker 1: I know what's coming before it even happens. So he
Speaker 1: passes the staple gun over to Hangman and he staples
Speaker 1: Hook in the bicep and then he stapled him in
Speaker 1: the back, and then he stapled him in the chest
Speaker 1: right above his tit and hit a pop up power bomb.
Speaker 1: Hobbs got to Swerve up for a vertical stalling suplex,
Speaker 1: but Swerve in his other hand had the staple gun
Speaker 1: and he's as he's upside down, he's stapling Hobbs in
Speaker 1: the chest and it's having no effect. You know, Hobbs
Speaker 1: is not selling it at all. Hangman threw then what
Speaker 1: they said was a piece of dry wall at Hobbs.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. It disintegrated. It looked
Speaker 1: like it disintegrated in the air before it even hit him,
Speaker 1: like it turned to dust. So I don't know what
Speaker 1: it was, but whatever it was, it was gone very
Speaker 1: quickly after he threw it at him. So then Hangman
Speaker 1: stapled Hobbs in the dick and that had an effect.
Speaker 1: He sold that finally. Then Hangman and Swerve they brought
Speaker 1: out a pallet of cinder blocks from underneath the ring
Speaker 1: and they slid it into the ring. Hobbs took them
Speaker 1: down and then he placed Swerve face down on the
Speaker 1: cinder blocks, and he grabbed a chair and as he
Speaker 1: reared back, he's gonna kill this man. Prince Nana gets
Speaker 1: into the ring. He has seen enough. He can take
Speaker 1: no more and Prince Nana. He grabs the chair out
Speaker 1: of his hands, but then he got crushed in the
Speaker 1: corner by Hobbs. Swerve tried to spinebuster Hobbs onto the
Speaker 1: cinder blocks, but he blocked it. Swerve got a hold
Speaker 1: of the chair. He cracked it across the spine three
Speaker 1: times of powerhouse Hobbs, and that took Hobbs down to
Speaker 1: his knees. Swerve went to the ropes dove off, but
Speaker 1: he dove right into the clutches of Hobbs into a
Speaker 1: world's strongest slam onto the cinder blocks. You would think, man,
Speaker 1: that's gotta be it. He just got a fucking world's
Speaker 1: strongest slam onto a palette of cinder blocks. This man's
Speaker 1: back has got to be broken right after this spot here.
Speaker 1: Hobbs had it one until Hangman saved it. He tried
Speaker 1: to lift him for a dead eye. Hobbs, though fought
Speaker 1: out of it. Hangman ended up on the apron he
Speaker 1: was setting up for a buckshot hook pulled him down
Speaker 1: off the apron, and then we see all of these
Speaker 1: ops dojo geeks at ringside and they're all ganging up
Speaker 1: on Hangman. Page they jump them. They held him for
Speaker 1: a hook who hit him with a pipe. They put
Speaker 1: Hangman back in the ring, and the dojo dweebs all
Speaker 1: ganged up on him. They're putting the boots to him.
Speaker 1: They're putting the boots to Swerve, and it's all legal.
Speaker 1: So Hobbs got a chain. He wrapped it around Hangman
Speaker 1: and Swerve like they're sitting in the ring, I think,
Speaker 1: like back to back, and he's wrapping the chain around
Speaker 1: both of their necks to like tie them together, right,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna hang them both. Prince Nana gets up
Speaker 1: on the apron. He splashes hot coffee because he's got
Speaker 1: his coffee blend, so he splashes hot coffee into Hobbs's
Speaker 1: eyes and at that point, after the skull holding hot
Speaker 1: coffee hits him in the face, Hangman and Swerve fight
Speaker 1: back to their feet. They took out the dojo dorks,
Speaker 1: and then Hangman went out to the apron. He's lining
Speaker 1: up Hobbs for a buckshot. Hobbs, though, caught him into
Speaker 1: a spinebuster for a near fall, only because Swerve caught
Speaker 1: him with a house call kick. That's what broke it up.
Speaker 1: Swerve then climbed to the top with Hobbs in his sights,
Speaker 1: but instead he looks outside at the gaggle of dojo
Speaker 1: dwebs outside, and he's like, you know, what would be
Speaker 1: a better idea Instead of me jumping on my opponent
Speaker 1: in the ring who has been neutralized temporarily, I think
Speaker 1: I'll turn my attention to all of these rookie schmucks
Speaker 1: outside the ring here, and I'll just dive out onto
Speaker 1: them instead. And so that's what he does, and he
Speaker 1: takes them all down with a Swerve stomp. Back inside,
Speaker 1: Hangman got Hobbs up in position for a dead eye
Speaker 1: right over the cinder blocks, and Swerve came off the
Speaker 1: top with a stomp and that sent Hobbs down head
Speaker 1: first onto the cinder blocks. This wasn't the finish, by
Speaker 1: the way. It was for Hobbs. I mean, that took
Speaker 1: him out of the match, as it should have, but
Speaker 1: that was not the finish. So that left Hook all
Speaker 1: by himself with Hangman and Swerve, who delivered a house call.
Speaker 1: Then Swerve held Hook for Hangman to deliver a buckshot lariot,
Speaker 1: and then he hung Hook over the top rope with
Speaker 1: a chain wrapped around his neck same way Hangman beat Moxley.
Speaker 1: It all in Texas, and Hook very quickly tapped out
Speaker 1: to hand the wind to the baby faces. Uh, Swerve
Speaker 1: must be superhuman, man, I gotta tell you, because this
Speaker 1: guy was moving around pretty good with no signs of
Speaker 1: any sort of you know, injury or pain or anything.
Speaker 1: He got a world's strongest slam onto a bed of
Speaker 1: cinder blocks and was showing no ill effects. It's very impressive.
Speaker 1: What did Stone Cold say in the interview he just
Speaker 1: did with Chris Van Vliet. Chris said, if there was
Speaker 1: one message that Austin wanted to impart on all wrestlers
Speaker 1: right now, one thing, what would it be? Sell? Sell,
Speaker 1: Sell Sell. They went twenty minutes past the top of
Speaker 1: the hour with this. Hangman got his revenge on Hook
Speaker 1: and they sent the fans home happy. It was the
Speaker 1: expected plunder match. You know, it's a lights out match,
Speaker 1: so you know what to expect, and we got the
Speaker 1: Of course, we got the staple gun. You know, the
Speaker 1: biggest surprise was for me here nobody bled. You had
Speaker 1: Hangman and Swerve and you had a lights out match
Speaker 1: and nobody bled. It was a pleasant surprise. We get
Speaker 1: so much of it. It was kind of nice to
Speaker 1: not see it here, but I'm shocked we didn't get it.
Speaker 1: You know. One of my predictions I did my Predictions
Speaker 1: show recently. One of my predictions for twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: was that Hangman and Swerve are going to hold the
Speaker 1: aw Tag Team titles. I believe that will be the case,
Speaker 1: and honestly, like I'm watching them out there together, having
Speaker 1: them chase after FTR for the titles speaks to me
Speaker 1: more than Copeland and Christian going after FTR, Like there
Speaker 1: was a time for it and they didn't do it right,
Speaker 1: or they did the initial you know, the initial match,
Speaker 1: and obviously they're they're waiting for Copeland to come back
Speaker 1: and then they'll pick up with it. But I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like, once they pick up with it, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's already been done. It's already kind of dead, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if they tell the story the
Speaker 1: right way, you'll get people to care about Copeland and
Speaker 1: Christian actually holding those titles, you know, for the first time.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, to me, it's like I'd much
Speaker 1: rather see something with Hangman, Swerve and FTR, and you know,
Speaker 1: imagine what those matches would look like So we may
Speaker 1: not be getting it now, but at some point it's
Speaker 1: it's something I would like to see, even though it
Speaker 1: would take two you know, big top babyfaces out of
Speaker 1: the World title mix. If the plan is not to
Speaker 1: put the belt back on them many times soon you know,
Speaker 1: once they kind of blow through that it is something
Speaker 1: that they could do, you know, as we get a
Speaker 1: little deeper into the year. But like I said at
Speaker 1: the top of this, like there's obviously some good wrestling
Speaker 1: on the show, you know, a lot of good wrestling
Speaker 1: on the show, but there's just there's really nothing story
Speaker 1: wise on the show that just feels hot right now.
Speaker 1: They don't have like that one big hot story or program.
Speaker 1: Everything just feels like, eh, very mid So that's you know,
Speaker 1: my issue with it. Still nothing with Okata and Takeshta
Speaker 1: because they're just coming off the Tokyo Dome. Hopefully next
Speaker 1: week they can further that story or begin furthering that
Speaker 1: story along a little bit more, because that's the one
Speaker 1: story that honestly, I've really been invested in and they've
Speaker 1: really been taking a slow burn approach with it now
Speaker 1: for many many months. But now that we're kind of
Speaker 1: past Wrestle Kingdom and Continental Classic. This is where things
Speaker 1: ought to start picking up and building towards Revolution. We
Speaker 1: got to be building towards that one big singles match
Speaker 1: at Revolution, bigger than the one we got in the
Speaker 1: semi finals of the tournament, which is why a lot
Speaker 1: of why I think they were holding back because I
Speaker 1: know what these two can go out there and do.
Speaker 1: That coupled with the fact that they had a two
Speaker 1: really big matches coming up on that New Japan show
Speaker 1: and they probably didn't want to go balls out. Plus
Speaker 1: Ocata had another match later with Moxley. Anyway, we didn't
Speaker 1: get them at their full strength that's got to be
Speaker 1: at Revolution, So hopefully we'll get them back on the
Speaker 1: show next week. What as you think of Dynamite here
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma? Only forty point five percent thumbs up for
Speaker 1: tonight's show, thirty eight percent thumbs down, and twenty one
Speaker 1: percent thumbs in the middle, So not a very enthusiastic score,
Speaker 1: although it is I believe, a better score than what
Speaker 1: Raw got on Monday Night, but not by much. Raw
Speaker 1: was not great this week, and neither was Dynamite, although
Speaker 1: at least with Dynamite we didn't get commercial media for
Speaker 1: two and a half hours, so in that regard it
Speaker 1: was better. But yeah, these shows were very mid this week.
Speaker 1: Hopefully SmackDown is not mid on Wednesday. We do not
Speaker 1: need a mid SmackDown show for three hours on Friday night.
Speaker 1: I certainly don't need that going to be in Berlin, Germany,
Speaker 1: by the way, so I get to watch the show
Speaker 1: at I think two o'clock in the afternoon, and if
Speaker 1: that's the case. If that's the case, we're probably looking
Speaker 1: at an eight or eight fifteen stream on Friday night.
Speaker 1: I like the sound of that, so just be aware
Speaker 1: of that. Let's get into your super chats here, and
Speaker 1: we're currently at three hundred. We're at eleven likes, so
Speaker 1: we are behind the four hundred goal for B to B.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do be the booker. This is a last
Speaker 1: call you got until I get through these messages here
Speaker 1: to get those likes up. Hey, Joseph Stewart, good to
Speaker 1: hear from you, brother. I know he's got a bunch
Speaker 1: of questions for me. Good way to take my mind
Speaker 1: off all the ills of the world. When I see
Speaker 1: Joseph Stewart asking so many innocent questions here. It's all good,
Speaker 1: he says. Sebastian stan is cast in the Batman two.
Speaker 1: Looks like he might be playing Harvey Dent slash two face.
Speaker 1: It's a good character. It's a good character to play.
Speaker 1: And the Joker will be in that movie, played by
Speaker 1: actor Barry Keyogan. I don't know who Barry Keyogan is,
Speaker 1: but if that's gonna be, if that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: role he's playing, I don't envy him stepping into those
Speaker 1: shoes coming off of Heath Ledger, although I guess after
Speaker 1: Heath Ledger, who is it that they had playing the Joker? Uh?
Speaker 1: Brainyac will be the main villain in the Superman sequel,
Speaker 1: and Lex Luthor is returning as well. Buyer cell old
Speaker 1: Man Marley from Home Alone or the Pigeon Lady from
Speaker 1: Home Alone too. I gotta go Old Man Marley because
Speaker 1: the Pigeon Lady probably smells like shit. I'd rather hang
Speaker 1: out with him. Now, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I did
Speaker 1: not see. Have I seen so I married an axe murderer? Yes?
Speaker 1: With Mike Myers. Have you watched Stone Cold's recent interview?
Speaker 1: I did. I watched the entire thing. How different would
Speaker 1: Stone Cold's career have been a Vince McMahon had not
Speaker 1: become the mister McMahon character, I don't think that period
Speaker 1: would have been quite as hot as it was. Vince
Speaker 1: is the greatest heel of all time. So if you
Speaker 1: don't have the greatest heel of all time out there
Speaker 1: as the foil for Austin, who's the foil? I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess the rock, but you know he was the
Speaker 1: foil anyway. It was Vince who was sort of directing traffic,
Speaker 1: and he was the one throwing all of these different
Speaker 1: people at him, right, So who would have filled that role?
Speaker 1: There really is nobody else I could think of who
Speaker 1: would have been able to do that kind of a
Speaker 1: job with it. So it would have looked a little
Speaker 1: bit different for sure. If Hogan returned to WWE in
Speaker 1: ninety eight and had had the match with Austin to
Speaker 1: WrestleMania at fourteen, would Mike Tyson still be part of
Speaker 1: WrestleMania and would Hogan be a part of d X. Now,
Speaker 1: Hogan would not be a part of d X. If
Speaker 1: Hogan would have come back to WWE in ninety eight,
Speaker 1: that would have been a disaster for Austin and everybody else.
Speaker 1: Joseph says, if stone Cold against Hogan had happened at
Speaker 1: WrestleMania fourteen, Hogan did return ninety eight, would wrestle Mania
Speaker 1: of fifteen's main event have been Stone Cold against Shawn
Speaker 1: Michaels the next year. No. I mean again, it's an
Speaker 1: impossible thing to even ask a question like that. But
Speaker 1: if Sean gets hurt in ninety eight in the casket match,
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna be around in ninety nine, so he's
Speaker 1: still gone. It doesn't really change what they did with Sean.
Speaker 1: Would the Austin McMahon feud still happen if Hogan returned
Speaker 1: to WWE in ninety eight, No, No, I don't believe
Speaker 1: it does. That's why I said if he came back
Speaker 1: before all that really kind of kicked up, it would
Speaker 1: have been if it would have been a disaster for Austin.
Speaker 1: Do I remember the show Heaven? Yeah? I didn't watch it,
Speaker 1: And I think the guy on that show turned out
Speaker 1: to be a fucking creep, So yeah, fuck that guy.
Speaker 1: Did you watch? Did you used to watch Mad TV?
Speaker 1: H like a wrestler was on, like when Brett was
Speaker 1: on doing stuff with Will Sasso and stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I was never really like a big mad TV guy.
Speaker 1: I would watch like in living color, not really a
Speaker 1: big mad TV guy though, outside of some funny skits
Speaker 1: that I would watch every now and then. Have I
Speaker 1: seen the Bruce Willis movie The Fifth Element? No? Do
Speaker 1: you miss WWE showing what happened last week during commercials
Speaker 1: like the Slam of the Week. Of all the issues
Speaker 1: that I have with WWE programming, the Slam of the
Speaker 1: Week not being there anymore is not the is not
Speaker 1: really a priority for me. Damn Joseph Spamming says no,
Speaker 1: cap he's supporting. I don't see others, So you know what, Joseph,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful. Thank you. Do you miss WWE doing shows
Speaker 1: like Shotgun Saturday Night, WWF, Metal and Jacked? I missed
Speaker 1: the original Shotgun Shotgun? The original concept of Shotgun was great.
Speaker 1: Once it became just another syndicated show, it was useless.
Speaker 1: I had no need for it. Metal in Jacked, you know,
Speaker 1: people got a chance to wrestle on that show where
Speaker 1: they would not be able to wrestle on like Raw
Speaker 1: or SmackDown, so it was good for them, but rarely
Speaker 1: would I check it out. What was the original plans
Speaker 1: for Sunday Night Heat when it first premiered. When it
Speaker 1: first premiered, the product was super fucking hot. Ratings were
Speaker 1: sky high. They wanted to capitalize on that and also
Speaker 1: have a good lead in for the pay per views.
Speaker 1: That was it. I mean, that was really the genesis
Speaker 1: of it. He used to be live, and even Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Heat just became another show. It was taped, and
Speaker 1: you know, like the original concept was cool, but then
Speaker 1: it just became another show. Have you seen the movie
Speaker 1: Painter Wagon with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin? That one
Speaker 1: I did not see. What is your favorite Clint Eastwood movie?
Speaker 1: I mean, True Grit is a good one. You know
Speaker 1: what I always think of though, I always think of Hondo.
Speaker 1: And the reason I think of Hondo is because of
Speaker 1: Married with Children. If you remember, there was that one
Speaker 1: episode where Al's trying to watch Hondo. Honda's coming on tonight,
Speaker 1: Leave me alone. Tonight's the big night Honda's going to
Speaker 1: be on, and I think he gets like trapped in
Speaker 1: a supermarket or something. He ends up missing Hondo. So
Speaker 1: when I think of like Clint Eastwood or not Clint Eastwood,
Speaker 1: When I think of John Wayne I'm thinking of John Wayne.
Speaker 1: By the way, I mixed that super chat up with
Speaker 1: the next one, so true Grit and Honda. We're talking
Speaker 1: John Wayne here. Favorite Clint Eastwood movie though he said
Speaker 1: I like Dirty Harry. Have I seen the John Wayne
Speaker 1: and Mareno Harry movie? McClintock, I haven't believe it or
Speaker 1: not that one I answered. This year in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Adam West Batman
Speaker 1: TV show. Wow, I did not know that. Joseph says
Speaker 1: they will be having a Batman sixty six reunion this
Speaker 1: weekend in Hollywood celebrating the sixtieth anniversary. Julie Newmar, who
Speaker 1: played Catwoman in the show, be at the reunion. She's
Speaker 1: probably one of the only ones who's still alive. She
Speaker 1: may be the only one there. What was your introduction
Speaker 1: to Batman? What was my introduction to Batman? Honestly, it
Speaker 1: may have been that show. It might have been the uh,
Speaker 1: the sixty sixth show, obviously in reruns, because I wasn't
Speaker 1: alive back then when it was originally on the air.
Speaker 1: What do you think I'm a fucking vampire? Holy shit,
Speaker 1: solid monster. I didn't know you look good for fifty seven? Man?
Speaker 1: Is Burt Ward? Is Burt Ward still alive? Is he?
Speaker 1: I just assume everyone's dead. I'm a wrestling fan. What
Speaker 1: do you expect. I assume everyone's fucking dead. Most of
Speaker 1: the shit that I watch on the vault, that's all
Speaker 1: I end up doing. I'm like man like eight guys
Speaker 1: in the ring, and seven of them are dead. It
Speaker 1: was terrible. When the Undertaker debuted in WWE, What was
Speaker 1: your reaction to him? He was kind of scary with
Speaker 1: the bags under the eyes and everything. He was kind
Speaker 1: of intimidating. When Cane debuted in WWE, what was your
Speaker 1: reaction to the Cane debut? I thought it was badass.
Speaker 1: Still think it's the greatest debut in WWE history, ripping
Speaker 1: the door off the hinges. When Mankind debuted, what was
Speaker 1: your reaction to Mankind? My reaction is why is he
Speaker 1: mankind and not cactus shack? And when gold Dust debuted
Speaker 1: in WWE or what was your reaction to gold dust?
Speaker 1: My reaction to gold dust was what the fuck? It
Speaker 1: was very It was very weird. The early iteration of
Speaker 1: gold dust and whatever whatever that costume, Leotarte, whatever it
Speaker 1: was that he wrestled in and he would like he
Speaker 1: would get up on the ropes and pose and do
Speaker 1: the whole you know that that gold dust pose that
Speaker 1: he would do. But like, dude, like you're junk, is
Speaker 1: like sticking out, Like what are you getting excited here?
Speaker 1: During this match? It was freaking me out. Joseph says.
Speaker 1: Do you think Jim Ross will return to w W
Speaker 1: A no to do? What have you seen the Dolph
Speaker 1: Lungern movie Bridge of Dragons? I have not. What is
Speaker 1: your favorite Dolph Lunger movie? I don't know. It might
Speaker 1: be Masters in the Universe. That'd be Rocky four, Rocky
Speaker 1: four and then and then probably Masters of the Universe. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Joseph says, have a blessed day in a great
Speaker 1: week you two, You as well, Joseph, Hopefully I'll see
Speaker 1: you on Friday. Tried Chicken and Ribs twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Say hello to Mercedes crash out Monet. Just like I
Speaker 1: told you a few months ago, I told you this
Speaker 1: is how it would play out. Why are they doing this?
Speaker 1: Where is it leading? Oh? Gee, I wonder lakers. Pat says,
Speaker 1: if Goldberg versus Hogan happened on pay per view, would
Speaker 1: it have been would it have beaten star k ninety
Speaker 1: seven's by rate? And if Brett didn't leave, how would
Speaker 1: you book Wrestlemannia fourteen and Mike Tyson wrestleming Heat fourteen?
Speaker 1: Is Brett versus Austin with Brett putting Austin over. Finally,
Speaker 1: what you do with Shawn Michaels. I don't really give
Speaker 1: a shit. It should have been Brett dropping the belt
Speaker 1: to Austin, and you could have Mike Tyson involved in
Speaker 1: that match exactly the same way that you did. I
Speaker 1: mean you would have to play it a little bit
Speaker 1: differently obviously because there'd be no Dx involved. But it
Speaker 1: should have been Brett and Austin one last time, Brett
Speaker 1: does the honors. That's how it should have happened. And
Speaker 1: as far as Goldberg and Hogan, would it have topped
Speaker 1: Stark's ninety seven's by rate? I don't think so. No. No,
Speaker 1: you got to remember Hogan and Sting was built up
Speaker 1: over eighteen months. Goldberg and Hogan there was no build
Speaker 1: at all, so it would have done a good bye rate,
Speaker 1: But I don't think it would have topped what Stark did. Sidro,
Speaker 1: what did the two pieces of bread? Say on their
Speaker 1: wedding day. It was loaf at first sight. There's our
Speaker 1: introduction for Sidro and I discovered the dolphins have an
Speaker 1: extra sense that humans don't have. I call it a
Speaker 1: sense of poipois. And you got the double drop here.
Speaker 1: It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad, a sense of poipois poipois.
Speaker 1: Sean versus Austin was pretty good. Sean versus Austin was
Speaker 1: really good at the King of the Ring in ninety seven.
Speaker 1: I don't like their WrestleMania match, and neither does Austin.
Speaker 1: Austin doesn't like that match either. Sean did his best.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he did it with his back
Speaker 1: in the state that it was in. But I don't
Speaker 1: like that match. I never did. Solo's favorite Sikoh. Should
Speaker 1: aw have their own hall of fame? And when Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll have their own hall of fame. They could probably
Speaker 1: wait a few more years. This is what year seven?
Speaker 1: This will be year seven? Yeah, I mean you know
Speaker 1: what I think, even if they wait until they hit ten,
Speaker 1: ten years, and yes, they'll be around in ten years.
Speaker 1: Some people like oho, two more years, three more years.
Speaker 1: When the contract is up, that's it. That's the end
Speaker 1: of ADW or like no, when they hit year ten
Speaker 1: ten year anniversary, you could do that too, but then
Speaker 1: you can have a Hall of Fame Arabian Night two
Speaker 1: and a half hours tonight and half the ad breaks
Speaker 1: raw head hashtag. Yeah, they did not assault you in
Speaker 1: the way that Raw did. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: we can call it raw anymore. It's more like, you know,
Speaker 1: WWE ads featuring Raw. It's awful, dude, Like right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the matches and everything, it's just fucking awful. GMB,
Speaker 1: WWE or aw Who would you love to see go
Speaker 1: heal or face? I do think that Cody is a
Speaker 1: heel would would be more fun than what he's doing now.
Speaker 1: So that's one. Who would I like to see go
Speaker 1: heel or face? Cody honestly is probably the main one.
Speaker 1: Like if Cody and Randy were gonna feud, I actually
Speaker 1: think it would be more compelling if it was Randy
Speaker 1: is the face and Cody is the heel. He'd be
Speaker 1: the one. No cap says Hi Solo WWF No Mercy
Speaker 1: or WrestleMania two thousand for the N sixty four obviously
Speaker 1: both games I think are well regarded. No Mercy. I
Speaker 1: feel like no Mercy is like the one that's held
Speaker 1: in high regard. I didn't have an N sixty four though,
Speaker 1: so if I did play it, I think I played
Speaker 1: it maybe at a friend's house, but I didn't own
Speaker 1: an N sixty four, so I didn't own either one
Speaker 1: of them. The Shoulder Demon, AEW the new retirement home
Speaker 1: for XT and A wrestlers, Jarrett Lethal, Alexander Bailey, and
Speaker 1: something the new retirement home for xt and A wrestlers.
Speaker 1: It's the retirement home for ex WWE wrestlers too. And
Speaker 1: Isaac says Forbidden Door twenty twenty six at Arena Mexico.
Speaker 1: What say you? That'd be cool? But I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Tony has said that they're going to definitely do Grand
Speaker 1: Slam Mexico again, and if they do, it probably will
Speaker 1: be at Arena Mexico. I think he wants that on TV.
Speaker 1: I think he wants as a TV special. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see it there, but they're definitely going to
Speaker 1: be back at Arena Mexico this year and we got RDS.
Speaker 1: Harry says, this may be a hot take, but I'm
Speaker 1: picking Oba as the wild card pick to win the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble, and I think he will have fourteen eliminations.
Speaker 1: I think that OBA will have many eliminations in the rumble,
Speaker 1: but will not win. But that would certainly be bold
Speaker 1: if they do choose him. It would be very unlike
Speaker 1: WW to do something like that. Only con of no
Speaker 1: mercy is cutting off the entrance at the ramp. It's
Speaker 1: just funny, you know, Like I'll go back every now
Speaker 1: and then there'll be like a video clip posted of
Speaker 1: like an old entrance from war Zone or Attitude, you know,
Speaker 1: one of those two games. And you know, at the
Speaker 1: time when it came out, you hear the music, and
Speaker 1: I just saw something today someone posted Austin's entrance, right,
Speaker 1: you hear the glass shatter. It's like the coolest thing, right,
Speaker 1: and he walks out and just looking at the animation.
Speaker 1: Now it's so bad, But at the time, it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so cool. But he looks like an old
Speaker 1: primate or something like dragging his arms down to the rate,
Speaker 1: like moving like this. It's awful. But see back then,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, this is so cool. This looks
Speaker 1: so much better than those little sprites that we used
Speaker 1: to have on the old systems. Now, of course everything
Speaker 1: just looks amazing. Either that or it's fucking AI. It
Speaker 1: was a simpler time back then. Anyway, thank you guys
Speaker 1: for hanging out with me here on a Wednesday night,
Speaker 1: A quiet Dynamite review. Not surprising it is not night
Speaker 1: but Friday. I will be live for SmackDown. I will
Speaker 1: keep you posting on x But from what I saw
Speaker 1: when I logged into my VPN and I checked Netflix,
Speaker 1: I think I can watch smack that at two o'clock
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. So what I'd like to do is
Speaker 1: watch it and then I'll have dinner and get ready
Speaker 1: for the stream and probably go live about eight eight
Speaker 1: fifteen Eastern time. I'm definitely not waiting until eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: at night. I'll tell you that right now, So just
Speaker 1: be prepared to join me a little bit earlier than usual,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the three Stages of hell? Will
Speaker 1: we be talking about a new WWE champion? Is this
Speaker 1: the night that Drew MacIntyre finally pulls it off? No
Speaker 1: Cap says, would you say this is the worst? I
Speaker 1: think OSCA disagrees with you. Would you say this is
Speaker 1: the worst era of wrestling? I've seen worse so no,
Speaker 1: I would not say this is the worst era of wrestling.
Speaker 1: And by the way, when you say this is the
Speaker 1: worst era of wrestling, wrestling is not just WWA because
Speaker 1: I know why you're asking that question. This version of WWE,
Speaker 1: this era of WWE is very corporate, and I don't
Speaker 1: like it. I don't like what they've done to the
Speaker 1: product in that regard. It just doesn't feel. It doesn't
Speaker 1: feel the way that it used to, and I think
Speaker 1: that sucks. But it's not just WWE. Wrestling is There's
Speaker 1: a lot of wrestling out there right now. It's not
Speaker 1: just WWE. It's not just aw Maybe you're a New
Speaker 1: Japan fan, maybe you're a TNA fan, maybe you're more
Speaker 1: of an independent fan and you watch a GCW or
Speaker 1: some other promotion. It's like there's so much, you know,
Speaker 1: Juggalo Championship right that, there's so much wrestling now that
Speaker 1: people have access to. Josh Barnett has his Blood Sports stuff,
Speaker 1: which is a very different type of wrestling. So I
Speaker 1: think people sometimes make that mistake where it's like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this era of WWE man man wrestling right now. It's
Speaker 1: like it's not just WWE. Though, Like wrestling is more
Speaker 1: than just WWE. Obviously I cover it. A lot of
Speaker 1: people cover it because it is the I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been watching it my whole life, but it is the
Speaker 1: top promotion. It is the promotion that is most visible
Speaker 1: and watched and viewed. But it is not the only
Speaker 1: one out there. And if one doesn't suit your needs,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you there's another one that will. You just
Speaker 1: got to find out what it is. And Coagy says,
Speaker 1: thank you, solo shout out to Joseph for supporting the
Speaker 1: best podcast in the game and starting conversations. That's why
Speaker 1: we love Joseph. Man. It's funny to me, like, you know,
Speaker 1: people will make comments and mock them and everything, and
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I don't see you supporting You're burying Joseph. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm looking at you. I don't see you
Speaker 1: doing what he's doing. Leave him alone. I'll defend I'll
Speaker 1: be like people are bullying him in the school yard, right,
Speaker 1: you're all ganging up on Joseph. Guess who's coming over
Speaker 1: to defend Joseph and fight off the bullies and punch
Speaker 1: them in the mouth. Me back off, Barry says, have
Speaker 1: you seen the Netflix Sports post about wwepl's. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have the plees up on Netflix, so at least they
Speaker 1: have a place for them. But if they get any
Speaker 1: additional content, I think that's very bad, very very bad.
Speaker 1: I'm going based on their updating of the Raw Vault,
Speaker 1: which has been horrendous, if that is any indication of
Speaker 1: how they would treat like the Territory content or other
Speaker 1: archive WWE stuff, that is going to be absolutely awful.
Speaker 1: I hope they don't get the rights to anything else.
Speaker 1: I really don't fuck them for that. They clearly don't
Speaker 1: give a shit about the Raw Vault. But yes, I
Speaker 1: did see the announcement. All right, be well, stay safe,
Speaker 1: go back and check out all the other content on
Speaker 1: the channel, including the Wrestle Kingdom review. It's like my
Speaker 1: Wrestle Kingdom Express review. It's up there for you right now,
Speaker 1: and come on back here on Friday night we'll talk
Speaker 1: three Stages of Hell and Friday Night SmackDown. Until then,
Speaker 1: take care, guys,