Speaker 1: Tonight was a very newsworthy episode of AW Dynamite, just
Speaker 1: seventy two hours before Grand Slam Australia, which is airing
Speaker 1: on tape delay this weekend. It is a special supersize
Speaker 1: episode of Collision and a lot of the talents are
Speaker 1: already down in Australia. Some of them are missing on
Speaker 1: the show here tonight, but a newsworthy show because we
Speaker 1: had two title changes here on this show. You know,
Speaker 1: we have some championship matches coming up this weekend where
Speaker 1: I think or thought though we might get some title
Speaker 1: changes there. We got two of them here tonight on
Speaker 1: this show, including one in the main event, which saw
Speaker 1: Chris Statlander defending the AW Women's World Championship in a
Speaker 1: strap match against Tecla, a woman that she had already beaten,
Speaker 1: and she effectively was coerced into agreeing to give Tecla
Speaker 1: a rematch for the women's championship. She was the one
Speaker 1: who chose the stipulation, made a strap match and up
Speaker 1: getting beat and Tekla the Toxic Spider is the new
Speaker 1: AW Women's World Champion, with a little assistance from her
Speaker 1: her friends Julia Hart and sky Blue. One of the
Speaker 1: funniest moments. All night was watching them come out and
Speaker 1: do a ref distraction during a match where there were
Speaker 1: no disqualifications. I don't really understand that the title change though. Honestly,
Speaker 1: when you really think about it, we all should have
Speaker 1: seen this coming because there was no reason for this
Speaker 1: match to be happening if not for a title change.
Speaker 1: She already got beat Why run the match back again?
Speaker 1: Why have Chris Statlanders so cavalierly said Okay, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: give you another title shot unless there was going to
Speaker 1: be some fuckery going on, and there was, And now
Speaker 1: Chris Statlander, after one hundred and forty five days, I
Speaker 1: believe as the Women's Champion is champion no more. And
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of talk about the
Speaker 1: kind of run that she had and how underwhelming it felt,
Speaker 1: and I can't even disagree. And it's a weird thing
Speaker 1: for me to sit here and say that, because when
Speaker 1: you look back at how it all started, she won
Speaker 1: the championship. It was in a four way match, but
Speaker 1: she took the championship from timeless Tony Storm, after which
Speaker 1: she got a win over the unbeatable Mercedes Monet, and
Speaker 1: she got to win over Jamie Hayter. So look at
Speaker 1: that trifecta there that Chris Statlander was able to beat
Speaker 1: from the moment she won the championship right on through
Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty five, Tony Storm, Mercedes Monet,
Speaker 1: and Jamie Hater, some of the biggest names in the
Speaker 1: entire division. And yet I sit here and it still
Speaker 1: feels like, Man, what an underwhelming run. And I don't
Speaker 1: blame Chris Statlander for that. They just did not put
Speaker 1: her in the right situations where it mattered, where coming
Speaker 1: off big wins like that, you know, kind of sustained
Speaker 1: that momentum. They didn't do that, And I think that's
Speaker 1: why I'm sitting here right now and it feels like, Man,
Speaker 1: this run when I look back at it. You know,
Speaker 1: over the last few months she got some big wins,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't really feel like a big run. So
Speaker 1: my hope is that, you know, she'll get the belt
Speaker 1: back at some point in the next few months. I hope,
Speaker 1: because I think there's still more work to be done.
Speaker 1: This is an incomplete run for Chris Statlander. If the
Speaker 1: idea was to get the championship on a heel like
Speaker 1: Techla and then have Statlander Chase to get the belt back.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. That's fine, that's wrestling one
Speaker 1: oh one. Not everybody has to have a year plus
Speaker 1: as the champion. But I just hope that that is
Speaker 1: the path that they are taking with her. And Techla's great.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, there's something about Tecla. She's got
Speaker 1: this unique characteristic about her that makes her a little
Speaker 1: bit different than just everybody else, and she's a good wrestler.
Speaker 1: So I don't mind her getting a run with the
Speaker 1: championship so long as they are going to circle back
Speaker 1: around stat Lander because there is more work for her
Speaker 1: to be done here as the champion, I think, so
Speaker 1: not too surprised by what they did there. I was
Speaker 1: far more surprised at the fact that we have a
Speaker 1: brand new TNT champion days after Tamaso Champa debuted in
Speaker 1: this company. Days after Tamaso Champa beat Mark Briscoe to
Speaker 1: win the TNT Championship, Tamaso Champa is TNT Champion no
Speaker 1: more and once again TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher. They actually
Speaker 1: took the title off of Champa tonight, which is a
Speaker 1: head scratching decision. No shade on Fletcher Obviously, Kyle Fletcher
Speaker 1: is great. Clearly they wanted the championship on him heading
Speaker 1: into Grand Slam because Grand Slam is in his hometown
Speaker 1: of Sydney, and he even said after he won the
Speaker 1: belt tonight that he made the promise that when he
Speaker 1: came back home he would be the champion, and so
Speaker 1: he is. There were other ways though, to get him
Speaker 1: in a big match, a big title match in Sydney
Speaker 1: this weekend without taking the title tonight off of Tomaso Champa.
Speaker 1: That was a head scratching decision. But what we got
Speaker 1: with the two of them was an excellent match. It
Speaker 1: was not without criticism. There was an issue, and if
Speaker 1: you watch these shows you can probably figure what it was.
Speaker 1: My one big critique of the match, but it was
Speaker 1: an excellent match, one of the best TV matches, really,
Speaker 1: one of the best matches, not even TV matches, one
Speaker 1: of the best matches we've had so far this year,
Speaker 1: and the year obviously is still very young. But they
Speaker 1: had a tremendous back and forth battle between them. I
Speaker 1: do want to cut people off when they say, well,
Speaker 1: I can't believe that Tony Berry champion tonight. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: could take that shit somewhere else. Again. We go through
Speaker 1: this periodically where we have to sort of educate people
Speaker 1: about what it is to be buried and what it
Speaker 1: is to not be buried and just lose a matching
Speaker 1: a match does not mean buried. The jury is still out.
Speaker 1: We will see where Tomaso Champa goes from here. The
Speaker 1: man calls himself the Psycho Killer, So if this unlocks
Speaker 1: the Psycho Killer, then there is still fun to be
Speaker 1: had with Tomaso Champ in terms of where they could
Speaker 1: take this. The key will, as always, will always be
Speaker 1: in the follow up here. I do not want to
Speaker 1: see Tomaso Champa, after coming in with all this fanfare,
Speaker 1: just kind of slip back down into the abyss with
Speaker 1: so many other people on this roster. We had a
Speaker 1: tag team tonight that made their return on Dynamite. We
Speaker 1: have not seen Private Party since January of last year,
Speaker 1: and no nobody was out hurt. They just disappeared and
Speaker 1: then like a magic trick, they reappeared here on Dynamite tonight.
Speaker 1: They didn't win, but they disappeared. Now the back. I
Speaker 1: don't want to see Champa end up in that sort
Speaker 1: of vortex where he's just sort of forgotten about. He
Speaker 1: came in like a b to lightning, and now he's
Speaker 1: kind of in the place where you would expect him
Speaker 1: to be. So we'll see what the follow up is
Speaker 1: to this. But I just I saw Fletcher win the
Speaker 1: championship in a match that easily could have gone to
Speaker 1: the time limit, and I think in many ways would
Speaker 1: have made sense for it too. And then you run
Speaker 1: it back this weekend and they didn't do that. Maybe
Speaker 1: it'll make more sense when we see what they do
Speaker 1: on the Grand Slam show on Saturday. Because one thing
Speaker 1: that was very noticeable tonight, right before that title match,
Speaker 1: there was a hint that there could be and not
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's imminent necessarily, but sort of
Speaker 1: a hint at a potential rift between Kyle Fletcher and
Speaker 1: Don Kallis in terms of him wanting to go out
Speaker 1: there by himself, not wanting anybody's help, and so naturally
Speaker 1: what ends up happening. Don Kallus goes out there to
Speaker 1: do commentary and Lance Archer is standing at ringside like
Speaker 1: a fucking bodyguard. Again, I I don't book it. So
Speaker 1: there were some there were some head scratching things about
Speaker 1: this show, but I cannot hate on that match. That
Speaker 1: was easily the best match on the entire show. Very
Speaker 1: heavy on the end ring tonight. We've had shows like
Speaker 1: this over the last several weeks where it'll be very
Speaker 1: heavy on the end ring, very light on the story,
Speaker 1: and then they get a little bit heavier on the
Speaker 1: story and then they kind of slide back to this.
Speaker 1: This was a good show. It was not a show
Speaker 1: without a perfect show. It was not a show without
Speaker 1: its flaws, and we will get into them, but the
Speaker 1: end ring is really what carried this show. A little
Speaker 1: bit of story progression, not a whole lot. This show
Speaker 1: really was geared towards building to the matches that are
Speaker 1: on the card for Saturday. You know, it's not a
Speaker 1: pay per view, but they're basically treating it like a
Speaker 1: pay per view. So this was the go home show,
Speaker 1: and they treated it in many ways like you would
Speaker 1: a pay per view go home show, where they were
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, give that little bit of a push,
Speaker 1: that final push here before the key matches on the show,
Speaker 1: a grand slam. So that's what we got tonight. That's
Speaker 1: pretty much what the rest of it was. But I
Speaker 1: did think it was a good show. Overall, especially that
Speaker 1: TNT title match. We will talk about it. This is
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Speaker 1: get into this show. Here. I should point out Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson was back, which is very interesting because Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: had been missing from the announced team for the last
Speaker 1: several weeks, and I believe because of the effect that's
Speaker 1: been having on his neck. Evidently he was doing pretty
Speaker 1: well neck wise. He's feeling pretty good. He had talked
Speaker 1: to Adam Copeland, who had recommended some story I don't
Speaker 1: if it was a doctor or a masseuse or whoever
Speaker 1: it was to kind of work on his neck, and
Speaker 1: so he was kind of sleeping through the night a
Speaker 1: little bit better. He was feeling good. Then he started
Speaker 1: doing Coming and Terry weekly in aaw and flying around
Speaker 1: and traveling, and he said that it really wreaked Tavoc
Speaker 1: with his neck and he got far worse. So I
Speaker 1: assume that was going to be it, except maybe for
Speaker 1: pay per views. But there he was. Now they were
Speaker 1: out west tonight, they were in California. I believe he's
Speaker 1: still living in Washington. Is an Aberdeen? Is he in Aberdeen?
Speaker 1: He's built from Aberdeen. I don't know if he's actually
Speaker 1: living in Aberdeen or if he's in California. So it
Speaker 1: may have been that he didn't have a far distance
Speaker 1: to travel. I'm not expecting him to make the trip
Speaker 1: to Australia. I don't want him to do anything that's
Speaker 1: going to make his neck any worse than it already is.
Speaker 1: But it was good to have him back on the
Speaker 1: show tonight with Tony Shavanni in ex caliber. Tony Shavanni
Speaker 1: was already in the ring to open the show and
Speaker 1: he was out there to introduce two men, two men
Speaker 1: who we found out are going to be butting heads
Speaker 1: next week. We were wondering when this match was going
Speaker 1: to happen. Now we have our answer, but it was
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega and it was Swerve Strickland, so they came
Speaker 1: out to the ring for a face to face. This
Speaker 1: was after the confrontation they had last week after Omega
Speaker 1: had lost to Andrade and they had gotten up at
Speaker 1: each other's face because Swerve had come out to stop
Speaker 1: him from using the screwdriver. All that ended up doing
Speaker 1: was distracted the referee. Kenny got kicked low and so
Speaker 1: tempers flared. So here we are here in this segment
Speaker 1: and he goes to Swerve first, and Shavanni asks him,
Speaker 1: you know about what's been going on lately. Swerve says
Speaker 1: that a lot of the tension or Shravanni says, a
Speaker 1: lot of the tensions seems to be coming from you.
Speaker 1: Swarve says, it's been lingering for a while. Five years ago,
Speaker 1: Kenny was on top of the industry and that was
Speaker 1: the last time that he happened to be the AW
Speaker 1: World Champion, which I guess is true. Hasn't been five
Speaker 1: years wow, twenty one. Yeah, it's been a while since
Speaker 1: we've had Kenny as the champion. Everyone outside of AAW
Speaker 1: was scratching and clawing to come here to face Omega
Speaker 1: Swerve was one of those people, and finally, in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, he makes his way to aaw By the
Speaker 1: time he makes it to the top, though, where's Kenny Omega?
Speaker 1: He says, where's the cleaner? Where's the best bout machine?
Speaker 1: The so called god of pro wrestling? He was nowhere
Speaker 1: to be found. He's either laid up in a hospital
Speaker 1: bed or suspended. He said, sounds like a false prophet
Speaker 1: to me. In Kenny's absence, the congregation started looking for
Speaker 1: a new prophet to follow. Every city they go to,
Speaker 1: the church sings Swerve's house. Now Kenny wants to march
Speaker 1: back in here and insert himself into the title picture.
Speaker 1: It almost feels like Kenny is using his EVP power.
Speaker 1: He's had to fight some EVPs in the past, actually
Speaker 1: for the past two years who liked to abuse their power,
Speaker 1: and he ended that last summer he said, if Kenny
Speaker 1: uses his power to step in front of him, he's
Speaker 1: going to put him down. Then it was Kenny's turn.
Speaker 1: He wanted to correct Swerve on one little detail. He
Speaker 1: never once called himself the god of pro wrestling. He says,
Speaker 1: that is a name that people gave him. They come out,
Speaker 1: they make signs, they wear t shirts, they chant, they cheer,
Speaker 1: and they know that if they see a Kenny Omega match,
Speaker 1: they're going to get the absolute best. Whether you call
Speaker 1: that the power of a god or not, that's in
Speaker 1: the eye of the beholder. But he takes their beliefs
Speaker 1: as a great responsibility. It may be Swerve's house, maybe
Speaker 1: the lights are on in that house, but no one's home.
Speaker 1: And if you need someone else to burn down that house,
Speaker 1: he's got just the friend who's had experience doing that. Yes,
Speaker 1: the arsonist himself another crime committed on AW television, to
Speaker 1: say nothing of the kidnap that we saw last week
Speaker 1: with Darby Allen being left for dead in the desert.
Speaker 1: We'll get to him a little bit later on, but
Speaker 1: he says he doesn't need EVP influence. He's been getting
Speaker 1: wins and if it wasn't for Swerve last week, it
Speaker 1: would have been him going to Australia and then going
Speaker 1: on to challenge for and win the AW World title.
Speaker 1: What he's asking from Swerve is for a fight. He's
Speaker 1: seen the way that he looks at him with disrespect.
Speaker 1: He sees him talking strategy with Prince Nana, whispering sweet
Speaker 1: nothings in his ear, planning and plotting. If you want
Speaker 1: the match, you got it, So Swerve, he's gonna make
Speaker 1: it simple, accept or yield. What video game is that from?
Speaker 1: I'm sure with Omega it's always some kind of a
Speaker 1: video game reference. Swerve said, Kenny's just scared because their generation,
Speaker 1: they're already ahead of him. You want to go face
Speaker 1: to face with me, the most dangerous man in adew
Speaker 1: And then Kenny cut him off and said, the most
Speaker 1: dangerous man in AW right now, isn't you. It's Brody King. Well,
Speaker 1: what Swerve was gonna say? How about he puts Kenny
Speaker 1: back in the hospital bed and this time he's not
Speaker 1: getting up out of it. And Kenny said, well that's
Speaker 1: a heck of an idea, and he smacks the shit
Speaker 1: out of him. So Swerve, now he removes his jacket,
Speaker 1: he's got his back turned to Omega. He said, well,
Speaker 1: it looks like you've made your choice. Whatever happens next,
Speaker 1: that's on you, and he took him down, so they
Speaker 1: fought out to the floor. Swerve sent Omega into the
Speaker 1: barricade and then into the ring steps. Omega, though, came
Speaker 1: back by throwing Swerve over the barricade into the crowd.
Speaker 1: He hit him with a chair. Now they're brawling through
Speaker 1: the crowd, and they're going through all the fans. They
Speaker 1: brawl all the way back over to the entrance ramp.
Speaker 1: And I'm watching this and I'm like, there's nobody coming out.
Speaker 1: Every single week when we watched these shows, whether it's Dynamite,
Speaker 1: whether it's raw SmackDown. If you so much as spit
Speaker 1: in the direction of the other person and there's not
Speaker 1: a match going on, you've got all kinds of security
Speaker 1: geeks and officials and agents and people running out to
Speaker 1: break things up within a second. These guys have been
Speaker 1: fighting in the ring, they've been fighting on the floor,
Speaker 1: they've been fighting in the crowd, they're fighting on the
Speaker 1: entrance ramp. I don't see a single referee. I don't
Speaker 1: see a single security part, which is great. Inconsistent, but
Speaker 1: it's great. I'm just watching this going where they locked
Speaker 1: in a room somewhere. I mean, you got two of
Speaker 1: the biggest stars in this company who are practically killing
Speaker 1: each other out here, and nobody is coming out. I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's see how long this goes on for. So they're
Speaker 1: brawling on the stage now, and Swerve is down on
Speaker 1: his knees and he's right in front of the giant
Speaker 1: video wall, and omegabacks up and he comes charging in
Speaker 1: with a v trigger and he blasts Swerve in the
Speaker 1: head and knocks him into the his head into the
Speaker 1: video wall. Still nobody's out here. So Kenny then gets
Speaker 1: him up on his shoulders for a one winged angel,
Speaker 1: possibly off the ramp, getting not a long distance, but
Speaker 1: you know they're up there, whatever three feet maybe, So
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to do it, and then Swerve begins
Speaker 1: stabbing at his head. And now I couldn't tell. He
Speaker 1: had something in his hand. I couldn't tell what it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it might have been a screwdriver. Again,
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell. I mean, I know that's Don Kallis's gimmick,
Speaker 1: but whatever it was, he was stabbing Omega in the
Speaker 1: head with it. So he gets back to his feet
Speaker 1: and then he spears Kenny off the stage and they
Speaker 1: both go crashing through two tables down below, and like
Speaker 1: as soon as you see the impact, crash, impact, and
Speaker 1: they hit the floor. Here come all the officials. Now
Speaker 1: the bodies pour out from the back to try to
Speaker 1: separate these two and check on these two guys, like,
Speaker 1: where the hell were you before this? Anyway, this was
Speaker 1: obviously degenerated into chaos here. I mean, the back and
Speaker 1: forth was fine. This is a match, is a big
Speaker 1: time match. And when we talked about this last week,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, Omega and Swerve, that could be
Speaker 1: a Revolution match. It could be a number one contenders
Speaker 1: match a Revolution and the winner of that match can
Speaker 1: get the next shot right coming out of Revolution. Whoever
Speaker 1: wins between MJF and Hangman, or MJF and Andrede, whatever
Speaker 1: the match is, and then maybe it's Kenny an MJF
Speaker 1: and Vancouver, and it may well all work out that way.
Speaker 1: There is now talk that Kenny Omega will not be
Speaker 1: available for Revolution. That's not confirmed. I would imagine they're
Speaker 1: trying to work that out, but instead of waiting, they're
Speaker 1: doing the match on TV next week. We got the
Speaker 1: announcement a few minutes later that on Dynamite next week
Speaker 1: in Sacramento it is going to be Kenny Omega against
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland. And they didn't say there was, you know,
Speaker 1: like a number one Contenders match or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It's just the big match, and it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: we have to get a winner next week. It could
Speaker 1: degenerate into chaos the way that it did. Hear, you
Speaker 1: could have other people running out because there's six or
Speaker 1: eight different people right now who are gunning for MJF
Speaker 1: in that championship. So there's no guarantee that we're going
Speaker 1: to get a winner, a clean winner in the match
Speaker 1: next week. This could be the first of two matches
Speaker 1: between them, and then maybe they do end up doing
Speaker 1: a rematch a Revolution, so we'll see. I'm not expecting
Speaker 1: a clean Winter next week because to me, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really make any sense to do it. Like if Swerve
Speaker 1: beats Omega next week, you've just killed Kenny's arc at
Speaker 1: least for a few more months. And it's like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: Swerve beat Omega, but he's not getting the shot at Revolution.
Speaker 1: The earliest he would even get his shot would be Dynasty.
Speaker 1: So to have a clean winner next week honestly doesn't
Speaker 1: even make any sense. It's rare that I will sit
Speaker 1: here and argue for anything but a clean finish, But
Speaker 1: if I were a betting man, I would say we're
Speaker 1: not getting one next week. I also think by the way,
Speaker 1: they could have done a better job at the very
Speaker 1: end of the show tonight of really pushing that match.
Speaker 1: I think it was mentioned almost in passing at the
Speaker 1: end by ex Caliber, but when they were like rushing
Speaker 1: off the air, I think they should have done an
Speaker 1: even better job there, like a real big hard sell
Speaker 1: on commentary, bigger than they did for that match, because
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. Nel Swerven Omega is one of
Speaker 1: the bigger matches that you will see in aw the backstage,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher was with Don Kallis. They were being interviewed
Speaker 1: by Renee and Fletcher asked, Callous do me a favor.
Speaker 1: Let me go out there against Tomaso Champa tonight for
Speaker 1: the TNT title by myself. I'm gonna do this by myself,
Speaker 1: and Callous was okay. He goes, okay, yeah, no problem, ilogist,
Speaker 1: I'll chill on commentary. I'll let you do your thing.
Speaker 1: He was cool with it. So that match was later
Speaker 1: in the show. First up, though, we had the Death
Speaker 1: Riders and Barry shout out to Barry in the chat
Speaker 1: he says he was there in person. Dynamite was great.
Speaker 1: I'll say this much about the crowded they were in Ontario,
Speaker 1: California tonight. The crowd was loud. Crowd was very loud
Speaker 1: and into the show, which always helps enhance the show.
Speaker 1: So good on you Berry, Good on all the people
Speaker 1: in Ontario, California. They could be back in California next week.
Speaker 1: We'll see if Sacramento is the same way. So we
Speaker 1: had the Death Riders, John Moxley, we had Claudio, and
Speaker 1: we had Pack. They were taking on Kenoski, Takeshta, Josh
Speaker 1: Alexander and Mark Davis representing the Don Kallis family. These
Speaker 1: two groups have been feuding now for years, I mean weeks,
Speaker 1: feels like years, but they've gone back and forth now
Speaker 1: for a while. Pack and Mark Davis, they kicked things off.
Speaker 1: Moxley tagged in pretty quick and he was matching up
Speaker 1: with Davis. He landed some punches and chops in the corner.
Speaker 1: Davis fired back huge chop of his own. Down goes Moxley.
Speaker 1: Claudio gets in, Takesha tagged in a couple of minutes later.
Speaker 1: So they're going back and forth. So the action spills
Speaker 1: out to the floor. Big brawl breaks out with all
Speaker 1: six men. Pack ends up the legal man. He gets
Speaker 1: isolated by the heels in their corner Takeshta. He shut
Speaker 1: down a comeback attempt by pulling Pack down to the
Speaker 1: floor as he was going for a springboard. Josh Alexander
Speaker 1: tagged in and he lost focus due to Moxley, so
Speaker 1: Pack was able to make a tag to Claudio. He
Speaker 1: got in uppercuts to Davis and Alexander. Alexander took a
Speaker 1: giant swing Davis, though interrupted it. Claudio then delivered a
Speaker 1: big power slam to Davis for a near fall. Moxley
Speaker 1: into Qushta. They end up as the legal men trading.
Speaker 1: Now they're wrestling this weekend for the Continental title, so
Speaker 1: they're trading haymakers. They both go down. Moxley went for
Speaker 1: a death rider, Davis broke it up and Takeshta lands
Speaker 1: an exploder on Moxley for a near fall. They they
Speaker 1: did keep the interaction between them to a minimum, so
Speaker 1: we got some action from Moxley and Takesha, but they again,
Speaker 1: you will save most of it for the match, so
Speaker 1: they tried not to give too much away here. Death
Speaker 1: riders took turns taking shots at Takeshta. Moxley made a
Speaker 1: cover after a cutter. Davis, though broke it up again.
Speaker 1: Davis was in the middle of everything here in this match,
Speaker 1: and again I feel bad for Mark Davis because I
Speaker 1: felt like for him especially he had a good thing
Speaker 1: going that was only really first getting going with him
Speaker 1: and Jake Doyle, and then Doyle tore his bicep. He's
Speaker 1: gone for a while, so it's like, well, what the
Speaker 1: hell happens now with Mark Davis. Davis is good, you know,
Speaker 1: he's just he's that. He's that brawler type who goes
Speaker 1: out there, has these kind of big impact, sudden move
Speaker 1: I like when he grabs somebody into that pile driver,
Speaker 1: how sudden it is. Again, he reminds me of like
Speaker 1: a Bradshaw back in the APA days, a right at,
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger, a little bit wider. But I like,
Speaker 1: I like him, and I hope they find a role
Speaker 1: for him, even if it's just, you know, in multiman
Speaker 1: matches like this, just to keep him in the mix. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I would imagine when Doyle comes back, they might
Speaker 1: want to restart the team again. And that's fine six
Speaker 1: months from now, but what do you do in the meantime, right,
Speaker 1: But he was all over the place here in this match,
Speaker 1: But it ended with Moxley delivering a Death Rider to
Speaker 1: Josh Alexander for the win. Dare I say, I can't
Speaker 1: even believe that I'm sitting here and going to even
Speaker 1: say this, But dare I say that the Death Riders
Speaker 1: have been more in enjoyable or tolerable when the entire
Speaker 1: show is not essentially built around them. They've become more
Speaker 1: tolerable than they were six or eight months ago. And
Speaker 1: that's all I wanted. I wanted them. I wanted the
Speaker 1: focus away from them, and the focus in the world
Speaker 1: title scened to be on someone other than John Moxley
Speaker 1: and something other than the title being kept in a briefcase,
Speaker 1: hidden away and hearing that fucking music come on in
Speaker 1: the main event every single week. So I don't even
Speaker 1: mind the fact that they still exist. Kind of surprised
Speaker 1: that they're even still around, and it's very clear that
Speaker 1: they're not going anywhere. We all know, like a lot
Speaker 1: of us thought, right, we all thought a few months ago, Okay,
Speaker 1: the downfall of the Death Riders is coming. And I
Speaker 1: don't feel that way at all anymore. I think that
Speaker 1: they're comfortable with the Death Riders continuing to exist. Maybe
Speaker 1: they'll even add new members in the future. They go
Speaker 1: back and forth between Heel and Babyface. People still cheer
Speaker 1: John Moxley, but they're booing the shit out a Wheeler,
Speaker 1: Yuda and Marina Shaffir. It doesn't make any fucking sense.
Speaker 1: But as long as they're not the primary focus of
Speaker 1: the show, they're a lot more digestible. But they've been
Speaker 1: trading wins, these two groups back and forth now for
Speaker 1: a while. If you remember last week we had a
Speaker 1: trios match, Takeshta pinned Daniel Garcia in that match, I mean,
Speaker 1: who doesn't beat Daniel Garcia, So they got the win
Speaker 1: last week. Moxley picks up the win here not Takeshta
Speaker 1: to give him a little bit of an edge heading
Speaker 1: into their title match on Saturday. As far as where
Speaker 1: I think that goes, I think we're getting a title change.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. That's what I would do. Get
Speaker 1: that continental title on Kenoski Takeshta, and then pick up
Speaker 1: with the story that I would like to see more
Speaker 1: than any other outside of the world title stuff. And
Speaker 1: they've gotten away from it, which is Okata and Takeshta.
Speaker 1: You have to circle back around to it. And if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that. Let's say for a revolution, Okata
Speaker 1: is still the International champion. Takesha has no title, he
Speaker 1: doesn't even have the IWGP title anymore. But if you
Speaker 1: put the continental title on him, you get champion against champion,
Speaker 1: and when Takeshta beat him, then you unify them again.
Speaker 1: You bring back the unified title. Two becomes one, right,
Speaker 1: just like the Spice Girl said, when two becomes one,
Speaker 1: there's a reference for you. You know, I've been talking
Speaker 1: of Lincoln Park a lot lately, and I felt like
Speaker 1: I had to throw a Spice Girl's reference in there.
Speaker 1: You never know what is going to come out on
Speaker 1: these streams. You never know who's going to get name
Speaker 1: dropped here. I don't know how I was talking about
Speaker 1: John Moxley and I ended up on fucking Spice Girls.
Speaker 1: But in any event, let's talk about the best part
Speaker 1: of the entire show, which was the TNT Championship match
Speaker 1: Tamaso Champa against Kyle Fletcher with Lance Archer in his
Speaker 1: corner and Don Kallis sitting in on commentary. Fletcher literally
Speaker 1: just asked to go it alone. And not only is
Speaker 1: callous out there on commentary, but Lance Archer is standing
Speaker 1: there at ringside. I don't I don't understand. Maybe he
Speaker 1: meant you can observe, just don't physically get involved in
Speaker 1: my match. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: Champa just debuted two weeks ago on this very show.
Speaker 1: This was already the third Championship match that he was
Speaker 1: involved in in eleven days. Mind you, they traded chops
Speaker 1: early on. Champa, though, got an early advantage with a DDT.
Speaker 1: He tossed Fletcher out to the floor into the barricade.
Speaker 1: Fletcher replied with a half and half. Champa came back
Speaker 1: with a very gnarly air raid crash on the flat
Speaker 1: part of the ring steps. Fletcher crawled back into the ring.
Speaker 1: Champa delivered a running knee to the side of the head.
Speaker 1: Later on, Fletcher delivered a huge lagger bomb for a
Speaker 1: near fall, and Champa was able to avoid the brainbuster.
Speaker 1: He tried to leap out onto Fletcher on the floor. Fletcher, though,
Speaker 1: delivered an apron power bomb, so there was nearly a
Speaker 1: referee bump in the corner. Champa, though, avoided it, and
Speaker 1: then Fletcher blindsided him with I think it was a
Speaker 1: halluva kick and a brain buster. Only got a two
Speaker 1: point nine count out of it. It was that closed.
Speaker 1: It was razor thin, but he kicks out. Fletcher then
Speaker 1: tried for his avalanche brainbuster on the ropes. Champa, though
Speaker 1: countered out into a German souplex. Champa followed up with
Speaker 1: two more running knee strikes. That's how he won the
Speaker 1: championship with a knee strike, so he went for two more,
Speaker 1: both for near falls. Kyle Fletcher is still alive. Both
Speaker 1: men were down at this point, as Justin Roberts alerted
Speaker 1: us that there were five minutes left in this match,
Speaker 1: So fifteen had gone by five minutes remaining, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking at this point, okay, this is going to go
Speaker 1: the distance. It's going to go the distance, and they
Speaker 1: could always run it back, right, I'm kind of seeing
Speaker 1: where it looks like it's going here. It's just this
Speaker 1: very even back and forth battle. Fletcher picks up Shampa.
Speaker 1: He lawn darts him into the corner head first. Champa
Speaker 1: landed another running knee strike, and again he covered him
Speaker 1: for yet another near fall. Fletcher kicks out. Fletcher fired up.
Speaker 1: He delivered a Mitchinoku driver, followed by a lariat and
Speaker 1: one final brain buster, and Kyle Fletcher, for the second
Speaker 1: time in his career, is the TNT champion. After the match,
Speaker 1: Fletcher was interviewed in the ring by Renee What's next?
Speaker 1: He said, What's next is that I'm coming home with
Speaker 1: the TNT title. Fletcher said that he was showing up
Speaker 1: to Sydney and he would finally get the heroes welcome
Speaker 1: that he deserved to get last year, and he would
Speaker 1: defend his title on that show against anyone from anywhere.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, get ready to fly. No, that would
Speaker 1: have been something though, if we would have heard that music.
Speaker 1: But now he's extending here's the open challenge again, right
Speaker 1: anyone anywhere. I'll put my title on the line. Mark
Speaker 1: Briscow walks out on stage. We're back to this again.
Speaker 1: We're back to this yet again. Mark Briscow is out
Speaker 1: and he congratulates Fletcher. He said he didn't know if
Speaker 1: his ass could cash the check that his mouth was writing.
Speaker 1: He said that they were three for three in six
Speaker 1: battles so far. I was like, that sounds about right,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I've seen this at least half
Speaker 1: a dozen times, and in fact, we have seen it
Speaker 1: half a dozen times. So but they're even three wins apiece,
Speaker 1: which means he wants the rubber match. He wants game seven,
Speaker 1: he says, and he'll even give Fletcher a home field
Speaker 1: advantage for game seven. Fletcher said, look, I am sick
Speaker 1: of you, but I did say I would fight anyone.
Speaker 1: So he accepts, but he goes, if we're going to
Speaker 1: do this, you're going to reach for the sky game seven,
Speaker 1: then it's going to have to be bigger than all
Speaker 1: the rest. And so it will be Kyle Fletcher and
Speaker 1: Mark Prescow for the TNT Championship Game seven in a
Speaker 1: ladder match, and I have to go back and watch
Speaker 1: it again. I believe Don Kallis had a look on
Speaker 1: his face like he might not have been happy with
Speaker 1: that decision from Kyle Fletcher's, which again feeds into what
Speaker 1: I said before about their potentially being a rift forming
Speaker 1: between Fletcher, which honestly, I can't even say a rift form.
Speaker 1: I think that the seed was already planted back at
Speaker 1: World's End in the Continental Classic when he was going
Speaker 1: fishing around for the screwdriver and the turnbuckle and he
Speaker 1: couldn't find it. So I feel like there are already
Speaker 1: little hints of it. And breadcrumbs that they've been dropping
Speaker 1: that'll feed into a larger story at some point. Let
Speaker 1: me talk about the match first. The match was a
Speaker 1: fantastic battle and the fans were super into it. Just
Speaker 1: a great wrestling match, and it fell victim. The one
Speaker 1: critique I have it fell victim to one too many
Speaker 1: near falls where they just go overboard with it. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't mind, and then other times I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here going come on. Tonight, I was sitting here going
Speaker 1: come on. I think that they would have been better
Speaker 1: served to just shave a couple of those off. Right.
Speaker 1: You have a couple of dramatic near fall, but they
Speaker 1: just they just take it too far and it just
Speaker 1: gets to a point where it's like, come on, now right,
Speaker 1: and then boom, the finish comes from out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: So I didn't like that. I wish they would have
Speaker 1: shaved some of those off. But what a fucking match
Speaker 1: this was, right. I can't otherwise say enough good things
Speaker 1: about this match. I was stunned. I was stunned to
Speaker 1: see Champa lose this match. I did tweet during the
Speaker 1: match before it was over, and I stand by this.
Speaker 1: I mean, to me, it's plain as day watching him
Speaker 1: on TV, that Tomaso Champa. Ever since he showed up here,
Speaker 1: Inaaw has been reinvigorated, like he is a guy with
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder who looks and feels like
Speaker 1: he is out there to prove a point. And as
Speaker 1: he has said in interviews recently, where people are always
Speaker 1: saying to him, oh, black and gold Champa, black and gold,
Speaker 1: Champa missed that guy twenty eighteen missed that Champa. He's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, fuck you man, Like, I'm better than
Speaker 1: that guy. I'm gonna go out and show you. And
Speaker 1: in these last eleven days, you look at the matches
Speaker 1: that he's had, whether it was against Brisco, whether it
Speaker 1: was that was a three way I think right with
Speaker 1: Claudio and Roddy. This match here, he's been killing it
Speaker 1: and I'm like watching this going long, may it continue.
Speaker 1: But I didn't expect him to lose the fucking thing
Speaker 1: here in this match after he just won it. So
Speaker 1: I see Kyle Fletcher get the three count and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck. And then he's talking about going home.
Speaker 1: I'm going home to Sydney. I'm gonna have a big
Speaker 1: match on the show, right, big title match? On the show,
Speaker 1: and you could have gotten there the same way by
Speaker 1: allowing this to go the distance they had gone over
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. They were right there. Let the match go
Speaker 1: to a time limit, draw, run the match back on Saturday,
Speaker 1: a grand slim. You could even do the same ladder
Speaker 1: match stipulation and we get Fletcher against Champa with an
Speaker 1: actual winner. So I don't know why they decided, well,
Speaker 1: we got to go back now to brisco and Fletcher.
Speaker 1: I guess because they're tied, I guess, But I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's old hat at this point. I would
Speaker 1: have much rather just seen Fletcher and Champa run it
Speaker 1: back for a second time, then Fletcher and brisco run
Speaker 1: it back for a seventh time. It was, I guess,
Speaker 1: the best of seven series. We just didn't know it.
Speaker 1: And no shade on Mark Briscoe. And obviously I like
Speaker 1: Mark Briscoe and they had really great matches together, but
Speaker 1: that's just not the match that I was hoping to say.
Speaker 1: It just feels like we're taking a step back by
Speaker 1: going back to this again. I mean, you heard what
Speaker 1: Fletcher said at the beginning of his Pro Bowl, like
Speaker 1: I'm sick of you and I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: he's not wrong. Meanwhile, as all of this is going
Speaker 1: on and they're cutting promos on each other, they cut
Speaker 1: to Champa who's just sitting on the ground outside, up
Speaker 1: against the barricade with his head in his hands, And
Speaker 1: I'm watching this and my only thought is I really
Speaker 1: hope that you know, he doesn't just fade down the
Speaker 1: car this soon. His nickname is Psycho Killer. You can
Speaker 1: very easily rope him back into the mix here by
Speaker 1: having him get involved in that ladder match on Saturday.
Speaker 1: And honestly, it could go either way. You know, he
Speaker 1: could assist Mark Briscoe in beating Kyle Fletcher for the
Speaker 1: championship because he's just upset he lost to Kyle Fletcher.
Speaker 1: Or he could cost Mark Briscoe the match because he's
Speaker 1: a fucking psycho and heal. Champa is probably the best Champa.
Speaker 1: So if he turns, I would say turning is the
Speaker 1: right word. But if he costs Mark Briscoe the TNT title,
Speaker 1: right getting it back, then Fletcher he'll go on to
Speaker 1: do whatever he's gonna do with the championship. At least
Speaker 1: Champa then has somebody to work with in Mark Briscoe.
Speaker 1: But if he's such a psycho killer, then show it,
Speaker 1: show it. Let him show up during the ladder match
Speaker 1: and wrek havoc and get involved. I want him to
Speaker 1: stay in that team anti title mixed in some way.
Speaker 1: That's the key. Tony was very insistent on bringing Champa
Speaker 1: in in grand fashion, which he did, wins a championship
Speaker 1: right away, has these kick ass matches. Okay, well, how
Speaker 1: do you keep that momentum going? I know you don't do,
Speaker 1: but how do you keep that momentum going if you
Speaker 1: are not going to put the belt back on him?
Speaker 1: And I'm not even sure I want them to, because
Speaker 1: now you're playing hot potato with the belt that's going
Speaker 1: from Briscoe to Champa, from Champa to Fletcher, back to Champa.
Speaker 1: You want to keep it on Kyle Fletcher for a while,
Speaker 1: Go right ahead. Just I hope that there's something solid,
Speaker 1: you know, for Champa to really sink his teeth into.
Speaker 1: He has shown him these last few matches that he
Speaker 1: is every bit as good as he says he is.
Speaker 1: He's a lot of fun to watch. He's one of
Speaker 1: those guys when you watch him in the ring, he's
Speaker 1: very intense. There are a few guys like that. He'li
Speaker 1: get Dragonov is probably number one on that list in
Speaker 1: terms of the most intense wrestlers in the ring these days.
Speaker 1: But he just he has that you know quality to him.
Speaker 1: It just makes his matches a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: So yeah, very head scratching decision there to take the
Speaker 1: belt off him in the way that they did. But
Speaker 1: I look, I can't say enough good things about the
Speaker 1: match itself. These guys went out there and they stole
Speaker 1: the show, plain and simple. What did not steal the
Speaker 1: show was Roderick Strong and Orange Cassidy taking on Daniel
Speaker 1: Garcia and Clark Connors, who is officially with AW And
Speaker 1: there's the connection there with the Death Riders. Of course
Speaker 1: they're friendly with the war Dogs, right, Bullet Club war Dogs,
Speaker 1: Gabe Kid, Clark Connors, So Connors was teaming up tonight
Speaker 1: with with Daniel Garcia, So Connors and Strong they kicked
Speaker 1: things off. Cassidy tagged in later he and Roddy. They
Speaker 1: had an argument about it. Now, Roddy doesn't like Orange Cassidy, right,
Speaker 1: This has been established now for a while, so they
Speaker 1: weren't exactly on the same page here. Cassidy sent both
Speaker 1: Garcia and Connors to the floor. Strong, though walked away
Speaker 1: from the ring. When Orange Cassidy went for a tag,
Speaker 1: he pulled the old sid on Hogan's spot and he
Speaker 1: walked out on his tag team partner. Moxley was on
Speaker 1: commentary for this match, and he just was He was
Speaker 1: cackling on commentary when he saw this. Connor's and Garcia
Speaker 1: they doubled up on Cassidy in the corner. Connors delivered
Speaker 1: a big spear through the ropes onto the apron and
Speaker 1: he shut down a comeback attempt by Cassidy. He went
Speaker 1: for a second spear on the floor. He ran himself
Speaker 1: though into the barricade where Darby Allen appeared. He was
Speaker 1: on the other side of the barricade and he pulled
Speaker 1: Connors over and into the crowd. Now, I would love
Speaker 1: to know how was Darby Allen rescued after he was
Speaker 1: left for dead in the middle of the desert last week.
Speaker 1: We need the backstory to that. I need to know why.
Speaker 1: I need to know how the man was rescued and
Speaker 1: found his way back. But there he was, so he
Speaker 1: went off with Connor's. Cassidy managed to roll up Garcia
Speaker 1: in the ring to get the wind, so even two
Speaker 1: on one, Daniel Garcia still loses. After the match, Tony Storm,
Speaker 1: she was suddenly up in one of the luxury boxes
Speaker 1: in the crowd. She says she made peace with her choices,
Speaker 1: because again she's gonna be teeming with orange cassidy this weekend.
Speaker 1: She's made peace with her choices, calling Marina Shaffir a
Speaker 1: mixed martial asshole, and she said that she deserved to
Speaker 1: get her head shaved if she managed to knock her
Speaker 1: out her being Tony, right, I deserve to get my
Speaker 1: head shaved. But if Tony manages to be Marina, she
Speaker 1: would shave her head so bald that they would sell her.
Speaker 1: At Spirit Halloween, Tony started to address Wheeler Udah, who
Speaker 1: walked out on stage, and he's screaming. Marina appeared all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, and this looks so ridiculous. She walks
Speaker 1: out there. She has mina shirakawa in her finishing hold
Speaker 1: right mother's milk. It looked like she was carrying like
Speaker 1: an oversized child. They have these things, you know, parents
Speaker 1: have these things where whatever the hell they're called, and
Speaker 1: the kids like on their chest, like if they're walking
Speaker 1: around to Disney World or something that's kind of what
Speaker 1: this reminded me of. She's like walking out there with
Speaker 1: her child, who happens to be adult size, you know,
Speaker 1: sucking on her you know what here, mother's milk for
Speaker 1: Mina Shirakawa. And as she is being held in this hold,
Speaker 1: Wheeler Yudah, they decide to clip the ponytail or cut
Speaker 1: her extensions. But they clip her ponytail. They cut off
Speaker 1: a piece of her hair. With her trapped in this
Speaker 1: hold and obviously up in the luxury box, Tony looked
Speaker 1: horrified by this, and so that was their final little
Speaker 1: bit of hype for this tag team match. We're getting
Speaker 1: a tornado match on Saturday. Whoever loses the fall is
Speaker 1: going to get their head shaved. And I'm looking at
Speaker 1: everybody in this match. You've got two women, neither of
Speaker 1: whom I think want to go bald. You've got Orange Cassidy,
Speaker 1: And realistically, if you shave his head, who gives a shit.
Speaker 1: The one who needs to get his head shaved is
Speaker 1: Wheeler da I mean, that thing gets longer and longer
Speaker 1: and longer every week. He's got a mop on his head.
Speaker 1: So I think it's safe to say that Wheeler Youda
Speaker 1: is getting a haircut this weekend. But as far as
Speaker 1: like the Roderick Strong Orange Cassidy stuff, yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: one of the mid card conglomeration things. This time Roddy
Speaker 1: bailed on him. So where it's gonna go? Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't care. It's one of those stories I just can't
Speaker 1: bring myself to care about or get invested in. Doesn't
Speaker 1: really do anything for me. Darby Allen though, again I
Speaker 1: need to know how the fuck did he get back
Speaker 1: from the desert. Backstage, Andrade and don Kallus are together,
Speaker 1: you know, Androde Hangman and MJF and Brody King. We're
Speaker 1: all involved in these like pre tap clearly pre tape
Speaker 1: video promos tonight. My guess is that they're all either
Speaker 1: in transit or they are all already in Australia because
Speaker 1: they were not physically live in the ring on TV tonight.
Speaker 1: But Androtte and Callous were backstage and told Hangman Page
Speaker 1: he was in the way and they would take him out.
Speaker 1: The Hangman had a chance to respond his own video
Speaker 1: said I'm not getting the match that I wanted against
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega, who was the man that he beat to
Speaker 1: win his first world title back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and while he acknowledged that Andrade was one of the
Speaker 1: best in the world, he wouldn't let him interrupt his
Speaker 1: path to regaining the AW World Championship. Next up was
Speaker 1: the party match of the night, and good luck to
Speaker 1: all the people who take notes on this shit. There's
Speaker 1: really no point in a match like this. You just
Speaker 1: kind of sit back and just watch all the chaos unfold.
Speaker 1: But the winners of this match would be in line
Speaker 1: for a shot at the AW Tag team titles. It
Speaker 1: was a three way match with the Young Bucks, the Rascals,
Speaker 1: this was their in ring Dynamite debut, and a mystery
Speaker 1: wild card team. The wildcard turned out to be the
Speaker 1: returning Private Party. There's a name that you haven't heard
Speaker 1: on Dynamite in a very long time. Do you know
Speaker 1: why that is? Because the last time they wrestled in
Speaker 1: an aw raing was January twenty second of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: It has been over a year since Private Party wrestled
Speaker 1: in aaw It has been almost a year since they
Speaker 1: wrestled anywhere. Because the last match before tonight that they
Speaker 1: had was in House of Glory and that was in
Speaker 1: March of last year and they haven't wrestled anywhere since then.
Speaker 1: And again I don't think there was any injury issues
Speaker 1: or anything like that. They just they were gone, they disappeared,
Speaker 1: and tonight, just like magic, they reappeared and there they were.
Speaker 1: But that was when they got just decimated by the
Speaker 1: Hurt Syndicate. They had won the tag team titles from
Speaker 1: Private Party, won the titles from the Young Bucks. Remember,
Speaker 1: I can't even call it a run. Can you even
Speaker 1: call what they had a run as tag team champions?
Speaker 1: It was an embarrassment, unfortunately, and then they basically got
Speaker 1: squashed by the Hurt since to get and we didn't
Speaker 1: see them again. It was like they were shamed and
Speaker 1: they were sent away. So it's good to see them back.
Speaker 1: You know. Private Party is a pair of aw originals.
Speaker 1: They were there from day one, so they turned out
Speaker 1: to be the wild card here in this match. And
Speaker 1: it was rapid fire offense here right from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Things broke down very quickly. We had multiple dives. XO says, wow,
Speaker 1: that party really is private? Oh it was, it was exclusive.
Speaker 1: They take the whole Private Party thing very seriously, very
Speaker 1: very literally, it was so private nobody was invited, so
Speaker 1: we got rapid fire offense Desmond Xavier. He hit a
Speaker 1: shooting star press onto a pile of guys outside the ring.
Speaker 1: The Bucks control the action as Matt Jackson delivered some
Speaker 1: locomotion Northern Light suit plexus to private party and then
Speaker 1: sliced bread to Isaiah. Nick delivered a bulldog combo to
Speaker 1: private party, who made a comeback with a double team
Speaker 1: cutter on Nick. Xavier broke it up. Nick delivered a
Speaker 1: destroyer to Isaiah and then everybody ended up down, so
Speaker 1: the Bucks cleared the deck. They went for a double
Speaker 1: team driver. The Rascals, though, broke that up and they
Speaker 1: delivered splashes to Matt. They covered him. Nick, though, was
Speaker 1: able to break it up at the last second. Everybody
Speaker 1: flew around the ring and the Bucks they connected on
Speaker 1: a BTE trigger to Mark Quinn and then they delivered
Speaker 1: a meltzer driver to win the match. Is it still
Speaker 1: the meltzer driver? Was it ever officially renamed the TK driver?
Speaker 1: Is it back to being the meltzer driver. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna call it an assisted tombstone, how about that? And
Speaker 1: that's how they won the match. When it was over.
Speaker 1: FTR made their way out. They were feeling Stokely halfway
Speaker 1: down to ringside and Dax in Cash they get in
Speaker 1: the ring. They leave Stokely out on the floor in
Speaker 1: his chair, and Dak says, look, we've come in peace.
Speaker 1: He said there were eighteen World Tag Team championships between
Speaker 1: the two teams, and he admitted that at one point
Speaker 1: he was jealous of them. He was, but now that
Speaker 1: the Young Bucks are definitely the second best tag team
Speaker 1: of all time. He asked if it bothered them that
Speaker 1: they had to create their own company just to be successful.
Speaker 1: Unlike them who have achieved success across multiple promotions, the
Speaker 1: Young Bucks had to create their own in order to
Speaker 1: find success. At that point, Matt had enough of him
Speaker 1: running his mouth kicked him in the face and he
Speaker 1: did the same thing to Cash Wheeler did Nick Jackson.
Speaker 1: They went outside, they were going to go leave, and
Speaker 1: they were threatening Stokely hathaway and then they made they
Speaker 1: were gonna do a double super kick to him, and
Speaker 1: Stokely just winced. He seized up in his chair, but
Speaker 1: they ended up pulling. They pulled back. They were gonna
Speaker 1: cut him some slack this time, maybe not next time.
Speaker 1: They didn't actually say when this match is going to
Speaker 1: take place. Maybe Revolution, I guess that would make sense.
Speaker 1: But we're back to the Bucks in FTR again. Now.
Speaker 1: We have not gotten a straight two on two match
Speaker 1: between FTR and the Young Bucks in almost a full
Speaker 1: two years, so it's actually been a while. The last
Speaker 1: time they had a proper like regular tag team match,
Speaker 1: you would have to go all the way back to
Speaker 1: Dynasty in twenty twenty four. Since then, they have been
Speaker 1: involved in a three way, they've been involved in a
Speaker 1: four way, so they've wrestled each other since then. But
Speaker 1: I'm talking like just straight up two on two. It's
Speaker 1: been a while, and yet it still feels like, Man,
Speaker 1: we're going back to this again. We're going back to this. Well,
Speaker 1: like the Rascals just debuted and this was their first
Speaker 1: match together on Dynamite, and the Rascals are fun to watch.
Speaker 1: It would have been something different because we all know
Speaker 1: what we're waiting for here. We all know where this
Speaker 1: is going. We're waiting for Adam Copeland and Christian Cage
Speaker 1: to come back. And my understanding is that Copeland is
Speaker 1: still filming whatever that TV show is. I think it's
Speaker 1: a TV show that he's filming, Percy, Percy Watson, Percy Jackson,
Speaker 1: Percy Pringle, whatever the fuck it is. He's still filming
Speaker 1: and they're waiting, and I think filming will conclude in
Speaker 1: a few weeks, and at that point we'll see the
Speaker 1: two of them back, and then they'll have to remind
Speaker 1: us all over again about what the hell happened the
Speaker 1: last time when they laid out Beth Phoenix. But we
Speaker 1: know that's the destination here. We're going to get that
Speaker 1: match at some point, probably for the tag team titles.
Speaker 1: So what's the harmon sending them out there for a
Speaker 1: match against a team like the Rascals, other than well,
Speaker 1: the young Bucks are bigger stars and we got to
Speaker 1: get them on the show, and we're gonna do FTR
Speaker 1: in the Bucks again. It's like, well, okay, same old shit.
Speaker 1: I guess, not that they have bad matches, but just
Speaker 1: at some point you want to see some new blood
Speaker 1: in there. Private Party just came back tonight. I wasn't
Speaker 1: realistically expecting them to win, or the Rascals for that matter,
Speaker 1: but I was kind of hoping they would. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so we're back to this again, and I don't know
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. I mean for a while there
Speaker 1: it felt like, man, this Tag Team Division is starting
Speaker 1: to really, you know, heat up again, and look at
Speaker 1: all these teams. And then they lost some teams. They
Speaker 1: lost the Hurt Syndicate because Bobby Lashley got hurt, and
Speaker 1: now poor Shelton Benjamin isn't even around anymore. Lucasaurus got hurt,
Speaker 1: so there goes a Jurassic Express. Davis and Doyle. They
Speaker 1: just put them together, and then Davis is without a
Speaker 1: partner because Doyle got injured like in one fell swoop.
Speaker 1: They lost like three or four teams and now it
Speaker 1: feels like we're right back to where we were before,
Speaker 1: where the Tag team Division, which was building nicely is
Speaker 1: you know, it's been wounded now and now things aren't
Speaker 1: as exciting as it felt before, which kind of sucks
Speaker 1: because it was really starting to heat up again. I
Speaker 1: hope they can get back there. We got a will
Speaker 1: Osprey video package. We got one last week too. This
Speaker 1: was a different one and he was wondering, you know,
Speaker 1: when he comes back, can I be the same, and
Speaker 1: well the fans still cheer for me. That was sort
Speaker 1: of the crux of it. When he returns, he'll answer
Speaker 1: every question. I like this. I mean, you get the
Speaker 1: impression that they must think he's coming back somewhat soon
Speaker 1: if they're starting to run vignettes for him on the show.
Speaker 1: I just it wouldn't make sense, frankly, to be doing
Speaker 1: this unless he was coming back in these next I
Speaker 1: don't know, a couple of months, which seems early to me.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be a reason why they're airing
Speaker 1: these now and they're not holding off on them. But
Speaker 1: I mean, it was well done for what it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be. We got another video package also promoting
Speaker 1: the MJF Brody King title match for this weekend a
Speaker 1: Grand Slam, and they showed highlights of MJF losing in
Speaker 1: spectacular fashion less than sixty seconds to Brody on the
Speaker 1: show last week, basically being squashed. When mjf's back is
Speaker 1: up against the wall, that's when the devil is the
Speaker 1: most dangerous, and Grand Slam Australia is when he makes
Speaker 1: King his bitch. They did a good job of at
Speaker 1: least showing you why Brody King should be taken seriously
Speaker 1: as a threat. Beat the champion, Beat the champion in
Speaker 1: sixty seconds dropped them on his head, choked him out
Speaker 1: and dropped them on his head. There's really nothing more
Speaker 1: you can do. He's got as much credibility as he's
Speaker 1: gonna have going into this match this weekend. They closed
Speaker 1: the show with Chris Statlander defending her aw Women's World
Speaker 1: Championship against Tekla, who already beat but she agreed to
Speaker 1: give her another shot. This time it was going to
Speaker 1: be in a strap match. And they started this match
Speaker 1: like right at the top of the hour, so right
Speaker 1: away we know we're getting an overrun here. Before a break,
Speaker 1: they were outside the ring again. They're bound by the wrist.
Speaker 1: Tecla yanked her folk. She was on one side of
Speaker 1: the steps and she yanked Statlander face first into the
Speaker 1: ring steps on the other side, so we couldn't see
Speaker 1: the damage, right, And they kept the camera on Tekla
Speaker 1: for like twenty seconds, and I'm like, ah, Statlander must
Speaker 1: be u She's going to town. On the other side,
Speaker 1: they got the orders keep the camera off of her.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, when the cameras went back on her, she
Speaker 1: was busted open and it didn't look too bad, but
Speaker 1: the blood was starting to pour down her forehead. So
Speaker 1: Tekla went over and she started raining some forearm shots
Speaker 1: down on her head, trying to open her up even more.
Speaker 1: When they came back from commercial, at Lander was just
Speaker 1: covered in blood and Tecla was whipping her hard with
Speaker 1: the strap. Tecla went to do her upside down spider
Speaker 1: pose in the middle of the ring, and Statlander just
Speaker 1: yanked the strap and so down she went. She caught
Speaker 1: Techla with a snap power slam for a two count.
Speaker 1: Statlander went to the ropes. Tecla, though, whipped her and
Speaker 1: climbed up with her, and Tecla ended up in a
Speaker 1: tree of woe. But she rises up and she lashes
Speaker 1: Statlander three times in a row and then hits a
Speaker 1: spider suplex. Statlander was able to come back with a
Speaker 1: discus lariat. Now they're fighting from their knees. Tecla spits
Speaker 1: right in her eye. I mean, she hawked a fucking
Speaker 1: loogie right in this woman's eye. Statlander whips the shit
Speaker 1: out of her in response, and then there's a blue thunderbomb.
Speaker 1: We get a one count, we get a two count.
Speaker 1: Tecla kicks out. Tecla got the wrapped around Statlander's neck
Speaker 1: and she was gonna try for a curb stomp, but
Speaker 1: as she came off and attempted for the stomp, Statlander
Speaker 1: moved instead. She starts to wrap Tekla's body up with
Speaker 1: the strap so she can't move. Then she picks her
Speaker 1: up and she delivers the Saturday Night Fever, which is
Speaker 1: her finish. And that should have been it, except here
Speaker 1: come Julia Hart and Sky Blue running down to the ring.
Speaker 1: Sky Blue runs out to distract Aubrey Edwards and Julia
Speaker 1: Hart went for a spear she missed. She ate a
Speaker 1: shot with the strap, and so after fighting both of
Speaker 1: them off, Statlander turns around right into a spear from
Speaker 1: Tecla and then she ties Statlander's hands behind her back,
Speaker 1: and Tecla hits a curb stomp and she covers and
Speaker 1: Tekla is the new AEW Women's World Champion. Now they
Speaker 1: mentioned on commentary that Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron they
Speaker 1: already left for Australia, or they may already be there.
Speaker 1: Those are Statlander's friends, so she had no friends to
Speaker 1: come out to help fight off the Sisters of Sin.
Speaker 1: Here she was all by herself, and so she ends
Speaker 1: up losing her title. Only after do we have the
Speaker 1: reinforcements on their way to the ring, because here comes
Speaker 1: Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor, who were a new team.
Speaker 1: By the way, what are they calling themselves? The Birds
Speaker 1: of somebody remind me of their name? And the Chad
Speaker 1: the Birds of Prey. What the fuck is their name?
Speaker 1: I don't know where they came up with this name.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind them as a team, but
Speaker 1: I hope this doesn't last very long, because Jamie Hayter
Speaker 1: should not be in a tag team. The Birds of
Speaker 1: the Birds of What help me out here? Somebody needs
Speaker 1: to know the name of this team. Hmm. There we
Speaker 1: go the brawling Birds as opposed to the brawling brutes.
Speaker 1: We have the brawling the Brawling Birds. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: a good name anyway. Only after she loses the championship
Speaker 1: do the Brawling Birds run down to the ring and
Speaker 1: they run out and they chase off Teckl and her
Speaker 1: crew with a pipe and a hammer. I guess they
Speaker 1: were doing some maintenance work in the back and somebody said,
Speaker 1: oh shit, Statlander's in trouble, so they come running out
Speaker 1: with their tools. I have no idea why sky Blue
Speaker 1: needed to distract the referee. With this being a notice
Speaker 1: qualification match, I don't even know why they needed to
Speaker 1: stay in the back. Quite frankly, they should have already
Speaker 1: been out there. They could be interfering. It will what's
Speaker 1: Aubrey Edward's gonna do. She's not gonna do shit. She
Speaker 1: can get up in their faces, she could wave her
Speaker 1: arms around and try to make a big scene. She
Speaker 1: can't do shit, So that was kind of silly. These ladies, though,
Speaker 1: they beat the tar out of each other with that
Speaker 1: leather strap they had. I thought it was a solid match.
Speaker 1: It was not as strong as some of the other
Speaker 1: matches that we had on the card, but it was solid.
Speaker 1: And again, coming into this show, it just felt to
Speaker 1: me like the likelihood of a title change was very
Speaker 1: high because Tekla was already beaten and then they decided
Speaker 1: to give her another match for really no legitimate reason
Speaker 1: other than Statlander wants to be a fighting champion, And
Speaker 1: it's like, well, why would you run this match back
Speaker 1: just to beat Tecla again? Right, That doesn't really make
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. So it felt like probably going
Speaker 1: to be like I never would have predicted a TNT
Speaker 1: title change on this show, but a women's title change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds about right. So I wasn't surprised and I
Speaker 1: liked Tekla, and that's great if you want to put
Speaker 1: the title on a heel for a few months. I
Speaker 1: don't know how long she'll end up with that championship.
Speaker 1: She may not have it as long as Statlander had
Speaker 1: it in her first reign. But that's fine provided the
Speaker 1: idea is that Statlander is going to come back and
Speaker 1: win her belt back, whether it's Revolution or Dynasty Double
Speaker 1: or nothing. If the idea is that Statlander now has
Speaker 1: to scratch and claw and fight her way back to
Speaker 1: a match with Tekla, who she already beat once, right,
Speaker 1: so now they're tied, so you actually have a reason
Speaker 1: to run this back again and have a rubber match
Speaker 1: between the two, then that's fine. But I just it's
Speaker 1: such a weird run that she had because again, the
Speaker 1: names that she beat, Tony Storm, Mercedes Monete, Jamie Hayter,
Speaker 1: some of the biggest names in that women's division, and
Speaker 1: Chris Statlander went in there and she beat them. She
Speaker 1: was like a world beater out there, and she's no
Speaker 1: longer the champion, And I'm like, well, when we look
Speaker 1: back and evaluate this run that she was on, I
Speaker 1: don't know it's missing something, it's missing just she never
Speaker 1: really felt like a real week to week presence on
Speaker 1: this show, like a real meaningful like she got the
Speaker 1: main event spot tonight. But I mean, how many times
Speaker 1: during this run did she get the main event spot.
Speaker 1: I mean, she may have had it one other time.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like she was having them many times
Speaker 1: week to week. In terms of her segments on Dynamite,
Speaker 1: I don't know there was something missing there where it
Speaker 1: feels like they dropped the ball and I hope that
Speaker 1: she gets the ball back because she should be in
Speaker 1: that mix. Eventually, the time will come that Mercedes will
Speaker 1: be back, and I'm sure Mercedes will get her belt finally.
Speaker 1: It would actually kind of makes sense, frankly if it
Speaker 1: was from Statlander, because they've had a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: matches now and she couldn't beat stat Lander a few
Speaker 1: months ago. So I hope that that's the idea here,
Speaker 1: is that when Tecla loses, she loses it back to
Speaker 1: Chris Statlander, because I think at Lander is very good
Speaker 1: and she she deserves some more time, you know, with
Speaker 1: that championship. But the idea of her losing in and
Speaker 1: of itself doesn't mean she can't get it back. I've
Speaker 1: talked about long title runs over you know, over the
Speaker 1: last few months. This subject has come up because we
Speaker 1: get so many of them these days, and they love,
Speaker 1: you know, telling us how many days this person has
Speaker 1: been championed for and you listen to it and it's
Speaker 1: like six hundred days, eight hundred days, four hundred days,
Speaker 1: a thousand of fucking Athena right, eleven hundred days. Whatever
Speaker 1: it is is the ring of honor, champion, and it's like,
Speaker 1: when did this start? You know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: there's there's a happy medium between hot shotting a title
Speaker 1: where you just play hot potato with it every other
Speaker 1: week and having these long, boring, extended runs. Like if
Speaker 1: you want to have one or two solid, lengthy runs,
Speaker 1: that's fine, But when this becomes the norm as we've
Speaker 1: seen it wrestling in the last few years, it gets boring.
Speaker 1: So I don't even mind them. Like surprising people, it
Speaker 1: kind of keeps us on our toes. Oh shit, we
Speaker 1: have new champion. I didn't see that coming. Like that's
Speaker 1: not inherently a bad thing. I just hope that for
Speaker 1: some of these people like Champa and Statlander. They have
Speaker 1: a solid plan ready for them going forward, because I'd
Speaker 1: like to see more of them on these shows, especially
Speaker 1: a Champa just for his music alone. He's got some
Speaker 1: of the best music in the entire company. Anyway, this
Speaker 1: was a show that was very heavy on the Inn
Speaker 1: ring tonight. Light on the story side. There was some,
Speaker 1: but it was a very light on the story side.
Speaker 1: But thankfully for them, the Inn ring is what really
Speaker 1: carried the day. If you only have time for one match,
Speaker 1: taking nothing away from the ladies in the main event,
Speaker 1: watch the TNT title match again. It might frustrate you
Speaker 1: some of the near fall badness there at the end,
Speaker 1: but that aside, it was an excellent match. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the Twitter poll here. Then we're going
Speaker 1: to come back and do predictions because we got a
Speaker 1: big show to preview for this weekend. What did you
Speaker 1: think of Dynamite before Grand Slam? Sixty five point eight
Speaker 1: almost sixty six percent thumbs up, eighteen point five percent
Speaker 1: thumbs in the middle, and fifteen point seven percent thumbs down,
Speaker 1: So that is actually a very positive score for Dynamite.
Speaker 1: It was a good show. It was not by no
Speaker 1: means was it the best dynamite in years? But it was.
Speaker 1: It was a good show. Now let's run down this
Speaker 1: Grand Slam Australia card. I am thinking about going live
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. We'll see. I'm fifty to fifty right now.
Speaker 1: I'm leaning towards doing it and going live. It is
Speaker 1: a big card. It'll be airing on tape delayed by
Speaker 1: like I don't know what, fourteen hours, sixteen hours, So
Speaker 1: if you are allergic to spoilers, you might have to
Speaker 1: keep yourself off social media. But here's the card. Orange
Speaker 1: Cassidy and Tony Storm putting their hair on the line
Speaker 1: against Wheeler Yuda and Marina Shaffir Tornado match. Loser gets
Speaker 1: their head shaved. I'm going with Orange Cassidy and Tony
Speaker 1: Storm and Wheeler Yuda is getting a haircut. We have
Speaker 1: John Moxley and Kenoski Takeshta the Continental Championship. I'm going
Speaker 1: with the title change here. Now I know we had
Speaker 1: two title changes tonight. I'm still gonna stick to my
Speaker 1: predictions that I talked about on Sunday. I think we
Speaker 1: get a new Continental champion here. I think Takeshta wins it.
Speaker 1: So when he wrestles Okada. They both have belts going
Speaker 1: into that match. Now. The other one was the Babes
Speaker 1: of Wrath putting their women's tag team titles on the
Speaker 1: line against Megabad, Meghan Bain and Penelope Ford. I think
Speaker 1: we get a title change there as well. I know
Speaker 1: it's Harley in Australia. What a horrible thing to beat
Speaker 1: Harley Cameron in Australia. I think we get new tag
Speaker 1: team champions. I think it's about time that Meghan bay
Speaker 1: And gets some gold in this company. We've got Kyle
Speaker 1: Fletcher and Mark Briscoe. Just added Game seven ladder match
Speaker 1: the TNT Championship. I this could go either way. This
Speaker 1: could go either way. I'm gonna say that Kyle Fletcher retains.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see the belt go immediately right
Speaker 1: back to Mark Briscoe after we just got two title
Speaker 1: changes in the last two weeks. That would be very dumb.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Fletcher wins. I'm gonna say that Tomaso
Speaker 1: Champa gets involved cost Mark Briscoe because he feels he's
Speaker 1: owed a rematch, not Mark Briscoe. So that's my prediction. There.
Speaker 1: We have Hangman Adam Page against Andrade Ledelo. The winner
Speaker 1: will challenge for the World Championship at Revolution on March fifteenth.
Speaker 1: I actually don't mind either of these guys winning. I
Speaker 1: really don't now who do I think is going to win.
Speaker 1: I think who's going to win is Hangman Adam Page,
Speaker 1: because that's where the story is. That's where the real
Speaker 1: story is. Hangman is the one who came out and
Speaker 1: if you ask, MJF cost him the title, or not
Speaker 1: the title, but cost him the match the eliminator match
Speaker 1: with Brody on the show last week and resulted in
Speaker 1: Brody King getting a title shot. That's Hangman's fault because
Speaker 1: he walked out and distracted him last week and all
Speaker 1: the matches they had together last year, both of them
Speaker 1: Hangman beat MJF. It's time for MJF to get his
Speaker 1: and I think he gets that a Revolution, even though
Speaker 1: I will agree it's not the it's not the most
Speaker 1: attractive title match they could be doing on that show,
Speaker 1: and I would love to see Tony go outside the
Speaker 1: box on this one. I think he's going to stick
Speaker 1: to what the story is here, which is Hangman winning
Speaker 1: and then MJF and Brody King for the aw World championship. Look,
Speaker 1: there's not going to be a title change here. I
Speaker 1: floated the name Buddy Matthews the other day. We haven't
Speaker 1: heard much about him recently. It was a year ago
Speaker 1: on this Grand Slam show that he hurt his ankle
Speaker 1: and on a damaged ankle because it happened during the entrances.
Speaker 1: On a damaged ankle, he went out there for fourteen
Speaker 1: minutes and had a pretty good match with Okada and
Speaker 1: made it a lot worse. I'm sure that's why we
Speaker 1: still haven't seen him back yet. But I think it
Speaker 1: would be cool if he showed up on this show
Speaker 1: right for Marl support. He's gonna support his boy. This
Speaker 1: is Brody's big night, and in the end him being
Speaker 1: there in some way ends up costing Brody king mjf
Speaker 1: retains and we can get a Buddy and Brody feud
Speaker 1: coming out of it as a way to re establish
Speaker 1: Buddy Matthews on the ROSS. That's my idea. I throw
Speaker 1: it out there, let's see what happens. But that's the
Speaker 1: card as I assume they're not going to add anything more,
Speaker 1: but at to AW you never know. They got two
Speaker 1: and a half hours, so I think it's eight pm Eastern.
Speaker 1: I think it's eight to ten thirty. I believe, and
Speaker 1: I'll keep you guys posted if I go live. I
Speaker 1: put together artwork today, a layout and everything as if
Speaker 1: I am going to go live, but I'll let you
Speaker 1: guys know ultimately if I do, it's a big show though,
Speaker 1: We're definitely going to be watching and if nothing else,
Speaker 1: reviewing on the sound Off this weekend. See Martin likes
Speaker 1: the potential Buddy angle, so do I. It really all
Speaker 1: depends on where he's at in his rehab. Last update
Speaker 1: I heard was I don't know a couple months ago
Speaker 1: and it wasn't sounding great. But these days, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, what's real and what's not, what's true and
Speaker 1: what's false? We don't know. You know, they want to
Speaker 1: shock you when they show up on TV. But that's
Speaker 1: my idea. Brody and Buddy. Joseph Stewart, I wish you
Speaker 1: a very happy Wednesday. I'm glad you were with us,
Speaker 1: and yes, rest in peace to James Vanderbeek. It was
Speaker 1: very sad to hear that he had passed away. I
Speaker 1: know that he was only forty eight years old. From
Speaker 1: Dawson's Creek. If you don't know who that was, and
Speaker 1: that he was in some movies as well, got all
Speaker 1: these football movies. They just kind of run together, was it,
Speaker 1: Remember the Titans. I don't remember the name of that movie,
Speaker 1: but Dawson's Creek is probably what he is most well
Speaker 1: known for. But yeah, he was diagnosed I think a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, maybe a year and a half ago,
Speaker 1: with stage three color rectal cancer. And it's very said
Speaker 1: because his family apparently sank all of their money, all
Speaker 1: of their savings into his treatment and they're just trying
Speaker 1: to save their home. So I know, there's like a
Speaker 1: whole go fundme set up. Last I checked, it was
Speaker 1: already over I think three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: But it's just sad, you know, the way that you
Speaker 1: all it takes is one illness and it just bankrupts
Speaker 1: an entire family like that, you know, and it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be that way, but you you hear stories about that,
Speaker 1: and it just it's infuriating. Called Varsity Blues, thank you,
Speaker 1: as that's the movie I'm thinking of Varsity Blues. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so his family now is left with all of these
Speaker 1: medical expenses and they're just trying to save their house
Speaker 1: and put the kids through college. It's very sad, Justph says,
Speaker 1: do you thing Harley Cameron is the next big breakout
Speaker 1: star in AEW to go mainstream? No, she's very talented though.
Speaker 1: He's a great ventrilo quest. Do you know why Tony
Speaker 1: Kahan continues to let the same wrestlers in AW, like
Speaker 1: Darby Allen and Orange Cassidy do media for AW because
Speaker 1: he trusts them. They've been there from day one. He's
Speaker 1: you know, he looks at them as two of his
Speaker 1: biggest stars, and he trusts them to go out there
Speaker 1: and do press for the company. If he didn't trust him,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't send him. Do you remember Shaquille O'Neal's video
Speaker 1: game shaq Fu on Super Nintendo? Yes? I do. Do
Speaker 1: you remember his movie Steele? I remember Sam. I don't
Speaker 1: remember Steal. Have you seen the AI video online of
Speaker 1: the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Shredder in April O'Neil in
Speaker 1: WWE lead having a wrestling match. Yeah, I've seen it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really tired of all this AI shit.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. I actually fucking despise
Speaker 1: it now. Because you can't. You can't look at anything
Speaker 1: on like if you open up like Instagram or TikTok
Speaker 1: or x or anything these days, Like I have to
Speaker 1: question every single thing that I see now, even like
Speaker 1: a nice video or a funny video. I stop myself.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, is this is this? And
Speaker 1: sure enough I look in the comments and it's like
Speaker 1: it was fucking AI. I'm like, fuck, motherfucker. I fucking
Speaker 1: hate it. I really do. It's it's gotten very, very bad.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Dom giving Live hours in
Speaker 1: candy for Valentine's Day on Raw? I thought that was
Speaker 1: a very slick move on his part, and if you
Speaker 1: remember what Live told him after that, you'll get your
Speaker 1: gift later. See. Dom knows what he's doing. He's not stupid.
Speaker 1: Do you think Undertaker is booking Triple A better than
Speaker 1: Triple H is booking Raw and SmackDown. I don't watch
Speaker 1: Triple A week to week, so I can't say, can't
Speaker 1: give you an honest answer on that. I'm not into
Speaker 1: the Triple A product the way that I am the
Speaker 1: WWE product or the aw product. I'm aware generally of
Speaker 1: what's going on there. I'm not watching the weekly shows.
Speaker 1: I don't know all the players, so I really can't
Speaker 1: compare the two. And he says, I hope you're having
Speaker 1: a great week. Have a blessed day you as well, Joseph,
Speaker 1: I hope you have a great Thursday. Dry Chicken, says
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher against Tomaso Champa Tee Ante title match tonight
Speaker 1: was a banger. Yes it was. Private Party is back.
Speaker 1: I would love to see them win Tag Team gold again,
Speaker 1: a ew Ring of Honors, CMLL rev Pro or New Japan.
Speaker 1: They have plenty of options. Don't forget hog don't forget
Speaker 1: hog punch. It's all good. It's all good. It's it's
Speaker 1: more the the AI video stuffs. There's so much of
Speaker 1: it now, I can't distinguish between like what's like there
Speaker 1: could be a really nice like cat video, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, and I'll watch that and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: that was that was funny. I believe the cat did that.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait a minute, and sure enough, like
Speaker 1: it'll be like the second comment, how come that person
Speaker 1: socks were a different color at the end than it
Speaker 1: was at the beginning. And I go back and I
Speaker 1: watch it again and I'm like, son of a bitch,
Speaker 1: like you can't trust anything you see anymore. And that's
Speaker 1: how it is now. Imagine how it'll be three years
Speaker 1: from now. Rhea Ripley and EO. Sky should lose the
Speaker 1: tag team titles on purpose with an intentional botch so
Speaker 1: they don't have to wrestle the bellatoy. They throw the match.
Speaker 1: They could do that on Friday against Nya Jackson Lash Legend.
Speaker 1: They could throw the match. My girl, the Toxic Spider
Speaker 1: Tekla is the new AEW Women's World Champion. To break
Speaker 1: out the beer, the steak, and the beef burgers. She
Speaker 1: drives me wild. You'll have to fight Clark Connors for her.
Speaker 1: That's his lady, and he says, excrement my my excitement level,
Speaker 1: My excitement level for Tecla winning is like skeletor raising
Speaker 1: his arms up. That's like me misreading that super chat.
Speaker 1: What I appreciate Tekla is her grit, her fem fatale beauty,
Speaker 1: and her cool personality. Definitely not her excrement level, although
Speaker 1: some people might be into that, but those people are
Speaker 1: fucking sick. Oh my god, refresh this list and move
Speaker 1: on from that. Says I'm going to make the most
Speaker 1: dairy prediction, Andrade beats Hangman and then he beats MJF
Speaker 1: A revolution. Well, that is pretty bold. I could see
Speaker 1: them wrestling, but I do not see him beating MJF.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little too bold for Tony Kahn
Speaker 1: to be doing. I don't see him doing that. Isaac
Speaker 1: thoughts on double Ard, how thing possibly coming to Queens,
Speaker 1: New York. Oh, I'm thinking that a House of Glory
Speaker 1: is gonna have to piggyback off this. They're coming to
Speaker 1: our backyard. I think we're gonna have to run a show.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Arabian Night two thousand happy private
Speaker 1: parties back and hopefully they stay. Pieces are there? AW
Speaker 1: has eight to ten legit teams now. I hope Tony
Speaker 1: Kahan puts the effort in because WWE sure isn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the tag ting division in WWE on the men's side
Speaker 1: on both brands is dog shit right now, no effort whatsoever.
Speaker 1: We got two bucks here from oh says one time only.
Speaker 1: Will you be covering Grand Slam Australia. Probably, I'm definitely
Speaker 1: gonna watch it and talk about it on the sound off.
Speaker 1: But as far as live I'm leaning towards it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I just didn't realize it was going to be two
Speaker 1: and a half hours. I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: two bender mc simpson, Is this the start of the
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher face turn. I believe we are seeing bits
Speaker 1: and pieces of what will end up being a Kyle
Speaker 1: Fletcher face turn. Yes in the next few months. And
Speaker 1: he says, what does Shampa do now? Well, hopefully Champa
Speaker 1: goes full on Psycho killer and he will cost Mark
Speaker 1: Briscoe that ladder match on Saturday Arabian Night. Love Kyle,
Speaker 1: but his matches with people like Will and especially brisco
Speaker 1: he does too many big moves in near falls with
Speaker 1: little selling. He should slow down a tad. For me,
Speaker 1: it's more just the the overabundance of near falls and
Speaker 1: kicking out of finishers. That's what annoys me. Fabian Garcia says,
Speaker 1: what if they try Grand Slam New Orleans next year? Hey,
Speaker 1: as someone who's been to New Orleans for wrestling two
Speaker 1: different times, I say, the more wrestling in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: the better. New Orleans is fucking great. I think honestly though,
Speaker 1: I think they could do a much bigger event in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. I think you gotta go bigger than Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: I think they could take one of their main paper
Speaker 1: used to New Orleans next year. WWE is going to
Speaker 1: be in New Orleans on Labor Day weekend this year
Speaker 1: for money in the bank. That's like the latest money
Speaker 1: in the bank they've ever done. That was the make
Speaker 1: good for taking WrestleMania away from them. This year they
Speaker 1: get money in the bank six months later. I think
Speaker 1: aw should do a pay per view in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: All right, let's check and see if we hit our
Speaker 1: goal for tonight. The goal was four hundred, and we
Speaker 1: are at four twenty one. We did indeed, Yes, we
Speaker 1: could be getting ready for a big, easy WrestleMania in
Speaker 1: two months. I'll be honest with you, if WrestleMania was
Speaker 1: in New Orleans this year, I would probably be on
Speaker 1: my way to New Orleans, probably to meet some of you,
Speaker 1: have a big meetup events, make a big spectacle out
Speaker 1: of it. And then they said, no, you know, on
Speaker 1: second thought, we're not going to go to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: There's too much money to make. We've got to scout people. Now.
Speaker 1: There's something like twenty percent behind where they were this
Speaker 1: time last year in ticket sales. That's a shame. It's
Speaker 1: time to be the booker. So let's do it, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker.
Speaker 1: Hey Punch, I'm glad you're a big fan of hog.
Speaker 1: We got a big show coming up, not this Friday,
Speaker 1: but next Friday, February twentieth. We got mjf coming in.
Speaker 1: I guess the only question is will he be theaw
Speaker 1: world champion when he comes in? That depends on what
Speaker 1: happens with Brody King in Australia this weekend. All right,
Speaker 1: we're kicking things off with grand Master sex A and
Speaker 1: Scottie too Hottie, too Cool are in be the booker.
Speaker 1: They will be stepping into the ring against Tyson Kidd
Speaker 1: and Csorrow, who were actually a very good team, so
Speaker 1: I will give that the bell. They weren't together long
Speaker 1: enough before Tyson got hurt, but they were a very
Speaker 1: good team. All right, women's be the booker. We have
Speaker 1: Rosa Mendez. Rosa Mendez. Oh, we have not seen her
Speaker 1: in quite some time, but there she is. Not only
Speaker 1: did Private Party return tonight we had the return of
Speaker 1: Rosa Mendez. And when that happens, there really is no
Speaker 1: point in even going any further with women's Be the booker,
Speaker 1: so we move on to the main event. That's what
Speaker 1: we do, be the booker. Oh no, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we just went from Rosa Mendez to the Wyatt six.
Speaker 1: Be the Booker is over. After the Wyatt six massacred
Speaker 1: the roster. I can't believe we just went back to
Speaker 1: back with those two things. We hit the goal and everything,
Speaker 1: and it all comes down to this, It comes crashing down.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that. That may well be that we've
Speaker 1: done a lot of these, but that may well be
Speaker 1: the worst round of be the Booker. Start to finish,
Speaker 1: and I know I gave that first match to the bell,
Speaker 1: but still this may have been the worst round to
Speaker 1: be the Booker that we've ever had. Didn't even get
Speaker 1: to pick in two different rounds in the men's and
Speaker 1: women's round. We never even got to pick all of
Speaker 1: the people. Look, I mean, that's the risk that we run.
Speaker 1: That's the way it goes sometimes. Unfortunately it's out of
Speaker 1: my hands. I have no control over it. You never
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get and be the booker. The
Speaker 1: only thing you could do is just wait for Friday
Speaker 1: and hope for a better outcome, because that's the next
Speaker 1: time that we'll be live for SmackDown, actually a very
Speaker 1: big SmackDown on Friday night, Cody Road, Jacob Fatu and
Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain. Only one man can go to the elimination Chamber.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out who it is. And then of
Speaker 1: course we have Alexa Bliss, Julia and Selina Vega. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be the women's Elimination Chamber qualifier. So a big,
Speaker 1: big show coming up on Friday. I hope you will
Speaker 1: join me for that, and then possibly live again Saturday
Speaker 1: night for Grand Slam Australia. The sound Off episode nine
Speaker 1: fifty one coming up on Sunday, dropping as always, and
Speaker 1: then next week we start over again. We have Raw
Speaker 1: Monday Night, we have The Uncrowned Wrestling Show dropping wherever
Speaker 1: you get your audio podcast. That'll be Tuesday evening, and
Speaker 1: then Tuesday Nights of course is TNT, and then we
Speaker 1: have Dynamite and boy, what was who was the wrestler
Speaker 1: in WWE? His nickname was No Days Off? Is it
Speaker 1: Darren Young? I think it was Darren Young. Well I'm
Speaker 1: stealing his name. Now that's now my name. I'm taking
Speaker 1: it from myself. All right, be well, stay safe, have
Speaker 1: yourself a great rest of your night. I will be
Speaker 1: back with you live on Friday night for the SmackDown
Speaker 1: post show, and I will see you right back here,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll get to uh make up for that
Speaker 1: horrendous edition of Be the Booker. Take care, guys,