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Speaker 4: This is Kelson and this is Chris, who just found
out I'm not getting paid for this. Dang it. Well,
madman that he is. Gabe Kid showed up at New
Japan Dominion this Sunday Attack show to Lumano after his
match and went on a rant that well, I can't
repeat more than about three words of and there.
Speaker 3: The yeah basically explicit, explicitive, aw explicit of New Japan,
explicitive whatever. Yeah, nobody speaks like Gabe Kid. And to
think about Japanese, even in stardom, in New Japan and stardom,
they really allow. Yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: You can get away with saying a lot, especially if
you're saying it in English, like yeah, hey, Taka Michinoku's
theme song and says take is tubing mother effort.
Speaker 3: Thank you for toning that down. Let's move on.
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if possible. I've heard that this is only available in
the United States. I've heard that Canada does not get
this channel right now, at least it doesn't. It may
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I don't know. Let's see. Uh speaking of Canada.
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is four words that I'll begin with the letter C.
I probably his host should have actually looked it up.
I did yesterday, but I can't remember. If it's like
combat competition, I don't know, but you get the idea.
So I'm looking forward to seeing this man very.
Speaker 6: And this is Very from beautiful Orlando, Florida. And I'm
gonna be honest with you, Kelson, I know I got
to talk about something of the graphic didn't come up here.
Speaker 7: It is all right.
Speaker 6: So we are going to juice the discord live chat
this week. We want to get that going because the
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It feels the way it needs to. It feels like
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Speaker 7: Live chat on Reddit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not We're not, you know, discontinuing the discord
live chat with no all. We just want to give
a kickstart to the ad because if the people see
people chatting on the aw fatob subreddit, then people will
come to the aw patob subreddit that wouldn't otherwise go
to Discord. Fortunately for us, we have a lot of
Discord users that do use Reddit yep.
Speaker 6: And there's a lot of folks that used to join
us on the Reddit live chat that don't know it's
back and maybe pop in and only see a handful
of folks. So we can get a decent amount of
people in there, they're most more likely to stay by,
and then we can we can grow both communities together
because there's a lot of folks that prefer Reddit and
you know, aren't end of the whole discord thing, and
that's most people discords a it's a closed community, whereas Reddit,
anybody can find it on the Internet. So we want
to make sure it's nice and healthy and that there
is avenues for everybody to use for live.
Speaker 3: Chat in the I think I think you got that.
You said that Reddit is a close community and discord
and anybody can find.
Speaker 7: It on the close community redd it as anybody. Yes, sorry, you.
Speaker 3: Know, like tomorrow will tomorrow during Dynamite, we'll be talking
a little bit in the live chat on aw fat
hub subreddit. We'll be talking about the uh, the discord.
You know what. I welcome people that love the discord
to talk about the discord. But I would really appreciate
it if our discord users, which is so active, so active,
to come over and help us out on the aw
pat ob subrac.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yep, if you can pull double duty, that'd be great.
I'll be doing that.
Speaker 6: So we're going to segue in the first topic of
the show. Yep, we'll be I'm going to segue into
the first topic of the show. And this is something
that quite a few of us were talking about both
on aw fan Hub on Reddit and then on our
discord and the various live chats, and it's the difference
between the men and the women's own Heart And the
men's has been quite predictable, although most of the matches
had storyline explanations everybody versus each other and there's some
history to all of those. But the women's side has
been wide open and had quite a few surprises and
has seemed a lot more interesting because it is a
lot less predictable. And the question is is that because
Willow isn't in it, did Willow getting hurt really break
open that entire tournament? Because without Willow in it, we
don't have a Mercedes, and without Mercedes, we don't get
the match we're going to get to see this week.
So you know, my question to folks is why do
you think the women's the women's own has has seemed
to be more interesting than the men's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I really liked this question, and I think you
kind of hit the nail on the head with the
whole predictability. So like it's when you saw the brackets,
it's just like, Okay, we're getting to swarp off ray final.
The matches leading up to it are gonna be good.
But I mean, you're like ninety eight percent sure who
was winning in each match, whereas.
Speaker 6: Willa was still in it, we would feel the same
on the women's side if will It was still in it.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think so. I think even before
she was out, it was Stilla. You know, like, I'm
not sure who's gonna win this, especially when there wasn't
a wild card, which I figured was going to be Mercedes,
which is who I had winning the whole thing. But
I also had Persephone winning also, but you know, sky
Blue had a chance of beating three, and then I'm like,
when she wasn't able, I'm like, I still thought sky
Blue was gonna win. So I've been a whole heck
of a lot of this tournament, which has made it
more interesting and more fun. Like, yeah, I'm gonna let
someone jump into some kind of ram.
Speaker 2: I would argue with Willow in it, it was maybe
even more open considering everybody was almost on the same
playing field. With Mercedes in it, we kind of expect
her to be in the finals. I'm not gonna call
her the win of the owen Hart Tournament just yet,
but you know, there is a matchup we sort of expects.
Still nothing wrong with the predictability, but everybody being on
the same same sort of level, I felt it could
have gone either way. Hasn't changed much because I still
am not comfortable calling a winner just yet. But yeah,
I think that's made it just as interesting because it
did shake it up, but not to where not not
for a negative a negative turn.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 3: No, I get what you're saying. Yeah, anybody else with
any thoughts?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 5: Oh, go ahead, Oh sorry, Nat. I've been saying for
weeks and weeks and weeks that the wide card would
be Mercedes, and I've been thrown to the wool saying
she's not. She's not. But I've been saying in and
I know Chris has been saying it, and I've said
that she if she's she was in it. She's in
it to win it and go to all in against Techla.
So the winner is Mercedes, two years in a row,
first time ever.
Speaker 3: Net Before you jump in, let me just go to
the chat Conrad EPW show is I think people enjoy unpredictability,
but I also fall on the same line with what
was mentioned. I don't think predictability is bad. I am
happy with how both tournaments have been going so far
and then black delegation. Yeah, that's what it is said.
I hate to see anyone get hurt, but I do
not miss Willow, Superseda ask booking, and I understand what
you're saying there. I probably wouldn't use those words maybe,
but I do understand what you're saying. Net let's go
to you.
Speaker 1: I was going to say something about the predictability of
the tournament as well, but I think there's a bigger
overall picture to this, and I think that maybe Tony
Kahan has started to listen more about a lot of
the fans and the women's division, and overall, I would
say that the women are being booked better and that
has a lot to do with more eyes on the
women's part of the Owen Tournament.
Speaker 4: So overall, I like.
Speaker 1: Willow, but I don't miss Willow. And I also don't
want to see Mercedes win two years in a row.
That becomes a little predictable, and I would like it
where we are all surprised at whoever wins, rather than
being able to see it ahead of time. So that's
my take.
Speaker 3: Do you guys think the plan when Willow was put
in this tournament. Do you think the plan all along
was that Tony ka an aw knew the Willow was
not going to be able to perform, and that the
whole plan was that there was gonna be a wildcard
because Willow would have to drop out? Or do you
think it was a surprise and that it just happened organically.
Speaker 4: I think it was.
Speaker 3: Well, well, like a bench, it was like Harley Cameron's
w everybody kind of completed. Everybody else's said, oh god.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Marcus the entertainer and the chat said, in my opinion,
the men's tournament is predictable because there's been a plan.
The women's tournament had tournament has been unpredictable, predictable because
they've been booking on the fly for months. Well here's
the thing, because we really haven't talked very much about
the men's side before the Owen was even announced. And
I'm gonna call it the Owen because it's kind of
what people are calling it now, even though I have
always tried to say the Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament.
That's kind of a mouthful. So I'm just the Owen,
and I mean no disrespect to Owen Hart or his foundation.
Or Martha Hart. You know, I apologize if you are offended.
I'm just saying it to save time. So I'm rambling
and using up all the time I would have saved, okay.
But anyway, here's the way I look at this with
the men's tournament, even before the men's tournament was announced
on this podcast, a couple of months before the tournament
even happened, you know, it was even a glint in
Tony kahanzi, were we not saying that that Will Osprey
was going to win the Owen Hart Tournament and go
to all In? Doesn't that kind of make it really predictable?
And you know, Conrad said, predictability isn't a bad thing.
People want to see Owen you know, Owen Hart, will
Osbury and all In. But is this two predictable men?
Speaker 4: I don't think.
Speaker 6: I think people look for things to complain about sometimes,
and this is the time that Will becomes the guy.
And unfortunately, in the aw Cinematic universe, in order to
get a title shot at all In, you have to
win the Owen So is that predictable? Yeah? I think
the main reason why it's predictable is because they're at Wembley.
Speaker 7: This year.
Speaker 6: If they were at any other venue, say they ran
this in Las Vegas or New York or whatever, instead
of going back to Wembley this year, I don't think
it would have been as predictable. But because it's in Wembley,
I think Helson kind of to your initial point, everybody
pretty much knew that if Will was coming back, that's
where he was going to be the guy, and the
way to get the title shot he got to win
the Owen. So the early rounds all had storyline reasons.
For the semi finals, you know, those first round matches,
they were all coming off feuds, and even the semi
final matches all built in the feuds. And now these
finals you've got the rematch. So I think they did
the best they could. But given the fact that it
was going to be at Wembley.
Speaker 7: There really wasn't a way around this on the.
Speaker 6: Men's side, which is why I think the women's side
has been such a breath of fresh air because they
could just go hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris, I think you were gonna say something, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's like you know, when you go see a
superhero movie, Like most precent Superman movies, we all knew
Superman was gonna thwart Lex Luthor and save the world
at the spoiler alert, Come on, it's been out for
a while, but we all knew he was gonna win.
But there were obstacles in his way. He had trials, tribulations,
he failed a little, you know, Like, that's what even
though you know the hero is gonna win, it's about
I mean, there's a reason it's called the hero's journey.
It's the most classic or one of the most classic
forms of literature, movie, you know, anything like that. The
journey is what you want. The journey is what makes
you care and why when he wins and triumphs, it's like, yeah,
that's my guy. What turned me off?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yeah, what turned me off about the owen
Hart Tournament this year? I actually has nothing to do
with Will Osprey and predictability. I agree, it's not a
bad thing to be predictable, and you know, I feel
like the majority is we're all rooting for Will. But
what kind of got me was that the tournament was
used as a vessel to give Jack Perry and Mark
Davis another match, and it was used on the right
on the right side bracket. It was used to throw
Bendido and Brody King back at Swerve. I don't think
that was necess it in my opinion. It takes lots
away from other big contenders for the tournament that could
have given us the the I guess openness that the
women have. You know, I'm sorry, but Jack Perry doesn't
need to be in this type of tournament just yet,
I don't think, and I'll say the same for Claudio
and Brodie King Mark Davis. I mean, that match was amazing,
so it's hard to kind of complain about that one.
But as far as who he is in the standings
within AW, I would argue Mark Davis doesn't need to
be in this tournament either.
Speaker 3: Very good, good points. Anybody else with thoughts, because I
have another question for you. If you don't, Valerie and Nett,
I think you're the only two that haven't chimed in.
Speaker 5: Should the question calson?
Speaker 3: Okay, So here's the question. It's really more of an
observation again reiterating what I said earlier, when before the
owen Hart Tournament even started on this podcast, everybody was
saying I don't think there was anybody that didn't say
that it was Will Osprey's You know what happened last year,
everybody was saying it was Hangman and him pages and
the year before that, I believe it was Ricky Starks,
and everybody was saying that it was Ricky Starks. We
knew from the beginning. And this is a problem that
AW has had historically with the booking of the men's division.
We all knew that Eddie Kingston was going to win
the first seat too. Nobody was saying anything different. Do
you see this as a problem where you know, Conrad
ifw Show and the chat said he doesn't mind the predictability,
but when you're diconsistent in your predictability, doesn't kind of
take away from Yeah, the match are good, but the
story is just too predictable.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 5: That's a good point.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna I want to take a step back
from a storytelling standpoint. So I have a lot of friends,
well not a lot of friends. I have several friends
in the film industry. I have a couple of friends
who write. I write screenplays for fun. They're good, They're
not good enough to do professionally, right, I think the
challenge is what are you using what is this tournament for?
What are any of these tournaments for. What is the
story of those tournaments and the story of the tournament
and the Owen. And I'm actually gonna set Ricky starks
aside because I thought that Owen was garbage. No offense,
rick I don't know a problem with Ricky winning, but
I thought that Owen was garbage. The story of the
Owen now is this is the redemption they've set up,
is like, this is the story for the good guy
to use Chris's metaphor earlier with the Superman stuff for
their hero's journey to triumph over adversity, to get the title, shot,
to become champion and bring the belt home from the
bad guy. I thought last year's storytelling for Hangman Adam
Page was spectacular. They had done months building up John
Moxley as the ultimate evil, and I think that's one
of the key pieces missing from this year's Owen. On
the men's side, there is no ultimate evil to triumph over.
They've moved the title around and that's been fun. The
problem is because of that, there is no ultimate evil
for this the next winner to triumph over. And I
think that was actually one of the problems with Mercedes
winning the Owen last year is she was going to
take on it was Tony right.
Speaker 7: Tony was the champion at the time, so.
Speaker 6: Like the heel one, and we were reactively against her
from winning against Tony right.
Speaker 7: So I think that's kind of a problem.
Speaker 6: And from a narrative standpoint that the just is like,
what is the story here, what is the three acts
for doing? What is the payoff? What is that final act?
What are you trying to reward the fans with? And
Tony's kind of fallen into routines where that's that's the
narrative that this tournament is for. If you remove that
and it's a scattershot, you really prevent yourself from building
into all in with that narrative and that story of
who are you going to crown as the guy and
the lady to be your champs. I think if this
occurred at a different part of the year, Kelson, they
should just open it up wide.
Speaker 7: But because of this.
Speaker 6: Leading into a championship match of the Owen, it has
to tie into their overarching storytelling that will peak it
all in and that can be a benefit, but it
can also be a negative. Again, if you don't have
that big ultimate evil that the good guy's triumphing on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I do want to go to the chat.
Marcus Entertainer said, this is not a problem for me
talking about the you know, the whole owen Hart thing.
I like when things make sense, and you know, whether
it's predictable or not, it does make sense obviously, and
that he did correct me. Uh, Brian Danielson won the
Owen before Hangman, not Ricky Starks. Look, Mariah May won
the Owen? Did she not to go on to All
In to face Tony Storm? That was that was a
little predictable. But going back to the women's side, before
the Owen started, who would we pick to win the
owen Hart Tournament and go to All In and represent,
you know, the owen Hart Tournament winner going against the
world champion. If I'm not mistaken, A lot of people
were saying, now it's winsor and that did not work
out well for hers. She was crushed in the first round.
Speaker 4: I picked.
Speaker 3: Me too, I think before Mercedes was.
Speaker 5: Even before she was the wild say, I had her
as my as my pick.
Speaker 3: Now we're gonna be talking real soon about this Hazuki
in Mercedes match tomorrow night. But one of the things
that I wanted to point out with the owen Hart
Tournament this year, and well, just really talking about Maya World.
She came in as a basically a wild card and one,
so there you go. Of course that was probably you know,
with the unfortunate passing of her brother May Rest in peace.
You know, that was probably something that was not planned.
But I'm glad they did that. That was special. But
the other thing is, well, we did the prediction poll
on the aw AM subreddit for Azuki versus per Sepony,
Kazuki only got thirteen percent of the votes. Everybody, well,
eighty seven percent of the people picked Persephone, and there
was a swerve thrown in there. I just have to
look at the men's you know, owen Hart and the
Women's Own Heart, and there's just so much more compelling
stories in the Women's Own Heart. You know, I guess
Marcus Entertainer says that he picked Athena, But I do
want to go over. Go ahead and let's talk about
tomorrow night's match between Hazuki and Mercedes Monet. Now, I
know a couple of you have already said, Valerie being
one of them that you picked Mercedes Bonet for the start,
and I just said Azuki had only thirteen percent of
the votes in her first match in the tournament against Persephone.
What are you guys thinking about this match? Who's winning?
Speaker 4: So I'm sick?
Speaker 2: Sorry, uh, I'm picking. I'm picking Hazuki for this one.
The last time they met, which is an amazing match,
by by the way, Mercedes Monette took it, and I
think that leaves it open for Hazuki to win this time.
Something that makes me believe in this more is I
don't believe we have a reason to root for Mercedes Monette.
I don't think we saw any bit of crash out
from her. She lost the TVs title and went off TV,
losing I believe two or three more championships while she
was off TV. Technically she still has the owen Hart
Foundation belt, but you know it is by that regard.
Is her belt collector run done? Obviously she doesn't have
the mall, but she still has one out of the
twelve or thirteen that she had. She's still not much
of a changed woman from before her hiatus. I just
don't see why. And I'm a huge mercaderes mark. I
love Mercedes Monnet, but I just don't feel like we
have a reason to root for her against a woman's
champion at all, in which I would assume would still
be techla. I think that that has me picking Hazuki
on this tune.
Speaker 3: She let me ask you this because there's something that
you said that kind of resonated with me. Do you
think that Mercedes Monette needs to lose the owen Hart
Tournament belt in the ring so that she now has
a complete reset? In other words, if she were to
win the owen Hart Tournament, does that kind of make
her fall from grace a little bit less impactful? I
guess is the best way I could think to say it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, even if you didn't put her in her
previous role as as a belt collector, I think I
still would have liked to see some growth and some
losses to kind of shake her feathers up and give
her a bit of a redemption arc. You know, when
Willow was doing the whole comeback killer thing, I thought
that was going to trigger Mercedes sort of redemption. Maybe
she you know, gets sad and you know, kind of
get to give her an avenue for an organic babyface turn,
which I believe at some point is coming. But in
the current role, the only thing she said in her
match against Alex Windsor was that she's in therapy now,
which I was like, okay, you know, maybe she is.
She is turning the corner, and then she went on
to attack Azuki and Persephone. So you know, I think
we still have the same Mercedes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there was one word you used there, Tunci, redemption.
Let's not forget that this story doesn't end it all in.
We still have redemption sandwich between Forbidden Door and all In.
So and a lot of people when I see people
talking about aw Forbidden Door, do Japan cmll stardom Forbidden Door,
I'll just say forbidden Door, they seem to forget. They
kind of forget that there's another pay per view between
Forbidden Door and all In. They say, what's gonna happen
at Forbidden Door leads to all In? We still have redemption,
Mercedes monet at redemption that could be a big story
if they have an angle for it.
Speaker 2: Just saying sure that, yeah, there is two months, two
and a half months, two months, two months and a
week till all In, so a lot can happen. But
I mean that's That's kind of how I see the
Mercedes path and this match.
Speaker 3: I'm really interested to hear other people's thoughts on this match,
Hazuki versus Mercedes, Monett, what's the story? What would you
like to see?
Speaker 4: I'm sticking with Mercedes wedding. I still think she will win,
and but this is one of those where I would
be I'm not going to be just Holly Craft shocked
if a Zuki pulls off the victory. And like Tuci said,
their previous match was freaking amazing, like genuine match of
the Year contender. I hope, I hope they're given a
good twenty minutes and just you know, let them go
all out because those two are fantastics, I have great chemistry.
So this is one of those I'm just really looking
forward to the match. And the result is the result.
Speaker 3: Okay, anybody else want any thoughts on this match?
Speaker 5: He's winning Mercedes, of course, I haven't seen a match
between between them, so I'm excited to see it and
finally to have like a better opinion of a Zuki
versus Mercedes than I had with Persephone. So I'm looking
forward to it. But Mercedes is winning it, not.
Speaker 3: Do you have any thoughts on this.
Speaker 1: I think Hazuki is gonna win, and I would like
to see a little bit of a redemption with Mercedes.
I think that if Hazuki does win, this is the
perfect opportunity for Mercedes to really lose it, and I'd
like her to come back, But with her coming back
behaving and being nice, I would like her to actually
be working against everyone and you know, do something horrendous
at some point in the future to somebody. I actually
don't care who it is. I like Mercedes more when
she's a heel. I think she plays into that very
very well. You still like her when she's a heel,
and I think that she can do something where she
really loses her mind and acts nice but is not
really being nice. And when that plays out, a lot
of people are going to be shocked because she acted
so friendly and helpful, but she's really not. So I
think Hazuki's going to win this one and there's going
to be some really big fallout from it. So that's
what I would like to see there.
Speaker 3: You've been early silent.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I talk a lot, but Tucci mentioning that the
therapy thing, I've just been thinking here if Mercedes loses
and we get the total crash out that I was
hoping to see at the end of her belt Collector run.
I want to see her in therapy, and I want
her therapists to be Harley Cameron. I want us to
find out that, in addition to speaking Chinese, being a ventriloquist,
playing guitar, singing, acting, being a model and professional wrestler,
she's also a licensed therapist. And I want to see
the two of them together, and I want to see
them playing off the good evil much like Christian and
Cope do. And the fact that they're selling the Mercedes
Monet puppets six months too late, but they're doing that
at at shows makes me wonder if that that's something
we might get to see.
Speaker 4: Very interesting.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: There was a time which actually this is exactly what
I was thinking as well, not so much the therapy thing,
but a partnership between Harley and Mercedes.
Speaker 7: Yep, they place so well off each other.
Speaker 3: There was a time together.
Speaker 2: There was a time where Harley kept asking women in
the in the locker room to be her trainer, and
she kept bouncing around and no one ever wanted to
do it. I thought that that's where that was leading,
and that would have given her a perfect, you know,
perfect and organic babyface, uh kind of turn. Maybe not
even babyface, but you know, at least something to to
get her back on in people's good graces.
Speaker 3: It'll Berry. I like your idea. However, I don't want
to see Harley as the therapist. I want to see
puppet Monet as a as a therapist because.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that that's part of the therapy is
she's going to have to speak as puppet Monet and
she'll talk to herself and have to bait, you know. Anyway,
I got all sorts of ideas. That's why I don't
get paid to do this.
Speaker 4: I love the.
Speaker 6: Obviously they're not going to do anything I suggested because
it's ridiculous, But I think it would.
Speaker 7: Be like.
Speaker 4: Steel Berry's therapy idea.
Speaker 3: Yes, make make the royalty checks, were you know, using
the idea be able to and I don't give Barry.
I don't give Burry. I don't know.
Speaker 7: Ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, one of the things that people have
brought up and correctly so, I mean you can't avoid
it is that on Saturday, well it's actually Saturday afternoon
in Japan, But it's like two o'clock in the morning
Saturday morning in the United States Eastern time. Azuki is
going to be participating at Stardom's The Conversion twenty twenty
six pay per view, and some people will have a
thought that because she's participating in that pay per view,
that she will not be winning this match. But you
know who else is also on that pay per view,
Starlight Kid. So I have to say this right out
the bat. Next week. Next week is to Go Home
Show for Go Home Dynamite for Forbidden Door. I think
you've got to bring Starlight Kid to have a match
and show we're off and let her do her thing.
But the question here is basically, how many of you
are familiar with Starlight Kid and do you think that
Starlight Kid actually has any chance of winning against Tecla
at Forbidden Door? And what's the story here? There's a
ongoing story.
Speaker 7: Of Starlight Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 2: As far as as far as Joshi's go I think
she kind of encapsulates the speed, the strength, at the
brutality that a Joshi can exhibit awesome in the ring.
And as far as the story, I did a little
bit of a deep Dive. Tecla actually took a hiatus
from Stardom in early twenty twenty four, right after DDM disbanded,
she came back to join Oto Tie. Starlight Kid at
the time was a part of Oto Tie all for
about thirty minutes before they pretty much jumped Starlight Kid
and kicked her out of the faction. Right, so exactly,
their early matches are very fun and very fast. So
as far as what might go on inside the ring
at Forbidden Door, that's very exciting to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the things I wanted to point out is
aw I forget who said it, but they did say
that Starlight Kid has defeated Tecla once. It's actually twice.
It's actually twice. I believe they said that on Dynamite.
They were incorrect. I only got to see one of
those matches. It went about seven minutes, I would say,
not a really good match in my opinion, basically was
in I believe the match I saw was from twenty
twenty two. This is before either of them were with
Oaito Tie, and again, like Tucci said, Starling Kidd was
kicked out thirty minutes later. Teckler was brought in Oato
Tie A couple months after that disbanded. Well they didn't
really disband, but they they morphed. They became Hate and
of course Hate is one of the biggest factions in
women's wrestling in the world. One other thing I want
to say about Oaito Tie. Thunder Rosa was Aado Tie
for two years, and so is Jamie Hayter. Keep that
in the back of your mind when it comes to
maybe something going on there. Ruby Soho was also Oaito Tie,
but she was only in there for I want to say,
two months. A lot of turnover at Olaito Tie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they actually kicked Starlight Kid out for not being
as brutal as all the others.
Speaker 3: And by the way, that same day he remember you
already said it, like Starlight Kid got kicked out of
Awaito Tie. Tekla was brought in and then Starlight King
immediately went onto Neogenesis where she is today and she
is the leader of Neogenesis. So there is a lot
of story here between Starlight Kidd and Tecla.
Speaker 7: They need a video package.
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you one of the things about that
I like about Starlight Kid. She tends to get brutalized
a lot loses. Well that's kind of a shtick in stardom.
Stardom is not predictable. Stardom is not predictable. You have,
you know, clear winners on paper that they end up losing.
I mean, Sayaka Carrara just won the uh I believe
it was in April, wasn't it. She won the Stardom
World Championship over Sayakamatani and Sayaka Karara is a rookie. Well,
based on Stardom standards, the rookie is anybody under twenty
years old or somebody with less than three years experience,
which Carrara does fall into that. But anyway, but the
thing with Starlight Kid is that with her mask, that
mask is a target. Techla actually and wanted the match
that I did see, did try to rip Starlight Kid's
mask off. I fully expect to see that at Forbidden
Door or probably if Techlan, if Starli Kids shows up
say it Dynamite next week. I kind of think that
there's a really good chance that we'll see Tecla or
the Triangle Madness attack and try to take Starlight Kid's mask.
She has been on masks multiple times, but you don't
see your face. But one of the things about Starlight
Kid also, and I think Tucci'll you'll back me up
on this, is that she's one of the few stardom
wrestlers that well. She bleeds quite a bit. She'll do
the hardcore stuff, and I don't think a lot of
it is blading. I think it's because of the mask.
She ends up getting her face kicked in a lot.
Speaker 7: You know why she wears the mask.
Speaker 3: Because she's just too cute for anything else.
Speaker 7: That's actually it's actually Bandido.
Speaker 3: It's Bandido. Mm well, actually she's working. She's working.
Speaker 7: She's only four lipstick on. That's it. The tan has
it's all. It's all.
Speaker 6: It's pro tan they put on before the show. He's
not actually very pasty.
Speaker 3: She's only four to eleven. So this is one of
a few matches where Techle's going to have a height advantage.
Speaker 7: That's how tall Bandido is. He's a logo. Yeah, yeah,
it's a joke. It's not actually that short.
Speaker 4: He is a solid five fives a loga. I think
it's actually like about five.
Speaker 7: I think he is about five seven. Back on toast,
Sorry about that bad joke.
Speaker 3: Cal Yeah, yeah, we will have a discussion out for
the ship.
Speaker 7: That's a demerit, demerit.
Speaker 4: I'll slay with the Starlight Kid. I've only seen a
handful of matches, but she's one of those. I think
she'll get instantly over to just where she's got. I mean,
I hate to say it, she's got she's got that
something you can't quite you know what the French call
is certain, I don't know.
Speaker 7: What Sena said is what you're looking for?
Speaker 3: Yeah, help us out of her gallery.
Speaker 4: It actually does mean I don't know what.
Speaker 2: It really doesn't take long to fall in love with
her style in the ring. Something also interesting on this, Uh,
it's not so much. I wouldn't put this as a
feud or the match itself, I guess is against Starlight Kid,
of course, but the real feud here is Tecla and Tarokata,
the president of Stardom.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is really Starlight Kid defending stardom almost
more than challenging for the AEW title. Like obviously you
know she's challenging, but like that's not goal one. I
think for her it's more the disrespect Techlas, so like
she can't let that slide.
Speaker 3: You know what I would love to see since the
Stardom is having their Conversion pay per view on Saturday.
I would love to see sky Blue and Julia Hart
show up there and tear it up and then get
added to the five Star Grand Prix because Stardom has
four wrestlers that would normally be in the five Star
gram Pee pre that are on excursion in the well
the United States and Canada and Mexico and in North America,
and they are not going to participate in the five
Star Grand Prix. So this would be a really great
time for aw to send a couple of their wrestlers.
And I really do believe sky Blue and Julia Harder
to two that make most sense because it does feed
into that whole Tecla and taro Ocotta feud.
Speaker 7: That's why they lost. To free him up and do
a little talent exchange here on the DL.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see a lot of talent exchanges,
you know, Stardom has We're going to talk about this
in the next segment. Stardam has a strong relationship with
mlw CMLL, but there's so many visa issues these days.
I mean, Gape Kidd. We talked about Gay Kidd earlier
in the show. Correct me if I'm wrong. Chris, but
Gape Kidd gave the impression that he may not be
able to make it to Forbidden Door because he's having
visa issues.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of those. It's a really great area
for him. He may make it, but he may be delayed,
you know, an extra month just as easily like he's in.
It's a weird limbo area for a lot of people
where you know, maybe it'll get pushed through or maybe
they'll just be stuck waiting. Yeah, vs shoes are And
I think a large part of that is you have
so much going on in the world right now. You know,
you've got the World Cup, You've got all that Kid's crazy.
Speaker 7: It has nothing to do with it, Chris, We all know.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But back on to Starlight Kid. Does anybody see
Starlight Kid winning against Tecla? I mean, is it is it?
Is it a good story? You know, that's a secondary
question for Starlight Kid to win.
Speaker 5: I have never seen Starlight Kid.
Speaker 3: Well, you're missing a lot, Valerie. I would definitely suggest going.
I'm gonna tell you one thing that I hope that
they do is give her her entrance. Starlight Kidd has
one of the best entrances you know when I look
at entrances, I look at Starlight Kid. Sorry a new
of course, Saya Kamatani, and that's a play. Starlight Kid
has a really fun entrance. And to think about Starlight
Kad being small and very youthful looking even under the mask,
and she's she's just over with the kids. I mean,
kids love her.
Speaker 7: The one that comes out with the minds.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, she comes out wearing a two masks.
She comes out with two masks on. She takes off
one mask and then of course she's got another mask
underneath it. She gets in the ring, but she just
has this really cool entrance.
Speaker 7: It's a really fun vibe.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's just it's just that. I mean,
if you see this on the screen, you know that
mask is are obviously the mask he wrestles in. The
other one is a little bit bulkier with I would
I would more describe it like a Juician thunder, likeer
mask mix mixed with ultra man.
Speaker 6: She should she should have that mask, take that off
and have a sting mask and then take a sting
mask to this to her.
Speaker 3: There you go, I comes out of their heads.
Speaker 7: Like seventeen mask. Yeah, you know, he.
Speaker 3: Says, like seventeen sizes too bigger heads. She spends like
the first half hour just rip a mask.
Speaker 7: Like everyone's like, all right, come on, let's get it
over with, lady. Let's go. We gotta wrestler.
Speaker 3: The Mexican wrestler that Mill Mascaris used to used to
come out wearing several masks.
Speaker 7: Mass scaris, so you should have masks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were like seven of them at least to
the bring. Anyway back to Starlight Kid. Anybody seeing Starlight
Kid winning this match? No, I'd love him.
Speaker 6: When Matt comes in and says, yes, what do you
think do we lose that?
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was having computer issues. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: No, I don't see her winning, but I see it
being a very very good match.
Speaker 4: So I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Speaker 3: But I don't think so if Starlight Kid loses this match,
which I do believe that she will, but I think
it will be a great match. I think this match
is one of those matches is going to set up
something for redemption. I really do. I think that this
is something that's going to set up something for redemption
and the five Star GP. This is a match that's
got a lot of story to it, and I dare
to say, of all the matches that have been made
for Forbiden Door so far, this one has got the
most uh chattered about it. I really do.
Speaker 2: I agree, Sorry wise, this is my most anticipated I'm
a big startup fan, so I guess that also plays
into it. But look very much looking forward to this one.
Speaker 3: All right. To be honest with you, Of all the
matches that forbidden Door, this one here is really the
one that I care about the most and the others
like because the will Osprey and we're going to talk
about will Osprey and swear Strickland shortly. Uh, It's just
it's gonna be a great match. But I just don't
think will Osprey is gonna lose. And when when When
something is that predictable, it takes away from it for
But I want to move on because on Thursday night
we have Global Wars Cincinnati. The women that you see
here are the international participants in Global Wars Cincinnati. You
have Roha and you have Shuri. You have Olympia from CMLL,
Micah from stardom, and Hanneko from start to stardom. There
are no men international men at CMLL is pretty much
other than Olympia. CMLL is pretty much absent. Dow Japan
was never part of this, so it's basically a women's thing,
you know, it's kind of it's got several matches, but uh,
there are real visa issues. I mean, look at a
w H. I think even Kyle Fletcher even posted today
said something like, does anybody have Accea Sero's phone number?
Vis Mortos is having visa issues. When is the last
time you saw Commander or or Mascaraderata? You know, these
guys that have been part of the aw lore stories
and whatnot missed the co I mean, they're just not
around Forbidden Door. I mean Tom a Hero is going
to be Is he the only Japanese you know, participant
from you know, New Japan participanting Forbidden Door? Because he's
the he's in the States? I mean, are are you
guys worried about this?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean I can't hold Cony Khan accountable here because
this is a state department thing, and I mean in
the United States, we've seen that's where it was going.
It's by design and unfortunately we're going to get, you know,
screwed out of some really fun stuff.
Speaker 7: Likely because of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind of nervous about Starlight Kidd and Azuki.
Should Kuzuki win and Starlight Kidd is scheduled for Forbidden Door,
I'm hoping that this is going to happen. You know,
I really want to see Gabe Kid. You know, I
don't know. I mean, it is what it is. They
are going to be deciding. I'm not real sure about
this one here they're going to be deciding, I get.
I would assume early in the show they're gonna be
picking the twelve men. I guess there's five on each
side that are going to need to be firmed up
for the.
Speaker 7: Is that the first segment.
Speaker 3: Did they announce They didn't announce it, but I would
assume it would be earlier in the show because it's
probably going to be the main event, because you're going
to have a six on six match at Dynamite tomorrow
night between the two teams that are selected, and then
ten days from now, you're from then you're gonna have
the steel Cage match with the same two teams. I am,
I'm sorry. I don't care at all about this whole story,
and I mean, I don't know about you, but I
really like Mark Briscoe, but let's face it, he's a
transitional challenger. I mean I don't give him any shot
of winning. And speaking to predictability, Mark Brisco's team has
got to win a forbidden doors, so he gets that shot.
So what are we doing here?
Speaker 4: He's right. I have a theory about the match tomorrow night.
I think it will lead to at least one, most
likely two people on Team brisco getting taken out, and
then he and Briscoe and Orange Cassidy have to call
their old friends from Pyofs and we get hiok go
to and the greatest wrestler, slash bar owner, slash Tourism ambassador,
slash DVD producer The Man John Moxley fears the most.
Stay it with me yoo.
Speaker 7: Who oh No. I don't know who that.
Speaker 4: Is, but it'll probably be Yi.
Speaker 7: The dude comes in gonna shove. No, You're never gonna
get rid of.
Speaker 3: Us. There's a guy called World Famous Man on Reddit
who has made and probably been banned. Literally I think
he's up to his World Fast Band version thirteen. I
think that's this is literally the truth and all he
does one hundred percent of the time he's come on
our discord, he posts all this just he's like a
Yoshi Tatsoo super fan. He's he can't be legit. You know,
I think he's just pulling. But he's the dumbest person
I've ever met. He's he just uses, he creates. He's
created countless subreddits where he's trashed me personally and trashed
several subreddits. It's pretty bad.
Speaker 7: What's your fantasy team here for Mark Briscoe?
Speaker 1: For Mark Briscoe, fantasty? Yeah, let's see. I think Orange, Cassidy,
Roger Strong She of course that's three. Who else does
Mark brisco have?
Speaker 4: Kyle?
Speaker 7: I love Kyle?
Speaker 3: Maybe because remember MGF has Kevin Knight.
Speaker 1: Well that's right, but I never told you all this.
I think that that Kevin Knight is secretly still friends
with Speedball and that they're they're gonna do some elaborate
thing later to somebody or the entire don callis family.
Because I was watching Collision on Saturday, and at some
point Kevin Knight, who was on commentary, slipped up and said,
come on Speedball, and he caught himself really quick and
changed it, and I, you know, I had to replay
it later and I said he was actually cheering for
for Mike Bailey, and so it gave me the theory,
you know, I love Wild Wrestling series, that they actually
aren't they aren't broken up, and that Kyle is going
to work from within to destroy the don Kallis family.
Speaker 6: So Darby Allen is just a sacrifice to the broader
scheming that I think so.
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 1: Damage, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Just waiting to see Kevin Knight's new persona, his new
gimmick is the male.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, see, and you ever notice how slowly he walks.
I think it's all.
Speaker 4: It's all a sad he was flying high. Just wait
and see.
Speaker 6: Then Darby, oh man, it was just a pawn in
your bigger plans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's gonna be like you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all thats Darby just comes out racist and mic
and Darby in Game of Life.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I think.
Speaker 7: Bro I made sure you were on a protected stretcher,
you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is right up there with me thinking Harley
Cameron should be Mercedes therapist.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well you know, look, look.
Speaker 1: I Lovelson makes that sound.
Speaker 3: My point is here, though, this is this whole conversation
has been entertainment, entertaining, but it's kind of telling. We've
got Mark Bristow's graphic up on the on the screen.
The whole section is about Mark Briscoe. Barry is trying
to eat his glasses.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm doing the clicking thing again.
Speaker 3: I know that. Yeah, sorry, I was like, what is
that noise?
Speaker 6: That's why I have the video so you can catch
me when I'm doing stuff.
Speaker 3: But the whole thing is we're talking about Mark Briscoe here,
but we're not talking about Mark brisco That's that's the
point here.
Speaker 6: You know, they got the match first. Like I think
you hit the nail on Ed Kelson. This is a
temporary program to get to wherever they're going. I don't
think it's worth people really wasting a lot of time
and effort. As long as it's fun, that's what's going
to matter until they get to whatever. And I think
this stuff you said before about Forbidden Door a lot
of the times it's kind of a throwaway pay per
view outside the normal continuity. They changed it last year,
and I think it's good they got a couple of matches,
but you know, this is one of the throw in
some new Japan guys, or see them whoever you can
get juice it.
Speaker 4: Up or the sickest of the Yeah, Barlow.
Speaker 2: Take it out. Otherwise you're just gonna have the same
blood and cuts team go back in the cage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. I hate to interrupt you, guys,
but we are running out of time and there's one
second we have to talk about. Uh. But I do
want to say one thing first is that if after
Dynamite tomorrow night, after you've chatted your hearts content to
your heart's content on the aw pan hub subreddit chat box,
which will be up a little bit later on tonight,
so it'll be up all day tomorrow, you can talk
about Dynamite before the show, during the show, and after
the show, but right after the show, shortly after the show.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Conrad Cushman and Derek Shelton will be doing their aw
Dynamite review over on at EPW show YouTube channel, Very
interactive show. It's a lot of fun. I highly highly
recommend you go there and listen to that if you've
never listened to it, and you will have a good time.
I know, Chris and Valerie you've been there and you
can attest.
Speaker 4: I will be there tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I have a feeling tomorrow Night's Dynamite's going to
be a very, very fun show. I am a little
disappointed that Will Osprey and swear Strickland are doing a
face to face tomorrow night. But where is the ultimate
in pro wrestling entertainment? Where is the contract signing? I mean,
this is a missed opportunity. I mean, the match is
going to be great. We know the match is going
to be great. To face to face, something's gonna happen,
but it's still nothing without a contract signing. Are we
going to get the contract signing on Collision or Dynamite
next week?
Speaker 4: As long as someone goes through a table, yeah.
Speaker 3: Or it gets you know, syringe in her mouth or
a stable.
Speaker 7: I think in continuity, the contract was obviously already established
when they entered the tournament, so there's nothing to sign yeah.
Speaker 3: But still still, I mean he got a side a contract. Man,
talk about a.
Speaker 7: Paper title match. That's title match stuff, man, Like, that's
what when is ago on this? There's nothing?
Speaker 3: But my point is, Barry, is when I swear Strickland
ever had a pay per view match without a contract signing,
the street has to live on.
Speaker 7: Is that a stream?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean think of go back. Just think about
how many contract signings swear Strickland has been in. There's
all he's he's like the king of contract signings. He
loves to write. I don't know, but what do you
guys think? Uh? Base to base between Will Ospray and
swear Strickland.
Speaker 4: Wow, I said, someone goes through a table. I'm happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Will comes out and like the Daniel Brian braids, like
I hope they want him to my god?
Speaker 7: No, no, what come on? Maybe he matches like he's
got like extensions in there.
Speaker 6: So he's got braids. That's like, oh yeah, I got
braids too. You ain't so cool, dude? Were your where
your glasses laced with something?
Speaker 4: Well? Come on, I'm trying to for every hardy Cameron
as Mercedes therapist, there is a well off Brey wearing
Dray braid.
Speaker 6: Yes, Sarah Alex Winzer comes out, she said, what are
you doing? Get stupid braids out of your head.
Speaker 3: That's okay, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 7: For Land and Barry.
Speaker 3: How tired are you right now?
Speaker 7: I'm pretty tired man showing and I've been showing.
Speaker 6: I got one sixteen ounce peer and at my age,
that's enough to knock me up for a few days.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, for a few days. Talking here's I do
not Can you imagine me drinking? How I would be?
I do not drink. However, whenever I attend a burial,
a family funeral, you know how you go to like
a restaurant afterwards to have a get together whatever. In
my area, all the restaurants are bars, or they have
a bar attached. I don't know why I do this,
but every time I go for a lunch or a dinner,
I always order a bloody Mary from the bar, not
a Virgin. I get the right, right bloody Mary. I
don't know why, because I don't particularly drink, but I
always get a bloody Mary. And I spend what bloody Mary?
And I am super sauced. I mean, I, oh my god,
I am wrecked at a bet at a funeral, and
a family family funeral whatever.
Speaker 6: Little did he know It's not from the alcohol. It's
actually an allergic reaction to the tomato sauce.
Speaker 3: M I don't think so, because I drink a lot
of v A buddy, we know so mm hmm.
Speaker 6: But is it bloody Mary? Vaut But do you like
him spicy Kelson?
Speaker 7: I like mine.
Speaker 3: I like min spicy.
Speaker 6: I like mine spicy, good bloody Mary at a brunch
for the big piece of bacon in there or something,
and I'm not I don't a lot of bacon, but
in a bloody Mary, it's good stuff.
Speaker 3: And anyway, that's our thoughts on the Will. We nowhere,
we were talking.
Speaker 4: We were talking about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking. Yeah, go ahead, Well.
Speaker 5: Well it was so funny that I've lost my idea.
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, okay, I got it now.
Speaker 5: First of all, I want to I want to give
my big, big congratulations to Will and Alex. I'm getting
married this weekends to them. Did you did you guys?
See swarves sweet stweet about about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah I did.
Speaker 5: It was right to the point. Congratulations.
Speaker 3: See you at work, you think all congratulations? See it
work really really well done.
Speaker 5: But I'm very very excited to see that face to face,
and I'm sure it will be brought up on the past,
the past year fighting to get the e vps off
of the young Bucks and helping Hangman and and and stuff.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it's going to be great.
Speaker 3: Very briefly, I do want to bring up a collision
match because it kind of goes back to what we
were watching earlier, talking about earlier My World an Athena
on collision. What do you think who wins this match?
Speaker 8: Athena Athena Yea, you know what I'm I'm gonna I'm
gonna go out on a limb and say my world.
Speaker 4: He has faced Athena twice in big matches, well three
times if youman count Survival of the Fittest, but twice
in big singles matches since joining a W. First time,
proving ground match, she went to ten minutes, earned the
title match. Second time, the title match, fantastic match, like
if you can go back and watch it, and I
mean she took the fight to Athena, and I mean
look really close to being able to beat her third time?
Could be the charm.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Also you have to think about the chemistry that
they these two would have Athena trained my World.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the history and the chemistry they have, Like, yeah,
I'm looking. I'm really looking forward to the matches. I mean,
based on their previous to encounters, this should be excellent.
And I think my World has taken you.
Speaker 3: Know, I look at this match, and this is one
of those. I mean this with no disrespect at all.
I don't really care who wins this match. I just
really want to watch this match. I think this is
going to be a sleeper. I think this is going
to be a really great match.
Speaker 7: Ye I want to see Athena go ahead and sorry, yeah.
Speaker 5: The question is is the student better than the teacher?
Speaker 3: M hmm, well that as the teacher said, I taught
you everything you know, but I didn't teach you everything
I know. That was what Athena said very recently on
Ring of Honor.
Speaker 7: I just want to see Athena wrestle more than twice
or more than once. So I want to see her wins.
I want to see her in the finals.
Speaker 3: And Athena is one of those wrestlers that, like Mercedes,
they make their opponents look good even when they win.
They make their opponents look good, and I for one,
really appreciate that. Warnce Cassidy does that too. Arch Cassidy,
even when he was on that International Championship to wur,
he was making his opponents look good. Even though he
was winning all those matches, he still made his opponents
look good.
Speaker 4: Until you make your opponents look like credible challenge add
to you overcoming the like they understand that the better
everyone is, the better the champion.
Speaker 7: It.
Speaker 6: Hey, one more thing for a rap Autcolson shout out
to Brian Cage with his big win in the Mister
Devan or Mister Nevada Bodybuilding Show. I don't know if
that's an NPC show or an IVV show. I don't
know if he got his pro card or not from that,
But for anybody who follows bodybuilding like I do casually,
big achievement explains why he was incredibly lean. It is
very not healthy to stay as lean as he's been
on TV, but to know he was dieting down for
a show and still wrestling is insane.
Speaker 7: Really really great work from him. I hope he keeps
it up.
Speaker 6: His back looks fantastic, upper body development look great. Needs
a little more work on the hamstrings and calves. I
think that's holding him back a little bit, but I
was really excited to see him get that, and it's uh,
it is not easy to win a bodybuilding show, I'll
put it that way.
Speaker 7: So really really great great work.
Speaker 4: And hands machine. You can see him and Lance Archer
is it's the new uh Spielberg Alien movie.
Speaker 7: He's in the Something Day. What's it called.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 7: Plugged in.
Speaker 6: I think Declaration Day, Yeah, something like that, disclosure disclosure,
and Captain tells.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just real quick. You know, if you I follow
Buddy Matthews on Instagram and he's been posting quite a bit.
One of the things that he posted this week, and
I'm gonna get this wrong, but you'll get the gist
of what he said showed him working out. And Buddy
Matthews is Jack. You know, he's gigantic, and he's he's
a he's a unit. And he said something in the fact,
I don't work out to be a better wrestler, and
I'll work out so that I'm big. I work out
because my wife is hot and people will say, have
you seen her husband? There you go, and so that's me. Hey,
it makes sense. And I love that he gave a
shout out to his hot wife, Ria Ripley. Uh, you know,
the talented I call hit the talented mister Ripley. But anyway,
that's our show for this week. We will be back
next week with our Forbidden Door preview and prediction show.
I'm hoping between Dynamite and Collision we actually get some
matches firmed up. I don't honestly have a lot of
faith in some of this because of these visa issues.
It's going to be interesting to see what transpires. But anyway,
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