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Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, it's Jay again with your NXT review. This
Speaker 3: week emanated from the uh from the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida,
Speaker 3: Winter Park, Florida. This is the review for this week's
Speaker 3: NXT episode that aired on the CW on February eleventh.
Speaker 3: And let me tell you, there was so much that happened.
Speaker 3: This was the go home episode for Vengeance Day which
Speaker 3: is Saturday, and there was so much that was going
Speaker 3: on and I want to talk all about it, but
Speaker 3: first let me talk about Ricky Starks. So before I
Speaker 3: get into before I get into the event itself, and
Speaker 3: right before the main event, which was the cage match
Speaker 3: between Tony D'Angelo and Ridge Holland, which a lot happened
Speaker 3: with that one too. We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 2: We have.
Speaker 3: Ricky Starks come out. Now, he didn't say his name,
Speaker 3: he just said you know who I am. And then
Speaker 3: afterwards the announcers were like, yeah, we know who he is,
Speaker 3: but nobody actually ever said his name. So those of
Speaker 3: you that don't know who he is, Ricky Starks came.
Speaker 2: Out on.
Speaker 3: In the crowd with the microphone and basically said that
Speaker 3: he is now an NXT. Now here's why this is interesting.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, So, Ricky Starks was on the AEW for years,
Speaker 3: years back from almost when it started in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: And there's actually a lot of guys, if I don't know,
Speaker 3: if you know this, there's a bunch of guys three
Speaker 3: of them off the top of my head that I
Speaker 3: can say that besides Ricky Starks that have jumped over
Speaker 3: from AAW to NXT. Ricky Starks has been an AEW,
Speaker 3: like I said, for since since since almost the beginning.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing. For the last year, this guy
Speaker 3: who from what I've told, been told and I haven't
Speaker 3: seen him wrestle, but from what I hear, he's phenomenal,
Speaker 3: absolutely phenomenal and not no sight to AJ styles. And
Speaker 3: he here's the thing, he hasn't been on aw TV
Speaker 3: for like a year. For a year now, I've done
Speaker 3: some research between the episode on Tuesday night and today.
Speaker 3: So here's some of my here's some of the things
Speaker 3: I found out. Ricky Starks was on an episode of
Speaker 3: the Chris Van Vleet, the podcast, the interview that he did,
Speaker 3: uh the interviews that he does, And there's a possibility,
Speaker 3: now I'm not certain of this, but there's a possibility
Speaker 3: that the reason why Ricky hasn't been on TV basically
Speaker 3: since last year at WrestleMania was because Tony Kahan, the
Speaker 3: owner of a W, had a problem with him. Now
Speaker 3: he keeps saying he doesn't have an issue with him,
Speaker 3: but then again, he hasn't been on TV for a year,
Speaker 3: which doesn't make any sense because again from what I
Speaker 3: hear and from what I've seen from one or two
Speaker 3: matches that I've seen him in, he is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: So Ricky last year went to WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: Now he was.
Speaker 3: Told by Tony Khan that he didn't have a problem
Speaker 3: with him going to WrestleMania. However, again, he hasn't been
Speaker 3: on TV basically since then. On AAW Ricky says he
Speaker 3: went to see Jade, who he obviously Jade and he
Speaker 3: worked together in ae W and Cody and he worked
Speaker 3: together at AW and he wanted to see them perform.
Speaker 3: Why and why wouldn't he. I mean, this is WrestleMania.
Speaker 3: This is the biggest show in wrestling period in the
Speaker 3: United States, probably cross the world unless you talk Wrestling
Speaker 3: Wressell Kingdom and New Japan. But that's a whole separate conversation.
Speaker 3: So it seems like Tony Kahn has had a problem
Speaker 3: with him now. He has been on the active roster
Speaker 3: for AW now since last year's WrestleMania, but again not
Speaker 3: being used then Monday, from what I heard in my research, Monday,
Speaker 3: he was taken off the active roster of ae W
Speaker 3: and along with Malachi Alistair Black, which who's who was
Speaker 3: who was in w W before and now he is
Speaker 3: a w It' is Alistair Black in w W E
Speaker 3: Malachi Black in ae W and now he's now he's
Speaker 3: free agent again and RUSSEV who also had a different
Speaker 3: name in AW but he was russe F and w
Speaker 3: W A now they put together from what I hear,
Speaker 3: they put together a contract with Ricky Starks after he
Speaker 3: was released from AW on Monday, really quick like within
Speaker 3: a day, and then he shows.
Speaker 2: Up to NXT.
Speaker 3: They didn't have any plans for them. It was just
Speaker 3: a here I am, I'm here just so you guys know.
Speaker 3: Which obviously, if you watch the episode, which you wouldn't
Speaker 3: be here most most likely you wouldn't be listening to
Speaker 3: me if you hadn't seen the NXT episode. He came out,
Speaker 3: he did his Ricky Starks things, and that was it.
Speaker 3: It was just an intro like, hi, here I am,
Speaker 3: this is me, b bae bye goodbye. So it's gonna
Speaker 3: be interesting to see how that plays out. Let me say,
Speaker 3: Ricky Starks could be if they wanted him to be,
Speaker 3: could have been main star Maine and Roster ready. However,
Speaker 3: most likely they want to have him do some work
Speaker 3: in NXT first before we came up. But I will
Speaker 3: tell you this, they will whoever whatever they call him,
Speaker 3: whether it's Ricky Starks or something else, they will immediately
Speaker 3: put him into the World title picture or the NXT
Speaker 3: title picture. And let me say this, it needs it now.
Speaker 3: As much as I hype the women's division on on NXT,
Speaker 3: the men's division, you've got Oba and Trick and then
Speaker 3: then you drop maybe Tony DeAngelo is close there, and
Speaker 3: then it just drops. The men's division needed a kick
Speaker 3: in the butt and and I think Ricky Starks is
Speaker 3: gonna give that to him for now they need more,
Speaker 3: but he definitely will help the process. Let me think
Speaker 3: about it. This weekend, Oba Femily's defending a title of
Speaker 3: triple threat match against nobody from NXT. He's defending him
Speaker 3: against an He's defending it against a town down Under.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see the split. Probably not between a Town
Speaker 3: down Under, Austin Theia and Grayson Waller, but Obafemi they pulled.
Speaker 3: They had to pull those two and to be to
Speaker 3: go against Obafemi, why like why why would they have
Speaker 3: to do that because the roster is so small. Trick
Speaker 3: Williams is doing a program with Eddie Thorpe. I think
Speaker 3: have a big issue with that Eddie Thorpe. I've already
Speaker 3: mentioned that. I'm not gonna say it again, so but
Speaker 3: Trick Williams is going his Eddie Thorpe. Tony's'angelo had a
Speaker 3: match tonight against Rich Holland, so he's nowhere to be
Speaker 3: seen for Vengeance Day. Most of the matches this weekend
Speaker 3: are like, you know, the North American Women's North American
Speaker 3: title match. We have, we have the tag team title
Speaker 3: match between Axiom Praxium and you know, well you would
Speaker 3: you guys, that's you've seen what happened on We will
Speaker 3: talk about on Tuesday. The Triple Threat tag team match
Speaker 3: which wasn't for the number one contendership, which ended up
Speaker 3: being for a number one contender ship.
Speaker 2: That was kind of weird.
Speaker 3: And then we had and then we have the triple
Speaker 3: Threat match for the world title. We have Trick versus
Speaker 3: Eddie Thorpe, and we have Javan Evans versus Ethan Page
Speaker 3: and obviously Ethan Page would put up in that top
Speaker 3: the top pedestal there. And that's Vengeance Day. Like again,
Speaker 3: there's like they're not very male superstar heavy in NXT,
Speaker 3: but they're hugely. They're hugely and the women's division heavy,
Speaker 3: which is which obviously is awesome. So let's talk about
Speaker 3: the episode aside from the Rickey Starks Bricky Starks stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this was really this was really a great episode. There
Speaker 3: was so much going on. Again, we talked about this
Speaker 3: is from the facility in Orlando, Florida, Winter Park, Florida.
Speaker 3: They had this was, like I said, it was the
Speaker 3: go home show for Vengeance Day, which happens on Saturday,
Speaker 3: the fifteenth again, I will be doing a review podcast
Speaker 3: and from the snowy Northeast on Sunday morning. Snow again.
Speaker 3: And there were four matches tonight. There were four matches
Speaker 3: because of the Ricky Stark stuff. There was some other
Speaker 3: things between OBA and Etown down Under. There was women's
Speaker 3: Championship match stuff, and then there was a cage match
Speaker 3: which they have to you know, this is the performance center.
Speaker 3: They can't leave the cage up like they do in
Speaker 3: an arena. They have to put it up. So it
Speaker 3: took some time to do that as well. Okay, so
Speaker 3: here's some of the highlights. First match we had is
Speaker 3: Coora j a versus Bailey, which was a great match.
Speaker 3: Kora je Ad looked awesome. I think Bailey made her
Speaker 3: look awesome.
Speaker 2: She you know, she got it. There was an attack.
Speaker 2: Oh and towards the end.
Speaker 3: This is interesting, So towards the end of the match,
Speaker 3: Roxanne comes out dressed as Hugger Bailey. If you will
Speaker 3: go back to when Bailey first came up to the WWE.
Speaker 3: She was dressed in pastel colors. She had straps hanging
Speaker 3: down from her arms. So she came out acting like
Speaker 3: and dressed like hugger Bailey from the beginning, and of
Speaker 3: course Bailey did appreciate being made fun of, so she
Speaker 3: went out out of the ring to confront Roxanne. It
Speaker 3: was actually kind of funny to see how the hugger
Speaker 3: Baalley thing. So Roxanne was from the distraction. Cory j
Speaker 3: came out, gave her a double underhooked DDT on the floor,
Speaker 3: threw in the through Bailey into the ring, and Kory
Speaker 3: gave her another double underhookd DDT in the ring and
Speaker 3: picked up a win. Kora je Aide picked up a
Speaker 3: win against Bailey. That's not something small. That's a big deal,
Speaker 3: and you know, that's something to look to look at
Speaker 3: in the future. But it did because she did that.
Speaker 3: And this is weird how this worked out. So during
Speaker 3: the match, Ava whispered something in Julia's ear, who was
Speaker 3: backstage watching the match, and then after the match was over,
Speaker 3: Ava came out to announce that Korage Aid will be
Speaker 3: added to the NXT Women's Championship match to so this
Speaker 3: is making it now a fortal fatal four way match
Speaker 3: with Bailey, Roxanne, Perez, Cora Jaid and of course Julia
Speaker 3: is the champion. So I still think Julia retains. I
Speaker 3: don't see her losing the title until at least stand
Speaker 3: and deliver in April. We'll see how that goes. I
Speaker 3: don't force. I think Roxanne is gonna be moved up soon.
Speaker 2: I mean she so.
Speaker 3: Roxanne also then now has a match on Monday against
Speaker 3: what's your name Roquel Rodriguez uh for for the elimination chamber.
Speaker 3: I know that people are writing Roxanne Perez off against Roquel,
Speaker 3: but I see some shenanigans happening, and I would not
Speaker 3: be surprised if Roxanne ended up in the elimination chamber
Speaker 3: Allah Tiffany Stein last year, so that will be kind
Speaker 3: of interesting to see.
Speaker 2: So anyway they win her.
Speaker 3: The match was corge Ade, which you know again, the
Speaker 3: fact that she beat Bailey is no small fat, no
Speaker 3: small task. Then backstage you've got Soul, Ruka and Zaria
Speaker 3: talking about going to the beach, which I can't really
Speaker 3: see Sarria going to the beach of course, so Ruka
Speaker 3: for sure. And then Nikita Lyons, who God please, Nikita
Speaker 3: Lyons is She's not She's not entertaining to me at all.
Speaker 2: She her the way.
Speaker 3: She talks is thuggish. I just I don't really articularly
Speaker 3: care for her character. I like the way she works
Speaker 3: in the ring. The match between so then okay, so
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. So Nikita Lyons
Speaker 3: makes it known that she believes that Ruka so Ruka
Speaker 3: is holding Zaria back, and then ended up becoming a
Speaker 3: match tonight between Zaria and Nikita Lyons. So this was
Speaker 3: a pretty good matchup. We'll talk about that, you know
Speaker 3: when when we get to that. So, after that interaction,
Speaker 3: we had Oba Femi and Atown down under. So Oba
Speaker 3: Fami comes out to the ring most likely to give
Speaker 3: a you know, basically to give a glimpse to do
Speaker 3: his plans for Vengeance day, and Grace and Waller and
Speaker 3: Austin Theory and Grace and Waller Well and Alston Theory
Speaker 3: come out and they start basically jarring at each other
Speaker 3: like I'm gonna be the NXT champion. No, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be the NFT champion, blah blah blah, and then they
Speaker 3: start play fighting but not really hitting each other.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 3: Austin Theory goes to hit Grayson Waller and Grace and
Speaker 3: Waller ducks and hits Obafemi in the face and then
Speaker 3: they both start attacking Femi. So the whole thing is
Speaker 3: a set up. Duh, they're gonna They're gonna tease.
Speaker 2: This is the problem with this match.
Speaker 3: The match on paper is not bad, it's it's weird
Speaker 3: to me though, Like it's weird to have Oba and
Speaker 3: Grayson Waller and Austin Theory together because.
Speaker 2: It's really gonna be.
Speaker 3: It's really going to be a handicapped batch of sorts.
Speaker 3: I don't see the breakup from Atown down Under or
Speaker 3: if I if if I was gonna see the breakup,
Speaker 3: it wouldn't be on NXT, it would be on Monday
Speaker 3: Night Raw. And they just got moved to Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 2: Like they're not they're not.
Speaker 3: Gonna do They're not gonna pull the trigger on that,
Speaker 3: not now, not here. So anyway, they start ganging up
Speaker 3: on Oma Fami and you know that was pretty much
Speaker 3: the end of that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: My prediction for as I'm doing predictions, as we go
Speaker 3: through the through the through Tuesday Night, my prediction is
Speaker 3: Oba Fami is gonna just beat the s not the
Speaker 3: snot out of both of them. Uh, They're gonna make
Speaker 3: it semi competitive, but ultimately all the family's gonna just
Speaker 3: destroy both of them, I think.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Then we have Ednie Thorpe, who he challenged Trick Williams
Speaker 3: to a strap match. So last few weeks, Adie Thorpe
Speaker 3: has been coming out with a strap and whipping Trick
Speaker 3: Williams with a strap.
Speaker 2: So Annie Thorpe next in.
Speaker 3: Challenges Trick Williams to a strap match, which later on
Speaker 3: we'll find out if he accepted.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that there's a question that he may or
Speaker 2: may not, right, right, sure. Uh.
Speaker 3: Then there's a doctor that talks about Javon Evans and
Speaker 3: it's funny they talked about, you know how they've been
Speaker 3: trying they've been trying to make the process of of
Speaker 3: Javan evans jaw healing faster, like with but I'm in
Speaker 3: be twelve, Like I don't understand, Like what are we
Speaker 3: doing here, like which we're trying to speed up the
Speaker 3: process of healing.
Speaker 2: I don't think it works that way.
Speaker 3: However, however, Javon Evans was cleared, although the doctor for
Speaker 3: him was concerned that if he gets hit in the
Speaker 3: face that there could be some permanent damage and he
Speaker 3: could break again, and his jaw could break again, and
Speaker 3: of course Jovan Evans like, I don't care. I'm medically cleared,
Speaker 3: and so Avis has Javon's signed a waiver that says
Speaker 3: that that the WWE is not held responsible.
Speaker 2: YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 3: Anyway, this is gonna be a great match. This is
Speaker 3: so Javon Evans versus Ethan Page. It's gonna be a
Speaker 3: great match. I think Javon Evans actually ends up pulling
Speaker 3: up the victory here. I don't think you go through
Speaker 3: all these weeks of you know, him getting killed, getting
Speaker 3: you know, the jaw thing. It's the whole thing with
Speaker 3: Centric Alexander, who's now not an X in NXT anymore.
Speaker 2: He's he was released.
Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody heard that. We'll talk about that. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: Javan Evans got cleared. There's gonna be a match between
Speaker 3: Javon Evans and Ethan Page.
Speaker 2: And I think, honestly, I think, you know, if if I.
Speaker 3: Had to guess, and if I was a betting person,
Speaker 3: which I only am sometimes, I think Jovan Evans wins
Speaker 3: the match clean. That's just my own personal opinion and
Speaker 3: have to see how that how that plays out. So
Speaker 3: we have a the third match, which is a triple
Speaker 3: threat tag team match between Josh Brace and Yoshiki in
Speaker 3: Amora versus No Quarter Catch Crew, Tavian Heights and my
Speaker 3: Miles Born and Hank and Tick. And this match was
Speaker 3: a lot better than I thought it would be. Actually
Speaker 3: was very entertaining, really good match. Okay, so Josh Brace,
Speaker 3: Josh Brace and yo Yo Kishi have not really had
Speaker 3: much much of a match at the XTAM, but they did.
Speaker 3: They Haigen Tank are really entertaining. These two were really good.
Speaker 3: Tavian and Milesbourne are really good too. It was a
Speaker 3: great match, like I said, a lot better than I
Speaker 3: thought it would be. Josh, Brazen, Yokish and Amura end
Speaker 3: up getting the win of the tag team triple threat match.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this so now, So after the match is
Speaker 3: over and they won again not a number one pretended match. However,
Speaker 3: Phraxium then comes out on the balcony and says, good
Speaker 3: job you won. Now you get a tag team title match.
Speaker 3: So now they're they've just made a new match. Three
Speaker 3: days out from four days out.
Speaker 2: From Vengeance Day.
Speaker 3: There's now made a match which is Phraxium versus Josh
Speaker 3: Briggs and Yakishi and Amora, and that should be a
Speaker 3: great match. I mean, listen, Phraxium don't put on bad matches.
Speaker 3: They they had a match last week against the Nema
Speaker 3: Brothers on TAM and I only I gotta, I gotta
Speaker 3: look it up on YouTube because from what I hear
Speaker 3: is a phenomenal match. But yeah, no, it was. The
Speaker 3: triple threat tag team match was amazing. It was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: Then we're backstage and we have the D'Angelo family in
Speaker 3: Stax and Toni le Sony D'Angelo have a moment where
Speaker 3: they squash their little arguments that they have the rest
Speaker 3: of the family around and they and the two two
Speaker 3: of them seem cool.
Speaker 2: Again with each other.
Speaker 3: The family is around, which is you know, all of them,
Speaker 3: and then also is he Dane is there as well,
Speaker 3: so I yes, she's kind of an outside part of
Speaker 3: the family at this point. Then we have an n
Speaker 3: XT Heritage Cup match with Lexus King versus j d
Speaker 3: C from TN. He's on the He's on TNA as
Speaker 3: in the System they're called this is a group called
Speaker 3: the System. He made his debut last week, so a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of people coming in out of
Speaker 3: TNA and you know TNA NXT. It's almost like he
Speaker 3: said nxtn A right, so this was a really good
Speaker 3: match too. Ultimately, I don't I never saw them really
Speaker 3: giving giving a TNA wrestler any championship, So Lexus King
Speaker 3: ultimately did win the match.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: They did have the new quote new rules, which is
Speaker 3: basically regular rules. You know, Lexus King last week said
Speaker 3: that he was gonna stop rounds, he was gonna stop cornerman,
Speaker 3: he was gonna stop time, you know, timed rounds and everything.
Speaker 3: So ultimately Lexus King did get to win. It was
Speaker 3: a straight up wrestling match. Now, I guess it's basically
Speaker 3: this is a third title, but instead of a belt,
Speaker 3: it's a cup and there's no special rules to it.
Speaker 3: So anyway, it was a good match, very good match.
Speaker 3: Then you've got the NXT North American Women's champ being
Speaker 3: fallon Henley. She's walking with fatal influence and they are
Speaker 3: talking about strengthened numbers, and Colonie Jordan shows up, letting
Speaker 3: it be known that she wants to rematch, and then
Speaker 3: Jada Parker also enters and she comes in saying she
Speaker 3: wants a shot too. Shanty the Adonis then inserts himself,
Speaker 3: making a case for his girlfriend Karmen Petrovitch who wasn't
Speaker 3: on the show, but Adrian you know what's his name,
Speaker 3: Shanta the adonnas was which I thought was weird. And
Speaker 3: then basically it's just chaos and and Fallon Henley and
Speaker 3: Fatal Influence basically walk away and everybody's just kind of
Speaker 3: like arguing with each other, which is interesting. So the
Speaker 3: next match we have is Zaria versus Nike Nikita Lyons
Speaker 3: just set up earlier, which I had talked about. This
Speaker 3: was a really decent match. It was really nice for
Speaker 3: them to showcase and remind us what Zaria could really do.
Speaker 3: Like Zaria was, she was Zaria. She you know, played
Speaker 3: up the strength and you know, obviously she's a buff woman.
Speaker 3: She's a buff woman in Nikita Lyons is not a
Speaker 3: small woman. I'm trying to be nice. So it was
Speaker 3: really nice to see Nikita Lyons basically showcase her strength.
Speaker 3: And I'm waiting for Joan Grace to come on, and
Speaker 3: I want to see Jordan Grace and and Zaria have
Speaker 3: have a program together because that's gonna be muddy, that's
Speaker 3: gonna be money. I hope for Standing deliver, but we'll
Speaker 3: see what happens. But Ultimately, Zaria did win the match
Speaker 3: with an F five, which is I don't know if
Speaker 3: that if they're calling it that, but it's basically the
Speaker 3: same move bro that brock Lesner does, So that's what
Speaker 3: I'm calling it.
Speaker 2: F five.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then a short little interview with in the balcony with
Speaker 3: Sarah and.
Speaker 2: Sarah and Trick Williams. Uh.
Speaker 3: Trick, then of course he does accept shock of he
Speaker 3: does accept Eddie Thorpe's challenge for a strap match.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: I think I said this last week. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if they're gonna do it. They haven't. They haven't said
Speaker 3: whether they're doing a strap match, a strat match like
Speaker 3: four corners touch four corners, or if they're doing a
Speaker 3: strat match where you.
Speaker 2: Just pin the person or just you know, or get
Speaker 2: to make him submit. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: But anyway, Trick Williams accepted the challenge to the surprise
Speaker 3: of absolutely nobody. And yeah, by the way, just well,
Speaker 3: I'll talk about this later. So we talked about Ricky Starks.
Speaker 3: He came out next. Again, we don't know what his
Speaker 3: name is gonna be. I think they're playing around with
Speaker 3: some different things. I don't I guess Ricky starks is
Speaker 3: I'm guessing is is.
Speaker 2: I guess is owned by A W k.
Speaker 3: Us his name, which is weird because most most names
Speaker 3: in AW I don't think they trademark I didn't think
Speaker 3: they trademarked, but I guess, I guess. It seems he
Speaker 3: can't use this name or they're trying to buy the
Speaker 3: rights to it or something. I'm not sure, so we'll
Speaker 3: see how that works out. Then we have the Steel
Speaker 3: Cage Match. The main event, which is the Steel Cage
Speaker 3: Match for the North American Championship with Tony D'Angelo and
Speaker 3: Ridge Holland. This match was slow in the beginning and
Speaker 3: picked up at the end, and in the end there
Speaker 3: was a I mean when Tony D'Angelo kind of got
Speaker 3: back up from getting an overall beat down for a while,
Speaker 3: he just just was throwing him against the cage back
Speaker 3: and forth, just really do it, like just kicking his butt. Eventually,
Speaker 3: what happened was is he Dane comes out because she
Speaker 3: wasn't not initially. The rest of the family's out there,
Speaker 3: but they can't get in the cage because there's cage
Speaker 3: and Izzy Dane comes out with a crowbar and first
Speaker 3: she starts to put it in and then and then
Speaker 3: Stacks is like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: And then Stacks into putting in it. Anyway, there's a fight.
Speaker 3: Between Ridge and Tony D'Angelo over who's going to get
Speaker 3: control of the crowbar ends up being Ridge, who basically
Speaker 3: meets the crap out of Tony with it and tries
Speaker 3: to go over the pin and Tony kicks out, which
Speaker 3: was I was, I was actually kind of surprised. And
Speaker 3: then Tony kicks out, starts beating on Ridge and does
Speaker 3: the spinebuster and gets the win. They open the cage door,
Speaker 3: so now this so now Tony is this is continues
Speaker 3: to retain the title. Then they open the cage door,
Speaker 3: Ridge comes out, starts beating the crap out of Stacks
Speaker 3: and the other guy for iris forget his name, while
Speaker 3: Rizzo goes in Adriana Rizzo goes into the ring to
Speaker 3: confront to console Tony di'angelo, and as that happened, and
Speaker 3: then Izy Dane eventually comes in too, because again she's
Speaker 3: she was out there, and then Sean Spears and his
Speaker 3: little crew come out, and uh, and it's pack Tony D'Angelo.
Speaker 2: Well, so they come out and and is he.
Speaker 3: Dane actually hits Tony D'Angelo with the crowbar, and so
Speaker 3: is he Dane is a part of I guess Sean
Speaker 3: Spears kind of finally can finally convinced her that that
Speaker 3: she should go with him. And Sean Spears like he
Speaker 3: he's one of the guys from AW that was really
Speaker 3: good him, Ethan Page and now Ricky Starks. There was
Speaker 3: somebody else like, oh, Lexus King, who used to be
Speaker 3: Brian Pielman Jr. All those guys come over and now
Speaker 3: they all have prominent roles. They all have prominent roles
Speaker 3: in in NXT. So I heard something, I don't know,
Speaker 3: something on Eric Bischoff's show that he does eighty three
Speaker 3: Weeks or whatever it's called.
Speaker 2: Where basically it feels like it feels.
Speaker 3: Like AW just holds people back. And this is not
Speaker 3: an AEW show. And I'm not here to downplay AW.
Speaker 2: But look at look at.
Speaker 3: Look at the people that are thriving and really just
Speaker 3: doing so well at Ethan Paige is has been money
Speaker 3: ever since he walked in the door. Lexus King, current
Speaker 3: Heritage Cup champion, has had a storyline virtually every week
Speaker 3: that he's been there. Sean Spears, there was some low
Speaker 3: time with him, and now he's back on TV and
Speaker 3: starting another faction because you know, there's a vacuum now
Speaker 3: where Chase University was Chase University was. And by the way,
Speaker 3: speaking of Chase University, I don't know if anybody heard,
Speaker 3: but not last weekend with all the releases, but the
Speaker 3: weekend before, Duke Hudson was released from NXT as well
Speaker 3: from WWE, so they're not bringing I haven't seen Thea
Speaker 3: Hale forever except on Instagram.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with her or.
Speaker 3: In TikTok and Dell Contston now has been released and
Speaker 3: age the heck is it Adrian Chase, Yeah, he's just
Speaker 3: basically walking backstage every week disheveled and dejected about Chase University.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.
Speaker 3: But anyway, this was a great episode. Honestly, I can't
Speaker 3: wait for Vengeance Day. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: great card. Starts at six o'clock this week, I think,
Speaker 3: I think. I usually I feel that usually when it
Speaker 3: starts early like that, when it starts like earlier than
Speaker 3: seven or eight o'clock, it's because there's a UFC fight
Speaker 3: on and they want to be sure that the pay
Speaker 3: per view is done. The WW pay review is done
Speaker 3: before the UFC fight at ten, so I think that's
Speaker 3: why they make it at six.
Speaker 2: That's my own personal opinion. I think I'm right.
Speaker 3: Actually on that one because of the whole TKO thing
Speaker 3: they own both companies.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, great episode. I can't wait for Vengines today.
Speaker 3: I will be doing a recap a review of Vengeance
Speaker 3: Day on Sunday, so be prepared for that. And in
Speaker 3: the meantime, you know, talk, I'll talk to you soon.
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