Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. You know what that means. It's time for
Speaker 1: ignition with the aw fan Hub podcast team. This is
Speaker 1: Kelson and I need to apologize because during the show
Speaker 1: you'll probably hear by voice degrading I am battling pneumonia
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna soldier through this.
Speaker 2: And see if we can get through this show. I'm
Speaker 2: here with Steve and Net. Welcome, guys. Are you ready
Speaker 2: to talk about some aw hot topics?
Speaker 1: Well, I know the first topic we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1: We're kind of gonna go in a weird order here,
Speaker 1: but I know, Net, you had an interesting idea of
Speaker 1: who the sixth member of the Don Kallis family is.
Speaker 1: If you remember on Collision, don Kallas had everybody in
Speaker 1: his house I assume or was it just something that
Speaker 1: they rented. I don't know. I was to represent, but
Speaker 1: it didn't look like a house that would be in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: did it. It looked like a new.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe it was this Canadian home.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, you know, the new New England.
Speaker 4: In Manitoba somewhere.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, But anyway, he did have the five members
Speaker 1: including himself, of the Don Collis family having a shit
Speaker 1: chat around the table and he said something to the
Speaker 1: effect I can't remember his exact words, but we're not
Speaker 1: only five members, so there's a sixth person out there,
Speaker 1: and net, like I said, you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of an interesting, uh theory. Maybe it's a little out there,
Speaker 1: but go ahead and.
Speaker 3: Share it, okay. At first I thought he was just
Speaker 3: referring to Trent and barretta coming back, right, But that
Speaker 3: started to seem too obvious to me, like, of course
Speaker 3: everybody will think it's it's Trent and then it will
Speaker 3: be a huge surprise. So, thinking that way, I think
Speaker 3: that the other member is.
Speaker 1: A bushie koda aboushie. I think, So is there any
Speaker 1: particular reason that is there something that makes you feel
Speaker 1: that way? I mean, obviously Abushi is, you know, a
Speaker 1: golden lover, right and the Colas family is. So you
Speaker 1: think that Don Kalas paid off a bougie.
Speaker 3: I think he recruited him to give him that challenge
Speaker 3: that Abushi is always talking about that he wants, he
Speaker 3: wants to be challenged and elevate things. And I think
Speaker 3: that if it is a boushie, it sets up for
Speaker 3: Kenny to reunite with the young Bucks. Because Kenny and
Speaker 3: the Young Bucks still have an unfinished story and this
Speaker 3: would be the perfect way for them to reunite. And
Speaker 3: Abushi would be a huge surprise being on Callous's side
Speaker 3: going against Kenny, but it would be fantastic. I think
Speaker 3: it'd be great storytelling if they do it right and
Speaker 3: it brings full circle the Kenny and the Young Bucks story.
Speaker 3: So that's my guess on who it is.
Speaker 1: And if there's anybody in our audience that has a
Speaker 1: prediction of who it is, go ahead and post it
Speaker 1: up and I'll read it out and let's to see
Speaker 1: who's right. Of course, a couple of other names that
Speaker 1: have been cast out other than Trent Beretta, who honestly
Speaker 1: is probably the name that has been most preleament, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as being talked about. Uh, there's well, the
Speaker 1: other name is Mark Davis, right. I saw that too, Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: and that and that does make sense. Uh, Steve, do
Speaker 1: you have any idea yourself of who the sixth man
Speaker 1: of the don Cows family could be?
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to like think of a bunch of
Speaker 4: heels and I can't, like, I guess trump Byretta up
Speaker 4: because he was turning heelish at the end there and
Speaker 4: then he went away, So I would say trump Byretta
Speaker 4: is my guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, another name. Maybe they made up kissed him, made
Speaker 1: up with Will Hobbs.
Speaker 4: Or that too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's good. Here's the thing that I'm worried about because
Speaker 1: another name that I had thought of. And if you
Speaker 1: listen to that segment, Don Kallas was talking about Kenny
Speaker 1: Omega in this match that they're having a Grand Slam
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega and Will Osprey against Kenoski Takeshta and Kyle Fletcher.
Speaker 1: But Don Kallas really didn't mention Will Osprey. Is there
Speaker 1: a chance that maybe, you know, mister Smiley Golden Retriever
Speaker 1: Energy shaking hands with Buddy Matthews, shaking hands with Kenny Omega.
Speaker 1: Who else did he shake hands with? Brody King? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so maybe he's doing a hill turn. The only thing
Speaker 1: I don't like about that is there's too many heels
Speaker 1: in AWE and I like to keep some of the
Speaker 1: I'd like to keep at least some of the baby
Speaker 1: faces baby bases, especially because look, I mean that you
Speaker 1: even said maybe Kenny Omega reforms with the Young Box well,
Speaker 1: that kind of puts them in not a babyface way
Speaker 1: at best, in a tweeter kind of way. Would you
Speaker 1: agree with that?
Speaker 3: I agree? But the young bucks have they're they're gonna
Speaker 3: have their moment where they I think where they come
Speaker 3: back around and they're good guys again. So if you know,
Speaker 3: if that's what they're gonna do, reunite with Kenny and
Speaker 3: apologizing to him and you know, everything's fine and grand,
Speaker 3: this would be a good way to bring them back
Speaker 3: into being babyfaces.
Speaker 1: Right. So, well, I'm gonna throw something else out there
Speaker 1: at you. Who says that it's got to be a
Speaker 1: male wrestler, Why couldn't it be a women? And if
Speaker 1: you look at them and looking at the women's roster,
Speaker 1: it really doesn't. When I'm looking at the women's roster,
Speaker 1: and we're just going way off on a tangent here,
Speaker 1: but it's worth exploring. Looking at the women's roster, there's
Speaker 1: really nobody on the women's roster right now that stands
Speaker 1: out that would be like almost a feasible addition to
Speaker 1: the don Kallis family, either because they're not being used
Speaker 1: or they are already established. These are either a heel or.
Speaker 5: A babyface on their own right, and it just doesn't
Speaker 5: make sense for them to go to the don Kallis
Speaker 5: family except for one woman that immediately sprung to my mind,
Speaker 5: and I know it's reach, but if we're going.
Speaker 1: To explore a possible women's wrestler being in the don
Speaker 1: Kallis family, I have to go with Megasus Megan Bane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was thinking, Megan.
Speaker 1: I don't particularly like it, but it makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it does. That would really be something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'd also like to see Sir pente go,
Speaker 1: not that he's a woman's wrestler, but i'd like to
Speaker 1: see in there. But he's talented.
Speaker 6: You know, I was.
Speaker 3: Reading earlier somebody said that this is how they're going
Speaker 3: to bring Speedball Mike bailing In.
Speaker 1: That is another name that I saw passed around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very good point. I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's a thought I hadn't even
Speaker 3: that hadn't even crossed my mind, just like a woman
Speaker 3: a women's wrestler hadn't crossed my mind.
Speaker 1: But I can see about Speedball. Mike Bailey is he's
Speaker 1: not really the kind of guy that when he should
Speaker 1: First of all, not a lot of people in aw
Speaker 1: would know him. You know, let's be honest, a lot
Speaker 1: of mainstream AWWDWE fans don't know him. I mean we do.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the general everyday fan probably don't know
Speaker 1: Mike Bailey, so they would have to establish him. The
Speaker 1: other thing about Mike Bailey, he's not exactly like this
Speaker 1: overpowering looking kind of guy. He's a smaller, quicker athlete.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a fantastic athlete, but he's not somebody
Speaker 1: that if you looked at him, you'd be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, he's going to destroy a division. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You know what I'm saying. He's not
Speaker 1: like a powerhouse Hobbs or something like that. He's more
Speaker 1: like a I don't know, as far as I don't know,
Speaker 1: a Ricochet.
Speaker 4: Maybe I was thinking Ricket just out of the blue.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh maybe Ricochet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand that. I'm not the guy's phenomenally phenomenally talented,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not. I'm not discounting his abilities at all.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that if you were to come in, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be like, oh my god, they got
Speaker 1: a monster. Yeah, but that's not what's gonna happen, That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. Yeah, it's gonna I I personally don't
Speaker 1: think that we're going to get an answer to this question,
Speaker 1: and probably until uh, until Grand Slam. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're going to see somebody show up on dynamite or
Speaker 1: collision or whatnot.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm always for the conspiracy theories. And
Speaker 3: there was something about callous standing in front of that
Speaker 3: painting he has where they're doing the Last Supper, and
Speaker 3: they were also showing paintings or pictures that he has
Speaker 3: on the walls of his house. So I was going
Speaker 3: to go back and kind of slow slow mow that
Speaker 3: whole segment and really watch and see if they were
Speaker 3: kind of giving us hints there, because I still feel
Speaker 3: like there's a lot of hints in that Last Supper painting.
Speaker 3: And you know, as you know, you could be right
Speaker 3: about a woman, Kelson, because as you know, for the
Speaker 3: longest you were in love with the beautiful woman on
Speaker 3: that painting that turned out to be Takeshta. There you go,
Speaker 3: so see.
Speaker 1: Gorgeous.
Speaker 3: He's good looking in general, but I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean he's the best looking woman on that
Speaker 1: painting easily.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, So I mean you could be right,
Speaker 3: you could you could be right, and it could be anybody. Geez,
Speaker 3: the mystery deepens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll see you know, of all the of
Speaker 1: all the people in that picture, Takeusha is definitely the
Speaker 1: most feminine looking in that picture, you know, maybe maybe,
Speaker 1: And it's weird, like, can you imagine Megan Baane in there,
Speaker 1: because she'd be i mean began paining six foot one.
Speaker 1: She's probably bigger than some of the guys that Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so she definitely. I mean I've said it before and again.
Speaker 1: I think her presentation is awesome. I think she's a
Speaker 1: beautiful woman. I I just want to see more of
Speaker 1: Meghan bane.
Speaker 3: Uh So, I just.
Speaker 1: Think she could. I think she can do something in
Speaker 1: in AW I really do too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of potential.
Speaker 1: Somebody on the on the aw fantom subreddit mentioned in
Speaker 1: a posts that he made he or she made within
Speaker 1: the last day, saying that the don Kallas family is
Speaker 1: more over than to death writers. Would you guys agree
Speaker 1: with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree with that totally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely get a bigger reaction. Kallas don Kalla
Speaker 1: gets the chorus of booze every time he steps out.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that, uh in quite a while.
Speaker 3: Everywhere he he must not be able to go anywhere.
Speaker 6: What Japan?
Speaker 3: Maybe, well when he was on uh was it Maple
Speaker 3: Leaf Wrestling, they were booing him there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean probably they probably don't like it
Speaker 1: because he stole Tony storms Labya and stuck it on
Speaker 1: the sport on his face. I swear, I'll just I'll
Speaker 1: just every time I see it, I just think it's
Speaker 1: so funny.
Speaker 3: I really, yeah, the accents it yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, my god, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: It looks you know, I'm like trying to post a
Speaker 1: picture on Reddit of Don Kallas and read it removed
Speaker 1: it for sexual content. I was posting his head, you know,
Speaker 1: It's like, my god, it's like what I think he.
Speaker 3: Was, Like, when is he doing now?
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for somebody like m JF to point it.
Speaker 3: Out, you know, I know, I'm just it would.
Speaker 1: Be just the funniest thing. Yeah. I just remember if
Speaker 1: you remember months and months ago, MGF was in the
Speaker 1: ring and he was ta talking to Kenoskate Takeshta and
Speaker 1: and and just the way the way to Ketcha's name
Speaker 1: is pronounced right away because I'm just this stupid. I said,
Speaker 1: his name is the way it's spelled, and if you
Speaker 1: read it phonetically, it's take a ship. Yeah. And and
Speaker 1: a few weeks after I said that, did I said
Speaker 1: it on the podcast, And a few weeks later ed
Speaker 1: JF cut that poem promo and that your name is
Speaker 1: take a shit. So the moral of this story is
Speaker 1: that the moral of the story is that when it
Speaker 1: comes to phonetically reading names, m JF and I have
Speaker 1: the same brain cell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's gonna catch He's going to catch a
Speaker 3: glance at callous and or somebody is going to and
Speaker 3: they're going to the obvious. I think it's just a
Speaker 3: matter of time. I really do. Callus gets on enough
Speaker 3: people's nerves where it's just gonna happen. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: Speaking on getting on people's nerves, you know. Look, it's
Speaker 1: amazing to me how many people have been talking about
Speaker 1: the segment on collision between Mariah May and Tony Storm
Speaker 1: because it's obvious. It's obvious because so many people are
Speaker 1: just like it's it was so awful. Then you look
Speaker 1: at their post history and they hate everything. Aw They
Speaker 1: say it's awful. You know if if will Osbury ran
Speaker 1: into you know, a burning apartment building and saved forty
Speaker 1: kids and ten cats, Oh that was awful, you know
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and everything is awful. But let's face it,
Speaker 1: that was probably one of the best, the best segments
Speaker 1: definitely of this year. It's may have been one of
Speaker 1: the best segments that AW has ever done, because it's
Speaker 1: just on all cylinders have a question. So when it
Speaker 1: comes to time, now it's timeless Tony Storm again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to be respectful and call her timeless Tony Storm. One
Speaker 1: of the things that I've seen even a W fans say,
Speaker 1: and I thought that this was interesting because I maybe
Speaker 1: go back and look at the timeline. But one of
Speaker 1: the things I've heard even AW fans say is that
Speaker 1: they pulled the trigger too soon. Do you guys feel
Speaker 1: that way?
Speaker 4: No, that segment.
Speaker 6: I watched that live while on TV and it was amazing.
Speaker 6: It's just so amazing.
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think it ended too early.
Speaker 6: I think it's like the sweet spot, you know.
Speaker 3: I agree, because they had to do it when no
Speaker 3: one expected it, and yeah, I think they just did
Speaker 3: it at the right time, and the way Mariah May
Speaker 3: reacted to it maybe even better.
Speaker 1: Maria May is expert at facial expressions, It really is.
Speaker 1: She really conveys with her facial expressions.
Speaker 6: Do you think.
Speaker 1: Did any of you think that this was not timeless
Speaker 1: Tony Storm, you know, did you think.
Speaker 6: It was?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean did you think that you would? Do
Speaker 1: you think that the rookie time totally Storm was literally
Speaker 1: the rookie Tony Storm and not Timeless Tony Storm playing
Speaker 1: a rookie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought, like.
Speaker 6: Thinking back on it, yeah, like, oh, this is just
Speaker 6: fine timeless Tony Storm, Like they're not gonna she.
Speaker 1: Was playing a part.
Speaker 7: Yeah, It's like there's no way they can drag this
Speaker 7: out for so long because we know it's timeless to
Speaker 7: like amnesia.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean I never thought that she had amnesia
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I always thought that she was
Speaker 1: still the deranged tom timeless Tony Storm, playing a part
Speaker 1: of the rookie Tony Storm. Yeah. You saw little hints
Speaker 1: and movements of Timeless Tony Storm, you know, during the
Speaker 1: whole thing that was going on. You know, Uh, I
Speaker 1: just want to know what happened to the dog. So
Speaker 1: you guys don't get it. No, no, there's her dog,
Speaker 1: she insisted. Timeless Tony Storm insisted it. She's had this
Speaker 1: dog all along, but for some reason as she degenerated
Speaker 1: and retired, she insisted that she stole her dog from
Speaker 1: a dog park and she didn't know where it came from.
Speaker 1: So that's neither here nor there. So yeah, because look,
Speaker 1: when they revealed Timeless Tony Storm, one of the complaints,
Speaker 1: not many people were complaining about it. I want to
Speaker 1: stress this, but one of the complaints that when they
Speaker 1: did the reveal that Timeless Tony Storm it was actually
Speaker 1: Timeless Tony Storm all along, was that they pulled the
Speaker 1: trigger too soon. No, because I think most wrestling fans
Speaker 1: knew that it was Timeless Tony Storm playing the part
Speaker 1: of the rookie Tony Storm. And if they had dragged
Speaker 1: it out even a you know, a weak er two
Speaker 1: to three weeks longer, all the way to Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: I think that it would have probably been almost insulting
Speaker 1: to everybody's intelligence. I think, you know, I mean, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: pro wrestling is a rocket science, so yeah, you get
Speaker 1: down to it. Yeah, when you get you know, it
Speaker 1: could be a little bit weird. But it was a
Speaker 1: really good, really good segment. It was a really good segment.
Speaker 1: It Yeah. But okay, so we have the match between
Speaker 1: Mariah and May and Timeless Tony Storm at Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: Do either of you think the Timeless Tony Storm is
Speaker 1: not going to walk away from this match as the
Speaker 1: AW Women's World Champion.
Speaker 3: I get a win, it, I think?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I do too. I mean I think it would
Speaker 1: be a total waste of time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: the question is, let's just assume that Timeless Tony Storm
Speaker 1: wins at Grand Slam. Who is Timeless Tony Storm's next
Speaker 1: few because I mean, we can't drag the as good
Speaker 1: as it is, we can't just keep doing Mariah May
Speaker 1: forever and ever. Amen, Yeah, I got this. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw I'm gonna throw a couple of names
Speaker 1: out there for you, all right. When when Tony Storm
Speaker 1: lost the aw Women's World Championship on August twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: I believe it wasn't all in at Wembley. Uh. That
Speaker 1: was her last time in an AAW ring until reappearing
Speaker 1: as the Rookie about a month and a half ago. Okay,
Speaker 1: During that time, she went to Japan, wrestled and stardom,
Speaker 1: and she got a couple of wins I think one
Speaker 1: or maybe one win in a tag match, but lost
Speaker 1: per solo match that she had to Mayuewatani.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: After that match, she paid her respects to Mayu Awatani,
Speaker 1: and Mayuewatani said that she wanted to come to a
Speaker 1: w and wrestle in the United States, not not like
Speaker 1: on a permanent basis, but kind of like what Mina
Speaker 1: shir Kawood did, I would assume is what she meant,
Speaker 1: you know, just an excursion of some sort. So we
Speaker 1: do have Forbidden Door coming up, you know, eventually, so
Speaker 1: maybe not immediately after Grand Slam, but maybe we see
Speaker 1: for Forbidden Door. If Tony Storm was still the aw
Speaker 1: Women's World Champion, maybe we see Mayoiwatani as the challenger.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I would love to see because Yo Mayu
Speaker 1: is the IWGP Women's World Champion. And uh, maybe we
Speaker 1: see a title versus title and maybe Mayu wins it
Speaker 1: and they can have them back and forth, you know,
Speaker 1: Byu wins it and and Tony gets it back, you know,
Speaker 1: and in a nonvert title versus title match. A couple
Speaker 1: of weeks later, in Japan or something like that. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Uh, I've always better. I've always
Speaker 1: been a proponent, whether it's in the men's or women's division,
Speaker 1: to have the title won by a Japanese wrestler, just
Speaker 1: to make it interesting and make it a story, because
Speaker 1: you can't have a story if we already know the result.
Speaker 1: A story has a beginning, middle, and ending. If we
Speaker 1: don't have a beginning, we don't have a middle and
Speaker 1: we already know the ending, it's not a story. And
Speaker 1: that is, unfortunately, the way most forbidden door matches go.
Speaker 1: So I think it's important that AW and New Japan
Speaker 1: works something out where they can do a surprise. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I mean, Mercedes Monet has all these belts. That's well
Speaker 1: and fine, but it'd be more meaningful when she loses
Speaker 1: those belts because whoever wins those belts is going to
Speaker 1: is going to be put over just by beating Mercedes Monet,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Ah, So that's that's Byoevitani is one of
Speaker 1: my Does anybody else have any anybody else that they
Speaker 1: think that could be a Is there anybody in a W.
Speaker 1: Let's put it this way, is there anybody in a
Speaker 1: W that you think should be a viable contender for
Speaker 1: the aw Women's World Championship, provided that Tony Storm actually
Speaker 1: wins it at Grand Slam.
Speaker 6: Either Harley Cameron or Jamie Hayter. Okay, that would be
Speaker 6: like to have a program with either of those two
Speaker 6: girls women.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Nett, do you have anybody in mind at all?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind seeing Carly Cameron And let me think
Speaker 3: who else is there? And I like, I think Jamie
Speaker 3: Hayter is probably high on that list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have I do have a name to
Speaker 1: throughout to you, and it does make sense to me.
Speaker 1: Bear with me here because I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of man's plaining and history. Remember way back
Speaker 1: in the day, when Tony Storm was just Tony Storm
Speaker 1: and she became the interim Women's World Champion when somebody
Speaker 1: was injured and could not have to relinquish the belt.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, under Rosa, who just so happens to be
Speaker 1: Tony Storm's ex tag team partner in Thunderstorm. That's right,
Speaker 1: thunder Rosa never lost that belt. Tony Storm had took over,
Speaker 1: took it over because of thunder Rosa having to relinquish
Speaker 1: it due to her back injury. So now thunder Roses
Speaker 1: could come back and say I never lost that belt,
Speaker 1: I want a shot, and there you go.
Speaker 4: That'd be a good feud.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I for it. That's the one person on the
Speaker 1: aw women's roster. I think that Tony Storm could definitely
Speaker 1: have a really good viewed with, you know, and uh
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Yeah, yeah, So so that's It's
Speaker 1: just that's the only thing I could think of, because
Speaker 1: you know, look, Tony Storm versus Mariah May is the
Speaker 1: focus for you know, mid February and a Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: But I you know a lot of people don't aren't
Speaker 1: thinking about, Okay, well what happens after that. They can't
Speaker 1: just keep doing Maria Man Tony Storm, you know, in
Speaker 1: an indefinite loop, because that'll get monotonous, even though you
Speaker 1: know they can visit it. They've got to take a break. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, how a boy the same token you've got
Speaker 1: Mariah May. You know who's gonna I mean, once she
Speaker 1: loses the championship, which she eventually will, They've got to
Speaker 1: have somebody for her to have a program with She's
Speaker 1: too good not to. You know. It's like you can't
Speaker 1: just finish a story and then cast aside the players
Speaker 1: once their story is done or reaches the conclusion, you know.
Speaker 1: So let's I'm looking forward to see what they do
Speaker 1: with Mariah May as much as I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing what they do with Tony Storm. Whoever wins this match,
Speaker 1: it's not it shouldn't be over for either of them. No,
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 3: Definitely like to see more Mariah May.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, so it'll be it'll be interesting, you know.
Speaker 1: And speaking of Grand Slam, we have what we have
Speaker 1: two confirmed matches of course, Tony Storm versus Mariah May timeless,
Speaker 1: Tony Storm versus Maria May and Will Osprey and Kenny
Speaker 1: Omega against Kyle Fletcher. And and I just had a brain.
Speaker 3: Part wait, Kenny Omega and Osprey against Fletchard.
Speaker 1: I can't remember who Fletcher's partner is. Jesus. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I just completely you know, I blamed the pneumonia.
Speaker 1: Blame the pneumonia, will brame the brame the ramonia. Yeah, yeah, romania.
Speaker 3: A lot of people can't think straight. Kelson after takesha
Speaker 3: flashed us all on Saturday recovered.
Speaker 1: So yes, that has become rewatched segment rewatched. If it
Speaker 1: was a VH if it was a VHS tape, it
Speaker 1: would have been worn out as Phoebe Keats on Fast
Speaker 1: Times of Richemont Eye. So I just dated myself.
Speaker 3: I did too by getting a joke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure that even people who are twenty is
Speaker 1: probably no Phoebe Kate's Fast Times a richmal eye. And
Speaker 1: if you don't check it out, now you do yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. But anyway, so yeah, so then we
Speaker 1: have the possibility. I mean, they teased it pretty much
Speaker 1: Buddy Matthews versus Okata, you know, I mean Buddy Matthews
Speaker 1: is AUSSI wrestler. He should be at at Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: So Okada versus Buddy Matthews. And I really liked the
Speaker 1: way they did it too, because Buddy Matthews basically called
Speaker 1: the cut a coward. Yeah, and I think it got
Speaker 1: under Ocada's skin. So I thought that that was pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: But look, even though Grand Slam is essentially just a dynamite,
Speaker 1: we've only got three matches confirmed and we could probably
Speaker 1: need about five or six. Yeah, the other Assie that's there,
Speaker 1: and she was, you know, out there and doing something
Speaker 1: on Collision this past weekend, and that's Harley Cameron. I
Speaker 1: don't like the idea at all of Harley Cameron getting
Speaker 1: a title shot at Grand Slam. I really know. I
Speaker 1: don't think that she should be. She's challenged, She's challenged
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet, and I think, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys agree with me on this, During Collision, she
Speaker 1: kind of gotten the way of the Vendetta tie A
Speaker 1: Valkyrie and Dianna Parozzo and kind of aust Diana Parozzo
Speaker 1: the match that would have given her at for the
Speaker 1: TBS Championship, so that went to yu Kaza Kazaki. So
Speaker 1: what I'd like to see is more interaction between Harley
Speaker 1: and and Mercedes. But maybe a Grand Slam, have a
Speaker 1: match between Harley and Dianna Parozzo or Harley and Taya Valkyrie,
Speaker 1: you know, or even a have Harley find a tag
Speaker 1: team partner, maybe Yukaza Kazaki since she helped Yuka and
Speaker 1: go against the Vendetta. You know, that's a good idea
Speaker 1: because I don't think that it's necessary to have Mercedes
Speaker 1: Moe a Grand Slam. I really don't because I just don't.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I mean, would I'd like to see
Speaker 1: your Grand Slam, Yes, but it's not necessary. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a true meaningful match for it right now
Speaker 1: to have a Grand Slam. I'd rather see a match
Speaker 1: like that. Not all matches have to be for title folks,
Speaker 1: right right?
Speaker 4: I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you like that idea for Harley Cameron
Speaker 1: to be going against Yeah.
Speaker 6: Just to add more to the card and have people
Speaker 6: just like anticipate for it sort of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So so that's well. Now we've got four matches.
Speaker 1: We definitely need one or two more matches for Grand Slam. Uh,
Speaker 1: anybody have any ideas. I do have one other idea,
Speaker 1: and I'll throw it out there real quick. And that's
Speaker 1: something that happened again on Dynamite and Collision and they're
Speaker 1: really setting up. I wouldn't mind a Grand Slam the Sea.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, a Australian Death Match, whatever the
Speaker 1: hell that is? Uh. You know Boom Boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: You know Boomerang is a big ass knives match with
Speaker 1: featuring Big Bill and Powerhouse Hobbs again, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be for a championship. This is the kind of
Speaker 1: match I'd like to see. I thought they themselves really
Speaker 1: well on Collision.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really like that. I that that was one
Speaker 3: of my favorite things with them out there in the
Speaker 3: parking lot like that. So I'd like to see more
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's just my ideas is to have Powerhouse Hobbs,
Speaker 1: a big bill and of course the Harley Cameron Bendetta thing.
Speaker 1: You know, probably still need one more match though, So
Speaker 1: and I'm out of ideas, so let's see, let's see
Speaker 1: what do we have. This is what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4: Uh m j F versus Jeff Jared.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, well Jeff Jared kind of does look like
Speaker 1: crocodile Donde. Yeah, you know, so he'd be like a
Speaker 1: national hero.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Thought it's a good thought. I mean yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. I it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: I noticed that nobody's really jumping through hoops to mention
Speaker 1: any of the death writers.
Speaker 3: No, but I had a thought. But they'd have to,
Speaker 3: I don't know, we'd have to set it up somehow.
Speaker 3: Marina Shafir and make Bang.
Speaker 1: No and the only reason that I would like to
Speaker 1: see them too. The only problem with that is, uh,
Speaker 1: Marina Shaffir hasn't hasn't had a match since, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it was the end of the
Speaker 1: Korean War. Was the last match?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is we've already got time with
Speaker 1: Tony Storm and Mariah May. I think that we have
Speaker 1: to get Harley Cameron in there some way. Are we
Speaker 1: gonna really do three matches and three women's matches a
Speaker 1: Grand Slam? Think about it. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, two was pushing the ovelope. You know, as
Speaker 1: far as the A W mindset is, two is probably
Speaker 1: pushing the envelope as it is. Three would be just
Speaker 1: that'd be too much for you know, Australia may sink
Speaker 1: into the ocean. I'm not saying I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: see it. I'm just saying that I just don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Let's get Wheeler Dah out there by himself, and I
Speaker 3: hate Wheeler you to, Let's find someone for him to
Speaker 3: wrestle all by himself. Who could he wrestles? Who's a
Speaker 3: good opponent for Wheeler D?
Speaker 1: Are there any good opponents for Wheeler you? Yeah, cel
Speaker 1: hm hmm yeah yeah yeah. Tit title match? Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something.
Speaker 3: I don't like Wheeler DA, but they need to do
Speaker 3: something with Wheeler DA because he's just aggravating standing around
Speaker 3: in the background all the time. He needs to do
Speaker 3: something else.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like a doorstop that you stuck when
Speaker 1: walking out the door. You don't notice he's there until
Speaker 1: it's too late.
Speaker 3: That's exactly how Yeah, so yeah, put him put him
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 1: Centers actually where that analogy came from, because it was
Speaker 1: a really stupid analogy, but it makes sense when I
Speaker 1: said it.
Speaker 3: It does, and that is what Wheeler you do?
Speaker 1: Is like, so yeah, I'm your idea. Now, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: keep in mind that they still have to do a
Speaker 1: Collision the week before and you know, the Saturday before
Speaker 1: and the Saturday afterwards, so they're not bringing like the
Speaker 1: entire roster out the Grand Slam, right right, but they
Speaker 1: do need to bring they do. So I have another
Speaker 1: idea for just you know, I know, a match that
Speaker 1: everybody would probably want to see, you know, and it
Speaker 1: could have you, It could even have Wheeler. You did it,
Speaker 1: and that is a seventy six man tag team match,
Speaker 1: because God knows, Tony kNN loves those damn things. You know.
Speaker 1: Just throw everybody out there and the winner gets I
Speaker 1: don't know, a pizza, get to bring home and you
Speaker 1: or something I don't know, get here's your prize, we
Speaker 1: can eve you. Oh good, you know, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I have a filly. That's what That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna throw a shitload of wrestlers into the
Speaker 1: ring and say, beat the crap out of each other,
Speaker 1: you know, for fifteen to twenty minutes, and the survivor gets,
Speaker 1: you know, a participation trophy. I really, I think that's
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: If they do something like that, they should put some home,
Speaker 3: homegrown talent in there and really give them something, you know,
Speaker 3: like if one of them win, they get a.
Speaker 1: Yeah from a local Australia promotion.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like yeah, a local wrestler put one of
Speaker 3: them in there, and if they win, you know, they
Speaker 3: get an exhibition tour in a w for six months
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: You get the crap beat out of them by the
Speaker 1: death Riders. A w security, there you.
Speaker 3: Go, or they can join the death Riders. No one
Speaker 3: will win.
Speaker 1: The doorstop on the other side of the door purpose
Speaker 1: like squash well goodness. Uh yeah, I'm sorry, though, but
Speaker 1: I really do feel like we're going to see one
Speaker 1: of those multi man Yeah, yeah, I do, like I
Speaker 1: do like your idea there that though, that they should
Speaker 1: have enhancement talent from definitely cool.
Speaker 3: Definitely they should wrestle Crocodile and Wheeler Universus Crocodile to
Speaker 3: the Dead.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Special guest referee Berwin. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 3: Winner gets that briefcase that Marina is walking around.
Speaker 1: Don't even get started on that.
Speaker 3: They get the key that is to Roderick Strong's chastity
Speaker 3: belt that she has around her.
Speaker 1: Neck British Robert Stronger married.
Speaker 3: Yeah, inside every about it kind of new Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Just you know, I I I was thinking about that
Speaker 1: the other day my really warped mind. Yeah, like there
Speaker 1: next door neighbor and in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: you know, like at one o'clock in the morning, you know,
Speaker 1: you're just dozing out to sleep, and then you hear.
Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm like, okay, mm hmm. There's just there's
Speaker 1: just some weird like couples in wrestling. There really are,
Speaker 1: yeh know. Like Jordan Grace just announced that Jonathan Gresham,
Speaker 1: who is her husband, his time his time is done
Speaker 1: in in in t n A and he's a free
Speaker 1: agent now. And I thinking to myself, was like, that's
Speaker 1: just a just Jordan Grace is so much bigger than
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gresham. You know, it's just it's just an odd
Speaker 1: looking I mean, Jonathan Gresham to me, and this is
Speaker 1: totally you know, stupid. But what if I think of
Speaker 1: like a woman for Jonathan Gresham, I thinking somebody along
Speaker 1: the lines of Riho or Yukaza Kazaki or that size,
Speaker 1: not Jordan Grace, you know, yeah, I mean Jonathan Gresham
Speaker 1: is I mean, he's if I foot forward. I think
Speaker 1: the way I explained it in a post today was
Speaker 1: that his size doesn't doesn't match his talent because he's
Speaker 1: a phenomenal wrestler, but it's hard to use because he's
Speaker 1: so small and he's built his five foot for he's
Speaker 1: probably too, you know, because they they exaggerate a little
Speaker 1: bit on those things. So he's pretty big himself, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he's a. He's a. He's a very muscular,
Speaker 1: athletic guys. He just doesn't I mean, he's look at commander.
Speaker 1: He's five to five. He's bigger than Jonathan Jonathan Gresham
Speaker 1: as far as he goes the Commander in a ring,
Speaker 1: and he looks really outmatched, you know, by by people.
Speaker 1: So when I look at Jonathan Gresham, you know, he
Speaker 1: had a great run in a Ring of Honor. He
Speaker 1: was a fantastic Ring of Honor champion. But he he
Speaker 1: would not he would not have a place really in
Speaker 1: the current a W and he certainly wouldn't have a
Speaker 1: place in the main roster on w W E. He's gonna.
Speaker 6: He's a.
Speaker 1: He's an and he has NXT written all over and
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, that's where he wants to get.
Speaker 1: You know, he could definitely go you know, g C
Speaker 1: W or something to that effect. He signed re signed
Speaker 1: with TNA. He's not a young guy, but he's not
Speaker 1: really old. I don't I don't know how old he is,
Speaker 1: but I would say he's I would if I had
Speaker 1: to guess, I would say he's lowered load of mid
Speaker 1: thirties yeah, maybe older because he's been around for quite
Speaker 1: a while, you know. So yeah, so let's move on
Speaker 1: to our pote presection. That's where we can talk about
Speaker 1: anything related to AW or professional wrestling as a whole,
Speaker 1: and uh just bring up a topic and see if
Speaker 1: anybody wants to discuss it. Does anybody have a topic
Speaker 1: that they want to bring up?
Speaker 6: Uh? Yeah, the maybe mcdonam smashing his head on the table?
Speaker 4: That was Gary? Who is that?
Speaker 1: Uh jd oh well McDonald?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what did he he? He ended up with broken
Speaker 1: ribs and punctured lung, I believe, Yeah, he really messed
Speaker 1: himself up, but he got up and he finished the match.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like, oh, why didn't they stop the match?
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I mean I I was a
Speaker 1: little I don't know, I mean I had a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for wrestler that could fight through that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just walk through that. You know, they would, they would
Speaker 1: be rolling me in. They'd not have to literally come
Speaker 1: with an ambulance just to get me to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: you know. Just I mean, I mean, I'm that much
Speaker 1: of a woos you know. He I mean, if you
Speaker 1: don't have respect for what he did, of course, adrenaline
Speaker 1: may kicked in and he could have been in shock
Speaker 1: even you know, but still, I mean, wow, yeah, what
Speaker 1: a what a performance. I mean people were talking about
Speaker 1: it too. I mean, let's face it, not a lot
Speaker 1: of people are talking. We're talking about him before. They
Speaker 1: are talking about him now because he earned a lot
Speaker 1: of respect last night. He really did.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that was something he's going to be out
Speaker 1: for like a couple of months.
Speaker 6: I hear.
Speaker 1: At least oh wow, yeah, they released that. He said
Speaker 1: something about today It was like, yeah, I punctured, you know,
Speaker 1: punctured along and broke several ribs. Not a good spot,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, but now that could be a
Speaker 1: blessing in disguise for him because now people are rooting
Speaker 1: for him more so than they many of them probably
Speaker 1: weren't really he wasn't really on their radar before, but
Speaker 1: now they want to see him succeed, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: a hard way of getting that attention, but hey, if
Speaker 1: it works. Yeah, wow, Matt, do you have anything you
Speaker 1: want to bring up?
Speaker 3: I was reading something earlier, I think it was in
Speaker 3: the aew Fans Subredded about the Dark Order, and it
Speaker 3: got Yeah, it got me thinking about them and how
Speaker 3: they used to be dark and mysterious and heavy handed
Speaker 3: and now it's like they're a comedy group. I would
Speaker 3: like to see them go back to their their dark
Speaker 3: side as well. And I I don't know. I I
Speaker 3: think that a good way maybe to make them strong
Speaker 3: and and build them up a little bit. And at
Speaker 3: the same time and whatever is going on with the
Speaker 3: Death Writers, is for for the Dark Order to be
Speaker 3: the ones that kind of really and the death Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think so. I think that that that's the group
Speaker 3: of people that if they really want to kind of
Speaker 3: go back to their roots, they should be the ones
Speaker 3: to take the death Riders down.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting thought. I mean, look, I'm all for
Speaker 1: somebody that's been around as long as the Death Right,
Speaker 1: but as long as Dark Order has. Yeah, come back,
Speaker 1: but you know, Dark Order is not a full strength.
Speaker 3: I mean they need to get it together.
Speaker 1: They need they need and a jay back, they need
Speaker 1: pressed advance back. Yeah. They they're waiting, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, See they need to tie it up and just
Speaker 3: like once and for all, either we're gonna be the
Speaker 3: mean guys and the dark guys and be the way
Speaker 3: that we were meant to be or just leave it
Speaker 3: all alone and go their separate ways. I mean point,
Speaker 3: they're just kind of languishing somewhere in between, like those
Speaker 3: of us that watched early ad w and know how
Speaker 3: they were versus how they are now. So pick something
Speaker 3: and do it. And I think it'd be a great
Speaker 3: way to end the pain of the death writers at
Speaker 3: the same time. So that's what I got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's interesting because I made
Speaker 1: a statement about the death writers earlier this week and
Speaker 1: that your suggestion with the Dark Order being the people
Speaker 1: to take down to death writers. I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with it, and I expand upon it by what
Speaker 1: I said in my post. I said, I really don't
Speaker 1: care who it is. I really don't. It's gotta be done.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't care if it's you know, an
Speaker 1: you know, executive order for the White House says, you know,
Speaker 1: let's stop it. I mean, let you know. I mean seriously,
Speaker 1: I I it's it's and and I will use that
Speaker 1: as my potpourri. Is that And I think I brought
Speaker 1: this up last week and I'm gonna say it again,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you guys will agree with me,
Speaker 1: But there are eight titles in a W right now?
Speaker 1: Eight okay in my opinion, and I think it's the
Speaker 1: opinion of a lot of people, including probably not probably
Speaker 1: including Tony Kahan. I know for a fact that Tony
Speaker 1: Kahn feels this way, is that the a W World
Speaker 1: Championship and the Men's World Championship should be should be
Speaker 1: the big title in a W. Would you agree with
Speaker 1: that that no other title in AW should be as
Speaker 1: big as the AW World Championship.
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree if we could ever see it better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I said it should be, so we all
Speaker 1: agree that it should be. But right now, speaking just
Speaker 1: right now today, at this very minute, is it absolutely not?
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it's not even close. Do you guys
Speaker 1: feel right now as we're sitting here talking on this
Speaker 1: podcast that the AW Men's World Championship is right now
Speaker 1: the most important championship in a W or the most
Speaker 1: significant or no? Yeah? And I will put it this
Speaker 1: way because somebody asked me what do you think is
Speaker 1: the most significant? And I answered them with like, look,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair to say which one is
Speaker 1: more significant than aw's World Championship. I think you can
Speaker 1: say which ones are which belts are trending upward, and
Speaker 1: which one is trending, which ones are trending downward, and
Speaker 1: which ones are holding steady. And in my estimation, the
Speaker 1: only belt that hasn't plummeted in significance as much as
Speaker 1: the a W Men's World Championship is the Trio's Belt,
Speaker 1: because that Trio's Belt is just it's like it may
Speaker 1: as well not even exist. It hasn't been defended in
Speaker 1: almost three months. Nobody's talking about it, nobody cares about it,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, so so yeah. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say the AW Women's World Championship is more
Speaker 1: significant than the AW Men's World Championship, but I am
Speaker 1: gonna say that the AW Women's Championship is definitely trending
Speaker 1: up you know what I'm saying. There's positive about it.
Speaker 1: They're not about the men's championship. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: That's my pot pourri. And with that, we're going to
Speaker 1: end tonight's Ignition podcast. Thank you to net and to
Speaker 1: Steve for coming and spending some time with us, and
Speaker 1: we will be back tomorrow night after Dynamite for what
Speaker 1: I hope to be a really good show and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about dynamite and just have a lot of fun
Speaker 1: breaking down what we saw in the matches and segments
Speaker 1: and so until then, forty aw Fan Podcast Team. This
Speaker 1: is Kelson. Good night everybody.
Speaker 3: Good night everyone,