Speaker 1: Dynamite. Tonight was the fallout edition from AW Redemption. We
are now officially on the road to Wembley, and they
were in Detroit. Thought for sure we were gonna get
the MotorCity machine guns on the show Tonight did not
get them. However, Collision is live in the same building
in Detroit tomorrow night. It is a live episode of Collision.
I'm sure Carlos Silva is punching air somewhere taking out
a contract on Tony Kahn, even though it is a
Warner Brothers Discovery decision. You know, there's a little show
called SummerSlam this weekend. I'm sure they did not want
to program AW up against SummerSlam. But in any event,
we may get the machine guns. Tomorrow. We'll see what
we did get tonight. Here on the show was a
thirty five minute overrun, What are we doing? What are
we doing? Tony? Thirty five minute overrun for tonight's show,
a show that had John Moxley against Commander. Was it
really necessary to have John Moxley against Commander on a
show that went thirty five minutes overtime? I don't think so.
But in that overrun, we had a face to face
confrontation between the aw World champion Kenny Omega and his challenger,
the number one contender for the title, the heir apparent
to the throne, Will Ospray his friend or I guess
no longer friend. The thing I liked about Dynamite tonight,
and I liked more about the show than I didn't like.
But so many times coming out of these pay per views,
they're missing big names. There's a lot of thrown together matches.
It's missing something, and there were some matches that felt
thrown together tonight as well, But it just feels like
it's missing something. Maybe guys are hurt, keeps them off
the show. All the big guns were basically more or
less there tonight, and so it felt like a bigger
deal than it normally would. We had two different segments
to actually we had three different segments tonight, promo segments
to key up the top matches for all In, which
is still several weeks away, about a month away. Cope
and Christian and the Bucks sit down interview, good start.
Everything was very friendly, no real you know, I mean,
there was a little bit of tension there, but it
wasn't like it got out of hand or anything. I
thought that was good Will o' Nightingale and Mercedes Monette
best thing on the entire show. We'll talk about their
face to face. And then we had this with Omega
and Osprey, who were in the main event of this
upcoming pay per view. I thought the promo work for
those key matches at all In was on point, all
except Kenny Omega. In the closing segment. There were moments
where I was like, Okay, this is all right with Kenny.
A lot of what Omega was saying to me, it
felt very forced. When Ospbury took the microphone and he
sent it home with all the emotion and all the
energy he fired back at Omega on the mic. That
was much better than I felt like what we got
from Kenny. And I've said before Kenny Omega, I don't
look at Kenny Omega as like a great promo. That's
not what Kenny Omega is known for. Kenny Omega is
called the best bout machine, a wrestling god, all of
these nicknames that he's acquired over the years. Best promo
is not one of them. I've said this before. Tonight
was a good example of that. I thought he got
outshined by Osprey in that department. But what we have
now between the two of them is he they were
talking about how they love and respect each other. That's
still there, But now we have two men who came
off tonight as being angry at each other, and they
let each other know how they feel coming out of
what we saw at the end of that main event
on Sunday at Redemption with the plastic bag, and they
were going to try to break Omega's and Osprey and
I mean, if you saw the pay per view, you
saw how everything went down. Now, I wonder what these
next four weeks are gonna look like, in turn or
five weeks in terms of what they're going to do
to keep things interesting between these two. I don't know.
But for tonight, I was just glad they were on
the show. I was half expecting that we were gonna
have a a half empty roster tonight. I'm just glad
the key players were in the building. Willow and Mercedes
and Omega and Osprey and Moxley. Right Hangman, Oh my god,
Hangman Page, who made his return on Collision a few
weeks ago. If you didn't watch Collision and you only
watch Dynamite, you would never even know that Hangman made
his return a few weeks ago. You would never even know.
But there he was tonight. And he can't compete for
the World Championship obviously, so he's gonna involve himself in
other things. He was involved in the Trio's title aftermath
tonight because we have new trios champions. It is the demand.
Ricochet has a belt here in aaw the Conglomeration are
no longer champions, and Hangman Page came out to make
the safe for the Conglomeration. He's got plenty of other
championships that he could be competing for. I guess we'll
find out where he lands. But even he was on
the show today, so I like that promo work was good.
All the key players were there, androde Maya World both
had their first title defenses coming off their wins at Redemption,
and John Moxley, as I mentioned before, he wrestled Commander
on this show for the Continental title. Moxley in a
promo segment later on though out in the parking lot,
he was going on and on. He was talking about this,
that and the other, and he just kind of threw
it out there, the mention of this continental Cup. It
was like, in passing almost he mentioned that there's gonna
be a Continental Cup. I guess to decide on the
person who will be challenging him for the Continental Championship
at all in and I'm like, come again, the Continental
what no context to it or anything like it was
never mentioned. I'm like, where did this come from? What
is this Continental Cup you speak? I know we have
a Continental Classic at the end of the year. What
is this Continental Cup that you speak of? It sounds
like they're gonna do a tournament. I guess to decide
a number one contender for the Continental Championship. And the
whole thing, to me is just completely ridiculous because every
single week practically, maybe not every week, but it feels
like it. John Moxley is on television defending the Continental
Championship against totally random people. He defended it tonight against Commander,
who was one of six men who did not win. Oh,
he was one of six men. One of them won,
one of five men who did not win in the
ladder match on Sunday to crown a challenger future challenger
for the International title. And so I guess he was
gifted a Continental title match tonight Commander Shane Taylor Bandido.
How are these people being decided on as challengers? But
now we have a Continental Cup. I guess it's special
because it's Wembley and so we're gonna have a tournament.
But I just was like, the way he threw it
out there was so random and it was so like
just off the cuff. I was like, can they at
least explain how this is gonna work. Maybe we'll have
to wait until Collision tomorrow night. At least we know
we're not getting another random challenger. I guess at all
in there'll be some there'll be some semblance of like, Okay,
here's how we're actually going to decide this. And as
far as who possibly is going to be, my first
guess would be Hangman. But it's way too early to
know because we don't even know what the fuck the
Continental Cup is. Do you win a cup, maybe you
don't even get a title match, maybe you get a
fucking I don't know, here, here's a cup. You want
to win a cup? I don't know. Hangman can't challenge
for the World Championship. Nobody said he couldn't challenge for
the Continental title. We already had Hangman and Moxley all
in last year. I don't really have an appetite to
see it again this year, but that was the first
name that popped into my head. I guess we'll have
to wait and find out. But on the whole, I
did enjoy the show. There were parts of the show
I didn't enjoy as much, but to me, it was
an improvement over some of the recent episodes of Dynamite
and some of the other television shows. Frankly that I've
been seeing. We'll talk about everything that happened here. I
will say you know who the MVP was of this show.
The MVP of the show was not Kenny Omega, was
not Will Osprey. It was not any of the people
that you saw on the ring tonight. The MVP of
the show was the crowd. It was the crowd in Detroit.
I salute you, hot crowd, great crowd tonight for Dynamoe.
When the energy is up, it's a different vibe, whether
it's a big arena, whether it's a smaller venue like
this one, or are they the Masonic Temple I believe is
where they were tonight. Great crap. This is your aw
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welcome to the channel. Welcome brother. So we had a
video at the beginning of the show focusing on everything
that happened at the end of the pay per view
on Sunday, after Kenny Omega beat Kevin Knight to retain
the championship. But the whole angle day shot at the
end of Redemption where the Death Riders tried to kill
Kenny Omega. Will Osbury came out to make the save
and he ended up leaving the Death Riders and then Omega.
He got up, he dropped Osprey with a one winged
angel and so now here we are. They showed other
footage of John Moxley backstage with the Death Riders. They
kind of spliced it into the highlights and he said,
what did that take three minutes? Said He's been trying
to tell Osprey for months now that Omega is not
his friend. He's trying to eradicate Omega. He wanted Osprey
to see that for himself. But it's not over yet.
Now will Osbury might be the best wrestler in the
world with nothing to lose. Now he is truly on
death ground. Osprey was interviewed live outside the building by
Missus Moxley. This will never not be funny to me,
by the way, when you have a serious angle like
this and John Moxley is at the center of it,
and in this case, John Moxley attempted to murder someone
he was going to suffocate. He was going to smother
Kenny Omega after breaking his neck by the way on Sunday,
And so everything is centered around this and the Death Riders,
and then we go live to Renee Piquet as if
everything is okay. She's a totally independent party in all this.
So Renee is in the back and she is attempting
to interview Will Osprey who is walking into the building.
He has a look on his face like he is
a man with a purpose. He looks very angry, very focused.
But he runs into the Death Riders and Daniel Garcia
tried to get in his face. He caught an elbow
to the mouth. Moxley calmed the situation down. He asked Osprey,
are you sure you want to do this. Ospbury told him,
you don't get to pull the trigger for me, and
he handed the Death Riders back their official patch. He
gave the patch back, remember the patch that they gave
him a few weeks ago to officially become a member
of the Death Rids. He handed it back and he
said I'm out. So they clear a path for him
to walk, and as he's walking towards the building, who
is walking out of the building, but Hangman Adam Page
his first appearance on Dynamite since March, but it appears
that he is wheeling his luggage out of the building,
which begs the question, I mean, the show just started,
where the fuck is he going? How early did he
get to the building and what exactly was he doing
before the show? Was he there to meet Tony Kahn?
Was was he there to do other things? Maybe a
photo shoot? I don't know, but it appeared to me
that he was leaving and the show had only just begun.
So they bump into each other. He offered Osprey help
if he needed it. Ospbrey said, look, I appreciate that,
but I can't trust Kenny Omega, and if I can't
trust Kenny Omega, I can't trust you. And Hangman said,
I understand, and he knows when Osprey gets to Wembley,
he'll be the best he's ever been. He told him
he hopes that he believes in himself. And I just thought, well,
that was awfully random. But it's a little unsettling, I
will say, seeing Hangman so jolly, I mean, considering the
last time we saw him, he looked like an absolute
fucking maniac. And now he's walking around. He's talking about,
you know, his garden, and he's got a big smile
on his face, and he's kind of joking around with
Osprey and he's got a you know, words of encouragement
for him. I'm like, what has he been in therapy?
I mean, what is this man doing in his time off?
He has found his inner chi He is a man
at peace with himself. I missed the old Hangman. Where's
he at? Where swerve strickling that? By the way, Where
the fuck has he been? We got four weeks until
Wembley Stadium? Is he gonna be on that show? But
you know what, I have a theory about this. It
kind of makes sense that Hangman would be very chipper,
and he would have a smile on his face, and
he would be in a much better mood because he
no longer has the stress on his shoulders of having
to challenge for the world championship. Right a giant weight
has been lifted off his shoulders. He can't challenge for
the title again. So it's like, well, that's one thing
I don't have to worry about anymore. I could just
I could just live my life and I can garden
and I can just pick another title because there's so
many of them to choose frohim that he could wrestle
for See, this is the best thing that ever happens
to this guy. So now we get into the actual show.
It opened with a three way match for the eight
W National Championship, but we had the brand new national champion,
androde l Idelo defending his title against jungle Jack Perry
and Nick Wayne. Perry and Wayne were two of the
six men involved in the opening ladder match on Sunday
to challenge for a shot at the international title. They
both lost right Speedball won that match, so I guess
this was their consolation price. We can't get a shot
at the international title, we can get a shot at
the national title. That's the beauty of having a national
title and an international title. We'll just challenge for the
other one if we fuck up and we can't challenge
for the other. Sure, So Perry took Androti off the
aprin at one point to the floor with a hurricane.
Rana and Nick Wayne then surprised Perry with a destroyer
from the ring out to the floor, which was pretty nutty.
So things were moving at a very I think I'm
being generous when I say things were moving at a
very brisk pace here in this match. Perry landed three
consecutive suicide dives and a moon salt from the top
onto both men outside, and honestly, like, as I'm watching
him here in this match, this is the I guess,
the hottest hease he's ever come off here on the
show in terms of like the crowd energy. The crowd
was super into him and he was flying around all
over the place. I mean again, the crowd was very
hot for most of the show anyway. But he brought
Nick Wayne back inside. He had a sit out power
bomb for a near fall, Androte came back. He sent
Perry out to the floor. Then he went for a
top rope splash. Nick Wayne, though got the knees up.
Wayne landed a phoenix splash. Perry, though, broke up the
fall that followed, Androte then hit a back elbow on
Jack Perry and then the DM on Nick Wayne for
the win. No surprise. I mean, the man literally just
won the championship on Sunday. This was more just sort of, hey,
let's just throw these guys out there to have a
banger match to open the show, and to that end,
the crowd was into it. So right out of that
crazy ladder match on Sunday, you have these two guys
going out here on this show nearly killing themselves again
for the second time in forty eight hours or I
guess seventy two seventy two hours hot opener again. Crowd
was pretty much into everything all three of them were doing.
And I will say Androtti in particular, super over right
now kind of makes me sad he's holding the national
title because the national title hasn't been well enough established
for me to sit here and say that, it really
means a whole lot that he's holding it. You know,
for Mark Davis to go out there and hold the
national title, Mark Davis didn't hold any singles gold. I
don't think he had any gold in this company. So
for him to get a push of the national champion
for him, that's meaningful. Androtti feels like he's above this,
especially because for months this man went on television and said,
I want the world title. Every time MJF was on
the show, I want the world title, Don don I
want the world title, and Don Callous would tell him
Tronquillo Tronquillo. You'll get your shots, just just be patient.
And now it just he shifted over where he's okay
with winning other championships other than the world title. It's
a very abrupt change to what I thought his mission
statement was. But in any event, so when the mattress over,
Tony Shavani gets in the ring and he asks androde
you know how he feels, and he said tranquilo because
he had screwed MJF. And he brandished the dynamite diamond
ring that he stole from him. He still has it,
which which tells you who MJF is going to be
gunning for. By the way, the next time we see
him back on TV, so he's feeling very tranquilo. He
screwed MJF. He screwed Don calo Us by taking the
national championship. He said he could fight anybody, but he
wanted the best, or to be the best national champion
that there's ever been. There haven't been very many national
champions to begin with, so that shouldn't be too difficult.
Tony Schavanni, this was the funniest moment on the entire show.
Tony Schevanni then informs Andrade that there is going to
be a casino gauntlett, which I think we all knew,
but there was going to be a casino gauntlet match
at all In, with the winner earning themselves a guaranteed
shot at the aw World Championship, and next week in
Andrade's hometown of Mexico. Yes, his home town of Mexico.
I didn't know that was the name of the town,
but evidently it is. According to Tony Shavanni, there would
be a qualifying match to determine who will enter the
gauntlet in the number one spot, which is, of course,
is a very desirable spot because these gauntlets only go
until the first fall. It's one fall to a finish.
So if Andrade is number one, he could beat number
two in the first sixty seconds of the match and
that's it. We're done. So you want to be number one,
you want to be number two. So they're going to
have a qualifying match. I guess at Arena Mexico next week,
and he says, is that something that you would like?
Androte then tells him I only have one question, and
before he could ask the obvious question, the entire crowd
is chanting, how you know? How you know? And indeed
Androte asked the question, how you know in everybody Pie,
he's got a big smile on his face. He looks
like he's having a blast out there. He's having a
great run. I mean, there's really nothing else to say
about it. He's having a great run. The fans are responding,
he's having great matches. He seems to be genuinely enjoying himself.
He's being featured consistently every single week. You couldn't say
that about him the first time. I didn't know from
one week to the next what the hell was going
on with him the first time he was in the company.
I think at one point Matt Hardy, did Matt Hardy
buy his group or what was the affiliation with Androd's
LFI and Matt hart I don't fucking know. That first
run was just a complete mess, and it's no wonder
he wanted out. But this is a complete one eighty
and what he's doing right now is working. So when
you have something that's working, just keep doing it, Just
keep doing it, and who knows, maybe one day he
will win the world championship. But that's far down the
road as far as Andrat and the casino Gauntlet. He's
got to be an early favorite. I'm not saying he's
my pick to win. I don't know who else is
even gonna be teased for this match, But could Andrade
potentially be a winner? Sure? Sure, it's not like they
have announced that so and so is going to be
in the Gauntlet and you look at him and go, oh,
this guy's got no fucking chance of winning. He definitely
has a chance. They've established he wants to go after
the world title. This would be the easiest pathway for him.
Someone said, that's an awfully big town. I hear the
town of Mexico is quite big. I don't have the
exact population figure hometown of Mexico. Renee was in the
back with Don Callous and the family. She said the
family has lost some matches lately. Kyle Fletcher says that
he doesn't know what she's talking about because, unlike someone else,
and Kevin Knight was right there he won his title
match of redemption. Callous says he hopes Kevin Knight learned
a valuable lesson when it comes to him not needing
the family's help, and Knight says, look, it sucks that
you know he lost but he went toe to toe
with one of the best in the sport, and it
won't be the last time they see him in the
main event. So he's taunting Fletcher by telling him he
goes you know, he's tied, you know, one and one
with Speedball Fletcher is And next week he sure hopes
that Fletcher retains his international title because it's going to
be Kyle Fletcher defending against Speedball Mike Bailey at Arena
Mexico next week. Because Grand Slam is next Wednesday, Clint
says Grand Slam Mexico will be fourteen thousand. Is that
the attendance. I haven't actually seen any attendance figures now
that I think about it, for the Arena Mexico show
next week. Are they up to fourteen thousand? Where are
you seeing that? I haven't seen anything on Wrestle Tics.
That was one of the most fun shows that they
did last year, and the heat in the building was
off the track. I think that was the night that
Hangman came out and cut that promo in Spanish. If
the atmosphere is anything like that next week, and I'm
sure it will be, that show is gonna be a
lot of fun. But I haven't seen the actual attendance figure.
So Kyle says, look, I'm not afraid of speedball, and
the international title will always stay in the family. And
as he says that, kazuchka Okata, he walks in from behind,
big smile on his face, and he tells Kevin Knight,
Kyle's right, the international title is going to be staying
with the family, and he walks away, and Kyle shot
him a look, kind of a confused look, but also
not a very happy look. And that is what they
call foreshadowing. It is foreshadowing for the inevitable three way
that we are going to get in London. We have
the don Kallis family, Kyle Fletcher, Brian Cage and Jake
Doyle taking on Speedball, Mike Bailey, Brody King and Bandido
in a six man tag. All right, So Pseudo says,
fifty six hundred, that's a that's a far cry from
fourteen thousand. That's why I was questioning that number. Fifty
six hundred plus general audience. Yeah, I mean, it'll be
more than fifty six hundred by the time next week
rolls around, but I don't know it's gonna be fourteen thousand.
I don't know about that. What did they have last year?
Somebody look it up. Go to a Grand Slam Mexico
twenty twenty five wiki see if it has an attendance listed. Anyway, here,
Bandido was isolated through a commercial break before finally he
tagged in Brody King Brian Cage. He spun out of
a gonzo bomb attempt. King though through a hard lariat.
We had a double down Doyle and Bandido. They were
legal and Bandido he lifted the big guy up for
a press slam. He followed up with a splash. Doyle, though,
rolled through on the splash and then dropped him with
a hard body slam. So later on Doyle he was
setting up for He was setting up Bandido in the
corner for a pile drive. I don't know why he
was so close to the corner, but he's basically in
the corner with him, and he's setting him up for
a pile driver. He did not see Speedball, who was
on the apron right there, reach in and tag Bandido,
so he got the blind tag. He climbs up top
and he comes down with the ultimate weapon, the double
knees right to the small of the back of Jake Doyle,
and he followed up with a sunset flip with the
arms trapped and he got the pin because that's Jake
Doyle's role in the don Kallis family is to eat
the pin, and so he did and the baby faces
pick up the wing. Kyle Fletcher, he tried to make
the save at the last minute. He didn't make it
in time, and he was not very happy about that.
So this was not as good as the opener. Solid
stuff though, Still, I hope here's my hope when it
comes to Bandido. Here's my my hope is that we
get to see more of him with Brody King. Let's
see more of Brodido, you know, in the tag team division,
because I am I'm sick and tired of Bandido being
put in these big matches and just being fed to people. Right,
it's always fun to watch him, and honestly, I could
sit here and talk about, well, he's the Ring of
Honor World champion, and so why would you put him
in these matches where he's constantly losing. Nobody gives a
fuck about the Ring of Honor world title, not least
of which is Tony Khan. Because if Tony Khan gave
a fuck about the Ring of Honor World title. He
would not be beating the Ring of Honor World Champion constantly.
So rather than see him just be fed to people
in these big matches and inevitably lose like he did
to Moxley, you know, like he did this past week,
let's see these two back together, because Brodido was a
fun team. Brodido was one of those revelations from last
year where they put these two guys together. It's a
tag team that you would never expect and they just
gelled so well, right because they're friends, they have chemistry together,
They're a great tag team. And they got some new
tag teams probably on their way in. There's going to
be another tag team renaissance. It feels like here in
aw very soon. Feels like we're kind of there now,
but even more so as new teams are brought in.
I'd like to see him doing more of that, especially
if Tony doesn't have anything better for him to do Speedball.
Winning here though, made sense, gives him the momentum now
going into a title match next week against Fletcher. Speaking
of the tag teams, we had our first bit of
hype for one of the key matches on the All
in London card. A pre recorded sit down interview between
the two teams that are going to be wrestling for
the AW Tag Team Championship, Coping, Christian and the Challengers
The Young Bucks. Renee says that the term dream match
is thrown around all the time. This is the top
of that mountain. Nick Jackson says that he's a little
bit nervous about this. He can now make plans for
England for his family. They're both going to bring their families,
their kids. They're all going to make a big vacation
out of it. He says. They appreciate what Cage and
Cope have done for tag team wrestling. Copland says, look,
don't sell yourself short, because you guys revolutionize tag team wrestling.
If you don't say it, we will. Copland says that
this match proves that tag team wrestling is back to
the forefront, whereas in other places it has been pushed
into the back burner or pushed to the back burner.
Can I get an amen? Ain't that the truth? No
lies detected? In that statement? Christian interrupted. He said that
they didn't come back to have a retirement tour. They
set out to prove that they were the best team
of any generation. Matt Jackson piped up. He said that
they've been clawing their way back from rock bottom. They
need to cement their legacy and win those titles for
a fourth time. Copeland pointed out that between the two
of them, him and Christian, they lost seventeen years of
their careers to injuries. It's been twenty five years before
this since they were tag team champions together. That's a
quarter of a century. Matt said, Look, they're going to
be more aggressive than they've ever been before. It's not
going to be like Kobe Bryant at the end of
his career putting up sixty points. They would be lucky
to get on the board. Christian said it would be
different than they thought when the lights were bright and
they were across the ring from their heroes. Are they
going to be able to elevate their game like they
always do so? Rene asks why would this mean so
much to Cope and Cage and Copeland said, Look, despite
everything they've done, there's still this doubt. Matt Jackson said,
there's always a chip on their shoulder, always told they
were too small. You don't have the machine behind them,
you're this, you're that too many super kicks, which is true.
Cope and Cage might be bigger, but they're the young
Bucks and they wound down the promo. It was all
very straightforward here. Both teams had a chance to say
their piece. Things didn't get too testy between them. But
this is the first, right, this is the first real
promo between these two teams. They've got four or five
weeks whatever it is now between now and all in.
I still think there's a chance they're going to add
at least one more team to this match. I don't
think they need to. Like this is the match first
time ever Cope and Christian and the Bucks. I would
keep it as is, but I'm just saying I would
not be surprised if Tony wanted to add another one
or two teams to this match, and there's still several
weeks to do that. We had the new TBS champion
in maya World her first title defense against the CEA
MLL Women's Champion, Persephone, who I would have liked to
have seen win that Survival of the Fittest match at
the beginning of the month to win the title. Either
her or Queen a Mi Nada. They went with Hikarashida.
She'da lost her championship to Maya World on Sunday. A
lot of people didn't seem to really like the match.
I'm not going to sit here and lie to you
and tell you it was a great match or even
a very good match, because it wasn't. Something about Shida
that's off. She's not the same as she was before.
She came back, slower, more tentative. The match itself, though,
I didn't think was as bad as some people made
it out to be. And the thing that I was
happy with the most is that Tony Kahan didn't just
put Maya World, you know, back down the card or
on the back burner, or relegate her to ring of honor.
She's being featured on the shows and now she has
a championship and she's being featured in a prominent way.
Right she's on Dynamite. There are people who are on
that roster who would kill to be on Dynamite because
they never are. So she's in a good spot. Hopefully
that will continue. And so now we have her defending
against Persephone. When I saw that this match was announced,
I was like he wouldn't do it, would he? Like,
they're in Mexico next week. Persephonie is the CMLL Women's
World Champion. Why is he doing this match on this show?
Is he going to take the title away from from
Maya this quickly? Like? I don't know that. I honestly
thought he would, but I in the back of my mind,
I was like, I wonder if I wonder if her
reign is going to be cut short. Thankfully that was
not the case. Persephone is someone who also I would
not be I would not be beating her too often.
I don't want to see him make a habit out
of this. I'm a big fan of her work, and
I think she's very good, not just in the ring,
but even on promos. She's got an intensity about her
that not everybody has, so I'd like to see her
feature more prominently. Honestly, it's just funny to me. You know,
she's the world champion in CMLL, and if the shoe
was on the other foot, there's no way Tony Kahm
would have his champion losing, you know, just almost like
it's just such a casual thing too, wasn't even like
that big of a deal, But I don't think if
the shoe was on the other foot that you would
be seeing this. But here we go. We have these
two in the ring together. Persephone locks on a half
crab and then an ankle lock. Maya got a rope brake,
so the challenger fought out of the bridging fallaway slam
into one of her own sent Maya outside, where she
met her with a topey. Maya avoided a power bomb
counter that into a tornado DDT, after which they headed
back to the ring. Persephone had a rain maker variation
that turned Maya inside out and then a German Maya
kicked out. Persephone freaked out on Aubrey Edwards. She's also
very animated, like in the course of a match. When
she gets very frustrated, she gets very animated. She gets
very like, very expressive, so she was not happy. Hakarushita
ran now with her Kendo stick, never leaves home without it.
She tossed the Kendo stick to Persephone, and then she
was distracting Aubrey before Persephone could swing the stick, though
Chris Statlander magically appeared at ringside on the apron. She
grabbed the stick away from her and then as Persephone
turned back around. She turned into the same bridging fallaway
slam that Maya used to win the world title on Sunday,
and she retained the championship. And then after the match,
Statlander raised Maya's hand. Persephone was sitting on the floor outside.
She was absolutely livid. And if you remember what happened
at the end of that Survival of the Fittest match,
it looked like they were setting up something with Persephone
and Statlander. Here we are now, all these weeks later,
and hopefully now they're finally getting around to really juicing
this thing up here. So based on what they did
here at the finish, I would imagine Persephone is not
going to be too happy about for Statlander getting involved
in her business. Feels like this is setting up a
tag team match. Did they announce anything, Maybe they put
a graphic up for it. If they didn't, I'm sure
we're going to get it at some point. Sheidah and
Persephone against Maya and Statlander. It just seems inevitable unless
they've already announced it for Collision tomorrow. I don't know
if they have or not, but I could have done
without the interference at the end. If it was done
to set up a tag team match. Then fine, I'm
just saying I could have done without it. But yeah,
I wasn't convinced that he wasn't going to take the
title off Maya. I don't know I saw that. I'm like, hmm,
if he was going to put the belt on Persephone,
then he would have done it on July first. Maybe
a tag match in Mexico could be that would make sense.
If they have not announced anything for Collision tomorrow with them,
then that might be the match. Next week, we had
the former national champion Mark Davis. I was actually very
happy to see him get promo time on this show
because my fear was coming out of his loss to
Androtti on Sunday. It was like to the background with you,
Mark Davis, You're going to be relegated into the background
of these don Kallis family promo segments in the back
and maybe they'll put him together again with Jake Doyle
and they may still do that, but they actually gave
him promo time. He was standing by himself, didn't even
have callous with him. He was in like a stairwell
in the back, and he said that he's ten pounds
lighter because he has no national title around his waist.
That makes him furious. He needs to do something about it.
He said, Hey, mister number one can tend will Ospray.
Our record this year shows us as one in one.
But Osprey's win, he says, came with an asterisk next
to it, courtesy of the Death Riders. So how about
next week at Grand Slam Mexico. He leaves Don Kallis
at home and the two of them step into the ring.
He said, he's gonna chew him up and spit him out,
broken out back at Arena Mexico. You know, their last
match was in the Owen. It's one of my favorite
TV matches of the year. Overbooked as it was. Everybody
was running in at the end, everybody, but they had
this like electric atmosphere in the building. There was a
lot of craziness there, a lot of near falls and
such towards the end of that match, but it was
a lot of fun. So you put those two in
the ring together in the middle of a hot Arena
Mexico next week. I don't mean just literally hot, but
like it's gonna be loud in that building. That's gonna
be a good one. I'm looking forward to that. Willow
Nightingales championship celebration was up next, and this right here
was my favorite part of the entire show. I think
it was the best part of the entire show. Renee
was in the ring to introduce us to the brand
new AW Women's World Champion with her win over Tekla,
who was not on the show tonight. So Willow Nightingale
came out to the ring and they shot streamers all
over the place for her huge ovation, huge standing ovation
for this woman here in Detroit. She was practically in tears.
She was getting very emotional in the ring. It's not
very often that someone will come out on these AW
shows and get this kind of response, and I don't
remember Willow herself even getting this kind of sustained response before.
They were very happy for her that she made it
to the top of the mountain and she's the champion now,
and what's not to like. She's the most likable personality
on the entire show. So she was kind of taken
aback at first by the reaction. She says, this is
all still very surreal. This is what people dream about.
She's grateful that they've been with her, despite their being
doubters along the way. People would look at her as
being too quirky and too chubby or weird and they
just wouldn't get it. But over the past year, she's
apparently made the fans very happy. This past year, she's
become one half of the first ever women's tag team champions,
beat Mercedes Monett for the TBS title. Got hurt, but
what pulled her out of a dark place was her mom,
who calls her a warrior princess and told her that
she could stay down or you can get up and fight.
She fought to get into the Casino Gauntlet. She'd beat
a toxic champion and Techla'll win the big one. And
she has a message for all of the fans out there.
If life has kicked you around, don't you dare give up,
keep fighting and pushing through because sometimes the comeback is
even better than the dream. And she held up the
title and everybody cheered. So she got cut off by
Mercedes Monet's music Massive Booze for Mercedes walks out with
a contract in her hand and she demands that Willo
signed the contract for all in. Willo signs it right
on mercedes chest and Mercedes then pie faced her, so
they got nose to nose briefly, and then Renee made
the announcement and said, well, it's official at all in
it will be Willow Nightingale defending the championship against Mercedes Monette,
and Willo says, look, what's your problem today? Right? Someone
else got some attention for five seconds and took the
attention away from you. Or is it because that you
remember I beat you to injure TBS title reign. She
thinks that it's uh. Now she has the one championship
that Mercedes can't win, and this bothers her. So Mercedes said,
look what she hates the most about Willow. It's not
her smile. It's not the fact that people love her.
It's that Willow's name is written all over her own story.
And she talked about getting injured the first time they
stepped in the ring together. She lost her TBS championship
to Willow, and now Willow once again stands in her way.
So she said that she was tired of her smiling
face being in her face and she would end her
fairy tale at all in. She took credit for making
her She said that she gave her the greatest moment
of her entire career, and she would take her title
and her smile at all it. Divine Dominion showed up
the Women's Tag Team Champions. They showed up on the apron,
surrounded the ring three on one. Willow got some shots
in though, but I think Mercedes clipped her knee, I believe,
and she got put down. Willow did by a double
chokeslamp from the tag champs. Outcome the brawling Birds Jamie
Hayter and Alex Windsor to chase off the heels, and
that is how the segment came to an end. And
that match is not official yet, but that's going to
be another match obviously for all in I think many
of us have seen this coming for at least two
or three months now that at Wembley it was going
to be Jamie and Alex challenging for and winning the
women's tag team titles from Megan Bain and Lena Cross.
And that makes sense. If you're gonna do it, that
is the place to do it. Makes all the sense
in the world. In the meantime, you've had you know,
Lena and Megan going out there and destroying people. They
are one of the more dominant acts in the entire company.
And I said this on Sunday. You know, when they
were out there for their match, that just aesthetically when
you see them and the presentation with the you know,
they're on either side of the of the tront like
the big screens. During their entrance, they each say a
word or they say a quote or whatever, and then
they walk out together or posing together. It's a superstar entrance.
You know, it's a good act that the two of
them have. But at some point you get so dominant
it's like, okay, well who are you setting up to?
You know, finally take them down. There you go, that's
your team right there, there's your match. You don't have
to add anybody else. Divine dominion, brawling birds. Make it official.
We haven't gotten the graphic yet from Tony Kah make
it official. As far as this segment goes, Willow Nightingale
cut the best babyface promo that I've heard in aw
in a very long time. She's a natural babyface, naturally likable.
That's why the fans, you know, root for her and
they're happy to see her win the championship. She had
the advice for the fans. Don't ever give up, don't
ever let people kick you around, right, classic Babyface promo.
Mercedes comes out, gets great heat. Now, this is only
one week, it's one city. We'll see where things stand
in a few weeks. If they put them back in
the ring. You know, was the heat still there for Mercedes?
Are they going to be in the ring together in
some capacity in Mexico next week? Are they going to
be on the show next week, you know, at Arena Mexico.
It may differ from you know, city to city, but
this was, in my opinion, the perfect crowd for this
type of segment because you want people to be making noise.
The match just comes off as so much of a
bigger deal, like they're invested in it. You have a
genuinely likable Babyface. They don't want to see her lose.
They don't want to see her be a transitional champion.
To them, the worst thing would be she just won
the belt and you're gonna take it from her and
Mercedes is gonna get it. They don't want to see that, right,
So that's why I said, coming into this, some people
are very upset. Oh they're gonna beat Tekla. It's not fair.
Tecla belongs in that match. Tecla's done a great job
this year. Tecla had one hundred and sixty something days
as the champion. It's not like she got jobbed out
in a month. And I hope they have another good
role for her at all In, you know, because she
deserves to be on that show. But this was the
correct outcome here. The match to do, the big match
to do, even though it's been done before, is Mercedes
and Willow and everybody who was saying that Mercedes is horse,
Mercedes is gonna win. I don't think so. I don't again,
as I sit here right now, I still feel the
way I felt on Sunday. Don't just assume that because
she lost last time, or because Willow has beaten her before,
that she's automatically gonna win the championship. I agree with you,
by the way, if you're one of those people who
are like you're out of your fucking mind, everything is
set up to lead you to believe that Mercedes is
going to win the title. In London, she won the
Oeren last year, she went to All In, she fucking
loved lost five hundred and something days. Is TBS champion
or six maybe six hundred something days. Who ended it? Willow? Willow? Yes, Willow.
So you would think Mercedes is finally going to get
her revenge. I'm not so sure. I'm not convinced. I
hope not. Willow deserves to be more than just a
transitional champion. The comeback story you told, the comeback story,
the redemption arc of Willow Nightingale, injured, out stripped, back,
wins the Gauntlet, wins the big One to turn around
and take it away from her? Why why would you
do that? I wouldn't do that. John Moxley, then Commander
for the Continental Championship. Commander is an one as Perry
and Nick Wayne were earlier, who lost in the ladder
match on Sunday, but walk right into another title match
here tonight for reasons reasons. Commander has a lot of
fun to watch. He never wins any like big matches
on these shows. We got a ten minute time call
from Justin Roberts with Moxley in the corner. He was
punching and biting him. Commander, though slid out and he
hung Moxley over the top rope and then hit a
guillotine leg drop to the back of the neck. This
was the worst part of this entire thing. So after
he does the guillotine spot and they end up outside
on the floor, Commander rushes back into the ring right
springs back inside because he's gonna go set up for
a springboard move. Moxley follows him back into the ring,
so Moxley rolls inside, but then inexplicably, John Moxley rolls
over and get his body to Commander so he can
hit his springboard four fifty splash. And believe it or not,
this was only the second worst four fifty splash spot
that I have seen on an aw show this week.
It's still not as bad as what I saw in
that Young Bucks match with Moxley and Osprey Redemption that
was fucking awful with Nick Jackson just no selling a
four to fifty splash to go right into the next
spot like it's nothing. But it was just the most
hilarious thing because again Moxley he followed. He slides in
and then literally just turns over and lays there and
looks up at him like, Okay, I'm ready. Can I
ask like a favor? Can we at least attempt to
make these types of spots look natural. Obviously, the spot
was that you were gonna get be on the receiving
end of a four to fifty splash. Okay, fine, there
has to be a better way to set something like
this upward does not look so overly fake and contrived.
There has to be the second time now in just
the last few days, that I have seen a four
to fifty splash spot that wanted to make me just
fucking bang my head on this desk, like, what are
and this is not These are not rookies in these matches.
This is the fucking young bucks. John Moxley like, what
are we doing? Come on, man, come on, I mean,
I know wrestling, I know wrestling is what wrestling is,
but come on, can we make it not look as fake? Please?
Can we at least try? Commander went for his rope
walk shooting star Press, Moxley moved, hit a curb stop
death rider and then sank in the rear naked choke
and Commander tapped out. Not much else to say about it.
Another John Moxley titled Defence out of Nowhere another win,
no real surprise We go backstage? Yeah, yes, four fifties
are ineffective in aw well we already knew that. I'm
not even talking about how ineffective they are. I'm just
talking about either the setup of it, the reaction to it.
It's just it's comical. It's comical. McK foley was speaking comical.
McK foley was backstage. At least he wasn't barking like
a dog and going bow wow on this show. He
was backstage with the Bang Bang Gang. There was somebody
noticeably absent here. His name is Jay White, and I thought,
oh no, don't tell me he's already injured again. Ace
Austin said they have big problems, and actually they did
mention that Jay White was not there because he was
still reeling from the end of the Chain match Redemption.
Coulton Guns said that they've been screwed by the Dogs
and the Death Riders. Juice Robinson issued a challenge to
any combination of those two groups. Not that I didn't
know that this was going to continue based on the
finish of the match on Sunday, but I'm ready to
move beyond this. Let's just get the inevitable Jay White
David Finley match and then we can move beyond this,
assuming Jay White is okay. He did almost get killed.
On Sunday, he narrowly escaped with his life. We had
the Conglomeration defending their aw Trios titles against Ricochet and
the Gates of Agony. They started this match right at
the top of the hour and we still had a
Kenny Omega segment yet to come. So I knew this
show was going long when I saw that. But it's
the Conglomeration and it's The Demand, and it's already ten PM,
so it was hard to really bring myself to care
much about this. Cassidy tagged in late. He applied a
ridiculous looking claw hole to Ricochet's head. The Lethal Twist
showed up Blake Christian. He blasted Cassidy in the head
with a springboard belt shot. Ricochet then followed with the
Spirit gun. He got the pin to win the titles. Yes,
we have new Trios tag team champions Ricochet, Toto Leona,
and Bishop Kahn. So the Demand and the Lethal Twist.
They put the boots to the Conglomeration after until Brody
King ran out to the ring to make the save.
He was overwhelmed. Hangman Adam Page's music kids, and he
walks out and he's got a barbed wire, a chair
wrapped in barbed wire, so the heels bailed Jay Lethal.
He tried to sneak in and grabbed the chair and
he pricked himself, I guess, on the bar. So he's
selling his finger now. Meanwhile, Hangman goes to the Apron
and he sets up for the first buckshot lariot that
we have seen I guess since Revolution, and it was
picture perfect, unlike whenever Logan Paul attempts to do it. Thankfully,
I haven't seen Logan Paul even before he got hurt.
I haven't seen him attempt this move in a while,
and I think he should. He should probably leave that
to the pros. So he drops Lethal with the buckshot,
and that was the end of that. We have new
Trios champions. Whatever. That's my attitude about it. I mean again,
I can't really bring myself to care about the trio's
belts all that much, moving them from the conglomeration to
the demand. To me, it's a lateral move in the
grand scheme of things. It doesn't really mean much Where
Hangman fits into this. I don't know. Maybe they're setting
up for a Hangman ricochet match. I don't know. I
don't know, but again, Hangman can do whatever he wants. Man,
he's got plenty of titles to choose from. You want
to go after the trio's belts, find two partners. He
actually had two partners previously, Kevin Knight and Speedball. Remember
they wanted to call themselves Horsecock. I forgot whose idea
I think that might have been a was that a
Hangman idea or a Speedball might have been a Speedball idea?
And then the other guy shot it down, so then
they settled on jet Set Rodeo. Jet Set Rodeo is
better than Horsecock. But he can go after the trio's belt.
He can go after the international belt, the national title.
Hangman and Andrade, whoa, there's a match for you outside
the arena. Again, we're an overrun territory. Here we go
outside the arena. The Death Riders answer the challenge from
the Bang Banggang for collision Tomorrow Night. Daniel Garcia then
called out Will Osprey for a match because he got
bitched earlier. He got bitched out earlier. I was gonna
say bitch slapped. It was more like a fucking forearm
or an elbow. So now we're getting a singles match
tomorrow night between Osprey and Daniel Garcia. Moxley complained about
the morality Police, taking issue with the way they do things.
He said what he loves about the Continental Championship is
that it's just about what's in your head and what's
in your heart. He mentioned there being a Continental Cup
to I guess determine his challenger for all in if
his title reign ends and a hail of bullets, so
be it. He's willing to accept that that would be
a hell of a way for his run to to
come to an end. For all this time that he's
been the Continental Champion. The only thing that could take
down John Moxley in a match is just a hail
of bullets. You know, the way some of these plunder
and garbage matches are going in this company, I don't
think we're too far away from it. We just had
Chris Jericho beat Tomaso Champa on Sunday with a fucking
power drill. How long before we see gunfire or knives
in one of these matches. We've had syringes, we've had
pyro explosions, we've had barbed wire, we've had broken glass,
We've had staple guns, We've had everything you could possibly
think of except what I just mentioned. That's the next step.
It's inevitable at this point. John Moxley finally he goes
down in a hal of bullets and finally loses his title.
And again this Continental Cup, I don't fucking know. There
was no discussion about it, there was nothing. There was
a fleeting mention by John Moxley. So I'm not quite
sure what I'm supposed to do with this. We need
more information on how this is going to work, who's
going to be involved. Beyond that, we don't know anything.
And then to close out the sh we had Tony
Shiavanni in the ring finally to introduce the aw World Champion,
Kenny Omega. All cheers for Omega, by the way, no booze.
Just given the way things ended on Sunday, I was
wondering if it might be more of a mixed reaction,
but all cheers for Omega. He barely got any words
out before will Osbury's music hit and the Challenger headed
to the ring and Omega said, it's fine. Cut the music.
Let's make it fun as they did in Kindergarten Show
and Tell. He said it Redemption. Actually I think he
said the kinder Garden. He said it in a very
weird way, kind of like when he was talking about
MJF a few weeks ago and he couldn't say the
name Maxwell. I'll never get over that called him like
maxib It's different things that Kenny Omega apparently is unable
to say said at Redemption. He showed Osprey how he
felt and it didn't matter if the fans in the
moment misunderstood. He thought Osprey would get it. Maybe they
move on to the tell part of Show and Tell.
Omega said, Osbury means the world to him, and he
brought up the promise that they made to one another
to try their best to win the big one, win
the world title. Every time Omega put friendship before the belt,
one hundred percent of the time goes. Let's face it,
the whole reason that he let Osprey enter the Owen
Heart Tournament is to see him have success on his own.
But how did he repay Kenny? He told Kenny that
it really sucks that Kenny gave up on himself. Does
it look like I've given up? And he holds up
the championship and everybody cheers. Osprey will never be one
to talk down to him again. And even though he
gave him plenty of warnings about John Moxley and the
Death Riders, what's his excuse now that it blew up
in his face? So Ospray said that he came back
too early from next surgery because he came back for revenge.
And when he finally thought he had it, it slipped
through his fingers. And in that moment, he had no
friends that he could turn to. No Kyle, no Davis,
no Callum Newman, no Kenny Omega. But who saved him,
the guy who took away his old life, the guy
he had so much hatred for, the guy who gave
him an opportunity. Osprey didn't see the guy who broke
his neck. He saw the former four time champion who
could take him to where he needed to be if
Omega wants. Honestly, Osprey liked being a death writer. He
liked it. He liked the camaraderie, he liked the training.
He liked feeling like he did back when he was
in Japan with a bunch of killers watching his back.
He understood why they're so protective of this place. But
that's where it ends, says he doesn't share their philosophy.
When he saw Omega with or when Osprey saw Omega
with a chair wrapped around his neck, the same thing
the death Riders did to him. He couldn't stand by
and watch someone he loves go through what he went through,
so Omega says he remembers on Sunday after the match,
he got beat up for minutes. It felt like hours,
feeling that chair around his neck, no energy to fight back.
All he could do was close his eyes and accept
his fate, which is when he heard the cheers and
somehow he knew that Osprey was there to save him.
But when the minutes felt like an eternity, he took
the chair off himself. He stood up and there Will
Osprey was holding Omega's championship. And the reason it took
Ospbury so long to help was because he even contemplated
using the plastic bag to begin with. Now this is
where again, this felt forced to me, and I pointed
this out on TNT last night and uncrowned. If you
watch back that closing segment on the pay per view
on SID, Kenny Omega is down and Kenny Omega is
not looking at anything that's going on in the ring.
He's facing in the opposite direction. So when will Osprey
is handed the plastic bag by John Moxley and he's
standing there and he's looking at it very intensely, and
he's shaky, literally shaking and contemplating, you know, what he's
going to do, and then ultimately he makes the right decision, right,
he's not going to kill his friend, and he opts
to attack the death Riders. Omega didn't see any of this.
Omega didn't see any of it. How does he know?
They're trying to explain it here in this segment, and
it's just it's so forced to me. And so that's
the thing. If they would have just handled that segment
a little bit different on Sunday, where he actually could
see what was going on, he's down in the corner
or something, then I might look at it a little
bit differently. But the way he's explaining it and getting
all even on Sunday when he got all upset and everything,
he's holding the plastic bag in his hand after he
dropped ospray on his head. He's like, you know, he's
pointing to the bag. I'm like, yeah, but how does
he know? He sees a ripped up plastic bag on
the floor and he assumes, wow, boy, you know you
were you were thinking about doing it, weren't you. How
you know how you know? He doesn't because he didn't
see it. Omega slapped him in the face, said I
thought you were my friend. He sounded like Batista with Raymistereo.
I thought you were my friend, he said. Osprey said,
I was your friend. Omega then asks, well, what am
I to you now? And he kept on slapping, and
he slapped him again and again, and as he went
to go slap him one more time, Osprey returned the
favor and knocked him down on his ass. And then
he backed up and he teased the hidden blade, and
when Omega turned around, Ospray stopped short and so now
Kenny is down on the mat on his ass. He
rolls out of the ring to the ramp like a
heel to bail and get the hell out of there.
Ospray now has the ring all to himself, and he says,
no matter how much he loves Omega, if he puts
his hands on him, he'll kick the shit out of him.
And everybody cheered since day one. Ospray reminded the fans
while Omega was gone that this is where the best
wrestle and he's earned his spot to challenge for that
world title. Standing before him is the biggest mountain that
he's been wanting to climb for ten years. As winners
want the ball, right, the ace wants the ball, Ospray
wants the ball. Ninety minutes are done, extra time is done,
they're into penalties now, and it's his turn to kick
the ball. Ospray has an entire country depending on him
to bor entire hometown, as Tony Schavani would say, He's
got an entire country on his side to bring this
thing home. They're all asking if he can pull the tree. Says,
you're damn right. I can pull the trigger. But he
won't do it from behind like Omega did, or like
how Moxley wanted him to. He's pulling the trigger when
it matters the most, when the title is on the
line and Omega is going to see it coming. It's
like cmpunk with Cody Rhoads. Me tell Cody, see I
told you a long time ago. I'm not gonna stab
you in the back. I'm gonna stab you in the front.
There's a lot of parallels here between these two stories
that are going on heading into SummerSlam this weekend, and
then all in so, as far as this segment, it
was very long. And again, there was no reason for
this show to go thirty five minutes overtime. Okay, there's
there's like an overrun, and then there's whatever the fuck
this was. And I look back at the show, you
could pick different segments that could have been cut from
the show to get you to maybe a five or
ten minute overrun. They didn't need to go to ten
thirty five. I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. That being said, I
thought it was I thought it was good. I was
not as much a fan of Kenny's promo as I
was Osprey's. I liked the Osprey's promo and I like
the fire from him there at the end. He looked
like somebody who was lock the fuck in and the
World Championship is the most important thing in the world
to him, and no more of this like I love
you stuff, I respect you. It's like, Okay, you don't
think I can do it. You don't think I can
drop the kill shot, you don't think I can be
that guy. Okay, you'll find out. You'll find out at Wembley.
Kenny's out there and he just again his promos. It's
just very hit or miss. And then some of the
stuff here was very forced coming out of that angle
from Sunday, because that's not how it really came off
if you watch the segment on Sunday. But I'm I'm
glad that we are kind of moving in the direction
of like, Okay, these two they don't like each other. Now,
what's gonna happen? What other what other you know, incidents.
So they're gonna be between these two, they're gonna be
a big pull apart brawl. Are they gonna be part
of the same match? Can they coexist? I mean, you
can go through all the usual tropes. I mean, look,
at some point we'll probably get something something like that.
You gotta keep things interesting, right, You still got many
more weeks left to go, but this was a strong start.
I'm just happy they were on the show and they
didn't just close with the fucking Demand against the Conglomeration.
Imagine if they just went off the air with that,
we have new trios champions. The Demand now or the
Trio's champions. Who gives a shit. I want to see
the men who were in the main event of the
pay per view that are coming up, and that's what
we got. Kenny came up very heelish towards the end
of this segment. Very interesting how he walked into total
cheers by the end there. I don't want to say
he was getting booed, but Osprey was getting the cheers.
And the way Kenny rolled out and everything, and the
way he was acting, he came off very heelish. I
don't know if that's a sign that this this is
how they're going to position the two of them as
we head into London, or they may just kind of
have Kenny like straddle the line a little bit. So
I thought that was kind of interesting. But on the
whole I like the show. You know, I could pick
the parts that I didn't like. But as compared to
so many of these post pay per view episodes of Dynamite,
this one felt like, Okay, we got the key players
are here and they're being featured, and we got some
strong promo work to highlight the big matches that we
know so far, we still don't know where a lot
of other people are going to be slotted in on
this card. Hangman, Right, he's back, what's he going to
be doing? Is he going to be in the Gauntlet?
Do the rules prevent him from being able to take
part in the Casino Gauntlet? I would think they would.
We're gonna need a little clarification on that from Tony Kahan.
So what's Hangman going to be doing? Is MJF going
to be healthy back in time for the show. It
certainly feels to me like the match for him at
all In is going to be Andrade. Andrade still has
the Dynamite Diamond ring he's talking about. He's smiling, I
got your ring. I screwed you. I got your ring.
And unfortunately they're not going to be doing the match
at Arena Mexico next week, but we have to be
getting MJF and Andrade, And I'm just thinking all In
is what would make the most sense? Have they not announced,
by the way, a match for Andrade? They have, right,
He's going to be in that qualifying match next week, Okay,
we just don't know who it's going to be against. Yeah,
because I was gonna say to not announce a match
for him for Arena Mexico in advance next week is
crazy to me. But I guess we just don't know
who the opponent is going to be yet. Maybe we'll
find out tomorrow night. But anyway, good start here on
the kickoff to this road to Wembley. Let me go
through your chats here. If you have any questions, this
would be a good time to get him on in
and any thoughts you may have. On tonight's episode of Dynamites,
we'll starry with death scythe Hey death Syth Are you?
Are you on death ground? John Moxley says, well, Osbury
is operating on death ground. I think death Sithe is
it's on death ground every week that Roderick makes a
very interesting point here he goes Hangman said his world
title ban was not put on paper. That is true,
there's no actual contract that he's being held to. He says,
you once said that the Wyatt Sixes gimmick had a
shelf life? Can the same be said for Dan Housen. Yes,
every gimmick like that has a shelf life? Joe Hendry
dan Housen, I guess our truth is sort of I mean,
I've grown tired of some of his stick, not that
I don't want him there. I just wish he was
doing something different. But he's kind of timeless in many ways.
But so many of these, especially comedy gimmicks with some exceptions,
and then you have other gimmicks like supernatural type stuff.
They all have a shelf life. Also, if WWE's goal
on Monday was to get me to turn against Dan Housen,
well mission accomplished because Dan Housen has officially jumped the shark.
Oh and for that, brother, you are cursed. Give me backshots.
Solemn Monster says, Hey solo, Mariah Carey might be behind
this account. How the mighty have fallen? If she is
dry Chicken says, every time I see these baddies in
the crowd or with Androte, my jacuzzi turns ice cold.
I was gonna say, you could use a cold shower there, brother.
So the title doesn't make the man. The man makes
the title. That's a WWE philosophy. I still believe in
the title makes the man philosophy in wrestling. Well, you
may believe in that, but that's not how it's supposed
to work. The title is a prop on the show.
The title is what you make of it, and really,
at the end of the day, you're not pushing the title.
You're pushing the talent. People are not necessarily gonna buy
a ticket to a show for the title. I mean,
you can put the title on anybody. Doesn't mean people
are gonna buy a ticket to go to the show
to see whoever the champion is. When Jack Swagger was
the World Heavyweight champion, I promise you not a single
person was buying a ticket to go see Jack Swagger
defend the world title or Jinder Mahal defend the WWE Championship. Okay,
that wasn't happening. It comes down to the talent, the man,
the woman. Who are they? Are you invested in them?
You're gonna push them? Are they getting over? If they
get over? By getting over, they in effect will help
elevate the world title to the status that you want
it to be at. It's not supposed to be the
title makes the man. It's supposed to be the man
makes the title. That's what I believe says that Will
Osprey promo tonight was fire. It was it was good.
We need to give love to Hangman, Moxley Swerve, Mark Davis,
and Kenny Omega for being part of Osprey's story for
the world title. Always give credit to Mark Davis says
this won't be a prediction. Wwe could be tempted to
give brock Lesner another win against Oba Femei. Yeah, that's
not happening, says EO. Sky should defeat Liv Morgan, but
Creative could be tempted to keep the women's title on live.
I love how you're going. You're taking a fifty to
fifty approach on all of this, so he can't be wrong. Well,
they should do this, but I think they'll do this,
and they may be tempted to do this, but maybe
they'll do this. It's like years ago, I don't remember
who it was, somebody sent in a super chat. This
was leading into the G one and they were like,
my picks to win the G one and they named,
like whatever, the one or two people they thought were
gonna win. And then they go and my dark horse
picks are this guy, this guy, this guy, this guy,
or this guy. I'm like, why don't you just name
everybody in the whole fucking tournament. That's not how this
is supposed to work. You have a pick, and then
you could pick a dark horse. But you can't pick
six or seven people that doesn't count. You can't do that.
That's not allowed. Barry with the fourteen dollars super chats
how bad it's what if live helps dan Housen beat
Dom and then on Rawsch'll say that she did it
because dan Housen has more monies, so she's a gold digger. Yeah,
I don't. I don't think they're gonna do that. You're
advocating for more, Dan House. Do you realize what you're doing, Barry.
You're doing the opposite of what they should be doing.
I can't get behind that. Darryl Strawberry is with us.
Have you ever eaten Ethiopian food? It's really good and
there women are very pretty. Also, Seth Rollins looks like
Bryce Harper to me, he does? He does? Who is
the baseball player Jason Worth who looks like Adam Cole?
One of them looks like Adam Copeland. I think it's
Jason Worth. Have I ever eaten Ethiopian food? I think
I did once. I'm trying it was so if I did,
if it's the cuisine that I'm remembering, and maybe it
wasn't Ethiopian, but it was like I was a lot younger.
I was many many years ago, and I just ended
up having a peda bread. I don't think I had
anything else. I think I just literally ate pita bread.
I don't remember if it was Ethiopian though, or riatre
in food. I wouldn't even be able to name any dishes.
So I mean, for all intents and purposes, I'll say no.
I may have to try it, though, now that you've
endorsed it, Liam with a twelve incredible show Tonight would
have had my sound off sign again, but I hurt
my back at work and my wife hurt her ankle
on the stairs, so we needed all the chair space
that we could get. Love the show solo, Well, I'm
sorry that you guys are the walking wounded right now.
I hope you feel better, but I appreciate the thought.
This is always next time. In fact, they have a
show tomorrow. If you're all healed up by tomorrow, if
you can go tomorrow. Darryl Strawberry, what is the worst
expressway between these four? The Van Wick, the Cross Bronx,
the Long Island or the Brooklyn Queen's Expressway Van Wick.
The answer is the Van Wick. See even Keith Andrew
Miller agrees with me. He probably doesn't even know what
the van Wick is. Just take my word for a brother.
It is the worst love the Lord with a ten
dollars super chat. I hope we see Athena versus maya
world for the TBS Championship at all in London. Best
Wednesday night Dynamite since Beach Break that I would agree with.
Says maybe we will see Rhino and MotorCity machine Guns tomorrow. Yeah,
that's right. Rhino was being brought in and then I
heard nothing about Rhino actually being like in a dark
match or anything like that. So very possible he will
be at Collision tomorrow and the machine Guns as well.
I think Rhino was. I think Rhino said he was
hoping to do something with copin Christian A lot of
history with those threes. I don't know if they're he's
going to get that chance or not, but that's what
he was hoping. Gold Matthew mount Rushmore of Samoans in
terms of in ring, I don't know. I've never thought
about it. I don't really have a mount Rushmore of Samoan.
Yoko Zoo would be on there. Roman has to be
on there, just I mean for the body of work
he's put together. You don't even have to necessarily have
Roman on your list as like your favorite wrestler, but
you can't deny He's been part of a lot of
killer matches over the years, including one at WrestleMania this year,
WrestleMania last year, WrestleMania forty, WrestleMania thirty nine. That was
an excellent match too, until the finish. The guys had
banger matches at four straight WrestleManias. That's not an accident.
Even that last match he had with Brock at SummerSlam
a few years ago, the Last Man's Standing match. So
Roman is on there. I'd put Yoko on there. I
mean Rock Rock would have to be on there. And
who would be the fourth? I don't know. It's not
the yeat Man. I don't know who the fourth is.
I haven't think about that combat theater. Actually, what about uh?
What about Umaga? How would you feel about Umaga being
on that list? He had some good matches him and
Jeff Hardy. That was a fun feud. Ah Samoa Joe.
Of course, the words Samoa is literally literally it is
name fach. How could I forget Samoa Joe? I just
talked about his Dark Side of the Ring episode last week.
All right, So if we have to narrow it down
to four, we have Rock, we have Joe, Roman, Rock, Roman, Joe,
and Yokam. I'm comfortable with that. Put them in whatever
order you want to put them in. God, how did
I leave off Samoa Joe? Combat Theater says, well, you
watch the New Spider Man, and who is your favorite
Spider Man. I may eventually watch the New Spider Man.
I feel like I shouldn't, though, just because I have
a lot of catching up to do when it comes
to the MCU if I want to get caught up
before Avengers Doomsday in December. You guys gave me a
lot of great feedback to that tweet that I put
up last week. Unfortunately, I have like twenty two films
I think I'm supposed to be watching. I don't think
that's gonna happen. The last Spider Man I saw was
Toby maguire was still Spider Man, so I'll go Toby Maguire.
I never saw any of the Andrew Garfield movies. I
haven't seen any of the Tom Holland stuff. I don't
really have a great frame of reference for it, you know,
outside of Toby McGuire. Isaac says, your thoughts on the
Camp Crystal Lake trailer. I liked it. I remember first
reading about that series being in development. I actually was
copied on something. There was a there was a gig
that popped up for some background extras, and unfortunately the
casting call had just expired like the day before. Otherwise
I would have applied to be on the show. Is
like a background like extra. I mean, they may not
have picked me, but I was like, man, I could
have been on the show. Missed my chance. Maybe next time.
And EJ Slim fifty years ago today was son of
Sam's first murder, says, you weren't born yet. Did you
ever hear stories about him the Blackout, heat Wave or
the seventy seven Yankees drama? Sure, I heard plenty of
stories about it. Wasn't in the middle of it or
anything like that. Saw the movie many years ago, but
I didn't live it in the way that other people, obviously,
you know, lived it in New York. It was a
very scary time. We have EJ again. We've got our
own Van Wick in Chicago, the Dan Ryan and the Trist,
the tri state alone is one of the many reasons
why I avoid O'Hare like the plague. Really, it's the
only airport I fly in and out of when I
go to Chicago. Is O'Hare. Well, at least it's not
La where you can apparently walk out of your house
and you could see the restaurant down the road that
you want to go to and it takes you at
thirty seven minutes to drive there. See that? To me,
that would be hell on Earth. If Luise was in
the chat with us tonight, I would add, because Luise
is from LA, I would ask Luis for his personal
perspective on that LA traffic sounds like an absolute fucking nightmare. Solo.
I'll never forget that rent you did on the van
Wick when those birds, Yeah, the birds, the fucking birds,
the brawling birds. Yeah, don't get me started on the birds.
That was a bad day. Hey, James, there he is,
James says, I live hell on Earth. He's James. I
saw James last time I was in Los Angeles. James
came out to the House of Glory show, which, by
the way, is a good time for me to plug
real quick. Next Friday, not this Friday. Next Friday, August seventh,
after Summer Slim is House of Glory High Intensity, and
for the first time, we will be streaming the event
live in full in free on our YouTube channel, the
official House of Glory YouTube channel. You'll get to hear
me on commentary and who knows, maybe doing other stuff.
I don't know. We got a lot of big names,
a lot of big matches on that show. You could
check out what they all are in our social media,
but hopefully we will see some of you in the chat.
We'll be keeping track of what's going on. It'll be
a big night. Are leon oh one? What's the over
under on kickouts for osprey omega? Oh my god? They
should list that on Calshi. People can take bets on
how many kickouts they're gonna be in that match. Fucking polymarket.
If I had a venture, I guess as to how
many near falls we're gonna have in that match. No
less than thirty, No less than thirty. It's gonna be
out of control, all right. Friday we got the SmackDown
post show, the final stream for the month of July,
the final stream before SummerSlam. I will be streaming for
both nights of SummerSlam. It's gonna be like WrestleMania all
over again. WrestleMania is our biggest week end of the year.
Can we try to match that this weekend? It's gonna
be a big weekend. Nonetheless, Hopefully, you guys, even if
you're not watching SummerSlam, even if you're totally disenchanted with
the WWE product, and many of you are, I hope
to see you here with me for the full recaps
on both nights, and unlike WrestleMania a week and I
will be doing a SoundOff as well, so you'll get
the sound off. You'll get my Dark Side of the
Ring review on the Big boss Man episode that aired
last night. I was not expecting by the way. I
watch The Dark Side of the Ring every week and
there's a lot of sad stories. And I watched the
boss Man one this morning and there's a part of
the episode where I started crying. It got to me
that hasn't happened in a while, but I did cry
during this episode. So we'll talk about that this weekend.
Thank you, by the way, for all the feedback to
the Uncrowned episode that dropped yesterday. Uncrowned Wrestling show you
get more of me. If you didn't listen to it,
go check it out. Longest episode I've done minutes and
that is up for your listening pleasure right now as well.
By the way, if you want to watch that episode,
the Big boss Man episode of Dark Side of the Ring,
they are posting all the episodes. They don't even wait
that long. It's like that night. They post the full
episodes on the it's not the Dark Side of the
Ring YouTube channel. It's the official Vice TV YouTube channel,
which has like two millions subs. They post the full
episodes on there. So the boss Man one is up.
If you haven't seen it, go check it out. It's
a good one. All right, Be well, stay safe. How
are we doing on the likes? Yeah, we didn't hit
the goal. We did not hit the goal that we
were at four ninety on the likes. As you could see,
the wheel said six hundred. I figured that was a
long shot to begin with. It's a Wednesday. It's a Wednesday.
What do you expect. We'll try again on Friday. Bring
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