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Speaker 2: Hello wrestling fans to listen to Wrestling Coast to Coast,
a Pro Wrestling Torch daily cast focus independent wrestling. I'm
Chris Maitlan and joving this adventure is the Man, the Myth,
the McClelland Justin mccollan, Justin. How you doing today?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Chris, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing Okay. It's weird, uh summer here for me
in the fact that it is is like eighty degrees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2: Weird because it was about a month or so ago
and I've been traveling, you know, we had like almost
one hundred degree temperature mm hmm, and I thought, wow,
we're in for a rough summer. And now it's like, hmmm,
I don't have to cut the grass every two weeks,
so it been odd, a little bit odd from that regard.
Speaker 3: In that regard, but you haven't had to cut the
guess every two weeks. I have a much bigger yard
than I used to. I have like a much much
bigger yard than I used to. So it takes me well,
probably twice as long as it used to take me
to cut the grass at my old house. I'm pretty
well divided it up into two days. And there's like
a ton of like trigger sticking of the ground. So
it's like a real pain, to a real real pain
to cut the grass.
Speaker 2: These days, it takes you two days to cut the grass.
I'm yes, Oh.
Speaker 3: It's a solid weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh man, lean over here. You know, those of us,
some of us don't have those first world problems.
Speaker 3: No, I mean it takes I do about an hour
a day. Yeah, I know. I don't know what to
tell you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I usually I usually try to schedule it either
early in the morning or other late at night, obviously
with the sun but the weather being good, I haven't
had to worry about that. But I haven't been since
we've been gone, I haven't been as good with the weeds.
So part of it was like yesterday, I was like, oh,
there's some weeds I need to take care of that.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, I did like a whole like big
weeding session over the weekend, which was actually a lot
of fun. I got it, I got a good farmer's tan,
listen to some podcasts, so I really actually enjoyed that
quite a bit. It is relaxing. I love a good
weed session.
Speaker 2: So i' mean we have to talk to you more
about the weeds, because we are weeds out of control.
Though some of us we already have a tance. We
don't need to mow or we need to get one.
Speaker 3: And for all the kids listening, not that kind of weed.
Speaker 2: It is legal in Ohio.
Speaker 3: But it is legal.
Speaker 2: But we're talking about the ones that grow in your grass.
But that's not making any better, no, the ones you
use certain products that have been part of litigation for that.
Probably let's move on. So we are we covering independent wrestling,
and we mentioned last week. I used to have good
smooth segues. I'm losing my touch. We covered last week
and that's still ongoing. That WWE announced that they would
have or several wrestlers announced and sometimes confirmed by different
companies that there would be different wrestlers having wrestled tryouts
during summer some weekends, which is this weekend coming up
up in Minnesota. Minneapolis. One name that came out just
this week reporter by fight Full very interesting to us.
He is someone we've covered in the last week, but
he did a wrestle in a w under a different name,
and that is kJ Orso, who wrestled we covered last
week against Busting the Brain with his teammate Sam Stackhouse.
Actually makes so we make a reference with him on
the show, but he ended up it was Foye Go
del Soul in AW. But he will be getting a
try out with w W this weekend. DestinE, you have
any thoughts on that?
Speaker 3: I mean, good for him. I think we've been in
a big well, I've been at least a big fan
of the Orso Stackhouse team in GCW, you know, so,
I mean it's always cool when somebody gets a shot.
So he's not the biggest guy, so I don't, you know,
it's like, I don't know if they are totally in
his favor, but definitely definitely wish him the best of lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say he you know, he was a
mass wrestler in AAW and he was kind of like
a comedy babyface, so.
Speaker 3: He was like occasionally Sammy Gavara's buddy who would get
beaten up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was making Sammy Gavarro's little buddy.
Speaker 3: In fact, you may recalled it. He got pretty well
decimated by Russip. I can't remember Russa's AW name, but he.
Speaker 2: Got like Mero Miro.
Speaker 3: He got annihilated by Miro and then they're like, guess what,
You've won a contract for getting destroyed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that is part of the problem with AW
sometimes that they don't necessarily value wins and losses in
a way that you think they do. But what I
meant to say is that he sort of reinvented himself
in a whole different character being a heel, you know,
having a few more violent matches in the season with
Sam Stock Sam Stackhouse. To him, he's a pretty decent promo,
so credit to him. And I think, you know, with
not all these wrestles will be signed, so will get
signed by I think it is never bad for any
of them to be mentioned as getting w W tryouts,
being on the radar of W because other companies may
take notice of you just because of that. So good
luck to him, good luck to all the people getting tryouts.
Hopefully we will be able to get a full list
when the tryout takes place next week, and if we do,
we'll talk about it here on Wrestling Coast to Coast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is like a aj styles helped some people
get some tryouts, but I think the only one we
knew so I'm scanning desperately was Brook.
Speaker 2: Havoc, So yeah, I think that he. I guess he's
taking his job very serious. I know he's been working
at the Program Performance Center, working with Evolve wrestlers. I
guess obviously giving people these opportunities are recommending them anyway.
I think W has and I've learned this a lot
with our I mean ten years ago now, I used
to go to Evolve shows in New York and I
would see William Regal, so I knew they were scouted.
But now it's clear that w has their eyes even
more independent talent, as you can see with the talent
has come through NXT over the last several years. They
have their eyes pretty you know, pretty focus on in
the world. So they're trying to get as many people
as they can and the wid programs gives them a
quicker access to independent wrestlers and they're trying to take
advantage of it.
Speaker 3: Yes, and the little teaser, this isn't the last time
you'll hear ajs YLE's name on our show.
Speaker 2: That is true?
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Speaker 2: I'm going to take you all back to the wonderful
year of nineteen ninety five. Do you remember nineteenninety five? Justine?
Speaker 3: Yes, I was. I was a freshman and later of
sophomore in high school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ninety five. I'm a year behind you, so I
guess eighth grade freshman Diesel.
Speaker 3: Diesel ruled the WWF, who was terrible?
Speaker 2: Apparently I didn't know these things at the time, because
you know, oh, I.
Speaker 3: Didn't like Diesel. That was like the first time I
ever rooted for a heel, Like was when I was
reading for Sean Michaels at WrestleMania eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never I mean, the this is a tangible
Were you a WrestleMania six? Did you? Were you watching six?
Speaker 3: No? I didn't have cables, so I like, I mean,
I was following it, but I wasn't. I did not
watch it live.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I was one of the people who was
like very much didn't I was like done with Agen.
I wanted Warrior to win.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, See I couldn't even like fathom the idea
of Hawk Cog and losing.
Speaker 2: And part of that for me was as a kid,
I kind of even though I kind of like I
liked Randy Savage, and even in the back of my
mind it's kind of one of the things when people
think about wrestling fans being smart, in the back of
my mind, I was like, Oh, they made Randy Savage
a bad guy so Holgan could win, And I was
annoyed by this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's that's fair.
Speaker 2: And then then Holk ended up winning the title and
then losing it to Warrior at wrestlming A six. But
back that was like back to nineteen ninety five. Yeah,
Diesel won the title. He lost it to Brett Hart
in some Survivor series ninety five. Yes, but ninety five
was the first year of the in your House pay
per view Yes, which, in preparing for our show today,
I realized a lot of the problems that a lot
of people prescribed to wrestling. It's me in some regard
comes to the Nitro era. The fact that they had
Nitro and they started changing what was what type of
matches were on television. But a lot of ways, I
feel some of the issues also come back to nineteen
eety five, and that was the beginning of the in
your house pay per view because WWF, at that time,
the number one wrestling company in the world, started adding
more pay per views. You know.
Speaker 3: There's also a fun fact. So we got cable in
nineteen ninety four, so and at the time, like there's
some weird deal you could have like cable normally, but
if you want to do the pay per view, you
had to go get a special box from the cable
company and like and you would use it and then
you would bring it.
Speaker 2: Back or you would so that they didn't have a
phone number.
Speaker 3: No, not yet. The phone number came later, and so
I got And also like paper views were like this
outlandish price of like twenty five dollars or something, right,
So my parents are like, well, we can't get everyone.
So they got me. They got Summer Slam because that
was like our first opportunity to get one, and then
I got Wrestlemaning because it's like, well, I gotta get
WrestleMania and then we still had the box and my dad,
my hero, was like, well, it's only twenty bucks, we
can we can get the first in your House. So
I did. I did watch the first in Your House,
which had a very good Brett Hart Haukushi match.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I ended up on some of the
Brett Hart DVDs. Yeah, I think In Your House was
one of the and WCWL try Thing had more paper
views at the time, but In your House, in my mind,
was one of the first pay per views. I'm kind
of like, huh, this is we got to be a
bit too much here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it was like every month now and it
really did change it like sped up like how fast
like programs could had to go.
Speaker 2: And I think that, in conjunction with the change in
TV with and how matches will put on TV, cause
irrevocable damage to how professional wrestling is viewed.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I do think, well, I mean I do think
they you could not survive today with just like the
four or five system, but I do think probably like well,
I think eight would probably suffice. Yeah, it'd be hard, Yeah,
just to peak, you know, peak your programs like once
every six weeks.
Speaker 2: Long. Story short, the reason why we've got to get
into history of in Your House is because the show
or doing today is in our House. Jersey Championship Wrestling,
which took place on July twenty sixth, twenty twenty six
from Ritual Park, New Jersey. The show is available on
Triller TV. The first hour available on YouTube now.
Speaker 3: Just as a this will be a fateful comment I make,
but the first thing I wrote after, like on my notes,
after the title, was like they should just call this
show Mason versus Bronson. Yeah, so in like hype because
like the IP listeners in particular will know, like I
was super hyped for this show because Bear Bronson versus
Charles Mason, this is like kind of like a torch
Coast to coast or wrestling coast to coast, like dream match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we cover so just to give some background for
the daily castles, as we covered Terry Yaki versus Charles Mason,
Charles Mason is the JC Lewy champion. Plan to match
Julien covered from VIP Charles Mason won, and Gabby Forester
came out trying to get a tile shop. They actually
showed this clip here, parts of it and then Bear
Bronson made the save, and they've been you challenged them
to a match. They've been hopping this match. You know,
we've covered two GCW shows recently and they aired the
video package, So in our mind this was a one
match show. We were all along the ride for the
other matches, but we're focusing on that match, so we'll
keep that in mind. Commentators with MLJ, he is joined
by a cast of character as the show goes on.
Speaker 3: This is also like production wise, I felt a mistake
because MLJ is also the ring announcer, so like he
has to like leave the desk to go like do
ring announcing, and so there'd be like big like just
like blank spaces where you know he's like walking back
to his desk or whatever, which is really weird and
like a couple of times like you need the announcer
to like highlight a like an important or seemingly important
angle going on, and there was like nobody there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know, you know, sometimes it depends
the shows and people can't make it or other circumstances.
Speaker 3: H Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: They got Alec Price to come out and do stuff later. Yeah,
he's very hit or missed, but at least he would
have been there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'd be helpful to have another just
to be that continuity because one part of the show,
which is funny, there were in the in the in
the Professional wrest of the World, there were two segments
that were panned. I don't know if you saw both
of them or either of them.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen the panning, I did not actually see.
Speaker 2: Either one was the Mick Foley was the aw the
Dominion segment, which when I saw I actually texted Torch
Contrbuder rich fan and asked him did this actually air
on the pay per view? He said yes. And the
other ish segment that was a disaster was the Dan
House and Joe Hendry concert. Not a sign that involved
Ryan Garcia, who has a lot of issues and questionable,
has a lot of questionable things that you know, really
annoy people that he's on the show. But the segment
thisself was pretty bad and we had we had a
segment on the show from an independent level, I felt
on that level of badness, if that's the word. Yeah. Anyway,
before the opening match, MLJ announced that they will be
giving out a house during the show which if you
were called back to nineteen ninety five, that was one
of the claims of the first in Your House that
the w would be giving out a house. Yes, the
opening match was Marcus Mathers versus Leeds Lewis.
Speaker 3: The crowd chanstars.
Speaker 2: That's right, the crowd chanted USA when the match began
because Lee's Lewis is from France, so clearly he Lewis
is kind of like, really, guys, I mean, okay, he
had the look Lewis as the rest is only about
thirty five matches, they said on commentary.
Speaker 3: And we've seen three of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's interesting that he's on GC's w's radar as
someone that is from another country.
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Speaker 2: As a noted earlier, MLJ announced that this match at
the first hour of the show I ended up being
The first three matches are available on YouTube see dot CV.
You can watch them there. Mathers and Lewis fought on
the top rope. Lewis was able to hit a bulldog
off the top rope and hit a moon Salt onto
Mathers on the outside to count. Lewis went for split
legging Moonsalt, but Mathers got his knee up Matthis went
for a move but Lewis for first INTENSI. Matheris kicked
out and Lewis rolled up Mathers two more times and
was able to only get two counts. They both ran
the ropes and Mathers Lewis hit him with the death
five driver. Mathers went to the top rope and hit
the four to fifty fort the win. So Marcus Mathers
is your winner in ten minutes and twenty six seconds.
And some stuff happened after or then after the match,
but before we get to that, justin your thoughts on
the opening contest.
Speaker 3: So it was very it felt to me like they
were told they had ten minutes and Mathers was winning,
so he gave Leeds like he gave him a ton
of offense, like probably gave him like seventy five percent
of the match, it felt like, and he basically this
is my imaginary conversation, but he told Leads he could
do anything he wanted. So Leeds tried to do basically
every move he knew in that time. It was like
he struggled in places he had like this is Lee's
is He had one like pretty big slip up and
there were some times he like hesitated or looked kind
of awkward. But I thought, like Mathers, you know, kind
of held it together very well. A lot of it.
The first like probably three quarters felt kind of like
I said, felt paint by numbers, but like it really
did pick up in the last two minutes, and I
thought was pretty good by the end. You know, this
Leads guy, they like you said, they've been like they
brought him an excursion after like a month's worth of matches.
So like, if you consider like his level of experience,
he is really really good at this point. So I
can only imagine that they will you be using him more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's I think he's gonna be I'm interesting to
see if he's on a visa or here for sponsored
by a school, or how he's here for so long,
But we looking to that. Next this showed highlights for
Mathers versus Cappuccino, Joe's and Tulsa and Tulsa to the
would be id Products match. Mathers challenge Aby Styles. He
could have proposely never wrestle Aj Styles so he can
wrestle Avery Styles. They challenged him to a match at
Rude Awakening, is taking place next weekend the couple coming
weekend in Minneapolis. My only detriment of this was that
MLJ mentioned this at the end of the Mathers lead
Lewis match before this promo aired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems unnecessary. I'm like, I'm really curious to
see what Aj styles son looks like. So I don't know,
we might end up doing that for VIP.
Speaker 2: He might. I think it's very interesting for him to
be in that spotlight. I mean, I'm sure Aj Styles
is aware of, you know, Mathers from wid I'm sure
he was a hand picked opponent, but it's interesting for
him to have a match with this kind of Spotlight
one of the major independents, so yeah, we might have
to cover that match on VIP. The next match is
my Skyros Versusustin Waller. We talked about Waller being a
heel and beyond wrestling, definitely a heel. Here the crowds
behind Skyros. Waller hit a kick and the crowd booed heavily.
He charged the Skyros in the corner, but Skyro's got
out of the way. Skyro's is the clothes line. Waller
had spas turnbuckle, followed by a springboard cutter Walard and
an arrogant pin and Skyro's kicked out. He missed a
kick and Skyro's was able to hit one, and Skyros
hit a leaping DDT off the ropes for the wind
So Mike Skyro's babyface win in eight minutes and twenty
six seconds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt bad for saying this, but Skyros had
this like this, like I guess like skull face paint
on that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was very It felt like an indie gimmick guy
saw like twenty five years ago, you know, like it
seemed very dated. He was built at first as the
Midnight Sun, which there's a pop song by a Swedish
performer called Zara Larson called Midnight Sun where she like whales,
and honestly, if he had come out to that song,
it would have been hilarious. But he came out to
like this generic emo rock and then it turned out
that EMLJ had made a mistake and he's actually the
Moonlight Sun, which is honestly an even worse nickname, so
I don't love the gimmick. The match match was okay.
The crowd though, and they they have like it was
like Vegas. They had like a very late arriving crowd
before this JCW show for some reason. I guess they're like, ah,
we can skip the YouTube pre show. But the building
was not very full and it was very dead at
this point. Unfortunately. I was really I did not acpect
Skyris to win it all. I guess, you know Waller,
But then I was like, oh, Waller doesn't really appear
in like the GCW slash JCW world all that often.
I'm just used to him being like a megastar in
Wrestling Open and kind of the IWTV world. So I
mean there's a couple of times I'm like, oh, it
really took me by surprise how people are positioned on
this show because I watched a lot of IWTV, But
I I don't know. I thought the match was just
kind of plodding, Like there was lots of back and
forth and like good enough moves, but it was no great,
no great flow to it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I don't know, is the is the thinking, like, is
Skyris going to get some kind of like j CW
slash GW push out of this or I mean, I've
never seen him on the GCW show before, but it
seemed like j CW is kind of like an entryway
for a lot of people, so perhaps we'll be back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my assumption was and this wasn't the only match
that falls in this category. But there are some matches
where I think people are just putting to get wins. Yeah,
potential future storylines or future angles or future title shots.
But you know, the they weren't necessarily squash matches, but
there are some here that were pretty pretty clear who
was gonna win.
Speaker 3: So wait, did you think Skyris was gonna win?
Speaker 2: I thought so. I thought that belt he was a
I felt like someone like Waller unless something changed, I
didn't see him as winning this because I feel like
they've they've never really booked they booked him a few times,
w they haven't really used them prominently.
Speaker 3: See I guess yeah. Like to me, I'm I'm just
so used to like Miracle Generation being a big deal.
But that's in like the iw TV.
Speaker 2: World Highs were shown from the tag team title match,
who covered last week between Busting the Brain and kJ
Orso and Sam Stackhouse where Hook came in and made
the save and leading to Busting the Brain retaining the
the tag team titles, which again sets up the next match,
which is the Game CHANGERR Wrestling Tag Team Championship. Bust
In the Brain, Alec Pryce and join Oliver your champions
versus Control Chaos, Kid Chaos and Paper Juice. We have
not seen Control Chaos before their father and son team.
They're a team that wrestled primarily in New Jersey and
are getting a chance on the show. I listened to
Lance Storm on Wrestling Observer Live today talk about match
lengths and when he said that, I thought about Dismatch
in particular, not that it was a bad match, but
it went almost It went seventeen and a half minutes
for a match in which we pretty much knew who
was going to win. Busting's the Brain win for an
assistant ascid bomb of Control Chaos escape in total elimination
for two count. I love total elimination as a move,
happy to see it. Both teams went to make tags
and decided to square off from the ring, which kind
of negated the whole pack that they've been attacked in
the first place. Busting the Brain in a double cross
body for two count of control Chaos try to break
up a Price on the flip, but Jordan was able
to break the whole of the team and Price rolled
up Chaos for the win. That's kids, kid Chaos. He's
the kid obviously, as the team SI so busting the brake.
Excuse me, all your winners. In seventeen minutes and twenty
three seconds after the match, Price said there are not
too many teams that could give them that much of
a challenge, acknowledged Controlled Chaos. They all hugged and shook hands.
Busting the Brain left so that Control Chaos could soak
up some cheers. Again. I liked the match, but very
long for a match with a pretty assumed outcome. Busting
the Brain your winners retaining DUC Taxing Championships in seventeen
minutes and twenty three seconds.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the match, like you, It was probably
too long. I think part of it they were trying
to pad out to the very near the end of
their YouTube our like pre show because this ran into like,
I think the fifty five minutes of the of that show.
So it was just enough to like, I guess, wait
your whistle. I I did question the wisdom of like
indie wise, like Busting the Brain are probably like fairly
big big stars I think, And so I was like, well,
would you really want to put them on the pre show?
I can see the merit both ways, like either put
them on the pre shows kind of like a way
to draw people in to watch the pre show, or
would you like hold them off to the actual Triller
portion to draw people over to actually trying to buy
Chiller Plus.
Speaker 2: Well, this was technically I guess with them when they
were saying it was not a pre show, it was
actually the first third of the show.
Speaker 3: So is the pre Yeah, it was like ww's previous
until this week set up on ESPN. Yes, but I
mean it's still pre I don't know, like, don't get
lost in terminology. It's still like a way to entice
people to buy the rest of your show. Yes, So
I don't know if it was wise to use Bustering
the Brain in that position or if keeping them off
is the better way to like entice people, but it
you know, and just have like a promo. I don't
know if they're big enough stars for that to matter
or not. Yeah, So, like, as I was saying, I
like the match. At one point busting the brain, they
did this move. They teased like they were going to
do a double flapjack on Papa Juice, but then they
flipped him forward into a double spinebuster. We've talked a
lot about their unfortunate double styles clash move that we
don't like, and I think I was like, this actually
would have been a better finisher for them to, like
the double like a high angle revolving double spinebuster. I
thought what was actually been cooler. They did not even
attempt the double styles clash in this match, I did think.
So I actually have thought a lot about the finish
of the match, which, like you said, it was basically
Price is trying to subset flip Kid Chaos. Juice grabs
his son's hands, but Oliver literally like dives onto the
hands to break it up and Price gets the pin,
and like, it's not a bad finish in theory, but
I think it was the wrong finish for this team
in this match because it's a kind of finish like
since we're talking about like, it reminded me it was
kind of like similar to the way the Rockers meet
the Orient Express at Roller Rumbo nineteen ninety one, which
involved like Sean Michaels was getting splung shot into one
of the Orient Express members, but Martin Gannetti punched the
guy in the stomach and Sean was able to flip
over and do him give him a sunset flip. It's
a really incredible finish actually, but it worked in part
because the Rockers were like this little team and they're
always fighting from underneath, so they can when they pull
out like this slick move, you're it like it seems
like a big win, but well, Buster in the Brain
are not like physically imposing. They're like the GCW tagting champs.
They're like these wrong long raining champs. They've beaten all
kinds of teams much bigger than them, and then you know, uh,
Control Chaos are are just like these underdog teams getting
a shot. So like if they had done that victory,
you know, it'd be like, okay, they had to like
fight from underneath and got the win anyway they could.
But it's like Buster in the Brain are already like
way way established in GCW, so for them to do
that It's not like it just felt it wasn't like
out of the character. It just felt like very anti climactic,
And there's a way better finisher they actually did earlier,
where see Papa Juice had kidks on his shoulders to
do like flip him over into a splash on Oliver,
but Price like instead ran up the ropes and ended
up giving chaos like his flying blockbuster move from there.
And I was like, that would have been a way
better finish because it would have been that you know,
the Challengers were just looking good and then it was
just unfortunately they got outsmarted by the superior Champions, and
I think it would have been more exciting that way. So,
I mean, it's a long winded kind of psychology I
was thinking about with this match. So yeah, like I said,
I think it was a good finish, but it probably
was not the right finish for this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I mean this is a match where
I know you don't cover HW Jason very often, but
I'm kind of like, Okay, after this match, what is
next for this team? Because they had this type of
match against the champions, and so what what are you
doing next with them?
Speaker 3: Something that well, it speaks to like a bigger problem
with like what is you know, what is j c
W like trying to accomplish and how and what is
its relation with GCW. If there are like separate j
CW titles, You're like, Okay, well, these guys they had
this big win against the big City champs, but and
they lost. But now they can you know, get a
moral victory and go against like the j CW tag titles.
But those don't exist. And there's actually like a more
egregious case of this later in the show too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to that. A lot of greed ingregious
cases on this show. Next, we have highlights from Tussa
and Tulsa where it leads Lewis team with Bust of
the Brain. They got the victory. Sam Stackhouse came out
attacked their opponents, not sure who they were. This allowed
kJ or So to attack Lewis and Busting the Brain
with the Kendlestick. He held them down and challenged Busting
the Brain to a rematch him and Stackhouse for the
GCW Texan titles at GCW Homecoming coming up at the
end of August.
Speaker 3: I was livid. I was like, are you kidding?
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 3: We were so excited about the first title match, and
you suckered us into watching that whole show and I
was like, oh no, really I watched his other one.
Speaker 2: Yes, especially because the heat the baby faces cheat of
the heels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know, like you would think like
Orso and Stackhouse have to win this time. But again, like,
it's I think politically hard for Busting the Brain to
lose because they're aw talent. And also if Orso's like
got a w or WW tryout, he may not be
around for very much longer, so they may not want
to put the titles on him for that reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I'll know how to try out. That
tryout went well, Yeah, come again. The uh next match
was CPA versus Slade, which we saw a few weeks
ago and at the GCW show in July fourth. We
enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a lot of fun because they just
they brawled all over the stands. It was not it
was hardly like an actual match, but it was just
them like doing goofy spots in the baseball bleachers.
Speaker 2: Slade grabbed the mic and criticized someone in the crowd,
which is odd but not part of the show. I
thought Slave was that gimmick was that he didn't talk.
That was just when he's in beyond. CPA comes out
to feels like a woman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Slave did like commentary on the VIP match we
covered with the Bear Bronson Richard Holiday match. Yes, and
there's more commentary from Slade to come.
Speaker 2: There was more CPA comes out that feels like a
woman by Shania Twain, which I had not realize before. Yes,
they showed Amy Rose for some reason, has a ring
announced ring bell person to ring the ring bell. For
some reason, they show her struggling to get the ring
table to the corner, even though it wasn't there before
and not there for any other match. Slade uses distraction
to chuck slam CPA. He yelled ut Rose to ring
the bell. CPA had a dropkick on Slade and had
trouble getting up. The crowd went silent. He was playing
with his hands. Slade picked CPA and put him in
the corner. The ref called for the bell. Looked like
he was injured, so the Slade won due to rest
hours in six minutes and eight seconds. CPA sorry. Slade
argued with Amy Rose that she did ring the bell,
then took the bell and hit CPA with the bell
in the head and he grabbed Amy Rose, made her
ring the bell, kissed her on the forehead, and went
to the commentary booth. This was a cluster. I made
the reference earlier about a segment that was up there
with the mc foley and the Joe Hendry dan Housen
sketch from earlier this week. This is an independent level
of that. It was just an absolute disaster. It didn't
make any sense. I don't know where it's going. I
have no idea why they did that, you know, putting
things subtly in the ring to have this random angle
makes no sense. I hated it, but justin what are
your thoughts?
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree that this match was a disaster. I
so this is early the first part with Amy Rose
moving her ring bell or timekeeper's table close to the
ring obviously like signaled an angle coming, but also with
something where you needed an announcer to at least try
to like fill in what the heck was going on.
But again like there's no secondary announcer in MLJ's walking
from the ring back to his table, so he can't
say anything so we're just kind of left watching it
and puzzling. I don't know, it looked to me like
the CPA's like had a at least a feared shoot
concussion just because the ending came out of nowhere. I
don't know if they were trying to do a work
shoot or I mean, it felt like a shoot just
because of the awkwardness of the ending. But if that
was the case, there's no way in heck that Slade
should like even pretend to hit him with the ring
bell like he did after that, So I mean, somebody
should have if they really did stop the matches the
idea was a concussion, then they should have been, like
somebody should have got worried, like, do not do this
angle or I don't common sense should tell you to
not do this angle. So I hope. I'm just like
they did a really good job of making it look
like an awkward shoot ref stoppage to pull it off,
which I mean, you can argue the merits of doing
that anyway. But if that, if he actually did have
a suspected like head injury, then like they handled it
like in the completely wrong way, so that whole thing
was terrible.
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Speaker 2: Next, they showed highlights from Melee and Manchester. We covered
this last week. Someone in a mask attacked Anakin Murphy.
This was a scramble match and Charles Mason won by
pinning Garby Forza. After the match, after match, sorry, Mason
kept attacking Forza and Baron Bronson made the save. Slade
went to the commentary booth after the match. He's still
there for the next match between Leo Sparrow versus Garby
Florza for Ultimatum fans. I watched the Ultimatum season four
Leo Sparrow. I saw that he looks kind of like
this guy killing on that show, one of the trashy
reality TV shows that I watched with my wife. The
crowd was behind Florza and against Sparrow. Forza hit a
spear for a two count for as A followed up
with a tilta roll slam for a two count. Forsa
picked Sparrow up with Sparrow escaped and grabbed a hand
full of I thought it was spinach, but they said
it was Kay. I'm not quite sure. Hope wasn't let
us yeah Forza. If it was, then he would have won.
Forza grabbed him by the foot and pulled him closer
to her. She lived him up, but he escaped and
threw spinach into her face. He had a double underhookd
DDT for a one count. Forza holked up in a clothesline,
followed with the fire thunder driver, the finisher of bear
Brons and her husband for the win. So Gabby Forlorza,
motivated by roughage, is your winner in twelve minutes and
twelve seconds.
Speaker 3: So I mean slave like you said, Slave was on
commentary kind of hilarious in his own way. They have
the you know it starts Sparrow and Forza do a
lock up, and so he goes good, strong, walk up, great,
this is good to be boring, and like he just
complains about being bored during like when they go through
the whole like you know, training headlocks kind of spots.
Later on, he's like, this guy mean Leo Sparrow came
out with let this or something on his head. He's
just an idiot. And he actually noted when like Sparrow
shoved the lettuce in Gabby's mouth, you know that there
was a parasite going around and it could be really dangerous.
So I thought it was pretty funny. Actually it probably
improved the match a lot of ways. You know, we
got some good power stuff from Gabby. Uh and it
really did seem to wake the crowd up. There's a
lot more people there for starters, but and they are
like really really into Gabby for at this point. So
I think, you know, very much a credit to her.
She did some she did some good power stuff, Like
she like presses Leo just very casually and throws him down.
I was Gabby took enough of the match. I was
really worried that she was going to lose again, especially
after like Mason Head, Charles Mason had harped on her
losing a lot previously, and it was like, this is
some weird backwards way to get her a title shot.
But nope, she just won and actually it's pretty dominant
in doing so. So I was I mean, I was
grad that I thought, based on how much of the
matching took in this match was a little too long
and just felt like they were kind of trying to
drag things out to get it into twelve minutes. But
at the end, like it achieved getting Gabby over, so
that was it achieved its purpose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another match with someone who hasn't really appeared that
much in JCW, buck could against someone who's been on
the show quite a bit, so again kind of telegraphing
how that was going to go. Highlights of the feud
between Christian Naprier and Viprus, which again, as we talked
about last week pre lengthy it's kind of engulfed GCW
with the Vandal forty eight and there was a match
in the Cowboy Way made a SI and there was fire,
and then Vipress came out of the I guess from
the hospital. I was able to attack Napier and Cowboy
Ways Team one, and Viprus challenged Napier to a match
at homecoming called a Chola chain match. Justin What is
a chola chain match?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, it's one of those things
where it's a regular chain match, but they add an
adjective to it and add like it's somehow different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a first time match, they said in GCW,
So we first time.
Speaker 3: I think I've ever heard of one anywhere.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so, and chain matches can be very difficult
to work for reasons, you know, having me changed to
someone as hard to hit the moves.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean you could expect gore. Hopefully it's
a like it's still like a pin fall chain match
and not like the four corners ones. Those are never
really very good.
Speaker 2: The next match is the starting lineup Don Freese, Elvi Gigante, Elevajonte,
Jermaine Marbury, Nylon Brooks in a rock versus the Washington Generals,
Chatting Decker, Donovan, Stevenstets and Tarzan Durham and Vinnie Talada
so you know, we have to explain references sometimes justin
being the fact that we are men in our mid forties.
To do people still know about the Harlem Glowtrotters.
Speaker 3: I think so yes, because I mean the Harlem Lofrid
a still tour. They come to Dayton every year. I
saw them, Now it was several years ago, but it
was like pre COVID that I haven't seen them recently recently.
Speaker 2: I saw them once as a kid. It's something you
would take, could take the kids too. But they are
traveling basketball teams. Justin noted. They do tricks and other
exciting moves, dunks, flying things. No matter where they go,
they win. I think they've lost one game maybe two
in their history. And their opponents are the Washington Generals.
So when I see a match with one of the
teams called the Washington Generals, I know how it's going.
And I had assumed this was the match of for
intermission or after intermission. There was no internation.
Speaker 5: It was not the.
Speaker 2: Jermaine Marbury hit Donovan with some leather roll movements and
hit a cutter for the win. So the starting lineup
was your winner. In seventeen minutes and thirty one seconds. Yeah,
this was.
Speaker 3: It was also seventeen minutes, yes, which was it wasn't
that bad because you did have ten people in it,
but it still seemed like geez, I think probably, you know,
twelve or thirteen probably would have been enough. The Washington
General's I'm like pretty sure came out to vaders WCW team.
Speaker 2: I think it did.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, they did not explain why there was a
Harlem Globe Charters theme going on. Although this is another
case where if you watch too much itv IWTV or
like why Steven Stetson on the job or team?
Speaker 2: But I thought that too when they like were lined
up like he there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, but you know, like we're not on
IWT TV right now.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: Alec Price was on commentary. He was actually, okay, is
way better than last week. Uh, and he sort of
explained this is like the next generation of the GCW
in a kind of like approving ground match for them,
which makes sense.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I thought everybody kind of got
the chance to do their stuff, and we got some
really good people like Barton, I wrote, even though there's
no Barton, I had did like this amazingly high drop
kick who did. I mean, it must have been Brooks.
Speaker 2: Brooks.
Speaker 3: Brooks had like this amazingly high drop kick where he
basically hit the top of this guy's head. Don Freeze
is kind of a large fellow who they got to
make some cold jokes about, like saying he's a pretty
chill dude, but he actually like did a lot of
like very athletic aerial stuff. I think was impressive. Tarzan
Duran and Vegio or via Jhante work together a lot.
It seems like they actually like do work together a lot,
but they I thought were very impressive. Did a lot
of like high flying stuff. The Vigonte's kind of a
small guy, but he really really like wiled the crowd.
So the match was a lot of fun. Several guys
got to shine, Like we've liked Marberry for a while
also in IWTV, so you know, I think a lot
of these guys could definitely come back and be used
in JCW.
Speaker 2: The reason why I yelled about the latter movement is
because Jermaine Marbrade the dream Shake name that you listen
to a couple of podcasts, you don't know where that
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Speaker 2: The Next Mattress Griffin McCoy versus Kylie Alexa, Kylie Alexa,
hit a few moves here and there, McCoy had most
of the offense. He had a super plex he was
going for poor Alexa reversus into a pin for two count.
All th uss were done. Let's McCoy with a bunch
of slaps, but he took her down with one. Then
jockey for position and McCoy hit a Tiger suplex eighty
five followed by jumping kick off the top rope for
a win from McCoy. Is your winner in eight minutes
and thirty six seconds. Comparis mentioned that this may position
him for a future j CW title match. I assumed
that was the purpose of this match. Other than that,
I don't know the purpose it served. You're from McCoy
your winner in eight thirty six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was another match. WHE was like, it was fine.
There was some good visuals because McCoy was much bigger
than Kylie and able to toss her around. He did,
and he did like an a dominal stretch and then
grabbed her other leg to kind of pull her into
a splits while doing the move, which I don't think
I've ever seen before, and I thought that was really
interesting and cool. This was another match. It just it
felt like they were doing a lot of moves. But
it kind of lacked and lacked in flow. It was
just like Kylie would do something to McCoy and then
McCoy would do something to Kylie, and it didn't like
feel particularly well. At one point, Kylie had like the
worst looking slaps I've ever seen that. She slapped like
someone who has never seen a person slap before. She
kept her arms totally straight for the whole swing, like
like an inverted windmill almost. So I don't don't know
why she thought that would be a good slap, you know,
as if the match is there to build up McCoy,
then I think it served its purpose.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, next we had all this is actually when
they gave Way the house. Yes, they mentioned watch the
first they had a video package setting up the next match,
actually just showing Junior Underwood wrestling Alec Price, Alec Price winning,
and then Junior Underwood getting a pep talk from Mike Bailey.
Speaker 3: Yes, so remember that's important. Later because Bailey came out
and even though Junior lost, he said, like Genius is
getting started. This is like his breakout match and he's
ready to go. Mike Bailey said that another like it's
getting ridiculous too, like and I know, like, of course
you can't lose to like people signed the big companies,
but like you got it, we need less breakout matches
where people lose.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's what my pet peeves, because the real
I mean you you break out from winning, like there
can a few times.
Speaker 3: I mean they're you know, it's not a hard and
fast rule, but it's like now it's like always the case.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the thing about it as well as
a couple of things. One the example people always make
is Steve Austin losing to Brett Hart at Survivor Series
ninety six and then subsequently resuming at thirteen. Though in
my mind, if not for what happens Montreal, Steve Boston
would have like beaten Brett Harward, Steve Watson won the
title and the eight that probably definitely happened, So then
it would have be looked at that way because it
would have been setting up a feud. But yeah, I mean,
you you get over by winning. I mean you can
lose eventually, we get to a certain point, but you
can only have so many, you know, moral victories. So
they did have a giveaway when they gave away a house,
and everyone looked under their chair and grabbed a piece
of paper and a kid won it, and the house
was like a bluey house actually very similar to the
house we got our youngest daughter for her birthday earlier.
Speaker 3: That's nice.
Speaker 5: I mean, I.
Speaker 3: I assume this was a setup, like and the kid
was always going to win.
Speaker 2: I hope so, but you know, maybe the kid wouldn't
want the blue house. Who knows.
Speaker 3: I mean, I assumed he was like a guy that
a kid they knew or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: It was a you know, I don't know what was
it was.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 3: It was kind of weird, but also just felt like
I didn't know the whole story.
Speaker 2: So the next match was Junie Underwood versus Ryan O'Neill.
They've been a tag team and certain parts in j
c W, but there here on the opposite side of
the fence. As Justin mentioned, Mike Bailey gave my horse
that led him to a great victor up He got
hit with this with a kick to the head and
a leverage pin, and Ryan O'Neil won in ten minutes
and fifty seven seconds. The crowd had for them to
hug it out. They shook hands and hogs, but I
feel there's more to come here, all right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean I hope. So there was at least somewhat tease
the animosity. Alec Price, who is one of the trainers
for both these guys, he was on commentary and he
he says like Ryan like broke this this bro code
by going for a headshot when they were you know,
not doing that up to that point, which I don't
know if he just like added his own storyline or what,
but he did at least tease some animosity.
Speaker 2: I do think.
Speaker 3: It's like, I mean, I just somewhat flabbergasted honestly by
this booking, Like why would you have Mike Bailey put
this guy over? And then he loses again. He doesn't
even lose to a star, like you know, he loses
to another guy like exactly on his level, like he's
in the same training class as him. So I was like, what, why,
why did you bother to tell us JUNI was anything
at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you're gonna do that, have him
lose to as you mentioned, someone more established or someone
because now it just looks like he's just not very good.
Speaker 3: He really if Mike Bailey's gonna come out and give
a guy a pep talk like that, then the guy
really should win his next match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would that would make sense.
Speaker 3: That this is like, I mean, this is I'm like,
what do you do with him here? Unless see, I
guess he could get like super frustrated and turn heel.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, that that was my assumption that he
you know, he can accept kind of losing to Alex Price,
that's his trainer. But you know, he lost to his
tag team partner, and that's gonna make him maybe change
his approach. Yeah, but again, you know, we're we're fantasy
booking on the fly here. Hopefully they actually show that storyline.
Mm hmm. Next, we had basically a detailed video explaining
how we got to the main event. As Justin and
I mentioned, when we first heard about this match about
a month ago, we were highly anticipating it. And here
we are the JCW Championship. Charles Mason is your champion,
defending against Baron Bronson. Charles Mason comes out, he gives
this really long promo talking about that he's going to
be a champion. H he's a Leavers champion. I was
kind of suspicious because he came out first and the
champion very rarely comes up first.
Speaker 3: Well at first. He also said that Bear Bronson was
not there. Yes, that's true, and that he said Bronson
had a back injury.
Speaker 2: So yes, Mary keithle So I thought maybe Bronson was
attacked in the back or something, or he'd come out limping. No,
it came out with the trash can. Yeah, I didn't
notice a limp. I'd assume he didn't have one.
Speaker 3: No, but I do based on what happened, I wonder
if he really did have a back injury.
Speaker 2: They end up brawling on the outside for several minutes.
Bronson ended up shoving Mace's head into the ring post,
and but finally they get back in the ring. The
crowds really excited, we're gonna have a We're finally having
the match started, end up fighting and Slave ran in
for the disqualification at one minute and fifteen seconds, sorry,
thirteen seconds. He hit Bronson with a chair and they
beat up Bronson. They close line the referee. Everyone's cheering
for Gabby. Forza takes a lot. I thought took a
while to get out there. By finally you get out
there and attacked Mason. But they're overwhelmed by Slade and Mason.
They duct taped Gabby to the ropes, and Mason got
a bunch of plyers and cut off their wedding rings
and put them on and taunted them, and then Slade
hit ronson with the chair and that was pretty much it.
So Bear Bronson is your winner. In one minute and
thirteen seconds, he does not become the new JCW champion.
And I assume the match that we were looking forward
to is just a setup for a tag team match.
Angle well, I mean I hope it's.
Speaker 3: Yes, they'll they'll do a tag team match for sure,
but maybe they'll also hopefully they come back to this match.
I guess I wonder if Bear really does have a
hurt back, because it just seemed to like come out
of nowhere and they brawled a lot. But Bear really
didn't do anything that would I think be overly hard
on his back. You know, you didn't really. I don't
think he threw any like soup flexes or slams.
Speaker 2: He didn't.
Speaker 3: I mean mostly it was just like a lot of
punching and kind of throwing people around by their heads
so they were in into things. So trying to give
him a little wheelay that Okay, you know, maybe it
was hurt. So this was the best they could do,
was just this like try to do like a crazy
ten minute ish brawl without you know, actually being the match.
It's like, darn if I had not had my expectations raised.
This was actually like a pretty good angle, I think,
like to attack this married couple and steal their wedding rings.
It's like kind of like a crazy Charles Mason Engle.
Speaker 2: So did you did you hope those were like their
fake rings? Oh?
Speaker 3: I hope they were fake rings. Yeah, But I was
also like, why do you need flyers?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 3: Like mine pops off all the time?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, like I'll just like spin
it around her stuff. I hope. Yeah, I really really
hope those were not their real rings. That's that's a
that's a level of realism you don't need to take.
Speaker 2: Admit it.
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Speaker 2: My thing is, if he can't, why didn't they have
him like attacked in the back. Why didn't they do
like I don't know, like why start the match? Then?
I mean, you could have had the same angle that Bronxon.
You could have done all those things and not have
them wrestle. Say he attacked them to the back, maybe
Slade carried him out, carries him out there or something,
and they never have a match because of it. I
just feel like.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I would didn't even matter. I was like, at
least we got something, I guess, but I had to
do this whole show and they didn't even like and
they see like a brawl of that. Oh my gosh,
we've been kicked off the Daily The Torch Daily Cast
Network for my profanity seven.
Speaker 2: Thinking about it is but if you're not but if
you're not gonna have a match, because ultimately you're not
having a match, isn't it better to have a full angle?
Because to me, it's like, why didn't again, why didn't
Slade run out there and attack him any from the beginning?
Like why did he wait until they got in the ring?
What if you know, Bron had the best the better
of Mason for a lot of that. What if Brons
ended up knocking him out or something? Yeah, I mean
that's that's that's that's the part for me, that's the struggle. Yeah,
because I mean, I guess I.
Speaker 3: Think their idea is we can't really do this match,
but we've we've advertised, what is it kind of a
big match? So well, at least they're trying to give
the fans something. Yeah, really, you know, if it's a
bad you know, a bad situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I get that. I totally get that it's
better than it's better than, but nothing. But I just
feel like, if you're gonna do an angle, I guess
in my mind, I guess just kind of a person
if you're gonna do an angle anyway, and you're not
gonna do a match, because the thought process is this
match can end at any time. If you don't do
these things, you might as well just have it be
pure angle.
Speaker 3: I think my other problem is it's like almost exactly
like what's going on with Vipress and the Savage Gnomes
and Vandal forty eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I guess with the Vipress because the only
thing I was like, because Cowboy Way War involves maybe
they're not an Anakin Murphy's been involved, so maybe in
their mind they don't see this entirely. Like the Savage
Gnomes are only involved certain moments, they're not involved in
the entire feud. I mean maybe, yeah, grasping for straws here,
but like they it's also I mean, it's.
Speaker 3: All like, you know, somebody gets tied. It's it's like
somebody's tied in the ropes in like a man terrorizing
a woman like it's very very similar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, that was the show ended. Jessey Champions
Wrestling in Our House available on Triller TV. The first
hour available on YouTube. As Justin and I mentioned earlier,
we were really looking forward to one match on the show.
That match didn't really happen for whatever reason. Hopefully they
revisited later on. I feel like you spent a lot
of time building up this match, and they had promos
on the two j c W shows we watched the
two proious weekends. You want more from it. But other
than that really putting that bach aside, the rest of
the show was kind of lack luster. You had some
matches that were glorified squash matches, matches that went too long,
and a lot of questions in my mind of where
h j c W is going next.
Speaker 3: I guess to me, I was very disappointed. But it's
also a big question of like what is j CW
like even supposed to be, you know, like it's it's
sort of like GCW's like minor League, but they still
use I mean a tremendous they still share like a
lot of the same talent and a lot of like
all the main guys still just wrestle on GCW. Anyway,
It's not really a feeder system. It just seems like
like it's it's very reminiscent of like Ring of Honor.
Is it's just like kind of like auxiliary and you know,
occasionally like the big guys get brought up to like GCW,
but they you storylines. But it's because you don't call
it GCW. It draws like a couple hundred people to
this like one room in New Jersey, Like why not?
Speaker 5: Like what? What?
Speaker 3: Why is it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Why not just have more j c you know, why
not just make it a GCW show or why do
you even need it at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And I feel, to be fair, that's kind of
a new phenomenon. I don't feel that GCW, sorry j
CW back in the day or when we covered it
more last year was like that. I felt that it
was a different it was a different promotion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's much more division.
Speaker 2: Is it the same because it's the same weekend as
other shows in the area or other shows going on,
they couldn't get certain wrestlers. I'm not quite sure. I
wonder you know, they have another show coming. I think
Labor Day weekend. So I'm you know, I don't know
if we're going to cover that show or not, but
I'm very interested to see what the card it is,
just to see what the follow up from this might be,
because I feel like there are a lot of questions
that need to be answered. Yes, I agree, but again,
if you want to watch that show, it is available
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