Speaker 1: Tonight was the Thanksgiving Eve episode of AW Dynamite. Turkey
Speaker 1: Day is almost here. Getting ready for all that food.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a headache just thinking about it. I have
Speaker 1: two Thanksgiving feasts on Thursday and Friday. I'm already dreading.
Speaker 1: I'm already dreading all the food I'm gonna be eating.
Speaker 1: But before we got there, we had Dynamite Tonight coming
Speaker 1: out of Full Gear, and as we are heading into
Speaker 1: the month of December, it is also the beginning of
Speaker 1: the Continental Classic. I believe this is the third year
Speaker 1: in a row that they are doing this tournament, and
Speaker 1: tonight was almost entirely dedicated to the Continental Classic. We
Speaker 1: had a whole series of matches here with one women's
Speaker 1: tag team titled Tournament Match sprinkled in along with a
Speaker 1: Samoa Joe promo. Having just beat Hangman Page to win
Speaker 1: the AW World Championship at Full Gear, it only made
Speaker 1: sense that we would hear from Joe here on this show.
Speaker 1: I don't like how we got no explanation from Hook
Speaker 1: why he did what he did, or how far back
Speaker 1: this plan goes. Of course, we saw Hook on Saturday
Speaker 1: come out and factor directly into the finish, assisting Joe
Speaker 1: and winning the championship. We didn't really get much out
Speaker 1: of him tonight. We flat out had Eddie Kingston in
Speaker 1: a backstage promo say I'm not addressing hook. I'm not
Speaker 1: addressing the hook thing tonight. So they didn't get into
Speaker 1: any of that stuff, and we have no idea at
Speaker 1: all whatsoever as far as what direction they are going
Speaker 1: in next. For Chris Statlander, coming off of her Women's
Speaker 1: World Championship win over Mercedes Monet, she was on the
Speaker 1: show briefly in a backstage segment. They gave no indication
Speaker 1: of where she is headed next, So we have no idea.
Speaker 1: Now me personally, you know, I'm a fan of the
Speaker 1: Continental Classic. I know not everybody is. Typically you're not
Speaker 1: going to get a whole lot in the way of
Speaker 1: story with it. If you look at the way that
Speaker 1: the leagues are put together this year, definitely more story
Speaker 1: or more story potential in this year's tournament, probably than
Speaker 1: any of the ones they've done so far. So we
Speaker 1: know that in the Gold League, we have Darby Allen,
Speaker 1: we have Pack, we have Kevin Knight, Speedball, Mike Bailey,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher and kazuchko O Kada. We just saw Pack
Speaker 1: pick up a win at full gear over Darby, so
Speaker 1: it stands to reason that at some point here in
Speaker 1: the Gold League Darby will likely get his win back
Speaker 1: over Pack. But that's the Gold League. It also means
Speaker 1: that Okata is going to have to wrestle Kyle Fletcher, right,
Speaker 1: we knew that, and we had that tonight. But as
Speaker 1: soon as it was announced, we knew those two we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to wrestle Speedball and Kevin Knight, They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wrestle each other as well. Of course they're
Speaker 1: tag team partners. On the Blue League side, we have
Speaker 1: Kenoski Takeshta, John Moxley, Claudio Cassignoli, Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong
Speaker 1: taking the place of the injured Kyle O'Reilly injured. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure it's any sort of legitimate injury, but they're
Speaker 1: claiming that coming out of his match with John Moxley,
Speaker 1: he's too beat up to be a participant in the tournament.
Speaker 1: So Roddy ends up getting his spot and Mascuroderata. So
Speaker 1: you look at the Blue League and the thing that
Speaker 1: stands out like neon lights flashing lights, is that Moxley
Speaker 1: and Claudio are going to have to wrestle each other,
Speaker 1: and now we know that that match is going to
Speaker 1: be taking place next week. And I look at these
Speaker 1: two leagues, and for me, the Gold League is the
Speaker 1: superior of the two leagues. I mean, I look at
Speaker 1: the Gold League in the Blue League here, I'm a
Speaker 1: Gold League guy. But this tournament we talk about story,
Speaker 1: story threads. Here in this tournament, everything is primed and
Speaker 1: set up for a finals confrontation between Okada and Takeshta,
Speaker 1: which is the story that honestly is my favorite on
Speaker 1: aw television now for the past few months, and they've
Speaker 1: taken the slow burn approach with it. Everything is building
Speaker 1: and building, and it seems to be building. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for a few months now. Everything
Speaker 1: would seem to be building for the finals of this tournament.
Speaker 1: Right they're in opposing leagues. We know that the finals,
Speaker 1: actually the finals of each league and the finals of
Speaker 1: the entire thing are taking place at World's End, So
Speaker 1: that's coming up on December twenty seventh, that's about a
Speaker 1: month away. Everything needs to be building to Okata and Takeshda,
Speaker 1: which makes things very predictable. It does, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: If the story is there and you're building up to
Speaker 1: a match that people want to see, that's fine. What
Speaker 1: we actually got on the show tonight were a couple
Speaker 1: of upsets to in my opinion, a couple of upsets
Speaker 1: here in this tournament. And it's only the first night.
Speaker 1: So we'll get into what those were, and then we'll
Speaker 1: get through your super chat questions and get you on
Speaker 1: out of here for the holiday. But thank you for
Speaker 1: spending your Thanksgiving Eve with me. It is Wednesday, November
Speaker 1: twenty sixth, twenty twenty five. This is your aw Dynamite
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Eve review. I am the Solemn Monster, celebrating eighteen
Speaker 1: years of the sound off all November long. As we
Speaker 1: wind down, we only got one more live stream left
Speaker 1: to go, that Survivor series coming up this weekend. Because
Speaker 1: I will not be here on Friday, can subscribe. Like
Speaker 1: I said, super chats are open. I will be reading
Speaker 1: your messages in a little bit, so we're going to
Speaker 1: get on into that and then we'll get you on
Speaker 1: out of here. So let's start from the top, because
Speaker 1: we kicked off the Continental Classic with Gold League Action
Speaker 1: here on the show tonight with two members of the
Speaker 1: Don Kallis family, we had Kazuchka Okada. Now this is
Speaker 1: where it gets a little messy. So we know that
Speaker 1: Okata beat Kenny Omega to become the first ever unified champion,
Speaker 1: and in so doing he unified the International title and
Speaker 1: the Continental title to form the unified Championship, which we
Speaker 1: were told at the time does not mean that the
Speaker 1: International title and the Continental title retired. In fact, their
Speaker 1: lineage lives on, according to Tony Kahn. So in theory,
Speaker 1: all these months have gone by, Okata could defend any
Speaker 1: of those championships individually. Now of course he didn't and
Speaker 1: he's not going to. So he's had this unified title.
Speaker 1: But now the Continental Classic is here, and we see
Speaker 1: the Continental Championship is sitting on top of the announced
Speaker 1: desk at ringside. So we have Okada and we have
Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher, two members of the Kallus family who are
Speaker 1: gonna go one on one here. Don Kallis is on
Speaker 1: commentary at ringside. Now, they make it very clear in
Speaker 1: these matches there is no outside interference. Managers are not
Speaker 1: allowed at ringside. But the loophole is that Callous sometimes
Speaker 1: does commentary, so they allow him at ringside to do commentary. Now,
Speaker 1: it's less of a concern, I guess here in a
Speaker 1: match like this because both men have happened to be
Speaker 1: a part of his family, which is not hard to
Speaker 1: believe because he's got a million members of his family.
Speaker 1: But still it's a little bit of a loophole. That's
Speaker 1: kind of dumb, don't you think. I mean, either people
Speaker 1: are allowed at ringside or they're not. They should not
Speaker 1: be making exceptions for anyone. But the continental title is
Speaker 1: sitting right there on top of the announced desk, and
Speaker 1: this tournament is not for the Unified Championship, and they
Speaker 1: made that clear. It's for the Continental title, which means
Speaker 1: that if Okada does not win this tournament, there is
Speaker 1: no longer a unified Championship. That belt goes away because
Speaker 1: let's say Takeshta wins the tournament, Takesha would be the
Speaker 1: new Continental champion. Okada would just be the International champion
Speaker 1: because that title still lives on He even walked out
Speaker 1: with it to the ring tonight. But the Continental title
Speaker 1: and the International title would effectively replace the Unified Championship,
Speaker 1: which would be on the back burner at least temporarily.
Speaker 1: This is all very convoluted and very unnecessary. And I
Speaker 1: said as much when they introduced this championship. I say
Speaker 1: it whenever they introduce any new championship in this company.
Speaker 1: They just introduced the national Championship, which really serves the
Speaker 1: purpose that the international title originally served in this company
Speaker 1: before they got away from you know, doing defenses overseas
Speaker 1: and and other promotions. But this is what happens when
Speaker 1: you know, you have Tony Kahan who has a belt
Speaker 1: fetish and can't help himself, and he's introducing this belt
Speaker 1: and this belt and this belt and this belt. You
Speaker 1: end up with a tournament here where things are just
Speaker 1: more convoluted than they need to be, you know, and
Speaker 1: there's any number of things, namely, you know, you can
Speaker 1: have a shot at the World Championship. And when they
Speaker 1: first introduced this tournament, I talked about this is three
Speaker 1: years ago. This is not new stuff. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to relitigate that. But like watching that and listening to
Speaker 1: them explain it, like I get what they're saying, but
Speaker 1: it's still unnecessarily convoluted. The whole thing is just very stupid.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Okada reached out for a handshake at the bell.
Speaker 1: They both tried to kick each other during the handshake,
Speaker 1: and they ended up holding each other's legs, so they
Speaker 1: worked through some counters. In reversals, slapped hands to show
Speaker 1: some respect to each other. After some back and forth,
Speaker 1: Okada teased a slap to the chest, but he pulled
Speaker 1: back and he landed a kick. Fletcher, though very quickly
Speaker 1: hit the ropes and fired back with a tackle. Okada
Speaker 1: he crouched Fletcher in the corner by shoving the referee
Speaker 1: into the ropes with his foot, and then he dropped
Speaker 1: kicked him off the ropes and out to the floor.
Speaker 1: That took us into a commercial, so Fletcher returned the
Speaker 1: favor by shoving the referee into the ropes and causing
Speaker 1: Okada to crosh himself. Then he jumped to the top
Speaker 1: rope he delivered a superplex. Later on in the match,
Speaker 1: Okada rolled to the outside. Fletcher pursued him and got
Speaker 1: tripped on the apron, and Okada quickly delivered a DDT
Speaker 1: from the apron to the floor. He then took the
Speaker 1: action back into the ring. Okada delivered a tombs stone
Speaker 1: pile driver. Fletcher recovered, though countered into a Mitchiinoku driver
Speaker 1: could not make a cover though, and at this point
Speaker 1: we got the time call from Justin Roberts fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: five remaining because these matches have twenty minute time limits. Again,
Speaker 1: he get three points for a win, no points if
Speaker 1: you don't win. So Fletcher picked up Okada. Then he
Speaker 1: lawn darted him into the middle turn buckle in the corner.
Speaker 1: He followed that up with a lagerbomb, covered for a
Speaker 1: close near fall. Fletcher attempted a brainbuster. Okada slipped out though,
Speaker 1: and he gouged the eyes. He went for a rain maker. Fletcher, though,
Speaker 1: countered into a roll up pin and he got the
Speaker 1: wind with the flash pin. Kyle Fletcher picks up the
Speaker 1: win here and after the match was over, Fletcher offered
Speaker 1: a handshake. Okada was teasing the flip off, but instead
Speaker 1: he put the hand in for the handshake and Callous
Speaker 1: was all smiles and he got in the ring and
Speaker 1: he held up both men's arms celebrated with both of them.
Speaker 1: This was a very good match. Hot start here to
Speaker 1: the tournament, with Fletcher now beating Okada back to back
Speaker 1: years in the Continental Classic because they had a match
Speaker 1: on Collision one year ago and Fletcher beat Okada. Then
Speaker 1: so here we are in twenty twenty five, history repeats itself.
Speaker 1: Fletcher is also coming off a loss at full gear.
Speaker 1: He lost his TNT championship to Mark Briscoe, so this
Speaker 1: was a big way to get him back in the
Speaker 1: win column with a win over somebody who's not undefeated.
Speaker 1: But Okata has been largely protected, you know, in the
Speaker 1: time that he has been in this company. I mean
Speaker 1: you think he's beginning of next year, he'll be going
Speaker 1: on what two years, I think two full years is
Speaker 1: a full time performer in this company. And you could
Speaker 1: probably count the number of losses that he has taken,
Speaker 1: if not on one hand, definitely on two and still
Speaker 1: have fingers left over. So he's very well protected. When
Speaker 1: he gets beat, it does feel like it means something.
Speaker 1: It'll mean more to Fletcher being able to, you know,
Speaker 1: pick up a win like that, no harm to Okada.
Speaker 1: We know that Okada is going to the finals. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna win? Is he gonna lose? We can you
Speaker 1: know talk about that. I think ta Kesha this should
Speaker 1: be his tournament to lose. But regardless we know what
Speaker 1: the final is going to be. Anything other than Okada
Speaker 1: and Takesha in the finals. To me, would be ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So it's predictable. So what do you do? This is
Speaker 1: one of the things that you can do. You could
Speaker 1: shake things up a little bit by giving people an
Speaker 1: outcome that a lot of fans probably wouldn't be expecting. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Okada, who's the favorite to at
Speaker 1: least go to the finals, is now fighting from behind. Right,
Speaker 1: you give him a little bit of adversity. Now he's
Speaker 1: got to, you know, fight his way back because the
Speaker 1: points went to the other guy. So I like that
Speaker 1: they started the tournament with, you know, an upset win
Speaker 1: right out of the gate. They gave you what I
Speaker 1: would consider to be an upset win. But this was
Speaker 1: a very good match. At backstage, Lexi and Air was
Speaker 1: talking to Kenny Omegan, who popped out of his dressing room,
Speaker 1: and she asked if it's safe to say that after
Speaker 1: the events of Full Gear that he and the Young
Speaker 1: Bucks have been reunited, and Omega said that we've seen
Speaker 1: him do things that he's not proud of, and he's
Speaker 1: been fooled by Don Kallus before also right, as have
Speaker 1: the Bucks, So he would be a fool not to
Speaker 1: take that into account with where he and the Young
Speaker 1: Bucks stand, and if his friends are willing to accept
Speaker 1: him and the fans are willing to accept him for
Speaker 1: who he is after all that he's done, who is
Speaker 1: he to say that the Bucks don't deserve a second chance.
Speaker 1: That's all he had to say. And he retreated back
Speaker 1: into his dressing room, and maybe five seconds go by
Speaker 1: and the door swings open again, and who comes out
Speaker 1: but the Young Bucks, and Lexi has a very confused
Speaker 1: look on her face as the Bucks say, oh, excuse me,
Speaker 1: and they just walk away. I'm not sure why she
Speaker 1: was so confused in this moment, because she literally led
Speaker 1: the interview off by asking Kenny Omega, is it safe
Speaker 1: to assume that you guys are reunited and back on
Speaker 1: the same page. So I'm not sure why she had
Speaker 1: this confused expression on her face. But that was the
Speaker 1: extent to which we had any sort of, you know,
Speaker 1: follow up to what we saw on Saturday, where we
Speaker 1: did have an elite reunion at the end of that
Speaker 1: million dollar match, which ended up being by the way,
Speaker 1: the million dollars that they made such a big deal
Speaker 1: about in that match that technically you know the Bucks
Speaker 1: won and then you know Hatchisaro was walking it. They
Speaker 1: stole the money back at Hetches. Sarah is walking around
Speaker 1: with the money at the end of the pay per view.
Speaker 1: Total non factor. We'll see if it gets brought up
Speaker 1: on Collision because they're taping Collision, which is airing tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: But the million dollars, which is supposed to be a
Speaker 1: big deal, was a total non factor. So we got
Speaker 1: highlights of the TNT title match of Full Gear with
Speaker 1: Mark Briscoe finally beating Kyle Fletcher, and we go to
Speaker 1: Briscoe who is sitting in a chair backstage, still bloody,
Speaker 1: fresh off the match. He's got his brand new TNT
Speaker 1: Championship and he says that he lost the most important
Speaker 1: thing to him, his brother, his other half. It's been
Speaker 1: a long road since then, not knowing if he would
Speaker 1: want to continue wrestling without him, should I even keep
Speaker 1: doing this, But he realized that he had to do
Speaker 1: it for family. Says this title is for not only
Speaker 1: his real family, but his road family as well, the conglomeration.
Speaker 1: It's also for Delaware and then he looks up but
Speaker 1: he says that this is for Jay and you know
Speaker 1: he have a little bit more to say to it
Speaker 1: than that, but that was kind of the gist of it.
Speaker 1: I thought this was the hell of a promo, just
Speaker 1: very heartfelt. He wasn't acting all wacky and goofy and
Speaker 1: crazy like he normally does and over the top. They
Speaker 1: shot this immediately after the match on Saturday, and it
Speaker 1: was just a very short, to the point, heartfelt Babyface promo.
Speaker 1: So I thought this was good. And again, where he
Speaker 1: goes from here, we don't know. There's a lot we
Speaker 1: don't know as far as where certain champions and certain
Speaker 1: people are going coming out of full gear. They didn't
Speaker 1: have time to address all of it. I think they
Speaker 1: still should have addressed some of it more than they did,
Speaker 1: given that this was the first big show coming out
Speaker 1: of the pay per view. But again, they're taping Collision,
Speaker 1: which is airing tomorrow and we'll see if they shed
Speaker 1: any more light on that. We had a semi final
Speaker 1: round match and the women's tag team title tournament, two
Speaker 1: tournaments at once. We have here, we have a women's tournament,
Speaker 1: we have the Continental Classic. Wouldn't shock me, by the way,
Speaker 1: if next year we get a women's Continental Classic. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make that prediction. Now, but we had Willow Nightingale
Speaker 1: and Harley Cameron against the sisters of Sin Julia Hart
Speaker 1: and sky Blue Heart and Blue. They delivered a double
Speaker 1: team pancake to Harley Cameron, but Willow pulled Julia to
Speaker 1: the floor and then tossed her into the barricade. While
Speaker 1: Harley regained control inside the ring, Julia created a distraction
Speaker 1: so sky Blue could deliver a neck breaker, and that
Speaker 1: took us into a commercial break. Now, after the break,
Speaker 1: Julia walked the rope. She delivered a flying forearm. Harley
Speaker 1: desperately reached for the tag. She got the tag to Willow.
Speaker 1: Sky Blue made a blind tag. She waited for Willow
Speaker 1: to land a spinebuster to then make a surprise ambush
Speaker 1: Heart and Blue. They delivered double kicks front and back
Speaker 1: to Willow, and sky Blue covered only for a two count.
Speaker 1: Willow fired back with a double suplex and then Harley
Speaker 1: tagged in and she ended up down as Julia went
Speaker 1: up for her moon saw. Now, Julia Hart has a
Speaker 1: great looking moon saw. It's very smooth as she's sailing
Speaker 1: through the air. The problem in this case was she
Speaker 1: came down for the moon salt and she completely overshot
Speaker 1: Harley Cameron. There was nobody there, so Harley is laying
Speaker 1: here and Julia went a little past her, and then
Speaker 1: she tried to compensate because she realized she fucked up,
Speaker 1: so she kind of pops up, not even to her feet,
Speaker 1: almost to like her knees, and she immediately pops up
Speaker 1: and then sort of flopped onto her with a with
Speaker 1: like a little diving elbow, just to try to salvage
Speaker 1: the spot. This was very embarrassing. I mean, look, shit happens,
Speaker 1: but this did, this did not This did not look
Speaker 1: good here. So Willow ends up getting a blind tag.
Speaker 1: Harley lands a backstabber on sky Blue, while Willow delivers
Speaker 1: a doctor bomb to Julia for the wind. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe Julia saw somebody, maybe you know John cenasted in
Speaker 1: a few weeks, maybe he's making the rounds. Maybe she
Speaker 1: saw John Cena laying there, and I don't know. She
Speaker 1: overshot her target, but Willow and Harley pick up the win.
Speaker 1: It got a little messy, and not even just the
Speaker 1: moon salt spot, like in the immediate aftermath of the
Speaker 1: Moon salt spot. It just got a little messy here
Speaker 1: at the end. I thought it was solid enough though
Speaker 1: on the whole, so Willow and Harley. They advanced to
Speaker 1: the finals, they're going to face either Tony Storm and
Speaker 1: Mina Shirakawa baby Faces against Babyface, or they'll be wrestling
Speaker 1: Megan Bain and Marina Shafir. I could see this going
Speaker 1: either way. Now. I made a prediction on my end
Speaker 1: at the beginning of all this that Tony Storm and
Speaker 1: Mina shira Cow would win the women's tag team titles.
Speaker 1: A couple of big names, especially Tony. I mean, Tony
Speaker 1: is the biggest name in the women's division. You put
Speaker 1: those titles on the two of them. They don't have
Speaker 1: a whole lot going on right now. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they need it. They don't need I mean it's not like,
Speaker 1: oh they don't win these titles, My god, what are
Speaker 1: they gonna do? But right now they don't have anything
Speaker 1: going on right They had championships of their own, they
Speaker 1: both lost them. They found each other, So it stands
Speaker 1: to reason that they would stand tall at the end
Speaker 1: of this tournament, right two big names in that division
Speaker 1: be the first women's tag team champions, and then whoever
Speaker 1: they drop those titles to, whoever they feud with and
Speaker 1: they drop those belts to later on whenever they lose them,
Speaker 1: would hopefully, you know, be better off for having beaten
Speaker 1: Tony Storm and Mina Shirakawa. That's kind of my logic
Speaker 1: behind them winning this tournament. Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron
Speaker 1: could very easily win this tournament because the fans like them.
Speaker 1: I mean, Willow is Willow's awesome. Harley is great, right,
Speaker 1: very likable, very charismatic, so is Willow. I don't have
Speaker 1: any issue with any of them winning this tournament. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stick with my prediction. Even though Tony Amina they
Speaker 1: won the four way at full gear, so they won
Speaker 1: the right to pick a stipulation for their match against
Speaker 1: Megan baineam Marina Shafir, which I'll get to you later,
Speaker 1: and that makes it a little less likely that they're
Speaker 1: gonna come out on top of that match, But I'm
Speaker 1: sticking with them. I'm still picking them to win the tournament. Now.
Speaker 1: After this, Tony Shavanni was in the ring. Wait, by
Speaker 1: the way, wait until we get to the stipulation for
Speaker 1: that match. Gee, I wonder what kind of stipulation they're
Speaker 1: gonna pick for that match. In this tournament. I'll give
Speaker 1: you a hint. If you've been watching AW television for
Speaker 1: the past two weeks, it should be pretty easy to
Speaker 1: figure out what kind of match it's gonna be. Tony
Speaker 1: Shavanni was in the ring after a break to introduce
Speaker 1: the brand new two time AW World Champion and still
Speaker 1: one third of the Trios Champions. He's a double champion.
Speaker 1: He had gold over both shoulders. Samoa Joe out to
Speaker 1: the ring with Powerhouse Hobbs and Katiori Shabaham. Joe immediately
Speaker 1: swipes the microphone away from Shavanni, tells him tonight is
Speaker 1: his celebration, so don't ruin it and take your He'll
Speaker 1: billy ass out of here. So before Joe could say
Speaker 1: anything else, they cut to outside the venue and we
Speaker 1: see Swerve Strickland. He pulls up. I don't think he
Speaker 1: was driving. It was Prince Nana who was driving. He
Speaker 1: pulls up in an suv outside and Nana tells him
Speaker 1: go get him boss, and he's got a staple gun,
Speaker 1: his favorite weapon of choice. So Swerve is walking into
Speaker 1: the building and that's when all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: see Hangman at him. Page shows up and joins him,
Speaker 1: and now he's walking into the building as well, and
Speaker 1: he has a chain in his hand, and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I mean, the sight of the two of
Speaker 1: them now is allies side by side walking into the
Speaker 1: building Like that was pretty cool. So the two of
Speaker 1: them walk backstage in the ring. Joe, who sees all
Speaker 1: of this happening, he tells Shabata go get the scrubs,
Speaker 1: and moments later, Shabata brings out the members of the
Speaker 1: Ops Dojo to the ring. So this is why when
Speaker 1: I talk about these shows and I talk about the
Speaker 1: security geeks on Saturday, I talked about the the Ops
Speaker 1: Dojo geeks, it's because that's what they are. Like Joe
Speaker 1: himself is calling them scrubs. I call them geeks. He
Speaker 1: calls them scrubs. That's their role, that's their job on
Speaker 1: the show. Their job is to show up and get
Speaker 1: their asses handed to them. So you already knew what
Speaker 1: was coming. So Shabata returns. He's got all of the
Speaker 1: Dojo geeks with him in the ring now, and the
Speaker 1: Ops Dojo guys are surrounding the ring. As Joe says
Speaker 1: that everything went according to plant Shabata, he nullified Eddie
Speaker 1: Kingston and Hobbs showed off his feats of strength all
Speaker 1: the way to me, musclebustering Hangman in the middle of ring.
Speaker 1: The simpletons here in the crowd won't understand what went down.
Speaker 1: So here's a video package on how we got here.
Speaker 1: So they cut to a video package of Hook and
Speaker 1: how he started running with Eddie Kingston and showing the
Speaker 1: run in where Hook had a little run in many
Speaker 1: many weeks ago, with Joe and Hobbs backstage with the
Speaker 1: Hook telling Joe I'll always have your back, and then
Speaker 1: Hook turning on Hangman at full gear, helping Joe win
Speaker 1: the championship. So Joe said that was some of his
Speaker 1: best work and now the fans can have a champion
Speaker 1: worthy of being called the greatest in this industry. So
Speaker 1: Joe introduces Hook, who comes out to his terrible music.
Speaker 1: And I will say this now that he's a heel.
Speaker 1: This crooner music that he has awful as it is
Speaker 1: for as a wrestling theme song. It's just fucking terrible.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying that sitting around, you know,
Speaker 1: sipping a latte at home reading the newspaper. It's not
Speaker 1: a bad song. To have play in the background. But
Speaker 1: as far as a wrestling entrance theme is concerned, it sucks.
Speaker 1: But now that he's a heel, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: better than it was at when he was a babyface
Speaker 1: coming out to it, because now it just fits a
Speaker 1: little bit better as far like this smug, helish persona
Speaker 1: that he has now, but it's still terrible, like it's
Speaker 1: just absolutely awful. So Hook comes out, he hugs the ops.
Speaker 1: Hook said that Joe was right. All these rednecks are
Speaker 1: too stupid to realize that he's the greatest second generation
Speaker 1: wrestler this business has ever seen. That's about all we
Speaker 1: got out of Hook here. Now we can listen to
Speaker 1: Joe and we can watch the little video package and
Speaker 1: deduce that this was a plan all along, right, But
Speaker 1: even so, it would have been nice to hear a
Speaker 1: little bit more from Hook, given how important his role
Speaker 1: was in the pay per view on Saturday. We didn't
Speaker 1: get much out of him here until Swerves new music
Speaker 1: hits and they show him and he's coming through the crowd,
Speaker 1: and I guess, as they say, he's Aura farming, that's
Speaker 1: what he's doing. As he's slowly walking through the crowd,
Speaker 1: we have swerved Aura Farming as he makes his way
Speaker 1: out to the ring. Meanwhile, Hangman's music follows, and then
Speaker 1: they show him. He's at the bar. They're in one
Speaker 1: of these small they were in Nashville, I believe tonight.
Speaker 1: It might have been some kind of music hall. It
Speaker 1: was a small venue and there's like a little bar
Speaker 1: in the back. So of course Hangman's at the bar
Speaker 1: and he downs a shot and he proceeds to make
Speaker 1: his way through the crowd. Now, so they start wasting
Speaker 1: different members of the dojo, well, the dojo geeks. They're
Speaker 1: taking them out with their various weapons, the staple gun
Speaker 1: and the chain. Hangman actually had a beer bottle and
Speaker 1: he smashed the beer bottle over one of their heads.
Speaker 1: And whoever this geek was, he took this incredible bump
Speaker 1: where he just it was like a delayed bump where
Speaker 1: like a tree falling, and he just slowly fell down
Speaker 1: face first on the floor outside. So that was great.
Speaker 1: He splatted on the ground. So Page and Strickland they
Speaker 1: rushed the ring. Of course, the ops bails and there's
Speaker 1: two dojo dorks who are left behind, and they get
Speaker 1: chains wrapped around their necks. They get thrown over the
Speaker 1: top rope. Hangman is hanging one of them, Swerve is
Speaker 1: hanging the other one as they're looking at Joe and
Speaker 1: the Ops on stage, who were watching all of the
Speaker 1: mayhem that is unfolding in front of them, and that's
Speaker 1: what brought the segment to a close. You know, Can
Speaker 1: I just say this, I didn't mention this on Saturday,
Speaker 1: but just watching what Swerve has done so far since
Speaker 1: coming back, it is kind of ridiculous that the last
Speaker 1: time that we saw Swerve Strickland before he went away,
Speaker 1: he was injured storyline, injured right by the don Kallis family. Right,
Speaker 1: whether it was Okada or Wardlow, whatever it was, it
Speaker 1: was the Callous family that was in storyline responsible for
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland being on the shelf and needing surgery and
Speaker 1: being out for a few months. And then the first
Speaker 1: time that we see Swerve back on TV, he's not
Speaker 1: going after the Callous family. He's coming out and going
Speaker 1: after the ops. Same thing tonight. He's out there, he's
Speaker 1: got his staple gun and he's going after the ops. Now,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't he be going after the Callous family since
Speaker 1: they're the ones that took him out in the first place.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that laid him up on the shelf.
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Speaker 1: see him back and It's a big you know, get
Speaker 1: for Tony Kahan as far as big names that have
Speaker 1: been out being able to get him back and having
Speaker 1: him right away basically in the world title picture would
Speaker 1: have been no harm in having him come back and
Speaker 1: you know, try to take a measure of revenge on
Speaker 1: one of the many members of the Kallis family, whoever
Speaker 1: it was, and then transition him back into the world
Speaker 1: title picture. But he's he's in the world title picture now,
Speaker 1: and you know that's the big question. Now we have
Speaker 1: World's End coming up on December twenty seventh, so we
Speaker 1: know the Continental Classic finals are going to be there,
Speaker 1: but like, what's the title match going to be? Are
Speaker 1: they just going to set up for another match, a
Speaker 1: third match, because now they're you know one and one
Speaker 1: between Samoa Joe and Hangman Page. It's so where does
Speaker 1: Swerve fit into all this? To Swerve just wrestle you know,
Speaker 1: powerhouse hobs, Like, what does he do? Because to go
Speaker 1: to Swerve and Joe really doesn't make any sense because
Speaker 1: Swerve hasn't even wrestled the match in months. You know,
Speaker 1: what has he done to earn a shot at the
Speaker 1: World Championship. He's got to get some w's under his
Speaker 1: belt first. That hasn't happened yet, so I'm not sure
Speaker 1: who's getting that match hang Right now, it would appear
Speaker 1: to be Hangman and Joe again at World's End. MJF
Speaker 1: is still out there. We don't know when he's going
Speaker 1: to be back. He's got that contract, so he's sort
Speaker 1: of lurking in the shadows somewhere. So that's another question
Speaker 1: that still has to be answered, is who is going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, next in line to challenge if
Speaker 1: you do Joe and Hangman again. A third match of
Speaker 1: World's End, that could very well be where MJF shows up,
Speaker 1: but he can't cash in because the rule is he
Speaker 1: got to give a week's notice, so he could show up,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean he's actually going to be able
Speaker 1: to cash in and win the championship. I still think that,
Speaker 1: you know, the longer term play here is to get
Speaker 1: that belt back on MJF and to do MJF and Swerve.
Speaker 1: That's a match that they have not done, they have
Speaker 1: teased it. That's a huge match. Maybe that's a match
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen until later in twenty twenty six. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's you know, the big all in match next year
Speaker 1: at Wembley. But you know, we still have him again
Speaker 1: lurking in the shadows, and we'll see, you know, how
Speaker 1: much longer it takes to get him back in the full.
Speaker 1: But Joe, I'd like to see Joe get more than
Speaker 1: a month with it. I think this is something you
Speaker 1: can play out for a few months what they did
Speaker 1: last time when Joe won the title from MJF. He
Speaker 1: won it at World's End, then he held it until Dynasty,
Speaker 1: you know, so he had a solid what was that
Speaker 1: four months three and a half months as the champion.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing that again, at least to Revolution.
Speaker 1: I think you can keep the belt on Joe and
Speaker 1: keep pushing the ops and take it at least until Revolution,
Speaker 1: before you possibly, you know, change the title from him
Speaker 1: to somebody else, maybe MJF. You know, I wouldn't just
Speaker 1: put the belt right back on Hangman. I think you
Speaker 1: want to just play this out for a little bit,
Speaker 1: but yeah, World's End. To me, as I sit here
Speaker 1: right now, it would it would seem to me that
Speaker 1: one more match with Hangman and Joe is what would
Speaker 1: make the most sense having Swerve in there. To me,
Speaker 1: just it doesn't compute. You know, you got you got
Speaker 1: to really build to that. Now, one more thing about that,
Speaker 1: By the way, before I move on, Joe is one
Speaker 1: third of the Trios Champions. Samoa Joe does not need
Speaker 1: to be a trios champion if he is the aw
Speaker 1: World Champion and hopefully will be for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Hook now is back with the Ops. It appears I
Speaker 1: think that he should gift his Trios title to Hook
Speaker 1: and let Hook and Hobbs and Shabbata defend them. I
Speaker 1: really don't think there's a need to keep that belt
Speaker 1: on Joe. I mean, I guess they like the visual
Speaker 1: of him having two titles, But if I'm them, I'm
Speaker 1: just having him as a reward, right, as a reward
Speaker 1: for doing what he did at Full Gear. His holiday
Speaker 1: gift in the spirit of the holiday season, with Christmas
Speaker 1: coming up, Samoa Joe, he could even put it in
Speaker 1: a gift box next week, present Hook with this gift.
Speaker 1: He should have done it tonight, honestly, but present him
Speaker 1: with a gift, and that gift is his Trios championship.
Speaker 1: That's the way you get it off, Joe. Now, after
Speaker 1: the match from Full Gear on Saturday, there were some
Speaker 1: postmatch comments backstage at the Prudential Center from John Moxley
Speaker 1: after his loss to Kyle O'Reilly. Moxley said, he's doing
Speaker 1: just fine while O'Reilly is headed to the hospital, and
Speaker 1: we got footage of Moxley tapping out. Meanwhile, Pac won
Speaker 1: his match against Darby Allen. So the battles always continue tomorrow,
Speaker 1: he says, as the playoffs are about to begin, and
Speaker 1: the rest of the Death Riders are just in the
Speaker 1: background watching as Moxley walks out of the shot. It
Speaker 1: was very interesting to pay attention to their facial expressions.
Speaker 1: They just did not like coming out of that match
Speaker 1: when Moxley lost, and then he beat up Kyle, and
Speaker 1: then you know, as he was leaving, they look very
Speaker 1: nonplussed with Moxley. You know, like all the signs are there.
Speaker 1: You know, they've dropped a lot of little hints. Everything
Speaker 1: is building hopefully to a big angle new next week.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a little bit. But that
Speaker 1: led into the Blue League action in the Continental Classic
Speaker 1: with John Moxley against Mascara Dorada. As soon as I
Speaker 1: saw Mascara Dorada in that list of participants, I said,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what his role is here in this tournament.
Speaker 1: But this is interesting. It's an interesting little clash of
Speaker 1: styles here between these two. Slower paced to start, as
Speaker 1: Moxley tried to keep Dorada grounded until Dorada ramped it up,
Speaker 1: hit this wild head scissors to the outside. Moxley sidestepped
Speaker 1: a dive, slid back into the ring, hit one of
Speaker 1: his own, but he came out so fast, not as
Speaker 1: fast as Darby, but he came out of the ring
Speaker 1: so fast and head first. He went head first right
Speaker 1: into the top apparently padded part of the barricade, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he basically lawn darted himself into the top of the barricade.
Speaker 1: Back inside, Dorata hit a springboard cross body as Moxley
Speaker 1: rolled to the ramp, and again he avoided a dive.
Speaker 1: She dove off the ramp, which is every time I
Speaker 1: see somebody doing that. Yeah, because they run these smaller venues,
Speaker 1: so it's a very you have the stage and a
Speaker 1: very short ramp to the ring. But it just reminds
Speaker 1: me of how Adam Cole got hurt, you know, because
Speaker 1: they ran that Grand Slam show a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and he just he came out and he jumped off
Speaker 1: like he jumped off the ramp to the floor and
Speaker 1: fucked himself up badly. So now every time I see
Speaker 1: someone who just like jumps off the ramp like that.
Speaker 1: It's only a few feet, but I'm like, please, please,
Speaker 1: don't pull an Adam Cole. So Moxley he avoids disaster by,
Speaker 1: you know, jumping down to the floor. And at that
Speaker 1: point Dorado was going to come off. He got a
Speaker 1: running start. He was going to jump off the ramp
Speaker 1: himself with a dive, but as he did so on
Speaker 1: the way down, he got caught with a forearm shot.
Speaker 1: Not very smart. After a break, Moxley tried to create
Speaker 1: some distance, but Doroto would not allow it. He hit
Speaker 1: a torneo dive to the floor. Doroto was too slow
Speaker 1: to follow up, allowing Moxley to fire off a cutter.
Speaker 1: Dorota got an armbar as Moxley scrambled. And I have
Speaker 1: to give them credit for this because the way that
Speaker 1: they have had Moxley submitting, like in this feud with
Speaker 1: Kyle O'Reilly especially, and he's been submitting to various holes
Speaker 1: and he's been panicking anytime he gets trapped in a
Speaker 1: submission hold. He tapped out to Darby right in the
Speaker 1: scorpion deathlock at Wrestle Dream. They've done a good job
Speaker 1: of conditioning the audience to think that this guy might
Speaker 1: actually submit, because the crowd really reacted here as Dorota
Speaker 1: got that arm It wasn't even a great armbar, honestly,
Speaker 1: but he got on some version of an armbar, and
Speaker 1: people were sort of buying into it. So Moxley got
Speaker 1: out of it. He mounted him with punches. Dorado went
Speaker 1: up top, though he hit a four to fifty splash
Speaker 1: Moxley kicked out. Dorado went up top again. He tried
Speaker 1: a shooting star press, but this time Moxley got the
Speaker 1: knees up. He turned it into some sort of a choke.
Speaker 1: It's like they were almost head to head laying down,
Speaker 1: but he reached up and he kind of grabbed him,
Speaker 1: you know, like under his armpit and under the throat,
Speaker 1: and he grabs some sort of sleeper hold on and
Speaker 1: Doroto was flailing his legs and scrambling around and trying
Speaker 1: to get his feet on the ropes, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: anywhere close, and then eventually he faded. He went out.
Speaker 1: We got the rep stoppage and John Moxley wins the match.
Speaker 1: Good match here again, Dorota. He is the Beast Mortas
Speaker 1: of the tournament this year, or the Jay Lethal of
Speaker 1: the tournament this year, where I'm not sure he's going
Speaker 1: to win any matches. If he does, he might win one.
Speaker 1: But his job in this tournament is to go in
Speaker 1: there and have good matches and make his opponents look
Speaker 1: really good and then lose. That's his role, and it's
Speaker 1: the same role that Lethal and Juice Robinson and Mark
Speaker 1: Briscoe in the years past and other people have had,
Speaker 1: where you know, he's not racking up a whole lot
Speaker 1: of points, but he can go in there probably work
Speaker 1: with almost anybody and have at least a good match.
Speaker 1: And that's what this was. Again. You have two guys
Speaker 1: who wrestled two completely different styles. This was a John
Speaker 1: Moxley match. There were no weapons, there were no forks,
Speaker 1: there was no blood, none of that. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of lucha and I thought they worked well together. Now,
Speaker 1: after the match, Marina Shaffir came to the ring because
Speaker 1: she wasn't allowed at ringside during the match, but she
Speaker 1: came to the ring to uh, thank you. Its a
Speaker 1: reverse cravat. I couldn't think of what the name of
Speaker 1: that hold was a reverse cravat. So Marina hits the ring.
Speaker 1: She's checking on Moxley and we hear timeless Tony Storm's music.
Speaker 1: So this was interesting because we had a Timeless Tony
Speaker 1: Storm promo basically on John Moxley. With John Moxley in
Speaker 1: the ring. She comes out, She gets into the ring
Speaker 1: with Moxley and Marina Shaffir. She tells Johnny that his
Speaker 1: eyes were not deceiving him. This is timeless Tony Storm,
Speaker 1: the toughest, most resilient, least bitchy person in the ring.
Speaker 1: Despite Moxley's love of cargo pants, she says she likes him.
Speaker 1: Whereas he operates in fear and hate, she operates in love,
Speaker 1: which is far more violent than he could ever imagine.
Speaker 1: Storm would love to stay in chat all night, just
Speaker 1: thus gals, but she has a message for his cave
Speaker 1: woman daughter. As per the Love Bombs win at full gear,
Speaker 1: their stipulation in their semi final round match has to
Speaker 1: be brutal enough to exact revenge while entertaining enough for
Speaker 1: the sickos. She said it not me. She said that
Speaker 1: she couldn't come up with a stiflation for their match,
Speaker 1: but then she had an epiphany. After four nights straight,
Speaker 1: she rolled over in bed and saw her sweet Mina
Speaker 1: and Mina at this point she walked out on stage
Speaker 1: and my god, she I mean, this woman was just
Speaker 1: busting I don't know any other way to put it,
Speaker 1: just busting out of her top hair as she walked
Speaker 1: out on stage, and Tony says she realized that she
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten her anything for Christmas. That Tony said her
Speaker 1: gift to Mina is a no disqualification, no tags, hardcore
Speaker 1: Holiday deathmatch in the Women's tag team title tournament against
Speaker 1: Marina Shaffir and Megan Bain and Moxley had to physically
Speaker 1: restrain Marina Shaffir from attacking Tony at the end of
Speaker 1: the segment. Because of course, we haven't gotten enough hardcore action.
Speaker 1: We haven't gotten enough blood and tax and Barbara and
Speaker 1: kendosticks and tables and weapons and glass. Let's do it again.
Speaker 1: They're obsessed. This tournament doesn't need any stipulations, but we're
Speaker 1: right back to the hardcore stuff because we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: enough of it over the last two weeks. So that'll
Speaker 1: be next week. I'm sure the sick ohs will enjoy
Speaker 1: Renee was backstage with Chris Statlander, calling her the greatest
Speaker 1: in the galaxy, the second woman ever in aw to
Speaker 1: pen Mercedes Monette. Statlander said that she's seen nothing but
Speaker 1: disbelief in people's faces that she is the only person
Speaker 1: to win the women's and TBS titles. There's three options
Speaker 1: for her going forward. You could face the past, you
Speaker 1: could face the present, or you could look to the future.
Speaker 1: Statlander knows where she's going. Who's coming with me? How's it?
Speaker 1: We learned absolutely nothing about what's next for Chris Statlander,
Speaker 1: the women's world champion. We know nothing, Like Sergeant Schultz,
Speaker 1: I know nothing. We got no clarity at all about
Speaker 1: where she's going. So who she's going to defend her
Speaker 1: championship against. I look at the division right A lot
Speaker 1: of the women right now are tied up in this
Speaker 1: women's Tag Team Tour. I mean some have already been eliminated,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the women, the key women are
Speaker 1: involved right now in the tournament, at least for a
Speaker 1: few more weeks. They're not going to go back to
Speaker 1: Statlander and Mercedes again. They're not going to Statlander and
Speaker 1: Tony Storm. So I'm looking at like, who could you
Speaker 1: know potentially be next in line here for Statlander, And
Speaker 1: I don't know who that person is going to be.
Speaker 1: Whoever it is, I think is just going to be
Speaker 1: more of a placeholder honestly, until they eventually get to
Speaker 1: who that woman is really going to be that is
Speaker 1: going to take the championship from her. I think that
Speaker 1: woman should be Jamie Hayter when the time is right,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking months down the road. Stat Lander has
Speaker 1: wins over Tony Storm, actually two wins over Tony Storm,
Speaker 1: and she went from back to back wins over Tony
Speaker 1: Storm to beating Mercedes, only the second person to do that.
Speaker 1: So this woman ought I'll be holding onto that championship
Speaker 1: for at least another six months. When the time is right,
Speaker 1: I believe the person should be Jamie Hater. But you
Speaker 1: have to build to it. You got to build to it.
Speaker 1: But if you do that when the time is right,
Speaker 1: whether it's double or nothing or all in or Dynasty
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, Chris Statlander and Jamie Hayter, that's
Speaker 1: a big match to do. And that's someone who I
Speaker 1: could see taking the championship away from her. Now, you
Speaker 1: could also go Megan Bain. Megan Bain when she was
Speaker 1: first called you know, up to called up, called up
Speaker 1: from the minor leagues when she first arrived on the
Speaker 1: scene in aw almost instantly they altered her into a
Speaker 1: women's championship feud with Tony Storm. And that was a
Speaker 1: mistake because unless she was going to go in there
Speaker 1: and pull up brock Lesner and just destroy Tony and dominate,
Speaker 1: that was always going to end with her losing. And
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would want to do that
Speaker 1: right away. It's like when Mina signed full time and
Speaker 1: moved to the States, the first thing they did with
Speaker 1: her when she was back on TV was give her
Speaker 1: a world championship match. Tony has a tendency to rush
Speaker 1: these women into these things. They lose, and then it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I hope he has some other great plan for them.
Speaker 1: So coming out of this women's tag team title tournament,
Speaker 1: assuming that her and Marina Shafir are not going to win,
Speaker 1: I think you could absolutely build up Megan Bain as
Speaker 1: you know, again more of a dominant singles performer and
Speaker 1: have a program with her and Chris stat Lander, and
Speaker 1: maybe if you want to, you could put the title
Speaker 1: on Megan Baine and then maybe eventually Jamie Hater is
Speaker 1: built up to beat Megan Baine for the belt. But
Speaker 1: as far as what this next option is going to be,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what he's going to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, And if you were
Speaker 1: watching this show hoping to get an answer to that question,
Speaker 1: then you were disappointed. We had a Continental Classic Gold
Speaker 1: League match with Darby Allen against the Jet Kevin Knight,
Speaker 1: which was the first time ever meeting between the two.
Speaker 1: Knight roughed up Darby early on, so he quickly went
Speaker 1: outside to create distance. Night though threw him into the
Speaker 1: barricade and then launched off of it with a moonsaw
Speaker 1: all in one motion. Back inside, Alan cut off a springboard,
Speaker 1: sending Night crashing outside, and then following with a running dive.
Speaker 1: Darby went for a coffin drop, but Knight sprung to
Speaker 1: his feet. He had an avalanche backsuit plex for the
Speaker 1: double down. Into the commercial break, Darby attempted the last supper.
Speaker 1: We've seen him win matches in the past with that move,
Speaker 1: but he did not win here. Knight avoided a death drop.
Speaker 1: Each man got ahead of steam. They both collided with
Speaker 1: Larriot's turning one another inside out. Darby was sent out
Speaker 1: to the ramp. Night tried a springboard, he missed, but
Speaker 1: connected on a pendulum DDT. Darby was trying to beat
Speaker 1: the count, which gave Knight a chance to clear the
Speaker 1: top rope. So you got to picture this now. He
Speaker 1: launches himself from inside the ring out over the top
Speaker 1: rope onto Darby on the ramp, and it wasn't just
Speaker 1: like a crossbody, it was a lariat. He took him
Speaker 1: down hard. It was a hard clothesline and he took
Speaker 1: Darby down with it on the ramp. Back inside, Knight
Speaker 1: missed a UFO splash as Darby flew in with a
Speaker 1: code red for a close two. Darby wanted a coffin drop.
Speaker 1: He got crotched though into a tree of woe. Knight
Speaker 1: sprung to the opposite corner, not even on the opposite
Speaker 1: side of the ring, same side of the ring, opposite corner.
Speaker 1: So picture what Seth did to Cody when he fucked
Speaker 1: up his shoulder at Crown Jewel. And Knight does the
Speaker 1: coast to coast, beautiful coast to coast dive from one
Speaker 1: corner to the other the drop kick, and after that
Speaker 1: the UFO splash followed and Kevin Knight scores a clean
Speaker 1: pin in the middle of the ring on Darby Allen,
Speaker 1: which shocked me. It shocked me because Darby is coming
Speaker 1: off a loss to Pack at full gear, so I
Speaker 1: thought they would want to get him back in the
Speaker 1: wind column here, So I was not expecting a Kevin
Speaker 1: Knight when I was pleasantly surprised to see that, because
Speaker 1: Kevin Knight is one of those young guys on the
Speaker 1: roster that you do hear people talking about that they have,
Speaker 1: you know, high hopes for him. There's great potential there.
Speaker 1: He's someone who, like a Kyle Fletcher, I think you
Speaker 1: can really build up as one of your sort of
Speaker 1: aw homegrown talents if you just put the work in
Speaker 1: to really help get him there. He's super athletic, he's
Speaker 1: super talented. We still really haven't seen him come out
Speaker 1: of his shell yet because he's part of a tag team.
Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot of singles focus on him.
Speaker 1: But he's got all the potential in the world to
Speaker 1: be someone special in this company. Giving him wins over
Speaker 1: bigger names than him is the easiest, quickest way to
Speaker 1: go to help get him over to that next level,
Speaker 1: you know, And whatever you think about Darby, if you
Speaker 1: think Darby's world champion material or not, they have booked
Speaker 1: him in a way that he's going to be a
Speaker 1: world champion one day. Darby is one of their top
Speaker 1: baby faces. You get a win over one of your
Speaker 1: top baby faces, you've done something. So that was a
Speaker 1: big win for him. Also, the match itself, I thought
Speaker 1: was very good and the biggest win of Kevin Knight's
Speaker 1: career so far. I would call it an upset. That's
Speaker 1: the second one already in this tournament, Night number one.
Speaker 1: We already have two upsets. But using this tournament as
Speaker 1: a vehicle to get somebody like a Kevin Knight over
Speaker 1: is not a bad idea. They go backstage. Eddie Kingston
Speaker 1: said that he didn't want to talk about Hook right now.
Speaker 1: He wasn't in the mood to address what happened with Hook. Okay,
Speaker 1: Then he said that he is not in line for
Speaker 1: a title shot against Samoa Joe, but taking out his
Speaker 1: boys Shabata on Collision would get him a little bit closer.
Speaker 1: So he issues a challenge and the match was very
Speaker 1: quickly made official. This was a cop out. I get
Speaker 1: they want to save it for a later date, maybe
Speaker 1: do a face to face with him and Hook, but
Speaker 1: to not even address it or sell any real rage
Speaker 1: or anger over what happened. That was a cop out.
Speaker 1: And they closed the show with one more Continental Classic match.
Speaker 1: Old they had a whole bunch of them here on
Speaker 1: this show. Another Continental Classic match, this one from the
Speaker 1: Blue League. Claudio Castignoli against Orange Cassidy. We just saw
Speaker 1: this match, if you're looking at this going, wait, didn't
Speaker 1: we just see this match? Yes, we did a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Actually it was one of the blooding Guts
Speaker 1: advantage matches, and Claudio beat Orange Cassidy earlier this month,
Speaker 1: so we got it again here. And we were told
Speaker 1: by ex Caliber that Cassidy demanded that Tony Khan move
Speaker 1: his match with Claudio up to tonight after what happened
Speaker 1: with Kyle O'Reilly at Full Gear. Because everybody in this
Speaker 1: league is going to wrestle each other once, so I
Speaker 1: guess this match was supposedly scheduled for next week or
Speaker 1: the week after, but he wanted it now, so Tony
Speaker 1: Kahan gave him the match tonight. So Claudio tried to
Speaker 1: rush right at the bell, Cassidy avoided it into a
Speaker 1: series of pen attempts. Claudio finally was able to stop
Speaker 1: the momentum with a tilta world backbreaker, and then outside
Speaker 1: on the floor, Claudio hit a giant swing into the
Speaker 1: side of the announced desk into the timekeeper's barricade. Back
Speaker 1: in the ring, Claudio continued to rag do all this
Speaker 1: man around. Later on, Cassidy sold his back after failing
Speaker 1: to pick Claudio up for a beach break. Claudio charged
Speaker 1: at him in the corner, but he went shoulder first
Speaker 1: into the post. On the floor. Cassidy landed a tornado DDT.
Speaker 1: Then he delivered a stun dog millionaire back in the
Speaker 1: ring and climbed up to the top rope. Cassidy, though
Speaker 1: dove right into a European uppercut, got a close near
Speaker 1: fall out of that one. Claudio went for another uppercut.
Speaker 1: Cassidy though interrupted it with an orange punch, and then
Speaker 1: another and then finally a beach break for a very
Speaker 1: close near fall. Both men struggled to their feet. Claudio
Speaker 1: landed a huge lariat. Cassidy avoided a power bomb with
Speaker 1: a reversal into a pinning attempt. But he got a
Speaker 1: two count only. Claudio then landed another pop up uppercut
Speaker 1: and he scored the wind. So after the match was over,
Speaker 1: the rest of the Death Riders they come out and
Speaker 1: they join in the ring to celebrate Claudio's big win.
Speaker 1: Renee gets into the ring and she says Claudio is
Speaker 1: the only one to compete in all three Continental Classics.
Speaker 1: And as she's talking, wheeler Da gets into it with
Speaker 1: Orange Cassidy, who's fighting back. So the Death Riders all
Speaker 1: attack Cassidy and a nice little touch here Marina Shaffer.
Speaker 1: She makes sure that she gets Renee out of harm's way,
Speaker 1: and Renee exits there because of course, missus Moxley, we
Speaker 1: got to get her out of harm's way. So Renee
Speaker 1: leaves the ring. So Roderick Strong, Kyle Fletcher, Kenoski, to Keshta,
Speaker 1: Kevin Knight, Speedball masceror Derata they all hit the ring
Speaker 1: for this giant heatless brawl. I wrote this in big
Speaker 1: word here, heatless brawl until Dorada hit a moon salt
Speaker 1: onto a pile of bodies outside outside of the moon
Speaker 1: salt spot. This was honestly the quietest that I have
Speaker 1: heard any crowd for one of these types of brawls
Speaker 1: because there was no reason for it, like guys are
Speaker 1: just randomly running. I mean, I get that these were
Speaker 1: all the guys that are in Theental Classic, right, but
Speaker 1: that's literally the only reason that these men ran out
Speaker 1: to the ring. Now, why would they even run out
Speaker 1: to the ring. It was just weird. Fuck is mask
Speaker 1: Riderrada running back out there for because he lost to
Speaker 1: Moxley earlier? So what so they're all brawling out there,
Speaker 1: nobody really seems to give much of a shit. But
Speaker 1: then they show Okata who's on the ramp just sort
Speaker 1: of watching everything, and that's how they went off the air.
Speaker 1: So that's back to back losses. Now for Orange Cassidy
Speaker 1: to Claudio, they had a decent match here. Honestly, this
Speaker 1: was the weakest out of all of the Continental Classic
Speaker 1: matches here on this show, but Moxley winning and Claudio
Speaker 1: winning gives them both some momentum when they pull up
Speaker 1: next week to Dynamite. And on Dynamite next week, it
Speaker 1: was confirmed we are getting John Moxley one on one
Speaker 1: with Claudio casting milding death Rider against death Rider and
Speaker 1: that is where hopefully something will happen at the end
Speaker 1: of this match. Now we know that there won't be
Speaker 1: any interference in the match because it's not allowed when
Speaker 1: the match is over. And if I had to predict,
Speaker 1: you know, who is going to win that match, I
Speaker 1: would say Claudio. It could go Moxley and then Claudio
Speaker 1: just snaps and they all fucking beat the shit out
Speaker 1: of him. I'm gonna go Claudio wins. But there needs
Speaker 1: to be an angle here, and it would seem that
Speaker 1: at the end of this match, coming out of this
Speaker 1: match next week, that that would be the perfect time
Speaker 1: to do it. If they're gonna drop Moxley where he stands,
Speaker 1: that next week should be the week, and that's what
Speaker 1: they close the show with a major angle where John
Speaker 1: Moxley is excommunicated from the Death Riders. Maybe they wait
Speaker 1: until the end of the tournament. That's also possible, But
Speaker 1: this has been building for a while now and it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of which week are they going to
Speaker 1: pull the trigger? And what is that angle going to
Speaker 1: look like? Is it something where Moxley gets up in
Speaker 1: their faces and putting his finger in their chest and
Speaker 1: pushing their buttons until they finally say fuck this guy?
Speaker 1: Is it a shocking thing? That. I mean, we're kind
Speaker 1: of expecting it, but like in the moment, nobody's really
Speaker 1: expecting it, and then they kind of drop them in
Speaker 1: this like shocking moment. I would love for them to
Speaker 1: try to find more of a shocking way to do this.
Speaker 1: It could be a really major angle, but that is
Speaker 1: what that match needs to be in some form. It
Speaker 1: has to be leading to you here. It's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I look at this tournament this year
Speaker 1: and it's not just Ta Keshia and Ocondomy, like the
Speaker 1: Moxley and Claudia angle, Like you're weaving story into this tournament,
Speaker 1: but only if it leads to something tangible, only if
Speaker 1: it leads to something, you know, impactful, a major angle,
Speaker 1: a major turn, a major twist coming out of that
Speaker 1: match next week. That's what I'm looking for first time.
Speaker 1: I'm actually looking forward to Death Riders segment in a
Speaker 1: very long time, so that match will be taking place
Speaker 1: on next week's show. The way things are standing right
Speaker 1: now in the Gold League, three points to Kyle Fletcher
Speaker 1: and Kevin Knight, so they're on top right now. In
Speaker 1: the Blue League three points to John Moxley and to
Speaker 1: Claudio it's still early none of this really matters, and
Speaker 1: again we all know who's going to the finals. But
Speaker 1: that is your Dynamite review, very simple. You know, with
Speaker 1: these several weeks coming up of Dynamite, a lot of
Speaker 1: it is going to revolve around this tournament. So if
Speaker 1: you're not a Continental Classic fan, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the people who really don't like Forbidden Door, especially in
Speaker 1: the early years of Forbidden Door. It's not as much
Speaker 1: of an issue these days, but like the first year
Speaker 1: they did it, maybe the second one, a lot of
Speaker 1: new japan guys on the show and not all of
Speaker 1: them available to be on TV to really build up
Speaker 1: to the pay per view. It could be rough to
Speaker 1: sit through some of those shows if you're really not
Speaker 1: into that. You just want to like pick up with
Speaker 1: aw stories. I don't give a shit about you know,
Speaker 1: this company against that company. There's some people who hate
Speaker 1: the bill to Forbidden Door. There's also people who hate
Speaker 1: the build to you know, World's End because it's just
Speaker 1: so heavily focused on a tournament that maybe they don't
Speaker 1: care about. I like the tournament, I like the for
Speaker 1: the most part, the makeup of the tournament this year,
Speaker 1: and as long as they could weave some story threads
Speaker 1: into it to try to make it interesting, like the
Speaker 1: death Rider stuff, the callous family stuff. You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's really all I hope for. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: just want the matches for the sake of the matches.
Speaker 1: But you can weave some big angles into it advance
Speaker 1: some stories. Then I think you're you're making use of
Speaker 1: this tournament in a productive way. We'll see what to
Speaker 1: shakes out on Collision tomorrow night. I will not be
Speaker 1: watching Collision Tomorrow night. I will be eating a lot
Speaker 1: of food at someone else's house that they will they
Speaker 1: will make. My job is to show up and eat.
Speaker 1: That's my only job. Tomorrow I will not be watching Collision.
Speaker 1: I'll catch up with anything important that happens after the fact.
Speaker 1: There will be no SmackDown review on Friday, but I
Speaker 1: will be live with you. The next time will be
Speaker 1: for the Survivor series just coming up. Ye know, the
Speaker 1: Survivor series used to be the Thanksgiving Eve tradition. There
Speaker 1: was a time where today we'd be watching Survivor series.
Speaker 1: That hasn't been the case in a very long time.
Speaker 1: But I will be live here on the channel Saturday
Speaker 1: night after a Survivor series war games. So make sure
Speaker 1: you join me here for that should be a good
Speaker 1: time on the stream at least if nothing else. We
Speaker 1: always have fun on the streams, even if the actual
Speaker 1: events are not always fun. What did you think of
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Eve episode of Dynamite forty eight point eight
Speaker 1: percent thumbs up, fifty one zero point two percent thumbs down.
Speaker 1: That was quite the swing. So when I checked before
Speaker 1: I went live, it was sixty four up. So now
Speaker 1: we're down to forty eight. How low will it go?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's below the equator line right now.
Speaker 1: At Solo Monster is where you can go vote Solo
Speaker 1: Monster from a dried chicken. Solo Monster. If anyone from
Speaker 1: your friends or family cooking deep fried turkey, tell them
Speaker 1: do not add too much cooking oil on the pot.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give anybody any cooking advice. I'm
Speaker 1: the last person who should be giving any kind of
Speaker 1: cooking or culinary advice. I trust that they know what
Speaker 1: they're doing. You know, it would be like being in
Speaker 1: the back of an Uber and telling the driver, no,
Speaker 1: you should go this way. I would think that if
Speaker 1: you're an Uber driver, you would be pretty pissed off
Speaker 1: at the other person telling you how to drive into
Speaker 1: your job. So I'm just gonna let them do their thing.
Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says, looking back on so much bloodshed that
Speaker 1: happened to Full Gear, Dracula would take a sponge, wipe
Speaker 1: down every single wrestler who bled, squeeze the sponge and
Speaker 1: drink it out of a wine glass. You could do that.
Speaker 1: Buckets of blood were spilled over the last two weeks
Speaker 1: in this company. Thanksgiving is tomorrow and Black Friday is
Speaker 1: in two days. The blood and Guts winning teams are
Speaker 1: having Thanksgiving dinner together. Losing teams have to help Solo
Speaker 1: Monster shopping on Friday. Solo Manster is not doing any
Speaker 1: shopping on Friday. You forgot to mention Cyber Monday. By
Speaker 1: the way, the deals continue into the beginning of next week.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Okada and Takesha sharing the Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 1: table with the entire don Kallis family and they volunteer
Speaker 1: to cut the turkey. Well, there's a skid idea that
Speaker 1: they should have gone with. They didn't do it. Oz glorious,
Speaker 1: Happy c two season to all who celebrate. I know
Speaker 1: he's a big Continental Classic guy is oz glorious? Is
Speaker 1: it true that some grifter said human vomit logan Paul
Speaker 1: is better than Takeshta and everyone in aw there was
Speaker 1: someone who said that, Yes, and I think that they
Speaker 1: were looking to get a reaction, and they got the
Speaker 1: reaction they were looking for. Moore says Andrade confirmed he's
Speaker 1: facing a year non compete. Yeah, well, we kind of
Speaker 1: already knew that, and I didn't see the rest of
Speaker 1: his quote. But if he's smart, he's working with an
Speaker 1: attorney and that'll be taken care of very soon, because
Speaker 1: there's no way that Androti is going to be sitting
Speaker 1: at home for a year. I guarantee you he will
Speaker 1: not be sitting on the sidelines for anywhere close to
Speaker 1: a year. And if he doesn't retain a lawyer to
Speaker 1: get this taken care of soon, then he's not too bright.
Speaker 1: A fox with a fox emoji with a four ninety nine,
Speaker 1: Hey Fox, thank you man, Happy Thanksgiving Arabian night. Do
Speaker 1: you see or listen to the Androte interview today? I
Speaker 1: did not. I only saw a brief quote. I don't
Speaker 1: know what else he said in the interview. I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I will have to take a look at
Speaker 1: it later it's anything worth covering. Then I will mention
Speaker 1: it on the sound of the Admiral David Robinson. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I remember watching him play. I remember watching Carl Malone play. Also,
Speaker 1: it's too bad he turned into such a piece of shit.
Speaker 1: Buy sell or rent. What is the best game winner
Speaker 1: in sports? Walk off home run? We just had this
Speaker 1: the other day. Walk off home run, buzzer beater, three pointer,
Speaker 1: or game winning touchdown. I just had this question on Monday.
Speaker 1: It's the walk off home run. Nothing better than a
Speaker 1: walk off home run. You know how hard it is
Speaker 1: to hit a home run? You know how difficult that is?
Speaker 1: The big fundamental, Tim, we go from David Robinson to
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan. We got some San Antonio fans here, huh.
Speaker 1: Set Life Stadium is so ugly. It looks like an
Speaker 1: old ac unit from the nineteen seventies. I hate it
Speaker 1: so much, and I believe that the Jets and Giants
Speaker 1: are cursed because their stadium is a dumpster fire Man,
Speaker 1: I hate MetLife. Well tell me how you really feel.
Speaker 1: Oh look, I've been to MetLife Stadium twice for two
Speaker 1: WrestleManias twenty nine and thirty five, and from what I remember,
Speaker 1: it was not. It was not a nice stadium. And
Speaker 1: I've heard other people who do go to Giants games
Speaker 1: or Jets games who complain a lot about the stadium.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just kind of a dump, which is
Speaker 1: too bad. I think it's silly that the Giants and
Speaker 1: the Jets still have to share a stadium together. I
Speaker 1: think that's ridiculous enough. Duffs VIDs on Thanksgiving E for
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety nine home from the hospital. Most tests
Speaker 1: came back good or normal. Glad to be home. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that everything came back normal. Miss Dynamite. Transplant is
Speaker 1: on the table. One biopsy needs to be done for
Speaker 1: the liver to see if double transplant is needed. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the prayers everyone, Well, we are all thinking
Speaker 1: about you and sending you all the positive vibes and
Speaker 1: energy that we can. You're a part of our family
Speaker 1: here and only good things from here on out, or
Speaker 1: as good as they can be. And a very happy
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to you and yours. Yeah, and it's in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: The New York Jets and the New York Giants don't
Speaker 1: even play in New York Like how ridiculous, is that
Speaker 1: oz and glorious? Thank you for the two bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got some people hanging over the top rope tonight
Speaker 1: hit that like Button Casper the try Hard with a
Speaker 1: nine to ninety nine something something, Batman something something. Oh Man,
Speaker 1: you come on, you love Batman, Come on, Casper, Casper
Speaker 1: the try Hard. Happy Thanksgiving Brother, Washington Commanders Stadium. I've
Speaker 1: not been I've not been to the Washington Commander Stadium,
Speaker 1: so I can't speak to that, a very said Woodworm.
Speaker 1: Hey solo, first time chatter, longtime viewer since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Love your work. Can you tell me your three favorite
Speaker 1: Sena matches? Well, John Cena and Cmpunk Money in the
Speaker 1: Bank twenty eleven. I just think it's the perfect match.
Speaker 1: Just there's like a magical feeling with just that atmosphere
Speaker 1: in Chicago, the store behind it, with punk Is contract
Speaker 1: being up. It was just perfect. Five stars all the way.
Speaker 1: I would go Sena in AJ styles. I'm partial to
Speaker 1: their Summer Slam match in twenty sixteen where AJ just
Speaker 1: beat them clean. I was there, great match, but then
Speaker 1: they have that match at the Rumble in twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: at the Alamodome, which never left the ring. They never
Speaker 1: left the ring that entire match, no plunder, no spots
Speaker 1: on the announced desk. They just had a wrestling match
Speaker 1: and it was great. And that's when Sena won Number
Speaker 1: sixteen and tied Rick Flair. So I kind of go
Speaker 1: back and forth between those two, but I'm inclined to say,
Speaker 1: I'll just say, Sina AJ how about that. We'll keep
Speaker 1: it nebulous. So that's two. I gotta pick a third one, huh.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I might have to go with the
Speaker 1: Sina Lesnar Extreme Rules match in twenty twelve. That was
Speaker 1: a spectacle, that's what that was. I think those would
Speaker 1: be my three. The Ufman, I like your new logo.
Speaker 1: Just rewatched Mina making her entrance from tonight. One word damn,
Speaker 1: I said she was busting out of that top. Two
Speaker 1: words damn, damn. Three words. Yeah, you can keep going
Speaker 1: all night. You can keep going all night, Arabian night.
Speaker 1: Could they use Renee in the turn on mocks to
Speaker 1: get heat. I don't think they want to do that.
Speaker 1: I think they want Renee to be the straight lace
Speaker 1: reporter interviewer. They could, I don't think they will, Hoffman
Speaker 1: says Batman Returns is a Christmas movie, you know what.
Speaker 1: I think you could definitely make a case for it.
Speaker 1: There's this really stupid thing going on right now, and honestly,
Speaker 1: my two cents, I think this is just people who
Speaker 1: don't like the fact that every year we have the
Speaker 1: debate about whether or not die Hard is a Christmas movie,
Speaker 1: which it is, and so they've manufactured this nonsensical argument
Speaker 1: just to kind of fuck with those people, that the
Speaker 1: thing is a Christmas movie. Apparently this is no pun intended.
Speaker 1: This is the thing this year where they say the
Speaker 1: thing from nineteen eighty two, the John Carpenter movie is
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie. And I didn't read the whole article
Speaker 1: that I saw about it, but apparently it has to
Speaker 1: do with the fact that it's in the winter in
Speaker 1: the snut like. It's really dumb shit, Like, no, the
Speaker 1: thing is not a Christmas movie, but Diehard is a
Speaker 1: Christmas move will never convince me otherwise, Mystic Jay, I
Speaker 1: just realized that this might be the last year where
Speaker 1: WWE's Big Four will be all on one night. No, no,
Speaker 1: I mean the Rumble next year is one night, so
Speaker 1: we know that Survivor series is not I don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't see Survivor series as a strong enough show
Speaker 1: right now to go two nights. I think there's a
Speaker 1: better chance Money in the Bank goes two nights before
Speaker 1: Survivor series does. But like the next event to go
Speaker 1: two nights will be the Rumble, whatever year it is,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, maybe if there's another pl that goes
Speaker 1: two nights, it will be the Royal Rumble. From there,
Speaker 1: if they continue that trend, you're looking potentially at elimination Chamber.
Speaker 1: You're looking at Money in the Bank. I think before
Speaker 1: we ever get a two night Survivor series, Isaac buy
Speaker 1: sell or rent Survivor series ninety six, two and twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: I am going those are all Madison Square Garden Survivor series.
Speaker 1: I just realized, Yeah, I'm buying on ninety six, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna rent on O two, and I'm gonna sell on
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, even though that was the one that I
Speaker 1: was actually at. Jeremy Rose buy sell, rent Noodle Pudding,
Speaker 1: pumpkin pie or Pea cam Pie. I gotta buy on
Speaker 1: noodle Pudding. I'm gonna have some of that tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. I'm going to rent on pea campie and
Speaker 1: sell on pumpkin pie. I actually was looking for a
Speaker 1: pumpkin pie. I'm sorry, not a pumpkin pie. I was
Speaker 1: looking for a pea campie to buy for Friday because
Speaker 1: I have to go to another Thanksgiving thing on Friday night.
Speaker 1: Couldn't find a pea campie, but they had pumpkin pea campie,
Speaker 1: and if you could believe it, I have never had never,
Speaker 1: I've never had pumpkin pie. So this is gonna be
Speaker 1: my first time trying a pie that has even a
Speaker 1: little bit of pumpkin in it. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some pumpkin pea campi on Friday night.
Speaker 1: I'm very interested. I don't even know why I've never
Speaker 1: tried it before. All things pumpkin never really appealed to
Speaker 1: As much as I love Halloween, all things pumpkin just
Speaker 1: never never really appealed to me. So that'll be my
Speaker 1: first time trying that. Jeremy also says we really only
Speaker 1: getting four matches at Survivor series. What the fuck are
Speaker 1: we doing? I'll tell you where you're what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna be getting multiple ad breaks. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be getting super long entrances, and that's how they're gonna
Speaker 1: fill up over three hours. You're not gonna have time
Speaker 1: for any other matches. Pumpkin Pie needs to be heated
Speaker 1: up with ice cream ball. Then I'm definitely not having
Speaker 1: any Thanks. You just ruined it for me. Jeremy says,
Speaker 1: did you see Russo on Helwani? Not a fan of his,
Speaker 1: but his opinion about how to make wrestling shows entertaining
Speaker 1: makes sense. I actually did watch it. I tried to
Speaker 1: tolerate it. He was on there for like an hour,
Speaker 1: and he was Russo. He was Russo being Russo. He
Speaker 1: has his philosophy on things, and there you go. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing Joe getting another title run means we won't see
Speaker 1: him in WWE again anytime soon or ever again. Probably not,
Speaker 1: and that's fine. That's WWE lost. They're the ones who
Speaker 1: fired him twice, so fuck them. If somebody fired me twice,
Speaker 1: I would not be in any great rush to go
Speaker 1: crawling back there. My attitude, and I'm not saying Joe's
Speaker 1: ah pro I don't think this is Joe's attitude, but
Speaker 1: my attitude would be go fuck yourself. You don't want me, Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: I'll take my services somewhere else, and I'll give them
Speaker 1: before I give you. WWE doesn't deserve Samoa Joe Lo King,
Speaker 1: what's your hot take for nineteen ninety nine WWF? My
Speaker 1: hot take for nineteen ninety nine WWF is that it
Speaker 1: wasn't as good as some people like to remember it being.
Speaker 1: I'll take ninety eight over ninety nine. OZ Glorio is
Speaker 1: fifty four months channel membership, fifty four months. Where's the
Speaker 1: platinum skull? I don't know what skulled? What skull do
Speaker 1: you have for fifty four months? Whatever skull it is,
Speaker 1: you should have it. Roho Bear with forty five months,
Speaker 1: You got some catching up to do to catch up
Speaker 1: to OZ and Glorious. Happy Thanksgiving, Roho Bear and Tuxedo
Speaker 1: t Servo has fifty one months of membership. Happy Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: to all here who celebrate. Same to you, Same to everyone.
Speaker 1: Austin Tucker, Hey Solo, I'm going to my first aw
Speaker 1: show next Wednesday. Can't wait. I hope to see Adam
Speaker 1: Page and Jamie Hayter. I don't know if you're going
Speaker 1: to Jamie Hayter, but you probably will see Hangman. Probably
Speaker 1: not wrestling, but he should be there. KD seventeen Burger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I these fucking names. Apparently it's like this on everyone's channel.
Speaker 1: Now they just went right back to this at bullshit
Speaker 1: where everyone's name is gone and now it's just your handle,
Speaker 1: it says, YouTube being YouTube. I actually reached out to
Speaker 1: YouTube a few months ago when this happened the first time,
Speaker 1: and I said, how come because some channels still have
Speaker 1: the regular names, Like how come they have names and
Speaker 1: I don't? And they said, oh, it's a new change
Speaker 1: that we're rolling out. I said, well, can we opt
Speaker 1: out of it? Nope, It's being rolled out across all
Speaker 1: of YouTube and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
Speaker 1: Thanks YouTube, Katie says, nice shout out to the great
Speaker 1: Tina Turner. You saw weapons. I saw it in the
Speaker 1: theaters and hated it. But Amy Matting as the looney
Speaker 1: Aunt stole the film and deserves an Oscar nomination. Your thoughts.
Speaker 1: She was very creepy in that movie. She was very creepy.
Speaker 1: I don't know about nominations. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: competition is this year, but she was very creepy. I
Speaker 1: like Josh Brolin in that movie too, says Still on
Speaker 1: the Blue Skull Noodle Pie tomorrow. Yes, yes, I've already
Speaker 1: said if it's not being served, I'm not showing up.
Speaker 1: My attendance is contingent upon that being prepared for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Jeremy says, what's the low We're going to get three
Speaker 1: match card, two match card, one match Seriously, Jos, what
Speaker 1: can they really give us? They can do anything they
Speaker 1: want to and people will eat up their slop no
Speaker 1: matter what they do. I always thought that was gonna
Speaker 1: be Vince McMahon's ultimate play was to eventually get rid
Speaker 1: of the ring altogether and just have like a giant
Speaker 1: variety show for two hours of just skits and comedy.
Speaker 1: That's good shit, pal, and just get get rid of
Speaker 1: the wrestling matches altogether. I'm surprised he never did it.
Speaker 1: Duff's VIDs. Do you think Triple H is doing four
Speaker 1: match cards on one night plees to make fans want
Speaker 1: two nights for most, if not all Ples eventually and
Speaker 1: the money? No, I really don't. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: factoring into his decision to do this. I think it
Speaker 1: really does just have more to do with They're gonna
Speaker 1: give a lot of time to the war games matches
Speaker 1: at least forty minutes for each one, and they are
Speaker 1: going to fill in the time in between the matches
Speaker 1: with WrestleMania advertisements because the tickets are going on sale.
Speaker 1: I think, is it Friday? I think tickets might be
Speaker 1: going on sale Friday, and so whatever their advertisements are
Speaker 1: going to be. And then the long elaborate entrances. I mean,
Speaker 1: do like the entrances for men's war games alone, is
Speaker 1: that's twenty minutes right there? Probably be about the same
Speaker 1: for the women. Then you have the actual match. I mean,
Speaker 1: if they don't have any good ideas for anything else
Speaker 1: on the show, I'm not saying that should just throw
Speaker 1: matches on there for the sake of doing them. But
Speaker 1: I don't know why we can't get that happy medium
Speaker 1: between WWE and AW. Like WWE they give you too
Speaker 1: few matches, and then AW gives you too many matches.
Speaker 1: I mean, why is this so hard? Six matches? Boom?
Speaker 1: There you go, perfect. It's gotta be a happy medium here.
Speaker 1: But I will admit to you one thing. I would
Speaker 1: rather have these five match wwepls than these ten or
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen match AW pay perviews, which I think
Speaker 1: I think it's just fucking ridiculous. I'll take I'll take
Speaker 1: some of the five match cards. Honestly, especially as a
Speaker 1: content creator, it's just a lot easier for me to navigate.
Speaker 1: You may feel differently if you're paying forty dollars for
Speaker 1: the AW pay perview, But I cannot stand the length
Speaker 1: of those shows like it is a huge, huge turnoff
Speaker 1: for me. Absolutely cannot stand the length of those shows.
Speaker 1: WrestleMania and Summer Slam should have eight on each night.
Speaker 1: I disagree. That's too many. You don't need you don't
Speaker 1: need sixteen matches. Why are we overloading these shows with matches?
Speaker 1: I don't understand. You can have you can have six
Speaker 1: matches on each night of WrestleMania maybe it's WrestleMania, maybe seven.
Speaker 1: You don't need more than that Summer Slim. You don't
Speaker 1: need more than that six or seven matches max per night.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's fine, that's fine. You really don't need
Speaker 1: more than that, even if AW pay per views blow
Speaker 1: the WWE ones away on most nights. But it's too long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we can get into a debate about the
Speaker 1: the quality of the shows AW. You know, consistently they
Speaker 1: know how to put on great pay per views, but
Speaker 1: it like, I'm trying to put myself in the head
Speaker 1: of like Hangman and Joe as they're getting ready to
Speaker 1: go out to the ring at the end of that
Speaker 1: show on Saturday, and I'm like, why would you want
Speaker 1: to be in that position? Mercedes and Statlander, you know,
Speaker 1: their match was absolutely hindered by the fact that people
Speaker 1: were just fucking exhausted by that point. It just it
Speaker 1: drains you. Nobody can keep that energy for five straight
Speaker 1: hours like that. It's not possible. It can't do it.
Speaker 1: That's why you end up with matches near the end
Speaker 1: that are just they feel fucking dead. Oz says, if
Speaker 1: there were only six matches, how would you fill up
Speaker 1: four hour on Tuesday? And oh, we have plenty of time.
Speaker 1: We talk about news and everything. Yeah, and the watch
Speaker 1: time we set a watchtime record this week. More people
Speaker 1: watch us than they do some of the actual wrestling
Speaker 1: shows talk about a lot more than just fucking matches.
Speaker 1: That's fucking boring. I want to talk about some controversy,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about some behind the scenes shit.
Speaker 1: That's what makes it fun. That's why I started first
Speaker 1: following wrestling news back in the late nineties, in the
Speaker 1: early two thousands, I was fascinated by the backstage happenings
Speaker 1: and the goings on and the contract news and who's
Speaker 1: jumping here and who's going there. That's more entertaining than
Speaker 1: what we see on the actual television shows. Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Lucky Dog says, I do wish Tony started
Speaker 1: the pay per views earlier. No more five pm start times,
Speaker 1: make it three pm. He's not gonna do three pm
Speaker 1: for every show, but like, yeah, even starting it at
Speaker 1: seven instead of eight, it's still too much, but I
Speaker 1: mean it would make it a little bit better, you know.
Speaker 1: Now Again on the West Coast, you don't have that issue.
Speaker 1: On the East Coast, though, it's a killer, it's an
Speaker 1: absolute killer. Yeah, he's going to have to have some
Speaker 1: earlier start time. I mean, the shows are always going
Speaker 1: to be long. That's not going to change, so the
Speaker 1: start times need to change. He has said that the
Speaker 1: earlier start times actually didn't hurt them at all. If anything,
Speaker 1: it might have helped them. So I'd like to see
Speaker 1: them do that more often. It says, that's why I
Speaker 1: listened to you instead of watching WWA. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people. There's a lot of people like you out
Speaker 1: there who listen to and watch the podcast and don't
Speaker 1: actually watch the product. Because look, when you're a wrestling fan,
Speaker 1: yeah you're always a wrestling fan. Like, even if you
Speaker 1: kind of grow out of it, you get bored with it,
Speaker 1: you still want to keep up with what's going on.
Speaker 1: So maybe you'll check clips in their YouTube channels and
Speaker 1: highlights of stuff. But what do a lot of those
Speaker 1: people do, right, They listen to podcasts and they watch,
Speaker 1: you know, YouTube streams, and they keep up with what's
Speaker 1: going on. It's like, yeah, no different than people who
Speaker 1: like sports talk radio. Yeah, they watch the games, but
Speaker 1: you know they love listening to all the blowhards on
Speaker 1: fucking sports radio. Who are yeah talking about it the
Speaker 1: next day, questioning all the decisions that were made in
Speaker 1: the games over the weekend. How come they did this?
Speaker 1: How come the coach didn't do that. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Sandy from day Ridge. You're on the air, right, people
Speaker 1: love sports talk radio. Those guys get paid millions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Why do you think they're just certain people that they
Speaker 1: enjoy their perspective on things and they enjoy commiserating with
Speaker 1: other people who also feel the same way that they
Speaker 1: feel get a lot of the same thing with wrestling
Speaker 1: and wrestling content creators. Who's watching football tomorrow, Not this guy,
Speaker 1: but there'll be a lot of people who are watching
Speaker 1: football tomorrow. I don't even know who's playing tomorrow. Who's
Speaker 1: playing tomorrow. I don't even know what the game is tomorrow, Ricky,
Speaker 1: I love you too. He listens to the sound off
Speaker 1: every Sunday afternoon. Thank you, Ricky. That's why you've kept
Speaker 1: the show going for eighteen years, almost two decades. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: We had a great podcast this past weekend. We'll have
Speaker 1: another one this weekend, talk Survivor series fallout, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk a little bit of aw if there's any news
Speaker 1: on that front. I gotta go check out this Andrade stuff.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to your questions. Ste you could
Speaker 1: email me. We'll be doing a mailbag this weekend. That
Speaker 1: will be episode nine. So I'm gonna wrap this up here.
Speaker 1: This has been fun hanging out with you guys here
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Eve, and I hope you guys, wherever you
Speaker 1: may be, if you are celebrating and feasting tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: not fisting. I said feasting. I hope you have a
Speaker 1: very happy Thanksgiving. I'm very thankful for all of you
Speaker 1: being here with me every single week. Whether or not
Speaker 1: you're watching the actual television shows, it doesn't matter. You
Speaker 1: don't even have to. I watch so you don't have to.
Speaker 1: And I'm grateful for all of your support, all of
Speaker 1: your superchats, just hanging out in the chat, chatting away
Speaker 1: with everybody else. And I will see you back here
Speaker 1: again live on Saturday night. We'll be talking Survivor series
Speaker 1: war games, and then on Sunday, Episode nine of the
Speaker 1: podcast coming up this weekend, dups VIDs is gonna get
Speaker 1: the last word here on a poll bro nine to
Speaker 1: ninety nine Superchat was beginning to watch the ninety six
Speaker 1: Survivor series and I saw Marty Janetti was limping. Do
Speaker 1: you know if he was just working or did he
Speaker 1: legit get hurt and what was the injury? I believe
Speaker 1: he now that was a legit injury. I believe he
Speaker 1: rolled his ankle. Was I believe a legitimate ankle injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And unfortunately these days I don't know which foot or
Speaker 1: which ankle it is, but he's had some severe ankle
Speaker 1: issues in recent years where he's posted pictures of it.
Speaker 1: It's nasty, it's really disgusting. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's
Speaker 1: what I think. He legitimately rolled it and that's what
Speaker 1: it was. Anyway, I'll go I'm gonna go check out
Speaker 1: some Vault stuff myself. That'll be what I watch as
Speaker 1: I as I fall asleep tonight, I'll pop on over
Speaker 1: to the Vault YouTube channel and check out some classic
Speaker 1: Survivor series shit from the early nineties. And I will
Speaker 1: see you back here on Saturday night for the Survivor series.
Speaker 1: Until then, Happy Thanksgiving guys,