Speaker 1: And nine Ignition.
Speaker 2: Five four three two one zero.
Speaker 3: All engine running, good evening, everybody.
Speaker 4: Hey, look, you know, for the last two weeks, I've
actually done the introduction without making a fool of myself.
So let's see if I can make a streak. I
don't think two weeks is a streak. Three weeks maybe?
Am I right on that? What do you think three
weeks streak? Two weeks just luck? I don't know. Anyway,
let's get the show started and let's cross our fingers
then I don't mess this up. It's Tuesday. You know
what that means. It's time for Ignition with the a
W Fan podcast team. Got a lot to talk about tonight,
as you can see on the screen if you're watching
us live on YouTube, there's the slate of what we're
going to be talking about. But before we get into
the actual show and the discussion with the podcast team,
let's cover a couple of news items.
Speaker 5: Olla Mia Migos, el Maato Grande And that's about all
the Spanish I know, but I wanted to use it
to I know most of you have probably already seen
this already. Wednesday, August fifth, Grand Slam Mexico in Mexico City.
If you saw the last one, it was fantastic. I
can't wait for this next edition.
Speaker 6: Bojol Greetings from Montreal. This is your girl, vow so.
In an aw fan Hub poll with over seven thousand,
seven hundred votes cast over three twenty four hour I'm sorry,
three twenty four hour rounds, Mercedes Monai was named favorite
TBS championed by a single vote over Willow nine Gale.
Speaker 4: Yeah. That it freaked me out. I was watching that
as it was happening. I mean three days we did this,
and I'm sitting there looking at the graph as it's
going and it just bounced around all over the place,
and I was for sure. If you look at the bottom,
Vowl and everybody, that graph is actually the graph with
Willow and blue and Mercedes in red coming down to
the wire and Mercedes wins by one vote. Unbelievable. At
the aw fan hub subreddit right now, we have a
poll going on to rank your favorite AW World Tag
Team champions. Not the best, but what is your favorite champion. Basically,
what you do is you there's fifteen of them, as
you can see on the screen if you're watching it's
live on YouTube. You just drag and dropped them into
you know, first to fifteenth place, and that's that. But
we're going to go ahead and start the show in
just a second. We're gonna be talking about Dynamite. We're
going to be talking about collision because we already have
a couple of collision matches already on tap. Just wanted
to let you know that after Dynamite Tomorrow, Night joined
Conrad and Derek on the EPW show YouTube channel for
their Dynamite review. It's interactive. It's a lot of fun, Chris,
I know you're there a lot val.
Speaker 1: Weren't you on?
Speaker 4: Was that you that was on one of their shows recently?
Speaker 6: I did last week?
Speaker 4: Yeah, wasn't it fun?
Speaker 6: Well yeah, it was very very fun. But I was
doing a little something something with Marcus here, but I
was channeling back and forth and it was fantastic. I
loved it.
Speaker 5: Loved it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah it is. It's a lot of fun. So
give them hey listen, all right, Well let's get on
with the show. And I think one of the more interesting,
maybe not the biggest news that came out of AW
Television last week was Survival of the Fittest was announced. Now,
if you look at the graphic if you're watching his
live on YouTube. I have the two former AWTBS champions,
Chris Statlander and Julia Hart on here. I didn't put
Mercedes Monee on here, and I have a question should
I have put Mercedes Monee on here? The reason I
didn't was that I feel that if Mercedes Monee entered
something for the TBS Championship after all this time, it
would just be a lateral move. I think she needs
to move up in the achlon, especially since Tony Storm
and Willow Nightingale are no longer there. I don't know
how long Willow is going to be out. But what
do you think should I have included Mercedes money and
this guys? No, Well, well I need an explanation, he said,
because one word no is not gonna why.
Speaker 6: She's gonna be in the owen she's the wild card?
Speaker 4: Okay, well we're going to talk about that soon. So
you think Mercedes is going to be in the wildcard? Chris,
I thought I heard you chime in, what do you think.
Speaker 5: I was also going to say, no, she doesn't need
to be included. I also would not be surprised if
she is the wildcard with you know. Uh, I'm looking
forward to the Survival of the Fittis for sure, and
the two you have on there are definitely two that
I think will be in there. I can also see
Queen Alminado Mina Shirakawa the last two spots. Man, there's
so much talent that it could be. I'm really hoping
one of the spots goes to someone from starting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, well, let's hear anybody else want to chime
in with my question about Mercedes Monet and who do
you think is going to be taking up these spots?
And if I put Julia and Chris Statler in here
just simply because they were former TBS champions, I could
be completely off. I was just doing that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I also agree.
Speaker 7: I don't think money is set for reve debut in
the smatch, but I also don't think she's going to
be in the O and tournament. I think that they'll
just probably bring her back. At this point, it was
pretty clear they were sort of setting it up to
be come back against the Willow, and now that that's spiked,
I don't know. I think they'll just find something good
place for her to stepans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I kind of agree. I also just wanted
to break in just here because I wanted to say
hello to Flyboy. Rex, who was in our chat, says,
what's up everybody? Well, what's uply Boy? What's your your
opinions on what we're talking about? Who else wants to
talk about? About? Who they think maybe in this tournament, Well,
it's not really a tournament. It's more of a series
of qualifying matches.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would love for them to go back to
it being a one night thing at some point that
it does seem unlikely with modern TV, and you know,
they did. It was kind of an accident how the
original Survival the Fittest happened anyway, Like it was because
of the RF thing. They basically lost their venue and
had been moved at the last minute and really couldn't
get enough people together. So that was sort of why
that happened in the first place. So it was, you know,
like greena laner had a lot more kind of freedom
to do stuff like that, an audience who would be
into them doing it one night. I don't think we'll
probably see that again, but I think it would be
cool if they brought them back to the one night deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fly Boy Rex actually said who he thinks is
going to be the wildcard in chat. I've been a
hold off on. We're going to be talking about the
wildcard in the owen a little bit later on in
the show, and I'm gonna say I will get to it,
fly Boy Rex, but I'm gonna do it while we're
actually talking about that. Remember, uh, Chris, you said, I
believe it was you said you'd like to see somebody
from stardom an, do you have anybody in mind?
Speaker 5: I mean top voices, a zoomy starlight kid, you know,
I know Colin. Like both of them, they're both incredibly entertaining,
and I think someone that fans who may not watch
Stardom or may not know much about it, would be
able to instantly just kind of recognize what they're about
in their style, and I think they those two would
be able to get over quickly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fly Boy Rex did answer. Now, he did say
I would like to see Queen Aminada, which I think
several people have already said. Camille Meghan Bain stat Mina
in the Survival of the Finist Fittest or Fitness As
Tony Shabani would say, you know, I'm looking at this graphic,
and I kind of for the same reason that I
didn't put Mercedes Monet in this graphic, I probably shouldn't
have put Chris Statlander this graphic because she's a former
world champion, So would the TBS title kind of be
a backward step for her?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it feels different, just because it almost feels
like Statlander's been kind of treading water for a bit
and maybe you know, going not necessarily stepping you know, down,
but going after that TBS title and kind of remembering
when she was that champion and when she defended you know,
week after week when she was probably at her most competitive.
Speaker 4: Yes, but I think I give your she's not as
I don't know how to put this, if I'm reading
what you're saying, right, she's not as competitive or as
she was like as early as like two or three
months ago. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels like when she lost the title and
then wasn't able to get it back, she kind of
almost lost her fire a little bit. Now just few
everything with she just seems to have reignited that, so
you know, it'll she's one of those she could easily
be in the TBS and she could win it, and
that could kind of be Okay, Hey, this is her
coming back and you know it's hard. I'm not explaining myself. Well, no,
I get what you're saying. Here's here's another thing that
I'm I'm looking at specifically with Live Boy, rexaid he
had Megan Bain in there. Do we need to have
somebody who has a belt currently in even though it's
a tag belt. Do we need Megan Vain in this
or anybody I mean, Megan vain lean across whatever. They
have belts already, or do we need somebody new in there.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say we got yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Megan needs to be in there. She needs
a chance to really shine as a singles champion. I
love her as the tag team she's in, but I
really feel like it's time.
Speaker 1: For her to step up.
Speaker 2: She's she's fought Tony Storm for goodness sakes, for for
the World championship. Why is she not in this? I
don't understand why unless they don't have confidence in her
as a singles That's a.
Speaker 6: Good point, Valerie, go ahead, Well, I I agree with
Marcus because she she did amazing in her match against Tony.
Speaker 8: Was it last year, I thought she was a star,
and she is a star, and she's gorgeous, and she's physical,
and she's well built, and you can see the hard
work that she's.
Speaker 9: Put in ever since we saw her, what during the pandemic,
probably so she put it in the work, and she
deserves to be in a singles run with a title.
Speaker 6: I don't care which one she needs a title, A
single one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you, though. Look. You know one
of the things that I heard somebody saying, I can't
remember where it was or when it was, but it
was very recently somebody called Skyblue the third wheel in
the triangle madness. I don't think that's the truth. Right now.
I think Julia Hart is the third wheel in the
triangle madness. She's she's been eating most of the pins
except in that most recent match. The thing that I'm saying,
I guess, is that I'd like to see sky Blue
in this tournament. I really would. I would too, But
you know who I wouldn't want to see, And I
don't know if you guys would agree with me on this.
I don't want to see Mina Shirakawa in this tournament
unless she wins it. I am sick of seeing Mina
Shikkala lose. She's too good to lose every damn time
she has a big match.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was about to be very mad at you said
you didn't want to see her in this tournament until
you clarify, because we should always want to see Mina Shirawa.
When Mina shira cow isn't on the streen, people should
be asking, hey, where's Mina Shirakawa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when Swerve and Bendito had their match at double
or nothing, was like, where's Mina shirt Cowan? I do
want to I do want to break in here. Marcus,
the entertainer in the chat said after the Sida food, Dude,
there's a story to be told for Chris Statlanders sharing
chasing a title because she never had chase for a belt.
I disagree with that TBS title. She was a surprise
return world title. She kind of got a shock win.
A Conrad EPW show says good evening. I said that
in Conrad's voice. Yeah, so yeah, Mina shir at Kawa.
You know, she asked she should be if she's not
in the match, she should be on commentary or a
referee or whatever. Yeah, I agree, with you, Chris. Uh,
but of course I I digress.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll move on.
Speaker 7: Say two things real quick about Mina Number one. I
don't want to see anybody who was in the owe
Hard tournament in this match, like in a qualifier period.
They already got a feature match and they were on
the like me was on the pay per view, So
she got a really good one, did great in it.
And I think secondly, I one agree with you. I
would like to see me and get some big wins.
But the reason they keep putting her in there is
because she's easy to work and she's reliable, like so
she gets she gets to go to a lot when
it's time to take the one, two, three, and you
know that's it's both fortunate and unfortunate. But that's the
reason why she's on TV all the time, where some
folks kind of disappear.
Speaker 4: Well Survival of the Fittest. Uh what about Shida? Anybody
have Sheida?
Speaker 5: I was honestly just about to say that, Like what
if Statlander and Sheeta both make it in, Like you
can keep that story going in this match, and they can.
They can be so focused on each other and beating
each other up that they essentially end up pausing the
other to get eliminated.
Speaker 4: You know what, I kind of agree and I kind
of disagree with you. I think that Sheidah or stat
Lander should be in this uh in in these six
qualifying matches, but I don't think they both should be
because I think that would make it a little bit
obvious and maybe even even disappointing if they don't face
each other. I don't think that they need to face
each other again, at least not right now. But if
one of them's in the tournament, not a tournament and
a qualifier, and the other costs that person a match,
that could be something to be resolved down the line.
Speaker 5: Well I'm saying they both end up in the survival
of the fittest match.
Speaker 4: See. I don't want to see that, because we just
had that in the four way elimination. Well I wasn't
really an elimination, it was a whoever gets a pin.
But I don't want I don't want to see them
in there again. And like I said, if you put
them both in there in the qualifying matches, that it
kind of becomes, oh, we got to get them both
in there. So the people that she is uh facing
are going to be kind of like jobbers almost because
you're not gonna put Cheetah and Statlander in qualifying matches
and have them lose. I don't know. By the way,
Conrad EPW Show says up for Queen Amanada to become champ. Yeah,
Queen Amanada hasn't actually been on a WTV as of late,
but she has been wrestling on what Ring of Honors.
She's had several matches and she was actually in marvel
I think her last match was in Marvelous. I think
it was like a multi woman tag team match that
she was in, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, she's had
like four or five matches on r OH in the
last month, but she hasn't wrestled on AW you know,
since her return. And I think it was her loss
room to willow Right and then she just disappeared from
a I think she was.
Speaker 7: I think she on a multiman tag on Collision or
something once.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to confuse with our ah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, whatever it was, it wasn't really memorable,
I guess is the best way of putting it. Whatever
it is, I mean, I love this Survival of the
Fittest because it is culminating on July first with the finals,
and so we're gonna have six matches between now and
July first as qualifying matches for this, and we're also
going to be having the the of course, the Women's
owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament going on. And I believe
it was Marcus that was talking about the mid card
in the women's division not being used. Well, guess what, Marcus,
I think you're gonna see some mid carters being used
in these Survival of the Fittest matches. I really hope. So,
I mean, maya world end high end. Even Zeta Steele
who's been very vocal on Twitter about participating in the
Survival of the Fitness qualifiers, so I do look for
her to be in there. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting,
but you know what, it's time to move on because
we've got ae W Dynamite And as we said earlier
after the show Dynamite Wednesday night Tomorrow night, go ahead
and hop on over to the EPW Show at EPW
show YouTube channel to check out their podcast. It's a
lot of fun. You'll have fun, very informative, and you
may even get to hear Conrad sing. But right now
we're going to talk about aw dynamite and am Jeff
is gonna mess with the horns? Is anybody see Rush
as I get Leo and Rush mixed up up? Oh wait,
I just mixed up up again? Do you? Does anybody
see Rouge defeating No? No, Valerie, you have just such
a way with words. You just shout know and then
you stop.
Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
Speaker 4: No, the Tony Khan.
Speaker 6: Tony Khan cannot make the same mistake twice. He did
it with Darby and he's gonna did it with Brush.
Uh uh, not gonna happen. I'm sorry. I'm not a
fan of MJF. I've said it before and I'll say
it again. He's not Mie comeback. Sorry Jess, but he
he he's too he's way too talented, way too talented
to lose again. And if he lose again, oh my god,
he's gonna he's gonna throw a tan drum on everybody.
I don't want to say.
Speaker 4: It, honestly, whether he wins or loses, he's gonna throw
a tantrum. That's what MGF does. He throws tantrums. I
do want to point out, however, that Mark Briscoe is
already waiting in the wings for MGF Roush is just
a bridge match.
Speaker 6: I'm not thrilled with Mirk Bresco waiting in the wings.
I'm sorry, he's good, but no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, No, we've already had that feud. I agree,
we've already had that feud. Sorry I didn't want to,
I'm boost in, but we've already had. This is a
good match. This is what he wants. But it's kind
of at an NJF character lately to just hand out
uh title matches. Usually he makes people to earn him
or something, but he just gave out this this match.
Speaker 5: To Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 4: Ahead, Chris.
Speaker 5: That was a little surprising. But I think it's also
kind of like m j had enough of all the
internet trolls thing he can't wrestle, so he's gonna be like,
I'm going to prove you a holes wrong, but I'm
gonna do it when I feel like it against who
I want to. So like Ruth he is people. Look,
he's a dangerous fricking guy. I mean, you see his matches.
He just he whips the crap out of people, sometimes
literally with that Neon Green mic table. So MJF is
like Okay, I beat this guy. I prove that I ain't.
Speaker 4: No anybody else have any opinions on this looks like
a glorified squash match. To me, it should be a
good match. I mean, Ruth is going to get his
licks in figuratively speaking, I hope not literally because that's
just way too much that that that I want to see.
But I don't think Bruce's in the last ten minutes.
Speaker 5: Oh, I have to strongly disagree with you there. I
wouldn't be surprised that this is a fifteen to twenty
minute match.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5: I think it will be really good back and forth,
and Rush will have like moments where it looks like
he could absolutely win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 7: I hope it'll be a little showcase for him because
I kind of wondered why we were doing all these
squashes and if it was just a build up for
a you know, this title match, then okay, like that's fine.
I guess, like at least that sort of made sense.
But at the same time, like I know, Rush is
sometimes a pain in the butt to promoters and sometimes
has not been the best Carnie in the world, but
he's definitely one of the better wrestlers of his generation,
and I would like to see him back to doing that,
you know, at some point, like I don't know if
he got to really put his best foot forward at
other than his behavior was generally pretty nice during his
ro E Tron. I don't think we've really seen Roospie
that guy since really left CMLL. I'd hope that maybe,
along with you know, the resurgence we've seen in Andrade,
that he kind of realizes if he shows up in
plays Mold, that he's going to have the opportunity to
do that, to become that guy again. And I hope
he's got a left in him because he's not that old,
Like he's thirty six, thirty seven, like still got prime
years left. So I hope this for him, for his
sake and for my sake, is a huge fan of his.
I hope this parlay is into something. Mostly I'd like
to see a good match tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody else with any opinions on this match before
we move on? I guess not. So we're going to
move on to a match that I personally think may
grab match of the night. I think you guys probably
will too, if I read the room right and that
is Jet Speed going at it for the TNT Championship.
Kevin Knight and Mike Bailey, let's hear your opinions on this.
What do you think is going to happen?
Speaker 6: Oh boy, my heart is sinking because I love Mike
so much and I wanted to see it in Montreal.
Speaker 4: So hopefully the fueld will.
Speaker 6: Continue for two months and have the rematch in Montreal.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm seeing.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, you think that if Kevin Knight. So basically
what you're saying is that you think Kevin Knight is
going to win.
Speaker 6: I think so, but he's gonna cheat to win and
that's not gonna sit well with mine.
Speaker 4: And if I'm also reading what you're saying, right, you
think Kevin Knight may hold on to the TNT Championship
until aw redemption in Montreal two months from there.
Speaker 6: Yes, And I'm interesting and I'm seeing a special gear
made from Montreal with the quebecs flag. He will do
something crazy with his gear if it happens in Montreal,
That's what I'm seeing. He did it, and I think
it was Winnipeg for Dynamite against some JF. He did
the Canadian flag so I'm hoping that if he wrestles
in Montreal, he will do something special for the Quebec.
Speaker 4: And of course, talking about Speedball, Mike Bailey, right, yes, Okay,
I'm sorry, you were going to say something.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I don't know. I think I think you're right,
like clearly Speedball. I totally agree with Bell that Speedball
is going to be a featured guy and Redemption, So
if it ends up kind of being it would make
sense for this to sort of end in Shenanigans and
lead to a rematch between those two because that is
certainly the hottest match or Mike Bailey and I definitely
agree from a business perspective, he almost has to have
a big match in Montreal. He can't have his show
there and he's not one of the featured guys. I
mean that just seems crazy.
Speaker 4: Chris, go ahead, I think we cut you off here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna say, Val we are on the
exact same wavelength on this. I think really good match.
Kevin Knight will find a way to steal the wind
and then yeah, it leads to the rematch in Montreal
at Redemption, Like I'm one there with you and I hope, yes,
Feotball comes up in the gear and you get to
see him win, and yeah, I hope every I hope
exactly what you want to happen happens.
Speaker 6: I'm crossing my fingers. So, just just to put into parenthesis,
I bought the tickets, so I'm bringing my seventeen year
old daughter, and I bought the VIP package, so there
there's gonna be wrestlers that I could get pictures with,
and I'm hoping I'm crossing my fingers. It could be
either Kenny, which would be the dream, or it could
be Mike. So I'm thinking it would be Mike, so
it would be awesome.
Speaker 4: But you are talking about redemption in two months in month?
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, hey really quick here. I've been quiet because
my new place is in a flight path, so there
are a lot of planes going back and forth overhead
and I don't want that to get on the recording.
But with Speedball and Kevin Knight, I love them both,
so I'm I'm torn about what is going on with them.
I'm sad to see it. I'm I'm pulling for Speedball
just a little bit more, but I don't I don't
know this is gonna be a good long feud. I
know that.
Speaker 4: Literally, you know I gotta say is that you know
if you're in a flight path. We're talking about that
speed and turbulence between two between them, so it's just
a sound effect for the podcast. Wants to say something.
I do want to go to Marcus the entertainer in
the chat before MK talks. He's mka, I mean, I'm sorry.
Marcus the entertainer says, I feel like this match is
happening too soon. I'd like to hear Okay, I'd like
to your opinion about what Marcus said.
Speaker 2: I was he just told the words out of my mouth.
I think this should have been probably promoted later on
and stuff. At the one point. The thing I want
to say, and it's kind of controversial to some people
in here, but I I want to see Speedball get
some more personality. He's very whitewashed, he's very plain. I
need to see him get some attitude and and I'm
hoping during this feud he can get this. But he
needs to step up his game a little bit. His
gimmicks kind of bland, and maybe these two going back
and forth can do it. But I think this would
have been better put off until that pay per view
so that he can actually have that big moment.
Speaker 4: You know what, maybe, yeah, I mean that's interesting you
said that, Ka, because maybe the purpose of this match
is to get a pissed off Speedball Bailues not really
as concerned with winning the TNT title, but more concerned
about getting vengeance for the betrayal of Kevin Knight. I
don't know, but anyway, let's move on because we've got
yet another match in the Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament.
Will Osprey against Mark Davis former roommates Billy Goatzilla. Who
do you have in this match? And you know, look, spoiler,
if you haven't listened to our podcast, pretty much everybody
thinks We'll Osprey's going to win this whole tournament and
being all in, so is that still holding true with
this match with you guys?
Speaker 5: It is for me, but I am looking forward to
this match. This is the match I think and be
the match of the night. These two have had great
matches before. It was years back in the New Japan Cup.
I'm not gonna say which year because I don't remember
for sure, they had a hell of a match and
these two have only gotten better since then.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I was drinking go ahead and Mkay.
Speaker 2: Had a slight pause and there. Yeah, I really like
this matchup. It's a good setup. They have a great history.
Mark betrayed Will and he might want some vengeance. They
used to be in the United Empire together and they
split their ways, and I'm glad for marko what's happening
with him. But I really do see Will moving on
to the finals if he wins this correct, and that's
great for him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like it was kind of is when
they put Swerve in Osprey the opposite sides of the bracket,
what was eventually gonna happen, that's being said. I mean
I loved the first Davis Ospring match. I thought it
was fantastic. Made Davis look like a million bucks, really
kind of sold, not just like it kind of sold
like Osprey being broken down and not just in a
way where he's like walks out with the KT tape
and holds his neck all the time. But yeah, it
was it was. The first match was really good, finish
was killer. Definitely looking for, you know, then to face
each other with Osprey at full strength and Davis's performance
in recent recent months has been nothing short of spectacular,
So I think they're definitely going to bring the fireworks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, who else anybody else with an opinion about
this match?
Speaker 10: Well, y OS's gonna win.
Speaker 6: Ospray's gonna win. That's all I gotta say is just
I'm waiting for the finals and then I'm waiting for
all And to see who he's gonna face.
Speaker 4: So I'm just curious. And the Owen Heart the Men's
Own Heart Foundation Cup. Does anybody think that it's not
going to be Osprey and Swear facing each other. I'm
just curious.
Speaker 6: Wendy announced the bracket, I knew the finals was going
to be Osprey Verus's Swart.
Speaker 5: It was obvious.
Speaker 6: Obvious.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's them.
Speaker 7: And it goes back to the you know, the stuff
at all In before before the last all In, Like
those guys and Page were really kind of in a
sort of three way love triangle slash feud. So I
definitely think it makes sense to pick it back up
as kind of the the precursor to the new all In.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is one of those tournaments where the finals
to the old I mean, very predictable, but the jarney
seems really fun, Like we've had. We've already had three
really fun, entertaining matches. I think uh Osprey Davis is
going to be great. I think Square Brody King is
going to be great. And those two in the finals
A Forbidden Door are gonna put on an amazing show.
Like I'm predicting another Osprey five star match E Forbidden Door.
Speaker 4: Fair enough, Well, let's move on. Spoiler alert. We're talking.
We're gonna be talking about some women's matches because I
don't know the last time I've seen the women featured
as much as they are going to be featured on
Dynamite and Collision this week. It's been a it's been
pretty interesting seeing how this has all come together at
the Survival of the Fitness of course has a lot
to do with it. But we're going to talk about
the match between Alex Windsor and the wild Card. And
if you look at my caption, if you're looking at
this live on YouTube, I the captain. It will the
birds brawl. I am convinced that the wildcard is Jamie Hayter.
I do want to go. If you remember earlier in
the show, I mentioned that Flyboy had made a comment
and I want to go to that now let me
find it real quick fly Boy Rex. He did say
that the wildcard is either going to be Killer Kelly,
Danny Luna, or Charlie formerly known as Dakota Kai. The
wildcard has been used mostly for new talent debut examples
given Speedball and Josh Alexander. Pretty interesting take there, and
I appreciate that. What do you guys think who is
going to be the wildcard?
Speaker 7: By the way, I would love those are good names,
Like I wouldn't complain at all if AW was bringing
Dating Luna.
Speaker 1: Or Killer Kelly in.
Speaker 7: And they certainly like to sign people's spouses, so it
makes sense that Kelly would end up there eventually. I
feel like if it had been one of those, they
might have I don't think a lot of people are necessarily,
like super familiar with those names. I was a little surprised,
Like I think Speedball got a pretty good reaction, but
I think even he like I can't remember if I
can't remember if he got a preview tape or what,
but I feel like you're gonna bring in with somebody,
it would be good to have some kind of hype video.
So it makes me think either Hater, which is seems
to be from what I've heard from people, the favorite
potentially like a name that's big enough that's really going
to pop the crowd. So you're talking like a Shuri
or somebody. Surey and Windsor have a long history. Obviously
it's been really hot recently. Just Windsor has the last win.
I don't know what their schedule is though, you know,
it's impossible to know like kind of what the upcoming
schedule of a different company is. But yeah, I kind
of feel like it's either going to have to be
a good a good name like a Starlight Kids Hyper,
It's going to have to be a expansive be hater,
or else they probably should have run a hyph package.
Speaker 4: Yeah. One thing that I do want to say is
we tried to have this comedy. If you guys remember
we did try to have this conversation about the wildcard
last week. Somebody brought up Britt Baker. We all decided
that it wasn't going to be Britt Baker. But it
took us ten minutes to come to that conclusion, and
we never really got anything accomplished. The only thing that
we did accomplish was a name that came out was
Steph the Lander. So that is a name that I
just wanted to bring up from last week. Who else
has some thoughts on the wildcard here?
Speaker 5: I said Sadie's moment. Sorry, oh go ahead, go ahead,
I said, Mercedes. Some of those other names me kind
of thinking, sure, he would be definite, would be interesting
for sure, And I mean she's a freaking beast like
that would be a hell of a match. And I
think Windsor beat her for their last mess was for
the NJPWN Strong Championships, so I mean there's history there.
Dakota Tai or Charlie would be interesting for sure. There's
so there's a lot of good options for the wild card,
just like people would put out. But I'm sticking with
Mercedes Monete. I think with Tony Storm and willow Out,
they need her star power.
Speaker 9: See I have I.
Speaker 2: Said a couple of weeks ago in this as mentioned,
I think it would be a bad idea to put
Mercedes in there now because that would have her winning
twice in a row, and that diminishes more people's chances
to really shine who they are. And I don't think
she needs to be in that tournament. She can come
back and her right to win, and so she can
do it. I don't know who to put in there,
but but like someone said before, it has to be
a big name because they've been hyping this thing for
like a week and a half or not. So I
really think, uh, it needs to be a bigger thing
that people are gonna pop for.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I think not only not only for this round,
but potentially if you're talking to somebody big enough to
win it, it has to be a big match with
Persephone or Kazuki, whoever's gonna be there in the next
round too. We're gonna have to carry that. So those
two girls that aren't inside, aw, yes, it's a tough
It's gonna be a tough one.
Speaker 4: Well, we are going to talk about the Persefity and
Hazuki match in just a little bit. I do want
to go uh to Marcus in the chat, he says,
I would not get your hopes too high, or get
the hopes too high for this wild card. Now, there's
something that I alluded to last week where we were
starting to talk about I got on a britt Baker tangent. Uh,
you know, don't we get over hyped a little bit
on these wildcards? And the wild cards by and large
just turn out to be somebody that's with the company.
You know, Uh, Jamie Hayter would be a big deal,
but it may not be Jamie Hater. May be somebody
like Zeta Steele or my male world, I had somebody
like that, you know, let.
Speaker 7: Me give you let me give you a name then,
because this was my second pick, because I because I've
got Windsor win in the tournament. So that's like she's
gonna be whoever it is. And in my opinion, then
so that means, so let me give you a name,
Ruby Soho.
Speaker 4: That was a name that came up on the aw
fan Hop subrad at Umsore. But I'm interested in Marcus Mka.
You said no, no, no when it said when when
homp Sore said Alex Windsor is gonna win this whole thing?
He believes that Alex Windsor.
Speaker 2: Why is that you don't that would be incremely hokey
to have uh Mont the married or not, but those
two together when in all in in London, I just
don't think she's ready yet to do it. She has
a long time coming to do it. She's great at
what she does. But I don't think she's anywhere near
will Osprey status or main event status to be going
at it.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, and I disagree with you, Marcus.
Let me tell you why. First. I do not agree
with you on Alex Winsor not being main event status.
She's absolutely terrific. The thing I do agree with you
on is, in no way, shape or form, should they
have will Ospray and Alex Windsor winning this tournament and
going all in. But I do think Windsor needs to
go to all in. There is a type of match
at all in that they always have, and that's the
Casino Gauntlet, a men's and women's casino gauntlet match. I
would be more for Windsor winning the Casino Gauntlin match
and getting a world title shot down the line from
that that I would for her winning the owen Hart
Tournament because I agree with you, I mean, I mean
I maybe not. I think hochi is a really good
word in this. In this case, I think it would
be hokey to have both will Osprey and Alex Winsor
winning the owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament. I'm sorry anybody
else with an opinion on this.
Speaker 5: I'm looking briefly sucked on that. I do think both
will Osprey and Alex Puttinger will be holding titles at
the end of all win will Osprey with the men's
world title, Alex winsor with the women's tag team title.
Speaker 4: Interesting. Interesting?
Speaker 5: Why very interesting?
Speaker 4: Birds?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Soah, you're going yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, because I don't, like I said, I
think Mercedes is the wild card. I think she's gonna
win the whole thing. I don't say someone winning two
years in a row is a bad thing at all.
I think it establishes, you know, that the tournament is
something that's difficult to win, and Mercedes as a top
tier wrestler, and that's what it takes to win it,
not just once, but twice.
Speaker 10: I think that there's potential with the wild card for
it to be someone that nobody expects, nobody sees uh
them doing it. And I think that's Billy Starks.
Speaker 1: Woo.
Speaker 4: I love, yeah, yod, very good pick.
Speaker 10: I think it's her because nobody expects her.
Speaker 7: Uh she's she's.
Speaker 10: So very young, and uh, you know, people don't think
she can do it. Athena even didn't think that Billy
Starks could do the things that she's done, and you
know that's kind of her mentor, and I think she
just kind can come out of nowhere and beat the
crap out of everybody, and I'd love to see it.
So I would pick Billy Starks as the wildcard.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 4: Valerie, go ahead, and you have been trying to chime
in a couple of times here, so go ahead.
Speaker 6: Well, I agree with Chres. It's gonna be Mercedes the
wild card. But what just ned just said? It throw
me out of the loop. I love the idea, I
really do.
Speaker 4: Billy Starks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if it's not Mercedes, then it's gonna be her
or Charlie. But somebody said, sorry, sorry, is she not
in in the tournament?
Speaker 1: I think she is.
Speaker 4: No, Sia is in the tournament. Somebody said, sureI two
different people. Okay, it's two different people.
Speaker 6: Okay, sorry, I'm not familiar with stardom.
Speaker 4: So well, let's move on because we have another women's
match that's really big. This one is on Collision, and
that's Persephone and Azuki. Persepete, of course, is the CMML
CMLL women's champion. Azuki just appeared on Collision this past week.
I'm interested to hear what you thought of that match
between Azuki and I thought by A World was out
of this world in that match. Hazuki, by the way,
is the most recently, but A was the CMLLL Japanese
Women's Champion. She has appeared in CML And if you
don't know anything about Azuki, she also has an alter ego.
I can't remember what its name is right now, but
it is a masked wrestler. The thing about Azuki also
is that recently, in the last couple of years, she's
more accomplished and more known as a tag team specialist,
not necessarily a singles match special list. But what did
you think of Hazuki and Maya World last week? And
do you think Persephone was her injury? You know ca
fabe or was it a real injury? Do you think, well,
we really don't know. And do you think Persephone is
going to win this match?
Speaker 2: Yes, Persephone? I think you don't put somebody and who
hasn't been on a w TV that much to to
to do. I think it's a great match, but I
think it's going to be Persephone. She's she's been known
and on TV for a while.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have a un commentary feels like they were
they were really trying to get her over a little
more and too, so that match was awesome last week
May Maya, you're you're right about Mia Felston, Like she
looked incredible. She's she's a that's gonna end up being
like one of the luckiest that goes for And I
mean I answered too, like she can do a lot
more than she has been doing. But yeah, Mina looks
like a star and has basically since the first time
I saw her wrestle May Weekend two or three years ago.
Speaker 1: Right, I agree, And yeah, she's a.
Speaker 7: That was a great match, Like Kazuki looked awesome too,
Like when she did that like freaking power bombing off
the rope, say about screamed like I screamed like Isaiah
Cassidy going up in the air.
Speaker 4: It was like, just get Isaiah Cassidy and Ricochet had
a scream off in the middle of the ring, and
just anybody has any thoughts on this match, go ahead?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think perceptibly will win miss but this is
another I think it's gonna be a really great match.
Uh Zuoki versus My World was fantastic. Both women just
showed out really put on an amazing match, and you
mentioned the injury. I think it was probably one of those.
She probably had something minor or you know, multiple minor
injuries to just wear and tear and needed.
Speaker 1: Just some rest.
Speaker 5: So they probably did a little bit of a KFE
deal to let her get that time to recover, because
sometimes that's the only way. You just have to take
a week off, a week or two off every now
and then, or you're going to be in pain every day,
every moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The only real knock on Persephone. I mean, she's a
phenomenal wrestler and she looks like a million bucks, but
she has had a worrying amount of knee injuries as
a young person. And again I think this was it
was issues with her knee. I believe she actually got
injured in CMLL after the KFA of injury. I think
it was the center of the Friday show after that
TV match that was when she actually got hurt.
Speaker 4: I do want to go to the chap. Marcus had
Entertainers said, I am super excited for Persephone and Azuki,
and then he further said, Zuki really impressed me, having
not seen a full match of hers before and again,
I do want to reiterate that Uzuki is not as
singles wrestler as much as she used to be. But yeah,
that was a terrific match. But I do have to
again give my world all the credit in the world
for what she did in that I'm gonna talk about.
Speaker 11: Sorry, Well, well, that's the thing that I love about
AW because you discover another wrestler Azuki I've never saw.
Speaker 6: I've never seen her before until last week. I love her.
I don't know why, but I love her and I
can't wait for the match against Persephony. But I think
Persephony is going to be the winner. But that's what
I love about AW is that you can discover any
any wrestlers from all over the world you never saw before,
and you fell in love and that's it.
Speaker 1: All right, Chrish.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was just gonna say, my world talk about
someone maximizing their time and just you know, the old
addy takes every opportunity given to you like she did,
and she has made the most of it. And yeah,
they found a store.
Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting when you're talking about Hazuki. Hazuki
is of course I do follow, starting quite closely. Hazuki
is a massive baseball fan. She's so much of a
baseball fan that she does go to as many games
as she can, and she often will wear a baseball
jersey over her ring gear when she comes to the ring.
Another thing about about Azuki is that having been a
fan of stardom, you see her. I've seen her evolve.
She has extremely thick and long hair. It's been cut now,
but there are times when she's wrestled that I swear
to God, she's like a couple of inches away hair
length wise from being cousin it from the Adams family.
I mean, it's that that just that much hair. I mean,
she could definitely Causeblay cousin it without putting out a wig.
It's it's hysterical to me. I Marcus in the chat says,
by a world is a star in the making. I
kind of have to disagree with you, respectfully, Marcus, because
I think my world is a star right now. She
just needs to have the platform to do it. I
think Tony Kin is going to give it to her.
Speaker 7: He is desperate seeing more Hazuki. Go back and watch
the new Japan Long Beach Show title match between her
and Mercedes Money. Okay, I will see sorry, that is
the hardest I have ever seen a crowd pull for
a babyface like it was ninety five to five.
Speaker 1: It was insane energy. It was amazing.
Speaker 4: I mean that that match took place like on what
one or two days before Christmas or after Christmas? I
mean it was really late in the year, but as
soon as it happened, everybody was like, this is the
match of the year contender, and it really was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, legitimately what a strong style of all of twenty
twenty four is the show? I just looked it up
because I was gonna mention, Yeah, if you want to say,
as the Key just at her absolute best in my
although I don't lock as much stardom, so I can't
say yeah.
Speaker 4: But you also have to give credit where credits due.
Mercedes Monet was on or game that match, which she's
been on her game the last year least or more.
I mean, it really hasn't.
Speaker 5: I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think that Mercedes Mode has had a bad
match since the Britt Baker match. It all in and
that was not Mercedes Monet's fault.
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, both women in that match, absolutely and they
work so well together, like it was just one of
those instinct kind of in ring chemistry things. They just
absolutely killed it. Yeah, it was a match of the
year continder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just happened so late in the year that
it probably didn't matter. I want to move on because
we are running out of time, but I want to
give plenty of time to address divine dominion against TIJ.
I don't know what do you guys think? I this
this match is intriguing. Do you think TYJ can actually
pull off a victory? Look, if TIJ does win this match,
wouldn't you agree that this opens up both Lena Cross
and Megan Bain to enter the Survival of the Fittest
qualifier matches.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'll jump in first. Finally, TIJ has a tag
team match. In my opinion, they should have been the
first ever women's tag team champion. That's my opinion and
I'm sticking to it. So when they wrestled last week,
I was rooting for them and I was super happy
for them. They got back together with a purpose, and
the purpose has always has been the tag team champion,
and they're gonna be tack team champions Saturday.
Speaker 4: Valerie, I do want to ask you a specific question here.
The reports are were that Anna Jay's AW contract is
running out fairly soon. And the last I heard after
she returned a couple of you know what, was it
three weeks ago when she returned for a match. I
believe it was Speifel had a report saying no, her
contract is still coming up soon. So if they win,
meaning ty J wins, does that necessarily mean that her
contract has been renewed? And if they lose, is this
a swan song for Anna J? I don't know.
Speaker 6: That's a good one. I didn't thought about it. Thank
you for reminding me.
Speaker 10: Kelsa.
Speaker 4: Uhh, that's hard.
Speaker 12: That's really really hard because Anna has been in AW
since day one, I believe if I remember correctly, so,
she's put in in the work, so it would be
it would be difficult for me to see her go,
especially since we all know who she's dating. So oh man,
I don't know really, but I'm crossing my fingers. I'm
still sticking to with my with my prediction that they're
going to be finally the tag team champion on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Does anybody agree with Valerie when she says that ty
J is going to defeat the Divine Dominion?
Speaker 5: I disagree yeah, but I disagree as well.
Speaker 2: I just say that in my opinion because if Tony
would have won the titles on him in the first place,
they would have done I don't think he sees something
and then they've been here forever and they've really never
had had.
Speaker 1: A title shot.
Speaker 2: I I in my opinion, thank Anna J needs to
try to go to n XT and see what she
could do there, or or or do something a little
bit different and branch out.
Speaker 4: Well startup is also an option.
Speaker 7: I definitely think he could use a change of scenery
and I like Aea. And what I will say about
that match is that's That match on Saturday was probabe,
the best thing looked in a long time.
Speaker 1: I know Ty's missed a.
Speaker 7: Lot of time, but Yeah's Anna is really still to
this day only kind of in years shown flashes. I
feel like there's too many good wrestlers knocking spending time
in ROH to kind of keep going back to the
well with Anta J for mid card matches. You know,
you got better options. But that means said, I really
like the dynamics of that match on Saturday. I kind
of liked them, not like it wasn't really drag out
like they really dominated the last two minutes of that match,
and to the degree where they almost kind of want
it clean at the end. I thought that was kind
of a smart thing, really sort of turning the five
minute challenge on its head. But that man said, yeah,
I would be surprised to see I would be surprised
to see Divide in Dominion lose this week.
Speaker 1: But that's that's not say.
Speaker 7: Even if the NAJ contract stuff is true, I guess
nobody knows for sure. And also I could get solved
at the last minute. I still think they could potentially
win the match and then trade it back a week
later or something like that. They're always solutions to that
kind of thing. I mean, you Powerhouse Hobs, we lost
title of his last night, so that's true.
Speaker 4: Well, when it comes to ty J and Divine Dominion
in their last match, Hams or what I mean, you
kind of said that this was Tyj's best match, if
I if I heard you correctly, Why what do you
think stood out to you to make it like that?
Speaker 1: Oh aggression?
Speaker 7: Like purely so, I think when Tye's working, it's because
she is a really good striker, and you know, sometimes
that's because she's doing the twenty twenty two thousand and
five Kanto stuff where she's just gonna throw a knee
and she made to hit you in the face with it,
and that's just like part of the risk. But right
at a J, I think the biggest issue with an
J that I've seen historically is that she doesn't move
well in the ring. She doesn't run like an athlete.
But she was really aggressive in that match. I really
liked seeing that, Like it really definitely well her out there.
Kind of being hungry to go after wrestling moves, I
think definitely sort of changes her dynamic.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, one of the things that I noticed
in that match, and I agree with you, was that
both and a Jay and time out ty mellow Ty,
she goes by mellow still right in the ring.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were quick. They were faster than I had
ever seen them before in the ring. They you use
the word aggressive, I want one hundred percent agree with that.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 4: They seemed confident in what they were doing. They were smooth,
they were fluid. I really have no qualms at all
critiques about there that match. They were dominant, as you said,
in the last two minutes of the match. I thought
it absolutely was the best match that I've ever seen
either of them work together.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if that's the energy were going to see going forward,
And I'm happy to have her back, But you know,
and it takes sometimes, it takes people a while, Like
she was put into a tough spot.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, when she debuted.
Speaker 7: On TV, she had like what like eight or ten
matches total, Like she basically was just a body the
QT Marshall could get there.
Speaker 4: So I don't think I don't think she actually had
uh any indie experience. I think all of her experience
before she made it onto actual TV was in Dark
and Dark Elevation.
Speaker 2: She wasn't on NXT for a little bit before.
Speaker 4: I think she did have one match in w W,
but many, I mean Chris Statlander had a match, Britt
Baker had a match. I mean, there were there's several
a W women who had matches I wasn't. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: Kelson time wasn't in NXT and she if I remember
she was in a may On Classic.
Speaker 4: That is that is correct that.
Speaker 6: She did a couple of matches there before jumping as.
Speaker 4: Yeah Marcus in the chats as Anna j was a
pandemic debut, just like you were saying they needed bodies
and Anna J was there, they got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was Brodie King's girl, and that
she kind of tagged along with and said that's that's her. Yeah,
that's who she really liked and stuff. So I mean,
I can't go wrong with his picks. But I don't
think she's shown what she can really do, and maybe
she needs a change of scenery.
Speaker 4: I think it's just all about confidence. And I think
that again last week on Collision, she showed that confidence,
which is what's needed.
Speaker 1: You can make.
Speaker 4: Yourself a lot better wrestler just by pretending to be
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Absolutely true? Absolutely true.
Speaker 7: I could look at Dominasteria like it's absolutely true, and
she had. I just looked it up if cage matches
correct and has it all. She had five matches prior
to wrestling Chetah as her first still vice.
Speaker 1: Match, all in these school matches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well look, I'm really I mean it's been a while.
I think since Blood and Gods that I've been looking
forward to a week of women's matches in AW. This
week has really got me intrigued. So and then of
course we've got Survival the Fittest that we haven't even
seen the first match scheduled for that yet. So this
next month with the Owen and the Survival of the
Fittest is going to be quite a boon for fans
of women's wrestling in aw I'm looking forward to it.
But anyway, that's going to be the show for this week.
We'll be back next Tuesday night at eight forty five
Eastern for another episode of Ignition. You can join our
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