Speaker 1: AW tonight was at the Palms in Las Vegas, the
Speaker 1: place where it all began seven years ago. I was
Speaker 1: there for that first double or Nothing. It all started
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. So they were back tonight, and the
Speaker 1: message coming out of this show tonight was very simple.
Speaker 1: I haven't had the chance to say this in a while.
Speaker 1: Champs are chumps. We had a Champs are Chumps night
Speaker 1: here on TV in the first example of champs are chumps.
Speaker 1: And actually I should say that we have four more
Speaker 1: matches now that we know of for this Grand Slam
Speaker 1: Australia show, which is taking place not this Saturday, but
Speaker 1: it's actually next Saturday. It's a special episode of Collision.
Speaker 1: It's on Valentine's Day. That was actually the other thing
Speaker 1: about tonight's show. They set up a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: new matches. But the first example of champs are chumps
Speaker 1: comes with our main event tonight, which was MJF THEAW
Speaker 1: World Champion, who was not defending his title, but he
Speaker 1: had an eliminator match against Broke. Now, when this match
Speaker 1: was set up on Dynamite last week, you remember me saying,
Speaker 1: because I'm not a big fan of all these eliminator
Speaker 1: matches that we get every week on TV. But I said,
Speaker 1: you know, at least in this case, it makes sense, right,
Speaker 1: there's a story going into it because MJF has been
Speaker 1: stalked and terrorized now for weeks by this man ever
Speaker 1: since the Bandido match. And as MJF said to brody King,
Speaker 1: you know, you need to beat someone credible, You need
Speaker 1: to beat someone elite if you want to get a
Speaker 1: shot in my World Championship, and Brody King huddled with
Speaker 1: Tony Kannan they decided, you know what, you're right, and
Speaker 1: who's more elite than the all elite wrestling World champions
Speaker 1: So that's how this match came about. And I live
Speaker 1: with that. You know, that's actually a fine way to
Speaker 1: explain us getting this eliminator match tonight. What I was
Speaker 1: not anticipating is that they were going to have brody
Speaker 1: King not only beat MJF, but beat MJF in what
Speaker 1: about thirty seconds? I believe it was. The World Champian
Speaker 1: was squashed in the main event tonight, and Brody King
Speaker 1: has punched his ticket. Hopefully he's got his visa ready
Speaker 1: to go, his passport all ready to go, and he
Speaker 1: is going to be in Australia challenging for the World
Speaker 1: Championship against MJF. Now, once they announced this match, it
Speaker 1: seemed pretty clear to me that they were setting up
Speaker 1: for a Grand Slam title match, which means that if
Speaker 1: you're doing an eliminator here, Brodi King has to win.
Speaker 1: And there's any number of different ways they could have
Speaker 1: gone with this, as far as like a cheap finish, right,
Speaker 1: you could have had MJF who's just out of desperation,
Speaker 1: gets himself disqualified, a low blow, a belt shot, a nutshot,
Speaker 1: something like that, and Brody King wins and that's how
Speaker 1: he gets a title match. None of the ways though,
Speaker 1: that you could do that are terribly exciting, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the main event of your show. What a
Speaker 1: lame fucking way to end the show. So what Tony
Speaker 1: Kahn decided to do here was to shock people and
Speaker 1: to give them an ex citing, unpredictable finish. And that's
Speaker 1: the best compliment that I could pay. What happened here
Speaker 1: is it was certainly unpredictable. I don't think anybody was
Speaker 1: looking at this expecting MJF was going to be squashed
Speaker 1: in thirty seconds and pinned in the middle of the ring,
Speaker 1: and it's great to have unpredictability on the shows every
Speaker 1: now and again. I don't think anybody's gonna complain about that.
Speaker 1: I will never be a fan, though, of beating your
Speaker 1: world champion in a manner like this. And I understand
Speaker 1: mjfs a heel. It's not like he's incapable of getting
Speaker 1: his heat back. In the big picture, it's not a
Speaker 1: big deal. It's just more as sort of a rule,
Speaker 1: beating your world champion is one thing. Beating your world
Speaker 1: champion in this way, you've got to be very careful
Speaker 1: in how you do it. And the way they did
Speaker 1: it here was they had Hangman Page came out, so
Speaker 1: there was a distraction. So MJF has his out there
Speaker 1: because Old Sea Biscuit came out to the ring and
Speaker 1: he provided the distraction which then led to him getting
Speaker 1: choked out and then beaten by Brody Kinks. So he
Speaker 1: at least has out when we see him on TV
Speaker 1: next week. But yeah, yeah, there's a reason why I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of these eliminator matches. And we actually
Speaker 1: had two of them on this show tonight where the
Speaker 1: champions got beaten. That was one example. The other example
Speaker 1: was with the women's tag team titles because we had
Speaker 1: the Babes of Wrath losing to Megabad the team of
Speaker 1: Meghan Bain and Penelope four to set up a tag
Speaker 1: team championship match with those teams for Grand Slam as well,
Speaker 1: So he succeeded in setting up a bunch of new
Speaker 1: matches for next week, but doing two eliminator matches and
Speaker 1: having the champions all lose here in that manner here
Speaker 1: on this show. That was certainly a choice. So that
Speaker 1: was the second example of champster chumps here on this show.
Speaker 1: Now to go back to the world title picture here
Speaker 1: for a second, Hangman Page basically got a buy to Australia.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to. He was scheduled too and will
Speaker 1: meet the winner of Kenny Omega against Andrade, right, we
Speaker 1: knew that coming into this show, and Hangman wrestled on
Speaker 1: the show tonight, but it was all about omegaan Andrade,
Speaker 1: which is an interesting one because if you remember how
Speaker 1: Andrede returned to the company a few months ago, he
Speaker 1: attacked Kenny Omega. There was no retribution for it because
Speaker 1: he had to immediately be pulled off the show because
Speaker 1: he was still technically under contract to w w WEE
Speaker 1: and then they got everything sorted out Andred came back.
Speaker 1: There's been no mention of what happened back in October
Speaker 1: on the anniversary show. There was nothing. At least we
Speaker 1: were going to actually get some form of follow up
Speaker 1: here a loose end right that was never tied up.
Speaker 1: We were actually going to get a match here tonight
Speaker 1: between the two of them, and the winner of that
Speaker 1: match would wrestle Hangman in Australia. The winner of that
Speaker 1: would then go on to challenge MJF or whoever the
Speaker 1: champion is in Los Angeles in March at Revolutions, almost
Speaker 1: like a little mini tournament sort of. So we got
Speaker 1: that match tonight. We got the match, not the first
Speaker 1: ever match they have wrestled once before, but we did
Speaker 1: get the Kenny Omega Andrade match was very good, his
Speaker 1: best thing on the entire show, and Hangman Page now
Speaker 1: has an opponent for Australia. Now, if you would have
Speaker 1: asked me before the show, who do I think is
Speaker 1: going to be wrestling Hangman on that show, I would
Speaker 1: have said Kenny Omega. I was surprised when I saw that.
Speaker 1: Andrade has now gone back to back weeks beating former
Speaker 1: aw World champions en route to getting the match with
Speaker 1: Hangman in Australia. It will be Andrade who is doing
Speaker 1: the best work that we have seen him as far
Speaker 1: as his work on American television in either of the
Speaker 1: two big promotions. Andrade right now is what I call
Speaker 1: is in final form. He is in final form right now.
Speaker 1: He looks I mean he's out there. Obviously physically he's
Speaker 1: in the best shape of his life, but he's out there.
Speaker 1: He's flirting with the ladies in the front row, He's
Speaker 1: having these great matches. He is in his final form
Speaker 1: right now, and he is actually one step closer now
Speaker 1: to potentially getting a world championship match in the main
Speaker 1: event of one of their biggest pay per views of
Speaker 1: the year. That do I think he is actually going
Speaker 1: to go to the main event of Revolution? I do not,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy to see him in the top mix.
Speaker 1: When they brought him back as a member of the
Speaker 1: Don Kallis family, one of my fears was he's going
Speaker 1: to end up being number four or five at best
Speaker 1: in a faction of about seventeen. So how are we
Speaker 1: supposed to believe that this time around? This run for
Speaker 1: him is going to be any different than it was previously. Right,
Speaker 1: they have to do something to really help him stand
Speaker 1: out and break out of the pack. I am under
Speaker 1: no illusions that this is going to last. This is
Speaker 1: going to be some sort of long term thing where
Speaker 1: you know, he's going to be a number one or
Speaker 1: two in that group for the foreseeable future. But for
Speaker 1: the time being at least, he's firmly embedded in that
Speaker 1: top mix and it's coming at a time where he's
Speaker 1: putting in his best work. So I don't know how
Speaker 1: long this is going to last, but I've been enjoying it,
Speaker 1: and he's been having some kick ass matches here on TV.
Speaker 1: Why not one more? So we know we're going to
Speaker 1: get him and Hangman in Australia, and not this weekend,
Speaker 1: but the following weekend. We also learned that John Moxley,
Speaker 1: speaking of Callus Family Members, is going to be putting
Speaker 1: his Continental title on the line against Kenoski Takesha. That
Speaker 1: is now official as well for Grand Slam Australia and
Speaker 1: here I am just waiting for that rematch between Takeshta
Speaker 1: and Okada. We better be getting that at Revolution. We
Speaker 1: better be getting it. They're really they're they're taking their time,
Speaker 1: they're really dragging this out. It was another wrestling heavy
Speaker 1: show tonight, which was actually I have to say, it
Speaker 1: was actually welcome after we had three fucking matches on
Speaker 1: Raw Monday Night, coming off of a four match PLA.
Speaker 1: We had three matches on Monday Night Raw, none of
Speaker 1: which were particularly good. Tonight, I think we had seven matches,
Speaker 1: so I was okay with getting an extra dose of
Speaker 1: wrestling since we didn't on Monday Night. I just wish
Speaker 1: again there was more in the way of compelling story
Speaker 1: on this show. What they threaded throughout the show story wise,
Speaker 1: involved Darby Allen being kidnapped by the war Dogs and
Speaker 1: left for dead in the desert, and I was left
Speaker 1: sitting here wondering, am I watching AW or am I
Speaker 1: watching WCW. Didn't end too well for WCW. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this show. This is your AW Dynamite review. It
Speaker 1: is Wednesday night, February fourth, twenty twenty six. I'm the
Speaker 1: Solemn Monster, like and subscribe. Super chats are open, we
Speaker 1: get any new ones that pop up here on what
Speaker 1: I am anticipating will be a quiet night after a
Speaker 1: very busy weekend. I'll be reading your messages, so I'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and get them on in now. And also,
Speaker 1: of course we have to spin the wheel. We have
Speaker 1: some business to transact here before we get into all
Speaker 1: of this from Dynamite tonight. So we're gonna spin the
Speaker 1: wheel find out how many likes we need here tonight
Speaker 1: for our Be the Booker segment. Will we be doing
Speaker 1: a Be the Booker four twenty A very interesting number,
Speaker 1: four twenty, So that is the magic number. We are
Speaker 1: almost halfway there. I don't know. I'm kind of fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty oh whether or not we hit the goal tonight,
Speaker 1: So you guys know what to do. Get to work.
Speaker 1: That's your home assignments four twenty time everybody. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I liked. When this show opened. We had
Speaker 1: the old school Saturday Night's Main Events style of promos
Speaker 1: that we have seen them use on Collision. They did
Speaker 1: them on Dynamite today. They are those rapid fire promos.
Speaker 1: They opened with MJF cutting a promo on brody King.
Speaker 1: We got a promo then from brody King, we got
Speaker 1: one from Kenny Omega. We had one from Don Kallis
Speaker 1: who talked about all of the different Kallus family matches
Speaker 1: that were on the show tonight, and Willow Nightingale and
Speaker 1: Harley Cameron, Megan Bain, Penelope Ford. Everyone had a chance
Speaker 1: to cut a little promo and talk and preview the
Speaker 1: matches on the show. I would not mind this becoming
Speaker 1: a more regular feature, not saying they have to do
Speaker 1: it every week. I enjoy it. I hope they do
Speaker 1: it not just on Collision, but they do it on Dynamite.
Speaker 1: But they opened with a trios match with the Death Riders,
Speaker 1: John Moxley, Pack Daniel Garcia against the Cat against Kyrie.
Speaker 1: Did you see the video? By the way, I laugh
Speaker 1: my I just left my ass off. They had these video.
Speaker 1: Whoever came up with this idea deserves a raise. So
Speaker 1: during the Rumble on Saturday, they were shooting video in
Speaker 1: the back. Whenever people would be eliminated from the Rumble,
Speaker 1: they would come backstage and there was like a golf
Speaker 1: cart and they would get in the golf cart and
Speaker 1: they would be driven wherever some other location in the back.
Speaker 1: I guess, so Oscar and Kyrie are back there and
Speaker 1: Oscar is in the golf cart. Kyrie is either in
Speaker 1: the golf cart or trying to get in, and Osca
Speaker 1: just boots her out of the golf cart and then
Speaker 1: tells the driver to go, and she forces Kyrie to
Speaker 1: run behind. She jogs behind the golf cart as Osca
Speaker 1: and the driver they drive off, And I'm like, this
Speaker 1: woman is She's just She's perfect. Osca is perfect. I
Speaker 1: don't know how anybody could hate this woman. And she's
Speaker 1: a heel, but I don't know how anybody can hate
Speaker 1: this woman. I'm actually gna be very upset and very
Speaker 1: disappointed when they finally do the breakup between them. But
Speaker 1: that was fantastic. So Moxley and Takeshta. Anyway, was the
Speaker 1: Kallus family. Josh, Alexander, Kenoski, Takeshta and El Clone was
Speaker 1: in action tonight. Moxley and Takeshta. They tagged in a
Speaker 1: few minutes into this got a big reaction, started throwing
Speaker 1: bombs until Alexander and Clone attacked from behind. Pack Gott
Speaker 1: worked over during the commercial break coming back, he started
Speaker 1: swinging at anything that moved. Moxley and Takasha. They tagged
Speaker 1: back in. They kept up some forearms. Each man traded exploders.
Speaker 1: Moxley stood tall, he sent Alexander outside and he caught
Speaker 1: a diving Clone El. Clone got caught out of midair
Speaker 1: with a cutter. Didn't we see that at the Royal Rumble?
Speaker 1: I think we saw that with Javon Evans and Randy
Speaker 1: Orton right he caught was it Evans? He caught flying
Speaker 1: in he went for the og cutter, I think that's
Speaker 1: what it was, and he got caught with an RKO.
Speaker 1: I believe they tried a spot like that when they
Speaker 1: wrestled in NXT. It didn't go very well, so I
Speaker 1: guess that was their chance to redo what they could
Speaker 1: not do the first time. But anyway, down goes El Clone.
Speaker 1: Garcia made a blind tag. Moxley leveled Takeshta with the
Speaker 1: King Kong Lariot. Garcia then sank in the Dragon Tamer
Speaker 1: while Moxley hit a curb stump on Ta Keshta while
Speaker 1: he was in the hold, and for some reason, Garcia
Speaker 1: let go of the hold tried for a coover. Alexander
Speaker 1: made the save, so the match broke down. At this point,
Speaker 1: Clone took out Pack and we had Moxley then coming
Speaker 1: out with the Tope. Suasida wiped him out. Garcia ran
Speaker 1: right into a blue thunderbomb by Takeshta for a near fall.
Speaker 1: Takesha went for a power drive knee, didn't work. He
Speaker 1: got caught with a forearm, but he came back with
Speaker 1: a bastard driver into the wheelbarrow released German and then
Speaker 1: he hit the power drive knee and Garcia kicked out
Speaker 1: and Takesha's like, fuck this, We're putting an end to this,
Speaker 1: and finally he flattened him with a raging fire and
Speaker 1: he got the win. We got some fun back and
Speaker 1: forth here a different points of this match between Pack
Speaker 1: and l Clone. I thought they were working very well together.
Speaker 1: That was kind of fun to watch. But this was
Speaker 1: about giving Takesha a win because they're prepping him for
Speaker 1: a title match, you know. And they made it official
Speaker 1: he is going to challenge John Moxley in Australia on
Speaker 1: the fourteenth for the Continental title. So now we know
Speaker 1: we have a date and we have a time and
Speaker 1: a location for that match. They did something else here
Speaker 1: yet it's a minor production thing, but I liked it.
Speaker 1: I feel like they've done this before and then they
Speaker 1: just got away from doing it. They put at the
Speaker 1: end of this match, they put a timer a graphic
Speaker 1: and a timer in the upper right hand corner, letting
Speaker 1: us know that in forty minutes at the top of
Speaker 1: the hour, we were going to get our match between
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega and androde So letting you know, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: exactly when you can tune in to see the big match.
Speaker 1: And I like that. It's a small thing, but again
Speaker 1: something I would like to see them start incorporating into
Speaker 1: the shows more often. So Renee was backstage with Swerve,
Speaker 1: Strickland and Prince Nana. Swerve didn't say a word. It
Speaker 1: was all Nana here. He cut the promo, but she asked, uh,
Speaker 1: where is your focus now? Where does your focus shift
Speaker 1: to after the loss to Andrade last week? So Nana said,
Speaker 1: our focus is right where it's always been. Just because
Speaker 1: we lost one match doesn't mean that we're going anywhere.
Speaker 1: Said Swerve. Did not say a word, as I mentioned
Speaker 1: due throughout this entire promo. He just walked off when
Speaker 1: it was over. Not the last we would see of
Speaker 1: him on this show. We got a video package on
Speaker 1: will Osprey showing various highlights of his from aw also
Speaker 1: mentioning the next surgery, showing X rays of the screws
Speaker 1: that are now surgically implanted in his neck. Ex Caliber
Speaker 1: said the surgery was a success. We still have no
Speaker 1: date though, no time frame as far as when he'll
Speaker 1: be back. Take your time as long as it takes.
Speaker 1: You don't want to mess around with the neck. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's probably itching to get back in time for
Speaker 1: the Owen. He is gonna he's gonna be beside himself
Speaker 1: if he can't be back in time for that Wembley
Speaker 1: Stadium show. I'm sure he's doing everything in his power
Speaker 1: to make sure that he is back in time to
Speaker 1: be on that Wembley Stadium show. And I am sure
Speaker 1: that if Tony Khan has his way, will Osbury will
Speaker 1: win the Owen and he will be in the main event,
Speaker 1: challenging probably MJF for the World Championship in London in August.
Speaker 1: And all I'm all I'm saying is that's great as
Speaker 1: long as he's one hundred percent. Like I just I
Speaker 1: see these updates on like Cody of Boushie on social
Speaker 1: and I know Bushi's madman, I mean, he's just out
Speaker 1: of his mind, but I see these periodic updates from
Speaker 1: him and like that horrendous injury that he sustained. But
Speaker 1: he's talking about like the doctors are saying this, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to be back in you know, half the time,
Speaker 1: I'll yeah, I'll be back for mister Tony Kahan, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, it's great. It's great to have goals,
Speaker 1: but like, dude, don't rush back, you know, don't rush back.
Speaker 1: Heal up. The world continues on without you. When you're
Speaker 1: good and ready, we'll get you back. Feel the same
Speaker 1: way about Osprey. He's too valuable for him to come
Speaker 1: back prematurely from an injury like that. So in the
Speaker 1: fact that they didn't give any sort of timeline, I
Speaker 1: think kind of indicates they don't know when he'll be back.
Speaker 1: But just because they had a video package here, some
Speaker 1: people might look into that and say, oh, he must
Speaker 1: be on his way back soon. No, they're just reminding
Speaker 1: you don't forget about him, but it'll be a while
Speaker 1: yet before we see him back. We had Orange Cassidy
Speaker 1: and Timeless Tony Storm against Jordan Oways and Britney Brooks.
Speaker 1: This was now earlier today. Cassidy and Storm asked Tony
Speaker 1: Khan to be a standby match because Tony Khan does
Speaker 1: these live streams on social media. He's always got that
Speaker 1: coffee cup. I wonder what is actually in the cup.
Speaker 1: Is it coffee, is it water, is it something else?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he always has that cup in
Speaker 1: his hand. But he's doing his little pre Dynamite live
Speaker 1: stream on x Orange. Cassidy wandered in, Tony Storm wandered in,
Speaker 1: and they want it to be the standby match, and
Speaker 1: he said, well, if there's time, if certain matches you
Speaker 1: go go under their time or whatever, we would love
Speaker 1: to have you on the show in a standby match
Speaker 1: here on Dynamite. So apparently time opened up not even
Speaker 1: half an hour into the show, we got a standby match.
Speaker 1: As they continue to misuse and abuse the concept of
Speaker 1: the standby match, we got a standby match here. This
Speaker 1: was very quick. I'm not going to get into what
Speaker 1: happened here, although I could, and it would still only
Speaker 1: take me maybe twenty five seconds. Cassidy popped Jordan Oasis
Speaker 1: with an orange punch and he won it for its team.
Speaker 1: That's really that's all you need to know about the
Speaker 1: match itself. After the match, though, Cassidy got on the
Speaker 1: mic and he told Tony, He's like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could do this. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: can do this, and he is making reference to the
Speaker 1: hair versus hair mixed tag team match that has been
Speaker 1: signed for Grand Slam, Orange Cassidy and Tony Storm against
Speaker 1: Wheeler Yuda, who just looks like a forest creature with
Speaker 1: that hair, and Marina Shaffir. That match is efficient, but
Speaker 1: now he's having doubts. He says, I like my hair,
Speaker 1: and Tony takes the mic and she wonders, you know,
Speaker 1: what was I thinking coming up with that stipulation. She
Speaker 1: said that her hair is her livelihood, and without it,
Speaker 1: she'll look like a boiled egg or an angry penis.
Speaker 1: That's what she said. I don't know what an angry
Speaker 1: penis looks. What exactly, what exactly does an angry penis
Speaker 1: look like? I don't know. I'm generally a very happy guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Tony's outfit was great, says Winston. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was wearing denim. She looked very good in the
Speaker 1: in the denim, so she said. She looked at Luther,
Speaker 1: who was bald, and then she just crumbled down to
Speaker 1: her knees and Luther placed her her robe over her.
Speaker 1: But then she rose up and she reminded everyone who
Speaker 1: the hell they are. Two things in Australia will happen
Speaker 1: or one of two things. Either Orange Cassidy is gonna
Speaker 1: give Wheeler Dah a comb over, or she will make
Speaker 1: Marina Shafir look like mocks, which is a scary thought.
Speaker 1: There's a photo shop waiting to happen right there. Look,
Speaker 1: I read this as it's one or the other. It's
Speaker 1: not where if the babyfaces win, both heels get their
Speaker 1: their head shape. I mean, maybe they do. My impression
Speaker 1: was that whoever gets the wind, the person who takes
Speaker 1: the losing fall will get their head shaved. So I'm
Speaker 1: assuming it's only one person. If it is only one person,
Speaker 1: it's got to be Wheeler Dah. God knows the guy
Speaker 1: needs a haircut. They'd be doing him a favor. So
Speaker 1: I think we get bald Ydah in Australia. Bald Marina.
Speaker 1: I mean, she can make it work, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to visualize that, and I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: having a tough time. I'm having a tough time here.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's just bald Yudah and then we can move
Speaker 1: on from this earlier today. Now we get to the
Speaker 1: criminal portion of this show. Earlier today, Darby Allen, he
Speaker 1: was skateboarding to the arena and he's in the lot.
Speaker 1: You know, the production truck is there. Here he comes.
Speaker 1: He's skateboarding his way on in, but he gets cut
Speaker 1: off by a car who blocks his path, and out
Speaker 1: of the car come the war Dogs. So we had
Speaker 1: Gabe Kid and we had Clark Connors. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what Gabe kids contract status is right now, Clark
Speaker 1: Connors I believe has signed with AW or at least
Speaker 1: a dual contract, if not just outright. So I think
Speaker 1: he's outright signed with AW. But they cut him off,
Speaker 1: get out of the car and they attack Darby, and
Speaker 1: Gabe Kid gets him up on his shoulder and he
Speaker 1: rams him headfirst into the production truck, which is right there.
Speaker 1: The production truck. He rams his head into the production truck.
Speaker 1: So then they crack him with a tire and they
Speaker 1: toss him into the back of their car, into the trunk.
Speaker 1: They slammed the trunk. They get back in the car
Speaker 1: and they peel out of there. And I'm watching this
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, I do believe a felony was
Speaker 1: just committed on television. Even when they got back in
Speaker 1: the car, Clark Connors he looked dead into the camera.
Speaker 1: I forgot what he said something. And then they drove
Speaker 1: off acknowledging the crime that they just committed. And then
Speaker 1: they come back to the announcers in the arena, and
Speaker 1: they didn't seem too bothered by this. They didn't seem
Speaker 1: very concerned about what happened here. So I guess it's
Speaker 1: no big deal. I mean, look, it's Darby, so this
Speaker 1: is like another It's another Wednesday for him, right. I'm
Speaker 1: sure this sort of thing happens to Darby Allen all
Speaker 1: the time, probably even worse. But I just love how
Speaker 1: casual everybody is about what we just saw. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well I can't. One can't grieve forever. It's time to
Speaker 1: move on, and so we did. We had Hangman Adam
Speaker 1: Page one on one with Mark Davis of the don
Speaker 1: Kallis Family. Now, last week on the show, there was
Speaker 1: a tag team title match. It was Davis and Doyle
Speaker 1: against FTR, who are the tag team champions but have
Speaker 1: never felt less relevant and important to the show than
Speaker 1: they do. Right now, I can't say that they feel
Speaker 1: any less relevant than they did in WWE, because things
Speaker 1: got pretty bad in WWE if you remember the the
Speaker 1: ussos and the shaving of the back. Okay, believe me,
Speaker 1: it could always be far worse. But in AAW it's
Speaker 1: weird to say that because they are the tag team champions,
Speaker 1: but they just have their ice cold right now. They
Speaker 1: have never felt less important than they do right now.
Speaker 1: They're like in this holding pattern until Cope and Christian
Speaker 1: come back and we it could be revolution. Who the
Speaker 1: hell knows is anybody even gonna remember the angle they
Speaker 1: shot with Beth Phoenix by the time these guys come back.
Speaker 1: Is anybody gonna remember the issues between Christian Cage and
Speaker 1: Nick Wayne, who's still out. We haven't seen Nick Wayne.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen Mother Wayne. They're gonna have to re
Speaker 1: educate us all over again about what went down between everybody.
Speaker 1: But in that tag team title match last week, Jake Doyle, right,
Speaker 1: the former Jake Something, unfortunately suffered a serious injury and
Speaker 1: he tore his bicep, which fucking sucks because the guy
Speaker 1: just debuted and it was still early yet. But I
Speaker 1: was liking the whole dynamic between him and Davis, and
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, this is a solid addition
Speaker 1: here to the tag team division. And then he tears
Speaker 1: his bicep. So whether he's getting surgery or not, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but he's going to be gone for at
Speaker 1: least a few months. And so now Mark Davis is
Speaker 1: all by himself all over again. I'm sure in Davis's head,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like, fuck, you know, we finally had
Speaker 1: something good going for me and now it's over. But
Speaker 1: he had a match on the show tonight and he
Speaker 1: made the most of it. He came out, he wrestled
Speaker 1: Hangman MJF. On Twitter a couple of days ago, he
Speaker 1: offered Callous and Davis one thousand dollars if he would
Speaker 1: go in there tonight and break Hangman's neck a thousand bucks.
Speaker 1: What are they paying these guys that one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: is as good as he can do here. That's a
Speaker 1: little weird. You know, we get matches routinely on these
Speaker 1: shows where Tony Khan is putting up half a million
Speaker 1: dollars just to win a match on TV, no breaking
Speaker 1: of any necks or anything like. I think you could
Speaker 1: do a little bit better than a thousand bucks there.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the world champion. I would think you
Speaker 1: could up the ante a little bit, but he offered
Speaker 1: him a thousand bucks. Apparently Davis was okay with this,
Speaker 1: so Davis he crushed Hangman against the barricade outside came
Speaker 1: in with a charging uppercut, heading into a commercial break.
Speaker 1: Later on in the match, he tried that again, but
Speaker 1: this time there was nobody home, and not only did
Speaker 1: he crash into the barricade, but he went sailing over
Speaker 1: the barricade. Page then climbed into the crowd. He hit
Speaker 1: in or Harram moon Salt off the railing before going
Speaker 1: back inside. He connected on a Moonsalt press. Davis escaped
Speaker 1: the dead eye attempt with a released German, and he
Speaker 1: wanted a BT bomb, which Hangman escaped. Both men traded
Speaker 1: shots until Davis turned Hangman inside out with a lariot
Speaker 1: and he hit a very violent, awful waffle for a
Speaker 1: near fall. Davis tried to lariot again, this time, though
Speaker 1: Page met him only for it Davis to no sell it.
Speaker 1: He did get his lariot. Davis tried to pull Page
Speaker 1: up into a pile driver. Page, though countered into a
Speaker 1: dead eye for a two count Davis sidestepped the buck shot.
Speaker 1: Hangman tried to skin the cat and Davis caught him,
Speaker 1: only to fall back over the top rope. Now they're
Speaker 1: on the ramp. They had a short ramp to the ring.
Speaker 1: Here's a small venue. Page though held On dropped him
Speaker 1: on the ramp with a tombstone. Then back inside, Page
Speaker 1: finally connected with the buckshot lariot and he picked up
Speaker 1: the wind. After the match was over, Page got on
Speaker 1: the mic and he addressed He addressed Kenny Omega. He said, Kenny,
Speaker 1: I hope to see you in Australia, so we know
Speaker 1: who he's rooting for in his match later in the
Speaker 1: show with Andrade. And then he tells MJF that if
Speaker 1: he wins that match in Australia then at Revolution he
Speaker 1: is going to stomp every future child out of mjf's
Speaker 1: little balls and take back the title. That he never
Speaker 1: should have lost this match. I think the match maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it went around ten or twelve minutes, wasn't super long,
Speaker 1: but it probably still went longer than it had to
Speaker 1: just given Davis's standing in the Kallus family, he's pretty well,
Speaker 1: I mean outside of Rocky Romero, of course, who never
Speaker 1: wins anything. He's pretty well near the bottom. Hangman's the
Speaker 1: one going to Australia next weekend. So maybe it went
Speaker 1: a little on the long side. I actually liked it,
Speaker 1: so I mean, I'll excuse it. They went out there,
Speaker 1: they had a good hard hitting match. Davis. You know
Speaker 1: what he reminds me of. He's that like JBA L
Speaker 1: brawler type. He doesn't have a chance to cut promo,
Speaker 1: so he's not a JBL promo. But that's not really
Speaker 1: where the emphasis is in aw Right, it's a different company.
Speaker 1: He's very good at going out there and just having
Speaker 1: these kind of stiff matches, throwing bombs and foe arm
Speaker 1: shots and lariot's and he'll pull you up into a
Speaker 1: pile driver, and you know, his shit looks good in
Speaker 1: the ring, and he's a great brawler. So they go
Speaker 1: out there and they had what I thought was actually
Speaker 1: a very enjoyable ten minute, hard hitting wrestling match. And
Speaker 1: I think there's a role for him on the show.
Speaker 1: I don't expect Tony to do anything of any great
Speaker 1: significance with him, but it would be very easy for
Speaker 1: him to sort of, you know, bench him until Doyle
Speaker 1: is ready to come back. I think that would suck
Speaker 1: if he's not back for six months. Yeah, to not
Speaker 1: do anything with the guy, which would be very easy
Speaker 1: to do because you can imagine how many people Tony
Speaker 1: has under contract who we never get to see on
Speaker 1: these shows. And apparently he's got more coming in. I
Speaker 1: saw a report from Fightful earlier, especially on the women's side.
Speaker 1: There's a whole wave of additional talents that are gon
Speaker 1: be coming into aw very soon. We keep hearing about
Speaker 1: talents coming in and coming in and coming in, and
Speaker 1: very few were going out. So that's going to limit
Speaker 1: the number of spots on these television shows. Mark Davis
Speaker 1: is not going to be a priority on his own
Speaker 1: for Tony Kah, but I do think there is a
Speaker 1: role for him on the show, and hopefully we get
Speaker 1: to see him have more matches like this because I
Speaker 1: enjoyed this. And we got a video package on the
Speaker 1: jet Kevin Knight, who said that he knows what he's
Speaker 1: capable of and he's as good as he says he is,
Speaker 1: and we had footage of him pinning Okada and being
Speaker 1: the one to get the winning fall in their trio's
Speaker 1: title win. Says he keeps hearing about how he's the future,
Speaker 1: but he says the jet is here and now it's
Speaker 1: a very talented guy. I don't know where he if
Speaker 1: he'll be more of a Kyle Fletcher, or if he'll
Speaker 1: be more of someone like I hate to even make
Speaker 1: the comparison action Andretti. He got some He got some
Speaker 1: shine there for a while until he didn't. I think
Speaker 1: Kevin that'll do a little bit better than that. Where
Speaker 1: he'll fall in the pecking order. Time will tell. He's
Speaker 1: super talented. They've given him a couple of big wins.
Speaker 1: He'd beat Darby Allen, he'd beat Okada. I think he
Speaker 1: has all the tools to, you know, get to at
Speaker 1: least a level where they were pushing Kyle Fletcher and
Speaker 1: then they sort of pulled back on that. Now Fletcher's back,
Speaker 1: you know, potentially challenging for the TNT title. But you
Speaker 1: know good you you want to have video packages or
Speaker 1: profile packages on these guys. Don't let people forget you
Speaker 1: know that. This guy coming out of the Continental Classic,
Speaker 1: he was pushed pretty hard. He had a great match
Speaker 1: with swerve Right a few weeks ago. He didn't win.
Speaker 1: Would have been great if he won, but he didn't win,
Speaker 1: but still you got to make sure that if he's
Speaker 1: not wrestling the show, he is featured in some way.
Speaker 1: It might not seem like a big deal, but having
Speaker 1: a segment like that, stuff like that is important to
Speaker 1: have on this show. After this, though, it was time
Speaker 1: for the main events of Hour one. I guess it
Speaker 1: was the beginning of Hour two. Kenny Omega one on
Speaker 1: one with Andrede l Idel and the stakes were high
Speaker 1: because the winner of this match would go on to
Speaker 1: wrestle Hangman on the fourteenth in Australia. The winner of
Speaker 1: that match goes on to Los Angeles on March fifteenth
Speaker 1: to challenge MJF or whoever the champion may be for
Speaker 1: the aw World title. So that's what was up for
Speaker 1: grabs here. In this match, we saw I think about
Speaker 1: four female fans strategically placed in the front row yet
Speaker 1: again for one of Andred's matches. They were front and center.
Speaker 1: They were fawning over him as he was making his entrance.
Speaker 1: He's quite the ladies' man, is Andrade. He's taking selfies
Speaker 1: with them, They're passing their phone numbers to him. He
Speaker 1: is a single man, now, of course, he was a
Speaker 1: married man. And now he's not so he can play
Speaker 1: the field. So Omega wanted a one winged angel outside.
Speaker 1: Early in this match, Andrade countered into a snapsupplex on
Speaker 1: the floor, taking too much time back inside Omega. He
Speaker 1: fought back with a superplex for a two count. Callous
Speaker 1: is on commentary and he says Andrade is so gorgeous
Speaker 1: that he would be he should be on a romance novel.
Speaker 1: The cover of a romance novel, riding a horse and
Speaker 1: ex caliber and Tony Schiavanni did not know what to
Speaker 1: make of this. I don't think I know what to
Speaker 1: make of this, so we're just gonna move on. Andrete
Speaker 1: duct a lariat into a flying forearm. He kicked up
Speaker 1: signaled for the figure four. Omega, though got a cradle
Speaker 1: for two and Androte hit two supplexes. He gator rolled
Speaker 1: outside and he hit the third amigo on the floor.
Speaker 1: So then he briefly got distracted by the ladies in
Speaker 1: the front row before connecting on a springboard torneo dive
Speaker 1: out to the floor. Then he went over and he
Speaker 1: was posing with the ladies and he was taken selfies
Speaker 1: as they went to commercial. They come back from the
Speaker 1: break Andrade tried his double spring moon salt. Omega though
Speaker 1: he was ready for it, and he got the boots up.
Speaker 1: Omega spiked Androte with multiple snap dragons. He went for
Speaker 1: a third one on Trode escaped, only to be sent
Speaker 1: into the corner that set him up perfectly for a
Speaker 1: V trigger. Omega wanted an avalanche one winged angel, Andrade,
Speaker 1: though was able to reverse into a sunset bomb, had
Speaker 1: the wrist clutch into a DDT. He spiked Omega for
Speaker 1: a two count. So both men are trading big boots
Speaker 1: and V triggers, and Omega went for a home run shot,
Speaker 1: but he ran into the spinning back elbe from Andrade
Speaker 1: landed flush. Aubrey Edwards goes over to check on Omega
Speaker 1: because he's selling it like, oh, he might have a
Speaker 1: broken nose, right, So she goes over to check on him.
Speaker 1: As this is going on, Don Callis gets up and
Speaker 1: he's got the lime green screwdriver. There it is again.
Speaker 1: He passes it to Andrade unbeknownst to the referee, so
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to use the screwdriver swerve. Strickland runs
Speaker 1: out on the ramp and he takes the screwdriver away
Speaker 1: from Andrade. Now, Aubrey Edwards rushes over to Swerve. She's
Speaker 1: distracted by him now and in the commotion of everything
Speaker 1: that is going on here, this allows Andrade to deliver
Speaker 1: a low blow to Kenny Omega and then he hits
Speaker 1: the DM. That's what he calls his finish. Now he
Speaker 1: hits the DM and he gets the wind. Andrade has
Speaker 1: beaten Kenny Omega, which means that Andrade is going to
Speaker 1: wrestle Hangman Adam Page at Grand Slam Australia. After the match, Androti,
Speaker 1: he's celebrating with the ladies. Swerve gets into the ring,
Speaker 1: Omega gets up in his face. They're bickering and they're
Speaker 1: shoving each other. Actually, Swerve shoved him twice and then
Speaker 1: Omega responded. A bunch of officials rush out to separate them.
Speaker 1: They're actually successful in separating them, and that's how things
Speaker 1: came to an end. This was not their first match ever.
Speaker 1: This was their first match since Triple Media. They had
Speaker 1: a match with the Triple A Mega Title, and that
Speaker 1: was back in twenty twenty one. Of course, that you
Speaker 1: could tell I was a lifetime ago. Things were a
Speaker 1: little bit different these days with Triple A and the
Speaker 1: Triple A Mega title. But they had a match back
Speaker 1: then that Omega won here. Androde got his win back
Speaker 1: and he's going to Australia. This is a good match.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know why the outcome surprised
Speaker 1: me in the way that it did. But I was
Speaker 1: caught off guard when Andrade won. I really was. I
Speaker 1: was expecting a Hangman win here. I don't hate it,
Speaker 1: or an Omega win here. But I don't hate it.
Speaker 1: I actually like it a lot. The main reason I
Speaker 1: like it is because, and I've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: I think the best time to do Kenny Omega in
Speaker 1: a World Championship main event on pay per view is
Speaker 1: double or nothing in May, or we have Dynasty in April.
Speaker 1: Dynasty in April is in Vancouver, so that would make
Speaker 1: sense too. You send the Canadian guy in Canada into
Speaker 1: the main event in his homeland, his home country, to
Speaker 1: challenge for the World Championship, so either April or May.
Speaker 1: That way, you build it up a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You let Omega go out there and rack up a
Speaker 1: couple of other big wins before he gets MJF as
Speaker 1: opposed to just throwing it out there a revolution. It
Speaker 1: just felt too early to me. Well, now he's been bounced,
Speaker 1: so we don't got to worry about that no more.
Speaker 1: The only thing I'm wondering is there's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know that this is confirmed, but there are people. I
Speaker 1: saw people chattering about it on social media that Omega
Speaker 1: might not be around during Revolution. He might be some
Speaker 1: sort of gaming expo or something in Japan during that time.
Speaker 1: I would find that hard to believe. You know, why
Speaker 1: the hell would you book that during Revolution? So I'm
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent sure if Kenny will even be
Speaker 1: on the show, but I would be very surprised if
Speaker 1: he's not around to be on the Revolution card, because
Speaker 1: that's where you do omegaan Swerve. That's bigger than a
Speaker 1: TV match. But also I don't want to see that
Speaker 1: in Australia because first of all, it's a special episode
Speaker 1: of Collision. You've already got like five matches announced. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine they're just gonna throw that match on that card.
Speaker 1: It has to be the Revolution match, right, You've now
Speaker 1: set up an issue between Omega and Swerve. That's a
Speaker 1: huge match. The winner of that match should get the
Speaker 1: title shot at Dynasty Dynasty and Canada would actually make
Speaker 1: the most sense. So you do Omega and Swerve in
Speaker 1: La Omega wins and gets MJF at Dynasty. Where things
Speaker 1: go with Swerve, I don't know. I don't know of
Speaker 1: ultimately you turn him back heel right now, I mean
Speaker 1: he's still putting in good work in the ring, but
Speaker 1: character wise, there's not a whole lot going on there.
Speaker 1: There's something missing. Something has to change soon with Swerve.
Speaker 1: And if he's not going to start winning these matches
Speaker 1: and getting his shot, I feel like there's got to
Speaker 1: be some sort of change. It feels like he's just
Speaker 1: sort of treading water right now. And for Hangman, you
Speaker 1: know he's going to go in there. I have, you know,
Speaker 1: no expectation of him winning the championship back. So once
Speaker 1: he gets his shot, it'll come and go. And then
Speaker 1: whatever he moves on to, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's one third of the Trios champions so I mean
Speaker 1: he's got a belt. So I know that's not saying
Speaker 1: much because most people on the roster it feels like,
Speaker 1: have a belt of some kind. But he'll move on
Speaker 1: to other things that he'll be doing. But I said
Speaker 1: earlier like the way I describe it, like this is,
Speaker 1: this is Andrade in his final form. I don't think
Speaker 1: it gets any better than this is if you're Ondrade.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's just he's firing on all cylinders. He
Speaker 1: seems genuinely happy. I saw he made comments this past
Speaker 1: week about this is where I want to retire when
Speaker 1: my career is over. Aw is the place where I
Speaker 1: want to end my career, and I want to retire
Speaker 1: Because he's bounced back and forth like so many times,
Speaker 1: it's become like a punchline. But you know, there aren't
Speaker 1: very many guys like him in wrestling today. I used
Speaker 1: to hear stories about that all the time years ago.
Speaker 1: Guys you know, have a disagreement with the promoter in
Speaker 1: one of the major companies, they jump ship to the
Speaker 1: other every Look at Rick Rude, I mean, he was
Speaker 1: on bull shows in the same night. Androde may be
Speaker 1: the closest thing we have these days to someone like that.
Speaker 1: But it looks like he's really settled in now and
Speaker 1: is genuinely happy, you know, and you could see it,
Speaker 1: you could sense it. So he's in a good spot
Speaker 1: right now. He's having killer matches. I'm sure the one
Speaker 1: with Hangman will be no different. I would not look
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that I would mind seeing MJF
Speaker 1: and Andrede Revolution. I don't see it. I think this
Speaker 1: run that he's been on, this wind streak that he's
Speaker 1: been on, it ends in Australia. I just cannot imagine
Speaker 1: them doing Andrede and MJF on that show. Everything is
Speaker 1: set up for MJF and Hangman if for no other reason.
Speaker 1: You got to remember of the two singles matches that
Speaker 1: MJF and Hangman had last year, Hangman won them both.
Speaker 1: So given their history, MJF has good reason to want
Speaker 1: to go in there finally get that elusive win over
Speaker 1: the guy that he couldn't beat last year. So for
Speaker 1: there's so many different reasons to expect an MJF Hangman
Speaker 1: and rematch a Revolution. It may not be the sexiest
Speaker 1: match because we've seen it before, and Andrade would be
Speaker 1: someone different. I wouldn't hate seeing it. I don't expect it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense. I don't see Tony doing that match.
Speaker 1: What was the name Someone in the chap mentioned the gaming?
Speaker 1: The gaming here it is he always goes to the
Speaker 1: Tokyo Game Show okay, but find me the date. Find
Speaker 1: me the date for the Tokyo Game Show. Is it
Speaker 1: in mid March? If it conflicts with Revolution, he may
Speaker 1: he may well not be there, but that would be
Speaker 1: pretty fucked up because he's in the middle of everything
Speaker 1: right now. He's in the middle of this whole world
Speaker 1: title picture, and that would be a pretty big show
Speaker 1: for him to miss for anything outside of an injury.
Speaker 1: Renee was backstage with the AEW Women's World champion, Chris Statlander,
Speaker 1: who agreed not to be out there during the next
Speaker 1: match that we had coming up here, and she also
Speaker 1: apparently agreed to give Tekla a rematch next week for
Speaker 1: the world Championship. Why I don't know, because she beat
Speaker 1: her already, but she's agreed to give her a rematch.
Speaker 1: The big difference this time is that she is going
Speaker 1: to choose the stipulation for their match, but she's not
Speaker 1: going to tell us what it is right now. She's
Speaker 1: going to make Techla and everybody else wait for Collision,
Speaker 1: and it's probably already been revealed because they're taping Collision
Speaker 1: as we speak. I do believe, but we have to
Speaker 1: wait until Collision to find out what the stipulation is
Speaker 1: it is aw of course, so I'm sure that it'll
Speaker 1: be something hardcore. The Tokyo Game Show this year is
Speaker 1: in September. Okay, Well, then people got their lines crossed.
Speaker 1: Then we don't have to worry about it. September seventeenth
Speaker 1: to September twenty first, Okay, Well, then I don't know
Speaker 1: why people were so worried that he wasn't going to
Speaker 1: be available in March. False alarm. He'll be there. It's
Speaker 1: going to be Swerven Hangman and or Swerve and Omega
Speaker 1: and then Omega, I think is going to get his
Speaker 1: shot at Dynasty in Vancouver. That's what I'm thinking. We
Speaker 1: had the babes of Wrath, Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron.
Speaker 1: This was an eliminator match, not a title match, but
Speaker 1: they were facing Megabad, the team of Megan Bain and
Speaker 1: Penelope Ford. Willow wanted Bain to start Ford though attack
Speaker 1: from behind, which gave Megabad the advantage for about five
Speaker 1: seconds as Nightingale collided them both together. Later on, Ford
Speaker 1: got launched with a pounce, which led to a Harley
Speaker 1: hot tag. Both traded standing switches until Cameron got a
Speaker 1: pump handle supplex for a two count Megabad, they tried
Speaker 1: a delayed vertical supplex. Cameron, though countered into a double
Speaker 1: DDT and Bain recovered. She went up top. She got
Speaker 1: cut off as Willow joined her partner in hitting a
Speaker 1: double superplex. Ford flew in with a double blockbuster from
Speaker 1: the top which left everybody down, and there was a
Speaker 1: tilted world DDT that spiked Megan Bain. Willow followed with
Speaker 1: a spinebuster. Bain, though kicked out Ford, saved her partner.
Speaker 1: Bain launched her into Willow for an assisted cutter, and
Speaker 1: then Megabad took out Cameron with their doomsday device and
Speaker 1: they picked up the win. Here Solid stuff and a
Speaker 1: rare eliminator match where the challengers actually won. They beat
Speaker 1: the champs, and they did this twice on the same show.
Speaker 1: We hardly ever see these eliminator matches go any other way.
Speaker 1: And then they decided to do two of them, two
Speaker 1: upset wins on the same night here. That's why I
Speaker 1: said champs are chumps, but they are not the champions.
Speaker 1: They got the win here, but they are not the champions.
Speaker 1: They have to beat the champions again a second time
Speaker 1: if they want to win the titles. Then it is
Speaker 1: now official that match will take place at Grand Slam Australia.
Speaker 1: We got a video package after this on the new
Speaker 1: TNT champion, Tomaso Champa. After his great presentation last week.
Speaker 1: I thought he had a very good debut last week.
Speaker 1: I love the music, I just love the entrance. I
Speaker 1: love everything about what they did with him last week.
Speaker 1: And a few days later on Collision, he had a
Speaker 1: very good match with Mark Briscoe. I watched that after
Speaker 1: the Rumble Sunday morning before I sat down to do
Speaker 1: the podcast. They had a very good match and in
Speaker 1: his first match, Champa wins the TNT title. So we
Speaker 1: got a backstage promo from him. He's sitting in a
Speaker 1: chair and he's got the title, and he said, out
Speaker 1: of respect for the title, out of respect for Mark Briscoe,
Speaker 1: he is going to continue the spirit of the Open Challenge.
Speaker 1: So fear not. We have the US Type Open Challenge
Speaker 1: on spack Down, and we have the TNT Open Challenge
Speaker 1: on Collision, So the tradition continues. So he invited someone
Speaker 1: to step up and challenge him for the championship on Saturday.
Speaker 1: He's going to continue right here in Las Vegas, he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm not hard to find. He said, Sylvie loves her
Speaker 1: new home and isn't going away for a very long time.
Speaker 1: He went from Goldie to Sylvie. See, I think it's
Speaker 1: a missed opportunity just to call the title Sylvia at
Speaker 1: that point. It's called Sylvia by the way, even though
Speaker 1: this is an open challenge. As soon as this segment
Speaker 1: was over, we got the graphic up on the screen
Speaker 1: for Collision announcing that Champa was defending the title in
Speaker 1: a three way match on Saturday against Claudio Castignoli and
Speaker 1: Roderick Strong. So we already know what the match is.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a very good match. I don't know
Speaker 1: how he ended up with a triple threat. I know
Speaker 1: Claudio and Roddy they've been kind of feuding lately, and
Speaker 1: somehow we ended up with a three way match. But
Speaker 1: that'll be happening on colligeon. Then we had the national
Speaker 1: champion we go from, so let's recap here. We went
Speaker 1: from an eliminator match for the women's tag team titles
Speaker 1: to a segment with the new TNT champion into a
Speaker 1: national title match with Ricochet defending his championship against Jack
Speaker 1: Perry Ricochet, by the way, he made some He made
Speaker 1: some waves in the last day or two with some
Speaker 1: comments that he made specifically about his time in WWE
Speaker 1: and about other people in WWE. I am going I
Speaker 1: look forward to discussing this in greater death depth and
Speaker 1: detail on Sunday on the SoundOff. I'm gonna save it
Speaker 1: for the SoundOff because I've I've got every that he
Speaker 1: wrote and tweeted. He went on a tweet storm, he
Speaker 1: was on a podcast or a radio show. I got,
Speaker 1: I got it all. So we're gonna talk all about
Speaker 1: that on the SoundOff. Now goa. They accompanied Ricochet during
Speaker 1: his entrance, but they went to the back when the
Speaker 1: match started. Perry hit a dive right at the bell
Speaker 1: and then a somersault off the stage to follow up.
Speaker 1: After a break, Ricochet wanted a brainbuster on the apron. Perry,
Speaker 1: though floated over back inside, and he swung for the fences.
Speaker 1: Ricochet gouged the eyes. Perry, though charged. He tackled Ricochet
Speaker 1: over the top. He skinned the cat, then he cleared
Speaker 1: the top with a tope conhilo. Back inside, Perry leapt
Speaker 1: for a ddt Ricochet blocked it into a rolling Northern lights.
Speaker 1: He went there. It's this crazy combo here where he
Speaker 1: hit the rolling Northern lights, then a brain buster, then
Speaker 1: he held on for a supplex on the apron. He
Speaker 1: held on and he hit a death valley driver on
Speaker 1: the floor. So that was quite the combo that he completed.
Speaker 1: Here he threw Perry back inside. Ricochet connected with a
Speaker 1: springboard lariat and a running DVD for a two count.
Speaker 1: He grabbed the national title right in front of Rick
Speaker 1: Knox and he slid it into the ring to run distraction.
Speaker 1: Then he tried to low blow. Perry blocked it the
Speaker 1: thrust kick cannects, but the bounce back ended with a
Speaker 1: Ricochet lariot turned Perry inside out. So Jack Perry he
Speaker 1: came back. He wanted the sacrifice knee, Ricochet dodged. Now
Speaker 1: they're trading schoolboy attempts. Perry eventually sank in a snare
Speaker 1: trap and Ricochet tried to get to the ropes and
Speaker 1: Perry just dragged him back to the center of the ring.
Speaker 1: So the gates of agony they run out to the ring.
Speaker 1: You have Bishop Kahn outside. He is a distracting Rick Knox,
Speaker 1: which is not hard to do. That allows Tota Leona
Speaker 1: to pull Ricochet to the ropes. Knox saw the rope
Speaker 1: break at the same time that the Young Bucks walked out.
Speaker 1: I had completely gotten that they were supposed to be
Speaker 1: on this show. I'll get more on that in a second.
Speaker 1: But the Young Bucks they walk out and they smack
Speaker 1: the Good Bishop in the back with a chair. Nick
Speaker 1: Jackson took out Total Leona with a dive off the ramp.
Speaker 1: As all of this is happening, Ricochet takes the national
Speaker 1: title and he places it in the corner over the
Speaker 1: I think the middle turnbuckle places it in the corner.
Speaker 1: He died or a dodge rather a diving Jack Perry,
Speaker 1: and Perry collides with the belt in the corner and
Speaker 1: then at that point Ricochet hit vertigo and he retains
Speaker 1: the championship. Tony Shavanni on commentary, he said, well, that
Speaker 1: was a tough break for Jack Perry, but at least
Speaker 1: the goa was kept away. No, No, they weren't. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, I could have sworn that. Last week as
Speaker 1: I was sitting here talking about the show, there was
Speaker 1: a segment, a pre tape promo segment with the Young
Speaker 1: Bucks where they invited any team to show up in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas this week and face them. And then when
Speaker 1: I saw them walk out here during the match, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot all about that, but apparently it's not going
Speaker 1: to be addressed now. The I guess the workaround as well.
Speaker 1: Collision is being taped in Vegas and they are wrestling
Speaker 1: on Collision, but that's fucking lame. Like nobody when they
Speaker 1: were watching Dynamite last week and the Young Bucks said that,
Speaker 1: was thinking, oh, that must be for Collision. So we
Speaker 1: just didn't get anything with the Young Bucks outside of
Speaker 1: this run in here on this show because I was
Speaker 1: wondering last week, like, oh, okay, wonder what team is
Speaker 1: going to step up. Maybe it's a new team they've signed,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and then we got nothing with them
Speaker 1: as far as this match here. The INN ring was good.
Speaker 1: We got the same shit though in their last match,
Speaker 1: you know, with Goa interfering and getting involved, and I
Speaker 1: have no interest in seeing that run this back again.
Speaker 1: I mean again, the ND ring was good. It was fine,
Speaker 1: but I have no interest in seeing it again. But
Speaker 1: we are telling the Young Bucks are going to face
Speaker 1: the Gates on Collision and the winners of that will
Speaker 1: be entered into a three way match I'm done to
Speaker 1: my next week that will also involve the Rascals and
Speaker 1: a wildcard team, and the winner of that match will
Speaker 1: then become number one contenders for the aw tag team titles.
Speaker 1: They did not say when they did not say where
Speaker 1: I am. I'm still left wondering what is the plan
Speaker 1: here as far as the copen Christian stuff, I mean,
Speaker 1: are they I don't know. I don't know at this point, honestly,
Speaker 1: just fucking abandoned ship and just move on. I just
Speaker 1: feel like we're in this weird like stasis with the
Speaker 1: tag team titles right now. He got stokely in his
Speaker 1: wheelchair doing the comedy immick and they're throwing out these
Speaker 1: different random challengers at FTR. It looks like we're probably
Speaker 1: headed for another Young Bucks FTR match, as if we
Speaker 1: haven't had that before. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know where all this is gonna end up. Now. As
Speaker 1: ex Caliber was speaking, we were interrupted with a commotion
Speaker 1: in the production truck where the producers and the director
Speaker 1: they're all being held hostage by the war Dogs. It's
Speaker 1: Gabe Kid and Clark Conners, and they forced them to
Speaker 1: air video of them in the desert, and they were
Speaker 1: dragging Darby Allen's body in a body bag behind their
Speaker 1: car through the desert. They stopped the car, they get out,
Speaker 1: they unzip the bag so that you can see Darby
Speaker 1: is inside. They cut the rope, get back in the car,
Speaker 1: and they drive back to civilization, leaving Darby Allen to
Speaker 1: expire all by himself in the middle of nowhere, in
Speaker 1: the middle of the desert. Again, AW does not seem
Speaker 1: to care about the well being of its talent. They
Speaker 1: come back to the announcers. I mean, look, we've seen
Speaker 1: Darby Allen in this show get kidnapped and left for
Speaker 1: dead in the desert. Nobody cares. Nobody seemed terribly concerned
Speaker 1: about this. Crimes were committed here, but damn it, the
Speaker 1: show must go on because we got a main event
Speaker 1: to get to, which was the world champion, the AW
Speaker 1: World Champion MJF in an eliminator match against Brody King.
Speaker 1: And they come out to the ring and we're getting
Speaker 1: ready to have this big eliminator match here, and we
Speaker 1: had loud chants for Brody of fuck Ice from the
Speaker 1: fans here in Las Vegas. The look on mjf's face
Speaker 1: was priceless. So right as the bell sounds, they play
Speaker 1: Hangman's music and outwalks Hangman Adam Page and MJF is like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing now? He's coming out to get
Speaker 1: a closer look, but this distracts MJF, who goes over
Speaker 1: to the ropes. He's jawing and bickering and Hangman, what
Speaker 1: are you doing here? You got no business being here.
Speaker 1: What he doesn't realize is that behind him is Brody King,
Speaker 1: who puts him in a sleeper andF this. We saw
Speaker 1: this on Monday night. We saw this with Gunther and
Speaker 1: Dragon Lee. They did the same spot here forty eight
Speaker 1: hours late. Now we've seen Brody do this before many times.
Speaker 1: He's done it to Darby Allen. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: brody King specialty here. But I was like, I'm watching this,
Speaker 1: I go we're getting the same spot in two different
Speaker 1: companies on two different shows in the same week. But
Speaker 1: in this case he puts them in the sleeper. MJF
Speaker 1: goes out instantly. He went out way too quickly on this.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying like like, in a realistic scenario like this,
Speaker 1: he should be in the hole for thirty seconds, but
Speaker 1: like I'm talking like two three seconds. That was it.
Speaker 1: His body goes limp. Brody King lets go. MJF falls
Speaker 1: to the floor outside, so he chokes him and he
Speaker 1: puts him back in the ring. He hits the corner
Speaker 1: cannon ball, he hits the gonzo bomb, and he pins him.
Speaker 1: In thirty seconds flat, the AW World Champion has been
Speaker 1: pinned and squashed here on dynamite. Of course, the fans
Speaker 1: are all excited in their cheering because they're like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: they can't believe that this just happened, and they like
Speaker 1: Brody and they hate MJF. So yeah, that's the appropriate
Speaker 1: reaction you would expect. When the match is over, King
Speaker 1: grabs the AW World title and he is holding it
Speaker 1: over mjf's body when all of a sudden, Androte rushes
Speaker 1: the ring and he blasts Brody with the spinning back elbow,
Speaker 1: Androte goes over. He picks up MJF and he delivers
Speaker 1: the DM. He spikes him with the DM before Hangman
Speaker 1: drops Andrade with a buckshot lariot. Paige wanted another buck
Speaker 1: shot on MJF. MJF, though, kicked him low, but Brody
Speaker 1: King recovered and he hit a second gonzo bomb on
Speaker 1: the World Champion, and then he held the title up
Speaker 1: one last time and he stood tall as the show
Speaker 1: went off the air. They had to get Brody a
Speaker 1: win here to get to the match in Australia. So
Speaker 1: once they announced this as an eliminator match, you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: you got the Australia show is coming up. What else
Speaker 1: would MJF be doing on that show if they want
Speaker 1: him to wrestle wrestle Brody king, Brody has to win?
Speaker 1: Do you pin MJF. Do you have MJF get disqualified?
Speaker 1: Do you have some sort of non decision and Brody
Speaker 1: gets the shot? Anyway, you're limited in what you can
Speaker 1: do here. The one thing I would never have expected
Speaker 1: is that the champion would be beaten so decisively and
Speaker 1: so quickly in the way that he was, to the
Speaker 1: extent that it was unpredictable that I like. I think
Speaker 1: we need a little more unpredictability in wrestling, and unpredictability
Speaker 1: could be good. Unpredictability could be bad. As a general rule,
Speaker 1: I am not a fan of beating champions unless you
Speaker 1: are beating them to take the title from them, and
Speaker 1: there are exceptions. There may be a great angle that
Speaker 1: they do and it's like, okay, that was good, you
Speaker 1: know what they did there, But just as a general rule,
Speaker 1: I hate it. I don't like it the champion getting
Speaker 1: squashed here. That was certain That was certainly a choice.
Speaker 1: For all I know it was mjf's idea. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It certainly got the reaction that they were looking for.
Speaker 1: People were overjoyed and shocked in a good way. They
Speaker 1: were stunned in a good way right to see that,
Speaker 1: and brody king is very popular, so people are very
Speaker 1: happy to see it and it gets them to where
Speaker 1: they need to go. And they used Hangman coming out
Speaker 1: as the distraction that MJF can point to and say
Speaker 1: it's the dumb cowboy's fault why I lost that match
Speaker 1: last week. It also reinforces the idea that that I
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, which is that while I would be
Speaker 1: okay if it was MJF and Andrade, it is not
Speaker 1: going to be MJF and Andrade at Revolution. The match
Speaker 1: is MJF and Hangman. Because even though it may feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, been there, done that, let's go with somebody new,
Speaker 1: Hangman is still in the world title picture. He's going
Speaker 1: to get a match and he's gonna lose. It's the
Speaker 1: one thing that MJF has not been able to do,
Speaker 1: which is recently anyway, is beat Hangman Page. He's got
Speaker 1: to get that win. Now. He's gonna blame Hangman for
Speaker 1: why he lost that match and got embarrassed to night
Speaker 1: on this show. It wasn't Andrade who came out, right,
Speaker 1: it wasn't Kenny Omega who came out. It was Hangman.
Speaker 1: Because that's going to be the match at Revolution. So
Speaker 1: it all ties together. The one thing I do love
Speaker 1: about what they're doing right now, it is the best
Speaker 1: thing that they are doing on the show, which is
Speaker 1: all of the competition that is centered around the World Championship.
Speaker 1: Brodie King is going to get a shot, you know,
Speaker 1: Brody King at the end of the show tonight, holding
Speaker 1: that title up above his head. That is as close
Speaker 1: as Brody King will ever be to being the aw
Speaker 1: World Champion, okay, certainly this year. So I hope he
Speaker 1: enjoyed it because he ain't winning that match in Australia,
Speaker 1: and I don't know anybody that thinks he is. He's
Speaker 1: gonna lose. He got his win tonight. He's gonna lose there.
Speaker 1: But you know, coming out of that show, you look
Speaker 1: at all of the different names. That's why I've said,
Speaker 1: like MJF is lined up at least through the summer
Speaker 1: with different people that he can be defending that title against.
Speaker 1: Everyone is gunning for him. He has a target on
Speaker 1: his back and a way that it didn't feel like
Speaker 1: he did the first time that he was the champion
Speaker 1: and he was doing the Adam Cole stuff and the
Speaker 1: brochacos and all that. This is different. You know, this
Speaker 1: is where Okay, he's he's the guy. He's got what
Speaker 1: we want and everybody's fighting for it, and I love
Speaker 1: that should be what all of these guys want to
Speaker 1: have is what MJF has. So that's really the dominant
Speaker 1: story right now on these shows. You look at the
Speaker 1: last few weeks of TV, there is no other dominant
Speaker 1: storyline right now outside of the MJF stuff. You take
Speaker 1: that out of the equation. There's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: going on right now in all seriousness, there really isn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting tons of matches. Story wise, they've
Speaker 1: been very light. If it wasn't for all the world
Speaker 1: title stuff and these eliminator matches, so that's one thing
Speaker 1: that they're doing well right now. I did like what
Speaker 1: they did at the end with all the chaos. It
Speaker 1: was very chaotic. Hangman's out there, here comes Andrade. I
Speaker 1: like that they sent him out there to hit a
Speaker 1: couple of moves and then he gets taken out, but
Speaker 1: then Hangman gets taken out, but then MJF gets taken
Speaker 1: out again, So it was a very chaotic ending to
Speaker 1: the show. It'll certainly have a lot of people talking
Speaker 1: about the way they booked THEMJF here, but again it
Speaker 1: gets them to where they need to go, which is
Speaker 1: the title match in Australia, and we have a full
Speaker 1: card now for that Australia show, and it should be
Speaker 1: a fun match, an actual match between MJF and Brodie King.
Speaker 1: But like I said, him holding that title above his
Speaker 1: head there at the end, that's as close as he's
Speaker 1: going to get to it, because it's going to be
Speaker 1: MJF defending that title against the Hangman at Revolution. Get Ready,
Speaker 1: Hey Martin, what's going on? What did you think of
Speaker 1: Dynamite from Las Vegas. Let's go to the poll and
Speaker 1: find out. Fifty four point two percent thumbs up for
Speaker 1: tonight's show, twenty one point three percent thumbs in the
Speaker 1: middle and twenty four point five percent thumbs down. With
Speaker 1: eight hundred votes and counting that is, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of how that compares to recent weeks. It's probably
Speaker 1: one of the higher score that the show has gotten
Speaker 1: in recent weeks. Not always a very high score for
Speaker 1: these shows. All right, let's take a look at the
Speaker 1: super chats here. I don't know where we are on
Speaker 1: the likes goal three eighty four? What was it? Four
Speaker 1: to twenty? I think four to twenty was the goal.
Speaker 1: We need about forty more forty more likes to get
Speaker 1: to be the booker tonight. We'll see if we get there. Hey,
Speaker 1: drive chicken, what's going on? Thank you for the ten
Speaker 1: said that if AW was a food entree, the best
Speaker 1: to describe dynamite and Collision is like having a very
Speaker 1: delicious meal with high sodium. You can easily lose your
Speaker 1: appetite or taste buds quickly. Yeah, you don't want to
Speaker 1: have a high sodium. That's not a good thing. Also
Speaker 1: says everybody loves Meet and Pro Wrestling AW. Well, Yes,
Speaker 1: AW provides lots of meat. Wwe provides turkey and spam.
Speaker 1: It's a Super Bowl week. Every AW tag team and
Speaker 1: faction is throwing a Super Bowl party. Which aw group
Speaker 1: are you going to join for Super Bowl Sunday? Well?
Speaker 1: I will not be joining the demand. You know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind hanging out with the Hurt Syndicate. I think
Speaker 1: that could be fun. I'm certainly not hanging out with
Speaker 1: a don Kallis family. Well, the fucking food will be gone.
Speaker 1: It won't be anything left, it won't be any place
Speaker 1: to sit. What are you kidding me? Johnny Bernie a
Speaker 1: good show. The best dynamite ending is forever the Uffman says.
Speaker 1: Anyone see the add on HBO. Max podcasts are on Netflix?
Speaker 1: Is the sound off next? Hey? Ted Sarandos, You know
Speaker 1: I'm not a hard man to find, not a hard
Speaker 1: man to find anytime he wants to have a conversation.
Speaker 1: I think he's a little busy right now. They have
Speaker 1: a major acquisition that's going on. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: too worried about the podcasts. Dried Chicken says, Andrede l
Speaker 1: Paresidente getting that w tonight. I said the win over
Speaker 1: Swerve was the biggest win of his AW career, and
Speaker 1: he topped it tonight because beating Kenny Omega that is
Speaker 1: now the biggest win of his AW career. No Cap says,
Speaker 1: if Brody doesn't win the world titled, then squashing MJF
Speaker 1: makes no sense. Actually the opposite is correct. Brody had
Speaker 1: to beat MJF. In their mind, Brody had to beat
Speaker 1: MJF in dominant fashion to prove him wrong when he said,
Speaker 1: you haven't beaten anybody elite, you don't deserve a shot
Speaker 1: at the title until and unless you beat somebody of
Speaker 1: an elite level. And he went out there and he
Speaker 1: beat the champion in thirty seconds. It fits the story.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's the way that I would have
Speaker 1: done it or the best story, but the story is that, Okay,
Speaker 1: you want me to go out there and beat somebody
Speaker 1: credible and elite, how about you? And not only did
Speaker 1: he beat MJF, he beat him in thirty seconds, right,
Speaker 1: So it doesn't get any more dominant than that. So
Speaker 1: that now establishes him as a threat who in theory, right,
Speaker 1: you should look at it now and go, oh shit, okay,
Speaker 1: he's a contender now, right. I can buy into the
Speaker 1: idea that this guy could win the world title, even
Speaker 1: though you and I both know that's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But that's exactly what they had to try to do
Speaker 1: if they wanted to create a credible challenger in Brodie King.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to win the world title for it
Speaker 1: to make sense what they did tonight. Hey Tuxedo, thank
Speaker 1: you for the fifteen bucks. I appreciate that Dry Chick,
Speaker 1: and I wish the Bella Twins would have joined TNA
Speaker 1: or AW before going back to WWE. Both companies would
Speaker 1: have given them some new elements to their characters. I
Speaker 1: think that Brie probably had an inn in AW if
Speaker 1: she wanted to go there. I do not need to
Speaker 1: see the Bella Twins on AW television. Bender mc simpson
Speaker 1: fun show tonight, lovely match with Kenny and Andrade. I
Speaker 1: always liked the unique death Rider's entrance, and I look
Speaker 1: forward to a pissed off MJF. Paul Carpenter, I'm watching
Speaker 1: the Hart Brothers against the Quebecers. Have you ever noticed
Speaker 1: a whole match owen Hart's letting them beat up Brett
Speaker 1: the entire time, kick the leg, Yeah, and then he
Speaker 1: got upset when Brett couldn't continue even though he left
Speaker 1: him in there to die and no cat. Do you
Speaker 1: think Ricochet is working everyone? It doesn't make sense pissing
Speaker 1: fed fans off if they're not watching AW. I mean,
Speaker 1: part of his stick is to get under people's skin.
Speaker 1: The comments that he made that's not those are not
Speaker 1: in character comments. And I think there's things that are
Speaker 1: said on social media sometimes that people just easily sort
Speaker 1: of wave off as, oh, he's just in character, especially
Speaker 1: to excuse some of the stupid shit that he'll say
Speaker 1: on social media, especially like the EO Sky stuff several
Speaker 1: years ago. Not everything is in character. Not everything you
Speaker 1: can credit to just him being in character. You know,
Speaker 1: when he was on that radio talking about his time
Speaker 1: in WWE, he was being genuine about how he felt
Speaker 1: and why he had to leave. Now, is he using
Speaker 1: it as a way to rile people up on social media?
Speaker 1: I'm sure he is. But no, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: truth in the comments that he made that he believes
Speaker 1: that he believes, you know, in his heart, this is
Speaker 1: the way that it is, this is what they did
Speaker 1: to me, this is how I feel about it. He
Speaker 1: said some stuff that I agree with. He said some
Speaker 1: other stuff that. I don't. I'll talk more about it
Speaker 1: on the SoundOff on Sunday. But no, it's not. Oh
Speaker 1: he's just making all of these comments in character. That's
Speaker 1: not what this is. All right, we are at four
Speaker 1: to seven, so we will have to try again on
Speaker 1: Friday Night eight. Ace of Master look at this guy
Speaker 1: fifty five months of channel membership, Dry Chicken says, fair warning.
Speaker 1: AW could be very tempted to turn the AW World
Speaker 1: title match of Revolution into a triple threat involving him,
Speaker 1: Hangman and Andrade. They don't normally do that with their
Speaker 1: world title matches. That's a very WWE way of doing things.
Speaker 1: But you know what, if they wanted to turn it
Speaker 1: into a three way match, that's fine. I wouldn't mind that.
Speaker 1: And Alex says, what was your reaction with the Undertaker
Speaker 1: against Brian Lee's fake Undertaker match? Main evented over the
Speaker 1: classic Brett versus Owen steel cage match. I mean, looking
Speaker 1: back at it now, it was very dumb, But I
Speaker 1: think Brett Nowen won the night in more ways than one,
Speaker 1: not just because obviously it was the best match on
Speaker 1: the show and the best cage match I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: They got like thirty I don't know what it was
Speaker 1: over thirty minutes, so much so that they actually went
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes over what they were supposed to go.
Speaker 1: When I say thirty minutes it was over, I'm including
Speaker 1: everything from the match to all the postmatch chaos with
Speaker 1: the family members trying to get into the cage after
Speaker 1: ohen An Anvil locked the door. It was just absolute madness,
Speaker 1: and from actually from entrances to the very end, it
Speaker 1: was probably more like forty minutes. And Undertaker was just
Speaker 1: on with Cody on Cody's podcast. He just talked about this,
Speaker 1: and he said that they were freaking out in the
Speaker 1: back because they just ignored their cues and they just
Speaker 1: went way past what they were supposed to be out
Speaker 1: there for. And as a fan, I just look at
Speaker 1: that and go, thank God, we didn't need to get
Speaker 1: another ten or fifteen minutes of the Undertaker and the
Speaker 1: Underfaker at SummerSlam. Sorry, Mark, I think we got the
Speaker 1: better end of it. And Viva La Terry Davis not
Speaker 1: a WWE Knight, but I'm just curious where does Royce
Speaker 1: Keys go. SmackDown. SmackDown needs heels. SmackDown could use him
Speaker 1: as a heel on that roster that they can start
Speaker 1: building up. Maybe at some point he gets you into
Speaker 1: that sort of upper main event mix on that show.
Speaker 1: But they desperately need I mean, they desperately need a
Speaker 1: lot of things on that show, especially in the women's division,
Speaker 1: but they need heels. And if Obafemi is going to RAW,
Speaker 1: I think wherever Obafemi goes, Royce Keys goes to the
Speaker 1: opposite brand. By the way, there's no guarantee that he's
Speaker 1: even going to the main roster. He was in the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. It doesn't mean that he's not going to
Speaker 1: go to NXT, But I think SmackDown could use him
Speaker 1: more than NXT and more than RAW. That's where I
Speaker 1: expect him to go. And Dry Chicken says, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you how Fat two can anger Cody Rhodes by bringing
Speaker 1: multiple women on his tour bus while Brandy is at
Speaker 1: the show after Cody's match. Yeah, let's leave the tour
Speaker 1: bus out of it. We had Drew McIntyre around the
Speaker 1: tour bus. It's it's old at this point. Unless you're
Speaker 1: gonna burn the bus down, Let's leave the bus alone,
Speaker 1: all right. So we actually did hit the goal for
Speaker 1: twenty eight for twenty was the goal, right, let me
Speaker 1: bring the wheel up here yet four twenty so you
Speaker 1: got it in right of the buzzer. There we get
Speaker 1: to do some be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen. It
Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was close. I wasn't sure if we were gonna
Speaker 1: make it. But we are at least going to get
Speaker 1: the one round steal bus and do a podcast from it.
Speaker 1: How about you steal the bus and you drive it
Speaker 1: into the arena like Austin with the beer truck that time.
Speaker 1: Drive it into the arena. They don't do anything. They
Speaker 1: don't do any cool shit like that anymore. Everything's so
Speaker 1: safe and sanitized it's fucking boring. All right. We have
Speaker 1: the Holly Cousins Hardcore and crash. This is when they
Speaker 1: were super heavyweights. I enjoyed the Holly Cousins, and the
Speaker 1: Hollies are gonna oh man, this is gonna be potentially,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a mess of a match here.
Speaker 1: I like it. You know, if Knobs or SAgs throw
Speaker 1: one bad shot a Bob Holly, He's gonna give it
Speaker 1: right back to them, and this could turn into a
Speaker 1: shoot real quick. I envisioned this match being very similar
Speaker 1: to the match if you remember with the Nasties against
Speaker 1: the Max Pain and Cactus Jack. What was that Spring
Speaker 1: Stampede ninety four? I think it was Uncensored or Spring Stampede.
Speaker 1: It was one of those shows that match could get
Speaker 1: real real quick. The real life Bebop and rock Steady.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what they are, and Nasty Boys are a
Speaker 1: real life Bebop and rock Steady. All right, here you go,
Speaker 1: everybody enjoy. We have Nikita Lions. What the hell is she?
Speaker 1: Nakeita Lions apparently was so great they demoted her down
Speaker 1: to evolve. I think she's in evolved now. Everyone thought
Speaker 1: she was gonna be going up to the main roster.
Speaker 1: Instead of going up, she went down. But there she is,
Speaker 1: Nikita Lion. I don't know who she's sitting on there
Speaker 1: in that photo. It's hard to tell. I can't tell
Speaker 1: who that is Nikita Lions and Mandy Rose. I don't
Speaker 1: have high hopes for this match. Don't have high hopes
Speaker 1: for that one, but we'll try to salvage it. Here.
Speaker 1: With our main event, we have mister Bob Backland with
Speaker 1: his WWF title. He only had the title for three days.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think where this picture even would have
Speaker 1: been taken. He didn't have the belt long enough to
Speaker 1: be photographed with it. Mister Backland defending the title against
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes with his title. You know what, I just
Speaker 1: noticed they're both wearing suits and they're both holding different
Speaker 1: versions of the WWE Championship. I am going to give
Speaker 1: that the bell. You want some real graps, someone said,
Speaker 1: real graps. There's some real graps. You get Bob Backland
Speaker 1: in there with Dusty's kid. The only thing with Backland
Speaker 1: is like when he initially turned heel in ninety four,
Speaker 1: it was so great, like the actual turn the match
Speaker 1: he had with Brett that night chest fucking great. But
Speaker 1: then as time went on he was doing the crazy
Speaker 1: Bob stuff, Like in the ring, he just like he
Speaker 1: got it's weird, like he got work progressively worse. His
Speaker 1: matches got progressively more boring. I think he was more
Speaker 1: focused on the gimmick and it did not make for
Speaker 1: good wrestling matches. But I have hope Cody and Bob
Speaker 1: Backland that could have been a good one. Suit and time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, like the suit and tie, I think
Speaker 1: they're even the same color. Looked identical in those photos.
Speaker 1: Backling was very good though back in his day he
Speaker 1: was deceptively strong. He was super strong. Dry Chickens says,
Speaker 1: the Hollies against the Nasty Boys, Me and JD doing
Speaker 1: commentary while he provides the wings and so well, that
Speaker 1: could be your big super Bowl. But we could do
Speaker 1: like a halftime heat super Bowl match, the Hollies against
Speaker 1: the Nasty Boys. The next time I'm gonna be with
Speaker 1: you is Friday night. That is the first SmackDown coming
Speaker 1: out of the Royal Rumble. So I guess we'll find
Speaker 1: out if Royce Keys is on the show and what else.
Speaker 1: And look, the only thing I am looking for most
Speaker 1: importantly on SmackDown on Friday night is the receipt from
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre. Drew McIntyre took so many strays on Monday night.
Speaker 1: He is still in critical condition in the hospital. He
Speaker 1: might not make it. He cannot allow those comments that
Speaker 1: were made by Punk and Roman to stand without some
Speaker 1: sort of rebuttal. I know he's not wrestling either one
Speaker 1: of them, but you cannot allow that to stand. So
Speaker 1: I am expecting some sort of receipt from the WWE
Speaker 1: Champion on Friday night. I'd be very disappointed if we
Speaker 1: don't get one. But it should be a big night.
Speaker 1: So come on back on Friday night and we'll hang
Speaker 1: and we'll talk smack Down on the Road to WrestleMania. Yes,
Speaker 1: Drew's ears were ringing like crazy. I'm sure on Monday Night.
Speaker 1: Have I ever been to a Survivor Series live? Yes,
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, the one where the Rock came back
Speaker 1: for the first time after eight years or whatever. It
Speaker 1: was teamed up with John Cena. I was at that show.
Speaker 1: I want to say we had a Mark Henry Big
Speaker 1: Show match on that show. We did, you know what?
Speaker 1: I'm almost positive that was the match where Big Show
Speaker 1: went to the top. He did a diving elbow off
Speaker 1: the top rope. He took forever to set it up.
Speaker 1: Probably he saw his life flash before his eyes, But
Speaker 1: that I remember. It's one of those things you don't forget.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the only is that the only survive
Speaker 1: I think that's the only Survivor series I've ever been to.
Speaker 1: SmackDown is not on USA Network this Friday. Oh is
Speaker 1: it on sci Fi? I see, that's right. I think
Speaker 1: there were two smackdowns coming up and must Okay, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it was this week and I think next week,
Speaker 1: all right, so then be aware of that. According to
Speaker 1: the chat, SmackDown starting this week is moving to sci
Speaker 1: Fi because there's some other shit that's going on on USA.
Speaker 1: I guess with the Olympics going on. Maybe it's Olympics related.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you don't have sci Fi, you maybe
Speaker 1: shit out of luck. All the more reason to come
Speaker 1: and join the stream, and I'll bring up the speed
Speaker 1: on what goes on. But yeses the Winter Olympics, Punk
Speaker 1: beat Alberto del Dipshit for the WWE title at that event. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is when Howard Finkel came out and did the
Speaker 1: special introduction for Punk. I being there in the building,
Speaker 1: did not hear Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler and all
Speaker 1: the commentators making fun of Howard Finkel. Fucked them by
Speaker 1: the way for doing so, But they were having some
Speaker 1: fun at his expense. I'm sure Vince McMahon was in
Speaker 1: their ear needling them on making fun of poor Howard.
Speaker 1: Still the best to ever do it, by the way,
Speaker 1: no matter how many new ring announcers they bring in,
Speaker 1: no matter how good they may be, they are not
Speaker 1: the Fink. So you can mock and make fun of
Speaker 1: them all you want to, you dumb, irish bastard, But
Speaker 1: Howard Finkel is still the goat when it comes to
Speaker 1: wrestling ring announcers and always will be. And now I'll
Speaker 1: step off my soapbox. Be well, stay safe. I will
Speaker 1: see you on Friday night and we will talk SmackDown.
Speaker 1: Go back and check out all the other content on
Speaker 1: the channel. It's a lot of good shit there, especially
Speaker 1: all the the rumble stuff. If you miss that, and
Speaker 1: I'll see you back here on Friday night. Till then,
Speaker 1: take care, guys,