Speaker 1: Oh, you may believe that Christmas is a week away.
Speaker 1: Doesn't feel like it, but it is, which means New
Speaker 1: Year's is right around the corner as well. Tonight was
Speaker 1: the Holiday Bash episode of Dynamite. This is the three
Speaker 1: hour block that they have been promoting now for a
Speaker 1: few weeks. You know how I love these three hour shows.
Speaker 1: But they were in Manchester, England earlier today technically, and
Speaker 1: they had ten thousand plus in the building. There not
Speaker 1: something you see every week for Dynamite, and on this
Speaker 1: show it was really all about one thing. Now, if
Speaker 1: you are super into the Continental Classic, we got lots
Speaker 1: of good wrestling matches tonight. You have a good wrestling
Speaker 1: matches up and down the card. You're not into the
Speaker 1: Continental Classic. Like I've been saying, this is probably one
Speaker 1: of your least favorite periods in AAW because almost everything
Speaker 1: revolves around this tournament for the entire month. However, tonight
Speaker 1: we have the return of someone very important in AAW
Speaker 1: the former AW World Champion, the longest reigning AW World
Speaker 1: Champion of all time, MJF, who has been missing now
Speaker 1: for quite some time, and he is a welcome addition
Speaker 1: to this show. He has been missed and he is back.
Speaker 1: Not only is he back, he is back to blow
Speaker 1: up the World's End main event. There was a major
Speaker 1: change tonight that was made to that pay per view
Speaker 1: main event which is coming up on December twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: and I will talk about that. Very happy to see
Speaker 1: MJF back on my TV. Outside of that, like I said,
Speaker 1: we got a bunch of good wrestling matches and not
Speaker 1: really a whole lot else to speak of. I saw
Speaker 1: somebody in the chat before make a comment that it
Speaker 1: was an episode that happened. It was. There were more
Speaker 1: people there than usual, but it was very much an
Speaker 1: episode that happened. We did get a lot of good
Speaker 1: wrestling though, so we will talk about the standings and
Speaker 1: whatnot where things stand as far as the Continental class
Speaker 1: is concerned. I am the Solemn Monster. This is your
Speaker 1: Dynamite Slash Collision Holiday Bash review here for Wednesday, December seventeenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Thank you for joining me here on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night, our final live stream of the week.
Speaker 1: I will not be here on Friday night. I will
Speaker 1: be in Jamaica Queen's closing out the year at the
Speaker 1: House of Glory show where we have the Hearty's. Everybody
Speaker 1: always goes nuts for the Heartys when they show up.
Speaker 1: Everybody's coming and doing the Jeff Hardy dance. Everybody's doing it.
Speaker 1: That's where I'll be on Friday. So let's have a
Speaker 1: good one tonight, like and subscribe. Super chats are open.
Speaker 1: I know a whole bunch of them came in earlier
Speaker 1: tonight before I went live, so we will go through
Speaker 1: all of that and thank you for all the positive
Speaker 1: feedback as well. We had a hell of an episode
Speaker 1: last night of Tuesday Night Titans, especially talking about the
Speaker 1: John Cena finale on Saturday Night's event. A lot of
Speaker 1: great feedback. People seem to enjoy it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a good discussion slash debate, So you can go
Speaker 1: check that out over on JD's channel if you missed it.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to say thank you for that.
Speaker 1: So let's get into this Dynamite show here and not
Speaker 1: waste any more time. You know, technically they went over
Speaker 1: three hours. The show did not end at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: The tag team Championship match was still going on after
Speaker 1: eleven PM. That should never ever happen. There was a
Speaker 1: tag team title match on this show. Did you honestly
Speaker 1: think the tag team titles were going to change hands?
Speaker 1: Neither did I. There was no reason for this show
Speaker 1: to go beyond eleven o'clock. But they wasted no time
Speaker 1: in kicking things off. As soon as they came on
Speaker 1: the air tonight, John Moxley and Roderick Strong, they were
Speaker 1: already in the ring for a Blue League match in
Speaker 1: the Continental Classic. Now I mentioned before big building tonight
Speaker 1: for them to be running Dynamite, and they had legitimately
Speaker 1: over ten thousand people, between ten and eleven thousand people
Speaker 1: in that venue here, first time in ages that I
Speaker 1: can remember Dynamite having an audience that big, and so
Speaker 1: you would think they would come on the air tonight
Speaker 1: and they would make a big deal about this. They
Speaker 1: got three hours, you know, they don't have to rush
Speaker 1: into anything. You got three hours here, come on the air,
Speaker 1: show the crowd. No, none of that. Literally, John Moxley
Speaker 1: and Roderick Strong are in the ring, ding ding ding,
Speaker 1: and we're off to the races, and I'm like, dude, like,
Speaker 1: you don't get to run big venues like this very
Speaker 1: often for Dynamite. It's very impressive that you were able
Speaker 1: to pack it in the way that you did. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like the entire building was not legitimately sold out,
Speaker 1: but they had a great crowd. Why not take the
Speaker 1: time to just show the crowd, pan the crowd, do
Speaker 1: more of a proper intro this week, so that you
Speaker 1: can adequately showcase how many people are there and how
Speaker 1: energetic and lively they are. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: missed op opportunity to just fucking dive right into the action.
Speaker 1: If it was any other week, I would say, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a different way to open the show. This was
Speaker 1: not the week to do that. You got to show
Speaker 1: this off. You gotta gloat a little bit, because as
Speaker 1: soon as you go back to the States, you're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to do that. So I was
Speaker 1: puzzled by why they felt this week, of all weeks,
Speaker 1: they had to just rush right into the show and
Speaker 1: not fully acknowledge where they were. But this was a
Speaker 1: must win here for these two. That's how they were
Speaker 1: couching this whole thing. Neither of these men have been
Speaker 1: terribly impressive here in this tournament so far. John Moxley
Speaker 1: has had better showings in the past. I think it's
Speaker 1: safe to say so they brawled into the crowd early.
Speaker 1: Moxley was sent back into the ring. Roddy, though it
Speaker 1: took too long to follow up. That gave Moxley a
Speaker 1: chance to hit a toe pay, which left both men down.
Speaker 1: Heading into a break. Moxley he tried to gotch style
Speaker 1: pile driver. Strong though backdropped out of it. Moxley landed
Speaker 1: hard on the outside back inside, Roddy dropped him with
Speaker 1: an angle slam. Moxley rolled out of a stronghold to
Speaker 1: the floor. Strong though again went out after him and
Speaker 1: set up the ring steps and he picks up Moxley
Speaker 1: and he drops him down on the flat part of
Speaker 1: the steps back first, and actually the way Moxley planted
Speaker 1: his elbow looked like his elbow got the brunt of
Speaker 1: that blow. When he landed on the stairs. Back inside,
Speaker 1: Roddy hit a superplex, got a near fall out of that.
Speaker 1: So we got a slugfest here between these two men.
Speaker 1: Roddy spun out of a death rider into a tiger
Speaker 1: driver before looking for the stronghold. Moxley escaped. Both men
Speaker 1: went up where Strong tried to throw a knee. Moxley
Speaker 1: hit a perfect leaping cutter for a two count, so
Speaker 1: he quickly plants him with a pile driver. That didn't work,
Speaker 1: So Moxley at this point he scrambles for a rear
Speaker 1: naked choke and forces Roddy to roll to the ropes
Speaker 1: Strong through a desperation knee for a near fall. And
Speaker 1: the crowd was biting on some of these near falls
Speaker 1: here near the end, and he got the stronghold, and
Speaker 1: they were yelling for Moxley to tap because in the
Speaker 1: last few months they have established that Moxley has tapped
Speaker 1: out before. It is possible now that he might actually
Speaker 1: tap out. See that's the importance of setting up all
Speaker 1: of those spots and the stuff with Kyle O'Reilly and
Speaker 1: all the teases that he's going to tap out, and
Speaker 1: you know what happened in Blood and Guts and him
Speaker 1: tapping out to Darby at Russell Dream. You know, that's
Speaker 1: the benefit in it that when you have this guy
Speaker 1: in a situation like this, some fans anyway can actually
Speaker 1: buy into the possibility that, hey, this guy might actually
Speaker 1: tap out. So they had the fans believing in that
Speaker 1: Moxley spun out. He sent Roddy outside Strong quickly returned
Speaker 1: to the ring, only to get spiked with a paradigm shift,
Speaker 1: but there was a little bit of a delay in
Speaker 1: going for the cover that allowed Roddy to kick out Moxley.
Speaker 1: They'll follow it up with a proper death rider, and
Speaker 1: he won the match and the points. And that means
Speaker 1: that Roderick Strong, Ladies and Ja Gentleman has been mathematically
Speaker 1: eliminated from the Continental Classic. And really, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: as soon as he was announced for this tournament, he
Speaker 1: was mathematically eliminated. And don't tell me, don't tell me
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, because you know I'm right. So they told
Speaker 1: the story of both men being desperate for the points
Speaker 1: here and the fans were, like I said, they were
Speaker 1: biting on some of the near falls. So it was
Speaker 1: a good opener. I just wish they would have taken
Speaker 1: the time to really just showcase where they were. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it just it felt like another dynamite. That's the problem,
Speaker 1: Like you really need to lean into where you are.
Speaker 1: You know, you're in a unique setting. You're overseas. Aw
Speaker 1: has a lot of fans overseas, you know. Now if
Speaker 1: they were based overseas, you know, that would probably peter out.
Speaker 1: The reason I think they're so popular over there, in
Speaker 1: part is because they don't run that many shows, so
Speaker 1: when they go, people are like, oh, aw's coming to town,
Speaker 1: we got to go. So it's it's still a very
Speaker 1: big market for them. But I just think that was
Speaker 1: a mistake, you know, not leaning even more than they
Speaker 1: did into the fact that hey, we have all these
Speaker 1: people here, were packed in in Manchester, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: it just felt like another opening to any dynamite that
Speaker 1: you would see on any given week. So Eddie Kingston
Speaker 1: was backstage quick promo here from him. Of course, he
Speaker 1: lost to Samoa Joe last week at Winter is Coming.
Speaker 1: Winter has come, Winter has come and gone. Actually no,
Speaker 1: that's not true. It's been cold as fuck here in
Speaker 1: New York and yet at the end of the week
Speaker 1: it's going to be almost sixty degrees sixty and rain,
Speaker 1: and then the next day it'll probably drop down to
Speaker 1: like thirty. Go figure. But Eddie said that you either
Speaker 1: win or you learn. You never lose. Last week he
Speaker 1: tapped out to the world champion. Yeah, but he learned
Speaker 1: from it, says everyone else he faces going forward, they're
Speaker 1: going to see what he's learned. He goes, one loss
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything to him and he'll move forward, maybe
Speaker 1: on collision. Then we had the million dollar trios match.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, only this time. And if you're thinking to
Speaker 1: yourself again, yes again for the same money, by the way,
Speaker 1: that they competed for last time. It's the same money
Speaker 1: that was in the bag that they competed for at
Speaker 1: full gear. But this time the difference is that Kenny
Speaker 1: Omega and the Young Bucks now they're reunited. So you
Speaker 1: had the Elite all together on the same side, and
Speaker 1: on the opposing side you had the Don Kallis family,
Speaker 1: which was Kozuchka, Okata, Kenoski, Takeshta, and Hetchi Sero YoSoy Hetchisaro,
Speaker 1: typically the fall guy in these matches. Don Kallas came out.
Speaker 1: He gave his over the top introduction for Takeshta and
Speaker 1: then for Hetchisero. They made their way to the ring.
Speaker 1: Okata got his own entrance because he's the superstar here.
Speaker 1: So the Elite crew they did the Terminator bit terminator
Speaker 1: dive early on here in this match. Then they hit
Speaker 1: stereo suicide dives. Matt tried to return to the ring. Ocada,
Speaker 1: though held his legs that allowed Hetchisara to grab Matt
Speaker 1: Jackson and hit a hammer lock into a backbreaker. Matt
Speaker 1: got isolated before he tagged in his brother, and he
Speaker 1: got the better of all three heels, including a nice
Speaker 1: simultaneous takedown of Okata Antakeushta. Nick followed up by jumping
Speaker 1: off the apron and taking Hetchsaro down with the head scissors.
Speaker 1: A little while later, Nick avoided Hetchesaro's hammerlocked backbreaker, he
Speaker 1: hit him with a destroyer. Okata tagged in. He called
Speaker 1: for Omega, who also tagged in, and the two of
Speaker 1: them traded punches and forearms in the middle of the ring.
Speaker 1: Now there was a spot in here where Okata tagged in.
Speaker 1: He called for Hetchisara to come take part in a
Speaker 1: double team maneuver. Ta Qushta, though opted to do it instead,
Speaker 1: which displeased Okada. So Takesha shoved Okada out of the
Speaker 1: way so that he and Hetchasaro could hit a double
Speaker 1: sup plex on Omega, and Okada looked very annoyed about this.
Speaker 1: Later on, Takeshda signal for a power drive knee. Late
Speaker 1: in the match, Okada those stole it. He tried for
Speaker 1: a rain maker Takeshtan Okada. They argued, Hetchesara now is
Speaker 1: standing in between them. He is trying to play peacemaker.
Speaker 1: He is trying to keep the piece between these two men.
Speaker 1: Not having a lot of luck, Takeshta sent Okada outside.
Speaker 1: Omega then comes in. He hit Snapdragon suit plexes on Takeshta,
Speaker 1: Hetcha Sero, and then Okada and the Elite Trio. They
Speaker 1: hit a kneeling Hetcha Sara with a triple superkick. Omega
Speaker 1: hit Hetchesara with a V trigger and then held him
Speaker 1: up while the Bucks helped out with the assisted one
Speaker 1: winged Angel, and that led to the three count to
Speaker 1: not just win the match, but to win the million dollars.
Speaker 1: This should be like a game show where you win
Speaker 1: a million dollar. Sirens go off, confetti falls, balloons. No,
Speaker 1: they just won the match. It's just like any other match.
Speaker 1: Nothing means anything. I mean, if you're gonna put a
Speaker 1: million fucking dollars on the line, Look, I know that
Speaker 1: the Elite are probably multi millionaires all the money that
Speaker 1: they've been paid by Tony Kahan over all these years.
Speaker 1: But still it's a million dollars that you put on
Speaker 1: the line in this match. You could at least make it,
Speaker 1: make it feel like it's going to actually have an
Speaker 1: impact on their lives, as it would everybody watching the
Speaker 1: television show. So when the match was over, Callous he's
Speaker 1: holding onto the bag of money and Takesha and Okada.
Speaker 1: They attacked the Bucks and Omega. We got a raging
Speaker 1: fire and a rain maker that connected on the bucks
Speaker 1: and Okada then shoves Takeshta and Takeshta returns the shove.
Speaker 1: Callous is on the apron. Now he is jumping up
Speaker 1: and down. He's scrambling trying to get them to just
Speaker 1: stop and behave themselves. Omega returns with a broom and
Speaker 1: chases them from the ring. The cleaner is back. I
Speaker 1: don't know that the crowd really picked up on that.
Speaker 1: The money was a non factor in all of this,
Speaker 1: A complete and total non factor. It is a stupid
Speaker 1: gimmick and Tony needs to give it a rest. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's now we joke about all the titles and all
Speaker 1: these things he loves to do, and the money stuff
Speaker 1: like enough, especially when it comes to like a million dollars,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't mean anything. It's such an arbitrary thing
Speaker 1: that they don't do anything to make the million dollar
Speaker 1: match feel any differently than the four hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: tag team match. It's just stupid. It's stupid. It has
Speaker 1: no effect on anything. Please, for the love of God,
Speaker 1: put it on the shelf. I know he is overflowing
Speaker 1: with money. He just doesn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 1: Please save your money. Please. I beg of you enough
Speaker 1: with the money. But I will say, anytime we get
Speaker 1: Omega and Okada the ring together, I mean, you have
Speaker 1: my attention. They had that great match obviously in Texas
Speaker 1: at all in so we got a little bit of
Speaker 1: Okada and Omega for the first time ever on Dynamite
Speaker 1: here tonight, and I'm here for it. And of course
Speaker 1: in this match, And really the main reason why this
Speaker 1: match was even booked in the first place was to
Speaker 1: further the conflict between Takeshta and Okada. And there really
Speaker 1: is nothing else at this point that they could possibly
Speaker 1: do with these two outside of continuing to do angles
Speaker 1: like the one they did tonight. And at this point
Speaker 1: we have seen it so many times. There's only one
Speaker 1: thing left to do. Get them in the finals of
Speaker 1: the Continental Classic. I will be stunned if the finals
Speaker 1: ends up being anything other than Okada and Takeshta, and
Speaker 1: if they do it, hopefully it's just match number one
Speaker 1: and we get a second one somewhere along the way.
Speaker 1: But I just don't see how it could be anything else.
Speaker 1: I only say that because would Tony Kahan want to
Speaker 1: continue to tease and drag it out just a little
Speaker 1: bit longer? I don't think so. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: discount the possibility. But like again, there's no aw pay
Speaker 1: per views after World's end until Revolution, and Revolution I
Speaker 1: think is March fifteenth. And if you're not going to
Speaker 1: do it at World's end, and again I'm sure he will,
Speaker 1: but if you didn't do it at World's end, there's
Speaker 1: really no other appropriate place to do it that first
Speaker 1: meeting but on a pay per view. Can't have another
Speaker 1: three months of this stuff? Yeah, I mean they have
Speaker 1: done a very I think admirable job of building up
Speaker 1: to this point where people now are hungry to want
Speaker 1: to see these two in the ring and just knock
Speaker 1: each other's blocks off. You got to give it to him.
Speaker 1: It's the only match that makes sense in the finals
Speaker 1: of this tournament. Now you can debate the winner, like
Speaker 1: if he wanted to extend this out to two matches,
Speaker 1: three matches. Does he want Ocatta to win the first one? Look,
Speaker 1: there is absolute lutely a chance that Okada wins that match.
Speaker 1: I would prefer it be you know, Takeshta. But if
Speaker 1: the idea was that Okada goes on to win the
Speaker 1: entire thing and then they extend it out to Revolution Dynasty,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, fine, Like, I'm okay with that, and
Speaker 1: then ultimately turning with the goal of turning to Kesha
Speaker 1: full babyface and bouncing him out of the callis family, Like,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but I I just I'm ready for the match.
Speaker 1: There's really not a whole lot left to do. It's
Speaker 1: very repetitious at this point. The pay per view is
Speaker 1: a week from Saturday, so we're not too far off.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's like the one main story that they
Speaker 1: have been building now for months that I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: I'm invested in. I'm fully into it, and I'm genuinely
Speaker 1: excited for the payoff. I'm excited for the match. This
Speaker 1: really is the one. Now after this, it was time
Speaker 1: for the contract signing for the AEW World Championship match
Speaker 1: coming up at the World's End on December twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: Now it was seemingly going to be Samoa Joe defending
Speaker 1: the AW World Championship against Hangman, Adam Page and then Swerve.
Speaker 1: Strickland be Josh Alexander on Collision last week and laid
Speaker 1: his claim to wanting a shot at the AW World Championship.
Speaker 1: So this was going to be a contract signing for
Speaker 1: a triple threat match. And if there was any physicality
Speaker 1: between these men, we were told before this that they
Speaker 1: would lose their spot in the match next Saturday. So
Speaker 1: that is how they got around the whole Like, how
Speaker 1: come they're all standing around in the ring together and
Speaker 1: not going after each other? No physicality. So Hangman was
Speaker 1: out first, then Swerve and then the champion getting the
Speaker 1: final entrance as he should. He came out with his
Speaker 1: fellow OPS members. So Hobbs was out there. I don't
Speaker 1: know what Shabbata out there. I don't know if Shabata
Speaker 1: was out there. Shabbata doesn't say anything. Shabbada just sort
Speaker 1: of he just sort of fades into the background sometimes.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he was there, But Hobbs was there,
Speaker 1: and Hook was there. I know that. So Joe had
Speaker 1: his World Championship slung over one shoulder, his Trios title
Speaker 1: slung over the other, draped in gold is Samoa Joe,
Speaker 1: and he cut Tony Shavanni off right away. He said
Speaker 1: that he brought his boys with him because things are
Speaker 1: always very volatile when Hangman and Swerve are in the
Speaker 1: ring together, so he just wanted to make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody was safe and nobody was going to be triggered
Speaker 1: enough to do something stupid. Now, he said this with
Speaker 1: his arm around hook as they were smiling at Hangman
Speaker 1: after what happened in the main event of Full Gear.
Speaker 1: So Joe signed the contract straight away, and he said
Speaker 1: that he hopes the two of them make it to
Speaker 1: World's End in one piece, short and sweet from the
Speaker 1: AW World Champion. Then it was Swerve's turn, and he
Speaker 1: said that he came back to AW four the World
Speaker 1: Championship and if the outcome was different at Full Gear,
Speaker 1: he would be coming after Hangman right now. But after
Speaker 1: all that they've been through, there is now a mutual
Speaker 1: respect there between them and a mutual hatred there for
Speaker 1: Samoa Joe. Now, the last time we had a contract signing,
Speaker 1: he looked at Joe and he said, you put me
Speaker 1: down badly. So badly that I had to sign the
Speaker 1: contract in a pool of my own blood, and he
Speaker 1: paid Joe back by taking away his aw World championship,
Speaker 1: just like he's going to do at world's end, he's
Speaker 1: going to leave a boot print. He's going to stomp
Speaker 1: him and leave a boot print on Joe's face so
Speaker 1: bad it's going to be uglier than the face tattoo
Speaker 1: he had on his face in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: We do not need to refer back to Russo's creative
Speaker 1: when it comes to Samoa Joe. We can leave that
Speaker 1: in the past where it belongs. No need to dig
Speaker 1: up all the dead bodies from back then. So with that,
Speaker 1: Swerve signed the contract, and then it was Hangman's turn,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to remind both of them that here
Speaker 1: we are in December, but back in July we were
Speaker 1: fighting together. We were not fighting against each other. We
Speaker 1: were fighting together to end the tyranny of the Death Riders.
Speaker 1: And Joe, it could just as easily have been you
Speaker 1: beating John Moxley to win the world title, and Swerve
Speaker 1: if the two of them had figured things out before
Speaker 1: he fought John Moxley, it could have just as easily
Speaker 1: been swerve in that match. But when they figured it out,
Speaker 1: it was left to him. Now what did he do?
Speaker 1: He went in there and he became the aw world champion,
Speaker 1: and he knew that his world champion. One by one,
Speaker 1: each of them would find their way across the ring
Speaker 1: from him, and he would give them that opportunity. He
Speaker 1: gave it to Joe, he said, he gave it to
Speaker 1: Joe at Wrestle Dream and he failed. So instead of
Speaker 1: accepting that, he turned to Shabata, and he turned to Hobbes,
Speaker 1: and he turned to hook. Joe turned into what he
Speaker 1: fought against. He is worse than the Death Riders on
Speaker 1: their worst day. Now, let's not exaggerate. Okay, let's not
Speaker 1: get carried away here. Samoa Joe's as bad or worse
Speaker 1: than the Death Riders on their worst day. Okay, you
Speaker 1: lost me there, hangman, Okay, you lost me there. I
Speaker 1: cannot endorse that statement. Joe has no self respect, he
Speaker 1: has no dignity left, and in the twilight years of
Speaker 1: his career, he would hate for the legend of Samoa
Speaker 1: Joe to be remembered for the piece of shit that
Speaker 1: he is today. And they went nose to nose as
Speaker 1: world champion, Hangman planned on defending that title against everybody
Speaker 1: who helped him. That includes Darby Allen, that includes will Osprey,
Speaker 1: and he knew that there would come a time when
Speaker 1: once again he would stand across the ring from you. Swerve.
Speaker 1: You said that you came back to a to challenge
Speaker 1: for the World Championship, and if he was the champion,
Speaker 1: he would have expected nothing less from him, and if
Speaker 1: Swerve would have beaten him, he would have accepted that
Speaker 1: defeat and handed the title to him. But that is
Speaker 1: not the world that we live in. At World's end,
Speaker 1: this will be a three way match, and he can't
Speaker 1: guarantee who's gonna leave is the champion, but he can
Speaker 1: guarantee that it will not be Samoa Joe. He said,
Speaker 1: Joe has messed up worse than he knows in making
Speaker 1: an enemy out of the two of them, and with that,
Speaker 1: Hangman signed the contract to make the match official. Tony
Speaker 1: Shavani said, there it is. You were a three way
Speaker 1: match for the AW World Championship at World's End until
Speaker 1: the lights went out. The lights went out and we
Speaker 1: hear mjp's music and he got a huge reaction walking
Speaker 1: out for the first time in many months. I don't
Speaker 1: even remember the last time we saw him on TV.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what episode of Dynamite it was, or
Speaker 1: what pay per view it might have been. But it's
Speaker 1: been a while. He's been filmed, he's been doing stuff,
Speaker 1: he's been taking some time for himself, and now MJF
Speaker 1: is finally back on TV and the fans sang his
Speaker 1: song or hummed his song. It has no fucking words.
Speaker 1: As he came down to the ring. So he gets
Speaker 1: into the ring and he was showered in MJF chance,
Speaker 1: he's also got new hair. I should point that out.
Speaker 1: His hair looked very different. He has nicer hair and
Speaker 1: more hair on his head now than he did when
Speaker 1: he debuted in this company in twenty nineteen. So maybe
Speaker 1: that's also. Yeah, he was again. He was doing a
Speaker 1: lot of different things when he was away, but he
Speaker 1: looked rested, he looked well, and he looked ready to go. Here.
Speaker 1: He summoned smart Mark Sterling over. He was outside. He
Speaker 1: summoned him over and he handed him a clipboard with
Speaker 1: a contract on it, and he signed it before handing
Speaker 1: it over to Tony Schavanni, and Shavanni said, well, MJF
Speaker 1: just signed his guaranteed contract for a shot at the
Speaker 1: AW World Championship that he won in the Casino Gauntlet
Speaker 1: many months ago. But he cashed now again, the rules
Speaker 1: of cashing in this contract were changed. It's no longer
Speaker 1: money in the bank rules. You now need to give
Speaker 1: at least a week's notice before you can cash in
Speaker 1: and get your World Championship opportunity. Evidently, what he has
Speaker 1: done is he has cashed in his contract that he
Speaker 1: has been carrying around for months to be added to
Speaker 1: the Triple Threat match at World's End, thus making the
Speaker 1: Triple Threat match a fatal four way match. It is
Speaker 1: now a four way for the AW World Championship and
Speaker 1: mjftel Shavanni to shut up. He called him a tubagoo.
Speaker 1: He said. People are probably wondering why he would cash
Speaker 1: in his contract against three other people instead of one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the first question on everybody's mind. I'm sure after
Speaker 1: he made this announcement, said Hangman once called him a coward.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was right. The old hymn would have taken
Speaker 1: every shortcut to get what he wants. But he needs
Speaker 1: to hurt Hangman, and what better way to do it
Speaker 1: than by taking the title back by beating him and
Speaker 1: two of his biggest rivals in one fell swoop. That way,
Speaker 1: he and his fans have zero excuses. So Joe started talking.
Speaker 1: MJF snapped at him to shut his mouth. He said
Speaker 1: he still hates him. When Joe took the title away
Speaker 1: from him. These people, all these fans here, they turned
Speaker 1: on him. They turned on MJF. And as much as
Speaker 1: he hates to admit it, the fans get to dictate
Speaker 1: who goes down as an all time great. And it's
Speaker 1: not just that he wants to be an all time great.
Speaker 1: He needs to be an all time great. Joe's luck
Speaker 1: has run out. He's about to make Joe fall back
Speaker 1: harder than his hairline. World's end the same place Joe
Speaker 1: ended his title reign, I end yours. Swerve piped up
Speaker 1: said that if there's anyone MJF needs to be afraid
Speaker 1: of in this ring, it's him. MJF said, Shane reminds
Speaker 1: him of this famous musician. They both call themselves moguls,
Speaker 1: they both rock way too much baby oil, and they're
Speaker 1: both dog shit rappers. Says the name's on the tip
Speaker 1: of his tongue. P Diddy, Yes, we got a p
Speaker 1: Diddy joke here, he said, pop Quita's class whose house?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that. These people know him as Swerve,
Speaker 1: but when they were eighteen years old grinding it out
Speaker 1: on the indies, he knew him as Shane and they
Speaker 1: both went their own way and MJF went on to
Speaker 1: become the hottest young star in AW while Shane went
Speaker 1: to WWE. And I mean, those initials are just sacrilegious.
Speaker 1: You can't say that on an AW show. So of
Speaker 1: course all the fans begin to boo, and MJF says, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's a perfectly good company. As for Swars run there
Speaker 1: he goes, eh, it wasn't so great. It wasn't so great,
Speaker 1: though he thoroughly enjoyed watching him twerk for top dollar.
Speaker 1: But then he came knocking in AW and he got
Speaker 1: freaking jacked and he became a tag team champion, which
Speaker 1: just reminds me, I hope Keith Lee is doing well.
Speaker 1: You don't hear about him anymore. Was the last time
Speaker 1: we had any sort of update on Keith Lee. They
Speaker 1: were a very good team. Actually, Swerve in our glory
Speaker 1: was a very good team. But he said that Swerve
Speaker 1: was a tag team champion. He beat sloppy Joe over
Speaker 1: there for the world title, and he held it for
Speaker 1: a whopping one hundred twenty six days. It was not bad, folks,
Speaker 1: although he had it for four hundred and six but
Speaker 1: who's county. But see, Shane, now we have a problem
Speaker 1: because you're in my way. You're swerve stomping around like
Speaker 1: you own the damn place. You've been a very sloppy tenant.
Speaker 1: So no, this isn't your house. This is my house.
Speaker 1: The rent has come due, and the devil is here
Speaker 1: to collect. Says that you can call him Michael corleone
Speaker 1: because he's about to handle all his family business. December
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Chicago, Illinois, World's End. He gets back what's
Speaker 1: rightfully his His trip will be his aw world championship.
Speaker 1: And do all you folks happen to know why? Because
Speaker 1: his name is Maxwell Jacob Friedman and I'm better than you.
Speaker 1: And he allowed the fans to finish off that statement,
Speaker 1: he dropped the mic and he left the ring. Thank god,
Speaker 1: he is back. He is back. Yes, he has been missed.
Speaker 1: This was a long segment, but it was a great segment.
Speaker 1: It was a great return for MJF who dropped the
Speaker 1: bomb on the World's End main event. Again, this main
Speaker 1: event now goes from being a three way to being
Speaker 1: a four way, and right away. The thing I like
Speaker 1: the most is that they took the time as soon
Speaker 1: as he announced this. You know that he was cashing
Speaker 1: his contract to address the obvious elephant in the room,
Speaker 1: which is why the fuck would he do this? You know,
Speaker 1: he earned that contract. He still has time to cash
Speaker 1: in that contract, and so why would you want to
Speaker 1: cash it in against three other men instead of just one?
Speaker 1: Why make it a harder mountain to climb? And so
Speaker 1: he addressed that right off the bat, and he said, look,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been called a coward. I've been called
Speaker 1: this and that, and I cheat and I take shortcuts,
Speaker 1: And so what better way to get back at everybody
Speaker 1: in this ring and get back at hangman if I
Speaker 1: throw myself into this match and potentially take your opportunity
Speaker 1: away from you to become the world champion and prove
Speaker 1: to you that I don't need to take these shortcuts, right.
Speaker 1: I take them because I want to. I take because
Speaker 1: I'm an asshole, but doesn't mean that I need to.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna call your bluff and I'm going to
Speaker 1: cash in my contract and I'm gonna make sure that
Speaker 1: you don't become the aw World Champion and I get
Speaker 1: my belt back. Now you can still look at that
Speaker 1: and go, man, you know, just logically though it's still dumb,
Speaker 1: but you know what, he addressed it. He addressed it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that they took the time to try to
Speaker 1: explain why MJF, who in the past has taken the
Speaker 1: coward's way out, would all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: show some integrity and say, you know what, I'm confident
Speaker 1: that I could win this championship, even though my chances
Speaker 1: go way down in a four way as compared to
Speaker 1: a singles match. At least they addressed it. So that
Speaker 1: was the thing that I liked there right at the
Speaker 1: top of his promo. The other thing is this means
Speaker 1: he and this is what I was thinking before we
Speaker 1: got to the end of the show, like I'm watching
Speaker 1: this and I'm going this is great because it means
Speaker 1: he's going after the gold and not the stupid ring.
Speaker 1: He has held the Dynamite Diamond ring every single year
Speaker 1: that this company has been in existence, from almost day one,
Speaker 1: it has become less so some sort of trophy that
Speaker 1: anybody can win, even though it technically is, but it
Speaker 1: really has become a part of his character. It's become
Speaker 1: a part of his gimmick. It's become a part of him.
Speaker 1: It's not the AW Diamond Ring, It's the MJF Diamond Ring.
Speaker 1: That's basically what it's become. Until now he's got bigger
Speaker 1: fish to fry, He's got bigger things to chase after
Speaker 1: instead of a fucking ring which that doesn't have magical powers. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's exhausted all of its magical powers. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: it anymore. Let somebody else win it. Maybe they can
Speaker 1: incorporate it into their own gimmick the way that he
Speaker 1: has over the last six years. So this all but
Speaker 1: guaranteed unless he's snuck in as a last minute's surprise
Speaker 1: that we were finally going to get a new holder
Speaker 1: of the Diamond Ring, which is for the better. But
Speaker 1: I look at it, who's in this main event now
Speaker 1: at World's end, And I mean, you look at this
Speaker 1: collection of talent in that match, and the collection of
Speaker 1: talent in this match is pretty sick. And what I
Speaker 1: love is that they all have history of some kind
Speaker 1: with each other. We know the history with MJF and Joe.
Speaker 1: We know that Joe and Hangman they've already had a
Speaker 1: couple of matches. We know that Swerve won his first
Speaker 1: World championship from Samoa Joe at Dynasty. We know that
Speaker 1: Hangman and Swerve have had, if not the one of
Speaker 1: the greatest feuds in aw history, a feud that actually
Speaker 1: elevated both men, more so Swerve because what that first,
Speaker 1: even the first match they had, let alone all the
Speaker 1: craziness that came later on into the cage and everything,
Speaker 1: that was really the match and the program, the feud
Speaker 1: that elevated Swerve to a level in this company that
Speaker 1: he was not at before, where people looked at him
Speaker 1: and go, you know what, this is the main event player.
Speaker 1: Even if you thought that he had the ability and
Speaker 1: the talent to one day get there, sometimes all it
Speaker 1: takes is working with that one guy. It's like what
Speaker 1: Brett Hart did for Steve Austin in WWE. It's like
Speaker 1: the perfect analogy. Austin was very talented. Everybody knew he
Speaker 1: was very talented, and there were probably people who looked
Speaker 1: at him and said, you know what, this could be
Speaker 1: a main event player one day, but you know what,
Speaker 1: he's not quite there yet. And then he started calling
Speaker 1: out Brett Hart, and Brett Hart came back and they
Speaker 1: worked together and he beat him. But you know what,
Speaker 1: between that and the wrestle Mania match, that took Austin
Speaker 1: to a level that maybe he would have gotten there.
Speaker 1: We'll never know, but it would have taken a hell
Speaker 1: of a lot longer that feud. Even though he lost
Speaker 1: all those matches, that feud elevated him. Working with Hangman
Speaker 1: elevated Swerve to world champion status, and the matches they
Speaker 1: had were great, gory, a little too gory, sometimes gory, violent, brutal, bloody,
Speaker 1: all those things. So there's a lot of history there now.
Speaker 1: MJF and Swerve they have never wrestled in aw before,
Speaker 1: but they have already teased at least a couple of
Speaker 1: times before. They've had some run ins, they've had some
Speaker 1: interactions on TV. So we haven't gotten the match yet,
Speaker 1: but we've gotten the teases for it, and so now
Speaker 1: we're going to get the chance to see them in
Speaker 1: the ring together. It's not going to be a singles match,
Speaker 1: but we get to see them share a pay per
Speaker 1: view main event where you know they're all going to
Speaker 1: go absolutely out of their minds and I'm sure do
Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy shit. But I'm very much looking
Speaker 1: forward to this match, and again I like that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of ties that bind all four of these
Speaker 1: men together. Realistically, the title either stays with Samoa Joe
Speaker 1: or goes to MJF. I don't see Hangman winning the
Speaker 1: belt back in this match. I don't see Swerve winning
Speaker 1: the belt back in this match. That is something you
Speaker 1: should take your time with and really, if you're going
Speaker 1: to do it, build to it. In twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: we still don't know when will Osprey is going to
Speaker 1: be back. Surely he should be in that mix. Be great.
Speaker 1: If he was back in time for that Wembley show,
Speaker 1: that may be you know, pushing it. But when they
Speaker 1: get him back in the mix, he'll certainly be in
Speaker 1: the world title picture as well. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: this this main event. I was already looking forward to it,
Speaker 1: but more so now. More so now I'm very much
Speaker 1: looking forward to that match and getting MJF back. At
Speaker 1: this time, when Darby Allen is out, we don't know
Speaker 1: for how long will Ospray is out. We don't know
Speaker 1: for how long. Bobby Lashley is out. We don't know
Speaker 1: for how long, but evidently it's gonna be for a while.
Speaker 1: I still don't know what the exact injury is. MVP
Speaker 1: was the one who announced that Lashley was hurt last week.
Speaker 1: That's why Shelton Benjamin was in the Battle Royal tonight
Speaker 1: and not Bobby Lashley, and then Fightful was reporting that apparently,
Speaker 1: whatever the injury is, it's expected to keep him out
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time, which basically means the
Speaker 1: Hurt Syndicate is dead. The Hurt Syndicate is on the
Speaker 1: back burner for the foreseeable future. Without Bobby Lashley, there
Speaker 1: is no Hurt Syndicate and the Hurt Sinner was one
Speaker 1: of the most popular acts in the entire company, so
Speaker 1: they're missing a lot of people. Getting MJF back is
Speaker 1: a very big deal for them. I'm glad he's back.
Speaker 1: We had a giant eight women tag team match with
Speaker 1: the new women's Tag team champions, the Babes of Wrath,
Speaker 1: Willow Nightingale, and Harley Cameron teaming up with Tony Storm
Speaker 1: and Mina sheer Acawa. The women they beat in the
Speaker 1: finals of that tournament to take on the TBS champion,
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet, Athena, Megan Bain and Marina Shaffir. They did
Speaker 1: not have a lot of time here. I don't even
Speaker 1: think this went ten minutes, so there was a lot
Speaker 1: of craziness here and just it was a sprint in
Speaker 1: a very short period of time. Marina was out there
Speaker 1: just in the course of the match, just dropping f
Speaker 1: bombs like they were going out of style. Harley sent
Speaker 1: Megan to the outside and Shaffir came in with a
Speaker 1: tiger faint head scissors in the ropes. Storm flew in
Speaker 1: with a hip attack before Mina hit an assisted dive
Speaker 1: from the top onto the floor outside. Athena tagged Monette
Speaker 1: before wiping out the pile with a dive of her own,
Speaker 1: so Mercedes was legal and Monette wanted a dive, but
Speaker 1: she ran right into a pounce by Willow, who followed
Speaker 1: up with a cannon ball off the apron onto everybody outside. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: back inside, Willow rolls into the ring and she gets
Speaker 1: caught with an O face off the top by Athena.
Speaker 1: She didn't see it coming, so the O face takes
Speaker 1: her down. Mercedes is legal and she very quickly scrambles
Speaker 1: over and she covers Willow Nightingale to get the pin
Speaker 1: to win for her team. Tag team champions have been defeated.
Speaker 1: But here's the bigger issue that I had with this finish.
Speaker 1: Athena has been Ring of Hoannor Women's World Champion for
Speaker 1: well over a thousand days. Most of those matches, if
Speaker 1: not the championship itself, she won with that move. That's
Speaker 1: her finishing move. She has put down many women with
Speaker 1: that move. She drops Willow with the O face, and
Speaker 1: Mercedes scrambles over and covers her and pins her, and
Speaker 1: as soon as she pins Willow, Willow pops up like
Speaker 1: nothing ever happened. What you just got dropped with the
Speaker 1: woman's finish. She is the Ring of Honor forever champion.
Speaker 1: She's put countless women away with this move. You just
Speaker 1: took her finish and you bounce right back up as
Speaker 1: if you got rolled up with a small package. Because
Speaker 1: ashot as the finish just is referee county three. Willow
Speaker 1: pop right up and you know, chase Mercedes out of
Speaker 1: the ring, and then Mercedes and Athena were celebrating and
Speaker 1: then off they went. But I'm like, I'm watching this
Speaker 1: going why is she popping up and no selling this
Speaker 1: woman's finish? It doesn't make any sense, So that was stupid.
Speaker 1: But they are setting up Mercedes and Willow or Mercedes
Speaker 1: and Athena. That was very clear coming out of this
Speaker 1: match for a shot at the Women's Tag Team Championships
Speaker 1: probably at World's End, And then later in the show
Speaker 1: on the Collision portion of the night, we got confirmation
Speaker 1: that in fact Athena and Mercedes because Athena threw the
Speaker 1: challenge out and then Tony Kahan made it official. Later
Speaker 1: on we got the graphic and everything. At World's End,
Speaker 1: it will be Mercedes and Athena challenging Willow and Harley
Speaker 1: for the women's tag team titles. If you remember, Willow
Speaker 1: and Harley beat them in the semi finals of the
Speaker 1: Tag team title tournament. So this is where Mercedes and
Speaker 1: Athena are going to be out for revenge. They're going
Speaker 1: to be out to avenge the loss in the tournament,
Speaker 1: and they should lose again because under no circumstances, what
Speaker 1: I'd be taking these titles off of Willow and Harley
Speaker 1: right now? They just won them. They just won the titles.
Speaker 1: You just beat them in their first match coming out
Speaker 1: of that for the purposes of setting up this match
Speaker 1: at the pay per view. Fine, now they need to
Speaker 1: go in there and beat some ass and win. Otherwise
Speaker 1: this whole it renders the entire tournament pointless if they
Speaker 1: go in there at World's End and just drop the
Speaker 1: belts to Mercedes in Athena, we sat through an entire
Speaker 1: tournament for no reason if all they do is go
Speaker 1: in there and change the belts. So they should absolutely
Speaker 1: go in there and retain. And I wouldn't even mind
Speaker 1: them trying again in twenty twenty six and trying to
Speaker 1: set up something with Mercedes and Athena. I would have
Speaker 1: liked to have seen a more extended feud with them. Instead,
Speaker 1: we got the one match on Dynamite back in what April,
Speaker 1: and it was a great match, might have been in Boston,
Speaker 1: and then we never saw it again. So I'd rather
Speaker 1: see them back out opposing sides rather than being any
Speaker 1: sort of long term team. But that's how I would
Speaker 1: see things shaping up at World's End there now. In
Speaker 1: that same backstage interview later in the show, Mercedes said
Speaker 1: that she would also be defending her rev pro British
Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship on Collision this Saturday. She's gonna put her
Speaker 1: title on the line, one of the many many championships
Speaker 1: that she still has. It's going to be an open
Speaker 1: challenge and she should lose that as well, because that
Speaker 1: will just further the downfall that really began when she
Speaker 1: dropped the Ring of Honor TV title to Red Velvet
Speaker 1: at Final Battle a couple of weeks ago. So I
Speaker 1: would expect the Rev Pro Championship to come off of
Speaker 1: her this weekend and for her to not win the
Speaker 1: tag team titles at world's end. Right, no more titles
Speaker 1: need to be added. We're in this phase now where
Speaker 1: the next championship than Mercedes wins later next year will
Speaker 1: be the AW Women's World Championship. There should be no
Speaker 1: other titles added to her roster of championships until she
Speaker 1: wins the world title. From here on out, however long
Speaker 1: it takes, one by one by one, each title will
Speaker 1: fall off. I would save the TBS title for last,
Speaker 1: but that is how this will progress. There's no reason
Speaker 1: to add any more belts around her waist. I don't
Speaker 1: care if it's singles, I don't care if it's tag team.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's if it's a fucking gold
Speaker 1: medal or a trophy. She has all the accolades. She's
Speaker 1: all maxed out on accolades right now. Now you lose
Speaker 1: them one by one by one. By the way, that
Speaker 1: episode of Collision on Saturday, for those of you who
Speaker 1: care to watch, is airing earlier two thirty pm Eastern
Speaker 1: on TNT, so be aware of that. We had Kyle
Speaker 1: Fletcher again Pack Gold League match in the Continental Classic.
Speaker 1: Given they were in England, Pack was treated like the
Speaker 1: hometown favorite here by the fans. The only time any
Speaker 1: one of the Death Riders will get a reaction like
Speaker 1: that is when they're in their hometown. So if it's
Speaker 1: John Moxley in what Cincinnati Pack in the UK, uh, Claudia, well,
Speaker 1: I guess they're not going to run any shows there.
Speaker 1: They're not running any shows where Claudio is from. And
Speaker 1: then you got Daniel Garcia and you've got Wheeler Yuda,
Speaker 1: and I mean, at that point, I want to say
Speaker 1: Garcia is a California guy, but I could be completely
Speaker 1: wrong about that. I could be like they did win
Speaker 1: the PWG title. I guess that doesn't mean he's from California, though,
Speaker 1: But we had Kyle Fletcher and Pack. We got a
Speaker 1: series of reversals to kick things off. Pack tried to
Speaker 1: keep Fletcher grounded in the early go, Fletcher escaped, Pack
Speaker 1: floated over into a snap Hurri Knrata sent Fletcher outside
Speaker 1: to regroup. Pack quickly went out after him, only to
Speaker 1: get turned inside out by a lariat. Back in the ring.
Speaker 1: Taking too long to go up top, Fletcher got caught
Speaker 1: when Pack jumped up to join him on the ropes,
Speaker 1: and he delivered an avalanche release belly to belly souplex,
Speaker 1: heading into a commercial break. You know, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Pack these days, man like he is just ripped to
Speaker 1: shreds and like his shoulders and everything like he like
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't even know, Like I don't
Speaker 1: even know because he's not obviously he's not the biggest
Speaker 1: guy in the roster height wise, but like I see
Speaker 1: him out there now, and he is as like Jack
Speaker 1: as he has been his entire career, like in WWE
Speaker 1: or anywhere else. It's just such a weird body type,
Speaker 1: like he's I don't know, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: secret is. I don't know what he's been doing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess there was a period of time that went
Speaker 1: by there where he had a lot of time to
Speaker 1: just work out and get his body into a state
Speaker 1: that no one's ever seen it before. Good for him,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, It's just it's crazy to see
Speaker 1: the transformation that he's undergone. So during the break, both
Speaker 1: men turned each other inside out with a double clothes
Speaker 1: line on the floor. Came back with the Pack trying
Speaker 1: his home run Lariot only to run into a Mitchioku
Speaker 1: driver for two pack teas the black Arrow Fletcher, they'll
Speaker 1: rolled outside, so instead Pack readjusted and hit a huge
Speaker 1: moonsaw out to the floor. Back inside the Tiger Suplex landed,
Speaker 1: but Fletcher kicked out and we had The ring announcer
Speaker 1: for the show, by the way, was Arcady Aura, so
Speaker 1: she made the trip overseas. She did the ring announcing
Speaker 1: for them. We got a time call here we were
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Speaker 1: his big lariat, but he ran into a leg lariat
Speaker 1: in the corner or not in the corner, but he
Speaker 1: was basically doing the bron breaker thing where he's hitting
Speaker 1: the ropes back and forth building up speed. And when
Speaker 1: he hit the ropes and he went to go come off,
Speaker 1: he got met with a leg lariat by Fletcher, who
Speaker 1: then gave him a lager bomb only for a two count.
Speaker 1: Pack avoided the brainbuster. He attempted a flying crossbody. He
Speaker 1: got caught. Pack though floated over and he applied a
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Speaker 1: and Fletcher was fading. It looked like he was going
Speaker 1: ninety nine, but he managed to get his foot on
Speaker 1: the bottom rope third time was a charm though for
Speaker 1: a very frustrated Pack, who finally hit the home run
Speaker 1: lariot for a close two count. Pack quickly went up
Speaker 1: top of the black Arrow. Fletcher exploded up, crouched him
Speaker 1: on the ropes, and Pack took this just horrendous crash
Speaker 1: and burn fall where he bounced off the buckle and
Speaker 1: the ropes on the way down and landed on the mat.
Speaker 1: Once he staggered back up to his feet, though in
Speaker 1: the corner, Fletcher caught him with a Halluba kick. Fletcher
Speaker 1: spiked Pack with the brain buster, Pack kicked out and
Speaker 1: the crowd cheered, yeah, like he's this just big, returning,
Speaker 1: conquering babyface here. Fletcher wanted his buckle Brainbuster, Pack, though
Speaker 1: fought out of it to an avalanche poison raana, and
Speaker 1: he followed that finally with the Black Arrow to get
Speaker 1: the win. That black Arrow was clean and it got
Speaker 1: a huge reaction too. Always said it's a great looking finish.
Speaker 1: It's probably the most beautiful looking finisher in all of wrestling.
Speaker 1: And I was saying that back when he was still
Speaker 1: Neville you know wrestling, Remember when he wrestled Seth Rollins
Speaker 1: on raw that time for the WWE Championship. He's been
Speaker 1: using that move for over a decade now and just
Speaker 1: he hit this one clean, great finish, great match. It's
Speaker 1: been a reoccurring theme here with in particular Kyle Fletcher
Speaker 1: in this tournament. He goes out there, He's had a
Speaker 1: bunch of great matches. So now we've got a four
Speaker 1: way tie atop the Gold League. We have Okada, Fletcher, Speedball,
Speaker 1: and Pack. They were all tied with six points each.
Speaker 1: After this, it was time for the Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: Just shy of the ten PM hour. The last two
Speaker 1: men remaining will meet one on one next Wednesday on Dynamite,
Speaker 1: not only for the Diamond Ring, but for the right
Speaker 1: to then go on to challenge for the AW World Championship.
Speaker 1: January fourteenth. That's the maximum carnage episode of Dynamite. Imagine
Speaker 1: going through the entire month and just all of the
Speaker 1: relentless matches in this round robin Continental Classic and all
Speaker 1: it's again it's their version of the g One and
Speaker 1: you go through this entire tournament all for the right
Speaker 1: to win the Continental Championship. But you win a Battle
Speaker 1: Royal on this show, you win a Battle Royal on
Speaker 1: this show, you still got one more match after that.
Speaker 1: So you win the Battle Royal, you win a singles match,
Speaker 1: but then you get a shot at the AW World title.
Speaker 1: There's just something very ass backwards about this. It's a
Speaker 1: little too easy to get a World Championship match as
Speaker 1: compared to everything the he's meta putting themselves through in
Speaker 1: this tournament. Something just feels off about this. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: here in this Battle Royal, no MJF. So we knew
Speaker 1: that we were finally gonna have a new owner of
Speaker 1: this diamond ring. So the participants were Shelton Benjamin again,
Speaker 1: no Bobby Lashley because he's hurt, Lucasaurus, Ricochet, The Gates
Speaker 1: of Agony, Brody King, Bandido, Josh Alexander, Mark Davis, Anthony Bowens,
Speaker 1: Max Caster, and Ace Austen. When the hell was the
Speaker 1: last time we saw Ace Austin on AW Dynamite. I
Speaker 1: think the answer is never. I mean, it's just it's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's talented, but he doesn't get featured on
Speaker 1: this show. But he's in a Battle Royal where he
Speaker 1: could be in line for a World Championship match. Yes,
Speaker 1: Mark Davis, Ace Austen Tota Leona, unbelievable. Wrestlers were already
Speaker 1: surrounding in the ringside area. They made their entrance. As
Speaker 1: some were making their entrance, the demand actually attacked Brodido
Speaker 1: in the aisle as they were on their way down
Speaker 1: to the ring. So they finally decided to ring the bell.
Speaker 1: There were only six guys in the ring. Well, let's
Speaker 1: ring the bell. I think we're ready to kick things
Speaker 1: off here, okay, so the bell sounds. Benjamin and lucasaur
Speaker 1: as they slugged it out. We had the former members
Speaker 1: of the acclaimed, we had Castor, we had Bowen's reluctantly
Speaker 1: in agreement. Here they were going to do their old
Speaker 1: scissor me timber spot, which they did, and then they
Speaker 1: each went to a corner and they were teasing scissoring
Speaker 1: each other. But as they started to come in, Ricochet
Speaker 1: grabbed Max Castor and dumped them out over the top
Speaker 1: row Ace. Austin got launched over the top by Mark Davis,
Speaker 1: who also eliminated Anthony Bowens before they went to commercial.
Speaker 1: Ricochet springboarded into the clutches of Shelton Benjamin, who launched
Speaker 1: him into a Lucosaurus choke slam, Benjamin got tossed out
Speaker 1: by Alexander. Davis got dumped by Lucasaurus, who was then
Speaker 1: eliminated by Alexander. King fought off all of the Demand
Speaker 1: members and he gave Ricoshet a running death valley driver
Speaker 1: into the corner, onto too Leona, Josh Alexander. He picked
Speaker 1: King's leg with an ankle lock. Brody rolled through into
Speaker 1: a Bandido monkey flip, eliminating Alexander. So Brody was stalking
Speaker 1: Ricochet out on the outside and he squashed him up
Speaker 1: against the barricade. Toto Leoni meanwhile launched Brody into the
Speaker 1: front row. Bandido escaped the Fireman's carried by Bishop Kahn,
Speaker 1: but he did not see too Leona sneak up from behind.
Speaker 1: He was about to eliminate him when Brody King returned.
Speaker 1: He took the bullet for his partner and he eliminated
Speaker 1: himself and Toto Leona, so the two of them were
Speaker 1: gun and then Bandido hit a hurd kanran As, sending
Speaker 1: Bishop over the top rope to the floor, and that
Speaker 1: left Bandido and rikoshon. Now Ricochet I think was kind
Speaker 1: of hanging out outside and then as soon as it
Speaker 1: came down to Bandido. Only that's when Ricochet slid back
Speaker 1: into the ring and they ring the bell and everybody
Speaker 1: in the crowd looks and sounds very confused. But at
Speaker 1: that point, the Battle Royal is over and they make
Speaker 1: the announcement that next week on Dynamite, it will be
Speaker 1: Ricochet one on one with Bandido. Two men who already
Speaker 1: have championships are going to wrestle for the Diamond Ring
Speaker 1: and a shot at potentially another championship, and that match
Speaker 1: will happen on Dynamite next week. This was I thought
Speaker 1: this Battle Royal, for the most part, was very lame.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes they'll do a Battle Royal like this
Speaker 1: because it was a television Battle Royal, and sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: do a Battle Royal like this and it hits. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: you know what, this was fun. This was not one
Speaker 1: of those times, and the crowd was clearly caught off guard.
Speaker 1: I don't know if in the introductions for the Battle
Speaker 1: Royal they made it clear to the people in the
Speaker 1: arena what the rules were, but even if they did,
Speaker 1: people were stunned. When the bell rang, They're like, wait,
Speaker 1: what the fuck what? We still got two guys left
Speaker 1: here not realizing that, yeah, you don't get to see
Speaker 1: that match because that's happening next week back in the States.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that was especially for the live crowd, ended
Speaker 1: up being a very lame finish. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: you know, Ricochet against Bandido is a very good match.
Speaker 1: They're going to do that match. They're taping this weekend
Speaker 1: for Christmas week, So they're taping this weekend here in
Speaker 1: New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom. I think they're doing
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday taping, so that's where they're going to
Speaker 1: be doing the match. Again. On paper, it sounds like
Speaker 1: a hell of a match, and honestly, the Diamond ring
Speaker 1: is perfect for Ricochet. I'm sure Rikoshet is going to
Speaker 1: win the ring, which means, by the way, that if Ricochet,
Speaker 1: if I'm right and Rickoshet is going to win the
Speaker 1: Diamond Ring, it actually would make more sense for him
Speaker 1: to be defending the title against the baby face if
Speaker 1: you think about it. I mean, you could do Samoa
Speaker 1: Joe against Ricochet, you could do MJF against Ricochet. I
Speaker 1: just think it would make more sense to do Ricochet
Speaker 1: and Hangman Rickoshet and Swerve. Obviously, the two of them
Speaker 1: have history together going back to earlier this year. I
Speaker 1: just as I sit here right now, I just don't
Speaker 1: see Hangman or Swerve, you know, walking out with that championship.
Speaker 1: But I do think that Rikoshet winning the title or ring,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, makes the most sense,
Speaker 1: and then he could take that ring honestly, like him
Speaker 1: walking around with his gaudy ring on his finger and
Speaker 1: occasionally using it as a weapon to win matches like
Speaker 1: it just suits him, it suits that. The hell does
Speaker 1: Bandido need the ring for it? Like the ring is
Speaker 1: not even really a babyface gimmick, It's meant for a heel.
Speaker 1: I just I can't imagine giving it to Bandido unless
Speaker 1: they just want to do away with it. He probably
Speaker 1: win it and then we would never see it again.
Speaker 1: You know what, now that I say that out loud,
Speaker 1: maybe that is the better idea. Let's just get rid
Speaker 1: of the ring altogether. If MJF is not gonna have it,
Speaker 1: then there's probably no point in anybody walking around with it.
Speaker 1: So this is where the collision parts of the show
Speaker 1: kicked off. You know, it's very annoying. I watch the
Speaker 1: show each week on HBO Max I just think overall,
Speaker 1: it's just for me a better viewing experience. But when
Speaker 1: the show ends, it's the dumbest thing because the show
Speaker 1: ends on these three hour nights, and technically now it's Collision,
Speaker 1: So the stream just ends and there's a screen. It
Speaker 1: just stays on that screen, thank you for watching. So
Speaker 1: you've got to close out of that and then go
Speaker 1: find Collision, which usually is a little further down on
Speaker 1: the menu, and just open Collision and then it just
Speaker 1: picks up and it just goes from there. It's like
Speaker 1: Raw and war Zone back in the day, like two
Speaker 1: separate shows, except it's, you know, for tonight for the
Speaker 1: purposes of tonight. Really it's not, but in the official listings,
Speaker 1: I guess it is. So John Moxley is backstage. I
Speaker 1: don't think I missed too much of this promo. I
Speaker 1: missed a little bit of this promo in the switchover
Speaker 1: to Collision, but he's in the back and he says
Speaker 1: he likes the Continental Classic because it's very simple. You
Speaker 1: step into the ring, you bring whatever you got, and
Speaker 1: everything is laid bare. There's nowhere to hide. The deeper
Speaker 1: the tournament gets, the more that gets revealed. Moxley pushes
Speaker 1: people's buttons. He antagonizes them, which changes people because some
Speaker 1: people react differently than others. Some become monsters like Kyle O'Reilly,
Speaker 1: while Roderick Strong is better than he's ever been. Really,
Speaker 1: Roderick Strong, who I believe, I believe has zero points
Speaker 1: in this tournament, he's better than he's ever been. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he said that he left Moxley thirty seconds away
Speaker 1: from being shit out of luck in this tournament. In
Speaker 1: their match tonight, whatever happens, Moxley wants to know that
Speaker 1: he didn't leave any bullets in the chamber, and he
Speaker 1: left it all out there. This was a fine babyfaced
Speaker 1: promo here from heel John Moxley. They need to be
Speaker 1: booting him out of there soon. If he's gonna be
Speaker 1: going out there cutting promos like this, you can be
Speaker 1: cutting promos like that. He should not be very long
Speaker 1: for the Death Riders. We had Orange Cassidy against Mascerriderata
Speaker 1: in a Blue League match in the Continental Classic. Both
Speaker 1: men came in with just three points each. The match
Speaker 1: was okay, I mean it was not as joyable as
Speaker 1: the earlier ones. Cassidy or Derata rather was on the apron.
Speaker 1: When Cassidy went for an orange punch, Dorada avoided it
Speaker 1: and then wrench Cassidy's arm over the top rope. And
Speaker 1: then a few seconds later, Dorada went for a top
Speaker 1: rope jump into an arm drag, but Cassidy hooked him
Speaker 1: into a flash pin and he got the win, so
Speaker 1: he gets the three points. Jamie Hater got a win
Speaker 1: over Aila Dawn with the haterade, since Jamie is the
Speaker 1: one getting a championship match against Chris Statlander at the
Speaker 1: pay per view next weekend. After the match, Aila and
Speaker 1: Jamie they were showing respect to one another, but here
Speaker 1: comes the Triangle of Madness and they attacked both women.
Speaker 1: They knock Ala out of the ring as Julia Hart
Speaker 1: uses her belt to begin whipping Hater. Here comes Statlander
Speaker 1: to make the save, and in all of the confusion
Speaker 1: that was going on in the ring, Hayter accidentally lays
Speaker 1: out the women's World champion with hateraid and she was
Speaker 1: all like whoops, like fucking Steve Urkele out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she didn't really care that she put this woman down,
Speaker 1: and then she picked up the title and she stared
Speaker 1: at Chris from across the ring. Someone who needs to
Speaker 1: be involved in the women's world title picture coming out
Speaker 1: of World's End is Tecla. And it really doesn't matter
Speaker 1: whether Statlander retains Hater wins Tecla. I think should be
Speaker 1: next in line to be challenging for that championship. And
Speaker 1: then they closed the show at the very end with
Speaker 1: FTR retaining their aw tag team titles over Juice Robinson
Speaker 1: and Austin Gunn. Late in the match FTR, they were
Speaker 1: lining up for a shatter machine. Austin pulled Wheeler out
Speaker 1: of the ring and he posted him, so Dax went
Speaker 1: to go for the shatter machine but didn't realize that
Speaker 1: Cash wasn't there. Harwood got pinned, but Wheeler got his
Speaker 1: partner's foot on the road, which the referee saw, but
Speaker 1: the Bang Bang Gang did not. They think they won
Speaker 1: the match, they think they won the titles. The match
Speaker 1: continues though FTR got chop blocks top rope stomp from
Speaker 1: Wheeler to the leg of Robinson and Cash. Wheeler, with
Speaker 1: the submission, got Robinson to tap out. Are you like that? Ba?
Speaker 1: Come on, man to me, how many of you grew
Speaker 1: up on Erkele Peace in the Middle East Reign in Spain,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many great quotes from back in
Speaker 1: the day, got in eat cheese. Well, that will not
Speaker 1: be one of my quotes, but yes, that was one
Speaker 1: of his. So FTR retains the tag team titles as
Speaker 1: if there was ever any doubt, and I could not
Speaker 1: click off fast enough because it's like, fuck, it's eleven
Speaker 1: o three, the show is still going on. I gotta
Speaker 1: stream to do. Click let's wind this down. So look,
Speaker 1: you got some good wrestling on the show. You get
Speaker 1: good wrestling in this tournament every week. I still have
Speaker 1: not seen a match that I think has matched the
Speaker 1: level of or the intensity of the Kyle Fletcher Speedball
Speaker 1: Mike Bailey match. To me, that's still a number one
Speaker 1: in this tournament. But outside of that, it was really
Speaker 1: all about MJF coming back. There was really nothing else
Speaker 1: on this show that really stands out all that much,
Speaker 1: Especially in the Collision hour, there was virtually nothing that
Speaker 1: stands out to me. But it was all about the
Speaker 1: return of MJF. It's good to have him back. It's
Speaker 1: good that he will be back in that World's End
Speaker 1: main event. I'm looking forward to that again. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: surprise me and they'll put it on one of the
Speaker 1: baby faces in that match. I don't I don't see
Speaker 1: it going that way. I just feel like would Swerve, especially,
Speaker 1: they may want to extend that chase out a little
Speaker 1: bit longer. Like if you were to say to me, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put it on one of the baby faces,
Speaker 1: then I would say, put it back on Hangman. Put
Speaker 1: it back on Hangman. And I like the idea that
Speaker 1: of building to Hangman defending the championship against Swerve next year.
Speaker 1: I would not put the belt on Swerve right now.
Speaker 1: I think it's premature. He just came back. You got
Speaker 1: to build to it. You know, he's going to be
Speaker 1: one of those top baby faces for them, him and Hangman.
Speaker 1: Kenny is being phased out. Kenny clearly is hurting and
Speaker 1: either he and or Tony Kahan do not have faith
Speaker 1: in him to go out there on all of these
Speaker 1: pay per views and just have these killer singles matches
Speaker 1: against all these guys. So Kenny is always going to
Speaker 1: be a top guy in this company. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's a legend, but he's not going to be in
Speaker 1: that top top mix when it comes to the world title.
Speaker 1: And Osprey is still many months away from coming back.
Speaker 1: Swerve is going to be that guy, so build to it,
Speaker 1: you know, don't just throw the championship on him, you know.
Speaker 1: A month after he comes back, we'll see how they
Speaker 1: go with it. This is the Twitter poll. What did
Speaker 1: you think of the Holiday Bash edition of aw Dynamite
Speaker 1: fifty eight point five percent thumbs up, forty one point
Speaker 1: five percent thumbs down at Solo Monster. That is where
Speaker 1: you can vote in these polls. You guys already knew
Speaker 1: that Elder Murray. What were the original plans for the
Speaker 1: for Bray Wyatt, Uncle Howdy and Alexa Bliss is a faction?
Speaker 1: Was it meant for Uncle Howdy to bring them all together?
Speaker 1: We're never going to know. Nobody knows. Nobody knows except
Speaker 1: Bray and Bow And I don't even know if Alexa
Speaker 1: would have included as to all that stuff, So unfortunately
Speaker 1: we'll never know for sure. I would imagine we would
Speaker 1: have been headed. I would I think we were going
Speaker 1: to be headed towards Bray against Howdy. Eventually buy or
Speaker 1: sell Brett versus Diesel or Brett versus Sean as what
Speaker 1: a match a feud? As a feud Brett versus Sean?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a no brainer for talking matches. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were so many different ones. Breton Diesel alone had
Speaker 1: three different ones on pay per view, Breton Sean had
Speaker 1: a whole bunch on pay per view. Breton Sean had
Speaker 1: the better matches. So I guess that answers your question.
Speaker 1: Scena versus Edge or Scena versus Punk? Scena versus punk?
Speaker 1: What is your favorite raw moment during Christmas? Stone Cold
Speaker 1: stunning Santa Claus. Do you think Savage should have won
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble in nineteen ninety three if it got
Speaker 1: us Brett against Savage a WrestleMania, then yes, that was
Speaker 1: the first year that winning the Royal Rumble punched your
Speaker 1: ticket to the main event of WrestleMania. Instead, not only
Speaker 1: did he lose, but he looked like a dumb shit
Speaker 1: because he tried to pin Yoko Zuna, which I mean
Speaker 1: a veteran like Randy Savage, who's been in multiple Royal
Speaker 1: Rumbles before being eliminated because he tried to pin someone
Speaker 1: is pretty fucking stupid. Lord Torron, do you see Stephanie
Speaker 1: McMahon headlining the Hall of Fame? I wouldn't put it
Speaker 1: past Triple H to have his wife headline. God, I
Speaker 1: hope not. She's not gonna headline the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna be seen. It should
Speaker 1: be seen. It really depends on his availability in Vegas
Speaker 1: next year should be it should be Johnsen, but Stephanie
Speaker 1: is the headliner. Would be incredibly stupid. Uh, dried chicken
Speaker 1: and rib. Let me tell you how Gunther can get
Speaker 1: more heat on himself. He goes to a mall, talks
Speaker 1: to Santa Chop, Saint Nick, and makes kids cry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Gunther has to make all the little kids cry. Now
Speaker 1: little snop bubbles coming out of their ears or their nose.
Speaker 1: If he can make snop bubbles come out of their ears,
Speaker 1: that would be very impressive. That would be very impressive.
Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre got a lot of bad ideas coming for
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes sends a snake to the rhodeshouse as a
Speaker 1: Christmas prey. Let's not steal past storyline ideas. Okay, we
Speaker 1: can be a little more creative than that. Emperor commet.
Speaker 1: We want Vince Chance at WWE And now I'm hearing
Speaker 1: ditty chance on aw, Yeah, I did hear that. I
Speaker 1: did hear the dipshits in the crowd tonight chanting for
Speaker 1: Diddy Wink the Cosmic Grandma. That Battle Royal was a
Speaker 1: total nothing burger. At least the right to won it.
Speaker 1: Glad to see MJF back in the title picture. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Battle Royal was garbage, but we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: good match out of it. At least, so Rikoshe and
Speaker 1: Bandido will be good. Tuxedo t Servo. MJF referring to
Speaker 1: WWE is a perfectly good company actually got me to
Speaker 1: laugh out loud. So glad he's back. Arabian Night, says MJF.
Speaker 1: Always mentioning WWE is still lame. I know he wants
Speaker 1: to end up there, probably in twenty twenty seven, but
Speaker 1: still it adds nothing to the promo in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Glad he is back, though, well, I mean, at least
Speaker 1: they've scaled back on the WWE mentions on television. It
Speaker 1: felt like there was a period of time where we
Speaker 1: were getting a mention every couple of weeks, whether it
Speaker 1: was MJF, whether it was Jericho, whether it was somebody
Speaker 1: else Dead Kirby twenty two, should NXT start to market
Speaker 1: the brand as a large budget indie think Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor and maybe bring a couple of overseas guys in.
Speaker 1: I think the roster has potential. I mean, they tried
Speaker 1: that already. That was the whole Black and Gold era.
Speaker 1: It basically rated Ring of Honor, stripped it of all
Speaker 1: of the key guys that were over there, Zane Rollins,
Speaker 1: Owens and so on and so forth. Right to sorrow
Speaker 1: Hero Jimmie Jacobs. That was the Black and Gold era. Baby.
Speaker 1: I think they have their system now and there's no
Speaker 1: reason for them to deviate from it. They got a
Speaker 1: lot of talent there in the pipeline. Anytime they want,
Speaker 1: they could go out and bring in a hot free
Speaker 1: agent from the indie scene overseas or really from anywhere
Speaker 1: in this country internationally and just integrate them into the
Speaker 1: current system that they have down in Orlando, the one
Speaker 1: Ray pass More. I wish people in AW did not
Speaker 1: take extended absences. I could say the same thing about WWE.
Speaker 1: Believe me, it's a problem in both companies. It's very annoying.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm against people, you know, getting time off,
Speaker 1: but it just feels like, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: whether you you have certain talents that have a movie
Speaker 1: role to go film, it's like, all right, go do
Speaker 1: your thing, and then certain stories maybe end up in
Speaker 1: a state of flux, or you have multiple people who
Speaker 1: go out at the same time. And if we were
Speaker 1: we were given a product and I'm thinking a lot
Speaker 1: about WWE in this case, Like, like, especially on Friday nights,
Speaker 1: we were given a show that was still exciting an
Speaker 1: inch thing week to week. It's like, all right, cool,
Speaker 1: see you when you get back. But then the shows
Speaker 1: end up being so fucking boring and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: all these people are out there taking time off or
Speaker 1: they're filming this, or you know, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: It's not an injury, they're just not around or they're
Speaker 1: just part time, part time players. That's where it hurts.
Speaker 1: It's like, we could really use these people on TV
Speaker 1: right now, and instead this guy's sitting out, this guy's
Speaker 1: sitting at home, this guy's doing this, this guy's doing that.
Speaker 1: You know, if the product overall was more exciting and
Speaker 1: more fun, I don't think people would mind as much.
Speaker 1: But it's very noticeable when the product is not and
Speaker 1: you have all these people that are on the roster
Speaker 1: who are just not available. If they're hurt, that's one thing.
Speaker 1: But if they're not, it's like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: How many returns in one year can Roman reigns have?
Speaker 1: Randy Orton is in Saudi Arabia riding roller coasters. I mean,
Speaker 1: good for him, but all right, uh, we got DG.
Speaker 1: What do you consider to be John Sena's prime years?
Speaker 1: I acknowledge it's different for pro wrestling than any other sport,
Speaker 1: but I myself landed on two thousand and five to
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. His prime years in the ring were twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty sixteen. When I hear prime years, that's
Speaker 1: how I take it. You're talking prime years in ring
Speaker 1: in terms of his body of work and his match catalog.
Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. To me, is John Sena
Speaker 1: at his peak in terms of the output that he
Speaker 1: was turning out. Kevin Owens, aj styles, seth Rollins, the
Speaker 1: US Title Open Challenge. It's a lot of really good
Speaker 1: stuff that came out of that period from John Seener,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Rose. Most disappointing wrestling reveal Black Scorpion as Flair
Speaker 1: or Vince as the higher power? How about Austin theory?
Speaker 1: Is the mass man on Monday Night? Can we throw
Speaker 1: him in there as an honorable mention? What do you
Speaker 1: think about the NXT title change botch last night? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll talk more about that on Sunday. Shit happens. It's
Speaker 1: not the first time it's happened. It's actually happened at
Speaker 1: least three or four times in WWE history alone. You
Speaker 1: gotta roll with the punches, men. Shit happens when you
Speaker 1: have the referees count things as a shoot. This is
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. It screws up your plans too bad.
Speaker 1: Come up with new plans. That's life. You know what,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Now, Blake Monroe doesn't
Speaker 1: have a mid car championship in NXT. You know what,
Speaker 1: you can call her up to SmackDown Boy SmackDown. I'm
Speaker 1: could sure use her. The only issue there is that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of similarities between her and Tiffany Stratton.
Speaker 1: Do you want Blake Monroe and Tiffany Stratton on the
Speaker 1: same show? I would almost want them on different shows.
Speaker 1: So maybe move Stephanie to Raw. I'm sorry now, Stephanie,
Speaker 1: move Tiffany to Raw and put Blake on SmackDown. That's
Speaker 1: what I would do. Matt Fisher, can you sing Sena's
Speaker 1: theme again? That was amazing? Was it? Though? It wasn't amazing.
Speaker 1: It's a That's about it. That's about as far as
Speaker 1: I can get right now. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: me sing seen his song. Beyond that burr a Buodeau
Speaker 1: I was there was apple juice. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: in my head it was apple juice. It's like Shamus Man,
Speaker 1: too many limes, too many limes. Wire ducks, such bad customers,
Speaker 1: they never pay their bill. Look at Matt Fisher. Matt
Speaker 1: Fisher is going all Sidrow on us tonight. He's going
Speaker 1: all Duff's VIDs on us tonight. Apple dough, Oh, apple dough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say apple juice, but I guess Apple dough works.
Speaker 1: I still think the best thing ever was many years
Speaker 1: ago we went through this period where people were taking
Speaker 1: photos of their closed captions during Monday night Raw whenever
Speaker 1: Randy Orton would come out, is like the early twenty tens,
Speaker 1: and when his theme music would play, the close captions
Speaker 1: like each week it was something different. So you know,
Speaker 1: when his song starts, it's I hear voices in my head.
Speaker 1: They counsel me, they understand, but like the closed captions
Speaker 1: would have it as like you know, I hear voices
Speaker 1: or not even voices in my head, is like I
Speaker 1: have oysters in my bed. And there was one. There
Speaker 1: was one where it was like I have boys in
Speaker 1: my shed and I'm like, boy, this is getting really
Speaker 1: dark here it was another one. I ate poison. Now
Speaker 1: I'm dead. I was more entertained by the closed captions
Speaker 1: from Randy Orton than I was Monday Night Row during
Speaker 1: that period. Emoji Matt eighty seven, thank you for the
Speaker 1: four ninety nine What did the drummer name his twin daughters?
Speaker 1: An A one and A two? I got that joke
Speaker 1: from Sindro not that long ago, a few months ago.
Speaker 1: It's a good one. It's a good one, but not
Speaker 1: one that I haven't heard before. All right, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for hanging out with me here little holiday bash.
Speaker 1: Action is the snow falls here on us on a
Speaker 1: Wednesday night, fell short of the goal. It's the way
Speaker 1: it goes on some Wednesdays. Saw it is with dynamite.
Speaker 1: But try again next time. Unfortunately that means no be
Speaker 1: the booker until next Monday you're gonna have to wait
Speaker 1: all the way to next Monday and we'll try again then.
Speaker 1: But it has been it has been a very good
Speaker 1: couple of weeks here on the channel've been a very
Speaker 1: strong December so far. You guys have been rocking it,
Speaker 1: especially with Saturday night's main event. You guys got that
Speaker 1: review up over fifty thousand views, and we have more
Speaker 1: content yet to come. Some people were asking me about it.
Speaker 1: You know, New Year's Eve this year falls on a Wednesday,
Speaker 1: so I will be doing my annual make it till
Speaker 1: Midnight New Year's eepstream, so I hope you will make
Speaker 1: plans to join me. We always have fun and hang
Speaker 1: out and interact. It's usually a big night here on
Speaker 1: the channel. But what we'll do is we'll coorporate a
Speaker 1: Dynamite review into it as well, and we'll just kind
Speaker 1: of go in and out of that. We'll be very
Speaker 1: loosey goosey with it, but yeah, there will be there
Speaker 1: will be a Dynamite review as part of that. But
Speaker 1: I will still be live for New Year's Eve on
Speaker 1: the thirty first, So that is the current working plan
Speaker 1: at this point. At this point, it's been like it's
Speaker 1: been like a five year tradition. I think this might
Speaker 1: be the fifth year in a row. Fourth or fifth
Speaker 1: has to be fifth. First one I did was twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I remember that because we the whole theme of it
Speaker 1: was to hell with twenty twenty. I think that was
Speaker 1: the first one that we did. So it's coming up,
Speaker 1: It's coming up. New Year's Eve is coming up. Make
Speaker 1: your plans, Warhawk Rambo. So you feel the current WWE
Speaker 1: product is too homogenized and prioritized towards advertisers, AW, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, is more fun. Hey, you know, look different
Speaker 1: strokes for different folks. Some people are going to find
Speaker 1: AW more fun for lots of different reasons. You know,
Speaker 1: they may find it more fun because, like you said,
Speaker 1: it's you don't have ads plastered all over the mats
Speaker 1: and all over the place in the same way WWE does,
Speaker 1: or the wrestling is better or whatever. Everyone has different
Speaker 1: you know, priorities and what they look for. The WWE product.
Speaker 1: It is very homogenized is probably a good word for it.
Speaker 1: Very much. So it's a very very corporate product. And
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you still can't enjoy the product. But
Speaker 1: it will never it will never be what it once was,
Speaker 1: because it's just a it's a totally different product now,
Speaker 1: it's just such a bigger company than it was back then,
Speaker 1: and it can never go back to that, so you
Speaker 1: just sort of enjoy it in a different way. But
Speaker 1: it's jarring when you go back and watch the WWE.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even talking necessarily thirty years ago. I
Speaker 1: mean you can go back ten years, you know, fifteen years,
Speaker 1: twelve years, eight years, and some of the differences are
Speaker 1: very jarring. And six one nine Thank you for the
Speaker 1: dollar ninety nine. Rspw rewind is coming. It's coming, hoping
Speaker 1: actually to knock it out next week. I was going
Speaker 1: to try to time it, you know, because things sometimes
Speaker 1: get slow with the holidays. I'm like, that's kind of
Speaker 1: like the perfect time to do it, and this week
Speaker 1: is just very busy with House of Glory stuff, So
Speaker 1: it's coming, you guys, unlocked it. I also wanted to
Speaker 1: try to work in some John Cena posts, so I
Speaker 1: kind of I kind of pulled some of the stuff
Speaker 1: I was going to use to try to work some
Speaker 1: Scena stuff to it, just because I felt like it
Speaker 1: was timely. So that'll be something to look forward to
Speaker 1: as well. I haven't done an rspw rewind in three years.
Speaker 1: If you can believe it, it'll be the first one.
Speaker 1: There are probably some people who are like, what's that,
Speaker 1: what's that this whole playlist of them here on the channel,
Speaker 1: what's that? It was a time and place in history. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of
Speaker 1: your evening morning. I guess it's morning now, almost one
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, and go check out all the
Speaker 1: other content here on the channel, and I will see
Speaker 1: you back here real soon, and of course this weekend
Speaker 1: as well, episode nine three of the sound Off. Until then,
Speaker 1: take care, guys, Happy holidays.