Speaker 1: It was a night where AW Dynamite officially passed WCW
Speaker 1: Monday nightro in terms of total episodes. This was the
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty ninth episode of AW Dynamite, beating
Speaker 1: out Nitros two hundred and eighty eight episodes. Where even
Speaker 1: Eric Bischoff tried to be magnanimous and issued a comment
Speaker 1: congratulating Tony Kahan and his staff on their milestone. AW
Speaker 1: puts on the best episode of Dynamite all year. They
Speaker 1: were in Boston. I love that venue that they were
Speaker 1: in tonight. They were in the MGM Music Hall at
Speaker 1: Fenway in Boston, and this crowd all night long. They
Speaker 1: were hot for everything. They were a loud They were
Speaker 1: loud and they were hot and it helped. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't the only reason that the show was so enjoyable.
Speaker 1: Because we got some great in ring action up and
Speaker 1: down the card. We had some couple of great moments
Speaker 1: here on the show tonight. The great matches, though, were
Speaker 1: really what stood out on this show, and the big
Speaker 1: moment at the end of the show, the death Riders.
Speaker 1: At least for one night only, the death Riders have
Speaker 1: been dethroned. We have brand new AW Trio's champions, and
Speaker 1: they are Samoa, Joe, Katsiori, Shabata and not Hook but
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs replacing Hook, who unfortunately, and I didn't notice
Speaker 1: it when I was watching the show last week, but
Speaker 1: I did see the video that went around after Dynamite.
Speaker 1: Poor Hook laying in the ring at the end of
Speaker 1: the main event last week, puking his guts up in
Speaker 1: the ring, which is never a good sign. And I
Speaker 1: think there were some reports out that, you know, claiming
Speaker 1: he didn't have a concussion, But you know, when you're
Speaker 1: laying in the ring and you start vomiting in the
Speaker 1: middle of a match, and then conspicuously this week you're
Speaker 1: not on the show. You put two and two together
Speaker 1: and you can kind of figure out that he's probably
Speaker 1: not in great shape. So hopefully nothing too serious. Bys
Speaker 1: he was not on the show, and he was not
Speaker 1: the only member of that main event trios match that
Speaker 1: needed to be replaced, because unfortunately, Pack did suffer a
Speaker 1: legit him an injury on Dynamite last week on that
Speaker 1: bucklebomb spot in the match with Swerve Strickland. We don't
Speaker 1: know the severity of the injury. We don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a foot injury. We don't know. If it's an
Speaker 1: ankle injury, We'll have to wait and see. They're not
Speaker 1: usually forthcoming when it comes to that type of information.
Speaker 1: But he was replaced by the AW World champion in
Speaker 1: this main event, John Moxley, taking his place as one
Speaker 1: third of the Trios champions. And so when I saw this,
Speaker 1: I said, well, surely John Moxley, if they do lose
Speaker 1: the titles, which I kind of expected they would, is
Speaker 1: not going to be the one to take the losing fall.
Speaker 1: That's what you have Wheeler Youda in the match for.
Speaker 1: But boy was I surprised when I saw that it
Speaker 1: was in fact John Moxley, the unbeatable John Moxley. There
Speaker 1: were a couple of people who were deemed unbeatable who
Speaker 1: were beaten on the show tonight. John Moxley is the
Speaker 1: one who goes ninety nine as Samoa Joe puts him
Speaker 1: to sleep and beats John Moxley to win the AW
Speaker 1: Trios titles. And then it was a huge celebration in Boston.
Speaker 1: You had members of the locker room come out. I
Speaker 1: saw the dork order where you know they were out there.
Speaker 1: Of course they got their asses kicked at the very
Speaker 1: beginning of all this by the Death Riders, Speedball, Mike Bailey,
Speaker 1: Kevin Knight. Here they come. They're popping bottles and everyone's
Speaker 1: having a big celebration, and I realize in this moment,
Speaker 1: what does this remind me of? And it was actually
Speaker 1: very appropriate because of this big milestone they were celebrating
Speaker 1: tonight where they had surpassed Monday Nitro. It was the
Speaker 1: one hundredth episode of Nitro back in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: one of the more memorable moments from the Monday Night War.
Speaker 1: And let me just say, I am by no means
Speaker 1: comparing these two in terms of this being on the
Speaker 1: same level, or this being you know, in the same
Speaker 1: league or better than what we got back then. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it was hard not to notice the similarities
Speaker 1: between what they did then and what they did on
Speaker 1: this show tonight, where you have the unbeatable Heel Faction
Speaker 1: taking a huge loss, a title loss at the end
Speaker 1: of the show, and the champion actually is the one
Speaker 1: who gets beat and then everybody is celebrating, and half
Speaker 1: the locker room pours out and they're drinking champagne. A
Speaker 1: lot of similarities between Luger racking Hogan on that nightro
Speaker 1: back in ninety seven and what Tony Khan was going
Speaker 1: for with the angle they did at the end of
Speaker 1: this show tonight and in front of this audience on
Speaker 1: this night. It worked and they were very happy to
Speaker 1: see Samoa Joe holding a championship again. Powerhouse Hobbs holding
Speaker 1: a championship again. It's been a while, right, Hobbs was
Speaker 1: TNT champions some time ago. Joe's been TNT Champion, AW
Speaker 1: World Champion, but he hasn't held gold for quite some time.
Speaker 1: So it makes me wonder if they are setting up
Speaker 1: a singles match for double or nothing next month with
Speaker 1: Joe challenging John Moxley for the AW World title. And
Speaker 1: of course Samoa Joe is not going to win the
Speaker 1: AW World Championship, but between now in Texas, they certainly
Speaker 1: need people who you know, can challenge for the championship
Speaker 1: unless Moxley's going to be a part of you know,
Speaker 1: Anarchy and the Arena or something like that. It feels
Speaker 1: like that's what they set up on this show tonight,
Speaker 1: a possible main event for the title on the next
Speaker 1: pay per view. So that was the big moment at
Speaker 1: the end of the show, but at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show. They opened the show with a first time
Speaker 1: ever match big match in the Owenhart Foundation Tournament between
Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet and Athena. Athena the forever Champion and Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor and Mercedes seemingly the forever champion here in
Speaker 1: aw as she is rapidly approaching one year as the
Speaker 1: TBS champion. I was holding out hope that maybe maybe
Speaker 1: we would get some like a draw, you know, first
Speaker 1: of three, let him draw, you run it back again,
Speaker 1: you do a whole series. And I am still hopeful
Speaker 1: that there will be a series between these two women.
Speaker 1: But when I look at the brackets in this tournament
Speaker 1: and how much time we have between now and double
Speaker 1: or nothing, it seemed unlikely, which meant that somebody had
Speaker 1: to win, and somebody had to lose. Somebody was going
Speaker 1: to lose. It was not going to be Mercedes Monette,
Speaker 1: and she did not lose. She is now going to
Speaker 1: the finals of the Owens. She will meet the winner
Speaker 1: of Chris Statlander against Jamie Hayter and whoever it is.
Speaker 1: And I figure it's gonna be Jamie Hayter, but whoever
Speaker 1: it is. We've seen matches before, great matches between Mercedes
Speaker 1: and Statlander. We know what those two can do. Mercedes
Speaker 1: and Hater is a match we haven't seen yet. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to eventually seeing it. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: get it at double or nothing next month. I am
Speaker 1: still hopeful that the direction for Texas is not simply
Speaker 1: to do Champion versus Champion and have Mercedes challenging for
Speaker 1: the aw women's World title. I just don't think that's
Speaker 1: the right move to make. It might be in their
Speaker 1: mind it might be the biggest possible match. We could
Speaker 1: do champion versus champion, which is probably what we're getting
Speaker 1: with Kenny Omega and Okada. Okay, not even probably we
Speaker 1: are getting that barring injury. We're already getting Champion against champion,
Speaker 1: hopefully the title for title on that show. I just
Speaker 1: don't think it's necessary, and I think you could set
Speaker 1: up two big women's matches, one for the world title,
Speaker 1: one for the TBS title on that show, and I
Speaker 1: hope that is the direction that they are going in.
Speaker 1: But with Mercedes going to the finals and her unblemished
Speaker 1: records so far in this company, anything as possible but
Speaker 1: they went out there tonight and they had a great match.
Speaker 1: We had will Osprey and Kenoski Takeshta, two of the
Speaker 1: very best right now at this moment, as I sit here,
Speaker 1: I always sing their praises. They certainly haven't done anything
Speaker 1: to make me think otherwise or let me down. They
Speaker 1: went out there tonight and tore the house down. They
Speaker 1: actually found a way to top the match they had
Speaker 1: at Revolution last year, which I didn't think was possible.
Speaker 1: Was there a lot of you know, kicking out of
Speaker 1: big moves, you know, one too many times and no
Speaker 1: selling moves? Yes, there was, but they made it work.
Speaker 1: They made it work and they had an exciting match.
Speaker 1: They had a very, very fun twenty minutes that was
Speaker 1: never boring. Will Ostbury is going to the finals of
Speaker 1: the owen Hart Tournament. Most people probably expected him to
Speaker 1: at the very least go to the finals. I still
Speaker 1: say it's his to lose. So he punched his ticket
Speaker 1: to the finals after a fucking awesome match tonight with
Speaker 1: Kenoski Takeshta. And then we had hangman Adam Page, who
Speaker 1: was scheduled to go one on one against the wild card.
Speaker 1: The wild card who would the wildcard entry be. Would
Speaker 1: it be MJF, would it be Jack Perry, would it
Speaker 1: be Solo Monster? As if who would the wildcard entry be?
Speaker 1: And as it turns out, the wildcard entry was this
Speaker 1: man right here who is officially all Elite, the Walking Weapon,
Speaker 1: the former Impact World Heavyweight Champion, Josh Alexander is officially
Speaker 1: all Elite. It's not official until you get the graphic,
Speaker 1: So there it is. It is indeed official. This is
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a move that was expected because
Speaker 1: the talk has been that it was just the formality
Speaker 1: of when he would debut in AW and I think
Speaker 1: it's probably, you know, the best fit for him, honestly.
Speaker 1: I know some people probably wanted to see him in WWE,
Speaker 1: maybe get a reunion going with Ethan Page and NXT.
Speaker 1: That probably would have been the best option for him
Speaker 1: if he went to WWE as opposed to the main roster.
Speaker 1: But I felt the same way about him that I
Speaker 1: feel about Mike Bailey, where this is probably the best
Speaker 1: fit for him right now. He certainly felt that way.
Speaker 1: I think he honestly, I think he was looking for
Speaker 1: the best possible deal, and Tony Kahn is the one
Speaker 1: who gave him the best possible deal. So he made
Speaker 1: his debut tonight against Hangman in the Owen. It was
Speaker 1: not a successful debut, although it was a fine match,
Speaker 1: it was not It was not a win for Josh Alexander.
Speaker 1: But they did something at the end of the match
Speaker 1: that I liked. It's not necessarily official that he's going
Speaker 1: to be going in this particular direction. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: what that is. And then they had a segment with
Speaker 1: the Hurt Syndicate MJF. I mean, out of everything on
Speaker 1: the show, was the weakest part of the entire show.
Speaker 1: But they are continuing to build intrigue on you know
Speaker 1: where that story is going. Bobby Lashley is still not
Speaker 1: fond of MJF, does not want him to be a
Speaker 1: part of the group, but he appears to be softening.
Speaker 1: He has his reservations about this man. He doesn't trust
Speaker 1: this man, and for good reason. Lastly, is a man
Speaker 1: of logic, but he is being coerced into making a
Speaker 1: decision that I think he's going to regret. Where the
Speaker 1: storyline ultimately ends up, I don't know. I have my theory,
Speaker 1: but that was probably the weakest thing on the entire show.
Speaker 1: Everything else I thought it just hit. It hit in
Speaker 1: a way that Dynamite has not been hitting for a
Speaker 1: while now. It's been a while since we've had a
Speaker 1: show like this. It's just the energy and the vibe
Speaker 1: of the show top to bottom has been as effective
Speaker 1: as it was here tonight, where it just felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're firing on all cylinders. I wish they could it'd
Speaker 1: all be like this. They can't be, they won't be.
Speaker 1: But for tonight, I thought it was an excellent show
Speaker 1: and it was the best episode of Dynamite all year,
Speaker 1: and it just so happened to be the big milestone
Speaker 1: episode where they did pass WSW Nitro in terms of
Speaker 1: total episodes. This is your aw Dynamite spring Breakthrough. That's
Speaker 1: what they called it. Spring breakthrough episode of Dynamite here
Speaker 1: for Wednesday, April sixteenth, twenty twenty five. I am the
Speaker 1: solid monster. They were in Boston at the MGM Music
Speaker 1: Hall at fen White. Like I said, cool little venue here.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the capacity was. I mean, they
Speaker 1: had it packed in. It's not a huge venue. But
Speaker 1: I like the look of it. I just like the
Speaker 1: look of it, the aesthetics of it. Running these smaller
Speaker 1: venues they've had the chance to run some that have
Speaker 1: a very unique look and kind of a vibe all
Speaker 1: unto itself as opposed to just, you know, like a
Speaker 1: normal arena where they would try to fit three thousand
Speaker 1: people at a building that fits, you know, seventeen thousand,
Speaker 1: and that's just never a good thing to do. So
Speaker 1: there is something to be said when you run these smaller,
Speaker 1: more intimate venues, they do tend to make for more
Speaker 1: fun shows. I mean, that's how I felt when they
Speaker 1: ran Hammerstein. You know that Hammerstein was not rocking the
Speaker 1: way the Boston was tonight, But I felt the same
Speaker 1: way about those shows too. There is something to be
Speaker 1: said for that. But they were in Boston, and so
Speaker 1: they opened the show with the hometown girl, the undefeated
Speaker 1: TBS champion Mercedes Manet, making her way out to the
Speaker 1: ring for her semi final match in the owen Hart
Speaker 1: Foundation Tournament against the Ring of Honor Forever champion Athena.
Speaker 1: It's a big match. I thought they might close the
Speaker 1: show with it. Seeing what they did. I know why
Speaker 1: they didn't, but being in Boston and everything, first time
Speaker 1: ever match when they came out, I said, okay, interesting
Speaker 1: to me. It just made a title change at the
Speaker 1: end that much more obvious. But they did open the
Speaker 1: show with this yere So we had Athena coming out
Speaker 1: and she got a strong reaction too, not as strong
Speaker 1: is Mercedes did, but they both got strong reactions. She
Speaker 1: got CEO chants from the hometown faithful, so there were
Speaker 1: some holy shit chants and dueling chants. Again, it was
Speaker 1: a match that you could tell the people in this
Speaker 1: building were excited to see. This is a match that
Speaker 1: many of them came to see, which is a good sign.
Speaker 1: You know that they saw it as a big match here.
Speaker 1: So they get started here quick series of lock ups.
Speaker 1: They end up tumbling out to the rim. They had
Speaker 1: a short ramp to the ring and they're not letting
Speaker 1: go of each other, so they're wrestling around. Mercedes got
Speaker 1: a reverse wastelock spilled back into the ring and so
Speaker 1: they're trading pen attempts and some rolling cradles. We come
Speaker 1: to a stalemate and again the people are going nuts
Speaker 1: for it. Mercedes lands a tilta whirl into a statement maker,
Speaker 1: but Athena rolls to the ropes she falls outside. Only
Speaker 1: Mercedes kept the submission apply she did not let go,
Speaker 1: So now They're on the floor outside right in front
Speaker 1: of the announced desk, and she still has the submission
Speaker 1: hold locked on. Aubrey Edwards puts the count on, so
Speaker 1: they weren't out there for too long. After a commercial break,
Speaker 1: they come back to a slugfest. Mercedes initially wins it. Athena,
Speaker 1: though kicked up into a thrust kick. She wanted a tombstone,
Speaker 1: and this right here was the This was the shakiest
Speaker 1: part of the match here, because she wanted a tombstone,
Speaker 1: and they traded a series of tombstone reversals. One would
Speaker 1: fall backwards and try to lift the other one up,
Speaker 1: and it didn't look good. It did not look good
Speaker 1: because at first I think it was Mercedes. She tried
Speaker 1: to do the reversal and lift up Athena and she
Speaker 1: couldn't really get her, so they had to try again,
Speaker 1: and then she did it, but it still looked kind
Speaker 1: of awkward. But in the end Mercedes hit a lung
Speaker 1: blower into the double down. The fans were loud for
Speaker 1: both women, so it didn't really take them out of
Speaker 1: the match, but there was some sloppiness there. They recovered
Speaker 1: well enough. They never lost the crowd. Mercedes hit a
Speaker 1: tornado DDT variation followed by a tilt to whirl into
Speaker 1: another DDT spiked Athena right on her head. She hit
Speaker 1: three amigos. She went for a fourth. Athena, though, spun
Speaker 1: out into a power bomb, and then another, and then another,
Speaker 1: and she tried for a fourth. Mercedes just barely countered
Speaker 1: into a backstabber, so we got dueling chance again for
Speaker 1: both women. Athena fired off a corner uppercut and Mercedes
Speaker 1: ducked another one hit a wild meteora and she sends
Speaker 1: Athena out to the apron. She follows her. She wants
Speaker 1: a German suplex off the apron. She's tried to pull
Speaker 1: her backwards and Athena is just holding on for dear
Speaker 1: life to the ropes. Mercedes switches positions. She's gonna try
Speaker 1: for an apron bomb instead, so she's going to power
Speaker 1: bomb her onto the floor instead, though Athena stomps on
Speaker 1: her repeatedly. After this, Mercedes wanted a monet maker on
Speaker 1: the apron. Athena got free hit a kick and then
Speaker 1: a snap power slam on the edge of the ring,
Speaker 1: so Athena sinks in a statement maker of her own
Speaker 1: Mercedes escapes into one of her own. It's her own
Speaker 1: fucking move. Athena gets out of that. Mercedes rolls to
Speaker 1: the floor and Athena goes out after her. She charges
Speaker 1: in and Mercedes sidesteps her. Athena crashes head first into
Speaker 1: the barricade. Both women end up standing on top. They
Speaker 1: have the LED barricades out there. They got the spring
Speaker 1: breakthrough logo on it, so they're standing on top of
Speaker 1: the barricade. They start slapping each other until Athena missed
Speaker 1: a diving lariat she rolled through, and then she followed
Speaker 1: up with the shotgun dropkick. That shotgun dropkick had sent
Speaker 1: Mercedes flying backwards into the barricade, and as soon as
Speaker 1: she hit the barricade, it shorted out and we didn't
Speaker 1: have our LED display anymore. It went black. Back inside,
Speaker 1: Athena tried for her O face finish off the top. Mercedes, though,
Speaker 1: held onto her on the way down and then countered
Speaker 1: into a cradle for the one two, and they zoomed
Speaker 1: in on Athena's face and she was shocked. She had
Speaker 1: her O face on. She was shocked and caught off
Speaker 1: guard by that. So was I in a way again,
Speaker 1: I would have expected Mercedes to win if somebody had
Speaker 1: to win. As the match was going on, though, because
Speaker 1: it got some time, I was wondering, like, is there
Speaker 1: a time limit here? Is it a thirty minute time
Speaker 1: limit for the semi final round? Like I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: if Justin Roberts announced it at the beginning, I missed it.
Speaker 1: So she pins her. She's shocked. When the match is over,
Speaker 1: we hear timeless Tony Storms music, and then we look
Speaker 1: up and on the next level up she's in the
Speaker 1: crowd and Luther is with her, and she's standing there
Speaker 1: and she's applauding Mercedes, and Mercedes is looking up at
Speaker 1: her and giving her a wave, and she's got all
Speaker 1: of her titles. I really enjoyed this. I thought this
Speaker 1: was a really good match here from these two was
Speaker 1: not always the smoothest. There were some awkward moments for sure,
Speaker 1: especially on the tombstone reversals, but I still feel the
Speaker 1: same way I felt coming in. Hopefully this is the
Speaker 1: first in a series, whether it's two matches total, three
Speaker 1: matches total, I hope that this is the beginning of
Speaker 1: a series of matches that culminates in Texas at all.
Speaker 1: It because to me, it just works better that way,
Speaker 1: And as a first outing, I thought that these two
Speaker 1: more than delivered. Like I said, the crowd traded it
Speaker 1: like a really big deal. I'm not the biggest fan
Speaker 1: of that finish, the way they did that, but that
Speaker 1: was their way of protecting Athena from having to take
Speaker 1: a more decisive loss. Here. It's the same exact thing
Speaker 1: they just did at Dynasty with Tony Storm and Meghan Bain.
Speaker 1: They pushed Meghan Baine so hard, so fast, and she
Speaker 1: ran through so many different people and within what two months,
Speaker 1: three months, it felt like here she is already challenging
Speaker 1: for the Women's World Championship and it's like, well, they
Speaker 1: could put the belt on her and really just give
Speaker 1: her the monster push, but I really just don't see
Speaker 1: them taking that title of Tony's Storm before Texas, so
Speaker 1: she's probably gonna lose, and she did. But they did
Speaker 1: that finish. It was like a fucking roll up. It
Speaker 1: was a fucking roll up. And that was because they
Speaker 1: wanted to beat her, but not like beat her. They
Speaker 1: wanted to beat Megan Bain in a way that still
Speaker 1: protected her, where it wasn't like she got decisively beaten
Speaker 1: same exact thing they did here. They had to have
Speaker 1: somebody go on to the finals. It wasn't going to
Speaker 1: be Athena, who, like Mercedes, has been unbeatable for so long.
Speaker 1: It's like, well then, what do you do? Right? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Well? You do what they did
Speaker 1: where she kind of caught her with the flash pin
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, it was her night tonight, but
Speaker 1: it could have been anybody's night. It could have gone
Speaker 1: either way, and that was the finish that they chose
Speaker 1: to do. So Mercedes advances now to the finals double
Speaker 1: or nothing. May twenty fifth, She is going to meet
Speaker 1: the winner of the match coming up between Chris Statlander
Speaker 1: and Jamie Hater, which should be Jamie Hayter. There is
Speaker 1: a lot of history between Mercedes and Statlander. There is Statlander,
Speaker 1: though has already lost twice to Mercedes. If they send
Speaker 1: both of them to the finals, and this time Statlander
Speaker 1: gets her win back, that would be huge for Chris Statlander.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you a question. Whoever goes to
Speaker 1: the finals, whichever one it is, and they wrestle Mercedes.
Speaker 1: If they beat Mercedes, and I'm hoping they do, does
Speaker 1: it not then make more sense for that person to
Speaker 1: be challenging Mercedes for the TBS title in Texas As
Speaker 1: opposed to going on to challenge Tony Storm for the
Speaker 1: Women's World Championship. There's like there's a disconnect here. It's
Speaker 1: almost like Mercedes either has to win or the other
Speaker 1: person wins. But you have this thing that's sort of
Speaker 1: hanging there where her very first loss in this company
Speaker 1: come to at the hands of somebody who wasn't even
Speaker 1: going on to challenge her for her championship, which is
Speaker 1: what has me a little worried that they may well
Speaker 1: send Mercedes to Texas to challenge Tony Storm, because they
Speaker 1: certainly teased it here at the end of this match.
Speaker 1: But I just think Athena and Mercedes TBS title, Jamie Hayter,
Speaker 1: Tony Storm aw Women's World title, those should be your
Speaker 1: two big women's title matches at all in on your
Speaker 1: biggest show of the year. I just don't see the
Speaker 1: need to combine the two champions into one match. So
Speaker 1: call me naive. I'm still hopeful that they'll find a
Speaker 1: way to make that work. How they get there, you know,
Speaker 1: having Hater just cleanly beat Mercedes, I mean, it's hard
Speaker 1: to fathom, but it almost has to happen that way, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? You're gonna have Athena run
Speaker 1: out and distract Mercedes interfere in the finals of the oen.
Speaker 1: Why is she that much of a sore loser. It's
Speaker 1: not like Mercedes she needed to win here. It was
Speaker 1: it was a flash pin, but it was a fair victory,
Speaker 1: So that really wouldn't make sense. That would actually portray
Speaker 1: Athenaz the heel going into any rematch between the two
Speaker 1: of them, So I'm not really expecting her to get involved.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna have They're gonna have to have
Speaker 1: the balls to have statlander or hater just get a
Speaker 1: clean win over Mercedes, and you know what they could
Speaker 1: do with the same exact way that they did here,
Speaker 1: catches her out of nowhere flash pin and then boom,
Speaker 1: we get to the destination that I just talked about
Speaker 1: where you have your two title matches. But as a
Speaker 1: first match between these two, I really enjoyed it. I
Speaker 1: thought this was a very strong way to open the show.
Speaker 1: So we go backstage after this and Renee is standing
Speaker 1: by with hangman Adam Page, and she asked the hangman
Speaker 1: how prepared he is for this match here tonight against
Speaker 1: the wild card Young Bucks and Kazushka Okada. They very
Speaker 1: quickly interrupt the interview and they bring up Hangman walking
Speaker 1: out on them at Blooding Guts last year. But they
Speaker 1: forgive him, they say. Matt Jackson says, Hangman's issue with
Speaker 1: the death Riders is something that they could fix. Death
Speaker 1: Riders are crazy, but they could take care of business
Speaker 1: so long as Hangman does his job in winning the
Speaker 1: owen Hart Tournament. So the Bucks walk off, Okada stays behind.
Speaker 1: Then he asks Hangman. He goes, why are you always
Speaker 1: so angry? He goes, you gotta smile more? And Hangman
Speaker 1: doesn't really know, really really doesn't know what to say
Speaker 1: to this, doesn't really know how to react to this,
Speaker 1: so he just leaves the scene and at that point
Speaker 1: Okada calls him a bitch. Hangman. Here's this. He comes
Speaker 1: storming back in Okada all of a sudden, he's all
Speaker 1: smiles again. He goes, no, no, no, no, no, just smile more,
Speaker 1: smile more, and that's how that segment ends. So yes,
Speaker 1: Shi Kamar Okay, you make a good point which I
Speaker 1: did not mention because I said she basically beat her clean,
Speaker 1: so it did look like she had the tights. Yes,
Speaker 1: but do I see Athena coming out to interfere in
Speaker 1: the finals because of that? I still don't see that.
Speaker 1: But yes, you are correct, you could, you could, You
Speaker 1: can make that argument. I don't know. I just don't
Speaker 1: see her coming out and interjecting herself in that match. Look,
Speaker 1: if that's the way that they get to Athena and Mercedes,
Speaker 1: then fine, so be it. Do what you gotta do,
Speaker 1: because I still want to see them run this match
Speaker 1: back again for the TBS title. But who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: they maybe they have all titles on the line, Winner
Speaker 1: take All All, right, Ring of Honor Women's World Championship,
Speaker 1: TBS Championship. I've made it very clear before I don't
Speaker 1: care to see the Ring of Honor titles defended on
Speaker 1: aw television. To me, it doesn't matter, you know, if
Speaker 1: they do this match again and they do Winner take
Speaker 1: All whatever, the thing that matters is the TBS title.
Speaker 1: It's not the Ring of Honor Championship, even though she's
Speaker 1: held it for a gazillion years. It's the TBS title.
Speaker 1: Who was going to dethrone Mercedes to win that TBS title.
Speaker 1: That's really what matters here. So however they get to it,
Speaker 1: as long as they get there, I don't really care. Now,
Speaker 1: they showed Tuca Rosk I Hope I pronounced that right,
Speaker 1: who used to play with the Boston Bruins. He was
Speaker 1: on stage posing with the NHL Stanley Cup. They had
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup in the building tonight. I saw on
Speaker 1: Twitter earlier they had some of the wrestlers taking pictures
Speaker 1: with it before the show. So not only are we
Speaker 1: having tournaments here for the owen Hart Cup, but we
Speaker 1: had the Stanley Cup in the building. After that, it
Speaker 1: was out to the ring for the final opening round
Speaker 1: match in the Menzo and Heart Tournament. It was Hangman
Speaker 1: Adam Page and he was taking on a wildcard entrant
Speaker 1: that we did not know. We don't know who his
Speaker 1: opponent is going to be, and he's pacing back and
Speaker 1: forth in the ring and he's waiting to find out.
Speaker 1: We're waiting to find out who is it going to be?
Speaker 1: And that wild card ends up being the Walking Weapon.
Speaker 1: Former Impact World Champion Josh Alexander makes his aw debut
Speaker 1: and he came out and he got a big reaction.
Speaker 1: Page started throwing some bombs and Josh ran right through
Speaker 1: him with a big boot. Page answers with a fallaway slam.
Speaker 1: He missed a sliding lariat connected with the rolling elbow
Speaker 1: sends Alexander to the floor. He hangs Alexander up on
Speaker 1: the barricade on the floor, and he went to the ramp.
Speaker 1: So you gotta visualize this right. He's got him straddling
Speaker 1: the barricade down below. Hangman gets up on the ramp
Speaker 1: and he backs up a little bit, and he's measuring
Speaker 1: this guy, and he comes charging in. He leaps off
Speaker 1: the ramp and he takes him off the barricade, takes
Speaker 1: his head off with a huge lariet, taking him down
Speaker 1: to the ground. That took us into the commercial break. Alexander, though,
Speaker 1: was in the driver's seat when they came back. They
Speaker 1: went to the apron and Alexander tried a pile driver. Hangman, though,
Speaker 1: hit a big backdrop on the edge of the ring.
Speaker 1: Hangman connects on his oriharam Moon Salt to the floor,
Speaker 1: quickly heads back inside, and he delivers a lager bomb
Speaker 1: for a near fall. Alexander sidesteps a charge. He lends
Speaker 1: a spinning reverse Fireman's carry neck breaker for two. So
Speaker 1: he applies the ankle lock and he's got it cinched in.
Speaker 1: Page though escapes and he connects on a tombstone for
Speaker 1: a close two count. Hangman wanted the buckshot. Alexander, though,
Speaker 1: rolled to the opposite apron. Shortly after that, Alexander wanted
Speaker 1: a power bomb. Hangman escaped and he cradled Alexander for
Speaker 1: the flash pin. And it was at this point that
Speaker 1: I sat here and I said, Okay, they're going a
Speaker 1: little fucking crazy with these flash pins. How many of
Speaker 1: these have we had in just the last few months
Speaker 1: in this cup? We had two of them on the
Speaker 1: show tonight. They did the same thing with Tony and
Speaker 1: Meghan Bain at Dynasty. They did the same thing with
Speaker 1: Tony and Mariah May a Grand Slam. How many of
Speaker 1: these fucking flash pins and these roll ups are we
Speaker 1: going to get now? It's getting a little ridiculous. It's
Speaker 1: like they're trying to protect everybody. When you protect everybody,
Speaker 1: you protect nobody. So after the match, Kyle Fletcher and
Speaker 1: Don Kallus they walk out as Hangman is not waiting.
Speaker 1: He charges, He meets him on the ramp. We get
Speaker 1: a slugfest between the two. They spill into the ring.
Speaker 1: Hangman cuts off a charging Fletcher with a lariat. He
Speaker 1: wants a buckshot. Fletcher bails and we see Don Kallus.
Speaker 1: He very frantically whispers something in Josh Alexander's ear, and
Speaker 1: Alexander Blindside's Page from behind. He plants him with a
Speaker 1: power bomb and Fletcher returns. Callous is applauding which has happened,
Speaker 1: and Fletcher returns. He spikes Page with a brainbuster, and
Speaker 1: we are reminded by the announcers that last week Don
Speaker 1: Kallus had announced an open enrollment period for the don
Speaker 1: Kallis family, And so what did we just see? Did
Speaker 1: we just see the newest member of the Kallus family
Speaker 1: show his face here tonight? So Alexander was one of
Speaker 1: the names that some people were talking about as a
Speaker 1: possibility for this spot. There were a lot of names
Speaker 1: that were thrown around, MJF Jack, Perry, Darby Allen. I
Speaker 1: threw Darby Allen out there. I mean, I saw pictures
Speaker 1: of him today on the mountain, so he is, in
Speaker 1: fact in the middle of his climb from Mount Everest.
Speaker 1: But I was like, who knows, maybe they're working us
Speaker 1: all right when he's going to pop up and he'll
Speaker 1: win the entire thing and go on to Texas, but
Speaker 1: it ends up being Alexander. There was talk about Alexander
Speaker 1: maybe answering the Max cast or Open Challenge on the
Speaker 1: Zero Hour for Dynasty, you know, which would have been
Speaker 1: pretty dumb, you know. To debut him on the pre show.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a solid debut for him. He lost,
Speaker 1: which is never ideal, But what I did like, so
Speaker 1: I didn't like that so much. What I did like
Speaker 1: is that they teased him possibly joining the Kallus family.
Speaker 1: I like that. I think that could work. But here's
Speaker 1: my hope if he does join, because you know, Mark
Speaker 1: Davis went down with a broken foot and they've had
Speaker 1: some injury issues over time with this faction. Lance Archer
Speaker 1: is out right now because Brian Cage is out. Brian
Speaker 1: Cage had surgery. We're not going to see him for
Speaker 1: a little while. I hope that Alexander is at least
Speaker 1: portrayed as being on the same level as the other two.
Speaker 1: Even though he's new to the company. He is somebody
Speaker 1: that people are familiar with. He was a world champion
Speaker 1: somewhere else. He's a world class professional wrestler. You know,
Speaker 1: he's no, he's not a fucking scrub, and so what
Speaker 1: I what I'd rather not see him be is just
Speaker 1: sort of playing backup or second fiddle, you know, to
Speaker 1: Fletcher and Takeshta. Hopefully they will he portrayed as all
Speaker 1: being equals and all being on the same level if
Speaker 1: in fact he does join the faction. But if that's
Speaker 1: the case, then I'm all for it. I think it's
Speaker 1: probably the best thing for him, honestly, to pair him
Speaker 1: off with somebody, because at least then it guarantees that
Speaker 1: he will get airtime and FaceTime on TV. So if
Speaker 1: he does join the Callus family, I think it's great.
Speaker 1: I like that idea. Nick Wayne was in the back
Speaker 1: along with Kip Sabian and Mother Wayne, and he was
Speaker 1: talking about the patriarchy collapsing without a father figure. As
Speaker 1: he was speaking, though, Kip Sabian is sort of nudging
Speaker 1: him and going, hey, trying to get his attention, and
Speaker 1: he looks over to the side, and who do we
Speaker 1: see but we see Christian Cage and Christian walks up
Speaker 1: to him and he brings up Nick, saying that Nick
Speaker 1: knew why Christian executed his contract when he cashed in
Speaker 1: his world title contract, so he would like to know why,
Speaker 1: why do you think I did that? And Wayne said
Speaker 1: that he thinks he didn't stick to the plan because
Speaker 1: he couldn't stand the idea that Cope would win the
Speaker 1: aw World Championship before him. Let us hope that never happens.
Speaker 1: Christian said, that's an assumption and makes an ass out
Speaker 1: of him. He said he's been impressed by the fire
Speaker 1: that Nick has shown recently, and he has taken it
Speaker 1: upon himself to procure him a spot in New Japan
Speaker 1: in the Best of the super Juniors or the Battle
Speaker 1: of the Super Juniors tournament, which is coming up next month.
Speaker 1: And also he went out of his way to get
Speaker 1: him a match against Commander for the Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: television title on Thursday's Collision because Thursday's Tomorrow's Collision is
Speaker 1: also a spring breakthrough episode, so he'll be getting a
Speaker 1: title match on that show. He says he knows his son,
Speaker 1: it would never intentionally let him down, and he gives
Speaker 1: Nick like a little soft slap, and then he gives
Speaker 1: him a hard slab and he walks off. Sabian follows
Speaker 1: mother Wayne follow she left her son to stand there
Speaker 1: all by himself, and he is left standing there and
Speaker 1: smarting over the slab. He did not look very happy.
Speaker 1: They aired a video package for breenboat Hey, justin g
Speaker 1: thank you as well for the twenty five dollars super chat.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. Thank you, sir. I'm just the
Speaker 1: sexy boy. I'm not your boy toy. I make them hot,
Speaker 1: I make them shiver, their knees get weak whenever I'm around,
Speaker 1: they see me walk. What a tune they hear me talk?
Speaker 1: I make them feel like they're on cloud nine. What
Speaker 1: a tune? That was an eighty dollars superchat. That was
Speaker 1: an eighty dollars super chat from Bobert Reviews, who for
Speaker 1: some reason wanted to hear me sing sexy boy. Somehow,
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten a record deal. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for one. Hopefully it will come. That's
Speaker 1: what she said. But thank you, thank you Bobert Reviews. Man,
Speaker 1: you are the man. Eighty dollars super chat drop man,
Speaker 1: that's very nice to you. What I was going to
Speaker 1: say is they aired a video package that was recapping
Speaker 1: FTR on collision, explaining their actions why they did what
Speaker 1: they did at Dynasty to Adam Copeland, and then in
Speaker 1: the same segment they nearly laid out Tony Shavanni. They
Speaker 1: were setting up to give him a spike pile driver
Speaker 1: before Nigel McGinnis, who took his sweet time, by the way,
Speaker 1: finally stood up at the announced desk. He got in
Speaker 1: the ring and he was able to intervene and stop
Speaker 1: them from from doing it. We also saw FTR bloodying
Speaker 1: up Matt Minard and Angela Parker until Daniel Garcia made
Speaker 1: the same, but he suffered a spike pile driver for
Speaker 1: his troubles. So they come back live to the desk
Speaker 1: and Shavani informs us that FTR has been suspended and
Speaker 1: they have been fined one week's pay for their actions,
Speaker 1: and he assures us that that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: He didn't say how much money, but if Tony Kahan
Speaker 1: is just going to randomly throw four hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: out there like he did last week for those eight
Speaker 1: guys to compete for, I'm sure it's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: By the way, no follow up to that this week.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm surprised it was a random It was
Speaker 1: a random magic. It was a random stupid idea they
Speaker 1: came up with, but there was absolutely no follow up
Speaker 1: this week on that. I'm still upset that they didn't
Speaker 1: have the Beast Mortas on the winning team and then
Speaker 1: have like weeks of vignettes showing him spending his money.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do stupid ideas like that, at least
Speaker 1: try to come up with ways to make them fun.
Speaker 1: They did nothing this week. So after this, that's the
Speaker 1: best move set. You know who has a pretty good
Speaker 1: move set the Hurt Syndicate and the Hurt Syndicate was
Speaker 1: up next, defending the aw Tag team titles against the
Speaker 1: Gates of Agony, Bishop Kahn and toa Leona they show, oh,
Speaker 1: I have to mention this. Before this match, they showed
Speaker 1: Chris STAPs Porzingis. Porzingis was there at Dynamite. He was
Speaker 1: sitting in the front row and they put him on
Speaker 1: camera of the Boston Celtics there he was. He got
Speaker 1: a big pop when they showed him on screen. You
Speaker 1: know what, what's good for one company is good for
Speaker 1: the other. When you have a big star in the audience,
Speaker 1: you better put his fucking face and his name up
Speaker 1: on that screen to let the world know they better
Speaker 1: biden check, but they better blast that shit out on
Speaker 1: social media too, That's what they need to do. Sarah says,
Speaker 1: they followed it up on Collision, Well what about Dynamite.
Speaker 1: The match didn't happen on Collision. The match happened on Dynamite.
Speaker 1: I want to see the follow up on Dynamite. That's
Speaker 1: not an excuse. That's not good enough. So anyway, poor
Speaker 1: zingis was there total Leona rushes, Lashly and Benjamin at
Speaker 1: the bell. Benjamin tried an early DDT which Leona No sold,
Speaker 1: Lashly tagged in, and Khan got clotheslined out to the floor.
Speaker 1: Benjamin drove him into the barricade that drove us into
Speaker 1: the commercial. Break back from commercial, Leoner dropped Benjamin with
Speaker 1: a huge Samoan drop and a running sent on for
Speaker 1: a near fall, which Lashly broke up. Leona No sold
Speaker 1: his head being driven into the turnbuckle, and he was
Speaker 1: able to unleash a series of lariats to Lashley, who
Speaker 1: dodged one. He sank in the hurt lock, which Cone
Speaker 1: broke up or con broke up con charge. He ran
Speaker 1: into a thrust kick, though, leading to Benjamin hitting a
Speaker 1: series of release German sue plexus and then he low
Speaker 1: bridged to Leona, who landed on his feet, and Leona
Speaker 1: tried to shit talk Benjamin but he missed. Lashly flying
Speaker 1: in with a spear and back inside Benjamin hit a
Speaker 1: corner step up knee on the Good Bishop and Lashly
Speaker 1: finished him off with a spear to retain the titles
Speaker 1: Gates of Agony. They got more offense in here than
Speaker 1: I would say, pretty much any other you know challengers
Speaker 1: or most other challengers. I mean, you know, a Big
Speaker 1: Bill and Brian Keith. They had a semi competitive match,
Speaker 1: but they got more offense in here than most have
Speaker 1: gotten against the hurt synderkid. And the problem is they've
Speaker 1: just been slotted at a certain level for so long.
Speaker 1: It's like you can't take him seriously. You can't take
Speaker 1: them seriously as challengers for the aw Tag Team titles.
Speaker 1: When they are not featured on Dynamite, which is still
Speaker 1: their a show every single week. We don't see the
Speaker 1: when was the last time we saw these guys on
Speaker 1: Dynamite on a consistent basis. It doesn't happen. They were
Speaker 1: in Ring of Honor, maybe they were on collision. They're
Speaker 1: not on Dynamite. No one is taking them seriously as challengers.
Speaker 1: I don't care. You know, how good they may be,
Speaker 1: how good they may look, and you know it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't matter. It's going to take a
Speaker 1: lot of rehab for me to see them as anything
Speaker 1: but what they were here, which was basically, I mean effectively,
Speaker 1: what these guys were. They were aport chop thrown into
Speaker 1: the lions den to be devoured. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: happened here in this match. Now, when the match was over,
Speaker 1: mjf's music hits. He makes his way out to the
Speaker 1: ring to a loud reaction. He says he does enjoy
Speaker 1: hearing how great he is, but give it up for
Speaker 1: the Hurt Syndicate because he's still sucking up to them.
Speaker 1: So he complimented MVP, and he complimented Shelton Benjamin for
Speaker 1: looking great, while some people, he says, are slow learners,
Speaker 1: so Lashly had to be restrained. MJF is like I
Speaker 1: never said his name, I never said anybody's name. He
Speaker 1: just assumed that I was talking about him. MJF talked
Speaker 1: not just about his own talent, but the talent in
Speaker 1: the back MVP cut him off and said, can you
Speaker 1: get to the point. MJF said, well, that's fine, bring
Speaker 1: him on out, and outwalked about half a dozen ladies
Speaker 1: to the ring. One of them even was toweling off
Speaker 1: Shelton Benjamin. He looks smitten. Then MJF said, they can
Speaker 1: have a night with all of these lovely ladies, and
Speaker 1: all he asks for in return is a thumbs up
Speaker 1: from all three men, because that's how this works, majority rules.
Speaker 1: If at least two of the three give the thumbs up,
Speaker 1: then MJF is in the hurt syndicate. He's still trying
Speaker 1: to get into this group. Not sure why, not really
Speaker 1: sure why he continues to waste his time. This is
Speaker 1: a former, this is the longest reigning aw world champion
Speaker 1: of all time, and he is just desperately, desperately trying
Speaker 1: to get into faction and it still really hasn't been
Speaker 1: completely communicated to us why this is so important to him,
Speaker 1: But he's still trying. So MJF kicks his feet up
Speaker 1: in the corner. MVP gives a thumbs up. Benjamin. Now
Speaker 1: it's up to him, what's his decision, And he's obviously
Speaker 1: a little bit distracted, and he said that he might
Speaker 1: need a little more time, and Benjamin said that he's
Speaker 1: a fan of very nice things and even he needs
Speaker 1: more time. And he's pointing to his wrist because on
Speaker 1: Mjf's wrist he was wearing a gold watch. MJF said
Speaker 1: he knew he liked Benjamin, and he said he'll give
Speaker 1: him his watch for a thumbs up. Benjamin was about
Speaker 1: to give the thumbs up, Lashly shoots him a death stare,
Speaker 1: like he is just glaring at this man, and so
Speaker 1: instead Benjamin gives him a thumbs down. MJF is about
Speaker 1: to just pop off on all of them, and he switched.
Speaker 1: He calmed down. He said, no, no, it's all about democracy.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of democracy. He told Benjamin that
Speaker 1: he's grown to become a big fan of his, and
Speaker 1: so here's what he's gonna do. He's gonna still give
Speaker 1: Benjamin his watch. And he takes the gold watch off
Speaker 1: and he hands it to him and he says, you
Speaker 1: know what, you can also have the ladies. Tonight, I
Speaker 1: felt like I was watching fucking Raws Warren nineteen ninety nine. Here.
Speaker 1: I still remember when the Godfather came out with the
Speaker 1: hose and offered the Undertaker some hoes so he can
Speaker 1: get out of wrestling him. Fuck an Undertaker is standing
Speaker 1: there surrounded by all these women. MJF told Bob that
Speaker 1: he respects him for being the almighty, but MJF is
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Speaker 1: Lashly is still unimpressed. We're not done yet, though, because
Speaker 1: in the back later Lashley tells MVP, I don't trust
Speaker 1: this guy. I don't trust this guy. And MVP says, look,
Speaker 1: I understand he's annoying, but business wise, we can use
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Speaker 1: So MVP assured him that. Look. The minute he gets
Speaker 1: out of line and Lashley finished the sentence for him,
Speaker 1: he goes, we heard him, and he said, you know what,
Speaker 1: we'll finish talking about this later. Can we get on
Speaker 1: with the night? Ladies come on over and they call
Speaker 1: the least some of the ladies over and they go
Speaker 1: walk off, and that's the last we see of them
Speaker 1: for the rest of the night. Where this is going,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there's been talk of maybe
Speaker 1: a Pinnacle reunion, as if the Pinnacle was some big
Speaker 1: fucking shit back in the day. I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: it really ended up not being as big as people
Speaker 1: make it out to be, although it had potential. Could
Speaker 1: this be setting up a Pinnacle re union, not not
Speaker 1: even necessarily with Wardlow because Wardlow is dead, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean the character, I don't mean the person, the
Speaker 1: person portraying what Mike Wardlow, whatever the fuck his name is.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's you know, he's doing well. I hope
Speaker 1: he's doing well in his personal life. His career though
Speaker 1: not so much. His career in this company is done.
Speaker 1: Even if they bring him back, I think he's done.
Speaker 1: The best thing for his career is to leave and
Speaker 1: go somewhere else. I don't even know what he's doing
Speaker 1: these days. But as far as like MJF and FTR,
Speaker 1: FTR just went heel. So timeline wise, we're heading into
Speaker 1: Texas at all in probably heading into a Cope and
Speaker 1: Christian reunion where they take on FTR. They still have
Speaker 1: to kind of figure out how we're going to get
Speaker 1: there as far as Christian and Copeland getting back together.
Speaker 1: But if that's the direction, I could see that ending
Speaker 1: up being a tag team title match, provided that FTR
Speaker 1: wins the titles from the Hurt Syndicate. You could absolutely
Speaker 1: do FTR and the Hurt Syndicate at double or nothing
Speaker 1: for the tag team titles. And if Bobby Lashley is
Speaker 1: telling MVP, I don't trust this guy, then there's good
Speaker 1: reason not to trust him because MJF is gonna fuck
Speaker 1: him over in the end. MJF could be the reason
Speaker 1: that these two lose the tag team titles. MJF then
Speaker 1: goes on to do whatever the hell it is he's
Speaker 1: gonna do with the Hurt Syndicate again. Maybe him and
Speaker 1: FTR they're back on the same page. I don't know.
Speaker 1: FTR goes on to defend the titles against Copen Christian
Speaker 1: at all in in Texas. Is that the direction? That's
Speaker 1: one idea beyond that, I don't know. We'll see how
Speaker 1: it plays out. It's just yeah, war John says Ward
Speaker 1: Love with a sad emoji. You know. It's just I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. There was talk that he
Speaker 1: had a knee injury some time ago. That was a
Speaker 1: long time ago. I mean, unless he had like a
Speaker 1: full knee reconstruction, it just doesn't explain his run, It doesn't.
Speaker 1: You can't just describe it to an injury. Somewhere along
Speaker 1: the way. Things went very, very wrong for someone who
Speaker 1: just felt like his trajectory was just upward. It really did.
Speaker 1: It felt like, Okay, here's another home grown aw star.
Speaker 1: There have been a few of those. You look at
Speaker 1: the progress now that someone like Kyle Fletcher has made right.
Speaker 1: He's been doing very well for himself. Yes, he lost
Speaker 1: his big cage match to well Osbury, But you know,
Speaker 1: I look at Wardlow as like that guy who looked
Speaker 1: like he was on the ascent to much bigger and
Speaker 1: better things. Where did it all go wrong? I trace
Speaker 1: it all the way back to after he beat MJF
Speaker 1: power bombed him ten times a double or nothing. We're
Speaker 1: going on three years now. That was the peak. That
Speaker 1: was it. That was the zenith of his career. It's
Speaker 1: been all downhill ever since. I feel bad for the guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's very athletic. You know, weloken guy absolutely
Speaker 1: could be a star. What his ceiling is I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think he has the potential to be, you know,
Speaker 1: a top talent, but whether he's top talent, second tier,
Speaker 1: you know, wherever he ends up, he has that potential.
Speaker 1: It's just clear to me it's never going to be
Speaker 1: realized so long as he's working for AW. So for
Speaker 1: his sake, I just hope he can, you know, part
Speaker 1: ways and go on his way, and I'm sure somebody will.
Speaker 1: Somebody will snatch him up. Somebody will snatch him up,
Speaker 1: and I hope he finds success somewhere else because it's
Speaker 1: clearly not happening in this company. Wardlow against Lashly says phase,
Speaker 1: you know what, I would love, I would love to
Speaker 1: believe you, but I have no faith. I have no
Speaker 1: faith that. Yes, Marcus reminds me. Wardlow not wanting to
Speaker 1: challenge for the world title until Punk was cleared was
Speaker 1: the worst thing aw could have done with him. I
Speaker 1: don't know about the worst, but that was pretty bad.
Speaker 1: I had forgotten about that. Oh man, it's awful. But
Speaker 1: you know what wasn't awful. This next match, which was
Speaker 1: will Ospray one on one with Kenoski Takeshta. This was
Speaker 1: a semi final match in the owen Hart Foundation Tournament.
Speaker 1: This was also a rematch from Revolution last year, which
Speaker 1: was Osprey's first full time official AW match since signing
Speaker 1: a contract with the company. And I thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna go out there. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: a banger match. I don't know about topping the Revolution
Speaker 1: match last year because that match was so great, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but they managed to do it. They found
Speaker 1: a way. They managed to go out there and they
Speaker 1: were in front of the right crowd at the right moment,
Speaker 1: just the right time. They went out there and they
Speaker 1: tore this place down here in the ring. Best match
Speaker 1: of the Owens so far. They got holy shit chance
Speaker 1: right at the bell, and they worked at a slower
Speaker 1: pace than you expect, which was smart, but they worked
Speaker 1: at a slower pace here at the beginning of his match,
Speaker 1: kind of the feeling out process. After a commercial break,
Speaker 1: Takesha was in control until Osprey fired off his handspring
Speaker 1: pellet kick. Takesha got up a big boot and a
Speaker 1: clothesline to stall the momentum. Osprey tried to ramp up
Speaker 1: a little bit here, Takeshta met him with a multiple
Speaker 1: exploders and then Takesha took too long. He was on
Speaker 1: the ropes. He took too long, Osprey cut him off. Takasha, though,
Speaker 1: wanted an avalanche raging fire, Osprey countered into a stun
Speaker 1: dog millionaire. Takeshta roll to the ramp. Osprey, though, says
Speaker 1: like I don't give a shit, and he hits an
Speaker 1: oscutter to Takeshta on the ramp, which was not very
Speaker 1: smart because it took more out of him than anything else.
Speaker 1: That did not look fun to take on that ramp.
Speaker 1: Takeshta broke the count back into the ring. Osprey, though,
Speaker 1: flew in with a springboard dropkick and a leap of
Speaker 1: faith that landed flush ospray signaled for an oscar. Takeshta
Speaker 1: nearly countered into a blue thunderbomb, but Osprey spun out,
Speaker 1: hit an oscutter, and then got another near fall. This
Speaker 1: was a wild sequence here. Osprey wanted a storm breaker.
Speaker 1: Takeshta rolled out and they traded pen attempts back and
Speaker 1: forth until Takesha hit a wheelbarrow into a bridging German
Speaker 1: soup plex only for two. Both men slowly rose to
Speaker 1: their feet and they had the forearm exchange back and forth.
Speaker 1: Takesha won that before Bryce Remsburg had to pull him
Speaker 1: off of Osprey in the corner, and that little delay
Speaker 1: allowed Osprey to ramp up with kicks. One though got
Speaker 1: caught and Takeshta nearly took his head off with a
Speaker 1: forearm shot, so the raging fire gets countered three. Osprey
Speaker 1: hook kicks connect Takeshta, though collapses before the hidden blade
Speaker 1: could connect to Keshta though not done yet, not done yet.
Speaker 1: That hesitation from Osprey led to Takesha hitting a blue
Speaker 1: thunderbomb for the closest near fall of the matchup to
Speaker 1: this point. Takesha threw a closed line so hard that
Speaker 1: it flipped Ospray inside out onto his feet. He tried
Speaker 1: an oscutter, but Takeshta blasted him out of midair. This
Speaker 1: was this was a fucking great shot. Here he blasts
Speaker 1: him out of midair with a forearm shot. He covers him,
Speaker 1: Ospray kicks out at one, and the crowd is going
Speaker 1: nuts for this, right, so they're losing their minds. Ospray
Speaker 1: quickly connects with a hidden blade and he covers and
Speaker 1: now Takesha kicks out at one. So now these people
Speaker 1: are just jumping out of their skin. Both men collide
Speaker 1: with closedline attempts. Ospray collapses. Takeshta wants a storm breaker. Osprey, though,
Speaker 1: counters into a bastard driver and a wheelbarrow german, but
Speaker 1: Takeshta pops up. He throws a hidden blade of his own,
Speaker 1: and we are pretty much back to square one here
Speaker 1: with these two. Both men broke the count back to
Speaker 1: their feet at nine. Takesha hit a halluva kick and
Speaker 1: then headed up top Osprey. They'll cut him off with
Speaker 1: a headbutt. Osprey wanted a Spanish fly, but instead Takesha
Speaker 1: hit the avalanche. Takeshta line closeline, this man off the
Speaker 1: ropes and fucking Osprey lands on his feet. He's like
Speaker 1: a cat. He lands on his feet and then he
Speaker 1: hits another hidden blade, only for Takeshta to kick out.
Speaker 1: See this this right here. We always get to a
Speaker 1: point in these in these matches, with all of these
Speaker 1: kickouts and all of these near falls, where it's like, ah,
Speaker 1: it should have ended right there. That's how I felt
Speaker 1: about this. The match should have ended right there. I
Speaker 1: do think that it would have been even a little
Speaker 1: bit better if they would have shaved off two or
Speaker 1: three minutes and if the match would have ended there,
Speaker 1: but they kept going and so Ospray went for another one.
Speaker 1: Takesha hit a boot he wanted the raging fire. Osprey
Speaker 1: countered into a styles clash, but again Takeshta kicks out
Speaker 1: backslide into the power drive knee from Takeshta. He charges in,
Speaker 1: but Osprey floats through into a storm breaker for the win.
Speaker 1: To advance to the finals of the owen Hart Tournament,
Speaker 1: Will Osprey will now meet the winner of Kyle Fletcher
Speaker 1: and Hangman Adam Page at double or Nothing. And holy shit,
Speaker 1: holy shit, what a fucking match. This was twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of insanity from two men who are not only two
Speaker 1: of the best in the world, and they are they are.
Speaker 1: If you ask me, who do I think is the
Speaker 1: best pro wrestler in the world right now, It's almost
Speaker 1: hard for me to narrow it down to just one name.
Speaker 1: But Takeshta and Osprey are on that short list. And
Speaker 1: Takeshta is everywhere, not just AW. He's in Mexico, He's
Speaker 1: in Japan, He's in aw He's gonna be in House
Speaker 1: a Glory next Friday. Wrestling for the world Championship. He's everywhere,
Speaker 1: this guy, and he's he's fucking great and it couldn't
Speaker 1: happen to a better guy. He's a super talent. Ospray.
Speaker 1: I don't need to say anything about Ospring. It's almost
Speaker 1: annoying how at the end of the year he ends
Speaker 1: up on so many lists of people's Match of the
Speaker 1: Year candidates because he knows how to go out there.
Speaker 1: He knows when he is performing in front of the
Speaker 1: crowd wherever he is, he knows what those people are
Speaker 1: expecting out of him. He knows he knows what those
Speaker 1: people want to see. He knows what kind of match
Speaker 1: they're looking for, and he goes out there and he
Speaker 1: gives it to him, time in and time again. Doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who he's in the ring with. It could be Takeshta,
Speaker 1: it could be Fletcher, it could be Kenny Omega, it
Speaker 1: could be a new guy like Kevin Knight who's brand
Speaker 1: new to the roster. It doesn't matter. He's phenomenal. So
Speaker 1: you put the two of them together in the ring
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get magic. We got that at Revolution.
Speaker 1: We got that again tonight. I thought tonight was even
Speaker 1: better than Revolution. Were there too, many near falls. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And like I just said, I would have ended it
Speaker 1: after that hidden blade, you know, two minutes, two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes, whatever it was before the finish actually came.
Speaker 1: But they made it work and the crowd ate it
Speaker 1: up and look to Kesh to a lost. But after
Speaker 1: you have a match like this, there really are no
Speaker 1: losers coming out of this match. He's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 1: You have a match like this, after a battle for
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and you get pinned, nobody's talking about, oh
Speaker 1: Man ta Kesha, what a loser, you know, No one's
Speaker 1: talking about that. They're talking about what a great match
Speaker 1: they had, and it really was. And this tournament right now,
Speaker 1: it is Ospury's to lose. I said that even before,
Speaker 1: you know, when we first had the brackets come out.
Speaker 1: It is Will Ospury's tournament to lose. And I think
Speaker 1: he goes on to All In in Texas to challenge
Speaker 1: for the championship. I think it's him and Hangman in
Speaker 1: the finals. I would not put money down on that.
Speaker 1: I do think there's the possibility because Kyle Fletcher doesn't
Speaker 1: really have anything else to do going into double or nothing.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't go to the finals. I don't know
Speaker 1: what else they would do with him, and they have
Speaker 1: been trying to push him and get him reps on TV. Hangman, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: is involved in all this other stuff, would Swerve and
Speaker 1: the Bucks and the death Riders, and so if they're
Speaker 1: gonna do an anarchy in the arena match, I could
Speaker 1: easily see him as part of anarchy in the arena.
Speaker 1: That would open up Kyle Fletcher to wrestle will Ospray,
Speaker 1: his former best friend, in the finals of the Owen.
Speaker 1: The only thing is, like, he just lost to him
Speaker 1: in the cage match. I just don't see what's gained
Speaker 1: by him going in there and losing again to will Osprey.
Speaker 1: But again, is it gonna kill him. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: kill him. I wouldn't beat him twice in a row
Speaker 1: like that if I could avoid it. But the more
Speaker 1: I think about it, it probably would make more sense
Speaker 1: for Hangman to be involved with whatever those guys are doing,
Speaker 1: especially if he's not winning the tournament. If he's just
Speaker 1: gonna go in there and lose. So I'm a little
Speaker 1: more iffy about what the what the final match looks like,
Speaker 1: not so much who's gonna go over in the end, though,
Speaker 1: I still feel pretty confident about Osprey being that guy.
Speaker 1: And we still had and I realized at this point
Speaker 1: that we still had the Death Riders. We still had
Speaker 1: the Death Riders yet to come, and I said, boy,
Speaker 1: they better have something special planned here. If you're going
Speaker 1: to follow that, you're gonna have the Death Riders come
Speaker 1: out and follow what we just had here. But that's
Speaker 1: what they did. And they close with John Moxley filling
Speaker 1: in for the Injured Pack, tagging with Claudio and Wheeler
Speaker 1: Yuda to defend the aw Trio's titles against Samoa Joe
Speaker 1: and Kattiori Sabada of the Ops. What a name the
Speaker 1: Ops talk about? Uh, these trios titles for a second,
Speaker 1: if I can. There is a little inconsistency in how
Speaker 1: they got to this point because and I mentioned this
Speaker 1: on the show this weekend, and I mentioned again on
Speaker 1: TNT last night, which is that if you go back
Speaker 1: to last year, Jay White got hurt, This is when
Speaker 1: the Bang Bang Gang had the trios titles and Jay
Speaker 1: White got hurt and they were gonna do the Freebird
Speaker 1: rule and have Juice Robinson fill in for him. Christopher
Speaker 1: Daniels was like, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: we don't do that here in aw So you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to vacate those titles, which is what they did.
Speaker 1: And yet John Moxley is able to stand in for Pack.
Speaker 1: So there is a lack of consistency here in the
Speaker 1: application of these rules. At the same time, I completely
Speaker 1: understand that Tony Kahan was between a rock and a
Speaker 1: hard place on this. So even though it seems like,
Speaker 1: well wait a minute, this doesn't this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: How come they had to forfeit the titles then, but
Speaker 1: they don't have to forfeit them now. You saw why.
Speaker 1: This is why, because they had this big title change
Speaker 1: planned for the end of the show would have completely
Speaker 1: fucked everything up. These guys have been champions for how
Speaker 1: many days now, how many months? I lost track, I
Speaker 1: don't even know how long. The Death Riders have had
Speaker 1: these trios titles for months and months and months, and
Speaker 1: you want to build to a moment where they finally
Speaker 1: get beaten and hopefully it's a big celebratory thing when
Speaker 1: they finally get beaten, and so you really don't want
Speaker 1: to have to strip them of the titles if you
Speaker 1: can avoid it. Plus you also have the other issue,
Speaker 1: which is that if you strip them of these fucking
Speaker 1: trios titles, what are you gonna do to decide new
Speaker 1: trios champions. You're gonna have a tournament. We have two
Speaker 1: tournaments that are ongoing as we speak. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a third one. So they didn't have any choice but
Speaker 1: to allow John Moxley to stand in for Pack. Is
Speaker 1: it stupid? Yeah, it's stupid, But you know what, I
Speaker 1: would have done the same thing. I really don't think
Speaker 1: they had much of a choice here, So that's why
Speaker 1: John Moxley was allowed to take his place. I guess
Speaker 1: as an interim I think is how they build a
Speaker 1: trios champion. But they announced at the top of the
Speaker 1: show that Hook was attacked earlier in the day by
Speaker 1: the Death Riders and he was taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1: And as with Jay White's recent broken hand, we didn't
Speaker 1: see it. They just told us at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show. There was no footage of this. And that's
Speaker 1: what made me think, Okay, what we saw with Hook
Speaker 1: last week in the ring, with him throwing up, and
Speaker 1: you know, talk about whether or not is he concussed?
Speaker 1: Is he not concussed? And aw they don't talk about it,
Speaker 1: they don't announce that stuff. You just put two and
Speaker 1: two together and you can pretty much deduce that he
Speaker 1: came out of that match with something wrong and however
Speaker 1: long he's going to be out for. They needed somebody
Speaker 1: in his place tonight, so we didn't just have a
Speaker 1: replacement on the heel side. We had a replacement on
Speaker 1: the babyface side, which was less problematic because they're not champions,
Speaker 1: so who cares. But instead of Hook and Taz wasn't
Speaker 1: on the show either. They said Taz was at the
Speaker 1: hospital with him. So commentary tonight was just ex Caliber
Speaker 1: and Tony Shabani. They had a two men booth tonight
Speaker 1: except when Don Kallis was there. But Joe and Shabbata
Speaker 1: walked out on stage and they stood there and were
Speaker 1: way and we're waiting, and we're waiting to find out
Speaker 1: who their partner is going to be. And then we
Speaker 1: hear Powerhouse Hobbs music and out comes Powerhouse Hobbs, which
Speaker 1: I think that as far as replacements go, I think
Speaker 1: that it's an upgrade. Certainly, if you're Samoa, Joe and Shabbata,
Speaker 1: who would you rather have as your partner in this
Speaker 1: situation hook or powerhouse Hobbs. I know who I'm going with,
Speaker 1: So the Ops and Hobbes they attacked right away. You'd
Speaker 1: have got steamrolled in the corner right out of the
Speaker 1: gate here by Hobbs. Hobbs tried to save Sabada from
Speaker 1: an attack outside when things came back from commercial, but
Speaker 1: he got clipped. He got chopped blocked by Marina Shaffir.
Speaker 1: Back inside, Shabata tried fighting his way out of the
Speaker 1: death Rider's corner and eventually made the hot tag to
Speaker 1: Samoa Joe. He snapped you to down with a power slam. Moxley,
Speaker 1: though quickly broke up. The count got a chair from
Speaker 1: underneath the ring. He went to go use the chair.
Speaker 1: Will Ow Nightingale comes running down the ramp and she
Speaker 1: grabs the chair flips Moxley off to a big pop.
Speaker 1: Moxley walked into a big boot by Joe as Dah
Speaker 1: flew off the top with a shotgun dropkick. Shabata then
Speaker 1: laid out Da Claudio hit a pop up uppercut. Hobbs
Speaker 1: was in with a spinebuster. Moxley was back up with
Speaker 1: a dropkick, but Joe was there with a cutter and
Speaker 1: both men were down. So this just this has devolved
Speaker 1: now into total chaos. The young Bucks come sauntering out
Speaker 1: down the ram. They grab a chair. They go down
Speaker 1: to the ringside, they grab a chair, and they're standing
Speaker 1: over by the barricade, and we see a man kind
Speaker 1: of hidden in a hoodie and you could see that
Speaker 1: it's Swerve Strickler. The fans can't tell right away, but
Speaker 1: it's Swerve Strickland and he rips the chair away from them.
Speaker 1: He hits a swerve stump off the barricade to both bucks,
Speaker 1: lays them out, then launches them into the crowd and
Speaker 1: out of we don't know. They fight off somewhere back inside.
Speaker 1: Moxley runs into an sto by Joe and they just
Speaker 1: the match continued to break down. At this point, Claudio
Speaker 1: and Shabbata they're brawling on the ramp. Shabbata sinks in
Speaker 1: a rear naked choke to him. Joe set Moxley up
Speaker 1: for the musclebuster. But you to breaks it up. You
Speaker 1: to try to dive onto Hobbs, who caught him and
Speaker 1: slammed him onto the announced desk, which did not break
Speaker 1: the solid oak Announced desk. Marina Shaffer cracked Hobbs in
Speaker 1: the back with a chair. That was a mistake. She
Speaker 1: ends up getting pounced by not by Hobbes, but by
Speaker 1: will That would have been funny by Willow Nightingale. Moxley
Speaker 1: wanted a death rider on Joe. He spun out into
Speaker 1: the Cookina clutch and he went out way too quickly.
Speaker 1: It was comical how quickly he put the hold on
Speaker 1: and then the referee almost immediately called for the bell.
Speaker 1: They had to be running low on time. It was like,
Speaker 1: come on, get to the finish because this was way
Speaker 1: too quick. But the aw world champion goes out. I
Speaker 1: did not expect the unbeatable John Moxley to take the
Speaker 1: losing fall here, but so he did. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he had a perfectly good wheeler you to out there.
Speaker 1: But it was obviously more impactful seeing John Moxley be
Speaker 1: the one to take the losing fall. Swerve Strickland and
Speaker 1: Prince Nana. They were shown in the crowd smiling Joe
Speaker 1: and Shabbata. They hug it out. They are the new
Speaker 1: trios champions. They hand the third title over to Hobbes,
Speaker 1: who was not supposed to be their partner tonight, but
Speaker 1: as it turned out, That's just kind of the way
Speaker 1: it ended up being. And the announcers put over how
Speaker 1: the Bucks and the death Riders finally got their come up,
Speaker 1: and here comes will Osprey out to celebrate. Swerve Willow
Speaker 1: more of the locker room. From what I saw, we
Speaker 1: had Kevin Knight was out there, we had Speedball, Mike
Speaker 1: Bailey out there, ar Fox, the Dork Order. We saw
Speaker 1: them out there, and they all spill out. They're popping
Speaker 1: the cork on some champagne as the death Rider have
Speaker 1: been dethroned at least for one night. So this is
Speaker 1: what I mean when I made the analogy. And again
Speaker 1: some people looking to be like, can't believe you're comparing
Speaker 1: the two, Like, clean the shit out of your ears
Speaker 1: and just pay attention to what I'm saying here. I'm
Speaker 1: simply drawing a comparison to the angle that WCW did
Speaker 1: on Nitro on that summer episode in ninety seven, and
Speaker 1: they followed the blueprint. I'm not saying they directly copied
Speaker 1: that one angle, maybe they did, but they followed the
Speaker 1: same blueprint here you know where you in that case,
Speaker 1: it was a singles match. This was a trios match
Speaker 1: for the trios belts. But it's the same basic concept
Speaker 1: where you have the champion or champions go down to
Speaker 1: the babyface. You know, maybe in surprising fashion that Moxley
Speaker 1: was the one to go down to the Cocina clutch,
Speaker 1: fact that it was Hogan who was the unbeatable WCW champion,
Speaker 1: even though they were in the middle of this story
Speaker 1: trying to tell the story about Stay trying to take
Speaker 1: the title from Hogan. They took the fucking title off
Speaker 1: of him to put it on Luger. But you had
Speaker 1: all the babyfaces spill out here on Nitro on this
Speaker 1: milestone episode of Nitro to celebrate this big win with
Speaker 1: Luger in the nWo. Finally, finally somebody has taken down
Speaker 1: the top heel faction in this company. And of course
Speaker 1: five or six days later it was just completely undone.
Speaker 1: But that was the basic idea behind what they did here.
Speaker 1: You know, at some point you have to give the
Speaker 1: babyfaces a win. You can't just wait until the very
Speaker 1: end and just do it. In Texas, right, we all
Speaker 1: know it's building to somebody, Osprey whoever it is, beating
Speaker 1: Moxley in Texas. We know this, But Texas is in July.
Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck right now about July. We're
Speaker 1: in the middle of April. You got to give me
Speaker 1: something now, because every week it's the same thing, it's
Speaker 1: the same shit. And so things were set up in
Speaker 1: this case for the trio's titles to change hands. And
Speaker 1: then we had the big celebratory moment at the end
Speaker 1: of the show where, for at least one night, like
Speaker 1: the nWo on that night, all those many years ago,
Speaker 1: the Death Riders got a measure of what they had
Speaker 1: coming to them for some time. They got their come ups,
Speaker 1: and Joe is in the ring, and it's always good
Speaker 1: to see Joe celebrating with a belt, whatever title it
Speaker 1: may be. Everyone's got a big smile on their face
Speaker 1: in the ring and they feel like they finally got
Speaker 1: one over on the Death Riders. They had Joe after
Speaker 1: the show. This did not air on TV, but Joe
Speaker 1: cut a promo in the ring when the show is
Speaker 1: over saying that he's like Tom Brady and he doesn't
Speaker 1: lose in Massachusetts, and he noted that it's where he's
Speaker 1: won all of his major titles. And I didn't realize that,
Speaker 1: but it is true. It is true because he beat
Speaker 1: Kurt Angle to win the TNA World Heavyweight Title in Lowell,
Speaker 1: and he beat Finn Balor. I believe it was Balor
Speaker 1: in Lowell to win the NXT Championship, and tonight they
Speaker 1: were in Boston, but still Massachusetts, and here he wins
Speaker 1: the trios titles, you know, in the main event on
Speaker 1: this show. So I guess it's a lucky place for him.
Speaker 1: I guess it's like his good luck charm. I do
Speaker 1: wonder if we're gonna get Joe and Moxley, though one
Speaker 1: on one I feel like we have to. I mean,
Speaker 1: just because he's one third of the trios champions. He
Speaker 1: put the aw world champion out. That should be the
Speaker 1: title match for double or nothing, because you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to have Moxley defend the title on that show. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Just gonna put him in an
Speaker 1: anarchy in the arena match if you want to have
Speaker 1: a title match on that show, who the hell are
Speaker 1: you gonna put him in the ring with? Well, you
Speaker 1: just found out who they set it up tonight that
Speaker 1: person should be Samoa Joe. But on the whole this episode,
Speaker 1: from top to bottom, it was carried by the n ring.
Speaker 1: I thought the Mercedes and the Athena match was very good,
Speaker 1: not even the best of what I'm sure they could do.
Speaker 1: It was their first time in the ring. It felt
Speaker 1: like they were kind of getting used to each other
Speaker 1: because again there were a few rough moments there, but
Speaker 1: not enough to take away from the overall quality of
Speaker 1: the match. Ospray and Takesha had a pay per view caliber,
Speaker 1: just fucking awesome match, and even the main event. The
Speaker 1: way they structured that main event and what they built
Speaker 1: to there and those closing moments of the match and
Speaker 1: all the chaos and everything and Willow coming out and
Speaker 1: this person coming out, Swerve was out there. It made
Speaker 1: for a nice moment for the live crowd, and it
Speaker 1: was a moment that was needed because the Babyfaces needed
Speaker 1: to stand tall over the death Riders, and so on
Speaker 1: this night, that's exactly what they did. This was the
Speaker 1: best dynamite of the year so far. I wish they
Speaker 1: could all be like this, and I wish every crowd
Speaker 1: could be like this crowd. Unfortunately that's not the case,
Speaker 1: but for this night they get their props because on
Speaker 1: their two hundred and eighty ninth episode, as they surpassed
Speaker 1: WSW Monday Nitro in total episodes, this one right here
Speaker 1: was the best one in a very long time. What
Speaker 1: do you think of Dynamite tonight from Boston? According to
Speaker 1: the Twitter pol nearly seventy percent thumbs up. It's been
Speaker 1: a while since we've had a Dynamite score that high.
Speaker 1: Ten percent thumbs in the middle, twenty one percent thumbs down.
Speaker 1: Let's begin with Honey deep Fried Chicken, who actually has
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania prediction here to kick us off in the
Speaker 1: on the Dynamite review superchat portion, I have a WrestleMania
Speaker 1: forty one prediction. And by the way, if you have
Speaker 1: a WrestleMania comments or prediction, get send him on in.
Speaker 1: That's fine. I have a WrestleMania forty one prediction, he says.
Speaker 1: Bailey turns on Lyra during the match. I see. I
Speaker 1: don't know about like just turning on her. I think
Speaker 1: there may be a miscommunication that maybe causes that postmatch,
Speaker 1: but her just kind of turning on her in the
Speaker 1: middle of the match that I don't think is gonna
Speaker 1: happen a miscommunication to cost them the match, though absolutely
Speaker 1: I could see that happening, because I don't there's a
Speaker 1: zero percent chance they win that match. He also says
Speaker 1: fuck it. Since both AW and WWE don't care about
Speaker 1: online reactions, I'm predicting John Moxley will have another long
Speaker 1: title reign in WWE. I'm predicting beyond bel air, making
Speaker 1: the RHEA fans cry at WrestleMania. The Real CS before
Speaker 1: ninety nine says it is sad and pathetic to see
Speaker 1: the styles clash use as a regular move. Remember when
Speaker 1: it ended matches? Yeah, me neither. Well. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it's gone the way of so many other moves before it.
Speaker 1: It sucks. I agree, but once the genie is out
Speaker 1: of the bottle, you can't get it back in Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Oz and Glorious says Blue Sky one of the best
Speaker 1: Dynamites ever. Uh. The Twitter poll thirty two percent thumbs up.
Speaker 1: Not tonight. I don't know what you're looking at. We
Speaker 1: had a seventy percent score, so you're looking at the
Speaker 1: wrong poles. My friend Jeromeogenio Monet versus Athena killed it.
Speaker 1: They had a great match. I look forward to the
Speaker 1: next one. Oz says All Timer Dynamite tonight, the suffering
Speaker 1: and the Death Riders Trios Division run was worth it
Speaker 1: to see my Boy Shibata main Event two eighty nine
Speaker 1: and finally win Gold. No, I wouldn't say decimating the
Speaker 1: Trio's division was worth it. For months on end, I
Speaker 1: was more interested in seeing and Hobbes with Gold again. Honestly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm happy for Shebata, but Joe is too good not
Speaker 1: to be involved in something big. So I'm happy that
Speaker 1: he is at least involved in this now because he
Speaker 1: really needs to be. Food Hive. Where have you been?
Speaker 1: Where has he been? We've missed food Hive? Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me scroll back here, it's going on food Hive.
Speaker 1: He says, Oh, how I've missed my chat? What a
Speaker 1: return with one of the best episodes of Dynamite I
Speaker 1: can remember. Shout out to Nick Kahn and the Underdogs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about that comment you talk about delusional? Hey Chris,
Speaker 1: thank you. I was gonna say, is I find it
Speaker 1: kind of strange? There have been a number of aw
Speaker 1: related comments made by WWE people this week. I saw
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins made some kind of comment talking about CM
Speaker 1: punk building up the match of WrestleMania, talking about him
Speaker 1: taking money from a billionaire son, and Nick Kahan making
Speaker 1: the comments that he made this is WrestleMania week. Oddly,
Speaker 1: they seem obsessed with AW for some reason. They need
Speaker 1: to focus on WrestleMania's that's really the most important thing here,
Speaker 1: and not spend their time doing all these interviews this
Speaker 1: week talking about Tony Kahan and his dad seems a
Speaker 1: little strange to me. We got the Yatagaratsu caught this
Speaker 1: show after Dark Side of the Ring called The Grudge.
Speaker 1: Not into baseball, but I saw I saw this heat
Speaker 1: between Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza and wanted your take
Speaker 1: as a Mets fan. It had me intrigued. I mean,
Speaker 1: Clemens was an asshole. I remember that whole thing with
Speaker 1: throwing the bats and everything. Yeah, he's just a fucking dick.
Speaker 1: I'm on team Piazza, Joey, Jojo Junior. That was great segment,
Speaker 1: actually meant something and progressed the stories. Also, AW usually
Speaker 1: struggles to pivot, but they didn't. They didn't well, but
Speaker 1: I think they did well to sub in Hobbes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was as good of a choice as
Speaker 1: you could ask for food. Hive says, what was for dinner?
Speaker 1: I made loaded street tacos. Oh, that sounds like that
Speaker 1: would have been a nightmare for me. I did not
Speaker 1: have loaded tacos. I had chicken. He also says, who's
Speaker 1: going to all in Texas? I want to meet y'all
Speaker 1: in person, might have a get together with food that
Speaker 1: I cook. It's barely twenty minutes away. Well there you go.
Speaker 1: Let Food Hive know. I don't know what my plans
Speaker 1: are yet. I may be in Texas that weekend. We'll see,
Speaker 1: but you're going to be in Texas. Let Food Hive know.
Speaker 1: I know we got a lot of SoundOff fans in Texas.
Speaker 1: I had a big meet up in Texas for Wrestlemanium
Speaker 1: many many years ago. Did my my one and only
Speaker 1: live show actually live SoundOff in Texas? In Dallas at
Speaker 1: Frankie's It's good times, Joseph Stewart. Did you see the
Speaker 1: Hot Ones episode on YouTube with Dominic Mysterio and liv Morgan?
Speaker 1: I did they have great chemistry together? They really do.
Speaker 1: If they had their own like television show, I might
Speaker 1: actually watch. Not only did I see Dominic and Live
Speaker 1: on Hot Ones, I watched Rhea Ripley on Cold as
Speaker 1: Balls with Kevin Hart, where she you know, she stripped
Speaker 1: down and sat in the tub filled with ice and
Speaker 1: did an interview with him, so you can check that
Speaker 1: out too. David theorying with the thirty dollars mentos super
Speaker 1: Chat after a show like tonight, do Sala Monster Dare,
Speaker 1: roll the dice and do a collision review tomorrow. No
Speaker 1: he doesn't, No he doesn't. It's my one night off.
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch any wrestling, says AW needs
Speaker 1: to not get complacent, build a winning streak, and for
Speaker 1: all of our sanity, I hope they do. Maybe they
Speaker 1: could run the MGM Music Hall in Boston at Fenway
Speaker 1: in Boston every week. Joseph Stewart do you think Dominic
Speaker 1: Mysterio and Live Morgan will do a movie together in
Speaker 1: the future? What kind of movie? Tony McCall with a
Speaker 1: ten dollars super Chat ideal observation slash nitpicking. He says,
Speaker 1: why was Claudio able to stay in the match through
Speaker 1: a commercial break when commentary said blatantly there wasn't a
Speaker 1: tag Because the aw referees are not always the brightest
Speaker 1: bunch and sometimes they make them look like imbeciles. Could
Speaker 1: be as simple as that. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to tell you. I wasn't officiating the match.
Speaker 1: You're asking the wrong person, mister Rod. Very good episode tonight,
Speaker 1: some great wrestling overall. I am here for it. Today's
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Speaker 1: had a better show than the Go Home Raw this week. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't even compare the two Dynamite Blue Raw out
Speaker 1: of the fucking water this week. But then again Raw,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, what is there left to do?
Speaker 1: I'm at the point now where it's like, let's just
Speaker 1: let's get to WrestleMania, like even smack that on Friday, Like,
Speaker 1: can we just get to WrestleMania already? I'm ready to
Speaker 1: get this WrestleMania over with, honestly, Like, can we just
Speaker 1: get there? Like they've done everything that they can do,
Speaker 1: will be blessed with one more John Cena appearance at
Speaker 1: least on TV on Friday. We'll see what they do there.
Speaker 1: But now, when you have the go Home Show and
Speaker 1: you've done everything you could possibly do, it's like I
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting much out of that show. Says maybe the
Speaker 1: WrestleMania multiverse will get destroyed by Thanos Khan Lol. With
Speaker 1: the rumor that Mariah May wants out of AW, could
Speaker 1: we see her at a two night SummerSlam. No, even
Speaker 1: if she wants out of AW, supposedly her contract runs
Speaker 1: at least until November, so you're not getting Mariah Ma
Speaker 1: anytime soon. I honestly didn't realize it until a few
Speaker 1: days ago. But WrestleMania Night, two, Easter, and four to
Speaker 1: twenty are all on the same day. I can't remember
Speaker 1: the last time that happened. That's like Haley's comment, happens
Speaker 1: like once every sixty years or something. A four to
Speaker 1: twenty Easter. While watching WrestleMania interesting, Adam says, Hey, Solo Monster,
Speaker 1: I know Dynamite surpasses Nitro tonight, but can you remind
Speaker 1: the people WCW Saturday Night is not primetime. It is
Speaker 1: six oh five. Nitro was eight PM. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: preaching to the choir. I've already explained it people. It
Speaker 1: goes in one ear and out the other with some people,
Speaker 1: because I still see people on social media. What are
Speaker 1: they talking about? Because the whole milestone is that they
Speaker 1: are now the longest running wrestling show, primetime wrestling show
Speaker 1: in the history of the Turner Networks. And people don't understand.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, WCW Saturday Night was running longer. They're lying,
Speaker 1: They're lying, except they're forgetting the words prime time. Doesn't
Speaker 1: everybody know that Saturday Night was a six to oh
Speaker 1: five thing? Do they not understand what prime time means?
Speaker 1: Let's fend out six oh five is not considered primetime
Speaker 1: in this case. Don't make excuses. Some people just don't learn.
Speaker 1: Mister Rod with a twenty dollars super chat, I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask you the same thing that I was asked
Speaker 1: the other day. But what match or matches will be
Speaker 1: your match of the weekend? Well, I'll tell you when
Speaker 1: they happened, but if you ask me now, I think
Speaker 1: that the women's triple threat match is probably one of them.
Speaker 1: And if I had to pick one, well that one's
Speaker 1: on night too, right, So I wish I had the
Speaker 1: Night one lineup in front of me. What have we
Speaker 1: got on Night one? Triple threat? Gunther, I'm gonna you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna go the women's triple Threat with
Speaker 1: Rio bianc Enio justin g with the twenty five. I
Speaker 1: can't do this all the time. But the balls acts
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Speaker 1: feeding gremlins after midnight, like just bad things happen. But
Speaker 1: it would be more interesting than Nicky Mode. I don't
Speaker 1: know what Nicki mode would look like. Bre Mode is
Speaker 1: just bad news. Though. Bobert reviews with that eighty dollars drop.
Speaker 1: I think he really just wanted to hear me saying
Speaker 1: that's what I think. Thank you, Bob. I hope you're
Speaker 1: doing well. Duffs VIDs. Why is it terrible eating in
Speaker 1: an alien's spacecraft? No atmosphere, no at miss I think
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Speaker 1: one of your better ones? What am I missing here? Hey, Markel,
Speaker 1: it's good to hear from Markel forty four months of
Speaker 1: channel membership, says Hope, all as well. I'm here live
Speaker 1: for once. I love the show CEO. Yeah, Markel doesn't
Speaker 1: get to hang out live too often, so it's good
Speaker 1: to see you with us. Duff's VIDs. A guy assaulted
Speaker 1: me with milk? How dairy? You deserve this one? This
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Speaker 1: when you're sitting down, you're American. When you're laying down,
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Speaker 1: supposed to be improving. They're not supposed to be getting worse.
Speaker 1: What's going on here? The average grunt what an all
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Speaker 1: says this is the wrestling I love a dub average
Speaker 1: grunt is very happy. He's very excited about Dynamite tonight,
Speaker 1: eminem One for the money too, for the show and
Speaker 1: a double b the booker to go, go go. You
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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Osprey. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: what I would do. That's what I would do. Food
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Speaker 1: She Chris tops on my portal, iszingis very geez my god,
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Speaker 1: But I do appreciate it. She Chris stops on my portal,
Speaker 1: iszingis Duff's VIDs with the four ninety nine. And I
Speaker 1: rewatched WrestleMania eight and was wondering, if you know if
Speaker 1: Rick Flair and Brett Hart got in trouble or fined
Speaker 1: for bleeding in their matches, and if so, what happened.
Speaker 1: Brett Hart did not get in trouble, Rick Flair did
Speaker 1: get in trouble, and the reason why is because Brett
Speaker 1: Hart is just fucking great at what he does. And
Speaker 1: he was able to convince them it was hard waight blood,
Speaker 1: even though he admits he bladed, and blading back then
Speaker 1: was a no no. But he was able to do
Speaker 1: it in such a way where he convinced them that
Speaker 1: it really was just it was hard way, it was
Speaker 1: an accident. Flair used to bleed in all of his matches,
Speaker 1: and he had the white hair and his white hair
Speaker 1: would go red. So him bleeding in the match, it
Speaker 1: was pretty obvious that, you know, he bladed himself and
Speaker 1: he got in trouble for it, even though he had
Speaker 1: a great match with Savage. You know, when he got
Speaker 1: to the back, he said, I forgot the exact comment,
Speaker 1: but Vince made a comment to him, something to the
Speaker 1: effect of, man, I wish it was like you'll never
Speaker 1: learn or I forgot exactly what it was. But he
Speaker 1: really was not happy. Brett was like, hey, no, hey,
Speaker 1: it was an accident. They're like, okay, Arabian Night. Could
Speaker 1: the mj story be a swerve to reunite Dynasty, so
Speaker 1: bringing in Richard Holiday and Hammerstone? Yeah, Dynasty was a
Speaker 1: faction in MLW that MJF was a part of. With
Speaker 1: these guys, I think Hammerstone's a free agent right now,
Speaker 1: Alex Hammerstone, it's possible. You know what it is. It is.
Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought about that. But instead of Pinnacle,
Speaker 1: they reunite Dynasty. But an aw yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1: Jake Jones with a forty nine ninety nine brother solo
Speaker 1: didn't get to watch tonight, but I enjoy your awesome reviews.
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Speaker 1: that's awesome. That is awesome. We all are going to
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Speaker 1: We cheer for this man. That's what we do. Solo
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Speaker 1: David Theory with a leve months of channel membership, only
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks until I get my red skull.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Looking forward to being with all of
Speaker 1: you after WrestleMania on YouTube this weekend. Well, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to having you. So we're gonna have a good
Speaker 1: time this weekend. And I don't want to be up
Speaker 1: into the wee hours by myself, so hopefully you will
Speaker 1: be here with me. Number one almost safety and says
Speaker 1: Hammerstone is back in MLW. That's right, he is back
Speaker 1: in MLW. He is back in MLW, so that's probably
Speaker 1: not possible. I did see that. Oh it's the nixt starting.
Speaker 1: Are they all on the knicks? Oh? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: you can see. I'm such a huge basketball fan. I
Speaker 1: thought he was just naming random basketball players. Honestly, Dante
Speaker 1: di Vincenzo is actually a pretty cool name. I wish
Speaker 1: that was my name. I don't know though Dante sounds
Speaker 1: off of that doesn't That doesn't flow as well as
Speaker 1: Solomoster sounds though, Dante DiVincenzo. Oh it was the lineup.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Blt's van. You're a big good Knicks fan, right,
Speaker 1: I'll defer to you. It's there. It's their lineup from
Speaker 1: last year. Okay. Oz Glorious says yes or no? Is
Speaker 1: Mariah May leaving? Hit that like button right now? No?
Speaker 1: Do I think she's leaving when her contract is up? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: forced me to take a guess. I'm gonna say yes. Uh.
Speaker 1: Eminem says, hope everyone got their taxes done yesterday, says
Speaker 1: Winker would have been proud. Rest in peace. Wink Martindale
Speaker 1: one of the best mcs of the seventies and eighties. Yes,
Speaker 1: and a fantastic name. What was he ninety one? I
Speaker 1: think just passed away, Wink Martindale, he said. I mean,
Speaker 1: if that isn't the best like game show host's name,
Speaker 1: forget MC like the best game show host name. Ever.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is Wink Martindale. I'm surprised that
Speaker 1: sounds like a gimmick. They give you an NXT. You're
Speaker 1: getting a new name. What's your new name? Wink Martindale.
Speaker 1: Justin g gifted a membership to the Winston Slip and
Speaker 1: David Theoring. Thank you for the five gifted memberships. Kiddo
Speaker 1: Hudson for all the shade that Tony Khan throws at WCW.
Speaker 1: He loves to borrow ideas from that company. I noticed
Speaker 1: it right away, the similarities between the Lugar thing and
Speaker 1: what they did at the end of the show tonight,
Speaker 1: Matt Fisher, Hey, Howard pizza Pizza. That's the best part.
Speaker 1: That was the best part of the WrestleMania nine documentary.
Speaker 1: Go listen to my review. I mean it's long, but
Speaker 1: it's thorough. We get into a lot of the different
Speaker 1: things that we're talked about. But the sight of Howard
Speaker 1: Finkel dressed up in a toga looking like the little
Speaker 1: mascot guy from the from the uh Pizza commercial Little Caesars,
Speaker 1: and somebody shouting at him from a distance, Hey, Howard pizza, pizza.
Speaker 1: Laugh my ass off. The Juliette Nick cons we don't
Speaker 1: sign in bench people is rich given that Alexa is
Speaker 1: currently benched. Well you know somebody, Well we just heard
Speaker 1: from number one almost sapien. Not that I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: begging for all to be back on TV every week,
Speaker 1: but Oltmas had a good thing going there. He was
Speaker 1: one half of the GHC Tag Team Champions and had
Speaker 1: to be rushed back to WWE to the point where
Speaker 1: they had to just strip him of the title and
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him a single time. Was it really
Speaker 1: that important that he leave Japan? I haven't heard that
Speaker 1: he wanted to leave. He was in the middle of
Speaker 1: a tag team title run, but they had to have
Speaker 1: him back to do what exactly. It is very rich.
Speaker 1: There were some comments that Nick con made today that
Speaker 1: were quite hypocritical, and if I have time, I will
Speaker 1: get into what he said on the podcast this weekend.
Speaker 1: Chris Manson with The thirty Dollars super Chat says this
Speaker 1: episode was Mento's fresh. Also want to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: on aw Grand Slam Mexico. Hopefully we get thunder Rosa
Speaker 1: versus Mercedes Monette. I think it's cool that they're going
Speaker 1: to be running Arena Mexico. They're the first US based
Speaker 1: promotion to run Arena Mexico, which is a legendary venue
Speaker 1: down in Mexico, and they're doing a Grand Slam there.
Speaker 1: I want to say, what is a June eighteenth, If
Speaker 1: that's a Wednesday, and then that's the date June eighteenth.
Speaker 1: I think it's cool if they're going to fill the
Speaker 1: show with CMLL guys that you know, I don't know then,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to really care all that much.
Speaker 1: But I think in terms of the venue, I think
Speaker 1: it's a cool place to run a wrestling show. Ed
Speaker 1: Swaggle finals to the Owens are forty days away, one
Speaker 1: of the semis happening tonight. Doesn't it seem like lots
Speaker 1: of time between the end of the semis and the finals. Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were doing the Owen this quickly.
Speaker 1: It is a little surprising. I mean, I understand that
Speaker 1: all In is a month earlier this year, but I
Speaker 1: figured they would start the tournament in May. They opted
Speaker 1: to go in a different direction with it. It's a
Speaker 1: little surprising to me. E J Slimp. Can you think
Speaker 1: of any time where a wrestler had the yips, which
Speaker 1: are a sudden and unexplained loss of ability to execute
Speaker 1: certain skills in athletes. I can't. If they did, they
Speaker 1: probably did a pretty good job of masking it where
Speaker 1: I didn't notice. I can't. I can't think of any
Speaker 1: unless you're thinking of jumping. Jeff Farmer and his legendary
Speaker 1: promo where he went yip. I remember that, I remember
Speaker 1: jumping Jeff Farmer, but that's about it. Alex said, brother solo.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with WWE picking Undertaker against Shawn Michaels
Speaker 1: WrestleMania twenty five that was the greatest WrestleMania match ever.
Speaker 1: Is there anything in this match you liked better than
Speaker 1: Austin versus Brett. I love both matches. I have no
Speaker 1: issue with it whatsoever. And that's another thing. If I
Speaker 1: have time on Sunday, I have the list, I'll talk.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go through all fifty matches, but I'll
Speaker 1: talk about the list. But I have no issue with that.
Speaker 1: You can't go wrong with either of those matches. I
Speaker 1: happen to think Austin versus Brett is the best match
Speaker 1: in company history. But for the longest time, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, and I said, Undertaker and Sean Michaels was
Speaker 1: my favorite WrestleMania match. But when I compare the two,
Speaker 1: I just give the edge to Brett and Austin, especially
Speaker 1: based on the significance of the match. But they're both
Speaker 1: awesome matches, so I have no issue whatsoever with them
Speaker 1: ranking it at number one. I think it's a fine pick.
Speaker 1: Bass Beer is. When I grow up, I want to
Speaker 1: be an interim trios champion. I think you can aim
Speaker 1: a little higher. Alex says thy Solo for choosing to
Speaker 1: watch the three hour pre show each night and analyzing
Speaker 1: the same promo videos that they're going to show. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: WTF someone said Solo was watching the three hour pre
Speaker 1: shows on each night? Who are you talking about? Solo? Socoa?
Speaker 1: Maybe Bass Beers. Are you ready for Super chap Mania
Speaker 1: this weekend? Oh? I'm ready cracking my knuckles right here,
Speaker 1: I am ready. Are you ready? That's the question. You
Speaker 1: better get them ready. Matt Fisher had a first date
Speaker 1: last night. The women's bathroom was out of order. My
Speaker 1: date ended up fixing the plumbing with her bare hands.
Speaker 1: Don't ask me how this is not a joke. That
Speaker 1: means that she's handy. You need to hold onto her.
Speaker 1: She could be very useful, you know, a hard it
Speaker 1: could be to find the plumber these days. Bass Beer
Speaker 1: is Brett versus Owen or Brett versus Austin. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: considering I just said Brett versus Austin is the greatest
Speaker 1: matching company history. I think I just answered your question.
Speaker 1: Matt Fisher. Hi, Sean, I know you're here, Yes, Sean,
Speaker 1: Joey Jojo Jr. Seth Rollins comes across as the biggest
Speaker 1: fed stand of them all. Well, they signed his paychecks.
Speaker 1: That's why. Stephen Chappa says two minus two months till
Speaker 1: fifty months of the Best Channel. Yes, he's forty eight
Speaker 1: months a channel member. I miss dropping Bully the Clown
Speaker 1: chat coming soon, Steven Man, you're two months away from
Speaker 1: the Big five. Oh, you are one of the ogs
Speaker 1: here on this channel. Thank you brother. Good questions from you, guys.
Speaker 1: We are currently at four hundred and eighty six likes.
Speaker 1: We also hit our second goal, which means that we
Speaker 1: get two rounds of be the Booker tonight. We might
Speaker 1: be getting a lot of be the Booker this weekend.
Speaker 1: That's going to be up to you, guys. We may
Speaker 1: be able. We may be having multiple cards book this weekend,
Speaker 1: but we got two of them coming up tonight, which
Speaker 1: is awesome. So let's get to it. Shall we be
Speaker 1: the booker time? Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time
Speaker 1: to be the booker. Here they are the ops. Poor
Speaker 1: hook This was his moment to become champion and it
Speaker 1: was taken away from him. But the Ops, the new
Speaker 1: trios champions in all elite wrestling. You know what, I
Speaker 1: may have to put them and be the booker. I
Speaker 1: don't have the ops and be the booker. I just
Speaker 1: realized we got Booker T and gold Dust, who were
Speaker 1: a very entertaining team. Actually they're kicking us off and
Speaker 1: be the booker. Booker T and gold Dust getting it
Speaker 1: on with Stone Cold, Steve Austin and Sean Michaels who
Speaker 1: were tag team champions Stone Cold and Shawn Michaels against
Speaker 1: Booker T and gold Dust. Sign me up. I like
Speaker 1: that Homer Simpson shirt that Sean is wearing here in
Speaker 1: this photo. Yeah, that's a bell. That's that's right, that
Speaker 1: is a bell. Women's be the booker. We begin with
Speaker 1: Bailey Bailey, the former WWE Women's Champion. Actually, you know
Speaker 1: what this image I think was the night that she
Speaker 1: turned heel and beat Charlotte Flair. You know who will
Speaker 1: not beat Charlotte Flair this weekend, Tiffany Stretton Bailey gonna
Speaker 1: go one on one with Jade Cargill, who I also
Speaker 1: happened to think will not be beating Naomi this weekend
Speaker 1: main event time. Oh oh my god, it's a good
Speaker 1: thing I did to just eat dinner. What is this?
Speaker 1: What is going on in this image? Cursed image? You know,
Speaker 1: Jericho left last week and I'm like, this is great.
Speaker 1: We're gonna know Jericho for the next probably month or so.
Speaker 1: And there he is there, he appears on my read
Speaker 1: the Painmaker. I don't know what what is going on
Speaker 1: in this image, but my goodness, Chris says, Redo, he
Speaker 1: is off TV. All right, we have we we are
Speaker 1: gonna we are gonna pretend that didn't happen, because he
Speaker 1: is not supposed to be here. He's supposed to be away.
Speaker 1: Pete done, ye, Pete done against Yoko Zuna. How very
Speaker 1: appropriate that we land on this image of Yoko Zuna
Speaker 1: moments before catastrophe. This was the the two minutes that
Speaker 1: he was the WWF champion on the night of WrestleMania nine,
Speaker 1: as his manager issued a challenge to the challenger to
Speaker 1: get in the ring and wrestle the champion. Pete Dunn,
Speaker 1: enjoy your bonds. Eye drop, because that's how that match
Speaker 1: is ending. Oh wait, did we just do a clean sweep?
Speaker 1: I think we did. I almost forgot, I almost moved
Speaker 1: on and I almost didn't even play the chime. We
Speaker 1: got a clean sweep. We're going to pretend to Jericho
Speaker 1: thing never happened. But we are going to move on
Speaker 1: to round two now because you guys hit the other goal.
Speaker 1: And so we have a second round now of be
Speaker 1: the booker where we have to go stipulations, those are
Speaker 1: the rules get a round two. We pick steps and
Speaker 1: so I think what we'll do is we'll start with
Speaker 1: the women this time. How about that pick a stipulation
Speaker 1: for the women, and the stipulation is on a pole.
Speaker 1: Bro Vince Russo has struck again right off the bat,
Speaker 1: So we're going look at that, Look at baby Russo.
Speaker 1: Baby Russo on a pole. So we have on a pole.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to be on a pole,
Speaker 1: but the stipulation for this women's match is on a pole.
Speaker 1: There are some women who make a very good living
Speaker 1: on a pole. I don't know that that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about here. Willow Nightingale, she's not on any pole.
Speaker 1: Willow Nightingale is awesome, and it will be Willow Nightingale
Speaker 1: one on one. Mommy is mad pick a stipulation to
Speaker 1: make her happy. She looks very angry in this photo,
Speaker 1: but that means that on a pole Bro is gone
Speaker 1: and we have to pick a new stipulation. Good. I
Speaker 1: don't like that stipulation anyway, So now it's wiped clean.
Speaker 1: We've been saved from Russo and the new stipulation is
Speaker 1: an Inferno match, which technically is a Russo idea will
Speaker 1: not poor willow Man. Willow Nightingale now has to be
Speaker 1: in an inferno match. Willow Nightingale in an inferno match
Speaker 1: against lash Legend. Now, eh, we could do better. All right?
Speaker 1: Tag team match, Well, we're not gonna get a second
Speaker 1: clean swee, but that doesn't mean we can't end on
Speaker 1: a strong note. Tag team match is going to be
Speaker 1: a tag team TLC mat, But bliss fan, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. That match is gonna go wrong. Somebody
Speaker 1: is gonna get burnt to a risp. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: really bad. All right, Tag team TLC match, but the
Speaker 1: tag team titles? What is with these two fucking guys?
Speaker 1: How how do we keep landing on braun Stroman and
Speaker 1: Nicholas didn't we just land on them last week you're
Speaker 1: gonna put a nine year old kid in a TLC match.
Speaker 1: Apparently that's what we're doing. We're putting a nine year
Speaker 1: old in a TLC match. Randy Orton forces Adam Pearce
Speaker 1: to add a stipulation to your match man, What is
Speaker 1: what is in the water tonight? All right? Well, TLC
Speaker 1: is wiped clean. That's it. The nine year old is spared.
Speaker 1: We have to pick a new stipulation now for this
Speaker 1: match before Randy Orton beats up Adam Pierce the way
Speaker 1: he beat up Nick all this and he punted Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon in the head, two boy, Nick. Randy Orton does
Speaker 1: not like authority figures. He has a problem with authority.
Speaker 1: All right, new stipulation three stages of three stages of hell.
Speaker 1: That's like each hour of SmackDown. All right, well, Braun,
Speaker 1: Stroman and Nicholas now are going to be in a
Speaker 1: three stages of Hell match against the guns Austin and Colton. Boy,
Speaker 1: this is going south real fast. I think we may
Speaker 1: have peaked. I fear that we may have peaked. Guys.
Speaker 1: We got one match left, and the stipulation for our
Speaker 1: main event is a dog collar match. A dog collar match.
Speaker 1: You gotta have the right people in a match like
Speaker 1: this though, that's the key. Oh god, we have the
Speaker 1: Honky talk Man. We got the Honky talk Man in
Speaker 1: the main event in a dog collar match against Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1: What did I just book the Honky talk Man and
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny in a dog collar match? What the hell
Speaker 1: the I just book? Well, you know what we actually had.
Speaker 1: We had two sweeps tonight. One went one way and
Speaker 1: the other one went a completely different way, so we
Speaker 1: kind of balanced the balance the two of them out
Speaker 1: in a way. Well, that was that was certainly something
Speaker 1: I need time to to process what just happened here. Yep,
Speaker 1: we got both sonics tonight, the first ever bunny collar
Speaker 1: bunny collar match. You ever see people walking their bunny
Speaker 1: down the street with a collar around its neck? I don't,
Speaker 1: not in New York anyway, Although I did see a
Speaker 1: chicken the other day in the street. I just I
Speaker 1: tried turned there was there was a fucking chicken crossing
Speaker 1: the street. It's like, okay, I know what I'm having
Speaker 1: for dinner tonight. Oh we have let's see number one
Speaker 1: almost sapien. What did one hat say to the other
Speaker 1: you stay here, I'll go on ahead. You know, I
Speaker 1: blame Dove's VIDs and Sidro for this because they think
Speaker 1: everybody now can be an amateur comedian. Bass beers. You
Speaker 1: need a Ray Phoenix mask. You and jdtnt in masks.
Speaker 1: Four hours in a mask, Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Even the wrestlers when they go out to the ring,
Speaker 1: they're wrestling for what fifteen minutes, and then they they
Speaker 1: probably take their mask off, like, no, we're not doing that.
Speaker 1: Oz and Glorious Osprey versus TAKESHTA one and two is
Speaker 1: better than Austin versus Brett. Well, I mean, now you've
Speaker 1: just turned into a troll account, so I can't take
Speaker 1: that seriously. Near says hello solo, Near is never too far.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. It's like that Celine
Speaker 1: Dion song, Near Far wherever you are, Oh fucking Titanic Kreflow.
Speaker 1: This year's Mania is the first time without featuring a
Speaker 1: Canadian wrestler in a match, including pre shows. Without pre shows,
Speaker 1: it's the second time since thirty one. I did not
Speaker 1: realize that. Yeah, once Kevin Owens got bounced and Sammy's
Speaker 1: Ain's not on the show, Trish ethought Trish might stick
Speaker 1: around and have a match at media, but she didn't.
Speaker 1: Chelsea Green is not on the card as of this moment,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I can't think of a Canadian wrestler on
Speaker 1: the show. I know Steve. Steve's in the chat, Steve Mellow,
Speaker 1: get your tights ready. We're gonna put you on the
Speaker 1: Wrestle Media card so we can get a Canadian on
Speaker 1: the show. Ozen glorious as a fellow nineteen as a
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two kid, thank you for using Sonic's music.
Speaker 1: Sonic the Hedgehog is the Shit Man. Sonic is one
Speaker 1: of my all time favorite games. Kreflo says the build
Speaker 1: up to Subway media has been better than Wrestle Media
Speaker 1: this year. Oh, I don't doubt it. You're probably right.
Speaker 1: And bass Beers says Junior Soprano watching Curb Your Enthusiasm
Speaker 1: is lol? Is there a video of of Dominic Chianesi
Speaker 1: watching Curb Your Enthusiasm that I haven't seen? Bass Beer
Speaker 1: says you should do Sopranos reviews someday I would watch.
Speaker 1: I'm probably due for a rewatch. Honestly, every few years
Speaker 1: I try to do a rewatch of the entire series.
Speaker 1: The problem is There's there's so many shows now, like
Speaker 1: current shows with new seasons coming out that I have
Speaker 1: to catch up on those first. So there's just there's
Speaker 1: so many I'm back logged on right now, but I'll
Speaker 1: get to that at some point. I rewatched The Shield
Speaker 1: a few years ago, all over again, all seven seasons,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure i'll get to the Sopranos again. Dennis
Speaker 1: Rodman's meet and greet is three hundred and fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: while Tyson's is only around one hundred. How was that
Speaker 1: it Wrestle Khan Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, that's not happening power
Speaker 1: Spying Games. Is Kelly Bundy the dumbest sitcom character ever? No?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there have been dumber ones. What
Speaker 1: was Kirk Cameron's character, his best friend on Growing Pains, Boner?
Speaker 1: Wasn't Boner supposed to be a little dumb? I mean,
Speaker 1: if your name is Boner, I guess it kind of
Speaker 1: makes sense that was his name, though, Boner. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there have been dumber characters. Kelly Bundy, though, was pretty dumb,
Speaker 1: especially when she called the FBI agents you pha be guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: you pha bee guys. I don't know why I still
Speaker 1: remember that. Oh man, all right, this has been fun.
Speaker 1: We had fun tonight, and we actually had a very
Speaker 1: fun episode of Dynamite, which is awesome. Long may it continue,
Speaker 1: although I don't know that I have faith in that.
Speaker 1: But the next time I'm Live with you is gonna
Speaker 1: be Friday night. They're gonna be in Las Vegas for SmackDown.
Speaker 1: We got John Cena back on the show. We'll have
Speaker 1: John Cena, We'll have Cody Rhodes. We'll see, you know,
Speaker 1: Cody laid him out with the Crossroads. Maybe he'll get
Speaker 1: laid out with an attitude adjustment. I don't know. But
Speaker 1: we got one show left before we get to WrestleMania
Speaker 1: this weekend, and I will be live after both nights
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania. So it's gonna be a late night on Saturday,
Speaker 1: late night on Sunday. On Sunday during the day later
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, there will be a podcast in episode
Speaker 1: nine to ten, and so that'll be something to keep
Speaker 1: your eye up for. And then of course we got
Speaker 1: next Monday, and we got TNT and we got Dynamite.
Speaker 1: It never ends. It never ends. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: content on the channel I hope you guys are enjoying
Speaker 1: it all right, Be well, stay safe, hit that leg
Speaker 1: button on your way out. Go check out that WrestleMania
Speaker 1: nine documentary review and leave some comments on that, and
Speaker 1: I will see you this weekend for SmackDown and wrestle
Speaker 1: Mania Weekend. Until then, take care, guys,