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Bradders Grappers: Epi 27 - Coronation II (SCW) · Bradders Grappers

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  I've even made introductions for you both.
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  All right. And Joe, just like last time,
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  this is where the show perks. It's the back end.
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  It falls down. I mean, as soon as I start
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  talking it falls normally. But God, let's go.
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  I've got nothing to do. Welcome to episode 27 of
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  Brothers Grappas where we have a triple threat on this podcast.
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  But as Calvin Harris and Rihanna once said before, this is what
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  you came for. So let's get 2 out of this
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  trifecta out of the way first stop.
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  He made his first appearance a couple of shows ago when
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  reviewing the Mystery weekend back in Cardiff in what was the
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  longest month of the year, January 1 of the free voices on
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  the Dammit Vacant podcast, of which you can find on all audio
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  platforms on YouTube. I did consider also whether to
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  repeat or delete him coming back.
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  Nice plug there for you. Yeah, it's good.
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  I appreciate it. Also on all audio and YouTube he
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  says looking at Joe hopefully. Yeah, it's all sorted mate.
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  Just wanted to double check. Yeah.
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  No, it's good. Welcome to the show, Joe.
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  Hello. Thank you for having me back,
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  I'm impressed you did so quickly as well.
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  I, I I know so quick and our 2nd guest is someone that joined us
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  way way back in the mists of time, which was episode 7, which
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  feels like an eternity ago and was easily the most botchiest
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  discord chat we ever had because I didn't know effectively how to
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  work a recording an audio thing with OBS at the time.
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  He is of course Auk, battle rapper from Premier Battles, a
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  pro wrestling commentator from Sopro, an occasional V Tuber
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  freelance video editor, puppeteer, deceptively young
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  looking. And if you don't believe that,
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  I've taken it straight from his Twitter page.
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  The man, the myth, the legend. Or you can say buff is the stuff
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  and it's definitely him. Welcome gas buff.
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  Hello, thanks for having me back.
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  Many fingers and many pies. It's what it was so long ago
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  considering it was the last show of this company.
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  Yes, which was I believe. It's.
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  Been a good three months or so I believe. 7th 17th of the 10th
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  was the last one. Take the throne.
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  Take the throne too, October. Yes, heels old definitely feels
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  a long, long time since then. As you said, January is the
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  month that just keeps giving, isn't it?
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  It's, I mean all the shows I did in January, it felt all blurring
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  into one. But if you haven't guessed why
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  we're all here or why I'm wearing a sofa rugby top,
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  literally, I have nothing Salford based and this is the
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  process I could find. No bottle of fireball or nothing
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  I. Mean, let's be honest, it's not
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  really in Salford either. If we want to go straight, if we
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  want to go straight there. I mean, it's a it's a source of
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  much contention between Bolton people and Salford people, isn't
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  it really? Where does it start and where
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  does it stop? I like to say it's almost like a
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  slight rhubarb triangle of Yorkshire, but it's Salford City
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  Wrestling in Pendlebury, but it's in Swinton.
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  We'll leave it there. What's the dialling code?
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  That's what you all you need to know in it.
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  I don't know. Where did he pay the council
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  tax? Trafford, Salford.
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  There you go then. That's all you need to know.
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  For legal reasons, yeah. Well, it's it's fun just to wind
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  up like friends from Salford and, say, Manchester.
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  Yeah, it's. Some, some don't care, a couple
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  do and then you very quickly apologise and wait for him to
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  put the knife down. But we are here talking about
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  Salford City Wrestling Coronation to Electric Boogaloo
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  because you have to get that in very quickly.
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  I will say, First off, no coronation for a coronation
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  show. I mean, there was an attempted
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  knighting, which I don't think you could legally.
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  I don't know the the the whole heraldry of things.
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  I guess if you're the king of Salford you can knight anyone
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  you want, but only within that. Within the city limits.
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  Like, yeah, yeah. Like you could drive sheep
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  across the bridge and stuff like that.
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  But once you once you like cross over the underneath into
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  deansgate, it stops being legally valid.
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  Yeah, you're no longer a knight then, you're just a regular guy.
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  Like just carried a sword. No, I think it's just because
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  they're trying to keep their shows to the same names, aren't
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  they? Which I understand a lot of
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  places do because you know what you're getting then.
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  Like if you go to Morecambe overboard, it's always the
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  rumble. It's yeah, it's it's just a way
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  of keeping it thingy because then I'm not sure what the next
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  one is, but I'm sure that's the same name again.
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  Uprising. Uprising.
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  Yeah, it's just good. Yeah, a lot of places do.
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  Oh, I'm. Not moaning I'm I'm literally
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  just stating so I will need a lot of help on the 1st 2:00
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  because I didn't see really anything in these matches but.
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  Like you were sat behind me in my massive head, Yeah.
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  I didn't. Well, that and the ring post,
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  but. Yeah, it was a weird spot to sit
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  in. We couldn't have moved any of
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  those signs and sat anywhere, you know?
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  I did sit on the table from like the third match onwards.
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  Yeah. I I almost felt like the the
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  puppet from like the test card. I just needed someone to be
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  drawing. That was the only thing that was
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  missing anyway. Getting off points match #1 Alex
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  Boylan taking on Connor, Patrick, Riley.
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  Joe, I have you marked down for talking about this first.
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  Yeah, I've seen Alex Boylan loads of places.
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  I've never seen kind of Patrick Riley before, though, and you
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  spoke highly of him and yeah, it was a good way.
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  It's it's it's the one match that you need.
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  It's Alec Boyle and safe pair of hands.
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  Although I have noticed that now he's now called for dad bod rock
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  God as opposed to just the rock God.
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  So, you know, time makes feels of us all.
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  But no, it's it was just it was it was exactly what you want.
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  It's it's a good guy against the bad guy.
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  Even though we don't know who kind of magic Riley is, we
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  automatically assume he's bad because he's going up against a
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  goodie. So and.
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  It was the thing I said to you, I would feel so short changed if
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  we don't get him doing his Andre the giant bear hug.
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  And about 20 seconds after I said that to you, I I had a look
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  of like a kid at Christmas because I don't I don't care
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  about that. Just do that and I am happy,
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  happy as a pig and Chardonnay. What what was your take on this
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  buff? I love Connor Patrick Riley so
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  much. Every time he's on a card in
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  Future Shock, especially here, just anywhere, he is the
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  quintessential heel. I love him.
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  He's just, he's so smug, the gimmicks easily hateable but so
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  effortlessly entertaining. And like half the time you don't
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  hear him finish his sentences because he would just begin and
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  like people would have drowned it in booze.
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  He's so good. The thing as well are when if a
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  kid talks to him, he'll just go shut your mouth and then he'll
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  just kind of go into go back to the match and he will.
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  He almost kind of narrates his own matches, which you don't get
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  many wrestlers really doing. It's normally telling the crowd
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  to be quiet and that's effectively it, but he'll tell
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  you the story while basically just beating you up, which I
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  like in a heel. Like obviously I'd never seen
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  the the Andre bear hug spot before, so it wasn't like he
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  went like a bear hug. He opened with not since Andre
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  the Giant. I was like this could be
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  anything and I can't. This Andre the Giant on the set
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  of The Princess Bride. And he did like a 47 second long
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  far. Yeah, I was like, this is
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  getting weird. And people booed so loud I
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  didn't hear the end of the sentence, so I was like, oh, I'm
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  on the edge of my seat. One of the things I really love
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  at Salford is they will. Was it like it was about a year
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  ago or something? And I think it was Nischke.
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  It was Bigger Picture trying to do a promo and they after 5
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  minutes they just gave up because they couldn't get a word
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  out. There was a constant stream of
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  booing, I think. It was like 3 solid minutes,
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  gave the microphone to to Joe and then Joe Young tried to do
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  it and even he couldn't finish it off and effectively just said
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  was it we're going, was it Manchester's better than Salford
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  and I thought, are you trying to get the crowd?
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  But yeah, the the spot he does of not since Andre the Giant has
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  the bear hug been used so effectively.
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  And then we'll put them in a bear hug, which I mean.
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  It's a good old school move man. I'm all for bringing stuff, I
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  like flippy boys and all this stuff, but I also love just
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  seeing double axe handles off the top rope like.
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  I mean, I love, I've said it. If I love Connor Patrick Riley,
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  he's you shouldn't, but just the things he does, he's great.
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  If they're good at their job, you're allowed to like them,
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  that's the thing. It means they're doing their job
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  properly. Exactly.
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  So I I've got down it was an implant DDT by boiling.
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  Yes, yeah, it was because my brother turned to me and went OK
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  now. All I saw was kind of Connor's
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  face hitting the canvas quite hard.
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  I think it was like a hammerlock DDT or something like he
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  properly. Spiked him.
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  Yeah. Look, this was my brother had
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  never been sat so close. We were sat literally at the
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  corner post. We could see everything like,
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  yeah, it was, it was, it was. I don't like sitting that close
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  personally, because I feel like I'm going to get in the way
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  because I'm a big gangly. But my brother was like, it's
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  way more. What was it?
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  It's it's way more better because he's not great at
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  talking up close because you can see it like you can see like,
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  yeah, you know, it's not. But I still got a word.
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  I still got a sting, can't it? I was.
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  Gnarly wasn't. It it just looked grotty like.
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  You know, like sometimes when you see indie wrestling and
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  you're not familiar with everyone, you don't know what
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  people's finishes are, and then you'll see like a move and
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  you're like, yeah, if he kicks out of that, then my suspension
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  disbelief is broke because I believe that like nothing else.
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  I mean, if it looked like that from where you were, and we're
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  kind of like ringside, we just all looked at one another and
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  went. Yeah, they look great.
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  Like as a finisher I was like, well, he's dead now.
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  He had a good run. So that that was a win for Alex
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  Boylan. Match number 2 was A tag team
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  attraction with the bigger picture in Nishki and Mighty Joe
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  Young, who lesson for trying try to cut a promo ain't happening
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  at Salford. Sorry lads.
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  Was, was this where that kid in the crowd was giving him, giving
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  him some stick, and he jumped out of the ring and the child's
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  soul left his body. Like he literally jumped into
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  the air like a startled cat. And I was like this.
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  And my brother turned to me and he went, This is why I love
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  this, because you can legally terrorise a child and it's fine.
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  And I was like, Yep, other things as well.
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  But it was, it was. But the kid was so like I
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  thought, I just have to go and apologise to him afterwards.
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  The kid just stood back up, started yelling at him again as
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  soon as he turned his back. Possibly.
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  Salford. They took on the Zumba weights
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  of Philip Michael, who is now a babyface, and Jack Baron, who is
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  just loved by everyone there. But you're down for talking
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  about this one. Absolutely.
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  So the bigger picture, first and foremost, I just want to say
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  they are getting really good really quickly.
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  Like I've I've seen Mighty Joe Young be like, you know, the the
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  token fall guy on a shows. He's so good.
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  Like he's like whether he's a good guy or a bad guy, he's just
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  a guy that's fun to watch get beat up, but he's getting really
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  crisp. Like I was very impressed with
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  like how good in the ring. He's starting to look and saying
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  for Nishki as well, like Nishki is really starting get
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  comfortable. But like with Joe, he was doing
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  a lot of like technical transitions and things.
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  I was like, I don't think I've seen this from Joe before.
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  I've usually just seen him getting battered to be honest.
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  So it was good to see him actually on offence for a
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  change. But Yep, Zuba weights of their
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  big tag team return to Salford City first and foremost.
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  Shout out to the crowd as always, because this is what,
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  the 7th or 8th consecutive sell out and everyone is nuclear
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  pretty much. It's a crowd full of like a room
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  of regulars. So everyone knows everyone.
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  People know how to react to things.
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  Everyone's fully invested and people were just so happy to
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  have the Zuba weights there. The kids, they're rowdy, they're
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  rambunctious, but they're they're respectfully well
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  behaved compared to some shows I've seen like they they they
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  participate, but they don't go too far as I've seen in some
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  occasions. But yeah, Zuba weights are
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  absolutely beloved. Philip Michael is does
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  everything you want of the guy that you know, gets momentum and
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  then gets bad, gets momentum then gets bad and then they let
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  Jack in and Jack, I honestly believe Jack could be Salford
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  City's top guy at one point. He is beloved by the crowd and
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  he's just so good, so emotive at everything he does.
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  Properly explosive. And the, the, the combinations
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  like the tag team moves that these guys come up with are just
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  so fun. You know, they're just so
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  inventive and creative with it. I love watching them.
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  Work. There was a lovely little
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  assisted lung blower that he did like off his back.
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  I was like, I've never seen that before.
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  That was beautiful. Yeah, that was.
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  Really good though, but one of the things that the Zumba waits
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  do really best is the Jurassic hand spot.
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  It's. I I'd forgotten they did that
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  and and as soon as they did it, I was like, want to see your T
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  Rex? I was thinking they could do
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  like a kangaroo kick thing and then they did it.
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  I've seen them do this before. I don't know why I forget, but
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  it's it's, it's like I get to discover it for the first time
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  every time because I'm so stupid.
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  And it's a joy. It's so brilliant.
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  OK, it's a really dumb spot, but it's just fun, isn't it?
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  Like it's it's. Fantastic.
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  I think that self petite has a great balance of really going,
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  Hey, do you remember when you enjoyed wrestling?
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  Yeah, it's the, I've said this before, it's the perfect balance
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  of silly nonsense and great wrestling, right?
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  And that's what I love, what I want.
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  And you know, I'll go to a deathmatch show and stuff and
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  that's fine. That's what that is.
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  But this is, this is wrestling for me.
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  This is the family friendly stuff that's got absolute silly,
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  silly bollocks on it. And then also you'll get just
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  absolutely great technical wrestling and Tony Wright's soul
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  leaving his body like. I think you want that.
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  You just want to go to a show and see someone and go, oh,
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  you're being mean, Boo, Boo. That's that's it, though.
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  It's the cathartic release of you can just yell at them, long
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  as you're not rude. Like you can, yeah, you know,
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  like, and it's, it's, it's that outpouring of emotion that you,
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  you can you only get at wrestling because you can't, you
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  can't do it at the ballet, believe me.
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  That kid who started the Ed Sheeran chant for Mighty Joe
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  Young. I hope that kid has a great
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  Christmas. What a genius.
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  People are starting to bring signs and stuff as well.
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  Like they hate Troy Ryan and it's great because he fully
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  leans into the bit. It's yeah, it's just a really
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  good family friendly show, like. It's it's the thing of you've
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  seen it build from like the opening show we did and it's
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  just gotten better and better and better like the crowd,
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  because I think the first few the crowd were too sure kind of
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  like what's going on. You've got to, you've got to
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  find the story. As they've kind of like built
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  like the company more and more, even though it's only been seven
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  shows in, it feels like it's. Is it so, so long now that
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  everyone fully knows, like right there, this, there that?
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  Yeah. You've established characters
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  and storylines. That's what you need to do.
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  We can take quite a while for the new companies.
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  I'm not saying that like it's, it's, it's, you know, Game of
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  Thrones level storytelling. It's good guys, bad guys.
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  But they've done it so well and so clear and concise that when
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  that betrayal happens, whoever does the first big turn, it's
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  going to break hearts like. It's so good, especially with
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  like family friendly crowds a lot of times, like, you know,
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  mums, mums and dads taking their kids to a show, whatever,
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  they've not been there before. But because this is a family
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  friendly crowd and the crowd are super loyal because even the
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  adults are getting a great kick out of our Yeah, good.
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  They prepare. So it's like someone will just
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  step through the curtain and instead of like, they're always,
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  you know, gotta wait for him to tell someone to shut up.
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  So we know to Boo him. Someone will just come through
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  the curtain and it's just Boo immediately because everyone's
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  invested in every show and every subsequent show.
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  And I love that. I love that people are locked in
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  when they go to these shows. Yeah.
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  Really good, really fun. Tag Mat Zuba waits.
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  Pick up the win. Two baby faces back-to-back
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  crowded, loving it. No one, no one, no one's like
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  the hero should win to counterbalance like no great.
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  Sometimes you just need a fun night.
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  I also did enjoy Jack Baron nearly wiping that kid out on
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  his entrance as well. You know what that reminded me
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  of? That kind of meme video of the
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  skateboarder where he nearly wipes out the kid but carries on
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  on his skateboard and then just plunks the child.
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  Back on their own skateboard. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I
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  mean, fair play. He he scooped them up and went
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  back and did it again. But that could have gone very
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  differently. I mean with Jack though the the
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  parents probably blame the child and not Jack.
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  Yeah, post match CPR reappears again, throws his lot on with
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  the bigger picture. They batter down the Super
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  weights and back comes Boyland batter CPR again and they
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  announced that it's going to be a six man tag next show.
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  Can't wait. I think it's the first six man
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  tag they've said. Yeah, I think we've had
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  three-way tag matches I think, but we've ever had a three six
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  man tag. I may be wrong.
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  I'm trying to. It's very weird to think Salford
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  City, as small as it is, actually has a deep enough
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  roster that they could have a Sigs man tag belt.
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  That's crazy. Like they've got they've got the
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  Super weights and boiling, they've got bigger pitcher and
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  CPR, they've got banter. But.
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  They've got banter, buzz, yeah. And.
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  They've got the monarchy, they genuinely could do a six man
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  division. Who would?
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  Have thought they'd have like a better clue of how to do like a
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  trio's belt than. I know, right?
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  Don't, because I feel partly responsible for that.
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  I prayed for that trio's belt for so long.
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  And then and then it immediately happened and I went, oh, God,
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  it's the cursed monkey paw, isn't it?
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  Yeah, yeah. There was 1 moment in that tag
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  match where I thought it was the most needless move I think I've
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  come across and it's probably one that no one remembers.
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  And it was Joe Young running towards I think it was Baron and
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  just did like a needless knee slide across the ring.
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  I'm thinking the ring isn't that big.
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  Did. It look cool.
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  No, I've literally just put in like massive asterisk needless
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  slide young. Please don't.
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  I mean, it's a good, it's a good of me who's playing heel.
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  Because imagine if he was babyface and it sucked.
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  Like, at least being who he is, he's like, yeah, well, you know.
• 22:32
  In hindsight, it probably works because he's kind of like the
• 22:35
  heel, but I just thought why Loved it match #3 was the four
• 22:48
  way match, which I was looking forward to.
• 22:51
  I mean the talent just alone in this match you have Tony Wright,
• 22:58
  Bentley Decker and Big TI mean just that line up alone.
• 23:07
  You know it's going to be an absolute cracker.
• 23:11
  Unsurprisingly, everyone kind of gangs up on T to start off with.
• 23:19
  Big T just being Big T, really. Sink teeth all over.
• 23:24
  Swatting people like flies. My 1 disappointment was that we
• 23:29
  didn't get the pylon and him going out of it because I love
• 23:33
  that that's that's one of my favourites.
• 23:37
  The one thing I've got with team if he lay in the ring, would he
• 23:40
  fit? He could probably use the ropes
• 23:44
  like a hammock between his arms and his feet, Yeah.
• 23:47
  Just say, can you just like bring your knees up to your
• 23:50
  chest while we pin your Ting? Just hook both legs.
• 23:59
  Much bails out to the outside. And then I think you had Big T
• 24:04
  going to throw Tony into the ring post and everything.
• 24:09
  He was going to throw him into the crowd.
• 24:12
  At one point. Yeah, and I was like, oh, he's
• 24:15
  only a baby, don't kill him. But.
• 24:17
  It was all like the little kids look.
• 24:20
  But this was the weird thing. They hate Troy Ryan, but Big T,
• 24:23
  he's all right. Like there was.
• 24:25
  Cheers for Big TI. Think like Big T he just kind of
• 24:29
  cool and he like you're like oh you he's a.
• 24:32
  Giant man, you don't want to get on the wrong side of it.
• 24:34
  It's like you see him. Everywhere.
• 24:35
  Like you see him with Ian Skinner or Troy Ryan or anyone
• 24:38
  else that he's the heavy for, and you're just like, yeah, but
• 24:41
  Big T is just kind of cool. And yeah, Oh yeah, yeah, he's
• 24:46
  like shovel. He's hard to hate, and that's
• 24:48
  part and partly because he's terrifying.
• 24:50
  So when he batters someone, you don't feel like he cheated.
• 24:53
  You're like, yeah, fair enough. I'm.
• 24:54
  Not going to argue because it's that's not, that's not the
• 24:57
  money. It's the thing that catch
• 24:59
  because he's like he's a good guy there.
• 25:02
  And I mean some of the the matches he's had there has been
• 25:07
  like really brutal. And then you see him in Salford
• 25:11
  and it's almost like I'm going to take that, but I'm just going
• 25:14
  to beat the hell out of every single person.
• 25:18
  But again, being that big, you don't have to do a lot.
• 25:22
  You work to I'm the giant. I don't have to do a lot.
• 25:26
  Everyone else has to I. Don't know he puts a shift in.
• 25:31
  Oh, yes, but Even so, he. Yeah, it's a lot of people
• 25:34
  coming at him. Yeah, I get.
• 25:35
  I get what you mean. Yeah, but the I was going to
• 25:40
  say, did you see when T was thrown into the ring post the
• 25:44
  ring, move a good foot. Yeah, it got it got closer to us
• 25:48
  and I was like, don't like this it.
• 25:51
  Was just a fact when all free from threw him into the ring
• 25:54
  post. You could hear voices from like
• 25:56
  the right of us just going you see that ring post move.
• 26:00
  You see that ring move. I mean to be fair, at any point
• 26:05
  two of the corner posts will RIP off the floor on that ring like
• 26:08
  I. Mean it's been they normally
• 26:11
  are. I know, but this was like, you
• 26:13
  could, you could get something. You could.
• 26:15
  I'd be glad that we're saying that.
• 26:16
  Don't put your foot under there because.
• 26:18
  Yeah. But this, this was so much fun.
• 26:24
  Then we ended up with Wright, Bentley and Decker just
• 26:29
  basically having their own little freeway.
• 26:34
  Then it kind of. Just.
• 26:36
  Went into a freeway for a while. Tony Wright hits the claim to be
• 26:45
  went to pin. I think it was Bentley.
• 26:50
  Yes, I mean Decker had hit and hangover before that.
• 26:54
  Or hire the dog, whichever 1 is his side.
• 26:58
  I don't know what the great name for it is actually.
• 26:59
  Like the side slam thing that he does and that didn't.
• 27:05
  That's normally his finisher but he has moved on to like a
• 27:07
  pedigree. But yeah, it's not enough.
• 27:09
  And then, like someone reactivated Big T, someone put
• 27:13
  50P in the slot and the boys back up.
• 27:16
  I will add like the little video clips I've done to like these
• 27:20
  matches. So the slap that Big T does to
• 27:25
  Tony's back? My brother was at the bar and he
• 27:29
  turned around and went. You could hear that in actual
• 27:35
  Salford. Jesus.
• 28:04
  It's it's not that scene from Father Ted.
• 28:07
  Talking about. You'll be hearing the explosions
• 28:12
  kind of like the North Pole. I just imagine like someone just
• 28:17
  heard that noise. It was.
• 28:19
  It was what it was. It was, I think, possibly one of
• 28:21
  the loudest slaps I've ever heard in wrestling, I'm assuming
• 28:27
  because Big T's hand is so massive and Tony Wright's skin
• 28:30
  is so tender and delicious. Moisturised.
• 28:34
  He's so delicious. Tony Wright.
• 28:35
  I'm sorry, he smells terrific. Was it your brother that had
• 28:40
  spoke to him after the the match and said how's your back?
• 28:44
  Anyway, yeah, it's like, you know, when like you've got a
• 28:46
  burn or a scab and your, your T-shirt sticks to it, I have to
• 28:50
  keep like peeling it off my back.
• 28:53
  And I was like, yeah, it looked like it.
• 28:56
  He turned around at the, I think Darren, he brought, he bought
• 28:59
  one of them the gold shirts off him and he went, can I just have
• 29:03
  a look? Anyway, he showed and it's just
• 29:05
  this massive, massive handprint on his back.
• 29:08
  I think like in water world, you could use that to find land.
• 29:11
  Like it's huge. So unfortunately I spent the
• 29:16
  entirety of this match and entrances in the bar queue.
• 29:20
  Shout out of the bar staff every time.
• 29:22
  They are brilliant, they are wonderful.
• 29:24
  They put in an unbelievable shift considering that venue was
• 29:28
  holding 3 events at once. Yes, there was a bingo across
• 29:32
  the way and there was a side room which was as far as I could
• 29:35
  tell having either a disco or a hen do so.
• 29:38
  They are working their asses off to run 3 bar cues.
• 29:42
  Extra people in At one point some other people came in to
• 29:45
  help out, like because some last come on, I just took a go off
• 29:48
  was like, right, what do you want?
• 29:49
  And I was like, OK, yeah, but it's not normally as bad as it
• 29:53
  was that night. But yeah, it was the longest
• 29:56
  I've ever had to queue there. But again.
• 29:58
  But it's not even like you can't see the match.
• 30:00
  Oh no, the venue itself is so nicely set out that you can just
• 30:03
  turn around. It's only like, you know, like
• 30:05
  literally as I was finally getting bored and picking up my
• 30:08
  pint to turn around in my chair, I heard the three count.
• 30:10
  I was like. Oh, OK.
• 30:13
  But yeah, it was just a really good.
• 30:22
  I'll just say that. I did hear what you said, so
• 30:28
  yeah, we're not in stunned silence.
• 30:30
  You cut out. You cut out for a wee bit.
• 30:32
  It was like I was trying to lip breathe, but it's really
• 30:34
  difficult. Strangely enough, it does kind
• 30:37
  of go with what I what I just said.
• 30:39
  Then when they had the wake there.
• 30:43
  Oh. Never wake at the same time as
• 30:45
  the show. No, no, no.
• 30:47
  Before the show, normally that little side room, you can go and
• 30:50
  wait in before they open. So the first time I went, we
• 30:53
  went and had a beer in there. Second time we went in and went,
• 30:55
  I went to the bar and I'm like, hang on, this feels weird.
• 30:58
  Turned around and there was like a buffet and a big picture of
• 31:01
  the Denny and I was like, oh, OK, I'll just go to that, that
• 31:05
  Joey Holtz pub down the down the way then.
• 31:07
  Yeah, yeah. I think you messaged in the
• 31:10
  group saying just to let you know.
• 31:11
  Don't go into that side room. There is a funeral and they
• 31:15
  drank all the Guinness and. We'd literally kind of walked in
• 31:18
  with Jeebus and there was like a dog with his own.
• 31:25
  I'm thinking what the hell is going on?
• 31:28
  But they were making people having to queue in that room to
• 31:32
  get in. And then they very quickly went,
• 31:36
  no, we'll make your queue outside.
• 31:39
  Yeah, that was that was an experience.
• 31:43
  That's something I can put down in a a wrestling storybook in
• 31:49
  years to come. Yeah, Jesus has to do a book.
• 31:52
  Oh, I think I bet I've mentioned this to him in the past because
• 31:57
  I think he's on nearly a 300 odd, 300 odd shows now.
• 32:02
  This year, probably 19 was. Hosted last year, was on like
• 32:06
  300 odd shells so I'm gaining. I'm still about 190 behind him
• 32:13
  but I'm gaining. But yes, ended with big T
• 32:19
  hitting. I'm going to say a boss man
• 32:21
  slam. I know it's not, but I can't
• 32:24
  remember what the name of the moves go, but it's similar.
• 32:29
  Hits on Tony Wright, picks up the victory, and that took us
• 32:35
  into the interval. I'm just going to say as well,
• 32:38
  Perry looks like that's your knee next to you.
• 32:40
  What he's? Got hair around it.
• 32:45
  Just a little, no. I looked down then for a second
• 32:46
  I was like, Oh no, it's that bald man's head.
• 32:50
  Well, no, I think. Was it not before the interval
• 32:52
  we got the? Yes, it was.
• 32:54
  We had the the the knighting ceremony.
• 32:58
  Yeah, King Troy. Big T and a man dressed as goth
• 33:02
  Astarian, yeah. I said it looked like Papa.
• 33:06
  What was it, Papa? MMM.
• 33:09
  Infant Ghost. Emeritus.
• 33:12
  Emeritus. Yeah, he looked incredible.
• 33:15
  I'm going to say. Like that suit must have cost a
• 33:18
  pretty penny. He looked like a goth matador.
• 33:21
  Let's call it what it is. But for what Jensen is, that's
• 33:25
  Oh no. Yeah, it's way better than the
• 33:27
  other stuff like they've, they've still used and I was
• 33:29
  like, he's put effort in. I like that.
• 33:31
  It was a gorgeous outfit it. Was it was fun.
• 33:36
  Did you ever bring back the fashion show?
• 33:38
  You should have him presenting it.
• 33:41
  I I love the monarchy, obviously.
• 33:43
  Do you remember the fashion show?
• 33:45
  Because my grammar used to make me watch it.
• 33:48
  Wow, that's Jeff Banks. Wow.
• 33:52
  Sorry, I do this a lot. Deep cut there.
• 33:56
  No, I'm just there's one. Ever remembers Jeff Banks?
• 34:02
  Yeah. So anyway, it was it was the
• 34:04
  night in ceremony of of Vespa. That was rudely.
• 34:10
  When did Troy get a sword? I've missed like a show or two I
• 34:13
  think. Oh, that was the first time.
• 34:16
  Oh OK, I'm all for it. You tried to hit the chair for
• 34:19
  it, I mean. I remember them trying to hawk
• 34:22
  the chair on Facebook. Yeah, it's like, you know, it'd
• 34:28
  look good in the spare room that yeah, they've got to do the
• 34:32
  night and thing like chance investors giddy as a as a, as a
• 34:36
  school girl, because he's finally getting to be accepted
• 34:39
  by someone. And then someone comes out
• 34:47
  that's someone being Simon Miller and basically calls them
• 34:55
  all all, all the bastards, basically.
• 34:59
  There was a bit. I'm fairly sure Troy Ryan just
• 35:02
  started, just corpsed. Of course he did.
• 35:05
  He was trying his hardest not to and having to speak to Big T and
• 35:09
  even Big T was almost. I can't remember what he said,
• 35:13
  but he just, yeah, you know when you have to just look away and
• 35:16
  not make eye contact? But then the more you think
• 35:19
  about what they just said, the more it makes you laugh, and it
• 35:22
  just becomes a vicious cycle of horribleness.
• 35:25
  It normally happens to me at funerals, ironically, But yeah.
• 35:30
  And he. And then, like, basically, he's
• 35:32
  not getting knighted. And the main event is now going
• 35:35
  to be Troy Ryan against Simon Miller for the crown.
• 35:42
  I was just on the topic of the chair.
• 35:48
  If it's been sold, you think it went to Taskmaster because it
• 35:51
  looks very similar to their chairs.
• 35:54
  No, it's probably gone, honestly, to like a wedding
• 35:58
  dress shop or something like that.
• 36:02
  Or lob. Yeah, yeah, it, it it was kind
• 36:07
  of gauche, wasn't it? But in a fun way.
• 36:10
  Yeah, I'm. I'm ashamed you haven't got it,
• 36:13
  Joe. I would have loved to.
• 36:15
  If I couldn't afford it mate. And also my wife kills me for
• 36:18
  like. I should have put it in the
• 36:19
  raffle. Oh mate, does that me me
• 36:23
  following up a taxi like that? Yeah, a taxi for two and a big
• 36:25
  gold chair, please. I I love the whole segment.
• 36:32
  I love the bit where Troy was like Jensen before me.
• 36:36
  You were weak. You were pathetic and the crowd
• 36:39
  just start chanting. Still pathetic again. 2 for two
• 36:43
  Crowder killing it. I think that's what started try
• 36:47
  off at one point and then he very quickly composed himself
• 36:52
  and then when Miller came out and said whatever he did.
• 36:55
  Wasn't it he like he compared their weights and said he was
• 36:57
  one ounce heavier or something it.
• 37:01
  Was that? And he also just called them,
• 37:03
  like, I want to say something like silly Billy's just
• 37:06
  something really, really. Childish.
• 37:08
  Childish. Yeah.
• 37:11
  It's it's a thing if most people came out with some of the
• 37:14
  things, Miller says. I don't think it.
• 37:17
  Yeah, but Miller's got the conviction behind it.
• 37:20
  Like he he 100% gives in a bit like and it it helps it helps
• 37:28
  the, you know, sell it to you. Like the man loves wrestling.
• 37:33
  You can clearly see that and he loves this kind of wrestling as
• 37:37
  well, like just the silliness of it.
• 37:39
  And so when he comes out and starts talking absolute
• 37:41
  nonsense, you can't help but, you know, because.
• 37:46
  He had a go at Vespa Ryan and then he looked at Big T and says
• 37:52
  I know I'm not having a go with you.
• 37:54
  I have no quarrel with you, Sir. You're damn right you're not.
• 38:01
  So that was a good segment there.
• 38:05
  We went for the interval and then we came back and they
• 38:08
  announced a women's title for Salford City Wrestling with a
• 38:14
  grand presenting. If you know, I think that might
• 38:18
  have been the coronation in truth.
• 38:21
  Makes sense. Yeah, I was a bit confused by
• 38:24
  this. So mittens and have this
• 38:28
  gorgeous belt. Lovely looking belt.
• 38:32
  Fair play to. Salford City Wrestling for this
• 38:35
  title belt. It's absolutely lovely.
• 38:38
  It is gorgeous. I think I I'm.
• 38:40
  On the same level of confusion as Joe, though, because if
• 38:43
  there's a women's champion, what's the Queen of Salford?
• 38:48
  Yeah, well, not all that. Wasn't that as?
• 38:50
  Well, but also my point was I thought that these two matches
• 38:53
  that were coming up were going to be like quarterfinals.
• 38:56
  And then but after they'd had these two matches, they meant,
• 38:59
  and all four of those women will be in the contest for the belt.
• 39:03
  And I'm like, yeah, because they were talking about like Lily.
• 39:05
  And Natalie and they were specifically like, could these
• 39:07
  two women be the next champion of like, well, they both lost,
• 39:10
  so probably not. It's a qualifier.
• 39:14
  It was just a. Minor bit of confusion, but I
• 39:16
  did also. Love the fact that they opened
• 39:17
  the curtains and there was just a belt there.
• 39:19
  And one of the great things about Salt is that no one
• 39:20
  understands how those curtains work or where they are at any
• 39:23
  given point. I'm going to come back to that
• 39:25
  in a in a week. OK, The one that made me laugh.
• 39:30
  On the title belt, because they'd pulled the curtains to
• 39:34
  one side and they had this massive like stage so you can
• 39:38
  see. Grimshaw who?
• 39:45
  Had gone as far across as he could to not like be exposed so
• 39:52
  to so to say. But he couldn't just randomly
• 39:56
  like walk across while they were discussing this belt.
• 40:00
  So it's just him looking like a naughty child, but in the garner
• 40:04
  and. Staring into.
• 40:06
  The wood and just stood there the entire time I'll say look at
• 40:10
  this glorious belt ladies and gentlemen look how glorious it
• 40:15
  is look how regal and everything you should have done the the.
• 40:19
  Woman on the game show thing. Yeah, glamorous.
• 40:23
  Assistant. Yeah, that's the one.
• 40:25
  Like Jerry Halliwell. In that Turkish game show she
• 40:27
  was on, but you can just see Steve just stopped that.
• 40:30
  Just thinking, hurry this on, I need to go over there now.
• 40:33
  We're just doing it to wind him up, RIP him a bit, possibly.
• 40:38
  As well. Was was funny though?
• 40:42
  Then as she said, they announced Lily Winter and Natalie Sykes
• 40:49
  for coming out. And then you have Natalie Sykes
• 40:52
  cutting a promo hyping up Lily Winter saying she's your queen.
• 40:58
  She's this. Technically she isn't the queen
• 41:01
  because Alfie is. Long story, kind of Sykes Costa
• 41:08
  Lily cuts her off anyway, does a really good promo job, has to be
• 41:14
  said. Cuts off Sykes saying you're to
• 41:17
  blame. I didn't win last October.
• 41:20
  Every time you ever try miserably.
• 41:26
  Really kind of like brutal cut downs to Sykes, which I think
• 41:33
  will help moving forward. And then effectively says to
• 41:40
  Sykes, right, you stand out there and watch how a real
• 41:43
  champion does things. So.
• 41:47
  We then went into our. Next match which was Lily Winter
• 41:52
  taking on Leo Raven. Yes, I thought was a.
• 41:58
  Really good match. I've seen this match a few times
• 42:03
  at Future Shock. Never saw a bad match between
• 42:09
  these two when they face each other and that record still
• 42:13
  stands today. A lot kind.
• 42:17
  Of happened in this Lily holds the advantage for kind of what
• 42:22
  the majority of the contest. Raven always kind of having mini
• 42:28
  purple patches, fights back but then we'll get cut off hits A9
• 42:36
  did. From my vantage point at least.
• 42:39
  Which was sat on a table looking kind of like Humpty Dumpty.
• 42:46
  But then we kind of have Raven growing into the contest.
• 42:51
  Leo gets onto the top rope or starts to at least.
• 42:57
  Sykes then. Runs grabs.
• 42:59
  Her leg Rifste gives it the big get out winter is.
• 43:06
  Not happy. That Sykes has been thrown out
• 43:10
  and during this disagreement and would not be the first time and
• 43:16
  will not be the last leads to Raven hitting the Rebellion DDT
• 43:23
  for the win and has Winter and Sykes having another
• 43:30
  disagreement straight after. Anyone like to?
• 43:36
  Chime in on this match. Again, I was at the.
• 43:40
  Bar at this point. I missed a lot of this match,
• 43:45
  but I remember. Talking to some.
• 43:47
  Some random guy at the at the at the at the bar.
• 43:50
  I'm just saying Lily Winter is if like you personified.
• 43:55
  Shouting. Like if you just made shouting.
• 43:59
  Into a person. That's her because she was just
• 44:02
  yelling at kids constantly and I get it, it's great.
• 44:05
  I love it, but it just. Yeah, I've.
• 44:11
  Grown a quite lovely a Raven. From a different from from
• 44:15
  Morecambe, where she she was the champion there for a very long
• 44:18
  period of time and didn't really wrestle a lot because she was
• 44:20
  injured and not and not too well to the last match she had there
• 44:24
  where she put a shift in. And it was one of the best
• 44:27
  matches I've seen there. And it's such a long time.
• 44:29
  And then the bits I saw of this when I was between the columns.
• 44:34
  So you can see this look cracking.
• 44:37
  Lily Winter is phenomenal. Like.
• 44:42
  And the two of them together. Yeah.
• 44:44
  And this is all set up. Who's going to turn first, isn't
• 44:47
  it? I'm hoping it's helping me get
• 44:50
  space Lily. You know, I, I.
• 44:55
  Because I've seen Sykes playing the.
• 44:59
  Kind of the the babyface, but I have seen Lily do that role as
• 45:06
  well. So I won't be against Eva if
• 45:10
  they change. But she's kind of Facey at
• 45:12
  catch, isn't she? Yeah, yeah.
• 45:14
  Oh yes, she's. Very, very much Facey.
• 45:18
  Yeah. But it's that.
• 45:19
  It's that. Lana Austin thing of like, I
• 45:21
  can't take Lana Austin serious as a face anywhere.
• 45:24
  Just I'm so ingrained of seeing her.
• 45:27
  I don't think she is anywhere. I think she's.
• 45:30
  Just Morecambe. She's, she's.
• 45:31
  Oh, she's. Over as hell in Morecambe.
• 45:33
  Yeah, that's Morecambe, though. That's.
• 45:36
  A whole different. That's what I mean Biodome,
• 45:39
  isn't it? Yeah, Biosphere, sorry.
• 45:40
  Yeah, kind of like climate. Yeah, it really is.
• 45:46
  But yeah, no, this, this is one of the ones I need to go back
• 45:49
  and re watch when they put the the video up for it, just
• 45:52
  because the bits of it I saw look tremendous and I just was
• 45:56
  trying to move along and not get in the way and stuff.
• 46:00
  So yeah, but but yeah, I don't know who they're going to give
• 46:06
  it to, to be honest. If if these are the four,
• 46:08
  there's loads of women who've come to Salford.
• 46:13
  It's rare you can actually say that about a few promotions
• 46:19
  where again it's almost like we said about the having a six man
• 46:23
  belt. The amount of women we've seen
• 46:26
  come through Salford. It's you have a vast.
• 46:34
  Who you can bring in? Yeah, well, it's always like a
• 46:36
  good split. Of the roster as well, like it's
• 46:38
  usually like 40% of batches I've seen them have the women main
• 46:42
  event the show before like it's a deep roster and they're right
• 46:46
  every bit as over as the blokes like you say, like Leah and Leah
• 46:52
  you you know they've wrestled a lot before.
• 46:54
  There's like a lot of chemistry where they've just they know
• 46:57
  their spots and they're very comfortable just going into it
• 46:59
  and having a a great match. I love the storyline between
• 47:03
  Lily and Natalie. It's so simple, but heel, heel
• 47:06
  is so hard to do sometimes where you're still invested in either
• 47:10
  of them and there's so many different ways they could turn
• 47:12
  it depending on who turns on who.
• 47:15
  And they don't even need to turn them face when they do it like
• 47:18
  Natalie turning on Leah and going on to be like a worse
• 47:21
  person and oh like. A bigger heel.
• 47:25
  A worse Natalie Sykes like I'm. Here for it, I'm 100% on board.
• 47:31
  Make it happen. You have the power.
• 47:35
  No, but yeah, I never thought of that because I was like.
• 47:37
  It's normally someone's got and I'm like, I could I could put up
• 47:40
  with a like a face Natalie, like, oh, she's hurt my feelings
• 47:43
  and big bottom lip and that, but then also just wreaked out every
• 47:49
  match she just comes in and just kicks her in the head.
• 47:51
  Yeah, yeah. It's good wrestling, isn't it?
• 47:54
  Just. Just a bit so.
• 48:01
  We then have. As I say, Winter and Sykes
• 48:04
  arguing the all the crop, the crowd basically, especially the
• 48:09
  kids are just going fine, fine, fine, fine, switch.
• 48:13
  Jay Burnley just goes no, no, no, these two can't fight
• 48:17
  because Sykes you're you're in a match right now you're taking on
• 48:22
  Saxa. So I, I'll mention the intro and
• 48:29
  then I'll let you take over both go for it.
• 48:32
  But it's I. Have clipped and I've.
• 48:34
  Watched it so many times and I've laughed so.
• 48:39
  Saxa kind of like. High fiving the kids, getting
• 48:41
  everyone on their side, goes up to Lily Winter to kind of high
• 48:46
  fibre is blanked. Completely.
• 48:50
  By Lily. And kind of gives this little
• 48:53
  shrug and OK, and just walks off.
• 48:58
  It's it. It's just, it's nothing.
• 49:02
  But it's her. Facials and kind of like her
• 49:05
  demeanour over it, it just makes it so much.
• 49:10
  It's just so funny. I've lost track of how.
• 49:13
  Many times I've watched. It I live a sad life, I can't
• 49:16
  help it. No, no, it's fine when stuff
• 49:19
  gets you. Like that with stuff that's the
• 49:20
  little the little subtleties. Yeah.
• 49:23
  Yeah, To be fair, she. She did like repost it, that's
• 49:27
  it. And quite a few of them have
• 49:29
  laughed stupid it. It's like one of those little
• 49:35
  kind of off the cuff things, but then it's just had its own
• 49:39
  little life, so to speak. But they're the moments that you
• 49:42
  you come away from. After a match and it's just like
• 49:45
  there's so many personality, like I'm like I remember reptler
• 49:49
  soft pro, like, you know, what's the what's the vibe of the show?
• 49:51
  I'm like, are you allowed to announce me as the girthy rhino
• 49:55
  when absolutely Jack. I will hopefully like I will do
• 50:00
  that with the biggest smile. I never said it was.
• 50:04
  Family friendly you're. In you're in good hands.
• 50:06
  Don't you worry. But little things like that,
• 50:10
  like like. I remember the I went like Brady
• 50:18
  Phillips, Sam Gradwell. When Sam was like, well, if I
• 50:21
  hate him that much, I'm just going to jump him in the ramp.
• 50:23
  And I was like, do you want me to just announce you really
• 50:25
  quickly while you're battering him?
• 50:27
  And he was like, that's brilliant.
• 50:29
  Do it. Like, yeah, little moments like
• 50:31
  that that are just memorable and clippable.
• 50:32
  They make these shows. They're so good, Yeah.
• 50:36
  So obviously Saxa comes out and Natalie's in the ring.
• 50:39
  She's proper panicking because she's not got her own entrance.
• 50:42
  She's not had any warm ups. I felt that was a bit mean to be
• 50:46
  honest. I I thought it worked really
• 50:48
  nicely. Oh.
• 50:48
  No, it's crazy. Yeah.
• 50:50
  It's like putting a heel in a position where they're like a
• 50:53
  fish out of water and and better.
• 50:55
  Natalie is fantastic in Salford City.
• 50:57
  She's so good at getting herself over, but in a really kind of
• 51:00
  pitiable way. The the a bunch of people in my
• 51:04
  section, there was this group of Irish slasses behind me.
• 51:07
  And we, you know, we would just like, just do your best,
• 51:10
  Natalie. That's all we can ask.
• 51:13
  Like I hope you all have fun. But.
• 51:16
  Obviously the. Great.
• 51:17
  Match Sax has got great energy as the enemy has all the support
• 51:21
  of the fans. Natalie is doing a bit where
• 51:23
  she's trying to get into it and you can tell she's on the back
• 51:26
  foot and she's got to be AS conniving as she is.
• 51:29
  Get fantastic match between 2 brilliant athletes and the story
• 51:33
  of the match is that you know Sax is looking for the 619.
• 51:37
  It's a very easily telegraphed and avoidable move and the fact
• 51:42
  they made it the storyline of man, this move is wildly
• 51:45
  impractical. How is she actually going to hit
• 51:48
  it? And it leads into.
• 51:51
  The point where? The whole time Lily Winter is at
• 51:55
  the side and she's not doing anything, she's just kind of
• 51:59
  like sternly watching Loki hoping Natalie fails.
• 52:03
  And eventually she does interfere with it and the two
• 52:07
  get into handbags. Like Natalie's leaning through
• 52:10
  the middle ropes to argue with Lily and then gets hit with I've
• 52:14
  never been caught off guard by a 619 before.
• 52:19
  Absolutely. Brilliant.
• 52:20
  Like the way? They led into the finish.
• 52:22
  Fantastic. Saxa hits the 619123 and Lily's
• 52:27
  just like eyes. It's not nice.
• 52:29
  Is it brilliant? Absolutely brilliant.
• 52:36
  I'm going to. Counterpoint that by saying I
• 52:38
  hate the 619 because it's so easily choreographed and so
• 52:43
  stupid, and normally I would love stupid stuff but I just
• 52:46
  really hate that move. But in this instance because she
• 52:50
  went for it like two or three times beforehand.
• 52:52
  Exactly, and it came out of sort.
• 52:54
  Of nowhere and we all. Saw it, but she didn't.
• 52:56
  And that's the fun spot of it. It was fine.
• 53:00
  And it was, it was the yeah, it's not losing is not fun, is
• 53:03
  it? And I'm like, oh, oh, if they
• 53:06
  get paired up in this tournament like that's going to.
• 53:10
  Be oh. Them two last two, it's the
• 53:13
  brackets. We don't know anything, do we?
• 53:14
  Did they even say it was a tournament?
• 53:16
  Like I don't think I expected it to be like a four way or
• 53:20
  something the way they were building it.
• 53:21
  So I don't know. No, I'm a big, big, big.
• 53:23
  Tournaments buyer, I watch a lot of AW, but no, yeah, I mean, I
• 53:29
  mean, they could just get people in for, well, match in it.
• 53:32
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is who we have.
• 53:34
  Here, but we want to bring in more female talent ahead of what
• 53:39
  they're going to do with the title.
• 53:41
  So I imagine we'll see kind of like more female Alfie.
• 53:46
  Alfie's still knocking about as. Well, isn't she?
• 53:48
  So you got Alfie? Harley Harris.
• 53:51
  Yes, Saxa, Lily, Winter, Leah, Raven.
• 53:57
  Raven. Sykes.
• 53:59
  Sykes, get a couple of ringers. In as well.
• 54:03
  That's. Yeah, people you can bring.
• 54:05
  In like your Holly Barlows, your Melissa Fierces or other people
• 54:08
  that Oh yeah, yes. That'd be that'd be fun.
• 54:14
  Make it a thing. Make it a.
• 54:16
  Tournament for that belt that that'd be a good.
• 54:19
  Idea because it's it's a belt worth winning.
• 54:21
  It's a lovely. Lovely belt, yeah?
• 54:24
  So lovely. I want a golfer.
• 54:25
  That's. That's how much I like it.
• 54:30
  And and then we had the raffle I.
• 54:32
  Just want to mention the raffle very quickly because something
• 54:35
  actually no I should have mentioned.
• 54:36
  This during intermission. A weird thing happened to me
• 54:39
  personally at this show. So we, we'd convinced a friend
• 54:43
  to come along. We'd convinced them at a party
• 54:45
  where we were all very drunk. And we get there at the front
• 54:48
  and you know, we're giving our names and they go, oh, so you
• 54:52
  guys have got 9 tickets. And I was like, what?
• 54:54
  There's, there's three of us and I'm, I'm sitting there thinking,
• 54:59
  have I drunkenly ordered us all tickets more than once?
• 55:05
  Because like my missus has bought, I bought the tickets,
• 55:08
  but they're like, yeah, but you've got 6 in your name.
• 55:10
  Just so happens there's another person at the show that had my
• 55:14
  name and had bought 6 tickets and not turned up.
• 55:18
  So I was just like, and like, he bought a photo with Simon
• 55:22
  Miller. So they're like, is James
• 55:24
  Williamson in the building? I'm like, yo, technically yes,
• 55:27
  but I didn't want to go up to. Him, but like Simon.
• 55:31
  Be like, did you buy a photo Gast?
• 55:33
  I'm like no, no smile. Someone else did and.
• 55:36
  I'm reaping the benefits, but I just thought that.
• 55:39
  Was really strange. That's weird.
• 55:41
  That's that's one of those weird.
• 55:42
  Moments. Yeah, like did I did?
• 55:45
  I did. I buy us three seats each.
• 55:48
  I'm literally like. Checking my bank account during
• 55:50
  the intermissions and if there's like but no like, just just the
• 55:54
  doppelganger as it's as it turns out, that's lovely.
• 55:59
  What are the chances? The the curtain incident, as we
• 56:06
  were talking about earlier, poor Saxa.
• 56:12
  But then it happens to a lot on these shows.
• 56:15
  I feel there's nothing to say where the curtain opens.
• 56:21
  Put a bit of tape on it and. Yeah, I think that's we said.
• 56:24
  That and Saxa kind of went through one way of the curtain.
• 56:29
  It goes very more common wise, yeah.
• 56:31
  And I mean. She did not want to draw
• 56:35
  attention until Tay Burnley's in the ring kind of providing
• 56:40
  commentary, saying go on Saxa, keep going that way, keep going
• 56:43
  that way. Keep going that way.
• 56:45
  Our section was chanting like right, right, right.
• 56:49
  I mean. Salford City Wrestling, where no
• 56:52
  one knows where the gap in the curtains is, usually gave up on
• 56:55
  it. It's just like I know where the
• 56:56
  door is. I'm trying to think who it was.
• 57:02
  Oh, that. Was Tom, after we'd done the
• 57:05
  raffle, he tried to go through the curtain and couldn't even
• 57:09
  off stop this and he just went off the stage and I think past
• 57:13
  you but. From just went kind.
• 57:14
  Of like round the music about I'm just going here.
• 57:17
  Oh, until, well, he didn't. Not until, well, he probably.
• 57:19
  Didn't even go backstage. He probably has wept to the box
• 57:21
  straight from there. I didn't.
• 57:23
  I think Vespa just. Crawled under it as well as he
• 57:26
  crawled up the stage as well, because that's the easiest
• 57:29
  option is just rolls underneath it just.
• 57:33
  Just put a bit of high vis tape. Either side.
• 57:36
  That's all I'm asking. I don't.
• 57:38
  I love it. It's almost like.
• 57:40
  Jocks watch on like. OSW but it's like curtain watch
• 57:43
  of like how many times can it should be like a taskmaster
• 57:48
  thing until you pointed it out to me I've.
• 57:50
  Never noticed how many times does it take you.
• 57:53
  To get through the curtain. Yeah, until you pointed it.
• 57:57
  Out. I never really paid attention,
• 57:59
  but now it's like Nicole Kidman's forehead.
• 58:00
  I can't stop staring at it. Next show I'm going to time it
• 58:03
  and I'll have. Stats to bring to the next
• 58:05
  recap. The best one I've seen was Naj
• 58:09
  at Off the Page and it must have been that he was a bit drunk
• 58:13
  though. Wasn't he?
• 58:15
  Well, allegedly it. Must have been about 1520
• 58:19
  seconds and he could not navigate this curtain.
• 58:23
  It's a lot smaller that curtain there.
• 58:24
  As well, everyone is just watching.
• 58:28
  And thinking. Come on, AJ, get.
• 58:29
  Through. And he kind of looked around
• 58:33
  sheepishly. As if someone's spoken to him so
• 58:37
  he's almost like he's having a break before and.
• 58:42
  Then he goes. Again.
• 58:43
  And he still can't find the gap. I think some I remember a hand
• 58:47
  coming out and just like pulling the curtain to one side.
• 58:53
  What is it curtains and? Restless.
• 58:56
  It's like the biggest kind of like arch enemy they have first
• 59:02
  time literally the. First thing I ever did on a
• 59:04
  wrestling show was get get poison misted.
• 59:09
  So I, I come out. Wait what?
• 59:12
  A what a weigh in I. I I've got mist in my eyes.
• 59:14
  And I'm staggering and I have like and I've like full of
• 59:18
  thrown the curtain aside as I'm going backstage.
• 59:21
  And so I just hear someone going close the curtain.
• 59:23
  I just turn and like I've got mist dripping from my face and
• 59:27
  they're like, I get it. Fair enough.
• 59:29
  Just. An excuse.
• 59:33
  Yeah, so. They're a mortal enemy of
• 59:36
  people, especially when you're learning.
• 59:39
  I might do that at like. Future shows now just time, time
• 59:43
  the curtain just. Going back through it not
• 59:46
  coming. Out there you go.
• 59:48
  That could be a little stats you can.
• 59:49
  Have little bits in the corner, cut and call champion, yeah?
• 59:53
  Of the. Year and then whoever took
• 59:55
  longest and shortest to get through curtains throughout the
• 59:58
  year. This is the thing we should do,
• 59:59
  it have a game which takes longer.
• 1:00:02
  A wrestler going through the curtain or a Scott Oberman's
• 1:00:05
  entrance, that's. That's what you.
• 1:00:14
  Mean and to be fair. You will never be. 7 minutes at
• 1:00:17
  catch. I went for two wheeze in that
• 1:00:22
  time, yeah. It was the fact that Troy Ryan.
• 1:00:25
  Ended up doing. I think about.
• 1:00:31
  Oh, what did he do now? He did about. 12 press UPS.
• 1:00:35
  Oh no, sorry. 20 press UPS sat in the crowd.
• 1:00:40
  Got back in the ring, did star jumps.
• 1:00:42
  Went to the other side, chatted to someone else, asked is he
• 1:00:46
  coming out yet? Then you had.
• 1:00:49
  Greenwood. And Mark Adams sat on the two
• 1:00:53
  kind of like turnbuckles. And the editor just went, I'm
• 1:00:56
  putting the camera down. So he put his camera down, just
• 1:00:59
  sat on like the ringgade for him.
• 1:01:02
  The other photographer did the same.
• 1:01:05
  And then we got to the end of the song and he started to play
• 1:01:09
  it back again. Oberman.
• 1:01:12
  Came. Out tapping his.
• 1:01:14
  Wrist, as if to say. What?
• 1:01:17
  Happened. What happened?
• 1:01:20
  Does his whole. Entrance gets in the ring.
• 1:01:23
  And one I won't use the actual words that were was used, but
• 1:01:32
  Olbermann kind of stirred as he is heroic poem.
• 1:01:39
  And a fan. From down below chance are you?
• 1:01:44
  Taking actually no well. Are you taking the fucking piss,
• 1:01:48
  Olbermann? Yeah, it's.
• 1:01:51
  What he does mate? Looked.
• 1:01:52
  At him and then try just decided to like.
• 1:01:54
  Beat him up for the next two minutes, throwing him into a
• 1:01:57
  wall. Couple of walls it was.
• 1:02:03
  You had to be. This was atomic.
• 1:02:04
  Then I'm guessing no. It was catch.
• 1:02:08
  Oh. OK, but yeah, no Oberman.
• 1:02:12
  The worst crime Oberman does is make listen to Metallica songs
• 1:02:15
  like you're not a fan. Not.
• 1:02:20
  That early Metallica stuff. Yeah, black albums a bit.
• 1:02:26
  Not it'll be a snob. Where are we?
• 1:02:31
  James Hatfield. Stein event, yeah.
• 1:02:33
  Yeah, yeah. Main Event Joe Troy Ryan.
• 1:02:39
  Against. Simon Miller A battle for
• 1:02:42
  Salford's soul. Yeah, I want to.
• 1:02:51
  Say Troy Ryan like. Unlucky that.
• 1:02:54
  Anderson Daniels is is. Is gone now like he's he's he's
• 1:02:58
  you know, he's decided to give it all in fair play made the
• 1:03:02
  decision Troy Ryan's running with it.
• 1:03:05
  He looks tremendous, like he looks, he looks genuinely scary
• 1:03:09
  to me, like in the first time I saw him, but he was like a big
• 1:03:13
  lad, but he looked he looks caught and he looks like he
• 1:03:16
  would cut me in an alleyway for like my, my, my McDonald's take
• 1:03:20
  away. All right.
• 1:03:23
  And Simon Miller is such a lovely man.
• 1:03:26
  All those I've seen. All the photographs.
• 1:03:27
  That they did on like, I've not seen all of it.
• 1:03:31
  I've seen a couple. No, I mean, I really go through
• 1:03:33
  them all. I'm not a.
• 1:03:34
  Weirdo, but like it was just no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:03:38
  It was just like he spent time and chatted with all them kids
• 1:03:41
  and that and it's it's that that's that thing that I love
• 1:03:45
  about this is that you get that moment with someone that you see
• 1:03:49
  on TV or you see on YouTube or whatever, and them kids are
• 1:03:53
  going to be chatting about that for ages now.
• 1:03:55
  If that's what I love about this, but this match?
• 1:04:00
  Again, I'm going to put it. Up there, I've not been.
• 1:04:02
  It's awful for a while. This is one of the best matches
• 1:04:04
  I've seen there in a while. Simon Miller just gets it.
• 1:04:08
  He gets like. The tempo of matches.
• 1:04:13
  Fighting out from underneath Troy Ryan, like at one point
• 1:04:18
  becoming really, really unsure about whether he could win this.
• 1:04:23
  It's it's great. It's like, yeah, that's why I
• 1:04:29
  love wrestling. Man like.
• 1:04:30
  Stuff like this. I can't.
• 1:04:32
  I'm not very good at articulating.
• 1:04:33
  I don't make notes. I just watch stuff and then
• 1:04:34
  immediately forget it. He's just a superhero, Simon.
• 1:04:38
  And he like he he sits down at his office job, he makes YouTube
• 1:04:41
  videos. They just there's like a Yakuza
• 1:04:43
  shirt RIP. And he's just a brick shit House
• 1:04:45
  of a man that is every bit as good at the thing he critiques.
• 1:04:50
  It's so good. Yes, yeah, that's the thing.
• 1:04:54
  Is that, but I was upset. My brother, he's like my
• 1:04:56
  brother's like who's that? It's a guy who does YouTube
• 1:04:58
  videos about like, criticise, not criticise wrestling, but
• 1:05:00
  like reviewing wrestling. And he's overwhelmingly positive
• 1:05:03
  about it because we need more of that in the wrestling community.
• 1:05:07
  Like, it's easy to be negative about things, but it's a lot
• 1:05:13
  more difficult to be positive about the good things that are
• 1:05:15
  there. And Simon Miller does that and
• 1:05:18
  he's just like a little ray of sunshine, isn't he?
• 1:05:19
  Like 100%? It's just like 100.
• 1:05:22
  A. 100 mile an hour hug coming out here like like if they.
• 1:05:27
  Did a care there in. The form of a.
• 1:05:28
  Wrestling. Yes, he would, Yeah.
• 1:05:31
  Oh, make. That happen to someone but yeah
• 1:05:33
  no and and just watching him again Troy Ryan trying to be
• 1:05:37
  like and it's it's it's. Just yeah, I'm.
• 1:05:43
  Glad he showed up. I'm glad that we got this
• 1:05:47
  because he's. Miller, who announced that he
• 1:05:52
  announced his weight and then said he's was it 1 oz one ounce
• 1:05:56
  and Drew. A massive cheer.
• 1:06:02
  That's that's how you know you've.
• 1:06:04
  Got the crowd on your side. Plus, they said he was billed
• 1:06:09
  from Salford. Right now I'll I'll suspend a.
• 1:06:15
  Lot of disbelief in wrestling. Strangely enough, you know the.
• 1:06:22
  The ladder were to the right. Of us, the lads that were sat on
• 1:06:26
  that table. Yeah, wouldn't actually use the
• 1:06:28
  term. When they said from Salford, he
• 1:06:32
  went, I'll disbelief some things, but have you have you
• 1:06:37
  heard his accent? He's not from here like.
• 1:06:43
  A good couple of minutes would not let this go.
• 1:06:45
  Saying he's not from Salford. We know that it's a bit.
• 1:06:52
  Are you aware of wrestling as a? It's like the fact you.
• 1:06:56
  Say, currently residing in as in has a Travelodge in Yeah,
• 1:07:01
  technically you know the. Undertaker wasn't from Death
• 1:07:03
  Valley, Nevada. Like don't ruin the illusions
• 1:07:08
  still. Didn't even surf.
• 1:07:10
  Yeah, because the thing was. Earlier in the night.
• 1:07:17
  When Miller was saying Salford, he did once or twice.
• 1:07:20
  He said Salford. Salford.
• 1:07:22
  And then? Boo.
• 1:07:24
  Which is an Americanism. If nothing else, he he sounded
• 1:07:28
  like Jimmy. Carr saying Salford, you just
• 1:07:30
  need Jason Manfred. He only comes up here when he
• 1:07:33
  wants money. Off the plebs to pay for.
• 1:07:37
  A new face, I thought. You meant and not pay his tax,
• 1:07:44
  but yeah. Great, great main event.
• 1:07:49
  This was really a tremendous main event.
• 1:07:50
  I get my. Brother was.
• 1:07:52
  Through this because I don't know whether they had a lot of
• 1:07:55
  time to like sort out stuff. So my brother was Privy to a lot
• 1:07:58
  of the holding in the corner calls, like they do.
• 1:08:02
  And he was like, it's like a secret language.
• 1:08:04
  I was like, well, yeah, they're obviously not going to be like,
• 1:08:06
  OK, I'm going to play with the corner.
• 1:08:07
  Then you throw me back and then it's all shorthand.
• 1:08:10
  Like he's like, no, it's fascinating.
• 1:08:13
  I was like, yeah, we're both too old to take a wrestling because
• 1:08:18
  did you see? It when?
• 1:08:20
  After Big T had slapped Troy Ryan's chest, Miller grabbing
• 1:08:25
  like Ryan and putting his arms behind him, going up to kids
• 1:08:27
  saying hit him, hit him, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:30
  And there was a. There was a.
• 1:08:31
  Moment of resentment. And then as soon as one kid did
• 1:08:33
  it, there was a line of children.
• 1:08:35
  He he went up to 1. Child, and he was nearly.
• 1:08:40
  In tears. At the thought of he could hit
• 1:08:43
  someone, he was like no, no, I don't want to do it.
• 1:08:45
  No, I don't want to do it right. Mum, Mum, dad, dad, I don't want
• 1:08:47
  to hit him. You don't have to move out the
• 1:08:49
  way. Remember that happening at a
• 1:08:51
  show in Liverpool and my mate, I think it was Thatcher Wright who
• 1:08:54
  got his arms spinned and my mate Jay just went I'll fucking hit
• 1:08:57
  him and steamed across. Is it?
• 1:09:05
  The thing you've gone? From that kid to the next one.
• 1:09:08
  And I'm sure he properly thumped Ryan.
• 1:09:11
  Oh no, no, he did. But it's kind of.
• 1:09:13
  Kind of kids wrists, yeah, but it's still a really good thing
• 1:09:17
  to do, like, because them kids are like going to be like, oh
• 1:09:19
  man, you know who I beat up at the weekend?
• 1:09:23
  King of Salford, mate. What's?
• 1:09:25
  The thing of. He took that really solid shot
• 1:09:29
  and then Ryan kind of dropped and you could see Miller's face
• 1:09:32
  almost laughing. And as he picks him up, you
• 1:09:35
  could almost it's almost like he's said to to try just going,
• 1:09:40
  are you OK? And you could just see Ranger.
• 1:09:45
  He kind of like put. His hand on his.
• 1:09:47
  Chest he's selling for the kid mate, that's what it's all.
• 1:09:49
  About. So it's all.
• 1:09:52
  Funny, it's so, but again. This is this is, this is this is
• 1:09:57
  amateur, and amateur actually like independent wrestling.
• 1:09:59
  These are the things that I'll go and travel around the
• 1:10:02
  country, go and watch because it's beautiful.
• 1:10:04
  It's so much fun. The fact that this is on my
• 1:10:06
  doorstep is even. Better.
• 1:10:08
  This is what I prefer. Kind of like independent.
• 1:10:11
  Wrestling to like top ones because it's I like fireworks.
• 1:10:14
  I'm a simple boy. Oh, I'm just trying to read my
• 1:10:20
  notes. What have we?
• 1:10:24
  It ends with a I'm sorry, go. On Miller hits a.
• 1:10:28
  Oklahoma slam on. No, he doesn't.
• 1:10:31
  Hits an Oklahoma slam on Troy Ryan.
• 1:10:34
  Big T puts Troy's foot on the rope.
• 1:10:37
  Yeah, I didn't like that, but I booed.
• 1:10:39
  Him then he then looked at me, so I went it was him and parted
• 1:10:42
  my brother again because then he just went.
• 1:10:45
  I should think so. I don't understand what I'm.
• 1:10:55
  I know it ends with a. Surprise roll up so big T gets
• 1:10:58
  on the. Ring apron and shouts Baldy at
• 1:11:03
  Simon Miller. Miller wonders over to him, then
• 1:11:08
  gets rolled up with, AS Simon calls it, the most devastating
• 1:11:12
  move in all of professional wrestling.
• 1:11:15
  If I remember he had the tights. And the ropes, he wasn't taking
• 1:11:18
  any. No, no, he was all of it, Yeah.
• 1:11:20
  100% selling it, Ryan winning. I can't remember.
• 1:11:29
  Oh, that was it. He then Miller then hits a spear
• 1:11:33
  immediately once. Kind of like Troy Ryan turns
• 1:11:36
  round Big T drags Ryan out of the ring, tries, tries to.
• 1:11:43
  Put the crown on. Ryan, who does not know where
• 1:11:46
  the stage is and ends up falling nearly off the stage and almost
• 1:11:53
  kind of falling between the ring and the staging area, which I
• 1:11:58
  just about caught. I need to find out how big that
• 1:12:01
  gap. Is between because some people
• 1:12:03
  step across it and some people will drop down and step up.
• 1:12:05
  So it's either it's too big to comfortably take or I just need
• 1:12:10
  to know for my own personal like memories.
• 1:12:13
  Well, he did have a step at 1:00.
• 1:12:15
  Point and then it. Broke before the last event,
• 1:12:20
  Yeah. Overall, what was How do you
• 1:12:23
  think the show was right? Absolutely.
• 1:12:27
  Like then. I missed it.
• 1:12:28
  Like they're just fun. They're just, they're just start
• 1:12:32
  to finish fun. Everyone has a good match, but
• 1:12:34
  they're still enough. Just pure wrestling
• 1:12:37
  entertainment that you know, if you're a kid, you enjoy it, if
• 1:12:40
  you're a parent, you love it. If you're there to see like
• 1:12:43
  genuinely great British independent talent.
• 1:12:45
  Just have good matches, you get that as well.
• 1:12:47
  And there's a lovely bar and a lovely venue and regular crowds.
• 1:12:50
  Everyone's super invested in everything that happens.
• 1:12:53
  You don't feel the need to be like pretentious or overthink
• 1:12:57
  it. It is the purest form of indie
• 1:13:00
  wrestling and I I adore it 100%. Yeah, no man, 100%.
• 1:13:05
  Back it up. There was not a Duff card, a
• 1:13:08
  Duff match on this card. Everything was there.
• 1:13:10
  Everything was where it needed to be as well.
• 1:13:13
  Like it all slots in, lovely, builds it up nicely to the
• 1:13:16
  crescendo. And yeah, I like the fact that
• 1:13:19
  everyone there is just like, I think I was just still talking
• 1:13:21
  to some guy at the bar for ages while we were queuing up.
• 1:13:24
  That was great. Didn't get his name.
• 1:13:26
  I, I couldn't, wouldn't recognise him again.
• 1:13:28
  But we had a wave of a time. But he will be there next time
• 1:13:31
  because. Everyone goes to every site he.
• 1:13:33
  Was that guy well done to you? Yeah, it's Salford City have got
• 1:13:37
  something really special, like genuinely really special.
• 1:13:43
  It's it's it's got the people that are going to it hooked.
• 1:13:49
  And I'm trying to drag as many more people into it because I'm
• 1:13:51
  like, this is something great here.
• 1:13:54
  I mean, they've got like 50 tickets left for the next show
• 1:13:57
  now, and that's a month and a half out, two months out, less
• 1:14:00
  than that now. Like I, I.
• 1:14:03
  Know this word? Gets overused a lot for small
• 1:14:05
  places like this but it genuinely is like very organic.
• 1:14:08
  Like when Troy appears and the music starts, people will start
• 1:14:12
  booing before he's even through the curtain because they know
• 1:14:14
  the music At this point. There's people with not my king
• 1:14:17
  signs, not my king shirts, the chant that last that last had a
• 1:14:22
  crown. On she made a crown of Not My
• 1:14:24
  King. Yeah, it's great.
• 1:14:27
  It's it's what wrestling should be like.
• 1:14:32
  It's it's pure and it's beautiful and it's just amazing.
• 1:14:37
  It's it's the again, I look forward to these shows because
• 1:14:41
  they're so fun. They're such good fun.
• 1:14:45
  If if you're a a wrestling fan or a fan of wrestling, I'd I'd
• 1:14:50
  make the difference between the two.
• 1:14:53
  Like you'll still you'll still enjoy it because there's great
• 1:14:55
  wrestling. But there's also it's just my 1
• 1:14:57
  minor gripe is that they should have hot dogs.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah. I think it's like the.
• 1:15:02
  Cure for like if you're a jaded fan, if you're like someone that
• 1:15:06
  if you come into it well you've got a certain expectation of
• 1:15:08
  like this match needs X number of stars or like whatever if you
• 1:15:12
  if you've forgotten what wrestling was like when you were
• 1:15:15
  eight, come to these shows because it's so there's.
• 1:15:19
  No pyro, it's just lads and lasses going out and putting on
• 1:15:24
  playing bleed in their heart and soul.
• 1:15:27
  Like that ring for you. And it's it's, it's undeniably
• 1:15:31
  beautiful. Like it's so good.
• 1:15:34
  I love them. I genuinely love Salford City
• 1:15:36
  Wrestling because in this, in the space of what, a year, 2
• 1:15:41
  years, a year and a bit? They've done.
• 1:15:45
  So much. They feel like that, you said
• 1:15:47
  before. They feel like they've been
• 1:15:48
  established for a lot longer. It's.
• 1:15:52
  And that's a weird. Thing.
• 1:15:54
  It is one. I put it as my joint favourite
• 1:15:58
  promotion from last year. And when you see like.
• 1:16:03
  The shows and everything, it doesn't a lot of things kind of
• 1:16:08
  like will throw different things, say well, we need like
• 1:16:12
  this production. There's not a whole.
• 1:16:15
  Lot of production. On the show at all.
• 1:16:17
  My 1 minor gripe that's all for is that.
• 1:16:19
  They need to hire someone to film it properly because the
• 1:16:22
  stuff they put on is on a locked off camera and you miss a lot of
• 1:16:25
  stuff that's happening like. Elsewhere.
• 1:16:29
  But money, I get it, whatever. But that's my 1 minor gripe.
• 1:16:34
  Like I'm there live, so I don't give, I don't care about you
• 1:16:37
  people, but when I want to watch you back here, I miss something
• 1:16:39
  or, you know, whatever, I have to hope that they're in that
• 1:16:42
  camera frame before I see it. But it's the thing of even with.
• 1:16:47
  As little production, it's the show itself.
• 1:16:52
  Yeah, the crowd all. Together.
• 1:16:54
  Make that the crowd. Make it.
• 1:16:56
  That's what it is The. Crowd, make that.
• 1:16:58
  Show is all them little kids running about in luchador.
• 1:17:00
  Masks kicking fuck out of each other.
• 1:17:02
  It's great. That's.
• 1:17:05
  What a wrestling show should be. There's a raffle.
• 1:17:09
  There's. People selling T-shirts, there's
• 1:17:11
  like, it's, it's, it's a. Quintessentially.
• 1:17:15
  British tradition and Salford are doing it tremendously well.
• 1:17:19
  I love one thing I want to mention like a.
• 1:17:21
  Little thing, I don't even think this is pulling the curtain back
• 1:17:23
  because if anything this is so beautifully in character that it
• 1:17:28
  even if you like look at it with the magic of you know, he is
• 1:17:30
  still the wrestler in this moment.
• 1:17:32
  It makes it funnier if anything. Connor Patrick Riley went to the
• 1:17:38
  bar at some point and he's like fully hooded up, like pulled the
• 1:17:42
  hoodie tight so you can barely see it's him and one kid
• 1:17:44
  recognises him and just goes Boo and brings his other his mates
• 1:17:49
  over to Boo Connor while he's queuing up for a Pisces.
• 1:17:54
  That's beautiful. I love it.
• 1:18:02
  It's so good. It's oh, it's beauty.
• 1:18:05
  Go along your local indie show, there'll be one near you.
• 1:18:09
  Wherever you are, go and watch it.
• 1:18:11
  Go and support these people because they're put in their
• 1:18:13
  hearts, all of us. You'll have a great night,
• 1:18:15
  you'll have the most fun you've ever had and for what, £1215 and
• 1:18:19
  a couple of pints in a packet of crisps?
• 1:18:21
  It's, it's, it's pantomime. But my friend, I took my friend
• 1:18:26
  to Bolton a while back and she had the best night ever because
• 1:18:31
  she was like, I can just yell stuff.
• 1:18:32
  I was like, provided it's not offensive.
• 1:18:34
  And she's like, no, I'm not a Dick head.
• 1:18:35
  I was like, no, no, yeah. And she was just yelling stuff.
• 1:18:38
  And I made a note of all the things she yelled throughout the
• 1:18:40
  night. And some of it was really
• 1:18:42
  obscurely weird. It was great.
• 1:18:45
  Like it's better from an elevated position is one of my
• 1:18:48
  favourite chants. She tried to get going.
• 1:18:52
  I don't even know what it was about.
• 1:18:54
  I even asked what the context was.
• 1:18:57
  No, I don't know. It was wrestling based,
• 1:19:00
  obviously, but yeah, no Salford. The next show I've I've not got
• 1:19:06
  my notes. I know it's the 10th of April.
• 1:19:09
  Yeah, Slash Swinton. Slash if you want tickets, get.
• 1:19:14
  Them because last thing I read there was 50 left and I'm not
• 1:19:18
  sure if we're going or not, but I think I want to.
• 1:19:21
  That was 40. That was four days.
• 1:19:22
  Ago and there were 100 tickets six days ago so I would jump on
• 1:19:28
  it. Yeah, I want to go because it's
• 1:19:30
  Morecambe the next day and I'm like I could do 2 shows in two
• 1:19:33
  nights it's fine. I'm a relatively young man, but.
• 1:19:38
  Again, Salford Morecambe. Similar thing for me, like
• 1:19:40
  similar vibes, similar. Just fans that get it, a company
• 1:19:45
  that gets it have great night out wrestlers that get it as
• 1:19:50
  well. Wrestlers don't 100%.
• 1:19:52
  Understand their role like you're.
• 1:19:56
  Not. You're there to put a show.
• 1:19:58
  On like. Yeah, it's so good.
• 1:20:01
  I can't, I can't speak highly enough.
• 1:20:03
  Like I said, it's it's it's it's up there in my promotions of of
• 1:20:08
  all time Salford in respect of only being there a year.
• 1:20:11
  Oh. Well, we'll, we'll.
• 1:20:14
  Round this episode off with any other business because it can't
• 1:20:20
  be bothered saying do you want to plug anything?
• 1:20:23
  So I'm just going to call it any other business and and help that
• 1:20:26
  fighting talk. Don't sue me, anyone.
• 1:20:31
  Like to chip in with anything. They would like to promote.
• 1:20:38
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• 1:20:39
  Buff I'm a battle rapper. I'm currently in a 3000 LB
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  for TikTok where I'm gassed above 0 because I forgot my own
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• 1:21:23
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  I'm just. Going to have two arrows
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  pointing at the gravestones next to me.
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  Either side mourn them. Flowers mourn.
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  Them do not mourn me. I'm already dead.
• 1:21:37
  I mean for me. It's basically just.
• 1:21:39
  Brothers grappas on Instagram and brothers graps on X I'm blue
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  sky still using. XI know I keep.
• 1:21:53
  I mean, I actually forgot my password for Blue sky the other
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  day, but I have logged in. I will use Blue Sky more often
• 1:22:02
  because it seems to be the better thing.
• 1:22:07
  It's nicer. It's a cooler place for
• 1:22:08
  wrestling. Stuff mate, genuinely right
• 1:22:12
  there is that as well. Salford stuff I will literally
• 1:22:17
  put underneath this but I always put the links and socials
• 1:22:21
  anyway. As for both Gas and Joe, who is
• 1:22:28
  a bit shy at promoting his own stuff, nobody cares.
• 1:22:32
  It's fine. If they care enough, they'll
• 1:22:34
  find me. Sounds very John Wick.
• 1:22:38
  Yes, I'm thinking. That's a.
• 1:22:42
  That's a. New way you gave you gave me an
• 1:22:44
  intro at the start that's. All the information they need,
• 1:22:45
  if they made it this far, they've done well.
• 1:22:49
  Yes. Well, we'll we'll call it we'll.
• 1:22:51
  Call it an end there, but yes, thank you for listening to this
• 1:22:57
  episode. God bless you for getting all
• 1:22:59
  the way through. This is not as long as it could
• 1:23:01
  have been. This this is a lot.
• 1:23:03
  Less than our last chat which? I'm happier because I don't have
• 1:23:08
  to do as much editing, which is a bonus.
• 1:23:14
  Thank you to Joe, thank you to guests, thank you for listening.
• 1:23:20
  Join us for episode 28 next week.
• 1:23:24
  My age believe will be when I'm at Leeds for North and.
• 1:23:32
  Then I have the. Future shock show at the For the
• 1:23:36
  Love of Wrestling weekend. So that will be fun if you see
• 1:23:43
  me wave. If not, just walk by.
• 1:23:45
  I'm not bothered, I don't care. Just wrap it up mate.
• 1:23:51
  You're floundering this. You'll notice.
• 1:23:55
  Like you said last time, you come in strong with a good
• 1:23:57
  opening. You need a good.
• 1:23:58
  Ending you're just slogan like a.
• 1:24:01
  Good closer. Yeah, you need a good one.
• 1:24:03
  You take it. I'm I'm.
• 1:24:05
  I'm Bradders and you're not. That's my that's not great, is
• 1:24:09
  it? But you know, I end with I love
• 1:24:12
  you. Bye and I stole.
• 1:24:13
  That from someone else. Most children.
• 1:24:20
  I've never stolen a child. Please stop recording, that's
• 1:24:28
  genuinely a good closer. Please stop recording.
• 1:24:32
  Yes, there we go.