Latest / Bradders Grappers / The REAL Episode 9 (Atomic & INFINITE) - Episode 9
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- 0:17Hello and welcome to brothers grappas episode 10 trip down to
- 0:25content for atomics brew House of horrors free.
- 0:32I'm not doing this episode alone because I will not remember half
- 0:38the stuff that happened. And we have back on the show
- 0:43friend of the show, even Miles Smith.
- 0:47Good evening, Miles. Good evening, I have returned
- 0:52from a short little break. Very short, very short.
- 0:59So this is a podcast I wanted to try and do last week, but things
- 1:05happened such as moving furniture for folks because
- 1:10we've just had a new carpet installed.
- 1:13So we didn't get to talk about this last week with it freshly
- 1:19baked in our all our memories. That said however, we are going
- 1:27to take a look as I say back at Atomics Brew House of Horrors
- 1:32free, but you're going to get some bonus content from what
- 1:36happened at Infinite later on. So we might as well start from
- 1:46the beginning because there's not too much to talk about
- 1:51really. But at the same time there is
- 1:55yeah. So we'll we'll get straight in
- 2:00match one saw for the Atomic Championship, the real thing,
- 2:07Scott Olbermann taking on it like us.
- 2:12A I suppose you could say this was a surprising opening belt
- 2:19for Atomic. Yeah, off the show.
- 2:23You would have thought that would have been the main event,
- 2:25but they pulled it first. Because I think we both had the
- 2:32idea of if this is going to be the first match.
- 2:37There's going to be something at the end of the show.
- 2:39Yeah, obviously planned something for later on which and
- 2:44the only thing they were going to do was the monster mash
- 2:48rumble at the end. So it it made more sense come
- 2:54the end of the night than cutting this title match.
- 3:01Well, starting off with it, I thought this was a really good
- 3:07opener, a really solid to set the tone.
- 3:15It was hard to distinguish who was really a babyface and who
- 3:21was a heel. It felt for me.
- 3:23Yeah, you couldn't tell in this one.
- 3:25No, because Olbermann, you would immediately think he's going to
- 3:31be the heel of this match. Yeah.
- 3:35However, even though he started kind of like the better of the
- 3:39two, he suddenly found himself on the back foot and it was hit
- 3:45like us, effectively having kind of like the run of things until
- 3:54Oberman started to zone in on the body of like us and then all
- 4:01match just flipped. But then it did flip flop a few
- 4:07times with obviously Lycos's body being the target for
- 4:11Obermann. Obermann's arm then, seemed to
- 4:15be what was tagged by Lycos. The Greenwood was checking on
- 4:21him. I don't know if he cut his arm
- 4:23or like when he did the spot on the outside or something.
- 4:27Yeah, I know Greenwood was talking to him like during the
- 4:30match and it was very odd. Yeah, it was one of those where
- 4:36you're thinking it is this going to be, is this tied into the
- 4:41match or is a like a genuine concern here?
- 4:47But they they carried on. So we can we can only surmise
- 4:53that they were they were fine to continue at least, and it wasn't
- 4:58anything serious if the there actually was a problem.
- 5:05But in the end, it saw Olbermann getting the win, retaining his
- 5:11atomic title with a tombstone. Having seen Lycos refusing to
- 5:19stay down, Olbermann kind of hit riding the ride, the lightning
- 5:26eventually hitting it. Was that a spinning?
- 5:31Tune. It was a it was just a
- 5:33tombstone, really. Because he, yeah, he didn't.
- 5:36Really spin on it, but. Slight turn, I suppose we could
- 5:42say on it. So that was the opener.
- 5:48What was your thought? Lycos did make Oberman tap
- 5:51though. If you if you remember Lycos did
- 5:55make him tap but did Oberman does the usual where he gets the
- 5:59rope? Yes, So it was almost like a
- 6:03call back to the anniversary show where Tony Wright has
- 6:10Oberman beat, but Scott has the rope and the referee doesn't see
- 6:17it. But Greenwood, who was on the
- 6:19outside, did. But on this occasion Lycos kind
- 6:25of gets the the win for half a second.
- 6:28But I think we're all too wise to realise what was going to
- 6:32happen here. So the referee didn't
- 6:36particularly see it, but you did see Oberman still clinging on.
- 6:42So then kind of match restarted in a sense and ended up with
- 6:48Oberman getting the victory. So we went from a match that
- 6:55went about 25 minutes or so to a match that felt like it went 25
- 7:02seconds, which was match #2 nay, J taking on Sam Bailey.
- 7:16Where'd you go? Where's one?
- 7:19Should we start off before the match even begins?
- 7:23Nay, J's entrance. Oh, let's get on with that.
- 7:27So Neji came out to a Sam Bailey entrance with the whole kind of
- 7:38like music video. Even one of his tunes had a
- 7:45balaclava on and completely lost where he actually was and
- 7:53proceeded to fall down the stairs as much sliding tumble
- 8:01down the stairs which he has now put in AJ that he hates everyone
- 8:11for bringing it up. But you know.
- 8:14And AJ, if if you knew how to navigate stairs, we we wouldn't
- 8:20be bringing this to your attention.
- 8:23He caused himself because he was spraying the water bottle.
- 8:27Yeah, but I don't even think it was the water bottle.
- 8:30I think he, I think he knew where the stairs were.
- 8:34And then as soon as he went on the stairs, he got too giddy for
- 8:37his own good and just slipped down him to which is probably
- 8:43going to be one of the lasting memories of this show because no
- 8:49one has let him forget about it, especially us yesterday chanting
- 8:54Watch the stairs when he came down and future shot guest
- 8:58today. Yeah, this this didn't last very
- 9:05long at all. Effectively saw Sam coming out
- 9:11beating up NAJ for probably about a minute and a half and
- 9:17then has him up for a suplex. Momentum kind of brings him NAJ
- 9:23down. Hawks Bailey in a kind of like a
- 9:28roll up and sees NAJ getting the 123 which started the miserable
- 9:37night for Bailey on this show. Really don't know what your
- 9:45thoughts are on that much particular.
- 9:48There's not much thoughts on it, it's just very quick.
- 9:52It was extremely quick, so quick that I'm trying to think if I
- 10:00think Mr Ogden was with us and I don't even think he'd finished
- 10:05telling me a story by the time this match was over.
- 10:10Just I'm, I'm trying to figure out if it was should if it
- 10:14should have been this quick or if they just slightly overran on
- 10:20the opening match and they just very, very quickly kind of like
- 10:26cut this match down. Because out of all the matches
- 10:32that were on the card, this is probably the the least if you
- 10:37want to say all the matches, all of them seem to have like
- 10:42something going going for it or had some stakes.
- 10:48And this was, this is really just kind of like The Apprentice
- 10:53and master having a, a bit of a, a tussle, but other than that,
- 10:57there wasn't a whole lot behind this one really.
- 11:04So we then move on to match #3 which is part of the eliminate
- 11:11quarterfinal. On paper this looked to be one
- 11:17of the stand out matches and it was Chris Ridgway taking on
- 11:23Lucy. What's your take away from this
- 11:30before I kind of give my version?
- 11:34Of the match, I thought it was a great technical match.
- 11:37There's a lot of good kicks, good grapples.
- 11:43I thought it was quite solid. I do.
- 11:47I was slightly disappointed with a finish to the match.
- 11:49I thought Ridgeway versus Vusey, there's going to be a submission
- 11:53winner. I it's two of the best technical
- 11:57wrestlers in the UK at the minute.
- 12:00You would think there would be a submission win or something, but
- 12:06I don't know what happened. It just, I don't know, tough
- 12:13one. For me, I thought it was a bit
- 12:17of a a slow start, but then again, it's I think that was due
- 12:23to the fact that both are technical wrestlers.
- 12:25I mean, both have moves that can end a match very quickly.
- 12:31So that kind of plays into why it was a bit slow at the
- 12:36beginning. However, as I made a reference
- 12:42on Oggy's podcast, it was a slow burner, but it got really good.
- 12:49It was some really top class wrestling and then it, as he
- 12:54said, it just got let down with the finish because.
- 13:00It even a half cover. Yeah.
- 13:04The full pin because like I don't interview on his side.
- 13:09I don't know what they were they were trying to do like pin wise.
- 13:17So I don't even know if that was if they were trying to do a
- 13:21certain move and they couldn't particularly get the move off.
- 13:29And it just came across really kind of not half assed, but it
- 13:35just didn't come across as what we wanted to do which.
- 13:40Yeah, it didn't look like the intended finish.
- 13:42Yeah. It was, it was a bit of a shame,
- 13:46but I I just feel that kind of like ending it just kind of a
- 13:52slight souring. Yeah.
- 13:55Because it was a really. Good person who won as much as
- 13:57well. I think VUCY should have won.
- 14:00Yeah, we can afford VUCY. In truth, should have, should
- 14:04have won. But then again, I'm it's atomic
- 14:09and I'm happy to kind of let it play out and see where it's
- 14:13going. Because Ridgeway's next match
- 14:16will be good. I think it'll be better, yeah.
- 14:18Because I think there's certain promotions where if this
- 14:21happens, you kind of you're unsure about.
- 14:26But with Atomic, the nine times that I tell me know what they're
- 14:30doing. So I'm happy to let this go.
- 14:35Also, it was Rusik's debut because of a few debuts on this
- 14:41show, Kid like us being one, Vusik being another and another
- 14:48that we will mention later in the show.
- 14:54So we then came to what turned out to be I wasn't actually, I
- 15:01was going to say the the main event, but it wasn't.
- 15:05I've gone too early. We had a Reese and Rogan going
- 15:11up against quintessential in Christie Quinlan and Patrick
- 15:16Quinlan. I'll let you go on this because
- 15:23this is one of two matches where I wasn't a fan of it.
- 15:33So. Quintessential come to the ring
- 15:36dressed up. Christy was Michael Myers and I
- 15:47can't even remember who the PUD was now is names gone up and
- 15:51then reason reason Rogan come to the ring dressed up as normal.
- 15:57Yeah, who was? Well, your feet slightly cut
- 16:03out, so I'll, I'll repeat that. So Christy Quinlan came out with
- 16:07Michael Myers and PUD came out as Austin Powers.
- 16:14Austin Powers. With I don't think a few people
- 16:19got the connection with MM Myers plays Austin Powers.
- 16:26So it was, it was a bit of a joke on that, but I don't think
- 16:31many people got that. I think they just saw, oh, it's
- 16:34Halloween, my Halloween. Yeah, I'm very considering these
- 16:46and two really good teams. I'm very quickly kind of checked
- 16:54out of this much for for some reason, I don't know, but
- 17:02Quintessential effectively were kind of very jokey and not
- 17:11messing around, but they were very much the baby faces in on
- 17:16this match. Yeah.
- 17:18And Reece and Rogan were just there to just beat the hell out
- 17:21of them. Which is in truth, what what
- 17:26really happened. Quintessential had the moments
- 17:31Reese and Rogan just weren't being paid by the hour back and
- 17:37forth contests. But I think when you have A tag
- 17:42match or or a singles match and someone comes comes out dressed
- 17:47in not how they normally are. Yeah, you.
- 17:55Think you are setting yourself up to Telegraph what is going to
- 18:00happen here and this is definitely one of those times
- 18:10because it's how I felt. Yeah, I felt like that as well.
- 18:14I felt like recent real gun dominated majority of the match.
- 18:18I'd say like 70% of it. So, but it's what it did do
- 18:27though it did make Reece and Rogan look very it made him look
- 18:33a strong team. So despite kind of all the the
- 18:40in between stuff, it did its job and it made Yorkshire tough
- 18:45looking very good in this contest.
- 18:51But that would not be the last time we saw these two as we
- 18:56moved to our main event of the first half for the Atomic Tag
- 19:03Team titles. The Meat Waggon are kind of the
- 19:10Shield as it felt because that's how they came to the ring,
- 19:16coming through the crowd, much like the Shield taking on the
- 19:19team of Lally, Holly Barlow and Lana Austin dressed as hot.
- 19:27Dogs. Yeah.
- 19:32I thought they were going to come out as SpongeBob and
- 19:34Patrick. Yes, there there was a it was
- 19:41entertaining watching the videos back of kind of both you and the
- 19:47Lewis just coming out with who you think it was going to be or
- 19:55what you thought they were going to be.
- 19:56And they tended to be the complete opposite of what you
- 20:01actually thought they were. But it is your reaction to
- 20:06seeing Holly and Lana come out and just go, oh for God's sake,
- 20:12when the dress is like hot dogs, which.
- 20:18I think you've actually made reference to you thought they
- 20:21were going to be like SpongeBob and it wasn't.
- 20:24Yeah, I thought it would have been SpongeBob and Patrick.
- 20:29I I did actually enjoy this much.
- 20:32This was arguably debating how you want to look at it.
- 20:39This was arguably much of the night.
- 20:41I yeah, I enjoyed this one. It was very, very fun.
- 20:46Yeah. Because what was a really good
- 20:50wrestling match, it also had a lot of what I, what a lot of
- 20:57people would say is wrestling bollocks.
- 21:01Yeah. There, there was a lot of it
- 21:03going on in this match. We can't.
- 21:08We were split on how we thought this was going to go.
- 21:12You thought Meat Waggon would retain?
- 21:15Yeah, I said Meat waggon would routine.
- 21:17I thought Lolly were going to pull off the upset.
- 21:23I think for large parts of it, it did feel like we were going
- 21:30to get a title change. Yeah, it was very 5050.
- 21:35Yeah, but what they did very well though was they would
- 21:39they'd hook you in. So you thought it was going to
- 21:43be a lolly win, and then the meat waggon had kind of like
- 21:48flipped the script. Then it looked like they were
- 21:51going to win and then it flipped again.
- 21:54So it flipped what to the point that you genuinely didn't know
- 21:59what they were going to do? Even right up to the the end,
- 22:06you still felt like it's anyone's here to win.
- 22:13Even when the meat waggon, I think it was after they hit the
- 22:19I want to say it was when they hit the tenderizer or they hit
- 22:22one of their main. Splash Mountain wasn't it?
- 22:27I know they hit Splash Mountain. It might have been, I think it
- 22:30was Splash Mountain because I think the one with the
- 22:35tenderizer, Yeah, the one with the.
- 22:36Tenderizer. The one with Tenderizer Holly
- 22:38kicked out a Splash Mountain, Yeah.
- 22:41Because the they did this big build up kind of like tag team
- 22:46combo, Bam bam, bam bam bam and Holly kicks out, I think 1 and
- 22:54then just hold off kind of like the hot dog suit.
- 22:58And he was like, right, we're going to be serious now.
- 23:03And it just seemed to make that contest even better because it
- 23:07was all right, We've had our phone now this is the the games
- 23:13are over. We're going to be serious.
- 23:17And at that point, I thought, oh, shit, they really are going
- 23:21to win this match. And then at the last moment, he
- 23:25just had kind of like the carpet whipped from him.
- 23:31I think it was. It was Low Holly that took the
- 23:35pinfall, wasn't it? Yeah, Holly took the pinfall.
- 23:37Yeah, she got. Tenderised by the meat waggon
- 23:46meat waggon retain in what was a really entertaining contest.
- 23:55But that wasn't all that happened, was it, Miles?
- 24:00Nope Yorkshire. Tough come out and cut I think.
- 24:06One of the best promos I have seen this year.
- 24:09That promo they did superb. They might have dropped an F
- 24:14bomb or cancel them. Cancel them.
- 24:19That promo put them as real title contenders and a real
- 24:25threat to meat waggon. I can see them stealing the
- 24:29belts. Their performance against the
- 24:32Quinlan's. Flawless.
- 24:35If they do that against meat waggon I can see them stealing
- 24:38the belts. Because it was the the problem
- 24:43with the the Cup was getting in the ring, attacking the meat
- 24:47waggon and just saying waste. We're sick of you 2.
- 24:53We hate your guts. You make tag team wrestling a
- 24:57joke. We're yeah, we're we're here
- 25:02being serious and doing things properly like tag team wrestling
- 25:07is what it should be you to an embarrassment.
- 25:12Then call both of them by their real names.
- 25:16Which had the crowd very much thinking oh, oh, what what
- 25:22what's happening here? What's happening here?
- 25:26Left the ring then came back attacked him again.
- 25:33And it does set up now. I think whether they do it in
- 25:37December or the hold off till next year, I think we are going
- 25:42to get meat waggon versus Reese and Rogan and that will that'll
- 25:49be an absolute epic tag match. I can see that's going to be an
- 25:55absolute bomb burner of a match. So we then move to the
- 26:03second-half of the show and I'll ask, I'll ask you the question I
- 26:12was going to ask at the end actually because that might be
- 26:15better if doing it. But we started off with the
- 26:20eliminate quarter final, the final one with dynamite, Lee
- 26:26Dawson taking on another debutante to atomic, that being
- 26:34the hot commodity. Melissa Feus, what were your
- 26:39take on this? This was an interesting match
- 26:44like booking wise that you wouldn't expect to see them two
- 26:48in the rings together. No, it's I made the thing of
- 26:56this was a really good match, but the crowd seemed dead.
- 27:01Yeah. Yeah, they were.
- 27:04And I don't understand kind of how they were because they were
- 27:09all kind of lively in the first half and then the second-half
- 27:17the crowd just seemed to almost get taken out at at the
- 27:23interval. It was almost silent.
- 27:25Towards the end of like the Rumble.
- 27:27Yeah. But yeah, I think there was only
- 27:31kind of us on the far side that we're making any noise
- 27:35whatsoever for this contest. Yeah.
- 27:40Because you had me, Louise, you Augie, I can't think who was who
- 27:47else was stood with us. Done.
- 27:51Those are the fun. Done.
- 27:52Yeah. So we were all making noise
- 27:57trying to get the rest of the crowd to like join in, but the
- 28:03crowd just not having it whatsoever, which I, I felt
- 28:08sorry for these two because they got put on a decent part of the
- 28:14show and the crowd just did not. I don't think it was a point of
- 28:20the didn't care. I think either it was either a
- 28:27bit of tiredness had hit him or they just weren't ready for the
- 28:33the shot and start which and the match itself.
- 28:39But both these eliminate quarter final matches were really good
- 28:43contest. They were solid matches.
- 28:46Yeah, and it was like, Dawson is really solid, really solid in
- 28:53the ring. Yeah, I like Dawson.
- 28:57Yes, every single time I see her, I get more and more
- 29:01impressed by her. Definitely kind of like she'll
- 29:06be getting booked on like Hop End shows I feel now.
- 29:14So we'll we'll see how that goes in the next few months or so.
- 29:21The only negative I will say about this match is it fell very
- 29:28much in line with the other quarterfinal contest where a
- 29:35really good contest ends in a bit of a a slightly dodgy end.
- 29:48Yeah, it was it how he did it. I don't even know where.
- 29:54You just come out of nowhere. Yeah, because it was because it
- 29:59was fierce. I think we, we think did a
- 30:02crossbody to Dawson. Yeah, and then Dawson rolled
- 30:05through and. Boston rolled kind of like
- 30:08rolled through and pinned fierce.
- 30:11And for everything they'd done, that seemed to have been the
- 30:15week away to win this match. And it just kind of again, it
- 30:22left a bit of a a sour taste in the in the mouth from what they
- 30:28were doing. You kind of expected like a, a
- 30:33better finish for this, but it just it just didn't happen.
- 30:41There's a lot on this show where you'll get real near enough.
- 30:46Every match was a good match. OK, nearly all of them, which
- 30:53we'll come to in a minute. But the problem was the the just
- 30:58be like the odd. It was just the finishes just
- 31:03hurt the match a bit. And one of them, but I was
- 31:10talking about this with hockey on Dawson, Dawson last year.
- 31:19It seemed to be kind of like going places.
- 31:24He was he was the adrenaline champion in future shock look
- 31:29like he was going to to Rev pro or he was going to get some reps
- 31:35there. And then whatever's happened
- 31:41from him losing the adrenaline title to now, it's almost like
- 31:49he's just he's not even like lost in the shuffle.
- 31:53He's just, I don't know how to describe it.
- 31:57He's he's a really good wrestler, but he just, he seems
- 32:03lost currently. Yeah.
- 32:07There's because there's, there's nothing I've not seen anywhere
- 32:11where there's any kind of like plans or views or anything.
- 32:16So whether there were plans for Rev Pro or something's happened
- 32:24or he's had an injury or something like that, it almost
- 32:29feels like his legs have kind of been cut from him.
- 32:31And now he just finds himself in purgatory, so to speak, where he
- 32:37almost feels like he's just doing matches for the sake of
- 32:42matches and there's nothing for him to really do, Which is it's
- 32:48a massive shame, I think, because Dawson is so talented.
- 32:53But just at the moment he's he's kind of like in a, as I say, in
- 32:59a bit of purgatory. Don't know if you think the same
- 33:06or. Yeah, I think the same.
- 33:08I agree. Right, well, this is the match I
- 33:13wasn't looking forward to and we were equally of the same
- 33:19opinion. Yeah.
- 33:26I will, I will say the match and I will let you talk about it and
- 33:30then I will tell you my rant on things.
- 33:34So it was the Atomic Meltdown match with Rob Drake and Kemper.
- 33:46I come the floor to you. Where'd you go with this one?
- 33:52Two big guys, both incredibly talented, but for some reason, I
- 33:59don't know what it is, they just can't work together.
- 34:03It seems like the first match they had in Atomic, it was like
- 34:06a 15 second match. Gone to the outside, no contest.
- 34:11Kemper slams Drake onto a pallet.
- 34:13OK, that starts a feud. Second match falls count
- 34:18anywhere. No falls on the outside,
- 34:20nothing. No pinfalls anywhere.
- 34:23Now you get this big blow off match, supposedly meltdown
- 34:26match, right? We've seen Tony right do a
- 34:28meltdown match and it was fantastic.
- 34:31You are. And.
- 34:33The tag team meltdown match as well Meltdown matches as opposed
- 34:38to the these big crazy blow off matches and then you get
- 34:45whatever that was. It just looked like a basic no
- 34:48DQ match. You had a bin, you had a chain,
- 34:54you had a kendo stick and you had a chair.
- 34:59Just book it is just a normal no DQ match and you don't need the
- 35:02name meltdown match if it's not going to be much of A meltdown.
- 35:08You didn't even use the venue. I got review, use the venue, do
- 35:15stuff with a venue, go outside, do stuff, use the bar area, do
- 35:21something. I said last week straight after
- 35:28the show that it's very rare if if at all, you get free matches.
- 35:37A trilogy if you will. I'm not going to mince me words
- 35:44here and I think both of them, as you say, talented guys.
- 35:53I will say I haven't seen too much of Rob Drake but the
- 35:59matches I've seen the only match I will say I've enjoyed of his
- 36:05was GPW against Dylan Roberts. Kemper I have seen have good and
- 36:14bad matches, not always due to to him however these three
- 36:27matches wished it. The first match, as he said, was
- 36:37a singles match that went 15 seconds.
- 36:43Punch Kick went outside round the smallest venue in the
- 36:48brewery. Double count out.
- 36:54Then Kemper kind of slams Drake on a wooden pallet.
- 37:01OK, we we've we've got some direction heading into a second
- 37:05match. OK, so we have a falls count
- 37:10anywhere much. I still want to know why on
- 37:17earth you have a falls count anywhere much and yet you do not
- 37:22have a even if you don't win with it.
- 37:30But to have a the main stipulation being falls count
- 37:34anywhere and you do not even register a single pinfall on the
- 37:41outside in the whole match. What are we doing here?
- 37:47What what is the actual point? You might as well have just said
- 37:52we'll have a hardcore match because that's effectively what
- 37:57that match was at the anniversary show.
- 38:00It it wasn't a false count anywhere much it was it was
- 38:06almost like a carry on from that first match that didn't happen.
- 38:14It was a it was a waste of a match on a massive card.
- 38:21And then even when they announced that they were going
- 38:26to do it again in a Meltdown match, I still remember there
- 38:33was no reaction whatsoever to when they said they'll be doing
- 38:38it in a Meltdown match. Yeah.
- 38:42Which I think tells you, considering you've had, as you
- 38:46said, right in a meltdown match, you had that tag team match, I
- 38:52think at the anniversary show or not the anniversary the the
- 38:57first contest show that was all of them were excellent.
- 39:05And you use your kind of your biggest match that Atomic has
- 39:15and you use it on this. And it almost felt like it was
- 39:19the last froze of trying to redeem a feud that has not even
- 39:26got out of neutral. It has been piss poor.
- 39:34That said, and I made the point last week as well, in a year's
- 39:42time, if these two go at it, they could arguably put on the
- 39:48best match we've seen at Atomic because a lot of things can
- 39:52change in a year. But if it does, then.
- 40:01These three matches have been pointless, really.
- 40:05On Atomic shows. There's been it's been pointless
- 40:13because it's not. It's not helped even man, on
- 40:16anything within this feud. Temper is meant to be a monster.
- 40:23He's looked anything but a monster.
- 40:27Rob Drake is a powerhouse. Yeah.
- 40:31For arguably most of it. He's been the one getting
- 40:36getting attacked more with weapons or trying to be put
- 40:41through a table. And it's just been it's, I think
- 40:48this is one of those you, you kind of like chopped down to
- 40:51experience and say, you know, that that didn't that didn't
- 40:56work at all. We'll cut our losses and we'll
- 40:59move on. Yeah.
- 41:02What I'm hoping is that is the end of this feud.
- 41:07Yeah, hopefully. Hopefully and both men go on to
- 41:10do other things and they kind of just get the smell of this
- 41:17whatever. This feud was awesome because it
- 41:21is not helped anyone and if anything it hurt this show I
- 41:28felt. But then again, that's me.
- 41:33That's that's that's my opinion. Like it or not, it's because
- 41:41everyone wants to see this. Everyone wanted to see a really
- 41:45good match with these two and it's as again you rarely get 3
- 41:50bad matches in a row, but it is what it is.
- 41:58It wasn't good. It happened.
- 42:01Yeah, but moving on to happier things, we ended with the now
- 42:13traditional Monster Mash rumble. This was a whole lot of fun, and
- 42:22in truth, it needed to be. So we do have roughly, we think,
- 42:33the running order for who came in because they didn't put who
- 42:39went out. So we started with the Trail of
- 42:46Death with Max Brooker, Lewis Johnson and Chase alcala #4 or
- 42:56#2 depending how you you like to work it.
- 43:00I saw Lily Winter. We also had Joe Blazer, who was
- 43:08making his debut at Atomic and I think very quickly nailed his
- 43:14colours to the mastiff. He ain't, he isn't a good guy.
- 43:20I think he made that very obvious. 6 was an AJ who
- 43:26navigated the stairs better than.
- 43:29Jumped down the stairs. #7 Tom Felwell, who for a time we
- 43:36thought was critchy. I thought if I don't know why, I
- 43:40thought it was critchy. To be fair, when you said it
- 43:43original, even though it said Felwell on the wall I you did
- 43:50suck at me into believing it was critchy so I don't know what
- 43:56that says about me really. That would have been funny if
- 43:58you've been fell off. So Fell I think he's farewell
- 44:04song Wonderwall and by the time he'd finished singing we had the
- 44:10next entrant who was Harley Hudson.
- 44:15We then had Jack Knudson, who I'm I've been led to believe was
- 44:22a robber on The Sims. Yeah, from The Sims, Yeah.
- 44:28Some Bailey came and went very quickly.
- 44:32And I won't be. Happy with that 10, Bailey came
- 44:36charging trying to get to Naj. Naj pulled the top rope down.
- 44:42Bailey went straight out immediately.
- 44:46Again, not a good night for the the coach, so to speak.
- 44:52And we've got the Baileys going to cry jump.
- 44:55Oh yes, and at one point it looked like he really was.
- 45:02So after Bailey, we had Benjamin Holland, who again, much like
- 45:08Knudsen, was a robber from The Sims.
- 45:13We were then graced by that of the T Rex, who we are still
- 45:21unsure on who it was in the suit.
- 45:24Everyone saying it was Chris Ridgway but we'll never know.
- 45:29Well, I saw a bald head and he did.
- 45:32He's the only one I've seen actually mention it, which is
- 45:36why I think Ridgway and he did try and do some technical
- 45:41wrestling with the tail. So I'm saying it with him
- 45:47unofficially. We then had Scotty Rock who came
- 45:52dressed as Wednesday Adams, a very good Wednesday at Wednesday
- 46:00Adams, I thought went the whole hog on that outfit.
- 46:08We also had Shrek, more on that in a second.
- 46:13And we had FTM who I'm still trying to figure out who thought
- 46:23this was a good idea. I don't know what it was.
- 46:26The world's tallest Scouser. Will sell a Scouser.
- 46:30Grew from the minions. And it was effectively just
- 46:35critchy on Tom's shoulders in a coat.
- 46:39It looked like grew. I'm I'm thinking I had to run
- 46:45out of ideas and this was the best they could come up with.
- 46:51Come on lads, all, all the all the intelligence that kind of
- 46:58like FTM have and this is the best you could come up with.
- 47:04Give you, give your head a shape.
- 47:06Give your head a shape lads. But I am the back end of the
- 47:14match. The final four was Wednesday.
- 47:22Wednesday. Scotty Rock, Harley Hudson, Joe
- 47:26Blazer, Shrek. And we also seen metal loss
- 47:30earlier on in the match. Yes, which we we didn't
- 47:35particularly mention. So earlier, as you say, in the
- 47:41match, it was Lily Winter kind of getting beaten up by the
- 47:47three members of Trailer Trailer Death.
- 47:52And then we had Leon Grey and Ryan Fawn come out dressed as
- 47:58Chase, effectively in their kind of like white shirts and black
- 48:05pants, doing the Spider Man meme of pointing at each other.
- 48:14And yeah, effectively they just beat the hell out of them.
- 48:18So I I get the feeling this is where we're going to go.
- 48:22That'll be a tough team. Yeah, unless he bring in a 1/3
- 48:29member. He's made to last.
- 48:31Need a third guy? Yeah.
- 48:34So we'll watch this space for for what happens on that.
- 48:41I want it to be Danny proper. That'll be funny.
- 48:45It would be interesting whether we get that.
- 48:50Probably not. Probably not.
- 48:52It would be interesting. Would be good to see Danny
- 48:54proper return made to last. I'll be good.
- 49:00So, but we're again, watch this space, see what happens.
- 49:06But as we said, the final four, Harley, Blazer, Rock and Shrek,
- 49:16I think there was only ever going to be 1 winner from these
- 49:23four if we're being perfectly honest, especially it's very
- 49:28quickly predicted who was going to win.
- 49:32And when we figured out who was behind the Shrek Musk?
- 49:36Yeah. Well, originally we fought T
- 49:38Rex. I thought never realised the the
- 49:41mystery I think. You both thought that.
- 49:44Yeah. It made more sense.
- 49:47But the T yeah, those. Shrek we We very quickly
- 49:52realised that it ain't going to be T Rex, it's probably going to
- 49:56be Shrek because we could see the slight curly hair that was
- 50:01seeping through on the height. So we we called it right before
- 50:07anyone actually we got it right after, even before the first
- 50:11match when they said Brewhouse of Horrors free where the past
- 50:19catches up with you. And we effectively just looked
- 50:23at one another and just went Teddy Razor.
- 50:25Yeah, it was a good. Yeah.
- 50:29And I think especially having the title match on 1st kind of,
- 50:36as we said, told you something was up.
- 50:40One thing we haven't mentioned though.
- 50:42Olbermann falling off his chair. Yes, before the Rumble match,
- 50:51Olbermann came out to survey the Land of Atomic and to see who he
- 50:57would be facing down the line. So he came out with a chair, set
- 51:03it up on the staging area, sat down on it, kind of stretched
- 51:10his legs, and it was the most graceful fall on a chair I may
- 51:20have ever seen because it was, it wasn't like the chair just
- 51:30collapsed like sideways. It was the softest landing for a
- 51:36broken chair, considering what you see like when a chair goes
- 51:43on a fan and you just seem like roll around because of it.
- 51:49It was the most softly pampered kind of collapse on a chair I
- 51:56think you'll ever see anywhere, with Oberman trying not to laugh
- 52:03and failing miserably, shall we say.
- 52:10But yes, so there was that. So we got down to the final two,
- 52:16which was Joe Blazer and Shrek. I think everyone realised who
- 52:26was under the Shrek mask when they grabbed the arm of Blazer
- 52:29and started to bite it. Started to nibble.
- 52:33Yeah, because there's only one man that does that, really.
- 52:40And of course, it sees Blazer being eliminated.
- 52:45Shrek wins the match, Oberman makes a beeline for the ring,
- 52:52demanding that Shrek takes off the mask.
- 52:56And we had our own version of the Masked Singer or the Masked
- 53:00Wrestler as it would be on this occasion.
- 53:03And to the surprise of everyone barring our group, it was the
- 53:09Rat King himself, Teddy Ray, back from his exploits from down
- 53:14under and and Vietnam as as we saw on his Instagram.
- 53:24So it looks like we're going to get a another title match
- 53:29between Oberman and Teddy Ray. These two had to Hell title
- 53:40matches earlier in the year. The Adrenaline title at
- 53:45Stockport was a bruising encounter.
- 53:52Their previous one at Atomic which I couldn't make the show
- 53:56for that looked equally as bruising from the the video that
- 54:03they posted before the adrenaline match.
- 54:09However on that occasion Ray was a bit second hand if you like,
- 54:18but Ray looks raring to go and fighting fit.
- 54:21So is Ray the man to take the belt off Scotty?
- 54:29I think he is, he's going to do it.
- 54:32I hope this keeps stating how long old women's had the belt
- 54:36for. Their time's ticking.
- 54:41Because we keep saying this person's going to take it from
- 54:45him and it hasn't happened. And now you're thinking, well,
- 54:50who is going to take it? And it looks like the New Hope
- 54:56is Teddy Ray. So, and I'm I'm hoping I can, if
- 55:04it is in December on my birthday, I am hoping I get to
- 55:08be there and witness their next encounter because they are, they
- 55:16have been the most brutal matches I have seen.
- 55:22So I guess we'll have to find out what happens.
- 55:30So that was your atomic brewhouse of horrors Free
- 55:36roundup. However, before we move on to
- 55:44Infinite, I made the point earlier about the the crowd and
- 55:55like the whole setup. So what we did notice with this
- 56:00show is they had closed off half the venue to make it look more
- 56:07compact. And I think that was a brilliant
- 56:10idea to do that as opposed to having it wide, kind of like
- 56:16wide open, having the the curtains to kind of like block
- 56:21it off while it looked, while it's in a massive venue, it
- 56:27looked more intimate having it kind of like roped off a bit.
- 56:33So it it almost felt like you was in the brewery in a sense,
- 56:38just due to like how small the venue felt, even though it was
- 56:42still in a massive place. But from the first half to the
- 56:50second-half, I think the first half of the show was, I think,
- 56:58more fast-paced and I don't know how to word this now.
- 57:07It had more of a crowd involvement.
- 57:10Yeah, more crowd engagement. Yeah, it it felt very much like
- 57:15the second-half dropped off, kind of like crowd pardon and
- 57:24arguably match wise aiming at times in the Rumble.
- 57:29It just ebbed and flowed. It's probably the the best way
- 57:34to put it. There were times for it, there
- 57:36was a lull and then it kind of peaked.
- 57:41But I think overall they did get the Rumble just right for how to
- 57:48how to do the rumble. Yeah, even the lulls weren't too
- 57:52bad. But it was just I think the
- 57:55crowd got even they were very tired or it just took it out of
- 58:02them to which again, nothing against Atomic on this not a
- 58:09negative. I think it's, it's just you get
- 58:15that with some shows. Sometimes you can have the best
- 58:19show and the crowds just a bit dead or equally the show can be
- 58:25dead and the crowd can be brilliant.
- 58:27And it was just a bit of a it was a mixed bag, this show, but
- 58:33it was still good. Yeah.
- 58:38We do have a second little round up for you.
- 58:44This was at the The Hooters in Liverpool city centre, wasn't
- 58:51it? Yeah, it was.
- 58:52Yeah, for Infinite Wrestling, I myself could not make it.
- 58:58So at this point of the show, I am handing the presenting role
- 59:06from now on. 2 miles. So I attended Infinite the day
- 59:12after Atomic. So it was held on a Thursday,
- 59:15which is a very strange day for a show.
- 59:17But we had Infinite and Nightmare in Hooters.
- 59:22This show, Oh my God, I picked a good show to go.
- 59:26So this show was fantastic. I was looking at the card
- 59:30beforehand, I'd seen all the matches.
- 59:33I was like, this show's going to be good, but I didn't realise it
- 59:37was going to be this good. This show was fantastic, but
- 59:42this is how you start off a show.
- 59:44We had Liam Carr against Ethan Allen as an opening match.
- 59:50What the hell? Wow.
- 59:54This match you got Liam the big, strong, tall technical wrestler,
- 1:00:02and then you've got Ethan the shorter small technical
- 1:00:06wrestler. These two.
- 1:00:10Perfect. They worked so well together.
- 1:00:16The chemistry was there from the start.
- 1:00:19I have seen a clip of Ethan giving it to the the the whole
- 1:00:27crowd Shall I speak wearing a united top?
- 1:00:33Everyone was calling him a grass for wearing that.
- 1:00:36Rightly so. You don't come to Liverpool in a
- 1:00:40Man United top. Absolute worm.
- 1:00:45I I had. I had to laugh.
- 1:00:48I had. To Liam picked up the win.
- 1:00:51A great choice to have Liam defeat Ethan Allen, which puts
- 1:00:57Ethan in a bit of a tricky situation now in Infinite he's
- 1:01:02just lost. Liam is looking like he might be
- 1:01:06the next guy to take the title belt off Luke Jacobs, depending
- 1:01:12if he faces him next show, 22nd of November.
- 1:01:15We'll see. I I would have Liam against
- 1:01:18Jacobs. They've got to do it again.
- 1:01:23It's, it's the thing of I, I've only seen Liam on that TNT show
- 1:01:31and from what I saw of him, he looks, he looks really good.
- 1:01:37He is fantastic. Because it's despite the fact
- 1:01:41he's in FTM, I've never seen him kind of like on any other show
- 1:01:50other than as I say that TNT 1 and it makes me think of why
- 1:01:55does he not get booked anywhere else.
- 1:01:58Yeah. It's just one of those.
- 1:02:04So second match we had the Infinite women's title.
- 1:02:07This was not supposed to be a title match, so it was supposed
- 1:02:11to be Holly Barlow versus Melissa Fierce versus Lizzie
- 1:02:16Evo. But Lizzie Evo was not at the
- 1:02:18show because Holly Barlow apparently attacked her before
- 1:02:23the show and she was unable to compete.
- 1:02:28So Holly was not very nice. This turned into a title match
- 1:02:34because somehow, some way in the infinite women's contract, Holly
- 1:02:41Barlow is Co champion with Lana Austin.
- 1:02:46Holly does not deserve that title belt.
- 1:02:49Lana won it. This match.
- 1:02:55Yeah, this match was fantastic. Melissa versus Holly, great
- 1:03:00match, technical issues, and I can't even hear you.
- 1:03:07Now you see my commute. Can you hear me now?
- 1:03:13There we go. Yeah.
- 1:03:17Technical issues, my end. I don't know if someone's pulled
- 1:03:21the plug or what happened because I could hear you.
- 1:03:28But then all of a sudden it said connection lost.
- 1:03:32Oh nice, can we start the infinite segment again or just
- 1:03:36carry on from where I was? Well, you were just about to
- 1:03:41start talking about Holly and Melissa.
- 1:03:44The match wise at least. Oh yeah, so.
- 1:03:48We'll, we'll just pick it up from there.
- 1:03:50It'll be seamless editing. Seamless editing E Recording now
- 1:03:59R yeah, you need to Oh, you're recording you.
- 1:04:02Just carry on. I'll just I'll just edit it when
- 1:04:04it when it comes to it. So we had Holly defending the
- 1:04:10title for Lana against Melissa Face.
- 1:04:14This match was very good. I've got to see the heel side of
- 1:04:19Polly Barlow which going on how she's from Manchester in that
- 1:04:27Mank accent which US Liverpool fans did not enjoy and we were
- 1:04:33mocking her for it. I'm interested to know how did
- 1:04:39you take Holly as a heel? Because I've.
- 1:04:44Seen her, I took it. It's quite carny, but in a good
- 1:04:48way. Yeah, because I've seen her a
- 1:04:53couple Times Now where I saw her at North and IT I think it is
- 1:05:00programmed to us northern, well, Northwest folk where we almost
- 1:05:06didn't want to accept her as a being a heel.
- 1:05:14And it's just like, well, normally you're not a heel.
- 1:05:18You're the happy go lucky, everyone loves you.
- 1:05:22And but then again, when we saw her at TNT where she kind of
- 1:05:29like turn and became a heel there, it worked so well.
- 1:05:37So it's it's interesting trying to gauge like what people's
- 1:05:43opinions is of her being kind of heelish.
- 1:05:49I enjoyed it. That's what we normally see.
- 1:05:55Molly retained for Lana. Very, very good title defence
- 1:05:59for Lana, not Holly's belt. Should not be classed as Holly's
- 1:06:04belt, but we're here. Oh, I was going to say that
- 1:06:09match Holly and Melissa was, out of all the matches that were on
- 1:06:13the that were on that card, that was the one I wanted to see the
- 1:06:17most because they're two of my favourite wrestlers at the
- 1:06:21moment. And it delivered.
- 1:06:24Not even just like the two like 2 favourite women's wrestlers,
- 1:06:27just two wrestlers full stop at the moment that that's kind of
- 1:06:33what in the northwest scene yeah, but it's it's great to
- 1:06:40finally see both. It seems being like, I know I
- 1:06:45mentioned, like I said, fierce early should be getting booked
- 1:06:48on bigger platforms. Holly's since she's come back
- 1:06:56kind of like last year. Her career is just massively
- 1:07:01skyrecketing. Oh yeah, she's back at the top.
- 1:07:04Oh yeah, she's very quickly kind of like flown to the top face
- 1:07:09for me. I think give it Another Year is
- 1:07:14probably going to be equal or arguably if not more than where
- 1:07:21Holly is if she carries on because she's she's too good.
- 1:07:29Oh yes, she's. A superstar.
- 1:07:32Absolute, absolute star. Yeah.
- 1:07:37It's just how promotions just don't particularly like Bucker
- 1:07:44on things. It's like she's, I think she's
- 1:07:47been on Eve and deserves that, but it's it's just like of I
- 1:07:55think other promotions don't know what to do with her as
- 1:07:58well. Yeah.
- 1:08:00Probably a thing of I think she's so talented that they
- 1:08:04don't know what to do. I think that's, I think that's
- 1:08:08the only thing at this moment that's probably stopping her.
- 1:08:14Yeah. Because if you look around
- 1:08:18everyone, you can see where the fit in.
- 1:08:21And from Melissa at the moment, it almost feels like she's it's
- 1:08:27stupid to say of, but she's so good that there's no particular
- 1:08:37ideal place. Laura, it's, it's almost, it's
- 1:08:46almost a victim of being successful in a way.
- 1:08:50Yeah. But you know, here's hoping
- 1:08:55things change. At least both her and Holly are
- 1:09:00great. Oh yeah, 100%.
- 1:09:05So match three we had Lewis Johnson against the returning
- 1:09:09Sam Gradwell. I again, another match I
- 1:09:14enjoyed. The ending shocked me though.
- 1:09:16This, this was a shock ending. Great mix of styles with
- 1:09:22Gradwell being the bruiser and Johnson being the technical.
- 1:09:29The styles clashed and mixed together perfectly.
- 1:09:35Gradwell dominated the match from majority of it.
- 1:09:40Johnson come back quite a few times giving Bradwell quite a
- 1:09:46few receipts. Some of the blows in this match,
- 1:09:50oh man, heavy hitting stuff between these two and I've not
- 1:09:57seen, I've not seen Grabwell for ages.
- 1:09:59I know he returned at the previous show.
- 1:10:02We don't talk about that return because it yeah, it got small
- 1:10:07because of issues. But yeah, Grabwell returns.
- 1:10:12Great return, great match. Happy to see Grabwell back,
- 1:10:17annoyed with the ending because, ah, Lewis Johnson, you're a
- 1:10:20little snake. So Johnson comes into the ring
- 1:10:26with a steel chair, blasts Gradwell, pins him right in
- 1:10:32front of the ref. Kyle's seen it, referee's seen
- 1:10:35it. Referee wants to DQ Johnson and
- 1:10:40give Gradwell the win, but Johnson grabs Kyle and he's
- 1:10:43like, if you do this, you're dead.
- 1:10:46So Kyle's like Johnson wins, there's nothing I can do, or
- 1:10:52he's going to absolutely beat the crap out of me.
- 1:10:56Because Johnson likes to beat down officials in Infinite.
- 1:10:59He's got a habit of beating up referee.
- 1:11:02So yeah, Kyle made the right choice by letting Gradwell take
- 1:11:08the loss there, sadly. What are your thought on angles
- 1:11:15like that where the referee is forced to give out a win?
- 1:11:23I think if it's done well I haven't got a problem.
- 1:11:28Yeah. I think if it's, if this is what
- 1:11:33he, what he regularly does and it's a thing, as long as it's
- 1:11:40worked well, then I, I don't have a problem with it.
- 1:11:46If it's badly, then I have problems with it because it's,
- 1:11:54it's almost like title matches where the champion, you know,
- 1:11:57full, full well, it's literally just going to be the same thing
- 1:12:02over and over again. For example, in future shock,
- 1:12:09Olbermann would like low blow like referees or his opponents
- 1:12:15to intentionally get disqualified.
- 1:12:21That could be a like an easy like cheap way.
- 1:12:30Yeah, but the way they worked all those together, it seem to
- 1:12:38add more to the matches than kind of ruining things.
- 1:12:44So on on that basis, if that's what he's doing, you just feel
- 1:12:50they'll be like a comeuppance down the line.
- 1:12:55So I I don't mind it as long as it's done in the right way.
- 1:13:01Yeah, I, I, I was happy with that ending.
- 1:13:06So the next match we had FTM Pritchie and Tom against Modus
- 1:13:12Operandi, Mickey Barnes and GMPL Dotson.
- 1:13:21Good old Mickey. Good old Mickey and PL, The
- 1:13:26chicken fried rice chance on the show.
- 1:13:28Come on, get in there. Mickey was losing his head.
- 1:13:32He's had enough of it. He's lost his head.
- 1:13:34He's had enough. Yeah.
- 1:13:37All match it was going all match.
- 1:13:40It's the one of the greatest chants in British wrestling at
- 1:13:44the minute. I love it.
- 1:13:45It's just perfect. Especially when you hear it like
- 1:13:50GPW and it's it was like ongoing for it felt like hours nearly,
- 1:13:58but it was. But it wasn't kind of one of
- 1:14:02those chants where you just go, OK, you've, you've done your
- 1:14:04chant, you can stop now. It's it's excessively annoying.
- 1:14:10However, Barnes, his reaction I love.
- 1:14:16Barnes reaction. Is what helps it so beautifully.
- 1:14:22And he, he just plays the role so, so well as just having,
- 1:14:28having a bad guy have a chant that's not annoying, adds a lot
- 1:14:35more. But I think when kind of like
- 1:14:38the heel can flip it and make it better, much like Mickey Barnes
- 1:14:45does with it. You've just got to love it.
- 1:14:49I I love it. Not a Barnes.
- 1:14:52Mickey Barnes is such a hero. He might be the bad guy, but
- 1:14:56you, you just love Mickey Barnes.
- 1:14:58He's such a funny guy. Yeah.
- 1:15:01And whereas PL Dalton, he's just an annoying shit bug, 2 polar
- 1:15:08opposites. He's got funny Mickey Barnes
- 1:15:12that everybody just loves ripping into and you've got that
- 1:15:15annoying PL dots and ah, it's like the perfect heel tag team.
- 1:15:21And then he got FTM The heroes of Liverpool.
- 1:15:26It's, I mean, if you're from like the Liverpool side, this
- 1:15:32won't make a jot of difference to you.
- 1:15:36But from anyone outside of Liverpool, I'm looking at this
- 1:15:41much now and I'm thinking, OK, which one's the good best?
- 1:15:48It's like Rich, even at times when he's meant to be like a
- 1:15:54baby face is never a baby face. No.
- 1:15:59Even when I've been to Liverpool shows, it's almost like he can't
- 1:16:04help himself. He's like, right, you're a good
- 1:16:10guy here. And it's almost like I can't do
- 1:16:14it. I have.
- 1:16:15I have to take the hate. I don't.
- 1:16:19I don't like being liked. I need hate.
- 1:16:21Yeah, imagine Tom just going. I'm fine.
- 1:16:26I'm happy with either. This was a fun tag team match
- 1:16:31FTM great combination tag team moves like they always do.
- 1:16:36You use your left TM moves that you've quite accustomed to now.
- 1:16:41Mickey Barnes did quite a lot of the heavy lifting, a lot of
- 1:16:44heavy power moves Datsun come in and methodical.
- 1:16:50You know what you're getting with PL Datsun quite slow,
- 1:16:52methodical, but he can hit big moves out of nowhere.
- 1:16:55So Datsun's quite a, it's a tough one to wrestle.
- 1:17:02Whereas Mickey, you know, he's big guy, he's going to throw you
- 1:17:05around. OK, work the legs working, slow
- 1:17:09him down, tyre him out. For quite a lot of the match,
- 1:17:13Mickey was stood on the outside, start on the apron while
- 1:17:18everyone's just chanting chicken fried rice at him.
- 1:17:20So Datsun, I think Datsun wrestled majority of this match,
- 1:17:26whereas while FTM with frequent tag in, tag out work on Datsun,
- 1:17:30Mickey come in did a quite a lot of the heavy lifting.
- 1:17:33Like I said, FTM pick up the win.
- 1:17:37Datsun and Mickey Barnes are not happy.
- 1:17:40They come out later on in the show.
- 1:17:43We'll get on to that. So Oh yeah, it leads me into the
- 1:17:51next match, which is perfect. So it was an infinite Lineage
- 1:17:55Five way match. This even it wasn't booked as a
- 1:18:00Halloween match, It felt like a Halloween match.
- 1:18:04So you had Scott Olbermann defending against Don Evans,
- 1:18:09defending against Joe Kessler, defending against Tim Strange
- 1:18:13and defending against Isaac North.
- 1:18:18And and for those keeping count, how long was his entrance
- 1:18:23roughly? It took about 5-6 minutes
- 1:18:28because all the other wrestlers started doing other things.
- 1:18:32They started share like I think Kessler got like a bottle of
- 1:18:36water and the Kessler just started drinking it and like
- 1:18:40started sharing it around. Tim Strange is just SAT, stood
- 1:18:46there and he's just like, how long is this entrance going to
- 1:18:49be? Isaac's just sat down in the
- 1:18:54ring just waiting and everyone's just like just waiting around.
- 1:18:59I'm having a chat with Joel Kessler actually sat down next
- 1:19:02to me. He's like his entrance takes the
- 1:19:06piss. It's like the perfect just
- 1:19:12interaction with a wrestler you can get.
- 1:19:19So Oberman finally gets to the ring.
- 1:19:21I called this spot as well. I said they're all going to beat
- 1:19:25him down for that. They're all going to batter the
- 1:19:27shit out of him. And what what happened?
- 1:19:30All four men jumped in. Because it was think I was told
- 1:19:35as well, while they were waiting for Oberman was that Evans was
- 1:19:40doing press UPS. Yeah, Evans was working out
- 1:19:46pretty sure. It's it's one of those things
- 1:19:51with Oberman's entrance, if you get a certain opponent or if
- 1:19:56it's like a multi thing, you can have so much fun during this
- 1:20:01section of it because it's like, what, what are you going to?
- 1:20:08What are you going to do? I mean easily.
- 1:20:11I mean you can't, but. I'd love it one day where the
- 1:20:15bell rings early, Olbermann takes his time and someone pins
- 1:20:22an opponent during his entrance so he lose title without even
- 1:20:27actually being in the ring. That would be great.
- 1:20:31It would, it would be, it would be a good idea that one time.
- 1:20:36This this match was chaos, honestly.
- 1:20:38You had Tim Strange hitting two rodeo times.
- 1:20:41I wanted him to hit a 619, but Tim cannot do a 619.
- 1:20:46He can do the rodeo time instead, though.
- 1:20:49So he did the first rodeo time on Kessler and then the second
- 1:20:55rodeo time he did it on Evans and Kessler and it was such a
- 1:20:59great spot. Rodeo time is just such a funny
- 1:21:03spot. I love it.
- 1:21:09I think the only heel in this match was Auberman because Evans
- 1:21:13is like in between now and infinite like because he's got a
- 1:21:16little bit of respect back, but like again, he was working a
- 1:21:19bit. He also it's like because they
- 1:21:21teased the return of the Merseyside Murder squad even
- 1:21:25though they're not allowed to tag an infinite because he lost
- 1:21:27to FDM. So who knows, we could see the
- 1:21:31return if. Masks.
- 1:21:34Management allow it. Masks maybe?
- 1:21:37Who knows, we could see the return of the murder squad just.
- 1:21:43Just imagine if Olbermann wore a mask, would they put him in a
- 1:21:46red one just to wind him up? Yeah, Olbermann retains.
- 1:21:52I can't even remember really pinned.
- 1:21:59I would say on the basis of this Evans, but I I only say that
- 1:22:08because traditionally when cage match post results, the first
- 1:22:12person in a match that they put is normally the person they pin.
- 1:22:19So he says Scott Olberman defeats Dan Evans and then it
- 1:22:23goes into the rest of them. So again, it could completely
- 1:22:27not be him. But yeah, I completely forgot
- 1:22:31who Olbermann pinned in that match.
- 1:22:35I think he might. I think he pinned.
- 1:22:42He didn't pin Strange. I don't he didn't pin Kessler.
- 1:22:46It was between North and Evans he pinned.
- 1:22:50I will ask another source. I think it was N that he pinned.
- 1:22:55I'm pretty sure because after the match you are modus operandi
- 1:23:01coming up. I will see if my other source
- 1:23:04can tell me. So I will.
- 1:23:14I will get back to you if I hear.
- 1:23:17If you hear anything on that one.
- 1:23:21So you had a bit of a post match shenanigans after the match as
- 1:23:27well. So Isaac N is the last guy in
- 1:23:30the ring. After the match ends, everyone
- 1:23:32leaves Modus Operandi come back out PL and Mickey and basically
- 1:23:40beat down Isaac North and then shaving Bold which the crowd
- 1:23:47were very very stunned. I loved the video to this of the
- 1:23:54one woman I think that was behind you and Lindsay.
- 1:24:00Oh yeah. Aiming during this, but it's
- 1:24:06like I said, in fairness, there's not a whole lot to shave
- 1:24:11off Isaac really. There wasn't that much left in
- 1:24:16the ring either. When it got shaved, it was a
- 1:24:18little bit. I thought if it was done on
- 1:24:21Olbermann, that would have been interesting.
- 1:24:27You could be there for a while. Yeah, great match, loads of
- 1:24:33silly stuff going on which you expect with us Five man match
- 1:24:39but another great title defence for Oberman.
- 1:24:44Which leads us on to the grand pre tournament semi final match
- 1:24:50for which we now know is for the return in infinite tag team
- 1:24:55titles. We had Act two against Meat
- 1:25:01Waggon. Meat.
- 1:25:04Meat. Oh, we were calling him vegan
- 1:25:08Waggon and yeah, they weren't very happy.
- 1:25:11Oh, that? That's a call back to future
- 1:25:13shock as well. Yeah, we didn't get that
- 1:25:16yesterday, sadly. Yeah, no, the meat waggon.
- 1:25:19We're not very happy with a vegan waggon chant.
- 1:25:22And I got a good chant for Troy Ryan.
- 1:25:25Here we go. You've not heard what I call
- 1:25:27Troy Ryan. So I called him Tiny Ryan, and
- 1:25:34the crowd loved it. One thing I will always say for
- 1:25:39you with your chants is they either die on their ass or
- 1:25:43they're exceptional. That is never in between.
- 1:25:47No, it's very hit or miss. The crowd seemed to like Tiny
- 1:25:51Ryan and it hit quite well. Troy was not very happy with
- 1:25:56that chant. Anderson wasn't happy with that
- 1:26:00chant either. Right.
- 1:26:04Just a slight diversion. I've just asked on who Oberman
- 1:26:11pinned Infinite and my source is as good as HP in Heinz because
- 1:26:22he said Quinn and I've just told him there wasn't a Quinn in the
- 1:26:27in the actual match. So I've just asked again.
- 1:26:34So the the investigation is still ongoing.
- 1:26:38The investigation goes on. If I hear anything more I will
- 1:26:43let you know. Yeah, so act two against Meat
- 1:26:48Waggon. I've seen this match before in
- 1:26:52Atomic. You know what you're getting.
- 1:26:55Fantastic type team match these two teams.
- 1:27:00Two of the best teams in the UK at the minute in a very, very
- 1:27:05high stipulation match This match.
- 1:27:11Perfect example of tag team wrestling.
- 1:27:14There's not much more you can say that you've got Anderson and
- 1:27:18Troy, two big dudes just launching Ben Harland around
- 1:27:26during majority of this match, Ben Harland took a beating from
- 1:27:30Troy and Anderson and then you had a few hot tags into Knudsen,
- 1:27:35where Ben and Knudsen work as they usually do very well as A
- 1:27:41tag team. Like the 5050 booking on this
- 1:27:46perfect. You had moments in the match
- 1:27:49where you think, ah, this is meat waggons.
- 1:27:52And then it was like, oh, Act 2 can win this, but it ends with
- 1:27:57Act 2 taking a win, which I'm very, very, very happy to see
- 1:28:03because it sets up the tag team title match at Mazumania, which
- 1:28:08is now FTM versus Act 2 for the returning infinite tag team
- 1:28:14titles. And yeah, this match, I've seen
- 1:28:18this match once before in Off the Page.
- 1:28:24It was a great match. And now there's more on the
- 1:28:28line. I think these two maybe tag team
- 1:28:35match of the year, if it goes as well as I think it might,
- 1:28:39because there's a lot on the line, two of the best tag teams
- 1:28:44at the minute. You've got Act 2 that have been
- 1:28:46around quite a while now, arguably the best tag team in
- 1:28:52the UK. I have breaking news.
- 1:29:01Breaking news. The breaking news is that it was
- 1:29:07Isaac North. I thought it was.
- 1:29:12Because the reply that I got was I meant to say no, I've slept
- 1:29:19since that show. Laughing emojis had to inform
- 1:29:25why I was asking. And the question I got back was,
- 1:29:29didn't Miles remember? So she said no, that is why I'm
- 1:29:34asking you. So we, we, we have, what's the
- 1:29:44word I'm thinking of closure. We have closure so much.
- 1:29:48Yeah but Mercy Mania, Act 2, FTM tag team titles, money match.
- 1:30:00FTM will win it. I am 100% FTM will win it.
- 1:30:05I will be very, very surprised if Act two win it because FTM
- 1:30:09have been booked this whole year as yes, the top guys in the
- 1:30:15promotion. So if Act 2 somehow win, I will
- 1:30:21be very shocked. Very, very shocked.
- 1:30:26So in other words, that means Act 2 is winning because you're
- 1:30:30practically going against them. Yeah, even though I don't want
- 1:30:34to. Yeah.
- 1:30:39And then wrapping it off with the infinite world title match.
- 1:30:44Luke Jacobs defending against Trent fucking 7.
- 1:30:51Oh my God, this match blew my brain.
- 1:30:54This match. I was looking forward to it
- 1:30:56beforehand and Oh my God this match was phenomenal.
- 1:31:03I you know how good Trent 7 is? You know how good Luke Jacobs
- 1:31:08is? Wow, some of the chops seven day
- 1:31:15to Jacobs in this match. Holy crap, it was like a
- 1:31:19gunshot. Did both men do the ring post
- 1:31:30chop? Yeah, I.
- 1:31:33Thought they wasn't. Yeah, they both hit the ring
- 1:31:34post. To be fair, if I get a Trent 7
- 1:31:37match and I don't get the mist chop and hit the the ring post I
- 1:31:44do feel a bit cheated. You had Trent 7 snapping Luke
- 1:31:51Jacobs fingers as well. That was a great spot and you
- 1:31:55could hear it as well. It was fantastic.
- 1:32:00This yeah, two of the best in the world.
- 1:32:03Just going blow for blow, just move for move.
- 1:32:12Jacobs kicked out of the Burning Hammer.
- 1:32:20Jacobs was beaten twice, Twice by Trent 7.
- 1:32:26But Jacobs is cheating Little rat.
- 1:32:29And twice Greenwood was down on the floor first.
- 1:32:33Greenwood. First time Greenwood was on the
- 1:32:37floor because seven at Jacobs picked up on the shoulders and
- 1:32:44Jacobs kicks Greenwood down to the floor 7 pins in foot.
- 1:32:51I think it was like a 10 count. And then second time Greenwood
- 1:32:56goes down because he gets splashed in the corner
- 1:32:59accidentally by 7 because Jacobs moved out the way.
- 1:33:03Jacobs picks up another win, but Greenwood doesn't see it.
- 1:33:08Ethan Allen comes back to the ring, gets up on the apron,
- 1:33:13distracts Trent 7, and then Jacob punches him in the
- 1:33:18handbags. Punches him right in the testes.
- 1:33:23Roll up 123. Of course he did.
- 1:33:27Yeah. Plus I've I've just saw that
- 1:33:30that match went 11 minutes and 39 seconds.
- 1:33:34Yeah. Which is?
- 1:33:38It's actually quite short, really.
- 1:33:40It's quite short for Jacob 7. But.
- 1:33:44They normally go in this. I think with these two you can
- 1:33:48probably get a lot in. I think that as it shows you can
- 1:33:53get a lot in for less time. Yeah, they did a lot for an 11
- 1:33:58minute match and the storytelling was perfect.
- 1:34:02Yeah. Jacobs once again ratting his
- 1:34:09way to defend the title, cheating once again as he's been
- 1:34:14doing for the past year in Infinite.
- 1:34:17Just cheating every single match to retain.
- 1:34:22He's announced for the next show defending the title.
- 1:34:26I think he's defending the title.
- 1:34:28Knowing Jacobs, you he he won't defend the title like a little
- 1:34:31worm and say he's ill that day, but I can't be bothered
- 1:34:35defending. Oh, Jacobs.
- 1:34:40Screw Jacobs. The promo afterwards, Jacobs
- 1:34:50gets congratulated by Ethan as you've seen that afterwards
- 1:34:54promo where they're in the street I.
- 1:34:56Haven't. Jacobs is celebrating with Ethan
- 1:35:01and he's like, at least you're wearing a Man United shirt, but
- 1:35:06we're still the young ones get that shirt off.
- 1:35:10But they're still like, together, even though Jacob
- 1:35:12supports City and Ethan supports United.
- 1:35:15It's. It's the on the socials, watch
- 1:35:18the promo. It's brilliant and it's like it
- 1:35:22sets up the next show perfectly. It's.
- 1:35:26It's one thing I do love about Jacobs and Allen of despite
- 1:35:33despising each other's football teams, does just a part.
- 1:35:39You think, how are you? How do you both like work
- 1:35:42together? You've.
- 1:35:44Got more arguments amongst yourself than any other activity
- 1:35:48I can think of, apart from when they get in the ring and they
- 1:35:52just, it's almost like right when we get to the ring, we
- 1:35:55forget everything. We're out with the ring.
- 1:35:59No, I'm just going to, I'm just going to bad mouth your your
- 1:36:03other team. One reason I love the young
- 1:36:10guns. I wasn't a fan at first but now
- 1:36:13I do. I do see why people regard them
- 1:36:16so highly. Like two of the best.
- 1:36:20It took me a while to realise how good they were because I was
- 1:36:23like, I've seen a couple of the matches and I was like unsure.
- 1:36:29And now I'm just like, there's a reason why these guys are
- 1:36:33everywhere. They're in Spain, they're in
- 1:36:36France or in the UK, they're everywhere.
- 1:36:38It's like there's there's a reason.
- 1:36:42I think also as well, it's as as much as they are two fantastic
- 1:36:51talents, Luke obviously being kind of like the better one of
- 1:36:56the two. That said though, for what
- 1:36:59Ethan's had to overcome to then get to that level as well should
- 1:37:07not be kind of like dismissed either.
- 1:37:10I mean, he could easily have come back and be nowhere near
- 1:37:14anything. He could have not cruised
- 1:37:19through, but he could. He could have come back at like
- 1:37:23a lower level. Oh yeah.
- 1:37:26He's worked his ass off to get where he is now and if anything,
- 1:37:32he's probably just as as we speak now, he's probably a shade
- 1:37:37under Luke, but he's still kind of getting back into the groove
- 1:37:44even though he's been back kind of a year or two.
- 1:37:49I think he's only going to get better and better, so and just
- 1:37:54like with these two as well, the futures them two have going
- 1:38:00forward is bloody scary. I know Tony writes an answer for
- 1:38:07the next show. I I either see Tony against
- 1:38:12Olbermann but I would love to see him against Jacobs.
- 1:38:16Tony Wright versus Luke Jacobs, That Matt Bucket, I want to see
- 1:38:23that. I don't even think they've ever
- 1:38:24faced each other before. No, I don't think they've faced
- 1:38:28each other either. Well, I'm fuck it.
- 1:38:35I'm I'm just trying to to see, but I don't think he I don't
- 1:38:40think he has. What I would like to see is a
- 1:38:45title for title match, so Jacobs versus Olbermann, but Tony, but
- 1:38:52put Tony Wright in the mix as well.
- 1:38:55I'd like to see that as a triple threat.
- 1:38:57Wright versus Jacobs versus Auberman with both titles on the
- 1:39:00line. That would work.
- 1:39:07Yeah. I'm pretty sure they've not
- 1:39:08faced each other before. No, it's not.
- 1:39:11It's not coming up. The of it would have been years
- 1:39:16and years ago. Yeah, I, I don't think, because
- 1:39:22I think Wright's did a lot, kind of like future shock shows.
- 1:39:28Yeah, Jacobs was gone. Jacobs.
- 1:39:30Yeah, after Jacobs. Jacobs even not on those shows.
- 1:39:36So yeah, I've just found the the promo you're talking about.
- 1:39:45I don't know why it's looking at Alan in the United tops, it
- 1:39:49doesn't look right. No.
- 1:39:52It doesn't look like an adult in that top.
- 1:39:58Jacobs looks like a like an actual like adult and Alan just
- 1:40:04looks like a lad. It just it's it's it just gives
- 1:40:11off was it young vibes. I think it's fair to say does
- 1:40:15Ethan whereas. Luke gives off very much
- 1:40:19grizzled vibes out of the two of them.
- 1:40:25And then immediately the the post I see underneath is Oberman
- 1:40:29crediting you on a clip. So you've you've made it.
- 1:40:34I've made it. Yeah.
- 1:40:38But yeah, I believe that is all or everything covered from
- 1:40:48things over in Merseyside, unless you have anything else to
- 1:40:53add. No, that's everything wrapped up
- 1:40:56from the Merseyside midweek bash.
- 1:41:01So that is episode 10 in the can.
- 1:41:07You will be getting an extra episode sometime this week
- 1:41:14depending on a certain person. If I can track him down somehow
- 1:41:22to do it. I don't want to mention who
- 1:41:28Benno, but yes, if we do it will it will be a fun podcast I
- 1:41:38imagine with this person, especially as that show was fun.
- 1:41:44So is there anything you want to plug or?
- 1:41:51No, just keep supporting local Indies.
- 1:41:53So that's all you've got to plug.
- 1:41:57Plug the Indies. Plug the Indies, baby.
- 1:42:02Sorry I'm going to plug because why not?
- 1:42:07I am on Twitter under Oh This is why I can never remember what my
- 1:42:15name is, which is never a good idea.
- 1:42:18I am under better Bradders Capital P Capital B Otherwise,
- 1:42:30you can catch me on Instagram at Braddersgrappers where you'll
- 1:42:35see my adventures of going round wrestling shows, the last one
- 1:42:42being future shock this past Sunday.
- 1:42:46So that probably tells you where we're going with the next
- 1:42:49podcast. But other than that, I, I, I
- 1:42:56actually have a not so much of A busy weekend, but I have a busy
- 1:43:01Friday. All will be revealed on the next
- 1:43:06show because I still have to do some packing.
- 1:43:10That said, thank you Miles for helping out on the show.
- 1:43:15As always, always glad to have a second person to bounce off.
- 1:43:23This has been PETA Brad's Thank you for listening to this bumper
- 1:43:31edition coming from the Merseyside Way and all there is
- 1:43:38left to do is a thank you for listening and we will catch you
- 1:43:44next time. Goodbye.