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Bradders Grappers: 31# - TNT Level Up /DOA Tournament 2026 · Bradders Grappers

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Hello and welcome to another exciting edition of Bradders
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Grappas where this week of this episode I should say we are
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going to be taking a look back at the TNT double header
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featuring Ignition Level up and also the evening show of DOA
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2026. Joining me on this fun little
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look back is as ever my official unofficial Co host in Mr Miles
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Smith. Good afternoon, Miles.
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Good afternoon. Seems very strange to be
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recording an afternoon show but there there are reasons for that
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which you will discover probably in a couple of shows time.
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So we are going to try and get through this as quick as we can
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do so sit back for a 2 hour marathon.
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We start with TNT Ignition Level Up, the opening contest being
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for the TNT Women's Tag Team Titles with the challengers
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Lally in Holly Barlow and Lana Austin.
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They went up against the Champions in the experience,
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that being LA Taylor and Sky Smithson.
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I'll come to you, Miles on this. What were your your thoughts on
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this match? So it it felt like even though
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it was a championship match, it felt like a very unserious
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championship match because there was a lot of like goofy spots in
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it where it was like Holly and Lana shall be in like the fun
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side of them. And then the experience we're
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trying to put on like a proper tag team match, but like Holly
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was like showing off on the outside, giving like just
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mouthing off to the fans and just being a usual Scrappy Doo.
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Yeah, so it's that term Scrappy Doo for Holly really does kind
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of suit us so perfectly now. But it's it's the thing of,
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well, it's hard to tell. I think Lily, I'm meant to be
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kind of the the rule Breakers of kind of at TNT, even though.
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People were cheering for it, yeah.
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They do come across more kind of like fan favourite, but it's I'd
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almost go as far to say them more Inbetweeners than anything.
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They don't particularly give off kind of fan favourite stuff, but
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they don't particularly kind of like push away from it either.
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So it's it's an interesting dynamic, especially is when kind
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of like they both got together as Lolly, it was Lana wanting
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nothing to do with Holly. She did not want to have any fun
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whatsoever. And Holly has kind of slowly but
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surely kind of just chiselled and grafted away at Lana to kind
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of break her down and almost get her on her level.
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Now it feels she's she's not as nasty to Holly as she she once
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was. The match itself though, I
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actually thought this was a really decent opener.
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As you said, there was a lot of goofy stuff, though.
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Even in between the goofy stuff, you still had some decent
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wrestling. It was kind of clear that they
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were going to target Sky in this match and have kind of them in
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charge and isolate the tag partner, but they didn't.
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They actually seem to isolate both Taylor and Smithson, kind
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of like different intervals in this match.
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But you you always felt there were going to be some
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shenanigans with with Lolly in this contest.
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And I mean, we, we weren't disappointed with with kind of
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like how it ended. I was, I was, I was a bit
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annoyed with how it ended. I probably won't have had the
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title change happen. I would have kept the
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experiences title holders. It's someone made the point, I
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can't remember who it was now, where they said the the
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experience of held the tag titles, but it's felt very much
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like the crowd. Have not been behind.
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Them nothing haven't been behind them or just as much as I mean,
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the experience as a team are brilliant really, but they have
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struggled to try and get kind of like the crowd to get behind him
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or or one way or the other either Boom or Jerem.
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So it's in a way does make a bit of sense changing the title.
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But it's, I suppose it's just one of those things with the
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crowd. You, you can't please everyone,
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I suppose. Miles.
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So if you look, you look at how many title defences they've had,
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so they've they've held the belt for 434 days, but they've only
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had 1234 title defences. So the defeat the defeated
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pretty Psycho but some summer explosion 2025 they defeated the
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She Wolves and they defeated Hyperactive and they've lost to
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Lally in the 4th title defence. Yeah it looks like it's a long
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title. Rainbow Full title defences Is
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is not good enough for a team like LA and Sky.
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They deserved a lot more title defences.
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Might have been a booking issue or maybe they've not been able
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to get to Liverpool as much because I know LA is down and
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down South so it's like might be a logistics issue getting them
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to have title defences regularly but.
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I mean, they have, they have struggled kind of getting as
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many title defences as you say. But in the meantime, they have
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tried to kind of had it out at times with Smithson doing other
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things or if something has happened with Smiths and they've
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tried to kind of incorporate into like A tag match even the
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next show or down the line. But again, as you say, if it's a
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case of the can't get Teller to come up or there's just problems
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where they can't do it, I suppose it makes makes sense to
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put titles on a team that can defend them more often.
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But again, it's I can't even turn around and say there's no
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teams that they can defend because there's plenty of tag
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teams that you can have. Again, all that does also come
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down to booking and availability.
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But I'm now wondering if if they break up the experience, would
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they lot at having Smithson go for the tag titles again?
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But with Violet Night and having Violet, Violet Sky involved, I
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suppose we'll, we'll, we'll wait and see on that point.
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The match itself though, and what caused the title change?
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So we had Holly who suplexed Smithson up on the staging area.
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She then grabbed one of the tag titles, went to try and get in
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the ring, drew the attention of referee Scott Bell.
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Also had LA Taylor looking at Holly and thinking well you're
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not getting in the ring With that, Lana picks up one of her
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many titles she owns. This distracted the referee,
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which then led to Holly entering the ring, cracking Taylor in the
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head with the belt. Things then broke down with
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Austin hitting a power bomb on Taylor and Holly dropping the
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elbow from the top rope to have both Holly and Lana pinning
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Taylor and crowning new tag team champions.
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Would it be fair to say where we differ on if we thought this was
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a good match then? I enjoyed the match to be fair,
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but it just wasn't the outcome I wanted.
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Match number 2 was Lewis Johnson originally going up against.
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I can't think of his first name now.
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Thank you. However we had a video and had
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Crow in a surgical gown in bed in a hospital.
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I haven't got a clue what he said because we couldn't hear
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from where we were. I think I remember his promo is
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basically was like he was explaining why he's in hospital
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with basically he said Lewis Johnson took him out and he's
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attacked him before the show or I don't know where he's attacked
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him, but he said Lewis has took him out.
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So he's he's found a suitable replacement in his best friend
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in Lucian. The Lucian comes out to avenge
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Callum Crow and he's stepped up in his place and took on the
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match against Lewis. I think the last time I saw
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Lucian he was facing Thai Archer and Avi.
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Yeah, VIP match. Yeah, yeah.
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And. And in fairness, was a really
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good match up. So I haven't got many notes for
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this due to the fact that I've only just written notes today.
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So that's why I'm very thin on the ground on these things.
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I think I remember majority of the match, to be fair.
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So the majority of the match, it was basically it was a clash of
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two different styles. Lewis basically just doing his
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usual technician style, working on limbs, like arms, legs.
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Whereas Lucian's the complete opposite of Lewis Johnson.
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He's more of the high flyer, really, really, really fast in
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the ring, likes to bounce off the ropes and go for a lot of
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like top rope manoeuvres. Lois likes to ground his
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opponent and work on his limbs, so the clash of styles in this
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worked really, really well in the mid the match progress.
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Yeah, it was. You know, I've really enjoyed
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this match in. To be fair, Lewis is just a big
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kind of brawling technical son of a gun Lucian who I have only
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seen very kind of like sparse mostly at TNT shows, but it felt
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very much like Lucian had done everything he could to help
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avenge Callum. Crowe being injured looked on
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course to win, but I think also it was a case of of him not
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playing to the crowd but just seem to take an age to go and
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hit the big move. But of course the longer you
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leave to do a big move, you help your opponent just recover more
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and effectively. That's really what happened as
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Johnson put him in a When I say awful submission, I mean that in
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the nicest, bestest way. Puts him in a submission.
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Hold it. It looks awkward.
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I think it's like it wasn't like a modification of the cross
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facing it because he's got his arm on his neck.
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You just. Racing back, it feels like half
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a cross face, half a kind of like.
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Sleep holder. Watch.
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Yeah, like a Barbara Crooks. Yeah.
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Sleeper hold. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's, it's a great move. I have to say that it's I do
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like seeing that move applied because it looked painful and in
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times where some moves look a bit kind of not that good.
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This definitely looks like it would have you tapping out in
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seconds, which is what I like from my submission holds.
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So that was match #2 we then Miles.
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I had a thought because of the promo count Crow did, I've
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thought of a match like during the show would work really well
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even on like a kid show or an extreme show.
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So Lewis Johnson versus Column Crow in a stretcher match.
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I'm just thinking where you'd put the stretcher in that place.
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I suppose you'd have to have on the stage, wouldn't?
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You on the stage? Yeah, yeah, like the old WCW
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shows and old WWE shows where they have like a coffin on the
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stage or like any stretcher. Oh to be fair it it would have
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to be WCW as as much as WWE tried to do.
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Well they didn't call them stretcher.
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I think they were ambulance match.
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They were awful when I watched him.
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Not saying that kind of WCW under Mike Arsene when he used
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to do them were were kind of like great ones, but it went
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well with his character, especially being kind of like
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ECW because I think he did kind of do that gimmick over an ECW
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as well. But it's it's one to pop into
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the potential ideas for TNT. So that was match #2.
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Match #3 was one I was looking forward to the most on the
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afternoon card, and it was the TNT Men's Level Up Briefcase
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match featuring such people as Tommy Tanner, Bullet, Denzel,
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Mack, Shreddy, and Vusic. Again, I have limited notes, but
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I have a fair few. So early on in the contest,
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Tommy Tanner gets taken out very early.
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Do you know what happened on that bit?
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So I think he went for a dive out of the ring.
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So we take, I think we took him out with an ankle injury.
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I was, I think they were trying to say it was concussion or
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something. It was, it looked like
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concussion or maybe like an ankle injury or something.
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Whereas where I saw it looked like, I think I think they put
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him down to like a leg injury maybe.
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I couldn't really make out what the actual injury was.
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Because she had Big John come out and was doing kind of all
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tests, like shining a light in his eyes, and he's kind of
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shying away and saying get the light out of out of my face.
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He's doing kind of like the whole test to follow the finger.
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He wanted to get back into the ring and they dragged him
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straight back out, lead him through the side of the stage
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and didn't really return till about.
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The last minute. 4-4 minutes. It was the vet.
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Maybe 2 1/2. I think it's about 2 1/2
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minutes. So effectively, this match then
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turned into bullet, Denzel shredded and Vusic.
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Every man at one point or another had a pinfall victory
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over the other. I think Vusic might have had two
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two pinfall victories or A1 pinfall and a submission during
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this. Again, I haven't fully watched
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it back, but from from all of them, he he seemed to be the the
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more impressive if you like Mack wasn't.
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So much in involved in this other than seemingly taking the
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the pinfalls or hitting the the on high flying move shredding
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bullet just seem to be almost like the two heavies in this
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match. And for the second straight show
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Shreddy doing a Predator style joining forces as he'd done it
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with Troy Ryan a couple of days prior at catch and did it again
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with someone with the same build with bullets to which I believe
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they were, I think either tag partners or they faced each
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other in the past in TNT. So that's almost a mini reunion
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of sorts. Then we kind of have breakdown
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towards the end with Tanner returning with roughly about 3
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minutes to go. He hits a brain Buster on Vusic
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with 2 1/2 minutes left to go. On the 15 minute clock a bullet
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hits a choke slam on Vusic and every time he seems to go for a
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pinfall it sees that man who has been interfering in bullets
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business for a couple of shows now in Joe rage as it kind of
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did make me laugh when bullet went to do the original pinfall
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rage. The most half assed kind of
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pulling the referee's leg you could do, which did stop the
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count from Greenwood. And then Bullet tried another
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move and Rage just playfully pulled Greenwood's leg again and
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as we approached 3 seconds to go he did it a third time, costing
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Bullet a possible title shot. Bullet is left irate after the
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match cuts. I mean, it cuts a promo.
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Yeah, drop the F bomb and the kids show.
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Yeah. It's the thing that made me
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laugh though, was when he dropped the F bomb, he kind of
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put the microphone down but still shouted it.
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So I know what he was trying to do.
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But this I'll say that there's a couple of things that slipped
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out from people on this show. Yeah, this show ended up not
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being a kid show, No. It was not APG show at all.
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So bullets I rate that Rages cost him yet again and asks on
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the next show for a no disqualification match.
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He messed up the promo the best, yes.
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Three out of two, yes. He said it originally, he said
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two out of three and then when he got really angry and I was.
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Three out of two. I will say this in in defence,
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he was so angry he could not get his words out.
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And when I want a three out of two falls match and immediately
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up in the balcony we were thinking is this going to be
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like mystery wrestling where it was like 7 out of 11 balls then?
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But again, when you're angry, you say silly things.
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So. I will say I did enjoy bullets
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drop on Vusic. Oh, have you seen the video from
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Jeebus? Yeah.
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Music. Music.
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Just he looked like he was dead inside.
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I I may have to ask Jebus if I can borrow that clip and add it
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to the video for this podcast. Mental note, ask Chebus so we go
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from that. I believe we then went.
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To Mickey Barnes. We went to the interval and then
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we had a little segment between Mickey Barnes and MVK.
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Well, you say Mickey Barnes. Oh wait.
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Benny Dawn Barnes. So Mickey Barnes who came out in
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a beautiful holiday shirt, it would be fair to say if it had a
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pocket on the breast it would have looked very much in keeping
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with like going to the darts. I thought we had chance of
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Benidorm Mickey. One that made me laugh and
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again, not particularly playing to the the PG crowd of Sticky
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Mickey. If you know what you want.
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Yes, exactly. Which did have a couple of
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people in the ring killing themselves laughing at that.
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Even Barnes at one point and did well to recover himself.
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He then cut us a promo because originally we should have had
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Barnes versus MVK says. Clearly I'm not dressed for
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combat as I've got a flight later.
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MVK then comes out and we get them to kind of going back and
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forth for each other. We've Barnes calling MVKA
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Mushroom A. Mushroom.
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Yeah, he there was a few things he said to do with mushrooms,
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which set off the balcony with multiple different mushroom
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chants. Then we have Ian Skinner come
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out and the coldest guy in the room, coolest guy with loads of
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friends. And as I said at the time,
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keeping to the mushroom chat a fungi.
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He then must have been watching Green St because he said I'll
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who wants it? I'll take you both on.
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I'm hyped. So I think Skinner may need to
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stay off the the Monster Energy drinks if that's what he was
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having ended up. However with MVK versus Ian
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Skinner. MVK practically had his way with
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Skinner, even though Ian did get a fair bit of offence in this
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match. Almost stole it right at the end
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when Mickey Barnes came back out trying to distract MVK.
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Skinner went for a roll up, gets kicked out at 2:00.
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However, a Deaf Valley driver from MVK seals the deal and we
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we basically have a kind of shouting match between both
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Barnes and MVK again. So I think we will get that
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match eventually down the road. I.
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Think it'll be a stipulated matches, Yeah, like it's going
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that way. I don't know what type of
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stipulation they'll go with. Maybe just like a just a
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hardcore match, ultimate, a tables match would work well
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between them to I think some sort of hardcore match.
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I think it's, I think the feud's been going for a little bit now
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where I think hardcore matches definitely in place.
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It it feels very much like it's going to go down that
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stipulation line at least. Our penultimate match of the
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show was for the TNT Women's Level Up Briefcase and saw
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Alexis Falcon, Aaliyah, Raven, Lucy, Skye Nightshade and
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Session Moff Martina all fighting to get that title
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potential match. What were your your views on
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this one? It was decent for what it was.
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Yeah, I think session Moff Martina didn't have too many
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spots, which was maybe it was a easy night for her.
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Like I felt like the one that did the most spots in this
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match, looking really, really good in this match was
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Nightshade. Yes, she's dominant.
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She looked a lot better from a singles match with Lucy Sky.
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I felt like this match type fitted her a lot better than a
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singles because she's got a lot more women to work with to
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dominate. Because when you look at the
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match, Martina was involved very much early on in the contest
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with a couple of things. Well, you could say the rest of
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them all have something bubbling away or going on.
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So you had Nightshade, who is dominant throughout, did the
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spot where you had all her opponents kind of like lay on
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the bottom rung of the ropes and just doing a fair few hip
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attacks. Lucy Sky, who is one of the main
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kind of like challengers, one of the main E female talents there.
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Leo Raven, I feel is starting to hush yourself back up.
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There did definitely felt like that in this match at least.
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And Falcon, who is really just on a Crest of a wave at the
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moment. She she feels very much like
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Derice of last year, where Derice just seems to be all over
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the place and either winning titles are in big kind of like
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big match situations and it feels like Falcon is in that
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role at the moment. That said, this was a chaotic in
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a good way and really enjoy. I'd go as far to say this was my
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match of the show, to which the back end of the contest had
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Falcon handcuffing Lucy Sky's wrists to the lamp post, lamp
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post, ring post. So that stopped Lucy Sky.
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And then we saw, I think without doubt my if we did a move of the
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week, this is probably going to be it.
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So we had Alexis Falcon and Leah Raven, Falcon versus Raven and
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we had Leah going to hit her Rebellion DDT off the ring off
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the middle rope. However, as she went to hit it,
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Alexis caught her in her clutches or talons if you like
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and hit off with her head and then managed to survive for the
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final 30 seconds of this contest to win.
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Having Falcon the proud owner of a brand new shiny briefcase as
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as if she needs any more titles and things to carry.
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Yeah, I I would love to see the end of that match again, because
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how they executed it from the Rebellion DDT to off with their
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head was one of the most smoothest and seamless bits I
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think I saw all all day. To be fair, though, I mean,
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you're not going to get smoothness on a deathmatch show.
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Really. I don't think things like that
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happen. But yeah, this, this was my
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match of the day, so to speak. So that brings us right to the
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main event of the afternoon and for the TNT Ignition title, the
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champion Critchie with Mickey Barnes or as he is now known,
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Benidorm. Mickey defended against the
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number one contender in Trent 7. What were your views on this
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particular match? So it's a tough one to review
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because like some bits of the match were like wow.
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And then just a few like basic stuff in the match just looked
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like to be off a little bit. So you had you had the balcony
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died from Critchy, which was incredible.
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Yeah, that was superb. I enjoyed the story that they
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were put in. In the match.
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Critchy was trying to do trend sevens moves with him hitting
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the seven star lariat in the match.
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That was cool. Multiple times he went for the
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Birmingham wouldn't execute it. So but then you could see in the
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match there was a lot of like mistiming the bit where like
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Critchie went for like a clothesline and he just didn't
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connect with it. And then Trent stumbles back
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into the ropes. It was just little bits were
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like a little bit off but. It's.
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It was a good title defence. I'll say that it was a better
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match than than the Jacobs 1 for me.
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Yeah, it was better than the Jacobs one.
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Because the last match felt when it was the Jacobs one, it felt
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very much like Luke did everything and Critchie then
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kind of just pulled out like a jackknife pin from out of
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nowhere to to win. He did try that move again right
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at the end. And I thought, are they going to
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kind of come away with Richard just getting beaten down and
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then he's going to pull this out from nowhere and pull up the
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surprise win, which he kind of did.
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But I did watch a bit more of this earlier.
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When I watched it in real time at the show, I came away from it
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feeling a bit disappointed. I didn't think it was
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particularly that good, if I'm being honest.
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Having watched it back, it was a lot better than how I watched it
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live. It's still it's, it's hard to
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really put a friend on where it was just a bit.
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It was a good match, but it was just, it was an average match
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really. Trent did everything he could to
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try and win, but it it almost, it always felt like you were
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just waiting for Critcher to kind of pull off kind of like a
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surprise roll up or something along the lines of that.
37:56
And then and really that's kind of what happened.
37:59
He got the small package to beat Trent and retain his title.
38:08
After the match. It saw Seven go to shake his
38:10
hand, actually hit the Birmingham this time around,
38:16
froze the belt down at Critchie. I will say this on the match
38:21
though, fair play to Critchie for taking so many damn chops in
38:28
this encounter. He must have took, I mean, I
38:33
haven't counted. He must have took at least 20,
38:40
at least 20 chops to to his chest in this matchup because
38:44
every time I seem to either look up or try and peer over
38:49
someone's head, it was just a chop to creature.
38:57
But yeah, it wasn't the best title match, to be completely
39:03
honest, but it wasn't the worst. So it was, as I think Jeff
39:12
normally says on, on Oggies podcast, it was serviceable.
39:16
And I think that's where I'll kind of I'll leave that one any
39:25
more to add on for level up? No covered everything.
39:32
So we then had a few hours away from the hangar and we then
39:41
returned to well before we get to the the actual show.
39:49
The the bit of chaos that was outside of people queuing up and
39:57
no one. The last time it used to be VIPs
40:01
went one way and got in, but no one seemed to have a clue what
40:05
was going on, especially from from our part because we we went
40:12
to the front to ask. And we then got told to wait to
40:17
one side and you had I think 3 different queues getting back
40:22
into the venue, which wasn't, which wasn't great.
40:29
And then when we got in the venue, we went up into the
40:35
balcony and it did seem to have been massively oversold to which
40:43
the ones that were up there earlier, we're now unable to go
40:50
to the front of the barrier because there were people that
40:53
weren't there for the first show.
40:55
So whether it was a case of they've overbooked it, having
41:00
people just come to the second show.
41:04
I think if this had been a fusion, it would have been
41:06
better. But it it wasn't the the best,
41:15
it's fair to say. And there was a quite a few
41:18
people that were not happy. So and we had to keep
41:25
alternating between who went to the front and who went to the
41:29
back of the group because we had tall people and small people.
41:34
But we'll, we'll, we'll leave that there.
41:39
Any who we had a dark match which I did not see other than
41:45
the ending and that was Ty Archer defeating Hector by count
41:51
out. What's the whole match?
41:54
I was at the bar so I did not see what happened at all.
42:00
It was a really fun, dark match, to be fair.
42:02
Very good. It was Hector.
42:08
It was a showcase for Hector. I felt like he was hitting a lot
42:13
of like the usual heavy hitter powerhouse moves, a lot of
42:18
corner splashes, couple choke slams, tie Archer, usual Tie
42:25
Archer just being just an absolute scumbag.
42:32
There was there was some choice words I heard behind me.
42:36
The ending to the match, I felt like it was a very clever ending
42:41
because the big guy didn't take the pin and it's sort of like
42:48
it's a defeat, but it's not a pinfall defeat, so it's sort of
42:51
a clean way to start him out on extreme.
43:00
This. From where I was, it looked a
43:03
case of they'd gone behind the guardrails and then I think
43:08
Archer might have put the guardrails back.
43:10
Yeah, Archer locked him up with the guardrails.
43:12
Yeah, yeah. Because Hector couldn't get over
43:15
him, and he couldn't loosen the gates to get to get through.
43:19
Yeah, because he went through, if I think he went for like a
43:22
running splash onto the guardrail, he's missed it and
43:27
he's run completely straight through the guardrail and then
43:31
Pies ran back into the rinks. I think it was up to like a 8
43:35
count and then put the guardrail back up and then got the 10
43:39
count. Yeah, So that, that was a again,
43:48
it's been, I think that's is that three and oh, now for three
43:52
and oh, well, three and oh, for me at least.
43:56
Yeah. Crow Callum Crow in September
44:02
beat Lucian last time out and he beat Hector this time.
44:08
So that brings us to DOA 2026 for the death match tournament.
44:19
And we had a well, I I thought they were going to go down the
44:24
route of every winner advance to a final.
44:29
They didn't. We had a semi final and then a
44:33
grand final if you like. So the opening of the DOA
44:42
tournament matches was a Gusset and Taipei death match which
44:48
featured Tim Strange and Iceman. What what was your view on this
44:56
one? There wasn't much to it really.
44:59
It was. It was very, very basic.
45:05
Yeah. It was it was a bloody mark.
45:08
But like, yeah, wasn't really too much.
45:15
The only spot that I can really, really remember from it is so
45:20
Tim Strange's lay on the map with lots of glass shards on his
45:24
back. And then Iceman absolutely
45:27
lashes a chair onto his back a lot, a lot.
45:32
I just very, very basic death match spots where they're just
45:39
digging the gussets into the head and back.
45:41
It was, it was, it was OK. It's it's literally the only
45:49
kind of thing I have written down of glass plot grass grass
45:54
glass poured on Tim's back, hit with a chair on the back, and
46:00
then I've put down not a good. Match.
46:02
Yeah, it was ice it. I mean, my deathmatch
46:08
experiences consist only of last September at Frill Kill.
46:18
That's kind of my other than the odd deathmatch we've had past
46:24
TNT shows since having seen that I expected more and for the
46:35
opening match to set the tone. This I it was not for me.
46:43
If I'm being honest, it was, it just felt a case of Iceman did a
46:51
few moves Strange did and like one or two both used weapons to
47:00
kind of get bloody as quick as they could because I think they
47:03
knew it wasn't going to go along.
47:06
And it finished about 6 minutes, 31 Strange hits a lariat on
47:15
Iceman to get the win. Yeah, it's, I didn't
47:22
particularly think it was a good match, but who am I to argue
47:28
with people? I think it was.
47:31
We then moved to match #2 another first round encounter
47:38
which was a 2 out of 3 extreme doors death match.
47:44
This featured Schlack versus Jack Harrop.
47:49
This was a this was more of what I was thinking of, a death match
47:58
to which you had Harop put slack through the door to go one nil
48:04
up. Yeah, it was in the first 3
48:06
seconds straight away. Slack then takes Harop on the
48:12
outside and both men are basically bloody at this point.
48:19
Head butts, Weapons. Harop then uses a couple light
48:25
tubes, to which DJ King informs us that British light tubes are
48:31
harder than American light tubes.
48:36
There's your fact of the day. And as soon as he says that, we
48:41
cut to the camera having slack, basically getting a light tube
48:46
and eating it. Absolutely crazy spot to see and
48:55
especially as we were up in the balcony and had a a couple of
48:59
people going out of their minds watching this happening,
49:05
especially who it was that was going mad over it.
49:11
We then have Slack moving out of the way when Jack comes running
49:16
at him as he had AI think it was light tubes they had stuck to to
49:23
the board. I think it was pretty much back
49:25
on all of them. Yeah, like.
49:28
So Jack comes running towards Slack with the board being lined
49:33
up out in the crowd, up against one of the guardrails, run
49:39
straight into it to even it up 1 apiece.
49:45
We get back into the ring and we have Slack Spearing Jack.
49:51
Pretty much a bookend to this match really as it saw tables
49:58
being turned and Schleck Spearing.
50:02
Jack threw a third door to win the contest. 2 falls to 1.
50:12
I don't know if I've have I asked you about this match?
50:17
No. I'll ask you any miles, what did
50:20
you think of this match? It was a quick match.
50:26
It was quite a fun quick match. It felt longer and it was a lot
50:33
better as well than the first match.
50:35
Yeah. So we have that.
50:44
And then Jack asks for the microphone, tries to cut an
50:50
emotional promo. We come particularly here half
50:55
the time because the microphone wasn't really being picked up
51:00
where we were. However, his dad Iceman comes
51:05
out, tries to speak sense to him, starts having a go at him
51:12
and says I'm, I'm not Iceman. This is your dad talking.
51:15
And then I think we had, was it Iceman dad or chance of going
51:24
round? And then he made the the
51:30
announcement that the first entrant of the Tournament of
51:34
Death in September when CZW come to the UK and it will feature
51:41
Jack Harrock as the first entrant into the tournament.
51:51
We then moved to the third of the first round matches and the
51:58
Barbed Wire Massacre death match between Tommy and Isaac N Miles.
52:09
What was your view on this one this.
52:10
Was my favourite match of the night.
52:12
This was brilliant. Really really enjoyed Tommy
52:16
versus Isaac. Two guys with a very, very
52:19
similar gimmick. Isaac being given his first ever
52:23
singles death match. I thought he was brilliant.
52:27
Yeah, he fits the mould of a death match wrestler.
52:32
He just looked really, really good in ring with Tom B Tom B's
52:38
a guy I've seen a fair few Times Now and he just his move set and
52:45
everything he does in the ring is just perfect.
52:51
Yeah. He's such a good wrestler.
52:55
I'll, I'll say this for it. If you were going to have, I'll
53:00
say this for the next match as well.
53:02
If you wanted to have your first or build on your current death
53:12
match matches, I think you couldn't have asked for anyone
53:16
better. I'll say for this one first with
53:20
Tom B because he's one of the best deathmatch ones in the UK
53:27
and to then have Isaac N if they ever did like a deathmatch tag
53:33
team thing, these two together would make a great team I feel
53:38
just purely on the look it has to be said right?
53:46
Notes that I have Tall N takes the brunt of the offence in this
53:55
encounter, almost kind of trying to show that I can do this sort
54:03
of wrestling and he, I mean, he pretty much put his body through
54:10
a lot in this contest. We have a spot where Tombi is in
54:17
the ropes which has barbed wire on it and Isaac N just pulling
54:23
his arms towards him, but on me he's caught in the barbed wire.
54:31
We I don't know if you've seen it, you may have seen the clip
54:36
since, but there is a part of the match where blood is
54:42
literally spurting. From yeah.
54:46
And so you know. On the night it looked kind of
54:52
gnarly with because you could clearly see like there was a
54:56
lump on his on his head. And with all the kind of like
55:00
the the tattoo needles and everything being used in this
55:08
matchup. I did not see the blood spurting
55:16
reminding me a bit of the scene from The Simpsons where I think
55:22
it's the I want to say it's like crusty burger or something like
55:26
that where you have like red paint flight flight off this
55:31
moving kind of head wasn't to the same degree obviously, but
55:39
you could just see it spurting away there.
55:44
North then sends both him and Tommy crashing through a bed of
55:49
barbed wire, which was a hell of a spot that was.
55:54
In my opinion, best, best spot of the show.
55:57
The crowd, yeah, that shit for that.
56:01
Because you knew it was going to come.
56:04
But I think everyone expected probably Tommy to have done it
56:08
to North. Because they were going for it.
56:11
A crucifix because the Isaac was on Tom B shoulders and it was
56:20
looking like. I think he was going to do A1
56:23
winged Angel. A1 Winged Angel, Yeah.
56:26
And then N kind of managed to wriggle free and then sent both
56:31
of them crashing through it. Yeah, with a choke bomb.
56:35
Yeah, it. That was a hell of a spot.
56:40
I think I did manage to capture that and then Isaac seemed to
56:47
grow more into this contest, it felt.
56:51
And then as it looked like he was going to he was on course
56:54
for victory. His former tag team partner Rob
56:58
Drake came out from the back, attacks Isaac with a baseball
57:05
bat wrapped in barbed wire, strikes his former partner in
57:12
the upper back. Tommy takes advantage of this
57:17
with a running kick in the corner, hits A1 Winged Angel
57:23
through a light tube covered in barbed wire to get the 1-2 and
57:29
the three. Tommy wins in 10 minutes and 18
57:34
minutes. 10 Yeah, 10 minutes 18 seconds.
57:39
Sorry. After the match, Drake hangs
57:44
around, uses the barbed wire bat on his partner, leaving him in a
57:53
puddle of blood. Not before tasting the blood of
57:58
his former tag team partner. And no, no, Rob, no, please
58:06
don't do that. Hepatitis.
58:09
But I get the feeling we're going to get a pan the pan the
58:15
pun blood feud between these two at a future show.
58:23
We then came to our final first round match, the Four Corners of
58:30
Pain match. I could be biassed on this, but
58:36
this was my match of the night. Big effing Joe takes on Luke
58:45
Jacobs. Oh, that there's so much to
58:52
write about. Yeah, I'll agree.
58:54
I'll agree with you as well. It was, it was between that and
58:59
the previous match. Yeah, it's best big matches on
59:02
the whole show. The best two matches on this
59:06
card for me was North and Tommy and Jacobs and Joe by by far so
59:19
big effing Joe has taken exception to Jacobs thinking
59:24
he's a death match wrestler. Joe tries to intimidate Joe.
59:29
I'm sorry. Joe tries to intimidate Luke
59:32
with a light tube, but then Luke just grabs a tube of his own,
59:40
breaks it over his head and drags the sharp bit of the light
59:48
tube across his chest and we just get straight into this
59:52
match, which did not let up for the whole 12 minutes and 48
59:58
seconds it was. It was fun carnage throughout
1:00:10
this entire match, neither man particularly giving an inch.
1:00:21
Honestly, there's so much that I'm I don't even think I can fit
1:00:25
it all in little bits that I have written down.
1:00:31
Jacob's back was absolutely covered in blood with light
1:00:37
tubes and weaponry. Joe pulls out a a jiff lemon of
1:00:45
a lime and lemon juice. Things are available.
1:00:53
Pours off the back of Jacobs which I think we all wins That
1:01:00
and could loosely feel but not as much as Jacobs would hearing
1:01:07
back on the stream. Jacobs definitely did not like
1:01:14
that. Did not come across at the venue
1:01:18
obviously because it was a bit louder which the stream did not
1:01:22
pick up. Joe then.
1:01:25
This was my annoying part of this match.
1:01:29
Joe breaking 9 light tubes over Luke's head in the corner with
1:01:34
the referee passing him light tubes.
1:01:39
It was like the Bugs Bunny cartoon of the magician putting
1:01:44
the swords into the basket and randomly being passed the swords
1:01:50
when it's Bugs Bunny doing it. We were going mad in the balcony
1:01:56
going why are you passing him the light tubes?
1:02:00
Even DJ King mentions this on commentary.
1:02:04
It did why is one thing. However he breaks 9 over the
1:02:12
head of Luke. The final one Luke hits over Joe
1:02:18
and hits a stiff running lariat. A Death Valley driver by Joe has
1:02:25
Luke kicking out at one who fires up, and then the match
1:02:30
ends soon after with Joe hitting a running tombstone through two
1:02:37
chairs with light tube set up across it.
1:02:42
Hell of a match. Hell of a match.
1:02:49
Files I will say about this match, I really enjoyed that
1:02:54
Luke implemented the strong style into Death match.
1:02:58
Yeah, it was like nothing I have ever seen in a death match.
1:03:04
I've seen quite a few death matches, but this was cool to
1:03:07
see that Luke brought the strong style into it and it actually
1:03:12
looked like he was going to defeat Big Joe on multiple
1:03:16
occasions. As you say it, it was like we
1:03:22
said previously on other matches, it was a clash of
1:03:25
styles where I think Luke knows he's not a what you'd call a
1:03:32
death match wrestler. He's.
1:03:36
He's pretty awkward. He's a, I'm trying to think of
1:03:39
the right term and I can't think of it, but he's not your.
1:03:43
He's a traditional wrestler, as you would say.
1:03:45
He's a strong style wrestler. So he knows he can't do
1:03:53
everything that Joe can do because Joe's got too many
1:03:57
tricks up his sleeve and knows every insurance and outs of
1:04:01
death match wrestling. And Luke effectively just
1:04:04
thought, right, I'm just I'm just going to come straight at
1:04:07
you. I'm going to be physical.
1:04:10
I'm going to just use strong style.
1:04:13
And I think, as you say, that helped make this match even
1:04:17
better because if they just gone down the whole route of it being
1:04:22
right, we'll just do a death match.
1:04:24
You do this, you do that. I don't think it would have had
1:04:27
the same kind of like grip it had on people, but to
1:04:34
incorporate, as you say, strong style in a death match setting.
1:04:41
And then with everything that went on, I mean, we still had
1:04:45
weapons being used and back and forth, but it was so
1:04:52
entertaining and it was a good story that Jacobs was basically
1:04:58
giving everything to Joe to just say, right, I know I'm not a
1:05:02
deaf match wrestler, but I'm going to prove to you that I can
1:05:06
be in this and I'm going to take you as far as I can.
1:05:10
And that is what happened in this Miles.
1:05:14
I'll tell you what Luke reminds me of.
1:05:17
This is like a really, really good comparison.
1:05:21
Luke reminds me of Kurt Angle. You know when Kurt Angle used to
1:05:24
do all the extreme matches, your cage matches?
1:05:29
Luke is basically the UK version of Kurt Angle.
1:05:34
He can go into any match type. You'd see Kurt Angle in all them
1:05:40
extreme steel cage matches that you to do and you'd come out
1:05:46
bleed in an absolutely battered, but Kurt would absolutely put in
1:05:50
a shift. Yeah.
1:05:53
So yeah, it was like watching Kurt Angle.
1:05:58
On that point, I would say that this is almost I mean, we we
1:06:04
Jacobs has done a death match before and so it's not
1:06:08
dismissing that before. However, I would say that you
1:06:14
making that comparison with Angle, this is almost his kind
1:06:18
of king of the ring Angle versus Shane McMahon moment for me,
1:06:26
because you you know what Jacobs can do, but you didn't think he
1:06:29
could be as aggressive or as violent as as he got in that
1:06:39
match talking about Angle and Shane.
1:06:44
And when he when we came out of that match, everyone looked at
1:06:48
angle differently and thought, right, So he's not just a great
1:06:52
wrestler. He can absolutely be like an ass
1:06:56
kicking machine as well and be as violent as possible.
1:07:02
But we've Luke this felt that way of strong, the most top
1:07:09
strong style wrestler, one of the best wrestlers, but this
1:07:15
just gives him an extra edge. I think it's it's another kind
1:07:19
of like string to his bow, so to speak.
1:07:24
I think if he did do another death match, I think I think
1:07:27
people will take him more seriously because I think a few
1:07:32
didn't. They just thought, Oh, it's a
1:07:34
bit of a novel to this having Jacob's in it, but it felt like
1:07:42
Jacobs might actually want to want to do more deathmatch
1:07:47
possibly. I suppose it's up to him in what
1:07:50
he wants to do. But yeah, it's that is a good
1:07:57
comparison about him and and Kurt Angle.
1:08:04
We then moved to the second round or semifinals if you would
1:08:11
much prefer, with a gossip goal match.
1:08:18
I mean gossip to me makes me think of like a thing that goes
1:08:27
round the stomach. And this is anything, I don't
1:08:33
think the gossip thing particularly worked on any level
1:08:37
in these things, but that's that's a side note.
1:08:43
Anyway, it was Tim Strange versus Tom B lasted 7 minutes
1:08:51
and 8 seconds. Not a whole lot can really add
1:08:58
to this other than Tom B getting the tattoo needles out.
1:09:10
Kind of stab Strange a few times in the head and the chest with
1:09:15
them. Brings out a Kruger glove,
1:09:21
starts kind of scratching Tom over the chest with it.
1:09:27
Strange, just battles on regardless.
1:09:31
Hits a big lariat to get the 123.
1:09:37
We did have an incident where a well they said a meat cleaver.
1:09:44
I don't think it was a meat cleaver.
1:09:48
It it was, it was like a chopping.
1:09:51
It was like a wood lop in. Yeah, which was used on Strange
1:09:57
during the match. Which who?
1:10:00
Who unsurprisingly drew blood. Tommy then put the Kruger glove
1:10:06
in the head of Strange, and Strange for a couple of seconds
1:10:10
could not get the glove out of his head, quite literally, as
1:10:16
the kind of like the claws stuck in his head a bit too long.
1:10:22
But yeah, Strange wins with a massive warrior to get the 123
1:10:28
making his way to the the grand final.
1:10:34
I'll mention the other semi who's and then I'll get your
1:10:37
reaction to the two matches. The other semi final was the
1:10:44
Thumbtack Death match and saw a total of 124,000 and eight
1:10:53
thumbtacks being used. Not sure about that one.
1:10:57
Yeah, so that featured Slack and Big F in Joe. 6 minutes and 33
1:11:07
seconds this one went. They brought all the fun tacks
1:11:12
out in pretty much like plastic. Storage containers.
1:11:17
And storage containers. I missed one moment which seemed
1:11:23
to be the biggest one because I was chatting to someone and when
1:11:28
I turn my head all I saw was bum tacks flying into the crowd and
1:11:37
I will have to quickly find a message that Nikki sent me while
1:11:47
I try and find it. But Oh yes, please include that
1:11:55
Affairs got covered in tax and loved it.
1:11:59
So there you go Nikki, I have included it but yeah, those
1:12:04
tacks shout a lot of people and I will not be surprised if it
1:12:09
went and a lot of drinks. In the end though, it saw Slack
1:12:15
making the final with a leg drop off Brett's rope and saw him
1:12:22
facing Team Strange about 10 minutes after this contest.
1:12:30
There wasn't a big turn around I will be honest.
1:12:35
That said, what was your assessment across the 2 semi
1:12:39
final matches that good? I don't know, to me, should I?
1:12:52
I felt like maybe them stipulations should have been in
1:12:56
the first round. I don't think I don't think they
1:13:00
were the right stipulations for the semis.
1:13:04
But the the whole gossip thing, the.
1:13:08
Gossip I. Did not.
1:13:10
The gossip The gossip matches didn't work.
1:13:13
No, it made, I mean, if you go back to the first match, which
1:13:19
was a gossip in Taipei, Death Match I the closest we came
1:13:25
really to Taipei was both participants hands were covered
1:13:32
in like tape and that was the closest we got to Taipei.
1:13:38
Even when the glass was like spread out, we didn't get that.
1:13:45
The gussets look more like carpet grippers than what I
1:13:50
expected gossip to be, but any hell yeah.
1:14:00
And any more to to add to this semi final or or loss of words?
1:14:07
The thumb tap match was good. I enjoyed.
1:14:10
I enjoyed that. Yeah, folk, for what I saw of
1:14:14
it, it wasn't a bad match. Yeah.
1:14:19
Again, I couldn't see a lot of this show due to it being
1:14:26
overbooked, which is my biggest problem with it.
1:14:33
And kind of like where the camera was set up, they had two
1:14:37
barriers to stop people knocking the cameras over, which isn't a
1:14:41
problem, but you could easily have fitted another like two
1:14:46
people either side and it still would have been nowhere near the
1:14:49
camera. But hey ho.
1:14:58
What was your take on the the final one, the Ultimate Death
1:15:03
Match? The ultimate death match.
1:15:06
Yeah, not how I would have worded it.
1:15:11
Yeah, Ultimate death match. And it lasted 4 minutes and 43
1:15:16
seconds. Your final is the shortest match
1:15:19
of the hold the away. And.
1:15:24
Yeah. I mean my my notes basically
1:15:29
just go light tube from by Slack misses, Tim hits, Scott hits
1:15:35
refs got Bell in the head. Tim goes for a glass pane back
1:15:39
first. And then Strange basically grabs
1:15:44
all the light tubes, all the weaponry, piles on slack, does a
1:15:49
splash and wins. It felt very much a case of
1:15:56
we've overran massively. You got less than 5 minutes.
1:16:03
And I think that if they had far more time, they probably would
1:16:07
have done a whole lot more. But to have it as the ultimate
1:16:14
death match, and I mean, really sad all happened in in this in
1:16:24
this match, really. Yeah, it it was a bit of a damp
1:16:31
squib, to put it, to put it one way.
1:16:37
After the match though, it saw Slack informing us that he will
1:16:41
be back in September for that Tournament of Death crossover.
1:16:47
We've TNT and CZW. Yeah, as I said earlier, compare
1:16:59
this to Frill Kill and I mean to put a well found a point on it,
1:17:09
it was a disappointing tournament.
1:17:12
Yeah. I know a few have said it was
1:17:15
like one of the best ever. I'm thinking I think that's a
1:17:20
lot of spin. If if this was the best DOA
1:17:24
tournament, then the others must have been pretty poor in
1:17:31
fairness, because this for how it was built and all the hype
1:17:37
other than the Jacobs Joe and the the Tom BN match.
1:17:47
No, no, I think it was just one of those where it was an off an
1:17:54
off show. It could have been a lot better.
1:17:58
And it's sometimes that happens. Sometimes just things don't go
1:18:06
to plan. And I think on the whole of this
1:18:11
tournament, it just didn't particularly click at all
1:18:16
compared compared as I say, to Frill kill where every match
1:18:20
hit. But we we learn and we move on.
1:18:30
Our main event of the night was a death match with Tape Mayfares
1:18:37
and Emerson Jane. At the start of this show we had
1:18:44
Tape May fairs coming out with his clipboard in which he was
1:18:49
told if he was to get 20,000 signatures.
1:18:55
This match with Emerson Jane which was the TNT World Title
1:19:01
and TNT Extreme Division title belts as they were both being
1:19:09
defended title the title. If he could get 20,000 votes or
1:19:15
20,000 signatures sorry it would be a traditional run-of-the-mill
1:19:23
one-on-one. If he couldn't get 20,000 then
1:19:29
it would be a death match. We had take tell us that he hit
1:19:36
20,000 only for Session Moff to come out and inform everyone
1:19:43
that she had footage and had Mayfair's being caught out
1:19:50
writing multiple signatures and having apparently Darwin phoned
1:19:57
him to say he would not be at the show but there was a plan
1:20:03
being put in action. What this plan was, we would
1:20:08
soon find out. So with all that said, we had
1:20:15
Mayfair's versus Emerson Jane world title versus extreme
1:20:21
division title. What were your thoughts on this
1:20:25
encounter? So the beginning of the match,
1:20:32
Tate being a complete hit bag, removing all the weapons and
1:20:38
traditional standard match. I did like that but.
1:20:41
That was, that was interesting. It was it was nice to see.
1:20:47
Yeah, it was quite funny. Yeah, I did enjoy it.
1:20:52
And then as the match progressed and got further into the match,
1:20:58
it turned into so it was like a three stages of hell much sort
1:21:02
of. It started off like traditional
1:21:05
singles match and then it turned a bit more hardcore with a few
1:21:08
like chair shots and like a lot, it turned to a little bit more
1:21:13
hardcore. And then as the match went on,
1:21:18
it wasn't, it wasn't a death match by no means.
1:21:21
It was not death match. No, you had the death match
1:21:24
elements, shall we say? It was.
1:21:27
I'd class it more as a hardcore very hardcore match, but not
1:21:33
death match. No way it was death match.
1:21:39
But we we had a fair few things in this match.
1:21:42
We had Mayfair's who tried to tie Emerson's hands to the ring
1:21:49
rope so he could use his belt. But.
1:21:51
He didn't know how to do or not. Didn't know how to do or not MSN
1:21:57
I think tried to hold on to the cables to make out she couldn't
1:22:02
get free and after taking like the second lash the the pain was
1:22:12
too much and she kind of let go at the crowd Boo because he
1:22:18
couldn't make a knot. Then we had the moment of Amazon
1:22:25
Jane taking a dart. Oh sorry Tate trying to skew a
1:22:31
dart into Emerson Jane's cheek. Tate kept kind of debating, do I
1:22:38
do it, do I not? He didn't want to.
1:22:41
And as he's trying, Emerson just shouts, oh for fuck's sake,
1:22:46
don't be such a pussy and basically just does it herself,
1:22:50
which mortified Tate. I'm trying to think.
1:22:58
I'm trying to think what we had. Emerson does something to take
1:23:01
and I can't remember what it was.
1:23:04
And then she gets a a cigarette out and smokes it and I can't
1:23:09
remember what the move was in the lead up to it.
1:23:16
It's completely skipped my. Head Yeah, I can't remember
1:23:19
either. Yeah, I hate it hit.
1:23:22
I think, I think she just got the belt and started lashing
1:23:26
him. Oh, yeah, I think that was what
1:23:29
happened. Yeah, I think that was what the
1:23:31
thing was. So Emerson just sat there, pulls
1:23:34
up a chair, rests her feet on Titan, smokes a cigarette then.
1:23:43
Tate hit a light tube shot. Tate did a couple of light tube
1:23:50
then yeah it was a strange match because it went from wrestling
1:23:57
to hardcore death matchy elements.
1:24:03
And then just I almost had like a bit of humour and a mixture of
1:24:11
all everything all together. To which we had Tate then
1:24:18
getting a bag trying to suffocate Emerson, which then
1:24:25
LED Tom B and Big Joe to come out because Tate has always said
1:24:31
if he was to win he would ban death match wrestling.
1:24:36
So they came out. Big Joe gave him a massive choke
1:24:41
slam. Tom B had used a massive light
1:24:45
tube on the back of tape to stop him from trying to suffocate
1:24:52
Emerson. And while both participants were
1:24:56
down on the mat as Tom B and Big Joe were coming back, the music
1:25:04
of Tommy Tanner then played with his suitcase on his person.
1:25:11
He came into the ring, gave the suitcase to referee Deathmatch.
1:25:16
Greenwood seemed like he was taking his time over whether he
1:25:23
was going to cash the belt in, all of which play to the fact
1:25:29
that he had some knuckles or a knuckle duster down his trunks.
1:25:36
Pulled it out, smashed Emerson in the in the jaw when it looked
1:25:44
like he was going to hit Tate and with that grabs Mayfair's
1:25:50
pulls him on top of Emerson to get the 123 and not just retain
1:25:57
the world title but now owns the Extreme Division title belt as
1:26:04
well. We then had drinks being thrown
1:26:10
WCW style at both Tate and Hannah as the two of them just
1:26:19
revelled in their victory and the long reign continues on in
1:26:26
TNT. I think they kind of signposted
1:26:35
what was going to happen at the end in the sense that when
1:26:42
Mayfair's was on the phone to Darwin at the start, he
1:26:45
mentioned about knuckle dusters. And when we got to the spot of
1:26:52
Tanner pulling out the knuckle dusters, you immediately knew
1:26:56
what was going to happen if we didn't know beforehand.
1:27:03
But I think with Tanner as a rule breaking out, I think that
1:27:09
is I think that could help freshen up Mayfair's title rain.
1:27:18
I know a lot of people want the the rain to end because it's
1:27:22
gone on for too long, but I think with this new dynamic now,
1:27:28
I think it's going to make things interesting.
1:27:32
What's your take? Yeah, a lot of a few people said
1:27:38
it was an overbooked ending, but I enjoyed the ending.
1:27:43
To be fair. I really, really, really enjoyed
1:27:46
that much. It's different.
1:27:52
It it's I think now it's going to create like a little mini
1:28:01
feud between death match wrestlers and the Londoners.
1:28:09
It's it's definitely an interesting case.
1:28:14
It's basically North and South in a sense, yeah.
1:28:19
So it's interesting to know where where they take this now.
1:28:24
I think that there is a case you could say of it's reached, I
1:28:29
think you'd said it previously. And a few of us have that have
1:28:33
watched far more TNT than I have of the rain's gone a bit stale
1:28:40
slightly of there's only so many times you can have Darwin like
1:28:45
interfere and kind of like help take win down.
1:28:51
We not being there and having someone new being added.
1:28:57
I mean, they could still go down the same route of that of if
1:29:01
it's not down when it's Tanner. But if they do something with
1:29:06
the trio, it will make this rain even better I think.
1:29:12
Yeah, because you could have, you can have just a Tuck team
1:29:17
match, you can have Tanner, you can have star winning versus Tom
1:29:22
B, Big Joe and Emerson. Yeah, it's it will be.
1:29:27
Another one thing you could add is if you can get a death match
1:29:33
wrestler that's Southern and include them, then you've got
1:29:39
like an extra, you've got someone that can do the death
1:29:44
match wrestling, defend the extreme division title.
1:29:48
Yeah, Tate doesn't have to. I don't, I don't think I know
1:29:52
any Southern death match wrestlers.
1:29:54
Maybe one of the guys from like CXW.
1:29:56
Maybe I don't know who actually does like the CXW shows.
1:30:02
So that or someone that's can do like very like hardcore.
1:30:08
There will be someone. There's always someone.
1:30:13
But yeah, that was your TNT review show.
1:30:21
I'll ask you because I've, I've got to that stage now.
1:30:28
Out of what's your star rating for this?
1:30:31
Oh, I'll ask you on the first show first.
1:30:35
So I gave the ignition show of seven.
1:30:41
I gave the DOA of five. I'd probably go along with that.
1:30:49
I I think I'd definitely go along with that.
1:30:55
But I think you've made the point before of the afternoon
1:30:57
shows seem to be better than than the evening.
1:31:01
It feels quite overbooked at times.
1:31:04
The evening shows compared to the the day and the day shows
1:31:09
feel more easier to like digest and get into more.
1:31:17
That said, though, I do love takes title reign so long make
1:31:26
menu. But yeah, that is the end of
1:31:31
this episode. Not for for us to because we
1:31:35
doing a double duty, but thanks again to Miles for now at least.
1:31:45
Hopefully you'll hear us on the next episode where we will be
1:31:51
reviewing future shock test of the faithful at the Manchester
1:31:58
MMU, where we will have an extra special guest on show 2 of that
1:32:06
particular episode. So for me, brothers and him,
1:32:14
Miles, we will catch you on the next episode.
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