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- 0:00Speaker 1: And nine Cognition six five four three two one zero
- 0:12Speaker 1: All engine running.
- 0:21Speaker 2: It's Tuesday. You know what that means. It's time for
- 0:24Speaker 2: Cognition with the aw Fan podcast team. This is Kelson
- 0:28Speaker 2: and we've got a lot to talk about. Guys. We
- 0:30Speaker 2: got a full house of panelists here tonight, so thank
- 0:33Speaker 2: you very much for showing up. We're broadcasting live on
- 0:36Speaker 2: x We're also broadcasting live on Twitch and you'll be
- 0:40Speaker 2: able to hear this Wednesday morning on your favorite podcast provider,
- 0:44Speaker 2: whether it's Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or whatnot. Let's start talking
- 0:51Speaker 2: about some uh, some interesting stuff. The first thing I
- 0:55Speaker 2: want to talk about is the Continental Class on Dynamite
- 1:01Speaker 2: tomorrow night. We've got two Gold League matches and one
- 1:06Speaker 2: Blue League match, so well, let's start talking about the
- 1:09Speaker 2: Blue League. The Blue League tomorrow night. Kazuka Kazuchika Okada
- 1:16Speaker 2: versus the Bastard Pack, and then we have Kyle Fletcher
- 1:22Speaker 2: against Kevin Knight. Now Kyle Fletcher has three points, Pack
- 1:26Speaker 2: has three points, and Kevin Knight has three points. All
- 1:31Speaker 2: three of those gentlemen have three points. Of course, Kazuko
- 1:39Speaker 2: Kata lost his opening match to Kyle Fletcher.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Wasn't Yeah, so that of course.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Okata Speedball Mike Bailey and Darby Allen have zero points
- 1:57Speaker 2: because they lost their first match. So this is the
- 1:59Speaker 2: second match. What do you guys think? Let's start with
- 2:03Speaker 2: Kazuko Okada and the bastard Pack. What do you think.
- 2:11Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Ocada? I think this will be
- 2:17Speaker 3: reminiscent of their match at Dynasty last year. You know,
- 2:22Speaker 3: park Park looking very strong, you know, taking it to Ocada.
- 2:27Speaker 3: But Ocada just being the big match guy, especially when
- 2:33Speaker 3: his I don't want to say in bags against the
- 2:36Speaker 3: wall after one loss, but he's going to be looking
- 2:39Speaker 3: to prove that loss was just a that was a
- 2:43Speaker 3: one time thing. It ain't happening again. Nobody's taken that
- 2:46Speaker 3: title from him like one loss. Okada is far more
- 2:51Speaker 3: dangerous than champion Okada.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Right right now, I can agree with you there. What
- 2:59Speaker 2: about what about the rest of you? What do you
- 3:01Speaker 2: guys think?
- 3:02Speaker 4: My brain says Okada, but my heart says Pack, or
- 3:08Speaker 4: rather my gut. I mentioned last week that I thought,
- 3:14Speaker 4: uh Pack sorry was going to run roughshod through this
- 3:19Speaker 4: tournament and be like a surprise winner of the whole thing. Possibly, Yeah,
- 3:25Speaker 4: I think I it could easily go either way, but
- 3:29Speaker 4: I think Pack's probably gonna do it.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Well, Look, do you think they're doing this with Kazuska Cotta?
- 3:34Speaker 2: Do you think they're gonna do it Eddie Kingston with him?
- 3:36Speaker 2: If you remember the First Continental Classic, Eddie Kingston lost
- 3:40Speaker 2: his first two matches and of course went on to
- 3:42Speaker 2: win it. Do you think they're doing something similar with
- 3:45Speaker 2: uh with Okada on this one?
- 3:47Speaker 3: Who?
- 3:48Speaker 5: I certainly you know that.
- 3:50Speaker 6: That's the one thing I dislike about this tournament is
- 3:55Speaker 6: the first three years have kind of been predictable, kind
- 3:59Speaker 6: of what's gonna happen. There's not a lot that's like,
- 4:03Speaker 6: you know, Karda lost his first match, kind of figured
- 4:06Speaker 6: out what's gonna happen.
- 4:07Speaker 5: But no, I don't know. I think I think is
- 4:10Speaker 5: gonna I don't think he's gonna lose again. So I
- 4:12Speaker 5: don't see him beaten. I don't see Pop beating tomorrow.
- 4:14Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with Sutton. I don't think this that
- 4:18Speaker 7: story for Eddie made sense of the time. I don't
- 4:22Speaker 7: think that's a story like Okada needed to pull himself
- 4:26Speaker 7: up by his bootstraps to you know, fulfill his destiny,
- 4:30Speaker 7: which was the Eddie storyline. I don't see any reason
- 4:34Speaker 7: for Ocottay two losses in a row. Story Wise, I
- 4:36Speaker 7: could see this being a draw, though, you know, I
- 4:39Speaker 7: could see I think the first week and maybe this week,
- 4:42Speaker 7: but I think especially the first week was was them
- 4:45Speaker 7: just saying, hey, anybody can lose in this tournament, and
- 4:47Speaker 7: it was clear, like I didn't think Fletcher was gonna win.
- 4:50Speaker 7: I was surprised actually on all the victories the first night,
- 4:54Speaker 7: and I think I think that's just kind of the
- 4:57Speaker 7: way they're going to go here. Uh, they have an
- 4:59Speaker 7: idea who who is going to be in the finals
- 5:03Speaker 7: for sure, but I just think this year may just
- 5:05Speaker 7: be the this is the Banger tournament, and the people
- 5:08Speaker 7: that need to win and the people that'll give points
- 5:10Speaker 7: to just to put them in the semis. I don't
- 5:12Speaker 7: think we're gonna have too many other storylines coming out
- 5:14Speaker 7: of it other than that.
- 5:16Speaker 2: I think you're It's interesting what you said that you
- 5:19Speaker 2: were surprised at who won last week when you look
- 5:21Speaker 2: at the Gold League Butcher beat Ocatta, Kevin Knight beat Darby,
- 5:28Speaker 2: Allen Pack beat Speedball Mike Bailey, and I think out
- 5:31Speaker 2: of those three, maybe it wasn't a surprise that Pack
- 5:34Speaker 2: beat Speedball. But the Kevin Knight beating Darby, Allen was
- 5:38Speaker 2: kind of surprised. Fletcher beating the greatest tournament wrestler ever
- 5:44Speaker 2: was a you know, big feather in his cap.
- 5:48Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, there was. I'm sorry there was another upset
- 5:51Speaker 7: that night. It wasn't in the league that I was
- 5:53Speaker 7: surprised about. But yeah, I didn't think either of those
- 5:56Speaker 7: were going to go that way. I thought I thought
- 5:58Speaker 7: Darby was going to get the win over Pack, right,
- 6:01Speaker 7: not Pack Pack, And I did not think Fletcher. I
- 6:08Speaker 7: thought they would maybe do the tie route because they
- 6:11Speaker 7: do points for that with Fletcher and Olkata. But no, man,
- 6:14Speaker 7: they gave my guy that clean win and kept that
- 6:17Speaker 7: build going without that title.
- 6:18Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm I'm glad that they did clean wins
- 6:22Speaker 2: in the first week. Anybody else have any thoughts on
- 6:25Speaker 2: the Gold League before we move on to the Blue League.
- 6:28Speaker 2: All right, so the Blue League. We only have one
- 6:30Speaker 2: match in the Blue League this week on Dynamite, and
- 6:35Speaker 2: that is going to be Claudio Castignoli against John Moxley,
- 6:42Speaker 2: Battle of the Death Riders. Of course, John Moxley, Claudio
- 6:48Speaker 2: Casigi and Kenoski Takeshta won their three matches or won
- 6:55Speaker 2: their first match. I should say the losers were Roderick Strong,
- 7:00Speaker 2: Mascara Dorata and Orange Cassidy. And I would be honest
- 7:03Speaker 2: with you. I don't know how you guys feel, but I
- 7:06Speaker 2: wasn't surprised by any of those results. I don't think
- 7:09Speaker 2: any of those were shocking at all.
- 7:12Speaker 7: No, clision was very predictable. But those matchups weren't screaming
- 7:17Speaker 7: upset either, you know what I mean? Like, I think
- 7:20Speaker 7: I think the Legito cot of Kyle Fletcher in the
- 7:24Speaker 7: the Kevin Knight and uh, who did you.
- 7:28Speaker 2: Wrestle shit Kevin Knight Darby at Arby Darby?
- 7:33Speaker 7: Like, like, those weren't ones that I They weren't paired
- 7:36Speaker 7: up where it was obvious. So I just I don't know.
- 7:42Speaker 7: Closion was just very predictable. Calson to your point, I'm rambling. Sorry, Well, I.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Gotta say one thing about the Blue League match on Dynamite,
- 7:49Speaker 2: Claudio Casauli against John Moxley. I hope to God that
- 7:53Speaker 2: that one is not a draw. I I do want
- 7:56Speaker 2: to see a winner in that one. I want to
- 7:59Speaker 2: be I want to to be a normal match. What
- 8:02Speaker 2: you would expect Claudio to do and what you would
- 8:04Speaker 2: expect Moxley to do. I don't want them to hold
- 8:09Speaker 2: back or show do too don't show too much respect
- 8:12Speaker 2: and friendship.
- 8:14Speaker 7: Yeah, the template for that go ahead and that I'm.
- 8:17Speaker 8: Sorry, no, no, it's okay. I was just saying that
- 8:20Speaker 8: I really like to see them let go and really
- 8:25Speaker 8: have a really good match. It has the potential, sure does.
- 8:31Speaker 4: Let us not forget that pretty much every single member
- 8:35Speaker 4: of the Death writers was giving Moxi evil eye after
- 8:39Speaker 4: a after full gear. So yeah, I think we may
- 8:43Speaker 4: be able to be about to see something spicy. I'm
- 8:45Speaker 4: looking forward to it.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean what I was going to
- 8:49Speaker 2: say is that the way Marina Shaper was looking at
- 8:53Speaker 2: job Moxley, it was like that was like every man's
- 8:55Speaker 2: ex wife, you know, that was like god, just you know,
- 9:00Speaker 2: I just I wanted to curl up in the corner
- 9:03Speaker 2: suck of my thumb in a fetal position.
- 9:05Speaker 7: So if you're booking this, and I think most of
- 9:09Speaker 7: us here agree that someone's gonna stab mox in the back,
- 9:13Speaker 7: it's just who's going to take over after him. People
- 9:16Speaker 7: don't know. But like, if Max loses the Claudia and
- 9:20Speaker 7: I think that's the way they're going to go. Here,
- 9:22Speaker 7: he does one of those promos after where he's still
- 9:24Speaker 7: trying to convince them he's the real winner because of
- 9:27Speaker 7: some thing that other you know thing that happened, just
- 9:30Speaker 7: like he was still the winner out of the match
- 9:31Speaker 7: we all saw him lose. I think that's the way
- 9:35Speaker 7: they're going to go. And if they do that, do
- 9:37Speaker 7: they do another backstage thing or or do they like
- 9:41Speaker 7: kill him in the tournament, Like does Claudio just end
- 9:44Speaker 7: him right there?
- 9:44Speaker 2: Well, you know what I'm thinking. Yeah, And it's if
- 9:50Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, it is when you get the World's
- 9:53Speaker 2: in and you have the two semi final matches, Yeah,
- 9:57Speaker 2: it's Blue one against Gold to and Gold one against
- 10:01Speaker 2: Blue two? Am I correct in that?
- 10:06Speaker 7: Cross?
- 10:09Speaker 9: That's what I'm assuming as well? Yeah, yeah, I have
- 10:12Speaker 9: to look it up. If that's the case. I think
- 10:14Speaker 9: the two semi final matches should be Ta Keshta against Okada,
- 10:21Speaker 9: which means one of them will win one of their
- 10:25Speaker 9: leagues and the other will.
- 10:26Speaker 2: Come in second. But the second, uh, Chris, you need
- 10:30Speaker 2: the mute or somebody meets mute. The second one should
- 10:35Speaker 2: be John Moxley and Pack because it looks like Pack
- 10:39Speaker 2: has the most angst in the angst and is assumed.
- 10:47Speaker 2: I would say he is. He has assumed a leadership position,
- 10:52Speaker 2: facto leader leadership position in the death rids. I think
- 10:57Speaker 2: pack is going to run the table on this one.
- 11:00Speaker 2: I really do. I think that. I think that the
- 11:03Speaker 2: semi finals at World Dead is going to be when
- 11:06Speaker 2: the turn happens on Moxley.
- 11:09Speaker 7: I mean, if you're if you're booking him as the
- 11:11Speaker 7: new leader. Yeah, yeah, running the table makes it's a
- 11:14Speaker 7: smart move.
- 11:15Speaker 3: Yeah, I would completely agree.
- 11:18Speaker 5: I kind of got to disagree on one thing.
- 11:21Speaker 6: I don't think that if you're going to have because
- 11:23Speaker 6: we all know that this is leading to a Okada
- 11:27Speaker 6: showdown where Okada's going.
- 11:29Speaker 5: To turn or Takesha is going to turn face, leave it.
- 11:32Speaker 6: On callis family the superstary should become. I don't think
- 11:37Speaker 6: you do that in the semi finals. I think you
- 11:39Speaker 6: have to do that in the final. It's a bigger
- 11:41Speaker 6: it's the bigger match, the biggest match you can have
- 11:44Speaker 6: come out of this tournament.
- 11:45Speaker 5: At least to me, it is.
- 11:47Speaker 2: I I know, I agree with you, but it's also
- 11:52Speaker 2: super predictable.
- 11:53Speaker 5: Well, I mean that's what they do with this tournament.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Think about it. They never but why does that have
- 11:59Speaker 2: to be the finals? The finals are out? Is also
- 12:01Speaker 2: a world end, world's dead, you can they're still gonna
- 12:04Speaker 2: have the match. It's just the finals.
- 12:06Speaker 6: I just I don't know. It just seems like it
- 12:08Speaker 6: should be the final. It just seems like that's the
- 12:11Speaker 6: the what the final match should be. I mean, doing
- 12:15Speaker 6: it and you do it in the semis that if
- 12:17Speaker 6: you know the match and if to catch the beats
- 12:20Speaker 6: Ocada in the in the semi finals, they're all going
- 12:23Speaker 6: to say, well, it wasn't the finals. People, you know
- 12:25Speaker 6: how people can be They'll say, well, this wasn't that
- 12:27Speaker 6: an important match, because yes it was a semifinal, but
- 12:29Speaker 6: he still had another match to go. So I just
- 12:32Speaker 6: think it's you could still do everything else. Just I
- 12:35Speaker 6: think those two have to win their type, their their divisions,
- 12:38Speaker 6: if you want to do it the right way.
- 12:40Speaker 5: That's just me though, But.
- 12:43Speaker 10: Be Ocada Cash is going to beat Ocada. I don't
- 12:46Speaker 10: think you. I don't think you think. I don't think
- 12:49Speaker 10: you can pass the tour. I don't think you could pass.
- 12:56Speaker 3: I think is going to find a way to win
- 12:59Speaker 3: and then he will be able to hold over Tichuester,
- 13:03Speaker 3: the fact that he still has his title because Tequesta
- 13:08Speaker 3: is going to lose a Wrestal Kingdom, I believe, and
- 13:13Speaker 3: he won at Wressell Kingdom.
- 13:16Speaker 5: You're like, yeah, but is it Russell Kingdom after is okay?
- 13:22Speaker 3: So that's the point. But Okada is going to beat
- 13:28Speaker 3: Tikester and hold that over him, and te Testa is
- 13:31Speaker 3: going to go into his Russell Kingdom Matt having to
- 13:34Speaker 3: see Okada in the main event. Even though Tiquesta is
- 13:38Speaker 3: the iw GP heavyweight champion.
- 13:42Speaker 5: Tequest does not lose.
- 13:43Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, I get what you're saying, but
- 13:47Speaker 6: the premise that it's going to be to Guess to
- 13:49Speaker 6: say or Okata saying I still hope have my title
- 13:52Speaker 6: doesn't make any sense because Taquest has not lost his
- 13:54Speaker 6: title yet and I seriously doubt that they're gonna Then
- 13:57Speaker 6: that's the other reasons.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Okay, we're getting a man.
- 14:07Speaker 11: Yeah, the.
- 14:13Speaker 3: World's End is the twenty seventh. Russell Kingdom is the fourth.
- 14:19Speaker 3: I'm not saying Ocada is going to say that immediately
- 14:22Speaker 3: after the match. I'm saying he's going to say that
- 14:26Speaker 3: after Wreussell Kingdom. All this is going to we're not
- 14:29Speaker 3: going to see Okada or Tequesta right after World's End,
- 14:34Speaker 3: is what I'm saying.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Okay, I think before uh, that part of the conversation
- 14:39Speaker 2: kicked off. Was it Jess or net that was trying
- 14:44Speaker 2: to chide me?
- 14:46Speaker 4: If we can circle back to the Death Writers thing
- 14:48Speaker 4: for a second. I know that there is a strict
- 14:53Speaker 4: no interference rule in place for the tournament matches, but
- 14:58Speaker 4: what about after.
- 14:59Speaker 2: The that's happened before, once the batch is over, don't
- 15:03Speaker 2: forget you also could look at before.
- 15:04Speaker 4: No it it would make more sense after because like
- 15:07Speaker 4: after mox is knocked out of the tournament by assuming
- 15:12Speaker 4: let's say, pak Pack, I need to get used to that.
- 15:17Speaker 4: Oh then like I could just sort of like a
- 15:23Speaker 4: maybe a thumbs down from the new king and then
- 15:26Speaker 4: like the rest of like the Death Writers loom like
- 15:29Speaker 4: from like the back, like a pack of animals and
- 15:31Speaker 4: just as.
- 15:33Speaker 2: Art right right now that that's a good, good point.
- 15:41Speaker 2: I have a counterpoint to that, and I'm interested to
- 15:44Speaker 2: hear what you, Jess said. Anybody else wants to chime in. Honestly,
- 15:49Speaker 2: I have one sentence to come down to John Moxley
- 15:52Speaker 2: versus the bastard Pack in the semi finals, maybe the finals,
- 15:57Speaker 2: you never know, because that is another big match, although
- 16:01Speaker 2: I think it is definitely more effective as the semi
- 16:03Speaker 2: final match. That being said, I talked about a turn
- 16:09Speaker 2: and everybody's expecting a turn. Everybody that I've seen posting
- 16:13Speaker 2: on you know, Reddit, or on the discord or on
- 16:18Speaker 2: other social media is expecting the turn time to do
- 16:24Speaker 2: the unexpected. And it makes sense to do this. If
- 16:27Speaker 2: you remember back in the Blackpool Combat Club days, who
- 16:32Speaker 2: was it that turned her back on the Blackpoole Combat
- 16:34Speaker 2: Club and walked away and left them hanging. It was
- 16:39Speaker 2: the Bastard Pack. What if the death writers turn on
- 16:45Speaker 2: the Bastard Pack and not on John Moxley because they
- 16:49Speaker 2: see him as, for lack of better words, of cancer
- 16:53Speaker 2: working in the locker room and in their training and whatever.
- 16:57Speaker 2: Just throw that out.
- 16:58Speaker 4: But I don't think I'd like that as my not
- 17:01Speaker 4: quite as dramatic.
- 17:02Speaker 2: It's not maybe not as dramatic, but it is probably
- 17:07Speaker 2: more unexpected. I mean, you know, if there's one thing
- 17:12Speaker 2: about Tony Kahan that he has a weakness in doing,
- 17:15Speaker 2: is sometimes he outright telegraphs things, you know, whether it's
- 17:20Speaker 2: the Continental Classic, whether it's even the owen Hart's been
- 17:26Speaker 2: telegraphed pretty bad, you know, in the past, so.
- 17:32Speaker 3: I don't I guess I wouldn't mind so much.
- 17:34Speaker 4: I mean, just because you can see something coming doesn't
- 17:36Speaker 4: mean it's going to be bad when it happens.
- 17:40Speaker 2: No, of course not. But in some cases it was.
- 17:44Speaker 2: I mean, the whole Ricky Starts winning the owen Hart
- 17:47Speaker 2: that year was just awful. I'm sorry it was. You know,
- 17:51Speaker 2: I did not enjoy that. It was just so telegraphed.
- 17:55Speaker 2: You knew it was gonna happen. The matches were great,
- 17:58Speaker 2: but there was pointless because you knew it was gonna happen.
- 18:01Speaker 2: Anybody else have any comments about the Continental Classic or
- 18:06Speaker 2: Dynamite or what they think is going to happen at
- 18:09Speaker 2: the end.
- 18:09Speaker 3: I just gotta say I love that all three of
- 18:12Speaker 3: these matches kind of have their own story, not just
- 18:18Speaker 3: as part of the Continental Classic. Like with Maxley and Claudio,
- 18:21Speaker 3: you have this whole crazy death writers angle, what the
- 18:25Speaker 3: hell is going to happen? U With Okada and Pocket,
- 18:29Speaker 3: it's a rematch, which is all Those are always fun
- 18:33Speaker 3: as long as if the first match was really good,
- 18:35Speaker 3: which theirs was. And then I mean Fletcher and Knight.
- 18:39Speaker 2: You have.
- 18:41Speaker 3: If I went forward into twenty to twenty thirty and
- 18:45Speaker 3: someone told me that Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight is
- 18:48Speaker 3: the main event for all In, I would have one
- 18:53Speaker 3: believe it, Like those two guys are the future of AW.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't. I can't argue that at all.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I just think it's kind of easy. Even
- 19:05Speaker 3: within the Continental Classic, there's still kind of the individual
- 19:08Speaker 3: stories of the matches. You know, all three matches should
- 19:13Speaker 3: be really good. I can predict winners, but I'm like
- 19:21Speaker 3: with everyone, it's like, if I'm choosing one, it's like
- 19:23Speaker 3: fifty one forty nine that way. It's like, but I
- 19:28Speaker 3: think it's a nice deal for each match to have
- 19:32Speaker 3: that as well.
- 19:32Speaker 2: By the way, MK is in the chat and he said, wow,
- 19:36Speaker 2: big group tonight, it really is. Thank you guys for
- 19:39Speaker 2: joining us tonight. Let's move on because we have another interesting,
- 19:47Speaker 2: interesting match going on on Dynamite and that is the
- 19:52Speaker 2: second semi final for the AW Women's World Tag Team Championship.
- 19:57Speaker 2: We have the Timeless Love Bombs against the Mega Problems.
- 20:02Speaker 2: What do you guys think here? Who's going to win this? Wait?
- 20:05Speaker 7: Is that actually their name?
- 20:07Speaker 2: I love it?
- 20:07Speaker 3: It's wonderful.
- 20:09Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so, but does anybody have anything about the
- 20:14Speaker 2: match and not just the name. I don't know it's
- 20:17Speaker 2: gonna win, man.
- 20:18Speaker 7: I thought for sure the story coming out of Blood
- 20:21Speaker 7: and Guts was going to be the Timeless Love Bombs
- 20:24Speaker 7: getting their revenge on what do they call this, the
- 20:28Speaker 7: Mega Problems is their name?
- 20:30Speaker 2: Now?
- 20:31Speaker 7: Getting their revenge and the Mega Problems and then facing
- 20:35Speaker 7: the Evil Dolls or whatever that called.
- 20:40Speaker 12: Things, the Evil Dolls, the Evil yeah, the Vampire Sisters
- 20:53Speaker 12: those but.
- 20:55Speaker 7: I thought, and then they triumph over the last evil
- 20:57Speaker 7: team that you know, beat them in tune into their
- 21:00Speaker 7: life in the finals, but with I can't remember that.
- 21:07Speaker 7: I want to come leave with balls again with them
- 21:10Speaker 7: losing to the Mega Bators of Wrath or Wrath. Yeah,
- 21:13Speaker 7: the base know what's going to happen here, man, Like,
- 21:17Speaker 7: that's out the window. So I can totally see the
- 21:21Speaker 7: Golden Lovers, right.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to make a pupy right clean here.
- 21:36Speaker 3: You're not allowed to do that.
- 21:37Speaker 2: That's my genre that I got.
- 21:40Speaker 7: I got way too excited about explaining this and forgot
- 21:43Speaker 7: everybody's name. Yeah, hopefully you're able to follow.
- 21:47Speaker 2: I was waiting for you to break out the old
- 21:49Speaker 2: cibon and garfunkle. I really was.
- 21:54Speaker 7: I'll show Oh boy, I appreciate you for tolerating.
- 21:58Speaker 2: My just wow. Remember kids, crack as whack.
- 22:07Speaker 4: It's the time of love bombs and the mega problems
- 22:11Speaker 4: and the brood.
- 22:14Speaker 8: And all sisters I call them sisters and sin I
- 22:20Speaker 8: don't even know who they are anymore.
- 22:22Speaker 2: There you go. Let's well, let's get back to the
- 22:27Speaker 2: match itself. Who do you who do you think and
- 22:31Speaker 2: who do you want to win? I mean, is there
- 22:33Speaker 2: is there a difference between who you think should win
- 22:35Speaker 2: and who you who you want to win?
- 22:38Speaker 4: I'm sorry, the.
- 22:44Speaker 2: Timeless love bombs all the way.
- 22:47Speaker 3: Yeah, I will never not root for me to share
- 22:50Speaker 3: awa me.
- 22:55Speaker 6: The only problem with that is is if you want
- 22:57Speaker 6: a traditional good versus Evil final, you have to have
- 23:01Speaker 6: the the the evil women win.
- 23:04Speaker 5: They no choice in the matter, because it's just.
- 23:06Speaker 3: I don't want a traditional evil final. I want to
- 23:11Speaker 3: fun teams that are going to have an amazing match,
- 23:14Speaker 3: Like not every match has to be heel versus heel.
- 23:19Speaker 3: And the thing is, you know, Mina and Tony can
- 23:23Speaker 3: work a little dirty, you know, draw some booze from
- 23:28Speaker 3: the crowd, but it's perfectly fine to have one. Like,
- 23:32Speaker 3: we like both of these teams. Well, you know, we
- 23:36Speaker 3: may want we may want to see this team win,
- 23:39Speaker 3: but we'll be happy if this team wins too. Like,
- 23:43Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with having two fan favorite teams faced
- 23:46Speaker 3: off in a good match.
- 23:49Speaker 7: You know, Chris, you say something that just triggered and
- 23:52Speaker 7: I'll go ahead and not time in please.
- 23:54Speaker 8: Oh well, it relates to this a bit, and it
- 23:58Speaker 8: relates to the Death Riders. I kind of had a
- 24:01Speaker 8: theory that Tony Storm is actually going to do something
- 24:08Speaker 8: to John Moxley, and you all just made me think
- 24:11Speaker 8: about it when we were talking about who's going to
- 24:13Speaker 8: win this match, and we can we can get into
- 24:16Speaker 8: it with Poe Peari, but I just had I have
- 24:20Speaker 8: a feeling that there's something going on deeper with Tony
- 24:24Speaker 8: Storm and John Moxley. So Barry go ahead, please, I
- 24:28Speaker 8: interrupted you.
- 24:29Speaker 7: Oh you didn't at all. I talk a lot, so
- 24:33Speaker 7: I think we were saying a couple of weeks ago
- 24:36Speaker 7: prior to like right after Blood and Guts are Like,
- 24:39Speaker 7: the finish of that match was great because of the
- 24:41Speaker 7: emotional connection with the best friends and lovers or whatever
- 24:45Speaker 7: of Tony and Mina, But Mina wasn't originally supposed to
- 24:49Speaker 7: be in that match, you know, just like Marina Shaffir wasn't.
- 24:52Speaker 7: And so I'm thinking, like Tony Kahan has an idea
- 24:56Speaker 7: where he books and he always gets back to what
- 24:59Speaker 7: he had planned to do. And if you look at
- 25:01Speaker 7: the finish of that match, I think we were talking
- 25:04Speaker 7: another team that would have kind of made sense with
- 25:07Speaker 7: would have been Chris Statlander and Willow. But I was
- 25:10Speaker 7: also thinking would that work with Willow and Harley if
- 25:15Speaker 7: that was an original finish they were going to do
- 25:17Speaker 7: with that too. So if they had went that route
- 25:21Speaker 7: and that was Tony's plan, they would in essence be
- 25:24Speaker 7: getting their revenge on the bad guys right now after
- 25:27Speaker 7: beating the Sisters of Sin and then the Mega Problems.
- 25:30Speaker 7: So that was the original path they was going to go. So,
- 25:33Speaker 7: you know, in retrospect to the to the Babes Wrath
- 25:38Speaker 7: winning last week, which I thought was a surprise, I
- 25:40Speaker 7: would not be shocked if if the Golden Lovers not the.
- 25:47Speaker 2: God like.
- 25:51Speaker 7: And remind said and Tony, don't try the game and
- 25:54Speaker 7: I did it right the first time, I would be
- 25:56Speaker 7: shocked and lost. I'm going to think of it, and
- 25:59Speaker 7: they go with the mega problems. Here's the other thing,
- 26:04Speaker 7: world for gidding.
- 26:05Speaker 6: Tony Cohen has a pension for putting tag all titles
- 26:10Speaker 6: on heels more than he does on faces.
- 26:13Speaker 3: So there's only one heel.
- 26:14Speaker 6: Team left, and they have to lose Mina and and
- 26:20Speaker 6: and uh have They have to lose in order for
- 26:23Speaker 6: that to happen. So I think that's the route he's
- 26:25Speaker 6: gonna go.
- 26:27Speaker 2: I should I should have.
- 26:28Speaker 7: The biggest baby faces to push the new title, like
- 26:31Speaker 7: on your most popular wrestlers. That's not a bad movie either.
- 26:33Speaker 7: If they go baby face, baby face to go ahead
- 26:35Speaker 7: and tell some them no.
- 26:36Speaker 2: I was gonna say that, I need to make a
- 26:38Speaker 2: poster every week and just have the list of the
- 26:40Speaker 2: names of people were talking about so that we could
- 26:44Speaker 2: tell everybody gets it. It's it's too funny. Yes, that's good. Well, well, look,
- 26:55Speaker 2: I don't know what you guys think about this, but
- 26:57Speaker 2: I'm looking at it from this. I did not expect
- 27:03Speaker 2: the Sisters to send the lose to the Babes of
- 27:05Speaker 2: Wrath last week. I understand why they did, but I
- 27:09Speaker 2: didn't expect it because I really thought that finally, finally,
- 27:15Speaker 2: sky Blue was going to get or get her flowers
- 27:19Speaker 2: and was going to have a chance to a real
- 27:21Speaker 2: chance to get any belt and be the first well
- 27:26Speaker 2: half what half of the first AW Women's World Tag
- 27:30Speaker 2: Team Champions. Sky Blue has been working her tail off
- 27:36Speaker 2: for AW for years now and has really nothing to
- 27:43Speaker 2: show for it except, you know, her audition for you
- 27:47Speaker 2: know Carrie, you know, with the buckets of blood that
- 27:50Speaker 2: was pouring down her, down her head and onto her
- 27:55Speaker 2: over her face, you know, And when I look at it,
- 28:00Speaker 2: Harley Cameron has been she's been a revelation. She deserves
- 28:06Speaker 2: the belt. It was a topic on the subreddit just
- 28:10Speaker 2: this past week, when is Harley Cameron gonna finally get
- 28:14Speaker 2: her belt? This is before the match with the Sisters
- 28:17Speaker 2: of Sin at the Babes of Wrath, But is Harley
- 28:21Speaker 2: Cameron gonna finally get her belt? People were saying that
- 28:24Speaker 2: she's going to finally get her belt probably, you know,
- 28:27Speaker 2: in January. I think it's January when AW goes back
- 28:31Speaker 2: to Australia for the two shows. Marina Shaffir is a
- 28:36Speaker 2: replacement of Penelope Ford and she's just not got the
- 28:43Speaker 2: try not to say anything negative, but she just doesn't
- 28:46Speaker 2: have the longevity as a wrestler. She doesn't have as
- 28:49Speaker 2: nearly as many matches as any of the other wrestlers
- 28:53Speaker 2: in this tournament, not just in the semi finals, but
- 28:56Speaker 2: I'm talking about the entire tournament. She just doesn't. She's
- 29:00Speaker 2: just not that person. Megan Bain on the ear in
- 29:05Speaker 2: hand does deserve her flowers because she wrestled like every
- 29:09Speaker 2: other day in November on two different continents. It's like
- 29:13Speaker 2: her schedule has been amazing. So it's and then and
- 29:18Speaker 2: of course Mina share Cow, I mean Mia share Cow
- 29:21Speaker 2: is she's the pit eater. I mean, she's eating so
- 29:25Speaker 2: many pins. She did get a little bit of a
- 29:27Speaker 2: rub with the UH with the UH Interim Women's rh
- 29:32Speaker 2: Women's Tag team titles, but that was taken away from
- 29:36Speaker 2: her by who was a Mercedes Bonette, and then she
- 29:41Speaker 2: and she lost to Athena. Well, she's lost to everybody.
- 29:45Speaker 2: She just eats pins. I mean, I'm really confused, but
- 29:50Speaker 2: I'll stand by what I said earlier. I was really
- 29:53Speaker 2: hoping that sky Blue was going to get get a
- 29:56Speaker 2: belt out of this. I was really hoping. So maybe
- 30:00Speaker 2: she still will a couple of weeks from now, but
- 30:04Speaker 2: not right now. Anybody else with thoughts on this match
- 30:07Speaker 2: and the tournament finals. All right, then, well let's move on.
- 30:11Speaker 2: I'm interested to know because we don't really talk about
- 30:15Speaker 2: Rig of Honor enough on this podcast. Final Battles coming
- 30:19Speaker 2: up on Friday evening. Who's going to be who have
- 30:24Speaker 2: you here tonight? Are going to be watching Final Battle?
- 30:29Speaker 4: I probably am not.
- 30:32Speaker 3: Is one of those. I was actually watching the r
- 30:35Speaker 3: Show before popping on here. You know, I really like
- 30:40Speaker 3: the Final Battle card. There's a lot of people I
- 30:42Speaker 3: like in r OA. I just right now can't afford
- 30:46Speaker 3: the Honor Club and can't afford more than one pay
- 30:51Speaker 3: per view a month, and well, the world's end is taking.
- 30:56Speaker 4: Press plus like what's said, and I mentioned this before
- 30:58Speaker 4: we started recording. Final Battle is in my neck of
- 31:02Speaker 4: the woods. I would like to go, but Tony has
- 31:08Speaker 4: a really weird habit of bringing shows to Columbus around
- 31:14Speaker 4: the time they're having having conventions and having shows at
- 31:17Speaker 4: the conventions, which makes getting tickets for the show a
- 31:22Speaker 4: whole ordeal. And it just makes me not want to
- 31:26Speaker 4: go see Ring of Honor when it's here because it's
- 31:28Speaker 4: such a pain in the ass to get tickets because
- 31:30Speaker 4: there's a whole convention suck.
- 31:32Speaker 2: Okay, So the question was, is anybody watching Ring of Honors?
- 31:37Speaker 2: I am as I'm watching Final Battle? Is anybody else
- 31:40Speaker 2: watching Final Battle?
- 31:41Speaker 7: Ten points? To pivot away from that, calson that was no.
- 31:46Speaker 2: I was like, okay, so nobody's just everybody's gonna, you know,
- 31:51Speaker 2: say they're not, but nobody's gonna say they are when
- 31:53Speaker 2: that wasn't the question. So there is absolutely nobody but
- 31:57Speaker 2: me watching Final Battle. Well, there is the problem.
- 32:00Speaker 3: Like I said, I.
- 32:03Speaker 2: Think there lies the problem. I think they're in lie
- 32:07Speaker 2: I'll try it for the third time. I think there
- 32:10Speaker 2: in lies the problem with Ring of Honor as a whole,
- 32:13Speaker 2: that it's just not presented well. And I think a
- 32:18Speaker 2: lot of it has to do with uh.
- 32:21Speaker 3: W b D.
- 32:22Speaker 2: I mean, it really needs to be a WBD property.
- 32:25Speaker 2: They really need to get a TV deal with WWBD
- 32:28Speaker 2: simply because they can't advertise it. They don't. They never
- 32:34Speaker 2: do advertise it. If you think about it, what is
- 32:37Speaker 2: unless it's just in passing in like a five second spot.
- 32:42Speaker 2: You know, they don't mention it on Dynamite, they don't
- 32:46Speaker 2: mention it on you know, on collision. And I will
- 32:50Speaker 2: say this, I I don't think I've missed a Ring
- 32:55Speaker 2: of Honor pay per view since Tony Khan has taken
- 32:58Speaker 2: it over, and they are extremely entertaining and every bit
- 33:06Speaker 2: as good as you would expect a aw R o
- 33:11Speaker 2: H pay per view to be. And this car this card. Yeah,
- 33:17Speaker 2: there's some there's always some matches that are very weird,
- 33:20Speaker 2: but this card has some really really big matches. You've
- 33:24Speaker 2: got the survival of the Fittest matches, which Ring of
- 33:28Speaker 2: Honor does quite a bit for the aid for the
- 33:31Speaker 2: ad for the Ring of Honor World Championship. Mercedes Monette
- 33:37Speaker 2: is defending the Ring of Honor World Women's TV Championship
- 33:42Speaker 2: against Red Velvet, which I mean Red Velvet could seriously
- 33:49Speaker 2: walk away with the belt from that one. That may
- 33:52Speaker 2: have been the plan all along. I think Red Velvet
- 33:56Speaker 2: deserves it. You've got Ricochet doing his first time defense
- 34:00Speaker 2: of the aw National Championship. We don't know who he's
- 34:04Speaker 2: defending it against yet, but.
- 34:07Speaker 3: Is defending and stuff. Yeah it's Dalton Castle.
- 34:14Speaker 2: Oh it is Dalton Castle. Yeah, Well let's break some hearts.
- 34:19Speaker 2: I'm telling you we're gonna have the uh, the Women's
- 34:25Speaker 2: Pure Championship finals. Nigel Beginnis is going to be facing
- 34:31Speaker 2: Lee Moriarty, Sammy gavara Is and The Beast Mortos are
- 34:35Speaker 2: both wrestling twice. And this is like the third pay
- 34:40Speaker 2: per view out of four because if you remember with
- 34:46Speaker 2: Sami Guevara at Death Before Dishonor, he wrestled two matches.
- 34:52Speaker 2: At aw All In he wrestled two matches, and now
- 34:55Speaker 2: a Final Battle, he's wrestling two matches. It's not that unusual.
- 35:01Speaker 2: I looked it up and there's several a w Ring
- 35:04Speaker 2: of Honor wrestlers that have wrestled two matches in one night.
- 35:08Speaker 2: Some of them have been, of course, like on r
- 35:11Speaker 2: o H tapings on the same night that they appear.
- 35:14Speaker 2: I thought him. I believe the last one to do
- 35:15Speaker 2: it was High and in by a World. They wrestled
- 35:18Speaker 2: on Ring of Honor on the same night that they
- 35:21Speaker 2: stepped in for uh what's her name? Nixon Newell and
- 35:28Speaker 2: Miranda Leise or alas A. I'm sorry. You also have
- 35:32Speaker 2: a theend of defending the r OH Women's World Championship
- 35:37Speaker 2: against Persephone and that should be a really good match.
- 35:41Speaker 2: So yeah, this is a this is a car that
- 35:43Speaker 2: is really worth watching. There's some other matches on here too.
- 35:48Speaker 2: Shane Taylor Promotions against sky Flight for the Trio's Championship
- 35:52Speaker 2: or the six Man as they call it in Ring
- 35:54Speaker 2: of Honor. So yeah, I mean, if you do get
- 35:58Speaker 2: a chance, please do watch the Ring of Honor. I
- 36:03Speaker 2: guess you would call it a pay per view final Battle,
- 36:07Speaker 2: and you can also if you do watch the Final
- 36:10Speaker 2: Battle pay per view, you can join our live chat
- 36:15Speaker 2: on the Everything Pro Wrestling Hub Discord. We diuys. All
- 36:22Speaker 2: of you are on our discord correct, absolutely.
- 36:25Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, it's my primary use of the community to
- 36:29Speaker 7: me too.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Well yeah, well, you know, Discord was kind of one
- 36:37Speaker 2: of those things where you either love it or you
- 36:40Speaker 2: hate it, and I guess it's the same thing can
- 36:41Speaker 2: be said for things like X. There's people say you
- 36:45Speaker 2: couldn't pay me to get on X, and there's people
- 36:47Speaker 2: that won't go on Reddit. There's some people that like
- 36:51Speaker 2: me that won't go on Facebook because people have had
- 36:55Speaker 2: different experiences with different things. Look, you go to where
- 36:58Speaker 2: you have fun. If you've never tried our subret not
- 37:01Speaker 2: our subreddit, our discord, do Everything Pro Wrestling Hub, Discord
- 37:06Speaker 2: at Discorder, dot gg forward slash ep W hub. That's Discord,
- 37:12Speaker 2: dot gg ep W hub, there's a forward slash between
- 37:16Speaker 2: the GG and the EPW hub. But anyway, I could
- 37:20Speaker 2: never be an announcer. Yeah, I mean, our discord is
- 37:25Speaker 2: very active and it is everything pro wrestling. We're pro
- 37:31Speaker 2: wrestling fans, We're not just ae W fans. We've got
- 37:36Speaker 2: channels for w W, E, n XT, Rig of Honor, TNA.
- 37:41Speaker 2: Congratulations by the way to TNA for getting their TV
- 37:44Speaker 2: deal finally done. H They're gonna be on what is
- 37:47Speaker 2: it a MC starting January fifth for Thursday night Impact,
- 37:54Speaker 2: which is great. Up from eight to ten to nine
- 37:57Speaker 2: to eleven. Yes, that did yea the times to change? Uh, guys,
- 38:04Speaker 2: what what part of the discord? Let's let's what makes
- 38:10Speaker 2: it good for you guys, because unlike the rest of
- 38:13Speaker 2: you guys, Discord is not my primary So my primary
- 38:18Speaker 2: thing is Reddit mostly, but you guys are mostly on Discord.
- 38:24Speaker 2: Why is that what makes it special?
- 38:26Speaker 3: I just like it was.
- 38:28Speaker 4: Actually my intro to the community. I found it completely
- 38:30Speaker 4: by chance. I was looking for a wrestling discord to join,
- 38:35Speaker 4: happen to find this one, and now I'm on this
- 38:37Speaker 4: podcast every week. Oh it's fun. You meet great people.
- 38:45Speaker 4: There's also plenty to talk about. If you don't feel
- 38:47Speaker 4: like talking about wrestling, there's some God forbid, there's a
- 38:51Speaker 4: few channels for other things you could talk about, Like
- 38:53Speaker 4: there's a video game channel, TV movies channel. Well, you
- 38:57Speaker 4: can show off your artwork if you artistically inclined.
- 39:00Speaker 3: Cool stuff.
- 39:00Speaker 2: Yeah, and Barry actually has asked us, and I'm gonna
- 39:04Speaker 2: go ahead and make it, and we're gonna make a
- 39:05Speaker 2: Golden Lovers, Uh Discord channel. Dreams are coming true finally,
- 39:15Speaker 2: thank you.
- 39:16Speaker 7: I have an I'm wearing my Coda Abushi the Golden
- 39:20Speaker 7: Star T shirt.
- 39:31Speaker 3: I want to see.
- 39:32Speaker 2: I haven't any shirt.
- 39:34Speaker 3: I want to see an eight person tag with the
- 39:36Speaker 3: Golden Love bombs.
- 39:39Speaker 2: There you go.
- 39:40Speaker 7: Fantastic, fantastic.
- 39:44Speaker 2: You know, we were just I was just talking about
- 39:46Speaker 2: Final Battle ring a water file battle. Somebody is breathing
- 39:48Speaker 2: really hard. That's such a turn on. I guess the
- 39:51Speaker 2: Golden Lovers got you.
- 39:55Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Was like, oh my god. I was like, whoa, we
- 40:04Speaker 2: have lipped off. Anyway, Anyway, as I was just talking
- 40:09Speaker 2: about Final Battle and also n XT on Saturday has
- 40:15Speaker 2: their Deadline pay per view. Again, this discord is for
- 40:20Speaker 2: everything pro wrestling. It's not an aw fanhob thing. It's
- 40:25Speaker 2: not an aaw thing, and so we have channels already
- 40:28Speaker 2: set up with poles for final battle. We have polls
- 40:32Speaker 2: for deadline. The polls will close one hour before to
- 40:39Speaker 2: show this weekend. Of course, final battles on Friday. Deadline
- 40:44Speaker 2: is on Saturday after the polls close, and those channels
- 40:48Speaker 2: then become a live chat. We've already I've already got
- 40:53Speaker 2: a Russell Kingdom channel already built. It's muted right now
- 40:57Speaker 2: so you can't see it. But that is the reason
- 41:00Speaker 2: why it's muted is because you can't build. The Discord
- 41:05Speaker 2: has a two week limitation to their polls, so I can't.
- 41:11Speaker 2: I'm gonna build the polls two weeks before. Russell Kingdom
- 41:16Speaker 2: twenty also be doing polls and channels for Stardom's what
- 41:25Speaker 2: is it the Grand Queendom coming up in January and
- 41:28Speaker 2: tjpw's in early January. I can't remember. I always get
- 41:33Speaker 2: I can't remember. I think it's a Grand Princess show.
- 41:37Speaker 2: I always get that mixed up. But anyway, we have
- 41:41Speaker 2: polls that become live chats. We'll be doing the same
- 41:45Speaker 2: thing for any TNA pay per view, any big pay
- 41:49Speaker 2: per view we will be or any big show. We
- 41:52Speaker 2: will be doing that, so it's a lot of fun.
- 41:55Speaker 2: It's really cool also seeing the results of the polls
- 41:59Speaker 2: we did the polls or the last aw pay per
- 42:02Speaker 2: view aw full gear and boy did we get them wrong.
- 42:10Speaker 2: I'm telling you, Wow, Wow, we got we got annihilated.
- 42:15Speaker 2: We did. I think there was nine matches. I think
- 42:17Speaker 2: we went three.
- 42:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that next year.
- 42:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 42:27Speaker 7: And if you know, I kind of have a theory
- 42:29Speaker 7: of the people who who like discord a little bit.
- 42:33Speaker 7: It might just be me, but I've talked to a
- 42:35Speaker 7: couple of buddies of mine who like it too. I'm
- 42:37Speaker 7: an older gent late forties. But if you at work
- 42:43Speaker 7: have ever used like Slack or Microsoft Teams, it just
- 42:46Speaker 7: feels like using one of those apps. The interface is
- 42:49Speaker 7: very similar, chat style is very similar. And so for
- 42:53Speaker 7: a lot of folks who don't like care for message boards.
- 42:55Speaker 7: I've never been a big message board person. And I've
- 42:58Speaker 7: been on the internet since like nineteen ninety four, like
- 43:00Speaker 7: the you know, the og game Facts all of you
- 43:03Speaker 7: guys see that site. Now, I was there when it
- 43:05Speaker 7: was like original. I just just hated message boards, right,
- 43:09Speaker 7: I've just never been a message board guy. Right, So
- 43:12Speaker 7: Discord just clicks for me. I love the chat And
- 43:15Speaker 7: one thing I just want to to point you know,
- 43:18Speaker 7: Kelson was plugging the live chats for the rooms. For
- 43:21Speaker 7: most of us, we have to watch by ourselves. If
- 43:23Speaker 7: we're lucky, we have a spouse you know that watches.
- 43:26Speaker 7: Maybe you've got a friend that comes over, but like,
- 43:28Speaker 7: I never have anybody to watch with. The chats are
- 43:30Speaker 7: like hanging out with your friends on the couch. Like,
- 43:33Speaker 7: we have a really really nice group of people, and
- 43:36Speaker 7: it's a lot of fun, a lot of running gags
- 43:39Speaker 7: between the chats, people saying hey, I've been seeing next
- 43:42Speaker 7: pay per view, Like it's a really really fun You
- 43:45Speaker 7: feel like you're hanging out on a couch. So you know,
- 43:47Speaker 7: if you try the message board thing and it's not
- 43:49Speaker 7: really you, but Discord is not even really you, you
- 43:51Speaker 7: know either, But you do like chat rooms, Like it's
- 43:54Speaker 7: a really really good audience. We're a lot of fun
- 43:57Speaker 7: to hang out with and sometimes it's just fun to
- 43:59Speaker 7: read the things people come up with because we got
- 44:01Speaker 7: some funny folks too.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. And the other thing about the Discord
- 44:06Speaker 2: server is that if you're looking for news on AWTNA
- 44:13Speaker 2: start them t j p W, W, W E, n
- 44:16Speaker 2: x T, the indies. My god. We have people that
- 44:21Speaker 2: just their news hounds. They you know, Matt Lopez, you
- 44:25Speaker 2: know who you are. He if something happens in the
- 44:30Speaker 2: world of professional wrestling, Matt is going to do it.
- 44:33Speaker 2: The other thing that that we have on this we
- 44:36Speaker 2: we recently merged with Everything Pro Wrestling's discord server. It's
- 44:42Speaker 2: a smaller server, but they're really good people over there
- 44:46Speaker 2: and everything Pro Wrestling EPW show is a They do podcasts,
- 44:54Speaker 2: follow them on Twitter, come onto our discord, meet them,
- 44:59Speaker 2: they promote out their podcast. They do podcasts for AW,
- 45:03Speaker 2: they do podcasts for WWE, they do I believe the
- 45:06Speaker 2: WWE one they do on Mondays and the AW one
- 45:10Speaker 2: they do on Wednesdays, and they do a bunch of
- 45:15Speaker 2: other stuff in between. They're very active, a wealth of
- 45:20Speaker 2: information and laughter, and that's the important thing to me
- 45:24Speaker 2: is the laughter. You don't you know on the discord,
- 45:28Speaker 2: we don't take it too seriously. Wrestling is supposed to
- 45:33Speaker 2: be fun. It's supposed to be fun, and you know,
- 45:38Speaker 2: there's no tribalism. There are people to post on the
- 45:42Speaker 2: AW channels, that post on the Stardum channels, and post
- 45:46Speaker 2: on the WWE and NXD channels. There's very few people
- 45:51Speaker 2: that don't post on all the other channels, which is
- 45:54Speaker 2: really cool. And I think you know, I'm a moderator
- 45:57Speaker 2: there as are a couple of other people on this panel,
- 46:00Speaker 2: I believe, but we never have to really delete anybody
- 46:06Speaker 2: or remove post for tribalism or stuff like that. At best,
- 46:09Speaker 2: we get, you know, the occasional spammer and of course
- 46:13Speaker 2: the Yoshi Tatsu guy.
- 46:20Speaker 3: Forget about lord y.
- 46:24Speaker 2: Oh Lord, you're right.
- 46:27Speaker 3: I apologize. I forgot for a second.
- 46:30Speaker 7: I had forgotten about that dude until you you said
- 46:33Speaker 7: his post like.
- 46:37Speaker 2: That guy World Famous Fan version nine, ten, eleven, twelve thirteen.
- 46:44Speaker 2: I can't remember which one he was because he's got
- 46:46Speaker 2: so many of them because he's been bad everywhere. He's
- 46:54Speaker 2: an idiot, but he's kind of a lovable idiot, even
- 46:57Speaker 2: though he said you know, f you to me many
- 47:00Speaker 2: times and has published it many times because I banned
- 47:04Speaker 2: him for being just we is weird when.
- 47:09Speaker 3: He's in he's a lovable idiot real life, he's just
- 47:15Speaker 3: a freaking jackass.
- 47:17Speaker 2: There you go. Well, I can tell you right now,
- 47:20Speaker 2: if you're a Reddit fan, don't look for world famous
- 47:23Speaker 2: man on any of your favorite subreddits because he's been banned.
- 47:27Speaker 2: Spar band, professional wrestling band, aw band of Band, Greatest
- 47:31Speaker 2: Radius Wrestling Band, Women's for a wrestling band. He's just.
- 47:37Speaker 3: Would you say that he's good.
- 47:40Speaker 2: That he's good, No, that he's I don't understand what
- 47:46Speaker 2: you're saying. Hell yeah. So anyway, like I said, I
- 47:53Speaker 2: wanted to take some time because we've never really done
- 47:55Speaker 2: it before, to plug the discord. It is a big
- 47:58Speaker 2: part of our community. It is a lot of fun.
- 48:01Speaker 2: I personally, I think it's the least serious in a way,
- 48:07Speaker 2: but it has the most news by far, and it's
- 48:12Speaker 2: just got it's very active. It really is an active discord.
- 48:17Speaker 2: I mean there's unless it's two o'clock in the morning,
- 48:20Speaker 2: it's just being and Chris posting at that point.
- 48:23Speaker 7: But no, we got the Brits on, the Brits and
- 48:26Speaker 7: the Irish lads.
- 48:27Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, we do have the Yeah, we are worldwide.
- 48:33Speaker 7: Some weird right now.
- 48:38Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, anyway, like I said, it's a great server
- 48:44Speaker 2: and there is no no tribalism. Surprisingly no tribalism because
- 48:51Speaker 2: we do have channels for everything and they're all active
- 48:54Speaker 2: there's no channel that's like dead. So if tribalism isn't
- 48:59Speaker 2: your thing, that you probably don't want to listen to
- 49:02Speaker 2: this next segment that we're gonna do because we're gonna
- 49:04Speaker 2: compare Blooded Guts and Survivor Series war games.
- 49:10Speaker 9: Uh.
- 49:10Speaker 2: I guess the question to ask here is how many
- 49:13Speaker 2: of you guys watch both Blooded Guts and Survivor Series
- 49:18Speaker 2: war games. I did.
- 49:20Speaker 6: I watched budd and Guts, but I didn't see I've
- 49:22Speaker 6: saw snippets of the Survivor series on YouTube.
- 49:26Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, that's what I did too. You know, so,
- 49:33Speaker 2: I mean, what is your overall opinion when you like
- 49:38Speaker 2: comparing the two comparison?
- 49:43Speaker 3: Don't think to compare the two?
- 49:45Speaker 1: Yeah you can't.
- 49:46Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think they're the same match.
- 49:49Speaker 3: Are completely different?
- 49:52Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, wait a minute there, wait a minute. There,
- 49:56Speaker 2: They are not completely different matches. They have the same
- 50:01Speaker 2: exact format, the same format developed by the same person,
- 50:06Speaker 2: Dusty Rhodes. They are the same match. They're just approached
- 50:11Speaker 2: in a different ways.
- 50:13Speaker 4: The only difference between Blood and Guts and war games
- 50:17Speaker 4: was war games that had the little shark cages, and
- 50:19Speaker 4: they didn't even have those this year.
- 50:21Speaker 6: Well that yeah, you know, Survivor series has been around
- 50:26Speaker 6: for a long time.
- 50:28Speaker 5: But honestly, when you do a match that has the.
- 50:31Speaker 6: Women's match and the men's match had the same elements,
- 50:36Speaker 6: exactly the same element, it's just like, what are you doing?
- 50:43Speaker 3: They had?
- 50:46Speaker 2: Who was it? The men's side they had, so don't try,
- 50:50Speaker 2: don't You're not gonna get it.
- 50:53Speaker 5: Run Cody. Cody got held out of the men's match.
- 50:57Speaker 2: In the as me, that's that's that's our buddy.
- 51:04Speaker 7: What's the team from the Bloodline the Woozy Brothers.
- 51:13Speaker 6: When you had Tody get held out and had to
- 51:15Speaker 6: climb over the top and over the over the cage
- 51:17Speaker 6: to get in the match, and you did the same
- 51:19Speaker 6: thing with Becky.
- 51:20Speaker 5: And aj Lee.
- 51:22Speaker 2: Come on, man, it's the same exact thing. I don't
- 51:27Speaker 2: I don't know a problem. I don't really have a
- 51:29Speaker 2: problem with that per se, because there's always so many
- 51:32Speaker 2: things you can do in a cage, you know, or well, I.
- 51:37Speaker 6: Don't know about that because I don't know because most
- 51:40Speaker 6: of the time, aw does they do every different time
- 51:43Speaker 6: they do one of these, it's completely different than the
- 51:46Speaker 6: time before. They're not repeating things over and over again.
- 51:49Speaker 6: You know, Yeah, there's gonna be spots that are gonna
- 51:51Speaker 6: be the same.
- 51:51Speaker 5: But when you do that to it, just it just
- 51:54Speaker 5: looks so stupid because.
- 51:57Speaker 3: When you do it twice in the same.
- 52:03Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the fruit roll up all over again.
- 52:07Speaker 4: Oh, speaking of stupid, a stupid repetition. You would nobody
- 52:13Speaker 4: at Blood and Guts seem to get the urge to
- 52:16Speaker 4: do their entrance over again in the middle of the match.
- 52:19Speaker 7: Yeah, well look, well look, hey, I don't I don't
- 52:23Speaker 7: want I don't want to rag on WWE I'm coming
- 52:26Speaker 7: with with Chris. They are different products, and you know
- 52:30Speaker 7: that's what it is from a storyline perspective. Real world
- 52:35Speaker 7: talk here. Has Survivor Series done the war games the
- 52:39Speaker 7: last few years or was that just this year? Because
- 52:42Speaker 7: I haven't watched the FED on a regular basis and.
- 52:44Speaker 3: It's been the I think it's been the last couple
- 52:47Speaker 3: of years.
- 52:50Speaker 7: And then they they've done they've done a war game.
- 52:53Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for the last three or four and
- 52:56Speaker 3: then or maybe it's been like two years there in
- 53:00Speaker 3: a few years.
- 53:02Speaker 7: So it's relatively common. Even if it's not a pure
- 53:05Speaker 7: war games, there are you know, Survivors Series matches are
- 53:08Speaker 7: pretty similar. Do you think this was some some low
- 53:12Speaker 7: key counter booking.
- 53:15Speaker 2: I absolutely believe that, because, look, that's a really good question, Barry,
- 53:20Speaker 2: because look that's why I wanted there. The Blooded Guts
- 53:25Speaker 2: for aw usually takes place earlier in the year, right,
- 53:29Speaker 2: and it took place two weeks more? Was it two
- 53:32Speaker 2: weeks before Survivor series? And Brian Albarez? I think it
- 53:36Speaker 2: was Brian Albert Albarez. What did a little one of
- 53:41Speaker 2: his things that he was like after blood and guts,
- 53:43Speaker 2: he was like that he was just gushing over blood gouts.
- 53:46Speaker 2: Everybody was gushing over bloody gout gouts, including the wrestlers
- 53:49Speaker 2: that were in it. Wah wah, Golden lovers. Anyway, but
- 53:55Speaker 2: what I'm saying, that's the Golden Lovers. And this was
- 54:01Speaker 2: like if I, you know, if I was like doing
- 54:05Speaker 2: on the golf course and seat of going shoot her,
- 54:06Speaker 2: I go Golden Lovers and throw everybody. But I don't
- 54:11Speaker 2: want to tell you the hand movement. I'd be baking
- 54:13Speaker 2: when I did that. But anyway, but anyway, Brian Alvarez said,
- 54:23Speaker 2: you know, not only were they very I mean Dolph
- 54:26Speaker 2: Ziggler was even like over the moon about blood and guns,
- 54:30Speaker 2: and both Dlph Ziggler and Brian Alvarez said the same thing.
- 54:34Speaker 2: There is no way you're going to see anything like
- 54:37Speaker 2: that at wargames, and you did it. The best thing
- 54:41Speaker 2: you can do when you is just look a still
- 54:44Speaker 2: picture of the the winners being having their hands raised
- 54:49Speaker 2: in the ring. That's all you have to do. And
- 54:51Speaker 2: to tell the picture speaks a thousand words and a
- 54:54Speaker 2: w It looks literally like in the background, especially in
- 54:58Speaker 2: the women's match, literally looked like a war. It just happened.
- 55:03Speaker 2: There was well the Willow Nightgale was still laid out
- 55:06Speaker 2: in the background, there was debris everywhere, and there was
- 55:11Speaker 2: you know everyone. Both rings were just bloody as hell.
- 55:18Speaker 2: And in the and in the WWE picture, the ring
- 55:23Speaker 2: was kind of pristine. It looked like a child that
- 55:25Speaker 2: maybe thrown some of their toys around.
- 55:27Speaker 7: So I listen. I I think it is important to
- 55:32Speaker 7: remind I think it's important to remind ourselves these are
- 55:36Speaker 7: two different products. And AW caters to a more adult crowd.
- 55:41Speaker 7: They're not scared to push those edges a little bit.
- 55:44Speaker 2: WWE is not.
- 55:45Speaker 7: I don't think it's fair to expect that level of
- 55:48Speaker 7: blood and carnage I just don't. I don't think. I
- 55:52Speaker 7: don't think it is. Though on the flip side, I disagree.
- 55:56Speaker 2: I disagree with you by I.
- 55:58Speaker 7: Just I don't think it's I don't think it's fair
- 56:00Speaker 7: to expect the same they're they're not advertising the same
- 56:03Speaker 7: rating going in and like one show is literally advertised
- 56:06Speaker 7: blood and Gods.
- 56:07Speaker 2: We know it's going to be extreme, you know. Yeah,
- 56:09Speaker 2: look what you said. I get what you're trying to say,
- 56:11Speaker 2: but I think you just worded it wrong when you
- 56:14Speaker 2: said that WWE is more Uh did you say WWE
- 56:18Speaker 2: is more catered to an adult or no? Aw AW.
- 56:24Speaker 2: I don't agree with you on that. Just theres there
- 56:27Speaker 2: have been statistics that were done last year. WWE fans
- 56:31Speaker 2: are on average ten years older than AW fans. AW
- 56:37Speaker 2: fans are already younger fans, a WW fans are the
- 56:40Speaker 2: older fans. However, I think if you would have said
- 56:43Speaker 2: that WWE has catered more toward families, maybe I can
- 56:48Speaker 2: agree with that. Other than you know, the price to
- 56:50Speaker 2: take the prices pricing families out unless they mortgage their
- 56:54Speaker 2: house to go to the show.
- 56:56Speaker 7: It's irrelevant the demos are attracting. I'm just the presentation
- 57:02Speaker 7: of AW is more adult and willing to push an
- 57:05Speaker 7: adult stream. I'm not saying they're winning the ratings of
- 57:08Speaker 7: the demographics in that all right, And I think you're
- 57:11Speaker 7: the families for WWE is one of the reasons they
- 57:13Speaker 7: don't have that group. Their presentation is not concerned with
- 57:17Speaker 7: the PG rating, and I think that's important to differentiate
- 57:20Speaker 7: the product.
- 57:22Speaker 3: Yeah, aw's product is catered more towards your eighteen to
- 57:28Speaker 3: thirty five to where wwee taters two, you know, the
- 57:35Speaker 3: eight to seventeen and then you know thirty six to
- 57:40Speaker 3: forty four fifty four kind of gap. They cater more
- 57:45Speaker 3: towards parents and kids and younger teenagers, where AW taters
- 57:54Speaker 3: more to older teenagers and legal adult brings.
- 58:00Speaker 2: That brings up something that Barry said earlier. When Barry
- 58:04Speaker 2: we were talking about the discord, you were saying that
- 58:07Speaker 2: you watch by yourself. You know, you know, I think
- 58:11Speaker 2: that what Chris is saying is that AW fans tend
- 58:15Speaker 2: to watch by themselves.
- 58:17Speaker 11: Uh.
- 58:18Speaker 2: I think more families and groups watched WW together.
- 58:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that, just because of good
- 58:27Speaker 3: product it self tends to t too. More singles and
- 58:33Speaker 3: you know couple, you know some couples who either don't
- 58:39Speaker 3: have kids yet or their kids are already you know,
- 58:43Speaker 3: are older.
- 58:45Speaker 7: Here's here's a fun set. AW had better women's ratings
- 58:49Speaker 7: to WWE for a significant period of time with their
- 58:51Speaker 7: original run. Yeah, and it wasn't even close. Like they
- 58:55Speaker 7: they had a much stronger female rating. I don't know
- 58:57Speaker 7: why they lost it. I don't know if it's when
- 59:00Speaker 7: they started to get more bloody and stuff, but for
- 59:02Speaker 7: a very long time, a significant period.
- 59:05Speaker 3: If I didn't like violence, there wouldn't be the true
- 59:09Speaker 3: crime podcast. There are very.
- 59:11Speaker 2: True either way. There was something.
- 59:13Speaker 7: There was something that attracted a high female demographic in
- 59:16Speaker 7: the original presentation of the show that they've since lost.
- 59:19Speaker 7: I don't know what it is, but I think that's
- 59:21Speaker 7: an interesting statistic.
- 59:24Speaker 8: On a w They lost the women women.
- 59:28Speaker 7: They used to have a much higher female demographic than
- 59:32Speaker 7: they currently do, and it was, if I remember correctly,
- 59:35Speaker 7: typically stronger than the demographic that WWE would pull ratings
- 59:40Speaker 7: wise proportion or something like that, and they lost that
- 59:43Speaker 7: advantage entirely.
- 59:45Speaker 2: Women like fifty plus old men right sudden, that's yes,
- 59:51Speaker 2: that's not it I have to do with any of this.
- 59:56Speaker 7: Look, I think different ratings demograph to fifty year old men.
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: We weren't even talking about the thing that the thing
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: separate we're talking about go ahead.
- 1:00:06Speaker 6: I think the separacs for me is Survivor series pay
- 1:00:11Speaker 6: per view, Blood and Guts, national television.
- 1:00:14Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think if you have said it felt
- 1:00:17Speaker 7: like a pay per view too.
- 1:00:19Speaker 6: Like the fact that a W doesn't have that burden
- 1:00:24Speaker 6: of PG thirteen that a that W has makes a
- 1:00:29Speaker 6: big difference. You know, we don't watch We've been watching
- 1:00:32Speaker 6: interesting forever Kelson. And when we watched it before, it
- 1:00:34Speaker 6: wasn't PG thirteen. You didn't have to have the PG
- 1:00:38Speaker 6: thirteen rating on stuff, and you could you could pretty much.
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: You know, they had good matches back in the day.
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: W But TV was lot lot tamer then. Yeah, that
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: it is now even you know, the TV that I
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: watched was a lot tamered and w W e at
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: it's at its tames and a W at its tamis.
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: But if you went to a live show, holy crap.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:01:05Speaker 6: But it's it seems to me that you know, when
- 1:01:08Speaker 6: you when you you expid for me, when I see,
- 1:01:11Speaker 6: like you said, war games look like our believing guts
- 1:01:14Speaker 6: looked like the War and Survivors series look like just
- 1:01:17Speaker 6: a regular cage match, And because the one was on national,
- 1:01:22Speaker 6: you would have thought it would have been the other
- 1:01:24Speaker 6: way around because of the difference in where they're broadcast,
- 1:01:27Speaker 6: but it wasn't. And I think, I honestly think WW
- 1:01:31Speaker 6: is playing everything.
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: To they're they're not. But but but here's the thing, though,
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: Sudden they are playing it safe. But why should they
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: not play it safe? It's it's working. Yep.
- 1:01:47Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a different product that they don't it's a
- 1:01:49Speaker 7: different product.
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: And if you then people say, well, why doesn't a
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: W do the same thing that w W E is
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: is doing? And in that case, why even have a
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: If you're just gonna do or emulate everything WWE is doing,
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: WAW has to be different. I'm not saying it's good
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: or bad. Alls I'm saying, is Blood of Guts had
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: the War War Games, had the games? That was it.
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: That's the point.
- 1:02:14Speaker 7: And AW does not need to be bigger than WWE either,
- 1:02:18Speaker 7: Like there doesn't need to be a victory and a
- 1:02:21Speaker 7: loser here, just be your companies. It's fine if AW
- 1:02:26Speaker 7: never gets past five thousand a week and ten thousand
- 1:02:29Speaker 7: for pay per views and WWE stays at like ten
- 1:02:32Speaker 7: thousand arenas for TV and fifteen or fifty thousand for
- 1:02:35Speaker 7: arenas or whatever for pay p reviews. Like, that's okay.
- 1:02:38Speaker 7: The point is we want healthy promotions. That's why it's
- 1:02:42Speaker 7: great TNA got a TV deal. You want more healthy
- 1:02:46Speaker 7: places for performers to work because somebody who fails on
- 1:02:49Speaker 7: one promotion can completely reinvent themselves in another, and it's
- 1:02:52Speaker 7: better for all of us. So, like, stop complaining. Just
- 1:02:56Speaker 7: just enjoy whatever product everybody's putting out, and if it's
- 1:02:59Speaker 7: not for you, just you know, watch somebody else, watch.
- 1:03:04Speaker 3: What you like, and let everyone else do this. Look,
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: Doctor Pepper ain't never gonna beat Coked, but it's still
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: damn good. They know they ain't gonna. You know, I
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: think I know why they putting out their products, you know, like.
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: What was that.
- 1:03:26Speaker 8: I think I know why they lost the women demographic.
- 1:03:29Speaker 8: I was thinking about it, and I love a w
- 1:03:33Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, but for me, it has always
- 1:03:39Speaker 8: been the storytelling, not just the wrestling. And somebody mentioned
- 1:03:44Speaker 8: how women love true crime podcasts and true crime shows.
- 1:03:49Speaker 8: I'm one of those people that loves those because of
- 1:03:53Speaker 8: the story, the background and when a w first started,
- 1:03:58Speaker 8: and it got me hooked with a lot of their storylines.
- 1:04:02Speaker 8: And they've changed that a lot and gone more into
- 1:04:09Speaker 8: just a lot of the wrestling. And don't get me wrong,
- 1:04:12Speaker 8: the wrestling's good, but I like that background and I
- 1:04:17Speaker 8: think that's what they changed a lot of They moved
- 1:04:21Speaker 8: away from that, and I think perhaps.
- 1:04:27Speaker 7: What'd you say, in the last year, they've gotten back
- 1:04:30Speaker 7: closer to how they used to do it earlier on
- 1:04:33Speaker 7: or they stayed the same.
- 1:04:35Speaker 8: Okay, No, they're they're getting they're getting there. Yeah, they're
- 1:04:40Speaker 8: getting back to how they were. But but for me,
- 1:04:43Speaker 8: they changed that storytelling element and and it made something
- 1:04:48Speaker 8: different for me. I'm not as crazy about it as
- 1:04:52Speaker 8: I used to be.
- 1:04:53Speaker 7: That's a good point. Thanks for sharing that. That's good.
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: Yeah, well, since we have two women on the panel. Uh,
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: I'm not counting you something. I'm sorry, Jess. Just isn't
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: that okay, Barry?
- 1:05:10Speaker 11: I don't.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know. I don't want to go
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: there because I could. I could write a book. I
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: could write a book, you know, Barry. You didn't say
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: when the demographic changed, but I didn't want to bring
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: it out two years ago or Okay, that that's fair enough.
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: Net and Jess as women. Do you think that a
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: W started losing the women's demographic because Eddie Kingston was
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: injured and they didn't didn't have no reason to tune
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: in And Frank, I don't want to get into it.
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: I don't want to get into you know, like thirst
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But you know, like, but I
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: mean you guys.
- 1:06:01Speaker 8: I mean Kenny was hurt. You know, a Boushie was questionable.
- 1:06:07Speaker 8: You know, there's there's a lot of reasons. I think
- 1:06:11Speaker 8: a lot of it was Eddie was missing and now
- 1:06:15Speaker 8: that he's bad, lots of.
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: Eyes, we're getting the women's demographic.
- 1:06:21Speaker 6: You're getting it back.
- 1:06:26Speaker 2: I believe.
- 1:06:27Speaker 7: Also they stopped featuring Johnny Hungy, and that's from the
- 1:06:31Speaker 7: demographic because the Hangman's first title run when Punk picked
- 1:06:41Speaker 7: it up. Not seeing those are connected either. But it's
- 1:06:44Speaker 7: interesting that they stopped featuring the Dark Order so much
- 1:06:49Speaker 7: and the women's them out just walked so that.
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: You could also be Lucasaurus. You know, women have a
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: thing for big dinosaurs. There there was a there was
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: a there's a there's a member on uh uh a
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: W fan hub who was I believe it I don't
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: remember where he was. I think it was at A
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: W's Full Gear. I think he took pictures and he
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: got pictures with a lot of A W. Russells and
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: he posted them. He posted them on the a W
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: fan hub subreddit and people are like, who's that dude.
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: He was like, that's Lucasaurs because he did have his
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: mask on and he was punched over and he was
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: hunched over, so he didn't look real tall. I mean,
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: he was really hunched over. He was like standing behind
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: the railing and he was just over. So he looked
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: like this little short he with a eight he's yeah,
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: he's yeah. So but anyway, and you know what he has,
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: like this beard is gray, which you know is weird
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: when he because he doesn't have a green beard. Spoiler alert,
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: I guess, yeah.
- 1:08:12Speaker 5: Oh, dare you reveal it?
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: I know, yeah, but like I have to do a
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: double until I recognize them from some of the pictures
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: that he took previously without his mask, you know. Uh,
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: but he does look a little bit different than before.
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: So but anyway, Uh, let's go on to our pot pourri.
- 1:08:37Speaker 2: Does anybody have any potpoirish things to say?
- 1:08:41Speaker 8: I have one I touched on earlier where I think
- 1:08:45Speaker 8: that Tony Storm is actually going to be the person
- 1:08:50Speaker 8: that gets John Moxley. I think it's her. I think
- 1:08:55Speaker 8: she's gonna start the let's beat up on John Moxley
- 1:09:01Speaker 8: movement and almost haunt him in wherever he goes and
- 1:09:07Speaker 8: whatever he does, if he stays with the Death Writers
- 1:09:11Speaker 8: or not.
- 1:09:13Speaker 7: And I say that.
- 1:09:14Speaker 8: Because there have been a few interactions between them, and
- 1:09:20Speaker 8: the last time she came in the ring and it
- 1:09:23Speaker 8: seemed almost like she was antagonizing him. She kept calling him,
- 1:09:29Speaker 8: you know, okay, John, Okay, Johnny, and just making subtle
- 1:09:34Speaker 8: little digs at him. And I think that if ae
- 1:09:38Speaker 8: w ever dares to pull the trigger on intergender matches,
- 1:09:43Speaker 8: it would be Tony Storm and John Moxley. So that's
- 1:09:48Speaker 8: my take on Give it to Me.
- 1:09:50Speaker 3: Yeah, love it, love everything about it.
- 1:09:54Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I don't know you no, no.
- 1:09:59Speaker 5: Never that happened.
- 1:10:02Speaker 8: You never know, never say never.
- 1:10:06Speaker 7: There are ways to book the match, so it would
- 1:10:09Speaker 7: work not But I don't know if I would want
- 1:10:11Speaker 7: to see the match that they would need the book
- 1:10:14Speaker 7: for them, because I think it would be No, I
- 1:10:18Speaker 7: don't mean that it would be a bad match. I
- 1:10:20Speaker 7: think it would be it would be a very difficult
- 1:10:24Speaker 7: match to watch, and I know they would be willing
- 1:10:27Speaker 7: to do it, and I have problems with that.
- 1:10:30Speaker 8: Okay, I can see that.
- 1:10:34Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it'd be pretty dramatic and pushing some boundaries.
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: I don't know people will be comfortable with.
- 1:10:40Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of people have trouble with intergender matches,
- 1:10:44Speaker 8: but they're if you like them, they're good. So and
- 1:10:48Speaker 8: it's not always the guys who come out on top.
- 1:10:51Speaker 7: Didn't would Willa did? Didn't she get a pin on Yuda?
- 1:10:56Speaker 7: Then they did a mixed tag? Didn't think? So, Yeah,
- 1:11:02Speaker 7: she's did a mixed tag with somebody against we Were
- 1:11:05Speaker 7: and another death Rider and I maybe it was even
- 1:11:08Speaker 7: a sixth person. I can't remember, and I think, yeah,
- 1:11:11Speaker 7: I think she gave him the bait with the power
- 1:11:13Speaker 7: bomb and got the pin on him. I think.
- 1:11:18Speaker 8: My sound quality has really I've lost my sound quality.
- 1:11:23Speaker 8: So I'm going to try to fix that. If you
- 1:11:26Speaker 8: guys don't hear me for a second, Okay.
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: In the meantime, does anybody else have any uh? Yeah?
- 1:11:37Speaker 7: I scored uh, I scored tickets to the the Orlando
- 1:11:41Speaker 7: Dynamite January whatever. Good tickets still available gang if you
- 1:11:47Speaker 7: want to jump in. So anybody in the Central Florida
- 1:11:50Speaker 7: area that hasn't been to auditioned Financial. It's a It's
- 1:11:52Speaker 7: a fun little venue, easy to get into, plenty of
- 1:11:55Speaker 7: parking on the UCF campus. If you've never been to
- 1:11:57Speaker 7: University of Central Florida's campus, it's self contained, really easy
- 1:12:00Speaker 7: to get an out of. You know, it's a college campus,
- 1:12:05Speaker 7: but it's it's fun. But the shows are always great.
- 1:12:07Speaker 7: It's really into an atmosphere. So I'll be right on
- 1:12:10Speaker 7: the camera the whole time. Same seats I get for
- 1:12:13Speaker 7: pay per views and stuff. Because I got basketball season tickets.
- 1:12:16Speaker 7: I might score floor tickets. If I do, I'll post
- 1:12:19Speaker 7: plenty of picks like I did when I went to
- 1:12:20Speaker 7: the Lakeman Show. But really looking forward to it. I
- 1:12:23Speaker 7: am considering possibly going out to Los Angeles for the
- 1:12:26Speaker 7: pay per view after I've loo to see if that
- 1:12:29Speaker 7: lines up. Yeah, So since they announced the paper you
- 1:12:32Speaker 7: it's going to be in LA I have some friends
- 1:12:34Speaker 7: out there that owe me a favor, so I might
- 1:12:37Speaker 7: I might look into maybe traveling out there for that,
- 1:12:39Speaker 7: So it could be a fun run for me in January.
- 1:12:42Speaker 2: Very nice. I don't mind Aws to be in Phoenix
- 1:12:45Speaker 2: for aw Dynamite and Collision. My daughter is living in
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: the area and I was talking to her yesterday. It
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: was her birthday, so happy birthday, my baby girl, the
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: love of my life. And heard my son in law
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: are absolutely thinking of going to the show. Of course,
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: it is going to be a four hour show, so
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: it's going to be contingent on them getting at least
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: a half day off the day of the show, in
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: the day after the show, so that they don't, you know,
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: not zombifide as they're walking through the as they're you know,
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: walking through work, I guess is the best way to
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: put it, anyway, So I hope she gets to go.
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: Anybody else with the potpourri, well, I have an interesting one.
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: At least I thought it was interesting. There's a person
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: on Instagram who goes under to handle espressoits w R
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: E S p R E S S O I and
- 1:13:52Speaker 2: according to the name, which I'm not going to say,
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: it seems to be a somewhat of the female persuasion
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: who did some extraordinary work. She made a list of
- 1:14:06Speaker 2: the top fifteen Women's World Wrestlers of twenty twenty five
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: based on one hundred thousand plus match ratings and votes
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: made on the Cage Match website. Really interesting list. I'm
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: going to give you just I'm not going to read
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: the list at the top hall top fifteen, but I
- 1:14:29Speaker 2: will give some highlights. Number fifteen was me Yamashada. We've
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: seen her on AW numerous times. Number fourteen was Rhea Ripley.
- 1:14:41Speaker 2: Number thirteen was Surey. Of course we've seen on AAW.
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: Number twelve Starlight Kid. Tony Khan has said is probably
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: the one that he would want in AW if she
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: was available to come. Tony Storm was number ten, which
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: which kind of which kind of surprising? Number nine Tam
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: Tam knocking out from Stardom. Number seven and I was
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: thrilled to see this was me you what what to me?
- 1:15:12Speaker 5: You?
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: Watsonabi. I don't know why he messed up that name.
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: It's not that hard to say. Was number seven from
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: t J p W. If you have not seen me,
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: you wreussell. She is amazing. Mercedes Monet was number six.
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: Az M was number five from Stardom. Mayo uh Mayo
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: Mayu Watani from well this year she was at Stardom
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: and Bear Goold was number four. Number three from w
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: W E EO skuy number two, which I was really
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: surprised at. Saya Kamatani thought she was a shoeing from
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: number one, number one, Suri. I loved this list. And
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: if you notice this list, there are international wrestlers in
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: abundant in this list. Majority of this list well a
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: couple from WWE, only a couple from AW and frankly speaking,
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: that's the way, in my opinion should be that way,
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: because I guess I'm just a Joshi fan.
- 1:16:23Speaker 7: I think people really understand the difference in the styles too.
- 1:16:28Speaker 7: When you watch Joshi wrestling and it's it's to me,
- 1:16:32Speaker 7: it's like comparing American style to Lucha libre. It is
- 1:16:36Speaker 7: a different style, it's not as foreign looking.
- 1:16:39Speaker 2: It's just.
- 1:16:42Speaker 7: The speed is just incredible and the intensity is just incredible.
- 1:16:46Speaker 7: And I really think American American folks who haven't watched
- 1:16:49Speaker 7: really don't know the difference. It's not just like watter
- 1:16:52Speaker 7: and women wrestle.
- 1:16:53Speaker 2: Here. The thing that that I that stands out to
- 1:16:58Speaker 2: me with I want. I don't really get to watch
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: Tokyo Joshi Pro or Marigald that much, but I am
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: a huge stardom fan and one of the things that
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: stands out to me at stardom and Japanese. I mean,
- 1:17:11Speaker 2: if you watch Japanese wrestling as a whole, generally speaking,
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: Japanese wrestling crowds are very silent. I mean, would you
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: agree with that the people that watch Japanese wrestling.
- 1:17:23Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it's not like a party time atmosphere at
- 1:17:26Speaker 7: an American show at all.
- 1:17:27Speaker 3: I mean, this is something last night so world Tagarcher mentioned.
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: They will quiet down and respectfully watch the wrestling. They
- 1:17:40Speaker 3: will just let the wrestlers do their thing and chant
- 1:17:45Speaker 3: when it's appropriate. Where American crown the entire exactly. They're
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: going to change somebody here. They're gonna say it like
- 1:17:56Speaker 3: it's a very different style, but it's not.
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: Neither one is right or wrong.
- 1:18:01Speaker 7: No, no, this performance American wrestling is rocky horror picture
- 1:18:08Speaker 7: show live right, and Japanese wrestling is like going to
- 1:18:12Speaker 7: a play that you've seen a million times. The people
- 1:18:14Speaker 7: at the play aren't going to cheer and say that
- 1:18:16Speaker 7: the lines out loud. It's not expected. In the United States.
- 1:18:19Speaker 7: It's expected that you say the cats phrases, you cheer
- 1:18:22Speaker 7: and like there's just a it's just a different it's
- 1:18:25Speaker 7: just a different audience in a different atmosphere out well, I.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: Would use a different I would use the Rocky Horror
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: Picture Show. A lot of people probably have never seen
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: it because it pre dates them so much. But I
- 1:18:36Speaker 2: will give you another uh analogy. I like where you
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: said that going to the Japanese crowds are like they're
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: going to a play. American crowds are like they're going
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: to a baby Metal concert. They participate, you know, so
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: there's always something going on in the crowd. The crowd
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: is a big part of a baby Metal experience. But
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: one of the things I get, I think the point
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: that I may this point before, is that because the
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: Japanese wrestling crowds are so quiet when you're in the ring,
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: it's different as a wrestler. First and foremost, everybody could
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: hear every word you say in the ring, so you
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: can't do like callouts. You've really got to get that
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: stuff done in the back for the most part. The
- 1:19:27Speaker 2: other thing is and most importantly is that stardom wrestlers
- 1:19:33Speaker 2: are known for their striking. They throw slaps and forearms
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: and whatnot. If you throw a slap or you throw
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: a forearm and you don't hear a sound, then you're
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: going to lose the crowd. Then that's where it stands out,
- 1:19:50Speaker 2: because when a stardom wrestler throws a forearm and hits
- 1:19:55Speaker 2: the other, hits her opponent like in the collarbone, you
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: can hear the thud and you can see the welt
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: starting to come up on the on the you know,
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: the upper chest of the uh of the wrestler. That
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: I think that's the big point is that yeah, it's
- 1:20:17Speaker 2: it's wrestling. But I think that in Japan, and since
- 1:20:22Speaker 2: we're this list was the women's list, but I think overall,
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: even in Japan, they've got the work a little bit
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: harder to make it more believable. I really do believe that.
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: It's definitely a harder hitting style, you know, like and
- 1:20:38Speaker 3: it's one of those you know, the whole fighting spirit,
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: like yeah, you better be able to take a freaking hit,
- 1:20:45Speaker 3: You better be able to lay one in two. You
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: can't just lay back into it's and I think it's
- 1:20:55Speaker 3: part of that is treated closer to a sport over
- 1:20:59Speaker 3: there than it is over here, so there's respect for
- 1:21:04Speaker 3: that too. It's like, okay, you know we're not going
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: they're not going one hundred percent. But where you know America,
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: you're gonna go like sixty, They're going eight to five.
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't argue with that. Well, look, does
- 1:21:22Speaker 2: anybody else have a pot pourri?
- 1:21:24Speaker 3: I'm just gonna plug my deals. If you ever need
- 1:21:27Speaker 3: to know what time a new japan show is on
- 1:21:31Speaker 3: sex the Discord in the the Piro Russell channels, and
- 1:21:35Speaker 3: if the time I haven't or if the times I
- 1:21:38Speaker 3: have listed don't include yours, I will happily find the
- 1:21:42Speaker 3: time if you need.
- 1:21:44Speaker 11: Well.
- 1:21:44Speaker 2: The other thing is is like, especially if you're on
- 1:21:48Speaker 2: if you're on Reddit and you post like this show
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: starts at six pm Japanese standard time, there is a
- 1:21:57Speaker 2: Reddit bot that will put in the comments the time
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: that the show is on at your time. So if
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: you're on Reddit, you're ever posting, like, for example, a
- 1:22:09Speaker 2: any kind of show, whether it's in the United States, Mexico, Japan, Australia, whatever,
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: put the time listed on the show with you know,
- 1:22:19Speaker 2: JSD or et whatever, you know whatever time zone, and
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: Reddit will post and let people know whoever is reading
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: it what time zone it is in their time zone.
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: That's right now.
- 1:22:34Speaker 3: I have just on my when I put it on
- 1:22:38Speaker 3: X I have Japan standard, all North American time zones, UK,
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: Central Europe, three for Australia and one for New Ze.
- 1:22:54Speaker 2: Yeah. That's one thing that I do like that Reddit
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: does is that they do a post and it is
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: customized so that when you read it and say you're
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: in California, it'll give you the California time. If I
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: read it and I'm on the East Coast, it'll give
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: you the Eastern time. So it is very helpful. So
- 1:23:13Speaker 2: if you're posting on Reddit with the time, just make
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: sure you put the time zone that the that it's
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: originating at, and and read it. We'll do the work
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: for you. It's just that simple. So that's really good.
- 1:23:28Speaker 2: All right, anybody else with the pot pourri? All right? Then,
- 1:23:31Speaker 2: well that is the show. You know, thanks guys for
- 1:23:35Speaker 2: coming out. This was a really fun show. Not a
- 1:23:39Speaker 2: whole lot of news this week, but we still made
- 1:23:42Speaker 2: it fun. Yeah, yes, you know, and we got to
- 1:23:46Speaker 2: say Golden Lovers so many times this, you know, it's
- 1:23:49Speaker 2: just fun to watch. That's just fun to say. Anyway.
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: For the podcast, We're at the Golden Love, We're at
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: the Golden Lover era. The podcast True.
- 1:24:00Speaker 7: Thick trying to bring that women's uh getting that women's
- 1:24:06Speaker 7: demographic back.
- 1:24:08Speaker 11: On one hairy chest, and it's oh god, oh, what
- 1:24:19Speaker 11: has happened to us?
- 1:24:21Speaker 2: All right? Well, well, well we may or may not
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: be back tomorrow night after Dynamite with a Dynamite review show.
- 1:24:28Speaker 2: We haven't done one in a couple of weeks now because, uh,
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: the schedule for Dynamite has been so wacky, and of
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: course with the holiday last week especially, you know, nobody
- 1:24:38Speaker 2: wanted to do a show on Thanksgiving Eve. Gosh, it's
- 1:24:44Speaker 2: been a week since Thanksgiving already.
- 1:24:45Speaker 3: Wow.
- 1:24:47Speaker 2: Anyway, so maybe we will see you tomorrow night for
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: all we talk right after Dynamite, so you know, just
- 1:24:55Speaker 2: check on x and see if we're there or not.
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: I guess the best way to put it if we'll
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: see you next week eight forty five Eastern time on
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: X on Twitch and of course the next day meaning Wednesday,
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: Spotify and Apple podcast and many other podcast what do
- 1:25:16Speaker 2: you call it podcast hosts? I guess is the best
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: way to play it. Yeah, So this is Kelson and
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: for the AEW Fanhope podcast team. Good night to all
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: you Golden lovers out there.
- 1:25:31Speaker 8: We love you, Kingston.
- 1:25:35Speaker 2: Good night, out of Kingston,