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'The False 9' Down at the BRIDGE - Episode 8 · Bradders Grappers

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Hello and welcome to Bradders Grappas.
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I'm your host PETA Brads as always.
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So this is episode 8. However, to do a bit of admin,
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this should really be episode 9. So a little kind of behind the
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scenes in a sense. Last week it saw Harry, who is
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in charge of Faithfully N the podcast that covers all things N
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wrestling. We did a almost 2 hour show on
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all Things N chatting about the lead show specifically.
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Unfortunately though, the audio that we recorded was, to be
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perfectly honest, crap. There was a lot of audio
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technical gremlins in the system.
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I had notable attempts of many friends and people of friends of
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friends who tried their best to salvage it but was effectively
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told in no uncertain terms I was fucked.
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So unfortunately that episode will never see the light of day
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or hear the light of day. But we will have Harry on when
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we do another N show which hopefully won't be too long.
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Fingers crossed. But again, thank you for Harry
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for taking the time out of his schedule to record a show that
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will never see the light of day. But we will have him back on to
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talk things N moving to this episode and what the plans are
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moving ahead. So because I've been to a lot of
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wrestling and will be for the next day or so.
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So Monday saw me heading to Bridge Pro Wrestling, which this
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episode will be covered. Wednesday saw me heading to
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Liverpool for Atomics Wrestling show.
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However we were meant to record a podcast on that on Friday and
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today is Saturday and unfortunately we didn't get
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time. This being due to having a bit
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of a decorating and moving furniture for for my folks.
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So I didn't get the time to sit down with Miles and chat about
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it. However we will be well we have
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scheduled it early next week to record not just what occurred at
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Atomic but also look at what happened at Infinite which took
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place the following day which was the first day at Hooters in
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Liverpool and by all sounds of everything seemed to be an
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incredible show. The lucky bar stools as I had a
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few friends go and all loved it. Unfortunately I was unavailable
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due to funds but there we go and tomorrow which is Sunday see if
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you can still stay with me on this.
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I will be at the Fairfield Social Club for future Shock
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Attitude error 2.0, which should be a really fun little kind of
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variety show in a spend in a sense because it's not as
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serious as the rest of the year. So because they're always good
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shows to have as well. That all being said, let's look
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back at last Monday night at the Amblecote Royal Legion Club,
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just on the I'll say on the outskirts of Stourbridge.
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It's still Stourbridge so this was for the 2nd anniversary show
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with the weirdness of being a Monday night instead of their
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traditional Friday night slots, which completely threw me this
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week and work because I did not have a clue what day it was.
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I felt very much like that period between Christmas and New
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Year. So yes it was.
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It was a bit puzzling this week for me, all all being said.
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That said though, looking as I say to what happened on Bridge
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Pros 2nd Anniversary show, things kicked off with a bang in
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many ways as before we even had the opening contest, we saw the
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People's Captain Steve Valentino being thrown through the curtain
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onto the stage and had Joe Blazer following him.
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As Valentino was literally just getting beaten the hell out of
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by everyone's favourite admired wrestler Joe Blazer, the two got
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in the ring and for Joe literally just continued the
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beat down using the World of Wrestling title that these two
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men would be fighting over later in the evening.
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Cracked Valentino a couple of times in the head with it.
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Left him laying there, kind of left the ring.
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All the crowd were cheering, Valentino kind of trying to gym
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up Blazer would hit him again, leaving him and also leaving
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with the World of Wrestling title.
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So that was an unexpected opening to the show.
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But we then moved to match #1 which for the third time in
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Bridge Pro history saw the Battle of the Bridge match with
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the two previous ones coming equally every year it seems.
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Looking at my notes now as it was on their debut show back in
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2023 and the 1st Anniversary show which took place last year.
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So this match pitted the Tag Team Champions in the Exile
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pack, that being the 21st century hero Luke Douglas and
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the Inquisitor Alex Connors. They were teaming up with Alex
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Dean, the almost joint general manager it feels like.
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Along with him was Tyler Stevens of The Queen's Catch and the
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wild card which both teams had was none of her, the
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Manchester's own, the Mancunian stallion himself, Tom Felwell,
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which was always great to see Tom no matter what show he's on.
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He was on the heel team if you will for this.
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And on the babyface side, we had Levi Cooper, Lila Kyle, the moon
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age dream, Brad Osborne refs, the fresh from his I think it
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was his Barbados holiday. Last time there was a show for
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Bridge Pro and their wild card was Coach Mayon.
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So this was an absolutely chaotic contest from been a few
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times during this match. However before we get to that we
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had before the match the return of Stuart Somers who hasn't been
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on a Bridge Pro show for quite a while now.
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It feels like as he had disappeared for some time.
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However, he would make his long-awaited return, making a
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deal with Alex Dean, the other general manager, saying that if
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his side won, then the Exile Pack would have to put their tag
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team titles on the line later down the road.
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And despite Dean and the Exile Pack not really wanting to, they
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came to an agreement and said yes, because just needed some
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extra stakes this match really. And we we definitely got it.
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So the match itself, it was for the opening bell.
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It had Alex Dean chatting to the five in the ring and saying,
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let's not fight. Let's let's let's be reasonable
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people. Lyle Lyle Kyle being the pocket
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rocket that she is, wanted to choose violence over anything
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else. Ask the crowd do you want to see
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a fight? And we got a chant of fight
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fight fight and ended with all 5 beating up Alex Dean with his
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teammates not really wanting to get in there in truth.
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But then we ended up seeing a brawl with all 10 competitors.
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The eliminations as I have written down right here.
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So the first elimination was Tyler Stevens being schoolboy
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pinned by Coach Mayon. Mayon was then celebrating his
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would a bit too much with Stevens crawling across the ring
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to low blow him. This would help set up Tom
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Felwell hitting his massive lariat on coach Mayan to make it
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4 on 4 refste. Then after I think it was a knee
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he used on, Tom got a bit giddy which is understandable, you
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rarely see a ref getting involved.
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However, he would come a cropper.
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Not kind of Roy Cropper obviously, but that said it was
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from Manchester how he went down and that was due to Tom Felwell
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with a second massive lariat to pin Refstea and make it 4 on
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three for the heel team. Lala Kyle then equal things,
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sorry Dean equaled things with A4
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so we then had Lila Kyle being rolled up by Dean and
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effectively left us with A4 on 2.
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Dean was then hit with an assisted cutter with Osbourne
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holding him up almost in. It was almost like a 3D but not
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a 3D as Levi Cooper came off the ropes hitting a cutter and saw
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both just pinning piling on top of each other.
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Tom Falwell was then next to go as he took AI think he took the
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same move which looked a bit now if memory serves.
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No again, it could have been the angle I had that saw things
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coming down to two on 2. Osborne was then hit with a
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briefcase from Connors, who the tag team titles currently are in
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a briefcase. They will not be taken out of
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the briefcase till they lose, but Connors has the briefcase
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clocks Osborne in the head, Douglas is right there to just
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make the pinfall and referee Adams or referee Adam Evans
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counts the pinfall and makes it two on one.
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Unfortunately it's Levi Cooper being the last man to go and
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having the heel team win as the Super kick and shoulder brake
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combo from the XL pack was enough to get the win for their
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team and have this tag team so far in Bridge Pro proving to be
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one of the most dominant tag teams that we have seen in the
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company over their two years running.
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Next up was the start of the one night Bridge Pro Title
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tournament to crown a #1 contender with the four
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participants being TJ Rex, JC Samuel Hughes and Liam Jones.
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So the first match we had on this tournament was TJ, Rex and
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JC. JC was literally running the
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crowd down and saying how much of A threat and how great he is.
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The microphone went out for 1/2 a second which did not play.
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Not please, shall I say if we can get the words out.
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I did not please JC. However, TJ Rex then realised
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that they could, you know, fuck around with the audios and
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proceeded to mess around with the audio while JC was talking,
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turned it off and drew a massive thank you TJ for turning his
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microphone off. We then got this match off and
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running, Rexy Boy having the better things to begin with, and
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it looked like for a large majority that JC was practically
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just going to get absolutely squashed in.
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In this contest, however, he would valiantly fight back,
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valiantly probably not being the right word to use, but he came
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back anyhow. Working on the arm of TJ Rex had
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Rex and a lot of problems trying to get a submission out of him,
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but TJ refused to kind of give in.
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In the end, it saw TJ Rex putting a submission hold on CJ
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to pick up the victory and advance to the final of the
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tournament. Match #2 In this Bridge Pro
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title tournament was the redhead Rascal Samuel Hughes taking on
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the man mounting himself fresh from Japan in Liam Jones.
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And this was such a good match, it has to be said, and I'd
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arguably go as far as saying that, well, I don't want to
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spoil it, I'll come back to that later.
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But this, this is such a hard hitting match, obviously used
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being outweighed by Jones who used his beefy kind of blows and
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just like his his arsenal that he had on Hughes was just a bit
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too much. That said, Hughes put up a
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massive effort in this contest, did not stay down.
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Jones seemed to throw everything at him, but Hughes would not
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give in. Battled hard, did have Jones and
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a fair bit of trouble himself if truth be told.
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Hughes and Jones just went back and forth.
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This was arguably up there for match of the night.
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In the end though, it's our Jones hitting a brutal lariat on
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Samuel Hughes, following up very quickly with a pile driver to
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see him getting the 123 and having Jones meeting TJ Rex in
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the final of the one night tournament after the match.
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It saw Jones grabbing Hughes, raising his arm as if to say,
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take all the applause, you deserve it.
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It's not your night tonight, but it will be down the line.
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And I think what we're seeing with Hughes at the moment is for
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so long he was everyone's hated person in Bridgeboro.
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But since he's kind of left or you could say was kicked out of
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the Queen's catch, this Samuel Hughes that has returned seems
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to be an even more motivated and driven Samuel Hughes, a one that
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we haven't seen before. And the matches he's put on
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since then as well. They've been.
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So they've been different, but they've been really fun to
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watch. He's taken so much, not abuse,
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but he's taken so many hits. He's been beaten up quite a lot
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in these matches. But there's always been this era
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of will he flip back to his old ways or or is this a new
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version? But I think after his match he
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had with Steve Valentino a couple of months ago at Golden
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Days, I think it was back in September, Valentino I think
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just looked at pews and thought you haven't changed and seem to
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draw as much kind of bad out of him to try and lure the real
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Samuel Hughes out. And no matter what he did, it
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did not work. And Valentino said afterwards
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that one he had done his respect and he sense there was a change
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in the red headed Rascal, red haired red haired Rascal.
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But either way, this new and improved Samuel Hughes
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definitely looks I've I've said he's, he looks a star.
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And I think the way things are going, he is building himself
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towards being arguably, I feel at least a potential champion
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much down the line. But I can see it, which it's
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going to be an exciting Rd. I feel for Hughes.
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But then Speaking of Valentino, we had the two out of Free
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Falls, which I know that Mister Ogden hearing that will roll his
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eyes because two out of free falls practically means we're
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getting free falls unless it's a very rare occurrence in
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wrestling. But enough of kind of the
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downplaying. This was as I say, this was a
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two out of free falls match for the World of Wrestling title
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with the champion, the People's Captain Steve Valentino taking
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on the admired Joe Blazer. This again, this was up there
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for match of the night. Valentino came into it bruised
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and not bruised, but battered at the very most from his attack
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from Joe earlier in the night. Even his entrance of trying to
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kind of like just hit the the hands of the fans as he went
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round, you could tell he wasn't in the best place body wise.
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But this did not stop this from being a hell of a match.
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I'll say that now. The first, it took a while.
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I fought for the 1st fall because traditionally with these
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type of stipulation matches, you tend to get the first couple of
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falls out the way early and then the 3rd fall is equally as long.
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Oh, not equally is very long than the other two.
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That said, they were all evenly paced in terms of the free falls
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we had. So the first fall went the way
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of Joe Blaser hitting a variant of a backstabber with the arms
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held kind of back behind Valentino.
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That made it one nail blazer. 2nd fall saw Valentino reversing
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a move to get the 123, leading to the third and final fall
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where Blazer just attacked the body and the ribs of Valentino
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was doing everything to just cause absolute mayhem and pain
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and destruction to him. Steve did a fighting champion is
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what we can say here. Refused to give in showing that
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championship spirit much like the Hurricanes did in the old
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kids cartoons. However, in the end, it saw a
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coupe de Gras or coupe de gras sorry, or a double foot stomp
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off the top rope from Valentino getting Blazer well and truly
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good. I did not want to be on the end
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of that, I can tell you that right now.
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That ended the match with a 21V to Steve Valentino and Seize the
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World of Wrestling title safely in the treasure chest of
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Valentino and have afterwards Steve grabbing the mic telling
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Joe that he's he's really good. Expected like Blazer to take
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cheap shots and kind of cheat a bit more.
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But on this night, Steve said he proved that he's he's an
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extremely good wrestler, put his hand out as a show of respect.
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And I thought, is Blazer going to be a nice guy here?
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And just as it looked like he was going to put his hand out,
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he very quickly had a change of thought and rolled out the ring.
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Valentino could only chuckle at the actions of Blazer.
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So I think possibly this might be the end of that feud, but who
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knows. But if it was, it was a hell of
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a way to end it. After the interval we had
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everyone's favourite buddy cop duo of Lally, that being Lana
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Austin and Holly Barlow. I think if you've seen the clips
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of the entrance for Lolly, you will have noticed that Lana, in
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her nice way of telling me not to wear a hat, removed my woolly
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hat twice and threw as far as she could twice.
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I had Holly, lovely Holly, getting my hat for me,
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presenting it to me as I was there in a Holly Barlow shirt
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which I think she appreciated. However, Alana just looked at me
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and I presented that back to Alana.
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She grabbed the wool hat and threw it to the other side to
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which a little kid brought it back for me.
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So thank you. To which being the only other
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Mancunian in that building picking on her fellow Mancunian
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I thought was a bit off, but I still cheered for him.
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I can't help it. They were taking on the team of
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the future Zack Walker and Chantelle Jordan.
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This was a real. I suppose this is what you could
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have called the light relief match for Walker and Jordan.
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This is probably 1 of their easier matches which I don't
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really want to say easier, but the battles these two have been
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in, it almost felt like Will will give you a bit of a light
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alone tonight. Chantelle, who faced her brother
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Brandon in a brutal match for the Bridge Pro title to
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determine the first ever champion.
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And then you had Zach Walker, who I mean every, every show he
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seems to be just getting better and better but equally getting
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beat up as much. This was just a fun match.
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In all fairness, Holly spent equally as much time on the on
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the outside kind of chat, chatting to kids, waving to
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kids, having photos with fans, and pretty much just left Lana
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up on her own to to do the match.
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Really, Lana and Jordan seemed to do the brunt of the wrestling
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gear it felt. I mean Holly was in it for a
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fair bit of time as well was the one that seemed to be isolated
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out of the two. But once kind of the main meat
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of this effectively saw Lana doing all the heavy loading to
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which the end of it saw AI think it was AI can't think what the
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actual movies and I should do, which is my fault.
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Roaring forearm to Chantelle Jordan, she got the pinfall.
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Holly was still having photos on the outside with fans.
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One with my mate Ian. So if you're listening Ian, good
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evening mate. Holly then realised did one, got
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in the ring, dove all over Lana in a celebratory way to which
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Lana did not particularly appreciate or want because Lana
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just can't see that Holly really wants her to be good friends
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with her and Lana wants nothing to do with her.
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But the law and the history of Lally continues.
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Good to see a Mancunian wrestler or a team from Manchester
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winning because the last time I didn't see a Manchester winner,
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but again, it's understandable. We then came to the end of the
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tournament with the number one contenders match in the one
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night tournament with TJ Rex taking on Liam Jones.
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Now I said earlier I was going to make a comment about Jones.
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I'll come to it now. This man was involved in two
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bangers in this show, his semi final match with Samuel Hughes
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and this match in the final, if it can get me words right, was
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one of the standout matches. Could we say this was the match
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of the night? I think because of all like the
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shenanigans went along with this match and kind of I think needed
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to as well. I'll put it as maybe just a
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shade under the match of the night, but it is definitely in
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the conversation. So as we got to this final
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match, we had Rex, who had a bad left arm, Jones who constantly
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seem to struggle with a bad left leg.
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So I suppose you could say they were they were all right.
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Jesus, make yourself laugh at your own jokes.
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Better for God's sake. It's supposed to be seriousness.
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So the match itself was, I would say, a slow burner.
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So neither man wanted to obviously kind of do anything as
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we were both carrying injuries heading into the final.
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They were very, I'll say, cautious about not wanting to
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give up an early submission or a pin.
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But that said, the crowd on this show was not it's traditional
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vocal kind of 100% all out. Arguably, you could say it was
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because it was a different night or it was just a, it felt like
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the crowd was a bit tired. Now you could make a case that
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the wrestling was so good that arguably they went they peaked
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too early, but that said, the crowd just wasn't there.
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I'll say to butt of it because Bridge Pro is easily one of the
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rowdiest for a kind of like family type show.
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It's not a family type show, but I almost feel like because the
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crowd wasn't fully invested, it hurt this much to a degree.
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Both men were putting on some excellent technical skills.
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Then we saw some kind of high flying, or if not high flying,
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some very energetic moves. This was kind of, it seemed very
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close contest and we were just getting towards the middle bit.
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JC then jumps into the ring beating up both men, grabs a
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microphone and says if he can't be the top contender then no one
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can be. This then led to Samuel Hughes
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sliding into the ring taking JC out with a dead eye.
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He then grabs the mic and says these two lads have busted their
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ass from to get to this point in on the night.
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You can't have it end in a no contest or double whatever.
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Give the fans what they want. The fans want to see an end to
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this, they want a definitive winner.
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To which the crowd still seemed a bit tired at that point, but
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they did get a reaction. The crowd all wanted to see who
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won, who would win out of these two.
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The decision was made to restart the match and from then on it
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felt like these two just took it up an extra level.
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To which you could say they were holding it back before what
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happened. So as the match went on, both
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men seem to look for the submission hold.
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Rex was trying to get Jones up, could not get him up because of
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his arm. Rex really kind of did did a
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good job of trying to show that his arm was really bad.
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Jones at the same time was flexing his leg a lot,
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indicating that his leg was not in good shape.
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It was a very back and forth contest where you thought TJ had
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it, then it swung the other way to Jones.
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Then when you thought, right, we must be getting to the end bit
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now this must be where it ends and it didn't.
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And they did a really good job of having the crowd unsure of
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which way this match was going to go, which proved why it was
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one of the best matches of the night.
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In the end it saw TJ trying to put a almost like a leg hook on
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on Jones. However, Liam while in the move
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grabbed the bad arm of Rex and forced the submission hole or
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sorry the submission from TJ Rex to be crowned the number one
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contender of the one night tournament.
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This was such a good match. It really was obviously Jones as
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I think those that have seen Jones will know that if you look
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at him, you think he's just going to be power moves.
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And in fairness he is predominantly powerful, but he
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has moves in his arsenal that just make you think, oh wow, I
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didn't expect that twitch. It's almost, it's a bit like
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Will Cruz. You look at him and you'd think,
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well, this man couldn't do like a Spanish fly and by God he can
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do a Spanish fly. He is almost in the same mould,
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I think, as as Cruz. They are both big men, both got
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the power moves, both equally talented talented men.
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Always love seeing Liam on shows.
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I don't think he gets booked anywhere close to where he
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should be. I think he should be on more
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shows personally, but that's just me.
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Either I have Poltergeist or someone is knocking next door
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which is too late because we are after Halloween.
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And so we come to the main event of the 2nd Anniversary show
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which was for the Bridge Pro Grand Championship.
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Brandon Jordan, the recent winner and 1st holder of the
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Bridge Pro Grand title. His first defence was in a
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triple threat match against the speed demon Edgar Adams and the
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Skywalker Nate Riley. This was just ridiculous, and I
41:36
think you saw how ridiculous it was when the first thing we saw
41:42
was Riley super kicking Adams almost out of the match to begin
41:48
with because it was the most brutal super kick I've seen for
41:53
some time. But that was almost a call back
41:57
to when Adams had done the same to Zack Walker on a previous
42:03
show. I want to say Golden Days in
42:06
September, but I don't think it was.
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But from from then on it was just chaos.
42:16
All three men fought on the outside.
42:20
Riley and I think it was Adam's had a fight at the bar.
42:29
Then we we saw the a table being used.
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I think it was. I think it was Adam's used tried
42:38
to not suplex but he did a move to Riley which completely took a
42:47
couple of people by surprise. Jordan who seems to spend more
42:54
time on the outside staying away from all the trouble, which is
42:58
what a clever champion does. He would get his stuff in as
43:03
well. This is just chaos.
43:08
In fairness Riley did AI think he did a suicide dive to the
43:14
outside taking out both Adams and Jordan.
43:23
Then we it was just back and forth action with loads of near
43:28
falls. It really was one of those where
43:32
you couldn't tell where it was going.
43:37
I think in the back of my head I always thought Jordan would come
43:39
out somehow. But come the end of it, it saw
43:46
Jordan hitting a frog splash for the 123 to retain his Bridge Pro
43:53
title. A really good match, three young
44:01
lads really just putting in a hell of a shift, entertaining
44:04
the crowd. Again, as I said earlier,
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whether it was just kind of the crowd was tired very early on or
44:17
I don't even want to say it was because it finished late,
44:20
because it didn't, it actually finished earlier than the
44:24
normal, but it just felt like the crowd was a bit off.
44:29
So maybe that's because it was on a Monday instead of a Friday,
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who knows, But it was just that the match between Rex and Jones
44:44
and this one I think just lacked the real like crowd gusto, so to
44:52
speak. The crowd was still there, but
44:56
they just seemed a bit low, which it's a bit of a shame for
45:01
the for the wrestlers who tried to put on as much of a good
45:05
match as they could, but I think it hurt it at times.
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However, the next time that Bridge Pro are back will be on a
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Friday night, so here's hoping that that helps things because
45:23
to be fair, taking the crowd out of the whole thing, the show
45:29
itself, Another banger from Bridge Pro I I could go on about
45:34
how good they are, and you've probably seen me say loads of
45:40
times before, there is a reason why I make almost the 2 1/2 hour
45:48
trip to Bridge Pro taking about 3 trains.
45:54
On a bad day it could be 5 as January proved, plus a £92.90
46:00
Uber ride from Smevik. Not that I've have nightmares of
46:07
that evening, but yeah. Bridge.
46:11
What Ryan Parrott's put on is great wrestling.
46:19
A mix of some of the well known UK talent there is in the UK
46:25
right now on top of like the best Midlands talent there is.
46:32
And the fact that he'd put out as well on an e-mail just
46:36
thanking everyone for like the last couple of years for Bridge
46:40
Bro. How the whole Midland scene
46:45
helps over promotions out as well.
46:48
There's no kind of bitchiness because he's worked with
46:53
different promotions. Everyone seems to be better for
47:00
it, which is really what you want in wrestling.
47:03
You don't want like divisions because let's face it, fans
47:08
online a bad enough. If you want divisions, go on
47:11
Twitter. You'll see enough of them.
47:15
That said, you get great wrestling at Bridge Pro.
47:20
For the money you pay to get a ticket at Bridge Pro, it is more
47:27
entertaining, I feel, than what you would get at one of the top
47:33
end shows because I think on them you're paying for like the
47:38
name value. And I think for like the the I
47:46
don't really want to say under shows, but kind of like the the
47:52
real like indie shows. So that's not like a progress or
47:59
Rev pro outside of that, the smaller shows, we'll say the
48:07
smaller shows I think are far better than the very top end
48:11
shows. I could easily watch.
48:15
I could it's like tomorrow I'm going to go to future shock and
48:18
I know I'm going to have a good time.
48:21
I could easily go to Atomic in Liverpool, I could go to
48:30
Infinity off the page, catch pro, soft Pro when they're
48:36
running. We'll come to that later on off
48:41
the page. I think I've already said, if I
48:43
haven't, I'll say them again. Just all the TNT, all these
48:48
shows that we have in the Northwest, we are, I'd almost
48:52
say we are blessed with shows we have in the Northwest and the
48:57
talent that we have in the Northwest.
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If you look around the argument I've seen online of currently,
49:11
the talent in the north of the country seems to be as good now
49:18
or if not better than it ever been before.
49:22
And I will even throw in kind of like Yorkshire and Newcastle and
49:29
even Scotland for that matter. Because for, I think for since I
49:36
first started watching British wrestling like years ago when it
49:42
used to be on live TV, if people can remember that far back, it
49:48
seemed to be predominantly like the South.
49:53
But now you've got like, you'll always have a good scene in the
49:57
South always, because it's pretty much where you have to go
50:02
to be seen. You've got the Midland scene,
50:06
which is arguably, arguably level if you took the North as a
50:17
whole as well. I mean, there's so many good
50:21
Midlands wrestlers, there's equally as many good Northern
50:25
wrestlers. But if we kind of take that out
50:29
of the equation of like who's better N Midland South and all
50:32
this, If you look at it as a whole, British wrestling as a
50:37
whole is in a really great place.
50:44
Just the talent that there is out there.
50:47
I think. I don't want to put names to
50:51
quotes who it might not be, but there was one quote that I saw
50:55
this morning saying why pay all this money for an import when
51:01
you could give that to a younger talented British wrestler who is
51:10
equally deserving of being on a big show or being on a show that
51:16
is surely much of A beneficiary to not just the wrestler but to
51:22
the show and bringing the and highlighting and growing
51:27
wrestlers to making them better. Which he is true because you can
51:35
bring in top stars and they turn up to shows and a fair few times
51:41
they've been awful. However, talent in the UK is
51:51
getting better. There's so much I could say
51:54
about it but I don't want to overrun on this.
52:00
But as I say, going to bridge pro, the talent that I now see
52:04
there that if I didn't go to these shows, I wouldn't see some
52:09
of the likes of Edgar Adams, Brandon Jordan, Nate Riley, sat
52:16
Walker, TJ Rex, just loads of like that's omnishore and even
52:27
previous bridge shows. But what they do well bridge is
52:32
sprinkle it in with like some of the top stars and you'll some of
52:39
the big attractions as well from the UK scene with local talent,
52:44
which is why I love going to these shows.
52:50
But yeah, that's that's my little random British wrestling
52:53
for this week. Thank you for getting through
52:58
this. I've treated you lovely people
53:00
because it's not even an hour. You lucky, lucky people.
53:07
So with that oh before I leave Bridge Pros next show is on the
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6th of March at the Amblecote Royal Legion Club.
53:22
Tickets are available if not limited.
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So if you fancy going along I highly recommend taking in a
53:30
show. They are really good shows that
53:35
you put on. I can't recommend them highly
53:38
enough. But yeah, that's the end of this
53:43
episode. Hopefully you've enjoyed my
53:49
ranting and raving on things. Bridge Pro Hopefully it will be
53:55
a two man show next time because I think one man shows don't
54:01
particularly help too much. But you know when when you're on
54:07
your own and you haven't anyone you can bounce off, this is the
54:11
best you can do. But for now, at least today,
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thank God. I'll try and keep a voice.
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Thank you for listening. Enjoy your wrestling this
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weekend. If you're watching the show on
54:30
Sunday, I will see you at Fairfield.
54:33
Come and say hi. I will be the one awkward in
54:37
either a black or Ray woolly hat, a baseball jersey.
54:46
I think Peter's Dorsch. We'll, we'll see, but for now,
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thanks for listening.