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AEW Dynamite 6/24/26 Review | Forbidden Door Is Almost Here, NOW LET'S GET THIS OVER WITH · Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1: Tonight was the final dynamite before it Forbidden Door. Thank
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Speaker 1: god Forbidden Doors coming up on Sunday. I really wish
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Speaker 1: I could tell you that I'm super stoked for Forbidden
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Speaker 1: Door this weekend. I'm really not. I wish I could
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Speaker 1: be more up for it, but you know, again, I
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Speaker 1: just think the whole thing has run its course. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: I can't wait for it to be over, so we
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Speaker 1: could just move beyond this, and we've got Redemption coming
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Speaker 1: up and then the big Wembley Show in August, so
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Speaker 1: this is the final dynamite before that. We did have
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Speaker 1: eight matches on the show tonight, and they didn't really
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Speaker 1: go all that much overtime. I mean, they've gone way
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Speaker 1: overtime in the past, be on the top of the hour,
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Speaker 1: and they really didn't go too far overtime tonight, and
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Speaker 1: they were able to condense eight matches into those two hours.
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Speaker 1: So we definitely got our fill of wrestling here on
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Speaker 1: this show. If you're looking for a bunch of wrestling matches,
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Speaker 1: and none of them were bad. You know, some were
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Speaker 1: better than others. But I really can't sit here and
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Speaker 1: tell you that there was a bad match on the show.
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Speaker 1: In the main event. They had the International Championship defended, Kenoski,
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Speaker 1: Takeshta defending against Ricochet. Of course, I mean, look, we
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Speaker 1: all knew how this was going to go. Obviously, the
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Speaker 1: feud right now is Takeshta and Kyle Fletcher. They're actually
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Speaker 1: going to be part of the same main event on
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Speaker 1: Sunday at Forbidden Door. But they went out there and yeah,
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Speaker 1: they had a good main event. Osbury and Swerve the
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Speaker 1: two men in the finals of the Men's owen Hert
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Speaker 1: Tournament this weekend. They are on a collision course here
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Speaker 1: for the spot to go to the main event at
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Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium. Only one men can go. They were both
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Speaker 1: in action on this show. We had Daniel Garcia against
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Speaker 1: Swarve Strickland. We had Elp from New Japan. They dust
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Speaker 1: him off and bring him in every now and then.
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Speaker 1: He was in there again. Will Osprey tonight, Zach Saber Junior,
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Speaker 1: who's got a big match coming up this Sunday with
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Speaker 1: Kenny Omega. He was in action against Jack Perry on
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Speaker 1: this show. And we had a couple of matches qualifying
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Speaker 1: matches for the Survival of the Fittest baut that's going
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Speaker 1: to be taking place on Dynamite next week to crown
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Speaker 1: a new TBS champion because the title has been vacant
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Speaker 1: now for about a month. Will Ow Nightingale got hurt.
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Speaker 1: This is the way that Tony Kahan decided he was
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Speaker 1: going to crown a new champion, which was to adopt
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Speaker 1: a Ring of Honor concept. You know, the survival of
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Speaker 1: the Fittest match and Ring of Honor goes back to
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Speaker 1: I want to say two thousand and four, and he's
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Speaker 1: used it in Ring of Honor even not that long ago.
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Speaker 1: Athena retained her championship in one in roh. So this
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Speaker 1: is gonna be the first one that we've seen in
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Speaker 1: aaw and so he decided to have a series of
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Speaker 1: qualifying matches, which frankly, I think is the better way
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Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, they could have had a one night
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Speaker 1: Battle Royal, I mean that's kind of cliche. This is
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Speaker 1: a better way to go about doing it, at least
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Speaker 1: because it gives you some matches on television, you know,
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Speaker 1: not unlike what we've seen lately with King of the
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Speaker 1: Ring and Queen of the Ring and the owen Hart
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Speaker 1: tournaments or when it's Continental Classic season where you give
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Speaker 1: these matches a purpose, right if people are trying to
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Speaker 1: qualify for the match next week or a tournament, whatever
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Speaker 1: it may be. We had two of them on the
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Speaker 1: show tonight, and I think there's one spot left open.
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be six women in that match next week.
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Speaker 1: I believe this one spot left open that'll be filled
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Speaker 1: on collision, I assume this weekend. And so that was
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Speaker 1: really it. I mean, we're going to go through this review.
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Speaker 1: I don't suspect this is going to take very long
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Speaker 1: because there's just not a whole lot to talk about. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: outside of the wrestling matches that we had here on
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Speaker 1: this show. I am going to go through the card
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Speaker 1: for this weekend. Later on, I'll run down the Forbidden
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Speaker 1: Door card. We'll do predictions. I've got some thoughts to
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Speaker 1: share on some of the matches and where we are,
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Speaker 1: especially with Mercedes and Maya World. That's going to be
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Speaker 1: the Women's Owen Heart Final on Sunday. So again, a
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Speaker 1: lot of wrestling on this show, but beyond that, it was, you,
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Speaker 1: you know, your typical aw go Home show. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: you know what else to say about it, nothing more
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Speaker 1: and nothing less. It was pretty much what you would expect,
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Speaker 1: but thank you for hanging out with me here on
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Speaker 1: a Wednesday. It is June twenty fourth, twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: I am the solo Monster, and this is your AW
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Speaker 1: Dynamite review. When's that show coming up? The Beach Break one?
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Speaker 1: Two weeks right? July eighth is the Beach Break episode
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Speaker 1: of Dynamite. That's when they're doing the Chris Jericho Tomaso
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Speaker 1: Champa match. And if I had a venture, a guess,
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Speaker 1: after Team Briscoe wins in the cage match on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: that would be the place that would be the night
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Speaker 1: to do the AW World Championship match between MJ and
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Speaker 1: Mark Briscoe. Because there ain't no way that's going to
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Speaker 1: be the redemption match at the end of July. I
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Speaker 1: would think Beach Break would be as good a time
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Speaker 1: as any to go ahead and knock that match out. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: let's get on with it here. I'm not even gonna
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Speaker 1: bother with the likes or anything, because there's just no
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Speaker 1: point not on a Wednesday. Let's start from the top here, Dynamite.
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Speaker 1: They came on the air, the Death Riders were in
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Speaker 1: the back. They had will ospray with them, He's basically
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Speaker 1: their version of Sammy Usso, and so they're all in
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Speaker 1: the back getting hyped up. They had a whole group
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Speaker 1: of huddle and a group hug ospray. He fell backwards.
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Speaker 1: They were doing this weird thing where they were like
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Speaker 1: jumping up and down in a huddle, and Osprey fell backwards.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if he fell into a a
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Speaker 1: wheelbarrow or what the hell it was. I'm not even
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Speaker 1: sure he was supposed to fall backwards. They were all
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Speaker 1: kind of like they looked like they were about to
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Speaker 1: corpse on camera, but they looked like they were having
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I'm not sure that Osprey was
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Speaker 1: supposed to fall over the way he did. But they
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Speaker 1: opened with Moxley, Claudio, and Wheeler Yudah against Mystico, Brody,
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Speaker 1: King and Bandido. Late in the match, there was a
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Speaker 1: gonzo bomb by Brody that got broken up by Claudio,
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Speaker 1: and Bandido came in. He deadlifted Claudio to a big pop.
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Speaker 1: Udah flew in with a Bussicu knee. Here comes Mystico
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Speaker 1: standing dropkick. Brody drops Moxley with a lariot. Now Marina
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Speaker 1: Shaffir is on the apron to distract a referee that
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Speaker 1: allows Claudio to blast Brody with the Continental title right
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Speaker 1: in the head and Moxley folds him up for the
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Speaker 1: pin to win it. You know, they open the show
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Speaker 1: with these guys right, the Death Riders, and they treat
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Speaker 1: them like babyfaces, and they're kind of acting like babyfaces
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Speaker 1: in a way. But then it's back to the old
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Speaker 1: Death Riders bullshit here now the old bullshit finish the
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Speaker 1: belt shot, you know, the cheating behind the referees, back
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Speaker 1: total heel move against the Babyface team, and we are
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Speaker 1: getting John Moxley and Bendita for the Continental title on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: So if nothing else, we know at least we're gonna
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Speaker 1: get a good match out of it. At least we
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Speaker 1: know that much beyond that, Again, the match was made
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Speaker 1: last week. It came out of nowhere. This is sort
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Speaker 1: of the story of a good chunk frankly of the
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Speaker 1: Forbidden Door card where there was a big flurry this
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Speaker 1: past week where they announced a whole bunch of matches
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Speaker 1: show to Umiino against pack Like and they just kind
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Speaker 1: of throw them out there, and I'm sure some of
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Speaker 1: the die hards and the sickos and whatnot they don't
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Speaker 1: care because they're gonna get you know, the big inter
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Speaker 1: promotional matches back and forth. But it's just one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons why, you know, I can't really get overly
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Speaker 1: excited for this shit. It's like whatever again. My attitude
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Speaker 1: of pat it is like, let's just get past this.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in seeing how the owen is resolved because
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Speaker 1: that's an aw thing and that's been building for weeks
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Speaker 1: and weeks right now, wouldn't you know I can actually
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Speaker 1: invest in that and get behind that. But the rest
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Speaker 1: of this stuff, even the Kenney Omegaza Saber Junior stuff, like,
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Speaker 1: I know they're gonna have a good match, but it's
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Speaker 1: like it's just hard for me to get excited, you know,
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Speaker 1: like it's just, yeah, the bloom is off the rows.
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Speaker 1: Harley Cameron against Marina Shaffir. This was the first of
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Speaker 1: two TBS title Survival of the Fittest qualifying matches that
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Speaker 1: we had here on this show. They've adapted again the
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Speaker 1: concept from Ring of Honor. This is how they are
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Speaker 1: deciding a new champion. It's all building to a six
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Speaker 1: person elimination match next week. Pinfalls and submissions count. People
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Speaker 1: just keep getting picked off until there's one left. That
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Speaker 1: last woman left will be crowned the new TBS champion.
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Speaker 1: So they were also promoting tonight, not not too heavily,
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Speaker 1: but they were clearly promoting the new Supergirl movie, which
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Speaker 1: I saw debut on Rotten Tomatoes with like a fifty
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Speaker 1: nine percent. I guess to be fresh, you have to
9:06
Speaker 1: be sixty, right, sixty percent. So when it first, now,
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Speaker 1: the first reviews came in, I believe the movie was
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Speaker 1: rotten and it was fifty nine percent. It went up
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Speaker 1: just over sixty. I don't maybe somebody can check. I
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Speaker 1: don't know where it is now, but not great, not terrible,
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Speaker 1: but not great. I don't have any interest in seeing Supergirl.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many people in the chat give
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Speaker 1: a shit if you're going to be there on night
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Speaker 1: one to go see it. But they had a Supergirl
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Speaker 1: tie in. It's a WB property, so of course they
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Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, use the relationship with AW Synergy
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Speaker 1: corporate synergy to promote the movie. So Harley was out
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Speaker 1: there dressed up. Don't know if she was dressed up
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Speaker 1: as Supergirl, but she was basically dressed up as you know,
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Speaker 1: some sort of Supergirl outfit. And so the finish, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you really think about it, the finish of this
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Speaker 1: match should not have been all that surprising once you
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Speaker 1: saw Harley Cameron out there dressed that way. They weren't
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Speaker 1: a gonna beat her here in this match. Fifty six percent,
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Speaker 1: steven says, fifty that is that what it's at. Now
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Speaker 1: it's down Okay, yes, it's down to fifty six percent.
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Speaker 1: So it is certified rotten on Rotten Tomatoes right now.
10:26
Speaker 1: I wish we had a similar system for wrestling shows.
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Speaker 1: There's quite a few of them that would be certified
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Speaker 1: rotten every single week. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just like I'm looking at the commercials and the
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Speaker 1: trailers and everything, and it just it doesn't appeal to me.
10:42
Speaker 1: But then again, I'm also not going out and seeing,
10:45
Speaker 1: you know, the Avengers movie. I'm not seeing the New
10:47
Speaker 1: Spider Man movie. The only superhero movie and it's not
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Speaker 1: even about a superhero. It's about a villain from that universe,
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Speaker 1: the DC universe. The only movie though that's kind of
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Speaker 1: tied into the uh, you know, the comic book World
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Speaker 1: that's coming out this year that I even have an
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Speaker 1: interest in, is Clayface which is a body horror movie,
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Speaker 1: all this other nonsense. Like I was over the whole
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Speaker 1: superhero trope years ago. Every now and then I kind
11:16
Speaker 1: of feel like maybe I should jump back into it
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Speaker 1: and see some of the more recent movies, maybe that
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Speaker 1: maybe they've improved. Maybe I'm you know, maybe I've let
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Speaker 1: enough time go by. I don't know, it doesn't really
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Speaker 1: it doesn't really speak to me. Harley got a half
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Speaker 1: crab applied. Marina, though escaped. She got her in a
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Speaker 1: rear naked shoke Harley. They'll rolled backwards into a flashpin,
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Speaker 1: had the leg hooked and got the three count. So
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Speaker 1: that means that qualified so far in this match next
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Speaker 1: week are Harley, Cameron, Chris Statlander, Hikarushida, and Persephone, with
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Speaker 1: two more spots to be filled, one of which was
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Speaker 1: filled later in the show, and just going by like
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Speaker 1: what we see here, I wouldn't mind a Persephone win.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know she has the CMLL Women's Championship already.
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Speaker 1: I would not mind a Persephone win in that match
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Speaker 1: next week. Watch the boys if you haven't already, Yeah,
12:14
Speaker 1: I know that they just concluded it. I think I've
12:17
Speaker 1: had a lot of people recommend that show to me,
12:19
Speaker 1: I will at some point I will check it out.
12:21
Speaker 1: I want to watch The Penguin first. I just finished
12:24
Speaker 1: season two of The Pit and so now I'm waiting
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Speaker 1: for season three in January. And I'm gonna move on
12:29
Speaker 1: to The Penguin next. Since I know it's only one season,
12:33
Speaker 1: they're not renewing it for a second season. I guess
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Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a limited series and that's it.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna watch that next. Then maybe I'll do
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Speaker 1: The Boys after that. Let me rephrase that, after that,
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Speaker 1: I think I will I will watch the Boys. No,
12:45
Speaker 1: see that sounds just as bad. Let's move on here.
12:48
Speaker 1: We got a video package. We got a video package
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Speaker 1: with comments from Maya World and Mercedes Monet and the
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Speaker 1: footage of Maya upsetting Athena on Collision last weekend. Maya
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Speaker 1: said that from her teacher to her idol, she's been
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Speaker 1: waiting her entire career for this moment. You know, Athena
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Speaker 1: being a teacher, Mercedes being her dream opponent. She's talked
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Speaker 1: about that before. The dream is about to come true
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. In the video, Monette said, congratulations for beating
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Speaker 1: your teacher, but I'm not your teacher, I'm your boss.
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Speaker 1: And after this there will be no sympathy cards. Dreams
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Speaker 1: don't win championships. She does. And on Collision this coming weekend,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be Mercedes and Athena teaming up to
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Speaker 1: take on Maya World and Hi On. And it's pretty interesting,
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Speaker 1: you know when you think about and I talked about
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Speaker 1: this on the Young Crown Wrestling show yesterday, which you
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Speaker 1: should all check out, by the way, but I mentioned
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Speaker 1: it's pretty cool when you think about Maya World and
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Speaker 1: where she was less than a year ago compared to
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Speaker 1: where she is now. Remember it was only a few
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Speaker 1: weeks after the incident with Nixon, Newell and Miranda Alize
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Speaker 1: when they walked out. They were supposed to wrestle a
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Speaker 1: match on Dynamite and do the job. It was going
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Speaker 1: to be a quick match. They for whatever reason decided,
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Speaker 1: you know what, this doesn't work for us, brother, and
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Speaker 1: they left, and it was high on in Maya World.
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Speaker 1: Who were there. They were backstage that night. They stepped
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Speaker 1: up and they took their place, and it was only
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Speaker 1: a matter of weeks later that Tony khn signed them
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Speaker 1: both to contracts, which they did not have. They were
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Speaker 1: being used as extras basically up until that point. So
14:34
Speaker 1: to go from being an enhancement talent that they used
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Speaker 1: as an extra or a per appearance basis and not
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Speaker 1: even being under contract to less than ether like well
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Speaker 1: under a year later, because this was in like November,
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Speaker 1: well under a year later. Here she is now going
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Speaker 1: to the finals of the owen Hart Tournament and she's
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Speaker 1: going to be wrestling Mercedes Monette and the winner of
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Speaker 1: this match is going to go on to Wembley Stadium
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Speaker 1: to wrestle for the World Championship. That's a pretty big
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Speaker 1: leap for Maya World. And then, of course, you know
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Speaker 1: the tragedy that took place recently where her brother passed
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Speaker 1: away twenty five years old. So there's a lot that
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Speaker 1: kind of goes into this. It's this feel good story.
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Speaker 1: She shocked the world and now she's going to try to,
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Speaker 1: you know, pull off the ultimate upset on Sunday of
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Speaker 1: Forbidden To. It's a good story and I thought this
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Speaker 1: video was good, and look, they should keep up with
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Speaker 1: this sort of thing, especially if Tony Kahan has an
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Speaker 1: eye towards trying to create a new star with her,
15:30
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's the goal here, or
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Speaker 1: he's just sort of playing a week to week and saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: let's just roll with the punches here and see where
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Speaker 1: it takes us. But I think more video packages like
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Speaker 1: this and maybe doing like a sit down interview type
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Speaker 1: of thing. I think that would be a good idea,
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Speaker 1: specifically with Maya I'm talking about, you know, kind of
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Speaker 1: the whole Cinderella story kind of lean into that. More
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Speaker 1: were Will Osprey against Elp el Fantasmo from New Japan
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Speaker 1: Pro Wrestling. These guys have history in New Japan. They've
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Speaker 1: wrestled many times before. They've had some great matches before,
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Speaker 1: and this was another good one. Elp he caught Osprey
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Speaker 1: in a torture rack. Osprey, though escaped. He had a
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Speaker 1: poison rona for two counts. Osprey looked for the hidden blade.
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Speaker 1: Elp caught him with a snap rana. He wanted a
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Speaker 1: pile driver. Osprey, though reversed out and he hit his
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Speaker 1: styles clash. Followed that with a hidden blade right to
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Speaker 1: the back of the skull. He didn't even know what
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Speaker 1: hit him and that was enough for the three count.
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Speaker 1: This is about ten minutes long. It was good, you know,
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Speaker 1: for the ten minutes they had. I thought it was good.
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Speaker 1: Now after the match, Osprey held his fist out, he
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Speaker 1: bumped fists with Elp and he was posing for some
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Speaker 1: photos with fans outside the ring. As he was heading
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Speaker 1: to the or starting to head towards the back, Swerve
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Speaker 1: Strickland's music hits and Prince Nana walks out and here
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Speaker 1: Swerve and at that point Osperdy decided to exit through
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Speaker 1: the crowd to keep his distance. They're gonna wrestle on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: let's just stay away from each other. So he goes
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Speaker 1: through that. He did wink back at Swerve, though he
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Speaker 1: winked at Swerve before he walked away. So that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be your own Cup final on Sunday. If it's anything
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Speaker 1: like their world title match two years ago, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: steal the show. But we had Swerve for a match
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Speaker 1: with Daniel Garcia. So for those keeping score, the Death
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Speaker 1: Riders played heel in the opening match and they used
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Speaker 1: the belt shot to beat the Babyfaces. Here in this match,
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Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia comes out and he's the de facto babyface.
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Speaker 1: He's basically in the babyface role here again, Swerve Strickland
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Speaker 1: called for a house call kick. His leg gave out, though,
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Speaker 1: because Garcia had been working it over that to Garcia
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Speaker 1: hitting a styles clash for two. Ex Caliber said, it
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Speaker 1: looks like will Ostbury is having an effect on the
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Speaker 1: death Riders as much as they were having an effect
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Speaker 1: on him. Garcia took too long to follow up. Swerve
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Speaker 1: caught him with a rolling flatliner followed by the house call,
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Speaker 1: and Garcia kicked out and Strickland was setting up for
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Speaker 1: another one opted instead for a hidden blade, sending a
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Speaker 1: message to his opponent on Sunday, and with that he
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Speaker 1: picked up the wind. So after the match, Swerve was
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Speaker 1: about to snap Garcia's arm and here comes will Osprey
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Speaker 1: out to make the save, and Ospbury took Strickland down.
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Speaker 1: He was about to hit a hidden blade. Prince Nana, though,
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Speaker 1: grabbed the foot he tripped him up. Swerve flew in
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Speaker 1: with a house call kick and he was going for
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Speaker 1: a vertebreaker. Garcia saved him. Then he ended up taking
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Speaker 1: the verte breaker instead, and Osprey came back into the
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Speaker 1: ring with a chair and it was at that point
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Speaker 1: that Swerve and Nona decided to bail and that was
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Speaker 1: the end of that again. You know, whatever I mean
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Speaker 1: pretty basic stuff. Here. They were able to get both
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Speaker 1: of them in separate matches on the show, one little
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Speaker 1: showcase for each of them before the pay per view.
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Speaker 1: I didn't need this to be excited for the match
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. I'm already looking forward to the match on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Nothing they were going to do on this show was
19:24
Speaker 1: going to get me any more or less excited to
19:26
Speaker 1: see Swerve Strickland to well Osbury. All I needed to
19:29
Speaker 1: see was the match they had at Forbidden Door in
19:31
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and as soon as this match was made,
19:35
Speaker 1: as soon as both men made it to the finals,
19:36
Speaker 1: I already knew this right here, This was the match
19:39
Speaker 1: right here that I was looking forward to the most
19:42
Speaker 1: on this pay per view. We go backstage to Renee.
19:46
Speaker 1: She is with the DC MJF family. I guess you
19:50
Speaker 1: would say MJF and all the members of the don
19:52
Speaker 1: Kallis family. Kevin Knight said that Darby Allen should have
19:55
Speaker 1: minded his own business. He also called out MJF right
20:00
Speaker 1: to his face, and he said that when this playdate
20:03
Speaker 1: is over, he wants a title shot, and MJF was
20:06
Speaker 1: very flippant he said, yeah whatever, kid, So Kallus then
20:11
Speaker 1: went over to Okada and he wanted to know what
20:15
Speaker 1: Okada had to say. Okada only had one word for him, bitch.
20:22
Speaker 1: I could only imagine how many millions of dollars this
20:26
Speaker 1: man is paid every single year, and he's had some
20:30
Speaker 1: bangor matches, but he go like he's got the easiest
20:34
Speaker 1: fucking job in the world. Most of the time when
20:37
Speaker 1: he cuts promos, it's one word. He looks in the camera,
20:40
Speaker 1: he says, bitch. It's like he's just he's got to
20:43
Speaker 1: be living on cloud nine. Man. He's getting paid a
20:46
Speaker 1: king's ransom to do, you know, just the most basic shit,
20:52
Speaker 1: which to him, I'm sure comes just naturally. It's like
20:55
Speaker 1: the easiest thing in the world for him. And then
20:57
Speaker 1: every now and then there's like a big pay per
20:58
Speaker 1: view match, like against Takashta Double or nothing, and he
21:01
Speaker 1: kind of turns the jets on and we see the
21:03
Speaker 1: old O Katta come out, and then it's back to
21:06
Speaker 1: the new Okada for a while until the next big match.
21:09
Speaker 1: Then the old Okada will kind of poke his head
21:11
Speaker 1: out again. Kyle Fletcher said that when the cage is
21:15
Speaker 1: locked on Sunday, he's coming forward to Keshda. MJF cut
21:19
Speaker 1: Andrade off THEO before he could even speak, and he
21:23
Speaker 1: said that he's never worked a nine to five job
21:25
Speaker 1: in his life, gets his Porterhouse steaks served to him
21:30
Speaker 1: by the hottest waitresses alive, and he calls Mark Briscow
21:32
Speaker 1: a blue collar bitch. He said that they had some
21:36
Speaker 1: hiccups last week in their twelve man tag team match,
21:39
Speaker 1: but he isn't blaming anybody Androtte but they just need
21:45
Speaker 1: to make sure they're on the same page on Sunday.
21:48
Speaker 1: So Don Callis then pulled out a special gift to
21:51
Speaker 1: show MJF, which was a T shirt that had his
21:55
Speaker 1: likeness and mjf's likeness on it. It was them like
21:59
Speaker 1: air brushed in wearing speedos and they said, we have
22:03
Speaker 1: shirts for everybody in the family. And the reactions from
22:07
Speaker 1: all of them, they looked like they were about to vomit.
22:10
Speaker 1: Fletcher Takeshta. All of them had the same universal reaction
22:14
Speaker 1: to this. We had Jack Perry against Zach Saber Junior.
22:21
Speaker 1: If you've ever seen a Zach Saber Junior match, then
22:24
Speaker 1: you knew what to expect to Zach Saber Jr. Will
22:27
Speaker 1: pick you apart and in this match, he was targeting
22:29
Speaker 1: Perry's arm. Perry tried for a package pile driver, but
22:33
Speaker 1: because of the bad arm, he couldn't get it. He
22:36
Speaker 1: did get the snare trap applied, Saber basically laughed it
22:39
Speaker 1: off easily escaped into a double wrist lock. Perry escaped though,
22:44
Speaker 1: and he did finally get the package pile driver or
22:47
Speaker 1: maybe it was a power bomb, but he only got two.
22:49
Speaker 1: He signaled for the sacrifice knee and that did not
22:55
Speaker 1: pay off for him. But Saber was able to get
22:59
Speaker 1: a a leg lock trap and then he transitioned into
23:02
Speaker 1: a bow and arrow. He wrenched back on the arm
23:06
Speaker 1: and Perry I don't know if it was a verbal submission,
23:09
Speaker 1: but he basically couldn't tap, but he was kind of
23:12
Speaker 1: nodding his head like yes, I give up. He had
23:14
Speaker 1: no choice and so the referee called for the bell. Now,
23:17
Speaker 1: as Saber was celebrating his win with bed Dude Tito
23:21
Speaker 1: and Mikey Nichols, the Young Bucks music hit. They made
23:24
Speaker 1: their way out because their match was up. Next. They
23:26
Speaker 1: were wrestling Bad Dude Tito and Mikey Nickles. Oh and
23:32
Speaker 1: the Bucks won that one with the meltzer driver again.
23:34
Speaker 1: I don't really have a whole lot to say about it.
23:36
Speaker 1: It was a perfectly solid wrestling match and the Young
23:38
Speaker 1: Bucks won to the surprise of no one. After that
23:41
Speaker 1: match was over, Saber came back out. He attacked the
23:44
Speaker 1: Bucks until Kenny Omega sprinted out to the ring. He
23:48
Speaker 1: had Jack Perry with him, Omega and Saber. They had
23:51
Speaker 1: a face off. Omega hit a snapdragon he was teasing
23:54
Speaker 1: a v trigger. Tito, though, pulled Saber out of the
23:56
Speaker 1: ring to safety. Omega took the mic. He said nothing
23:59
Speaker 1: person all. He takes that as a warm up. But
24:02
Speaker 1: Sunday made the best man win and once he wins,
24:07
Speaker 1: he's out for redemption. There's that word again. Kenny is
24:13
Speaker 1: out for redemption. And after Sunday everyone will forget about Saber,
24:18
Speaker 1: just like they did last year. So they play Kenny's
24:21
Speaker 1: music and sabers like that and I give me the mic.
24:24
Speaker 1: He's motioning for the mic, so he gets to the microphone.
24:27
Speaker 1: They stop the music and he tells Omega try to
24:30
Speaker 1: stay out of the hospital, and he drops the mic.
24:34
Speaker 1: And I will point out to you that that is
24:37
Speaker 1: the closest thing to a promo that Zach Saber Junior
24:40
Speaker 1: has cut in the entire build, which has been all
24:43
Speaker 1: of two weeks to this match on Sunday. Now, I know,
24:47
Speaker 1: to most people who just want to see the two
24:49
Speaker 1: of them wrestle as like a dream match. To them, Oh,
24:51
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great wrestling match, they don't give
24:53
Speaker 1: a shit. But I think that's kind of ridiculous. Yeah,
24:58
Speaker 1: you got a big match like this. These are the
24:59
Speaker 1: only word we've heard really from Zach Saber Junior quite
25:04
Speaker 1: the promo this man is. We had Queen Ami Nada
25:10
Speaker 1: against the reigning Ring of Honor Women's Television champion Red
25:14
Speaker 1: Velvet TBS title Survival of the Fittest Qualifier. You know,
25:18
Speaker 1: it was in a match with Red Velvet last month
25:20
Speaker 1: on collision that Willow Knightingingale hurt her shoulder, which is
25:24
Speaker 1: what led to all of this in the first place.
25:26
Speaker 1: It's what led to the championship being vacated. Ami Nada
25:30
Speaker 1: took a rough bump at one point on her previously
25:35
Speaker 1: injured neck and possibly now once again injured neck. I
25:38
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it was more selling than anything else.
25:41
Speaker 1: Nigel McGinnis also drew attention to it on commentary, said
25:44
Speaker 1: that was kind of an awkward landing. I mean, it
25:46
Speaker 1: didn't look like anything egregious. She was grabbing at her
25:51
Speaker 1: neck again. I assume she was just selling. You know,
25:54
Speaker 1: she had the Kinisio tape on her neck. Velvet landed
25:58
Speaker 1: a frog splash at one point right across the back
26:01
Speaker 1: as Ami Nada was laying flat on the mat and
26:06
Speaker 1: she started ripping the athletic tape off of Aami Nada's neck.
26:10
Speaker 1: So in return, she blasted Red Velvet with a forearm.
26:14
Speaker 1: Velvet hit a kick to the gut. She went for
26:17
Speaker 1: a roundhouse kick. She missed it and that allowed Ami
26:20
Speaker 1: Nada to hit her off with her head, which is
26:24
Speaker 1: that running shin kick as Red Velvet was seated up
26:27
Speaker 1: against the ropes, and she pinned Red Velvet to advance
26:31
Speaker 1: to the big elimination match next week. So we have
26:33
Speaker 1: five of the six spots now have been filled. Queen
26:37
Speaker 1: Ami Nada is in there. I will tell you this
26:39
Speaker 1: was a battle between these two women. I thought this
26:43
Speaker 1: was good stuff. It really was. I thought they went
26:46
Speaker 1: out there, they had a good match. You know. Ami
26:49
Speaker 1: Nada was getting a decent push before the neck injury
26:53
Speaker 1: knocked her out of the ring late last year. I
26:56
Speaker 1: think it was right before Blooding Guts, so she wasn't
26:58
Speaker 1: able to be in there. Otherwise she would have been
27:00
Speaker 1: a part of it. And she's only now. I mean,
27:03
Speaker 1: I know she came back a few months ago, but
27:05
Speaker 1: only now. It feels like she's really starting to get
27:09
Speaker 1: back into a rhythm. I could see her being a
27:12
Speaker 1: dark horse pick to win that TBS title next week. Yeah,
27:16
Speaker 1: I would like to see Persephone with it. I you know,
27:19
Speaker 1: I'm not I wouldn't say I'm overly confident one way
27:24
Speaker 1: or the other. As far as who's going to walk
27:25
Speaker 1: out with that championship, I'm pretty confident it's not going
27:28
Speaker 1: to be you know, Statlander, It's not gonna be Harley Cameron, Shida.
27:33
Speaker 1: I think Shidah has a chance. I think Persephone has
27:35
Speaker 1: a chance. I think Ami Nada has a chance. But
27:39
Speaker 1: if Ami Nada was to take it, and this was
27:40
Speaker 1: going to be the start of a renewed push for her,
27:44
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing that. And Red Velvet I got
27:48
Speaker 1: to give her a shout out too. I was very
27:49
Speaker 1: impressed by Red Velvet here. She's definitely upped her game.
27:53
Speaker 1: She's been around for a while now. I mean I
27:55
Speaker 1: can remember her time when she was tagging with Cody Rhodes.
27:58
Speaker 1: I mean, she's been there basically from if not day one,
28:01
Speaker 1: almost day one in this company, and in that time
28:04
Speaker 1: she's come a long way. Ridet was backstage with the
28:09
Speaker 1: Young Bucks, who were talking about their three way tag
28:12
Speaker 1: team match at Forbidden Door this weekend, saying momentum is
28:16
Speaker 1: on their side. They're on their way back to the
28:18
Speaker 1: aw tag team titles. All of a sudden, they hear
28:21
Speaker 1: a commotion nearby, and the camera pans over and we
28:25
Speaker 1: see Adam Copeland and Christian Cage brawling with David Finley
28:30
Speaker 1: and Clark Connors and Cope and Cage or coping Christian.
28:37
Speaker 1: They stopped for a moment to look at the Bucks.
28:40
Speaker 1: The Bucks look at them, they kind of acknowledge each other,
28:44
Speaker 1: and then they just continued their brawl, which spilled over
28:48
Speaker 1: into the makeup area. Connor's pulled a makeup lady in
28:50
Speaker 1: front of him like a human shield, and then Finley
28:54
Speaker 1: sprayed hair spray into the eyes of the baby faces,
28:58
Speaker 1: and the Dogs wrapped cables around their necks and left
29:01
Speaker 1: them laying again. This is one of those matches on
29:04
Speaker 1: Sunday that I really just don't give a shit about
29:07
Speaker 1: I don't care about any of this. You know, we
29:10
Speaker 1: know the Dogs are not winning the titles. You know,
29:14
Speaker 1: it's just one of those kind of setup matches to
29:16
Speaker 1: give Cope and Christian a win on their way to
29:19
Speaker 1: Montreal next month and then Wembley in August, and those
29:22
Speaker 1: are really going to be the too big. I don't
29:26
Speaker 1: even know what their match will be at Redemption, but
29:28
Speaker 1: it's Montreal, so you know they're going to be on
29:30
Speaker 1: that show. You know they're going to be defending their
29:31
Speaker 1: titles against somebody. Those are the two big matches that
29:34
Speaker 1: they have coming out. This is just a bump in
29:38
Speaker 1: the road, and the Dogs were frankly bungled from the
29:42
Speaker 1: moment they came into the company, and I just I
29:45
Speaker 1: don't look at them as anything that. Yeah, they're certainly
29:48
Speaker 1: not portrayed as anything that is characterized as an important
29:53
Speaker 1: act on the show. So it's a match on the
29:56
Speaker 1: card on Sunday, That's how I'm looking at it. Main
29:58
Speaker 1: event was Kenowski to cash the defending the International Championship
30:01
Speaker 1: against Ricochet. Takesha caught Ricochet going for a handspring back elbow,
30:06
Speaker 1: he put him down with a blue thunderbomb, and then
30:09
Speaker 1: the champion hit a tombstone pile driver. Then he picked
30:12
Speaker 1: up Ricochet to deliver a Germany. Immediately after Ricochet rallied.
30:17
Speaker 1: He hit vertigo for a near fall. So Ricochet lowered
30:20
Speaker 1: the knee pad he was gonna hit his own version
30:22
Speaker 1: of a power drive knee, which he did, and then
30:24
Speaker 1: he headed up top for a shooting star press and
30:27
Speaker 1: he landed it, but Takeshta kicked out, so Ricochet, though
30:31
Speaker 1: he took forever when he was scaling the ropes, headed
30:34
Speaker 1: back up top and so Takesha was able to cut
30:36
Speaker 1: him off and he delivered an avalanche belly to belly suplex,
30:41
Speaker 1: but Ricochet landed on his feet and he missed the
30:45
Speaker 1: spirit gun. Takeshta try to power drive knee. Ricochet, though
30:49
Speaker 1: jumped up for a hurri Can run, but he got
30:51
Speaker 1: planted with a power bomb for a two count. Takesha
30:55
Speaker 1: was going for the power drive knee when Ricochet pulled
30:57
Speaker 1: referee Paul Turner in front of him. Kind of that
31:01
Speaker 1: allowed Ricoshet to hit a head butt into a Rico
31:03
Speaker 1: assault for a near fall. He wanted a spirit gun.
31:07
Speaker 1: He got turned inside out though with a lariat, and
31:10
Speaker 1: finally Takesha hit the power Drive knee and the Raging
31:13
Speaker 1: Fire for the Wind to retain the championship. Good main event,
31:18
Speaker 1: good main event. Not as I didn't love this the
31:22
Speaker 1: way that I love that Mark Davis will Osbury match
31:25
Speaker 1: in the main event a few weeks ago. But this
31:28
Speaker 1: was good. Anytime we get Takesha in the main event.
31:32
Speaker 1: I can't complain Ricochet at this point. You know, you know,
31:37
Speaker 1: he's not really involved in anything specific, he doesn't have
31:39
Speaker 1: a match on Sunday, but you know, Ricochet can always
31:44
Speaker 1: be relied on for being able to go out there
31:46
Speaker 1: and have a good match Takesha. I mean, it's not
31:49
Speaker 1: like he had to worry about carrying the load here Takeshta.
31:52
Speaker 1: He's a very able bodied opponent. You kind of figured
31:56
Speaker 1: you were going to get a good match out of
31:58
Speaker 1: these two. Takesha was heading towards the back after the
32:02
Speaker 1: match when Mark Briscoe's music played and he came out.
32:06
Speaker 1: The two of them shook hands. They're going to be
32:07
Speaker 1: on the same team on Sunday in the main event.
32:10
Speaker 1: So again to Kesha in the main event tonight to
32:12
Speaker 1: catch it in the main event on Sunday. Briscoe got
32:15
Speaker 1: in the ring by himself, and we were beyond the
32:18
Speaker 1: top of the hour at this point. He said he
32:21
Speaker 1: and his friends were ready to have some fun in
32:23
Speaker 1: the cage. Said they have a bit of a reputation
32:26
Speaker 1: in these types of matches. This has more on the line, though,
32:30
Speaker 1: because with a win here he can earn himself a
32:34
Speaker 1: shot at the AW World Championship. Brisco took issue with
32:38
Speaker 1: mjf's claim that he's not championship material. Brisco said that
32:42
Speaker 1: MJF he beat his ass once, which he did. That
32:47
Speaker 1: was it all out last year, and he knows he
32:49
Speaker 1: can do it again. Brisco said he's going to head
32:53
Speaker 1: into battle with brothers that he would die for and
32:55
Speaker 1: they would die for him. Meanwhile, MJF has the don
32:59
Speaker 1: Kallis fan and he doubts that any of them would
33:01
Speaker 1: piss on MJF if he was on fire. So don
33:05
Speaker 1: Kallis walked out. He distracted Briscoe and this is where
33:10
Speaker 1: we got the big ending here where everybody gets to
33:13
Speaker 1: come out and hit a big move and do a
33:15
Speaker 1: big spot. MJF shows up behind Briscoe and attacks him.
33:19
Speaker 1: Brisco though he regroups pretty quick, sets up for a
33:24
Speaker 1: Jay driller. But here comes Kyle Fletcher and he cuts
33:27
Speaker 1: him off, delivers a brain buster to briscoe Takeshta comes
33:33
Speaker 1: back out. He hits Fletcher with a raging fire, but
33:35
Speaker 1: then o'catt is out there and Okada drops Takeshta with
33:38
Speaker 1: a rain maker. Kyle O'Riley enters. He puts Ocada in
33:42
Speaker 1: the ankle lock. Kevin Knight breaks that up with a
33:44
Speaker 1: springboard clothes line into the ring. Darby Allen shows up.
33:49
Speaker 1: He hits the ring. He drops Kevin Knight with a
33:51
Speaker 1: scorpion death drop and he quickly goes up. He's going
33:54
Speaker 1: to go for a coffin drop, but Jake Doyle catches
33:57
Speaker 1: him and plants him with a boss man slam on
33:59
Speaker 1: the way down. And so Doyle got the better of
34:03
Speaker 1: Roderick Strong when he came out at Orange. Cassidy comes out.
34:06
Speaker 1: He hits Doyle with a pair of orange punches. Roddy
34:10
Speaker 1: then supplex Doyle. MJF hits Cassidy with a kick to
34:13
Speaker 1: the balls. Brisco sets up MJF for a j driller,
34:17
Speaker 1: but here comes Andrade. What's he gonna do? And androde
34:21
Speaker 1: Alidelo shows up. He breaks things up. MJF and Androtti.
34:25
Speaker 1: They start arguing and they start shoving, and Don Kallis
34:29
Speaker 1: is out there. He's on the apron trying to calm
34:31
Speaker 1: down Androtti now Androti is holding Brisco. MJF pulls out
34:36
Speaker 1: the Dynamite Diamond ring and he goes to blast Brisco
34:41
Speaker 1: with the ring. Brisco ducks and MJF hits and knocks
34:48
Speaker 1: out Andrade instead. So he's looking down at Andrade and
34:53
Speaker 1: he's calling him an idiot, and Brisco hits MJF finally
34:59
Speaker 1: with the J Driller and Team Briscoe stands tall to
35:03
Speaker 1: close out the show. So last week it was Team
35:06
Speaker 1: MJF standing tall, this week it was the Babyfaces standing
35:09
Speaker 1: tall under normal circumstances in wrestling one oh one logic,
35:15
Speaker 1: that might be bad news for the Babyfaces. There's no
35:18
Speaker 1: way the Babyfaces lose on Sunday. There's there's zero percent
35:22
Speaker 1: chance that Team Brisco does not win this match on Sunday,
35:28
Speaker 1: zero percent for a couple of different reasons. Well, for one,
35:31
Speaker 1: we know there's gonna be a World Championship match between
35:33
Speaker 1: MJF and Mark Brisco. They've already built it up enough
35:37
Speaker 1: to where they have to deliver it. So his team
35:39
Speaker 1: has to win. But everything that's been going on with
35:43
Speaker 1: MJF and Androte Androti is going to be the death
35:46
Speaker 1: knell for this team on Sunday. And I was figuring,
35:50
Speaker 1: you know, Jake Doyle is in there to take the
35:52
Speaker 1: losing fall for his team. It may well be MJF.
35:56
Speaker 1: Can't rule out that MJF himself may take the losing fall,
35:58
Speaker 1: but I just figured that's why Doyle was added to
36:01
Speaker 1: this team. But Androde, I think is ultimately like they're
36:04
Speaker 1: just not going to be able to co exist and
36:07
Speaker 1: it's going to lead to their downfall. Androde already feels
36:10
Speaker 1: like he's got one foot out the door anyway with
36:12
Speaker 1: this faction. But that is how dynam I went off
36:16
Speaker 1: the air. If you were looking for a lot of
36:18
Speaker 1: good wrestling matches, you got eight of them. Got a
36:21
Speaker 1: lot of wrestling on this show, not a whole lot else.
36:24
Speaker 1: Like last week, for example, we had this great face
36:26
Speaker 1: to face promo and the interaction between Will Osprey and
36:30
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland. We didn't have anything like that on the
36:33
Speaker 1: show this week. A very, very wrestling heavy show, which
36:36
Speaker 1: is fine, but it's not very exciting when it comes
36:40
Speaker 1: to really kind of diving deep into a discussion about
36:43
Speaker 1: what was seen on this television show. It's just pretty
36:45
Speaker 1: straightforward shit. But I for one will be very happy
36:48
Speaker 1: when we are beyond the Forbidden Door season and we
36:51
Speaker 1: can move on to Redemption, which is this new pay
36:53
Speaker 1: per view they have coming up next month. Let me
36:56
Speaker 1: run through this Forbidden Door card here. This is how
36:59
Speaker 1: it stands at the moment. I'll give my predictions as
37:02
Speaker 1: we go along here. The pay per view is on
37:04
Speaker 1: Sunday seven o'clock pre show, eight pm main card. I
37:08
Speaker 1: will have my full thoughts and review on the show.
37:11
Speaker 1: Will save that as an exclusive for the Uncrowned Wrestling
37:14
Speaker 1: Show next Tuesday. I will not be live on Monday morning,
37:18
Speaker 1: but we have the buy in pre show. We have
37:20
Speaker 1: the Women's Tag Team Championships on the line. Megan Bain
37:23
Speaker 1: and Lena Cross going to be defending against thunder Rosa
37:26
Speaker 1: and Olympia out of CMLL and that will be a
37:30
Speaker 1: win for Divine Dominion. Divine Dominion needs to hold onto
37:33
Speaker 1: those belts at least until Wembley so that they can
37:37
Speaker 1: drop them to the Brawling Birds the Young Bucks. They're
37:40
Speaker 1: going to be taking on El Sky Team, which is
37:43
Speaker 1: the team of Mistico and Mascririderata and Unbound team of Shingo,
37:48
Speaker 1: Takagi and Titan should be a win for the Young Bucks.
37:52
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly they're being built up for a tag
37:54
Speaker 1: team Championship match. I just think it's more important for
37:59
Speaker 1: them to pick up the win. The newly crowned IWGP
38:05
Speaker 1: Global Champion Shota Umino will put his brand new belt
38:08
Speaker 1: on the line against Pack of the Death Riders and
38:11
Speaker 1: he will retain that championship because he just won it.
38:15
Speaker 1: He ain't losing it to Pack. Kenny Omega against Zach
38:18
Speaker 1: Saber Junior. That will be a win for Kenny Omega,
38:21
Speaker 1: who very clear to me, is going to be challenging
38:24
Speaker 1: MJF for the World Championship in the main event at Redemption.
38:28
Speaker 1: It would be silly for him to come out of
38:29
Speaker 1: this with a loss. World Tag Team Championships on the line.
38:33
Speaker 1: Adam Copeland and Christian Cage defend against the Dogs. This
38:36
Speaker 1: will be a win for Cope and Christian Continental title
38:40
Speaker 1: on the line. John Moxley defends against Bandido. I. I
38:44
Speaker 1: don't know how many of you heard the comments that
38:47
Speaker 1: Bully Ray made Unbusted Open Radio the other day. The
38:49
Speaker 1: very dumb comments about John Moxley, where you know. He
38:54
Speaker 1: said that John Moxley is playing out his pro wrestling
38:58
Speaker 1: fantasies on television. He's got Tony Kahan's here and he
39:05
Speaker 1: wants to be Terry Funk. He says he would kick
39:07
Speaker 1: the shit out of Moxley. He would beat the living
39:10
Speaker 1: shit out of him, is what he said. And I
39:14
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39:16
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39:20
Speaker 1: likely trying to take some of the heat off his boy,
39:23
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39:26
Speaker 1: not had a very good week. But then Josh Barnett responded,
39:30
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39:35
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39:38
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39:42
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39:46
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41:43
Speaker 1: the line. Tekla is defending her title against Starlight Kid,
41:47
Speaker 1: representing Stardom. Starlight Kid is very good and I believe
41:52
Speaker 1: Tony Khan has said that she is his favorite wrestler
41:56
Speaker 1: outside of AW, either outside of AW or outside of
42:00
Speaker 1: the US. I think he said outside of AW. So
42:04
Speaker 1: she's coming in and that's kind of a big deal,
42:06
Speaker 1: you know, as far as a stardom representative, right, she's
42:09
Speaker 1: a big one. And they've been telling the story now
42:12
Speaker 1: really since Tecla came into the company of her being
42:14
Speaker 1: fired from Japan and beating up the president over there,
42:19
Speaker 1: you know, Taro Okada. They had footage on the show
42:22
Speaker 1: tonight was showing the angle from the show. Like within
42:25
Speaker 1: the last week, she showed up in Stardom and again
42:29
Speaker 1: attacked the president of the company and took a took
42:32
Speaker 1: a the shears and tried to shave his head. Every
42:37
Speaker 1: opportunity that this woman has had in the build up
42:39
Speaker 1: to this, to this pay per view, she has taken
42:43
Speaker 1: every opportunity to shit on Stardom, literally spits on the logo.
42:51
Speaker 1: She spits on this company, talk smack about them every
42:55
Speaker 1: single week. And I'm like, man, you're gonna make star
43:00
Speaker 1: look really bad here if they send Starlight Kid in
43:03
Speaker 1: there and she loses to Techla. But this also ties
43:07
Speaker 1: into some stuff I'll talk about here in a second,
43:09
Speaker 1: with the owen Hart Tournament and where I think things
43:11
Speaker 1: may be going with the championship. I'm going with Starlight
43:14
Speaker 1: Kid to win the aw Women's World Championship on Sunday.
43:18
Speaker 1: I think she beats Techla. I think she beats Tecla.
43:22
Speaker 1: She wins the title and she gets a short run
43:24
Speaker 1: with it, And no, I don't think she goes to
43:26
Speaker 1: Wembley with it. It's gonna be a short run, but
43:29
Speaker 1: I'm gonna and maybe I'm I'm putting myself out there
43:33
Speaker 1: on a limb, but I think she's gonna win the title.
43:37
Speaker 1: I just think that stardom has been so thoroughly buried
43:40
Speaker 1: in these promos and everything that Techla's been doing, that
43:45
Speaker 1: if you were going to throw one of these companies
43:47
Speaker 1: a real bone on this show instead of just having
43:50
Speaker 1: aw people win, it would be here. It would be
43:55
Speaker 1: a show of good faith, and you put the championship
43:58
Speaker 1: on Starlight Kid. That leads into the Owen Hart Foundation tournaments.
44:03
Speaker 1: We have the finals for both tournaments on Sunday. We'll
44:05
Speaker 1: start with the women. We have Mercedes Monet against Maya World,
44:09
Speaker 1: two women who were not even in this tournament when
44:12
Speaker 1: it began. They were not in the bracket. It was
44:15
Speaker 1: a series of circumstances that really came to be that
44:19
Speaker 1: led us to where we are now. Willow got hurt.
44:22
Speaker 1: They needed a wildcard entry to face Alex Windsor. Tony
44:26
Speaker 1: Kahn picked up the phone. He called Mercedes Monet, who
44:30
Speaker 1: was not supposed to be in this tournament. On the
44:33
Speaker 1: other side of the bracket, you got Maya World, who
44:36
Speaker 1: had to step in as well because Serie had an
44:41
Speaker 1: injury that she was not medically cleared for, so she
44:44
Speaker 1: replaced SuRie. I wonder if the original idea here was
44:50
Speaker 1: to do Willow and Serie in the finals of this tournament,
44:54
Speaker 1: with Willow Nightingale going to Wembley to challenge for the
44:57
Speaker 1: World Championship against Tecla. Feel like to me, that may
45:01
Speaker 1: have been the final, that that may have been the
45:04
Speaker 1: direction here, but that went out the window. And I
45:09
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier how Maya got this spot, and she got
45:12
Speaker 1: the win over sky Blue and that was kind of
45:14
Speaker 1: a big upset, and then she got the bigger upset
45:17
Speaker 1: over Athena on Collision last weekend. And so when I
45:20
Speaker 1: heard about the taping results and people were like, Sola monster,
45:23
Speaker 1: because I spent all this time last week talking about
45:26
Speaker 1: the big match to do in the finals, it's gonna
45:28
Speaker 1: be Mercedes, It's gonna be Athena. Clearly that's the match
45:32
Speaker 1: to do. And they taped the show last week and
45:36
Speaker 1: people were like, you're not gonna You're not gonna believe
45:39
Speaker 1: who won the match. And I read the results and
45:42
Speaker 1: I was like, you gotta be fucking kidding me, and
45:45
Speaker 1: I watched the match and yeah, they had a good match,
45:47
Speaker 1: and it was this big shocking moment, you know, on Saturday.
45:52
Speaker 1: I'm not happy that we have been deprived of a
45:57
Speaker 1: Mercedes Athena final in this tournament. Clearly, the two biggest
46:02
Speaker 1: matches that you could do at Forbidden Door in these
46:05
Speaker 1: tournaments would be Swerving Osprey Mercedes in Atheno. So I'm
46:09
Speaker 1: not happy that we were robbed of that. However, this
46:15
Speaker 1: is where we are now, and Tony Khan has an
46:17
Speaker 1: opportunity if he takes advantage of it, to at least
46:21
Speaker 1: try to create a new Star Maya world right now
46:25
Speaker 1: has a lot of people talking about it. But is
46:27
Speaker 1: that going to be the case six weeks from now
46:29
Speaker 1: If she goes in there on Sunday and she loses,
46:32
Speaker 1: is she forgotten about and she just kind of goes
46:34
Speaker 1: back to whatever whatever role that she had before, or
46:38
Speaker 1: is he really going to try to take advantage of
46:42
Speaker 1: this and parlay this into a really truly feel good
46:46
Speaker 1: story that carries over into London. And as I look
46:51
Speaker 1: at this, and I mentioned I think Starlight Kid wins
46:53
Speaker 1: the championship. I the way I see it this playing
46:58
Speaker 1: out I think Tony takes this all the way to
47:01
Speaker 1: the very end. I think Maya picks up another shock
47:07
Speaker 1: win on Sunday and beats Mercedes. And one of the
47:13
Speaker 1: other reasons why I feel this way, and you saw
47:16
Speaker 1: it even in her promo tonight, in in that video
47:18
Speaker 1: package when Mercedes was cutting that promo and she had
47:21
Speaker 1: her Owen Heart belt. She won this tournament last year,
47:26
Speaker 1: so technically she still has that time. She doesn't defend
47:29
Speaker 1: it per se, She's defending it in the tournament. She's
47:34
Speaker 1: trying to retain that belt. In the tournament. She's got
47:37
Speaker 1: one belt left. She's lost every other championship that she's had,
47:42
Speaker 1: thirteen fucking belts at one point simultaneously, twelve of them
47:48
Speaker 1: are gone. She's got one left. It really, when you
47:53
Speaker 1: think about it, wouldn't make a whole lot of sense
47:55
Speaker 1: to rob her of the other twelve, But then she
47:58
Speaker 1: keeps this one. So I feel like it kind of
48:01
Speaker 1: works where she finally loses that last belt on Sunday
48:06
Speaker 1: and you give Maya world the feel good win. She
48:08
Speaker 1: punches her ticket to go to Wembley Stadium and she
48:12
Speaker 1: may well be the next aw Women's World Champion. But
48:15
Speaker 1: it's not Maya World against Tekla at Wembley or Maya
48:21
Speaker 1: World against Starlight Kid. I think Starlight Kid wins the
48:26
Speaker 1: belt again, this is my conspiracy theory. Here, Starlight Kid
48:31
Speaker 1: wins the belt. Mercedes gets a title match at Redemption,
48:35
Speaker 1: beat Starlight Kid on the July pay per view to
48:37
Speaker 1: win the championship, goes into Wembley as the defending champion.
48:42
Speaker 1: We get a rematch between Mercedes and Maya World. And
48:46
Speaker 1: you've also established that Maya World can beat Mercedes because
48:49
Speaker 1: she already did it Forbidden Door. She did it once,
48:52
Speaker 1: she could do it again, so at least it gives
48:54
Speaker 1: her that level of credibility. She would be going into
48:57
Speaker 1: Wembley in this case with wins over Athena and Mercedes
49:02
Speaker 1: back to back. That right there should at least make
49:05
Speaker 1: her enough of a player in people's eyes where they
49:08
Speaker 1: at least give her a chance to win the belt
49:10
Speaker 1: on that show. And I would not expect her to
49:12
Speaker 1: win the belt. I would not put the belt on her.
49:15
Speaker 1: Mercedes would beat her in the rematch. But this is
49:18
Speaker 1: how I see things playing out. You know, you gotta
49:21
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta think outside the box and kind of
49:25
Speaker 1: go with your gut. This is just a feeling I have.
49:27
Speaker 1: This is this is just kind of how I see
49:30
Speaker 1: things playing out. I think Maya wins on Sunday, and
49:36
Speaker 1: if Tony Kahn is able to create a new, a
49:38
Speaker 1: legitimate new star in that division out of it, then hey,
49:41
Speaker 1: good for her. I don't know if it's gonna work
49:43
Speaker 1: out that way or not, but the journey that she
49:45
Speaker 1: has taken from where she was a year ago to
49:47
Speaker 1: where she is now is pretty It's pretty incredible stuff,
49:51
Speaker 1: you know. I'm happy for her. Even if she loses
49:53
Speaker 1: on Sunday, it doesn't mean that he still can't try
49:56
Speaker 1: to make her a new star, right She's already been
49:59
Speaker 1: established by picking up a couple of shock wins. Even
50:02
Speaker 1: if she loses on Sunday, it doesn't mean it has
50:04
Speaker 1: to be the end of the road for her. But boy,
50:07
Speaker 1: it's going to mean so much more. If she actually
50:09
Speaker 1: goes all the way and wins this tournament and Mercedes
50:11
Speaker 1: is beltless, then she could finally challenge for the world
50:15
Speaker 1: title and win it. But you've got to unload this
50:18
Speaker 1: last belt first. Kind of makes sense. In the other
50:22
Speaker 1: oh and Final, we have will Osprey against werv Strickland,
50:26
Speaker 1: this I'm sure is going to be just an outstanding match.
50:29
Speaker 1: It's gonna be insanity. There's gonna be tons of kickouts
50:32
Speaker 1: and near falls, and I think pretty much everybody and
50:36
Speaker 1: their mother and their father and the fucking stranger on
50:39
Speaker 1: the street figures that will Ospury is gonna win this match.
50:43
Speaker 1: And this is one of those situations where even though
50:45
Speaker 1: it's predictable, predictable is good. In this case, predictable is
50:50
Speaker 1: the way to go. This can only go one way.
50:53
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a will Osprey win. Everything that
50:56
Speaker 1: they have done, every story that they have I've tried
51:00
Speaker 1: to tell with this man since he came back from
51:03
Speaker 1: the injury, it's all leading to this moment. It's all
51:07
Speaker 1: leading to him being the number one contender in London
51:11
Speaker 1: at Wembley. He used to work as a fifteen year
51:15
Speaker 1: old boy outside of Wembley Stadium, right, It's all building
51:19
Speaker 1: to this show in August with him going for the championship.
51:23
Speaker 1: It can be no other way. So this will be
51:25
Speaker 1: a will Ospury win. And then we have in the
51:28
Speaker 1: main event of the show, the twelve man cage match
51:31
Speaker 1: six on six Team Briscoe against Team MJF. So it's
51:35
Speaker 1: Mark Briscoe, Kyle O'Reilly, Roderick Strong, Orange, Cassidy Darby, Allen
51:40
Speaker 1: and Kenoski takeshta how many people can we fit into
51:43
Speaker 1: one match at the same time taking on MJF and
51:49
Speaker 1: we have Kevin Knight and who else is in here?
51:51
Speaker 1: We have MJF, We have Kevin Knight, Kyle Fletcher, Jake
51:54
Speaker 1: Doyle and androte Elitelo. This will be a win for
51:59
Speaker 1: Team brisco he can get his championship match at Beach Break.
52:05
Speaker 1: And then we move on to Kenny Omega and MJF
52:08
Speaker 1: in Montreal at Redemption for the AW World Title. And
52:12
Speaker 1: as I sit here now, it sure feels to me
52:15
Speaker 1: like Kenny Omega is going to get his redemption and
52:17
Speaker 1: going to win the world Championship. And we're looking at
52:21
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega and will Ospray at all In And then
52:25
Speaker 1: the question becomes, what does MJF do if MJF is
52:28
Speaker 1: not involved in that match like a three way, which
52:32
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do. I think a one on one in
52:36
Speaker 1: that Wembley made event, a one on one is the
52:38
Speaker 1: way to go. Then what does MJF do. MJF and
52:41
Speaker 1: a lot of his promos and he didn't do it tonight,
52:44
Speaker 1: but in a lot of his recent promos he has
52:46
Speaker 1: mentioned Hangman and he's had a nice laugh at his expense.
52:51
Speaker 1: I do wonder if they're going to bring back Hangman
52:53
Speaker 1: before the show and have another match with him in MJF.
52:57
Speaker 1: To me, that doesn't really appeal to me, because we've
52:59
Speaker 1: already seen it multiple times. The last match they had
53:03
Speaker 1: was that Texas Deathmatch. What else could they possibly do
53:07
Speaker 1: to each other? You can't top what you did in
53:09
Speaker 1: that match. To run it back without that stipulation and
53:14
Speaker 1: without a title on the line wouldn't make a whole
53:17
Speaker 1: lot of sense to me. We were talking about it
53:18
Speaker 1: on TNT last night and then JD reminded me because
53:22
Speaker 1: there's been rumors. Yeah, he mentioned Mick Foley, and I
53:25
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, you can't discount the possibility.
53:32
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent, one hundred percent McK foley will
53:37
Speaker 1: wrestle for AW and not just once like he will
53:40
Speaker 1: wrestle multiple times. I guarantee you, it's just a matter
53:45
Speaker 1: of win. He said recently in an interview. Maybe maybe
53:51
Speaker 1: he was on Ariel Helwani. Maybe a couple of years
53:54
Speaker 1: from now, we'll look at the possibility of doing a match. Bullshit,
53:59
Speaker 1: he'll be in the ring well before that. Is it
54:02
Speaker 1: gonna be so soon that he'll be in the ring
54:04
Speaker 1: of Wembley. It's a big show. I suppose maybe that's
54:08
Speaker 1: a goal for him, right to be able to wrestle
54:10
Speaker 1: at Wembley Stadium in front of I mean, they're not
54:13
Speaker 1: gonna have anywhere close to fifty thousand people like they did,
54:16
Speaker 1: you know, two years ago. They'll be lucky if they
54:19
Speaker 1: get thirty at this point, but still it'll be a
54:22
Speaker 1: big crowd. MJF and Foley, I really I really hope not.
54:30
Speaker 1: I really really really really really hope that's not what
54:33
Speaker 1: the plan is here. You know what, If that is
54:35
Speaker 1: the plan, then fuck it. Put MJF in the Osprey
54:39
Speaker 1: Omega match, make it a triple threat. I take back
54:42
Speaker 1: everything I said before. If that's the best they would
54:45
Speaker 1: have for MJF, just just put him in there and
54:47
Speaker 1: make it a three way at that point. But that
54:51
Speaker 1: is the card. I'm sure they'll probably add some more
54:53
Speaker 1: stuff on the pre show. I don't know how many
54:56
Speaker 1: matches this is, but it's a lot. You're gonna get
54:59
Speaker 1: a lot of matches on Sunday that is your forbidden
55:03
Speaker 1: door lineup. Let me take a look here at what
55:09
Speaker 1: I think. We only have three super chats. This is
55:13
Speaker 1: dynamite boy. Let me tell you the dynamite stuff is
55:16
Speaker 1: getting more depressing by the week. Nobody gives a shit
55:21
Speaker 1: bender MC Sipson with a fort ninety night. We'll run
55:23
Speaker 1: through these real quick says. I love Athena, but I
55:27
Speaker 1: think she's hit the Dolf Ziggler stage for me. Tony
55:30
Speaker 1: Kahan refuses to do anything serious with her, and I
55:33
Speaker 1: don't think that he ever will. Yeah, I don't really
55:37
Speaker 1: understand the desire to keep her attached to that Ring
55:44
Speaker 1: of Honor Women's Championship for this long at the expense
55:48
Speaker 1: of doing more with her, with all the talent that
55:51
Speaker 1: they do have in the aw women's division, that she
55:53
Speaker 1: could be working with on a regular basis, not just
55:55
Speaker 1: every now and then. I don't understand it. I don't
56:00
Speaker 1: get it. I don't understand it. It's it seems like
56:03
Speaker 1: a complete waste to me. Yes, somebody mentioned or asked
56:07
Speaker 1: me something the other day about, you know, this whole
56:11
Speaker 1: my world thing. Could she be the one to beat
56:16
Speaker 1: you know, Athena to win the championship and ring of honor.
56:18
Speaker 1: I still feel like that's got to be Billy Starks. Yeah,
56:21
Speaker 1: they've had their story going for literally years now. So no,
56:26
Speaker 1: I don't think that it's my world. I think that's
56:28
Speaker 1: a Billy Starks thing. But I agree with you. I don't.
56:32
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. Isaac says, buyer sell a back
56:36
Speaker 1: Rooms sequel or a TV series. I wouldn't mind a
56:41
Speaker 1: TV series. And misfit wrestling podcast with a five start
56:46
Speaker 1: and revealed their card for their own show on Sunday.
56:50
Speaker 1: An only Starlight Kid is making the trip for Forbidden Door. Well,
56:58
Speaker 1: in that case, you bet make it worthwhile. If she's
57:02
Speaker 1: the only one going to represent stardom, then I would
57:06
Speaker 1: think winning the championship from the woman who has been
57:10
Speaker 1: trashing you and trashing your company, that would be a
57:14
Speaker 1: nice payoff for stardom. That's all I got for you, guys.
57:20
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. This is the
57:22
Speaker 1: state of Wednesdays at this point. I'm gonna be live
57:24
Speaker 1: with you though. On Friday for SmackDown. Smackdow has already taped.
57:29
Speaker 1: I have not looked at the results yet, but it
57:30
Speaker 1: was taped yesterday in London. Because they are on their
57:33
Speaker 1: way to Riod for Night of Champions on Saturday, but
57:37
Speaker 1: I will be streaming as normal on Friday, the final
57:42
Speaker 1: three hours SmackDown. I'm gonna celebrate and celebrate on Friday,
57:48
Speaker 1: and then Saturday is Night of Champions one o'clock Eastern.
57:51
Speaker 1: When the show is over, I'll be live on YouTube
57:53
Speaker 1: for the full recap, so you'll get a podcast from
57:56
Speaker 1: me on Saturday and then the usual SoundOff on Sunday.
58:00
Speaker 1: Sunday is a very busy day wrestling wise. We got
58:04
Speaker 1: a TNA pay per view at four o'clock Eastern. We
58:07
Speaker 1: have an NXT show on the CW Network at seven
58:11
Speaker 1: Forbidden Door at eight, which I will be watching, not
58:15
Speaker 1: reviewing live though again I'll save that review for un
58:19
Speaker 1: Crowned next week. But if you're ready for some wrestling,
58:22
Speaker 1: you got a lot of it coming up this weekend,
58:24
Speaker 1: so get ready. Mister Ozone and May's in the chat
58:31
Speaker 1: and everybody else. Thank you guys, those of you who
58:34
Speaker 1: did join me tonight, You guys are awesome. Be well,
58:38
Speaker 1: stay safe, have yourseles a great rest of your night,
58:41
Speaker 1: and we'll be back soon to do more right here
58:44
Speaker 1: live on YouTube. In fact, on Fridays the next time
58:47
Speaker 1: that you will see me live for the SmackDown post show.
58:49
Speaker 1: Until then, take care, guys,