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BraddersGrappers Epi 24: TIDAL..YAY!!!! · Bradders Grappers

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  Welcome to episode 24 of Brothers Grappas, the show that
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  British transport system truly hates because every January it
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  tries to find new ways to screw me over but it never works
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  because I always get refunds. That all said, that does tie it
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  into this show which I will get into in a little moment.
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  So this episode we are taking a trip over the Pennines to good
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  old Huddersfield for what saw Tidal Wrestling cutting on two
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  shows, the first being Waves of Destiny and was followed up with
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  a very late afternoon show entitled This One's For You 2
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  Electric Boogaloo. OK, maybe not Electric Boogaloo,
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  but it was This One's for You too, which was a all women's
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  card and was a really fun day that we spent in Huddersfield at
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  the parish. So before we get into the graphs
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  that happened on last Sunday, let's talk about travel, shall
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  we? Because January seems to be my
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  unluckiest month to ever travel to wrestling shows.
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  Because I believe I attended AN show a couple years ago and on
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  that occasion there were problems heading up to the North
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  East. And then last year had me having
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  to fork out £92.90 coming back from Bridge Pro in Stourbridge
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  because we had one of the whatever storm it was and
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  involved about four or five trains.
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  So of course coming into this year helping a clean slate and
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  transport being kind spoilers, it wasn't there was a fire just
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  prior to the tunnel in just past Daily Bridge which links
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  Lancashire to Yorkshire, a free mile hole which I would be a
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  gynaecologist dream to have that big of a hole.
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  That all said, I was meeting up with friends to take the train
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  over that being with Mikey Craig and hairdresser Steve.
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  Good evening lads if you're watching this because I know
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  neither of all three of you will not be watching.
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  So we ended up taking a taxi from Salford to Huddersfield.
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  The driver refused to drop us off outside of the venue,
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  claiming that there was impeded by boardings and everything's
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  that we wasn't. He was just lazy.
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  So once we kind of got all the travelling on a very misty and
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  murky journey over the hills, we ended up getting into the
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  parish. First time going to a title
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  show, equally first time obviously going to the parish
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  and I have to say I I did actually like the whole venue
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  and set up there. It was made even better.
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  I was wearing my Paramore shirt and they were playing some of
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  their tunes, which wasn't a big thumbs up already.
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  But then also having the interrupters on I was an added
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  bonus. So whoever is the DJ at Parish,
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  thumbs up, you're doing a great job.
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  I love it. The venue itself is.
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  It's a very enclosed venue. That said though, it's still a
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  nice layout. It gives off Breadshed vibes but
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  with a much higher roof. For a start.
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  I chose to to stand for the two shows because I'd be bloody mad.
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  But I was stood and chatting with Cara, which a lot of you in
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  the Northwest and possibly elsewhere know because they are
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  one of I think one of the helpers at Tidal and has you'll
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  see them kind of like bouncing around the northwest scene.
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  So I was joining in with the the offer or offering support during
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  the collapse and chants. Some hit, some didn't, but
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  that's that's kind of wrestling crowds.
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  So we will get into the show because a lot of it I have
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  forgot, so apologies there and we are pretty much winging this
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  with the odd shot of memory that's somewhere in that grey
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  matter. So we opened the day with the
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  title championship as Tom Felwell joined by Danny proper.
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  They oh, Tom, I should say, took on Spike Trevay.
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  This was a really enjoyable, solid opener.
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  Tom very much being the the rule breaker in this contest,
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  bringing up kind of like Manchester, which bringing up
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  Manchester, especially in Yorkshire, you ain't, you ain't
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  getting cheered mate and was pretty much the reaction he
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  wanted. It did help that my mate kind of
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  joined in with the 0161 champ which was brave on his part it
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  has to be said. It was really strange as well
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  seeing Spike Trevay playing a fan favourite because everywhere
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  I've ever seen him he has played the I don't know what the Rule
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  breaker eel if you want to go that way, but this was a really
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  fun opening match. I did like the spot where Tom
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  put his hand out to Spike with his fingers crossed behind his
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  back wanted to kind of shake his hand.
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  Spike asking the crowd, is it a trap?
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  And where is most of the time you'll kind of like have the
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  good guy shake the hand and that leads to a beat down.
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  Spike grabbing the hand of Tom and just snapping the fingers
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  was something I haven't seen before, but I really did enjoy
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  that particular spot. Tom, I mean he did he did well,
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  he he did a nice little kind of reverse spot.
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  We've spike where home spike in a move spike could reverse it
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  almost like a hammerlock. I think it was so Tom would get
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  spike in a hammerlock. Spike could kind of like wriggle
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  out put Tom in it. Tom would then reverse it.
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  Spike would then reverse it. And this kind of went on about 8
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  to 10 times, but it did not get old.
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  It definitely have the the crowd enjoying this the match itself.
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  Tom really did a good job here. Spike I've I've always set the
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  point of if a wrestler can play both the rule brick and the fan
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  favourite and get a crowd reaction, then they are kind of
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  like they're waiting gold or worth their waiting gold and
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  seeing how Spike was being the good guy.
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  I've always been a fan of Spike. I love his kind of villainous
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  role that he he had in progress when I've kind of first got into
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  the British wrestling scene properly.
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  So to see a almost a flip side of Spike was refreshing to see.
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  And it has made me want to like see more title, which I am
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  looking to try and do more this year because the the show itself
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  I I fully, I fully enjoyed. If truth be told, the match
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  itself though Spike ended Tom's hopes of a title change hitting
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  the Tower of Silence. So Spike retains the title.
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  Championship match #2 saw Ace Matthews taking on Alexander
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  Lockhart accompanied by Lucy Couture.
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  This again Ace in the the same kind of boat so to speak, as
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  Spike. For me, I've only ever seen Ace
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  at North and he has predominantly been kind of like
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  the the bad guy as part of the landed Gentry.
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  So seeing Ace being the I don't know if he's an in between or a
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  good guy because I couldn't fully work that out early doors.
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  Not until the crowd is kind of cheering for Ace and seeing how
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  Lockhart was. They did announce, however, that
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  Matthews has gone a year without winning in title.
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  So I feel the the building to something where he kind of gets
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  a win. So the could have possibly
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  posted what might happen on a later show.
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  We'll touch on that in a second. The contest itself, Ace battling
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  heart, Ace battling hard. Lockhart was in all sorts of
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  trouble. But kind of having Couture as
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  your, I don't want to say Valley because she's not a valet, but
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  kind of a company friend. Whatever.
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  She distracted Ace as it had both Lockout and Couture on the
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  ring apron. Ace comes running over Lockout,
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  moves out of the way, Lockout then gets the victory.
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  I think it's a roll up. I haven't put how the match
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  ended, but for the majority was kind of everything was going for
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  Matthews. But this is my first time seeing
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  Alexander lockout. He he has a distinct character
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  on watching him. This works really well with Ace
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  I felt. So I think I'm going to look
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  more into kind of like Lockhart's the rear kind of
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  looking on YouTube and things like that just to kind of get up
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  to speed because I know he does do Spinebuster media or sorry,
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  spinebuster underground. So I will have to give a couple
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  of those a watch after the match.
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  It saw Ace going to on Lacey's boots, a sign of calling it
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  quits, retiring, the crowd all shouting or telling Ace don't do
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  it, shouting no, no. He then asks for the microphone,
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  tells Taj that to give him one final shot at the title
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  championship. They saw Taj kind of reluctantly
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  agreeing to this asking of this question.
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  So it looks like we are going to get Ace Matthews versus Spike
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  Trevay for the title championship.
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  Maybe on the next show that could have been said.
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  Again, memories a bit fuzzy, but yes, that is what happened with
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  that match #3 saw for the title tag team championships Misery
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  Business consisting of Joe, Wade and Alan.
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  I haven't got your surname, which isn't the best thing to
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  do, so I'll just call him Misery Business because that's going to
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  be my cheap way out. They took on a Wing Commander
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  Nash and Wesley and Cerenko. This felt very much the kind of
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  the palette cleanser of the show, so to speak.
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  At least Nash took some nasty looking chops from Joe Wade, one
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  where the Nash had his shirt pulled over him and Wade just
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  let loose with a couple of stiff chops.
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  It was the thing of they were both dressed up like Hogan,
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  which again is a thing, which was an interesting route to go
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  down. It has to be said.
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  It was a it was an OK tag title match.
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  Seemed to be more kind of humour than anything.
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  The back end of it saw Nash faking a knee injury, but we
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  didn't know that at the time. And Nash kind of like went into
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  the turnbuckle, fell backwards holding his knee.
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  Saw Jamie who was helping as a medic.
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  She came into the ring to help. Everyone kind of went quiet.
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  Misery business came in to check on him.
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  This led to Nash proving that he was not injured as it was all a
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  ruse and had him grabbing Joe Wade to get the pinfall in a
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  kind of like a roll up attempt. This saw brand new title tag
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  team champions with Misery Business none too happy and
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  well, well they should to be fair.
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  So it feels like Nash and Wesley have gone down the dark side,
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  which considering Misery Business are very dark
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  themselves, have gone even darker the Misery Business.
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  But it's going to be interesting to see if the former tag champs
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  want to try and reclaim those belts at a later date.
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  We then had as the main event of the first half the HT Drake
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  challenge and this saw the challenge being answered by Big
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  Rig. So there was some history
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  between these two men which. HC very much made cutting a
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  promo on the mic and challenged rig to a big man match which was
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  effectively all moves must be done in a big man style.
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  So no flips, no kind of fast-paced off.
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  It's going to be a meaty man match effectively, so both men
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  did extremely well to kind of keep it within the parameters of
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  that stipulation. This is despite both men hitting
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  moves that were outside of that and apologising and trying to
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  find ways round it. Drake hitting a cane clothesline
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  when he went on to the top rope had the crowd all pointing and
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  going no no no you can't do that, that's not a big big man
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  move. HT using his quick thinking to
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  claim that it's a cane clothesline, which I mean, it is
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  a big man move. Kane did do that.
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  So this kind of went back and forth.
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  This was, it was pretty, I knew silly, but it was a good silly.
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  I really enjoyed it. Drake then asked ref Katie to
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  get on his back as he performed a Warrior splash.
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  Again, a choice to use certain moves.
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  Well, I'll just get random messages off friends so he has
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  Katie on his back. Splashes Big Rig does not get
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  the pinfall victory which leads to Drake going.
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  I need more strength, I need more weight, Dinged shouts ref
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  Sandy Beaches to come to the ring and has both 80 and Sandy
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  on his back and obviously he could not run with them to on
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  there. Kind of we bounced off the ropes
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  and just crumbled on top of Big Rig with both the referees
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  looking in pain having been on Drake's back and then just
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  falling over. We did technically see a six
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  count because both the referees counted the pinfall victory for
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  Drake. It was, it was a load of fun.
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  Nothing, nothing wrong with that.
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  It's for the silliness. It was up there.
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  I mean, again, as I said, I enjoyed this match.
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  It was something different, which I think all wrestling
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  shows kind of need to be. We then went for the interval
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  and when we came back it saw Taj, the title owner, making a
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  speech about if you want to do something, then do it.
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  Don't worry about what people will say or if anything's going
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  to go wrong, Just do it. Do it for you.
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  Do something that makes you happy.
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  She then announced that as of the end of this year, she will
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  be stepping down as the owner of Tidal Wrestling, having taken
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  over I think around 2022. I could be wrong, but it's it
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  was early kind of twenty 20s. But she did announce that Z, who
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  is head of creative and one of the main people, one of the main
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  players if you will, with the promotion, will be taking over
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  the reins of title heading into 2027.
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  So it seems that the promotion, well in good hands, is going to
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  be in equally better hands with Z taking over.
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  Back to the action and we had a really enjoyable contest with
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  Denzel Mack taking on Jet Marshall.
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  Both of these I've seen kind of at North Wrestling or at TNT
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  Gentleman who we saw kind of September taking on Tommy Tanner
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  back in TNT. They had a really great opening
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  match on that card. Jack Marshall has it's hard to
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  to actually kind of place jet for me with North because I
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  think when I first saw him, he was AI think he was a good guy.
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  But then the last show I saw of North was actually the lead
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  show. So I'm a bit out of the the loop
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  with not N at the moment, but he kind of came as a bad guy.
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  But on this occasion both were kind of fun favourites.
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  Again, this was a really enjoyable contest.
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  Dental having the better offings just kind of like with the the
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  Bolt Jet who was giving up a few pounds to Denzel, but Marshall
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  always seemed to have that kind of bulldog spirit of just always
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  fighting back. Did have Mack on the back foot
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  at one point. However, a frog splash from Mack
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  would prove to be enough on this occasion and saw Denzel taking
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  victory with him and Marshall kind of raising each of his hand
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  after the contest. Show of good sportsmanship and a
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  really enjoyable contest to boot.
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  Then we saw the collision of the freak show as Axel the Clown
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  took on Gentlemen Jim McGuire with special guest referee
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  Freaky Felicia. So most of this card was all new
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  to me because I haven't really followed time.
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  I've heard podcasts on shows that have happened, so there has
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  obviously been a breakdown within the freak show.
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  Felicia, being the special guest referee, kept having Axel
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  telling her to do this and do that, almost kind of siding with
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  him. But Felicia, donning the
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  stripes, was more than happy to kind of play it down the middle.
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  Felicia tried to stop Axel throwing so many punches on
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  gentleman Jim McGuire in the corner.
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  Twice Axel had thrown Felicia off, leading to the crowd
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  thinking, are we going to get Felicia do something?
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  But she did not rise to the bait.
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  She wanted to do everything fair.
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  She didn't want to play favourites.
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  However, the back end of this contest saw Axel just pushing
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  Felicia too much and Felicia ended up hitting like a almost
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  like a crossroads move on Axel before shaking in the corner.
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  Allah kind of. Shawn Michaels after super
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  kicking the Undertaker back in the Hell in a Cell match.
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  I think it was WrestleMania 3231, one of those matches.
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  So she didn't want to get involved, but she did.
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  Jim would get the pinfall. Axel took off, did not want to
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  shake Mcguire's hand. I did not want to know Felicia.
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  So I think this story still has some legs in it.
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  So we will see what happens down the line.
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  We ended the first half or sorry, the first show I should
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  say, with an Iron Will title contest.
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  This was my match of the day. Shay Monet challenging the Iron
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  Will champion in Lucic. This was so good.
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  Again, Shay Monet, who I've seen mostly wrestling at TNT as the
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  odd guy. Seeing him being kind of the
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  good guy, it was interesting to have the crowd cheer for Monet.
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  Vusic, who I've now seen kind of being heelish.
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  It really does seem weird seeing Vusic with hair.
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  I know a few people have said this but I it does answer
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  different dial dynamic to him but it's still strange for me.
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  I suppose it'll grow on me eventually as as well.
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  It would him. So Monet jumped out to A2 nil
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  lead in a 15 minute Iron Man or Iron Will match.
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  However, Lucic fights his way back into the contest, levelling
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  at 2 apiece or a Desmond and then in the closing stages of
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  the last few minutes would score 3 pinfalls for a couple of
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  submissions, taking the contest to a 52V.
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  It makes a change to have a kind of like an Iron Man match and
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  it's not leading to like a funny ending or a one fall difference.
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  It was fully kind of like a click or win for music, but
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  Monet is. It was such an enjoyable match
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  to watch. Hard hitting as hell.
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  Monet did a great job in this contest.
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  So did music. They told a good story.
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  I would love to see them kind of like go again.
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  I just really enjoyed this this contest.
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  Even though I haven't written as many notes, it really was my
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  standout match of the entire two shows.
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  I did manage to film quite a bit, but I really did enjoy this
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  contest. It was so much fun to watch.
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  I almost, almost had it finished so early to be fair.
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  But yeah, a great way to finish off the first half of a double
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  headed show. So we then kind of like went for
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  a couple of drinks downstairs. We then returned for show #2
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  which was this one's for you too, with Nikki doing the doing
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  the announcing in the second-half.
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  Oh, sorry. Before before we come to this,
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  the aftermath of the Vusic and Shame on a Match saw Vusic
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  continuing the assault on Monet. I would not give up putting the
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  hold on this would lead to HT Drake coming out who informed us
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  that he is a Grand Slam champion in the promotion.
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  And because he won the Rumble, I think on the last show or a
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  couple of shows ago, that entitles him to challenge for
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  whatever title there is entitled that he would like to go to or
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  go for and opts to go for the Iron Will title and would like
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  to try and beat the hell out of Lucic.
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  And having them two in the ring. It's it's going to be a good.
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  And so if I do make it to the next show, I definitely have one
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  match that I am massively invested in moving.
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  After we had the break between the two shows, are we headed to
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  show #2 entitled This One's For You 2, which was a all women's
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  card and there were a couple of good matches and a a strange
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  opener, it has to be said. So we started off with Freaky
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  Felicia of the Freak Show taking on Nisa.
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  I've not seen Nisa before. The contest itself went probably
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  about two and a half 3 minutes. Again, I do not know if
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  something had happened, if Nisa picked up an injury or what
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  particularly happened, but they kind of seemed like rabbits in a
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  in a headlight at times. Alicia ended up kind of walking
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  Nisha through the match. I want to say there was like a
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  slight injury or something had happened but the timing was
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  pretty much off in this, which was a bit of a shame.
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  But it just feels like something had had happened for it to only
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  go like 3 minutes. But both were OK because they it
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  took part in the battle Royals. So yeah, it was it was a really
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  weird contest that the fans can really get really into because
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  the never really got going in fairness.
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  But Felicia I believe has been injured, saw her making her
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  return to singles action in this winning with a choke slam.
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  So yeah, that was your your opener.
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  Match number 2 was this was a really fun one.
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  Natasha Swan and Lucy Couture a thump in it this time.
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  A flip from the earlier show with Alexander Locker being at
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  ringside again. This one was a felt a bit of a
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  slow burner, but then once kind of the they got the feet going
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  and everything, the match really kind of like picked up a bit of
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  steam. The crowd was into it.
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  Katar who gives off bratty vibes even kind of the ring entrance
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  music, someone who in kind of like pink and was just an
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  extremely lucky crowd favourite guitar who did as a rule breaker
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  villain. She really plays that part
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  extremely well, Which. I think does help matches that
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  don't always kind of get going, but her kind of character work
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  really did help this at the beginning.
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  Moaning at the crowd, picking on Swan, even getting locked out to
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  join in as well. Really good work the match when
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  it got going, really kind of enjoyable to watch.
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  I've never seen these two wrestle before.
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  I've heard a lot about Couture. The match ended when it saw Swan
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  dashing towards Couture and Lockout, who were both on the
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  ring apron. Lucy kind of leant back saw
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  Lockout getting knocked off the top, Kato then grabbed Holder,
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  Swan spun around hit a stunner to get the victory to pick up
• 41:34
  the 123. It was a really solid, enjoyable
• 41:39
  contest. It definitely made me a fan of
• 41:44
  both Swan and Kato moving forward and of course, we would
• 41:51
  see both of these ladies later on in that number one contenders
• 41:57
  match for the women's title next on the card.
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  So a lot of, I say a lot, a few of the matches that were
• 42:14
  announced did not happen. I think also due to logistics of
• 42:22
  obviously transport, because trains from the north coming
• 42:29
  down to Yorkshire and kind of from the northwest to Yorkshire
• 42:35
  was quite scarce. There was a lot of problems.
• 42:45
  So we ended up kind of condensing a couple of matches
• 42:50
  it felt and bringing in new people.
• 42:54
  So we had a triple threat match with Scarlett, Erin Taylor and
• 43:02
  Lily Winter. Of all the matches we saw on
• 43:09
  show too, this is probably the stand out.
• 43:16
  So we started with Lily getting her traditional abuse from the
• 43:21
  the audience of Teamu Elsa, mainly because she she's the Ice
• 43:28
  queen and being the ice queen dressed in white, you, you are
• 43:35
  going to get Frozen references. And the crowd were very vocal in
• 43:43
  calling her Teamu Elsa. Taylor, who Taylor and Scout I
• 43:53
  hadn't seen before. It's like a lot on this the two
• 43:57
  shows. It was nice getting to kind of
• 44:02
  see new people and becoming new fans.
• 44:08
  Taylor hit some really nice offence in this in this contest.
• 44:16
  You look at her and compared to the other two, you thought that
• 44:23
  she was going to be the one that was the more picked on.
• 44:27
  But if anything, she was probably the more aggressive of
• 44:33
  of the three. They all kind of played their
• 44:38
  their parts well in this contest.
• 44:42
  Scarlett, who I had never seen before as I'm probably over
• 44:50
  playing that record continuously saying that, but I really loved
• 44:58
  Scout in this contest characters.
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  Her character came out massively, very vocal, whether
• 45:11
  it was intended to be. She is very funny with like the
• 45:17
  the put downs and just shouting at the referee over things.
• 45:24
  It kind of did make me fall in love with Scarlett in this
• 45:27
  match. Lily, we we all know what you're
• 45:33
  getting with Lily. She is one of the best
• 45:38
  performers I feel in the north and is only getting better and
• 45:45
  better with every view I see. I mean this, this contest really
• 45:53
  kind of like went one way and then the other and then a
• 45:57
  different route. Winter takes the victory though
• 46:03
  I think with a frostbite or skull crushing finale if you
• 46:09
  prefer to use that. Or it could have been the cold
• 46:12
  shoulder where it's like a TKO move.
• 46:18
  A lot to like about this match. A lot to enjoy with all three in
• 46:25
  this contest. Really good contest, easily one
• 46:33
  of the most easy to watch matches, but did a great job.
• 46:41
  Kind of like telling a story as well.
• 46:47
  So kind of thumbs up to all three in that match.
• 46:54
  We then came to the penultimate match of the day which saw
• 47:02
  Ashley Vega making her debut in title, I believe taking on the
• 47:08
  women's champion in Alfie. Ashley Vega, who very much a
• 47:16
  shrinking Violet she was not, came out with a Saint Andrew
• 47:24
  Scottish flag, Glaswegian scouting, a lot of stuff that
• 47:32
  was in a very thick Scottish accent, which obviously take a
• 47:40
  Scottish person, put them in England, you're just going to
• 47:45
  get kind of certain phrases shouted back at you.
• 47:52
  She did a great job at trying to keep a group of lads that were
• 48:00
  in the far corner quiet because they kind of kept shouting
• 48:05
  things out. Anything that was Scottish
• 48:08
  based. They were pretty much launching
• 48:11
  towards chants of David Tennant and the the most random chant I
• 48:21
  have ever heard at a wrestling show was Mary Queen of Scots.
• 48:30
  Probably a couple more of a Scottish themed things were
• 48:33
  said. Vega, who came in like a
• 48:38
  Scottish Wrecking Ball as Miley Cyrus might have said very much
• 48:45
  the aggressor in this contest and controlled it for the
• 48:50
  majority. Really paid up to the
• 48:53
  Scottishness. I've written with, again, the
• 49:01
  kind of like the group of lads that were in the corner shouting
• 49:04
  things she'd come out with kind of like some phrases to which I
• 49:13
  do know a lot of Scottish people, some that have a very
• 49:19
  thick Scottish accent and even I struggled with it and I watched
• 49:27
  a lot of Still Game and that is quite thick at times.
• 49:34
  Alfie would fight back though, hitting a spinning kind of like
• 49:40
  a heel kick, which all LED up to like the the end of the contest.
• 49:48
  Alfie would retain the title. The match itself, I've got an OK
• 49:55
  match. It's the worst times I felt
• 50:00
  where I kind of like drifted in and out again.
• 50:04
  Nothing against Vega or Alpha. I think the match, you could say
• 50:12
  when perhaps a bit too long, possibly the chance harmed the
• 50:20
  match, but in fairness, it did its job.
• 50:28
  Vega was impressive. I definitely would love to see
• 50:33
  Vega somewhere else on a card that I'm going to because she
• 50:39
  was really fun to watch both in the ring and kind of like
• 50:45
  character wise. So there is that Alfie defended
• 50:51
  her title and she stayed out while everyone got back in the
• 50:58
  ring for our main event of the card in a battle royal to
• 51:06
  determine the number one contender for the women's title.
• 51:17
  So I haven't written the eliminations.
• 51:22
  Vega, I think was the first to be eliminated.
• 51:28
  Then there was kind of just chaos with people going all over
• 51:32
  the place. Ended up with the final two
• 51:37
  being Nisa and Lucy Couture. I think when we got to the final
• 51:43
  two, I think they did kind of Telegraph who was going to win
• 51:50
  this. Nisa threw Lucy over the top
• 51:55
  rope but had Alexander Lockhart hatching his friend on the
• 52:01
  outside. It also saw Lily Winter staying
• 52:06
  behind as well as they went on to help the Tour, taking the
• 52:12
  victory, pulling Nisa over the top rope and eliminating her,
• 52:20
  giving a Tour the number one contendership for the title.
• 52:28
  Alfie then came in the ring to confront the new #1 contender,
• 52:34
  but then had a Tour, getting the microphone and telling the
• 52:39
  champion to go away, which I found a bit weird to be fair,
• 52:48
  because it made her seem more. It felt a bit weak for a
• 52:56
  champion to kind of do what the the opponent wanted him to do.
• 53:05
  Because I thought we might get a beat down or we could get
• 53:08
  something or Alfie might got a promo.
• 53:13
  We didn't get any of that. She kind of got in the ring with
• 53:17
  Dee Dee, and then she gets told to go away, which she does.
• 53:26
  And then we have Lockout grabbing the microphone and in
• 53:31
  one of the interesting moments of the day, announced that as
• 53:40
  everyone could see Lily Winter joining him.
• 53:45
  It looks like there's a new alliance entitle.
• 53:48
  So with Lockhart guitar and Winter, he he then called
• 53:59
  himself. See, I'm torn between what he
• 54:03
  said. It sounded like the House of
• 54:09
  Kant or the House of Count. However, the accent of a kind of
• 54:23
  London way accent, the way he said the final word sounded more
• 54:33
  like he said the House of the C word, which had quite a lot of
• 54:41
  people giggling and stifling their laughing.
• 54:49
  Looking at you ref Katie and possibly sandy beaches.
• 54:57
  Katie was trying her absolute best not to laugh out loud,
• 55:06
  though she did have to put her hand up to her face to stop
• 55:10
  laughing. To which I think Sandy at one
• 55:15
  point said I think we should go and they very quickly headed for
• 55:22
  the exit. But again, overall the show
• 55:29
  itself, it was a fun, enjoyable show to watch.
• 55:35
  A few things that were off but on the whole it was still an
• 55:41
  enjoyable experience. Not having a couple that should
• 55:49
  have been there I think did hurt it to a certain degree.
• 55:55
  However, the talent they had on here did more than a serviceable
• 56:01
  job if I could use a phrase. Even from Sir Jeff from Grabs
• 56:11
  and claps. Serviceable match or sorry
• 56:15
  serviceable performances from all.
• 56:19
  Did not take away anything at all.
• 56:23
  The Whole day if truth be sold was an enjoyable experience.
• 56:31
  Got to catch up with some good friends.
• 56:34
  Chris Lawson, Jebus, who is, I like to call myself the
• 56:42
  Lancastrian version of Jeebus, but on a far, far lesser scale.
• 56:50
  We all kind of had a fun time, ended up having some food
• 56:57
  downstairs in the bar. Some bizarre discussions that
• 57:04
  took place, which we cannot repeat on on any podcast for
• 57:09
  that matter, ended up with us taking a taxi back.
• 57:18
  It's because there were no trains.
• 57:20
  Every train was cancelled heading back.
• 57:23
  So that was not ideal. But the taxi driver heading home
• 57:29
  was really funny. I don't know if he was a local
• 57:35
  but you would not have him as your tourist Information Centre
• 57:43
  because he ripped Huddersfield completely.
• 57:50
  He did not have much of a good word to say about the place
• 57:55
  other than the parish is as good as it gets, which could be a
• 58:04
  potential tagline for the parish if it's looking to promote
• 58:08
  itself. The only decent thing in
• 58:11
  Huddersfield. So yes, that was title.
• 58:22
  Again, I don't think this was the best that title could could
• 58:33
  do. I think there's far more Tidal
• 58:37
  could do. I think that's what I'm trying
• 58:38
  to say, but I think a few things potentially kind of like
• 58:44
  Hamperdam. That said, no, not knocking them
• 58:49
  at all. Really enjoyed my first trip
• 58:53
  there. Taj, who's running it, is doing
• 58:58
  extremely great there, does make me want to come back, but really
• 59:08
  enjoyable. I would love to go to the next
• 59:11
  show there, but we'll see with funding if anything is
• 59:17
  happening. But yeah, if you are in
• 59:21
  Huddersfield or even in the local area, I would definitely
• 59:27
  give title a go. I've heard a lot of good things
• 59:31
  about it and in truth it's a good promotion.
• 59:39
  It's there's a lot to like, there's some great performers on
• 59:44
  there, a nice mix of experience and you've coming through there.
• 59:53
  And if what I've saw is a taster, then.
• 1:00:00
  I'm definitely ready to see more of it.
• 1:00:05
  But yeah, that was my one man solo voyage of Tidal.
• 1:00:15
  Thank you for getting through this episode because it took
• 1:00:21
  about four tries to record the show.
• 1:00:27
  So I will leave all the kind of what title links in the
• 1:00:33
  description part if you want to drop a message or dad now of me
• 1:00:41
  because that could be what you want to do.
• 1:00:45
  I am on X under Brad's grappas or Brad's graps.
• 1:00:52
  I think you'll say the description anyway.
• 1:00:57
  Or PETA. Brad's Instagram is where I am
• 1:01:03
  mostly on that is Brad's grappas.
• 1:01:07
  So you'll see all my little trips around the UK visiting
• 1:01:14
  mainly Northwest shows, but I do tend to just turn up odd little
• 1:01:20
  shows around the country. Again, thank you for listening.
• 1:01:27
  It's massively appreciated that you take your time out to listen
• 1:01:34
  to this or if you're even more psychotic watching this show,
• 1:01:41
  God bless you. I think you may need help
• 1:01:46
  personally. But with that, thank you so, so
• 1:01:53
  much the listening or watching and we'll see you on the next
• 1:02:01
  episode.