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- 0:08Hello and welcome to 2026 a new year but still the same old
- 0:18rubbish. I am PETA Bradders.
- 0:22Welcome to Bradders grappas episode 21, the one where Lolly
- 0:29takeover. But before we get on to all that
- 0:33show, let's give a welcome and a good morning, good afternoon and
- 0:40good evening to my traditional now Co host it feels like.
- 0:47Good afternoon or good evening, I should say my.
- 0:49Good evening, Happy New Year. And Happy New Year to you as
- 0:56well and everyone that is either listening or watching, probably
- 1:01just listening. I probably won't put this out.
- 1:04This obviously is our first episode of the year and it saw
- 1:11the first show of 2026 taking us to the Fairfield Social Club in
- 1:20Manchester City centre as Future Shock changed the original show
- 1:29because it should have been a Horrible Histories theme but
- 1:34they very quickly changed that. Why?
- 1:39We do not know, but I think the the change definitely helped
- 1:45more I feel. So we went from Horrible
- 1:50Histories to the one where Lally take over and unsurprisingly
- 1:56it's all Lally taking over. What more could you want that
- 2:01the chaos that surrounds Lally and it saw everything
- 2:08defensively happening on this particular Sunday afternoon and
- 2:14a very cold Manchester day. We will discuss all about the
- 2:22the bad weather and things that Hanford things but we will start
- 2:31looking at what happened on these shows.
- 2:35So match number one saw a four way for the winner to get a spot
- 2:45at Lotto Thunder on February the 1st at the Stockport Guildhall
- 2:55and featured the following four Doctor Proctor, Harvey Dukes of
- 3:03the O5A1, half of the O5I should say Jensen, Vesper and the newly
- 3:13rebranded Pele. What was your take on this
- 3:18before I get into? It this was a fun opener.
- 3:23I enjoyed the added stipulation of the Lotto funder for the
- 3:28winner. This was, in my opinion, this is
- 3:32how you should be doing Fatal four way matches.
- 3:35This is like the staple of how a fatal four way match should run.
- 3:41Like not everyone, nobody was teaming up.
- 3:44Everybody was just for themselves.
- 3:48You want the teasers of like the teaming up, but it was what it
- 3:53was. It was a very entertaining
- 3:56opener. So the for a opener, this was a
- 4:04really fun contest, it has to be said.
- 4:09So little kind of what highlights I've picked.
- 4:14So you had Harvey Dukes starting the match, super kicking Vespers
- 4:20head off right out of the gate while the others kind of just
- 4:24looked on. We then had chops in the corner
- 4:30from Vespa to Dukes. Vespa then proceeds to do his
- 4:36kind of standing on the Brett's rope doing the tank out.
- 4:41But once I think we all knew, once it gets to five, he does
- 4:47his little steps 5678 routine. This then allowed Dukes to slip
- 4:55under pulling down, then proceeds to do his own 10 count.
- 5:03Procter then comes over, he does a big build up, he's going to do
- 5:08a 10 count, hits him once and that was pretty much all you got
- 5:14from him. From there, it saw mostly really
- 5:22Procter, Dukes and Pele doing most of this contest with Vespa
- 5:29kind of being that heel that just looks for little kind of
- 5:36like capitalising moments in matches, which is when all three
- 5:42kind of like just beat each other up.
- 5:45Jensen tried to crawl into the ring and sneak a victory.
- 5:50He did not. Let me tell you now.
- 5:53And we then saw later on Dukes being backdropped.
- 5:58Over. Proctor who had Vesper in a full
- 6:03Nelson then proceeded to hit a sit down full Nelson slam on him
- 6:09or a bubble bomb depending how you want to go down that route.
- 6:15Double team from Dukes and Proctor on Pele, which was a
- 6:20really nice double team. The doctor then drops his
- 6:26opponent's knee first with his legs raised up or his knees
- 6:31raised up should say. We then had a gorgeous
- 6:35springboard cutter from Dukes on Doctor Proctor.
- 6:41Pele then kind of drops Duke's face 1st and ends with Pele
- 6:49hitting Vespa with what was formerly known as the Royal
- 6:54Wave. It's all the the royal stuff
- 7:05from his persona. I, I am temporarily and I have
- 7:10said this, I'm going to call it the abdication because I think
- 7:16it, it fits quite. Currently.
- 7:20Again, as a temporary stopgap, that is what I'm using, but I am
- 7:26still trying to think of a name so Pele.
- 7:29I'm still thinking so that sees Pele.
- 7:35Now entering Lotto Funder so we'll wait to see who the other
- 7:43participants are, which I am sure we will find out in due
- 7:48time or possibly a week before the show match #2 this was an
- 7:57interesting 1. So it was Act 2 with Benjamin
- 8:02Holland and Jack Nutson taking on the newly re established
- 8:10Northwest Strong with Chris Ridgway and Keenan Krishna.
- 8:20I'll ask you your thoughts on the group in a minute, but in
- 8:26terms of the match, what were your thoughts?
- 8:31Miss delivered. This was the main match on the
- 8:33card that was looking forward to and it it was what I thought it
- 8:39was going to be. It was just brilliant tag team
- 8:42wrestling. Like this was the first time
- 8:45I've seen Northwest Strong's. I wasn't around following at
- 8:49rest when Northwest Strong were on the scene.
- 8:51So this was like the first time I've seen a little bit of
- 8:55Northwest Stronger known about Northwest Strong because like
- 8:58everybody in the scene knows about Northwest Strong.
- 9:01So this was the first time seeing Ridgeway and Keenan
- 9:04tacked together. I enjoyed that.
- 9:06The fact that was like the rock, paper, scissors bit at the start
- 9:10where they were shopping because they've not tied together in so
- 9:13long, they're not connecting, but they used that to get a
- 9:19advantage of active at the start, so it was brilliant.
- 9:24It's they came across very, I mean, the promos they've done
- 9:30since they announced the the return of Northwest Strong have
- 9:33come across very comedic, which is different from how they were
- 9:43portrayed prior. But I, I get the feeling and I
- 9:50kind of know what they may do on that side.
- 9:54So I think they're going to start off a bit kind of easy
- 9:59going with them and then they'll get more serious as kind of like
- 10:02the weeks and months go by actually say the this is a paper
- 10:08rock at the start where they did best of three and it was a tie.
- 10:15Then they went to best of five, best of seven, and I think that.
- 10:20We're going to go to a best of 11 at once, so the match itself
- 10:29saw the start of it. At least Ridgeway and Krishna
- 10:34not being on the same page, neither man could decide who was
- 10:39going to start for their team, resorting to two of them going
- 10:46down the scissor paper stone route.
- 10:50Both men were still. Deadlocked after a best of
- 10:53three, then a best of five, then I think a best of seven and
- 10:59maybe a best of nine. Eventually it saw him just
- 11:04running across to the other side and beating up at 2:00.
- 11:11This kind of saw like the first signs of viciousness we've seen
- 11:18of Northwest strong since the kind of what got back together
- 11:25back to though obviously the more dialled in cohesive of the
- 11:31two. There was not rust, but there
- 11:34was a bit of miscommunication from Ridgeway and Krishna.
- 11:42The match changed though when Ridgway grabbed the arm of
- 11:46Highland and saw him drop down, pulling his arm off the top rope
- 11:52and this saw Northwest Strong just working on the left arm of
- 11:57the Sweet Prince. Soon after we had Ridgeway and
- 12:03Knudsen going strong style effectively with running boots
- 12:09to each of his face going back and forth.
- 12:14A miscommunication then sees Ridgeway sending a shoulder into
- 12:20the stomach of Krishna as how and leaps out the way.
- 12:26Jack Knutson then hits a modified Michinoku driver that
- 12:32was on Krishna I think how and then does a double underhook to
- 12:40Keenan, lifting him up with nuts and doing a super kick to the
- 12:45face. Would have been a free count but
- 12:49Ridgway Leps jumped into the ring stopping the arm of Reese
- 12:55coming down for the free nuts and then take a couple of
- 13:00straight penalty kicks to the chest.
- 13:03And they were. Bloody.
- 13:06Stiff. Let me tell you, the match then
- 13:10includes with a almost like a total elimination move from the
- 13:18old ECW days of Kronos and Saturn, where it's all Ridgeway
- 13:26performing a leg sweep. Or more of a calf.
- 13:29Sweep. To be fair, Krishna coming in
- 13:33with a running clothesline hits it on Knudsen.
- 13:38They get the 123 to start off the the new era of Northwest
- 13:45Strong with victory. So what what are your thoughts
- 13:53with kind of like this this new Northwest Strong, even though I
- 13:58have just already asked you truth to go?
- 14:02One and O. The.
- 14:06I don't know if you saw their intro or entrance video.
- 14:11Yeah, I've seen that they were not happy with Ant.
- 14:15Yeah, the the promos they've done with Ant, who is already
- 14:21striking gold in 2026 already the.
- 14:27The videos. They've done to kind of like
- 14:31build it up for Northwest Strong have been really entertaining.
- 14:37Has to be said. With Keenan kind of turning up
- 14:44as as you expect, being called the The Watcher with what the
- 14:49black leather gloves, the black coat, really kind of sinister
- 14:55music and turns up with basically Ridgeway and Teddy Ray
- 15:00just messing around in the In the Future Shock performance
- 15:06centre. It's it's not taking itself too
- 15:12seriously, but I think eventually when the the wheels
- 15:17get going, I think they'll get a bit more kind of sinister.
- 15:22Well, hoping at least. What's your thoughts on the
- 15:28Northwest strong? Are you happy to see it back or?
- 15:34I don't know because I've not this is the first time watching
- 15:37it and it's not the full Northwest strong it's just
- 15:41Keenan and Teddy so it's it leaves an open door to see if by
- 15:47the rest want to return. Yeah.
- 15:50I know Real probably won't return after Head Boy and Teddy
- 15:53Ray Atomic. You never know, You never know.
- 16:00Never say never, as he say in wrestling.
- 16:05I'm interested to see. Where it goes, I'll say that for
- 16:08because. In fairness, while not much has
- 16:13really happened with the group, kind of like post COVID, the
- 16:20name has always been mentioned there or thereabouts.
- 16:26So you've always heard. Like certain ones of them being
- 16:30representing Northwest Strong, but you've never seen anything
- 16:35really happen so. We'll, we'll see where it goes.
- 16:40Match #3 Your main event for the first half featured the third
- 16:50member of Northwest Strong in Teddy Ray as he took on Mattie
- 16:57Tucker. This, I know we kind of chatted
- 17:03about this heading, heading back after the show on Sunday.
- 17:10This to me was my favourite match of of the show.
- 17:15I think mostly because I'm a big fan of like technical wrestling
- 17:22and kind of the the mechanics of it and having these two.
- 17:31I think if you looked at the card.
- 17:34It wasn't particularly a match that jumped out at you, however.
- 17:40These two put on a not a clinic, but it was a very good showing
- 17:50of technical wrestling and how we can make technical wrestling
- 17:55feel more exciting. Neither man could gain an
- 18:01advantage in In the early stages of this match.
- 18:06Ray lers Tucker over towards the ropes kind of falling down which
- 18:14forces Tucker to go over the top rope.
- 18:19Teddy Ray then gets up on the middle rope and poses.
- 18:22All the fans cheer Matty Tucker who very quickly we established
- 18:29was not a fan favourite and especially when they said the
- 18:33ace from Liverpool, apart from Miles being a fan of soccer.
- 18:46But yeah. As the match went on, Teddy
- 18:51begins to focus on the left arm of Matty for a time.
- 18:55And just as it. Feels like everything is going
- 18:59to and it is. I can't think of the word now.
- 19:04Everything is coming up. Milhouse.
- 19:06It's the term I was trying to think of.
- 19:09Things then begin to go a bit South as Tucker grabs the legs
- 19:16of Ray as he goes for the 6th one.
- 19:18Rat as a few have called it. He then catapults Ray into the
- 19:24ropes and forces him flying over the top rope.
- 19:30Tucker then poses just like Teddy did earlier but obviously
- 19:35to a chorus of booze. But we then have Matty whipping
- 19:43Teddy Ray into the corners with some vicious Irish whips.
- 19:49Both men counter with kind of counter pending attempts,
- 19:54getting as far as I think maybe a 2 count here or there.
- 19:59Tucker manages to get Ray into a Boston crab when Ray was trying
- 20:05to look for something else. Ray then runs straight into a
- 20:09clothesline from Tucker who kind of saw him coming.
- 20:15Attending manages to then reverse things and put on an
- 20:18ankle lock. A six one rat is then hit.
- 20:24Followed by a leaping, twisting crossbody backwards, which is
- 20:30what Ray seems to use for his finisher now.
- 20:34However, that gets reversed into a pin for Matty Tucker, but only
- 20:41gets a 2 count. Tucker then hits a spinebuster.
- 20:48Ray looks to hit a suplex from Brett's rope and despite trying
- 20:54and trying cannot do it, eventually resorts to biting
- 20:59him, which, let's face it, why we all love.
- 21:03Teddy Ray eventually hits a suplex.
- 21:09The ending saw a jumping back crossbody from Teddy Ray to get
- 21:16the pinfall the I. Think we've?
- 21:22Said this before, since he's done the whole reboot, the ropes
- 21:29and turnbuckles seem to. I don't know if it's material,
- 21:34but there's been a couple of. Like slips.
- 21:38Yeah, because I was in a dry position to watch him set up the
- 21:41finisher. So he, he kind of slipped off
- 21:44the middle rope like where the metal is like when he's trying
- 21:48to go up to do the his finisher and it's, I don't know, this
- 21:55seems to be something up with a ring.
- 21:58I don't know. There's a lot of slips.
- 22:02Because I know I've I've got one of the old turnbuckles and it's
- 22:06almost like thick material. Yeah, this one looks like more
- 22:10of a shiny material. Yeah, it's, it seems a bit more
- 22:14shinier, which looks looks good for cameras, but it I mean, they
- 22:22must kind of like use roughly the same kind of like ropes and
- 22:27turnbuckles for the the training school.
- 22:32But it's just been like a couple of incidents now where they've
- 22:37struggled kind of getting a good footing or the ropes.
- 22:44And it's always it's mostly the corners though because the the
- 22:51reboot show the no one could seemingly get a footing on the
- 22:56actual turnbuckles and then in Stockport I'm trying to think
- 23:03which which match it was. To go.
- 23:08Yes, that was it. They just seem to have a like a
- 23:12they couldn't get grip or purchase depending how you want
- 23:15to call it on the on like the ropes it.
- 23:20Just. Seem to slide off look
- 23:24frankfully we've had no like incidents yet.
- 23:28It's just been like minor slippages.
- 23:33But that said did did not take away from this much.
- 23:36It was a really entertaining contest.
- 23:44Couple of people I've seen have said it's arguably went on a bit
- 23:50too long. Yeah, that's what I thought
- 23:53really much, but it should have been trimmed down like maybe 2
- 23:56minutes. Yeah, I think at the time when
- 24:01we were chatting about it, I thought it was fine.
- 24:04But then when I've kind of watched it back when I've done
- 24:07like little fun editing videos, it probably could have done with
- 24:13like a minute or two less, but again, it did not take.
- 24:18Away. Anything from this match?
- 24:21It was really good. My match of the of the night
- 24:29yeah, it's it was a fun little contest and then we went to an
- 24:37interval and then we had loads of fun because the lights at the
- 24:45venue went out for a time just as they were going to do in ring
- 24:51photos with Teddy Ray and Lally, which took quite a while to try
- 24:58and get the lights coming back on again.
- 25:06You'll get these little problems when you do like shows you
- 25:11you're not fully used to all the time.
- 25:14So this saw me deciding to use the facilities at this venue and
- 25:25it was an absolutely freezing cold day on Sunday to which the
- 25:33traditional toilets were all frozen.
- 25:37So the only toilet they had available was actually in the
- 25:41bar and saw a massive queue if you wanted the toilet, which was
- 25:51a bit humorous, especially when you queued up and it was kind of
- 25:59almost two to three fans and then it was like a wrestler,
- 26:04another two to three fans. Then it was either another
- 26:07wrestler or an official future shock.
- 26:15I think I was looking around and thought I'll I'll give it 5
- 26:18minutes and I'll come back. The lights were still not
- 26:23working. I decided to try again because
- 26:27there wasn't a whole lot to do. Ended up waiting in the queue.
- 26:33Lana Austin jumped the queue twice.
- 26:38Pretty much nerves and also Damien decided to use the
- 26:45facilities and by the time I had got back indoors, a little fun
- 26:57thing about that as I was walking back from the venue into
- 27:03the Fairfield Social Club, saw a jumping back crossbody from
- 27:11Teddy Ray to get the pinfall. The I.
- 27:17Think we've said this before, since he's done the whole
- 27:21reboot, the ropes and turnbuckles seem to.
- 27:28I don't know if it's material, but there's been a couple of
- 27:32like slips. Yeah, because I was in a
- 27:35position to watch him set up the finisher.
- 27:38So he, he kind of slipped off the middle rope like where the
- 27:41metal is like when he's trying to go up to do the his finisher
- 27:47and it's, I don't know, this seems to be something up with a
- 27:54ring. I don't know.
- 27:55There's a lot of slips. Because I know I've I've got one
- 27:59of the old turnbuckles and it's almost like thick material.
- 28:05Yeah, this one looks like more of a shiny material.
- 28:08Yeah, it's, it seems a bit more shinier, which looks looks good
- 28:15for cameras, but it, I mean, they must kind of like use
- 28:21roughly the same kind of like ropes and turnbuckles for the
- 28:24the training school. But it's just been like a couple
- 28:29of incidents now where they've struggled kind of getting a good
- 28:37footing or the the ropes in. It's always.
- 28:41It's mostly the the corners though.
- 28:45Because. The the reboot show the no one
- 28:49could seemingly get a footing on the actual turnbuckles and then
- 28:54in Stockport I'm trying to think which which match it was.
- 29:03To go. Yes, that was it.
- 29:06They just seem to have a like a they couldn't get grip or
- 29:10purchase depending how you want to call it on the on what the
- 29:15ropes it just seems to slide off.
- 29:20Look, thankfully we've had no like incidents yet.
- 29:24It's just been like minor. Slippages.
- 29:28But that said, did did not take away from this match.
- 29:31It was a really entertaining contest.
- 29:39Couple of people. I've seen have said it arguably
- 29:44went on a bit too long. Yeah, that's what I thought
- 29:49really much, but it should have been trimmed down like maybe 2
- 29:52minutes. Yeah, I think at the time when
- 29:57we were chatting about it, I thought it was fine.
- 29:59But then when I've kind of watched it back when I've done
- 30:03like the little fun editing videos, it probably could have
- 30:09done with like a minute or two less.
- 30:12But again, did did not take away anything from this match.
- 30:16It was really good. My match of the of the night.
- 30:25Yeah, it's it was a fun little contest.
- 30:31And then we went to an interval and then we had loads of fun
- 30:38because the lights at the venue went out for a time, just as
- 30:46they were going to do in ring photos with Teddy, Ray and
- 30:50Lally, which took quite a while to try and get the lights coming
- 30:57back on again. You'll get these little problems
- 31:04when you do like shows you you're not fully used to all the
- 31:08time. So this saw me deciding to use
- 31:15the facilities at this venue and.
- 31:21It was an. Absolutely freezing cold day on
- 31:26Sunday, to which the traditional toilets were all frozen.
- 31:33So the only toilet they had available was actually in the
- 31:37bar and saw a massive queue if you wanted the toilet, which was
- 31:47a bit humorous, especially when you queued up and it was kind of
- 31:55almost two to three fans and then it was like a wrestler,
- 32:00another two to three fans. Then it was either another
- 32:03wrestler or an official at Future Shock.
- 32:11I think I was looking around and thought I'll give it 5 minutes
- 32:15and I'll come back. The lights were still not
- 32:19working. I decided to try again because
- 32:23there wasn't a whole lot to do. Ended up waiting in the queue,
- 32:29Lana Austin jumped the queue twice.
- 32:34Pretty much nerves and also Damien decided to use the
- 32:40facilities and by the time I had got back indoors, a little fun
- 32:53thing about that as I was walking back from the venue.
- 32:58Into the Fairfield Social Club, having feeling fresher, I was
- 33:09met outside by Kong, who I think mentioned to me he'd done
- 33:15something with Troy, but in fairness I wasn't fully paying
- 33:26attention. For a couple of.
- 33:30Reasons, one it was freezing cold and secondly which I'll try
- 33:41and keep this as light as possible, I for the last couple
- 33:46of weeks since New Year's have not been the best mentally and
- 33:54anyone that saw me on Sunday I was not my normal self so.
- 33:59If people had. Spoke to me, I probably wasn't
- 34:03fully paying attention. So yeah, that still was that.
- 34:09So again, if you did try and talk to me and I wasn't
- 34:13listening, my apologies. And then I got back in and had
- 34:20Isaiah Quim saying. Would you like more wrestling?
- 34:24And then I sat down back in my seat on front row.
- 34:28Asked the bloke. Have I missed anything?
- 34:30And he went, yeah, you've just missed one match.
- 34:34So I did not particularly know. Kind of like what the match was
- 34:39till I think just after it finished, I was informed who it
- 34:45was. So on this particular one, I'm
- 34:50going to throw it to Miles because he actually saw the
- 34:53match. And it was a damn good match as
- 34:55well. So Troy Ryan comes out.
- 35:01He was originally scheduled on the show.
- 35:04So Troy comes out looking for a match.
- 35:09Polly Barlow then comes up because Barry and Strong's video
- 35:14package plays and she stops the music and says he's still dead.
- 35:19So she can't revive Brian Strong.
- 35:23So then, because Brian Strong is dead, we got Brian's son Ryuk,
- 35:30and this turned into Troy versus Broyuk.
- 35:35And this was just a battle of meaty, meaty, meaty men.
- 35:41It's it's a thing of when I found out this match, I was so
- 35:46gutted that I couldn't see it because I'm a fan of both Ryan
- 35:51and Strong, especially his dad, because, you know, rest in
- 35:56peace, Brian. But I always enjoy watching
- 36:04these two like wrestle whenever they are.
- 36:07But to actually miss this I'm so I'm actually so disappointed I
- 36:12missed it because. It would.
- 36:15Have been a good scrap. There is a good spot in this
- 36:18match. I remember I think Troy says to
- 36:21Bright like I feel sorry for you that you've lost your dad.
- 36:26And then Brian responds, at least I've not lost my tag team
- 36:31partner. And then Troy just lays a beat
- 36:35into women because he turned into like Hulk Hulks up and
- 36:40Brock said that and it was just really in battle.
- 36:44I like just to meet meaty guys. I Drake had a big massive fight
- 36:52powerbomb and you could just Troy was just on the mat just
- 36:57like spread out just looked like he'd been in a car crash.
- 37:03Troy hit a middle rope bulldog to break as well.
- 37:07So I think he dodged as I think brake was like running to Troy.
- 37:13He's dodged it and then he's hit him with like a middle rope
- 37:16bulldog, which was pretty cool to see from Troy.
- 37:19You don't really see Troy do like not like springboard, but
- 37:23like middle rope moves while he bounces onto the rope.
- 37:28So it's good to see that Troy's got a little bit in his arsenal.
- 37:32That's quite different because it's the.
- 37:37I know the last one. He, it wasn't, I think we, we
- 37:43kind of found out it was late to him when it was him and Steven
- 37:48Cross as alpha. Was it Jim?
- 37:52Alpha Gymnasium Alpha. That's the one Gymnasium Alpha
- 37:58and he was doing like hurricane runners and things like that.
- 38:02So we know he's he's kind of got this in his locker, but I think
- 38:07it's good that he doesn't always bring out like those moves all
- 38:14the time. I think it's it's worth kind of
- 38:18keeping him for special like occasions.
- 38:25Who won this match? Troy.
- 38:27Troy won, I think. I can't remember.
- 38:28I think he won with the fall from Troy.
- 38:32He dates it kind of stands to reason.
- 38:34Was it like did he do the the F5?
- 38:38Yeah. Yeah, pretty small.
- 38:40What I remember, yeah, he hit the fall from Troy, from what I
- 38:42remember. But while I don't know what
- 38:47happened in the match, I do know what happened after.
- 38:51Yet man he goes post he got posted online.
- 38:55He got running back on kit and will spear the after struggling
- 38:59to get into the ring, which was funny because he eclipses like
- 39:03neon like the ring apron. So he struggled to get in the
- 39:06ring. It was and we were just like,
- 39:08you can't even get in the ring to do a running properly.
- 39:12It's exuberance, that's what it is.
- 39:15Come on Declan, train your students better.
- 39:22So Kong gets in the ring, nails an absolute massive spear on
- 39:28Ryan. The view I've seen of it look
- 39:33lethal and I've said I think since the the show last year at
- 39:41Reboot show too, when they had the face to face of Kong and
- 39:48Ryan, everyone there kind of just lit the lips and thought.
- 39:53Or. We're getting a meaty match here
- 39:59and I've kind of been hoping we do something with them and I
- 40:04feel with this they is I think that's what they're planning to
- 40:09do so I. I'm absolutely here for it.
- 40:15I may have to carry like AI may have to have a bag attached to
- 40:21my ankle to take in the the urine just so I don't miss any
- 40:26more matches, especially that one takes place.
- 40:31So that's, that's definitely something to look forward to.
- 40:36Not the bag on my leg. No, the match should.
- 40:39I should massively stress that the penultimate match of the
- 40:47evening and this was an absolute doozy.
- 40:52This was for the Future Shock Adrenaline title as the leading
- 40:57man Tony Wright took on one of the newcomers to Future Shock
- 41:03from the Future Shock Performance Centre in Josh Easy
- 41:11Easy, who we have seen a couple of Times Now.
- 41:16I think it was back at Reboot actually, where he faced Connor
- 41:21Patrick Riley in a. Hell of a.
- 41:24Debut match and then we saw him later on in the.
- 41:30Rumble of the Battle Royal. To determine who would qualify
- 41:36for the Invitational tournament that took place in December,
- 41:44it's the first. Time and you can tell me if I'm
- 41:47wrong. It's the only time I can ever
- 41:50think of watching a Tony Wright match and almost having the
- 41:55crowd chanting against him. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the
- 42:00first time I've had it as well. Because normally Tony is easily
- 42:05hands down 100% of the crowd, but on this occasion it it kind
- 42:12of went 5050 originally and then it very quickly went like 7030
- 42:21in favour of Josh. Starts off with both kind of
- 42:26doing a bit of chain wrestling. You're telling him, right, you
- 42:30put me in this, but I will reverse it and you won't know
- 42:33how to reverse it because I know and have all the moves.
- 42:38This is kind of how it felt. So Tony kind of gets out of the
- 42:43hold. That was a couple of times for
- 42:45the for the people. Probably would have blown kisses
- 42:49as well if you wanted to. Easy then telegraphs A leapfrog
- 42:56which Tony kind of just sticks stray knee out and sees Easy
- 43:02landing flush on the knee right? Claiming that it caught him on
- 43:08the inner thigh contest where Tony was very heelish on
- 43:17occasions and made it quite interesting.
- 43:24We then, well, I might come to it in a bit, but.
- 43:29The. The crowd seemed to be more for
- 43:32Easier than Tony and it's not too often we can actually say
- 43:36that for for Tony matches, but right went to end things quickly
- 43:44with switching music. Easy saw this though at the last
- 43:49second, Meister just dropped to the floor very quickly.
- 43:54Easy then hits some nice offends to be fair, including a drop
- 43:59kick, a nice arm drag and soon after a springboard crossbody.
- 44:07Went to the well a. Bit too many times kind of for
- 44:13the trying to reverse a arm drag.
- 44:18Gets basically thrown face first into the mat.
- 44:24The challenger then proceeds to give some leg strikes to the
- 44:29chest and body of Tony right in the corner.
- 44:34Hits a swinging DDT to the champion.
- 44:40Another springboard crossbody has right well scouted to know
- 44:45that that's what he was going to do.
- 44:47Catches him with a super kick which inadvertently looks like
- 44:52it got easy in the balls. It has to be said.
- 44:57Easy then hits a buff blockbuster, gets a 2 count and
- 45:05then Tony right right at the end capitalises on a slight error
- 45:11from Easy, hits the claim to fame leg drop, defends
- 45:17successfully his future shock adrenaline title.
- 45:23What a match this was. What was what was your view on
- 45:28this match? Because I I thought this was a
- 45:30really good. This was a brilliant title
- 45:34defence. This was the first time I've
- 45:37seen easy like I know quite a few of the future shock Faithful
- 45:42said. Quite a few good things about
- 45:46this. I don't it wasn't a in supposed
- 45:50to be a title match was it? What swear when I seen the match
- 45:54announcement? It was just a singles match when
- 45:56it first got announced, so the fact that they added the title
- 46:00stipulation quite late to it surprised me considering what
- 46:06it's his. Third match in future shock.
- 46:09Yeah, his second singles. His second singles.
- 46:15His third because he was in the wrong the for the Invitational
- 46:20tournament. So his second ever singles match
- 46:24in Future Shock and it's a title match, he did very well.
- 46:28I will give him some praise, give him another title shot or
- 46:35just like build him up. Like we need to know what his
- 46:41character is because in ring brilliant wrestler, but we don't
- 46:46know anything about his character.
- 46:47Like I don't know what his gimmicks supposed to be or like.
- 46:55I think at the moment, I think it's just kind of a plucky
- 47:03rookie that's come on the scene and it's some again, it's like I
- 47:08said, it's it's like Tony Wright a couple years ago.
- 47:14Big, big heart, tries everything you can.
- 47:20But because he's kind of like a rookie, he's all not always, but
- 47:27there's a part where he's always going to kind of like just come
- 47:31up a bit short just because I think that's kind of what you do
- 47:37really. But again, if anyone saw his
- 47:42match against Connor Riley, we we kind of thought it was going
- 47:47to be a squash originally due to how the kind of what announced
- 47:51him. And then that match, honestly,
- 47:57if you watch it, it was superb. And then to get like a title
- 48:02match against, right, who I get the feeling they've probably
- 48:08fought, you know, we'll put you up against, right.
- 48:11But just to like, sweeten it, we'll make it for the title.
- 48:15And I think, as you said, having the title added made this match
- 48:21even better because as the match went on, there were occasions
- 48:29where you're thinking, are they going to do like a change here?
- 48:35Are they going to surprise you and have like right lose it?
- 48:44Because I think the the times where he was showing slightly
- 48:51healish tendencies, but right, the more I thought about it
- 48:58reminds me of Bailey before Bailey turned where you knew
- 49:07what you're going to get from Bailey.
- 49:08Bailey would come out it kind of have the get the crowd on on his
- 49:14side. It talked to the crowd.
- 49:16He'd do like a couple of wrestling moves and then he'd be
- 49:22in a bit of peril, but he'd always have that one move in his
- 49:26back pocket that I'd end up winning the match.
- 49:30And this is kind of how this felt.
- 49:31It felt like Tony was the the trainer in a sense and just like
- 49:39teaching Joshua a few kind of like a few things.
- 49:48But in the end, as I say, Tony wins really fun title defence.
- 49:54I would definitely love to see a rematch for this, which I'm sure
- 50:00we will do kind of way down the line again.
- 50:06But we come to your main event of the evening.
- 50:13Well, I absolutely sweat because the heater is burning me.
- 50:19We have Lally going up against FTM Tom McCall and Critchie but
- 50:29for the future Shock Tag Team Championships, what were your
- 50:36thoughts on this? I was.
- 50:41I was the one that was just secretly and silently cheering
- 50:47on FTM. I couldn't.
- 50:50I couldn't cheer for him but I was supporting FTM on the sly
- 50:57even though I was chanting for Lana and Holly.
- 51:03To be fair, you were one of the few that were cheering for
- 51:06Tucker. Earlier in the night, I was
- 51:08cheering for Tucker in that match.
- 51:11I think you were the only one I actually heard cheer for him
- 51:14originally. And then a couple of us must
- 51:17have heard you and thought, oh, we can cheer for someone from
- 51:21Liverpool. OK, We'll, we'll go with this
- 51:24route then. You know, I, it was very, it was
- 51:32very comedic, but again, it was playing to Lally's strengths, I
- 51:38thought, but also to FTM. I think we can safely say we
- 51:47knew we weren't going to get a title change.
- 51:50Yeah, that. That said though, it was still
- 51:58an enjoyable contest with Holly. Kind of.
- 52:07I've I've said it previously, she is pretty much like Scrappy
- 52:12Doo in a sense of kind of small, full of energy and just wants to
- 52:21fight all the time. I'm trying to.
- 52:26I've watched the clip back and I have no idea what they were
- 52:29talking about when Richie has I think Holly in an arm bar.
- 52:35Oh, it's like, you know, The Rock'n'roll fellows are small
- 52:38and they're just doing the elbow drop onto the arm.
- 52:41Like, yeah, you know, you know, this tag team move from these
- 52:44tag team wrestlers. And then Lana was doing it on
- 52:47Holly. I'm just like, so confused.
- 52:50Comes just stood on the apron like I'm so sorry about these.
- 52:56Because it made me laughing. Christian Holly shouting at Tom
- 53:01talking about Rock, rock and tag team.
- 53:05I'm thinking, what are we talking about?
- 53:07And Tom just had this look as if to say like a few of us thinking
- 53:11what you want about. And then Holly's shouting, are
- 53:15you stupid? And Tom's still not having a
- 53:19clue. Lana then going, I know what he
- 53:21means. So Critchie drags Holly over to
- 53:26Holly's tag partner. And then they did kind of
- 53:30effectively, I think it was just an axe handle.
- 53:33Yeah, the generic team axe handle.
- 53:36Yeah, because I couldn't see because Liam was blocking my
- 53:39view. Thanks, Liam.
- 53:42And then Lana has Hollis in an arm, wrenching the arm for a few
- 53:52seconds. Said this is what what?
- 53:54It's what it's meant to be like. And then Critchy tags back out
- 53:59with Lana, so then he just puts the whole back on Holly just
- 54:03like, what the hell is going on here?
- 54:05Who's tagging with who? And a bit weather arguing.
- 54:09And Critch, he's like ladies. So was it Lana and Holly went to
- 54:17do a double suplex but neither lady could?
- 54:23Decide who is. Going or how they were going to
- 54:28suplex. Yeah, what position of the
- 54:30suplex? Front or back like.
- 54:35So Lana had. I'm trying to think of it.
- 54:39Oh, it's critchy, weren't it? Yeah, it's critchy.
- 54:41Yeah, I. Mean Lana had Critchy hooked
- 54:44from kind of like front on, Holly was behind, and then
- 54:50Lana's shouting at Holly. We'll switch.
- 54:53Places. And then all the effectively did
- 54:58was switch where he was. So Lana went to go with where
- 55:02Holly was and then Holly went where Lana was and they both
- 55:08shouted at each other. Then they got into a a tiff I
- 55:15suppose is one way to put it. Creature kind of tried to break
- 55:21him up and Holly just said shut up, I'm talking.
- 55:26And then Critch is kind of looking thinking what's going on
- 55:31here. And I think he was going to try
- 55:33and talk with Lana and they're still arguing.
- 55:36And then he just shouts ladies. And then he just pokes both of
- 55:40them in the eye, which they they immediately kind of like kick
- 55:46him in the gut and finally do a double team suplex.
- 55:54Absolute chaos. But again, very much in keeping
- 55:59with Lally. What?
- 56:03Else have I got? Holly and Lana kind of being
- 56:10isolated at times and then Holly getting the tag and saying right
- 56:15I'll show you how to do it and then immediately get slammed by
- 56:19Richie. Lana then comes in, cleans house
- 56:24but gets cut off. Barlow then starts chasing
- 56:31McCall on the outside because Tom went to come round on the
- 56:37ring aprons where Holly was and as soon as Holly started running
- 56:42at him, I won't say crapped himself, but he very quickly ran
- 56:49past Ant. There we saw the tag champs in
- 56:54trouble, The Power of Friendship, DDT from both lowly
- 57:02on to McCall that looked like it was going to be a new tag team
- 57:08champions. However, Critchy pushes Lana
- 57:12into the pinfall to break it up, hits a curb stump on Lana to
- 57:19effectively take her out of the contest.
- 57:23Barlow then goes for a Barlow Stunner, gets caught by Critchie
- 57:28in midair. The call then hits the running
- 57:32lariat with Critchie Holdinger. This effectively sees FTM
- 57:39getting the win 123. The finely tuned machines retain
- 57:47their tag team titles, and I think we thought that was going
- 57:53to be the end of the show. It wasn't.
- 58:00We then had Deck McCarthy come out.
- 58:04We couldn't hear what he said originally because the
- 58:08microphones either weren't turned on or they weren't
- 58:12working properly. Eventually they got working,
- 58:20came out and saying new year new rules for Future Shock chastises
- 58:28Holly who is still face down in the ring comforted by Lana.
- 58:34Austin McAfee then goes on a bit of a rant saying you're the
- 58:41women's champion and could be one of the best in the country,
- 58:47but instead you want everything to be a joke.
- 58:52He then has a pop at Lana saying you're a former four time
- 58:57women's Future Shock champion which drew a ripple from the
- 59:01crowd and effectively had a go at Holland.
- 59:08Having another pop at Holly saying she's like Scrappy Doo in
- 59:14yet you're here carrying Holly's bags and it disgusts him because
- 59:19I know you're better than that continues to go on this little
- 59:26rant talking about I'm the future shot men's champion.
- 59:31I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that and gets
- 59:36cut off by not slam Johnson, but for the purposes of.
- 59:46What we have? Been talking about off air.
- 59:51We are going to call him Slammery the Eighth because it
- 59:59seems more appropriate than calling him Henry the Eighth.
- 1:00:03So Slammery the Eighth comes out to the tune of the Old Godfather
- 1:00:10theme. Dec McCarthy.
- 1:00:15Does not look one bit impressed, Miles.
- 1:00:23Deck deserves this because he basically in his promo said he
- 1:00:26hates all the future shock fans and he said he actually hates me
- 1:00:30for no reason. Come targeted me.
- 1:00:34I'm just sat there like why me? I don't know if you clocked on
- 1:00:39to that bit where you've pointed at me.
- 1:00:43Is this where you got? Fans, and especially you and
- 1:00:46Mike. It was the thing where he, it
- 1:00:52was when he was going on about, he says.
- 1:00:55You've met all these fans laughing at all these simps, and
- 1:00:59then when like you and you and you and you and you.
- 1:01:04I mean, unofficially it is. It does feel like an unofficial
- 1:01:11rivalry. I feel with you in Decca, a lot
- 1:01:15of shows these. Days.
- 1:01:16And then he went on talking about deathmatch wrestling.
- 1:01:20Oh, I I did write that, but I wasn't sure actually what he
- 1:01:26said because he's, I know. This gimmick stuff, if I wanted
- 1:01:33to do that, be it like a deathmatch show scene.
- 1:01:36Greasy deathmatch guys. The the line he said was if I
- 1:01:41want to see Batman with gout. Yes, I'd go to a death match
- 1:01:47show, yeah. But I thought he said death
- 1:01:50match. What?
- 1:01:51I'm not too sure what he actually said, so I won't.
- 1:01:53Well, I'll leave that. But I was right what he said.
- 1:01:56Yeah, he calls out Slam. If I wanted to see a fat man
- 1:02:02with gout, I'll go to a death match show.
- 1:02:05Yeah, make make friends there, Deck.
- 1:02:10So he continues to just wind up Slammer the 8th.
- 1:02:17The one thing that I did make me chuckle though, is when he
- 1:02:21finally gets in the ring is he goes up to deck.
- 1:02:26Bear in mind, I have to stress this.
- 1:02:30Slammer the 8th, as you probably guessed.
- 1:02:32Is dressed like Henry the Eighth.
- 1:02:36If you haven't seen the video already, but I'll I'll probably
- 1:02:39I might post this. So he's dressed up like it would
- 1:02:45have been for Horrible Histories and I did say on I can't
- 1:02:51remember if it was on one of mine or if it was on Jack
- 1:02:55Beno's. When he announced Horrible
- 1:02:58Histories, I said you have to have slam as Henry the Eighth,
- 1:03:02otherwise there was no point doing a horrible history show.
- 1:03:07Thank you, whoever it was if if you are listening.
- 1:03:14So yeah, we Fast forward. McAfee has a go at slammering,
- 1:03:25Slammering. He puts the belt in his face,
- 1:03:28pushes him back. It just goes I'm the champion,
- 1:03:32I'm the champion that we're done now and then McAfee turns round.
- 1:03:41Lana kind of looks over his shoulder looking towards slam.
- 1:03:49Lana then does the whole with the finger saying turn around,
- 1:03:54turn around. Deck slowly turns is about to be
- 1:04:02slammed but manages to to get out of it.
- 1:04:07However could not get out of the way of Austin's right hook which
- 1:04:12looked more brutal than a Mike Tyson shot.
- 1:04:18Then after getting punched takes a bar a Barlow stunner from
- 1:04:23Holly, leading finally to a scoop slam by Slammer.
- 1:04:30The 8th then has slam pinning the future shock men's champion
- 1:04:38with Lana counting the 123. Everyone is celebrating.
- 1:04:43Slams got the title celebrating Deck demands he wants his belt
- 1:04:49back, gets it, and as he walks up towards the stage, Isaiah
- 1:04:55Quinn gets a microphone and informs us that that was not a
- 1:05:02legal match, so No title change. However, when we come back here
- 1:05:11on March the 1st at the Fairfield Social Club, it will
- 1:05:16be Dec McCarthy defending his title against Henry the Eighth
- 1:05:24at the next Hangover show. I think I think we know where
- 1:05:36it's going to go, but for what it's worth, it's going to be a
- 1:05:40bit of fun. Yeah, it's going to be a full
- 1:05:47match. Yeah, I was expecting more from
- 1:05:54you there, Miles, but you know we'll.
- 1:05:58I mean, not much to say about that.
- 1:06:02Clint East, Yeah, he's not getting the time of day from me
- 1:06:06after his actions. Fair enough.
- 1:06:11Is this is this stemming from the shirt incident still?
- 1:06:17Maybe, hopefully, slam behead soon.
- 1:06:21Oh, that's something I haven't mentioned.
- 1:06:24So when Slam got into the ring as Henry the Eighth, we had
- 1:06:31chance of cut his head off. I've never heard the chance of
- 1:06:38cut his head off so aggressive from a crowd.
- 1:06:46But surely it should have been Choppy's head off if we're being
- 1:06:49Henry the Eighth, not cut his head off just for, you know,
- 1:06:55factual reasons. Then I think there was a minor
- 1:07:01chant of off with his head. So that we had we had a few kind
- 1:07:05of beheading chants such as Henry the Eighth and his life.
- 1:07:16But yeah, that's that's kind of how the show ended.
- 1:07:22How would you rate the show overall?
- 1:07:25The first show of the year, it's set up quite a few further shows
- 1:07:33and matches, which I'm happy with considering it was
- 1:07:37originally supposed to be a parody show.
- 1:07:39Now the fact that we've got potentially Troy versus Kong,
- 1:07:44we've got an unannounced match for the next Fairfield show on
- 1:07:47the 8th of March, which is Slam reverses deck, so that pretty
- 1:07:54much guarantees Dex champion until match unless anything
- 1:07:58suspicious happens to him. We've got Pele in the Lotto
- 1:08:04Thunder, which is always good to see Pele getting a push and
- 1:08:09we've got Northwest Strong back in Future Shock.
- 1:08:13So overall it's a good start to the year, setting up quite a few
- 1:08:19new storylines, quite a few new matches and for what it was,
- 1:08:25Lolly did good at booking the show.
- 1:08:28Yeah, maybe not ring announcing, but you know, that isn't their
- 1:08:35main job, so I'll kind of give them a pass on that.
- 1:08:41But yeah, it's a good start to the year.
- 1:08:46Feels like they're going more storyline.
- 1:08:50I feel up until the For the Love of Wrestling special show
- 1:08:56they're going to be doing. I'll touch on that after the
- 1:09:00next feature Shock show. What it does throw up is who are
- 1:09:10going to be the participants on Lotto Thunder.
- 1:09:17So we'll have four matches and we know one of them at least.
- 1:09:24So it's just who they decide is going to be in this tournament.
- 1:09:32As we know, it's not going to be Proctor Dukes and Vesper.
- 1:09:40If you could, we'll play a quick game for people you would like
- 1:09:47to be in this tournament. In Lotto Thunder.
- 1:09:50Yes. Troy's got to be in it.
- 1:09:59That's a good show. Troy Oberman.
- 1:10:06Peter Sidor. Yeah.
- 1:10:10And we'll throw Lily Winter in it.
- 1:10:17I mean, it's left field. There's I don't think they've
- 1:10:21ever said you can't have a women's wrestler in it.
- 1:10:24Yeah, sure. Lilly in it.
- 1:10:29I'm just looking here. I don't think they'll have
- 1:10:33Scott, mainly because he's already got the Invitational
- 1:10:40tournament. Plus last year I think he was.
- 1:10:47He could have won it last year and done that whole kicking the
- 1:10:51referee in the balls after 2 seconds.
- 1:10:57Ryan I think will be there. Bentley or Strong or possibly
- 1:11:06both of them might be there. Sidor.
- 1:11:10I think you have to have Sidor in this just because it's, and I
- 1:11:18think you may have, I think you'll have one of the McCarthy
- 1:11:24Performance Centre, whether that be Kong or one of the teblins or
- 1:11:34Aziz or any of literally any of that group.
- 1:11:41I think you need to include one of them at least.
- 1:11:47It would be interesting if Riley was in it because we have not
- 1:11:55seen much of Riley for a while now.
- 1:11:59He seems to just appear kind of like sporadically.
- 1:12:03It shows. But we'll we'll see.
- 1:12:10It's going to be an interesting one.
- 1:12:12I think that's that's fair to say.
- 1:12:15I have still not got my ticket yet because I I'm actually torn
- 1:12:22between going to Lotto Fund or another show to which I can
- 1:12:28already feel my my phone in in the future ringing off the hook
- 1:12:34now telling me no you are going to Stockport.
- 1:12:39And it isn't necessarily from one particular person who has
- 1:12:43been trying to get me to go to Stockport.
- 1:12:49A small than likely will though. But we'll we'll see.
- 1:12:56But yeah, that pretty much brings things to a close.
- 1:13:03A nice just over an hour show. My thanks once again to Miles
- 1:13:11Smith. I say every time, but I will
- 1:13:14still ask anything to plug. Join the Discord Join the
- 1:13:22pencilled in discord we new members.
- 1:13:26We need fresh meat. Anyone that doesn't is not in
- 1:13:31the pencilled in discord. Join that, we are lovely people.
- 1:13:38Well, I mean, you've got Neil that doesn't like you, but.
- 1:13:44That's storyline. Same as me and Mike, but yeah,
- 1:13:53that's a great show. Actually, if you're wanting to
- 1:13:59kind of like join a discord with like minded fans, fun kind of
- 1:14:07fun little safe place. Join the pencilled in discord.
- 1:14:12I'll see if I can get a link set my side.
- 1:14:20I've actually now got a Twitter page for Brothers Grappas which
- 1:14:28is at Braddersgraphs Capital B, Capital G.
- 1:14:37My own Twitter is Petabradders Capital P, Capital B because I
- 1:14:44love I'm all about the capitals. I'll put all the information for
- 1:14:51future shock. I'll even.
- 1:14:54Put the because I think they're still doing trying to enrol
- 1:15:00people for their training, so I will include that.
- 1:15:06Is there anything else I can't think about?
- 1:15:11I'm going to say no. I probably will think for
- 1:15:14something once I'm finished, but as it is, thank you for
- 1:15:19listening. Oh, someone's messaged me,
- 1:15:22nevermind, thank you for listening.
- 1:15:26If you go into a show, enjoy it, don't be a Dick.
- 1:15:31If you are. Please stop going.
- 1:15:33You don't want people like you. Yeah, and I think the next time
- 1:15:40you hear me, I will either be attempting a podcast in Wales.
- 1:15:48If not, it'll be when I get back from Wales for Mystery
- 1:15:53Wrestlings and a Tap Wrestling because they're doing a double
- 1:15:59show that whole weekend. Well, Mystery of doing 2 shows,
- 1:16:04but yeah, you'll hear on the next episode.
- 1:16:11Yeah, that's all for Miles.