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BRADDERS GRAPPERS Epi 28 - WE'RE (kinda) BACK BAY BAY!!!!!!!!!!! · Bradders Grappers

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For the first time in way over a month, I can finally say welcome
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back to Brad Asgrappers episode 28 and we have a double bill of
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Future Shock Wrestling as well as Infinite and Atomic.
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So before we kind of get into the show, just kind of like
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explain what's been going on. I effectively didn't feel well
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for the last month, which is why there has been no recordings.
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Sounded like Bob Fleming from the Fast Show had little flu
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which killed me. It felt like it was almost
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killing me at least. So that is why there has been no
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podcasts for nearly, well, coming up to a month actually.
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So that is why. But I am 99% healthier than I
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was to which I was coughing my guts up at the last future shock
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show. So if you saw me you'll remember
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you heard anyone coughing. That all said, we are back
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reviewing as I say 2 future shock shows.
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However, though I am not alone again with my unofficial Co host
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my I'm trying to think what I can give as a as a nickname.
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I'll say you're my little Alex Horn for the The Brothers
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Podcast, or as I've put here and as some will know, the
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Warrington Meltzer himself, Miles Smith.
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Good. I'm going to that gimmick.
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Yeah, I like that gimmick. It's good to be back.
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You're keeping that gimmick now then?
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I'm keeping that gimmick. It is one of the the best
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gimmicks I've actually seen on on the discord as what we kind
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of said off well prior to recording at least.
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It feels a long time since we actually did a podcast together.
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It was probably January. TNT Yeah.
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Yeah, that's that's how long ago it was.
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But that's all going to change because as I say, we have two
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shows to look back on and a good memory test for both of us.
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So we will start firstly with the 21st of February at the BEC
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Arena in Manchester. Again, there's a couple of
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things wrong with that statement.
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The bowlers, exhibition, centre, arena, you don't need to say
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arena. If it's a centre, it's a
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completely different thing. And also Manchester, it's
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Trafford and it will always be Trafford, but that's just being
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nitpickity by me. So we had future shock breaks
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Convention 6, and this was not your typical future shock show
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effectively because you had for the love of wrestling at that
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venue. They would include a fair few of
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the guests on this show just to get a few more kind of like
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people through the doors. I'll ask you before we get into
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the matches. It definitely did not feel very
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future shock like this show, did it.
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No, maybe a couple of the matches, like maybe the first
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match and that was about it. Yeah, because when you look at
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the card, the card was really good in fairness.
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But the only match on it that seemed to be more in keeping
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with Future Shock was the the opening match we got which was
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the Future Shock Tag team titles with the 05 in deck.
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Henry and Harvey Dukes with their manager for the evening in
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Christy Hemi as they went up against the defending champions
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in FTM finely tuned machines. That being Richie and Tom McCall
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with their manager for the night in Molina.
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What was your view on this match before?
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We kind of give you my take things or take on things.
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Personally, I thought it was like a quite a good opening
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match. I enjoyed the two entourages
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with Hemi and Molina. Sort of predictable with what
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was going on between Critchie and Molina, with Critchie trying
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to show off to Molina, which, yeah, good, good try because I
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got you a kick to the balls, love.
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Yeah. It was.
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It was a. Weird match for me because Henry
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came out obviously with the the good guys.
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Molina came out and did not really kind of be healish, so to
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speak in this match. She might as well have kind of
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like walked around and just joined like the old five, to
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which I thought we were going to get that quite a few times
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during this contest. We didn't.
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We just had like Pritchie and Tom just shouting like it.
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Melina just so. And you're on our side.
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You stay there in this and you're doing that.
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It was a really solid opener. I will say that for it.
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Again, it's one of those where I'm trying to recall things that
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happened in the match, but I'm trying to remember who kind of
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like got isolated, if it was Henry or Dukes or if it was both
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different points. I want to say the both top terms
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of being like isolated from their partner for for most.
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I felt like Dukes was in the ring a lot longer than Deck.
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Yeah, but like, it was, it was a showcase for Dukes, it felt
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like. Yeah, I think also for this much
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it was a good way to showcase like both teams as well.
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Yeah, to new people. Because a lot of that crowd were
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not regulars. There was a few friends I had
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that travelled from the Midlands, a few that travelled
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from Liverpool, which kind of like we'll, we know who a few of
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them are. A lot of them had travelled from
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all over the place for the obviously for the convention.
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So this is their first time seeing a lot of these.
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The crowd I felt were a bit quiet for this match.
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But as we kind of went through the night, you could arguably
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say they were the the MVPS on this occasion because from
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starting off kind of quiet, they definitely got a lot rowdier.
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But I think alcohol may have a bit to play in that.
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The end result though saw a title change with the 05
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becoming your brand new tag team champions again.
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Was not fully kind of a shock to be honest.
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I think when they built this up for the actual event with it
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being the only real kind of like storyline going into the show,
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it made more sense. It's arguably the biggest event
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the they'll have this year. But there is just a part of me
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that thought they could done this kind of what and a proper
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future shock show, because I think you would have got more of
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a bigger crowd reaction than than what you got.
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But the match was a solid enough no negatives really.
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I can I can say about it. We then went to a as they've put
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Survivor Series elimination tag team match which was Team RVD
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which featured Melissa Fierce, Neje Romi Kendrick and Mr Happy.
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Steven Cross. I love you really.
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Steven Van Damme against Team Sandman, that being Gorgon, Lily
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Winter, Peter Sidor and Solomon with their team captain in the
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Sandman. Before we get into the match,
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what was your take on the entrance?
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RVD like that. It was fantastic seeing RVD.
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I've been, I've been wanting to see Rob for ages, but Sandman,
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Oh my God, the entrance. It went on and on and on.
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He went around the whole centre and literally interacting with
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literally anyone he could find trying to offer people a beer or
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make them down their beer. Crazy, crazy entrance.
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It's, it's the closest I've actually felt if being at like
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an east, an old school ECW event with the entrance, because I
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think someone told me they had like 4 minutes for the entrance
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and Sandman just went, I'm here, I might as well get as much as I
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can out of it. And it must have gone on for
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about 6 minutes. We went through the entire kind
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of end to the Sandman theme actually say doing his usual
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coming through the crowd, which obviously stupid me did not
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realise that's what he was going to do.
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As you say, looked and tried to pick out fans to like pour the
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pour his beer and have them drinking it.
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A lot of people turned him down, which I kind of laughed at.
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It's almost like he picked like all the teetotalers in that room
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because just people going no, I don't drink.
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He almost felt like he was getting annoyed with it.
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Watching everyone in the ring was was fun to see as well
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because I think even they had this look of how long has he
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taken here, but mixed with kind of like feeling giddy as well
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thinking, oh, this is great. This.
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I mean, I'm enjoying this. It was a moment.
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I think that's probably the standout moment of the whole
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show in my view, at least. The match itself, though again,
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this was a slightly weird one as well.
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So I did write the eliminations down in order, but I seem to
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have lost them, so I'm going to try and see if I can remember.
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So I think we lost Steven Cross first.
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Yeah. Then we lost, I believe, I want
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to say Gorgon, or is it Sidor? No, it was Gorgon Dog.
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Yeah. Then we lost.
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Nay, J. And then Lily.
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Then Lily, then. Ethan was lost for that team.
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Yeah, because it ended up with Fierce and Romy still there.
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I was it? No.
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Was it Gorgon? Solomon?
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I think it was Gorgon first and then Solomon and then Lily and
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then Peter. Because I remember the final
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three pardon were Melissa, Melissa Fierce and Romy Kendrick
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for RVD and for some man, it was Sidor who again felt very much
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like the the guests they had did not particularly want to be
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healish on on this show. They wanted to play kind of like
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the the babyface role because someone, someone in RVD, most of
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this match were just talking across the ring from each other
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and just laughing quite a lot. Quite a lot of the time RVD
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trying to keep as much in character as he could.
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Someone, someone was having an absolute ball.
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You could see that on his face he was having an absolute whale
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of time. So in the end we saw Ronnie
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Kendrick hitting a five star Frog splash on Sidor to pick up
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the victory. We then had Sidor challenging
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Sandman fierce and Kendrick holding Sidor by the arms to
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wait for Sandman to get into the ring and aim to door.
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But in truth, he came more Hendrick than Sidor.
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It seemed to bounce off Sidor and just strike Kendrick in the
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face, which again, I don't. Well, it's not a case of I don't
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think it was meant to happen. It wasn't meant to happen, but
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that's what occurred. We'll say I hope.
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We could say that, but he literally just bounced off his
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head and seemed to do more damage to Kendrick than
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anything. But this was this match was just
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a whole lot of fun. I don't know what was your take
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on on this one. It was decent.
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It was a solid enough elimination match.
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The only thing I'd say was slightly disappointing was how
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quick Steven Cross got eliminated.
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It was like a minute. No, it was like, yeah, it was
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say it was a minute and then you got eliminated.
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It was like, why bother having him in the match if he's going
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to get eliminated both in a minute?
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I mean, it, it was strange having when you looked at the
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teams, having Cross on the kind of the good, the good guy side,
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considering Cross has been pretty much a like a, a villain.
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I almost felt like it, it might have been someone else.
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And they just thought I will throw Stephen in because it
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seemed a very odd choice to put him, put him in that team.
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But yeah, that was a whole lot of fun.
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And then we moved to the main event of the first half, which
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was For the Love of Wrestling Invitational Rumble, which were
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the following competitors. So we had Teddy Ray, Slam
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Johnson, Serafin, Pele, Josh, Eazy, Jensen, Vesper, James,
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Grayson, Haley, Cooling, Greedo, Dynamite, Lee Dawson.
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Sorry to any Scottish folks, Doctor Proctor, Danny Proper,
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CP, Riley, Briak Strong, Big T, Bentley, Aziz Atenstein, Bush
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Wacker, Luke and Tony Wright. There was some fun and games at
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the start of this rumble. It has to be said.
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The 1st 4 entrants were not a surprise to anyone due to the
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fact that they put the name above the ring of who was
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entrant number 123 and 4. I think after, I think it was
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after Teddy Ray, I think he was the 4th entrant.
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From that point onwards, they decided to just like shut all
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the electrics off above the board and then bring them back
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on. And it really was a case of like
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a proper rumble. Then what was what was your take
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on this Rumble match? This Rumble was it was just a
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lot of fun seeing a lot of different wrestlers interact
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with each other. You got to see a lot of
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different encounters that you would probably never see before.
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Start with the issues with the entrance was a bit annoying.
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Yeah, it wasn't great, but at the same time it it didn't fully
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kind of like take away the enjoyment.
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If if anything, you could say it enhanced it just because you
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knew who was coming out. And if no one else knew, you
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could make yourself look like really intelligent and just go.
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I think this person's coming out at #3 until they realise like
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it's on the board above. But there were there were many
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stories in this rumble, it has to be said.
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The main one that kind of like running through the whole rumble
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was Aziz, who was accompanied at ringside by Kong.
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And Aziz was probably or would have been eliminated about six
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or seven times in this match. But Kong was always there to
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kind of like make the save or catch him, put him back on the
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the ring apron did have a lot of people pissed throughout this
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rumble because of it. The amount of people, because I
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think the first half, I sat through it on the second-half, I
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ended up moving to the back, chatting to Andy from the group
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chat wrestling podcast and from kind of, I mean, the little
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thing she had going on. So you had Pele and Grayson.
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You had an incident where Grayson looked to be getting
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eliminated. Pele made the save.
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Only I'm trying to think who it was.
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I think it could have been Big T or Seraphin.
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Again, mine is very hazy, but it ended up with Pele holding
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Grayson's hand trying to save him.
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Grayson would lose his grip, get eliminated.
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Pele kind of like wiping his hands and making trying to show
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that it he didn't do it deliberately and just claiming
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he had very climbing hands, which you would.
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But again, in our kind of fantasy booking, we made
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reference to this and said that's a really a good way to do
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it if they choose to go down a certain Ave.
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But then you had Grado, who was just absolutely fun, always
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makes a rumble a bit more better.
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Trump just scanning through to see if there's any other kind of
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like. Gradles, but I really enjoyed
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Grado when you had some desperate at the start.
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If that ever gets to the singles match, that is golden.
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Honestly, if there's any promotions out there, please
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book Grado against Jensen Vesper in a singles match because that
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match is money. If you want comedy, you've got
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it. You've got Grado, you've got
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Jensen Vesper, these two guys. Jensen doesn't really mean it,
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but his slapstick comedy is just.
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It's so good. Yeah, it's he is one of those,
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he's one of those people that is both annoying but really
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brilliant as well when you watch him just kind of like the
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mannerisms and and everything. And especially when you have
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someone that is irritating, so to speak, with how Vesper is and
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having someone that's kind of as deadpan as Grado is, it just
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made for so much kind of like entertainment for the time we
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had together. It was just so much.
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It was so enjoyable to watch the final three, to which I think
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listening to a podcast the other day talking about rumbles where
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you can normally guess where you're going with the final
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three, where if you have two bad guys and a good guy, it's
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normally a sign the good guys winning equally.
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When it's two good guys and one bad guy, the bad guys winning.
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Again, I don't think that's I think that's just normal
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protocol really. But it ended up with Aziz, Tony
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Wright and Big T. The elimination finally of Aziz
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was quite comedic and actually well constructed because every
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time Aziz was, I said try and I said, as I've said, every time
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Aziz went to get eliminated, Kong was always in the right
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place at the right time. On this occasion, they threw him
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the opposite side of where Kong was and he couldn't make the
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save. So that was very well done.
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Then you had Tony Wright and Big T to which the last podcast we
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did, so Big T slapping the hell out of Tony Wright's back.
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If you if you want to go down the route of saying he got some
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revenge, so to speak, beating Big T, you can do because that
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is what happened as the leading man won the Rumble which saw him
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being inserted into the main event which we will come to in a
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tiny bit. So we went into the interval, we
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came back and had for the Eve Tag Team Championships Lally,
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that being Holly Barlow and Lana Austin defending their titles
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against the inspiration in Cassie Lee and Jesse McKay.
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What were your views on this one?
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Kind of remember I'm trying to remember what happened in this
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match. So I was looking forward to
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seeing the inspiration because I thought they were going to come
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out as faces and like do the whole like normally how the
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inspiration run matches, how like everybody loves them, but
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they come out as heels in this match, which was quite a
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surprise to see how the match unfolded between these two.
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I think also having two hometown people in Lali that are so
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lovable and loved against the the inspiration.
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I think you you definitely had a bit of a split in the room
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because I think you had those. No, mostly just like the
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American scene. So they may not have heard of
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Holly and Lana, but they will definitely have heard of kind of
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Cassie and Jesse. But this I actually enjoyed this
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much, to be fair. And that comes across a bit, a
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bit bad. I did enjoy this match.
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I always felt the the result was kind of like never in in doubt,
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though. You always felt like Lolly,
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we're going to win this match. But it was kind of how they they
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could get a bit of a bit of doubt in your your mind with the
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match as well, to which they did do a really good job of because
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quite a lot throughout this match.
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I actually thought that they might have the inspiration win
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the contest, especially being Eve and it could have tied into
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possible wrestle Queendom down the line.
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So I was thinking would they go that route?
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The end was a bit. It was an easy way out to not
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take. Yeah.
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Take a pinfall. It was.
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That was it. I.
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Want I want to say it it was it was wetter than a clown's fart,
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but it's it was a choice. Yeah.
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It's not how I would have done it.
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It was Cassie Lee, wasn't it, with a belt shot to Lana.
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Yeah. Yeah, it was.
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Down the DQ line, which I think a lot of people, well I think it
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was probably the majority of that room didn't like that
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decision. Yeah, it was a bit of.
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A cheap kind of like result. Yeah, just to protect the
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inspiration because the AW now it's like.
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I mean, the they could have done it a different way.
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I suppose ADQ works better. So I suppose that it's kind of
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that way. That's only the only way they
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could do it. I mean, they could have gone
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down the count out route, but it was what it was.
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Then we came to arguably the match of the night.
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Yeah, this was my match of the night.
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In what was Billy Gunn taking on Troy Ryan?
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I'll let you have first dibs on this.
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I This was a phenomenal meaty match, like between Daddy Arse
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and Troy. I'm so proud of Troy at the
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minute. I This guy is just crushing
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everything that's been given to him.
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I he's having a phenomenal year. The fact that he went toe to toe
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with Billy Gunn and give him the match of his life.
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I I thought Billy Gunn was in trouble.
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It looked multiple occasions like Troy was going to get the
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freak out of it. Billy Gunn.
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It's it was the thing as well. You could see Troy, he could not
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hide his kind of the big massive smile on his face during the
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entire match, happy as a pig in Chardonnay.
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You could say the crowd, though, was firmly behind Billy Gunn.
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But but at the same time, they were still cheering for Troy
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because I was thinking what the were they going to have kind of
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like try be a bit he lish in this, because again, this show
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was anything far removed from a normal future shock shows.
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We've said numerous times, so they could have decided to go
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down the route of right try. We want you to be the bad guy on
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this because everyone is cheering for Billy Gunn.
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I always went into this match thinking they were going to kind
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of like stall a bit and then we'd end up with like A tag team
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match. Then you could have had like a
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different version of the meat Waggon for like one night only
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to which touching on the Meat Waggon, it was great to see
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Anderson Daniels coming out with Troy during his entrance.
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So that was really kind of touching and nice to see.
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But the match itself was such an enjoyable match to just sit back
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and and enjoy. Obviously Billy Gunn took the
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victory, but even in defeat it still made Troy look so good.
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It was such a I know. Like I said, it was the match of
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the night for me by quite a distance.
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Yeah. But yeah, Billy Gunn takes the
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victory and Soros heading into the main event, which was for
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the love of Wrestling Grand Championship in a freeway with
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Tony Wright, who won courtesy of his Rumble match.
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He would go up against TNA's Frankie Kazarian and the current
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champion in Sam Bailey, who again on Future Shock is a bad
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guy. But came out as a good guy,
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which again was one of those things where Bizarro World was
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effectively this show in. In fairness, some things made
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sense, quite a lot didn't. But that's kind of what may
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makes it fun, really. To be fair, this was a really
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good main event. Frankie and Frank.
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Frankie came out and cut a promo bad mouthing, bad mouthing
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Manchester and the the women of Manchester, which again was a
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choice. That very much a choice.
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Then it looked like we were having Sam and Tony working
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together and then we ended up as we got to the the end of the
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match with the title belt being brought into the ring by
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Kazarian and Bailey, using the title to hit Tony, getting the
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123 and having Bailey, who I imagine from this point onwards
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when working these kind of like for the love of conventions or
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comic cons. I imagine he's now going to be
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the the villain of the piece now, which would very much tie
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into everywhere else it feels, because I don't think he's a
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good guy anywhere that I know of As we stand.
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What was your take on this match?
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It was a fun little freeway match.
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Always great seeing Frankie Kazarian because he is one of my
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all time favourite wrestlers so I'm I'm glad I got to see
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Frankie again. Loved that he was busting out
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all of his vintage moves like the the slingshot like leg drop
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and all of Frankie's like vintage moves.
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Did he go for a chicken wing in the match?
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I think he went for a couple, yeah.
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So always good seeing Frankie pull out his, like, signature
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moves. Good to see Tony Wright showing
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he can compete in the same ring as a TNA legend in Frankie
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Kazarian. Sam Bailey just being Sam
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Bailey. You know what you're getting
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with a season veteran in Sam. You can't fail Sam Bailey.
39:08
He's just such a legendary figure in the British sea and so
39:12
three fantastic wrestlers just putting on a great main event.
39:18
It was everyone involved in this match did their job brilliantly.
39:25
It has to be said. Some did his job kind of being a
39:31
an inbetweener you could say, and then just being AI mean to
39:38
put a fine point on it, a Dick at the end.
39:44
Tony is just lovable. Everyone just loves Tony.
39:49
Frankie Kazarian again, sometimes you will have
39:55
companies bring in like imports and sometimes they may kind of
40:02
choose to phone it in a tiny bit.
40:05
Kazarian brought everything to this match.
40:13
Again, they have been lucky. I feel future shot when they
40:19
have brought in talent from TNA because you had Macklin last
40:26
year who had two matches. Again, sometimes you can bring
40:33
in a top star and they might work kind of like be very low.
40:39
We could do about 5 out of 10 and it'd be enough.
40:45
But even kind of like Macklin and Kazarian here, they both
40:49
gave it 10 out of 10. I think that's why people look
40:54
at them so well as fondly as the 10 out of 10 performances really
41:02
helped that they that he kind of made the other two look even
41:09
better as well in this contest, which is why Who Made a White
41:15
made this much so good to watch. But yeah, it was a fun little
41:24
show in a very big venue. So we that was future Shock
41:33
breaks Convention 6. We then a couple weeks later saw
41:40
things go from a big venue at the Beck Arena to the smallest
41:48
venue in the small confines of the Fairfield Social Club.
41:55
This was for Future Shock. Strike first.
42:01
Dear God, where do we start at the beginning?
42:08
Because that's where we will. I will say now this are the
42:17
first two matches were absolute bangers, absolute bangers and
42:26
have made it on my board of matches of 2026.
42:33
So the opener we had was Lily Winter against Melissa Fears.
42:40
Jesus Christ, this again. They normally say if you're not
42:53
the main event, you want to be the first match on and I mean,
43:03
I'm I'm smiling thinking about this much because it went hard.
43:11
It was bloody good and I think both both women here not just
43:20
made the overlook good, they surpassed it didn't deserve
43:29
trying to think how to do put this.
43:33
It was good, but it was it surpassed what anyone probably
43:38
thought we were going to get and even then that does not do it
43:44
justice to how good this match was.
43:48
I don't know what your take on this was.
43:51
Just lost the words. How?
43:52
Because this match was and this was an opening match on a
43:56
Fairfield show. These Fairfield shows at the
43:59
minute have just been fantastic. Like I'm enjoying how they've
44:06
not I don't know if they've scrapped the gimmick Fairfield
44:09
shows, but the route that they've gone down now for these
44:13
Fairfield shows putting on these matches, incredible.
44:17
Like this opening match was just back and forth, like just some
44:25
of the bite blows in this match and like the suplexes even just
44:30
all like the simple like moves that you see like in every
44:36
match. You just looked.
44:38
Like 10 times harder than they normally are.
44:41
Just like a normal suplex between Lily and Melissa.
44:44
Just looked like it hurt a lot. Because it's it's a thing of.
44:49
I am a big fan of both and I say it for Lily every time Each each
44:58
time I see her on on the next show, she gets better and better
45:05
and better. And I think it's almost getting
45:09
to the point where I think almost like bigger promotions
45:15
need to just take a look at her now because she's done so much
45:20
grafting. She puts on banger matches, she
45:26
can wrestle different styles, different opponents.
45:31
Her match with Lucy Skye at catch was one of the the best
45:37
matches this year. And then you have her going up
45:43
against Melissa Fears, ironically 2 people from the
45:48
northwest scene who have up to their games massively.
45:52
And then now on A more of a national scale, Lily, I feel
46:01
should be getting kind of bigger chances now.
46:08
I mean, she's all over like the Northwest's even like some of
46:13
like the Midlands scene. And I think she might be going
46:19
kind of like down South in a couple of weeks on in the next
46:26
few months at least. But yeah, this you could make a
46:32
case. This was the match of the show.
46:37
That's how good it was. To which it ended with Lily
46:44
Winter holding the ropes while pinning Melissa Fierce.
46:50
Even that finish was I think you could see it coming a tiny bit
46:57
when we got to it. However, it still was in keeping
47:05
with kind of how this match was of Lily tried everything to beat
47:10
Melissa. Melissa did everything to try
47:13
and beat Lily. No one could gain an advantage.
47:17
And then when Lily had the chance to kind of just gain an
47:23
upper hand by using the ropes a bit unfairly, she took it, ended
47:29
up the winner. Love this match.
47:34
I think it could it could be one of those where it is difficult
47:42
to surpass that as an opening match this year on a on a future
47:46
shock show. So we went from that to then
47:57
Winter in face almost telling the next encounter, which was
48:02
Josh Easy and Chris Ridgeway to follow that and they took the
48:10
baton and run with it. Is this was a another banger of
48:16
a match. The the majority of the contest
48:23
was Easy just getting his backside handed to him
48:28
effectively. Ridgeway beating the hell out of
48:33
Easy. A lot of brutal moves being done
48:38
to Easy. The crowd definitely played
48:43
their part in this mismatch, chanting for Josh Ridgeway,
48:50
mocking Easy at times and the crowd and then Easy would come
48:58
out and get AI think he It wasn't a roll up, it was a
49:02
reversal. Yeah, it was a reversal from
49:06
because he got hit with a brain Buster and then it was like a 2
49:10
1/2 and then it was a reversal for a free.
49:14
To which Easy picked up the Shock victory.
49:19
I think that's his first win in future shot pop.
49:23
Oh my God. Yeah, wow, yeah, I completely
49:28
forgot about that the once that free hit.
49:32
Yeah, and that just some. Absolute pop in the Fairfield
49:37
Social club. That's one of the loudest kind
49:42
of pops I've heard for a long time.
49:50
It's it was loud. And then obviously you had
49:55
Keenan Krishna and Teddy Ray coming out.
49:59
They were in complete disbelief at what happened, as well as
50:04
Ridgeway. This then led to Northwest
50:10
Strong attacking Easy after the contest and would lead to our
50:17
next encounter which was for the tag team titles as the five came
50:25
down to make the save and help Josh Easy but being in the ring
50:31
they decided to have the tag team match that was due to
50:37
happen later on take place now. So as I say we have the tag team
50:43
title match of the O five against Northwest Strong's
50:47
Keenan Krishna and Teddy Ray. What were your thoughts on this
50:54
one? Nice nice little first title
50:59
defence for O5, felt like it was the right challenges for him.
51:06
It was a nice clash of styles with Teddy and Keenan being more
51:11
of the technical wrestlers and the 05 being more of like the
51:15
high Flyers. Because it was they, they
51:22
effectively kind of like just worked on the the knee of Deck
51:28
Henry. And the leg of Dukes.
51:30
Yeah, so they kind of tried to break them down using technical
51:36
wrestling, but equally because they are kind of like the
51:42
villains would break a fair few rules.
51:51
I think it would be fair to say to try and gain advantages.
51:56
But they were a very efficient tag team.
52:02
It has to be said. A lot of a lot of good tags.
52:09
It did. It did make for a really good
52:12
tag match as well. Because I feel sometime in these
52:16
sort of matches, it feels a bit kind of like run-of-the-mill tag
52:27
matches where it's just isolate 1 and that's and that's it.
52:33
You don't really get much happening, Northwest Strong.
52:38
Just kind of like constantly doing things behind the
52:41
referee's back, picking body parts, just really taking it to
52:49
the Champions as if to say right, you're champions.
52:53
We're going to test you and see if you're really worthy tag team
52:58
champions because the way we are, we will just RIP you apart.
53:06
And as you say, this was a really good test for the O5A
53:10
test. They came, Flute came through
53:13
with flying colours as they ended up getting the victory.
53:23
Yeah, three absolute banging matches for the first half and
53:33
then we went into the second-half, which started again
53:39
with A tag team encounter as Dynamite, Lee Dawson and Romi
53:46
Kendrick teamed up to take on the McCarthy Performance Centre
53:53
members in the Tevlins, that being Aiden Tevlin and KJ
54:00
Tevlin. What were your views on this
54:06
one, Mr Warrington Meltzer? This was an interesting dynamic
54:11
for A tag team match because I felt the Tevelins obviously
54:16
being the clear heels in this match, Dynamite a clear face,
54:21
but I Romy give me a sense of he was going to turn in this match
54:26
because there was quite a few moments in this match where
54:30
Dynamite was getting double teamed.
54:33
Romy didn't offer the tag option on quite a few occasions and I
54:39
was like, is he going to turn heel and attack Dynamite because
54:45
the vibe he was given off in this match, it looked like he
54:49
was going to turn heel eventually.
54:51
He didn't, but unless it's something that the planning on
54:55
doing for Romy, I feel like it might actually help his
54:58
character if he turns heel because at the minute were Romy
55:02
him being faced in future shock. Yeah, it's decent, but I feel
55:08
like a heel Romy would be 10 times better than his character
55:12
is right now. That's.
55:17
An interesting thought. I to be fair, I actually liked
55:21
this pairing as A tag team. Both kind of high Flyers.
55:29
Kendrick. Both Kendrick and Dawson have
55:33
our moves. So while they are you could say
55:38
a high flying side, they are still a physical side as well,
55:45
which makes it a bit of an an odd couple tag team so to speak.
55:52
The Tevlins though, I think the the first match they had, which
56:00
I think was last year or was it last year or was it the start of
56:04
this year? Was that when they beat Jim one?
56:07
Yes, I'm trying to remember when I think it was last year.
56:12
And the last year, wasn't it? Yeah.
56:15
So I think that match I think was more of a case of as A tag
56:25
team, get your feet under the table, get your first kind of
56:30
like big tag match out the way. This one, they looked more
56:37
solid. I felt as A tag team.
56:42
I think the last the last time we saw him, they were kind of
56:48
arguably like nerves. I think may have got to him.
56:52
But again, having Gen one in there helping was was ideal for
56:57
him. This occasion this they looked
57:02
really good. This is the best I've seen as A
57:07
tag team. Both men did their jobs
57:11
absolutely superbly. KJ, who is.
57:22
Annoying because he is probably the more irritating of the two
57:33
in how he goes about things. I enjoyed He got ripped.
57:38
Somebody said he got the chess board on his trunks.
57:44
Because Oh yes, I remember now, because.
57:47
Of the chess board. But the thing with KJ was he was
57:52
kind of like doing like dog noises and being very kind of
58:00
like annoying, but in a good kind of like healish way.
58:08
Aiden had I thought I could remember what it was now, but he
58:14
was just telling the crowd to shut up and and then told the
58:19
little kid to sit down and shut up.
58:25
It was the way he did it. Just I think you saw me.
58:30
I was killing myself laughing while I was trying to like.
58:35
You're in that bit. I was in bits just because of
58:38
it, because it was. It was kind of like old school,
58:44
kind of like this villain of having a go at the crowd and
58:50
then at the last moment just coming, cutting someone down,
58:55
which I I just love when like the heels do it again.
59:02
This match I really enjoyed. I think it helped the Tevlins
59:11
out. The only thing I didn't like
59:16
about this match was I felt that the Tevlins should have won just
59:23
to help the McAfee Performance Centre group be more stronger.
59:34
But I suppose how how things ended with like the powder keg
59:42
DDT off the rocks by Dawson and Kendrick hitting his five star
59:48
frog splash. I mean it, it was a good win for
59:55
them, but I felt it was a win the Tevlins needed probably more
1:00:01
personally. But as we will find out later,
1:00:09
they have a chance to improve their record.
1:00:15
But yeah, that was a really solid encounter.
1:00:21
Our penultimate match on the show, originally scheduled to be
1:00:28
Nay J versus Gorgon. Nay, J was not there for other
1:00:36
reasons. And so we had James Grayson come
1:00:41
out and challenging Gorgon to a match, saying I'll take an AJ's
1:00:46
place, let's wrestle. I can't remember too much about
1:00:57
this in in fairness, and I don't, and I don't mean that in
1:01:02
a bad way. It's just I can't, I can't
1:01:06
remember a whole lot about it. Something kind of Gorgon looked
1:01:16
probably the best I've seen him in recent times because normally
1:01:23
he comes out, he gets beat up quite bad, or he refuses to to
1:01:29
wrestle and gets his minions and he's kind of like stablemates to
1:01:36
do all the work. However, on this occasion, it
1:01:41
felt Gorgon looked like a proper, so to, so to speak,
1:01:49
monster heel Grayson. Always putting in an absolute
1:01:57
effort does not always work out for for Grayson in these
1:02:04
matches. Again, really it was.
1:02:10
It was a solid a solid match by both all.
1:02:16
Right. I think it's going to it's going
1:02:18
to lead to storylines. I think it is a match they've
1:02:21
put together last minute because nature didn't turn up.
1:02:24
Obviously. I feel like Goggins promo to
1:02:28
Grayson, I think that's what we're going to refer back to if
1:02:33
we're thinking it's going to happen with a lot of us have
1:02:41
said racing is going to turn heel on Prince Pele or it might
1:02:47
be the other way round. Looking at is either two ways it
1:02:53
can go. Pele ends Gem one and goes on
1:02:59
his solos room. Oh Grayson ends Gem 1 and joins
1:03:05
the McCarthy Performance Centre. I'd go with a second option
1:03:09
because I feel like in the car Performance Centre at the
1:03:12
minute, they've got Deck and then they've got a lot of
1:03:15
trainee wrestlers, they've got Kong, they've got the Tevlins.
1:03:19
I feel like if they add Grayson into the McCarthy Performance
1:03:21
Centre, they've got 2 seasoned veterans there in Grayson and
1:03:26
McCarthy and I feel like McCarthy and Grayson would make.
1:03:33
Yeah, it's it is one I think we've said before of I think
1:03:41
they do need to bring in like a second established name, so to
1:03:50
speak. So like you've got like you've
1:03:55
got the Tevlins who improving with every show.
1:04:01
Kong we haven't seen wrestle a whole lot.
1:04:07
We've seen him in kind of like one match, but again less is
1:04:13
more with him. So what we've the little things
1:04:16
we have seen have been huge on the pun and I think we're going
1:04:25
to eventually get him and Ryan, fingers crossed.
1:04:31
So I think we are going to go somewhere towards that way.
1:04:37
And then you've got like deck, but I think you just need to add
1:04:41
someone else to that to that group just to give it a bit more
1:04:48
of a like a make it feel a bit more of a monster heel group.
1:04:58
Because at the moment it feels like it's it's simmering, but
1:05:02
you just need to add something to it just to make it a bit kind
1:05:07
of like stronger as like a heel faction.
1:05:14
But the way kind of like Future Shock have been the last, I
1:05:18
don't know, six months or so, I trust where they'll go with it.
1:05:27
I might not have said that early last year, which I've been
1:05:33
critical at times, but the way things are progressing with the
1:05:39
McAfee Performance Centre, I think they do need like an extra
1:05:47
established name in that group. Whether they do, who knows?
1:05:54
However, on this occasion, it saw as we drag the point back
1:06:00
in, it's all Gorgon defeating James Grayson with.
1:06:07
I don't know what the move is, but it's it's a bit of a weird
1:06:11
one where he kind of hooks the arms and then sits down.
1:06:21
It's a good move. I'll say that.
1:06:24
It feels like an an actual finisher.
1:06:29
So that ended up being a win for Gorgon.
1:06:37
I'm not Sorrows move to the main event of the show for the future
1:06:45
Shock title as Deck McCarthy, accompanied by Kong, took on
1:06:52
Slam Johnson or Slammer the 8th with Doctor Proctor as his aide
1:07:03
down at ringside again, no pun intended.
1:07:09
What's your take on this one? This was a good old
1:07:13
slobberknocker of a main event. I enjoyed slamming this match.
1:07:18
The his Tron. Oh my God his Tron and his
1:07:23
T-shirt. Man it just got to deck and I
1:07:29
feel like it made Deck more angry in this match.
1:07:32
Like seeing that react to his T-shirt.
1:07:38
Oh my God, man, this this match was.
1:07:42
I never thought I'd see Slam Johnson in a main event of a
1:07:46
future shock show, but here we are and my God, what a match.
1:07:53
So for those that don't know, the the Tron had a picture of
1:08:01
Henry the Eighth. Again, it's Henry the Eighth.
1:08:10
Slam, Slam Johnson dressed as him.
1:08:13
It all came well. He came out originally as Slam
1:08:18
Johnson and then went back behind the curtain, came out as
1:08:25
Slammer the 8th, as we've said, with the big massive kind of
1:08:30
Henry the Eighth image in the background coming out to the
1:08:37
Godfather theme, to which we then had Slam get in the ring,
1:08:47
cut a promo. I can't remember what the line
1:08:52
was. He said something to Declan, and
1:08:56
Declan had to very quickly turn around.
1:09:00
He said he's going to be the king of.
1:09:04
Ulster so so obviously Deck went for the slam, but Equally had to
1:09:14
very quickly turn around because you could see that he was
1:09:18
laughing at that, which I think caught him off off guard.
1:09:25
Very, very quickly though, he managed to stop himself from
1:09:28
laughing, so he did well there. But yeah, it's actually said
1:09:38
when you no again, no disrespect to to slam here.
1:09:45
When you look at Slam, he isn't someone you immediately think of
1:09:52
as like a main event person, especially when you look at like
1:10:01
other people. However, because of how the fans
1:10:11
have took to him and how massively kind of like over he
1:10:18
is with like the future shock faithful, especially how things
1:10:28
went the last time at the Fairfield, we came out as Henry
1:10:32
the Eighth. I think when it's these
1:10:35
Fairfield shows, I think on this occasion he's the perfect guy in
1:10:45
the perfect setting and the perfect moment for this to have
1:10:50
happened. I think if it's been at the the
1:10:55
Union or Stockport, it may not feel the same, but if it because
1:11:02
it's at the Fairfield and the Fairfield is again, it's it's
1:11:10
its own little vibe compared to Stockport and the Union stock
1:11:18
pot is very much like like hardcore future shock.
1:11:24
The Union is a bit less restrained, so to speak.
1:11:35
And the Fairfield 1 is just chaos effectively.
1:11:43
But yeah, this, this was a really fun match.
1:11:49
We had Proctor being sent to the back after McAfee went to try
1:11:54
and knock Slams block off with the tag title, the future Shock
1:12:02
Championship. As Kong tried to distract the
1:12:08
referee grabbing Slams leg, the referee turned around and saw I
1:12:16
think Proctor with the title. Nothing happened and then Deck
1:12:22
threw himself to the ground claiming he got a belt shot to
1:12:27
the face. This then led to Proctor being
1:12:32
sent to the back and it effectively became a kind of A2
1:12:37
on one. Really.
1:12:42
However, the the moment of Kong and Slam staring at one another
1:12:52
gave me very much my way vibes of Austin and the Rock from
1:12:57
WrestleMania 17. To which I think I actually did
1:13:01
a little spoof video on that on the on the Instagram reel.
1:13:08
And then Declan just cleaning like slams clock diving through
1:13:13
the ropes, which was an interesting move.
1:13:21
It's fair to say ended up with Declan getting the win over Slam
1:13:31
again, I can't remember too much.
1:13:34
Expose turnbuckle. Is that?
1:13:37
And then slam hit his head on the expose turnbuckle and then
1:13:44
that finished him. Yeah, it's it's slightly coming
1:13:48
back to me now. So Declan retains and sees him
1:13:54
now facing Pele at the next show that Future Shock will be
1:14:01
putting on while he tries to get the page working.
1:14:09
And he does. As I have called you the the
1:14:19
Warrington Meltzer, what star rating would you give the BRICS
1:14:26
convention show first? I give both the future shock
1:14:30
shows. I give them both A10 because
1:14:33
like both shows just future shocker on a roll at the minute
1:14:37
so I can't. There's no reason for me not to
1:14:42
give them a lower than a 10 like it might sound.
1:14:45
Colony and Cliche. Oh you just giving him a 10
1:14:48
because it's a fun shop? No, these shows were brilliant.
1:14:52
Honestly fantastic. I'll say this though, if if I
1:14:59
was doing ratings I would probably give this could be
1:15:07
slightly controversial. I would give the convention show
1:15:14
A7. Were there good?
1:15:19
Were there a lot of good moments?
1:15:23
Yes. However, I felt when you
1:15:31
actually look at the matches and things with it, at times it was
1:15:39
a bit disjointed or didn't fully hit as well.
1:15:50
I thought, yeah, I'm not saying it was a bad show, but if you
1:15:57
look at the the tag, the Eve tag team match had a bit of a screwy
1:16:06
finish. The freeway for the main event
1:16:13
was well, the final two matches I'd say Billy Gunn against Troy
1:16:18
and Bailey. Frankie and Troy, sorry Tony
1:16:22
were probably the best 2 on the show.
1:16:27
The Rumble match I felt went a bit long.
1:16:32
The elimination match, they were just little things that slightly
1:16:37
tweak because I think that went slightly longer as well.
1:16:45
The title, title match was solid, but again, I think the
1:16:50
match we had at Strike first was far better personally, because I
1:16:56
think it felt very much like everyone was more interested in
1:17:02
what was going on with on the outside than the actual match
1:17:07
itself. Yeah, So that's why I've give it
1:17:14
a low rating. However, the strike first show,
1:17:22
I would give it probably 9 solid 9 because I'm not someone to
1:17:34
give 10s out. It's it's got to be an absolute
1:17:41
cracker show. And to be fair, I don't think
1:17:45
I'll ever give a show 10 because I don't think you can get a 10
1:17:48
out of 10 show. I'm the opposite of you Then
1:17:51
I'll just dish out. I mean, if I was to go like
1:17:57
extreme, I'd probably go 9.5, but I don't think you can truly
1:18:05
give a show 10 out of 10. Even shows I've loved like
1:18:10
growing up that I will die on many hills and say that was the
1:18:15
best one even that I couldn't give them 10 personally.
1:18:20
It's just how I'm how I'm wired. But yeah, I would give that a
1:18:28
good solid nine. Strike First is probably the
1:18:35
best future shock show I've seen for some time.
1:18:39
From match one to main event. A lot of things, a lot of things
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worked. There was a lot of kind of
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storyline progression as well. Of course, having those opening
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bangers in Lillian, Melissa and Josh and Chris.
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Maybe that's swayed my judgement.
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But anyhow, that's that's what I think.
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So talking about the next show, we have Show 1 on what is a
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double header at the MMU on the 28th of March, Test of the
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Faithful, which is a traitors theme.
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Well, that's what it looks like they're going for.
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So we only have currently at the time of recording five matches.
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So show one, we have Slumberlands going up against
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the Tevlins, which I'm genuinely looking forward to see Danny
1:20:08
Hope against Joey Hayes, which I think they should have had a
1:20:14
stipulation, but they could still add a stipulation to that
1:20:19
match because I think from. It almost feels like that's died
1:20:29
a bit, that storyline, because they've not followed from it,
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feels like it's been left behind a tiny bit.
1:20:38
We have an Adrenaline title match.
1:20:42
We've Gorgon going up against Tony, right?
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I do sense shenanigans possibly in that one and show 2 in the
1:20:54
evening we have Kong against Dynamite Lee Dawson and for the
1:21:02
Men's future Shock Championship, LA looks to try and end the
1:21:10
reign of 1 Declan McCarthy. So far both shows are looking
1:21:21
pretty good, but we still have a a good couple of weeks to go so
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I'm sure we'll get those matches.
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Well, the matches that are empty, I'm sure they will get
1:21:38
filled as. 16 days away. Something like that.
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So as we reach the the end of the road, as boys to men once
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said any other business. So I'll, I'll ask you because
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you might do anything you would like to plug, whether it's yours
1:22:04
or anything else. Just follow Future Shock, Atomic
1:22:10
and Infinite on all their socials because if you've never
1:22:14
been to one of their shows, get yourself down to Manchester.
1:22:18
Get yourself down to Liverpool and just witness some quality
1:22:22
grabs. And also Stockport or Fairfield,
1:22:29
just to yeah of the union even. Of the Union.
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Yeah, yeah, I will pluck my stuff, which is a Bratas grappas
1:22:43
at Blue Sky. Also the same name is the
1:22:48
YouTube channel which if you're watching this Weld of finding it
1:22:57
also on Twitter slash XI am Brad as graps.
1:23:04
The next episode I will be looking at trying to review
1:23:11
things that happened at North in Leeds which led me to feeling
1:23:17
ill because every time I go to Leeds I always come away feeling
1:23:23
ill. And also I will be taking a look
1:23:30
back at what happened brand new Level 3 which took place last
1:23:40
Friday at Stourbridge. A hell of a show where a table
1:23:49
broke in half, which was interesting the least,
1:24:01
especially if you have seen that footage.
1:24:05
But for now at least, my thanks to Mile Smith for the rundown.
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What happened at both Future Shop shows and the two seen in
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Liverpool. I have been brothers.
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Thank you for listening and I will catch you.
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Well I get a message and I will catch you on the next episode
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which will be Eva 20, 8 1/2 or episode 29.
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We will have to find out, but for me and Miles, have a good
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night.