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AEW Dynamite 5/6/26 Review | Sting Pays TRIBUTE To Ted Turner And Darby Wants MJF's HAIR?! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1: Well is going on, guys. It is a Wednesday night,
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Speaker 1: May sixth, twenty twenty six. I am the solemn monster.
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Speaker 1: This is your AW Dynamite review. I wish I could
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Speaker 1: be more excited about Dynamite tonight, but not a very
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Speaker 1: exciting show. Tonight's show is really all about two things.
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Speaker 1: It was about paying tribute to, without any hyperbole, one
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Speaker 1: of the single greatest influential figures in the history of
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Speaker 1: pro wrestling, who passed away earlier today at the age
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Speaker 1: of eighty seven, That is Ted Turner. And the other
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Speaker 1: thing was the main event, which was Darby Allen once
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Speaker 1: again putting the AW World Championship on the line, this
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Speaker 1: time against the TNT champion, Kevin Knight. I thought they
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Speaker 1: had a hell of a main event. I wish I
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Speaker 1: could say to save him for the rest of the show,
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Speaker 1: but I really can. The rest of the show for
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Speaker 1: me anyway, largely a bore. There was a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of nothing going on tonight. I know they were setting
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Speaker 1: things up for some additional matches for double or nothing,
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Speaker 1: but just what they did was very boring. It was
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Speaker 1: very dry. There just wasn't a whole lot of exciting
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Speaker 1: stuff going on. Tonight. Again, I wish I could tell
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Speaker 1: you otherwise, but this was not a great episode of Dynamite.
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Speaker 1: But we did have Darby once again putting the title
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Speaker 1: on the line, and already he has another championship match
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Speaker 1: set up for next week. As I told you a
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Speaker 1: few weeks ago, this is going to be a weekly
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Speaker 1: occurrence until we get to double or Nothing when he
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Speaker 1: drops the belt back to MJF, who he has been
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Speaker 1: saying every week, you are not getting a rematch. Every
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Speaker 1: time MJF comes out and asks him for a rematch,
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Speaker 1: he says no, he denies him until tonight Darby finally
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Speaker 1: told us what he wants from MJF if MJF is
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Speaker 1: to get his rematch at double or Nothing. In fact,
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Speaker 1: we'll have a contract signing on Dynamite next week. What
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Speaker 1: it is that MJF will have to put on the line.
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Speaker 1: Is it his career? Is it his ability to ever
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Speaker 1: again challenge for the World Championship? Is it the Dynamite
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Speaker 1: Diamond Ring. I'll let you know. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: at the end. It actually happened on Collision because tonight
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Speaker 1: is a three hour block. Collision is still on. By
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Speaker 1: the way, Collision is in progress right now. I saw
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Speaker 1: all the important stuff I needed to see in the
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Speaker 1: first five minutes of Collision, and I said, that's good
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Speaker 1: enough for me. Let's talk some dynamite. It is May sixth.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me here on a Wednesday night.
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Speaker 1: Darby doesn't decide who gets title shots, says blizz Fan. Well,
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Speaker 1: evidently he does. He's the champion. He's been saying it
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Speaker 1: for weeks. What do you mean he has though, no power.
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Speaker 1: Apparently Tony Khan has bestowed the power upon him. This
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Speaker 1: is like the third or fourth title match that he's made.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who has the power anymore. We have EVPs,
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Speaker 1: do they have power? We have Darby Allen making his
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Speaker 1: own championship matches. Tony Khan I thought, was the ball,
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Speaker 1: and we know he makes matches. There's multiple people apparently
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Speaker 1: who have power in this company. The way the power
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Speaker 1: is dispersed is a little confusing. Anyway, like and subscribe.
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Speaker 1: the movie is. Anyway, five hundred and thirty is the
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Speaker 1: likes goal for be the booker tonight. Hiroki Goto, That's
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Speaker 1: is e Honda in the Street Fighter movie. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: about Dynamite and the beginning of the show here tonight,
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Speaker 1: because we had Tony Shavanni standing in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the ring for what I was hoping, and I kind
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Speaker 1: of imagine they were going to open the show with
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Speaker 1: tonight and Shavanni is the perfect person to do this
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Speaker 1: given his connections to WCW and Turner Broadcasting and all
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Speaker 1: the wrestling shows that aired on Turner many years ago.
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Speaker 1: So he was standing in the ring to pay tribute
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Speaker 1: to Ted Turner, who, as I mentioned at the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the stream, passed away this morning at the age
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Speaker 1: of eighty. He had been diagnosed with Louis body dementia.
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Speaker 1: I want to say it was about eight years ago
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Speaker 1: is when he announced the diagnosis. Any type of dementia
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Speaker 1: is just a horrible, insidious disease, Louis Body dementia in particular.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what Robin Williams had. But he passed
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Speaker 1: away this morning, and I'm going to go into greater
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Speaker 1: depth on him and his impact on wrestling and some
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Speaker 1: other historical stuff on the sound uff this weekend, as
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Speaker 1: you would imagine, because this is a big deal, even
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Speaker 1: though he had been out of the public spotlight for
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Speaker 1: many years. But Shavanni is in the ring and he
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Speaker 1: said that Ted Turner believed in pro wrestling, He believed
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Speaker 1: in the fans, He believed that pro wrestling belonged on
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Speaker 1: national television, and because of his vision, wrestling found a
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Speaker 1: home on TBS and TNT. And he brought up starting
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Speaker 1: him starting in the studio back in nineteen eighty five,
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Speaker 1: and decades later because of Ted Turner's leadership, and now
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Speaker 1: because of Tony Kahan and Warner Brothers, Discovery Wrestling lives
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Speaker 1: on here on TBS and TNT. So he said, there's
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Speaker 1: one man who knows this better than anybody, a man
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Speaker 1: who arrived in the studios of TBS back in nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty seven and became one of the faces of the network.
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Speaker 1: And at that point he introduced us to Sting. And
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Speaker 1: so Sting comes out, no music, full face paint though,
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Speaker 1: and the white beard. He's got the bomber jacket on,
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Speaker 1: and Grandpa Sting makes his way down to the ring
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Speaker 1: and he gives Schavani a hug, and he said that
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Speaker 1: imagine having a billionaire who was all in on pro wrestling.
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Speaker 1: Big Ted Sting. Can't believe how committed and devoted Turner was,
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Speaker 1: even when Top Brass and his own company didn't like wrestling,
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Speaker 1: and they would go to him and say, yeah, maybe
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Speaker 1: you should cut ties with this wrestling stuff, and he said,
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Speaker 1: this is a shoot. He goes. Turner would talk to
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Speaker 1: the wrestlers. He would talk to the boys, and he
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Speaker 1: would tell them, you know, keep doing your thing, because
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Speaker 1: I got deep pockets. So he said, there wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: a TNT title, there wouldn't be a Sting, there wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be a Darby Allen or a Tony Shavanni without Ted Turner,
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Speaker 1: and Shavanni brings up Darby facing the Turner Network Television
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Speaker 1: Champion tonight in the main event, Kevin Knight Sting said
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Speaker 1: that he and Darby took a blowtorch to this place
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Speaker 1: for three years. He called Darby the greatest tag team
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Speaker 1: partner that he's ever had, and he said it's great
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Speaker 1: to be back in South Carolina, and he's grateful for
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Speaker 1: another all in billionaire who wants to keep the ball rolling,
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Speaker 1: and that is Tony Kah. So Shavanni brings up that
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Speaker 1: the side plates on the TNT and TBS titles are
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Speaker 1: intended to honor the Turner pass, the Turner history wrestling
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Speaker 1: on the Turner Networks. It's like the Turner Mansion or something.
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Speaker 1: He said, Tony Kahn wanted that to be on those belts.
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Speaker 1: So tonight they bring us three hours of Dynamite and
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Speaker 1: Collision in tribute to the Maverick, not Logan Paul, not
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Speaker 1: that Maverick, but in tribute to Ted Turner, and they
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Speaker 1: did a ten bell salute. This was very classy. Again,
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Speaker 1: I expected maybe they would say something they have like
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Speaker 1: a graphic, maybe they would have Shavanni at the announced
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Speaker 1: desk say something. This was maybe even more than I
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Speaker 1: expect that. I know Sting was going to be there,
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Speaker 1: and Sting obviously has a tie into the early years
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Speaker 1: of WCW, late years of Crockett promotions, so very appropriate
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Speaker 1: to have him there. It was a classy tribute, you know.
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Speaker 1: It was a classy tribute to someone who cannot be
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Speaker 1: overstated how vital a role Ted Turner played in the
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Speaker 1: wrestling that you and I watched today, in the wrestling
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Speaker 1: that you and I were watching ten years ago, twenty
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Speaker 1: years ago, thirty years ago, you can draw a direct
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Speaker 1: line to Ted Turner. It was those deep pockets that
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Speaker 1: Sting mentioned, that Turner would boast about, that brought about
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Speaker 1: the Monday Night War. You know, it was those deep
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Speaker 1: pockets that allowed Eric Bischoff to go out there and
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Speaker 1: bring in big names like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage
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Speaker 1: and many many others, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, which
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Speaker 1: then led to the nWo and everything that came from that,
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Speaker 1: And it all goes back to Ted Turner asking Eric Bischoff,
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Speaker 1: how can we compete with Vince McMahon and then giving
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Speaker 1: Eric an hour of primetime every Monday night on TNT
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Speaker 1: with the advent of Monday Nitro. Yeah, Bischof tells the
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Speaker 1: story about you know, he gave him two hours. He
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Speaker 1: didn't give him two hours, he gave him an hour.
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Speaker 1: The story has evolved over the years. Nitro actually didn't
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Speaker 1: go two hours until Memorial Day in nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 1: First night Scott Hall showed up by Nitro. That was
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Speaker 1: the very first two hour Nitro. But he got primetime
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Speaker 1: television to go head to head with Vince McMahon, and
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Speaker 1: nobody had ever taken it to Vince before. And Vince
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Speaker 1: used to tell the story of Turner calling him up
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Speaker 1: on the phone one day and telling him, Hey, hey, Vince,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting in the wrastling business, right, because that was
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Speaker 1: a dirty word to Vince McMahon. Wrestling, right, That's that
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Speaker 1: old Southern shit. It was a dirty word to Vince.
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Speaker 1: Even in later years, there was literally a list of
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Speaker 1: words ban words you couldn't say on TV, and wrestling
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Speaker 1: was one of them. Even though wrestling is literally in
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Speaker 1: the name of the company but Vince never really liked wrestling.
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Speaker 1: He had his idea of what wrestling should be. But
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Speaker 1: the thing with Vince is, and this alleged feud or
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Speaker 1: competition between the two of them, it was never a
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Speaker 1: competition between Ted Turner and Vince McMahon so much as
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Speaker 1: it was a competition between Turner and Vince and Vince's
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Speaker 1: own mind. In his mind, Vince McMahon was at war
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Speaker 1: with Ted Turner. If Ted Turner spent more than ten
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Speaker 1: seconds each day thinking about Vince mcma man, I would
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Speaker 1: be stunned. I really would certain days, sure, right, because again,
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Speaker 1: he wanted to compete. But I think in Vince McMahon's mind,
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Speaker 1: he had it in his head that Like Turner was
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Speaker 1: at war with him and it was his mission to
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Speaker 1: like dude, he had so many other more important things
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Speaker 1: going on in his day to day because wrestling is
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Speaker 1: a very very small piece of Ted Turner's legacy, Right,
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Speaker 1: we talk wrestling here. We're all wrestling fans as a
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Speaker 1: wrestling show, so of course we talk about wrestling. But
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Speaker 1: you know Turner's influence in the media world. You know
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Speaker 1: the advent of twenty four to seven round the clock
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Speaker 1: cable news, you can trace that directly back to Ted
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Speaker 1: Turner in the advent of CNN, and then of course
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Speaker 1: we can get into all you know TNT and the
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Speaker 1: superstation TBS and Cartoon Network and all of the different
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Speaker 1: media properties, and then of course his philanthropy work later on.
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Speaker 1: He was he was a very unique character, was Ted Turner.
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Speaker 1: Wrestling again is a very very small piece of his legacy.
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Speaker 1: But if you're a wrestling fan, the way the shows
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Speaker 1: are formatted on television, the nitro format from the late nineties,
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Speaker 1: all of that was made possible because Ted Turner was
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Speaker 1: a wrestling fan when a lot of people who worked
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Speaker 1: for him were not. And if it were up to them,
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have wrestling on their network because wrestling was
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Speaker 1: beneath them. Wrestling was low brown knuckle dragger bullshit. Turner's like, no,
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Speaker 1: We're having wrestling because wrestling was very vital to the
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Speaker 1: early days of TBS. It's what put that network on
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Speaker 1: the map. He owed a debt of gratitude to wrestling.
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Speaker 1: He was a big Ric Flair fan. I think Flair
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Speaker 1: was part of the package when he bought WCW. I
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Speaker 1: don't know he would have bought it with that Rick
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Speaker 1: Flair he was a wrestling fan. So again I'll talk
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Speaker 1: more about Ted Turner on the Sounduff on Sunday. A
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Speaker 1: very very interesting individual and very classy tribute here to
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Speaker 1: him at the beginning of Dynamite. It would be not
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Speaker 1: if they at least acknowledged him on WWE television. It's
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Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting because Vince is not in charge anymore.
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Speaker 1: I think a Vince McMahon was still running the show
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Speaker 1: day to day in WWE. No way they acknowledged Ted Turner.
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Speaker 1: He's had to bug up his ass about Turner from
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Speaker 1: day one. I really don't. I think he's petty enough
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Speaker 1: that he would not acknowledge him. But he's not there,
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Speaker 1: and so I do wonder if there'll be some sort
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Speaker 1: of acknowledgment on television. We'll see. I'm very curious about that.
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Speaker 1: Nothing like what we saw here, but even like a
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Speaker 1: graphic or a word of acknowledgment on commentary from like
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Speaker 1: Michael Cole or Joe Tessitur on Friday or something. I'm
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Speaker 1: very curious to see if we get anything. But the
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Speaker 1: opening match of the night had John Moxley against Juice
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Speaker 1: Robinson in a Continental Championship eliminator match. So after the
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Speaker 1: ten minute time call, Robinson he backdropped out of a
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Speaker 1: pile driver into a cradle for a two count. He
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Speaker 1: went for the left hand of God. Moxley though, hit
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Speaker 1: him on the or bit him. They hit him. He
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Speaker 1: bit him on the forehead. Left hand of God, though
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Speaker 1: did connect. Robinson ended up in a rear naked choke though,
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Speaker 1: which led to a transition into a pile driver by
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Speaker 1: Moxley to count only, and Moxley quickly transitioned into a
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Speaker 1: bulldog choke, and there was a brief struggle and eventually
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Speaker 1: Robinson faded out and the referee called for the bell.
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Speaker 1: Juice has not been established as any sort of threat.
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on now, I mean he has not
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Speaker 1: been established on any of these shows as any sort
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Speaker 1: of credible threat, certainly not since he came back from
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Speaker 1: whatever his latest injury was. So there's just nothing exciting here.
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Speaker 1: It was a match, you know, it was solid enough
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Speaker 1: for what it was. But again, this was a pattern tonight.
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Speaker 1: We had a lot of matches like this, very solid stuff,
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Speaker 1: very solid stuff. But I want more than just solid, right,
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Speaker 1: I eat solid food every day. I have solid bowel movements.
16:04
Speaker 1: I want my wrestling shows to be a little bit
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Speaker 1: more than just solid, and that's really what Dynama was tonight.
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Speaker 1: I was more interested to see how they were going
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Speaker 1: to follow up on that Death Riders Will Osprey backstage
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Speaker 1: training session from last week to see what the segment
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Speaker 1: would be this week. Remember last week he showed up
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Speaker 1: for training camp, so this was after now, mind you,
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Speaker 1: if you go back to that segment from last week
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Speaker 1: when Osprey showed up for training camp, remember the first
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Speaker 1: question that Moxley asked him, were you cleared? And Ospray's like, no,
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Speaker 1: but I'm going to Japan because I got to support
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Speaker 1: my friends. And so he flew all the way fifteen
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Speaker 1: hours to Japan, and in fact he did wrestle, and
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Speaker 1: he is one third now of the never Open Weight
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Speaker 1: six man chance is the never open weight six way
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Speaker 1: titles right? Whatever the fight, They have so many fucking
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Speaker 1: belts over there. But he is a champion now. So
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Speaker 1: even though he was not medically cleared by the AAW
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Speaker 1: training staff, he was well enough to fly to Japan
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Speaker 1: and after a long flight, actually wrestle. So that was
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Speaker 1: a little a little strange, I would say, But him
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Speaker 1: and Hanai and Great o'conn are now the champions. So
17:24
Speaker 1: we got another training segment from earlier today. Daniel Garcia
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Speaker 1: said that they don't care about Ospbury winning titles in
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Speaker 1: Japan with his friends. He's going to have to work
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Speaker 1: for it if he truly wants it. And we see
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Speaker 1: Osprey's on the floor. Hees on all fours doing neck
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Speaker 1: bridges with Wheeler Yudas sitting on his back. Moxley sits
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Speaker 1: down next to him and he asked Osprey if he's
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Speaker 1: ever heard of the concept of death ground, and Will
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Speaker 1: says nope. So Moxley explains that it's ground that you
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Speaker 1: can't escape from. The only options are do or die.
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Speaker 1: That's where Ospray is right now. If they don't get
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Speaker 1: his neck right, if they don't get his head right,
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Speaker 1: it's all over. He's done. Ospray could have a career
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Speaker 1: in aw and he can get paid and he can
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Speaker 1: hang out like the rest of the posers that they
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Speaker 1: have there. But Ospray is built different. Ospray is on
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Speaker 1: death ground. Nothing else exists except what's in front of
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Speaker 1: you right now, Moxley orders him on your back right.
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Speaker 1: They're going to continue their training and then pack walks
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Speaker 1: over and he tells the camera man that's it, and
18:31
Speaker 1: he cuts off the camera. The entire storyline reason that,
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Speaker 1: if you think about it, that Ospray even has a
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Speaker 1: bad neck in the first place is because of John Moxley.
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Speaker 1: John Moxley and the Death Riders are the ones in
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Speaker 1: storyline who broke this man's neck. And when he came back,
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Speaker 1: he was full of rage and he was full of angers,
18:51
Speaker 1: threatening to kill John Boxley. I'm gonna murder this son
18:54
Speaker 1: of a bitch. And now you know, you watch him
18:57
Speaker 1: in these segments and you know he loses one match
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Speaker 1: to him, and he's it's like he's coming to class
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Speaker 1: like a college kid every week for Professor Max. Now
19:09
Speaker 1: they're telling an actual story here, and I could see
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Speaker 1: where it's going. I mean, I keep harping on this.
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Speaker 1: This should be the final of the Owen and then
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Speaker 1: Osprey gets that win back over Moxley, and then that
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Speaker 1: sends him to the main event of Wembley Stadium. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: that's the way it'll play out, because I think that
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Speaker 1: would make for, yeah, the the ending of this story
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Speaker 1: that would make the most sense. But yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: just how just how much Ospray has sort of surrendered
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Speaker 1: himself to the Death Riders after losing one match. I
19:38
Speaker 1: don't know, I just it's kind of funny to me.
19:42
Speaker 1: We had a double Jeopardy match between Dax Harwood and
19:46
Speaker 1: Orange Cassidy, and the rules were that if Cassidy wins,
19:49
Speaker 1: the Conglomeration will get a tag team title match against FTR.
19:53
Speaker 1: If FTR wins, then they and Tomaso Champa would get
19:57
Speaker 1: a shot at the trios titles. And I honestly don't
20:01
Speaker 1: even know how anybody could give a shit at this
20:02
Speaker 1: point about the trio's titles, Like who could possibly care?
20:07
Speaker 1: Who could possibly care about these belts? So Cassidy had
20:12
Speaker 1: a ton of backup with him, including Roderick Strong, Kyle O'Reilly,
20:16
Speaker 1: the Young Bucks, Adam Copeland, Christian Cage, Dax had Cash Wheeler,
20:21
Speaker 1: Stokeley half theway to Masso Champa, RPG Weiss and the
20:26
Speaker 1: Dogs in his Corner's like a fucking lumberjack match, only
20:30
Speaker 1: not so. The action spilled out to the floor. Late
20:35
Speaker 1: in the match, Harwood suplex Cassidy onto the announced desk,
20:38
Speaker 1: then he sent him back into the ring. Cassidy battled back,
20:40
Speaker 1: but stokely jumped up on the apron. He caused the distraction.
20:43
Speaker 1: David Finley took a cheap shot just as OC hit
20:47
Speaker 1: the ropes, so Hartwood went for the ring bell, referee
20:52
Speaker 1: caught him, took it away. Cassidy went for an orange punch. Harwood,
20:55
Speaker 1: though avoided it and hit a slingshot lagerbomb for a
20:58
Speaker 1: near fall. Cassidy came back with a stun dog and
21:01
Speaker 1: an orange punch immediately after it covered him for a
21:04
Speaker 1: near fall only but Dax got an armbar applied after
21:09
Speaker 1: Cassidy was selling some wrist pain. Cassidy turned it into
21:13
Speaker 1: a stack pin and he got the flash pin. He
21:15
Speaker 1: got the shock win here over Dax, and after the
21:19
Speaker 1: match everybody outside they started brawling. The Babyfaces stood tall.
21:24
Speaker 1: They left Rocky, Romero and Trend Bretta all alone to die.
21:28
Speaker 1: Rocky ate a combo from Strong and O'Reilly Bretta ate
21:32
Speaker 1: some super kicks from the Bucks, spear from Copeland, the
21:36
Speaker 1: low kick from Christian. The match was fine. It was alright,
21:41
Speaker 1: Cassidy and a partner getting or I presume Cassidy. They
21:44
Speaker 1: said the conglomeration, I think we'll get a tag team
21:46
Speaker 1: title shot. I would imagine that that's a match that's
21:50
Speaker 1: going to happen before Double or Nothing, because everything is
21:55
Speaker 1: set for Adam Copeland and Christian Cage to win the
21:57
Speaker 1: tag team titles a Double or Nothing. I don't really
22:00
Speaker 1: see Cope and Christian against the Conglomeration. I mean, you
22:04
Speaker 1: could do it. I would imagine it would be the
22:07
Speaker 1: Conglomeration against FTR. So if they're going to do that match,
22:11
Speaker 1: I would presume we get that next week or the
22:15
Speaker 1: week after, but at some point before Double or Nothing.
22:19
Speaker 1: Now we see footage of Chris Jericho being attacked backstage
22:22
Speaker 1: last week by the Demand, except he really wasn't attacked
22:24
Speaker 1: backstage last week by the Demand because that was taped
22:27
Speaker 1: the week before. Why because Jericho was actually in New
22:30
Speaker 1: York City filming some scenes for Dexter Resurrection, Big TV
22:34
Speaker 1: Star he is, but he was back live this week,
22:38
Speaker 1: and Renee is backstage with Jericho, who says he's pretty
22:40
Speaker 1: fear he's pretty ef in furious, and the time for
22:44
Speaker 1: talking is done. It's time to fight, and unlike the Demand,
22:49
Speaker 1: he wants to take it to the people. So Jericho
22:52
Speaker 1: takes the microphone and he makes his way through the
22:56
Speaker 1: crowd to the ring, saying he's going to keep it simple.
23:00
Speaker 1: He's done with the three on one attacks, he's done
23:04
Speaker 1: with all the bullshit. So he demands that Rikochet come
23:09
Speaker 1: out to talk face to face, because nothing says that
23:15
Speaker 1: the time for talking is done like inviting your adversary
23:19
Speaker 1: out to the ring for more talking. Do they read
23:24
Speaker 1: this shit before they actually, like recited on television, they do?
23:28
Speaker 1: They listen to it back and does somebody look at
23:30
Speaker 1: it and go, oh, you know what, that doesn't sound right.
23:32
Speaker 1: Let's change this up a little bit. The time for
23:35
Speaker 1: talking is done. Let me go out to the ring
23:37
Speaker 1: and demand that Ricochet come out and talk. So we're
23:40
Speaker 1: gonna have a chat. Apparently, Ricochet comes out, Total Leona
23:44
Speaker 1: comes out, Bishop Kahn right, all three men. Now they
23:47
Speaker 1: come down to the ring and Ricochet says he tried
23:50
Speaker 1: to do Jericho a favor by telling him to leave,
23:52
Speaker 1: but he didn't listen, and he wonders if Jericho has
23:55
Speaker 1: some kind of humiliation kink, and that, boys and girls,
23:58
Speaker 1: is what you call projection when you have Ricochet talking
24:01
Speaker 1: about a humiliation kink in the middle of the ring.
24:03
Speaker 1: So Ricochet, he heals on the crowd in South Carolina
24:06
Speaker 1: a little bit. He refers to Charleston, North Carolina, which
24:11
Speaker 1: I thought maybe he did it on purpose, but it's
24:13
Speaker 1: entirely possible he just had no fucking idea where he
24:16
Speaker 1: was and maybe it wasn't by design. But then Jericho
24:20
Speaker 1: looked at the camera he mouthed the words South Carolina,
24:23
Speaker 1: just to correct him. So Bishop Kahn whispers something to Ricochet,
24:28
Speaker 1: and Ricochet goes, hey, you know what, that's a good idea.
24:33
Speaker 1: I like that idea, and he brings up six years ago,
24:37
Speaker 1: Jericho invented a type of match. Actually, Jericho invented a
24:41
Speaker 1: type of match twenty years ago, twenty one years ago
24:44
Speaker 1: and the money in the bank match. But six years
24:48
Speaker 1: ago he invented a certain match here in aw So
24:51
Speaker 1: he's going to beat Jericho in his own creation. He
24:53
Speaker 1: wants a stadium stampede match, since they're in a stadium
24:58
Speaker 1: at double or nothing, but he questions if Jericho can
25:00
Speaker 1: even find four other partners to watch his back. Jericho
25:06
Speaker 1: calls Rikoshet a dumb son of a bitch and says
25:08
Speaker 1: it's South Carolina and he'll find four partners. But if
25:13
Speaker 1: he can't find any partners, he'll take them all on
25:15
Speaker 1: by himself. And then he called Ricochet bald and he
25:19
Speaker 1: punched him in the face, and he cleared Goa from
25:22
Speaker 1: the ring all by himself. He cleared these other men
25:25
Speaker 1: from the ring all alone, and he blasted Ricochet with
25:29
Speaker 1: a Judas effect, and Ricochet was laid out. He was
25:32
Speaker 1: in perfect position. He was going to give him a
25:34
Speaker 1: lion salt as he went to go do the move.
25:38
Speaker 1: It was Bishop I think was Bishop khn right, No,
25:42
Speaker 1: it was Totallyona, Totallyona cut him off with a punch.
25:46
Speaker 1: And so they're beating up Jericho and here comes the
25:49
Speaker 1: Hurt Syndicate, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin MVP. They make their
25:53
Speaker 1: way down to the ring to make the save. And
25:55
Speaker 1: so there's two partners right there that Jericho can count
25:57
Speaker 1: on a double or nothing, maybe three if MVP actually wrestles.
26:02
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he'll be wrestling or not on
26:03
Speaker 1: that show, but I have to point this out. In
26:08
Speaker 1: all of this, Tony Schavanni referred to Shelton Benjamin as
26:12
Speaker 1: Benjamin Shelton. Yes, he pulled a Hogan on Shelton Benjamin.
26:18
Speaker 1: Remember Shelton Benjamin's tweet after Hulk Hogan name dropped him
26:21
Speaker 1: and called him Benjamin Shelton in one of those interviews
26:23
Speaker 1: that Hogan was doing it basically, Shelton tweeted. He was
26:27
Speaker 1: like he did the Will Smith thing where it's like
26:29
Speaker 1: keep my basically, keep my fucking name out of your mouth.
26:33
Speaker 1: Benjamin Shelton, he called him, and Shelton I think is
26:37
Speaker 1: from was it Orangeburg? South Carolina? He's a South Carolina boy.
26:42
Speaker 1: This was a homecoming for him. This was a homecoming
26:45
Speaker 1: for Benjamin Shelton. Good job, Tony. So backstage, Harley Cameron
26:52
Speaker 1: and Mina Sheirakawa, they were being interviewed by Renee. Harley
26:56
Speaker 1: was conflicted about wrestling Chris Statlander in the tag team
26:59
Speaker 1: match tonight. Mina, though, fired her up and told her
27:02
Speaker 1: we have a match to win, and she tore at
27:07
Speaker 1: Harley's shirt. She ripped her shirt and her just gigantic
27:11
Speaker 1: breasts fell out of the shirts she was wearing a bra,
27:15
Speaker 1: and Mina apologized because she didn't know that she didn't
27:18
Speaker 1: have her gear on, and Harley ends up taking the
27:23
Speaker 1: rest of her shirt off and she's all hanging out
27:26
Speaker 1: there and this was again her way of firing up
27:30
Speaker 1: Harley Cameron and then Renee told Harley, you've got to
27:32
Speaker 1: go put something on. Yes, I'm sure for many of
27:38
Speaker 1: you this was probably your favorite segment of the night.
27:41
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, when I look up and
27:43
Speaker 1: down the show, outside of the main event, may it
27:45
Speaker 1: may have been, it may have been the most exciting
27:48
Speaker 1: thing to happen on this show. Kazuchika Okada against the
27:54
Speaker 1: bounty hunter Brian Keith. That shaved head that Brian Keith
28:01
Speaker 1: has with the little rattail in the back, I mean,
28:03
Speaker 1: that is certainly a choice. One thing that has not changed, though,
28:08
Speaker 1: outside of his hairstyle, is that Brian Keith is actually
28:12
Speaker 1: really good. I know it could be hard to remember
28:17
Speaker 1: because we don't see him on the show very often.
28:19
Speaker 1: They did mention that he's been on a roll. I
28:20
Speaker 1: guess he's got a little bit of a wind streak
28:22
Speaker 1: going and Ring of Honor, but ever since the Learning
28:26
Speaker 1: Tree stuff came to an end, he's pretty much been
28:28
Speaker 1: relegated to Collision and or Ring of Honor. Same for
28:32
Speaker 1: Big Bill. If you only watch Dynamite or even Dynamite
28:36
Speaker 1: and Collision, because they're not always on Collision, they've kind
28:38
Speaker 1: of vanished and it's easy to forget. You know that
28:41
Speaker 1: Brian Keith is actually a hell of a hand here.
28:43
Speaker 1: But like the Juice Robinson match earlier, you see these
28:46
Speaker 1: two guys out there in the ring and you already
28:48
Speaker 1: know the finish before the bell even rings. You know,
28:51
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of drama here to what
28:53
Speaker 1: we're seeing. So they grappled early on. We got some graps. Anyway, way,
29:00
Speaker 1: late in the match, Okata landed a dropkick. He went
29:03
Speaker 1: for the rain maker. Keith, they'll block the attempt with
29:06
Speaker 1: a headbutt. Now, he had tried unsuccessfully twice before this
29:10
Speaker 1: to hit a tiger driver, and so he you know,
29:13
Speaker 1: the double underhook power bomb. On the third attempt though,
29:16
Speaker 1: he nailed it, but he only got a two and
29:18
Speaker 1: a half count. So then he went for a diamond
29:21
Speaker 1: dust out of the corner. Okada, though avoided it, finally
29:23
Speaker 1: hit the rain maker and he got the win. Again.
29:26
Speaker 1: This was an eliminator match for the International title, not
29:29
Speaker 1: an actual championship match. A red dead rat tail redemption.
29:37
Speaker 1: There you go. So after the match, Okada got on
29:42
Speaker 1: the mic and he said that he was the International
29:45
Speaker 1: champion unlike a Takeshta, but he wants more so he's
29:49
Speaker 1: coming for the AEW World Championship. Bitch, everybody wants Darby.
29:57
Speaker 1: Everybody is coming for the world title, except the one
30:00
Speaker 1: man who you would expect to come for the world
30:02
Speaker 1: title who made his return to television last week, Swerve Strickland.
30:05
Speaker 1: He's not going after the world title. He's chosen to
30:08
Speaker 1: go after the ring of honor world champion. And I
30:11
Speaker 1: don't even think it's gonna be for the title when
30:12
Speaker 1: they meet. Yeah, we hear Swerve. I'll get to the
30:16
Speaker 1: Swerve stuff here in a second, but we hear Swerve
30:17
Speaker 1: talking about power. I want all the power. I don't know.
30:23
Speaker 1: I mean, call me crazy here, but I would think
30:25
Speaker 1: of all the championships that you could be chasing after,
30:27
Speaker 1: the one that would offer you the most power of
30:29
Speaker 1: all is the AW world title that you yourself once held.
30:34
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's not a match that they
30:36
Speaker 1: want to do right now, so of course they're gonna
30:37
Speaker 1: stay away from it. But again, I just can't help
30:40
Speaker 1: but point out how goofy it is that Swerve is
30:42
Speaker 1: back and Darby is handing out title shots every single
30:45
Speaker 1: week like Candy. And look, Darby could say no, but
30:50
Speaker 1: he shows up to go after Bandido of all people,
30:53
Speaker 1: and not take advantage of this small window of opportunity
30:57
Speaker 1: to take the championship away from the one hundred and
30:59
Speaker 1: seven Emo kid who is currently walking around with it.
31:03
Speaker 1: You know that belt is big, that's a big championship
31:06
Speaker 1: that bell. I'm surprised Darby doesn't tip over when he's
31:08
Speaker 1: holding that championship up. But now Okata has thrown his
31:13
Speaker 1: name into the hat. And what is Androde going to
31:16
Speaker 1: think about this? Right? Androtte has said I think in
31:18
Speaker 1: the past that he wants to go after the World championship.
31:21
Speaker 1: They're part of the same faction. They had a video
31:23
Speaker 1: package tonight for Androtti, but he was not on the show,
31:27
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I don't know if that might
31:29
Speaker 1: cause some issues within the Callus family. The ops were backstage,
31:35
Speaker 1: minus Hook who was not there. Samoa Joe said that
31:38
Speaker 1: he's worried. Last week he put out an offer that
31:41
Speaker 1: he's afraid is not being heard. He tells Will Osprey
31:45
Speaker 1: to hear these words. John Moxley is telling you how
31:48
Speaker 1: to think. I won't do that. I want you to
31:51
Speaker 1: think however you want to think. He sees that Osprey
31:54
Speaker 1: is destined for greatness and some even say he'll be
31:57
Speaker 1: the next world champion. How much will be left for Osprey? Though,
32:01
Speaker 1: to be such a champion with men like Joe by
32:04
Speaker 1: his side, it could be a very long time. You know,
32:07
Speaker 1: Hook is gone this week, he's filming a movie. Joe
32:10
Speaker 1: puts people in a better position to succeed. He's gonna
32:13
Speaker 1: put Anthony Bowen's in a better position to succeed. Katsiori
32:16
Speaker 1: Shabata is already one of the best in the world.
32:19
Speaker 1: The choice is up to Osprey, and it's clear as day.
32:22
Speaker 1: Joe puts his hand out one last time, but if
32:25
Speaker 1: it's not accepted, the next thing Joe puts out will
32:27
Speaker 1: be his fist. So the Death Riders currently have will
32:33
Speaker 1: Osprey in training camp, but now the Ops they want
32:36
Speaker 1: to welcome Osprey into the fold. They should have all
32:40
Speaker 1: the factions in this company vying for will Ospray the
32:43
Speaker 1: way that all the managers were for Bam Bam Bigelo
32:47
Speaker 1: back in the day. There when Bambam joined WWF in
32:50
Speaker 1: the eighty all the managers every week it was like
32:53
Speaker 1: a different manager. They would cut promos. You know, it's
32:56
Speaker 1: like their big offer to lure Bam Bam in offer
33:00
Speaker 1: their services to him, and then ultimately he went with
33:03
Speaker 1: Oliver Humperdink. He went with Oliver Humperdink over Bobby Heenen
33:08
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Hart and people like that. They need to
33:11
Speaker 1: have like a faction sweepstakes. The conglomeration, right, they want
33:14
Speaker 1: will Ospray, the Kallus family. They want to make amends
33:18
Speaker 1: and bring back will Ospray, bring him into the full.
33:20
Speaker 1: The dogs they want will Ospray. Actually, the dogs probably
33:24
Speaker 1: don't want will Ospray. I don't think will Ospray wants
33:26
Speaker 1: the dogs either. Chris Statlander and Hikarashida against Mina Shirakawa
33:32
Speaker 1: and Harley Cameron. Late in the match, shei'da inadvertently took
33:36
Speaker 1: out Statlander with a running knee strike. Cameron hit a
33:40
Speaker 1: backstabber on Shidah. Statlander then took out Harley with a
33:43
Speaker 1: kick and then knocked Mina off the apron and she'da
33:46
Speaker 1: delivered a falcon arrow and pinned Harley to win the
33:48
Speaker 1: match for her team. And when it was over, Statlander
33:51
Speaker 1: had a look on her face like she wasn't very happy.
33:54
Speaker 1: Little friendly fire there, But again, Shidah has been acting
33:58
Speaker 1: very heelish for many weeks now on television, So this
34:00
Speaker 1: is all building to some sort of big blow up
34:04
Speaker 1: between them at some point, maybe a match beyond that. Again,
34:08
Speaker 1: it's just it's hard to get excited about some of
34:10
Speaker 1: this stuff. Honestly, even Statlander here when this was over,
34:13
Speaker 1: I don't know the look on her face. I know
34:14
Speaker 1: she was trying to sell whatever the point of this
34:17
Speaker 1: all was, but even she had a look on her
34:19
Speaker 1: face like, man, she's in this weird transitional period where
34:24
Speaker 1: she's no longer the world champion and they're telling this
34:26
Speaker 1: story now where she is in a good position because
34:29
Speaker 1: they have an actual story for her. But it's not
34:32
Speaker 1: like this is doing much for Statlander. I mean, there's
34:34
Speaker 1: a huge step down for her. And the crowd in
34:38
Speaker 1: South Carolina wasn't terribly excited about any of this either.
34:43
Speaker 1: We got a pre tape promo with the aforementioned Swerve
34:46
Speaker 1: Strickland and Prince Nana still had that wanted poster of Bandido.
34:52
Speaker 1: He said he told people two months ago that he
34:54
Speaker 1: was after power. Power is the ability to decide who
34:57
Speaker 1: eats and who starves, and it comes from being the
35:00
Speaker 1: most violent and even the most wanted. Swerve said, there's
35:04
Speaker 1: no one more dangerous than someone who was after power
35:06
Speaker 1: and he wants all of it. Evidently not evidently not
35:13
Speaker 1: not much of an explanation either for why he's choosing
35:16
Speaker 1: to go after Bandido. I don't what power does Bandido have?
35:21
Speaker 1: He explained that to me. If this is truly about power,
35:23
Speaker 1: what power is it? And don't tell me the Ring
35:26
Speaker 1: of Honor World Championship or I'll punch you in the face.
35:29
Speaker 1: What power is it that Bandido possesses that Swerve thinks
35:33
Speaker 1: he will gain by beating Bandido. I don't know the
35:39
Speaker 1: answer to that question, but I do know one thing.
35:40
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the match. The explanation sucks, but
35:45
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the match. They had not made
35:47
Speaker 1: it official yet for double or nothing. Clearly this will
35:49
Speaker 1: take place there and that will only make that card stronger. Now,
35:53
Speaker 1: Renee was backstage with Brodido after this, and Bandido said
35:58
Speaker 1: that Swerve was right. He is the most wanted and
36:00
Speaker 1: if Strickland wants to fight, come and get it. It's
36:04
Speaker 1: like God, the Jack Jack Palance in City Slickers, coming,
36:11
Speaker 1: Get me, coming, get me right. The gold is up there,
36:15
Speaker 1: The gold is out there in Nell's Hills. Somewhere. Come
36:17
Speaker 1: and get me, Come and get me. The fuck was
36:21
Speaker 1: his name in that movie. Ah, I haven't seen City
36:25
Speaker 1: Slickers in a long City Slickers Too also a very
36:27
Speaker 1: good movie. I wonder if Jack Palence is still alive,
36:33
Speaker 1: how old would he be at this point? He was
36:36
Speaker 1: ancient back then, and that movie had to come out
36:38
Speaker 1: late nineties. What would he be like one hundred and
36:41
Speaker 1: thirty one now if he was still alive. Curly, thank you,
36:45
Speaker 1: there you go? All right? City Slickers Too was like
36:47
Speaker 1: the legend of Curly. Yeah, the gold, the gold is
36:52
Speaker 1: in the second the phony Gold when they realized that, wait,
36:58
Speaker 1: this is not real. So Brody King was standing there
37:02
Speaker 1: when Bendido was responding to Swerve, and then Brody said
37:06
Speaker 1: that he knows Bendido's got this, but if Swerve messes
37:09
Speaker 1: with his friends, then you mess with him. It's like ruche.
37:14
Speaker 1: You mess with the bull, you get the hearns all right.
37:17
Speaker 1: So he died in two thousand and six, that was
37:19
Speaker 1: the year before I started the sound off. He was
37:23
Speaker 1: eighty seven. Oh, he was eighty seven. Ted Turner was
37:25
Speaker 1: eighty seven, all right, so yeah, he would be almost
37:29
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten. No, actually, no, he'd be one
37:33
Speaker 1: hundred and seven. Wow, he could have made it anyway.
37:40
Speaker 1: The main event. Yeah, we're up to the main event already, folks.
37:42
Speaker 1: You could see like, not a whole lot of excitement
37:45
Speaker 1: going on here on this television show until we got
37:47
Speaker 1: to the main event. We have the TNT champion Kevin Knight,
37:51
Speaker 1: his title not on the line. He is challenging though,
37:54
Speaker 1: for the aw World Championship currently held by Darby Allen.
37:58
Speaker 1: So I'll spare you. So nothing really happened before the
38:03
Speaker 1: ad break here. After the ad break, Darby delivered a
38:05
Speaker 1: code bred for a near fall and Knight ended up
38:09
Speaker 1: out on the floor and Darby does his suicide dive
38:13
Speaker 1: and he comes charging out to the floor towards where
38:16
Speaker 1: the announced desk is and he knocks Kevin Knight backwards
38:20
Speaker 1: and the back of his head smacks into the announced desk,
38:24
Speaker 1: and even the announcers were a little concerned about the
38:27
Speaker 1: impact of his head smacking the desk. So Darby then
38:31
Speaker 1: sat him in a chair and he climbed up top.
38:35
Speaker 1: Knight got off the chair and he ends up pulling
38:37
Speaker 1: Darby off the top with a rana and Darby just
38:41
Speaker 1: crashes and burns and splats on the floor outside, so
38:47
Speaker 1: Knight sat Darby on top of the announced desk. He
38:49
Speaker 1: goes back into the ring and he delivers this spectacular
38:54
Speaker 1: looking springboard clothesline. And again Darby is sitting there and
39:00
Speaker 1: he comes off with this springboard clothes line. Both of
39:03
Speaker 1: them go just ass over tea kettle. They roll over
39:06
Speaker 1: the desk. They take this hard spill onto the floor,
39:09
Speaker 1: just this ridiculous bump, I mean easily the biggest of
39:12
Speaker 1: the night. And Night came up limping he was selling
39:16
Speaker 1: his knee. He tosses Darby back inside. He climbs up
39:19
Speaker 1: topy dives at Darby. Darby catches him though into the
39:23
Speaker 1: scorpion deathlock, and Knight struggled a little bit, but he
39:26
Speaker 1: ultimately made it to the bottom rope for the break.
39:29
Speaker 1: So Darby climbs to the top for a coffin drop,
39:31
Speaker 1: but Knight gets the knees up upon the landing and
39:33
Speaker 1: then Knight places Darby on the buckles in the corner.
39:36
Speaker 1: Darby elbow's free. He tries for another coffin drop. Knight,
39:40
Speaker 1: though ends up hanging him upside down in the corner,
39:43
Speaker 1: and he goes to the opposing corner on the same
39:46
Speaker 1: side of the ring. He's going to go coast to
39:48
Speaker 1: coast and he delivers this tremendous coast to coast drop kick,
39:53
Speaker 1: and the announcers point out correctly that that is the
39:56
Speaker 1: same move that he he used on Darby in their
40:01
Speaker 1: Continental Classic match that can cussed Darby and ultimately resulted
40:06
Speaker 1: in him being pulled from the tournament. He was, I
40:08
Speaker 1: believe the report at the time was that he was
40:10
Speaker 1: like majorly can cuss, like he got fucked up in
40:13
Speaker 1: that match. But for Darby, he probably gets concussed just
40:16
Speaker 1: rolling out of bed, So for him it was probably like, okay,
40:20
Speaker 1: I'll take a week off and I'll be okay. But
40:22
Speaker 1: he hits it and Darby looks like he's done for
40:27
Speaker 1: He races up to the top rope, he comes off
40:30
Speaker 1: with the UFO splash his finish and he nails it.
40:33
Speaker 1: Now he immediately begins selling the knee, so he didn't
40:37
Speaker 1: cover him immediately. But yeah, there wasn't a whole lot
40:40
Speaker 1: of time that went by, maybe like three or four seconds,
40:42
Speaker 1: and then ultimately he covers Darby and Darby gets a
40:45
Speaker 1: shoulder up. We got super Darby. Knight went for another
40:49
Speaker 1: splash Darby caught him though with a guillotine. Night powered out. Darby,
40:54
Speaker 1: though ended up draping him over the top rope and
40:57
Speaker 1: he delivered a coffin drop to the back and the
40:59
Speaker 1: momentum then sent Kevin Knight flying through the air, landing
41:03
Speaker 1: on the mat. Darby raced up top, he hit a
41:06
Speaker 1: proper coffin drop and then he got the pin to
41:09
Speaker 1: retain the championship. So after the match was over Grandpa's sting,
41:14
Speaker 1: he walks back down to the ring to celebrate with Darby,
41:18
Speaker 1: and he was paying respect to Kevin Knight as well.
41:20
Speaker 1: Kevin Knight gets to his feet, he puts his hand out,
41:23
Speaker 1: he shakes hands with Darby. All lovey dovey. Here is
41:27
Speaker 1: the Dynamite portion of the the event. Tonight concluded, I
41:33
Speaker 1: always love it, how like I watched in the HBO
41:35
Speaker 1: Max app. And when Dynamite ends, they don't just go
41:39
Speaker 1: into collision. It says like this event has ended, I
41:41
Speaker 1: have to back out. I have to refresh and then
41:45
Speaker 1: click the collision button and then it plays collision. They
41:50
Speaker 1: do treat it as two separate shows, one hell of
41:54
Speaker 1: a main event. I will say to close out what
41:56
Speaker 1: I thought overall, was a very boring show. I'm sorry.
41:59
Speaker 1: I know we got some good wrestling tonight, this show
42:01
Speaker 1: is fucking boring. There was just a whole lot of
42:04
Speaker 1: nothing going on, even though I know they were pushing
42:06
Speaker 1: certain things forward for some of the matches at the
42:09
Speaker 1: pay per view, and that's fine. It just was not
42:12
Speaker 1: a very exciting show. You know, I was struggling. I
42:17
Speaker 1: was struggling to get through this one. This was not great.
42:19
Speaker 1: If I want to watch Collision, I would have stuck
42:21
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42:25
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Speaker 1: dot com slash Harmony. So Darby, of course, in this match,
43:48
Speaker 1: he continues to just kill himself, taking crazy stupid bumps.
43:53
Speaker 1: But it's all he knows how to do, you know.
43:56
Speaker 1: And it's the same stuff they had him doing in
43:58
Speaker 1: that second stint that he had for a month or
44:01
Speaker 1: whatever it was when he was the TNT champion, just
44:04
Speaker 1: fighting different people every single week until the wheels fall off.
44:08
Speaker 1: That's what Orange Cassidy did when he was the International champion, right,
44:12
Speaker 1: just keep fighting every single week until the wheels fall off.
44:17
Speaker 1: So Collision started. I said, let's see what they do.
44:19
Speaker 1: At the beginning of Collision, Sting finished celebrating with Darby.
44:23
Speaker 1: He went to the back. Now Darby is sitting on
44:25
Speaker 1: the apron and we hear mjf's music, and so MJF
44:30
Speaker 1: makes his way out onto the stage and he said, look,
44:38
Speaker 1: the reign of terror here continues, but it's time to
44:43
Speaker 1: give me my rematch. And Darby says no, so that
44:48
Speaker 1: bugs Bunny meme. No, no, He reiterates what he's been
44:52
Speaker 1: saying now for weeks. You're not getting a rematch, so
44:56
Speaker 1: mj and again, the point is you don't get a
44:58
Speaker 1: rematch a less you put something on the line. So
45:02
Speaker 1: what does Darby have to put on the line, or
45:05
Speaker 1: MJF rather, what does he have to put on the line.
45:08
Speaker 1: MJF says, okay, I'll tell you what. I'll put my
45:12
Speaker 1: scarf on the line. That actually got a pop from
45:14
Speaker 1: the crowd, which the crowd was pretty quiet for a
45:16
Speaker 1: good chunk of the of the show. They popped though
45:19
Speaker 1: for him offering the birdberry scarf. He offered the scarf,
45:23
Speaker 1: Darby said no. MJF says, I'll tell you what. How
45:28
Speaker 1: about I put my dynamite diamond ring on the line.
45:34
Speaker 1: Darby says no. MJF offers him money. I'll give you
45:39
Speaker 1: a million dollars and Darby said, look, you're talking to
45:43
Speaker 1: a guy who used to be homeless in his car,
45:45
Speaker 1: living under a bridge. He goes, your money is no
45:49
Speaker 1: good here. No, he wants something that Max holds near
45:53
Speaker 1: and dear to his heart, something that he would fly
45:57
Speaker 1: fifteen hours to Turkey for to get gets sewn onto
46:01
Speaker 1: his head. He wants him to put his hair on
46:07
Speaker 1: the line. And MJF told him, come on now, be reasonable,
46:13
Speaker 1: and Darby said, next week contracts signing. Either you say
46:16
Speaker 1: yes or you're never getting another shot at this ever again.
46:22
Speaker 1: And MJF, for the first time in his career, is speechless.
46:25
Speaker 1: He made it like he was about to say something,
46:28
Speaker 1: and then he just dropped the mic and he left,
46:32
Speaker 1: and we weren't done yet because then we heard the
46:34
Speaker 1: coin drop. An out comes Kazuchka Okada after his win
46:39
Speaker 1: over Brian Keith earlier in the night, he issued the
46:41
Speaker 1: challenge to Darby. So Okada comes down to the ring
46:45
Speaker 1: and now they're in the ring and he confronts Darby
46:48
Speaker 1: and he just goes next week you and me for
46:52
Speaker 1: your world title, and Darby tells him you're on bitch,
46:59
Speaker 1: and so official that on Dynamite. Next week we are
47:02
Speaker 1: gonna get Darby Allen defending the aw World Championship against
47:06
Speaker 1: Kazusko Okada. Now, the idea of Darby beating Okada clean
47:11
Speaker 1: makes me physically ill, especially before they do the Okata
47:15
Speaker 1: Takesha match. Like Tony Khan should be relieved of his
47:19
Speaker 1: duties if Okada goes in there next week and loses clean.
47:23
Speaker 1: So that's not going to happen. I would imagine that
47:26
Speaker 1: perhaps Takeshta will show up, maybe a little bit of
47:30
Speaker 1: a distraction. Even then, like the idea of Darby pinning
47:33
Speaker 1: Okada again, it just makes me sick. It just should
47:36
Speaker 1: not be happening. So I don't know how they're going
47:39
Speaker 1: to ultimately do the finish, but I'm sure Takeshta will
47:42
Speaker 1: show up and be involved in some way as he
47:44
Speaker 1: should be, as he should be unless they just want
47:48
Speaker 1: to have Okada beat Darby, which would be quite the swerve.
47:51
Speaker 1: They just walks around with two belts, drops one of
47:54
Speaker 1: them to Takeshta at double or nothing. I'd be okay
47:57
Speaker 1: with that. But anyway, so this hairshit, I was racking
48:05
Speaker 1: my brain trying to figure out, Okay, what could they
48:07
Speaker 1: have MJF put on the line here? And I kept
48:12
Speaker 1: coming back to two things. He puts his career on
48:15
Speaker 1: the line, which, yes, of course that makes the telegraphs
48:19
Speaker 1: the finish of the match. But let's be honest here,
48:21
Speaker 1: even this stipulation telegraphs the finish of the match. I
48:24
Speaker 1: don't want to hear from people like, oh, they couldn't
48:25
Speaker 1: do that, solid monster. They couldn't have him put his
48:28
Speaker 1: career on the line because then it gives away the finish.
48:31
Speaker 1: They couldn't have the Hangman stipulation where I promised to
48:35
Speaker 1: never again be able to challenge for the world title
48:37
Speaker 1: if I lose, because that would telegraph the finish. Do
48:41
Speaker 1: you honestly believe that MJF is going into this fucking
48:44
Speaker 1: pay per view and getting his head shaved? Either way,
48:48
Speaker 1: it telegraphs to finish. So the hair thing look what
48:54
Speaker 1: they're gonna do is they're going to lean into the
48:56
Speaker 1: fact that MJF. He's very materialistic, he's very vain person.
49:02
Speaker 1: They've had people on TV make fun of him for
49:04
Speaker 1: it before, you know, going to Turkey and getting you know,
49:06
Speaker 1: getting the hair procedure and everything, the hair plugs, whatever
49:09
Speaker 1: it is, and so it kind of for MJF. Yes,
49:13
Speaker 1: it's something that is obviously important to him. He spent
49:16
Speaker 1: a lot of money on it. I get it, I
49:20
Speaker 1: get it. But still it's like, eh, hair versus title.
49:29
Speaker 1: He's getting the belt back on that show either way.
49:31
Speaker 1: So I mean, at the end of the day, none
49:32
Speaker 1: of this really matters. But I mean, whatever, man, I can't,
49:38
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't know. I don't know anymore. Will
49:45
Speaker 1: Ospray there was one more thing from Collision. I wanted
49:49
Speaker 1: to mention here. Will Osprey was standing in the back
49:52
Speaker 1: with Brene and with Doc Samson for a medical update.
49:56
Speaker 1: And it's funny because the doctor is like, even though
50:00
Speaker 1: Will ignored my advice and he went to Japan and
50:03
Speaker 1: he wrestled. Whatever he's doing in his training, he says,
50:07
Speaker 1: seems to be working. And they're going to get an
50:09
Speaker 1: MRI this week. And if it comes back good, he's
50:12
Speaker 1: going to clear him. So that's the update on Osprey.
50:15
Speaker 1: She asked Osprey then about his relationship with the Death Riders,
50:19
Speaker 1: and he says he appreciates them letting him in on
50:22
Speaker 1: their training, but he's not a Death Rider. He never
50:24
Speaker 1: will be. But there's things that he knows he has
50:27
Speaker 1: to do to get to where he wants to be. Okay,
50:33
Speaker 1: that's about as good of an explanation as you're going
50:35
Speaker 1: to really get, realistically, considering how much of a blood
50:38
Speaker 1: feud this was up until a few weeks ago. Yeah,
50:41
Speaker 1: this is now the phase of his story where he
50:44
Speaker 1: has to sort of build himself back up from the
50:47
Speaker 1: ground up. And that's the whole purpose of the Death
50:51
Speaker 1: Riders here, is to get will Osprey to be that
50:53
Speaker 1: killer version of himself, to get him ready for that
50:56
Speaker 1: World Championship run that he is going to have, presuming
51:00
Speaker 1: he wins the world title at Wembley Stadium, as most
51:04
Speaker 1: people think he will. After that, that was the end
51:08
Speaker 1: of Collision for me. So that was the end of
51:10
Speaker 1: the most important parts of Collision at that point, and
51:15
Speaker 1: that was the end of the show. There you go,
51:20
Speaker 1: a very good main event tonight a very good main event.
51:24
Speaker 1: I can't say much about everything else. There just was
51:27
Speaker 1: nothing here that really excited me. Unfortunately, what if he
51:33
Speaker 1: changes his style because of the neck injury. See the
51:36
Speaker 1: thing with will Osprey, though, is he's not going to.
51:39
Speaker 1: He might incorporate some new moves into his move set,
51:42
Speaker 1: but will Osprey is always he's not going to be
51:44
Speaker 1: able to help himself. Will Osprey is still going to
51:48
Speaker 1: do all the stuff that he normally does. He's going
51:50
Speaker 1: to do the Fosbury Flop. He's going to do all
51:53
Speaker 1: sorts of crazy shit, the sky Twister press and everything
51:56
Speaker 1: else that's not going to go away. He's going to
51:58
Speaker 1: take these ridiculous bumps. He's gonna get dropped on his head.
52:03
Speaker 1: He probably should change his style up, but he's not
52:07
Speaker 1: going to. All right, let's see what we got here
52:13
Speaker 1: in terms of the super chats. Read your messages here,
52:19
Speaker 1: let's see what we got going on. Somebody asked before,
52:24
Speaker 1: what the like skull wash? It doesn't matter. We're not
52:27
Speaker 1: going to hit it, so it don't matter. It's looking
52:34
Speaker 1: like no be the booker and no phone calls. But
52:36
Speaker 1: let's get through what we got here. I appreciate you guys.
52:40
Speaker 1: Dried Chicken says rest in peace to Ted Turner. Also,
52:46
Speaker 1: he says, if only MJF pulled out the pinky finger,
52:49
Speaker 1: and he says one million dollars like Doctor Evil. The
52:59
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53:08
Speaker 1: needs to take a cold shower tonight. Easy there, Big
53:13
Speaker 1: Fella also says he man has the power. Yeah. Maybe
53:20
Speaker 1: Swerve is auditioning for a role in the Masters of
53:23
Speaker 1: the Universe sequel Mason Rook. Do you think Mason Rook
53:28
Speaker 1: is the next Brock Lesnar or obi Obi? Really No,
53:34
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53:43
Speaker 1: he is not. He'll be the first Mason Rook. He
53:47
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53:59
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54:33
Speaker 1: That could be a disaster. You know, it's interesting. Rock
54:40
Speaker 1: against Eugi Nagata actually sounds kind of interesting. I think
54:46
Speaker 1: I would probably go Marifuji and Ziggler, and then Rock
54:50
Speaker 1: and Nagada, and then the Von Eric and Hyabusa, probably
54:54
Speaker 1: in that order is what I would do. Who is
55:00
Speaker 1: Mason Rooke. He is the new rook e who recently
55:05
Speaker 1: debuted in NXT. Does not look like your typical NXT star,
55:11
Speaker 1: which is one reason he stands out so much. I
55:16
Speaker 1: like that. I like the fact that not everybody has
55:17
Speaker 1: to look the same and sound the same and be
55:19
Speaker 1: the same, because when that happens, that's fucking boring. I
55:24
Speaker 1: haven't seen too much of him though. What limited stuff
55:27
Speaker 1: I have seen of him though is impressive. But again,
55:29
Speaker 1: I would not be making comparisons to brock Lesner or
55:32
Speaker 1: Obafemi or anybody else. Let him carve out his own
55:36
Speaker 1: path and let's see how he does. Because we all
55:39
Speaker 1: know that if he's not making improvements fast enough in
55:41
Speaker 1: six months, he'll be on the cut list. Because that's
55:44
Speaker 1: how it works in WWA. We as we well know
55:50
Speaker 1: that is how it works in that company. Look at
55:53
Speaker 1: that an hour on the dot, very economical. Tonight. The
55:58
Speaker 1: next time I am live with you will be on
56:00
Speaker 1: Friday night. We will be talking SmackDown. Get ready, everybody,
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56:10
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56:14
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56:23
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56:28
Speaker 1: I don't even know if they have, I don't even know.
56:34
Speaker 1: I don't even know. But that'll be on Friday night.
56:38
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57:07
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57:16
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57:20
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57:22
Speaker 1: book the match and then you just let them go
57:24
Speaker 1: out there and kill each other, because no matter what
57:27
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57:31
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57:34
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Speaker 1: do what they do. That's it. That's all you have
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57:42
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57:55
Speaker 1: Are you live for Backlash? Backlash? Backlash? Yes? I am
58:03
Speaker 1: live for Backlash. I'm live for the five matches that
58:06
Speaker 1: we are getting in Backlash. You know what, I'm not
58:09
Speaker 1: even complaining about it. The show starts at six o'clock Eastern.
58:12
Speaker 1: We have five matches, and so you know, two and
58:16
Speaker 1: a half hours of the show will be commercials, but
58:19
Speaker 1: the show will be over by ten at the absolute latest.
58:22
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. And then I'm live
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58:27
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58:33
Speaker 1: and Sunday. You should all be very excited. Backlash. I
58:39
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58:44
Speaker 1: that Joey Styles promo was twenty years ago. This year,
58:50
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58:54
Speaker 1: Everybody can't wait for ad Lash on Saturday. Anyway. Be well,
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59:08
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59:10
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59:13
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59:15
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59:18
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