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16 - North Wrestling - The NCL Cup 2026 (a) Special Bonus Episode · Singlets & Suplexes: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to Singlet and Suplexes.
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  I'm one of your hosts, Pete. Evening, and I'm Luke, the
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  second host. The second host, indeed it is a
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  we're A tag team. It's a two man announce booth
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  and that's all we need am all right.
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  It is. Yeah, definitely.
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  If I had a T-shirt, would you be crossing your name, my name off
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  the top and having yours at the first edge and Christian's
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  current one on? AW, we.
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  Would have definitely have to follow suit and do that because
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  those guys know what they're doing, I suppose.
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  But actually, no, I wouldn't, because that's ridiculous.
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  Right. Do you think I will be the
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  Christian of the group, do you think?
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  You're definitely the edge mate. I'm the edge.
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  Fair enough, Excellency. I think you're a nicer guy than
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  me, though. Yeah.
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  I'd have to be the. I think you don't.
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  I don't think. I think you definitely are.
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  So I have to be the Christian by default, Yeah.
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  You have to be the dickhead. Yeah, I'll take it.
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  I'll happily be that, Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Christian's like
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  he's like all dickhead is me or like edges dickhead how you want
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  to look at it. Yeah, definitely.
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  So that's what I haven't you on this podcast.
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  I'll be with Dickhead. We'll put that on a T-shirt, get
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  that cool on there. So yes, we are back with another
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  episode of singlets and suplexes, but this is a bonus
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  episode, so we are not going to be doing our usual rundown.
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  There'll be no week in review, no a moment in time, no.
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  Did they really say that? No Cursed by the Wrestling Gods
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  and no poor wrestling feel good factor of the week.
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  But those will be coming as usual.
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  We'll be recalling that episode midweek.
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  So this isn't instead of that, this is just a bonus.
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  That's because we've had an away game, haven't we Luke?
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  Well have what a what a parents night out, didn't we?
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  Me and you that the adults went out.
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  They did indeed. So we went to watch N wrestling,
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  they put on the NCL Cup and this was at Anarchy Brew Company in
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  Newcastle upon Tyne. It was on Saturday the 9th of
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  May 2026 I think. I don't know how I want to do
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  this. Luke obviously would have your
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  experience of local wrestling before an independent, local
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  wrestling, and then what this was like as local independent,
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  but also like pretty fucking awesome wrestling, right?
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  Yeah, so obviously we're going to the full show in in a lot of
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  detail because that's why we went, you know, and obviously as
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  far as kind of local independent wrestling goes, you've got to
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  say that probably N's up. There's one of the best, if not
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  the best in the country at the moment.
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  But kind of local wrestling generally is pretty interesting
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  because like I did wrestling training when I was 10, like
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  1011 and like, you know, two, I've still got like 2 of my
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  longest friends that I met when I was there.
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  So kind of training 10 and 11, like, you know, I was never
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  anything amazing, but there was guys there who were older than
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  his and they were putting on local shows and kind of it's
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  it's one of those things where it really isn't all hands on
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  deck thing. Do you know what I mean?
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  You've got guys training people, you've got guys out doing the
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  Flyers. It's like it's a really kind,
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  it's a it's a community thing. And I think local wrestling is
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  important. And like a lot of things, it has
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  it's ups and it's downs, the kind of the scene, I suppose so.
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  But at the minute it seems to be riding a pretty good wave again.
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  So I think local wrestling's something that's kind of
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  massively important to kind of so people can kind of get out
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  there, get developed. I mean, oh, that kind of the
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  other kind of one that I've been to a lot of was ICW, so insane
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  Championship Wrestling. So me and you've been to a few
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  of them. Obviously they they did the
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  Riverside of Newcastle a few times back in the day.
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  They did the, what was the O2 Academy and then me and our good
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  friend Ian went to Glasgow when they actually sold out an arena.
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  So ICW kind of hit the height so much that, you know, this local
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  independent wrestling company sold out a local arena, which
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  was fucking amazing. So yeah, I think it's always
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  something where I think if you just watch WWE, you might not
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  realise how much local wrestling is out there.
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  But I've never ever been to 1 where like I've not had a good
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  time. Because I think they go one or
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  two ways where you have like a really good professional outlet,
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  like an ICW, like a N wrestling or you have like a really shit
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  one where they've advertised like Kane and the Undertaker are
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  going to be there and it's just like two of our weight blocks
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  and dress up. But so then it's funny.
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  So yeah, I'd recommend anyone to go and catch a local show.
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  Hopefully it's more a north than someone saying X pack Undertaker
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  is going to be there. But yeah, I mean, what what's
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  your kind of, I know we've been a lot of shows together, but
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  what's your kind of overall opinion and kind of experiences
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  with local wrestling shows? Yeah, I think locally, if you
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  look at the highs, so this was my third North Shore.
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  So I did Thunderstrokes 2 and Thunderstrokes 3, which are the
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  biggest shows of the year, which are the Walker Dome.
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  Huge shows. You know, I think in
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  Thunderstroke 2 I got to see Leon Slater win the North title
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  finally and then a year later I got to see him drop the belt
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  before he was obviously signed to TNA and has since appeared on
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  Smackdown and he's the TNA exhibition champion, I believe
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  as well. So you know, and he's got a huge
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  feature out of him over there now in America.
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  Also watched NX TS latest signing wrestle for north as
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  well on those shows. So you know, I think that shows
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  you just how good these shows are when big major companies are
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  coming over to sign that hunt. I think that's pretty huge, I
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  think in terms of local shows. So obviously N's like a huge
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  one. Obviously the from what I've
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  seen, I've seen them in Newcastle both times obviously 2
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  times at the Walker Dome, one time here at Aniki Bruco.
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  They also run shows around the area and Leeds as well, so a bit
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  further away from us. ICW obviously seen ICW both
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  times in Newcastle. Well, of course they are
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  Scotland's premium wrestling brand and then I've caught a
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  couple of progress shows here and there.
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  Obviously they are based down in London, but you know, they're
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  probably the three the three big companies that I'm aware of
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  anyway that put on like top quality wrestling product be a
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  couple of smart shows as well in sort of working men's clubs,
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  higher rooms where some of it's like not put the gas so well,
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  but then you have got a few bits that are really cool, but
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  everyone's still there like working the house off or trying
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  to get the people there a good time, right.
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  So I think you have to appreciate that there's levels
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  to this and I think if you can appreciate something that it's
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  lowest that when you get something out of ties that
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  absolutely melts your brain, right, with how awesome it is.
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  So I think there's room for it all.
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  But I think what we're talking about here, I think N is up
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  there with ICW, with progress wrestling, in my opinion.
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  And you know, it's probably not the most educated opinion.
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  It's haven't been to loads of shows, but they're probably the
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  three companies that I think of and I think are like fantastic,
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  like the backbone of British independent wrestling, if that
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  makes sense. No, definitely.
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  And I think one of the things, and I think this is, you know,
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  this is with duty fans as well. I mean, it's probably the first
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  thing me and you bonded with, bonded over, like when we met
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  each other working at the cinema back in the day.
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  And like I say, like 2 of the oldest friends I've got, I met
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  when I started wrestling training at 10.
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  But one of the things that kind of struck us last night at North
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  was just like how for like, say it was the first time I'd went
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  to a North Shore and it's like how much of a kind of sense of
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  community they've built. And like everyone like kind of
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  like just walking on the room, you know, the nod of the heads
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  kind of people within big groups.
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  Like it's had a really great sense of community.
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  And I think, you know, without going like too heavy in this
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  kind of current world that we live in, there's not a lot of
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  that. And I think being in that kind
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  of, you know, brewery room last night, it was fucking great.
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  It was an excellent atmosphere and it was just really positive
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  and kind of fucking cool. So kind of long, long made stuff
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  like that continue. We're kind of a bunch of people
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  can meet up with a similar end dress and just have a fucking
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  unbelievable nights. You know, it's I think the
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  community aspect of it's like phenomenal.
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  I think that is something you get at a local level because,
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  you know, we we you know, we were the little marks.
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  We paid the little bit extra to have the seats at ringside.
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  But if you'd had the standing seats, you were still extremely
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  close to the ring. And you, you know, you pay a
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  couple of £1000 for that now with WWE.
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  So it's kind of that. But you get like up close and
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  personal with the wrestling show.
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  So yeah, kind of long may that continue.
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  And I think we're getting older. And I was like, I wouldn't say a
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  little more like we're like old marks.
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  We're like, I needed a seat. So I'm very glad that we had
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  those. As an older man now 6037 years
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  old. But my back sometimes feels like
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  I'm 50. And I still found the plastic
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  seats a bit hard. Those and all them again.
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  So getting older, there was still some pain from it, but
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  definitely better than having to stand.
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  So now it was, it was a really, really, really cool.
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  No, it certainly was. Obviously, I know as you are, I
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  would say the resident, I mean, you, you do have a journalism
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  degree, Luke, so I'll give you that.
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  You do have that, you know, that's, that's why you're so
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  awesome at all the things you bring to the podcast.
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  Do you want to break down some of the North's origins?
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  A little bit of history that you've researched?
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  Yeah, so it's a big year for them, isn't it?
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  So they've got their ten year anniversary show in July, that
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  being that they kind of had their first show in July 2016.
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  So 30th July 2016 N had their first ever wrestling show.
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  You've kind of got a host that we've already touched on of
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  different venues that they've been at.
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  So obviously they're currently kind of a bit of a mainstay at
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  Anarchy Brew, but they'll have the bigger shows at the Walker
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  Dome. They've done shows at Riverside.
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  Like I say, they've gone further afar to Leeds.
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  And kind of next month, the weekend of June 20th and 21st,
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  they're doing a joint promotion with the kind of already
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  mentioned ICW where they'll be kind of going going to Scotland.
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  So yeah, it's a company that in 10 years is kind of massively
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  kind of help build kind of the North East and the north
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  wrestling scene massively. And you know, you've had guys
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  kind of perform on there if people like who's who now really
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  have kind of that UK wrestling scene.
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  So you've had Joe Henry, Pete Dunn, rampage Brown Gabriel kid,
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  whose axiom on Smackdown, as you've already mentioned, Leon
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  slate and then kind of the latest fucking massive start a
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  kind of beer N wrestling and I was on our TV screens, obviously
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  Will Cruz Mason Rook in NXT. So kind of in that 10 years,
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  just that that's just a kind of sample of some of the names that
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  have come through the door, not even on touching on some of the
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  legends that they've had there, like some kind of people like
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  Paul London and things like Gangrel, people like that.
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  So, yeah, I mean, it's a huge, huge kind of accomplishment in
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  10 years. And like I say, there's been ups
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  and downs. Obviously in that 10 years
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  you've had Covad, but they're still there and they seem to be
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  in like a really, really strong position at the moment.
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  And obviously, I say they've got the anniversary show coming up.
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  And then was it October where they've got another super show
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  at the Walker Dome where again, you've got a huge name and rhino
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  attendance. So it's a company that's just
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  kind of going on the up and the up if people they don't know
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  much about them. There's some cool documentaries
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  on YouTube that I would definitely recommend checking
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  out and even just kind of jumping on their kind of page.
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  They're searching N wrestling online.
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  They've got a cool little about them kind of goes into the
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  history of the business. They went on Dragons Den to try
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  and get some fun and that's worth kind of checking out as
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  well. So yeah, just kind of overall
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  really interesting kind of balls to the wall almost punk type
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  promotion that's still fucking not just alive and kicking, but
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  fucking doing absolutely phenomenal.
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  Let's say it was sold out last night, and I know the crossover
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  weekends with ICW next month are getting very close to selling
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  out. So if it's something that you
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  fancy doing, don't hang about. We had a friend who decided
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  yesterday wanted to come. Not a chance.
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  Them tickets were long gone. So yeah, get involved if you
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  want to go. Couldn't, couldn't push it hard.
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  I could. No, definitely not.
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  So I think that kind of takes us into kind of, let's just have a
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  little chat about the show itself.
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  What do you think? Yeah.
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  So obviously it was the NCL Cup. So main part of the show is sort
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  of it's it's a tournament for sort of very much like king of
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  the ring. I suppose 8 competitors took
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  part tournament rules or that it's a 10 minute time limit.
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  And then if if it's still undecided after 10 minutes, it
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  goes to no row break, sudden death.
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  Any interference would result in the DQ in the person losing and
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  then there's also No title shots for that person for one entire
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  year to try and sort of keep that at a minimum.
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  And on the outside of the ring, it is a 5 count to keep things
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  moving along smoothly. So yeah, I thought the rules are
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  really were interesting, but also like actually you were
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  really simple and subtle and like really added to like what
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  this tournament was. It was like it was hard hitting,
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  fast-paced. It was entertaining.
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  It was also, you know, dam in your face like balls for the
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  walls sometimes as well. And it was just very, very
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  entertaining. There was some other matches on
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  the car as well, which I'm sure we'll talk about.
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  But what was your thoughts on the on the tournament set up
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  before the NCL Cup? No, it was like you say, I mean
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  with anything where you're going in and it's new, kind of are the
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  rules going to be overpowering? But obviously I haven't
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  mentioned yet, but kind of the ring announcer there was Tom
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  Campbell, who's absolutely fantastic.
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  Like I think one of the things that kind of just pours out of
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  him is how much he loves wrestling.
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  And like when you see him doing his thing in the ring, he looks
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  like the cat that's got the cream because he's just fucking
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  loving every minute of it. And kind of, he came out, he
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  explained the rules, you did. And then it was like locked in,
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  wasn't it? It was simple enough.
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  Let's fucking get some wrestling going.
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  It certainly was like wrestling is best can be the most simple
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  sometimes, and I think this show was just like, Yep, here's
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  what's going to happen and then they're just delivered.
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  And it was not overcomplicated. It was just wonderful and
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  magical, No? 100%, yeah.
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  And obviously the main focus of that show last night was the NCL
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  Cup, so there's only two matches on that card that weren't
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  tournament matches. So it was very much like this is
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  what you're here for, this is what we're going to give you and
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  you're kind of, I think it's cool.
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  I think that's one of the things I miss where obviously they did
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  obviously go on AWE where obviously they have broke King
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  of the Ring back, but it's more kind of stifled now.
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  And you've got the final on a pay-per-view.
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  Like I missed those pay per views of the WE King of the Ring
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  where you'd have like maybe the quote as the semis and the final
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  on the one card. So it was really cool going to a
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  live event last night and seeing kind of these guys come out in
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  the first round, fighting round and getting your final and your
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  winner all in the space of about 3 hours.
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  Yes, and I think also obviously wouldn't be an independent
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  wrestling like obviously a lot of people there know N but if
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  you didn't and you've got to know some of these wrestlers,
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  you know, take, you know, the the two guys who win the final,
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  Ronan King and Judas Grey, for example.
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  Like you got to see them over over the whole night.
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  So you got to learn about them as you watch them.
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  And then when you got to the final, you know, you knew who
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  they were, you knew what they were about, you knew their
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  story, even if that was your first time there like that, like
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  having it all in one night. And I would sort of go for the
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  entire ride and I really enjoyed that and say by the end of it,
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  it was like one of them was very much, I didn't want to win one
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  of them. I was able to tune on.
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  But watching them both work, I was just so invested in it as
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  well. No, definitely.
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  And I think, you know, obviously we'll, we'll talk about it as we
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  go through the matches. But I think as you've just said,
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  obviously Judas, like we'll we'll see it now.
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  Judas great. And obviously Ronan got to the
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  final. But yeah, those two again, like
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  2 guys that I'd never seen before, but like right from the
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  bat with both them in their opening matches, which will go
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  into like they did more than enough character work and the
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  you know, the like 545 to 10 minutes throughout there kind of
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  get yeah, you fully got who their characters were and you're
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  like, right, this guy's a Dick. This is the guy I want to win.
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  Let's fucking see how this tournament progresses.
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  So it's kind of like a massive bit of Fair play to them for
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  like getting me invested in them so quickly if as I've never like
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  really seen them before. There certainly was.
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  So you break down the first round.
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  Yeah, so that's it. So the show opened with the
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  first kind of first round of the NCL Cup, which was Judas Grey
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  who have mentions Judas is a guy from Scotland and he was up
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  against George Hunter. So kind of what was your
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  thoughts for this as the opening match?
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  I think straight away it was 2 very different.
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  You know how George Hunter, who was very much look like, you
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  know, like a product of the dungeon, like a down and out
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  gritty sort of my base wrestlers, how he how he came
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  across how he looked Judas Grey, you know, I think look at a
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  cross between almost like Jeff Hardy and Jared Alito in a way,
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  like sort of sprinkler. Raven sprinkler Raven in there,
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  I thought. Yeah, definitely.
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  So. And that's absolutely meant as a
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  compliment, I think, like. You know, 100% yeah, he was.
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  Couldn't be more complimentary. Judas Grey.
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  Yeah. So I think it was like 2
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  opposite like aesthetics and then in the ring two different
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  styles. I thought the styles meshed
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  really well. We've got a fast-paced match.
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  We've got a clear winner. I think Georgia did enough to
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  make Judas look look absolutely fantastic.
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  And, you know, Judas was clearly going to be the one, the ones
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  that watching the tournament, I felt, from this opening match.
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  No, definitely any kind of had that element of like Jews come
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  out. He thought that he was the one
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  that kind of gravitated towards the most.
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  But again, not really know much about the two guys at the
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  opening match. It was cool because it's like, I
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  didn't really know who was going to win because it was like, I
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  don't know what these guys have really been doing beforehand.
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  So yeah, but I know, I guess when Judas come out, he had
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  that. He had that star fact, didn't
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  he? You were a bit worried because
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  he had Lady Gaga's music and there were film in it.
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  So you were just making sure that they've got the rights to
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  do that. You were a bit worried about
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  that. But yeah, he's got had that star
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  power, didn't he? Kind of, as you know, it's all
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  or I've coming out with that Lady Gaga music.
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  It gets the crowd into it and he just had something special about
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  him, didn't he? So he did.
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  I would call it Aura or yeah, definitely capture the crowd.
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  And yeah, like character work was on point in ring work
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  aesthetic or matched or blended well together.
• 17:32
  And you know, we, we got a fantastic performance.
• 17:34
  Definitely in that stage. So just for one clear Judas Grey
• 17:37
  kind of beat George Hunter in that opening match, which then
• 17:40
  took us on to the next match in the NCL Cup, which was Kuro
• 17:44
  versus Session Moth Martina. So Session Moth Martina is
• 17:48
  someone who I was familiar with because she's kind of but I'd
• 17:52
  say she's very big online like because of she's she's very
• 17:54
  funny. Like, you know, she loves the
• 17:56
  sesh, she loves drinking cans, she loves grinding on famous
• 17:59
  wrestlers. That's what she does.
• 18:00
  She asks for bands. So she was someone that I was
• 18:02
  aware of but had never seen live.
• 18:04
  But again, she was someone that just kind of come out straight
• 18:07
  away and had aura about her, didn't she?
• 18:08
  She had a what was that entrance music Where?
• 18:12
  Some big dance track though. Yeah, it was a big dance track
• 18:15
  which come up with a flashing jackets on.
• 18:16
  She had a tinny. It was exciting, it was good and
• 18:19
  I say it was. And she went up against a guy
• 18:21
  who I hadn't seen before. Kuro.
• 18:22
  Do you ever seen anything by Kuro before?
• 18:25
  So I'm the same as you. I'm very familiar with session
• 18:27
  with Martina. I've seen a few times on shore,
• 18:30
  sort of around the area, always is fantastic.
• 18:34
  Kuro I hadn't seen before, but he was a tall guy, very
• 18:38
  shredded, seemed very confident and I was like very intrigued
• 18:41
  straight away by him. Yeah, especially again, not know
• 18:44
  much about him because he come out with a balaclava on.
• 18:46
  So I was like, does he does he do that during the whole match?
• 18:48
  He doesn't. He took it off.
• 18:49
  But again, yeah, he come out like you say, ripped really tall
• 18:53
  and like, look the part And kind of again, it was kind of a match
• 18:56
  that played in Martina's strength, didn't it, where they
• 19:00
  did her kind of, you know, the drank the cans.
• 19:02
  She kind of reeled him in with that.
• 19:04
  And then that was a bit more of a kind of, I say this was more
• 19:06
  of a fun match, wasn't it, as opposed to a bit of a more hard
• 19:09
  hit note, now would you? I agree.
• 19:10
  Yeah, definitely. I feel George Hunt and Judas
• 19:12
  Green were very much like it was in the ring.
• 19:14
  It was like very serious straight away, you know, they
• 19:18
  were trying to get at each other.
• 19:19
  Like not a second was wasted on anything that wasn't an move
• 19:22
  almost. Yeah.
• 19:23
  And that was that set the tempo, which was fantastic.
• 19:25
  And then I feel this match was perfect, right.
• 19:27
  You've just had an absolute role.
• 19:28
  Our course of a match. We're going to give you some
• 19:30
  laughs. We're going to do a bit story
• 19:31
  work and we're going to sort of do some character work and we're
• 19:36
  going to sort of try not let your brain explode too much
• 19:39
  because you've just sat through like a fantastic wrestling
• 19:41
  match. And this was still fantastic
• 19:43
  wrestling match, but it was more, I said more for the
• 19:45
  characters, more for the crowd interactions, which is what you
• 19:48
  need. And yeah, I really enjoyed the
• 19:49
  balance between the first match and the second match, the both
• 19:51
  column and each other really well.
• 19:53
  No, definitely. And I say Kuru won that one.
• 19:56
  So kind of from the first two matches, you had Judas great
• 19:58
  progress and you had Kuru progress.
• 20:00
  Which then takes us on to the next match, which was Ronan
• 20:03
  King, who have already mentioned against Molly Spartan.
• 20:06
  So this again kind of another kind of inter gender match I
• 20:09
  thought was really fun. So again, this one kind of went
• 20:12
  more hard hitting from the off Molly Spartan was kind of all
• 20:15
  over Ronan again, kind of Ronan kind of got gotten by.
• 20:19
  He got got the crowd against him pretty quickly.
• 20:21
  Didn't there's a lot of chance of you just a shit Logan Paul.
• 20:23
  People didn't like him. It was just great.
• 20:25
  He'll work from the off from him, and I think putting him up
• 20:28
  there against Molly Spartan first was a good way of kind of
• 20:31
  really getting that crowd against them.
• 20:33
  This match, again, fairly quick one.
• 20:35
  But what I did like it is that Ronan King wins, but he does it
• 20:38
  by kind of using the rules. So he gets Molly to the outside,
• 20:42
  covers her in chairs, runs back in the ring, and she can't make
• 20:45
  the five count because like we said, one of the rules of this
• 20:47
  tournament is that it's not a 10 count, it's a 5 count.
• 20:49
  So Molly King can't make a sorry, Molly King, Molly Spartan
• 20:52
  can't make it back into a 5 count.
• 20:54
  So Ronan progresses. So yeah, I mean your thoughts on
• 20:56
  this one? Let's talk about the five
• 20:59
  counts. I think if you have rules,
• 21:00
  they're there for a reason. And I think also like show the
• 21:04
  rules. So this was, you know, one of
• 21:06
  the matches did actually end on a on a count out, which was
• 21:08
  absolutely fantastic. And obviously like body was back
• 21:11
  up and in the ring by like 6 or 7, right, and was livid with
• 21:15
  Ronan King. So like when after him, which
• 21:17
  was fantastic. But again, Sean Warren King, you
• 21:20
  know, he's sort of he hasn't cheated because he's used the
• 21:23
  rules, but he he hasn't been a gentleman either.
• 21:25
  He hasn't been a what's a word? I've told the word before.
• 21:28
  You know, he hasn't been a proper person.
• 21:30
  Shall we see? You know, he's definitely trying
• 21:32
  to pull a fast one. Obviously in terms of wrestlers,
• 21:34
  I'm familiar with Monty Sporton from watching a wrestle on ICW.
• 21:38
  Ronan King I wasn't familiar with.
• 21:40
  I do believe that he used to be in A tag team with Judas Green,
• 21:42
  like you were called Vanity. So yeah, they were just during
• 21:44
  the tournament that on on opposite sides of the brackets
• 21:46
  that you've got like former tag teams who maybe aren't friends
• 21:50
  anymore. No, definitely.
• 21:51
  And like both them, which will get to do a good job of kind of
• 21:54
  getting people invested in that. If you didn't know, you know, if
• 21:57
  you don't know and you don't. But we did by the end because of
• 21:59
  how they will prevail that. So yeah, Ronan progressed by
• 22:02
  beating Molly Spartan and that one.
• 22:04
  And then the final match of the kind of first round in this NCL
• 22:08
  Cup, you had Daz Black versus Henry Forst again.
• 22:12
  Thought this was a really cool one when these two guys come out
• 22:14
  because they look like completely different kind of
• 22:17
  wrestlers as far as kind of appearance goes.
• 22:19
  So I would kind of say Henry Fors had that kind of Uber kind
• 22:22
  of aggressive kind of ground map based wrestler kind of look.
• 22:26
  It was a touch of Timothy Thatcher, maybe Daniel Bryan
• 22:29
  about him. Where does Black come out?
• 22:30
  He looked more like the all kind of all singing, all dancing kind
• 22:33
  of what you see a sports entertainer, wouldn't you?
• 22:35
  He had the cool dragon like feather coat.
• 22:37
  He had the long, what do we call it, the kind of classic long
• 22:40
  wrestlers hair. And he just looked like a star
• 22:42
  as well, didn't he? Yeah, like perfect hair, perfect
• 22:45
  ABS. He looked shiny.
• 22:47
  You know, he looked like he was in there ready to like show us
• 22:50
  everything he had. You know, he looks like the
• 22:52
  like, you know, that's what you have on the con, right, And
• 22:55
  Henry Fouch is more like the like I said, he had that like
• 22:58
  trained in the dungeon look Vaudevillain look cross with,
• 23:01
  you know, the hard hitting strong style of like Daniel
• 23:03
  Bryan. You're right, Timothy Thatcher.
• 23:05
  So again, this was like styles caution again, like in this
• 23:08
  tournament, which was, you know, I thought really done really
• 23:10
  well. No, definitely in that match
• 23:13
  played out kind of to that extent, didn't it was kind of
• 23:15
  does that with a lot of kind of high flying kind of offence.
• 23:18
  And that's what kind of got him the victory in the end where he
• 23:21
  progressed, didn't he? So kind of from those first four
• 23:23
  matches, kind of if you're following along, you had Jews
• 23:25
  great progress, you had Kuro progress, Rolling King and then
• 23:28
  the final qualifier of that round was Daz Black.
• 23:32
  So kind of, yeah, I think again going in, this is kind of the
• 23:35
  first time ever watched the NCL Cup with the rules.
• 23:38
  I think all four matches had enough little differences in it
• 23:41
  and kind of different kind of guys and girls in there where
• 23:44
  kind of really got you invested and you're a bit like still
• 23:47
  weren't sure who was going to win it.
• 23:49
  So I thought it was overall kind of a fantastic opening round to
• 23:52
  get you fully invested in what was to come.
• 23:55
  Wasn't it was a great showcase for wrestling?
• 23:57
  Well, we, we saw lots of different moves, lots, lots of
• 23:59
  different styles, lots of different characters, like up
• 24:02
  close and personal and, and like, yeah, it was a true like
• 24:05
  look at what professional wrestling can be, which I really
• 24:08
  enjoyed. Definitely.
• 24:09
  And then that kind of that kind of wraps up that part of the NCL
• 24:12
  Cup, but not the first part of the show.
• 24:14
  Because then as we're kind of touched on at the start of the
• 24:16
  show on the weekend of June 20th and 21st, ICW and Northwest are
• 24:21
  not getting together for a cross promotion of two shows, one in
• 24:24
  Scotland, one at Anarchy Brew. So ICW kind of legend, I
• 24:28
  suppose. Kenny Williams comes out to kind
• 24:31
  of put that over, doesn't he? So he kind of mentions the show,
• 24:34
  says he's going to be there, he's just yet to observe
• 24:37
  tonight. And then he kind of leaves the
• 24:38
  ring and heads to the bar to get himself a drink, which brings
• 24:42
  out Scotty Rock, who was The Who is who, what not was, who is the
• 24:46
  North ultraviolent champion. So he's human that he's been
• 24:49
  left off the card. He's a champion.
• 24:51
  How dare the fucking leave him off the card.
• 24:53
  He kind of challenges. Kenny Williams calls him a
• 24:56
  little pussy. Challenge me to a match.
• 24:58
  Kenny just says now I'm having a drink.
• 25:00
  So he says he's not leaving the ring till he has a match.
• 25:03
  So who? Who answers the challenge to
• 25:05
  face Scotty Rourke? Mustache Mountain himself Mr.
• 25:10
  Trend 7. Yeah, this was fucking cool,
• 25:12
  wasn't it? Because Trent's just Trent
• 25:14
  Trent, Someone who like, I think if you saw him in the street,
• 25:16
  you think he has aura. There's something about that
• 25:18
  gentleman, isn't there? Even just his hair and like,
• 25:21
  just how he stands. Yeah, like just just how his
• 25:25
  eyes look like. Yeah, yes.
• 25:26
  He's like just the complete performer, isn't he?
• 25:28
  Yeah, he is in. Like, obviously it's that thing
• 25:31
  where like, it's not what it's all about.
• 25:33
  But like, you know, as we've said on this show a lot, I'm a
• 25:36
  big NXT fan. So obviously, you know, I
• 25:38
  watched all of the kind of UK championships.
• 25:41
  I've loved his kind of tag team with Tyler Bates and obviously
• 25:45
  their rivalry with Undisputed Era, some absolutely classic
• 25:48
  matches to go about and watch there if you haven't seen any of
• 25:50
  them. So like seeing him in this kind
• 25:53
  of brewery in Newcastle, like it was fucking awesome.
• 25:56
  Obviously because, you know, it's not in WE programming.
• 25:58
  He had, you know, White Stripes 7 nation army for his intro that
• 26:01
  he's got edited out edited and lovely.
• 26:03
  So that was fucking cool seeing that.
• 26:05
  So yeah, just like kind of a really cool moment.
• 26:07
  Obviously big mention of Scotty Rourke, first time I am familiar
• 26:10
  with him, but obviously first time seeing him live and he's
• 26:12
  another one who you look at and think, yeah, he's got that kind
• 26:15
  of it factor, his foot like he was, you know, the little
• 26:17
  shithouse heel, like, you know, short a guy, but kind of working
• 26:21
  that in his advantage where he kind of got that kind of chip on
• 26:23
  his shoulder about it. And then you get this kind of
• 26:26
  super, super violent match. Don't you see what I kind of
• 26:30
  talked about some of your highlights from this match?
• 26:31
  Because I think, I think this was my, I think this was my,
• 26:34
  this was my match of the night. Yeah, I think it was probably my
• 26:39
  second match of the night, I think.
• 26:41
  I mean, let's just talk about the ultraviolent champion first.
• 26:45
  You know, I think he had a great promo.
• 26:49
  He was able to voice that like shithead heel side of him, but
• 26:53
  then he's in ring of built. He was also fantastic.
• 26:55
  So it was like he's dangerous on the mic and he's dangerous like
• 26:58
  in the ring face to face as well, which I really enjoyed.
• 27:02
  I thought it was a perfect mesh of styles like like his sort of
• 27:06
  fast-paced, sometimes high flying, but always very sort of
• 27:10
  hardcore esque style mixing with sort of trend sevens British
• 27:14
  strong style. I thought it was like an
• 27:17
  absolute fantastic blend. You know, when Trent got the
• 27:19
  other hand and he was sort of absolutely like put him through
• 27:23
  the ring, especially some of those chops he was getting and
• 27:25
  some of those slams and suplexes and stuff.
• 27:27
  Fantastic. And then when, you know, when
• 27:31
  Rourke was able to sort of fall back on the Ultraviolet style
• 27:35
  and use the hardcore stuff again, Trent then went through
• 27:38
  the ringer as well. So both of them, like, you know,
• 27:41
  I'll be very sorted I imagine. No, when he mentioned the
• 27:45
  British strong style in them. Chops, obviously the trend 7 did
• 27:49
  some of those chops in the corner.
• 27:50
  We were very close to and fuck me, it made my ears ring.
• 27:53
  It weren't half hitting them heavy.
• 27:54
  So no, it was it was kind of like you say, very hard hitting,
• 27:57
  kind of some noticeable ultraviolent mad shit from the
• 28:00
  match. So Trent had a little box of
• 28:02
  tricks that he pulled out and it was full of drawn pins because
• 28:06
  we are British. That is right, isn't it?
• 28:07
  Drawn pins over here, not tan. Pins correct?
• 28:10
  Gold ones as well that used to put your wrestling posters on
• 28:13
  the wall with as a boy that is fucking used to numb your thumbs
• 28:16
  to push them in. But yeah, so it was a big, big
• 28:17
  spot where both them ended up getting all the thumbtacks.
• 28:20
  Trent got a load down his trunks by accident.
• 28:22
  I pull them out mid match. That was a fun little spot that
• 28:25
  we kind of built that little comedy spot into it.
• 28:27
  And then kind of the big finish. Do you want to talk about how
• 28:31
  the finish was set up? Because it was fucking brutal.
• 28:33
  I'm. Trying to think because so much
• 28:36
  happened this match was the finish with the door.
• 28:38
  Yeah, the door for me. So this door being set up on the
• 28:42
  other side of the ring where he was sitting, where it was like
• 28:44
  the door was placed across 2 chairs, essentially making a
• 28:46
  door table. And then the narrow went through
• 28:49
  it a few times throughout the match.
• 28:50
  But then like I said, when they did actually go through it, like
• 28:55
  we didn't see the London type things on the side of the ring,
• 28:57
  but we heard it and it sounded absolutely vicious, didn't it?
• 29:02
  It did in this door to kind of give it a description because I
• 29:05
  say this is AUK based promotion. It's the type of door you would
• 29:08
  just go to Wicks or being cute by.
• 29:10
  So when it was pulled out from under the ring, it was still in
• 29:12
  its cellophane. So they're trying to RIP that
• 29:14
  off. And you heard it kind of because
• 29:16
  it was concrete as well. The ground, obviously we were
• 29:18
  sat on the floor like it was fucking concrete, the ground.
• 29:21
  And you could hear you could hear the way it kind of hit the
• 29:23
  ground at one point that this was just a door that got from
• 29:25
  B&Q. So yeah, set up between two
• 29:27
  chairs to make a makeshift table with a door and trend fucking
• 29:30
  pile drivers and from the apron through the door to the concrete
• 29:35
  floor. Like you say, it was on the
• 29:36
  other side. So we kind of missed the spot.
• 29:38
  I've watched it since, but listener with the sword show,
• 29:41
  Jamie was on that side and we asked him at the interval,
• 29:44
  didn't look as bad as it sounded and he went probably worse.
• 29:46
  So yeah, it was it was a nasty little spot.
• 29:48
  But again, that's the type of thing you kinda would.
• 29:52
  That's the kind of thing you will see.
• 29:53
  It shows like this and it's fucking cool to see live, isn't
• 29:55
  it? No, it certainly is.
• 29:57
  So it certainly isn't like obviously we went outside the
• 30:00
  ring, but we start like a a great view was seeing it apart
• 30:03
  from when it was like on like another level what the ring is.
• 30:06
  But he said even though we couldn't see that part, you
• 30:08
  could you could hear it and you could tell what's going on.
• 30:10
  But everyone outside the building all like was amongst
• 30:13
  it. So it was, you know, yeah, just
• 30:16
  a, just a very visceral experience is the probably the
• 30:19
  word I'll use. No, definitely.
• 30:21
  And if people do want to check it out, I know N have put it on
• 30:24
  their Instagram, so definitely go check.
• 30:27
  And there's a couple of clips from last night on there as
• 30:28
  well. But yeah, that that spot in
• 30:30
  particular is on then. Then believe it or not, old
• 30:33
  Scotty wrote managers to get the win in the end, doesn't he?
• 30:36
  So obviously they have the massive pile drive through the
• 30:38
  floor, they both get back in the ring and Scotty managers get the
• 30:42
  pain in the end. So Scotty retains his title.
• 30:44
  But that wasn't the end of the shenanigans there was there
• 30:47
  because like Ads kind of said at the start of this match, Scott,
• 30:50
  you had called Kenny Williams out and called him a pussy.
• 30:52
  So Kenny gets the belt, hits him over the head with it, steals
• 30:56
  the belt and says if he wants it back you'll see him at ICW in
• 31:00
  Glasgow next month. So Scott, he retained his title,
• 31:03
  but he didn't leave the building with it.
• 31:05
  Yeah, I hope it's just really good.
• 31:06
  I mean, again, like building a storyline in a show that you're
• 31:12
  gonna have to wait the next month to watch the next part of
• 31:14
  it, right? Unless there's any little shows
• 31:15
  in between, I suppose. But it's not on telly every week
• 31:17
  stuff to tell stories differently.
• 31:18
  So the fact that Kenny Williams comes and like takes the belt
• 31:21
  obviously set up Kenny Williams versus Raw Corp free for the ICW
• 31:25
  N Weekender. And you know, now there's a
• 31:27
  reason why these guys need to destroy each other because
• 31:30
  Kenny's been cheeky. You stole the belt and he's like
• 31:32
  told him come, come and get it. So he's inserting himself in the
• 31:35
  situation to get himself a title shot, it seems like.
• 31:37
  And then you know Rourke's going to be living and gonna have to
• 31:39
  chase him up to Scotland to get it back.
• 31:41
  No, 100%. And I think the storytelling
• 31:43
  like on every match on this card was fantastic.
• 31:46
  And I think that is ultimately what kind of sets you apart is
• 31:49
  kind of like for an independent show.
• 31:52
  You've got companies that are fucking, you know, putting in
• 31:54
  the work, putting in stories. And then like what kind of said
• 31:56
  you might have a show that you'll go watch at a leisure
• 31:58
  centre. There might be a guy dressed up
• 32:00
  as Kane. It'll be a fun night, but you'll
• 32:02
  probably never think of it again.
• 32:03
  But like, just this alone was like, I fucking wish I didn't
• 32:06
  have so many responsibilities because I'd love to go to the
• 32:09
  Glasgow show and the Newcastle one.
• 32:11
  We're going to go the Newcastle one.
• 32:12
  But like just that little segment alone is like you've
• 32:14
  said, it's like, yeah, I want to go see, I want to go see if
• 32:17
  Scotty gets the belt back. And I think that'll be a fucking
• 32:18
  great match. So it's like it's class how like
• 32:21
  local promotion like that is doing stuff where it's like it's
• 32:24
  proper storytelling. No, it certainly is proper
• 32:27
  storytelling. And I said real hard hitting,
• 32:32
  like fantastic technical ability in that ring, like real
• 32:36
  professionals really putting on the line, really putting the
• 32:38
  work in. And that was what kind of took
• 32:40
  you to the interval. And I say shows like this, even
• 32:42
  the intervals are fun. So anarchy brews cool fucking
• 32:45
  place. So you can get yourself a
• 32:46
  fucking nice beer. If that's your table.
• 32:48
  You can get yourself a fucking log fire pizza.
• 32:49
  If you want some tasty snacks, we or you can go to the merch
• 32:54
  table, which I did because Peter went to the toilet and never
• 32:57
  leave us alone because I will buy merch.
• 32:59
  So I got myself a nice N wrestling T-shirt.
• 33:01
  But what I also got was a Trend 7 Mustache mountain towel so I
• 33:06
  could get me photo with a big man.
• 33:08
  So yeah, that was fucking cool as fuck as well.
• 33:10
  So not only do you get a great show, you can go meet the guys
• 33:13
  at the table at the interval. So that was really cool.
• 33:16
  It was really nice, wasn't he? Got the handshake, We've got the
• 33:18
  photo. We'll put that on the socials.
• 33:20
  There's also an incident at the show.
• 33:22
  It wasn't us sneaking Sour Patch Kids in, although we did do
• 33:25
  that. It was a stag do there, wasn't
• 33:27
  there? And the stag was dressed as
• 33:29
  Natural Libre and there you saw this.
• 33:31
  So what happened with the stag party?
• 33:33
  But before I get the stag point, I just want to say, you know,
• 33:36
  from the interaction you the interaction you had with
• 33:39
  Transcend, I think, you know, we're like you.
• 33:42
  Obviously you spoke here. You saw you on the towel.
• 33:45
  You sort of picked it up. Then you like you spun it around
• 33:46
  like you put his own and you put it on you like how he he wears
• 33:49
  his. You then made sure I put the
• 33:51
  north belt on you. Was wearing the belt.
• 33:54
  Yeah, I was A tag team partner. For the and he did that while
• 33:56
  you asking and then he paused for the pitch as if like, you
• 33:58
  know, I feel that and you know, it's obviously his livelihood,
• 34:01
  right, and these wrestlers livelihoods, but he did his best
• 34:04
  to make that a moment for you to remember and to really make a
• 34:09
  connection. And I think I thought wrestling
• 34:11
  is connections, right? And emotion.
• 34:13
  And I think just by something as simple as the things he did like
• 34:17
  probably made you a bigger fan of his and want to see him more
• 34:20
  and support him more, right? No, 100% I was, you know, I'm a
• 34:23
  36 year old man, but I was still fucking buzzing.
• 34:25
  And it kind of goes back the conversation I had on the
• 34:28
  WrestleMania podcast of maybe it was the fallout of it, but kind
• 34:31
  of the shitty stories that were coming out from Vegas of kind of
• 34:34
  wrestler fan interactions where it wasn't done right.
• 34:37
  But kind of in that situation where, you know, he's at the
• 34:39
  merch table, he's approachable and you go and do it properly.
• 34:42
  It was a fucking great experience as it's on a smaller
• 34:45
  level of Wrestle Mania, but it's still the same thing.
• 34:46
  Do you know what I mean? Like it's that's the type of
• 34:48
  experience that you want where both people are invested in it.
• 34:51
  And like you say, you're absolutely right.
• 34:53
  You went above and beyond, you know, twiddled the moustache,
• 34:55
  did his paws, put the towel on his, put the belt on his,
• 34:57
  fucking thanked his handshake. Fucking lovely.
• 34:59
  Never felt rushed, just good job.
• 35:03
  Absolutely, great job. And I said I was just there to
• 35:04
  take the picture really. But I just thought what a class
• 35:07
  guy like simple things about them guys wrong, but like some
• 35:11
  people don't do that. Nothing you really took care of
• 35:14
  you simply but really effectively to where he's give
• 35:17
  you a lot of value and he's made you care about him.
• 35:19
  He's made that connection with you, I thought.
• 35:21
  Yeah. And I think at one point,
• 35:24
  whether at the start, the interval or afterwards, every
• 35:26
  kind of wrestler that was on the show last night was at that
• 35:29
  table at one point. So again, I think it just helps
• 35:31
  build that community of kind of what that show is, where it's
• 35:34
  like the wrestlers are accessible in a positive way and
• 35:37
  kind of it helps you build that community.
• 35:39
  And it's fucking awesome. Like I say, because it's kind of
• 35:41
  to describe the venue, it's literally a brewery for people
• 35:44
  who have never been. So it's a brewery with a room
• 35:46
  where they put the wrestling on. So when you go in, there's like
• 35:48
  a kind of makeshift bomb pizza place.
• 35:49
  And then there was just like a tables was very small.
• 35:51
  It's very intimate. And again, just that kind of
• 35:54
  sense of everyone's in it together.
• 35:55
  And it was it was great. It certainly wasn't, unless you
• 35:58
  honest, I do. Well, yeah, obviously, you know,
• 36:01
  one of the reasons why these wrestlers are able to be at the
• 36:03
  merch stack tables is because the majority of people there
• 36:06
  respect them, where they'll engage with them respectively.
• 36:09
  You know, they might buy some merch, they'll have a
• 36:10
  conversation, might get a picture.
• 36:12
  It's all done respectively. And, you know, everyone's having
• 36:14
  a good time. Hopefully Oziak came back from
• 36:17
  from the interval and there was like somebody in the ring where
• 36:20
  I got close. And then also another scene,
• 36:23
  like, again, like Tom, who loves wrestling on the Mike scene,
• 36:26
  like get the fuck out of the ring.
• 36:27
  Like, like, and get out the brewery.
• 36:29
  And like, there'd been two of them in the ring.
• 36:32
  I only seen one. And it was like, yeah, they like
• 36:35
  got in the ring and just started messing on, doing the word on
• 36:37
  the ropes as such. Plus I don't think they were
• 36:39
  like, probably mentally able to do that.
• 36:41
  But yeah, they put themselves in the ring and just like, we're
• 36:44
  taking the piss and it's like, well, no, that's like these
• 36:47
  wrestlers are putting their lives on the line like in that
• 36:49
  ring. Like, that's the main part.
• 36:50
  That's the apparatus that keeps them safe.
• 36:52
  And I wasn't putting the show on.
• 36:53
  So like, don't get in there and mess about.
• 36:55
  It's absolutely ridiculous. Obviously these shows, you know,
• 36:58
  I mean, it shows where they have barriers.
• 36:59
  I mean, it shows where they dawned.
• 37:00
  I think it seems like North has a reputation where it doesn't
• 37:03
  need to put barriers up like on these smaller shores because
• 37:07
  everybody respects the product and the talent, which is how it
• 37:09
  should be. Obviously this stag do, it seems
• 37:11
  like maybe we're just there for the crack and we're really there
• 37:14
  to enjoy the wrestling as such. And yeah, absolutely took the
• 37:17
  piss, took liberties and rightfully so, were kicked out.
• 37:21
  I think probably just looking doesn't wrestle around the time
• 37:24
  because you know what, if you step in, if you step in the
• 37:26
  wrestler world, you deserve what comes to you, right?
• 37:29
  Yeah, what's to me? Have you got any images of that?
• 37:33
  Like jump the mind where guys get in the ring, get a fucking
• 37:35
  stiff hand from a wrestler. The one that was jumps to mine
• 37:37
  is Eddie. There's a clip out there where
• 37:39
  Eddie just fucking floors a guy that.
• 37:42
  Was you know that much, wasn't it as well?
• 37:43
  Yes, I think with Edge, yeah, I think it was I'm.
• 37:46
  One for me sticks out. Is it?
• 37:47
  I believe it's some Halloween havoc so Hogan versus Roddy
• 37:51
  Piper and then like a fix thing is due to come out before real
• 37:55
  thing that like a fun sting gets in the ring but you can tell
• 37:58
  it's like over booked to hell as the end of W 3 was bought.
• 38:01
  Like people don't realize this fun sting they think he's the
• 38:05
  fix thing if that makes sense. I don't know what.
• 38:08
  Something is it? Does that make sense?
• 38:10
  Yeah. He's in the ring and then people
• 38:11
  think he's the fix thing. So I think even like after you
• 38:15
  watch a backbone Michelle Hogan's like formwork and put us
• 38:17
  on another night. Macho was in there on behalf of
• 38:19
  the NWL. With with, with with with Hogan,
• 38:22
  Macho realizes. And a much older thoughts.
• 38:24
  Like fucking destroying them. Oh yeah, moral of the story is
• 38:28
  don't be a Dick. As Tom said, you know, everyone
• 38:31
  have a good time, just don't be a Dick.
• 38:33
  Which they were. But I say it didn't spoil things
• 38:35
  because it was dealt with fucking professionally and it
• 38:37
  was fucking great interval. Anyways, so then that takes us
• 38:40
  into the second part of the NCL cup.
• 38:42
  So the cup continues, it rolls on.
• 38:44
  So again, Judas is out who faces Kuro in the second round.
• 38:49
  Again, I think these two are probably the first match of the
• 38:51
  night where there was more more similar in style, both of them.
• 38:54
  I think one of the things that impressed with Judas is you look
• 38:57
  at him and you think he's like a high flyer, which you know, he
• 39:00
  does this one Tom Bond, he's very fast moving.
• 39:02
  Like he's the way he kind of jumps out the ring to hit the
• 39:05
  top rope. It's I've never seen someone
• 39:06
  quite do it like that. I can't really describe it,
• 39:08
  which isn't great for an audio podcast, but it is what it is.
• 39:11
  But he's actually like what I thought was Michael missing
• 39:14
  because of kind of the the appearance in the high flying
• 39:17
  stuff is that he's really hard hitting, wasn't he?
• 39:18
  There's a lot of strikes to his game, and that was kind of
• 39:21
  evident in this match with Kuro, where I think kind of there was
• 39:25
  a lot of high flying between both of them, but it was the
• 39:27
  hard strikes that kind of got them over the line and
• 39:29
  progressed them in this one. So kind of, yeah, the opener of
• 39:31
  the second-half, Judas beat Kuro.
• 39:34
  What were your kind of memories, kind of opinions on this one?
• 39:37
  I think you're right. This one, it did show more of a
• 39:39
  sort of like a hand to hand combat style of Judas's ability,
• 39:43
  which obviously, you know, this is the first time I've seen
• 39:45
  Jewish Russell. So this was the first time I got
• 39:47
  to see this side of him. I think he's ring awareness and
• 39:49
  where he plays himself and like the angles he comes out when
• 39:51
  he's in the ring, the way he hits a rope, by the way he goes
• 39:53
  to the top, the way he might avoid a kick or the way he lands
• 39:56
  a kick. I think he just seemed like an
• 39:59
  absolute like professional, which which he is, you know.
• 40:01
  But yeah, it's just like, you know, this guy, yeah, he knows
• 40:06
  what he's doing and he's putting on a fantastic Sean.
• 40:08
  Yeah, that's just that's just enjoying this ride.
• 40:10
  So yeah, like I said, he we've got to see more of that, sort
• 40:13
  of. I wouldn't say a strong style,
• 40:14
  but we've got to see more of that.
• 40:16
  I said the striking game, the kicks, the forearm was that type
• 40:19
  of thing mixed in with some of the high 5 we've seen in the
• 40:22
  first round, don't get me wrong. But yeah, we've we've got to see
• 40:25
  that sort of extra side of him and it really did give him the
• 40:28
  edge. No, definitely.
• 40:29
  And I said that progressed Judas to the final of the NCL Cups.
• 40:33
  And then up next was the other semi final, which was Ronan
• 40:36
  against Daz Black. So again, I won't like about
• 40:38
  this one is I think this was one of the more kind of just
• 40:41
  straightforward kind of good guy versus bad guy, heel versus
• 40:44
  face. Ronan being the the dickhead,
• 40:46
  Daz Black being the kind of white meat baby face.
• 40:49
  And I thought what I like about this again, if there's going to
• 40:52
  be rules, use them. It's great psychology.
• 40:54
  It worked from 1:00. So obviously I say Ronan
• 40:56
  progressed against Molly Spartan by bearing her in the chairs.
• 40:58
  So what does he do? Tries to do it again with Daz
• 41:00
  Black, doesn't he? But this time it doesn't quite
• 41:02
  work. But again, I just like the
• 41:04
  psychology of that. Would you say the same?
• 41:08
  Yeah, it was like he came out like people booed him even more
• 41:11
  because obviously he's been like, but he'll against Mori in
• 41:14
  the first round and then he tries again.
• 41:16
  It was just like, oh, like he's gone back to the he's gone back.
• 41:19
  He's like it's like a chicken shit heel type of handic.
• 41:22
  He's gone back to the well to try and use it again, but no,
• 41:25
  no, no this time does, Black says no, no, no.
• 41:29
  No no no. And despite his best effort, Daz
• 41:31
  Black isn't able to overcome Ronan.
• 41:33
  No Ronan shit House Ritos work in the end and Ronan beats Daz
• 41:37
  Black so that sets up your final.
• 41:38
  So like you said, we so your final is Judas versus Rowland
• 41:43
  and as you've already said, they were in A tag team together
• 41:46
  called Vanity. So again, you know a little, you
• 41:49
  know, a local pro wrestling show.
• 41:50
  But there is history there from other promotions from their
• 41:52
  life, really from what I've kind of been able to kind of scratch
• 41:55
  together the day there was looks like they've kind of trained
• 41:57
  together a long time, good friends.
• 41:59
  And now they're going to be facing off in the final of the
• 42:01
  NCL Cup. But before we had the final, we
• 42:04
  had the last match of the night that wasn't the NCL Cup.
• 42:07
  So it was for the North Heavyweight championship.
• 42:10
  You have the current North champion, Gene Money with Nathan
• 42:13
  Black versus Clint Morgan. So Clint Morgan, Clint Morgia
• 42:18
  with Trent 7 in his corner. Because those two are the
• 42:21
  current North tag team champions, are they not?
• 42:24
  They are indeed, yes. So, yeah, so again, this was the
• 42:27
  first time I've seen Gene Money properly and I thought it was a
• 42:30
  real treat live. He's kind of, you know, he's the
• 42:33
  he's best in show. So he comes out, you know,
• 42:36
  there's a lot of kind of dog imagery to his ring attire.
• 42:40
  And again, he's he's the heavyweight champion.
• 42:42
  But he wasn't afraid to kind of play it for laughs at times,
• 42:44
  especially with Nathan Black in his corner, who's very funny.
• 42:47
  He's all about the size. He's a big guy.
• 42:49
  That's his kind of thing. And yeah, I thought these two
• 42:51
  put another really good match as well.
• 42:53
  You had the kind of classic trend getting into it with
• 42:55
  Nathan on the outside, and then Gene and Clint kind of go at it
• 42:58
  in the ring. And yeah, I mean, I thought this
• 43:00
  was a really fun match as well. It was so gene money I've seen a
• 43:05
  few Times Now. Obviously they watch him win the
• 43:07
  North title at Thunderstruck, which I believe was from Leon
• 43:11
  Slayer. And yeah, you know, he's a guy,
• 43:15
  you know, a dog based wrestler I think is what he refers to
• 43:17
  himself. But you know, he's he's he's got
• 43:19
  a great body. You can be heavy hitting.
• 43:23
  You can fly as well. To be fair.
• 43:25
  You know, he's got great psychology.
• 43:27
  You know, you can play it for last three needs to you can be
• 43:29
  serious when he needs to. We can blend those things well
• 43:32
  as as well. And I think he was fighting like
• 43:35
  someone totally different in Clint obviously couldn't, I
• 43:37
  believe as a former Ultraviolet champion and comes from that
• 43:40
  type of background. Yeah, he certainly had certainly
• 43:46
  had that look to him. Yeah, I've seen him as your
• 43:48
  father champion, I believe. You know, he's been down
• 43:50
  Liverpool wrestling and some of the death matches down there as
• 43:53
  well, I believe at times. So it's great to see me on a
• 43:56
  heavyweight Championship match. And, you know, it was very much,
• 43:59
  you know, played a little video before and it seemed to be that
• 44:01
  like there'd been a bit of animosity and sort of Kim was
• 44:04
  like, well, I'll see you there if you put the tower on the line
• 44:06
  and sort of Jim, he's like, well, we'll do it.
• 44:09
  And yeah, I thought the point, the point of great match, that
• 44:11
  was great appearance. There's obviously a storyline
• 44:13
  going on between Gene Money and Nathan Black, which I think they
• 44:16
  told quite well within the setting.
• 44:20
  And although it seemed like that was probably the match was more
• 44:23
  to get that over than it was maybe for Clint to get over
• 44:26
  himself. I thought Clint did a great job
• 44:28
  of aiming himself look good and put on a great match but also
• 44:31
  and then giving Gene Money and Nathan Black the time they
• 44:36
  needed to then tell their side of the story.
• 44:38
  Yeah, so obviously Gene retains, doesn't he?
• 44:40
  And then kind of after the match, I like this again because
• 44:42
  it was kind of like, you know, poking fun and pulling the
• 44:44
  curtain back in a good way where Gene kind of goes in there
• 44:47
  tonight. Look, you start becoming A tag
• 44:48
  team, but you've got a kind of like had me back for a while
• 44:51
  now. But I know how wrestling goes.
• 44:53
  You know, you're going to turn on his.
• 44:54
  But I don't want that. What we've got special, you
• 44:56
  know, playing it for laughs. So you don't have to do that.
• 44:59
  I want I want you to become the number one contender.
• 45:02
  He did it as if he was going to propose to him.
• 45:04
  It was great fun. So Gene wants Nathan Black to be
• 45:07
  the number one contender. He accepts.
• 45:09
  So is he the number one contender?
• 45:11
  Doesn't look like it because this brings out Rio to the ring.
• 45:15
  So again, Rio won the first NCL Cup.
• 45:17
  Do me a little bit of research there.
• 45:19
  So obviously she's won some as she says herself on the Mike,
• 45:22
  she's beat kind of the best of the best at North Wrestling.
• 45:25
  So it was bullshit that Nathan was #1 contender and if anyone's
• 45:28
  going to be the number one contender, it's her.
• 45:30
  So it looks like again, progressing those storylines for
• 45:32
  the next show. It looks like Rio the 1.
• 45:34
  Rio's the one that's coming for Jean.
• 45:36
  Money's gold. That how you kind of took last
• 45:38
  interaction that segment. It's how I took it, but I also
• 45:42
  thought that maybe a left room for maybe like 2 contenders.
• 45:46
  So obviously we'll see how it evolves.
• 45:48
  What do we see? Does he have?
• 45:51
  Does Gene we have to defend against Nathan Black and then
• 45:54
  Rio after? Or does it become sort of sort
• 45:56
  of triple threat much? I don't know, down the line,
• 45:57
  does it evolve? Maybe.
• 45:59
  I thought I had it has the chance to evolve into something
• 46:02
  more than just a one more match. I felt it might not, but I
• 46:05
  thought it. But I feel like it could, and it
• 46:06
  could be very interesting. No, it's another little thing
• 46:09
  that the planted where it's like, I'm definitely going to
• 46:12
  the next show. Obviously hopefully I don't miss
• 46:15
  out on too much by not going to ICW in Glasgow.
• 46:18
  But yeah, I see it's just something else where they've
• 46:20
  kind of put that in there where it's like, yeah, I want to see
• 46:22
  what happens next. Now you've you've you've you've
• 46:23
  piqued my interest. Yes, like there's there's
• 46:26
  multiple possibilities and possibilities is what makes us
• 46:29
  sort of love wrestling so much. So I think it does make us
• 46:32
  think, right, we need to be at the next show if it's, if it's
• 46:33
  close enough, we need to be there, right?
• 46:35
  Yeah, definitely. As I say, is Scotty going to get
• 46:37
  his belt back? Who's the actual real number one
• 46:39
  content nanny and all this? And well, we'll talk about the
• 46:44
  final soon. But then obviously after the
• 46:46
  events of the final, like what happens to these two guys?
• 46:49
  So they end up, I'm not going to get back as A tag team.
• 46:52
  Or do they sort of become like respected friends again?
• 46:55
  Or is it, is it too, too much too late?
• 46:57
  I don't know. Exactly.
• 46:59
  So we'll get on to that one. So then that takes us to our
• 47:00
  final match of the night, which is the main event, the final of
• 47:04
  the NCL Cup. If you've been following along,
• 47:06
  you'll know that it is Judas Grey versus Ronan King.
• 47:10
  And again, kind of the background this one is that you
• 47:13
  say they've been tag team partners, they've kind of
• 47:16
  trained together. They've both had little
• 47:17
  necklaces on that represented the tag team.
• 47:20
  But Ronan took that off at the beginning to signify that this
• 47:24
  wasn't about friendship anymore. He wanted to win that NCL Cup
• 47:27
  and we've got a great little match between them, didn't we?
• 47:29
  So again, hard hitting. There was a spot where it was
• 47:32
  right in our corner where Judas is on the top rope and he puts
• 47:36
  Ronan on his shoulders and I was like, if they slip here, me and
• 47:39
  you are both dead. So a kind of really fucking
• 47:43
  mouth opening spot from them too where he hits the cutter on it
• 47:46
  from that it again. I mean, what were your thoughts
• 47:49
  on this is the kind of final? I think before we dive into the
• 47:54
  the wrestling, which was absolutely adrenaline fueled,
• 47:57
  like fantastic stuff. Like something at the beginning,
• 48:00
  obviously we knew the former tag team partners.
• 48:04
  The whole thing was like, will they cross paths in the
• 48:05
  tournament? Turns out they will and it will
• 48:07
  be in the final. I know I like something really
• 48:09
  cool at the beginning, which was just they obviously have like
• 48:14
  matching necklaces, which I think has a Lego piece on it
• 48:16
  from when they were tacky. My vanity and Ronan like ripped
• 48:22
  his off as if to say like we're done and give it the ref.
• 48:25
  And then obviously Judas took his off like beautifully and
• 48:31
  quite carefully. Then he gave his to the ref as
• 48:32
  well. So it's almost on our story that
• 48:34
  like Oh yeah, like we were this tag team.
• 48:37
  Like one of them's took his off like nicely ones ripped it off
• 48:39
  as if to say this doesn't matter right now because like this is
• 48:43
  an opportunity where like the winner wins the cup and you
• 48:46
  know, the winner, the winner goes on to greatness, hopefully.
• 48:50
  So I like that and how it's like, again, wrestling is the
• 48:52
  moves and all that as well, but also the things in between or
• 48:55
  before after the moves as well. And again, this little bit where
• 48:58
  they sort of had the match and necklace when they were tag team
• 49:01
  in the way they they took them off and given the referee told
• 49:03
  the story, which was fantastic. And then, yeah, the match
• 49:06
  itself, hard hitting, great chemistry, which, you know,
• 49:09
  former tag team, you would think really took each other the
• 49:12
  limit. That bit where they were on the
• 49:14
  turnbuckle right in front of us. I was like, wow.
• 49:17
  And like, yeah, man, like absolutely delivered like crazy
• 49:20
  adrenaline fueled hard hitting professional wrestling.
• 49:23
  It was awesome. Was also fantastic story bits in
• 49:26
  there where there was a bit where Ronan just can't can't put
• 49:32
  Judas down long enough. So there's a ref bump and then
• 49:34
  he goes to the outside. He gets the Newcastle Cup, which
• 49:37
  it's a big looking trophy. It looks really cool.
• 49:39
  Brings him to the ring that he's going to hit Judas with the
• 49:41
  trophy. But you know, always been a
• 49:43
  chicken shit heal this whole like whole tournament.
• 49:47
  When I also see Chickenshield, I want to say he's very capable in
• 49:49
  the ring as well. He's not actually backs.
• 49:50
  He's like a chicken shit heal, but he's also like the beast in
• 49:52
  the ring, almost like Triple H. You know, Triple H could be
• 49:55
  chicken shit heal tactics in those early 2000s, but he was
• 49:58
  also like legit, if that makes sense.
• 50:00
  No, definitely. So I just.
• 50:00
  Want to make sure that's clear. But yeah, gets the title and he
• 50:04
  can't bring himself to hit Judas.
• 50:06
  And he goes over a couple of times and, you know, you think,
• 50:09
  oh, he will end up doing it, but he he doesn't.
• 50:11
  And like I said, because because of their history, they've
• 50:14
  trained together being A tag team and he can't do it.
• 50:18
  And I thought I was that was beautiful storytelling as well.
• 50:20
  And then we obviously see Judas get the win.
• 50:23
  Ron leaves the ring, Judas asked for the mic, Ronan gets back in
• 50:27
  the ring. They sort of do they make up, I
• 50:30
  don't know. But they sort of respect each
• 50:32
  other. And Judas gives gets gets the
• 50:35
  necklaces I just mentioned from the beginning of the match off
• 50:38
  the referee and sort of hands them back out again.
• 50:40
  And it leaves us with a sense of like these two of they've been
• 50:44
  best friends, A tag team trained together.
• 50:46
  They've obviously fallen out. They've gone through the
• 50:48
  tournament together. They took each other the limit.
• 50:52
  Judas, sorry, Ronan went to like cheat to win and couldn't do it.
• 50:58
  Judas gets the win and then sort of Ronan's very much.
• 51:01
  He was crying, you know, I mean, it looked legit.
• 51:03
  He was it was a time when he was kneeling down in front of us.
• 51:05
  So he was out the ring like right in front of where we were
• 51:07
  when Judas was sort of on the top rope with the with the
• 51:09
  title. When I see a title, I mean the
• 51:11
  trophy. And he was like, you know, like
• 51:14
  tears of happiness almost. For, for, for his former tag
• 51:17
  team partner. Yeah, and I think it's worth
• 51:19
  pointing out as well that like how good of a main event it was
• 51:22
  purely for the fact that, you know, this was the third time
• 51:25
  would seem both those guys that night in a very short period of
• 51:28
  time. But at no point did you think
• 51:31
  like, right, let's wrap this up. I've I've I've kind of seen
• 51:33
  everything you 2 guys have to offer.
• 51:35
  It was like each match the hard there was a little bit something
• 51:38
  different in it and then the storyline between the two of
• 51:40
  them, which the both portrayed really well in a room that you
• 51:43
  know, maybe it's half of the people there didn't know they
• 51:45
  were A tag team previously. They were able to get that over
• 51:48
  very quickly. And I think it was kind of a
• 51:50
  good testament again, and not just obviously the in ring work,
• 51:52
  but obviously that level of storytelling where you saw these
• 51:55
  guys a good couple of times, but you were never bored of them.
• 51:59
  Indeed, no. It's like, you know, you
• 52:00
  mentioned that obviously listener the show Jamie, who was
• 52:03
  of course known as the Super 89. Who does send some questions
• 52:06
  since times for our housekeeping.
• 52:08
  He messaged on us on Instagram to say great storytelling in
• 52:11
  that last match. It's been building.
• 52:12
  It was showdown for a while. So obviously Jamie, I think must
• 52:15
  reference must watch NA lot. So from from he knew going in
• 52:19
  that is, you know, the storyline between these guys that we've
• 52:22
  been building this for a while. But again, that sure did such a
• 52:25
  good job where we hadn't been we doing as long, not the extent
• 52:28
  Jamie had, but like we understood what was going on and
• 52:31
  felt the emotion, which, you know, that's just sublime, isn't
• 52:34
  it? It's perfect story time.
• 52:36
  Yeah, it is, yeah. And it wrapped the show up
• 52:38
  nicely. Like I say, everyone, everyone
• 52:39
  went home happy with. I think, like I say, if you had
• 52:42
  a if you, I think, you know, because I think this is the
• 52:44
  thing with Reston, I think there's a there's a lot of
• 52:46
  things that make someone kind of really good at what they do.
• 52:50
  But I think, yeah, I think you have to have that aura.
• 52:52
  And I think out of all the guys and girls that come out in that
• 52:56
  first round, I think in this is a disrespect to anyone else.
• 52:59
  You would have picked Judas House as the one who kind of
• 53:02
  stood out the most. And then he backed it up in the
• 53:04
  ring. So I think like it was a very
• 53:06
  much the kind of the right guy one as well.
• 53:09
  You know, it seems like I've again, I've been looking he's
• 53:11
  kind of he's been going on it since 20/22.
• 53:13
  He debuted in 2022 on local promotions.
• 53:15
  So I feel like winning this trophy could be kind of his kind
• 53:19
  of really start a kind of surge up that local scene.
• 53:22
  Definitely, I think and as we were up to, obviously, like I
• 53:25
  said, Thunderstruck's there, big shots in October.
• 53:28
  Does he have a bigger part up here?
• 53:29
  I'm not sure where. Like I said, I've seen the likes
• 53:31
  of Leon Slater, I've seen Will Cruz, you know, both signed to
• 53:34
  big American promotions. Now, you know, wrestling, you
• 53:38
  know, for WE, I was in all Leon sales on Santa we, but he's
• 53:40
  wrestled on Smackdown and things like that.
• 53:43
  He's he's currently the you know that the TNA absolutely
• 53:48
  forgotten the name of the that championship.
• 53:52
  The he's, I know what you mean, He's he's going to be the
• 53:55
  longest reigning monsoon. I think he's seven days away
• 53:57
  from breaking the record X Division.
• 53:59
  X Division, that's the one, yeah.
• 54:00
  So you know, that's what I mean. And he's been there with the
• 54:02
  hard. He's made in that, in that
• 54:03
  faction as well. So, you know, he's he's working
• 54:07
  with some of the best wrestlers of all time.
• 54:09
  You know, the Hardy Boys you think of, you know, the Goats,
• 54:12
  right? And he's, he's in there with
• 54:13
  them. So.
• 54:13
  Yeah. 100% and like, you know, making it, you know, you WWE EWS
• 54:17
  like it isn't the be all end all, but like I think it's one
• 54:20
  of the cool things with going to these like one of the cool
• 54:23
  things about going to these shows, like you are seeing
• 54:25
  people who like 3 or 4 years time might be on kind of the big
• 54:28
  shows. Do you like, you know, that's
• 54:30
  not a discrete note, but you I mean like they might be on the
• 54:32
  kind of WESDWS. That's pretty cool to be able to
• 54:34
  say that you've seen them. Maybe that's just me, but I
• 54:37
  think it's something that always got a kick out when you're like,
• 54:39
  Oh yeah, I saw him. It's like me.
• 54:41
  Well, I don't know if you're at the instant champion.
• 54:42
  We have been ICW show with Aerosmith where it was Finn
• 54:46
  Balor's farewell to her before he debuted in WWE.
• 54:50
  Yeah, and it was sort of, it wasn't really known, but sort of
• 54:52
  people had an inkling. But yeah, sorry.
• 54:53
  It was at the Riverside I believe in Newcastle ICW where I
• 54:57
  believe we watched Finn Balor, at the time Prince David wrestle
• 55:00
  against was a Jack Jester for the ICW world.
• 55:03
  Title. Yeah, it was, yeah.
• 55:04
  And again, it might, might, might, might.
• 55:06
  That might make me have a stroke.
• 55:08
  It might make me sound lame, but like, I don't know, always had
• 55:11
  give me an extra affinity within Bala straight away where it was
• 55:14
  like, yeah, so I'm at the Riverside in Newcastle.
• 55:15
  That's fucking class. And then, you know, goes on to
• 55:17
  be the first ever fucking Universal champion and, you
• 55:20
  know, just come off a massive match at WrestleMania.
• 55:23
  And like I say, we saw him at the Riverside.
• 55:25
  That's, that's fucking cool. It's very cool.
• 55:27
  And I was like, because you've seen them up close and personal,
• 55:30
  I think I've got a picture with, with, with.
• 55:32
  Yeah, we did. Yeah, I've got that.
• 55:33
  Not we should try and find that. We'll put that on the socials as
• 55:36
  well. I've definitely got that on me
• 55:37
  phone I think. So, you know, I mean, I think it
• 55:39
  is I'm again, you just building connections and with these with
• 55:43
  these wrestlers, you know, build the connections and makes it
• 55:47
  more meaningful. And I mean, they're on the
• 55:48
  bigger stage. You're like, oh wow.
• 55:49
  Like like that's them who like I've seen a root for in person,
• 55:54
  like I've been around, I've had a conversation with.
• 55:56
  And then they'll be all like, on the television, like, you know,
• 56:00
  making a big hopefully. Definitely, Which was all about
• 56:03
  fun times, which I think kind of takes us to the end, doesn't it?
• 56:05
  I think that's a nice little kind of nice little description,
• 56:08
  nice little rundown of kind of the fucking fantastic night that
• 56:11
  we had out last night. Was absolutely fantastic.
• 56:13
  You know, it's funny how things have changed, you know, I think
• 56:15
  you had an alcoholic beer which was quite nice, a little taste.
• 56:18
  I had 0 beers, you know, I had a kind of iron brew.
• 56:21
  And as you mentioned, we did smuggle a large bag of Salt
• 56:26
  Patch Kids and into there which we, yeah, so very different,
• 56:29
  very different lifestyles from 10 years ago, isn't it?
• 56:32
  No, it was like I say, I mean my, you know, there's no secret
• 56:35
  out of my save towards the end, my drink, it was quite
• 56:37
  problematic. If I was still drinking, I would
• 56:39
  have done some fucking damage in there last night.
• 56:40
  I might have been in the fucking ring.
• 56:41
  So yeah, times have definitely changed.
• 56:43
  But yeah, it was absolutely fantastic night.
• 56:46
  What I will say is that like, and I think I said it, you like
• 56:50
  I enjoyed it just as much as ever.
• 56:51
  Like even without in fact, even when I say this, I feel like I
• 56:55
  enjoyed it more not having to like not having a queue at the
• 56:57
  bar. I have to like and I'm not
• 56:58
  saying like don't buy drinks because obviously today I make
• 57:00
  money. But you know, I felt like just
• 57:01
  by being there and able to watch it, having to worry about like
• 57:04
  getting in the queue for stuff or like, you know, worry about
• 57:07
  how many pints I have, I'm putting me paint or like how
• 57:09
  many times only go to the toilet because I've had too many beers.
• 57:12
  I actually feel like as a fine going there, like sober, not
• 57:16
  drinking, actually had a better time.
• 57:18
  That makes sense. Maybe I.
• 57:19
  Wasn't took it all in properly. Like I feel like it's it's the
• 57:22
  first local wrestling show I've ever been a sober.
• 57:25
  I think so yeah, I know it was it was there.
• 57:28
  You definitely put it more, give it the attention it deserved to
• 57:30
  be fair. Indeed, you know, said we had a
• 57:33
  great time with my third North Shore, so I've always do try to
• 57:36
  go there when possible. Obviously, since we saw the
• 57:38
  podcast thing, we want to do what together we have to now.
• 57:41
  So the next time North are putting on shores is the insane
• 57:44
  N Weekender. So this is the collaboration
• 57:47
  between North Wrestling and ICW. So I believe on the June the
• 57:51
  20th that is from Anarchy Bruco, it will be in Newcastle and I
• 57:55
  believe the ICW Championship was on the line in that match.
• 57:58
  And then the following day, June the 21st live from the garage in
• 58:02
  Glasgow is when the North Championship is on the line.
• 58:05
  So like how they flick the titles where they're on the line
• 58:06
  different nights. That's pretty cool.
• 58:08
  Obviously we're going to try and go to the Newcastle date.
• 58:11
  Obviously I think a game will get an old, so doing that
• 58:14
  Newcastle one on the 20th and then getting themselves up a
• 58:17
  Glasgow straight on the 21st. Thing is, that's a young man's
• 58:20
  game. Shall we see?
• 58:21
  Yeah, but hopefully they were filming it last night, so if I
• 58:24
  can get, if they do that again, I'll definitely make a point of
• 58:27
  watching next. I think if we can get ourselves
• 58:29
  to the monthly show, this will be a cool little extra bonus
• 58:31
  content every month as well. And just it's good actually
• 58:33
  stick out the house that I've said before, I've got a young
• 58:35
  child, it's good to get out. I worked out that was the last
• 58:38
  time I'd been out without me partner or me child since I'd
• 58:41
  went to your house to watch the Royal Rumble in January.
• 58:43
  So yeah N wrestling can give me my once a month.
• 58:46
  Wow. Well that's what's there for.
• 58:48
  So that's in June. They also announced that party
• 58:52
  Till You Puke is on Saturday the 25th of July.
• 58:54
  That's also Anarchy Brew Company.
• 58:57
  Which is their ten year anniversary celebration.
• 59:00
  So that's the ten anniversary one and on the 18th of September
• 59:03
  they have a show, I think it's called Thunder by the looks of
• 59:06
  it, Annika Brew Company again. And then on the 24th of October
• 59:10
  it is Thunderstruck 4, the walk at Dome, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• 59:14
  This is like the big show I've been the two of them.
• 59:16
  It was fantastic. I said both shows.
• 59:17
  I watch Leonce, I win the belt, I watch Leonce, I drop the belt
• 59:20
  before sort of going off to TNA stardom.
• 59:24
  Great shows, great local talent and like UK based talent mixed
• 59:27
  in with some some American talent.
• 59:29
  I said they've announced Rhino for Thunderstruck 4, but in the
• 59:32
  past Thunderstrokes I've seen Gangrel, I've seen Paul London,
• 59:37
  I have seen Raj, Jesse, the one day Maharaja, which is of course
• 59:44
  former duty champion. Yep.
• 59:46
  Who also has seen did I mention Scotty 2?
• 59:49
  Hardly. I don't know if I did so Yep.
• 59:51
  So there's been a few there. So yeah, it's a it's a big
• 59:55
  thing. They've also got a show in
• 59:56
  December, Saturday the 12th called World at Large, and
• 59:58
  that's also Anarchy Brew Company.
• 1:00:00
  So yeah, it looks like that Anarchy Brew Company in sort of
• 1:00:02
  until they're doing the Big Short Walk at Dawn.
• 1:00:05
  And they've had a couple of shows at Leeds earlier in the
• 1:00:07
  year, but no more needs for the rest of that seems like.
• 1:00:09
  Unless they announced them, which is pretty cool.
• 1:00:13
  I don't remember. We went to that TNA.
• 1:00:16
  That was film at the Walker Dome, didn't we?
• 1:00:18
  Yeah, we did, yeah. Because that's, that was the
• 1:00:19
  first time I got to see Will Osprey live.
• 1:00:21
  And that was something fantastic because I met you with your mate
• 1:00:24
  and I had my nephew with me. And that was, that was a fun
• 1:00:27
  night as well. Because I say Will Osprey was
• 1:00:29
  on. There was a couple of pig names.
• 1:00:31
  Eddie Edwards. Josh, Alex, I now believe.
• 1:00:38
  Yes. M1 of my favourites, Brian Myers
• 1:00:40
  was there with Moose. I was going to say, was he
• 1:00:43
  there? Because I felt that would have
• 1:00:44
  been a bigger deal for you, but yeah, he was.
• 1:00:46
  Yeah, he was I. Was trying to get the Major
• 1:00:48
  Moose chant going but nobody jumped on that one.
• 1:00:51
  Just me, me and your nephew. Anyone's chanting Major moose?
• 1:00:53
  Yeah. And my, my only advice for the
• 1:00:56
  North shows is that they absolutely don't need any
• 1:00:58
  promotion from us. So it's like if you do want to
• 1:01:00
  go get your ticket now because by the looks of it, they're
• 1:01:02
  selling out every month. So don't, don't hang about
• 1:01:04
  because it's going to sell out. That is indeed correct.
• 1:01:07
  I just want to say, you know, I think that that TNA show though
• 1:01:10
  was it was a very similar set up.
• 1:01:11
  It was at the water Dome, very similar set up how how N set up
• 1:01:16
  the Thunderstruck shows. And I don't know how much they
• 1:01:19
  were involved. I do feel that like like they
• 1:01:21
  were heavily involved in in in in in the set of flat TNA show.
• 1:01:25
  Yeah, it would make sense. I know Tom Campbell did the ring
• 1:01:28
  announcing that night as well, didn't he?
• 1:01:30
  So yeah, I think there was definitely the makes that it
• 1:01:32
  makes sense that there was a crossover there, so.
• 1:01:34
  Hopefully we had some more teeny reviews in the water.
• 1:01:36
  I don't think it's crossed with N involved.
• 1:01:37
  And maybe get some North town in the ring as well.
• 1:01:40
  Yeah, definitely. I think that brings an end sort
• 1:01:43
  of all of the away day review of our little trip out and.
• 1:01:47
  Yeah, it does. Little field trip.
• 1:01:49
  What did you do at the weekend? That's what we did.
• 1:01:51
  It is indeed, but yes, I think if you go to nwrestling.co.uk,
• 1:01:55
  you can check out everything on there.
• 1:01:58
  They've got a really cool website, lots of stuff on there.
• 1:02:00
  Obviously they're on it. They're on Instagram at North
• 1:02:04
  Wrestling NCL, so definitely check them out on there as well.
• 1:02:08
  They've put some awesome documentaries together, as Luke
• 1:02:10
  said on YouTube and you know, they stream the events as well,
• 1:02:13
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• 1:02:15
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• 1:02:18
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• 1:02:21
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• 1:02:23
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• 1:02:25
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• 1:02:26
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• 1:02:30
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• 1:02:32
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• 1:02:34
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• 1:02:37
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