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Explosive Double Header at TNT! - Episode 14! · Bradders Grappers

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Hello and welcome to Brothers Graphers episode 14 as we take a
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look back at last weekend in Liverpool at the Fusion
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Nightclub for TNT Extreme Wrestling where we had TNT
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Ignition No Limits 2025 followed with the not so friendly show of
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TNT Cold Day in Hell but I am not going to be hosting this
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alone. We have back on the show Miles
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Smith who almost seems to be my regular Co host at this point.
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Most of the time, yeah. We'll, we'll say most of the
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time, yeah. It's all almost my kind of
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husband or wife on this show, depending how how you want to
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play it. How are you anyhow?
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I'm not too bad. It's.
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Always good to hear. Unsurprisingly, I am tired,
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which will not surprise people, and I have a burnt tongue from
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woofing down food, so this could be fun.
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That all said, let's get into what happened last weekend.
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As I said, we had a double bill of action coming from TNT.
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Match number one on the No Limit card was Tommy Tanner Aye Aye
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taking on Nay J. The boy.
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I'm going to come back to Nay Jane in a wee little bit, but
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what was your take on this opening match?
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I really enjoyed this. This was the first time I've got
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an eye on Tommy Tanner. I enjoyed this guy.
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Very, very athletic. I will say he's got one of the
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nicest drop kicks I've ever seen.
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Yes, I I will agree with that. The only thing I was a bit let
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down on with Tommy this time he didn't have his fat willies surf
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shack gear with him. It was close.
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He did have his neon gear with him, but he he didn't have the
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the gear he had last time, which I quite liked.
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I've. Not seen what he had.
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Oh, I'll. I'll try and get a photo and
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I'll send it you. It wasn't too dissimilar from
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what he had on, but there was more kind of neon always I've
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got for an opening match. This was a really fun opener
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like you've just said 2 two young stars, both kind of
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showing what they can do both getting some decent offence in I
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I was joking with the group chat wrestling friends that I've got
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that every time you ever hear Aye Aye coming from Tommy
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Tanner, take a drink and you will be on your back inside 2
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minutes because he does like to say that quite a lot.
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But this as I say, fun little opening match went 9 minutes and
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55 did not really seem to go as I say 10 minutes.
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It felt it felt a lot shorter than 10 minutes, but for what
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they did a lot went into it and it was a really good match.
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I won't give out of fives as after I did last week so I'll
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I'll leave that there. But Tommy Tanner wins with a
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Swanton on Naji off the top rope to I think that makes him two
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wins in a row now at TNT so he is on a roll.
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This could be an interesting one.
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Match #2 saw Bullet taking on Liam McCarthy.
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What? What was your view of this one?
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First time seeing McCarthy but I don't know, he did not have a
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good debut. No bullet carried this match.
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I think anyone, well, we kind of mentioned it a fair few times of
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McAfee kind of looked gassed after about two minutes of this
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match. Bullet was doing a lot of the
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heavy the heavy work in this contest.
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We'll, we'll put it down to a bad day in the office, but he,
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McAfee didn't particularly come to play or have his A game with
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him. It was a very, very sloppy
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match. A lot of moves that should have
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hit did not get hit cleanly. Some offence that bullet was
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hitting on McAfee did not seem to particularly be sold.
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Well, I know he's supposed to be the monster McCarthy and bullets
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an equally big guy himself. But yeah, this this is 1 you
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kind of chop down to experience and you and you move on.
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It's our bullet winning in 7 minutes and 47 to to be as nice
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as we can with this. It was a variation of a pop up
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powerbomb. Yeah, McAfee looked like he
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struggled to get up high enough. It, it wasn't, it wasn't a good
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match, but Bullock's face looking in the looking into kind
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of what the, the glass on the stage side.
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I, I think if you're able to see his face, you it told its own
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story. He was not a happy man.
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And I get the feeling that could have been words because it, it
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was a, it was probably what you call a shitter.
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But again we we will say it was an off day match #3 saw Lally
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that being Holly Barlow and Lana Austin they took on Sky Moff
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which was the combination of Lucy, Sky and Session Moff
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Martina. This was pretty much
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consequences of the last show in September when it saw Lana
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Austin defeating Session Moff Martina with the help of Lana's
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bestest friend in the whole wide world.
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Our Holly likes to think that way at least and ended up with
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Lucy Skye trying to make the save by Martina.
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And of course we ended up with this tag team match.
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What was What was your take on this one?
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Fun tag team match. It was nice seeing Lucy and
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Session Moth tag together considering they faced each of
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us so many times. It gave off Sky and Martine are
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at the beginning very much rock and mankind kind of rock and
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sock early days vibes to me. Sky, who just had a look of what
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am I doing teaming with you just seemingly not wanting to.
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Martina just being kind of fun loving as she is.
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But I'll say they did work well together when they when they had
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to. This felt kind of more of a
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always half. It was half a serious match,
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half a comedic match, I felt, yeah.
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It was half and half. Yeah, we've with Polly
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effectively just having a go at the crowd and just she is what I
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described on Saturday, the Scrappy Doo of British
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wrestling, because she doesn't know how small she is, but she
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she's prepared to fight whoever. And Lana just kind of feels like
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she's trying to control Hollin calm down half the time because
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we all know Barlow is a little live wire.
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Yeah, this this was a really fun contest, Lally defeating Sky
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Moff in a time of 9 minutes and 10 seconds with a Barlow
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Stunner, which did not get all of it, did Holly?
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But she got enough to get the 123.
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It was. I'd say it was arguably one of
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the the better matches on the card.
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Yeah, it kind of did. It did its job.
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And if you kind of look back at it now, having Lana and Lucy
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fighting on the outside in the lead up to this, it did feel
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like they were building a bit towards Lana and Lucy for a
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future title match, which could still happen down the road, but
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that we may have hit a roadblock on that particular thing.
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You'll know why later. Match number 4 was a four way
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match with Liam Carr, Denzel Mack, Ian Skinner and Mickey
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Barnes. What was your take away from
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this? I love this match.
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This match. This was fun.
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This was a lot, a lot of fun. Like this opening bit of the
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match where Ian Skinner's trying to like, get Mickey Barnes, like
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Denzel Mack to team up against, like Liam Carr, and they all
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just turn on him. Brilliant.
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Like the picture I got where Ian's just in the middle of
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like, Liam Carr and Mickey Barnes.
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He's just like sat on the floor and he's just in like an
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absolute bad spot and it's just brilliant.
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It's it was a thing of we, we saw Denzel Mack making his debut
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back in September against Tommy Tanner in what was a decent
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contest. So it was interesting to see
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what Mack could do. Liam Carr has become this kind
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of more vicious side that he's developed in recent months,
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especially his win over Lewis Johnson last time out.
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Mickey Barnes is kind of just Mickey Barnes really.
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You know what you're going to get Just a powerhouse, but has
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comedy value, but not particularly trying to be funny.
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He's just got this horror about him and of course you've got Ian
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Skinner, who if you know Ian is, you just don't trust Ian, I
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think it's fair to say because you know you're going to get bit
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eventually by him. But this match went 9 minutes
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and 31 did not feel like it was 9 minutes and 31.
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There was a lot that actually happened in this to be fair.
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Skinner trying everything to get everyone to do his dirty work
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for him and then when he tried to capitalise he couldn't.
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And we had a nice spot where Skinner had Mac and Liam Carr in
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two separate submission holds but however found himself
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trapped because he had car in AI think it was a leg lock.
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Had Mac in a submit. I think it was like a neck hold
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and Barnes just kind of like rotted round.
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Just looked at Ian, just thought what are you doing?
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And Skinner's eyes almost popped out of his head.
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Ended up with Barnes giving I'm traffic.
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Did he chop Skinner? He just punched him in the
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cheek, yeah. Stiffed him so he hit him, which
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ended up with Mac taking a like a spinning net breaker and car
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just getting more pain and in getting more pain.
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It was a great spot. To be fair.
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I've I haven't done that justice, but it was a great
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spot. But yeah, 9 minutes and 31.
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What was? What was your view of things?
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I've had a lot of fun watching this match.
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The spot where Mickey Barnes gets trapped in the rope and
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they're all doing the Super kicks on him, that was loads of
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fun. Just Mickey Barnes, he just has
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something about him. A lot of people have been saying
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it for a while now. He's very underrated and it's
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about time that he's getting booked on more shows.
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Considering he's been wrestling for such a long time, I'm
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shocked that he's not getting booked in many places like this
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guy is. He is money.
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I don't know why many places aren't bucking him.
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He buck him on a show he can get good heat.
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He's a good character, like what's not to love?
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It was a thing of I'd heard his name mentioned often on the
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Dammit Vacant podcast when he they travel to like OPW and I've
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always heard kind of like good things about him.
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It wasn't until the last TNT show when he took on it was
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bullet, wasn't it? It took on bullet and from that
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point on I've seen him at a couple of shows.
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GPW is another and I've come away from every show that he's
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been on having his match being either my favourite one of the
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show or the second best match on the show.
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It it just shows how much kind of like he's, he's an I think
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he's an asset to any show that he appears on.
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He might not do a whole lot, but the phrase less is more with
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Barnes is definitely a good selling point from him because
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he doesn't have to do a whole lot.
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He can taunt the crowd. He can basically just get
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chicken fried rice shouted at him.
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He's he's like an old, a really old school villain, which you
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don't get these days on British shows.
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Because I think more heels tend tend to want to be kind of like
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the either the the cool heel or they want to be kind of like
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the, the likeable heel. Whereas Barnes just no, he comes
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out, he gets the crowd to Boo him.
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He feeds off it and that's it. It's it's what you want.
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So it's like you say, book Mickey Barnes on more shows,
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please, because he's great. The match itself saw Liam Carr
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hitting the Scouse lariat on Ian Skinner to pick up the victory.
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So and a time of 9 minutes and 31.
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As I have already said, yeah, this, I would probably say this
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was much of the show out of yeah, anything we saw on the in
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the afternoon, that was by far much of the match of the show.
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Brilliant match. The penultimate match of the
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first show, I saw Lewis Johnson going up against the Turkish
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wolf Sona Derson. I didn't see a whole lot of
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this, if I'm being honest, because I was helping out with a
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couple, with a couple of friends because we we had mobile phone
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problems. So I didn't see a whole lot of
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this. So I will be.
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So I don't know if you, I take it you some, well you would have
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saw more of this than that. You caught the full match.
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But from what I saw at least it looked a hard hitting contest.
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Yeah, this was a good, great match.
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And see Derson I haven't saw too much of, but whenever I have I
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have been impressed with him. Johnson has grown on me from the
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first couple of shows I saw when he was on like Atomic or they
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might have been off the page. But all the time I've kind of
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I've warmed to Johnson and I actually enjoy watching like
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when I see him more now because I don't think he was doing a
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whole lot on the first couple of times I saw him.
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So I'm beginning to see more of what Johnson's about.
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But as I mean having seen him last time out against Lewis,
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Lewis, Carr, Liam Carr, that two out of three falls match was
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brutal in the best sense possible back in September and
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whenever I was watching this match it just seemed to be in
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the same vein of him just dishing out Painted Derson
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Derson fighting back. But unfortunately for him, he
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came up against a cross face from Johnson and saw him
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chalking up the win at 11:37. So wasn't that a bad contest
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from what I saw? I enjoyed it.
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So it was a great technical match.
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Yeah, I've heard. A couple people since and say it
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was a It was a fun little technical encounter but seeing
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it is 1137 don't really know how you can call that little because
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it was the longest match on the card.
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Which brings us to the main event of No Limit.
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And so, a freeway battle for the TNT Ignition title, with Rampage
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Brown taking on the former holder in MVK and the current
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champion in Kritchie. I'll let you have first go on
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this. So Kritchie starts off the
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match. He tried, I think he tried to
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get was it a cheap shot on MVKI? Can't remember how the match
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started but I think Kritchie was like bold so that he had the
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title. So it started off with MVK and
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Rampage Brown still kind of not finished from their last battle
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in September. They had like a little stare
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down, didn't they? So they had a stare down.
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So they just kind of trash talked.
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Richie did not like this, obviously got in between the two
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when in truth it probably would have been best not to get
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involved, but then called them both out for disrespecting the
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the new champion and I think it ended up with him either being
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chopped by both or something. Something occurred and it we got
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another stare down between MVK and Rampage.
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Critchie for the first portion of the match seemed to just be
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on the outside because it seemed like they just.
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It almost came across as they didn't want Critchie involved in
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the decision. They wanted to continue to fight
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out and slug it out like they did last time because the last
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time it saw Rampage Brown after losing to MVK giving.
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I think it was about two or three pile drivers which led to
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Kritsche being opportunistic, a word I could not say last week
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on the Barbed Wire podcast that I helped out with.
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Kritsche came in, cashed in his briefcase, ended up winning the
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ignition title, and so set up this freeway battle.
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I will say this though, Kritsche gave a really good account of
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himself even though he's champion against the likes of
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MVK and Rampage Brown who outweigh him by a fair few
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couple 100 he it's the first time I've actually it's it is
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weird for me. I will say this, seeing Critchie
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being a a good guy on shows, because every other show I see
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him on, he's always kind of like the heel.
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So it's really weird to see Critchie being cheered by a
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crowd. But we had we had Tom McCall
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that was down at ringside. We kind of thought was he going
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to get involved in the contest? Well, he didn't inject him in
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himself in the match. He was dragged into it because
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we had MVK beating up Tom, showing him a seat on the front
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row, then saw him being thrown into the ring by MVK and
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hitting. I wanted to say it was like a
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Death Valley driver or. Yeah, it was like a Death Valley
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driver, and then Tom's just literally out for the rest of
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the match. Yeah, Tom got took away in the
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back. Critchie saw what had happened,
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tried to take up the baton for FTM.
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They saw Critchie kind of really being fired up on in this.
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Look like this is kind of where you felt, right?
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This is where things are going to change during the contest.
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I will say this though, during the match where we had MVK and
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Rampage chopping people or chopping each other on the
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outside. In the front row I got a good
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angle. That was brutal.
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To Rampage I think told a couple of them just to hold him and
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dished out a couple of brutal chops to MVK and the look of the
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person that was trying to hold him was an absolute picture.
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It was a bloke that had decided to put baubles in his beard and
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it was a nice bushy beard as well if I may say so.
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So after Rampage kind of dishes out his chops, MVK then returns
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the favour and does the same. And the look of fear on the
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front row was an absolute sight. The ending of this match was to
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me a bit confusing but I'll I'll get your opinion on it in a wee
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second. So Critchie was layout in the
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ring and we went to Rampage Brown and MVK kind of having
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their back and forth. MVK looked like he was on his
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way to regaining the title. However, we then had the
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appearance of 1 Mr Mickey Barnes.
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He got in the ring, took out both of Richie's opponents,
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grabbed hold of Critchie's arm, pulled it over Rampage Brown to
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retain the Ignition title, and now looks like we have a an
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understanding, I suppose is one way to put it, between Cricci
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and Mickey Barnes. I enjoyed Mickey, what Mickey
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did it, so it's made him now a face because we was unsure like
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for the past couple of matches if, where, what direction we
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were going to go with him. So it looks like he is a face
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with Critchie now and he I don't know if he is a honourary member
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of FTM or is he just taking a paycheck off Critchie or what we
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what we do in here? Is he Critchie's bodyguard?
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Well, the the thing with that, when he came out and attacked
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the other two, it's not exactly the most good guy thing to do.
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So after the after Cricci wins with we were all saying, oh,
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Barnes must be a good guy, but then he started to shove the ref
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a bit and we're thinking, OK, what is, is he?
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What is he Then? Is he an, an inbetweener?
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What, what's what's going? I think that's what's confused a
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few people. So is Mickey a good or a bad
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guy? Is creature good or a bad guy?
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Is I, I don't know if what they were trying to do has worked
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because there seems to be a mixed kind of response that I've
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spoke to on like what's going on.
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But I, I suppose within the next couple of shows it will be a lot
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kind of clearer on what's going on.
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But it did feel like they were trying to have MVK as the as a
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baby face. But if that's what they were
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planning it didn't work with with the entire crowd chanting.
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Where's your title gone? Yeah, I, I see the direction
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they're going with with Mickey Barnes.
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I think he's going to be like the guy it helped Critchie just
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keep on winning. He's just going to be there
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supporting Critchie. But if Liam or Tom's not there,
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I think Mickey's just going to be that guy.
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It's like the support for Kirchi.
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So I think I'm going to go off crowd reaction.
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I think we're going with a face Mickey bounce here, so I'm
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looking forward to that. I've never seen him face.
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No, so we we we'll see in the the next few months, but this
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this was one of the shortest matches on the show, clocking 8
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minutes and 42 seconds. We then will move now to the
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evening show which was told day in hell.
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If you were AVIP, you got an extra bonus match and saw Ty
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Archer taking on Alan Crowe first.
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I think this was Crow's debut. A lot of fact to say.
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I think. I know it was his debut.
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I did enjoy. I have mentioned this elsewhere
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on the table that we had upstairs in the balcony.
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I think some of the letters that he threw out when he came out,
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he'd wrote kind of a bit of a background all what his
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character is trying to go for to it is very much kind of like the
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Crow vibes his end. I did love his entrance though.
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I will say that I think me adding black and like a noir
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shot to it on the the video I think makes it very much even
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more crow like no time put down for this, but it was a fun
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little bonus match. We got Ty Archer, we think,
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because we're not fully sure. One with a low blow on Callum
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Crow did hit arguably one of the nicest cutters I've seen for
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some time with a springboard cutter, but Ty Archer wins.
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And then we moved into the main card, which saw as your opening
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contest a TNT Tag Team title match with Act 2.
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That's Benjamin Harland and Jack Knudson trying to defend their
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titles against Lycos Gym and former TNT Tag Team champions
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against Lycos Gym in Kid Lycos and Kid Lycos, too.
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What's your views on this one? This was a very hot match for an
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opener. The crowd were into this
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straight off the bat. A lot of like it started off
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very slow with like the top rope like manoeuvres, like they kept
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repeating that move over and over again.
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Yeah, started off very, very slow.
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Like basic tag team moves, in out, in out, copy each other, do
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some simple tag moves and then the pace just went from one to
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100 very quick. Yeah, the the whole kind of like
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twisting the arm and having the tag partner jump off the top
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rope onto the arm. It was, it was almost like
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tennis because Act 2 would do it a couple of times.
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And then Lycos Jim had, I think it was Harland isolated and then
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beat to him. But then once this match really
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got going, it didn't fully split the crowd, but there was a
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healthy contingent of Lycos Gym fans in the crowd.
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I'm trying to see what notes I have.
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It was as you say, it started off slow and the pace quickened
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because it wasn't the longest match on the card.
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But I think they were very much building up to this towards the
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back end of things as we saw Act 2 finally hitting the day
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tripper on Kid Lycos to retain the tag team titles.
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Yeah, like you said, this was a this was a good match to watch.
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I'd say 2 of the established teams on the the UK circuit
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because he seems to be all over the place, especially Lycos Gym
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much much to my friend Mr Mr Ogden's dismay because he seems
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to think they get booked far too much too often.
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But I will say this for Lycos Gym, I have found myself in
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recent months kind of not being as drawn to him as I I have done
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in the past. But the the whole attitude
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change with kid Lycos and it's mostly a progress thing.
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That's really, we've kind kid Lycos becoming a heel and kid
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Lycos to still being a babyface to a degree.
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So you've kind of got that dynamic and I think that's now
38:11
starting to seep into other promotions.
38:18
But yeah, this was a really, this was a really fun opening
38:21
match. Got the the crowd, as you say,
38:25
hot, 14 minutes and 5 seconds did the job, got the crowd going
38:35
and that's that's really all you want from an opening match match
38:39
#2 on this effective tie. Clash of champions, if you want
38:47
to call it that. Unofficially, we went for the
38:51
Ultra X title with Shay Monet defending against Scotty Rourke.
39:01
I thought this was a really good contest.
39:05
Both giving as good as the other got.
39:10
Always great to see Scotty Rock no matter where it is.
39:16
I think he's almost had a renaissance in in recent months.
39:23
I think the the Big Gay Brunch has really kind of been where
39:30
his careers got a bit of a springboard because he's kind of
39:37
wrestled at North and won the ultraviolent.
39:41
Like, yeah, he has won it. He I was going to say he had won
39:45
it, but he didn't. He stole the title, but I think
39:48
he did actually win it. I could be proved wrong on that,
39:53
but his career just seems to be improving and seems to be
39:58
getting booked more at a few more places which is a bonus as
40:04
well. Shane Monet showing how
40:09
dangerous they are. This was this was a really good
40:15
match. I thought, I don't know what you
40:17
thought. I enjoyed it.
40:20
Shane was just showing how cocky and arrogant he was in this
40:24
match. He was taking Scotty Rockers
40:27
like some rookie wrestler, like totally disrespecting Scotty and
40:33
just basically treating Scotty like he's just like this average
40:38
wrestler, which he is not. He is like one of the best high
40:44
Flyers in the UK. Both these two matched
40:49
perfectly. Shame on A getting some big heat
40:56
in this match. Yeah, Scott will say.
41:01
That is, I think Scotty should have won that match.
41:09
I can see why, but if if they're going to run it back again, I
41:14
would not be disappointed. I would love to see I would love
41:18
to see him have a second go because this is one of my
41:22
favourite matches on on of the night.
41:27
Looking back at the what we had, it's our shame.
41:32
Manet pinning Scotty Rock having spat at Rock in the face hitting
41:39
a kind of Michinoki driver. Although it seemed to land have
41:44
Scotty land more on his shoulder than than anything.
41:49
So that was in a time of 15 minutes and 45.
41:57
I will. The back end that I have missed
41:59
out as well was how Shane Monet used like the title belt, tried
42:06
to cheat the way to victory but then tried to get the belt clock
42:13
Scotty and the referee grabbed it off him.
42:16
Scotty then went to do the same and was in the end.
42:21
It's turned out to be his Achilles heel in this pardon
42:30
because as soon as the referee took the belt off him, he got
42:33
spat at, then ended up being hit with that Michinoki driver and
42:39
was on the back of a defeat. We then came to the TNT Extreme
42:48
Division Title Deathmatch, which featured Emerson Jane defending
42:55
against Lucy. Deathmatch.
43:01
I thought, I thought this one began quite slowly.
43:08
It was a very slow build I thought, because I think they
43:14
knew what they wanted to do and I think they were just trying to
43:17
get the the crowd more engaged. Because from where I was it, I
43:25
thought it took a it took a while for him to get the crowd
43:29
fully going for this contest. I don't know if it trans.
43:34
I don't know if you thought that translated the same.
43:37
I forgot them eventually, but it took a while I thought.
43:40
Round level I think from floor level it looked like a lot
43:45
better from watching it on the floor.
43:47
I think thing with balcony view on confusion watching death
43:51
matches because I've watched a few death matches up there.
43:54
The vibe is so much better on the floor for watching death
43:57
matches. If you go into TNT you know
44:00
they're not doing fusion next year because they're at the
44:02
hangar. But always watch death matches
44:06
on floor level. Not watching my balcony because
44:10
it doesn't transcend as well. To be fair, when when I saw
44:16
Frill kill, all of them seem to kind of generate a buzz, but it
44:21
just felt like the the first kind of 5 minutes of this
44:25
contest or maybe first 8 minutes, it just I think people
44:32
were kind of waiting for something to happen.
44:36
That's that said, this was not a bad match by any stretch of the
44:41
imagination. This was a really good match,
44:44
but it was just kind of like the the the start was a bit slow,
44:48
but once we got into the match, it really did kind of like pick
44:52
up there was, I'm trying to think of spots we had in this,
45:00
obviously the miles. They did the big start, the big
45:06
opening bit at the start where Lucy got Irish whipped into the
45:10
glass in the corner to the that was the opening bit because it
45:16
was a reversal into the corner. Yeah, into the the light tubes.
45:22
Yeah, the light right up in the far corner.
45:27
And then, I don't know, it just felt like either something they
45:32
were going to use wasn't there and they just.
45:37
Looked like they left my trade but the trade didn't really
45:41
work. The trade was like.
45:44
Yeah, there was. There was a couple of things
45:46
early on where they tried things and it Eva didn't work as they
45:53
wanted to because I think they had the board that had I think
45:57
this was later on they had a fair few light tubes connected
46:01
to the like a bit of ward. Oh yeah.
46:04
Lucy got thrown into it and I think we were all expecting it
46:08
to explode and. Yeah.
46:10
Nothing happened. None of the tubes smashed, and
46:13
then when the tube trade troop ball come off the ring, none of
46:17
them were broken. Yeah.
46:20
It's it was almost like the the props didn't want to play ball
46:26
in this, but there we we had that we had him fight on the the
46:32
ring apron and I'm trying to think who hit the was it Jane
46:37
picked up Skyne, put him through?
46:41
Was it a table he went through? Yeah, it was a table on 2
46:44
chairs. Well the table didn't even break
46:47
it like slipped off the chairs. It still looked brutal, but like
46:51
the table slipped off. I'll, I'll say this for that
46:54
spot, despite the fact it didn't break the, the look of the two
47:00
chairs pinging either side made it look, I'd say it actually
47:06
made it look more brutal. And then kind of like once we,
47:13
we got a bit more into it, we, we had Emerson Jane using a
47:16
dart, which I think again, if anyone ever pulls out a certain
47:22
weapon, you know who's going to get it used on him.
47:27
Jane has a dart put through her cheek.
47:31
We then have, what else did we have?
47:38
Can you remember anything else? We have the big Mitch and
47:42
Oakwood driver off the middle rope and Lucy Anderson.
47:49
I'm trying to thinking on it. So we had Sky hitting a
47:52
Michinoki driver from the middle top rope.
47:58
Emerson Jane did a moonsault which I think missed.
48:04
Then Sky hit a lovely frog splash which got a two.
48:13
We then had Lucy disappearing and bringing out a sheet of
48:19
glass. We were trying to think what she
48:24
was going to get, came out with this sheet of glass and ended up
48:32
towards the back end with Emerson Jane power bombing Lucy.
48:36
Sky threw that sheet of glass before hitting the Minge driver
48:42
to retain her Extreme Division title in a time of 21 minutes
48:50
and three seconds. I enjoyed this.
48:56
He despite the the props not particularly playing ball in the
49:00
contest. I thought it was.
49:04
I thought it was a really good match for what it was.
49:07
Yeah. And that wasn't all.
49:13
We then had Emison Jane asking for the microphone cuts a promo
49:21
and speaks how when she wanted to do kind of like death match
49:26
wrestling, none of the the boys, as she said, kind of like wanted
49:34
her to to be doing it because kind of boy thought he was lazy.
49:41
But she said over the the last couple of years, more women are
49:44
doing death match wrestling, notably singling Lucy sky out if
49:51
she just had that match with. And then came the announcement
49:55
that on the 27th of September next year, when it's the big
50:02
double header weekend, the Sunday, we'll see the first ever
50:08
Women's Deathmatch tournament in the UK as Sirens Fury has total
50:17
carnage at the Hangar, which is going to be an interesting one
50:25
from now till then of who is going to be part of this Women's
50:29
Deathmatch. There's been a few names banded
50:34
about that I've seen. I've got a few names in my head.
50:39
So we we will wait and see on that particular junction.
50:49
Also as a result of this match, unfortunately Lucy Skye posted
50:56
last night that she sustained an injury from this contest and has
51:05
been ruled out now for the rest of 2025 S speedy recovery to you
51:14
Lucy, hopefully we we see you in the ring.
51:18
Ascending with Lucy, yeah. Hopefully we see you back in the
51:24
ring sooner than later. But when it comes to health,
51:30
that always comes first over entertainment.
51:36
Moving back to the show and match #4 saw the experience in
51:44
LA, Taylor and sexy Sky Smithson taking on kind of, I'll be
51:51
honest, my team in hyperactive, that being Anita Von and
51:57
Sapphire Reed. It was an interesting contest.
52:05
I thought the crowd seemed to be quite split as well.
52:12
I fought for this. There was a lot.
52:15
There was a lot of the experience.
52:19
Yeah. What?
52:20
What would you say on this one? So this was the first time I've
52:24
seen hyperactive tag. I've only seen Sapphire read
52:28
once when she faced Lana Austin Atomic last year, so it's the
52:35
first time I've got to see Anita Vaughan and Sapphire.
52:38
Second time I've seen her so I've not.
52:42
I didn't really know too much about Hyperactive.
52:44
I've not watched any of their matches so it was like it was
52:48
different to me watching A tag team like them too.
52:53
They are a very different tag team from what you used to
52:59
seeing in women's tag, quite a unique style.
53:06
I think hyperactive kind of is very much them.
53:10
They are very hyperactive in the ring, especially when they're A
53:14
tag team. It's like 2.
53:20
I was going to say Imps, but that's probably not the right
53:23
term. Gremlins.
53:27
Let's go for gremlins. They're literally just two
53:32
demons Who it's weird when you see him in singles action
53:39
because Anita Vaughan, when you see him in singles is very much
53:44
more a methodical kind of silent killer and a wrestler.
53:55
And Sapphire Reed is almost equally the same.
53:58
They're both kind of very focused when singles, but put
54:03
them together and they're just, they just create havoc.
54:10
But as I said, I am a fan of both of them.
54:15
So no surprise who I was cheering for here and who was
54:19
devastated afterwards. But this I will say this for I
54:26
have seen this match prior back in August I think it was, so
54:33
that match was different to this one.
54:36
If anything this match I feel was better because I can't
54:41
remember a whole lot about the previous encounter, but this one
54:49
seemed to be very much like 1 Upsman ship between the two
54:55
because it'd be hyperactive Hood, isolate Sky Smitson and
55:00
then the the experience to try and isolate Sapphire Read and it
55:10
was a very back and forth contest I thought very
55:14
enjoyable. Unfortunately, I say on my part,
55:20
the experience, one with a double team to win in 13 minutes
55:27
and 28 to retain the women's tag team titles.
55:36
I've seen two different style matches now with the experience
55:42
because we saw the experience against the She Wolves last
55:45
time, which was mostly just power based and they seemed more
55:51
speed. So what it does show is they can
55:56
wrestle to any style the experience.
56:00
So we'll I suppose we'll see who they face next, but I'm just
56:07
wondering who they may. We then come to the penultimate
56:15
match of the night and they saw Conor Mills taking on Leonardo
56:21
Darwin with One thing you will get with Darwin is comedy, but
56:32
with a lot of seriousness. But Darwin coming out with a
56:37
massive gold chain and mimicking Conor Mills was an absolute joy
56:46
to watch. I mean his entrance, I could
56:54
watch his entrances all day long to be fair, because you never
56:59
know what you're going to get with him.
57:03
But then when Connor Mills came out, I actually thought it was a
57:08
grand old car at one point with what he was wearing.
57:13
But when Mills is in the ring and Darwin's on the outside,
57:17
Darwin is literally just mimicking the the movements of
57:22
Connor Mills, but throwing in a bit of John Cena as well to the
57:27
to the wrap, which I kind of got a kick out of in fairness.
57:35
What? What did you how did you feel
57:38
about this one? I enjoyed this.
57:43
I've been wanting to see Darwin for ages.
57:45
He's been one of my guys I've been wanting to watch.
57:49
I've never seen him before. This was the first time I've
57:52
actually got to see one of his matches.
57:54
I've seen a fair bit of Mills. I really, really, really like
57:57
Mills. This guy is one of the fastest
58:00
rising talents. His move set is unbelievable.
58:06
His strikes, his technical ability, he's got the speed.
58:12
He is literally like a create a wrestler on WWE.
58:15
He's like maxed out in every start.
58:17
This guy is like a superstar. I love that they went for the
58:22
strong style and then Darwin was taking the piss out of it when
58:26
he did the thrust and that that just summed this match up.
58:32
Mills just wanted to beat the shit out of Darwin and just
58:35
Darwin was just sticking around. I did like the the two parts one
58:42
that you've just mentioned where Mills had basically sat up and
58:49
Darwin had done a move and says strong style and thrusted his
58:54
groyne into the back of his head and walked through him.
58:58
Which left my mate up in the balcony in almost floods of
59:02
tears and had to lay on the kind of on the seating part because
59:10
he was laughing so hard over it. And the other one was, I think
59:17
he has Mills in. It wasn't a tile.
59:22
I think he had him in like in an arm lock or something.
59:26
And then said time for sports entertainment and then just gave
59:31
a kiss to Connor Mills on the cheek and ended up just taking a
59:37
slap or a slap barrage from the Mills watching.
59:47
Seeing as I've only been like following British wrestling for
59:50
a couple of years now, one of the where I saw Mills the first
59:56
time to where he is now is if I've seen a lot of progression
1:00:03
with him. Because when I first saw him, he
1:00:05
kind of just looked like, just like a normal wrestler.
1:00:11
There was, there was nothing spectacular or anything flashy
1:00:15
about him. He he might have just had like
1:00:19
good matches and that was effectively it.
1:00:23
There wasn't a whole lot to him. Then he's gone down the the True
1:00:28
Grit route with his kind of like his big fur coats in chain and
1:00:33
everything. And I think at that point I
1:00:37
think he had something, but he didn't know where or what to do
1:00:42
with it. And I think he's kind of kept
1:00:47
that idea and just thought, right, what works and what
1:00:52
doesn't work with what I'm doing now.
1:00:56
And he's kind of shaved off a lot of what he was doing.
1:01:02
And this is kind of like what we have now, which is working so
1:01:07
well for him, be it progress, Rev, pro, panel, all the top
1:01:14
promotions. And I think what we're seeing
1:01:17
now in Mills is all the potential he's had is now coming
1:01:22
out and we're seeing a really good version of Connor Mills.
1:01:29
But going back to the match itself, some of these strikes
1:01:37
that he was doing to Darwin were absolutely brutal.
1:01:44
I I would not have wanted to be Darwin at any point in this
1:01:47
contest would be slaps, kicks, punches.
1:01:54
The only shock of this entire match was that Mills actually
1:01:59
ends up with a cut on his head towards the back end of it,
1:02:05
which I don't know how he sustained that.
1:02:09
It should have been Darwin's blood in in truth.
1:02:14
But Mills wins with a tap out victory hitting the ankle lock
1:02:23
and that would not be the the last time we would see Mr Darwin
1:02:28
as we head to our main event of the card and so the world title
1:02:38
With Tate Mayfair's defending against Drew Parker.
1:02:47
I thought this was a an interesting contest as well.
1:02:52
Yeah, it wasn't where I thought they were going to go with it,
1:02:55
but it a lot of it made sense, I felt.
1:03:03
I'm surprised he didn't do it as a stipulation match to begin
1:03:05
with. Standard match.
1:03:08
It was an interesting, interesting match.
1:03:13
I think a lot of us was thinking that his, Tate said.
1:03:17
If he wins, he's going to bar like death match wrestling which
1:03:24
a few of us then thought well is this going to be Parker wins And
1:03:28
then the only way that Mayfair's can get his title back is Parker
1:03:35
brings him into his domain of a death match.
1:03:40
Which made it interesting because you didn't know who was
1:03:44
going to win. And having that kind of doubt in
1:03:51
your head is always a good thing in wrestling I feel because you
1:03:55
don't want to make it too obvious.
1:04:00
But this was a it was a hard hitting physical, very much
1:04:08
played up to the bad blood that the 2 have ended up with the
1:04:15
initial match being thrown out by DQ Drew Parker winning.
1:04:23
I'm trying to think was it a low?
1:04:26
Was it a low? Low.
1:04:28
Yeah. No, sorry, low.
1:04:30
He pushed, he pushed the he kept pushing the referee.
1:04:34
And then he low blow drew him from the rest.
1:04:37
So that led to the referee disqualifying take Mayfair's and
1:04:41
thought he'd get away with it until we kind of called and
1:04:48
said, right, we just need Greenwood to come out now and
1:04:50
get a match restarted. And as soon as we said that, who
1:04:54
pops out James Greenwood and says no, no take you, you're
1:05:00
not, you're not winning that way.
1:05:03
We're going to have a no count out, no disqualification match
1:05:07
to determine a winner. And having had Leonardo Darwin
1:05:14
kicked out of the match earlier, Darren then came back.
1:05:20
This was after Drew Parker had grabbed some light tubes from
1:05:27
under the ring take Mayfair's had put some brass knuckles on
1:05:32
his hand. Missed initially.
1:05:36
Parker knocked. I think he knocked Mayfair's out
1:05:39
for a brief time. This led to him going to get the
1:05:45
light tubes. I know he hit the rewind cutter.
1:05:51
Then he went to get light tubes and as he was getting back into
1:05:55
the ring, Darwin tried to make the save.
1:06:00
Ended up taking a light tube to the back, and as soon as Parker
1:06:08
got in the ring, Mayfair's clocks in with the brass.
1:06:11
Knox picks up the 123 and retains his TNT World Title as
1:06:21
he currently has it for a title reign, which stretches now to as
1:06:31
of the day of recording 808 days as the TNT Champion.
1:06:41
Yeah, I thought this was a good match for the the show to end on
1:06:48
and what what we've got, it's at least you're now thinking who is
1:06:55
going to take the title off Mayfair's?
1:06:57
Is it going to be Parker or is it going to be someone we
1:07:01
haven't looked at and. Possibly.
1:07:05
It's got you thinking. So after the the match it has
1:07:13
Parker apologising to the crowd and saying that I will get the
1:07:17
title off him somehow, some way. Then says they have an
1:07:25
announcement to which everyone was watching the screen.
1:07:31
And as we said in September, that double header on the 27th
1:07:37
in the evening while we have the women's deathmatch tournament in
1:07:43
the afternoon. Later that day we have the
1:07:47
Tournament of Death UK tournament.
1:07:52
Oh, sorry, the Tournament of Death UK as TNT is going to be
1:07:57
joined by CZW Combat Zone Wrestling from the United
1:08:04
States. And if you don't know CZW, look
1:08:12
em up because it's one of the most violent promotions you will
1:08:20
find anywhere, but is also home to some some of the best
1:08:28
wrestling that are some of the best wrestlers down the years as
1:08:31
well. And it's very in keeping I feel
1:08:36
with TNT as well. You've you've got a mixture of
1:08:39
wrestling and violence. So it it seems a good
1:08:47
combination, a good fit you could say for these two.
1:08:55
So with that, their next show is this coming Saturday in Bradford
1:09:02
for their first ever one there and we have 5 matches announced
1:09:09
so far as we have Gareth Kelly and Critchie taking on Sam
1:09:15
Bailey and a mystery opponent MVK will take on Mickey Barnes.
1:09:24
You could say that's following very closely after what happened
1:09:30
this past weekend. Sky Smithson takes on Emerson.
1:09:35
Jane Bullitt faces Sam Gradwell, which will be an absolute
1:09:42
banger. And for the Progress world title
1:09:47
man like Derice defends against Tommy Tanner.
1:09:56
There's more likely to be possibly one or two matches
1:10:00
still to be announced because we are not at Saturday yet and we
1:10:04
have a fair few days to play, but that card looks stacked.
1:10:10
That card is juicy. I'm looking at going that show
1:10:14
that that ignition card is better than what we have last
1:10:19
weekend. I'm looking forward to the show
1:10:22
like I was looking at going it originally.
1:10:26
I know it's a late it's a it's quite late for an ignition show.
1:10:29
It starts at six O clock, so it's timing wise depending on
1:10:32
what time it finishes getting back from Bradford.
1:10:35
But these five matches that are announced, I'm 90% sure I will
1:10:41
be attending this one. Only thing a lot of the TNT
1:10:45
regulars aren't going the show, which is a shame.
1:10:48
But I've spoken to quite a lot of the regulars and they're
1:10:51
saying they're not going, which is a shame because this card.
1:10:54
Looks fantastic. I'm wondering if those views
1:10:58
will change having seen the card now, or if they if they'll still
1:11:04
kind of like give it a miss but. If your views have not changed,
1:11:08
your foolish. I do know one person that's
1:11:13
going. Louise is going because I've
1:11:17
already been asked if I was going and I said I wasn't.
1:11:24
So there's there's going to be 1.
1:11:27
I can think of another person that will be there as well
1:11:30
that's very close to Bradford, that being Mr Wrestling Jeebus
1:11:38
himself. So I would expect him to be
1:11:41
there, but unless. He knows it, which is a
1:11:44
surprise. Is he not?
1:11:46
Bradford. No, Mr Bradford is not at his
1:11:48
own show. Oh, that's an interesting one.
1:11:54
I know about it and he's not even there.
1:11:57
I was like, of course you're out of Bradford when a Bradford show
1:12:02
is on. That typical?
1:12:04
Yeah, of of all the shows as well that you'd think would be
1:12:09
kind of like good for Jeebus, this would be one of them.
1:12:16
But yeah, that's effectively all we have for this episode.
1:12:21
In terms of the wrestling action.
1:12:24
Well, people just randomly start messaging me.
1:12:31
It's a good indicator to say hurry up.
1:12:34
But we have a couple of shout outs, one being getting random,
1:12:42
random text. If I don't know, shove off, we
1:12:47
have the group wrestling podcast which helped me out, looked
1:12:53
after me the other day. We also have rambling about
1:12:59
wrestling, which I was a guest last night on their show, which
1:13:06
will probably go out tomorrow I think.
1:13:10
If not, it will be Friday. That is Jack Beno and Samuel
1:13:19
talking all things Future shock as we prepare for the future
1:13:24
shock ornament. I can't remember what the actual
1:13:29
show is. I think future shock of the
1:13:31
lightning or lightning of the future shock, something like
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that. It's it's an awful name.
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I've said stated this many times, it's an awful name.
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So we kind of chat who's going to win that and do a long review
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and it went on a quite a fair bit.
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So Jack has his work cut out for him in trying to edit that down.
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But before we go, give a quick plug also to the Go Fund Me page
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for Millie McKenzie, who as many know has been a staple of the UK
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scene, is currently having a rough time as she is waiting to
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have a liver transplant which she badly needs.
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So a Go Fund Me page has been set up and at the time of
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recording in hoping to raise 13,000 we stand at the
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incredible 12,230. So hopefully by the time this is
1:14:54
the microphone squeaks. Hopefully by the time this goes
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out it will have hit that target, if not hope by weekend.
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But that is all your podcast for tonight.
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Have you anything you'd like to blog, Miles?
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No, nothing to plug. So we we have nothing to plug.
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I have done my plugs I'll do it anyway.
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Brad is grappas on Instagram PETA Brad is on Twitter.
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That's that's all I'm going to say for this.
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Thank you for taking the time to listen.
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Hopefully we haven't put you to sleep, but be sure to join us
1:15:56
next week because it will be a special edition for future Shock
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Wrestling's tournament and so we'll see if we have a new
1:16:07
champion or not as Big Deck McCarthy faces the current
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champion Joey Hayes. So if a title change happens.
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But for now, it's a goodbye from me.
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And a goodbye from me. He's done it for me.
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Yeah, thank. You for listening and we'll
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catch you later.