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AEW Highlights and Dynamite Preview - House of Black · Ignition - an AEW Podcast

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Welcome. It is Tuesday night, and you know what that means. It
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is time for Ignition, the AEW Fan Hub podcast. I am your co
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host, Alex. This is Kelson. Hey, Alex, have a lot
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to talk about tonight, I think, so let's just jump right into it.
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What do you want to talk about? Absolutely? Yeah, I think
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the number one thing that I want to talk about is the cage match.
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It made a lot of waves. There was a lot of people talking about
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it. We got responses from all of the House of Black members on Twitter.
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Yeah, so that's what I think we should start things off with.
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Sounds good, Okay, So yeah, let's start from the beginning AW collision.
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A week ago we had that Daniel Garcia versus Buddy Matthews. After that
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match, they announced that there was going to be an elimination cage match the
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week after. So two days ago they announced the elimination cage match. Then
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on Dynamite they showed a new graphic that said it was a Escape the Cage
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elimination cage match. So we know that AW has only had traditional cage matches,
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and when I say traditional cage matches, I mean inner submission. The
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cage exists to force the guys in the match to fight each other. Correct,
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that's my understanding. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So WWEE we know
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they've always done escaped the cage matches or whatever you want to call them,
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But the goal of a cage match in WWE is to climb the side of
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the cage. They opened the door for you so you can get out of
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the cage. So I've always been a big fan of ae W dial cage
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matches, and this is the same style. That's like going back to the
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territory days. This is what a cage match has always been before WWE reinvented
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them and made them stupid. In my opinion, I'm not a fan of
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fair enough escape the cage matches. Do you have any thoughts on escaping the
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cage versus pin and submission? Well, you know, look, when you
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have a steel cage, to me, the whole purpose of the steel cage
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is is to keep the people in the match in the match, not running
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around the arena. Of course, you know, the cage is often used
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as a weapon and that's always fun to watch too. But yeah, I
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mean, I don't really have a problem with escaping the cage or pinfall submission
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in the cage. I don't really have a preference. Well they're fine,
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I think, okay, And with a multiman cage match like this was,
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it was a three on three cage match, and then to have it be
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escape the cage rules, now you're saying that, Okay, the guys need
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to escape the cage to win. So whatever team escapes the cage first wins.
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But now you're in a situation where if two guys on one team escape
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the cage, now it's three guys versus one inside of the cage. So
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until you win the match, it's like escaping the cage is the last thing
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you want to do. And one of the things that I said, Alex
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was when what the person escapes the cage in this case, instead of putting
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your team at a disadvantage, they should just say okay. For example,
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daxx Hardwood escape the cage. Now he's allowed to go back into the cage,
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but he can't escape again. He he's already escaped, but he's there.
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He can actually assist his team because exactly what you were saying, getting
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two people escaping the cage on one team now puts that team, even though
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they're you know, winning, I guess is the best way to put it.
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They escape. They had two teammates achieved the goal. Now the other
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teammate is an a complete disadvantage, is going to get mrked. Yeah,
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and they even played into it in the match they had I think it was
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like Cash and Buddy or escaping the cage and then Cash was out, his
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feet hit the ground, and then Buddy Matthews is like, oh, I'm
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going to go back in and give my team the advantage. It's like it's
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so convoluted and silly, and yeah, the way you explained it, at
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least that makes it make a little bit more sense your team a lot more
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sense. I mean, I would say, just don't have this escape the
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cage match rules in the first place. That's just going to be better.
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But at least the way you're proposing is like an improvement. Yeah. You
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know. The big thing for me, though, Alex, is this,
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when they initially announced this match, it was you know, was it a
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still cage eliminator match? Yeah? Right, right then they changed it,
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but at no point that they and this is something that's kind of ongoing with
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with a W and that and I could point to the Continental Classic. When
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it initially started, people were not only confused by the rules, but they
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were also confused by what. Okay, when they somebody wins, what are
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they? Are they Continental Champion champion or the do Japan Strong open Weight Champion
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or all three? And you don't be Frankly, I think there still people
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that are more casual fans that still don't get it. You know, AW
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has to get better at explaining what the world is going on. They've got
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t TV, they've got three TV shows, five hours of TV, They've
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got a strong presence on Twitter. You know, there's no reason why anybody
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could should be confused over a match. That's just my opinion. Mm hmmm.
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Yeah, and so yeah, back to this match. It was it
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seemingly it seemed like they announced one thing and then changed it. And I'm
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watching the match and I'm wondering, why did they change it? Right,
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Like, I'm I'm thinking a couple of different thoughts. My first thought was,
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like, you have six guys in this match, and they're in a
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they're in the cage, and it's they're all like trapped in the ring in
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the ropes because there's no room because it's a cage. My first thought was,
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maybe they can't fit a ref in addition to these six guys, so
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that's why it had escape the cage. But they have like three or four
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ref refs outside the cage the match, Yeah, because they needed to be
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there, I guess to to you know, see who escaped the cage anyway,
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So that was my first thought, and then my second thought was,
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yeah, maybe something along the lines of does the House of Black or everyone,
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Like I thought, maybe everyone in the match they don't want to eat
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a bunch of pins, like they don't want to get pinned, because if
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it's an elimination match, then five guys are going to get pinned or submitted.
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So that did cross my mind. Yeah, but then that leads to
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I think David melt Dave Meltzer, David Meltzer, I just called him,
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but he reported that basically be and he's a he's a so called journalist,
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and the things that he says you kind of assume that he as sources or
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he's talked to people at AEW, but he basically says that, you know,
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House of Black doesn't want to do the job, and they don't want
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to do the job because they want to leave and go to WWE. So
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he's saying, Buddy Matthews wants to go and be with his wife, and
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Malachi Black wants to go and be with his wife in WWE, And he
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says all these things, and he makes it sound I feel like he's hearing
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it from sources, right, But he's just going through the same thought process
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that I'm having when I'm watching the match. Yeah, well, you know,
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one of the things that came up was that the House of Black didn't
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want to eat a pin MH and members of the House of Black came out
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and we were like, are you absolutely insane? Basically they called him out
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on it. Yeah. Since look, since All In, which was on
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August twenty seventh of twenty twenty three. Since all Buddy Matthews is one and
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two in singles matches and four and four in all types of matches, Brody
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King is two and three in singles matches and four and six in other types
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of matches. Malachi Black has not had any singles matches and has FOIGN three
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overall since since then, So you're looking at basically all with not Basically,
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it's absolutely the House of Black as a team has a losing record since all
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in. Yeah, of course Julia Hart's in the House of Black and she
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was part of this match. But you know, look, if you ask
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Julia Hart's eleven and three overall since all in and ten and one in singles.
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By the way, look, I think people are reading misreading this completely.
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Malachi Black is a very creative driven wrestler. He's creative, Okay,
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the way I look at it and what I want to believe Now, I
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have no sources, so I'm just saying this off the cuff. Malchi Black
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looked at this match and said, what is the main purpose of this match
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is to probably it's probably to get Daniel Garcia over. How can we get
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Daniel Garcia over? Three ways? One, we have him somebody beat the
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hell out of him before the match, that he's laying in a pool of
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his own blood, you know, an hour before the match, and he's
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if he about coming out. Two, we have Julia Hart spit the black
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mist into his face, putting him in even more of a disadvantage. He's
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already injured, he's bleeding, he's got his head wrapped, and now he's
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got black crap all over his face and in his eyes, right, and
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three you have him still persevere and who does he beat Basically didn't pin him,
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but nobody got pinned in the match, but he beat him outside of
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the ring. He escaped the ring first, he beat ultimately Malachi Black.
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So how in the hell are you gonna say that Malachi Black and Brody King
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and Buddy Matthews are refusing to job to anybody when the job just fine to
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everybody. They did it in such a way that it furthered the story more
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you look at it. Now, look at Daniel Garcia. Not only is
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the hero because it was a huge celebration after the match, right, but
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also you got to think, okay, well now he's been spit in the
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eye, in the face the Black Mist. Is this going to affect him
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in any way? Yeah? And yeah, and okay. To agree with
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your point, I think House of Black loses too much. If anything,
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they're they're the best stable or one of the best stables in ae W.
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They're like a main event stable on Collision there. They need to be booked
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strong. And Malachi Black's the leader, like you don't want him taking pins,
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Like if anyone's choosing for Malachi Black not to lose, it would make
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sense for it to be Tony Kahan if anyone. And yeah, and to
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your other point, I I can't wait to see what they do with Daniel
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Garcia, because yeah, you're gonna hint at joining House of Black? Are
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we gonna get like the dark evil dancing Daniel Garcia, the evil dancing Daniel
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Garcia because he can't stop dancing. It's it's the same dance. But now
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he just told Machetes, Yeah it's Britney Spears spot style. Oh my god.
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Yeah. But look all the crap that Malachi Black, Buddy Matthews and
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Brody King got before, even before this match and after this match is preposterous.
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It's it was uncalled for. Look at what they did in this match.
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They got the crap beat out of them, and they put on a
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good match. Why are people taking away from this match? This match should
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have been about ultimately, it should have been about Daniel Garcia, persevering,
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we shouldn't be talking about the House of Black at all. No, And
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this match, despite all the things I said about the rules and how goofy
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they were, it was a great match for what it was. And I
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love the ending. Yeah, and they put on a great cage match despite
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the fact that, yeah, the rules made no sense. Yeah. And
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so another thing that came out with all this stuff that was the health of
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Black is that Buddy Matthews and Malachi Black maybe leaving a w wend their contracts
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over. Yeah. Well you know, well look, so let's talk about
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that. Sure, Buddy Matthews's wife, our girlfriend of Freance. I think
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they are engaged now. Ray Ripley is in ww's Alita Vega is married to
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Malachi Black. She's in WWE. It makes perfect sense for Malachi Black and
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Buddy Matthews to go to WWE. However, one thing I've learned from being
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a fan of Malachi Black is that from time to time he gets on a
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live video like a live Instagram video, and he starts talking with by saying,
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I can't believe I have to do this all over again. I for
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example, when he was absent for a late period of time, he said,
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I am in I am taking some time off. I am still in
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AW and I will be back. I guess what. He took some time
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off he was still in AAW because he came back, you know, and
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he basically says that I'm paraphrasing him here saying if you don't hear it from
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me, don't believe it. So, look, is there a possibility to
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Malachi Black is going to leave AW when his contract is up and go to
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WWE. Sure, sure, anything is possible, But until Malachi Black says
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it, it's a non issue. Yeah. And the reports are his contracts
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up in twenty twenty seven. That gives us three years before any free agency
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rumors, before he shows up at the twenty twenty eight Royal Rumble or twenty
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twenty seven whatever. Yeah, and a lot can change in WWE. I
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mean, the Triple H may not be there, there might be no supporters,
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his wife may not be even employed there. In three years, A
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lot, a lot can change. So, well, look what's happened just
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recently between AW and WWE. There's j Cargill just made her debut in the
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ring debut at the Royal Rumble, Andradi Lede Loge just showed up at the
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Royal Rubble. DM Punk just showed up there. You know. So there's
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free agents that are going there from AW and other places now, you know.
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So, and all those people are taking top spots in WWE. Yeah,
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but then you also have to look at aw look who's coming a w
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recently. Of course, we've got Adam Copland. That was you know at
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h Russell Dream. We got Deanna Well, we got Mariah May in early
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November. It doesn't it's hard to believe it. It's been two months,
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over two months already for that. Uh. We got Dianna Parazzo. Yeah,
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there's you know, strong speculation that Mercedes Monett is coming. We've got
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returns out the wazoo coming. I mean, you've got Britt Baker and Jamie
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Hayter who seemed to be close to coming back. I mean, it just
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makes sense they've be gone so long, just come back. Thunder Rosa just
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came back. You have Tamello that may be coming back. You know,
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she she had her baby. You know, we don't know the time frame
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for that, but you know, and I'm sure that Tony Kahn is the
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type of person that's not going to rush her to come back. But seems
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to me from what Tamla is saying, that she's itching to come back.
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We just had Serena deeb come back. All right, then you've got like
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Megan will I'm just staying with the women's division, because that's why Traded thought
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a women's division. You have Megan Baine who's coming back. Y Kazakazaki just
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graduated from t J p W. She's she's coming to the United States.
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Then again, I'm just talking to women's division. There's still speculation. I
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don't really think that Julia is going to come, but she could, especially
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with all the stuff that's going on in WWE right now, may make it
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a little bit less uh attractive to a woman wrestler to go to w W
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right now. Specifically, you've got Camille as well, who was backstage recently
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at an aw show. You know she's got a look. Yeah, so
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there's all that. Then when you you know, you brought up will Osprey.
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As far as the men go, Okata is a very strong possibility coming
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to AW. So here's the thing, And this is what I want to
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ask you, Alex is like, Okay, so I just named off a
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bunch of women, because let's face it, the women's free agency is a
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little bit stronger and fluid right now. The men's free agency another man,
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by the way that I can mention, that seems to be heading toward free
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agency. Soon if the accounts are correct. Is Drew McIntyre. Yeah,
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possibly Sammy Zaine. So but here's the thing is that right now it seems
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like the free agency free agent market for the women is a little bit more
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strong than the men's market. Uh. But the thing is, oh,
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in another person, Jack Perry. I wanted to bring on Jack. We
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don't know what's going on with Jack Perry? You know, is he still
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aw? Is this you know? What's going on there? So I think
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we'll get that answer pretty soon. But anyway, my point is is that
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the women's free agency seems to be a little bit stronger than the men's free
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agency right now as far as that goes. But let's just say that AW
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brings in some of these people like Juliet, Mercedes Bonet and and uh Camille
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uh and then of course we got will Osbrey Whatt's let's say they bring in
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Sammis Ain and Drew McIntyre and Okata. Okay, do we have to make
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room for some you know, it seems to be like you gotta voted roster
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man. We got to get you know, we've got to make room for
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these people. Yeah, well, we are going to be losing thing.
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We're going to be losing Brian Danielson sometime in the next I probably like all
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In would be his last match for Danielson. He still says that Daniel said
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just say in an interview that he still wants to wrestle like maybe ten times
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a year. That's that's a lot. That's it is a lot. You
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know, that's like every AEW pay per view basically exactly, Yeah, why
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not, but he's not. He said something. I believe he said something
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like five ten times a year, So but go ahead, I'm sorry,
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I didn't mean yeah, no worries. Yeah, I hope he sticks around
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and and is maybe in that you know, less frequent time frame. But
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yeah, the other person like will Ospray, I know we mentioned him,
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but he comes in and he's he to me is the best wrestler in the
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world and he can cut a good promo. Like bringing him in is going
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to be a real game changer. It'll be interesting to see how they handle
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that. Obviously if they bring in as well, there's so many dream matches
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and like pay per view main events you can do with that's like just those
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two they slid in immediately to like the top of the card. Yeah.
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Well, you know the thing is is that, look, if you look
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at the aw roster, you have guys like Daniel Cinapore and next thing who
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you mentioned, You got people like Dustin Rhodes and you know, guys like
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that, Chris Jericho even that are getting up there in age. Yeah,
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and you know, not saying that they can't perform, because they certainly can.
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However, being a guy of that age myself, I can tell you
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that I can't do what I used to do be able to do, and
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even if I can do it, it hurts a heck of a lot more
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when now you know what I mean. It's just it's just, I mean,
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you're more susceptible to injury. Let's face the facts. It's part of
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the human condition. And I have all the respect of the world for these
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guys for being able to go out there without killing themselves every week. Yeah,
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and I think once you're up there in age, and I think Dustin's
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there and Jericho is definitely quickly approaching there, you don't really want to see
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those guys beating younger talent. You know, you're not fantasizing about them winning
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world titles. I think it would be cool for Dustin because he's never really
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climb that mountain to maybe see him get one run with the title at some
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point. But like Jericho, I think fan interest is waning, and you
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do want to see him. I'd love to see him on TV and in
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some kind of program, but you don't want to see him beating Kyle Fletcher
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on Dynamite next week or winning titles. You know, he's kind of he's
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kind of past that point where you can really get behind him in my opinion.
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Well, the thing that Jericho has done very well, and I have
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to give him credit for this, is that Jericho's one of those older wrestlers
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that works hard to put people over, not only by giving them good matches,
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but actually getting them wins. Look at the matches that Jericho has had
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against younger wrestlers like Action Andretti, where the opponents are better to Jericho because
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he makes them look better. He makes them look good. Kenny Omega does
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the same thing, does the same thing, and you know, as much
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as I don't really want to talk about him, Ciampunk actually did very well
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in that regard to putting over to younger wrestlers. But the thing with aw
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is like I said, with the free agency and whatnot, is that yes,
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we are gouda. AW is gonna lose some wrestlers, both on the
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men's division and the women's division because they're good. Okay. For example,
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everybody's been talking about Ricky Stark's poss moving to WWE. That's well and fine,
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you know, but I guess what I'm saying here is AW is being
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smart for example, what they did, what they're doing with Daniel Garcia,
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because let's face it, we need is AW fan somebody to root for and
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or somebody to root against, and not just the same people. We can't
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rest on our laurels. Look at it this way. Kenny Omega is out
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indefinitely. MJF. We don't know when he's coming back. Adam Cole,
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we don't know when he's coming back. You know, these are guys that
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are integral to aw's success and they're not able to wrestle right now. So
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these young kids and the guys that have been toiling in the indies and never
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got a chance, this is their opportunity and they've got to take it.
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But it's not up to them. It's also up to Tony kNN to book
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them to take that opportunity and giving them a chance, affording them that opportunity.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I I think, yeah, you've
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mentioned Daniel Garcia, and he's he's just hit you know, another level because
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he's now like the full package, right, Like he's on the cusp of
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being I could see him being a main event guy or at least being there
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in like a TNT title picture winner champion. So I think they've done a
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good job with some of these homegrown talent. And I think Chris Jericho,
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especially for Daniel Garcia, like he he owes, he could get a lot
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of credit for that because he gave him that sports entertainer aspect and I thought
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that was a good fit, even though people probably didn't like it at the
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time and probably preferred seeing him with the Blackpool Combat Club, but I think
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it just kind of rounded him out and made him what he is today.
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Yeah, And another thing to mention, I think, you know, there
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is a lot of free agents and there's going to be people going back and
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forth between aw and WWE, and that's good. That's good for wrestling because
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you want to see fresh faces in both companies for both fans, and I
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think we're seeing Tony early on he was picking up every free agent, like
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he brought in Miro and Andraday and so on and so on, and anyone
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that left WWE, he was ready to pick him up. But we've seen
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him not pick up Dolf Zigler now Nick Nemeth, and we've seen him not
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pick up Mustafa Ali. So both those guys are in New Japan and TNA
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both, so we've seen him not pick those guys up, and he's going
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instead for will Osprey and possibly Okata Mercedes Monet. So it's almost like he's
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focusing more on main event talent, like maybe putting his money, bundling it
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together and giving it two bigger names, and maybe that's more of his focus.
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And I think that makes a lot of sense to me. Oh,
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you know what also makes sense to me is you know you're getting wrestlers in
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And again I don't mean this disrespectful. I'm just using this as an example.
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You know, you're trying to build a company that's gonna have momentum through
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the next decade. It doesn't make sense to get guys in their fifties,
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m you know, because by the time you build that momentum, they're too
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old to perform realistically, you know. So hey, you know, it's
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a it's a very weird situation. But the one thing I will say,
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you know, and I think that you will probably agree with me, is
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that when it comes to free agency and signing free agents and booking, I've
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never done it before. I don't have the money, I don't have a
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company to do that. So hey, it's easy for me to sit back
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in my little reclining chair here and spew at the mouth, But that doesn't
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mean I know what the hell I'm talking about. Yeah, it is wild.
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A lot of people seem to think they'd be so great at it,
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and it's a job that you're not going to be able to get a lot
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of on the job training, considering like, you know, five people have
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done it successfully in like the history of the last thirty years or something.
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True. True. Yeah, well, anyway, let's move on. Is
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there anything else you want to mention about? Collision, Alex. I think
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the only other thing that jumps to my mind is Serenade. We saw her
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return put on a pretty short match, but I thought it was pretty fun
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and just seeing her, you know, she's like that technical wrestler who is
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technical in a mean way. She doesn't like take a break and pose after
30:04
doing a bunch of technical things. She's just trying to hurt people. And
30:10
then I thought she cut like her best promo ever at the end of that
30:14
match. I remember back maybe a year or maybe multiple years ago, where
30:19
she cut some promo and she was like, said something about your your favorite
30:26
sports team or the sports team here. She didn't even mention the sports team's
30:29
name, and it was just one of the worst promos I had heard on
30:33
TV. And I thought she gave a really good promo this week. And
30:37
I was happy to hear that she was speaking sincerely, which makes a difference,
30:41
I think. And yeah, that match short was short, but you
30:49
know, we talk a lot about rig Rust and Rustler's coming back needed to
30:53
be protected having rig Ross and they should be in a tag team match.
31:00
Sube deeb looked like she was ready to go after Tony Storm right then,
31:06
write then, you know, simply put she's ready, you know. And
31:11
second thing I want to bring up on this match, you know, and
31:14
I and I actually posted this on Twitter x is I I wanted to give
31:18
a little bit of credit to Robin Renegade, who was very fluid, very
31:25
light on her feet and was just there. I mean, she nailed it.
31:30
Yes it was a short match, but everything she did she did right.
31:33
You know. I give Robert Rennegade a lot of credit and patting myself
31:38
on the back a little bit, you know, it kind of made me
31:41
feel good when I made that Twitter post. Robin Renegade's father actually liked the
31:48
post, and so Robin Renegade herself, so it was your Twitter post basically,
31:52
it was on Twitter. I basically said, you know, hey,
31:55
it was great to see Sarita d D back. She is back, you
31:59
know, thank goodness. And I also want to give a special shout out
32:01
to Robin Renegade for really doing really well, you know, and that was
32:07
cool. Your dad's name Renegade, No Papa Renegade. Papa Renegade is his
32:17
Twitter bio is like, I'm the father of two women, two female wrestlers,
32:22
at a rock star at a at a you know whatever. I think
32:27
his son. I think he said my son is a rock star, so
32:30
whatever. Maybe maybe he is, maybe he isn't. I don't know.
32:35
But anyway, that was that he'd liked my post and a couple hours later,
32:38
Robin Renegade did I just thought it was interesting. You know, it's
32:42
I like, I like when you say something positive about a wrestler instead of
32:50
being so damn critical all the time needlessly. Look, it's you know,
32:57
from the short time that you've been doing these podcasts with us, is you
33:02
know that what I'm critical, I'm gonna be critical, but damn it,
33:06
if something's good, I'm gonna say it was good. And that match was
33:09
good even though it was pre you know, predestined that there was no way
33:15
that's there to do, was gonna lose that match. I'm Renegade put on
33:19
a fine match. Yeah. Yeah, she's good and I hope to see
33:22
more of them, the Renegade sisters in aw proper and I'm sure you know
33:28
a year from now where a year and a half, we'll start to see
33:30
them more. Yeah. So gosh, let's move on to let's just talk
33:39
briefly about well, we don't have to talk briefly. I'm gonna talk briefly
33:44
about Dynamite because it's not for you. This this card is as I said,
33:54
I'm not afraid to critique anything. I haven't watched the matches yet on
34:01
paper, however, this card is awful. There's nothing in this card that
34:08
and it is confusing because we're Strickland and Adam Page could pick anybody they wanted
34:17
to to fight. These guys fight the other in this Dealer's choice batch,
34:22
and I'm like, okay, well, neither of these are gonna strike care
34:27
in anybody. And then these other matches are I mean, they're fine.
34:36
That's all I'll say is are fine. There's nothing wrong about them, There's
34:40
nothing special about them. There's no main event matches in this in this card
34:46
name either what's your main event? Nobody can I'm looking. I think the
34:54
main event would be Rob van Dam versus Swear Strickland boiler alert, because you
35:02
know, Robert Dam has not been announced yet, but I think everybody and
35:06
their mother knows it's going to be Rob Adnam announced. No, but like
35:14
just hints being dropped that are just stupid. For example, uh, because
35:22
I guess they're trying to be cute. What was the one? Let me
35:24
think I got to look it up now, but there was one hint that
35:28
was posted by on the aw official Twitter page, you know, and it's
35:36
and it says it's high time hangman Man. It's it's high time for hangman
35:43
Adam Page to pick an opponent for tomorrow's aw Dynamite. When the smoke clears,
35:50
who will and then in all caps, who will walk down the ramp
35:55
to face where strickly Well, look, yeah, you know, you know,
36:01
hit hit, nudge, nudge, you know it's it's it's Rob van
36:06
Dam unless look unless it's a unless it's a you know, part of the
36:13
pun a swerve that they're trying to get over on people. But this would
36:19
be a pretty dumb swerve when you have all these opportunities, for all these
36:22
swerves they could have done and they didn't do, this is the one they're
36:24
gonna choose to actually pull off. Yeah, it's a strange match. Rob
36:32
van Dam obviously well passed his prime, but he can still go. He
36:37
can still do the things he used to do, maybe a little bit slower.
36:44
And I am I love that Tony paid for Pantera Walk and and he
36:50
better keep paying for it every time Rob van Dam comes out. But like
36:53
when you go and watch old w W E footage of Rob van Dam,
36:58
or because they bought the easy D library, like they cut that music out
37:01
because ECW didn't pay the rights for it, so to have that come back,
37:07
I mean, that's just such a treat for me, as like a
37:12
Rob van Damn ECW fan from back in the day. So I'm happy just
37:17
because of that weird match. I mean, yeah, you're a hangman out
37:22
of a page. Yeah, but let me ask you this. The purpose
37:27
of this match is to basically beat the other guy down right, Yeah,
37:31
h would Rob van dam be your fifth choice, sixth choice, fifteenth choice
37:39
for that. I'm not putting Rob van Damn down here, but I'm telling
37:44
you, man, if it was me, if I was hangman at a
37:47
page in a real world situation, who would I want to get into into
37:52
the ring? What's worst? Rickland Wardlow? Yeah, I guess it has
38:00
to be someone that's good. I mean, I guess Keith Lee's getting surgery,
38:07
so he's not an option. Yeah, or put somebody in there.
38:13
No, I would pick someone maybe under the age of forty, somebody that
38:19
can act like an assassin, somebody that's known for Yeah. Remember when they
38:27
remember when they brought in I think like Jeff Cobb and maybe he was NJF.
38:30
But yeah, they brought in Jeff Cobb and he was like the bounty
38:34
hunter. Yeah, like someone like that. You can go pick someone out
38:37
of New Japan or like freaking who's that guy that was had some matches dirty?
38:45
He's like an m M A guy. Yeah, yeah, I can't
38:52
think, I know, I know you're talking about Yeah, filthy, filthy,
38:58
filthy Tom Lawler. Yeah, a cool guy to bring to lawn,
39:04
Yeah, filthy Tom Lawler. Okay, I didn't know if it was filthy.
39:07
Yeah yeah, filthy, Yeah, like him, like someone that's you
39:12
know, an MMA guy, a killer, or just someone that's young and
39:15
known for just somebody. You're not going in there to win a match.
39:21
Rob van Dam would be going in there to win a match, right,
39:23
yeah, hayvan Adam Page should not want Rob van Dam to go in there
39:28
to win a match. Adam Page should be wanting Rob van Dam to go
39:31
in there to beat the snot out of Swearstrickland, whether he want it or
39:37
not. And that's what you get somebody like fifthly filthy Tom Lawler or Ward
39:40
Low or somebody of that elk to do, you know, not Rob van
39:45
Dam and then you go on the other side sphere Strickland picked his uh one
39:51
of his Mogul embassy members, which is great even though you know it's kind
39:54
of weird because I could never say his name because I always get a mistaken
39:59
with David Company's wife Taolione. So I'm just gonna call him TAOLIONI because I
40:04
will not get it right if I tried to say the right arm. So
40:07
Tayoleoni against Adam Paige may mean, Yeah, that's kind of what I'm talking
40:15
about. Yeah, Yeah, that's a cool match. And I don't think
40:17
he's had a singles match. He hasn't, right, he hasn't had a
40:21
singles match, And I think it's cool that he's getting some time to have
40:28
a match against the great wrestler and he's probably gonna look amazing. Yeah,
40:34
I'm excited for that match. I mean, obviously, hangman, Adam Paige
40:37
is gonna win, But yeah, that makes a lot more sense than Rob
40:43
van Dam for sure. See even if Adam Paige. Look, we know
40:45
that Adam Page is gonna win, But is Adam Page going to get the
40:51
snot beat out of him as he wins? Yes, guarantee, yes,
40:54
yes, Rob dan Dam is not going to beat the snot out of Square
40:59
Strickland. Even if he even if he wins the match, he's not going
41:02
to beat the snot out of Stricklin. See what I'm saying. That's just
41:07
that's just it. So then what else? What other match? Ah?
41:14
Well, okay, let's just start Jeff Hardy versus John Moxley. That's probably
41:20
the one that's got me scratching my head the most. Okay, why why
41:24
are you scratching your head on that one? Because it's just a weird fit.
41:30
Uh, you know, I guess they're both kind of baby faces.
41:34
I guess John Moxley is trying to challenge veterans at this point, it's not
41:39
really clear. Maybe we get a Jeff Hardy heel turn, and he's had
41:45
some great his last two matches against Swerve last week and Darby at Rampage.
41:50
We're both like fantastic Jeff Hardy matches. So but that, But John Moxley
41:57
and his style don't really sink up the me So it is weird. Bill
42:02
probably be a better match than I'm expecting. Bold prediction time. Boxley isn't
42:08
gonna bleed in this match either, Yeah, unless he hits his head on
42:14
the you know, on the stage walking out of the tunnel, you know
42:17
whatever. Do you think he's not going to bleed? No, he's not
42:21
gonna bleed. You know how longest bets it's Boxley's blood in a match.
42:23
Holy cow, he's probably got more blood in his body today that he's had
42:29
in the last fifteen years, maybe saving up to donate blood. I don't
42:36
know if he's gonna donate blood at the Revolution, there's gonna be that's gonna
42:39
be gonna be a blood bath because he's got a lot of storage. Mm
42:45
hmm. Yeah. Wondering what direction they're going. It seems like a revolution.
42:49
If I had to guess, he's going to have just one of those
42:53
random dream matches, maybe somebody out of New Japan or something like that.
43:00
I really do not. I think I think they got to stop doing that.
43:06
They really do. I'm sorry. Uh, don't get me wrong.
43:10
When you get somebody from like will Will Osprey comes over from New Japan,
43:15
great, But when you have a fifty five year old come in to wrestle
43:17
Brian Danielson, I am not gonna lie to you. When the Brian Danielson
43:22
and the Gotta match was going on, I just I was like, oh
43:27
god, you know, this is just this is just boring. It was
43:34
a boor It was it good, yes, but it was good in a
43:38
boring way. I'm the kind of guy that wants to watch you know,
43:47
mission impossible, and what I got was Dalton Abbey. You know, it
43:55
doesn't mean the Dalton Abbey is not a good show. It's just not my
43:59
style. And I honestly, the match was over and I noticed that the
44:06
match was over, and I in our chat, I was like, oh
44:08
who won? I totally just zoned out. Yeah, it was so boring.
44:14
I just like my eyes rolled up into the back of my head and
44:17
that was it. I was done. I honestly, god did not know
44:22
who won that match, because you know, it has I mean, I
44:25
know Brian. I know Brian Danielson won it, because of course he did.
44:31
But yeah, I can't really picture the ending, actually I can.
44:37
I actually enjoyed the match more than I thought, but yeah, it's not
44:39
it's not I actually actually I actually went on YouTube to pay my respects and
44:46
try to watch the match the next day, like the next afternoon, Sunday
44:52
afternoon, like just before football playoffs started. NFL playoffs started. You No,
44:57
my eyes rolled right back into the back of my head again. I
45:00
was like, no, this is just not That's actually what Eugi Nagata is
45:04
known for for putting on his like Fuji war arm bar and then rolling his
45:08
head his eyes in the back of his head, because yeah, look,
45:14
I have nothing against the new japan guys coming over. But look, when
45:17
you have Murder Grandpa come out and fight Adam Copeland, and then the next
45:27
week, like that same week, you have somebody who's older than Murder Grandpa
45:30
come out, you know, like Murder great Grandpa come out and fight.
45:35
Brian Daniels said it totally. Look they are I get the purpose of it.
45:40
They are good matches, They're like dream matches that probably Danielson was just
45:45
thrilled to death, and I'm happy for him. Then he got to wrestle
45:49
it, and I bet you Copeland was thrilled to death too, and having
45:52
wrestled uh Suzuki. But ultimately those matches were completely meaningless. When you have
46:01
a stacked locker room waiting to have meaningful matches, don't put on meaningless matches.
46:10
Stop. My biggest wish, and I'm just being honest with you here.
46:16
My biggest wish is that w W strikes a deal with New Japan,
46:21
and Forbidden Door is over. Wow, wain and simple. I did not
46:27
watch Forbidden Door the first I was there. I was not watch Forbidden Door
46:32
the first one. I did not watch for Forbidden Door. The second one
46:37
I completely expressed my disinterest in because I look at Forbidden Doors great matches,
46:43
great matches, meaningless matches and total momentum killers for aw So yeah, I
46:52
see what you mean. Like they definitely do have to put all their stories
46:55
on halt basically for meaningless match. I like, I mean, I'm somebody
47:02
that I love being introduced to new people, but I don't. I don't
47:07
care about being introduced to Eugene Nagata or Minoro Szuki even like those guys are
47:15
their best days are so far behind them. Yeah, like I'm going to
47:19
get excited about following their careers. No, like their careers are over.
47:22
They're Yeah, I mean a ton of Hashi Holy cow, Yeah he's I
47:29
mean, I mean we were like nostalgia. Like the guy him being able
47:37
to walk from the tunnel to the ring is a win for him without you
47:44
know, he's his knees are completely shot mm hmm. You know, and
47:49
it's just I'm just sorry. I mean Formidden Door is, they're great matches.
47:52
I did go back and watch some of them, like the highlights of
47:57
them, but there is no way I'm gonna for a meaningless show. It
48:00
really is meaningly, but there's versus Omega. I mean, I could just
48:07
watch those guys wrestle every single day in my life. The Forbidden Doors show
48:12
they had there was like a woman's match at the show, and of course
48:16
it was aw woman against a w woman. That was only like that was
48:22
a meaningful match. And I'm not saying but there's a there's a far difference
48:28
than Will Osprey now and Tanahashi now. Yeah, I mean yeah, I
48:37
mean it is prime. Tanahashi could have probably been one of the could have
48:43
been just as good as the Osprey match. Mm hmm. Yeah. Anymore,
48:49
I don't want to see sixty year old, you know, wrestlers out
48:53
of pay per view. Yeah, I'm sorry, Like I I watched maybe
48:59
the last like there's I'm gonna There's a lot of great wrestlers in New Japan
49:04
that are younger guys, up and coming guys, and to me, those
49:08
are the guys you want to be introducing the American audience to like I want
49:13
to see new exciting guys having like fast page like peak matches. Yeah,
49:22
I don't. I don't get Panahashi, I don't get Suzuki. I don't
49:25
get even yeah, any any of these guys that are bringing in, like
49:30
obviously Okada is still very much in his prime, but beyond that, they
49:35
just even Kodobushi. I mean, come on, he can barely move and
49:39
he's a younger guy. But yeah, it's it's rough. Yeah, I
49:44
mean, you know, but about what he was on a tricycle with a
49:46
pipe that was the biggest that was. That was pretty funny, that was.
49:51
But you know, you know, I don't want to be negative about
49:54
it, you know too much, but just state back, I do not
49:58
like the Forbidden Door and the Canadian tour. I like almost as almost as
50:05
almost do not like that almost as much as the as the uh as Forbidden
50:10
Door because well I'm Canadian. Yeah, I don't mind it, but it
50:15
does hurt my wallet because they did a lot of shows in the Toronto and
50:20
I can't prevent myself from getting in Toronto though you know that's barely Canadian to
50:27
Americans. You know what I'm saying, it's like it's Canadian, but it's
50:34
you're you're like us, there's not But when you get the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
50:42
there's people coming out there. You know, they wrote their boose to
50:45
the show and uh and you know, all twelve of them were there and
50:50
they had no clue any of these people were because because they don't get them
50:55
on their transistor radios and they're igloos. You know what I'm saying. It's
51:00
just that in parts of Canada, they're they just don't know what a w
51:07
is. AW went some parts like dude last year and it was like,
51:12
what are you doing? Man? Even yeah, I knew that that was
51:15
a bad choice, and I'm not in that business, but I was like,
51:19
what the hell? Mm hmm. They Yeah, they did make some
51:22
questionable decisions even here. They did a show like in Hamilton, which is
51:28
next city over. But you know, I think they had to comp some
51:30
tickets because there wasn't a lot of people that seemed to be that familiar with
51:35
AW at that show. Yeah, but let me put it this way.
51:38
Yeah, all right, I'm not saying anything bad about Canada here. What
51:43
I am saying is that where is the money for a w at it's in
51:50
the United States, and when you spend all summer, the entirety of the
51:58
summer out of the country with I think they had one show in the United
52:02
States in the summer of last year and that three month period of time.
52:08
That's just plain stupidity. I am sorry. Well, I think the thinking
52:15
must have been that, hey, we have this truck, we're going to
52:17
drive it. They probably have a bunch of trucks, they drive them to
52:22
Canada and then we just drive around Canada for a while. Yeah, so
52:25
maybe it saved money in some way, like obviously crossing the border is time
52:30
consuming, and they thought maybe they could sell a bunch of tickets. But
52:35
yeah, I can only imagine outside of Toronto. Toronto. Toronto was a
52:38
good, good place to go. Winnipeg was a good place in Montreal too,
52:44
that's a big state. Montreal was cool, except you could read the
52:46
signs because they're in Fride. But but now that Philippe and Francois Jackson are
52:54
the EVPs and with their spray tad and everything and there they're going to be
53:00
retiring sting. You know, maybe they could go home to Montreal and you
53:06
know, and they should be right at home, because they do look like
53:09
up tight French boys to me right now. Yeah, well I believe you
53:15
know what's his name, Daddy Magic and cool Hand Ange. They're from Montreal
53:21
or Quebec, all right, Sammy Zaine. So yeah, maybe they could
53:24
all get together. They could teach him how to actually speak French. Wow.
53:35
There's two other matches on. Yeah, we've got we've got Kyle Fletcher
53:40
and Chris Jericho, and then we've also got the Outo Prazzo on Tyavalcar.
53:45
So yeah, first, Kyle Fletcher is my boy. I love Kyle Fletcher
53:52
when just because of that six man that six man match at Ring of Honor,
53:58
like he's my guy for life. Now. I love Kyle Fletcher.
54:00
He's so good. I think I can't wait to see him just talking about
54:05
the six man final battle match where he yeah, yeah commander to win the
54:09
belt. Yeah, that match was just so good. And he's like he's
54:15
right up there with Kenoski Takeshta. They're like these guys have like the talent
54:20
of Kenny Omega and just and he's so big too, Like both these guys
54:24
are like six to three. They look great, they're so young, like
54:30
I just think the sky's the limit for Kyle Fletcher. Unfortunately, he's probably
54:35
gonna lose to Chris Jericho here and set up a feud with for the next
54:39
pay per view with the rest of the family. But do you think I
54:44
actually think that he's that Jericho is going to succumb to uh to Kyle Fletcher.
54:51
And I got to give a special shout out to shades the Vibe by
54:54
mentioning that, yeah, Kyle Fletcher has like the worst haircut of any manner.
55:00
Yes he does. Yeah, he does. When you see him not
55:04
wrestling, it kind of makes more sense. It looks a little bit more
55:07
appropriate when you see his clothes in that. But it's very it's very off
55:13
putting. Yeah, I'm not kidding you here, and I hate to be
55:16
crass and I may have that it this out, but his haircut looks like
55:20
a looks like a circumcision gone wrong. I'm sorry. Yeah, but he's
55:27
a bad guy, so I guess it kind of works. Yes, I
55:31
mean, look at Boris Natasha. All those guys have bad haircut, so
55:36
yeah, yees. Do you give tya Valkyria Snowball's chance and hell meaning Deanna
55:43
Barozzo no, obviously not. I mean Leanna Prozzo's fresh, she's new.
55:52
Ta Valkyrie has already kind of been a jobber to the stars for a little
55:55
while. But like in all fairness, time of val, I feel like
56:00
she's someone that we we've mentioned how good the women's division in AW is once
56:06
they get some people coming back in big names, and I don't think once
56:09
we've mentioned Tya Valkyrie, But I think she's good. She's definitely a higher
56:15
echelon woman's wrestler in my opinion, and doing well at our Oh yeah,
56:23
yeah, and I think she belongs in that conversation. But yeah, it's
56:28
going to be a Deanna Prazzo make her look good match, and I think
56:31
it'll be a good woman's match for sure. It should be a good match,
56:36
but there's no way that that ty of Valkyri is going to win.
56:38
And we're also going to see the non wrestling edition of the AW Women's World
56:44
Champion Tony Storm on commentary. Uh so we're getting close to well, I
56:50
think we've actually surpassed now two months, yes, two months today since Tony
56:55
Storm has been in a wrestling ring. So yeah, no one, I
57:05
know you were intensely keeping track of this. Well, I'm just saying it's
57:08
like, come on, I mean, if you're gonna have champions, they
57:13
got to get in the ring and fight. And I don't even count Ricky
57:15
Starks a big bill. Their defense against Jericho and Sammy is as a I
57:24
don't think it counts because they never made it to the ring. I don't
57:29
think they were ever in the rig. If they were, it was a
57:30
very brief period of time. You got to get into ring and fight if
57:34
you're a champion. And Tony Storm has won the championship on November eighteenth,
57:38
and she's had two matches, two total matches, been well over two months,
57:43
and that's just not gonna fly. Sorry, I mean, if if
57:47
that's gonna be the case, take to take the title off of Tony Storm
57:51
and put it on somebody that's gonna wrestle, because that's what I watched the
57:53
show sports to see them wrestle. And if your champion's not wrestling like Tony
57:59
Storm, you're If your champions not wrestling like Ricky Stark's a big bill,
58:02
and what's the point having them in having them in the having them with a
58:06
title. Yeah, I'm just being honest. There you know, I mean
58:10
to wrestling. You know, Tony Ston's there, She's being treated like a
58:15
big deal at least like compared to Ricky Starks some big bill. They do
58:20
feel like an afterthought. I mean, you mentioned Ricky Stark's potentially leaving in
58:25
free agency, and you kind of get that vibe that maybe he's being treated
58:30
as such. He's hanging around, but you know, biting his time.
58:37
I don't know, but they gotta do some. I mean, you talk
58:39
to anybody about it on social media. One of the big things that what
58:45
does AW have to improve the tacting division because it's it's it's bad right now.
58:52
Yeah, that was so good. It was so good before with FTR
58:58
and them with like all the tag titles and the Young Bucks and Loucher Brothers
59:05
and having like amazing matches and yeah, and it's it's coming back. It's
59:09
coming back. But you know they're just it's it hasn't They've had good tag
59:16
matches, but there's been no good tag title matches. Yeah, you need
59:23
you needed multiple. It feels like there's not a lot of tag teams that
59:29
are being treated as tag teams and fighting other tag teams. Yeah, but
59:37
if you look at it. Over the last month or two, AW has
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done a really decent job of building the men's tag division. Unfortunately, the
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tag teams that they've been mentioning are not getting title shots, you know,
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other than Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara, you know. And frankly, that
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was a goes good match. I enjoyed that. It was a lot of
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fun. Yeah, you know, but it was. I mean, nobody's
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was fun to watch. But nobody's really talking about it right now other than
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that spot. Yeah. No, it feels like FTR lost the titles the
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Big Bill and Ricky Starks, and then the tag titles just fell into like
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a bottomless pit and they just became something no one cares or thinks about anymore.
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And hopefully it sounds like Darby Allen and Sting are gonna retrieve those tag
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titles, put them on the line against the Young Bucks, and maybe the
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Young Bucks will take them and bring us to a much better place. Let
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me ask you this, do you have any put you on the spot here?
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Do you have any spicy predictions for Dynamite tomorrow? I guess that the
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the most spicy prediction I can make based on what I'm looking at is Jeff
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Hardy heel turn like full out heel Jeff Hardy. Okay, maybe attacking John
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Moxley in some form after the match, Like something's gonna happen with Jeff Hardy.
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I feel like you think Matt Hardy gets involved in that too, because
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Matt Hardy will probably be out at the ring. He could. I find
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it hard to imagine Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy alone as being good competition for
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the Blackpool Combat Club, right, but yeah, maybe something along those lines,
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like they need more guys if they're gonna do that. But yeah,
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I see something happening interesting with Jeff Hardy. That's my spicy prediction. My
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spicy prediction is far, far less engaging, intelligent, or even make sense.
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My spicy prediction is that we're going to see the mother of all Food
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of all shoe fights tomorrow night. I think that we're gonna see Mariah May,
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Tony Storm, Diana Pronzo, and Tia Valkyri just really tossing the shoes.
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I think we're going to see a full odd bloodbath with shoes. I
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just watched the stiletto does get stuck in your forehead, That's all I can
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say, are they they're all going to throw their own shoes? I think
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that No, I think that Tony Storm and Mariah May will we'll throw shoes,
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they will get thrown back, and then maybe Mariah May. This is
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how Maria May is going to turn on Tony Storm by hitting Tony Storm with
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the shoe accidentally. No, I think on purpose, because I don't think
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I think that's the whole point of it is. Yeah, you know,
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there's just it's weird because when you look at the at Samoa Joe, we
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we know who we think is going to go after the title at at the
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Revolution, but we're not sure if it's going to be one person, or
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if it's going to be two persons, or if it's gonna be three persons.
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And we've kind of the same situation with which situation with Tony Storm.
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Yeah, it looks like Deanna Parazzo is going to be going after the belt.
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But frankly, it seems more reasonable for thunder Rosa to go after the
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belt because again, thunder Rosa never lost the title when Tony Storm got it
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initially, you know, as the Intern champion. So yeah, thunder Rose
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could rightfully say I never lost the title, so it's hers to hers to
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get back. You know, she should be the number one contender. She
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never lost it, so yeah, yeah, for sure. And have they
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announced Dianna Parozzo versus Tony for the pay per view? Is that they have
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not announced it, but it just seems obvious that that's what the way they're
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going, you know. Yeah, I mean they're building up the other thing
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that's going to be interesting tomorrow night. And I may be wrong on this,
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but I do believe the rankings are going to be revealed. They're coming
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back tomorrow night. Could they could be it could be uh on collision,
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but I'm pretty sure the rankings are going to be revealed tomorrow night. So
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look at the lower thirds when these wrestlers come out, because I think you're
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going to see the rankings as part of their lower thirds again. So that
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would be interesting to see. M M yeah, I guess would be a
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big part of Surtrick Lind and hang Man Out of Pages match like. So,
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I don't know if you can remind me how their rankings work. Is
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it you have to become the number one ranked person in order to get a
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title shot. But what they used to do to number one person would get
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a title shot. However, sometimes they would have number one and number two
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with number three get into a three way match and the winner that match gets
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a title shot. Uh huh, yeah, that's you know, so you
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know, there's different ways they can do it. The only problem that I
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have with the ranking system is that it still just comes down to booking.
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So if you want to make Commander the number one contender, you just put
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Commander against in matches that he's going to have a win against, you know,
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local talent or sir petigo, you know, stuff like that, and
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let him rack up some wins and next thing you know, hey, he's
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he's got the he's the number one rank contender, and that he did in
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the past, and then they would have a number one contender fight for the
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championship, lose, and then that number one contender would then fall down the
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rankings and they would never get built back up, but they just be tossed
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aside. They've got to make the fame ranking is more fluid and meaningful,
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not just as a means to build up somebody to lose and never be seen
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again. Yeah. Yeah, and that's whether there's rankings. There are no
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rankings. They have to do that, all right, then, Well I
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think that's gonna be it for the show. Uh, Alex, always a
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pleasure talking to you. Yeah, thank you bye for now. Yeah so
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for for aw Fanhubb, this is Ignition. I'm Kelson and I'm Alex.
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Good night, everybody,