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AEW Hot Topics: Celebrating Black History Month in AEW · Ignition - an AEW Podcast

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Speaker 1: And nine. Ignition six five four three two one zero,
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Speaker 1: All Engine running.
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Speaker 2: It's Tuesday. You know what that means. It's time for
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Speaker 2: Ignition with the aw fan Hub podcast team. This is
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Speaker 2: Kelson and guys. I wanted to start off the show.
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Speaker 2: It's February. It's our first show of February, and I
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Speaker 2: wanted to join all wrestling and wishing everybody sincerely a
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Speaker 2: happy Black History Month. I think that it's a It's
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Speaker 2: a big deal for me personally, I think it should
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Speaker 2: be a big deal for everybody. Uh So, I just
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Speaker 2: wanted to say that happy Black History Month. Let's celebrate it,
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Speaker 2: and let's celebrate it throughout the year, not just in February.
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Speaker 2: We've got a lot to talk about, guys, because we
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Speaker 2: had a heck of a week of wrestling, not only
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Speaker 2: with aw Dynamite and Collision, but also a lot of
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Speaker 2: stuff coming out in New Japan. Of course Royal Rumble
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Speaker 2: with WWE. But let's face it, there is no bigger
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Speaker 2: story in the professional wrestling world, and I challenge anybody
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Speaker 2: to argue with me here, there's no bigger story than
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Speaker 2: the prospects of this asshole here on screen, Wheeler. You'd
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Speaker 2: to potentially losing that gigantic mane of hair on Valentine's
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Speaker 2: Day at Grand Slam Sydney. Do you guys think that
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Speaker 2: there's any chance that any of the other wrestlers in
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Speaker 2: this match are going to lose their hair?
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Speaker 3: Totally expect Tony Storm to ever had shape. I bet
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Speaker 3: you this is her idea.
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Speaker 2: You know what? That crossed my mind.
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Speaker 3: As soon as well. Remember from the live chat, I'm like,
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Speaker 3: are we getting hair versus hair match? And then I
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Speaker 3: was like, because I'm like, I'm just thinking, like, Tony
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Speaker 3: will totally share your head. She totally would. I also
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Speaker 3: want to note bald Wheeler Uda looks like a very
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Speaker 3: young minoral Suzuki.
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Speaker 2: He does. He does for those of you. Yeah, very yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's that. How you doing that?
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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing okay, How are you good?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about the prospects of Wheeler using you
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Speaker 2: to losing his hair on Valentine's Day at Grand Sam Sydney.
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Speaker 2: I thought that Wheeler. By the way, for those of
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Speaker 2: you who are not watching this on video, I did
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Speaker 2: a really, really, really awful photoshop where I removed Wheeler
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Speaker 2: DA's hair and his beard, and yeah, he does look
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Speaker 2: like a young minoral, Suzuki, you need was that?
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Speaker 5: What was that? Net?
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Speaker 2: Because we lost you? Okay, yeah we can hear you now.
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Speaker 6: I said, remove his eyebrows too.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to get weird.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that'd be too much.
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Speaker 3: Re edit it and put like the lines in his
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Speaker 3: head like Suzuki does.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to, man, I really don't want to
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Speaker 2: put that much effort into this. I kind of thought
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Speaker 2: he'd looked like what are those monks you find up
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Speaker 2: on top of a mountain, you know, taking care of
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Speaker 2: sheep and sitting in front of a fountain, you know. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. But anyway, so we getting wheelers shape,
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Speaker 2: Who's who's who's losing their hair?
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Speaker 3: Let's vote, So Kelson, you're you're certain wheelers.
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Speaker 2: Using this look. I feel like if whe were Yuta
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Speaker 2: doesn't lose his hair, people will riot. They will riot.
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Speaker 4: I want him to, but I also think he should
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Speaker 4: dye his hair white and become like the sage of ye.
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Speaker 2: I know what you're saying, like like the monkey king.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 2: With the heir that he has, he does look he
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Speaker 2: would look like the monkey cake from you know, Chinese culture.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can give me change give him like
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Speaker 3: a give him like this old wooden staff with some
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Speaker 3: knots in it and some like gray flowing Jedi robes
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Speaker 3: and stuff right with the white. And maybe he can
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Speaker 3: do like the crazy mustache from like the old school
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Speaker 3: Kung Fu movies and stuff. Yeah, but but he takes
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Speaker 3: it off before the match. He removes the mustache. Well, well,
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Speaker 3: it's only for entrances. Yeah, it's only for entrances.
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Speaker 2: Well we have will we have the Groucho marks glasses
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, maybe give him like a pipe or something.
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Speaker 6: The long white eyebrows.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Whatever. I look at this picture,
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Speaker 2: I see Wheeler you to entrance with a goat. I
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Speaker 2: don't know why I got to see him coming in
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Speaker 2: with a goat.
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Speaker 3: A goat works come out with like a flock.
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Speaker 5: Because after he gets his head shaves, he's gonna have
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Speaker 5: a change of heart and apologize to Brian Danielson.
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Speaker 2: Who will be.
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Speaker 1: Up.
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Speaker 3: He can't do anything.
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Speaker 2: Ryan can't even travel anymore.
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Speaker 3: Anybody fly as next time up?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, you know, I get it. I mean
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Speaker 2: he probably tried to do too much too soon.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, he's retired. What he can't do any less.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's been doing commentary, you know, he was, he
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Speaker 2: joined the commentary team.
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Speaker 3: It's easy.
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Speaker 5: Travel.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. The travel definitely for sure than he was doing
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Speaker 3: when he was wrestling. I mean he's traveling just as much.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's getting up there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's somebody else. Yeah, he's got to
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Speaker 2: be in his forties now, I mean geez, I mean
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Speaker 2: he's practically, you know, two or three years removed from
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Speaker 2: wearing depends probably.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 5: No, he needs to have surgery, but that should, you know,
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Speaker 5: make him where he could come back and do commentary
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Speaker 5: and all that. Okay, Like he's not going to get
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Speaker 5: back in the rain, but we will allow him to
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Speaker 5: be regular on commentary and back states and all that.
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Speaker 3: All right, how do we did we need you to
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Speaker 3: talk about people losing their hair? We got to get
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Speaker 3: back on topic.
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Speaker 2: Does At times Brian Danielson did have a pretty unruly
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Speaker 2: made of hair going on. I mean, not Wheeler, you
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Speaker 2: to incredibly bad, but it was good there.
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Speaker 3: I don't want Grease Boy to lose his hair, man, like,
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Speaker 3: so you want to you don't want I don't want
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Speaker 3: Tony Storm. But I would not be shocked if we
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Speaker 3: find out this entire thing was her idea. I know,
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Speaker 3: especially if she if she has if she's the one
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Speaker 3: that ends up losing her hair, and like, come on,
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Speaker 3: it's Tony Storm. You know she'd do it. I'm I'm
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Speaker 3: willing to put money that we find out it was
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Speaker 3: her idea.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, here's my thing. You know, the hell
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Speaker 2: with it, you know, I just say, screw it. And
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Speaker 2: whoever wins, whoever loses this match, we shave our Ja
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Speaker 2: Cities head period.
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Speaker 3: Artificial lamb. Yeah, I could call it whipping boy.
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Speaker 2: There you go, and that maybe give him a give
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Speaker 2: him a graphic, you know, give him a graph.
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Speaker 3: After his head shot.
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Speaker 2: After he said of shade, give him a graphic, and
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Speaker 2: after he grows his hair back, refuse to change his
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Speaker 2: and roster page picture.
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Speaker 3: You gotta get his name wrongs r J City. It's
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Speaker 3: like j R State or something like that. Just like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: there it is CJ Town. Yeah, CJ Town is all lead.
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Speaker 3: It's that's not on my ny. This show is weird.
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Speaker 3: We're not even yet.
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Speaker 2: Wait do you see the graphic for this week's our
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Speaker 2: last section of the show is it's Kafabi. It's kind
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Speaker 2: of a poet pirie of thoughts, you know from the
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Speaker 2: from the team here, and uh, I make a really
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Speaker 2: horrible custom graphic every time you missed it last week.
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Speaker 2: Did you see the graphic from last week, Barry?
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Speaker 3: I listened to audio, so no, I did not.
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Speaker 2: It was I'll have to send it to you. It
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Speaker 2: was Kyle Fletcher wearing a pink Metador outfit, just like
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Speaker 2: you had asked, and it was it was. He was beautiful.
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Speaker 3: The pencil mustache.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if I can't remember to be honest, well,
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Speaker 7: you know whatever, but let you know what.
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Speaker 2: I hate to I hate to get off of this topic,
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Speaker 2: but we need to move on because we do have
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Speaker 2: a lot to talk about and we're going to talk about. Well,
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Speaker 2: Tomasso Champa came to a W and won the a
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Speaker 2: W T n T Championship. And I I want to
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Speaker 2: stress this. When you say his last name, because it's
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Speaker 2: it's spelled Kiampa or Ciampa or whatever, just replace the
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Speaker 2: I with an H and it's Champa. It's really simple.
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Speaker 2: That's not his real name. And I don't know why
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Speaker 2: he picked that I and I'm saying this meaning I
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Speaker 2: really have been didn't knowing why he picked that last name.
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Speaker 2: If anybody knows or would like to find out let
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Speaker 2: us know. But you know, Champa is not his real
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Speaker 2: last name, but that's something he picked or is it
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Speaker 2: a homage to somebody from his past or something. I
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Speaker 2: don't know, so I'm interested to know why he picked
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Speaker 2: that last name. But anyway, he comes into a w
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Speaker 2: and it becomes the new TNT Champion. What do you
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Speaker 2: guys think? Not much?
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Speaker 5: Obviously, Okay, I loved it. You know, I think the
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Speaker 5: TNT title I long wished it was treated like a
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Speaker 5: TV title. I love the open challenge idea, you know,
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Speaker 5: and I think Tampa is the right guy to you know,
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Speaker 5: come in that way to take because you know, if
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Speaker 5: it was the world titled, hell no, that's messed up.
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Speaker 5: But the t the TNT TV belt, he can have
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Speaker 5: a nice long, you know, open challenge run. Uh you know,
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Speaker 5: just go falls to the wall with six seven matches
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Speaker 5: in a row and then drop it at a pay
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Speaker 5: per view and he'll he'll come out just fine. The
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Speaker 5: title will be elevated, and whoever beats them for it
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Speaker 5: gets that big boost as well.
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Speaker 2: Just out of curiosity, I just wanted to ask everybody
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Speaker 2: a question. How many of you were familiar with Champa's
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Speaker 2: wrestling before he came into a w very very you
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Speaker 2: knew of them, Yeah, so just black and gold.
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Speaker 3: I I saw some of his stuff and Ring of
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Speaker 3: Honor before n XT, but I really enjoyed his work
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Speaker 3: in n X T D d I Y was his
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Speaker 3: his d Y d I Y. Right, Yeah, Yeah, Gargano
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Speaker 3: enjoyed their work. You know. He If you're a fan
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Speaker 3: of guys who can work, Trump has probably some VID
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Speaker 3: you'll enjoy. I'm less familiar with his promo skills and
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Speaker 3: Mike skills. I don't as far as I'm aware. It's
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Speaker 3: not incredibly strong, but it's serviceable, which in AW is fine.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I think he's going to be a good addition.
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Speaker 3: I'm kind of iffy. I mean he's forty, you know,
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Speaker 3: Tony's been focusing on a lot of younger talent lately,
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Speaker 3: so there are some limitations there. But he's an incredible shape.
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Speaker 3: He was excited to go there, and we've seen that
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Speaker 3: performers that want to go to AW from other promotions
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Speaker 3: tend to be the best as opposed to people who
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Speaker 3: get let go. So I'm excited to see his run.
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Speaker 2: Now have you seen his his interviews I mean, there's
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Speaker 2: plenty of videos out there where he talks about wanting
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Speaker 2: to go to aw very very similar to what Techlas said.
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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I was oppressed. I had
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Speaker 2: never seen him wrestle before. Not a shame to admit it.
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Speaker 2: I just had never seen him wrestle before, so I
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Speaker 2: didn't know anything about him, you know. Surprised me the
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Speaker 2: most about him. There's two things that surprised me most
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Speaker 2: about Champa. Well that that wash that kind of took
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Speaker 2: me back, but it does have something to do with
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Speaker 2: my first point, and I'd like to hear you guys
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Speaker 2: opinions on this. My first point of two is that
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Speaker 2: when he first came out, what was literally the first
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Speaker 2: time I'd seen him. You know, I was completely agative
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Speaker 2: of Champa before he came out. When he got introduced
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Speaker 2: on what was it Dynamite last week? He got introduced
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Speaker 2: right he came out with those piercing blue eyes, you know,
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Speaker 2: and just the way he looked. I'm thinking, like, this
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Speaker 2: guy is a mega heel, and he's like not, He's
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Speaker 2: the complete opposite. He's like the biggest babyface in the company,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I mean, surely there could
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Speaker 2: be a change in that, but right now he's coming
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Speaker 2: off as with his interviews and what he said and
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Speaker 2: his backstage stuff that they showed, he's coming off like
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Speaker 2: the biggest babyface in aew. The second thing is, yes,
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Speaker 2: he's forty years old, and I fully admit that I
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Speaker 2: was a little concerned at his age. But to your point,
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Speaker 2: you know, Aw, Barry AW has been signing a lot
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Speaker 2: of young, really young talent, but you need veteran talent
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Speaker 2: to show them what the hell to do.
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Speaker 3: And the way you want to see him work too, right,
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Speaker 3: So I think that's a good point ahead.
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Speaker 2: So when I saw brisco versus Champa again being totally ignorant,
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Speaker 2: that was literally, at Barry, you're gonna have to mute, buddy.
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Speaker 2: The When I saw brisco versus Champa, that was literally
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Speaker 2: the first time I had seen Champa work. I had
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Speaker 2: never seen him before, so that being said, that was
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Speaker 2: my first exposure to him, and I was like, this
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Speaker 2: is this is good because he could definitely work. Of course,
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Speaker 2: he was working with Mark Briscoe and Mark Briscoe and
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Speaker 2: he had apparently worked several times before at Briscoe is
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Speaker 2: known for being a good worker. You had two good
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Speaker 2: workers in that match, working with and against each other,
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Speaker 2: and it worked. It was a great debut. What did
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Speaker 2: you guys think of his debut match and him winning
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Speaker 2: the a wtnd Championship.
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Speaker 8: Okay, I'll go I've watched some of the places I've
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Speaker 8: never watched him a ring and armor, But guy, he
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Speaker 8: is He's good enough. I thought he was going to
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Speaker 8: be a heel as well Kelson. But in my opinion,
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Speaker 8: I can't name a lot of great faces that have
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Speaker 8: been around in the TNT title in mid cart and
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Speaker 8: we need one, I know, for a fact field turn.
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Speaker 8: And when he turns, the uses of Psycho Killer will
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Speaker 8: be very much appreciated, more for a heel than a
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Speaker 8: face on his Titan screen.
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Speaker 2: But did let me ask you this, Okay, do you
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Speaker 2: think that he should turn heel? Do you think he should?
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Speaker 8: Yes, eventually he should turn heel. I think he needs
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Speaker 8: to lose it as a face first and then come
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Speaker 8: back as a heel because he is a great heel.
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Speaker 8: I believe in the n XT he turned on Johnny
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Speaker 8: Gargano and they had a nice year long feud. He
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Speaker 8: he's better to me. He has the look of a
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Speaker 8: heel with the beard and the bald together. Uh, he's
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Speaker 8: just an overall better heel. There are people out in
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Speaker 8: the wrestling industry who are better heels than faces, and
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Speaker 8: I think Tomasso Champa is a better heel.
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Speaker 2: Fair enough, I think to hear some other opinions on Champo,
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Speaker 2: what's what do you guys feel as.
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Speaker 5: Far as the heel facing, I kind of agree with them.
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Speaker 5: He's a guy who can do both well, but he
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Speaker 5: is better in the heel role. So yeah, eventually he's turned,
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Speaker 5: but I don't think it needs to be really quick.
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Speaker 5: I think, you know, you can stretch it out for
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Speaker 5: a while, maybe do the kind of mentor you know
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Speaker 5: thing with him, and then like the kid he's mentoring,
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Speaker 5: starts getting better, wins the title that he lost, and
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Speaker 5: that just makes them snap. Kind of deal. Just a
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Speaker 5: random ass idea, you know, one possible. I thought the
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Speaker 5: match was great. I loved it. You know, back and
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Speaker 5: forth they there was the respects shown, but like once
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Speaker 5: the bell rang, it was I'm here to beat you,
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Speaker 5: You're here to beat me. I ain't no messing about it.
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Speaker 5: I just went it was.
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Speaker 2: It was a very workman like match. They worked well together.
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Speaker 2: Let's I want to go to net nett. What do
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Speaker 2: you feel about Champa and his and his run here,
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Speaker 2: I mean his initial what's your first impression of champ
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Speaker 2: in Aw?
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Speaker 4: I like him. I also have never seen him before,
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Speaker 4: so I was just taking it as as I go,
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Speaker 4: But I like him so far. I think he has
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Speaker 4: the crowd, and he clearly has a lot of fans,
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Speaker 4: and I think that he is he's a good face.
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Speaker 4: I can see him turning heel eventually, but like we've
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Speaker 4: said before, aew has enough heels, so let's have a
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Speaker 4: good face run with him until something happens that he turns.
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Speaker 4: But I'd like to see him for for a while,
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Speaker 4: be the way he is. He's really personable and fun.
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Speaker 2: No, let me ask you questions. So according I mean,
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Speaker 2: you're like me, we'd never seen Champa before, Nothing wrong
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Speaker 2: with that, but according to the other guys, he's a
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Speaker 2: really good heel. But he's definitely a babyface right now.
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Speaker 2: Would you agree with that that he's a babyface right now?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I definitely agree.
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Speaker 2: What better way to combat a heel than having them
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Speaker 2: going against a heelish babyface? You know? Do you agree
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Speaker 2: with that statement?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 2: Hey, you know, Champa has has experience being a heel.
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Speaker 2: Let's keep him as a heel and let him get
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Speaker 2: these heels in line, you know, let's show him that
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Speaker 2: he's the kind of person that apparently knows the tricks.
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Speaker 4: I mean obviously, but yeah, I can see that. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I can see that, and I would like a good
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Speaker 4: build up to it. You know, it doesn't happen immediately
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Speaker 4: almost that it happens and we don't even realize that
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Speaker 4: it's happened. That That's how I would like to see
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Speaker 4: it played. So the slow burn, so to speak.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm here for it.
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Speaker 2: Cool. Barry, what's your what you've got to say about
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Speaker 2: Thomas Alchappa.
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Speaker 3: I think bringing him in as a babyface was a
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Speaker 3: smart move, specifically for some of the stuff that you mentioned. Kelson,
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Speaker 3: people aren't. I hate using the term hardcore wrestling fans because,
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Speaker 3: like you know, it's just if you watched NXT or
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Speaker 3: Ring of Honor, I don't think you're hardcore per se.
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Speaker 3: But that's where he made a name for himself. He
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Speaker 3: wasn't a huge guy on the main roster in WWE,
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Speaker 3: so bringing in a talent as a babyface as opposed
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Speaker 3: to a heel is a safer move. I also think
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Speaker 3: you have the opportunity if you want to keep him
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Speaker 3: working with Mark and the plan is to turn him heal.
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Speaker 3: There are very few babyfaces more sympathetic than Mark, and
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Speaker 3: so having him turn heel against Briscoe on a rematch
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Speaker 3: or something else on the line good. But the other
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Speaker 3: thing too, I really liked about this is we've seen
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Speaker 3: with the TNT title they are not scared to have
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Speaker 3: shorter rains with it. And it's interesting because we all expect, Okay,
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Speaker 3: this is going to be a longer run. This is
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Speaker 3: going to be a longer run. Fletcher only added for
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Speaker 3: a little bit, brisco only added for a little bit.
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Speaker 3: I don't expect Chiampa to hold it for too long.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's coming back to what MK said.
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Speaker 3: That's the right move for this belt, and it's a
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Speaker 3: great way to introduce Champa as a as a major player.
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Speaker 3: Bring him in, strap them up with a mid card talent,
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Speaker 3: get them established real quick, be like this is a
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Speaker 3: serious player, and you can plug and play into into
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Speaker 3: some top mid card feuds and keep that thing going.
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Speaker 3: AW has got a lot of challenges for their titles
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Speaker 3: and a lot of good programs with multiple challenges right now,
21:45
Speaker 3: and I think that's a good step for this year.
21:46
Speaker 2: All Right, We're going to be talking and pretty in
21:50
Speaker 2: a segment not too long from now about aw and
21:56
Speaker 2: brig of Honor and who's on the watch list, Who's
22:00
Speaker 2: who's gonna, you know, come up and and challenge for
22:03
Speaker 2: these titles, and not only just challenge for the titles,
22:05
Speaker 2: but insinuate themselves in storylines that are non title storylines,
22:10
Speaker 2: because we've discussed it before, you know that non title
22:13
Speaker 2: storylines are just as important as title storylines. But before
22:17
Speaker 2: we get to that, we're going to talk about the
22:21
Speaker 2: elephant in the room that is aj Styles. He is
22:27
Speaker 2: now wrapped up with WWE at Royal Rumble, and there's
22:35
Speaker 2: just so much He's not said anything, really, but there's
22:39
Speaker 2: so much rampant speculation about where he's going. Some people
22:44
Speaker 2: has said TNAH, but if he was going to stay
22:47
Speaker 2: with if he was going to go to TNA, TNA's
22:50
Speaker 2: partner with WWE, why would he retire from WWE. He
22:55
Speaker 2: can just just move over to TNA if that's what
22:58
Speaker 2: he wanted to do. Some people have said do Japan,
23:03
Speaker 2: and frankly, that would be a pretty interesting move. Simply
23:06
Speaker 2: because Japan's in trouble folks. And I think maybe in
23:10
Speaker 2: a future podcast, or maybe even in our final segment today,
23:15
Speaker 2: maybe Chrys will have something to say about uh, you know,
23:19
Speaker 2: dow Japan is this bleeding talent. Let's put it that way,
23:23
Speaker 2: what is going on? But also you know, of course
23:26
Speaker 2: there's been the speculation that he may come to aw.
23:30
Speaker 2: Styles is forty eight years old. He does not look
23:33
Speaker 2: like a forty eight year old wrestler. You know, what,
23:36
Speaker 2: what do you think? What would you like to see?
23:40
Speaker 2: And why?
23:42
Speaker 3: This is your name written all over it?
23:44
Speaker 6: It has my name written all over it?
23:46
Speaker 2: It does. If you look at the graphic at the
23:49
Speaker 2: top left, there's a little red dot and it's that
23:53
Speaker 2: little red dot your name is written all over it.
23:56
Speaker 3: Yes, if you zoom in it, it's like two. You
24:02
Speaker 3: have to squint.
24:03
Speaker 2: I put a lot of work into that.
24:07
Speaker 5: Why I can't say it. I did have to squint.
24:11
Speaker 5: I did, yes, But go ahead, I have to squint.
24:16
Speaker 2: I interested to hear net that. Let's hear where your
24:19
Speaker 2: opinions are on aj Styles. Where do you think is
24:22
Speaker 2: should he stay retired or is he going to go somewhere?
24:25
Speaker 2: What do you think let's hear your speculation. This is
24:27
Speaker 2: our fantasy booking time.
24:29
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I think that he would come to a W.
24:34
Speaker 4: I don't think he would necessarily wrestle every week, but
24:39
Speaker 4: I can see him being around, so i'd like to
24:44
Speaker 4: see it. I think he's a good wrestler, fun guy,
24:49
Speaker 4: so I would like to see him come on over.
24:51
Speaker 4: But maybe not all the time. I don't know.
24:56
Speaker 6: And why am I on that on that little.
24:59
Speaker 2: Dot, because when I think of red dots, I think
25:04
Speaker 2: of simply.
25:05
Speaker 6: That, Oh my god, why wow.
25:10
Speaker 2: I don't know why. It's just it's just something, you know. Okay,
25:15
Speaker 2: you know I go to when I get stopped. You
25:18
Speaker 2: have to you have to keep this in mind that
25:20
Speaker 2: I'm not stalking you or anything, but I think about
25:23
Speaker 2: you at every red light.
25:25
Speaker 9: Oh Mike, Yeah, okaya, back on topic.
25:35
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, h style. I would love to see him
25:42
Speaker 5: in a W. Uh. You know, maybe he comes around
25:47
Speaker 5: as like wanting to say hi to old friends, and
25:50
Speaker 5: it's like just kind of hanging out, checking out. The
25:53
Speaker 5: show does some guests commentary, you know, here and there,
25:57
Speaker 5: but it's sucked into like a tree with the young bucks,
26:02
Speaker 5: you know, and then you could kind of make him like. Actually,
26:05
Speaker 5: I don't know if him and Hangman ever had a match.
26:08
Speaker 5: I know they were in Bullet Club at the same time,
26:12
Speaker 5: but I don't know if like they ever matched up
26:15
Speaker 5: in a t one or anything. So, you know, some
26:18
Speaker 5: first time matches with people I'd like. I'd love to
26:22
Speaker 5: see him in that kind of role.
26:26
Speaker 2: Do you see him maybe I'm interested in your opinion
26:29
Speaker 2: on this, but also the others William Regal, I mean,
26:33
Speaker 2: Regal was a little bit more removed from his wrestling
26:36
Speaker 2: days when he came into AW. But do you see
26:39
Speaker 2: perhaps Aj Styles being in more of a William Regal
26:44
Speaker 2: type role if he were to come into AW, you know,
26:47
Speaker 2: kind of being the big mentor.
26:50
Speaker 5: I could see that working, but it would have to
26:55
Speaker 5: be like the right team and the right story. I'm
27:00
Speaker 5: not sure that is right now.
27:03
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's go to the descentic opinion. That
27:06
Speaker 2: was Barry saying that he does not like that idea.
27:10
Speaker 2: So let's hear what your opinion about Styles is.
27:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I'm a huge Aj Styles mark. I've been
27:17
Speaker 3: a fan of his since the indie scene. He was
27:20
Speaker 3: one of the people I was super excited to see
27:22
Speaker 3: in TNA. Initially because that was you back back when
27:25
Speaker 3: I first started watching AJ. I can only get his
27:27
Speaker 3: stuff on tapes like VHS tapes, so seeing him on TV,
27:31
Speaker 3: it was great. He's him, Joe, Roddy, Pete Williams, all
27:36
Speaker 3: those guys were why I watched TNA pay per views.
27:38
Speaker 3: Never watched the weekly TV, but I would buy those
27:40
Speaker 3: pay per views to watch that X division. Didn't you know,
27:44
Speaker 3: didn't get to see him in Japan because the streaming
27:49
Speaker 3: wasn't really a thing when he was running there, And
27:51
Speaker 3: I was really excited when he popped back up in WWE.
27:54
Speaker 3: But he's forty eight and his personality does not work
27:59
Speaker 3: the way that regals did for his mentorship. I don't
28:02
Speaker 3: think as a character that would work out. I don't
28:07
Speaker 3: see him being a full time performer. I also don't
28:10
Speaker 3: know if his contract is up with WWE. I think
28:14
Speaker 3: Sean ross Stapp said there's a lot of ambiguity, even
28:16
Speaker 3: Meltzer maybe about what his contract status is. So maybe
28:20
Speaker 3: he's retired from wrestling full time, but he may still
28:24
Speaker 3: have another eighteen months or something. You know, I don't
28:26
Speaker 3: know what the contract thing is.
28:28
Speaker 2: I think I may be totally off base here, Barry,
28:31
Speaker 2: but I think I did read March of twenty twenty
28:35
Speaker 2: six is contract?
28:37
Speaker 3: Okay, so next month? Okay?
28:39
Speaker 2: I believe it could be February.
28:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be. Also the kind of performer I think,
28:47
Speaker 3: I remember who said that a second ago where I
28:49
Speaker 3: could see him wanting to do a couple work with
28:52
Speaker 3: a couple other performers before he does hanging up for
28:55
Speaker 3: good and at forty eight that that clock is ticking.
28:57
Speaker 3: You know, it's the same thing Copeland did. There were
28:59
Speaker 3: some people he was going to get a chance to
29:00
Speaker 3: work with he wanted to unless he made the jump.
29:03
Speaker 3: And if you look at pro wrestling, like actors and acting,
29:07
Speaker 3: there are a lot of actors which will go work
29:09
Speaker 3: in smaller movies, different movies, genres they're not used to
29:13
Speaker 3: specifically to work with performers and other actors they wanted
29:16
Speaker 3: to work with. And you know, if he comes to
29:19
Speaker 3: AW or does some limited New Japan dates or whatever,
29:23
Speaker 3: I could see that happening. But at forty eight, I
29:26
Speaker 3: have a hard time believing he's looking to do anything
29:28
Speaker 3: long term. It may be a case of you know,
29:30
Speaker 3: I am done full time. I'm just going to pick
29:32
Speaker 3: a couple of spots. I wouldn't be shocked if they
29:34
Speaker 3: run a short term program and he shows up for
29:36
Speaker 3: something for all in. You know, maybe they do that,
29:39
Speaker 3: but I'm not as on expecting him to show up
29:44
Speaker 3: in AWS. Some other people are.
29:46
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, MK. Do you have any opinions about this?
29:50
Speaker 8: So I really would love for him to just retire
29:55
Speaker 8: for a little bit, but only you. I really want
29:57
Speaker 8: MJF to go you in a W. Sorry, yeah, I
30:04
Speaker 8: gave it away. I want AJ styles versus m JF.
30:08
Speaker 8: That's what I want because he's a big name. I mean,
30:11
Speaker 8: I don't want people. I don't want to see people
30:15
Speaker 8: he's done in the past. I want him versus somebody
30:18
Speaker 8: he's never been before. And I think a m j
30:22
Speaker 8: F is a good enough talker so that he can
30:26
Speaker 8: handle that. AJ is a decent talker, but the two
30:29
Speaker 8: in the ring together would blow the roof off the place.
30:33
Speaker 8: And a J when he comes to a W deserves
30:35
Speaker 8: the hugest pop like what to Moscow Champa got, and
30:40
Speaker 8: an even bigger one.
30:42
Speaker 3: It'd be huge. You'll get a monster reception.
30:46
Speaker 8: But I want to see the fights he's never fought before.
30:53
Speaker 2: Sure, but yeah, yeah, you know it's weird because only
30:59
Speaker 2: AJ Styles knows what AJ Styles is going to do.
31:03
Speaker 2: You know, I I firmly believe that, uh does a
31:09
Speaker 2: w need AJ Styles? No, No, they don't. Would a
31:13
Speaker 2: d aw benefit from having AJ Styles Absolutely, any wrestling
31:17
Speaker 2: company would benefit from having AJ Styles. Even if, and
31:22
Speaker 2: I want to stress this, even if he doesn't step
31:26
Speaker 2: foot in a wrestling match in any company that he joins,
31:31
Speaker 2: if he just falls into the William William Riga role
31:36
Speaker 2: with the Blackpoole Combat Club and never really does any
31:40
Speaker 2: wrestling whatsoever, he would still be a big deal. That's
31:46
Speaker 2: I guess that's the point that I'm going to trying to.
31:49
Speaker 3: Make, you know, Kelston thinking thinking back a camera, non
31:53
Speaker 3: camera role, but a non non wrestling role, it can work.
31:56
Speaker 3: I just I don't know if like in that rep
31:58
Speaker 3: that maybe I'm taking you too literally and what Regal
32:02
Speaker 3: did as opposed to just generally like some sort of
32:05
Speaker 3: lead of some some faction, you know, it could work
32:09
Speaker 3: or some other role on TV. I mean, he's fun,
32:12
Speaker 3: it's good looking, dude, he's personable enough, and he's one
32:16
Speaker 3: of the greatest ever do it and his has earned
32:18
Speaker 3: that that right. So you know, I think I think
32:21
Speaker 3: there could be a spot from on TV.
32:24
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody can argue with what you just said.
32:27
Speaker 2: Aji Styles is one of the best it's ever done.
32:30
Speaker 3: It.
32:30
Speaker 2: Well, when you look at the best it's ever done it,
32:33
Speaker 2: they all have to start somewhere. And AW and Ring
32:36
Speaker 2: of Honor have a lot of wrestlers that are either
32:42
Speaker 2: veterans or just starting out that could be big if
32:47
Speaker 2: given the right opportunity to write storylines. So let's talk
32:52
Speaker 2: about who is on your aw and make sure you
32:55
Speaker 2: keep Ring of Honor in this who is on your
32:58
Speaker 2: Ring of Honor? And a you watch list for wrestlers
33:02
Speaker 2: that are up and coming that you can see are about.
33:07
Speaker 2: Maybe they're going to get their dues pretty soon. What
33:13
Speaker 2: do you guys think?
33:14
Speaker 8: Mine is the crew?
33:17
Speaker 1: Uh?
33:17
Speaker 8: Well, it used to be the Swirl. Now they're the crew.
33:20
Speaker 8: I think with Jay Jay Lethal.
33:24
Speaker 2: Swirl and crew are two different thing. Are you sure?
33:29
Speaker 2: Swirrel is Blake Christian and uh uh uh? Who is
33:35
Speaker 2: Blake Christian's partner?
33:36
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you have them on the screen right now?
33:41
Speaker 2: Uh Lee Johnson And that's that's the Swirl. The crew
33:45
Speaker 2: is Actually, mister.
33:49
Speaker 8: I've been watching two different Ring of Honor and Jay
33:54
Speaker 8: Lethal has joined those has joined the Swirl. I don't
33:59
Speaker 8: have to have a name yet, but but I think
34:01
Speaker 8: he would be a great minute meant to to bring
34:04
Speaker 8: them up on on their go for a trios title.
34:09
Speaker 8: I'm just glad Jay Lethal is honestly away from Jeff
34:13
Speaker 8: Jarrett and all that craziness and he can mentor he's
34:17
Speaker 8: he's done it all. He does a lot of stuff,
34:18
Speaker 8: and I think those guys need something because I like
34:24
Speaker 8: Christian Blake. He may look like a crazy white boy,
34:27
Speaker 8: but uh he's he's got the talent. They all three
34:35
Speaker 8: do together, and I think it's time to bring those
34:37
Speaker 8: guys up and interject more in the tag team division.
34:42
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with some lady picts here. So I've
34:46
Speaker 3: talked a few times about Red Velvet. Yeah you've got
34:51
Speaker 3: that sounds yeah, So there you go. So you've got
34:59
Speaker 3: Red Velvet on here. I mentioned before. I really like
35:01
Speaker 3: her a lot. She's pretty, she is a great worker,
35:05
Speaker 3: she's got a good she's got a good move set.
35:09
Speaker 3: She's fun to watch, and I'm bummed she's not on
35:13
Speaker 3: a WTV. I'm glad they've found a spot for her
35:16
Speaker 3: and Ring of Honor and are using her there, but
35:17
Speaker 3: I would really like to see her back on any WTV.
35:20
Speaker 3: And then another female performer i'd like to see get
35:23
Speaker 3: the call up is Billy Starks. So I've been a
35:28
Speaker 3: fan of her. She's been on a AWTV a decent amount,
35:31
Speaker 3: but you know her and Athena being on Ring of
35:33
Speaker 3: Honor together, I think it's holding Billy back. I'd like
35:37
Speaker 3: to see her showcase more and I think she's a
35:39
Speaker 3: talent they really should get behind and develop for the
35:41
Speaker 3: main roster.
35:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could absolutely agree with that. Let's go to
35:47
Speaker 2: well Nett and Chris, whichever one months to go first.
35:50
Speaker 2: Let's hear what you got to say.
35:52
Speaker 4: I was going to say the same thing Billy Starks.
35:55
Speaker 4: I'm a huge Billy Starks fan. I would like to
35:58
Speaker 4: see her have more TV time. She is phenomenal in
36:04
Speaker 4: the ring, at least to me for her to be
36:08
Speaker 4: so young, she has a lot of potential and a
36:11
Speaker 4: pretty long career ahead of her, so there's a lot
36:15
Speaker 4: that they can do with her. I also like Red
36:18
Speaker 4: Velvet and Blake Christian. I would like to see them
36:23
Speaker 4: have more time, more storylines.
36:28
Speaker 6: Red Velvet is.
36:29
Speaker 4: Really really good and to me, she just she doesn't
36:33
Speaker 4: get enough time. She's back from her injury and we
36:37
Speaker 4: should see a lot more of her. So that's who
36:41
Speaker 4: I would say.
36:43
Speaker 2: Very good Chris.
36:45
Speaker 5: For me, it's Shane Taylor promote pretty much all around
36:50
Speaker 5: Lee Moriarty, amazing technical wrestler, good high flyer breaks. I
36:56
Speaker 5: think there's a lot of upside to him. Infant tree,
37:00
Speaker 5: fantastic tag team, and some really good combo work. They've
37:06
Speaker 5: got character personality to Tricia Dora. She's awesome, you know,
37:13
Speaker 5: like the whole group is just people who are like
37:18
Speaker 5: almost they're just ready to hit the reins if they're
37:22
Speaker 5: given the chance.
37:23
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, I mean on the graphic you
37:26
Speaker 2: could see that I have Tony Nice on the graphic.
37:28
Speaker 2: If you've been watching Ring of Honor, I personally feel
37:31
Speaker 2: like Tony Nie has been killing it. I would not
37:33
Speaker 2: be upset. We've already talked about how the TNT Championship
37:38
Speaker 2: team seems to how Potato a little bit more, which
37:40
Speaker 2: I enjoy. I would not be upset at all Tony
37:42
Speaker 2: Nice had a turn with the TNT Championship. Then again,
37:46
Speaker 2: you know, if Ring of Honor becomes bigger, you know,
37:48
Speaker 2: the Ring of Honor television championship. That kind of thing
37:52
Speaker 2: would be a perfect place. I think Tony Nie is
37:55
Speaker 2: working his butt off. I've been really impressed with what
37:58
Speaker 2: he's been doing. Then we've all so. A few weeks
38:01
Speaker 2: ago the Butcher said that the Butcher the Blade are
38:06
Speaker 2: back and that they will be you know, taking names
38:11
Speaker 2: and kicking ass in AW soon. I'm here for it.
38:15
Speaker 2: I would love to see these two veteran wrestlers do
38:19
Speaker 2: something more than casino gauntlet work and stuff like that.
38:24
Speaker 2: I'd like to see them get a chance to really,
38:29
Speaker 2: you know, promote themselves in and be a tag team,
38:32
Speaker 2: whether it's in AW or Ring of Honor. I really
38:36
Speaker 2: do want them to go. Look with with the with
38:40
Speaker 2: the signings that Tony Khan has been doing, I firmly
38:44
Speaker 2: believe that the plan behind this is to make Ring
38:48
Speaker 2: of Honor a bigger thing. So being in Ring of
38:51
Speaker 2: Honor champion, you know, people will say, oh, nobody ever
38:55
Speaker 2: watches Ring of Honor, which may be somewhat true. But
39:00
Speaker 2: I do believe that Ring of Honor is going to
39:02
Speaker 2: be more visible, and I do believe it's going to
39:04
Speaker 2: be more visible soon. That being said, I think the
39:08
Speaker 2: signings at a w and Tony Kahn have done are
39:14
Speaker 2: to some extent made the bolster the Ring of Honor roster.
39:18
Speaker 2: I really do believe that, and I do believe the
39:21
Speaker 2: Ring of Honor is going to be getting a little
39:22
Speaker 2: bit more attention. I do believe that they're going to
39:25
Speaker 2: be getting some sort of better deal than the Honor Club.
39:32
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be more visible.
39:34
Speaker 3: So Tony still do the varsity athletes skimmick or whatever
39:41
Speaker 3: it's they do.
39:44
Speaker 2: They do the varsity athletes smart, mark, Sterning, is sterling is.
39:49
Speaker 2: They're the facto leader, and they have you know, Tony
39:53
Speaker 2: nice And of course the thing that makes them stand
39:56
Speaker 2: out a little bit more now is that they have
39:58
Speaker 2: story Denelli in there. And I mean, she's bigger than
40:02
Speaker 2: all the guys, and uh so she stands out. Of
40:05
Speaker 2: course she doesn't really. She's young, and she's green. She
40:08
Speaker 2: doesn't have a big mood that moves that. But the
40:11
Speaker 2: things that she does she does pretty well. But the
40:14
Speaker 2: only thing is is that she's she's presented as a
40:17
Speaker 2: beast and I've never really seen her take a bump yet.
40:22
Speaker 2: She's the one that she can deal a lot of damage,
40:24
Speaker 2: but I haven't seen her take bumps, so she's not
40:27
Speaker 2: ready yet.
40:28
Speaker 3: I like Tony Nice too. He usually makes who he
40:31
Speaker 3: works with look good. He knows his role on TV
40:34
Speaker 3: and does it well. And he's got a great physique.
40:37
Speaker 3: He's a good looking dude. He's good enough on the mic.
40:40
Speaker 3: You know, we haven't really have a chance to see
40:41
Speaker 3: him really cut a serious promo because I think I
40:45
Speaker 3: think the Varsity Athletes is a bad gimmick. I think
40:47
Speaker 3: that the entire stick is B team all Stars level,
40:51
Speaker 3: like it will hold anybody back that's in there. So
40:55
Speaker 3: if they want to invest in Nie, it's got to
40:57
Speaker 3: be away from that. I mean, he's great potential. We've
41:01
Speaker 3: seen him work well in other places. We've seen him
41:03
Speaker 3: work well here. He's just he's just stuck with a
41:05
Speaker 3: bad gimmick. That's just it's just not.
41:06
Speaker 5: Going to go in.
41:08
Speaker 8: I really want to see Nice put with Megan Bay
41:12
Speaker 8: into a male part.
41:13
Speaker 2: Of that group.
41:14
Speaker 8: I think he has a Greek look. I think it'd
41:15
Speaker 8: be fun and get him on the stage a little bit, uh,
41:19
Speaker 8: get getting noticed. He can be their protector, yeah, the
41:25
Speaker 8: arrogance working. I really think he has a look and
41:27
Speaker 8: everything as well, and she needs kind of a male counterpart.
41:32
Speaker 8: You know, God, God, this type of thing, and.
41:36
Speaker 3: I think flawless.
41:40
Speaker 2: He is now, I mean Joey, Joey Janella. There's no
41:45
Speaker 2: chance of him coming to a w right.
41:47
Speaker 3: I think bridge Ish.
41:52
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe they rekindled. I don't know.
41:54
Speaker 3: But they haven't done graphics for Clark Connors and Finlay yet, right.
42:00
Speaker 2: Well they Fightful has announced that that Cluk Connors has signed.
42:06
Speaker 2: I haven't heard heard it.
42:07
Speaker 3: They haven't doographically. No, No, I'm pretty sure Finley ob
42:13
Speaker 3: in two they're going to have almost the entire former
42:17
Speaker 3: Wardog stable. And to your point, Kelson, Tony does this
42:22
Speaker 3: for He'll load up and signed a bunch of people
42:25
Speaker 3: and then everyone's like, you don't have enough TV time
42:27
Speaker 3: for everybody. We all remember that's been a challenge for them.
42:30
Speaker 3: But I don't know how you can load up with
42:32
Speaker 3: a lot of the signings they've done, Kelson, like you
42:34
Speaker 3: indicate it. Either you're going to create more TV time,
42:37
Speaker 3: whether that's a ring of honor for other people or not,
42:40
Speaker 3: or you're expecting departures and you're filling your bench with
42:44
Speaker 3: that next next level of folks that you can start
42:46
Speaker 3: pushing to replace him.
42:47
Speaker 2: Well, if you look you know, we talked about this
42:49
Speaker 2: at a little bit last week, Barry. If you look
42:52
Speaker 2: at the AAW roster, there is not there is a
42:56
Speaker 2: lot of inactive and I use that term kind of
43:05
Speaker 2: I don't know, but there's a lot of inactive wrestlers
43:09
Speaker 2: or talent, let's use that word talent on the AAW roster.
43:13
Speaker 2: For example, if you look at both at the AWN
43:17
Speaker 2: Ring of Honor rosters as of last week, I believe
43:21
Speaker 2: there were forty one women on the roster, but of
43:25
Speaker 2: those forty one, only twenty one of them are actively wrestling.
43:29
Speaker 2: There are women like Hikarushida and Rijo and mother Wayne
43:35
Speaker 2: Madison Rain that are still on the roster, but they're
43:38
Speaker 2: not wrestling. Britt Baker Rebel. I mean, if you look
43:43
Speaker 2: at the women's roster on AW and Ring of Honor,
43:47
Speaker 2: there are a wealth of women that are not wrestling
43:52
Speaker 2: and are not doing anything. So, yeah, the Ring and
43:56
Speaker 2: AW women's roster has forty one women on it. As
44:00
Speaker 2: of last week, there was only twenty one active wrestlers
44:04
Speaker 2: in the women's division in both companies, and that's frankly
44:08
Speaker 2: not enough to be very diverse. You're just going to
44:10
Speaker 2: get a lot of the same women in the know
44:13
Speaker 2: in similar matches. You know, a lot of the women
44:18
Speaker 2: like thunder Rosa, for example, are still on the roster,
44:23
Speaker 2: but they haven't been around for a short while. I
44:27
Speaker 2: would say that thunder Ross has been off out for
44:30
Speaker 2: a short while, you know what I'm saying. So, I mean,
44:34
Speaker 2: when you look at a roster, you've also got to
44:36
Speaker 2: keep in mind that we don't know how the contracts
44:39
Speaker 2: are structured. They contracts may be structured and such that
44:43
Speaker 2: they only have to make X amount of appearances a year.
44:47
Speaker 2: That's happened. We saw the Young Bucks. As a matter
44:53
Speaker 2: of fact, last year KFE used that as we only
44:57
Speaker 2: they basically said, we have this X amount of appearances
45:00
Speaker 2: that we have to do a year. We've reached that,
45:02
Speaker 2: so we're taking a couple of months off. You remember that.
45:06
Speaker 2: So that happens. Then you have you know, if you
45:10
Speaker 2: only have twenty one active women wrestlers and two companies basically,
45:14
Speaker 2: and you have an injury that knocks it down, that
45:18
Speaker 2: not only destroys stories, but it also means one less
45:22
Speaker 2: person to wrestle. And of course, you know, injuries do happen,
45:27
Speaker 2: and illnesses happen, etc. And like I mentioned, earlier contracts happen,
45:34
Speaker 2: so you need wrestlers to fill in the voids, fill
45:37
Speaker 2: in the gaps, and that's probably what's going on. I mean,
45:40
Speaker 2: if if you look at the aw and Ring of
45:43
Speaker 2: Honor men's roster, you are also going to see a
45:47
Speaker 2: lot of I mean, it's a significantly bigger roster, but
45:51
Speaker 2: you're still going to see guys like Mark Stirling who
45:54
Speaker 2: don't wrestle. You know, Prince Nana who doesn't wrestle, Stokely
45:58
Speaker 2: Hathway doesn't wrestle, Dan House, and Chris Jericho. There's so
46:02
Speaker 2: many people if you look at the men's roster, Sure
46:05
Speaker 2: it's a big roster, but there's a lot of talent
46:09
Speaker 2: in that roster that do not wrestle, So it's kind
46:13
Speaker 2: of deceiving.
46:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a good point. But the flip
46:19
Speaker 3: side of that is there's a lot of talent they
46:22
Speaker 3: have that isn't on TV that can wrestle because there
46:25
Speaker 3: just isn't enough time. Absolutely, I'm not a person who
46:30
Speaker 3: thinks you should sign talent just so the other side
46:32
Speaker 3: can't get them, or necessarily because they're available. I think
46:36
Speaker 3: you need to. You need to. There has to be
46:38
Speaker 3: value for them. You need to have something you can
46:40
Speaker 3: do with them or a reason you're bringing them in.
46:42
Speaker 3: Don't just sign somebody just to sign someone. But I
46:46
Speaker 3: still think the roster is bloated. I think there's people
46:49
Speaker 3: that aren't going to go anywhere. There's people on the
46:52
Speaker 3: roster to you point Kelson that are listed as wrestlers
46:54
Speaker 3: that aren't. You know, I wish they had a manager
46:56
Speaker 3: section or something like that, but there's still a lot
46:58
Speaker 3: of people that just they don't get on TV. So, like,
47:02
Speaker 3: what do you need more people when you can't even
47:05
Speaker 3: get all the active performers you have on TV? I
47:07
Speaker 3: don't know.
47:08
Speaker 2: Well, you look at guys like pretty Peter Avalon, I
47:11
Speaker 2: believe fight Pel even mentioned today that he's basically he's
47:15
Speaker 2: on the roster, but they said that he was on
47:18
Speaker 2: a per appearance And I'm sorry if I if I'm
47:21
Speaker 2: misquoting here, but I believe Sean ross Sapp said that
47:25
Speaker 2: Peter Avalon is on the roster, but he's not a
47:27
Speaker 2: per appearance contract. So yeah, I mean, look, AW has
47:35
Speaker 2: released a few people over the last few months. Has
47:44
Speaker 2: any of these releases. Have any of these releases maybe
47:48
Speaker 2: other When I say releases, let me rephrase that. It's
47:52
Speaker 2: people that have left the company, whether they've been released
47:55
Speaker 2: or they chose to leave, didn't re sign, et cetera.
47:59
Speaker 2: I mean, Powerhouse Hobbs left. It remains to be seen
48:05
Speaker 2: if it was a good choice or not. I believe
48:08
Speaker 2: it probably will be. But and I hope it is
48:11
Speaker 2: for his sake, because I like the guy and I
48:14
Speaker 2: wish him nothing but the best. But let's face it,
48:17
Speaker 2: some of the releases that are gonna be that have
48:19
Speaker 2: been are not the releases. But you know, people that
48:22
Speaker 2: have are no longer with aw some of them will
48:27
Speaker 2: move on and do great things and some of them won't.
48:31
Speaker 2: It's just that simple, yeah, for sure, you know. And
48:35
Speaker 2: you've got people like that haven't made their debuts yet.
48:38
Speaker 2: We've talked about Finley, We've talked about Clark Connors. I mean,
48:43
Speaker 2: he did wrestle on Collision, but he hasn't gotten his
48:46
Speaker 2: graphic yet. Uh Fipel has reported that Tadovic, a veteran
48:52
Speaker 2: wrestler from the Indies, has signed with aw r o H.
48:56
Speaker 2: She is not debuted yet. Pipe also reported that Lena
49:01
Speaker 2: Cross is signed with aw ROH. She is from Australia.
49:06
Speaker 2: She is now relocated to Orlando. Another one of the
49:10
Speaker 2: neighbors for Barry, and I fully expect her to show
49:16
Speaker 2: up on on next week at Grand Slam Australia. I
49:23
Speaker 2: really do Grand Slam Sydney. I think they're calling it
49:25
Speaker 2: Grand Slam Australia this time.
49:27
Speaker 3: So yeah, I quick little little gags. So I do
49:31
Speaker 3: live in Orlando, and I mentioned I see a lot
49:34
Speaker 3: of performers around the city out and about. When I
49:37
Speaker 3: live in Atlanta for about ten years, I only saw
49:39
Speaker 3: one wrestler and it was aj Styles And I sat
49:42
Speaker 3: next to him on a shuttle from Hartsfield Jackson to
49:46
Speaker 3: Peachey Parking off Site Parking in Atlanta, and I sat
49:49
Speaker 3: next to him with his little Xbox three sixty backpack
49:52
Speaker 3: and stuff. Boy, Yeah, and he knew I knew it
49:56
Speaker 3: was him.
49:57
Speaker 2: What part of Atlanta did you live in?
50:00
Speaker 3: Uh, North northern Atlanta, the city called Woodstock.
50:03
Speaker 2: Lived in Woodstock, I grew up.
50:05
Speaker 3: I grew up in Marietta, Oh okay, as my wife
50:08
Speaker 3: taught it while in high school for one.
50:09
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, because that's where that's where I went
50:11
Speaker 2: to high school.
50:11
Speaker 3: That's right. We talked about that.
50:13
Speaker 2: Of course, I wasn't in high school at the same
50:14
Speaker 2: time your wife was there.
50:17
Speaker 3: That's my style story.
50:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, but my thing is is like with that, I mean,
50:21
Speaker 2: it really depends on where you live in Georgia and when,
50:23
Speaker 2: because when I lived in Marietta, my sister went, do
50:29
Speaker 2: Buff Bagwell really well?
50:32
Speaker 3: It's not sure that I got a Bagwell story?
50:34
Speaker 2: Go ahead, sorry, but my sister knew Buff Bagwell really well.
50:38
Speaker 2: And Cody Rhodes leda uh and there's one or two
50:44
Speaker 2: others what did the same high school my sister did.
50:48
Speaker 3: It's funny you mentioned that, and I just remembered AJ
50:51
Speaker 3: isn't the only one. Cody used to work out of
50:54
Speaker 3: the Golden gym I did. I worked out at a
50:56
Speaker 3: woodstock back when he was just starting in WWE, to
51:00
Speaker 3: the point where he spotted me and I spotted him
51:03
Speaker 3: on bench squatting and stuff. Seemed like a really nice dude.
51:07
Speaker 3: And then Buff Bagwell worked out at a different golds
51:10
Speaker 3: gym by me, and I watched his mom, Judy Judy Bagwell,
51:16
Speaker 3: roll up in her minivan to pick him up from
51:18
Speaker 3: the gym on more than more than one occasion. So
51:21
Speaker 3: I got to see former World WCW Tag Team champion
51:25
Speaker 3: Judy Bagwell pick up her son.
51:28
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean that's a cool the cool thing
51:32
Speaker 2: about where you live, if you live like in Orlando,
51:35
Speaker 2: or if you used to live in the Marrietta area.
51:37
Speaker 2: I mean, uh, there's so many wrestlers that came from
51:42
Speaker 2: the Mariette area. They lived there. If they didn't grow
51:45
Speaker 2: up there, I mean stink. Yeah, they lived in Marietta
51:50
Speaker 2: for a while, not always, but they did live there.
51:54
Speaker 3: One of my former bosses was a power lefter and
51:56
Speaker 3: trained at the gym that Sing and Lex and a
51:58
Speaker 3: lot of those guys trained at in Atlanta when they
52:00
Speaker 3: were in town.
52:02
Speaker 2: Chris, did you have something to say? Okay, I thought
52:06
Speaker 2: you were breaking in there. Okay, Well let's move on,
52:10
Speaker 2: because well it's time. It's time for It's a cafab,
52:16
Speaker 2: the segment where we talk about whatever in the wrestling world.
52:24
Speaker 2: Here comes to graphic.
52:25
Speaker 10: Are you guys ready, Yeah, it's it's ReHO in a
52:37
Speaker 10: schoolgirl uniform with the Pennsylton mustache.
52:42
Speaker 3: She doesn't have the matter door cape for the beret though.
52:45
Speaker 2: Man, No, but she's a school girl uniform. Because add
52:48
Speaker 2: the title on the If you're not watching this and
52:51
Speaker 2: you're listening to it, it's it's not corny. It's a
52:54
Speaker 2: not corny, it's there's nothing it be.
53:02
Speaker 5: This might be the best worst thing seeing that's great because.
53:15
Speaker 3: She shows up on TV. My buddy and I text
53:18
Speaker 3: each other are like school's out early. You can't say when.
53:23
Speaker 2: When when she wrestled at whatever it was, was it
53:28
Speaker 2: what was the last pay per view she wrestled at.
53:30
Speaker 2: Was it Dynasty?
53:32
Speaker 3: I don't know, whatever.
53:33
Speaker 2: That that woman was not dressed up as a schoolgirl
53:37
Speaker 2: and she was jacked. Yeah, I mean she looked like
53:40
Speaker 2: she could legitimately kick my ass easily. Not that she
53:43
Speaker 2: could legitimately kick my ass before, but now, I mean,
53:48
Speaker 2: what do you look at Riho When.
53:50
Speaker 5: You look at.
53:53
Speaker 3: She says a baby face, that's all.
53:55
Speaker 2: She's tiny. That's the only thing that's about Rio. She
53:59
Speaker 2: is jack uh, she's an athlete. And it really pisses
54:04
Speaker 2: me off when people say disrespectful thing by about Rio,
54:08
Speaker 2: because yes, the only thing that's negative about Rio as
54:11
Speaker 2: far as wrestling is that she is small, and she
54:14
Speaker 2: has a disadvantage because she's never gonna be able to
54:16
Speaker 2: pick up Megan Bane and have like convincing matches against
54:21
Speaker 2: Regan Bain. And that's simply because of her size. It
54:24
Speaker 2: has nothing at all to do with her talent.
54:26
Speaker 3: But building up a Megan Baine suplex spot and a
54:29
Speaker 3: match would get over.
54:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
54:35
Speaker 3: Then at the end she pulls it off.
54:37
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Okay, two people talking at once isn't good work.
54:41
Speaker 3: I'll stop, Chris, go ahead.
54:43
Speaker 5: I was gonna says, she's got speech, got a stripe,
54:46
Speaker 5: she's got you know, the technical ability. Yes, she's small,
54:51
Speaker 5: but she is a freaking badass and that's what's awesome
54:55
Speaker 5: about it. And yeah, like like Perry said, building up
54:59
Speaker 5: to suplex body against someone like making vain. When she
55:03
Speaker 5: hits it, the crowd goes nuts. It's just big moment,
55:08
Speaker 5: you know, set up for finisher, and it goes from
55:12
Speaker 5: there however you want to go. But like that part,
55:15
Speaker 5: her size isn't a disadvantage. It's a different type of advantage, right.
55:26
Speaker 2: You know. And look, she's a woman, she's small. I
55:33
Speaker 2: don't see that as any reason to make fun of
55:37
Speaker 2: her for I'm sorry, I just don't. Yes, she'll be
55:41
Speaker 2: in situations where it doesn't work, but she'll be a
55:45
Speaker 2: wrestler where there shall be a wrestler who isn't in
55:48
Speaker 2: a situation when he or she is in a situation
55:51
Speaker 2: where it won't work. It just doesn't make sense. It happens,
55:56
Speaker 2: it happens. So but anyway, it's time for It's a
56:00
Speaker 2: And does anybody have a?
56:02
Speaker 6: It's a?
56:03
Speaker 2: And I gotta say that has been that has not
56:06
Speaker 2: been with us for a while, and she's probably sitting
56:08
Speaker 2: there going, what the hell are these guys talking about?
56:11
Speaker 3: Sick of us? Creepers, that's what she's sick of.
56:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, but does anybody have it's a kafabbe?
56:20
Speaker 8: Okay, I know, No, I weren't real quick.
56:24
Speaker 2: Well, we'll go on.
56:27
Speaker 8: It's one of us, it's one of my self promotion.
56:30
Speaker 8: I showed this to Kelson a couple of days ago,
56:34
Speaker 8: and I've been off the meeting path because I'm sick.
56:36
Speaker 8: But I started my own Instagram channel called aw fast
56:41
Speaker 8: count or I give some really short thoughts on what's
56:46
Speaker 8: going on in the aw universe, and I'm trying to
56:48
Speaker 8: get it going. But like I said, I've been sick
56:50
Speaker 8: for a few days, so I kind of slowed down.
56:53
Speaker 8: But I love you guys to hop on, look at it, comment, follow,
56:58
Speaker 8: and enjoy it.
56:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I listened to it. You didn't respond to
57:02
Speaker 2: what I said, Uh, if you want to send them
57:05
Speaker 2: to me, I'll put them on the Awn YouTube channel.
57:07
Speaker 2: Give you a full credit, you know, for your shorts
57:10
Speaker 2: because you did do it in a in a real
57:13
Speaker 2: or a short version. Yeah, let's let's build it up.
57:17
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. It is very short and uh, you know,
57:22
Speaker 2: like I believe it was like a minute long and
57:24
Speaker 2: uh easy to listen to. Just a good opinion piece.
57:29
Speaker 2: Anybody else have a CAFA.
57:31
Speaker 5: I mean, I've got to do Japan round up, and
57:33
Speaker 5: I figure we can save that for last. So anyone
57:37
Speaker 5: else who wants to jump on in, I'm.
57:39
Speaker 3: Going to share a story real quick since I was
57:41
Speaker 3: sharing other wrestler stories and it is the craziest pro
57:44
Speaker 3: wrestling story I have. So when I was in college,
57:49
Speaker 3: I worked at Champs Sports and Ovo Mall. Scott Hall
57:53
Speaker 3: would come in all the time, and one time he
57:56
Speaker 3: came in with his two kids, his son, Cody, and
57:58
Speaker 3: I don't remember his thought name, but they were I
58:01
Speaker 3: don't know, elementary school, fifth grade, fourth grade, something like that.
58:04
Speaker 3: So I'm helping them try shoes on, and Scott's like, yeah,
58:08
Speaker 3: you know, get them whatever they want. So I'm helping
58:10
Speaker 3: his kids do shoes and then I hear this weird
58:13
Speaker 3: moan and I turn around and Scott had collapsed and
58:17
Speaker 3: was having a seizure in the middle of the store.
58:20
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, so I'd never seen anybody have a
58:24
Speaker 3: seizure before. I'm all of, you know, twenty one years old.
58:29
Speaker 3: So we cleared everything away and hit his head on
58:32
Speaker 3: an end cap display and it was bleeding pretty bad,
58:35
Speaker 3: but paramedics came, we shut the store down, and as
58:38
Speaker 3: he was coming to, he actually he took a swing
58:40
Speaker 3: at a fireman because like he didn't know what was
58:42
Speaker 3: going on, and then was very apologetic afterwards once he
58:46
Speaker 3: you know, came to and was conscious. But yeah, that's
58:49
Speaker 3: the that's my cafabe crazy pro wrestling story. That is
58:51
Speaker 3: the craziest pro wrestling story.
58:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nett, do you have a cafabe.
58:57
Speaker 4: I don't think I have a kafabe. I have him
59:00
Speaker 4: in any independent wrestling shows lately, so.
59:06
Speaker 6: I don't. I don't think so.
59:09
Speaker 4: I mean, my last good time was I met Kevin Knight.
59:14
Speaker 2: That was pretty Yeah. Speaking Kevin Knight, we had mentioned
59:19
Speaker 2: earlier about Joey Janella and Megan Bain, Yeah, yesterday. As
59:23
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I believe it was yesterday maybe,
59:25
Speaker 2: but Sunday they wrestled together as Janelysis. I guess ken
59:31
Speaker 2: it was Sunday against Kevin Knight and Speedball Mike Bailey,
59:36
Speaker 2: and you can watch that match on the GCW YouTube
59:39
Speaker 2: channel as well as the entire The entire show is
59:45
Speaker 2: on YouTube. Another thing that's on YouTube is Stardom's new Blood.
59:49
Speaker 2: New Blood is a series that Stardom does. They did
59:54
Speaker 2: new Blood twenty eight this morning. You can watch that.
59:57
Speaker 2: I think it was twenty it's either new Blood twenty
59:59
Speaker 2: seven or two. But they did one show this morning.
1:00:03
Speaker 2: They're doing one show tomorrow morning. Both shows start at
1:00:07
Speaker 2: five am Eastern time, and of course they are for
1:00:10
Speaker 2: free on YouTube and they feature they're very interesting. I
1:00:18
Speaker 2: believe what the rules for new Blood are is that
1:00:23
Speaker 2: it's basically a rookie show. You have to be under
1:00:29
Speaker 2: three years of since your wrestling debut to participate in
1:00:33
Speaker 2: the new Blood, or you have to be under twenty
1:00:36
Speaker 2: years old. And you wouldn't believe the talent that is
1:00:40
Speaker 2: in a that is in Stardom that it participates in
1:00:44
Speaker 2: this show. And not only to Stardom, I mean, new
1:00:47
Speaker 2: Blood is one of those series that has not been
1:00:50
Speaker 2: around for too long. But the thing about the new
1:00:57
Speaker 2: Blood is like stars like Mina Shirakawa Julia has been
1:01:04
Speaker 2: in new Blood and it's interesting to see how they
1:01:09
Speaker 2: have evolved. So, you know, I just wanted to bring
1:01:12
Speaker 2: up New Blood. If you're interested in it, you can
1:01:15
Speaker 2: watch it live tomorrow morning five a m. Eastern time,
1:01:18
Speaker 2: or where you can just go back and watch it. It's
1:01:21
Speaker 2: a it's in a smaller setting. Matter of fact, this morning,
1:01:25
Speaker 2: uh and and and also tomorrow, they have really young wrestlers.
1:01:31
Speaker 2: A lot of wrestlers start really young in stardom. And
1:01:34
Speaker 2: I believe one of the women that wrestled this morning
1:01:38
Speaker 2: was fourteen years old. There was her tag team partner
1:01:43
Speaker 2: was four foot tall and forty eight pounds. And you know,
1:01:55
Speaker 2: it's interesting seeing these young No, this, this this young
1:02:02
Speaker 2: lady was tidy. I mean, she doesn't say her age,
1:02:07
Speaker 2: but I would say that she was nine or ten.
1:02:11
Speaker 2: And if I'm wrong, I don't mean any disrespect. That's
1:02:14
Speaker 2: just my assessment of her. But when you look at it,
1:02:16
Speaker 2: you look at it's like Starlight Kid. I mean, most
1:02:18
Speaker 2: of us know who star Like Kid is, right, Well,
1:02:22
Speaker 2: she was that age when she started wrestling. So these
1:02:25
Speaker 2: are your future stars. Like I said, Mina sheer Kawa
1:02:30
Speaker 2: was in New Blood, Julia was in New Blood. Uh
1:02:35
Speaker 2: just look at the star. Just go look up new
1:02:37
Speaker 2: Blood and you'll see the listing of all these all
1:02:42
Speaker 2: these events that they've done. And they're sporadic. They they're
1:02:46
Speaker 2: not like pay per views. They're literally all on YouTube
1:02:50
Speaker 2: and you can go watch these stars of today wrestling
1:02:54
Speaker 2: yesterday and they're you know, these are wrestlers that are
1:02:58
Speaker 2: now in AW and w W and TNA now you know,
1:03:02
Speaker 2: and of course a lot of them are still in stardom.
1:03:05
Speaker 2: But you know, it's worth the shot. It's worth looking
1:03:07
Speaker 2: at because you get to see the future of women's wrestling.
1:03:11
Speaker 2: You really do, and I do, and it's enjoyable. It's
1:03:14
Speaker 2: it's fun to watch. It really is. Anybody with the
1:03:20
Speaker 2: more anymore? It's a cup hobbies, Chris, I guess you
1:03:27
Speaker 2: could do your your MJPW roundup.
1:03:32
Speaker 5: We'll go with the good. First off, two really fun
1:03:36
Speaker 5: Cork and Hall shows February first and second. If you
1:03:40
Speaker 5: have the time, they're definitely worth going back to. What
1:03:44
Speaker 5: if you can't watch whole shows on the pure rest
1:03:49
Speaker 5: Uchette in our discord. I have top three matches for
1:03:52
Speaker 5: each event and writing on the discord. Check out some
1:03:55
Speaker 5: other stuff, you know, talk with us, have a little
1:03:58
Speaker 5: fun on there. Other good news, the six New Japan
1:04:05
Speaker 5: Cup winner was crowned on the first I have a
1:04:10
Speaker 5: seventy two hour spoiler rule, so I'm not going to
1:04:13
Speaker 5: reveal who. Go back and watch the match. It is
1:04:15
Speaker 5: definitely worth it. One of my favorite matches of the
1:04:18
Speaker 5: week of the two days. Yeah, but there.
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Speaker 2: Is what event is New Japan RUSS, What event is
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Speaker 2: New Japan running in New Jersey next month?
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Speaker 5: That is their New Beginning US say show New Beginning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Athena is challenging Mayue Watani for the IWGP
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Speaker 2: Women's Championship a new Beginning.
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Speaker 5: Yes, they're currently on their road to New Beginning tour.
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Speaker 5: The next big event is the eleventh. Some great matches,
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Speaker 5: but since that's next week, I will that will be
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Speaker 5: my New Japan talk for next week.
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Speaker 2: Wow, but I got to talk about well a little
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Speaker 2: bit of go ahead.
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Speaker 5: There is bad news out of New Japan though. Romo
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Speaker 5: Takahashi will be leaving after the New Beginning on February eleventh.
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Speaker 2: Let me you know, along those lines, Chris, and well, everybody,
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Speaker 2: New Japan has been bleeding talent a lot. Let's face it,
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Speaker 2: they're hurting. I don't know what your assessment is, Chris,
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Speaker 2: because you definitely watch more New Japan than everybody else.
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Speaker 2: But would you agree that Dow Japan in their current
1:05:45
Speaker 2: UH state is hurting.
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Speaker 5: They are struggling for sure. You know, did you happen
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Speaker 5: to these economy is still struggling to come back after
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Speaker 5: the pandemics. They were hit little bit harder than other places.
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Speaker 5: I mean, nowhere is back yet, but they were. They're
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Speaker 5: definitely struggling a little more and they you know, when
1:06:11
Speaker 5: that happens, things like events take a back state to
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Speaker 5: all other finances, you know, so you have less fans coming.
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Speaker 5: But it has been coming back, but they're still in
1:06:26
Speaker 5: a they're at a weird point where they're going to
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Speaker 5: lose more of their foreign talent and have to rely
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Speaker 5: far more on their Japanese talent, which can alienate some
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Speaker 5: Western fans. Personally, I don't care. I watched for the
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Speaker 5: freaking wrestling, and you know there are some amazing Japanese
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Speaker 5: wrestlers British wrestlers, you know, Yea Maori wrestlers there Australia
1:07:01
Speaker 5: all kids, but they definitely well we'll focus less on
1:07:07
Speaker 5: the people that have to bring in and pay traveling
1:07:10
Speaker 5: expenses for like flights and all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 2: So with New Japan, aw as signed a lot of
1:07:21
Speaker 2: of CMLL talent to dual contracts. Do you see that
1:07:25
Speaker 2: as a viable solution for New Japan where you know,
1:07:30
Speaker 2: AW steps in, because look, it's clear that New Japan
1:07:34
Speaker 2: is struggling, where Bushi Road owns New Japan and stardom
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Speaker 2: and stardom is not struggling. New Japan is. Frankly, it's
1:07:44
Speaker 2: it's bad.
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Speaker 5: You know, I can't disagree. There's still some great matches
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Speaker 5: that happened. I mean, absolutely amazing match between Zach Saber
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Speaker 5: Junior and Yoshikashi on the February second show, But it's
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Speaker 5: just it's not enough right now. I mean, they're they're
1:08:05
Speaker 5: still riding the high of you know, Wrestle Kingdom. But
1:08:10
Speaker 5: that was one Tanahashi and Okada, who one is now
1:08:18
Speaker 5: retired and one is main time ask. Yeah, there, there's
1:08:24
Speaker 5: there's still gotta right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't use you can't use Wrestler Kingdom as
1:08:28
Speaker 2: a barometer. Yeah, yeah, I mean exactly who who is
1:08:32
Speaker 2: there in aid in New Japan. Maybe aj Styles goes
1:08:37
Speaker 2: there to do an injection of of excitement. I don't know,
1:08:42
Speaker 2: but you know, maybe we talked about this some more
1:08:46
Speaker 2: next week. Yeah, yeah, I think maybe we'll talk about
1:08:51
Speaker 2: this more next week. Yeah, but we are getting a
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