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- 0:01Speaker 1: Wow, two and a half hours. This show went tonight,
- 0:05Speaker 1: so we got a late start. Here was this show
- 0:07Speaker 1: advertised to go to ten thirty. I don't believe it was.
- 0:11Speaker 1: I mean, they have overruns on most weeks, but I
- 0:14Speaker 1: can't even call this an overrun. They basically just tacked
- 0:16Speaker 1: on a whole mini show to the end of it,
- 0:19Speaker 1: to where I put the Twitter Paul up thinking the
- 0:21Speaker 1: show was over after the main event, and then I
- 0:24Speaker 1: see Tony Schavanni standing in the middle of the rink.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I'm like, holy shit, we're still not done. We got
- 0:32Speaker 1: a long show tonight. It's gonna be a long show
- 0:34Speaker 1: on Sunday too. That's why I won't be live when
- 0:37Speaker 1: it's over. But we are live tonight. Here for the
- 0:40Speaker 1: Dynamite review, the final Dynamite before Dynasty coming up in
- 0:44Speaker 1: Vancouver this weekend. On the whole, it was a mixed bag.
- 0:50Speaker 1: It was a mixed bag. I thought there were parts
- 0:52Speaker 1: of the show I didn't really care for. There were
- 0:55Speaker 1: parts of the show that I liked. I thought what
- 0:57Speaker 1: they did as far as the key matches, they did
- 1:01Speaker 1: what you would expect him to do. They tried to
- 1:03Speaker 1: put a little bit of heat on some of the
- 1:05Speaker 1: stuff like they did with copin Christian. I wasn't really
- 1:07Speaker 1: a big fan of what they did in that segment.
- 1:10Speaker 1: And then you have the show closing segment with Kenny
- 1:13Speaker 1: Omega and MJF. You know, one last promo from Kenny.
- 1:17Speaker 1: MJF comes out, he gets his retort. I didn't think
- 1:20Speaker 1: the Kenny Omega promo was, you know, any any great
- 1:24Speaker 1: shakes or anything like that. You know, he came out there.
- 1:27Speaker 1: It's weird. I wish I somebody said it. I don't
- 1:31Speaker 1: remember who said it, but it's so true. When Kenny
- 1:35Speaker 1: cuts a promo, and I know he's big into video
- 1:38Speaker 1: games and that sort of thing, he sounds like a
- 1:40Speaker 1: fucking anime character out there as he's cutting a promo,
- 1:44Speaker 1: Like the way his cadence and everything as he's out
- 1:47Speaker 1: there speaking, he really does. He sounds like some sort
- 1:50Speaker 1: of anime not villain, which is like an anime character.
- 1:54Speaker 1: But I thought it was just very paint by number
- 1:56Speaker 1: of stuff there at the very end, you know, I
- 1:59Speaker 1: thought that what we he got in the contract signing
- 2:01Speaker 1: last week is very similar, although Kenny had you know,
- 2:05Speaker 1: more to say tonight, but what we got in the
- 2:08Speaker 1: contract signing segment last week. I thought was very similar
- 2:11Speaker 1: and kind of served that purpose last week, and I
- 2:14Speaker 1: guess they just didn't know what else to do tonight
- 2:17Speaker 1: other than just send him out there for one last
- 2:19Speaker 1: promo to repeat some of the same stuff, and then
- 2:22Speaker 1: have MJF go out there and also repeat a lot
- 2:24Speaker 1: of the same stuff you know that we've heard him
- 2:26Speaker 1: say before. But the key is when the show is over. Tonight,
- 2:29Speaker 1: MJF was left laying on his back and it was
- 2:32Speaker 1: Kenny Omega's standing tall, which only reinforces my belief that
- 2:36Speaker 1: Kenny Omega is not leaving Vancouver as the aw World
- 2:39Speaker 1: Champion this weekend, which I don't believe he should. I
- 2:42Speaker 1: think that would be a mistake. I would not be
- 2:45Speaker 1: taking the title off of MJF. I don't believe they're
- 2:47Speaker 1: going to. But that's how the show went off the air.
- 2:52Speaker 1: As far as you know other things on the show tonight,
- 2:55Speaker 1: I mentioned focusing on the key stuff Moxley and Ospra,
- 3:00Speaker 1: Copeland and Christian and FTR for the tag team titles.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Those are really the key matches on the show this weekend.
- 3:05Speaker 1: We now have nine matches. For those of you wondering
- 3:08Speaker 1: what is the final count? I don't think it is
- 3:10Speaker 1: the final count. It's the current count. As of tonight,
- 3:15Speaker 1: we are up to nine matches for Dynasty, one of
- 3:18Speaker 1: which technically is on the pre show, so really it's
- 3:21Speaker 1: eight matches, which sounds low for an AAW pay per view.
- 3:27Speaker 1: So I'm expecting at least a couple more matches, one
- 3:30Speaker 1: or two more matches to make its way onto the
- 3:33Speaker 1: cart On Collision this weekend. I don't think they're done yet.
- 3:36Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get at least one more on Zero Hour.
- 3:38Speaker 1: We only have one match on the pre show. I
- 3:41Speaker 1: don't think Tony Kahan is changing his ways. I think
- 3:43Speaker 1: we'll get more Death Riders in the United Empire. This
- 3:48Speaker 1: is how they opened the show tonight, and this is
- 3:50Speaker 1: the main event that they gave us tonight, and I
- 3:53Speaker 1: understand what they were going for, and it makes sense
- 3:57Speaker 1: because if you remember last week, Will Osprey was outmanned
- 4:02Speaker 1: by the Death Riders. He got his ass kicked, he
- 4:05Speaker 1: almost had his neck rebroken were it not for John
- 4:08Speaker 1: Moxley of all people, intervening and leaving him with a
- 4:12Speaker 1: warning and saying you might lose your head next time.
- 4:15Speaker 1: So what Will Ospray went ahead and did was he
- 4:18Speaker 1: went out and got some friends, and those friends happened
- 4:21Speaker 1: to be his United Empire mates, one of whom is
- 4:26Speaker 1: the brand new and youngest ever IWGP Heavyweight champion of
- 4:31Speaker 1: all time, Callum Newman. And I didn't get a chance
- 4:36Speaker 1: to talk about that on the sound Duff. I did
- 4:37Speaker 1: talk about it on the Young Crown Wrestling Show yesterday.
- 4:40Speaker 1: He just won that championship this past weekend. This I
- 4:45Speaker 1: believe was his first ever appearance on aw television, certainly
- 4:48Speaker 1: on Dynamite. You had all of these United Empire members.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Some of them may have been on Dynamite at some
- 4:54Speaker 1: point in the past, but for all intents and purposes,
- 4:56Speaker 1: this was basically their first time on the show tonight.
- 5:00Speaker 1: And there they are, and they're the backup that Ospray
- 5:03Speaker 1: needed to counteract the Death Riders, and it led into
- 5:06Speaker 1: a main event that they signed for the show, which
- 5:08Speaker 1: was just one big, you know, clusterfuck of a match
- 5:12Speaker 1: where everybody is just killing each other all over the place,
- 5:15Speaker 1: but the odds were evened up. That was the story
- 5:18Speaker 1: they were going for. Osprey went and got some help
- 5:20Speaker 1: and when the match was over, he stood tall over
- 5:23Speaker 1: John Moxley was Will Osprey pinning John Moxley to win
- 5:27Speaker 1: the match, and so that's fine. You know, this was
- 5:31Speaker 1: his revenge and come up and Moxley's come up and
- 5:35Speaker 1: for what happened last week and again it builds into
- 5:38Speaker 1: their Continental title match this weekend in Dynasty, where it
- 5:43Speaker 1: will be under Continental rules because the championship is on
- 5:46Speaker 1: the line, which means everybody is banned from ringside. So
- 5:50Speaker 1: for tonight, for one night only, Ospray needed people to
- 5:54Speaker 1: watch his back. So who do you go to? You
- 5:56Speaker 1: go to your friends. They just didn't do a very
- 5:59Speaker 1: good job of establish pishing those friends on their own
- 6:01Speaker 1: television show. But this is something that Tony, you know,
- 6:03Speaker 1: he does a lot because he just assumes either a
- 6:07Speaker 1: his fans know who these people are, and if they don't,
- 6:10Speaker 1: well then they'll go online and they'll look them up.
- 6:13Speaker 1: They'll look up who Callum Newman is. They'll look up
- 6:15Speaker 1: who Francesco Akira is, they'll look up who Hanare is,
- 6:19Speaker 1: and they'll do their research. The fans in the building tonight,
- 6:22Speaker 1: you know, they were in Edmonton tonight, and the fans
- 6:24Speaker 1: in the building tonight, you know, I mean they got
- 6:26Speaker 1: behind them. They're like Will Osprey, they know that he's
- 6:30Speaker 1: you know, they're friends of his, so they established that
- 6:33Speaker 1: pretty quickly, but there was no introduction, you know, because
- 6:36Speaker 1: it was meant to be a surprise, like, oh, you're
- 6:38Speaker 1: gonna jump me. Okay, well I got a surprise for you,
- 6:40Speaker 1: and then boom, there's United Empire and they were all
- 6:43Speaker 1: over the show. Meanwhile, they're not established characters on the show,
- 6:46Speaker 1: so that was a little bit weird. And they opened
- 6:49Speaker 1: and they basically ended with that. But we had also
- 6:53Speaker 1: on this show tonight we had Chris Jericho back in
- 6:57Speaker 1: Canada yet again. Jericho made his turn to television last
- 7:01Speaker 1: week and you know, coming out, he got a respectful reaction,
- 7:06Speaker 1: and then it was very awkward when he was really
- 7:09Speaker 1: milking it last week, it got very awkward. They weren't
- 7:12Speaker 1: really responding in the way that I think he thought
- 7:14Speaker 1: they would. And tonight he came out and again he
- 7:17Speaker 1: got a respectful reaction. It was nothing overwhelming or anything
- 7:21Speaker 1: like that. But what we did learn tonight is that
- 7:23Speaker 1: he is, at least for now, he is a babyface.
- 7:27Speaker 1: So we weren't sure last week. It wasn't made clear
- 7:31Speaker 1: which side of the fence he was going to be on,
- 7:33Speaker 1: so we learned that tonight, and we also learned who
- 7:35Speaker 1: his first opponent is going to be. He's having a
- 7:38Speaker 1: match at Dynasty this weekend and it will be against Ricochet.
- 7:43Speaker 1: And I know there's going to be a lot of people,
- 7:45Speaker 1: Oh my god, fucking Ricochet, Chris Jericho and Ricochet. What
- 7:51Speaker 1: have I done to deserve this? Look? When I talked
- 7:54Speaker 1: about Jericho this past weekend on the Sound of I
- 7:57Speaker 1: specifically mentioned Ricochet. I mentioned I mentioned Ricochet, I mentioned
- 8:03Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher. I think I threw Kevin Knight's name in there,
- 8:06Speaker 1: not knowing it again if he would be a healer
- 8:08Speaker 1: or babyface. But if he was gonna be a babyface,
- 8:11Speaker 1: Ricochet was a gimme. He was a layup because Jericho
- 8:15Speaker 1: needs somebody in his first program to work with and
- 8:19Speaker 1: to beat. I want to see Jericho and Swerve. Where
- 8:23Speaker 1: the fuck did Swerve disappeared to? I could only assume
- 8:26Speaker 1: they're saving Swerve for double or nothing. But again, like
- 8:30Speaker 1: this is his first match back in a year, right,
- 8:33Speaker 1: I can understand them not wanting to blow off the
- 8:35Speaker 1: biggest match that they could do right now with Jericho
- 8:38Speaker 1: on one week's notice. I mean, they just announced it,
- 8:41Speaker 1: not even a week. The fucking pay per view was
- 8:43Speaker 1: on Sunday. I want to see Jericho and Swerve, but
- 8:46Speaker 1: not on fucking four or five days notice. So I
- 8:48Speaker 1: get it. Ricochet is an easy opponent. Everybody fucking hates
- 8:53Speaker 1: Ricochet on the show. You're supposed to hate Ricochet, but
- 8:57Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who just do not
- 8:59Speaker 1: like Rickoschet, and so I don't mind that. It was
- 9:02Speaker 1: something that I figured he would be on the short
- 9:05Speaker 1: list of people Jericho would be working with. Anyway, My
- 9:09Speaker 1: thing is Ricochet came out to cut a promo on
- 9:11Speaker 1: Jericho that wasn't very good. I didn't think the actual
- 9:15Speaker 1: segment or the actual promo during the segment was very good.
- 9:18Speaker 1: But as far as them making the match between Jericho
- 9:20Speaker 1: and Ricochet, unless they're gonna drag this shit out and
- 9:23Speaker 1: they're gonna get fucking three or four matches out of it,
- 9:26Speaker 1: to me, it's not a big deal. They're gonna do it,
- 9:29Speaker 1: they're gonna move beyond it, and then Jericho will be
- 9:32Speaker 1: in the ring with someone higher up on the food
- 9:35Speaker 1: chain and more important than Ricochet when they are ready
- 9:37Speaker 1: to put him in there with somebody in a big match.
- 9:40Speaker 1: This is not meant to be a big match. This
- 9:42Speaker 1: is meant to be a match. It is a way
- 9:44Speaker 1: to get him on the show. I wasn't sure if
- 9:46Speaker 1: he would be on the pay per view, but it
- 9:47Speaker 1: made sense. They're in Vancouver, he just came back. What
- 9:51Speaker 1: the hell did you bring him back for before Dynasty
- 9:53Speaker 1: if he's not going to wrestle on the pay per view.
- 9:56Speaker 1: So we had that confirmed tonight. Two other things before
- 9:59Speaker 1: we get into the review here. One of the things
- 10:01Speaker 1: I liked on the show, and I always say that
- 10:03Speaker 1: I like it when they remember that, oh yeah, we
- 10:06Speaker 1: should probably do more with these two, and they come
- 10:08Speaker 1: back around to it because they get away from it,
- 10:10Speaker 1: and then they circle back to it, and then they
- 10:12Speaker 1: get away from it, and then they circle back to it.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Any interaction with Okata and Takeshta I love And I'm
- 10:20Speaker 1: very much looking forward to the rematch, which we found
- 10:24Speaker 1: out tonight is very likely going to happen a lot
- 10:27Speaker 1: sooner than I feared we would have to wait, So
- 10:30Speaker 1: that makes me very happy. Now that's not confirmed yet,
- 10:33Speaker 1: but it looks like we're going to be getting that
- 10:34Speaker 1: match as soon as next month instead of having to
- 10:36Speaker 1: wait until the end of the summer and that's a
- 10:38Speaker 1: very good thing. So the interactions between them tonight I
- 10:41Speaker 1: thought were entertaining. I like that. Unfortunately, we also got
- 10:44Speaker 1: some bad news on the show tonight which concerns Kyle Fletcher,
- 10:48Speaker 1: another member of the Kallus family. The TNT Champion is
- 10:52Speaker 1: TNT Champion no more now. He got hurt a few
- 10:55Speaker 1: weeks ago, maybe two weeks ago on collision. Was in
- 10:59Speaker 1: a tag team match. It was him and Mark Davis
- 11:01Speaker 1: against the Rascals. He just fell backwards and when he
- 11:04Speaker 1: fell backwards and it was nothing, It wasn't like a
- 11:07Speaker 1: big move or anything, but he fell backwards and his
- 11:10Speaker 1: leg got caught underneath him. And he finished the match,
- 11:13Speaker 1: and it was very clear that something was wrong. He
- 11:15Speaker 1: wasn't quite himself. He ended up in a walking boot.
- 11:19Speaker 1: We were waiting on an update. The update was not good.
- 11:22Speaker 1: The update was from Fightful during the week who said
- 11:24Speaker 1: that he suffered a meniscous injury and additional injuries. That
- 11:29Speaker 1: does not sound good. But it was confirmed tonight that
- 11:32Speaker 1: he's hurt and he's gone and he is no longer
- 11:35Speaker 1: the TNT Champion. So something else that they added to
- 11:39Speaker 1: the card this Sunday. They're going to be doing a
- 11:41Speaker 1: casino gauntlet match, and they're going to crown a new
- 11:45Speaker 1: TNT champion. They loved Tony Kahn loves the casino gauntlet,
- 11:49Speaker 1: so in this case, he wasn't planning on one, but
- 11:52Speaker 1: I'm not shocked that he wants to do one because
- 11:54Speaker 1: he fucking loves this match. He would be doing casino
- 11:56Speaker 1: gauntlets every month if you kind of let him off
- 11:58Speaker 1: his leash, and he was able to do whatever he wants.
- 12:01Speaker 1: So we're gonna get another one this weekend. It sucks.
- 12:05Speaker 1: It's a big loss in terms of not only someone
- 12:08Speaker 1: who is very talented obviously, but he was being positioned
- 12:11Speaker 1: in a major way. Not only was he TNT champion,
- 12:13Speaker 1: but they were teasing him going after the aw World title.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I don't know when that would have happened, but you know,
- 12:20Speaker 1: he was making comments about that. He was in the
- 12:21Speaker 1: middle of this Takeshan Okada stuff. He's one of the
- 12:25Speaker 1: crown jewels of the Don Kallis family, which is the
- 12:27Speaker 1: biggest heel faction in the company right The biggest names
- 12:30Speaker 1: in that group Okada, Fletcher, Takeshta, and probably then Androte
- 12:35Speaker 1: would be after that. So it's a big loss. And
- 12:39Speaker 1: it sucks, and hopefully you know he won't be out
- 12:42Speaker 1: for too long. But one thing I'm very happy about
- 12:45Speaker 1: though Tony Kahn. Among all the things he loves to
- 12:49Speaker 1: do besides casino gauntlets, he loves his interim titles. And
- 12:54Speaker 1: I was worried that if he was going to be
- 12:56Speaker 1: out for any real length of time, he would just
- 12:59Speaker 1: have an interim TNT champion crown, which would be completely unnecessary.
- 13:05Speaker 1: Just vacate the title and crown a new TNT champion.
- 13:08Speaker 1: And that is what they are doing, So hallelujah, we
- 13:12Speaker 1: don't need this interim title nonsense. We'll get into the
- 13:16Speaker 1: whole show here. Aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday, April eighth,
- 13:20Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. I am the Solemn Monster, Almighty says
- 13:26Speaker 1: bigger than the Death Riders, Almighty. I'm not even sure
- 13:30Speaker 1: whether the Death Riders are supposed to be heels one week,
- 13:34Speaker 1: tweeners the next week. I don't think they know. Now
- 13:37Speaker 1: they're back to being heels. But yes, the don Kallis
- 13:41Speaker 1: family is quite literally larger than the Death rid Like
- 13:46Speaker 1: there's no debate about it. Like, if you want to
- 13:48Speaker 1: talk just in terms of sheer man power, Yes, the
- 13:51Speaker 1: don Kallis family is the biggest, the biggest faction, let
- 13:55Speaker 1: alone heel faction in the entire company. Subscribe. We are
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- 14:45Speaker 1: likes we need here for be the book or it's
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- 14:49Speaker 1: it a lot of times. We don't never really have
- 14:54Speaker 1: that issue on Mondays or Fridays, but Wednesdays it's hit
- 14:58Speaker 1: or miss. So let's see six hundred, six hundred likes,
- 15:11Speaker 1: which is literally not going to be possible at this moment.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Perhaps as we go along here that may be doable.
- 15:18Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, so that is the goal tonight. We're
- 15:20Speaker 1: at two fifty seven right now. If we get to
- 15:23Speaker 1: six hundred or if we hit the bonus supercheck goal,
- 15:26Speaker 1: then we will be the booker. A little bit later
- 15:28Speaker 1: on this show opened, and actually I didn't mind the
- 15:32Speaker 1: way that they opened the show. They opened the show
- 15:35Speaker 1: with just mass chaos, and opening the show with mass
- 15:39Speaker 1: chaos is not always a bad way to go. It's
- 15:42Speaker 1: good to be outside the box a little bit, not
- 15:45Speaker 1: start with a promo, or just not start with a
- 15:47Speaker 1: cold match. If you remember, I mentioned last week the
- 15:51Speaker 1: Death Riders tried to kill will Ospray. So when the
- 15:54Speaker 1: show came on the air tonight, Osprey and John Moxley
- 15:57Speaker 1: they're out in the parking lot and they're going at it.
- 16:01Speaker 1: So all the Death Riders they enter the scene and
- 16:06Speaker 1: they make the save for Max Lay. They're beating Osprey down.
- 16:09Speaker 1: A car pulls up and out comes Alex Windsor, who
- 16:14Speaker 1: of course is the fiance of will Ospray. Remember I
- 16:17Speaker 1: mentioned her name last week. When Osprey was out there
- 16:19Speaker 1: getting killed, he almost got his neck broken, and nobody
- 16:23Speaker 1: came out to save this. I mean, I understand, like
- 16:24Speaker 1: these are his boys, but you mean to tell me
- 16:27Speaker 1: there is a single fucking person backstage, the Bucks or
- 16:30Speaker 1: anybody who gives a single solitary shit about will Osprey
- 16:34Speaker 1: to come out and try to rescue this man, let
- 16:36Speaker 1: alone his fiance who was backstage and getting ready to
- 16:39Speaker 1: come out for a match. At One person said, well,
- 16:43Speaker 1: you know, they haven't really established on TV that they're
- 16:46Speaker 1: an item. Meanwhile, she comes out on this show when
- 16:49Speaker 1: she's coming to the rescue. That's what she should have
- 16:50Speaker 1: done last week, and they mentioned on commentary that they
- 16:55Speaker 1: are addon item. So she comes out of the car
- 16:57Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the fuck is she gonna do?
- 17:00Speaker 1: But then we see the rest of the United Empire,
- 17:03Speaker 1: including the IWGP champion, Callum Newman, only twenty three years old,
- 17:07Speaker 1: youngest IWGP champion of all time. So he comes out
- 17:12Speaker 1: of the car, Hanare, who's a lot of fun to watch.
- 17:18Speaker 1: He's a bit of a wild card. Francesco Akira. They
- 17:22Speaker 1: all step out of the car. So now we have
- 17:25Speaker 1: the Death Riders on one side, we have United Empire
- 17:28Speaker 1: on the other, and it's funny. Now people are going
- 17:32Speaker 1: to look at this and maybe go, I don't know
- 17:33Speaker 1: who these guys are, right, and that's valid. But they
- 17:37Speaker 1: were all dressed the same. They're all wearing black slacks,
- 17:40Speaker 1: white dress shirts. They look like fucking Hitman Agent forty seven, okay,
- 17:44Speaker 1: standing side by side by side, And so a giant
- 17:47Speaker 1: brawl breaks out, and you've got Alex Windsor. She goes
- 17:50Speaker 1: after Marina Shafir. They're having a match on the Zero
- 17:54Speaker 1: Hour pre show this Sunday, So it's mass chaos and
- 17:57Speaker 1: everybody who's going at it, and Akira leaps off the
- 18:00Speaker 1: hood of a car onto Claudio Hanari then slammed wheeler
- 18:07Speaker 1: wheeler Yuda onto the hood of that same car. Marina
- 18:11Speaker 1: and Alex they fight out into the arenas. So now
- 18:14Speaker 1: all of this is spilling out into the building in
- 18:16Speaker 1: front of the fans. Moxley and Osprey. They end up
- 18:19Speaker 1: in the ring. They're going at it, Moxley and Daniel Garcia.
- 18:23Speaker 1: They put the boots to Osprey until Hanare sprints out
- 18:26Speaker 1: from the back and he launches Moxley with a pounce pack.
- 18:31Speaker 1: Try to larry it on Hanare, who no sold it?
- 18:34Speaker 1: Callum Newman ran in with a big boot and he
- 18:37Speaker 1: did a slingshot dive out onto pack. Claudia runs out
- 18:42Speaker 1: and he's dishing at all the uppercuts, and this has
- 18:45Speaker 1: no effect on Hanari, who just is no selling all
- 18:49Speaker 1: of the uppercuts. And then finally Hanai close lines and
- 18:51Speaker 1: they both go ass over tea kettle out over the
- 18:54Speaker 1: top row. So Moxley locks Osprey in the choke. He
- 18:59Speaker 1: falls backwards and he's lying flat on his back and
- 19:04Speaker 1: Osprey rolls through. And when he rolls over and now
- 19:07Speaker 1: Moxley is just laying on the mat, here comes Callum
- 19:10Speaker 1: Newman flying off the top with a double stomp to
- 19:12Speaker 1: John Moxley. So Moxley is able to escape a Tiger
- 19:16Speaker 1: driver attempt by Moxley death ride or by Osprey rather,
- 19:20Speaker 1: and the death Riders retreat into the crab. So Osprey
- 19:24Speaker 1: takes the microphone and he says that he flew all
- 19:28Speaker 1: the way to Japan to bring his boys back over
- 19:32Speaker 1: with him here to Canada, and they didn't fly all
- 19:35Speaker 1: this way just for that. So here's what's going to
- 19:38Speaker 1: happen later tonight. It's going to be the Death Riders
- 19:42Speaker 1: and it's going to be united Empire in the main event.
- 19:46Speaker 1: It's going to be Canadian chaos in the main event
- 19:49Speaker 1: of Dynamite tonight. So a chaotic start to the show. Again,
- 19:54Speaker 1: I like it. It's not ideal when you introduce an entire
- 19:57Speaker 1: faction like this that has not already been established on TV.
- 20:02Speaker 1: For what they were trying to go for here, they
- 20:04Speaker 1: couldn't run weeks of vignettes. It's not like they were
- 20:07Speaker 1: building to a big debut of a new talent, right.
- 20:10Speaker 1: They borrowed some stars from New Japan for at least
- 20:12Speaker 1: one week, and it was meant to be a surprise.
- 20:16Speaker 1: So if you know who United Empire is, great, If
- 20:19Speaker 1: you don't know who United Empire is, well, tough luck,
- 20:24Speaker 1: because not only did you get them in the opening segment,
- 20:26Speaker 1: but you got them in the main event on this show.
- 20:29Speaker 1: And none of these guys are even wrestling on the
- 20:31Speaker 1: pay per view this Sunday except Moxley and Osbury, and
- 20:34Speaker 1: that's the most important part. But none of these other
- 20:37Speaker 1: guys are presently scheduled to be wrestling at Dynasty. So
- 20:41Speaker 1: as far as Callum Newman, I just wanted to comment
- 20:43Speaker 1: on this real quick. I talked about this on Uncrowned yesterday.
- 20:48Speaker 1: I was shocked when I read that he had beaten
- 20:51Speaker 1: Yotasuji to win the IWGP Championship. Suji had just won
- 20:54Speaker 1: the title from Takeshta at the Tokyo Dome in January,
- 20:58Speaker 1: and he's sort of the face of this new era
- 21:00Speaker 1: now of New Japan. All the old guys, you know,
- 21:03Speaker 1: I mean, Nito is gone, Ocatta obviously left a few
- 21:07Speaker 1: years ago, a lot of people left, Osprey left, David
- 21:11Speaker 1: Finley left, Jay White left, Tanahashi retired. The old guard
- 21:17Speaker 1: is gone. They've aged out, they've retired, they've signed somewhere else.
- 21:22Speaker 1: And so Suji among and they have other young names too,
- 21:25Speaker 1: and Suji isn't even the youngest. But this is sort
- 21:28Speaker 1: of the face of this new era of New Japan.
- 21:30Speaker 1: And they were very slow, frankly, in pushing a lot
- 21:34Speaker 1: of these guys up into these prominent positions. But he
- 21:37Speaker 1: had his crowning moment in January. And then I'm just
- 21:41Speaker 1: looking at the results the other night, and I'm like,
- 21:43Speaker 1: what the fuck? And they had Callum Newman, who just
- 21:47Speaker 1: won the New Japan Cup a few weeks ago, go
- 21:49Speaker 1: in there and beat Suji to win the championship and
- 21:53Speaker 1: to me anyway, that just came out of nowhere. Now,
- 21:55Speaker 1: maybe he's gonna have a short run, He's not gonna
- 21:57Speaker 1: have it for very long. It just felt to me
- 21:59Speaker 1: like they had to pull the rug out from under Suji,
- 22:02Speaker 1: which I think was not the best thing to be doing.
- 22:06Speaker 1: But again, from what I've seen of Callum Newman, very talented.
- 22:09Speaker 1: Obviously he's a bit of a protege of will Ospray.
- 22:13Speaker 1: I'm sure New Japan would love for him to be
- 22:15Speaker 1: the next well Ospray. I'm sure Tony Kah would love
- 22:18Speaker 1: for him to be the next well Osprey so that
- 22:20Speaker 1: he can sign him away from New Japan. I'm a
- 22:24Speaker 1: little surprised, frankly, that they're still putting their main championship
- 22:28Speaker 1: on a foreign talent, as if they haven't learned their lesson.
- 22:31Speaker 1: We all know how this story ends. I don't know
- 22:33Speaker 1: if it's going to take a year, six months, two years,
- 22:36Speaker 1: but we all know he ain't long for that company.
- 22:40Speaker 1: You think they would learn their lesson by now, evidently not. Backstage,
- 22:48Speaker 1: we go to Don Kallis and he says Kyle Fletcher
- 22:52Speaker 1: unfortunately is injured and he is out of action, which
- 22:56Speaker 1: throws a wrench into their plans for him to become
- 22:58Speaker 1: the longest reigning TNT each champion of all time. So
- 23:02Speaker 1: now the TNT title is going to be decided in
- 23:04Speaker 1: a casino gauntlet match this Sunday at Dynasty, And he
- 23:08Speaker 1: said he was also negotiating a big match for Dynasty
- 23:12Speaker 1: with Proto Kata, so it would have been Kyle Fletcher
- 23:15Speaker 1: and Kazusko O Kada against the Young Bucks. But now
- 23:18Speaker 1: that's off. It's not possible now. But there's a reason
- 23:22Speaker 1: why they call him the Invisible Hand. He's already pivoting
- 23:26Speaker 1: in a way that's gonna blow our minds, he says,
- 23:30Speaker 1: said Okata and Takashta all he keeps hearing from people.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Are we gonna see them fight? When are we going
- 23:36Speaker 1: to see them in the ring together? When are they
- 23:37Speaker 1: gonna wrestle each other? He says, he runs this faction
- 23:41Speaker 1: like a pro sports franchise. He actually likes the fact
- 23:45Speaker 1: that people don't always like each other and that they
- 23:47Speaker 1: don't always get along. And he brought up Phil Jackson
- 23:51Speaker 1: on the Chicago Bulls keeping Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen together.
- 23:56Speaker 1: But we're gonna have to wait, he said, to see
- 23:59Speaker 1: the two of them fight because the callous family calls
- 24:02Speaker 1: the shots. And so again it really sucks for Kyle.
- 24:07Speaker 1: It's a big loss for Tony, you know, to lose
- 24:11Speaker 1: somebody like Fletcher for an extended period of time. If
- 24:14Speaker 1: it's a knee injury, then I mean depending on surgery
- 24:17Speaker 1: and everything. Again, from what we heard, it was additional injuries,
- 24:21Speaker 1: multiple injuries. That's what fightful was reporting. Is it an
- 24:24Speaker 1: ACL tear? Is it something else? You know? I hear that,
- 24:27Speaker 1: and I'm thinking this guy's gone for six months, so
- 24:31Speaker 1: he's out of the picture for a while, and I
- 24:33Speaker 1: gotta say no. Two things actually. Number One, they have
- 24:37Speaker 1: plenty of other members in the don Kallis family that
- 24:40Speaker 1: they can lean on. Now. Some of those members are
- 24:43Speaker 1: Lance Archer and Rocky Romero and Trent Barretta who they
- 24:47Speaker 1: really don't do anything with, but they have a lot
- 24:50Speaker 1: of other names in the faction. So like as a group,
- 24:52Speaker 1: they'll be fine. Now the TNT Championship is vacant, there
- 24:57Speaker 1: are any number of people on this roster who would
- 25:00Speaker 1: benefit from a TNT title run. Even though the TNT
- 25:05Speaker 1: title does not mean what it used to, It just doesn't.
- 25:08Speaker 1: It doesn't and I've said this before for all of
- 25:10Speaker 1: the new championships that have been introduced over the last
- 25:13Speaker 1: few years in this company, the continental title. I mean,
- 25:16Speaker 1: you can go down the line right, of all the
- 25:17Speaker 1: different championship a national title, the one that I think
- 25:21Speaker 1: has really suffered the most out of all of them
- 25:24Speaker 1: is the TNT title. You can't tell me that the
- 25:27Speaker 1: TNT title as it exists right now means what it
- 25:32Speaker 1: meant in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one or twenty
- 25:36Speaker 1: twenty two. It doesn't not even close. Maybe one day
- 25:42Speaker 1: they could sort of restore that feeling when it comes
- 25:44Speaker 1: to that championship, but right now it doesn't really have
- 25:46Speaker 1: that same feeling anymore. But I look at the potential
- 25:51Speaker 1: candidates to win the title next right, there's any number
- 25:55Speaker 1: of names. I'm gonna throw a name in the hat,
- 25:58Speaker 1: and you may disc you may think I'm crazy, you
- 26:01Speaker 1: may think it's a reach. I don't think it's much
- 26:03Speaker 1: of a reach. It's the man who is actually in
- 26:06Speaker 1: the ring and partnered up with Kyle Fletcher in that
- 26:09Speaker 1: match on Collision a few weeks ago when he got hurt,
- 26:11Speaker 1: Mark Davis. I would love to see Mark Davis get
- 26:15Speaker 1: a run as TNT champion. I've brought his name up
- 26:18Speaker 1: a few times over the last several weeks. I've grown
- 26:23Speaker 1: to appreciate what he brings to the table when he
- 26:26Speaker 1: is out there. I think he makes the most of
- 26:29Speaker 1: his minutes. He maximizes his minutes when he's out there.
- 26:31Speaker 1: He's a brawler. You know, he's not out there to
- 26:33Speaker 1: do anything flashy. But every now and then, you know,
- 26:36Speaker 1: whether it's like sometime gut range, pile driver or something,
- 26:40Speaker 1: it's very impactful. He'll bust out something that makes me
- 26:42Speaker 1: go holy shit. But he's not a flashy guy. You know.
- 26:46Speaker 1: He's a straight up brawler. But I do have a
- 26:53Speaker 1: liking for Mark Davis when I see him on the show,
- 26:56Speaker 1: and just again, even though I know he's gonna fucking
- 26:58Speaker 1: lose every time he's out there, I would love to
- 27:01Speaker 1: see him get a shot. And why not put the
- 27:04Speaker 1: TNT title on him and let him get a run
- 27:06Speaker 1: with it, and let him go around and just you know,
- 27:08Speaker 1: slug it out with guys. It doesn't have to be
- 27:11Speaker 1: any sort of long term thing. You could transition it
- 27:14Speaker 1: from him to somebody else in a few months. But
- 27:16Speaker 1: I just throw his name in there I'm sure people
- 27:18Speaker 1: are going to be like, oh, Androte and put the
- 27:20Speaker 1: belt back on Shampa put the belt on you know, God,
- 27:24Speaker 1: pick a name, my God. I mean, there's so many
- 27:25Speaker 1: people on this roster who you can put that belt on.
- 27:29Speaker 1: But yeah, I just I throw his name out there
- 27:31Speaker 1: as a possibility. We don't even know if he's going
- 27:33Speaker 1: to be in the Galt match. I would imagine he
- 27:34Speaker 1: would be, but he may not even be in there.
- 27:40Speaker 1: We had the national champion, Jack Perry, Darby, Allen, and
- 27:44Speaker 1: Bandido taking on the don Kallis family. How about that?
- 27:48Speaker 1: Androte Alitlo Kenoski Takeshta and the aforementioned Mark Davis. Brodie
- 27:56Speaker 1: King was supposed to be in this match. It was
- 27:58Speaker 1: supposed to be Brodie King, Jack Perry, and Arbi Allen.
- 28:01Speaker 1: He was given time off to attend his friend's funeral.
- 28:06Speaker 1: The guitarist for the band Harm's Way, so Bandido, his
- 28:12Speaker 1: old tag team partner, filled in for him. Guy was
- 28:15Speaker 1: only thirty eight years old, by the way, very sad,
- 28:18Speaker 1: and the circumstances around his death was also very sad.
- 28:23Speaker 1: So the bell sounded and Androde immediately exits up the ramp.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Darby took the mic and he tells Andrade stopped being
- 28:32Speaker 1: Don Callis's little bitch, Androte comes back out on stage
- 28:38Speaker 1: Takeshta though sneaks up from behind. He dumps Darby with
- 28:41Speaker 1: a rolling chaos theory on the floor. He sent him
- 28:43Speaker 1: flying backwards right on the back of his neck, so
- 28:48Speaker 1: Bandido got a hot tag. Later in the match, he
- 28:50Speaker 1: was signaling for the twenty one plex, Takeshta, the rolled
- 28:54Speaker 1: out into a beautiful blue thunderbomb for a two count.
- 28:57Speaker 1: Darby he caught Androte with his crazy suicide dive outside
- 29:01Speaker 1: and he was going after Don Callous who was on commentary.
- 29:05Speaker 1: Mark Davis made the save and then Davis and Takeshta.
- 29:10Speaker 1: They hold Darby by his arms and his legs and
- 29:13Speaker 1: they begin to swing him back and forth, and they
- 29:17Speaker 1: fling him through the air, over the timekeeper's barricade, over
- 29:21Speaker 1: the timekeeper's table, and he just crashed and burned. So
- 29:27Speaker 1: Jack Perry fell victim to a gut wrench pile driver
- 29:31Speaker 1: by Mark Davis, and then Androde came in to hit
- 29:34Speaker 1: the DM and win the match for the Callous family.
- 29:39Speaker 1: After the match is over, there putting the boots to
- 29:41Speaker 1: jungle Jack, Bandido and Darby. They get back in the
- 29:44Speaker 1: ring Andrade kicks Darby and the Dick. A lot of
- 29:48Speaker 1: dick kicking going on and wrestling lately. Young Bucks they
- 29:52Speaker 1: run out, they work over Ocata and Davis or Takeshtan.
- 29:56Speaker 1: Davis and the Bucks are setting up Davis for a melt.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Here comes Kazuchka Okada. He runs down to ringside. He
- 30:04Speaker 1: yanks Nick Jackson off the Apron, Takeshta, drops Matt with
- 30:08Speaker 1: an elbow strike, and Okada rolls Matt back inside and
- 30:12Speaker 1: Takeshta and Okada they start putting the boots to the Bucks.
- 30:16Speaker 1: So a Kata then gets in, Takeshta's face and he
- 30:20Speaker 1: gives Takeshta a shove, so Takeshta gives it right back
- 30:25Speaker 1: to him. So it's like, oh, things are getting out
- 30:28Speaker 1: of hand here, we're coming back around to this now.
- 30:31Speaker 1: And so back and forth they go. They're throwing four
- 30:34Speaker 1: arm shots and elbows and the fight is on and
- 30:36Speaker 1: Don Kallas and the other members that were out there,
- 30:39Speaker 1: they let them fight for I don't know of fifteen seconds.
- 30:41Speaker 1: Let's say they let them fight for a little bit
- 30:44Speaker 1: like hockey style, all right, let them get it out
- 30:46Speaker 1: of their system, and then after like ten or fifteen seconds,
- 30:49Speaker 1: they all went in to break it up, and everybody
- 30:51Speaker 1: booed because they wanted to see these two go at it,
- 30:54Speaker 1: and they pulled them apart. But we weren't done yet,
- 30:56Speaker 1: because here come the Rascals, all three members. They run
- 30:59Speaker 1: down to the the hit a triple dive out onto
- 31:02Speaker 1: various members of the Callus family except Okada, who walks
- 31:06Speaker 1: over to where Takeshta now is laying on the floor
- 31:08Speaker 1: and Okada is laughing at him and flipping him off.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Fucking love Okada, Oh I love troll Kata. But then
- 31:18Speaker 1: Myron Reid ends up catching Okada on a dive of
- 31:22Speaker 1: his own, and so he takes him down. And the
- 31:25Speaker 1: announcers they were hyping up the fact those two were
- 31:27Speaker 1: having a match on Collision this weekend for Ocada's international title.
- 31:32Speaker 1: So the match itself, it was all action. They gave
- 31:34Speaker 1: Androtte the win to give him some momentum going into
- 31:37Speaker 1: a match with Darby Allen this weekend that I'm pretty
- 31:39Speaker 1: sure Androti is not going to win, so for tonight
- 31:42Speaker 1: they gave him a win. They tried to make him
- 31:44Speaker 1: look strong, but I don't think he's getting the WU
- 31:47Speaker 1: this weekend. I don't think it's going to work out
- 31:49Speaker 1: too well for him. Now backstage, let's skip ahead here
- 31:52Speaker 1: a little bit because we had another segment that ties
- 31:54Speaker 1: into all this in the back. A little bit later
- 31:56Speaker 1: on Lexi Nair was with Don Kallis and the various
- 31:59Speaker 1: members of the Callus fan Callus said that while he
- 32:01Speaker 1: wanted pro too Kata against the Young Bucks at Dynasty,
- 32:05Speaker 1: he has something even bigger and better for the pay
- 32:09Speaker 1: per view Takeshta and Okata as tag team partners against
- 32:15Speaker 1: the Young Bucks. And Takeshta was not on board with
- 32:18Speaker 1: this idea. He looked at Don he goes, no, no, well,
- 32:22Speaker 1: what do you mean though, No, I'm not doing it,
- 32:25Speaker 1: and Callus tried to explain to him. He goes, look,
- 32:27Speaker 1: I'm the coach. I call the plays. And by the way,
- 32:30Speaker 1: this is for Kyle. Kyle's laid up in a hospital
- 32:34Speaker 1: bed somewhere. We got to do this for Kyle. So
- 32:37Speaker 1: he ended up convincing Takeshta. He relented. He said, okay, fine,
- 32:41Speaker 1: but I want that and he points at the international
- 32:45Speaker 1: title which is over Okada's shoulder. I want to wrestle
- 32:47Speaker 1: him for that championship, and Callus said, look, we need
- 32:52Speaker 1: this match to happen. So you know what, I'll tell
- 32:54Speaker 1: you what if you agree to do this, and you
- 32:57Speaker 1: guys go in there and you wrestle the young Bucks,
- 32:59Speaker 1: you'll get your title match, okay, and you'll get it
- 33:02Speaker 1: at double or nothing, and then you guys can go
- 33:05Speaker 1: out there and the two of you can just get
- 33:07Speaker 1: it out of your system. And Okada had a look
- 33:10Speaker 1: on his face like he wasn't really a big fan
- 33:12Speaker 1: of that idea. So they're already teasing Okada and Takeshta
- 33:17Speaker 1: for the International title at double or nothing. Poor Myron Reid,
- 33:23Speaker 1: fucking guys getting a title match this weekend. He does
- 33:25Speaker 1: stand the chance. They're already looking beyond him, they're looking
- 33:29Speaker 1: to double or nothing. They're not taking Myron Reid seriously.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Or Myron Reid could beat Okada to win the International
- 33:35Speaker 1: title this weekend. Yes, yes, And I'll be making my
- 33:42Speaker 1: in ring debut at Dynasty this weekend before that happens.
- 33:51Speaker 1: And for those of you just coming in the goal,
- 33:53Speaker 1: there's the wheel. Six hundred likes is the goal for tonight.
- 33:59Speaker 1: We're climbing steadily. We're we're still only about halfway there,
- 34:03Speaker 1: we got a ways to go. But again Callus here.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Again he brought up the analogy with Michael Jordan and
- 34:11Speaker 1: Scottie Pippen, and Callus wanted the two of them to
- 34:14Speaker 1: shake hands. So they shake hands, and then Okada. He
- 34:20Speaker 1: pulls to Keshta in the now they're face to face,
- 34:23Speaker 1: and he tells him your Scottie Pippen, I'm Michael Jordan,
- 34:30Speaker 1: and Takeshta is just furious with this, and he lunges
- 34:33Speaker 1: at him and they have to pull him back. And again,
- 34:37Speaker 1: any sort of interaction like this between these two, I'm
- 34:41Speaker 1: all in on this. Even though they have dragged this
- 34:43Speaker 1: out for far too long. You know, it seems like
- 34:47Speaker 1: we're a lot closer than I thought we were going
- 34:49Speaker 1: to be to getting a payoff to all this, which
- 34:52Speaker 1: is great. So I enjoyed the the interaction here. By
- 34:56Speaker 1: the way, as much as I love Okada, there was
- 34:59Speaker 1: a period of or I would have said, Okay, the
- 35:01Speaker 1: Michael Jordan comparison is very appropriate. I don't know if
- 35:04Speaker 1: it necessarily applies to this Okada. Maybe in Okada from
- 35:09Speaker 1: a few years ago. But look, if we get that
- 35:13Speaker 1: match a double or nothing, we don't have to wait
- 35:15Speaker 1: until all in for it. I think that's fucking fantastic,
- 35:18Speaker 1: because I was convinced that we were gonna have to
- 35:20Speaker 1: wait until the end of August. And I'm like, my God,
- 35:23Speaker 1: and look, just because they might do the match at
- 35:25Speaker 1: Double or Nothing next month doesn't mean that we're not
- 35:28Speaker 1: also going to then get it at Wembley. It may
- 35:30Speaker 1: not be over at Double or Nothing. It may just
- 35:32Speaker 1: be the next chapter in a longer story. And I
- 35:36Speaker 1: don't even necessarily mind that. I just got to get
- 35:39Speaker 1: part two. I mean, you can't. You can only keep
- 35:41Speaker 1: us waiting for so long. You know, they had their
- 35:43Speaker 1: first match in December, you know, at World's End, and
- 35:47Speaker 1: now we're heading into Double or Nothing next month. So
- 35:51Speaker 1: at least give us match number two. And if you
- 35:53Speaker 1: want to build to a third match, that's fine, But
- 35:57Speaker 1: how long are we supposed to wait? And remember there
- 35:59Speaker 1: was a period of time I'm earlier this year coming
- 36:01Speaker 1: out of World's End, were they just got away from it.
- 36:06Speaker 1: They weren't even I mean, we didn't even see those
- 36:08Speaker 1: two on television together, so they just sort of made
- 36:11Speaker 1: you forget about it, and then they circled back around
- 36:14Speaker 1: to it. And I'm still enjoying it. But you run
- 36:18Speaker 1: the risk when you do that of really cooling that
- 36:21Speaker 1: story off. I think people are invested enough in it,
- 36:25Speaker 1: they're still hot enough for you know, wanting to see
- 36:27Speaker 1: these two kill each other that it's fine. But yeah,
- 36:31Speaker 1: if we get that match next month, I'm all for that.
- 36:35Speaker 1: I don't want to wait until the end of August.
- 36:37Speaker 1: I think that's ridiculous. But that segment in the back
- 36:42Speaker 1: came later in the show. Let's go back a little bit.
- 36:44Speaker 1: Let's back up. Lexian Air was backstage with Doc Samson
- 36:49Speaker 1: and he said last week MJF was trying to get
- 36:51Speaker 1: into Kenny Omega's head with all of the things that
- 36:54Speaker 1: he was saying about Omega's stomach being on the verge
- 36:58Speaker 1: basically of exploding. He admitted that Omega did have issues
- 37:02Speaker 1: with diverticulitis, but he's in the best shape of his life,
- 37:05Speaker 1: and he's been cleared by his surgeons, and he's been
- 37:07Speaker 1: cleared by him well, by golly, if he's been cleared
- 37:10Speaker 1: by the aw medical staff in the way, I guess
- 37:12Speaker 1: we have nothing to worry about. You know what. It
- 37:16Speaker 1: came off to me as it came off to me
- 37:18Speaker 1: as it was It was just preposterous having MJF go
- 37:23Speaker 1: out there last week and say those things, and Tony
- 37:26Speaker 1: Kahan and the rest of this company, including the you know,
- 37:28Speaker 1: the doc over here is totally fine with Kenny Omega
- 37:32Speaker 1: wrestling and going into a big pay per view match
- 37:36Speaker 1: with MJF. If his stomach is really on the verge
- 37:38Speaker 1: of just exploding out of his gut, right, his intestines, everything,
- 37:42Speaker 1: everything's gonna spill out on the floor like a fucking
- 37:45Speaker 1: scream movie or something, and it gout him like a fish.
- 37:48Speaker 1: So this was their way of sort of walking it
- 37:50Speaker 1: back and being like, okay, you know what. It was
- 37:53Speaker 1: just a lot of hot air from MJF. Kenny's fine,
- 37:58Speaker 1: he's in great shape, he's been cleared. Everything's cool because
- 38:03Speaker 1: you watched that last week and it's like, okay, well
- 38:06Speaker 1: they want you to think during the match that he
- 38:08Speaker 1: might be on the verge of death, and then this
- 38:10Speaker 1: week they had the doctor just walking back and go
- 38:13Speaker 1: that's all bullshit. He's fine, don't worry about it. He's
- 38:18Speaker 1: good to go one hundred percent. We had Willow Nightingale
- 38:22Speaker 1: and Queen Ami Nada for the TBS Championship. This was
- 38:27Speaker 1: Ami Nada's first match since October after a neck injury.
- 38:31Speaker 1: If you remember, it took her out of what almost
- 38:35Speaker 1: assuredly would have been a spot for her in that
- 38:38Speaker 1: first women's Blood and Guts match. So what has it
- 38:41Speaker 1: been five months she's been out ever since? This was
- 38:44Speaker 1: her first match back. They showed Hikarushida watching from the crowd.
- 38:49Speaker 1: This is after Shida lost to Willow on Collision this
- 38:53Speaker 1: past weekend. It was a decent match that the two
- 38:56Speaker 1: of them had. I didn't think it was that great.
- 38:59Speaker 1: I thought the match we had tonight was a lot
- 39:00Speaker 1: better than that one. And these ladies were out there,
- 39:04Speaker 1: they were laying their shit in. This felt like a fight.
- 39:07Speaker 1: That's how I used to feel when Ami Nada had
- 39:10Speaker 1: that feud with Tekla, and I was like, man, these
- 39:13Speaker 1: women are going out there and it's like, you can
- 39:16Speaker 1: believe that these two women don't like each other, and
- 39:19Speaker 1: they're going out there and they're beating the crap out
- 39:20Speaker 1: of each other. It's not just an Ami Nada and
- 39:24Speaker 1: Tekla thing. I think it's just the way that Ami
- 39:26Speaker 1: Nada also works. But I like that. That's one of
- 39:30Speaker 1: the things I liked about this match. Willow tried to
- 39:33Speaker 1: moon Salt, she crashed and burned. Ami Nada went up top.
- 39:37Speaker 1: She hit a double stomp. Both ladies. They were trading
- 39:41Speaker 1: some stiff shots back and forth, and Willow is daring her, like,
- 39:44Speaker 1: hit me, like you mean it hit me, like you
- 39:46Speaker 1: actually want to be champion. I mean I was like, okay,
- 39:50Speaker 1: So she gave it right back to her. Ami Nada
- 39:53Speaker 1: avoided a doctor bomb. She countered into an air raid
- 39:56Speaker 1: crash for a two count. Willow came back with a
- 39:58Speaker 1: pounce and she launched this woman into the ropes, really
- 40:01Speaker 1: into the bottom rope hard, and then followed with a
- 40:06Speaker 1: doctor bomb for the wing. And when the match was over,
- 40:09Speaker 1: the two of them shook hands and they cut to
- 40:11Speaker 1: a shot of Hida watching on from the crowd, and
- 40:14Speaker 1: she was shaking her head in disapproval. So it's good
- 40:18Speaker 1: to see Ami not a back again. It felt like
- 40:21Speaker 1: they were trying to maybe elevate her to that next level,
- 40:24Speaker 1: whatever that next level would have been, and she just
- 40:27Speaker 1: got hurt at the wrong time. And I take it
- 40:30Speaker 1: that we're going to get a rematch very soon between
- 40:33Speaker 1: Willow and She'd, hey, look, maybe they add that match
- 40:36Speaker 1: to the pay per view on Sunday. They're definitely adding
- 40:39Speaker 1: at least one more match, maybe they add a TBS
- 40:41Speaker 1: title match, but they're definitely setting up for another match
- 40:44Speaker 1: between those two. You know. I like the fact that
- 40:48Speaker 1: we are getting consistent title defenses from her from willow
- 40:51Speaker 1: On TV. And this goes back to last month. You know,
- 40:54Speaker 1: she had that match with Persephone, she wrestled Lena Cross,
- 40:59Speaker 1: she wrestled and Sheeta. The other night tonight, she wrestled
- 41:02Speaker 1: on Me Nada. So we have a champion that's you know,
- 41:06Speaker 1: and it's not open challenges. You know, these are assigned challengers.
- 41:10Speaker 1: But I like the fact that we're getting you know,
- 41:12Speaker 1: frequent title defenses here because they got away from it
- 41:15Speaker 1: for a little bit when she was doing the tag
- 41:16Speaker 1: team thing with Harley Cameron, and now they got away
- 41:19Speaker 1: from that, and you know, we can get back to
- 41:21Speaker 1: business here with the title that actually means something here,
- 41:25Speaker 1: trying to make this title mean something. She's the one
- 41:28Speaker 1: who beat Mercedes to win the championship. She's got to
- 41:31Speaker 1: make it mean something. Still know Mercedes, by the way,
- 41:34Speaker 1: still waiting on her return. But then it was time
- 41:37Speaker 1: for Chris Jericho. Now, last week he came out looking
- 41:41Speaker 1: like Barney the Dinosaur this week, no purple. He was
- 41:45Speaker 1: actually in a gold jacket and he had a clipboard
- 41:50Speaker 1: in his hand, if that sounds familiar, And he got
- 41:54Speaker 1: another respectful but I would say pretty tame reaction from
- 41:58Speaker 1: the crowd here in Edmonton. Nothing super loud. And last
- 42:04Speaker 1: week he said that he was home, and tonight he
- 42:07Speaker 1: said he proves it by signing his brand new AW
- 42:12Speaker 1: contract not far from Panoka, where he wrestled his very
- 42:17Speaker 1: first match. Said he took a lot of risks that
- 42:20Speaker 1: night in nineteen ninety two start his career as he
- 42:23Speaker 1: has his entire career, like when he joined AW and
- 42:27Speaker 1: he helped start this company back in twenty nineteen. But
- 42:30Speaker 1: it's a risk that paid off. He's very happy how
- 42:32Speaker 1: big this company has become, and he's very excited to
- 42:36Speaker 1: continue to help build this company that he helps start. A
- 42:40Speaker 1: lot of risks that he's taken have paid off, some
- 42:43Speaker 1: of them have not. He's had some stinkers. Yeah, I'll
- 42:49Speaker 1: say that's why he took a year off. I think
- 42:52Speaker 1: he realized it. The biggest stinker of all is that
- 42:56Speaker 1: Big Bill. We never got that Big Bill match. We
- 42:59Speaker 1: never got a resolution to the learning tree the learning
- 43:01Speaker 1: tree never really got chopped down. The tree is still up.
- 43:06Speaker 1: It's not growing any new branches, but we never did
- 43:10Speaker 1: get a resolution to that. So anyway, he said, it's
- 43:17Speaker 1: why he tried to get into the best shape that
- 43:20Speaker 1: he's been in in years, because he loves this company
- 43:23Speaker 1: and he loves pro wrestling, So he tried to get
- 43:27Speaker 1: into the best shape he could for his return last week.
- 43:29Speaker 1: And now that he's back, it doesn't matter if he's
- 43:31Speaker 1: in the opening match, it doesn't matter if he's in
- 43:33Speaker 1: the main event, it doesn't even matter if he's on
- 43:35Speaker 1: the show at all, because he loves pro wrestling and
- 43:38Speaker 1: he loves this company. He was really laying it on
- 43:41Speaker 1: pretty thick here, so we got chance of Jericho. He
- 43:45Speaker 1: said that it's the perfect time to sign this contract.
- 43:48Speaker 1: You want me to sign it, and he went to
- 43:49Speaker 1: go sign the contract. He was interrupted by rick O'Shea
- 43:54Speaker 1: and the gates of agony, and they come down to
- 43:57Speaker 1: the ring and they get inside and Ricochet said that
- 44:01Speaker 1: Canada sucks, but he didn't come out here to talk
- 44:04Speaker 1: about that. He came out to talk about Jericho if
- 44:06Speaker 1: he wanted he wanted. He said, Jericho to do himself
- 44:10Speaker 1: a favor. Just don't don't sign the contract, don't come back.
- 44:16Speaker 1: You've been gone for a year with your band. You're
- 44:19Speaker 1: off singing karaoke. He admitted that Jericho was one of
- 44:23Speaker 1: the greatest champions of all time and aw may not
- 44:25Speaker 1: have had the monumental rise that it has were it
- 44:28Speaker 1: not for him. But Ricochet is kind of the man
- 44:32Speaker 1: right now. I mean he said this with a straight face.
- 44:37Speaker 1: He goes, attendance is up, ratings are up, and he
- 44:42Speaker 1: was the inaugural national champion. You hear that the seats,
- 44:48Speaker 1: the seats are being filled because Ricochet is on the card.
- 44:54Speaker 1: You know, Doc Samson was there in the building tonight,
- 44:56Speaker 1: and I understand that Doc Samson is the first person
- 44:59Speaker 1: to come over to a match when somebody you know
- 45:01Speaker 1: suffers an injury, like a physical injury of some kind.
- 45:05Speaker 1: I don't know if Doc Samson is the one who
- 45:07Speaker 1: would tend to psychosis, you know, or mental health issues
- 45:12Speaker 1: that some of the wrestlers have. But you know, if
- 45:14Speaker 1: I were him when Rikoshet made that comment, I would
- 45:16Speaker 1: have sprinted into the ring and I would have cut
- 45:18Speaker 1: this promo short. I would have when Rikoshet made that
- 45:22Speaker 1: comment in the middle of his promo, there should have
- 45:24Speaker 1: been a referee outside the ring, throwing up the X.
- 45:28Speaker 1: We we got a problem here. We gotta we gotta
- 45:31Speaker 1: take this, we gotta take this off the air. But
- 45:35Speaker 1: he said this was all because of the rise of Ricochet.
- 45:39Speaker 1: But he really respects Jericho. He just he thinks he
- 45:42Speaker 1: could speak for everyone when he says, then nobody wants
- 45:45Speaker 1: him here. So he said, pack it all up, get
- 45:48Speaker 1: out of my ring, get back on your little cruise ship,
- 45:51Speaker 1: and never come back to AW before you get yourself hurt.
- 45:56Speaker 1: So Jericho said, wow, you really are bald, And after
- 46:01Speaker 1: what he just said, it made him realize he doesn't
- 46:04Speaker 1: give a shit what he thinks. So at that point
- 46:07Speaker 1: he signed the contract. As I'm sure many many hearts
- 46:11Speaker 1: were broken and many heads were banging against the wall
- 46:14Speaker 1: that Chris Jericho has officially signed whose new multi year
- 46:17Speaker 1: contract with AW. And what Rikoshet doesn't know is that
- 46:21Speaker 1: he has a clause in the contract that means he
- 46:25Speaker 1: can choose any opponent he wants for Dynasty this Sunday
- 46:29Speaker 1: in Vancouver. So it looks like he has a decision
- 46:32Speaker 1: to make and he waited about two seconds and he said, okay,
- 46:37Speaker 1: I'm done. I've made my decision, and at that point
- 46:42Speaker 1: he said that he well, actually what he did was
- 46:47Speaker 1: he was talking about the uh, fancy little sweatsuit that
- 46:51Speaker 1: Rikoshet was wearing. Goes, when Chris Jericho needs an opponent
- 46:56Speaker 1: for Vancouver and he doesn't have one. You could see
- 47:01Speaker 1: where this was going. He peeled off. There was some
- 47:04Speaker 1: sort of paper or something on the back of the
- 47:06Speaker 1: clipboard and he peeled it off, and it just said
- 47:09Speaker 1: Jericho on the back of the clipboard, and he holds
- 47:15Speaker 1: the pen up in the air. He goes, when you're bald,
- 47:19Speaker 1: when you come out here in your fancy sweatsuit, when
- 47:22Speaker 1: Chris Jericho needs an opponent for Vancouver and doesn't have one,
- 47:28Speaker 1: you just made the list and see you at Dynasty,
- 47:34Speaker 1: and people popped. He wrote his name on the list.
- 47:39Speaker 1: He brought back the list for one night. They had
- 47:44Speaker 1: a fun little callback. I don't see this as Jericho
- 47:48Speaker 1: resurrecting the list gimmick every week or anything like that.
- 47:51Speaker 1: It was a fun little callback here. The people pop
- 47:53Speaker 1: for it, and look, let's be honest here. It was
- 47:56Speaker 1: one of the more over periods of this guy's career.
- 48:00Speaker 1: I don't want to say the most over. But when
- 48:02Speaker 1: you look back on Chris Jericho's career, the stuff that
- 48:04Speaker 1: he did with Kevin Owens and the list of Jericho
- 48:06Speaker 1: and all that, that's got to be top three of
- 48:10Speaker 1: like all of the phases of Jericho that he went through,
- 48:13Speaker 1: in terms of his popularity and how over he was,
- 48:16Speaker 1: it's got to be top three. Like me personally, I
- 48:20Speaker 1: was a big fan of conspiracy theory Jericho in WCW
- 48:24Speaker 1: when he was a heel. I was a big fan
- 48:27Speaker 1: of him. His no Country for Old Men, serious suit
- 48:30Speaker 1: and tie Jericho from two thousand and eight. I guess
- 48:34Speaker 1: that would have been two thousand and nine, that would
- 48:36Speaker 1: probably be number one, honestly, and then after that you
- 48:39Speaker 1: probably put the list. So I don't blame him for
- 48:45Speaker 1: going back to it for one night here. So anyway,
- 48:48Speaker 1: that's another match that is confirmed for Dynasty. It's not
- 48:51Speaker 1: the Ricochet match that I was expecting. I was expecting
- 48:54Speaker 1: because they were building to it. It felt like that
- 48:57Speaker 1: they were going to do a rematch with him and
- 48:58Speaker 1: Jack Perry. By no means upset that we are not
- 49:01Speaker 1: getting another Ricochet and Jack Perry match because I'm done
- 49:04Speaker 1: with that. But it felt like that's what we were
- 49:07Speaker 1: building to, and then not only did they not do it,
- 49:10Speaker 1: and they gave Ricochet a totally different opponent, but they
- 49:14Speaker 1: pined Jack Perry in the trios match earlier in the show.
- 49:16Speaker 1: The National Champion just got pinned by Androtti, who he
- 49:19Speaker 1: has no issue with of any kind. It was really
- 49:22Speaker 1: just to make Androte look strong for his match with Darby.
- 49:25Speaker 1: So they don't seem to be making Jack Perry very
- 49:29Speaker 1: much of a priority here on this show. So I'm
- 49:33Speaker 1: not going to complain that we're not getting another match
- 49:35Speaker 1: between those two. But again, I floated Ricochet for a
- 49:38Speaker 1: reason the other day. On the sound of it just
- 49:40Speaker 1: seemed clear to me that if he was going to
- 49:41Speaker 1: be a babyface, Ricochet would be on the short list
- 49:44Speaker 1: of names that he would be working with. It's a
- 49:46Speaker 1: guy that he can go in there and beat. I
- 49:50Speaker 1: don't see him going in there and losing to Ricochet.
- 49:52Speaker 1: It's a match that was made with less than a
- 49:54Speaker 1: weak notice. Give him someone to go in there that
- 49:59Speaker 1: the people nuinely do not like and let Jericho beat him,
- 50:04Speaker 1: because Ricochet is not the one being built here. You know,
- 50:08Speaker 1: if there's any value left in Chris Jericho and I'm
- 50:12Speaker 1: just going to sort of give you the cliff notes
- 50:14Speaker 1: version of what I said the other day. The key
- 50:17Speaker 1: thing with Jericho and really maintaining his longevity and not
- 50:21Speaker 1: burning people out on him or using him in a
- 50:24Speaker 1: way that is counterproductive and actually damaging to other talents
- 50:27Speaker 1: on the show. You don't want to use him too often.
- 50:31Speaker 1: You want to be very selective with how many appearances
- 50:33Speaker 1: he makes and how many matches he wrestles, and you
- 50:36Speaker 1: have to be selective in terms of who you have
- 50:38Speaker 1: him working with. The key feud right now, I think
- 50:42Speaker 1: would be to do Jericho and Swerve because it's a
- 50:44Speaker 1: match that we've never seen before. Swerve just when heal,
- 50:48Speaker 1: Jericho just came back and went babyface, So it's a
- 50:51Speaker 1: match that makes all the sense in the world. I
- 50:52Speaker 1: don't know if that's a double or nothing match. I
- 50:54Speaker 1: don't know if they save that for another pay per view,
- 50:57Speaker 1: But to get there, you've got to give Jericho some
- 50:59Speaker 1: wins to get him re established on the show. He's
- 51:01Speaker 1: been gone for a year. And Ricochet, honestly, like how
- 51:06Speaker 1: many people in this chat right now give a fuck
- 51:09Speaker 1: if Ricochet goes in there and gets beat by Chris Jericho.
- 51:13Speaker 1: I would be more offended if they were doing Jericho
- 51:15Speaker 1: against again someone like a Kevin Knight, or if we
- 51:18Speaker 1: went with Jericho and Kyle Fletcher. If Kyle Fletcher wasn't
- 51:21Speaker 1: injured and Jericho went in there and he beats Kyle Fletcher,
- 51:24Speaker 1: that would bother me. If he goes in there and
- 51:27Speaker 1: beats somebody like that, that would bother me. If he
- 51:29Speaker 1: goes in there and beats Ricochet, who gives a fuck?
- 51:32Speaker 1: Who cares? It's building to something bigger. So it's not
- 51:36Speaker 1: a big deal, you know. I mean, the Ricochet promo
- 51:39Speaker 1: tonight was it was whatever. It was nothing special. Frankly,
- 51:42Speaker 1: the Jericho stuff wasn't special. Leader, but they had to
- 51:45Speaker 1: do something to establish this match on short notice, and
- 51:48Speaker 1: so this was the most obvious thing to do. But
- 51:51Speaker 1: it's not the end of the world. The thing with
- 51:52Speaker 1: Jericho though no reinvention. Usually he comes and he will
- 51:57Speaker 1: reinvent himself in some way. There's some new gimmick, or
- 52:01Speaker 1: there's some sort of new catchphrase, or there's something new.
- 52:04Speaker 1: Now we know he trademarked that name the Cornerstone. We
- 52:07Speaker 1: haven't heard him use it yet on TV. We'll see
- 52:09Speaker 1: if he does he could call himself that. I don't
- 52:12Speaker 1: know how that's going to really change his personality or
- 52:16Speaker 1: his character on the show, But so far, no reinvention.
- 52:20Speaker 1: It's just Chris Jericho back as a babyface. Pretty pretty
- 52:25Speaker 1: straightforward stuff. Nothing terribly interesting. Wait, Tamaso Champa one on
- 52:33Speaker 1: one with Mascerriderrata. This was put together obviously on short
- 52:39Speaker 1: notice once they got the news of Kyle Fletcher's injury.
- 52:42Speaker 1: The winner of this match will enter the Casino Gauntlet
- 52:45Speaker 1: on Sunday in the number one spot, which is important
- 52:48Speaker 1: because the way these matches work, the Casino Gauntlet could
- 52:51Speaker 1: end at any moment to one fall to a finish.
- 52:53Speaker 1: So if Tamaso Champa is number one, and really, the
- 52:57Speaker 1: same thing applies for the number two spot, and they're
- 53:00Speaker 1: having a match on Collision this weekend to see who
- 53:02Speaker 1: enters at number two. It's going to be Rouche against
- 53:05Speaker 1: Anthony Bowens. So whoever wins that, that person and Tamaso
- 53:10Speaker 1: Shampa who won this match are going to be kicking
- 53:13Speaker 1: off the Gauntlet. Theoretically, the Gauntlet could end in the
- 53:16Speaker 1: first sixty seconds. Somebody gets a pinfall or submission, that's it.
- 53:21Speaker 1: The Gauntlet's over. So that's the importance of being in
- 53:25Speaker 1: the number one spot. The match was fine. Dorado went
- 53:28Speaker 1: up top for a moon salt. Champa, though, got the
- 53:29Speaker 1: boots up and then he lowered the knee pad he
- 53:33Speaker 1: charged in. He ended up eating a kick, and then
- 53:37Speaker 1: Derada tried for another one. He got hung up in
- 53:40Speaker 1: the ropes and that allowed Shampa to hit the widow's
- 53:42Speaker 1: bell in a running knee strike for the win. Again.
- 53:48Speaker 1: You know, I don't mind at all if they want
- 53:50Speaker 1: to put the belt back on Shampa, that's fine, but
- 53:53Speaker 1: I'm throwing out Mark Davis's name. The guy never wins anything.
- 53:59Speaker 1: Throw a bone here. I think you'd do well. I
- 54:03Speaker 1: really do that ass kick and brawler type. You just
- 54:05Speaker 1: got to book him a little stronger because he doesn't
- 54:07Speaker 1: fucking win. So like when he's out there, he can
- 54:11Speaker 1: have good matches, but people look at him as a
- 54:13Speaker 1: pushover because he has no credibility. So if you're gonna
- 54:16Speaker 1: put the TNT championship on him, you can't put the
- 54:18Speaker 1: TNT title on him if you're not going to actually
- 54:20Speaker 1: have him start winning matches. If the idea is for
- 54:23Speaker 1: Mark Davis to still go out there and lose, then
- 54:26Speaker 1: don't bother putting the TNT title on him. You know
- 54:29Speaker 1: what I'm saying is give him a little bit of
- 54:31Speaker 1: a push. What do you have to lose? Two months
- 54:36Speaker 1: from now, three months from now, you take the belt
- 54:40Speaker 1: off him, you put you transition it over to whoever
- 54:42Speaker 1: you know, babyface, you want to put the belt on.
- 54:44Speaker 1: That's fine. I have no issue with that. Solo is
- 54:52Speaker 1: a Mark Davis guy. I'm gonna make a T shirt.
- 54:56Speaker 1: I'm a Mark Davis guy. I'm a Mark Davis Mark.
- 55:00Speaker 1: There you go backstage, David Finley. This is one of
- 55:06Speaker 1: the parts of the show I just didn't give a
- 55:08Speaker 1: shit about. So David Finley is in the back and
- 55:10Speaker 1: he's talking to the camera and you can see Clark
- 55:13Speaker 1: Connors is throwing punches at Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong.
- 55:17Speaker 1: They're laid out on the ground. So Connors then spoke
- 55:21Speaker 1: and he said, the Mystico and Kevin Knight, they were
- 55:23Speaker 1: lucky that there were only two of them last week,
- 55:26Speaker 1: but now the gang is back together. And Gabe Kid
- 55:29Speaker 1: entered the picture and he said, the conglomeration, they have
- 55:32Speaker 1: no one left. He questions how Mystico and Jet Speed
- 55:36Speaker 1: think they can run the trio's division. When there's a
- 55:38Speaker 1: three headed dog ready to bite their heads off? Isn't
- 55:42Speaker 1: that called a cerberus? Is that three headed dog? Cerberus?
- 55:48Speaker 1: Is that what they call it? So Finley said on Collision,
- 55:51Speaker 1: They're coming for their bodies and their belts. I have
- 55:55Speaker 1: zero interest in the Dogs right now, not at all.
- 56:00Speaker 1: Reflection on their talent. David Finley very talented, Clark Connor's talented,
- 56:04Speaker 1: gab Kid talented. The way that they have been utilized
- 56:08Speaker 1: and positioned so far since they have joined together as
- 56:12Speaker 1: a unit on AW television has been very poor. This
- 56:17Speaker 1: is not how you introduce a new group. It's not
- 56:20Speaker 1: even a team, it's a new group. This is not
- 56:23Speaker 1: the way to introduce them in the strongest possible way
- 56:27Speaker 1: that you can. They have become just a bunch of
- 56:30Speaker 1: guys on the roster. It feels to me like they've
- 56:33Speaker 1: lost more than they've won. Maybe they've won more than
- 56:35Speaker 1: they've lost, but it doesn't feel that way to me.
- 56:38Speaker 1: Get me to care about these guys. Give me a
- 56:40Speaker 1: reason to actually give a shit about the fact that
- 56:44Speaker 1: the Dogs are here in AW, especially when we have
- 56:47Speaker 1: so many other trios and factions and teams and groups.
- 56:52Speaker 1: Give me a reason to believe that these guys are
- 56:55Speaker 1: going to be a force to be reckoned with on
- 56:58Speaker 1: this show. And it pays that. As soon as I
- 57:01Speaker 1: saw David Finley on my screen two things. Number One,
- 57:03Speaker 1: when he started talking, I said, oh, he speaks, and
- 57:07Speaker 1: number two like, I'm looking at David Finley and I'm like,
- 57:10Speaker 1: why do I have this feeling of just complete and
- 57:12Speaker 1: total apathy towards someone who just a couple months ago
- 57:18Speaker 1: was considered one of the one of the biggest free
- 57:20Speaker 1: agents in the world. Where is he gonna go? Is
- 57:22Speaker 1: he gonna stay with New Japan? Is he gonna go
- 57:23Speaker 1: to WWE to be with his family? Is he gonna
- 57:26Speaker 1: go to AW? So he chose AW And it's like, okay, well,
- 57:32Speaker 1: now look at where we are. What's so special about
- 57:35Speaker 1: David Finley right now? Nothing. They haven't given you a
- 57:39Speaker 1: reason to feel that way. That's the challenge now. But
- 57:43Speaker 1: right now I feel nothing. I feel nothing when I
- 57:47Speaker 1: see the dogs. Lexi Nair was interviewing the AW Women's
- 57:52Speaker 1: World champion Techla This I liked. I see Tecla, I like,
- 57:59Speaker 1: so she's backstage and she threatened to take Lexi out
- 58:02Speaker 1: to dinner before bringing her to a strip club and
- 58:05Speaker 1: then dragging her on stage and breaking all of her fingers.
- 58:09Speaker 1: If she had to listen to her say that Jamie
- 58:11Speaker 1: Hayter is a former aw women's World champion. Hey, let
- 58:15Speaker 1: me tell you something. There are grown men out there
- 58:18Speaker 1: right now who would pay very good money to have
- 58:21Speaker 1: Techla do that to them, to take them to a
- 58:25Speaker 1: strip club, to drag them up on stage, and to
- 58:27Speaker 1: break each and every single one of their fingers. She
- 58:29Speaker 1: should probably charge If she charged money for that online,
- 58:32Speaker 1: she'd be a fucking millionaire. Okay, there's some freaky deep
- 58:35Speaker 1: fans out there. I'm just saying so. Anyway, She then
- 58:40Speaker 1: called the Jamie Hayter the dumbest bitch alive. Techla is great.
- 58:46Speaker 1: I don't really need to say anything else. There's a
- 58:48Speaker 1: reason why Tony Kahan just re signed Tekla to a
- 58:51Speaker 1: brand new multi year contract when she was only in
- 58:54Speaker 1: the middle of a two year deal, Like she still
- 58:57Speaker 1: had a year left on her deal, and they're like,
- 58:59Speaker 1: we got to give you more money and we got
- 59:01Speaker 1: to sign you to a brand new contract because they
- 59:04Speaker 1: see it. They see it she just brings something different
- 59:08Speaker 1: to that women's division. I'm not even talking about the matches.
- 59:11Speaker 1: I'm just talking about her. I'm talking about her persona.
- 59:14Speaker 1: I'm talking about her personality, her charisma. She's different. Being
- 59:18Speaker 1: different is good. Tekla is one of the shining stars
- 59:21Speaker 1: of that women's division right now. Adam Copeland and Christian
- 59:29Speaker 1: Cage they entered they are not the shining stars in
- 59:33Speaker 1: this company right now, but they came out to talk
- 59:35Speaker 1: about their match with FTR at Dynasty. Copeland said that
- 59:38Speaker 1: jealousy and pettiness is what started all of this and
- 59:41Speaker 1: it blew up rated FTR. They said that they were
- 59:45Speaker 1: in Copeland's shadow and they were tired of being his henchmen.
- 59:49Speaker 1: When it's not Copeland's fault that it was reality slapping
- 59:52Speaker 1: them in their faces. So Copeland said, a Dynasty, they
- 59:56Speaker 1: take their rightful place on top of the mountain as
- 59:58Speaker 1: the aw tag team champions. So we handed the mic
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: off to Christian. He said that as everyone's favorite father figure,
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: FTR has been very naughty, so naughty that he paid
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: a visit to both of their mothers, and just so
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: that there's no confusion here, he said that he banged
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: them both. How about that he banged both of their mothers.
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: Christian was driving the bang Bus, apparently to North Carolina,
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: but he doesn't want Stokely's mother to feel left out,
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: so when he visits her, it'll be as one half
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: of the aw Tag team champions. So FTR and Stokely
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: they entered, but as they were coming out, Rocky Romero
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: and Trent Boretta they ambushed Copeland and Christian from behind.
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: If you remember, I think it was last week, Cope
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: and Christian, they were roaming the backstage area with some
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: steel chairs. They were looking for FTR. They went into
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: what they thought was their locker room, and instead of
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: finding Dax in Cash, they found Rocky Romero and Trumperetta.
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: So they beat them up with chairs. If you're wondering
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: why would they come out here in this segment, then
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: that's why I wouldn't blame you. If you forgot it
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: you weren't watching the show last week. I'm just trying
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: to remind you why these two men would come out
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: here and why they would attack Cope and Christian. So
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: FTR joined in and they're working. Actually, Romero is working
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: over Copeland with a chair. Christian fought back. He was
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: setting up for a kill switch, but he got shoved
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: towards Stokely, who blasted him with one of the tag belts.
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: Out on the floor, Rocky Romero held a chair up
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: in front of Copeland's face, and Trent Boretta came charging
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: in with a running knee strike. Wheeler then plays the
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: chair around Christian's arm in the ring. He was going
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: to pilmonize the arm, and Stokely stopped him and said wait, wait,
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: and he reached down and he removed Christian's watch. He
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: stole his watch, and then he said, okay, now you
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: can do it. And so then Wheeler jumped from the
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: middle rope. He stomped on the chair and Christian sold
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: the shit out of his arm. He was just riding
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: around in pain like the arm was broken. And you know,
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: that was the last bit of hype for this match
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: at Dynasty. I think once these two teams go out
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: there and again they're in Canada, you know, whatever that's
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: worth at this point, I think they'll get you know,
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: the crowd into it. I think that they could go
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: out there, especially if they win the belts, which I
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: think they will. I think it'll go over well. I
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: cannot get myself really excited about this and again, I
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: don't know if it's just that it's just not a
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: match that appeals to me as much as I thought
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: it would, or that they've let a lot of time
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: go by since the angle with Beth Phoenix, which got
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: a lot of heat, you know, when they did the
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: spike pile driver to Copeland's wife, And then months go
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: by and you almost forget about it, and so now
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: they're circling back around to it, And I don't know,
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: at least with me, I don't know that it has
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: For me. It doesn't have the level of heat. I
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: think that they want people to feel that it does,
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: and maybe with some people it does. It doesn't with me.
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: When they go out there on Sunday, that may all
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: wash away. They may have a hot crowd, They may
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: go out there and have a great match. The first
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: match they had I remember being good. I don't remember
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: blowing me away or anything. Cope and Christian won that match,
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: but they were left at a disadvantage here going into
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: the rematch. Copeland got knocked out, Christian got his arm
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: busted up, so they're at a disadvantage now going into Sunday.
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: But I have no reason to believe that they aren't
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: going to put the belt on these two unless they
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: wanted to save it for another time. But I mean,
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: if you were going to put the belt on Cop
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: and Christian, why not Vancouver. It just seems to be
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: the right place to do it. Darby Allen was in
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: the back. He delivered a promo and he talked about
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: facing Andrade this Sunday. He said, he puts up walls
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: and he you know, pretends that he doesn't care about anything,
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: but he said he's scared that he can't win the
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: big one and be the face of the company. He
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: said he needs to win at Dynasty more than anything.
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: This was like his U, his Steve Austin moment. I
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: guess going into wrestle Many is seventeen. I need to
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: beat you, Rock. I need to beat you more than
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: anything that you could ever imagine. Right, That's how Darby
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: was talking here. I don't think Darby is Can you
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: imagine if like they're building to a Darby and Androde
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: double turn on Sunday where Darby just takes a chair
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: and he's wearing them out with it like Austin did
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: to the Rock. Fans end up sharing Andrade and booing
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: Darby I don't know. I mean, they're doing the underdog
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: story with him. They're doing the underdog story. Darby's gonna win,
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: Darby's gonna win, and Darby is getting a world title
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: match at double or nothing. We're getting Darby Allen against MJF.
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: And as far as Andrade goes, they've dropped little hints
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: and teases of him being, you know, unhappy with Callous.
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: Why are we doing you know, mjf's dirty work for him.
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: It feels like maybe they're building to him splitting away
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: and going babyface, but they're kind of doing the same
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: thing with Takeshta, so it'd be weirder they were doing
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: the same angle with two members of the same group
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: at the same time. But there have definitely been hints
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: of you know, dissatisfaction between him and Callous, so we'll
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: see if that actually leads to anything. Main event of
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: the show, though, was Canadian Chaos with the Death Riders
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: John Moxley, Claudio Pack, Daniel Garcia with Marina Shaffer in
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: their corner taking on the United Empire, will Ospray, Callum Newman,
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: Hanare and Francesco Here United Empire. They didn't wait for
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: the Death Riders to enter through the crowd and they
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: just start brawling, and so the match is underway. Alex
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: Windsor came out at the beginning so she can get
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: some Marina Shafir, Akira and Hanara. They're just clobbering various
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: members of the Death Riders with the ladder. The ladder
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: gets set up in the middle of the ring and
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: Akira went up top wiped out all the Death Riders
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: with a dive out to the floor, and that took
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: us into a commercial break. So we got more chaos,
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: and we got more tables and just you know, I mean,
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: it's we see matches like this every week on this show.
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: So we got more of that, and then we got
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: another commercial. I thought that first commercial was going to
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: be the last one because we were getting close to
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Then they come back and
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: we have more brawling, and then it's nine point fifty
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: seven pm Eastern and they go to another commercial. I'm like, Okay, well,
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: I guess we're going overtime tonight, paying no attention to
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: the fact that they had promoted that Kenny Omega was
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: supposed to talk on this show, and I had totally
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: forgotten about this because there was so much other shit
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: going on on this show. But I'm like, Okay, well,
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: I guess we'll go a few minutes overtime tonight. What
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: else is new? So Moxley hit the Gotch style pile
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: driver during the break to Ospray and the surgically repaired neck.
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: Later on Garcia, he got Osprey and the Dragon Tamer
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: at the same time that Moxley flew in with a
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: stomp to Osprey, but Akira was able to make the save.
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: Akira then came face to chest with John Moxley. I mean,
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: he looked like a child in there. I'm sorry, John
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: Moxley is not exactly He's not like a six foot
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: five guy either. He looked like a fucking child. Just
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: looking up at Moxley is the funniest thing. Moxley ends
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: up dropping him with the lariat. There was a spot
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: where Hanarre he was outside. He tackled Claudio off the
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: steps that had been set up kind of in front
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: of the announced desk, and there was a table there,
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: so he tackled him off the steps and they did
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: a table bump. They both crashed through the table. Akira
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: he landed a double stomp to Garcia on another table.
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: There a bunch of tables set up outside the ring,
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: so he hit a double step to Garcia on another table,
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: but the table did not break. The table did not cooperate,
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: so Newman he put pack through another table. Meanwhile, Akira,
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: he's gonna try again. So he tries again to put
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: Garcia through that other table and the table says, that
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: don't work for me. Brother, that table was not breaking
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: for now. It was like one of those Japanese tables.
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: So we end up with Will Ospray and John Moxley
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: in the ring. Moxley connects with the paradigm shift and
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: then a second and then a third. He's going to
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: go for a fourth. Newman blast him with a lariat.
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: Ospray comes back with a hidden blade now into a
- 1:08:43Speaker 1: table that is set up in the corner by the
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: way tables galore, So he hits a hidden blade. After
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: all those paradigm shifts, he just comes back. It hits
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: a hidden blade. He covers Moxley and he pins the
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: continental champion it. Will Ospray wins it for the United Empire.
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: After the match is over, Ospray he's all smiles. His
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: teammates are all pumping him up and he grabbed Moxley.
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: He was setting him up for something and Claudio pulls
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: Moxley out to safety. So this was billed as was
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: chaos in Canada or a Canadian chaos, and so they
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: gave you Canadian chaos. It was just mass chaos and
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: tables and you know, just no rules, brawling all over
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: the place. We've seen the Death Riders do this before.
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: This is not really a shock. And when it was over,
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: the key here was the finish. It's like, none of
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: this other stuff that we saw in this match even
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: really mattered, because what mattered is we have a match
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: on Sunday for the Continental Championship. So the only two
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: people that really mattered in this match were John Moxley
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: and will Ospray. And when the match was over, will
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: Ospray pinned John Moxley just days before the pay per view.
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: So there's a reason why when I did my predictions
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: on the sound off, I said John Moxley is going
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: to beat will Ospray. I said that the minute I
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: found out on Collision that this was a championship match
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: and they have will Ospray fighting for a title that
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: he does not need. I don't want to see John
- 1:10:17Speaker 1: Moxley losing the Continental title to Will Ospray because will
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: Osprey does not need the Continental championship. The reason they're
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: doing it makes sense. He wanted the title on the
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: line because under Continental title rules, nobody is allowed at ringside.
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: Everybody is banned. He doesn't want to go in there
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: and fight a handicap match. He wants a fair fight.
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: Him and John Moxley won on one because it's a
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: title match. That is what he is going to get.
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: The fact that John Moxley took the pin tonight tells
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: you everything you need to know. I think about the
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: way things are going to go on Sunday and good,
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: that's the way it should go. John Moxley should win
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: that match. And how I see it playing out is
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: John Moxley beats Will Osprey on Sunday. However he does it,
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: he beats John Moxley on Sunday, or again Ospray beats
- 1:11:07Speaker 1: him on Sunday and at some point, and my thought
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: process was, you wait until the Owen and they meet
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: again in the finals of the Owen. I know some
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: people might not want Moxley in the finals, but the
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: way they built him up as like such a world beater.
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: It's a very good chance he's gonna end up there anyway.
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: But they meet in the finals of the tournament, so
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: that way, when he finally does beat Moxley, it's not
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: just him getting revenge and the guy that put him
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: on the shelf. He beats him and in doing so,
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: he earns the right to challenge for the World Championship
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: at Wembley Stadium. The only question is when does the
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: Owen kick off? Right, Probably not until sometime later in June.
- 1:11:49Speaker 1: I suppose they could just do it as a match,
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: a double or nothing. Probably would end up just doing
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: it because otherwise what would the two of them even
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: be doing if they weren't wrestling each other again. However,
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: you do it that this is not going to be
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: the only time we see these two in the ring.
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: That's that's the key point. And the fact that will
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: Osprey got the win tonight all that that just solidified
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: that thought in my head. I don't see it going
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: any other way. On Sunday, so I thought the show
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: was over at that point, and I went on X
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: and I posted the Twitter pol and I was like,
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: all right, we'll get ready to go live and then
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: I see Tony Shavani is in the ring. He's standing
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: in the middle of the ring and he's bringing out
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: Kenny Omega. I'm like, what were not done? No, we
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: have a whole ass other segment left to go here
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: on this show. I prematurely premature posting. I hear they
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: have medications for this. Unfortunately, it's something I suffered from
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: here tonight. Premature posting. I'll make fun of it. So, yes,
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: the show was not over yet. We're in fucking overtime here,
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: so I'm like, shit, we're gonna go another twenty minutes here.
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. These people don't know what time management is.
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: Kenny Omega comes out, He's all dressed up in a suit,
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: and he says that it's been twenty five years since
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: this show started tonight now, he said, it's been twenty
- 1:13:23Speaker 1: five years since he's been here in Edmonton, and he
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: remembered driving from Winnipeg to work on independent shows last week.
- 1:13:34Speaker 1: He almost lost his cool were it not for Speedball.
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: Speedball was there to kind of talk him off the ledge.
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: He said. It wasn't the comment that MJF made about
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: Kody of Boushi that kind of threw him off the
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: deep end, or all the diverticulitist stuff that the announcers
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: talk about on commentary every single time he's in a
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: fucking match. He didn't say fucking. I don't even know
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: if he has that word in his vocabulary. It seems
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: beneath Kenny Ominga. But because it wasn't any of that
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: stuff that really set him off, he said that while
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: it hurt really bad, as one famous man said, cry
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: me a river. Oh, don't give Phil any new material
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: for next week. He was popping off the other night.
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: Don't give him any new material. What set him off
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: was thinking that all of his nicknames in his career
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: that the fans have given him, other people have given
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: him these nicknames that you know, they aren't just words.
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: He's never said it about himself. It's what the fans
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: have referred to him as and he appreciates hearing it.
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: But aw used to just be a concept where maybe
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: fans could see the best wrestle where at the end
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: of the day, what made MJF famous is him flapping
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: his gums. And he knows that anything MJF can do,
- 1:14:54Speaker 1: he can do better. So now Omega realizes why he
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: lost his cool, all this that you you see before you.
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: He felt that it was his responsibility to go out
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: there and save this place for where the best wrestle.
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: But he was wrong. It's not just his legacy or
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: his responsibility. It's all of theirs. And the fans deserve
- 1:15:16Speaker 1: a champion who wears the belt with pride. So he
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: will take that title from MJF. And he will start
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: righting the wrongs that Max has committed in this company.
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: So be it. So it shall come to pass at Dynasty.
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: It will be mjf's last title defense. So we hear
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: mjf's music, I'm like, oh my god, this is still
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: not over. They roll out the red carpet down the ramp.
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: Here comes the aw World Champion and he gets into
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: the ring and he says, Omega, Hey, you're getting better
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: at this talking thing. Eh, I don't know about that
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: goes deep down. The fans want to believe in Omega
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: because they're all scared shitless, and they realize that this
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: could be his last shot. Said, the clock is ticking
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: on his career. He mentions beating Omega the first time
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: they wrestled, and Omega at the time, said that he
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: was maybe seventy five percent back then. So what's your
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: excuse going to be after Sunday When I beat you,
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: supposedly at your best in front of everyone in Canada
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: and the world, their god will fall and the devil
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: will rise on the throne where he belongs. So Omega
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: said that he's learned a little bit more about MJF
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: each week they've come out here to talk to each other.
- 1:16:29Speaker 1: He said he's learned that the aw world title means
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: a lot to him, and he said MJF would even
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: honor the tradition of shaking the challenger's hand before a
- 1:16:38Speaker 1: big title defense. Omega asked MJF if they should let
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: bygones be by guns right for the sake of a
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: good photo op here, and he put his hand out
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: for a handshake, and MJF he drops the mic and
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: he teases that he's going to shake Omega's hand. Of
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: course he doesn't, and he goes to take a shot.
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: Omega he ducked it, and he laid out MJF with
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: a single knee strike, laying him out with a v trigger.
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: So Omega said that MJF is just laying there and
- 1:17:08Speaker 1: Kenny is cutting a promo over his carcass. He said
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: MJF was predictable. He knelt down, he removed the Dynamite
- 1:17:18Speaker 1: diamond ring from mjf's finger, and he put it on
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: his own pinky, and he said he knows MJF. He
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: studied MJF. He said they wouldn't be talking about how
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: much better MJF is and how everyone knows it. And
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: then he removed the ring and he dropped it on
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: mjf's body before waving to the crowd and then leaving.
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: And that's how Dynamite ended, almost thirty minutes past the
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: top of the hour for a segment, or really a
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: show that did not need an extra thirty minutes. I'm
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: sorry we did not need a two and a half
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: hour Dynamite tonight. I thought that what they did in
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: the segment was fine, But we basically heard this in
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: the contract signing last week. We really didn't get anything
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: new out of this. But it's Kenny Omega, you know,
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: coming out there and just standing up for his or
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: the best wrestle and representing the best of aw He
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: represents the best of us, and it's up to him
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: to save the company. From the the evil MJF. Where
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: have we heard this before? We got to save the
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: business on Friday, and on Wednesday, we got to save
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: the company from MJF. A lot of saving going on here,
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: So that's the message. I didn't give a shit about
- 1:18:34Speaker 1: what is being said back and forth at this point
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: between them. You know, oh, you know you're the diverticulitis
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: in your guts. Who gives a shit? Like? Who fucking cares? Dude.
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: We're getting Kenny Omega against MJF in the main event
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: of Dynasty. It sells itself. You know. They have to
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: send them out there to do something, so this is
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: what they do. This didn't make me any more or
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: less excited or interested to see their match. I'm looking
- 1:18:56Speaker 1: forward to the MAC because I know it's going to
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: be a kick ass match. I saw their first match.
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: Their first match on Collision a few years ago was
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: fucking fantastic, and I'm sure this match will be fantastic too.
- 1:19:08Speaker 1: That's all you need. The match sells itself. You have
- 1:19:12Speaker 1: Kenny Omega wrestling for the world title in the main event.
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: You either want to see him win the championship or
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: you don't. But you know exactly what you're gonna get, right,
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: You're gonna get the best bout machine. You're gonna get
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: two guys that are gonna go out there and they're
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: gonna try to steal the show, and they probably will.
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: But I don't think when the match is over, the
- 1:19:30Speaker 1: things are gonna be any different than they are now
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: because I think mj I think they have enough sense
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: to know that MJF is truly one of the few
- 1:19:39Speaker 1: real draws that they have in this company's very few
- 1:19:42Speaker 1: when you look at certain people on the roster and
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: you're like, hmm, I wonder if this person's really you know,
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: selling selling tickets and moving numbers in a meaningful way,
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: Like who are the real draws in AW? MJF is
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: right there at the top of the list. You'd be
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: a fool to take the belt off of him right
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: now when there's still a lot of gas left in
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: this rain. There's still people left for him to wrestle.
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: I don't just mean Darby. It could be Darby, it
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: could be Swerve, it could be Andrade, it could be Osprey.
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: There's a whole fucking list of people that he hasn't
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: worked with yet. But he's got beef with everybody, you
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: gotta at least take that to Wembley. At least Wembley.
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: It would be foolish to take that championship off of
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: him this weekend. And like Osprey earlier with Moxley standing
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: tall over the champion, we had the same thing in
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: the closing segment with Kenny standing tall over the champion.
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: I think that will prove to be their undoing this weekend.
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: It seems to me like Tony realizes, you know that,
- 1:20:44Speaker 1: I think we need to kind of stay the course
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: with this, not shake things up too much, not rock
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: the boat. So anyway, I thought with the key matches,
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: what they did was fine the way some of the
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: segments came off, Like I enjoyed the women's match with
- 1:21:00Speaker 1: Willow and Tecla or not Willow in Techlo Willow and
- 1:21:04Speaker 1: I'm thinking of the Tecla promo, Willow and Ami Nada.
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: The matches we got, like the trios match, and in
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: the main event, Honestly, like you know, the stuff with
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: the Death Riders and United Empire, I'm like, eh, whatever,
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: For me personally, it didn't really do a whole lot
- 1:21:20Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, we got some decent action out of it.
- 1:21:25Speaker 1: These guys are not established enough to me on this
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: show for me to care that much about it. But
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: I see what they were going for. You know, Osprey,
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: he had to go out and find friends. Like what
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: a loser he would have looked like if he just
- 1:21:38Speaker 1: kept showing up and getting beaten up and out numbered
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: four on one, five on one. So he found backup.
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: I get it, Like I get what they were going for.
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: I didn't need to see a fucking twenty minute United
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: Empire Death Riders match tonight, which is part of the
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: reason why they went twenty seven minutes over the top
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: of the hour. So I say it was a mixed bag,
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: but I do think there was a lot little bit
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: more to like than not on the show. And before
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: I get into the poll results and then we'll get
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: into your messages, let me run down the card as
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: it currently exists for Dynasty this Sunday, Marina Shaffir and
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: Alex Windsor they are on the Zero Hour pre show.
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: I got Alex Windsor for the win. We have the
- 1:22:22Speaker 1: Casino Gauntlet match to crown a brand new TNT champion.
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: We know Tamaso Champa is entering at number one. Number two,
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: will either be Rusche or Anthony Bowens, and then beyond
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: that it's anyone's guests who ends up being in the Gauntlet.
- 1:22:35Speaker 1: I've given my thoughts on this Androti Alido takes on
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: Darby Allen, trying to take him out for MJF. I
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: think Darby wins. I think Darby goes to double or
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: nothing and wrestles for the title. Tecla defends the Women's
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: Championship against Jamie Hayter. Easy win for Techla here they're
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: not putting the belt on Jamie had Chris Jericho returns
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: to Action to take on Ricochet. Be a Jericho win,
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: I suppose, ah Man, I mean, do you really have
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: an appetite to see a multi match series between Jericho
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: and Ricochet. I think once is fine for me. It's
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: Jericho's first match back. I would think they would want
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: to give him a win. I'm gonna go with Jericho
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: for the win. Young Bucks against Okata and Takeshta. This
- 1:23:28Speaker 1: one could go either way. I think for the purposes
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: of the story with Okada and Takesha, they should lose.
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: I mean there's no titles on the line, so I
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: mean they could win, but I'm thinking the Bucks take
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: the win here. I think it just works better for
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: the story if things really break down between the two
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: of them and they don't win. John Moxley defends the
- 1:23:49Speaker 1: Continental title against Will Osprey. I've explained why I think
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: Moxley is going to win and why I think Moxley
- 1:23:55Speaker 1: should win, and then we'll run this back at double
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: or Nothing or in the finals of the Owen. That's
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: where I think this is headed. Adam Copeland and Christian
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: Cage against FTR for the tag team titles. I think
- 1:24:07Speaker 1: we are going to have new tag team champions. And
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: in the main event, MJF defends the aw World title
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: against Kenny o'meghan. I believe MJF will walk into Vancouver
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: as the champion, and he will walk out of Vancouver
- 1:24:20Speaker 1: as the champion. And that is the card as it
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: currently stands. And they did announce Jet Speed and Mystico
- 1:24:27Speaker 1: are going to put their trios titles on the line
- 1:24:29Speaker 1: against the Dogs, but they announced it for Collision, which
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: I'm fine with. I'm not looking to add more matches
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: to this card on Sunday, but boy, what does that say?
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: What does that say about the Dogs? We got a
- 1:24:43Speaker 1: pay per view coming up on Sunday. Yeah, well we'll
- 1:24:46Speaker 1: have this title match on Collision, So that's where if
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: you if you're interested in that match, that's where that
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: match is taking place. What did you think of the
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: Dynamite before Dynasty? Fifty two percent thumbs up for tonight's
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: show forty eight percent thumbs down. Very very close, very close.
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: At Soli Monster is where you guys can go and vote.
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- 1:26:38Speaker 1: What'd you think? Let's find out. Let's get into your
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: messages here and fyi, we are currently at four hundred
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: and thirty seven likes, which normally would be enough, but
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: tonight the goal is six hundred or be the bookers,
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: so it's not looking too good. We'll start with death sithe.
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: He says, what do you think of the possibility of
- 1:27:03Speaker 1: will Osprey challenging Darby Allen for the aw World title?
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: All in it can be a great Babyface Babyface match
- 1:27:10Speaker 1: like Breton Bulldog and Will has never beaten Darby. He hasn't.
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: I don't like it. That is not a Wembley Stadium
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: main event. Kenny Omega and Will Ospray is a Wembley
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: Stadium main event. MJF and Well Ospray is a Wembley
- 1:27:27Speaker 1: Stadium main event. Will Ospray and Darby Allen is not
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: a main event at all. In I don't like it,
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: Doctor Scorpio. I hope the Edmonton crowd was at least
- 1:27:45Speaker 1: decent at best, despite our team playing on the road tonight. Also,
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: how do you feel about bow on the Mets so far?
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm not bow leaving yet. I'm
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: not a bow leaver just yet. We're not there yet,
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: asked me in two months, death Site says, is it
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: just me or does Dominic Bisteria look like Lars Ulrich? Not?
- 1:28:14Speaker 1: To me, he doesn't. I don't know where you got
- 1:28:19Speaker 1: that from, But I also have I don't know what
- 1:28:23Speaker 1: Lars Ulrich is looking like these days. Maybe maybe these
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: days he does look like Dominique Bisteria. Whoever came up
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: with this dry chicken? Whoever came up with the Michael
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: Jordan and Scottie Pippen reference on Dynamite that was some
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: good shit. Ae w Ocatta is a National Treasure death side.
- 1:28:49Speaker 1: Once Cope and Cage win the tag team titles, they
- 1:28:51Speaker 1: should drop them to Swerve and Hangman down the line.
- 1:28:55Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, I don't want them holding it
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: for that long. I feel like if we're gonna get
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: Hangman and Swerve, it's probably many months from now. I
- 1:29:04Speaker 1: feel like the young Bucks are gonna end up with
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: those belts after Cope and Christian win them. I could
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: see some sort of three way maybe ladder match or
- 1:29:14Speaker 1: something like a big multi team match at Wembley probably,
- 1:29:19Speaker 1: but I think the Bucks are probably gonna get them.
- 1:29:23Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing it, though. I think Swerve and
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: Hangman will end up as a team, not like a
- 1:29:28Speaker 1: permanent team, but they'll end up on the same side
- 1:29:30Speaker 1: at some point. I just don't know that they're planning
- 1:29:35Speaker 1: on doing that just yet. Dried Chicken says aw Dynamite
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: was cooking tonight, Tony, serving up some good matches and segments,
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: and look at these foods. You're gonna get me very hungry.
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: Now start listing all these foods except the cheese part.
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: That's just disgusting. You could keep the cheese. I don't
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: need that, Death's I says, speaking of tag teams, Also
- 1:30:00Speaker 1: if or what if? Also Cope and Jericho, Oh God,
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: Cope and Jericho teamed up again in the future because
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: their tag team back in two thousand and nine never
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: got off the ground. It never did. That's right, because
- 1:30:17Speaker 1: I remember that Edge blew out his achilles. They got
- 1:30:21Speaker 1: a leap frog, right, wasn't that like a leap frog
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: or something? The House show match. That's how we ended
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: up with Jerishow. Honestly, dude, I have no interest in it.
- 1:30:36Speaker 1: It's just I just don't. I can't bring myself to care.
- 1:30:39Speaker 1: I have no interest in them as a pairing. I
- 1:30:44Speaker 1: think if Copeland does any tag team stuff, it's exclusively
- 1:30:47Speaker 1: Christian and that's it. I think he wants to team
- 1:30:50Speaker 1: up with his best friend, and I think he's a
- 1:30:53Speaker 1: lot closer now to the end than he is to
- 1:30:56Speaker 1: the beginning. And we're not going to get it. Doctor
- 1:31:03Speaker 1: Scorpio says. If there wasn't an Oilers game on right now,
- 1:31:07Speaker 1: I'm fifty to fifty sure the fellow fans would care
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: more about this Omega MJF segment. You know, I disagree.
- 1:31:17Speaker 1: I don't think their reaction would be any different because
- 1:31:19Speaker 1: what was there for them to be loud about, you know,
- 1:31:21Speaker 1: I mean, he's cutting a very kind of bland, basic promo.
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: What would you expect they're could be jumping out of
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: their seats. It wasn't it wasn't that great of a promo,
- 1:31:31Speaker 1: So I don't think the reaction would have been any different.
- 1:31:34Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says Pat McAfee's newest nickname is Little McAfee.
- 1:31:40Speaker 1: Or I think we could do better than that, he says,
- 1:31:45Speaker 1: give us oscar versus EO Sky Kyrie saying is the
- 1:31:48Speaker 1: special referee. I mean that would be one way to
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: get Kyrie involved. I'm not opposed to it. I don't
- 1:31:56Speaker 1: think she needs to be the referee, though. I think
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: she could be sort of out there at rings. She'd
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: be like the Elizabeth thing it WrestleMania, when Hogan wrestles Savage,
- 1:32:08Speaker 1: like which corner is she going to be in? And
- 1:32:09Speaker 1: then she ended up being in like neither corner. She
- 1:32:12Speaker 1: was neutral and then she left. But I mean you
- 1:32:16Speaker 1: could do that. I'm look, I'm just hoping we get
- 1:32:18Speaker 1: Oscar and Eo at all. Right now, it's not even official,
- 1:32:21Speaker 1: it's not announced yet. They're waiting to find out if
- 1:32:24Speaker 1: Nicki Bella is gonna be able to wrestle, and if not,
- 1:32:26Speaker 1: they might slot Oscar and Kyrie into that stupid fucking
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: tag match, Like yeah, because god forbid, if the Bella
- 1:32:35Speaker 1: Twins can't go, we can't just make it a three
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: way match instead of a four way. We have to
- 1:32:39Speaker 1: go ahead and fuck up a totally different match for
- 1:32:42Speaker 1: another match that nobody gives a shit about. And he says,
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: I love it when Tekla is politically incorrect, boots a
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: ten dollars super Jeb Bonus be the booker. Let's do it,
- 1:33:00Speaker 1: Kyle Fly that's right, let's do it for Kyle. Everybody.
- 1:33:03Speaker 1: We're only three out of ten. I don't think we're
- 1:33:05Speaker 1: doing it, but let's do it for Kyle. I'm sure
- 1:33:08Speaker 1: he's watching Bobert with that thirty dollars super chat from
- 1:33:17Speaker 1: earlier buyer sell on what will happen first, the Mets
- 1:33:22Speaker 1: winning the World Series or a solo Monster reaching one
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: hundred thousand subscribers. Oh well, undoubtedly it will be a
- 1:33:30Speaker 1: solemn monster reaching one hundred thousand subscribers. I mean put
- 1:33:36Speaker 1: it this way, At the rate that things are going,
- 1:33:39Speaker 1: if it stays consistent, it's probably looking like the fall
- 1:33:43Speaker 1: of next year. The Mets ain't win in a World
- 1:33:47Speaker 1: Series before then, so I think it's safe to say
- 1:33:51Speaker 1: that we'll be hitting one hundred k first, we'll be
- 1:33:54Speaker 1: celebrating km Truth says, Hey, Solo Monster, have you ever
- 1:33:58Speaker 1: seen both Amazon Prime series The Boys and Invincible? It's
- 1:34:03Speaker 1: so which one do you like more? Also, I'm more
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: excited for the final season of the Boys than I
- 1:34:09Speaker 1: am for WrestleMania. I know nothing about Invincible. I've heard
- 1:34:14Speaker 1: about The Boys. It is something I would like to
- 1:34:16Speaker 1: check out at some point, but I have not watched
- 1:34:18Speaker 1: either one. I've had a lot of people tell me
- 1:34:21Speaker 1: that I should have had people tell me that it's
- 1:34:23Speaker 1: a really good show. Is it coming to an end?
- 1:34:27Speaker 1: I thought I read somebody where it was coming to
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: an end. I'm definitely gonna check it out at some point.
- 1:34:32Speaker 1: It's a very interesting concept, but I have not watched it.
- 1:34:37Speaker 1: Death Site says, what would a creative team consistent? I
- 1:34:41Speaker 1: think he means consisting of Tony Kahan, Herb Abrams, Vince Russo,
- 1:34:47Speaker 1: and Vince McMahon look like an insane asylum. Do you
- 1:34:57Speaker 1: ever see one flu over the Cuckoo's nest? There you
- 1:35:01Speaker 1: go Chicago for MBK. Is Jericho being punished for holding out?
- 1:35:07Speaker 1: Why is he getting a feud with Ricochet who looks
- 1:35:10Speaker 1: like a bad geek? Dude? That's his whole gimmick. His
- 1:35:16Speaker 1: whole gimmick is that he's a bad geek. I've already
- 1:35:20Speaker 1: explained why we're seeing this. I think people are making
- 1:35:23Speaker 1: too much of this. It's his first feud since coming back.
- 1:35:26Speaker 1: He needs somebody to beat. The feud to do is
- 1:35:32Speaker 1: Jericho and Swerve. You can't give that away on fucking
- 1:35:35Speaker 1: four days. Notice, who else would you put him in
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: the ring with the best person to put him in
- 1:35:43Speaker 1: the ring with to beat is a bad geek? Philip Bowman.
- 1:35:49Speaker 1: What is the stupidest bump that you've ever seen? A
- 1:35:52Speaker 1: choice for me is Samoa Joe from Bound for Glory
- 1:35:55Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. If that's the bump that I'm
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: thinking of, I think I picked the same one. That
- 1:36:00Speaker 1: is that the staircase bump, because that's one of the
- 1:36:02Speaker 1: stupidest fucking things I've ever seen, Like it pains me
- 1:36:07Speaker 1: just thinking about it. But it would be either that
- 1:36:10Speaker 1: or sid you know, coming off the middle rope when
- 1:36:13Speaker 1: he had no business coming off the ropes at all,
- 1:36:16Speaker 1: and then his leg snapping, I'd say that one was
- 1:36:19Speaker 1: pretty stupid. Do you prefer Gilligan's Island or Green Acres?
- 1:36:26Speaker 1: Never saw a single episode of Green Acres so easily
- 1:36:33Speaker 1: Gilligan's Island. Devin from NJ. Why is HBK hopping on
- 1:36:40Speaker 1: trendy Instagram reels and dancing with Sexy Red? Is he
- 1:36:45Speaker 1: just trying to promote NXT or does he want to
- 1:36:47Speaker 1: be hip with the kids? He's trying to recapture his youth.
- 1:36:51Speaker 1: He looks like Michael from the Is that his name
- 1:36:55Speaker 1: from the GTA Games? Is it? Michael? Michael? Trevor Michael.
- 1:37:04Speaker 1: He's trying to recapture his youth. You know, whenever I
- 1:37:09Speaker 1: see him out there dancing with Sexy Red, I just
- 1:37:11Speaker 1: find it just it's so sad. It's just so sad,
- 1:37:15Speaker 1: Like he's twerking and shaking his ass with her. I'm like,
- 1:37:18Speaker 1: what the fuck? What would we doing here? Watch Green Acres?
- 1:37:24Speaker 1: Why would I do that? What is so special about
- 1:37:27Speaker 1: Green Acres? Trevor? Why did I call him Michael Okay, Trevor.
- 1:37:33Speaker 1: He looks like Trevor from the GTA movies or the
- 1:37:36Speaker 1: GTA Games. Uh Death. Si says, if they do a
- 1:37:39Speaker 1: forbidden door, the fuck do we need a forbidden door
- 1:37:42Speaker 1: for We had the we have the dogs tonight, we
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: had the United Empire. We have dude, we have the
- 1:37:47Speaker 1: forbidden door every week. Look at the talent that we
- 1:37:51Speaker 1: have on these shows every week from CMLL and from
- 1:37:55Speaker 1: New Japan. We don't need forbidden door. What is the
- 1:38:01Speaker 1: purpose anymore forbidden door? The door is no longer forbidden,
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: But he said that they do a forbidden door. What
- 1:38:12Speaker 1: do you think of a possible match between Yotasuji and
- 1:38:15Speaker 1: Kazuchka Okada. It can be billed as a battle of
- 1:38:19Speaker 1: the aces. I mean, if you were gonna do it forbidden,
- 1:38:22Speaker 1: a real forbidden door, tight like big match between an
- 1:38:25Speaker 1: aw talent and the New Japan talent. I think that'd
- 1:38:28Speaker 1: be great. But who goes over? I don't know, Like
- 1:38:32Speaker 1: what good does it do? You're trying to You're trying
- 1:38:34Speaker 1: to build Yotasuji up as let's say someone like the
- 1:38:37Speaker 1: next Okada, right, you want him to be in that
- 1:38:41Speaker 1: in that same rarefied air. That's what you're trying to
- 1:38:43Speaker 1: build a new Japan right now. You have to. You
- 1:38:47Speaker 1: have to. You've lost so many people. You need to
- 1:38:50Speaker 1: be building someone like him to be the next Tanahashi
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: or to be the next o Kada. So you're gonna
- 1:38:55Speaker 1: have a forbidden door match. You're gonna send him in
- 1:38:57Speaker 1: there against Okada to fucking lose because you know Okada
- 1:39:01Speaker 1: ain't getting beat. I just don't see what the benefit
- 1:39:04Speaker 1: isn't doing that match. I think it probably would be
- 1:39:08Speaker 1: a great match, but then you got to look at
- 1:39:10Speaker 1: the political reality of it, and I just don't see
- 1:39:12Speaker 1: how even a great match that he loses. I just
- 1:39:16Speaker 1: don't see how that benefits them. I really don't. Jake
- 1:39:24Speaker 1: from the Windy City just a slight botch in Jericho
- 1:39:29Speaker 1: shouting out Connor McGregor as he speaking the devil, oh wow,
- 1:39:38Speaker 1: as he meant to say number ninety seven. Connor McDavid
- 1:39:44Speaker 1: never disrespect Oiler Nation like that. He did say, Connor McGregor.
- 1:39:50Speaker 1: You know, I didn't mention that, but like he did
- 1:39:51Speaker 1: say that, and I was like, hmm, it's a little
- 1:39:54Speaker 1: odd what a match that would be. Can you imagine that?
- 1:39:59Speaker 1: Tony Kahn brings He didn't get Ronda Rousey for a match,
- 1:40:01Speaker 1: but he brings in Connor McGregor to wrestle fifty five
- 1:40:04Speaker 1: year old christ Jerica. How would that go? How do
- 1:40:08Speaker 1: you think that match would go? Death side? Here's a
- 1:40:14Speaker 1: name for a faction or a tag team, or even
- 1:40:16Speaker 1: a finisher, The Devil's Battalion. Yeah, I mean that could work,
- 1:40:26Speaker 1: or just the Battalion. You don't even need the Devils,
- 1:40:30Speaker 1: just the Battalion. Dried Chicken saystoically stealing Christian Cage's Rolex,
- 1:40:37Speaker 1: like Debo taking Red's gold chain from Friday. Christian, my
- 1:40:43Speaker 1: grandmother gave me that rolex, Thank you, brother. And then
- 1:40:51Speaker 1: we have what is that? I don't know is that
- 1:40:56Speaker 1: an egg? What is Oh? We don't need that. We
- 1:41:00Speaker 1: don't need this. We have had crates, We've had eggs.
- 1:41:05Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't know what I'm looking at. I
- 1:41:07Speaker 1: don't know what that emoji is supposed to be. I
- 1:41:13Speaker 1: see a star in the middle. Doctor Scorpio sucks about
- 1:41:19Speaker 1: Kyle Fletcher. That TNT title is cursed, yes, but not
- 1:41:25Speaker 1: as cursed as the vision e J Slamp the four
- 1:41:33Speaker 1: ninety nine. I hope Kyle Fletcher is okay. Do you
- 1:41:36Speaker 1: think we will ever see Tony Kahan buy the rights
- 1:41:38Speaker 1: to down Under by Men at Work and make it
- 1:41:40Speaker 1: Fletcher's theme? I mean, I think that would be kind
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: of lame. I love the song, but why would you
- 1:41:49Speaker 1: change Kyle Fletcher's theme to men at Work and his
- 1:41:53Speaker 1: picture him as a bushwhacker, like coming down the aisle
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: like this a fucking Wembley stadium. It doesn't It doesn't
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: fit Kyle Fletcher. Look, I love those eighty songs as
- 1:42:03Speaker 1: much as the next person, but we got a draw
- 1:42:05Speaker 1: line at some point, like we gotta draw a line
- 1:42:07Speaker 1: in the sand. So people are telling me that's a
- 1:42:10Speaker 1: dragon ball? Does that look like a dragon ball? Doesn't
- 1:42:13Speaker 1: dragon ball have like a stripe on it? Apparently that's
- 1:42:20Speaker 1: supposed to be a dragon ball reference. It's like Luis
- 1:42:24Speaker 1: whenever he sends in a super chat with some sort
- 1:42:27Speaker 1: of Yu gi oh reference, It's like you're speaking a
- 1:42:32Speaker 1: foreign language to me and bread Heart. Baseball is barely
- 1:42:37Speaker 1: a thing here in Chile. My only exposure to it
- 1:42:40Speaker 1: has been American and Japanese media. I barely get the rules. However,
- 1:42:46Speaker 1: since I listened to you, I started caring and feeling
- 1:42:48Speaker 1: bad about the Mets. Look at this. I have people
- 1:42:53Speaker 1: in foreign countries who feel sorry for me as a
- 1:42:56Speaker 1: Mets fan, and they have no idea what baseball even is. Well,
- 1:43:03Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate the sympathy. It's been a tough,
- 1:43:09Speaker 1: tough road for the Mets. I was very young when
- 1:43:14Speaker 1: they won their last championship. I love that clip, by
- 1:43:20Speaker 1: the way. I saw that clip on well for actually
- 1:43:22Speaker 1: two things. So I saw the bench clearing brawl at
- 1:43:27Speaker 1: the Braves game, and what I did not notice is
- 1:43:32Speaker 1: that the pitcher still had the ball in his hand
- 1:43:35Speaker 1: when he took a swing at the I forgot who
- 1:43:38Speaker 1: it was at the player who ran at him, the
- 1:43:40Speaker 1: player from the Braves who ran at him. So that's
- 1:43:43Speaker 1: gonna cost him some money. I didn't even know what
- 1:43:46Speaker 1: caused the fight in the first place. It wasn't like
- 1:43:48Speaker 1: there was anything that really happened where you would think, Okay,
- 1:43:52Speaker 1: there's gonna be a big brawl coming up here. It
- 1:43:54Speaker 1: just sort of happened. But I also saw where in
- 1:43:58Speaker 1: the and there was another game where Otani got I
- 1:44:02Speaker 1: guess nicked on the elbow or he got hit by
- 1:44:05Speaker 1: a pitch, and the camera was not on him at
- 1:44:11Speaker 1: the time. But you hear somebody go fuck, and I'm like,
- 1:44:15Speaker 1: I thought it was somebody in the crowd and they're like, no,
- 1:44:17Speaker 1: that was Otani because I never see him get angry.
- 1:44:21Speaker 1: He's like he's always very like level headed, and I
- 1:44:27Speaker 1: didn't expect that to come out of him, Like fuck. See,
- 1:44:32Speaker 1: he is one of us now, he is truly one
- 1:44:35Speaker 1: of us. Look up the Chicago White Sox. They're my team,
- 1:44:42Speaker 1: and they are more painful to watch than the Mets.
- 1:44:45Speaker 1: They're pretty pitiful. When did the When was the last
- 1:44:50Speaker 1: time the White Sox actually won a championship? Was before
- 1:44:55Speaker 1: or after eighty six? Because that was the last time
- 1:44:57Speaker 1: the Mets won Death side by sell Rent Cherish in
- 1:45:05Speaker 1: The Most Sinister Heel nineteen ninety one, Jake Roberts, two
- 1:45:10Speaker 1: thousand and three, brock Lesner two thousand and eight, Chris
- 1:45:15Speaker 1: Jericho or two thousand and nine Randy Orton. Well this
- 1:45:22Speaker 1: is easy. I mean the answer is nineteen ninety one
- 1:45:24Speaker 1: Jake Roberts. It just didn't last long enough, you know,
- 1:45:30Speaker 1: I mean it was several months, but it should have
- 1:45:31Speaker 1: gone on for longer, but easily easily, I mean, Jake
- 1:45:36Speaker 1: the snake as a heel one of the greatest heels
- 1:45:39Speaker 1: of all time. So ninety one Jake by far So
- 1:45:45Speaker 1: what would that be? I guess that would be the
- 1:45:46Speaker 1: cherish Is that what that would be? I guess after
- 1:45:51Speaker 1: that most sinister heel. H Well, let's see here. Brock
- 1:46:00Speaker 1: two thousand and three Brock Lesnar pushed a one legged
- 1:46:04Speaker 1: man in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs and
- 1:46:08Speaker 1: beat and bloodied him in front of his mother. Two
- 1:46:13Speaker 1: thousand and eight, Chris Jericho punched Sean Michael's wife in
- 1:46:17Speaker 1: the lip. Two thousand and nine, Randy Orton gave Stephanie
- 1:46:22Speaker 1: McMahon an RKO and then sexually assaulted her basically by
- 1:46:27Speaker 1: kissing her without consent, without consent, in the middle of
- 1:46:33Speaker 1: the ring, right in front of her husband. So I mean,
- 1:46:38Speaker 1: take your pick, I would say, if I had to
- 1:46:41Speaker 1: pick a number two, I would go Brock and then
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: Orton and then Jericho. I feel comfortable with that order.
- 1:47:00Speaker 1: Someone mentioned Ozzie Gien. I saw the video of him
- 1:47:02Speaker 1: being surprised the other day by the announcement that the
- 1:47:05Speaker 1: team is going to be retiring his number, and how
- 1:47:09Speaker 1: emotional he got, and the first person the first thing
- 1:47:13Speaker 1: he asked the first person he called over, where's my wife?
- 1:47:16Speaker 1: And I guess she was standing off to the side.
- 1:47:19Speaker 1: I don't know how long they've been married for, but
- 1:47:20Speaker 1: you could tell that's a rock solid marriage there. First
- 1:47:23Speaker 1: person he wanted to, where's my wife? Where's my wife?
- 1:47:27Speaker 1: So that was very cool to see see. You get
- 1:47:31Speaker 1: one positive White Sox story. At least they may not
- 1:47:34Speaker 1: win a championship, but at least they had a cool moment.
- 1:47:37Speaker 1: Alex says brother solo. Where do you rank Cody among
- 1:47:41Speaker 1: Darby's best rivals? Which of their matches was your favorite?
- 1:47:45Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the one moment that honestly
- 1:47:48Speaker 1: stands out to me is when Darby went for the
- 1:47:50Speaker 1: coffin drop on the apron and Cody moved and Darby
- 1:47:55Speaker 1: crashed and burned. Now these days we see him do
- 1:47:57Speaker 1: bumps like that every week. Back then, I remember the
- 1:48:00Speaker 1: first time I saw that, I was like, oh fuck,
- 1:48:03Speaker 1: but he killed himself. Little did I know. I think
- 1:48:08Speaker 1: that might have been their first match that I think
- 1:48:10Speaker 1: went to a time limit draw. I can't really say
- 1:48:13Speaker 1: that I remember much about their other matches. So as
- 1:48:16Speaker 1: far as where Cody ranks among his rivals, he's not
- 1:48:18Speaker 1: number one. I don't know where he ranks. He's not
- 1:48:21Speaker 1: number one or two, though I feel like with Darby
- 1:48:24Speaker 1: number one would be MJF. Number two, probably probably Moxley.
- 1:48:35Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think of Cody as one
- 1:48:37Speaker 1: of his greatest rivals anyway, good stuff, good stuff. Well, Look,
- 1:48:44Speaker 1: the goal betrayed us tonight, but we came close. We
- 1:48:48Speaker 1: actually did come close. Look the wheel, the wheel tonight
- 1:48:52Speaker 1: wanted more than we could give. The way it works
- 1:48:56Speaker 1: on Wednesdays, sometimes the wheel w unted six hundred likes
- 1:49:01Speaker 1: worth five oh seven I think five oh eight. We
- 1:49:06Speaker 1: almost made it, but not quite. We will have to
- 1:49:10Speaker 1: try again on Friday. We'll have to do better. That'll
- 1:49:15Speaker 1: be the smack that review. Boy. I can't wait. Pat
- 1:49:19Speaker 1: McAfee apparently has something to say to cm punk. So
- 1:49:24Speaker 1: now we're just taking all the focus off of Cody
- 1:49:26Speaker 1: Rhods and Randy Orton. At this point, we're putting it
- 1:49:28Speaker 1: on Pat mcavee. Pat McAfee has truly become the face
- 1:49:31Speaker 1: of WWA. He wasn't before, but now they're gonna will
- 1:49:35Speaker 1: it into existence. So good, better or otherwise, we will
- 1:49:39Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about. I'm sure on Friday night,
- 1:49:42Speaker 1: again if you missed it. The latest episode, latest installment
- 1:49:46Speaker 1: of the Uncrowned Wrestling Show, Me give it his fucking wheel.
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- 1:49:58Speaker 1: listen to that if you have not already done so,
- 1:50:02Speaker 1: and check out all the other content here on the channel,
- 1:50:05Speaker 1: because we've had a bunch of things and a lot
- 1:50:08Speaker 1: of good numbers. I like what I've been seeing, which
- 1:50:11Speaker 1: is good because we're heading into WrestleMania now this weekend,
- 1:50:14Speaker 1: but next weekend we do have Let me just address
- 1:50:17Speaker 1: this here. Dynasty is this Sunday. I am not going
- 1:50:20Speaker 1: live after Dynasty. I went live after Revolution and I
- 1:50:25Speaker 1: regretted it and I was like these shows, I can't
- 1:50:30Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. I'm gonna stick to
- 1:50:32Speaker 1: my guns. On paper, this looks like a very good
- 1:50:35Speaker 1: pay per view on Sunday, and so my plan would
- 1:50:39Speaker 1: be to just likely hold off and talk about it
- 1:50:43Speaker 1: on the Uncrowned Wrestling Show next Tuesday. You might get
- 1:50:46Speaker 1: an exclusive first run review for Dynasty on Uncrowned next week,
- 1:50:51Speaker 1: But right now, I am not planning on going live.
- 1:50:53Speaker 1: I will watch the show live. I might be tweeting
- 1:50:55Speaker 1: during the show and interacting with you guys, but right
- 1:50:59Speaker 1: now planning on going live on Sunday night, so just
- 1:51:02Speaker 1: be aware of that. But there will be a SoundOff
- 1:51:04Speaker 1: on Sunday, so that'll be episode nine. So anyway, be well,
- 1:51:11Speaker 1: stay safe, have yourselves a great night, and come on
- 1:51:15Speaker 1: back on Friday. We'll do it all over again for SmackDown.
- 1:51:19Speaker 1: Until then, take care, guys.