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Bradders Grappers Epi 29: Bridge Pro Brand New Level III · Bradders Grappers

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  Hello and welcome to episode 29 of Bradders Grappas.
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  As on this edition we look back at what happened at Bridge Pro
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  Wrestling's brand new Level 3 at the Amblecote British Legion.
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  But before we get on to and discussing what happened on that
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  show, I've made reference that a couple shows ago I did one with
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  good friend of the show unofficial Co host, as is the
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  running joke now with Michael Smith.
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  Oh, we did a double bill on Future Shock.
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  I do have to admit that personally, I thought I came
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  across crap. I mean the shows are crap to be
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  fair. So I mean it's not the Bo end
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  of. That said though, I wasn't as
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  prepared as I normally am. I normally have a fair few
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  notes. I can recall stuff looking back
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  at videos I've taken, unfortunately I did not take as
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  much stuff so. And of course my memory again is
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  pretty crap at the best of times.
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  It doesn't help either that I left it so long to record.
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  But when you're not well, you're not well.
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  Miles truly was the the MVP of that show.
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  He kind of carried me through it, so I don't suppose it fully
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  needs to be said, but at the same time, I kind of do these as
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  a bit of fun and like a bit of a hobby.
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  But at least if I put something out I want it to be at least
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  some modicum good. And in fairness I was pretty
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  crap, but hopefully that was just me being very rusty
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  revealing shows again. So hopefully from this point
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  onwards I kind of not the confidence, but I hopefully I
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  can improve from that Episode 28.
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  With that said though, let's get into what happened at Bridge
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  Pro, to which this was a brand new Level 3, the third
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  installment of this show if you like.
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  Of course it saw me making the almost traditional train and
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  shuttle journeys there now with Manchester to Wolverhampton,
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  Wolverhampton to Smethwick, Galton Bridge.
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  Then from there you go to Stourbridge Junction and take
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  the, I think it's the smallest shuttle in Europe I believe.
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  And that takes you from Stourbridge Junction to
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  Stourbridge Town. So if you are a train enthusiast
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  or just a bit nerdy on trains, head to Stourbridge Town and you
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  can see this shuttle in action. Heading back was eventful which
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  required the shuttle from town back to Junction, but then from
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  Junction having to take the train all the way to Birmingham
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  Snow Hill. Kind of like a 10 minute walk
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  through Birmingham City centre past the cathedral.
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  Getting lost and finding my way to Birmingham New Street where
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  Aussie the ball the mechanical ball which became a halt hit
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  during the Commonwealth Games. It's always nice to see Ozzy
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  wearing a Peaky Blinders cap. Obviously because they were
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  promoting Peaky Blinders and it's predominantly sat in
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  Birmingham so not much of A shock there.
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  To be fair it did also have me getting a message off someone.
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  I don't want to say who it is, but they saw my post and they
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  had posted literally the same thing I did of the bull.
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  And if I had been there about 10 or if I'd posted it 10 minutes
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  later, I could have had a chat with this person as we were both
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  making journeys kind of around. But it was not to be.
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  But I'm sure I'll catch up with them at a later date.
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  So as I say, we come to a brand new Level 3A card which featured
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  no more than seven matches on it.
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  I had to check then. So we start with the opening
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  match, originally scheduled to be that of Charles Crowley, the
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  Edgar Adams. Unfortunately Charles Crowley
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  had to pull out due to a opportunity that was too good,
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  so unfortunately we did not see the spectacular twat and saw
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  Zach Walker coming in to replace him.
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  A very able replacement and hometown hero of Stourbridge.
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  And this was really a rematch from Double Tap last April in
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  which I had it down as one of the best matches I saw in 2025.
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  And so I, I kind of expected a very good match out of these two
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  and boy did we get 1. So checking the notes that I
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  have both men looking for early dominance in this match as both
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  kind of showcase their high flying abilities.
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  Walker leaps over the top rope and comes down on Edgar as the
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  man called the future in Zack Walker.
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  They gain momentum. Adams then catches Walker
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  running into the corner, then hits a standing rock bottom
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  before following it up. Following it up with a kind of
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  sidewinder kick does a strange little strut which I imagine is
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  a little in joke, but then hits a drop kick to the bottom rope
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  that Walker is lying on the speed demon at being.
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  Edgar Adams then kind of sits Zack up, kicks him square in the
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  back before Walker fires up with chops, slaps, and any other kind
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  of attacking move before hitting a drop kick and sends his
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  opponent flying backwards into the turnbuckle.
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  Adams then goes to hit a suplex which is reversed into a Slumdog
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  Millionaire by Walker. A gorgeous springboard cutter
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  from Edgar draws A2 count. A released suplex followed by a
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  kick to the head finds the mark on Walker again.
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  Only gets a 2 count. Edgar then goes for a
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  Frankensteiner, but is caught by Walker who nails a powerbomb
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  reversal. Walker then goes on to hit a OH,
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  reverses a potential move and hits a spinning twisting DDT as
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  Edgar goes flying out of the ring almost 1/2 and half of a
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  rock selling a stunner and Shawn Michaels overselling when he
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  faced Hogan. But then we see Walker reverses
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  A powerbomb attempt into a kind of West Coast pop manoeuvre.
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  Adams then reverses a move into a tombstone for two both MO At
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  both MO, both men then have the same idea of going to hit
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  springboard manoeuvres, but where Adams looked to hit a Nova
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  cutter, Zack Walker kicks his opponent in the head in mid air
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  and gains the pinfall victory. For the 1-2 and the three, this
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  was a superb opening match. As I said, these two put on a
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  hell of a contest last year in April.
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  I think that match might just just out click this one.
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  Even so, still a hell of an opening match.
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  A lot going on, but having Walker and Adams, who are two of
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  my favourites at Bridge Pro, I love watching them.
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  I mean, I could see Walker when he comes to the Plaza, but
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  again, it's always great to see these two in the ring.
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  And I would not be against the third because I think these two
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  are arguably the brightest stars at Bridge Pro.
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  Someone tries to message me, but yeah, hell of an opener.
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  Superb match. Hopefully when they upload it,
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  you'll see. But yeah, two thumbs up for them
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  both. Before we got into match #2
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  which was a triple threat tag team encounter, we had the
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  bridge owner Ryan Parrott coming out and raising the stakes to
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  the next contest by making it a #1 contenders match for the tag
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  team titles. He would also go on to add that
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  the current champions in the Exile pack, that being Alex
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  Connors and Luke Douglas because they have not shown the tag
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  belts since winning them and they are currently under lock
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  and key in two separate briefcases.
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  Parrots has made it known now that if they do not show off the
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  tag team titles, I imagine at the next show which will be may
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  the 1st, that both of them will be banished from Bridge Pro
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  Wrestling champions or not and they will be gone forever.
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  Which drew a massive cheers from the crowd in attendance.
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  So with this now being a #1 Contenders match, the teams
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  involved were the relentless All Stars in Rhiannon, Jade and Ruby
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  Manitoba. Team 2 was a Luna and Lila Kyle
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  and Team 3 was Duchess Sofia and Tara Grey.
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  Now traditionally when you have a triple threat tag team match
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  or a four corners match you tend to start off with two people and
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  then you have the whole blind tags or A tag will come in and
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  but you still always end up with two people.
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  On this occasion you always had three people involved in the
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  match which made it quite interesting it has to be said.
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  So with that being said, we we definitely knew who the crowd
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  did not like in this contest as you had Duchess Sophia and Tara
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  Grey being the most hated team in this contest.
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  The relentless All Stars were making their debuts, Aluna made
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  her Bridge Pro debut on the last show back in December at Holiday
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  Havoc and Lala Kyle has been almost a staple of Bridge Pro
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  since It kind of got going really.
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  So the crowd was kind of split between them, two teams on who
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  they wanted to win, but in in no uncertain terms did they let
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  everyone know who they were not fans of.
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  So it started with Sophia and Grey just really playing up to
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  being kind of like their their villainous roles in this contest
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  and played it to a tee. It was so much fun watching them
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  to just being asses which which you want from kind of the
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  villains. Things then got under way with a
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  freeway test of strength as we had a Luna and Rhiannon, Jade
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  and Tara Grey all kind of linking up and had Grey being
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  the, I don't want to say the weak link, but they kind of she
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  didn't have the advantage in the test of strength.
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  They kind of worked together against her.
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  However, Tara would then overpower both, sending both
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  opponents colliding into one another, then kind of went
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  Cowardly Heel, kind of just attacking both and being, as I
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  say, villainous, leading to Aluna and Jade just waiting for
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  her to do something. And Grey immediately ran to the
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  corner where her tag partner was tagged in.
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  Duchess Sophia, who thought she was clearly better than everyone
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  there, not just in the ring but outside the ring as well.
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  And upon getting inside the square circle saw her foot
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  catching the bottom rope falling face first on the mat, leading
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  to everyone laughing at her. Even her tag partner who had to
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  stifle the laugh and went on a tirade of having a go at
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  everyone else telling them to stop laughing.
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  It's not funny. But then we ended up with
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  Duchess hitting a beautiful back angle slam, or to give it
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  another way, the angle slam. Ruby Manitoba then got whipped
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  into the ropes and did a handstand springboard backwards
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  role which then saw her hitting a picture perfect drop kick on
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  Sophia. Rhiannon and Ruby then combined
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  to attack Lala Kyle with a nice little tandem as it saw Manitoba
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  tripping up Kyle and with Lila on her knees.
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  Rhiannon and Jade then kind of drilled her head into the mat
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  with addt. Tara Grey then chops Rhiannon in
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  the corner with her partner illegally holding on.
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  Then we see a Luna getting the kind of hot tag in a sense as
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  she goes all out attacking anyone and everyone, which makes
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  completely no sense what I've just said, but she attacks
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  everyone. However, she would then get cut
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  off and has Grey hitting a hip attack on the ropes of which
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  Eluna was kind of laying straddled.
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  On the bottom rope the second time they went to do it, Duchess
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  held the arms of a Luna. However a Luna would get free
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  and Sophia would take the brunt of the hip attack as Tara Grey
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  absolutely wallop. So with Sophie who was on the
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  outside, Sophie then goes to get back in the ring.
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  Tara Grey is full of remorse and apologises constantly saying I'm
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  so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
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  We then see Grey, Duchess, Kyle and Luna all throwing fists and
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  arms and limbs at each other. All the while the relentless All
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  Stars hit a rocket launcher with Rhiannon Jade launching Ruby
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  Manitoba into her opponents. Then the match kind of breaks
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  down as firstly Lila Kyle hits a code breaker on Duchess Sophia.
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  Tara, Grey and Aluna find themselves hitting super kicks
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  on one another. Duchess head butts Aluna that
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  sees a Lunar and Grey heading to the outside and having their own
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  little personal scrap. Meanwhile we have Ruby Manitoba
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  performing a all I've said a Tarantula like move because I
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  can't remember what it's called, but effectively has her legs
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  around the neck of her opponent but has gone backwards over the
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  rope and is effectively kind of just stretching the neck really.
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  Aluna and Grey as I say have a mini fight on the outside which
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  continues on well after the match.
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  In the ring however, we see Jade and Manitoba hitting a really
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  beautiful tag team move which I've never particularly seen
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  before and is a powerbomb into a code break combo to pick up the
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  victory and see the Relentless All Stars as your new number one
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  contenders for the tag team titles.
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  This match was a whole lot of fun.
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  Everyone in this match came across a * Jade and Manitoba.
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  I think they grew more into this contest as it went on because
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  they they seemed very quiet early on.
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  Aluna is a I'd probably say the the bigger name from kind of the
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  women that's on this match, which is no disrespect to the
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  others. You've got Lala Kyle, who I
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  haven't seen for I say I haven't seen her for a fair, but I did
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  see on the last show, which is an absolute lie on my part, but
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  Kyle is she. It's almost like Kyle does not
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  have much of A like a thing going, which again, not everyone
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  will have like a storyline on these shows.
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  But having her team up with a Luna and in this match they were
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  really solid tag team and I would not be against these two
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  trying to try and get a shot at the tag belts at a future date.
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  Sophia and Grey Sophia impressed me back in December at Holiday
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  Havoc. Tara Grey I had not seen before
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  prior to this show, but one thing she did, she had so much,
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  the crowd were so against her and to have so much hate on your
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  debut from a crowd, it's, it's a skill, I will say that.
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  But she arguably, I would say the MVP of this match again, I
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  could say Sophia as well. Them just really kind of playing
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  up to the the heels rule, all the the rule Breakers to give it
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  another term. They did their job exceptionally
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  well. And I would definitely love to
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  see Sophia and Tara Grey back at bridge pro.
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  So if you're watching Ryan as if I have Paul.
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  So that was from match #2. Match #3 saw Chantelle Jordan
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  taking on tape Mayfair's and before we got into the match,
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  Mayfair's asked for the microphone.
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  The the chant of Greasy at Mayfair's was quite comical, one
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  of the few times that the crowd seemed very very vocal.
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  I don't know why, but this is the first time I can remember a
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  bridge show where the crowd were not as ravid as normal.
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  Whether that was because of the the new set up with the tables I
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  do I do not know. I cannot explain, but it just
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  the crowd just didn't seem as vocal throughout the show as
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  normal. Again, sometimes that can
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  happen. However, take running the crowd
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  down, telling them to bask in his greatness, of which a lot of
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  us do. He said he'd make light work of
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  Chantelle Jordan because she was a little girl.
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  Chantelle takes exception as you would imagine, using her martial
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  arts kicks to good effect and her educated feat would find
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  many marks on Tate Mayfair's. Mayfair's then come straight
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  back with some mounted punches and shouting at the crowd.
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  I thought you said she was going to kill me.
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  In his kind of London accent. Chantal then hits a Hurricane
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  Rana, but Tate regains control standing on the ankle of Jordan
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  and targets it for certain times in the match.
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  Mayfair's and Chantel both end up flying over the top rope.
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  This is after Mayfair's pass her in a power bomb position, and
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  much like you'd see in a rumble where both participants go over,
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  that's what happened. Tate tucking nasty fall to the
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  wooden floor the the fudge was quite sickening it has to be
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  said. However, Tate would grab the leg
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  of Jordan kind of throwing it behind her and Jordan went face
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  First off the apron looked a bit gnarly as well.
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  Chantelle then went to hit her free running boots in the corner
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  with Mayfair's just crown into the bottom rung if you like of
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  the turnbuckle. But on the 3rd and final
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  attempt, Mayfair's slid out of the ring with Chantel missing
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  and becoming Air Jordan effectively.
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  Mayfair's then come running back into the ring, hits a beautiful
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  running clothesline and hits an aeroplane spinning slam to gain
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  a 2 count. After some running knees to
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  Jordan, of which all were vicious running knees by
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  Mayfair's, he then picks her up and looks set to tombstone
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  Jordan out on the outside climbing up the the ring steps.
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  However Chantelle manages to drop down dropping Tate head
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  first on those stairs and almost gets a count out victory.
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  However, Mayfair's would get back in the Jordan hits a kind
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  of hooked legged Michinoku driver type goes for a roll up
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  but cannot keep Mayfair's down. However, with Jordan vertical,
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  she manages to kick him in the back of the head, leading to the
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  bad girl picking up the victory in what was a heck of a match.
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  Both of these are kind of well established on the Brit
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  wrestling circuit. First time we've seen Mayfair's
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  at Bridge Pro again plays his role to it.
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  I love watching Mayfair's. Always, always worth the money
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  on any show. This was a really solid match.
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  I wouldn't go more than it was very solid.
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  I think it was very much a case of Mayfair's coming out saying
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  I'm going to almost being like the the male chauvinistic of
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  this piece and Jordan just not kind of wanting to wilt to him.
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  But again, Mayfair's playing the role of just a really asshole.
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  To be fair is I think where you get Tay at his best.
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  Chantal is like the silent assassin in certain times and
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  this is one of them. Does not need to say anything
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  because her feet and vicious strikes will always do the
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  talking. So really good match and took us
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  to match #4 which was your main event for the first half for the
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  Bridge Pro Grand title. The challenger Samuel Hughes
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  faces the champion in Brandon Jordan and going into this
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  contest, Jordan, who's making his six Defence of the Bridge
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  Grand Pro title. It's fair to say that he has
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  picked up some questionable victories in recent times but is
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  still or was at this point in time.
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  I've probably ruined the spoiler there.
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  Has managed to hold on to that title while Samuel Hughes has
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  done a complete 180 of where he was at last year's Brand New
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  Level show as it saw him in a tables match.
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  He was at the table. It was a no holds barred match.
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  I take it back against TJ Rex and was one of the most brutal
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  but one of the best matches that I had down for 2025.
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  Since then he's been kicked out of the Queen's Catch, which has
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  beamingly gone a bit quiet in recent times.
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  He slowly managed to turn the fans round to becoming more of a
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  fan favourite now and him winning the Rumble at Holiday
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  Havoc last December. So you could say the start of
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  where the fans have fully accepted him because a lot prior
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  was whoever he would face. You should come out trying to
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  say I've turned over a new leaf. No one would believe him, but as
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  we've kind of moved over the months, it definitely feels like
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  Samuel Hughes has changed on the he stepped out of the dark side
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  and is now a fan favourite. The match itself looking at the
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  notes sees Hughes coming out firing, hitting a spinning elbow
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  off the ropes, Jordan then trips use up and nails a really nice
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  standing moonsault. We then have Jordan 2 handing 2
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  handed chopping the challenger on the back and Jordan's chops
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  are quite vicious and loud, but compared to the chops we have
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  later on, these were mere raspberries compared to later
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  on. We then go back into the ring
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  and see Brandon hitting an exploder suplex to put him back
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  in charge. We then have Hughes getting sent
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  into the ring steps on the outside, however, he manages to
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  stop himself and sees almost in a Looney Tunes way, Brandon
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  going face first into those steps instead.
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  The crowd I've put are very split over who they want to win
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  this because while Brandon is very kind of heelish in his
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  tendencies, he still kind of shows some fun favourite moves.
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  But things would change as we go along.
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  The red headed Rascal. Despite both of these men being
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  red headed, I arguably say Brandon is more red more red
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  headed than Samuel Hughes. But that being said, Hughes hits
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  an X Factor on the champion for a 2 count, then a lariat, but a
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  spinning slam by Jordan sees this match being very nip and
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  tuck and the result up in the air.
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  Hughes then hits his first dead eye of this contest, hitting it
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  outside on the ring apron. He follows that up with a
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  powerbomb and a running knee to the head with a double
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  underhook. DDT by the challenger, but
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  Jordan kicks out. Brandon then hits a frog splash
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  for two. Samuel Lewes then hits A1 Winged
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  Angel. Not what I've put.
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  One Winged Angel also gets a 2 count.
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  The challenger then hits a second Deadeye in this contest,
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  hits a Lariat on Jordan, or intends to at least, but sees
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  Jordan pulling ref Lilith in the way of it.
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  Who takes the brunt of the Lariat?
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  The champion, much like in recent times resorts to the
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  cheap way out, brings the Grand Pro title into the into play
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  where Samuel Hughes ducks the initial belt to the head.
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  The two then have a tug of war over the title.
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  Jordan let's go of the belt and as Hughes turns round, Brandon
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  kicks the challenger squarely in the balls before hitting a
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  flying knee that is into the title and into the head of the
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  challenger. Referee comes out from the back
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  to make the count. 1-2 kick out by the challenger.
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  Brandon is fuming, takes out the referee with a super kick, then
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  proceeds to just give the referee a good kick in.
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  Jordan again goes to use goes to use the belt, Hughes ducks it
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  once again before hitting 1/3 deadeye in this match to finally
• 40:20
  win and becomes your new Bridge Pro Grand Champion.
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  And after the match it sees both men shaking hands and having
• 40:33
  photos with the fans at the interval.
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  So we go into the interval and as we're about to start the
• 40:46
  second-half, we see Brandon Jordan attacking a fan and owner
• 40:53
  Ryan Parrott before turning his attention to the now new Bridge
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  Pro champion. Putting the boots to him before
• 41:05
  putting the title belt, grabbing his head and saying you want
• 41:09
  this, Grabs his arms, pulls them back foot in the square of the
• 41:17
  top of his back and drills his head into the title belt.
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  But he's on the mat, which has Samuel Hughes completely laid
• 41:28
  out and has the outgoing champion taking the belt with
• 41:35
  him and leaves the scene of the crime with both Hughes and
• 41:41
  Parrot needing to be held to the back.
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  But Parrot is kind of more able to walk under his own steam and
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  helps the new champion to the back.
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  What happens from this point onwards, we are still unsure as
• 42:03
  of now, but I think that will become clearer before the next
• 42:09
  show match #5 to determine the number one contender for the
• 42:18
  Bridge Pro Grand title. So having saw a new champion, we
• 42:24
  now looked to see who would be the first challenger or Samuel
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  Hughes, and this would involve CJ Rowlings and Joe Alleza.
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  So this would be the second number one Contenders match we
• 42:47
  had of the night as the company builds its kind of title picture
• 42:54
  moving forward. We start off with Joe Blazer
• 43:00
  showing his wrestling abilities, taking the bigger man down and
• 43:06
  then just using kind of amateur wrestling moves, spinning round.
• 43:13
  Spinning the other way normally results in like little slaps to
• 43:19
  the back of the head and kind of posing.
• 43:24
  However, due to the nature of this contest, it saw Blazer
• 43:31
  playing in some forearm smashes into the back of Rolling's head
• 43:38
  and you could tell this was going to be a war between these
• 43:44
  two. Rollings then uses the ropes for
• 43:49
  leverage as he's in a wrist hold by Blazer.
• 43:54
  He then does a flying shoulder tackle and has CJ rallying,
• 44:00
  hitting a really nice Northern light suplex and sends Joe
• 44:07
  flying over the top rope with a low bridge and having him nearly
• 44:12
  crash into US. Blazer then knocks the phone out
• 44:20
  my hand. Cheers Joe.
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  Blazer then Yanks CJ off the rope, stunning his arm as the
• 44:29
  arm comes down off the top rope, which is not a pleasant feeling.
• 44:34
  Blazer then goes to work on his opponent, stomping over the
• 44:39
  torso, the legs, literally anything he can do to gain an
• 44:45
  advantage. Would try a multitude of
• 44:51
  submission holes but none are forthcoming.
• 44:56
  CJ then does a drop toehold into the ropes and hits an exploding
• 45:03
  clothesline, with Rowling's making a rally in this contest.
• 45:12
  CJ then hits a LaBelle lock on Blazer, but Blazer then hits his
• 45:18
  kind of toad breaker move but holds the arms of his opponent
• 45:27
  and falls back, just wrenching the arms out of the socket
• 45:31
  really. Rollins then goes for a splash
• 45:36
  but misses. Joe hits the Blazer Glory but
• 45:40
  only gets a 2 count. Blazer then goes for another
• 45:45
  pinning attempt but holds the middle rope which has ref Lilith
• 45:50
  staring at him stopping her count.
• 45:54
  Joe just shouts at her saying count.
• 45:57
  I don't care if it's illegal, just count.
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  That's not how you win Joe. There we have Blazer and Lilith
• 46:06
  having a little argument after the disagreement.
• 46:11
  It sees Rollins hitting a Running Spear followed by a
• 46:17
  Balkan Arrow looking move to pick up the victory and is now
• 46:24
  your number one contender for the Grand Pro title.
• 46:31
  After the match it saw CJ offering his hand to Joe.
• 46:38
  Where previous occasions have saw a few people try and do
• 46:45
  this, Valentino tried it back in October and saw Blazer opting
• 46:52
  not to shake the hand of his opponent.
• 46:56
  However, on this occasion, he would shake the hands of
• 47:00
  Rollins, begrudgingly, I think it's fair to say, before exiting
• 47:05
  the ring and heading to the back.
• 47:11
  This was it was a good, it was a good match.
• 47:17
  At the time. It felt like it went on a tiny
• 47:20
  bit, but having time pass a bit, I think you can sort of like on
• 47:33
  oh, get more sense of it. It was a really solid match.
• 47:42
  Blazer, you know what you're going to get with him.
• 47:45
  Always a top performer. Rollins, I think this is one of
• 47:52
  his best performances I've seen of him at Bridge Pro.
• 47:59
  I think it's going to be interesting to see what they do
• 48:03
  with Rollins. I I actually think he may suit
• 48:10
  being a bad guy moving forward, but again, probably will not
• 48:19
  happen. But I think he would be a really
• 48:25
  solid rule breaker. But for a #1 contenders match
• 48:32
  it, it did everything you wanted.
• 48:34
  Two men that won a crack at a title, neither man giving an
• 48:41
  inch and getting a really good match.
• 48:46
  So not not more you can ask really match.
• 48:52
  Oh God, give me a second match. Number six.
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  My God. A four way featuring Liam Jones,
• 49:15
  Alex Connors, Noe and Noah and Hanyadi Thomas.
• 49:26
  Oh my God S if you like truly like big meaty men slapping
• 49:38
  meat. This my friends is for us.
• 49:43
  This is for us sick bastards. Oh the those I have chatted to
• 49:52
  about this show will know that of any match that took place,
• 49:58
  this is the one that I have gone on about more than any for damn
• 50:05
  good reason. So we start this contest with
• 50:12
  Alex Connors shouting at both Anuka and Thomas saying we need
• 50:20
  to team together to take down Liam Jones who is the the
• 50:24
  biggest man in this match. And then you have both Thomas
• 50:32
  and Anuka just staring at the crowd, looking at each other,
• 50:37
  thinking OK. And then, as Connors turns round
• 50:42
  to lead this three pronged attack, Connors finds himself on
• 50:51
  his own, it's fair to say, and proceeds to get a slap by both
• 50:59
  Thomas and Anuka. Connors is whipped into the
• 51:05
  corner, Thomas hits a running uppercut, Liam Jones runs at him
• 51:14
  two handed and have slapped to the chest.
• 51:18
  Oh dear God, everyone I think winced at these chops.
• 51:30
  It's fair to say if Connors did not look like a Robin after this
• 51:34
  show, he must have a hell of a kind of body armour, which is
• 51:41
  his chest. That's all I have to say because
• 51:43
  he took the lion's share of the chops in this contest.
• 51:49
  We then had a strong style section with Liam Jones and
• 51:54
  Hunyadi Thomas as them two traded forearm, sorry, forearm
• 52:00
  shots, slaps. And when I say slaps, these were
• 52:08
  some of the hardest chops that you will arguably hear anywhere.
• 52:20
  I mean it could because it was a low ceiling, but dear God,
• 52:25
  these, these chops of which I will have to do a mini montage
• 52:35
  of which I may just put it kind of I'll put it at the end of the
• 52:41
  match so you can hear how loud these chops and vicious they
• 52:48
  were because dear God, they were vicious.
• 52:54
  The two men then broke off during their little kind of hit
• 52:59
  me harder and then found Connors on his own saw them chop Connors
• 53:07
  who I I genuinely felt some sympathy for Connors with all
• 53:13
  these chops he was taking. Anuka then chops Connors as
• 53:19
  well, of which we then get the biz Oh random thing of both
• 53:27
  Thomas and Jones heading to the bar sharing a glass of beer with
• 53:33
  each other. I say, what's the other two just
• 53:37
  scrap in the ring. Anuka having the best of the
• 53:43
  exchanges with Connors nailing him with two chops that were up
• 53:49
  there with loud kind of how loud they were.
• 53:56
  Connors though would equally come back and hit two chops of
• 54:01
  his own and they were equally as loud as well.
• 54:07
  I suppose it fired him up enough to do these kind of chops.
• 54:13
  He then hits a double stomp to the back of his opponent, pulls
• 54:17
  his leg. As Anuka was on the middle rope
• 54:24
  or Brett's rope, you will effectively feels twice as bad.
• 54:31
  They saw him then going kind of like the top of his back first
• 54:35
  into the turnbuckle, finishes with a knee to the back, kind of
• 54:41
  like Bane does to Batman, but Anuka kicks out at 2:00.
• 54:50
  We then have everyone returning back to the ring.
• 54:55
  However, as they go to enter the ring, they drag Connors out and
• 55:02
  with Jones about to hit another chop to the chest of Connors, he
• 55:11
  invites one of the fans to come over to do it.
• 55:15
  It. It was definitely a chop and I
• 55:22
  think you could see Connors thinking that was a bit harder
• 55:24
  than I wanted. Everyone gets back in.
• 55:29
  Jones hits a spinebuster on Thomas.
• 55:34
  All for them, even nails, super kicks, boots or jumping knees.
• 55:40
  Finishes with Connors hitting a clothesline on Thomas.
• 55:46
  Noah then hits a vertical suplex on Connors.
• 55:51
  Thomas hits a running spear on Noe, who then responds himself
• 55:59
  with a Deaf Valley Driver and a Frog splash.
• 56:03
  Jones stops the count before hitting a spinning sit down
• 56:08
  powerbomb. Connors drops Thomas across his
• 56:12
  knee for a kind of neck breaker. Thomas then hits a pop up
• 56:19
  powerbomb on Connors. Jones hits a Brain Buster on
• 56:24
  Thomas and hits a mighty Lariat on Connors to get the 1-2 and
• 56:34
  the three to pick up the victory.
• 56:38
  Oh Lord, I it's one of those matches where you feel like you
• 56:47
  need a cigarette straight after. It was incredible.
• 56:57
  Did it have much in the way of kind of like flippy moves?
• 57:02
  Not really. Did it have a lot of meat in it?
• 57:07
  Yeah, damn right it did. Easily up there with one of my
• 57:12
  favourite matches of 2026. It is already on the board,
• 57:19
  actually. All four men in this match
• 57:25
  deserve credit for putting on an absolute banger.
• 57:31
  Again, when this match gets posted, watch this because you
• 57:36
  will watch it over and over and over again.
• 57:41
  I know I will at least my my my if I have to give a rating of
• 57:48
  match of the night. This gets it easily.
• 57:55
  Not to say any of the other matches weren't weren't good,
• 58:00
  but this was my kind of match and I loved it and I was here
• 58:06
  for it. And I want to see, I want to see
• 58:10
  a second match. I want to see, I want to see
• 58:12
  another four way between these 4 'cause it was bloody grey.
• 59:07
  Oh. That all means we come to the
• 59:23
  main event for there is a World of Wrestling title in a No
• 59:30
  Disqualification match with the champion Steve Valentino taking
• 59:37
  on Luke Douglas and well I'll come to the end of my thoughts
• 59:47
  on this. So both men came running out at
• 59:51
  each other at the start. Douglas has the early advantage
• 59:57
  before bringing weaponry into the ring. 2 chairs and we do the
• 1:00:03
  Star Wars Jewel of the Fate with the whole left, right, left
• 1:00:10
  right. Valentino comes out on top on
• 1:00:16
  that battle, then puts the chair on his fallen opponent, goes hit
• 1:00:23
  a sent on splash, but somehow landing on the chair on his
• 1:00:28
  opponent causes him more damage than his opponent, which I
• 1:00:33
  didn't particularly understand that one.
• 1:00:38
  The two then go to the outside and sees the People's captain
• 1:00:43
  grabbing a plastic lid off my mate Ian who brought it along.
• 1:00:49
  Because when it's like bring your own weapons, Ian will
• 1:00:54
  always have something. It then sees Valentino taking
• 1:00:59
  the lid and having it shatter off the head of Douglas.
• 1:01:06
  And when I say shatter, it shattered.
• 1:01:10
  A good piece went back over our head and it just went all over
• 1:01:17
  the place. We then saw Valentino using a
• 1:01:22
  title belt from a fan that got used as well and the two men
• 1:01:29
  then fought on a table. At one point the table rocked
• 1:01:35
  quite shakily and everyone had to like hold the the table down
• 1:01:41
  to make sure it was a safe platform for both men.
• 1:01:47
  However, seconds later we see Valentino nailing Douglas with
• 1:01:52
  addt that saw the table break in half.
• 1:01:59
  If you're watching the visual version you will see what the
• 1:02:04
  the remains of that table was. We didn't know at the time, but
• 1:02:12
  it was an awkward landing because he seemed to fall down
• 1:02:17
  and then roll off because of there was no table.
• 1:02:21
  And they were even more lucky because a couple more inches and
• 1:02:26
  you would have had metal. So yeah, crazy in crazy spot,
• 1:02:37
  but there we go. Douglas then froze Valentino
• 1:02:42
  into the ring post and for the first time in Bridge Pro, we see
• 1:02:48
  blood as Valentino gets into the ring and we see the Crimson mask
• 1:02:58
  starting to be worn by the People's Captain.
• 1:03:02
  Douglas would bring in a kendo stick.
• 1:03:08
  Douglas then claws at the wounds of Valentino's cut on his
• 1:03:13
  forehead. Douglas picks up the Candlestick
• 1:03:18
  and proceeds to try and wear out his opponent.
• 1:03:22
  Steve then flips the bird to Luke saying do whatever you
• 1:03:27
  want, I'm not giving up and would proceed to smash his
• 1:03:33
  opponent in the arm, the body, the legs, literally any limb he
• 1:03:42
  could, he just used it on him. Valentino then hits a spinning
• 1:03:49
  DDT or tornado DDT off the ropes.
• 1:03:56
  This then sees the tables turning as he grabs the kendo
• 1:04:00
  stick himself, uses it on his opponent and while Douglas sees
• 1:04:07
  just on his knees thinking don't hit me, don't hit me.
• 1:04:13
  Valentino has a sudden change of hearts and things No I'm not
• 1:04:18
  going to hit you with this. Then wants the crowd to quieten
• 1:04:23
  down, who at first do not want to be told to be quiet, but if
• 1:04:30
  they have to listen to Valentino who shouts at them to shut up.
• 1:04:36
  Then asks who wants to see Barbie.
• 1:04:40
  And all of a sudden eyebrows were raised and people were
• 1:04:46
  edging more forward in their seats.
• 1:04:49
  When we hear the word Barbie and wrestling in that context and
• 1:04:55
  produced a barbed wire weapon. Douglas, who is now pleading for
• 1:05:03
  his life saying please don't hit me, please don't hit me low
• 1:05:07
  blows. Valentino before he can use it.
• 1:05:11
  And of course, he who brings in a weapon shall suffer the kind
• 1:05:19
  of I can't say what the word I was going to say trash is trash.
• 1:05:26
  I can't even say that they suffer effectively and had
• 1:05:33
  Douglas putting the barbed wire across the forehead of
• 1:05:38
  Valentino. Douglas then sends Steve
• 1:05:43
  crashing through 2 Table 2 chairs that was set up as he
• 1:05:49
  hits a powerbomb and in a kind of comedy style after
• 1:05:55
  powerbombing him the two chairs just went ping.
• 1:06:02
  But in the end, it saw Valentino hitting ADDT on Douglas, another
• 1:06:09
  tornado DDT off Brett's rope on on a pile of chairs that were
• 1:06:16
  laid out as he defends his There Is a World of Wrestling title.
• 1:06:35
  I I will say this about the match.
• 1:06:38
  I there were a lot of good spots, but for me at least, this
• 1:06:50
  felt very much like it was Valentino doing everything.
• 1:06:59
  Even when he's taking all the hits and everything, it still
• 1:07:03
  feels very much like it's Valentino running the show.
• 1:07:12
  It felt very much like it was one, one man in this contest.
• 1:07:17
  Again, it could easily be an off night, but out of all the
• 1:07:25
  matches this one had a lot of hype into it, but for me it did
• 1:07:32
  not particularly hit as well. It did feel like Valentino did
• 1:07:40
  so much to try and get this to be as good as it was.
• 1:07:48
  I just feel feel it fell flat a fair bit, unfortunately, which I
• 1:07:56
  mean, it's it's rare you get a match that I don't particularly
• 1:08:01
  like. I wasn't really a fan of.
• 1:08:07
  I mean, you could see what they were going for, but it just
• 1:08:12
  didn't feel like it was two people in this match at all.
• 1:08:16
  It just felt like Valentino was carrying Douglas through this.
• 1:08:22
  Again, it could be a one off, but I was, I was very
• 1:08:28
  disappointed in this, in this contest, which I don't
• 1:08:33
  particularly like saying. But at the same time, if, if I'm
• 1:08:39
  reviewing things, I have to be honest, there's probably people
• 1:08:44
  that watch this that thought this was arguably the best match
• 1:08:49
  of the night and that that's, that's their view.
• 1:08:55
  Just me personally, I just didn't think it was as good as
• 1:09:03
  it could have been, which is probably the best way I can say
• 1:09:07
  it, which was a bit of a sour note to to leave on, but hey,
• 1:09:14
  what, what can you do? That said though, that was
• 1:09:21
  Bridge Pro Brand new Level 3. Their next show is May 1st at
• 1:09:29
  the Wollaston Village Hall for Exile, of which I think I may
• 1:09:36
  have tickets for. I am undecided yet to be to be
• 1:09:42
  perfectly honest, but there there are certain people on that
• 1:09:48
  show that I I like to see. So I I'm going more that way.
• 1:10:01
  But that was the the show. Any other business socials
• 1:10:11
  practise rappers on blue sky and YouTube If you want to watch the
• 1:10:15
  visual of this, why you'd want to I do not know.
• 1:10:22
  Brad has graps on Twitter and also I have a current poll on
• 1:10:32
  Instagram. It might have gone off by the
• 1:10:36
  time this goes out on whether people would like me to review
• 1:10:42
  the offering from North Wrestling last month in the
• 1:10:45
  Leeds for Everything is All Caps.
• 1:10:50
  If people do want that, I will have to call in a couple of
• 1:10:55
  favours because I do not want to do that one on my own as I don't
• 1:11:02
  particularly like doing shows on my own anyhow.
• 1:11:07
  I think it's better having a second or third person involved.
• 1:11:15
  Other than that, we will be on a mini break of sorts before we go
• 1:11:23
  into our big Manchester triple header on the 28th and the 30th
• 1:11:33
  of this month with future shock at the MMU in Manchester.
• 1:11:42
  That's on the 28th of March, the Saturday a double header
• 1:11:48
  followed by Catch Pro Wrestling on the following Monday nights,
• 1:11:56
  to which I think I could be wrong, is at Gorilla.
• 1:12:03
  If not, it is at the Red Arches. I should know this but I don't.
• 1:12:12
  But yes, that is all I have for this episode.
• 1:12:19
  Thank you for listening, watching whatever you've kind of
• 1:12:26
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• 1:12:40
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• 1:12:45
  will catch you.