<v Speaker 1>Jess Shy of nineteen thousand fans at the two in

<v Speaker 1>London tonight, aw had for what was the highest wrestling

<v Speaker 1>audience ever in that building, beating out money in the bank.

<v Speaker 1>Two years ago that was for Forbidden Door. The show

<v Speaker 1>is called Forbidden Door, and honestly, of all the Forbidden

<v Speaker 1>Door shows they've done, I believe this is now the

<v Speaker 1>third one, right, third or fourth one, this is the

<v Speaker 1>one that felt the least like Forbidden Door. And at

<v Speaker 1>one point three years ago it felt like a novelty

<v Speaker 1>because we had all of these talents coming in from

<v Speaker 1>other promotions, mainly New Japan. But now it's CMLL and

<v Speaker 1>it's Stardom, and it's this revolving door of talent, and

<v Speaker 1>it was a very novel concept for a major promotion

<v Speaker 1>here in this country to be bringing in talent in

<v Speaker 1>that way and featuring them from other promotions, and so

<v Speaker 1>it was kind of a cool concept. And you can

<v Speaker 1>get some matches that you otherwise would never be able

<v Speaker 1>to see. And the thing is aw now on a

<v Speaker 1>weekly base, is basically opens the forbidden door. The forbidden

<v Speaker 1>door never closes, and when that happens, it's no longer forbidden.

<v Speaker 1>So the show loses a little something special because of that.

<v Speaker 1>Now they put nineteen thousand people in the building tonight.

<v Speaker 1>They did, you know, I'm sure a huge gate. They

<v Speaker 1>made a lot of money off of it. Tony Kan

<v Speaker 1>is not going to stop doing it, but probably doesn't

<v Speaker 1>need to be a forbidden door anymore since we get

<v Speaker 1>it on a regular basis here. This show tonight was.

<v Speaker 1>When this show was over, it was a good show.

<v Speaker 1>It was a good show because we had a lot

<v Speaker 1>of really good wrestling on this show. That's your thing.

<v Speaker 1>You got tons of matches on the show tonight. Even

<v Speaker 1>the pre show had four matches, and they tried to

<v Speaker 1>stuff as many people in there as they possibly could.

<v Speaker 1>There was some very good wrestling on the show tonight,

<v Speaker 1>some solid wrestling. This was not a show that when

<v Speaker 1>it was over, I came away from it thinking, you

<v Speaker 1>know what, that was a great show. This was one

<v Speaker 1>of the best AW shows of the year. It wasn't

<v Speaker 1>we had a main event tonight of ten It was.

<v Speaker 1>It was five on five ten men, lights out steel

<v Speaker 1>cage match that was technically the main event, and we

<v Speaker 1>had the AW World Championship on the line as well.

<v Speaker 1>Hang Man Adam Page and MJF what we had in

<v Speaker 1>this main event. It was Will Ospray and his team

<v Speaker 1>with Darby Allen and Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kenny Omega and

<v Speaker 1>Cody Abushi, who we have not seen since all in Texas.

<v Speaker 1>They have not made a single appearance all together, all

<v Speaker 1>of Osprey's friends taking on John Moxley and Claudio and

<v Speaker 1>Gabe Kid from New Japan and the Young Bucks. And

<v Speaker 1>this was Osprey's last match before he goes away for

<v Speaker 1>a while. And the big story coming into this match

<v Speaker 1>had to do with will Osprey's health. He's been giving

<v Speaker 1>interviews all week long to CBS Sports and this outlet

<v Speaker 1>and that outlet, talking about his neck and talking about

<v Speaker 1>the the discs that are compromised, as he says, in

<v Speaker 1>his neck, and he's going to be going under the knife.

<v Speaker 1>You know, he doesn't know when he doesn't know, you know,

<v Speaker 1>what his future looks like. But that was really the

<v Speaker 1>story going into this match. And it's not just a storyline,

<v Speaker 1>it's legit. You know, he is hurt and we are

<v Speaker 1>not going to see him for a while. So coming

<v Speaker 1>into the show, it sounded kind of crazy that they

<v Speaker 1>were even allowing him to be in the ring, and

<v Speaker 1>as it turned out, he didn't even do the craziest

<v Speaker 1>stuff in that match when it was over. Even though

<v Speaker 1>he was left laying at the end of the show,

<v Speaker 1>he came out of it a hell of a lot

<v Speaker 1>better than most of the other people in that match,

<v Speaker 1>including Darby Allen. Darby Allen more than made up for

<v Speaker 1>whatever will Osprey couldn't do and said, don't worry, I

<v Speaker 1>got you covered. And Darby was doing Darby things in

<v Speaker 1>that main event. But the Babyfaces go over. Will Osprey

<v Speaker 1>looks like he's going to get this grand sendoff here

<v Speaker 1>in London, thirty minutes from where he lives, the last

<v Speaker 1>time we're going to see him for a while. And

<v Speaker 1>then we got to get heat, so they did a

<v Speaker 1>beatdown angle. Now, this cage that they had tonight, it

<v Speaker 1>encompassed the entire almost the entire ringside area, didn't encompass

<v Speaker 1>the announced desks, but it was more than just the ring,

<v Speaker 1>and it wasn't a very tall cage, but again it

<v Speaker 1>gave them a little more breathing room to do some

<v Speaker 1>crazy shit. Osprey is the only babyface who is left

<v Speaker 1>in this cage. He is attacked by the heels the

<v Speaker 1>other babyfaces have been locked out, and this is the

<v Speaker 1>angle that they did here at the end of the show,

<v Speaker 1>they're doing a beatdown angle on will Ospray and I'm

<v Speaker 1>watching this and I'm seeing all these babyfaces on the outside,

<v Speaker 1>powerless to do anything about it. They are powerless to

<v Speaker 1>come in and help this man. Even though there was

<v Speaker 1>no roof on this cage, even though Marina Shaffir just

<v Speaker 1>climbed from the outside into the cage. The babyfaces are

<v Speaker 1>They're helpless, They're stuck on the outside. The door is locked,

<v Speaker 1>it's padlocked shut. There's nothing they can do except for Wheeler.

<v Speaker 1>Yuda is there with a kendo stick in his hand,

<v Speaker 1>trying to fend off anybody who might attempt to climb

<v Speaker 1>into the cage. Of course nobody did, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>nobody did attempt to climb into the cage. And then

<v Speaker 1>eventually the ops Saboa Joe and Powerhouse Hobs and Katiyori Shabada,

<v Speaker 1>they run out and finally somebody says, oh, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>we could lift the cage, and so somebody in the

<v Speaker 1>production crew decide, hey, I could push a button here

<v Speaker 1>and the cage will go up. And then they came

<v Speaker 1>to the aid of will Osprey, but it was too

<v Speaker 1>late because he had a chair wrapped around his neck

<v Speaker 1>and it was stomped on. The same thing they did

<v Speaker 1>to Samoa Joe in Texas, the same thing they did

<v Speaker 1>to will Osprey. Actually in Texas. They did it to

<v Speaker 1>him again here, although we saw Osprey back on TV

<v Speaker 1>two weeks later, So by that logic, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>why we're supposed to care about them stomping on a

<v Speaker 1>chair when will Osprey was already back two weeks later

<v Speaker 1>the last time they did it. But it was a

<v Speaker 1>very it was a very goofy angle, watching all the

<v Speaker 1>babyfaces mill around outside as if they were powerless to

<v Speaker 1>do anything about what was going on. Not the only

<v Speaker 1>goofy thing on the show tonight. It was an angle. Frankly,

<v Speaker 1>I didn't even think really needed to happen. They made

<v Speaker 1>the decision that they wanted to put heat on him

<v Speaker 1>because he's leaving anyway, and so let's we'll put some

<v Speaker 1>heat on the death Riders. You had to get something

<v Speaker 1>out of it. They would have been better off just allowing, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>allowing Osprey to just have his sendoff, have the heels win,

<v Speaker 1>have the heels win and then have Osbury stand up

<v Speaker 1>and get the nice send off and go off the

<v Speaker 1>air that way. I just didn't think it was an

<v Speaker 1>angle that needed to happen in the first place. But

<v Speaker 1>that was very, very silly watching that. We had Hangman

<v Speaker 1>Page on this show defending the AW World Championship against MJF,

<v Speaker 1>who still has his Casino Gauntlet contract. Because he originally

<v Speaker 1>said that, Okay, you know what, I'm going to cash

<v Speaker 1>in my contract. That's how I'm going to get this

<v Speaker 1>title match. Then they change their mind and they probably realized, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>this is really stupid, so let's not do that, and

<v Speaker 1>instead we'll have him threaten to burn Mark Briscoe alive

<v Speaker 1>until Hangman gives him what he wants. So they were

<v Speaker 1>able to kind of back out of what they had

<v Speaker 1>gotten themselves into. So he had that as an insurance policy.

<v Speaker 1>His contract was not utilized tonight, and that made it

<v Speaker 1>a little more obvious he was probably not going to

<v Speaker 1>win the championship tonight, and he didn't. Hangman Page is

<v Speaker 1>still the AW World Champion, but MJF still has that contract.

<v Speaker 1>And by the way, Hangman at MJF match on the

<v Speaker 1>entire show that was my favorite match of the night

<v Speaker 1>easily out of everything on the entire show, and that

<v Speaker 1>is despite some of the goofiness that we had in

<v Speaker 1>that match and the overbooking in that match. MJF still

<v Speaker 1>has his contract. Athena does not. She did cash in

<v Speaker 1>her Casino Gauntlet contract for her match with Tony Storm.

<v Speaker 1>Tony Storm not only beat Athena but got her to

<v Speaker 1>tap out and timeless. Tony Storm is still the AW

<v Speaker 1>Women's World Champion. Now this contract stuff. I have said before,

<v Speaker 1>I am sick of the cash ins. I'm sick of

<v Speaker 1>the money in the bank cash ins. I wish they

<v Speaker 1>would do away with it for a while. They're not

<v Speaker 1>going to because it's still a very popular show. I

<v Speaker 1>get it, I understand it, but I'm sick of it.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm no less sick of it when AW does

<v Speaker 1>the same thing and copies the exact same idea, and

<v Speaker 1>Tony Kahan has gotten a lot of feedback from fans

<v Speaker 1>telling him the same thing. Why are you copying them?

<v Speaker 1>Why are you copying money in the bank. It's not

<v Speaker 1>a great concept to begin with, because it's been beaten

<v Speaker 1>to death. Why why are you doing the same thing

<v Speaker 1>where you can cash in anytime you want for a

<v Speaker 1>championship match. He addressed this in the post show scrum

<v Speaker 1>after the pay per view. I just want to read

<v Speaker 1>to you from what Tony Kah had to say about this.

<v Speaker 1>He said, I want aw to be different, and I've

<v Speaker 1>been listening to the feedback and the voice of the fans,

<v Speaker 1>and I think people want the championships in the sport

<v Speaker 1>of pro wrestling to have integrity. Of course, that's hard

<v Speaker 1>to do when you have fifteen championships, but that's beside

<v Speaker 1>the point. I don't want to have a big ticket

<v Speaker 1>championship match that we are unable to advertise, and also

<v Speaker 1>I don't really want to necessarily utilize a stipulation here

<v Speaker 1>that is being utilized other places. That's why going forward,

<v Speaker 1>I want to set the tone that from now on,

<v Speaker 1>I think the right thing to do is all contract

<v Speaker 1>executions should be on at least a week's notice so

<v Speaker 1>that we can properly promote the matches, so that we

<v Speaker 1>can properly give the fans notice and have the integrity

<v Speaker 1>of a championship match. Now, I don't know if that

<v Speaker 1>ap lies to mjf's contracts. I don't know if this

<v Speaker 1>is retroactive and it includes his contract or if this

<v Speaker 1>is just my impression was that it's going forward when

<v Speaker 1>they do future casino Gauntlets, so that I didn't get

<v Speaker 1>any clarity on that, but that's the way to go.

<v Speaker 1>That's the way to go. At least try if you're

<v Speaker 1>gonna do it, differentiate it in some way instead of

<v Speaker 1>doing the you know, sneaking in after the match is

<v Speaker 1>over and cashing. It's just so overplayed. So if he's

<v Speaker 1>going to utilize that as a stipulation, I like that

<v Speaker 1>at least change it up. At least he recognizes, you

<v Speaker 1>know what, we don't need to do it exactly the

<v Speaker 1>way that they do it. That that doesn't even make

<v Speaker 1>it a great idea to begin with. So we'll have

<v Speaker 1>a one week race period so that we can at

<v Speaker 1>least promote this big championship, which I thought was what

<v Speaker 1>they were doing originally when they started doing this. Unless

<v Speaker 1>I'm just misremembering, but that's the way to go. So

<v Speaker 1>that was the update on Tony Kahn as far as

<v Speaker 1>future Casino Gauntlet contracts concerned. Again, that's going forward Wardlow

<v Speaker 1>is back. Remember him. I had almost forgotten about him.

<v Speaker 1>I forgot he even existed. Wardlow returned on the show

<v Speaker 1>tonight and he has joined another faction that you would

<v Speaker 1>think he would have learned his lesson having been a

<v Speaker 1>part of multiple factions in the past and it usually

<v Speaker 1>doesn't end very well for him. But now he's part

<v Speaker 1>of another group and we'll talk about what that group is.

<v Speaker 1>Jamie Hater is back as well. They held out on

<v Speaker 1>her return here for the Big UK show. People were

<v Speaker 1>very happy to see her. I was very happy to

<v Speaker 1>see her. She'll be a nice shot in the arm

<v Speaker 1>in a women's division that is loaded with a lot

<v Speaker 1>of talent, but they have been besieged by injuries. And

<v Speaker 1>not just in the women's division, but they have been

<v Speaker 1>besieged by injuries in that division as well, which is

<v Speaker 1>the reason why Tony Khan is held out on having

<v Speaker 1>AW women's tag team titles. Those titles are made, they're

<v Speaker 1>ready to go. He has said this before, but a

<v Speaker 1>lot of people got hurt. Mina Shirikawa got hurt. Multiple

<v Speaker 1>people got hurt, including Jamie Hayter. But now as they

<v Speaker 1>start to get some of them back, we'll probably end

<v Speaker 1>up with more titles in AW. The matches tonight on

<v Speaker 1>this show were solid to very good. They ranged from

<v Speaker 1>you know, pretty much between those two measures. But when

<v Speaker 1>the show was over, I just I didn't feel this

<v Speaker 1>overwhelming sense of man, this was a great show. You know,

<v Speaker 1>I've seen some great aw pay per views. This will

<v Speaker 1>not rank is one of the best that they've done,

<v Speaker 1>even this year. But I thought for the most part

<v Speaker 1>it was good. Again. The forbidden Door aspect of the show,

<v Speaker 1>for me, it doesn't do anything for me anymore. It's

<v Speaker 1>played out. It's passe a. We get forbidden Door every week.

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't mind if they just junk the show altogether.

<v Speaker 1>If they want to have a show where you bring

<v Speaker 1>in a few international talents to have, you know, two

<v Speaker 1>or three matches on the show, that's fine. That doesn't

<v Speaker 1>make a forbidden door. There's nothing forbidden about it. And

<v Speaker 1>Tony Kahan should be very happy about the fact that

<v Speaker 1>he was the big promoter here in North of America,

<v Speaker 1>at least on a national scale. Who you know has

<v Speaker 1>television the way he does. Who really kicked that door

<v Speaker 1>open in a major way, you know, and and started

<v Speaker 1>having matches like this again on pay per view. That's great,

<v Speaker 1>but there's really nothing forbidden about it anymore. It's been years,

<v Speaker 1>so that aspect of it to me is just very

<v Speaker 1>played out. That bloom is off the roads as far

<v Speaker 1>as that goes, but very up and down on some

<v Speaker 1>of the stuff that happened here on the show, we'll

<v Speaker 1>go through the whole thing. This is your Forbidden Door

<v Speaker 1>Review twenty twenty five. I am the Solemn Monster, a

<v Speaker 1>little later than I wanted to go live. I have

<v Speaker 1>good reason for it, though. Take a look at this.

<v Speaker 1>I've been dealing with this all weekend. Look at my

<v Speaker 1>little wasp friends over here. Hello, there's the yellowjackets. Look

<v Speaker 1>at all the bodies. This has been an absolute nightmare,

<v Speaker 1>and I have been waiting for an exterminator to show

<v Speaker 1>upet That guy was very angry with me. He's looking

<v Speaker 1>right at me. He was ready to sting my eyeballs out,

<v Speaker 1>but I got him first before he could get to me.

<v Speaker 1>So I will tell you I'm still waiting on an

<v Speaker 1>exterminator to show up, and he might actually be here now,

<v Speaker 1>so I cannot guarantee that I may not have to

<v Speaker 1>duck out here for five minutes. I was holding out

<v Speaker 1>as long as I could. He was supposed to be

<v Speaker 1>here an hour ago, and like the cable guy, of course,

<v Speaker 1>never shows up on time. So do I have a hive?

<v Speaker 1>Obviously I've got something hidden somewhere. They've opened the Forbidden

<v Speaker 1>Door and they have created a nest or a colony.

<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure the entry point is outside the house,

<v Speaker 1>in the brick, and they have burrowed their way in

<v Speaker 1>and they have made their way up to the apartment upstairs.

<v Speaker 1>So yeah, it's staying. I haven't been stung yet. But

<v Speaker 1>I'll tell you what man, I would say from the

<v Speaker 1>time Forbidden Door started the main card to the time

<v Speaker 1>that that show ended. It was four and a half

<v Speaker 1>hours of this pay per view tonight, and that wasn't

<v Speaker 1>even the longest a show of the year. But I

<v Speaker 1>would say from the moment this show started to the

<v Speaker 1>moment it ended, I probably killed close to one hundred

<v Speaker 1>of them. Today was the worst day of them all.

<v Speaker 1>It was bad on Thursday, it got worse Friday yesterday.

<v Speaker 1>Now today it's like it's a graveyard. You should see

<v Speaker 1>my little handback. It's like it's an absolute graveyard. So yeah,

<v Speaker 1>it's not been fun. But anyway, that's why we ended

<v Speaker 1>up going live late. Here. I'm just beside myself, but

<v Speaker 1>you don't have to worry about that, because you're safe

<v Speaker 1>and sound wherever you are. Now. We had the zero

<v Speaker 1>hour pre show had four matches. I'm going to run

<v Speaker 1>through this as quickly as I possibly can, as far

<v Speaker 1>as the pre show because whatever we had Roderick struck.

<v Speaker 1>This was Tony con trying to fit as many people

<v Speaker 1>as he possibly could here on this pre show. So

<v Speaker 1>we had Roderick Shaw and Kylo Riley, Yuya Yui Mura

<v Speaker 1>from New Japan and El Desperado. They beat Leo Rush,

<v Speaker 1>Action Andretti, Josh Alexander and et Cicero. When the match

<v Speaker 1>was over, Lance Archer and Rocky Romero, they joined the

<v Speaker 1>Heels in attacking the baby Faces. Tomohiro Ische made his

<v Speaker 1>way out to the ring and is She and Archer.

<v Speaker 1>They traded elbow strikes. Is She got the better of

<v Speaker 1>the exchange. He hit a stalling what ex Caliber said

<v Speaker 1>was a brainbuster. It was not. It was a stalling suplex.

<v Speaker 1>No less impressive that he was able to hold Archer

<v Speaker 1>up there for a good five seconds, but it was

<v Speaker 1>not a brain buster. Ricochet and the Gates of Agony.

<v Speaker 1>They beat Speedball, Mike Bailey, Kevin Knight, and Michael Oku. Now,

<v Speaker 1>there was a lot of crazy shit that happened in

<v Speaker 1>the main event tonight with Osprey and Darby and his

<v Speaker 1>blooding gore and all the shit that Moxley and aw

<v Speaker 1>you know, the sickos and the fans love. So we

<v Speaker 1>had a lot of really crazy shit and dangerous bumps

<v Speaker 1>in the main event. None of them was the craziest

<v Speaker 1>bump of the night. Believe it or not. We saw

<v Speaker 1>people go through stacked tables and all kinds of craziness.

<v Speaker 1>The bump of the night unintentionally came in this match

<v Speaker 1>where someone almost died and it was Michael Oku. Now,

<v Speaker 1>Michael Oku, very talented young star out of the UK,

<v Speaker 1>obviously being in the UK tonight, everybody was very happy

<v Speaker 1>to see Michael Oku and too Leona up the gates

<v Speaker 1>of agony. At one point he hit Oku with a pounce.

<v Speaker 1>I've seen some pounces in my day, I ain't seen

<v Speaker 1>no pounds like this. He pounced Michael Oku out over

<v Speaker 1>the He cleared the top rope backwards and he goes

<v Speaker 1>flying out of the ring and he damned near lands

<v Speaker 1>right on top of his head because his body is

<v Speaker 1>rotating in mid air, so it looks like he's about

<v Speaker 1>to come straight down on his fucking head. At the

<v Speaker 1>very last second, he altered his movement. It looked like

<v Speaker 1>he landed face first on the floor, which honestly isn't

<v Speaker 1>much better, but it's better than landing on top of

<v Speaker 1>your fucking head. Everybody in the audience gasped, The announcers gasped.

<v Speaker 1>I gasped. I'm like, is he alive? I mean, I

<v Speaker 1>was sitting here. I was scared to death initially, because

<v Speaker 1>again it was it was scary. It was the scariest

<v Speaker 1>moment in the night, and it happened on the fucking

<v Speaker 1>pre show. I don't know how he was able to

<v Speaker 1>continue and finish that match. I mean, he looked a

<v Speaker 1>little loopy at first, but otherwise he was able to

<v Speaker 1>continue and he went on and my god, that's just

<v Speaker 1>absolute insanity. If you didn't see it, you can go

<v Speaker 1>back and check it out. But I mean, whether it

<v Speaker 1>was the pre show or the main card, that was

<v Speaker 1>scary all the same. And he's a very, very lucky man.

<v Speaker 1>The finish went over like a wet fart because the

<v Speaker 1>fans were not happy about Ricochet pinning Oku. Maybe out

<v Speaker 1>of this we'll get a singles match at some point

<v Speaker 1>between Rikoshet and Michael Oak who maybe that's what this

<v Speaker 1>is leading to. I don't know, but seriously, that bump

<v Speaker 1>was so dangerous and stupid and he's just lucky to

<v Speaker 1>be in one piece. Tecla, Julia Hart, Sky Blue and

<v Speaker 1>Megan Bain beat Willow Nightingale, Harley Cameron, Chris Statlander, and

<v Speaker 1>Queen am Nada after Bain ducked the clothes line from Statlander,

<v Speaker 1>who then accidentally hit Willow, and that led into the

<v Speaker 1>finish with Bain pinning Harley Cameron. You know, at some

<v Speaker 1>point before the end of the year, perhaps this Frenemi

<v Speaker 1>stuff which Statlander and Willow will actually pay off in

<v Speaker 1>some way. Maybe we'll actually get some forward movement in

<v Speaker 1>this story, because it just feels like we've been stuck

<v Speaker 1>in neutral for months with this stuff. And closing out

<v Speaker 1>the pre show match number four, the Ops the Trio's

<v Speaker 1>champion Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs, Katiori Shabata. They beat Clark Conners,

<v Speaker 1>Drilla Maloney and Bobby X of the Bullet Club war

<v Speaker 1>Dogs from New Japan Pro Wrestling to retain the aw

<v Speaker 1>Trios titles. So everybody got to be on the show. Now,

<v Speaker 1>we had already seen thirty wrestlers, thirty in action here

<v Speaker 1>on the show before we even got to the main card,

<v Speaker 1>which opened with Adam Copeland and Christian Cage in their

<v Speaker 1>first match tag teaming together in fourteen years, taking on

<v Speaker 1>kill Switch and Kip Sabian. Kill Switch, of course the

<v Speaker 1>replacement for Nick Wayne, who broke his foot legitimately a

<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks ago. He got bounced out of this match.

<v Speaker 1>Kill Switch, Lucasaurus, call him whatever you want to. He's

<v Speaker 1>been out all year. We haven't seen him since last summer,

<v Speaker 1>right last fall. Last summer, he had a very serious

<v Speaker 1>health situation. We talked about this on the review on

<v Speaker 1>Wednesday night. It was very touch and go there for

<v Speaker 1>a while, very very serious stuff, potentially life threatening. He

<v Speaker 1>made it through. Good to see him back, so he

<v Speaker 1>stepped in for Nick Wayne. Now, the fans that sing

<v Speaker 1>along here at the beginning. Copeland came out first and

<v Speaker 1>the fans that a sing along to alter Bridge everybody

<v Speaker 1>in the building. I mean, this was as loud we

<v Speaker 1>always hear them kind of pick up with the song

<v Speaker 1>when the song ends and they keep singing. This was

<v Speaker 1>as loud as any crowd has done it. I think

<v Speaker 1>since Copeland debuted here in aw and loud enough that

<v Speaker 1>even alter Bridge on Twitter reacted to what they saw here.

<v Speaker 1>When they saw the clip, they were very impressed. So

<v Speaker 1>Cage was punching Sabian in the corner early on here,

<v Speaker 1>and he scurried over to tag in kill Switch. Christian

<v Speaker 1>refused to fight him be tagged out right away to Copeland,

<v Speaker 1>who just looked over at him like really, dude, mother,

<v Speaker 1>Wayne got in Copeland's face outside long enough for kill

<v Speaker 1>Switch to use Sabian as a projectile. He picked his

<v Speaker 1>own partner up at a power bomb position and just

<v Speaker 1>threw him at Copeland. Kill Switch was throwing corner shots

<v Speaker 1>until Sabian tagged himself in and the fans booed. I

<v Speaker 1>should mention that Brian Danglson was on commentary for most

<v Speaker 1>of the matches here on this show, and he said

<v Speaker 1>that this was the same disrespect that Christian had shown

<v Speaker 1>Killswitch in the past. That's what Sabian was doing to

<v Speaker 1>him here. Later in the match, Sabian, who ended up

<v Speaker 1>bleeding from the eye, screamed at kill Switch to tag him,

<v Speaker 1>so Killswitch hit an overhand shot for a tag and

<v Speaker 1>then chucked him into the ring. Christian wanted a tag

<v Speaker 1>mother Wayne, though pulled him off the apron. Copeland was

<v Speaker 1>able to fight off kill Switch and Sabian and tag

<v Speaker 1>out to Christian, who finally faced his fear. He started

<v Speaker 1>throwing shots at kill Switch, only to run into a

<v Speaker 1>head butt. So there was a power bomb out of

<v Speaker 1>the corner by Copeland and a head butt from Christian Cage. Killswitch,

<v Speaker 1>though kicked out at one Sabian made the blind tag

<v Speaker 1>as Copeland and Cage hit a double impaler DDT on

<v Speaker 1>kill Switch. Bryce Ramsburg, though couldn't make the count. Kill

<v Speaker 1>Switch stood on the apron and grabbed Christian by the throat.

<v Speaker 1>Copeland speared kill Switch through the ropes to the floor.

<v Speaker 1>Cage ran into a knee from Sabian, who went for

<v Speaker 1>a kill switch himself. Cage those shoved him into the ropes.

<v Speaker 1>Christian popped Sabian up while Copeland returned to the ring

<v Speaker 1>and speared him, and then Christian covered a bloody kip

<v Speaker 1>Sabian to win it for his team. After the match

<v Speaker 1>was over, Christian offered Copeland a handshake, which he accepted.

<v Speaker 1>Copeland then went for a hug and Christian let him

<v Speaker 1>hug him, but again he didn't reciprocate. He seemed very

<v Speaker 1>uncomfortable about the entire situation. Solid Opener I looked at

<v Speaker 1>this as sort of an appetizer to the main course,

<v Speaker 1>which is coming, I assume in Toronto when Copeland and

<v Speaker 1>Christian take on FTR, that has to be the direction,

<v Speaker 1>whether it's all out or not. Right, we know that

<v Speaker 1>they're headed for a match with FTR at some point,

<v Speaker 1>so they didn't really need to give too much away here,

<v Speaker 1>and they told the story though of Kip Sabian disrespecting

<v Speaker 1>the dinosaur in the same way that Christian used to do,

<v Speaker 1>and if you think back to it before he went

<v Speaker 1>away with his health issues, they seemed to be building

<v Speaker 1>to a split where he was not going to tolerate

<v Speaker 1>this shit anymore with Christian, and they were doing the

<v Speaker 1>same thing here with kill Switching and Kip Sabium. No

<v Speaker 1>signs of dissension between Copeland and Christian. A couple of

<v Speaker 1>funny spots in there, like when he immediately tagged out

<v Speaker 1>to Copeland because he didn't want to wrestle kill Switch.

<v Speaker 1>But outside of that they worked like a well, they

<v Speaker 1>work like a team that actually had wrestled a few

<v Speaker 1>matches together back in the day. I don't know how

<v Speaker 1>many matches they had, maybe maybe a couple, but they

<v Speaker 1>wrestled like they used to be Tag team champions at

<v Speaker 1>some point. It's crazy. So we'll see if Christian learns

<v Speaker 1>to fully embrace his old self. I hope not. Copeland

<v Speaker 1>called him an asshole on Wednesday. He should, he should

<v Speaker 1>remain an asshole. That's the version of Christian I want

<v Speaker 1>to see. We had Kyle Fletcher defending the TNT Championship

<v Speaker 1>against New Japan's Hiromu Takahashi. They had the lead announcer

<v Speaker 1>for New Japan, Walker Stewart. I was gonna say they

<v Speaker 1>head Walker Stewart on commentary, who's very very good at

<v Speaker 1>what he does, and again very very young, only twenty

<v Speaker 1>three years old, and carries himself like a ten year vet.

<v Speaker 1>So he tagged in on commentary here. He replaced Tony

<v Speaker 1>Schavani on the call for this match, and Don Callus

<v Speaker 1>joined as well. Danielson said that he hoped Callus would

<v Speaker 1>have brought the oil painting with him of Fletcher and himself,

<v Speaker 1>but Callus said he's working on one of Danielson his

<v Speaker 1>headstone got a little dark there. Fletcher hit a lagerbomb

<v Speaker 1>showed frustration over not being able to get the pin.

<v Speaker 1>Horomu started laughing in response to Fletcher hitting him with

<v Speaker 1>rolling elbows. Takahashi ran into a big boot. Fletcher covered him,

<v Speaker 1>but Takahashi kicked out of one. Kyle set up for

<v Speaker 1>a brainbuster on the apron and Horomu countered into a

<v Speaker 1>DDT back inside Fletcher's stuff. Takahashi's time bomb finish and

<v Speaker 1>Kyle set up for something, but Takahashi counter with a

<v Speaker 1>destroyer for a nice near fall. Both men reverse tombstone

<v Speaker 1>pile driver attempts, and eventually Fletcher hit one for a

<v Speaker 1>two count. Fletcher wanted a brainbuster, Takahashi rolled through into

<v Speaker 1>a cradle. Fletcher held on though, and rolled into a

<v Speaker 1>sheer drop brainbuster and picked up the win. It started slow,

<v Speaker 1>but it picked up big time in the second half.

<v Speaker 1>Some good near falls. I mean, the finish was never

<v Speaker 1>in dowb and that was one of the issues with

<v Speaker 1>a lot of matches up and down this show, especially

<v Speaker 1>the championship matches. The outcomes were just never endowed. Nobody

<v Speaker 1>believed that, you know, Kyle Fletcher, twenty three days or

<v Speaker 1>twenty four days into his run as TNT champion, was

<v Speaker 1>losing to Horomu, you know who popped up on TV

<v Speaker 1>once in the build to this show. Nobody believed Mercedes

<v Speaker 1>Monet was losing her championship and so on, so that

<v Speaker 1>was always working against this match. No matter how good

<v Speaker 1>it was. That drama, you just weren't going to be

<v Speaker 1>able to get that drama. But it was the expected

<v Speaker 1>good match that you would think these two would have,

<v Speaker 1>and it was a competitive win for Fletcher. Again, he's

<v Speaker 1>not even thirty days into his title runs, so you know,

<v Speaker 1>to get a competitive win like this and more like

<v Speaker 1>these will help him along the way. We had a

<v Speaker 1>four way I mentioned Mercedes. We had a four way

<v Speaker 1>match for the TBS Championship with Mercedes nine belts. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>she has nine belts now as of Friday night. Mercedes

<v Speaker 1>Monette defending the TBS Championship against Alex Winza representing AEW,

<v Speaker 1>Persephone representing CMLL, and Bozilla representing Stardom. Mercedes entered last.

<v Speaker 1>Of course, she got the elaborate entrance because she's the champion.

<v Speaker 1>She entered with eight royal guards lining each side, four

<v Speaker 1>on each side, and it just so happens that she

<v Speaker 1>has nine belts, one of them being the TBS title,

<v Speaker 1>was around her waist, the other eight, Each one was

<v Speaker 1>held by one of the royal guards. Again, four on

<v Speaker 1>this side, four on that side. Everybody has a champion.

<v Speaker 1>That's the way it is here. Everybody gets a championship.

<v Speaker 1>So that was the big elaborate entrance for her. At

<v Speaker 1>least she didn't have to carry them all. She's going

<v Speaker 1>to get to a point, you know, when she hits ten,

<v Speaker 1>and she will get ten titles. I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>the tenth one is going to be. They'll just make

<v Speaker 1>one up. It's not like half these belts mean a

<v Speaker 1>fucking thing anyway, most of them don't. But when she

<v Speaker 1>gets to ten, I do wonder what she's she gonna

<v Speaker 1>have to have, like a wheelbarrow that she drags behind her.

<v Speaker 1>She's not the biggest person to begin with, so ten championships.

<v Speaker 1>It's a bit of a you know, a bit of

<v Speaker 1>an issue here because she travels everywhere with these belts.

<v Speaker 1>It's got to be a nightmare. I'm sure it's not

<v Speaker 1>as much of a nightmare as having, you know, hundreds

<v Speaker 1>of yellowjackets in your apartment, but it's probably pretty close.

<v Speaker 1>But she didn't have to worry about that tonight. So

<v Speaker 1>Bozilla early in this match, pressed Mercedes over her head

<v Speaker 1>and tossed her onto Windsor and Persephone. At ringside, Windsor

<v Speaker 1>and Persephone they work together. At one point, Ian Danielson

<v Speaker 1>mentioned on commentary that they have been tag team partners

<v Speaker 1>in the past, so they know each other. Danielson mentioned that, well,

<v Speaker 1>he mentioned something else, but it actually was irrelevant. So

<v Speaker 1>there was a big tower of doom spot with Mercedes

<v Speaker 1>on top, which left all four women down money, put

<v Speaker 1>Windsor and Persephone in a double statement maker, which they

<v Speaker 1>eventually escaped. Bozilla returned she clubbed Windsor, but Danielson said

<v Speaker 1>it reminded him of Vader. Actually, I could have sworn,

<v Speaker 1>you know, when Bosilla came out here, she had this

<v Speaker 1>mask on, and I mean, unless it was from the

<v Speaker 1>pyro at ringside, it looked like it was smoking. And

<v Speaker 1>I remember when Vader first debuted in WCW, his helmet

<v Speaker 1>would smoke. So I don't know if that was intentional,

<v Speaker 1>if she's borrowing some inspiration from from Vader or not,

<v Speaker 1>but I had thought the same thing when she came

<v Speaker 1>out during her entrance, but that's how she was treated

<v Speaker 1>and booked in this match. He was the monster, you know,

<v Speaker 1>she was the monster of the match here. So then

<v Speaker 1>Bosilla put both Persephone and Windsor down and hit a

<v Speaker 1>moonsaw from the middle rope onto them. Monette returned to

<v Speaker 1>the ring to break up the pin. Mercedes went for

<v Speaker 1>a poison RNA and spiked Bosilla on her head. Bosilla

<v Speaker 1>was barking at Persephanie a little bit later on, who

<v Speaker 1>was down on the floor, and Persephanie got pissed, returned

<v Speaker 1>to the ring and actually got Bosilla up and dropped

<v Speaker 1>her with a razor's edge. And Bosilla was by far

<v Speaker 1>the biggest, physically most imposing woman in the match, so

<v Speaker 1>that was kind of impressive getting her up for the

<v Speaker 1>razor's edge like that. Windsor put Persephone in a submission

<v Speaker 1>hold that Mercedes broke up. Persephanie hoisted Monet up for

<v Speaker 1>a razor's edge, but Monette rolled through into a pinning

<v Speaker 1>combination and got the pin to retain the TBS Championship.

<v Speaker 1>One of those flash pins that just comes out of nowhere,

<v Speaker 1>and she is still the TBS Champion. It had its moments,

<v Speaker 1>It had its moments. There just wasn't much done coming

<v Speaker 1>into this match to you know, generate any real interest

<v Speaker 1>in it. Nor did anyone actually believe that Mercedes was

<v Speaker 1>going to lose her title. So it was just a

<v Speaker 1>matter of like, who is she going to pin? You know,

<v Speaker 1>is it gonna be Alex windsor is it gonna be

<v Speaker 1>somebody from one of the other companies. It ended up

<v Speaker 1>being Persephone. But no matter how much they put over

<v Speaker 1>on commentary, the element of danger that she was in here,

<v Speaker 1>you know, how, she didn't have to be pinned to

<v Speaker 1>lose her championship. And four women in this match, which

<v Speaker 1>means that's three other people who could very well take

<v Speaker 1>her title away from her. Oh my god. You know,

<v Speaker 1>her title has never been in this much jeopardy. It's like, no,

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that anybody honestly believes that, no matter

<v Speaker 1>how hard you try to communicate that. I know that's

<v Speaker 1>their job to try to do so, but it wasn't

<v Speaker 1>gonna work. I will say this though, for an audience

<v Speaker 1>that may not be familiar with Persephone or may not

<v Speaker 1>be familiar with bo more so Bozilla, I mean She's

<v Speaker 1>twenty one years years old, she's only been wrestling for

<v Speaker 1>three years, she's only been in stardom for two months,

<v Speaker 1>and she was representing stardom in this match. Most people,

<v Speaker 1>I dare say, are probably not familiar with her and

<v Speaker 1>have never seen her wrestle before. Didn't know hardly anything

<v Speaker 1>about her other than she's second generation Olf. Herman is

<v Speaker 1>her father. She's twenty one. It's about all I know.

<v Speaker 1>It's about all anybody knows. So if you're somebody who

<v Speaker 1>for the first time, you're getting to see this woman,

<v Speaker 1>I thought that she did very, very well. I thought

<v Speaker 1>she was very impressive. She had some memorable spots here

<v Speaker 1>in this match. She was really good playing the monster role.

<v Speaker 1>You know, she played her part so much so that

<v Speaker 1>if I'm Stardom, I'm making now she's only been there

<v Speaker 1>two months. I don't know what her contract status is,

<v Speaker 1>but if I'm Stardom, I am locking her down as

<v Speaker 1>quickly as possible because the sharks are circling. Is what

<v Speaker 1>happened a few years ago for Bidden Door when Mercedes

<v Speaker 1>worked with Stephanie Vicaierre. Now, wwe already knew who Stephanie was.

<v Speaker 1>They already had eyes on her, but it took that

<v Speaker 1>match to kind of be like, all right, we got

<v Speaker 1>to act on this now, and then within weeks she

<v Speaker 1>was signed right, and WWE had her all locked up.

<v Speaker 1>So if I'm stardom, I'm trying to get her locked

<v Speaker 1>down for a certain period of time because WWE is

<v Speaker 1>going to be watching, and you know AW is going

<v Speaker 1>to be watching, and they're gonna want to get their

<v Speaker 1>hands on Bozilla. So I'm just saying, they want to

<v Speaker 1>hold on to her, I better take care of that

<v Speaker 1>real suit if she isn't already signed now. He had

<v Speaker 1>Zach Saber Junior, the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, defending his

<v Speaker 1>championship against Nigel McGinnis, who had Daniel Garcia in his corner.

<v Speaker 1>Daniel Garcia was in the four way match on Collision

<v Speaker 1>last week where Nigel became number one contender, and it

<v Speaker 1>was after that match and obviously Danny was, you know,

<v Speaker 1>very down in the dumps over losing, but it was

<v Speaker 1>Nigel who extended a hand and said, I want you

<v Speaker 1>to be in my corner and it's a screamed angle

<v Speaker 1>alert to me, so he was out there in Nigel's corner.

<v Speaker 1>They aired a video package here before any of the

<v Speaker 1>entrances that showed McGinnis meeting up with the legendary Johnny

<v Speaker 1>Saint in a park somewhere in London, and then they

<v Speaker 1>sit down and they're playing chess and we got a

<v Speaker 1>dialogue back and forth and they're they're talking to each

<v Speaker 1>other and McGinnis finally calls checkmate and Johnny says, now

<v Speaker 1>you're getting it. Now go do that again. At Forbidden Door,

<v Speaker 1>Nigel comes out. No Oasis theme for Nigel mcguinnis just

<v Speaker 1>for I thought for old time's sake. Tony might pay

<v Speaker 1>to use it here, but no Dice. Brian Danielson was

<v Speaker 1>giddy like a kid calling this match. This. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>this was just right up his alley. This was just

<v Speaker 1>a technical wrestling clinic. This is what he lives for.

<v Speaker 1>If you remember when Danielson was on the WWE network,

<v Speaker 1>he was on commentary calling the Cruiserweight Classic many years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Might have been him and Morrow doing the Cruiserweight Classic,

<v Speaker 1>and he was just in his element. He really like,

<v Speaker 1>that's the Brian Danielson that we got here on commentary.

<v Speaker 1>Walker Stewart also replaced Tony Schavanni. Again we got a

<v Speaker 1>holy shit chant that broke out as soon as the

<v Speaker 1>bell rang. The fans then switched to a this is

<v Speaker 1>Wrestling chant. Saber caught McGuinness in a submission hold. Garcia

<v Speaker 1>at one point pushed the rope forward to help McGinnis

<v Speaker 1>a couple of times, and the referee caught him and

<v Speaker 1>admonished him, told him to back off, and Danielson questioned

<v Speaker 1>how upset Nigel would be if Garcia ended up getting

<v Speaker 1>him disqualified. McGinnis turned Saber inside out with a lariat

<v Speaker 1>and then followed up with a short arm clothes line

<v Speaker 1>that yet again turned him inside out. McGinnis covered Saber,

<v Speaker 1>who had a bloody nose at this point for a

<v Speaker 1>near fall. Saber caught McGinnis in an arm bar over

<v Speaker 1>the ropes, and Saber broke the hold that the four

<v Speaker 1>count then dropped to the floor, got right up in

<v Speaker 1>Garcia's face. Garcia, you know, he held back, but Saber

<v Speaker 1>knew what he was doing. He was trying to rattle

<v Speaker 1>his cage. Saber went to the ropes, he got cut

<v Speaker 1>off by McGinnis, who hit the Tower of London. McGinnis

<v Speaker 1>went for the pin. Saber, though, put his foot on

<v Speaker 1>the bottom rope right in front of Garcia for the break.

<v Speaker 1>Both men traded pin attempts, including a European clutch by

<v Speaker 1>Saber that only got two. More pin attempts followed, led

<v Speaker 1>to Saber catching McGinnis with the flash pin in one

<v Speaker 1>of them to retain the IWGP championship. After the match

<v Speaker 1>was over, McGinnis was very upset. Saber, though, shook his

<v Speaker 1>hand and gave him the ring out of respect. Now

<v Speaker 1>Tony Shavanni was in the ring, so I'm thinking, okay,

<v Speaker 1>here we go. Here comes the angle because now Garcia

<v Speaker 1>is getting into the ring, Nigel's in the ring, Saber

<v Speaker 1>has left. Why is Tony Shavanni there? Right? He's going

<v Speaker 1>to get some postmatch comments, and the fans also thought

<v Speaker 1>something was about to happen. Garcia just blew past them,

<v Speaker 1>blew past the Chavanni. He spun me a Guinness around

<v Speaker 1>and he gave him a hug and then they left.

<v Speaker 1>Shravanni then ended up being there just to announce the attendance,

<v Speaker 1>which he said was eighteen nine hundred and ninety two.

<v Speaker 1>So if you round that up, nineteen thousand people, which

<v Speaker 1>was the largest pro wrestling crowd ever at the two.

<v Speaker 1>But see that's what happens when you really stop giving

<v Speaker 1>as much of a shit about how many people are

<v Speaker 1>in the building and you just start charging exorbitant prices

<v Speaker 1>to set gate records. That's that's also what we're seeing

<v Speaker 1>going on these days. But good for them. They now

<v Speaker 1>own the all time pro wrestling attendance record at the

<v Speaker 1>O two Arena in London. That now belongs to Tony

<v Speaker 1>Kahan and aaw so good on them. It's good to

<v Speaker 1>see them get a healthy crowd like that. But in

<v Speaker 1>the UK again, in the UK that's one of their strongest,

<v Speaker 1>if not frankly their strongest fan base. They put almost

<v Speaker 1>eighty thousand people in Wembley Stadium a few years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Then they came back and put fifty thousand people in

<v Speaker 1>Wembley Stadium. Now they put almost twenty thousand people here

<v Speaker 1>at the two. They're going back to Wembley next year.

<v Speaker 1>That'll be very interesting to go from eighty to fifty.

<v Speaker 1>They took a year off, now they're going to go

<v Speaker 1>back to Wembley in twenty twenty six. What kind of

<v Speaker 1>crowd are they going to do in twenty twenty six, Well,

<v Speaker 1>they have will Osprey back in time for that show

<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty six. That'll be very interesting. As far

<v Speaker 1>as the match, it was a great technical style wrestling match,

<v Speaker 1>as you would expect. I would expect nothing less from

<v Speaker 1>these two. There wasn't any kind of story, so you

<v Speaker 1>were going into it just hoping for a great wrestling match.

<v Speaker 1>There wasn't even any time to develop a story. You know,

<v Speaker 1>Sabers the IWGP champion, so he's coming over from Japan.

<v Speaker 1>The g one just wrapped up. Nigel just became number

<v Speaker 1>one contender in a four way match. The story if

<v Speaker 1>there was going to be one, what is going to

<v Speaker 1>be between McGinnis and Garcia. So all that there was

<v Speaker 1>here was the potential for a great professional wrestling match,

<v Speaker 1>and that's what these two went out there and had.

<v Speaker 1>I'm happy for Nigel that he was able to get

<v Speaker 1>that moment. You could tell it meant a lot to him.

<v Speaker 1>And as far as the Garcia stuff is concerned, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking the heel turn is coming. Didn't happen tonight,

<v Speaker 1>I do feel it's coming soon. Tonight was not the night. Now.

<v Speaker 1>They cut to the back after this match and we

<v Speaker 1>see Tecla and Queen Ami Nada and they are brawling backstage,

<v Speaker 1>presumably still from their match on the pre show that

<v Speaker 1>was two hours ago, so we are led to believe.

<v Speaker 1>I guess that these women have been brawling for the

<v Speaker 1>past two hours. Now they brawl out into the arena.

<v Speaker 1>They're in the isleway. Sky Blue and Julia Hart run

<v Speaker 1>out to assist Tecla to make it a three on one,

<v Speaker 1>and the two of them are holding Ami Nada for Tecla,

<v Speaker 1>who does her spider pose and shout out to the

<v Speaker 1>late bray Wyatt. Made me think of bray Wyatt passed

<v Speaker 1>away two years ago. You believed that two years It's crazy,

<v Speaker 1>But she does her spider pose and that is the

<v Speaker 1>cue for them to hit Jamie Hayter's music and out

<v Speaker 1>she comes and all the fans of the O two

<v Speaker 1>in London they go crazy for her. We have not

<v Speaker 1>seen Jamie Hayter since her loss in Mercedes Monet and

<v Speaker 1>the Owen Hart Tournament. What was that at this point

<v Speaker 1>three months ago, four months ago. It's been a while.

<v Speaker 1>So Sky Blue and Julia Hart they get leveled. Tecla

<v Speaker 1>dodges the hater Aide clothesline and the triangle of madness

<v Speaker 1>they bail. Hater goes to ten two Ami Nada. I

<v Speaker 1>have to say, you know, the Ami Nada techless stuff

<v Speaker 1>has been from what I've seen of it. I've seen

<v Speaker 1>some of the collision stuff, and I've seen whatever they've

<v Speaker 1>done on dynamite, which is rare for them to be

<v Speaker 1>on dynamite. But it's a solid, you know, mid card

<v Speaker 1>women's few that really comes off like these two women

<v Speaker 1>don't like each other. They've done a really good job

<v Speaker 1>of building up this bad blood between them, so this

<v Speaker 1>is not like a random sort of thing here. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>this is something that has been building and building and

<v Speaker 1>building for weeks. These two women do not like one another,

<v Speaker 1>so I like that aspect of it, and I definitely

<v Speaker 1>think they could be doing more with both women, including

<v Speaker 1>am Nada, and hopefully we'll see them continue to ascend

<v Speaker 1>in the division. Great to see Jamie hayterback. That was

<v Speaker 1>a brutal it was like a DDT. I remember her

<v Speaker 1>head got spiked into the mat in that match with Mercedes,

<v Speaker 1>and I don't know if that's what put her out,

<v Speaker 1>but I would be shocked if it wasn't. So thankfully

<v Speaker 1>she's back now and if they can get her back healthy,

<v Speaker 1>that's a huge addition to the women's division, and she

<v Speaker 1>was saying into the camera, She's coming for Tekla. Now,

<v Speaker 1>after this, we had what was originally listed as an

<v Speaker 1>elimination three way match for the aw Tag Team Championship.

<v Speaker 1>It ended up not being an elimination match, and there

<v Speaker 1>was nothing said about this. It just wasn't an elimination match.

<v Speaker 1>So very odd that they would announce it as one

<v Speaker 1>and listed in the graphic is one and then it

<v Speaker 1>ends up not being an elimination match. Make of that

<v Speaker 1>what you will. With the Hurt Syndicate defending their titles

<v Speaker 1>against FTR and against Brodido, the team of Brody King

<v Speaker 1>and the Ring of Honor World champion Bandido, MVP was

<v Speaker 1>not out there with the Hurt Syndicate. Also very strange

<v Speaker 1>why he wasn't there. Both teams went aft because he

<v Speaker 1>was there on Wednesday. You know, they were in Glasgow,

<v Speaker 1>so he was on the show on Wednesday. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>both teams went after the champions at the start. One

<v Speaker 1>of the highlights of this was when Lashly and Brody

<v Speaker 1>King came face to face in the ring and the

<v Speaker 1>crowd reacted to it in a major way and they

<v Speaker 1>went at it and crowd was really up for it.

<v Speaker 1>Lashly put King down with a spinebuster. Brody, though, popped

<v Speaker 1>right back up dropped Lashly with a clothesline. When Lashley

<v Speaker 1>got up, King clothes lined him over the top rope

<v Speaker 1>to the floor. Bandido performed a fall away Moon Salt

<v Speaker 1>slam while holding Dax Harwood off the top rope onto

<v Speaker 1>the pile of wrestlers on the floor, which was kind

<v Speaker 1>of crazy. Lashly and Benjamin got Brody back in the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Benjamin hit him with a high knee in the corner,

<v Speaker 1>and then Lashley speared Brody went Suddenly everything was going

<v Speaker 1>well here and then all of a sudden, we have

<v Speaker 1>a group of masked wrestlers in New Japan Jackets that

<v Speaker 1>show up at ringside and they attack the hurt Syndicate

<v Speaker 1>and the mass Men. They worked over lashly in Benjamin

<v Speaker 1>with a weapon I think it might have been a pipe.

<v Speaker 1>This was in the aisleway and that effectively eliminated the

<v Speaker 1>Hurt Syndicate from this match because after this they were

<v Speaker 1>a non factor. Meanwhile, Dax blasted Brody in the head

<v Speaker 1>with an unprotected chair shot to the head, which was

<v Speaker 1>very dumb. The Mask Men then revealed themselves to be

<v Speaker 1>Ricochet and the Gates of Agony. You could almost hear

<v Speaker 1>the groan in the building because why right. You look

<v Speaker 1>at this initially and you think, well, why would they

<v Speaker 1>be out here? And there actually is a potential storyline

<v Speaker 1>reason why they would be out there, although this was

<v Speaker 1>never explored. So the timing of the reveal though, was

<v Speaker 1>terrible because when they took the masks off to do

<v Speaker 1>the reveal, it came at the exact moment where there

<v Speaker 1>was a really big near fall taking place in the

<v Speaker 1>ring that we almost missed. So it just felt like

<v Speaker 1>it didn't have the impact that it should have had

<v Speaker 1>for the finish of the match, and this is where

<v Speaker 1>things just fell apart. For the finish of the match,

<v Speaker 1>Brody Monkey flipped his own partner he monkey flipped Bandido

<v Speaker 1>over onto Dax who was on the mat, and he

<v Speaker 1>didn't land it flush, so that looked a little wonky.

<v Speaker 1>But he hooked the leg. Obviously this was supposed to

<v Speaker 1>be the finish. He hooked the leg and things fell

<v Speaker 1>apart because Bandido, he, I don't I didn't even know

<v Speaker 1>what happened. He slipped off of Dax. He like came

<v Speaker 1>off of Dax, but there was nobody there. It's not

<v Speaker 1>like anybody pulled him off or anything like that. So

<v Speaker 1>he slips off Dax briefly, and the referee holds up

<v Speaker 1>his count. Meanwhile, Cash Wheeler dives into the ring as

<v Speaker 1>if he's trying to break up the pin and trying

<v Speaker 1>to make the save, and the spot clearly was going

<v Speaker 1>to be that he you know, he dives in and

<v Speaker 1>he's just he gets there too late, and Brodido gets

<v Speaker 1>the big surprise win. But because the referee held up

<v Speaker 1>and now Wheeler's in the ring, he dove into the

<v Speaker 1>ring and the match is still in progress, and so

<v Speaker 1>Bendido just covers Dax again and then he gets the

<v Speaker 1>three and we have new tag team champions. That is

<v Speaker 1>how the what has been eight months the eight month

<v Speaker 1>reign of the Hurt Syndicate as the Tag Team Champions

<v Speaker 1>comes to an end here and Cash Wheeler ends up

<v Speaker 1>looking like a fucking idiot. This was as bad as

<v Speaker 1>it sounds, not just the botch, but the ricochet and

<v Speaker 1>the gates of agony interference. It just completely ruined the

<v Speaker 1>finish of the match, from the moment they came out

<v Speaker 1>and got involved and then unmasked, and then the shit

<v Speaker 1>finish here. I don't want to say it ruined the

<v Speaker 1>entire match, but it ruined what should have been a

<v Speaker 1>great match, and it definitely took it down a few notches.

<v Speaker 1>This was the first real unpredictable finish of the entire show.

<v Speaker 1>I certainly didn't see Brodido leaving with the tag team titles.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think most people would have seen Brodido leaving

<v Speaker 1>with the tag team titles. If anything, I figured they

<v Speaker 1>were in the match to take the losing fall so

<v Speaker 1>that the Hurt Syndicate wouldn't have to be pinned by FTR.

<v Speaker 1>But instead they actually are the champions, and Bandido now

<v Speaker 1>is a double champion because he's also the Ring of

<v Speaker 1>Honor World Champion. Now he's got himself an aw tag

<v Speaker 1>Team title. There's a story going on here. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>exactly sure what all the details are of this story.

<v Speaker 1>There were reports that came out in the last few

<v Speaker 1>weeks about the Hurt Syndicate and MVP, in particular rejecting

<v Speaker 1>pitches from let's be honest, from Tony Khan. Who else

<v Speaker 1>would it be from to have the Hurt Syndicate drop

<v Speaker 1>the tag team titles as far back as Texas at

<v Speaker 1>all in and to drop them to them at Forbidden

<v Speaker 1>Door that they didn't want to drop the titles to FTR,

<v Speaker 1>and supposedly they had floated other names like the Outrunners

<v Speaker 1>and Private Party who they could drop the tag team

<v Speaker 1>titles to instead in the Gates of Agony, which wouldn't

<v Speaker 1>have made any sense. It's their heels, but apparently not.

<v Speaker 1>FTR and I talked about this, and if any of

<v Speaker 1>that is true, it's completely ridiculous. MVP and the Hurt

<v Speaker 1>Syndicate are not in any position to tell Tony Khan,

<v Speaker 1>you know what, we don't want to lose to these guys. Really,

<v Speaker 1>the whole thing is just completely stupid. But you look

<v Speaker 1>at what happened in Texas, where it would have made

<v Speaker 1>sense for FTR to be a part of the title match,

<v Speaker 1>and they got left off the main car. They were

<v Speaker 1>doing commentary out there for the Hurt Syndicates. That was weird.

<v Speaker 1>Then these reports come out they're doing this tournament, and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I think that very well. Can we can

<v Speaker 1>see a draw here in the finals and maybe they'll

<v Speaker 1>send Brodido to the match at Forbidden Door. That's exactly

<v Speaker 1>what ends up happening. And what happens the Hurt Syndicate

<v Speaker 1>gets taken out of the match. Now, I'm not gonna

<v Speaker 1>sit here and tell you that that shocked me. I

<v Speaker 1>was actually expecting that there was a very good chance

<v Speaker 1>that could happen. When I thought this was going to

<v Speaker 1>be an elimination match, I thought they might go for

<v Speaker 1>the shock moment where Brodido actually pins the Hurt Syndicate,

<v Speaker 1>not FTR. They pin the Hurt Syndicate to get them

<v Speaker 1>out of the match. That then guarantees new tag Team champions,

<v Speaker 1>and then FTR goes on to beat Brodido. But then

<v Speaker 1>the elimination stipulation just disappeared with no explanation, and then

<v Speaker 1>sure enough, the Hurt Syndicate they're spared because Ricochet and goa,

<v Speaker 1>they take care of them. They don't have to be

<v Speaker 1>part of the losing fall. And even though I was

<v Speaker 1>expecting something like that and I'm not shocked by it,

<v Speaker 1>I mean that is seriously weak shit. These guys ran

<v Speaker 1>through every single challenger that Tony Khan put in front

<v Speaker 1>of them, from Private Party to the Outrunners to the

<v Speaker 1>Gates of Agony to everybody, everybody, jet Speed, everybody right,

<v Speaker 1>beat them all, some of them worse than others. Finally,

<v Speaker 1>they're going to lose the tag team titles and they

<v Speaker 1>can't even be a part of the losing fall. We

<v Speaker 1>have to protect them, so we're going to have somebody

<v Speaker 1>else get pinned and that's how their eight month reign

<v Speaker 1>as Tag Team Champions is going to come to an end.

<v Speaker 1>So you put all of these things together, and the

<v Speaker 1>one who actually ends up coming out of this I

<v Speaker 1>think looking the worst is Tony Khan, because he should

<v Speaker 1>be able to say, look, I have a vision for

<v Speaker 1>where we want to go here, and it'll mean more

<v Speaker 1>maybe if the Hurt Syndicate actually does, you know, fall

<v Speaker 1>to these guys or those guys, And instead everything they

<v Speaker 1>did here was just very very weak. The match itself

<v Speaker 1>up until the collapse there at the end was actually

<v Speaker 1>very good. But I'm more interested in some of the

<v Speaker 1>behind the scenes going on here, and maybe that'll come out.

<v Speaker 1>We'll see, But I just thought it's a terrible look

<v Speaker 1>for him. It's a terrible look for Tony Kahan, and

<v Speaker 1>it's just very weak that after all this time, the

<v Speaker 1>Hurt Syndicate still couldn't do a job to one of

<v Speaker 1>these two teams and they had to send of all

<v Speaker 1>people ricocheting in the Gates of Agony. You have nothing

<v Speaker 1>to do with any of this stuff, send them out

<v Speaker 1>there to get involved in the finish of this match. Now,

<v Speaker 1>I said that there could be a storyline explanation for this.

<v Speaker 1>I thought maybe it was gonna play itself out in

<v Speaker 1>the World Championship match later in the show, because we

<v Speaker 1>saw on Wednesday that MJF had worked out an arrangement

<v Speaker 1>with Rickosheane the Gates of Agony to attack Mark Briscoe.

<v Speaker 1>They're doing business together. So I see them out there

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, what the fuck is Rickosheane the Gates

<v Speaker 1>of Agony doing out here. Well, Hurt syndikit kicked them.

<v Speaker 1>JF at the group a few weeks ago, nothing's been

<v Speaker 1>mentioned about it ever since. And I mean there were

<v Speaker 1>reports that a certain someone within the Hurt Syndicate, could

<v Speaker 1>be a certain man possibly whose last name rhymes with Smashley,

<v Speaker 1>didn't want MJF in the group, and that's why it

<v Speaker 1>was so sudden, the way they sort of cut him out.

<v Speaker 1>And that was the end of the storyline. And here

<v Speaker 1>I am thinking, well, maybe there's a way to kind

<v Speaker 1>of circle back to it and at least have MJF

<v Speaker 1>try to get revenge on the Hurt Syndicate. For all

<v Speaker 1>we know, the Hurt Syndicate didn't want to have anything

<v Speaker 1>to do with MJF anymore, and that really is the

<v Speaker 1>end of the story. But you could easily explain it

<v Speaker 1>by saying MJF paid off Ricochet and goa to cost

<v Speaker 1>the Hurt Syndicate the tag team titles. And if the

<v Speaker 1>Hurt Syndicate had a sense that maybe this is what happened,

<v Speaker 1>then maybe they would have showed up during the Hangman

<v Speaker 1>MJF match tonight and cost MJF his chance to become

<v Speaker 1>world champion. But then that didn't happen, So I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if that's the direction they're going in or not.

<v Speaker 1>For this to make any sense whatsoever, it has to

<v Speaker 1>be there's no other logical explanation for why they would

<v Speaker 1>have showed up and doing what they did here in

<v Speaker 1>this match, other than well, maybe they want to start

<v Speaker 1>a program between the Hurt Syndicate and the Gates of Agony.

<v Speaker 1>That would be fucking lame if that's how they set

<v Speaker 1>it up, and that's the only reason we saw them

<v Speaker 1>out here. So we'll wait for TV and see if

<v Speaker 1>they follow up on this, because to me, the only

<v Speaker 1>legitimate explanation for any of this is if MJF was

<v Speaker 1>the one behind it, and if not, then this was very,

<v Speaker 1>very stupid. So now we look at Broddo, they're the

<v Speaker 1>tag team champions. Do they get a short run? Are

<v Speaker 1>they going to immediately drop the belts to FTR anyway?

<v Speaker 1>Because I still feel like FTR is going to end

<v Speaker 1>up with those titles. Are we going into Toronto at

<v Speaker 1>all out next month and having copelanding Christian against FTR

<v Speaker 1>without the titles on the line. You could certainly do that,

<v Speaker 1>but whoever Brodido then defends the titles against unless you

<v Speaker 1>make it a three way, Why the fuck not? The

<v Speaker 1>last two months, the last two pay per views. The

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles have been contested in three ways, why

<v Speaker 1>not go three in a row? Make it a hat trick.

<v Speaker 1>Unless you do that, anybody that Brodido defend the tag

<v Speaker 1>team titles against in Toronto, that match, that tag team

<v Speaker 1>championship match, is playing second fiddle to Cope in Christian

<v Speaker 1>in Canada Wrestling FTR, So why would you want your

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles to play second fiddle? It would almost

<v Speaker 1>be better to have Brodido in there and make it

<v Speaker 1>a three way. Like you gave away Copeland and Christian

<v Speaker 1>their first match in fourteen years tonight on this show.

<v Speaker 1>That was the attraction in Toronto. You gave it away tonight.

<v Speaker 1>That's fine. The next attraction would be them challenging for

<v Speaker 1>the tag team titles, but to do that they would

<v Speaker 1>have to wrestle FTR. So could FTR end up with

<v Speaker 1>the belts between now and then? It's certainly possible, but

<v Speaker 1>it's almost like a no win situation now, because you've

<v Speaker 1>now changed the tag team titles once, do you really

<v Speaker 1>want to change the tag team titles again in the

<v Speaker 1>next couple of weeks and then potentially a third time

<v Speaker 1>at all out Because now you're just hot shotting it,

<v Speaker 1>and that don't see as being a good thing. So

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how long Brodido was going to have

<v Speaker 1>these belts for. I don't think they're going to have

<v Speaker 1>them for very long. But yeah, I don't know what

<v Speaker 1>they would then do in Toronto unless you add them

<v Speaker 1>to that match with Copeland and Christian and FTR, if

<v Speaker 1>we assume that's the direction that we're headed in. So

<v Speaker 1>it was a very surprising decision here. Like I said,

<v Speaker 1>the first really unpredictable finish on the entire show, and

<v Speaker 1>things were going pretty well until we hit the last

<v Speaker 1>ninety seconds or so and then this just fell apart.

<v Speaker 1>We had Kazuchka Okata defending the Continental Championship against Swerve Strickland.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, the Unified Championship. This god so many fucking

<v Speaker 1>belts in this company. He's still carrying around the Continental

<v Speaker 1>title and the International title, but it's the Unified Championship.

<v Speaker 1>I stand corrected. I got to get my title straight

<v Speaker 1>here in this company, So he was defending the unified title.

<v Speaker 1>Jim Ross joined on commentary for this one and immediately

<v Speaker 1>was disappointed that he had to be seated next to

<v Speaker 1>Don Kallous continental title rules. See this is why I

<v Speaker 1>was confused. Continental title rules were enforced here in this match,

<v Speaker 1>which meant no interference allowed, which meant Prince Nana had

<v Speaker 1>to go to the back. Prince Nana could not be

<v Speaker 1>at ringside for this match. But Don Kallis who manages Okada,

<v Speaker 1>he was allowed at ringside because he was doing commentary.

<v Speaker 1>Why can't Prince Nana say hey, I want to do

<v Speaker 1>commentary too. He didn't think to do that, so Nana

<v Speaker 1>had to stay in the back, But it was okay

<v Speaker 1>for Don Callous to be out there right. Ridiculous. That

<v Speaker 1>will never not be ridiculous. I don't care how many

<v Speaker 1>times this happens. It will never not be ridiculous. Now, Swer,

<v Speaker 1>for those who don't know, is dealing with a legitimate

<v Speaker 1>knee injury. He has a torn meniscus in his knee.

<v Speaker 1>He has had that torn meniscus in his knee for

<v Speaker 1>six years. When he tore his miniscus, he was at

<v Speaker 1>the WWE Performance Center. That's how long he's had this for.

<v Speaker 1>And evidently whatever happened, he aggravated it recently and it's

<v Speaker 1>become a real issue. Prior to tonight, he had not

<v Speaker 1>wrestled since a match with I Believe at Cicero on

<v Speaker 1>July twenty third, and there was a report that Tony

<v Speaker 1>Khan has had him working with the medical team from

<v Speaker 1>the Jacksonville Jaguars trying to get him whatever aid he

<v Speaker 1>needs to heal or at least heal up enough to

<v Speaker 1>be in this match. And you know, watching him out there,

<v Speaker 1>he was fine. I mean, he didn't look like he

<v Speaker 1>was limping around or anything until he was selling as

<v Speaker 1>part of the match, so I mean he was able

<v Speaker 1>to work the match fine. But they incorporated that into

<v Speaker 1>the story of the match. Early on, he got sent

<v Speaker 1>over the top rope, he landed on his feet, for example,

<v Speaker 1>and he begins to sell the knee. Okada had a

<v Speaker 1>long run of offense. Swerve came back and held Ocata's

<v Speaker 1>wrist as both men got to their feet. Swerve then

<v Speaker 1>hit him with a few clothed lines, hit a stomp

<v Speaker 1>from the middle rope, and then covered Okada for two.

<v Speaker 1>Swerve ended up on the ropes. Okada shoved him and

<v Speaker 1>it caused Swerve's leg to bend at a very awkward

<v Speaker 1>angle and he got his leg caught in the ropes.

<v Speaker 1>Okada joined him on the ropes and then drove Swerves

<v Speaker 1>knee into the top turn buckle. Strickland missed the swerve

<v Speaker 1>stomp off the apron on the floor. He came up limping.

<v Speaker 1>Okada answered with a tombstone and back inside. There were

<v Speaker 1>some short arm lariats from Okata, who tried a rain maker.

<v Speaker 1>Strickland counter though into a house call kick. Swerve got

<v Speaker 1>a series of short arm lariats of his own. He

<v Speaker 1>wanted another one, actually another house call. Okada saw it

<v Speaker 1>coming with a dropkick, though Strickland avoided a rain maker.

<v Speaker 1>Okata hit another drop kick. A third rain maker attempt

<v Speaker 1>got countered, this time with Strickland hitting a pop up

<v Speaker 1>power slam. The swerve stomp was delivered, but at what cost?

<v Speaker 1>At what cost? Strickland came up clutching his bad leg.

<v Speaker 1>Okada rolled out to the apron. He cut off Swerve

<v Speaker 1>in the corner, hit a knee breaker on the top turnbuckle.

<v Speaker 1>Swerve managed to fire off a desperation house call kick,

<v Speaker 1>but as he called for one more, Okada ducked it

<v Speaker 1>and hit the rain maker. And all it took was

<v Speaker 1>one one rain maker and he got the win. I

<v Speaker 1>like that. After the match was over, Okada got swerves

<v Speaker 1>right knee between the ring post and the ring steps,

<v Speaker 1>and he just started battering him with share shots. Prince

<v Speaker 1>Nana finally ran out with a pipe. All these pipes.

<v Speaker 1>Who is laying down all this pipe all over the

<v Speaker 1>place here in aw his pipes everywhere. So he runs

<v Speaker 1>out with a pipe. Caused Okada to drop the chair

<v Speaker 1>and he exits stage left. Okada and callus. They're standing

<v Speaker 1>in the aisleway and they're looking on as someone appears

<v Speaker 1>behind Prince Nana in the ring. And I'm looking at

<v Speaker 1>this guy and I think I know who it is,

<v Speaker 1>but it's a little hard to tell at first. It's

<v Speaker 1>not like I had this guy on the brain thinking

<v Speaker 1>he was going to be back any time soon. But

<v Speaker 1>sure enough, I'm looking and it is Wardlow. He's back.

<v Speaker 1>The last time we saw Wardlow in the ring, probably

<v Speaker 1>the last time we saw Wardlow at all, was Big Business,

<v Speaker 1>the Big Business episode of Dynamite That was in March

<v Speaker 1>of last year. That was the night Mercedes Monet made

<v Speaker 1>her debut in aew It has been almost eighteen months

<v Speaker 1>since we have seen Wardlow. Now I know he had

<v Speaker 1>some I think a knee issue and I know recently

<v Speaker 1>he was off filming American Gladiators, which is being hosted

<v Speaker 1>by the MIZ. Might have to check that out when

<v Speaker 1>it comes out. So eighteen months later, he has returned.

<v Speaker 1>After a much failure in his career, Wardlow has returned,

<v Speaker 1>and I thought the the reaction on commentary for this

<v Speaker 1>was actually pretty underwhelming. It wasn't as underwhelming as when

<v Speaker 1>Christian returned to WWE as part of ECW, but it

<v Speaker 1>was pretty underwhelming. Wardlow closed line Prince Nana. Then he

<v Speaker 1>mounted Nana and he started throwing punches down at him.

<v Speaker 1>Swerves in the corner looking up at this and he's helpless,

<v Speaker 1>got the bad knee, and he just he can't do

<v Speaker 1>anything to save as his friend. All he could do

<v Speaker 1>is watch. Security geeks entered the ring to hold back Wardlow,

<v Speaker 1>and that did not go very well for them, because

<v Speaker 1>that's what makes them security geeks. They're not very good

<v Speaker 1>at their job. So Wardlow beats them up, single file,

<v Speaker 1>one by one. He closed lines one guy, he power

<v Speaker 1>bombs another guy, the other guy eight and f five.

<v Speaker 1>Wardlow then exited the ring and he goes over and

<v Speaker 1>he gives a hug to Don Callous and Kazuchka Okada

<v Speaker 1>confirming that he is indeed either part of the Callous

<v Speaker 1>family or a hired gun. I mean part of the family,

<v Speaker 1>and let's just call it what it is. He's part

<v Speaker 1>of the don Kallis family. Josh Alexander comes out as well,

<v Speaker 1>Et Cicero, Kyle Fletcher, Lance Archer, Rocky Romero. They all

<v Speaker 1>make their way out to celebrate with these guys in

<v Speaker 1>the aisle way. They're all welcoming Wardlow into the family.

<v Speaker 1>Kenoski to ketch. His music hits and everybody cheers and

<v Speaker 1>he gets his own separate entrance And what's going to

<v Speaker 1>happen here? What does he think about all this? Right?

<v Speaker 1>The winner of the g One Climax. He just got

<v Speaker 1>back from Japan. He comes down the aisle and he

<v Speaker 1>goes face to face with Wardlow. Then he smirks and yeah,

<v Speaker 1>he didn't shake his hand or hug him or anything,

<v Speaker 1>but he kind of fell back in line and everything's

<v Speaker 1>cool and the family is all together. The don Kallis

<v Speaker 1>family stuff is just out of control. It seriously, I

<v Speaker 1>made the combat. I'm like watching this and I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>I think there may be more members of the don

<v Speaker 1>Kallis family than I have had yellowjackets in this apartment

<v Speaker 1>all weekend. That's a lot, Okay. So there's a lot

<v Speaker 1>of members. And I counted eight out there tonight. Okay.

<v Speaker 1>So I counted eight members. And that, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>that doesn't include that doesn't even include Trent Burretta, who

<v Speaker 1>wasn't there. And that doesn't include Brian Cage who wasn't

<v Speaker 1>there because Brian Cage had a knee replacement a few

<v Speaker 1>months ago, so he is still recuperating from that. I

<v Speaker 1>would assume he's still technically part of the family when

<v Speaker 1>he comes back, he'll be part of the family. With

<v Speaker 1>Lance Archer. They were doing the tech team thing, the

<v Speaker 1>Murder Monsters. So we have ten official members of the

<v Speaker 1>Don Kallis family. I mean, it's like the bloodline. It's

<v Speaker 1>like their bloodline, but without the tribal tats. That's basically

<v Speaker 1>what we have here. This family just keeps growing, it

<v Speaker 1>keeps multiplying. I don't even know that Bobby Headon had

<v Speaker 1>this many members in the Heenan family. This was o'cotta's

<v Speaker 1>first title defense since he won the championship and beat

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega. They spent time here in the build up

<v Speaker 1>to this match, you know, playing the last couple weeks

<v Speaker 1>really playing up swerves knee injury, which came out of

<v Speaker 1>nowhere because it was never mentioned before. And all of

<v Speaker 1>a sudden last week on TV, Swerve comes out and

<v Speaker 1>there's this mention of a knee injury. I'm like, what

<v Speaker 1>are you talking about? What knee injury? So it's a

<v Speaker 1>real injury, and they incorporated it, you know, into the story.

<v Speaker 1>But it just came out of nowhere because nothing was

<v Speaker 1>really mentioned about this beforehand. All of a sudden, that

<v Speaker 1>became the story and that also became an out for

<v Speaker 1>Swerve because he was favoring the knee and I mean, honestly,

<v Speaker 1>Okada beat him straight up if we're being honest here,

<v Speaker 1>but the knee did play a factor here in the loss,

<v Speaker 1>and then they did the injury angle after the match.

<v Speaker 1>The Swerve is going to be going away for a while.

<v Speaker 1>The match itself, it was good. It was not at

<v Speaker 1>the level of a lot of the matches that Swerve

<v Speaker 1>has had just this year alone, or the Okada match

<v Speaker 1>with Kenny Omega, all In those you know, all those matches,

<v Speaker 1>the matches Swerve has had, and the all In match

<v Speaker 1>with Kenny and Ocada. Those were, you know, much better

<v Speaker 1>than this. It was still a good match putting Wardlow

<v Speaker 1>with the Callus family. Look, it's good to see him

<v Speaker 1>back on TV. I'll believe it when I see it

<v Speaker 1>when it comes to a serious Wardlow push that actually

<v Speaker 1>leads to something, because we've been burned by this before.

<v Speaker 1>I think Wardlow he got over in a big way

<v Speaker 1>three years ago. It's been a long time since Wardlow

<v Speaker 1>reached his peak of popularity in aw was after the

<v Speaker 1>split with MJF. A lot of shit has gone down

<v Speaker 1>since then, including injuries, but also a lot of bad booking.

<v Speaker 1>As as much as the injuries may have read Tafick

<v Speaker 1>with things, so has Tony Kahn's booking of Wardlow, and

<v Speaker 1>he should not be excused for that. So whatever momentum

<v Speaker 1>this man had three years ago where it looked like, hey,

<v Speaker 1>you know, he could be a really big homegrown star,

<v Speaker 1>like in the way they're pushing Kyle Fletcher now, and

<v Speaker 1>they put the TNT title on him. They put the

<v Speaker 1>TNT title on Wardlow one point two. But it didn't

<v Speaker 1>work out. And it's not like Wardlow all of a sudden,

<v Speaker 1>like he started to have shitty matches or stop carrying.

<v Speaker 1>You know, they had nothing to do with that. It

<v Speaker 1>was just a series of unfortunate circumstances in bed booking

<v Speaker 1>that led to this man being impurgatory for three years.

<v Speaker 1>So now he's back, and the first thing they do

<v Speaker 1>is they lump him into another faction. We've seen this

<v Speaker 1>story before. He was in the Pinnacle and then he

<v Speaker 1>was part of the Undisputed Kingdom and how did that

<v Speaker 1>work out? That didn't work out too well. Now they're

<v Speaker 1>going to try again. We'll have him in the Callus

<v Speaker 1>Family and he'll be one of ten fucking people in

<v Speaker 1>this group. So it's incumbent upon them to do something

<v Speaker 1>with him that is going to make him stand out

<v Speaker 1>amongst ten people in this group. That's my concern with

<v Speaker 1>lumping him into this this faction. Kyle Fletcher, he's doing okay.

<v Speaker 1>He's the kind of the crown jewel of the group

<v Speaker 1>and takeshta. Where does Wardlow fit into this? Can they

<v Speaker 1>build a story around Wardlow and have him, maybe at

<v Speaker 1>some point down the road, be a breakout star? I hope, So,

<v Speaker 1>I hope there's some kind of plan here for him.

<v Speaker 1>But what I see right now is he's back, and

<v Speaker 1>you've just like Josh Alexander, Josh Alexander debut and aw

<v Speaker 1>and within a week he became a background player in

<v Speaker 1>the don Kallis family. He's just in the background. I

<v Speaker 1>don't want to see that happen to Wardlow. There's still

<v Speaker 1>the potential there for him to be something special. If

<v Speaker 1>you can find the right story and you book him

<v Speaker 1>in the right way and he can stay healthy, there

<v Speaker 1>could still be something there. It's harder to do when

<v Speaker 1>you're just one of ten. You know, we see tons

<v Speaker 1>of factions, tons of wrestling factions on TV every single

<v Speaker 1>week WWEAW Some factions are bigger than others. Some have

<v Speaker 1>three or four people, some have five or six. You

<v Speaker 1>start talking about nine, ten, eleven, you know a dozen

<v Speaker 1>different people. You're getting into nWo territory here, and that

<v Speaker 1>isn't necessarily a good thing. But it's only the first

<v Speaker 1>night he's back. That's the first step. We'll see where

<v Speaker 1>they go from here. All I can tell you is

<v Speaker 1>the one thing I am convinced of. I stand steadfast

<v Speaker 1>in this Okada and the Unified Championship, the match to

<v Speaker 1>Bill to Okada and Takeshta, Takesha will be that first

<v Speaker 1>breakout babyface star from this group and it will come

<v Speaker 1>through Okada and beating Okada to win the unified title.

<v Speaker 1>I do believe that. Now after this, we had timeless

<v Speaker 1>Tony Storm against Athena for the aw Women's World Championship,

<v Speaker 1>having cashed in her Casino Gauntlet contract here to get

<v Speaker 1>this shot. It was an early baseball slide that sent

<v Speaker 1>Athena crashing into the barricade, and when Billy Starks, who

<v Speaker 1>was out there at Athena's corner, tried to get into

<v Speaker 1>Tony's face, she suffered a quick Storm zero For her troubles.

<v Speaker 1>Athena flew in with a shotgun dropkick caused to hit

<v Speaker 1>the led barricade, not super hard, but I guess it

<v Speaker 1>was hard enough that they deactivated the LED board it

<v Speaker 1>went out, so it was all Athena. After that, she

<v Speaker 1>drove Tony's head repeatedly into the ring post. Later in

<v Speaker 1>the match, Tony had Athena in a chicken wing, but

<v Speaker 1>Athena broke free, flung Tony out to the floor, and

<v Speaker 1>then she hit her with a suicide dive. Athena set

<v Speaker 1>up for a pile driver on the ring steps, but

<v Speaker 1>Storm bit her knee and then tripped her, which caused

<v Speaker 1>Athena's head to hit the ring steps. Storm sent Athena

<v Speaker 1>into the barricade, and wouldn't you know what the led

<v Speaker 1>board it got turned back on back in the ring,

<v Speaker 1>Storm hit Storm zero only for a earfall. Ex Caliber

<v Speaker 1>called it like any other sequence. Tony Shavanni called it

<v Speaker 1>a monumental kickout. A monumental kickout, he said, it might

<v Speaker 1>have been. It might have been if we hadn't seen

<v Speaker 1>a bunch of other people already kick out of it,

<v Speaker 1>including Mercedes Monet just last month in Texas, who kicked

<v Speaker 1>out of three of them, then it might have been

<v Speaker 1>a monumental kickout. Monumental is not the word I would

<v Speaker 1>use for it. So Storm got Athena on the apron

<v Speaker 1>set up for Storm zero. Billy Starks yanked on the

<v Speaker 1>ring skirt until Storm released Athena, and Storm then stared

<v Speaker 1>at Billy while Athena went up top hid an o face,

<v Speaker 1>but it was only to hang Tony's neck over the

<v Speaker 1>top rope because she was standing on the apron. Starks

<v Speaker 1>grabbed a chair when Mina Shirakawa, who's been out I believe,

<v Speaker 1>with a broken hand, and so she ran out there.

<v Speaker 1>She took the chair away from Billy and then chased

<v Speaker 1>her to the back. Inside the ring, both women traded

<v Speaker 1>pen attempts. Athena came off the top rope for another

<v Speaker 1>o face, but she dove into the clutches of the

<v Speaker 1>TCM chicken wing, and she struggled and she fought and

<v Speaker 1>she tried to resist, but in the end she taps

<v Speaker 1>out and timeless. Tony Storm remains your aw Women's World Champion.

<v Speaker 1>They gave Athena a lot of offense here. They had

<v Speaker 1>a good match. I know they could have an even

<v Speaker 1>better match. This was not on the level of the

<v Speaker 1>match that Tony had with Mercedes in Texas last month.

<v Speaker 1>You know what, I know some people are going to

<v Speaker 1>have a real issue with Athena tapping out. I didn't

<v Speaker 1>really mind it so much. It didn't bother me because

<v Speaker 1>I like that Tony has demonstrated now that she has

<v Speaker 1>another way to beat you. You know, it's not just

<v Speaker 1>Storm zero, but she has the chicken wing. So I

<v Speaker 1>like it when people have a couple of different signature moves,

<v Speaker 1>two or three even that they could potentially beat you with.

<v Speaker 1>With the loss, though Athena has now wasted her Casino

<v Speaker 1>Gauntlet contract. She had her shot, she squandered it. She

<v Speaker 1>is not the AW Women's Champion. What happens now? The

<v Speaker 1>worst thing that could happen is that back to Ring

<v Speaker 1>of Honor with you. You're banished back to ROH because she's

<v Speaker 1>still the ROH Women's Champion, the forever champion. And I

<v Speaker 1>said coming into the show, she's not winning the championship.

<v Speaker 1>I'd love to see it, but there's only room for

<v Speaker 1>one belt collector on this show in that division. I

<v Speaker 1>guess Bandido is a belt collector now too. He's got

<v Speaker 1>two titles, but in the women's division, there's only room

<v Speaker 1>for one belt collector, can't have more than one. So

<v Speaker 1>if she had dropped the ROH title prior to this,

<v Speaker 1>I would have bought into the idea a little bit

<v Speaker 1>more that, you know what, maybe she'll win. But I

<v Speaker 1>never honestly believed she was going to win the championship.

<v Speaker 1>So now that she hasn't, and you would assume Tony

<v Speaker 1>Storm is just going to move on to the next

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what that means for Athena's future. She

<v Speaker 1>should remain on the active AW roster. She should remain

<v Speaker 1>on AW television. I don't know who she would feud

<v Speaker 1>with next. There's plenty of women in the division. If

<v Speaker 1>she's not wrestling for the championship, obviously she'll be pushed down.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they might want to revisit Mercedes

<v Speaker 1>and Athena at some point. They're both heels. They might

<v Speaker 1>not want to do that. They were just tag team

<v Speaker 1>partners the other night on TV. But she belongs on

<v Speaker 1>the AW women's roster. She's going to have to drop

<v Speaker 1>the ROH title at some point. That's fine, she could

<v Speaker 1>still do those matches, but I don't want this to

<v Speaker 1>be a case where she had her shot and she

<v Speaker 1>just disappears back into the ABYSS. That would be terrible.

<v Speaker 1>That's the one thing I do not want to see.

<v Speaker 1>She needs to be a regular on TV. As far

<v Speaker 1>as Tony Storm. She has now pinned the TBS Champion.

<v Speaker 1>She has now pinned the Ring of Honor forever Women's Champion.

<v Speaker 1>Where does she go from here? I don't know who's left.

<v Speaker 1>Who's left? She beat Mercedes, she beat Athena, she banished

<v Speaker 1>Mariah May, she beat Megan Bain. Who's next? Who's left?

<v Speaker 1>There's two names that strike me, you got Chris Statlander.

<v Speaker 1>Chris Statlander is in the middle of a feud in

<v Speaker 1>the middle of the car with Willow Nightingale. That doesn't

<v Speaker 1>seem very likely. And then there is a certain someone

<v Speaker 1>who just returned on the show tonight by the name

<v Speaker 1>of Jamie Hayter. Jamie Hater and Tony Storm have a

<v Speaker 1>history together. In fact, the last time Jamie Hater was

<v Speaker 1>the aw Women's World Champion, if I remember correctly, she

<v Speaker 1>was beaten by Tony Storm back when she was still

<v Speaker 1>part of the Oh my god, what was the group

<v Speaker 1>that she was a part of with Ruby Riot and

<v Speaker 1>Soraya on the Outcast the Outcasts? And also I believe

<v Speaker 1>they had a match at Full Gear a few years

<v Speaker 1>ago that was really good. So there's history there between them.

<v Speaker 1>Now Jamie just came back. She's going to be feuding

<v Speaker 1>with Tecla for a while. It's not going to be

<v Speaker 1>an overnight thing. But if she can stay healthy, you

<v Speaker 1>begin to build her back up to that level within

<v Speaker 1>a few months. You could do Jamie Hater and Tony

<v Speaker 1>Storm for the Women's World Championship. I would love to

<v Speaker 1>see it. I would love to see those two women

<v Speaker 1>back in the ring together. I don't see there being

<v Speaker 1>another obvious name that jumps out at me right now

<v Speaker 1>far as who that next challenger, or even who that

<v Speaker 1>woman could be that's finally going to take that title

<v Speaker 1>from her. They go back to Mercedes after Mercedes loses

<v Speaker 1>the TBS title. That's not happening at least until October.

<v Speaker 1>So sure, yeah, you can go back to Tony and

<v Speaker 1>Mercedes in November. Maybe World's end in December. What do

<v Speaker 1>you do now? I don't know. I don't know, but

<v Speaker 1>I would like to see them begin to really build

<v Speaker 1>Jamie Hater up, not not even for the TBS title,

<v Speaker 1>but for this spot. And speaking of titles, we had

<v Speaker 1>the aw World Championship Hangman Adam Page defending against MJF

<v Speaker 1>with some conditions, and those conditions are as follows. The

<v Speaker 1>title can change hands on a count out, the title

<v Speaker 1>can change hands on a disqualification as well as pinfall

<v Speaker 1>or submission. Now, unlike Athena, this was not for the

<v Speaker 1>Casino Gauntlet contracts, so he still has that as an

<v Speaker 1>insurance policy. It also made it a lot less likely

<v Speaker 1>that he was going to win the championship in this

<v Speaker 1>match and still have the contract, so it did make

<v Speaker 1>the outcome a little more obvious. Hangman was kicking his

<v Speaker 1>ass early on even sent him over the barricade into

<v Speaker 1>the front row. Hangman grabbed a chair, and Bryce Ramsburg

<v Speaker 1>got up and warned him, think about what you're about

<v Speaker 1>to do here, right, because he'd be disqualified, he'll lose

<v Speaker 1>his title. So he dumped the chair, but then MJF

<v Speaker 1>sent him into the ring post. Page avoided a heat

<v Speaker 1>seeker and went for the buckshot lariot. MJF countered into

<v Speaker 1>his assault of the earth armbar submission. Page rolled MJF

<v Speaker 1>into a pin to break the hold, then put him

<v Speaker 1>in a cross face. MJF rolled Page onto his back

<v Speaker 1>and got a two count that forced Page to release

<v Speaker 1>the hold. MJF went to ringside picked up the timekeeper's

<v Speaker 1>table over his head, which he actually this was kind

<v Speaker 1>of funny because the timekeeper's table had some sort of

<v Speaker 1>like a black cloth over it, so when he picked

<v Speaker 1>the table out, the black cloth was hanging down, so like,

<v Speaker 1>as he's carrying this table above his head, all you

<v Speaker 1>see is just this black veil under the chair, like

<v Speaker 1>the grim Reaper is walking. And then he places the

<v Speaker 1>table down right at the foot of the aisleway and

<v Speaker 1>that's where he positions the table. MJF then places Page

<v Speaker 1>on top of the table. He goes up to the ropes.

<v Speaker 1>Page though shot up. He went to the apron. MJF

<v Speaker 1>raked his eyes. He dropped down to the apron. Hangman

<v Speaker 1>knocked MJF to the floor and then hit him with

<v Speaker 1>his Ori harror moonsaal and then hit a tombstone pile driver,

<v Speaker 1>and both men were down on the floor. Both men

<v Speaker 1>were back on the apron when Page grabbed MJF and

<v Speaker 1>he gave him a dead eye through the table down

<v Speaker 1>on the ground below. And for some reason this was

<v Speaker 1>not a disqualification. Now, I know that MJF is the

<v Speaker 1>one who introduced the table into this situation, but that

<v Speaker 1>shouldn't matter. And I've seen situations before on these shows

<v Speaker 1>where somebody uses the steps and people have said, well,

<v Speaker 1>that's not a disqualification because technically the steps are a

<v Speaker 1>part of the ring. Now, of course, none of this

<v Speaker 1>really makes a whole lot of sense, because if that's

<v Speaker 1>the case, like if parts of the ring are all

<v Speaker 1>legal and within bounds, then why the fuck would anybody

<v Speaker 1>worry about pulling a turnbuckle? Pad off behind the referees

<v Speaker 1>back right then none of that should matter. So that's

<v Speaker 1>stupid enough. But the table is not part of the ring.

<v Speaker 1>It is a weapon. It is a far an object

<v Speaker 1>that has been introduced into this match. Whether it's in

<v Speaker 1>the ring or on the floor, it shouldn't matter. And Hangman,

<v Speaker 1>Page just put this man through a table. This was

<v Speaker 1>not a disqualification. MJF should be the aw World Champion

<v Speaker 1>right then and there, but he's not. The match rolled on.

<v Speaker 1>Page got MJF back inside, he covered him. MJF put

<v Speaker 1>his foot on the bottom rope for the break, Page

<v Speaker 1>set up for a buckshot. MJF throw a rolled to

<v Speaker 1>the floor and then sat down on a chair outside.

<v Speaker 1>Page ran towards MJF, who shot up and used the

<v Speaker 1>drop toll hold to drive Hangman's face down into the chair.

<v Speaker 1>Then MJF ran Hangman into the ring steps. Then he

<v Speaker 1>looked over at Brian Danielson on commentary and he said,

<v Speaker 1>just like you, he fucking sucks. This is a very

<v Speaker 1>mean thing to say to Brian Danielson. So while that

<v Speaker 1>was going on, Hangman went to the blade because when

<v Speaker 1>they cut back to him, he was busted open MJF

<v Speaker 1>went back to the ringside. He had a leaping tombstone

<v Speaker 1>pile driver two hangmen on a piece of the broken

<v Speaker 1>table from earlier, and that piece did not break. The

<v Speaker 1>referee started his count. Page returned to the ring just

<v Speaker 1>before the ten count. MJF removed one of the turnbuckle

<v Speaker 1>pads and tried to run Hangman into it. Hangman reversed it,

<v Speaker 1>and MJF came up sporting a crimson mask of his own,

<v Speaker 1>and at that point the fans chanted you deserve it

<v Speaker 1>at him, which was kind of funny. So I have

<v Speaker 1>people in the chat saying, not a DQ referees discretion. Well,

<v Speaker 1>the referees are all very stupid in this company, so

<v Speaker 1>I guess that kind of makes sense. When you consider that,

<v Speaker 1>then it all makes sense. So both men reverse tombstone attempts.

<v Speaker 1>Page actually fell over at one point. They went into

<v Speaker 1>trading pins. That led to a series of two counts

<v Speaker 1>and then one counts. After that, Paige went for a

<v Speaker 1>jackknife pin, but MJF bridged out of it. Page hit

<v Speaker 1>him with a dead I for an ear fall. Page

<v Speaker 1>ordered MJF to stand and fight. MJF is on his knees,

<v Speaker 1>he's looking up at him, and MJF pulls out the

<v Speaker 1>dynamite diamond ring. He orders Hangman to use it, go

<v Speaker 1>ahead and use it, because if he uses it, he

<v Speaker 1>gets disqualified, although it's the referees discretion and so maybe not,

<v Speaker 1>but he's telling him, use this, go ahead, I dare

<v Speaker 1>you use it? Right, and Hangman he's tempted to. He's

<v Speaker 1>tempted to, but if he does, he loses his championship.

<v Speaker 1>And then MJF spits at him, spits upright in his face,

<v Speaker 1>so instead Hangman spits back in mjf's face. MJF then

<v Speaker 1>pulls Bryce Remsburg into Harm's way for a buck shot page,

<v Speaker 1>though stopped short before wiping him out. But then MJF

<v Speaker 1>shoved Hangman into Bryce Ramsburg, who took a bump. MJF

<v Speaker 1>then hit a low blow and a heat seeker to Hangman.

<v Speaker 1>MJF made the cover. Here comes Bryce Remsburg. He's he's

<v Speaker 1>he took a bump, but it's not like he's knocked

<v Speaker 1>unconscious or anything, so he comes over to make the cover.

<v Speaker 1>Page got his foot of the bottom rope after the

<v Speaker 1>one count. Okay, his foot is plainly on the bottom

<v Speaker 1>rope and inexplicably, Bryce Remsburg, not only is he not

<v Speaker 1>looking at the shoulders, not like in a position to

<v Speaker 1>be looking at hangman's shoulders, he's not even looking at

<v Speaker 1>where his feet are. He's just blindly counting. And so

<v Speaker 1>he counts two, and he counts three, and everybody is shocked. Now,

<v Speaker 1>he never officially called for the bell, and they never

<v Speaker 1>played mjf's music, but they zoomed in on MJF. He's

<v Speaker 1>sitting there. Oh my god, look he thinks he won

<v Speaker 1>the championship, right, and you know what happened here also

<v Speaker 1>is very reminiscent of what happened on Dynamite a few

<v Speaker 1>weeks ago when MJF beat Mark Briscoe, and Mark Briscoe

<v Speaker 1>got his foot on the bottom rope, but MJF moved

<v Speaker 1>it aside. Referee didn't see the foot, and that's how

<v Speaker 1>MJF beat Mark Briscoe, which I assume would earn him

<v Speaker 1>at number one Contenders match. It ended up not really

<v Speaker 1>meaning anything. So as all of this is going on,

<v Speaker 1>they hit Mark Briscoe's music, Reach for the sky Boys,

<v Speaker 1>and here he comes, he comes out. He doesn't even

<v Speaker 1>make it to the ring. Security has swarmed him. They

<v Speaker 1>were holding him back from getting in the ring, and

<v Speaker 1>they escorted him right to the back. MJF turns back,

<v Speaker 1>he sees the foot. Hangman's foot is still on the

<v Speaker 1>bottom rope. Right, like a minute has gone by. His

<v Speaker 1>foot is still on the rope. So he goes over

<v Speaker 1>to try to brush it off. Bryce catches him though,

<v Speaker 1>oh the foot. Now, look, I have seen plenty of

<v Speaker 1>stuff in wrestling matches where the referee says, somebody tries

<v Speaker 1>to argue, my foot was on the rope. My foot

<v Speaker 1>was on the rope, like in the moment. They just

<v Speaker 1>got their foot on the rope in time, but the

<v Speaker 1>ref didn't see it. The refs like, I didn't see it.

<v Speaker 1>How do I know you didn't just put your foot

<v Speaker 1>on the rope. Hagman had like at least a minute

<v Speaker 1>maybe ninety seconds, okay, to put his fucking foot on

<v Speaker 1>the bottom rope. But now that Bryce sees the foot,

<v Speaker 1>like a year later, oh the foot is on the

<v Speaker 1>bottom rope, this match must content. This was so this

<v Speaker 1>was so dumb. This was this part of the match

<v Speaker 1>was very very dumb. It's just very dumb. But that's twice. Now,

<v Speaker 1>that's twice in the same match that MJF should have

<v Speaker 1>been the AW World Champion and was screwed. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>Hangman kind of was screwed if you think about it,

<v Speaker 1>but in his mind screwed out of the championship, which

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure will come up on television this week. So

<v Speaker 1>they both shoved one another. Page hit a lariot. MJF

<v Speaker 1>threw a low blow as he held on to Bryce,

<v Speaker 1>so the referee didn't see it. MJF got a roll

<v Speaker 1>up only for two. MJF threw the AW title in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. Remsburg took it away, though, allowing MJF to

<v Speaker 1>hit Page instead with his Casino Gauntlet contract case. He

<v Speaker 1>whacked the shit out of him right in the head

<v Speaker 1>with it. He covered him and Page kicked out it too.

<v Speaker 1>That was a great near fall. MJF went back to

<v Speaker 1>the diamond ring he was about to use it, Bryce

<v Speaker 1>caught him, he removed it. This gave Hangman a chance

<v Speaker 1>to get revenge by waffling MJF with his own contract

<v Speaker 1>case again. He blasted him right in the head with it,

<v Speaker 1>and he followed that with a dead eye and then

<v Speaker 1>the buckshot larier to finish him off with the one,

<v Speaker 1>two three, and Hangman Adam Page is still the AEW

<v Speaker 1>World Champion. So this was my favorite match of the

<v Speaker 1>entire show despite all of the bullshit and and the

<v Speaker 1>silliness and the nonsense that I just described to you.

<v Speaker 1>Even despite that, this was still, in my opinion, the

<v Speaker 1>best match, and it was my favorite match on the

<v Speaker 1>entire show. And there was plenty of ridiculousness here in

<v Speaker 1>this match. It was very overbooked there towards the end,

<v Speaker 1>but the crowd was hot for it. They bought into

<v Speaker 1>those late near fall. They were very very happy, elated

<v Speaker 1>to see Hangman retain in the end. I just I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was excellent despite all of it. I thought

<v Speaker 1>it was excellent. And MJF still has the Casino Gauntlet contract.

<v Speaker 1>It never should have been on the line here to

<v Speaker 1>begin with. They obviously backtracked and decided, okay, this is

<v Speaker 1>kind of stupid, so you know, we'll hit the undue button,

<v Speaker 1>like you know, they're a Microsoft word. Let's hit the

<v Speaker 1>undo button on what we've done here. And so he

<v Speaker 1>still has the contract as a backup. That's his you know,

<v Speaker 1>insurance policy. But every trick that he tried, every short cut,

<v Speaker 1>he tried to take here in this match. It was ineffective.

<v Speaker 1>It blew up in his face. I was waiting to

<v Speaker 1>see if the hurt Syndicate might come out, you know,

<v Speaker 1>to cost mj You know, I even said, you know,

<v Speaker 1>coming into this, Mark Brisco might come out and stop

<v Speaker 1>him from using the diamond ring. You could have had

<v Speaker 1>the Hurt Syndicated do the same thing, even if it

<v Speaker 1>was just the distraction, you know, not them necessarily beating

<v Speaker 1>him up when the referee was down, which you could

<v Speaker 1>have done that too. You know, Bryce Ramsberg could have

<v Speaker 1>taken a bump. And here comes Bobby Lashley in Shell

<v Speaker 1>and Benjamin who suspect that MJF is the one who

<v Speaker 1>sent Ricochet and the Goa out there earlier to cost

<v Speaker 1>them their titles. So fuck you, We're going to cost

<v Speaker 1>you the world title. Nope, Nope, no hurt Syndicate, no

<v Speaker 1>idea if they're going to pursue that angle of the

<v Speaker 1>story or not. If it was just a random attack

<v Speaker 1>in that tag team title match. Again, I just think

<v Speaker 1>that was a very dumb thing to do. But this

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<v Speaker 1>unofficial portion of the show. And at this point Brian

<v Speaker 1>Danielson excused himself from commentary due to what he said,

<v Speaker 1>personal issues that he has with certain members of this

<v Speaker 1>match coming up, this unsanctioned match, so he left. Jim

<v Speaker 1>Ross took his place for the five on five Lights

<v Speaker 1>Out Steel Cage match with Will Osprey, Darby, Allen Kenny, Omega,

<v Speaker 1>Coda Ibushi and The Ace. The Ace Hiroshi Tanahashi his

<v Speaker 1>final ever match here in the UK, taking on John Moxley,

<v Speaker 1>Claudio Castignoli, Gabe Kid and the Young Bucks. That a

<v Speaker 1>cage they used. It wasn't very high, but it encompassed

<v Speaker 1>most of the ringside area, all but the desks. That's

<v Speaker 1>where it ended. So the announcers were saved. Poor Jim

<v Speaker 1>Ross was not trapped inside this cage with these crazy

<v Speaker 1>people for some reason. They already had tables that were

<v Speaker 1>set up outside the ring. Justin Roberts announced that AW

<v Speaker 1>would not be held responsible for what happens here in

<v Speaker 1>this next match. I mean, look, it may be unsanctioned,

<v Speaker 1>but they gave everybody a proper entrance. Everybody got their

<v Speaker 1>usual entrance, everybody got their theme music. Looked pretty official

<v Speaker 1>to me. Osprey was the last entrant for the Babyface team.

<v Speaker 1>There was a video package that played for him with

<v Speaker 1>highlights of his career there right before he came out.

<v Speaker 1>It was narrated by his fiance Alex Windsor as soon

<v Speaker 1>to be Missus Breuv and it was the superstar entrance

<v Speaker 1>that you would have expected him to get here in London,

<v Speaker 1>effectively for what is his farewell match before he goes

<v Speaker 1>off to have surgery. The Young Bucks came out and

<v Speaker 1>they had their music cut off within five seconds of

<v Speaker 1>it playing. They cut the music off, they cut the

<v Speaker 1>tron off. It all went black and then they put

<v Speaker 1>the basic you know, Matt and Nick like Nickelodeon graphics

<v Speaker 1>up and they started playing umbab By Hanson. They played

<v Speaker 1>fucking umba for the Young Bucks nineteen ninety seven called

<v Speaker 1>they want their music back. When I heard them coming

<v Speaker 1>out to this song like this. This was fucking great.

<v Speaker 1>I fucking I had a nice laugh at this. This

<v Speaker 1>was fucking great. Although I will say you pay Tony, Tony,

<v Speaker 1>you pay for umbab but you can't pay for Oasis

<v Speaker 1>for Nigel. Come on, man, what's going on here? What's

<v Speaker 1>going on here? So the Bucks were all pissed when

<v Speaker 1>they heard the music the Death Riders and Gabe Kid

<v Speaker 1>they entered through the crowd. Ex Caliber confirmed it all

<v Speaker 1>in will return to Wembley Stadium next August. The Bucks

<v Speaker 1>brought a bag into the ring which was left by

<v Speaker 1>the production member that they had instructed to find the

<v Speaker 1>most dangerous weapon that they could find, and they emptied

<v Speaker 1>it out thinking it was going to be thumbtacks or

<v Speaker 1>maybe broken glass or something, and it ended up being

<v Speaker 1>gummy bears and the Bucks were annoyed. John Mosley was

<v Speaker 1>not happy about this. Osprey got busted open at ringside

<v Speaker 1>after being launched into the side of the cage. Claudio

<v Speaker 1>pressed Darby over his head, military pressed him up, launched

<v Speaker 1>him like a lawn dart clear into the side of

<v Speaker 1>the cage. He took a hell of a bump there.

<v Speaker 1>Darby also got busted open. Not on that spot he

<v Speaker 1>got busted open. There was a ladder, if I remember,

<v Speaker 1>that was up against the corner turn buckles, and I

<v Speaker 1>think Darby took a bump on the ladder and he

<v Speaker 1>fucked up his ear because his ear was all mangled

<v Speaker 1>and bloody and blood was just pouring out of the

<v Speaker 1>side of his head. And as blood is pouring out

<v Speaker 1>of his head, the death Riders they duct tape him

<v Speaker 1>to a chair, arms and all, so he can't move.

<v Speaker 1>He is completely defenseless here. John Moxley then pulls up

<v Speaker 1>or pulls out rather a fork and he begins to

<v Speaker 1>jab the fork repeatedly into Darby's ear and through his

<v Speaker 1>bloody ear lobe. He's putting the fork through the ear low,

<v Speaker 1>but he's yanking on it and he's stabbing him with it,

<v Speaker 1>and the blood it's just the camera zoomed on and

<v Speaker 1>he's twisting it and he's stabbing him with it. This

<v Speaker 1>was completely disgusting. I know that Moxley loves this kind

<v Speaker 1>of shit, but you know, the aaw torture porn stuff

<v Speaker 1>that we sometimes see them do. I'm not a fan

<v Speaker 1>of it. So this might have done something for you.

<v Speaker 1>It might have felt, had you feel in a certain way.

<v Speaker 1>This didn't do shit for me. I thought this was

<v Speaker 1>just completely disgusting and stupid. Then Claudie picked up the

<v Speaker 1>chair and he body slammed Darby while he's still duct

<v Speaker 1>taped to the chair, body slammed him in the chair.

<v Speaker 1>The Young Bucks pulled the barb wire table out from

<v Speaker 1>under the ring. The Bucks set it up inside. Moxley

<v Speaker 1>wanted a death rider. Osprey, though, tackled him through the

<v Speaker 1>barbed wire instead. Omega hit a terminator dive at one point,

<v Speaker 1>and as if they intended it that way, and I

<v Speaker 1>don't know if they did. The camera cut to Marina

<v Speaker 1>Shaffir outside the ring at the exact moment that she

<v Speaker 1>decided to yell fuck you, Kenny. The announcers didn't acknowledge it.

<v Speaker 1>They cut away. It's like great timing on that. Later

<v Speaker 1>on Osprey and Omega, they hit a hidden blade v

<v Speaker 1>trigger combo. On Gabe Kid, they had him beat Kid's teammates.

<v Speaker 1>That broke up the pin. Omega put Moxley down with

<v Speaker 1>a one winged angel and had him beaten, but that

<v Speaker 1>got broken up as well. Moxley, who was bleeding from

<v Speaker 1>the forehead, so as not to feel left out here

<v Speaker 1>because if other people are bleeding, John Moxley has to bleed.

<v Speaker 1>So he set up a ladder next to the side

<v Speaker 1>of the cage. He wanted Wheeler youd to a climb inside.

<v Speaker 1>He climbed over the side of the cage and went

<v Speaker 1>to the floor. Darby bit the head of Yuda and

<v Speaker 1>punched him until he fell off the cage and onto

<v Speaker 1>the Japanese announced desk. They had a Japanese announced desk

<v Speaker 1>right next to the English announced desk. Darby exited the cage.

<v Speaker 1>He went after Moxley who was trying to get away.

<v Speaker 1>Darby got Moxley underneath one of the tables that was stacked.

<v Speaker 1>They had tables that were I think it was two

<v Speaker 1>layer four tables, two layer side by side, but they

<v Speaker 1>had these tables stacked right outside the ring at the

<v Speaker 1>foot of the aisleway. And he has Moxley just kind

<v Speaker 1>of bent over leaning on one of the tables underneath

<v Speaker 1>the top one and Darby's climbing the cage and again

<v Speaker 1>not a very tall This is not the cage for example,

<v Speaker 1>that will Osprey wrestled, you know, Kyle Fletcher in a

<v Speaker 1>few months ago. This is not the cage they used

<v Speaker 1>for blood and guts. So it's high enough where you

<v Speaker 1>know you've got some decent hype, but it's not like

<v Speaker 1>super super tall. But Darby climbs to the top of

<v Speaker 1>the cage. Marina Shaffir pulls Moxley to safety, so he's

<v Speaker 1>he's safe. Now he's away from the tables. Darby's on

<v Speaker 1>top of the cage. Gabe Kid meets him up there,

<v Speaker 1>hits him with a low blow. So now Gabe Kid

<v Speaker 1>is on top of the cage and he applies a

<v Speaker 1>sleeper hole and Darby reaches up behind him and he

<v Speaker 1>rakes the eyes, gouging the eyes, and then both men

<v Speaker 1>fall off the cage and they crash and burn through

<v Speaker 1>all of the stacked tables down below. And it was

<v Speaker 1>a hell of a bunch for Darby to take, but

<v Speaker 1>it was really Gabe Kid who was on the bottom,

<v Speaker 1>and he took the brunt of it, and Darby fell

<v Speaker 1>right on top of him, so thankfully he was okay.

<v Speaker 1>But like that looks scary because again, all of his weight,

<v Speaker 1>not that Darby is a giant man, but all of

<v Speaker 1>his weightes came crashing down right on top of Gabe Kids.

<v Speaker 1>So Yeah, it was a big spot. Not the spot

<v Speaker 1>of the night or anything, thank Michael Oku for that

<v Speaker 1>on the pre show, but still a hell of a spot.

<v Speaker 1>So inside the cage, Osprey hit a storm brake on

<v Speaker 1>Claudio Omega and he Bushie hit stereo v triggers on

<v Speaker 1>Nick Jackson. Omega hoisted up Matt and Osprey hit him

<v Speaker 1>with a hidden blade from the top rope into a

<v Speaker 1>one winged angel from Kenny Omega. Then they let Tanahashi,

<v Speaker 1>They gave him the floor. They let tana Hashi ascend

<v Speaker 1>to the top rope. He hit a high fly flow,

<v Speaker 1>his last ever in the UK, and he got the pin.

<v Speaker 1>Over thirty minutes into this madness, the Babyfaces win. As

<v Speaker 1>the Babyfaces are celebrating inside the cage, ex Caliber says

<v Speaker 1>that Darby was getting medical attention at ringside. Yeah, no shit.

<v Speaker 1>Omega helped Darby to his feet and then and Darby

<v Speaker 1>looked like he was out of it. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>if he was concussed or not, but he was certainly

<v Speaker 1>acting like it. So maybe he was just doing a

<v Speaker 1>really good job of selling how dizzy he was, but

<v Speaker 1>he looked like he was. He looked like he was

<v Speaker 1>in a car wreck. So they all come into the cage,

<v Speaker 1>not into the ring, but into the cage. Osprey's in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. He's kneeling down. Then he's shaking hands and

<v Speaker 1>hugging and getting his his kudos from each of his

<v Speaker 1>teammates here Omega and Tanahashi, and they give him the

<v Speaker 1>ring to himself. So the rest of the baby Faces

<v Speaker 1>exit the cage. Osprey's in the ring all by himself.

<v Speaker 1>They you know, no music. Everyone's giving him a standing ovation.

<v Speaker 1>Then they play Osprey's music and this is his sendoff.

<v Speaker 1>He made it through alive and in one piece. And

<v Speaker 1>we don't know when the next time is that we're

<v Speaker 1>going to see will Ospray in the ring. But he

<v Speaker 1>got the wind. He's in his home country in front

<v Speaker 1>of his home people, and everybody is cheering for him,

<v Speaker 1>and they're chanting for him and they're applauding him, and

<v Speaker 1>it's this great moment for him. He exits the ring.

<v Speaker 1>He's not out of the cage yet, but he exits

<v Speaker 1>the ring. He's on the floor. He's about to leave

<v Speaker 1>the cage when he turns around, though, Claudio, because the

<v Speaker 1>heels were still inside. They were on the floor. Claudio

<v Speaker 1>blasts him with a European eppercut, and then he locks

<v Speaker 1>the cage door while Moxley puts the boots to ospray.

<v Speaker 1>And with the door locked, we are supposed to believe

<v Speaker 1>here that the baby faces outside the cage are unable

<v Speaker 1>to do anything about this. They're trying to get in

<v Speaker 1>through the door. The door is locked. Oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>what are we going to do? This man is being

<v Speaker 1>brutalized here inside this cage with a bad neck, and

<v Speaker 1>there's just nothing we can do. Now. Tanahashi, I can understand,

<v Speaker 1>because he's got the jelly knees. So Tanahashi shouldn't be

<v Speaker 1>climbing anything. He shouldn't be climbing into bed. But you

<v Speaker 1>got Kenny Omega, you get Darby Allen, you got Cody Aboushi.

<v Speaker 1>Nobody thinks to climb in over the cage. Now you

<v Speaker 1>have Wheeler Yudah who's right by the door inside the cage,

<v Speaker 1>and he's got a kendo stick so he can poke

<v Speaker 1>them and prod them and use that as a weapon

<v Speaker 1>to try to prevent them. But nobody is even attempting

<v Speaker 1>to climb into the cage. And nobody is thinking maybe

<v Speaker 1>I should go around to the other side. Maybe I'll

<v Speaker 1>beat them to the punch and I could try to

<v Speaker 1>climb in that way. It's like, not a few weeks ago,

<v Speaker 1>we were going into SummerSlam, right and on the WWE

<v Speaker 1>Vault channel they uploaded the cage match from SummerSlam in

<v Speaker 1>ninety four between Brett Heart and Owen Heart. When the

<v Speaker 1>match was over, it was pure pandemonium. It was absolute

<v Speaker 1>chaos because you had all of the Hart family members

<v Speaker 1>at ringside and Jim Knightheart was and he got, you know,

<v Speaker 1>out of his seat and jumped the barricade and he

<v Speaker 1>closedlined the bulldog over the barricade and his wife went

<v Speaker 1>tumbling over with him and all the brothers. So they

<v Speaker 1>get Brett back in the cage and they're beaten on Brett,

<v Speaker 1>and so what are the brothers doing. The brothers are

<v Speaker 1>trying to climb into the cage and this was a

<v Speaker 1>taller cage and they're climbing and they're climbing, and you know,

<v Speaker 1>Owen would he took his shoe off, and he's going

<v Speaker 1>over there every now and then to bat them down.

<v Speaker 1>But they're trying to climb over into the cage, and

<v Speaker 1>eventually they make their way in I'm like, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>this looks like. This was mass chaos, and it just

<v Speaker 1>it looked like, Okay, this is what you would do

<v Speaker 1>in this situation. You're desperate to help out your your

<v Speaker 1>family member here who's being just destroyed. The door is

<v Speaker 1>padlocked shut. Let me try to climb into the cage.

<v Speaker 1>It would be the equivalent of the bulldog and all

<v Speaker 1>the brothers just standing there going gee, I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what to do? What should we do here? I mean, Davy,

<v Speaker 1>is there is there a home depot maybe nearby? Maybe

<v Speaker 1>you can go buy some bolt cutters. I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I guess we can't do anything. It

<v Speaker 1>would be ridiculous. So I'm watching this and it's, you know,

<v Speaker 1>the dumb babyface syndrome, of course, and nobody is doing anything.

<v Speaker 1>So finally the ops they run out, Samoa Joe, Powerhouse, Hobbs, Kattiori, Shavada,

<v Speaker 1>they run out. I should mention to you, by the way,

<v Speaker 1>that Marina Shaffir, who had been outside the cage on

<v Speaker 1>the opposite side to where the babyfaces were acting like

<v Speaker 1>there was nothing they could do. Marina Shaffir climbed over

<v Speaker 1>into the cage again, nobody thought to even attempt this.

<v Speaker 1>It's not like they were even trying. And they're like

<v Speaker 1>the top and then they get like knocked down or

<v Speaker 1>anything like. No. Now they're just like, shit, what do

<v Speaker 1>we do? So the ops they run out, and actually,

<v Speaker 1>before the ops even comes out, I'm skipping the best

<v Speaker 1>part here, before the ops even comes out, because Ospreys

<v Speaker 1>being stomped on and DDT after DDT Moxley gives him

<v Speaker 1>a death rider again, all this shit right on his

<v Speaker 1>injured neck in the middle of the ring here, and

<v Speaker 1>they're doing this to try to get heat. Osprey in

<v Speaker 1>the UK just got this big win and now you're

<v Speaker 1>killing this dude. And it was designed to get heat

<v Speaker 1>and it didn't work. This crowd didn't give a shit

<v Speaker 1>or whatever heat it might have gotten. There was some

<v Speaker 1>booze here and there, it was very limited, like they

<v Speaker 1>did not get the heat that I'm sure they were

<v Speaker 1>expecting to get. And part of the issue is, frankly,

<v Speaker 1>everybody knew that Osprey had a bad neck and he

<v Speaker 1>was leaving. They knew that Osprey was leaving. He announced

<v Speaker 1>to us already on television that he was leaving, that

<v Speaker 1>he was going to have to go under the knife.

<v Speaker 1>We knew this coming in. This was not like a

<v Speaker 1>big shock angle. Oh my god, what are they doing

<v Speaker 1>to will Ospray here? And that might have been part

<v Speaker 1>of the issue here, but whether it was apathy or

<v Speaker 1>boredom or whatever it is, the crowd was not reacting,

<v Speaker 1>I think in the way that you would expect them

<v Speaker 1>to react in this situation. An ex caliber is on

<v Speaker 1>commentary saying, oh my god, they wrapped the chair around

<v Speaker 1>his neck. They just stomped on the chair. This could

<v Speaker 1>be the end of his career. But that's what they

<v Speaker 1>did to him in Texas. It wasn't the end of

<v Speaker 1>his career then, although I guess they're crediting his injury

<v Speaker 1>to the death Riders and what they did to him.

<v Speaker 1>But he was back on TV two weeks later, so whatever,

<v Speaker 1>they did the same thing to him again. Here he'd

<v Speaker 1>laid their dead with the chair around his neck. Then

<v Speaker 1>the ops comes out and if I have to listen

<v Speaker 1>to one more sicko on Twitter after I posted this,

<v Speaker 1>because I posted about how dumb the baby faces were

<v Speaker 1>made to look at the end, and if I have

<v Speaker 1>to listen to one more sicco tell me Wheeler dah

<v Speaker 1>was there with a Kendo stick. There was nothing they

<v Speaker 1>could do. I know this is like your gotcha moment

<v Speaker 1>to AW, but clearly you weren't paying attention. And Wheeler

<v Speaker 1>Dah was there with a Kendo stick, and so they

<v Speaker 1>couldn't get into the ky They were trying, but they

<v Speaker 1>couldn't get into the And I'm like, do these people

<v Speaker 1>do these people honestly expect me to sit here? And

<v Speaker 1>you're gonna tell me that Powerhouse Hobbs was unable to

<v Speaker 1>get into the cage because Wheeler Dah stopped him from

<v Speaker 1>stopped him from doing so, that Wheeler Dah stopped him

<v Speaker 1>from doing so. Do you know what Powerhouse Hobbs could

<v Speaker 1>do to Wheeler you to with that kendo? Do you

<v Speaker 1>know how far up his ass he could that kendostick

<v Speaker 1>if he wanted to. And you're actually gonna defend this

<v Speaker 1>shit because they'll defend it to the death, of course.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I know this already, and this goes for

<v Speaker 1>both sides, but it's worse with AW. They're really hardcore

<v Speaker 1>defenders where they could do no wrong and right. Everything

<v Speaker 1>they do is great, everything's great, Officer bar Brady, nothing

<v Speaker 1>to see here, And I get it. You know they

<v Speaker 1>will defend it until their death. They will defend it

<v Speaker 1>until they're dying breath. I mean, it's like fucking Citizen

<v Speaker 1>Kane right the last fucking words out of his mouth

<v Speaker 1>rosebud right in the aw Siccos it would be you

<v Speaker 1>don't to their dying breath. I understand that, but like, please,

<v Speaker 1>if you are going to continue to make this point

<v Speaker 1>and argue this to me, I will personally pick up

<v Speaker 1>the phone and I will personally call the psych word.

<v Speaker 1>I will make the call. Okay, you just let me know,

<v Speaker 1>let me know where to send them. There is no

<v Speaker 1>defense of this. It's stupid. It was very very dumb.

<v Speaker 1>It was not well thought out or at least an execution.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe it didn't come off the way that it was

<v Speaker 1>supposed to. It was dumb. It's okay to admit that

<v Speaker 1>it was dumb. It's okay. I promise you they will

<v Speaker 1>not kick you out. They will not kick you out

<v Speaker 1>of the family, they will not kick you out of

<v Speaker 1>the cult. Okay, you'll be Okay, you'll be fine. But

<v Speaker 1>now the opposer at ringside, finally someone says we should

<v Speaker 1>get the cage raised, and they did lift the cage.

<v Speaker 1>The death Riders were able to make their escape. They

<v Speaker 1>escaped through the crowd, trainers and babyfaces. They all made

<v Speaker 1>their way into the ring to check on Osprey, who

<v Speaker 1>was laying their dead. And that was the end of

<v Speaker 1>this four and a half hour odyssey here that was

<v Speaker 1>forbidden Door London. Now I understand that they killed him

<v Speaker 1>off because he was going away anyway, But again I

<v Speaker 1>just thought, you know, the death Rider's stuff, killing him

<v Speaker 1>at the end, it really wasn't necessary. I know why

<v Speaker 1>they did it. I know what they were going for.

<v Speaker 1>They wanted to put heat on the death Riders. But

<v Speaker 1>I feel like if you were if you were to

<v Speaker 1>have the heels just win, just have the Heels win,

<v Speaker 1>and then you can still give Osprey that moment at

<v Speaker 1>the end where he's like half dead, but he gets

<v Speaker 1>up and everybody gives him a nice ovation, but he's

<v Speaker 1>all like, man, I let you guys down, and it's

<v Speaker 1>all beat up and injured, and then he but he

<v Speaker 1>gets that exit, you know, with dignity, that's the last

<v Speaker 1>we see of him for a while. But have the

<v Speaker 1>Heels go over that would have been effective too, but

<v Speaker 1>still give Osprey that moment at the end. Instead, they

<v Speaker 1>repeated the same angle they already did with him in Texas,

<v Speaker 1>which ended up not really meaning a whole hell of

<v Speaker 1>a lot. But they repeated the same angle and they

<v Speaker 1>you know, ended up making everybody look like an idiot.

<v Speaker 1>But they wanted to go for the heat here at

<v Speaker 1>the end the match. Here, here's the thing about this

<v Speaker 1>about this match. When they announced this as as a

<v Speaker 1>lights out, unsanctioned match, just like anarchy in the arena,

<v Speaker 1>blooding guts and those types of matches, you you know

<v Speaker 1>what to expect coming in. You can never really be

<v Speaker 1>shocked by what they give you here when they do

<v Speaker 1>the gore and the blood and the violence, the ultra

<v Speaker 1>violence and the disgusting shit that they do. It's part

<v Speaker 1>and parcel of what Tony Kahan loves, you know, and

<v Speaker 1>just what they do and what Moxley loves, and you

<v Speaker 1>know what to expect. So I knew that coming in here,

<v Speaker 1>the blood and the gore and the plunder. I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>a huge fan of this match. This match was. It

<v Speaker 1>really wasn't for me. I'm sure for some people they'll

<v Speaker 1>think is the best thing in the world. For me,

<v Speaker 1>Hangman MJF had the best match in the entire show.

<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed that more because to me, we had anarchy.

<v Speaker 1>We had an anarchy in the arena a few months ago,

<v Speaker 1>double or nothing. This was anarchy in the arena, but

<v Speaker 1>in a cage. There's a sameness to this and anarchy

<v Speaker 1>in the arena. I had a lot of fun with

<v Speaker 1>this year, especially the whole let the bodies hit the

<v Speaker 1>floor part with you drowning pool. That was a really

<v Speaker 1>fun match. But that's what this was. But it was

<v Speaker 1>contained within it for the most part. It was contained

<v Speaker 1>within a cage, and we just had that a few

<v Speaker 1>months ago. I mean, at least they were smart enough

<v Speaker 1>to not do blood and guts. That would have been

<v Speaker 1>complete overkill. Like if they had gone from anarchy the

<v Speaker 1>arena to blood and guts like a month and a

<v Speaker 1>half later, they may still do it before the year

<v Speaker 1>is over, but they didn't do blood and guts. But

<v Speaker 1>I just feel like I've seen this before. This time.

<v Speaker 1>They tossed in a few names, you know who we

<v Speaker 1>don't normally don't see. Tana Hashi and Gabe Kid, Kenny

<v Speaker 1>Omega and Cody Abushie we haven't seen in a month,

<v Speaker 1>so they threw them in there. I did think it

<v Speaker 1>was a nice gesture, you know, giving tana Hashi the

<v Speaker 1>pin at the end, you know, if the baby Faces

<v Speaker 1>were gonna win. So I like that, I mean, I

<v Speaker 1>thought that was that was nice. But the story here

<v Speaker 1>is Darby and John Moxley. That's what the match was

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be, really, but they probably want to hold

<v Speaker 1>off on it until September all out, so they gave

<v Speaker 1>us this in the meantime. The story coming in here though,

<v Speaker 1>was more about Will Ospray and his injury. That's really

<v Speaker 1>what the story was. Is Ospray going to be able

<v Speaker 1>to make it the match in one piece because he

<v Speaker 1>was medically cleared and he's been doing a lot of

<v Speaker 1>interviews this week talking about how my doctors told me

<v Speaker 1>that you know, it shouldn't get any worse, and they're

<v Speaker 1>comfortable with me, and I'm comfortable going in there and

<v Speaker 1>protecting myself enough. But you know, he was also talking like,

<v Speaker 1>if this is the last time I get to be

<v Speaker 1>the real Will Osprey, then I'm going to go out

<v Speaker 1>there and give it my all. And he didn't do

<v Speaker 1>anything in the match that was too crazy. They left

<v Speaker 1>that to Darby, who is always going to do crazy

<v Speaker 1>shit no matter what. Osprey leaving is going to leave

<v Speaker 1>a hole in the roster. There's nothing that could be done.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if he's having a fusion. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if he's having like a cleaning and they're just

<v Speaker 1>going to fix up a few things and he'll be

<v Speaker 1>back in five months. If it's a fusion, he's gone

<v Speaker 1>for a year. There's a big difference there. We're talking about,

<v Speaker 1>you know, ospray out for four or five months or

<v Speaker 1>ospray out for ten to twelve. Big difference. And we

<v Speaker 1>don't know. He hasn't commented on exactly what the surgery

<v Speaker 1>and what the procedure is going to be. It's gonna

<v Speaker 1>be tough, especially if Swerve has to be out for

<v Speaker 1>a while. People are gonna have opportunities to step up

<v Speaker 1>and take their place, because those are two big baby

<v Speaker 1>faces to lose, even if it's only for a few months.

<v Speaker 1>The matches were solid on this show, solid to very

<v Speaker 1>good in some cases. I thought the AW World title

<v Speaker 1>match for the most part was excellent. Again, we get

<v Speaker 1>solid to very good matches. I mean they shit them

<v Speaker 1>out every week on AW television. When the show was over,

<v Speaker 1>I was like, you know what, this was a good show.

<v Speaker 1>This was not a great show. This was not one

<v Speaker 1>of my favorite shows, but it was good. It was good,

<v Speaker 1>you know, I didn't feel like I was cheated out

<v Speaker 1>of my money. They always give you an overload of matches.

<v Speaker 1>They should, you know. I mean, I've said my piece

<v Speaker 1>on that. But they want to try to get everybody

<v Speaker 1>on the show. That's fine. They stuck most people on

<v Speaker 1>the pre show at the very last minute. Four matches.

<v Speaker 1>Every match was like an all star six person, eight

<v Speaker 1>person tag match. Whatever. There's so many matches, there's so

<v Speaker 1>many championships, it could be dizzying sometimes. But I felt

<v Speaker 1>like there was enough on this show that I did like,

<v Speaker 1>you know, that I got my money's worth. In terms

<v Speaker 1>of en ring, it was a good show. In terms

<v Speaker 1>of the stories and the angles, nothing really to get

<v Speaker 1>excited about here. Honestly, happy to see wardlow Back, happy

<v Speaker 1>to see Jamie Hayterback should obviously be working with Tekla.

<v Speaker 1>But in terms of the angles and the stories this

<v Speaker 1>was it was pretty weak. And again, forbidden Door is

<v Speaker 1>a novelty that has worn out. It's welcome with me.

<v Speaker 1>I know some people would disagree. A lot of people

<v Speaker 1>agree that it was a cool concept three years ago

<v Speaker 1>and even two years ago. But at this point, the

<v Speaker 1>Forbidden Door it's very played out. We get the Forbidden

<v Speaker 1>Door every single week, so it doesn't mean what it

<v Speaker 1>used to mean. And this year was the one year

<v Speaker 1>more than any other that they've been doing this show

<v Speaker 1>where it was an AW show more than anything. It

<v Speaker 1>didn't feel like a Forbidden Door show. Most of the

<v Speaker 1>matches were AW talents and they drop people in here,

<v Speaker 1>Horomu here, Tanahashi there, But for the most part it

<v Speaker 1>was just an AW show, you know, masquerading as a

<v Speaker 1>Forbidden Door show. So is Tony Kan going to continue

<v Speaker 1>the concept? Yes, they did nineteen thousand people here at

<v Speaker 1>the two. I don't know what the gate was. It's

<v Speaker 1>probably in the top five that they've ever done. Is

<v Speaker 1>a very successful show. Next year they should be back

<v Speaker 1>to the normal schedule with this show in June and

<v Speaker 1>all in in August, so they may have greater access

<v Speaker 1>to talent from New Japan at that point. Who even

<v Speaker 1>knows what the New Japan roster is going to look

<v Speaker 1>like at that point. New Japan is going through a

<v Speaker 1>period of great upheaval right now. They're trying to make

<v Speaker 1>new stars. They've lost a lot of stars. I think

<v Speaker 1>that's part of the problem. New Japan is a product

<v Speaker 1>is very cold. When they did The Forbidden Door three

<v Speaker 1>years ago, New Japan was I don't want to say

<v Speaker 1>it was super hot because it really hasn't been super

<v Speaker 1>hot since Covid. Covid really did a number on this

<v Speaker 1>fucking company, but they were hotter than they were now.

<v Speaker 1>They had bigger names than they do now. Every year

<v Speaker 1>that goes by, that gets that much weaker. It makes

<v Speaker 1>this show feel weaker. That's absolutely part of it. New

<v Speaker 1>Japan is ice cold right now. Takeshta just won the

<v Speaker 1>g One. Takesh is an aw guy and he wasn't

<v Speaker 1>even on the show in a match. I mean, he

<v Speaker 1>came out briefly, but he wasn't even in a match

<v Speaker 1>on the show, and so that's part of the problem too.

<v Speaker 1>Take a look at the Twitter poll how would you

<v Speaker 1>grade Forbidden Door twenty twenty five with almost eighteen hundred

<v Speaker 1>votes in so far. Look at the split here, ABC

<v Speaker 1>and D Twenty five percent roughly have given this show

<v Speaker 1>an A grade, twenty seven percent have given this show

<v Speaker 1>a B grade. Twenty three point six percent have given

<v Speaker 1>this show a C grade. And twenty four point six

<v Speaker 1>percent have given this show a D grade. It's almost

<v Speaker 1>that even split right down the line, where do I

<v Speaker 1>fall on this? I'm in the B category. I think

<v Speaker 1>solid B. That's probably what I would go for this show.

<v Speaker 1>Tony signed everyone away from Japan, well, I mean he did,

<v Speaker 1>but they were going to leave anyway. It's not just

<v Speaker 1>that Tony like snuck in at night and just stole everybody,

<v Speaker 1>stuffed them in a bag and ran off like they

<v Speaker 1>were leaving New Japan. They wanted to make more money.

<v Speaker 1>And if Tony didn't take them, I guarantee you w

<v Speaker 1>W would have WW would have taken Okada, they would

<v Speaker 1>have taken j White, they would have taken will Osprey.

<v Speaker 1>But yes, Tony's signing away so many names from them.

<v Speaker 1>He has them now they don't, and they just haven't

<v Speaker 1>built up enough new stars to make up that deficit,

<v Speaker 1>you know. I mean, that's what happens when you just

<v Speaker 1>you don't act quick enough in terms of building up

<v Speaker 1>all of this new talent, like they should already have

<v Speaker 1>at this point two or three of those guys, you know,

<v Speaker 1>the Yoda Sujis and showta uminos, like they should already

<v Speaker 1>be in a position where they are a top talent.

<v Speaker 1>So they have like five guys that are like their

<v Speaker 1>nucleus that you could build around, and none of them

<v Speaker 1>have been elevated to that spot yet. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>what they're waiting for. They lost Nito. I mean, you

<v Speaker 1>think that David Finley's going to be there forever? All right,

<v Speaker 1>Le's go back to the super chats that first came

<v Speaker 1>in tonight. Start with the Terrible Dried Chicken getting us started.

<v Speaker 1>By the way, the exterminator is still not here and

<v Speaker 1>it is almost eleven o'clock at night. Is he coming

<v Speaker 1>at all? Probably not. I'm going to subdue my anger

<v Speaker 1>and get through these super chats because I'm very angry

<v Speaker 1>right now. Dry Chicken says, did you see the viral

<v Speaker 1>clip of what rampages son? Did it? Yes? I did,

<v Speaker 1>of course I did, and it was disgusting and he

<v Speaker 1>should be locked away for many years to come. It

<v Speaker 1>was disgusting and he has no business being out on

<v Speaker 1>the streets after what we saw in that video. The update,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, on the man that he almost beat

<v Speaker 1>to death, Psycho Stu, last update I saw right before

<v Speaker 1>I went live tonight. He is alert and was communicating,

<v Speaker 1>you know, talking to people earlier. But he almost choked

<v Speaker 1>to death on his own blood and his teeth. He

<v Speaker 1>had I would say all of his teeth knocked out,

<v Speaker 1>but he got a lot of teeth knocked out, and

<v Speaker 1>he almost choked to death on his blood and his teeth.

<v Speaker 1>But he's alive. But that's the only update we have

<v Speaker 1>so far. Absolutely disgusting death. Sithe says while watching the

<v Speaker 1>three way aw tag team title match, it made me

<v Speaker 1>think if only Vince made the main event of Survivor

<v Speaker 1>Series ninety seven a triple threat with Brett, Sean and

<v Speaker 1>the Undertaker, and the whole Montreal screwjob could have been avoided. Well,

<v Speaker 1>I've said that on the podcast for years. Undertaker was

<v Speaker 1>in the building that night. He was there. He had

<v Speaker 1>no match, but he was there. That would have been

<v Speaker 1>the simple solution because he had been working with both

<v Speaker 1>of those guys. He had worked with Brett at SummerSlam

<v Speaker 1>and at that UK pay per view, and then he

<v Speaker 1>went right from a program with Brett to a program

<v Speaker 1>with Sean. He was right in the thick of it.

<v Speaker 1>It would have actually made storyline sense for him to

<v Speaker 1>be part of that match. And I don't believe the

<v Speaker 1>idea was ever even broached. Like in all the stories

<v Speaker 1>that have been retold about Montreal and the ideas that

<v Speaker 1>people were trying to come up with Vincent Cornett and

<v Speaker 1>all these people, nobody thought. Nobody thought like, maybe we

<v Speaker 1>just put the Undertaker in the match. Nobody thought of that.

<v Speaker 1>But Seawn beat Undertaker, so Brett doesn't have to take

<v Speaker 1>the losing fun Maybe Brett would have said no, But

<v Speaker 1>apparently the idea was never even pitched. I never really

<v Speaker 1>understood that. How Veally says, what's up, solo Monster shout

<v Speaker 1>out from Brisbane, Australia. Let's just say that Hulk Hogan's

<v Speaker 1>return to WWE in nineteen ninety eight, what is the

<v Speaker 1>possibility of getting Austin versus Hogan at WrestleMania fifteen instead

<v Speaker 1>of Rock versus Austin if Hogan had come back to

<v Speaker 1>the company, I think the likelihood is very high. And

<v Speaker 1>I think that, I mean that would have been terrible

<v Speaker 1>for the Rock in Austin. Hogan coming into the company

<v Speaker 1>in ninety eight when they were building their new stars

<v Speaker 1>up would have been the worst possible thing, the worst

<v Speaker 1>possible thing. It's a good thing. It didn't happen in hindsight,

<v Speaker 1>and he says today would have been his mom's sixty

<v Speaker 1>third birthday. Well, I wish your mother a very heavenly birthday, Pavely.

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure she was a lovely lady. Fox says, excited

<v Speaker 1>for the upcoming video. I assume he meant stream, so

<v Speaker 1>I hope it lived up to your expectations. Dried Chicken,

<v Speaker 1>says a w in twenty twenty five. This dried Chicken

<v Speaker 1>here is enjoying the women's division so much lower card,

<v Speaker 1>mid card or top spot. The personalities are great. Gabriel

<v Speaker 1>Gabriel Boss says everyone can make fun of nine Belts Monet,

<v Speaker 1>but you can't take away from the workload that she

<v Speaker 1>is putting in. She wrestled four times in five days

<v Speaker 1>this week. Yeah, you know she did. And if I'm

<v Speaker 1>Tony Kahan man, like she's in a feature match on

<v Speaker 1>your pay per view, and you're allowing her to wrestle

<v Speaker 1>four times in five days, like that's I mean, that's

<v Speaker 1>taken a risk there. I don't even know if I

<v Speaker 1>would allow that. I mean, one match is one thing,

<v Speaker 1>two matches is one thing, but fucking four matches, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>you're really tempting fate, especially with all the injuries they've had.

<v Speaker 1>Brian Cage had a knee replacement. He's been out because

<v Speaker 1>he got hurt, and that's not the reason why he

<v Speaker 1>had knee replacement. I mean, I think he tore his

<v Speaker 1>acl but he just decided, you know what, I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>get my knee taken care of. But he got hurt

<v Speaker 1>at an indie show back in March. We haven't seen

<v Speaker 1>him since. Uh the Moldy Cheeseburger. Can Tony Khan replace

<v Speaker 1>ex Caliber with Walker Stewart on commentary going forward? Walker

<v Speaker 1>Stewart is quite good. He is very good. Fabian Garcia,

<v Speaker 1>the show was fun and I can say overall I

<v Speaker 1>was entertained. What more can I ask for? Some booking

<v Speaker 1>I don't agree with, but when do we ever? That

<v Speaker 1>was from Fabian mister E nineteen seventy six. Here's to

<v Speaker 1>the tip jar. Thanks for everything you do, Sola, Monsters

<v Speaker 1>stay pressing forward. Thank you, Mystery I try the real

<v Speaker 1>CS says Hey, Solo, I have a question for you.

<v Speaker 1>Since you are a commentator for hog, do you prefer

<v Speaker 1>to not know the results of the matches? To me,

<v Speaker 1>your reactions come off as genuine, so I was wondering

<v Speaker 1>I would prefer not to. I would prefer not to.

<v Speaker 1>Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I do. If it comes off

<v Speaker 1>like I like, I don't, it's possible I don't. And

<v Speaker 1>it's also possible I'm doing a very good job of

<v Speaker 1>fooling you into believing that I don't. If it were

<v Speaker 1>up to me, I wouldn't. But there are many times

<v Speaker 1>where I need to know what's going on, especially if

<v Speaker 1>I'm going to be involved in something on the show,

<v Speaker 1>which does happen a lot. Joseph Stewart says, I want

<v Speaker 1>to take time out today and remember Wyndham Rotunda aka

<v Speaker 1>Bray Wyatt. Absolutely I mentioned that before two years he

<v Speaker 1>has been gone. Also, do you think Bo Dallas is

<v Speaker 1>Uncle Howdy could work in AAW and would the AW

<v Speaker 1>fans accept Bo Dallas as Uncle Howdy? No, Uncle Howdy

<v Speaker 1>would not work in AAW. Uncle Howdy barely works in WWA,

<v Speaker 1>would not work in AW. I'm hearing good reviews. Also

<v Speaker 1>of Raven's autobiography, is autobiography or is that documentary? I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was a movie that was coming out. I

<v Speaker 1>think it's a movie, not a book. Buy or sell

<v Speaker 1>Prince Prince Batman eighty nine soundtrack or Batman Forever soundtrack

<v Speaker 1>Prince Prince Batman eighty nine. Do you remember the Batman

<v Speaker 1>or Robin soundtrack? I don't. Do you think that we

<v Speaker 1>will get Dominic Mysterio against John Cena at Survivor Series?

<v Speaker 1>I don't After rewatching and seeing teases on SmackDown, could

<v Speaker 1>the Wyatt six have every title on Smackdowd in the future.

<v Speaker 1>I fucking hope not. No, absolutely not. Power Spying Games

<v Speaker 1>Our Spying Games says he was there. He was at

<v Speaker 1>Forbidden Door tonight. If I can find it here, there is.

<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed Hangman versus MJF the most, you and me

<v Speaker 1>both man. That was my favorite match of the night,

<v Speaker 1>best match on the Showjaveli says if Yoko Zuna left WWE,

<v Speaker 1>would he have left WWE? Would he have another run

<v Speaker 1>of the WWE? Would he have another run of the

<v Speaker 1>WWE Championship or become Intercontinental or European Ship. I'm not

<v Speaker 1>sure I understand the question. I think he means if

<v Speaker 1>he did not leave WWE, he didn't leave WWE. I

<v Speaker 1>mean they got rid of him, his contract expired, He

<v Speaker 1>wasn't cleared by certain athletic commissions to wrestle. He was

<v Speaker 1>so morbidly obese it was it was a danger to

<v Speaker 1>him and potentially others to allow him into the ring.

<v Speaker 1>So that's why his career came to an end. Would

<v Speaker 1>he have had another run with the WWF title. I

<v Speaker 1>don't think so. I don't think so. With sammy' z

<v Speaker 1>ay and on SmackDown most likely to have wargames MFT

<v Speaker 1>versus the og Bloodline. Thank you for everything. I really

<v Speaker 1>hope that's I mean, I really hope that's not what

<v Speaker 1>we get. That would be so fucking lame. How many

<v Speaker 1>times are we going to see the fucking bloodline in wargames?

<v Speaker 1>My god, my god? Can we not? Please? Can we

<v Speaker 1>just not Death's Site? On SmackDown when Nick all this

<v Speaker 1>said to Sena, I just got word from Brock Lesnar

<v Speaker 1>and I completely forgot that match is still happening. And

<v Speaker 1>I would rather they coaxed Steve Austin out of retirement

<v Speaker 1>to face Sena instead of Brock. Yeah, I'd rather they

<v Speaker 1>not do either one of those matches. Actually, okay, I'm back.

<v Speaker 1>Sorry for the delay. We are back. We are back.

<v Speaker 1>The exterminator is here. I just had him walk me

<v Speaker 1>through what he's going to do. He's got to get

<v Speaker 1>his suit on. Apparently it's that bad. He's got to

<v Speaker 1>get his be suit on or whatever it is. And

<v Speaker 1>he explained the whole process, and so we're trying to

<v Speaker 1>get this fixed. So we'll try to let's try to

<v Speaker 1>wrap this up so I can go see what he's

<v Speaker 1>doing here before he finishes. But it looks like it's

<v Speaker 1>gonna take a while. But it's what what a mess? Though? Man? Basically,

<v Speaker 1>we got to get to the queen. We got to

<v Speaker 1>get to the queen. Once we get to the queen,

<v Speaker 1>then we're in business and then we can kill the rest.

<v Speaker 1>What a mess? Yeah, you know, it's a you know,

<v Speaker 1>it's a serious situation. When the exterminator is here at

<v Speaker 1>eleven o'clock on a Sunday night, he's getting his b suit,

<v Speaker 1>So it's it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. All right,

<v Speaker 1>let me pick up where we left off here. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>we now return to our regularly scheduled program. Here Charlotte, Yeah, Charlotte,

<v Speaker 1>Charlotte is in my wall downstairs. We are going to

<v Speaker 1>kill the queen. Jeremy Rose, Aw, you gotta have the

<v Speaker 1>worst book reps in wrestling. He says, food Hive Sola

<v Speaker 1>Monster is going to rip up another bill live on

<v Speaker 1>stream again, just like he did on that one stream

<v Speaker 1>during the pandemic classic moment. I remember that that was

<v Speaker 1>when I said no mas to cable and I cut

<v Speaker 1>the cord and I haven't gone back since it was

<v Speaker 1>five years ago. Defined real spot of the night for

<v Speaker 1>me was all the baby Faces telling Tanahashi to get

<v Speaker 1>off the ladder. Jeremy Rose says, MJF Hangman ending was

<v Speaker 1>absolute BS repcounts three, then wakes up minute or two

<v Speaker 1>later to see MJF about to remove the foot. It

<v Speaker 1>was very dumb. As I said, it was very very dumb.

<v Speaker 1>Jeremy says. Later his Spidey senses caught MJF about to

<v Speaker 1>use the ring, but then didn't notice or hear contract used.

<v Speaker 1>And yeah, when he hit him with that contract case, dude,

<v Speaker 1>it made such a loud sound. But apparently Bryce Remsburg

<v Speaker 1>his hearing is not that great. Apparently not Bobby's world.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you for the gifted membership, brother, I appreciate very

<v Speaker 1>very much. Jeremy says, buy or sell. Tony Kahn needs

<v Speaker 1>to just run the business and stop being booker. It

<v Speaker 1>doesn't matter, dude, it doesn't matter. This is his company,

<v Speaker 1>this is his baby. He's the booker. He's not handing

<v Speaker 1>that off to somebody else. So it's a pointless question.

<v Speaker 1>Shadow see that Bozilla can give me a hip attack

<v Speaker 1>to the face all day, every day. You know. I

<v Speaker 1>will say though, like, there are a lot of people

<v Speaker 1>who are going to take notice of Bozilla now who

<v Speaker 1>didn't even know who the woman was before. And I

<v Speaker 1>met what I said when I said that if your stardom,

<v Speaker 1>make sure she's locked into a contract, then this is

<v Speaker 1>not a Stephanie Vikaer situation. Because I think the WWE

<v Speaker 1>and AW were definitely paying attention tonight, that is for sure. Larcity,

<v Speaker 1>am I the only one who thinks Kenny Omega did

<v Speaker 1>the belt collector gimmick better than Mercedes Mundane. How would

<v Speaker 1>you rank the following names on their run in two

<v Speaker 1>thousand and two, the Rock brock Lesnar, Shawn Michaels, and

<v Speaker 1>Kurt Angle. I mean, they all have a hell of

<v Speaker 1>a year in two thousand and two, But I mean,

<v Speaker 1>how can I go with anybody but brock Lesnar. I

<v Speaker 1>mean that was the year that made him he debuted,

<v Speaker 1>He won King of the Ring. He beat Hulk Hogan

<v Speaker 1>with a bear hug, He beat the Rock, He won

<v Speaker 1>the WWE Championship. He beat the Undertaker in Helena Cell.

<v Speaker 1>The only rookie year I could think of that rivals

<v Speaker 1>that in his or is better than that is Kurt Angle,

<v Speaker 1>Kurt and Brock, two of those guys right there. But

<v Speaker 1>those are your two best rookie years right there, easily,

<v Speaker 1>So I would go Brock first. Uh, all right, I'm

<v Speaker 1>not I'm not using this anymore. Fuck this, I'm gonna

<v Speaker 1>look at the list here. This is this list is

<v Speaker 1>getting in my fucking nerves. Sorry, I'm gonna look at

<v Speaker 1>it over here. Oh my god, just what I needed.

<v Speaker 1>Mm hm, that's what all. That's what all. The yellow

<v Speaker 1>Jackets are going to be singing as they're as they're

<v Speaker 1>fleeing and flying out of the wall outside Gouda be

<v Speaker 1>shouting bre mode as they fly away. So Lar City,

<v Speaker 1>I would go Brock God two thousand and two, huh hmm, Brock,

<v Speaker 1>Kurt Rock, and then Shawn Michaels, just because Seawn didn't

<v Speaker 1>return to the ring until August, and then he didn't

<v Speaker 1>wrestle again until the elimination Chamber. I mean, that's not

<v Speaker 1>really a complete year, so I can't rank him above

<v Speaker 1>those other names gmb Oba and Javon was incredible. It

<v Speaker 1>was the best one on one match today, Ozen Gloria

<v Speaker 1>is wasn't the hurt Syndicate the catalyst for Ricochet spiraling

<v Speaker 1>to begin with? After they humiliated him? That was before

<v Speaker 1>the swerve TP spot long term? Yeah, sure, I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>that's the reason. I'm sure that's the reason that they

<v Speaker 1>suddenly ran out there. You could you could argue that,

<v Speaker 1>I mean that that's going back aways. He was playing

<v Speaker 1>the long game. Is that what he was doing? They

<v Speaker 1>were playing the long game? Basce bears can't wait for

<v Speaker 1>Wardlow to do a tell all shoot death sythe What

<v Speaker 1>did the young doctor say when his mother asked him

<v Speaker 1>what he wanted for his birthday? Patience? Patience p A

<v Speaker 1>T I E. N ce get it. Also, do you

<v Speaker 1>think Rampage Jackson's son should be charged with first degree

<v Speaker 1>I think he should be locked away behind bars for

<v Speaker 1>at least twenty years. Yes, what you saw in that

<v Speaker 1>video was attempted murder, played and simple. He should be

<v Speaker 1>locked away. He should be off the streets and locked away.

<v Speaker 1>There's no excuse for that. I don't give a shit.

<v Speaker 1>Hoho jinned him up. He was looking at the chat,

<v Speaker 1>the chat with you, except the rage bait from the chat.

<v Speaker 1>Everyone's making excuses. I don't give a shit. He should

<v Speaker 1>be locked away. IP that's the name. By the way,

<v Speaker 1>I'm not describing what I'm doing right now. Saw Weapons

<v Speaker 1>on Friday. Thanks for recommending you. Oh, you're very welcome.

<v Speaker 1>I hope you enjoyed it. I had a lot of

<v Speaker 1>fun watching Weapons. I still think Sinners is the best

<v Speaker 1>movie I've seen this year, but Weapons was very fun.

<v Speaker 1>Ozen glorious. Grateful for the community and the work you

<v Speaker 1>put in. Solom Monster. Also thank you for not taking

<v Speaker 1>the bait and becoming a performative, hyperbolic AW is dying

<v Speaker 1>grifter like everyone else in the space, I've never once

<v Speaker 1>said that AW is dying. I mean, they have six

<v Speaker 1>hundred million. There's six hundred million reasons why they are

<v Speaker 1>not dying, despite what other people may say, which I

<v Speaker 1>think is a ridiculous thing to say. Nineteen thousand people

<v Speaker 1>in the O two in London, I think they probably

<v Speaker 1>did two and a half million, three million dollars at

<v Speaker 1>the gate doesn't seem like a dying company to me.

<v Speaker 1>You're very welcome, bas Bears. Is when are we getting

<v Speaker 1>the call in segment on the show? Eh, there's no

<v Speaker 1>consistency to it. It's just when I feel like doing it,

<v Speaker 1>or I may set a supercheck goal for it. Nothing

<v Speaker 1>is scheduled, but we'll do more calls. It's just a

<v Speaker 1>matter of fitting them in, especially when I know there's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be like a long stream. I wouldn't do it

<v Speaker 1>on a stream like that. If it was maybe a

<v Speaker 1>night where I felt like show is basic, show whatever,

<v Speaker 1>maybe we'll see Javili says. I meant, if Yoko Zuna

<v Speaker 1>did not leave WWE and lost weight, how long before

<v Speaker 1>Zillah joins WWE? Uh? Zilla, He's still a little ways away.

<v Speaker 1>But I have every reason to believe that Zilla will

<v Speaker 1>end up in WWI. It's not like an imminent thing, though.

<v Speaker 1>Doubles in the chat, says b the booker, and he

<v Speaker 1>puts a fucking b. I mean, look, there are people

<v Speaker 1>who think yellowjackets or bees. They're not. They're wasps, but

<v Speaker 1>they look like bees. Hey, at least it could be worse, right,

<v Speaker 1>I could have those murder hornets. That was a thing

<v Speaker 1>here in New York a couple of years ago. Thoughts

<v Speaker 1>on WWE doing a Battle Royal with the winner against

<v Speaker 1>Stephanie Vakaierre for the women championship. No, you do Eosky,

<v Speaker 1>They may do that, but Eosky against Stephanie a clash

<v Speaker 1>in Paris. That's it. Or maybe you do eo rock

<v Speaker 1>sand in Stephanie at clash in Paris. But that's it.

<v Speaker 1>That's all you need to do. Bass Beer, is, what

<v Speaker 1>are you exterminating in queen rats? You know what? It

<v Speaker 1>kind of feels that way, doesn't it. Fucking rat queen

<v Speaker 1>is buried deep within the wall somewhere. I don't know.

<v Speaker 1>But whatever it is, it is, it's being taken care

<v Speaker 1>of as we speak. All a boy, there are trees

<v Speaker 1>sprouting everywhere tonight, fu that there are trees sprouting everywhere.

<v Speaker 1>Jericho is back in the news and the trees are

<v Speaker 1>sprouting again death side. You know what, we Brits always say,

<v Speaker 1>God save the Queen. You do you do say that?

<v Speaker 1>You say God saved the Queen. I say God's slay

<v Speaker 1>the queen, Bass Bearris shout out to the exterminator, Yes,

<v Speaker 1>shout out to him. I just had a very nice

<v Speaker 1>conversation with him, Alex. Can you see a scenario where

<v Speaker 1>Sina decides to extend his retirement, No where he decides

<v Speaker 1>to extend his retirement until next year's WrestleMania only because

<v Speaker 1>he wouldn't want his final Mania match to be infamously

<v Speaker 1>remembered as one of the worst Maniam matches of all time.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think he cares. I don't think that matters

<v Speaker 1>to him what other people are going to say about

<v Speaker 1>his WrestleMania match. I don't think he's living on social

<v Speaker 1>media worry that people are saying that it was a

<v Speaker 1>shitty main event at WrestleMania, which it was. He is

<v Speaker 1>not extending his retirement. He is committed through the end

<v Speaker 1>of the year. Saturday Night's main event December thirteenth is

<v Speaker 1>going to be his final match, and that's it. He's

<v Speaker 1>done and you will never see him in the georts

<v Speaker 1>and hat and T shirt again, just like Undertaker has said, like,

<v Speaker 1>you're not gonna see him dressed as the Undertaker, right

<v Speaker 1>he comes out. Now, he's the American badass. He's Mark Callaway.

<v Speaker 1>He says, unless I get back in the ring, which

<v Speaker 1>I'm not doing, I'm not gonna. I'm not wearing the

<v Speaker 1>Undertaker stuff again. That's it, I believe seeing it. When

<v Speaker 1>he says that Basce Bears with the twelve dollars learning tree,

<v Speaker 1>this has been an unbelievable review. Boy, you guys are

<v Speaker 1>really having some fun at my expense, aren't you. Again

<v Speaker 1>it's it's not a bee though, like the joke doesn't work.

<v Speaker 1>Bass Bears says, what would get a bigger pop if

<v Speaker 1>Jericho returned? What would get a bigger pop if Jericho

<v Speaker 1>returned his the walls down theme or him simply saying

<v Speaker 1>hi guys before he appears. Not that why two j

<v Speaker 1>versus Brock would be great? They have history already. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>great is not a word I would use for that.

<v Speaker 1>I don't think that would be as great as you

<v Speaker 1>believe it would be. I have no interest in seeing that.

<v Speaker 1>I have no interest in seeing that. Jane Love, it

<v Speaker 1>looked like Youda was stabbing the face's fingers as they

<v Speaker 1>tried to climb. You can see Youda doing that to Hobbs,

<v Speaker 1>which swayed the faces not to go well, but gee golly,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, if Wheeler Da is jabbing them in the fingers,

<v Speaker 1>then I guess will ospray. He's just gonna have to

<v Speaker 1>have his neck broken. There's just nothing we can do.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, do people not realize how ridiculous this sounds? Like? Yes,

<v Speaker 1>I saw him doing that with some people, but not

<v Speaker 1>first of all, not all of them. Number one, number two, Uh,

<v Speaker 1>that is not reason enough to leave your comrade to

<v Speaker 1>die in the ring because Wheeler Dah has a stick

<v Speaker 1>in his hand. Wheeler Dah, Now if he had a

<v Speaker 1>blowtorch or something, I'd be like, okay, you know what, well,

<v Speaker 1>you're on your own. You're on your own. That I

<v Speaker 1>can understand, Chainsaw. You know, if Wheeler Uda was standing

<v Speaker 1>there outside the ring, you know, yeah, if I'm hobbs,

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, all right, you know what, it's all good man,

<v Speaker 1>it's all good. I'm gonna back away that I could understand.

<v Speaker 1>Base Bears says I botch that. I meant thanks, guys,

<v Speaker 1>look at that. You botched your own super chat. It's terrible. Yeah.

<v Speaker 1>My my new least favorite tag team, the Killer Wait watch,

<v Speaker 1>We'll land on the Killer Bees and be the book

<v Speaker 1>Can you imagine if we land on the fucking Killer

<v Speaker 1>Bees and be the Booker Tonight, Luis with a twelve.

<v Speaker 1>I wasn't able to watch All In and I still

<v Speaker 1>can't believe Wwe gave us two different versions of Logan

<v Speaker 1>Paul knocking out John Cena. Now we know who is

<v Speaker 1>going to win it Clash in Paris. Fuck Logan, Paul,

<v Speaker 1>Thank you Luis Shadow See are you going to watch

<v Speaker 1>The Long Walk and Alien Aliens Earth? What is? First

<v Speaker 1>of all? What is the the Long Walk? And number two?

<v Speaker 1>I would like to watch Alien Earth. I do feel

<v Speaker 1>like I should go back and just rewatch the first movie,

<v Speaker 1>though it's been a while since i've seen it. Depth side. Also,

<v Speaker 1>I don't disagree. I think they should throw the book

<v Speaker 1>at Raha. Is it Raja or Raja? I think Rajah?

<v Speaker 1>At least Travis Scott didn't hurt Cody like that. Great.

<v Speaker 1>Now this son of a bitch has me defending Travis Scott.

<v Speaker 1>I mean yeah, I mean the two situations are not

<v Speaker 1>even remotely similar. Like this guy just this guy just

<v Speaker 1>snapped like I don't give a shit who said what

<v Speaker 1>to him beforehand, Like he's a grown adult, he's not

<v Speaker 1>a child. When he slammed this man to the mat,

<v Speaker 1>and the way that his head smacked the mat, like

<v Speaker 1>he was already out of it, and then he started

<v Speaker 1>throwing punches at this guy, full fucking force, and he

<v Speaker 1>threw so many of them, like there's no and it's

<v Speaker 1>all on video, and there's no argument to be made that.

<v Speaker 1>Oh well, I didn't know. I mean, they told me

<v Speaker 1>I could give him a receipt, So I just decided

<v Speaker 1>to punch him seventeen times in the fucking face as

<v Speaker 1>hard as I possibly could, Like, no, throw the book

<v Speaker 1>at him and lock him up, that's it, and throw

<v Speaker 1>away the key. It was disgusting and there's no there's

<v Speaker 1>absolutely no excuse for it. Doctor Scorpio, It's a wasp.

<v Speaker 1>I can't believe that. I can't believe that, Leopoldo. I'm

<v Speaker 1>so tempted to take Solo's gaming share right now. Well,

<v Speaker 1>too bad, already back in the chair. I wasn't out

<v Speaker 1>of the chair for that long. Just had to go

<v Speaker 1>see what was going on. Speedy Sina says that now.

<v Speaker 1>Sina says that now, but even the Brothers of Destruction,

<v Speaker 1>Triple H and HBK could not resist the greatest force

<v Speaker 1>in wrestling history, Saudi Money. Well. One thing that John

<v Speaker 1>Cena does not need to worry about is that sweet

<v Speaker 1>Saudi money. He's got plenty of it from his career

<v Speaker 1>in Hollywood, so I think he'll be okay. And with that,

<v Speaker 1>we got one round. We didn't quite hit the secondary goal,

<v Speaker 1>but we did hit the We did hit the main goal,

<v Speaker 1>so we will be doing some be the booker here

<v Speaker 1>more the super chat. You get your fingers jabbed, you're

<v Speaker 1>gonna lose grip again. I could be mistaken here. Did

<v Speaker 1>you see Kenny Omega try to climb the cage? Did

<v Speaker 1>you see Kodyabushi try to climb the cage? Did you

<v Speaker 1>see rb Allen try to climb the cage? Maybe one

<v Speaker 1>of them. I don't remember seeing any of them even

<v Speaker 1>attempt to climb the cage, but I get it. You

<v Speaker 1>know people are going to make excuses. There's no excuses

<v Speaker 1>for this. Like you can try. It's admirable, like you

<v Speaker 1>could try, but it was stupid. Like again, just it's

<v Speaker 1>okay to admit it was very very stupid. Like visually,

<v Speaker 1>it didn't work. It made the baby faces look very

<v Speaker 1>weak and ineffective. Shadow See the Long Walk is a

<v Speaker 1>horror movie based off of a an sk book. Oh

<v Speaker 1>Stephen King, Okay, first, I'm hearing of this so I

<v Speaker 1>will have to look into what the movie is about.

<v Speaker 1>It's first the hearing of it. Just be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>Ladies are gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>You know, Bash may have had the comments of the

<v Speaker 1>night in the chat just now, I think Bash has

<v Speaker 1>the comments of the night. Darby could climb a mountain,

<v Speaker 1>but not a cage. Bash, you win the prize for

<v Speaker 1>the night. Darby could climb a mountain, but not a cage. Said,

<v Speaker 1>all right, tag team be the I swear if we land,

<v Speaker 1>if we land on these guys, I swear. All right.

<v Speaker 1>We got the Luca Bros. We got Pinta, we got

<v Speaker 1>Ray Phoenix. It's a good start. That's a good start,

<v Speaker 1>and they are going to be taking on. Look at

<v Speaker 1>this lax. We got Santana and door teas. Yes, no

<v Speaker 1>killer bees for you or killer wasps because they're not

<v Speaker 1>bees but they look like them. Women's be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>We have Rosa No, no, no, that point. Goodbye Rosa,

<v Speaker 1>goodbye Rosa Mendez out. Yes, all right our main event here,

<v Speaker 1>Men's be the booker. We got a main event to book, Yes,

<v Speaker 1>indeed we do. We have got Men's be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>Let's do it. Let's do it. We got the w

<v Speaker 1>w E champion. Look at this, we got the American

<v Speaker 1>Nightmare Cody Rhodes properly in the main event. Here of

<v Speaker 1>be the booker. Cody rhads. Oh again, zombie Eddie Kingston.

<v Speaker 1>Now that's a badass. Look right there, This right here

<v Speaker 1>is a man that has seen shit. He has seen

<v Speaker 1>some shit. Let me tell you we should be getting

<v Speaker 1>Eddie Kingston back very soon. He should be back, honestly

<v Speaker 1>any month now. Cody Rhodes and Eddie Kingston in the

<v Speaker 1>main event. There's a main event for I imagine those promos, man,

<v Speaker 1>Eddie cutting promos on corporate Cody, that'd be great. Doctor

<v Speaker 1>Scorpio says, hide those belts from Mercedes. Oh shit, that's right, yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I gotta I gotta cover these up here, man, Man,

<v Speaker 1>I gotta, I gotta I don't know, man, I gotta

<v Speaker 1>take them off the wall. She may be coming after

<v Speaker 1>my belts. She's gonna have to fight me for him.

<v Speaker 1>It's gonna take more than six meteors to beat me

<v Speaker 1>for those belts. It's gonna have to come up with

<v Speaker 1>another move. Devin from NJ who would solo rather have

<v Speaker 1>be seen his final opponent the Rock or Austin theory.

<v Speaker 1>None of the above, None of the above. Dried Chicken

<v Speaker 1>says Don Kallas is giving Paul Hayman a run for

<v Speaker 1>his money when it comes to recruiting people to his faction. Oh,

<v Speaker 1>I would say Paul Hayman has some catching up to do.

<v Speaker 1>He's got some catching up to do. Oz and Glorio

<v Speaker 1>is how long before WWE signs Rajah Jackson. I'll tell

<v Speaker 1>you what there is. I saw this on PW Insider.

<v Speaker 1>The promotion where this has happened is Knox Pro That

<v Speaker 1>is Rakishi's promotion, and they are a WWEID designated affiliate.

<v Speaker 1>They have been WWEID designated since October and there is

<v Speaker 1>definitely talk going on about potentially that changing very soon.

<v Speaker 1>They may have potentially lost their ID designation because of this.

<v Speaker 1>We'll see, maybe they should power spying games. Dumb babyface

<v Speaker 1>syndrome was strong tonight. Oh yes it was. It rears

<v Speaker 1>its ugly head every now and then. And Dryed Chicken

<v Speaker 1>says Lloyd Christmas has a question for you, solo, what

<v Speaker 1>are the chances of aw and WWE doing a joint show? Well,

<v Speaker 1>I have a sound effect for that. That is where

<v Speaker 1>you can send that question, because the chances of that

<v Speaker 1>are zero. If I could give you a number less

<v Speaker 1>than zero, I would, but zero is as low as

<v Speaker 1>you can go. Rakkeishi's I would imagine Rakishi's promotion is done. Now,

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't say it's done. I mean, they've been around

<v Speaker 1>sixteen years. But as far as the WWEID affiliate, I

<v Speaker 1>wouldn't want to be associated with a company that allows

<v Speaker 1>something like that to happen. I can tell you that

<v Speaker 1>everyone just standing around with his guy is fucking beaten

<v Speaker 1>to death, almost fucking beaten half to death in the

<v Speaker 1>middle of the ring. Anyway, Thank you guys. This has

<v Speaker 1>been a very uh interesting stream given everything that's going

<v Speaker 1>on here. I have the exterminator in his b suit

<v Speaker 1>downstairs somewhere working on things. This fucking has matt suit

<v Speaker 1>working on things spraying shit. I'm like, should I be

<v Speaker 1>worried about this stuff that's being sprayed? No? No, no,

<v Speaker 1>it's fine, Like, okay, all right, just checking. Well, hopefully

<v Speaker 1>I'll be here for the raw post show tomorrow night.

<v Speaker 1>If not, then I may have succumbed to whatever is

<v Speaker 1>being sprayed here. But I have to give you guys

<v Speaker 1>an update on my yellowjacket situation. Hopefully they'll begin dying

<v Speaker 1>off tomorrow, but I'll be here hopefully for the raw.

<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, so okay, the schedule is a little bit

<v Speaker 1>different tomorrow, so Raw Raw is airing on Netflix at

<v Speaker 1>three o'clock Eastern for every so it's an early Raw.

<v Speaker 1>Don't forget early Raw in Birmingham, England. Tomorrow. I will

<v Speaker 1>be live on the channel barring any exterminator issues eight

<v Speaker 1>o'clock Eastern like I was supposed to be tonight, so

<v Speaker 1>eight pm Eastern Tomorrow, I will go live for the review.

<v Speaker 1>But Raw begins at three, so I guess three to

<v Speaker 1>five thirty will be Raw tomorrow, so just be aware

<v Speaker 1>of that. Go back and check out episode nine twenty

<v Speaker 1>six as well of the sound off. If you missed it.

<v Speaker 1>A lot of good shit on the podcast two hours worth,

<v Speaker 1>go check it out. Terrible Dried Chicken says one more,

<v Speaker 1>not the bees, You're the bee's knees, Terrible Dried Chicken,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for all the super chats and everybody else too.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you for all the support tonight. It's been a

<v Speaker 1>very stressful night, but you made it a little easier.

<v Speaker 1>For me to navigate, and I will see you tomorrow

<v Speaker 1>for the Raw post show. Be well, be well, hahah

<v Speaker 1>be well. Stay safe, I'll see you tomorrow. Take care, guys,