<v Speaker 1>Tonight was a very newsworthy episode of AW Dynamite, just

<v Speaker 1>seventy two hours before Grand Slam Australia, which is airing

<v Speaker 1>on tape delay this weekend. It is a special supersize

<v Speaker 1>episode of Collision and a lot of the talents are

<v Speaker 1>already down in Australia. Some of them are missing on

<v Speaker 1>the show here tonight, but a newsworthy show because we

<v Speaker 1>had two title changes here on this show. You know,

<v Speaker 1>we have some championship matches coming up this weekend where

<v Speaker 1>I think or thought though we might get some title

<v Speaker 1>changes there. We got two of them here tonight on

<v Speaker 1>this show, including one in the main event, which saw

<v Speaker 1>Chris Statlander defending the AW Women's World Championship in a

<v Speaker 1>strap match against Tecla, a woman that she had already beaten,

<v Speaker 1>and she effectively was coerced into agreeing to give Tecla

<v Speaker 1>a rematch for the women's championship. She was the one

<v Speaker 1>who chose the stipulation, made a strap match and up

<v Speaker 1>getting beat and Tekla the Toxic Spider is the new

<v Speaker 1>AW Women's World Champion, with a little assistance from her

<v Speaker 1>her friends Julia Hart and sky Blue. One of the

<v Speaker 1>funniest moments. All night was watching them come out and

<v Speaker 1>do a ref distraction during a match where there were

<v Speaker 1>no disqualifications. I don't really understand that the title change though. Honestly,

<v Speaker 1>when you really think about it, we all should have

<v Speaker 1>seen this coming because there was no reason for this

<v Speaker 1>match to be happening if not for a title change.

<v Speaker 1>She already got beat Why run the match back again?

<v Speaker 1>Why have Chris Statlanders so cavalierly said Okay, yeah, I'll

<v Speaker 1>give you another title shot unless there was going to

<v Speaker 1>be some fuckery going on, and there was, And now

<v Speaker 1>Chris Statlander, after one hundred and forty five days, I

<v Speaker 1>believe as the Women's Champion is champion no more. And

<v Speaker 1>there's going to be a lot of talk about the

<v Speaker 1>kind of run that she had and how underwhelming it felt,

<v Speaker 1>and I can't even disagree. And it's a weird thing

<v Speaker 1>for me to sit here and say that, because when

<v Speaker 1>you look back at how it all started, she won

<v Speaker 1>the championship. It was in a four way match, but

<v Speaker 1>she took the championship from timeless Tony Storm, after which

<v Speaker 1>she got a win over the unbeatable Mercedes Monet, and

<v Speaker 1>she got to win over Jamie Hayter. So look at

<v Speaker 1>that trifecta there that Chris Statlander was able to beat

<v Speaker 1>from the moment she won the championship right on through

<v Speaker 1>the end of twenty twenty five, Tony Storm, Mercedes Monet,

<v Speaker 1>and Jamie Hater, some of the biggest names in the

<v Speaker 1>entire division. And yet I sit here and it still

<v Speaker 1>feels like, Man, what an underwhelming run. And I don't

<v Speaker 1>blame Chris Statlander for that. They just did not put

<v Speaker 1>her in the right situations where it mattered, where coming

<v Speaker 1>off big wins like that, you know, kind of sustained

<v Speaker 1>that momentum. They didn't do that, And I think that's

<v Speaker 1>why I'm sitting here right now and it feels like, Man,

<v Speaker 1>this run when I look back at it. You know,

<v Speaker 1>over the last few months she got some big wins,

<v Speaker 1>but it doesn't really feel like a big run. So

<v Speaker 1>my hope is that, you know, she'll get the belt

<v Speaker 1>back at some point in the next few months. I hope,

<v Speaker 1>because I think there's still more work to be done.

<v Speaker 1>This is an incomplete run for Chris Statlander. If the

<v Speaker 1>idea was to get the championship on a heel like

<v Speaker 1>Techla and then have Statlander Chase to get the belt back.

<v Speaker 1>There's nothing wrong with that. That's fine, that's wrestling one

<v Speaker 1>oh one. Not everybody has to have a year plus

<v Speaker 1>as the champion. But I just hope that that is

<v Speaker 1>the path that they are taking with her. And Techla's great.

<v Speaker 1>Don't get me wrong, there's something about Tecla. She's got

<v Speaker 1>this unique characteristic about her that makes her a little

<v Speaker 1>bit different than just everybody else, and she's a good wrestler.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't mind her getting a run with the

<v Speaker 1>championship so long as they are going to circle back

<v Speaker 1>around stat Lander because there is more work for her

<v Speaker 1>to be done here as the champion, I think, so

<v Speaker 1>not too surprised by what they did there. I was

<v Speaker 1>far more surprised at the fact that we have a

<v Speaker 1>brand new TNT champion days after Tamaso Champa debuted in

<v Speaker 1>this company. Days after Tamaso Champa beat Mark Briscoe to

<v Speaker 1>win the TNT Championship, Tamaso Champa is TNT Champion no

<v Speaker 1>more and once again TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher. They actually

<v Speaker 1>took the title off of Champa tonight, which is a

<v Speaker 1>head scratching decision. No shade on Fletcher Obviously, Kyle Fletcher

<v Speaker 1>is great. Clearly they wanted the championship on him heading

<v Speaker 1>into Grand Slam because Grand Slam is in his hometown

<v Speaker 1>of Sydney, and he even said after he won the

<v Speaker 1>belt tonight that he made the promise that when he

<v Speaker 1>came back home he would be the champion, and so

<v Speaker 1>he is. There were other ways though, to get him

<v Speaker 1>in a big match, a big title match in Sydney

<v Speaker 1>this weekend without taking the title tonight off of Tomaso Champa.

<v Speaker 1>That was a head scratching decision. But what we got

<v Speaker 1>with the two of them was an excellent match. It

<v Speaker 1>was not without criticism. There was an issue, and if

<v Speaker 1>you watch these shows you can probably figure what it was.

<v Speaker 1>My one big critique of the match, but it was

<v Speaker 1>an excellent match, one of the best TV matches, really,

<v Speaker 1>one of the best matches, not even TV matches, one

<v Speaker 1>of the best matches we've had so far this year,

<v Speaker 1>and the year obviously is still very young. But they

<v Speaker 1>had a tremendous back and forth battle between them. I

<v Speaker 1>do want to cut people off when they say, well,

<v Speaker 1>I can't believe that Tony Berry champion tonight. Yeah, you

<v Speaker 1>could take that shit somewhere else. Again. We go through

<v Speaker 1>this periodically where we have to sort of educate people

<v Speaker 1>about what it is to be buried and what it

<v Speaker 1>is to not be buried and just lose a matching

<v Speaker 1>a match does not mean buried. The jury is still out.

<v Speaker 1>We will see where Tomaso Champa goes from here. The

<v Speaker 1>man calls himself the Psycho Killer, So if this unlocks

<v Speaker 1>the Psycho Killer, then there is still fun to be

<v Speaker 1>had with Tomaso Champ in terms of where they could

<v Speaker 1>take this. The key will, as always, will always be

<v Speaker 1>in the follow up here. I do not want to

<v Speaker 1>see Tomaso Champa, after coming in with all this fanfare,

<v Speaker 1>just kind of slip back down into the abyss with

<v Speaker 1>so many other people on this roster. We had a

<v Speaker 1>tag team tonight that made their return on Dynamite. We

<v Speaker 1>have not seen Private Party since January of last year,

<v Speaker 1>and no nobody was out hurt. They just disappeared and

<v Speaker 1>then like a magic trick, they reappeared here on Dynamite tonight.

<v Speaker 1>They didn't win, but they disappeared. Now the back. I

<v Speaker 1>don't want to see Champa end up in that sort

<v Speaker 1>of vortex where he's just sort of forgotten about. He

<v Speaker 1>came in like a b to lightning, and now he's

<v Speaker 1>kind of in the place where you would expect him

<v Speaker 1>to be. So we'll see what the follow up is

<v Speaker 1>to this. But I just I saw Fletcher win the

<v Speaker 1>championship in a match that easily could have gone to

<v Speaker 1>the time limit, and I think in many ways would

<v Speaker 1>have made sense for it too. And then you run

<v Speaker 1>it back this weekend and they didn't do that. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>it'll make more sense when we see what they do

<v Speaker 1>on the Grand Slam show on Saturday. Because one thing

<v Speaker 1>that was very noticeable tonight, right before that title match,

<v Speaker 1>there was a hint that there could be and not

<v Speaker 1>I don't even think it's imminent necessarily, but sort of

<v Speaker 1>a hint at a potential rift between Kyle Fletcher and

<v Speaker 1>Don Kallis in terms of him wanting to go out

<v Speaker 1>there by himself, not wanting anybody's help, and so naturally

<v Speaker 1>what ends up happening. Don Kallus goes out there to

<v Speaker 1>do commentary and Lance Archer is standing at ringside like

<v Speaker 1>a fucking bodyguard. Again, I I don't book it. So

<v Speaker 1>there were some there were some head scratching things about

<v Speaker 1>this show, but I cannot hate on that match. That

<v Speaker 1>was easily the best match on the entire show. Very

<v Speaker 1>heavy on the end ring tonight. We've had shows like

<v Speaker 1>this over the last several weeks where it'll be very

<v Speaker 1>heavy on the end ring, very light on the story,

<v Speaker 1>and then they get a little bit heavier on the

<v Speaker 1>story and then they kind of slide back to this.

<v Speaker 1>This was a good show. It was not a show

<v Speaker 1>without a perfect show. It was not a show without

<v Speaker 1>its flaws, and we will get into them, but the

<v Speaker 1>end ring is really what carried this show. A little

<v Speaker 1>bit of story progression, not a whole lot. This show

<v Speaker 1>really was geared towards building to the matches that are

<v Speaker 1>on the card for Saturday. You know, it's not a

<v Speaker 1>pay per view, but they're basically treating it like a

<v Speaker 1>pay per view. So this was the go home show,

<v Speaker 1>and they treated it in many ways like you would

<v Speaker 1>a pay per view go home show, where they were

<v Speaker 1>trying to, you know, give that little bit of a push,

<v Speaker 1>that final push here before the key matches on the show,

<v Speaker 1>a grand slam. So that's what we got tonight. That's

<v Speaker 1>pretty much what the rest of it was. But I

<v Speaker 1>did think it was a good show. Overall, especially that

<v Speaker 1>TNT title match. We will talk about it. This is

<v Speaker 1>your aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday Night, February eleventh,

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six. I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you

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<v Speaker 1>have gotten to the announcement of the brand new show.

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<v Speaker 1>I already do, but it is a brand new show

<v Speaker 1>for Ariel Helwanie on his Uncrowned Wrestling Network, part of

<v Speaker 1>Uncrowned and Yahoo Sports called The Uncrowned Wrestling Show Debut

<v Speaker 1>episode dropped on Ariels channel. It is an audio only

<v Speaker 1>weekly Tuesday podcast talking about various stories in the world

<v Speaker 1>of wrestling. Very similar to the SoundOff, and there'll be

<v Speaker 1>some overlap in some of the news coverage for sure,

<v Speaker 1>but also covering maybe a few other things as well,

<v Speaker 1>whatever's going on at that particular time, also incorporating news

<v Speaker 1>from Mondays and what happened on Raw the night before.

<v Speaker 1>But really we're trying to build up an audience over there,

<v Speaker 1>and I would love for you to come along for

<v Speaker 1>the ride. So yesterday was very overwhelming. All of the

<v Speaker 1>feedback that I got was largely very positive. I heard

<v Speaker 1>it from a lot of different people. Everybody seemed pretty

<v Speaker 1>happy about it, happy for me, which makes me happy,

<v Speaker 1>but also very excited. So that's very cool. First episode

<v Speaker 1>is in the books. I hope you will go and

<v Speaker 1>check that out. And we're already getting ready for episode two.

<v Speaker 1>So again not a set time, but it'll be dropping

<v Speaker 1>every Tuesday evening. Again, this doesn't affect the SoundOff, it

<v Speaker 1>doesn't affect Tuesday Night Titans, which is live on JD's channel.

<v Speaker 1>All of that is separate. All of that is still

<v Speaker 1>happening in addition to the weekly streams. It'll just be

<v Speaker 1>less sleep for me, but I'm used to it by now.

<v Speaker 1>But when the opportunity came up, you know, and again

<v Speaker 1>to chat with Ariel and kind of get the sense

<v Speaker 1>of what he was looking for it just made sense.

<v Speaker 1>It just was a perfect fit and I think we're

<v Speaker 1>both very happy with it so far. So my thanks

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<v Speaker 1>check it out. And also if you have questions for

<v Speaker 1>that show, I'd like to start doing what I do

<v Speaker 1>on the SoundOff at least on some weeks, which is

<v Speaker 1>incorporate some fan Q and A. So you can email me.

<v Speaker 1>This email is the same the soleomn Monster at gmail

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<v Speaker 1>a combat sports hub, and it's partnered with Yahoo Sports.

<v Speaker 1>And they just didn't have that one wrestling show. You

<v Speaker 1>got to bring wrestling to it. Without wrestling, it just

<v Speaker 1>feels incomplete. Who better than this guy right here? You

<v Speaker 1>know how much wrestling I watch at a given week.

<v Speaker 1>You know how much wrestling I've watched in my life?

<v Speaker 1>Who better to talk about wrestling? Come on, anyway, let's

<v Speaker 1>get into this show. Here. I should point out Brian

<v Speaker 1>Danielson was back, which is very interesting because Brian Danielson

<v Speaker 1>had been missing from the announced team for the last

<v Speaker 1>several weeks, and I believe because of the effect that's

<v Speaker 1>been having on his neck. Evidently he was doing pretty

<v Speaker 1>well neck wise. He's feeling pretty good. He had talked

<v Speaker 1>to Adam Copeland, who had recommended some story I don't

<v Speaker 1>if it was a doctor or a masseuse or whoever

<v Speaker 1>it was to kind of work on his neck, and

<v Speaker 1>so he was kind of sleeping through the night a

<v Speaker 1>little bit better. He was feeling good. Then he started

<v Speaker 1>doing Coming and Terry weekly in aaw and flying around

<v Speaker 1>and traveling, and he said that it really wreaked Tavoc

<v Speaker 1>with his neck and he got far worse. So I

<v Speaker 1>assume that was going to be it, except maybe for

<v Speaker 1>pay per views. But there he was. Now they were

<v Speaker 1>out west tonight, they were in California. I believe he's

<v Speaker 1>still living in Washington. Is an Aberdeen? Is he in Aberdeen?

<v Speaker 1>He's built from Aberdeen. I don't know if he's actually

<v Speaker 1>living in Aberdeen or if he's in California. So it

<v Speaker 1>may have been that he didn't have a far distance

<v Speaker 1>to travel. I'm not expecting him to make the trip

<v Speaker 1>to Australia. I don't want him to do anything that's

<v Speaker 1>going to make his neck any worse than it already is.

<v Speaker 1>But it was good to have him back on the

<v Speaker 1>show tonight with Tony Shavanni in ex caliber. Tony Shavanni

<v Speaker 1>was already in the ring to open the show and

<v Speaker 1>he was out there to introduce two men, two men

<v Speaker 1>who we found out are going to be butting heads

<v Speaker 1>next week. We were wondering when this match was going

<v Speaker 1>to happen. Now we have our answer, but it was

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega and it was Swerve Strickland, so they came

<v Speaker 1>out to the ring for a face to face. This

<v Speaker 1>was after the confrontation they had last week after Omega

<v Speaker 1>had lost to Andrade and they had gotten up at

<v Speaker 1>each other's face because Swerve had come out to stop

<v Speaker 1>him from using the screwdriver. All that ended up doing

<v Speaker 1>was distracted the referee. Kenny got kicked low and so

<v Speaker 1>tempers flared. So here we are here in this segment

<v Speaker 1>and he goes to Swerve first, and Shavanni asks him,

<v Speaker 1>you know about what's been going on lately. Swerve says

<v Speaker 1>that a lot of the tension or Shravanni says, a

<v Speaker 1>lot of the tensions seems to be coming from you.

<v Speaker 1>Swarve says, it's been lingering for a while. Five years ago,

<v Speaker 1>Kenny was on top of the industry and that was

<v Speaker 1>the last time that he happened to be the AW

<v Speaker 1>World Champion, which I guess is true. Hasn't been five

<v Speaker 1>years wow, twenty one. Yeah, it's been a while since

<v Speaker 1>we've had Kenny as the champion. Everyone outside of AAW

<v Speaker 1>was scratching and clawing to come here to face Omega

<v Speaker 1>Swerve was one of those people, and finally, in twenty

<v Speaker 1>twenty two, he makes his way to aaw By the

<v Speaker 1>time he makes it to the top, though, where's Kenny Omega?

<v Speaker 1>He says, where's the cleaner? Where's the best bout machine?

<v Speaker 1>The so called god of pro wrestling? He was nowhere

<v Speaker 1>to be found. He's either laid up in a hospital

<v Speaker 1>bed or suspended. He said, sounds like a false prophet

<v Speaker 1>to me. In Kenny's absence, the congregation started looking for

<v Speaker 1>a new prophet to follow. Every city they go to,

<v Speaker 1>the church sings Swerve's house. Now Kenny wants to march

<v Speaker 1>back in here and insert himself into the title picture.

<v Speaker 1>It almost feels like Kenny is using his EVP power.

<v Speaker 1>He's had to fight some EVPs in the past, actually

<v Speaker 1>for the past two years who liked to abuse their power,

<v Speaker 1>and he ended that last summer he said, if Kenny

<v Speaker 1>uses his power to step in front of him, he's

<v Speaker 1>going to put him down. Then it was Kenny's turn.

<v Speaker 1>He wanted to correct Swerve on one little detail. He

<v Speaker 1>never once called himself the god of pro wrestling. He says,

<v Speaker 1>that is a name that people gave him. They come out,

<v Speaker 1>they make signs, they wear t shirts, they chant, they cheer,

<v Speaker 1>and they know that if they see a Kenny Omega match,

<v Speaker 1>they're going to get the absolute best. Whether you call

<v Speaker 1>that the power of a god or not, that's in

<v Speaker 1>the eye of the beholder. But he takes their beliefs

<v Speaker 1>as a great responsibility. It may be Swerve's house, maybe

<v Speaker 1>the lights are on in that house, but no one's home.

<v Speaker 1>And if you need someone else to burn down that house,

<v Speaker 1>he's got just the friend who's had experience doing that. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>the arsonist himself another crime committed on AW television, to

<v Speaker 1>say nothing of the kidnap that we saw last week

<v Speaker 1>with Darby Allen being left for dead in the desert.

<v Speaker 1>We'll get to him a little bit later on, but

<v Speaker 1>he says he doesn't need EVP influence. He's been getting

<v Speaker 1>wins and if it wasn't for Swerve last week, it

<v Speaker 1>would have been him going to Australia and then going

<v Speaker 1>on to challenge for and win the AW World title.

<v Speaker 1>What he's asking from Swerve is for a fight. He's

<v Speaker 1>seen the way that he looks at him with disrespect.

<v Speaker 1>He sees him talking strategy with Prince Nana, whispering sweet

<v Speaker 1>nothings in his ear, planning and plotting. If you want

<v Speaker 1>the match, you got it, So Swerve, he's gonna make

<v Speaker 1>it simple, accept or yield. What video game is that from?

<v Speaker 1>I'm sure with Omega it's always some kind of a

<v Speaker 1>video game reference. Swerve said, Kenny's just scared because their generation,

<v Speaker 1>they're already ahead of him. You want to go face

<v Speaker 1>to face with me, the most dangerous man in adew

<v Speaker 1>And then Kenny cut him off and said, the most

<v Speaker 1>dangerous man in AW right now, isn't you. It's Brody King. Well,

<v Speaker 1>what Swerve was gonna say? How about he puts Kenny

<v Speaker 1>back in the hospital bed and this time he's not

<v Speaker 1>getting up out of it. And Kenny said, well that's

<v Speaker 1>a heck of an idea, and he smacks the shit

<v Speaker 1>out of him. So Swerve, now he removes his jacket,

<v Speaker 1>he's got his back turned to Omega. He said, well,

<v Speaker 1>it looks like you've made your choice. Whatever happens next,

<v Speaker 1>that's on you, and he took him down, so they

<v Speaker 1>fought out to the floor. Swerve sent Omega into the

<v Speaker 1>barricade and then into the ring steps. Omega, though, came

<v Speaker 1>back by throwing Swerve over the barricade into the crowd.

<v Speaker 1>He hit him with a chair. Now they're brawling through

<v Speaker 1>the crowd, and they're going through all the fans. They

<v Speaker 1>brawl all the way back over to the entrance ramp.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm watching this and I'm like, there's nobody coming out.

<v Speaker 1>Every single week when we watched these shows, whether it's Dynamite,

<v Speaker 1>whether it's raw SmackDown. If you so much as spit

<v Speaker 1>in the direction of the other person and there's not

<v Speaker 1>a match going on, you've got all kinds of security

<v Speaker 1>geeks and officials and agents and people running out to

<v Speaker 1>break things up within a second. These guys have been

<v Speaker 1>fighting in the ring, they've been fighting on the floor,

<v Speaker 1>they've been fighting in the crowd, they're fighting on the

<v Speaker 1>entrance ramp. I don't see a single referee. I don't

<v Speaker 1>see a single security part, which is great. Inconsistent, but

<v Speaker 1>it's great. I'm just watching this going where they locked

<v Speaker 1>in a room somewhere. I mean, you got two of

<v Speaker 1>the biggest stars in this company who are practically killing

<v Speaker 1>each other out here, and nobody is coming out. I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>let's see how long this goes on for. So they're

<v Speaker 1>brawling on the stage now, and Swerve is down on

<v Speaker 1>his knees and he's right in front of the giant

<v Speaker 1>video wall, and omegabacks up and he comes charging in

<v Speaker 1>with a v trigger and he blasts Swerve in the

<v Speaker 1>head and knocks him into the his head into the

<v Speaker 1>video wall. Still nobody's out here. So Kenny then gets

<v Speaker 1>him up on his shoulders for a one winged angel,

<v Speaker 1>possibly off the ramp, getting not a long distance, but

<v Speaker 1>you know they're up there, whatever three feet maybe, So

<v Speaker 1>he's getting ready to do it, and then Swerve begins

<v Speaker 1>stabbing at his head. And now I couldn't tell. He

<v Speaker 1>had something in his hand. I couldn't tell what it was.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if it might have been a screwdriver. Again,

<v Speaker 1>I couldn't tell. I mean, I know that's Don Kallis's gimmick,

<v Speaker 1>but whatever it was, he was stabbing Omega in the

<v Speaker 1>head with it. So he gets back to his feet

<v Speaker 1>and then he spears Kenny off the stage and they

<v Speaker 1>both go crashing through two tables down below, and like

<v Speaker 1>as soon as you see the impact, crash, impact, and

<v Speaker 1>they hit the floor. Here come all the officials. Now

<v Speaker 1>the bodies pour out from the back to try to

<v Speaker 1>separate these two and check on these two guys, like,

<v Speaker 1>where the hell were you before this? Anyway, this was

<v Speaker 1>obviously degenerated into chaos here. I mean, the back and

<v Speaker 1>forth was fine. This is a match, is a big

<v Speaker 1>time match. And when we talked about this last week,

<v Speaker 1>I said, you know, Omega and Swerve, that could be

<v Speaker 1>a Revolution match. It could be a number one contenders

<v Speaker 1>match a Revolution and the winner of that match can

<v Speaker 1>get the next shot right coming out of Revolution. Whoever

<v Speaker 1>wins between MJF and Hangman, or MJF and Andrede, whatever

<v Speaker 1>the match is, and then maybe it's Kenny an MJF

<v Speaker 1>and Vancouver, and it may well all work out that way.

<v Speaker 1>There is now talk that Kenny Omega will not be

<v Speaker 1>available for Revolution. That's not confirmed. I would imagine they're

<v Speaker 1>trying to work that out, but instead of waiting, they're

<v Speaker 1>doing the match on TV next week. We got the

<v Speaker 1>announcement a few minutes later that on Dynamite next week

<v Speaker 1>in Sacramento it is going to be Kenny Omega against

<v Speaker 1>Swerve Strickland. And they didn't say there was, you know,

<v Speaker 1>like a number one Contenders match or anything like that.

<v Speaker 1>It's just the big match, and it doesn't mean that

<v Speaker 1>we have to get a winner next week. It could

<v Speaker 1>degenerate into chaos the way that it did. Hear, you

<v Speaker 1>could have other people running out because there's six or

<v Speaker 1>eight different people right now who are gunning for MJF

<v Speaker 1>in that championship. So there's no guarantee that we're going

<v Speaker 1>to get a winner, a clean winner in the match

<v Speaker 1>next week. This could be the first of two matches

<v Speaker 1>between them, and then maybe they do end up doing

<v Speaker 1>a rematch a Revolution, so we'll see. I'm not expecting

<v Speaker 1>a clean Winter next week because to me, it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>really make any sense to do it. Like if Swerve

<v Speaker 1>beats Omega next week, you've just killed Kenny's arc at

<v Speaker 1>least for a few more months. And it's like, okay, great,

<v Speaker 1>Swerve beat Omega, but he's not getting the shot at Revolution.

<v Speaker 1>The earliest he would even get his shot would be Dynasty.

<v Speaker 1>So to have a clean winner next week honestly doesn't

<v Speaker 1>even make any sense. It's rare that I will sit

<v Speaker 1>here and argue for anything but a clean finish, But

<v Speaker 1>if I were a betting man, I would say we're

<v Speaker 1>not getting one next week. I also think by the way,

<v Speaker 1>they could have done a better job at the very

<v Speaker 1>end of the show tonight of really pushing that match.

<v Speaker 1>I think it was mentioned almost in passing at the

<v Speaker 1>end by ex Caliber, but when they were like rushing

<v Speaker 1>off the air, I think they should have done an

<v Speaker 1>even better job there, like a real big hard sell

<v Speaker 1>on commentary, bigger than they did for that match, because

<v Speaker 1>that's a big deal. Nel Swerven Omega is one of

<v Speaker 1>the bigger matches that you will see in aw the backstage,

<v Speaker 1>Kyle Fletcher was with Don Kallis. They were being interviewed

<v Speaker 1>by Renee and Fletcher asked, Callous do me a favor.

<v Speaker 1>Let me go out there against Tomaso Champa tonight for

<v Speaker 1>the TNT title by myself. I'm gonna do this by myself,

<v Speaker 1>and Callous was okay. He goes, okay, yeah, no problem, ilogist,

<v Speaker 1>I'll chill on commentary. I'll let you do your thing.

<v Speaker 1>He was cool with it. So that match was later

<v Speaker 1>in the show. First up, though, we had the Death

<v Speaker 1>Riders and Barry shout out to Barry in the chat

<v Speaker 1>he says he was there in person. Dynamite was great.

<v Speaker 1>I'll say this much about the crowded they were in Ontario,

<v Speaker 1>California tonight. The crowd was loud. Crowd was very loud

<v Speaker 1>and into the show, which always helps enhance the show.

<v Speaker 1>So good on you Berry, Good on all the people

<v Speaker 1>in Ontario, California. They could be back in California next week.

<v Speaker 1>We'll see if Sacramento is the same way. So we

<v Speaker 1>had the Death Riders, John Moxley, we had Claudio, and

<v Speaker 1>we had Pack. They were taking on Kenoski, Takeshta, Josh

<v Speaker 1>Alexander and Mark Davis representing the Don Kallis family. These

<v Speaker 1>two groups have been feuding now for years, I mean weeks,

<v Speaker 1>feels like years, but they've gone back and forth now

<v Speaker 1>for a while. Pack and Mark Davis, they kicked things off.

<v Speaker 1>Moxley tagged in pretty quick and he was matching up

<v Speaker 1>with Davis. He landed some punches and chops in the corner.

<v Speaker 1>Davis fired back huge chop of his own. Down goes Moxley.

<v Speaker 1>Claudio gets in, Takesha tagged in a couple of minutes later.

<v Speaker 1>So they're going back and forth. So the action spills

<v Speaker 1>out to the floor. Big brawl breaks out with all

<v Speaker 1>six men. Pack ends up the legal man. He gets

<v Speaker 1>isolated by the heels in their corner Takeshta. He shut

<v Speaker 1>down a comeback attempt by pulling Pack down to the

<v Speaker 1>floor as he was going for a springboard. Josh Alexander

<v Speaker 1>tagged in and he lost focus due to Moxley, so

<v Speaker 1>Pack was able to make a tag to Claudio. He

<v Speaker 1>got in uppercuts to Davis and Alexander. Alexander took a

<v Speaker 1>giant swing Davis, though interrupted it. Claudio then delivered a

<v Speaker 1>big power slam to Davis for a near fall. Moxley

<v Speaker 1>into Qushta. They end up as the legal men trading.

<v Speaker 1>Now they're wrestling this weekend for the Continental title, so

<v Speaker 1>they're trading haymakers. They both go down. Moxley went for

<v Speaker 1>a death rider, Davis broke it up and Takeshta lands

<v Speaker 1>an exploder on Moxley for a near fall. They they

<v Speaker 1>did keep the interaction between them to a minimum, so

<v Speaker 1>we got some action from Moxley and Takesha, but they again,

<v Speaker 1>you will save most of it for the match, so

<v Speaker 1>they tried not to give too much away here. Death

<v Speaker 1>riders took turns taking shots at Takeshta. Moxley made a

<v Speaker 1>cover after a cutter. Davis, though broke it up again.

<v Speaker 1>Davis was in the middle of everything here in this match,

<v Speaker 1>and again I feel bad for Mark Davis because I

<v Speaker 1>felt like for him especially he had a good thing

<v Speaker 1>going that was only really first getting going with him

<v Speaker 1>and Jake Doyle, and then Doyle tore his bicep. He's

<v Speaker 1>gone for a while, so it's like, well, what the

<v Speaker 1>hell happens now with Mark Davis. Davis is good, you know,

<v Speaker 1>he's just he's that. He's that brawler type who goes

<v Speaker 1>out there, has these kind of big impact, sudden move

<v Speaker 1>I like when he grabs somebody into that pile driver,

<v Speaker 1>how sudden it is. Again, he reminds me of like

<v Speaker 1>a Bradshaw back in the APA days, a right at,

<v Speaker 1>a little bit bigger, a little bit wider. But I like,

<v Speaker 1>I like him, and I hope they find a role

<v Speaker 1>for him, even if it's just, you know, in multiman

<v Speaker 1>matches like this, just to keep him in the mix. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>because I would imagine when Doyle comes back, they might

<v Speaker 1>want to restart the team again. And that's fine six

<v Speaker 1>months from now, but what do you do in the meantime, right,

<v Speaker 1>But he was all over the place here in this match,

<v Speaker 1>But it ended with Moxley delivering a Death Rider to

<v Speaker 1>Josh Alexander for the win. Dare I say, I can't

<v Speaker 1>even believe that I'm sitting here and going to even

<v Speaker 1>say this, But dare I say that the Death Riders

<v Speaker 1>have been more in enjoyable or tolerable when the entire

<v Speaker 1>show is not essentially built around them. They've become more

<v Speaker 1>tolerable than they were six or eight months ago. And

<v Speaker 1>that's all I wanted. I wanted them. I wanted the

<v Speaker 1>focus away from them, and the focus in the world

<v Speaker 1>title scened to be on someone other than John Moxley

<v Speaker 1>and something other than the title being kept in a briefcase,

<v Speaker 1>hidden away and hearing that fucking music come on in

<v Speaker 1>the main event every single week. So I don't even

<v Speaker 1>mind the fact that they still exist. Kind of surprised

<v Speaker 1>that they're even still around, and it's very clear that

<v Speaker 1>they're not going anywhere. We all know, like a lot

<v Speaker 1>of us thought, right, we all thought a few months ago, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>the downfall of the Death Riders is coming. And I

<v Speaker 1>don't feel that way at all anymore. I think that

<v Speaker 1>they're comfortable with the Death Riders continuing to exist. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>they'll even add new members in the future. They go

<v Speaker 1>back and forth between Heel and Babyface. People still cheer

<v Speaker 1>John Moxley, but they're booing the shit out a Wheeler,

<v Speaker 1>Yuda and Marina Shaffir. It doesn't make any fucking sense.

<v Speaker 1>But as long as they're not the primary focus of

<v Speaker 1>the show, they're a lot more digestible. But they've been

<v Speaker 1>trading wins, these two groups back and forth now for

<v Speaker 1>a while. If you remember last week we had a

<v Speaker 1>trios match, Takeshta pinned Daniel Garcia in that match, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>who doesn't beat Daniel Garcia, So they got the win

<v Speaker 1>last week. Moxley picks up the win here not Takeshta

<v Speaker 1>to give him a little bit of an edge heading

<v Speaker 1>into their title match on Saturday. As far as where

<v Speaker 1>I think that goes, I think we're getting a title change.

<v Speaker 1>That's what I think. That's what I would do. Get

<v Speaker 1>that continental title on Kenoski Takeshta, and then pick up

<v Speaker 1>with the story that I would like to see more

<v Speaker 1>than any other outside of the world title stuff. And

<v Speaker 1>they've gotten away from it, which is Okata and Takeshta.

<v Speaker 1>You have to circle back around to it. And if

<v Speaker 1>you're gonna do that. Let's say for a revolution, Okata

<v Speaker 1>is still the International champion. Takesha has no title, he

<v Speaker 1>doesn't even have the IWGP title anymore. But if you

<v Speaker 1>put the continental title on him, you get champion against champion,

<v Speaker 1>and when Takeshta beat him, then you unify them again.

<v Speaker 1>You bring back the unified title. Two becomes one, right,

<v Speaker 1>just like the Spice Girl said, when two becomes one,

<v Speaker 1>there's a reference for you. You know, I've been talking

<v Speaker 1>of Lincoln Park a lot lately, and I felt like

<v Speaker 1>I had to throw a Spice Girl's reference in there.

<v Speaker 1>You never know what is going to come out on

<v Speaker 1>these streams. You never know who's going to get name

<v Speaker 1>dropped here. I don't know how I was talking about

<v Speaker 1>John Moxley and I ended up on fucking Spice Girls.

<v Speaker 1>But in any event, let's talk about the best part

<v Speaker 1>of the entire show, which was the TNT Championship match

<v Speaker 1>Tamaso Champa against Kyle Fletcher with Lance Archer in his

<v Speaker 1>corner and Don Kallis sitting in on commentary. Fletcher literally

<v Speaker 1>just asked to go it alone. And not only is

<v Speaker 1>callous out there on commentary, but Lance Archer is standing

<v Speaker 1>there at ringside. I don't I don't understand. Maybe he

<v Speaker 1>meant you can observe, just don't physically get involved in

<v Speaker 1>my match. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

<v Speaker 1>Champa just debuted two weeks ago on this very show.

<v Speaker 1>This was already the third Championship match that he was

<v Speaker 1>involved in in eleven days. Mind you, they traded chops

<v Speaker 1>early on. Champa, though, got an early advantage with a DDT.

<v Speaker 1>He tossed Fletcher out to the floor into the barricade.

<v Speaker 1>Fletcher replied with a half and half. Champa came back

<v Speaker 1>with a very gnarly air raid crash on the flat

<v Speaker 1>part of the ring steps. Fletcher crawled back into the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Champa delivered a running knee to the side of the head.

<v Speaker 1>Later on, Fletcher delivered a huge lagger bomb for a

<v Speaker 1>near fall, and Champa was able to avoid the brainbuster.

<v Speaker 1>He tried to leap out onto Fletcher on the floor. Fletcher, though,

<v Speaker 1>delivered an apron power bomb, so there was nearly a

<v Speaker 1>referee bump in the corner. Champa, though, avoided it, and

<v Speaker 1>then Fletcher blindsided him with I think it was a

<v Speaker 1>halluva kick and a brain buster. Only got a two

<v Speaker 1>point nine count out of it. It was that closed.

<v Speaker 1>It was razor thin, but he kicks out. Fletcher then

<v Speaker 1>tried for his avalanche brainbuster on the ropes. Champa, though

<v Speaker 1>countered out into a German souplex. Champa followed up with

<v Speaker 1>two more running knee strikes. That's how he won the

<v Speaker 1>championship with a knee strike, so he went for two more,

<v Speaker 1>both for near falls. Kyle Fletcher is still alive. Both

<v Speaker 1>men were down at this point, as Justin Roberts alerted

<v Speaker 1>us that there were five minutes left in this match,

<v Speaker 1>So fifteen had gone by five minutes remaining, and I'm

<v Speaker 1>thinking at this point, okay, this is going to go

<v Speaker 1>the distance. It's going to go the distance, and they

<v Speaker 1>could always run it back, right, I'm kind of seeing

<v Speaker 1>where it looks like it's going here. It's just this

<v Speaker 1>very even back and forth battle. Fletcher picks up Shampa.

<v Speaker 1>He lawn darts him into the corner head first. Champa

<v Speaker 1>landed another running knee strike, and again he covered him

<v Speaker 1>for yet another near fall. Fletcher kicks out. Fletcher fired up.

<v Speaker 1>He delivered a Mitchinoku driver, followed by a lariat and

<v Speaker 1>one final brain buster, and Kyle Fletcher, for the second

<v Speaker 1>time in his career, is the TNT champion. After the match,

<v Speaker 1>Fletcher was interviewed in the ring by Renee What's next?

<v Speaker 1>He said, What's next is that I'm coming home with

<v Speaker 1>the TNT title. Fletcher said that he was showing up

<v Speaker 1>to Sydney and he would finally get the heroes welcome

<v Speaker 1>that he deserved to get last year, and he would

<v Speaker 1>defend his title on that show against anyone from anywhere.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, get ready to fly. No, that would

<v Speaker 1>have been something though, if we would have heard that music.

<v Speaker 1>But now he's extending here's the open challenge again, right

<v Speaker 1>anyone anywhere. I'll put my title on the line. Mark

<v Speaker 1>Briscow walks out on stage. We're back to this again.

<v Speaker 1>We're back to this yet again. Mark Briscow is out

<v Speaker 1>and he congratulates Fletcher. He said he didn't know if

<v Speaker 1>his ass could cash the check that his mouth was writing.

<v Speaker 1>He said that they were three for three in six

<v Speaker 1>battles so far. I was like, that sounds about right,

<v Speaker 1>because I feel like I've seen this at least half

<v Speaker 1>a dozen times, and in fact, we have seen it

<v Speaker 1>half a dozen times. So but they're even three wins apiece,

<v Speaker 1>which means he wants the rubber match. He wants game seven,

<v Speaker 1>he says, and he'll even give Fletcher a home field

<v Speaker 1>advantage for game seven. Fletcher said, look, I am sick

<v Speaker 1>of you, but I did say I would fight anyone.

<v Speaker 1>So he accepts, but he goes, if we're going to

<v Speaker 1>do this, you're going to reach for the sky game seven,

<v Speaker 1>then it's going to have to be bigger than all

<v Speaker 1>the rest. And so it will be Kyle Fletcher and

<v Speaker 1>Mark Prescow for the TNT Championship Game seven in a

<v Speaker 1>ladder match, and I have to go back and watch

<v Speaker 1>it again. I believe Don Kallis had a look on

<v Speaker 1>his face like he might not have been happy with

<v Speaker 1>that decision from Kyle Fletcher's, which again feeds into what

<v Speaker 1>I said before about their potentially being a rift forming

<v Speaker 1>between Fletcher, which honestly, I can't even say a rift form.

<v Speaker 1>I think that the seed was already planted back at

<v Speaker 1>World's End in the Continental Classic when he was going

<v Speaker 1>fishing around for the screwdriver and the turnbuckle and he

<v Speaker 1>couldn't find it. So I feel like there are already

<v Speaker 1>little hints of it. And breadcrumbs that they've been dropping

<v Speaker 1>that'll feed into a larger story at some point. Let

<v Speaker 1>me talk about the match first. The match was a

<v Speaker 1>fantastic battle and the fans were super into it. Just

<v Speaker 1>a great wrestling match, and it fell victim. The one

<v Speaker 1>critique I have it fell victim to one too many

<v Speaker 1>near falls where they just go overboard with it. And

<v Speaker 1>sometimes I don't mind, and then other times I'm sitting

<v Speaker 1>here going come on. Tonight, I was sitting here going

<v Speaker 1>come on. I think that they would have been better

<v Speaker 1>served to just shave a couple of those off. Right.

<v Speaker 1>You have a couple of dramatic near fall, but they

<v Speaker 1>just they just take it too far and it just

<v Speaker 1>gets to a point where it's like, come on, now right,

<v Speaker 1>and then boom, the finish comes from out of nowhere.

<v Speaker 1>So I didn't like that. I wish they would have

<v Speaker 1>shaved some of those off. But what a fucking match

<v Speaker 1>this was, right. I can't otherwise say enough good things

<v Speaker 1>about this match. I was stunned. I was stunned to

<v Speaker 1>see Champa lose this match. I did tweet during the

<v Speaker 1>match before it was over, and I stand by this.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, to me, it's plain as day watching him

<v Speaker 1>on TV, that Tomaso Champa. Ever since he showed up here,

<v Speaker 1>Inaaw has been reinvigorated, like he is a guy with

<v Speaker 1>a chip on his shoulder who looks and feels like

<v Speaker 1>he is out there to prove a point. And as

<v Speaker 1>he has said in interviews recently, where people are always

<v Speaker 1>saying to him, oh, black and gold Champa, black and gold,

<v Speaker 1>Champa missed that guy twenty eighteen missed that Champa. He's like,

<v Speaker 1>you know what, fuck you man, Like, I'm better than

<v Speaker 1>that guy. I'm gonna go out and show you. And

<v Speaker 1>in these last eleven days, you look at the matches

<v Speaker 1>that he's had, whether it was against Brisco, whether it

<v Speaker 1>was that was a three way I think right with

<v Speaker 1>Claudio and Roddy. This match here, he's been killing it

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like watching this going long, may it continue.

<v Speaker 1>But I didn't expect him to lose the fucking thing

<v Speaker 1>here in this match after he just won it. So

<v Speaker 1>I see Kyle Fletcher get the three count and I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>what the fuck. And then he's talking about going home.

<v Speaker 1>I'm going home to Sydney. I'm gonna have a big

<v Speaker 1>match on the show, right, big title match? On the show,

<v Speaker 1>and you could have gotten there the same way by

<v Speaker 1>allowing this to go the distance they had gone over

<v Speaker 1>fifteen minutes. They were right there. Let the match go

<v Speaker 1>to a time limit, draw, run the match back on Saturday,

<v Speaker 1>a grand slim. You could even do the same ladder

<v Speaker 1>match stipulation and we get Fletcher against Champa with an

<v Speaker 1>actual winner. So I don't know why they decided, well,

<v Speaker 1>we got to go back now to brisco and Fletcher.

<v Speaker 1>I guess because they're tied, I guess, But I mean,

<v Speaker 1>it's just it's old hat at this point. I would

<v Speaker 1>have much rather just seen Fletcher and Champa run it

<v Speaker 1>back for a second time, then Fletcher and brisco run

<v Speaker 1>it back for a seventh time. It was, I guess,

<v Speaker 1>the best of seven series. We just didn't know it.

<v Speaker 1>And no shade on Mark Briscoe. And obviously I like

<v Speaker 1>Mark Briscoe and they had really great matches together, but

<v Speaker 1>that's just not the match that I was hoping to say.

<v Speaker 1>It just feels like we're taking a step back by

<v Speaker 1>going back to this again. I mean, you heard what

<v Speaker 1>Fletcher said at the beginning of his Pro Bowl, like

<v Speaker 1>I'm sick of you and I'm like, you know what,

<v Speaker 1>he's not wrong. Meanwhile, as all of this is going

<v Speaker 1>on and they're cutting promos on each other, they cut

<v Speaker 1>to Champa who's just sitting on the ground outside, up

<v Speaker 1>against the barricade with his head in his hands, And

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this and my only thought is I really

<v Speaker 1>hope that you know, he doesn't just fade down the

<v Speaker 1>car this soon. His nickname is Psycho Killer. You can

<v Speaker 1>very easily rope him back into the mix here by

<v Speaker 1>having him get involved in that ladder match on Saturday.

<v Speaker 1>And honestly, it could go either way. You know, he

<v Speaker 1>could assist Mark Briscoe in beating Kyle Fletcher for the

<v Speaker 1>championship because he's just upset he lost to Kyle Fletcher.

<v Speaker 1>Or he could cost Mark Briscoe the match because he's

<v Speaker 1>a fucking psycho and heal. Champa is probably the best Champa.

<v Speaker 1>So if he turns, I would say turning is the

<v Speaker 1>right word. But if he costs Mark Briscoe the TNT title,

<v Speaker 1>right getting it back, then Fletcher he'll go on to

<v Speaker 1>do whatever he's gonna do with the championship. At least

<v Speaker 1>Champa then has somebody to work with in Mark Briscoe.

<v Speaker 1>But if he's such a psycho killer, then show it,

<v Speaker 1>show it. Let him show up during the ladder match

<v Speaker 1>and wrek havoc and get involved. I want him to

<v Speaker 1>stay in that team anti title mixed in some way.

<v Speaker 1>That's the key. Tony was very insistent on bringing Champa

<v Speaker 1>in in grand fashion, which he did, wins a championship

<v Speaker 1>right away, has these kick ass matches. Okay, well, how

<v Speaker 1>do you keep that momentum going? I know you don't do,

<v Speaker 1>but how do you keep that momentum going if you

<v Speaker 1>are not going to put the belt back on him?

<v Speaker 1>And I'm not even sure I want them to, because

<v Speaker 1>now you're playing hot potato with the belt that's going

<v Speaker 1>from Briscoe to Champa, from Champa to Fletcher, back to Champa.

<v Speaker 1>You want to keep it on Kyle Fletcher for a while,

<v Speaker 1>Go right ahead. Just I hope that there's something solid,

<v Speaker 1>you know, for Champa to really sink his teeth into.

<v Speaker 1>He has shown him these last few matches that he

<v Speaker 1>is every bit as good as he says he is.

<v Speaker 1>He's a lot of fun to watch. He's one of

<v Speaker 1>those guys when you watch him in the ring, he's

<v Speaker 1>very intense. There are a few guys like that. He'li

<v Speaker 1>get Dragonov is probably number one on that list in

<v Speaker 1>terms of the most intense wrestlers in the ring these days.

<v Speaker 1>But he just he has that you know quality to him.

<v Speaker 1>It just makes his matches a lot of fun to watch.

<v Speaker 1>So yeah, very head scratching decision there to take the

<v Speaker 1>belt off him in the way that they did. But

<v Speaker 1>I look, I can't say enough good things about the

<v Speaker 1>match itself. These guys went out there and they stole

<v Speaker 1>the show, plain and simple. What did not steal the

<v Speaker 1>show was Roderick Strong and Orange Cassidy taking on Daniel

<v Speaker 1>Garcia and Clark Connors, who is officially with AW And

<v Speaker 1>there's the connection there with the Death Riders. Of course

<v Speaker 1>they're friendly with the war Dogs, right, Bullet Club war Dogs,

<v Speaker 1>Gabe Kid, Clark Connors, So Connors was teaming up tonight

<v Speaker 1>with with Daniel Garcia, So Connors and Strong they kicked

<v Speaker 1>things off. Cassidy tagged in later he and Roddy. They

<v Speaker 1>had an argument about it. Now, Roddy doesn't like Orange Cassidy, right,

<v Speaker 1>This has been established now for a while, so they

<v Speaker 1>weren't exactly on the same page here. Cassidy sent both

<v Speaker 1>Garcia and Connors to the floor. Strong, though walked away

<v Speaker 1>from the ring. When Orange Cassidy went for a tag,

<v Speaker 1>he pulled the old sid on Hogan's spot and he

<v Speaker 1>walked out on his tag team partner. Moxley was on

<v Speaker 1>commentary for this match, and he just was He was

<v Speaker 1>cackling on commentary when he saw this. Connor's and Garcia

<v Speaker 1>they doubled up on Cassidy in the corner. Connors delivered

<v Speaker 1>a big spear through the ropes onto the apron and

<v Speaker 1>he shut down a comeback attempt by Cassidy. He went

<v Speaker 1>for a second spear on the floor. He ran himself

<v Speaker 1>though into the barricade where Darby Allen appeared. He was

<v Speaker 1>on the other side of the barricade and he pulled

<v Speaker 1>Connors over and into the crowd. Now, I would love

<v Speaker 1>to know how was Darby Allen rescued after he was

<v Speaker 1>left for dead in the middle of the desert last week.

<v Speaker 1>We need the backstory to that. I need to know why.

<v Speaker 1>I need to know how the man was rescued and

<v Speaker 1>found his way back. But there he was, so he

<v Speaker 1>went off with Connor's. Cassidy managed to roll up Garcia

<v Speaker 1>in the ring to get the wind, so even two

<v Speaker 1>on one, Daniel Garcia still loses. After the match, Tony Storm,

<v Speaker 1>she was suddenly up in one of the luxury boxes

<v Speaker 1>in the crowd. She says she made peace with her choices,

<v Speaker 1>because again she's gonna be teeming with orange cassidy this weekend.

<v Speaker 1>She's made peace with her choices, calling Marina Shaffir a

<v Speaker 1>mixed martial asshole, and she said that she deserved to

<v Speaker 1>get her head shaved if she managed to knock her

<v Speaker 1>out her being Tony, right, I deserve to get my

<v Speaker 1>head shaved. But if Tony manages to be Marina, she

<v Speaker 1>would shave her head so bald that they would sell her.

<v Speaker 1>At Spirit Halloween, Tony started to address Wheeler Udah, who

<v Speaker 1>walked out on stage, and he's screaming. Marina appeared all

<v Speaker 1>of a sudden, and this looks so ridiculous. She walks

<v Speaker 1>out there. She has mina shirakawa in her finishing hold

<v Speaker 1>right mother's milk. It looked like she was carrying like

<v Speaker 1>an oversized child. They have these things, you know, parents

<v Speaker 1>have these things where whatever the hell they're called, and

<v Speaker 1>the kids like on their chest, like if they're walking

<v Speaker 1>around to Disney World or something that's kind of what

<v Speaker 1>this reminded me of. She's like walking out there with

<v Speaker 1>her child, who happens to be adult size, you know,

<v Speaker 1>sucking on her you know what here, mother's milk for

<v Speaker 1>Mina Shirakawa. And as she is being held in this hold,

<v Speaker 1>Wheeler Yudah, they decide to clip the ponytail or cut

<v Speaker 1>her extensions. But they clip her ponytail. They cut off

<v Speaker 1>a piece of her hair. With her trapped in this

<v Speaker 1>hold and obviously up in the luxury box, Tony looked

<v Speaker 1>horrified by this, and so that was their final little

<v Speaker 1>bit of hype for this tag team match. We're getting

<v Speaker 1>a tornado match on Saturday. Whoever loses the fall is

<v Speaker 1>going to get their head shaved. And I'm looking at

<v Speaker 1>everybody in this match. You've got two women, neither of

<v Speaker 1>whom I think want to go bald. You've got Orange Cassidy,

<v Speaker 1>And realistically, if you shave his head, who gives a shit.

<v Speaker 1>The one who needs to get his head shaved is

<v Speaker 1>Wheeler da I mean, that thing gets longer and longer

<v Speaker 1>and longer every week. He's got a mop on his head.

<v Speaker 1>So I think it's safe to say that Wheeler Youda

<v Speaker 1>is getting a haircut this weekend. But as far as

<v Speaker 1>like the Roderick Strong Orange Cassidy stuff, yeah, it's just

<v Speaker 1>one of the mid card conglomeration things. This time Roddy

<v Speaker 1>bailed on him. So where it's gonna go? Honestly, I

<v Speaker 1>don't care. It's one of those stories I just can't

<v Speaker 1>bring myself to care about or get invested in. Doesn't

<v Speaker 1>really do anything for me. Darby Allen though, again I

<v Speaker 1>need to know how the fuck did he get back

<v Speaker 1>from the desert. Backstage, Andrade and don Kallus are together,

<v Speaker 1>you know, Androde Hangman and MJF and Brody King. We're

<v Speaker 1>all involved in these like pre tap clearly pre tape

<v Speaker 1>video promos tonight. My guess is that they're all either

<v Speaker 1>in transit or they are all already in Australia because

<v Speaker 1>they were not physically live in the ring on TV tonight.

<v Speaker 1>But Androtte and Callous were backstage and told Hangman Page

<v Speaker 1>he was in the way and they would take him out.

<v Speaker 1>The Hangman had a chance to respond his own video

<v Speaker 1>said I'm not getting the match that I wanted against

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega, who was the man that he beat to

<v Speaker 1>win his first world title back in twenty twenty one,

<v Speaker 1>and while he acknowledged that Andrade was one of the

<v Speaker 1>best in the world, he wouldn't let him interrupt his

<v Speaker 1>path to regaining the AW World Championship. Next up was

<v Speaker 1>the party match of the night, and good luck to

<v Speaker 1>all the people who take notes on this shit. There's

<v Speaker 1>really no point in a match like this. You just

<v Speaker 1>kind of sit back and just watch all the chaos unfold.

<v Speaker 1>But the winners of this match would be in line

<v Speaker 1>for a shot at the AW Tag team titles. It

<v Speaker 1>was a three way match with the Young Bucks, the Rascals,

<v Speaker 1>this was their in ring Dynamite debut, and a mystery

<v Speaker 1>wild card team. The wildcard turned out to be the

<v Speaker 1>returning Private Party. There's a name that you haven't heard

<v Speaker 1>on Dynamite in a very long time. Do you know

<v Speaker 1>why that is? Because the last time they wrestled in

<v Speaker 1>an aw raing was January twenty second of twenty twenty five.

<v Speaker 1>It has been over a year since Private Party wrestled

<v Speaker 1>in aaw It has been almost a year since they

<v Speaker 1>wrestled anywhere. Because the last match before tonight that they

<v Speaker 1>had was in House of Glory and that was in

<v Speaker 1>March of last year and they haven't wrestled anywhere since then.

<v Speaker 1>And again I don't think there was any injury issues

<v Speaker 1>or anything like that. They just they were gone, they disappeared,

<v Speaker 1>and tonight, just like magic, they reappeared and there they were.

<v Speaker 1>But that was when they got just decimated by the

<v Speaker 1>Hurt Syndicate. They had won the tag team titles from

<v Speaker 1>Private Party, won the titles from the Young Bucks. Remember,

<v Speaker 1>I can't even call it a run. Can you even

<v Speaker 1>call what they had a run as tag team champions?

<v Speaker 1>It was an embarrassment, unfortunately, and then they basically got

<v Speaker 1>squashed by the Hurt since to get and we didn't

<v Speaker 1>see them again. It was like they were shamed and

<v Speaker 1>they were sent away. So it's good to see them back.

<v Speaker 1>You know. Private Party is a pair of aw originals.

<v Speaker 1>They were there from day one, so they turned out

<v Speaker 1>to be the wild card here in this match. And

<v Speaker 1>it was rapid fire offense here right from the beginning.

<v Speaker 1>Things broke down very quickly. We had multiple dives. XO says, wow,

<v Speaker 1>that party really is private? Oh it was, it was exclusive.

<v Speaker 1>They take the whole Private Party thing very seriously, very

<v Speaker 1>very literally, it was so private nobody was invited, so

<v Speaker 1>we got rapid fire offense Desmond Xavier. He hit a

<v Speaker 1>shooting star press onto a pile of guys outside the ring.

<v Speaker 1>The Bucks control the action as Matt Jackson delivered some

<v Speaker 1>locomotion Northern Light suit plexus to private party and then

<v Speaker 1>sliced bread to Isaiah. Nick delivered a bulldog combo to

<v Speaker 1>private party, who made a comeback with a double team

<v Speaker 1>cutter on Nick. Xavier broke it up. Nick delivered a

<v Speaker 1>destroyer to Isaiah and then everybody ended up down, so

<v Speaker 1>the Bucks cleared the deck. They went for a double

<v Speaker 1>team driver. The Rascals, though, broke that up and they

<v Speaker 1>delivered splashes to Matt. They covered him. Nick, though, was

<v Speaker 1>able to break it up at the last second. Everybody

<v Speaker 1>flew around the ring and the Bucks they connected on

<v Speaker 1>a BTE trigger to Mark Quinn and then they delivered

<v Speaker 1>a meltzer driver to win the match. Is it still

<v Speaker 1>the meltzer driver? Was it ever officially renamed the TK driver?

<v Speaker 1>Is it back to being the meltzer driver. I'm just

<v Speaker 1>gonna call it an assisted tombstone, how about that? And

<v Speaker 1>that's how they won the match. When it was over.

<v Speaker 1>FTR made their way out. They were feeling Stokely halfway

<v Speaker 1>down to ringside and Dax in Cash they get in

<v Speaker 1>the ring. They leave Stokely out on the floor in

<v Speaker 1>his chair, and Dak says, look, we've come in peace.

<v Speaker 1>He said there were eighteen World Tag Team championships between

<v Speaker 1>the two teams, and he admitted that at one point

<v Speaker 1>he was jealous of them. He was, but now that

<v Speaker 1>the Young Bucks are definitely the second best tag team

<v Speaker 1>of all time. He asked if it bothered them that

<v Speaker 1>they had to create their own company just to be successful.

<v Speaker 1>Unlike them who have achieved success across multiple promotions, the

<v Speaker 1>Young Bucks had to create their own in order to

<v Speaker 1>find success. At that point, Matt had enough of him

<v Speaker 1>running his mouth kicked him in the face and he

<v Speaker 1>did the same thing to Cash Wheeler did Nick Jackson.

<v Speaker 1>They went outside, they were going to go leave, and

<v Speaker 1>they were threatening Stokely hathaway and then they made they

<v Speaker 1>were gonna do a double super kick to him, and

<v Speaker 1>Stokely just winced. He seized up in his chair, but

<v Speaker 1>they ended up pulling. They pulled back. They were gonna

<v Speaker 1>cut him some slack this time, maybe not next time.

<v Speaker 1>They didn't actually say when this match is going to

<v Speaker 1>take place. Maybe Revolution, I guess that would make sense.

<v Speaker 1>But we're back to the Bucks in FTR again. Now.

<v Speaker 1>We have not gotten a straight two on two match

<v Speaker 1>between FTR and the Young Bucks in almost a full

<v Speaker 1>two years, so it's actually been a while. The last

<v Speaker 1>time they had a proper like regular tag team match,

<v Speaker 1>you would have to go all the way back to

<v Speaker 1>Dynasty in twenty twenty four. Since then, they have been

<v Speaker 1>involved in a three way, they've been involved in a

<v Speaker 1>four way, so they've wrestled each other since then. But

<v Speaker 1>I'm talking like just straight up two on two. It's

<v Speaker 1>been a while, and yet it still feels like, Man,

<v Speaker 1>we're going back to this again. We're going back to this. Well,

<v Speaker 1>like the Rascals just debuted and this was their first

<v Speaker 1>match together on Dynamite, and the Rascals are fun to watch.

<v Speaker 1>It would have been something different because we all know

<v Speaker 1>what we're waiting for here. We all know where this

<v Speaker 1>is going. We're waiting for Adam Copeland and Christian Cage

<v Speaker 1>to come back. And my understanding is that Copeland is

<v Speaker 1>still filming whatever that TV show is. I think it's

<v Speaker 1>a TV show that he's filming, Percy, Percy Watson, Percy Jackson,

<v Speaker 1>Percy Pringle, whatever the fuck it is. He's still filming

<v Speaker 1>and they're waiting, and I think filming will conclude in

<v Speaker 1>a few weeks, and at that point we'll see the

<v Speaker 1>two of them back, and then they'll have to remind

<v Speaker 1>us all over again about what the hell happened the

<v Speaker 1>last time when they laid out Beth Phoenix. But we

<v Speaker 1>know that's the destination here. We're going to get that

<v Speaker 1>match at some point, probably for the tag team titles.

<v Speaker 1>So what's the harmon sending them out there for a

<v Speaker 1>match against a team like the Rascals, other than well,

<v Speaker 1>the young Bucks are bigger stars and we got to

<v Speaker 1>get them on the show, and we're gonna do FTR

<v Speaker 1>in the Bucks again. It's like, well, okay, same old shit.

<v Speaker 1>I guess, not that they have bad matches, but just

<v Speaker 1>at some point you want to see some new blood

<v Speaker 1>in there. Private Party just came back tonight. I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>realistically expecting them to win, or the Rascals for that matter,

<v Speaker 1>but I was kind of hoping they would. So anyway,

<v Speaker 1>so we're back to this again, and I don't know

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, man. I mean for a while there

<v Speaker 1>it felt like, man, this Tag Team Division is starting

<v Speaker 1>to really, you know, heat up again, and look at

<v Speaker 1>all these teams. And then they lost some teams. They

<v Speaker 1>lost the Hurt Syndicate because Bobby Lashley got hurt, and

<v Speaker 1>now poor Shelton Benjamin isn't even around anymore. Lucasaurus got hurt,

<v Speaker 1>so there goes a Jurassic Express. Davis and Doyle. They

<v Speaker 1>just put them together, and then Davis is without a

<v Speaker 1>partner because Doyle got injured like in one fell swoop.

<v Speaker 1>They lost like three or four teams and now it

<v Speaker 1>feels like we're right back to where we were before,

<v Speaker 1>where the Tag team Division, which was building nicely is

<v Speaker 1>you know, it's been wounded now and now things aren't

<v Speaker 1>as exciting as it felt before, which kind of sucks

<v Speaker 1>because it was really starting to heat up again. I

<v Speaker 1>hope they can get back there. We got a will

<v Speaker 1>Osprey video package. We got one last week too. This

<v Speaker 1>was a different one and he was wondering, you know,

<v Speaker 1>when he comes back, can I be the same, and

<v Speaker 1>well the fans still cheer for me. That was sort

<v Speaker 1>of the crux of it. When he returns, he'll answer

<v Speaker 1>every question. I like this. I mean, you get the

<v Speaker 1>impression that they must think he's coming back somewhat soon

<v Speaker 1>if they're starting to run vignettes for him on the show.

<v Speaker 1>I just it wouldn't make sense, frankly, to be doing

<v Speaker 1>this unless he was coming back in these next I

<v Speaker 1>don't know, a couple of months, which seems early to me.

<v Speaker 1>But there's got to be a reason why they're airing

<v Speaker 1>these now and they're not holding off on them. But

<v Speaker 1>I mean, it was well done for what it was

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be. We got another video package also promoting

<v Speaker 1>the MJF Brody King title match for this weekend a

<v Speaker 1>Grand Slam, and they showed highlights of MJF losing in

<v Speaker 1>spectacular fashion less than sixty seconds to Brody on the

<v Speaker 1>show last week, basically being squashed. When mjf's back is

<v Speaker 1>up against the wall, that's when the devil is the

<v Speaker 1>most dangerous, and Grand Slam Australia is when he makes

<v Speaker 1>King his bitch. They did a good job of at

<v Speaker 1>least showing you why Brody King should be taken seriously

<v Speaker 1>as a threat. Beat the champion, Beat the champion in

<v Speaker 1>sixty seconds dropped them on his head, choked him out

<v Speaker 1>and dropped them on his head. There's really nothing more

<v Speaker 1>you can do. He's got as much credibility as he's

<v Speaker 1>gonna have going into this match this weekend. They closed

<v Speaker 1>the show with Chris Statlander defending her aw Women's World

<v Speaker 1>Championship against Tekla, who already beat but she agreed to

<v Speaker 1>give her another shot. This time it was going to

<v Speaker 1>be in a strap match. And they started this match

<v Speaker 1>like right at the top of the hour, so right

<v Speaker 1>away we know we're getting an overrun here. Before a break,

<v Speaker 1>they were outside the ring again. They're bound by the wrist.

<v Speaker 1>Tecla yanked her folk. She was on one side of

<v Speaker 1>the steps and she yanked Statlander face first into the

<v Speaker 1>ring steps on the other side, so we couldn't see

<v Speaker 1>the damage, right, And they kept the camera on Tekla

<v Speaker 1>for like twenty seconds, and I'm like, ah, Statlander must

<v Speaker 1>be u She's going to town. On the other side,

<v Speaker 1>they got the orders keep the camera off of her.

<v Speaker 1>Sure enough, when the cameras went back on her, she

<v Speaker 1>was busted open and it didn't look too bad, but

<v Speaker 1>the blood was starting to pour down her forehead. So

<v Speaker 1>Tekla went over and she started raining some forearm shots

<v Speaker 1>down on her head, trying to open her up even more.

<v Speaker 1>When they came back from commercial, at Lander was just

<v Speaker 1>covered in blood and Tecla was whipping her hard with

<v Speaker 1>the strap. Tecla went to do her upside down spider

<v Speaker 1>pose in the middle of the ring, and Statlander just

<v Speaker 1>yanked the strap and so down she went. She caught

<v Speaker 1>Techla with a snap power slam for a two count.

<v Speaker 1>Statlander went to the ropes. Tecla, though, whipped her and

<v Speaker 1>climbed up with her, and Tecla ended up in a

<v Speaker 1>tree of woe. But she rises up and she lashes

<v Speaker 1>Statlander three times in a row and then hits a

<v Speaker 1>spider suplex. Statlander was able to come back with a

<v Speaker 1>discus lariat. Now they're fighting from their knees. Tecla spits

<v Speaker 1>right in her eye. I mean, she hawked a fucking

<v Speaker 1>loogie right in this woman's eye. Statlander whips the shit

<v Speaker 1>out of her in response, and then there's a blue thunderbomb.

<v Speaker 1>We get a one count, we get a two count.

<v Speaker 1>Tecla kicks out. Tecla got the wrapped around Statlander's neck

<v Speaker 1>and she was gonna try for a curb stomp, but

<v Speaker 1>as she came off and attempted for the stomp, Statlander

<v Speaker 1>moved instead. She starts to wrap Tekla's body up with

<v Speaker 1>the strap so she can't move. Then she picks her

<v Speaker 1>up and she delivers the Saturday Night Fever, which is

<v Speaker 1>her finish. And that should have been it, except here

<v Speaker 1>come Julia Hart and Sky Blue running down to the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Sky Blue runs out to distract Aubrey Edwards and Julia

<v Speaker 1>Hart went for a spear she missed. She ate a

<v Speaker 1>shot with the strap, and so after fighting both of

<v Speaker 1>them off, Statlander turns around right into a spear from

<v Speaker 1>Tecla and then she ties Statlander's hands behind her back,

<v Speaker 1>and Tecla hits a curb stomp and she covers and

<v Speaker 1>Tekla is the new AEW Women's World Champion. Now they

<v Speaker 1>mentioned on commentary that Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron they

<v Speaker 1>already left for Australia, or they may already be there.

<v Speaker 1>Those are Statlander's friends, so she had no friends to

<v Speaker 1>come out to help fight off the Sisters of Sin.

<v Speaker 1>Here she was all by herself, and so she ends

<v Speaker 1>up losing her title. Only after do we have the

<v Speaker 1>reinforcements on their way to the ring, because here comes

<v Speaker 1>Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor, who were a new team.

<v Speaker 1>By the way, what are they calling themselves? The Birds

<v Speaker 1>of somebody remind me of their name? And the Chad

<v Speaker 1>the Birds of Prey. What the fuck is their name?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know where they came up with this name.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I don't mind them as a team, but

<v Speaker 1>I hope this doesn't last very long, because Jamie Hayter

<v Speaker 1>should not be in a tag team. The Birds of

<v Speaker 1>the Birds of What help me out here? Somebody needs

<v Speaker 1>to know the name of this team. Hmm. There we

<v Speaker 1>go the brawling Birds as opposed to the brawling brutes.

<v Speaker 1>We have the brawling the Brawling Birds. Yeah, it's not

<v Speaker 1>a good name anyway. Only after she loses the championship

<v Speaker 1>do the Brawling Birds run down to the ring and

<v Speaker 1>they run out and they chase off Teckl and her

<v Speaker 1>crew with a pipe and a hammer. I guess they

<v Speaker 1>were doing some maintenance work in the back and somebody said,

<v Speaker 1>oh shit, Statlander's in trouble, so they come running out

<v Speaker 1>with their tools. I have no idea why sky Blue

<v Speaker 1>needed to distract the referee. With this being a notice

<v Speaker 1>qualification match, I don't even know why they needed to

<v Speaker 1>stay in the back. Quite frankly, they should have already

<v Speaker 1>been out there. They could be interfering. It will what's

<v Speaker 1>Aubrey Edward's gonna do. She's not gonna do shit. She

<v Speaker 1>can get up in their faces, she could wave her

<v Speaker 1>arms around and try to make a big scene. She

<v Speaker 1>can't do shit, So that was kind of silly. These ladies, though,

<v Speaker 1>they beat the tar out of each other with that

<v Speaker 1>leather strap they had. I thought it was a solid match.

<v Speaker 1>It was not as strong as some of the other

<v Speaker 1>matches that we had on the card, but it was solid.

<v Speaker 1>And again, coming into this show, it just felt to

<v Speaker 1>me like the likelihood of a title change was very

<v Speaker 1>high because Tekla was already beaten and then they decided

<v Speaker 1>to give her another match for really no legitimate reason

<v Speaker 1>other than Statlander wants to be a fighting champion, And

<v Speaker 1>it's like, well, why would you run this match back

<v Speaker 1>just to beat Tecla again? Right, That doesn't really make

<v Speaker 1>a lot of sense. So it felt like probably going

<v Speaker 1>to be like I never would have predicted a TNT

<v Speaker 1>title change on this show, but a women's title change. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>that sounds about right. So I wasn't surprised and I

<v Speaker 1>liked Tekla, and that's great if you want to put

<v Speaker 1>the title on a heel for a few months. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know how long she'll end up with that championship.

<v Speaker 1>She may not have it as long as Statlander had

<v Speaker 1>it in her first reign. But that's fine provided the

<v Speaker 1>idea is that Statlander is going to come back and

<v Speaker 1>win her belt back, whether it's Revolution or Dynasty Double

<v Speaker 1>or nothing. If the idea is that Statlander now has

<v Speaker 1>to scratch and claw and fight her way back to

<v Speaker 1>a match with Tekla, who she already beat once, right,

<v Speaker 1>so now they're tied, so you actually have a reason

<v Speaker 1>to run this back again and have a rubber match

<v Speaker 1>between the two, then that's fine. But I just it's

<v Speaker 1>such a weird run that she had because again, the

<v Speaker 1>names that she beat, Tony Storm, Mercedes Monete, Jamie Hayter,

<v Speaker 1>some of the biggest names in that women's division, and

<v Speaker 1>Chris Statlander went in there and she beat them. She

<v Speaker 1>was like a world beater out there, and she's no

<v Speaker 1>longer the champion, And I'm like, well, when we look

<v Speaker 1>back and evaluate this run that she was on, I

<v Speaker 1>don't know it's missing something, it's missing just she never

<v Speaker 1>really felt like a real week to week presence on

<v Speaker 1>this show, like a real meaningful like she got the

<v Speaker 1>main event spot tonight. But I mean, how many times

<v Speaker 1>during this run did she get the main event spot.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, she may have had it one other time.

<v Speaker 1>I didn't feel like she was having them many times

<v Speaker 1>week to week. In terms of her segments on Dynamite,

<v Speaker 1>I don't know there was something missing there where it

<v Speaker 1>feels like they dropped the ball and I hope that

<v Speaker 1>she gets the ball back because she should be in

<v Speaker 1>that mix. Eventually, the time will come that Mercedes will

<v Speaker 1>be back, and I'm sure Mercedes will get her belt finally.

<v Speaker 1>It would actually kind of makes sense, frankly if it

<v Speaker 1>was from Statlander, because they've had a whole bunch of

<v Speaker 1>matches now and she couldn't beat stat Lander a few

<v Speaker 1>months ago. So I hope that that's the idea here,

<v Speaker 1>is that when Tecla loses, she loses it back to

<v Speaker 1>Chris Statlander, because I think at Lander is very good

<v Speaker 1>and she she deserves some more time, you know, with

<v Speaker 1>that championship. But the idea of her losing in and

<v Speaker 1>of itself doesn't mean she can't get it back. I've

<v Speaker 1>talked about long title runs over you know, over the

<v Speaker 1>last few months. This subject has come up because we

<v Speaker 1>get so many of them these days, and they love,

<v Speaker 1>you know, telling us how many days this person has

<v Speaker 1>been championed for and you listen to it and it's

<v Speaker 1>like six hundred days, eight hundred days, four hundred days,

<v Speaker 1>a thousand of fucking Athena right, eleven hundred days. Whatever

<v Speaker 1>it is is the ring of honor, champion, and it's like,

<v Speaker 1>when did this start? You know what I mean? Like,

<v Speaker 1>there's there's a happy medium between hot shotting a title

<v Speaker 1>where you just play hot potato with it every other

<v Speaker 1>week and having these long, boring, extended runs. Like if

<v Speaker 1>you want to have one or two solid, lengthy runs,

<v Speaker 1>that's fine, But when this becomes the norm as we've

<v Speaker 1>seen it wrestling in the last few years, it gets boring.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't even mind them. Like surprising people, it

<v Speaker 1>kind of keeps us on our toes. Oh shit, we

<v Speaker 1>have new champion. I didn't see that coming. Like that's

<v Speaker 1>not inherently a bad thing. I just hope that for

<v Speaker 1>some of these people like Champa and Statlander. They have

<v Speaker 1>a solid plan ready for them going forward, because I'd

<v Speaker 1>like to see more of them on these shows, especially

<v Speaker 1>a Champa just for his music alone. He's got some

<v Speaker 1>of the best music in the entire company. Anyway, this

<v Speaker 1>was a show that was very heavy on the Inn

<v Speaker 1>ring tonight. Light on the story side. There was some,

<v Speaker 1>but it was a very light on the story side.

<v Speaker 1>But thankfully for them, the Inn ring is what really

<v Speaker 1>carried the day. If you only have time for one match,

<v Speaker 1>taking nothing away from the ladies in the main event,

<v Speaker 1>watch the TNT title match again. It might frustrate you

<v Speaker 1>some of the near fall badness there at the end,

<v Speaker 1>but that aside, it was an excellent match. Let's take

<v Speaker 1>a look at the Twitter poll here. Then we're going

<v Speaker 1>to come back and do predictions because we got a

<v Speaker 1>big show to preview for this weekend. What did you

<v Speaker 1>think of Dynamite before Grand Slam? Sixty five point eight

<v Speaker 1>almost sixty six percent thumbs up, eighteen point five percent

<v Speaker 1>thumbs in the middle, and fifteen point seven percent thumbs down,

<v Speaker 1>So that is actually a very positive score for Dynamite.

<v Speaker 1>It was a good show. It was not by no

<v Speaker 1>means was it the best dynamite in years? But it was.

<v Speaker 1>It was a good show. Now let's run down this

<v Speaker 1>Grand Slam Australia card. I am thinking about going live

<v Speaker 1>on Saturday night. We'll see. I'm fifty to fifty right now.

<v Speaker 1>I'm leaning towards doing it and going live. It is

<v Speaker 1>a big card. It'll be airing on tape delayed by

<v Speaker 1>like I don't know what, fourteen hours, sixteen hours, So

<v Speaker 1>if you are allergic to spoilers, you might have to

<v Speaker 1>keep yourself off social media. But here's the card. Orange

<v Speaker 1>Cassidy and Tony Storm putting their hair on the line

<v Speaker 1>against Wheeler Yuda and Marina Shaffir Tornado match. Loser gets

<v Speaker 1>their head shaved. I'm going with Orange Cassidy and Tony

<v Speaker 1>Storm and Wheeler Yuda is getting a haircut. We have

<v Speaker 1>John Moxley and Kenoski Takeshta the Continental Championship. I'm going

<v Speaker 1>with the title change here. Now I know we had

<v Speaker 1>two title changes tonight. I'm still gonna stick to my

<v Speaker 1>predictions that I talked about on Sunday. I think we

<v Speaker 1>get a new Continental champion here. I think Takeshta wins it.

<v Speaker 1>So when he wrestles Okada. They both have belts going

<v Speaker 1>into that match. Now. The other one was the Babes

<v Speaker 1>of Wrath putting their women's tag team titles on the

<v Speaker 1>line against Megabad, Meghan Bain and Penelope Ford. I think

<v Speaker 1>we get a title change there as well. I know

<v Speaker 1>it's Harley in Australia. What a horrible thing to beat

<v Speaker 1>Harley Cameron in Australia. I think we get new tag

<v Speaker 1>team champions. I think it's about time that Meghan bay

<v Speaker 1>And gets some gold in this company. We've got Kyle

<v Speaker 1>Fletcher and Mark Briscoe. Just added Game seven ladder match

<v Speaker 1>the TNT Championship. I this could go either way. This

<v Speaker 1>could go either way. I'm gonna say that Kyle Fletcher retains.

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to see the belt go immediately right

<v Speaker 1>back to Mark Briscoe after we just got two title

<v Speaker 1>changes in the last two weeks. That would be very dumb.

<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna say Fletcher wins. I'm gonna say that Tomaso

<v Speaker 1>Champa gets involved cost Mark Briscoe because he feels he's

<v Speaker 1>owed a rematch, not Mark Briscoe. So that's my prediction. There.

<v Speaker 1>We have Hangman Adam Page against Andrade Ledelo. The winner

<v Speaker 1>will challenge for the World Championship at Revolution on March fifteenth.

<v Speaker 1>I actually don't mind either of these guys winning. I

<v Speaker 1>really don't now who do I think is going to win.

<v Speaker 1>I think who's going to win is Hangman Adam Page,

<v Speaker 1>because that's where the story is. That's where the real

<v Speaker 1>story is. Hangman is the one who came out and

<v Speaker 1>if you ask, MJF cost him the title, or not

<v Speaker 1>the title, but cost him the match the eliminator match

<v Speaker 1>with Brody on the show last week and resulted in

<v Speaker 1>Brody King getting a title shot. That's Hangman's fault because

<v Speaker 1>he walked out and distracted him last week and all

<v Speaker 1>the matches they had together last year, both of them

<v Speaker 1>Hangman beat MJF. It's time for MJF to get his

<v Speaker 1>and I think he gets that a Revolution, even though

<v Speaker 1>I will agree it's not the it's not the most

<v Speaker 1>attractive title match they could be doing on that show,

<v Speaker 1>and I would love to see Tony go outside the

<v Speaker 1>box on this one. I think he's going to stick

<v Speaker 1>to what the story is here, which is Hangman winning

<v Speaker 1>and then MJF and Brody King for the aw World championship. Look,

<v Speaker 1>there's not going to be a title change here. I

<v Speaker 1>floated the name Buddy Matthews the other day. We haven't

<v Speaker 1>heard much about him recently. It was a year ago

<v Speaker 1>on this Grand Slam show that he hurt his ankle

<v Speaker 1>and on a damaged ankle because it happened during the entrances.

<v Speaker 1>On a damaged ankle, he went out there for fourteen

<v Speaker 1>minutes and had a pretty good match with Okada and

<v Speaker 1>made it a lot worse. I'm sure that's why we

<v Speaker 1>still haven't seen him back yet. But I think it

<v Speaker 1>would be cool if he showed up on this show

<v Speaker 1>right for Marl support. He's gonna support his boy. This

<v Speaker 1>is Brody's big night, and in the end him being

<v Speaker 1>there in some way ends up costing Brody king mjf

<v Speaker 1>retains and we can get a Buddy and Brody feud

<v Speaker 1>coming out of it as a way to re establish

<v Speaker 1>Buddy Matthews on the ROSS. That's my idea. I throw

<v Speaker 1>it out there, let's see what happens. But that's the

<v Speaker 1>card as I assume they're not going to add anything more,

<v Speaker 1>but at to AW you never know. They got two

<v Speaker 1>and a half hours, so I think it's eight pm Eastern.

<v Speaker 1>I think it's eight to ten thirty. I believe, and

<v Speaker 1>I'll keep you guys posted if I go live. I

<v Speaker 1>put together artwork today, a layout and everything as if

<v Speaker 1>I am going to go live, but I'll let you

<v Speaker 1>guys know ultimately if I do, it's a big show though,

<v Speaker 1>We're definitely going to be watching and if nothing else,

<v Speaker 1>reviewing on the sound Off this weekend. See Martin likes

<v Speaker 1>the potential Buddy angle, so do I. It really all

<v Speaker 1>depends on where he's at in his rehab. Last update

<v Speaker 1>I heard was I don't know a couple months ago

<v Speaker 1>and it wasn't sounding great. But these days, you know,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, what's real and what's not, what's true and

<v Speaker 1>what's false? We don't know. You know, they want to

<v Speaker 1>shock you when they show up on TV. But that's

<v Speaker 1>my idea. Brody and Buddy. Joseph Stewart, I wish you

<v Speaker 1>a very happy Wednesday. I'm glad you were with us,

<v Speaker 1>and yes, rest in peace to James Vanderbeek. It was

<v Speaker 1>very sad to hear that he had passed away. I

<v Speaker 1>know that he was only forty eight years old. From

<v Speaker 1>Dawson's Creek. If you don't know who that was, and

<v Speaker 1>that he was in some movies as well, got all

<v Speaker 1>these football movies. They just kind of run together, was it,

<v Speaker 1>Remember the Titans. I don't remember the name of that movie,

<v Speaker 1>but Dawson's Creek is probably what he is most well

<v Speaker 1>known for. But yeah, he was diagnosed I think a

<v Speaker 1>couple of years ago, maybe a year and a half ago,

<v Speaker 1>with stage three color rectal cancer. And it's very said

<v Speaker 1>because his family apparently sank all of their money, all

<v Speaker 1>of their savings into his treatment and they're just trying

<v Speaker 1>to save their home. So I know, there's like a

<v Speaker 1>whole go fundme set up. Last I checked, it was

<v Speaker 1>already over I think three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

<v Speaker 1>But it's just sad, you know, the way that you

<v Speaker 1>all it takes is one illness and it just bankrupts

<v Speaker 1>an entire family like that, you know, and it shouldn't

<v Speaker 1>be that way, but you you hear stories about that,

<v Speaker 1>and it just it's infuriating. Called Varsity Blues, thank you,

<v Speaker 1>as that's the movie I'm thinking of Varsity Blues. But yeah,

<v Speaker 1>so his family now is left with all of these

<v Speaker 1>medical expenses and they're just trying to save their house

<v Speaker 1>and put the kids through college. It's very sad, Justph says,

<v Speaker 1>do you thing Harley Cameron is the next big breakout

<v Speaker 1>star in AEW to go mainstream? No, she's very talented though.

<v Speaker 1>He's a great ventrilo quest. Do you know why Tony

<v Speaker 1>Kahan continues to let the same wrestlers in AW, like

<v Speaker 1>Darby Allen and Orange Cassidy do media for AW because

<v Speaker 1>he trusts them. They've been there from day one. He's

<v Speaker 1>you know, he looks at them as two of his

<v Speaker 1>biggest stars, and he trusts them to go out there

<v Speaker 1>and do press for the company. If he didn't trust him,

<v Speaker 1>he wouldn't send him. Do you remember Shaquille O'Neal's video

<v Speaker 1>game shaq Fu on Super Nintendo? Yes? I do. Do

<v Speaker 1>you remember his movie Steele? I remember Sam. I don't

<v Speaker 1>remember Steal. Have you seen the AI video online of

<v Speaker 1>the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Shredder in April O'Neil in

<v Speaker 1>WWE lead having a wrestling match. Yeah, I've seen it.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm really tired of all this AI shit.

<v Speaker 1>I gotta be honest with you. I actually fucking despise

<v Speaker 1>it now. Because you can't. You can't look at anything

<v Speaker 1>on like if you open up like Instagram or TikTok

<v Speaker 1>or x or anything these days, Like I have to

<v Speaker 1>question every single thing that I see now, even like

<v Speaker 1>a nice video or a funny video. I stop myself.

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, wait a minute, is this is this? And

<v Speaker 1>sure enough I look in the comments and it's like

<v Speaker 1>it was fucking AI. I'm like, fuck, motherfucker. I fucking

<v Speaker 1>hate it. I really do. It's it's gotten very, very bad.

<v Speaker 1>What are your thoughts on Dom giving Live hours in

<v Speaker 1>candy for Valentine's Day on Raw? I thought that was

<v Speaker 1>a very slick move on his part, and if you

<v Speaker 1>remember what Live told him after that, you'll get your

<v Speaker 1>gift later. See. Dom knows what he's doing. He's not stupid.

<v Speaker 1>Do you think Undertaker is booking Triple A better than

<v Speaker 1>Triple H is booking Raw and SmackDown. I don't watch

<v Speaker 1>Triple A week to week, so I can't say, can't

<v Speaker 1>give you an honest answer on that. I'm not into

<v Speaker 1>the Triple A product the way that I am the

<v Speaker 1>WWE product or the aw product. I'm aware generally of

<v Speaker 1>what's going on there. I'm not watching the weekly shows.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know all the players, so I really can't

<v Speaker 1>compare the two. And he says, I hope you're having

<v Speaker 1>a great week. Have a blessed day you as well, Joseph,

<v Speaker 1>I hope you have a great Thursday. Dry Chicken, says

<v Speaker 1>Kyle Fletcher against Tomaso Champa Tee Ante title match tonight

<v Speaker 1>was a banger. Yes it was. Private Party is back.

<v Speaker 1>I would love to see them win Tag Team gold again,

<v Speaker 1>a ew Ring of Honors, CMLL rev Pro or New Japan.

<v Speaker 1>They have plenty of options. Don't forget hog don't forget

<v Speaker 1>hog punch. It's all good. It's all good. It's it's

<v Speaker 1>more the the AI video stuffs. There's so much of

<v Speaker 1>it now, I can't distinguish between like what's like there

<v Speaker 1>could be a really nice like cat video, you know

<v Speaker 1>what I mean. Like, and I'll watch that and I'm like, man,

<v Speaker 1>that was that was funny. I believe the cat did that.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, wait a minute, and sure enough, like

<v Speaker 1>it'll be like the second comment, how come that person

<v Speaker 1>socks were a different color at the end than it

<v Speaker 1>was at the beginning. And I go back and I

<v Speaker 1>watch it again and I'm like, son of a bitch,

<v Speaker 1>like you can't trust anything you see anymore. And that's

<v Speaker 1>how it is now. Imagine how it'll be three years

<v Speaker 1>from now. Rhea Ripley and EO. Sky should lose the

<v Speaker 1>tag team titles on purpose with an intentional botch so

<v Speaker 1>they don't have to wrestle the bellatoy. They throw the match.

<v Speaker 1>They could do that on Friday against Nya Jackson Lash Legend.

<v Speaker 1>They could throw the match. My girl, the Toxic Spider

<v Speaker 1>Tekla is the new AEW Women's World Champion. To break

<v Speaker 1>out the beer, the steak, and the beef burgers. She

<v Speaker 1>drives me wild. You'll have to fight Clark Connors for her.

<v Speaker 1>That's his lady, and he says, excrement my my excitement level,

<v Speaker 1>My excitement level for Tecla winning is like skeletor raising

<v Speaker 1>his arms up. That's like me misreading that super chat.

<v Speaker 1>What I appreciate Tekla is her grit, her fem fatale beauty,

<v Speaker 1>and her cool personality. Definitely not her excrement level, although

<v Speaker 1>some people might be into that, but those people are

<v Speaker 1>fucking sick. Oh my god, refresh this list and move

<v Speaker 1>on from that. Says I'm going to make the most

<v Speaker 1>dairy prediction, Andrade beats Hangman and then he beats MJF

<v Speaker 1>A revolution. Well, that is pretty bold. I could see

<v Speaker 1>them wrestling, but I do not see him beating MJF.

<v Speaker 1>I think that's a little too bold for Tony Kahn

<v Speaker 1>to be doing. I don't see him doing that. Isaac

<v Speaker 1>thoughts on double Ard, how thing possibly coming to Queens,

<v Speaker 1>New York. Oh, I'm thinking that a House of Glory

<v Speaker 1>is gonna have to piggyback off this. They're coming to

<v Speaker 1>our backyard. I think we're gonna have to run a show.

<v Speaker 1>That's what I think. Arabian Night two thousand happy private

<v Speaker 1>parties back and hopefully they stay. Pieces are there? AW

<v Speaker 1>has eight to ten legit teams now. I hope Tony

<v Speaker 1>Kahan puts the effort in because WWE sure isn't. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>the tag ting division in WWE on the men's side

<v Speaker 1>on both brands is dog shit right now, no effort whatsoever.

<v Speaker 1>We got two bucks here from oh says one time only.

<v Speaker 1>Will you be covering Grand Slam Australia. Probably, I'm definitely

<v Speaker 1>gonna watch it and talk about it on the sound off.

<v Speaker 1>But as far as live I'm leaning towards it. Yes,

<v Speaker 1>I just didn't realize it was going to be two

<v Speaker 1>and a half hours. I thought it was gonna be

<v Speaker 1>two bender mc simpson, Is this the start of the

<v Speaker 1>Kyle Fletcher face turn. I believe we are seeing bits

<v Speaker 1>and pieces of what will end up being a Kyle

<v Speaker 1>Fletcher face turn. Yes in the next few months. And

<v Speaker 1>he says, what does Shampa do now? Well, hopefully Champa

<v Speaker 1>goes full on Psycho killer and he will cost Mark

<v Speaker 1>Briscoe that ladder match on Saturday Arabian Night. Love Kyle,

<v Speaker 1>but his matches with people like Will and especially brisco

<v Speaker 1>he does too many big moves in near falls with

<v Speaker 1>little selling. He should slow down a tad. For me,

<v Speaker 1>it's more just the the overabundance of near falls and

<v Speaker 1>kicking out of finishers. That's what annoys me. Fabian Garcia says,

<v Speaker 1>what if they try Grand Slam New Orleans next year? Hey,

<v Speaker 1>as someone who's been to New Orleans for wrestling two

<v Speaker 1>different times, I say, the more wrestling in New Orleans,

<v Speaker 1>the better. New Orleans is fucking great. I think honestly though,

<v Speaker 1>I think they could do a much bigger event in

<v Speaker 1>New Orleans. I think you gotta go bigger than Grand Slam.

<v Speaker 1>I think they could take one of their main paper

<v Speaker 1>used to New Orleans next year. WWE is going to

<v Speaker 1>be in New Orleans on Labor Day weekend this year

<v Speaker 1>for money in the bank. That's like the latest money

<v Speaker 1>in the bank they've ever done. That was the make

<v Speaker 1>good for taking WrestleMania away from them. This year they

<v Speaker 1>get money in the bank six months later. I think

<v Speaker 1>aw should do a pay per view in New Orleans.

<v Speaker 1>All right, let's check and see if we hit our

<v Speaker 1>goal for tonight. The goal was four hundred, and we

<v Speaker 1>are at four twenty one. We did indeed, Yes, we

<v Speaker 1>could be getting ready for a big, easy WrestleMania in

<v Speaker 1>two months. I'll be honest with you, if WrestleMania was

<v Speaker 1>in New Orleans this year, I would probably be on

<v Speaker 1>my way to New Orleans, probably to meet some of you,

<v Speaker 1>have a big meetup events, make a big spectacle out

<v Speaker 1>of it. And then they said, no, you know, on

<v Speaker 1>second thought, we're not going to go to New Orleans.

<v Speaker 1>There's too much money to make. We've got to scout people. Now.

<v Speaker 1>There's something like twenty percent behind where they were this

<v Speaker 1>time last year in ticket sales. That's a shame. It's

<v Speaker 1>time to be the booker. So let's do it, ladies

<v Speaker 1>and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>Hey Punch, I'm glad you're a big fan of hog.

<v Speaker 1>We got a big show coming up, not this Friday,

<v Speaker 1>but next Friday, February twentieth. We got mjf coming in.

<v Speaker 1>I guess the only question is will he be theaw

<v Speaker 1>world champion when he comes in? That depends on what

<v Speaker 1>happens with Brody King in Australia this weekend. All right,

<v Speaker 1>we're kicking things off with grand Master sex A and

<v Speaker 1>Scottie too Hottie, too Cool are in be the booker.

<v Speaker 1>They will be stepping into the ring against Tyson Kidd

<v Speaker 1>and Csorrow, who were actually a very good team, so

<v Speaker 1>I will give that the bell. They weren't together long

<v Speaker 1>enough before Tyson got hurt, but they were a very

<v Speaker 1>good team. All right, women's be the booker. We have

<v Speaker 1>Rosa Mendez. Rosa Mendez. Oh, we have not seen her

<v Speaker 1>in quite some time, but there she is. Not only

<v Speaker 1>did Private Party return tonight we had the return of

<v Speaker 1>Rosa Mendez. And when that happens, there really is no

<v Speaker 1>point in even going any further with women's Be the booker,

<v Speaker 1>so we move on to the main event. That's what

<v Speaker 1>we do, be the booker. Oh no, oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>we just went from Rosa Mendez to the Wyatt six.

<v Speaker 1>Be the Booker is over. After the Wyatt six massacred

<v Speaker 1>the roster. I can't believe we just went back to

<v Speaker 1>back with those two things. We hit the goal and everything,

<v Speaker 1>and it all comes down to this, It comes crashing down.

<v Speaker 1>I can't believe that. That may well be that we've

<v Speaker 1>done a lot of these, but that may well be

<v Speaker 1>the worst round of be the Booker. Start to finish,

<v Speaker 1>and I know I gave that first match to the bell,

<v Speaker 1>but still this may have been the worst round to

<v Speaker 1>be the Booker that we've ever had. Didn't even get

<v Speaker 1>to pick in two different rounds in the men's and

<v Speaker 1>women's round. We never even got to pick all of

<v Speaker 1>the people. Look, I mean, that's the risk that we run.

<v Speaker 1>That's the way it goes sometimes. Unfortunately it's out of

<v Speaker 1>my hands. I have no control over it. You never

<v Speaker 1>know what you're gonna get and be the booker. The

<v Speaker 1>only thing you could do is just wait for Friday

<v Speaker 1>and hope for a better outcome, because that's the next

<v Speaker 1>time that we'll be live for SmackDown, actually a very

<v Speaker 1>big SmackDown on Friday night, Cody Road, Jacob Fatu and

<v Speaker 1>Sammy's Ain. Only one man can go to the elimination Chamber.

<v Speaker 1>We're gonna find out who it is. And then of

<v Speaker 1>course we have Alexa Bliss, Julia and Selina Vega. That's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be the women's Elimination Chamber qualifier. So a big,

<v Speaker 1>big show coming up on Friday. I hope you will

<v Speaker 1>join me for that, and then possibly live again Saturday

<v Speaker 1>night for Grand Slam Australia. The sound Off episode nine

<v Speaker 1>fifty one coming up on Sunday, dropping as always, and

<v Speaker 1>then next week we start over again. We have Raw

<v Speaker 1>Monday Night, we have The Uncrowned Wrestling Show dropping wherever

<v Speaker 1>you get your audio podcast. That'll be Tuesday evening, and

<v Speaker 1>then Tuesday Nights of course is TNT, and then we

<v Speaker 1>have Dynamite and boy, what was who was the wrestler

<v Speaker 1>in WWE? His nickname was No Days Off? Is it

<v Speaker 1>Darren Young? I think it was Darren Young. Well I'm

<v Speaker 1>stealing his name. Now that's now my name. I'm taking

<v Speaker 1>it from myself. All right, be well, stay safe, have

<v Speaker 1>yourself a great rest of your night. I will be

<v Speaker 1>back with you live on Friday night for the SmackDown

<v Speaker 1>post show, and I will see you right back here,

<v Speaker 1>and hopefully we'll get to uh make up for that

<v Speaker 1>horrendous edition of Be the Booker. Take care, guys,