<v Speaker 1>What is going on, guys. It is a late Sunday night,

<v Speaker 1>early Monday morning. Happy Memorial Day for those of you celebrating.

<v Speaker 1>Hopefully many of you have the day off from work. See,

<v Speaker 1>we don't take days off around here. We're always working

<v Speaker 1>seven days a week. We are here live after one

<v Speaker 1>of traditionally the bigger AW pay per views of the year,

<v Speaker 1>first Double or Nothing, of course, took place back in

<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen. I had the great privilege of being at

<v Speaker 1>that show. That was a very memorable Double or Nothing,

<v Speaker 1>And over the years AW has had some really good,

<v Speaker 1>some great double or Nothing pay per views. AW in

<v Speaker 1>general is known when it comes to the in ring,

<v Speaker 1>known for having great pay per views, and it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>happen all the time, but by and large their events

<v Speaker 1>tend to be very good. You could talk about, you know,

<v Speaker 1>certain shows maybe don't you know, deliver quite as much

<v Speaker 1>as other ones, or the length of them generally speaking

<v Speaker 1>to other excellent shows, I can sit here and tell

<v Speaker 1>you that we are almost halfway now through the year.

<v Speaker 1>This was easily the best pay per view plee call

<v Speaker 1>them what you want of the entire year so far.

<v Speaker 1>This was the show of the year so far. In

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six. This may well have been the greatest

<v Speaker 1>double or nothing that AW has ever produced, and it

<v Speaker 1>will go down as one of the better pay per views,

<v Speaker 1>the great pay per views of all time in AW.

<v Speaker 1>That is the home run that they hit tonight at

<v Speaker 1>Louis Armstrong Stadium. The head of her fourteen thousand people

<v Speaker 1>sold out in that building couldn't run Arthur ashe because

<v Speaker 1>it's under renovation right now. It does make me wonder, though,

<v Speaker 1>if they had access to Arthur ash for this show,

<v Speaker 1>could they have gotten closer to twenty thousand in that building.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they would have hit twenty k

<v Speaker 1>do I think they would have had a shot at it. Absolutely,

<v Speaker 1>And New York did not let me down tonight because

<v Speaker 1>that crowd tonight was fucking phenomenal, fantastic. I mean they

<v Speaker 1>were hot from start to finish. I mean they cooled

<v Speaker 1>off during some of the matches in the middle, but

<v Speaker 1>again they peaked at the beginning and then they kind

<v Speaker 1>of brought it down a little bit, and then when

<v Speaker 1>they had to, they were there for the later matches

<v Speaker 1>in the show, and they just added so much to it.

<v Speaker 1>Just the overall energy level of the show was just

<v Speaker 1>fucking fantastic, and hopefully that will not be the last

<v Speaker 1>show that we see them running in that venue, because

<v Speaker 1>it just was tremendous stuff tonight. One thing that was

<v Speaker 1>also very noticeable about this show very little blood. The

<v Speaker 1>blood that we got was hard way and it was

<v Speaker 1>very very sparing throughout the show, and it was very

<v Speaker 1>noticeable because typically on an aw pay per view, you

<v Speaker 1>get a lot of blood and you get a lot

<v Speaker 1>of gore, and we really didn't have any of that tonight.

<v Speaker 1>And I'm assuming that had to do, you know, New York,

<v Speaker 1>the commission here in New York. Maybe that had something

<v Speaker 1>to do with it. I don't know, but I think

<v Speaker 1>it was for the betterment of the show. I think

<v Speaker 1>it made the show even because I am so desensitized

<v Speaker 1>to it on these shows because we just see it

<v Speaker 1>all the time. We see it in the opening match,

<v Speaker 1>we see it in the middle matches, we see it

<v Speaker 1>in the main events, we see it on TV every week.

<v Speaker 1>That when I saw blood on the back of Darby

<v Speaker 1>Allen's head in the main event tonight, when he came

<v Speaker 1>off the tron, off the scaffolding and hit a coffin

<v Speaker 1>drop to MJF throw a table and fucking bunked his

<v Speaker 1>head on the way down and busted himself open. It

<v Speaker 1>actually enhanced the match for me because I realized at

<v Speaker 1>that moment, I said, holy shit, we haven't gotten hardly

<v Speaker 1>any blood on this show. Little incidental blood here and there.

<v Speaker 1>So that was something I definitely noticed, especially when it

<v Speaker 1>came time for the main event. But again, in the

<v Speaker 1>seven year history of this company, this was to me

<v Speaker 1>the best double or nothing, one of the best pay

<v Speaker 1>per views they've ever done, and they deserve all the

<v Speaker 1>kudos for it. You know, on paper, it looked like

<v Speaker 1>a strong show coming in. There were matches on there

<v Speaker 1>that I looked at and I said, oh, man, like

<v Speaker 1>Okata and Takeshta. I'm really looking forward to that match

<v Speaker 1>Swerve in Bandita in the owen Hart Tournament. That's gonna

<v Speaker 1>be a fucking great match. I can't wait to see

<v Speaker 1>that anarchy in the arena last year I had a

<v Speaker 1>ton of fun with So if Stadium Stampede is anything

<v Speaker 1>like that, man, that's that's gonna be a lot of fun.

<v Speaker 1>And when the show was over, really top to bottom,

<v Speaker 1>with very few exceptions, every single match delivered and then some.

<v Speaker 1>I really don't have a whole lot negative to say

<v Speaker 1>about that. You know, they really they put a lot

<v Speaker 1>of work in tonight. I think up and down the card,

<v Speaker 1>all the men and women on the cards, So that's

<v Speaker 1>number one. But of course it was all built around

<v Speaker 1>the main event. They sold a lot of tickets on

<v Speaker 1>the idea that MJF might actually get his head shaved

<v Speaker 1>bald tonight, and realistically I didn't really think it was

<v Speaker 1>going to happen. But it was also more because I

<v Speaker 1>just couldn't the thought of MJF going in there after

<v Speaker 1>having already lost to Darby Allen in like two minutes,

<v Speaker 1>and then losing to Kevin Knight, so he didn't have

<v Speaker 1>a lot of moments him here, coming into this match,

<v Speaker 1>and then going in there and losing to Darby again,

<v Speaker 1>forget even getting his head shaved, to go in there

<v Speaker 1>tonight and lose again to someone who you had to

<v Speaker 1>know he was on borrowed time, right, This is the

<v Speaker 1>story that they've been telling on television now for weeks.

<v Speaker 1>Darby is defending his championship weekly, sometimes multiple times a week.

<v Speaker 1>He's taking all of these ridiculous bumps and all of

<v Speaker 1>these crazy risks he's burning the candle at both ends.

<v Speaker 1>You mean to tell me that MJF is going to

<v Speaker 1>lose to this guy again and he can't find a

<v Speaker 1>way to beat Darby Allen. It just wouldn't have made

<v Speaker 1>any sense. So I was pretty confident that he was

<v Speaker 1>going to walk out with that championship. But you can

<v Speaker 1>never be sure, right. I even said on the SoundOff

<v Speaker 1>earlier today, I wonder because they're really pushing this hair stipulation,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm wondering if they could actually have their cake

<v Speaker 1>and eat it too where he wins the belt back.

<v Speaker 1>But then they find a way to actually get his

<v Speaker 1>head shaved anyway, right, So the fans get to see

<v Speaker 1>that too, and they get like the happy ending there

<v Speaker 1>at the end. But I'm glad they didn't do that,

<v Speaker 1>right MJF one, he doesn't get his head shaved. We did, however,

<v Speaker 1>have a little bit of a surprise, but not really,

<v Speaker 1>I guess at the end of the show. I wasn't

<v Speaker 1>expecting to see it tonight. But if you have been

<v Speaker 1>watching Dynamite, and if you've been watching the streams, as

<v Speaker 1>I talk about Dynamite every week, the Kevin Knight stuff,

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Knight has just been the other day when he

<v Speaker 1>cut that promo in the ring where he came out

<v Speaker 1>and completely overshadowed Darby and Speedball on Wednesday even made

<v Speaker 1>the comment then I said, man, it came up as

<v Speaker 1>very heelish to me, so some people thought maybe Speedball

<v Speaker 1>was going to be going heel soon. I said, you know,

<v Speaker 1>of the two, it really should be Kevin Knight. I

<v Speaker 1>think it would be Kevin Knight. I can't picture Speedball

<v Speaker 1>as a heel. If anybody is going to go heal,

<v Speaker 1>I think it's going to be Kevin Knight. What I

<v Speaker 1>was not expecting was for them to shoot the angle tonight.

<v Speaker 1>If anything, I thought maybe they would have saved it

<v Speaker 1>for TV. They did it tonight where Darby Allen after

<v Speaker 1>losing the AW World Championship to MJF now eight three

<v Speaker 1>times AW World champion by the age of thirty, Kevin

<v Speaker 1>Knight comes out, chases MJF away. Darby Allen is strapped

<v Speaker 1>to a fricking stretcher. He can't move, he can't do nothing,

<v Speaker 1>and Kevin Knight comes off the top down to the

<v Speaker 1>floor with a UFO splash, and the announcers are why

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Knight, Why why would you do this to Darby

<v Speaker 1>Allen because he let all of them down. Kevin Knight

<v Speaker 1>cut this promo on Wednesday. This really like over the top,

<v Speaker 1>big pep speech, big pep talk for Darby Allen, where

<v Speaker 1>we believe in you and everything is riding on you. Everybody.

<v Speaker 1>You got to go in there and represent the company.

<v Speaker 1>You got to beat this guy and he failed, and

<v Speaker 1>so Kevin Knight decided to do what he did tonight.

<v Speaker 1>It could be as simple as that. Although I think

<v Speaker 1>we just got a glimpse into what Darby's match may

<v Speaker 1>be for Wembley Stadium this year. I suspect we're not

<v Speaker 1>going to be seeing Darby for a little bit before

<v Speaker 1>he makes the big comeback. Darby Allen, let me tell

<v Speaker 1>you something, Darby Allen always does stupid shit. Darby Allen

<v Speaker 1>took some bumps in this match. Sent He took a

<v Speaker 1>bump in this match in the first thirty seconds that

<v Speaker 1>made me shout. I actually I actually gasped when I

<v Speaker 1>saw this bump and it was on a suicide dive.

<v Speaker 1>The only person at wrestling who takes that literally, Darby Allen.

<v Speaker 1>And that was just a little taste of what this

<v Speaker 1>guy went on to do in this match. That's who

<v Speaker 1>Darby is. But he's been having title defense after title

<v Speaker 1>defense and it all ran out for him tonight, and

<v Speaker 1>I just don't understand, you know, why you would want

<v Speaker 1>to not give him some time off. So I suspect

<v Speaker 1>that we will not see him for a little bit.

<v Speaker 1>Let him rest up, let him heal up, and then

<v Speaker 1>we'll get him back and we'll get the match with

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Knight. MJF winning the championship, though, was hardly a

<v Speaker 1>surprise here on this show. Stadium Stampede, Now, we knew

<v Speaker 1>coming into this that Stadium Stampede was going to be

<v Speaker 1>a cluster fuck. I mean, what else could it be.

<v Speaker 1>You got fourteen guys out there, and they're all going

<v Speaker 1>to be doing all kinds of wacky shit all over

<v Speaker 1>the building, right, so you kind of knew what to expect.

<v Speaker 1>Maybe the biggest surprise to me is that they didn't

<v Speaker 1>adopt the typical I guess blueprint of the anarchy in

<v Speaker 1>the arena matches where we have the music playing in

<v Speaker 1>the background. Otherwise it was basically anarchy in the arena,

<v Speaker 1>just without the music. But it was just mass chaos

<v Speaker 1>for thirty minutes. If I have one real critique, it

<v Speaker 1>would be that it went thirty minutes. It did not

<v Speaker 1>need to go thirty minutes. We definitely got to a

<v Speaker 1>point in the Stampede match where I was like, you

<v Speaker 1>know what, you could have achieved the same thing and

<v Speaker 1>shaved off eight to ten minutes. It did go a

<v Speaker 1>little It did go a little long, but I had

<v Speaker 1>fun with it because I knew what to expect coming in. Again,

<v Speaker 1>I mentioned the match last year. I had a lot

<v Speaker 1>of fun with that anarchy in the arena match last year.

<v Speaker 1>They always tried to come up with some funny, stupid

<v Speaker 1>shit to do. You kind of know what to expect

<v Speaker 1>going into it. There's going to be a lot of

<v Speaker 1>nose selling because it's just constant going from one spot

<v Speaker 1>to another. I mean, it's a spot fest. That's what

<v Speaker 1>it is. It is a spotfest. Everybody has their spots

<v Speaker 1>that they do and they try to make it entertaining.

<v Speaker 1>They try to make it comical, they try to make

<v Speaker 1>it amusing. And again maybe they were handicapped in that

<v Speaker 1>they couldn't go over the top with the violence because

<v Speaker 1>for all this, think about it, all the stuff that

<v Speaker 1>they were doing in that match, you didn't have the blood.

<v Speaker 1>You didn't have the gore, you didn't have like some

<v Speaker 1>of the stuff they do on these pay per views.

<v Speaker 1>You didn't have that in this match, right, So they

<v Speaker 1>had to be silly and they had to come up

<v Speaker 1>with other creative ways, right to keep people engaged. So

<v Speaker 1>that would be my only critique of that. I just

<v Speaker 1>think it went on for longer than it had to.

<v Speaker 1>But I had fun with that match, the match that

<v Speaker 1>I personally was looking forward to the most because it's

<v Speaker 1>been something that has been I think, very well built.

<v Speaker 1>People talk about story in AAW they don't do enough

<v Speaker 1>story or we hear that criticism a lot, and they

<v Speaker 1>do tell stories in AAW. They're not always great stories,

<v Speaker 1>but they do tell stories in this company. One story

<v Speaker 1>that I have been all in on from the moment

<v Speaker 1>it started Canoskate Takashta, Kazuchko Kata and the fact that

<v Speaker 1>neither one of these men have any love for the other,

<v Speaker 1>yet they're both part of the same heel faction and

<v Speaker 1>they've been building tensions between these guys now for what

<v Speaker 1>feels like more than a year. We got a little

<v Speaker 1>taste of it back in December in the Continental Classic,

<v Speaker 1>but I said at the time, I said it was

<v Speaker 1>a good match back in December on that pay per view,

<v Speaker 1>it's good. It was good, but it was not what

<v Speaker 1>I know these guys can deliver. I was still waiting

<v Speaker 1>for that match between them where they just went balls

<v Speaker 1>out and they had the match that I know the

<v Speaker 1>two of them can put together. And then I started

<v Speaker 1>worrying that Tony Khan was gonna wait. He was going

<v Speaker 1>to hold off on it until they got to Wembley Stadium,

<v Speaker 1>and I said, boy, that's still still long ways away.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know how much longer you can really drag

<v Speaker 1>this out for. And tonight we got the match that

<v Speaker 1>I was hoping we would get. That was to me,

<v Speaker 1>it was perfect that match right there for me really

<v Speaker 1>the opener. I won't take anything away from the opener,

<v Speaker 1>but that match to me is what really defined this

<v Speaker 1>show and set the tone for me for the rest

<v Speaker 1>of the show, because when that match was over, to me,

<v Speaker 1>it was just perfection. It was everything I was hoping

<v Speaker 1>that match would be, right down to the finish and

<v Speaker 1>Takeshta winning the International Championship, and then we got a

<v Speaker 1>little bit of a surprise at the end with a

<v Speaker 1>return of Kyle Fletcher, who I was not expecting to

<v Speaker 1>see back on television this soon. I mean the way

<v Speaker 1>that his injuries were being described in some of these

<v Speaker 1>online reports, I mean you would think that he injured,

<v Speaker 1>he injured multiple parts of his lower anatomy, and we

<v Speaker 1>weren't going to see this guy for at least nine months.

<v Speaker 1>He missed two and he was back tonight and he

<v Speaker 1>looked to be in tip top shape. So that's quite

<v Speaker 1>the pick up there. Quite the addition now that Tony

<v Speaker 1>Khan has in getting Kyle Fletcher, who turned his back

<v Speaker 1>on Kenoski Takesha. Takesha has officially been booted from the

<v Speaker 1>Kallus family, which I think most of us probably figured

<v Speaker 1>was going to happen anyway, and now they've set up

<v Speaker 1>a potential match for him again. I think looking ahead

<v Speaker 1>to Wembley Stadium, I think we can kind of see

<v Speaker 1>what that TNT Championship match is probably going to be.

<v Speaker 1>But that match was fucking incredible that they had tonight

<v Speaker 1>the Tag Team Championships on the line tonight, that was

<v Speaker 1>in the opening match, and we have new Tag Team champions.

<v Speaker 1>Their names are Adam Copeland and Christian Cage. They would

<v Speaker 1>not be able to team together anymore if they did

<v Speaker 1>not win that match. I don't know how many people

<v Speaker 1>honestly bought into that, but suffice it to say they

<v Speaker 1>did finally win the tag team titles. Fish D, I

<v Speaker 1>certainly hope you're not talking about me, because you don't

<v Speaker 1>want me going off on you. So just little word

<v Speaker 1>to the wise. There, little word of warning there for Fishead.

<v Speaker 1>But we also had the first of the owen Hart

<v Speaker 1>Tournament matches tonight. We had three of them here on

<v Speaker 1>this show, and it's hard to go back and forth

<v Speaker 1>between the two men's matches because the two men's matches

<v Speaker 1>were excellent tonight will Osbury beating Samoa Joe, we had

<v Speaker 1>Swerved Strickland beating Bandido. Pretty clear what the direction is

<v Speaker 1>going to be, I think for Forbidden Door next month.

<v Speaker 1>But even the women's match that we had with Mina

<v Speaker 1>Shirakawa and Athena tonight, it kind of I don't envy

<v Speaker 1>the two of them being in the position that they

<v Speaker 1>were put in on the card. I still think they

<v Speaker 1>went out there though, and had a good match. But

<v Speaker 1>we're going to talk about this entire card here, from

<v Speaker 1>top to bottom. This was an excellent, excellent pay per view.

<v Speaker 1>This is your aw Double or Nothing twenty twenty six review.

<v Speaker 1>I am the Solemn Monster. I know it's very late,

<v Speaker 1>so I will try to get you out of here

<v Speaker 1>as soon as I can, but hopefully you'll enjoy your stay.

<v Speaker 1>I know some of you guys are in different time zones,

<v Speaker 1>so it's not it is late for you as it

<v Speaker 1>is here on the East Coast. And then of course

<v Speaker 1>we have our folks over in Europe who were looking

<v Speaker 1>at this, probably going oh poor you w at fucking

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<v Speaker 1>to spin the wheel in case we hit our like

<v Speaker 1>skull for tonight, and we will do our be the

<v Speaker 1>Booker segment a little bit later on Jeremy's on the

<v Speaker 1>East Coast. Okay, so Jeremy knows. See the thing is though,

<v Speaker 1>it's Memorial Day, so most of you should not be

<v Speaker 1>working tomorrow at least I hope that would make it

<v Speaker 1>far worse, let's see how many likes we need and

<v Speaker 1>then we'll get into this here four seventy five. I

<v Speaker 1>think that's going to be very easy for us tonight,

<v Speaker 1>considering we're already almost at four hundred worth three ninety four,

<v Speaker 1>so we need less than one hundred more likes. I

<v Speaker 1>think we are all but guaranteed to be the booker tonight.

<v Speaker 1>So again, hit that like button. I want to take

<v Speaker 1>it back to the buy in. I'm not going to

<v Speaker 1>spend too much time here on the pre show, but

<v Speaker 1>a few things that I want to just go through

<v Speaker 1>here and then we'll get into the main card on

<v Speaker 1>the buy in. Though we had new hosts, and I

<v Speaker 1>think this is the way it's going to be going forward.

<v Speaker 1>I think that's what Tony Kahn said the other day.

<v Speaker 1>Renee Piquette was in the ring to open the show

<v Speaker 1>to introduce us to her co host and the newest

<v Speaker 1>addition to AW, the WWE Hall of Famer no longer

<v Speaker 1>with WWE, McK foley, who came out. Of course, they

<v Speaker 1>were in New York. Mcfoley got a huge reaction coming

<v Speaker 1>out to the ring. This was officially his AW debut

<v Speaker 1>here tonight and Tony Kahan tweeted earlier tonight making it

<v Speaker 1>official that McK folly is All Elite, so he has

<v Speaker 1>signed with AW. This was not a one off. We

<v Speaker 1>will be seeing him on the regular. He will be

<v Speaker 1>appearing on the pre shows, He will be making select

<v Speaker 1>appearances on television. He will be doing ambassador work for

<v Speaker 1>the company. And I am certain that at some point

<v Speaker 1>he will get that itch and he will be wrestling

<v Speaker 1>in AW. And I don't think he needs to wrestle.

<v Speaker 1>I don't want to see him wrestle in AAW. But

<v Speaker 1>you and I both know this fucking guy's gonna wrestle.

<v Speaker 1>He's probably watching Darby Allenton. It's taken everything in him

<v Speaker 1>not to go out there and jump off something. God

<v Speaker 1>bless mcfoley. Yes, mcfoley is officially All Elite, So they

<v Speaker 1>made that official, and Folly talked about how this was

<v Speaker 1>one of the biggest nights of his life being here.

<v Speaker 1>It's been some time since he's been on a big

<v Speaker 1>show like this, and fifteen years ago he had lunch

<v Speaker 1>with Tony Kahan. They've known each other for quite some time.

<v Speaker 1>He's considered him a friend ever since, and so he

<v Speaker 1>is happy to be here in AW yes, Foley in

<v Speaker 1>mox Folly in Darby. I'm telling you it's inevitable. There

<v Speaker 1>is no way, there is absolutely no way that Mick

<v Speaker 1>Foley is going to be hanging around these shows, especially

<v Speaker 1>like with some of these like these infectious crowds and

<v Speaker 1>you get these really energetic crowds and not going to

<v Speaker 1>be tempted to get back in the ring. And Tony

<v Speaker 1>Khan the other day actually said, Tony Khan did not

<v Speaker 1>come out and say no, no, no, you know, we're

<v Speaker 1>we're not doing that with Foley. He's not here to wrestle.

<v Speaker 1>He all but said like, yeah, if Mick wants to wrestle,

<v Speaker 1>I'd love for him to wrestle for us. You know,

<v Speaker 1>on the inside, he's like he's dying for he wants

<v Speaker 1>Cactus jackets. But the worst way. I wonder if he'd

<v Speaker 1>be able to be Cactus Jack. It's a good question.

<v Speaker 1>I wonder who owns the trademark for Cactus Jack or

<v Speaker 1>would he have to be Mick Foley. It's a good question.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I would imagine WWE has some ownership

<v Speaker 1>over that. Anyway. We had three matches on the pre show.

<v Speaker 1>We had Divine Dominion, the Women's tag team Champions Meghan

<v Speaker 1>Bain Leana Cross in a five minute challenge. This was

<v Speaker 1>an eliminator challenge against Viva Van and Zeta Steele the challengers,

<v Speaker 1>I mean they tried to stall for a little bit.

<v Speaker 1>This is more competitive than I thought it would be

<v Speaker 1>considering it came down to the last fifteen seconds. But

<v Speaker 1>the end result was what you would expect it to be,

<v Speaker 1>double chokes lamb finished by the Champions. They pin Zeta

<v Speaker 1>to win it when it was over. Now they came

<v Speaker 1>out to the ring with the challengers. Did not that

<v Speaker 1>this was a title match, but they came out with

<v Speaker 1>Christopher Daniels in their corner. So when the match was over,

<v Speaker 1>the Champions beat up Daniels and then they laid out

<v Speaker 1>Viva Van until Anna j and Ty Conti ran out

<v Speaker 1>and chased off the champions. So that was that. We

<v Speaker 1>had the ops hook Kattieri Shabata and Anthony Bowens in

<v Speaker 1>a trio's match against the Death Riders Claudio danil Garcia

<v Speaker 1>and Wheeler Yuda. What got the most heat was when

<v Speaker 1>Shabata wanted Claudio in the ring, and so when the

<v Speaker 1>two of them were in the ring and they were

<v Speaker 1>going at it. That really had the crowd amped up

<v Speaker 1>more than anything else here in this match. I don't

<v Speaker 1>like the finish. I don't like the Death Riders going

<v Speaker 1>over here. The reason I don't like it is because

<v Speaker 1>they just added Anthony Bowens to the Ops, and we

<v Speaker 1>already knew Samoa Joe was not winning his match on

<v Speaker 1>the pay per view, so at the very least you

<v Speaker 1>would hope, like on the undercard, they would throw a

<v Speaker 1>little bone here to the other members of the Ops,

<v Speaker 1>and they couldn't even do that. The Death Riders go over.

<v Speaker 1>It did come down to Anthony Bowens having to fight

<v Speaker 1>all three of them off all by himself, and it

<v Speaker 1>was Anthony Bowens, of all people, who took the losing fall.

<v Speaker 1>Here Claudio picks up the win. I mean, I guess

<v Speaker 1>Claudio is in the owen, so maybe they want to

<v Speaker 1>keep him strong until he loses to whoever he's going

<v Speaker 1>to lose to in there. But at least they're trying

<v Speaker 1>something with right. I don't see them doing anything right

<v Speaker 1>now with Max Castor, but you know, with Anthony Bowens,

<v Speaker 1>there's something there. It should not have taken them this

<v Speaker 1>long to try to do something and give him some

<v Speaker 1>sort of serious push. With any luck, he'll get some

<v Speaker 1>exposure out of this, more than he would be getting otherwise.

<v Speaker 1>But I thought he should pick up the win here,

<v Speaker 1>but Tony felt otherwise. And then we have Boom and Doom.

<v Speaker 1>We had Q T. Marshall, Big Boom AJ, who's like

<v Speaker 1>the MVP now of these pre shows. They dust him off,

<v Speaker 1>they bring him in. He's always on the pre show.

<v Speaker 1>Harley Cameron was out there with them. The Wrizzler was

<v Speaker 1>out there, touching his face. You know, that's the Rizzler.

<v Speaker 1>They teamed up with the Conglomeration Orange Cassidy, Roderick Strong,

<v Speaker 1>and Mark Briscoe to take on Shane Taylor Promotions. This

<v Speaker 1>was a sponsored match, so we had the Vida Coco mascot.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what the fuck. Vida Cocoa as some

<v Speaker 1>sort of beverage apparently. I don't know if it's some

<v Speaker 1>sort of Is it just like a drink or is

<v Speaker 1>it some sort of supplement. I don't know. I assume

<v Speaker 1>it's some sort of juice. But they had the Vita

<v Speaker 1>Coco mascot like a juice box. That's the mascot. Come

<v Speaker 1>out with the baby faces to the ring. As if

<v Speaker 1>we have not gotten enough mascots on wrestling television lately.

<v Speaker 1>Coconut water. I'm being told it is coconut water. I see.

<v Speaker 1>I have not tried coconut water. This did not move

<v Speaker 1>me to try coconut water. But if I ever want

<v Speaker 1>to try coconut water, now I know what to try.

<v Speaker 1>It ended with a Tower of Doom spot with Big

<v Speaker 1>Justice and the Rizzler, the two kids spraying the coconut

<v Speaker 1>water in the face of one of the heels, which

<v Speaker 1>allowed for a triple power bomb spot and the baby

<v Speaker 1>Face has got the win. Unfortunately, fortunately there was an

<v Speaker 1>injury and so Qt. Marshall was up there on the

<v Speaker 1>ropes and he was climbing to the top rope and

<v Speaker 1>you could tell like he lost his balance and you

<v Speaker 1>were like, hopefully he'll recover, and he didn't recover, and

<v Speaker 1>he fell, but he fell straight down. You know, It's

<v Speaker 1>not like he fell landed on his fucking head. But

<v Speaker 1>when he landed, it was very clear that he was

<v Speaker 1>in pain and he was favoring his knee on the landing,

<v Speaker 1>so he was limping around. They sat him down in

<v Speaker 1>a chair out because I was watching it like in

<v Speaker 1>the corner of the screen. They sat him down on

<v Speaker 1>a chair, he pulled his knee pad down. The doctor

<v Speaker 1>came over to check on him, and so I don't

<v Speaker 1>know how serious it is. Apparently he was helped to

<v Speaker 1>the back. Hopefully it's nothing too serious, but that sucks.

<v Speaker 1>Big Boom AJ's face was also bloodied up. I think

<v Speaker 1>he got a cut on his neck and it just

<v Speaker 1>the blood sort of smeared on his face. So when

<v Speaker 1>I mentioned earlier like there was very little blood this

<v Speaker 1>this was like some of the only blood on the

<v Speaker 1>show and it was just incidental. So again I didn't

<v Speaker 1>see what happened. Maybe he fucking I don't know. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>he started shaving during the match and he cut himself.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know, but he had blood smear, Like the

<v Speaker 1>Rizzler is standing in the ring and big Justices there

<v Speaker 1>and fucking this's Big boom Aj with blood fucking smeared

<v Speaker 1>all over his face at the end of the mess.

<v Speaker 1>So it turned into a bit of a mess there

<v Speaker 1>at the end. And then Shane Taylor Promotions, they're all

<v Speaker 1>surrounding the ring on the apron, It's like, what's going

<v Speaker 1>to happen here? And they play Eddie Kingston's music and

<v Speaker 1>what do he have like a backpack on or something.

<v Speaker 1>He looked like a tourist. He looked like like an

<v Speaker 1>escaped tourist. And he comes running down to the ring,

<v Speaker 1>gets this huge pot from the crowd. Him or Tease

<v Speaker 1>Man's Warner who caused a little controversy the other day.

<v Speaker 1>I talked about that on the sound off earlier. So

<v Speaker 1>they all came out. Apparently they're all feuding with Shane

<v Speaker 1>Taylor Promotions and Ring of Honor and whatever. So they

<v Speaker 1>cut back to Renee and Mick in the ring after this,

<v Speaker 1>and they're talking about the main event tonight, and Foley

<v Speaker 1>is talking about MJF and he mentions, how you know

<v Speaker 1>he himself he has metal hips and all the injuries

<v Speaker 1>that Foley has had. MJF meanwhile has hair plugs from Turkey,

<v Speaker 1>and he predicts that Darby Allen is going to go

<v Speaker 1>home tonight with the aw World Championship that brought out MJF.

<v Speaker 1>So we didn't have to wait very long. Tony Kahn

<v Speaker 1>brings in Mick Foley on day one. They've already got

<v Speaker 1>Fully and MJF in the ring together cutting promos on

<v Speaker 1>each other. And this is on the pre show, so

<v Speaker 1>MJF said that he would care about the fans' opinions

<v Speaker 1>more if they weren't stupid enough to believe the Knicks

<v Speaker 1>are going to win a championship. I look, I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if the Knicks are going to win a championship.

<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty sure they're gonna sweep Cleveland out into the

<v Speaker 1>dumpster in the next couple of days. Beyond that, I

<v Speaker 1>have no idea. What I can tell you is that

<v Speaker 1>if Dan Housen wants to work his magic, it's done

<v Speaker 1>pretty well for the Knicks so far. Ever since he

<v Speaker 1>uncursed the Knicks, they've gone ten to zero. So they

<v Speaker 1>can keep that momentum going. All they gotta do is

<v Speaker 1>get Dan House in a front row seat, just get

<v Speaker 1>him a court side seat. And I think that championship

<v Speaker 1>belongs to them. So I'm JF again. He's cutting a

<v Speaker 1>promo here on the crowd and fully said, look, he

<v Speaker 1>never thought he would have this moment again, because he

<v Speaker 1>had goosebumps on his arms. He's like, let me just

<v Speaker 1>take this all in, let me enjoy this moment here

<v Speaker 1>for a little bit. Fully said, yes, I've lost a

<v Speaker 1>lot of matches. He mentioned the rock by name the

<v Speaker 1>Rock got booed. I don't know what that's about. He

<v Speaker 1>mentioned the Rock, you know, Dwayne Johnson, and this fucking

<v Speaker 1>crowd booed the shit out of the Rock. He said

<v Speaker 1>none of those matches though, ended in two minutes. In

<v Speaker 1>change right, alluding to MJF losing to Darby in two minutes,

<v Speaker 1>he goes, that's not a loss, that's a disgrace and

<v Speaker 1>fully told MJF to put his big boy pants on

<v Speaker 1>if he wants to deal with Darby. See Fully, he

<v Speaker 1>was content to just go out there when he was

<v Speaker 1>wrestling and just steal the show for Darby. Though that's

<v Speaker 1>not really good enough. He wants to go out there.

<v Speaker 1>He doesn't want to just keep the aw World Championship.

<v Speaker 1>He wants to take your hair. And as he got

<v Speaker 1>closer to MJF, he's looking at his head and he goes,

<v Speaker 1>I notice that your hair is wavy. He goes, well,

<v Speaker 1>you're gonna be waving goodbye to your hair when this

<v Speaker 1>night is over. So MJF kicked Folly in the ball,

<v Speaker 1>so already he's taking a bump and he kind of

<v Speaker 1>staggers into the ropes and then he takes a bump

<v Speaker 1>and falls down on the mat. Darby Allen sprints out

<v Speaker 1>to the ring. MJF gets the hell out of Dodge

<v Speaker 1>and Foley's not done yet. He's screaming into the microphone.

<v Speaker 1>He says to MJF, don't run, don't run. He says,

<v Speaker 1>I didn't know until about a month ago that I

<v Speaker 1>had inspired Darby's career, and he brought up Darby Allen

<v Speaker 1>wrestling John Moxley at six Flags Great Adventure in New

<v Speaker 1>Jerseys some years ago, saying that this kid can do anything,

<v Speaker 1>and fully stuck around and he watched that very thing happen,

<v Speaker 1>and he said, like himself, Darby was the weird kid,

<v Speaker 1>never picked for stardom, but he showed that he can

<v Speaker 1>do it. And he told Darby to win one tonight

<v Speaker 1>for the weird ones. I said, I said earlier on

<v Speaker 1>the sound though, from mister Soako to mister Siico, that's

<v Speaker 1>what he is. He's mister Sicko now. And he goes,

<v Speaker 1>if I can quote an old friend of mine, bang Bang,

<v Speaker 1>Darby Allen bang Bang. I thought this was a great

<v Speaker 1>use of folly to help promote your pay per view

<v Speaker 1>made event. Here in the closing minutes of your pre

<v Speaker 1>show that's what the pre show should be for, right.

<v Speaker 1>You had to imagine that there would be some people

<v Speaker 1>who would want to tune in when they heard Foley

<v Speaker 1>was going to be there just to see, you know,

<v Speaker 1>what he was going to be doing, because a we

<v Speaker 1>haven't seen fully on television in years, really, and he's

<v Speaker 1>obviously now working for a different company. So if you

<v Speaker 1>have these eyeballs on the pre show and now he's

<v Speaker 1>out there interacting with one half of your main event tonight,

<v Speaker 1>you're really leaning into this idea that he's going to

<v Speaker 1>get his head shaved. To me, that's a much better way.

<v Speaker 1>It's a much better hook for this pay per view

<v Speaker 1>than having a pre show match that gets cut off

<v Speaker 1>by the top of the hour and just spills over

<v Speaker 1>into the opening of the pay per view. And they've

<v Speaker 1>done that a few times this year. But I thought

<v Speaker 1>this was a very effective way to use fully on

<v Speaker 1>his first night, and that led into the pay per view.

<v Speaker 1>They opened the main card of tonight's show with Adam

<v Speaker 1>Copeland and Christian Cage challenging FTR for the aw tag

<v Speaker 1>team titles. This was an I Quit New York street

<v Speaker 1>fight where Christian and Copeland failed to win the titles.

<v Speaker 1>They can never again team up together. Some of the

<v Speaker 1>crowds lately, if you've watched when Copeland is there, and

<v Speaker 1>it really depends on how big the venue is in

<v Speaker 1>what city they're in, but I've noticed some of these crowds,

<v Speaker 1>like when they cut off his altar Bridge theme and

<v Speaker 1>they wait for the crowd to sing along. In some

<v Speaker 1>of these cities, it's kind of pathetic, you know, where

<v Speaker 1>it kind of like tapers off, like Peter's out and

<v Speaker 1>it's like they're waiting, but they don't really get into it.

<v Speaker 1>This was not one of those nights. This was absolutely

<v Speaker 1>not one of those nights. They killed the music, they left,

<v Speaker 1>and the fans just full throated. They just kept singing

<v Speaker 1>the song and singing the song and singing the song,

<v Speaker 1>and they were going crazy for it. Stokely halfaway. Early

<v Speaker 1>in this match, he handed a strand of barbed wire

<v Speaker 1>to Dax Harwood to wrap around his fist. Christian though

<v Speaker 1>ended up wrapping it around the middle rope instead, and

<v Speaker 1>there was a drop toll hold. Dax ended up on

<v Speaker 1>the ropes basically in the barb wire, and it was

<v Speaker 1>like it was after this. It was honestly after this match,

<v Speaker 1>because looks like every time FTR wrestles on one of

<v Speaker 1>these big shows, they fucking bleed, like Dax bleeds all

<v Speaker 1>the time. The fact that he didn't bleed here I

<v Speaker 1>think was a big giveaway, like, Okay, something's up here.

<v Speaker 1>Probably not gonna be getting a lot of blood on

<v Speaker 1>the show tonight, because if f FTR didn't bleed and

<v Speaker 1>Moxley didn't bleed, there's something going on. But he at

<v Speaker 1>one point took out a toolbox Dax did. He went

<v Speaker 1>to go use it on cage as a weapon and

<v Speaker 1>the pliers got pulled out. He was wrenching at Dax's nose.

<v Speaker 1>Harwood's yelling into the microphone. No, no, no, because against

<v Speaker 1>an I quit match right, no pins, no submissions. They

<v Speaker 1>end up outside with Copeland. Copeland took a spike pile

<v Speaker 1>driver onto the Spanish announced desk, so Wheeler jumped from

<v Speaker 1>the English announced desk to the other one where Dax

<v Speaker 1>had Copeland spike pile driver. That took Copeland out of

<v Speaker 1>the picture for several minutes. So Christian was all by

<v Speaker 1>himself and I don't know where he got it from.

<v Speaker 1>I guess under the ring. But Wheeler brought out a

<v Speaker 1>cinder block, and they did this weird spot where they

<v Speaker 1>had Christians injured forearm, like being held down on top

<v Speaker 1>of the steps, and I think the spot was supposed

<v Speaker 1>to be they were going to hit him with a

<v Speaker 1>cinder block. Christian moved out of the way at the

<v Speaker 1>very last second and so they took his arm and

<v Speaker 1>they put it through There was like a hole, an

<v Speaker 1>opening in the cinder block. They put his arm through

<v Speaker 1>the cinder block and held it there, and then Dax

<v Speaker 1>took a chair to the cinder block. So it makes

<v Speaker 1>a great noise. But like I'm watching this spot and

<v Speaker 1>I'm like, this is stupid. See even Oscar agrees. I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this, I go, why would that have eddie

<v Speaker 1>effect on his on his hand, like just fucking hit

<v Speaker 1>him with the fucking chair. But he's smacking the cinder

<v Speaker 1>block three or four times with it and cage. They

<v Speaker 1>asked him do you want to quit? And he says, oh,

<v Speaker 1>fuck yourself. Actually know what was it that he said?

<v Speaker 1>I think at that part is where he said I

<v Speaker 1>fucked your mother or something like that, and then the

<v Speaker 1>crowd ends up bursting into you know, he fucked your mom?

<v Speaker 1>Chant never thought I'd hear that chant on this show.

<v Speaker 1>But here we are. So anyway, a little bit later

<v Speaker 1>on in the match, here Harwood was in a bad position.

<v Speaker 1>He was in a compromising position. He was on his

<v Speaker 1>knees and he's begging off. Wheeler sees this. He's outside

<v Speaker 1>the ring. He gets a mic and he goes, no, no, no, no, no,

<v Speaker 1>don't because Copeland had a chair. Don't I'll say it.

<v Speaker 1>He says, right, they're stalling. I'll say it. I'll say it.

<v Speaker 1>And it was just a distraction. Stokely Hathaway. He ends

<v Speaker 1>up hitting Copeland with Christian's gold watch. Now, how many

<v Speaker 1>of you remember the gold watch that he swiped about

<v Speaker 1>a month ago from Christian's wrist. I barely remembered it myself.

<v Speaker 1>But he had the gold watch. He used it as

<v Speaker 1>a weapon here and so FTR they tried to connect

<v Speaker 1>with a shatter machine. When all of us sudden we

<v Speaker 1>hear Beth Copeland's theme. We have not seen Edge's wife.

<v Speaker 1>We have not seen Copeland's wife since all out last fall.

<v Speaker 1>She took a spike pile driver from FTR. She has

<v Speaker 1>not been seen since. So this was her return. And

<v Speaker 1>she walked out here and the look on Stokely's face

<v Speaker 1>was priceless. So she comes out and she I got

<v Speaker 1>to actually, before I even get into what she did here,

<v Speaker 1>I have to say, and I noticed that the last

<v Speaker 1>time we saw her on the pay per view as well.

<v Speaker 1>She's still in great shape. She still comes out there

<v Speaker 1>and she's got that mean face and everything. I'm just saying, like,

<v Speaker 1>if they wanted to use her, if she wanted to

<v Speaker 1>get back in the ring, even just part time or something,

<v Speaker 1>she could easily do it. If she wanted to be

<v Speaker 1>full time. We happen to have a vacancy right now

<v Speaker 1>when it comes to the TBS Championship. Could be a

<v Speaker 1>good place for her to be. I'm just saying, could

<v Speaker 1>always use her in the women's division, especially now that

<v Speaker 1>we're gonna lose Willow for god knows how long she's

<v Speaker 1>gonna be out for a while. We don't even know

<v Speaker 1>if Mercedes is coming back. They brought back Camille, and

<v Speaker 1>I don't know where she's been lately. You could do worse.

<v Speaker 1>You could do worse than having Beth Phoenix in your

<v Speaker 1>women's division. So she beats the crap out of Stokely.

<v Speaker 1>Harwood though blindsided her and sent her crashing face first

<v Speaker 1>into the ring steps. So he brings out lighter fluid.

<v Speaker 1>This is setting up the finish. Here. There's a table

<v Speaker 1>at ringside. They did the wrestle many a twenty two

<v Speaker 1>spot appropriately involving Mick Foley an edge. The table is

<v Speaker 1>at ringside. He is, when I say dousing the table,

<v Speaker 1>like if this was a gun, I would say that

<v Speaker 1>he emptied the clip. I don't think there was any

<v Speaker 1>more liquid left in the bottle by the time he

<v Speaker 1>was done emptying. This thing on this table was drenched,

<v Speaker 1>and he had the barbecue lighter and he sets the

<v Speaker 1>table on fire. And what they're doing is they're setting

<v Speaker 1>up Stokely. He has Beth on the apron, and you know,

<v Speaker 1>Wheeler gets into position. There's going to be a big

<v Speaker 1>dive spot here. So Harwood sets the table on fire,

<v Speaker 1>Wheeler charges in, Beth moves and Wheeler ends up spearing

<v Speaker 1>Stokely by accident through the flaming table and the entire

<v Speaker 1>crab breaks into chance of Holy shit. Tony Schavanni on

<v Speaker 1>commentary said, it's only the first match and they're already

<v Speaker 1>burning people. Welcome to an aw pay per view. At

<v Speaker 1>least they weren't bleeding. Harwood was going to go give

<v Speaker 1>a concerto to Copeland, telling him to say I quit

<v Speaker 1>if he wants to see his daughters tomorrow. Beth hits

<v Speaker 1>a low blow though on Harwood, and Christian hits a

<v Speaker 1>punt kick low. Copeland hits a pile driver. Christian sinks

<v Speaker 1>in a scorpion deathlock, so Harwood is screaming no, no, no.

<v Speaker 1>Copeland locks in simultaneously a cross face Harwi again. He's

<v Speaker 1>refusing to quit, so Copeland signals to Beth to go

<v Speaker 1>get something, and she turns the ring steps over and

<v Speaker 1>hidden under the ring steps is Spike, the board with

<v Speaker 1>the nails in it like Janis from TNA, so she

<v Speaker 1>gives Spike to her husband. He digs the nails into

<v Speaker 1>Dax's forehead while he's still trapped in this scorpion deathlock,

<v Speaker 1>and finally he says, I quit, and the place explodes

<v Speaker 1>and we have brand new aw Tag Team champions. This

<v Speaker 1>was a great fucking opener' So a great opener with

<v Speaker 1>a just a molten hot crowd who badly wanted to

<v Speaker 1>see Cope and Christian win those tag team titles. And

<v Speaker 1>so for the first time think about this for the

<v Speaker 1>first time in a quarter of a century, twenty five

<v Speaker 1>years it's been since these men held ten team championships together.

<v Speaker 1>They're once again tag team champions. It was the right

<v Speaker 1>outcome in front of the right crowd. It had to

<v Speaker 1>be this way, and they actually made They didn't do

<v Speaker 1>themselves any favors, I think by adding that stipulation that

<v Speaker 1>because it was already an I quit street fight. How

<v Speaker 1>many fucking stipulations do you need? You know? But they

<v Speaker 1>couldn't help themselves, and then they were well like, well,

<v Speaker 1>if Cope and Christian lose, then they can never team

<v Speaker 1>up again, and it's like, well, all right, you're kind

<v Speaker 1>of giving the game away here. So it was a

<v Speaker 1>very predictable finish, but it was still the right finish.

<v Speaker 1>And now the possibilities are endless because you look ahead

<v Speaker 1>now as we head into the summer and we head

<v Speaker 1>into Forbidden Door and then we have all in. We'll

<v Speaker 1>see if they add another pay per view in July.

<v Speaker 1>There's been rumors of a redemption pay per view. Nothing's

<v Speaker 1>been announced, but as we head into Wembley Stadium, because

<v Speaker 1>Cope and Christian are not going to be holding the titles,

<v Speaker 1>I can't imagine for very long. I would kind of

<v Speaker 1>be surprised, to be honest with you, if there's still

<v Speaker 1>the champions beyond all in, I think they may lose

<v Speaker 1>them there. What kind of matter we look looking at here?

<v Speaker 1>You know? Is Tony gonna give us Cope and Christian

<v Speaker 1>against the Young Bucks? Or is he just gonna lump

<v Speaker 1>a bunch of teams together in one big match on

<v Speaker 1>one of these pay per views? Are we going to

<v Speaker 1>get a triple threat match? Are we gonna get FTR

<v Speaker 1>Cope and Christian and the Young Bucks? Are they gonna

<v Speaker 1>throw ladders in there? Are they going to try to

<v Speaker 1>replicate TLC? What about these two teams that are going

<v Speaker 1>to be free agents very soon? In fact, by the

<v Speaker 1>end of July, the MotorCity machine guns are going to

<v Speaker 1>be available. In fact, Dynamite is coming to the Motor

<v Speaker 1>City on July twenty ninth. What great timing, that's only

<v Speaker 1>a month before Wembley. What about the New Day? You

<v Speaker 1>and I both know the New Day are going to

<v Speaker 1>end up in Aw, all right. I'll bet my left

<v Speaker 1>nut they're gonna end up in aw guaranteed. Right, everybody

<v Speaker 1>has to know that instead of the New Day, they'll

<v Speaker 1>be the New Dawn and they're going to come in.

<v Speaker 1>How do you introduce them? Is it too soon? Or

<v Speaker 1>do you throw them in some kind a big four

<v Speaker 1>way match. Cope and Christian, the Young Bucks, FTR, the

<v Speaker 1>New Dawn or a New Day or whatever they call it.

<v Speaker 1>I'm just throwing that out there, whatever the fuck they're

<v Speaker 1>gonna call themselves. But you got the machine guns. There's

<v Speaker 1>a lot of possibilities here. You know, their tag team

<v Speaker 1>division in many ways, if you look at you know

<v Speaker 1>who they have in the division, who they will soon

<v Speaker 1>likely have in that division. It's this embarrassment of riches

<v Speaker 1>compared to other companies when it comes to their tag

<v Speaker 1>team division. So there's really any number of different matches

<v Speaker 1>they could put together, So not a bad problem to have.

<v Speaker 1>We'll find out that what the Wembley match ends up being. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I think New Era has I think New Era has

<v Speaker 1>been taken Pedro. I think they would get a cease

<v Speaker 1>and desist if they tried to go with that. I

<v Speaker 1>just said the New Dawn. I mean they could come

<v Speaker 1>up with something completely different, but if you want to

<v Speaker 1>try to keep it similar, right, it's still a new

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<v Speaker 1>to Kazuchka Okada defending the aw International Championship against Kenoski Takeshta,

<v Speaker 1>and to tell to just show you that I was

<v Speaker 1>not the only one looking forward to this match. Right

<v Speaker 1>from the opening bell, we had chance of holy shit,

<v Speaker 1>and you could just hear it. You could feel I

<v Speaker 1>wasn't even there. You could feel the energy in that building.

<v Speaker 1>They go with the wide crowd shot. Just this just

<v Speaker 1>great atmosphere that you would hope for for a match

<v Speaker 1>that you have been teasing and building for so long.

<v Speaker 1>You never know right when you finally pulled the trigger

<v Speaker 1>and you do it. It depends on the building and

<v Speaker 1>the city you hope that you get rewarded right for

<v Speaker 1>telling a good story, for building up a feud and

<v Speaker 1>a match that people are going to want to see

<v Speaker 1>and New York tonight. New York City was the perfect

<v Speaker 1>place for this match, so we got holy shit chance

<v Speaker 1>right out of the gate. Okada missed a rain maker,

<v Speaker 1>Takeshta missed a raging fire into the stalemate, and these

<v Speaker 1>people are fired the fuck up. Okada did the slow

<v Speaker 1>He did slow the paste down. This is what Okada does,

<v Speaker 1>especially when he knows he's gonna go for a while.

<v Speaker 1>This was not like a New Japan Okada match that

<v Speaker 1>goes forty five minutes, but this is what Okada does.

<v Speaker 1>You got to slow the paste down. And he didn't

<v Speaker 1>seem to be taking things too seriously. There were some

<v Speaker 1>lackadaisical covers in there that just seemed to piss off Takeshta.

<v Speaker 1>Later on in the match, it was a bastard driver

<v Speaker 1>by Takeshta into a release German, which Cata no sold

<v Speaker 1>into a shotgun dropkick, which was then no sold by Takeshta,

<v Speaker 1>and Okada then turned him inside out with a discus lariat.

<v Speaker 1>Back and forth these guys went, and the crowd was

<v Speaker 1>just lapping this shit up. So each man is slugging

<v Speaker 1>it out on the apron. Takesha signals for a raging fire. Okada, though,

<v Speaker 1>slides back into the ring and he hits a rain maker.

<v Speaker 1>He folds him up on the apron and then he

<v Speaker 1>falls to the floor. I don't think I've ever seen

<v Speaker 1>that before. I have never seen a rain maker delivered

<v Speaker 1>on the apron in that way. So outside, Okada spikes

<v Speaker 1>Takeshta with the DDT and he was going to deliver

<v Speaker 1>a tombstone. Now don Kallis is sitting right there on commentary.

<v Speaker 1>He's watching all of this unfold. There. These are his boys,

<v Speaker 1>and he gets up off commentary. He begs Okada, don't

<v Speaker 1>do it, all right, don't you'll break his neck? Right,

<v Speaker 1>these are his meal tickets, right, So Okada doesn't do it.

<v Speaker 1>Okada gets back in the ring and he went back

<v Speaker 1>out to go get Takeshta, and he spiked Okada with

<v Speaker 1>a brainbuster on the floor. And this was not what

<v Speaker 1>Callous wants it. Calus is very upset about this, so

<v Speaker 1>he got up in Takesha's face. Takesha got up in

<v Speaker 1>his face. He even flipped him off, basically told him

<v Speaker 1>to fuck off before heading back inside for a halluva

<v Speaker 1>kick and a superplex, but he held on. Okada floated over.

<v Speaker 1>They traded some strikes until Takesha hit a high bridging

<v Speaker 1>German suplex for a two count. He called for the

<v Speaker 1>power drive knee, but he got caught into a tombstone,

<v Speaker 1>so Okada he flips off the crowd. Takesha though, he

<v Speaker 1>starts the hulk up and he ducks a rain Maker

<v Speaker 1>into a beautiful blue thunderbomb, and then he charges for

<v Speaker 1>the knee, but he ran right into an emerald flosion.

<v Speaker 1>Takeshta rolls through a rain Maker into a very close cradle,

<v Speaker 1>a little too close for a two count. Backslide from

<v Speaker 1>Okada into a rain Maker maintain risk control, but he

<v Speaker 1>missed another. He missed another one he went for. Then

<v Speaker 1>Takeshta ran right into a picture perfect dropkick. The rain

<v Speaker 1>Maker got countered into one by Tikeshta and that got

<v Speaker 1>a huge rise out of the crowd. He hit the

<v Speaker 1>power drive knee. Okada kicked out at one. Then we

<v Speaker 1>got the home run four arm shot that drops Okada

<v Speaker 1>and Takeshta finally put him away with the raging fire

<v Speaker 1>to win the championship and that ends the rain of

<v Speaker 1>Kazuchka Okada, who won that title when he unified the belts.

<v Speaker 1>Remember the unified title. Remember that that's when he beat

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega in Texas last year at all in so

<v Speaker 1>that rain has now come to an end, and this

<v Speaker 1>starts to Keshta's second run with the championship, which goes

<v Speaker 1>back to when did he lose that title? That had

<v Speaker 1>to be the spring of last year, all right, because

<v Speaker 1>it ended up on Omega. Yeah, had to be like March,

<v Speaker 1>March or April of last year. It's been a while

<v Speaker 1>since Tikesha has had the international title. This what can

<v Speaker 1>I say about this? This is the best of professional wrestling.

<v Speaker 1>First of all, you have two guys who are just

<v Speaker 1>great fucking pro wrestlers who know how to go in

<v Speaker 1>there and have a great match. I like this story

<v Speaker 1>they've told over these many many months with these two men. Right,

<v Speaker 1>it was not anything that was like so out of

<v Speaker 1>the box creative. It was actually very basic, but it

<v Speaker 1>just worked. Okada is this great shitthead heel, He is

<v Speaker 1>this great just absolute asshole and just knew how to

<v Speaker 1>push Takeshta's buttons. The fans love Takeshti even though he's

<v Speaker 1>part of a heel faction. So you kind of knew

<v Speaker 1>for a while now that eventually something was going to

<v Speaker 1>happen and he was either going to quit or he

<v Speaker 1>was going to get kicked out, right, but you kind

<v Speaker 1>of knew the path that he was on, but just

<v Speaker 1>the way that Okada would needle him. He knew how

<v Speaker 1>to get under this man's skin, right every promo he

<v Speaker 1>would cut, unlike Takeshta like I have, you know, just

<v Speaker 1>every single week. But this goes back so long you

<v Speaker 1>run the risk of burning out where people don't care.

<v Speaker 1>So when they had their match in the Continental Classic,

<v Speaker 1>like I said earlier, it was a good match, but

<v Speaker 1>there was so much left that like they didn't do

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, man, how long are we going to

<v Speaker 1>have to wait to get the rematch? Now that was

<v Speaker 1>in December, it's almost June. We've waited long enough. This

<v Speaker 1>was the right setting for fourteen thousand people in New

<v Speaker 1>York City. They knew the assignment. They treated this match

<v Speaker 1>like it was the biggest thing on the entire card,

<v Speaker 1>and it was one of the biggest things on the

<v Speaker 1>entire card. And when he won the match, It was

<v Speaker 1>just this great, like everything that you would hope for

<v Speaker 1>in terms of how the crowd would react to it.

<v Speaker 1>Everything just fell right into place. This was excellent, just

<v Speaker 1>an excellent match in my opinion, the best match on

<v Speaker 1>the entire show, My favorite match of the night. Can't

<v Speaker 1>say enough good things about this. It delivered exactly the

<v Speaker 1>way that I was hoping it would. But we were

<v Speaker 1>not done yet. We had another big angle coming up here.

<v Speaker 1>At the end of the match, Mark Dave, Rocky Romero,

<v Speaker 1>and Don Caallus. They join Okada in the ring and

<v Speaker 1>they're standing right across from Takeshta and they're acting like

<v Speaker 1>they're may be about to boot him out of the group.

<v Speaker 1>Takesha's you know, basically he's in like a standoff position

<v Speaker 1>here where he's ready for he's ready for anything. And

<v Speaker 1>then we hear Kyle Fletcher's music and out comes the

<v Speaker 1>Proto Star and he walks in. The guy is wearing

<v Speaker 1>a salmon suit and he's Aura Farming. He is wearing

<v Speaker 1>that's if you saw the show, you tell the suit

<v Speaker 1>he was wearing, and he is Aura Farming as he

<v Speaker 1>comes down to the ring, so he ditches the jacket.

<v Speaker 1>He storms into the ring, and at first he's standing

<v Speaker 1>side by side with Takeshta and Okada and the Callus family.

<v Speaker 1>They retreat, they leave the ring. Fletcher turns around, he

<v Speaker 1>and Takesha. They embrace right, big hug, right Protoshida, and

<v Speaker 1>all seems well. But look, if you're a wrestling fan

<v Speaker 1>for more than fifteen minutes, you kind of had a

<v Speaker 1>sense of where things were headed here. I didn't know

<v Speaker 1>if they were going to pull the trigger tonight or

<v Speaker 1>if they were going to save it maybe for dynamite,

<v Speaker 1>but it was pretty clear where this was going at

<v Speaker 1>this point. And sure enough, he downs Takesha with a

<v Speaker 1>lariat and everybody booze and Okada's smiling, Callus is smiling.

<v Speaker 1>They all get back in the ring and he picks

<v Speaker 1>up Takeshta and he drops him with a brainbuster again.

<v Speaker 1>The other members of the Callus family come into the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Fletcher bends down to go pick up the international title

<v Speaker 1>at the same time that Olkada does the same thing,

<v Speaker 1>so they're bull holding it. They're staring at each other.

<v Speaker 1>Okada lets it go and says okay, and he wants

<v Speaker 1>them to hold Takeshta and then Fletcher blast him in

<v Speaker 1>the head with the International title, and that is how

<v Speaker 1>things ended up. Now, a lot happened here. There was

<v Speaker 1>a lot that happened here in this segment. We finally

<v Speaker 1>got the payoff with Okada and Takeshta, got the title change.

<v Speaker 1>We got the surprise return of Kyle Fletcher, We got

<v Speaker 1>his turn, We got to Kashta being booted right out

<v Speaker 1>of the Callus family, and they set up Kyle Fletcher

<v Speaker 1>as a future challenger for the International Championship. So this

<v Speaker 1>was not just a great wrestling match. We had a

<v Speaker 1>very productive segment here. A lot of shit happened that

<v Speaker 1>set things in motion now for where we are headed

<v Speaker 1>going into their big event of the summer. Now, Fletcher

<v Speaker 1>hurt his knee in late March. We were told it

<v Speaker 1>was a meniscus tear. I don't remember if it was

<v Speaker 1>a full tear partial tear, But at the time when

<v Speaker 1>those reports came out from Fight Full and all the

<v Speaker 1>other outlets that were reporting on it, they said that

<v Speaker 1>it wasn't just the torn meniscus. He had other lower

<v Speaker 1>body injuries, and they made it sound like he really

<v Speaker 1>fucked himself up and we're not going to be seeing

<v Speaker 1>him for a while that's why he had to vacate

<v Speaker 1>the TNT Championship because they weren't expecting him back for

<v Speaker 1>a while. So when they hit his music here, I

<v Speaker 1>was like, oh, okay. I wasn't expecting him to be here,

<v Speaker 1>but I thought, okay, whatever, he's in the middle of

<v Speaker 1>his rehab and he can come out and make it appearance.

<v Speaker 1>But he walked out to the ring and he looked

<v Speaker 1>totally normal, right. There was no limping, there was no crutch,

<v Speaker 1>there was no knee brace, and then he got physical

<v Speaker 1>and he hit the brainbuster, and he walked out and

<v Speaker 1>he left with the rest of them, and they set

<v Speaker 1>up a wrestling match for him in the near future.

<v Speaker 1>So apparently I assume he's cleared and I assume he's

<v Speaker 1>back for good. That to me was the biggest surprise

<v Speaker 1>of the entire thing, because I thought his knee was

<v Speaker 1>so fucked up that he had surgery and he was

<v Speaker 1>going to be out for fucking eight months. So it

<v Speaker 1>was nice to see him back a lot sooner. And

<v Speaker 1>that makes me think that the match for all In

<v Speaker 1>in Wembley is going to be Fletcher challenging Takeshta for

<v Speaker 1>the international title. I don't know where Okata fits into

<v Speaker 1>all this. I'm not saying it's going to be a

<v Speaker 1>triple threat. If he even wrestles on that show. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>he'll be doing something else, but that's going to be

<v Speaker 1>a hell of a match if that's what they're set

<v Speaker 1>in for that show. So we'll see. But I loved

<v Speaker 1>everything about this. I can't say enough good things about this.

<v Speaker 1>We had our first of three Owen Hart Foundation Tournament

<v Speaker 1>matches tonight with Athena taking on Mina Shirikaua. Now, it

<v Speaker 1>was supposed to be Willow Nightingale taking on Alex Windsor.

<v Speaker 1>That was going to be on the pay per view tonight. Unfortunately,

<v Speaker 1>Willow suffered a shoulder injury. She was forced to pull

<v Speaker 1>out of the Owen She was forced to vacate her

<v Speaker 1>TBS Championship. Who knows, maybe she'll pull a Kyle Fletcher

<v Speaker 1>and she'll be back in two months, but for the

<v Speaker 1>time being, she's gone. And so instead of doing the

<v Speaker 1>match with Alex Windsor and the wildcard entrant, they slotted

<v Speaker 1>this match in on the show instead. I did not

<v Speaker 1>envy these two women having to follow those first two matches.

<v Speaker 1>The crowd was so insanely hot for those first two matches,

<v Speaker 1>and those first two matches were so great, this was

<v Speaker 1>always going to have to end up being the comdown man.

<v Speaker 1>Doesn't mean it has to be a bad match, though.

<v Speaker 1>It doesn't mean it has to be a throwaway match.

<v Speaker 1>It wasn't. They had a good match, but yes, the

<v Speaker 1>crowd was not as hot for it as it was

<v Speaker 1>the first two. That doesn't mean it wasn't. It doesn't

<v Speaker 1>mean that it wasn't a good match. Mina targeted Athena's

<v Speaker 1>knee that became the story really of the match. Doesn't

<v Speaker 1>mean that Athena wasn't giving it right back to her though,

<v Speaker 1>because she was. They had a very competitive match. Sent

<v Speaker 1>Athena to the floor, She had a corkscrew dive out

<v Speaker 1>onto her, and Mina rolled Athena back inside hit a

<v Speaker 1>missile dropkick. There was a move here where she spiked Athena.

<v Speaker 1>It was like a head scissors, like a head scissors takedown,

<v Speaker 1>and she took the move in such a way where

<v Speaker 1>it looked like Athena got spiked headfirst down into the mat.

<v Speaker 1>So she locked Athena in the figure four leg locked,

<v Speaker 1>but she grabbed the bottom rope to get the brake.

<v Speaker 1>Mina wanted her glamorous driver. Athena countered into a jumping tombstone.

<v Speaker 1>Had a lot of tombstones on this show. We had

<v Speaker 1>tombstone in the Okada match, we had a tombstone here,

<v Speaker 1>we had tombstone in the main events, which actually was

<v Speaker 1>the finish. It's a lot of tombstones. The man who

<v Speaker 1>popularized the tombstone, he's got a big show that he's

<v Speaker 1>booking coming up next weekend in Monterey, Mexico. It's made

<v Speaker 1>me think of him for some reason. So anyway, she

<v Speaker 1>hit a jumping tombstone and then Athena went up top.

<v Speaker 1>She hit a proper o face. After hitting one, she

<v Speaker 1>went for one off the middle rope earlier, and I

<v Speaker 1>don't think it worked, but she hit the O face

<v Speaker 1>and she got the win. So Athena really to the

<v Speaker 1>surprise of no one, advances to the next round of

<v Speaker 1>the tournament, because this could not go any other way.

<v Speaker 1>You cannot have a woman who has been Ring of

<v Speaker 1>Honor Women's World Champion for over one thousand, two hundred

<v Speaker 1>and fifty days. She has beaten everybody there is to beat.

<v Speaker 1>She's practically unbeatable, right, She's lost a few matches, but

<v Speaker 1>not very many. You cannot have her go in there

<v Speaker 1>and the opening round of this tournament and lose to

<v Speaker 1>a woman who eats els every single week. That just

<v Speaker 1>doesn't make any sense. I like Mina, but she was

<v Speaker 1>not winning this match, no point was Was there even

<v Speaker 1>a thought in any rational human being's mind that she

<v Speaker 1>might win this match. This was the only possible outcome.

<v Speaker 1>Now she was selling a knee injury in this match.

<v Speaker 1>Is this going to extend into the next round? Is

<v Speaker 1>this going to extend into the finals, assuming she makes

<v Speaker 1>it to the finals, which I think she will, I

<v Speaker 1>would think so, And maybe they did that on purpose

<v Speaker 1>to give her an out for when she eventually loses.

<v Speaker 1>Because I'm still sticking with Persephone is my pick to

<v Speaker 1>win the entire thing. I think we may end up

<v Speaker 1>getting Persephone and Athena in the finals. That knee injury

<v Speaker 1>may come into play in those matches. That could be

<v Speaker 1>her out when she eventually loses. That's what I'm thinking.

<v Speaker 1>But she will now meet the winner of the match

<v Speaker 1>between sky Blue and Serie. Assuming Suri is able to

<v Speaker 1>actually wrestle in the tournament, because she's currently out nursing

<v Speaker 1>a neck injury, so we'll find out. But this was good. Again.

<v Speaker 1>This match wasn't even supposed to happen on the show,

<v Speaker 1>but it was good. Now we had John Moxley defending

<v Speaker 1>the Continental Championship against Kyle O'Reilly. This was a rematch

<v Speaker 1>from their match on Dynamite this week, only this time

<v Speaker 1>it was no time limit. They went to a draw

<v Speaker 1>on Wednesday, so tonight it was no time limit and

<v Speaker 1>Jim Ross replaced Tony Shiavanni on commentary here for this match.

<v Speaker 1>I gave the update on the podcast on the sound

<v Speaker 1>Off earlier today or I guess yesterday. Now that Jim

<v Speaker 1>Ross is physically he's feeling as good as he's felt

<v Speaker 1>in a long time. But unfortunately, the doctors are very

<v Speaker 1>concerned that he may have dementia or Alzheimer's disease, and

<v Speaker 1>it's weird. The way he spoke about it on his

<v Speaker 1>podcast was kind of a very matter of fact. It's like, okay,

<v Speaker 1>he was telling them if there's pills or drugs for

<v Speaker 1>me to take to be proactive, like tell me and

<v Speaker 1>I'll take them. He hasn't been officially diagnosed with anything,

<v Speaker 1>but that's very scary. Obviously, if they're concerned about it,

<v Speaker 1>then there's obviously something going on there. But he was

<v Speaker 1>back on commentary tonight and I thought he sounded good.

<v Speaker 1>You know, there are times where they'll bring in Jr.

<v Speaker 1>And he's having a bad night, and then there are

<v Speaker 1>times where he's on his a game and it's like,

<v Speaker 1>all right, his fastball may not be as fast as

<v Speaker 1>he used to be, but he still got it in him,

<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. Give him a good match

<v Speaker 1>to call and he could still do it. And I

<v Speaker 1>felt like tonight was one of the better nights for him.

<v Speaker 1>So but I think this was the only match that

<v Speaker 1>he did commentary for. They didn't even bring him back

<v Speaker 1>out for the main events, so they kept it to

<v Speaker 1>this one match. This is the one that they gave him. Kyle.

<v Speaker 1>He threw you know, in the match, he threw a

<v Speaker 1>kick early. They were outside the ring and Moxley was

<v Speaker 1>up against the post and threw a kick and Moxley

<v Speaker 1>moved and he kicked the post. And so now he

<v Speaker 1>was nursing a foot injury, and so like in the ring.

<v Speaker 1>Later he was trying to do certain spots and his

<v Speaker 1>leg would buckle and so he would fall to the mat.

<v Speaker 1>And Moxley would target the knee or target the leg.

<v Speaker 1>So Moxley planted him with a death Rider. Then he

<v Speaker 1>got a rear naked choke O'Reilly, they'll slid out into

<v Speaker 1>an ankle lock. Moxley was able to pick the bad

<v Speaker 1>ankle and both men had the submission locked in until

<v Speaker 1>O'Reilly got to roll up for a near fall. Moxley

<v Speaker 1>never let go though, and O'Reilly was scrambling, but he

<v Speaker 1>had no choice but to tap out. That's the cliff

<v Speaker 1>notes version of what happened here. When the match was over,

<v Speaker 1>the Conglomeration and the Death Riders, they both came out to,

<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of be with their guy, and Moxley

<v Speaker 1>got to his feet. He offered a handshake and O'Reilly accepted. So,

<v Speaker 1>for all of the animis between them going back to

<v Speaker 1>last year, this pretty much put this to bed once

<v Speaker 1>and for all this set. Now there was kind of

<v Speaker 1>a handshake of mutual respect, and now they'll both go

<v Speaker 1>their separate ways. This was a very good Yeah I

<v Speaker 1>know Jr. Yeah, that iceman says Jr. Unfortunately did not

<v Speaker 1>seem too familiar with Kyle. He kept calling him kid,

<v Speaker 1>this kid, it seemed like he was forgetting his name.

<v Speaker 1>He did call him by his name later, like later on,

<v Speaker 1>like when the match was over. Yeah, i'd noticed that too,

<v Speaker 1>and I don't I'm not attributing that to anything other

<v Speaker 1>than him just forgetting O'Reilly's name. Hopefully that's all it was.

<v Speaker 1>It was a senior moment. We all have them. I

<v Speaker 1>have them too, and I'm not seventy four years old

<v Speaker 1>like Jim Ross's. This was a very good man, a

<v Speaker 1>very good matt based pro wrestling match. It was not

<v Speaker 1>as flashy, it was not as exciting as the opening

<v Speaker 1>two matches were not even close. He had a lot

<v Speaker 1>of limb work right, working body parts in this match.

<v Speaker 1>It was very similar to the match they had on Wednesday,

<v Speaker 1>but you know, again, this time we had a decisive finish.

<v Speaker 1>It sucks for Kyle because if you think back to

<v Speaker 1>what they were doing last year, like late last year

<v Speaker 1>with him and Moxley, he was beating Moxley and they

<v Speaker 1>were telling this story where Moxley was terrified of being

<v Speaker 1>caught in the ankle lock, right, so he was always

<v Speaker 1>trying to make sure he'd do whatever it takes to

<v Speaker 1>make sure he didn't get trapped in that hole, because

<v Speaker 1>this is one I foolishly thought that this was leading

<v Speaker 1>to him leaving the Death Riders and they were going

<v Speaker 1>to break them up, and of course that never happened.

<v Speaker 1>But Kyle actually had some momentum on his side. And

<v Speaker 1>then remember Blood and Guts and what they did there,

<v Speaker 1>and Kyle was super over and then but he got hurt,

<v Speaker 1>so he missed several months, and missing all those months

<v Speaker 1>with that injury, whatever the injury was, really steimied his

<v Speaker 1>momentum because he came back, was it Dynasty came back

<v Speaker 1>not that long ago, maybe a month ago, and it's

<v Speaker 1>like there's just nothing. Eh, you know, nobody really cares

<v Speaker 1>all that much. They don't care in the way that

<v Speaker 1>they cared last year. So whatever Momentumy had, I feel

<v Speaker 1>like we just kind of squandered because he got hurt.

<v Speaker 1>Which it's not anybody's fault. I mean, shit happens, but

<v Speaker 1>I think that really hurt him. And now that this

<v Speaker 1>is over, it's like, Okay, I think that's basically it.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know that there's really anything else to do

<v Speaker 1>with him specifically. The other thing that also I think

<v Speaker 1>worked against it is that the last time we saw

<v Speaker 1>him feuding with Moxley. Moxley was pretty well defined as

<v Speaker 1>a heel, and I don't know what the hell he's

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be now. He's more of a babyface now

<v Speaker 1>than a heel. So it's just it's a very different

<v Speaker 1>situation than the way it was late last year. So

<v Speaker 1>that's all for Kyle now. I said this earlier on

<v Speaker 1>the Sound of I don't think Moxley should lose a match,

<v Speaker 1>not one match until he loses to Will Osprey, because

<v Speaker 1>I don't see how you don't do that match sometime

<v Speaker 1>before all in like, that match has to happen at

<v Speaker 1>some point, if it's a forbidden door or if they

<v Speaker 1>do add a new pay per view in July and

<v Speaker 1>they want to do it there. But this story they're

<v Speaker 1>telling with Ospray and the Death Riders, I feel like,

<v Speaker 1>how do you not get to a Moxley Osprey rematch

<v Speaker 1>because the last time they wrestle, Moxley won. How do

<v Speaker 1>you not do that match with the idea that Moxley

<v Speaker 1>tells him, this is your final test, right because they're

<v Speaker 1>training him. They're training him to bring out like the

<v Speaker 1>best version of himself, to make sure that this is

<v Speaker 1>a man who is prepared to be DAW World champion.

<v Speaker 1>How is Moxley not the final test he has to be?

<v Speaker 1>So I don't think he should be losing any matches

<v Speaker 1>until we get to that point. And by the way,

<v Speaker 1>that does not need to be for the continental title.

<v Speaker 1>Fuck that, I'm not talking about that. They kicked off

<v Speaker 1>the Men's owen Hart Tournament with Will Ospray one on

<v Speaker 1>one with Samoa Joe. Osprey was twelve years old when

<v Speaker 1>he decided he wanted to become a pro wrestler, and

<v Speaker 1>what inspired him was the famous three way match at

<v Speaker 1>the TNA Unbreakable pay per view in two thousand and

<v Speaker 1>five with aj Styles, Christopher Daniels, and Samoa Joe. So

<v Speaker 1>Samoa Jo is one of the men who inspired will

<v Speaker 1>Osprey to want to do this for a living, and

<v Speaker 1>coming into tonight, the two of them had never wrestled

<v Speaker 1>one on one before, so Osprey had mentioned coming into

<v Speaker 1>this this was this was for him. This was a

<v Speaker 1>dream match, first time they've ever wrestled one on one.

<v Speaker 1>Tony should Bonnie Tagg back in on commentary to replace

<v Speaker 1>Jim Ross. Taz was added for the remainder of the

<v Speaker 1>show to replace Nigel McGinnis. At this point, Osprey entered first,

<v Speaker 1>and they showed Moxley was still in the crowd because

<v Speaker 1>his match had just concluded. He was in the crowd.

<v Speaker 1>The Death Riders were there with him, and Moxley is

<v Speaker 1>like pumping his fist like he's like cheerleading almost for Osprey.

<v Speaker 1>As soon as Joe hit the ring. As soon as

<v Speaker 1>Joe hit the ring, Osprey got things right, like going

<v Speaker 1>right out of the gate with an oscutter, like he

<v Speaker 1>did not waste any time. Joe wasn't even ready yet.

<v Speaker 1>I thought they were going to go for like the

<v Speaker 1>shock finish where it's over in like ten seconds. I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>you can't do Joe like that. You can't do that.

<v Speaker 1>You can't give us this fucking Saturday Nights main event.

<v Speaker 1>Becky Lynch soul ruka bullshit finish here, Okay, you can't

<v Speaker 1>be doing that. But he was just right out of

<v Speaker 1>the gate with that osscutter, and so just like that,

<v Speaker 1>the match was underway, quick pace. Joe right back up,

<v Speaker 1>though he mowed Osprey down with a big uppercut, so

<v Speaker 1>Joe found himself outside a little while later. Osprey attempted

<v Speaker 1>a Saske special, but He landed on his feet and

<v Speaker 1>right into the cut the clutches of the Cocina clutch

<v Speaker 1>before Joe took him over by the led barricade and

<v Speaker 1>he just he just took his head and smashed the

<v Speaker 1>back of his head up against the barricade very violently.

<v Speaker 1>So inside Joe wanted a musclebuster. Osprey escaped into a

<v Speaker 1>double stomp to the left arm. Osprey tried another oscutter.

<v Speaker 1>Joe did his nope spot and just walked away. Crab popped.

<v Speaker 1>Joe wound up for a lariat. Osprey spun out into

<v Speaker 1>a styles clash to Samoa Joe only for a two count.

<v Speaker 1>Osprey connected with a hidden blade. Joe kicked out and

<v Speaker 1>Osprey threw away the elbow. Paddy went forward again, ran

<v Speaker 1>right into a snap power slam. Instead, Joe got the

<v Speaker 1>Cocina clutch applied. Osprey started to fade and the referee

<v Speaker 1>was doing the gimmick where it drops once, it drops twice,

<v Speaker 1>it drops three times, because sometimes in these companies, man,

<v Speaker 1>they just it's just funny how there's no consistent rules anywhere.

<v Speaker 1>Sometimes they'll do that spot and it's the three times,

<v Speaker 1>which is like an old school I think that might

<v Speaker 1>have been more of a WWF thing. Most of the

<v Speaker 1>time they treat it like a shoot, like if it

<v Speaker 1>was like an MMA fight or something or whatever. It drops.

<v Speaker 1>Once the guy's out, that's it fights over. So they

<v Speaker 1>didn't do that here. They did the dramatic once. They

<v Speaker 1>did the dramatic twice, and then on the third time,

<v Speaker 1>Osprey's hand landed on the bottom rope, so they got

<v Speaker 1>the break. Joe wanted a muscle buster Osprey they'll landed

<v Speaker 1>on his feet and then he blasted him with a

<v Speaker 1>hidden blade. Joe kicked out at one so one more

<v Speaker 1>hidden blade followed, this time to the back of the head,

<v Speaker 1>and that was enough for Osprey to secure the three

<v Speaker 1>count to advance in the tournament. Yes, I know rules

<v Speaker 1>in wrestling, silly Solo, I know, I know. Nobody pays

<v Speaker 1>attention to the rules. Nobody cares about the rules anymore.

<v Speaker 1>When we don't have rules, we have anarchy. It's like

<v Speaker 1>what the Joker said in The Dark Night, Solomoster, Expecting

<v Speaker 1>consistency in wrestling is a rookie mistake. I ain't no rookie.

<v Speaker 1>So after the match, out on the floor, Joe bowed

<v Speaker 1>to Ospray, who was inside as a show of respect

<v Speaker 1>that he walked to the back. This was an excellent match.

<v Speaker 1>I very much enjoyed this. This is the best Samoa

<v Speaker 1>Joe match, frankly that I've seen, and I love Joe.

<v Speaker 1>This was like Osprey brought the best out of this guy,

<v Speaker 1>and so this was the best Joe match in a while.

<v Speaker 1>I felt like this was the best Osprey match since

<v Speaker 1>he came back from the neck injury. So this was great.

<v Speaker 1>And now Osprey waits to find out whether it's going

<v Speaker 1>to be Mark Davis or Jack Perry that he wrestles

<v Speaker 1>in the next round. I'm thinking I'm thinking Mark Davis.

<v Speaker 1>I'm hoping Mark Davis. Mark Davis is the national champion.

<v Speaker 1>Mark Davis has some history with well Offspring, he used

<v Speaker 1>to be friends. I think that would be cool as

<v Speaker 1>a semifinal match because it doesn't matter whether it's Mark

<v Speaker 1>Davis or Jack Perry. We all know Osbury's going to

<v Speaker 1>the finals, so it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter.

<v Speaker 1>Then we had our final Owen Heart Tournament match of

<v Speaker 1>the night, we had Swerve Strickland against Bandido. Yes, Joe

<v Speaker 1>is he was in prime TNA shape tonight. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know about I don't know about TNA shape. But Joe

<v Speaker 1>was on his a game tonight, that's for sure. But

<v Speaker 1>now we get to Swerve in Bandido a slower pace

<v Speaker 1>early than we saw in the previous match. But boy

<v Speaker 1>did this pick up there at the end. Bandido at

<v Speaker 1>one point did a military press, and you know how

<v Speaker 1>he has the guy up and then he'll drop one arm.

<v Speaker 1>He'll do it one armed. So he did that with

<v Speaker 1>Swerves sent him to the floor. Swerve ended up on

<v Speaker 1>a chair at ringside and Bandido he was on the apron.

<v Speaker 1>He charged connected with a flipping sentan onto Swerve on

<v Speaker 1>the chair. So back inside, Bandido was looking for a

<v Speaker 1>spear and the corner, Swerve moved and Bandido crashed into

<v Speaker 1>the turnbuckles. And then Swerve really slowed things down for

<v Speaker 1>a while here. Bandido, though later on, connected with a

<v Speaker 1>frog splash. Swerve comes back with a flatliner. So Bandido

<v Speaker 1>goes to hoist Swerve up. This spot was something else.

<v Speaker 1>Swerve stands on Bandido's shoulders, He's balancing himself on the

<v Speaker 1>man's shoulders and he hits a house call kick from

<v Speaker 1>Bandido's shoulders. I've never seen that before, not from Swerve.

<v Speaker 1>I just wrote like WTF, that's what I wrote here,

<v Speaker 1>and then the Swerve stomp followed. He got a two

<v Speaker 1>count and then Bendido kicked out and the people are

<v Speaker 1>losing their minds for this. So on the apron, Swerve

<v Speaker 1>gets Bandido on his shoulders, but he reverses poison Rana

<v Speaker 1>by Bandido to the floor. So Swerve took that bump

<v Speaker 1>off the apron down to the floor. It looked as

<v Speaker 1>safe as it can possibly be when you're taking a

<v Speaker 1>poison RNA from the apron to the floor, so that

<v Speaker 1>was crazy. Back in the ring, Swerve is on the

<v Speaker 1>mat and we see the dead lift into the twenty

<v Speaker 1>one plex by Bandido and he got a near fall

<v Speaker 1>out of it because he couldn't hold the bridge. His

<v Speaker 1>neck gave out. Swerve had been working over his neck

<v Speaker 1>so on the spot his neck gave out from all

<v Speaker 1>the damage that Swerve had done to it. So then

<v Speaker 1>after that we ended up code red position. Bandido, though,

<v Speaker 1>hops up. He fires off of her karana bikes strickland

<v Speaker 1>into the mat and now he's back in the rope.

<v Speaker 1>So here comes another attempt at twenty one plex. He

<v Speaker 1>goes for it, this time though, it gets countered into

<v Speaker 1>a vertebraker, like Swerve cuts the shit off in like

<v Speaker 1>mid move and he turns it into a vertebraker and

<v Speaker 1>then comes the house call kick and the three count

<v Speaker 1>for Swerve. The spot where he was standing on Bandido's

<v Speaker 1>shoulders to meet that was just that was crazy, and

<v Speaker 1>again people lost their minds for it. It's like, in

<v Speaker 1>the last few minutes of the match, there was this

<v Speaker 1>new gear that they just kind of kicked into that

<v Speaker 1>just took that match to the next level. So it's

<v Speaker 1>hard for me to sit here and say, like, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>which match was better this one or Ospray and Joe

<v Speaker 1>As a match, I probably enjoyed Ospbray and Joe Moore,

<v Speaker 1>But I thought both owen Hart matches tonight on the

<v Speaker 1>men's side were just fucking excellent. They both delivered, They

<v Speaker 1>were both fantastic, And so we're one step closer, I

<v Speaker 1>think to the obvious match that a lot of us

<v Speaker 1>think is going to be in the finals at Forbidden

<v Speaker 1>Door next month, which is gonna be Swerved and Ospray,

<v Speaker 1>And it's the match that makes the most sense. It

<v Speaker 1>might be predictable, predictable is not always bad. I always

<v Speaker 1>say that sometimes it is, but predictable does not mean bad.

<v Speaker 1>You look at the bracket as it currently exists, right,

<v Speaker 1>you got Mark Davis, and you got Brody King, you

<v Speaker 1>got Claudia. A lot of talented guys are still in

<v Speaker 1>this tournament. The match that makes the most sense, the

<v Speaker 1>biggest marquee match they can do on that forbidden door

<v Speaker 1>pay per view when it comes to the Owen is

<v Speaker 1>Swerve and Osprey. It's a rematch from two years ago.

<v Speaker 1>Swerve won that one. This will be Osprey's time now

<v Speaker 1>because it ain't gonna be Swerve going to Wembley Stadium.

<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be well ospray that's the match you do.

<v Speaker 1>We're now one step closer to making that a reality. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Havili is with us. Havili is a sound off super

<v Speaker 1>Say Havili, what's going on? Brother? You gotta let me

<v Speaker 1>know what you thought of this pay per view. Haven't

<v Speaker 1>heard from me in a little bit. We had a

<v Speaker 1>four way for the aw Women's World Championship, with Tecla

<v Speaker 1>defending against Jamie Hayter, Chris Statlander and Hikarushita. Tecla tried

<v Speaker 1>flying off the top rope with a crossbody. She got caught,

<v Speaker 1>and so she'da flew in with a dropkick onto the pile,

<v Speaker 1>and she covered everybody she was trying to win this match,

<v Speaker 1>including her friend. I mean, it is every woman for

<v Speaker 1>herself here, It's not a fucking tag team match. But

<v Speaker 1>she also attempted to cover Statlander, which just pissed her off.

<v Speaker 1>Not the only time that Chida would be doing that

<v Speaker 1>to Statlander here in this match, because she caught her

<v Speaker 1>with a leaping knee strike later on, which was an accident,

<v Speaker 1>but she'd have basically shrugged it off like all right, whatever,

<v Speaker 1>oh well, which again I would say, like what did

<v Speaker 1>she to do wrong here that Statlander would be this upset.

<v Speaker 1>All four women are trying, you know, for this same thing.

<v Speaker 1>They're all trying to win the world championship. It's like

<v Speaker 1>Sid dumping Hogan out of the rumble, and he got

<v Speaker 1>all pissy, he got all up at his feelings, like

<v Speaker 1>it's every man for himself, big boy, that's how it's

<v Speaker 1>supposed to work. So she'da hit a falcon arrow transitioned

<v Speaker 1>into an ankle lock, but stat Lander pulled her off,

<v Speaker 1>and she'da is apologizing for what happened before, and then

<v Speaker 1>she just hauls off and she slaps Statlander, and Statlander

<v Speaker 1>just loses her shit. She starts beating the hell out

<v Speaker 1>of Sheeta all the way out to the floor, rams

<v Speaker 1>her into the steps. She catches Jamie Hater with a

<v Speaker 1>pump kick. Statlander leapfrogged a spear attempt by Tekla back

<v Speaker 1>in the ring, and she hits the Sunday night fever.

<v Speaker 1>We'll call it the Sunday night fever since it was

<v Speaker 1>Sunday night now it's Monday morning. Chidah though, gets into

<v Speaker 1>the ring and she breaks up the pin with a

<v Speaker 1>kendo stick, and Hater grabs the kendo stick. The two

<v Speaker 1>of them spill out to the floor. Tecla gets to

<v Speaker 1>her feet, stomp to Statlander, and she picks up the

<v Speaker 1>wind to retain the women's championship. This was the right outcome.

<v Speaker 1>You don't take the title off Tecla. I don't think

<v Speaker 1>before you get to all in. Techla's on a good

<v Speaker 1>roll right now. Let her run with it for a

<v Speaker 1>little while longer. I think Techla's great. No reason to

<v Speaker 1>take the championship off her. Statlander and Sheda have their

<v Speaker 1>own thing going on. Jamie Hayter is part of a

<v Speaker 1>tag team that will very likely be challenging for the

<v Speaker 1>women's tag team titles in London. It wouldn't have even

<v Speaker 1>made sense to take the belt off of her here.

<v Speaker 1>And I thought the work was good. There were a

<v Speaker 1>few spots that were a little, you know, a little

<v Speaker 1>herky jerkie, but I thought it was solid. I thought

<v Speaker 1>they had a solid match here. Then it was time

<v Speaker 1>for Stadium Stampede. This is where the insanity truly began,

<v Speaker 1>and we had Chris Jericho, we had Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin,

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega, Jack Perry and the Young Bucks against Ricochet,

<v Speaker 1>the Gates of Agony, Andrade l Edelo, Mark Davis, David

<v Speaker 1>Finley and Clark Connors seven on seven. In this match,

<v Speaker 1>we had a video intro. When they first started showing

<v Speaker 1>this video, I was like, Oh, is this going to

<v Speaker 1>be cinematic the way the first one was during the

<v Speaker 1>the COVID period, because they showed like the heels are

<v Speaker 1>all arriving in their various vehicles and trucks outside the venue,

<v Speaker 1>and at that point they cut to their proper entrance

<v Speaker 1>as they entered the arena, and I'm like, okay, I

<v Speaker 1>would think the fans in the building would be very

<v Speaker 1>upset if they come to find out that the match

<v Speaker 1>was already fully pre taped. They clearly they pre taped

<v Speaker 1>some of this, probably the day before. But anyway, the

<v Speaker 1>Heels entered the building. Then we got a video intro

<v Speaker 1>for Jericho's team, and I don't remember the name of

<v Speaker 1>the movie. They did this in the style of I

<v Speaker 1>think the credits for an old movie from like the

<v Speaker 1>two thousands, and I can't remember the name of it,

<v Speaker 1>but it was like each guy they would show them

<v Speaker 1>and then there was like a freeze frame, almost cartoon like,

<v Speaker 1>and they would have their name on the screen. So

<v Speaker 1>they did that for each of these guys, and they

<v Speaker 1>set this to Devil's Dance by Metallica. When they got

<v Speaker 1>to Kenny Ome. Now they're all wearing suits, or most

<v Speaker 1>of them anywhere we're wearing suits. When they got to

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Ome again, they showed him on the screen. Everybody

<v Speaker 1>in the arena popped and he's, you know, smoking a cigar,

<v Speaker 1>and he starts coughing and coughing and choking on the cigar,

<v Speaker 1>which was kind of funny. I don't know. They were

<v Speaker 1>all wearing, so they actually wore the suits during the

<v Speaker 1>match too. Jericho's wearing this suit. It's like sparkly, this

<v Speaker 1>sparkly suit. He looked like something that you would see

<v Speaker 1>on like the Vegas Strip if he had a fucking

<v Speaker 1>show like Sigfried and Roy or something like back in

<v Speaker 1>the day. So anyway, then they made their entrance to Judas,

<v Speaker 1>and everybody's saying Judas again. I thought they were gonna

<v Speaker 1>play music during the actual match. That's the one thing

<v Speaker 1>they didn't do. Oh, the movie was Snatch. Maybe it

<v Speaker 1>was Snatch. He inhaled the smoke. Yes, that's probably what

<v Speaker 1>I would do. If I tried to smoke that thing.

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't know what I'm doing. Poor guy just inhaled

<v Speaker 1>all the smoke. You're not supposed to do that. I

<v Speaker 1>gotta give a hat tip to Ryan Howard from F

<v Speaker 1>four W online for the recap on this one, because

<v Speaker 1>I just I gave up and just tried to watch

<v Speaker 1>and just enjoy the match, because it's damn near impossible

<v Speaker 1>to keep track of everything that was going on here

<v Speaker 1>in this match. So as we go along here, I'll

<v Speaker 1>just kind of pull from this and it'll jog some

<v Speaker 1>memories here of this match, but it was what you

<v Speaker 1>would expect. Again, it's if you've seen anarchy in the arena,

<v Speaker 1>that's basically what this was. At different points they would

<v Speaker 1>cut to like multiple screens, and then at other points

<v Speaker 1>they would just cut to different parts of the arena

<v Speaker 1>outside the building because they kind of all branched off

<v Speaker 1>into their own areas. Again, I'm sure some of the

<v Speaker 1>backstage stuff was pre taped and probably wasn't live. But

<v Speaker 1>in the ring we had the Elite. All of them

<v Speaker 1>were teasing terminator dives, but they got cut off by

<v Speaker 1>the dogs and Mark Davis Androtti hit the Three Amigos

<v Speaker 1>on Jack Perry in the ring, so he was going

<v Speaker 1>to go for a frog splash. He took too long

<v Speaker 1>and Shelton Benjamin Man, how old is Shelton at this point?

<v Speaker 1>Is he fifty? Yet? If he's not fifty, he's got

<v Speaker 1>to be he's in there range. And I mean the guy,

<v Speaker 1>he hasn't lost a step, He has not lost He's

<v Speaker 1>a freak athlete. I remember him years ago saying that

<v Speaker 1>people get angry at him because they would ask him, like,

<v Speaker 1>what's your workout routine? Right? Like what's your gym routine,

<v Speaker 1>and he made some comment to the effect of like

<v Speaker 1>either he didn't work out or he didn't have to

<v Speaker 1>work out. You hear something like that, It's like this

<v Speaker 1>motherfucker doesn't have to work out. But for some people

<v Speaker 1>it just hey, just comes natural. They're just a naturally

<v Speaker 1>gifted athlete. So anyway, he scaled the ropes, hit a

<v Speaker 1>knee lift as Androtte was taking too long to set

<v Speaker 1>up this frog splash, but they walked right into a

<v Speaker 1>high low from the dogs. Anyway, we got some more

<v Speaker 1>wrestling here. I'm just I wanna I want to fast

<v Speaker 1>forward a little bit to some of the insanity here

<v Speaker 1>during this match. MVP was part of this. He was

<v Speaker 1>out there and so he got involved a couple of

<v Speaker 1>different times here in the match as well well, so

<v Speaker 1>I want to make sure I mention him. They had

<v Speaker 1>a spot where everybody was doing a dive of some

<v Speaker 1>kind and then Jericho wanted to get in on the action,

<v Speaker 1>and so Jericho climbs up to the top rope and

<v Speaker 1>he looks into the camera. He's like eh, and he

<v Speaker 1>does a dive out onto the pile. Everyone dove out

<v Speaker 1>onto the pile. That's what you got to do. In wrestling, right,

<v Speaker 1>everybody dives. Everybody died. Doesn't matter how big you are,

<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter how old you are, Everybody dives. So anyway,

<v Speaker 1>we see lash Lee and total Leoner. They end up

<v Speaker 1>brawling backstage. All of a sudden, like lash Lee is

<v Speaker 1>down on the ground and he looks up and he's

<v Speaker 1>freaked out by something, and we can't see what it is.

<v Speaker 1>But then we see Leo Rush the black Heart. I

<v Speaker 1>got to see Leo Rush up close the other night,

<v Speaker 1>and it scared the shit out of me as I

<v Speaker 1>was trying to figure out what it was that I

<v Speaker 1>was looking at it. At the House of Glory show,

<v Speaker 1>we had him into to wrestle on Friday night, and

<v Speaker 1>he kept talking to himself and he was like in

<v Speaker 1>the fucking corner he was talking about him, And I'm like,

<v Speaker 1>who is this hymn that he's talking about? What entity

<v Speaker 1>is it that he is referring to here? I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>but apparently he was just in the back talking to himself.

<v Speaker 1>I guess at Louis Armstrong Stadium because he didn't have

<v Speaker 1>a match tonight. But I saw them in this There's

<v Speaker 1>Leo Rush and there's Bobby Lashley, and I just it

<v Speaker 1>took me back to those days on Monday Night Raw

<v Speaker 1>where they had put Leo Rush with Bobby. And this

<v Speaker 1>was during the period where Vince McMahon thought it would

<v Speaker 1>be funny if every week on TV Bobby Lashley just

<v Speaker 1>bent over and smacked his ass. Remember that, he would

<v Speaker 1>just bend over and put his hands on his own ass.

<v Speaker 1>And he probably sat in the back and laughed his

<v Speaker 1>fucking ass off and found this hilarious. But Leo Rush

<v Speaker 1>was like his mouthpiece. He was his spokesperson for a while. Yes, Lashly,

<v Speaker 1>that's right Ashley days. So we had we had a

<v Speaker 1>little bit of a reunion here, so that was it.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, actually Leo ended up biting total Leona he

<v Speaker 1>I think he bit him on the hand or he

<v Speaker 1>bit him on the fucking face, and then he jumped

<v Speaker 1>on his back. It was very brief. That was the

<v Speaker 1>last we saw of Leo Rush. So anyway, we go

<v Speaker 1>back to the ring and Andrade is not having a

<v Speaker 1>very good time here with the baby faces, the bucks

<v Speaker 1>and the dogs. They brawled up onto the concourse Clark Connors.

<v Speaker 1>He ate a super kick, he fell onto an escalator

<v Speaker 1>which then took him up all I was thinking as

<v Speaker 1>I'm watching this, because Clark Connors has long hair. He's

<v Speaker 1>got that shoulder length long hair. I'm like, because he

<v Speaker 1>falls backwards and I'm like, come on now, you gotta

<v Speaker 1>be fucking careful. You got that long hair on that escalator.

<v Speaker 1>This is like final destination. Shit like that freaks me out,

<v Speaker 1>Like I just think back to when Triple H took

<v Speaker 1>the tombstone on the escalator penn station from the Undertaker

<v Speaker 1>all those years ago, and his hair was even longer,

<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, man, you're you're really tempting fate when

<v Speaker 1>you do stuff like that that it is funny. See,

<v Speaker 1>it's final destination, I'm telling you. Imagine his hair gets

<v Speaker 1>caught and the escalator just keeps going. What do you do?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't even want to think about it.

<v Speaker 1>But thankfully that didn't happen to him. And when the

<v Speaker 1>escalator gets to the top, the Bucks are already there

<v Speaker 1>and they hit another super kick and he goes down

<v Speaker 1>the escalator Androte took out Jericho to Omega with a

<v Speaker 1>double spinning elbow, and then he goes over to the

<v Speaker 1>female fan in the front row and he's going to

<v Speaker 1>get the phone number, and they got to take the

<v Speaker 1>selfie and there was a moment here where and this

<v Speaker 1>was also kind of freaky. All of a sudden, there's

<v Speaker 1>a woman or what appears to be a woman the

<v Speaker 1>blonde wig, except it's not a woman. It's Lucasaurus with

<v Speaker 1>a blonde wig on. And I think somebody on commentary,

<v Speaker 1>I'm almost positive somebody on common probably Taz, made reference

<v Speaker 1>to Gremlins. That's exactly what it reminded me of. It

<v Speaker 1>was from It was like a scene out of one

<v Speaker 1>of the Gremlins movies where the gremlin has like the

<v Speaker 1>long hair. This was just freaky. And then he sprayed.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what did he spray. He like spit

<v Speaker 1>missed in Andrade's face. I guess there are some dinosaurs

<v Speaker 1>that can do that. I guess what was that dinosaur

<v Speaker 1>that that misted? Wayne God, what the fuck is that

<v Speaker 1>guy's name? The guy who played newman on Seinfeld from

<v Speaker 1>from the first Jurassic Park movie. There's that one dinosaur

<v Speaker 1>where like they're in the car and he comes face

<v Speaker 1>to face with this thing and it like spits fucking

<v Speaker 1>black goo in his face. Maybe that's what it was.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know. In this case, it was green, so

<v Speaker 1>he missed it Androte in the face. There was also

<v Speaker 1>some action in the back and like the catering area,

<v Speaker 1>Tommy Invincible was there and so he ended up taking

<v Speaker 1>a bump in all of this, he got beat up

<v Speaker 1>I think by Mark Davis. Satinam Singh was sitting there

<v Speaker 1>with his back turned. He was eating food, I think,

<v Speaker 1>Androte bumped into him. Satinam got food all over his face.

<v Speaker 1>So he did the slow like stand up, and Androte

<v Speaker 1>looks up at him. He's like, oh fuck. It's like,

<v Speaker 1>uh oh, Wayne Knight, Yes, was it a velociraptor? Is that?

<v Speaker 1>I don't think it was a velociraptor. I don't think

<v Speaker 1>it was a velociraptor. All I know is that that

<v Speaker 1>scene still lives rent free in my head from that movie.

<v Speaker 1>I think for me, that was the scariest scene in

<v Speaker 1>the entire movie. I think even more than when the

<v Speaker 1>kids are trapped in the car with the sun and

<v Speaker 1>the t Rex is trying to get to them. I

<v Speaker 1>think it's that scene in the car with the dinosaur

<v Speaker 1>when it sprayed that shit in his face. It's not

<v Speaker 1>a velociraptor. It's a I have pronounced this now a

<v Speaker 1>di loaf, a di loaf of saurus. I don't even

<v Speaker 1>know what that is. We'll just call him a scary

<v Speaker 1>motherfucker and we'll leave it at that. So then Satinham

<v Speaker 1>Saying starts throwing food. Big food fight breaks out backstage

<v Speaker 1>the dogs in the box. They fight back up the aisle.

<v Speaker 1>Matt Jackson he smashes the dogs with some trash can shots.

<v Speaker 1>Clark Connors was placed in a shopping cart and then

<v Speaker 1>they put a garbage can on top of him, on

<v Speaker 1>top of his head while he's sitting in the shopping

<v Speaker 1>cart and they start wheeling him down the aisle. Into

<v Speaker 1>a superkick, Nick Jackson gives a superkick to the garbage

<v Speaker 1>can Totalona. He reappeared. He mowed down the bucks and

<v Speaker 1>he loaded Matt in the shopping cart and then Bishop

<v Speaker 1>Kahn flew in with a shotgun dropkick to the garbage

<v Speaker 1>can tot Leona. He lifted the shopping cart over his head.

<v Speaker 1>He's just throwing it around, I mean, just like it

<v Speaker 1>weighs nothing. Shelton Benjamin runs back out and he got

<v Speaker 1>hit by the shally shot by David Finley, and Lashley

<v Speaker 1>also took a Shillalee shot. So we go backstage. Jericho

<v Speaker 1>and Ricochet are now brawling with tennis rackets, and actually

<v Speaker 1>Ricochet has a normal sized tennis racket. Jericho opens a

<v Speaker 1>door and standing there is Luther, who has nothing to

<v Speaker 1>do anymore because Tony Storm is gone for the time being,

<v Speaker 1>so Luther is without his lady friend. The funny thing is,

<v Speaker 1>like Luther, the reason he even has a job in

<v Speaker 1>aw is because of his friendship that goes back many

<v Speaker 1>years with Chris Jericho. So, I mean those two guys

<v Speaker 1>are like this. So he got to do a little

<v Speaker 1>spot here with Jericho where he's standing there and he

<v Speaker 1>presents Jericho with this oversized tennis racket. This is like

<v Speaker 1>it'd be like the Big Shows tennis, right. I remember

<v Speaker 1>the Big Show used that large steel chair in his

<v Speaker 1>chairs match with Seamus all those years ago. Was like this,

<v Speaker 1>comically like gigantic chair. This was a comically gigantic tennis racket.

<v Speaker 1>So he uses that as a weapon on Ricochet, and

<v Speaker 1>then there's a tennis ball machine and he starts firing

<v Speaker 1>balls at Ricochet, and Jericho made the cover at his

<v Speaker 1>false count anywhere only got a two count, so we

<v Speaker 1>got the stereo Northern Lights supplexes from Matt Jackson and

<v Speaker 1>Shelton Benjamin to the Dogs and the actually Benjamin was

<v Speaker 1>doing the Germans suplexes that is, and Matt was doing

<v Speaker 1>the Northern Lights suplexes. Again, just mass chaos here, just

<v Speaker 1>mass care. And this is the point in the match

<v Speaker 1>where I was like, all right, you know what this is.

<v Speaker 1>They were losing the crowd at one point where it

<v Speaker 1>started to get very quiet, and I was like, all right,

<v Speaker 1>this this match has gone on for a little too long,

<v Speaker 1>Like we need to send this home and wrap this. Say,

<v Speaker 1>it had already gone over twenty minutes at this point,

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five minutes. This did not need thirty one minutes.

<v Speaker 1>I will say that this did not need to go

<v Speaker 1>that long. Mark Davis is in he's out back. He's

<v Speaker 1>out back. His eye is bandaged because when they were

<v Speaker 1>in the catering area, there was a spot where he

<v Speaker 1>took a drop toll hold and he went face first

<v Speaker 1>into a chair that was laying on the ground, but

<v Speaker 1>the legs were sticking up, so one of the legs

<v Speaker 1>of the chair went into his eye. So I guess

<v Speaker 1>since then he had gotten the eye bandage you can

<v Speaker 1>see like there's blood on the bandage, his blood on

<v Speaker 1>his back, either that or ketchup from the food fight.

<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it was. But he's outside and

<v Speaker 1>he sees a golf cart and I'm like, oh, okay,

<v Speaker 1>we're kind of hearkening back to the original stadium stampede now.

<v Speaker 1>But then we hear the horn honking and the camera

<v Speaker 1>pans over and it's Jack Perry and he is driving

<v Speaker 1>the Jurassic Express bus. I don't know how fast he

<v Speaker 1>was going. He's going pretty fucking fast, and so he

<v Speaker 1>comes barreling in and he smashes right into the golf cart.

<v Speaker 1>There's a car behind. It just smashes into them. And

<v Speaker 1>I didn't see Mark Davison. There was pretty clear Mark

<v Speaker 1>Davison moved out of the way. Tony Schavanni on commentary

<v Speaker 1>is like freaking out, like, oh my god, he just

<v Speaker 1>killed Mark Davis. Mark Davis is in there. I go, no,

<v Speaker 1>he's not. What are you talking about? But he's selling

<v Speaker 1>it like he's in there. Perry gets out of the

<v Speaker 1>bus and just leaves the crime scene. It's now a

<v Speaker 1>crime scene, and so he just leaves the crime scene.

<v Speaker 1>And so that's what happened outside. Meanwhile, a few minutes later,

<v Speaker 1>they're all out in the ringside area brawling and I'm like, oh,

<v Speaker 1>Mark Davis is back. I'm like, okay, Tony Mark Davis

<v Speaker 1>is just no sold death. There was a lot of

<v Speaker 1>no selling in this match, but that's taking it to

<v Speaker 1>a whole new level. He no sold being mowed down

<v Speaker 1>by a bus, so I think he'll be okay. Anyway.

<v Speaker 1>This ended really the only way that it could, with

<v Speaker 1>Jericho hitting a Lion Salt, but it wasn't to Ricochet,

<v Speaker 1>even though Ricochet came down where Ricochet was kind of

<v Speaker 1>surrounded by all of the babyfaces, but Bishop Khan came

<v Speaker 1>to his aid. He ended up eating the Lion Salt

<v Speaker 1>and Jericho got the pin, and when the match was over,

<v Speaker 1>Jericho set up. There was one last table outside that

<v Speaker 1>had not been broken, so he set the table up.

<v Speaker 1>He stood on the ring steps and he did a splash.

<v Speaker 1>He took a bump through the table and then pointed

<v Speaker 1>up at the heavens in tribute to Sabu and on

<v Speaker 1>commentary tas he made a comment he goes boy man.

<v Speaker 1>I knew he was going to do that because he

<v Speaker 1>was starting to get emotional. He had no idea that

<v Speaker 1>Jericho was going to pay tribute to Saboo in that way,

<v Speaker 1>So that was kind of a nice moment there. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know what else to say about this except that

<v Speaker 1>this was just mass chaos, exactly what you would expect

<v Speaker 1>that of a match like this. It will be a

<v Speaker 1>very polarizing match. There were people that will look at

<v Speaker 1>this match and go, this was fucking terrible. This was awful.

<v Speaker 1>It was just a bunch of spots and no selling

<v Speaker 1>and silliness, and yes, that's exactly what it was. And

<v Speaker 1>there were times that they will do these matches and

<v Speaker 1>I'm just not into it, and then there were other

<v Speaker 1>times where it's the best thing on the entire show.

<v Speaker 1>That's kind of how I felt about it last year.

<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed this, I had fun with it. Was it perfect?

<v Speaker 1>Did I like everything about it? No? Did I like

<v Speaker 1>it as much as anarchy in the arena last year?

<v Speaker 1>I did not. So, yeah, it's going to be just

<v Speaker 1>a very polarizing match. If you liked it, great. If

<v Speaker 1>you didn't like it, I get it. It was just

<v Speaker 1>it was meant to break up. I think the monotony

<v Speaker 1>of all the wrestling matches by just doing something really

<v Speaker 1>silly and just wild. And it was a way to

<v Speaker 1>get a bunch of people on the show because they

<v Speaker 1>didn't really have room for them to be doing anything else.

<v Speaker 1>So he wanted Omega and he wanted you know, Jericho

<v Speaker 1>and Andrade and the Bucks and the hurt Cinda kid.

<v Speaker 1>It was a way to get them all on the show.

<v Speaker 1>What I would have done, I would have shaved off

<v Speaker 1>a good eight to ten minutes, and I think you

<v Speaker 1>could have accomplished the same thing, and you could have

<v Speaker 1>cut out some of the fat, trim some of the

<v Speaker 1>fat in the middle of the match. But otherwise I

<v Speaker 1>had fun with it. It was exactly what it was

<v Speaker 1>supposed to be. But then the main event did not

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<v Speaker 1>on the line here in this main event Darby Allen

<v Speaker 1>this was what was this number eight? I believe title

<v Speaker 1>defense number eight. In a little over a month since

<v Speaker 1>he won the championship, defending against the former champion MJF

<v Speaker 1>title versus Hair. They had one lone electric razor sitting

<v Speaker 1>on a table with a spotlight on it on stage.

<v Speaker 1>As MJF came out, he was staring at it. He

<v Speaker 1>looked nervous as fuck. It was right there and when

<v Speaker 1>Darby came out too, there it is that one razor

<v Speaker 1>is just sitting there on that table, and they have

<v Speaker 1>like a one of those big announcer chairs like the

<v Speaker 1>office chairs sitting up there as well. In the event

<v Speaker 1>the when this match is over, they need to sit

<v Speaker 1>Darby Allen or sit MJF down to allow Darby Allen

<v Speaker 1>to shave his head. The match starts, and it had

<v Speaker 1>to be in the first I don't know, sixty seconds,

<v Speaker 1>ninety seconds maybe of this match, Darby Allen took just

<v Speaker 1>a terrible bump. There was a toepey at the start

<v Speaker 1>of the match where his feet caught the top rope

<v Speaker 1>which stalled his momentum. On the way down. He was

<v Speaker 1>doing the missile launch that he does through the ropes

<v Speaker 1>right out in front of the announcers. His feet caught

<v Speaker 1>the top rope and so what ended up happening is

<v Speaker 1>it looked like he came down directly on his head

<v Speaker 1>on the floor. It was more the back of his

<v Speaker 1>neck or it kind of folded him up a little

<v Speaker 1>bit like his spine. But it looked horrendous, It looked

<v Speaker 1>it was just it was terrible. And this is the

<v Speaker 1>beginning of the match. So that should tell you right there,

<v Speaker 1>that sets the tone, okay for what you can expect

<v Speaker 1>that of Darby Allen here in this match. So MJF

<v Speaker 1>he goes right to work on him and he is

<v Speaker 1>just he's stiff, and the shit out of this guy.

<v Speaker 1>Power bomb to the edge of the ring. He took

<v Speaker 1>him into the ring. He came a power bomb across

<v Speaker 1>the knee. They wound up on the ropes where MJF

<v Speaker 1>wanted an avalanche tombstone Darby they'll counter it out into

<v Speaker 1>a stun dog and this crazy son of a bitch,

<v Speaker 1>he goes right back to do the same fucking move,

<v Speaker 1>and so he hits another suicide dive. This time he

<v Speaker 1>knocks MJF over the announced desk. Then he had MJF

<v Speaker 1>on the apron. MJF was laying half in, half out,

<v Speaker 1>and Darby goes up to the top rope and so

<v Speaker 1>he's going to do a coffin drop, but then that's

<v Speaker 1>not enough. He climbs to the tippy top of the post.

<v Speaker 1>He's going to do a coffin drop off the top

<v Speaker 1>of the post to MJF on the apron. What do

<v Speaker 1>you think happened? Of course, MJF slides out of harm's way.

<v Speaker 1>Darby Allen dives backwards and he crashes and burns with

<v Speaker 1>the coffin drop on the apron. So MJF goes outside.

<v Speaker 1>He turns the ring steps over onto their side, and

<v Speaker 1>he's now standing on top of the ring steps on

<v Speaker 1>the side of the ring steps with Darby, and he

<v Speaker 1>delivers a fucking package pile driver on the steps, which

<v Speaker 1>honestly looked worse for MJF because he landed right down

<v Speaker 1>on his tailbone, and so I'm sure that probably didn't

<v Speaker 1>feel too good. It seemed like it had more consequences

<v Speaker 1>for him than it did for Darby, because you know,

<v Speaker 1>Darby has nothing in his head anyway. So MJF went

<v Speaker 1>for a side headlock. Darby shoved him towards the referee.

<v Speaker 1>MJF stopped short, but in that brief moment that Bryce

<v Speaker 1>Remsburg was distracted, Darby hit a low blow and he

<v Speaker 1>got a side headlocked takeover only for a near fall, right,

<v Speaker 1>That's how he won the title. Then he got MJF

<v Speaker 1>trapped at a scorpion deathlock. MJF was really milking this

<v Speaker 1>potential tap out here. He was like, you know, going

<v Speaker 1>like this, like he was gonna, yeah, he was gonna

<v Speaker 1>lose his hair, he was about to go bald, and

<v Speaker 1>he was really milking this. Got the rope brake. Darby

<v Speaker 1>quickly rushed up to the top for a coffin drop. MJF, though,

<v Speaker 1>got the knees up on the way down. Then he

<v Speaker 1>got a earfall, so MJF goes for a heat seeker.

<v Speaker 1>Darby though, shoves him off and he sling shots into

<v Speaker 1>the ring, almost into a cutter, but Darby ends up

<v Speaker 1>getting him in a position for a scorpion death drop. Instead,

<v Speaker 1>he nails it and now both met her down. So

<v Speaker 1>as they're laying there, we got dueling chance of Let's

<v Speaker 1>go Darby, MJF. Let's go Darby, MJF. Yeah, Winston, that's

<v Speaker 1>actually a pretty good way of putting it. Winston says,

<v Speaker 1>Darby may not have a long career, but it is

<v Speaker 1>a memorable one that is true. I don't know that

<v Speaker 1>Darby is gonna be taking these kinds of bumps when

<v Speaker 1>he's in his forties and fifties, but it will certainly

<v Speaker 1>be memorable. So they traded about twenty five near falls

<v Speaker 1>at this point in cradles. I'm not exaggerating. It was

<v Speaker 1>somewhere in the range of twenty to twenty five rapid

<v Speaker 1>fire like near falls, and even that, like some people

<v Speaker 1>really don't like when they do that. Some people love

<v Speaker 1>that spot because you see that in matches. Sometimes they

<v Speaker 1>took it to like the extreme though. They just kept

<v Speaker 1>going back and forth. One guy would roll a one count,

<v Speaker 1>roll him over a one count. They were like rolling

<v Speaker 1>around the ring with a series of one counts and

<v Speaker 1>two counts until Darby hit a code read for a

<v Speaker 1>very close near fall. So MJF. He's leaning on the

<v Speaker 1>bottom rope now on one he's like sitting down, leaning

<v Speaker 1>up against the bottom rope on one side, looks exhausted.

<v Speaker 1>Darby is on the opposite side of the ring. He's

<v Speaker 1>leaning against the bottom rope and they're just they're staring

<v Speaker 1>at each other, right, They're just looking at one another

<v Speaker 1>and they're struggling back to their feet. They're they pained

<v Speaker 1>expressions on their faces. So then they resumed combat. MJF.

<v Speaker 1>He ended up outside. Darby went for yet another low topey.

<v Speaker 1>MJF pulls the cameramen in Harm's way, and Darby hits

<v Speaker 1>the cameramen. He wipes out the cameraman. Really, they showed

<v Speaker 1>a replay of it from behind the cameraman, and really

<v Speaker 1>he wiped out the camera more than he did the

<v Speaker 1>man behind the camera. He sold it anyway, and now

<v Speaker 1>there's like doctors and officials that are at ringside. They're

<v Speaker 1>surrounding the cameraman and they're like tending to this guy

<v Speaker 1>as if you know, he had taken a bullet, you know, which,

<v Speaker 1>in a way, I guess he kind of did, but

<v Speaker 1>again it was more the camera that took the brunt

<v Speaker 1>of the impact. So they all huddled around him for

<v Speaker 1>a while. They helped him to the back. Tony Savani says,

<v Speaker 1>the first time I could ever remember seeing a cameraman,

<v Speaker 1>you know, help to the back. In fairness, I'm sure

<v Speaker 1>Tony has never watched the first Hell in a Cell

<v Speaker 1>match between Seawn Michaels and the Undertaker, So it's okay.

<v Speaker 1>So MJF. He got Darby on his shoulders, and he

<v Speaker 1>walked him up to the stage and he sat him

<v Speaker 1>in that office chair that I mentioned. And MJF goes

<v Speaker 1>over to the table and he grabs the shears. Now

<v Speaker 1>Darby doesn't have a whole lot of hair on his

<v Speaker 1>head anyway, he's got a fucking mohawk, but he's got

<v Speaker 1>the shears. He goes to use the shears on Darby. Darby, though,

<v Speaker 1>kicks them away, and he gets a guillotine applied, and

<v Speaker 1>MJF is struggling and struggling, and eventually he goes out. Right,

<v Speaker 1>he's out, but it's not false count anywhere, so Darby

<v Speaker 1>can't pin him on the stage. Instead, he picks up

<v Speaker 1>MJF and he lays him out across the table that

<v Speaker 1>again had the razor on it, and then he glances

<v Speaker 1>back up behind him where the tron is the set,

<v Speaker 1>the scaffolding, right, the gears are going in this man's head. Right,

<v Speaker 1>you can only imagine what he must be thinking. And

<v Speaker 1>so he begins climbing, and he had to be It

<v Speaker 1>was at least twenty feet, maybe more. It could have

<v Speaker 1>been twenty five, but he was up maybe let's say

<v Speaker 1>twenty feet. He was up there a pretty good amount,

<v Speaker 1>and he just gives the cactush jack, bang bang, cactus jack,

<v Speaker 1>and he jumps off with a perfect coffin drop. He

<v Speaker 1>nailed it right. There's not a lot of room for

<v Speaker 1>error here. He nailed the perfect coffin drop off the

<v Speaker 1>scaffolding down through the table. Could not have landed that

<v Speaker 1>any better other than the fact that when he came up,

<v Speaker 1>he was busted open from the back of his head

<v Speaker 1>and his mohawk had gone full red. So I don't

<v Speaker 1>know if he hit his head just like a little

<v Speaker 1>platform there that was kind of elevated, almost like a step,

<v Speaker 1>like where the table was. I don't know if he

<v Speaker 1>hit his on that, I don't know. I don't know,

<v Speaker 1>but the back of his head was blood red. And

<v Speaker 1>that was honestly the most blood that we had all night,

<v Speaker 1>outside of some incidental blood. I think Cope maybe had

<v Speaker 1>some blood by his eye cuts on people's back. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>this was the most blood we had on the entire show.

<v Speaker 1>And wouldn't you know, at least I found it to

<v Speaker 1>be more impactful that way. It's the first thing I noticed.

<v Speaker 1>I said, wait a minute, this is the first time

<v Speaker 1>all night that we've seen that much blood and it

<v Speaker 1>wasn't even like anything like he wasn't wearing a crimson

<v Speaker 1>mask or anything like that. But it just it has

<v Speaker 1>more of an effect when you use it sparingly, especially

<v Speaker 1>if you save it for your main event. I understand

<v Speaker 1>you can't always do that, you have other stipulation matches

<v Speaker 1>on these shows, but it definitely has more of an

<v Speaker 1>impact when you haven't already seen it in fucking four

<v Speaker 1>or five other matches on the show, including the opener. Right,

<v Speaker 1>it's going to mean more. So they make their way

<v Speaker 1>back to the ring. Darby goes up top. He lands

<v Speaker 1>another coffin drop into the cover. He gets the one,

<v Speaker 1>he gets the two kick out by MJF. So Darby

<v Speaker 1>again with the scorpion deathlock applied, and he's kind of

<v Speaker 1>reaching back and grabbing the back of his head. He

<v Speaker 1>sees the blood and then he just falls forward and

<v Speaker 1>passes out, the same spot they did in the match

<v Speaker 1>that he had with Sammy gevar on Collision where he

<v Speaker 1>had him in the scorpion deathlock and he just fell

<v Speaker 1>forward because for a moment there he passed out. So

<v Speaker 1>he collapses to the mat and they got this great

<v Speaker 1>camera shot of MJF flashing is just this devilish grin,

<v Speaker 1>like he realizes he just caught a big break and

<v Speaker 1>he went for a headlocked takeover. Darby though countered into

<v Speaker 1>a scorpion death drop and then he kicked up and

<v Speaker 1>he makes the climb again, but MJF he shakes the

<v Speaker 1>rope and Darby ends up getting crotched on the ropes.

<v Speaker 1>MJF goes back to the ropes and again he's going

<v Speaker 1>to go for an avalanche tombstone. He gets him in

<v Speaker 1>position for it and he nails it, and I'm like, okay, now,

<v Speaker 1>you just gave this man who nearly broke his neck

<v Speaker 1>earlier in the match. You just gave him an avalanche tombstone.

<v Speaker 1>If we're not going home here, then we're doing something wrong.

<v Speaker 1>So after that, he does the headlock takeover and he

<v Speaker 1>gets the pin as he should have, and he wins

<v Speaker 1>for the third time in his career the AW World Championship.

<v Speaker 1>And when the match was over, Darby had to be

<v Speaker 1>loaded onto a stretcher outside and then they strapped him

<v Speaker 1>onto the gurney. Once he was nice and secure, MJF

<v Speaker 1>climbs out onto the apron shoes everybody away right kicks

<v Speaker 1>him away, and he kind of puts one foot on

<v Speaker 1>the gurney and stands towering over Darby, holding up the

<v Speaker 1>championship that only minutes earlier still belonged to Darby, but

<v Speaker 1>no longer belongs to him. It is once again back

<v Speaker 1>around the waist of MJF. So he's posing over him.

<v Speaker 1>Now Kevin Knight comes out, the TNT champion who had

<v Speaker 1>no match on this show. He sprints out to the

<v Speaker 1>ring and MJF he bails. And where I knew, where

<v Speaker 1>I knew things were about to go south for Darby

<v Speaker 1>is when they position conveniently positioned the stretcher outside the

<v Speaker 1>ring in such a way where Kevin Knight was on

<v Speaker 1>the ropes kind of looking at MJF. And then I

<v Speaker 1>see the stretcher was moved into the perfect position for

<v Speaker 1>someone to do a dive onto it, and sure enough,

<v Speaker 1>Kevin Knight hits a UFO splash and twisting splash down

<v Speaker 1>onto the gurney and onto Darby. Allen and the fans

<v Speaker 1>are shocked by this. The announcers are in shock, Oh

<v Speaker 1>my god, what are you doing. MJF initially was shocked,

<v Speaker 1>and then he started smiling and applauding as he's watching

<v Speaker 1>all of this and the announcer. They go off the

<v Speaker 1>air with the announcers wondering why this is where Jim

<v Speaker 1>Ross could have been very effective? Why damn it? Why?

<v Speaker 1>I don't know if he still has the energy in

<v Speaker 1>him to kind of give a good life. Why damn it?

<v Speaker 1>Tell me why? But that's a classic JR. Call. Remember

<v Speaker 1>the Invasion pay per view in O one where Austin

<v Speaker 1>turned on Team WWF. Why tell me why? Actually, go

<v Speaker 1>back to the end of WrestleMania X seven, same thing, right,

<v Speaker 1>Why Why did he turn? Why did he turn his

<v Speaker 1>back on all the fans and side with Vince McMahon.

<v Speaker 1>Why damn it? Why? So that's how the pay per

<v Speaker 1>view went off the ear. The match itself, I thought

<v Speaker 1>between these two was excellent. MJF and Darby Allen. I

<v Speaker 1>don't know that they've ever had a bad match, at

<v Speaker 1>least in not in aw not any of the matches

<v Speaker 1>I've ever seen the two of them have. I still

<v Speaker 1>remember the first match. God, what pay per view was that?

<v Speaker 1>Was that? How to be Full Gear? Right? Full Gear

<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty one. They opened the show. They had a

<v Speaker 1>great and they were part of that four way it

<v Speaker 1>doubled or nothing. A few years ago, three years ago.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to count the match they had on

<v Speaker 1>TV a month ago because it was two minutes. These

<v Speaker 1>two just they have a certain chemistry working together. And

<v Speaker 1>part of it also is just the fact that Darby Allen,

<v Speaker 1>you know, for whatever you want to say about him, right,

<v Speaker 1>he's a stuntman. He takes these just ridiculous bumps, and

<v Speaker 1>he's always escalating. And the fact is like in this

<v Speaker 1>rain that he had over these last four weeks or

<v Speaker 1>whatever it's been, that's been a little bit longer, maybe

<v Speaker 1>like six weeks, but over this run that he had,

<v Speaker 1>he didn't have one bad match. Find me the bad

<v Speaker 1>match that Darby Allen had when he was in there

<v Speaker 1>with with the people that he was in the ring with, right,

<v Speaker 1>whether it was Sammy Gavara, Pack, Brody King, Kevin Knight,

<v Speaker 1>the Wrestle, Kevin Knight, MJF, didn't matter who it was, like,

<v Speaker 1>he went in there and had some really fun, exciting matches.

<v Speaker 1>I think when people look back on this rain, and again,

<v Speaker 1>I know other people have talked about this. I mean

<v Speaker 1>people sent me clips of like Alvarez or whatever, generational.

<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to use any stupid words like that.

<v Speaker 1>All I'm gonna say is, looking back at it now,

<v Speaker 1>this was a fun run. He was defending the title

<v Speaker 1>every single week and going out there and having these

<v Speaker 1>crazy ass matches that people were into. Was it really

<v Speaker 1>such a big deal? And I said this at the

<v Speaker 1>time when they did the title change initially, like I

<v Speaker 1>didn't really think it was some horrible, horrendous Oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>what have they done? Like give me a fucking break,

<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. Like if MJF held onto

<v Speaker 1>the championship, he would not have been defending the title

<v Speaker 1>weekly on television like Darby was. And I'm not saying

<v Speaker 1>he should, but I'm just saying it's not like we

<v Speaker 1>would have been in this like incredibly exciting period. They

<v Speaker 1>would have been building to whatever his match was going

<v Speaker 1>to be a double or nothing. With Darby, he was

<v Speaker 1>on television wrestling different people every single week. It was

<v Speaker 1>like a side quest. That's how I look at it.

<v Speaker 1>I always knew MJF was going to get the belt

<v Speaker 1>back on this show. Most likely it was not going

<v Speaker 1>to be a long run for Darby. You knew from

<v Speaker 1>the moment he won the belt. It was going to

<v Speaker 1>be brief, it was going to be very limited, right,

<v Speaker 1>and so what's the harm in taking a little detour

<v Speaker 1>and then putting the belt back on MJF? Like, there's

<v Speaker 1>nothing wrong with that. And he was going out there

<v Speaker 1>on television and having really fun matches. So where this

<v Speaker 1>run will rank in the history of the AW World Championship,

<v Speaker 1>I'll leave that up to all of you to decide.

<v Speaker 1>All I know is that he went out there and

<v Speaker 1>he made the most of the time that he had

<v Speaker 1>with that fucking belt, and he killed himself as he

<v Speaker 1>always does. But he was doing it on a weekly basis,

<v Speaker 1>and story wise, right, he ran himself into the ground, right,

<v Speaker 1>He abused his body in such a way where he

<v Speaker 1>simply just ran out of gas and he couldn't take anymore.

<v Speaker 1>MJF didn't cheat to win, Nobody interfered on his behalf.

<v Speaker 1>He didn't use the dynamite diamond ring, he didn't do

<v Speaker 1>anything overlean nefarious. He beat the guy clean, He beat Darby,

<v Speaker 1>Allen clean. Darby Allen burned himself out. That's the story.

<v Speaker 1>He's got nobody to blame but himself. But Darby went

<v Speaker 1>out there and had good matches every week and MJF.

<v Speaker 1>Look at the matches he's had this year. Look at

<v Speaker 1>the match he had with Kenny Omega, look at the

<v Speaker 1>match he had with Hangman, the match tonight with Darby.

<v Speaker 1>He goes out there and he has great matches when

<v Speaker 1>the spotlight is on him and the lights are bright,

<v Speaker 1>and he's in the main event, and he knows that

<v Speaker 1>all eyes are on him, and he's the guy. He

<v Speaker 1>knows how to go out there and have a fucking

<v Speaker 1>match of the year. So you put the two of

<v Speaker 1>them together, they just have good chemistry together. So I

<v Speaker 1>thought it was an excellent main event. Kevin Knight as

<v Speaker 1>a heel, it just feels right if anybody was going

<v Speaker 1>to go heal there between him and Speedball, how to

<v Speaker 1>be Kevin Knight. You can't do It's Speedball is just

<v Speaker 1>not going to work. Now. The way that I see

<v Speaker 1>this now is, well, first of all, the question is

<v Speaker 1>how will speedball react? Right, We'll find that on Wednesday,

<v Speaker 1>probably not very well. And then the way I see

<v Speaker 1>this playing out is Darby should be taking a little

<v Speaker 1>bit of a break because my God, so let him

<v Speaker 1>get some time off, and then you do Kevin Knight

<v Speaker 1>and Speedball first, right, you can do it forbidden door,

<v Speaker 1>I mean, whenever you want to do it. But that's

<v Speaker 1>got to be. That's got to be the next match

<v Speaker 1>we get. You got to be building to Kevin Knight

<v Speaker 1>and speedball. This is the end of jet Speed. It

<v Speaker 1>should be you build to that match and then when

<v Speaker 1>Darby is ready to come back in time for all in.

<v Speaker 1>I think that's the Wembley match. I think you do

<v Speaker 1>Darby and Kevin Knight in London. So just as I'm

<v Speaker 1>looking at like the lay of the land here, it

<v Speaker 1>would seem to me like that would make the most sense.

<v Speaker 1>The pieces seem to be falling into place for some

<v Speaker 1>of the key matches when it comes to Wembley. You

<v Speaker 1>know the tag team stuff again, we'll see what teams

<v Speaker 1>come in and when they come in, the machine guns

<v Speaker 1>the New Day and where they fit into the picture there.

<v Speaker 1>But you can kind of see like you could start

<v Speaker 1>sketching a card out for London even though it's a

<v Speaker 1>few months away. But up and down the cards to

<v Speaker 1>night Man. I mean, this was just a great pay

<v Speaker 1>per view. There was a lot going on. There were returns,

<v Speaker 1>there were turns, there were just great fucking matches on

<v Speaker 1>this show. I had fun with it. Very little downtime,

<v Speaker 1>you know, with some of the matches in the middle

<v Speaker 1>of the card. But it was just a great show.

<v Speaker 1>I think it probably was the best double or nothing

<v Speaker 1>they've ever done, and it will go down as one

<v Speaker 1>of the better aw pay per views that they have

<v Speaker 1>ever done. I thought they they really hit a home

<v Speaker 1>run tonight, which they had to. You know, you had

<v Speaker 1>a big sellout crowd in New York. You gotta go

<v Speaker 1>out there and hit a home run, and that's what

<v Speaker 1>they did. Plus I think a lot of those people

<v Speaker 1>were already in a good mood anyway, because the Knicks

<v Speaker 1>are killing it. So you don't have to be a

<v Speaker 1>big basketball fan to feel like the enthusiasm right now

<v Speaker 1>in New York like they're very happy, maybe not with

<v Speaker 1>the Mets or the Yankees, but like they're very happy

<v Speaker 1>about the Knicks. So we're all in a very good

<v Speaker 1>mood with everything that's been going on. But anyway, excellent

<v Speaker 1>pay per view, thumbs up show. Take a look at

<v Speaker 1>your super Chats. Yeah, and Darby, that's right, Darby's getting

<v Speaker 1>married soon, so maybe that okay, well that makes sense

<v Speaker 1>then if he is going to be taking some time off.

<v Speaker 1>I think he's getting married next month. Yeah, I believe

<v Speaker 1>he is getting married next month, getting married to a

<v Speaker 1>girl that he knew from like childhood. I guess they

<v Speaker 1>must have I don't know, reconnected. I don't know if

<v Speaker 1>they were childhood sweethearts, but like I know, I remember

<v Speaker 1>reading that they were like friends from when they were

<v Speaker 1>much younger. And so apparently he's getting married soon. Matty

<v Speaker 1>says he Solo was Leo in character the whole time

<v Speaker 1>at h og No comment, no comment. You ain't gonna

<v Speaker 1>get no h O g unreal here. We gotta we

<v Speaker 1>gotta keep, we gotta keep some stuff behind the curtain. Hey,

<v Speaker 1>Joseph Stewart, he says, happy Sunday, It's not Sunday anymore.

<v Speaker 1>It's Monday morning, and all you crazy solb's are hanging

<v Speaker 1>out with me at two thirty in the morning. I

<v Speaker 1>appreciate that. So, in your opinion, is Tony Soprano the

<v Speaker 1>greatest TV character of all time? Probably not. I don't

<v Speaker 1>know who the greatest TV character is of all time,

<v Speaker 1>but I'm not prepared to say that it's Tony. Tony

<v Speaker 1>is one of the great ones, though. Hey, Jeremy thank you.

<v Speaker 1>I appreciate it. Have a good night, brother. But I'll

<v Speaker 1>agree with you, though, Joseph on your second question, those

<v Speaker 1>are two of the greatest characters. Also, he's coming in

<v Speaker 1>with a nine to ninety nine. I mentioned that Sebastian

<v Speaker 1>stan is going to be playing many different roles in

<v Speaker 1>The Batman Part two. He's going to be a busy guy.

<v Speaker 1>Like he says happy birthday, Priscilla, Priscilla. I thought that

<v Speaker 1>said Priscilla Kelly, Priscilla Presley. I almost completely misread that.

<v Speaker 1>And Alfred Molina, have you seen the Leonardo DiCaprio movie

<v Speaker 1>Gangs of New York? I have? And what is your

<v Speaker 1>favorite DiCaprio movie of all time? I don't know. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>they departed and may have to go with that one.

<v Speaker 1>How was Shutter Island? That's why I never saw that one?

<v Speaker 1>Is that worth seeing? Do you think Stone Cold Steve

<v Speaker 1>Austin's theme is WWE's greatest theme of all time? No,

<v Speaker 1>it's one of them, but it's not the greatest. I

<v Speaker 1>don't really have On that next question, I don't really

<v Speaker 1>have a favorite moment between them. I think individually they

<v Speaker 1>play their roles great, but I don't have like a

<v Speaker 1>specific moment. Have I seen the Masters of the Universe

<v Speaker 1>movie action figure TV commercial? It looks awesome. I have not.

<v Speaker 1>I am not, but I know it's coming out, not

<v Speaker 1>this week but next week, and I'm just trying to

<v Speaker 1>figure out when I'm going to be able to see

<v Speaker 1>that movie. Already got my tickets for the back rooms.

<v Speaker 1>This week. I have to see Shutter Island. Okay, Okay,

<v Speaker 1>I didn't know it was that well received. Happy anniversary

<v Speaker 1>to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade released in theaters

<v Speaker 1>in nineteen eighty nine. On this day in storyline was

<v Speaker 1>Triple H, the one behind Stone Call getting run over

<v Speaker 1>by Rakishi. Yes, that was the big reveal, Rikeshi said.

<v Speaker 1>Remember Rikeshy said he did it for the Rock. He

<v Speaker 1>was full of shit. He did it for Triple H

<v Speaker 1>because he got paid. And Happy belated heavenly birthday to

<v Speaker 1>Bray Wyatt and I wonder how old he would have been.

<v Speaker 1>Probably forty ish right. Happy early birthday to Roman Reigns

<v Speaker 1>in Bob Dallas. Both of their birthdays are tomorrow on

<v Speaker 1>the same day. They're making Roman Reigns work on his birthday. Anyway, Joseph,

<v Speaker 1>thank you for the support as always, mister e nineteen

<v Speaker 1>seventy six. Here's to the tip jar. Thanks for everything

<v Speaker 1>you do. Sala monster, stay pressing forward. I will try.

<v Speaker 1>I will do so as long as you keep showing up,

<v Speaker 1>I'll be here. Refresh this list here and get going here,

<v Speaker 1>Ace of Masta, hardest working podcaster on a late Sunday night,

<v Speaker 1>What do you think of a tag team casino gauntlet?

<v Speaker 1>Match it all in with New Day and the MotorCity

<v Speaker 1>machine Guns debuting? I thought Solo said he has to

<v Speaker 1>where's your mind? Dad? I thought Solo said, he has

<v Speaker 1>tickets for the back door. That may be where you're

<v Speaker 1>hanging out later this week. That's not where I'm gonna be.

<v Speaker 1>You could take the back door if you want to, brother,

<v Speaker 1>I'm going in the front. Well, what about a tag

<v Speaker 1>team casino gauntlet? Match it all in with New Day

<v Speaker 1>and MotorCity machine Guns debuting? A tag team casino Gauntlet

<v Speaker 1>would be interesting. It would be a little bit of

<v Speaker 1>a different spin. I think that could work well, I mean,

<v Speaker 1>I wonder, Well, I don't know, I mean, would it still?

<v Speaker 1>I guess it would still be one fall to a finish, right,

<v Speaker 1>I mean the rules? I guess it's still work the

<v Speaker 1>exact same way. I still feel like at least one

<v Speaker 1>of those teams is going to end up in a

<v Speaker 1>tag team championship match, if not both of them. Watching

<v Speaker 1>AW Double or Nothing tonight was fun. That shit crazy

<v Speaker 1>and glorious as dried chicken without flavor. It was a

<v Speaker 1>fun show. Also, ever since Tony Kahn reconnected to his

<v Speaker 1>spiritual side, the booking of AW continues to deliver. They

<v Speaker 1>want pro wrestling to be loved and not disappointing in

<v Speaker 1>the United States. Well, this show is certainly better than

<v Speaker 1>any other wrestling show that we've had all year. I mean,

<v Speaker 1>this blew all the other ones out of the water.

<v Speaker 1>So as of May of twenty twenty six, they've got

<v Speaker 1>pay per View of the Year on lock. Let's see

<v Speaker 1>what the rest of the year brings. Everybody else has

<v Speaker 1>to step up their game. San Juan Wolf with the

<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety nine we just got ourselves a contender for

<v Speaker 1>pay per View of the Year. Yes more, San Juan Wolf.

<v Speaker 1>Oh what was I gonna ask you? I was gonna

<v Speaker 1>ask you a question. I just forgot what it was. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't even say contender, I would say we just

<v Speaker 1>we got ourselves our pay per view of the year,

<v Speaker 1>where we still have seven more months to go, so

<v Speaker 1>that could change. Morris is top to bottom. This is

<v Speaker 1>the best AAW pay per view ever, wow, he says. Ever,

<v Speaker 1>it's a pretty high bar, Alexander. According to Uncle Dave,

<v Speaker 1>the commission said no blood for the event on the

<v Speaker 1>Twitter machine. I mean clearly someone said something, because if

<v Speaker 1>this was any other AW pay per view in any

<v Speaker 1>other city, it would have been a fucking blood bath.

<v Speaker 1>So I don't doubt that the commission had something to

<v Speaker 1>do with that. Dev to dust. The New York Mets

<v Speaker 1>will win one hundred and five games and win the

<v Speaker 1>World Series? Sure, what year will that be? Will I

<v Speaker 1>still be among the living when that year finally comes?

<v Speaker 1>You let me know. Oriole's peak, a major pay per

<v Speaker 1>view ended with a talented young black man's standing tall.

<v Speaker 1>I just know Triple K is seething, wondering if that

<v Speaker 1>is even legal to do. Where did all of it?

<v Speaker 1>I see a lot of this on social media, this

<v Speaker 1>Triple K nonsense stuff. Where did this start? Dried Chicken

<v Speaker 1>says nothing bland, flat or dry. After tonight, Tony Kahan

<v Speaker 1>was booking AW double or nothing like he was cooking

<v Speaker 1>in the kitchen like a chef. Jeremy Rose mjfaw title

<v Speaker 1>reigns over under seventeen. He will not have seventeen. He

<v Speaker 1>will not have double digits. I don't think he even

<v Speaker 1>gets to double digits. I don't think they're going to

<v Speaker 1>bounce the world title around quite that much. Oriole's peak.

<v Speaker 1>I love Mina. I hope she gets her moments soon.

<v Speaker 1>Depending on when Tony Storm comes back, they could still

<v Speaker 1>end up revealing that she was the one behind it.

<v Speaker 1>Tem Gen Zephyr was at the show Live epic show

<v Speaker 1>for sure. Okata Takeshta certainly match of the Year contender.

<v Speaker 1>Crowd was electric, especially for that match. That's my match

<v Speaker 1>of the night, by the way. That honestly, that's my

<v Speaker 1>match of the year so far. That is my match

<v Speaker 1>of the year for twenty twenty six as of this moment.

<v Speaker 1>Fucking love that match. The average grunt and still the

<v Speaker 1>undisputed king of pay per views, all elite wrestling. That

<v Speaker 1>was the greatest double or nothing of all time and

<v Speaker 1>an all time or pay per view can tender. Indeed,

<v Speaker 1>it was Mike with a five unpopular opinion. I am

<v Speaker 1>kind of bored with Moxley. It really should have ended

<v Speaker 1>the Death Writers after Max lost to Hangman last year.

<v Speaker 1>In my opinion, I thought that's where we were headed,

<v Speaker 1>and then it just kept going. I can't believe that

<v Speaker 1>Death Writers are still a thing, but they've they've managed

<v Speaker 1>to survive. I suppose that the Judgment Day can still

<v Speaker 1>live on, then I guess so can the Riders Tuxedo

<v Speaker 1>t Servo with fifteen dollars, no message, just showing some love.

<v Speaker 1>I appreciate that. Stand the man with a twenty five

<v Speaker 1>dollars pre mode unlocked. Tonight, Stan, you are indeed the man.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you. I think that might be be that might

<v Speaker 1>be the second biggest one tonight. Ye. Still getting through

<v Speaker 1>the SoundOff, but very keen for this review. Solo you

<v Speaker 1>are the goat. Yeah, if you missed it, you've got

<v Speaker 1>to check out the sound up brandw SoundOff dropped earlier today.

<v Speaker 1>Some good stuff in there. It'll be waiting for you

<v Speaker 1>on your Monday morning if you missed it today. MGM

<v Speaker 1>ballin with a nine ninety nine attended h og on

<v Speaker 1>Friday banger, especially Mason versus Silver attended double or Nothing

<v Speaker 1>Tonight Banger. Weekends like this remind me, why I love

<v Speaker 1>this shit. Weekly television sucks the fato me, but aw

<v Speaker 1>and h og deliver. Yeah. You know, we have a

<v Speaker 1>lot of people that are like local to New York,

<v Speaker 1>not even necessarily just the five boroughs and you could

<v Speaker 1>be on Long Island. Some people come from Jersey, but

<v Speaker 1>they're like regulars at a lot of the local shows,

<v Speaker 1>and they always have fun. They always have fun. The

<v Speaker 1>weekly television. Look, it's hard to compare the weekly television

<v Speaker 1>to either going to wrestling live or watching the pay

<v Speaker 1>per views because it's just a totally different They serve

<v Speaker 1>two totally different purposes. So, like, the weekly shows are

<v Speaker 1>going to be more arduous to sit through because of

<v Speaker 1>all the you know, commercial breaks and you know, all

<v Speaker 1>the shit that they have to promote, and then you're

<v Speaker 1>very limited in the time that you have on some

<v Speaker 1>of these shows. But to me, it's just it's not

<v Speaker 1>an excuse to put together bad television. And unfortunately we've

<v Speaker 1>got a lot of bad television this year. Hopefully that'll

<v Speaker 1>start to change. Stadium j Takashta versus Ocada will always

<v Speaker 1>be the best match on any cards. Saw it live

<v Speaker 1>and it did not disappoint. Thank you for all you

<v Speaker 1>do solo. You're very lucky you got to see it live.

<v Speaker 1>I would have loved to have been in that building

<v Speaker 1>there when those people were losing their minds. Could only

<v Speaker 1>imagine what that must have felt like. It's like I'm

<v Speaker 1>jealous of the people who were there when they had

<v Speaker 1>the and that was at Arthur Ash. I believe the

<v Speaker 1>Kenny Omega Brian Danielson match Danielson's first match in ADW,

<v Speaker 1>the one and only time they wrestled, and they did

<v Speaker 1>that thirty minute draw. To be in the building live

<v Speaker 1>for like a match like that, that's special power spying games.

<v Speaker 1>With my team Arsenal winning the Premier League for the

<v Speaker 1>first time in twenty two years, maybe the Mets will

<v Speaker 1>win the World Series very soon. Sure, sure possible. And

<v Speaker 1>maybe I'll you know, make babies with Scarlett Johansson. Maybe

<v Speaker 1>that'll happen soon too. What do you think the chances

<v Speaker 1>are of that happening, Moore says, looking back at it,

<v Speaker 1>Darby landed perfectly on MJF and the commentators commented on

<v Speaker 1>how he hit the edges when he didn't kind of

<v Speaker 1>proves that he bladed well. If he did blade, better

<v Speaker 1>not get back to the Commission, but they're going to

<v Speaker 1>be in some trouble. It's commission in New York. They

<v Speaker 1>don't fuck around Bender mc simpson with a nine ninety

<v Speaker 1>nine amazing show. Christian Cage has great, has a great

<v Speaker 1>scorpion deathlock. More Athena please. You know what I kind

<v Speaker 1>of laughed at is at the end of that tag

<v Speaker 1>team title match, you could see like Beth was kind

<v Speaker 1>of emotional because she could see what that moment meant

<v Speaker 1>to Adam. And then you look at Christian. He never

<v Speaker 1>breaks character. He just has this miserable, fucking look on

<v Speaker 1>his face the entire time. Guy never breaks character. Mike says,

<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking eventually Andrade is going to side with Takeshta

<v Speaker 1>in all of the Callus drama. Well, that would make

<v Speaker 1>sense because he's been trending Babyface for a while now.

<v Speaker 1>That would make sense now that MJF has the belt back.

<v Speaker 1>My idea is still very possible, which is if they're

<v Speaker 1>going to do another Dynamite show at Arena Mexico in

<v Speaker 1>the next few months, that's where you do MJF against

<v Speaker 1>Andrade for the world title. Save that match for Arena

<v Speaker 1>Mexico kW one five zero. My first wrestling show I've

<v Speaker 1>ever been to live after twenty three years of watching

<v Speaker 1>pro wrestling at age twenty eight, worth the money, one

<v Speaker 1>of the greatest aw shows ever. Well, you've set the

<v Speaker 1>bar awfully high now, so it's gonna be tough the

<v Speaker 1>next time you go. The next time you go to

<v Speaker 1>a show, it's gonna be tough to live up to

<v Speaker 1>that show. Tonight, Medium Ugly Lad went to the show

<v Speaker 1>in person, and the weakest part of the show was

<v Speaker 1>paying twenty seven dollars for chicken tenders and a coke zero.

<v Speaker 1>Otherwise had a blast Cheers solo. Well, unfortunately, that is

<v Speaker 1>a problem with all concessions these days. It's like I've

<v Speaker 1>been going to a lot of movies lately, right, more

<v Speaker 1>than I have in years, and I'll be back there

<v Speaker 1>again this week. I don't get food anymore at the movies.

<v Speaker 1>I don't I co in, they scan my ticket. I

<v Speaker 1>go right to the theater because I try to time

<v Speaker 1>it where i'll see a movie like late afternoon, mid

<v Speaker 1>mid to late afternoon, and so when it lets out,

<v Speaker 1>I just go get dinner, so I don't need anything

<v Speaker 1>during the movie, and I save my appetite for dinner

<v Speaker 1>because I don't feel like like I like the pretzel

<v Speaker 1>bytes and you should see how much these pretzel bytes

<v Speaker 1>go for. It's ridiculous. I don't even need I don't

<v Speaker 1>even need the cheese, just the pretzel bytes. Pretzel bytes,

<v Speaker 1>and like a soda, it will cost more than the

<v Speaker 1>actual movie ticket will cost. So I'm like, fuck that.

<v Speaker 1>I don't buy any snacks. I just go watch my

<v Speaker 1>movie and then I go get dinner. Fuck you well now, well, now,

<v Speaker 1>with the forty dollars, super Chat took a plunge on

<v Speaker 1>aw for the first time in a while, and it

<v Speaker 1>was a great show in my opinion. Can't wait to

<v Speaker 1>see if Stardom sending Saya Kamatani for Forbidden Door rumors

<v Speaker 1>are true. Would love to see people's reaction to the

<v Speaker 1>Phoenix Queen. Is that a rumor going around? That'd be

<v Speaker 1>great get her on the show. Solo would bring some

<v Speaker 1>candy with him from this Well, it's funny you mentioned that. Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>I've snuck food in there before. Who gives a shit,

<v Speaker 1>I put a water bottle down my fucking pants. I

<v Speaker 1>don't care. So Larry David used to do on a

<v Speaker 1>Curb your Enthusiasm this journey called Life with the four

<v Speaker 1>ninety nine. I was there tonight and oh my god,

<v Speaker 1>this was such an awesome show. Top to bottom. We

<v Speaker 1>are We're all going nuts. I lost my voice. This

<v Speaker 1>arena was perfect for an aw show. Yeah, I think

<v Speaker 1>they should definitely run there again in the future. For sure,

<v Speaker 1>look nicer when it was still daylight outside, because you

<v Speaker 1>could see some of the daylight coming through. You didn't

<v Speaker 1>really you didn't really notice it at night. Look better,

<v Speaker 1>I think in the daytime. I think it has a

<v Speaker 1>retractable roof too, So if the weather was nicer, I

<v Speaker 1>do wonder if they would have had that roof open.

<v Speaker 1>Mike says, we didn't really need a night heel turn tonight.

<v Speaker 1>They should have just saved it for Wednesday. In my opinion, Well,

<v Speaker 1>I think they wanted that, probably as a hook to

<v Speaker 1>get you to tune in for Wednesday. You know why,

<v Speaker 1>damn it? Why now you got to tune into Dynamite

<v Speaker 1>to find out why he did what he did. I

<v Speaker 1>get it. I guess that's the idea behind it. Also

<v Speaker 1>was kind of thinking that we would have gotten a

<v Speaker 1>Hangman return tonight, curious on what their plans are with

<v Speaker 1>him when he comes back. I'm just saying one way

<v Speaker 1>around it. If you were to show up in the

<v Speaker 1>Casino Gauntlet and win the Gauntlet match, he'd have a

<v Speaker 1>guaranteed World Championship match banked. Maybe that's one potential workaround

<v Speaker 1>to the stipulation. Chicago for MBK says thank you. I

<v Speaker 1>did not watch the pay per views, so recapping your

<v Speaker 1>insights are great. Always time well spent even past one

<v Speaker 1>thirty in the morning here. That's right, you're in Chicago.

<v Speaker 1>It's one thirty in the morning by you. Actually, no,

<v Speaker 1>now it's almost two am where you are, which means

<v Speaker 1>it is almost three am where I am. And can

<v Speaker 1>I sleep in tomorrow? No, because I have to prepare

<v Speaker 1>my notes and everything for the Uncrowned Wrestling show on Tuday,

<v Speaker 1>and I got to work on the YouTube clips too

<v Speaker 1>from the podcast today. So oh man Venom Caitetsu favorite

<v Speaker 1>Cornett wrestler nickname, My god, he's got so many of them, God,

<v Speaker 1>what is the what is? It's hard to narrow it

<v Speaker 1>down to just one. It's been so many. What did

<v Speaker 1>he used to call? Oh? God, the small guy, the

<v Speaker 1>small guy with the Jurassic Express. Rockstar Spud not Rockstar Spud,

<v Speaker 1>it's the fucking I just forgot the guy's name, but

<v Speaker 1>he had like a name for him. Oh, wheeler, wheeler useless.

<v Speaker 1>That's a pretty good one. Wheeler useless is actually pretty funny.

<v Speaker 1>Marco Stunt, Yes, you would call him Marcos stunted growth

<v Speaker 1>and uh, I'm not gonna lie that that would get

<v Speaker 1>a chuckle out of me. I don't know. I called

<v Speaker 1>him Rockstar, Spud Jedi Joker taking a shot in the dark. Here.

<v Speaker 1>Women's wild card is Britt Baker. Mmmm, it's possible. I

<v Speaker 1>just feel like if he wanted to bring her back,

<v Speaker 1>she would have been back by now. I'm gonna say no.

<v Speaker 1>Alex says after the pay per view, WWE should be

<v Speaker 1>ashamed of their awful plees. Just a shame. Yeah, I

<v Speaker 1>mean there's nothing, there's nothing really premium about them, although

<v Speaker 1>I will say the clash in Italy card is shaping

<v Speaker 1>up pretty strong for next weekend, so that that could

<v Speaker 1>be that could be a sleeper show orioles peak. A

<v Speaker 1>black man has not challenged for a world title in

<v Speaker 1>WWE since February of twenty twenty two, left Carmelo off

<v Speaker 1>WrestleMania did blackface in nineteen ninety nine Booker t segments,

<v Speaker 1>et cetera. Now I'm gonna make any excuses for him.

<v Speaker 1>I'm just saying, I mean this the idea that it's

<v Speaker 1>it's being done now intentionally. People are being left off

<v Speaker 1>the show. Like I was watching Smack That on Friday

<v Speaker 1>and that segment with Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams and

<v Speaker 1>they were Ricky Saints out there. There's no reason like

<v Speaker 1>a Carmelo Hayes or a Trick Williams cannot work themselves

<v Speaker 1>up into that like top and Trick is already in

<v Speaker 1>a position where the fans are behind him, so it's

<v Speaker 1>not unrealistic to expect that even inside of this year.

<v Speaker 1>You know, he couldn't end up in like a main

<v Speaker 1>event level spot on SmackDown. You look at a guy

<v Speaker 1>like Obafemi, I know he's still very new. Like if

<v Speaker 1>we're still talking about some of these guys in like

<v Speaker 1>six months or a year and they're still not there,

<v Speaker 1>then there's something going on because there were just certain

<v Speaker 1>people and Oba is one of those people. There's just

<v Speaker 1>certain people where you expect them to be at a

<v Speaker 1>certain level at a certain point, and that point is

<v Speaker 1>in the not too distant future. And if it doesn't

<v Speaker 1>work out that way and there's seemingly no other explanation

<v Speaker 1>for it, then I would start to be very curious.

<v Speaker 1>MGM balland the Mets would have to go eighty three

<v Speaker 1>and twenty six to reach one hundred and five wins

<v Speaker 1>on the season. Not even in your dreams, not even

<v Speaker 1>in your dreams, ain't gonna happen. This team sucks. Season's

<v Speaker 1>over alright. So the likes goal tonight it was a

<v Speaker 1>very modest four hundred and seventy five likes. And where

<v Speaker 1>we are right now, at this moment, we are at

<v Speaker 1>seven hundred eighty two. I would say we passed that goal.

<v Speaker 1>So we will be doing be the booker here in

<v Speaker 1>a little bit. Let me just catch up on these

<v Speaker 1>mgmballin solo with a water bottle in his pants. Employee

<v Speaker 1>would be like, is that a water bottle in your pants?

<v Speaker 1>Or are you excited for the movie? And my response

<v Speaker 1>would be, I'm actually very excited for the movie, and

<v Speaker 1>that would be the end of the conversation. And Mike says,

<v Speaker 1>imagine a Texas death match between Moxley now and Prime Foley.

<v Speaker 1>The blood would flow. You don't have to worry about

<v Speaker 1>Prime Foley. I have a feeling we may be getting

<v Speaker 1>it in aw very soon. All right, let's queue it

<v Speaker 1>up here at three o'clock in the morning on the dot.

<v Speaker 1>It's time to be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, it

<v Speaker 1>is now time to be the booker. Has to be

<v Speaker 1>one of the latest. Be the bookers we've ever done,

<v Speaker 1>outside of maybe the WrestleMania streams. Oakhm with a one

<v Speaker 1>ninety nine, says Tecla against Becky is a dream match

<v Speaker 1>of mine. That'd be a very good match. We're never

<v Speaker 1>gonna see it, but that would be a very good match.

<v Speaker 1>Here we go, Bad Street, USA. It's time for the

<v Speaker 1>Bad Street We gotta listen to the Bad Street theme.

<v Speaker 1>We got Michael ps Hayes, we got Terry Bam Bam,

<v Speaker 1>Gordie as clean Sweet, don't warhawk Rambow, don't jinx it.

<v Speaker 1>See now that you said clean sweep, you can't jinx it.

<v Speaker 1>But we got the fabulous Freebirds here and they will

<v Speaker 1>be stepping into the ring. We don't know what combination

<v Speaker 1>it will be, but it will be the Fabulous Freebirds

<v Speaker 1>taking on Mark and j Brisco. There's some old school

<v Speaker 1>of wrestling going on here. Now there's some tag team

<v Speaker 1>wrestling that Triple H and WWE is allergic to these days.

<v Speaker 1>That's some wrestling for you. Tag team wrestling at its finest.

<v Speaker 1>Speaking of fine, we got the former AW Women's World Champion,

<v Speaker 1>Chris Statlander, who was unsuccessful tonight in her bid to

<v Speaker 1>recapture that championship. Maybe she can recapture it here and

<v Speaker 1>be the booker she will be taking on Ivy Nile.

<v Speaker 1>Did you see Ivy Nile on Raw? The last time?

<v Speaker 1>It was weeks and weeks ago. But the last time

<v Speaker 1>she was on Rush she was she was five times

<v Speaker 1>more ripped than she is in this image here. She

<v Speaker 1>had to be training for some sort of bodybuilding competition.

<v Speaker 1>She was fucking ripped and probably had the best match

<v Speaker 1>that I've seen her in in maybe ever on TV.

<v Speaker 1>And then she disappeared. And now we have our main event,

<v Speaker 1>says Land on Sting against the Undertaker. Well, I don't

<v Speaker 1>think we're gonna get that, but let's see what we

<v Speaker 1>end up with here. Oh boy, well you're not getting

<v Speaker 1>Sting in the Undertaker, but you are going to get

<v Speaker 1>Rye back. I hope you're hungry. Feed me more, feed

<v Speaker 1>me s'mores. It's Rye back. Rye back in the main event.

<v Speaker 1>Right back has not been in the main event since

<v Speaker 1>twenty thirteen. Hmmm, Rye back against Switchblade Jay White? What

<v Speaker 1>are we thinking about this match? This is the difference

<v Speaker 1>between a clean sweep and no sweep. So think long

<v Speaker 1>and hard about this. Can Jay White make something of

<v Speaker 1>this main event? What do you think? Hmm? I'll tell

<v Speaker 1>you what though. I worry for Jay White. Jay White

<v Speaker 1>is coming back from an injury. I don't want him

<v Speaker 1>to be injured again. I fear for Jay White. It's

<v Speaker 1>a poor guy. It's been gone. How long has he

<v Speaker 1>been gone for already? My god, he's been gone for

<v Speaker 1>like a year. No clean, sweet. I blame Warhawk Rambo.

<v Speaker 1>I think he jinxed it. I we got to put

<v Speaker 1>the blame on somebody. Well, you gotta put the blame

<v Speaker 1>on him. I'm sorry. Brother. Jay White comes back his

<v Speaker 1>first match back, he gets tossed out of the ring,

<v Speaker 1>just breaks his leg out for another eight months. Poor

<v Speaker 1>guy can catch a break anyway. No j White tonight.

<v Speaker 1>Hopefully we'll see him back in the not too distant future.

<v Speaker 1>Michael Jensen fifty six months says damn pay per view

<v Speaker 1>of the year. No doubt AW was on a roll

<v Speaker 1>right now. Look if AW can put on pay per

<v Speaker 1>views like this every month, I'll be happy. I just

<v Speaker 1>wish they weren't starting at eight o'clock. You know you're

<v Speaker 1>gonna go fucking five hours with the pre show. Just

<v Speaker 1>start at seven, main card at seven. I don't know

<v Speaker 1>why they don't do that anyway. The next time I'm

<v Speaker 1>gonna be with you live is going to be in

<v Speaker 1>less than twenty four hours because we are going to

<v Speaker 1>be talking about Monday Night Raw, the final raw before

<v Speaker 1>Clash in Italy, so I will be live for that again.

<v Speaker 1>Episode nine sixty four nine sixty four of the SoundOff

<v Speaker 1>went up earlier today, so if you missed it, go

<v Speaker 1>check out the latest podcast. Tuesday, you're going to get

<v Speaker 1>a brand new Uncrowned wrestling show, brand new Tuesday Night

<v Speaker 1>Titans over on JD's channel. The Dynamite post show coming

<v Speaker 1>out of Double or Nothing will be on Wednesday, and

<v Speaker 1>then SmackDown is in Barcelona on Friday, and I am

<v Speaker 1>certain that I will be going live a little bit

<v Speaker 1>earlier than usual because I should be able to watch

<v Speaker 1>the show. I think it's two o'clock Eastern on Netflix,

<v Speaker 1>so we may be going live on YouTube at like

<v Speaker 1>eight eight thirty somewhere around there on Friday night. Definitely

<v Speaker 1>not going to go live at eleven thirty if I

<v Speaker 1>could watch the show earlier in the day. So just

<v Speaker 1>be aware. These next two weeks of SmackDown are both

<v Speaker 1>international shows. They are in Barcelona on Friday, and the

<v Speaker 1>following Friday they are in Italy, so just be aware

<v Speaker 1>of that. And then next weekend if you didn't if

<v Speaker 1>you didn't listen to the latest podcast yet, next weekend

<v Speaker 1>is kind of fucked up because they're doing Clash in

<v Speaker 1>Italy on Sunday at two o'clock in the afternoon, so

<v Speaker 1>I will probably be dropping the sound off on Saturday,

<v Speaker 1>maybe by Saturday night, so the show may be going

<v Speaker 1>up a day early. And then I know Triple A

<v Speaker 1>has that big Mask versus Mask match on Saturday night,

<v Speaker 1>so I may not be able to cover that, but

<v Speaker 1>if a worst case scenario, I may talk about that

<v Speaker 1>on the on Crowned show next week. We'll see a

<v Speaker 1>lot of wrestling coming up. I appreciate all of you

<v Speaker 1>guys sticking with me for it. Be well, stay safe,

<v Speaker 1>have yourselves a great rest of your morning and a

<v Speaker 1>hopeful relaxing Memorial Day, and i'll see you back here

<v Speaker 1>in less than twenty four hours for the Monday Night

<v Speaker 1>Raw recap. Until then, take care, guys,