We Really Needed This

[00:00:07] Speaker A: In the beginning, the earth was a dark, formless void. But then God spoke and said, let there be wrestling. And with that, there was Monday, and wrestling happened on Mondays. And God looked upon her works and said, holy shit, that's a lot of racism in video packages. On the second day, God got depressed and lo did she post about it on the DVD VR forums. And with that, there was Tuesday. On the third day, God said, let there be Wednesday. And lo did the people reply unto her. We know what that means. [00:00:56] Speaker B: And welcome back to Wednesday Night Fake Fights, where we talk all things aew. We are back with the first Dynamite after Grand Slam Australia, which was a very big, very cool show. We got a special episode. Is it out? Is it still coming out? [00:01:12] Speaker C: It's still coming out because I suck and I have a day job and I'm sorry. [00:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's on the way though. Keep your eyes peeled on our socials. It will be fun. Had a fun time reviewing it. But anyway, we are on to Dynamite. Let's get some introductions out of the way. As always, it's me, your boy. It's Jeff the Token Mongoose. Yeah, that's how it works in the background. And I'm here with some wonderful people. [00:01:36] Speaker C: I was already talking, so I suppose I'll jump in this time. It's me, Ella. I'm here again. [00:01:42] Speaker A: You are healing. [00:01:43] Speaker C: Oh, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. [00:01:47] Speaker B: The Disruptor. [00:01:48] Speaker C: Will you stop? [00:01:51] Speaker A: It's. Well, I'll just. Bobby heated it. And just crack open this beer. I'm only driving late. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Wcw Bobby Heenan. [00:02:03] Speaker C: Oh, so we're our. Our driver this week is gonna be like 97 Bobby Heenan. [00:02:11] Speaker A: I only have. I only have the one. It's a trailer. It's 8% and. [00:02:15] Speaker C: Oh, there you go. That probably would have killed a Bobby. [00:02:19] Speaker A: Y' all are always on other. And I'm usually sober, so. [00:02:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:23] Speaker C: Oh, hey. Oh, I ain't judging. I ain't judging. [00:02:25] Speaker A: Yeah, you are. [00:02:28] Speaker C: You drop this. Who the are you? [00:02:30] Speaker B: Who are you? [00:02:33] Speaker C: Just sharing off my. My. Come in yet? Oh, how dare. [00:02:40] Speaker A: All right, I already good to go. Yeah. [00:02:43] Speaker B: Who are you? [00:02:44] Speaker C: Yeah, who are you? [00:02:45] Speaker B: We. [00:02:45] Speaker C: Yeah, we are. We are. [00:02:46] Speaker A: Who I am. I said America Warrens and I'm drunk driving. [00:02:51] Speaker B: I missed America Warrens. [00:02:52] Speaker C: That's a really good name. [00:02:54] Speaker A: Erica Warren's. [00:02:55] Speaker C: No, America. [00:02:57] Speaker A: America Warrens. I hate America. [00:03:01] Speaker B: That's what it's short for. [00:03:04] Speaker A: We're gonna get in trouble because I said I hate America. [00:03:08] Speaker C: No, no, we're on list already. It's fine. [00:03:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm already on. It's fine. It's fine. Yeah, I just had blood drawn yesterday. They're gonna find me with them. [00:03:14] Speaker B: I don't like America, but I do like 1994 Lex Luger. [00:03:19] Speaker C: Yeah. I like Electro Express. [00:03:22] Speaker B: I like the. I like slamming yokozuna on the boat. [00:03:26] Speaker A: The tassels. [00:03:28] Speaker C: I like the awkward not real family. For some reason that. Was [00:03:34] Speaker A: he running for a president or something? He just. I just don't like this Japanese guy, even though he's not Japanese at all. [00:03:44] Speaker B: And also, like Lex Luther. It was just a dick up until his whole thing was, I'm just a, like, narcissist and I suck as a person. And now everybody loves me because I put on America pants. [00:03:55] Speaker C: Fun fact. Did you know that Vince McMahon, by his own admission, could. Could do just a mountain of cocaine and never get addicted? [00:04:06] Speaker A: Sure. Yeah. [00:04:06] Speaker B: I think that's everybody, actually. [00:04:11] Speaker A: I don't have a problem. [00:04:14] Speaker C: Stop whenever I want. [00:04:16] Speaker A: I think if you're doing. [00:04:17] Speaker C: So anyways, the Lex Express, I need an Aryan family. [00:04:27] Speaker A: All right, so get back in the box. Back in the pocket. Yeah, shove that. Put the 90s back in the box. Here we go. [00:04:35] Speaker C: We killed you. We killed that show. Killed you dead. [00:04:39] Speaker A: So I did not write down every single mini promo that the episode opened with, but we had the mini promos again like we did last week. [00:04:48] Speaker C: I'm pleased. I am pleased with this. [00:04:50] Speaker B: I actually missed that. My computer's running a little slow at the start, so I didn't realize that. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah, Triller was a little bit weird last night. I mostly saw, like, everybody was like, we're gonna go and kill Willow. And Willow's like, yeah, I do like [00:05:06] Speaker B: that as a device, though. I think it's a good way to start the show. I like the way Collision does. It, like, gives everybody a little TV tenant. [00:05:12] Speaker C: Well, yeah. I think we talked about before it started as a throwback on Collision, which was trying to be like, the throwback TNT show. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:21] Speaker C: And now it's just like, why don't we just do Gordon solely? Exactly. Gordon Holy on the regular. Because it's. It's really good. Like, the guy, for all of his weirdness, it's really good at this. [00:05:38] Speaker B: That could also refer to Tony Khan. [00:05:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:41] Speaker A: We also hear from Swerve, who says that he needs this, and Kenny tells Swerve that he's in his way. [00:05:48] Speaker B: That's why he says it. Okay. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah. So then we jump to. Renee Paquette is with Orange Cassidy, and she's like, hey, Roderick Strong, what's his deal. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Kind of a dick. [00:06:00] Speaker A: Kind of a dick. Yeah. And Orange doesn't really know what to say, but he's got. He. Roddy no showed him tonight, but he's got backup. And it is Big Tom. Tomohiro Ishii and making his return. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Big Tom. [00:06:16] Speaker C: She's like that thing about the conglomeration. There's a lot of us. [00:06:20] Speaker A: There's. [00:06:22] Speaker C: And then bam. Big time. [00:06:24] Speaker B: It pops me. I love. I love to so much. He like one of my favorite wrestlers of all time. He's such a hilarious presence. [00:06:32] Speaker C: Breaking news, per Ian Ricaboni on Ring of Honor. Dalton Castle suplex to Kangaroo yesterday. [00:06:39] Speaker B: That feels about right. [00:06:40] Speaker C: Yeah. Nod's fan tactic. [00:06:42] Speaker A: I saw a video of Megan Bane playing with Wabes and it's like, it's [00:06:48] Speaker C: like, I want to see her open like, like, like bare knuckle box up kickbox. A kangaroo. Like, I just kangaroo you up. [00:06:57] Speaker A: K dis like I want. I think she could take it. I think she could grab a koala and just, like, shot, put it. [00:07:04] Speaker B: Oh, she could do that. Yeah. She throw Penelope Ford into it. And while the koala's mauling Penelope Ford, snap its neck like a spy. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Jesus. I just said throw it. You're just like, yeah, yeah. Let's just. Yeah. Penelope Foil distracted. She breaks its neck. Yeah. [00:07:22] Speaker C: Can we not not do vicious animal death this early on in the show? [00:07:27] Speaker A: Jesus God, Jeff, I know that you just came back from the. The cobra mauling factory, but, yeah, I know that's your day. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Business is good. [00:07:37] Speaker A: Your. [00:07:38] Speaker C: Your, your mongoose instincts are kicking in, but, like, damn, dude, Jake the snake's not on this show. [00:07:46] Speaker A: All right, so Brian Danielson is back on commentary this week, and we jump right into. Our very first match is an aw continental title elimina. Jon Moxley versus Mark Davis. And the way the timeline acted up as soon as this match got announced. Holy. [00:08:03] Speaker B: Because they didn't announce, like, anything for the show, apparently. Meltzer said, I guess a bunch of people either got sick in Australia or, like, picked up a bug the week before. And it changed, like, the playing card quite a bit around. So a lot of this didn't even get said until, like, right before the show started. [00:08:20] Speaker A: Yeah, they did keep mentioning a lot of people were still in Australia. Yeah, I know, like, TECLO was posting pictures of, like, oh, well, I'm on staycation with my belt in my. My luxury hotel room because I'm the champion. Go yourself. That kind of thing. I did not hear about stomach bugs, though, and I don't know. [00:08:39] Speaker B: And also it is melt. I was gonna say, considering what has recent developments with them. Take it with a grain of salt. That is something that was claimed. [00:08:49] Speaker C: I feel like this is something I talked about on the Monday show. And also I'll bring it back because it's been a minute probably we have grown past the need for a Dave Meltzer, and I do not think he knows how to function in the modern world. Like, he just. He's doing like he's always done. And it's like the Internet exists now and, like, everyone's got the computer in their pocket. So you can't just like, say. You can't. You can't just say and put and run it anymore. [00:09:26] Speaker A: Right. You can't just be like, back it up. Like, they've all got diphtheria. [00:09:31] Speaker B: That's kind of wrestling journalism in general. Like, it's very, very touch and go. Like, yeah, there's not very many. I would say great. [00:09:40] Speaker C: But yeah. [00:09:41] Speaker A: Stay tuned for our. Our upcoming side project that's all about the dirt sheet wrap up. Anyway, yeah, this ruled. [00:09:54] Speaker C: I just want to say, I want to reiterate how up it is. That hampter knows what a dirt sheet is. A hampter shouldn't know what a dirt sheet is. That. That was a perfectly good possum in a wizard hat. And now it knows what a meltzer is. [00:10:08] Speaker A: It knows what a melter is. It read the Observer. [00:10:12] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Who gave me after. Well, my sweet baby, they were so. [00:10:18] Speaker B: It'd be a crime to expose people to the iwc. It should be a crime to refer to it as the iwc. [00:10:26] Speaker A: I'm already going to save them. It's fine. [00:10:29] Speaker C: Anyways. Driving. Driving. [00:10:31] Speaker A: All right. So they were talking about how, like, Davis and Mox are both in the air for 30 hours. I don't know how that math works. [00:10:38] Speaker B: I think they were saying they flew back 30 hours ago. [00:10:41] Speaker C: I could be. [00:10:42] Speaker A: No, I said in the. They said in the air. [00:10:45] Speaker C: It's a long. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah, right. I don't. [00:10:48] Speaker A: Unless they had layo, I guess. [00:10:49] Speaker B: I don't know. I've never been on International Floyd. [00:10:52] Speaker A: They must have had layovers somewhere. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah, that's very possible. [00:10:55] Speaker A: Maybe they got stuck in Minneapolis, too. I don't know. All right, so, yeah, this. This was. This was. God, this was just. I think it was exactly what everybody wanted it to be, which was just, hey, let's have these big bearded, hairy bastards beat the crap out of each other. They did. [00:11:16] Speaker B: Like I said, it's nice. They're still featuring Mark Davis quite a bit after the, like, injury to Jake Doyle. They're keeping him in the focus that you could tell they had plans for him. [00:11:27] Speaker A: Let's see. Christ. Yeah. Like, Davis actually kind of out wrestles Moxley a bit and then just starts doing big guy. [00:11:35] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:11:36] Speaker B: Oh, he did the. He did the J. Jake Doyle, like, body press at one point, which I thought was cool little tribute. [00:11:43] Speaker A: He's. They're talking about how Davis isn't gonna be intimidated by Mox's. And, like, as he's saying that, Davis just, like, tenta ass drops. [00:11:54] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:11:55] Speaker B: With the big Yokozuna set. [00:11:58] Speaker A: And they all start talking about his big dunk. [00:12:01] Speaker C: Yeah. I was gna say, like, Excalibur, like, comes right out. It's like, they call him Dunkzilla. You [00:12:08] Speaker A: big dunk. [00:12:09] Speaker C: His. His large duncus is big. Is Mark Davis big Chungus? Can we just say that? [00:12:18] Speaker A: No, no, I don't. I don't. I. I feel like I'm outing myself as a millennial too much. But just talking. I don't think Chung. I said [00:12:28] Speaker C: I got big Chungus on the brain. Yeah, this. I hate wrestling. [00:12:38] Speaker A: Hate wrestling. Oh, God. All right, [00:12:44] Speaker C: sorry. [00:12:45] Speaker A: They fight a bit on the floor, and then Davis just goes to punch Mox in the face, and you audibly hear his hand connect with the ring post. [00:12:54] Speaker B: It was so loud. [00:12:57] Speaker A: Good God. And then his hand. His. His hand. His knuckle is basically bleeding for the rest of the match. [00:13:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I generally was like, can he blade his hand? That's like, no, you're just busting it open. Actually punching that post. [00:13:09] Speaker A: I have not seen injury updates on him. I don't know how injured he actually is. I. Way too bad. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Moxley immediately goes and starts working on the hand, so I think he's fine. Yeah, they was. I don't know how you do that without anything in your hand, though. Yeah, I don't know how you make that sound without actually breaking. [00:13:29] Speaker A: I mean, like, I've punched solid things and made my knuckles bleed, but I never broke. [00:13:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I just. [00:13:35] Speaker A: I wouldn't recommend doing it. [00:13:37] Speaker C: I wish I could remember who posted it, but someone put something up. Blue sky. That was just so good. Like, do you think. Do you think Mox gets, like, jealous when people bleed the hard way in a match? Like, if they. Even if they didn't mean to. Like, oh, man, you got to bleed the hard way. Fuck you. [00:13:59] Speaker A: God damn. [00:14:00] Speaker C: God damn it. [00:14:01] Speaker A: So, like you said, Mox goes right after the hand. Danielson won't stop Hating Mox, even though he's got to like, give him credit for some stuff. [00:14:08] Speaker B: See baby face Suicida now. [00:14:11] Speaker A: Yep, he does the baby face Suicida. Davis eventually just rocks Moxley with an elbow to get the advantage back. Sits him down in the cuck chair and then runs him the over. [00:14:23] Speaker B: He does that flying strike. So good. It is such a. It always looks so impactful and just amazing. [00:14:30] Speaker C: Just silly. [00:14:32] Speaker A: Mox is just continuing to work over the bloody finger. He bites it, which seems to really aggravate the crowd. They're just like, no, don't put the bloody finger. Yeah, we're not okay with no, don't eat the bloody finger. [00:14:44] Speaker B: That's not. That's not what we do in Sacramento. [00:14:47] Speaker A: I don't know what they do in Sacramento, but it's not that. [00:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah, they cheer really well. [00:14:53] Speaker A: Davis misses another ass drop and they hit the. The halfway point because it's a 20 minute match. They hit the 10 minute mark and they're just like throwing forearms at each other in the middle of the ring. Davis gets a biggin and Zagiri goes to the lariat. Mox catches him in a cutter. Yeah, that's like Mox get like. Mox manages to avoid a second lariat but then Davis just like catches him in a gut wrench and pile drives him. So this was not. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Close your eyes. [00:15:20] Speaker A: But this was still disgusting. [00:15:26] Speaker B: That reminds me, I did like during his entrance mark did the run the jewels hand signal. [00:15:31] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, he did. [00:15:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:33] Speaker C: He's so. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Put up your gun. And yeah, they're very big fans from my understanding. [00:15:39] Speaker C: Oh, heck yeah. That makes me very happy. So to that I say, Tony Khan, if this push continues, I'm gonna need you to drop the money on the rights of that tune. Just for one. [00:15:54] Speaker A: Hell yeah, Tony. You can do it if they do [00:15:56] Speaker B: an Aussie Open reunion, because that's. They used to come out that on the Indies since like have them come together at Wembley or something and actually play. Come close your. Count your eyes and close the. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Close your eyes. Yeah, close your eyes and count the. [00:16:16] Speaker A: Oh, man. All right, so get Zach there. Home stretch of the match. There's. They just keep being the holy out of each other. Davis really wants his lariat. [00:16:29] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. He's like, I'm gonna get you. [00:16:31] Speaker A: He tries another pile driver. Mox floats over, gets the bully choke, and Davis taps. [00:16:38] Speaker C: That's it. [00:16:39] Speaker A: John Moxley wins another eliminator. [00:16:42] Speaker B: Davis looked great, though. [00:16:44] Speaker C: Defeated the mighty Chungus. [00:16:47] Speaker B: There's one where like the only complaint I have is. I could have gone for five more minutes and I would have been really happy. [00:16:53] Speaker C: Yeah. But continental. [00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I would like to see them back. [00:16:59] Speaker B: Yeah, without a doubt. [00:17:01] Speaker A: And just keep Mark Davis wrestling on TV as much as possible. [00:17:05] Speaker B: Agreed. The people claim it for dunks, though. [00:17:08] Speaker A: It's like they want their Dunkaroos. We got post match comments from Hangman in Australia, and he talks about how Andrade is one of the best and he just beat the best. One of the best. And if Max kicks him in the balls again, he's going to destroy Max's balls. He just is really obsessed with this. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:30] Speaker A: He's going to end mjf. [00:17:34] Speaker B: I keep forgetting that, like, the ball kick was like, the titular spot of the titular. Like, the main. How he won the title. Yeah, he keeps reminding me. [00:17:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Everybody likes a good kick in the nuts. Yeah. [00:17:46] Speaker B: It's heel. [00:17:47] Speaker A: All right, so FTR and Stokely are out next for a promo. There was some consternation and debate on how Stokely got into the ring with his wheelchair. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:59] Speaker A: Because he was in the ring with his wheelchair. [00:18:01] Speaker B: Yeah. They do a commercial cut after they come down the ramp, and then when they come back, they're all in the ring with Stokely still in the wheelchair. [00:18:09] Speaker C: I just assume FTR Gun carried him. [00:18:12] Speaker B: Like, that's. I. Yeah, I think he probably got over the mantle style, like. [00:18:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:18] Speaker B: While Dax carried the chair. [00:18:20] Speaker C: No, no. Over the mantle. I don't know about that. I think he just slung his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. [00:18:25] Speaker B: Oh, I picture rocking my baby. [00:18:28] Speaker A: I don't know if the appropriate way to, like, carry someone from that position as. But, like, yeah, it felt. How did they do it? It's just like, come on, guys. Like, do you really? Like, we can all picked him up [00:18:40] Speaker B: and set him on the apron. And he rolled in. Yeah. [00:18:43] Speaker A: We star wet. We don't need to hear how. [00:18:46] Speaker B: Yes. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Luke got to the planet with the things. Like, I don't give a. He's there. Okay. They're. They're at the fireworks factory. Dax advents an entire scenario completely different from what happened last week about how the Bucks attacked FTR from behind and for no reason whatsoever. Crowd says, shut the up. In 2016, they were the best tag team in the world, and they even coined the name FTR. But 10 years later, they're in second place. Stokely says it's insanity to do the same thing over and over again, expect a different result, but here we are with the same again. All right, so he's just saying, like, what Everybody on the Internet's been saying for a week, yeah. One guy is trying to do a what chant by himself. And I just had to shut up. [00:19:40] Speaker B: In my notes, there was, yeah, dude. Right by the ring mic that throughout the night was kind of obnoxious. Like I said, the rest of the crowd was great, but. [00:19:50] Speaker A: And he was the only guy saying what? [00:19:52] Speaker B: Yeah, don't do that. It's 2026. [00:19:56] Speaker C: Yeah, we're done. [00:19:56] Speaker A: Steve Austin wasn't even in the ring. I don't care how bald Stokely is. [00:20:01] Speaker B: It's officially been 30 years since that chant was relevant. So let's call it. [00:20:05] Speaker A: Or entertaining. Let's see. Yeah. Stokely calls the he says Bucks are fake since they shook hands with private party a year after they tried running them out of the company. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Once again, Stokely speaks the truth. [00:20:18] Speaker A: The Bucks children are terrorists backstage. Good Lord. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Once again, Stokely speaks the truth. [00:20:23] Speaker A: He continues to run down at Nick and they appear from behind him as he just continues talking. They super kick ftr. And Stokely talks off a little bit before he realizes what's about to happen. Crowd lets him know. He up. He tries to beg off without getting out of the chair. And they just super kick him in the chair. [00:20:44] Speaker B: It was really. It was a great sell off that too. You, like flies backwards out of it. [00:20:49] Speaker A: Yep, it was great. And we have the Bucks make their challenge official. They're the number one contenders. They want their shot at Revolution. [00:20:58] Speaker B: And apparently, I guess this is only the sixth time they've faced off in aew. Like, I felt like it's much more common pairing, but it's been like they faced off like five times in six years. [00:21:11] Speaker A: That's. Yeah, I guess it. [00:21:12] Speaker B: I think it doesn't seem right, does it? [00:21:14] Speaker A: It seems like maybe it's just the way that time moves in aew. Like. [00:21:19] Speaker B: Yeah. And also, I'm sure they've been in like multi person, like, you know, trios matches with like Adam Edge, Copeland and other people. [00:21:28] Speaker A: And they've been in like, yeah, multi, multi tag team matches. Like Four Corners matches. [00:21:32] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. In terms of like straight on tag matches. Oh, this is all going to be the sixth I. Oh rule too. Like, these guys are all going to put on an incredibly good match. [00:21:42] Speaker A: I think they're very motivated to do so and confirm that this match is official for Revolution. All right, we get another pre recorded promo from Brick King. Post Grand Slam. He's with Bandito. He says that after everything they went through, he was this close to beating Max, but now he's Got a taste for the gold. Brad is chanting ice very loud. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Promo to a video package. [00:22:13] Speaker B: Almost drowned the video out a little bit. [00:22:15] Speaker A: Yep. [00:22:16] Speaker C: It was. I, I, I cackled. Yeah. It's so hot. No, because, because not only. Not only is bro. So. Yeah. Thank you. [00:22:29] Speaker B: Who says we've grown beyond. Hey, hey, hey. [00:22:32] Speaker C: Thank him. [00:22:33] Speaker B: Your buffoonery is at least causing goodness. [00:22:36] Speaker C: Like. Yeah. He's never met a thing he couldn't strike sand. [00:22:40] Speaker B: We don't need Alvarez, though. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what it comes down. [00:22:45] Speaker C: Yeah. No, that, that's it. That's not even a question. [00:22:48] Speaker A: Please don't destroy. [00:22:49] Speaker B: Wrap up. [00:22:50] Speaker C: Yeah, [00:22:53] Speaker A: the dirt sheet side project is going to be like where we do the, the, the, the newsroom. But it's the dirt sheet. Oh, that's funny. Aaron Sorkin ask like no. You called me a mark. What did silence. You call me a mark. Well, I wish we could all go back to a time when we were just fans. Now I have to report the wrestling news. [00:23:18] Speaker C: God damn it. [00:23:19] Speaker A: No shout outs. [00:23:22] Speaker C: Yes. No one also walking talks next to [00:23:24] Speaker B: people rehearsing in the ratings. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:23:29] Speaker C: Please do not get Sorkin in my grabs. This is cursed. Cursed. Can we bring back the Minotaur? [00:23:35] Speaker B: I don't think he wants anything. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Like I'm gonna sort or maybe Topanga will start. [00:23:42] Speaker B: I've sent some scripts to Sorkin and he never responds. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Other stuff too. And he just sent me a season. [00:23:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:51] Speaker A: Respond. [00:23:51] Speaker B: But Sorkin. [00:23:54] Speaker A: So anyway, the yeah. The ice chance. Brody mentions that since he's got a taste for the gold, he wants to stay in the hunt. So on February 25th he hasn't. I guess it's an open challenge kind of thing. I forget what he said. [00:24:09] Speaker B: Yes. [00:24:10] Speaker A: So I wrote down. [00:24:10] Speaker B: He says he wants to face somebody good to like stay in contention. Yeah, I don't. [00:24:15] Speaker A: So who could it be? We don't know. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Adam edge Copeland. [00:24:19] Speaker A: The 25th is what, next Wednesday? Yeah. Next Wednesday, possibly. [00:24:24] Speaker B: Yeah, it is indeed. [00:24:25] Speaker A: I didn't know that. [00:24:27] Speaker C: Anyway, what is time? Linear time? I don't know. [00:24:30] Speaker A: Time is a flat circle. All right, next match. We go right into the next one. TBS Championship four way match. [00:24:39] Speaker C: Hell yes. [00:24:40] Speaker A: Willow Nightingale defended against Marina Shafir, Megan Bain and Mina Shirakawa. [00:24:47] Speaker B: I was excited when this one got announced too. That's just cool. [00:24:50] Speaker A: They have banned everyone from ringside, much to Brian Danielson chagrin. Because he wanted to see Wheeler. You to bald. [00:24:58] Speaker B: We got the hood up. [00:24:59] Speaker A: Now he's got the hood. He had a beanie on another to show he's Gonna. [00:25:03] Speaker B: It was at the house. Yeah. [00:25:04] Speaker A: The house rules. [00:25:06] Speaker B: They'll do a big build to reveal of it and it'll be great. It'll probably be Orange Cassidy pulling it off at some point. It'll be a huge bath. Oh, yeah. And then it'll be Bald Chance that will literally shake the building. [00:25:20] Speaker A: I hope so. [00:25:21] Speaker B: Ball chance to register on the seismic scale. That will kill Larry David no matter where he is. [00:25:37] Speaker A: Ball chance that will shake the heavens and open in the gates of hell. I'm excited for it. [00:25:44] Speaker C: Bald chance that will make Ricochet grow hair. It was the strangest thing. It just sprouted like a Chia. Like, oh, God, they're talking about me. [00:25:55] Speaker A: 2005 again. [00:25:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:58] Speaker B: Big hair. Ricochet back in the day. Skinny ricochet. Like 120 pound. Ricochet was so funny. [00:26:04] Speaker C: That's too small. [00:26:08] Speaker B: Yeah, but he was. He was very. Yeah. Helios and Chicar. [00:26:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:13] Speaker B: Chuck Taylor like daughter Ricochet [00:26:18] Speaker A: Taylor's daughter Rick. He did. It's. It's hard to believe it's the same guy. Holy. They should not be allowed to train people that young to be wrestlers. Like watching IWA Mid south show and be like, all right, whose kid got into the ring? [00:26:37] Speaker C: Oh, and that's Ricochet. [00:26:38] Speaker A: Oh, God. Why is Chuck Taylor beating the effort? Living out of this kid. That's why you don't enter the ring if you're not trained. What do you mean? He's a wrestler. Anyway, this four way match. [00:26:52] Speaker C: Yeah, this is like one of the. One of my matches of the night for sure. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:57] Speaker A: This match was really cool. So basically, Marina and BAE team up again because they have that history of teaming together. They dump Mina. They go right after Willow, but Willow fights back. She dumps Megan Bane and Marina to the floor and sentence both of them. Followed up by Mina hitting a big dive on everybody. [00:27:17] Speaker C: Like you do. [00:27:18] Speaker A: Yep. Marina just says, like, actually, no, you and chops the out of Mina. Willow gets a double lung blower. [00:27:28] Speaker B: I think she does that. I'm gonna need you to do better. I love that as well. [00:27:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:32] Speaker B: In the. [00:27:34] Speaker A: She does that a little bit later on. But like, she does have it later on. But like she. She like, she's really just like, if you're not gonna chop to hurt me, then go yourself. [00:27:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:44] Speaker B: It's such a cool, like character move. [00:27:46] Speaker C: Her and Mina had a couple really great exchanges. Mina, I'm so happy that we're just getting a Shirakawa lately. Yeah. She was so good. [00:27:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:27:59] Speaker B: They've been doing a good job of like keeping her in rotation where you can see how good a wrestler she is and, like, be regularly reminded of it. Yep. Everybody in this match is really good. [00:28:09] Speaker C: There's this one. One spot she had against Marina that was like. Like she does that thing where she like, stalls on the top rope and then like springboards into like a tornio Inzaguri almost. And it's just so good. Every time. Every time dimension. I want her hair. I want her hair and her boobs. Can I have both her hair and her boobs? Thank you. [00:28:34] Speaker A: I think that boobs are expensive, although I'm not going to speculate on that. [00:28:42] Speaker C: Fair enough. [00:28:43] Speaker B: That's probably a favorite. [00:28:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Bane comes back. She gets a huge Frankenstein at a Willow. [00:28:50] Speaker B: Really cool at the top. [00:28:52] Speaker A: Yeah, that was sick. And it sends Willow to the apron and Marina misses her head scissors. Yeah, Apron driver thing. And like, you really. [00:29:01] Speaker B: It looks cool 10% of the time, but it's got. Looks really cool. [00:29:06] Speaker A: It's got more than 10% of the [00:29:08] Speaker C: time, but she's gotta. She's gotta stop it. It's. It's. [00:29:12] Speaker B: It's like at least till she can, like, get it better. [00:29:15] Speaker C: It's like Mercedes with the. The money maker, Monet maker or whatever. It's just not. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Some moves, just some moves are good concepts, but it just doesn't execute. [00:29:26] Speaker C: Like, if you can't. If you can't execute it 90% of the time, it. You shouldn't be doing it. I feel like. [00:29:33] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:29:34] Speaker C: I'm not a wrestler by. I just also feel. [00:29:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not gonna tell her. [00:29:37] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I said on Blue sky. [00:29:40] Speaker B: Whatever you say, Ms. Shafir. [00:29:41] Speaker A: Please don't scream at me, but you gotta learn to hit your own move. [00:29:47] Speaker C: Whereas I'm over here like, Marina, please scream at me. In Moldova. [00:29:52] Speaker A: My heart couldn't take it. I'd probably be laugh. Crying at. It's scary. [00:30:02] Speaker B: Talk to Roddy, please. [00:30:04] Speaker C: If I die, I die. [00:30:08] Speaker B: I think I can get through to rock the heels. [00:30:12] Speaker A: All right, so the match itself, the heels are kind of just beating the. Out of Willow for. [00:30:16] Speaker B: For a while. [00:30:17] Speaker A: Marina's toying with her. She cartwheels around out of a move and just like kicks the. Out of the back of her head. They do their. Their mega problem spot where Bane does the clubbing blow on the chest and Marina kicks person in stomach. That looks like it sucks. [00:30:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it does. [00:30:36] Speaker C: Yeah, it does. Yes. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Then Willow gets into like, this protracted test of strength over a suplex with Bane and like, they just kind of fight for it. And then she get like Willow gets it and like that as that was. That popped me. That popped me pretty good. Without Marina returns. Makes a comeback with some kicks on Marina and that does like that. Like you said, that tornado splash off. She like launches off of Megan Bane's back to get it. [00:31:05] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, she did that too. Yeah. No, she did a couple little tornado guys throughout this match. Off the mat, off the back was pretty sick as well. [00:31:14] Speaker A: She's. She's a spinny little dame. [00:31:18] Speaker C: Spinning little dame. [00:31:19] Speaker B: Fun to watch. [00:31:21] Speaker C: Mine [00:31:24] Speaker B: every category. She's just so charismatic and entertaining. Like, this is just one of those people you can watch and be super entertained by. [00:31:31] Speaker C: That's perfect. Match up with Tony. But I'm happy that while Tony is off playing with her Citrus Boy, we still get lots of Mina. [00:31:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:39] Speaker B: No, they're still featuring me. Yep. [00:31:40] Speaker A: Tons of media and like the crowd was super in the Mina. I don't know if it was just like, because it's a California crowd. [00:31:45] Speaker B: Lots of chance for her. [00:31:46] Speaker A: They were really. [00:31:49] Speaker C: No, I think Mina Shirkawa's just over. [00:31:51] Speaker A: Like, I think turns out she's just over maybe a hot lady who's good at wrestling and you can be over. [00:31:57] Speaker B: Pure charisma. Yeah. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Willow gets back in and just gives everybody a spine buster. [00:32:05] Speaker B: That was cool. [00:32:05] Speaker C: I like that. Yeah, that was real sick. That was some good. I love Willow again, Please break my spine. [00:32:15] Speaker B: They're all really good, but at least. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:17] Speaker B: Like, Willow's will is probably one of the most consistently top performers in AEW [00:32:23] Speaker A: since signing and has been for a long time. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Yeah, she was great on the Indies before that and everything, but like, really, there has been no down period where she wasn't like really well featured and doing cool stuff and delivering every single time. And she seems like person. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Yeah, she seems wonderful. Awesome. [00:32:41] Speaker C: Yep. [00:32:42] Speaker A: This is when like, all right, we get to the point where Mina actually gets all those strikes on Marina and Marina just grabs her and it's like, I need you to do better. So Mina just like rocks her with an urican. [00:32:54] Speaker B: That's right. [00:32:57] Speaker C: Very nice. [00:32:58] Speaker A: And then as soon as she. As soon as she hits that, Bane comes out of nowhere and clotheslines the ever loving out of Mina right before Willow just trucks everybody. [00:33:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:10] Speaker A: Basically everybody just goes flying. [00:33:12] Speaker C: If you're standing, you're getting pounds. Delay. It's done. [00:33:17] Speaker A: Bane and Willow face off. Crowd is chanting meat for a women's match. And they're not being offensive about it. No. [00:33:23] Speaker B: Yeah. It was actually very like These are big, strong people. [00:33:27] Speaker A: Everybody gets big slam in. But then Bane ends up standing tall and then hits a huge tope of her own. [00:33:33] Speaker B: I love when she does that. It looks so sweet. Giant flying lady. [00:33:38] Speaker A: Bane is feeling it. She's gonna single out Mina. Marina stops her, and they slug it out. And then Bane just. That partnership finally crumbles as Bane throws Marina into the timekeeper's table, which doesn't break, so that had to suck. [00:33:52] Speaker B: Oh, she bounced right off. [00:33:53] Speaker A: That did not go well. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Marina and Megan facing off was, like, a pretty big, cool moment, too. They kind of kept, like, teasing and building to it and finally getting there. It's like, all right, that's actually dope. [00:34:04] Speaker A: They were teaming well together until that moment. And then. [00:34:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Damn. Megan goes up top and she. I don't. I guess she was probably trying for a moonsault or something, but Willow stops her and delivers this absolutely disgusting avalanche German suplex. It actually looked like Bane landed on her head for a second. Yeah. [00:34:23] Speaker C: No, it looked like. It almost looked like the Moxley on Fletcher Cutthroat. [00:34:30] Speaker B: You know how they. When they do, like, top rope suplexes, usually the person flips out of it instead of just, like, bumping. Right. It looked like she tried to do that, but, like, landed on her head. [00:34:43] Speaker A: I watched it again today, and she didn't actually land on her head like she. [00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's just. [00:34:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:48] Speaker A: Very, very close. [00:34:50] Speaker B: Under rotated. [00:34:51] Speaker A: I think it was especially like. She's got all that hair, too, kind of. [00:34:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:55] Speaker A: Made it look like it was bad. Anyway, She's. [00:34:57] Speaker B: It was a gnarly spot. [00:34:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it was gnarly. She's dead. [00:35:01] Speaker C: Yeah, she's dead. She died. [00:35:04] Speaker A: She's dead for the match. She's fine, but she's dead. [00:35:06] Speaker C: But also, she died. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Mina's all alone with Willow. She gets the hurricane. And now she's going for the figure four. But Mina's got, like, the longest setup for the figure four in the history of wrestling. She's got it. So. She's got it. She's got to be faster. So Willow just is just like, no. And rolls her up and retains. Yay. [00:35:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:26] Speaker A: Good job. Willow wins. Everyone's happy. [00:35:30] Speaker B: Really good match, though. That was super fun. Yeah. [00:35:32] Speaker C: Good job. Yeah. Very good. [00:35:34] Speaker B: All four women, like, really got a chance to shine. Like, everybody looked good and did some cool stuff and got a very over. [00:35:41] Speaker A: It was all action. There wasn't anybody just, like, you know, hanging out on the floor being like, hang on, I gotta suck. [00:35:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker A: And for a second, it moved Quickly. It was full of action. I loved it. [00:35:51] Speaker B: Puts a willow over big, too. Like, she defended her title against, like, the three probably biggest competitors for it and came out victorious. [00:35:58] Speaker A: I wouldn't have been surprised if they changed it. [00:36:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Her face at the end after the win, too, was just real good face. Like, real good baby face. Like, oh, yeah. Oh, I did it, guys. You know, like. Like, oh, wow. I didn't know. I didn't think I had it there, but, you know, it's just like. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:36:21] Speaker C: yeah, they had me in the first. Yeah. [00:36:23] Speaker B: It's another match that felt like it. With five more minutes, it easily could have been a pay per view match. [00:36:28] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:36:29] Speaker B: This is dynamite. That's kind of like the theme of these. They're all really good matches that could be, like, easily on a paid card. [00:36:36] Speaker C: I mean, if only because you murdered somebody. There was a death. Dead. [00:36:41] Speaker A: They do a quick little recap. I guess it's more of a longer video recap of Grand Slam. [00:36:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:48] Speaker A: It was a good show. Check it out if you can and [00:36:50] Speaker B: listen to us talk about it or [00:36:51] Speaker A: listen to us talk about it on the Patreon. Yeah, they. Let's see. All right. Well, I say as if, like, they. They do, like, this really emotional moment next. So this is a former director at wwe, Kerwin Sylphies. [00:37:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:11] Speaker A: Passed away. [00:37:12] Speaker B: Yep. He was the director from, like, the 80s for a long time. He was actually as much as, you know, say what you. The WWE style. He was a very beloved guy and, like, a lot of talent. Really had very good things to say about him. [00:37:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Danielson seemed really upset by it. He was close with them. He had, like, said, like, nothing but good things about him and his time and working with him in wwe. He even name dropped wwe. So, you know. [00:37:36] Speaker B: Yeah. The war is put aside for. It's like the soccer game during World War I. [00:37:41] Speaker A: The war is put aside except for people who only know war. [00:37:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:48] Speaker B: That's a very. That's actually a very deep sentiment in general. [00:37:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:37:53] Speaker B: Get that tattooed. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Some people only know it. No, like, I really, like, I really did see some people just being like, oh, why didn't they post it about it on Twitter? [00:38:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:01] Speaker A: No matter what. [00:38:02] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:03] Speaker A: They let their lead announce team have a moment. Calm the down. [00:38:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:07] Speaker B: They were all close. Tony was very close with them. Well, they. Yeah. So they died. Be people. [00:38:14] Speaker A: That's the hardest thing to be. And so many people fail at it. [00:38:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:19] Speaker C: Especially on the Internet. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Especially if you're an Android. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, it's not A people. My Android. [00:38:29] Speaker C: I'll say. You have nothing. You can't say anything here. [00:38:32] Speaker B: You're Mongoose Man Goose. [00:38:35] Speaker C: Man Goose. [00:38:38] Speaker A: Speaking of how hard it is to be people, we have a promo between Hangman Adam Page and Maxwell Jacob Freeman. [00:38:45] Speaker B: Hangman did have his blue sky handle on the Chiron. [00:38:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Yes, it's done. I hate it. [00:38:55] Speaker B: I think he's the only wrestler I've ever seen do that. [00:38:57] Speaker A: I was gonna say, like, I mean, other wrestlers post there, but like. [00:39:01] Speaker B: No but like on there, you know, like when he was walking out, it's like he's Hangman Adam Pageants. [00:39:06] Speaker A: It's the only place I don't know if he's on. [00:39:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I can delete everything else. Yeah, that's good, right? [00:39:11] Speaker A: Good for you, Hanger. Stop posting pictures with pedophiles though. Or stop taking pictures of pedophiles, though. [00:39:18] Speaker B: Get back to the plants and just don't. [00:39:20] Speaker A: Yeah, stick to the plants. [00:39:22] Speaker B: And we don't get about it every week. [00:39:24] Speaker A: Yeah, we are. I'm gonna. I'm not gonna drop it him. [00:39:28] Speaker B: That's fair. [00:39:29] Speaker A: No, because like, if I ever up, my friends never let me forget it. So. [00:39:32] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that's a good point. [00:39:34] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm. I'm getting for stuff like 15 years [00:39:38] Speaker B: on and it probably a lot less bad than what he did. [00:39:43] Speaker A: Probably. Probably. Probably. [00:39:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Let's not do any. This is not something we get into rankings on. That's a whole different podcast. All our worst moments. [00:39:53] Speaker A: Well, I certainly did not ever get my picture taken with a pedal. All right, so Max claims that he is not going to cut a promo just to sell tickets. He literally hates Hangman. He hates everything about him, including that the fans love him. He. Max, he should be the main character. [00:40:12] Speaker B: I love insecure MJFs a little bit insecure. I can believe it's. It's a part of his character and colors what he does. [00:40:20] Speaker A: And like, he admits it. Like, everybody's kind of been like, you know, this is the problem. And like he just. He just comes out and says like, I hate you because I should have the people loving me the way that they love you. [00:40:33] Speaker B: I'm better than you. I should be liked by everyone. [00:40:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And in his mind, most of all, Max hates that Hanger has two wins over him. But right now he can see that something is off about him. Maybe because his boyfriends are fighting. But both times he. He won the title twice and should have walked off into the sunset. Been the champion forever. Had a massive run, but he fumbled it twice. And maybe if he wins it a third time, he'll prove that he's not a fraud. [00:41:02] Speaker B: But the truth is just a pedophile friend. [00:41:04] Speaker A: Just a pedophile friend. The truth is that Hanger is just a lucky shot and he's all out of bullets. And since Revolution is on Max's birthday, he will end the myth of Cowboy. [00:41:15] Speaker B: It's very much felt the crowd into saying Cowboy. He, like, pauses right after it. It's like, okay, come on, guys, let's take Cowboy. [00:41:22] Speaker C: I learned that trick in Hollywood. [00:41:25] Speaker A: Hollywood. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Adam Sailor taught me that. [00:41:29] Speaker A: Monica Boulevard. All right, Hangman's turn. He says he's the lucky shot that he was. He was so undeniable that the fans carried him to the title twice. And then he beat Max to death twice last year. He actually says he beat him to death. [00:41:46] Speaker B: Yeah, twice. Got some Lazarus going here. [00:41:49] Speaker A: Lucky shot belongs to the guy who picked his spot after sitting on his contract for a year and collected the spoils of greater men. You say you hate me, Max, I hate you so much worse. It's not because of all the cheating, lying and depravity. It's because Hangman hates him because he's never met someone more like him. Oh. Oh, the pathos. Oh. [00:42:13] Speaker B: Hangman also said that MJF came back with a head thicker head of hair thicker than Mark Davis. [00:42:18] Speaker C: Yes, thank you for bringing that up. Because regular rotation. [00:42:23] Speaker B: Yeah, sorry, I don't mean that. Yeah, I had to throw that one in. [00:42:27] Speaker C: No, that's exquisite. [00:42:29] Speaker B: MJF's hair line is showing. That surgery is not [00:42:35] Speaker A: all right. So, yeah, he says Max and Hangman, he's very much. Hangman's very much like Max because Max is desperate for acceptance and love, and he understands it. And he's just as loyal to AEW as Hangman is. [00:42:48] Speaker B: He's just a human. [00:42:49] Speaker A: They both always needed the crowd. And at Revolution, Hangman wants to end this for good forever. And Hangman says, you pick it. Pick the stipulation. And I put kissing match, maybe kissing match. Because apparently people, the crowd was chatting, kiss, kiss, kiss. [00:43:06] Speaker C: I heard someone trying to start a kiss chant. And. And. And I for one go, yes, we could do it for Chuck E. T. [00:43:14] Speaker B: Adam Sandler taught me this. [00:43:17] Speaker C: Yeah, and they just plan. [00:43:19] Speaker A: Adam Sandler taught me this, but he just pisses his pants. [00:43:24] Speaker C: Pissing your pants is cool to get [00:43:25] Speaker A: you over this is how this is [00:43:28] Speaker B: how I Pissing your pants is cool Call me Miles Davis [00:43:33] Speaker A: we all old movie [00:43:38] Speaker C: if pissing your pants is cool consider me Ric Flair. [00:43:43] Speaker A: All right, so Hangman says, pick the stipulation. Max says, no, you, we're just gonna have a normal match. So Hangman calls him a coward and Hangman says that if he will give him what he wants, give him the special stipulation match that he wants, he. Christ. He says that he will never. And he gives it the match and he loses. Hangman will never, ever, ever challenge for the men's world title ever again. [00:44:23] Speaker C: Now look, I, I haven't been an AW watcher since the start, okay, but even I know you never go full Cody. [00:44:32] Speaker B: Yeah, it's not a good idea. [00:44:34] Speaker A: The problem, it was, it was, it was a bad idea. [00:44:38] Speaker B: You already got the match, Hangman. Like, why are you doing this? [00:44:41] Speaker A: Yeah, because he wanted. [00:44:42] Speaker B: Well, I guess he wants to do it within. Yeah. And the stipulation that he can win in, huh? [00:44:49] Speaker A: And Max accepts. Max accepts immediately because he's done this before. Yeah, he's like, yeah, he's like, yeah, sure. But I'll tell you about the stipulation a week later. [00:45:00] Speaker C: That old chestnut. Yeah, yeah. [00:45:03] Speaker A: And then Hangman just says, give it to me, give it, Give me Texas Death. So it looks like we're headed to a Texas Death match. [00:45:11] Speaker B: So I guess like Max still has to agree to that though. Like, is that the. [00:45:16] Speaker A: I guess I. Max. I think Max has to say it. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Are they picking. The stipulate is does Mac picks. So Max is picking the stipulation. Hangman just wants a stipulation, but he wants to death. But Max doesn't have to choose that. [00:45:30] Speaker A: I guess like they seem to imply that it's going to be Texas Death either way. [00:45:34] Speaker B: I'm sure it will be. [00:45:35] Speaker C: But yeah, it was very confusing. [00:45:38] Speaker A: Yeah, like personally I was hoping that they would do. [00:45:45] Speaker B: Oh, I thought the first guy from Long island wins match. Like. First guy named Max wins. Okay, that's the stipulation. Ring the bell. [00:45:57] Speaker C: First guy who can sing a show tune. [00:46:00] Speaker A: I'm waiting for them to break out. Dog. The dog collar match again. Like they haven't done it since Max and Punk. [00:46:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:46:07] Speaker A: And I feel like they're scared to do it because of the Punk thing. [00:46:11] Speaker B: Stink. [00:46:12] Speaker C: Well, also the Briscoe of it all. I feel like that was the, the Briscoes and FTR had like that legendary monumental dog collar match like a couple [00:46:22] Speaker B: of my favorite died. That might be my favorite dog collar match. That was so good. [00:46:26] Speaker C: That was wild. That was something. [00:46:29] Speaker B: One of my favorite tag team matches ever, like. [00:46:32] Speaker A: Yeah, it was, it's awesome. I, I'll Give that MJF one too. [00:46:36] Speaker B: But yeah, that was a great match too. Yeah. That's your rule. [00:46:39] Speaker A: Like, really just be, like, not wanted to do dog collar. They'll do strap matches. [00:46:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:44] Speaker A: I'll call her less so. I think that it also comes down to, like, hangers trying to bait Max into doing it because Max likes beating people in their own matches. Like, in his last time, Ian, he beat Danielson in a Iron man match. [00:46:58] Speaker C: One of my. That was, like, my match of the year. Yeah, that year. [00:47:02] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm sure it will be Texas Death round, probably. Like, if I'm. [00:47:05] Speaker A: It'll be Texas Death and it'll be disgusting. And if I, I, I have no idea where they're going with this. A lot of people think Hangman and then turn heel to get the title match back. [00:47:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And just say it and just be like, all right, screw it. I'm still gonna do it. There are outs. If you do this stipulation, you can have it lifted. You know, it's wrestling. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Nothing. [00:47:26] Speaker C: Yeah. You can be a bad guy. [00:47:27] Speaker A: Apparently, Cody didn't know this. [00:47:30] Speaker B: Yeah. You don't want to be like, he didn't want to turn heel. He didn't want to be the say go against his word. And everyone turned him heel anyway because he was fighting David Ortunga. [00:47:42] Speaker A: He was fighting David. I think that with how the show ended, you could reassemble it, have Hangman win the title here. [00:47:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I, I think so. [00:47:53] Speaker B: I actually kind of. That's the move. [00:47:55] Speaker A: Depending. Depending on how things go, but that's getting ahead of ourselves. [00:47:58] Speaker B: No. [00:47:59] Speaker C: For sure. Yeah. [00:48:00] Speaker A: All right. We get a Death Riders promo. And I wasn't really paying attention to it for a little bit because, like, Mox was just talking. He's like, we're not like wolves. We're not like a pack of wolves. We're like coyotes. [00:48:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Emphasize how much he doesn't like wolves. [00:48:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't like wolves. We're like coyotes. [00:48:19] Speaker B: I'm not really ever. I'm pretty neutral. [00:48:23] Speaker C: You really kind of lost me. [00:48:25] Speaker B: I have no qualms. Whatever. There's social structure. [00:48:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:28] Speaker A: Paco's full Kendrick Lamar and tells the Don Callis family, you're not like us. [00:48:33] Speaker B: Yep. [00:48:34] Speaker A: And they challenged the Don Callis family to a match for collision. Moxkips, you're British. [00:48:40] Speaker C: I don't think you're allowed to do that. I'm just saying he's British. [00:48:45] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:48:46] Speaker A: They arrested that guy. It's fine. [00:48:48] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. All right, cool. Yeah. [00:48:56] Speaker A: Anyway, Mox Gets back up by himself and he tells everybody that he's not done with the cash. He can't just walk away. So at Revolution, he wants him again. But this time with no time limit, there must be a winner. As long as it takes. [00:49:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Three hour to catch the Mox match. Let's go. [00:49:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's go. [00:49:14] Speaker B: The whole pay per view. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Whole pay per view. Just five hours to catch it. Box. [00:49:20] Speaker B: He kind of figured this was the move after the time limit drawing Grand Slam. [00:49:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Like they weren't gonna just leave it there. [00:49:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyway, it's time for a match. [00:49:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:29] Speaker A: It had been a while since we got a match. So we have Orange Cassidy and Tomohiro Ishii of the Conglomeration taking on Gabe Kidd and Clark Connors, who I guess are War Dogs or are. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess that's just the name now that War Dogs. Bullet Club. War Dogs doesn't exist anymore. I guess they're just like. This is their team name in AEW [00:49:48] Speaker A: now they're just the War Dogs. I don't know how it works because, like, I don't even know what Bullet Club is anymore because like they just released. [00:49:55] Speaker B: Book Club's gone. Yeah. [00:49:56] Speaker A: They've just released a bunch of Bullet Club merch in New Japan. [00:50:00] Speaker B: Well, yeah. [00:50:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:03] Speaker B: Should Nissan make money? Who knows? It could come back. [00:50:06] Speaker C: It doesn't have to exist to make us money. Yeah. [00:50:09] Speaker B: It's again like it's wrestling. It easily could come back. Like. [00:50:14] Speaker A: Like, does anybody. [00:50:15] Speaker C: Everybody dies, but no one ever really dies. You know what I mean? [00:50:19] Speaker A: Everyone is. Bullet Club. [00:50:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:50:21] Speaker B: Everybody is evil. Coming to WWE this year. Yep. [00:50:26] Speaker A: Let's see. They start out with. They start out with Orange Cassie and Gabe Kid. And Gabe Kid starts being like, oh, ok. Boogity. I'm crazy. And Orange is like, no. Attacks out immediately. [00:50:39] Speaker B: Gabe Kid did his like monkey crawl out during the intro too. He like scampered out. [00:50:47] Speaker A: Orange is just like, hell no. And he tags out. Right. [00:50:50] Speaker C: Yeah. That was good. [00:50:50] Speaker B: That was very cute. [00:50:53] Speaker C: Big time. Gonna need you to go ahead and take care of this. [00:50:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Clark Connors comes in instead and he gets a bit of offense hit on Ishi before Big Tom is just like, no, I'm not selling for this. Pushy. And then kills him. [00:51:08] Speaker C: I just got back. [00:51:09] Speaker B: This is where you fall down. [00:51:12] Speaker A: Yeah. They talk about how he's been injured for a couple months and I don't know if he's actually been injured because I saw him wrestle. Yeah, I think he was. He's probably banged up because like he was in Tag matches mostly. Like he didn't have to do a lot of stuff, but he didn't do anything. [00:51:28] Speaker B: A new beginning in Osaka. I mean he was. Which was like he might have been out for like the last couple, you know, like three, four weeks or something like that. [00:51:36] Speaker A: Yeah, he did Wrestle Kingdom and then. I don't really know what he was doing after that. [00:51:40] Speaker B: No, I. Yeah, I don't think he's done a lot. I can't remember if he was on any of the tour shows or anything like that, but. Yeah, he didn't have like a featured match or anything. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Yeah, let's see. They. They do this thing where like ISIA hits a guy as hard as possible and Orange that kind of does. Yeah, like double team and slap Connors down at the first. At the. the. As hard as possible. So like they're just kind of beaten up on Clark Connors before they go outside the ring and like they both get leveled. Yeah, that was like. Yeah. Like Gabe. Gabe comes in and Orange tosses him and then Orange tries doing a baby face suicida and Gabe just catches him and there's like an oh moment on his face before he gets killed up. [00:52:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I like Gabe, kid. I. People rag on but I generally think he is good. [00:52:37] Speaker C: I. He's. I'm coming around on him. [00:52:40] Speaker B: Yeah, he's lows are low, but his highs are high. Like when he's good, he's really good. [00:52:47] Speaker C: Okay. [00:52:47] Speaker A: He's very much a big match wrestler. [00:52:50] Speaker C: I think it's hard to have a bad match with Ishii and. [00:52:56] Speaker B: Oh yeah, they're both like. They're both the broomstick dudes. [00:53:01] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. You got the match of the year. You. You're wrestling Kenny Omega Tokyo. [00:53:08] Speaker B: Though I've watched more, I've liked more game kid matches than I haven't liked. I guess I would say Clark Connors is cool. I like his little match in his mouth. [00:53:18] Speaker A: I do like Claire Connors. Yeah, he's. [00:53:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:20] Speaker A: Clark Connor's just spent like the whole match. [00:53:22] Speaker B: Like he's got a bit of the riz. Just a bit of the rizz. [00:53:25] Speaker A: Hits. God he does. He just spends the whole match just doing like huge shoulder tackles. [00:53:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:53:30] Speaker A: To Orange Cassidy who just like explodes off of Connors whenever he hits them. [00:53:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he's so great for his fly. Yeah. [00:53:39] Speaker A: They're getting the heat on Orange. He almost surprised his kid with a roll up but like Gabe's too crazy to be pinned like that. [00:53:47] Speaker B: It's a madman. [00:53:48] Speaker A: Clark Connors come. This is My favorite part of the match. Clark Connors comes in and he's taught an OC and then he puts his hands in his pockets to mock him and the crowd starts chant up [00:54:00] Speaker C: you know. [00:54:01] Speaker A: And sure enough, Orange makes his comeback. [00:54:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that was a very good bit. That was super solid. [00:54:13] Speaker C: I love. Yeah, no I just, I love that even with all the silliness. It's understood. Orange Cassidy will you up like he reserves the right to you up like especially if you mock his silliness. Like the man will turn the whimsy into violence quickly. Oh, I love him so much. [00:54:34] Speaker A: So like yeah, this actually was my favorite sequence because like Orange, Orange gets his hot tag where like he, he does the, the kip up. He takes two steps and then he falls over. [00:54:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And he just takes the hand out. Just plops. [00:54:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:54] Speaker A: Yeah. So now we get Ishi and Kid and I think they, they, they've. They've wrestled before. They've had great matches before. [00:55:01] Speaker B: Oh yeah, they just had a 30 minute Iron man match for I think the strong title like recently. That was really good. Yeah, they've had a lot. They. I would call it a rivalry but they've had a good like history. [00:55:13] Speaker A: Yeah, they have a good back and forth. I just have written. I love Ishii. [00:55:16] Speaker B: Yeah, he's the best. He might be my favorite wrestler. I'll always say he's. [00:55:21] Speaker A: He is like the best wrestler on the planet in my opinion. I don't care if he's 50. He's. He's so great. I love him so much. [00:55:29] Speaker C: Just every time I see him I'm like God I love him. He's just. He's such a awesome. [00:55:36] Speaker B: He structures stuff so well. He knows how to do like kick out timing and like just like knows when to do comebacks perfectly that like completely get people behind him. [00:55:46] Speaker A: He knows that and his little cells are just. [00:55:50] Speaker C: His selling's great. He's so strong. His headbutts, his little. The little junkyard like head dog like, like headbutt. Yeah. And he's just a barrel. He's barrel shaped man. He's. He's like the. He's like the potato alien from Doctor who. Know anyone I know? Yeah, [00:56:14] Speaker A: I've seen enough. I don't. I've seen that guy. But like he, he's literally just like when he did the no selling to Clark Connors it didn't feel contrived, it didn't feel fake. It was like. No, you were really not hitting this man hard enough for him to give a about you like. [00:56:33] Speaker C: That's a shoot. Mr. Connors is. [00:56:36] Speaker A: She and Ishi and kid are just like, slapping the holy out of each other. And then kid gets a comeback or lariat that Danielson says sounds like a baseball bat hitting a side of beef. [00:56:51] Speaker B: That was a really good. [00:56:52] Speaker C: How do you know what that sounds like, Brian? [00:56:54] Speaker B: He's a vegan. He hates beef. [00:56:56] Speaker A: He's a vegan. [00:56:58] Speaker B: So they do. They go around beating up. [00:57:00] Speaker A: He's always. He's always beef with cows with baseball bats. [00:57:04] Speaker B: Like vegans too. [00:57:07] Speaker C: No, I love the idea of a vegan being vegan because they hate meat. But, like, they hate. [00:57:11] Speaker B: Hate it. [00:57:12] Speaker C: Like they violently hate all the cows, all the chickens. Them. They hate them. That makes sense. [00:57:19] Speaker B: We. [00:57:19] Speaker C: We just lost all our vegan. [00:57:21] Speaker A: It's fine. They'll forgive us. Maybe. Please forgive us. [00:57:25] Speaker B: We already got rid of all the British people, so we'll just whittle it down. [00:57:28] Speaker A: I'm in a relationship with a vegan. Please don't kill me. I tried. [00:57:32] Speaker C: I suppose we probably lost the vegans at. At. At dipping Tommy chompers in. In sauce, to be honest. And eating them whole. So, yeah, the cannibalism might have. Okay, [00:57:48] Speaker A: that's cartoonish. All right. So, yeah, Ishi at this point after he takes that lariat, he starts grabbing his. His hamstring and they're all like, oh, is he actually hurt? And apparently he did, like, pull something there. [00:58:04] Speaker B: Meltzer back into this. But Meltzer said he talked to people that said they dodged a bullet. Like, he did hurt it, but it could have been a lot, lot worse. [00:58:11] Speaker A: Which means Ishia had his whole leg amputated. [00:58:14] Speaker B: Yeah, right, Exactly. Yeah. We're going up like a mount or logic. He's now a robot. [00:58:19] Speaker A: But yeah, he finishes the match. He gets up and he's still. He's. He's doing his best to move around and kind of Connor's and Gabe are working around. [00:58:29] Speaker B: You can tell. He though. He definitely is like. [00:58:31] Speaker A: Yeah. He was like, oh, oh, oh. Gabe goes after OC on the outside and they go into the crowd and Darby Allen appears and kidnaps him to beat him up. And then my Triller drops the signal. My trailer dropped a signal and it came back to. I guess Ishii hit the brain buster on Connors and he got the win. [00:58:53] Speaker B: Yeah. You can kind of fill in the. The gap of what happened. I mean, that's. Gabe got taken out. Ishi wonder. [00:59:00] Speaker C: Yep. [00:59:01] Speaker B: And we get more Darby versus Gabe, [00:59:03] Speaker A: more Darby versus game. [00:59:04] Speaker B: That'll probably be on a. That'll probably be on Revolution. [00:59:07] Speaker A: I didn't watch their last match. I swear to God I didn't. Like, I went and took a shower. [00:59:11] Speaker B: I don't even remember what the last one was. Yeah, there was Darby. The Darby Vortex is a real thing now. He inherited it from Jericho. [00:59:21] Speaker A: Ew. [00:59:22] Speaker B: The Darby Vortex probably smells awful. [00:59:24] Speaker A: Terrible. Let's talk about something better. Yeah, let's talk about something better. Josh Alexander cutting a promo. [00:59:34] Speaker B: He's really good at these promos. [00:59:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:36] Speaker C: I love this. They could. I need them to do this forever. Just, like, murdering a bunch of people while he, like, screams into the camera angle. Locking a guy. This is the best. This is the best. I love this so much. This is my favorite kind of promo. [00:59:51] Speaker A: I love it. I love it. [00:59:54] Speaker C: Lance Archer just murdering people in the background. [00:59:58] Speaker A: Even Rocky Romero's getting into it too. [01:00:00] Speaker B: They're all good. [01:00:00] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:00:02] Speaker B: It's a family outing. [01:00:05] Speaker A: So, yeah, they. They beat the. Out of some extras and they accept the Death Riders Challenge for Collision. Don arrives and says Takeshita is still in Australia celebrating with Kyle Fletcher because they're bros. They're. They're in a bronze, probably sick. Okay. [01:00:20] Speaker B: Come to America. [01:00:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Sick. Sick. Gay sex. [01:00:26] Speaker B: Yes. [01:00:27] Speaker C: Clearly. [01:00:28] Speaker B: That's why we met. [01:00:28] Speaker A: Allegedly. Allegedly. But yeah. Callous accepts Mock's challenge on behalf of Takeshita. Okada shows up and says he'd love to be celebrating with his best friend Kyle, too. But he showed up to work. [01:00:44] Speaker B: I love this delivery. So good. [01:00:47] Speaker A: He's a. He's a champion. Unlike Takeshita. [01:00:51] Speaker B: She's such a little stirrer. [01:00:59] Speaker A: Andrade. [01:01:02] Speaker C: Well, I need. Okay, so, Andrade, we have to have a talk. Honey, please. Whatever the he had going on here is knocking for me. Maybe if you lost the hat. The hat was a problem. I could deal with the. [01:01:16] Speaker A: The. [01:01:17] Speaker B: I liked it. I described it as sick in my notes. It's like, Andrade comes out sick ass suit. [01:01:22] Speaker A: He was just. No, well, that's the thing. Like, he wears a. [01:01:26] Speaker B: He's a divorce. He's like Blanch Devereaux, but, oh, he [01:01:30] Speaker A: gets naked in the ring. He doesn't. He's not gonna, like, just wear, like, be like suns out. Guns out in the back in the. Like. [01:01:40] Speaker C: No, but that's fine. The hat's wrong. The hat is an issue. [01:01:47] Speaker B: It's just. I forgot is sewing his wild oats. [01:01:52] Speaker C: If it felt like he was the limo driver for the rest of the family, I was like, you got it. You gotta drop the hat. Well, the hat's freaking me out. Otherwise enjoyed all this the promo ended with Lance Archer just kind of holding the guy for a while before for like unceremoniously dropping them near the end. That was good stuff. All of it. Everybody died. It was. It was great. [01:02:18] Speaker A: Okada. Okada put Andrade over as the uncrowned world champion. Andrade's eyes are on the title and Don Callis says they're not going to ignore Claudio's CMLL heavyweight title and they're going to target him too. And they announced later on it's going to be Josh Alexander challenging Claudio for that. Cmml. Cml. [01:02:39] Speaker C: Passing it. [01:02:40] Speaker B: That would be a good match. [01:02:41] Speaker C: I missed that. [01:02:42] Speaker B: I figured they would have. [01:02:43] Speaker C: Would have tossed the Lucha at it, [01:02:45] Speaker B: but yeah, I thought they were implying Andrade was gonna go against him, but I missed the announcement. [01:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah, well, they. They kind of. They kind of dropped it in the middle of the main event where everybody was focused on that. [01:02:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I easily probably glossed over that. [01:03:00] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. I was too busy watching a holy kind of match. Yeah. Anyways, we'll get there. [01:03:07] Speaker B: We got more important things first. [01:03:09] Speaker A: Hey, you guys. You guys like promos? Because we got another promo. It's from Hook, everyone's favorite. [01:03:16] Speaker C: Hey, dog, I heard you like promos, so I put some promo in your promo. [01:03:20] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, we gotta. We got a Hook promo. Yeah. So, yeah, Hook is here and he says he's the new boss of the ops. Because I don't even think you can [01:03:27] Speaker B: call it a promo. There's a promo like it's supposed to. This makes me not want to walk. This is an anti promo. This is a no mo. [01:03:34] Speaker A: I don't think it was that. I think it was. I don't think it was that bad. [01:03:38] Speaker C: It was really. It was really bad. Like, I am a. A hook apologist for the most part. I. Yeah, he. I'm. [01:03:49] Speaker B: Until like the last month. [01:03:51] Speaker C: Oh my God. Because, like, I really love his in the ring, but. Oh my God. [01:03:59] Speaker B: God, it's all been downhill since he lost Action. Action Bronson. [01:04:04] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I'll say this is that the guy's only 26. Yeah, he'll figure it out. [01:04:11] Speaker B: I mean, that's not that young anymore though. Like, that's. [01:04:14] Speaker A: It is. [01:04:15] Speaker C: It was one thing when he was [01:04:16] Speaker B: like 22, but like that for like four or five years. I. Yeah, I just don't see. [01:04:24] Speaker C: But he's got it. [01:04:25] Speaker B: Something. [01:04:25] Speaker C: Something's gotta get. [01:04:27] Speaker B: Like he could progress. It could be saved. Like everybody can. It's wrestling. I seen crazier turnarounds for sure. People that I didn't like that I grew to love. [01:04:35] Speaker A: I'm just saying, Takeshita didn't hit his stride until 28, so I don't know. [01:04:40] Speaker C: Okay, here, here. I'm gonna throw it out. This is how we fix Hook. This is how we fix Hook. You do some sort of angle where he gets his tongue cut out. Right? [01:04:51] Speaker B: That's. He was great when he was silent. [01:04:53] Speaker C: He can just never. Yeah. Just never talk again and it'll, it'll be fine. I don't care how you do it. Jason Alexander does it. I don't know. He seems crazy. [01:05:09] Speaker B: In Game of Thrones when the dude, when they arrest the bard that's singing the song about the dead king and he gets his tongue cut out. [01:05:18] Speaker C: Yeah, just real quick one. Yeah. [01:05:20] Speaker A: I really do think that. Yeah, they gotta, they gotta not have been. [01:05:24] Speaker C: Shut them up. [01:05:25] Speaker B: I think they should send him to a different company for a bit. I think Hook could deal with. I think he could do like six months in Japan, in New Japan or something and probably learn a lot and get some more back. [01:05:37] Speaker A: As far as I know, he doesn't do outside bookings. Like. [01:05:41] Speaker B: No, he does. He's only done this, like, give him something fresh, mix it up a little. [01:05:44] Speaker A: Yeah, he's gotta, He's. He needs an excursion. [01:05:47] Speaker B: Send him to gcw. [01:05:49] Speaker A: He tells us that Shibata is recruiting in Japan for the ops. And Hook's in charge of domestic recruiting. And he says recruiting, like, several times in a row because he was. [01:06:01] Speaker B: Yeah. The idea that he sends Shibata to Japan, like. No, Shibata is out cuddling with Kenta right now. They are having fun and beating up young man. You had nothing to do with it. [01:06:11] Speaker C: Yeah, no, this is. [01:06:13] Speaker A: Maybe, maybe he'll recruit Kenta. I don't know. He, he says he's the greatest second generation wrestler of all time and boss of the ops. [01:06:21] Speaker B: And it's just the boss of the ops. [01:06:23] Speaker A: It's, it's very repetitive and not great. [01:06:25] Speaker B: There's nothing behind. I'm sorry to keep going. I'm just, I really did not like this at all. No, no, because there's no, there's no. How did you spend all this time around Samoa Joe and you can't, like, put anything behind your promos. There is no energy. There's no aura, nothing. Sorry, I'll stop. [01:06:45] Speaker C: No, no, it's fine. I'll pick up what where you, where you left off. Him. No, I, I, I loved him, but, like, this is really bad. This is super bad. [01:06:55] Speaker B: This was a four situation because Joe got hurt. So they. He has to step in and he's. I'm sure he's doing his best with it. [01:07:02] Speaker C: But why. Why would Shibata come back? Like. Like, are we sure he like, are you sure that that's what he's doing or is this that Did Shabbata go out to get a pack of cigarettes [01:07:14] Speaker A: and I'm gonna go out for cigarettes and milk cook. I'll be back [01:07:20] Speaker B: with Hiromu being the new member of the ops. And it's actually gonna get good. [01:07:24] Speaker A: Oh God. Can you imagine? [01:07:26] Speaker B: That's not gonna ho's go into WWE with evil and David Finley. [01:07:31] Speaker A: That's terrible. Well, I don't need to watch that. I mean like. Yeah, here's the thing is like I didn't like that if Hook's not. If. If they're gonna make Hook work, they gotta get. They. They gotta. They gotta work with him on this. And they gotta keep giving him shots to do this type of thing. If they don't, then he will literally [01:07:50] Speaker B: never be a B12 shots. [01:07:52] Speaker A: If. If they. They like just let him be a kick ass guy. Let him be like Shibata's young boy. And like they're just silently beating people the up every week. Do that. I don't need him to lead an army of mooks. [01:08:09] Speaker C: Yeah, we don't need goon squad. We're done. [01:08:12] Speaker A: It was. It was. [01:08:14] Speaker B: There aren't even the mooks anymore. It's just old enough. I talk to a camera. There's nobody. [01:08:20] Speaker A: He needs his moocs. [01:08:22] Speaker C: But this is what I'm saying. What if. What if like. Because like this. All right, so this video package got zero reaction, right? That wasn't just me. There was. [01:08:33] Speaker B: It was silent. [01:08:34] Speaker C: Nobody through like all of it. So like have we seen an op outside of Hook in weeks? So what if he's just like, yeah, this is. All this shit's going on. I'm the leader of the ops. That's what's going on. Then a couple weeks. He just keeps doing this. And after a while everybody quit. [01:08:56] Speaker B: And he's just going. Everybody. [01:09:02] Speaker C: It is just him. And all the goons are gone. [01:09:06] Speaker B: They fired you from the company a year ago. I'm the boss of the. [01:09:09] Speaker C: Never coming back with those smokes. He's never coming back with those smokes. [01:09:16] Speaker B: You work at rallies now, Hook. Stop saying it. The whole all of a is just a hallucination of Hook. It. You know it. Credits roll as him holding a snow globe. [01:09:31] Speaker C: That's a deep breed, kid. [01:09:32] Speaker A: All right, all right. I'm gonna talk about the next match now. Yeah, I'm talking about the next match now. It's. It's. It's. It's. What the is it? That's the Bro and Birds and. And Alex Windsor. The Bro and Birds. They're a tag team now, and they are taking on Viva Van and Becca, who I mostly know from Hood Slam. I'm sorry, there's Slam Town right now. [01:10:00] Speaker C: They are Slam Town right now. [01:10:01] Speaker B: Viva Van's really good. [01:10:04] Speaker A: Viva Van's been. She's been like a Ring of Honor regular more often, I believe. [01:10:09] Speaker B: Yeah, she does a lot of Ring of Honor stuff. Yeah. [01:10:11] Speaker C: As far as this match goes, like, I was impressed with Becca. Like, I've never seen Becca before, but holy. [01:10:21] Speaker A: I kind of dig the Brawling Birds. I would like to see them. [01:10:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:24] Speaker A: In, like, a longer match. Yeah. [01:10:26] Speaker B: This wasn't much. This was just introductory stuff, but. [01:10:29] Speaker A: But, like, they're just very British because they called themselves they're women and they're birds. [01:10:36] Speaker B: Alex Windsor has the Sex Pistols font [01:10:39] Speaker A: top now she's a bird. [01:10:44] Speaker B: That's what they call ladies. [01:10:46] Speaker A: That's. I actually do have that on there. I wrote that in my notes, actually. Here's what. Here's a lot I wrote. Brawling Bird sounds like their gimmick is Twitter, even though in the UK a bird is just a way to say lady. [01:11:04] Speaker C: That's what they call them. [01:11:06] Speaker B: That's what the notes are for. So you don't think so. You don't forget that. [01:11:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you, Jeff. Like, that's how you say lady British. He's a right old bird. [01:11:18] Speaker B: I watched the peep show. [01:11:20] Speaker A: That's where the birds are because they peep. Let's see. They got some good double team stuff going on. [01:11:29] Speaker B: They gave a lot to Becca and Viva Van. Like, they do got more offense than I was expecting. [01:11:35] Speaker A: I think they need to show off their teamwork a little bit. So, like, they. The. The one move I noted was Windsor does, like, a sunset flip to Viva Van and then kind of rolls her back up so she's facing up and Hater just boots her in the face. [01:11:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:11:54] Speaker A: Which is cool. They kind of beat on Van for a little bit, and then she gets tagged to Becca and she actually, you know, like we said, she got some offense hit on both of them. Gets that big springboard double stutter. [01:12:08] Speaker C: Yeah. That was sick. [01:12:11] Speaker A: That was nice. It was nice. Doesn't last long. Alex Windsor slingshots Becca into an Uranagi to from Jamie Hayter, who just, like, breaks her Spine. And then they get the sandwich running elbow thing on her. [01:12:25] Speaker B: That's always good. [01:12:27] Speaker A: It looked nasty. And then they do. Their finisher is a heart attack, which was so good. Put some 79 stink on that lariat. [01:12:40] Speaker B: Yeah. I thought it was very cool. It looked great. [01:12:43] Speaker C: She's like, this is my. Like, like. Yeah, I love. I love that she sticks to that. [01:12:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Sometimes you see a heart attack and it's like they just kind of like tap them with the arm and they drop. No, she followed through with the clothes. It looked like she really killed her. [01:12:59] Speaker C: I really appreciate that about her. The fact that she's just like, no, this is my. Like, this is my. My bread and butter, basically. If I don't hit you as hard as I can with a clothesline, I'm not Jamie hater. [01:13:12] Speaker A: Because. Because like you, like you said, Jeff, usually the. The impact of a heart attack is the. The slam part of it. [01:13:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:13:20] Speaker A: But haters just like, I'm going to rip your head off. [01:13:24] Speaker B: It looks so good. [01:13:25] Speaker A: Brawling Birds win the squash match and their finisher is called Two Birds, One Stone, which is awesome. [01:13:31] Speaker B: Yep, Very solid. I thought this was a fun little introduction match. I guess they debuted on, like the House Rule show in Australia, but This was their TV debut. [01:13:40] Speaker A: They were like. They had a 10 record. [01:13:41] Speaker B: They said, yeah, yeah, I'm excited. I'm glad they're doing more with the women's tag division. I think back in FIFA. Van, give them money. We had TV time. [01:13:53] Speaker A: Two women's matches, and sure, one was a squash. [01:13:58] Speaker C: That was. I. I'm not calling that. [01:14:00] Speaker B: It wasn't even like a full on squash. [01:14:03] Speaker C: No, that was. It was a job. No, it was a jobber match. It wasn't a squash. It was absolutely a jobber match, but it wasn't a squash. [01:14:13] Speaker A: If it was under three minutes, it was a squash. I'll check. [01:14:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought it was like five or six, so. Yeah, no, that's a fair. That's a fair call. [01:14:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:14:21] Speaker A: I mean, if it was five minutes, [01:14:23] Speaker B: I'll abide by that. [01:14:25] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm cage matching. I'm cage matching. I'm cage matching. [01:14:28] Speaker A: All right, I will advance the spider [01:14:30] Speaker B: man in the first movie. [01:14:32] Speaker C: Yes. Please drive while I do the thing. [01:14:34] Speaker A: Renee is with Kris Statlander and the returning Thunder, Rosa. Yeah. Looks sick as Stat is injured and she's not cleared to wrestle, but she really wants to fight Tekla. Tekla, as we mentioned, is in Australia still and she. That's her home country, Australia, and she's being Pampered in a hotel. [01:14:55] Speaker B: Vienna, Australia. [01:14:57] Speaker A: Like, horrible diarrhea or something. I don't know. [01:15:00] Speaker B: Yeah, they probably all got the croup. [01:15:02] Speaker A: They all got the croup. Some whiskey put on their gums. It's gonna be painful for the straight edge ones. Thunder Rosa. So stats not clear to wrestle, but Thunder Rose is, and she's gonna. She doesn't like what Tekla and the Triangle of Madness have done, so she's going after Tekla stat. Tells her to be careful because there's be crazy. Yeah. And then I think Thunder Rosa is having a comeback match on collision against Julia Hart. [01:15:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:39] Speaker C: All right, wait, wait. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on. What? What did we say? Under three minutes of the squash? [01:15:44] Speaker A: Yeah, under three. [01:15:46] Speaker C: Three minutes, 54 seconds. [01:15:47] Speaker B: Jobber matching Osquatch semi squash. [01:15:50] Speaker A: All right, all right. [01:15:52] Speaker B: That's because of the comeback section. And they did get, like. [01:15:55] Speaker C: It was definitely that double. That double springboard cutter was purdy. You don't get one of those in if it's a squash ever. [01:16:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's fair. [01:16:05] Speaker C: Anyways, Vindicated. Drive. Continue. [01:16:09] Speaker A: You are not vindicated. Damn this mat. This. All right. I did not know this match was coming up. This ruled Kevin Knight vs. The Beast mortars. Holy Tony. [01:16:21] Speaker B: Specifically booking for me again. Thank you. [01:16:23] Speaker A: Yep. [01:16:24] Speaker B: Oh, so good. [01:16:25] Speaker A: They do add some stakes to this, where if Mortos can beat Knight, then LFI will get a trio's title match on collision. This is before the chant started, but I write like the crowd loves Beast Mortos because he's half of their lawyer. Half the crowd's lawyer. [01:16:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:16:41] Speaker A: And then the crowd repeatedly chants, he's a lawyer or he'll sue you. [01:16:47] Speaker B: He's gonna sue you. Frank Morto's attorney at law lives on Esquire. [01:16:54] Speaker C: Yes. [01:16:55] Speaker A: Yeah, the. The main thing that Commentary wants us to know is that Mortos is really, really good at shutting down High Flyers. So this might not be a good match for Kevin Knight. [01:17:06] Speaker C: Someone's got to take him down a peg or two. [01:17:07] Speaker A: Knight does get to spring around and do his things before Mortos basically just, like, headbutts him to death. [01:17:13] Speaker B: That was really good. The verdict. [01:17:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:17:18] Speaker A: Danielson is just, like, enjoying himself way too much watching this match. [01:17:25] Speaker C: He likes the grabs. [01:17:26] Speaker B: It's so nice having Danielson back on Commentary. I know we talked about him, like, hurting too much to exist to do it all the time. So it's a big tree whenever he shows up. [01:17:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:35] Speaker C: But what happened to Taz is this. [01:17:38] Speaker B: I was thinking the same thing. I. I Think it's. He's probably just recover. He's probably harder than. [01:17:44] Speaker C: I think they're discriminating against heel commentators. I don't like it. [01:17:47] Speaker A: We're saying probably. Yeah. Nobody likes heal commentators. They suck. They're all terrible in their opinions for themselves. [01:17:55] Speaker C: What the. I'm a tweener. We'll see. We'll see how the rest of the episode goes. [01:18:01] Speaker A: We'll see how it goes. No, I think. I think actually, Taz has the same thing Danielson has where it, like, it hurts for him to travel. Yeah. [01:18:09] Speaker B: So they're just like. They're more surgery scar than person. [01:18:12] Speaker A: Danielson gets the West Coast, Taz gets the East Coast. [01:18:16] Speaker B: And Book will show up if they show up, or Taz will show up if they show up in Red Hook. If they do a show there. He's in. Besides that, he's not coming. [01:18:24] Speaker A: He's not. [01:18:24] Speaker C: Mox will show up anywhere unless you, like, force him not to. [01:18:28] Speaker B: Yeah. And he'll get on commentary and not leave, even though he's supposed to. And it's amazing. Yeah. Just like, hey, I'm having fun out here. [01:18:35] Speaker A: Taz is actually refusing to appear until we apologize for being mean to his son. [01:18:40] Speaker B: Yeah. He's gonna wait a while. [01:18:42] Speaker C: Well, you know what? You know what? You can stop being such a little. How about that? You can get better at this. [01:18:48] Speaker A: Hammond Hager, he can talk better on the microphone. That's what he can do. [01:18:52] Speaker C: That's what he can do. [01:18:54] Speaker A: He can. He can. He can have some breakfast meats. [01:18:57] Speaker B: The hook signal amounted to nothing. [01:19:00] Speaker C: Don't heal me, Taz. I'll heal you. I heal the healer. [01:19:04] Speaker A: Heal the healer. [01:19:05] Speaker B: It sounds like you are making him. Yeah. Physically better. [01:19:08] Speaker A: Yeah. And that he's a cleric or something. [01:19:10] Speaker C: Yeah, sometimes. [01:19:11] Speaker A: Well, you got. [01:19:12] Speaker C: I don't know if it's a big raid. You got two healers. One can kill the other two. [01:19:17] Speaker A: Let's see. Excalibur. Danielson for ripping out his mouth because Mortos was doing, like, the vice thing where he tries prying the mouth open. And Excalibur is like, remember when you did that to me? You. [01:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah. I love when they reference back their matches and just Danielson beating the out of Excalibur. [01:19:37] Speaker A: Speaking of wrestlers who are more scar than human, it's Excalibur. [01:19:43] Speaker B: His knees. [01:19:45] Speaker A: His knees are all surgical scars. [01:19:48] Speaker C: Speaking of commentary, one of them talked about, like, how mortals got caught on what I assume is his chin. That. [01:19:56] Speaker A: Yes. [01:19:57] Speaker B: Yeah, Danielson said that. That was really good. [01:20:00] Speaker A: All right. Night. Night. Is Making his well more. All right, first off, I want to shout out the fact that Mortis hits, like, the sickest tornio tope in history. [01:20:11] Speaker C: Like, oh, he's so good at that. It's so. You shouldn't be able. [01:20:17] Speaker A: Nobody should be. I don't care how big you are, you should not be able to do that. That man can't do that. I'm sorry. I'm, like, wearing a. [01:20:25] Speaker C: Like, well, wearing like, a minotaur. [01:20:27] Speaker B: Yeah. That mask looks like it's got to be the hardest thing to breathe in. And he is doing, like, the craziest I've ever seen a human being do. [01:20:35] Speaker A: Like, you ever wear a Halloween, like, condensate? [01:20:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I can't breathe that for, like, two minutes. I always. I would always have to pull it up to breathe. Like, and that was just walking from houses to houses to get candy. [01:20:49] Speaker A: There's got to be so much baby powder in that mask. Yeah. [01:20:53] Speaker C: Oh, God. So much cardio. Jesus. [01:20:56] Speaker A: Oh, God. Yeah. Like, Martos is in full control until Knight escapes a press slam. He gets a headbutt for his trouble, but then he gets the. The drop kick to what Danielson's assumes is the chin of mutos, which is the greatest ever. And I don't know if he means that. Like, he doesn't know if the mask is the chin. [01:21:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:21:15] Speaker B: I don't even know if he was like, Joe. [01:21:16] Speaker A: Yeah. But, like, they seem to. They seem to be a legend. They. They seem to just be playing along that Mortos is not fully human because. [01:21:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't have. Do both have chins? [01:21:34] Speaker C: Good question. Google. Yeah, Google AI doodle. [01:21:39] Speaker A: Google AI. Show me a bull with a chin. [01:21:42] Speaker C: Oh, God, Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. [01:21:45] Speaker A: I don't. Don't want to see that. No. Nope, nope, nope. Not even as a joke. Let's see. Knight has been fighting for a body slam the whole match, and he finally gets it in the crowd. Pops. [01:21:55] Speaker B: Yeah, that was Morto's. [01:21:58] Speaker C: Comes like a baby face. [01:21:59] Speaker A: He goes up to the second rope, but Knights catches him with the big hurricane. Rana pendulum, DDT UFO splash. And that is all. Kevin Knight wins. And Kevin Knight's the real deal. And Mortos rules. They. That was awesome. [01:22:15] Speaker C: The only art thing that I want to make sure we mention is at some point, at one point in this match, Kevin Knight does, like, a running, standing UFO splash. And just man, that guy. Like, nobody should do that. [01:22:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, you can't. You can't move that. You can't move like that. You stop it. You stop it. Kevin actually. No, don't stop. [01:22:39] Speaker C: You stop that right now. No, no, please go. Keep going. Get gold. [01:22:42] Speaker A: More gold. [01:22:43] Speaker C: More gold. [01:22:44] Speaker B: I know I keep saying this is another one where like five more minutes. I would have been so happy. Like it really could have gone on longer for me. [01:22:51] Speaker C: That's kind of the whole, the whole thing. And I think what we're learning here is that this was a pay per view. Like this was a real really good dynamite. This is a very good dynamite. Yeah. [01:23:02] Speaker B: It was just a really well booked car for being if. If what Meltzer says. Right. It is a like scrambled together card. It really like they put it pull that off. [01:23:12] Speaker C: If that's true. If that's true. It is just a testament to how sick this roster is because just. Jesus Christ. What a show. And yeah, when I'm done with it, [01:23:25] Speaker A: like I was gonna say. Yeah because like the main event is next and the main event. Awesome. [01:23:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:23:31] Speaker B: The real. [01:23:32] Speaker A: And that was. We know that was set up last week but like. [01:23:34] Speaker C: Yeah it was set up last week but like I wonder when they. Before that they knew where they're going with that. [01:23:41] Speaker A: So like these weekly shows remind me of when like really old school Ring of Honor when they would run like bi. Monthly or they'd run like two weekends. [01:23:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:23:53] Speaker B: Out of a month before they started like regular. The actual TV reviews. [01:23:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Like the, the DVD era. [01:24:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:24:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:24:01] Speaker A: And they'd usually like book one or two like really, really big matches to bring people in. But then the undercard was phenomenal as well. And like it. It would usually have like what did. What did. What would it usually have? A tag team match? A four way match. [01:24:19] Speaker B: Yeah. A good like variety pack of like really cool. Yeah, exactly. [01:24:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:24:25] Speaker B: The more things change, the more they stay the same. [01:24:29] Speaker A: And like they, they would never be like you know, pay per view quality but they'd still be high quality shows. Like you'd get your money's worth and. No, I got my money's worth. [01:24:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:24:38] Speaker B: Without doubt. I didn't pay anything so that helps. [01:24:40] Speaker A: They did a little. A little video package for Will Ospreay and he must be coming back soon because they've been doing these weekly. [01:24:48] Speaker B: Yeah, they're building to it. [01:24:50] Speaker A: He said he's made of titanium screws and ambition. So I guess he's going to be doing the Narcissus Loaded elbow. [01:24:57] Speaker B: Some theorizing that Hangman. Hangman beats MJF and they do Hangman vs Osprey at all and which could be cool. [01:25:05] Speaker C: I don't think. I. I don't think Osprey is going for the. [01:25:09] Speaker A: The. [01:25:10] Speaker C: I don't know, because remember, he. [01:25:12] Speaker B: A ways away still. [01:25:14] Speaker C: But it also. Remember Osprey came out in Japan and was like, hey, I'm coming back to. To New Japan. I gotta go take care of some unfinished business in aw. [01:25:24] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's. He was just putting Cal Newman's ass off. Like, I don't know. [01:25:30] Speaker A: He'll probably wrestle Callum at like, Wrestlekin next year and like, third match from the top. [01:25:37] Speaker B: He'll do some appearances and stuff, but I think AW will still be his priority. [01:25:42] Speaker C: Well, yeah, but I mean, like, I. I don't know. I just mean if he plans on going and doing like a. A little stint over there. [01:25:49] Speaker B: Like a program. Yeah. I don't know. [01:25:51] Speaker C: Yeah, like just a program. I. No. Yeah. [01:25:54] Speaker B: Who knows what the scheduling idea is? But yeah, that's just the theory I heard tossed around. [01:25:57] Speaker A: I. I'd look out for that around Wrestle Kingdom season. I don't know if he'll be back in time for all that. I don't actually know what his timetable is, but like, they. They're making. Yeah. [01:26:06] Speaker B: Very close with these. They've been running these every week. He's got to be within the next month. I imagine. [01:26:12] Speaker A: He says that this AEW isn't where the best wrestle. It's where the billy goat wrestles. Okay, sure. [01:26:19] Speaker B: After the last few months. [01:26:20] Speaker C: No, it's where the billy goats on commentary. Okay, thank you very much. [01:26:26] Speaker A: That's the Brian goat. The Brian goat. [01:26:28] Speaker C: That's the Brian Go. He's the Brian goat. But he. Little bit of goat gra. [01:26:32] Speaker B: Mr. Tumus looking ass, you know. [01:26:35] Speaker C: Go F. [01:26:40] Speaker A: Thank you, Jeff. [01:26:43] Speaker C: God podcast. Thank you. [01:26:47] Speaker A: We got the. The Demando here and Ricochet says he's done with Jack Perry. He's put him in the dirt and now he can focus on getting the GOA Gold jet set. Rodeo doesn't have a match on Collision now because Kevin beat Mortos. So they're going to take it. Totally. Leona Cutters. Like a really good, intense promo he does. Yeah, I like that. Like, starts out normal and then like, builds up to stream and to like, ricochet is like, we'll calm down. [01:27:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he showed some fire there. [01:27:18] Speaker A: It's basically like, see you Saturday. And they go back to their locker room and what's in the door? There's a knife has been put through the little sticky that says Demand Whitland. [01:27:28] Speaker C: Jack says, you might be done with me, but I'm not done with you have my knife. [01:27:35] Speaker B: I'm going to need this knife back. It was expensive. [01:27:39] Speaker C: Yes. [01:27:39] Speaker A: No. [01:27:39] Speaker C: I put a lot of time and effort into making this. Please return it. [01:27:43] Speaker B: My dressing room is next door. So. [01:27:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:27:46] Speaker A: Now we come to the main event of the evening. First time ever. Swerve Strickland vs. Kenny Omega. The fact that this is not on pay per view is just. [01:27:57] Speaker C: Gird your loins, girls. Like, just. Oh. Oh, my God. My hatches are battened. [01:28:06] Speaker B: Well, I guess I know I keep getting the, like, backstage stuff, but apparently Kenny is like, he's booked for like an anime con or on the same weekend as Revolution. He's always like, we got. He's a way to write him off and for. [01:28:21] Speaker C: Are you serious? [01:28:23] Speaker A: Street Fighter? [01:28:24] Speaker B: Like a video game? Yeah, probably a fighting game or something. I don't know. Some nerd. He's already signed up for on the weekend. [01:28:32] Speaker A: Revolution. [01:28:32] Speaker C: Tony, I'm sorry. I gotta go be a weeb. I'm the guy. I am the God of wrestling. And also just a weird little old guy. [01:28:42] Speaker A: I'm gonna go. [01:28:43] Speaker B: He's like, I understand. I am also a weird little guy. [01:28:48] Speaker A: Have to cosh play as Leon Kennedy with my little gun. Pew, pew, pew. [01:28:54] Speaker C: And Tony's like, I get that. I totally understand that. You go, go off king. So in the meantime, Swerve, kill this man. [01:29:07] Speaker A: Yep. [01:29:10] Speaker B: He's going to dragon con in a bag. [01:29:15] Speaker C: This happen? Yeah. This Hammond egger up. Send him in a body bag. You needed this. I needed this. Get him. [01:29:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna. I want to shout out Hampter here because last week Hampton was pointing out that Nana is not carrying coffee with him to the ring anymore. He's got the embassy towel. [01:29:37] Speaker C: Something different there. Yeah. Hanging on the boss's chain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a shift. I know what you're talking about. I think everything's fine. I think Swerve is right all the time. [01:29:53] Speaker A: Spoilers. They had a very sporting match and shook hands afterwards and hugged. [01:29:58] Speaker C: Oh, good. See? Got no swerves. [01:30:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. It was. It was a. It was good. It was a wholesome. Yeah. Sportsmanship filled match. [01:30:08] Speaker C: Swerve would never do anything wrong. [01:30:10] Speaker A: Swerve did nothing wrong. [01:30:12] Speaker C: Swerve did nothing wrong. I'm starting. You heard it here first, folks. Swerve Strickland did nothing wrong. Whose house? A gentleman's house. [01:30:22] Speaker A: The house. Well, does he have a house? I guess he does have a house. [01:30:25] Speaker B: Not anymore. [01:30:26] Speaker C: He's got. He must have gotten a new one, you know. [01:30:29] Speaker B: No, he just sleeps in the ashes of his childhood home. [01:30:32] Speaker C: Whose house? Nobody's not a grow up around him. [01:30:35] Speaker B: Like a tauntaun from Star Wars. [01:30:38] Speaker A: I thought he smelled bad. On the outside. [01:30:41] Speaker B: On the outside. Steal your weed. No, you're not. [01:30:50] Speaker A: Oh, man. [01:30:54] Speaker B: Every hatred I have for Hook is reversed into love for Prince Nana. [01:30:59] Speaker A: Needless to say, this has a big fight feel to it. Even MJF is watching on TV in the back. They do, like, the angriest lockup I've ever seen. And Tony Shivani mentions that he loves a good snug hookup and Same. [01:31:14] Speaker B: And. [01:31:15] Speaker A: And then they, like, immediately degenerate to slapping each other in the face. And you know what they say. One man slaps another man. Somebody's got to go. [01:31:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You. [01:31:28] Speaker A: You. [01:31:28] Speaker C: You pull guns after that. Yeah. Like you. You have a fight, you have a shootout after that. It was a. That's an old Dave Chappelle bit. That's Charlie Murphy. I was like, where'd my brain pull that from? I know the way ways. Like, I'm hearing that and not my voice. [01:31:47] Speaker A: That's right. I'm a millennial. I just repeat media that I've seen from my child. [01:31:51] Speaker C: Hey, I'm neurodiverge you. [01:31:55] Speaker B: I was raised by tv, and TV never disappointed me. [01:31:59] Speaker C: Disappointed me lots of times. [01:32:01] Speaker B: But I watch even that's a reference to Community. [01:32:04] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, God. [01:32:05] Speaker A: People on TV have disappointed me as I've gotten older. But leave the memories alone, right? [01:32:10] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [01:32:12] Speaker A: Kenny wants to go for the Terminator tope, but swerve shuts it down, gets a fosberry flop that he, like, kind of lands on his knees on the apron, which had to suck ass. [01:32:22] Speaker B: That didn't look good. [01:32:24] Speaker A: And then Kenny goes to do a moonsault on the guardrail, but slips, but he just does it anyway. [01:32:30] Speaker B: Yeah, he did a good little recover [01:32:31] Speaker C: where he made a little face like, oh, yeah. He's like, let's try again. [01:32:37] Speaker A: Yeah, he. He. He goes back to like on the commercial. He, like, pulls the. The padding off and he's like, swinging it around because it's a pool. Pool. It's basically a pool noodle. They're fighting in the crowds. Swerve. Gets a diving elbow to the back of Kenny's head. Danielson talks about lots of. [01:32:53] Speaker C: Lots of. Lots of work in the back of Kenny's head this match. It's wild. He seems to be staying away from the guts. [01:33:01] Speaker A: Well, they kind of mentioned the guts early on. They were like, ah, that's Kenny's stomach where he had the diverticulitis. And they took out 10ft of guts. They just can't stop talking about the diverticulitis. [01:33:18] Speaker C: I wish somebody would. [01:33:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:22] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, so did. So, so, so did throwing a single. There goes a single frog. Jumping blue. Both his quad just. [01:33:36] Speaker B: I forgot about that. It's like 30 seconds. [01:33:38] Speaker C: I watched that happen live because kiddo wanted to watch a WrestleMania and it just happened to be that one. [01:33:44] Speaker B: There goes the money there. [01:33:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Here comes the money. There went the money. Yeah. [01:33:49] Speaker B: Friend of the pod, Shane McMahon. [01:33:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:33:52] Speaker C: I just. I wish somebody would, would, would. Would grievously injure some other part of Kenny Omega's body so they would stop talking about all of this guts talk. Well, if only someone. Well, anyways, anyways, how did. Just keep going. [01:34:10] Speaker A: Because they definitely swerve. Doesn't just target the guts. He is really going after the head. [01:34:16] Speaker C: Oh, good. Oh, good, good. [01:34:18] Speaker A: Yeah, we always. We like a good, good man. We love some good head. [01:34:21] Speaker B: Any head. Omega, God damn it. That's what they call him. I'm sorry, I'm just. [01:34:29] Speaker C: Kenneth Jerome had Omega. [01:34:36] Speaker A: Basically every single time they talk about how much pain Kenny is in, they're just like, yeah, Brian, it's gotta really suck to be. To hurt all the time, right? He's like, yeah, yeah, it does. [01:34:46] Speaker B: That's your life now, right? That's how you're gonna be till you die. Right? [01:34:51] Speaker A: It really sucks. It sucked before I retired and it sucks even more now. You. [01:35:00] Speaker C: Hey, Brian, remember that time you pulled my mouth? [01:35:06] Speaker B: Excalibur's revenge. [01:35:08] Speaker A: Swerve gets this nice combo where he hits a power bomb on Kenny and then he, like, kind of holds on and pulls him up into a big power slam. And it was nice. Yeah, that was really beautiful. [01:35:18] Speaker C: That was some sick. [01:35:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:35:21] Speaker A: Swerves. Swerve's wrestling with an edge tonight. [01:35:24] Speaker B: Yes. [01:35:28] Speaker C: I don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's a. He's a gentleman. He's a scholar. He would never do anything like that. No, no, no, no, no, no. He's not a heel. You're a heel. No. What are you? A mark? [01:35:41] Speaker A: I am? Yes. Over hip toss. [01:35:45] Speaker B: Mark the marking Mongoose. [01:35:47] Speaker A: He tries to do that. That thing where he holds on to a hip toss and then rolls you up into a suplex. But Kenny throws a suplex instead. Yeah, he's cooking. He's got a basement drop kick. He put Swerve in the gut. Maybe swerves. Guts are the true after all. I don't know about escape. Kenny misses a corner dive. Worv wants Something in the corner, but, like, Kenny just drops him face first into the post. Snapdragon V trigger. Kenny like, like, shushes the crowd for a second. He holds Swerve's head up by like his hair, and then he just driven like, he just drives like point blank knees. Smashes him with that knee as loud as possible right into Swerve's face. It's nasty. [01:36:37] Speaker C: God. But you're calling. But you're saying Swerve is working. He. That was some dastardly. [01:36:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. [01:36:45] Speaker C: You know, it's fine when the. It's fine when the. Hey, face does it. [01:36:49] Speaker A: Heat of the moment. Heat of the moment. Oh, so. Oh, so it's fine when the face does it. So Swerve is. [01:36:54] Speaker C: Yeah, so it's fine with. [01:36:55] Speaker A: Yeah, so Swerve is the heel. [01:36:57] Speaker C: Oh. Oh, shut up. [01:36:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:36:59] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. [01:37:02] Speaker B: There. [01:37:03] Speaker A: I'm just gonna call the match. Shivani. [01:37:06] Speaker C: All right. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. [01:37:09] Speaker A: Kenny wants a third knee to the face. Swerve gets a backbreaker. Now we're on the apron. [01:37:14] Speaker C: Oh, this was sick. [01:37:17] Speaker A: Swerve just, like beats Kenny's face into the turnbuckle until he's limp and then he's going to go for a vertebreaker on the apron. That Candy reverses into a apron snap Dragon. The crowd is losing their. At this point, as they should. [01:37:34] Speaker B: This is where the match goes from, like second gear to third gear. Like, right at this point up until this, I was like, this is good. This is really. But from here on out, I was like, oh, oh, okay. This is what we're doing. This one it's not. I'm not gonna feel like I needed five more minutes. This is gonna be a real deal. [01:37:53] Speaker C: Oh, it's all. It's almost like all the other matches trimmed some time so that they could go out there and give us a class. [01:38:00] Speaker B: They still had a 20 minute overrun. [01:38:03] Speaker A: Yeah, [01:38:08] Speaker C: They do it for uncle boy. It's fine. [01:38:12] Speaker A: Kenny wants a snapdragon from the. Into the floor, but Swerve fights him off. So he switches to a German, which is just. Almost gets it. But Swerve backflips out of it, lands on his feet, while Kenny just like crashes to the floor. [01:38:28] Speaker C: Yeah. And then he does the. The scoop up. [01:38:31] Speaker A: Yep, he scoops him up, suplexes him on the floor. [01:38:34] Speaker C: Oh, so gross. [01:38:37] Speaker A: So nice. Kenny back in. 450 to Kenny's back for two. And he kind of landed knees first onto the small kids like, oh, no. That, like, hurt. They kind of jockey for position. Then Kenny does, like, this spinning back kick to the back of swerve's head. [01:38:58] Speaker C: Yeah, that shows. Gross. [01:39:00] Speaker A: They're both like, oh, God, my back. [01:39:02] Speaker C: Yeah, everybody's dying. [01:39:04] Speaker A: Kenny gets a knee in the corner, and then everyone's like, yeah, everybody's back is blown out at this point. Avalanche. Dragon suplex. [01:39:12] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [01:39:14] Speaker A: And it only gets two. It only gets two. Swerve pulls himself up to the ropes. Referee Aubrey Edwards goes to check on him and does she. [01:39:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [01:39:27] Speaker A: As Kenny comes in for the v, Trigger. As. As she's checking on him, Swerve pulls her in the way. [01:39:33] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no, no. [01:39:36] Speaker A: I didn't say he did it on purpose. You gotta relax. You gotta relax. [01:39:39] Speaker B: My monitor went out. [01:39:41] Speaker C: I saw. I saw it. Yeah, yeah. [01:39:42] Speaker A: No, either way, yeah. Trigger. [01:39:48] Speaker B: Aubrey is a bump here, too. Like, this was not like a. Like, push the ref into the corner, and they faint away. She got walloped. [01:39:56] Speaker A: Aubrey is kill. And like, she is. She is dead done. Like, they. You don't see her again for the rest of the show. [01:40:01] Speaker C: She's a fine girl. It's ter. It's a terrible thing. Yeah. [01:40:05] Speaker A: Aubrey is kill. [01:40:07] Speaker B: Swerve. [01:40:08] Speaker A: A1 swerve avoids a1 Winged angel, turns it into transition to a house call. But there's no ref to count it. The crowd is counting, but they count forever. [01:40:22] Speaker C: At this point. At this point, like, I want to. I love you, swerve. I love you. You're. You're my goat forever. However, you kind of did this to yourself, bro. [01:40:30] Speaker A: That was kind of dumb. That was kind of dumb. [01:40:32] Speaker C: Yeah, if. [01:40:35] Speaker B: If you. [01:40:36] Speaker C: If you pulled Aubrey in the way. I'm just saying, if you did it, that would have been really. See, this is proof. This is proof. You wouldn't know. Why would he have done that? A little bit stupid. See? Vindicated twice. One episode. [01:40:47] Speaker A: Heal. All right, so, yeah, he goes. Does a swerve stop on the apron. Omega's just, like, holding his face now, which is great because he's not worried about his guts anymore. So, like. Like. Like, they're. They're kind of sounding like swerve broke his jaw, I think. [01:41:04] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. See, See? See, he did the thing I asked him to do, and now people can stop talking about his guts. Yeah, now you can stop talking about this guts and start talking about his jaw. [01:41:18] Speaker A: Where. Let's see, what does he do? He pulls off the pad on the bottom, turnbuckle in the corner, and then slingshots Kenny's broken face into it. [01:41:28] Speaker C: Yeah, this Is gnarly. [01:41:29] Speaker A: And then he does a Swerve stomp. A second ref comes out, another one. [01:41:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:41:33] Speaker A: And it only gets two. And Swerve kind of loses his a little bit. [01:41:39] Speaker C: Well, I mean, wouldn't you like the look out. His face is like, come on, I damn near murdered you by, like, do I have to kill you? Do I have to kill the God of wrestling? [01:41:50] Speaker A: It's the home stretch, and people are wondering, what is it going to have to do to kill Kenny? Because Kenny won't die. He dodges a house call. He gets a snapdragon. B trigger poison Rana. Swerve fights out of a One Winged angel again, but he gets hit with another V trigger. Kenny's looking for another. [01:42:05] Speaker C: That's too many V triggers. [01:42:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's one V trigger too many. As he counters it with a house call. Big pressure. And Swerve. Strickland beats Kenny Omega clean as a sheet. [01:42:16] Speaker C: God killer. Yeah. That was real. [01:42:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:42:24] Speaker A: The war. [01:42:25] Speaker B: Absolutely. [01:42:26] Speaker A: Just. It was so good. It was such a good match. Like, holy. It was so much fun. [01:42:32] Speaker C: And then the episode ended. [01:42:34] Speaker A: And nothing else happened at the end. [01:42:37] Speaker C: And nothing else happened. [01:42:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Swerve said, sorry about your job. Why don't you take a couple weeks off, go see some. [01:42:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:42:45] Speaker C: And if anything else happened, he. He. It was fine. [01:42:50] Speaker B: It was all hooked. [01:42:51] Speaker C: Swerve didn't do anything wrong. [01:42:52] Speaker A: It was all actually in our hypothetical alternate universe, though, of where things actually happened. Swerve is like, actually, no, you. And attacks. He just jumps on Kenny and says, beating him in the face. [01:43:08] Speaker C: Yeah, he did get his ass. [01:43:12] Speaker A: He gets the chain from Nana, and Nana's just like, are you sure about this, boss? [01:43:18] Speaker C: Even that is like, we doing this? I mean, I'll go with you if this is what we're doing. [01:43:24] Speaker B: Boss. [01:43:25] Speaker C: Yeah, his boss. Your boss. Boss. [01:43:28] Speaker A: God. Yeah. So Swerve wraps a chain around Kenny's neck and he hangs him over the top rope just like Hangman taught him how to do. I learned it by watching you Hanger. [01:43:39] Speaker C: I learned it from my boyfriend. Yeah. Check out this new thing my boyfriend taught me. [01:43:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, no, that's. That's definitely a thing. Like, you know, you. You do. You learn one thing with a partner, you meet with somebody else, you'll be like, hey, let's try this. And it's strangulation with a chain. [01:43:56] Speaker C: Turns out I like hanging people with a chain. It's this thing I found out about myself. Also. Are you into needle playing? Getting hit in the face with a steel chair? Because also, it turns out way into that anyway. [01:44:12] Speaker B: Yeah, [01:44:15] Speaker C: you don't have any arson on arson records, dude. [01:44:20] Speaker A: Brian Danielson's on commentary. He's like screaming like, no, you don't have to do this. [01:44:25] Speaker B: I really like this. Yeah, yeah. You proved your point. Like Danielson just begging Swerve not to do it a nice time. [01:44:32] Speaker A: And like the other commentators be like, yo, Brian, you can't. You can't get involved in this. You're not. [01:44:36] Speaker B: Yeah, get the back. [01:44:37] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It's like you can't get involved in this. Swerve pulls the stairs over to the announce table. He hauls Kenny's limp dead ass up on it. Yeah. Sets him up for a vers Omega go. [01:44:51] Speaker C: This is so. [01:44:52] Speaker A: Robs his ass through the 10 ounce table. [01:44:56] Speaker B: It looks so. [01:44:57] Speaker A: And Swerve just sits in the wreckage. [01:45:00] Speaker C: What does he say? [01:45:02] Speaker A: Looks to the camera and says I needed this. [01:45:05] Speaker C: I needed this. I needed this. [01:45:09] Speaker B: And yes you did. And so did I actually makes it such good stuff is he's right. Since he came back, he's kind of felt like a second fiddle behind hangman stuff. Like he's kind of like. Yeah, like people gotta remember like Swerve when he got over his best was him doing this. It was him Lee and betraying Keith Lee and turning into this bad evil dude. [01:45:36] Speaker C: The embassy came out with the most dangerous man. [01:45:39] Speaker B: Like. And that's his. That's where he thrives. [01:45:43] Speaker A: It was the whole thing about how God like just. I don't even necessarily think that he was playing second fiddle the hangman. But like he was. He was waiting his turn. He played by the rules. [01:45:57] Speaker B: He didn't feel like to me he was like this the main center of anything. [01:46:03] Speaker C: And I think he felt. He. I think he felt with. I think he felt not heard. And I think when Kenny kicked out of that, he was like, no, no, no. Like how many times I gotta teach you this lesson? Old man guts. Pokey Jean White. White chin. [01:46:21] Speaker B: Like this is when he has his success. Like when Ruthless. [01:46:26] Speaker C: Yeah. He's like, I'm just gonna destroy your entire everything. Like. [01:46:30] Speaker A: And you know what? Awesome. I think everybody. [01:46:33] Speaker C: Yeah, it was. [01:46:35] Speaker A: I think it was. [01:46:36] Speaker C: Swerve did nothing wrong. [01:46:38] Speaker A: Just what he needed. [01:46:39] Speaker B: We talked. This might be in my. One of my top 10 matches of the year spots so far. [01:46:43] Speaker C: This is definitely. [01:46:44] Speaker B: I put it on there right now. [01:46:45] Speaker A: I think I would put it up there. Yeah. [01:46:48] Speaker C: The. This put. Yeah on my list. [01:46:50] Speaker B: This is at least in contention. [01:46:52] Speaker C: I would like to address you in public. Erica over. Over your stuff in the chat of giving me for playing Tommaso Ciampa on my list in January. [01:47:10] Speaker A: You. [01:47:11] Speaker C: I am bulking and then I will cut later in the year. Okay. [01:47:16] Speaker B: And I will tell myself that I like Champ. [01:47:19] Speaker A: Me too. [01:47:21] Speaker C: Shout out to Total Talk girls. Champa. Tommaso Champa. Yeah, it just is a. Gotta be a little Italian, even though he's not. [01:47:32] Speaker B: It's Sicilian. [01:47:33] Speaker A: I think I made my point very clear though, that, like, [01:47:38] Speaker C: that's what I'm saying before. [01:47:40] Speaker A: I've seen all the Tommy Chopper stuff. He has shown me nothing new in this run. I am okay. [01:47:46] Speaker C: But the stuff he showed me is real good. [01:47:50] Speaker A: Good job, buddy. [01:47:54] Speaker B: But this match, I would put in my top 10. [01:47:57] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. [01:47:58] Speaker B: Kenny was really good this one weekend. [01:48:01] Speaker C: That's my point is we can all agree on this. [01:48:03] Speaker A: Yes. There's, like, stuff. Like, there's. And like. Well, I also said it on the. The. The Patreon thing is that my preferred style is not necessarily like that NXT main event slash ladder match kind of thing anymore. Like, I'm very much like, give me Davis versus Mox 10 times out of 10. Before, like, you show me Tommy Chompers, show what acting he learned from Shawn Michaels in 10 years at NXT. [01:48:36] Speaker C: You're. [01:48:37] Speaker A: I'm just. You're mean. [01:48:39] Speaker C: I'm just. I don't know. [01:48:40] Speaker A: I am mean. You said you were gonna heal, and I'm. I'm. I'm up here. [01:48:45] Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah, I know. Hey, look, look, look. I can only heal so much. I love me some Tommy Chopper. [01:48:55] Speaker A: I tease. I tease. It's fine. [01:48:57] Speaker B: Johnny Gargano is going to be showing up in three months, and then it's [01:49:03] Speaker A: Hammond Egger, it's Gargano shows up, I'm done. [01:49:06] Speaker B: If he brings Candace, L. I'll be cool. [01:49:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Now she's three art. [01:49:12] Speaker A: I like her. I do like her. [01:49:16] Speaker B: I didn't know what you. I don't know. [01:49:17] Speaker A: I don't. I don't. I don't need to see DIY ever again. [01:49:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I. It's been done. [01:49:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:49:23] Speaker B: I don't even dislike Johnny Gargano. I actually am fairly pretty cool with that. Like, yeah, it. That doesn't need to happen in this company. [01:49:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I just want him to just, like, go ape and not do NXT stuff. [01:49:38] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I just want him to have. Have something that he. I want for him. What I want for anyone who comes over from the Fed, which is to do whatever the. Whatever the. He wants. Like, have fun, whatever that means. [01:49:55] Speaker B: I want him to do what I Want. [01:49:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:49:58] Speaker C: Well, no, I want him to know [01:49:59] Speaker A: I want him to be cool. I want him to have good. [01:50:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:50:04] Speaker B: More than anything, I want to have his torso and abs. [01:50:08] Speaker C: Yeah, this is true. I want to dip him in a fine honey mustard and. And put him in my mouth and pull them out the bones like fish. [01:50:16] Speaker A: Like a fish. [01:50:19] Speaker C: The Mark Davis special. I too one day will have my own dunk. [01:50:27] Speaker A: Well, we are. We are at the end of the episode. Is there anything we wish to plug or announce or. [01:50:34] Speaker B: I don't think anything particular upcoming. Yeah, I thought it was a great dynamite. I thought every. Like I said, the only complaint I ever had is I wanted more of different stuff. Like. Well, everything else I was. Yeah, yeah. That promo could have done 20 more minutes and then maybe it would have. [01:50:51] Speaker A: There just wasn't enough hook. [01:50:53] Speaker C: Shut the up. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. No, no. Yeah. You took the heel baton. I passed it off to you in the last two minutes. Things to plug. Go buy shirts and give money to rent support. You have until the end of the month before the payout hit. So anything you buy before then is going to go towards paying rent in March for people who can't leave their house because ICE is still here. I literally had a guy who is a citizen. Not like. Not like, oh, he like has papers. Here's legal. He's got a citizen. I've talked to him. He speaks English. He's a rehire. He. We rehired him. And on his. He was his first day. I talked about this a little bit on Blue Sky. I got more info on his first day. He sends us video. He's getting detained by ice, dropping off food for his parents. [01:51:53] Speaker A: And. [01:51:53] Speaker C: And he just got out like a couple days ago and. And gets to come back in because again, citizen, US citizen just grabbed his name's, you know, like he has a not white sounding name. So there you go. Like that's all it's really. It's. It's that it's still like that. They're still just going around racially profiling people and detaining them whether they have any reason to or not. So a lot of people aren't leaving their houses. So if you want to contribute to paying those people's rent because they can't work, go buy a T shirt. [01:52:30] Speaker A: And yeah, that just goes to show you don't necessarily listen to what the national news tells you. Listen to what the locals are saying. [01:52:38] Speaker C: Yeah, and the locals are saying jingle a meager. Anyways, Happy wrestling. [01:52:45] Speaker A: Happy wrestling. Happy dead Kennedy omegas. [01:52:51] Speaker C: Yes. Yes. Happy death of Kenneth Jerome Guts Omega. [01:52:57] Speaker B: We hardly knew the anime convention. [01:53:01] Speaker C: Yes. And then he'll be back. Yes. [01:53:03] Speaker B: I really don't. It might not be an anime convention. He's booked for something. It seemed like something. [01:53:09] Speaker A: It's just so funny that you're just like, yeah, he's at an anime convention. [01:53:14] Speaker B: I like, in my mind, he's not even booked his talent. He just had a ticket because he want. He wants to go and he's missing. [01:53:19] Speaker C: Yeah, no, no. Yeah, no, he's just going, yeah, no, he's not even. No, he's not even. It's not even like he's contractually obligated. He just said I had a little [01:53:26] Speaker B: backpack he's gonna buy. [01:53:27] Speaker A: I'm gonna wear my shift. Oh, my God. That's right. I will never be dressed as one [01:53:32] Speaker C: of the sailor moons. One of the sailors. He's dressing as Sailor Jupiter. [01:53:37] Speaker A: No, he's got to wear a Sephiroth jacket. See if he can get that back from New Japan. [01:53:43] Speaker B: Yeah, good. [01:53:45] Speaker C: Anyway, anything else? Or are we. Are we? [01:53:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:53:49] Speaker A: Happy wrestling. And be on the lookout for our Grand Slam coverage. [01:53:55] Speaker C: And we'll get there eventually. There's more stuff on the Patreon. Patreon.comff. [01:54:02] Speaker B: yeah, we got stuff coming. Keep listening. [01:54:04] Speaker C: There's more things. [01:54:06] Speaker B: Send money. [01:54:07] Speaker C: Find out where the Stingers come from. [01:54:11] Speaker A: And we're going out. Another fading, fading, fading. Another fading, fading, fading. Another fading, fading, fading. [01:54:22] Speaker B: I have an unbuilt Necron army in a closet somewhere that I've never touched, but I like the books. [01:54:29] Speaker A: I have a full dwarf army. I have a full scaven army. I have a full. [01:54:34] Speaker B: Oh, you're talking fantasy. Yeah, I'm 40k. [01:54:38] Speaker A: I'm all grim, dark. I mean, I am, but.