WNFF: Things Are Perkin's Up

[00:00:06] 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. Another restaurant. [00:00:59] Speaker B: Oh, thank goodness. I'm starving. [00:01:01] Speaker A: At least this one, I guess. Holy. Look who it is. [00:01:12] Speaker C: Goodness. That Magnificent Seven with two eggs, two applewood smoked bacon strips, three buttermilk pancakes. That was just too much for this girl. Waiter, check please. And a box to go. [00:01:22] Speaker A: Oh, we'll be going somewhere. [00:01:24] Speaker C: Ah, you found me. I mean. Hey, fancy seeing you guys here. [00:01:32] Speaker B: So, Garrick, you gonna finish that? [00:01:34] Speaker C: Hey, knock yourself off, kiddo. [00:01:36] Speaker D: So this is your new studio hideout? Family style restaurant? [00:01:43] Speaker C: What? No, no, no, no. I found a studio just up the road. Historical queer neighborhood. You'll like it. An empty theater? I don't know, it's. It's the economy. [00:01:55] Speaker D: Yeah, I heard that's real bad right now. That makes a lot more sense than being in a restaurant. Why are you even here? [00:02:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I was just hungry. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Listen, you. You're going to take us there since you left us and hung us out to dry last week at the goddamn Shoney. But first, did. Did you watch Dynamite last night? [00:02:15] Speaker C: Watch Dynamite last night? We're kind of. Where do you take me at? [00:02:20] Speaker A: Oh, awesome. [00:02:20] Speaker D: So did we. Hey. [00:02:24] Speaker B: Oh, hey. Sorry about that. We are back with another week of Wednesday night fake fights where we talk all things aew, as always. I'm Jeff Zitokin Mongoose, who is French this week for some reason. And with me, as always, are my fantastic co host and our return producer, Piper Willow. [00:02:44] Speaker D: She it. I assume. I blame the mime talk that nobody heard. [00:02:51] Speaker A: Erica Warren's she. They. That transition was masterful. [00:02:57] Speaker B: I'm very full now. [00:02:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:02] Speaker C: Transitions, masterful. Not. Not me, no. [00:03:06] Speaker B: Did somebody say Garrick? [00:03:13] Speaker C: It's Amelia Garrick. Free from the basement and in between studios. But. Hello, everyone. Producers returning. I want you to put the word out we're back after I, you know, move. But I did watch Dynamite last night because I need Toni Storm to keep me going. So I'm here. I'm back. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Hello. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think we mentioned what restaurant we're at. [00:03:38] Speaker D: It's not important. [00:03:40] Speaker B: Okay, that's fair. [00:03:42] Speaker A: Copyright we did have to leave that Shoney's. It got shut down. [00:03:47] Speaker B: Jimmy Harts were infesting it. [00:03:50] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:03:51] Speaker B: They had to come in spray. [00:03:54] Speaker A: Somebody found an airbrushed sport jacket in their grits. So it got shut down. [00:04:00] Speaker D: If you thought one Jimmy Hart was bad, all of a sudden more started popping. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Oh, my God. So many megaphones. [00:04:07] Speaker B: This is where I take showers at. Oh, daddy. [00:04:09] Speaker D: Garrick, would you know anything about that? [00:04:12] Speaker C: I heard about it on the radio on the way over here. Yeah, I. I was, like. I said hungry. I wanted some pancakes. The girls wanted to stop at Shoney's. I don't eat Shoney's because of, well, you know, Jimmy Hart infestations. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Next week we're gonna go to a buffet full of British beefcakes. [00:04:33] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:04:35] Speaker C: Ponderosa. The steakhouse. [00:04:36] Speaker B: Yeah. I can't do a Bruce the Beefcake, Brutus the Beefcake impression. [00:04:42] Speaker A: I don't even know what that would sound like. That's good. [00:04:44] Speaker C: Nobody should try. [00:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't even know what. I don't know what sounds like. [00:04:51] Speaker A: He just kind of screamed. [00:04:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Was he the one that did the yes, no, yes, no. Like, went back. He was like, half painted black and white or something. [00:05:00] Speaker C: Oh, he was Zodiac for a while. [00:05:02] Speaker B: Zodiac? Yeah. Yes, no. Yeah, yeah. And he'd say like, yes, no, back and forth or something like that. He had a lot of. [00:05:08] Speaker C: I like it. Yeah. No. [00:05:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:10] Speaker C: He said, leslie, he got paid to. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Be Hulk Hogan's friend. [00:05:15] Speaker A: Oh, and he didn't even have to. His wife. [00:05:19] Speaker B: You don't know that. Didn't need to. [00:05:22] Speaker C: Hey, this is the first time I've been on a microphone since Hulk Hogan died. So you got give me a belated. [00:05:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, we had a celebration last week. I think there were streamers. [00:05:39] Speaker A: Were there? [00:05:39] Speaker C: Yeah. It just turns out I said. I said it on blue sky. His heart of mania just stopped running. [00:05:49] Speaker B: You're doing cardiac arrest. Runs wild on you. [00:05:51] Speaker D: No run no longer. [00:05:52] Speaker A: Running wild. The only way to get out of all that. Whatever he owes for that. That beer. [00:05:58] Speaker B: The real. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Yeah, he's like, I owe my creditors, brother. I gotta die. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Oh, and the, like, they're like. [00:06:07] Speaker A: League. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Him and Bischoff are Word. Yeah. I think he just died to get out of that deal. [00:06:12] Speaker C: No, he just knew how. He saw the writings on the wall. Brother, that crate a gonna work for me. I'm out. [00:06:18] Speaker B: You're gonna have to hold a bag here. [00:06:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:22] Speaker B: Take one for the team, brother. [00:06:23] Speaker C: He left. Eric, don't you have holding the bag one more timely Bastard. Holy. [00:06:35] Speaker A: So so, so from. Let's, let's. Let's segue that from a talk of a fake, a fake real wrestling company to a real fake wrestling company. [00:06:46] Speaker B: We always start off each show talking about, like, WCW for like 10 minutes before we even get to AEW. [00:06:53] Speaker D: It's part of the brand. It's part of the brand. [00:06:55] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm back. It's about to happen. [00:06:58] Speaker D: It truly comes with the territory. [00:07:00] Speaker C: Yeah. The territories. All. We're talking the territories. I just got older. Yeah. No, continue. Aw. Please, let's talk of. Of the gays. [00:07:10] Speaker A: Aw. Yes. [00:07:12] Speaker C: What. [00:07:12] Speaker A: What's the gays with the gays? We're trying a slightly different format where we're gonna switch up who leads. And this week it's me after I've been awake for like 24 hours. [00:07:26] Speaker B: That's how we want you. We want you. Delirious. [00:07:28] Speaker D: I'm kicking back. I got the feet up on the death. It's gonna be good. [00:07:31] Speaker B: My feet are also on Piper's desk. [00:07:33] Speaker A: I'll even get the date right in one. It is the August 6th edition. 2025. Aw, dynamite. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Where were. Was this Cleveland. [00:07:42] Speaker A: This was Cleveland. [00:07:43] Speaker B: This was. Okay. [00:07:44] Speaker C: Moxley hometowns. Well, almost. [00:07:46] Speaker A: Yes, yes. Next week they're in Cincinnati, but yep. [00:07:49] Speaker C: It'S all Ohio, which doesn't exist. [00:07:52] Speaker A: We'll talk there's. There's a lot of talk about what Ohio is about later on. All right, so we. We start with after they run down the card. We start with a promo from MJF who says that Hangman is a coward who won't give him a title shot without using the contract. And he managed to win. I. I had to look this up to figure out what the hell he was talking about. But he won the CMLL Light Heavyweight Championship. Yeah, he's calling it the CMML World Championship. And he's like, what the is he talking about? [00:08:23] Speaker C: He should be calling it that thing he's holding on to for mystical. [00:08:27] Speaker A: Yes, he's. He's. He's. He's doing the gimmick where he just renames titles to suit his needs. [00:08:34] Speaker C: Yes. [00:08:34] Speaker A: He promises to send Mark back to hell in Delaware, which accurate, because he himself is the devil. [00:08:42] Speaker D: I believe you mean mascot Mark and Dumpster Fire Delaware. [00:08:46] Speaker A: That is again, just Delaware. Mark's not a pro wrestler. He's not a man. And he's not championship material. And the people only pity him. [00:08:55] Speaker B: It was a good heel promo from MJF. [00:08:57] Speaker A: Not a bad promo. [00:08:58] Speaker B: I loved MJF's jacket. That looked awesome. They like black and White with the hounds to it. Like, that was fly. And he looks good with the CMLL belt. [00:09:05] Speaker D: Yeah, it's a. [00:09:05] Speaker A: It's a. [00:09:06] Speaker D: It's a clean title. It was a clean outfit. I don't like that he's like, attaching all these little nicknames to everything in his promos now. Certain felonious leaders. Oh, with, you know, mascot Mark Dumpster. [00:09:21] Speaker B: Fire Dello like, thing he's trying to get over. [00:09:25] Speaker D: It's not working for me. [00:09:27] Speaker B: That was a good promo, though. I like. And I. I will say they've been good with MJF's promos not going as long. Lately they've been cutting them down to, like, these just effective little heel attacks that really do. Like, they're building it up for the field. Like, I'm always. Even if I get a little tired of him talking, I'm usually invested in what he's doing. [00:09:46] Speaker A: He's been less annoying. There really was a point where, like, he was just like. Even as a heel, it was just like, please stop talking. [00:09:55] Speaker B: Getting to be a bit much. [00:09:56] Speaker A: This is getting boring. But things that are not. [00:09:59] Speaker D: But I think his. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Oh, go ahead. [00:10:01] Speaker D: The feud that they're putting together between him and. And Mark Briscoe and I guess Hangman kind of as well is. It's a nice pivot out of things. And I think it's. It's real interesting to kind of see how that's been playing out. [00:10:13] Speaker C: I'm real into it. I like giving. Anytime you get Mark Briscoe more TV time, I'm here. And this is good TV time. And you couldn't. It's like, what was that thing? Only Reagan could go to China or whatever the. Or only Nixon could go to China. Like, only MJF could. Could go to Jay. Like, oh, like, that's the only guy on the roster I could. I would trust to go that low and have it, like, work and not just be gross and pushed, you know, and. And it's working like that. He said, I know I'm late. I should have been here on the show where he said it. But that she said about, like, I'm not understand. I'm never gonna see my brother again because I'm gonna go to hell for killing your ass. I was like, yes. [00:11:00] Speaker B: That was kind of a turning point. [00:11:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Like, pro wrestling is back, babies. Let's go. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Now, speaking of pivots, we go to our first match of the night. John Moxley with Marina Shafir versus Speedball Mike Bailey. Jon Moxley stormed into a production meeting and demanded A match because he was angry, not because it's Cleveland or anything. [00:11:23] Speaker C: No, he's angry. [00:11:25] Speaker B: Those are unrelated. [00:11:26] Speaker A: And Speedy. Speedy was the guy that stood up and said, I'll fight you. [00:11:33] Speaker C: I will fight the boy. Yeah. [00:11:35] Speaker B: Just a little Vasem. Right? It kicks him. [00:11:37] Speaker C: Oh, yes. Like I said that last night. Kick his ass with gender. [00:11:43] Speaker A: They. They do point out that Mox has had a run of bad luck as of late, and mostly it's because of Darby. So he actually does spend a lot of time, like, at the start of the match, like, focusing on the crowd, looking for Darby Allin instead of worrying about Speedball. And Speedball takes advantage. [00:12:01] Speaker B: I like that they are kind of just doing, like, Darby is Crow. Sting now where he's doing these, like, sneak attacks and, like, popping out of stuff. Like, not. Not 101 for one. But he's kind of taking up that mantle. After Sting retired, he tried to kill him with a train. [00:12:17] Speaker A: There's a little bit too much actual attempted murder to be Sting. [00:12:22] Speaker B: It strains credulity. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:25] Speaker D: It's like if Sting was like an emotional terrorist, like, why is he going around and chloroforming people? [00:12:33] Speaker A: Yeah. When you put it that way. Talking about Darby Allen and, like, some of the things that people have said about him. Yeah. Emotional terrorist. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oops. [00:12:44] Speaker D: It's a strange direction to take his return in, I think. [00:12:49] Speaker B: Either way, I'm just happy they're doing Darby and Mox not for the world title, but they moved that off to Hangman and they got. Because they do have a story built here from before Darby went on his little mountain and stuff. So I'm glad they're moving it along and I think it will be a fun match when they do get to it. [00:13:04] Speaker C: It's a little walk. It's a little walk up the mountain. This little. Little scroll, little trek up the hill there. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Got carried by the Sherpas like Homer. [00:13:11] Speaker C: Simpsons cut his little promo up his little mountain. [00:13:14] Speaker B: I foresaw your death last night. No, that's. I'm sure that's very difficult. And I could not do it. They'd be dog walking my ass. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Main story of this match was Mox's brawling and grappling versus speedballs. Speed and precision karate strikes. [00:13:33] Speaker B: It was a good match, and it. [00:13:34] Speaker A: Was pretty cool at points. I liked it. I thought it was a very good match. Marina on the outside, like, completely dumped Mike on their ass. [00:13:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Yeah, she did. Yeah. That, like, little chop block at the back. [00:13:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Maria's so good as the Heater Speedy got control back. They hit that big, sick moonsault knee drop on the barricade that. [00:13:59] Speaker B: I've never seen that before. And I've watched a lot of Speedball Mike Bailey. Yeah, but he's so invented. Like he's. He always comes up with some just like crazy ways to do his. [00:14:08] Speaker D: That was nasty. [00:14:08] Speaker C: My favorite part of this whole match was when Speedball Mike Bailey tried to see how many times Taz and Excalibur could say Gucci Katami in a row. As fast as possible. It was amazing. It was my favorite part. [00:14:23] Speaker B: That. [00:14:24] Speaker C: That and little clear. Go fast, hit hard. [00:14:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Speedball did like, rock those armbars. [00:14:28] Speaker D: I did not like the fingers getting bent. [00:14:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I was gonna say they must have double jointed fingers. [00:14:35] Speaker D: I think so. I hope so. [00:14:38] Speaker B: The thing is, I can actually do that. I can touch my pinky to the back of my wrist on one hand. Like. Like I've always. Ever since. Yeah, ever since I was a little kid. [00:14:46] Speaker D: It's like, do that. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm doing. I'm doing. Don't do that right now. [00:14:49] Speaker D: That's great. [00:14:50] Speaker B: I can't see because I'm. [00:14:51] Speaker D: Put that away. [00:14:53] Speaker B: But yeah, no, it's a double jointed thing because otherwise I'm sure that hurts like a. I like. At one point, Max, while he was doing it, Taz got on and says at least he has nine more fingers for now. [00:15:04] Speaker D: That was a good one. [00:15:06] Speaker A: So they. They trade control in the match. Back and forth. [00:15:11] Speaker B: Kevin Knight was out there too, around. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Kevin Knight came out to even the odds. After Marina dumps Speedy on his ass. [00:15:19] Speaker D: I really expected Mox to just stomp the out of speedballs to at some point because that seems like such an easy and obvious thing for him to do. [00:15:30] Speaker B: Seems like a very mock. Yeah, he. He mixed it up. He went for the fingers instead. He knew what we were expecting. That's what makes him so good. [00:15:37] Speaker A: I don't know why more people don't do that, honestly. But I guess I'm saying, I guess it's kind of like they. They never wear shoes. So it's probably like stomping on a hobbit foot. Hobbit feet are like all tough and stuff. Yeah, it's just a shoe. [00:15:55] Speaker D: Gotcha. [00:15:56] Speaker A: We got a big shooting star press from speedball. That got two. [00:16:00] Speaker B: I made a note of that. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Really nice. He did another moonsault double knees to the chest. And that somehow looked even more disgusting inside of the ring. [00:16:09] Speaker D: Yeah, he hit that one solid. [00:16:11] Speaker B: I don't know how I'm Sure. Like, all wrestling moves hurt, but that always looks so bad. Like, I don't know how you take that in a. Yeah, how do you take that in a not terrible way? [00:16:21] Speaker A: I don't know how he does it. [00:16:22] Speaker B: I guess they probably get their arms. [00:16:24] Speaker A: Up a little or. [00:16:24] Speaker B: But still, it's just. [00:16:25] Speaker D: And with Mox, I also wouldn't be surprised if he was just like, yeah, just need me. [00:16:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't need my ribs. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Breathing is for chumps. We don't breathe in Cleveland. The air is too poison. I don't know if that's true. I apologize to Cleveland. Maybe I don't. Who knows? They trade. They do that thing where they trade flash pins back and forth, and eventually Wheeler Yuta gets involved. Grabs, not the boot. The foot of speedball Mike Bailey, which brings out Darby Allen with his roofy rag. And. [00:17:04] Speaker D: Yeah, I. [00:17:05] Speaker A: That's not a good gimmick. [00:17:10] Speaker C: God damn, Erica. Like, so I have a mouthful. Leftover pancake, but I was just like, holy. [00:17:18] Speaker B: Yeah, just using chloroform as a gimmick's always weird. It's got overtones, especially a face. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Face doing it. [00:17:25] Speaker D: Yeah, that's even worse. They were talking night. Like, he did that last week to. To mocks. [00:17:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:31] Speaker B: On collision. That's how he. That's how he tried to kill him. [00:17:33] Speaker A: With the train this week. [00:17:35] Speaker C: Somebody had to be back there and be like, you know this is bad, right? [00:17:40] Speaker B: You know, I like how Excalibur keeps, like, avoiding saying chloroform, too. [00:17:45] Speaker A: He's like. [00:17:45] Speaker B: He's knocked him out with that. That substance. So you don't want kids finding out what he can do with chloroform. [00:17:50] Speaker D: It doesn't continue. [00:17:52] Speaker A: Just say instead of anything else, we'll just say he farted into it and that's how he's knocking people out. [00:17:58] Speaker D: Honestly, I would be more interested than what they're currently doing. [00:18:01] Speaker B: You got Bastion, Booker Gimmick. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:03] Speaker C: Hey, don't. [00:18:04] Speaker A: Don't. [00:18:05] Speaker D: Don't invoke his name. [00:18:06] Speaker C: No, don't start talking about old people, because I almost just made a Dungeon of Doom reference. Like, hey, he came back from the. The top of Mount Everest and he didn't bring back a Yetang. What the. [00:18:19] Speaker A: The Yet. [00:18:19] Speaker C: A Yetay Godamn Darby. [00:18:22] Speaker D: Hey, you know what he said when he got up to the top of Mount Everest? [00:18:25] Speaker A: What did he say? [00:18:26] Speaker D: Ah, it's not hot. [00:18:28] Speaker B: There's no Hulk Maniacs. [00:18:33] Speaker C: No Darby maniacs up here. There's none down here either. [00:18:40] Speaker A: All right, so the abduction of Will Yuta almost lets Speedball win the match. But Mox rolls over out of another juji katame and it looks like he's going for a sleeper, but he just drops him on the top of his skull with a Death Rider. [00:18:55] Speaker B: And that's all a nasty Death Rider too. [00:18:59] Speaker C: My speedball was like, who needs a neck mullet? [00:19:02] Speaker B: The mullet absorbs it all. [00:19:03] Speaker A: That's true, actually. Yeah, the mullet might absorb it. [00:19:06] Speaker B: I thought that was a very cool match though. I, I thought it was a nice, like, nice clash of styles kind of thing. They like, I think Mox winning was the right call. But Speedball looked fantastic. Like got tons of cool offense and good showcase. [00:19:20] Speaker C: It felt to me like he could have won. Like, like I live. There was multiple times where I was like. That's why I say it was a barn burner. Like, like there was a few times where I was like he could win this and like I could see them giving him this win. [00:19:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:33] Speaker C: Because like, damn, he was just that believable. He's just that good. That's why I feel like I don't worry about him eating these losses because it's like. Well, yeah, but it's, it's Speedball. Mike Bailey, like he's that good. [00:19:47] Speaker B: He's young, he's building himself up and like you want to keep Mox feeling legit. [00:19:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:52] Speaker B: Like he, it's, it's great. He lost the title. He's been getting a little comeuppance for the Death Riders thing, but he is still the top heel in the company right now effectively. [00:20:01] Speaker A: And they even very effectively said on commentary, it's like he's going through. [00:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Like a little bit of a losing streak but that's probably going to make him more dangerous. [00:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. That's a good, it's a good story to tell. [00:20:15] Speaker A: He showed it tonight because Mike Bailey is not an easy pinfall and he. [00:20:20] Speaker B: Got, it felt very earned. [00:20:21] Speaker A: So thumbs up on that match for me. To the back, Renee Paquette is meeting with. [00:20:27] Speaker B: It's a very Renee heavy show. [00:20:29] Speaker A: Lots of Renee. [00:20:30] Speaker C: She was on fire too. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Not complaining. I love Renee. [00:20:33] Speaker A: She was not alone on come on. Interview duties. But tonight, here she's with Tony Storm and Alex Windsor. [00:20:42] Speaker B: Windsor. [00:20:43] Speaker A: It's infectious. Toni Storm declares that the the match tonight is a menagerie of bruising, brawling. [00:20:51] Speaker C: I used to pray for times like these. [00:20:55] Speaker D: Me too, Tony. Me too. [00:20:58] Speaker B: Her describing her and Windsor as like a clearly non sexual friendship is way too funny to me. Her emphasis on it being platonic, like Every time the crazy cracks me up. [00:21:08] Speaker D: Beat us down, but you can't beat us off. [00:21:12] Speaker C: Holy. [00:21:13] Speaker B: Like, this was kind of a Windsor problem. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Alex. Alex had to come in and, and say, you know, after Tony made her. Her sexual comment, she had to be like, no, calm down. She says her bit about the upcoming four way match and then says, you can. You can't give me any lick without me giving you licks back and doing it as well. [00:21:35] Speaker B: She's a good, like straight man. Like, she's very dry and it's like. Plays off. Tony. [00:21:39] Speaker D: I don't know how straight that that is, Jeff. [00:21:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I knew that was phrasing. [00:21:44] Speaker C: It's the bisexual. Hey, it's my line. [00:21:51] Speaker B: But no, I, I'm liking Alex. I think that they have good chemistry. I think Tony kind of out outshines her a little bit. But I think that's just Tony, like, it's hard not to. Which is probably the most charismatic person in the company. [00:22:03] Speaker C: And I would go so far as to say in wrestling right now, yeah, that's easy. [00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, I could agree with that. But Alex is really trying to get over and you can. I think it's working. [00:22:14] Speaker A: I think it is. Yeah. [00:22:15] Speaker B: True. [00:22:16] Speaker A: They. They complement each other very well as characters and they tango off after the end of the. The promo after Tony Reeds recites the state motto on the Ohio license plate. Type up your tits and tango. Which I have no intention of checking to see if that's true or not. It is. [00:22:38] Speaker B: I want to go to Ohio now. It's like the Werner Horizog, like, Divine truth thing. Even if it's not, it's so good that it is. [00:22:44] Speaker A: I have no reason to not believe Toni Storm. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Never lied to me yet. [00:22:50] Speaker A: Mox and Marina are trying to find Wheeler Yuta and they find him in a body bag. [00:22:57] Speaker D: Who put him there? [00:22:58] Speaker A: Who do put it? Who indeed. And we learn immediately that it was Darby Allen who drives by in his big ass SUV thing. And he doesn't say anything because it. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Wasn'T obvious enough because Darby's the only guy who used body bags forever. Like, no, he has had to have him drive by too. Be like, oh, okay. [00:23:16] Speaker D: I assume he was gonna drive up and run over Wheeler Yuta. [00:23:21] Speaker B: I kind of thought. I thought he was gonna like hit Mox or something. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Yeah, he's doing. He's trying to. He's become very homicidal. It's like a part of him died on the mountain after all. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Left a part of myself up there. [00:23:34] Speaker D: Just trying to find it. [00:23:36] Speaker B: The Sherpas took it while he sleeps. [00:23:40] Speaker A: So they. They extract Wheeler from the. The body bag and they're stapled to his forehead that reads Forbidden Door. So there's the challenge. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Yep. Two more AEW people for Forbidden Door, which I. They're all it's exciting card, but, like, it'd be nice if we had like some rev Pro people or CMLL people or something at some point. Like, I. I get new Japan has the G1 going on, so they can't really, like, do much right now. But you got four other. You got like three or four other companies you work with. Like, get some stardom stuff. Get some. But it still looks like a phone. [00:24:15] Speaker A: We remain in the parking lot as eight belts. Mercedes Monet arrives. And that is a God. Whole lot of belts. [00:24:23] Speaker D: He's more belt than woman now, actually. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Actually, yeah, actually. Seeing her with all of them is just ridiculous. [00:24:30] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:24:32] Speaker B: Because like with Ultimo Dragon, you just saw him holding them. Like with Mercedes, she's constantly wearing all of them and it looks so cumbersome. It's funny. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Tries to get a word with her about her match at all in against Toni Storm, and Mercedes calls her a mark and tells her not to be one. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Yeah. Throwing out the M word. [00:24:53] Speaker A: And Taz. Yes. She needs another limo for the rest of her belts. Just for the belts, which would be awesome, by the way. [00:25:00] Speaker C: Somewhere big cab shed a tear. Holy. [00:25:03] Speaker B: That'd be a great gimmick to have another limo pull up and somebody just hands the belts out afterwards. [00:25:08] Speaker D: R just has like a valet that does nothing but carry belts. [00:25:12] Speaker B: Yeah, she should steal. [00:25:15] Speaker D: This did lead to my Taz of the week. When they cut back to the arena where Tony Schiavone is like, how dare she talk to Renee like that? Taz goes, yeah, you're the only mark here, Shivani. [00:25:28] Speaker B: Taz was quick tonight. He had a lot of. [00:25:30] Speaker C: Except I'm pretty sure he referred to Tony as Aubrey Hepburn. Probably because of Aubrey Edwards. And I'll give him that one. It's Taz. He's trying. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Probably. Yeah. Yeah. That's a task. [00:25:41] Speaker A: What he. What killed me about that line was he did not seem to think that anybody knew who Audrey Hepburn was except for Tony. [00:25:47] Speaker C: Yeah. Yes. No one's gonna catch that. No one knows who that broad is. [00:25:53] Speaker D: Yeah, you have to be over 70. [00:25:54] Speaker C: To know who that was. [00:25:55] Speaker B: Nobody knows who Aubrey Hebert. [00:25:57] Speaker D: And he's like, yeah, I know. Taz is like, I knew you would. [00:26:02] Speaker A: You got to be over 70 to get that reference. Oh, Taz. Anyways, so this does lead to the second match of the night. A four way match between Alex Windsor, Queen Aminata Sky Blue and Billy Starks. And this is to qualify for a four way match at Forbidden Door for the TBS title. So they're basically doing the gimmick where somebody from AEW will show up. Somebody from stardom. They'll have a stardom representative will also be in the match and then somebody from CMLL will be in the match. We have no idea who is coming from Mexico or who's coming from Japan, but they'll be doing four way matches to determine that as well in the future. [00:26:50] Speaker D: Okay. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Which is at least that's some representation from the outside companies, which I appreciate. [00:26:56] Speaker D: It's an exciting way to. To do something like that, I think. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Yeah, no, for sure. This is a good lineup for this match. There's four people I like. [00:27:02] Speaker A: It's really good. I do think that they telegraphed who is going to win a little bit too hard since Forbidden Doors in London. But that did not stop this match from being very entertaining. [00:27:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it sucks. The crowd kind of like died though. They were quiet as hell during parts of this. [00:27:17] Speaker A: That kind of happened off and on throughout the show. And I don't know if that's a Cleveland thing. [00:27:23] Speaker B: I almost was wondering if maybe it's the way the place is miked like because it seemed like this was back to like a good size arena for the first time in a while opposed to like the smaller venues they've been doing. So maybe it was just miked up poorly and it was only like really coming through during like the big pops and stuff. But it. You. Yeah. Even later on it kind of stuck around. [00:27:44] Speaker A: Athena accompanied Billy Starks out for this match which brought Tony out to back up window. This was this, this was pretty good. I. I popped for Chocolate Kisses was a whole taught at the Team Taz Dojo. [00:28:03] Speaker B: Straight from the Team Taz Dojo. That wasn't even Tasman. That was almost my tazzle the week. It was Excalibur. [00:28:08] Speaker A: Excalibur was on one tonight too. Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:12] Speaker B: The crowd went wild for the Chocolate Kisses too. I'm with Tony. I kind of hate calling it that. [00:28:17] Speaker A: Fairly awkward. Yeah. [00:28:18] Speaker D: Yeah. A lot of fun spots in this match. You had the like Human Boston Crab spot. [00:28:26] Speaker B: Yeah, the Human Centipede spot. [00:28:28] Speaker A: Boston English Norwich, UK Crab as Taz eventually decided it was called. I mean I didn't actually pick out a whole ton of different spots for this because it did. [00:28:41] Speaker B: There were. Yeah. Billy had a crazy ass dive to the outside that looked like Killed everyone. [00:28:46] Speaker D: It was like a pretty nasty pop up power bomb from Alex Wins her. That she did. There was a top rope code blue as well, which was pretty awesome. [00:28:55] Speaker B: Yeah, it was, it was a good man. It just kind of went by. [00:28:58] Speaker A: I. [00:28:59] Speaker B: It wasn't anything bad. There was a bad botch that Sky Blue did on the outside try to do the code blue onto the chair thing. That was awkward. [00:29:08] Speaker A: There was, I think Windsor hit, hit a blue thunderbomb on Sky Blue and I thought that sky had been killed in it because it looked like she hit very hard. [00:29:20] Speaker B: She kind of bumps like a boss though. [00:29:22] Speaker A: She's tough. I, I really think she's got to find a new finisher though because she can't hit her finisher. [00:29:28] Speaker B: It's happens. Nope. And it's, it's convoluted it. She needs something simple. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Shout out Queen Amada for hitting a really badass. Moss covered three handled family credenza on Billy Starks. That was pretty nice. [00:29:45] Speaker B: Aminata was fucking laying it in this whole match too. Like everyone first she nasty. [00:29:51] Speaker A: I think she held the match. Kind of held the match together pretty well. Like she was kind of who everybody was working around. [00:29:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's fair. [00:29:59] Speaker A: Like it like again it wasn't bad but it felt like they were just working through spots to get to the ultimate goal of Alex winds up and. [00:30:11] Speaker B: Like nobody in the match is super over with the crowd either. I mean they're all good. I'm an is probably the most. But like everyone else, they just really weren't getting that like Tony was getting the biggest reaction. [00:30:24] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Which we did get this the disgusted Tony face. At one point in this too with picture I said that was a great little moment. [00:30:31] Speaker D: I had a much similar reaction after that whole little spot fest went down. So I can relate. [00:30:41] Speaker A: Yeah. Like it Tony Storm. I really, I really had. It was. It was a mixed bag. Like call it a mixed bag. [00:30:48] Speaker B: That's fair. Yeah. [00:30:48] Speaker D: I'll agree. [00:30:49] Speaker A: Alex Windsor wins with the flash pin on Billy Starks. And this brings out Mercedes Monet with all of her goddamn belts. [00:31:00] Speaker B: She's wearing like one belt as a belt with the other ones draped outside of it. Was. It was like a skirt made of belt, belt dress. [00:31:07] Speaker A: She, she gave, she, she gave Aubrey Edwards. She had her hold all of the belts and Aubrey's like doing like the whole like ah, this is heavy thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:31:17] Speaker B: I want to see Mercedes come out just wrapped up like a mummy in belts. Like she's getting every part of her covered head to toe. [00:31:23] Speaker A: Give it d. Just keep giving her belts. [00:31:27] Speaker B: I like that she had to have like the crew member help her up the steps too because she's just carrying too much. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Those things are pretty heavy, I'd imagine. [00:31:34] Speaker D: They always call it the 10 pounds of gold. [00:31:37] Speaker B: Oh yeah, yeah. [00:31:39] Speaker D: 80 pounds of gold. [00:31:41] Speaker A: Well, I think it was only. Wasn't it only the. The NWA was £10 ago. [00:31:46] Speaker B: That's what. But yeah, if we're using that as a baseline, you know, rough, we can imagine like 8 to. If we want to get technical. [00:31:52] Speaker D: I don't know what kind of alloy they're made out of now. [00:31:54] Speaker C: Yeah. But how many carrots? Yeah, I was gonna say how many carrots is the goal? [00:31:58] Speaker D: That's at least two. [00:32:03] Speaker A: Mercedes has a stare down with Alex and Tony comes into the ring and Athena takes the opportunity to hit another O face on Toni Storm. And while Alex Windsa turns to look and see what's happening, Mercedes hits her with a backstabber. He'll stand tall and face off, but seemingly come away with a truce at the end of the day. [00:32:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's one of those. They'll meet back up at some point. But they both know they got bigger fish to fry at the moment which Athena's like slipped into the AW main roster stories like a glove. Like so well, already feels like she's just always been a part of it. [00:32:42] Speaker A: And people already knew she was a big deal from her. [00:32:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Her still record setting run that she's. [00:32:47] Speaker A: I know people don't watch as much of Ring of Honor. Some people say they do. Some of those people are liars. But everybody knows what Athena's been doing down there. [00:32:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. No, that's a good way to put it. Like everyone knows she's the star. Like she is the champ of that show. [00:33:06] Speaker A: We go to the back for another interview with Renee. She's with the young bucks and she's laughing at them, which, you know, can you blame her? No. [00:33:17] Speaker B: They're founding father gear. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Yep. They're in the founding father gear because it's a big match tonight. [00:33:21] Speaker D: They're sick some of their former glory. [00:33:25] Speaker A: Yeah. They're sick of the disrespect. And they grab a production guy and give him notes. They tell them, all right, do all this stuff and give this to Justin Roberts when he does his ring announcements and tell him to read it verbatim. [00:33:45] Speaker B: Production guy was like my favorite actor of the night. He's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:33:53] Speaker A: Respect to that guy. He's just like, I'm just Gonna say yes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes. He's not. He didn't try like anything extra. He's like, oh, I got. I got two minutes of TV time with the stars of the show. I better hand it up now. [00:34:04] Speaker B: He's just like gonna nail this shout. [00:34:06] Speaker D: Out to Mark from production. [00:34:08] Speaker C: He is so. Mark, you're so good, baby. So good. Yeah, I'm losing my mind thinking about. Sorry, continue, please. [00:34:21] Speaker A: I can't, unfortunately. Possibly. Fortunately. Next is the TNT championship celebration for Kyle Fletcher and the Don Callis family. [00:34:31] Speaker B: They cut from a backstage Renee segment to her in. In the ring. Like, that's what I'm saying. She's all. They literally like they teleported her. [00:34:40] Speaker A: Like it's taped or something. No, we all just know. It's just. It's just wrestling magic. [00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah, she's just really, really is. [00:34:49] Speaker A: The. Has the teleportation magic that the Undertaker has, but just for. She just uses it for interviews and not racism. [00:34:57] Speaker D: She uses it for good and not evil. [00:34:59] Speaker C: Yeah. Mostly people didn't realize she has the urn. Actually, like, I'm not sure. She just found it in the back and kind of finders keepers and. Yeah. Canadians. I tell you what. [00:35:10] Speaker A: Don't mind if I do. [00:35:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:14] Speaker A: So if you haven't seen. If you haven't seen Fletcher vs Dustin. [00:35:23] Speaker D: You haven't watched it yet. [00:35:24] Speaker C: I'm sorry, Piper. Match of the year. And I'm not kidding. [00:35:31] Speaker D: I. [00:35:33] Speaker B: It's worth going back. [00:35:33] Speaker D: I will watch it this weekend. [00:35:35] Speaker C: Good. [00:35:35] Speaker D: I promise. [00:35:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Even if you don't watch the rest of the collision, that it's worth checking out highlights. [00:35:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:42] Speaker A: The main highlight they like focusing on was Kyle Fletcher stabbing Dustin in the knee with the screwdriver and they tried to make it actually look like he was actually stabbing him through the knee. And as a result of that. [00:35:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:59] Speaker A: Dustin needs double knee replacement surgery. [00:36:02] Speaker B: Yeah, Dustin's with. [00:36:03] Speaker C: He needed that already. [00:36:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he needed like that. They. I know they needed an out, but like, God damn, what a way to do it. [00:36:12] Speaker B: Yeah, but it. They put. It was a good way to put Kyle over and make him look vicious. [00:36:16] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. No, he killed the out of Goldie like, like. Well, no, he him up. It's the table spots. It wasn't even a. No dq. Like just. Oh my God. And they just. [00:36:30] Speaker A: Both of them bled all those table spots like they were two tail. There was the one where Kyle did the dive and missed and just ate on the table. And then there was the other one where Dustin was going to bulldog Kyle and he Held onto the rope and so Dustin went. But like both of them were just both those guys putting themselves through the table to make the other guy look good and just like, yeah, God, Dustin, why are you doing Kyle? [00:36:58] Speaker B: No, but I think that was a good thing for them to do. But with Adam being able to have it, I thought it was a good way to like give Kyle, like really put him over as the champ. Winning from this like beloved veteran in such a brutal way. [00:37:12] Speaker C: He's a good. I wanted, you know. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Hey, Dustin, winning was a great moment. Yeah, it worked well. [00:37:18] Speaker C: I want to make a point though, to say like, Kyle, Kyle Fletcher sold the out of just everything for that old man. Like, he did it. He did him. Right. That's on. That's why I feel like, yeah, the match, he spiked him on, on, on some of that. Like he hit him with a crossroads, I think at one point and he just, just spiked like, like the Rob van dam spike DDT. Like he just. [00:37:46] Speaker B: Yeah, stupid. [00:37:52] Speaker C: This 60 year old man look like a goddamn murderer. And yeah, it was one of those, it was a. Yeah, that was. This happened what, two weeks ago now or a week ago. It was silly, but like. Holy. Yeah. Anyways, I'll, I'll go back to my pancake. [00:38:10] Speaker B: No, Kyle. Kyle's a star. I mean that's, He's a. What AEW should be building upon. [00:38:17] Speaker A: I think the whole presentation of the Don Callis family in this segment was pretty awesome. Like, you have Kyle, everybody's in a suit they've got the pelican for, I think. Well, no, actually that's not true because luchador always looked really awesome in suits, but he chose not to wear. [00:38:36] Speaker B: Yeah. And he was still wearing like a black like turtleneck and it looked really cool. But he was the only one that was like kind of. [00:38:42] Speaker A: He was probably like, no, no, no, no, no. This is not the kind of thing that you wear a suit to. This is not good enough. [00:38:49] Speaker B: I'm a wizard. [00:38:51] Speaker A: I'm a wizard. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Sorcerers don't wear suits. [00:38:55] Speaker A: Don Cal says he's building the biggest faction in wrestling history because he wants power. Okada destroyed Kenny Omega. Fletcher just retired Dustin Rhodes. And they take credit for Adam Cole's injury too. It's the beginning of his legacy and he's going to hurt everyone who challenges him. [00:39:14] Speaker B: Big on callous chance. Going big. [00:39:18] Speaker D: It's a great shot. When Don Callis was talking and there's just a giant four person, four letter bald sign behind him. [00:39:26] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that was as well as. [00:39:28] Speaker D: The Don Callis Is a diglet sign. [00:39:33] Speaker C: I didn't see that one. Thank you for bringing that to our attention. Holy. [00:39:40] Speaker B: There was some good, like, some good crowd. There was a lady, like, right behind commentary that. But she duct taped over the young bucks and wrote local talent. Yeah. Some creative stuff. [00:39:52] Speaker C: Careful, I'll laugh for another four minutes straight because I just love it so much. Anyways, Pancakes. [00:40:01] Speaker A: God. So it's. It would not be a Don Callis family celebration without the unveiling of a new portrait. And. And the bit of lore about this is that Don paints these himself, apparently. [00:40:17] Speaker B: Yeah, he's talking about how he felt the paint between his finger. [00:40:22] Speaker D: Kyle's just like, I know they're very dirty. [00:40:26] Speaker C: In reality. In reality, the. The person who paints them is on blue sky, I believe, actually. [00:40:33] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [00:40:34] Speaker C: I would have to look at that. [00:40:35] Speaker A: But Mel Coleman. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, she does a lot of the. Yeah, she does a lot of, like, art stuff for him. [00:40:41] Speaker C: Yeah. No good. Blue sky. It's where it's at. [00:40:44] Speaker A: I. I don't. I don't know where this ranks because Tesha and Don Callis as centaurs. I mean, that might be my favorite, but this one was just, like, raw. [00:40:57] Speaker B: This is the most hom. Raw. [00:40:59] Speaker A: Homosexual. Yeah. [00:41:02] Speaker B: Yeah. It's a naked Kyle Fletcher next to above Don Callis in a mesh shirt, jeans. They're both wearing sunglasses, and the TNT title is wrapped around both of their ways. [00:41:15] Speaker C: Now, I'm happy that you made. You did such an apt description, Jeff, because it. All of that is important to what is my Excalibur of the night where they're saying doc House and he says Donna Finland. That is old school bull. But he's not wrong. He isn't wrong. So anyways, continue Pancakes. [00:41:43] Speaker A: I mean, there's nothing more to add to that segment. [00:41:46] Speaker B: I think Renee's just, like, nodding. Renee just kind of looks confused during the whole thing. [00:41:51] Speaker A: Tony calls it bogus. [00:41:54] Speaker D: And then, like, when, like, they're wrapping up, like, Renee, like, points at the painting and, like, the only thing she points at is, like, Kyle's come gutters that he has. And she's just like, points and starts talking. [00:42:05] Speaker A: Get a load of these. [00:42:06] Speaker D: And Don's like, I know. I painted them myself. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Like, right. [00:42:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I do appreciate that. They never forget Kyle's come gutters because, like, he does not have abs. He just has come gutters. And he would probably tell you that himself. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought Kyle did a good job. Like, Kyle's coming to his own as, like, a heel promo. Very, very well. He's obnoxious. And he knows how to like, really kind of hit his points and everything while still just coming across like a total and dumb sunglasses. [00:42:36] Speaker D: But also believable too. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Yeah. No. 100% that right. Kind of obnoxious. [00:42:41] Speaker A: Good news for the. The fletch lights out there. He has made. He made an open challenge for Collision, and it has been answered by Tomohiro Ishii. [00:42:52] Speaker B: That's gonna be a sick man. I'm. I'm definitely looking forward to Collision this weekend. It looks pretty stacked. I love Summerishi when he now that he doesn't do the G1 and he just comes to. Aw. And kind of has kick ass matches for a little bit. [00:43:03] Speaker A: Also wrestles with the Costco guy. Yeah. Okay. [00:43:08] Speaker C: I want it forever. I love that he just doesn't give a. And he gives like his entire. Into both those situations. [00:43:14] Speaker B: Is she ex. Riz. [00:43:17] Speaker C: Let's go. He's. He's like his grandpa. [00:43:22] Speaker B: There was a picture of them backstage. Like a little video with Ishii putting a cowboy hat on the wrist. I'm like, this is wrestling. That's my. [00:43:30] Speaker C: They're both potato shaped. It's amazing. [00:43:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:34] Speaker D: It would take a day just to explain that to somebody who has no idea what's going on with either of them. [00:43:39] Speaker B: Oh, no, no. Amish person's head. [00:43:46] Speaker A: Explain the Rizzler to a Victorian child to watch them die immediately. So there's this fat kid. Fat sir. [00:43:58] Speaker B: Yeah. He just gets to eat everything. [00:43:59] Speaker A: He wants food, does he? [00:44:01] Speaker D: No. So the old guy. The other kid is his son, but the Rizzler isn't. [00:44:07] Speaker C: Nobody knows where the Rizzler's parents are. The Rizzler doesn't know where the Rizzler's parents are. [00:44:13] Speaker D: Doesn't even have them. [00:44:14] Speaker A: I know who the Rizzler's parents are. The Rizzler. The Rizzler is a fragment of Jimmy Hart who broke off. He's just there. [00:44:21] Speaker D: Oh, no. Oh, no, no. [00:44:23] Speaker C: It's. It's. [00:44:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Daddy big boom. [00:44:27] Speaker C: It's Jimmy Hart. Particles and midichlorians and. And together. Rizzler. [00:44:33] Speaker D: Yeah. It's like a big bang sort of thing. And y. Out popped the. The Rizzler. [00:44:43] Speaker A: All right, all right. We're moving on. [00:44:48] Speaker B: Yeah. We're dropping companies again. [00:44:49] Speaker A: Moving on to Adam Copeland. He's being interviewed by Alicia. A tout. I don't know. [00:44:56] Speaker B: I think it's. I think it's. [00:44:58] Speaker A: He says that Christian's apology sucked. It did. That promo was terrible. [00:45:03] Speaker D: Yes. [00:45:04] Speaker B: Yeah. All very accurate. [00:45:06] Speaker A: Doesn't Know what Christian's doing, but he was insincere and he's focused on ftr. And so what he has done, the. The heroic baby Face. What he has done is he has booked a match with himself and the injured Stokely Hathaway. This will be next week on Dynamite. If ftr. FTR get involved, then the trading order FTR has on Copeland is null and void. I don't. [00:45:35] Speaker B: That's how the restraining orders work. [00:45:39] Speaker C: Wrestling law, Jeff. This works. Okay. [00:45:42] Speaker D: Yes. [00:45:45] Speaker B: I do like that they've stopped with just Cope and they're back to calling him Adam Copeland. Like, Cope is fine as a little nickname and stuff, but, like, it's clunky games by itself, in my opinion. [00:45:55] Speaker D: Yeah, we want you to have a four letter name. [00:45:58] Speaker C: They tried to do the Vince thing. [00:46:01] Speaker B: I just got used to Adam Copeland instead of Edge, and then they tried. [00:46:04] Speaker C: To me, it was. They tried to do the Vince thing. Like. Like you're. We're gonna call him Cope. You guys call him Cope? And everyone was like, we don't. We don't call him Co. And they're like, okay, I guess we don't call him Cope. Whereas Rinse. The convince would have been like, you know, we're calling him Cold. He stuck it. [00:46:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Fired somebody. [00:46:28] Speaker C: Yeah. Anyways, Pancakes. [00:46:35] Speaker A: Pancakes. Numb. Numb. Speaking of numb. [00:46:38] Speaker C: Numb. [00:46:39] Speaker A: This match next match ruled Tag team eliminator Tournament semifinals. Yeah. This is my match of the night. Bandito and Birdie King versus the Young Bucks. Unfortunately. [00:46:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:52] Speaker B: PWG love unfortunately, bro. [00:46:55] Speaker A: Dido seems to be what they're officially called. And I don't know, I think AEW might be dying. [00:47:01] Speaker C: We're gonna agree to a distance. Yeah, we're gonna agree to disagree here. Erica. I am a Brodido girl. I'm a Rodino truther. Brodido me for life. [00:47:10] Speaker A: I love terrible name. Aw. Is dying. Circling the toilet. [00:47:14] Speaker D: Rodido me softly. [00:47:15] Speaker C: Brodido me softly with their song. [00:47:19] Speaker B: I love that Brodido song. That the Eminem sample for Sam. [00:47:29] Speaker A: Can we get a strike on that? We have enough issues. Strikes. [00:47:34] Speaker B: My tea's gone cold. I'm wondering why. [00:47:37] Speaker D: Yeah, Jeff, I'm sorry. [00:47:39] Speaker B: That's the one. Just censor that whole joke. [00:47:45] Speaker C: Just add the barking. Oh, holy. [00:47:54] Speaker A: So before we even get to the match, the Young Bucks. The Young Bucks Jobber entrances have become more elaborate than. [00:48:03] Speaker D: Yes. [00:48:03] Speaker A: They're like all in big match entrances. Yeah. Like work of art. I don't. I like. It's so hard to, like, just do it justice. So they. They're trying to do this big epic. You know, they come through the middle of the stage and the thing rises up right. The screen does not rise all the way up. It stops like. Like knee height and they have to crawl underneath. Loud pyro goes off and scares them. And then they get dinky fireworks. [00:48:36] Speaker B: Yeah. They got the orange Cassidy single spoot pipe. [00:48:39] Speaker A: Justin Roberts reads what he was given verbatim. [00:48:43] Speaker D: Punctuation and all. [00:48:46] Speaker A: I did not write punctuation. Included the punctuation. [00:48:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we should have. Somebody should have gotten this down because that was. It was so good. [00:48:55] Speaker A: I tried writing it down. I wanted to but I was like this is too annoying to type. [00:49:04] Speaker B: My. The high. The highlight of the intro of this entrance though was the chiron that said Max Deep. [00:49:11] Speaker A: Deep Max and Jeremy Buck. [00:49:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Called Generation Me with it. The music at 1.2 turns into what Excalibur describes as sounding like somebody's brain. [00:49:23] Speaker D: It's like a almost lullaby. But there's just like a weird aura to it as like the screen has like an Ms. [00:49:31] Speaker A: Paint. [00:49:32] Speaker C: It's a variation of their. The successiony type theme that they had. [00:49:43] Speaker D: With Comic Sans. Young bucks on the screen. [00:49:47] Speaker B: Great stuff though. They've done such a good job with this gimmick. [00:49:50] Speaker C: It's made me like the young bucks. Them being annoying piss aunt heels. Like when they like the EVPs. I was like oh, I love hating these little. This is great. And then they do this. I'm like this is the best thing. This is the greatest. [00:50:07] Speaker B: The Bucks know how to laugh at themselves and be like a bottom joke. Which is a very underrated thing for a heel theme to be able to do. They are genuinely funny. They get you against them and you really like. And they come up with these just inventive, hilarious ways to keep it fresh. [00:50:23] Speaker C: It's important. I feel like a lot of the best pro wrestlers. He'll face anything people. You can't take yourself too seriously or I'm just gonna. It's just gonna piss me off. I think of Hell the Natural. We're just talking about broke the mold. Ableist is his. Him doing the stuttering thing after he got electrocuted on the soundboard at a pay per view is. Is a highlight of my childhood. Like. Like the comedic goddamn timing of unreal. And you gotta be able to laugh at yourself. Basically. It's like what he would say to that and to me. [00:51:05] Speaker B: But they do that while still being a great. [00:51:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:09] Speaker B: Like just as this match will show like you're laughing at them. But they still put on better matches than probably 90 of other wrestlers. [00:51:16] Speaker A: No. [00:51:16] Speaker C: And. And. And Brody. [00:51:18] Speaker B: And hardly ever happened. [00:51:20] Speaker C: Brody and Bandito are. Are something else. Like, just. What the hell. [00:51:26] Speaker A: They have such, like, instant chemistry. It's kind of. Well, I mean, it's not amazing in the sense that it's. They're two very talented wrestlers, and they figured out how to make their styles click as a team. [00:51:40] Speaker D: Brody King is a literal platform for bandido to do cool off of. [00:51:46] Speaker A: That's exactly it. [00:51:48] Speaker B: It's true. [00:51:49] Speaker C: But. [00:51:49] Speaker B: And I do think they've worked together before, like in pwg. And I know Brody came up in Luch. [00:51:54] Speaker C: I didn't know that. Well, I do. I know. I knew about the lucha. [00:51:57] Speaker B: Yeah, they're both. [00:51:58] Speaker C: I knew about the lucha because he pulled that arena Mexico. And I was like, what the hell are you doing? Sorry. [00:52:07] Speaker B: That was kind of like Brody's gimmick for a while as he was like the big heart guy that did. [00:52:11] Speaker C: That's sick. [00:52:13] Speaker B: And then it worked. [00:52:14] Speaker C: Everything I learned about that man, I just love him so much and want to climb him like a tree. Anyways. Pancakes. [00:52:22] Speaker A: But we do have. We do have to be serious for a moment here. And that's to highlight that it's not nice to call people jobbers. It's an offensive term. I feel bad for even saying it. I should have used the J word. [00:52:38] Speaker B: The J word. There's too much jobber shaming and too much ball shaming. [00:52:43] Speaker C: I knew. I knew jabroni was a slur, but I didn't know that jobber. [00:52:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that was one of my. [00:52:49] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. You know, I didn't know that's where I came from. [00:52:51] Speaker B: What am I? This. [00:52:52] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know if it's had a. [00:52:55] Speaker B: Couple of my tasks. [00:52:56] Speaker A: Yeah. This. Taz was. Taz was so upset at the jobber. Chance at the young bucks. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Well, I got it. I. I broke in in the late 80s. We don't need those anymore. Excalibur said, there's a lot of words from the late 80s we don't need to use anymore. [00:53:10] Speaker A: That was. I had that one, too. [00:53:13] Speaker C: I missed that guy. [00:53:15] Speaker B: And then at one point, like, Tony was, like, talking from. Talking about being from South Carolina or something. I'll file. I'll file right under. Who gives a rat's ass? I think that's my one of the noise. [00:53:25] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:53:26] Speaker B: That killed me. [00:53:27] Speaker C: Oh, holy. [00:53:29] Speaker B: But they just. Yeah. Great chemistry here. Crazy back and forth. Like, they're just. There's spots. I mean, I just wrote spot after spot after. [00:53:36] Speaker D: Just more ridiculous. Stuff like off the barricade onto the apron. Brody King doing, like, the weird, like, corner jump to, like, the splash outside, like, was really awesome. [00:53:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that was a little bit of Lucha, I guess. [00:53:50] Speaker D: Bandito getting maybe the most hang time I've ever seen off that slingshot spot. [00:53:56] Speaker B: Oh, that, like. [00:53:56] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:53:57] Speaker B: When they, When Brody launched him. Yeah, that was insane. He went out of frame. [00:54:01] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:54:01] Speaker B: He literally flew into the rafters. Just incredible. [00:54:05] Speaker A: The pacing of the match I thought was really cool because they started out with the Young Bucks being flustered, but then, like, as it got on, they started getting more and more like, all right, we're the Young Bucks, we're the tag team. We're the best tag team in the world, kind of. And like, they took control and I thought that, yeah, they were going to win. And we were FTI versus the Young Bucks again. [00:54:28] Speaker B: It really did feel like it could go either way up to the end. [00:54:31] Speaker C: I feel like it could have gone either way too, except Brodido went off so hard. I. I really. I see that's the kind of in. Aw. I can believe that. Where they're, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, we switched it up and all that because, like, case in point, what we just talked about, they don't call them cope as much anymore. They float that. And we go, no. And they listen. [00:54:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Say what you will about Tony Khan, but he does listen to feedback and he does try to seem like he tries to adjust to, like, what the fans want to live, you know, to a level. [00:55:06] Speaker C: I think that when you do that too, what happens is you have me saying, you're going, I don't remember the last time a paper review wasn't an all time great. And I don't remember the last time I didn't like Dynamite. I simply don't remember. And like, that's. [00:55:25] Speaker B: Yeah, like, aw. There are moments where it's, you know, it could be better. In my opinion. There's stuff I would probably change, but by and large, it's just such the better product. [00:55:33] Speaker C: It's wild. Yeah. [00:55:34] Speaker B: Like, it's way, way more fun to watch. Like, this match alone just in, like, exemplifies why I prefer aaw. Like, seeing this on TV is amazing. [00:55:45] Speaker C: It really is. And this team too is one of my great favorite examples of the Wolverine Colossus dynamic. You get a lot. Got a lot. [00:55:56] Speaker B: Like, they're Canadian. [00:55:58] Speaker C: Funny. No, Big guy, little big guy, Little guy, big guy pickup. Little guy throw, which is, you know, fastball special. Yeah, the fastball special. My favorite speedball was in the open running match. [00:56:11] Speaker A: Damn it, Piper. [00:56:12] Speaker C: Yeah, well, you get speedball with like Claudio or something like this is Claudio and Yuta. His same example. Claudio and Utah or Claudio and Rey Mysterio for a while there in the Fed. You know, big strong guy, little guy, pick up, throw. Good Garrick. Pop every time. Pancakes. [00:56:36] Speaker A: Yeah, pancakes. The Bucks almost win, but they did not figure out what they've renamed the EVB trigger. And that causes them to have some miscommunication. And Taz gives them for not figuring that out before, which. Good job, Taz. [00:56:52] Speaker B: Y. He's right. [00:56:53] Speaker A: He is right. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Come on, guys. [00:56:55] Speaker A: Even. [00:56:55] Speaker D: Even Taz is starting to. To slip on his unwavering love and affection for the young Bucks. [00:57:03] Speaker A: They. Hard to describe because it's just. It's just non stop action. Like the whole. The whole final sequence. The. The Bucks hit a TK driver on Bandido and it's. It was a real. I thought that was it. But Brody came out of nowhere for the save. [00:57:20] Speaker B: Say. I know Bandido hit a 21 plex at 1 point too. Down to the water. It didn't, bro. Yeah. Getting broken up. [00:57:26] Speaker A: No, they. They did a whole bunch of. There was like apron DDT on Bandito. And then Brody almost drops Matt, but still manages to get him back up for the apron. Dvd. [00:57:38] Speaker B: Yeah, that impressed me a lot because that's like how you. That's something screwing up and recovering and turning it into a spot. Like, the crowd got so into him, like, struggling into it and actually getting him there. [00:57:49] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:57:50] Speaker B: The gorilla press slam off the barricade that Bandido did. I've. That's insane. I've never seen that before. Just crazy shit. [00:57:57] Speaker C: All throughout the moment that started that little run when he kicked out or when Brody made the save or whatever, I was like, holy shit, they're going to win. Because I was like, that would have been that TK driveway. All that would have been the perfect finish if the Bucks are going to win it. Then he broke it up. I was like, holy shit. Brodino's going. [00:58:16] Speaker A: They hit that. [00:58:17] Speaker D: I don't even know what to call their finisher. [00:58:20] Speaker B: Yeah. It's insane. [00:58:21] Speaker D: Just that weird. Like again, big guy, pick up. Little guy spin, little guy around, little guy fall. [00:58:28] Speaker C: Win like a top. Yeah. [00:58:29] Speaker A: What gets me about that is Bandido. It doesn't look like Bandido is getting that much clearance, but he still hits like a full 450. [00:58:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Like this. Bandido is not a small guy. I mean, you for being a luchador, like he's probably still like, I'd say 5, 10, 5, 11. And he flips from so low off the ground like that laid that back position. That's not a lot of room to do that full rotation. But they just make it look effortless. [00:58:56] Speaker C: Goddamn. Like. [00:58:58] Speaker A: Yeah, they hit the gimmick. They get the win next week. Brodido vs FTR in the final to face. [00:59:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I said put the belts on Brody. [00:59:11] Speaker D: Honestly. [00:59:12] Speaker C: Yeah, there. [00:59:15] Speaker B: They'Re super over. Let Bandito rude the lose the Roh belt to Hechicero or something if they don't want to have them. But yeah, with the, the tag. They need the tag team. [00:59:24] Speaker C: They got a lot of people multi belting right now. But yeah, you gotta, you gotta reward that. I feel like you should reward that. Kind of get up and go. [00:59:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially since I feel like they kind of dropped the ball with. With jet speed and stuff. [00:59:38] Speaker C: Yeah, they could have done better by that. [00:59:40] Speaker B: That's a whole. Yeah. [00:59:42] Speaker A: A quick video package for MJF versus Mark Briscoe later. And they mentioned MJF beating Iverno to win the light heavyweight title in cmll and that he's renamed it to the world title a whole lot there. Again, good promo though. [01:00:02] Speaker C: I like when he's a little. I can't help it. [01:00:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he'd been wearing thin, but I think that he's. He. I really do think he's turned the corner for me at least. [01:00:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Adam Sandler gave him some point. Pulled it together. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Renee is. Rene is with the Hurt syndicates. And MVP congratulates Berdido, wishes them an FTR luck because whoever's at Forbidden Door is going to get hurt. Mjf, that's the name of the group. That's the name of the group. MJF comes in and tries. He's. He's. He's trying to butter up mvp, keep him on his side. He says ditch Bobby and Shelton and help him get the title. MVP says, no, no, no, no. It's we hurt people. Their collectivist. And Max is too focused on himself. And for the first time, MVP gives him a thumbs down. He's done this. [01:00:50] Speaker C: Infighting is gonna stop. I'm just saying. [01:00:53] Speaker A: The Soviet. The Hurt Soviet. That's what they should be called. As a gift to Max, a final gift. He tells him that, you know, he can leave unhurt. Yeah. [01:01:04] Speaker B: Yeah. They won't him up. [01:01:06] Speaker A: Good luck with the belt. Chase. And he. But he. And he hopes. He says, I hope you fail to win the title because if you win Bobby Lashley is going to kill you, and it will be personal. [01:01:17] Speaker D: Bob's coming. Better watch out. [01:01:19] Speaker A: Renee is cackling the whole time. [01:01:23] Speaker B: That was fantastic. Yeah. Which I'm hoping this is an indication. They are moving Bobby. You know that. Their tag run's been fun, but it's time for him to be a main event singles dude. And that was a fine little segment. [01:01:34] Speaker A: I would absolutely love to see Bobby Lashley just kill MJF for however long that goes. [01:01:39] Speaker B: Y. [01:01:40] Speaker D: As long as it takes. [01:01:41] Speaker A: As long as it takes. 30 minutes of pure death. Speaking of pure death. This was actually not pure death. The next promo was fairly awesome. We have Alicia's again with FTR and Stokely. [01:01:56] Speaker B: God, so many funny bits in this. Just one little segment. [01:02:01] Speaker D: I do love how he was just. Stokely was just, like, in the Sunken Place for the first half of the promo. [01:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah, there's. There's a point where FTR says, like, Stokely could have skipped next week. He didn't have to come, but he insisted on being there and shoots, like, such a glare. [01:02:15] Speaker C: Like. [01:02:18] Speaker B: No, I didn't. [01:02:20] Speaker C: Big, Big Stoke is, like, the greatest. The greatest thing Tony Khan has ever done. Like, one of, like, getting him on tv. Holy. [01:02:32] Speaker A: So I'm. I'm happy every time he's on tv. Yes. [01:02:36] Speaker C: Basically. [01:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Pure entertainment. And I think we all probably have, like, the same line from this as the best part. [01:02:42] Speaker A: Well, do you want to go ahead? [01:02:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Stokely says he's short, he's bald, he can't get no hoes. He's been fighting his entire life. And when he says, I can't get any hoes, Cash in the background goes, you can get really supportive. And. [01:03:03] Speaker D: No, you can get as many hoes as you want. [01:03:06] Speaker B: Cash kept, like, corpsing in the background. He was laughing so hard. [01:03:10] Speaker A: Hathway hat hose. [01:03:12] Speaker C: This is y. [01:03:13] Speaker B: And Stokely describes Beth Phoenix as looking as having a head like a mic brawler. Cash just, like, you see him, like, turn his hat. [01:03:25] Speaker A: It's going to lead to Beth Phoenix showing up and killing Stokely. And that's. It'll be. I'd watch that match, but, yeah, like, I'm fine with that. This. [01:03:33] Speaker C: I need that in my life. [01:03:34] Speaker A: This was awesome. It's like, just. I. I cannot get over Stokely. It's just the whole, like, I've been fighting my whole life. I can't get home. Yes. He. He promises to pin Adam Copeland next week. [01:03:51] Speaker B: It was actually like, some, like, baby face fire from Stokely. Like, that's kind of. [01:03:54] Speaker D: I don't care if he gets his ass kicked next week. I'm just happy to see him on my tv. [01:03:58] Speaker A: And. Yeah. [01:03:59] Speaker B: Yep. Very. That was fun. [01:04:01] Speaker A: He's one of the people that, when he's not on tv, I say, where's Stokely? [01:04:08] Speaker B: He died on the way back to his home planet. [01:04:09] Speaker D: Next week he will. [01:04:11] Speaker A: Excalibur, meanwhile, is an. And can't wait to see Stokely die. Boo, Excalibur. Boo. Man in the mask. They. I think they go to a commercial I didn't read. [01:04:22] Speaker B: They do the Swerve and Okada video package. [01:04:28] Speaker A: Swerve says if Okada is going to wave that belt in his face, he's going to want to take it. And Don Callis points out that Okada is at his best when gold is on the line. So that's going to be an exciting match. I'm looking forward to that. [01:04:40] Speaker D: Yes. [01:04:41] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I'm stoked for that. That's gonna be cool. [01:04:43] Speaker C: My body is ready. [01:04:46] Speaker A: And speak of the devil, Renee is here again. Is a busy person tonight. [01:04:54] Speaker C: He's the Jimmy Hart of this episode of Dynamite. She's everywhere. [01:04:57] Speaker D: Honestly. [01:04:58] Speaker A: She. She might have gotten a shard of Jimmy Hart trapped in her when Hogan died. [01:05:03] Speaker C: And there's Jimmy Hard particles, like, floating around, apparently. [01:05:07] Speaker D: So they stopped on the Shoneys on the way to Ohio, and that was. [01:05:12] Speaker A: That was her grits. [01:05:13] Speaker B: I'm the second angel, dude. [01:05:16] Speaker C: I'm an ignorant baby. [01:05:18] Speaker A: Terrible. I saw. I saw my YouTube algorithms all messed up because I was looking at Jimmy Hart stuff. But they had a. There was one video that had a preview picture. It was just like a close up of Bass. Oh, my God, that man looks terrible. Kind of bad. You like? [01:05:37] Speaker B: Yeah. He turned into a Muppet. [01:05:39] Speaker A: He looks so disheveled. Anyway, Swerve versus Okada is official. I didn't really write a whole lot about this promo because it kind of wasn't that great. [01:05:49] Speaker D: I agree. [01:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:51] Speaker B: The Swerve and Nana bit. [01:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:53] Speaker D: Not Swerve's best work. [01:05:54] Speaker B: It was fine. It's. The match has already sold to me. [01:05:58] Speaker D: Yeah. Just tell me they're having a match and that's really all you need to do. [01:06:01] Speaker A: It was. Yeah, it just kind of rambled and it kind of lost me. But, you know, like you said, the selling point of the match is the match itself. And if you're not excited for. If you need to be sold on Okada vs Swerve, what's wrong with you? [01:06:16] Speaker B: Go watch something else. [01:06:17] Speaker A: Right. Go back to another promo. Alicia's with Mark Briscoe. The time for talking is over. But he's going to talk anyway. But with his fists. [01:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah. There's still a little bit of time. [01:06:27] Speaker A: There's still some time for talking. The Day of Atonement is here for mj, and Alicia points out that if he could win his fourth consecutive main event, he might be in contention for a. A title shot. And Hangman comes up and says he admires Mark as a wrestler and a person. Good luck, man. [01:06:45] Speaker B: Yeah. Baby faces. They're friends. [01:06:48] Speaker A: That's fine. [01:06:49] Speaker B: We like both these guys, and they like each other. [01:06:51] Speaker A: Yay. They should. Yes. But they should kiss. [01:06:56] Speaker B: It's good stuff with their story, though. I mean, that's. I'm. I have, like, the whole Mark, mjf, Hangman, little triangle thing they got going on. I would actually like to see, like, Mark get a title shot at some point, too. [01:07:08] Speaker A: He really should. [01:07:09] Speaker B: I think that would. That would just be a fun ass, man. [01:07:11] Speaker D: I. I think there's still a possibility, given what happens in the main event. [01:07:16] Speaker B: No, definitely. For sure. [01:07:18] Speaker A: The time for talking is still not over because Renee is, again, just Jimmy Harding her way around the arena. [01:07:26] Speaker B: They're backstage, like, all day. [01:07:29] Speaker D: She's been backstage. She has been outside. She's been in, like, a lot in the parking lot. [01:07:34] Speaker B: She's in the ring. [01:07:35] Speaker D: She's been on the ramp. [01:07:37] Speaker A: Gene Okerland could never. [01:07:39] Speaker B: Honestly, she's gonna replace what's his name as the Flash. [01:07:43] Speaker A: So she's interviewing Queen Aminata. Aminata is disappointed. She feels she could have beaten Mercedes if she had won. And, you know, Willow shows up to, you know, say, hey, it's okay. You did your best. And she's teaming with Aminata and Tay Mello on Collision, and they're in a face triangle of madness on Collision. But then here comes Kris Statlander, who is doing. [01:08:05] Speaker B: He is weird. [01:08:06] Speaker A: Who's doing the. The weird, awkward X gimmick. Yay, women. Supporting women. [01:08:12] Speaker B: It's kind of passive aggressive, odd stuff. Like, I love Krista Atlanter. I think she's a fantastic wrestler, but I don't. This was weird with her and Willow. [01:08:22] Speaker A: I don't know where it's going. Willow says stats moving along, moving on, but not. And she won't talk to her until she's ready to be serious. [01:08:32] Speaker B: I feel like they, like, run the course with a story. They've already done Willow and Stat back and forth for like a year now. [01:08:39] Speaker A: Right. And they've been doing this like they're both faces, but they're not friends anymore. But Stat wants to be friends, But Willow helps stat, and the Death Riders still trying to get her on their side. [01:08:53] Speaker B: That kind of fell by the wayside, it seems. That was. That was actually kind of an interesting, like, twist. [01:08:58] Speaker D: Yeah, I was, yeah, interested to see kind of how that would play out, but now that Darby's back, it seems like that's kind of the main focus. [01:09:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And like I said, I love Willow. I love. I think they're both, like, excellent parts of aew, but just this story just does not need to be going on like this anymore. And it's just kind of making me tired of Chris dad later, which is unfortunate because. [01:09:19] Speaker D: She's great. [01:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah, she's great. [01:09:22] Speaker B: No, her. [01:09:23] Speaker A: Her strength's not. Her promos. And they're trying to give her a lot of promo heavy stuff, and it's not working. And I don't. I don't know where this is going. I don't know what the point of this is. I feel like they're going to get back together at some point. [01:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah, that's. I mean, I'm cool. Let them be friends. That shit's sweet. [01:09:42] Speaker C: Can I. Can I float something that's kind of dirt sheety? I can't help myself. So. I know there's been lots of chatter about them starting up a women's tag division, and I'm seeing lots of. Of reasons to believe that, in my. [01:10:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:10:00] Speaker C: Humble, humble opinion. Just the sheer amount of, like, matches lately with, like, just a ton of women in them, you know what I mean, that aren't. [01:10:09] Speaker B: Yeah, they've been pairing people up a lot. [01:10:10] Speaker C: They've been pairing people up a lot, but not just tags like that. All the four ways that we've been seeing. Yeah, stuff like that. I feel like there. There's just been more in, like, really showing off how great their women's roster is right now. Yeah, no, for sure. And, yeah, I think that they should do something. I feel. I feel like that Willow and Stat are both so great that if you get them as, like, the women's tag team for the Kamos, like, that's. That is, I think, a contender for inaugural champion there, Willow and Chris. So I think that's where they're heading. And it's just a little clunky because, yeah, it's been taking so long, but that's not, you know. Yeah, it should happen. [01:10:50] Speaker B: I'm willing to see it out, see where it goes. I like everybody enough that I'm not writing anything off. [01:10:55] Speaker A: Right. I wanna. I do want it to get somewhere because. All right, I'm gonna Do the thing that everybody complains about blue sky and everywhere, but, like, they really gotta have more than one women's. And if there's going to be a tag team tournament that would hopefully guarantee more than one win. [01:11:12] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. [01:11:13] Speaker A: And like, that's, that's like you have this awesome roster. You just add it. Alex, Windsor, you just added Tecla. Let's go. Let's go already. [01:11:25] Speaker C: No, Erica, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're seeing the code. You're seeing the goddamn matrix. This is what I'm talking about. [01:11:32] Speaker A: Believe. [01:11:33] Speaker C: She's starting to believe. [01:11:35] Speaker A: Well, I've been, I, I've been. I've been a tag team, women's tag team truther for a while. [01:11:40] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's. Yeah, they should. I get, I guess from same kind of dirt issue I read is the injuries just kind of keep throwing plans off for it back. But it's on the. It's something that they have planned. [01:11:51] Speaker C: Yeah, but it feels like this is. [01:11:53] Speaker A: Put them on tv. That's all I want. [01:11:54] Speaker B: Yeah, no, agreed. For sure. [01:11:56] Speaker A: I'm glad that they're doing the multi person, multi woman matches to get everybody on the show, but it's like, yeah, I'd like to see two feuds play out simultaneously, but not in the same match, you know? [01:12:10] Speaker B: Yeah, agreed. Yeah. [01:12:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:12:11] Speaker B: So this promo ended weirdly with stat throwing confetti everywhere. [01:12:15] Speaker A: Yes. It might be going insane. I don't know. [01:12:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:19] Speaker D: Okay. I was wondering if there was. [01:12:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:21] Speaker D: A reason for that. Like that I missed in a previous show, but apparently, you know. [01:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah, that kind of caught me off guard. [01:12:27] Speaker A: It was a little odd. [01:12:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:12:29] Speaker A: So Main event, MJF vs Mark Briscoe in a grudge match, which has all. [01:12:33] Speaker B: The rules of a normal match, but we're calling it a grudge match. [01:12:36] Speaker A: They're calling it a grudge match. It didn't quite have the grudge match feel to it at the end of the day. [01:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah, this was not. I feel like maybe we've been getting a lot of like, really brutal, crazy matches lately, so it's kind of hard to live up to some of the stuff that's been going down. But for what this is like, for what should be the blow off of MJF kind of crossing this line. It just kind of felt like an, you know, like a normal match. Didn't feel like Mark really wanted to kill him or anything. You're like, never got super crazy. A lot of elbow drops. [01:13:06] Speaker D: Failed elbow drops at That I don't. [01:13:10] Speaker A: Think they're done yet with this. [01:13:12] Speaker B: No. [01:13:13] Speaker A: As much it was as it was hyped, like Mark literally just said last week, he's going to hell because he's going to kill mjf. [01:13:21] Speaker B: He wants to murder him so badly, he's going to turn against his faith. [01:13:24] Speaker A: Yes. [01:13:25] Speaker B: Like, he's literally going to betray his religion. [01:13:27] Speaker D: This match did not exemplify that. [01:13:30] Speaker A: No, it was good. It was a fine match, but, like, did not. [01:13:33] Speaker B: Yeah, no, no. Yeah. It felt like a next step in the feud and not like double. [01:13:38] Speaker A: Exactly. They did a lot of brawling. Mark got the very early advantage. He's looking for early J Driller. They fight in the crowd a little bit. He hits that really hits. A really cool step up neck breaker from the barricade to the. Over the barricade into the inside. That was. That was pretty cool. And then he sets. Check out, sets up Chekhov's wrestling table. [01:14:02] Speaker B: Yep. Maybe he'll set it up and not break it. [01:14:05] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe I was thinking at all. [01:14:07] Speaker D: I don't know why I would fall for that. It's a wrestling match. [01:14:10] Speaker B: Yeah. It would be an interesting swerve. Just one time to set up a table and never do. Just have the crew come out after the match is over and put it back away. [01:14:19] Speaker A: Yep. [01:14:22] Speaker B: Sorry. We just never got there. [01:14:24] Speaker D: They forgot. [01:14:25] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:14:27] Speaker B: They did a lot of. Like we said, Mark setting up for. Going for froggy bows and MJF rolling out of the ring. [01:14:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:35] Speaker B: Which is good. Heat spot and everything. But comedy. [01:14:38] Speaker D: Comedy. Rule of threes. You don't have to do it five times. [01:14:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. It was not meant to be comedy, though. It was. Oh, I know. [01:14:47] Speaker D: But still, it was like. Okay. [01:14:49] Speaker B: It was chicken heels. Yeah. It just. They. They went on it's like six times. [01:14:55] Speaker A: They built the match around Mark trying to hit the froggy boat. That's what happened. And MJF countered that by going after his, you know, doing, you know, going after the midsection, all that. So that, like, if he can't hit it, because it will hurt. And they did pay that off. Like, he did hit it, but then he couldn't cover. [01:15:15] Speaker B: Yeah, there was some good. There's some good psychology. [01:15:19] Speaker A: It just. It felt like a TV main event and not. [01:15:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:15:25] Speaker A: A big chapter in this ongoing feud of murder. [01:15:29] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:15:30] Speaker B: It also probably didn't help that this came right after, like, the best match of that tag team match. That's one of the best I've seen on TV in forever. Like, anything compared To. That's going to be a step down. But it wasn't bad. It was fine. [01:15:41] Speaker A: No, it wasn't bad. MJF gets a lot of heat, abdominal stretches, that type of thing. [01:15:47] Speaker B: Heel stuff. [01:15:49] Speaker A: Mark mans up because he doesn't Mark up or Briscoe up. He mans up, he makes his comeback. They mentioned Jericho for some reason because MJF got a Boston Crab. [01:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah, he did that. [01:16:02] Speaker C: Cool. [01:16:02] Speaker B: Like, water wheel drops into the Boston Crab spot, which does look, I love that water wheel drop. But yeah, they feel it. They talked about Jericho enough to make me worried we'll be seeing him again. [01:16:13] Speaker A: I had this. I had the same thought. Yeah? [01:16:16] Speaker B: Yep. Like, don't you, don't you put this evil on me to ask. [01:16:18] Speaker A: Come on, don't say it. Don't put it out there. Don't even take it. Eventually they fight their way back onto the outside and Mark has MJF set up for froggy bow on the table. He misses, it explodes spectacularly. [01:16:35] Speaker D: Like that table exploded. [01:16:38] Speaker B: That was cool. [01:16:39] Speaker A: That was very satisfying. [01:16:40] Speaker B: That disintegrated under him. That was a good little culmination. Well, I guess the technical still does end up hitting the froggy rain, but that, that was awesome. [01:16:49] Speaker A: So Max almost get. So mark survives at 10 count, but then he gets a. Eats a heat seeker while trying to get back in. MJF gets a three count off of this, but Mark's foot was on the rope and Bryce did not see it. [01:17:04] Speaker B: Yeah, good job, Bryce. Counting the pin, looking away from the wrestlers. [01:17:08] Speaker A: So that was pretty bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:17:11] Speaker B: I guess there's like, it, like we were saying, it's keeping the feud moving. It's, you know, this is not the end of it, I'm assuming because this is going to open it up for now. Hey, MJF can be like, oh, Hangman, I won that match. So give me the match without the belt. [01:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:27] Speaker B: Or without the contract. And he'll be like, well, you didn't win clean. And then probably make it maybe like a three way with Mark or something. [01:17:34] Speaker A: I, I thought for a second they would restart the match because it was so obviously like the ref up type of situation, but nope, that stands. That's the finish. Max attacks post match, digs out the dynamite diamond ring, clocks Briscoe. There's blood everywhere. Now here comes Hangman. Yeah, a little late, A little late. They, they go back and forth. Security tries to stop them. Mark's bleeding everywhere. [01:18:01] Speaker B: Chaos all over. [01:18:03] Speaker A: Max runs, comes back. Hangman goes into the crowd after. [01:18:07] Speaker B: That was good. I did like that. [01:18:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it was nice. It was. It was. [01:18:12] Speaker B: I think they were. Didn't realize how long they had run, too. [01:18:15] Speaker A: Right. [01:18:15] Speaker B: Is that, like, you guys realize it's like quarter after 10 now. [01:18:18] Speaker A: See, like, I feel like they. Or at least the. The tag team match went very long. [01:18:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that's possible. [01:18:25] Speaker A: And that probably. [01:18:25] Speaker B: That was a long match. [01:18:27] Speaker A: And then they had to get in all the promos and, like, this match. Yeah. [01:18:30] Speaker B: Maybe that's why it kind of felt underwhelming. Like, it's. They had to fit it for time to rush it. Yeah. I don't know. It's like, all in the original, all in, all over again. But, I mean, that's. It was moving that feud along. It was a fine match. It was, overall, I'd say a very, very dynamite. Like, I have fun watching it. There was enough, like, just cool ass to kind of make up for whatever middling stuff was there. [01:18:55] Speaker D: Next week, I think it's gonna be much the same. [01:18:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Stokely versus Cope. [01:18:59] Speaker C: Let's go. [01:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm so ready for that. [01:19:01] Speaker B: Five and a half stars. 33 minutes. [01:19:04] Speaker C: I believe in you, big Stoke. [01:19:06] Speaker A: I believe. I think Stoke can do it. He can pull out. He can. He can drag over the hill. Adam Copeland. [01:19:13] Speaker B: Yeah. He could drag him to a good match. [01:19:15] Speaker A: Yeah, he can. He can. [01:19:16] Speaker B: They're doing. They're doing Kevin Knight versus Mox next week, too, which would be fun. [01:19:20] Speaker C: Young pup Stokely. Oh, no. [01:19:29] Speaker A: Final thoughts on the show? [01:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah, very positive. Definitely, like, just, you know, moving things along. We're building towards Forbidden Door, and they're putting out some bangers, keeping everything going. [01:19:39] Speaker D: Yeah. I think the wrestling was all good to fantastic on the evening, and can't really ask for much more than that. [01:19:46] Speaker A: I guess not. [01:19:47] Speaker D: And Renee was everywhere, so I can't complain about the show. [01:19:50] Speaker A: Yeah, I ain't mad about that. [01:19:52] Speaker B: She is the remarkable Renee Piguet. And nobody else gets a nickname, just her. [01:19:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought it kind of had, like, some flow issues for it, but it was fine. Like, there's definitely been worse. Dynamite. [01:20:05] Speaker B: Oh, for sure. This was, like. [01:20:07] Speaker A: I wasn't mad about it, but it was just like, ah, this hasn't been as good as the past couple weeks. [01:20:12] Speaker B: Yeah, numerically, it's like a 7.5 out of 10. Like, definitely more good than bad. Happy I watched it, but not anything I'm gonna put down in the pantheon of, like, best dynamites I've ever seen. [01:20:22] Speaker C: It's one of the best tony storms I've seen in a while. That she was on one Last night. [01:20:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, she was. [01:20:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:20:31] Speaker C: And I. I don't know. I've been too busy with the life exploding in the studio, getting sold and all that. That, like, I haven't been able to, like, hang out, watch Dynamite. And I, like, made some time to watch Dynamite last night, and I'm glad I did. It's very. It's still very good. [01:20:51] Speaker B: Oh, that's. And even like a less than amazing Dynamite, still better than most wrestling. Yeah, that is true. [01:20:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, it's. It's amazing how much people just accepted for a while that wrestling TV shows should not be good. [01:21:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:21:09] Speaker A: It's okay if they suck. That's just how it is. [01:21:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:21:12] Speaker D: They're gonna be a song. [01:21:13] Speaker C: Yeah. Because wrestling kind of sucks, right? Like, like, it's like. No, no, Vince convinced us. [01:21:20] Speaker B: It can be good. [01:21:21] Speaker A: You should hate yourself while watching this. [01:21:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:21:24] Speaker B: When you actually have people who like wrestling making wrestling. [01:21:27] Speaker D: Wow. Imagine. [01:21:28] Speaker C: That's unbelievable. [01:21:30] Speaker B: That's our life lesson for this week. [01:21:34] Speaker C: Well, on that note. [01:21:35] Speaker A: And a lesson well learned. [01:21:37] Speaker C: Right? On that note, these are, in fact, the best pancakes I've ever had at this particular chain restaurant here. So I have to. If you don't mind me, folks, get from table here, and I have to go in the back and kill the cook. [01:21:53] Speaker A: What? [01:21:55] Speaker D: Hey, after you're done with that, can you, like, take us to the actual studio so we can record proper, like, next week, please? [01:22:00] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, just follow the beeps. [01:22:03] Speaker D: We did. [01:22:04] Speaker A: Okay. [01:22:04] Speaker B: I'm tired of bathing in bathrooms. [01:22:06] Speaker A: And how many more of these restaurants are. I kind of feel like we're. We're somewhat responsible. Or at least you. [01:22:13] Speaker C: Love you. [01:22:14] Speaker A: Bye. God damn it. [01:22:26] Speaker B: Get the dildos.