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is rewinded dynamite time. John

1:49

Pollock and Wei Teng here on Wednesday.

1:52

Made the 20 second hole away. Hey

1:54

John, how you doing? I'm doing good. I'm

1:56

doing swell. Swell. Good.

2:00

good. Did you join the weather? It was

2:02

very nice out today. It was like over 25 or something like

2:05

that. It's gorgeous today.

2:07

Yeah. It was

2:09

super hot out today. It was just... Yeah. It was...

2:13

This feels very hot just for May.

2:15

I'm kind of grateful that we don't have this

2:19

weather year round. It just

2:21

makes me like it more. It makes it

2:23

feel more special. I

2:25

agree. I agree. I never would want year

2:28

round warm weather. I know

2:30

some people that they think we're crazy because we have the

2:32

winter and stuff. I agree.

2:35

It's kind of like... The place is about

2:37

everything in moderation. Variety, yes. If

2:40

you get that cold, you

2:42

can always

2:44

have a flamethrower at your disposal

2:47

to keep you warm in those

2:49

December, January... A wonderful Moscow. Of

2:52

course, yes. We'll

2:54

get to that. Flamethrowers, blood baths,

2:57

all the staples of a go-home episode

3:00

for a pay-per-view. Were

3:02

you ready to spend money after this dynamite?

3:05

Well, I've already spent it. Did

3:09

you feel happy about that purchase after tonight's episode?

3:14

I mean, dynamite or AW pay-per-views

3:16

at this point really established, I think,

3:18

a great track record. Whether or not

3:20

this was a good go-home show, I

3:22

think I probably would have purchased it anyway.

3:27

Let's retrace

3:30

our steps and ask me the question at the end of

3:32

the room. We'll make a decision at the end of set

3:35

show. Well, Way and I have both

3:37

been busy over the last 24 hours.

3:39

Way was back with the wellness policy on

3:41

Tuesday with the non-birthday boy,

3:44

Jordan Goodman, and Neil Flanagan,

3:47

the C-3PO

3:49

of Post-Razzling. I'm

3:52

always impressed that you listen. I'm

3:54

always hovering, okay? I'm always lingering and paying

3:57

attention to what's what. I'm

4:00

down to the final hour of the NWA

4:02

podcast from something amazing.

4:04

Wow. Amazing. It is amazing for

4:06

the fact that, um, I

4:08

always enjoy the, uh, well, before

4:11

we start to wrap up and looking at how much

4:13

time this, this was the all timer where Andrew, who

4:15

was adamant about not going a certain amount of time

4:17

said, well, we're definitely, uh, not

4:19

going crazy tonight because all we have left

4:22

are the predictions for the two pay per

4:24

views. And I'm looking down and I'm not

4:26

kidding. An hour and 57 minutes was left,

4:29

uh, as they were stating, we're going to wrap up

4:31

with this topic, but

4:33

all of his goals, right? It was

4:36

Kendrick Lamar was a big hit with Nate. He loved

4:38

that all his releases, but

4:41

that's from Sunday. Uh, and then

4:43

the aforementioned wellness policy, open calls,

4:45

always fun, uh, discussing any and

4:48

all topics, everything under the sun and

4:50

the callers, they, they never disappoint on

4:52

the wellness policy. No, never.

4:54

Nor do the, do the graphics by

4:56

the way. Well, that,

4:59

that is a group effort, um, as always,

5:01

but thank you for listening, John, yeah, we

5:03

always have a good time. Nothing really sort

5:05

of a focused in particular and those actually

5:07

end up being our favorite shows typically. Well,

5:10

today I was up with a Brandon Thurston and

5:12

we did a pretty extensive show today, 90 minutes

5:15

going over WWE's, uh, relationship

5:17

with Saudi Arabia, which looks like it would,

5:20

they will be expanding the relationship over the

5:22

next coming months, according to Mark Shapiro. And

5:24

we had a guest on the show, Bradley

5:26

Hope. He's the coauthor of a book that

5:28

came out a few years ago called blood

5:30

and oil. Some

5:33

relaxing, a relaxing beach read. If

5:35

you do take the time

5:37

out to read all about the rise

5:39

of MBS in Saudi Arabia. Um,

5:42

so that is on. Plus we talked about the, uh,

5:45

Mark Shapiro, uh, speech that he had

5:47

at the JP Morgan conference this past

5:49

Monday and all the other news that's

5:51

going on. Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton

5:53

has become a regular character on these

5:56

shows and everything else that is going

5:58

on. This

6:01

is where I just wait for you, Wei. If

6:04

you want to weigh in on Ken Taxton, you can do

6:06

it afterward. There's

6:09

just a whole other very

6:12

interesting universe that I think you and

6:14

Brandon have started to develop of this

6:16

cast of characters that I don't think

6:19

you'll find any other wrestling podcast. You'll

6:25

never hear them repeated at least,

6:27

and maybe treated with such interest.

6:32

I love it. When are you going to sell

6:34

the Ken Taxton t-shirt on Chopped

6:36

Tees? I

6:39

don't know, because they might come after us

6:41

with a records request then of our sales

6:43

and such, and I would maybe have to

6:45

withhold those records. That

6:49

could be a t-shirt, everything you just said. Just

6:51

transcribe that, put that on a shirt. All

6:54

of that can be found over at postwrestling.com.

6:58

And I'll look ahead to the next

7:00

couple of days. postwrestlingcafe.com, we

7:03

will be dropping a new Rewind Away on

7:05

Thursday. We're going back to 2012, which if

7:07

you can believe it, is 12 years ago,

7:09

when Brock Lesnar took on

7:11

John Cena, kind

7:14

of a miniature version of Sutton, I'm saying,

7:16

Bryan Danielson, from Chicago, Illinois,

7:18

with Brock Lesnar's first match in WWE

7:21

since his return from the UFC. And

7:23

we're going to talk about that. We're going to

7:26

talk about the rematch, after Bryan

7:28

Danielson and Sheamus had their 18-second

7:30

match, the following pay-per-view, they got a 2 out

7:33

of 3 false match. So we'll talk about the

7:36

less remembered, maybe, of the two. Plus,

7:38

CM Punk taking on Chris Jericho in

7:40

a Chicago street fight. That's

7:42

on this card. And of course, Brodus

7:44

Clay versus Dolph Ziggler. All that coming your

7:46

way on Extreme Rules. We will also talk

7:48

about the news headlines from that week, but

7:51

there is a lot to get into on

7:53

this show. And

7:56

I don't want to disclose too much, but I

7:58

was... Just shaking

8:00

my head twelve years ago at the

8:02

finish of that main event. Let's see

8:04

how that and is holed up in

8:07

my estimation some twelve years later and

8:09

it's a very well remembered match on.

8:12

I'd. I wonder? what are

8:15

your pretty brutal that. New. Yeah.

8:17

Shocking at the time, even. I

8:19

would say so. Yes! so all that's

8:22

going recovered on Thursday and then we

8:24

go into Friday Night Rewind Smackdown in

8:26

it's usual time ten Eastern and that's

8:28

gonna be the smackdown Taken place from

8:30

Saudi Arabia. That. Is

8:33

correct. Yeah, very interesting. So and so

8:35

join I will be there to cover

8:37

it. Sunday is our Friday night ten

8:39

Tv Cern and then into Saturday. Will.

8:41

Be back on the free food for our

8:44

king Queen of the ring pusher. He

8:46

away is going to overdose on Shaun Pollock

8:48

this coming weekend because we are going to

8:50

be a Friday night. Will. Be a

8:52

Saturday afternoon is around more are so when

8:55

that King Queen of the Rings show ends

8:57

and then will cap it off Sunday night

8:59

after Double or Nothing. Ah for everybody So

9:01

we will be going live as soon as

9:04

Double or Nothing is in the books. Quick

9:06

mention here of course We also a collision

9:08

course happening in the posers. a cafe kitten

9:10

seen all the will have aid of you

9:12

on collision bread before Double or Nothing covered

9:15

and the possess a cafe feed. Also the

9:17

return of em see you later you're going

9:19

to be hearing a lot of them See

9:21

later. This. Ah, the several

9:23

weeks because Rich and Wh are

9:26

beginning a new projects where they're

9:28

going to be reviewing every A

9:30

Wolverine and Deadpool appearance in film.

9:33

I'm in a in the lead

9:35

up to Would Deadpool in Wolverine.

9:38

So they're starting this week with

9:40

Days of Future Past the X

9:42

Men film from the prequel trilogy

9:45

featuring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Ah

9:47

it's it's one of my favorites

9:49

of someone my favorite comic book

9:52

movies. Period. So that's going as they're going to

9:54

start with that and then I believe next week

9:56

they're going to start with X Men One all

9:58

the way up until Deadpool to. So tune

10:02

in for that in the Post-Wrestler Cafe

10:04

on MCU later Thursday evening. Wow.

10:06

I'm this Deadpool Wolverine movie.

10:08

I mean, we're about two

10:10

months out from the release. Are

10:12

you going to invite me when you and your

10:14

friends go to watch this? Will I get the

10:17

invite? I don't think

10:19

you want an invite. I

10:22

don't think you want that invite, truthfully, John.

10:24

But you're welcome to join me and my

10:27

wife when we go to

10:29

the movie. Oh, I thought this would be more of a, I

10:31

thought this would be like a WH

10:33

and crew outing. Maybe that's going to be a...

10:35

No. I believe Rich Van

10:37

is actually coming to Toronto for...

10:39

He is. He is. ...several

10:42

things, but mainly to watch that movie

10:44

with WH Parks. So I think you

10:46

can invite yourself to join them. Interesting.

10:49

Well, I got invited to something else from those two, but

10:51

not to the movie. So I don't know if I should

10:53

take that as a sign of a... I'm

10:55

not welcome, but I might just... I

10:58

am the kind of person to just show up. I'm invited.

11:01

I'm okay with that. Well, check

11:03

all of that out at the Post

11:06

Wrestling Cafe, your one-stop shop for everything

11:08

Wolverine Deadpool related in the lead up

11:10

to this film that comes out July

11:12

the 26th. You're

11:17

going to hear those guys

11:19

every single week as they

11:21

talk about such great films

11:23

as X3, X-Men United, Wolverine

11:26

Origins, maybe the greatest comic book movie of all

11:28

time. I can't wait to hear WH talk about

11:30

that one. For someone that didn't

11:32

follow any X-Men as a child, I

11:35

saw a fair amount of the movies that have

11:37

come out going back to the one

11:39

in 2000, the first one that came out.

11:41

I saw Days of Future Past. Yeah.

11:44

I saw the first one. I saw some others

11:47

in there too. They

11:49

clearly left a lasting impression on me. I

11:51

remember enjoying Days of Future Past. The

11:53

timeline gets very messy, so I don't blame you for

11:56

forgetting. Well,

11:58

let's get into a few news items. of

12:00

a ton here to go with. And

12:02

for people that were looking ahead to

12:04

the end of August and the back-to-back

12:06

pay-per-view weekend experiment from AW, well, it

12:08

looks like they are ending that

12:11

back-to-back experiment after one year

12:13

because AW, according to PW

12:15

Insider and Fightful, and they've

12:17

updated their AEW tech site to reflect

12:19

a new date, are moving it from Sunday,

12:22

September 1st to Saturday, September 7th.

12:24

So instead of one week between

12:26

all in and all out, there

12:28

will be a two-week gap, which

12:30

I would still argue is really

12:33

turning around excessively quick.

12:36

But it is an extra week. It's

12:38

going to be at the now arena, Hoffman

12:40

Estates, Illinois. And I

12:42

mean, last year, I remember all out

12:44

being an incredible show. It just came

12:47

a week after All In.

12:49

And as we recall, they

12:51

didn't even have the bundling option to

12:53

be able to buy both shows. And

12:55

I think that's maybe a limitation that

12:57

they had with their providers. Because you

12:59

would think that would be the goal

13:02

of something like that is give a discount

13:04

and people are just going to buy both

13:06

shows. And we'll see if that's the

13:09

exact same this year. But it's

13:11

a two-week turnaround. And we will see what

13:14

the response is like this year. Yeah.

13:17

After last year, I think we had

13:19

all wondered if... Last year, I think maybe some of

13:23

us were thinking, okay, was Wembley always going

13:25

to be a part of the schedule? Was

13:27

it something... I don't

13:31

know. What limitations did they possibly have? And

13:33

this must have been some sort of last

13:37

resort to have these two shows so

13:39

close together. They're

13:41

also benefiting. I just remembered the WWE

13:44

Germany show is on Saturday,

13:47

August 31st, I

13:49

believe. I believe it's that last weekend. So

13:51

they're at least not running the same weekend

13:54

as a WWE PLE

13:56

as well. So that is one benefit to

13:58

moving another week as well. Yeah,

14:00

I mean, you

14:03

know, it's I'm somebody who's going

14:05

to be purchasing all of these anyway, and

14:08

I'm going to be using my VPN to purchase

14:11

them. So it doesn't make a big difference to

14:13

me. But for you know, that

14:15

your typical viewer who only has so much

14:17

attention for professional wrestling is two weeks going

14:19

to be enough of a buffer for them,

14:21

you know, and in terms of build and

14:24

just like building hype for

14:27

the second show coming off of all in. Well,

14:30

they have enough time this

14:32

year compared to last, you know, hopefully the one

14:35

we kept at the very least will space

14:37

it out and hopefully make that a bit easier. Yeah,

14:40

I would have a very different thought on this

14:42

if we were talking about them being on a

14:45

streamer. But it is, you know,

14:47

they're still requiring you to buy these shows

14:50

on their own. And I think that makes it's

14:52

really tough to sell two paper deuce to people in

14:54

such a quick amount of time. Although it wasn't like

14:57

it was a

14:59

bomb last year when when they tried this,

15:01

like they did an incredible number for all

15:03

in. And they did a satisfactory number for

15:05

all out. And that was with the week

15:07

in between. And of course, that week was

15:10

all eyes on CM Punk and the fallout

15:12

from all in as well, which maybe they'll celebrate

15:14

the anniversary of this year. Someone

15:17

not celebrating is Francesco Akira, who is now

15:19

out of the best of the Super Junior's

15:21

tournament. He has been dealing with a knee

15:23

injury and he missed Tuesday show where he

15:26

was supposed to be on an undercard tag

15:28

match. And then today he was officially pulled.

15:30

So he missed the match with her own

15:32

Takahashi on today's show and he will forfeit

15:34

his other matches with Doki show and Robbie

15:36

Eagle. So hopefully it's not too significant of

15:39

a knee injury. But to be pulled out

15:41

of a tournament like this, where it is

15:43

booked down to the last match, it would

15:45

have to be pretty significant to pull

15:47

them out of the tournament. But

15:49

after today's show, which was down to nine

15:52

matches instead of 10, we've got Teton and

15:54

L Desperado on top of the A block

15:56

with 10 points. And then we have a

15:58

three way tie for second. with Hayata, Blake

16:01

Christian and Clark Connors with 8. The

16:03

B-Block has a logjam at the

16:05

top with Robbie Eagles, Drilla Maloney,

16:08

Kushida, Taiji Shimori and Hiromu all

16:11

with 8 points and below them is

16:13

Show tied with Doki with 6 points.

16:16

So they have the

16:18

next couple of days off. They

16:20

won't return until Sunday and it's

16:22

another 9 match show that includes

16:24

Eldas Brado against TJP and Hiromu

16:26

Takahashi against Robbie Eagles in the

16:28

top 2 matches. But we are

16:30

getting closer as it will wrap

16:32

up with the finals are June

16:34

9th but we are going to get the block

16:37

finals on June 3rd as

16:39

we wind down that tournament.

16:43

WWE is going back to Japan in

16:45

July. They have not been to the

16:47

country since before the pandemic and they

16:49

have announced 3 shows July 25th at

16:52

Idion Arena in Osaka which is going

16:54

to be just days

16:57

after New Japan is running the same building

16:59

with the first 2 nights of the G1.

17:01

So that's going to be interesting for that

17:03

market and then WWE will do 2 nights

17:05

July 26th and 27th at

17:08

Sumo Hall in Tokyo and they are advertising.

17:10

This could change but as of now they

17:12

are advertising Cody, Drew McIntyre,

17:14

Bobby Lashley, Shinsuke Nakamura, Asuka,

17:16

Kairi Sane and Eo Sky

17:19

as the top talent

17:21

on this show or

17:24

series of shows. Yeah, I

17:27

really wish we could watch these shows. They did

17:29

that one year with them. They made a special

17:31

out of Beast in the East and

17:33

I believe they only showed a few matches from that

17:35

but I would just love to see these shows in

17:37

full just to kind of see what these crowd reactions

17:39

would be like. I

17:41

mean I understand logistically maybe getting

17:44

a full production up there and probably

17:46

not where they

17:48

need their broadcast partner Abima to come

17:50

in. Yeah, these would totally

17:52

be shows that you would be curious just

17:54

to see especially the reactions

17:57

and such and working in Sumo Hall

17:59

for instance. Um, yeah,

18:01

but, um, anyway, they, they

18:04

are probably going to do very well being in the country, but this

18:06

is right smack in the middle of

18:08

a of G1 season as well. Raw

18:10

on Monday did a million 733,000 viewers and a 0.56 in the demo.

18:15

So they were second for the night behind the NHL

18:17

with game seven of the Canucks and Oilers and

18:20

Rob was up 9% in viewers, their highest

18:22

numbers since April 15th. And

18:25

this was going against not just the

18:27

Canucks and Oilers game, but also the

18:29

WNBA game with Caitlin Clark, Clark playing

18:31

in Canada. Um, these are interesting numbers.

18:33

They were up 11% in viewers

18:35

this week and they were up 35% in the 25 to 54 demo. And

18:41

this was against the Canucks and Oilers

18:43

that this game did a million

18:45

656,000 in

18:47

the U S in Canada. It did 3,249,600

18:49

viewers, which is nuts. Uh,

18:56

for a hockey game in Canada, especially not

18:58

involving the Toronto Maple Leafs, but it tells

19:00

you two Canadian teams in the seventh game,

19:03

uh, what it meant and the fact is

19:05

we're all was up this week. So I,

19:07

I thought that was very impressive, uh,

19:09

with how well they did in Canada. They were

19:11

six among a sports programs for the night and

19:14

then NXT doing 654,000 viewers

19:17

on Tuesday night, which was up 15%, but the demo

19:19

dropping 7% to a 0.17. They

19:23

were against a massive basketball game with

19:25

the Pacers and Boston Celtics doing between

19:28

ESPN, ESPN two and ESPN, the Portas,

19:30

this did 6.4, eight million viewers,

19:33

which was the largest Eastern conference

19:35

final game since 2018. So,

19:38

um, back roads, their viewership was up.

19:40

Their demo was down slightly, but given

19:43

the, the size of this basketball game,

19:45

this was very heavy competition that they

19:47

were up against. So, um, basketball, especially

19:50

in the U S is now heating

19:52

up now that they're down to, uh,

19:54

the conference finals, but, um, that

19:57

is the ratings report. And.

20:00

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20:02

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dynamite going to Bakersfield, California. The Mechanics

22:42

Bank Arena in front of what WrestleTech supported

22:45

2303. This is their first time running this

22:47

building. That was not a great figure. Not

22:49

to say this audience was low key. I

22:51

mean they definitely

22:55

got up for several of the

22:57

matches but man for first time in Bakersfield and 2300

22:59

people I thought

23:01

that was a very disappointing number. Yeah. What can you

23:03

say? It's sort of indicative of

23:11

they missed all of this Mad Max

23:14

Furiosa integration into the show from the

23:16

opening. We got some videos for this.

23:18

Well hopefully that integration made them some

23:20

of that extra money. They

23:22

would probably lost out on by not selling enough tickets. Yeah but then you also

23:24

have a pyro

23:29

budget to also. That is true. Pay down after the

23:31

show. Blood budget. That's true or whatever the hell fell

23:33

on Malachi Black. I mean it was

23:35

we might break down what that substance was. Yeah. But

23:38

yeah we got a Furiosa opening here to start

23:40

this dynamite just you know clips from the new

23:42

movie sort of spliced into their typical dynamite opening.

23:44

It's interesting to see them like try to find

23:47

new ways to you know make money much like they did

23:49

with the Furiosa opening. Yeah. I mean much

23:52

like how WWE is right now. First

23:55

match is Roderick Strong and Trent Beretta against Will

23:57

Ospreay and Orange Cassidy and they mentioned the history

24:00

of Osprey and Cassidy having that match at

24:02

the first Forbidden Door show, which was an

24:04

excellent match. And Bennett

24:07

and Taven, they're distracting and it leads

24:09

to a backbreaker onto Osprey by Strong

24:11

and then a gut buster to Orange

24:13

across the turnbuckle. Trent then tries for

24:15

a pile driver on the steps but

24:17

will send Strong into the barricade and

24:20

stops the pile driver from happening. After

24:22

Osprey is tagged, he hits a Sky

24:24

Twister press followed by Cassidy's elbow

24:27

off the top onto Roderick Strong,

24:30

which was a nice spot that

24:32

the two had. Trent then does a

24:34

suplex off the turnbuckle, Will lands on

24:36

his feet and there's a diving DDT

24:38

by Cassidy onto Trent. Bennett and Taven

24:40

again get involved and Don Callis is

24:42

on commentary and he gets up and

24:44

he grabs the leg of Cassidy to

24:46

prevent the end of heartache and then

24:48

leads to a stun dog onto Strong

24:51

followed by the Oskutter. Taven and Bennett

24:53

run into the ring, the rope is

24:55

pulled down so they crash to the

24:57

floor. Will hits a big Topekun hero

24:59

and then Wardlow runs down attacking

25:01

Osprey on the ramp and Strong ducks

25:03

the Orange punch. There's a knee strike by

25:05

Trent and the end of heartache pinning Orange

25:08

Cassidy at 12 minutes and 57 seconds. It

25:10

got really wacky at the end with all

25:12

the run-ins and such but I still thought

25:14

this was like a really strong opening

25:16

tag that these four had. I mean this

25:19

was just kind of a 13-minute showcase for

25:21

these four to just go wild with a

25:24

bit of overbooking at the end. Yeah I

25:26

agree. I thought like in ring really

25:28

excellent wall coordinate action from all four

25:30

of these guys. You felt the cute

25:32

cohesion not just from the teams themselves

25:35

but between all four. Osprey

25:37

as usual is really extra spectacular but I

25:39

thought Cassidy continues to, especially in the tag

25:42

team setting, he's able to incorporate a lot

25:44

more of the gimmick in there in

25:47

ways that just just works.

25:49

You feel sympathetic for him and it

25:51

perfectly sets up Osprey's big comebacks with

25:53

his flips and all that. They did a good job

25:56

of putting attention onto both matches and The

25:58

heel's got the win. In this

26:00

instance, as the south. I

26:03

think the orange cast of characters going to

26:05

be an interesting one to watch with this

26:07

Trent Feud and more so beyond of. It.

26:10

Now the best friends he kind of

26:12

separated them and does orange Cassie kind

26:14

of stay in this role where he's

26:16

like your reliable guy that you can

26:19

plug into all of these spots. Is

26:21

there any adjustments they see making with

26:23

him that the you can go further

26:25

with an Orange Cassidy then sort of

26:27

this added proceed ceiling bet that he

26:29

has from like that real taught mix

26:31

in the company that we've seen him.

26:33

I think it's if there was a

26:35

Tony saw that I think they would

26:37

have executed that a year ago. You

26:39

know when. He lost the international championship

26:42

after he he went on an incredible

26:44

run and was arguably the hottest he's

26:46

been main a thing all out am

26:48

I at least I yeah I guess

26:50

not a year ago who at this

26:52

point it would have been a what

26:55

eight months or something I'm in. you

26:57

never saw them evolve him beyond that

26:59

beyond sort of this space you know

27:01

like are often low main event her

27:03

like upper mid card tepid tear on

27:05

his promos I think you know have

27:08

become a bit more dynamic but now

27:10

he's. Having to compete with people like

27:12

swerve, people like Whoa Osprey who can

27:14

just offers so much more as like

27:16

characters who can do a lot more

27:19

so unless they completely looks change the

27:21

character at least like make him speak

27:23

and act or with with a lot

27:25

more tools on it's hard for me

27:28

to see them like I don't think

27:30

they have as much. May be some

27:32

sort of hopes for him being like

27:34

a world title level guy on at

27:36

least gotten this incarnation in my opinion.

27:40

there was a post match attack where they

27:42

throw osprey into the ring the undisputed kingdom

27:44

nail him with a belt shot and his

27:46

boss open asked break and we seek rent

27:48

on the floor with a google plata to

27:51

cassidy and then and another and of heartache

27:53

is hit or the asked price and strong

27:55

and the segment by wiping wills blood across

27:57

his chest i got this is a very

27:59

strong post-match angle for a program

28:02

that does or at least a match for

28:04

Sunday that I think did kind of

28:06

need this extra oomph to it because I

28:10

think I think there's no one that is doubting

28:12

you're gonna get an excellent probably 18 minutes

28:15

out of these two but it didn't feel

28:17

like it's

28:19

not like a dream match scenario for a will

28:21

osprey on his second official pay-per-view

28:23

since signing. I agree. Nor

28:26

is the championship I think that

28:28

valued of a prize you know in all

28:31

of this. It's not like Will Osprey has really

28:33

kind of set his sights on like he's never

28:35

told us he really wanted

28:37

to win the international championship. This

28:40

is more of a feud about

28:42

what Roderick Strong never

28:44

liking Will Osprey throughout their years

28:46

of working together in various promotions.

28:52

The match is going to be good. You know

28:54

it's going to be good and I was already sold

28:56

I think from the moment they announced it. The

28:59

Young Bucks are with security and they've

29:01

drawn up these posters that Darby Allen

29:03

who they have already shown on their

29:05

social media stuff he's in the city

29:07

but he is banned from the building

29:09

and Matt had a great line here

29:11

he just got final destinations a few

29:13

weeks ago and he's a

29:15

very resilient guy and then

29:18

Sanjay Dutt walks in and says

29:21

that Sutton Msing is going to destroy

29:23

Bryan Danielson and the Bucks tell him

29:25

that if he beats him great

29:27

or if he beats him good but

29:29

if he hurts him great with the

29:31

idea we really do not care about the

29:33

win or the loss it's just take out

29:36

Danielson with the story that Darby's banned

29:38

from the building FTR are selling their beat

29:40

down from collision and Danielson's all by

29:42

himself tonight except for well

29:45

John Moxley who was in

29:48

the building and then I guess left the

29:50

building and Claudio who I guess is not

29:52

where he's back to he's not participating or

29:54

encouraging this anarchy in the arena and

29:57

I guess Moxley has taken the same stance I

30:00

guess. Or at least he just doesn't choose to

30:02

get involved. Yeah, I guess that

30:04

was it. Moxley doesn't seem like the cautious

30:06

type. The

30:08

Bang Bang Gang came out and they

30:11

called themselves the greatest three-man team and they

30:13

brag about the beat down they delivered to

30:15

Pac as they debate how to pronounce his

30:17

name and go over all the

30:20

mistakes that he made including begging them to

30:22

make Pac care. Well, did we make you

30:24

care? So Pac appears on

30:26

the screen and he admits, I

30:28

provoked you. But three on one

30:30

isn't fair. So the lights go

30:32

out and Pac appears in the

30:34

arena with Penta and Phoenix, death

30:36

triangle, reuniting and they want a

30:38

title shot at double or

30:40

nothing. Later we would get the response

30:43

from the Bang Bang Gang that it's

30:46

a non-title match for the

30:48

pay-per-view but this might change on collision.

30:50

So you're led to believe this will

30:52

be a title match but not until

30:54

Saturday. Right, yeah. So

30:56

this is because they have rankings and they

30:58

do have trios rankings and death triangle because

31:00

they've been inactive are not ranked so they

31:03

have to come up with some excuse and

31:05

I guess beating the champions on like, so

31:08

you can bypass the rankings if you win

31:10

an eliminator. Is that right? Not

31:12

to say this is an eliminator because this is

31:14

a tag team match but

31:18

it's up to the discussion of the champions

31:20

to just grant the championships opportunities,

31:24

I guess. They

31:26

have a lot of leeway. Like

31:29

I don't even care. You could have just made this

31:32

a championship match from the get-go and I don't

31:34

think I would have minded so much but

31:36

it's because they have these rankings that they have to kind

31:38

of jump through all these hoops to create

31:42

these sort of excuses but whatever. It's great

31:44

to see the death triangle back. I think

31:46

they are a very valuable commodity in this

31:48

take Trios division. It's good to see Ray

31:50

Phoenix back. He hasn't wrestled in almost a

31:53

month after his return match against Beast Morrentos

31:55

and he got pulled in. Never

31:57

a good sign when your return match is also your

31:59

farewell. match for a while. Oh goodness yeah

32:01

because he got pulled from that House of Glory

32:03

show or Penta actually. He's gonna

32:05

wrestle Penta. That he wasn't medically

32:08

cleared so it looks like he did

32:10

physicality in tonight so it seems like

32:12

he's okay and obviously you know if

32:14

he's announced for matches this Saturday and

32:16

Sunday. Let's see

32:19

how healthy he is. Hopefully he stays perfectly fine.

32:22

Hook, Katsuyori Shabbata and Brian Keith with

32:24

the winner getting the shot against Chris

32:26

Jericho at the pay-per-view. Jericho is on

32:28

commentary and Taz scolds him about the

32:30

for the world branding of this title.

32:33

Shabbata applies a figure four onto Brian

32:35

Keith and Hook breaks it up using

32:37

strikes. Keith manages a Tiger driver and

32:39

then Shabbata stops that, boots

32:41

both guys in the corner, hits sliding

32:43

drop kicks and Keith does a diamond

32:45

dust onto Hook. Shabbata follows with the

32:47

PK Ushi-Giroshi to Keith and applies the

32:50

figure four when Hook returns to the

32:52

ring and simultaneously applies the red rum

32:54

to Brian Keith and poor Brian Keith.

32:56

This guy's got to tap out to

32:58

both of these guys submissions and I

33:00

mean if ever we just could have just

33:02

keyed him as the fall guy that's what

33:04

Brian Keith's role was in this match and

33:07

it was just totally divorced from the whole

33:09

story. It was like we're literally putting this

33:11

guy in the ring so that we don't

33:13

have to beat one of these guys and

33:16

they ended up putting both of them

33:18

over because Hook and Shabbata were declared

33:20

co-winners and they're both going to face

33:23

Chris Jericho at Double or Nothing for the

33:25

title. I wish that they just came to

33:27

this conclusion. This would have saved so much

33:29

time at that 94 Royal Rumble if Bretton

33:32

Luger there's you both win you both

33:34

it's a three-way match. Yeah

33:37

yeah no coin tosses

33:39

here no setup. This was a much quicker decision

33:41

Tony made and and the way they announced it

33:44

was almost kind of odd because like Jericho almost

33:46

kind of jumped the gun by saying he did

33:48

jump the gun he announced the match before Shavon

33:50

he could announce that he got a text from

33:53

Tony Khan confirming the match. Well Tony had to

33:55

save it by saying Tony

33:57

context us before Jericho got up. to

34:00

speak. Jericho must have got

34:02

a quick glimpse of this text message

34:04

before delivering this promo. You

34:06

know, there was a there was a

34:08

moment on on Saturday on the collision

34:10

show where like in the first hour

34:12

they plugged this tag match with Trent

34:14

and Roderick against Osprey and Cassidy that

34:16

they call it's a preview of Double

34:18

or Nothing with these two matches

34:21

and it was like an hour before Trent

34:23

issued the challenge to uh Orange

34:26

Cassidy for Double or Nothing. There's a lot

34:28

of juggling going on. I'm sure a lot

34:30

of things being taped beforehand that have

34:32

to be played at different times. It's

34:37

going to be an

34:39

interesting match I

34:41

think. I always

34:45

find it maybe a bit awkward when you

34:47

have two baby faces going up against one

34:50

heel. Obviously big build probably

34:52

going to be a big

34:54

factor in maybe balancing that. Yeah,

34:59

for a Shabbatah match, for a hook

35:01

match, for a Jericho match, I can't

35:03

say this mix is really enticing me

35:05

for this pay-per-view. I didn't think this

35:07

setup was all that inspiring. The Jericho

35:10

promo afterwards to me really didn't hit.

35:12

He was also like he had the

35:14

Shavani piping in with the text update

35:16

and then Jericho's like battling his music

35:18

starting before he's done the promo. It

35:20

just was not a very effective setup

35:23

for this match. Then

35:26

they aired a video on the

35:28

history of Willow Nightingale and Mercedes Monet going back

35:30

to their match last year. You see Monet being

35:33

carried to the back and then arriving at Big

35:35

Business. I don't

35:37

even know if this was intentional but

35:39

I thought it was such an interesting

35:41

part of the dynamic here that we

35:43

go from this grainy camcorder

35:46

shot of Willow Nightingale at

35:48

Shimmer. Boom! We cut to

35:50

a red carpet for the Mandalorian with Mercedes

35:53

Monet and I just thought it was a

35:55

nice contrast here between the two. Just going

35:57

through all the angles

36:00

that they've done which feel like a dozen since

36:02

she's arrived in March ending with the power bomb

36:04

through the table last week. I

36:07

didn't mind that we didn't get to

36:09

see Mercedes or Willow on this particular show.

36:11

I thought they did everything

36:13

they needed to last week with the power bomb through

36:16

the table. Probably

36:18

more effective to show a video package like this.

36:20

It's something we say all the time. They do

36:22

these video packages for their countdown shows and

36:25

they don't show them for the biggest audience

36:27

possible. This was a case where I think

36:29

I was happy to see an extended video

36:31

played on Dynamo. Then

36:34

there was a video on Takeshta that was

36:36

voiced by Don Callis going over his wins

36:38

against Kenny Omega, Darby and Jericho with comments

36:40

from Jon Moxley. That takes

36:43

us to Takeshta against Matt Seidel. The connection

36:45

here, Matt Seidel teamed with the BCC back

36:47

in Mexico two months ago. He's

36:49

their leader. Yeah. Where

36:52

was Matt Seidel for poor Brian Daniels? I

36:54

guess he was selling the impact of this.

36:57

Yeah. This was essentially a

36:59

squash match where he was hit with a

37:01

brain buster. Seidel did get some offense in,

37:03

but then Takeshta sidesteps, lands the blue thunder

37:06

bomb and just drills him with a fist.

37:09

That was it. He beat him with the

37:11

iron fist and pinned him. I

37:13

really like this finish from Takeshta. To

37:15

my recollection, I haven't really seen him use

37:18

it at all or

37:20

at least not that much on dynamite

37:23

where he just winds up and just

37:25

delivers this big punch or forearm. I

37:28

love it. It's so simple. He makes it

37:31

look so heavy. Yeah,

37:34

he's great. This is just putting a

37:36

bit of extra attention on the match, a bit

37:38

of momentum behind Takeshta heading into a match

37:41

that really just sells itself on

37:43

paper. Jon Moxley versus Kenosuke Takeshta.

37:46

He offers his hand to Matt Seidel. I

37:49

mean, just puts

37:51

his arm off. He's like, oh, thanks, Kenosuke.

37:53

He lifts him up and into

37:55

a released German. You know what? I'm

37:58

sure Matt Seidel backstage afterwards. He's going to be replaying

38:00

this in his mind and you know what he's going to do? He's just going to

38:02

let down. One

38:11

person will get that. And

38:13

he's stomping down on Seidel when

38:15

Jon Moxley's music plays and

38:17

Moxley just calmly comes through the crowd, gets

38:19

into the ring with a microphone and

38:22

you think he's going to talk on the microphone

38:24

but instead he just blasts Takeshita with the microphone

38:26

which has become the most dangerous weapon in AEW.

38:29

And just says, I'll see you at Double or Nothing.

38:32

And this did not need anything more than

38:34

this. I think people, the

38:36

only criticism for this is the

38:38

eliminator aspect to this. I don't care

38:40

as much. I think

38:43

we're going to get an awesome match between these two

38:45

and if anything I think there's at least a

38:48

semblance of doubt in the outcome in an eliminator

38:50

as opposed to if this were a title defense

38:52

that I don't think is selling this pay per

38:54

view. Well that to me is why the eliminator

38:56

is a positive but not a negative at all.

39:00

Excalibur did mention on commentary that if

39:02

Takeshita beats Moxley

39:05

he can get an IWGP championship

39:07

against any champion and Moxley doesn't have to be

39:09

that champion. So to

39:12

me it just like... King of Pro Wrestling? No,

39:16

no, not the IWGP. It's

39:19

the IWGP heavyweight champion or whatever they call it these

39:21

days. Oh I thought you meant he could just pick

39:23

any title that he wants. I mean I'm sure

39:25

he could, if he wanted a King of Pro

39:28

Wrestling title shot I'm sure he could just ask

39:30

for one. He can eat

39:32

enough eels to earn

39:35

his way towards a title shot.

39:39

But it to me does lend

39:41

some believability in his possibly

39:43

winning so that he might go on

39:46

to face evil in

39:48

some sort of co-branded DDT,

39:51

whatever, what do they call it, all together United, what's

39:54

the thing? The

39:56

altogether show that they're doing the second one

39:58

in mid-June. Sure, like I think it's at

40:01

least a possibility that

40:03

that's in play and the eliminator

40:05

sort of um, uh, I

40:09

guess, you know titling of of

40:11

this match allows that Next

40:15

up was the young bucks they state they

40:17

know darby's here They repeat that he's banned

40:19

from the building and they run into swerve

40:21

who just tells them to hit his music

40:23

and swerve was sitting In their chair. So

40:26

swerve's strictly against nick wayne non-title match and

40:29

nick wayne has told the patriarchy to stay

40:31

in the back And they did, uh throughout

40:33

the duration of the match Swerve

40:35

has a bandage over his eye from

40:38

last week's cut which they did replay

40:40

and was just as hideous as as

40:42

last week I mean like literally turning

40:44

on uh a tap and watch

40:46

maybe that's what um, they saved up to Poor

40:49

malachite blacked this week. It was comparable.

40:51

Um, So wayne

40:53

gets whipped with a belt on the floor

40:55

and this crowd is just chanting one more

40:57

time Uh wayne then runs

41:00

the eye into the buckle and this is

41:02

where swerve starts, uh Checking on

41:04

the cut and he ends up getting uh kind

41:06

of rocked from and his vision

41:08

is impaired here as he's just Flying

41:11

all over the place wayne is just hitting

41:13

him with jabs as a result of this

41:15

going after the eye When he

41:17

hits a back suplex on the edge and

41:20

then swerve comes back and hits the

41:22

swerve stomp off the apron to the floor

41:24

wayne rolls into a code red after some

41:26

kicks goes for his own house call which

41:28

is caught and a backbreaker by swerve into

41:30

a Power slam and he says i'm sorry

41:32

and hits the house call to win in

41:34

eight minutes and 55 seconds it

41:37

was almost like one of those sort of like, um, mocking

41:39

i'm sorry, you know, I guess for

41:41

um invading your home and Uh

41:44

attacking you with, um memories of your

41:47

your father's photo. Yeah. Yeah. I I

41:50

like the match, you know, this was not the type of 50 50

41:53

match that I think these two Probably

41:55

have had or will have in the future.

41:58

Um where you got to see Both of them

42:00

at their best. This was more of like

42:03

a go-home show storyline type of match where

42:06

That that was right for the occasion

42:08

It was there to make swerve look

42:10

strong and I think there was I

42:12

I sent some effort in sort of

42:14

um, trying to answer Criticisms of his

42:16

losing his edge since turning babyface you

42:18

hear you I thought the last week

42:20

it's been very evident He has shifted

42:22

that it's very very noticeable You got

42:24

to see even just in

42:26

this match a much more sadistic side of him in

42:29

trying to like attack Wayne in the

42:31

exposed Turnbuckle the you know We'll

42:33

go in to talk about but the concerto

42:35

to Christian on the chair and then continuing

42:38

to flash that like horror movie villain grin

42:40

That he he had throughout that heel run

42:42

that we all loved so much It's

42:44

just a reminder that like when somebody turns

42:46

babyface They don't have

42:49

to lose all those things You know, we loved you

42:51

because you were doing all that like

42:53

sick shit and he's slowly at

42:55

least Reintroducing a lot of those

42:57

into this babyface persona. It's

42:59

time for him to break into some more homes And

43:03

we'll cheer him all that more all the

43:05

more for it as long as he's breaking

43:07

to the homes of people We don't like

43:09

yeah leaves t-shirts like listen you guys allow

43:11

Santa Claus in every year to him thing

43:14

my any different So kill

43:16

switch jumps him from behind as Christian and

43:19

mother Wayne come down and Swerve manages to

43:21

low blow kill switch dumping them to the

43:23

floor at well cage has his back turned

43:25

So he chases cage and on the way

43:28

around the ring manages a house call on

43:30

to kill switch But just keeps going and

43:32

they run backstage cage takes over a vehicle

43:34

and goes to drive out

43:37

when another car comes and blocks him

43:39

from getting out of the parking lot

43:41

and it's Prince Nana who is just

43:44

he's been on stakeout for this whole

43:46

match and there he is with his coffee

43:48

and Blocks Christian and there

43:51

was a huge pop for the return

43:53

of Prince Nana a lot of people

43:55

making their their their their drive back

43:57

to television tonight That

43:59

is correct Bakersfield I guess a popular

44:01

destination for at least the roster.

44:04

I love the way that they shot all this by

44:07

the way Everything was like done in one take and

44:09

like just the coordination that's required with these cars to

44:11

you know having to kind of You

44:14

know get in the way the camera

44:16

person, you know having to move from the

44:18

scene directly into This car

44:20

to grab this wonderful shot of like

44:22

Nana revealing himself. Everything was was actually

44:24

done really well yeah, it's a great

44:26

point that they did this so seamlessly

44:29

and Swerve drags cage out of the car

44:31

and Rams him into a

44:33

production truck and cage Trying

44:37

to escape decides to climb onto the car

44:40

Where he was going? I can't tell

44:42

you but Swerve stops him and Nana

44:44

hands him a chair and he goes

44:46

to deliver a Concerto to cage who

44:48

avoids it and he was laid

44:51

out on the hood and then ran off I

44:54

thought this was a pretty good angle to

44:56

send you into the pay-per-view This

44:59

does not feel like the main event of your

45:01

pay-per-view But I think

45:03

like each week's angle I think has been

45:06

You know satisfactory. I think that they've done what

45:08

you can with kind of a I Don't

45:11

want to say a lame duck challenger in Christian,

45:13

but I don't think anyone is suspecting a title

45:16

change here That's always a tough role with a

45:18

new champion that you're establishing That Christian has filled

45:20

this role really well for the month. They've had

45:22

to build this up I don't

45:24

think it was ever going to feel truly like the

45:27

main event against an anarchy in the

45:29

arena match You know with the elite who at

45:32

this point are like sort like they're in a

45:34

storyline where they've taken over the entire show it

45:37

was really hard I think for a Swerve

45:40

match against Christian to feel like that

45:43

Christian just like isn't this type of

45:45

serious like World

45:47

champion threat that I

45:49

think others have been in the past But

45:52

it's given like I think there are

45:54

characters in the history between the characters and the TV

45:56

time that they've had I think They've done a good

45:58

job of elevating interest And, you know,

46:01

like what this is, is more

46:03

of a continued test to see how

46:06

Swerve fits in this world champion role.

46:09

And, you know, some

46:11

controversy, or at least some criticism, maybe

46:13

for some of those early weeks, especially

46:15

the first week where he

46:17

didn't do a promo on that first edition

46:20

of Dynamite, and Tony ended up

46:22

saying that they were saving it for that

46:24

edition of Collision coming off of the NBA.

46:28

Anyway, this is all to

46:30

say, I think Swerve's starting to continue

46:32

to really find himself as a babyface,

46:34

and this is like a good, almost

46:36

like continued trial

46:39

for him in this championship

46:43

role. I hope

46:45

next month, though, after Double or Nothing, is

46:47

when we get into the really juicy feuds.

46:49

Next month, what's the pay-per-view next month? It's

46:52

Forbidden Door, it's a tough one, right? Like

46:54

they're gonna have this, they're gonna do this

46:56

casino gauntlet next week, and they're pushing like

46:58

international talent will be in this thing, and

47:01

like you might get, like

47:03

it could be like

47:05

a program you can extend beyond, but it

47:08

also could just be a one-off if you're

47:10

taking somebody from the New Japan.

47:13

Yeah, it needs to be New Japan

47:15

talent that he's defending against, doesn't it?

47:17

It does not need to be Hiroshi

47:19

Tanahashi, okay? It cannot be Hiroshi Tanahashi.

47:21

And nor does it need to be

47:24

evil or... I

47:26

don't think they sacrifice evil to just, like this

47:28

is someone that it's like New Japan is just

47:30

gonna give you like an adequate enough challenger that

47:32

they're willing to sacrifice a loss to. So who

47:35

are the options? I'm curious. Oh my

47:37

goodness. Like who is at the level that I

47:39

think would be satisfying for a sword match? Shingo,

47:43

okay? Now it's, that's

47:45

also not a main event. So

47:47

like do you expect sword to main event for Forbidden Door?

47:53

And if he is going to main event, who

47:55

are the likely candidates? I'm gonna say, given

47:58

the fact that you have Osprey and Okra... I

48:01

feel they're gonna put one of like their

48:03

big matches involving non champions and that that

48:06

could be like you would have Danielson on

48:08

this show as well. Yeah, none of who

48:10

none of those names I suspect being paired

48:12

with with swerve so I would say the

48:14

possibility of him not headlining is Very

48:18

real possibility and that's pretty dangerous

48:20

for the perception of a

48:22

new champion like swerve to pay for views in

48:24

a row Or he might not be main eventing

48:26

now They might may actually main event him for

48:28

this this upcoming devil or nothing, you know, it's

48:30

card It's I don't throw out

48:32

the idea like they're promoting this as like a

48:34

triple main event And while I'd say the percentages

48:37

are low I don't think

48:39

they're zero that swerve or the

48:41

willow match would go on last

48:44

But there's a big difference between the match

48:46

that ends the show and the match that

48:48

sells the show When we're talking

48:50

about the match It's oh there's there's no

48:52

question on what the the main event is

48:54

being sold as like that is very clear

48:57

Just what goes on last I don't throw

48:59

zero percent chance that any of the other

49:02

two are Put there.

49:04

Let's put it this way. Where where

49:06

would you imagine this swerve match is

49:08

placed on the card? Second

49:12

from Tom second from the top

49:14

Do you go with your your big your three

49:16

matches as in a row to end

49:18

you remind me there has anarchy in the arena closed

49:21

every Every instance of

49:23

it didn't it didn't the first year? The

49:26

first year Stadium stampede, of course, you

49:29

know Slash let's go

49:31

back here then. Okay, so the first

49:33

cuz yeah, like if swerve is in

49:35

2020 They ended with obviously

49:37

they ended with the the

49:39

first Stadium stampede

49:43

So while you look it up, I'll just say

49:45

if sword doesn't mean event for been door He

49:47

should made of a double or nothing and this

49:49

is just again for the perception of being able

49:51

to say we make We're headlining the show with

49:53

our champion He he is

49:55

somebody that we believe in And

49:58

he's somebody that you should believe leave in and

50:01

and take seriously.

50:03

2022 it was the first

50:05

Anarchy in the Arena and that was

50:07

third from the top followed by a

50:09

three-way tag title match and they had

50:11

punk and hangman headline that show that

50:14

was the infamous Vegas show and

50:16

then last year as I

50:18

look here Anarchy in

50:20

the Arena headlined last year. Right yeah.

50:23

Well I mean they don't have to finish with

50:25

it. I think

50:27

like you know AEW audiences

50:30

will be there for sword versus cage

50:32

as the final match. Mercedes

50:35

in the final spot

50:37

is possible as well but I would actually

50:40

prefer sword versus cage over that one if

50:42

it's between those two. I

50:45

think it's pretty clear you should probably close

50:47

with anarchy in the arena but I mean

50:50

sometimes they they put people in those positions

50:52

to try and have to follow something like

50:54

really really you know that you

50:56

know is going to be take the crowd up

50:58

so so high and those are those positions for

51:00

some of your champions that have to follow those.

51:03

We should also mention this seems to confirm at least

51:05

for now that Prince Nana is

51:08

staying with sword Strickland. He's not

51:10

sticking with the mobile embassy instead

51:13

and I think that's a really good

51:15

you know call if that is the

51:17

continued sort of relationship. Like Nana adds

51:20

something to Slurv. You know these past few weeks

51:22

where Slurv's just kind of coming out by himself

51:24

even though like he's a clear babyface and Nana

51:27

at this point is still kind of like ambiguous.

51:31

When we're talking about presentation we're talking about

51:33

like you know the dance and everything like

51:36

Nana does that so much of the presentation

51:38

so I hope this means Nana has also

51:40

turned babyface and that they are able to

51:43

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got our latest update on Rampage on Friday.

52:19

So originally they stated 6.30 Eastern. It's

52:21

now on at 6 p.m. Eastern time on

52:23

Friday, followed by the countdown special at 7

52:25

p.m. Eastern time and

52:27

now collision instead of being on

52:29

TNT it's on TBS on Saturday

52:31

night. Wow. Like

52:35

can you put any stock into any of

52:37

these ratings? You know when it when it

52:39

gets ping pong like that? No,

52:42

no, I would not. No,

52:44

I was impressed that collision and rampage did

52:47

very well this past Saturday for that three

52:49

hour block. They were taped shows and the

52:51

prior week they had been on TBS and

52:53

then this week they were back on TNT.

52:55

So you had that switch as well. They

52:57

did very well. But

53:01

yeah, like a rampage at six. I'm

53:03

not looking at that number with any

53:05

kind of significance at all.

53:08

Malachi Black against Kyle O'Reilly.

53:12

This match, I love this

53:14

match. I thought this match was one

53:16

of my favorite matches that AEW has put

53:19

on in quite some time. I just I've

53:21

loved this and the first half of this

53:23

it's not like the crowd was into this

53:25

which didn't even bother me because like

53:27

you were focused so much on like the striking

53:29

battle but this was just this

53:31

was to me kind of the core

53:34

that I enjoyed about AEW was

53:36

all these different styles and every week they would

53:39

tee up the lineups for the next week and

53:41

it was like man what is this match going

53:43

to be like with this style versus this style

53:45

and just all these this

53:47

deep talent roster that you could mix

53:49

and match and this was a perfect

53:52

example. Kyle O'Reilly and Malachi Black and

53:54

instead of finding some like pattern style

53:56

to work it was like no let's

53:59

go out. Let's do like

54:01

a like pseudo like a one max

54:03

style of match and that's what they

54:05

did hear like this was a media

54:08

utley. The to are going for

54:10

knees and they drop each other with

54:12

liver shots and black is getting swept

54:14

as he comes off the middle rope.

54:18

Malahide Black is like checking leg six

54:20

year and has is just stating flat

54:22

out i love this I think we

54:24

need more of this and he's comparing

54:26

it the pancreas and I be taxes

54:29

having the time. Of his life calling

54:31

this on Excalibur is getting into a to

54:33

is mentioned like Peter Arts and or Nestle

54:35

host or there's a dragon screw by black

54:37

and then puts pressure on the side and

54:40

goes for another dragon screw but this time

54:42

Kyle Riley of Ready for blocking it as

54:44

a prize for the arm bar but can't

54:46

get it so he goes to Nice from

54:48

the clenched doesn't armoring are sending Malik eyes

54:51

arms straight into the mat and at this

54:53

point but you get this crowd was very

54:55

subdued for this match and opposite of this

54:57

is awesome. Chance begins out of nowhere. He.

55:00

Owes the it. I mean I

55:02

got us into his room on

55:04

such Japanese reaction word. They were

55:06

quiet but they were also focused

55:08

you know, and and had Nicole

55:10

wrestling. Even though this wasn't like

55:12

as submission heavy as like maybe

55:14

are sort of definition of technical

55:16

wrestling, This was technical striking wrestling.

55:18

You're near a window focused on

55:21

technique. You're not necessarily making noise.

55:23

You are focused. You're watching every

55:25

single looked like kick. You're watching

55:27

the blocks. You're watching these sort

55:29

of patterns. After setting up and nd seek

55:31

out and everything on it was not a

55:33

very different style of match but i think

55:35

i'm very smart one and and i thought

55:37

the crowd with with them. But. This

55:39

felt like I'm. Like you

55:42

were watching a like fight at the

55:44

Apex and I don't even say that

55:46

in a negative way. but especially early

55:48

in the pandemic is like, okay, we're

55:50

not watching fights in different environments, but

55:52

it was not the negative watching and

55:54

the may because you're getting other aspects

55:56

that kind of contributed to the presentation

55:58

and I did not. that be like.

56:01

The. A crowd was like it

56:03

didn't turn from this at all and

56:05

you could be very right that they

56:07

was to the people were focused on

56:09

this. Ah but Riley now trump a

56:11

black class the hands to block so

56:14

we moved to an ankle lock and

56:16

Black is balancing on one foot to

56:18

get off and lands has jumped me

56:20

and a brain buster but only gets

56:22

us it's a two counts they get

56:24

to their feet and a spinning elbow

56:26

rocks Kyle Riley the to simultaneously land

56:28

head kicks and both men are staggering

56:31

and this. Finished Black States have a

56:33

head kick and sets up the

56:35

end and connects with it and

56:37

since him in ten minutes and

56:39

seventeen seconds this finish was incredible.

56:41

I love this match! This was

56:43

by far my my my match

56:45

of the show by leaps and

56:47

bounds. I hope they explore more

56:49

of this kind of stuff because

56:51

I thought this was such a.

56:54

It. It's just such a different presentation of

56:56

a wrestling match. You can't really do this

56:58

mess with too many people you know I'm

57:00

a if you could asylum saying Bryan Danielson

57:02

should have been taking notes because that this

57:04

could have been top than the mainly people

57:06

with like would sit back and trading back

57:08

constantly. seen him with in in kickboxing in

57:11

order to pull something like the sauce and

57:13

I feel like we would have seen like

57:15

this would from our card. black earlier is

57:17

if that was the case I'm I'm just

57:19

glad that these two got to go there

57:21

and got to do something creative. Lisa solely

57:23

for the two of them. Without

57:25

worrying so much about whether or not

57:27

the crowd was going to get into

57:30

it because I'm this sort of thing

57:32

was a risk you don't like I've

57:34

been doing of eyes are shoot style

57:36

Essentially the kickboxing sort of simulation for

57:38

of i'd a person audience is is

57:41

not necessarily something that will immediately translates.

57:43

We saw scene and Rhonda A tries

57:45

a version of my all and and

57:47

not completely sailed on. This was done.

57:49

I think it too much much better

57:51

away. Maybe the the type of crowd

57:54

that. kind of that you know helped

57:56

as as as well on but this was

57:58

just like a an incredibly great

58:01

pro wrestling adaptation of kickboxing

58:04

techniques. The finish too I

58:06

absolutely love. Oh it was like it's the

58:08

type of one where it's smart. Like just

58:10

to think of that that finish I just

58:12

thought was it was great. Yeah yeah yeah

58:14

again risky and it requires so much like

58:16

wonderful timing to make look real. Like you

58:18

and I can probably anybody can probably write

58:20

okay let's try to like you I'm gonna

58:22

go for this kick you're gonna mimic my

58:25

pattern and then I'm going to faint you're

58:27

going to you know think I'm gonna kick

58:29

you and then I'm gonna go from the

58:31

head. It's exactly like how like so

58:33

many MMA sequences or kickboxing sequences would

58:36

go but to be able to replicate

58:38

that and make it look real knowing

58:40

it's coming is that requires that much

58:43

like incredible skill that I

58:45

don't understand at all. So a huge

58:47

credit to both of these men for

58:49

doing something different and

58:52

executing it flawlessly and

58:55

yeah I'd love to see more of this stuff

58:57

you know navigated within the system AEW but how

59:00

many people can pull it off this well. Maybe

59:02

not AEW but I think like a blood sport

59:04

like this would be like so much of it

59:06

it's like it's like high end. Like there aren't many

59:10

people I think well again

59:12

who could put the wrestling in at

59:14

this level probably probably not

59:16

too much. Pro wrestling with the shoot

59:19

technique together like you have guys who come

59:21

from one background you have like you have

59:23

great like former MMA fighters who are

59:26

able to kind of try professional wrestling.

59:28

You're professional wrestling wrestlers who are maybe

59:30

dabbling in MMA but guys

59:32

that can put it together this well

59:34

it's very rare. Well and

59:36

Kyle O'Reilly has shown he might be

59:38

the very best in terms of like marrying

59:41

all that together with with like

59:43

a pro wrestling kind of you

59:46

know presentation

59:48

around it but the

59:50

Japanese blood sports show I'm very

59:52

interested in seeing you know see

59:55

if there's yeah yeah

59:58

just absolutely We

1:00:00

go out of your way to watches

1:00:02

that even if you're not like super

1:00:04

into like kickboxing I think just to

1:00:07

watch what they tried. I'm and maybe

1:00:09

maybe this wasn't everyone's cup of tea

1:00:11

but. It. Was heavily mine and I

1:00:13

just thought this was like I was watching this

1:00:15

and I was captivated from the beginning and I

1:00:18

just thought I felt like I was tasked with

1:00:20

this match and I think he just got out.

1:00:22

Ah it was a trip for him to be

1:00:24

calling this. And then

1:00:26

afterwards we couldn't have more move her

1:00:29

of it. they can earn less for

1:00:31

we have right back to our professional

1:00:33

wrestling program and the lights flicker

1:00:35

as Malik eyes left in the ring

1:00:38

and he gets torpedoed with a bloodbath

1:00:40

and this thing comes down like it

1:00:42

was shot out of at hand and

1:00:45

from this from the yacht from the

1:00:47

rafters and. All. I

1:00:49

could ever think watching This Is the Time

1:00:51

and Debbie Cw that they did this and

1:00:54

they missed the target and it dropped on

1:00:56

the fans. Had that is what I I

1:00:58

will give them credit ada be they hit

1:01:00

the mark perfectly like this guy Scott hit

1:01:02

on top and this thing did not stop

1:01:05

and this looks like this needed some blood

1:01:07

thinners because there was like ah I don't

1:01:09

know what this concoction was made out of

1:01:11

but it looked like this person would need.

1:01:15

I think a blood transfusion. if this is what was

1:01:17

going to their veins. this stuff look more. Like. A

1:01:19

raccoon and consistency is like

1:01:21

rich and thick palm. To

1:01:24

but I looked great. I been Leno's

1:01:26

if gore was sort of the intent

1:01:28

or the indeed. this is completely achieved

1:01:30

at the big. Certainly spared no expense

1:01:32

in terms of volume here. so I'm

1:01:34

were and they had a miraculous turn

1:01:36

around because the next that the women's

1:01:38

match was like only a few minutes

1:01:40

after. This is not like to add

1:01:42

some extended backstage seen or every day

1:01:44

else in video but but I guess

1:01:46

you're you're right like it's it is

1:01:48

very impressive Still you know this sub

1:01:50

go Got a great job Cleanup crew.

1:01:53

it's also worth noting as i think

1:01:55

about it is that this dynamite yes

1:01:57

there was not the fuck stuff backstage

1:02:00

but like there were no backstage interviews.

1:02:02

We didn't see Renee or, um, uh,

1:02:05

what was it? Arcadia aura. We didn't see

1:02:07

like, there was very little, uh, backstage

1:02:09

stuff at all on this show. And

1:02:12

granted they had seven matches and several

1:02:14

in-ring segments to do. So there really

1:02:16

was not the time for anything else,

1:02:18

but Malachi is laid out

1:02:20

via the blood bath when judgment

1:02:23

day, Adam Copeland walks down a flight

1:02:25

of stairs and looks into the camera.

1:02:27

Be careful what you wish for. See

1:02:30

you soon. And, um, I

1:02:33

like, this was his full like judgment

1:02:35

day version that he was presenting

1:02:37

here. Not a very fondly

1:02:40

remembered, uh, no, no, this brought me

1:02:42

back to, uh, the, the

1:02:44

era that, um, I don't think is going

1:02:46

to be the most remembered of Adam Copeland's

1:02:48

WWE tenure. Yeah. But, uh, you know,

1:02:50

he bought those, I'm sure he bought a bunch of

1:02:52

suits for that character. He did. He

1:02:55

spent a ton on his wardrobe and

1:02:57

stuff for, for the next several months

1:02:59

of that. Okay. So I

1:03:01

guess it was either this or like, um, playing

1:03:04

his, um, 1997 self with like the

1:03:08

big smile and the glasses.

1:03:12

Um, and this, I guess maybe

1:03:15

better toys these days. Is, is he finally going

1:03:17

to get his, uh, his gang rail entrance on,

1:03:19

on Sunday? I don't think they can get that

1:03:21

brood theme, but that was the pitch he was

1:03:23

trying for it to try and get gang rail

1:03:25

for an entrance. And I don't see why not.

1:03:28

Like what is gang girl? This is the time to do it.

1:03:30

If you're going to do it in a W this is the match

1:03:32

to do it. But how, how, what

1:03:35

would gang girl do though? In this particular

1:03:38

suit? I think it was just for the

1:03:40

entrance. Uh, that, that was it. Just like hang out. So

1:03:44

like stay, stand here, split

1:03:46

some blood for me. Well, um,

1:03:48

I don't know. I didn't know what was in his

1:03:50

mind for the entrance. Like I'm sure gang girl would

1:03:52

be more than happy to walk down with the chalice

1:03:54

and spit blood and then walk in the back. Okay.

1:03:57

Yeah. Why not? Probably We'll get a Christian cameo

1:03:59

with the three. the other two been. Time.

1:04:03

With Sony Storm and Mariah May against

1:04:05

Syria and Harley night with a Zoc

1:04:07

night who looks like the missing member

1:04:09

of the brawling brutes now with his

1:04:11

or his hadn't walking stick out as

1:04:13

everybody there have like one of those

1:04:15

hands because everybody they're dressed like it's

1:04:17

the nineteen twenties. Says

1:04:20

that com um ok it's it's to

1:04:22

Look that has been established. it's the

1:04:24

add. The Chris Harrington fall line of

1:04:27

a have emerged from Sony. Storm comes

1:04:29

out and she is wearing serene a

1:04:31

deep sigh deeds dojo flag that she

1:04:33

are commandeered over the weekend on collision

1:04:36

and acts. Excalibur does bring up Willows

1:04:38

win against Ten Nakano at the flashing

1:04:40

Champions card last weekend. Serious tag didn't

1:04:43

she wants Tony Storm? So. Storm.

1:04:46

Gets in control and Scoop slams a

1:04:48

Mariah on top of Syria. then made

1:04:50

does the same to Tony but can't

1:04:53

lift her. so Storm than Scoop slams

1:04:55

her again on top of her. And

1:04:57

then May gets thrown into the barricade

1:04:59

and Storm does I drop toehold, sending

1:05:02

Syria into May in the corner, policy

1:05:04

or commandeered over the weekend on collision

1:05:06

and acts. Excalibur does bring up Willows

1:05:08

win against Ten Nakano at the flashing

1:05:11

Champions card last weekend. Serious tag, didn't

1:05:13

she wants Tony Storm? So. Storm.

1:05:16

Gets in control and Scoop slams Mariah

1:05:18

on top of Syria. That made does

1:05:21

the same to Tony but can't lift

1:05:23

her so stormed and Scoop slams her

1:05:25

again on top of her. And then

1:05:27

May gets thrown into the barricade and

1:05:30

Storm does I drop toehold, sending Syria

1:05:32

into May in the corner. Follows with

1:05:34

a sky high and then we get

1:05:36

it. simultaneous sunset bombs. My camera and

1:05:39

Surrey are on opposite corners, both a

1:05:41

Storm and Make pick out from that

1:05:43

and it ends with May and Storm

1:05:46

grabbing. The Opponents and making out

1:05:48

with them and leaving Sorry and

1:05:50

Cameron stand as they take the

1:05:52

Storm Zero The Mayday and Cameron

1:05:54

said into a Storm Zero as

1:05:56

Storm Pins camera. I

1:06:00

thought it was a decent, entertaining match

1:06:02

here. The crowd was very engaged throughout

1:06:05

with Storm's antics, and this

1:06:07

was also a rare Seraya match that we

1:06:10

got to see period, not just on TV.

1:06:13

And considering Seraya's

1:06:19

questionable status these days, the fact

1:06:21

that Harley Cameron is still a

1:06:23

relatively newcomer to

1:06:25

this level of AW

1:06:29

wrestling, I

1:06:31

think they did really well in this role. Just

1:06:34

kind of playing the sort of

1:06:36

almost comedic foils to Seraya and

1:06:38

May. Yeah, I

1:06:40

think that it was a fine match, and the

1:06:42

crowd, they really got into this at a certain

1:06:46

point, during the midway point of this.

1:06:49

It was definitely a come down from the previous

1:06:51

match, but fine for what

1:06:53

it was. Harley Cameron to me is like,

1:06:57

you're looking at this woman as someone that has

1:07:00

very few matches, but this is like three

1:07:02

weeks in a row, and it's not like

1:07:04

she's going out there, and there's a spotlight

1:07:07

on her where you're just asking, why is

1:07:09

this woman on national television? She's

1:07:12

carrying her weight in these matches,

1:07:14

in singles matches and tag matches.

1:07:17

So Toni Storm holds up the

1:07:19

flag, and she's about to take her

1:07:21

top off when Serena Deeb attacks

1:07:23

them all with chairs, and denying

1:07:26

Toni Storm taking her top off, this was

1:07:28

the heel turn by Serena Deeb. I mean,

1:07:30

I know you're saying that, at

1:07:33

this point, I have to wonder if

1:07:35

it's intentional, because how, for what other

1:07:37

reason would they design a spot like

1:07:39

that for Seraya Deeb to interrupt? Oh,

1:07:41

I think it was absolutely the, like

1:07:44

this was so clearly, Seraya Deeb is

1:07:46

going into this match as the heel,

1:07:48

this whole post-match. She uses her own

1:07:50

shoe and nails Toni with the heel

1:07:52

of it, and puts her in a

1:07:54

half-crab through a chair as Storm is

1:07:56

furiously tapping, and Serena Deeb

1:07:59

reclaims. her flag. Not

1:08:01

one mention of any seizures during this

1:08:03

particular segment. That has now just been

1:08:06

forgotten from Serena Deeb's story. Like she has

1:08:09

the full out heel and they are telling

1:08:11

the Las Vegas crowd, this is your baby

1:08:13

face, treat her as such on Sunday. We

1:08:15

are not trying to confuse the issue here.

1:08:17

It's actually great motivation for her to turn

1:08:19

a heel. You know, like I spilled my

1:08:21

heart out to you guys and all you

1:08:23

guys can do is like chant for your

1:08:25

stupid hockey teams and you

1:08:28

know, like you don't... It would have been great

1:08:30

if the Oilers had gotten eliminated and she could

1:08:32

send that message in. But like she has every

1:08:34

reason to turn on the crowd, you know, after

1:08:36

this past month. She's also a better heel as

1:08:38

well. And Toni Storm is a better baby face.

1:08:41

It's really tricky for any type of opponent

1:08:44

for a Toni Storm. At this point they

1:08:46

really probably are just going to turn... Like

1:08:48

Toni Storm is probably already a baby face

1:08:50

that they're going to continue pushing as a

1:08:52

baby face, don't you think? She should just

1:08:54

be paired with other heels. I

1:08:58

think that's the way to go because

1:09:00

it's going to be an upward battle

1:09:02

as the... Like every audience is

1:09:05

into her. And it's not

1:09:07

to say she can't be paired with baby faces,

1:09:09

but it is more... Like there

1:09:11

is going to be a struggle there. And this

1:09:13

one, I think they just wanted to end any

1:09:16

ambiguity with this segment. So Toni

1:09:18

is laid out and that's our final angle. Brian

1:09:21

Danielson and Satnam Singh, which I... Oh, first

1:09:23

we had the announcement of

1:09:26

the Forbidden Door Casino Gauntlet that is

1:09:28

returning next Wednesday. And so

1:09:30

as I recall, this ends with two

1:09:32

people and then they have a match afterwards.

1:09:34

I think that's how it ends. I'll

1:09:38

take the words for it. Regardless, the

1:09:40

winner of this gets the shot at the

1:09:42

AEW Champion at Forbidden Door. So that's happening next

1:09:45

Wednesday at the Kia Forum in Inglewood. And

1:09:47

then the Bang Bang Gang make their... They

1:09:49

respond to Death Triangle and we get the tag

1:09:51

match for collision, which as we went off

1:09:53

the air, that was the only match they announced

1:09:55

for collision on Saturday, I think. So

1:09:58

tune in on TBS. Brian dangelson and

1:10:01

Sutton I'm sing and as

1:10:04

first of all, this is Brian dangelson's 43rd birthday

1:10:06

party and I think this was his birthday wish

1:10:09

and When when

1:10:11

I saw these two go nose

1:10:14

to pelvis I Was

1:10:17

all in I was so

1:10:19

looking forward to this match all

1:10:22

day long and I can't say

1:10:24

it was the match That is is going

1:10:26

to change my life, but it was nonetheless

1:10:29

These are the kinds of matches. I want to I just

1:10:31

want to say what what is Brian dangelson gonna do with

1:10:34

this guy? 100% yeah, and

1:10:36

this a crowd this is right look at

1:10:38

my mean. Oh, it was it was enormous

1:10:40

the disparity like look at this Like

1:10:43

you don't appreciate how big this guy is because

1:10:45

a lot of it are like these tight shots

1:10:47

backstage where he's next to Jared and lethal like

1:10:50

you can it's not so often that

1:10:52

you just get to use this guy for this kind

1:10:54

of a visual Yeah But

1:10:56

Daniel, sorry Brian in the chat. Thank you

1:10:58

as always Brian reminding us that the casino

1:11:00

gauntlet is the one where they start with

1:11:03

Two people and they keep adding the

1:11:05

one that osprey one Okay,

1:11:08

so it's a battle royal and there's one winner at the end

1:11:10

of it. There's no match. It's not

1:11:12

a battle royal Is

1:11:15

it pinfall It's it

1:11:17

starts with two people and then they keep

1:11:19

adding wait this company has like 85 different

1:11:22

battle royals I cannot keep track of what

1:11:24

all these different battle royals bar

1:11:27

Yeah, it's not a battle royal. It's it's It

1:11:31

starts with two people. It's like the rumble where

1:11:33

they start with two people. Okay, not the battle

1:11:35

royal people But you're not

1:11:37

throwing people over the top rope. You're trying to get a pinfall. Oh

1:11:40

Okay. Okay the one they did recently

1:11:42

with osprey. I understand. Okay, right, right,

1:11:44

okay so

1:11:47

then we have This

1:11:49

was the best part of the match or the worst depending

1:11:51

on who you were in relation to

1:11:53

this match Danielson is thrown into the steps and

1:11:55

Sanjay Dutt Throws all

1:11:58

the energy drinks off the Which

1:12:00

home in this era might make

1:12:02

you a babyface by tossing all these energy

1:12:04

drinks away and while clearing the desk this

1:12:08

desk collapses these Unbreakable

1:12:10

tables that we always talked about this

1:12:12

thing gave up with the most

1:12:15

the least amount of pressure possible

1:12:18

and this thing just collapsed and

1:12:20

I just wish I could have

1:12:22

seen Sanjay dot's face at this

1:12:24

table just completely collapsed. Well look

1:12:27

at Daniel's face. You gotta see

1:12:29

it there Satnam

1:12:33

now To

1:12:35

his credit like Satnam's thing could not freeze here either

1:12:37

and I'm sure he was just being led by Danielson

1:12:40

of like hey words is moving on to the knees

1:12:42

I love moments like this

1:12:44

because they give you a chance to see

1:12:46

how these performers react improvisation

1:12:49

only on my TV and I

1:12:51

mean we know day Nelson could probably

1:12:54

handle a situation like this But seeing something I'm in

1:12:56

a situation like this I think it's a great test

1:12:58

for something and I thought he handled it really well

1:13:00

now and I'll remind me John like have AWW have

1:13:02

they broken have they done spots on this AWW table

1:13:04

before like

1:13:06

I know they toss people into them like they

1:13:12

Like things fall off but have they done

1:13:14

like a full-on like I'm gonna like I

1:13:16

don't know power bomb you through this table

1:13:18

on this announced a table I'm

1:13:20

pretty sure they have they have

1:13:23

because I I just get I

1:13:27

Guess I forget and I wonder if

1:13:29

it was how did this thing support

1:13:31

three iPhones during this whole broadcast? I

1:13:33

mean for me like I'm just speculating

1:13:35

wondering if like they took some sort

1:13:37

of safety out and because they took

1:13:40

it out It

1:13:42

became super fragile Well,

1:13:45

I don't know what the issue was here. I

1:13:47

don't know either It was a comical moment in

1:13:49

this broadcast, but they just moved on and sometimes

1:13:51

like when you're in this situation You

1:13:54

almost have to program your brain to be like if

1:13:56

this were real. What would I do if I was

1:13:59

really putting a man? through a table

1:14:01

and if it was real why would

1:14:03

a table just have suddenly collapsed by

1:14:05

you touching it? This is the mind

1:14:07

you have to you have to alter

1:14:09

your your brain towards in pro wrestling

1:14:11

logic. So Daniel Sin

1:14:14

hits up a series of knees off the apron

1:14:16

and then a running drop kick to a seated

1:14:18

sing inside the chair but then it's caught with

1:14:20

a choke slam onto the edge of the apron.

1:14:22

Daniel Sin with Dutt distracting the ref kicks Singh

1:14:25

in the balls and hits a busaiku knee runs

1:14:27

at him again and is caught by the throat

1:14:29

but he rakes the eyes of Singh kicks

1:14:32

him in the chest kicks him in the

1:14:34

head but Singh won't get down and then

1:14:36

channeling Kenosuke to catch the we just get

1:14:38

a big punch from Sutton I'm saying is

1:14:40

this your new favorite maneuver in pro wrestling

1:14:43

the punch? Um I would

1:14:45

have appreciated a bit of

1:14:47

the bigger wind-up but yeah this was

1:14:49

a nice punch sure. Oh Daniel

1:14:52

Sin lands on the shoulders

1:14:54

and drops this guy with hammer and

1:14:57

anvil elbows getting him to the ground

1:14:59

and then tries for the labell lock

1:15:01

as Excalibur accurately notes it's actually easier

1:15:04

to get on because of the the

1:15:06

size of this guy's legs and arms

1:15:08

and he applies the labell lock and

1:15:11

you think he's about to tap when

1:15:13

lethal and Jarrett attack for the DQ

1:15:16

and thus ended this match

1:15:18

I'm not gonna complain about a DQ

1:15:20

finish and was

1:15:22

this spectacular no but it

1:15:24

was I still thought like a really

1:15:26

fun match to watch and just see

1:15:29

Brian Danielson have a like six seven

1:15:31

minute match with a Sutton I'm saying.

1:15:33

I found it like to be

1:15:35

a captivating match yeah like I was an

1:15:37

experiment it's not a five-star match everybody like

1:15:40

but it's it's um it's interesting to see

1:15:42

again what did we say at the beginning

1:15:44

of the show variety

1:15:47

add for everything

1:15:50

better in moderation okay and sometimes I want

1:15:53

to see Brian face like a giant here

1:15:55

this actually reminded me of Dana Bryan's WWE

1:15:58

work where he was constantly is

1:16:00

getting bigger opponents and wrestling this sort

1:16:02

of underdog style, chopping his opponents down.

1:16:06

I much prefer like the modern day Bryan Danielson but I

1:16:08

do kind of want to see him face

1:16:10

Giants once in a while and this was almost like

1:16:12

a very well

1:16:14

done sort of like giant chopping down

1:16:17

type of match. Socknam I thought did

1:16:19

well as well. They clearly thought enough

1:16:21

of him to protect him with this

1:16:23

finish so hopefully it means they're

1:16:25

going to try this sort of thing with him again

1:16:27

in the future. Well

1:16:31

as I was curious to search here we

1:16:34

do have several matches involving Daniel Bryan and

1:16:36

the great Khali which I would be curious

1:16:38

to contrast these with although I'm looking

1:16:41

at one that is probably way better like this

1:16:43

Socknam is way more mobile than Khali. I'm

1:16:45

curious how many views some of these have. So

1:16:49

there you go. The guitar shot they

1:16:52

wind up, Jared has the guitar but

1:16:54

Danielson moves and then he ends up

1:16:56

laying out lethal and Jared with knees

1:16:59

and gets the guitar, Dutt runs into

1:17:01

him and Danielson misses Dutt and Son

1:17:03

of Sing punches through the guitar. This

1:17:05

is the best spot of Son

1:17:08

of Sing's entire match and post match, punching

1:17:10

through the guitar and it's four

1:17:12

on one against Danielson. When the young Bucks

1:17:14

arrive they pay off Dutt, they take off

1:17:16

and the Bucks go for the EVP trigger,

1:17:19

Danielson moves so they crash

1:17:21

knees and then Okada's music

1:17:23

plays and as Danielson is

1:17:25

watching Okada come down, Jack Perry

1:17:27

jumps him from behind, Okada's in,

1:17:29

hits Danielson with a Rainmaker and

1:17:31

then the table by the stage

1:17:34

is revealed and they're going to

1:17:36

put Danielson through this table when

1:17:38

all of a sudden we cut to the parking

1:17:41

lot outside and a vehicle pulls

1:17:44

up and out comes

1:17:46

Darby Allen who

1:17:48

is brandishing what looks to be what I

1:17:50

thought was, does this guy

1:17:52

have like a paintball gun? Does

1:17:55

this guy have a real gun were

1:17:57

my thoughts and there he fist

1:17:59

bumps. driver, his Uber driver,

1:18:01

Tony Khan, I'm sure

1:18:03

he left a five-star review for,

1:18:05

and in walks Darby. As the

1:18:07

announcers explained, the ban must be

1:18:09

lifted since Tony Khan is back.

1:18:12

And in comes Darby. And

1:18:15

it is not a paint gun, a

1:18:17

paintball gun. It's not a real gun.

1:18:19

The man has a goddamn flamethrower and

1:18:21

he comes out and he is just

1:18:24

lighting this arena up

1:18:26

with this flamethrower. And

1:18:29

the closing shot is Brian Danielson

1:18:31

with a chair next to this

1:18:34

guy who is shooting like these

1:18:36

15-foot flames up into the arena.

1:18:39

And that's how we went off the

1:18:41

air. Darby is also wearing like a

1:18:43

pink fur coat. It looks like, you

1:18:45

know, this was like, I mean, this

1:18:47

is some sort of weird version of

1:18:49

Scarface. It felt like it by the

1:18:51

end here. I don't know,

1:18:54

maybe Mad Max is what they were going

1:18:56

for. That might have been the tie in

1:18:58

here. With Tony Khan, I guess, being the

1:19:00

driver of the car. Man,

1:19:04

we should have been

1:19:06

Tony as Scarface. Ah,

1:19:10

what are you trying to say there? Well,

1:19:13

Tony Montana. Oh, yes,

1:19:15

of course. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah.

1:19:18

Quite the scene to end the show. I mean,

1:19:20

not what I would have pictured them

1:19:23

at the start of Dynamite about how

1:19:25

this episode would end. But it

1:19:28

was the type of like, I

1:19:30

don't know, like, like ultimately what did we

1:19:32

really gain here? Like they told us a

1:19:34

pretty predictable story of Darby getting banned and

1:19:36

then coming back at the end to save

1:19:38

his partner at Double or Nothing. A

1:19:40

match, a main event match that got

1:19:42

DQ'd because of shenanigans. But because

1:19:45

we saw a flamethrower, like, I'm

1:19:47

cool with it. You know, it's like, it's, I

1:19:49

don't know, it's like one of these sort of

1:19:52

like weird, spectacular visuals

1:19:54

that just like, all

1:19:56

right, that was really cool. It's

1:19:58

a great point. Like they did. closed the show

1:20:01

with like a five minute match

1:20:03

ending in a DQ, which is

1:20:06

clearly they have relaxed I think their

1:20:08

thought on DQs being such a rarity,

1:20:10

but this really did have to go

1:20:12

on last for the angle as well.

1:20:15

And I think this was totally a, you know,

1:20:17

the match was what it was. It was, I

1:20:20

think, I seriously think like of the whole

1:20:22

show, what were you most curious to see

1:20:24

on the lineup? It was this match. Agreed.

1:20:27

This is the match I was most curious to watch on this whole lineup. Like

1:20:29

I knew other stuff would be better, but what was

1:20:31

I most interested in seeing? It was Bryan

1:20:33

Danielson and Sutton M. Singh going for five

1:20:35

minutes. That's what had my curiosity. And

1:20:38

I thought they satisfied that curiosity, whether or not

1:20:40

we got the finish. I know what Danielson versus

1:20:42

Sutton M. looks like. I have

1:20:44

got that answered now. So there you go. That

1:20:47

was Dynamite. Wei,

1:20:50

what is the double or nothing pay-per-view

1:20:52

worth after this build? What

1:20:55

would you be willing to spend on this pay-per-view? We

1:20:58

should even determine whether or not this was a good

1:21:00

addition to Dynamite because I think that's even kind of

1:21:02

tough to answer. You know, like in

1:21:04

terms of like how we... I could see

1:21:06

a lot of mixed reaction to this show.

1:21:09

In terms of how we usually grade AEW

1:21:11

Dynamite, you had a very

1:21:14

good match in Malachi Black

1:21:16

versus Kyle O'Reilly. Very

1:21:18

good tag team match in Osprey

1:21:21

and Orange Cassie versus Trent and

1:21:24

Roderick Strong. You

1:21:27

know, wherever Nick Wayne was, it was good for

1:21:30

what it was. Not like the match of the

1:21:32

show, but I thought that was fine. I didn't

1:21:34

think the three-way FTW and angle, that one really

1:21:36

didn't do much for me.

1:21:39

The women's tag match, fine. Not

1:21:43

anything special. So I'm in agreement that I think the

1:21:45

best match is Malachi Black versus Kyle O'Reilly. But

1:21:48

even that is very much like sort of a

1:21:50

unique novelty match where your mileage may vary depending

1:21:52

on how you feel about that style. So

1:21:55

it's not really like the type of dynamite

1:21:58

that we would usually put up with. like

1:22:00

the great dynamites where like you had

1:22:02

top to bottom great wrestling matches. It

1:22:05

was a bit of a weird one that

1:22:07

offered variety. More importantly, I think

1:22:09

it had deservedly a lot of

1:22:12

focus on just pushing these matches taking

1:22:15

place on the pay-per-view. And for the most part, I

1:22:18

thought everything was like effectively conveyed. You know what the

1:22:20

matches are by the end. You know what the feuds

1:22:22

are. You're caught up with all the storylines at

1:22:24

the end of the show. In some cases, you

1:22:27

might even be more interested in the feuds. Now

1:22:30

are you interested in the feuds? That's

1:22:33

another question. You know, this cycle of

1:22:35

AEW programming, have they done a good

1:22:38

job of establishing juicy feuds? In

1:22:40

my opinion, this is still very much a

1:22:42

card that has been entirely sold just on

1:22:44

the matches alone. Like whether,

1:22:46

like kind of regardless of

1:22:49

storyline. Maybe

1:22:51

with the exception like... Everything

1:22:54

on this show has like story attached to

1:22:57

it. It's what your opinion is of those

1:22:59

stories. But you can't say any of these

1:23:01

are just cold matches that are being thrown

1:23:03

onto a pay-per-view. Yes,

1:23:05

yes, you're right. I guess I

1:23:08

was already interested in like I'm more...

1:23:10

My interest in this for instance, like

1:23:12

even Roderick Strong versus like

1:23:14

Will Osprey is more just based off

1:23:16

of the match itself rather than what's

1:23:19

storytelling they told me to get there.

1:23:23

Definitely, that's definitely the case with Moxley

1:23:25

versus Takeshita. Cage

1:23:28

sorry, the cage match with Copeland and

1:23:30

Black I think is interesting because of

1:23:33

the cage stipulation. It's

1:23:36

not the best looking card from

1:23:38

AEW I've seen. But

1:23:41

because we know that they... Even

1:23:45

the not best looking cards end up delivering

1:23:47

really high quality, like I'm going to give

1:23:49

it a chance. So

1:23:51

there are 10 matches so far. No

1:23:54

matches have been announced yet for

1:23:56

the pre-show. So we could see

1:23:58

this increase between Rampage and... collision.

1:24:02

But I like one thing I

1:24:04

do feel is the idea of doing like a 10-match

1:24:07

show I think is more

1:24:09

than sufficient and from just and not

1:24:11

even just for the consumer of you

1:24:13

know building up

1:24:15

these shows and just

1:24:17

for the experience but I think you

1:24:20

could certainly learn from just taking a program

1:24:22

and it doesn't have to be your biggest

1:24:24

program it doesn't have to be Swerve and

1:24:26

Christian but like an Adam Copeland and Malachi

1:24:28

Black and doing the barbed wire cage match

1:24:30

on TV I think they

1:24:32

need to be doing more of that

1:24:35

like angles that peak for television and

1:24:37

do the big match and sacrifice your

1:24:39

pay-per-view match I don't know that if

1:24:42

you took that match off of this pay-per-view

1:24:44

are the buys going down significantly versus are

1:24:46

you enhancing your TV for a week that's something

1:24:49

that the viewer that is not

1:24:51

spending $50 still get the payoff to

1:24:53

like a solid program that is hopefully

1:24:55

going to entice your television audience as

1:24:57

well and maybe right now during the

1:24:59

playoffs is not the best time to

1:25:01

be doing that but I think overall

1:25:04

like but we're in

1:25:06

crunch time now like TV should

1:25:08

be the primary focus. Yeah

1:25:11

I don't disagree with with that but at

1:25:13

the same time I I

1:25:15

would be hesitant to like use that as

1:25:17

like definite advice that I

1:25:19

would give Tony Khan just because

1:25:22

he continues to have to demand

1:25:24

$50 unless of course

1:25:26

you use a VPN but $50

1:25:28

for these shows and I could

1:25:30

see his thinking in you

1:25:32

know having demanding audiences pay that amount of

1:25:34

money well why aren't you putting your biggest

1:25:37

stars on this card people do say that

1:25:39

you know why why isn't a Will Osprey

1:25:41

on this show why isn't Adam Copeland on

1:25:43

the show why wouldn't you know John Moxley

1:25:45

be on this show like there is that

1:25:47

expectation from the audience if you're going to

1:25:49

be asking them to spend that money to

1:25:51

have every like your all-star cast you

1:25:55

know perform on every

1:25:57

pay-per-view. Well I mean like we'll look

1:25:59

at this roster though look what they're going

1:26:01

to pay-per-view and TV with. Like look at

1:26:03

their amount of people that are out at

1:26:05

the moment. Like you're doing this without Adam

1:26:07

Cole, without MJF, without Kenny Omega, without Eddie

1:26:10

Kingston, without, like there's, you

1:26:12

know, some, some very significant names. It's

1:26:14

like they don't have Sting anymore. Um,

1:26:17

so that's not by choice. It's

1:26:19

not by choice, but I, I

1:26:22

think that there is a balance

1:26:24

to just your, your television strictly

1:26:26

building to pay-per-view versus, you know,

1:26:28

the occasional time. Like what it,

1:26:31

what was a major

1:26:33

match in dynamite history? It was, you know,

1:26:35

they've had plenty of them, but one that

1:26:37

just comes to mind is like Britt Baker

1:26:39

and Thunder Rosa. And could that have gone

1:26:41

on a pay-per-view? Of course it could, but

1:26:43

you also are that many more people seeing

1:26:46

a match like that. I

1:26:48

think that that just enhances your

1:26:50

stars. It hopefully builds up your

1:26:52

television and it does give your,

1:26:54

your building towards that next pay-per-view

1:26:56

event. You're going to have less

1:26:58

time to devote to pushing strictly

1:27:00

TV programs. Unfortunately. Well,

1:27:03

we have shared our thoughts and now we're going

1:27:05

to hear from you. If you want to get

1:27:07

a super chat in, you are welcome to do

1:27:09

so and we will go to the forum and

1:27:12

hear what everyone had to say about tonight's

1:27:14

dynamite. Got a couple of super chats here.

1:27:16

First one from Jonathan Mayer who sends $2

1:27:18

to say, love the new background, John. Yes.

1:27:21

Yeah. We have been busy at work, uh,

1:27:25

trying to fill out the, uh, the background. It was a

1:27:27

little bare. So I've tried to do some updating. I'm

1:27:29

a big Jonathan. Thank you very

1:27:31

much, Jonathan, for that. We've got a Dan Hurley in the

1:27:34

tourney who sends $2 to say, why does

1:27:36

Tony storm keep switching face to heel? I

1:27:39

don't know if it's so much she is turning it. I

1:27:41

think a lot of it is dictated by the audience.

1:27:45

And I think tonight was just an

1:27:47

indication that listen, the audience is pretty

1:27:49

pro Tony storm most weeks. And I,

1:27:52

I think why, why fight this going

1:27:54

into Sunday? Like it just puts Serena

1:27:56

deep in this position. Um,

1:27:58

that's not ideal. let's make it

1:28:00

very clear going into Sunday what

1:28:03

the dynamic is as opposed to this

1:28:07

kind of, you know, spending the first portion

1:28:09

of a match where you don't know how

1:28:11

the audience is like, what are you playing

1:28:13

to? Are you playing the heel in this

1:28:15

match? And we have a very clear deciphering

1:28:17

of the two. I

1:28:19

think Deanna Parrozzo was able to like, and

1:28:22

Thunder Rosa, they were able to weather

1:28:24

it, no pun intended, pretty well

1:28:27

just because I think they're stronger

1:28:29

babyfaces. Deeb was probably having the

1:28:31

most challenge because like she, she

1:28:33

doesn't really have that much of an established

1:28:35

character yet. So at

1:28:37

this point, you have to ask

1:28:39

how many more people strong babyfaces

1:28:42

do you have, you know, in

1:28:44

AW that coupled with just the

1:28:46

fact that like, stone just continues to be

1:28:48

so damn entertaining, you know, maybe it

1:28:50

has led them to finally decide to

1:28:52

just completely turn her. And

1:28:55

I, who are the, who are the heels

1:28:58

that you think she would be well

1:29:00

paired with at this point? Well,

1:29:03

following that, I mean, you have this, again,

1:29:06

Forbidden Door is the next show. And I

1:29:08

see Tony Storm being involved heavily with like

1:29:11

the whatever stardom contingent we have. And you

1:29:13

kind of have this, this Mariah May thing

1:29:15

on the back burner as well. Like that's,

1:29:17

that's a potential turn that you could see

1:29:19

Mariah being the heel coming out of that.

1:29:23

And, and further after that, like, I think we

1:29:25

also clearly have seen the like,

1:29:27

Mercedes is now pretty solidly placed as in

1:29:30

a heel role as well. I don't know

1:29:32

if that's a match they're going to be

1:29:34

racing to get to with Tony and

1:29:37

Mercedes, but that's a big

1:29:39

match down the road that I think you could have

1:29:41

the right stage for. Yeah, Deanna

1:29:43

Parrazzo is actually heel now too. So I

1:29:45

mean, there's that on the mob. That's

1:29:48

right. Yep. I guess they could do a tire match

1:29:50

again. You

1:29:53

know, who else is available? Nyla

1:29:55

is always, I guess, somebody that they could go

1:29:58

back to. They always have Rio. She's

1:30:01

always being depended upon. Yes.

1:30:03

Yes. Sure. Yeah for any role. Sky Blue.

1:30:06

Okay. All right.

1:30:08

Let's go to form.postwrestling.com. Teneese,

1:30:11

Roddy and Osprey have heated up with their face

1:30:13

to face last week and the recent post angle

1:30:15

beat down. We all know this match will be

1:30:17

fantastic, but it's great to have some buildup. I

1:30:19

hope that triangle wins to restore the significance of

1:30:21

the trio's belts. Hopefully Takeshita wins against Moxley, but

1:30:23

you never know. Can we please do something meaningful

1:30:25

with Brian Keith? That bloodbath looked brutal from Alakai.

1:30:27

The Brian Sutton match was fun and we need

1:30:29

more Sutton on TV. I'd love to see him

1:30:31

in a match with Osprey. Lastly,

1:30:33

I thought Cash would be the one to come

1:30:35

out with a gun to make the save. Oh

1:30:37

man. Come on, Teneese. The pay-per-view cycle had its

1:30:40

ups and downs, but Double or Nothing is sure

1:30:42

to deliver. He's

1:30:44

not guilty. He's

1:30:46

not guilty. I mean, Bruce

1:30:49

was there and gave us the the blow-by-blow of

1:30:51

that and I watched the clip and I was like

1:30:53

this. This is like the most bizarre reaction I can

1:30:55

recall. Very strange. Very weird. Let's

1:30:59

go up next to Mr. Kane who says happy

1:31:01

birthday, Brian Danielson. He couldn't get the bear, but

1:31:03

I'd say this was the next best thing. Sutton

1:31:05

I'm saying was an entertaining big win and I

1:31:07

think he should get more reps on ROH or

1:31:09

Rampage to build him up. Garbi Allen with the

1:31:11

flamethrower shouldn't be allowed, but it was. Awesome

1:31:13

closing scene for tonight. The viscous

1:31:16

liquid is back. Malakai versus

1:31:18

O'Reilly was really good and different. I think

1:31:20

Malakai was rather impressed with his opponent and

1:31:22

I smell a turn coming for Kyle in

1:31:24

the immediate future. Oh, what does that mean?

1:31:26

Kyle joins the House of Black? Huh.

1:31:30

Um, can you see that? Sure.

1:31:33

Yeah. He

1:31:35

gives up his wedding ring and he joins the House

1:31:37

of Black. Kyle O'Reilly

1:31:40

in the House of Black. That would be interesting. Hmm.

1:31:42

Interesting. All right. The Mind Games from

1:31:44

Cope was a nice touch post-match. What

1:31:47

was also nice to see was the Swerve

1:31:49

Angle and the Return of Prince Nana. Very

1:31:51

cool. I look forward to Swerve having a

1:31:53

solid match with Christian. Respect to the Women's

1:31:55

Tag Match. Very entertaining. Good to see Saraya

1:31:57

out there mixing it with Tony Storm. and

1:32:00

a good promo package for Willow versus

1:32:02

Monet. Solid dynamite. All right,

1:32:04

a thumbs up from Mr. Kane. We go to

1:32:06

Matthew. Overall, I thought this was a decent show.

1:32:08

Like most weeks, one looked at in a vacuum.

1:32:10

AEW is a solid show. It's the bigger picture

1:32:12

that's the issue. I feel as if AEW has

1:32:14

been very heat heavy. This product definitely needs a

1:32:17

shot in the arm of some sort, which I

1:32:19

believe will come in the form of MJF this

1:32:21

Sunday. Nobody really feels hot right now, which is

1:32:23

very evident by the ratings and attendance. I said

1:32:25

this last week, but we definitely need more character

1:32:27

depth, more defined baby faces and heels, and some

1:32:29

solid week-to-week storytelling. I've been an AEW fan

1:32:31

since day one, and it sucks that it has

1:32:33

dropped to this level. Unfortunately, they have a huge

1:32:35

hill to climb. I haven't had a

1:32:37

chance to listen to Paul Lekken Thurston, so I apologize if

1:32:39

this was covered, but has there been any update on AEW's

1:32:41

television deal and what do you feel like they will get?

1:32:44

I feel like anything under $175 million a year for

1:32:47

all three shows, Tape Library, ROH, and the Pay-Per-Views

1:32:49

will be a disappointment. Ideally, I feel like $200

1:32:51

would be a good deal. I

1:32:54

mean, if they hit $175, I

1:32:57

think they'll be exceptionally happy

1:32:59

with that amount. In

1:33:02

terms of what they're gonna get, I mean, your

1:33:04

guess is as good as anyone's. I

1:33:06

think that there's still too many factors

1:33:08

that have

1:33:11

to be sorted out. Number one, it's

1:33:13

WBD's position when it comes to the

1:33:16

NBA, which is looking more and more

1:33:18

slim of a chance that they're gonna

1:33:20

have the NBA, but as

1:33:22

well, like AEW, they're still

1:33:24

in an exclusive negotiating window

1:33:26

with WBD, so they don't even have

1:33:28

the opportunity to take these to the

1:33:31

market and see what the interest is.

1:33:33

And I think from covering

1:33:35

all of these rights renewals, like you

1:33:37

just don't know, there's the obvious players,

1:33:39

but then there's the non-obvious ones, and

1:33:41

you just don't know if there's gonna

1:33:43

be that offer that none of us

1:33:45

are focused on that comes out of

1:33:47

left field and could

1:33:50

be a game changer

1:33:52

for an AEW. But

1:33:55

it's also not like a guarantee either that

1:33:57

they're gonna hit some magic number

1:34:01

aiming for as well. Yeah.

1:34:06

Do you think that there's like a even

1:34:08

a target number that for

1:34:11

you to be able to say this

1:34:13

was a good deal versus

1:34:17

this was not a good deal? I

1:34:20

think it'll fluctuate based on what

1:34:22

the deal entails because there's one

1:34:25

for just the television and

1:34:27

then it's the pay-per-views as well.

1:34:29

Like if they are entering into

1:34:31

an agreement where Max is going

1:34:33

to take the pay-per-views in house

1:34:36

and they no longer have to sell pay-per- views,

1:34:39

well we know what like WWE

1:34:42

is getting paid for their pay-per-views on Peacock

1:34:44

and that's probably you know not going to

1:34:46

be the same comparison point but you

1:34:49

know that that drastically increases things. It takes

1:34:51

a lot of pressure off of AEW if

1:34:53

they just get some some great figure and

1:34:56

it's Max is going with the idea this

1:34:58

is our entryway into pay-per-view and we're gonna

1:35:00

spend a stupid amount of money for these

1:35:02

pay-per-views and not having the pressure to like

1:35:05

ask people for 50 bucks a month I

1:35:07

think will be a huge you know weight

1:35:09

off of Tony's shoulders you know and

1:35:11

that would allow them to take a lot more chances for the

1:35:13

TV. I mean anyway

1:35:16

it would completely change like the model of

1:35:19

like storytelling too but yeah there are a

1:35:21

lot of ways to slice this pie is

1:35:23

I think what you're trying to say John.

1:35:25

Yeah I think the the higher

1:35:27

you're getting above that 100 to 115 million like above that I

1:35:29

think they're they're into

1:35:34

a very positive place like once

1:35:36

you're looking at you know well

1:35:39

into like those figures

1:35:42

above 100 million but yes

1:35:44

that's gonna be a massive story

1:35:46

this year is how these AEW rights pan

1:35:49

out but thank you very much for the

1:35:51

question Matthew and you it's lastly do you

1:35:53

expect an MJF return for

1:35:55

Sunday? I

1:35:58

mean I'm sure he's keeping a very very close

1:36:00

to the vest when he's ready to

1:36:02

come back. I think

1:36:05

that that's always a viable possibility.

1:36:09

Do you put much into like recent photos of him

1:36:11

with his arm in his sling? Some

1:36:16

but not completely with

1:36:19

MJF. I would state that it's

1:36:22

I think it's possible. He's also someone that

1:36:24

could come back before he's physically

1:36:26

ready and just to have that presence on

1:36:28

your show would be advantageous.

1:36:31

I think he is sorely missed in AEW

1:36:33

and I think that he is I think

1:36:35

a lot are kind of looking

1:36:38

at you know he had

1:36:40

a very polarizing title run from just

1:36:43

a creative standpoint but I think from

1:36:45

a business standpoint I

1:36:48

think his title run holds up very well and

1:36:51

that's been very consistent this year. His absence

1:36:53

has been noted. I definitely think the

1:36:55

show is missing him you know because he

1:36:57

brings a very different type of personality that's

1:36:59

not really being fulfilled right now on on

1:37:02

the show and I know

1:37:04

last year they teased it but a swerve

1:37:06

versus MJF feud is going

1:37:08

to be the thing that can really elevate swerves

1:37:10

to that next level. Because

1:37:13

Forbidden Door is the next cycle maybe this

1:37:15

is not like the best time to bring

1:37:17

MJF back but I could see him coming back

1:37:19

at Forbidden Door you know to lead into

1:37:21

the next thing. Which is in Long Island. There

1:37:24

you go you'd almost expect him back by then

1:37:26

yeah. All right well that's

1:37:28

gonna wrap things up. You'll have

1:37:30

plenty of shows coming up in the next

1:37:33

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Extreme Rules 2012 then

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Friday Rewind to Smackdown King and Queen

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of the Ring on Saturday and then

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Sunday we have Double or Nothing. How

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