AEW Dynamite 11/19/25 Review | Kenny Omega RETURNS And Three Hours DOES NOT WORK!!! - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Tonight was a three hour block of aw programming, three
hours Dynamite and Collision, the go home show to Full Gear,
which is coming up from Newark this coming Saturday. And
you know, last week we had two blood and guts matches.
Last week, we had a lot of blood spilled. Last week,

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we saw crazy shit. We saw people thrown through flaming tables.
We saw people going into broken glass, and we saw thumbtacks,
and we saw barbed wire. We saw all kinds of
crazy stuff. But you would almost never even know that
that happened a week ago because the only person who
really was held off the show and was referred to

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almost like in the past tense and was not there
because he supposedly suffered second degree burns, which may well
be legit if you watched the show last week was
Darby Allen. Most everybody else was on the show. They
were wrestling in many cases, and again it's as if
what we saw last week did matter or didn't even happen,
which I thought was very, very weird considering how much

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blood was spilled on that show last week. But blood
in the Gods is in the rear view. We got
Full Gear coming up. We added a few more matches
to the card tonight, of course we did so I
will have a full rundown of what the card is
going to be this weekend. We'll go through my very
quick predictions later on at the end. But tonight we

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had the return of Kenny Omega. He wasn't on the
show for very long. He didn't do too much, but
we haven't seen him in a little bit, so he
was back on the show tonight. We had Mercedes Monet
in the main event of Collision, the Boston Girl. They
were in Boston tonight, so they saved her for the
very end of the show. She was wrestling Red Velvet,
who we have not seen in the ring since June,

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in a basically kind of a unification match or whatever
you want to call it, because we had the Ring
of Honor Women's Television Champion against the interim Women's Television Champion.
Is if anybody gives a shit about the interim or
even frankly non interim Ringovater Television Championship, I certainly don't.

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That was the main event though on Collision. I'll give
you one guess as to who went over in that match.
It's all about pushing Mercedes and Statlander, which is coming
up on Saturday for the only championship that really matters,
which is the aw Women's World Championship. So that was
in the main event at the end of the show,
and it was it was a journey to get there

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from start to finish. This was a long show. One
of the many reasons I hate three hours. I don't
care what the promotion is, I fucking hate it. But
because Full Gear is coming up on Saturday, you can't
have Collision on Saturday instance, I guess instead of doing
it on Thursday, they decided to do a three hour block,
so that is what we ended up with. We also
had a couple of women's Tag Team Title Tournament matches

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on this show. I was curious coming into this, what
are they going to do at Full Gear because there's
a lot of women who are missing and there really
isn't enough time to set up the finals for that show.
We got our answer tonight. We are going to have
all of the women who are in the semi final
round of the Tag Team Title Tournament, all of those

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teams are going to be in a match on Saturday.
That has been added with a very interesting stipulation. That
is completely and utterly unnecessary. But since we're adding stipulations
to everything on this show, I guess Tony Kahn figure
we need a stipulation for this too. We'll get into that.

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We also found out that the Continental Classic is officially
starting on the show next week, which usually it does
coming out of full gear, and that will take us
to I assume World's end. So Continental Classic time is
almost here. That's what we're gonna talk about here, and
I'm going to try to get you out of here
as quickly as I can because I was not a

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fan of this show tonight. I was pretty bored by
a lot of this show tonight. This was not one
of the stronger go home shows that they have had.
I cannot tell you that this show tonight made me
any more excited to watch this pay per view on Saturday.
If I told you that, I would be lying to you.
But we're going to talk about Dynamite. We're going to
talk about collision. We are live here on YouTube. It

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is a Wednesday night. It is November nineteenth, twenty twenty five.
I am the Solemn Monster, celebrating eighteen years of the
Sound of All November Long Super chats are open. I
saw that our boy Joseph did a little hit and
run earlier, so we'll be getting to his and all
of your questions as well later on here in the stream.

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And if you missed any of the other content this
week Big Raw Recap show on Monday night, coming out
of that Madison Square Garden Show sound off this past
weekend episode nine thirty eight, please go back and check
that out. What are you waiting for? That'll be the
they were waiting for you when we are done here.
And also be aware no SmackDown review. On Friday night,

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they opened the show with Bobby Lashley. This feels like
eighty four years ago, Bobby Lashley against Ricochet, with the
winner of this entering the Casino Gauntlet at full gear
in the number one spot. Because in the Casino Gauntlet,
of course, it could end at any moment, so you
want to be in that match as early as possible,
or else you may not be able to make it

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out to the ring. So whereas in the Royal Rumble
you would not want to be number one, in a
match like this, you want to be the first person
out there or the second person out there. Number one
and number two are effectively the same thing, but that
national championship will be decided in the Casino Gauntlet. This
new title that they are adding two new championships. The

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women's tag team titles have not yet been decided. But
we're also going to have you know what the crazy
thing is, now that I think about it, We're going
to have a new national champion before we even have
women tag team champions. That to me is just fucking ridiculous.
Ex Caliber reminded all of us that the Full Gear
Countdown Special, by the way, would air tonight after collision.

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Fuck you, Yeah, not sticking around for that, but if
you want four hours of aw enjoy. So once Bobby
Lashley and Ricochet were in the ring, Ricochet took the microphone.
I think they had already rang the bell, and he
took the microphone and he says that you know, he
uh healing on the Boston Crab bringing up the Philadelphia

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Eagles mentioned Fly Eagles Fly. He says he knows that
Patriots fans don't remember what it's like to win a
Super Bowl. The only good thing to come out of
Massachusetts is his wife. He said that he was surprised
Ariel Helwani did not ask Tony Kanna about MVP having
dementia since he called the national title the international title.

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Last week he called Lashly a bald idiot rambling, and
Lashly finally choked lamb him out of the ring onto
the gates of agony, and then Lashly was about to
steamroll all of them, which he did, including launching Tota
Leona over the guardrail by the timekeepers area. I don't
know if he landed on the table that was there

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the floor, but he went right over that guardrail. Ricochet
side stepped a corner charge back inside. He got a
schoolboy for a two count. Then he fired off a
whole host of kicks and a running shooting Star moonsalt combo.
Ricochet rolled through a top rope shooting Star press attempt,
and then he pulled Bryce Remsburg in front of him,
which allowed him to rake the eyes loaded up for

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the spirit gun and Ricochet charge. Lashley caught him though,
into a big spinebuster and a spear and thanks for coming, Ricochet,
That's all she wrote. And just like that, Bobby Lashley
wins and he will be number one in the Casino Gauntlet.
You know Ricochet's promo at the beginning of this match
was longer than the match itself. I don't know if

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that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's certainly
not a good thing. But lastly, is number one in
the Gauntlet. It does not make it. I know, in theory,
it makes it more likely he might win it. Actually,
in sort of think about it, put your wrestling thinking
cap on here, it makes it less likely because it's
a little too obvious. If Bobby Lashley is coming out

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there at number one. Oh man, he's got the he's
got the advantage in this match. Sure he does. So
we know one person who's not winning the Gauntlet on Saturday,
and Ricochet also, Like you would think maybe they're setting
up Ricochet for a win. Man, he got fucking squashed
basically here in this match. I don't think so. I
think they could potentially be setting this up for someone

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that people aren't thinking about. I don't think that just
because Ricochet doesn't really have a whole lot to do
and because of the way he lost here, that necessarily
means he's gonna win the championship. But you know what,
even if he did, Like how sad is that you're
gonna introduce this new championship. Look at the way that
they booked Ricochet on this show. I'm not even saying
that it didn't make sense that Bobby Lashley would wreck

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this guy, but like he's treated like a total Jabron.
Now you turn around on Saturday and you put this
championship on him, What does that say for the national title?
Like it literally just becomes something to give to someone
who does not have anything going on. So here, we
will give you a belt. If you can introduce a
new championship, at least put it on somebody that you're

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actually planning on pushing. I got a different idea about this.
Talk about that when we do the predictions later Samo
Joe was backstage with Katiori Shabata said that it must
feel good for Hangman Adam Page to be a Fighting
World Champion. Joe said that he was told if he
interferes tonight in Hangman's match, he will lose his aw

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World title match on Saturday. Joe said, Page's whole world
of joy and happiness is about to get very different,
very quickly. He said, Hangman is guilty of crimes and
transgressions against the and it will be at the hands
of Sabata deadly by design, violent by intention. Tonight, Shabata
begins Page's payment and at full Gear, Joe said he

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will fully collect. Backstage, we saw the young Bucks watching
video of their match from Full Gear back in twenty twenty. Ah,
the old days, Remember when we used to gather here
on the channel back in the pandemic days at Daily's place.
I don't really reminisce about the pandemic days too much

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because I really just don't want to think about those days.
But those were the early days of the Dynamite reviews
and the aw pay per view reviews, and it's very
interesting to go back and think about the product then
as compared to the product now as we sit here
five years later. It is very interesting. So they're watching
back footage of that match where they teamed with Kenny Omega.

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Redee Piquette walks in. She asks the Bucks if they
would join the don Kallis family. Are you going to
join the don Kallis family? And before they could answer,
Callus showed up. He told the Bucks to go show
the world why you are the best tag team on
the planet because their match was coming up next. And
then after you guys can give all the Rubes out there,

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your answer as far as you're joining the family. He
gave them another grandiose introduction on their way out to
the ring, shitload of pyro. The Bucks did not look
overly enthusiastic about any of this. But it was the
Bucks and Josh Alexander against Skyflight. Many of you may
be asking, what what's that. It's a team, it's a trio.

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It's Scorpio Sky and top Flight hence Skyflight. Now, I
won't fault you if you have no idea what I'm
talking about, because the last time that we even saw
Top Flight wrestling here on Dynamite was back in May,
and even worse, Scorpio Sky. Do you know the last

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time that Scorpio Sky wrestled on this program. You would
have to go all the way back to July sixth
of twenty twenty two when he lost the TNT Championship
to Wardlow. Now you want to talk about feeling like
a lifetime ago, that's a lifetime ago. But here they

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are just like that. They're back on Dynamite. They're gonna
take on the Young Bucks and the Kallis family here.
So the Bucks were setting up for a double team
move on Scorpio. When Alexander tagged himself into the match,
Bucks were not pleased about this. Darius Martin tagged then
he hit a standing Spanish fly in a DDT on Alexander,

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which led to a near fall. The Bucks started a
super kick party. They set up Dante for a BTE trigger,
but he pulled the Bucks arms to make them collide
into one another. The Bucks came back with a meltzer
driver on Dante. Alexander then shoved the Bucks out of
the way so that he could apply an ankle lock
and he got the submission win for his team. Now,

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after the match was over, Don Callus gets into the
ring and also here comes Hetcha Sero, Here comes Mark Davis,
Here comes Rocky Romero said, now you guys can announce
you were going to join the Don Callis family. The
Bucks were reluctant. Callous reminded them that you know, the

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money's been flowing now that Callous has been looking out
for them in recent weeks, and he demanded that they
announced that they were joining the Kallus family. So he
started getting agitated. He said, you know AW can be
a very dangerous Oh, yes, I know, AW can be
a very dangerous place. I watched the show last week,

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a little too dangerous, but he said, aw can be
a very dangerous place. And the Bucks walking around without
a family, now, that could result in something bad happening.
Callous would hate to see what happened to Kenny Omega
happened to the Bucks. So what they were going to
do though, as far as the Bucks will never know

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as far as their decision here because they were interrupted
by Kenny Omega's music and Omega made his way out.
He had a chair in hand, he took out Rocky
Romero and Mark Davis with it in the aisle before
getting in the ring, and he tackled Josh Alexander. The
Bucks pulled Omega off, and you know, he shoved them,

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and that little distraction was enough for Alexander to pick
the ankle to get the ankle lock. Callus ordered Alexander
to let him go, said, you know what, the Bucks
don't have to announce if they're going to join the family.
All they need to do is take Kenny Omega and
deliver a bte trigger to him right here in the
middle of the ring. Right now. The Bucks slowly looked
like they were about to do it. When outcome Jack

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Perry and Lucasaurus and they cleared ring. Jack Perry had
a shovel. Lucasaurus and I shit you not, he had
a vacuum cleaner, which was just a ridiculous visual. I
suppose he just grabbed the first thing he saw. Now,
why there was a vacuum cleaner sitting there, I have
no idea, But he had a vacuum cleaner with him

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and Jack Perry, by the way, with that shovel and
the vest and whatever he was wearing, he looked like
a fucking park ranger. So outside the ring with the
rest of the family, as they bailed, or they were
in the middle of bailing, you could see the young Bucks.
They look very conflicted over this whole situation. So they
were really leaning very heavily into making you believe that

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we are going to get a reunion of the elite.
And it makes me change my opinion of what I
thought we were going to get on Saturday, because I
do think all signs point to well Megain the Bucks
getting back together. Now, I can't discount the possibility they're
setting up some big swerve, you know it, full gear.

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But it looks like because I mean, if you think
about it, they've been doing the buck like the broke
Bucks stuff for a while where they're out of money
and it was very entertaining for a while. That could
only go on for so long. It's a million dollar match, Like,
as ridiculous as that sounds, and it really the money
stuff at this point is just comically stupid. But it's

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a million dollars on the line in this match. And
let's say the Heels win and the Bucks right, they
get back out of the Red and into the Green
or the black, whatever it is, and so now they
have money again to spend, Like when does this end?
Do they just go and spend it again? And you
get a lot of the same vignettes we had, you know,
over the last few months, like what's the endgame for this?

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If not them turning back Babyface and kind of rejoining
the elite and getting the band back together. I don't
know if Hangman might end up getting involved, that would
feel like probably the endgame of this. They've been Heels
now for a while, so I think that's where we're headed.
I think that's probably the likely outcome of what we

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are going to see at full gear or at least
the next step that will ultimately lead to that. After this,
they cut to the announced desk and they had Tony
Shavanni talk about the passing this past week of legendary
announcer Bob Caudle, who he worked with many many years ago.

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I think he and Bob Caudle first worked together back
in the mid eighties, he said, and just passed away
at the age of ninety five. Shavanni says he was
the voice of his childhood and if there was a
wrestling Hall of Fame for announcers, said Bob would be
the first name inducted, and they put the rest in

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Peace graphic up on the screen that took us into
a commercial break. Good on them for acknowledging Caddle here
on the show WWE. He didn't say a word about
him on Monday Night, so it was nice to see
aw acknowledge him here. Now. With Bobby Lashley having secured
the number one spot in the Casino Gauntlet this weekend,
his Hurt Syndicate partner Shelton Benjamin had a match on

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this show to decide the number two spot in the Gauntlet,
and his opponent here was Speedball Mike Bailey, This was
a good one with these two up until the finish.
MVP sat in on commentary and at one point in
the middle of the match, he stood up and he
was very frustrated with Benjamin kind of taking his time

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and kind of toying with Bailey. So he stood up
and he started yelling at Shelton, telling him stop playing
with your food and end this. Bailey hit a standing
shooting star press. MVP yelled that you don't win matches
by flying through the air. Benjamin got an armbar apply,
but Benjamin powered him up for a slam. Or I

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should say Bailey got the arm bar, Benjamin powered him up. Bailey, though,
held on and both men ended up tumbling out over
the top rope together out to the floor. Back in
the ring, Bailey applied another arm bar that Benjamin escaped.
When they stood up, Benjamin superkicked Bailey, and what a superkick.
This was holy shit, the sound that this thing made

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and the reaction from the crowd, like that should have
been and maybe was supposed to be the finish of
this match, because, I mean, the superkick is just such
an abused move. We see multiple ones in every match right,
especially on this show. We just had the young Bucks
out there, and so whether it's the Young Bucks of
the USO's like, there's a lot of different people that

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have incorporated superkicks into their act. But this superkick, this resonated.
This was like a gunshot going off and he covers
speedball and there's no doubt that his shoulders were down.
Just the camera that we had, it was very visible
his shoulders and Bailey's shoulders were flat on the mat.

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He didn't lift them up. He didn't accidentally get them
up or attempt to lift them up. Paul Turner, though,
counts one, he counts two, and then he holds up
and he's sticking his hand under the shoulder as if
to like, oh, the shoulder was up. I'm like, no, no,
it wasn't, motherfucker. I'm watching the show. I have a
great view. The shoulder was not up. So something went

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wrong here. I don't know if Bailey just forgot to
get his shoulder up if he was supposed to. I
don't know if he legitimately got his bell rung and
for a few seconds didn't know where he was. It
could have been as simple as the referee fucked up.
You know, when Paul Turner held up when he wasn't
supposed to. MVP jumped off commentary and got into the

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ring thinking the match was over, and Paul Turner was like, no, no, no,
it's just the two and MVP, you know, got right
back out of the ring. So Benjamin got up, he
hit a German suplex, he hit the running step up
knee in the corner, and then he hit one more
superkick and then he won the match. So there's not
a dat in my mind that was supposed to be

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the finish. I mean, they just basically they added a
couple of moves and did another superkick, you know, to
make up for the botch. So it's unfortunate that that
happened because the two of them were having a pretty
good match outside of that little botch there at the end.
I thought it was a fun match, probably my favorite
one on the show. I think the announcers also did

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not make a big enough deal about the fact that
Lashly and Benjamin are now starting this Gauntlet on Saturday.
So the question is now, are they going to go
at it? Are they going to just stand around and
wait for Number three to come out and just work together,
or are they going to pull an axe and smash
at the beginning of the Royal Rumble in eighty nine

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and be like, all right, bro, it's every man for
himself and just beat the holy hell out of each other.
I don't know, I just feel like the announcers didn't
really dwell on that as much as they should have.
Of we had John Moxley and Claudio Castignoli against Orange
Cassidy and Roderick Strong. Strong set up Claudio for a supplex.

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Moxley clipped the back of Strong's leg. Cassidy checked in
and he sent Claudio to the floor. Cassidy went for
a dive. Claudio, though, caught him. I pressed him over
his head and he walked him over towards the barricade,
and he just dropped him down face first, right on
the top part of the barricade. After a break, Claudio
got a giant swing on Cassidy, but he let him

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go after only two revolutions, which got booze from the crowd.
Brian Danielson on commentary wondered if maybe Claudio's back was
bothering him after blooding guts. Brian, evidently nothing was bothering
anybody after blooding guts. Everybody looked aoka. Guess not everybody
was tip top till a little while later. Daniel Garcia

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caused a distraction that allowed Moxley to hit Roddy with
a paradigm shift. Moxley had the pin, Cassidy broke it up.
Moxley got crouched on the top turn buckle, strong superplexed
him and then tagged out. Garcia caused another distraction. Cassidy, though,
fought off Moxley and hit him with an orange punch.
Wheeler Dah then hopped the barricade and Cassidy spotted him

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and chased him around then back into the ring. While
the referee was busy getting da out of the ring,
Claudio hit Cassidy with a pop up uppercut. Moxley then
took advantage. He applied the bulldog choke and the referee
almost immediately called for the bell like it was very
very fast. There was no struggle. There was, and the story,

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I guess is that Claudio knocked him out, you know,
or knocked him silly on the uppercut, and then Moxley
just sort of picked the bones, took advantage and got
the quick win. And when the match was over, the
beatdown continued on Cassidy until Kyle O'Reilly ran down to
the ring quickly got an ankle lock on Moxley, who

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frantically tapped out. You'd have put the boots to Kyle,
but he would not break the hold. He kept holding
onto it, and the referees couldn't get him off. They were,
you know, plating with him to let go of a
hold as strong and Orange Cassidy were holding off Daniel
Garcia and Uda and Claudio, so finally they managed to
pull Moxley out of the ring to safety. Kyle took

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the microphone and he said, because Moxley gave him a
taste for blood last week, he demanded a no holds
barred match at full gear, and just like in Blood
and Guts, he said, the history books will say that
Moxley tapped out. Kyle came out here man, and even

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in this promo he was acting like a just a
raving lunatic. He looked like a maniac out there. Let
me just point out something to you. Now, we had
two blood and Guts matches last week right where they
gave you as much blood and violence as they could
possibly muster. Right with the man with the women, and

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in between that we had a Hangman Page Powerhouse Hobbs,
false count Anywhere match with more craziness. That was the
entire show last week was just insanity. And on the
show last week they announced that the main event of
Full Gear is going to be a steel cage match,
coming off a show where we had two two blood

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and guts matches in the cage last week, so that
was silly enough to follow up on that with another
regular cage match. We also already had schedule on this
pay per view in a few days Kyle Fletcher and
Mark Briscoe for the TNT title in a no disqualification match.
So now we have added Kyle O'Reilly the other Kyle

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against John Moxley in a no hold BARD match, which
is the same fucking thing. We already have a no
DQ match on the I forget the cage. We have
a no DQ match on that show. Why do we
need a no holds Bard match? Why on the same show.

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I don't understand. I understand doing Kyle and Moxley because
they've had, you know, a little feud going on here
for about a month now, had a couple of matches together.
Kyle got the big submission win in Blood and Guts
last week, So now they're gonna go at it one
more time. That's fine, but I'm like, we already have
a no DQ match for the TNT Championship on this show.

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No DQ and no holds bard is the same thing.
It's redundant, it's not needed. But here's the other thing
about John Moxley. We saw him surrender in Blood and Guts, right,
he lost it for the Death Riders last week. So
the first thing that he does on Saturday on Collision,

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the opening match is the Death Riders, and he's on
commentary and he's brushing off the loss. I just want
to preach positivity. And all the members of the Death Riders,
they seem to have no issue with John Moxley. They're
not even giving him the side eye. Like I said,
when we watched the show tonight, and no one was

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showing any real signs of where a tear except Chris
stat Lander on her back from the bed of nails
that she landed in. It's as if it never happened.
Moxley lost last week and it's just onto the next
it's like nothing even happened. So now we know Moxley
is going to be wrestling Kyle o'reiley on the pay

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per view, and Kyle o'reiley should win that match, plain
and simple. Kyle o'reiley got a major win, the biggest
win of his career in this company, at the end
of Blood and Guts last week. To do what to
send him to full gear to just lose to Moxley
and give us some fifty to fifty bullshit? You really

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want to take advantage of a win and give Kyle
that much more credibility. And I'm not sure this is
really about building up Kyle O'Reilly to be a credible
challenger for any particular title. This likely has more to
do with Moxley and the Death Riders and wherever this
is going than anything to really help Kyle. But why

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not That was a major win last week? Why not
follow up on that with another win right and really
send a message like last week was no Fluke. Plus,
it just feeds that much better into the Death Rider's
story where Moxley would lose again. That's why I'm changing
my prediction for the Pack match. Pack has a match

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on that show against Darby Allen. I had Darby winning
in light of this match being added to the card.
I think it would make more sense to have Moxley
submit again and then have Pack win his match against
Darby to show that the other members of the Death Riders,
they're picking up the slack here right, They're doing what
they're supposed to do. Moxley has become the weak link.

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Moxley's the one who keeps losing. Moxley loses, Pack wins
to me, in my mind for the story that hopefully
they're telling, that would make more sense. Maybe they're not
telling that story and Moxley just goes back to his
winning ways, in which case I'm not fucking sure what
we're doing here. So that's been added to the show.

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In the first of two women's tag team matches still
in the opening round, by the way, we had Tony
Storm and Mina Shirakawa against Alex Windsor and ReHO. We
got new music and matching gear like they have their
own custom entrance now to Tony and Mina. So if
you were doubting who's w the championships here in this tournament,

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I mean that, come on, that's gotta be a sign.
They're the only ones I think in this tournament that
really got their own custom tag team entrance, so ReHO
tagged in. After a little bit, she was used as
a projectile as an assisted her Conranas sent Tony to
the corner. Riho tried a head scissors on her but
got flattened, allowing Mina to tag in and hit a

(30:25):
twisting tornillo. For two. It was a blind tag from Windsor,
who hit a stun gun on Mina. As Tony tried
to make the save but took a double souplex for
her troubles. ReHO scaled the ropes, took out the love
bombs that's what they call themselves, took them out with
a crossbody on the floor. Later on, Windsor dropped Storm

(30:45):
outside with a cannon ball off the apron. ReHO missed
a double stomp back inside, allowing Mina to hit a
spinning backfist and then she sank in the figure four
leg lock. Storm and Windsor they took turns turning a
submission into returning the submission, hold in their partner's favor
until firing off dueling head butts, and they collapsed on

(31:06):
top of Mina and Rehobe, breaking the submission. Storm and
Windsor they tagged back in legally, Windsor hit Lariot attempted
a sharpshooter Storm, though escaped. Tony and Mina followed with
stereo sweet cheek music. Says Tony spiked Alex with Storm
zero for the win to advance to the next round

(31:26):
of the tournament. I just I couldn't get into this.
I'm not even saying it was a bad match. I
just I couldn't get into this. Technically it was fine,
but again it's a foregone conclusion who was going over here,
just based on what they did at the end of
Blood and Guts last week. All Right, we already knew
before the bell rang, we knew who was moving on
to the next round. After the match, they threw it

(31:48):
to Renee, or I should say the voice of Renee.
We didn't actually see her, but we heard her voice
and she had some breaking news. She said, the four
team that are in the tournament that have advanced to
the semi final round, we'll all compete in a four
corners match this Saturday at full gear, and the winning

(32:09):
team will get to choose the stipulation for their respective
semi final tournament match whenever that takes place. They didn't
say when that would be. I'm sure on television next week.
So basically, they're just gonna have a four way on
the pay per view to get these women on the show,
and whichever team wins they get to pick a stipulation
for their next match in the next round. We get

(32:32):
enough stipulations in this company, even on this show on Saturday.
I don't like having stipulations in this tournament. It's completely unnecessary.
We don't need stipulations in the actual tournament. You want
to have a four way match just for the hell
of it and just getting them on the show. I mean,
that's fine. Maybe there's some other advantage you know that

(32:54):
you can provide the winning team. I don't know, but
I'm not a fan of eating stipulations to this tournament.
I mean, it's gone stipulation crazy here. It's not needed.
Alicia Attut was backstage with Kyle Fletcher, Don Kallis, and
Mark Briscoe, and the two men have agreed to no
physicality here in this segment, and they were asked why

(33:18):
such high stakes for their pay per view match. Yes,
that was the question. Fletcher said that this way there's
a clear winner and a clear loser, no excuses. Briscoe
will thank them for joining the family, because again the
stipulation is that if Mark Briscoe loses this match, he
must join the don Kallis family because we don't have
enough members. I don't know how they can feel the team.

(33:42):
They don't have enough. They need more. Mark Briscow will join.
We have the young Bucks. They're teasing that they might
join the don Kallis family. I don't want to say anything.
I don't want to make any pronouncements here, but I
might join the don Kallis family. We got to get
some more guys. So the stakes have been set for

(34:06):
their TNT title match on Saturday. Brisco said, don't talk
to me about family. Every time I step inside that ring,
I fight for my family, which is true. I mean,
the guy's got like twelve kids. Actually I think it's nine,
But he says he fights for his family and his
road family, the conglomeration who he won blooding guts with

(34:26):
last week. Failure is not an option. Brisco won't be
letting his family down. He'll be making them proud. And
so all of a sudden, Kazuchka Okada and Hetchesera they
attacked Briscoe from behind. They held him as Don Callis
walked into the shot and he said he's going to
make Brisco's kids orphans, and Fletcher thanked Okada for not

(34:49):
agreeing to no physicality. Fletcher agreed, I never said anything
about Okada though, and Okada said he's glad he could help,
whereas Takeshka couldn't. He's such a petty bitch. I love it.
We got a Pack video promo on Darby, Allen saying
Darby deserved an apology as he promised that he would

(35:11):
break Darby's neck, and instead he sends his charred corpse
to the hospital. No one has heard from Darby's since
Blood and Guts, and it's because he's scared. Maybe Pack
took things too far. But if Darby, the boy who
never quits, has a backbone, he'll face him in a
wrestling match at full gear. No weapons, no funny games,

(35:33):
no bells or whistles. Without those, there's no way someone
like Darby can compete with a legitimate athlete like him.
And I know, I said before, I'm changing my prediction.
It still feels like, you know, it's probably gonna be
a Darby win, But I just feel like it works
better for the story of Pack wins and Moxley loses.

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Now watch them do the opposite. They closed the Dynamite
portion of Tonight's Three Hours with Hangman Adam Page against
Katsiori Shabata with Samoa Joe at ringside on commentary. If
Joe gets involved in this match, he will forfeit his
championship match of full Gear. Joe came over to the
announced desk to put his headset on and he told

(36:19):
Tony Shavanni where he called him the slippery little Piggy
told him you stay right there. Then he politely said
hello to ex Caliber and his old friend, Hey Brian
Brian Danielson, who asked, are you gonna hurt my friend Tony,
and Joe said no, I'm not out here for violence.
Hangman rushed Shabata from the crowd. Shabata was coming out

(36:40):
and Hangman came out of the crowd and just jumped him,
and Joe was incensed. Page launched Shabbata over the timekeeper's
table next to Joe, and then he slammed Shabbata's head
on the announced desk. Hangman turned his attention to Joe
just long enough for Shabata to hit a running boot
on the Apron slammed Hangman against the barricade repeatedly before
were setting him up on a chair. Page exploded out

(37:03):
and dropped Shabata. As Joe is now at this point
losing his mind on commentary. Back inside the ring, Shabbata
targeted the taped up neck. I think he had some
of that Knisio tape did Hangman on his neck? Danielson
asked Joe if he's amped up here tonight due to
losing the Hangman last month. Joe said, no, it's due
to stupid questions that I'm being asked. Actually, I'll bet

(37:27):
that Joe is amped up for a very different reason.
I think Joe is amped up because Twisted Metal was
just renewed for a third season on Peacock. I'll bet
that has him pretty amped up. Later on, Shabbata countered
out of a dead eye and then hit Shattered Dreams
in the corner page rolled through a German. Shabbata sent
him into Paul Turner, giving Shabata a chance to hit

(37:49):
a low blow, and he sank in a cross arm breaker.
Joe said the low blow was a legal grappling move.
Shabata went to the ankle logue, but Page rolled through,
which left Shabbata holding Page's boot. The wrestle many a
twenty finish where Kurt Angle pulled off Eddie Guerrero's boot.
So now he's got Hangman's cowboy boot in his hand,

(38:12):
and Page fired off a lariat. The boot went flying
straight up into the air. Hangman looks up, he catches
the boot on the way down, and he puts the
boot back on his foot, goes out to the apron
and vaults himself back in with a buckshot lariat, and
he gets the win over Shebata. So the story here

(38:34):
is that he took out Powerhouse Hobbs last week because
Hobbs was not on the show this week he was
in the hospital. So he took out Hobbs last week.
Tonight it was Shebata, and now Saturday he gets Joe
all alone inside the cage where we know nobody can
ever get in or out of these cages. I think

(38:55):
Tony Shavani made some dumb shit comment during the match
here to that effect where it was like, oh, Joe's
going to be trapped in the cage, but nowhere to go.
He had the audacity to say this after people were
just freely entering and exiting the cage at will last
week during Blood and Guts. He had the audacity to

(39:18):
make a comment like that. So that's the story going
into this main event. And I thought Joe was great
on commentary here, just there's no one who sells intensity
better than Samoa Joe. His facial expressions is just the
raging on commentary, knowing that he just had to control

(39:42):
himself because if he lifted a finger to get involved
in this match, he was going to lose his championship
match on Saturday. So he was great. And the best
part of this that in the finish, I liked the
boot flying up into the air and Hangman catching it.
That was a nice touch. So Dynamite Fish ended and

(40:02):
Collision begins as Page hits a low blow receipt on
Shebata before staring down Joe, and he cuts a promo
on Samojo tells Samojo look around, although Joe might be
surrounded by thousands of crazy ass fans, so actually we're
not that crazy. They were actually uh kind of dead

(40:25):
for large swaths of the show here, especially in the
third hour. Although I can't blame them. It's kind of
a dead zone tonight. But he might be surrounded by
thousands of crazy ass fans, but he's now alone. Said,
when Joe walks into the steel cage of full Gear,
Page wants him to remember that Joe doesn't have Hobbs

(40:46):
and he doesn't have Shabata with him. Says that he
wants Joe to remember what Hangman did the last time
he was locked in a cage with another man, which
of course was swore of Strickland last year. At all
out it would have been nice after the fact for
the announcers to mention that, I guess they just assumed
that they have their audience and they have no new fans,

(41:08):
which may well be true. You know, if Tony Kahan
does one thing very well, he certainly focuses on his
diehards and his niche audience. But it would have been
nice for the announcers to say something about who he
was actually referring to or what match he was referring to, Like,
we know because we saw that match and I saw
someone stick a needle in another man's cheek, which I

(41:30):
did not need to see. So anyway, that was the
message that he sent to Simo Joe there. Hangman swears
he would have no problem doing it again. Something about
what they did here is this is very weird to me.
So we already saw Hangman beat Joe clean right in
their first match of Wrestledream Hangman won. Now we're heading

(41:52):
into the rematch and Hobbes has been taken out. Shebata
has been He didn't really injure him, but I mean
Shebada now has been neutralized, and the story is that
Joe is going into this match all alone. He's going
into this match the challenger is as the underdog after

(42:12):
having already lost the first match. So under any other circumstances,
you would think that they're setting up for Joe to
win the championship. But I cannot imagine that Joe was
winning the championship on Saturday. So it's like they've done
all of these things to put Joe at a severe
disadvantage only for him to go in there and very
likely lose. It's strange. It's just very weird. The collision

(42:39):
portion of the night open with Anna Jay and ty
Mellow against Meghan Bain and Marina Shaffir. This was I
believe the final opening round match here in the Women's
tag team title tournament. This was This did not have
the most scintillating start, pretty dull stuff. Anna got worked

(43:00):
over the entire commercial break. Things come back. Mellow makes
the tag that lasted all of twenty seconds before she
tagged Anna back into the match. Bain and Shaffir. They
got spiked with double ddts. Double guillotines were applied Baine
and Shaffir. They easily powered out. Shaffir was sent outside.

(43:21):
Megan got flattened with a flat liner and a rolling
neck breaker. Bain fought off a gory bomb, but Jane
managed the Queens Slayer. Only Megan fell back into her
own corner, so Marina was able to make the tag.
She got a quick takedown into her mother's milk finish.
What a name, by the way, what a name for

(43:43):
a finish? Mother's milk hm? Anyway, that got her the win.
So Megan Bain and Marina Shaffir are moving on to
the next round. Love the Lord says, MJF comes back
and cost Hangman the title. Oh, MJF I believe is

(44:06):
going to be back on Saturday. I just don't see
him factoring into the match where he costs Hangman the belt.
But that is an interesting theory if everybody is thinking
along the same lines that there's no way Joe's gonna
win the title, and then he wins the championship. The
problem with that is that he's losing the championship to

(44:27):
do what exactly, to just drop it back to Hangman
before World's End. World's End has got to be Hangman
a MJF. I just cannot imagine that it's not Hangman MJF.
At World's End. Did they turn it into a triple threat?
It would be interesting because it was at World's End
when MJF lost that title two years ago and he

(44:48):
lost it to Samoa Joe. So now Joe is back
in the mix here. But to do Joe and MJF
makes no sense if you leave Hangman out of it. So,
I mean, what do you what are you looking at there?
We're looking at a triple threat. I'm not saying it's impossible.
I can see it. I can see the ultimate degradation

(45:10):
here of being MJF, you know, costing Hangman his championship
and laughing at his face. I don't know. I mean,
maybe there's something to it again, just the way that
everything has been set up here, it should point to
a Samoa Joe win. I just I'm having trouble seeing,

(45:30):
you know, let's maybe they're not doing the MJF match
of World's End. Maybe they're gonna do one more match
after this with Hangman and Joe and they're just going
to bounce the belt back. You could do that. You
could do that as I don't know. I don't know.
I would just think, yeah, you would want MJF on

(45:53):
that show. I also don't know his movie schedule. You know,
he's been out filming a movie, so I'm just sort
of assuming that he'll be back in time to you know,
build to the last show of the year. Maybe he
won't be around for a few more weeks. I don't know.
They've been very quiet about MJF, and Tony really hasn't
had much to say about him. It's very strange. Anyway,

(46:16):
the second half of this was a little bit better
than the first half, but you know, again, after that
finish of blood and guts, you knew exactly who was
winning this match. I mean, there was no question about it.
Crowd didn't really care much about this either. I think
that was part of it. I also think there was
the three hour fatigue setting in here. After the match,

(46:40):
the Timeless Love bombs Tony storm Mina Shirakawa. They appeared
up on the screen. Tony said that they pitched their
show to God and he ordered the entire box set
this weekend. They won't stop until they wear Baine and
Shafir's skulls as a pearl necklace. If they win the match,

(47:00):
they could pick any stipulation like apartment wrestling or Mina
suggest a taipaid death match, which Tony liked the sound
of that. I'm sure both Tonys did so. Tony says
that once John Moxley sees what they do to his
little women, he'll piss himself with blood. We have Kazuchka

(47:23):
Okada against Mascara Dorata. This was a double Jeopardy match.
You might be thinking, what the hell is that. Well,
the Kallis family will get to uh, well, we'll get
a future shot at the CMLL trios titles. Why I
don't know. I don't I don't know. I don't know,

(47:47):
but they will get a future shot at the CMLL
trios titles. My god, that's if Okada wins. If Dorata wins,
he will get a future shot at the Unified Championship. Sure,
these two and Takashta, I will point out three of
them had as I recall the match of the night

(48:11):
back it all out. They had an incredible three way match,
lit the whole crowd up. It was just one of
the best matches all year. So I was at least
interested in seeing what these two would do. Obviously, the
environment was not nearly the same. There weren't as many
people in the building. They were very quiet for you know,
a lot of what they were seeing here in this
third hour. What they had though was a solid match,

(48:34):
But more than once here these two just were not
on the same page. And there were actually two different times,
off the top of my head that I could remember,
two different times where Derata looked like he nearly killed himself.
He crashed and burned very badly on a four to
fifty splash attempt. You know, normally when somebody goes for
a four to fifty these days, guy moves out of

(48:55):
the way. They just rolled through. He did not roll through.
He splatted on the mat and landed in such a
way where I was a little concerned maybe he actually
legitimately hurt himself that he was kind of holding his
arm after that to the side, but then he kept
going and doing spots, so you know, he seemed okay.

(49:17):
But that gave Okada a chance to hit the air
raid crash neck breaker across the knee top rope elbow
by Okada then led to a rain Maker middle finger pose.
Dorata fought him off, only to run into a beautiful
Okada dropkick. Dorada flipped out of a rain Maker into
a wonky looking roll up only got two. Dorada did

(49:40):
hit the four to fifty splash, this time for a
very close near fall. Both men fought up top. Dorada
then tried a super hurricanrana and Okada tried to turn
it into a power bomb on the way down, only
for Dorota to land right on his head or nearly
on his head, maybe it's more on his shoulder, but

(50:01):
it was a very scary landing for Derata on the
way Do you can even see the people in the
crowd like gasping and holding their mouths like, holy shit,
is he alive? Ocatta finally put them away with another dropkick,
flush and then the rain maker, and he got the win.
This was not bad, but this was not great either.

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So Don Callus is at ringside. He gets on the
mic as soon as the match is over and he
said that with that win, they will be cashing in
their Trios title match, not the aw Trios titles. No, no, no,
I want I want to clarify here, this is the
CMLL Trios titles. And when are they going to get

(50:45):
this match? I give you one guess, Saturday. We don't
have enough matches. We need one more. We have another
match now added to the card on Saturday, but it
will not be on the main card. The match will
be on the pre show. This is going to be
on the Tailgate Brawl pre show and it is going

(51:07):
to be the Unified champion Kazuska Okada teaming with Hetcha
Sero and the returning IWGP champion Kenoski Takeshta and Okanda.
They hit the camera on Okada in the ring as
Callus was making these announcements, and he had a big,

(51:27):
cheesy smile on his face until Callus mentioned Takeshda and
then his whole demeanor changed that the expression on his
face went from happiness to I don't know. He just
looked incredulous. He's just sadness and disbelief. Just the way
he sold it with his expression, I thought was great.

(51:49):
So look, I mean, they're gonna continue the Okada and
Takeshta stuff in that match, they're probably gonna win. But
I have no issue with them continuing the angle. I
just I think we're all I mean, I know the
Sikos will disagree. I think we're all tapped out. As
far as the matches on Saturday, I think we're good.
I think we're good now. But it's also weird having

(52:11):
Okada on the pre show. So the main card is
already full. I'm not advocating that you got to move
it to the main car. It's the CMLL Trios titles
on an aw show, so it's like whatever, you can
have that on the pre show. But really, I just
look at that. I'm sure it'll be a really good match,
but it's more just to further the Ocata Takeshta angle

(52:35):
than anything else. They closed finally with the Hometown Girl
Here in Boston, Mercedes Monette against the returning Red Velvet
to crown the undisputed Ring of Honor Women's Television Champion.

(52:56):
I just called the Mercedes match on Saturday that she
had when she won title number thirteen. She is now
the APAC Wrestling Women's Champion. That is a Malaysian promotion
and called her main event match against North Phoenix Diana.
And so now here she is and we have This

(53:18):
was not title number fourteen that she was going for.
This was really just to make it official. She already
had the interim title. So if she wins here, it's
not like, oh, she wins number fourteen now she already
has the title. It just she'll be the undisputed champion now.
Title number fourteen is what she's going for on Saturday
at Full Gear. That would be if she beat Chris Statland.

(53:41):
As far as why this match is happening, Red Velvet's
been hurt for many months. She hasn't wrestled since June. Again,
what did we really need an interim ring of honor
Women's Television Champion. We did not. We did not. It
would have been fine for Red Velvet. Just take the
title from her crowned new champion. Let her get the
first shot at it when she comes back. Tony likes

(54:03):
doing interim titles. He's done it many times before. He'll
do it many times in the future, so because of
that we ended up with this match. So the match
spilled out to the floor where Monet shoved Velvet into
Chris Statlander, who was sitting in on commentary, so Statlander
got knocked over. Back in the ring, Velvet tried to

(54:25):
do the Eddie Guerrero spot by tossing one of the
belts to Mercedes and then lying down on the mat wall.
Referee Aubrey Edwards was tied up with Statlander. Edwards questioned Mercedes,
but Velvet rolled her up for a quick two count.
Late in the match, Velvet dodged a corner Meteora and
she dropped Mercedes on her head with a released German.

(54:45):
Velvet applied the octopus hold Mercedes, though countered with a
lung blower. Both women now were fighting up in the
corner and Velvet hits a wheelbarrow victory roll off the ropes,
which was a pretty good spot, got a nice reaction,
did not get a victory for her because the impact

(55:07):
ended up causing both women to be down, so both
women got back up on the ropes this time, though
Mercedes turned it into an avalanche. It was looking like
an avalanche tombstone, but we've seen MJF do that before
off the ropes, but instead it was an avalanche lung blower,
which looked great. And she didn't even really need to
transition into a statement maker or anything like that. She

(55:31):
just covered her and she pinned her because that is
a finish. It looked great. Don't need to win with
anything else but that, And so with that, Mercedes Monette
just went from the interim television champion to the official
Ring of Honor Women's Television Champion. She immediately climbed on

(55:52):
top of the announced desk, held up both belts, the
interim belt the official belt, which is weird because it's
the same championship, but the official belt has a red
strap and her interim title has a black strap. So
she's posing and dancing with them on top of the desk.

(56:13):
Chris Statlander is standing down below looking up at her,
and Mercedes throws the belts at Statlander and then jumps
off the desk with a Meteora takes her down to
the ground, and then she applies the statement maker on
Chris Statlander and the babyface champion begins tapping out and

(56:33):
then Mercedes let's go of the hold and she gets
back up on the desk and she's posing and she's dancing,
and Statlander just because they're going off the air now,
Statlander just pops back up, picks up red velvet, and
carries her to the back like nothing happened. I'm like,
what a weird way to end the show. I mean,
I get they were in Boston and so they wanted

(56:55):
to give Mercedes her little celebration, and she had her
fans there, but the way they did that the closing
minute where Statlander is in the hold and taps out
and then just pops up and picks her up and
carries her off very very strange. I thought the way
that they closed the show here, But what it means
for Full Gear is what I've been saying all along,

(57:16):
which is that Mercedes is going to lose. And there
are still some people who are convinced otherwise, and you
have every right to feel that way based on the
way this run has gone. But I'm telling you, for
the story that they seem to be telling, and the
story that I think they should tell, she has to
lose on Saturday. And I think this was a good sign.
You know, last week in Blood and guts. Statlander put

(57:37):
her down through a table with a simoon drop, and
I said, well, let's see what happens. There's one more
show left, and sure enough, Mercedes got the last laugh
here on this show. She tapped out Chris Statlander and
she won the match, and she's posing with all of
her belts. She's losing. She's losing on Saturday, because that

(57:58):
is the story. The story is that she all of
these championships and the one blemish on her record this
year they said thirty and one. You know who. The
one is Tony Storm that was for the aw Women's
World title in Texas. She lost. Then she's gonna lose
on Saturday, and she will eventually win that championship, but

(58:18):
when she does, she's not gonna have thirteen titles in
her luggage that she's transporting with her to every city.
She'll be beltless at that point, and then it'll be
okay for her to win the championship next year. Now
is not that time. So watching what happened here at
the end of the show only reinforces that prediction in

(58:41):
my mind that Chris Statlander's title is safe, at least
for a little while. Longer I'm fairly confident that the
outcome will be very different at Full Gear this year
than it was at last year's. Full Gear didn't work
out too well for Chris Statlander last year. I think
she'll be fine this weekend. And that was your Dynamite

(59:01):
and Collision combo show. Please don't do these again. I
hate these combo show I really I hate these combo shows.
Let's go through these predictions real quick. I got the
full card here. You guys can chime in with your
own thoughts and predictions. This is the current, hopefully final

(59:21):
Full Gear card. Pre show starts at seven Eastern on Saturday.
Main card kicks off at eight pm Eastern. We have
on the pre show Big Boom aj of the Costco guys.
He's back and he's teaming with QT Marshall against Rocky
Romero and Trentperetta. I'm sure that will be a win
for Big Boom and QT, because Rocky Romero never wins shit.

(59:46):
We have the Acclaimed, We have the Bang Bang Gang,
Big Bill and Brian Keith and the Outrunners. This is
going to be a two hundred thousand dollars tag team match.
Why why not? The Acclaim will win the cash. It
should be the Outrunners, but Tony doesn't do shit with

(01:00:07):
the Outrunners. They never win anything, so I don't see
why they would win here. And just added Okata Takeshta,
Hetchi Sero challenge Sky Team Mascariderata, Mystico and Neon for
the CMLL Trios Championships. I'm gonna go that we have

(01:00:29):
new champions. I think Gokata Takeshta and Hetchisara win the belts.
That's my prediction. Otherwise, if they're gonna lose, then Hetchesaro
is taking the losing fall. But I think they're gonna win.
Then on the main card we have the Casino Gauntlet match.
We know that Bobby Lashley is number one, Shelton Benjamin

(01:00:49):
is number two. We know Ricochet is in, the Gates
of Agony are in, and we know that jet Speed
is in. And I believe that's all we know. A
lot of people may think that rikishe is gonna win
the championship, especially after what happened tonight. For on a bone,
We'll give him something to do. I'm going with Switchblade
Jay White. There's the name you haven't heard in a while.

(01:01:11):
He's been out hurt, he's had a string of bad
luck when you know it comes to injuries. I honestly
don't even know what his status is, but he's been
gone long enough and I feel like he's someone who
could potentially benefit. He could take this new championship and maybe,
you know, help elevate it to a certain level that
is maybe right alongside the TNT title. It gives him,

(01:01:33):
you know, something worthwhile to do upon his return, as
I don't see him immediately being vaulted into the world
title picture, and he shouldn't be. He shouldn't be vaulted
into the world title picture. I hope we get to
see Switchblade back, and if we do, I think he's
gonna win the championship. That's my prediction. Then we have
the million Dollar Match, which we'll have Kenny Omega and

(01:01:57):
the Jurassic Express team of Jack Perry and Lucasaurus taking
on the Young Bucks and Josh Alexander. I originally had
the Heels. I am changing my prediction. I am going
with Omega and Jurassic Express, and I do think that
this leads to a reunion of the Elite. We have

(01:02:18):
the women's tag team four Corners match with all four
teams that remain in the tag team title tournament, So
Tony and Mina, Meghan Baine and Marina Shafir, Willow Nightingaleen Harley,
Cameron Sky Blue, and Julia Hart. The winners get to
choose the stipulation for their next tournament match. I am

(01:02:39):
going to go with Meghan Baine and Marina Shafir for
the win because I think they lose to Tony and Mina.
I still have Tony Amina winning the titles, so at
least here they get a win. They could pick the
stip for their match. That's really up the two matches
that are left in this second round. That's the one

(01:02:59):
that's the bigger of the two matches because this directly
stems from the finish of Blood and Guts last week, right,
and that was that was a blooding guts match and
that was a pretty intense finish there. That really is
the match that should have the stipulation. And I don't
see Tony Amina winning now. I see them winning at
the end. So I'm going with Megan and Marina. They win,

(01:03:21):
they picked the step what the stip is, who the
hell knows. I don't think we should have stipulations at
all in this tournament. I don't like that, but this
is what they've chosen to do. We have Mark Briscoe
and Kyle Fletcher no disqualification for the TNT Championship. This
should be a win for Mark Briscoe. He is not
joining the Kallis family, and we will have a new

(01:03:44):
TNT champion. John Moxley will face Kyle O'Reilly no holds barred.
My head in my heart are telling me two different things.
My head tells me John Moxley, my heart, and what
I would like to see them do is Kyle O'Reilly.

(01:04:05):
I'm gonna go with Kyle. I'm gonna go with what
I think should happen. I think Kyle O'Reilly should win
this match. And then I think in Darby Allen and Pack,
I think Pack should win. I think Boxley loses. I
think Pack wins, and let's progress this death Rider's thing
to that next chapter of the story. Clearly the story

(01:04:26):
is not going to be over for some time. Well,
let's at least progress to whatever this next chapter is
going to be. And I think that's the way you
do it. Kyle wins, Pack wins. We have Brodido against
FTR for the tag team titles. I think we have
new champions in FTR Chris Statlander and Mercedes Monet. For

(01:04:49):
the Women's World Championship, there should absolutely be and I
believe will be a win for Chris Statlander. And then
in the main event, Hangman Adam Page against Samoa Joe
Steel cage for the AW World Championship. You know now
that you mentioned that before in the chat, it would
be interesting if MJF makes his presence felt during the

(01:05:12):
match and is no disqualification because in a cage match
there are no dqs, and it leads to Samoa Joe
winning the championship and Joe gets as he did last time.
It wasn't a very long run. Oh he got a
few months though. I mean Joe won the title at
World's End. He lost it to Swerve at Dynasty, so

(01:05:35):
he had it from the very really the beginning of
the year to early April, or maybe it was late
April late April, so he had a little decent run
out of it if he was to win the championship.
I don't see him having the title nearly as long
this time. But I'm just not sure that they're going
to do that. I'm gonna stick with my original pick.

(01:05:57):
I had Hangman winning. Everything they've done, honestly, even tonight
points to a different outcome. But I'm going to stick
to my guns and say that Hangman retains. We have
MJF make a surprise return postmatch. He can't cash in
his title contract because the rules have changed, so now
you've got to give at least a week's notice. And

(01:06:19):
I think all roads lead to Hangman and MJF at
World's end if I had to make a prediction about
what the main event will be on that show. But
can I see Samoa Joe still being involved in this
and maybe, you know, turning it into a three way. Sure,
but the real issue here is Hangman and MJF. That's
what they have to circle back to, you know, that's

(01:06:39):
the match to do. So I got Hangman retaining here.
So that is the full gear card, barring any additional
matches that are added on social media in the next
few days, which, by the way, there very well could be.
I don't think so though. I mean, the the pre show,
I'm pretty sure is only an hour, you know, sometimes

(01:06:59):
it's two hours, hours or ninety minutes. It's a seven
o'clock start time, so you only have an hour. They
already have three matches, so I'm pretty sure we've got
the card lockdown at this point. Be aware that I
will not be here on Friday for the SmackDown review.
I will be in Chicago. Will be in Chicago because

(01:07:21):
House of Glory. We have a sold out show at
Logan Square Auditorium. And as you see here on the poster,
that's just some of the action that we've got. Pretty
good card. I gotta tell you, first time ever, amazing
Red and Tyler Breese. Very happy to be bringing Tyler
Breese in. Got to get the full entrance. Charles Mason

(01:07:44):
defends the hog World Championship against Cedric Alexander. We got
the rascals going to be in action against main events.
Zillafa two is back. Who will he be wrestling. We'll
see Moustafa Ali against Marcus Mathers. Indie hartw Well defends
her title again, Shotzi and more. So there's no tickets left,
but you can watch on Triller TV plus. Guess who's

(01:08:07):
going to be on the call. This guy right here,
I'll be calling the actions. So if you're not watching SmackDown,
and many of you have already checked out of SmackDown,
then go ahead and check out. Our return to the
Windy City should be a lot of fun. I'm looking
forward to it. Samoa Joe crashing out is really funny,
says Dried Chicken and Turkey. Joe is the best part

(01:08:31):
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the better retirement tour currently, Hiroshi Tanahashi or John Cena, Well,
I mean it's just two totally different tours. I mean,
Sena's obviously got more eyeballs on what he's doing, and
he's had bigger matches. You know, you had a couple
of matches with Cody, you had a rematch with Punk
and Orton along the way AJ So his retirement tour

(01:11:03):
has been more prolific. I can name off better matches
that I have personally have watched from seen as retirement tour.
A lot of the matches that Tanahashi has had, I
mean there's been like a lot of tags. He's been
more active than Sina. So again, it's it's really just
two totally different tours. Like Sena has a limited number

(01:11:24):
of dates, Tanahashi's been you know, he's been working all
year and working with younger guys, working with older guys,
So I haven't really seen too much of Tanahashi's tour.
It's unfair for me to judge honestly, doesn't change the

(01:11:44):
fact that so much of what they did with Sina
early on was a fucking botch. Also, I not as
WWE doesn't counter program AW shows anymore. Is there a
reason why? What are you talking about? They just did
in September. I mean, they're not gonna do it every month,
but they're absolutely still doing it and they will continue

(01:12:06):
doing it into next year. We just had Wrestle Palooza.
That's why All Out got moved in September. It wasn't
that long ago, dude, it was well now it's officially
November twentieth, it was literally two months ago. Believe me,
they're still counter programming aw mactub. Why isn't rock It

(01:12:33):
guaranteed Rushmore Guy biggest ratings, attendance, pay per view draw
goat Mike Austin because he just wasn't he dude, He
wasn't as big. He might be bigger now, but like
at the peak, Austin just hit different and without Austin
getting hot when he did in the way that he did,
they don't have the successes that they had. It really

(01:12:56):
hinged on him and the whole Austin mcmanonthing getting over.
So Austin is in that rarefied air, so was Hogan.
People would have said the same thing I think about Savage, Dude,
Oh welcome, Hogan gets all the praise, what about Savage?
Savage is great, Rock is great, But Hogan was the guy.

(01:13:17):
Austin was the guy. They they transcended at just the
right time, and everything else flowed from that. Rock's not
on my Mott Rushmore. He could be on yours. He's
not on mine. He's not on a lot of people's. Uh.
Sena versus Brian White, t J, Triple H better overall

(01:13:40):
for you, better overall of Sena, Sina White two Jay.
I wasn't really a fan of that for me personally,
Brian just a much better match. Yeah. Sena against Triple
H never never did anything for me. I was never
a fan of their matches, their feud eh boring. If

(01:14:05):
I had to rank them, I'd go Brian, then y
two J, then Triple H. Dude here seventy three says
this was more a go to sleep show than a
go home show. I agree. I was struggling to keep
up with things. Midway through. I was I was pretty

(01:14:26):
well done with this show, says, and I'm trying to
understand what the point of Blood and Guts was. They're
running back a lot of the same feud Saturday with
more stipulations. Yeah, it's just it's very dumb. It's just
it's very stupid. Hey, guys, Maven here with a five

(01:14:47):
dollars super chat. Eddie botches a spinning backfisted all out
on September twentieth. Mina botches a spinning backfist today, November nineteenth.
Maybe we get a third botched backfist that dynamite on
January twenty first. Well, I'm going to leave that up

(01:15:07):
to you. Mark that date down, and when we get
to that show, let's see what happens. Maybe we'll get
another one. Baby and Garcia Kyle versus Max should be
a thirty minute ultimate submission. Oh no, no, it should not. No,

(01:15:28):
I don't want to see that. There is no there's
no reason for Maxley and Kyle to go thirty minutes.
This is another problem with these aw shows. It's you know,
they give you a lot of matches, but there are
matches in the middle of this card that go way
longer than they need to. The The Brisco and Kyle

(01:15:48):
Fletcher match at Wrestle Dream twenty five minutes for that match?
Why just to have a second one. I don't want
to see Moxley in a thirty minute anything. I mean Moxley.
Moxley can be great, you know, with the right opponent
and everything, But Moxley and Kyle in a thirty minute

(01:16:10):
match on this show with ten or eleven other matches
absolutely not Arabian Night. Do they not know how to
sell big moves and finishers in aaw shaking my head,
nothing matters. I guess they all watched PWG growing up.
They did. Actually, many of them competed in PWG. I

(01:16:37):
believe Daniel Garcia was the last PWG champion still is
so Statlander getting up ten seconds later was dumb? Yeah,
the Statlander stuff at the end was very weird, the
way that all transpired. Boss Toys, are we used to
Pack looking that way? Yet? Because I'm not also nice

(01:17:01):
to see Samoa Joe continue to intimidate Tony Shavani just
by existing. Yeah, Pack, I'm still getting over this new look.
It's the hair, Alex says, brother solo. How in the
world did Diesel and Sean main event over Elt and Bambam.
What was Vince thinking behind that decision? Also, what did

(01:17:23):
you think of the Diesel and Shawn Michael's match. I'm
not really a big fan of that match. It's not
a bad match, but I don't like it nearly as
much as they are good friends better enemies match. And
the reason why lte main event of the show is
because they've always been I mean, they've always been starfuckers

(01:17:43):
in this company, you know. And if they got a
celebrity to come in to do a match back then,
they were paying him. I think they paid him about
half a million dollars for that match. They were gonna
get their money's worth. They were putting him in that
main event. They had all the other NFL guys out there,
all the celebrities they brought in, paid a lot of

(01:18:04):
money to get him to do that match, So it
was always going to be the main event. And Big
Hoss ranked these six wrestlers futures and potential bron Breaker
Dom Jacob fought to ol Befemi, Trick Williams, and Javon Evans. Also,

(01:18:25):
I need Athena in WWE and on SmackDown. She would
be a tremendous addition to SmackDown. But she's not going nowhere.
I have said. I just said this on TNT last night.
I said it on my platform. This company needs to
build around five guys. If we're looking at the guys

(01:18:45):
right now, and I think they will five guys as
their future and in no particular order, it's Dom bron Breaker,
Jacob Fatu, Oba Femi, and Javon Evans. Just like in

(01:19:06):
those five guys alone, they could help carry this company
for years to come. Me and never know how things
are gonna go. Injuries and you know, things like that.
Shit happens, things don't pan out. But as of right now,
like I look at if I had it, like, look
at what's that nucleus of guys. Those are the five

(01:19:27):
guys right there. I don't like ranking them because no
one knows, like which one of them is going to
hit it big. It could be dumb for all we know.
You know, he's he's already got five years of being
established on TV. You know, just looking at these guys
right now, they all have great potential to be top

(01:19:49):
guys in the company. I think Oba may have the greatest.
I might have to put Oba first honestly, you know,
and then maybe fought to and then Breaker and then
dom and then trick. I don't know. I hate ranking

(01:20:10):
them because we just don't know where they're gonna end up.
But they're in good hands as long as they know
what they're doing with them, you know, and they utilize
them and book them properly. The talent is there. You
can't say, oh my god, where are we going to
find the future. The future is right there, you know.
The future is now. Future is staring you right in
the face. Doctor Scorpio. Aw needs Michael Myers in blood

(01:20:39):
and guts at this rate. I mean, they set people
on fire, they attempted murder, and yes, I watched the movies.
I enjoyed them. Well, i'll tell you what, man, If
you would have just come into Dynamite tonight and I
had no idea that last week was blood and guts,
I never would have known. If Pac didn't mention Darby

(01:21:00):
being set on fire, I never would have known. You're
gonna do that level of brutality and violence. You got
you gotta wear those wounds of war. The closest thing
was sky Blue and her backstage promo. If you're really
squinted and you looked hard, you could kind of see

(01:21:21):
a little scar along the hairline. But that was it
pretty much. Oh what a way, what a waste that
opportunity to really sell the brutality of blood and guts.
But this feels like nothing matters anyway. Full Gear is
on Saturday, so we'll talk about that, I'm sure on

(01:21:44):
the podcast. I have a lot to say on the
podcast this weekend. Hey Duff's VIDs with A four ninety nine.
Hey Solo, what are your top three or five Survivor
series pay per views? I want to watch one one
or so before Survivor Series twenty twenty five. Well, then
you're in luck because on the WWE Vault channel they

(01:22:06):
just uploaded one the other day, Survivor Series eighty nine.
Uh and that was literally what two three days ago?
I think they streamed that one. Go check that one out.
It's on their channel right now. Survivor Series eighty nine
is probably one of them. For me. I really enjoyed ninety,

(01:22:28):
which had that ultimate Survivor's match at the end, which
they never did again. Two thousand and two is a
pretty good one. M God. You know, for me personally,
I may go eighty nine, ninety I like ninety five.

(01:22:56):
Ninety six. Ninety six had Sewn and Sid in the
main event, which was Sid's best match, the first Brett
Hart Steve Austin match, which is a classic. They had
Rock's debut on that show, you know, as far as
historical significance goes. But I think just for Sean and
Sid and Breton Breton Austin alone, ninety six has to

(01:23:20):
be up there. Yeah, ninety five is underrated. I like
ninety five, but yeah, if you're looking for one to
go check out, the easiest one that you're going to
be able to grab is on their Vault channel. Go
check out eighty nine. Always love the team names back then,
the Hulkmedias and the Million Dollar Team, the Vipers and

(01:23:42):
the Visionaries. Vince doing all the intros really made it
feel special, you know, really got you pumped up at
the beginning of the show. I think one of the
things that I really can't stand about the weekly shows
now on TV is how just they all blend together.

(01:24:04):
There's nothing like when they come on the air. There's
nothing to really get you excited, Like Raw comes on
the air. There's no proper intro anymore. They did away
with the intro. There's no more intro from Monday Night Raw.
There's no intro video. They don't come into the arena
the pyro's going off and everything to really get your
blood pumping. You know, they have fucking Travis Scott singing

(01:24:25):
the raw things. So they come on the air. Here's
who's coming in with their coffee at three o'clock in
the afternoon, walking pretending to have a conversation with the
person next to them. Like, how fucking lazy are they
with these shows? Man? What happened? What happened to the
weekly shows? Man? When the show comes on the air,

(01:24:46):
they get you excited. It's missing one of the many
things that is missing from these weekly shows. All right,
I'll see you guys in Chicago and back here on Monday.
Until then, take care,

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