AEW Dynamite 12/10/25 Review | WINTER IS COMING As Samoa Joe Defends Against Eddie Kingston! - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This was the Winter is Coming edition of AEW Dynamite.
We get it every year and Winter was a pretty
solid show overall, with the main event of Samoa Joe
defending the AW World Championship against Eddie Kingston. I like
Eddie Kingston. Eddie Kingston has not been back for very long.
It's only been a few months, but this was the

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biggest match since Kingston came back from the injury layoff
and he challenged Tomojo for the title. I didn't come
into this show with any expectation he was actually going
to walk out with the championship, which he did not do.
But what we got between them maybe the most surprising
part about the match isn't even so much anything they
did in the match. The match pretty much was exactly

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what I thought it would be. But Samoa Joe retains
the AW World Championship fair and square and he gets
Eddie Kingston to tap out. We may have gotten a
preview of Saturday Night's main event today with John Cena
and Gunther Hook got ejected from the match very early on.
We didn't see the ops for the rest of the match.

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There was no cheating, there was no nefarious tactics and
now it's on to world's end where it looks like
we are heading for yet another match between Joe and
Hangman for the AW World Championship, which it seemed that
way coming into the show, And that was the most
surprising part to me. I was, I would say, pleasantly
surprised that we didn't get the usual round of interference.

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It was kind of refreshing, but it also made for
kind of a flat ending to the show. Taps out Eddie,
who everybody loves, or at least in the crowds that
I everybody loved, and then the show just ended, So
a little bit of a flat ending there. But the
show I think opened and ended in the same way
where we had a solid opener and we had a
solid closer. The opening match was for the AW Women's

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World Tag Team titles. We've had this tournament going on
now for many many weeks. We now officially have new
AW Women's Tag Team champions. It is the Babes of Wrath,
Willow Night, Gale, Harley Cameron. Yes, Harley Cameron now has
a championship for the first time here in AW. But
it was what was in the middle of the show

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that made this show stand out because we had two
matches in the Continental Classic tonight, both in the Gold League,
and there was a match tonight between Kyle Fletcher and
Speedball Mike Bailey. Speedball Mike Bailey came into this show
in no points, Kyle Fletcher was at the top of
the leaderboard. These two went out there for roughly twenty

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minutes and tore the house down. Had a great fucking match,
easily the best match of the tournament so far, with
Speedball pulling off the upset and getting a win that
even he was shocked by. But it was just an
excellent back and forth match, the kind of match where

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nobody really loses. I mean, Kyle Fletcher lost, and yeah,
that'll be part of his story now going forward, how
shocked he was, But nobody really loses in a match
like this. Speedball looked great. Letcher goes into twenty twenty
six now as big of a year as he had.
Twenty twenty six should be even bigger for him if
they play their cards right. And this is the kind
of thing that you know, I look forward to when

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we have this tournament roll around this time of year.
I know it's not everyone's thing, and they some people
tune out when the Continental Classic comes around, just like
they would, you know, when we were getting a lot
of the interpromotional stuff going into Forbidden Door. You know,
maybe they're not really a fan of it. But for me,
I look for these types of matches, you know, in

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this tournament, and to me, this was the first one
they really stood at as wow, Okay, this is what
the Continental Classic is all about. So that really made
the show for me. The rest of the show was
just kind of there. It wasn't bad, it wasn't great,
but the opener, the closer, and then that match in
the middle is what really made the show for me.
Tonight again we'll get into what happened in the other

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Gold League match. One thing I am not a fan of.
We are heading for this next week three hours of
Dynamite and Collision next week. But on the show next week,
we are getting now, stop me if you've heard this before,
we are getting a million dollar trios match involving Kenny
Omega and the Young Bucks against the Don Kallis family. No,

(04:20):
you are not imagining things. You are not You are
not having a case of deja vu. This is reality.
Here is what this actually I guess you are having DejaVu.
But that's what we're getting on the show next week.
We're going right back to this shit all over again,
another million dollar trios match with a lot of the
same faces that we saw the first time. So that's

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what you have to look forward to on the Holiday
Bash episode next week. Uh but I'm getting oh, hold
on a SECD, I'm getting word. Hold on, I'm getting
word in my ear. I'm getting some breaking news here.
I can't believe this, but ladies and gentlemen, I'm being
told that mister Met has a fit signed with the
LA Dodgers. Mister Met, this this has been a terrible

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week for the New York Mets. And I'm not really
surprised by this. I'm really not. I mean, I was
already halfway deep in the bottle earlier this evening. Mister
Met is now officially a Dodger. So I wanted to
break in with that bit of news here. Kind of appropriate,
I think, as a way to close out this Wednesday.

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Look at him in those colors, this is this is sacrilegious.
I never liked this guy. I never trusted him. I knew.
I knew one day that something like this would happen, Prick,
It's been one of those days. This is your Winter
Is Coming Dynamite review. It is Wednesday, December tenth, twenty

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twenty five. I'm a very sad solemn monster, but we
must soldier on here like and subscribe. Super chats are open.
Oh man, I got to turn this frown upside down here.
We got to find a way to turn this frown
upside down. We'll try to do that here as best
we can. Start from the beginning of the show. Here.

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They opened Winter Is Coming with the finals so the
AW Women's Tag Team Championship Tournament with Willow Nightingale and
Harley Cameron, the Babes of Wrath taking on Tony Storm
and Mina Shirakawa the Timeless Love Bombs. After last week's

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Holiday deathmatch. They had that hardcore holiday death match last week,
ex Caliber questioned if the Love Bombs were going to
be one hundred percent here going into this match here tonight,
Willow and Harley, they maintained the advantage. During an early
commercial break, Tony and Mina they started their comeback after
the show came back. Just in the nick of time,

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Mina wrenched on Harley's knee before applying a figure four,
and Harley reversed the pressure, and then both Tony and
Willow got involved. Willow placed Tony in an Indian deathlock,
and eventually Mina and Willow they released their respective holds.
Mina managed a DDT'ed it Harley, and then Tony hit
Storm zero, so Willow was forced to break up the

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pen at the last second. Then they ended up out
on the floor. Tony Storm went for a tornado DDT
off the apron and Willow stuffed the attempt and ended
up dropping her with a souplex on the floor. And
so as we headed into the finish here that left
Mina and Harley alone in the ring. Mina delivered a
spinning backfist. She went for the glorious driver Harley, though

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countered onto her fee, she basically went up and over
landed on her feet and delivered a reverse neck breaker,
or as Tony Shavanni called it, because this is what
Harley Cameron calls it, her finishing move, and that is
indeed her finishing move. So at that point she made
a desperate tag to Willow, who entered and delivered a

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doctor bomb, and that's all it took. Mina Sheri Kawa
takes the losing fall, and just like that, the Babes
of Wrath are your very first mark it down. This
is a historic moment. Here Willow Nightingale at Harley Camra
are the brand new AW women's tag team. Chandy Barry

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is being you know, he's being as smart ass. In
the chat he says, Solomons are dressed for dressed for
a beach bash, but winter is coming. Hey, very warm
in here. Get the thermostat up. What do you want
me to do? I'm not gonna be sweating my balls
off if I wear my sweater here during the stream

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it is chilly though on the stream you see the
snowfall that the icicles forming here on top of You know,
you got it. Look if you're gonna do a theme show, okay,
like winter is cut. You know. One of the things
I'm pretty good at here on these streams is leaning
into these themes. Okay. When we had the beach break
episode of Dynamite, do you remember how we open that up?
You could hear the seagulls in the background. I had

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my aw tank top bond, I got my towel around
my neck. I was ready to hit the beach. So
I for winter is coming. I mean the aesthetic has
to fit, can't just be any old stream. But yes, yeah,
I still I am dressed for I'm dressed. I don't
know if I'm dressed for a frat party or for
beach bash. But nevertheless, we have new Tag Team Champions.

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And after the match was over, Renee got in the
ring she interviewed the new champions. Willow said that it
was a tough year for her, not knowing who she
could trust. Harley said that she had her second ever
match with Willow, it was incredibly honored to be her partner.
Tony and Mina then got back up, so we had
a little bit of a tense moment because we didn't
know what they were going to do, but they ended

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up sharing hugs and handshakes and then they shot off
some pyro over by the stage. And it is true,
Harley Cameron in her very it was her second ever match,
but her very first AW match three years ago on
Dark wrestled Willow Nightingale and now Willow is her Tag
Team Championship partner. So a lot has happened in three

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years for Harley Cameron. I thought it was a solid opener.
I was expecting a little bit more, just given who
was involved here and also the fact that it was
the finals. So I don't know. I think I was
just expecting more out of this match. As it was.
I thought it was solid. I thought it was fine.
Tony and Mina were my pick to win the tournament.
I stuck with them. I said last week that this

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could go either way, and I would not mind either outcome.
You know, you have two baby Face teams here. The
crowd was pretty evenly behind both of them, you know,
going back and forth. My mindset on this was Tony
and Mina have lost their respective titles, right, they have nothing,
They have nothing but each other. I would put the

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belts on a team where, you know, you have Tony Storm,
who is one of, if not the biggest star in
that entire division and one of the biggest stars in
the entire company. So you establish the titles by putting
them on Tony and Mina for a little bit and
they don't have to have them for too long, and
then you transition those titles over to a team like

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Willow and Harley or maybe a Healed team. Maybe you
know the members of the Triangle of madness or something
and let maybe Willow and Harley chase for a little
bit before they ultimately win the belts. They went a
different way with it, and you know what, that's fine.
The only thing that matters now is that, Okay, the
tournament is over. The novelty now has worn off. We

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now have women's tag team champions for the first time.
What are you going to do with them now? Right?
That's the question. When there's no tournament which guarantees a
certain number of matches every week, Now, where do you
go with Willow and Harley? Where do you go with
these women's tag team titles? Because they clearly have other
women's teams, but you now have to, you know, build

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stories at around them and start building up whoever the
next set of challengers are going to be. That's going
to be the key here. Otherwise this was just a
pointless exercise. So hopefully they'll have that story ready to go.
But congratulations to Willow and Harley. Very likable, fans love him.

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Harley has worked hard to try to improve, so we'll
see where they go with this. The ops were backstage
with Samoa Joe congratulating Eddie Kingston for his time finally
coming tonight. You wanted the real Samoa Joe, the crusader
of the Independence, not realizing that that man has been

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standing in front of you all along. The man that
Eddie looked up to was a wonderful idea. But the
one who will kick his ass tonight is the man
who will show him the reality of what this industry
really is. Elsewhere backstage, John Moxley said that it was
his back against against the wall in this Continental Classic.

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He said that what he has proven over and over
again is that no matter how much sand is left
in the hour glass, he can still score. So go
ahead and count him out. And he called them the
hungriest group of men in wrestling today at being the
Death Riders. Daniel Garcia chimed in. He said that they
wake up every day and they choose to win. That's

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what he said. I mean, maybe the other members do,
but it's hard for me to really make a list of,
you know, recent notable wins that Daniel Garcia has had,
So maybe he's referring to the rest of the Death Riders,
not so much him and Wheeler Yuda, but maybe Claudio
and Pac who of course beat Darby Allen at full
gear John Moxley, who's lost a lot of matches this year,

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but he's certainly won more than Daniel Garcia has, so
perhaps that's who he was referring to, but he said,
that's why they are the hungriest and most dangerous group
of men in wrestling. To day. We had our first
of two Gold League matches tonight in the Continental Classic,

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not even the best of the two. Still a good match,
but this was not even the best that we got
tonight with Jack Perry, who was replacing the injured Darby Allen,
who says he feels great, but he understands that aw
is kind of protecting him from himself, so he's cool
with it. He'll come back when they say it's okay
for him to come back. But in his place they

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substituted Jack Perry. This was Jack Perry's first singles match
in over a year because he missed a lot of
time and then when he came back he was doing
the tag things. So first singles match for this guy
in forever, and it comes against Kazuchka Okada of all people.
Perry sent Okada to the floor right away, and then

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he threw him into the barricade and then into the
ring steps. Okata reversed an Irish whip. He sent Perry
into the barricade, but he recovered with a drop kick.
Back in the ring, Perry landed a diving elbow from
the top. Okatta took the action, though back to the outside.
He threw Perry hard into the barricade, hard enough that
he went flying over the barricade and into the audience.

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Later on, Perry landed a desperation lariot. He followed up
with a German suit plex. It was an awkward transition
in the corner. Okata responded with an elbow from the
top and then he flashed the middle finger to the
crowd delivered a big dropkick. Perry fired back with a
running knee strike a moment later for a close near fall,
so he went for the snare trot, which is the

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submission hold he's used. Okata, though, broke the hole by
biting Perry's hand, which actually is not the only time
tonight that somebody has been bitten on this show. We
actually had three different biting incidents on this show. Two
in this match alone. Okata went for a tombstone pile
driver case in point he went for a tombstone pile driver.

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Jack Perry is hanging upside down sixty nine and he
bites Okada on the dick, and Okada, of course screams
in horror and he drops Jack Perry. Well, I mean, look,
he found a way to escape. That's one way to
escape the tombstone. Maybe the Undertaker's streak would not have

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gone on for as long as it did if somebody
would have thought about this years ago, and they could
have countered out of the tombstone and much the same
way that Jack Perry did tonight, maybe the streak wouldn't
have been a thing. I don't know why nobody thought
of that before. Perry then got the snare trap applied,
and Okada was teasing. He was teasing that he was

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going to tap out here, a hand started coming down,
then it would come up, Then the hand would go down,
then the hand would come up. Finally he got to
the ropes. He fled the ring. He went to go
grab a chair. Perry, though, stopped him back in the ring.
Okada landed a lariot and then held on to maintain
risk control. Perry escaped and went for another running knee strike,

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but Okada avoided it and he delivered one rain maker
for the win, and that's all she wrote. Yes, little
Okada is sore after that, says Barry, Poor Okada. A
good match here, But they are really pushing this narrative

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that you know, Okada is the greatest tournament wrestler ever.
He's the greatest tournament wrestler of all time. And we
know that he's not going to be taking many more
losses outside of the opening match that he had where
he lost to Kyle Fletcher, and maybe in the finals
if hopefully it comes down to him and Takeshta and
they don't drag it out for even longer. And then

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you also keep in mind that Jack Perry was not
even originally in this tournament. He's substituting for someone else.
You take all of those things together that I just said,
and the outcome here was never in doubt. So, I mean,
Ocatta did a good job of teasing that he might
out in the snare trap, but let's be honest, nobody
really expected any other outcome except the one that we

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had here. So there wasn't exactly a lot of drama
here after the match. Don Caallus, who was just inexplicably
still allowed at ringside on commentary for these matches where
he really should not be. But he got up from commentary,
he gets into the ring and brings more members of
the Callous family down to the ring. I don't know
how many of them were there tonight, of the thirty

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eight members of this family, but there were a bunch
of them that he ushered down to ringside. Rocky Romero
was one of them. He had the Duffel bags full
of money that they stole from the Bucks back at
full gear, the million dollars. Callous tried to convince Perry
that he, being callous, made a bad choice by offering
the young Bucks the money and he should have given

(18:48):
it to Jack instead. He said, Perry lacks focus and
a team of athletes around him. And he offered him
a spot in the Don Callous family. Let's expand this
family even more. We will welcome you with open arms
and you can join the family. And he also offered
him a signing bonus with money out of the million
dollars from the duffelbacks. But he demanded an answer right away.

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He reminded him that he was out numbered. Callus said,
if you don't answer. I'm going to go ahead and
I'm gonna cut your strings and put you in a chair.
Perry said that he had an answer for him. He
wasn't gonna make him wait. I got an answer for you.
He goes, and for the second time tonight, I'm gonna
be biting off more than I can chew. And I'm like, God,

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that's like it. That's like one of those terrible Cidrow jokes.
Think about what he just said there, I'm gonna be
biting off more than I can chew. I mean, ocotta
should be happy, I guess, But what a fucking thing
to say here. So then of course he starts attacking them,
but he's out numbered. He's out numbered by like eight

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to one, so that didn't go too well for him.
Out comes Lucisaurus and he runs out to the ring.
I use the word run very loosely. He wasn't. He
wasn't running very well. But when he gets to the ring,
instead of getting into the ring, he stops. He hesitates.

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It's like he's serving the landscape. Meanwhile, his partner is
down on the map being beaten by these men, and
you could even see Jack Perry looks up like he's
looking at Lucasaurus, like, all right, dude, what's going on here?
In reality, what happened is the Young Bucks. I think
the Young Bucks were like five seconds late. But the

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Young Bucks ambush the Callus family with chairs from behind,
but they had not yet hit the ring, so it
looked very weird that Lucasaurus. At first, I'm like, wait
a minute, is he's joining the fucking family? Is he
just gonna like stop and then let this Let this
guy get his ass kicked. But he was waiting for
the Bucks to get in. So the Bucks get in
the ring and they're attacking with the chairs and they

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work them over for a little bit. Then they got
Ocatta down on his knees for a BTE trigger. They
grabbed the Duffel bag from Don Kallus, and Kenoski Takeshtet,
who was in the ring, ended up taking a bullet
for Callous. He dove in the way to eat a superkick,
and then the Bucks stood tall with Jurassic Express and

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the money. They have the money back now the Callous
family stuff with the money. I mean, I just feel
like I've seen so many segments like this in recent weeks.
It's like Rinse repeat with this shit. It didn't I mean,
this didn't do anything for me. The match, like I said,
the match was good. The postmatch stuff I could have
done without, but they had to do it because it

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was setting up a match for next week, which we
will get to in a little bit, but first we
had a video package for Mercedes Monette. Mercedes did not
succeed in her quest to win number fourteen at full gear.
She lost for stat Lander, and then she lost her

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first Indie championship. Actually, I guess, well, I still look
at Ring of Honor as an Indy. I guess it's not.
When it's owned by a billionaire, you can't really say
it's an indy. See, I'm from like the old days
of when Ring of Honor was like the pre eminent
indie in the mid two thousands. It's not like that anymore.

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But she did lose a championship. She lost the Ring
of Honor television title a final battle to Red Velvet,
so the downfall has begun. Although she defended her TBS
title on Collision against Laylah Gray and she won, but
clearly she is now on the descent. So the question
is like, as they end the segment like what's next

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for Mercedes and what I talked about on the podcast
on Sunday, I threw a name out there, and right
now she's out, she's hurt, but when she's healthy again,
hopefully she'll be back soon and she's not going to
be out for an extended period of Timequeen am Nada
no Queen amy Nada is someone who kind of came
out of nowhere. Know too much about her background, but

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I started, you know, seeing her popping up on aw
television and obviously she's not a name I would have
known from WWE or anything like that. And then she
had those matches with Tecla, and I mean those women were,
you know, beaten the hell out of each other and
it was pretty good stuff. Am Nada has broken out
in a way, not fully hopefully for her, twenty twenty

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six will be that year, but she's broken out in
that I think a lot more people are aware of
her and aware of what she brings to the table.
I could see her as someone who really would benefit
from taking that TBS championship, being the woman who beat
Mercedes for at number one and number two getting a
run with it because Honestly, that's what the TVs title
should be for. Right You've already taken five hundred and

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seventy some odd days to establish this championship under Mercedes
has I guess something special, although honestly it it's kind
of been held hostage now for too long. But now
get that belt on somebody who can really benefit from it.
And I just think she would be someone who would
benefit from it. And if you know, after that you
want to transition it to Tekla or someone like that,

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that's fine, But I just throw that name out there
because I think she would be a good candidate. I
look at like Jamie Hater. Jamie Hater should be groomed
for the World Championship. Jamie Hater should be getting prepped
and ready for a program with fucking Chris Statlander, not
the TBS title. Eddie Kingston was backstage with Renee Piquette,

(24:33):
said that he is nervous about tonight, which is good,
keeps you on your toes. He brought up today being
the fiftieth anniversary of Terry Funk winning the World Championship.
I assume he means for the first time, and he
hopes that he can make Terry prout. He hopes he
can make his parents proud. He says, oh, man, I
can't get emotional. He said that he doesn't know how

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many shots he's going to get. Tell Samo with Joe
that he's going to have to put him down because
there's no way he he's going to quit. Well, he's
just a liar, isn't he. I don't know. Makes you
wonder now about John Cena this weekend. John Sene has
been going around for twenty years saying never give up,
never give up. Now I'm seeing these rumors that he's

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going to open the show on Saturday, which is complete
bullshit and pretty much foreshadows the finish of that match.
If that's the case. I don't know. You got a
lot of people saying I'll never quit, I'll never quit,
and then they turn around and they quit. Tony Shavanni
was in the ring introduced the new TNT champion, Mark

(25:37):
brisco down to the ring and brisco said that not
long ago, certain individuals said that he would never win gold,
he would never win the big one, but look at
the shiny hardware he has Now. The doubters are still
out there, but respectfully, Briscoe says they can kiss his
big white ass, and that started a chance of big

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white ass from the crowd. How long before they put
that on a T shirt? Who would walk around wearing
a shirt like that, by the way, I mean, there
are wrestling fans who would wear it. I'm sure many
years ago the APA had a shirt that on the
back said always pounding Ass, and there were people who

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bought that shirt. There were probably teenagers who wore that
shirt to school. Imagine you're walking around your school with
a shirt that on the back says always pounding ass.
That was the attitude era. That was the attitude era
for you. It wasn't all great anyway. He got cut

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off here by a whiny little voice that was detached
from a body. We could hear the voice, we couldn't
see who it was at first, and actually on commentary,
I think it might have been Tony Shavanni who said
that mentioned that he heard like a whiny voice, and
I'm listening, I thought it was Ricochet. He say, wany voice?
I think Ricochet. It wasn't Ricochet. Ricochet was not on

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this show. But it was Wheeler Da, Daniel Garcia and
Marina Shaffir coming through the crowd on their way to
the ring, and Garcia took the mic from a Utah
since he's the one challenging Mark Briscoe for the TNT
title this weekend. On Collision, he said he feels bad
for Briscoe as everything about him is sad. Garcia said

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that it'll be even sadder when Briscoe has to try
to provide for his family without the TNT title and
a broken leg. Brisco said Garcia is getting an ass
kicking on Saturday, but it would be rude to deprive
the crowd tonight of one as well, and he told
Garcia to make his move. Garcia started slapping and face

(27:47):
washing him, so Briscoe dropped Garcia, who had to then
be restrained by Wheeler Youda and Marina Shaffir and they
took him out of the ring. That was it. That
was the entire segment. This was a very lame to
an otherwise very ho hum, very pedestrian segment. They wanted
to get Mark Burscow on the show to say a
few words to hype up the title match for Saturday.

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This didn't do anything for me, But then next Caliber said,
wait a minute, there's a situation developing backstage, and they
cut backstage we see Tecla and Julia Hart and sky Blue.
They are beating up some random women who I could
not identify until Chris Statlander made the save hit sky
Blue and Julia with a chair. Tekla, though was able

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to dodge the shot and she bailed and that was it.
That was the only appearance by the Women's World champion
here on this show tonight. Then we had a Tornado
tag team match, a rare tag team of Hangman, Adam
Page and Swerve Strickland taking on the Ops Powerhouse, Hobbs, Kattiori, Shabata,

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Hangman and Swerve. They entered through the crowd. They had
chains around their necks. Swerve had a staple gun. Shabata
then ordered the random Ops dojo geeks who came down
to the ring with them, to go into the crowd
and attack, so they all went into the crowd. They
all got destroyed by Hangman and Swerve with the chains

(29:19):
and the staple gun. Shabata then got into the crowd.
He got a hold of the staple gun somehow, but
then he accidentally stapled one of the dojo dorks right
in the forehead and we got a split screen because
there was chaos in different parts of the arena. You
had Hangman over here, you had Swerve over there, and
the match was not officially underway. The bell had not rung,

(29:40):
they had not hit the ring yet. Page put Hobs
through a table with a death Valley driver before having
a beer drinking on the job, a terrible influence shabata. Meanwhile,
play Strickland, sitting on a chair, got a running head
start and then hit him with a running drop kick.
I'm not even a drop kick, hid him with a
running kick, and booted him off the chair. As the

(30:04):
brawl went to commercial, they came back from the break
and the bell finally rings, Like seven or eight minutes
had already gone by now the match can offficiate. It's
like fucking wargames right now. The match can begin. Now,
the match beyond has begun. The referee took the chair
though away from Hangman. I'm like, wait a minute, so

(30:24):
Tornado tag team match, what are you taking the chair
away from him for? And then on commentary X Caliber
mentions that despite this being a Tornado tag team match,
disqualifications do count, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, because
we've seen Tornado tag team matches on this show that
are frequently, if not always, a no disqualification. So, for

(30:48):
whatever reason, unless he misspoke, which clearly he didn't because
the referee took the weapon away, this Tornado tag team
match is in fact not a no disqualification match for
reasons that are very bizarre. But it'll be even more
bizarre here in a minute. So Shabata and Hobbs they
worked over Hangman. Strickland was nowhere to be found Prince Nana,

(31:08):
whose job it is to dance. He jumped up on
the apron and was about to get beaten up by
Powerhouse Hobbs until Swerve flew into the camera shot out
of nowhere on the apron with a big boot. Later on,
Strickland wanted a house call kick he got pulled outside
though by Hobbs. Page missed the buckshot. Larryet on Shabata,
who got a low blow after Hobbs distracted the referee.

(31:30):
And this is where Tony Shavanni said, well, anything goes,
and like, what what do you mean anything goes? We
just had ex Caliber on commentary say that there are
disqualifications in this match. Now we have Tony Shavani saying, well,
anything goes in a match like like, these people don't

(31:50):
know what they're doing. They don't one hand doesn't know
what the other hand is doing. It was comical, ridiculous.
They have absolutely no idea what they're doing. With Shabbata
applying a cross arm breaker on Page, Strickland flew off
the top with a swerve stomp to break it. Now
all four men are slugging it out until Strickland and

(32:13):
Page they sidestepped Hobbs, who mowed down Shabata double rolling
elbows from the baby faces as they hit a fallaway
slam four fifty splash combo before Strickland nailed a rolling
cutter on Hobbs and then left. That left Strickland and
Page face to face. They had a little stare down.
Hobbs got double power bombed. He got double teamed from

(32:36):
he was on the apron, so basically they just grabbed
him in a power bomb position like the shield power bomb,
and they put him through a table at ringside that
was for whatever reason, right in front of the announced desk,
so not through the announced desk, but through the table
in front of the announced desk, and at that point
buckshot lariat, house call kick, Shabbata goes down, Swerve gets

(33:00):
the pin. After the match, we see Josh Alexander. He's
watching from backstage. You look like he was bleeding on
his bald head over there. I don't know what that
was from, but Alexander was watching on from the back
because he's going to be wrestling Swerve on Collision on Saturday, which,
for those of you who will watch Collision, it is
an earlier start time four thirty Eastern Time. They don't

(33:22):
want to go head to head with Saturday Night's main event,
so Saturday Night's Mad Event I believe has a seven
Eastern start. I thought it was eight for some reason.
I think it might be seven. Somebody double checked that
for me, so I thought it was a seven pm start.
But anyway, just be aware Collision is going on at
four thirty on Saturday. Brian Danielson did have a great

(33:45):
line here though, on commentary when he said, how can
winter be coming when hell has already frozen over? With
these two men Teamy referring to Hangmand and Swerve. I
thought that was a good line. It was fun seeing
them team up, and they were super over. I mean,
Hangman and Swerve looked like a couple of badasses in
the crowd, just beating up all the geeks that would

(34:06):
come at them one by one. But otherwise it was
the usual plunder garbage match that we see every single
week on this show. You get at least one of
them every single week. Tables and glass and staple guns
and all kinds of bullshit, that's what this match was.
At least no one bled. Musta count that little bit

(34:27):
of what looked like blood on Josh Alexander's head as
he was standing in the back. It's kind of funny though,
like he wasn't even in the match, and it looked
like he was the only one bleeding. So at least
we didn't have that. If you factor everything that happened
before the bell even rang, this went almost twenty minutes
without that. The match itself was only maybe about seven

(34:49):
or eight, all right, So it did eight pm start
time for Saturday nights made event, thank you. I wasn't
sure I had a double check that because for some
reason I was thinking seven. I think they may have
mentioned a pre show of some kind on Monday night.
Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. Elsewhere in the back

(35:10):
don callous. He demanded his money back from the Young Bucks,
and he told them that he could take them to court.
This was just callous. By the way, he was not
in the room with the box. He didn't even have
any of the other family members with him. It was
him and a camera and he was threatening, I could
take you to court and get that money back, but

(35:30):
I would prefer to get my pound of flesh. And
then he issued a challenge. It' stop me if you've
heard this before. He issued a challenge for a trios
match against the Young Bucks and a partner of their
choosing for the million dollars. Yes, they are doing the

(35:51):
same exact shit that they already did at full gear
the big million dollar match, and literally the same money,
like the money the Bucks stole or stole back from them.
They're running this back. And later on in the back,
the Bucks approached the Dinosaur and ask him to be
their partner. So now they're giving the Dinosaur a chance

(36:12):
to win his cut of a million dollars and he
grunts no. Now he doesn't actually speak, but he basically
said no. And then he pointed and the camera pans
over and we see the sign Kenny Omega on the
locker room door. This man sacrificed. Well, I mean, I
guess what would a dinosaur do with money? I guess right,

(36:33):
if we're supposed to believe that he's from sixty six
million years ago. But this man willingly gave up his
portion of a million dollars to say no. I think
Kenny Omega, who makes more money than I'm sure Lucasaurs does,
now go to him. He could use it. So they
walk over to Omega's locker room. They knock on the door,
he opens the door. They say, hey, you want to

(36:54):
run it back one more time? We got the money
on the line, and Kenny says, I don't want the money.
I would fight Don Kallais and the Callus family for free.
So I accept. Next week in Manchester, England on Dynamite,
it's going to be Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks
against the Don Kallis family for a million dollars. I

(37:18):
could not believe this. I could not believe. I could
not believe that they were running back the same match
a second time with the stupid money stipulation, Like who
could possibly care? It's just it's unbelievable. Now, the Callus
family members we found out later are going to be Okada,
Takeshta and Hetchisara, So I'm sure obviously they're going to

(37:44):
do something with Okada and Takeshta, as they've been doing
multiple times now for many many weeks. They don't get along.
That will be the more intriguing part of this match
to me, if there is anything intriguing about this match.
I mean, look, we're getting Okada and Omega in the
same match, but I'm just like the whole concept of
this and running it back for a second time with

(38:06):
the dumb money stuff, like why do we keep doing this?
Like are we really doing this again? But their plan
for Kenny Omega is to just keep him in these
trios matches. They clearly either do not want him stressing

(38:26):
himself out physically in a singles like a taxing singles match,
or maybe it's something that he himself has requested. I
don't know, but this is almost exclusively what he's been
relegated to for the last few months. It feels like
in the other Gold League Continental Classic match on this show,

(38:46):
we had Kyle Fletcher, who sits atop the league. I
think he's tied with six points taking on Speedball Mike Bailey,
who came into this match with no points. Renee was
at ringside as all the introductions were going on, said
that this is do or die for Mike Bailey tonight.

(39:08):
I want you to know that Mike Bailey, he's only
oh to one coming into this matter. He's oh and one, Like,
is it really do or die? It's like when the
Mets start their season in twenty twenty six and they
lose their first fifteen games, it'd be like the announcers saying, Oh,
this next game is do or die game number sixteen.

(39:29):
Here in this one hundred and sixty two game season,
this could decide the entire season. I mean, it kind
of feels like the season's already over in all honesty,
but let's not cut this guy's legs out from under
him just yet. Okay, he's only oh for one. He
could still come back here. The other thing also was,
I don't know how many of you caught it, probably
next to none of you. But earlier today on his

(39:50):
Twitter and I think aaw shared it, there was a
social media video of Speedball backstage. He was throwing some
kicks shadow kicks and he's getting ready for his match,
and who walks in Ernest the Cat Miller and Glacier
not in his Glacier costume. I mean, that'd be fucking

(40:11):
funny if it was actually you know what, they what
a huge missed opportunity here? Fucking winter is coming. How
do you not have Glacier on the show. See? The
thing though with the Continental Classic is that you're not
allowed to have anybody at ringside. Otherwise I would have
had Glacier in the full costume. He would have been

(40:31):
out there rooting him on, cheering this guy on perfect time.
But anyway, they walk up the Speedball in the back
and they're giving him words of encouragement, like talk about
a random cameo. It's like, okay, you know what's funny
about that. I'm pretty sure that Ernest Miller. I don't
remember if Glacier was there, but I'm almost positive that

(40:54):
the Cat was part of Goldberg's entourage as he was
coming out, like they were backstage with him, but as
he was getting ready to come out for his final
match against against the Gunther, I'm pretty sure Ernest Miller
was part of his crew. So how about that jumping
back and forth between w W and Aw's Frank Glacier,

(41:20):
Glacier and the cat so Bailey got off to a
good start and Fletcher bailed out to the Florida regroup.
After coming back into the ring, Fletcher took control had
some heavy strikes stomps. Bailey fired back with a top
rope crossbody. Fletcher, though caught him out of mid air,

(41:40):
drove him into the map with a backbreaker and a
year or aw gee back to back. Bailey, though fired
back with a series of kicks. He whiffed on a
shooting star press and then he low bridge Fletcher to
the floor. He followed up with a springboard torneo. Both
men ended up on top of the barricade outside and
Fletcher picks up Bailey in a body slam position and

(42:01):
as Fletcher himself right is coming off the barricade, he
slams speedball and his lower back clips the edge. It
clips the top of the barricade as he splats on
the floor, and then they go to a commercial break
come back. Both men now are on the apron and

(42:25):
Bailey delivers a standing double knee drop on Fletcher. Speedball
delivered to hurt Karana after this from the top row,
but Fletcher got his feet up. Then on the follow
up shooting star Press, Kyle followed that by tossing Bailey
like a lawn dart into the corner and then hit
a basically a last ride power bomb set out power

(42:46):
bomb for a near fall. After they got to their feet,
they had a chop battle that turned into a kick battle.
After a series of reversals back and forth they go.
Bailey got a close near fall after a power bomb
reversal into a rana. Bailey got another near fall after
a head kick, and then he delivered the Time Adventure kick,

(43:06):
and on that he got the closest of near falls.
They traded kicks back and forth. Bailey got the better
of it. He delivered the Ultimate weapon and Fletcher was
on his hands and knees, so he did it to
the back and Fletcher was able to kick out though.
After this and crowd was fully into this, he went
for another ultimate weapon on the floor outside, but he

(43:29):
came up with nothing but his knees smacking the ground
and I winced, They're not even my knees, but I
felt every bit of that. So back in the ring,
Fletcher delivered a brainbuster, which is his finish Bailey kicked out.
Crowd can't believe it, Fletcher can't believe it. So after

(43:50):
another series of reversals, Fletcher hit a wild lariat as
Bailey ended up getting a cross arm sunset flip with
the arm and the legs trapped and he got the
flash pinned to shock the world, and it sure shot
Kyle Fletcher based on the look on his face, and
everybody went nuts. For the finish, Kevin Knight runs out
his tag team partner who's also in this tournament. He

(44:12):
ran out to ringside to check on his partner and
celebrate the win with him, and Fletcher was just left stunned. Wow,
what a sprint that these two had there. Towards the
end the time call, like literally right when the finish
was going down, Justin Roberts had just announced over the
PA system that we had one minute left in this match,

(44:36):
and I'm like, all right, are we getting a draw?
Is that what we're getting here our first draw? Or
are they going to do the thing where it's like
down to the final two seconds. It's like no. He
announced there was a minute left in the match, and
Bailey had already gone for the pinning combination and he
got the one, two three, so with a minute left
in this match, he picks up the win. I like
the way they did that. This was a fantastic match.

(45:00):
There are a lot of near falls near the end,
yes there were, Yes, there were, but this this was
just an outstanding match. Bailey gets on the board with
three points and Fletcher is still obviously sitting in a
pretty good position right now with those six points. Look
Fletcher and if you've watched his work this year against
everybody from Omega to Hangman, and the matches he's had

(45:24):
in this tournament he won the TNT title, he's had
a breakout year. You know, the guy's a stud in
that ring. Twenty twenty five for him as a singles
competitor was a breakout year. Twenty twenty six should be
the year where he puts it all together. And I'm
not going to say that he's going to be a
world champion next year, but he should be in an

(45:45):
even bigger and better position than the one he's in now.
It should just be escalating for him from here on
out because he is one of those guys, those young
stars where they really did make a star, you know.
And it's funny, I was just I was as I
was putting my nose together, I noticed this one YouTube
channel that I follow. It's called The Normies. I think

(46:08):
they have almost a million subs, and it's like a
group of they review movies and TV shows. It's like
a reaction channel, and some of the girls on the
channel in recent months have started reviewing and reacting to
wrestling stuff, like they're big into WWE. And then I
guess somebody put them on to the Tony storm ERMA feud.

(46:31):
So they did a few videos, you know, watching their program,
and I just noticed they put a video up like
three hours ago about Kyle Fletcher, like some of Kyle
Fletcher's matches, but I noticed he's in the thumbnail. I'm like,
wait a minute, because usually it's them just sitting on
a couch, right and they're watching, and I click on
the video. He's in the He's like, he's in the
fucking house wherever they are. They obviously invited him in.

(46:54):
He's sitting on the couch with them. I'll have to
check that out tomorrow. So apparently now they're big Kyle Fletcher.
He should be winning over some more fans in twenty
twenty six, right, higher and high and higher up the
ladder is where he should be going. Speedball's great, Fletcher's great,
so you end up with a great match. I will

(47:15):
say that I did go ahead and I put this
match on my list, because I keep a running list
of my favorite matches of the year for the end
of the year countdown that I'll be working on. I
don't know if it'll end up on the final list,
but I did just go ahead and put this match
on that list. I don't do that with just any match.
This match I put on that list. This was excellent stuff,

(47:36):
easily the highlight of the not just the night, but
the highlight of the entire tournament so far, at least
until we get to World's End. The backstage Hangman Page
was with Renee and he addressed Samoa Joe and he
told him that he would be watching the main event tonight.
He said, no matter who won tonight, whether it's Joe
or whether it's Eddie Kingston. At World's end, he was

(47:57):
coming for his aw World Championship, and then we had
our main event, Samoa Joe. Yeah, there have been some
big winter Is Coming shows over the years in this company.
It's so weird. When I think back to like those
twenty twenty, like late twenty twenty shows, I think back
to the one and I think the one in twenty

(48:17):
twenty is one thing debuted and they were running all
those shows out of Daily's plays. I think back to that,
and it's weird how it just puts me in a
different like headspace. I don't know, it's weird, like I
want to say the good old days of AAW because
I don't look at any of the empty arena shit

(48:39):
is the good old days. But it's kind of like
the early days of doing the AW reviews on the channel,
and I'll sometimes go back and look at some of
the old videos and it's just, I don't know, just
has a different, a different feeling to it. But there
have been some big Winter Is Coming shows Sting's debut,
we had Kenny Omega didn't Care. I think Omego beat Moxley.

(49:01):
I think on one of them for the world title. Uh.
There was a Brian Danielson hangman page match on one.
So there have been some big ones before. This will
not go down as the biggest one, but we do
tend to get some world title defenses, and so we
had one tonight so MO with Joe defending the world
championship against Eddie Kingston. Hook came out to the ring

(49:22):
with Joe, and Hook immediately tripped up Kingston right in
front of the referee Paul Turner, who ejects him right
out of the gate, so Hook is gone. First minute
of the match, Joe delivered and overhead belly to belly
before lighting up Kingston with jabs. He was picking him
apart in the early going. Kingston responded with a running bulldog.

(49:43):
We got a slug fest Kingston won. Joe fired off
some stiff shots, though Kingston wound up with a home
run shot and dropped Joe. Eddie charged into the corner.
Joe flattened him though with the huge st Joe before
delivering a running bootscrape dueling. Chance. Now got Joe chance,
We got Eddie chance. Joe starts to strike battle. Still

(50:08):
some fight left in Eddie though, and he hit multiple lariats.
Joe did not go down. On the third try. Kingston
ran into a snap power slam by Joe for a
near fall. So Joe starts throwing kicks and knees Kingston,
though no sold them. Both men traded knee strikes and chops.
Eddie collapses only to then catch Joe with an exploder

(50:30):
and almost didn't clear the top of Joe's head. He
almost dropped him right on his fricking head. Joe came
back with a fireman's carry slam, got the stf applied.
Kingston bit his way free, the third time that we've
had biting on this show. At least he didn't bite
him below the belt, but he bit the hand to
bite his way free, and then he spiked Joe with

(50:51):
a DDT. Joe rolled to the floor. Kingston got Joe
back inside. He lowered the straps and he wanted the
spinning backfist. Joe blocked it, so Eddie hit a cutter instead,
and so now Samoa Joe is on spaghetti legs. Tried
the backfist again, spun right into the Cookina clutch and

(51:13):
he took Eddie to the mat. Eddie begins to fade,
and before he could pass out, he tapped out very
light tap like you know, like this, not a furious
tap like fucking gun throw to Jay Uso or wrestle Mania.
But he tapped out and just like that, clean, fair
and square in the middle of the Ring Samoa Joe
retains the aw World Championship. No help from the ops,

(51:38):
no cheating, no cheet codes enabled here, no turnbuckles, no nothing,
beat him clean. Eddie came into this match and said,
I want the old Samoa Jo. I want the Samoa
Jo that was Ring of Honor World Champion for all
those days. I want the Samoa Jo that I saw
on the independen scene. And the story here is that,

(51:58):
as Brian Dangelson said at the end to the show,
that's the Samoa Joe he wanted. That's the Samoa Joe
that he got. And it was about keeping Joe strong
because now we're going into World's End in a couple
of weeks, right, two and a half weeks, whatever it is,
and he's going to be defending clearly that championship against
Hangman Page. So that was about getting Joe prepped and
ready for the rematch. We had a solid opener, and

(52:21):
I felt the same way about the main event. It
was not a blowaway match. It was the kind of
match I was expecting these two to have. It was
a buzzkill in a way. The way they did the finish.
I get why they did it, and I could appreciate
the lack of interference, which we get enough of. I
feel like it did make for a flat ending, though,
but it was a solid match, and there was one

(52:43):
surprise of how things went here. It was just how
they did the finish. I was mildly surprised by that.
But this was Eddie's biggest match since he came back,
has not been back for very long. I think he
should get back into the thick of things here. I'm
sure I love a match with a hook. They could
do that match of World's End. You can do Eddie

(53:04):
and Hook, you know. I mean it could end up
being a collision match, but you could do that match
of World's End, you know, one on one. And the
question is will Eddie Kingston at some point end up
with the AW World Championship. Is Tony Kahan at some
point going to give him the token run with the belt?

(53:29):
I say yes, I believe at some point. I'm not
prepared to say it's going to be twenty twenty six,
but I do think at some point there is a
story to tell because Eddie is just this beloved figure
on the roster and he's got many more years in AW.
He just made a comment the other day that you know,
when my contract is up, I've got like five or
I think he said six years, or he has a

(53:50):
six year contract and has five years left something like that.
He's got like six years left on his contract. And
when that expires, I'm gonna move to Alaska, mind my
own business. As long as I have my streaming and
I can watch my Yankees and my Giants and my
Rangers and my Knicks, he says, I'll be happy. So
Eddie's not going anywhere for a while. I think at

(54:12):
some point, Tony's gonna want to give him that token run.
I don't see it being a terribly long thing or
anything like that, but I do think at some point
we will get Eddie Kinson as the aw world champion.
I do believe that. I think it's something the fans
would enjoy just seeing him, even if it's for one
night only, you know, just to kind of achieve that
moment and reach up and grab that brass ring. I

(54:33):
think that's something that we'll get at some point, but
now is not that time. So the other question is
where does MJF fit into things here? Because next week
on the show they are doing this dynamite Diamond Battle
Royal gimmick. MJF has held the Dynamite Diamond Ring every

(54:54):
year for the six years they've been doing this gimmick,
and I thought that meant, well, okay, good, he hasn't
been around and they're going to save him for when
the time is right. And clearly he's not being promoted
for anything for World's end, so he doesn't have to
be in this and we can have somebody new holding
the Diamond ring. And then I thought more about it.

(55:14):
I'm like, realistically, are they really going to leave MJF
out of the Diamond Ring? Nonsense? Probably not, So we're
getting a Battle Royal next week. My guess is he
shows up there as a surprise entrant. I think MJF
is probably on his way back next week would be
my guess, and then probably going to the finals and
they may put it on him for a seventh year

(55:36):
in a row or sixth y or whatever it is,
because they just that's his gimmick. They can't help themselves, right,
He's got to have the Diamond ring, but he's got
that contract as well. That's why my thought was like,
he doesn't need the ring if the point is the
winner gets the ring and a championship match on January
fourteenth on Dynamite. The man already has a guaranteed title

(55:57):
shot in that contract, like he doesn't need it. Maybe
he goes to the finals after the last two men
in the Battle Royal they get a match, and then
that's how they're doing it, and then the winner of
the match gets a title shot. Maybe he goes to
that match and then he loses and somebody else gets
the ring. But to me, it would be redundant if

(56:18):
he just wins and then has a championship match on
January fourteenth, Like what's the fucking point of that? I mean,
I guess he could go and lose and that he
still has another title shot banked, but I think that
would be very dumb. But I am expecting to see
him back next week. Again. It's three hours, so Dynamite
for two hours and then the third hour will be Collision.

(56:39):
They're from Manchester, England, so the UK fans are always
very lively. They're very popular over in the UK. I
don't know what venue they're running. I would imagine it's
a bigger venue than usual, so they may have a
lot of people there. But I didn't check to see
exactly where they're actually let me check right now. I'm
curious what building are they running for that show? Let's see,

(57:02):
they usually don't have a problem when it comes to
filling up these buildings in the UK Holiday Bash. They
are at co Op Live. What the hell is that?
What is co Op Live? I've never heard of this before.

(57:23):
It's an indoor arena in Manchester, England with a capacity
of what oh all right, twenty three thousand. Withstanding twenty
three thousand with seated only twenty thousand, it's a decent number.
They're going to be in a decent sized venue next

(57:43):
week co Op Live. It's a newer building. Okay, maybe
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poll what did you think think of Winter is Coming?
Sixty two percent thumbs up for tonight show thirty eight
percent roughly thumbs down and tell you what for x
It's pretty good poll result there for an aw show.

(01:00:16):
I said it was a solid show tonight. Yeah, nothing
blowaway or anything, although the Kyle Fletcher and Speedball match was,
but the rest of it was pretty solid stuff. Not
one of the better dynamites, but it wasn't a bad show.
We got some good action at least. Let just take

(01:00:38):
a look at your super chats. They have nine thousand
tickets moved already. Good. Good. They should they should be
able to hit ten. Then that's what they do for
usually the US pay per views. That's that's about what
they did. I think for full Gear maybe a little
more than that. Again, the sad thing is we don't

(01:00:59):
get very many crowds like that for Dynamite. We just don't.
It's still a weakness. If they knew they could fill
the bigger venues, they would be running them by now.
The fact they're still running a lot of smaller venues
tells you that they're not confident that they could sell
those tickets yet. And the idea is to get to
a point where you can once again start bringing Dynamite
out of the doldrums and start bringing it into bigger buildings,

(01:01:22):
you know, and you can light that shit up. It
looks great on camera, get some loud crowds going. That
should be the goal. Yeah, that's the Manchester's show for
next week. They're in Cardiff, Wales for Collision this weekend,
and then next week they're in Manchester and then actually
I think the weekend after that, I know it's the

(01:01:46):
weekend of the House of Glory show is on Friday
the nineteenth, so that weekend they're taping Dynamite and Collision
from the Manhattan Center. It's very interesting because Cody Roads had,
oh god, who's the actor he just had on his podcast,
Timothy Timothy Clement or whatever his name is now Challamey

(01:02:09):
Say Clement, who apparently is a big wrestling fan, and
they had a discussion on the podcast about how come
this totally random that this celebrity is like, yeah, I
talked to Triple H about how come you guys don't
do a show at the Manhattan Center, Like I've only
been asking that question on the podcast for years, but
he goes Triple H was like, yeah, we can't make

(01:02:31):
money in that building. So if you're wondering why w
W doesn't run the Manhattan Center the way that AW does,
because at least in terms of WWEE, they can't make
any money, which I don't I don't believe, by the way,
this is the tko er. You can't tell me with
the ticket prices that they would charge for a Manhattan
Center show like at the Hammerstein, let's say, which is

(01:02:52):
in the same building, that they couldn't make money off
that show. But this is apparently what he told Timothy
can't make money in that building. There's one and I
do know this is true. It's not a great building
for TV. There's like one elevator that you have to
use to transport all the pieces of equipment that they have.

(01:03:17):
It's not a very TV friendly building. I still would
love to see like an NXT show there. I think
they can make money there. Bobby's World with a ten.
All due respect to our good friend Jeremy Rose, but
when he asked if La Knight's time to win money
in the bank had come and gone, my first answer
was yes. Rollins won it in June. It's two years

(01:03:42):
in a row, by the way, that he was favored
by a lot of people to win and it didn't
work out. Imagine any wrestler biting the Undertaker like Jack
Perry did to Okada that poor soul would rest in peace.
He says, ride ribs and chicken with flavor. It's kind

(01:04:03):
of a visual. I don't need, you know, Mark Henry
upside down in the tombstone taking a chunk out of
the Undertaker's crotch. He'd have to no sell it right,
it's the Undertaker he's got he no sells everything, flame Thrower,
Fluff Salsbury the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach. He used

(01:04:25):
to be known for Hogan's heel turn after tonight. It's
the place where Fluff Junior graduated college. Suma kumb loud
to get that all right, we're out of applause for
Fluff Junior. Well, I'm sending my congrats out to Fluff Junior.

(01:04:47):
That's awesome, Summa kum loud man, that's very impressive. I
wonder where he got it from. Where did he get
all the all the brains from in the family? Was
it fluff? Wasn't missus fluff, dried ribs and chickens? Says

(01:05:08):
moment Mercedes loses all of her belts, she won't be
multi mo Monee anymore. Her new nickname will be naked Monee,
beltless Monee, and broken Monee. Now she's already showing signs
of broken Monee. Duffs VIDs, which insect is always in

(01:05:32):
danger of the pink panther dead ant, dead ant, dead ant,
dead ant dead ant, dead end, dead end, dead en,
dead end, dead en dead You didn't think I was
gonna get that one, did you? I used to watch
the Pink Panther cartoon. I knew exactly what you were

(01:05:57):
doing there. Yeah, I said, got arrested yesterday for stealing
a kitchen utensils misspelled his own super chap. It was
a whisk. I was willing to take. What do you
call an Asian hitman Chinese takeout? Okay, that's good. I

(01:06:19):
gotta give you credit for that one. Also, what do
you call a medieval spy surveillance surveillance? Yes, okay, all right,
Why can't NASA send a duck into outer space? Because
the bill would be astronomical? And then we have this

(01:06:42):
crazy sob Bobert reviews with a one hundred and fifty
dollars superchab bomb. Bobert is saying, I'm going to clear
the deck here and show you people how it's done. Bobert,
thank you very much. One of our MVPs here. Twenty

(01:07:05):
twenty five. Bender mc simpson, great match with Fletcher and Speedball.
Glad Speedball got the win because the match was leading
to it. Well, I mean it was a win that
he needed. I guess according to Renee it was do
or die, even though he was zero for one coming
into tonight. But he's not going to be doing much
more winning in this tournament. I don't think Tux Do

(01:07:26):
Dot servo another week, and I still don't care about
Jack Perry Duffs VIDs. How is a push up bra
like a bag of chips? Once you open it, you
realize it's half empty? Why was the math book so sad?

(01:07:47):
It has so many unsolved problems? It's true? Why is
everyone always thirsting in the North Pole? No? Well, oo

(01:08:09):
boo say boo on the likes too. We're only at
three thirty eight. Looks like to be the booker is
gonna have to wait until Friday at this point, not
looking good. Jeremy Rose, with a fifteen dollars super chat MJF,
wins the title shot in an MJF fashion, announces that
he is also using his contract the same night in
case he loses. Therefore, he wears out the champion, loses,

(01:08:33):
then instantly starts a new match and wins. So you
think they're going to do a title change on the
Maximum Carnage episode of Dynamite in the middle of January.
I mean they could. The thing is there's sort of
a pay per view draught after World's End. I don't
think they have another show until Revolution, which is I

(01:08:54):
want to say March fifteenth. So between December twenty seventh
and March fifth teenth, there are no scheduled pay per views,
so I mean it's possible. Not really expecting it, but
it's possible. Oz and Glorious Solo. If you want to

(01:09:17):
restore the feeling, you'll bring back the pandemic hair and
the Hopstra mug. Hit that leg button. I still got
the Hopstra mug, but it's better to have one with
my own logo on it. Free advertising, sir. The pandemic

(01:09:37):
hair ain't coming back. The pandemic hare was the product
of sixteen weeks of no haircut. I am not going
to allow that to happen again. Shave my head bald
before I do that. Jeremy Rose watched Vault's Story of Armageddon.

(01:09:57):
Helena Sel do you think Rakishi's heel run was his
best work? I found it entertaining. I mean, you know, whatever,
he did the best he could. It was. He was
a solid mid card heel. The thing is they tried
to push him as a main event heel. Rakishi is
not a main event heel. He's not, so it might

(01:10:20):
have been the highlight for him, I mean for him.
I'm sure he made more money during that run. He
got to work with all the top guys Rock Austin, Undertaker,
but he stuck out like a sore thumb because he
didn't belong there. Rojo Bet twenty four Harry Potter is lame.
Wizards should use guns instead of wands in the movie.

(01:10:42):
I agree, and Chainsaws Afro's solo was certainly a sight
to behold. It was something. It was definitely something. Michael
Darcy with The Twelve. Have you seen Vince Gilligan's new
show Pluribus. If so, what do you think of it?
Ria Seahorn is fantastic in it. I'm in the middle

(01:11:05):
of watching it right now. Actually, I just saw the
episode with John Seen his caveat which kind of came
out of nowhere. Yeah. Ria sea Horn is great. She
was great on Better Call Saul. I'm enjoying it. It's
just it's been very It seems like it's starting to
finally pick up a little bit now, but like it was,

(01:11:26):
it was starting to drag for me. But I'm enjoying it.
Vince Gilligan is a genius, the master behind Breaking Bed.
Jeremy says, buy or sell Peak, Hulcomania or Attitude, Era Stone,
Cold Steve Austin. I mean buy or sell in what way?

(01:11:47):
What am I buying and selling? You know, as a kid,
it was all about Hulkamania as a as as a
fan who was a little bit older, it was all
about Austin. It's hard to prioritize one over the other.
Or without the Hope, without the Hogan peak, I may
not be a fan right now. Then again, without the
Austin peak and him getting hot and kind of lifting

(01:12:08):
up that company in the late nineties, there may not
be a WWE two to speak of. I mean there
probably wouldn't be. But where they would be right now
without Austin getting hot when he did, I don't I
don't know. I don't know they would be as big
as they are today. But if I have to buy
or sell on one or the other, I'm going to

(01:12:32):
buy on a Peak, Attitude, Aerostone, Cold Steve Boston More.
What are your top three Sena matches. I'm gonna again,
I'm gonna talk about Sena on Sunday. I think I may.
I don't know if it'll be anything formal. I'll probably
get into the matches he's had this year on the

(01:12:54):
retirement tour, and then maybe I'll do like my top
like five or something seen a match. I'll give it
some more thought. I just think it's appropriate to we're
gonna be talking about Seen on Sunday anyway, Probably do
something like that on the on the podcast because he's

(01:13:16):
had a bunch of great matches and Oz and Glory
is every Wednesday. You doubt us hit that like button, Well,
I mean I doubt you because we're still sitting at
three hundred and fifty seven likes, which means we missed
the goal. So I was right. I can't say I
was wrong. All right, let me check out the UH

(01:13:40):
member chats, which unfortunately they don't show up on that list,
so I have to go to a different column. I
don't know why it has to be that way, but
that's YouTube for you. We got Wrath seventeen months of
channel membership, thrilled for Speedball and the babes of Wrath.
Per my YouTube recap, I saw two hundred and twenty

(01:14:03):
two of your videos in twenty twenty five top two
percent viewer. Thank you for the great year. On to
twenty twenty six. I love it. I love it. Top
two percent, all the people that were sending me screenshots,
top one percent, two percent, top five list of like

(01:14:25):
the most watched videos, and it's all sound off content.
Love it. I love that shit. Thank you. Brav Offman
Entertainment with fifty six months of membership says, fifty six
months bebe. So we lost mister Matt. Huh, says that's fine,

(01:14:46):
we are keeping Missmet. It's right. If you missed the
breaking news from earlier there it is mister Matt signs
with the Dodgers. We have now lost Edwin Diaz, we
have lost Pete Alonzo, we have lost brand, and we
have lost mister Met. It's like when the radicals are
jumped from WCW to WWF the Sad Day. It's a

(01:15:08):
dark day in Met's history. Anyway, this is a big
weekend coming up because we do have the Farewell John
Seena's final match Saturday night's main event. Jesse the Body
vent Terra will be back apparently this weekend. I don't
know that he'll be calling Seena's match, but it'd be

(01:15:29):
kind of funny if he did. But he'll be on
the show, and I don't know. I'm seeing reports now
and I think it comes from Brian Alvarez that John
seen is match with Gunther is opening the show. And
even if that is something Seena himself requested, I think
that is a terrible idea. I mean, unless they have

(01:15:49):
some sort of huge angle, some great angle that they're
saving for the end of the show with like Cody
and Oba or something like that, I think that is
an awful idea. And I hope that does not happen.
I really hope that doesn't happen. I mean, how are
you going to have a show that is entirely built
around this man's final match. You have to imagine and

(01:16:10):
hope that when the match is over, there'll be a speech.
How the hell are you going to build an entire
show around that and open the show with it? It
can't be. Whatever happens, though, I will be live on
YouTube as soon as the show is over on Saturday nights,
So join me back here on the Channel Live and
we'll talk about John Cena's final match. Doctor Scorpio, thanks

(01:16:37):
for letting Alonzo walk to the al East. Oh You're welcome.
Enjoy Enjoy the Polar Bear. We got Retro Koh coming
in says, did you see David O'tunga's attempted expose. He
made me cringe when he said Sina must have felt
threatened by him. I saw the video he put up
and it was basically I can believe it happened. I'm

(01:16:59):
not even saying that he's making it up. There are
certain incidents that have been shared over the years where
Sena just comes off as a total dick. By and large,
he doesn't really come off that way, but there are
like I've shared the JTG story before. I don't think
JTG has any reason to make that story up. Sena
comes across as a complete dick in that story, and

(01:17:22):
there are times I'm sure Alex Riley will tell you
so I can believe it happened. But it was basically
like I worked a house show match in late twenty
ten during the NEXTUS run and he was I think
he might have been partners with Sina, or maybe he
was wrestling him. I don't know what it was, but
there was a spot and Dustin Rhodes was the agent

(01:17:46):
and they were planning to do a particular spot. Sena
fucked it up, jumping too early whatever he did, and
Sina went off on Otanga. He went off on Otanga.
He reamed him even backstage in front of everybody and
threatened to go to Vin and get him in trouble
and everything like real like bitch stuff. And the way
O Tongue tells the story, it's like he was basically

(01:18:08):
a nobody at that point, seeing it didn't actually physically
like touch him. He was just yelling at him. So
he said, oh, there was nothing I can do. I
just had to take it. But if he put his
hands on me, I would have that would have been
the end of John Seena. So that was basically the story.
It wasn't like some huge scandal, like some scandalous thing

(01:18:29):
that he did. It's like, okay, he had a terrible
experience with John Cena. If I were in his shoes
and that happened to me, yeah, I would look at
John scene and go, this guy's a fucking asshole. I'd
feel the same way. But I mean it's hardly U
I'm gonna make national headlines. It's like, okay, dude, like
it happened, deal with it, uh oz and glorious. I've

(01:18:54):
never seen John Cena wrestle, but he comes off as
an incredibly disingenuous individual in his interview, and the Taiwan
thing too. The thing about Seena's interviews, he just he
comes off as so fake, you know, and like in
the Joe Rogan interview, which I checked out most of
it because I wanted to see how that compared to

(01:19:16):
the others, and clearly in that interview there is a
switch that gets flipped when he's doing interviews almost anywhere else,
he adapts to whatever environment he's in. So in the
Joe Rogan interview, was just f bombs every other you know,
every other sentence, but he was just more relaxed and
they talked about like a lot of non wrestling stuff

(01:19:37):
and live shit and stuff like that, and it's like, okay, fine,
But then you watch the interview with Bill Simmons, you
watch the interview with Tom Ronaldi, you watch the interview
with Chris van Vliet, Casine has been all over the place,
and you get corporate robotic android sina where you'll get
some interesting nuggets from him, like buried deep within the

(01:19:58):
hour that you talk to him, but a lot of
it is just corporate, just fucking nonsense, where he just
doesn't really answer the question or he gives you the
most long winded nothing answer that you could ask for. Well,
we hit the goal. We hit the goal. Not the
bonus goal though we're six out of fifteen on that one.

(01:20:21):
But we did hit the goal, which means that we
get one round of Be the Booker, and we have
to try to make this the best round of Be
the Booker of the entire month. Can we do it?
The winter is coming edition of Be the Booker. Let's
find out, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to

(01:20:44):
be the Booker. Let us find out how we are
going to do in Be the Booker. Hey, doctor Scorpio,
what's going on? Thank you brother for the super chat.

(01:21:06):
Should raise the likes for be the Booker. You want
me to raise the likes, I'll raise the likes. You're
gonna have to work that much harder for it. We'll
be doing Be the Booker twice a month, but hey,
there's multiple people who want it. We'll raise it to
four fifty or five hundred if that's what you want.
All right, tag team, Be the Booker. Here we go.

(01:21:26):
We have the Creed brothers. See I did what Triple
H is afraid to do. I have booked the Creeds.
They are now a part of the Be the Booker promotion.
We haven't seen very much of them on TV. We
haven't seen any of them on TV. And it will
be the Creeds against Kenny Omega and Hangman Adam Hayne.

(01:21:49):
Let the Creeds go, man, let them loose. I don't mean,
I don't mean let them go from the company. I
just mean, like, cut them, cut them loose out there
in the ring against Kenny and Hangman, and you will
have a an excellent match. That would be an excellent match.
I didn't mean release them, although maybe they should at

(01:22:10):
this point the aw Tag Team division. Man, they would
fit right in there. Women's be the Booker. We have
rowdy Ronda Rousey. How we feeling about Ronda Rowsey here
in this women's main event? Yay nay, Ronda Rowsey against

(01:22:42):
Hikaru Shidah, someone else we haven't seen on TV in
a very long time, Ronda Rowsey and Hikarashida. Though, I
think that match would would be pretty good, pretty pretty
pretty pretty good. Now our main event, here we go.

(01:23:03):
Let's crack these knuckles here, here we go. That's that's
not a great one, all right? Here? We go. This
is it, This is what you wanted. You get one
last match. Here we have the former soon to be
again TNA World Heavyweight Champion. There he is with his title,
Mike Santana, the former House of Glory World Heavyweight Champion

(01:23:27):
for five hundred and fifty four days. And Mike Santana
in the main event. I like it. You should have
seen some of the main events he had for us,
some of the best matches I saw all year. Mike
Santana And it is uh be the Booker is over.

(01:23:51):
After the Wyatt Six massacred the roster, the Wyat six
have struck again the biggest heel faction in the entire
be the Booker universe. We get no main event. It

(01:24:14):
is very fitting, isn't it. You work so hard, you
work so hard to get this round, to be the Booker,
and you don't get no main event. See that's what
you get for waiting so long. That's what happens. All right.

(01:24:35):
I will see you guys back here on Friday night.
Winter has come. Everybody see you back here on Friday

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