AEW Dynamite 12/17/25 Review | MJF RETURNS And BLOWS UP The Worlds End Main Event! - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, you may believe that Christmas is a week away.
Doesn't feel like it, but it is, which means New
Year's is right around the corner as well. Tonight was
the Holiday Bash episode of Dynamite. This is the three
hour block that they have been promoting now for a
few weeks. You know how I love these three hour shows.

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But they were in Manchester, England earlier today technically, and
they had ten thousand plus in the building. There not
something you see every week for Dynamite, and on this
show it was really all about one thing. Now, if
you are super into the Continental Classic, we got lots

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of good wrestling matches tonight. You have a good wrestling
matches up and down the card. You're not into the
Continental Classic. Like I've been saying, this is probably one
of your least favorite periods in AAW because almost everything
revolves around this tournament for the entire month. However, tonight
we have the return of someone very important in AAW

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the former AW World Champion, the longest reigning AW World
Champion of all time, MJF, who has been missing now
for quite some time, and he is a welcome addition
to this show. He has been missed and he is back.
Not only is he back, he is back to blow
up the World's End main event. There was a major

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change tonight that was made to that pay per view
main event which is coming up on December twenty seventh,
and I will talk about that. Very happy to see
MJF back on my TV. Outside of that, like I said,
we got a bunch of good wrestling matches and not
really a whole lot else to speak of. I saw
somebody in the chat before make a comment that it

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was an episode that happened. It was. There were more
people there than usual, but it was very much an
episode that happened. We did get a lot of good
wrestling though, so we will talk about the standings and
whatnot where things stand as far as the Continental class
is concerned. I am the Solemn Monster. This is your

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Dynamite Slash Collision Holiday Bash review here for Wednesday, December seventeenth,
twenty twenty five. Thank you for joining me here on
a Wednesday night, our final live stream of the week.
I will not be here on Friday night. I will
be in Jamaica Queen's closing out the year at the
House of Glory show where we have the Hearty's. Everybody

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always goes nuts for the Heartys when they show up.
Everybody's coming and doing the Jeff Hardy dance. Everybody's doing it.
That's where I'll be on Friday. So let's have a
good one tonight, like and subscribe. Super chats are open.
I know a whole bunch of them came in earlier
tonight before I went live, so we will go through
all of that and thank you for all the positive

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feedback as well. We had a hell of an episode
last night of Tuesday Night Titans, especially talking about the
John Cena finale on Saturday Night's event. A lot of
great feedback. People seem to enjoy it. I thought it
was a good discussion slash debate, So you can go
check that out over on JD's channel if you missed it.
But I just wanted to say thank you for that.

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So let's get into this Dynamite show here and not
waste any more time. You know, technically they went over
three hours. The show did not end at eleven o'clock.
The tag team Championship match was still going on after
eleven PM. That should never ever happen. There was a
tag team title match on this show. Did you honestly
think the tag team titles were going to change hands?

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Neither did I. There was no reason for this show
to go beyond eleven o'clock. But they wasted no time
in kicking things off. As soon as they came on
the air tonight, John Moxley and Roderick Strong, they were
already in the ring for a Blue League match in
the Continental Classic. Now I mentioned before big building tonight

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for them to be running Dynamite, and they had legitimately
over ten thousand people, between ten and eleven thousand people
in that venue here, first time in ages that I
can remember Dynamite having an audience that big, and so
you would think they would come on the air tonight
and they would make a big deal about this. They
got three hours, you know, they don't have to rush

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into anything. You got three hours here, come on the air,
show the crowd. No, none of that. Literally, John Moxley
and Roderick Strong are in the ring, ding ding ding,
and we're off to the races, and I'm like, dude, like,
you don't get to run big venues like this very
often for Dynamite. It's very impressive that you were able

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to pack it in the way that you did. It
wasn't like the entire building was not legitimately sold out,
but they had a great crowd. Why not take the
time to just show the crowd, pan the crowd, do
more of a proper intro this week, so that you
can adequately showcase how many people are there and how
energetic and lively they are. I thought that was a
missed op opportunity to just fucking dive right into the action.

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If it was any other week, I would say, Okay,
that's a different way to open the show. This was
not the week to do that. You got to show
this off. You gotta gloat a little bit, because as
soon as you go back to the States, you're not
going to be able to do that. So I was
puzzled by why they felt this week, of all weeks,
they had to just rush right into the show and

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not fully acknowledge where they were. But this was a
must win here for these two. That's how they were
couching this whole thing. Neither of these men have been
terribly impressive here in this tournament so far. John Moxley
has had better showings in the past. I think it's
safe to say so they brawled into the crowd early.
Moxley was sent back into the ring. Roddy, though it

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took too long to follow up. That gave Moxley a
chance to hit a toe pay, which left both men down.
Heading into a break. Moxley he tried to gotch style
pile driver. Strong though backdropped out of it. Moxley landed
hard on the outside back inside, Roddy dropped him with
an angle slam. Moxley rolled out of a stronghold to

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the floor. Strong though again went out after him and
set up the ring steps and he picks up Moxley
and he drops him down on the flat part of
the steps back first, and actually the way Moxley planted
his elbow looked like his elbow got the brunt of
that blow. When he landed on the stairs. Back inside,
Roddy hit a superplex, got a near fall out of that.

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So we got a slugfest here between these two men.
Roddy spun out of a death rider into a tiger
driver before looking for the stronghold. Moxley escaped. Both men
went up where Strong tried to throw a knee. Moxley
hit a perfect leaping cutter for a two count, so
he quickly plants him with a pile driver. That didn't work,

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So Moxley at this point he scrambles for a rear
naked choke and forces Roddy to roll to the ropes
Strong through a desperation knee for a near fall. And
the crowd was biting on some of these near falls
here near the end, and he got the stronghold, and
they were yelling for Moxley to tap because in the
last few months they have established that Moxley has tapped

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out before. It is possible now that he might actually
tap out. See that's the importance of setting up all
of those spots and the stuff with Kyle O'Reilly and
all the teases that he's going to tap out, and
you know what happened in Blood and Guts and him
tapping out to Darby at Russell Dream. You know, that's
the benefit in it that when you have this guy
in a situation like this, some fans anyway can actually

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buy into the possibility that, hey, this guy might actually
tap out. So they had the fans believing in that
Moxley spun out. He sent Roddy outside Strong quickly returned
to the ring, only to get spiked with a paradigm shift,
but there was a little bit of a delay in
going for the cover that allowed Roddy to kick out Moxley.
They'll follow it up with a proper death rider, and

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he won the match and the points. And that means
that Roderick Strong, Ladies and Ja Gentleman has been mathematically
eliminated from the Continental Classic. And really, let's be honest,
as soon as he was announced for this tournament, he
was mathematically eliminated. And don't tell me, don't tell me

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I'm wrong, because you know I'm right. So they told
the story of both men being desperate for the points
here and the fans were, like I said, they were
biting on some of the near falls. So it was
a good opener. I just wish they would have taken
the time to really just showcase where they were. Honestly,
it just it felt like another dynamite. That's the problem,
Like you really need to lean into where you are.

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You know, you're in a unique setting. You're overseas. Aw
has a lot of fans overseas, you know. Now if
they were based overseas, you know, that would probably peter out.
The reason I think they're so popular over there, in
part is because they don't run that many shows, so
when they go, people are like, oh, aw's coming to town,
we got to go. So it's it's still a very
big market for them. But I just think that was

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a mistake, you know, not leaning even more than they
did into the fact that hey, we have all these
people here, were packed in in Manchester, and I don't know,
it just felt like another opening to any dynamite that
you would see on any given week. So Eddie Kingston
was backstage quick promo here from him. Of course, he
lost to Samoa Joe last week at Winter is Coming.

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Winter has come, Winter has come and gone. Actually no,
that's not true. It's been cold as fuck here in
New York and yet at the end of the week
it's going to be almost sixty degrees sixty and rain,
and then the next day it'll probably drop down to
like thirty. Go figure. But Eddie said that you either

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win or you learn. You never lose. Last week he
tapped out to the world champion. Yeah, but he learned
from it, says everyone else he faces going forward, they're
going to see what he's learned. He goes, one loss
doesn't mean anything to him and he'll move forward, maybe
on collision. Then we had the million dollar trios match.

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Oh yeah, only this time. And if you're thinking to
yourself again, yes again for the same money, by the way,
that they competed for last time. It's the same money
that was in the bag that they competed for at
full gear. But this time the difference is that Kenny
Omega and the Young Bucks now they're reunited. So you
had the Elite all together on the same side, and

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on the opposing side you had the Don Kallis family,
which was Kozuchka, Okata, Kenoski, Takeshta, and Hetchi Sero YoSoy Hetchisaro,
typically the fall guy in these matches. Don Kallas came out.
He gave his over the top introduction for Takeshta and
then for Hetchisero. They made their way to the ring.

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Okata got his own entrance because he's the superstar here.
So the Elite crew they did the Terminator bit terminator
dive early on here in this match. Then they hit
stereo suicide dives. Matt tried to return to the ring. Ocada,
though held his legs that allowed Hetchisara to grab Matt

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Jackson and hit a hammer lock into a backbreaker. Matt
got isolated before he tagged in his brother, and he
got the better of all three heels, including a nice
simultaneous takedown of Okata Antakeushta. Nick followed up by jumping
off the apron and taking Hetchsaro down with the head scissors.
A little while later, Nick avoided Hetchesaro's hammerlocked backbreaker, he

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hit him with a destroyer. Okata tagged in. He called
for Omega, who also tagged in, and the two of
them traded punches and forearms in the middle of the ring.
Now there was a spot in here where Okata tagged in.
He called for Hetchisara to come take part in a
double team maneuver. Ta Qushta, though opted to do it instead,

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which displeased Okada. So Takesha shoved Okada out of the
way so that he and Hetchasaro could hit a double
sup plex on Omega, and Okada looked very annoyed about this.
Later on, Takeshda signal for a power drive knee. Late
in the match, Okada those stole it. He tried for
a rain maker Takeshtan Okada. They argued, Hetchesara now is

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standing in between them. He is trying to play peacemaker.
He is trying to keep the piece between these two men.
Not having a lot of luck, Takeshta sent Okada outside.
Omega then comes in. He hit Snapdragon suit plexes on Takeshta,
Hetcha Sero, and then Okada and the Elite Trio. They
hit a kneeling Hetcha Sara with a triple superkick. Omega

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hit Hetchesara with a V trigger and then held him
up while the Bucks helped out with the assisted one
winged Angel, and that led to the three count to
not just win the match, but to win the million dollars.
This should be like a game show where you win
a million dollar. Sirens go off, confetti falls, balloons. No,

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they just won the match. It's just like any other match.
Nothing means anything. I mean, if you're gonna put a
million fucking dollars on the line, Look, I know that
the Elite are probably multi millionaires all the money that
they've been paid by Tony Kahan over all these years.
But still it's a million dollars that you put on
the line in this match. You could at least make it,
make it feel like it's going to actually have an

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impact on their lives, as it would everybody watching the
television show. So when the match was over, Callous he's
holding onto the bag of money and Takesha and Okada.
They attacked the Bucks and Omega. We got a raging
fire and a rain maker that connected on the bucks
and Okada then shoves Takeshta and Takeshta returns the shove.

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Callous is on the apron. Now he is jumping up
and down. He's scrambling trying to get them to just
stop and behave themselves. Omega returns with a broom and
chases them from the ring. The cleaner is back. I
don't know that the crowd really picked up on that.

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The money was a non factor in all of this,
A complete and total non factor. It is a stupid
gimmick and Tony needs to give it a rest. I mean,
it's now we joke about all the titles and all
these things he loves to do, and the money stuff
like enough, especially when it comes to like a million dollars,
like it doesn't mean anything. It's such an arbitrary thing

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that they don't do anything to make the million dollar
match feel any differently than the four hundred thousand dollars
tag team match. It's just stupid. It's stupid. It has
no effect on anything. Please, for the love of God,
put it on the shelf. I know he is overflowing
with money. He just doesn't know what to do with it.
Please save your money. Please. I beg of you enough

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with the money. But I will say, anytime we get
Omega and Okada the ring together, I mean, you have
my attention. They had that great match obviously in Texas
at all in so we got a little bit of
Okada and Omega for the first time ever on Dynamite
here tonight, and I'm here for it. And of course
in this match, And really the main reason why this

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match was even booked in the first place was to
further the conflict between Takeshta and Okada. And there really
is nothing else at this point that they could possibly
do with these two outside of continuing to do angles
like the one they did tonight. And at this point
we have seen it so many times. There's only one

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thing left to do. Get them in the finals of
the Continental Classic. I will be stunned if the finals
ends up being anything other than Okada and Takeshta, and
if they do it, hopefully it's just match number one
and we get a second one somewhere along the way.
But I just don't see how it could be anything else.
I only say that because would Tony Kahan want to

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continue to tease and drag it out just a little
bit longer? I don't think so. I mean, you can't
discount the possibility. But like again, there's no aw pay
per views after World's end until Revolution, and Revolution I
think is March fifteenth. And if you're not going to
do it at World's end, and again I'm sure he will,

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but if you didn't do it at World's end, there's
really no other appropriate place to do it that first
meeting but on a pay per view. Can't have another
three months of this stuff? Yeah, I mean they have
done a very I think admirable job of building up
to this point where people now are hungry to want

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to see these two in the ring and just knock
each other's blocks off. You got to give it to him.
It's the only match that makes sense in the finals
of this tournament. Now you can debate the winner, like
if he wanted to extend this out to two matches,
three matches. Does he want Ocatta to win the first one? Look,
there is absolute lutely a chance that Okada wins that match.

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I would prefer it be you know, Takeshta. But if
the idea was that Okada goes on to win the
entire thing and then they extend it out to Revolution Dynasty,
you know whatever, fine, Like, I'm okay with that, and
then ultimately turning with the goal of turning to Kesha
full babyface and bouncing him out of the callis family, Like,
that's fine, but I I just I'm ready for the match.

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There's really not a whole lot left to do. It's
very repetitious at this point. The pay per view is
a week from Saturday, so we're not too far off.
And yeah, it's like the one main story that they
have been building now for months that I'm I'm really
I'm invested in. I'm fully into it, and I'm genuinely
excited for the payoff. I'm excited for the match. This

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really is the one. Now after this, it was time
for the contract signing for the AEW World Championship match
coming up at the World's End on December twenty seventh.
Now it was seemingly going to be Samoa Joe defending
the AW World Championship against Hangman, Adam Page and then Swerve.

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Strickland be Josh Alexander on Collision last week and laid
his claim to wanting a shot at the AW World Championship.
So this was going to be a contract signing for
a triple threat match. And if there was any physicality
between these men, we were told before this that they
would lose their spot in the match next Saturday. So

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that is how they got around the whole Like, how
come they're all standing around in the ring together and
not going after each other? No physicality. So Hangman was
out first, then Swerve and then the champion getting the
final entrance as he should. He came out with his
fellow OPS members. So Hobbs was out there. I don't
know what Shabbata out there. I don't know if Shabata

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was out there. Shabbata doesn't say anything. Shabbada just sort
of he just sort of fades into the background sometimes.
I don't know that he was there, But Hobbs was there,
and Hook was there. I know that. So Joe had
his World Championship slung over one shoulder, his Trios title
slung over the other, draped in gold is Samoa Joe,

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and he cut Tony Shavanni off right away. He said
that he brought his boys with him because things are
always very volatile when Hangman and Swerve are in the
ring together, so he just wanted to make sure that
everybody was safe and nobody was going to be triggered
enough to do something stupid. Now, he said this with
his arm around hook as they were smiling at Hangman

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after what happened in the main event of Full Gear.
So Joe signed the contract straight away, and he said
that he hopes the two of them make it to
World's End in one piece, short and sweet from the
AW World Champion. Then it was Swerve's turn, and he
said that he came back to AW four the World
Championship and if the outcome was different at Full Gear,

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he would be coming after Hangman right now. But after
all that they've been through, there is now a mutual
respect there between them and a mutual hatred there for
Samoa Joe. Now, the last time we had a contract signing,
he looked at Joe and he said, you put me
down badly. So badly that I had to sign the
contract in a pool of my own blood, and he

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paid Joe back by taking away his aw World championship,
just like he's going to do at world's end, he's
going to leave a boot print. He's going to stomp
him and leave a boot print on Joe's face so
bad it's going to be uglier than the face tattoo
he had on his face in two thousand and seven.

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We do not need to refer back to Russo's creative
when it comes to Samoa Joe. We can leave that
in the past where it belongs. No need to dig
up all the dead bodies from back then. So with that,
Swerve signed the contract, and then it was Hangman's turn,

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and he wanted to remind both of them that here
we are in December, but back in July we were
fighting together. We were not fighting against each other. We
were fighting together to end the tyranny of the Death Riders.
And Joe, it could just as easily have been you
beating John Moxley to win the world title, and Swerve

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if the two of them had figured things out before
he fought John Moxley, it could have just as easily
been swerve in that match. But when they figured it out,
it was left to him. Now what did he do?
He went in there and he became the aw world champion,
and he knew that his world champion. One by one,

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each of them would find their way across the ring
from him, and he would give them that opportunity. He
gave it to Joe, he said, he gave it to
Joe at Wrestle Dream and he failed. So instead of
accepting that, he turned to Shabata, and he turned to Hobbes,
and he turned to hook. Joe turned into what he
fought against. He is worse than the Death Riders on

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their worst day. Now, let's not exaggerate. Okay, let's not
get carried away here. Samoa Joe's as bad or worse
than the Death Riders on their worst day. Okay, you
lost me there, hangman, Okay, you lost me there. I
cannot endorse that statement. Joe has no self respect, he
has no dignity left, and in the twilight years of

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his career, he would hate for the legend of Samoa
Joe to be remembered for the piece of shit that
he is today. And they went nose to nose as
world champion, Hangman planned on defending that title against everybody
who helped him. That includes Darby Allen, that includes will Osprey,

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and he knew that there would come a time when
once again he would stand across the ring from you. Swerve.
You said that you came back to a to challenge
for the World Championship, and if he was the champion,
he would have expected nothing less from him, and if
Swerve would have beaten him, he would have accepted that
defeat and handed the title to him. But that is

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not the world that we live in. At World's end,
this will be a three way match, and he can't
guarantee who's gonna leave is the champion, but he can
guarantee that it will not be Samoa Joe. He said,
Joe has messed up worse than he knows in making
an enemy out of the two of them, and with that,
Hangman signed the contract to make the match official. Tony

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Shavani said, there it is. You were a three way
match for the AW World Championship at World's End until
the lights went out. The lights went out and we
hear mjp's music and he got a huge reaction walking
out for the first time in many months. I don't
even remember the last time we saw him on TV.

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I don't remember what episode of Dynamite it was, or
what pay per view it might have been. But it's
been a while. He's been filmed, he's been doing stuff,
he's been taking some time for himself, and now MJF
is finally back on TV and the fans sang his
song or hummed his song. It has no fucking words.
As he came down to the ring. So he gets
into the ring and he was showered in MJF chance,

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he's also got new hair. I should point that out.
His hair looked very different. He has nicer hair and
more hair on his head now than he did when
he debuted in this company in twenty nineteen. So maybe
that's also. Yeah, he was again. He was doing a
lot of different things when he was away, but he
looked rested, he looked well, and he looked ready to go. Here.

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He summoned smart Mark Sterling over. He was outside. He
summoned him over and he handed him a clipboard with
a contract on it, and he signed it before handing
it over to Tony Schavanni, and Shavanni said, well, MJF
just signed his guaranteed contract for a shot at the
AW World Championship that he won in the Casino Gauntlet

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many months ago. But he cashed now again, the rules
of cashing in this contract were changed. It's no longer
money in the bank rules. You now need to give
at least a week's notice before you can cash in
and get your World Championship opportunity. Evidently, what he has
done is he has cashed in his contract that he

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has been carrying around for months to be added to
the Triple Threat match at World's End, thus making the
Triple Threat match a fatal four way match. It is
now a four way for the AW World Championship and
mjftel Shavanni to shut up. He called him a tubagoo.

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He said. People are probably wondering why he would cash
in his contract against three other people instead of one. Yeah,
that's the first question on everybody's mind. I'm sure after
he made this announcement, said Hangman once called him a coward.
Maybe he was right. The old hymn would have taken
every shortcut to get what he wants. But he needs

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to hurt Hangman, and what better way to do it
than by taking the title back by beating him and
two of his biggest rivals in one fell swoop. That way,
he and his fans have zero excuses. So Joe started talking.
MJF snapped at him to shut his mouth. He said
he still hates him. When Joe took the title away

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from him. These people, all these fans here, they turned
on him. They turned on MJF. And as much as
he hates to admit it, the fans get to dictate
who goes down as an all time great. And it's
not just that he wants to be an all time great.
He needs to be an all time great. Joe's luck
has run out. He's about to make Joe fall back

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harder than his hairline. World's end the same place Joe
ended his title reign, I end yours. Swerve piped up
said that if there's anyone MJF needs to be afraid
of in this ring, it's him. MJF said, Shane reminds
him of this famous musician. They both call themselves moguls,

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they both rock way too much baby oil, and they're
both dog shit rappers. Says the name's on the tip
of his tongue. P Diddy, Yes, we got a p
Diddy joke here, he said, pop Quita's class whose house?
Let's talk about that. These people know him as Swerve,

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but when they were eighteen years old grinding it out
on the indies, he knew him as Shane and they
both went their own way and MJF went on to
become the hottest young star in AW while Shane went
to WWE. And I mean, those initials are just sacrilegious.
You can't say that on an AW show. So of
course all the fans begin to boo, and MJF says, no, no, no,

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it's a perfectly good company. As for Swars run there
he goes, eh, it wasn't so great. It wasn't so great,
though he thoroughly enjoyed watching him twerk for top dollar.
But then he came knocking in AW and he got
freaking jacked and he became a tag team champion, which

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just reminds me, I hope Keith Lee is doing well.
You don't hear about him anymore. Was the last time
we had any sort of update on Keith Lee. They
were a very good team. Actually, Swerve in our glory
was a very good team. But he said that Swerve

(28:38):
was a tag team champion. He beat sloppy Joe over
there for the world title, and he held it for
a whopping one hundred twenty six days. It was not bad, folks,
although he had it for four hundred and six but
who's county. But see, Shane, now we have a problem
because you're in my way. You're swerve stomping around like
you own the damn place. You've been a very sloppy tenant.

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So no, this isn't your house. This is my house.
The rent has come due, and the devil is here
to collect. Says that you can call him Michael corleone
because he's about to handle all his family business. December
twenty seventh, Chicago, Illinois, World's End. He gets back what's

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rightfully his His trip will be his aw world championship.
And do all you folks happen to know why? Because
his name is Maxwell Jacob Friedman and I'm better than you.
And he allowed the fans to finish off that statement,
he dropped the mic and he left the ring. Thank god,

(29:47):
he is back. He is back. Yes, he has been missed.
This was a long segment, but it was a great segment.
It was a great return for MJF who dropped the
bomb on the World's End main event. Again, this main
event now goes from being a three way to being
a four way, and right away. The thing I like

(30:08):
the most is that they took the time as soon
as he announced this. You know that he was cashing
his contract to address the obvious elephant in the room,
which is why the fuck would he do this? You know,
he earned that contract. He still has time to cash
in that contract, and so why would you want to
cash it in against three other men instead of just one?

(30:31):
Why make it a harder mountain to climb? And so
he addressed that right off the bat, and he said, look,
you know, I've been called a coward. I've been called
this and that, and I cheat and I take shortcuts,
And so what better way to get back at everybody
in this ring and get back at hangman if I
throw myself into this match and potentially take your opportunity
away from you to become the world champion and prove

(30:54):
to you that I don't need to take these shortcuts, right.
I take them because I want to. I take because
I'm an asshole, but doesn't mean that I need to.
So I'm gonna call your bluff and I'm going to
cash in my contract and I'm gonna make sure that
you don't become the aw World Champion and I get
my belt back. Now you can still look at that

(31:15):
and go, man, you know, just logically though it's still dumb,
but you know what, he addressed it. He addressed it.
I'm glad that they took the time to try to
explain why MJF, who in the past has taken the
coward's way out, would all of a sudden, you know,
show some integrity and say, you know what, I'm confident
that I could win this championship, even though my chances

(31:37):
go way down in a four way as compared to
a singles match. At least they addressed it. So that
was the thing that I liked there right at the
top of his promo. The other thing is this means
he and this is what I was thinking before we
got to the end of the show, like I'm watching
this and I'm going this is great because it means
he's going after the gold and not the stupid ring.

(32:00):
He has held the Dynamite Diamond ring every single year
that this company has been in existence, from almost day one,
it has become less so some sort of trophy that
anybody can win, even though it technically is, but it
really has become a part of his character. It's become
a part of his gimmick. It's become a part of him.
It's not the AW Diamond Ring, It's the MJF Diamond Ring.

(32:23):
That's basically what it's become. Until now he's got bigger
fish to fry, He's got bigger things to chase after
instead of a fucking ring which that doesn't have magical powers. Okay,
he's exhausted all of its magical powers. He doesn't need
it anymore. Let somebody else win it. Maybe they can
incorporate it into their own gimmick the way that he

(32:44):
has over the last six years. So this all but
guaranteed unless he's snuck in as a last minute's surprise
that we were finally going to get a new holder
of the Diamond Ring, which is for the better. But
I look at it, who's in this main event now
at World's end, And I mean, you look at this
collection of talent in that match, and the collection of
talent in this match is pretty sick. And what I

(33:06):
love is that they all have history of some kind
with each other. We know the history with MJF and Joe.
We know that Joe and Hangman they've already had a
couple of matches. We know that Swerve won his first
World championship from Samoa Joe at Dynasty. We know that
Hangman and Swerve have had, if not the one of

(33:27):
the greatest feuds in aw history, a feud that actually
elevated both men, more so Swerve because what that first,
even the first match they had, let alone all the
craziness that came later on into the cage and everything,
that was really the match and the program, the feud
that elevated Swerve to a level in this company that

(33:49):
he was not at before, where people looked at him
and go, you know what, this is the main event player.
Even if you thought that he had the ability and
the talent to one day get there, sometimes all it
takes is working with that one guy. It's like what
Brett Hart did for Steve Austin in WWE. It's like
the perfect analogy. Austin was very talented. Everybody knew he
was very talented, and there were probably people who looked

(34:10):
at him and said, you know what, this could be
a main event player one day, but you know what,
he's not quite there yet. And then he started calling
out Brett Hart, and Brett Hart came back and they
worked together and he beat him. But you know what,
between that and the wrestle Mania match, that took Austin
to a level that maybe he would have gotten there.
We'll never know, but it would have taken a hell
of a lot longer that feud. Even though he lost

(34:31):
all those matches, that feud elevated him. Working with Hangman
elevated Swerve to world champion status, and the matches they
had were great, gory, a little too gory, sometimes gory, violent, brutal, bloody,
all those things. So there's a lot of history there now.

(34:54):
MJF and Swerve they have never wrestled in aw before,
but they have already teased at least a couple of
times before. They've had some run ins, they've had some
interactions on TV. So we haven't gotten the match yet,
but we've gotten the teases for it, and so now
we're going to get the chance to see them in
the ring together. It's not going to be a singles match,
but we get to see them share a pay per

(35:17):
view main event where you know they're all going to
go absolutely out of their minds and I'm sure do
all kinds of crazy shit. But I'm very much looking
forward to this match, and again I like that there's
a lot of ties that bind all four of these
men together. Realistically, the title either stays with Samoa Joe

(35:37):
or goes to MJF. I don't see Hangman winning the
belt back in this match. I don't see Swerve winning
the belt back in this match. That is something you
should take your time with and really, if you're going
to do it, build to it. In twenty twenty six,
we still don't know when will Osprey is going to
be back. Surely he should be in that mix. Be great.
If he was back in time for that Wembley show,

(35:59):
that may be you know, pushing it. But when they
get him back in the mix, he'll certainly be in
the world title picture as well. But yeah, I mean
this this main event. I was already looking forward to it,
but more so now. More so now I'm very much
looking forward to that match and getting MJF back. At
this time, when Darby Allen is out, we don't know

(36:23):
for how long will Ospray is out. We don't know
for how long. Bobby Lashley is out. We don't know
for how long, but evidently it's gonna be for a while.
I still don't know what the exact injury is. MVP
was the one who announced that Lashley was hurt last week.
That's why Shelton Benjamin was in the Battle Royal tonight
and not Bobby Lashley, and then Fightful was reporting that apparently,

(36:44):
whatever the injury is, it's expected to keep him out
for an extended period of time, which basically means the
Hurt Syndicate is dead. The Hurt Syndicate is on the
back burner for the foreseeable future. Without Bobby Lashley, there
is no Hurt Syndicate and the Hurt Sinner was one
of the most popular acts in the entire company, so

(37:04):
they're missing a lot of people. Getting MJF back is
a very big deal for them. I'm glad he's back.
We had a giant eight women tag team match with
the new women's Tag team champions, the Babes of Wrath,
Willow Nightingale, and Harley Cameron teaming up with Tony Storm

(37:26):
and Mina sheer Acawa. The women they beat in the
finals of that tournament to take on the TBS champion,
Mercedes Monet, Athena, Megan Bain and Marina Shaffir. They did
not have a lot of time here. I don't even
think this went ten minutes, so there was a lot
of craziness here and just it was a sprint in

(37:49):
a very short period of time. Marina was out there
just in the course of the match, just dropping f
bombs like they were going out of style. Harley sent
Megan to the outside and Shaffir came in with a
tiger faint head scissors in the ropes. Storm flew in
with a hip attack before Mina hit an assisted dive

(38:10):
from the top onto the floor outside. Athena tagged Monette
before wiping out the pile with a dive of her own,
so Mercedes was legal and Monette wanted a dive, but
she ran right into a pounce by Willow, who followed
up with a cannon ball off the apron onto everybody outside. Meanwhile,
back inside, Willow rolls into the ring and she gets

(38:33):
caught with an O face off the top by Athena.
She didn't see it coming, so the O face takes
her down. Mercedes is legal and she very quickly scrambles
over and she covers Willow Nightingale to get the pin
to win for her team. Tag team champions have been defeated.

(38:53):
But here's the bigger issue that I had with this finish.
Athena has been Ring of Hoannor Women's World Champion for
well over a thousand days. Most of those matches, if
not the championship itself, she won with that move. That's
her finishing move. She has put down many women with
that move. She drops Willow with the O face, and

(39:18):
Mercedes scrambles over and covers her and pins her, and
as soon as she pins Willow, Willow pops up like
nothing ever happened. What you just got dropped with the
woman's finish. She is the Ring of Honor forever champion.
She's put countless women away with this move. You just

(39:39):
took her finish and you bounce right back up as
if you got rolled up with a small package. Because
ashot as the finish just is referee county three. Willow
pop right up and you know, chase Mercedes out of
the ring, and then Mercedes and Athena were celebrating and
then off they went. But I'm like, I'm watching this
going why is she popping up and no selling this

(40:01):
woman's finish? It doesn't make any sense, So that was stupid.
But they are setting up Mercedes and Willow or Mercedes
and Athena. That was very clear coming out of this
match for a shot at the Women's Tag Team Championships
probably at World's End, And then later in the show

(40:22):
on the Collision portion of the night, we got confirmation
that in fact Athena and Mercedes because Athena threw the
challenge out and then Tony Kahan made it official. Later
on we got the graphic and everything. At World's End,
it will be Mercedes and Athena challenging Willow and Harley
for the women's tag team titles. If you remember, Willow

(40:43):
and Harley beat them in the semi finals of the
Tag team title tournament. So this is where Mercedes and
Athena are going to be out for revenge. They're going
to be out to avenge the loss in the tournament,
and they should lose again because under no circumstances, what
I'd be taking these titles off of Willow and Harley
right now? They just won them. They just won the titles.

(41:07):
You just beat them in their first match coming out
of that for the purposes of setting up this match
at the pay per view. Fine, now they need to
go in there and beat some ass and win. Otherwise
this whole it renders the entire tournament pointless if they
go in there at World's End and just drop the
belts to Mercedes in Athena, we sat through an entire

(41:28):
tournament for no reason if all they do is go
in there and change the belts. So they should absolutely
go in there and retain. And I wouldn't even mind
them trying again in twenty twenty six and trying to
set up something with Mercedes and Athena. I would have
liked to have seen a more extended feud with them. Instead,
we got the one match on Dynamite back in what April,

(41:48):
and it was a great match, might have been in Boston,
and then we never saw it again. So I'd rather
see them back out opposing sides rather than being any
sort of long term team. But that's how I would
see things shaping up at World's End there now. In
that same backstage interview later in the show, Mercedes said

(42:09):
that she would also be defending her rev pro British
Heavyweight Championship on Collision this Saturday. She's gonna put her
title on the line, one of the many many championships
that she still has. It's going to be an open
challenge and she should lose that as well, because that

(42:30):
will just further the downfall that really began when she
dropped the Ring of Honor TV title to Red Velvet
at Final Battle a couple of weeks ago. So I
would expect the Rev Pro Championship to come off of
her this weekend and for her to not win the
tag team titles at world's end. Right, no more titles

(42:50):
need to be added. We're in this phase now where
the next championship than Mercedes wins later next year will
be the AW Women's World Championship. There should be no
other titles added to her roster of championships until she
wins the world title. From here on out, however long

(43:11):
it takes, one by one by one, each title will
fall off. I would save the TBS title for last,
but that is how this will progress. There's no reason
to add any more belts around her waist. I don't
care if it's singles, I don't care if it's tag team.

(43:31):
I don't care if it's if it's a fucking gold
medal or a trophy. She has all the accolades. She's
all maxed out on accolades right now. Now you lose
them one by one by one. By the way, that
episode of Collision on Saturday, for those of you who
care to watch, is airing earlier two thirty pm Eastern

(43:54):
on TNT, so be aware of that. We had Kyle
Fletcher again Pack Gold League match in the Continental Classic.
Given they were in England, Pack was treated like the
hometown favorite here by the fans. The only time any
one of the Death Riders will get a reaction like

(44:15):
that is when they're in their hometown. So if it's
John Moxley in what Cincinnati Pack in the UK, uh, Claudia, well,
I guess they're not going to run any shows there.
They're not running any shows where Claudio is from. And
then you got Daniel Garcia and you've got Wheeler Yuda,
and I mean, at that point, I want to say

(44:39):
Garcia is a California guy, but I could be completely
wrong about that. I could be like they did win
the PWG title. I guess that doesn't mean he's from California, though,
But we had Kyle Fletcher and Pack. We got a
series of reversals to kick things off. Pack tried to
keep Fletcher grounded in the early go, Fletcher escaped, Pack

(45:02):
floated over into a snap Hurri Knrata sent Fletcher outside
to regroup. Pack quickly went out after him, only to
get turned inside out by a lariat. Back in the ring.
Taking too long to go up top, Fletcher got caught
when Pack jumped up to join him on the ropes,
and he delivered an avalanche release belly to belly souplex,

(45:23):
heading into a commercial break. You know, I'm looking at
Pack these days, man like he is just ripped to
shreds and like his shoulders and everything like he like
I don't know, I don't even know, Like I don't
even know because he's not obviously he's not the biggest
guy in the roster height wise, but like I see

(45:45):
him out there now, and he is as like Jack
as he has been his entire career, like in WWE
or anywhere else. It's just such a weird body type,
like he's I don't know, I don't know what the
secret is. I don't know what he's been doing. I mean,
I guess there was a period of time that went
by there where he had a lot of time to

(46:06):
just work out and get his body into a state
that no one's ever seen it before. Good for him,
but I don't know, It's just it's crazy to see
the transformation that he's undergone. So during the break, both
men turned each other inside out with a double clothes
line on the floor. Came back with the Pack trying
his home run Lariot only to run into a Mitchioku

(46:28):
driver for two pack teas the black Arrow Fletcher, they'll
rolled outside, so instead Pack readjusted and hit a huge
moonsaw out to the floor. Back inside the Tiger Suplex landed,
but Fletcher kicked out and we had The ring announcer
for the show, by the way, was Arcady Aura, so
she made the trip overseas. She did the ring announcing

(46:48):
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went for a black arrow Fletcher roll to the opposite
side of the ring. Pack avoided a second Mitchie Noku driver.
He spiked Fletcher with a poison rana. Pack again tried
his big lariat, but he ran into a leg lariat
in the corner or not in the corner, but he

(49:40):
was basically doing the bron breaker thing where he's hitting
the ropes back and forth building up speed. And when
he hit the ropes and he went to go come off,
he got met with a leg lariat by Fletcher, who
then gave him a lager bomb only for a two count.
Pack avoided the brainbuster. He attempted a flying crossbody. He
got caught. Pack though floated over and he applied a

(50:03):
brutalizer and then he got Fletcher down. He flattened him
on the mat and he put on a proper brutalizer
and Fletcher was fading. It looked like he was going
ninety nine, but he managed to get his foot on
the bottom rope third time was a charm though for
a very frustrated Pack, who finally hit the home run
lariot for a close two count. Pack quickly went up

(50:25):
top of the black Arrow. Fletcher exploded up, crouched him
on the ropes, and Pack took this just horrendous crash
and burn fall where he bounced off the buckle and
the ropes on the way down and landed on the mat.
Once he staggered back up to his feet, though in
the corner, Fletcher caught him with a Halluba kick. Fletcher

(50:48):
spiked Pack with the brain buster, Pack kicked out and
the crowd cheered, yeah, like he's this just big, returning,
conquering babyface here. Fletcher wanted his buckle Brainbuster, Pack, though
fought out of it to an avalanche poison raana, and
he followed that finally with the Black Arrow to get
the win. That black Arrow was clean and it got

(51:10):
a huge reaction too. Always said it's a great looking finish.
It's probably the most beautiful looking finisher in all of wrestling.
And I was saying that back when he was still
Neville you know wrestling, Remember when he wrestled Seth Rollins
on raw that time for the WWE Championship. He's been
using that move for over a decade now and just

(51:31):
he hit this one clean, great finish, great match. It's
been a reoccurring theme here with in particular Kyle Fletcher
in this tournament. He goes out there, He's had a
bunch of great matches. So now we've got a four
way tie atop the Gold League. We have Okada, Fletcher, Speedball,
and Pack. They were all tied with six points each.

(51:55):
After this, it was time for the Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal.
Just shy of the ten PM hour. The last two
men remaining will meet one on one next Wednesday on Dynamite,
not only for the Diamond Ring, but for the right
to then go on to challenge for the AW World Championship.
January fourteenth. That's the maximum carnage episode of Dynamite. Imagine

(52:18):
going through the entire month and just all of the
relentless matches in this round robin Continental Classic and all
it's again it's their version of the g One and
you go through this entire tournament all for the right
to win the Continental Championship. But you win a Battle

(52:41):
Royal on this show, you win a Battle Royal on
this show, you still got one more match after that.
So you win the Battle Royal, you win a singles match,
but then you get a shot at the AW World title.
There's just something very ass backwards about this. It's a
little too easy to get a World Championship match as
compared to everything the he's meta putting themselves through in

(53:02):
this tournament. Something just feels off about this. But nonetheless,
here in this Battle Royal, no MJF. So we knew
that we were finally gonna have a new owner of
this diamond ring. So the participants were Shelton Benjamin again,
no Bobby Lashley because he's hurt, Lucasaurus, Ricochet, The Gates

(53:23):
of Agony, Brody King, Bandido, Josh Alexander, Mark Davis, Anthony Bowens,
Max Caster, and Ace Austen. When the hell was the
last time we saw Ace Austin on AW Dynamite. I
think the answer is never. I mean, it's just it's true. Yeah,

(53:47):
I mean, he's talented, but he doesn't get featured on
this show. But he's in a Battle Royal where he
could be in line for a World Championship match. Yes,
Mark Davis, Ace Austen Tota Leona, unbelievable. Wrestlers were already

(54:08):
surrounding in the ringside area. They made their entrance. As
some were making their entrance, the demand actually attacked Brodido
in the aisle as they were on their way down
to the ring. So they finally decided to ring the bell.
There were only six guys in the ring. Well, let's
ring the bell. I think we're ready to kick things
off here, okay, so the bell sounds. Benjamin and lucasaur

(54:28):
as they slugged it out. We had the former members
of the acclaimed, we had Castor, we had Bowen's reluctantly
in agreement. Here they were going to do their old
scissor me timber spot, which they did, and then they
each went to a corner and they were teasing scissoring
each other. But as they started to come in, Ricochet

(54:51):
grabbed Max Castor and dumped them out over the top
row Ace. Austin got launched over the top by Mark Davis,
who also eliminated Anthony Bowens before they went to commercial.
Ricochet springboarded into the clutches of Shelton Benjamin, who launched
him into a Lucosaurus choke slam, Benjamin got tossed out

(55:12):
by Alexander. Davis got dumped by Lucasaurus, who was then
eliminated by Alexander. King fought off all of the Demand
members and he gave Ricoshet a running death valley driver
into the corner, onto too Leona, Josh Alexander. He picked
King's leg with an ankle lock. Brody rolled through into
a Bandido monkey flip, eliminating Alexander. So Brody was stalking

(55:36):
Ricochet out on the outside and he squashed him up
against the barricade. Toto Leoni meanwhile launched Brody into the
front row. Bandido escaped the Fireman's carried by Bishop Kahn,
but he did not see too Leona sneak up from behind.
He was about to eliminate him when Brody King returned.
He took the bullet for his partner and he eliminated

(55:57):
himself and Toto Leona, so the two of them were
gun and then Bandido hit a hurd kanran As, sending
Bishop over the top rope to the floor, and that
left Bandido and rikoshon. Now Ricochet I think was kind
of hanging out outside and then as soon as it
came down to Bandido. Only that's when Ricochet slid back
into the ring and they ring the bell and everybody

(56:20):
in the crowd looks and sounds very confused. But at
that point, the Battle Royal is over and they make
the announcement that next week on Dynamite, it will be
Ricochet one on one with Bandido. Two men who already
have championships are going to wrestle for the Diamond Ring
and a shot at potentially another championship, and that match

(56:41):
will happen on Dynamite next week. This was I thought
this Battle Royal, for the most part, was very lame.
You know, sometimes they'll do a Battle Royal like this
because it was a television Battle Royal, and sometimes they'll
do a Battle Royal like this and it hits. It's like, man,
you know what, this was fun. This was not one
of those times, and the crowd was clearly caught off guard.

(57:05):
I don't know if in the introductions for the Battle
Royal they made it clear to the people in the
arena what the rules were, but even if they did,
people were stunned. When the bell rang, They're like, wait,
what the fuck what? We still got two guys left
here not realizing that, yeah, you don't get to see
that match because that's happening next week back in the States.

(57:28):
And yeah, that was especially for the live crowd, ended
up being a very lame finish. But I will say this,
you know, Ricochet against Bandido is a very good match.
They're going to do that match. They're taping this weekend
for Christmas week, So they're taping this weekend here in
New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom. I think they're doing

(57:49):
Saturday and Sunday taping, so that's where they're going to
be doing the match. Again. On paper, it sounds like
a hell of a match, and honestly, the Diamond ring
is perfect for Ricochet. I'm sure Rikoshet is going to
win the ring, which means, by the way, that if Ricochet,
if I'm right and Rickoshet is going to win the

(58:10):
Diamond Ring, it actually would make more sense for him
to be defending the title against the baby face if
you think about it. I mean, you could do Samoa
Joe against Ricochet, you could do MJF against Ricochet. I
just think it would make more sense to do Ricochet
and Hangman Rickoshet and Swerve. Obviously, the two of them

(58:30):
have history together going back to earlier this year. I
just as I sit here right now, I just don't
see Hangman or Swerve, you know, walking out with that championship.
But I do think that Rikoshet winning the title or ring,
whatever you want to call it, makes the most sense,
and then he could take that ring honestly, like him

(58:52):
walking around with his gaudy ring on his finger and
occasionally using it as a weapon to win matches like
it just suits him, it suits that. The hell does
Bandido need the ring for it? Like the ring is
not even really a babyface gimmick, It's meant for a heel.
I just I can't imagine giving it to Bandido unless

(59:12):
they just want to do away with it. He probably
win it and then we would never see it again.
You know what, now that I say that out loud,
maybe that is the better idea. Let's just get rid
of the ring altogether. If MJF is not gonna have it,
then there's probably no point in anybody walking around with it.
So this is where the collision parts of the show

(59:33):
kicked off. You know, it's very annoying. I watch the
show each week on HBO Max I just think overall,
it's just for me a better viewing experience. But when
the show ends, it's the dumbest thing because the show
ends on these three hour nights, and technically now it's Collision,
So the stream just ends and there's a screen. It

(59:55):
just stays on that screen, thank you for watching. So
you've got to close out of that and then go
find Collision, which usually is a little further down on
the menu, and just open Collision and then it just
picks up and it just goes from there. It's like
Raw and war Zone back in the day, like two
separate shows, except it's, you know, for tonight for the

(01:00:16):
purposes of tonight. Really it's not, but in the official listings,
I guess it is. So John Moxley is backstage. I
don't think I missed too much of this promo. I
missed a little bit of this promo in the switchover
to Collision, but he's in the back and he says
he likes the Continental Classic because it's very simple. You
step into the ring, you bring whatever you got, and

(01:00:37):
everything is laid bare. There's nowhere to hide. The deeper
the tournament gets, the more that gets revealed. Moxley pushes
people's buttons. He antagonizes them, which changes people because some
people react differently than others. Some become monsters like Kyle O'Reilly,
while Roderick Strong is better than he's ever been. Really,

(01:01:00):
Roderick Strong, who I believe, I believe has zero points
in this tournament, he's better than he's ever been. Okay,
so he said that he left Moxley thirty seconds away
from being shit out of luck in this tournament. In
their match tonight, whatever happens, Moxley wants to know that

(01:01:23):
he didn't leave any bullets in the chamber, and he
left it all out there. This was a fine babyfaced
promo here from heel John Moxley. They need to be
booting him out of there soon. If he's gonna be
going out there cutting promos like this, you can be

(01:01:43):
cutting promos like that. He should not be very long
for the Death Riders. We had Orange Cassidy against Mascerriderata
in a Blue League match in the Continental Classic. Both
men came in with just three points each. The match
was okay, I mean it was not as joyable as
the earlier ones. Cassidy or Derata rather was on the apron.

(01:02:05):
When Cassidy went for an orange punch, Dorada avoided it
and then wrench Cassidy's arm over the top rope. And
then a few seconds later, Dorada went for a top
rope jump into an arm drag, but Cassidy hooked him
into a flash pin and he got the win, so
he gets the three points. Jamie Hater got a win
over Aila Dawn with the haterade, since Jamie is the

(01:02:27):
one getting a championship match against Chris Statlander at the
pay per view next weekend. After the match, Aila and
Jamie they were showing respect to one another, but here
comes the Triangle of Madness and they attacked both women.
They knock Ala out of the ring as Julia Hart
uses her belt to begin whipping Hater. Here comes Statlander

(01:02:48):
to make the save, and in all of the confusion
that was going on in the ring, Hayter accidentally lays
out the women's World champion with hateraid and she was
all like whoops, like fucking Steve Urkele out there. Yeah,
she didn't really care that she put this woman down,

(01:03:09):
and then she picked up the title and she stared
at Chris from across the ring. Someone who needs to
be involved in the women's world title picture coming out
of World's End is Tecla. And it really doesn't matter
whether Statlander retains Hater wins Tecla. I think should be
next in line to be challenging for that championship. And

(01:03:33):
then they closed the show at the very end with
FTR retaining their aw tag team titles over Juice Robinson
and Austin Gunn. Late in the match FTR, they were
lining up for a shatter machine. Austin pulled Wheeler out
of the ring and he posted him, so Dax went
to go for the shatter machine but didn't realize that

(01:03:54):
Cash wasn't there. Harwood got pinned, but Wheeler got his
partner's foot on the road, which the referee saw, but
the Bang Bang Gang did not. They think they won
the match, they think they won the titles. The match
continues though FTR got chop blocks top rope stomp from
Wheeler to the leg of Robinson and Cash. Wheeler, with

(01:04:16):
the submission, got Robinson to tap out. Are you like that? Ba?
Come on, man to me, how many of you grew
up on Erkele Peace in the Middle East Reign in Spain,

(01:04:36):
I mean, there's so many great quotes from back in
the day, got in eat cheese. Well, that will not
be one of my quotes, but yes, that was one
of his. So FTR retains the tag team titles as
if there was ever any doubt, and I could not
click off fast enough because it's like, fuck, it's eleven
o three, the show is still going on. I gotta

(01:04:58):
stream to do. Click let's wind this down. So look,
you got some good wrestling on the show. You get
good wrestling in this tournament every week. I still have
not seen a match that I think has matched the
level of or the intensity of the Kyle Fletcher Speedball

(01:05:19):
Mike Bailey match. To me, that's still a number one
in this tournament. But outside of that, it was really
all about MJF coming back. There was really nothing else
on this show that really stands out all that much,
Especially in the Collision hour, there was virtually nothing that
stands out to me. But it was all about the
return of MJF. It's good to have him back. It's
good that he will be back in that World's End

(01:05:41):
main event. I'm looking forward to that again. Maybe they'll
surprise me and they'll put it on one of the
baby faces in that match. I don't I don't see
it going that way. I just feel like would Swerve, especially,
they may want to extend that chase out a little
bit longer. Like if you were to say to me, like, Okay,
we're gonna put it on one of the baby faces,

(01:06:03):
then I would say, put it back on Hangman. Put
it back on Hangman. And I like the idea that
of building to Hangman defending the championship against Swerve next year.
I would not put the belt on Swerve right now.
I think it's premature. He just came back. You got
to build to it. You know, he's going to be
one of those top baby faces for them, him and Hangman.

(01:06:24):
Kenny is being phased out. Kenny clearly is hurting and
either he and or Tony Kahan do not have faith
in him to go out there on all of these
pay per views and just have these killer singles matches
against all these guys. So Kenny is always going to
be a top guy in this company. He's you know,

(01:06:45):
he's a legend, but he's not going to be in
that top top mix when it comes to the world title.
And Osprey is still many months away from coming back.
Swerve is going to be that guy, so build to it,
you know, don't just throw the championship on him, you know.
A month after he comes back, we'll see how they

(01:07:07):
go with it. This is the Twitter poll. What did
you think of the Holiday Bash edition of aw Dynamite
fifty eight point five percent thumbs up, forty one point
five percent thumbs down at Solo Monster. That is where
you can vote in these polls. You guys already knew

(01:07:28):
that Elder Murray. What were the original plans for the
for Bray Wyatt, Uncle Howdy and Alexa Bliss is a faction?
Was it meant for Uncle Howdy to bring them all together?
We're never going to know. Nobody knows. Nobody knows except
Bray and Bow And I don't even know if Alexa
would have included as to all that stuff, So unfortunately

(01:07:51):
we'll never know for sure. I would imagine we would
have been headed. I would I think we were going
to be headed towards Bray against Howdy. Eventually buy or
sell Brett versus Diesel or Brett versus Sean as what

(01:08:14):
a match a feud? As a feud Brett versus Sean?
I mean, that's a no brainer for talking matches. I mean,
there were so many different ones. Breton Diesel alone had
three different ones on pay per view, Breton Sean had
a whole bunch on pay per view. Breton Sean had

(01:08:35):
the better matches. So I guess that answers your question.
Scena versus Edge or Scena versus Punk? Scena versus punk?
What is your favorite raw moment during Christmas? Stone Cold
stunning Santa Claus. Do you think Savage should have won

(01:08:57):
the Royal Rumble in nineteen ninety three if it got
us Brett against Savage a WrestleMania, then yes, that was
the first year that winning the Royal Rumble punched your
ticket to the main event of WrestleMania. Instead, not only
did he lose, but he looked like a dumb shit
because he tried to pin Yoko Zuna, which I mean

(01:09:19):
a veteran like Randy Savage, who's been in multiple Royal
Rumbles before being eliminated because he tried to pin someone
is pretty fucking stupid. Lord Torron, do you see Stephanie
McMahon headlining the Hall of Fame? I wouldn't put it
past Triple H to have his wife headline. God, I

(01:09:41):
hope not. She's not gonna headline the Hall of Fame.
I don't know if it's gonna be seen. It should
be seen. It really depends on his availability in Vegas
next year should be it should be Johnsen, but Stephanie
is the headliner. Would be incredibly stupid. Uh, dried chicken
and rib. Let me tell you how Gunther can get

(01:10:02):
more heat on himself. He goes to a mall, talks
to Santa Chop, Saint Nick, and makes kids cry. Yeah,
Gunther has to make all the little kids cry. Now
little snop bubbles coming out of their ears or their nose.
If he can make snop bubbles come out of their ears,

(01:10:22):
that would be very impressive. That would be very impressive.
Drew McIntyre got a lot of bad ideas coming for
Cody Rhodes sends a snake to the rhodeshouse as a
Christmas prey. Let's not steal past storyline ideas. Okay, we
can be a little more creative than that. Emperor commet.

(01:10:43):
We want Vince Chance at WWE And now I'm hearing
ditty chance on aw, Yeah, I did hear that. I
did hear the dipshits in the crowd tonight chanting for
Diddy Wink the Cosmic Grandma. That Battle Royal was a
total nothing burger. At least the right to won it.
Glad to see MJF back in the title picture. Yeah,

(01:11:06):
the Battle Royal was garbage, but we're gonna get a
good match out of it. At least, so Rikoshe and
Bandido will be good. Tuxedo t Servo. MJF referring to
WWE is a perfectly good company actually got me to
laugh out loud. So glad he's back. Arabian Night, says MJF.

(01:11:27):
Always mentioning WWE is still lame. I know he wants
to end up there, probably in twenty twenty seven, but
still it adds nothing to the promo in my opinion.
Glad he is back, though, well, I mean, at least
they've scaled back on the WWE mentions on television. It
felt like there was a period of time where we
were getting a mention every couple of weeks, whether it

(01:11:48):
was MJF, whether it was Jericho, whether it was somebody
else Dead Kirby twenty two, should NXT start to market
the brand as a large budget indie think Ring of
Honor and maybe bring a couple of overseas guys in.
I think the roster has potential. I mean, they tried

(01:12:11):
that already. That was the whole Black and Gold era.
It basically rated Ring of Honor, stripped it of all
of the key guys that were over there, Zane Rollins,
Owens and so on and so forth. Right to sorrow
Hero Jimmie Jacobs. That was the Black and Gold era. Baby.

(01:12:39):
I think they have their system now and there's no
reason for them to deviate from it. They got a
lot of talent there in the pipeline. Anytime they want,
they could go out and bring in a hot free
agent from the indie scene overseas or really from anywhere
in this country internationally and just integrate them into the

(01:13:00):
current system that they have down in Orlando, the one
Ray pass More. I wish people in AW did not
take extended absences. I could say the same thing about WWE.
Believe me, it's a problem in both companies. It's very annoying.

(01:13:22):
Not that I'm against people, you know, getting time off,
but it just feels like, I don't know, you know,
whether you you have certain talents that have a movie
role to go film, it's like, all right, go do
your thing, and then certain stories maybe end up in

(01:13:42):
a state of flux, or you have multiple people who
go out at the same time. And if we were
we were given a product and I'm thinking a lot
about WWE in this case, Like, like, especially on Friday nights,
we were given a show that was still exciting an
inch thing week to week. It's like, all right, cool,
see you when you get back. But then the shows

(01:14:04):
end up being so fucking boring and you're like, man,
all these people are out there taking time off or
they're filming this, or you know, whatever it might be.
It's not an injury, they're just not around or they're
just part time, part time players. That's where it hurts.
It's like, we could really use these people on TV
right now, and instead this guy's sitting out, this guy's

(01:14:25):
sitting at home, this guy's doing this, this guy's doing that.
You know, if the product overall was more exciting and
more fun, I don't think people would mind as much.
But it's very noticeable when the product is not and
you have all these people that are on the roster
who are just not available. If they're hurt, that's one thing.
But if they're not, it's like, what are we doing here?

(01:14:47):
How many returns in one year can Roman reigns have?
Randy Orton is in Saudi Arabia riding roller coasters. I mean,
good for him, but all right, uh, we got DG.

(01:15:08):
What do you consider to be John Sena's prime years?
I acknowledge it's different for pro wrestling than any other sport,
but I myself landed on two thousand and five to
twenty thirteen. His prime years in the ring were twenty
fifteen and twenty sixteen. When I hear prime years, that's
how I take it. You're talking prime years in ring

(01:15:30):
in terms of his body of work and his match catalog.
Twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. To me, is John Sena
at his peak in terms of the output that he
was turning out. Kevin Owens, aj styles, seth Rollins, the
US Title Open Challenge. It's a lot of really good

(01:15:52):
stuff that came out of that period from John Seener,
Jeremy Rose. Most disappointing wrestling reveal Black Scorpion as Flair
or Vince as the higher power? How about Austin theory?
Is the mass man on Monday Night? Can we throw
him in there as an honorable mention? What do you

(01:16:17):
think about the NXT title change botch last night? Yeah,
I'll talk more about that on Sunday. Shit happens. It's
not the first time it's happened. It's actually happened at
least three or four times in WWE history alone. You
gotta roll with the punches, men. Shit happens when you
have the referees count things as a shoot. This is

(01:16:40):
what's gonna happen. It screws up your plans too bad.
Come up with new plans. That's life. You know what,
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Now, Blake Monroe doesn't
have a mid car championship in NXT. You know what,
you can call her up to SmackDown Boy SmackDown. I'm
could sure use her. The only issue there is that

(01:17:02):
there's a lot of similarities between her and Tiffany Stratton.
Do you want Blake Monroe and Tiffany Stratton on the
same show? I would almost want them on different shows.
So maybe move Stephanie to Raw. I'm sorry now, Stephanie,
move Tiffany to Raw and put Blake on SmackDown. That's
what I would do. Matt Fisher, can you sing Sena's

(01:17:26):
theme again? That was amazing? Was it? Though? It wasn't amazing.
It's a That's about it. That's about as far as
I can get right now. I don't want to hear
me sing seen his song. Beyond that burr a Buodeau

(01:17:46):
I was there was apple juice. I mean, it's just
in my head it was apple juice. It's like Shamus Man,
too many limes, too many limes. Wire ducks, such bad customers,
they never pay their bill. Look at Matt Fisher. Matt

(01:18:07):
Fisher is going all Sidrow on us tonight. He's going
all Duff's VIDs on us tonight. Apple dough, Oh, apple dough. Yeah,
I say apple juice, but I guess Apple dough works.
I still think the best thing ever was many years
ago we went through this period where people were taking

(01:18:30):
photos of their closed captions during Monday night Raw whenever
Randy Orton would come out, is like the early twenty tens,
and when his theme music would play, the close captions
like each week it was something different. So you know,
when his song starts, it's I hear voices in my head.
They counsel me, they understand, but like the closed captions

(01:18:51):
would have it as like you know, I hear voices
or not even voices in my head, is like I
have oysters in my bed. And there was one. There
was one where it was like I have boys in
my shed and I'm like, boy, this is getting really
dark here it was another one. I ate poison. Now
I'm dead. I was more entertained by the closed captions

(01:19:12):
from Randy Orton than I was Monday Night Row during
that period. Emoji Matt eighty seven, thank you for the
four ninety nine What did the drummer name his twin daughters?
An A one and A two? I got that joke
from Sindro not that long ago, a few months ago.

(01:19:36):
It's a good one. It's a good one, but not
one that I haven't heard before. All right, thank you
guys for hanging out with me here little holiday bash.
Action is the snow falls here on us on a
Wednesday night, fell short of the goal. It's the way
it goes on some Wednesdays. Saw it is with dynamite.

(01:19:59):
But try again next time. Unfortunately that means no be
the booker until next Monday you're gonna have to wait
all the way to next Monday and we'll try again then.
But it has been it has been a very good

(01:20:20):
couple of weeks here on the channel've been a very
strong December so far. You guys have been rocking it,
especially with Saturday night's main event. You guys got that
review up over fifty thousand views, and we have more
content yet to come. Some people were asking me about it.
You know, New Year's Eve this year falls on a Wednesday,

(01:20:44):
so I will be doing my annual make it till
Midnight New Year's eepstream, so I hope you will make
plans to join me. We always have fun and hang
out and interact. It's usually a big night here on
the channel. But what we'll do is we'll coorporate a
Dynamite review into it as well, and we'll just kind
of go in and out of that. We'll be very
loosey goosey with it, but yeah, there will be there

(01:21:08):
will be a Dynamite review as part of that. But
I will still be live for New Year's Eve on
the thirty first, So that is the current working plan
at this point. At this point, it's been like it's
been like a five year tradition. I think this might
be the fifth year in a row. Fourth or fifth
has to be fifth. First one I did was twenty twenty.

(01:21:30):
I remember that because we the whole theme of it
was to hell with twenty twenty. I think that was
the first one that we did. So it's coming up,
It's coming up. New Year's Eve is coming up. Make
your plans, Warhawk Rambo. So you feel the current WWE
product is too homogenized and prioritized towards advertisers, AW, in

(01:21:51):
my opinion, is more fun. Hey, you know, look different
strokes for different folks. Some people are going to find
AW more fun for lots of different reasons. You know,
they may find it more fun because, like you said,
it's you don't have ads plastered all over the mats
and all over the place in the same way WWE does,
or the wrestling is better or whatever. Everyone has different

(01:22:16):
you know, priorities and what they look for. The WWE product.
It is very homogenized is probably a good word for it.
Very much. So it's a very very corporate product. And
that doesn't mean you still can't enjoy the product. But

(01:22:37):
it will never it will never be what it once was,
because it's just a it's a totally different product now,
it's just such a bigger company than it was back then,
and it can never go back to that, so you
just sort of enjoy it in a different way. But
it's jarring when you go back and watch the WWE.

(01:23:00):
And I'm not even talking necessarily thirty years ago. I
mean you can go back ten years, you know, fifteen years,
twelve years, eight years, and some of the differences are
very jarring. And six one nine Thank you for the

(01:23:23):
dollar ninety nine. Rspw rewind is coming. It's coming, hoping
actually to knock it out next week. I was going
to try to time it, you know, because things sometimes
get slow with the holidays. I'm like, that's kind of
like the perfect time to do it, and this week
is just very busy with House of Glory stuff, So

(01:23:45):
it's coming, you guys, unlocked it. I also wanted to
try to work in some John Cena posts, so I
kind of I kind of pulled some of the stuff
I was going to use to try to work some
Scena stuff to it, just because I felt like it
was timely. So that'll be something to look forward to

(01:24:05):
as well. I haven't done an rspw rewind in three years.
If you can believe it, it'll be the first one.
There are probably some people who are like, what's that,
what's that this whole playlist of them here on the channel,
what's that? It was a time and place in history. Anyway,
Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of

(01:24:29):
your evening morning. I guess it's morning now, almost one
o'clock in the morning, and go check out all the
other content here on the channel, and I will see
you back here real soon, and of course this weekend
as well, episode nine three of the sound Off. Until then,
take care, guys, Happy holidays.

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