WWE NXT & AEW Dynamite 10/7/25 Review | TNA INVADES THE PC As AEW Returns To Daily's Place! - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that was a busy night. Busy busy night. Another year,
another Tuesday night head to head. What is this the
third year in a row? And I vowed two years ago,
I said, man, you know, watching bull shows simultaneously at
the same time. Not a fan. Not a fan. Last
year there was a one hour overlap between the two shows.
But this has become a regular thing now. You could

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thank baseball for that, where aw Dynamite gets bumped up
by a day to Tuesday, so we get the Tuesday
night war. Oh the war. First time that we've had
a head to head since last year. And this time
NXT opted to go the invasion route, showdown, invasion, whatever
you want to call it between NXT and TNA. So

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they chose to do what effectively was its own little
standalone event that didn't really move a whole lot forward
in the way of stories, right, There was a little
bit in there, but not a whole lot. It was really,
you know, in many ways, a self contained event that
you know, if anything, helped promote and push some of
the matches at Bound for Glory this weekend because TNA

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has a big pay per view coming up, arguably the
biggest of the year. In Lowell, Massachusetts coming up on
Sunday nights, So not a lot of story progression, at
least on the NXT side. But what this show did
have me wishing I've been saying this for a while.
I do wish that Triple H had not completely abandoned
the traditional Survivor Series elimination style match at Survivor Series. Yeah,

(01:30):
you want to do war games, that's fine. I always thought,
you know, to retain one Survivor Series style match would
be kind of cool. I didn't really see the need
to completely abandon the concept. But we got two of
them tonight, two Survivor Series style elimination matches, and it
was way more even tonight than it's been recently in

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terms of the war back and forth between T and
A and NXT. In fact, when this night was over,
even Stephen, we're both brands, had two wins apiece. They
split the baby in the elimination matches, and then the
two championship matches. We had the title for title NXT
Tag Team titles and TNA Tag Team titles, and then

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we had a North American Championship match, same thing. We
had one win for the NXT side, and we have
one win for the TNA side, So even Steven when
this night was over, which for TNA is actually very
good because you've had the NXT talents running around with
their top championships now for a few months. It was

(02:34):
about time that TNA got a little bit of shine
on their side. And maybe they didn't win the night,
but I thought that they did. They did well for themselves.
And you know now that they've gotten this head to
head out of the way, you know, in the head
to head with Dynamite, and they did this special and
it's over. Now we see where things go from here.

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In terms of for example, Ricky Saints, who just beat
Oba Femi to win the NXE Championship, I couldn't tell
you who really would be next in the line for
a shot at the title other than maybe Trick Williams.
Trick Williams is going to lose his TNA World Heavyweight
Championship to Mike Santana this Sunday. They did some stuff
in the Survivor Series match tonight that made you think

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that Ricky and Trick would be the obvious direction. They
have Halloween Havoc, which is coming up in a few weeks,
and that may well be the first challenger for Ricky
Saints because otherwise I don't know. I mean, there's no
obvious other challenger for him. And where Obafemi disappeared to
I don't know. I said it was kind of strange
when he was putting his team together that he wouldn't
want Oba on his team. But maybe that's a sign

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that Oba is main roster bounds sooner rather than later.
So he was not on the show tonight. I enjoyed
the NXT show. I thought that the matches, for the
most part, were all good. There were some sloppiness in
the Women's Survivor Series match, the match of the night
on either show. Best match of the entire night. North

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American Championship match, Ethan Page must have Ali fucking great
match and Ali, you know, when he was let go
a couple of years ago by WWE, it was a
head scratcher because of the timing of it. You know,
he was in the middle of a North American Championship
feud with Dominic Mysterio. He was going to win the
North American Championship before they cut him. It was just bizarre,

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you know, the timing of it. Even Sean Michaels was
very frustrated by that because he had big plans for Ali.
So we knew back then that Ali was a talented guy.
And since he left, you know, when he sort of
constructed this character, which was something he wanted to do
in NXT, they just never allowed him to do so,
actually he wanted to do it on the main roster

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and Vince wouldn't let him. But this time away from WWE,
you know, has done him well. You know, he's gone
out there and he just hasn't just had killer matches,
but he's been able to really flesh out this persona
that he has. So the time away from WWE, I
think has done him good. But if there was one
takeaway from me watching him in the ring tonight, and

(05:07):
I see it all the time, you know, whenever I
see him in the ring, but WWE needs to bring
him back at the earliest opportunity that they have. You know,
we hear about Joe Hendry is WWE bound, and I'm
sure he is, and as well he should be. And
I think there's money to be made with Joe Hendry.
But if you're going to say someone like Joe Hendry

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is WWE band, you can't tell me that someone like Ali,
you know, would not fit like a glove in terms
of either the main roster or NXT and working with
a lot of the talents that they have. So he
went out there tonight and bumped his ass off. You
worked his ass off, so did Ethan Page. I love
that match, Like I said, best match on either show

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of the entire night. So I enjoyed the NXT show.
The AW show I thought was good as well. If
I had to choose between which one I enjoyed, I
would go with the NXT show. The AAW show was
a little bit longer. It was two and a half
hours also tonight, but I thought that, you know, there
were three good matches on the AW show, including we

(06:13):
had a TNT Championship match between the two Kyles, not
that there was any drama whatsoever. I mean from the
moment the match was announced, there was no doubt about
how this was gonna go. We had Kyle Fletcher against
Kyle O'Reilly the main event with Orange Cassidy and pack Right,
two familiar rivals. We've seen them in the ring many

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times way back in the past, so they kind of
picked up where they left off. I thought up until
the well the stuff. It was really postmatch, the goofy
stuff with Darby. But they had a good match, you know,
in the main event, so I enjoyed that. And the
tag team match between Brodido and Takeshta and Okada. It

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was actually a double Jeopardy eliminator match, so the aw
tag team titles weren't out on the line, and Bandido,
you know, I don't know, I don't know if it's
a legitimate injury or not. I'm not sure if this
supposed injury that he sustained at Arena Mexico is an
injury or just something they manufactured to kind of work

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into the story of the match. I'll assume it's legit
unless I read otherwise. But he went out there, you know,
his shoulder was all taped up or wrapped up, and
they still had a really good match. But it was
really just a kind of an appetizer for what these
four men are going to be able to do at
Wrestle Dream. Heel's got the win. They're gonna get a
tag team championship match in a few weeks. So that

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was the best match on the Dynamite Show. Everything else
to me was you know, it was fine, it was okay,
it was just kind of there. But I thought overall,
it was a good night of wrestling. I enjoyed myself
for the most part, a little a little too much
watching both shows at the same time and trying to
tune into this what's being said in this promo while
this match is going on, and I have Booker t

(07:57):
on commentary going on. Yeah, you know, I'm listening to
Booker as I'm trying to see what's going on over here.
But I thought overall, it was you know, for the
most part, and enjoyable. Not a wrestling and we'll talk
about it all. This is your Super Tuesday review. We're
talking aw Dynamite, We're talking NXTTNA Showdown. I am the
Solemn Monster. It is Tuesday, October seventh, twenty twenty five.

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So here's what we're gonna do. Because I am reviewing
both shows here. Normally it would just be Dynamite. Normally
I wouldn't be live on this channel on Tuesday night,
so everything's sort of turned upside down. So what we're
gonna do here is we're gonna start with that. As
you can see, we're gonna start with NXT and I'm
gonna talk about this NXTTNA show and then at the
conclusion of that, we will switch over to aw Dynamite

(08:44):
and we will run through that show. So NXT won
the coin Toss, So that is what we are going
to begin with here now. They opened the show a
little video package showing some old highlights from the early
days of NXT, the early days of it was NWATNA.
They had some old school footage in there, and they

(09:05):
kick things off with the title for title match, it
was Matt and Jeff Hardy, the reigning TNA Tag Team Champions,
taking on the raginning NXT Tag Team Champions Dark State
and again both titles on the line. So who would
walk out as double champion or would we get some
sort of bullshit draw finish and they all get to

(09:27):
keep their belts. See, that would have been a very
lame way to open the show. I already figured the
Hardys were winning. There were my pick to win. Once
I saw they were opening the show with this, like
I knew. I just knew, because you want to open
the show in a hot way, you know, especially on
a night where you're you know you're head to head
with another show, and you're going to open the show

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with this. You want to get things started on the
right foot, and the way to do that is not
to have fucking Dark State beating the Hardys to win
the you know, TNA tag team titles, which was just
it's never going to happen. So they showed TNA President
Carlos Silva, he was in the crowd that new TV
deal announcement could come any week now and they could

(10:12):
very well end up on this network that NXT is
airing on right now. In fact, if you were to
ask me who do I think is the favorite, CW
would probably be the favorite. I mean, that's what the
rumors were a few months ago, CWA and E. I
could absolutely see WWE assisting providing the assist in helping
TNA get a new TV deal with the CW, and

(10:35):
I could see them moving impact from Thursdays to Wednesdays,
just to drive the knife in just a little bit
right in the side. That's what I'm expecting. But we'll
know soon enough, because Carlos Silva has said that whatever
this deal is going to be, he wants it to
kick off the beginning of twenty twenty six. So we're

(10:56):
going to find out very soon. But that would be
a nice little fuck you, wouldn't it. Don't think they
wouldn't do it if they have any influence over these
negotiations whatsoever. Don't think they wouldn't love that. So all
the members of Dark State, they pounced before the match
even began, and the Hardy's just dumped them all, and
then the referee ejected all of the Dark State members

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that were not a part of this match. They showed
the Dudley boys. They were watching in the crowd. The
Dudleys and the Hardys are having a tables match at
Bound for Glory this Sunday, the final ever match between
the Hardys and the Dudleys, because Devon Dudley has said
that this is going to be his final match, that's
what he claims. So they were watching on very intently
in the crowd. Dark State had the advantage going into

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the first break. They were working over Jeff. Coming out
of that break, Jeff fended off both members hit him
with a whisper in the wind. Matt caught the hot tag.
He hit Dion Lennox with a side effect Osiris Griffin.
He blocked a twist of Fate Matt, though, adjusted into
a DDT, so Matt and Jeff they hit Dion with
the plot twist and Griffin broke up Matt's pin attempt.

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Griffin then dumped Jeff out to the floor, put Matt
up in an electric chair position. Matt was able to
fight out of it, and he hit Griffin with a
twist of Fate. Then he hit Dion with a twist
of Fate, and then Jeff tagged in. He hit Dion
with the Swantan Bomb to win the NXT Tag Team
Championship first time in their career that the Hardys can

(12:29):
say that. And I thought the match. It was fun enough.
You know, the crowd was obviously excited to be able
to see the Hardies, and they were even more excited
to see the Hardies actually win the titles, so they
popped huge for the finish. Yeah, the match itself was
a very basic match, solid stuff, nothing blowaway or anything
like that. You pretty much know what you're gonna get

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at this stage of the game. You know, the Hardies
are smart. They do what they need to do because
the crowd pops for all of the greatest hits. Whisper
in the win or the poetry in Motion or the
side Effect or Swan tom Bomb, and you know, Dark State,
they're still very young, you know they do. They have
a bright future. Time will tell, maybe individually, not collectively

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as a group. Individually, they've got some talented guys in
that in that crew, but there was no way they
were beating the Hardy's here. They just weren't. So, I mean,
the match was fine, big moment there at the finish,
and look, TNA, this was long overdue. TNA needed to

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get one over on NXT. TNA lost their World Championship
to NXT. TNA lost their Knockouts Championship to NXT twice,
first to j C. Jane and now kill Annie Jordan.
At what point does TNA get something out of this? Right?

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They had to. You had two championship on the line tonight,
and it didn't feel like the North American title was
going to be changing hands. You got the Hardy's who basically,
I mean, look, most people hear the Hardys, who do
they associate the Hardys with? Right, WWE, It's the safest
choice if you go to put your NXT Tag Team

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Championships or any NXT championship on anybody. The Hardy's pretty
safe bet. So now it's very interesting because the Hardys
now have the TNA Tag Team Championships, they have the
NXT Tag Team Championships, and I will not be streaming
on Friday night. I will not be here for SmackDown

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on Friday because I will be at the House of
Glory show. And it just so happens that one of
the big matches in the House of Glory Show this
Friday is Title for title. This will be the Hardy's
second title for title match in the same week. They're
putting their TNA Tag Team titles on the line against
main event, the eighth Shog Tag Team Champions Jay Lion

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Midas Black. They are walking into the NYC Arena as
the TNA and NXT Tag Team champions. They may very
well leave New York on Friday night with three sets
of tag team titles. It'd be very interesting see what
happens here the New Belt Collectors. It looks like it

(15:20):
could happen. It could very well happen. It certainly makes
things a little more interesting. Now come Friday night, can
they repeat what they did tonight? We'll see. So Jordan
Grace was in the ring to officiate the next match
because she was the special guest referee for our first
of two Survivor Series style elimination matches here on this show.

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Vick Joseph's wife, Mackenzie Mitchell, who has worked for TNA
for a while now, she handled the ring announcing here
for this match. It was Team TNA captained by the
Knockouts champion Kalanie Jordan with the Inspiration the former Iconics
and Mara Shade, the former Jakara Jackson all for WWE

(16:09):
or NXT Talents or current Klonie Jordan is currently an
NXT Talent, but she's leading Team TNA. They took on
Team NXT, captain by j C Jane, the NXT Women's Champion,
along with Lola Wece, Jada Parker, and Sol Ruka. Now
all eight women entered the ring. They traded hands. The

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Inspiration hit Lola and Jada with crossbodies. Shahday hit JC
Jane with a suicide dive. Klonie Jordan hit the pile
of wrestlers outside with a big moonsal. This was Tiffany
Stratton esque. She over rotated on this moonsaal and looked
like she smacked the back of her head on the floor,
just like Tiffany did. Unsmacked that a few weeks ago,

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and it was the same move that had Tiffany in
concussion protocol for about a week. So we had soul
Ruka hit the pile of wrestlers immediately after that with
a front flip into a Fosberry flop out over the
top row lands on her feet. Very impressive and that
takes us into a break. So TEAMTNA they cut the

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ring in half on soul Ruka reversed a double suplex
from the Inspiration into a double DDT. Shah Day and Parker.
They tagged in, with Parker dominating here. She tackled both
Inspiration members in the corner and then stacked them on
the middle turn buckle, and Jada then hit both of
them with the draping bonzey drop. And at this point

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in the match here mars shah Day. She went up
for a moonsalt to Jada Parker. That was the idea.
She hit the moon salt. Unfortunately for her, what she
hit was not Jada Parker. What she hit was the canvas.
She went just a little past her and got nothing

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but just the match. She ate the mat completely missed
on the Moon Salt. So then Jada hit shod Day.
And now I will say though, at least shah Day
she sold it right. She realized, Okay, I fucked up,
but I just hit this moon Salt. Nobody was home,
so let me at least sell it right. Unlike what
Klonie Jordan did when she was in that match. Who

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she wrestled? Who the hell did she wrestle and victory Road? Lee?
Was it Lee? You know it was h Yeah, it
was the former Zylie Lee ying Lee. They had a
botch move during the match. She was doing a rana
off the apron. She got power bomb instead hard on
the floor outside pops right back up like nothing ever

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happened because it wasn't meant to happen. So I say,
fucking sell it. So at least she sold it. Jada
hit shod Day with a sup plex, Klanie broke up
the pin with a splash. Jada dumped Cassie Lee of
the inspiration to ringside. Mara then rolled up Jada for
the first elimination of the man, and while shad Day
was celebrating, she took her eye off the ball and

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soul Ruka comes into the ring and she drops her
with a soul snatcher picks up the second elimination of
the match, Marashad Day, thanks for coming. Team TNA was
cutting the ring in half on j C. Jane. When
they came back from the commercial, Lolavice caught the hot tag.
She took down the TNA team with some taekwondo kicks.

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Lola hit Jordan and Jesse McKay with her ass smashes.
I don't know how else to say it. She smashes
people with her ass. I mean, I'm not complaining, but
I mean that's that's what she did. So Vice hit
Jordan with a sayudo suplex and then Lola hit Lee
with a spinning backfist to eliminate her. So then McKay

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she tapped out to Lola's rear naked choke and now
Team TNA was in a bad spot. Team TNA was
down three to one. The only person remaining for her
Team TNA was the NXT Star. It was the TNA
Knockouts Champion who happens to be a member of the

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NXT Roster, and that was Kilanie Jordan. So Jordan hit
Jane with her one of a kind split legged moonsal
problem is Jordan Grace was occupied. She was distracted by
all of the brawling that was taking place at ringside
involving the Inspiration who had been eliminated. So Jordan ended

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up getting a two count only once Grace returned to
the ring to make the count. She wasn't very happy
about that. Lola tagged herself in while she was arguing
with Jacy Jane, and Jordan shoved Wece into Jane. Jordan
then hit Vice with an angle slam for the elimination.
This was about twenty minutes into the match. Sol Ruka

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hit Jordan with a backpack stunner for a near fall.
Soul and Kilanie they brawled to the top. Jordan hit
Soeul with a super Spanish fly. Sol Ruka then use
the knees to block a four fifty splash and Soul
hit Jordan with a soul snatcher, but j C. Jane
tagged herself in and she stole Soul's pin. She stole

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the soul, She stole her pin over Jordan to win
it for Team NXT. A few sloppy moments here in
this match, and Jordan Grace honestly ended up being not
much of a factor. Outside of that one spot, she
pretty much played it straight, you know, the entire time. Otherwise,

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a pretty solid showcase I think for a lot of
the women here in this match, and they gave them time.
They gave them over twenty minutes, which they should. You know,
for a Survivor Series style match. You don't give a
match like that twelve minutes. So I felt like they
gave it the time that it needed. They didn't rush
through it, and so it was, you know, solid for
what it was meant to be. I don't think it

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was the stronger of the two elimination matches they did,
but it was fine. Now, the NXT team wins. Let's
be honest here, Okay, they had this thing one before
the bell even ray, they had this thing one from
the moment that it was announced. Because there wasn't a
single TNA original representing Team TNA. I mean, it's just

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it's sad. It's sad, you know, Like the NXT team
or rather the NXT champion JC Jane makes sense right
leading her team. Kelanie Jordan is an NXT star who's
the TNA Knockouts champion. Okay, fine, but to not have
even that one person on that team. The problem is

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that I mentioned this the other day when I look
through the roster on the TNA roster page, if you're
looking for someone who has a name of some description,
because there are a few people on the roster who
are you know, TNA originals that have not been in
WWE that you could have gone with, but nobody would
really care. Right in a situation like this, You're supposed

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to be picking the best of the best. That's what
I said with the men, like, why wouldn't Ricky Saints
want Oba Femi on his team? Right? So I'm looking
at the roster though, and the only people that would
really fit the bill who would make sense to have
been on Team TNA in this match are two people
who were never going to be on Team TNA, Tessa
Blanchard and Masha Slamovich. I mean, almost everybody else with

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any sort of name has spent most of their time
previously in NXT or the WWE main roster. But it's
just sad, you know that they didn't have at least
that one TNA original, Like on the men's side, Frankie Kazarian,
you know, was on Team TNA. He's been there forever. Yeah,
obviously he laughed and he was in aaw But he

(23:41):
goes back in TNA to like the mid two thousands, right,
So it kind of makes sense that you would want
somebody like that to be on that team. They didn't
have that here, which is kind of crazy if you
think about it. Because TNA is known also for the
knockouts division. I think they could find one in the
Matt Cardona was chatting with the NXT general manager, Ava

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Ava berated him for interfering in the Josh Briggs Miles
Bourne match last week, and Cardona said that he only
wanted to help out TNA even though he couldn't be
on the team. He wasn't chosen to be on the team.
He said that he's always ready. So Briggs barged into
the room and Cardona before he came in, quickly hid
behind the door. So Briggs had no idea that Cardona

(24:30):
was in the room, and he actually was there to
ask for the same thing that Cardona had just asked for,
because Cardona was interested in the match with Josh Briggs. Well,
Briggs barges in and he sees Ava and he demands
a match with Matt Cardona and Avas says, well, I
think we can make that happen next week. Briggs says great,

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and he exits, never knowing that Cardona was right behind
him in the room and Cardonah thanked Ava and said
that he likes how they do things in nx TI.
He's always ready. He better be ready. On Friday, we
got Cardona and House of Glory against Killer Cross. He

(25:11):
better be ready. He may not make it to the
match with Josh Briggs next week, depending on how this
match goes with Cross. On Friday night, then we had
the match of the night. We had Ethan Page defending
the NXT North American Championship against the man who should
have been and would have been the North American Champion

(25:31):
had things gone a little bit differently two years ago.
Most of Ali representing tna I talked about this on
the podcast this weekend. I really really liked the promo
last week that Ali cut on Page and specifically the
fact that they had him bring up that very real
fact that two years ago he had a match that

(25:54):
was due to him. He was owed a North American
Championship match. He was supposed to rest, so dirty Dom
in the match never happened. So now he's back, here's
his opportunity to cash in on the match that he
was supposed to get that he never did. Makes sense.
I like the fact that they went with that callback

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and they had him in the ring, and just some
of the other things he was saying. Also, I just
thought it was a really good promo and this match here.
I was not expecting a title change. But I don't
think you could look at this match and say, well,
the finish was preordained. I already knew coming in for
sure who was going to win this match, right. Believe me,

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we saw some championship matches tonight on either show where
the outcome was never in debt, especially on Dynamite. Let's
be honest. The two title matches on a title Tuesday
show where as predictable as fuck. Okay, nobody in their
right mind thought that those matches were going to end
any differently than they did. I don't think you could
say that about this match. And to the credit of

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both these men, the deeper into the match they went
in some of the near falls. There's some great near
falls here. They even had me biting on them, believing
them maybe maybe they would pull off a title change here.
So midway through they ended up on the top turn
buckle and Page tried a superplex. Ali knocked him off,
and when Page tried it again, he hit a sunset

(27:18):
power bomb from the top rope. He went up top again.
Page though, hit the ropes which knocked Ali onto the
turn buckle and Page at that point he went for
a backbreaker over the turn buckle, but Ali blocked it,
so Page settled for a snake eyes on the top.
I mean he just dropped him down on that top

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turn buckle for snake Eyes hit a super kick for two.
Ali collapsed after he kicked out of the pin and
Page started talking some shit. Now he's starting to feel
himself here, He's getting all cocky. Page went for the
Ego's edge, Ali wormed out of it, clapped his ears.
Ali hit a tornado ddt out of the corner, dragged

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Page to the corner. He went up top for a
four to fifty splash. Page got out of the way though,
and then he delivered a kick to Ali's head on
the way down. Page tried for the Ego's edge again,
but Ali countered with a hurricane Rana. Ali duck two
clotheslines and he went for a springboard. Page, though, caught him,

(28:20):
and he tried for his twisted grin finish. Ali worked
out of it, and Ali sent Page outside with a
head scissor and then hit a wild dive. This was
a very wild dive. He came flying through the ropes.
He collided with Page, and the momentum sent both of
them just hurtling over the announced desk. Just this wild

(28:43):
sequence here. Ali then pulled Page back into the ring.
He went up top. His foot though, was caught up.
I don't know if it was the microphone cable or
probably a camera cable, but some sort of long wire
was wrapped around his foot, And at first I was like,
does he not realize that there's a fucking wire around

(29:04):
his foot? But then I realized that, you know, it
was part of what they were going for here. So
as he was trying to free himself from the camera cord,
he got shoved backwards. Page got up and he gave
him a hard shove, and Ali took this hillatious bump
off the top row, flying backwards and he hit the

(29:25):
barricade on the way down. Just a hillatious bump. It
looked great. I wouldn't want to take it, but it
looked devastating here, and Page tossed Ali back into the
ring and he hit twisted grin to get the pin
and retain the championship. Ali worked the match as the
de facto babyface here, which he was always against Ethan Page,

(29:48):
he was always going to be, But he also worked
his fucking ass off. And I don't say that as
if you know he doesn't work his ass off normally,
because of course he does, but it just highlights what
a dumb move it was to cut this guy. It
was dumb enough to cut him in the middle of
a storyline and not at least wrap that up first.

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But he's immensely talented and I think he has shown
that he absolutely could have been a much bigger part
of the show than he was, not just an NXT
but on the main roster, and the fact that they
cut him and they let him go was just very dumb.
He's very talented. I think he is one of the
best sellers and bump takers in all of wrestling right now.

(30:34):
Just everything he does when that bell rings, everything he does,
it's so smooth, It just it looks great, and he
just has a knack especially on those nearer falls, for
really convincing the people, you know, and he could do babyface,
he could do heal either way. Again here he was
sort of the de facto babyface, and I don't say

(30:54):
that also to take anything away from Ethan Page. Ethan
Page has had some really great matches himself this year.
This is why he left AEW. He felt like he
wasn't getting anywhere. He didn't see any upper mobility for himself,
and he bet on himself. He had a guaranteed gig there,
I'm sure, and he's like, you know what, I'm not
happy here. I need to leave. And look at the

(31:15):
position that he's in right now. Sean Michaels clearly thinks
the world of him, puts a lot of trust in him,
and I think he will do well on the main roster.
I think that in a way that I didn't when
he first came to WWA. But I think this run
that he has had in NXT has done wonders for
elevating and raising his stock. So credit to him too.

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You know, it takes two to tango. He went out there,
Ali went out there. This was excellent stuff, and they
got me to buy into some of those nearer falls
there near the end, even though in my mind I
knew I knew that Ali wasn't gonna win the championship.
But then I'm like, oh, wait a minute. You know,
that's when you could tell, like these guys are really
doing their job. So they had even me convinced, you know,

(31:58):
a couple times there late in that match, great stuff.
The NXT women's team was celebrating backstage. Zaria showed up.
She wanted to talk with her tag team partner Soul Ruka,
who said that they're going to be the women's tag
team champions soon. Zaria was acting as if she was
still bothered, you know, like, oh, I see you're celebrating

(32:20):
with your new friends. Seul was like, I thought we
talked about this. I thought everything was cool. So then
Blake Monroe shows up and she said that Soul is
greedy like Jordan Grace for wanting three championships, because right
now she has two. That's right, she does. She has
the Speed title, she has the women the women's North

(32:44):
American Championship. You gotta spread some of that love around.
I mean, you can't hog up all the championships. I mean,
what does she think she is here the belt collector.
Who does she think she is? We already have one
of those. So anyway, Zari has said that she's not
falling for her stirring the pot, and Blake said that

(33:07):
she's just going after championships, and she smirked. She said
she wonders how long Zaria and Soul's friendship will last.
Elsewhere in the back, we heard from L. E. H.
O Day Doctor Wagner Junior. He was interviewed about his
issues with Ethan Page, which is really the main reason
I figured Ethan was not losing that championship tonight. So

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they were interrupted by Lexus King, who accused him of
being Tavian Heights because Tavian Heights had been under a
I think he was under a Doctor Wagner mask last
week or the week before, so Lexus was convinced up
it's Tavian Heights, even though it looked nothing like him.
So then of course Tavion Heights appeared behind him. King

(33:51):
turned around, thought that he was playing some voodoo here. Whatever.
This is one of those little n XT story line
here that I'm not tuned into this show tonight for this,
So we'll move on. They closed the show. This is
it right here? Main event easy two hours here. The

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main event was the other Survivor Series style elimination match
with Team NXT captained by Ricky Saints, the NXT champion,
with Trick Williams, the TNA World Heavyweight Champion who they
did not want on Team TNA because they do not
trust this man, and they were right. You watch what
happened here in this match Trick Williams, Miles Bourne and

(34:36):
Javon Evans. They took on Team TNA captain by Mike
Santana with Frankie Kazarian, the reigning TNA International Champion, Moose
and Leon Slater, the reigning X Division champion. Joe Hendry
was the special guest referee for this match, and boy
was he a non factor on this show, but he was.

(34:59):
Hey got to get him on the show in some way.
So this was their idea to get him on the show.
VIC Joseph noted that Kazarian had teamed with his broadcast
partner Booker t when Booker was in TNA, and Booker
noted that Kazarian was just a kid back then. See
that's a polite way of saying he's old. All eight

(35:20):
men stormed the ring to trade hands. Bourne dumped Kazarian
to ringside at the very end and then hit the
pile of wrestlers outside with a flip dive back inside,
Bourne hit a flipping neckbreaker, but he walked into a
slingshot cutter to give Kazarian the first elimination of the match.
We were two minutes into this. We talk about non

(35:42):
factors and thanks for coming Miles Bourne. I don't feel
too badly though for Miles Bourn. Miles Bourne gets to
go home to Stephanie Vicaire every night, so I can't
have too much sympathy for this man. So Kazarian worked
over Javon Evans and he was getting mad at Joe
Hendry's count. We got a brief face off between Santana

(36:05):
and Trick Williams, who tagged in as the legal men.
They're going to be in the main event of Bound
for Glory this Sunday. Trick, though, tagged Evans instead. He
was not interested in going toe to toe just yet
with Mike Santan, so Evans is up with the flip
dive moose, though pulled him out of the air. There

(36:25):
was a hurri and Rona that sent moose flying, but
Slater rolled Evans up for the surprise pin. So that
was the second elimination of this match, and Javon Evans
was stunned that he got beat by Leon Slater. Which
is another match that's coming up soon as well, I
believe on Sunday, and that match is going to be ridiculous.

(36:48):
That match is going to be ridiculous. Of course, Leon
Slater first has to get past the Amazing Red this Friday.
He gets past him, then he's got to deal with
Javon Evans. You know, Amazing Red knows a thing or
two about the X Division. He's kind of been there,
done that before. You know, when Slater won the X

(37:08):
Division Championship at Slammiversary and aj Styles came out put
him over right in that major way on the mic,
the person that he replaced as the youngest X Division
champion of all time was the Amazing Red. So there
was that connection there between the two of them. So
Evans was gone, and that meant that Team NXT was

(37:31):
now down to two Ricky Saints and Trick Williams. So
Slater and Kazarian they double team Williams. He started fighting back. Kazarian, though,
put him back down with a high kick. He began
stomping on Williams and hanging him upside down in the ropes.
Moose tagged in and he charged Williams, though was able
to dodge it, and he went for a tag to

(37:53):
Ricky Saints. Kazarian, though he ran over and he pulled
Saints off the apron, So when Trick got to his corner,
there was no Ricky Saints. There was nobody to tag.
Some Moose took advantage. Williams though hit a backcutter. Saints
got back up on the apron. He tagged himself in

(38:14):
to take on Leon Slater. Saints hit a falcon arrow,
Slater kicked out it. Two Saints went to the ropes.
Kazarian hit him in the back, though, giving Slater a
chance to hit his utopia slam. Saints went to go
tagging Trick right. He needed the assist. He's crawling towards
his corner, and what does Trick Williams do. The TNA

(38:36):
World Heavyweight Champion drops down from the apron, He pulls
a sid and he jumps down, refuses the tag, and
Williams left his partner all alone to fend for himself
against all four members of Team TNA. He pulled the

(38:56):
bad News Brown. He deserted his partner. He said, fuck this,
I'm out of here. See this is why Santina Morellas
said that he can't be trusted. So Kazarian put on
a rear naked choke. He tried to transition into a
cross face, saying they'll rolled it over, and he pinned
him to get the first elimination for Team TNAH or

(39:19):
of a member of Team TNA. So Slater then dove
in to try to finish off Ricky SATs. Saints, though
kicked out. Slater went up top for a swanton. Saints
though got his knees up and he turned Slater over
for a quick pin and the second elimination of a
member of Team TNA. This man is he's doing it
all by himself. So now he has narrowed the gap.

(39:43):
Now it's two on one. Before it was four on one,
now it's two on one. Moose was in next. He
went for a power bomb. Saints though reversed it into
a DDT. He went for the pin. Santana broke it
up and Santana started throwing some hands at Ricky sent
him Downaggering into the corner. Santana went for a power bomb,
but Saints flipped out of it. He delivered a superkick.

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Moose went for a spear. Saints, though, dodged it and
hit Santana instead. Santana then shoved Saints into Moose. After
he recovered, Moose hit a power bomb, and then Santana
finished him off with the Spin the Block Discus lariat
to win it for Team TNA and give himself some
momentum going into the main event of Bound for Glory

(40:28):
this weekend. It had to happen. It had to happen.
You could not well go into this show and have
two elimination matches and have the NXT team win in
both of those matches. I mean, you may as well
just shovel the fucking dirt on the grave. Okay, you
couldn't do that. You either had to give both of
them to TNA and shock the world because you know

(40:50):
NX he could afford it, or like I said, split
the baby. And that's what they did tonight. You know,
they gave Team NXT to win on the women's side,
they gave Team TNA the win, and on the men's side,
right nice and clean, even Steven. It had to happen
once the women won at the beginning of the show.
It had to happen this way. And as far as
what they did with Trick, you know what they did

(41:12):
here was they used that as a way to protect
Ricky Saints. Ricky just beat Obafemi, the most dominant champion
that they've had in NXT in a very long time,
and hasn't even defended his title on a ple yet,
and so this was their way of protecting him if
he was going to take the loss to the T
and A Crew. You know, why did he lose because
his partner deserted him. His partner deserted him, and still

(41:35):
he was able to manage two eliminations by himself, but
that was all he could muster. He valiantly fought back.
It just wasn't enough, you know. So they did what
they could to protect their champion. But like with Jordan
Grace and the Women's Magic, Joe Henry ended up being
virtually a nonfactor here outside of a little minor you know,
spat here and there. It was just a way to

(41:57):
get the two of them on the show. I thought
there would be more of a storyline, you know reason
for them to be there, and it didn't really turn
out that way. So Santana now goes into this main
event on Sunday a bound for glory. He is wrestling
Trick Williams. They're gonna be in Lowell, Massachusetts. When they
were in New York, Santana's backyard in July, they had
the chance to put the championship on him. They did

(42:19):
not do it. My only hope is that when he wins,
and he must win that championship on Sunday. Of course,
we all said this about Joe Hendry last year. Not
only did he lose it Slam Aversary, he lost it
bound for Glory. Remember, they waited until Genesis to put

(42:40):
the title on Joe Hendry. So it's not a slam
dunk guarantee that Santana is winning on Sunday. But I'm
pretty sure he's winning on Sunday. My only hope is
that when he does, the reaction in Lowell is as
loud and as positive and energetic and happy as it

(43:02):
would have been in New York, because it would have
been a great, you know moment in front of that
crowd and his friends and his family and his own
you know Backyard Lowell's a little bit different, but again,
as long as you know the fans react to it,
the fans want it, that's really at the end of
the day, all that matters. So that's what I hope for.

(43:24):
I hope the crowd can match the moment on Sunday
when it finally happens. Now, the show did not end
there because they went to the back. Santino and Ava,
the two respective authority figures, are in Ava's office and
they're congratulating each other and Ava asks Santino to bring

(43:47):
the Knockouts Division to NXT next week because she's hosting
a Battle Royal to determine the number one contender for
the NXT Women's Championship, and Santino says that sounds great,
and that's it. That's how they went off the air,
a very anti climactic way to end this show, although

(44:09):
I guess they did it because they would just wanted
to let people know that, Hey, if you're into this,
we're gonna have more TNA people on the show next week,
so tune in. Otherwise, it's kind of a lame fucking
way for this show to go off the air, not
that you couldn't make some kind of announcement, but that's it.
That's the big announcement for next week. So anyway, that's

(44:32):
how the Showdown Special ended. On the whole, I thought
it was a fun two hours. I enjoyed it again.
It was sort of this self contained show that did
more to sort of promote Bound for Glory than anything
NXT is really doing outside of that Battle Royal next week.
I have no idea if it's not trick Williams, I
have no idea who's next in line for Ricky Saints.

(44:56):
And as far as who's next for JC Jane, I
guess we'll find out next week. I mean, if with
somebody from the Knockouts division, I don't know, you know,
who would that person be. Is there a leading candidate
that we think would make sense from the TNA side
to wrestle JC Jane. I think they ought to be
keeping it in NXT, whether it's a Jordan Grace or

(45:20):
you know, someone on their own roster. It should be
somebody from the NXT side. But it does make me wonder,
you know they did that segment if they are inviting
Knockouts to be a part of this and the Knockouts
title is on an NXT talent, then they may want
to swing the other way and potentially have a Knockouts
talent holding the NXT Women's Championship. I just don't know

(45:43):
who that person would be. You know, we're obviously ruling
out a couple of names who are not on the
show tonight. I don't know. I don't know who that
person would be. They do have Indie Hartwell. Andy Hartwell
has a win over Tessa Blanchard. She's already got our championship.

(46:06):
Maybe she could collected other belts. Everyone's collecting belts lately.
Everyone's trying to kind of, you know, pad their stats,
run up the score. Austin says, I want Soul to
take the NXT title. Brother. She's got two belts already,
possibly three. She's going after the tag team titles. She

(46:27):
doesn't need to go after the NXT Women's Championship. I
actually don't want to see Soul Rugal win the NXT
Women's Championship because that means it's gonna prevent her from
being called up sooner. I would like to see her
on the main roster sooner rather than later. But she's
got enough belts. Right now. I think she's doing okay
without worrying about this one. So with NXT out of

(46:50):
the way, you know what that means, it's like that,
It's like magic, It's unbelievable. It's time to talk AW
Dynamite title. Tuesday, they were back home in Jacksonville, so
the big homecoming show and they were a Daily's place.
They opened this show with Tony Shavani. He was in

(47:11):
the ring to introduce the AW World Heavyweight Champion, Hangman
Adam Page out to the ring as well as his
challenger for Wrestle Dream for the AW World title, Samoa Joe,
who is one third of the AW trios titles. Because
everybody has a fucking belt. Joe came out on stage.

(47:33):
He was all decked out in his suit. He was
flanked by the other members of the ops, but he
did not have Powerhouse Hobbs or a Katyori Shabbata come
down to the ring with him. He came down by
himself and they agreed no physicality, so we weren't going
to get a big pull apart brawl or anything like that.
Hangman took the mic first and he said that there's

(47:54):
been six years of AW Dynamite and he's won, he's lost,
He's committed Arson. He even dressed up one year as
the Staypuff marshmallow Man. Last week, he agreed the team
with the Ops, but after he won the match for
the team, Joe lost it and Sucker punched him, and

(48:15):
he's confused. But when Joe yet or he was confused
by this, But when Joe yelled that Page had never
beaten him before, that's what it all became about the
aw World title, and Joe saw Paige with the title
and he wanted it. He said, Joe has been angry
with himself, but Hangman didn't ask for Joe to have
this opportunity due to any kicking and screaming, but rather

(48:38):
because Page feels he owes Joe at all. In the
Ops were some of the ones that made sure the
fight between him and Moxley was a fair fight, which
is something that he respects. So he understood without help
like that, he never would have been able to win
the championship. But that's where his respect stops. He will
not let Joe take that title from him. And then

(49:00):
it was Joe's turn, and Joe said that everything Page
said was absolutely true, but allow him to share some
uncomfortable truths of his own. When Joe looks at Hangman,
he doesn't see the pinnacle of pro wrestling, but instead
he sees a pretender. Page wouldn't be the champion without
the ops, as nobody else had his back more consistently
than they did. Joe was so distracted going after the

(49:23):
death Riders, he took his eye off the world champion.
Page has this fake gratitude, which Joe provided the opportunity
just coming out to collect what he's owed. The most
uncomfortable truth of all is what's standing in front of
him is a fraud, and he's here to check Page.
And he said that he will beat, break and torture him.

(49:44):
He said Hangman would get his licks in at Wrestle Dream,
but he would choke him out and take the title
from him. And at that point Hangman piped up and
he questioned why he always has to defend himself as
a champion to guys like Joe, because he's proved it.
When the bell rings, he accepts that with a bad neck,
Joe will kick his ass for a good bit at

(50:05):
Wrestle Dream. But when the match is over and Joe
is flat on his back beaten as fairly as possible.
Page hopes that Joe brings the same energy for the
sport and for the championship, stands up, looks Page in
the eye and accepts him as the champion of the World.
A fine little verbal joust here between these two men,

(50:27):
just to add some intensity to a World Championship match
that feels very, very random on this Wrestle Dream Show.
Joe always shines in these types of segments. You know,
this was no different. It really was just reiterating a
lot of what we heard Joe say last week. You
know backstage. Wasn't really any new ground broken here, but

(50:50):
they got to hype up a match between two babyfaces,
so this is the way that they've chosen to do
it again. I don't mind Joe being in a position
to challenge for the Championship, it's just the whole way
that this came about. It just reeks of we really
don't have anything rock solid for him to be doing
right now. Until MJF is ready to come back and

(51:11):
announce that he's going to be cashing in his contract,
I'm still thinking World's end. But we do have full gear,
so full gear is not MJF. Who the hell does
hangman wrestle? On that show, we had John Moxley against
Tomohiro Ishi ex caliber talked about Moxley being two and

(51:33):
zero against Yes she and their previous singles matches together e.
She was absorbing some shots and ended up bleeding from
the nose. Moxley floated over a brainbuster attempt, hit a
few big boots until both men started popping up and
no selling until Moxley caught Es She with a bussaku knee.
Both men were down. Moxley was up first. He met

(51:56):
him with a cutter for two and then Moxley signaled
for the end. He can necked on a pile driver,
but is she has no neck? How are you going
to pile drive a man with no neck? So, of
course that didn't work. I was never gonna work. Moxley
instead hit a curb stomp. Is she kicked out again?
So is she hit a forearm shot sliding lariot. He

(52:19):
applied a submission hold. Moxley, though escaped. Both men were
back up. Moxley hit the paradigm shift and Ishi kicked out,
so Moxley applied a rear naked choke until she passed
out and that was the end of that. So they
worked a twelve minute match. It felt like double I mean,
they worked a very deliberate pace for a good chunk

(52:41):
of this, and I don't say that in a great way.
I was not a huge fan of this match here.
It was okay, but it was just like, can we
please kind of get to the finish here? And really
what it was it was just the momentum building win
from Moxley. They're heading into the I Quit match of

(53:02):
Wrestle Dream. You know, they want to show Moxley in there, right,
He just never takes a backstep. He'll take it to you.
And this is what Darby can expect when they get
in there at Wrestle Dream. And that's really all that
this was intended to do. If I had one positive
thing to say about it beyond that, it would be
that normally, in these Death Riders and John Moxley matches,
not all the time, but a lot of the time,

(53:24):
you got the expected Death Riders interference and all the bullshit,
and they kept that to a minimum here. I think
there was one brief spot before the commercial where Marina
Shafir I think she might have gotten briefly involved for
a distraction, but that was it. So you know, they
kept like the Death Rider Shenanigan's to a minimum here.
But I mean, look, if Moxley can't go in there

(53:45):
and BD she, then what are we doing here? Rene
was backstage with the young Bucks who were knocking on
Tony Kahan's office door begging for another money match after
going broke last week. They spent all their money. They
would have fit in well back in the old territory days. See,
nobody taught anything about financial planning back then. Now I

(54:09):
think they teach it to you at the performance center.
I think that's actually something they teach them, which is
very smart. Back then, you didn't have any sort of
financial planning. Financial planning back then was how much money
are we going to spend this week? When we go
to the bar, when we go to the strip club?
Do we have enough cash? So the Bucks that you know,

(54:32):
I think it was Nick Jackson, blew all their money
at the casino, so of course they want Tony kN
to make a money match now. And she asked them
about Jurassic Express. Matt Jackson said they'll have seats tonight
to watch their match. Said they had to give up
some of their sneakers to get them. Nick kept banging
on the door. Tony never did come out after this.

(54:54):
It was Ricochet and the Gates of Agony against the
Hurt Syndicate in a street fight. Uh, Ricochet in the
Gates of Agony. They are They are the Demand, That's
what they call themselves, So the Demand. They threw a
bunch of weapons into the ring before the Hurt Syndicate
even walked out. And they walked out in suits, which

(55:15):
of course is great attire for a street fight, and
dress shirt and tie and fucking jacket. Sure why not?
I mean, irs wrestled in a fucking tie in suspenders,
so why not. So they went at it right from
the bell. The Demand swarmed MVP until Lashley made the
save brawled with toa leone ringside. Ricochet was hiding underneath

(55:39):
the set up table and he was ratted out by
the fans as MVP dragged him out up the ramp
with a snapsuplex lastly cracked Leona with a crutch. In
the ring, Shelton Benjamin slammed Bishop Kahn onto a chair
and everybody fought into a pile, which allowed Ricochet sprint

(56:00):
down the stage and hit a somersault dive onto everybody
that took us into a commercial break back in the ring,
Bishop hit shotgun drop kicks on everybody in his path,
laid out Lashly with a slingshot cross body and Benjamin
with a simone drop and Total Leona tried to put
Lashly through a table, but he slipped free. He charged

(56:21):
for a spear only Bishop chucked the chair at Lashley's
face that kind of stopped him in his tracks. Toto
Leona bealed Lashly through the table until Ricochet and Leona
placed him on another one and Bishop did a cactus
elbow through that table. Total Leona and MVP they smashed
through the barricade ga. They opened the gates on Shelton

(56:45):
Benjamin only for a two count. There was the third
table that got set up at the ring and they
placed Benjamin on top of it. Ricochet hit a shooting
star press off the top. The table didn't break. He
hit a shooting star off the top and the table
did not break. It like sort of started to break
and bend a little bit. It could started to sink,

(57:07):
but the table didn't break, and you could see in
the background I think it might have been Bishop was
basically telling Rikoschhet to go back up, you know, to
redo the spot, and I guess they just didn't hear
him or whatever, because they basically just piled on to
Benjamin to break the table that way, and then the
table finally broke. So this was a very awkward spot here.

(57:30):
So anyway, Benjamin came back, he low Bridge, Total Leona
hit a pumpkne that took out Bishop, leaving Ricochet to
go at it all by himself, and a fourth table
was placed in the corner. As Benjamin went to go
take out Bishop, but Rikoshet took the bullet for him instead.
As Benjamin tried to power bomb, Bishop handed Ricochet a
chair and he hit Benjamin with it. Con went to

(57:54):
charge at Shelton. Lash Lydough flew in with a spear.
He gave one to Ricochet and to Total Leona as well.
Outside the ring, Lashly spiked Total Leona, threw a table
with a spinebuster. Ricochet is all by himself. Three on one.
Benjamin hit this wild released German suplex. He just let
him go and he went flying onto the or through

(58:17):
a table actually, and then he pinned Ricochet to win
the match for the Hurt Syndicate, which honestly is what
I expected. We saw what happened it all out. The
only reason the Hurt Syndicate lost is because MVP took
the losing fall. Kas Shelton Benjamin wasn't going to, and
Bobby Lashley wasn't going to, and Tony Kahan didn't want
to beat them. So we'll beat MVP, right. He barely

(58:40):
wrestles anyway, but it'll still be a win for the Demand,
So they run it back street fight rules. They get
their win back fifty to fifty, even Stevens. So now
they're all not a up a one win apiece. We
have wrestled Dream coming up. I suspect we're gonna get
one more match here the tie breaker, I don't know.
I mean, I already did the street fight, so what

(59:01):
kind of stipulation could that match have? I don't know,
but it sure feels like that's where we're headed. Otherwise,
this was It was what you would expect. It was
a street fight. We got plenty of tables. If you
love tables, this was the match for you. But it's
just a bunch of you know, big guys, just beating
the a bunch of big guys in ricochet, beating the
crap out of each other. It's exactly what it was

(59:25):
advertised to be. Renee was backstage. She was with the
don Kallis family, or I should say maybe about half
the don Kallis family. This was definitely not the entire
don Kallis family. And yet you should I should have
taken a picture of this. Still, the entire screen was
taken up by members of all the people though that

(59:46):
were there. You know who wasn't there? Andrade, the man
who just debuted last week, he wasn't even there. But
you saw Kyle Fletcher, Rocky Romero and Lanzard. You're in Okata?
And who else was there? We had Takeshta at Caceo.

(01:00:07):
I mean, I don't remember all the different members who
were there. Trumperetta was not there. I know that Mark
Davis was not there. Wardlow was not there, but Androte
was not there either. Josh Alexander was there, and Don
Callus said that Alexander is going to dismantle coota Ibushi
on Collision tonight. Kyle O'Reilly is such a mark that

(01:00:29):
he named himself after Kyle Fletcher. Rocky Romero said that
Hetceeso Bandido's shoulder out of his socket last week Arena
Mexico and that he is the rightful Ring of Honor
World champion. Well. Don Callus said that tonight Takeushta and
Okada are going to win their match, and then they're
going to go on to get a tag team title match,
a wrestle dream, and they're going to become the new

(01:00:52):
aw Tag Team Champions. I was talking about the Callus family.
I was gonna mention Santo's Ascobar So Santos Esca, as
of midnight, is a free agent. He was presented with
an offer contract offer by WWE, apparently for more money.
But it's not just about money. He wanted some assurances
of what they were going to do with him, and

(01:01:12):
evidently they didn't give that to him. So he's a
free agent now. And it's sad that My first thought is, well,
I guess don Kallis just got a new family member.
And you know why I say that only half jokingly,
because he very well may end up as a new
member of the Don Kallis family. You know, it's a

(01:01:33):
very distinct possibility. We'll see where he ends up. Actually,
we should try to grab him. He'd be a great
get on the Hog Show. We would love to get
him on Hog. I've been a fan of his since
the King Querno days in Luca Underground. So after this,

(01:01:54):
it was the reunited Jurassic Express. It was a jungle
Boy and Lucasaurus against two jobs. I think one of
them was named orian I. I mean, I've I don't know,
I think of Orian I think of Orion's belt around
the dog's neck from Men in Black. By the way,
we also still have not heard from Jack Perry. We

(01:02:16):
have not heard from Jack Perry on this show since
Jurassic Express reunited. It all out right. They broke up
a few years ago, they went their separate ways. There
was some bad blood there, and then we saw they reunited,
and we saw the vignettes with him resuscitating Lucasaurus and everything.
We still have not heard a fucking word from Jack Perry.

(01:02:37):
I don't expect to hear anything from Lucasaurus. You know,
he grunts, he doesn't really speak. It's kind of like
the Beast Morte's, you know, so, But Jack Perry, I
know he's got you know, he's got the verbal skills
to communicate here, and we still have not heard anything. See,
I'm just going to assume until they tell us on
TV that the reason they reunited is because they turned

(01:02:58):
him heel and he had a failed heel run and
so they decided, well, we'll just put them back together.
Didn't work out. We were doing this heel stuff with him,
it didn't work out, and so we just were just
gonna go back to the well. And that's what I
will go with until I hear otherwise from Jack Perry
on TV. So they showed the young Bucks sitting in

(01:03:19):
the nosebleeds with a bunch of kids. Yes, the Galaxy
is on Orion's belt. That's right, the Galaxy. See that
could be a new faction name now in aw you
know what, I like that better than the Swirl. We'll
go with the Galaxy. Lucasaurus does speak from time to time. Yeah,

(01:03:45):
but when was the last time we heard him speak?
I mean from time to time. It's been a long
time since we've heard him say anything on this show.
But then again, he was gone for like a year.
So anyway, Lucasaurus slammed O'Ryan down and they hit the
assisted flipping power bomb and they got the win. That

(01:04:08):
was it. It was a very quick squash win here
for Jurassic Express. After the match was over, the Bucks
ran in. They attacked Perry. They threw him into the
barricade until Lucasaurus tried for a double choke slam, but
he got kicked low. The Bucks had a BTE trigger
on Lucasaurus and then they laid out Perry with a superkick.

(01:04:29):
So they took the microphone. They told Perry this is
what they in the wrestling business call a callback, and
they smashed the microphone into his ribs, which you will
recall is the same thing that Jack Perry in this
very building at Daly's Place last year, the same thing
that Jack Perry did to Tony Khan before they spiked

(01:04:52):
Tony Khan on his head with the Meltzer Driver. So
the Bucks then officially challenged Jurassic Express to him match
at Wressel Dream before spiking Perry with the TK driver.
And I shall tell you because we got the graphic
for it later on in the show. Not only is

(01:05:12):
the match official, but Tony Kahan has given the Bucks
what they wanted. They wanted this to be a money
match because they lost all their money. So this match
at Wressel Dream is a five hundred thousand dollars tag
team match. Hey, you know what, at least they're finally
incorporating the money aspect of it, like they're looping it

(01:05:33):
in in like a storyline way. That actually kind of
makes sense. That's a plus. It's not just a random
five hundred thousand dollars match in this case, it actually
makes sense. They showed the Death Riders out back in
the parking lot. Pack called out tangerine balls Orange Cassidy,

(01:05:54):
calling him a pipsqueak. He was gonna wet his appetite
and do to him he always does, which is make
him suffer. Speaking of suffering, we heard from Wheeler Udah
up next. He said that tonight it's gonna hurt him
almost as much as it hurts Orange Cassidy, because tonight
it's time to trim the fat no losers, which is rich.

(01:06:18):
I mean, that's very rich coming from Wheeler da Speaking
of which, we heard from Daniel Garcia next, and Daniel
Garcia said that they're going to keep winning as that's
what winners do. Yes, that's what winners do. Everybody says
the man who had to be within the last couple
of months, came out on Dynamite and cut a promo

(01:06:40):
that said, who hasn't beaten Daniel Garcia? I have that
as one of the sound bites in my intro to
the sound off every week, and this guy's coming out
here talking about winners. Yeah, break'd be like having one
of the Mets go do an interview on ESPN talking
about winners. Go to Cancun, enjoy your vacation. We had

(01:07:06):
the Battle of the Kyles Kyle Fletcher defending his TNT
championship against Kyle O'Reilly. You got two good wrestlers out there.
They went out there and they had a good wrestling match.
No surprise there, no drama either. The action spilled outside
pretty quickly. O'Reilly sent Fletcher into a chair that was

(01:07:29):
set up near the barricade. He then delivered a shotgun
drop kick from the apron. O'Reilly missed a knee drop
from the second rope back inside. Fletcher then sent O'Reilly
headfirst into the turnbuckle like a lawn dart. After some reversals,
O'Reilly picked the ankle of Fletcher, he tripped him. He
delivered a need of the back of the head for
a near fall. He applied an ankle lot Fletcher, though,

(01:07:52):
quickly reversed out and landed a brainbuster. Then he followed
up with a running kick and a second brainbuster for
the wind. That's your condensed version here. So Kyle Fletcher
retains the TNT Championship to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
And after the match was over, Lance Archer attacked O'Reilly.

(01:08:14):
Mark Briscoe ran out to make the save and at
that point Fletcher retreated. The only bad thing to say
about this is that O'Reilly obviously had no chance of
winning this, so it killed any sort of drama here.
So you know, you got some good wrestling from these two.
It's like a or whatever. I've seen Kyle Fletcher have
better matches. We get great matches on these shows every week.

(01:08:38):
There was really nothing compelling to this. You know, this
was a collision match, only it was on Dynamite. Where
do you see Kyle O'Reilly most of the time collision?
You know what was really said, We had one woman's
match on this show tonight. On the poster for Dynamite,
they had all these different people right the homecoming Jacksonville

(01:09:01):
all of these different people. One woman on the entire
poster Mercedes Monette, which made sense because she was the
only match on the show. And then there's the Collision
homecoming poster and like all the women are like relegated
to is Collision where all the women go? Now? Is

(01:09:22):
that just like the de facto women show? Now? I
was amazed, Like, Dynamite is supposed to be your a
show and this is your big homecoming and they literally
the advertised one woman for the entire show. So after
a break, Renee informed Fletcher and Callous in the back
that have wrestled Dream it's going to be Mark Briscoe
challenging for the TNT championship. So now we know what

(01:09:45):
Mark Briscoe is going to be doing next. He is
indeed going for the TNT title. Mercedes Monette, speaking of
which she put her TBS championship on the line in
an open challenge. The only thing we knew is that
she was going to defend her title against someone from
the state of Florida that you know, didn't really narrow

(01:10:05):
it down very well. But there was somebody, remember on
the stream last week, I said there was somebody who
made mention of Lacey Lane, the former Caden Carter, and
she had just wrestled recently. I think for Ring of Honor?
Might it be her? Well, guess what it turned out
to be Lacey Lane, who is from Florida. I think

(01:10:28):
she's from winter Park and it turned out to be her.
And they even aired a very quick vignette with her
with comments from her before the match started, where she
said that her and Mercedes had a chance to cross
paths in the past, but they never did. Tonight that
changes in her hometown, so there were some early pen
attempts from Lacey. Monette floated over in the corner but

(01:10:50):
missed a crossbody. There was a rolling cradle by Lane
for another two count until a springing dropkick sent Monette outside.
Lane met her with a baseball slide and Monette went
to the Apron tried to suit plex to the floor,
but she got hung up by Lacey, so Monette gained
the advantage. During the commercial break, she planted Lacey with

(01:11:12):
the three amigos before going up top trying a frog splash.
Lacey got the knees up Money missed double knees in
the corner, which allowed Lacey to hit a running thrust kick,
and Monette answered with a lung blower and a sunset
bomb for two or a sunset bomb into the buckles.
Then she went for the double She loves those double knees.

(01:11:33):
Mercedes loves those meteors, but this one did not pay off.
Lacey answered with a springboard leg drop and a hammer
locked flatliner for a near fault. Lane wanted the hammer
lock again and that was to her downfall because Mercedes scrambled.
She traded pen attempts with her, and then she managed
a monet maker and she got the wind. You know, look,

(01:11:54):
I thought Lacey looked fine here in this match. I'd
like to see her get more opportunities. I think she's
certainly a competent wrestler who deserves a shot. I'd like
to see what she could do. She could be a
solid addition here to the women's division. But I mean again,
we do. We knew what this was going to be,
and that's what it was. And I can't, for the
life of me tell you who I think is going

(01:12:16):
to be lined up next, you know, for Mercedes. But
what I can tell you is I believe Friday. I
believe we're only a couple days away from her tying
and breaking Jade Cargill's record as the longest reigning TBS
champion of all time. I think it happens at the
end of this week. So we had the aw Tag
Team champions Brodie King and Bandido, who had his shoulder

(01:12:40):
all wrapped up because supposedly his shoulder had popped out
during a match with Hetchesero in CMLL on Friday night,
and inexplicably, Tony Kahan said that he checked with Bendido,
and Bendido really wanted a wrestle, so he was going
to let him wrestle. Apparently that's all it takes. The
wrestler wants to wrestle. It's like, well, gee, golli okay,

(01:13:02):
I guess we'll let him wrestle. So it's like, okay,
doesn't seem like a wise move if he really did
hurt his shoulder, But all right, I guess the match
is still on. So this match here was not for
the aw Tag Team titles, but they wrestled Kazuska Okada
and Kenoski Takeshta, and this was a double jeopardy eliminator.

(01:13:23):
If Bandido and Brody won the match, the winner of
the match. Whoever got the winning fall would challenge Okada
for the Unified Championship at Wressel Dream. If Okada and
Takeshta won the match, they will get a tag team
I swear to God, I'm gonna kill you. They would
get a tag team Championship match at Wrestle Dream against Broddo.

(01:13:44):
So those were the rules here, Okay, those were the
rules for this match. Takeshta is posing on stage. He
got cut off by Okada, who walked out and just
blew right past him, already stealing his thunder here in
this match, Takesha went right after Bandido's bad arm. King tagged,
then he laid out Okada with a running sent on
before I lightened him up with chops. We got a

(01:14:06):
huge splash in the corner that led to Okada dodging
a second one and Takeshta deck Brody with a big
boot and a DDT on the apron, and for good measure,
Okada hit a DDT of his own, and they went
to a break. Okada and Takeshta were nose to nose. Okay,
they were going face to face these two. King was
worn down the entire break. They come back though, with

(01:14:29):
King firing off some desperation back suplexes on both heels
mowed them both down with a lariat. Bandida recovered enough
to make the hot tag. We got a springboard cross
body to Okada that led to a series of pin attempts.
Okada slowed the momentum a little bit. Bandido, though still
planted him with a stalling suplex, and King sent Ta

(01:14:50):
Keshta packing. Okada was spiked by a running pk into
Dante's inferno. Takeshta, though narrowly made the save and takesh
got ping pong with some four arm strikes until Brody
laid him out with a black hole slam. So Brodido
was signaling for their monkey flip four fifty, Okada put
a stop to that. Bandido counted a raging fire into

(01:15:12):
an inside cradle. Takesha was up and he went for
another charging knee, but he caught Okada on the apron instead,
and Bandido, he with one arm, still hit the X
knee and then went for the twenty one plex. He
couldn't hit it properly though, just with the one arm,

(01:15:33):
and that day gave Takesha a chance to hit a
poison Rana and as Takeshta wanted the power drive knee,
Okada stole the tag and he turned Bandido inside out
with one rain Makers all it took and he got
the pin to win the match for the Kallis Family,
which means that at Wrestle Dream it will be Okada

(01:15:54):
and Takeshta challenging for the aw Tag Team Championships against
Brody King and Bandido. So the tension continues to build
between Okada and Takeshta. They're doing the slow burn, and
I hope the reason for that is that they're waiting
and they're waiting, and they're waiting for the Continental Classic,
which is not that far away. I mean normally the

(01:16:16):
Continental Classic will start in about five or six weeks,
right right th like mid November, maybe like right after
Full Gear, And it just makes all the sense in
the world to me to have, as predictable as it
may be, it makes all the sense in the world
story wise to build to that tournament. And you have
the two of them butt heads in the finals, and

(01:16:38):
that's where Takesha gets that win over Okada, So you
might even be able to give them a quick tag
team title run here. I mean it would have to
be awfully quick if the idea would be to get
the belts off then before then, So I don't know
if that's something they want to do. I wouldn't mind
seeing Okada and Takesha have even a short run as

(01:16:58):
the tag team champions. And if Bandido really is legitimately injured,
and I mean, he certainly didn't look like outside of
what he was selling. He didn't look like somebody who
was too terribly injured here in this match. I mean,
he looked fine. But if let's say it's a legitimate
injury and they did want to give him a little
bit of time off, all the more reason to do
a title change, you know, on that show, I'm not

(01:17:21):
necessarily convinced though, that the injury is legit now. Renee
was in the back a little bit later on with
the tag Jams, and Bendido was very dejected. He didn't
want to make any excuses for what happened. He blamed himself,
and King said he's always told him to never stop
fighting and come wrestling. Dream It doesn't matter if they
have two of the best wrestlers in the business in

(01:17:42):
the ring with them. Bandido, he'dn't name him. He said,
Brodido has the best wrestler, implying Bandido obviously he's the
best wrestler, and they will stand tall at the pay
per view. So again, I don't know if the injury
is legit. I feel like it is, but I was
watching this and it fit well enough into the story

(01:18:03):
of the match, or I started to wonder if maybe
the whole shoulder popping out thing was legit. Whether it
is or not, evidently he's not going to miss any time.
You know. He did the match tonight and they're going
to defend the titles a wrestle dream, and what we
got tonight was just a taste of what these guys
can do. So I enjoyed this match. This was, you know,

(01:18:26):
a very good match, but it's not the match we're
going to see a wrestle dream. You know. This was
a small percentage of what they're going to go out
there and do a wrestle dream. So I'm looking forward
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first mat since April was pack against Orange Cassidy, his

(01:21:03):
old rival. They've had many matches back in the day
that Pack comes out here and I said it was
weird enough seeing Pack with the shorter hair and wearing
a shirt, because that's very unlike him. Well now he's
coming out and he's got the shorter haircut, but he's
wearing a singlet and he's in phenomenal shape. I mean,

(01:21:26):
it's not like he's trying to cover up his body
because he's not in great physical condition, you know, like
fucking macho man. When he started wearing the tops back
in the day, he wasn't you know, he wasn't doing
what he used to be doing, so his physique took
a hit, so he had to dress up differently. Pack
is in phenomenal shape, but now he's elected to wears
like Christopher Daniels. He's wearing this singlet now, so he

(01:21:49):
looks like a totally different person. But Pack slowly took
his time. He was rag dolling Cassidy, who tried the
little kicks, the weak kicks. Pack that wasn't having any
of that. So they ended up outside where Pack caught
Cassidy mid dive into a falcon arrow on the floor.
So they went to a commercial break and Pack connected

(01:22:12):
with a huge drop kick out of the corner, started
toying with Cassidy, who started to slowly fire up and
he was absorbing some shots. Cassidy tried beach break Pack
escaped Cassidy, though connected with a PK, sending pack outside again.
Cassidy tried his toepay ddt pack though caught him. Only

(01:22:33):
this time Cassidy countered into a stundug millionaire third times
a charm. He goes for his toepay ddt and he
spikes pack on the floor, so he plays pack on
the timekeeper's table. Cassidy goes back to the ring. He
climbs up to the top rope. He puts his hands
in his pockets and he goes diving off, hands in pockets,

(01:22:56):
and he crashes through the table, which was a hell
of a spot there. I mean, that's got to be
unnerving though, you know, like just naturally you want your
hands out to brace your fall. Now, imagine you're standing
up there and you put your hands in your pockets
and then you just dive off, and you're hoping that
you can position your body in such a way where

(01:23:19):
you don't have your hands to brace your fall. So
you're basically relying on your shoulder and the person you're
landing on to break your fall and not break your
fucking shoulder. It's a little bit scary, but he put
them to the table. So back inside a spinning DDT
planted Pack, Cassidy kipped up and then he waffled him
with the orange punch. Packed thou got his foot on

(01:23:42):
the rope. Before the referee could count three, Cassidy went
up top. Packed though, took a page out of Cassidy's
playbook and he slow rolled to the other side of
the ring to avoid the move. He rolled out onto
the stage. Cassidy went after Pack into the crowd. Packed
those suckered him in and gave him a tombstone poeile driver.
And they're in the crowd right, you know, if you

(01:24:03):
know Daly's place, it's like that little crowd. It's not
like a lot of people, but game a tombstone pile
driver over there. The Bryce Remsburg rushed out to go
check on Cassidy and Pack ordered him back to the
ring to go put the count on him. I don't
know why Bryce's voice at this point when he spoke,

(01:24:23):
it made him sound like a muppet. I don't know why.
I mean, maybe that's how he always sounds. So anyway,
his attention is diverted and Pack is standing there, and
Pack finds that his ankle is suddenly cuffed to the
railing over there. And then if you look down below

(01:24:47):
is Darby Allen. You can see the face paint. So
Darby Allen has handcuffed I mean, I guess a footcuffed
Pack here to this railing. So he's trying to free
him so that he can get back into the ring
before the referee, you know, hits the ten count, and
the referee gets up to account of about seven or so,

(01:25:09):
and he frees himself. Yes, he broke free from the
cuffs like he's Jacob Fatu at SummerSlam. And that was
pretty dumb too, the way that whole thing played out.
But he dove back into the ring at the count
of nine, barely made it back in. But when he
rolled in, he rolled right into a cazadora pinning combination
by Orange Cassidy who got the three and he beats Pack.

(01:25:34):
So after the match is over, Darby Allen is now
he's staring Pack down. He's on the stage and he's
staring this man down, and Pack obviously is not happy
about Darby costing him the match, so he goes out
after he sprints towards Darby, and Darby is ready, and
Darby has pepper spray, so he blinds Pack with the

(01:25:59):
pepper spray, and then Wheeler Das shows up, and so
what does Darby do? He pulls out a taser. So
now we have pepper spray, we have a taser. John Moxley,
Claudio Daniel Garcia, Marina Shaffir. They hit ringside, they're trying
to chase after Darby, but Darby is ready. Darby has

(01:26:23):
a bottle and a little towel or rag or whatever
the hell was in it, and he's got a lighter
and he is about to light this thing up and
create a Molotov cocktail. Pepper spray, right, pepper spray, taser,

(01:26:44):
Molotov cocktail. I feel like I'm playing a video game here.
This is completely ridiculous. I mean, it's Darby Allen, so
of course it's going to be ridiculous. But he is
about to set this thing ablaze, and all of a sudden,
right this security I'm not even gonna call them a
security geek. I will never call them security geeks again

(01:27:06):
if they act like this guy. This security guard comes
diving in out of nowhere and he tackles Darby to
the ground before he could set fire to this thing
and light it up the Molotov cocktail, like he actually
did his job. It's like fucking secret Service agent diving
and taking this man down to the ground. And then

(01:27:28):
the other security guards are holding back the members of
the Death Riders, and the show ended with Darby laughing
maniacally as he was being detained. The main event itself
was good. It was a good match that they had.
The stuff that came after was very goofy, you know again,
the pepper spray and taser and the Molotov cocktail, and

(01:27:50):
you could just I could just imagine what this I
Quit match is going to look like at Wrestler Dream.
We saw the match, they had it all out. What
the fuck do you think they're gonna do it Wrestle Dream.
If he's already bringing out weapons like this here on
this show, I mean, that match is going to be ridiculous,

(01:28:11):
but it's gonna be ridiculous in the worst possible way.
So this was all very silly here at the end,
But you know, again, we got three pretty you know,
pretty good matches here on this show, and the opening segment.
I thought the opening segment was good, but again, you know,
pretty basic stuff as far as how we got here

(01:28:32):
with Hangman and Joe, you know, that being the main event,
that being the big title match coming up, a wrestle dream,
and then there was a bunch of stuff on the
show that was it was okay, but I didn't really
care much about it, So a bit of a mixed bag,
but on the whole, it was a good show. Bull
shows tonight were good. Again, I prefer the NXT show
a little bit more, but I thought both shows were good.

(01:28:52):
I got polls up for both shows. So let's take
a look at the NXT one first, what did you
think of NXT showdown with TNA Seventy four point three
percent thumbs up, twenty five point seven percent thumbs down,
So seventy four to twenty five that is the score

(01:29:15):
for the NXT show. Let's take a look now at
the AW poll. What did you think of Dynamite Title Tuesday?
Forty five percent thumbs up, fifty five percent thumbs down,
so a very different score. Obviously, the NXTTNA show wins
the night here at least as far as these polls

(01:29:36):
are concerned. But that's X. Those are the X poles,
you know how that goes? All right, let's get to
your superchats. We are at three hundred and where are

(01:29:57):
we at three hundred and seventy three likes? We got
to get to a minimum four hundred. Here someone is
quitting while on fire. Yeah, there have been plenty of
teases about fire, so I think it's the same. That's

(01:30:18):
why I thought they were gonna have like an inferno
match or something. So I think it's a safe bet
that somebody is going to be set on fire, or
at least that's gonna be the threat. All right, let's
go through these superchats here. We're starting out with death Scythe.

(01:30:40):
Look that death Scythe actually beat Joseph to the punch
tonight as the first superchatter. It's got a bunch of
messages here said, I liked your jealousy idea for a
Roman Jacob match, and I was thinking at the Royal
Rumble fought two eliminates Roman and then Roman is livid.

(01:31:00):
He pulls a hogan, He grabspot too and then Jacob
is dumped out by the winner of the Royal Rumble,
so Roman reigns ends up being a big whiny baby.
I mean if he allows his emotions to get the
better of him, sure, he says. Then at the elimination chamber,
Jacob is about to win the chamber, but Roman pulls

(01:31:22):
a Shawn Michaels and costs him the match. Then Jacob
challenges Roman to a match of WrestleMania. Roman refuses and says,
as you say, Jacob, let's keep it a hundred. Actually
that he says it a little bit differently, Let's keep
it a hundred. Your le mama ululi ole Aiga, the

(01:31:52):
black sheep of the family. How do you know that
the stain on our dynasty, the heart wrought on our
family tree, and Sammy's aye is more Anawaii than you
will ever be. So fa tu has to be random
bloodline members? Oh God, as if we haven't done this before?

(01:32:12):
And once Roman agrees, and he then gives fat to
his own version of the look at You Now segments
to get heat. H it's not a bad idea. I mean,
the way you've set it up here, it's not bad.
That's why I said, like, if I had to construct
a story of how do we get there? How do
we get these two men in a WrestleMania match? I think,

(01:32:36):
you know, it should stem from some sort of jealousy
on the part of Roman Reigns. And you know, if
anybody is going to be a heel or more heelish
going into that match, that should be Roman, not Jacob.
So I mean that idea could work. Joseph Stewart, I

(01:32:59):
really hope I'll be able to start a Batman podcast
one day. What are the I think would be great
at it? Joseph, You've already got the number one thing
is having a passion for something you obviously already have that.
I really hope I'll be able to start a Batman
podcast one day. What are the steps to start a
podcast and any advice on how to do a podcast? Well,

(01:33:23):
like I said, you need to have a passion for
what you're talking about, and not just one time, but
you know, if you're gonna do it on a weekly
basis or multiple times a week, you have to be
able to throw yourself into it. You know, it's hard
to do that if you're talking about something that you
don't really care about. So you've already got that down.

(01:33:46):
Consistency is very important, though. It has to be something
that you know you're gonna do on a regular basis
if you really want to build an audience. It's the
only way. It's the only way. If you're very you know,
off and on hit or miss. You do one, you
miss two weeks, you're gonna fail. It's not gonna work.
So that's a very important aspect that some people don't

(01:34:06):
think about. It's a time commitment, you know, and if
you're not willing to put the time into it, then
you shouldn't be doing it. But you don't really have
to break the bank on equipment. I mean, you could
start out, you know, with like a basic USB microphone.
You don't even have to be on camera. It's very
easy to start, you know. It's harder to build an

(01:34:29):
audience and find your voice and be successful at it.
Have you seen the unreleased Fantastic Four movie from nineteen
ninety four, directed by Roger Korman? No, No, I have
not buy or sell the Fantastic Four or The X Men.

(01:34:55):
The x Men thinking about making a comic book series
of domin Mysterio as the hero and uncle Howdy as
the villain and Live Morgan as Dom's love interest. I
think that sounds like an interesting idea. Have you done
comics before? Do you think we will get a Dominic

(01:35:17):
mysterio versus Uncle Howdy match down the road? I don't.
I don't. I mean, they're not even on the same
brand right now. If you were asked to cast Harley
Quinn in a brand new Tim Burton Batman movie in
the nineties, who would you cast as Harley Quinn at

(01:35:39):
the time? Brother, I don't even remember who all of
the famous actresses were back in the nineties outside of
a handful. I thought you were gonna say, now, I
would say Live. I think Live Morgan could play a
good Harley Quinn. But back then, Live Morgan was was
Liv Morgan alive? Back then? My god? Was liv Morgan
even alive back in the nineties? Yeah? She was right?

(01:36:04):
But when would she have been born? She was probably
born in the late nineties. What is she twenty eight,
twenty eight, twenty nine. Yeah, he's probably born around ninety six,
ninety seven. Harley Cameron as Harley Quinn now, Pamela Anderson,

(01:36:30):
I don't think that's a good I don't think that's
good casting for that role. Yeah, I would say Alexibliss,
but I'm pretty sure Alexa Bliss was probably like six
years old back then. So you want to have a
young Harley Quinn. I guess that could work. Have you
seen the Sylvester Stallone movie Judge Dredd? No? Never saw it,

(01:36:55):
Believe it or not. I never saw Judge Dredd, never
saw Demolition Man. Do you remember Batman villain Killer Croc? Yes?
I do. I think they could have swapped out Baine
in Batman and Robin for Killer Croc if they wanted to.
Do you think Jacob fought Too will have a career

(01:37:16):
as an actor in Hollywood? I don't. I think some
people are sort of destined to do that. I don't know.
I don't see that in his future. Do you remember
Batman villain the Mad Hatter? I do remember him, Yes,

(01:37:38):
I do. Kind of reminded me of that guy from
Willy Wonka. Are you going to see the Rocks new movie?
I am not, Victor. Do you consider mister Backland's Heel
Run underrated? I don't. I don't think underrated is the

(01:38:02):
right word for it. I think not enough people know
about it, But I think the people who watched it
and lived through it, I think they rate it pretty highly,
So I don't know if underrated is really the right
word for it. Victor says, buy or sell Rick Flair

(01:38:28):
eighties or Shawn Michael's nineties, Rick Flair eighties and top
five best and worst years of the WWE product. I
don't know about top five, but nineteen ninety five is

(01:38:49):
if it's not the worst, it's definitely in the bottom tier.
There was some good stuff, but not nearly enough good stuff.
And then also I love like twenty eighteen. I mean,
there were some years in that late twenty tens period
where it got it got pretty bad in terms of

(01:39:15):
best though. I mean to me, honestly, you know, obviously
the golden era, right you think of the golden era,
you think of the late eighties, nineteen ninety seven is
probably it's ninety seven and two thousand, I think, or
two of the top years in the history of the company.
Ninety seven was a very pivotal, like turning point year,

(01:39:38):
and if you go back and watch the product from
ninety seven, especially what was going on at the top
of the card, I don't think anything right now compares
to what was going on back then, like, I'm sorry,
nothing compares to it. Death Side says also, I was

(01:40:02):
thinking at either Raw in Boston or MSG, John Cena
could call out Jacob Fatu at the start of the show,
after all, he name dropped him during his program with
Logan Paul. Yeah, but I don't see why John Cena
would call anybody out. Johnsen has made it very clear
he doesn't lobby for opponents, and he's never lobbied for
one in character on TV either, So he's just gonna

(01:40:26):
randomly come out and say, Jacob Fatu, I want you.
It just doesn't make sense, Like the setup to that
doesn't really make sense, he says, as someone who wants
as someone he wanted to wrestle. Jacob accepts, and in
the main event of the show, towards the end of
the match, there's a referee bump fat two has seen
it down for the three count. Then Drew lays out
fa two and drags Seena's unconscious body on top of

(01:40:51):
Jacob for the referee to count the three on Jacob.
I see what you're trying to do there, but I
just I'm not a fan of that's set up. I
just don't think it works. I think it just I
wouldn't loop Scena into that. I wouldn't loop scene into
that Super Mario, Galaxy, Sonic Four, Avengers, Secret Wars, and

(01:41:15):
the Legend of Zelda movies are all coming out in
twenty twenty seven. Can we just skip twenty twenty six, please,
so you could tell that you grew up in an
era with like the best video games, because how many

(01:41:37):
years has it been since those first games came out?
And they're still they're making movies about them. They're making
a Legend of Zelda movie GMB with the four ninety
nine solo. I know you've been wanting a Bianca heel run. However,

(01:41:59):
I get the vibe that she is against it. Lastly,
even noted this on a podcast last year. What are
your thoughts. She may well be against it. You know,
it may be something that she doesn't want to do.
I have never heard her explicitly say that, though, but
it's it's possible. I still feel like she's got a

(01:42:22):
really good heel run in here. She doesn't want to
do it. She doesn't want to do it, but I
hope she does at some point. Bobert reviews with the
sixty nine dollars. Thank you, Bobert. I appreciate that. Terrence

(01:42:44):
Thompson shout out from Akron, love the show. Shout out
to Terrence, shout out to Akron. Got an email from
somebody in Akron a few months ago, so you're not
the only SoundOff fan in Akron. Brandon Proctor with the
Fifteen Brothers solo Oscar is not happy. Yeah, I don't

(01:43:09):
know why. Maybe the old school elimination match is happening
in NXT is a sign that we might get more
eventually on the main roster. Now, I think it's just sewn.
Michael's doing his own thing. But you know, maybe maybe
Triple H sees it. Maybe you know, he'll he'll resurrect it.
You know, he can have one for the men and

(01:43:29):
one for the women. It's always possible. We got super
hot vector men. If AW and TNA do compete, who
would win in the end? Ae W and TNA AW

(01:43:50):
their roster their bench is much deeper than TNA's got
some of the best wrestlers in the world in that company.
Mister Rod that the five had a friend of mine
say last week. The don Kallis family has become the
AW version of the nWo. I strongly agree, well, except

(01:44:10):
the nWo made money, so it's big difference there. The
Mount Vernon kid Christopher Bennett. If you guys doubted the Hardys,
you're a fool. I said coming into the show they
were going to win those belts. I never doubted they
were going to win. Mister Rod says, First off, happy

(01:44:35):
belated birthday, hope, it was great. Second page against Ali
was what they call cinema amazing match. It was the
match of the night, match of the night on either show.
Right there, we got Boots with the ten. WWE's YouTube
channel uploaded a five minute, thirty second video of nothing

(01:44:58):
but Stephanie Vicaire's Devil's Kiss. Took me twenty two minutes
to watch it because I was watching it in zero
point two five speed for research purposes. I see Boots
really had himself a free day today. I wish I

(01:45:19):
had a free day like that, not this week, I
don't Sidrow. Sidrow says, why was the putting sad and
half his old self because his parents divorced and got split?
Custard d Now, what do you call a woman that

(01:45:47):
sets her taxes on fire? Bernadette heard that one on
TNT a couple of weeks ago. Very clever. It is
a clever one, but I have heard that one for
Sedro says, you would think finding your lost luggage in

(01:46:09):
an airport would be easy. That's not the case. And
the doctor said I need to replace my spine. I
was set to get one, but later the doctor found
that all spines are on permanent back order. Cedro says,

(01:46:31):
what do you get if you cross a tree and
a dog? God? Lots of bark? And did you hear
about the testicular cancer survivor who won the lottery When
he found out, he went nuts? He went nuts. He said,

(01:46:54):
I like the bark one. The bark the bark one
is is kind of clever, although I think the lost
luggage one is my favorite. Ragnarok. Once upon a time,
a Knockouts team would have Taylor Wilde, the Beautiful People,
Tara Tara or Tara Tara, Daphne, Awesome Kong or ODB.

(01:47:20):
This was NXT versus NXT and brother. The majority of
it was NXT against NXT. I said, the entire women's
team is made up of people that really are not
They're more associated with WWE or NXT than they are
with TNA. That's sad that they couldn't find one person.

(01:47:44):
Tuxedo t Servo belated Happy birthday, A year older, a
year wiser. I like to think, so thank you, Tuxedo.
I saw your email before, part of it before or
I started working tonight. I hope you're doing well wrestling, Russ.

(01:48:10):
Sorry late tonight, got that bug, I am continued, got
that bug? You have a bug. I have my own
bug I'm dealing with here, but it might be different
from your bug. I hope you're not sick. I am
continuing to pray for you and your family. I wish
you well, brother Russ. I appreciate that very much. Thank
you for the ten spot, Thank you for the kind words.

(01:48:36):
MGM Ballin with the nine ninety nine, Aaron Judge finally
had his signature playoff moment. Yeah, I saw that. I
saw that he tied that game up and then they
went up seven to six, and I didn't see what
happened after that. So I hope they won, because if
they lost, that's going to be pretty bad. I'm assuming
they won. What would Powerhouse Hobbs call it if he did?

(01:48:59):
Mercedes do Neme move Meaty meaty Aura. Sorry, Solo, here's
to be the booker, the meaty Aura. It's not bad.
It's not bad. That's something Sidro would say. Barry MK

(01:49:24):
four hundred really hope or really had hope that it
was going to be Izzy Moreno facing Mercedes. I've seen
a lot of her matches. She's done good so far.
Could have been huge for her. That would have been interesting.
I didn't find out until the other day. Apparently I'm blocked.

(01:49:46):
No idea why you'd be surprised how long that list is.
Thank you, Barry. We got mactub as a Dean Ambrose
fan who never watched him in aw feuds segments or matches.
Would you recommend buy or sell W W E. Dean
or AE W. Moxley. You know, I've really not been

(01:50:11):
much of a fan of a lot of what Moxley
has done this year prior to this though, and I
was it last year. It was two years ago, maybe
two or three years ago. Uh, he was he was
the MVP, you know, I mean they Tony Kahn always
fell back on him when there was controversy, when there

(01:50:31):
was an injury. You know, he Moxley in many ways
was his security blanket. You know. He was that old,
reliable hand who had a name that he could fall
back on and put his world title on if he
had to. And he has had some really good matches,
you know, with Brian Danielson and Lance Archer many years ago,

(01:50:52):
and Kenny Omega. I don't know if I have you know,
it's funny. I don't know if I have like one
John Moxley match that's my personal, like all time aw favorite,
but definitely you know, I would say, check out that
match he had with Danielson. God was a revolution. Might
have been a revolution a few years ago. So anyway

(01:51:17):
between you know, WWE Ambrose and AW Moxley. Having said
what I said about his stuff this year, which I'm
not really a big fan of, I still gotta go
aw Moxley because he's been so much more important to
this company and he's come across as a bigger star,

(01:51:37):
you know than he did in the Ambrose role. Any
angle or match that made you cry for me, it
was Cody and Dustin h Yeah, I was the Reunion
of the Macho Man and Elizabeth Wrestle Minnie seven brings

(01:51:59):
a tear to my eye every time. And then there
are other angles and matches that made me cry for
very different reasons too many to name. Yeah, Moxley in Japan.
Moxie went through that period where he was in Japan.

(01:52:19):
He had some matches there. Yeah, I mean I gotta
go Moxley over Ambrose on the whole, it'd be money.
What's going on? Plus Ultra Adrian is happy belated birthday, Sola,
Thank you Adrian. Adrian joining in on the party here,

(01:52:42):
Bass Beers says Wednesday Night Titans. Yes, we're flipping the
two days. Also, Yankees went from one one six to
nine six. Okay, so I guess they won. And Sidra,
why do zombies love eating human skin? Oh my god,

(01:53:05):
it's refleshing? He said, Oh fuck, you're so away. That
wasn't what I meant to hit. I was gonna hit this.
Oh man, we got really we got really harsh there
with with Sidrow. I hit the wrong button. It wasn't

(01:53:29):
that bad anyway. Uh, four hundred and fourteen likes. So
there you go. We hit we hit both goals. We
hit both goals, so that means we're doing double b
the booker here, dive into it here before I fuck
up again. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to

(01:53:52):
be the booker. Oh, I've heard worst jokes that would
deserve that. That's not one of them, he says, No,
that was the appropriate reaction. All right, Tag Team boy,

(01:54:18):
we had a harsh chat here, he says, Now that
was you had it right. Boomerang says, you had it right.
I'm crying here. All right, we have alpha academies kicking
us off here. Tag Team be the booker. Chad Gable
and Otis. I do miss Chad Gable on TV. Chad

(01:54:43):
Gable and Otis against the Shield, Roman Reigns and Seth Brawlin.
I have a feeling this right here. Maybe you're wrestlemaning
a forty two main event. Get ready? Tell me those
belts are not far superior to any of the tag

(01:55:03):
team titles that they've used in the last twenty five years.
Why did they just update this design? These belts are
so much better. Women's be the booker. We have Natalia,

(01:55:25):
Natalia taking on Mercedes money. It's too bad she didn't
answer the open challenge today. I think she's residing in
Florida these days. She could have been the Florida woman
that Mercedes was looking for in the Open Challenge. You know,

(01:55:46):
Triple H has let Natty work blood Sport GCW I
think and Nwa man I guess, I guess he turned
down the quest for her to work. Aw I'm shocked.

(01:56:06):
And our main event be the Booker is over. Oh no,
after the Wyat six massacred the roster. Oh no, oh no,

(01:56:29):
blame the Wyatts, Blame the Wyatts, everybody. They massacred the
entire roster. We have lost our b the Booker main event.
That's the bad news. The good news is that that

(01:56:51):
does not affect the bonus round that was unlocked, which
means we're not done yet. We lost our main event.
We can't get that back. There's nothing we can do there,
but we are still doing our bonus round. We do
not lose the bonus round. All right, We're gonna kick

(01:57:11):
things off here with an I quit match. John Moxley
and Darby Allen gonna be having one of these here
in a few weeks. I quit, not me. That's the stipulation. Yeah,
I quit tag team match. If I tell you what,
if I land on the Wyats again, then that's gonna

(01:57:32):
be it. Those are the rules, so you better hope
we don't land on them. We got pretty deadly Kit
Wilson and Elton Prince in an I quit tag team
match against the British Bulldog. I hat look at that.
Two British teams, two British teams in an I quit match.

(01:57:57):
Can you do tag team? Of course you can. If
one member of the team quits, that's it. The match
is over. Oh it's our friend Vince Russo. Bro. We
have an on a pole match. Bro. I got a
great idea. BRO. We're gonna put something on a pole.

(01:58:19):
It doesn't matter what it is. BRO. You can have
a pinata on a pole filled with Viagara. Bro. The
women's match is going to be a poll match, not
the best stipulation, and we have to decide what are
we putting on this pole. We have Victoria. Somebody mentioned

(01:58:41):
Tara from TNA. I believe she's gonna be inducting Mickey
James into the TNA Hall of Fame this weekend. I
don't know how Victoria is not in the WWE Hall
of Fame. That's another issue. We got Victoria gonna go
one on one with Tiffany Stratton, another era Tiffany Stratton

(01:59:03):
now against Victoria from her peak run. There would have
been a very good match. Oh but this is on
a poll. What are we putting on the pole? I
don't know. I think they could still make it work.
I think they could still make it work. All right,
we lost our first main event. We cannot lose back

(01:59:26):
to back main events. That cannot happen. Oh my god,
I wish we would lose this main event a Punjabi
prison match. You know, I booked myself in a Punjabi
prison match once. Here. What is with these stipulations tonight?

(01:59:47):
I'm kind of begging for the wyots Now we lost addresses,
we lost. It's already a lost cause. We have the
t today World champion Trick Williams is going to be
I bet they didn't train him for that at the PC.

(02:00:09):
Trick Williams is going to be in this Punjabi prison match.
God help us, and he will be defending I guess
that championship against Kofi Kingston. Kofi Kingston and Trick Williams

(02:00:29):
in a Punjabi prison match. That is a very unsatisfying
conclusion to be the booker here day after my birthday.
I was hoping for a better outcome here. We'll have

(02:00:52):
to try again next time. Stipulation ruined ITHI man, just
they just they've ruined it. What can I say? Sidra says,
bringing this gold joke back for you, solo Fyi. Gonerrhea
would have been a good name for diarrhea medicine. I
think that's my favorite. The first time I heard that,

(02:01:15):
I lost it because it's just it. It actually makes all
the sense in the world. I could see why they.
You know, a company would not want to name their
product gone a rhea. I understand why, but if you
think about it, it kind of makes sense. B money
oh four. Have you seen the AI videos going around
the past few days of Tupac Biggie and Eddie Guerrero

(02:01:37):
just to name it? Yeah, you know, I saw the
Benoa one. I hate them all. I really don't like them.
It's just very unsettling, and I do wonder, you know,
in some of these cases. There was one that I
saw with Kobe and it looks I mean, it looks
just like him, and it sounds just like him, and

(02:01:57):
it just makes me wonder, you know, like if you're
a family man and you see this shit going around,
like I don't know, like it just doesn't sit well
with me, just a very you know, it's it's it's
a weird thing too, because I could see where, you know,
a technology like that for some people, like who maybe

(02:02:18):
lost a loved one. I could see some people actually
wanting to like embrace that. It's like you're resurrecting them
and bringing them back to life. Like on a personal level,
I could see where maybe that could be something some
people would like welcome. But like, imagine you're one of
their family members and like, all over your fucking social

(02:02:40):
media feed, is this like AI video of your father
who was you know, killed ten years ago, you know,
and it's like plastered right there on your script. It's like,
I don't know, it's just it's just very strange. So yeah,
I saw all those videos and I don't like them.

(02:03:01):
Sidra says, who named the planet Uranus an astronomer, death
sithe scariest movie of all time would be what goes
on in Vince McMahon's head. How much alcohol would we
need to get through it? Forget alcohol, I think we
would need multiple therapy sessions to get through it. And

(02:03:25):
Arabian Night two thousand Moose has done everything in TNA.
He would be a good addition to WWE, maybe as
an enforcer for Melo to start. I would have replaced
Mara with an og in Rosemary. Yeah, Rosemary. Rosemary would
have been a good fit for that team. But yeah, Moose,

(02:03:46):
I think Moose will end up in WWE. I think
Moose when he had that match with Oba back in
March at Roadblock, I think that that match, probably more
than any other, really elevated his stock in the eyes
of people in WA. And I don't know what his
contract situation is. You know, Joe Hendry's contract is going
to be up soon. He's got a deal waiting for

(02:04:08):
him in WWE. If Moose's deal is up sometime next year,
I would guess that he's WWE bound. Yeah, because like
you said, he has spent a very long time in TNA.
It feels like he's done all that he can do.
They are about to very likely get a new television deal,

(02:04:28):
so they're going to really need as many stars as
they can muster. Maybe Moose would be one of those
stars they would want to build around. But it does
feel like he's done all he can do and it's
time for him to, you know, move up to that
next level. MGM ball and I don't know if my

(02:04:49):
member chat came through. Oh you know, I haven't gone
through them yet because they come up in a different windows,
so I have to look at them separately. So I'll
bring those up. But he says, happy belated birthday, Solo.
See you on Friday for hog I will see you there.
There's gonna be a lot of people in the building
on Friday. We're six rows deep and there's still some

(02:05:13):
limited tickets on sale. We opened up some new stage
seating general admission. It's gonna be a big night. MGM Balling, Yep,
I see it right here. Fifteen months of membership, Thank you,
MGM Balling. Can we expect a TNA and TRIPAA invasion

(02:05:36):
on the next WWE game? I wonder how that would
work in terms of do these wrestlers even get royalties
anymore from these games? I used to hear about how
lucrative the royalties were for the video games. I didn't
hear about that anymore under TKO, everything is so different.
I don't even know how any of that works. You know,

(02:05:56):
you got Kevin Nash on his podcast talking about you know,
his royalty checks are like half of what they used
to be, and you know Waltman. He was talking to Waltman.
Waltman was saying the same thing. I don't know how
that would work if you had wrestlers from other companies
in your video game. I don't know. Will you go

(02:06:19):
to the NXT show in November at the theater at
Madison Square Garden? Probably not. What day is that November?
Is that November eighteenth? Is that the day after the
raw show at the Garden? Probably not. I can only
imagine what those tickets will be worth. I will be
working that night. That is what I will be doing.

(02:06:39):
I will be working a lot later this week as well.
Friday night a little programming note, I will not be here.
I will be at the House of Glory show. Saturday
is Crown Jewel, eight o'clock in the morning. I am
thinking about going live mid afternoon, maybe about three o'clock.
I'll let you guys know. It will not be right after,

(02:07:00):
will not be immediately after the show is over, but
it definitely will not be a late stream that night.
But I will be live on Saturday afternoon for that.
We have the podcast on Sunday. I'm probably gonna be
live after bound for Glory. On Sunday night, I covered Slammiversary.
I think I'll do the same for Bound for Glory.
So that is what's coming up. I believe, I do believe.

(02:07:23):
We are doing TNT in our normal time tomorrow. We're
just flipping Tuesday for Wednesday this week only. So there's
that and some good stuff. So if you missed the
raw post show, we have fun last night three hours worth,
go back and check that out as well as episode
nine thirty two of the sound Off. The next time
you see my face here live on this stream will

(02:07:45):
be Saturday for Crown Jewel. Go check out my predictions
for Crown Jewel. They're up on the channel as well.
Be well, stay safe. Thank you again for all of
the birthday love, Osuque you are the man, all of you.
Thank you very much, and I'll see you back here
real soon for more sound Off on YouTube. Until then,

(02:08:07):
take care, guys,

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