WWE Night of Champions/AEW Double or Nothing 2023 (Ep. 278)

It's a Pro-Wrestling PLE/PPV double header as we take a look at both WWE Night of Champions and AEW Double or Nothing! These both took place on the same weekend with loaded cards. New champions crowned and new directions for long-running stories! Which show did we enjoy more? What was match of the night for us? Listen and find out!

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The Supermedia Bros. Podcast is afounding member of the Odd Pods Media network
super Media Bros. That moment whenthere's so much content, and in fact

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enough content that combined, we're possiblytalking about eleven and a half hours worth
of pay per view and we didn'teven watch her all of the shows that
happened over the bush. And I'mnot about to get into every bit of
it either. No. Welcome toepisode two hundred and seventy eight of the
Supermedia Bros. Podcast. I'm Richie. We're talking about both WWE Knight of

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Champions and aw Double or Nothing.Flip a coin, which one do you
want to start with? Because we'regonna get right into the son of a
Bitch? Yeah, Um, fuckit, Night of Champions. Let's do
this. Okay, seven matches onthe card. I really only want to
get into detail about three or four. It's about it the fact that let's
let's go ahead and jump right outof the gate with I understand that Roman

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Rains had to be in the mainevent because he's Roman fucking Rains, but
right out of the gate, we'regonna go ahead and disrespect the most brand
new championship on the fucking they're openingwith the goddamn World Heavyweight Championship Finals.
It was Seth Rollins and AJ Stylesgreat fucking match. Well. I mean,
look, I have my opinions aboutSeth as a character. I think

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he's overstayed his welcome in a lotof ways. Even though I acknowledge that
he is extremely over I just findhim more grading than anything. And I
feel like there are certain instances I'vesaid it before on the show where he
does his whole repertoire in every matchto the point where it's like, where

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are the surprises? What are yougoing to do in a braper view?
However, it's hard to fuck upwith AJ Styles. I mean that motherfucker
does not this. No. AJis somebody that brings out the best and
whoever he's wrestling anytime. How manytimes can you even mention a botch that
happened with AJ and it was hisfault? Not many, if at all.

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You'd have to go back to tNA days for that shit dog.
Here's my thing when it comes toAJ. Okay, everybody talks about like
the greatest wrestler in the world today. You know, you've got some people
that say Kenny Omega Brian Danielson's You'vegot fucking like all minds of him.
You've got MJF at this point,you know, you've got um, You've
got Okada. You know, likethere's we can do this all day.

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And AJ is usually mentioned in there. I would argue, possibly not the
best wrestler in the world, buthe is the most precise wrestler in the
world today. He's the most phenomenalwrestler in the Yeah. As far as
a placement of the match, dude, I don't know, because you know,

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in a perfect world, you know, there is such a thing as
two main events, right, there'sthere's not. I don't care what company
says what, it's just one.Yeah, if you're not gonna go on
last, you want to go onfirst, I get that first or last.
Yeah, Well, but I justit's times like this I'm glad I'm
not a booker because I wouldn't knowwhat to do, right. I mean,

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they put the strap on on Seth, which go figure they needed to.
The man has done enough like carrying, He's carried the fucking Raw brand
without the goddamn championship. He's verygood. Yeah, and there's no way
they're putting this on Aj. I'msorry he's riding off into the sunset after

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this contract is up, but heI do think he needs another good run
before he goes. And that's whatmade me wonder if they would do a
bit of a pluck twist and givehim the strap, because I I did
think from the from a while nowthat we were going to get Seth being
champion. But I did wonder,let you know, if AJ goes to

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leave soon, I mean it's possible. Yeah, there really weren't too many
bad options here. I would nothave put it on Cody, not as
a disrespect Cody, which will getto him later, but just because I
didn't want it to be a Constellationprize right. Same. I don't think

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Omas is ready, but between Aj, Seth and Finn, dude, I'm
so happy with any of them.Yeah. Same here, Seth Rawlins wins
in twenty minutes and forty seconds.Moving on to um Sets wife, M

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I don't give a fuck about thisfeud. I don't either. It's about
Becky Ledge versus Trish Stratus and thisall stemmed from Leda and Becky Lynch having
the women's tag team Championships and Trishjust kind of being like a third wheel
in that party, and like I, like I said, I it's a
fucking snooze fest. I don't wantto get too much into it. But

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like Trish picks the win up andI was like, good, fuck it,
Like give the legend no win?Good the match was good. Yeah,
dude, I just don't give afuck about the story. I really
don't. Okay, I'm I'm gonnaspit some facts here, and I hate
that I'm spitting it. Trish hasdropped the ball in terms of selling the
feud. Oh, I already knowit's not even a fucking hot take,

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that's just facts. But I justand I don't understand it because it's like
is it a nostalgia feels or iswas she always a bad heel? Because
I'm Trish is not a great heel. She's she's naturally a great baby face.
I've never enjoyed her work as abad guy. It's not believable to
me, okay, because you gotto realize like timelines here, like what
am I going to remember? Right? But what I'm saying is like it's

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not believable. It's really not believable. Leda is a is a more believable
heal. Oh yeah, I meanthat. I can totally see Becky is
a more believable heal. But like, obviously that's not the case here.
I don't want to spend a wholebunch of time on this fucking shit.
There's no need to God damn likeyou nailed it though, Like this could
be money as fuck if Trish gavea shit. I that's a big reason

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I don't care about it. Ijust I cannot buy into it like I
can. I can't suspend my disbeliefand buy into this at all. Sad
dude, because I I like bothindividuals. I do too, and Becky
deserves better. If I'm being honest, she deserves a better feud than this.
I would like to think that Trishis just happy, so she's not
like Issy. Yeah, there's noinner rage to come out with her character.

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Maybe she's But if what you're sayingis true and she was never a
good heel, then yeah, she'snever. My childhood was a lie.
Yeah. Fourteen minutes and fifty seconds, tris Stratus goes over. Next up
is going through versus Mustafa Ali forthe Intercontinental title. Look cut and dry,
there was no way they were gonnagive this to Mustafa, even even

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even in Saudi, they weren't gonnagive this to him. No, No,
Gunther is less than a hundred daysaway from breaking the record rain for
the Intercontinental title. Give it tothis man. I don't fuck Honkey talk
Man. Give his fucking dude.No, fuck Honkey talk Man shot through
the heart. No fucking old yeller, his fucking sorry ass. I don't.
I don't give a fuck, dude. It's time for the old heads

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to go. It's time for themto fucking go. And I will say
the same thing. Give it toRoman. I don't fucking care anymore.
Give it. I'm not telling yougive him fucking um, I'm not telling
you to give him v Number onespot. Give him, give him his
fucking his. Oh shit, Okay, because I was about to say,

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no, weird, give him Hogan'sspot. Okay, that one stings too,
but no sting stings, oh mygod. But no, like that
one stinks too, but like togive him Bruno's. I'm like, no,
no, absolutely no, no,there are some things that should remain
untouched. No, give him Hogansfuck him. Uh. Gunther wins great

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match. Though yes, and Ido want to point out before we get
too far into this, I dothink Gunther is a better icy champion than
honky Tonk was. It's just it. I do love me some honky Tonk.
Gunther's more believable than Honkey. Iknow, generations, but still well
even then, though, I feellike everybody knew that honky Tonk was tongue
in cheek, like nobody thought thathe was legitimate, you know, right,

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But to me, that puts morelegitimacy behind this belt. So yeah,
no, absolutely, and going throughit. I'm telling you right now,
he's making this belt right now,he is making this championship. You're
something. You are looking at thenext big bad yep. Like he might
not reach Romans pun intended rain,you know, but you are looking at

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the next Roman in terms of thisis the heel of the company. Yeah.
I can't wait until he goes likefull main event status at this point.
So we'll see when we get there. But I think he's gonna do
fucking wonderful. Oh yeah. Nextup is the Raw Women's Championship. Osca
versus Bianca bel Air in fifteen minutesflat. This was the finish that should

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have happened in Mania. I'm sorry, but I feel like Oscar got fucked
out of Armania moment and Bianca hada hell of a wrong with the championship.
Dude. But I'm I'm happy tosee Oscar finally get this fucker and
hopefully they book her strong and thatshe has like a good run. I'm
glad you said that, because thiswhole time, I had no belief that

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Oscar was gonna get it, becauseof how they've booked her as this weird
like they're starting, well, well, that's her old gimmick from Bag,
but no, I understand that,but I feel like she's less and I
understand it's wwe they're gonna do theirown spin on everything. I get it,
but like, I feel like she'smore she's less of a killer clown

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and she's more of a killer yeah, where the emphasis is on the clown
aspect. Yeah, but I feellike they're starting to give her some more
mooda quality with hits, like she'sactually pulling like some tricks out of that
you know bag and right, youknow, good on her, Like I
kind of like it, though she'sshe seems very unpredictable and that's more.

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That's that's what you need. Youneed that freaking energy. I'm just wondering,
like, I don't know. It'sespecially confused to me only because dude,
they've had Bianca like do so muchfor them that it made me wonder
if is she just burned out andshe needs a break, or if who

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else you have for at this point? That's true, that's true. Look,
I'll be honest. I love Bianca, but I'm tired of her.
Oh no, I'm not saying thatI'm tired. I'm tired of seeing the
belt on her. It's not no, I get that. I'm just saying
like I wasn't expecting it just becauseof all the press. It's like whenever
you know you you have like theIC or the US title on the miss

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and then you take it off ofthem and it's like that's your press.
Guy. Yeah, but I goteven though I think Bianca's you know,
doing great for the division, umoscar, dude, she can work with
anybody. I mean, come on, like, give her the belt,
whether it's heel or face. Shecan make it work. She'll she'll do

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a great job with this run.Oh yeah, next up is I'm giggling
because goddamn it's the SmackDown Women's Championship. Re Ripley versus Natalia in a minute
in ten seconds. This has VinceMcMahon booking written all over because Vince McMahon,
I don't give a fuck with anybodysays, and how much shit quote
unquote got smoothed over. This manlives to fuck over the Hart family,

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Like, oh, he booked Nataliain a squash match on her forty first
birthday in fucking Saudi Arabia. Let'sfly her in, waste her time on
her birthday and just put her facedown, ass up against three A Ripley.
She got fucked, dude, Andyou know, the whole time he

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was like, oh, she's old, what do you What are we gonna
do with Vince's wrinkly, fucking botoxmustached ass. Goddamn house, she's older
than dirt. Well, hell,I kept her around about seven years past
her expiration date. She's only goodat putting people over, so I mean

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that's what her over. You seefucking triple aged sitting. They're just like,
oh God, Like, he's justlike, what are the marrying dude?
Honestly though, why doesn't she justtrain people? I don't know,
But can we talk about the factthat Rihah Ripley just deadlifted her into her
fucking finisher like Jesus Christ is inme? Or is Ria getting bigger?

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Oh? Yeah she is? Andthat that I'm telling you right now.
Ever since her and Buddy started goingout with each other, she she's been
hitting her gains in the gym bigtime. And it's because they're both gym
rats. And it's fucking like Ilove that um, like I love that
Twitter and a bunch of other likeplaces. They're losing their ship over her
and Dominic because like their pals butfor real pals, and it's just like

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you can tell and that chemistry showsthey're fucking hilarious, dude, And honestly,
like she's one of those chicks.It's like, you know, she's
a bro man and it's right,but not even just that, but it's
like, you know, you grewup in a even older time period than
I did, but we grew upwith the same thing, the same teachings

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of oh, women that look likethat you should stay away from them,
you know. Shit, Yeah,I was always like a fucking stomping bitch.
Oh no, no, I agree, trust me, dude. You've
known me for damn near a decadenow, which is crazy to think about.
But um, you know, I'vealways had a little bit of a
thing for the gothies. But I'msaying, like they always say, oh

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no, they're trouble there this orthat, I'm screen character, sure whatever,
that that's where you ripley. Butshe seems like such a bubbly ball
of energy too, Like, yeah, she seems fun Like I would.
I would. I would love tohave like a fucking beer with her and
just bullshit and laugh like. Shesounds fucking great. I r l um.
But yeah, oh my god.I just whenever I saw her dead

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lived Natty, I was like,oh my god, like, do not
fuck with this woman at all?Dude. Imagine if she goes somebody and
goes, hey, can you getyour boy Malakai to teach me some like
mma moves brush, she would beunstoppable. What do you do to that?
I don't know, but one minuteand ten seconds in Mommy retains baby.

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That's like a fucking Arnold Schwartzmakers starteddoing like boxing training from Mike Tyson.
What do you fucking do to that. You do nothing like that's the
actual terminator, man, You wouldlose, that's what you do. Speaking
of terminator. Going into the nextmatch, brock Lessner versus Cody Rhodes in

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a singles match. Now here's acouple of things that I have an issue
with. Okay, brock Lesseners beatdown on Cody Rhodes on raw we're gonna
fight. Actually no, you're justgonna have a regular fucking singles match where
count outs and disqualifications are still athing. And Cody Rhodes gets his quote

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arm broken, put in a titaniumcast thing that somehow is legal to use
in the match as a weapon.Yeah, did they not think this through?
Uh it's brock Lesser wins this,by the way by technical submission because
Cody Rhodes passes out and and whatwas it? The key, the arm

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bar, the more. Yeah,so I curious as to what would what
are they doing with either of themat this point? Yeah, Like you
can definitely see shades of Dusty Rhodesin the booking of Cody. I would
like to think that Cody himself islike, well, do you remember whenever

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my dad's leg was broken and bahlike when the horseman fucked him up on
the cage. Yep, so thatthat I can believe. Sure, I
understand it. This is his hardtimes shit exactly. This is Cody Rhodes
is hard times, however, butI'm sorry, I'm sorry. This is
Cody Rhodes is hard times, Daddy. That's hard times, baby. But

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I feel like I feel like thebetter story would be to have him win
every single time in spite of everythingthrown at him, because as it stands,
I've seen this before. We sawit with Hangman Adam Page in a
w when he was getting almost toohot before they were ready to put the

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strap on him, and they hadto cool him off time after time after
time, and it came off awkwardand unfortunately one of those cool down times.
Believe this or not, people thathave maybe just started watching a EW,
David, I know you're gonna fuckinghave a mind fuck when I tell
you this, But why the fuckwould you give one of Hangman Pages cool
down times during his run? Iknow, I know, I know they

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didn't even put him on TV halfof the time. Yeah, And I'm
worried the same shit will happen withCody where it's like his peak of like
this run is going to happen beforethey put the strap on him, and
then it's not gonna mean shit whenthey do. And that's what I'm saying
is having him lose. I understandthere's nothing wrong with losing to Brock,
fucking lesson No, if anything,having just just having a fucking match on

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the card with Brock elevates you becausethat means he wants to work with you.
Greg. Like, I'm not saying, oh, Cody's buried, no,
no, no, no no,I'm just concerned that the fans will
be like losing interests. Yeah,and then by the time it's time to
put the belt on him, peoplewill be like, oh cool, congrats,

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right. What I think the storyshould be is, in spite of
everything, he always wins, nowagainst Brock with a broken arm. First
of all, you're right, don'tuse it as a fucking weapon. What
they should have done is have himbarely beat Brock last time. Barely How

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he did what the fucking turning thecamar into a pinfall, Well, I
would have done that for this oneexactly. I feel like that should have
been flopped. Exactly what I'm saying, and then you know Romans like,
fuck yep, Solo, go gethim and then he beat Solo. Fuck
Seth, can you do me asolid Paul Wise man? Yeah, like

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have to fight him, dude,but he goes through the fucking gauntlet for
a year. I know that that'sgonna be tedious. Yeah, and then
like make him either make him winthe Rumble or make him win the Chamber
Match, which I think he shouldwin the Chamber Match because that's a little
more of a brutal fucking match,right, And plus if it's the Royal
Rumble, then it's like been there, done that, Yeah exactly. But

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I think that for it to berocky too, because that's what this story
is. Ye have him be theguy that's scratching and crawling but always win
until he gets the big one,and then have him win that. I
think the idea is to create amoment of how Roman has not been pinned

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where it's like he might actually fuckingwin, but we don't know that,
you know what I mean? Likeif Cody goes in undefeated again, we're
gonna have another fucking Mania thirty nine. I feel like at this point it's
good to have Cody have like someflip flop maybe because it's like, Okay,
is he gonna lose or is hegonna win? You know if he
wins, and it's I feel likeit's even more of a fucking big deal.

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See, you can do that,but without ever having Cody be the
question. Have it be about Roman. Have it be a whole bunch of
touting of and after we beat Codya Russellomania forty, we're going after that
championship because that belongs to us too, And you plant the seeds in everybody's

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heads that Roman is just that guy, like he's just gonna take everybody's opportunity
from them and just be on top. Ye. Don't make the question about
Cody. Make it about Roman,because at the end of the day,
Roman is the deciding factor here.From from the last like year and a
half, the question was not,oh, is Cody gonna be the guy

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because a year and a half agowe didn't have Cody. Yeah, we
barely had him a year ago,But the question is always who's gonna be
the guy to beat Roman? It'sgotta be him. Oh no, I
agree, but I'm it's it's beenWhen does Roman lose, right, and
we're gonna get into that now.The main event of this pay per view

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was for the Tag Team Championship andit was Kevin Owens and Sammy Zain versus
Roman Reigns and Solo Sacoa. I'mnot gonna lie. I rolled into this
thinking that they were just gonna givethe belts to Roman and Sacoa. But
something fucking big happened, Like thematch. Sure you already know this match
was fucking fire. And before weget in too deep, Sammy yeah,

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okay, so that it was sucha big deal because Sammy is Ain't has
notoriously turned down the Saudi pay perviews for fucking years due to religious reasons.
My man's came out, and notonly did he come out, he
cut a fucking whole ass promo inArabic. It was fucking amazing. This
man was in front of the back, this man was in fucking in front

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of his family and friends and allthat, and it was like, dude,
this man is over as fuck.Tell me you did see Kevin now
his face? Yeah, his face. He was just like huh. And
then like the Roman being like whatthe fuck is he talking about? Like
that was he speaks Arabic. Everybodywas like, what the fuck? Oh
yeah, fluently too. It wasfire as hell, and then he's like

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saying all this stuff in Araby andthen all of a sudden, you're here
Kevin Olans and then everybody flips thefunk out. Yeah yeah, well that's
how they have to do it.I think it's funny anytime I see any
any kind of foreign language they announced, uh, like a band or whatever,
you know, and whatever language it'sin, and then they're like,
oh, Mattaca. And he waslike, especially in Japan, that's when

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it's fucking funny, because it's alwayslike real grandios and everything that like,
He's like, all right, cool, all right, yeah dude. It
could be like some bullshit band thenyou have never heard of, and they're
gonna fire that ship up. Dude. Why admitted If somebody in NJPW said,

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then you go back, you wouldbe like hell yeah, yeah,
yeah, you're right, damn it, rock star. Oh god, look
at this total graph, Like,fuck you got me? You got hook
line is sinker there, buddy.So the fall of Roman truly begins.

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Now Roman all but castrated the fuckout of the USOS for a couple of
weeks leading into this pay per view, it's like, fuck, you can't
fucking win the championship back, I'lldo it myself basically, and I kind
of saw this coming, but Iwas really shocked at who did it.
Yes, so during the match thatUSOS come out to try to help,

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and they kind of fuck up again. And then I made mention of this,
like, whenever Roman turns around,all he sees is he didn't see
where they actually did help and getsome offense in. He just turned around
in time to see them fucking up, right, So he just rolls in
there and shoves them around, andit pisses Jimmy off enough to where Jimmy

(24:53):
has had it up and just fuckingsuper kicks him right in the face,
and you know, he has awhole as a moment where he's in like
Roman's like what the fuck? Andthen Jay is flipping the fuck out to
the point that he fucking calls Romanby his actual goddamn name. He calls
him Joe. Jimmy yells at fuckingJay and he's like, I'm doing what
you should have done a long timeago, kicks him again, said the

(25:17):
same shit at the rumble if yourecall, like, motherfucker dude. That's
the thing is, you can haveyour favorites in terms of whatever company is
your preference. The bloodline storyline hasbeen the best storyline in wrestling for the

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last couple of years. Yeah,it's the most compelling. And you know
what I love the most is thedetail here. I thank you fucking Jimmy
sold that entire like release of frustrationlike a shotgun with that primal fucking scream
out in the middle of the fuckingring. When it finally happened, it
was just kind of like, Igot you, motherfucker Jay flipping the fuck

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out because now he's torn between hisloyalty to Roman or his actual brother and
Jimmy pulling him out and be like, no, we gotta go use,
we gotta get out of here,and he's just like, no, this,
we should have been doing this along time ago. And now you're
about to see where does Jay Usso'sfucking alliance lineup, because he's a because
this is the thing is he's afraidto lose his brother, but he has

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also scared shitless of Roman. Yeah, now I'm kind of like, all
right, and then the next nighton Raw, but they lost by the
way. Then Sammy and Kevin retainedthe next night on Raw. Kevin Owens
is wearing a WEE the Ones Tshirt. Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, kind of are we aboutto get solo jim solo Jay and

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Roman wrestling? Um, Sammy,Kevin and Jimmy is about to fucking happen.
It's very possible. As of thisrecording, it is Thursday, so
SmackDown has not aired. We don'tknow. Yeah, And also I called
this, but the brothers were flopped. Yeah, because I'll be honest,

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that was a swerve. I didn'tsee happening. I should have, though,
I fucking should have. Jimmy isthe one that never because Jay penned
Roman, Jimmy never fucking did.So, you know, long term storybooking
here is like, this is thisis fantastic. I can't wait to see
how the rest of this ship playsout because now when his fucking whole family

(27:26):
starts crumbling even more so, thisis where he starts getting weak, and
this is where he starts like Imight actually lose these fucking championships because this
man done celebrated. This night washis thousandth day. Bro, what do
you think is the chance that theycall him an audible and they put the
straps on ooze. Oh, thatain't happening, Okay, because I do

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not. I feel like it wouldbe such a cool moment, but the
problem is that people are thinking aboutthe moment. They're not thinking about what
comes next. Yeah, and likefar down the line, this just spiderwebs
into more. Right. So twentysix minutes, twenty five seconds, Kevin

(28:11):
Owens and Sammy Zane retain the undisputedAttacking Championship to close Night of Champions.
Great show, Oh absolutely. Ido have to say, like, as
far as like a five star scalehere, I would probably give it like
a three point five out of five. It was not like perfect, but
it wasn't totally shitty, right,But the good outweighed the bad. This

(28:32):
was very fun and I don't hardlyI hardly ever said about at Knight of
Champions pay per view of all fuckingthings. I know, because this was
originally supposed to be a King andQueen of the Ring. Yeah, the
Saldy shows have slowly gotten like better, not only better, but actually,
like do you remember like they usedto be so like practically fucking house shows.

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Yeah, you know, like likeokay, okay, get your money,
I guess. But I thought nothingof them. You could skip them
in and not be a big deal. Last like handful of them, I'm
like, okay, okay, bigshit is going down. Like, you
guys are actually making me want towatch this. I was at work.

(29:15):
I had to catch the replay ofit, But you guys are actually making
me invested in seeing it live now, which is always a good sign,
right, Like I actually was like, oh shit, the fucking I checked
and I was like, oh fuck, I forgot. It's in Sauty so
like it airs at noon here.Yeah, I was like, fuck,
I almost missed it. Yeah,whenever you were texting me, I was
on my route and I know exactlythe location. I was on a Lewis

(29:38):
Street, you know, the jointand the apartment complex five eleven. I
was right there. And whenever youhad messaged me about um AJ, I
was like, really just woke upand started talking wrestling. That's perfect toally
forgot until you send me a screenshow it, like what twenty minutes later,

(30:02):
I was like, oh shit,that's now. Yeah, dude,
to date night of Champions. It'sAfternoon of Champions. Yeah, all right,
we're gonna take a break and whenwe come back, we're gonna get
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and we're gonna talk about Awa ornothing from Las Vegas, and they very

(32:35):
much need to go to Atlantic Citynext year because fuck this crowd. What's
said is like I had read somecomments saying, dude, I don't know
how it came across on TV,but live it was very loud. Yeah.
I even the producer, one ofthe producers was on Twitter being like,
oh, I'm just taking shot aftershot from fan after fan, Like

(32:58):
he was basically talking about how hiswork got shipped on it. I'm like,
do better, sorry, Mike,the fucking ground better. I don't
give a shit. It's a payper view. The energy, the crowd's
energy can literally make or break.Here's my hot take before we get into
the entire eleven match card, whichthis is too fucking bloated. The front

(33:19):
half of this pay per view fuckingsucked. I don't give a shit what
anybody else has to say, Like, that's your opinion. My opinion.
The front half of this pay perview fucking sucked. And it was not
until the middle of the fifth fuckingmatch where it was like, all right,
we're picking up some steam here,which is sad when you look at
the talent that was under that match. I would not say that it sucked.

(33:40):
I would just say that I feltunderwhelmed. It didn't have the same
oomph. Here's the thing. Here'sthe thing. I feel like a lot
of people that said that the firsthalf sucked is grading it on a curve
of we paid money for this.This was a fifty dollars ethan and I

(34:01):
feel like I only got twenty fivedollars worth. That's not where I'm grading
it. I'm great. I amliterally grading it as in, like,
man, dude, okay, itwas nobody's best. No, like jumping
right into this shit. Fucking thehardys in hook versus Ethan Page and the
guns, and this is like allfor this really minor, like barely spoken

(34:21):
of storyline where Matt Hardy has beenunder contract like with Ethan Page and all
this other shit, and this wasfor control of that contract, which the
hard Heason Hook won. But god, and I know it's his first real
match back in a long time,but fuck, dude, Jeff is moving
like ass, and Matt is evenmoving like ass. They're oldest fuck man.

(34:42):
They blew their shit out twenty yearsago, poor guys, and it's
the hard Eason you dare to seethe Hardies. But dude, when Jeff
like went to do his his fuckingwhatever the fuck on my on the top
rope, he felt and that wasdefinitely not on purpose, Like he definitely
had to like wint to that andplay that it was supposed to happen like
hit with his leg, but godit was. It was rough, dude,

(35:07):
This was fucking rough to watch.Can I skip over talking about this?
Yeah, it's fine, dude,I'm just fifteen minutes, ten seconds
the Hardyson Hook win and who thefuck knows where I hope they dropped this
ship and just move on to somethingdifferent, moving on to the next matches,
the twenty one man Blackjack Battle Royalfor the International Championship. Most Battle

(35:28):
Royals are kind of a mess.Yeah, this was fun. It was.
I mean, usually Battle Royals youget what you get, you know,
it's the same thing more or less. A lot of them are a
little sloppy, but this one waspretty decent, especially in the last like
what ten minutes we pretty much gota one on one match after the fact,

(35:51):
dude, it was fucking good that. I bro. I would love
to see them work a program.They have a match coming up next week.
Perfect yep. Orange Cassidy retains overtwenty one or twenty other guys,
and Orange Cassidy retains over twenty otherguys and god damn, like, I
can't do this justice talking about it. This was the most fun of the

(36:14):
front half. Go fucking find thisand watch it. It was really great.
I loved the ending same like thefinish itself. I was like,
perfect, yeah, that exactly.It is the most Orange Cassidy thing to
be done. And it's one ofthose moments where it's like, you know,

(36:36):
some people are like, all right, I'm getting kind of tired of
the Orange Cassidy Stick. I getit. But then every once in a
while you see this one thing that'slike that's on brand, but I haven't
seen it. Right. It's goodship, though it really was. Moving
on to the unsanctioned match we hadAdam Cole versus Chris Jericho. I've got
a few things to say about this, and then I'm gonna dip. Okay,

(36:58):
not their strongest, not from eitherguy, not their strongest. In
fact, it was kind of askedfor as long as it went, You're
gonna book an unsanctioned match with Sabuas the special quote guest enforcer. Sabo
showed up to make his payday anddive through a table and dip. Yeah.
I didn't care for the usage ofhim, and I dude, I'm

(37:20):
marked out whenever I saw him.I'll be honest whenever he's short. But
it made zero sense why Adam Colewould have his number. I don't.
I don't see the connection here unlessI'm forgetting something I know there really isn't.
And I mean, like you havelike the Jas and then Roderick Strong
and Savu, which is, likesays, supposed to be a special guest

(37:42):
enforcer, but he's actually in AdamCole's corner, which they never really differentiated
that to the point that the fuckingbroadcast team, including Jim Ross, didn't
know what the fuck was going on. Yeah, get that's another thing.
Get Jim Ross the fuck off ofmy TV now. I never thought I
would say that in the last twentyfive years of my life. This man
is so bored with the product heis yelling at fans in the audience.

(38:05):
I'm tired of him, I reallyam. He just he just sounds like
a fucking old head like Boomer,literally a fucking Boomer sooner on this motherfucker.
I know Jim Ross is like heldon a pedestal by so many people,
and he used to be for me, not anymore. Get him the
fuck off my TV. Let fuckingEXCaliber, Toni, Shavanni and Taz have

(38:27):
their fucking team by themselves. Ijust I just don't feel like Ross has
much more to offer anymore. Whenhe speaks his fucking mind, it's not
to do with the business anymore.He's he's over he's overly opinion to the
point that he buries the product onTV sometimes and it's not a good look.
I'm being honest, it's a differenttime period for him. I think

(38:49):
it's like, how do I wordthe old guard? Can't let the guard
down? God damn it. Yeah, because I feel like, Okay,
I'm going to be completely fair.A lot of people say this in a
negative way, especially when it comesfrom Jim Ross's um demographic, but they
consider aw and even an XT justtoday's wrestling in general. As quote Indie

(39:15):
Riffic, Okay, right, that'snot Jim Ross's cup of tea, and
I don't expect it to be,no, but it's the fact that,
like, yes, having him onyour team elevates you in the public eye,
but it's not his thing. Whenyou're putting Jim Ross on the taped

(39:37):
show on Friday, yeah, there'sa problem. And that's mostly so you
can edit his commentary. I'm tellingyou that's they're not gonna come say it.
But that's that's why probably um asfar as the match goes, because
that's what that's why we're here.Yeah, it was it was not their
best. It wasn't. My issuewith it is at number one line,

(40:00):
Okay, talking about Saboo dude.Okay, So because of the lack of
connection with Adam Cole. Here's whatI would have done in this scenario,
have it be what it was.But then at the very last second,
Taboo turns on Adam Cole and theycan chalk it up to ECW. I

(40:22):
was gonna say the same fucking thing. That's the only reason it's here and
whatever, because then it's like there'sa there is a connection now, maybe
not with Adam, but then it'sa swerve and it's like it was never
about Adam, it was me,Austin we it was something different. Literally

(40:42):
yeah. Um. And also ifwe were gonna go with Adam, uh
yeah, if we were gonna gowith Adam Cole going over, which we
did. I don't buy into thefact of Jericho passing out from getting laid
the fuck out the way that hedid. But they're not being a crimson

(41:05):
mask. It didn't sell the severity. Know what it looked like what was
happening is it looked like they weretrying to go hard way with it and
it never happened, so they werejust like, fucking stop it. That's
exactly what it looked like, probably, But that also goes into the matter
of it's a no DQ match.What do you mean he's knocked out,
so you if it's a no DQmatch, the fuck cares, there's no

(41:30):
rules, just in theory, youwould just let him keep going. Well,
this was a referee stoppage, that'sall it was. It was referee
discretion, that's it. Oh no, I understand that. But do you
see what I'm saying. Yeah,no, it makes sense. It's it's
like the fucking fiend seth rollin tellingthe self finish all over again. And
also I disagree with this because ifit's by ref stoppage, to me personally,

(41:54):
you take all of the heat offof Jericho because he never quit.
Yeah, he never got pinned,he never tapped, he got knocked out,
which if you look at pro wrestlinghistory repeats itself. Whenever somebody doesn't
tap out, they pass out,they come back as a face. Because
he didn't give up. Yeah,I mean, all this did was just

(42:16):
lead to a fucking mixed tag teammatch on Dynamite last last night. But
it's like, I understand all ofthe heat on the ref by doing this,
but I'll be honest, I didn'tfucking even pay attention to who the
referee was that stopped it. IfI'm being honest, I understand that,
but I'm saying, like the heatis off of Jericho. I see Saboo

(42:37):
could have been the guy that didit exactly. He's like, I'm stopping
the match, but you know,he got his money in depth. So
seventeen minutes flat adamick Ole wins andhopefully, hopefully he goes on to something
better because the Saint hit And it'ssad because we do love both guys.

(43:00):
Yeah, they just don't need tobe in on a program with each other,
not right now. FTR versus JeffJared and Jay Lethal for the Tag
Championships in a twenty minute match withMark Briscoe as the special guest referee coming
out with the motherfucking fatigue referee stripes. Holy shit, this was fun.
Yeah. I feel bad because,like again, the crowd was flat as

(43:22):
fuck for this, and they shouldn'thave been because FTR fucking rule and Jeff
Jared and Jay Lethal a goddamn entertainingas hell. This was a great match
itself. The crowd is what suckedthe energy out of this one for me.
Yeah, I do feel like itwas a little overbooked at the end
though, with the guitars. Yeah, I Aubrey Edwards really got a fucking

(43:47):
guitar to the fucking face, dude. I'm pretty sure that she wasn't supposed
to get it as a brasively no, but like Karen fucking smacked her and
then tripped over her big ass highheeled left my ass off. Um,
God, damn it, this isthis is the woman that used to be
married to Kurt Angle, for fuck'ssake. But I will never gripe about

(44:09):
seeing FTR and anything Brisco related.Yeah, it was. It was fucking
great. I mean FTR wins,thank god. I certainly didn't want Jared
and Lethal to have the tag belts, uh. I just I just thought
like the ending was a little overbooked. That's really my only complainant match wise
for this Other than that was fuckingsolid. I'm so glad Brisco didn't turn

(44:31):
because I honestly was a little worriedabout that. I was too, because
it's not like, oh, notlike you know, buying into it and
like you know, uh, markingout for that. It would have been
more like, oh, that wouldbe really shitty booking. Yeah, because
it's like, how do you booa man that just lost his best friend,
tag team partner and brother. Youdon't like, yeah, I don't

(44:57):
know, Yeah, you don't dothat. Um. FTR continues their rain
and I'm curious to see who aretheir next program lies in the future,
because I think they're being booked.Really, I think they're being like held
off until collision airs because like rightnow, every week it's like we have

(45:19):
this whole card on Dynamite and thenthis week will hear from FTR, Like
FTR talks every week, what doyou have to say? Put them in
the ring, Let them fucking wrestle. But to be very fair, I
know Dax has been like working injuredfor like almost a year now because the
man has not taken time off theheel, and it's like, maybe that's

(45:42):
just to let them kind of havesome ice on their fucking tailbones and their
fucking knees and their legs and shit, because probably, But anyway, twenty
minutes flat and they retain pretty solid, and then we move on to where
the pay per view starts to kindof pick up. And this is a
little bit like I feel like thisis where it really shifted gears with Christian
Cage and Wardlow in a ladder matchwith the TNT title. Fucking pain,

(46:07):
um a lot Wardlow with his fuckingJeff Hardy tribute off the ladder into the
two tables with Christian and Dude.I don't know how Christian's taken bomps like
this at his age. I don'tknow either. Um. As far as
the Swanton bomb, I feel likewhen you do somebody's move that is on
the same card, yeah, that'sa little yeah, that that's just me,

(46:30):
you know. I mean that'd belike see um punkin KNA on the
same card. Yeah, I meanunless they're facing each other. No,
Now, if they're facing each other, sure that's fine. Differently, no,
yeah, that's that's a me thing. Maybe I need to get into
today's time. Maybe that's me beingan old head. But I don't know

(46:52):
though, I understand that. Butagain, take Jeff out of the equation.
If he was not on this program, I would even have said that,
right has nothing to do with Wardlowor the move. My nitpick is
a weird one. Okay, whydidn't Wardlow trash the referee that fucking he
joined the ladder out from underneath himwhen he went to climbing because it was
all fucked up. I get thatit was fucked up. They could have

(47:15):
held it and he could have justwent for it anyway. The referee was
just like no, no, no, and he's just like, why didn't
he just stomp that motherfucker? Becausethink about it this way, baby face,
it doesn't They would not have booedhim. The crowd was pissed off
at the referee, dude, likeyou're lagging the time. Yeah, you're
taking the believability away because you're takingaway like this man is desperate to get

(47:35):
his championship back. It's like Iin that situation would have tried to climb
that same fucking ladder. I wouldnot have thought about, oh, put
this down and go get a freshladder. No, dude, Like I've
got my dude incapacitate it. Ineed to go now. Dude. He
totally that referee, Like I understand, probably for safety reason, but that
referee fucked the believability of that up. Yeah, no, I agree,

(47:58):
but but great match. All wasvery fun. Yeah, um, I
hope this is like the blowoff andmaybe we get um finally, like Luca
Source comes into the picture to dowas he hurt? No, he's been
they've been tied up over a fuckingcopyright issue with his mask. Oh what's

(48:19):
the issue? Like the person thatdesigned it designed it for something completely different
and it's being used illegally. Nothere about this, Yeah, you should
definitely read about it. It's prettyfucking ridiculous. So how is he able
to still be on TV? Thenhe's not selling merch but they're fighting the
likeness rights and ship also because TonyCON's a billionaire who gives a fuck like

(48:40):
that's that's kind of his mindset.I bet so, so he can be
on the program. It's just hismerchandise is not negotiable with this, gotcha?
So yeah, Um seventeen minutes andten seconds, Wardlow retains over Christian
Cage. Goddamn. Moving on toa match where I knew this was going

(49:00):
to be the ending of it,but I was really surprised considering Jamie had
It's Jamie Hayter and Tony's Storm forthe Women's Championship, and Jamie Hayter has
been injured, like legitimately working injuredfor a while now, and the plan
was to get the belt off ofher, so in some of them just
kind of coming out and making reallyquick work. Saya, Ruby Soho and
Tony Storm kind of beat the pissout of her all the way to the

(49:22):
ring, fuck her up before thebell, and instead of them going right
for a finish when the bell rings, there's like another three minutes of a
match, and it's like, dude, you could have risked her, like
actually getting more injured doing this.Whatever she's going through, which is her
it's her arm. She's got afucking arm injury. Tony Storm wins and
is your new aw Women's World Champion. I mean, there's really not a

(49:44):
whole bunch to say about this match. SAA can only really technically wrestle like
once or twice a month due tolike how they have her her shit worked
out with her neck. And Ihate to say this, but Ruby Soho
just is not it enough to holdthis title right now? Like Tony's Tony's
the workhorse of this team. Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that.

(50:06):
It just I'm a little sad becauseI really really wanted Jamie to be champion
for the Wimbley Show. Yeah,but I'm not even British, but like
I wanted that for her. Idid too, But I mean, hey,
like shit, happens, dude,tough breaks happened a lot in this
industry, and then that was yeah, I mean shit. I wanted Ocado

(50:28):
versus Punk to be the main eventof a Forbidden Door, but it didn't.
It didn't happen, so I getit. Moving on to the open
house rules six man for the Trio'sChampionship, it's the House of Black versus
the Acclaimed with Daddy Ass. Iloved it too. I just forgot this
was supposed to happen or if itwas like a late edition, because I

(50:52):
don't remember this being advertised as athing. I don't recall it being advertised,
but I knew that they'd be onthe show, if that makes sense,
because yeah, it makes sense justbecause it's like, no, you're
not gonna have a pay per viewwithout these guys, right, And it
was what it was. It wasa really good six man House of Black

(51:12):
retains and it seems like they're goingto be moving forward with more of like
Okay, so the Acclaimed want goldand they want Billy to have some gold
before he like legit retires or whatever, so like that's a good way to
keep it going. And the Houseof Black I will never ever ever gripe
about seeing them unless they are buried. Yep. Like, I absolutely love

(51:36):
this trio's team. This is themost believable they've been since their formation.
Honestly, like this run right here. I love it and good for them.
I'm so happy for all three.I love them like this is.
That's it's my favorite stable in thiscompany. It's the same. And I
love Blackpool, Don't get me wrong, I love the elite same. This
is by no means picking on anystable we have. It's just how so

(52:00):
black screams us like it really does. Dude, this is the most fucking
metal shit ever. And I fuckingI love all three of these guys individually,
Like they're work They're in ring workis just bar none, and they
have such good chemistry. Yes,the one cripe that I ever had about

(52:21):
them was Buddy sticking out like asore thumb, just visually. But then
whenever they started implementing the face paint, I was like, there you go.
Yep, that's that was the biggestfix they could have done. Yeah,
I was like, perfect because hisringwork speaks for itself. Oh dude,
you'll never hear me gripe about buddy'swork like, he looks great,

(52:42):
he works like a fucking animal,like he's he's great. Yeah, that
team's a million fucking dollars, dude. Malachi is just I'm not gonna say
he's this generation's undertaker, because that'sthat that's putting too much pressure on one
individual. But I'm saying, likeaesthetic, if they play their cards right,
he can be. He's he's gonnabe. He's he's his own fucking

(53:06):
dude, Like this is his ownthing. And that's that's the best part.
Yes, Like he's not trying tobe undertaker. I'm just saying like,
yeah, I know what you're saying. Like, and then you've got
the fucking hoss of the group,you know, like I mean, and
he's a child too. Yeah,They're all fucking good man. God,

(53:28):
I love that team. I hopethey keep the straps on them for a
while. They deserve it, theydo. Now, moving forward to the
TBS Championship with Jade Cargill versus TieA Valkyrie. Um, I knew Jade
was gonna get sixty and zero.I kind of figured it was gonna be

(53:49):
stat Lanner, but I didn't thinkit was gonna be that night. No.
Same, that was like a legitimatesurprise. Yeah. So uh,
Jade retains and then Sterling comes onand he's just like, oh yeah,
we'll fight anybody, anywhere, anytime. We'll put the belt on the line.
Blah blah blah. Okay, Well, then fucking here comes Chris stat

(54:12):
Lander and in forty eight seconds shedefeats Jade Cargill to become the new TBS
champion. Like, I love Jade'srun. I'm so happy she had the
run that she did. But thegirl she needs a break, like she
needs a vacation. She done didher time. She was great, and
she learned every week. Yeah,and you don't want to over expose her.

(54:32):
It's good to give her a break. Let her go away, take
a break, um, do sometraining, come back and she's I'm telling
you what, she comes back,she's gonna be like mega over even in
loss. Yeah. I think fromhere she goes over the women's championship.
Same, and Chris stat Lander absolutelydeserves this run. I think she's one

(54:54):
of them, She's one of theaw originals, and fourth has had a
couple of tough breaks, like literallywith her fucking her injuries and god,
damn it. Stat Lander has putthe fucking time in, the effort in
and she's she's done her fucking she'sdone her fucking work. Man, She's
she's earned this, and I can'twait to see how far they push her

(55:15):
with this. Dude, the wholeroom that I was in was just marking
whenever she came out, especially becauseChris stat Lander is Brian's queen. Yeah.
In fact, we actually uh paidfor a cameo for his birthday from
Chris. Oh nice. Yeah,so I can't wait to hear about this.
Oh yeah, no, like hewas a man's was coming gallons,

(55:37):
okay, like he was very excited. Um, I do want to bring
up the original match with Ti valcreI really enjoyed the story of them having
the same finisher and they were kindof doing who is better at it?
You know, right, because Ifeel like the story now is all about
Chris stant Letter, as it shouldbe, but you know, let's put

(55:57):
some respect on the other match too. You know. That was it was
fun for what it was. Absolutely. Yeah. I didn't mean like gloss
over or anything. Well it's noteven just you, that's what's been going
on the internet in general. Yeah, So because I mean they put they
put their time in and it wasit was a solid match for it and
it had a story too, sure, So absolutely I just wanted to bring
that in. Yeah, happy forJade, happy for Chris Statlander, Good

(56:20):
on you, Tive Alkyrie. Youknow, like everybody did their part.
Hell yeah. Moving on to thedouble main event, first up was which
again this is the second time aworld title match hasn't closed the show tonight.
Um mgf Sammy Gavar, Darby Allenand Jungle Boy Jack Perry in a
four way match for the AW WorldChampionship. Damn near a half hour long

(56:45):
My match of the night. Yes, uh goddamn. The Okay, so
I want to I want to goahead and like before we get into the
match, uh, it was thecoolest fucking thing when um time mellow and
Sammy an now there um pregnancy withthe fucking que cards because we haven't seen
Sammy used the que cards in quitesome time, and it's like, oh,
okay, this is it's a nicethrowback. Good for them. Right.

(57:08):
So the match itself, god damn, there were a couple of points
in here where I legitimately thought Darbywas gonna take it dude. And that's
the thing too, is like oncewith Sammy, everybody was like, Okay,
look, uh, Darby had areally cool entrance, Like I loved

(57:29):
it, yes, yes, andand look poor Jack Perry had nothing.
I know. I feel him,man, I know, like, and
I don't even mean this in abad way because like he because he legitimately
lost his father or whatever. Butit's just like you got like m JF
gets like the demon fucking like thethrone. Sammy gets like, hey,

(57:49):
we're fucking we're pregnant, and hehas this whole backstory video. Darby has
this badass like Elvis fucking thing andit's like jungle Boy Jack Perry Orphan walks
to the ring. Yeah, It'slike, fuck, dude, it was
poor bastard. Like legitimately, thispoor fucking bastard just comlude nothing. It's
almost as if if he did winit, then it would have been like,
hey, bro, nothing, Flashyjust wins. Yeah, give him,

(58:13):
give him oranges pyro yeah the onelittle but no dude. Um Yeah,
the video that Darby did, somepeople called it a little cringe e
and I get it. But also, like I love Darby Allen. He's
so over the top, and that'syou could not do that. And I
love Elvis, okay, you youand I have talked about this. I

(58:36):
grew up idolizing Elvis Presley, solike to me, I was just like,
dude, when that match started cooking, oh my god. Yeah that
it didn't stop. There's so muchto get into with it, man,
I mean, and MJF said thisat the media scrum after the fact.
Was he watching him to pickle becauseI missed that? No, he wasn't

(58:58):
the shit, but he had saidgreatest iron Man match in the history?
Did it greatest? He went downthe list of like different matches and then
he said Ray's four way I thinkso, And I was like, honestly,
hold on, let me think Ihad to. I can't recall a

(59:19):
four way that's better. It wouldhave been funny if he was just like,
greatest four way outside of my ownbedroom a thing to say it is,
But no, I mean, andI'm sure you know somebody is gonna
crect me and be like what aboutthis four way? And I'm like,
fuck, I'll tell you. Inmost recent memory, Yeah, this was

(59:39):
it. This was great. Uh, nary a spot that went wrong,
if at all and these guys gotall their ship in and surprises and like
funny spots like they they did somecomedy and it wasn't hockey. You even
brought it up with the whole fourthe punching each other, taking turns,

(01:00:00):
trading licks in the fucking ring.Yeah, they were trading punches, and
you know, it's a classic spotwhenever it's one on one, but sure
four on four, it's like,okay, all right, you know,
you kind of think it's wrestling.I'm gonna let it slide. You know,
it's whatever. It's kind of hokey, but whatever. But then whenever
it was Mjf's turned to take thehit, he just I pokes everybody,

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and I was like, okay,yeah, fucking get it. My man
went full three stoogs. I hopesomebody finds that footage and remixes it,
and then they put him like aseach time he fucking posts him, you
here like a like a fucking likecartoon sound effect or some shit you've got
that You've got him trying to bribeSammy. Bro. That was pretty fuck
good. Heel move like that's good, like classic, like you know wrestling

(01:00:45):
heel moves, Like come on,Sammy, light on and take the money.
I know you needed. You gota kid on the way. And
then Sammy, yeah, all right, I'll lay down for you. I
need the money. Then he fuckingI knew it was coming when I was
waiting on the pot from the crowd, when he just fucking like rolled him
up the spot where everybody uses theirmentors maneuver. I was like, this

(01:01:07):
is good. That four submission piecewas really God yes, dude, just
like all of it can Here's okay. So the finish was actually very comedically
done for me for MJF. Like, if you're into m JF the heel,
if you're into the fact that heis a shit, a sniveling little

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shit who also is very damn goodin the ring, my man's Darby had
our boy dead to rights with thefucking golf and drop and then m JF
just rolls in with the belt andhe's like and just like puts it on
him where Darby crashes into it andhe fucking beats up with a headlock.
Takeover again, dude, I withthe shit heating grin on his face.

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I love the storytelling here, Soyou know, if Darby does end up
beating him, he better do itwith the headlock take yes, which I
have zero doubt if that is thefinal match where he does lose a strap.
If it is against Darby, nota doubt in my mind. That's
how they're doing it should be.I just I don't know, man.

(01:02:16):
It just goes to show that you'regetting your money's worth with MJF. Like
they made the right call. Heis that guy. He is him,
you know, as a kid say, and I don't know, man,
Like Darby looked great as usual.Sammy and Jungle Boy are great, you
know. I mean, I thinkMJF and Darby have a taller ceiling than

(01:02:42):
the other two. That's only becauseof Jungle boys mike skills, you know.
Yep. He comes off very shyand nervous and Sammy, I feel
like, I feel like they ultimatelydon't know what to do with him right,
Like, he definitely has like aform mid card main event status,
but there's no solid footing for him. They don't have, like you know,

(01:03:06):
creative almost has nothing for him.Yeah. Almost. It's it's weird
because they'll have ideas, but thenhis personal life gets in the middle of
it. Like for example, hewas a face, and then a lot
of shit came out about him.Now he has to be a heel,
but now he's going to be afather, so you can't boo him.
But then it's like, Okay,what's your plan with him as a face?

(01:03:30):
Yea, I don't know, butI'm very very happy with this match.
Yeah. Same, And moving onto the main event, which is
the anarchy in the arena match withthe Blackpool Combat Club versus the Elite.
You got Danielson, mocks League,Castinoli and Utah on one side, and
you've got Omega, the Bucks andHangman Page on the other side, cracking

(01:03:53):
my shit up with a band playingwild thing for the Combat Club to come
to the ring. Then then theykeep playing, and then they keep playing.
God, they keep playing, andI love that. Like a lot
of people are like, Okay,well this joke was done to death last
year, and and correct me ifI'm wrong, but I from what I
remember reading about is that they literallycould not like whatever whatever system or program

(01:04:18):
they were using, like for theentrance music got fucking stuck and they could
not turn it. Is that whathappened, dude? Like I thought it
was just some New Jack shit orwhatever, Like I think I think what
happened is like they literally could notshut it off and it just kept looping
because the song would be over andit would fade out and it would start

(01:04:40):
again. So I think they werejust like, let's do it with a
live band this time, and theyfucking did. And it only ended when
the Bucks went and Super kicked thefucking singer out of his goddamn boots.
They kicked him, but the restof the band's like, we're not gonna
fight him, you know, likethey couldn't taken him probably, but they're
just like, fuck this, wedon't getting paid enough for this ship.
Boy. Um this was literally livingup to its name. Uh uh.

(01:05:04):
Kind of a cluster fuck in thefront bit of it, you know,
obviously these matches kind of are becauseyeah, you're literally everywhere just to get
to the highlights because like, uh, Blackpool Combat Club win when Wheeler you
to actually pins Kenny Omega for thefucking ending and it was great, good
on them for that. Yes,So the pile driver in the back of

(01:05:26):
the truck looked fucking brutal, eventhough it was very protective, like,
it looked really bad. The fuckingbarefoot in the thumb tacks had me cringing.
I literally like squeaked, like likethe moment of the match to me,
please on three one two three theAmerica what the trash can? Oh?

(01:05:55):
I was? I was? Iwas talking about the fucking super kick
with the exploding shoe dude was anotherone. God didn't expect that, Okay,
So there are two spots of thematch then, because like between that
or the because that was probably thecoolest spot of the of the match,
bar none. But the spot thatI was like yo yo doing like the

(01:06:19):
fucking Leonardo DiCaprio pointing me, waswhenever Kenny was with the trash can lid.
Yeah, because he's already wearing CaptainAmerica inspired tides and they recreated like
all of it, right down toClaudio grabbing it like the Winter Soldier dude
that had the whole room. Becausewe're all like fans of everybody involved,

(01:06:41):
right, and we were all andwe're all like comic book nerds too,
so we were just like, yeah, just scream me, right to the
point where my best friend's wife wasjust like, can y'all shut the okay?
That was cool? Friend, Likewe were like, dud shut the
fun all right, all right,dude, she even she was like okay,
okay, yeah, I'm in Youknow, this was a fun match.

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There was blood, there was fuckingmassive amounts of violence. Surprisingly,
the ring didn't get destroyed. Ireally thought they were gonna tear the fucking
ring apart in this one. Um, good on him for giving you to
the pinfall. But the biggest thingthat happened in this match was that the
reason they won is that Kenoskate Takeshtafucking showed up and fucking did a running

(01:07:31):
knee on Kenny. We saw thiscoming, we did, but also like
wow, yeah dude. And thenso the follow up is that on Dynamite
it kept making mention that Kenny Omegawas not in the country, but he
didn't go back to Canada. AndI'm gonna say it here because you and
I have talked about this so manytimes here and off air. You know

(01:07:54):
he's not in Canada because he's infucking Japan recruiting Koda Bushi, dude,
because you know that's what's happening rightfucking forbidden doors around the corner. Oh
yeah, I want to see BlackpoolCombat Club with Takeshta in Toe versus the
Elite with Coda Abushi. I wantto see the Young Bucks, Hangman Adam
Page and the Golden Lovers beat thepiss out of the Blackpool Combat Club at

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Forbidden Door. If this doesn't happenat Forbidden Door, I want this at
all. In it's so weird becauseit's like this is Taylor made for Forbidden
Door, but it is big enoughfor all exactly. However, however,
this is a personal thing. Iwould die happy if Forbidden Door became Aw's

(01:08:40):
Rustlemania just because it's my cup oftea, you know, like right,
and that's just me. Yeah,it simply because you also have JPW talent
who also benefit from the American audienceexposure. Correct, Yeah, I mean
you remember the buzz that I wasgiving whenever Forbidden Door was initially announced,

(01:09:00):
and then whenever the card fell apartbefore with injuries and illnesses and what have
you, It's still turned out great. I know, Like, how do
you do You don't do that unlessyou've got like good stacked deep rosters.
Yeah, like it's but that goesto show the talent that is in New
Japan. I'm I'm really really excitedthough. Yeah, I am too.

(01:09:25):
There's so many places there they couldgo with all this shit, but like
the ten Man needs to happen,and it needs to happen either at Forbidden
Door or at all in. Probablygonna happen at all In just because like
you're gonna you're gonna need like asmuch ump from that card as possible,
even though they have already damned nearlike sold what are they are they at?

(01:09:45):
Seventy thousand tickets at that either way, bro Um, that's a big
fucking crowd at Winwood Stadium and therewasn't even a match announced and they sold
this much, So you got toyou got to give the people what they
want. Yeah. Absolutely. Iwould also say maybe I have fucking three
point seven five to a four outof five on this pay per view,

(01:10:09):
and it's mostly to do with theback half of this being as good as
it was, right, Okay,So I feel like the better program was
Nine of Champion, Yes, butthe latter half of I feel like nothing
on the Nine of Champions card beatthe two main events, right, and

(01:10:32):
that's that's to me in terms ofmatch quality and also like the storytelling aspect,
but from front to back, eventhough I'm sitting here like three point
seven five to four out of fiveon this pay per view, and it's
mostly again to do with the factthat the back half it's more matches.
You got more for your money.The quality was like getting better towards the
end. But I think star Powerwas good on ww's side of things,

(01:10:57):
and how quick an in and outit was, because I will be honest,
like the main thing that I don'tcare for with aw's pay per views
half the times they're so fucking long. Yeah. I mean that's what happens
when you have quarterly events, right, but they're so draining. Dude,
No, I get it. Um, I don't know. Like if all
we got was the three main events, okay, we got the Roman tag

(01:11:24):
match and everything, No, youknow what fuck that. If we had
if this was one event and itwas four matches Seth and AJ the Bloodline
versus Kevin and Sammy, then thetwo main events on double or nothing,
this would be the perfect for me. Oh my god, dude, if

(01:11:45):
you just did a super cut ofthose four matches, I'd be like,
wrestling is done, Like I havehad everything that I need a e www
night of nothing. What like theyjust combine the they you combine the names,
and it's just like, wait,that doesn't work, Like, what
do you mean Night of Nothing,dude? I'd be double or Champion,
Like what the fuck are you talkingabout, David, Dude, I would

(01:12:06):
Oh my god, for real,though, I'd be so fucking happy with
that, the real Forbidden Doors.And I want to say that because at
the end of the day, Ijust love wrestling. Same. It was
a good look. It was agreat weekend to be a wrestling fan,
absolutely whether you watched Impact, wW E, a EW or literally every

(01:12:29):
fucking bit of it, which ifyou do, like, good on you,
because we ain't got the time.That's all I really got to say
about this ship. It is lateas fuck. Come back next week when
we go back to our thirty yeartime machine series with the WWF and we
go to The King of the Ringnineteen ninety three, the first pay per
view version of The King of theRing, and that that will start the
Big Five. If you will,Yeah for the WWF. So come back

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