AEW Double or Nothing: Predictions and Showdowns

We deliver in-depth predictions for every match on the AEW Double or Nothing card, breaking down each potential outcome with detailed analysis of the stories and stakes involved.

• Event scheduling creates unfortunate clash with NXT Battleground, forcing fans to choose or watch replays
• Ricochet's strong heel work since joining AEW positions him for victory in the stretcher match against Mark Briscoe
• “Speedball” Mike Bailey could pull upset over Okada at this major PPV event
• MJF's alignment with the Hurt Syndicate adds intrigue to their tag team championship defense
• “Timeless” Toni Storm continues exceptional character work as arguably wrestling's top performer
• Anarchy in the Arena will feature chaotic, building-wide action rather than traditional wrestling

Join us after Double or Nothing for our complete breakdown of all the action and surprises from the event

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Bennett Bash Podcast Tag Team
Talk.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm Ben.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm Bash.
It's time to lace up your bootsand hit the mat with the
Bennett Bash Podcast Tag TeamTalk.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
All right, here we are for another one.
We are going to be doing AEWDouble or Nothing.
For some reason, aew and WWEdecided to run two events at the
same time, not sure why.
I mean you got four months in ayear.
You could do another month.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I mean another week or nxt, could have just like
been earlier no, but you should.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
You could have did another, another, another week.
I mean wwe did because theyhave a battleground and they had
certain night main event yeahback to back.
They've been because they'reboth in the same arena.
So I understand that, but I'msaying they could have moved it.
I'm saying they could have hadit one.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
They could have moved both of them Somebody could
have moved one.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Because I thought the whole thing was we not
competing with each other?
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, AEW's kind of competing with WWE.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
But they're not because they don't come on the
same time, yeah, like you justcome on wednesdays.
Then they did wwe, moved nxt totuesday so they wouldn't
compete with them becausethere's no point.
You got enough days in the week.
It's not like the old uh,monday night raw or monday night
wars, with monday night Raw andum WCW, monday Night Nitro,

(01:26):
when you had both of them cameon the same time and you had to
shoot between both.
Both places, yeah and, andswitch back and forth between
matches.
You weren't around then but youhad to play, yeah, if you
wanted to watch this match hereand you had to switch to watch
that to be here, and you had to.
It was.
It was a whole ordeal everysingle Monday night trying to
decide which one you want towatch.
Sometimes you had have twomatches on you want to watch and

(01:46):
they came on the same exacttime.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, and it could have been easily on a different
day.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Exactly, but they were competing with each other.
Yeah, that was the directcompetition.
That's why they came on Mondaynight at the same time, but this
one they're not competing witheach other, so why are they both
running shows at the same time?
I mean, I know AEW doesn't.
I don't guess NXT considercompetition, but it's like, why
are you doing shows the sametime as each other?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
But anyways.
But anyways, we're going to dopredictions for AEW or nothing.
You know how we do itPredictions what we think is
going to happen, storylines, allthat kind of stuff.
So yeah, let's get to it.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
In the pre-match it's Megan Bain and Penelope Ford
versus Anna Jade and HarleyCameron.
So for this one I'm not reallysure.
Um, I'm not really sure, but um, I don't know, because both of

(02:50):
the teams are pretty good.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
So I would probably say Megan Bain and Penelope Ford
to win.
Yeah, that's a part.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I mean Holly Cameron and NJ they've been pretty funny
on TV.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Pretty funny on TV recently.
They've been a pretty gooddynamic.
Uh, I mean Harley Cameron.
People start to like her more,her wrestling is starting to get
better and all that, so they'repretty good tag teams.
Both of them are pretty goodtag teams, um, but, that being
said, you want to go with.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Megan Bain and Penelope Ford.
I'm going to go with Anna Jadeand Hard Cameray to win this one
that's it and probably one ofmy favorite matches the first
match on the card Mark Briscoevs Ricochet in a stretcher match

(03:46):
and probably one of my favoritematches the first match on the
card Mark Briscoe versusRicochet in a stretcher match.
So obviously it's like astretcher match.
Like they put you.
You have to put them on astretcher.
It's like an ambulance match,right, basically.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
No, I think the stretcher match.
If it's the same kind ofstretcher match they do in other
companies, you got to put themon a stretcher and roll to a
finish line.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh, I thought I'm pretty sure I heard them say on
AEW, roll into the ambulanceOkay.
So that's okay.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
So they're doing the same thing.
They're doing the ambulancematch, basically ambulance match
.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, they call it stretcher match.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
But in the ambulance match, like you know, like
they're putting the stretcher inthe ambulance, okay that's the
ambulance matching and sometimesa stretcher's match.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
A stretcher match is when you put them on stretch and
you got rolling past the finishline on the stretcher, yeah, so
I've seen that kind of matchbefore as a searcher match.
So so they're going to actuallyhave it like it's the ambulance
match, basically yeah, butthere's a stretcher around the
ring.
I'm pretty sure, yeah, but I'msaying it's the ambulance match.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh yeah, so I got you okay um, so mark briscoe, I
would probably say, has theadvantage in this match because
he's a more extreme wrestler.
But honestly, I think ricochetneed not really needs, but he
deserves this win more.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
So I'm gonna say ricochet is gonna win this match
yeah, ricochet's been doing um,he's been doing pretty good
work since he's been in the AEW.
I mean fans don't like him, butyeah.
What can you say?
I mean, that's how it's likethis.
You want to either get booed orcheered.

(05:18):
If you get any kind of reactionfrom the fans, you're doing a
good job.
What you don't want is silence.
So as long as you're getting athe fans, you're doing a good
job.
What you don't want is silence.
So as long as you're getting acrowd reaction, you're doing
something right.
So right now, ricochet is stillgetting crowd attention.
They're booing him, but he'sstill getting crowd reaction.
They're still interacting withhim.
Now we get to the point wherehe comes out and he's doing

(05:41):
stuff and they're not doinganything.
Now something's going on, yeah,but he's doing real good heel
work.
Like they're actually AEW'sletting him do stuff.
Wwe never let him do Like heactually show him more of his
personality.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
You know, like WWE never let him really show his
personality like this.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, at the end of his WWE career he just got beat
up every week by Braun Briggs.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Exactly, I would have loved to.
I would have loved to.
I mean, I think that's probablywhy they did that, because they
knew he was leaving.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
But at the same time it's like.
He probably would have won theIC title, though maybe but you
don't know that, though you haveno idea if he would have did
that it kind of looked like itwas going that way.
You don't know.
If they did that you could havebeen had.
Why wait till you're gettingready to leave or say he wants

(06:29):
to leave to get a title?
on him you could give a title tohim while he was under contract
, for the years he was underthere, yeah, when you didn't
have him doing anything whilewaiting to get ready to leave
yeah, that's a fair point that'swhat I'm saying.
Don't wait till somebodygetting ready to leave and then
say we'll put a title on you no,no, no.
You had two, two years to put atitle on me and you didn't.
You had me lose, you had me docrazy stuff.
Now I want to leave and youwant to put a title on me To

(06:52):
kind of keep me to stay.
I'm good, I'm going to take mychance somewhere else, if I do
want to come back.
I'll come back, If not.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
I won't, because in AEW I think he has a way better
shot at winning a world title.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Of course.
I mean he should have a betterchance at the B as well.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, I mean come on now he's got.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean nothing against him, but he's a better
wrestler than Jey Uso.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Mm-hmm yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
I mean, Jey Uso's a good wrestler, he's a good crowd
.
Good crowd helped Jey ULo gettheir world championship.
Yeah, but pure wrestling.
Ricochet beats him.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
But at the same time I get it.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Ricochet beats like half of the like, probably more
than half, well, not just notjust WWE.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
He beats a lot of wrestlers in a lot of companies.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
In just a regular wrestling match, mm-hmm.
But people don't like thatsometimes, like you know.
Like I said ricochet, hestarted, he started to get stale
and then to be like peopledidn't give him a reaction
anymore, like I was talkingabout the reaction part of it.
People weren't cheering for him, people were really booing for
him, they were just kind ofthere he is again yeah so it was
time for him to go.

(07:57):
when you get to that point andthey're not helping w is not
helping you get the crowdreaction back it might be time
to leave.
You know, Mm-hmm, but so whoare you picking to win?

Speaker 1 (08:09):
I picked Ricochet.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Ricochet.
So, yeah, I'm going to go withRicochet too.
Man, he's been doing some greatheel work recently with
everything he's been doing.
I've been a fan of Ricochet fora while anyways he before WWE,
he looked underground.
I spray classic matches fromyears ago.
I'm going to go, ricochet forsure, win this match.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I think there will be some really good spots in this
match.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
For sure, because there's Ricochet in it.
You know he's going to havesome crazy spots.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
And also Mark Briscoe is crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Mark Briscoe is crazy , so we know he's going to be
doing a bunch of crazy stuffanyway.
So we already know what that'sgoing to be about.
But Ricochet, for instance,this is a qualification match,
too right.
So we already know that he'sgoing to be doing some crazy
stunts off the ropes and offbarricades, all kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
So I'm looking forward to this match.
It might be one of the bestmatches on the card.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's what you're going to say, for that.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yep, that's it.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
All right.
In the second match on the cardor the next match on the card
it's Okada versus Speedball MikeBailey for the AEW Continental
Championship, and for this oneSpeedball Mike Bailey is not new
, but like pretty new.
So it's AEW, but I don't know.

(09:44):
I'm starting to like him a lotmore as the weeks go by, but I
don't see Okada losing anytimesoon.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, I mean, I only started watching Speedball when
he was in TNA, right before hecame to AEW.
I didn't know anything abouthim.
Yeah, I didn't really watchIndependent.
I really wasn't too familiarwith him.
Yeah, I didn't know anythingabout him.
Yeah, I didn't really watchIndependent, really wasn't too
familiar with him.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I watched a couple matches with him In TNA.
Yeah, well, even before that,because he wrestled Chris Danger
.
That's when I started watchinghim.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Chris Danger yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
But yeah, so I didn't really watch him before that.
I watched him in TNA.
He's not a good wrestler I meanhe wrestles barefoot because
he's like a martial artist typeguy but so it should be a good
match.
I mean, both of them are goodwrestlers.
Okada, he's showing a differentpersonality here in AEW than he
did in Japan.
He's not the hard-nosed,straight-to-the-point, serious
guy.
He's kind of showing more ofhis funny, comedic personality

(10:44):
in AEW, which is you know it'salways good to see a different
side of wrestlers.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
But he's still on his serious side.
But he pops out funny sometimes.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's what I'm saying he's still on his serious
side when he gets in the ring.
But, like outside the ring.
He's more.
He shows more of his comedicside.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's kind of like Gunther sometimes.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Exactly Like he's showing his promos and his
promos and all that kind ofstuff.
He's doing different things andyou know.
But yeah, okada, he needs towin this because he needs to get
back to being the best wrestlerin the world, because for a
stretch there he was consideredthe best wrestler in the world.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
And thereabouts was second.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
You think he's not?
Well, not saying he's not, butas far as the list goes, the PWI
list, they probably wouldn'trank him number one because he
hasn't done enough to be onnumber one list.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Like, in order to be PWI wrestler of the year, you
have to win a championship,which he has, that, but you have
to be have to win achampionship, which he has that,
but you have to be doing otherstuff.
You know, it's just, it's justa whole criteria they have yeah.
I mean rest of the year.
I mean JOSO's probably gonna beup there for wrestler of the
year yeah, because he's got.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
He's got the championship yeah, but like are
we talking about a wrestler?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
it's about.
It's about work.
It's about how long.
How long during the year didyou have the world championship
and some other stuff?
But the main thing is, how longdid you have the championship
throughout that year?
Oh, but yeah, if we're talkingabout a wrestler, so cody, so
cody rose is gonna be up therebecause he had it, for I mean,
I'm not sure what the cutouttime is yeah but cody's gonna be

(12:23):
up there.
Jist is going to be up therebecause the Yeet movement put
him up there by far.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
You think Roman's going to be up there.
Roman's going to be.
He's also going to be, on thatlist.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, how high he's going to be, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Then you got like Jon Moxley, because he's been an
AEW world champion all year aregoing to place.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
MJF hasn't had a bill or anything, he's going to be
on the list.
I mean there's 500 wrestlers onthe list, yeah, so he's going
to be on the list I'm talkingabout like the top 10.
Yeah, like the top 10.
So he's going to be on.
Every wrestler that we talkabout is going to be on the list
, like every wrestler thatindependent wrestlers on there.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
We don't even know.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Sometimes they put them on the list.
That's the first time somepeople even hear these people is
on this list.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
You know, but yeah, I got who you got Wayne Ocala.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, ocala's had the belt for a while, I mean.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Would it be a stretch to say Mike Bailey will win?

Speaker 1 (13:21):
No, it's not.
No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Because he's pretty new and it's looking like they
would trust him with the title.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's what I'm saying.
And then they give Okada achance to go out to the world
championship, or you know what Imean?
Yeah, so yeah, I'm going to go,I'm going to go, I'm going to
go, mike Bailey, I'm going to gowild card here and go, mike
Bailey's going to beat Okada andwin the Continental
Championship.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
I can see that happening, especially a big
pay-per-view like this, yeah,exactly this is a big
pay-per-view too.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
So we're going to go.
Mike Bailey, upsetting Okada.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
That's what you're going to say for that?
Yeah, all right.
And in the third match on thecard, it's Paragon consisting of

(14:21):
Adam Cole, kyle O'Reilly andRoderick Strong, versus the Don
Callis family, which is T'Ketcha, kyle Fletcher and Josh
Alexander in a trio match.
So for this one, I like Paragon.
They're one of my favoritetrios, just in general of
Vaseline, all time really.
But, um, so I would just saythem by bias, but also I don't
know, because they're Don Cal'sfamily, so there's probably

(14:43):
going to be shenanigans in thematch.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
But I would still probably have to say Paragon.
Does Kyle Fletcher have a matchon Double Runtime?

Speaker 1 (14:50):
No, I'm pretty sure he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Okay, so if he doesn't have a match, then he's
going to have an influence onhis match.
Then, right, yeah.
Because you're forgetting aboutit.
I mean Dunn, kyle and Fletcherusually all roll together, so I
would be surprised if it wouldall three yeah now here's the
other part.
There's a, there's a, there's amember missing from the what
they call paragon.

(15:13):
Now yeah they've called it abunch of different things.
You know it was uh, they werepart of the kingdom and and and
ring of honor in.
Nxt.
They were undisputed era yeah,there's four members in that
group Adam Cole yeah no, there'sfour members in that group,
adam Cole, he's in that group ohyeah, he is oh yeah, adam Cole,

(15:33):
kyle O'Reilly and Roger Strong,and.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Bobby Fish, bobby Fish yeah, he's not in the AEW,
is he?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
is he?
We don't know.
He could be.
He could be tonight.
He could be there at DoubleNothing.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
We don't know.
That's the point, that's whatI'm saying.
So they could have a fourthmember as well that people
aren't thinking about.
You know, you bring KyleFletcher in.
Bobby Fish comes out and helpsthem out and joins the group and
makes the group complete.
Out and helps them out andjoins the group and makes the
group complete.
I mean, this is the time tobring the group complete, make

(16:09):
it whole, get them back together, as they say.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Especially in time for All In.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Exactly, all In is in Texas, so why not get the group
back together and get them backtogether?
They haven't been togethersince NXT.
Yeah, they've had spur togethersince, uh.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
NXT yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
So they've had like spurts here and there, you know,
but as far as as a whole, whynot get them back together If,
if Bobby Fish wants to be in AEW, or if AEW wants Bobby Fish in
AEW, yeah, you know, who knows?
I haven't seen him.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
So I don't know.
He was in TNA at one point, butthen he was gone like a month
later.
So I'm not sure what happenedwith that.
So I haven't really seen him inanything, Not recently anyway.
I mean, he may be, but maybe Ihaven't watched that company.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, even if Bobby Fish doesn't come, I just think
Paragon will overcome the odds.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh, yeah for sure.
But uh, so you got Paragonwinning.
Yep, yeah, as much.
Yeah, I'm all up.
Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, I thinkso too.
I think paragon is going to winas well.
Regardless of what happens, Ithink paragon is going to pull
out the victory on this one youknow, uh, because they all,

(17:27):
especially adam cole, he's, youknow, he's been injured a lot.
He needs to win to kind of gethimself back into the picture,
of any title for that matter.
Yeah, where they go for a triostitle or they go for a tag team
, or they go for the Continental, you know, international World,
whatever they try to go for,they need to win all three of
them do.

(17:47):
They can't get themselves upinto any kind of championship
picture.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's all you have tocomment on that, that's it for
that one.
Alright for the next match onthe card, um, and consisting of
two of my favorite AEW wrestlers, um Hangman Adam Page versus
Will Ospreay uh, in the OwenHart Foundation Cup Final, and

(18:13):
the winner goes to All Inagainst what I assume is going
to be Jon Moxley.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
But um so winner goes to all in against what I assume
is going to be john moxley, butum so, because moxley will have
a title match on uh, though, ornothing.
No, he probably won't defendhis belt again till all in yeah,
probably not yeah so itprobably will be john moxley uh.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
So of how much like?
So I would say a week ago, like, definitely Will Ospreay, no
doubt.
But the passion in Hangman'spromos recently have just really
guided me to thinking that heprobably will win, and Will
Ospreay has been winning a lotrecently, so he doesn't need to
win.
I don't think he needs to winpersonally.

(18:56):
So I'm going to say Hangman ona page wins, it goes to all in.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, like I said, those promos.
Both promos have been goodthough.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I mean Hangman's has been good, Will Ospreay's has
been good.
Both promos show a lot ofpassion in both the promos.
You can tell they both wantthis.
They both need this.
Yeah, the question is, whowants it more?
And that's the problem.
I have a pick in it.
I mean, will Ospreay has WillOspreay had a title match before

(19:28):
?
I can't remember him having atitle match, has he?

Speaker 1 (19:30):
For the world title.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Has he.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
No wait, actually, yeah, sure, okay, no wait
actually, yeah, no, he hasn't.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, I know he's like continental I don't think
he's had no, yeah.
So I don't know if he has aworld.
I can't remember.
I had to go back and look andsee, but I can't remember
wrestling for the world title.
He's wrestling for the otherbelts.
Uh, hayman's had the worldtitle before, but he's been.
He's been on a tear since himand uh, swerve had the rivalry
yeah and he's been on the teartrying to get back to the world

(19:58):
title pitcher.
I think this is Azul Ospreay'stime right now.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
You think so.
I think this is Azul Ospreay'stime, right now, although All In
is in Texas.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Heyman is the cowboy.
He's from Virginia, westVirginia won.
It's not the same, but it isthe cowboy All.
He's from West Virginia, westVirginia one.
It's not the same, but it'sstill a cowboy.
So I mean that would make sensehim in Texas.
But I'm gonna go with, I'mgonna go with Osprey when is
this?
And challenges John, johnMoxley and probably when John

(20:35):
probably be John Moxley for thebelt.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh yeah, I think whoever wins this probably beats
John.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Moxley, but I'm going to go with Will Ospreay to win
against Hangman and probably, ifnot the match of the night, one
of the matches of the night.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, but for the next match on the card, it's
Jamie Hayter versus MercedesMonet.
For the Owen Hart FoundationCup final for the women's, and
also this, the winner goes toall in again.
So this one, mercedes Monetjust lost the New Japan title,

(21:15):
wasn't it?
She just lost the New Japantitle, so, but she already has
three championships, the NewJapan title, wasn't it?
Mm-hmm, she just lost the NewJapan title, but she already has
three championships.
But I think this starts thedownfall for Mercedes Monet, so
I think she loses all of hertitles, but she doesn't win this
match either.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
So I think Jamie Hayter wins.
Yeah, Jamie Hayter, she cameback from what theter wins.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, Jamie Hayter, you know she came back from what
Like a year off yeah, somewherearound there Like a year off,
not wrestling.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
I mean so her against Tony or not Tony Stone, whoever
wins the match, I mean MirashiaKhan.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, so they wrestle against the winner of that
match at.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
All In, mm uh, mirashia Khan.
Yeah, so they wrestled againstthe winner of that match at all
in mhm, although I'm curious whythey had, why they didn't.
So here's my I'm gonna.
I'm gonna give my pick in aminute though, but here's my,
here's my, my little rant realquick on this mhm.
Athena, yeah right mhm she'sthe ROH women's champion.

(22:20):
Right, where is she from?

Speaker 1 (22:26):
shoot.
She's from Texas, right she'sfrom Dallas, texas oh wait, wait
.
Didn't you predict that she wasgoing to win?

Speaker 2 (22:37):
yeah, I picked she was going to win because she's
from Dallas, texas.
That's where all in is going towin.
Yeah, I picked she was going towin because she's from Dallas,
texas, that's where All In isgoing to be.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, that would make the most sense.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, so if she's not on this card in some capacity,
I mean she should be on the carddefending her belt, for sure.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
But I'm saying that because her and Mercedes kind of
have a little rivalry going.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
So I'm thinking Mercedes loses to Jamie Hayter.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
And Athena and Mercedes wrestles for their
belts.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
All four of them.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
No, no For the AEW and the ROH.
You know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, like she puts her beltson the line.
The ROH Women's Championshipversus the AEW TNT Women's
Champion.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, you know yeah.
So yeah, but I think yes,considering their rivalry, I
think it would make more sensefor TBS championship yeah,
athena Tobiri.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
TBS, tbs, tbs championship.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I think it would make more sense for Athena to be
here, but I just think JamieHayter's gonna win.
Who do you think's gonna win?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
um, I'm going with.
I'm going with.
Um, I'm going with Jamie Hayterjust because, like I said
before, I'm going with future.
So I'm going to go with JamieHayter wins because I want to
see, uh, mercedes versus Athenaat all, because if the thing is
not at all in Tony Coney, somenew writers cause some of that.

(24:15):
You don't.
You got.
You got a women's champion inher in their hometown and you
don't have them on all in comeon.
I mean, you got, you got acouple months for all that
happens, but she should be atall in defending her belt or
facing somebody else for theirbill.
So I'm gonna go with jamiehater wins.
Challenges the winner of thematch we're going to talk about

(24:36):
later, yep, and yeah.
So I'm going with Jamie Heriafor this one.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yep, I agree.
So in the next match it's FTRversus Daniel Garcia and Nigel
McGuinness.
So for this one, nigelMcGuinness is, of course, a
commentator for AEW.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
He's all.
Don't disrespect the man likethat.
The man's also a former ROHworld champion.
He beat Daniel Bryan.
He beat Seth Rollins or TylerBlack.
He beat these guys back then.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
So I'm saying right now yeah, right now His
profession.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
His main thing right now is a BM.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, but he was still one of the better
wrestlers when he was wrestlingfull time in wrestling.
I was going to get you and hehad some medical issues that
stopped him from going to WWEand other companies.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
That's.
The only reason he didn'twrestle in WWE is because he had
some medical issues come up.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
You think so, Is it yeah of course.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Oh, that's the only thing that stopped him.
He has some medical issues comeup and I think that's the only
reason that stopped him.
Maybe you know some stuff likethat happened, that's it.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
You know WWE don't take a chance on you.
If you got medical issues, theydon't, because they don't want
to invest money in you if you'renot going to be able to wrestle
but he was in TNA for a while.
Yeah, he was with um Sting, uh,aj Styles, I think that whole

(26:04):
group, yeah, I think I rememberthat group.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, I don't remember, yeah, cause he was he
was.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Okay, I'm gonna tell you who he was.
You probably don't evenremember who he was.
Do you remember the infamous?
Uh?
Jay Lethal and Ric Flair woncontest.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Uh, yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
When Jay Lethal and Ric Flair went after each other,
they were woo, woo, woo youknow, what I'm talking about.
Uh-huh, If you listen.
Right after there was a guy whopicked the microphone up.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Name was uh, last name was Wolf.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Uh-huh, you know what ?
I'm talking about though,that's Nigel McGinnis.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
That was him in TNA.
So if you go back and watchthat Jay Lee threw a Ric Flair
promo, go back and watch that.
Watch the whole thing.
At the end that was NigelMcGinnis talking, because he was
with Ric Flair then.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
But of talking, yeah, because he was with Ric Flair
too.
Yeah, but um, yeah, so um yeah.
But for who wins?
I think FTR probably winsbecause, um, I think they go
after some tag goals, you know.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
You go after what now .

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Some tag goals probably the Hurt Syndicate.
Mm yeah, um, you know, got thewhat.
Now some tackle probably thehurt syndicate.
Yeah, but yeah so yeah that'swhy I have FTR.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
FTR, but okay, here's my thing though, too.
What FTR has rubbed a lot ofpeople the wrong way recently,
right?
Yeah, so they have a lot ofpeople the wrong way recently,
right yeah, so they have a lotof enemies, who's to say?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
these enemies don't interfere in the match.
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, like I mean, hey, they even went after Tony
Schiavone, the other day.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
So you think someone like Cope comes back?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Maybe, maybe Cope comes back.
I don't know if his aunt I meanyeah, maybe Cope comes back.
He hadn't been on TV in a while.
Yeah so has he been on TV sincehe broke his leg?
I?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
don't Wait, no, wait, wait.
Broke his leg.
When broke his leg.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
When he jumped the cage.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
No, because remember he had a match with FTR.
Remember that's right andthat's when they turned on him.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
They turned on him.
That's right.
They did a concerto on him.
He hadn't been out since then.
So, yeah, maybe he comes back.
Yeah, he comes back from thattonight for double nothing,
comes back and helps NigelMcGuinness and Dan Garcia win.
So that's what I think happens.

(28:43):
He has a lot of image.
I think Cope comes back andhelps him out.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
I see that happening.
Actually, I might agree withthat, but no, I'm going to stick
with FT Lawrence.
Okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
So that's what.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I was going to say for FT Larr Okay, yeah, okay.
So that's all you're going tosay for that.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yep, that's it.
That's all I got for that one.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
All right, and our next match on the card is the
Hertz Signicate versus the Sonsof Texas For the AEW Tag Team
Championships.
So for this one I like the HurtSyndicate.
They're one of my favorite tagteams in AEW.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yes by far.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, so also considering MJF.
He just got introduced into theHurt Syndicate, so who's to say
that he won't prove his trustagain and take out one of the
Sons of Texas, or both of them?

Speaker 2 (29:43):
True, or is that real , you think?
Him being a Hurt Syndicate, youthink that's legit.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
It doesn't seem real, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, I'm not sure what to say about that either.
I'm not sure either, becauseyou do know the Hurt Syndicate.
They used to be called the HurtBusiness right.
Yeah, and they had one othermember in that group with them
in.
Wwe yeah Right, remember who itwas.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Cedric Alexander.
He's in NXT still right?
Nope, he's not.
He's not.
He got released.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
He got released.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh yeah, he did get released.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
So you think he's going to come back?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I don't know if he's going to come back tonight or
during Double or Nothing, orcome back later on, but
eventually I can see him joiningthe Hurt Syndicate.
If that's what Bobby Lashleyand MVP and all them want to do,
bring it back together.
You know the OGs as they callit, but then they'll mess MJF up

(30:48):
, because they bring somebodynew in.
How does that mess?

Speaker 3 (30:51):
them up.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
They don't want MJF in there.
So, I don't know if that's justthe visitors playing with him
to get his connections or theyactually want him in there.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
I don't know.
That's what I'm saying.
Mvp and MJF actually know eachother.
They're actually, like you know, cool with each other, bobby
and Sheldon.
I'm not sure they even you knowthey're okay with him because
MVP's okay with him.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
But I think they like Cedric better yeah probably.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
But with that being said, I'm going to hurt.
Are you done with yours?

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, I said the hurt .

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah, I'm going to hurt Seneca too.
They've been doing the TV.
They've almost been funny.
You know, the whole MJF promosman, they've been pretty funny.
Stole his car from him.
Yeah, you know, give him a runaround and all that.
Finally, maybe him a member, orit looks like he's a member so
far.
We'll see how that goes in thecoming weeks.
If something happens on DoubleNothing, or they stretch it out

(31:49):
a little bit and wait until allin to do something with it, or
MJF does something.
You know you can't trust MJFwith anything.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
They've already said that multiple times.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
You can't trust him with anything.
But I don't think it'll be thisfast.
I don't think he takes him thislong to try to get into the
group, to just turn on the nextweek.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
You know, I think it's going to be a long.
I think it's going to be a lotof long.
I think it's going to be a slowburn for him to gain their
trust and then turn on them.
Definitely, I think, anyways,unless they turn on him first,
but yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
I got the Hurts.
I think they would turn on himfirst.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, I'm not sure, but we'll see how that goes.
I'm kind of interested to seehow that somebody's going to
turn on somebody.
We already know that.
But but yeah, I got the, theHurts and the Kid winning and
retaining their AEW Tag TeamChampionships.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
So that's what you would say for that.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
All right, and the next match on the card is
Timeless Tony Storm versus MinaShirakawa for the AEW Women's
World Championship and for thisone, considering all ends pretty
close, I would say.
Timeless Tony Storm, but alsoMina Shirakawa has been getting

(33:07):
a lot of people's attentionrecently.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Not a chance.
You don't think so, go ahead,I'm going to go on tape mine in
a minute, but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
I don't think she's going to win either.
I think Timeless Tony Storm isgoing to win.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Go ahead and get your points across.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
She's been getting people's attention.
Mina Shirak across.
She's been getting people'sattention, meaning Sherikawa she
might have a chance, but Iwould say Thomas Tony Storm.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Thomas.
Tony Storm won the Wrestle ofthe Year again.
She gave it to her again.
If her contract is even closeto coming up, aew, better back
up the Brinks truck right now.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
They need to go ahead and keep her around.
She's probably one of the bestthings going right now in
professional wrestling by far.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
It would be a major downfall if they let her
contract slip up.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Just like with Ricochet, aew is letting her
show her personality.
Wwe didn't ever let her do this.
She was getting hit with aFacebook pie before she left.
I would have loved to youremember that.
Like I don't remember that,like what was it?
Charlotte Flair was hitting herin the face with pies.
Yeah, I think I remember thathappening one time Like, what
Like for what Like.

(34:15):
What were we doing?

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Like you're embarrassing her.
I mean she should.
She should be fighting forchampionships, not getting hit
with Facebook pies on Raw orSmackDown, whatever it was.
You know you call up to themain roster and then you treat
her like that, like come on, nowtake her more serious.
But yeah, you see what she doeswhen she gets the reign to do
what she wants to do.
You know that Thomas Toneycharacter is by far the best

(34:40):
thing going to professionalwrestling right now, easily, you
think so by far the toprofessional wrestling.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Right now, easily, you think so, by far the entire
professional wrestling.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
The entire professional wrestling.
That's the best thing goingright now Mm-hmm.
Not, and everybody else issecond.
I mean by far, I meanentertaining.
She's wrestling good Storylineshave always been good.
The whole black and white thingis funny.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
You know, I mean it's like an old school wrestler.
But the whole, the whole thingis good and also her video
packages.
That's what I'm sayingeverything is good.
So, and even I've been a fan ofHolly Storm since she was in
Progress and all that too,before she came to AEW and
before she came to WWE and NXTand all that, but but yeah, so,
like I said, she's the woman ofthe rest of the year and maybe

(35:30):
Rhea Ripley's number two, maybe,or Liv Morgan, but there should
be nobody else Like EO.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Scott.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Or EO Scott, but nobody should be number one over
her.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Oh yeah, no question about it.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
She should be number one over her.
Oh yeah, no, no question aboutit, she should be number one
again.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Well, I mean I'm just biased because Ila Sky is my
favorite woman.
Yeah.
But Toni Storm has been doingnumbers For PWI's rating, she
would probably be higher.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Oh yeah, for sure, At least right now anyways.
But here's the thing eyesraising she would probably be
higher.
Oh yeah, for sure, At leastright now anyways.
But um, but here's the thing,like I said before, if AW, if
Tony Storm's contract's comingup, anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
I don't think it is.
I think she had a pretty bigcontract.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I know.
But I'm saying if it's comingup anytime soon, they can go
ahead and just back up theBriggs truck right now.
Yeah, Because Mirai may beleaving.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, oh yeah, I've heard that.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
And she may be going to WWE or NXT, so that's where
she always want to go anyways.
And so that's you losing a bigtime wrestler right there.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
She's one of the best women's wrestlers on AEW.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Exactly so.
They may be doing the RickyStarks Tour or Ricky Saints
where they don't let her wrestleon TV for a while, until her
contract runs out.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
I hope that doesn't happen.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
She ain't been on TV in a while.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, but she's too good for them to do that like
that.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Ricky Saints is the same way.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
He didn't wrestle for almost a year, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
So Couldn't they just quit at that point?
You're on a contract so youcan't just ask for your release,
they just they have to give youa reason.
If you, you can ask for arelease, they can say no I, I
thought, I just I thought thatwas not not allowed, not illegal
, but I didn't know, that wasjust not allowed like that you
could that.
I thought it was not allowed,that you could just not let a

(37:22):
rascal leave when they warnedyou.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
If they're on the contract, yeah, if I sign you to
a four-year contract, that's afour-year contract, right?

Speaker 1 (37:32):
but what if they're like then?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Professional wrestling if they retire, yeah,
but they can't.
So here's the thing.
So there it.
So if they retire, yeah, theyretire.
They can't go anywhere.
That's where that contract runsout, regardless.
You do not wait.
So last, if I sign a four-yearcontract and you get hurt or
whatever, you won't retire untiltwo years in.
You technically can't wrestleanywhere else for another couple

(37:54):
years, if that's what's in thecontract, especially the WWE
contract.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Because WWE also has that 90-day no wrestling.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, they have like a special thing.
They should just get rid ofthat.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
They put that in because of Bret.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Hart yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Remember.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
But there's nobody who's going to pull a Bret Hart
nowadays.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Aleister Black did.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
He did.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yes, when, when he was in NXT and they released him
.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
He showed up in AEW like a week, like two weeks
later.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Oh, he showed up in AEW like a week like two weeks
later.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Oh yeah, that's fair, because NXT's, that's what.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Ricky Sands did?
He got released and then he gotlike.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Aleister Black is on WWE TV.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Got released and then showed up in AEW nine of the
month later.
What I'm saying is usually justlike a 90 day, so they usually
put 90 days, so it's threemonths.
Normally you can't wrestle.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
NXT is a little bit shorter for NXT.
So Aleister Black, you knowhe's on the main roster he said
NXT contract, I think.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Or something like that, where his, his, his clause
was shorter, so he was able tocome back like a month or
something like that after hiscontract ran out.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
You know.
So he was able to like aloophole, because they don't
want somebody wrestling likebattleground, like okay, like
back in the day, like with BretHart, he wrestled the Montreal
Screwjob Mm-hmm Right, yeah, hewrestled that Sunday.
And then he was on Nitro thatMonday Mm-hmm Right, yeah, he
wrestled that Sunday and then hewas on Nitro that Monday,

(39:28):
mm-hmm.
Or like Lex Luger back in theday, lex Luger wrestled and then
he was on Monday Night Raw thenext day.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
So that's what.
I'm saying Like they don't wantthat to happen anymore.
Which is the problem.
They want to keep guys fromwrestling one night and then the
next night be on.
Yeah.
You know, what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
That's the whole point of the 90-day clause.
It shouldn't be 90 days, itshould be like 30 days.
Uh-huh, it shouldn't be threemonths.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
That's a long time ago without wrestling, yeah
three months.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
That's a long time, especially if you're not making
any money.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
You know, unless they'll be still paying them a
little bit, which I don't thinkthey are.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
So I would say like 30 days would be perfect, but 90
days that's a little extreme.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Yeah, because like 90 days to not wrestle, how can
you like just banish someonefrom not wrestling?
That doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
It's part of the contract you signed.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Do people not read contracts?

Speaker 2 (40:27):
They do.
It's in everybody's contract.
Oh, everybody's contract on themain roster.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Oh, so if I left today, I couldn't wrestle until
like.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Three months from now .

Speaker 1 (40:39):
So I couldn't wrestle until like August Yep.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
August 25th Damn, I couldn't wrestle until like
August.
Yep, august 25th, dang, august26th actually, so three months.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, it's actually three months.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Mm-hmm.
So yeah, that's how it works,but that's why John Moxley, when
he got released, he came to AEW.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
It was like three months afterwards.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah, because of his contract right now.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Mm-hmm because of his contract right now.
I thought it was because he wastrying to wait a little while.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
No, no, he just came out because of his contract.
It's a 90-day clause.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
That's just how it works, mm-hmm, but yeah, that's
just how it works.
But yeah, most other companiesdon't have that.
Like JE Cargill, mm-hmm, whenshe left AEW, she signed up to
be immediately.
Yeah, really yeah, Because AEWdon't have that.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
And that's what Ricky Stark did, but he wasn't
wrestling, but like still,Because they knew he wanted to
leave, so they froze himbasically.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, just like they did with um um Ray Phoenix.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Which is why Ray Phoenix didn't come with
Pentagon.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
But uh, they could go on to singles past before they.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, but I'm just saying Ray Phoenix got hurt.
Ray Phoenix got hurt, broke hisleg and then so they added on
an injury thing, so, itstretched out his contract zone.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, so when?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Penta's contract ran out.
Ray Phoenix was on contract fora bit longer, which is why Ray
Phoenix didn't come over withPenta.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
So but yeah, If somebody asks for the release,
you don't.
If somebody asks for therelease, you don't have to give
it to them because he signed thecontract.
Yeah, I can release you when Iwant to yeah but I don't have to
release you.
When you want me to release you, I can.
I if you ask.
I can release you if I want to.
Yeah, if you ask for it, but Ican also say no and keep you
there yeah, I didn't know thatwas a thing that could happen

(42:23):
that's like that's a businessyeah, it's like it's just.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yeah, it's just like it's just like um sports.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
It's just like sports wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
So if, if you just don't want to be in the company
anymore, what if you just startnot coming?

Speaker 2 (42:37):
they start finding well, if it's like, if it's like
um nfl and bitty, I'll find youmoney for not being there,
because they're paying you to bethere.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
You know, and then eventually they'll get rid of
you, but they'll hit yourpockets first.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
It's not like a regular job.
Like a regular job, you don'tshow up, you get fired.
A long time you don't show upto work for a week or two.
Don't show up to work, they'llfire you.
Mm-hmm, take like a week or twodon't show up at work, they'll
fire you.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Mm-hmm Wait, will they?

Speaker 2 (43:03):
will.
Yeah, if you don't show up atwork without calling.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Without like telling them you're sick or something,
yeah without, yeah without it'scalled no, call, no show.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Oh, yeah, yeah well, yeah, if you don't yeah hey, I'm
sick.
I'll be out for you know, butanyways so yeah.
So wrestling is a littledifferent because you know
that's competition, they knowyou're going to go to another
company especially aw aroundbeforehand.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
When wb was around, they were the only game in town.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Where are you going?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
yeah, I mean tna but tna, tna at that time, and ring
and ronald was a big step downfrom w that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
so it's like you okay , go ahead, go ahead.
But now, since you got anotherviable option in AEW for the
first time since WCW, now you'veseen these wrestlers from WWE
not being released.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
And also people from AEW being released.
That happened with AEW.
I didn't think that wouldhappen for a long time.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Yeah, but it's happened because they're getting
a name up and then they'releaving, like Jay Cargill.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, Cause, cause they're actually becoming like a
old not old company, but likethey're actually becoming.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Well, because they got their start there.
That's who gave their start.
A lot of them wanted yeah.
I think AEW ain't been aroundthat long, so most all of these
wrestlers, even the ones in AEW,were watching WWE or WCW or ECW
, yeah, and that was it, and soa lot of them, their childhood,
their childhood dream was towrestle in WWE, and so a lot of

(44:38):
them still want to pursue thatdream.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
You know.
So a lot of them still want tobe in WWE, whether they make it
or not.
They want to say they wrestlein WWE, you know.
And then once they get there,they find out well, it's not as
good as I thought it was goingto be.
Okay, I'll cross the bridge toget there.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
But I still want to see if I can.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Exactly, there you go , but anyways, so where we at
now?

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Uh, I think we had just finished Timeless Tony
Storm, yeah, so yeah, so I gotTony Storm.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
I got Tony Storm winning.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Yeah, I also have Tony.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Storm.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Yeah, by far.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Not easily, but like I got her winning, Like I picked
her winning, Like I'm saying,the match is going to be good.
Because Mina is a good wrestlerherself.
I think AEW just signed her too.
They just signed her to acontract Before she was signed
to Stardom.
What does that mean?

(45:33):
That's the female wrestler inJapan.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
That's why EO and all the other wrestlers I thought
it was a certain type ofcontract.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
No, that's the female Japanese company where a lot of
women wrestlers came fromBailey and all them wrestled
there.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Bailey oh.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
She wrestled there one point in time.
Yeah, io, who else?
A lot of people wrestled there,mm-hmm Asuka, mm-hmm Kairi, a
lot of people wrestled therebefore they came over, you know.
But Julia, a lot of people likethat.

(46:09):
So, anyways, but yeah, theyjust signed her to an exclusive
contract, I believe.
So now she's officially AEW.
Now she's not going to be doingthe back and forth thing
anymore.
She can still go there if shewants to, but she's AEW now.
So yeah, but yeah, I still gotThomas Tony Storm anymore.
She can still go there if shewants to, but she's aws now.
So, um, so yeah, but yeah, Istill got tony thomas tony storm
winning.
Yep, you know the best thinggoing in professional wrestling

(46:32):
right now by far yeah, same um.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
I have ten, five times tony storm too, and that's
what you're gonna say for thatmatch that's it all right, and
for the main event in myfavorite match on the card or
it's probably my favorite, gonnabe my favorite match that's
gonna be on the card Kenny Omega, swerve, strickland, Willow,

(46:57):
nightingale and the Ops whichPowerhouse Ops is in the Ops
versus the Death Riders and theYoung Bucks.
So this one is Anarchy in theops.
Uh, versus the deaf writers andthe young bucks.
So this one is anarchy in thearena.
Um, I, I think I watched theone with chris, chris jericho
and his team, but I didn't likewatch it.
Watch it.
I don't remember because I waslike super young when that

(47:17):
happened.
Um, the first, that one, thatwas the first one that I watched
.
This is going to be the secondone that I watch, but this one I
think the Death Riders have tolose eventually.
So I'm going to say that KennyOmega, soros, strickland and
their team wins.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah, because I mean, the Bills aren't a lot of this
either.
Yeah, so they can lose this andstill be okay with everything.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
You know, but yeah, yeah, this anarchy and arena
this one of the most creativematches that I've ever watched
yeah, I mean, this is a aworiginal match, you know nobody
else has done this.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
I thought the independence team maybe
independence team, maybe call itsomething else, but this is
like may on the, on a mainmainstream level yeah like a
main level.
This is like the first timeit's been like really on tv with
a w start doing it you know,but um, but yeah, anarchy arena
is gonna be.
it's gonna be wild, it's gonnait's it's.

(48:17):
If you, if you're here for thewrestling, don't watch this.
If you want to, if you want auh, a technical wrestling match,
this ain't it for you.
This is going to be outside thearena People getting hit with
trash cans, people gettingthrown down hallways, hit with
doors.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Last time he got some golf carts involved and also
you got to think that thesepeople aren't the only people
who hate the Death Riders.
Exactly, it could be the wholeroster against the Death Riders.
And I would bet on the wholeroster winning.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
It could easily be people coming in at them.
I don't see that happening Notfully like that, because that
would be the match before itstarted, but I can see that
happening toward the end of thematch.
You have some people kind ofgetting involved who are Death
Riders or tech.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
I wasn't talking about in the beginning but in
the end portion.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
But yeah, this is going to be like, like you said,
this is going to be peoplegetting thrown off tables, off
of who knows what I mean.
The whole arena is thewrestling ring.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
I mean, they usually don't even start in the ring.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
So the only thing about this is the crowd doesn't
see the match until it comesback into the arena.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Yeah.
Because usually if you startoutside the arena, I mean, the
crowd can see it on the littlescreen.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Yeah, but they see it just like we're seeing it on TV
.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Yeah, that's the part about it.
If you watch the main event,then you can't really see it.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
You don't see half the match because you watch it
on TV like everybody else isyeah.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
But, If I was going to this show for Anarchy in the
Arena, I wouldn't go to thisshow.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
No, you can still go see it because it's going to be.
I mean, all the rest of thecards are worth it?

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Is this exclusive to Double or Nothing, or is it just
?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
I don't think in it?
Well, I don't think so, butit's just yeah, but um, but yeah
, so this should be a good card.
This should be a good card,good match.
I got um what'd you pick?
You picked uh um.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
I picked Kenny Omega's team.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Kenny Omega's team.
Yeah, I mean that's.
It's hard to go against that,especially with everybody.
Like you said, everybody elsedon't like the death riders, but
the death friars they've beenbeating everybody down this is
their top match, because they're, because they're actual group
yeah and the other ones aren't Imean the ops are yeah, what I'm
saying is like yeah, but as faras, like, the devri have been

(50:37):
together for a while, yeah, umso this is the hard one to pick
um.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
I'm uh, let's see, I like kenny omega too, and swerve
and all you know I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, I'm like, yeah, I like swerve too much.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna go withswerve I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go with swerve andkenny omega and powerhouse hops.
Yeah, yeah, powerhouse hops.
He's one of my favorites aswell.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Yeah, same.
But yeah, kenny Omega's team islike the team of some of my
favorite wrestlers, and theDeath Riders are also some of my
favorite wrestlers.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
And the Young Bucks.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Yeah, I got the Powerhouse.
Hobbs, kenny Omega.
Swerve team winning.
Like I said, it's not going tobe for the faint of heart.
It's going to be some bloodprobably.
It's going to be one of thosematches where a bunch of stuff
happens.
It's going to probably end upbeing a hardcore match,
especially with John Moxley init.
We'll see how it goes, thoughAnything else you got.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Nope.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
This is a huge weekend for wrestling so far I
mean three, three events.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
And there's two at the same time, it's yeah.
It's really hard to pickbetween NXT and AJ.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Yeah, I mean, you just have to.
You gotta watch one live, youhave to watch one replay.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Yeah, probably the next day you have to watch one
replay.
Yeah, probably the next day,and the replay doesn't hit the
same as a lot it doesn't, butjust stay with social media and
hope you don't get spoiled yeahand when you watch the other one
, either after one go off so youcan watch.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
So AEW is going to be a longer one, so you can
literally watch Battleground andthen catch the end of AEW and
then just catch up on thebeginning part of it if you
wanted to, or you can watch allof AEW and then turn around and
watch Battleground later, so itshows up however you want to

(52:37):
watch it.
I mean, I'm not sure what we'regoing to do yet, but we'll
decide.
When we get ready We'll come on.
Mm-hmm, but we'll decide whento get ready.
We'll come on at the same time.
So we'll decide when to comeback.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
I'm personally more interested in AEW Double or
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Considering the car.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Exactly, but we'll cross that bridge when it gets
here, all right.
But with that being said,anything else you got?
Nope, all right, I'm Ben.