September 19, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode, we predict WWE Wrestlepalooza, AEW All Out 2025, discuss Raja Jackson being arrested and charged, and the rest of the day's news and rumors.
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or comments or concerns or whatever it is in a
future episode. Tonight, we've got a hit on the day's
news and rumors. We're reacting kind of live to SmackDown
as it goes down in the background while I'm doing
(03:05):
this with you guys, and then we're going to get
into today's news and then eventually get to our predictions.
We've got all out. We've got Russell Paluzzo. We want
to get to all of it. Let's get started. Rajah
Jackson arrested charge with felony following an attack on Indie
Rescue wrestler Psycho Stu. We talked about this a few
weeks ago on our show, and just about everybody in
the wrestling world has TMZ reporting. He was taken into
(03:27):
custody Thursday morning in charge with a felony. He's being
held on fifty thousand dollars bond. This all stems from
the video that he recorded and was live streaming at
a Knox Pro Wrestling event out in California, where there
were somehow the messages got crossed. Psycho Stu thought he
was another performer in the back. They saw cameras recording
(03:48):
and all this stuff, and somehow it led to Psycho
Stu hitt him in a head with an empty beer can,
which then resulted in them trying to rectify the situation
by putting him into a wrestling situation at their event,
where he sat ringside, charged into the ring and just
pummeled the heck out of Psycho Stu.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Legit, it wasn't a work.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It was totally a shoot and even after Stu was
out cold from slamming him to the mat, this guy
pummeled him into oblivion and did serious, serious damage to
Psycho Stu. This, I think it's pretty much universal, with
the exception of Rampage Jackson himself, pretty much everybody has
detested this situation. Rampage Jackson somehow still defending his son,
(04:27):
showing no remorse. It's absolutely ridiculous. He's been asking him
for to investigate other people at the venue, including Psycho Stu.
But at this point, right now, Rajah Jackson has been arrested.
We have to monitor that situation closely and we will
keep you updated in future episodes. Interesting news coming out
today from Scott de Moore. If you don't know who
Scott d Moore is, we've talked about on this show
(04:49):
several times. He is the former head of TNA Wrestling.
He's left that organization twenty twenty four. Early twenty twenty four,
they relieved him of his duties. He now has restarted
a Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling and having an interesting conversation
with regards to the business of TNA in the past.
And he was having a conversation with Kurt Angle on uncrowned,
(05:13):
and in that conversation, brock Lesner came up and Kurt
Angle revealed that brock Lesner was in talks with TNA
back in two thousand and seven, and that those there
were reports back then it was happening. Nobody knew whether
to believe it or not, but De moor is confirming
Kurt Angle really wanted to bring him in and do
something with him.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
They were very excited about that.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Obviously, if you look hindsight twenty twenty, he looked back
Dixie Carter was not interested at the time. Who knows
how different the wrestling landscape would be, but think about
brock Lesner. This is seven, This is before he goes
to the UFC and becomes UFC Heavyweight Champion. It could
have been a very different wrestling landscape for brock Lesler,
a very different future had he gone to TNA.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
When he left WWE, he ended up doing some.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Stuff with the NFL, eventually transitioning to UFC, becoming uf
Heavyweight Champion, and then eventually returning to WE met. Much
of that may have been very different. Vince mc mann
some of his appeals the fact that brock was a
former UFC Heavyweight Champion when he returned. If that was
not the case because he got sidetracked when he left WWE.
He was doing some things with New Japan, but this
would have been much bigger and more substantial. Maybe that's
(06:19):
why it never came to fruition. You know, how Brock is,
he wants a specific schedule, and maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't want to speculate too much, but it's definitely
interesting to see how he could have ended up in TNA.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And speaking of TNA, Dave.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Meltzer talking on Wrestling Observer Radio, as was echoed by
the guys on Busted Open, Bully Ray and the rest
of the crew, talking about TNA and their relationship with
w WE NXT.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
If you're watching Homecoming, many of the TNA.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Roster we're talking trash on Twitter, being offended and whatnot
that they weren't at the show. Talents like Mustafa Ali,
Mike Santana, ash By Elegance who's formerly used to be
Dana Brookwe they were on Twitter throughout the show complaining about,
you know, not being about being disrespected. And the word
(07:08):
is coming out of Wrestling Observer Radio is that this
is going to lead to a TNA versus NXT feud,
a big invasion angle, which this is the right time
of year for that.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is when we usually see wargames.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Maybe we will see a wargame situation Team TNA versus
Team NXT.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Not sure how that would play out.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I think it was kind of messed up that at
Homecoming you tease that with Shawn Michaels and Triple H
because now, if you want to do this, it almost
takes away from that interaction they had there with William Regal.
But definitely exciting to see that because I was waiting
to see some kind of big development between TNA and WWE.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But Meltzer also or recently reported.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That it is absolutely in WWE's contract with this example,
this situation with TNA, that they do have the opportunity
to purchase the company. That is huge, and I do
think at some point that is going to be what's
going to happen. At right now, they're looking for streaming deals,
they're looking for tele distribution deals to get on a
bigger platform. But I think as time goes on and
(08:04):
if this relationship really does foster great communication and matches
and things.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Between the talent.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I would not be surprised to SEEWWE acquire TNA and
use it as yet another brand under their umbrella, and
that should be very exciting and something that everybody would
would have more opportunities. Take guys who are not doing
anything in WE of meaning and put them over to TNA,
let them get refreshed, let them get some new angles,
work with some.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
New talent, and then you bring them back and they're
bigger than better than ever. People who are in TNA
who need a push to the main.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Roster, like, for example, Joe Hendry is slowly being phased
out of TNA's programming because he is expected to make
a full time move to WWE in early twenty twenty six.
If you do that as well, where you have guys
who you've basically done everything they can in TNA and
you bring them to WWE. People in WWE who've done
so much or have maybe gotten a little I hate
to say the word stale in WWE can transition to
(08:55):
TNA and almost refresh their character and bring them back
at a later time, and it keeps it so the
investment you've made in that intellectual property is still paying
dividends later on, word came out that we know what
the card is, or at least part of the card
for Russell Palooza. We have heard that on the Pac
McAfee show that Brock Lesner and John Sen will open
the show, and then earlier today it was announced that
(09:19):
the show is going to be closed. It was revealed
on X that the show will close with Cody Rhodes
defending the WWE Undisputed Championship against Drew McIntyre, which, in
my personal opinion, if you weren't gonna put Sena and
Brock on last, they have to go first. I get that,
and if you look at how it lines up, and
they talked about this on both Busted Open Radio, Wrestling,
(09:39):
Wrestle Zone, I apologize, Wrestle Talk News. Everybody has the
same feel about this. If you look at the scheduling
of the timing and starting and stopping of shows, All
Out is going to start around three o'clock, so that
means the end of All Out, the main events of
All Out are going to probably end up running up
against John Cena and Brock Lesner, which could draw a
lot of people away from that aw audience. And keeping
(10:02):
in mind that All Out is a paid show, just
like it looks like Russell Palouz is going to be.
So this will be interesting to see what the Cena
Lesner match does to the viewership of the main event
of aw's programming. Is it counterprogramming? ESPN people were on
earlier this week talking about how that's not the case.
They just want to blow up the initial number, the
first ple on the show and then I Love Bully
(10:24):
Ray had.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
A great take on this this week. I'm busted open radiohere.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
He said, for the rest of time, you look back,
you look at what was the first pl match ever
for ESPN, John Cena versus Brock Lesnar, two of the
biggest names in the history of the business, and that
will be the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Who you want to be that?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Do you want it to be a convoluted conversation about
the mix tag team match? Do you want it to
be the Cody Rose Drew McIntyre thing. Maybe you don't
think McIntire is a big enough name to be that
historic of a moment. Sena Lesner clearly is, and I
actually think that makes a lot of sense. But at
this point they're going to open the show and the
show's going to close with what I think is the
wrong match. Rhodes and McIntyre should be earlier in the
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card midway because I think the show should be closed
out by the seth rollins Becky Lynch versus Punk aj
Lee match. I think that is the bigger draw at
the show. Everyone wants to see what aj Lee can
do after all this time off, but we have no
idea what's going to happen now as we feed into
that show Tonight on SmackDown, brock Lesner opens a show
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threatening Dragon.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Oh my gosh, I can't.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I can't believe I'm just drawing a blank on announcer's names.
But anyways, getting in the ring, hitting two f fives
on Corey Graves, which was interesting because Corey Graves doesn't
wrestle anymore. So when Michael Cole was Michael, How could
I not remember Michael Cole's name? So he goes see
Michael Cole's near a ring side, brock Lesner grabs him,
picks him a carries around ring, takeshim in the ring.
(11:45):
Is clear he's going to attack Michael Cole. Corey Graves
came in to try to calm things down, and he
hit a couple f fives on Corey Graves laying him
out leading to the misdoing commentary. The show has been
like amazing. I'm not a big fan of the fact
that they had this three way match for next week
for the Women's Championship on SmackDown.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I think that they.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Needed to do something tonight as a major lead in
to Wressell Paluza. They should have done it tonight, but
at least we know there's some resolution there. Sammy's aims
Upen challenge went very well, great match he and Carmelo.
He retains just a lot of things going on. So
we're ready to go for w Russell Polus. I'm gonna
get into Wressell Paluza first, just because it is a
shorter card. I'm sorry when I pull up the cards
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and I look at him and he got five matches
on WWE's card, and then when you go over to
All Out and you're literally looking at a rack of
thirteen matches, it's very different way to produce television and
pay all ease.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So going to w let's run through the matches real quick.
Let's give our prediction. We know the show's gonna open
with John Cena versus Brock Lesner. There's a lot of
ways you could look at this.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I listened to Dave le Greca and Bully Ray gobat
round around about this. I've listened to the predictions on
wressel Zone and various other online streaming influencers. Here's the thing,
I think this is seen as last go around. Brock
Lesner has already had that dominant performance at SummerSlam twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We don't need to see another one of those.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Lesnar the way he wiped out Corey Graves, the way
he's been so dominant, and everything he's done since he's
been back. He doesn't hurt his legacy at all to
take a loss here. If I'm w Bee, I book
John Seena to win this. However, when you look at
Dave lea Greca's approach, he looks at this as there's
a possibility that Brock goes over here to set up
a rematch later. We've seen only having like six dates left,
(13:30):
There's very limited things you could do with that, and
this could lead to another return match and he and
Brock again.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I hate that idea.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
It would make sense, but I hate the idea because
I want to see Seena work with as many people
as he can before he leaves, and realistically, if he
only has five or six appearances left, then you're looking
at the situation where every appearance isn't a match. So, now,
how many actual matches does John have left? Maybe two
or three and you've got like a four month period,
so you got all of the the rest of September, October, November, December.
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That's a lot of time to fill in only when
you only have five opportunities, and some of it has
to be promos building up these matches.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So maybe we get three more.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Matches after this from John Cena, probably more like two.
If that's the case, do you really want one of
the last two matches John Cena ever has to be
with brock Lesner. Quite frankly, I saw somebody suggest that
it should be Dominant Mysterio and have him cheat John
Cena out of his final match. You could do the
storyline where Sena has never held the Intercontinental Championship, he's
trying to win that on the way out the door,
(14:30):
and dom cheats to win in John Cena's last match.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I actually have no problem with that.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I think it'd be phenomenal John giving him the rub
right now Dominic's in a phenomenal position to really take
off double champion all that stuff, but we'll have to
wait and see. Here's so many guys I would love
to see, have seen and have the opportunity to work
with before he goes, and we are running out of
time to do that, and I don't really want to
waste two of them on Brock. My official prediction, John
Cena wins here. Brock Lesner dominant but does not pick
(14:55):
up the win. The USO's take on the Vision Bronson.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Reid and Bron Bray. I see no reason for the
USOS to win this.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
They're not going to be challenging for the tag team
Championship any soon, whereas Bronson and Bron could be. I
think Jay has established it he needs to be a
single star. This could lead to a j usso heel
turn where he feuds again with Jimmy, but this time
Jimmy becoming the good guy, and maybe Jimmy starts getting
a little bit of a push as a single star.
They were talking about a us title run head leading
in the WrestleMania that never came to fruition.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Maybe they do that now.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
If Jay does flip, how does Roman get involved in this,
because at some point, clearly he will.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But when we look at this, Bronson and Bron need this.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They need this because at some point they have to
win the Tag Team Championship because all these dominant groups.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You got Seth Rollins.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
With the World Heavyweight Championship, Becky Lynch with the Intercontinental Championship,
and these guys need to win one of the tag
team players probably the Raw Tag.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Team Championship, ww Tag Team Championship, so that they can
carry all the goal. That's what these huge factions always do.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So I predict the usso's fall here to the vision
Bronson raid and Bron breaker and patent. Potentially we see
a Jay Usso he'll turn. Now we also have to
wonder what's gonna happen with La Knight. Could be a
little crazy. We'll have to wait and see. I hope
he doesn't get involved at all, because if he does,
it is going to ruin what could be a phenomenal,
phenomenal match. Eo Sky Stephanie Vekira WWE Women's World Championship.
(16:16):
This match, it makes no sense to me for anybody
to win this, but Stephanie Vekaierre because EO clearly has
to have a program with OSCA coming up very soon.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I could see a situation where Osca.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Comes out to help her even though she doesn't want
to help, leading some kind of schmas situation where Vekier
picks up the victory and wins the Women's Championship.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
EO goes on to face off with.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Osca in a feud of their own, and that gets
EO out of the championship picture for a hot minute
because she's been in it for so much, so long,
and then Stephanie can move on to other things which
we would love to see, things like Vekira versus Rio Ripley,
Vikkia versus.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Just about anybody else's give give us the a Riquelwardriguez.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You could put her in with Rock Rock San Perez
do some of these matches and as her being Women's
World Champion, I think it could be a great opportunity
and Toy, you can even ride her all the way
into January and have her give the championship up at
the Royal Rumble leading into whatever it is you want
to do with WrestleMania, and that gives her a great
long run as Women's champion long in terms of you know,
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twenty twenty five kind of long other than you know,
Roman reigns. Everybody has a couple months, give her a
couple months and then lead into a great program for
somebody else heading into Mania. We'll have to see how
that plays out. Cody Rhoads Drew McIntyre. We know it's
going to finish the show. Obviously, I'm going in a
different order for a reason.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm going in order.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I think it should be Cody Rhods Drew McIntyre. There
is no chance Drew McIntyre wins this match unless WW
is insane. This just doesn't make sense. It's a good match,
should be solid, should be physical. These guys have history
format TYG Team champions together. Drew is one of the
best workers in the business and clearly does not get
the respect he deserves because I think he is absolutely underappreciated.
(17:47):
But in this match, Cody Rhoades needs to win this
for other things that look so clear down down the road.
The only way I see Cody Rhodes losing this match
is if we have a Randy Orton interference going heel
helping Drew win the championship. Wich doesn't make any sense.
To me, but that's the only thing I could see
the lead to something with Cody and Randy. But I'd
like to push that off because I'd like to see
(18:08):
Cody Rhods versus Randy Orton at WrestleMania, not here, not
this early, not at Survivor Series, not at the World Rumble.
That is a WrestleMania level match. That's where I want
to see it. So I don't think that's gonna happen yet,
but at some point Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton are
going to get in the ring and it's going to
be phenomenal and what I think should be the main
event CM Punk aj Lee versus Seth Rowins and Becky
(18:28):
Lynch mixed tag team match. If the Bronze win, I
think Rowans and Becky Lynch can lose. If the Bronze lose,
there's no chance Seth Rowns and Becky Lynch lose because
you can't have the Vision lose both matches. Can you
have them win both matches? Possibly? Possibly, but you've already
shafted Punk out of the World Championship. He got shafted
(18:49):
against Sena.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
How many times can you.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Shaft Punk over before you got to give the guy
a win at some point, and it's aj Lee's return match.
I have a tough time with that. If Lee picks
up the win. I've seen people talk about like Punk
is going to hit the GTS on Becky Lynch and
Lee will pick up the pin.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I don't love that idea. The guy just said how
he would never hit a woman.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
If he was going to hit a woman anyways, then
we didn't need a Ja Lee. You could have done
that on the show without bringing your wife in. You
brought your wife in for a reason. But if she
hits the GTS, I think that would be amazing and
she could pin Becky. Now I'd much rather see aj
Lee just put her into her submission hold and get
the submission victory, leading to an Intercontinental Championship program with
Becky Lynch orre Becky Lynch could retain in their first
match that they have one win apiece and then lead
(19:27):
to a bigger match, probably at the Royal Rumble, where
aj Lee could win the Intercontinental Championship. She's still not
in the World Championship picture, which is fine, and she
could go on to have a great few with somebody
else heading into Mania. Perhaps Stephanie vek Kerr, who I
already predicted I would have lose the Women's championship at
Royal Rumble and that would free her up to work
with Ajle. I think they would have incredible styles working together.
(19:48):
The last thing we got to get to tonight, which
I don't mean to say that like it's disrespectful in
any way, shape or form. It's just the nature and
flow of things. We got to talk about all out
coming tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Go through the matches.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
There are thirteen of them on the pre show, Harley Cameron,
Mina Sher, Kyle Kleenamanado, Willow Knight and Yale versus Megan Ban,
Penelope Forward and the Triangle of Manny's Julius, Julia Hart
and sky Blue.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Who cares who wins this?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
This is Tony Kahan booking like a New Japan show
where you throw all these like multi person matches on
before the show actually starts. Whatever, don't care who cares
who wins? Let's just pick one at random. Let's go
with Meghan Bain Penelope Ford in a Triangle of Madness. Okay,
that's my prediction. This show is gonna have thirteen matches
on it's gonna go for like five hours, so we
don't have time for like all these these crazy matches.
(20:33):
But whatever it is, what it is, Daniel Garcia versus
Cassiori Shabada is gonna take place at the show.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Garcia recently turning heel.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He should be on the main card doing something, probably
with Darby Allen, but he's nine. Darby Allen's doing a
coffin match later in a show with John Moxley. So
Garcia gets this with Shabada. There is no chance he
loses to Shabada, not when he just turned heel.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
This isn't easy.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
When Daniel Garcia beach Keatsiori Shabada, the Ops Samoa Joe
in Powerhouse Hobbs versus the Workhorseman Anthony Henry and J. D.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Drake. Sounds like it could be a.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Quality match, but there's nobody, no chance Samo Joe Powerhouse
Hobbs don't win this match. They will, they'll they'll conquer
the Workhorsemen and move on, hopefully do bigger and better things.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Let's get to the main card.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Cope and Christian, the Reunion of Edgend Christian Cope and
Christian taking on FTR this match could have been something bigger.
I think they've really dropped the ball in the interview
segments leading into the pay per view. However, there is
no reason to put Edge and Copean back together or
Edge and Cage back together unless they're going to pick
up the win here. I think they need to pick
up the win here, but they won't. My prediction is
(21:34):
FTR wins because the bigger storyline is something you can't
do right now. Because of the way they booked this.
I think FTR wins here and FDR will very soon
win the World Tag Team Championship because I think Cope
and Christian will win the Tag Team Championship from FDR
at a later date, maybe Wressell Dreamy. I don't know,
some other pay per view World's collide something. I'm just
(21:56):
throwing out pay per view names at this point, but
not here. I don't they win it here. My prediction
is FTR hurts Syndicate, Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin and MVP.
Getting in the ring not the normal thing, and lately anymore,
he's more of a managerbody's wrestling at this show versus
Ricochet and Bishop Kahn Leona. This is gonna be huge.
(22:17):
This is gonna be a decent match, hard hitting, hopefully.
I love that there's so much going.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
On here and the gates of agony really I feel like.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Have brought a youthful excitement and power to this that
matches up well with Lashley and Benjamin.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Obviously, I think the Hurt Syndicate wins. I don't think
there's any chance they lose.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But I hope that this spins Bobby Lashley eventually out
of the tag team division and into a single spot
where he could start going for the World Championship, because
that's where he belongs.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Certainly at his agent.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I'm not crapping on Bobby last Yek. Guy's in phenomenal shape.
He always will be. That guy is amazing. He's a machine.
But he is a guy who should be tearing through
the upper part of the card. Instead, he's toiling in
the tag team division. And I get it, you're helping
Shelton a MVP stay relevant. But they could do their
thing as a team and he could go on and
be a major single star, which is what they did
in WB and was very successful. That you do it
again here Mercedes Money versus Rio for the TBS Championship.
(23:09):
In my opinion, purely my opinion, Rio has absolutely no
chance to win this match. Monet retains the championship because
there's somebody else coming in the near future who's taken
that belt from her because she's had it for so long.
We're gonna wait and see what happens there. As I
said earlier, Darby Allen, John Moxley coffin match, it's a
coffin match. Realistically, on paper, you think there's no chance
Darby Allen wins. But I think because it's the Coffin
(23:31):
match and he does the Coffin drop, and Darby's been
gone for so long scaling Mount Everest, I think Darby
Allen picks up to win here over John Moxon. Clearly,
they'll be outside interference from various people, but I think
Darby Allen has to win this or why even push
him the way you have been doesn't make any sense
to me. Mark brisco MGF tables and tax match like whatever.
(23:51):
There's no way MJF loses this match. He will beat
Mark Briscoe. But this should be a bloody violent occasion,
something you don't get from MJF very frequently. It'll be
fun to see it here Timeless Tony Storm, Jamie Hayter,
Chris Statlander, Thelka for the AW Women's World Championship. Interesting
matchup because you have an opportunity here for Tony Storm
to not get pinned and lose her championship. You can
(24:14):
keep her strong, not hurt her character, have somebody else
pick up the win. If I'm Tony kahan Man, this
is a tough one. You could go Jamie Hater here
to reheat her, or.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You could go with Thelka, somebody who you probably don't think.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
And really, if I'm looking at this, I feel like
I want to say Felka, I really do, but I'm not.
I'm gonna say Tony Storm retains, even though I don't
think it's the best booking decision. I'd love to see
Statlander go heal here and just tear into Tony Storm
and lead to a big few with them again.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But I really believe Tony Storm is gonna rebtain.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Kyle Fletcher Hangman Page AW World Heavyweight Championship. Fletcher, he
is one of the most talented young men in the business.
I hate that kid has got is he may be
the future of the business. Much the same way. Brown
Breaker is in WWE, but this is not gonna be
his night. There's no chance. I don't think it's time yet.
Adam Page, the Hangman is going to retain over Kyle Fletcher, Kazuchka,
(25:04):
Okada defending the aw Unified Championship against Kenoski, Takeshka and
Mascarota Dorada. Again, no chance here Okada retains. If anybody were.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
To beat him, it would be Takeshka.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I don't think that'll happen, but it is a three way,
so there's a small chance Takeshka can win it here
beating Derada, leading to Okada having to go through the
tournament to regain his championship. Later this year when they
do the Continental Classic. We'll have to wait and see
how that plays out. I'm gonna predict though, that Okada retains.
The return match Big Bill versus a returning Eddie Kingston.
(25:37):
There's no reason to book this match unless Eddie Kingston
wins the match. My prediction is simple. Eddie Kingston and
then one of the matches that the last one I'm
gonna talk about, is the one that I really find
to be the most intriguing. We have got the don
Kallis Family of Etcheserro and Josh Alexander taking on Kevin
Knight and Speedball, Mike Bailey Jet Speed taking on the
Young Bucks, Matt Nick Jackson challenging all three of those
(25:57):
challenging Broddo, Brody King and Bandido for the aw World
Tag Team Championship in a four way ladder match. This
could be the moment that the Young Bucks have been
waiting for to regain the World Tag Team Championship and
going to other programs where I think we could see
the Young Bucks and FTR eventually get into another match,
leading to the Young Bucks losing the championship FDR, who
eventually lose it to edgend Christian.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If not look at the rest.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Of the teams on this match, it's not gonna be
Ecta Sarah on Josh Alexander. That doesn't make sense to me.
Kevin Knight and Spieedball Mike Billy also doesn't make sense
to me. Brodido is over so much with the fans
they make a lot of sense to retain, and the
Young Bucks they're programming the last several months have been
very interesting. That's why it could go either way. My
official prediction Brodido retains, but I don't love it. I'm
just saying, but I think Brodido will retain because of
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how popular they have been the last several months in
AAW and this could be their opportunity to really solidify
themselves at the top of the tag team card. That's
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this with you guys, and then we're going to get
into today's news and then eventually get to our predictions.
We've got all out. We've got Russell Paluzzo. We want
to get to all of it. Let's get started. Rajah
Jackson arrested charge with felony following an attack on Indie
Rescue wrestler Psycho Stu. We talked about this a few
weeks ago on our show, and just about everybody in
the wrestling world has TMZ reporting. He was taken into
(03:27):
custody Thursday morning in charge with a felony. He's being
held on fifty thousand dollars bond. This all stems from
the video that he recorded and was live streaming at
a Knox Pro Wrestling event out in California, where there
were somehow the messages got crossed. Psycho Stu thought he
was another performer in the back. They saw cameras recording
(03:48):
and all this stuff, and somehow it led to Psycho
Stu hitt him in a head with an empty beer can,
which then resulted in them trying to rectify the situation
by putting him into a wrestling situation at their event,
where he sat ringside, charged into the ring and just
pummeled the heck out of Psycho Stu.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Legit, it wasn't a work.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
It was totally a shoot and even after Stu was
out cold from slamming him to the mat, this guy
pummeled him into oblivion and did serious, serious damage to
Psycho Stu. This, I think it's pretty much universal, with
the exception of Rampage Jackson himself, pretty much everybody has
detested this situation. Rampage Jackson somehow still defending his son,
(04:27):
showing no remorse. It's absolutely ridiculous. He's been asking him
for to investigate other people at the venue, including Psycho Stu.
But at this point, right now, Rajah Jackson has been arrested.
We have to monitor that situation closely and we will
keep you updated in future episodes. Interesting news coming out
today from Scott de Moore. If you don't know who
Scott d Moore is, we've talked about on this show
(04:49):
several times. He is the former head of TNA Wrestling.
He's left that organization twenty twenty four. Early twenty twenty four,
they relieved him of his duties. He now has restarted
a Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling and having an interesting conversation
with regards to the business of TNA in the past.
And he was having a conversation with Kurt Angle on uncrowned,
(05:13):
and in that conversation, brock Lesner came up and Kurt
Angle revealed that brock Lesner was in talks with TNA
back in two thousand and seven, and that those there
were reports back then it was happening. Nobody knew whether
to believe it or not, but De moor is confirming
Kurt Angle really wanted to bring him in and do
something with him.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
They were very excited about that.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Obviously, if you look hindsight twenty twenty, he looked back
Dixie Carter was not interested at the time. Who knows
how different the wrestling landscape would be, but think about
brock Lesner. This is seven, This is before he goes
to the UFC and becomes UFC Heavyweight Champion. It could
have been a very different wrestling landscape for brock Lesler,
a very different future had he gone to TNA.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
When he left WWE, he ended up doing some.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Stuff with the NFL, eventually transitioning to UFC, becoming uf
Heavyweight Champion, and then eventually returning to WE met. Much
of that may have been very different. Vince mc mann
some of his appeals the fact that brock was a
former UFC Heavyweight Champion when he returned. If that was
not the case because he got sidetracked when he left WWE.
He was doing some things with New Japan, but this
would have been much bigger and more substantial. Maybe that's
(06:19):
why it never came to fruition. You know, how Brock is,
he wants a specific schedule, and maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't want to speculate too much, but it's definitely
interesting to see how he could have ended up in TNA.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And speaking of TNA, Dave.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Meltzer talking on Wrestling Observer Radio, as was echoed by
the guys on Busted Open, Bully Ray and the rest
of the crew, talking about TNA and their relationship with
w WE NXT.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
If you're watching Homecoming, many of the TNA.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Roster we're talking trash on Twitter, being offended and whatnot
that they weren't at the show. Talents like Mustafa Ali,
Mike Santana, ash By Elegance who's formerly used to be
Dana Brookwe they were on Twitter throughout the show complaining about,
you know, not being about being disrespected. And the word
(07:08):
is coming out of Wrestling Observer Radio is that this
is going to lead to a TNA versus NXT feud,
a big invasion angle, which this is the right time
of year for that.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is when we usually see wargames.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Maybe we will see a wargame situation Team TNA versus
Team NXT.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Not sure how that would play out.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I think it was kind of messed up that at
Homecoming you tease that with Shawn Michaels and Triple H
because now, if you want to do this, it almost
takes away from that interaction they had there with William Regal.
But definitely exciting to see that because I was waiting
to see some kind of big development between TNA and WWE.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But Meltzer also or recently reported.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That it is absolutely in WWE's contract with this example,
this situation with TNA, that they do have the opportunity
to purchase the company. That is huge, and I do
think at some point that is going to be what's
going to happen. At right now, they're looking for streaming deals,
they're looking for tele distribution deals to get on a
bigger platform. But I think as time goes on and
(08:04):
if this relationship really does foster great communication and matches
and things.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Between the talent.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I would not be surprised to SEEWWE acquire TNA and
use it as yet another brand under their umbrella, and
that should be very exciting and something that everybody would
would have more opportunities. Take guys who are not doing
anything in WE of meaning and put them over to TNA,
let them get refreshed, let them get some new angles,
work with some.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
New talent, and then you bring them back and they're
bigger than better than ever. People who are in TNA
who need a push to the main.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Roster, like, for example, Joe Hendry is slowly being phased
out of TNA's programming because he is expected to make
a full time move to WWE in early twenty twenty six.
If you do that as well, where you have guys
who you've basically done everything they can in TNA and
you bring them to WWE. People in WWE who've done
so much or have maybe gotten a little I hate
to say the word stale in WWE can transition to
(08:55):
TNA and almost refresh their character and bring them back
at a later time, and it keeps it so the
investment you've made in that intellectual property is still paying
dividends later on, word came out that we know what
the card is, or at least part of the card
for Russell Palooza. We have heard that on the Pac
McAfee show that Brock Lesner and John Sen will open
the show, and then earlier today it was announced that
(09:19):
the show is going to be closed. It was revealed
on X that the show will close with Cody Rhodes
defending the WWE Undisputed Championship against Drew McIntyre, which, in
my personal opinion, if you weren't gonna put Sena and
Brock on last, they have to go first. I get that,
and if you look at how it lines up, and
they talked about this on both Busted Open Radio, Wrestling,
(09:39):
Wrestle Zone, I apologize, Wrestle Talk News. Everybody has the
same feel about this. If you look at the scheduling
of the timing and starting and stopping of shows, All
Out is going to start around three o'clock, so that
means the end of All Out, the main events of
All Out are going to probably end up running up
against John Cena and Brock Lesner, which could draw a
lot of people away from that aw audience. And keeping
(10:02):
in mind that All Out is a paid show, just
like it looks like Russell Palouz is going to be.
So this will be interesting to see what the Cena
Lesner match does to the viewership of the main event
of aw's programming. Is it counterprogramming? ESPN people were on
earlier this week talking about how that's not the case.
They just want to blow up the initial number, the
first ple on the show and then I Love Bully
(10:24):
Ray had.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
A great take on this this week. I'm busted open radiohere.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
He said, for the rest of time, you look back,
you look at what was the first pl match ever
for ESPN, John Cena versus Brock Lesnar, two of the
biggest names in the history of the business, and that
will be the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Who you want to be that?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Do you want it to be a convoluted conversation about
the mix tag team match? Do you want it to
be the Cody Rose Drew McIntyre thing. Maybe you don't
think McIntire is a big enough name to be that
historic of a moment. Sena Lesner clearly is, and I
actually think that makes a lot of sense. But at
this point they're going to open the show and the
show's going to close with what I think is the
wrong match. Rhodes and McIntyre should be earlier in the
(11:01):
card midway because I think the show should be closed
out by the seth rollins Becky Lynch versus Punk aj
Lee match. I think that is the bigger draw at
the show. Everyone wants to see what aj Lee can
do after all this time off, but we have no
idea what's going to happen now as we feed into
that show Tonight on SmackDown, brock Lesner opens a show
(11:21):
threatening Dragon.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Oh my gosh, I can't.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I can't believe I'm just drawing a blank on announcer's names.
But anyways, getting in the ring, hitting two f fives
on Corey Graves, which was interesting because Corey Graves doesn't
wrestle anymore. So when Michael Cole was Michael, How could
I not remember Michael Cole's name? So he goes see
Michael Cole's near a ring side, brock Lesner grabs him,
picks him a carries around ring, takeshim in the ring.
(11:45):
Is clear he's going to attack Michael Cole. Corey Graves
came in to try to calm things down, and he
hit a couple f fives on Corey Graves laying him
out leading to the misdoing commentary. The show has been
like amazing. I'm not a big fan of the fact
that they had this three way match for next week
for the Women's Championship on SmackDown.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I think that they.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Needed to do something tonight as a major lead in
to Wressell Paluza. They should have done it tonight, but
at least we know there's some resolution there. Sammy's aims
Upen challenge went very well, great match he and Carmelo.
He retains just a lot of things going on. So
we're ready to go for w Russell Polus. I'm gonna
get into Wressell Paluza first, just because it is a
shorter card. I'm sorry when I pull up the cards
(12:25):
and I look at him and he got five matches
on WWE's card, and then when you go over to
All Out and you're literally looking at a rack of
thirteen matches, it's very different way to produce television and
pay all ease.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So going to w let's run through the matches real quick.
Let's give our prediction. We know the show's gonna open
with John Cena versus Brock Lesner. There's a lot of
ways you could look at this.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I listened to Dave le Greca and Bully Ray gobat
round around about this. I've listened to the predictions on
wressel Zone and various other online streaming influencers. Here's the thing,
I think this is seen as last go around. Brock
Lesner has already had that dominant performance at SummerSlam twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We don't need to see another one of those.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Lesnar the way he wiped out Corey Graves, the way
he's been so dominant, and everything he's done since he's
been back. He doesn't hurt his legacy at all to
take a loss here. If I'm w Bee, I book
John Seena to win this. However, when you look at
Dave lea Greca's approach, he looks at this as there's
a possibility that Brock goes over here to set up
a rematch later. We've seen only having like six dates left,
(13:30):
There's very limited things you could do with that, and
this could lead to another return match and he and
Brock again.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I hate that idea.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
It would make sense, but I hate the idea because
I want to see Seena work with as many people
as he can before he leaves, and realistically, if he
only has five or six appearances left, then you're looking
at the situation where every appearance isn't a match. So, now,
how many actual matches does John have left? Maybe two
or three and you've got like a four month period,
so you got all of the the rest of September, October, November, December.
(13:58):
That's a lot of time to fill in only when
you only have five opportunities, and some of it has
to be promos building up these matches.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So maybe we get three more.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Matches after this from John Cena, probably more like two.
If that's the case, do you really want one of
the last two matches John Cena ever has to be
with brock Lesner. Quite frankly, I saw somebody suggest that
it should be Dominant Mysterio and have him cheat John
Cena out of his final match. You could do the
storyline where Sena has never held the Intercontinental Championship, he's
trying to win that on the way out the door,
(14:30):
and dom cheats to win in John Cena's last match.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I actually have no problem with that.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I think it'd be phenomenal John giving him the rub
right now Dominic's in a phenomenal position to really take
off double champion all that stuff, but we'll have to
wait and see. Here's so many guys I would love
to see, have seen and have the opportunity to work
with before he goes, and we are running out of
time to do that, and I don't really want to
waste two of them on Brock. My official prediction, John
Cena wins here. Brock Lesner dominant but does not pick
(14:55):
up the win. The USO's take on the Vision Bronson.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Reid and Bron Bray. I see no reason for the
USOS to win this.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
They're not going to be challenging for the tag team
Championship any soon, whereas Bronson and Bron could be. I
think Jay has established it he needs to be a
single star. This could lead to a j usso heel
turn where he feuds again with Jimmy, but this time
Jimmy becoming the good guy, and maybe Jimmy starts getting
a little bit of a push as a single star.
They were talking about a us title run head leading
in the WrestleMania that never came to fruition.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Maybe they do that now.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
If Jay does flip, how does Roman get involved in this,
because at some point, clearly he will.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But when we look at this, Bronson and Bron need this.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They need this because at some point they have to
win the Tag Team Championship because all these dominant groups.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
You got Seth Rollins.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
With the World Heavyweight Championship, Becky Lynch with the Intercontinental Championship,
and these guys need to win one of the tag
team players probably the Raw Tag.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Team Championship, ww Tag Team Championship, so that they can
carry all the goal. That's what these huge factions always do.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So I predict the usso's fall here to the vision
Bronson raid and Bron breaker and patent. Potentially we see
a Jay Usso he'll turn. Now we also have to
wonder what's gonna happen with La Knight. Could be a
little crazy. We'll have to wait and see. I hope
he doesn't get involved at all, because if he does,
it is going to ruin what could be a phenomenal,
phenomenal match. Eo Sky Stephanie Vekira WWE Women's World Championship.
(16:16):
This match, it makes no sense to me for anybody
to win this, but Stephanie Vekaierre because EO clearly has
to have a program with OSCA coming up very soon.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I could see a situation where Osca.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Comes out to help her even though she doesn't want
to help, leading some kind of schmas situation where Vekier
picks up the victory and wins the Women's Championship.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
EO goes on to face off with.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Osca in a feud of their own, and that gets
EO out of the championship picture for a hot minute
because she's been in it for so much, so long,
and then Stephanie can move on to other things which
we would love to see, things like Vekira versus Rio Ripley,
Vikkia versus.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Just about anybody else's give give us the a Riquelwardriguez.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You could put her in with Rock Rock San Perez
do some of these matches and as her being Women's
World Champion, I think it could be a great opportunity
and Toy, you can even ride her all the way
into January and have her give the championship up at
the Royal Rumble leading into whatever it is you want
to do with WrestleMania, and that gives her a great
long run as Women's champion long in terms of you know,
(17:12):
twenty twenty five kind of long other than you know,
Roman reigns. Everybody has a couple months, give her a
couple months and then lead into a great program for
somebody else heading into Mania. We'll have to see how
that plays out. Cody Rhoads Drew McIntyre. We know it's
going to finish the show. Obviously, I'm going in a
different order for a reason.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm going in order.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I think it should be Cody Rhods Drew McIntyre. There
is no chance Drew McIntyre wins this match unless WW
is insane. This just doesn't make sense. It's a good match,
should be solid, should be physical. These guys have history
format TYG Team champions together. Drew is one of the
best workers in the business and clearly does not get
the respect he deserves because I think he is absolutely underappreciated.
(17:47):
But in this match, Cody Rhoades needs to win this
for other things that look so clear down down the road.
The only way I see Cody Rhodes losing this match
is if we have a Randy Orton interference going heel
helping Drew win the championship. Wich doesn't make any sense.
To me, but that's the only thing I could see
the lead to something with Cody and Randy. But I'd
like to push that off because I'd like to see
(18:08):
Cody Rhods versus Randy Orton at WrestleMania, not here, not
this early, not at Survivor Series, not at the World Rumble.
That is a WrestleMania level match. That's where I want
to see it. So I don't think that's gonna happen yet,
but at some point Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton are
going to get in the ring and it's going to
be phenomenal and what I think should be the main
event CM Punk aj Lee versus Seth Rowins and Becky
(18:28):
Lynch mixed tag team match. If the Bronze win, I
think Rowans and Becky Lynch can lose. If the Bronze lose,
there's no chance Seth Rowns and Becky Lynch lose because
you can't have the Vision lose both matches. Can you
have them win both matches? Possibly? Possibly, but you've already
shafted Punk out of the World Championship. He got shafted
(18:49):
against Sena.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
How many times can you.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Shaft Punk over before you got to give the guy
a win at some point, and it's aj Lee's return match.
I have a tough time with that. If Lee picks
up the win. I've seen people talk about like Punk
is going to hit the GTS on Becky Lynch and
Lee will pick up the pin.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I don't love that idea. The guy just said how
he would never hit a woman.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
If he was going to hit a woman anyways, then
we didn't need a Ja Lee. You could have done
that on the show without bringing your wife in. You
brought your wife in for a reason. But if she
hits the GTS, I think that would be amazing and
she could pin Becky. Now I'd much rather see aj
Lee just put her into her submission hold and get
the submission victory, leading to an Intercontinental Championship program with
Becky Lynch orre Becky Lynch could retain in their first
match that they have one win apiece and then lead
(19:27):
to a bigger match, probably at the Royal Rumble, where
aj Lee could win the Intercontinental Championship. She's still not
in the World Championship picture, which is fine, and she
could go on to have a great few with somebody
else heading into Mania. Perhaps Stephanie vek Kerr, who I
already predicted I would have lose the Women's championship at
Royal Rumble and that would free her up to work
with Ajle. I think they would have incredible styles working together.
(19:48):
The last thing we got to get to tonight, which
I don't mean to say that like it's disrespectful in
any way, shape or form. It's just the nature and
flow of things. We got to talk about all out
coming tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Go through the matches.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
There are thirteen of them on the pre show, Harley Cameron,
Mina Sher, Kyle Kleenamanado, Willow Knight and Yale versus Megan Ban,
Penelope Forward and the Triangle of Manny's Julius, Julia Hart
and sky Blue.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Who cares who wins this?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
This is Tony Kahan booking like a New Japan show
where you throw all these like multi person matches on
before the show actually starts. Whatever, don't care who cares
who wins? Let's just pick one at random. Let's go
with Meghan Bain Penelope Ford in a Triangle of Madness. Okay,
that's my prediction. This show is gonna have thirteen matches
on it's gonna go for like five hours, so we
don't have time for like all these these crazy matches.
(20:33):
But whatever it is, what it is, Daniel Garcia versus
Cassiori Shabada is gonna take place at the show.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Garcia recently turning heel.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
He should be on the main card doing something, probably
with Darby Allen, but he's nine. Darby Allen's doing a
coffin match later in a show with John Moxley. So
Garcia gets this with Shabada. There is no chance he
loses to Shabada, not when he just turned heel.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
This isn't easy.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
When Daniel Garcia beach Keatsiori Shabada, the Ops Samoa Joe
in Powerhouse Hobbs versus the Workhorseman Anthony Henry and J. D.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Drake. Sounds like it could be a.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Quality match, but there's nobody, no chance Samo Joe Powerhouse
Hobbs don't win this match. They will, they'll they'll conquer
the Workhorsemen and move on, hopefully do bigger and better things.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Let's get to the main card.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Cope and Christian, the Reunion of Edgend Christian Cope and
Christian taking on FTR this match could have been something bigger.
I think they've really dropped the ball in the interview
segments leading into the pay per view. However, there is
no reason to put Edge and Copean back together or
Edge and Cage back together unless they're going to pick
up the win here. I think they need to pick
up the win here, but they won't. My prediction is
(21:34):
FTR wins because the bigger storyline is something you can't
do right now. Because of the way they booked this.
I think FTR wins here and FDR will very soon
win the World Tag Team Championship because I think Cope
and Christian will win the Tag Team Championship from FDR
at a later date, maybe Wressell Dreamy. I don't know,
some other pay per view World's collide something. I'm just
(21:56):
throwing out pay per view names at this point, but
not here. I don't they win it here. My prediction
is FTR hurts Syndicate, Bobby Lashley, Shelton, Benjamin and MVP.
Getting in the ring not the normal thing, and lately anymore,
he's more of a managerbody's wrestling at this show versus
Ricochet and Bishop Kahn Leona. This is gonna be huge.
(22:17):
This is gonna be a decent match, hard hitting, hopefully.
I love that there's so much going.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
On here and the gates of agony really I feel like.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Have brought a youthful excitement and power to this that
matches up well with Lashley and Benjamin.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Obviously, I think the Hurt Syndicate wins. I don't think
there's any chance they lose.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But I hope that this spins Bobby Lashley eventually out
of the tag team division and into a single spot
where he could start going for the World Championship, because
that's where he belongs.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Certainly at his agent.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I'm not crapping on Bobby last Yek. Guy's in phenomenal shape.
He always will be. That guy is amazing. He's a machine.
But he is a guy who should be tearing through
the upper part of the card. Instead, he's toiling in
the tag team division. And I get it, you're helping
Shelton a MVP stay relevant. But they could do their
thing as a team and he could go on and
be a major single star, which is what they did
in WB and was very successful. That you do it
again here Mercedes Money versus Rio for the TBS Championship.
(23:09):
In my opinion, purely my opinion, Rio has absolutely no
chance to win this match. Monet retains the championship because
there's somebody else coming in the near future who's taken
that belt from her because she's had it for so long.
We're gonna wait and see what happens there. As I
said earlier, Darby Allen, John Moxley coffin match, it's a
coffin match. Realistically, on paper, you think there's no chance
Darby Allen wins. But I think because it's the Coffin
(23:31):
match and he does the Coffin drop, and Darby's been
gone for so long scaling Mount Everest, I think Darby
Allen picks up to win here over John Moxon. Clearly,
they'll be outside interference from various people, but I think
Darby Allen has to win this or why even push
him the way you have been doesn't make any sense
to me. Mark brisco MGF tables and tax match like whatever.
(23:51):
There's no way MJF loses this match. He will beat
Mark Briscoe. But this should be a bloody violent occasion,
something you don't get from MJF very frequently. It'll be
fun to see it here Timeless Tony Storm, Jamie Hayter,
Chris Statlander, Thelka for the AW Women's World Championship. Interesting
matchup because you have an opportunity here for Tony Storm
to not get pinned and lose her championship. You can
(24:14):
keep her strong, not hurt her character, have somebody else
pick up the win. If I'm Tony kahan Man, this
is a tough one. You could go Jamie Hater here
to reheat her, or.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You could go with Thelka, somebody who you probably don't think.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
And really, if I'm looking at this, I feel like
I want to say Felka, I really do, but I'm not.
I'm gonna say Tony Storm retains, even though I don't
think it's the best booking decision. I'd love to see
Statlander go heal here and just tear into Tony Storm
and lead to a big few with them again.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But I really believe Tony Storm is gonna rebtain.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Kyle Fletcher Hangman Page AW World Heavyweight Championship. Fletcher, he
is one of the most talented young men in the business.
I hate that kid has got is he may be
the future of the business. Much the same way. Brown
Breaker is in WWE, but this is not gonna be
his night. There's no chance. I don't think it's time yet.
Adam Page, the Hangman is going to retain over Kyle Fletcher, Kazuchka,
(25:04):
Okada defending the aw Unified Championship against Kenoski, Takeshka and
Mascarota Dorada. Again, no chance here Okada retains. If anybody were.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
To beat him, it would be Takeshka.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I don't think that'll happen, but it is a three way,
so there's a small chance Takeshka can win it here
beating Derada, leading to Okada having to go through the
tournament to regain his championship. Later this year when they
do the Continental Classic. We'll have to wait and see
how that plays out. I'm gonna predict though, that Okada retains.
The return match Big Bill versus a returning Eddie Kingston.
(25:37):
There's no reason to book this match unless Eddie Kingston
wins the match. My prediction is simple. Eddie Kingston and
then one of the matches that the last one I'm
gonna talk about, is the one that I really find
to be the most intriguing. We have got the don
Kallis Family of Etcheserro and Josh Alexander taking on Kevin
Knight and Speedball, Mike Bailey Jet Speed taking on the
Young Bucks, Matt Nick Jackson challenging all three of those
(25:57):
challenging Broddo, Brody King and Bandido for the aw World
Tag Team Championship in a four way ladder match. This
could be the moment that the Young Bucks have been
waiting for to regain the World Tag Team Championship and
going to other programs where I think we could see
the Young Bucks and FTR eventually get into another match,
leading to the Young Bucks losing the championship FDR, who
eventually lose it to edgend Christian.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
If not look at the rest.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Of the teams on this match, it's not gonna be
Ecta Sarah on Josh Alexander. That doesn't make sense to me.
Kevin Knight and Spieedball Mike Billy also doesn't make sense
to me. Brodido is over so much with the fans
they make a lot of sense to retain, and the
Young Bucks they're programming the last several months have been
very interesting. That's why it could go either way. My
official prediction Brodido retains, but I don't love it. I'm
just saying, but I think Brodido will retain because of
(26:40):
how popular they have been the last several months in
AAW and this could be their opportunity to really solidify
themselves at the top of the tag team card. That's
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