“Say Hello To Your New CEO!” | AEW Dynamite: Big Business Review (Mar 13 2024)

The Dadley Boyz discuss everything that happened at AEW Dynamite: Big Business Review including the highly anticipated debut of Mercedes Moné, Samoa Joe vs. Wardlow for the AEW World Championship, Darby Allin vs. Switchblade Jay White, Willow Nightingale vs. Riho and more!

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Hello and welcome to the aew dynamite review We Are The dadly Boys of what culture I’m Adam wilborne joined by Michael H and Michael sidwick here to review everything that happened on last night’s episode of aew dynamite but before we get into it if you’re a fan of

This sort of thing make sure you subscribe to what culture wrestling on Apple podcast Spotify Amazon music and YouTube where we do daily wrestling podcast where we not only review aw Dynamite but also aw Collision Raw SmackDown the show formerly known as NXT 2.0 pay-per-views premium live events we

Have interviews Round Table discussions and a round for the week complete good quiz of course on Wrestle culture as I said though joined by HL and to review aew Dynamite big business it certainly was big S it was completely undercut the trifecta has been achieved

I didn’t yeah I I was going to go to you on that but that’s your phrase and I thought it was very spot on the trifecta has been achieved longtime listeners will know what I’ll talk what I’m talking about but you know I’ll do a WWE

Thing and explain to the new ones what they mean by Trifecta something like a winter is coming or one of these glorified pay-per-view like that looks like a Pay-per-view on TV I mean I enjoy them mostly when they’re really good but that to me isn’t a great episodic

Wrestling TV show a wrestl an episodic Wrestling TV show needs three key ingredients the trifecta right you need great wrestling because it’s the Bell has to ring at some point guys okay and we often mourn it but it does he’s right it does it does the Bas

Rings you need pretty great action on every show I’m sorry you just do right but the idea because it’s a television show is it’s meant to enhance your like anticipation your investment in the big destination matches on pay-per-view which is a separate thing to follow you do that with

Promos and more importantly and it’s more difficult to do this angles anyone can talk trash at each other like that’s it’s good when it’s it’s amazing when it’s done right but you need a bit of flavor you need I want to be wowed by the direction of a character how a

Character is reheated I want to feel like distress on behalf of another character got that in abundance in one angle uh tonight it hit the trifect there and on the subject of trifectas three things right if you take Chris Jericho out of aew okay you get some goddamn fans in the other

Buildings that aren’t in Boston right and you press the fast forward button on this world title picture you’ve got a promotion that is godamn all the way back certainly was big Willborn uh yeah I really enjoyed it honestly really enjoyed it I like I don’t I don’t think I’m quite as hyped

As never is never is never is not a Thursday uh so is the worst just HL the way you like it the way you remember it but but lots of positives yet again repeating it every week with aw at the moment like loads of positives still

Waiting I think the elite feel like that real emotional connection with an aw that you remember MH there they are way you remember way you remember it they’re the act at the moment they’re the ones when they’re on screen the things they’re doing the stuff that they’re

Building that’s the one way like oh that’s the stuff this could be the show again yeah um but every but like nothing really Jericho’s side the new caveat he’s kind last guy to stop the show being good actually uh Jericho side like nothing’s really bad nothing’s really

Like nothing at all is bad in aw outside I would say of Chris Jericho at the moment good for them like good for them just just deal with that one even in that vaunted and I’m not overstating things vaunted February 2020 period he still had um Kip saan versus

Joy Janella yeah even in summer of 2021 you still had Matt Hardy and maybe a few other things like the Frankie kazarian’s career just dying in front of us you will never get a 10.0 you’ll never get Seven Stars you will never get absolute perfection it’s it’s close as that you

Can get to that I’m after and we’re we’re we’re close to being that close smackdown’s got a carrying cross yeah you know it’s like with killers in the jungle on at the end there’s still a caring cross that comes before it you you just can never get everything you

Can never get it all Chris Jericho is currently aw’s you can’t have everything you’ve got me yeah well let’s get into it then because obviously wased is Kevin Kelly’s brain huge opening into big business of course and there was even a shot of someone showing up in a fancy car we cut

To the arena and then imperium’s music hits oh sorry uh Mercedes money CEO music hits and uh the CEO chants ring out in the TD Garden she’s got the all Elite CEO hair um she comes through the baby face tunnel of course um gets down to the ring gets a bit emotional

Understandably with that sort of reaction tells Boston she’s home thanks the crowd for having her back for the past two years giving her the courage to be here uh going to be creating so many moments together because the fans are the reason she is here uh if they only

Knew how much tonight and pro wrestling meant to her it’s changed her life it saved her life it’s given her hope a place to dream to people like Eddie Guerrero who quite rightly gets a chant after this gave her the hope that one day she could wrestle to uh her dreams

Led to a women’s Revolution uh they made her the first woman to Main Event a pay-per-view In This Very building she dropped out of school at 13 to take care of her brother and then her dreams at 18 took her to chaotic wrestling uh where her dream properly began the dream to

Become the greatest women’s wrestler ever uh she wants us to know if she can do it anyone can do it too so let’s get down to business why is Mercedes I’ll do it the short one just so we don’t get done on YouTube money in

Aew uh she needs to be here she wants to be here this is the only place where the revolution can be Global uh she’s been watching everyone in the locker room she can’t wait to tear it up with them she talks about rho and Willow Nightingale

In the main event of tonight uh she obviously got unfinished business with Willow but for now Mercedes Monee is all Elite and they flash up the big graphic on the screen uh and she thanks Tony K and ask the fans to say hello to their

New CEO and she takes off her jacket to Michael Hamlet revealed gold gear oh my God oh my God my had one of two by the way cuz the gear that she changed into for a second second later on was good as well yeah she’s really good with the

Game yeah just just straight out with it straight out the gates Route One perfect for what it was and what it was was what it should have been really in retrospect um you can do the matches later you can do more significant Grudge matches later

This was we have a huge huge mega star in our company here she is enjoy her get ready for her this had the all important sense that the game had been changed in the women’s division again this is the we we talk about all the feeling and all

The rest of it and how much that phrase is starting to burn our ass but like the idea is Mercedes money could be the one to do it and it would be kind of promotional malpractice if they don’t take it more seriously as a big time Main Event concern after this

Presentation they gave her the superstar entrance and she embodied every single attribute of being a superstar I thought the balance she struck here was quite incredible she has that unb believable alist aesthetic she looks she looks like she comes from a world so cool I personally could have no comprehension

Of it whatsoever she looks complete red carpet aist like an impossible human being for how much of a star she is it’s literally the only word and yet she came across so likable in the promo um it was pretty much a Reader’s Digest version of a career I’ll allow the exposition on

This night um I wish he kind of talked a little bit more in depth about the roster because I want it at this point fantasy book I want to see you work such and such such and such such such and such but there was one that handl myself

Picked up on which I’ll let you take over imminently she just came across as that weird I I don’t understand how the the two circles intersected really but this completely impossible cool Superstar and there’s really humble likable person who’s done these incredible things in her personal life

To get to where she is to earn this position the sacrifices she’s made the obstacles she’s had to overcome and she was both at once um the best promos are the ones that he can believe the most and without being this worldclass delivery realistically you just couldn’t

Help but think she’s going to change this entire game and she’s really good and really nice yeah like I really enjoyed this and I don’t want to come across harshing it because I think in reality there was a like and I don’t think we were particularly biging this

Up yesterday but it just you know you want a fantasy book and you want to get excited for these things and I think this shouldn’t be the case like what five years in but a borrow phrase from cyric there was a certain pressure on Mercedes money here triggering another

Narrative Big Bang but for the women’s division because they’ve never had one of their own and she was the pressure was on her to do that and she didn’t do that but just because she didn’t do that this was far from some sort of failure you know what it didn’t feel like

Creatively explosive you know it didn’t there was the the one I’m assuming we’re both referring to was when she used the CEO to do CEO and like let that finger Trail off and let you think for a second that oh my God yeah the biggest star

They’ve ever had in brit Baker coming up against Mercedes Mone is a huge it feels interpromotional even though Mercedes Mone is now in aw like that is the one of the matches you want and it feels like a forbidden ad match almost yeah it put me back to like and this again this

Is like comparisons that were maybe unfairly drawn but you know the promotion was similar when CM Punk did his first dance Derby Allen was name checked on the first night so he had all of the backstory all of the where have I been what am I doing and then straight

On to and I’m so in it I’m going to book the match right now and you get to be excited about what’s to come next they held off on that a little bit you get later there was a version of it in the main event her mentioning a name

Checking the match and saying it was in the main event felt like the biggest thing yes because she’s not an authority figure but she’s got a great deal of authority like you know that what she is doing has to matter and that’s in kayab and in reality and her being able to

Just sort of announce to the crowd this massive Crowd by the way like an extra couple of thousand that came in yesterday may may not have been to do with when she tweeted the word Boston which is kind of what we were looking for wasn’t it the timeline where what

Difference can she make felt like she made one in the end all of that had the impact attached to it that I really like the rest was just nice there was a a take you had when I think s was laughing at it and I was a little bit deflated at

It when CM Punk returned to WWE and you had the take of I’m talking about the raw promo specifically of there was a sort of a almost had to do this and then we get on to business and I felt there was an element of that here I think you

Had to do that with the Mercedes money because she hasn’t been she hasn’t disappeared she’s been injured we said this yesterday she was in she was at Wembley with her own aw graphic it was a different thing here so to doing this now before she mixes in again like I

Wasn’t like fizzling with the excitement but I was really enjoying it all the same she immediately feels like she belongs and she’s elevated the show and everything felt loud and the CEO chant felt it’s not a sort of thing that like aw star presentation I don’t know why

It’s really stuck with me but really hammering the CEO chant does feel like a bit of a WWE thing but a good one like borrow from them when they’re really good at just drilling something into you and this was drilled in when she before she came out people were chanting CEO

For her to make the save that never got over once in her new Japan stardom run ever she was mocked for it a bit it was like boss like they’ve instantly made it a chant it’s instantly like part of her act in a way that DMD is and I like I

Don’t know as a wrestling fan I’m predisposed to liking that I think it does genuinely like hand signals catchphrases like these things have been around forever because they help and she’s got them straight away we should mention before we move on as well or before we get your thoughts anyway

Wilborne that uh the the theme is a total earworm yeah it was another aspect of that new Japan stardom presentation where it was weird the jury was out I think on Mercedes money and that post WWE run because some of the matches were really good the look was just absolutely unbelievable but it

Never really hit great and uh some of the promos were wacky yeah to be generous on this great post business big business day the theme wacky the theme was wacky the theme was wacky this is 10 times better a total earworm she is now this theme like in conjunction with her like unbelievable

Glowing star power is going to ensure that she gets a booming Ovation before the Bell even Rings like really inspired bit of business H yeah business I think it’s one of those things where you know you’re going to struggle people as we did yesterday are going to draw

Comparisons to CM Punk debut in aw but I thought they pitched this perfectly in terms of it’s not going to be that it’s not going to be 20 minutes 30 minutes to start start the show and potentially laying out it would have been nice but

You got the Caesar and like you say you got more stuff later on but to you know have her the promo Punk is EXA not the same romantic story but she comes you know don’t mess about we all know what we’re here for along with the other

Stuff on the show but do that and then top and tail the show with her to have her out the very end I thought he got the best of both words it’s good WWE style Focus yeah just instantly felt like a big deal it’s one of the easiest

Tricks in the book is that you simply put someone on the show quite a few times to make them feel featured and worthy of your uh investment and that reminds me by the way you remember Matthew Ormsby the lovely bloker emailed us last week to you know talk about the

Relaunch of dynamite and talk about the Monday Night Raw opening that you got well Matthew um was there and emailed us um on his way home from Big M in Boston thank you again Matthew for this um he wanted to just share a few things from his perspective in the building uh the

Crowd was technically smaller than when blood and guts was there according to Matthew and according to wrestle tick as he says but having been to both shows this one was far better uh it might just be the nature of the blood and gut show format but people were into almost

Everything tonight most stayed for Rampage this time um Mercedes obviously the most over followed by Osprey and then Eddie and Doby got a lot of postmatch after they went commercially he says Jericho got heavy booze post match when setting up the match with hook next week and Mercedes made a lap

And took selfies with fans after they went off air as well but a ringing endorsement of this show and and getting the right crowd reaction obviously opening with Mercedes is going to do that yeah they’re in lock step with our fans the only issue is that there aren’t

Enough of them in too many buildings but uh the Canada dates look a bit more respectable you know there was something put on this on next week’s show to get some oh Christ I get the butt in the seets next week wasn’t it like that’s the can’t fault that what’s the there’s

An expression that it’s a cliche I’m searching for it I can’t find it something along the lines of images everything or whatever but basically if you see a month’s worth of really goodlooking TV crowds and a lot of healthy noise where you can’t hear The Echoes it’s so Grim when even when

You’re watching like a really perception is reality yes that’s it perception could be reality even if if you get like a few shortcuts of money going to Canada for only the second time perception could become reality and it feels hot people want to go to the hot thing and

Who knows they could build that audience they really need to but I I wouldn’t say this show in Boston was a wicked pisser and you know why because I’ve got another email from another Matthew thank you to Matthew leardo who’s corrected us on our Boston accent basically how dare

He apparently don’t to try harder apparently try hard out with that accent apparently saying Wicked pissa makes you sound like you’re in your 70s instead we should say uh Wicked awesome Wicked awesome Wicked awesome I’d say this show was wicked awesome was wicked awesome awesome and also other tips from Matt

Thank you for this Matt who also sent us a picture of some business that says it’s wicked easy to pay Mass tax connect there Wicked easy um and uh he also says other tips that use the term guy and kid uh for for strangers um

So for example you got to hop on the red line I don’t know head down to Park Street kid and then switch over the green line it’s wicked awesome so thanks to that it sounds Wicked easy as well Wicked awesome e guy thank you to that

Thank you to Matt for that anyway uh moving on Samar Joe is backstage with Renee pette uh he said tonight feels like money um he hasn’t forgotten the last time he and Wardlow were in the ring together debts need to be paid warlow’s overdue uh it’s the biggest

Mistake of Ward’s career and Joe just doesn’t lose titles in the garden that must be I think that’s a reference to basketball ah is it I was trying to it must have been I inferred it it’s easy to infer things could someone let us know actually in case

I’ve F incorrectly I was trying to cycle through title wins in this building for WWE and none jumped me that’s cuz the lineages are completely ruined that’s true um and then it’s true quite literally T he’s got a book it’s a big call BL he loves books in aw don’t they big call

This isn’t it like big call I liked the idea behind it I figured I thought that was the direction you’re going to go with this and just stop at that line right there so there was Joel as well cuz he had a big book once remember AJ

Styles so maybe he’s put him in maybe he’s got a book guy yeah not mean the Boston Way like he’s got a guy that makes books for situation uh but this one wasn’t about a wind of styles uh it’s a throwback yeah just H this time

Adam Cole’s reading a book as part of this Undisputed Kingdom vignette uh saying once upon a time there was a man who was lied to he was named Wardlow and he was locked away by a truly evil man a devil you might say uh he slayed many

Beasts and was decked in Gold but he needed to be surrounded by men who hated that evil man just as much as he did a Brotherhood Bound by Undisputed hatred uh the warrior Wardlow is ready to fulfill his Destiny presenting the prize to its king him uh with courage and purpose Wardlow marched

Into war fueled by his hatred of the evil man to slay the Beast then we see over Cole’s shoulder the uh the final words and the drawing uh the precious gold was captured captured theed captured the prophecy fulfilled the kingdom became that’s the Undisputed Kingdom completely isn’t it they they already have been

Geekified in the extreme this wasn’t good this wasn’t good but it was a good idea I like the idea if you if you’re going to do a world title match on your television show do some kind of bespoke hype video don’t just go to the ring yes present it

Like any other match this was a total Noble failure in terms of its effect on the match nothing and in terms of its own artistic Merit lame but I like that they did it yeah see I like the lore in my head of you know we have the the WWE company

Who’s like we’ve got all these fresh tomatoes I’m such an idiot I’ve wasted all of our money dear gling I’ll take all you got we’re going to do some people throwing rotten fruit which is incredibly fresh angle for some backstage bollocks in W who did they

Throw the tomatoes at uh they hit the tomatoes hit Randy Orton well B just bounced off him who’s doing it uh D priest like riddle might have been involved in it yeah some like that either way truth maybe wacky yeah there are very few Foods I do not like oo very

Few Foods I do not like one I will have tomato ketchup I will have a nice marinara sauce I will have like the sauce that you make potatas braas with if you cook down a tomato we are cooking a fresh tomato that disgusting pulp I find it abhorrent to my taste buds And

Yet when WWE decide to use Rotten Tomatoes as a prop it’s the one time I want to eat them like Caron food that look like so opposite of rotten yes what’s your standing then on a cooked tomato on a full full English disgusting see you need to really cook it down

Liquefy it if anything I’m with you on everything except except for the the raw tomato hate a cooked tomato and a full full English love all the other stuff the mar marinara Etc but yeah raw tomato get it down your neck thoughts I’ll have every tomato apart from ketchup every kind I don’t

Care just can’t have ketchup that’s the one but like every other one who described like the little baby Tomatoes Every Which Way But ketchup that’s right you put your burger I know we had this conversation just cheese just cheese just cheese and then sometimes just the meat but like typically cheese

You’re just a meat Bread Guy aren’t you oh yeah just cheese oh no I’ll have like a a Mayo or a burger sauce or something like that but you know like uh uh like a pork bat where they’re like do you want some stuff in with it or some applesauce

With it just give me the meat and the bread thank you very much the looks we got in Texas no Barbecue on the brisket no barbecue brisket so relieved when you were in that boat as well I was like get that away from the meat just have that

Delicious brisket thank you very much I’m old and I am tired and I literally work with children I have lettuce and tomato on a burger like I would not necessarily choose it but I can have it that me looks delicious does it come in the shape of a dinosaur please oh yes

Right talk about the sh the wrestling take dinosaurs to te T I hadn’t thought about that but I am going via the supermarket when I leave treat yourself yeah well title mat have to buy them then eat them straight away night one purchase It’s s Joo

Versus Wardlow for the aw World title I got a bit distracted apologies I did as well was my fault Wardlow attacks straight away at the bell and they go to the outside and Joe gets slammed into the barricade and Wardlow rips up a Joe’s goingon to kill you sign heads

Into the ring but Joe is fired up and he Nails him with punches but he gets hit with a corner into gri um Taz I like the line that he said Joe’s head is that is the size of a small farmhouse um WL fights out the corner and hits sort of a

Well basically a Whisper In The Wind uh to take us to commercial when we come back Joe’s trying for the muscle Buster wardo slips out of it but oh no he’s tweaked his knee or his ankle or something but it’s a ruse and he just

Gouges the eyes of Samoa Joe he gets Joe on the top rope and does that drop down big knee in the corner one two Joe kicks out the first person to kick out of that I think they said as well on commentary potentially yeah um just in case he

Wasn’t dead enough already oh he’s dead but yeah Wardlow uh tries to follow up with a Swanton but John uh Joe Joe moves and JN does John yeah why is that funny it’s not anywhere near as intimidating is it uh Joe goes to the corner with some punches uh Wardlow

Power bombs his way out but as he goes to the big finish Power Bomb uh Joe sweeps out his legs puts him in the coina clutch W’s reach him but he just can’t get to the ropes and he crumbles back and passes out Samo Joe retains we’ll talk about the postmatch in a

Second handily as well handily as well um I couldn’t tell whether this is actively bad or just really really really mediocre or whether it was all right but just completely in the shadow of the super roster a lot of people have said sorry to interrupt the comments

I’ve seen on line was it’s fine just a bit basic incredibly basic nowhere near the drama or the atmosphere of a world title match mhm like good was never good enough in aw it’s borderline unacceptable at this point that’s not a GW they prefer is it that’s great uh I

The thing about this match is there’s a one or two good ideas I liked Wardlow trying to NOP the NOA if that makes any sense when he tried to outwit Joe lull him into the no spot clever stuff the FED knee injury no one bought

It it might have worked no one bought it I think he may be Telegraph the life out of that one so it’s the odd decent idea even if they didn’t really materialize and execution this is just so Bland this was so Bland not a lot of heat not a lot of

Action almost the antithesis of that Undertaker Batista comparison we drew yesterday that should have been the aim here a heavyweight prize fight between two big bastards just trading bombs at this escalating violent rate nothing they’ve never had chemistry such a weird choice to do this as we mentioned this is

Everything I knew it was going to be and I didn’t have any kind of expectation for it really like decisive anticlimactic Ward L’s kind of done if he wasn’t done already um something else I wanted to yeah before I get to Ward Lord’s future prospects I mean sper alert they don’t look good

Um even at the start it’s all right to do basic if you can do it really really stunningly well like Cody rhods doesn’t do anything futuristic he’s never once been on The Cutting Edge he’s never been state-ofthe-art he’s just got the fire the intensity that all important sense of pacing I don’t demand

Absolutely Exquisite Artistry in fact if you can do the basics really well I find that more impressive even these moments when Ward L’s tossing Joe around the ring and putting him into the barricades it just looked so soft like he was it just felt like that right this is the obligatory

Bit before we get into the ring didn’t feel like he was trying to kill Joe or trying to like really hurt him out there was like he really softly softly right you’re going into the barricade now going into the steps there was just nothing behind it no meat behind it

Whatsoever no intensity no sense of violence no sense of peril this is just honestly a nothing match and with WL I just continue to say the same thing I said on the review maybe WWE which is nowhere near got the emphasis on and I hate the term but

Everyone knows what I mean by it so I will use it work rate right maybe his Aura can be rebuilt there with their production values the way they promote the way that they hone in on invest invest invest invest invest which WL arguably has never really had maybe his style his look

That was the thing he was a WWE guy in an aw ring and at the time it just felt really refreshing he had a different tener to the program he maybe needs to go there and I was thinking back on the G1 thing and it’s like the G1 isn’t even the G1

Anymore you know what I mean yeah it’s not as if he’s going in there with prime isi aarda like these great workhorses and mega stars are like there’s no one really to test his metal with in the G1 anymore in block three so it’s like that’s now maybe he

Needs to go to WWE and that’s a good thing that’s why aw it’s not why aw exists but it’s a great byproduct of existing is that you can jump you can refresh yourself I would be stunned if Ward L gets over to that level just the aa’s gone um he doesn’t have the

Craftsmanship required to do a world title match and I think that’s been laid B for as long as he was promising at this point I it gives me no pleasure to say any of this but like his futzing WWE he doesn’t have one in aw after this yeah the viewing experience is a

Subjective one but I just kept going back to how sad this felt sad a number of different reasons like it was sad watching a crowd Mega hot for their returning Hometown hero go ice cold for a world title match and you have to like you don’t lay all the blame at wo’s feet

It of course goes to the book booking problem as well yeah but I think it’s a bit of both the like the booking of waro right now the booking of the out like the kind of realistic status of Joe as the world champion we talked about the

Whole title scene being a little bit midcard at the moment and like as an audience you’re almost instructed a little bit to cool down a bit if you’ve had something really hot at the start and then the world title match been a cooldown match kind of his a like a red

X against both of them realistically and that’s the position they’ve been put in by the the way everything’s been booked around this um I the the anti- chemistry between the two of these wasn’t going to pick that atmosphere back up so then you know that they both they’re both waiting

Through Tri out there and they’re never going to get this reaction I was thinking so yesterday after we like you know I I wasn’t necessarily pitching for WL a win I just thought well maybe he could and it’s just a total shock wave moment and how do you get there yes the

Example I used was Big Bill and riy St Ricky Stars win the tag belts every bit of that match just felt like a transgression what the frig is happening here they’re having ftr’s life oh my God theyve won the belts like they could have started this match like that even

If Joe was winning they could have created this sense of is this like are we watching an earthquake here let’s say like warlord just like instantly hits him with like a version of the Power Bomb Symphony but just doesn’t want to finish him and Joe’s beaten you’ve got a

Referee I don’t know but like just a different take a different tone from the very beginning the way not you can’t me the same match but the way talk on mjf and you like oh this is done this is a squash because wo’s a monster and that

Was on us maybe for not taking him a seriously as we should have done then even if Joe wins at the end all you’ve done then is put over you know what I should respect Joe more even at the in the Twilight of his career as a fighting

Champion because he’s you know he’s still got stuff to do and he yeah Ward’s been beaten and we have all these same things of this is this is pished he’s done but they didn’t even do that they just settled in to a rank and file midcard match in a mid-card position for

A title that is feeling a little bit midc card and it was just there was no getting out of it there was no escape from it for you as a viewer and the wrestlers themselves um Joel fixed himself like as soon as the bell rang the match was over Joe fixed himself and

Went back to being cool and I think that tell like there’s there’s something that smojo did on this broadcast I’m sure you’re about to recap that was instantly more memorable than a single thing that happened in the match and he just like

Oh was I po I po my Tes off I forgot to bloody mention it did ups and downs it was like so goed and then you’re just like there he is there Samo Joo thank goodness he’s done with this so we can get to a swerve program and if like oh

The coolest version of Joe’s going to fight swerve great like I I could not feel sad for w and then to go back to the Adam Cole thing I also admire trying stuff like that because when it works and when it hits it’s fantastic so I

Would rather you have a Lany of failur I watched WB for long enough a Lany of failures for the one time it hits if he wins the story is All right right now Adam Co should be invoicing for going the trouble of getting a big book M like

Cost me a few crit this mate and you’ve just gone and lost yeah made me look a fool you made us look like idiots again like the kingdom is such a sad deal really sorry bookstore sorry just like we told Powerhouse jobs no refunds no refunds like yeah sad World little stuff

Is pretty sad so yeah Joe wins and then immediately swerve Strickland comes around comes out he’s surrounded by security but he’s got a chain in his hand and he just lays them all out pushes them over drops every single one of them goes after Joe but Joe sneaks

Out of the ring before um before swerve can get his hands on him and sort of walking back up the ramp he’s got the world title he’s smirking and then glances and one of the guys who’s been laid out is just laying there on the ramp and he just kicks him off

There was a bit and you probably have the recall where myself and like an old friend from school would watch WWF together sometimes and I all loved it the Friendship group loved it so on a heat where Michael Cole took this bump it were talking 1998 1999 and the way they

Filmed it was Michael Cole takes his bump someone chins him for some reason and it’s pretty much hard Cal View and he rolls out of the ring on the other side and he just just falls off like a turd I think it’s when Steve Austin bullied him is it like that he just

Rul so little as well ruled off like a turd got shirt T Tor away you’re a little turd just a turd like Bluth love the one when Kevin Owens punches Alex Riley as he’s walking past he just layser digging on him like as he’s leaving I think he’s running away from

Joe in NXT and Alex Riley’s beating down from the match and he’s like oh got to get out I want on you like we used to say like oh that Cole going into Oblivion that’s how we called it cuz he just went nowhere the void in this poor

Security guard what a sack what a t love this so funny hot again by the way so where it comes out all of this it’s hot guys we’re back yeah um we look at maybe a tag team maybe all hope isn’t lost yet I’d rather

Him go to the FED I mean I’d much rather him go to the characters in places when they kind of just feel like there’s nothing more you can do maybe put over mjf and like and that’s a nice bow on all of that as well there’s 52 104 episodes of awtv not

Rampage doesn’t count you going to like name the roster there I was like there’s 50 there’s 104 wrestlers like this idea of the 5year contract in North American episodic TV wrestling doesn’t work like the Dolph zler career doesn’t work yeah this it should be the norm to say right

Get get yourself a different payday elsewhere go and refresh yourself go it’s just a weird way to approach it now I think because we’ve lived through post territory wrestling for like well pretty much my entire life if it’s it’s always him but if it was Cody going back to aw

Having done everything he’s done in WWE that would be proof of concept wouldn’t it no I can be the biggest guy there cooling a little bit become a ginormous guy there and now ad gets a ginormous guy back and we all go again like there’s the

Model he work man so earlier on in the day we see Alex mares trying to get a word with the elite Kazar rard in the young books uh and he asks soardo why you join the elite and Nicholas scolds him for not calling him by his full name

Or his real name on his passport on his passport the rain maker gr look the best gags make you like condra mental image now just seen the fa rain maker a card’s face like the New Japan press shot in the bit where the passport is and

Then under the name all caps the rain maker Kuchar rard doing is Esther the yeah rain maker uh Matthew says they’re the three best athletes in the world a friendship that’s gone on for 14 years and he bets Arda can give 14 million other reasons why they’re such good friends as well

That great man anyway Ardo tells penter pack and Kingston just about to face he’s coming for them and then tell mares to tell Matthew happy birthday No in fact sing it and he does to take us to break such a nasty [ __ ] bully move and I pissed myself

Laughing like Arda did that really nasty horrible stare right at the end of sing it close on my head off yeah he really could because rard is the best yeah I just I feel so sorry for Marv it’s like we’ve got 12 interviews backstage tonight uh Renee you’ll do 11 and Alex

You do the one that you get humiliated in thanks very much mate they M so no way it’s time it’s time for the elites uh versus my God pack penter and Eddie Kingston kingon Ard Stars off well I say starts off Ard goes now all right thanks the

Subversion from the Collision the timing of the coin entrance is even better this yeah yeah they got the timing of the coin and the subversion of him just wanting Kingston when he being beaten up and how do you interpret that is is is there a little bit of respect there or

Do he just want to beat someone when they’re down because he’s that much of a prick love it uh Matthew comes in offers a fist bump to Edie Kingston gets chopped obviously uh Pat gets in there it’s Pat and M M Jackson Pat and M Jackson Pac maty Pac and Matt Jackson Matthew

Jackson sorry yes uh go back and forth hack F Jackson pack it’s a snap Hurrican Runner and a tilted world back breaker Nicholas comes in uh but get and hits Penta with a cutter but then Penta comes back with a corner super kick and a spinning

Fireman’s carry slam for two um pack and pent double team the Young Buck Super Kicks top rope double stomp on Matthew Ard and Kingston have another face off this time they get chops and forearms back and forth and ard’s drop kick I mean oh my God exactly a hot fresh take

But yeah that’s something that gains control as we go into break basically it has compartive yeah amazing oh yeah what did he say hardore yeah Excalibur yeah didn’t even like his name being mentioned on TV did he proper little moment of like in the break Taz respect

The business it doesn’t come up much with Taz but uh when we come back Kingston hits Matthew with an Exploder suplex but as he tries to get the tag out Nicholas and ardi get rid of penum packing the corner and then Ard jumps up on the apron and goes don’t attack

Me um Matthew hits Kingston with larat as a result of this distraction poses with Ard uh then we get the penta hot tag he comes in sling blades and ddts for everybody okado avoids a backstabber so pack flies in with a shotgun drop kick and then he and Penta hits stereo

Dives uh onto the Young Bucks Penta hits a a double stomp off the top pack hits a 450 Splash that gets a two count looked amazing pack hits say that look I probably won’t talk about that in my analysis it looked amazing uh pack hit that awesome snap snap bounceback German

Not talking to you love um Kingston comes in hits Ardo with chops uh but Ard dodged a back fist counted into a DDT pack flies in with an inuri Matthew comes in and takes out pack with a cadora face book Buster Penna hits a Canadian Destroyer Nicholas hits a super

On Penta takes off his belt to whip him but Kingston takes out Nicholas Matthew takes the ref Nicholas kicks him Square in the bollocks and aarda hits the rain maker on Eddie Kingston pins him one two three and there’s a long look the Continental Crow Continental Crown count Continental Championship we not sure

Championship no because he doesn’t want well it’s only for one of the belts yes for potentially hilarious political reasons because he doesn’t want the New Japan strong title well I don’t think he does no but then he gets three he looks cool drapped and gold the belt collector

Well less as more you’ll never get this as a Fed fan but less is in fact more apologize for enjoying Kenny omga 2021 run s I’ll talk you through it one time terms of the match itself oh my God I couldn’t have loved this more Al so when I

Get the feeling with aw it’s been canonized we joked about this about a T-shirt and it was like I love that bro I love that bro this is kind of what I talk about and I make these kind of preposterous cles because I enjoyed so much and people going reach and bro here

Has a take for you in that vein the young books have been doing methodical stuff for a while and this didn’t explode into the party match until deep in the finish and he could argue that finish was better as a result one bit in particular oh my God the young books have gone

Corporate the young books are talking now about ensuring their investment kuch kakar for millions of dollars but that doesn’t cover the post March all the young books by going a bit methodical and a bit deliberate and they’re doing this composite authority figure bit with there’s a Tony con element great there’s Triple

H almost C I love that and there’s like other bits yeah right are they doing a methodical thing not just to make the finishes be even better on the young book match the kind of wrestling in my opinion on this metal level is if they’d

Signed the WWE deal you know what I mean yeah like they’re taking it back a little bit they’re going a bit corporate slow down kid yeah yeah yeah there’s a I think there’s a bit of that there they’re doing it on purpose for a reason

I think that might be the reason so the match is quite slow as a result and steady H probably thinks it’s the best Young Bucks match of all time it’s up there like this is genuinely just it was so good I’m glad you g me a Fed base

Reason cuz I did love it it’s like that’s why thanks and I just thought it was really really measured really really well um so the young books are fantastic the fist bumps just class like total [ __ ] a car’s face I’m in love with them just it’s mint being in love with the

Wrestler and I’m in love with kuchu Ricardo it’s fantastic there’s a bit as well where he’s not just some schlub taking moves with a z and a trios match that just has this energy to it because he’s Kuchar Ricardo he’s really good at portraying himself like a master

Craftsman because he is in fact a master Craftsman even just a little thing like I’m going to hold on I’m going to take the back breaker I don’t want to take a move a Carter like I’m a defensive Mastermind and all the rest of it just these tiny L Le take every single

Opportunity to show you s Gard is the best by the way and I just get it every single time he’s on camera this is a masterpiece of a presentation there are people I follow on X some of them are really contrarian and even they’re like I love

The elite this is the most I’ve ever loved the elite like this is the best version of the elite and it’s hyperbole in recency buyers but they are so undeniably great at this point the young books that their detractors are like in with I mean BS deep with this it’s

Absolutely fantastic um another thing I wanted to point out is they do a deliberate methodical style I don’t know that’s why they’re going for it that’s just my interpretation but you still get that fris on at the end that unbelievable exchange of moves and it doesn’t feel it feels fresh again

Because they are making you come up for it there’s a bit where Penta gives Matthew Jackson the destroyer and the second that that move happens bang Nicholas Jackson just kicks penter in the face that the positioning and the timing I I I screamed sh freaked when I

Saw that kick just ah this is absolutely fantastic talk now otherwise I’ll do it for the rest of the time that’s it’s like honestly I know you wouldn’t think it in considering the job we do it’s great being wrong it’s great being wrong right and in the case of the elite

Everybody’s wrong yes and that’s nice that brings everybody together an extra change nobody gets to be right there were those of us that thought you know what I just want to see him in the FED I think there is just more to offer because Ard earnestly somehow in World

Wrestling Entertainment in 2024 wrong right then there will be everyone was wrong about aarda there was not this huge aarda coming in there wasn’t there even though he’s a CER there just wasn’t that feeling anybody that was like that would say ah it’s got to be aw like this

Like they would have some sort of like I don’t know like Pi thing with WWE and it’s of evils all along yeah he’s New Japan it’s like he’s just closer to aw in style and all that they wouldn’t have predicted it’ be this one no so they

Would have been wrong too yeah they’ like he can have some amazing matches with the ospre comes back that’ll be good as well and were some other stuff in between weeks they were pitching the version that made you think the fed’s better because it’s like ah like I don’t

Want to see his 40 minute New Japan formula squashed for TV against wrestlers that just not as good as him but just won’t like bring the best out of him either so like the version they were pitching hasn’t happened either yeah we’ve got this one that is all

Theirs that is the one that has wrong footed all of us the thing we used to talk about when we’re our most in love with aw was the ah this could could be a good idea and then they show you something even better on the night this

Is this is like the best version of it and you’re getting it every week and I think that’s why to s’s point a bunch of people have never been able to uh sanction sanction yeah stomach which is weird considering like aw’s existence but I love I love the books in Kenny

Omega as much if not more than anybody else I can see why people don’t like them I just I really can I just think like their run has had I I think they’re like to use Cody’s words I guess like undeniable their peaks have been that

You can’t deny you might like one period of the career and one period only but that’ll have been so good that you’ll have to accept they’ve got that in them I I just I some people are thinking they’re doing it now we again I suppose fair enough but they’ve got there in the

End I guess and haven’t they’ found every last fan that didn’t at least appreciate something about them now they can and it’s going to be laid this undeniably great and this as well like this is where like M and sidrick taste probably intersect perfectly because my

Whole deal is a bit of a gimmick with matches but my whole deal is I do just want like the wrestlers first and foremost I want to like the wrestlers before I like the matches because then when I like the wrestlers I’m going to like the matches this is where it’s

Perfected with the elite because when they’re on a one with their character work and when they’re just making you care so much about what they’re doing that you’re going to go watch the digital exive it’s how being the elite worked yes I will wait a week for a

YouTube show to then buy a pay-per-view off the back of that YouTube show it’s how all of this happened like when they’re locked in like that it’s perfect because the matches are always there like there were you know if you went back and watched what’s uh the fr in

Winn the golden Jets versus the Young Bucks I bet it’s not bad but I couldn’t have given a toss about all four of them like and that and that became the problem with the elite ultimately we’re right back where we should be because of course they can give you the matches of

Course aard can give you the matches but it was always going to be about the roll out with the character and to see them up against like pent is a bit of a like a bit of an extra here a little bit but that’s only because like you’ve seen it

All with the Lucha Brothers in the young books you don’t really need to see it with aard and pent Packard being brand new kingst Dynasty could be unbelievable show that being brand new and kingst card be right now yeah as well it’s like there it is it’s

Next week you get maker shock stuff is it they are basically showing you and telling you but mostly showing you he’s a big goddamn deal and he’s going to win gold like that that’s what makes this match that’s what gets me off my high horse about not really liking trios

Action that much it’s just cuz this this gimmick this story the whole deal Yeahs it’s good to go the action was was very hot and I don’t mind a bit of that and yeah there’s a title match between Kingston oard set for next week as well

As and this followed the match uh the I Quit match between Christian C and Adam C great video package to set that up here and then Tony Shan welcomes will off spray to the ring you got a great reaction in Boston he said his match with Brian Danielson at aw Dynasty means

So much to him Danielson is a person he wanted to emulate his career after um and he’s glad danielson’s a fan of his work uh and Danielson saying he’s seen Osprey saying he’s the best in the world in Japan so prove it in America Danielson Once Upon a Time said to will

Osprey was it worth it um after his war with Kenny Omega and dropping him on his head with the tiger Drive 91 standing here today Osprey says yeah bra it was worth it um Yanks love bro don’t they yeah they love BR they love bro he was

Thrilled by it as well yeah uh this match with Danielson means a lot more to him uh there’s a phrase that’s been following him phrase that everyone’s been talking about restore the feeling well Osprey is the feeling brav uh this match will remind people why aw has the

Best wrestling in the world it’s the best wrestlers of the 21st century going at it and only one man can walk out the winner uh the one thing Osprey has learned from Danielson is that despite any respect he might have for his opponent it is all on the line once that

Bell rings and Osprey doesn’t plan on dying his name is Will Osprey and he is on another level I was just absolutely incredible stuff from will ospre here like I he’s got the Nick voice right me H got this weird thing about British wrestling where it’s just not American so yeah

It’s not as good it’s not as good oh you watching Vince mcmah yeah which got this weird thing about it right and Osprey has had terrible genuinely terrible form of promos and I don’t necessarily think right I think the rap on Osprey by idiots is doesn’t sell too many flips

Like he hasn’t been that wrestler this decade and probably years before that anyway right and people also argue well he hasn’t been that kind of cringeworthy promo for just as long bollocks for me I saw him do that di at McGregor and it was pretty goddamn awful and I would

Argue his great promos are few and far between but he had that awesome presser interview with Omega in 2023 all the better for a complete lack of composure just felt like really really raw and real he’s um his challenge to show to UMO of your fing sh at

UMO I have to leave this company it’s I really enjoy that please save it it’s a bit of sweet exit I don’t want it to fail and you’re the one who has to make it not fail so come on do it he’s had some great Promos

In him USV is a different animal yeah he’s nailing it like it what like the best thing about this as well is you’ve had the tasta match and I would argue it was a bit more than an exhibition they try to do a bit more storytelling but

People were there for the fireworks same with they try to do a bit more with a storytelling of it was getting a bit nasty that competitive element was getting a bit Grudge likee towards the end but it existed for the reason why it existed and that is this is an

Exhibition of the greatest the consensus best wrestler on the planet enjoy him he’s here this is so awesome because again he cuts his humble figure thrilled to be there that mascot figure that someone who believes in the brand and what it stands for is necessary it’s off

Spre and then he takes on that menacing tone and he’s got that kind of thuggish quite frankly delivery and maybe you could argue quality to him um and he used it to great effect here that tone gets a bit more menacing the more he starts to talk about what the real

Story of this match is going to be he’s going to several times over tease dumping of all people Brian Danielson on his head imagine Daniel Bryan taking a tiger driver 91 and 2016 you’d just be horrified you’d be horrified was last night in his plaid shirt I’m going to have to say goodbye

And then he’s written out by somebody just tring with the most brutal move there is they’re going to make you feel like that in the match and that they’re going to build a match around that and it’s not going to be built around these unbelievable delayed no sell the delay

The delayed selling sequences you should pick me on one kick my ass these delayed selling unbelievable power agility speed matches that he has this one’s different already it’s taken what the third one of course it was going to be great at some point the idea now is that that match is going

To be built around Danielson with his concussion history taking a tiger driver 91 here it is the third time of asking the emotion the the story the feeling of sheer Terror and that’s what you need Omega I would argue has peaked higher than Osprey as a wrestler he’s so good

At selling the Blind and headache of getting his head dropped getting dropped on his head over and over again you’re going to get that feeling in this match with Osprey and Danielson as he articulated in this I would describe it as a shockingly exceptional promo yeah

Like I just think the Vibes are all right with Will Osprey right now and in aw specifically I keep saying this because I don’t think things are going to change overnight but the more they tell you that they’re the best wrestling company in the world and then show it

With the big matches Straight Out The Gate the more you’ll believe it this Fe in will ospre they feel like they’re addressing a years long complaint and I always use Codi and punk as the example you had it and you lost it because you just never got to it there have been

Hundreds of examples of these matches they just didn’t get to or sting and Cody continue to hang and Derby Allen there are loads right Danielson and Darby Allen people get injured people leave people retire and then you just how how did we miss that they’re not letting it happen with Osprey and that

Energy seems to fuel everything I think it’s going to fuel the matches I think it’s going to fuel the promos I think we had it here like will Osprey has the um like sort of he’s got the confidence without it being without it tripping over and being cocky to say well I’m the

Dream match guy and it’s a hard thing to do in fiction because if you say this is a dream match it almost like pulls the rug out a bit and says yeah can’t talk on seven minutes is it even though a fight could yeah this is this is all

Fake and you want to see the but it’s like no no no like I’m the dream match guy he just doesn’t need to say those words and me and Danielson is going to be the best match you’ve ever seen until next month when me and the next guy is

Going to be and like and he’s actually going to prove it yeah and I I just love that but I hope that stays I hope they stay the course right the way to him beating swerve at Wembley I hope it’s nothing but fraking hell and now this like because that’s the energy that’s

The vibe you want to keep up with a will ospr I don’t love that bro is apparently replaced to Americans years of us being like T up in Brits everyone was William Regal for a generation Dave Taylor whatever now everybody’s now I’m made in Essex yeah now that’s it we’re all Essex

We’re all bro we’re all thugs like that’s it now you get you get one um I’m a thug I I suppose sometimes when we put on our American accent everybody’s a cow Bo yes but um so we’ve got no leg we got no leg stand at all so stop talking home

Run ultimately Lon Wicked Wick Wicked awesome Wicked awesome kid makes it look Wicked easy Diana bratzo is back backstage you said backstage Timeless Tony storm or I may think this is over between the two of them they’re they’re wrong it’s a normous game you want I’ve got no problem finding a partner for

Next week both watch for the shoe because I’m going to shove it up your ass capital m capital c must continue she’s beat AR she the tag partner ends up getting folded into the mar may Tony storm verse for a bit what you’re doing it got to do

It I’m not sounds good but you got to do it got move people on H then it was time for Derby Allen’s farewell match for now versus switch blade Jay White we wish him well and his trip to Everest of course um and S yeah weird guy how to

Talk about this I know I love it but I don’t know how to talk he’s in bits already before the match even starts he’s got take covering everywhere and like big plasters obviously from the Preposterous spot from Revolution uh meaning that Jay White hitting like a

Headlock take take over makes you go oh well that looks like absolutely sucks to take if your backs in that sort of State love that by the way love the psychology of that cuz like we don’t take bumps like every bump must Knack like every

Bump must Knack a bit other than the you know the Callis and all the rest of it but like it all sucks but we don’t know that what we do know is like a back cut to ribbons with plasters on like myy bit his tongue in the office yes and I was

Like well you can’t eat crisps today like that’s on today of all day on on National crisp day it it is National crisp it’s everyday National crisp day 365 of them but yeah like that’s a pain we can relate to so plasters on Cuts twice on Sunday so do the math it’s

Like cing in the 8S I go I go back in time to e Chris so Darby Allen fights back with a shotgun drop kick does a big flip dive and a suicide dive to follow that one up uh but he comes up limping uh and white responds with an underarm suplex through

Through a chair that’s there at ringside and he sets up the steps and basically launches Allen into them to flip over them into the barricade just to take us to a Break um Allan’s fought back during the break though but uh as he’s in the corner his legs get swept out from under

Him he smashes against the turnbuckle white just starts chopping on the back of the neck he goes oh yeah goes for the uh Stinger Splash but misses Darby all en counters the blade running Blade Runners an up and over stunner and a sunset flip for two uh he

Gets a two two coun as well from The Last Supper goes for a coffin Splash but white counters into a German suplex in midair followed by um oh yeah white goes to suplex Darby Allen from the apron back in the back into the ring but Darby Allen floats

Over into a scorpion death drop for two uh oh my God yeah Jay White just gets his foot on the Rope um and Jay White baits Derby Allen in basically he rolls to the apron so he’s in position for a really brutal looking coffing drop but

Just as Darby Allen comes off Jay White moves and he just Clips the apron in the worst possible way on his way down he’s out on the floor You’ think he’s probably going to get counted out for that sort of bump he dies in a nine and

Jayw just immediately grabs him hits the blade run and gets the one two three let’s talk match then post yeah because I’ve got I’m I know we’re running low on time just as much to say about the godamn post match I thought it was a total Triumph to be honest one thing

I’ll say in mild criticism is that the reason this match existed kind of materialized for the first four or five minutes that being they’ve kind of geeked Jay White they’ve lowered him as a concern so this didn’t have the most amount of heat going for it early and

Then it did because it ended up being really quite excellent um Doby’s bumping and it’s not just bumping it selling is just as good which is incredible somehow but the coxic impact from that thing over the steps is just oh just a he’s a wrestler calibrated to make you make

Like the worst and best noises Derby Allen like I thought Jay White looked like the stuff yeah but again it’s the Darby Allen magic yeah the jury was always out on JY sometimes he looked like the best in the world sometimes he looked like an eie soulless emulation of the best in the

World if you’re a J White fan you want to be there for the Darby alen match because it proves your point if you’re a j white guy cuz this is the perfect way to use it you know both directions both of J White this was a fabulous night for

Him the match existed for the purpose of reheating him and my god did it achieve it and it’s really clever as well how they went for that stunner uh Blade Runner stunner Blade Runner prolonged sequence because that was proper in terms of how little it looked choreographed Peak New Japan the

Way to do that sort of sequence that was great like the chops of the back of the neck like even when he was methodical Jay White was just really really interesting and really brutal here and the Finish was unbelievable the way they just did it the count out te’s um I

Thought the wrestling here was incredible but it just lacked that heat early to really push it up to Great Dynamite matched tier but that’s rarified a it’s he his matches will be missed to go back to the ospre point about being able to say all that and

Then deliver a match as good as this immediately afterwards oh yeah he’s telling the truth this really is the place Darby Allen while he’s gone will be missed and I hope when he returns I hope he’s able to get back in the shape in wrestling shape and he’s got like if

If his has to win the belt yeah yeah if his body mean there’s a line we don’t you can’t climb Mount Everest and not going win the title this is an incidental point I now what if physically he’s just not the same person what if he doesn’t have that like

Ability to bounce around like a pinball because it’s changed like climate ever changes people like I’m assuming it does like there’s there’s it’s such an unknown what Darby Allen comes back but the one right now will be I some people have done it like 20 times wow how she

Was doing it zero times and just wrestling instead but you know wants to do what he wants to do got to admire him for that they tell you let’s go to the postmatch because the guns come out to celebrate they tell yeah um and Jay White throws down his Ro six-man title

And offers a handshake what would you rather do climb Everest or give up crisps give up crisps wow we on you got no sense of adventure of you zero zero at all I don’t see why anybody bothers you don’t even like films about adventuring because you resent the people going on

Adventures The Goonies don’t relate stay in I’ve never seen it stay they’re go like they chase some treasure or something and there’s all sorts of bother along the way and it’s just like get get back inside T’s there like The Goonies just two hours them watching telly and eating crisps this is class

Told you before about like how content I’d be sometimes when I was playing GTA to just have my lunch with the character sitting watching telly in GTA be like I’m not going to put actual tell on I’ll just have the g go back to the flat I’ve

Bought and I’ll eat my Chris while he eats his I want to get him a VR headset now I don’t VR I virtual Christmas is great I like BR boring reality like anyway yeah post match guns are there like the FED JY uh throws down the

Tit VR where you can eat veg but you think they’re crisps that’s going to solve a lot of my problems then I’ll engage with v yeah I saw that person do that and she she’s like sniffs a bar of uh chocolate and then just eats a bit of broccoli like the warrior crushing

Cookies in the car God damn it or’s got biscuits on his dick again told you not how interrupt me when I’m having my private time hey offers dobyan and a handshake offers dobyan and a handshake as he reaches for it turns it into a finger gun uh that

Then canny did the laser to be fair to he laser gun that’s the sign for the guns of course to attack and they beat him up and then they wrap a chair around his ankle they’re going to pilman eyesee it with a baseball bat but the acclaimed

And daddy ass come down to make the save like what are you doing guys um and Jo’s like come on get involved and they go no it no come on so they help Darby Allen up they help him out of the ring and up the ramp uh and Billy Gun he’s always

Had a bit of tension with Jay while has a bit of a St down takes the bat away from him like you don’t need that and uh daddy ask goes to leave Jay White just clobbers him with a chair shot from behind uh Austin and colon take out

Bones and Caster with belt shots uh Jay White hits daddy ass with a blade runner as well H and then the guns throw Derby Allen back in the ring put the chair on the ankle Jay White pilman eyeses it with a baseball bat good luck on ever oh my God inspired

Idea the reality is that they might not be able to capitalize on this heat if they do it would be unconscionable for the reasons what an unbelievable idea to get heat on a heel this was I’m sorry pil miniz a guy’s ankle before he climbs Mount Everest an unconscionable act because we

Sort of discussed this yesterday didn’t we and it was like well we don’t need to do an injury angle to write him off because everyone knows where he’s going I’ll try and stop him yeah no this is this is the kind of like pro wrestling heat that a lot of people are quite

Scared of nowadays to the point where I didn’t even want to sort of like fantasy book it or need to see it until I saw it it’s a very good chance to con capitalize on this yeah um but you know here’s the thing if they can and Dobby

Allen comes down from Mount Everest and comes back into a all in one entrance that’ be good yeah [ __ ] man Darby versus jy2 could be Monumental yeah it could be absolutely Monumental this is the angle I was talking about the trifect there of you never it’s like

You’re 38 well I’m 38 I’m 38 watch this for years and years and years every time you see a heel do something it usually just gets in the way of something like a finish and the hits on the booker you don’t really feel this that heel don’t really get that anymore Jay W

I was like you assho it’s like he looked like a a wrestler reborn last night in every conceivable way if Everest goes well what what a return match this could be and you know what the return match would be of course King of the mountain

Shut up man one more thing on this I thought the way that they sequenced this was as good as the idea yeah and as good as the idea given to the person who kind of most needed it in Jay white r so they’re threatened to do it first and

Then they acclaimed like you cannot do that he’s about to climb Mount Everest he kind of needs his angle to do that so they frame this as the shocking kind of dat that transgression and then they do the transgression as well Perfection five star angle I think it really helped that

Like all of this also involved the splitting up with the B bankes again and Dove tailing as well it was de and dovetailing people wanted to see the back of that and got that on top of this angle so yeah just a bunch of wins here I think

Um would I have Fram the acclaimed his baby face after Max Caster’s X activity yesterday no we are we are tossa what a tossa what a weird little guy yeah do the chair shot on Daddy ass he’ll get the most sympathy yeah all bones um speaking of people you want to

See the back of uh Chris Jericho um was team with hook next against the what culture Gates of best in the business jerck hook didn’t I how I think a lion hook good I should have thought of it like the gates of agony’s colors yeah well I but

It’s lion H it was rubbish just so crap uh you are asking if I enjoyed the Polish turd series of double suplexes from Jericho and hook starts us off Gates of Agony take control afterwards drap Jericho over the top rope launch him to the outside um he gets sent crashing into the announce

Table hook gets leveled on the floors to take us to a break when we come back uh Jericho connects on a Lion Salt gets a hot tag to hook he runs wild load of T-Bone suplexes Leona breaks up a German attempt and he gets low bridge to the

Outside as a result Jericho flies in off the top hook hits a German suplex on to Leona um Bishop Korn takes out hook with a Fan’s carry gutbuster but hook comes back with Red Rum uh Leona gets dispatched by Jericho who also puts the lion ton corn who’s in the red run and

Uh I think Jericho breaks off to drop kick Leona so he can’t get involved did not work a one bit the way the camera was trying to shoot around cuz like it’s not doing anything anymore do the Jericho bit he’s let go cuz for the h this is this is actively appalling in

Terms of the execution it’s a Jericho match in 2024 it’s never going to be good but the layout was so weird like wa who look like a [ __ ] I don’t know like my experience of this is maybe a bit flawed because realistically what happens in picture and picture doesn’t

Count and I’m pedantic but I’ll go with that but I can never remember are they in picture and picture other just being really boring but who I’m sure got knocked off the apron like three times right you study your 90s old Japan tapes for what you for what happens when like

K just kicks you off the apron come back with a bit of fun come back with a bit of fire come back as if you’re pissed off at the temerity of you and then the refle go no you can’t do that and then they can do some

Double teams like who just looked like a [ __ ] the entire time and so it was weird cuz hook looked like a [ __ ] and you had three green wrestlers who are Nimble that can get about and then one experienced mind who wrestles at 75 speed the pacing and the D pointed

Quality was just H not good and because Bishop con is a bit green he’s kind of out of position to take that Jericho missile drop kick glancing below is how I would describe it then Jericho does the apron drop kick and just gets his legs all caught up in the ropes it’s

Like go away yeah get away well if you want to see uh more of Jericho and hook good news um a packet after this we’ll Circle back to to cool Cary in a sec but I want to keep these bits together because um Jericho says uh Li Hook’s a pretty good name is

It um says Hook’s got future world champion potential written on him uh but he still needs to know more he needs to know what it’s like standing in a ring from Hook so they’re going to face off next week it’s like if he’s a baby face

And this is earnest you don’t care if it’s all insincere and he’s going to turn heel turn heel if he’s going to continue whatever you don’t care like you’re just seeing hook like fall further and further down at this swamp I said this in the news just go away until at least Wembley

Yeah come back big said a million times yeah he’s not gonna I don’t want to waste my breath on the dude um but in between all this you have kylo Riley chatting to Renee packette um about the landscape of aw he said the past few years were some of the darkest

Days of his life being unable to pick up his own daughter uh it’s the most competitive roster in the sports he’s been looking at a guy on the roster who could bring out the best in him and that is Brian Keith and they’re going to have

A match on collision which we will of course preview tomorrow s uh and then you get Kyle rodri strong comes in and says look if you want to do things on your own I respect that um and strong Tav and Bennett welcome him back and

Then kyy goes yeah I am on my own they’re at least now it’s fine but like the picking up the kid thing gives you the the realization of just how serious Kyler Riley’s injuries were so that’s good when Roder strong back Breakers in brutally yes that’s what you should be

Talking about yeah it’s it’s you know still it’s fine mid card Fair yeah uh we also got a video package setting up the main event of the evening uh Willow Nightingale versus rho of course and we see Rio warming up backstage when she’s approached by none other than Mercedes

Monet who wishes her good luck going to do this in a weird order because I want to end by talking about the match and the postmatch and where we go from here with with money so before we get to the match we have to get to the game and

Before we get to the name of the game we have to get to the aim of the game over you Michael I’m sick of this hopefully it’s going to change Jesus Christ the aim of the game is to identify to the hour minute and second the first time

You hear the first note of the first entrance theme for the first woman to come out for the only women’s match on Dynamite because for now it seems to settle in that same range and if it doesn’t it will the same week and it doesn’t really make a difference there’s

One match it’s an obligation they seem to do it because they feel a need like they have to it’s never once F like a passion project and we play this game to try and underscore italicize put in bold the idea of how apathetic and blood you

Have to now can’t get away with anything these days that is the mentality and it has been knowing at this company since day one we on day what 2,000 I don’t know El it might all change but for now that’s the aim of the game and just you know to

Try and jingle eyesee the thought process within aew this is kind of what they mean not me what they mean is H don’t worry guys uh when the main event uh when the women come out to play the main event ain’t too far away that’s the aim of the

Game the name of the game is well this is ladies night and I’m thinking what a n is that you listening for the Winds of Change yeah blowing through I don’t know what I’m doing Main Event yeah I don’t know what I’m doing I don’t

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So normally you know tradition is some of the greatest managers of all time will just have their initials on there shirt so you’ll have you’ll have MH you’ll have MSL have aw uh I have pods thanks very much on the old track suitone calls me anyway uh thanks as

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Seconds Michael humet 1 hour and 1 second virtually got it on the nose Yeah Bang on pretty much 48 minutes off or so yeah it was 1 hour 49 minutes and 55 seconds according to Adam Blair which takes Michael H on to three correct guesses for the year tied with me

Michael cedri still to score but he is to March I he’s I think it’s going to be an incredible comeback like Bournemouth Luton oh a game or the game just dies or yeah hopefully that’ be the preferable never my head Main Event time then yet is Willow Nightingale versus rho um Nightingale

Obviously showcases her power early shoulder tackle Low cross body but Rio Bridges out of it uh and hits that running Corner running Corner knees um Nightingale Dodges it and then she goes for it the third time hit a shotgun Drop Kick the sent Rio flying across the

Rings love this this is ruled uh when we come back Rio’s got a bit of momentum tiger faint kick top rope cross body gets two she tries for Northern Lights uh n Andale counters into a doctor bomb but rho turns that into a snap Hurrican Rana for two she finally hits the

Northern Lance does rho um almost drops n Gale on her head for a great near fall goes up top again misses the double Stomp and N kale hits that awesome pounce of hers out the ring God I love the dynamic between these two yeah this was always going to be awesome yeah uh

She Willow tries for a cannonball off the apron but she misses reho it’s a double stomp instead uh they go to the apron reho connects with the dragon suplex every time on the edge of the Ring didn’t expected on the uh another top row double stomp from rho

Gets a very close two she misses the charging knee strike Nightingale Rises to her feet huge larer rho tries for a jack knife pin but Nightingale rolls rolls through Dr bomb one my God what a finish that finish was inspired great I thought this match was class lean impactful concise didn’t strain for

Epic a really good TV match like a distinctly TV match H God I just thought it was class the dynamic as you knew was going to be good you’ve got this slippery evasive faster reho versus Willow who’s all power pretty much in comparison a moving Target that you

Know if and it’s if she can hit her she’s she’s not good yes pounds was great and because rho’s amazing at this after the pounds you think oh hang on well she’s done for in your head if you’ve got it the dragon suplex which always works amazingly well because you

Never expected to be able to do it by how much she gets battered and how small she is the thought leaves your head she’s so good in making the thought of the comeback leave your head and then they do it on the apron after the struggle and just class

The finish in the way they just like they’re a gear together achieving it with a deadlift is just unbelievable able I thought I really thought this match was great not the kind of match that gets called great it was like kind of a Sprint um but for a TV Main Event

Everything I want in a TV match this thought it was fantastic that was Winson thrilled never once remotely bored the dynamic was great the story was great I had so much time for this yeah baby steps obviously we want more women’s matches etc etc they got the main event

Obvious could just be a real effect but yeah but I think if you if i’ have asked you a few weeks ago if Mercedes isn’t wrestling when she debuts what match they going to put on you just said it’ll be some you know by the Numbers squash nothing to draw any attention from

Anyone and they do this great yeah they were wrestling like they had the time cut here I don’t know if that’s a main event reality or it was just my interpretation of it but the pace of it there was no just no dead air fat not a

Single bit of fat at all so economical and yet their chemistry lent itself to that anyway so it didn’t feel like I’m saying all this and then yet I didn’t feel like for any I was pulled out of it as a result you know um I think an

Example with that would be like the all-in main event where it’s insane and you know the first all in yeah yeah sorry there’s like like five minutes to go or something they’re going to just have to do this but you don’t mind watching it because how are they doing

It that becomes the question instead this wasn’t that like I never once didn’t I just didn’t betray the fiction of what this match would look like and yet nonetheless they were just going like Full Tilt and it was what’s your favorite Willow rho match I have to say

The best of Willow and REO yeah yeah pretty much um Willow Nightingale continues to be like she’s not underrated everybody loves Willow Nightingale but she is perhaps undervalued maybe by Tony khah a little bit I think of course she is well yeah she she’s got disappear for months but

She was getting really over she gets disappeared I think I’m starting to think that like as part of a tag team she’s being minimized and she’s just not that kind of wrestler um I I don’t want to downplay Rio’s contribution to this by the way but certainly uh we know that

That’s already in reo’s locker Willer Nale does this pretty much all the time when the spotlights shining brightest and it never really materializes and the fact that like we’ve got Mercedes money feeding right into it boards well doesn’t it I’m just happy for Willow to

Get a big win as well because there was there was that period obviously where she was always just up up one Contender up no she and it’s really it’s hard the number one Contender about 40 times it’s hard to stigmatize a performer as like engaging and as captivating as will

Night Gale and they was sort of on the verge of doing it and I think this was a total reversal of that main event position in it really helped can’t under like understate that the fact this went on last the fact this went on last for a

Crowd that knew they were about to get more of Mercedes money like contributed it really really helps her impact has been felt on night one definitely yeah so post organically over wrestlers in the promotion post Match Night s checks on reho commentary references the fact she wants the TBS title and Julia Hart

And as they say that the lights go out Julia Hart’s on the stage but sky blue runs in and chop blocks night and Gale from behind and they put the beating on her and as you said fans of chant SE they know what’s coming Mercedes Monet

Comes out in some new ring gear oh my God for you uh sky blue charges out and just gets forearmed in the face uh and then there’s a face off between Mone and Julia Hart high kick Money Maker lays out the TBS Champion Nightingale Rises to her feet and they raise each other’s

Arms and Nale allows Mercedes her moments as the show goes off the air there was a little bit of tension coming from Mercedes to Willow which I liked because it wasn’t this forced feeling thing but it was a look of yeah get out like she remembers and she there’s that

What we talked about they can tell a story off the back of that uh this might I don’t know if this is a hot take or an unpopular one or whatever been money maker I don’t like it I think it’s a poor move I think the she’s done well to

Keep it even remotely over after the first time she used it and it went horribly wrong even when it goes my first thing that pops into my head when she sets up for it yeah it does and even when it goes right it’s extremely contrived in the way that like people

Rip the piss out of the carrying cross setup is better f2.5 f2.5 I just don’t like it I think it like sucks the air out the room for a split second and the impact like she’s got so many more things she can do to like if she had hit

Meora that would have like and that’s just off top of my head she’s got loads in her Arsenal the choice it doesn’t look good in an angle that move but what I like about the move I’m not massively high on it is that the setup lends

Itself to a reversal yeah in match sayir you could say it’s flawed in that respect but my favorite move ever is the One-Winged Angel TR because it’s like the idea is the reason why it takes so long to set up a you can do reversals from it

B is it’s worth like the juice is worth a squeeze because he just wins every single time with it so I do like a like the rain maker great for that as well like counters are just going to be in Forever in wrestling now it’s just the

Style and the Rhythm so I think just’s cleverly done one with a setup like that but in and of itself is an execution not great but then the rake is not a good move for that either no yeah this is like I think you’re right that’s a good point it does

Fit in match it does fit in matches she doesn’t always need to keep going to that backstab a bank statement setup if you want to even tease a finish you’ve got that as well but I that like took the wind out of it a little bit but I love

The little like almost like a microaggression where she shot Willer KN and giler look before getting out the ring I I I I was really I was this is big this is big time yeah it’s the way to get the tag and then the singles match yeah don’t

Know if you need Pepperman for that it’s very Tony khah but we’ll see how it all plays out yeah is that what you think where they go next tag match with dying Julia hi she’s was it the graphic was for Rampage she’s going to speak again I

Don’t know if that’s a live crowd one or ramp was it Dynamite next week I thought it was Dynamite next week oh is it Dy okay rage yeah well nobody’s on rampage anyway anyway but yeah what what title want she she gonna go TBS initially it’s

Happened in TBS she’s going to go for the TBS because we got asked I was gonna say because we got asked this in the news today about like is it going to be tag match followed by a willow thing with with her and with with Mercedes and

Willow is it going to be a tag match in the TBS or is it a tag match in the world title I said World title is the way you should go because that’s what we’ve been saying from moment one that you thought Mercedes was coming in feuding alongside someone who’s fighting

The TV for the TVs yeah the CEO doesn’t go for it’s the CEO yeah that’s what I said I I don’t know I’m just going off what I was shown she’s just basically been involved in Anger with the TBS just feels like the move doesn’t it or

Are they going to do the sort of osprey adjacent thing of tag match maybe even tag match at like Dynasty or tag match followed by uh not exhibition but you know what I mean I think the fact that’s just the TBS title a material uh it’s going straight to Willow and then onto

Bigger business it’s like an extension of this show yeah if you uh were going to have uh Mercedes Dynasty not in the tag match and not for a title feels like it would have to be Serena D if you’re going to if I’m carrying on with this Osprey

Danielson ad Jason you’re not fighting for a title it’s not really a big Feud but it guarantees an awesome match I can’t see any further than Serena D because we already had ref sake and off Danielson like I said yeah no I’ll take it all on the money train now that’s

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