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00:00I will not go gently into that good night.
00:07In his own words, he said that when he loses the World Championship,
00:11Bryan Danielson will end his full-time in-ring career.
00:14Mistakes are extremely high.
00:17The future of this business hangs in the balance.
00:21Everything I'm gonna do is because I have to.
00:24Because no one else will.
00:26No one else can.
00:27After WrestleDream,
00:30everything changes.
00:45Everybody involved knows what this means.
00:50The fourth reign of Jon Moxley as AEW World Champion begins.
00:56Oh, and now Marina Shafir, Claudio Castagnoli,
00:58and pack as if Bryan Danielson has not been through enough.
01:03Well, what's the symbolism of putting the AEW belt in a bag?
01:06I don't get it.
01:07No, no.
01:09Somebody needs to come out and stop this.
01:11Wheeler Yuta and Darby Allen, thankfully.
01:14Oh, what the hell just happened?
01:20They're using Gaffer's taper duct tape.
01:24Now this, I suppose, the true test of loyalty.
01:28No, no, no, no!
01:32Get rid of these people!
01:34You want to talk about the landscape changing in AEW and the tension, but the best way that I can put it to you guys is nobody feels safe.
01:43Jon Moxley is determined to reform AEW into what he thinks it should be.
01:50It is my responsibility to make sure that they never even get the chance to lay eyes on the AEW World Championship.
01:58I would ride through death itself to take that World Championship!
02:04Jon Moxley, go down and take everything from you.
02:08For seven months, that championship has been hidden from the world.
02:12You wouldn't be AEW champion unless Yoss ensured that.
02:16The continuing war, Darby Allen must be destroyed.
02:21Jon Moxley, I win match!
02:25No one has more reverence for Darby Allen than me.
02:33Nobody loves Darby Allen like I do.
02:37This kid has so much potential.
02:39He doesn't even know how good he can be, what he can do in the world of wrestling and beyond.
02:45Jon is not wrong a lot.
02:47You're wrong about this one.
02:49I didn't come here to play with fire, to play with tasers, to get threatened by flamethrowers.
02:54I think this is all a skateboard on my days off.
02:58And I'll go jump off a bridge and it's all a big episode of Jackass.
03:01And we get to be pro wrestlers.
03:02Aren't we also having so much fun?
03:05How do you think that happens?
03:06And if that just happens magically?
03:08A clown like you will never understand.
03:13There's too much riding on my shoulders.
03:15I'm building an army of killers.
03:17I know an addict when I see one.
03:24And that's all Darby Allen is.
03:26He's not addicted to drugs or alcohol like a sensible person.
03:30He's addicted to stupidity, adrenaline, living on the edge.
03:34I don't know what you're trying to prove or who you're trying to prove it to.
03:38But I'm done, man.
03:40You'll never quit.
03:41You're the one you should.
03:45You want to play games?
03:47We're going to make you quit at your own game.
03:50You could have been fighting the good fight with the Death Riders.
03:54The thing is, when you don't want to become a killer, you get killed by the killers.
03:58You haven't got a clue what it means.
04:01You're already dead.
04:02This life you get to live, who pays for that?
04:06Who facilitates that?
04:08Who provides that life for you?
04:11People who do their jobs provide that life for you.
04:17And now I'm going to take that life away from you.
04:20I'm going to make an example out of you.
04:22For the first time in your life, you are going to say, I quit!
04:27John Moxley.
04:32Oh my God!
04:33What the hell?
04:34Come down and take everything from me.
04:37Psycho Darby!
04:38What the hell?
04:39That was nuts!
04:40Darby Allen wants the monsters!
04:48Growing up, I wanted to quit all the time.
04:52I didn't trust a lot of people.
04:53I was looking for a hero.
04:54Somebody that made me feel anything was possible.
04:58And then I saw a guy named John Moxley.
05:01God, his words were like magic.
05:03We have a mission.
05:04To knock the pillows of this industry on their ass!
05:07This is what you call a paradigm shift.
05:11I wanted to be just like him.
05:13He really made me feel I could do anything with my life.
05:17The moment you turn your back on Danielson, that arrow was broken.
05:20Then I realized the words were just that and words, and I didn't mean .
05:26That was a pretty clear message, I thought.
05:29Get gone and stay gone!
05:33Top of the world.
05:35I'm Everest.
05:36Now John Moxley.
05:37I'm coming down and taking everything from you.
05:40And I quit on John Moxley.
05:42And I never quit on myself.
05:44I became the hero I was looking for growing up.
05:50You're saying he's trying to end people's careers, and you're not doing about it!
05:55Life is about risk.
05:56And I've been risking everything since day one, and I'm not going to change now.
06:01I said I'm going to take everything!
06:03Come on!
06:03I'm not afraid of death.
06:07I wouldn't have stepped foot on Mount Everest if I was.
06:10I'm going to hang the AEW flag that I took to the summit of Mount Everest in my house.
06:15So I can look at it every day and remind myself exactly what freedom this place gives me.
06:21But before I do that, I'm going to take that flag, and I'm going to wrap it around your throat, John.
06:28You never know what this dude's going to do.
06:29He's crazy!
06:30And when you say the words, I quit.
06:33Garby, hell with a Molotov cocktail!
06:35The Death Riders are going to realize your words don't mean a single thing.
06:42I'm going to put a nail on this whole thing.
06:44And this whole operation you're running, it's going to come burning to the ground.
06:54I didn't just walk into a battle, but I walked into a war.
06:58Some of the people who fought in that war have not come out of it the same.
07:02For nine months, Jon Moxley and the Death Riders kept this championship hidden inside of a briefcase.
07:08It is my duty, it's my responsibility as champion to remind people what this championship stands for.
07:14At WrestleDream, I've made a challenge to Samoa Joe to defend this championship.
07:19What's standing here are the ops.
07:22We will hunt you down the street.
07:24We will hunt you down in this ring.
07:25Without you guys, I would have never been able to win this world championship.
07:30The AEW World Trials champions having the back of Heckman Adam Payne.
07:35The ops are running interference, keeping the Death Riders at bay.
07:38Death Riders, for months and months you have slid in every opportunity that you could with these guys.
07:44Shibata suffering more head trauma.
07:48Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs got some pretty substantial reinforcements.
07:51I am more than happy to step in.
07:55Hangman Adam Page, you got the tag.
07:57Samoa Joe, some frustration, but I think Joe was reaching for that tag there.
08:01Paradise ship, Samoa Joe.
08:03Never saw it coming.
08:04Bug shot, Larian.
08:06We won the damn match, and that should have been enough for Samoa Joe, but now he's pissed off.
08:10Takes a cheap shot at me.
08:11I think he just doesn't know what to do with his anger.
08:13I have been there.
08:14I have lived it.
08:15I know what that feeling is.
08:16I did not ask for you to have this opportunity because you kicked and screamed.
08:21Joe, I asked for you to have this chance because I owe you.
08:25Samoa Joe is angry for all of his suffering at the hands of the Death Riders.
08:29He wants something to show for it, and he wants the world championship.
08:32I've been so preoccupied with the Death Riders, I've forgotten who I am.
08:36And maybe I need to remind you of who that is, too.
08:40You know, people want to act and point out that this escalated so quickly.
08:44I don't know.
08:45It seemed like a man whose entire existence has been built on the work of other man holding
08:51him up.
08:52This was something that was overdue.
08:54I am Samoa Joe, and on any day that you have ever existed, you will never be greater than
09:00me.
09:01You know, Hangman, it wasn't too long ago that I was choking you unconscious in the middle
09:05of that ring.
09:05Hangman Page chaps out!
09:07And now you claim to be a different man.
09:09You are a greater Adam Page than you were before.
09:12You come out here with all this fake gratitude, talking about you owe us?
09:16No!
09:18Samoa Joe has been a world champion, I don't know how many times over.
09:21More than anything, Samoa Joe is a bad .
09:24When I look at you, I don't see the pinnacle of professional wrestling.
09:28I see a pretender.
09:29Two-cross Samoa Joe, I know what it will take from me to hold on to this championship.
09:34I will take everything that I have.
09:36Trust me, Hangman.
09:37I am very much threatening you.
09:40It's not what I have to prove.
09:41It's what the world deserves.
09:43And you will know your place, and you will have given the world a rightful world champion.
09:49If you believe you can do it, show me a wrestle dream.
09:53It just happened so fast.
09:59It was just so sudden.
10:01Get one shot and...
10:03And it was just all...
10:05And new!
10:07So I never really imagined myself as someone that would ever need a physical representation
10:18of my status.
10:21Do you sort of leave a mark on wrestling or on AEW?
10:24Chris Statlander turns the corner of the seatbelt.
10:26Seatbelt!
10:26On, two, three!
10:28Oh!
10:29Oh-ho-ho!
10:31Chris Statlander with her first world championship!
10:39Being the face of the company, being the world champion, and being able to showcase myself
10:44and my skills, there is a point where it all pays off at the end.
10:47Chris Statlander ends the reign of timeless Toni Storm.
10:53I'm excited to see what a world championship reign will look like for Chris Statlander.
11:02And five, four, three...
11:07Toni, six years of AEW.
11:11Six years of crossing paths.
11:13All this time has passed, and you and I have never wrestled one-on-one.
11:19I beat Toni Storm in a four-way, and there's a lot of things that can, uh, sort of play into my win.
11:29Well, this is the third time we've seen Wheeler U to say something to Statlander before the match.
11:34So many times, recently, I guess I've been a little untruthful.
11:38Will N'Engale tried to warn Harley about associating with Chris Statlander.
11:50Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
11:51What the hell?
11:53Just when we thought the worst of Chris Statlander!
11:56Maybe I got a little lucky playing some mind games with the Death Riders,
12:00playing some mind games with everybody.
12:02How embarrassing for the Death Riders.
12:07Whether they gave me advice led me to success,
12:10I get to prove to the Death Riders and her.
12:13I am the champion for a reason, and I'm gonna beat her one-on-one.
12:26The last time I lost this title was at Wembley Stadium,
12:30and I was so embarrassed.
12:32This time, I felt absolutely nothing.
12:39Without the title, who the bloody hell am I?
12:45When I was champion, I was doing so well.
12:48I was on such a high, and I couldn't be stopped.
12:53Chris Statlander!
12:54And now there's a part of me that wonders
12:57if deep down, I wanted to lose the title.
13:01But now...
13:02I'm not finished with you!
13:07I need to know!
13:09One-on-one!
13:12No flukes.
13:14Nobody in between us.
13:16I've been waiting for this match for a very long time.
13:21Just me and Chris Statland.
13:24You will find out why I am the galaxy's greatest.
13:30If I don't win back this title,
13:33where does it leave me?
13:36And as much as I like you,
13:38I don't know.
13:40And I don't want.
13:42I will happily
13:44knock your ass back into black and white.
13:47But I'll wait for you
13:51My God!
13:53What a woman!
13:54This I Quit match between Moxley and Darby Allin at WrestleDream.
14:05This is...
14:06I am frankly scared.
14:09Scared at what these two men are going to do to each other in St. Louis.
14:13Now, we're playing the world's craziest game of chicken.
14:19There's a thing worse than death.
14:22And that's saying I quit.
14:24I'm just going to say the words I quit.
14:26How's that going to go?
14:28How's that going to go?
14:29Darby, standing tall!
14:31I'm going to take everything!
14:33I'm going to put you in the ground.
14:39Where the hell is this maniac going?
14:42Darby Allin crashing onto Jon Moxley!
14:49He's reckless, he don't care what happens to his body.
14:53You have absolutely zero chance doing what you're going to need to do to win.
15:00Darby, he is out for revenge for what the Death Riders did to AEW.
15:05Never say die, relentless Darby Allin.
15:12I don't know how.
15:14I don't know how I'm going to do it.
15:16But at WrestleDream, for the first time in your life, you are going to say the words I quit.
15:25Just a little.
15:28Just a little.
15:30Fallen!
15:33When are you going to realize I'm never going to quit?
15:37Talk about having an equalizer.
15:39WrestleDream!
15:40I quit match!
15:42A damn flamethrower!
15:44You're never done me!
15:46You're never done me!
15:48You're never done me!
15:51Darby Allin who vowed to take everything from Jon Moxley!
15:55You're never done!
15:56You're never done!
15:57Help!
16:00Hangman and Adam Page.
16:02The man and the rest are not too far apart.
16:05Both tremendously skilled, passionate, driven, but ultimately, pretenders.
16:13Samojo has been incensed with the Death Riders for a very long time.
16:19In six years, I have never been as confused as I was when you lost your composure with me.
16:25Now he's pissed off because he didn't get his chance to beat their ass in the way that he wanted.
16:30And he decides because I hand him his championship belt and he lets it fall to the floor.
16:34He takes that as a disrespect.
16:36He yells at me.
16:37He screams at me.
16:38I'm not the one!
16:39Once he calmed down, just a minuscule amount, he said,
16:41You never beat me!
16:43Never beat me!
16:44I knew what this was about.
16:46The World Championship!
16:47A championship that you once held!
16:48And a championship that means more than anything in this entire sport!
16:53Samojo is angry.
16:55I'm not the one!
16:56Embarrassed.
16:57And now looking for a place to direct his anger.
17:00Everything this man has said is absolutely true.
17:06Adam Page likes to come out here and regale you with what you want to hear.
17:11But since we're talking about uncomfortable truths, allow me to share a few of my own.
17:17I am him!
17:18He likes to tell you that you are in the presence of a fighting champion.
17:23I forgot that the prime target is the man that calls himself a champion.
17:28Somebody who gives out opportunity to those who are deserving,
17:33ambushing young athletes with the opportunity of a lifetime.
17:37Is that truly giving your opponent the best opportunity to challenge for your championship?
17:42Hey, young man! Here's an opportunity of a lifetime!
17:46Now you've got ten minutes to get ready for it.
17:48Are you a fighting champion or are you just an opportunistic one?
17:52At WrestleDream, you will have a chance to win this championship.
17:56You're standing across the ring from me.
17:58I will not let you take this from me.
18:01I'll make it all too apparent what that answer is.
18:04The truth is, you wouldn't be AEW champion unless the timely intervention of the ops ensured that.
18:11Joe said that even on my best day, I have never been better than him.
18:15The proof of who I am does not stand in your opinion of me!
18:19WrestleDream will be my best day.
18:21It stands when the bell rings!
18:24You don't understand what it feels like to be under a real threat.
18:28I am going to beat, break, and torture you!
18:30I hope you look me in the eye!
18:32I am promising you what I'm going to do.
18:35And know that I...
18:36I'm gonna choke your unconscious...
18:38And the champion...
18:39And take your belt...
18:40Of the world!
18:42The tipping point has been reached.
18:53For those who have walked this hard road...
19:00A gateway appears...
19:03To vindication.
19:04The seat belt!
19:05One, two, three!
19:06And...
19:07No!
19:08I'm not finished with you!
19:10I need to know!
19:11One on one!
19:13I've been waiting for this match for a very long time.
19:19As hard as you fought for this, I will fight even harder.
19:32Who wins for me?
19:33Who wins for you?
19:34High time that I take that TNT title and put it around my waist!
19:40And a gateway to an ultimate end.
19:46Weaponizing resilience.
19:48I quit match!
19:50Daring the world to kill you.
19:52Just trying to prove that you are indestructible in mind, body, and spirit.
19:59I know how that game goes.
20:01And it never ends well.
20:03I quit match.
20:05That is the game.
20:07Trust me, Darby.
20:09I'm better at it than you.
20:14A gateway to opportunity.
20:17Jurassic Express versus the Young Bucks!
20:22We're gonna roll into WrestleDream and win the AEW Tag Team titles.
20:29It's about this world championship, the championship you once held.
20:33When I look at you, I don't see the pinnacle of professional wrestling.
20:38I see a pretender.
20:40This is their moment.
20:44To march through this gateway.
20:50And live this WrestleDream.
20:56This WrestleDream.
21:26But I take a look at you.
21:28For more information, I'll leave this game at the end.
21:30There's a plan on all the players.
21:31Just wait.
21:32When you're going home.
21:34You can find the way to do it.
21:35You can find the new StarCast.
21:36You can find the new StarCast.
21:41To march through this web.
21:42I'm sure you have a goal of treating people.
21:43You can find us on the other side of the tablet.
21:45You can find the new StarCast.
21:47You can find us on the list.
21:48Thank you, everyone.
21:49You can find our new StarCast.
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