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00:00So you have no idea how much I enjoyed the start of WrestleDream last night.
00:03Admittedly, I did come back from a match with Rhino at Ultimate Pro Wrestling.
00:07I'm in so much pain today.
00:09But hey-ho, what are you going to do?
00:11But essentially, at the end of the pre-show, it was FTR taking on Jet Speed.
00:14But because they couldn't end the fight before the show began,
00:17they just kept on fighting.
00:19And I guess the pyro guy was like,
00:21listen, man, I've only been employed to do one job.
00:23I've got to hit the trigger button on the fireworks.
00:25So as they were scrapping, all these pyrotechnics did go off.
00:28I tell you, if I had to make a goofy Wrestling for Life video tomorrow,
00:32this would be thrown right in.
00:33It actually makes more sense as well,
00:34because not every single pay-per-view or show or match should be structured to time.
00:38It is meant to be a real contest when you are watching.
00:41And also, it was just fun.
00:43I'm sorry, all I want to do in my life is have fun.
00:45That's why they call me Cyndal or Purr.
00:47I don't even care, bro, I'm giving it up.
00:49Also, hello, my friends.
00:50World of Ups and Downs, the only WrestleDream show you need.
00:52At any point during this WrestleDream review,
00:54I kind of freeze in motion.
00:56It's because, yes, I did take on the Man Beast.
00:59You will be able to see this on UPW's YouTube channel soon.
01:02And he gored me not once, but twice.
01:05Now, listen, I laugh through the pain.
01:07But also, there is a small nerd inside of me that is over the moon.
01:11Follow your dreams, my guys and girls.
01:13Now, let's up those downs for the WrestleDream.
01:15FTR versus JetSpeed was really good, too, because, of course, you had the old school in FTR
01:21and you had the new school in JetSpeed.
01:24They were just zipping around the place.
01:27And even if you had decided not to watch the pre-show and just tuned into this,
01:30surely it just sent your adrenaline through the roof.
01:32And given there is so much wrestling on TV, you could have sat there and gone,
01:36that'll do, pig.
01:37That'll do.
01:38Because secretly you're watching Babe and you're like, man, now you've got to change
01:40the channel.
01:41Of course, Cash and Dax are absolute assholes here.
01:43Because as soon as Dax had suplex Mike Bailey in, Stokely Hathaway looked around and he grabbed
01:48his foot.
01:49You know the deal in wrestling.
01:50When you do this as an outside manager, somehow you have the power of a thousand suns.
01:55Mike wasn't able to kick out one, two, three.
01:58And Cash and Dax were the happiest people ever.
02:00They'd stole one.
02:01It also feels like this could be a proper feud because now we have to do the rematch.
02:04I just enjoyed it.
02:05It got me going, which is a terrible thing to say.
02:08Giving it up.
02:09The joy continued as well because Tony Schiavone then went ahead and chat to Lou Fez's wife,
02:13Charlie.
02:13And you can never get mad about that stuff.
02:15We must salute the past.
02:17When it was Tekla versus Jamie Hayter.
02:21And I suppose in the back they had gone, listen, a lot of people on this show are going to try
02:24and kill each other.
02:25Should we just try and kill each other too?
02:27It was exactly what they did.
02:28I mean, even when they threw each other into Barry Barricade, it was just like,
02:31I'm going to chuck you as hard as possible.
02:34And the best part, or the most crazy part, I suppose, is when Tekla did this cross body
02:38to the outside.
02:39If you have eight seconds today, and you must have eight seconds, like what are you doing
02:43with your life?
02:43Just go and listen to this thud.
02:46It sounded horrible.
02:47Also put a one on the dive counter.
02:49That was more like a bomb.
02:50We also made sure that Spider Lady had something here as well because she did hit a spear and
02:54Jamie Hayter was able to get her foot on the ropes to break the pin.
02:58This is something we need to keep our eye on in all promotions.
03:01I don't know why I've got to be in my bonnet about this.
03:03Maybe it has just ramped up recently, or maybe I'm turning into an old geek.
03:07But finishers all over the shop in every single promotion are no longer finishers.
03:11They're more like moves done to pop the crown.
03:13Now listen, every now and then it does work.
03:15I just don't think we want to go too far in the wrong direction.
03:18Of course, Tekla is smart.
03:19So she went for it again.
03:20But by that point, Jamie had taken her med pack.
03:22She hit one big lariat.
03:23When she hit the Hayterade, and she got the one, two, three.
03:26Listen, this was the right thing to do.
03:28I mean, one, we kind of did protect Tekla here.
03:30Because again, she had hit all of her maneuvers and kind of got away with one.
03:33But also, when Tekla did debut, she targeted Jamie Hayter.
03:37And as per the narrative, took her out for a few weeks.
03:40Sometimes your baby face must get revenge.
03:43We never know after the Triangle of Madness right afterwards as well.
03:46So we can do some tags or we can do some trios matches.
03:49I think my favorite part was it was totally different from the beginning.
03:52And the next match was totally different from the first and second two.
03:55So it was like that dessert cut people talking about.
03:58Do you want cheesecake or do you want some beef?
04:00Don't have beef for dessert.
04:01That's weird.
04:02But it's getting it up.
04:03Because yes, it was the Young Bucks versus Jurassic Express with half a million dollars on the line.
04:07And I don't know who hacked into the Young Bucks bank account.
04:10But that was part of their entrance.
04:12We saw their outgoings.
04:13We saw their incomings.
04:14They've got no money left.
04:16Apparently, they can't even afford an entrance.
04:18They came all miserable.
04:19Like, man, our life sucks.
04:20So once again, talk about just understanding Goofy wrestling for life.
04:23And I do not know whose idea it was to turn Jack Perry back babyface.
04:27But in terms of in-ring flying around, my gosh, he's so damn good at it.
04:33And he is so good at getting sympathy.
04:35And this Luchasaurus, somebody's got to give him a round of applause.
04:38I think sometimes we forget his name is Luchasaurus.
04:41And he was flipping dipping around too.
04:43And as for these Bucks, well, goodbye to the comments.
04:45It was nice to see you.
04:46They really are one of the best tag teams ever.
04:48Now, I shall be a bit of a hypocrite because the kick out of the Doomsday device was absolutely brilliant.
04:53But it's maybe because Matt Jackson had done the proper old school flip.
04:57And that sent me so crazy.
04:58I didn't think it was going to be the end.
05:00But also, it kind of got me because I was like, well, maybe we did that because the Jurassic Express are going to win.
05:05They are going to win.
05:06That's going to be a massive deal.
05:07So here we're giving stuff to the Bucks when they can go, oh, no, we should have kicked out of that.
05:11But we did.
05:12That was gibberish.
05:12I made that up completely.
05:14But you can't take my point.
05:15The point is, it got me.
05:18We also had 1.2 when they were walking around with people on their shoulders.
05:22So Jack Perry and Nick Jackson could get into it.
05:25Let's just be honest.
05:26That's what you would do in school.
05:28And if I watched this pay-per-view when I was 12 years old and I was headed to my school yard on Monday,
05:33you bet your ass I'd copy it and get in trouble.
05:35The Bucks also hit an assisted package pile driver for another 1.2 and these fans were going crazy.
05:40And even when they got the BTE trigger, do you know what Luchasaurus did?
05:44That motherfucking dinosaur broke it out.
05:46It then really came down to the fact that it was either going to be the TK driver or the countdown to extinction.
05:51And when the Young Bucks went for that damn thing, the way the Jurassic Express broke it up was totally mad.
05:56When they were like, we do have this other move, they hit it and they pinned the Young Bucks kind of clean right in the model for the 1.2.3.
06:04So now surely they have to be up for the tag team tutters at some point.
06:08That's going to be up to Tony Khan.
06:09Obviously, he books it.
06:10But this was so damn tremendous.
06:12And even in losing, I think everybody got something out of it because there was aftermath.
06:16Of course, the Don Callis family came out to beat people up because they love doing that.
06:20Maybe they spam it a little bit too much.
06:22When Kenny Omega came to make the save, he looked at the Young Bucks.
06:25The Young Bucks looked to him.
06:27I think Ken was trying to get them to help, but they were never going to do that.
06:30But once everybody had cleaned house, it was Kenny Omega.
06:33It was Luchasaurus.
06:33It was Jack Perry.
06:34And they celebrated.
06:36And of course, this was Kenny giving the assist to the Jurassic Express after the Jurassic Express had helped him too.
06:42So I suppose we're putting the I tried to kill you storyline to one side, but we've already talked about this.
06:47At least we have addressed it.
06:49At the moment, at least, we've tied it up in a nice, neat little package.
06:52And also, when it comes to Matt and Nick, there was this idea, this feeling, if you will, that maybe they have just started a babyface turn.
07:01I mean, they have been heels for a while.
07:03Also, they desperately need cash.
07:05Jungle Boy even tried to give them some of the money.
07:08I loved all of this.
07:09And the match itself was great up.
07:12When the Hurt Syndicate and the demand continue to prove that their feud has been really good, aside from the match order kind of being a bit crazy.
07:18And yes, this is what I need to apologize to Shelton Benjamin, because I had a slip of the tongue on Dynamite.
07:24And I said Bobby Lashley had got pinned.
07:26It was like that time when I called Christian Edge and everybody got so mad at me.
07:31It just happens, man.
07:32My brain goes 100 miles per hour.
07:34But I do want to say sorry to Shelton, because, of course, I think there's a huge reason why Bobby Lashley hasn't been pinned.
07:40And it's going to pay off down the line.
07:42You know the deal.
07:42If you watched my show before, it shouldn't come as a surprise.
07:45I am a massive moron.
07:46But Shelton, I am sorry.
07:48Although, who cares what I think, because everybody in this just went absolutely nuts.
07:53And we also learned the winners were going to become the number one contenders for the trio's titles.
07:57That's great.
07:58We need more of those belts.
08:00Three Ricochet and friends also jumped the Hurt Syndicate to start.
08:03And honestly, his spirit gun that Ricochet hit was totally nuts.
08:06The Gates Vagody weren't having any of this either.
08:09So they started throwing people through tables.
08:11I was like, this match has only been going for two minutes.
08:13What the flub is happening?
08:14Ricochet also did a shooting star press off Toma Leone's back.
08:17He is just one talented dude.
08:19My bald king.
08:21When essentially, they just got into a massive scrap.
08:23Of course, MVP was out there too.
08:25He made sure to do his ball in elbow.
08:27I don't know why I like it.
08:29But I like it every single time.
08:31I think it's one of those wrestling things that's so damn stupid.
08:34It just makes you feel warm and fuzzy in your tum-tum.
08:35Bobby, lastly, he made sure to slap some man meat too before we got the Tower of Doom.
08:39When Shelton Benjamin grabbed Ricochet and gave him a German suplex over the top rope into the pile.
08:46This Shelton Benjamin, man.
08:47Sounds like I'm just blowing smoke now, but it is true.
08:50Thank goodness he is getting this run in AEW.
08:53And it just goes to show that at least, what, 60, maybe 70% of the time he was in WWE.
08:57They had no clue what to do with him.
08:59All you do is say, hey, Shelton, go out there and do crazy stuff.
09:03He does it every single time and he's great.
09:05I mean, it really does go for everybody in this match too, although Paul Leona got taken out with a spear.
09:09When we got another, I'm going to save my leader from a bullet spot.
09:14Because it looked like the Hurt Syndicate were going to finally finish off Ricochet.
09:17But Bishop Khan was like, no.
09:19He probably shouldn't have done that.
09:20He got knee in the face and he got speared too.
09:23One, two, three.
09:24The Hurt Syndicate win.
09:25At this point, I was a little bit like, well, that's weird.
09:27The Hurt Syndicate versus Samoa Joe and the opportunities for the trio's titles.
09:31But I was getting ahead of myself.
09:33I would imagine this feud has come to an end, but I think it's been really good.
09:37And as long as we do have follow-up stories for Ricochet and the Fences of Pain,
09:41well, I think they are going to benefit from it.
09:43Again, sometimes you can lose, especially when you're the bad guys.
09:47That's the point of being a heel.
09:49You see people on the internet going like, oh, no, they've been buried.
09:53Just give it a second, man.
09:54If they literally get put in the ground, then you can say it.
09:58But I would imagine they will go for strength to strength.
10:00Give it up.
10:01I am going to get to my first down next, though.
10:05And actually, this is just a personal thing to me.
10:07It certainly wasn't a good thing or a bad thing in terms of watching the show.
10:10But it was the TNT title on the line between Carl Fletcher and Mark Briscoe.
10:14And I just thought Mark Briscoe should win.
10:16Now, of course, so many of you will go, no, Simon.
10:18Carl Fletcher only lost a few weeks ago, which is true.
10:21But after beating MJF, I just thought Mark should have his big moment.
10:25And he didn't get it.
10:25So I became a nerd.
10:27As I do have the finger of power, I'm giving it a down and you can't stop me.
10:31In fact, watch this.
10:32A red arrow.
10:33It's the wrong way around.
10:33I've got a red arrow pointing down.
10:35We can't use the up one because the nice fan that gave this to me.
10:39But they put it in green, which makes sense.
10:40So now this is the red sheet of doom.
10:44You wrestlers better be scared.
10:45Don Callis was on commentary for this as well.
10:48And he actually said, Carl is an Adonis.
10:50And you can't spell Adonis without Don.
10:53I was like, well, those words have just come out.
10:55There is no going back.
10:56Of course, these guys absolutely kicked each other's ass as well.
10:59And Mark Briscoe did that weird chair dive thing.
11:01So put a one on the counter.
11:03And I will say this, especially from my vantage point,
11:05you know how much I love Jeopardy.
11:07I really didn't know who was going to win this.
11:09And again, maybe that was just me desperately trying to manifest Mark getting the victory.
11:13But it did heighten the stakes.
11:15And that's good like Dracula.
11:16We were also getting powerbombs into Flipper's sympathy still steps.
11:18And even when they murked each other with a double close eye,
11:21I was like, oh man, that looked horrifically hard.
11:23When Briscoe went totally bonkers with Froggy Bows,
11:26I mean, he definitely hit one to the outside.
11:28And he hit a third one on the inside too.
11:31When Carl Fletcher got out of that.
11:34Well, we already talked about it, but these fans were so into it,
11:37sometimes you can't criticize noise.
11:39Just ask Bubba Ray.
11:41I shouldn't have said it.
11:42They also had this ridiculous superplex earlier that I should have mentioned.
11:45And yes, Mark, soon after that, went and hit a J-Driller into the flipping ring apron.
11:50And honestly, Carl got his finger on the rope at the one-two.
11:55Kind of feel like we over-did that a little bit on this show too.
11:57But by this point, it made me go, oh my gosh, and I was taken on a roller coaster.
12:01Now we made sure that Briscoe also kicked out of the sheer drop, Brain Buster.
12:06So once again, I think we need to be careful with these finishers.
12:10And all that really did is piss Carl Fletcher off,
12:12because he kind of wiggled and jiggled the ref.
12:14He booted Mark Briscoe right in the balls.
12:17And eventually they were climbing on top of Timmy, the turnbuckle.
12:19And honestly, the Avalanche Brain Buster he gave Mark.
12:23And the way Briscoe sold it, I was like, well, he's got to be dead.
12:26One, two, three, maybe he is.
12:28And he wasn't. He walked away, but I was a bit scared.
12:31You can't really criticize it outside of your own personal opinions.
12:34And it was just such a tremendous match.
12:36And also, once again, the crowd was so into this.
12:39The noise was like a fever pitch.
12:41And ultimately, that is the entire point of wrestling.
12:44I'm giving it an up.
12:45They are very, very good wrestlers.
12:48As usual, there's no messing around on AW pay-per-view.
12:50So we went right into Chris Statler versus Tony Storm for the Women's Championship,
12:54which also was a pickle.
12:55Like, we all love Chris Statlander.
12:57But if Tony Storm had won her title back,
12:59I don't think anybody would have cared,
13:00because she's like the top star in the company.
13:03Although, really, this was themed around death.
13:06Tied into the finish, too.
13:08What a morbid thought.
13:09There was a lot of strangling in this, too,
13:10for the reason we just did cover,
13:12when they got into some back-and-forth wrestling,
13:14because they are both babyfaces.
13:16And I think that was essentially the idea here.
13:18We have made Chris Statlander the champion.
13:20How high can we get her on the totem pole?
13:22Well, we're going to give her all the tools and see what happens.
13:24As soon as Tony had hit the sweet-cheek music, too,
13:26all of a sudden Chris was hitting 450s.
13:28And then we were getting Storm Zeros.
13:30And I would say that Chris kicked out of that,
13:32but she kind of did that thing when she used her hands to sort of pop out of it,
13:36and she smashed Tony right in the face.
13:39I thought that was quite clever.
13:40Then they were doing German suplexes,
13:42and they were nose-selling them.
13:43So if you go really quiet,
13:45you can hear people getting mad on the internet,
13:47most definitely with GIFs.
13:50Statlander eventually got the satellite fever again
13:52when she transitioned into a choke with her legs.
13:55Tony Storm was actually shouting,
13:57Kelme, Kelme, just let me die.
14:00And I think this is when Chris realized,
14:01wait a minute, I'm a good person.
14:03I'm meant to be the hero.
14:04So she released her neck.
14:06She hit her with her third, I think it was,
14:07satellite fever,
14:08and she beat Tony Storm for the Uno Dos Tres.
14:11I tell you, this did feel like a big deal,
14:14especially because poor Tone,
14:16she was now the saddest person in the world.
14:18We did make sure that she passed Chris Statlander the belt, though.
14:21This was not like Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior from WrestleMania.
14:24It was so damn obvious, it was like to be,
14:26we are passing you the torch, Chris.
14:28And actually, there was also a tease later that Tony Storm
14:31shall be heading on a new pathway,
14:33and we had something for Chris too.
14:35So I thought in terms of the women's division,
14:36we did all the good here.
14:38Chris Statlander is an OG,
14:40and now let's push her to the moon,
14:41which makes sense,
14:42because don't forget her OG character.
14:44I think that's where she came from to begin with.
14:46So we're just being nice people.
14:48Up.
14:50Mercedes-Benz also made sure to come right after this too,
14:53and she was dancing with the idiots from the frat house,
14:56which made me laugh out loud.
14:57So fair play to those guys.
14:59And she did kind of shoo away Chris Statlander,
15:02and yes, that was going to tie in.
15:04She didn't do this.
15:05This was like I'm trying to waft away a smell.
15:07Now I am going to be an asshole here,
15:08and you're allowed to get mad at me,
15:09because I don't actually think this is a down,
15:11but also there's a part of me right here
15:12that thinks it is a down.
15:14Because her mystery opponent was indeed Mina Shirakawa,
15:17who also is the Ring of Honor TV champion.
15:19I just kind of think if you are going to have a surprise,
15:22it should either be, one,
15:23somebody who is truly shocking,
15:25like, oh my gosh, where did they come from?
15:27Or two, it should be somebody brand new.
15:29As it turned out, we had been told
15:31it did have to be a current champion.
15:33I missed that because I'm an idiot.
15:35But I actually think given that it was
15:36Ring of Honor TV title versus TBS title,
15:39you actually would have got more out of this
15:41by promoting it.
15:43I don't know.
15:43Maybe that's just on me.
15:45I'm still that same old G.
15:46Maybe I'm overthinking it,
15:48but I just think I would have been more excited
15:49knowing we were going to get this match,
15:51also, because people would have been so mad.
15:54Once again, I am going to give it a down.
15:56Does it matter?
15:57Nope, not really,
15:57but I've said it.
15:58It's my show.
16:00It really was very good, though.
16:01But yes, this is where Mercedes hit that Monet maker
16:04and Shirokawa got to the ropes.
16:06So one, there was another finish that we got out of.
16:09And two, we were over-relying on rope spots here.
16:11Now, once again, the fans absolutely loved it.
16:14So I'm not going to come in and poop on their parade.
16:17But let's all, no matter who you are,
16:18WWE, AEW, TNA, New Japan,
16:21let's not go too crazy with this.
16:23And maybe we've actually got to that tipping point
16:25when finishers need to become finishers again.
16:28I know what an old asshole I've become.
16:29I really did like the finish, though,
16:30because Mercedes does what she always does
16:32when she doesn't know how to win.
16:34She cheats.
16:35So after her and Mina had gone out a little bit,
16:37she used the most devastating move.
16:39In all of sports, then,
16:40it's a prize roll-up,
16:42and that mother Hubbard put her feet on the ropes
16:44to not only get the three,
16:46to not only celebrate like she had won this
16:48as clean as possible,
16:49but now she's added another belt to her collection,
16:52the Ring of Honor Women's TV title.
16:54And yes, we can do the same joke.
16:56Here we go, really quiet.
16:58You can hear somebody so damn mad
17:00because they need to leave the computer and go outside.
17:03Now, on top of that, and far more excitingly,
17:04is that Chris Statlander and Mercedes,
17:06when they got into it after this,
17:08and they are going to do that match at four gear,
17:10that is a massive round of applause
17:12because you want to talk about jeopardy
17:13and you want to talk about stakes.
17:15If Chris Statlander loses,
17:17there is going to be an earthquake.
17:19But if she is the one to beat Mercedes,
17:21does she get all her belts?
17:23Like, how does that work?
17:23I do not know.
17:25But it is essentially taking the two top women in the division
17:27and throwing them together.
17:29And we should do that,
17:30especially because there's a story here.
17:32Because if Mercedes does win,
17:34oh my gosh, there's no going back.
17:36I'm actually excited about this.
17:38What a flipping nerd up.
17:41When our tag team titles are on the line,
17:43it was Brodido, Bandido, Bambalimbo
17:45taking on to Kestra and Okada.
17:47Just going to keep this one nice and simple.
17:49I thought this was so damn brilliant
17:51that the AEW tag team titles
17:53have been thrown up there in the air,
17:55and the whole tag team division benefited because of it.
17:58I thought Okada was tremendous during this too,
17:59because not only did he stop Brody King
18:01from finally doing the Macarena dance,
18:03but later on he was doing it as well.
18:05And when Dekesda stopped him
18:07from essentially flipping people off,
18:09he was so damn mad.
18:10I don't care what anybody says,
18:12this version of Okada is my favorite one.
18:14And now yes, you're allowed to get mad at me in the comments,
18:17but he makes me laugh out loud,
18:18and damn it, I live to laugh.
18:19Dekesda is just getting ridiculous
18:21in terms of in-ring wrestling too,
18:22and Brody King is such a good big man,
18:24it's almost illegal.
18:26And this bandido essentially did his entire hot tag
18:29acting like he's only got one arm
18:31to tie him to the shoulder injury.
18:33So man, he deserves a bunch of flowers too.
18:35The Cannibal Blue Thunder shooting star press sequence
18:37as well is absolutely redonkulous,
18:39although once again it stands to reason
18:41that the Blue Thunder bomb is
18:42the least devastating move in all sports entertainment,
18:45because did it work
18:46even when it was a part of something greater?
18:48Of course it does, and it never does.
18:50Apart from that three-week period,
18:52thanks to Sami Zayn.
18:52Brody also did this triple suplex,
18:54and if you are planning to watch it,
18:55that makes no sense,
18:56but believe you me, it ruled.
18:58And eventually Okada was going to go
18:59for the Wraithmaker on Bandido.
19:01The bandit ducked,
19:03so Okada took out Dekesda.
19:05He didn't even care.
19:06He didn't even try to hide it.
19:07He was all like,
19:08ha ha ha, great,
19:09because I hate this guy.
19:11Once again, that made me chuckle.
19:13What a great heel.
19:14Brody then made sure that he used hype
19:15to fix Bandido's broken arm,
19:17which was the most RPG thing ever.
19:19When King did this massive dive,
19:21put a one on the flippin' dive counter,
19:23when yet Bandido hit a one-armed 21 plex,
19:26and he pinned Akada,
19:27which is not only massive
19:28because they remain the tag team champions,
19:30but I could be wrong statistically,
19:32but I think only Carl Fletcher
19:34and Bryan Danielson
19:35have pinned Akada
19:36since he arrived in AEW.
19:38So this Bandido man,
19:39he is getting the mega, mega, mega push.
19:41Of course, after this as well,
19:42Brody King did the dance,
19:44and everybody went crazy,
19:44as did I,
19:45because goofy wrestling for life.
19:47I don't know.
19:48Once again,
19:48I guess it was Tony Khan's decision
19:49to make them the tag team champions,
19:52but good grief
19:53if we built a great foundation to jump off.
19:55I'm giving it an up.
19:56If you wanted to tell me
19:57this was the match of the night,
19:58I would not be mad at it.
20:00This is when everything with Tony Storm
20:01and Mina Shirakara did come to light,
20:03and I think it's really good booking,
20:05because Renee Fakett found Tony backstage,
20:07and she's just dead, right?
20:08The emotions have escaped her body.
20:10When Mina walked in,
20:11and she's so sad too
20:12because she lost her championship,
20:14when they decided,
20:15well, we may have lost everything,
20:16but we have each other,
20:18and what's starting on Dynamite,
20:19it is the tournament
20:20or some kind of bracket
20:21to crown the first ever
20:22women's tag team champions
20:23so that they can be a pairing.
20:26So we're actually fair play.
20:27We put it together.
20:29So we're going to join
20:29versus Hangman on our page
20:30for the AEW world title.
20:31It's next.
20:32And for anybody that went,
20:33I can't believe
20:34the world title didn't go last.
20:37Is this just not a promotion
20:38learning from the mistakes of the past?
20:40I think it is.
20:42Nobody is going to be able
20:43to top whatever crazy things
20:45Mox and Darby were going to do.
20:47So sometimes just look at the card
20:48and have some fun with it.
20:49It's not like we're not going to have
20:5042,786 shows
20:52before the end of the year.
20:54You're allowed to do something different.
20:56Also, this was badass.
20:57I don't think Samoa Joe
20:58had woken up this morning
20:59and gone,
20:59oh, I'm going to be Samoa Joe
21:00from 2004 Ring of Honor
21:02because these two,
21:03like a lot of people on this card,
21:05just smacked lumps out of each other.
21:08And the whole story was essentially
21:09is Hangman is a great babyface champion,
21:11but he can't knock Samoa Joe down
21:13and then he'd end up
21:14in the coquina clutch.
21:15At one point, too,
21:16Samoa noted Hangman,
21:17which is always great.
21:19But Page was like,
21:19I've been watching your stuff
21:21and he all of a sudden
21:21came back from nowhere
21:22and he booted Samoa Joe
21:24into Barry Barricade.
21:26I enjoyed that spot muchly.
21:27Samoa Joe also kicked out
21:28of the Dead Eye 2,
21:29which came after he went
21:30for the muscle buster
21:31and the finish here
21:32was also so damn good
21:34because Hangman Page
21:35hit him with a buckshot lariat,
21:36but Samoa Joe wouldn't go down.
21:38So he gave him another one.
21:39He was all wibbly wobbly,
21:40but he wouldn't go down,
21:41meaning it took three.
21:42Finally, he did fall to his ass
21:44and Hangman got the one,
21:45two, three.
21:46But this is one of those situations
21:48where you can lose
21:49and everybody's still like,
21:50oh my gosh,
21:51that's Samoa Joe.
21:52He's as tough as nails.
21:54And then, well,
21:55I don't know who came up
21:56with this either,
21:57but I thought it was
21:58super duper brilliant.
21:59So it came Powerhouse Hobbs
22:00and Shibata
22:01because of course
22:01they are part of
22:02Samoa Joe's opportunities
22:03and they were all celebrating
22:04going, oh my gosh,
22:05we're baby faces.
22:06It's Samoa Joe
22:07just took off Hangman's head
22:10with a lariat.
22:11And even though I watched
22:11this by myself
22:12at four in the morning
22:13whenever it was,
22:14I looked around
22:14and I said out loud,
22:16well, I did not see that coming.
22:17They totally whooped his ass
22:18as well on Samoa Joe
22:19the whole time
22:20and saying,
22:20oh, you don't understand
22:21Hangman on a page.
22:22I'm coming for your children
22:23or whatever the flub
22:24was coming out of his mouth.
22:25But honestly,
22:27heel Samoa Joe,
22:28who is also super duper pissed off,
22:30not only gives Hangman
22:31and a page a feud
22:32probably to see him
22:32throughout the end of the year,
22:34but it did weird things to me, man.
22:36I shouldn't say that.
22:37But I've started to realise,
22:38although I've known this
22:39for a long time,
22:40that Samoa Joe,
22:41especially in terms of modern times,
22:42is one of the best performers ever.
22:45He just has his head
22:46screwed on straight
22:47and he always understands the story.
22:49But also it helps Shibata,
22:50but it massively helps
22:51Powerhouse Hobbs.
22:53Maybe now he can spin out
22:54of his trio,
22:55but still be a part of it
22:56and go and win a title.
22:57Because you don't want a man
22:58like that coming after you
22:59when he's got bad intentions.
23:01He's flipping huge
23:02and he'll slap your meat.
23:04Once all of this
23:04is getting an absolutely tremendous up.
23:06I thought it was great storytelling
23:07and great booking
23:08and it makes me want to see Dynamite.
23:11You have to.
23:12Let Samoa Joe
23:13cut a big old promo.
23:14I'm going to be doing the dance of Joy.
23:16Let's gig it up.
23:18When we got to
23:19Jon Moxie versus Darby Allin,
23:21I quit match.
23:22I think the only thing
23:23we can do here
23:24is I will just run you
23:26through a list of things that happened.
23:27So, of course,
23:27Marina Shafir was out there
23:28being a nuisance,
23:29although she was going to get kidnapped later,
23:31but we'll get to it.
23:32But that probably has to be
23:33a one on the crime counter,
23:35which brings up
23:35another interesting point.
23:37This did happen
23:38as part of a match,
23:39meaning both guys knew
23:40what they were going to be in for.
23:42So, actually,
23:42even though the fans were chanting
23:44this is murder,
23:45I think this is the only crime
23:46we can talk about.
23:47Give me a minute
23:48and we'll get there.
23:49But, yes, we had a chain
23:50and people were punching each other
23:51in the face
23:51and we did have blood.
23:53When Moxley took Darby
23:54and kind of tied him up
23:55in the ropes
23:56and gave him a guillotine,
23:57to the point Darby's ear
23:58was essentially all busted open,
24:00that's not even the right word,
24:01when we got bamboo skewers
24:03and we stuck them
24:04under Darby's nails.
24:06It's literally in my face.
24:08It's like,
24:09what is happening?
24:09And it's the usual thing
24:10I tell you about AEW.
24:11Did this go too far
24:13for my personal tastes?
24:14Yes.
24:15But at the same time,
24:15do I massively respect AEW
24:17because they told me
24:18you were about to get
24:18a flubbed up match
24:19and they do deliver?
24:21Yes.
24:21It's a wonderful thing
24:22called nuance
24:23that the internet
24:23has totally forgotten about.
24:24Two things can be true
24:25at the same time.
24:26I really did enjoy
24:27the fact that the AEW flag
24:28that had been on Mount Everest
24:29tied in so much too,
24:31like Darby laid it out
24:32in the ring to begin with.
24:33And as soon as he started
24:34to choke Jon Moxley with it,
24:36that absolute coward
24:37freaked out.
24:38And I don't think
24:39that Moxley's character work
24:40is being given enough credit.
24:41He walks around
24:42the death row
24:43and he's being like,
24:43oh man, I'm so tough,
24:44I'm going to sacrifice anything.
24:46But as soon as you put him
24:47in any kind of danger,
24:48this man freaks out.
24:50It's bloody brilliant.
24:52Marina also saved Jon Moxley
24:53from a coffin drop
24:54when out came
24:55Wheeler Yuta
24:56and Danny Garcia.
24:58So you know what
24:58Darby Allin did?
24:59He sprayed lighter fluid
25:01into all of their eyes,
25:02Jon Moxley and his goons,
25:04and we were acting
25:05like he was going
25:05to set them on fire.
25:06Now thankfully,
25:07Claudio stopped this
25:08and threw the towel
25:09so they could clean this off.
25:11I do appreciate the fact
25:12that AEW teased this
25:13given the story,
25:14but the more,
25:15I don't know,
25:15mature side of me
25:16was like,
25:17thank goodness,
25:18I don't think
25:18I could have handled this.
25:19This is where we got
25:20a taser introduced.
25:21If you're an old school fan,
25:22you'd be freaking out
25:23thinking of WCW,
25:24but it did make me laugh
25:25mostly because it just
25:27makes a funny noise.
25:28When yet,
25:29Claudio Castagnoli
25:30put Darby Allin
25:31in the press slam position
25:32and he threw him
25:34from the ring
25:34all the way
25:35into and the announce table.
25:37That's what you have
25:38to watch today.
25:39That is an incredible spot
25:40and how Darby Allin
25:41is still walking,
25:42I don't know.
25:43And this Claudio man,
25:45he's basically a superhero.
25:46We also got a paradise shift
25:47through two tables
25:48because why do it through one?
25:50When we had a fish tank,
25:51I've been doing this job
25:52a long time.
25:53I have never said
25:55the bad guy got a fish tank,
25:57but then this got disgusting.
25:58You can imagine what happened.
26:00Moxie grabbed Darby Allin's head
26:01and he was drowning it.
26:03You know what?
26:03Put a one on the crown counter.
26:04Not even I can get away with this.
26:06He was literally
26:07trying to kill him.
26:08Also, what a stupid plan,
26:10Jonathan.
26:10If you're drowning someone
26:11and he was saying,
26:12I quit,
26:13all you're going to hear is
26:14so you wouldn't have won
26:16the match anyway.
26:17This is when we got
26:17the highlight of the night
26:18and I don't even care
26:19because I was just
26:19having a conniption
26:20because the lights went out
26:22and yes, commentators,
26:23they didn't sound like,
26:24it's an electrical fault.
26:25They were like,
26:26oh, something spooky is going on.
26:27When they came back
26:28on flipping,
26:29old man Sting was in there.
26:31I almost cried.
26:32I don't know what it is
26:33with Steve Borden.
26:34He gets me super duper emotional.
26:36He did have the bat,
26:37but the best thing he did,
26:39which ties in
26:39to the original
26:40crime counter one,
26:41he stole
26:42Marina Chavik.
26:44Just picked her up
26:45and walked off.
26:45He's like,
26:46you've been terrible.
26:46It also meant that Darby
26:47now had the bat
26:48from his fake dad
26:49and he absolutely
26:50whooped the crap
26:50out of the Death Riders
26:51when he got the AW flag
26:53and he started choking
26:54Jon Moxley
26:55when he put him
26:56in the Scorpion Death Lock.
26:57By this point,
26:58that aquarium
26:59had broken everywhere.
27:00So as Jon Moxley
27:01wiggled around in glass,
27:03he also tapped out.
27:05I do not understand
27:06the criticism to this.
27:06You cannot like it.
27:08I understand it
27:08not being to your
27:09personal tastes,
27:10but it's the oldest story.
27:11It's the most tried
27:12and true story
27:12in the world.
27:13Your mentor
27:15taught the mentee
27:16the special move
27:17which is the Scorpion Death Lock
27:18and then that person
27:19became a man
27:20and he used it
27:21to defeat the bad guy.
27:22That is Star Wars
27:23and Lord of the Rings.
27:24That is basically
27:24every single video game
27:25you've ever played
27:26and it's way more poetic
27:28than,
27:28oh, I'm just going to
27:28choke you with a flag.
27:30I thought it was brilliant.
27:31I thought it was great
27:32and you could send me
27:33to a million
27:34alternative realities
27:35and I'll always tell you
27:36that is the finish to book.
27:37Also, it felt amazing.
27:39Darby Allin just beat
27:40Jon Moxley
27:40and he seemed genuinely
27:42emotional about this.
27:43That was a damn good ending.
27:44Also, disgusting.
27:45Darby even found a camera
27:46at one point
27:47and it was all like,
27:47oh my gosh,
27:48thank you so much.
27:49I'm going to give it an up.
27:51Also, Sting gets a golden up
27:53because he has some weird
27:54magic in his fingers
27:55that's never going to go away.
27:57But it also meant
27:58that AEW Wrestle Dream
27:59did finish with,
28:00well, a baby face on high
28:02and with a big question
28:03about our big heel group
28:05because what the flub
28:06is going to happen to them.
28:07If I was packed,
28:08for example,
28:09I'd be like,
28:09you're a terrible leader,
28:10Jon Moxley.
28:11Maybe I don't want to follow
28:12you into Dungeon anymore.
28:14So I really actually
28:14did enjoy this pay-per-view.
28:15It was way too long,
28:16but that's a boring criticism
28:17to make now
28:18because we talk about it
28:18all the time.
28:19But there were just
28:20so many moments
28:21during this,
28:21that was great
28:22and this is great.
28:23And you've already got me
28:24pumped for full gear
28:25and that's what a good
28:26pay-per-view should do.
28:28I'm giving it an up
28:28and admittedly,
28:29some of you are going,
28:30oh Simon,
28:30you're only in a good mood
28:31because you fought Rhino.
28:32That's how all
28:33entertainment works, man.
28:34If you have a good night's sleep
28:35when you wake up
28:36and watch wrestling
28:37compared to,
28:37I don't know,
28:38smashing yourself
28:39in the face with a rock
28:40and then you watch it too,
28:41you come and let me know
28:42how you think about it.
28:43Either way,
28:44would I recommend this?
28:45You bet your ass.
28:46Now tell me how wrong I am
28:47in the comments below
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28:52and I like that show too.
28:54So what are you going to do
28:54tribalist crazies?
28:55I like all wrestling this week.
28:57Otherwise, my friends,
28:59have terrific days.
29:00I'll see you next week.