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00:00Donald and I started this week with the Young Bucks and Chris Jericho on a beach and they were
00:03reminiscing about the old times. And the Young Bucks were like, wait a minute, didn't you beat
00:06up our dad once? Jericho's like, I didn't do that. I am very, very sorry. I love it when wrestling
00:11companies do this because even though that was years and years ago, it is nice when you go,
00:15oh my gosh, they do actually watch the show like us nerds. We always watch the show. They then
00:19argued about the names and I think they settled on the Bucks of Jericho. Although Jericho wanted
00:24to be Y2Jackson, but Matt and Nick thought that was terrible. But this was a good time to do it
00:28because they were about to team up, ready for stadium stampede. Also, my friends,
00:32a word of ups and downs are the only wrestling review show you need. Apologizing for the edit
00:36today, we've had a little bit of an edit problem, so I had to throw it together at the last
00:39minute,
00:40but because I wasn't really planning for this, I had to do it at double time speed. So I'll just
00:44try and like move more. People get so mad at my weird old arms, but I try and do it
00:47more. And
00:48that way you may stay engaged or you may leave. There's not a lot we can do about it. It's
00:52like
00:52having anxiety at a wedding. Let's go. But yes, it was then the Bucks of Jericho taking on
00:56Ricochet, Andrade and Mark Davis to get ready for stadium stampede. I've seen some people going,
01:01oh my gosh, it's seven versus seven. That's way too many people. I mean, the whole point of stadium
01:05stampede is meant to be totally nuts and you aren't meant to miss things, which is meant to tie into
01:10the chaos like Dr. Robotnik, because even the camera people are like, oh my gosh, we can't keep up with
01:14the action. I say make it 10 versus 10. Why the flab dust? Otherwise, this was just such a delight
01:19and
01:19dare I call it a party match. I just want to take a second to say the Yucke Bucks are
01:23such a flipping
01:24good tag team, literally and figuratively. When was the last time they've had a bad match? As for
01:29this Chris Jericho, ever since he has returned to AEW, he just feels like a dude renewed. Then you've
01:34got Mark Davis, who is smashing it right now. Ricochet, he's totally in his lane. He knows what
01:38direction he's going on. And as for Andrade, well, you can smell it in the air. Whenever the time is
01:43right, he will leave the Don Callis family and he will go after that world title. Bless Ricochet as well,
01:48because at one point he stole Nick Jackson's headband and wore it on his own head, which actually I did
01:52once in a match. That's when we got a super kick party. So Andrade got in there and he did
02:06the
02:06three amigos. As we got into super signature move time, when Chris Jericho and Ricochet crashed through
02:11Alan the announce table, or actually it could have been Timmy the timekeeper's table, but the point
02:15is that's a specific feud. So now they're dead. We also made sure that Andrade kicked out of a BTE
02:20trigger. So go back to what I just said. We're certainly planning something with that guy.
02:24And ultimately, of course, towards the end of this, out came the dogs. David Finlay used the
02:28shillelagh, because pro wrestling decided years and years ago, if you are from Ireland, you shall
02:32use this weapon. But it didn't mean that Matt Jackson got smacked right in the head and it was
02:35Andrade that took the pin. So even though he took advantage of this, well, I've said it three times
02:40now, it probably means something. I want to mention as well, the referee was distracted because Mark
02:44Davis was mucking around with a chair. And again, keep that in your brains like a telltale game.
02:48When everybody else involved with Stadium Stampede did come to the ring, so we could have a big old
02:53fight. And they brawled through the crowd. And this jungle Jack Perry, he came out with a bag of
02:58onions. I can only presume because what do onions do? They make you cry potentially into a river.
03:04So I just love this nonsense. And not everybody can pull this off. You do need to be very good
03:08at
03:08your job. So thank goodness we do get this every single week. You can just sit back and have a
03:12good
03:12time. And again, it told you, oh my gosh, at double or nothing, you can expect madness. I like madness
03:18up.
03:18Then got a video reminding you that it is Takeshita versus Okada this weekend and give what did go
03:22down with Darby Allin Takeshita. I think Takeshita will win that damn championship when finally he
03:26leaves the Don Callis family. When maybe or not maybe AEW had been reading the internet because
03:31René Paquette was like, Darby Allin, why do you insist on defending your world championship every
03:35single week on TV? He's like, because I'm Darby Allin, man. I want to do a blaze of glory. I
03:40know
03:40what it feels like to embrace life as much as possible. So I just want to enjoy this moment because
03:45you never know when it's going to go away. I was like, it's a great point. He's going to carry
03:48this
03:49on later too when he does defeat Mike Bailey and he is going to ensure that MJF goes bald at
03:52the
03:53weekend. And because Maxwell Jacob Freeman is so damn arrogant, he is not going to be able to handle
03:57it. So as always, I just want to make it very clear there is nothing wrong with being bald when
04:02good grief. Now listen, I actually thought that Tommaso Ciampa versus Mark Briscoe was going to be on
04:07double or nothing. And maybe it was because they marched to the ring and they gave us a pay-per
04:12-view
04:12caliber match and it was a street fight. Honestly, I could not believe how insane this got. The
04:18escalation was off the charts. I mean, it even started off quite funny because Mark Briscoe came
04:21to the ring with a trash can full of goods. And when Tommaso tried to use it, it was like,
04:25ow, my hand. Because flipping Mark Briscoe had turned into a cartoon villain and he booby-trapped it.
04:31Tommaso Ciampa had put his hand in a mousetrap. Now this was going to get crazy after a few minutes.
04:36We had tables, we had thumbtacks, we had barbed wire boards, whatever the flub it was.
04:40And yes, we had staple guns. They were stapling bits and pieces into each other,
04:45especially poor Mark Briscoe. And we had a cheese gator spot. And actually, I did that too.
04:54Unlike Mark Briscoe though, I did not bleed buckets. He did. I honestly don't know how
04:58Tommaso Ciampa is walking today either because he took this horrible fall basically from the top rope
05:03into these chairs. And he did that thing when you hit the ridge of it, you don't go through it
05:07flat, even though that would still suck. Honestly, once again, surely this was planned
05:13for Double or Nothing or something because they were just killing themselves. And I watched it like
05:16this, as if it was a horror movie, but good grief, more power to it. Briscoe then used that to
05:21hit a
05:21jay-driller through a barbed wire table, which was ridiculous when he hit the froggy boat for the
05:25one, two, three. I have not done this justice just because it was a dynamite collision mega combo.
05:29So we have so much to get through. But a round of applause to both these guys.
05:34It doesn't even matter that Tommaso Ciampa lost because the performance he put on and we all
05:38love Mark Briscoe. You probably do have to end the feud there because it has been going on for such
05:42a
05:42long time. But Tommaso Ciampa did have a meltdown afterwards and went mega heel. So I'm sure there
05:46is a plan. But I am just giving it an up. If you woke up today and you wanted some
05:51violent
05:51aggressive wrestling from two guys that just got it, do I have the match for you?
05:55Tony Schiavone was then ready to tell us about the Owen Hart Cup when Swerve Strickland came out.
05:59Actually, no Prince Nana. He said, Tony, you look like a substitute teacher,
06:02Swerve, which apparently is enough to get you banished when he introduced Swerve.
06:06Although Swerve did not get to the ring because he got taken out by Bandido.
06:10Now, listen, all is fair in Love and War because what happened at the Ring of Honor show last week,
06:14Swerve had attacked Bandido. So now Bandido was attacking Swerve.
06:17I think it's a bit weird because eventually Bandido gave him the press slam when he was going to do
06:21something with the chair and then he kind of didn't do something with the chair and then Swerve threw
06:25the chair at him. Bandido kind of slapped it away when they looked at each other.
06:30But listen, these things happen. Sometimes I try and get out of bed and I fall on my ass.
06:33I have no idea what's going on. So when you are in the ring trying to pull off a spot,
06:37sometimes it's just not going to work. Now, I do enjoy this feud a lot and I think Swerve
06:41totally obliterating him on Ring of Honor and getting some revenge here is very well done.
06:46And actually, whoever does win this Sunday and moves on to the next round of the Owen Hart Cup
06:49could be the favourite here. Although, of course, it's probably going to go to Will Ospreay.
06:53But I'm going to give the execution of this a down because it didn't land in the way they wanted
06:57to.
06:57Once again, they're human beings. But overall, given that we are just a few days away from the
07:02pay-per-view, I am going to give it an up. Swerve Strickland is probably going to win this.
07:06But if Bandido does what Bandido can do, which sounds like some kind of a nursery rhyme,
07:10I tell you, it'll be like Ciampa and Briscoe. Nobody will care about victors and non-victors.
07:15You'll only go, my gosh, they're two very good professional wrestlers.
07:18Certainly, though, we got the worst news of the evening after this because Willow Nightingale is not
07:22only out of the Owen Hart Cup, but she has to relinquish her TBS title too because she
07:27suffered an injury, I think to her shoulder, on collision. So no ups or downs on this because
07:31there is nothing more important than that. Let's just hope she can get back on television as much
07:35as possible. Although you'd have to figure out it must be quite serious given that she is giving up
07:39her belt. It just sucks as I actually thought she could become a two-time Owen Hart Cup winner
07:43and potentially beat Teggler for that title. But as always, wrestling is the most important of the
07:47least important things. All the best too, Willow. I hope she is back on television before you can
07:52say Willow. That's a stupid thing to say. Well, we got even more loose ends tied up,
07:56or at least leading into the pay-per-view, because it was Kyle O'Reilly versus Jon Moxley in a
08:00Continental title eliminator match. And you can justify that because before the Death Riders killed
08:04Kyle O'Reilly, he had beat Jon Moxley a handful of times. So now he was like, I do believe
08:09I should
08:09have a match. Because Moxley is a psychopath, he's like, you know what, you could have a match.
08:13Now, listen, the other cool thing about this is it felt totally different to the other
08:17matches we had seen up to this point. But halfway through, Jon Moxley was biting and
08:21raking his back. He didn't do this at the start. He wanted to inflict maximum damage.
08:26It made me laugh. It was proper nasty stuff though, and Jon Moxley was smiling throughout
08:29all of this because he loves the pain. And yes, we were getting those time calls because
08:33there is a 20-minute time limit on this, given that it is the Continental title. So you knew
08:38instantly what was going to happen here. But let's compare it to a romantic comedy. Nine times
08:42out of ten, when you sit down with a rom-com, you want the two leads to get together.
08:45That was the same here. It was like, well, I hope we get to the fact where Kyle O'Reilly's
08:49about to win. But he does get screwed over by the time limit because then what can we
08:53do? That big old rematch at the weekend. That's exactly what went down as well. Because
08:56after O'Reilly had walked over the arm of Moxley and realized that was a weak point, he
09:00cinched in that ankle lock, which is how I think he won both the other matches against
09:04Jonathan. When Jon Moxley turned into Zack Morris, he did get saved by the bell. And
09:08I thought the way he executed this while they touched corny was absolutely brilliant because
09:12he became Death Rider Jon Moxley talking crazy talk to Will Ospreay in the back. He was just
09:17going, ah, because he knew if he screamed his pain out of his body, his inner soul would
09:24be cleansed and he wouldn't feel the hurt anymore or something.
09:27Kyle also set up that match for double or nothing too, because he said, well, screw this.
09:30We have to now do it again because they did survive, but there aren't going to be any time
09:33limits. And I do find that a little bit confusing because I thought the whole point of the Continental
09:37title is you have to have time limits. And didn't we do this with Dekesta as well?
09:41I just think it's strange to have a rule attached to a belt and you go, man, we don't want
09:45to
09:45worry about that. Even if it does make sense, isn't there more jeopardy in Kyle O'Reilly
09:50being like, oh my gosh, I can't get rid of these time limits. And I wasn't able to beat
09:53you in 20 minutes. So now what is going to happen on Sunday? I'm just going to give that
09:57a small down, but only because there are so many championships in AEW and all the pro wrestling
10:01companies, if we're being honest, if you do have a stipulation attached to one, well, that's
10:06another reason why you should keep it because it's more interesting and you can kind of
10:09justify having more belts. That's just a nerd aside. Do not worry about it. I am still going
10:14to give this an up. They're like bedfellows, man. I don't think anybody ever predicted that
10:18Jon Mox and Kyle O'Reilly would work so well together. And even though they're having a
10:21match or another match in like four days, I don't give a damn. I will lock in. Although
10:26I still think it would be better with the jeopardy of 20 minutes, but I'm giving it up.
10:29We did an interview with Chris Dutlander and Shida after this. Shida just kept interrupting
10:33Chris Dutlander. And as I say every single week, I'm like, Chris, why are you friends
10:37with her? But as we also discussed seven days ago, Shida has won me over. She is such
10:42an asshole. Intentionally, it makes me laugh. Chris made it clear though that she will be
10:46cleared for Sunday. And Shida was all like, oh my gosh, even though we are a team, we're
10:50entering this four-way because yes, that double or nothing for Tekla's world title is Tekla
10:55taking on Shida, taking on Chris, taking on Jamie Hayter, which is so interesting. Because
10:59if I was going to give you a guess here, which is the whole point, I would imagine that
11:02Chris Dutlander is going to have this match won, which is when Shida turns on her and
11:06we're all going to go Chris Dutlander. You are an absolute fool. Even Stevie Wonder
11:10could have seen what was going to happen here. But maybe it goes back to my rom-com argument.
11:14If the execution is right, we'll probably all have a good old laugh about it. It's also
11:17smart to do the four-way as well, because if you really want to, you can go, oh my gosh,
11:21Tekla may lose her championship because you can lose in a four-way without actually losing.
11:25But I am still going to give it a damn because this world title match, as good as I think
11:29it will be, because their top tier talent kind of feels like, well, we don't have a strict
11:33plan for Tekla at the moment. So we'll just take three other people and throw them in there.
11:37Like, what has Shida of all people done to deserve this? It's just a small down. It's a tiny down.
11:41I think the match will be good. I just think everything around it could have been a little
11:45bit more better structured. Roos also said that he wants to have a title match against
11:48Darby Allin next week if he does get through the pay-per-view. And later on, he smashed somebody
11:52else too. So actually, once again, all the plaudits to AEW, they clearly planned this ages ago.
11:57So Roos absolutely is justified about going after the world championship. But if MGF wins,
12:03which by the way, would be my prediction, are we still going to get that on TV? I don't know.
12:07But it's a good piece of intrigue. Again, that's absolutely a TV match you can do.
12:12So I'll throw a quick up on there. I'm enjoying what we've done with Roos recently.
12:15We heat him up. We were patient. We made sure he got a few wins under his belt
12:19so nobody can argue it. Even if you don't like it, at least it makes sense.
12:22It was Edithina and the Triangle of Madness taking on the Brawling Birds,
12:25Mina Shirakawa and Thunder Rosa. And yeah, they went out there and they did the thing they had
12:30to do. Although very interestingly, the two people involved in the finish,
12:33there was Tekla and Thunder Rosa, are not going to be doing anything in that four-way world title
12:38match at double or nothing. Tekla got the win too. So I wonder, man. I wonder.
12:43I do have to say that the Triangle of Madness are really good heels because they just don't give a
12:47damn, which actually is the same energy that Shida puts out there too. So somehow I would make this
12:52the square of madness or the square of psychopath or something like that and add Shida to the group,
12:56even though that wouldn't make any sense at all because they're all spooky-wooky.
12:59But once again, they just walk around and they're such trolls.
13:02Thunder and Athena then got into it straight away based on their feud a few months ago.
13:06And it was Mina Shirakawa who then got her ass kicked. But she made the hot tag to Thunder Rosa.
13:10Sky Blue got in there too. And Thunder whooped her butt as well.
13:13And all that kicked off as well because I think Tekla got taken out with a hate to break her.
13:16And then Julia Hart got a lung blower. But then Alex Windsor hit the least devastating move.
13:20In all of sports entertainment, the blue thunder bomb, which did not work.
13:23But also the idea here wasn't to get a pin. It was that everybody could hit a maneuver.
13:27And can you believe it? It was Humpty Dumpty by the end of this and they were all down.
13:30And this is when Tekla went to get the championship belt and the referee turned around and said,
13:33no, you can't do that. When Julia Hart went to miss Thunder Rosa in the face,
13:39but kind of just went, it's about how it's dead. It's a little bit like she become a fish.
13:43You know those fish. You probably don't know those fish. But they walk around and kind of just go,
13:47but Thunder Rosa had to sell it because of course it was the finish when Tekla kind of used the
13:51most
13:51devastating move in all of sports entertainment surprise roll up. And she got the one, two,
13:56three. So it's like we said earlier, sometimes you try things and Julia Hart has misted people before
14:00and it has looked absolutely like, oh my gosh, it's unbelievable. But here it made me chuckle
14:04because I'm a terrible person. Now actually the down I'm going to focus on here does go back to what
14:08we
14:08talked about earlier with Mark Davis and that chair. It was just the same idea of a finish.
14:13It just stood out like a sore thumb to me. It doesn't really matter because they were so far
14:17apart. I just think all wrestling companies, and I include WWE in this, which we talked about raw
14:21ups and downs, Cheat Plug, can be more creative than they want to be. So I'm going to give it
14:25a
14:26minor down, but otherwise I'm going to give it an up. They just went out there. They kicked each
14:29other's ass. It felt like they were having fun. Not everything needs to be the best thing you've
14:33ever seen in your life. Sometimes it can just tick the box. Box ticked. And again,
14:37Tekla got a victory here. And by wrestling lore or wrestling tropes, who knows what that means with
14:43the pay-per-view. Kevin Knight was then hyping up Mike Bailey in the back and giving what he did
14:46do
14:47after that main event too. I think something is coming here with Kevin Knight, although I can't
14:50put my finger on it. Wait, yes. John Moxie cut that promo going, oh my gosh, I'm a killer. I
14:55can't
14:55believe you did this to me. However, every time I do almost get beat, I kind of level up inside
14:59myself like an RPG character. So you, Kyle O'Reilly, come Sunday, you're going to die.
15:03Well, we got to the main event and arguably Darby Allin's last successful title defense
15:07because he was taking on Mike Bailey. And listen, this was less insane than some of the matches
15:11Darby has had recently, but oh my gosh, they kicked and punched the absolute ship out of each other.
15:16So let's say that Darby is going to lose this weekend to MJF. A massive round of applause to
15:21Darby Allin. What a wonderful first title reign this is going to be. He just decided I'm going to go
15:26out on TV every single Wednesday and I'm going to give everything I got massively salute it. And that's
15:33just brilliant too. Also, they made me laugh as well because Darby at one point dropped similar
15:37still steps onto Mike Bailey's foot because obviously he wrestles barefooted. Now I get
15:41it, wrestling's a visual sport, but it's also a bit like Darby. Why don't you do that to everyone?
15:46Even if somebody is wearing boots, it's still going to hurt. MJF made sure to come out and do
15:49commentary as well. And he was totally freaking out, which did tie into something massive because
15:54at one point, can you believe it? Darby Allin had this match won. And what did Maxwell do?
15:58He grabbed Mike Bailey's foot and he put it on the ropes. That's when Kevin Ike came out and said,
16:02oh man, you've got to stop doing it. So again, I don't think we did this for fun, even though
16:06of
16:06course Maxwell can justify it. He does not want the hair match, but he did something. Did something
16:11to my brain. I'm keeping an eye on it. Now Darby Allin had been really smart as well because he'd
16:14been working the back of Mike Bailey the entire time. Although Bailey kept coming back with all
16:17these moves, including ultimate destruction or whatever he calls it. But sooner or later, he found
16:22himself in the Scorpion death lock and Kevin Ike was there going, come on, man. Come on, man.
16:26Make it to the ropes, which he basically did. When Darby was like, well, I've got a great idea.
16:29I'm going to cough and drop your back. I'm then going to reapply this fake sharpshooter. And this
16:33time, even though Kevin was like, man, I'm right here, man. Just touch me. I help you if you can.
16:38Mike Bailey had to tap out. Once again, I found this so interesting because afterwards,
16:43Kevin Ike got in the ring. He did a big rah-rah speech. And Mike Bailey was kind of looking
16:47at him
16:47like, this is great friend, but also kind of dissing me here in the sense that I did lose. And
16:52he also
16:53told Darby Allin, you've got to beat MJF for all of us. I'm not saying that Kevin Knight is going
16:57to turn
16:57heel. I kind of feel like he could turn heel. It was such a good match, though, because again,
17:01they're both so good. I said this on social media yesterday, and I stand by it here too.
17:05If you were told anybody that Darby Allin and Mike Bailey were going to be able to main event
17:09or headline a television show that was going to be seen by an international audience for a world
17:14championship, nobody would have believed you. So don't walk in my house and tell me that wrestling's
17:18not a great place because it is. I want the aftermath as well, because MJF waited for Jeff Speed to
17:22leave when he jumped Darby Allin. Why Kevin Knight and Mike Bailey couldn't come back to the ring,
17:26I do not know. When he went, ta-da, look what I've hidden under the ring. It was some hair
17:31clippers,
17:31but of course Darby turned that around. And when he went to shave Maxwell's head, he freaked out like
17:37he'd just been told, hey, your free ice cream for life card is being revoked. So I just think they
17:41have done a fantastic job in selling this stipulation. No matter what you personally think
17:45about going bald, you now know the character of MJF does not want this. Darby is desperate for it
17:50because he thinks he's a piece of trash. I am just giving all of this an up. Really good world
17:54title
17:55match. And now we lead into this pay-per-view. And look, do I think MJF is going to go
17:58bald? No,
17:59but would I bet my life on it? Absolutely not. They've got the jeopardy. It's getting it up.
18:04Well, we've got all the Will Ospreay, Samoa Joe stuff, which I absolutely love. I mean,
18:07I did anyway. And somebody justified it even further this week because they were like, oh yeah,
18:11Will Ospreay got into pro wrestling due to the match between Samoa Joe, AJ Styles,
18:15and Christopher Daniels from that TNA pay-per-view. So yeah, level this one up. He was also taking on
18:20Shibata here. And I did kind of laugh a little bit because everyone's like, oh my gosh, Shibata's
18:24never tapped out. And let's not forget that Will Ospreay's got that brand new cross arm breaker move.
18:28And then he didn't win by tap out submission. And he didn't really use the arm breaker move.
18:32I was like, I kind of feel like I've been teased here. Why did you lie to me? We also
18:36had more
18:36shenanigans here as well because Anthony Bowers was running down to try and get involved when he got
18:40scared off by the Death Riders, where essentially, yes, Will Ospreay hit the Stars Clash. He hit the
18:44Hidden Blade and he got the one, two, three. Although actually Shibata tried to break his arm afterwards,
18:49but it was what went down after this, which is a dumb sentence that really got me.
18:53Because Samoa Joe came out with his opportunities. He was like, oh man, Will Ospreay, I hate you.
18:56I'm going to destroy you this Sunday at the Owen Hart Cup when Will Ospreay picked up a microphone
19:00and essentially said, no, you won't. Because he went totally crazy about the fact that it's his
19:04dream to main event all in, because of course he's in Wembley, his hometown, and win that world
19:08championship. And that's one of the reasons he went to the Death Riders, because sure, he gets it.
19:12He understands. It was the Death Riders that killed the first version of Will Ospreay,
19:16but now they're rebuilding him. And he's a killer himself. So Samoa Joe, you're going to get killed
19:21on Sunday. And whoever's in the next round, you're going to get killed. And I go to Wembley,
19:24they're going to get killed. And I'd imagine the police are going to arrive soon, even because
19:27somebody said the word kill about 43,799 times. It really was a fantastic promo, though. And if you
19:32wanted to start running through walls, the idea of Will Ospreay doing it, it was exactly the thing to do.
19:37And sure, yes, you want a minor criticism. If Will Ospreay is being transformed into a murderer by the
19:42Death Riders, maybe he does need a few more squash matches ready to get it across.
19:45I didn't mind he went back and forth with Ace Austin. I don't mind he went back and forth with
19:49Flipping Shabata, who's a legend in his own right. But maybe because we do have a few months before
19:53All-In, you want to get a couple of those down, just so you can say, oh my gosh, Jon
19:57Moxley's work
19:58is paying off. I'm certainly not going to give it a down, because again, if I am this excited about
20:02a match, which was Will Ospreay versus Samoa Joe, I'm going to be mad at it. I'm going to give
20:06it
20:06up. And I tell you, I bet it's flubbing fantastic. Adam Copeland and Christian then basically
20:11reminded you of what good friends they are. And fair play to Adam Copeland. He cut this
20:15wonderful speech talking about how they got into the business together, how close their
20:18families are, and how FTR are trying to ruin that forever. Christian Cage is also the absolute
20:23man too, because he told FTR to go flub themselves, but obviously he did not say flub. I do have
20:28one criticism here. Now again, both of them are so damn good, and they are lessons too.
20:32I was like, wait a minute, Adam Copeland, wasn't it you that said to FTR, we want one more title
20:37shot? And to sweeten the deal, we will put our tag careers on the line. And of course, Cash and
20:41Dax did agree, especially Stokely Hathaway, because he was the guy that said, man, why would
20:45we give you a rematch? And I'm sure they do want you to break up. But in terms of the
20:49catalyst to
20:49this, well, you presented it. So it wasn't Cash and Dax going, oh my gosh, we want this more than
20:54anything. In fact, they were willing to ignore you. So I'm going to give it a down. It's just a
20:58logic
20:59thing. And maybe I'm totally wrong. I did double check. I read three different articles to make sure
21:02this did go down. But I'm also going to give it and I'm going to be that guy. Because honestly,
21:06you could watch
21:07this and you could totally believe every single word that both of them said. This is why they are
21:11two of the GOATs. And this is why some people still believe they are brothers, which is how
21:15WWE presented them. Because you can feel the chemistry. They should teach science. This is
21:19when we did get the Roos squash match. He totally destroyed TJ Crawford. My only issue with it is
21:24right afterwards, not only did Divine Dominion come out to have another squash match, but they were in
21:29a tag team title eliminator and they had a five minute time limit on this too. I don't understand.
21:33Not only have you pushed the squash matches together, but after doing a Jon Moxley time limit
21:38eliminator, you're now doing the same thing, even though you didn't need to introduce a time limit
21:42eliminator. I know that Megan Bain and Leonard Cross are super into this. Nobody can beat us. I just
21:47thought it was a bit weird. Now, listen, in terms of them as a tag team, I am going to
21:51give them an up.
21:51I would like them to have a proper feud soon. But that just hit me, man. And sometimes when I
21:55do
21:55digest this stuff, I can't ignore it. Otherwise, what's the point of the show? Does it matter? No. Is it
22:00going to affect your enjoyment? No. Are they a great tag team? Yes.
22:03But also down. I just don't think you need two squash matches back to back because then it kind
22:07of doesn't really do the impact that a squash match is meant to do. But also having the same concept
22:12when it came to the belts, especially one that didn't need it. I thought it was a bit weird.
22:17It also meant that our other main event, because of course this was Dynamite Collision shoved
22:20together, was FTR versus Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong. All you need to say is they are great
22:25professional wrestlers and they had a great time. And this one moment where Orange was down,
22:29Cash and Dax were giving him the little boots. Man, you could mean that for life.
22:33And every single time you can rely on the joke, how I feel on Monday morning at work.
22:36Now, once again, it was a really good match. And towards the end, there were so many surprise
22:40roll-ups. But this was another one of those instances where I totally understood the idea
22:43for the finish. But when it came to trying to execute it, I don't think we nailed it square
22:47on the head. Or maybe it just wasn't for me.
22:50Because Roderick Strong and Cash were totally dead after they'd fallen to the side of the ring.
22:53When Dax kind of reversed Orange Cassidy and he pushed him towards the ropes, but the referee
22:57was in the way, which meant obviously the referee had to move out the way. Otherwise, he was going to
23:00die.
23:01I mean, Stokely Atheway, who'd also been smacked earlier on, used that damn watch he'd been
23:05carrying around. He hit Orange Cassidy right in the head. When it was Dax that you saw his
23:09death statement. In all of sports entertainment, there's a prize brought up to get the 1-2-3.
23:13So I totally understand what we were going for here. But once again, I just watched it and I
23:16was like, man, the match was so good. And you want the finish to pop you, which is not a
23:20euphemism. And instead, I kind of went the other way. It kind of felt like everybody had gone,
23:24well, how do we get out of this? And look, it could have worked. It just didn't for me.
23:28But once again, it's not a big deal. I know that I'm repeating myself here, but sometimes
23:31I say this and people do explode. I'm just telling you how I felt. So yes, finishes are
23:36down. The match is an up. And I tell you, FTR versus Copeland in the Cage this weekend
23:40is going to be so good. You know they're going to go absolutely crazy. I do expect the title
23:44change. I'm very excited about it. Up.
23:47And as always, yes, it's way too long for me having three hours plus of TV on a Wednesday
23:51night, but there was a lot of good here. And AEW has done a good job getting me pumped for
23:54that pay-per-view because I searched my feelings like a Jedi. That's right. I am pumped for the
23:58pay-per-view. It's getting it up. Now, my friends, of course, let me know what you thought about
24:02last night's AEW Collision Dynamite Special Extravaganza. Before you like the video, share
24:06the video and subscribe. Keep the video on the screen, which was my ups and downs for Monday
24:09Night Raw, which was also an insane show. But ultimately, I think we're having a good wrestling
24:13week this week. I'll see you soon.
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