July 13, 2025

Hangman does it, Toni Storm one ups Mercedes, Omega/Okada V | AEW Post Game Live

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Jeremy Finestone was joined by Keila Cash, B.J. Bethel, and Kevin Ely to recap AEW ALL IN 2025. Jeremy discussed the matches and fallout from the show, including the winners and potential directions. Kevin was at the show live with the fan perspective, and post show details discussed as well! It was a comprehensive recap of a giant night for AEW on AEW Post Game Live.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the AEW, fight game media, all elite recap for the twenty twenty five paper view.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am your host, Jeremy Feinstone, and I'm here to talk to you about all the things that happened here at

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[SPEAKER_02]: All in, twenty twenty five.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This was a fantastic show everybody.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it delivered on all ends.

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[SPEAKER_02]: These were the top stories that I saw if we were coming out of this thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, M. J. F. Winns the casino gauntlet.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Second, Adam Cole vacated and needed to take a hiatus, which we'll discuss later.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Dustin Rhodes wins the TNT title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Jojo Offman shows up on AEW.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The young Bunt's lose their EVP status.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Athena wins the women's gauntlet.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Adam Cole wins save Christian.

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[SPEAKER_02]: O'Connor is the unified champion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Daniel Finn and Darby return.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and hangman page is your new All Elite World Heavyweight Champion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This was in fact a full show, Tony Conway, all in on this thing, and it was pretty impressive to see just how willing he was to give fan service, maybe at the detriment for the company at the whole, but trying to make sure that he sent this huge crowd home happy to make sure that in the future,

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[SPEAKER_02]: say in London next year, people are going to believe that when you do a big show, the company is going to deliver on a big show and man, I thought they absolutely delivered on a big show tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So join me in the comments if you have thoughts feedback anything at all regarding this mat regarding the show as we're talking about it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd love to hear what you have to say.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you are joining us for the first time, we've got a wonderfully open programming here on site game media.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Right now, we've got the dynamite show with Jeff Hawking and Paul Fontaine every Wednesday covering dynamite.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a matter of fact, everything that happens and just deconstructing everything at all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The power bombshells, they did a pre-show today before AEW all in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But they usually go live of Sunday morning, afternoon, depending on your time zone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sunday, one PM, Eastern, ten PM, ten AM Pacific.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've got my show, speaking of Trump style with myself at Stephen Conway, in which we break down all the new Japan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we also have Garrett Gonzalez and Paul Fontaine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They talk about the takedown and they do their hot tapes every Monday about the wrestling business.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got the five star jersey show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, that's pretty much everything we have to offer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So while we talk about all the things we have to offer here, let's talk about what AEW had to offer in this in this pay for view.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I will get to the pre-show later, but from my understanding, I wasn't able to make most of it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It looked like, looked like a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I did get to see part of the eight man tag with a shee and a big boom AJ.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And my friends, you have not lived until you've seen big boom AJ.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Tomohir, shee.

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[SPEAKER_02]: doing coordinated double teams against their opponents.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely tremendous stuff.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The Calus family, Trent, Rocky Romero, they, they absolutely knew the assignment in this match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you can hate on big boom agent, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can, you can look at this guy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can see that it's just comedy and you're not here for this in a lot of ways.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well,

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[SPEAKER_02]: God, God, it's truth.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There are people that are here for it and it does seem to do business and he's competent in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're likable.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They have a charm that is somewhat undeniable.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And for that, you just kind of have to, you know, shut your mouth and if you're like, all right, this is how it's gonna be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That is totally fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So,

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[SPEAKER_02]: That was the match that we had there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, honestly, it was okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We also had FTR versus the Aurora.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, did they outrunters?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got to screen right up there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They ran it back again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And, honestly, I thought it was not as good as their collision match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I thought that it served an excellent story and it was an excellent opportunity for the outwriters to get on the show, which is highly deserved for them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was not a whole lot of opportunity for tag teams on this show if you weren't on the main card.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So good for them on that one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then FTR was going to be seen later on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then yeah, we ended up with the main show and we had the six man match, which was a Gabe Kid Claudio and we were versus Joe Hobb and Shabbada.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty good match indicative of everything that is typically what you're going to expect from an AEW opener.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I would say that it was exactly what it needed to be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I liked it a lot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that it was

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tom's a power moves, including a dude with a power bomb after a botched fashion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's both special.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's basically how the match ended with Smoa Joe hit a muscle buster on Yuda and the opposite retained.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So afterwards, the death writers took out the option, including pulmonizing Joe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Presumably, presumably, to negate their presence in the Texas death match later on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Joe has stretched Tony Shivani completely selves it after that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's caliber and true, it's caliber fashion, somberly goes to a draft scheme commercial and we get in which we get a muted Kevin Hart Hawking graph cubes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We then come back and we get right into the men's casino battle royal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But first let's check some of these comments that we got here today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Fernandez, hello Fernandez, feel free to check in on what you thought about the best match on the show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He thought it was the best pay for view on the show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Jonathan Messenger enjoyed the show and it ended on the best possible.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The favorite of them were timed weirdly.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How does will get structured?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Darby Danielson, sort of, we're great most.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Jonathan, you're up to red.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that they delivered on the right guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to call them the Portland Trailblazers, if you will.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Darby Danielson can sort of come in and to be the Cowboys policy and help them secure the win.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We were all kind of thinking Darby was coming back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You knew Swerve was the guy that had to make the decision.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How many people out there thought Daniel said was like, a walk to come back here?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was leaning more and more and more as he was, you know, making appearances here, there, everywhere in Arita, Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But honestly, I didn't think he was going to be in until I was vibing the match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And there he was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll talk about him more, but I'd love to hear what you all think.

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[SPEAKER_02]: for an advice, which match should have been on collision for an endo, the trails match or the outrunners, for example, because that one was on collision a couple weeks ago.

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[SPEAKER_02]: shot of the messenger says, I loved FTR moron commentary more than I like to match, but always have to see more people on a state of show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was just trying to let the embarrassment of riches and definitely surprised, you know, a few people that showed up, surprised people who didn't show up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like those casino gauntlets might have, you know, might have been missing a few people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a lot of repetitiveness in the middle of it, but we'll get to that when we get there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's get to the bell to see no better royal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so, man, I'm gonna have fun recapping this one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Briscoe NMGF first with MVP on commentary.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Briscoe repeatedly evoked acting revenge throughout the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, then Rikete shows up and he gets the ball chance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Bandito's next dinner for, and he gets the huge pop.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Briscoe then ramped all rickshade during this time, gets them over the ropes, gets them on it, goes on a heat streak.

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[SPEAKER_02]: To catch it out, net to go for risk.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This sequence right here is the beginning of a lot of repetition where like everywhere we're on board, every kind of net span up, they come in, they get their heat for thirty seconds, run wild, and then right back into it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: because there are no eliminations.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It gets real rough and all of a sudden you just see the same thing over and over and over and over again without a sense of relief.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, to cash it out and he goes for Brisco.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Mystico is out next and I'm just absolutely loses his mind, you know, when he comes out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But then, Mystico, God bless the man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: His music's playing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's feeling it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's just going, you know, up and down to the ring to the ring top.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's on it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: At any point, someone could have gone a pinfall during here, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, he then goes to proceed to botch couple spots on the outside and, you know, try to kind of get right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And eventually, brisco and mystico are both trying to make Matt the tap in the middle ring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Josh Alexander next, what do you think happens?

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's about thirty seconds getting heat on everybody in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And we're at a rental repeat mode.

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[SPEAKER_02]: After that, we got, uh, Anthony Bones, the five star tool player.

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[SPEAKER_02]: which was in July.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Roddy next, MGS getting received from everyone that hates him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Brody King, uh, begins to just absolutely kill anyone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Again, we're in some repeat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Robin, do you promise him?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Then Jeff shows up and, uh, all black tights, he rips off the bang bang gang shirt when he comes out, uh, completely clean shaven.

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[SPEAKER_02]: very unsettling look for a baby face he went from flamboyant and out of his mind to the complete opposite to just the guy in this battle royale which you know not great not great in honesty but it is what it is oh see what happened here there we go

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[SPEAKER_02]: While we're getting on to this, I'm going to bring on a lady recently at Kila Cash, because fee and I decided we were going to have a conversation about what she thought about this show is one of the first guests to come on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tila, you have only a few minutes before you're doing your own podcast on the wrap, recapping all the WWE tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are a busy individual.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How are you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am doing well, how are you tonight?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll live in the dream.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I, uh, just finished a six hour paper view and rolling solo on a podcast recap again and so far so good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, you're making it through.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You survived a six hour show like it's like WrestleMania back in the day when they ended at midnight, but at least with AW all in ending at a respectable hour of like six o'clock PM Pacific time, it works.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm watching Saturday's main event right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we got Goldberg in the ring doing his retirement speech.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have it on mute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know what he's saying right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_02]: City of that land to give me so many great memories and you fans have given me so many great memories and you're not else to give enough great memories is this Hey, you tell you show tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to know while you were doing double duty What were the big takeaways and the things that you just duck with you coming out of the show?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I have to say the main event was everything that I wanted and so much more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got to pay off of hangman, finally winning back the AW World Championship from John Moxley in a finish that we expected run in school or, but it all made sense at the end of the day and it just paid off a story that has been built up for months and I'm very happy to see how it all ended that you had to lay up, you had to lay up and Tony Khan hit the shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm very happy that he did that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just thought that everything that the main event was supposed to be delivered in a big way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But my biggest takeaway was actually the A, W, Women's Division.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That set out to me in a big way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The talent, the matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that the gunland match for the women who specifically clear the guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It really did.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I would agree with that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought there were, I was in the middle of recapping the men's gauntlet and there was a lot of repetition.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was very formulaic and before they got to the end.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of it was the pop of the return or the guy or, you know, at the very end, once you got through juice, which was a bizarre one and a self and then Kota Bushi, we got right to the finish we all thought was gonna happen, which was MJF.

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[SPEAKER_02]: doing that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: However, on the women's side, the advertisement of all around Chris Stattlander and Megan Bane, but then you had a theme actually come in and win it, so it gave more of a sense of unpredictability to the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It really did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The finish was outstanding.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fans love a thing in a hometown girl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's been over so long and ring of honor as long as we're any champion in that promotion's history.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now to be able to bring that flavor to a W on a bigger stage on the biggest stage of the year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now she gets to face the a W women's world champion, which we now know is going to be Tony Storm, possibly it all out most likely or forbidden door.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One or the two.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I was kind of a spitballing this and I kind of felt like.

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[SPEAKER_02]: whoever, like I think the three is gonna have a challenger for Ben Dore from someone in AEW.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's the IWGP women's championship, she's just one of it from Sierra, Sierra, who showed up tonight as part of the call, because you know, got it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I kind of wondered if Mercedes might challenge for that title and maybe not even win that and go on like a losing streak.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But now you have Tony versus Athena, which is very fresh.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fresh, so new, we haven't seen it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: NAW, so I'm looking forward to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was surprised that Tony retained the championship, but I think this is first sign of Mercedes losing everything, possibly in the question when they had to be a World Championship, but some point down the road, because once you lose, it starts to, it starts to, it starts to dominate or affect if you're losing everything down the road.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it feels like MJ other kind of death didn't lose with this title shot, but I feel like if he loses, the other one kind of have to win otherwise what's the point?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I get that vibe too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I feel like he has to ultimately eat the loss to hang man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're paying off a sterile line has been built up for months, which I appreciate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't forget about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now you've kind of built it up perfectly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Possibly maybe most likely it all out in September.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so what else did stood out to you besides that?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we have Fecla.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought she looked really good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think her charisma is going to get her very, very far.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Were there any other women that kind of beside Willow, who I think may have stolen the show during the keynote gauntlet?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Was there anyone else that kind of popped in your mind to you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's always set lander for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Willow who I absolutely adores it out to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Megan Bane was starting to show more charisma, which I like to see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's a powerhouse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What I think that the barrier in the beginning was definitely the charisma and the personality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's standing out a bit more to I just think that the body of the women's division is so much stronger than has ever been.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The town is there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that the conversation needs to be had like maybe one day very soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can have the ladies, main event one of your pay per views because I think the depth is there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know I think is there is a long time coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it really speaks to hard work paying off and Tony dedicating his time to building this division up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But now it's time to take that next step.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the next step is having the women main event a pay per view down the road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it seems like as a strong possibility they're going to be introducing tact and title soon for the women's division.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me ask you this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think that it was the right call to have less people in the women's casino gauntlet but have more outside interference with like side side people?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, did it feel like it was

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[SPEAKER_02]: to cheap of a way to cut corners to make sure that you had all these things that you want to do and all these women to get featured.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you quite simply did not want to put as many women into the casino government as men before.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Did that feel that way at the time to you or did it feel a little bit organic and everything kind of worked for you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I figured worked for me because I think that it allowed the match to breathe a bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't want to over stuff it and you had side story lines that you were trying to pay off, especially with the surprise appearance of Harley Cameron down the stretch as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think the side items kind of played into the gauntlet a little bit better because you got thrown around there, but it would have over stuff that matched my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think the booking and the layout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think you needed some variety between the two gauntlet matches and I thought that the ladies match was a bit more

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[SPEAKER_00]: Easy breezy in terms of the booking and letting things kind of marinate and breathe versus the men that was all about the entrances, all about the returns, all about the pops, but less about the story at the end of the match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh man, that tag team title match collision outside of at a couple in certain collision worthy because the moment they bished out jet speed weekly and then you add in another tag team that tells me that the bill for your original match failed on every level.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you had to do like, well, let's add on this tag to make it pop a little bit more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That could have been collision worthy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said of couple is return best match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The main event, it was special, but my second favorite match, was definitely the tag team of the last spray and swore versus the young bucks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was like the best pure wrestling match on the show for sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My own, my vibe on that match felt like they wanted

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[SPEAKER_02]: to be as good or better as the young bucks versus hangman page and Kenny Omega from Revelation.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Many, many years ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of felt that too, because for a long time, that was a standard of what a great, awesome tax.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You match wasn't a W. And I think they clear that bar tonight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the sequences were amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The drama was incredible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The books I will say like, anytime you want to question their greatness, they always over-deliver when it counts most.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now they're going to go an extended vacation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They go to go on the Roman holiday for the next six months.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's well deserved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And enjoy the Roman holiday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've earned it guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a Stanford holiday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Either one works for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's not going to work for me, boss.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they've earned it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They get that in their contract list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we work three months on six months off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When your boss walks you to be booked that way, there's no problem at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's like, they've been pretty happy with it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Except every other tag team in the division.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, when can I get their young bucks Rob like have to wait six months?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's built in their contract now because their legends and they got to like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So why not?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to let you go real quick, but I have one more question for you because I got to get back to the, uh, the men casino goal which would have recapping at the time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I need your spiciest analysis of youth Robinson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my goodness.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I explained it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He completely clean shaven wearing the most basic black tank top and ginger and pants and my boots.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A little bit of reflective gear, just a guy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just a guy, like he walked everything and I don't know what the intentionality was to this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm going to make a weird comparison.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's that time that Dove Ziggler appeared on Monday Night Raw.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Any diet is hair, brunette.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and every inch of his charisma went away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything that may top Ziggler, Doff Ziggler went to hell.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We made the joke he was Evan Braun, like the Evan born, wanna be look alike.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you take away what makes you special, aesthetically speaking, you just become another generic guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You live in a household with timeless Tony storm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't come back looking generic, like the local Yoko,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't come back looking basic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You live in a household with another worldly personality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you're coming back looking like a basic bitch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I wasn't here for the look.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He needs to grow back everything he lost in his get back his old gear because the wild crazy man is where he thrives.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Generic wrestle number five, not so much.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_02]: crazy man, crazy man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He, uh, he looked like he just walks to be the, uh, the leading man to Tony Storm in the forties now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he's got the, uh, he just walks to be the dashing, the, the dashing, uh, leading man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I, I see it, you know, what a bit of a slosh buckler to it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But he, he needs a little bit of flair.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He needs a little bit of color.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was utterly shocked about how him and a couple of their people came off as just guys in those casino goals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was not the best look and just Robinson should never be just a guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if he wants to be Clark Gable from the forties, sure, but you have to have Clark Gable charisma.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that when you take away what makes you, you just become another guy on the roster.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that there's too many guys on the roster for you to be just another guy at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you got to find a way to stand out and he knows he can do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that tonight was just a miss in terms of the execution of his return.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know what to deal with with the bang bang gang.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's no bang bang gang without Jay White.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if when he's back, it feels like it's going to be better if there's a bang bang gang at all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they're actually one more thing that I ran across before I let you go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it is Tony Tony storm at the press conference.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you ready for this?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What does she say?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony is here with the Lutheran or on shoots.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is all courtesy of Trevor Dame on on the end.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony calls with one of the greatest days in AEW history.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Tony's match one of the between the greatest wrestlers in AEW history.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony says she creamed for panties.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not selling them just kidding.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't wear panties.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She takes Mercedes for cleaning all four of her lips.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She jokingly at Luke to she have already installed knowing what he did.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony gives an F-U in a congratulation to Athena.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She thinks MVP for giving her the right weed for her psychological disorders and the reservoir for giving her the right cheese for her disorders.

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[SPEAKER_02]: F-U's to Wendy Richter and Tony's own mom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony asked, how she feel of that for the match?

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[SPEAKER_02]: She said, like dog crap.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony's asked, but she learned about herself being a W champion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She said, she learned absolutely nothing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She learned nothing new since the last time that reporter asked for that question, which of the twenty four hours ago?

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[SPEAKER_00]: My math is a gap.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love Tony Storm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the great gifts in our industry who must be treasured and protected at all times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this woman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I will say, like for the longest time, I said, I'll call her a sheet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was the greatest A.W.

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[SPEAKER_00]: in Ms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: World Champion ever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it is now Tony Storm, who is the greatest A.W.

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[SPEAKER_00]: women's World Champion who ever lived.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just facts.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I shoot the greatest AEW world with a bro champion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, bar none, but I'm going to get myself credit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't break once trying to read that out loud.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You didn't.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was tough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, the four lips line.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm surprised you stayed on the air.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't go in and I was like, I just keep on moving.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just keep on moving.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Kila, you've got to show your own in about five minutes with salty Scott recapping all the WWE that you could put in a eight ounce, you know, eight ounce can.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I wish you all the luck in recapping that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope that you have all the laughs and I hope everyone joins you after they're done watching with us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So thank you again for coming in, giving your feedback on all in, twenty, twenty, five and I will talk to you soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for having me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate you guys and draw the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're sliding over to the special edition of the WWE poster app show on the very same YouTube channel live.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fight game media network.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You heard it too first tonight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two first, the crossover of the crossover of the crossover.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very happy to be here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Take care, Jeremy, hold it down solo and guys, take care.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.

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[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We are back to just me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's wild.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get back to that casino goal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We can't say what we were doing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got a couple other people popping in throughout the evening.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But we're going to talk about everything you can go in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We will get back to that the first actually.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get back to some of the comments while we were talking with Cuba.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're talking about Jewish crash TV mentioned.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Jews sporting a literal babyface with kind of a settling to be honest.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's good to see you back though.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope there's a story behind it because you're just, you're going that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You kind of want to, you kind of want the back story there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not a hundred percent sure where we're going with this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But definitely going to see him back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was December, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like late November, December, that freak, that freak, late break.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he finished a match, beast, been a while, been a while.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, Fernando Dias, at the university's timeless Tony, he's going to be fire.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Crash TV, Bobby Lashy, Bobby Lashy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be crucial to the whole MJF angle in my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Dynamics of that relationship will change draftically totally unsustainable.

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[SPEAKER_02]: MJF tolerate it because they hold the gold.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you're just thinking about this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get back to the casino, go on with it in a second.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Bobby Lashy with the management guy, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: NMGF is a main event kind, and eventually Bobby Lash was going to be interested in the same golden NMGF is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's not enough room at the top for both of them, and there's a part of me that thinks that Bobby Lash was waiting for an opportunity in which NMGF is like, no, that's actually mine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm curious where this goes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have a bunch of heels, but eventually one of them is going to have to be baby faith for some reason or another.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It just feels that way.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're getting cheered.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're getting a lot of love.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It just the way it is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to more of that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to the tag match because there are a lot set up after that tag match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I also wonder if getting the belts off of them eventually took Bobby into a scenario with MJS.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Maria grassiella.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hello.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Maria.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There is a lot of wrestling going on right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That is the understatement of the evening.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see, for Android, you can probably see there's a whole lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Crash TV says juice looks like Popeye from the forties at the minute.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm pretty fair, and Judith is joining the American Wing of the House of Torture with that get up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He needs more white, like, white, ugliness paint, something like that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a House of Torture, Fishio nodded.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love evil and his wacky group of narrative wells, much to the detriment of my podcast partners, Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I hate to everything that House of Torture stands for.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's get back to it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So this,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Gauntlet just get going and going and going.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Get to the agony, try to show up and kill Jeff but no go the gun return and kill Gates the agony.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you had all that outside interference they all erase each other.

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[SPEAKER_02]: After that scrum.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Cotobushi returns.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He proceeded to kick the living daylight out of everyone, and then Mordeaux's net.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then he proceeded to kill everyone, so particularly impressive spear on Brody, to catch the hit to double German on Ricochet and Baudito, and then Matt Caster, if next, running his promo for the Matt Samaniacs, he gets jobbed out immediately by Anthony Bowels and Roddy,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Roddy is then hit by hit with the finish by brisco and just deals the pin and then here we are mjfs the air parent the guy we all thought that was going to win this match did in fact

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[SPEAKER_02]: when this match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a little bit of an angle where Roddy was sticking around after the match, and we ended up finding out it was not for a good reason.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But before that, we had the stoquine out, that FTR was going to be read side for that tag title match, which kind of raised up up to like, okay, so they're going to be involved in the match somehow, or set up for the next feud, which

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[SPEAKER_02]: remains to be seen.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There could be a big match for Bindor or there could be something for all out immediately after it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There are plenty of big match opportunities coming up so we will see on that one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The four way for a VTR was announced that Cole had vacated the TNT title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uncle then comes out and is immediately just coming out and he's decided with Spore who we're in a tank top and he looks upset and you know Tony caught him in an outfit earlier in the day that you know

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[SPEAKER_02]: he was going to vacate the title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And there was a specific wording that they use and I don't want to repeat because I don't want to get it wrong.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it led you to believe that he was not in a condition to perform tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that led you to a lot of different conclusions.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you saw him come out and you saw the outpouring from the rest of the roster and Rodney and Kyle being outside.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he can go out there and he speaks and he's like, you can tell them what's going to be doing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's going away for a while.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he speaks to the highest and lowest moments.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, he's crying.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He gets a little bit choked up and it looks like you're really hard.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And this guy, I mean, you gotta remember, he's been bitten by the injury bug over and over and over again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he comes back and he's set back with something else.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know what it is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: but we all know that he's not going to be back next weekend.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he's a guy that I truly enjoy watching and I think he's brought a lot of enjoyment to a lot of fans around the world and I wish nothing but the best from going forward.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So from there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Dango Garcia, Sammy Guevara, Duffton Rhodes and Kyle Fletcher had a four way for the fake and they get TNT title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And there's new entry into music for Fletcher.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Crowd is one hundred referred dead from this after the colonel's been not even a Spanish fly by Sammy to Garcia getting the crowd back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't fault, but it felt like it was a little bit doomed for a while.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They ended up doing

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[SPEAKER_02]: three low blows on Kyle Fletcher, which made you think it was gonna win the match for a while, but eventually Dustin went on an inside cradle off of a lion tamer in the crowd of shocked.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we all kind of thought Fletcher was gonna beat the title when the title from Adam Cole and so you kind of thought Fletcher was gonna win this instead.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And this is one of those situations where

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[SPEAKER_02]: you make a change in booking and you make the crowd happy after what happened with Adam Cole.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No one was going to remember that moment as being Fletcher's moment if you were going to win the title in that four way.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if you give the crowd something to be happy about which has just been wrote whatever finishing his own story or having that moment in Texas and really just play that up and make the crowd

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[SPEAKER_02]: come alive again for something that has a bit of happiness, it has a bit of, um, resonance that everything going to be okay, kind of like the Superman movie, like the hope they're still, they're still the last out, well, that kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I think that was the right call and it's okay and a week into weeks and three weeks or in four weeks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If Dr. Robe loses that title to Kyle Fletcher, it really is okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She can go out there and demand, I had a one on one shot and I still want my one on one shot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he can win that title and all will be fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you can get him set up to be the guy one day to be the top guy in the promotion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: These are all things that you can do for all things that you can do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All I'm saying is tonight, it was okay, that it wasn't flutter tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably the right call.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we then got to Swerve and Osprey versus the Young Bugs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If it didn't get your attention before the match even started, you had the will all spray Assassin's Creed Entrums which was wippy and awesome and very video game like I'm not an Assassin's Creed Guy but I like my fair share of video games and then

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[SPEAKER_02]: To follow that up, we had Jojo Offerman, singing ain't nobody by Chakakon and this was fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the fact that Jojo Offerman did this, the night before WWE evolution, the same week a list came out in which it was documented how much hate

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[SPEAKER_02]: female and women of color get in pro wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_02]: For her to come out for AEW instead of WWE in any way, it's bound to put a target on her back and I can center her unbelievably brave and unbelievably boldly for doing this and I'll tell you what, she killed it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She did a great job with that song and I was like, man,

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't listen to more of her music.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the best company I can give on her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So for an end of time, I've said she was awesome on that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Got a lot of people thanking mock plea and time of the story storm and the in the saying bleach fan to point out is coming in, talking about the MVP.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So for him on the thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, a lot of people Maria is all about timeless bleach fans.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got a lot of fans and I tend to think that that was probably the right call for them to win.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, then we were, yeah, we're back to the young buck match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get to that match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I mentioned with Kila, this felt like

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[SPEAKER_02]: They wanted to match the energy of hangman and omega versus the young bucks from like four years ago.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And for all intent purposes, I think they did, but it was a little bit of a different match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The young bucks entered to their ridiculous revolutionary war entrance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the buck had an early advantage.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Will with the spectacular counter to save itself and serve tagged in for the heat, there was a thirty-second sequence around here that ended with Canadian destroyers and a house calling hidden blade that woke up the crowd.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We had a lot of back and forth, a lot of the young bucks, power bomb off the rope jump to the top rope, do a flip off the thing to another guy, all the signature moves that they do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But we ended up getting up to a point where Swerve ended up taking the bullet for Will while Will was hung up on the ropes and kind of paying back that story in which Swerve and Will united for the first time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're a fought back from the EVT trigger and then Will and Swirv gave a stomp pile driver where Will was holding one of the buffs and Swirv did the Swirv stomp on top of them to really kill them and then Swirv and Offspray hit a dual house call hit and played for the pin and the bunch lose their EVP status and Swirv and Offspray can challenge for the world title at any point which

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was an interesting stipulation you could go either way.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Butks being an EVP storyline doesn't really matter.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, you can still treat them with that same cloud, but you also have kind of the story of Dave Lost money from this or whatever, it's fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The tension of Swerve and Will, not being able to challenge for the big title,

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[SPEAKER_02]: but instead kind of in the periphery and maybe challenge for the tag titles.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a lot of intrigue to that, but ultimately, I think not putting limitations on your bent stars like they did Cody initially where if you lost that match, you couldn't ever challenge for the title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It didn't serve any genuine good purpose.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Stars need to be stars and don't need to be held back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: with weird, conditional ideas in order to justify booking certain guys in the main event, even though other guys are more popular.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get to Crash TV comment about Adam Cole.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just an unfortunate situation with Adam Cole, I've spent it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No other storyline threads that really play all set that would be detrimental to the rest of the talent that's actually in a TNT program.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the only other thing is that I think,

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's interesting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Daniel Garcia might have gotten a little something from being kind of a number two to Adam Cole, more so than Roddy or Kyle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like if you feel like he is the best option to kind of step into that role that Adam Cole had, even though I don't even know if anyone can't step into that role.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I guess he

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of a unique personality and he's not someone that you can just replace with somebody else.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just, it's a tricky situation, really, really tricky situation.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's get back to the women's, you know, got with that a royal, which was, yeah, crash TV.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think gangsters, yeah, as a part of playing the ritual bugging of that match, you're probably not wrong.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Those three rolled down to your dance, Fletcher Garcia and Cole either Garcia was going to turn, which eventually he was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But there were a lot of people turning tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if that would have messed up some plans later on, or if he inadvertently

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[SPEAKER_02]: called the title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of stuff to think about, but thank you for that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for that thought.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Make a bandstap.

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[SPEAKER_02]: First down and start the gauntlet.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the most compelling moment of their one-on-one was the Toby Suicita by Bane.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it was next.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think I'm undervaluing Willow, what I say that she looked like a million bucks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've been a huge willow fan since she had the match with Mercedes, which Mercedes broke her foot like three years ago, and I've been waiting for the opportunity for Tony con to see what he has with Willow and pull the trigger with her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I honestly hope that

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[SPEAKER_02]: This next year is will's here because I look at her and I can see in every way shape and form that talent is doing the work to be the best talent that she can be and good for her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: After that, Tamello is next.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, run back where I said about the casino government match, rinse and repeat at this time, get some heat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll do that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought the combination of women that they brought in there was probably

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[SPEAKER_02]: better for the women in the long run.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like they got something out of it and all the multi-women matches that they've been doing for the last couple of months, really paid off for them in terms of their work rate in this match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, Tim Lowe's next, Harley Cameron showed up and I honestly thought this was a great maker for a minute.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A couple of other people thought it was Ali the Bunny, but no, took a second and it was Harley Cameron in a face mask because of the story line of

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[SPEAKER_02]: her face getting busted by Penelope on the steps and she beat up Penelope and kicked off with that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Theccoo was next and she got to heat on Willow.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Bane and Stattler gave a duvet state of ice to Willow and then Almanada is next and we were running back all the way again, Theccoo and her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: full credit to her, Mina came out and she wasted no time running to the entrance, which by the out of one of the few people who has an entrance in which requires stopping, performing and coming that, no, no, no, no.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mina came out, ran it down and immediately got in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: After that, it was Athena.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Then we had Thunder Rosa, Cheery, and then Alex Winter.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That gave Megan Bain the safest powerball from the apron to the four with the entirety of the women catching her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the finish came in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Meena went for a figure four and Athena came off the top rope with a stunner on her to get the win.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Athena winning was the right call.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think we all kind of felt

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you were paying attention, Athena was all over the advertisement, the announcement, the stadium, preferably ticket sales.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Athena was going from center and there was this presumption that she was going to be in a match with Mercedes because it just felt like the right time to do it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That ended up not being the case because for the biggest show of the year Tony wanted to put the biggest women's match on the year, which unfortunately was Tony Storm for a sympathetic Monday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And no one's gonna argue, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: But here's Athena.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's the sitting and ring of honor for a better part of two or three years.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've been all waiting for that moment and tonight it happened.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We all know how good she is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We all know that she is the winnings champion in like the AEW ring of honor locker room.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if it wasn't gonna be tonight, we didn't know what it was gonna be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think the time for her being on ring of honor all the time might be up, and it's nothing but good thing for the women's division that's the result of that elevation of Athena.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's see here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Crash TV, that's what I think with Daniel Garcia, unintentional interference, which cost uncle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They keep dangling our seed joining the Don Calus family, but probably a red-haring or to plan to seed down the road that they could revisit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's Don Calus is probably going to have everyone on the raw standards going to be Calus.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A Calus family war versus AEW, essentially, you know, just a hostile takeover story because it's not about business.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's about, you know, a guy acquiring enough talent that he can actually legitimately take over the locker room and run the company.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's one way to do it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I hadn't really thought about it until, you know, we were talking about it like that, but it was something.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we're moving on to the six men.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Where is this thing?

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[SPEAKER_02]: There we go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The triple threat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I had to look it up, but I made sure I got it right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Westside Gun can smoke DCA, came out for the

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[SPEAKER_02]: hurt, syndicate entrance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I almost wrote her business and I almost screwed that up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Came out there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, a lot of the team have moved from jet speed highlighting their speed and high flying.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Nick Wade was doing the majority of the work for the Patriarchy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was an impressive belly to back overhead.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Superb by Sean Benjamin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think on the speed ball, it was amazing that when you're watching this match and you think about it's time in WWE and he was called the creepy little bastard.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And in this one, he is buying far the biggest man there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you always think about size and all these things and that is definitely one of those interesting comparisons that you see there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Another thing I can notice is two guys went to Japan for the best super junior and they ended up on the AEW paper view and a lot of other guys didn't.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So good on Kevin Knight and Nick Wayne for taking chance, taking a bet on the self going out there and doing what they can do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So after that, we were going through FTR began asking questions about the launch of the tags.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was with FTR about that one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The story was that

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[SPEAKER_02]: Jet was trying to incapacitate to hurt and try and the patriarchy and the jet center were trying to incapacitate the hurt syndicate in order to beat each other and get them out of the way.

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[SPEAKER_02]: At some point, Bobby pushed Christian into FTR, which got FTR all hot and bothered.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They got up on the apron, Christian ate a spear from Bobby when FTR got involved.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then that could've been just got interesting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: MJF MVP, the hurt gun kit, they all take off and go up the ring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And FTR is in the ring, and they're about to, you know,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Take down a little nickwain and keep saving and Christian kind of get behind, get front of them, because no, you don't deal them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're getting out of here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if they're leaving, Nick Wayne gives a kill, glitch, a Christian.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you have to watch his mama-way and slap Christian, and Nick gives a can chair to attempt to him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But who should come out for the save?

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[SPEAKER_02]: But one, Adam Copeland.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Think you know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I gave Mr. Go what I'm going to crap about this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I gave me an assure call about props about this, but you'll be shocked to know that Copeland did the Penta.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Adam Copeland came out as his friend ally, person he used to care about is potentially about to get, you know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: incapacitated permanently with the chair.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So he runs with his belt is a bat spike.

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[SPEAKER_02]: One side of the ring, as the song's playing, runs through the other side of the ramp, runs down in the middle of the ring, runs down in the middle of the ramp.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You got the thing where the pirate's gonna go off and he does his pyro dance, and then he comes out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been waiting to do that for a long time cut.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been waiting a long time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The creature be damned.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He was going to do his music.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So he queries the ring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He takes the guys out and then he pulls Christian up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and he says to Christian, with the microphone in hand, go find yourself, which if you remember is a reflection of what Christian responded to Copeland when Copeland gave his heartfelt plea to Christian that they team up and they could win the tag title together and they could go on a run.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We are all this time later in Christian have lost everything and instead of Copeland being a friend,

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[SPEAKER_02]: He told him, he told him as a friend, he needed to go find himself.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Here we are.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And now, we have a viable super, super viable tagged innovation.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You now have potentially a couple of any Christian.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can do Swirman-Auth spray as a tagged team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have FTR.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have the hurt syndicate.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's at least four of the top teams that you can do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can elevate some teams in there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have the outrunners that you're building.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have chip speed, which.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to have to be a lot of work without one in order to make sure that they are rehabilitated, but it's not impossible.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Kevin night is the goods.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Speedball Mike Bailey.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he is exactly where he's supposed to be on this card.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Good matches, but he's not going to be the top champion of any belt.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe the TNT title at some point, but I don't see much beyond that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He just, there are too many mouth to feed and he still set feels like it serves a certain niche rather than anything else to answer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Cash, we were questioned according to Crash TV.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we were to wish Mama Wayne would hear Mama's sexual and you end to implied.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I see why they put them stuck with their white work.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, cash, we were, it should probably be away from a mic and away from firearms and away from driving, while in due cell.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wish him nothing but the best.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he's a talented wrestler, but sometimes he can get himself into trouble.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the last thing I want to do is get myself into trouble with him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we're not gonna do that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, what are we on to next?

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, we got Mercedes and Tony and we really blown through this recap, aren't we?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know about you guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I really thought Mercedes was gonna win this back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I just

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's something telling me that Mercedes is doing it and, clearly, whatever, telling me that it's wrong, but I do think this match over delivered.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know how that possible because I had really high expectations.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This was the first of a triple main event.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony Stone, Tony Storm and Mercedes Monet.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe this is the first time match these two have ever had with each other.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The possible they had one in WWE, but I really don't did so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we're four and a half hours into this show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Long, long show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like blowing my mind, how long this show is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And

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[SPEAKER_02]: So Monae come out with a cheer squad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She wearing a tapestry robe of all her wins, much like Ocada has wore a tapestry robe of his entire time in New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The cheer squad of all wearing her belts, you know, the first synths in this, uh, code of reef ten are all welling wearing her belt collector belts and really just

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[SPEAKER_02]: go and going strong with the whole I am inevitable kind of five.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tonya Tony come out to her entrance at its very

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to say it was Charlie Chaplin at first, but it felt just more like classic, I am a star, forties.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is my final performance kind of, this is my greatest performance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And she comes out and it's all black and white, so you can't see anything.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then when it goes to color, you find that her outfit is for the most part, either flesh, color, or black and white.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And her face is painted white.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It looks like a Harley Quinn clan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: really, really striking look.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And at the end of the match, it was all gone for the most part, minus the blood from her broken nose, but it was quite frankly just

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've never been a big fan of this time of Tony Stormwork, but I cannot deny that this is fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just an unbelievably iconic performance and Tony Con, Tony Storm, RJ City, whoever else was involved in the iteration of Tony Storm in this form, they landed on something

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[SPEAKER_02]: that is even more valuable than gold, like finding a signature, women's record that you can build your entire promotion around, and they have that in Tony's store unbelievably important.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Really early on, Tony gets hit by Mercedes while Luther holding her and from that point on, Luther is completely out of the match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony covers and tries to get Mercedes on the top rope, Mercedes is some set flower, some set flip power ball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony barely hits a storm zero and Mercedes weakly kicks out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony gets to chicken wing on her, but Mercedes powers out and then Mercedes hits an ankle lock.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony gets color from a chop battle after this and then

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mercedes gets a suplex from Tony.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mercedes convert into a Camaro walk behind a arm.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that happened because Mercedes power is out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Tony then can't throw it the judo throw with the corkscrew flare.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not even sure how this happened, but it was amazing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: After that, we had a bat stabber by Monet, a statement maker, Tony gave Monet three storm zeros in a row.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And when that didn't get the pin, I kind of thought

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[SPEAKER_02]: that was in photography store.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But they did a fantastic job just, you know, introducing that notion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just to me, three finishers are going to row is a done deal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I guess Mercedes is, you know, protected enough where she really had to die to lose this match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So after the store was here, I was going to try to walk in an STF, Monet hit the bat stabber

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but afterwards Tony recovering to hit a butt bump.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got this is awesome chance and then Tony got Mercedes up on the second rope and hit a avalanche storm zero for the win.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This.

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[SPEAKER_02]: absolutely over-delivered and I thought was a tremendously fantastic match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: These women should be so proud of themselves and frankly, they're not much that I can say other than well done to you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You deserve all the credit in the world.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, we have some other stuff from the, um, scrum Athena is out and Athena Tony called Athena when the biggest yet in AEW.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Athena has been a while along week, media Wednesday, collision Thursday, bring about her Friday and the AEW paper view.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Her voice is giving out and there's the most she's done back to back to back since Japan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Athena says AEW is now Athena Eelie wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Athena says she's watching a storm in the arena for a science stage and says now that she's an AEW she's here to make a legacy for herself and that indicates to me and at least Trevor David's well, that's a full-time call up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And she's asked what she attributes to herself.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She says it's her fans and her determination to be the best.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She likes to show it, not say it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: because a little arrogant when she came to a demium got humbled quickly and had to work double hard in the gym and watching footage.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She was asked if her win today is more impressive than someone having their retirement in Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And she said, who?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Other, before saying, she focused only on herself and list her accomplishment as she should.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Asked about being authentic.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She found that from failure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She learned over and over and over that

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[SPEAKER_02]: being something that she's not was not going to get worse.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She needed to be and she talked about doing weird things on the endies and being viewed by twelve people because it wasn't organic.

01:00:00.640 --> 01:00:07.562
[SPEAKER_02]: She's asked about the legacy of Texas, the sportatorium, Von Aertdustin, and she says, you're taught it when you're here.

01:00:09.268 --> 01:00:17.111
[SPEAKER_02]: She plugs the first women's show in August night and they're running a women's show in Texas for the Metro books.

01:00:18.051 --> 01:00:22.353
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the final guest is Hangman and the emotional Hangman page.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?

01:00:23.433 --> 01:00:25.314
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to do that after we talk about the main event.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got a couple more comments.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Time of Tony presentation tremendous but strongest point is her personality.

01:00:33.715 --> 01:00:34.656
[SPEAKER_02]: That's generational.

01:00:34.696 --> 01:00:40.080
[SPEAKER_02]: She could transpose that on to pretty much any character gimmick because promo can deliver if are all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I would agree with that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I would agree with that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get to the second of the three main events.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We had Ocata and Omega.

01:00:50.788 --> 01:00:52.990
[SPEAKER_02]: They're win loss record between the two of

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[SPEAKER_02]: before the match was O'Connor had one win.

01:00:57.479 --> 01:01:01.849
[SPEAKER_02]: Omega had two wins and they had one draw between the two.

01:01:03.375 --> 01:01:08.637
[SPEAKER_02]: And as we all know at this point, the record of now, two, two and one.

01:01:09.357 --> 01:01:10.197
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a slow start.

01:01:10.277 --> 01:01:11.178
[SPEAKER_02]: It was psychological.

01:01:11.358 --> 01:01:16.860
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of callbacks to like O'Connor, tapping Omega's chest, patronize and lead instead of chopping him hard.

01:01:17.640 --> 01:01:20.941
[SPEAKER_02]: Early on it looks like they were trying to show that Omega hurt his eye.

01:01:21.341 --> 01:01:26.983
[SPEAKER_02]: Not necessarily sure if he did or he didn't, but that was the thing that they were trying to sell it.

01:01:27.523 --> 01:01:29.405
[SPEAKER_02]: There could drop kicked to the floor by Ocata.

01:01:30.866 --> 01:01:31.706
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't attack.

01:01:31.726 --> 01:01:34.529
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't call us attacked Omega when the Rebels isn't working.

01:01:35.349 --> 01:01:43.435
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is when I kind of was thinking about the match and I thought it's matching really interesting because we did a watchback.

01:01:44.436 --> 01:01:53.283
[SPEAKER_02]: Myself and Gary, Gary Gonzalez, my podcast partner, Stephen Conway, recapping wrestling kingdom eleven and everything that happened there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, watching that match between Okada and Omega, which was their first matchup, you had an Omega that will count to prove something that he could beat this guy.

01:02:05.328 --> 01:02:12.752
[SPEAKER_02]: And ultimately, he didn't beat him that night, but it was an aggressive, calculated, brash, Omega.

01:02:13.453 --> 01:02:18.976
[SPEAKER_02]: And an overconfident, brash, Okada here in that match.

01:02:19.816 --> 01:02:21.217
[SPEAKER_02]: But when you watch the match night,

01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:31.265
[SPEAKER_02]: There was aggressiveness by Ocada, but there wasn't that sense of, I need to prove anything by Omega.

01:02:31.845 --> 01:02:37.789
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a lot more psychological into which he knew that he had already been able to beat Omega and on a one on one fair fight.

01:02:37.829 --> 01:02:45.373
[SPEAKER_02]: He probably would have beaten him tonight, but because they EW and because of, you know, the abundant, many things and the opportunities

01:02:46.634 --> 01:03:04.330
[SPEAKER_02]: going forth, you know, they still teach Ocada and Takesha and a couple other opportunity here, you know, we have the continental class, they can perhaps, you know, Omega is in that instead, but we have opportunity for Ocada to

01:03:05.730 --> 01:03:18.578
[SPEAKER_02]: build up and be that guy and have the match once a month or once every other month to really elevate this title and I would have had Omega do it.

01:03:18.738 --> 01:03:20.659
[SPEAKER_02]: I would have had Omega win, but it's fine.

01:03:21.079 --> 01:03:23.180
[SPEAKER_02]: It will fine no matter what happened here.

01:03:23.821 --> 01:03:25.222
[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll get back to the match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The drop kick to the back by Omega, call back to one of their matches.

01:03:30.845 --> 01:03:34.267
[SPEAKER_02]: Ocada was favoring the rainmaker arm and Ocada did a

01:03:34.627 --> 01:03:39.628
[SPEAKER_02]: find drop kicked throughout the match, but he did at least two lady top rope elbows.

01:03:40.729 --> 01:03:47.911
[SPEAKER_02]: At this point, it was starting to feel like two old warriors fighting not the young hungry warriors that they were nine years ago.

01:03:48.411 --> 01:03:54.833
[SPEAKER_02]: The battle rooms, the scars, the wear and tear on the body.

01:03:55.753 --> 01:03:57.513
[SPEAKER_02]: It's reflective in these matches.

01:03:57.753 --> 01:04:01.054
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why the psychology was so important.

01:04:01.434 --> 01:04:03.115
[SPEAKER_02]: And these were men, meaning after years of wars.

01:04:04.465 --> 01:04:08.209
[SPEAKER_02]: O'Conan hit a rainmaker and a pile driver after escaping a one-winged angel.

01:04:08.229 --> 01:04:14.194
[SPEAKER_02]: O'Conan is selling his gut to the moon, but he hit the shoulder set German on O'Conan.

01:04:15.275 --> 01:04:16.536
[SPEAKER_02]: Calus get involved.

01:04:17.277 --> 01:04:19.219
[SPEAKER_02]: Can he hit the one-winged angel?

01:04:19.819 --> 01:04:21.441
[SPEAKER_02]: But Calus pulled the rough out.

01:04:22.361 --> 01:04:23.603
[SPEAKER_02]: They get a new rough in.

01:04:23.623 --> 01:04:28.187
[SPEAKER_02]: Omega tried it to hit the one-winged angel again, but O'Conan escaped.

01:04:29.725 --> 01:04:35.527
[SPEAKER_02]: Kenny O'Connor hits the Raymaker and then O'Connor won the match.

01:04:36.627 --> 01:04:46.710
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think something kind of blightly last week where if it's anything less than a five star match, people are going to be disappointed.

01:04:46.750 --> 01:04:52.531
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't think people were disappointed by this match, but I also don't think it was a five star match.

01:04:53.111 --> 01:04:55.552
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they had six star matches and

01:04:57.915 --> 01:04:58.436
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

01:04:58.516 --> 01:05:01.800
[SPEAKER_02]: It felt like a four and a half four point seven five.

01:05:02.981 --> 01:05:04.463
[SPEAKER_02]: It may be a week five.

01:05:04.683 --> 01:05:05.044
[SPEAKER_02]: It could.

01:05:05.364 --> 01:05:06.025
[SPEAKER_02]: It totally could.

01:05:06.746 --> 01:05:07.767
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying it's not.

01:05:08.547 --> 01:05:19.429
[SPEAKER_02]: But when I'm talking to my friend Dave, and we talked about these shows, I get a vibe of by asking about a score on another match on the show.

01:05:19.529 --> 01:05:24.971
[SPEAKER_02]: And what I'm thinking is like, I don't know, it doesn't feel like a five to me, but I could be surprised.

01:05:25.551 --> 01:05:26.331
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you guys think?

01:05:26.371 --> 01:05:27.691
[SPEAKER_02]: Was this a five star match?

01:05:27.751 --> 01:05:29.912
[SPEAKER_02]: Was this a six star match?

01:05:29.952 --> 01:05:32.112
[SPEAKER_02]: Was this a four and a half star match?

01:05:32.592 --> 01:05:35.633
[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of want to get your guys' feelings on that one and then.

01:05:36.613 --> 01:05:41.095
[SPEAKER_02]: While we are talking about the main event, maybe we'll double back on that one.

01:05:42.196 --> 01:05:50.140
[SPEAKER_02]: So, the main event, we got Hangman and John Motley.

01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:52.721
[SPEAKER_02]: Tetsus death match.

01:05:54.222 --> 01:05:55.743
[SPEAKER_02]: I have ten different people.

01:05:57.548 --> 01:05:58.809
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you win a Texas death match?

01:05:58.829 --> 01:06:00.750
[SPEAKER_02]: What are the rules of Texas death match?

01:06:01.130 --> 01:06:03.791
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, we what entails a Texas death match?

01:06:03.811 --> 01:06:06.152
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember what happened in the last Texas death match?

01:06:06.933 --> 01:06:07.753
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody could remember.

01:06:08.293 --> 01:06:17.838
[SPEAKER_02]: And I guarantee you, when this one is over and down the line, we're going to have the same bit of ambiguity other than these are holatiously violent matches.

01:06:18.359 --> 01:06:24.922
[SPEAKER_02]: The introduction of blood and the possibility of hepatitis seems incredibly prevalent and

01:06:26.188 --> 01:06:27.909
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a blood bath.

01:06:28.469 --> 01:06:35.331
[SPEAKER_02]: Now granted, I managed to watch a blood bath match even worse than this like two weeks ago.

01:06:36.112 --> 01:06:44.535
[SPEAKER_02]: And I could say that I wasn't exactly sure that that did be any favor of watching this one, but it did decepticize me to it just a little bit.

01:06:44.895 --> 01:06:49.057
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you're wondering, the match was El Desparado versus June Kessai from the

01:06:52.260 --> 01:06:58.583
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the death pain invitational that was on New Japan World for twenty two dollars.

01:06:58.743 --> 01:07:03.505
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like I should have been paid twenty two dollars for what they think the blood bath from that match.

01:07:03.565 --> 01:07:04.525
[SPEAKER_02]: But I digress.

01:07:05.646 --> 01:07:16.470
[SPEAKER_02]: We had what seems to be the dumping of the kitchen sink for years worth of storylines in which we've paid off in this main event match.

01:07:17.110 --> 01:07:19.874
[SPEAKER_02]: a fantastic match, probably the best match on the show.

01:07:19.894 --> 01:07:26.924
[SPEAKER_02]: It started out with Guy and guitar and a woman with slink.

01:07:27.004 --> 01:07:30.810
[SPEAKER_02]: Hangman come out, finally on the babyface side of his entrance.

01:07:31.391 --> 01:07:32.432
[SPEAKER_02]: Old babyface music.

01:07:33.527 --> 01:07:50.016
[SPEAKER_02]: would sell distinctly, like after CM Punk after everyone leaving the mirror, the blacks, just the doldrums, this felt like metaphor of AEW trying to heal itself.

01:07:51.117 --> 01:07:56.460
[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the distinct sense of the rehabilitation of hangman pages.

01:07:56.500 --> 01:07:59.642
[SPEAKER_02]: He was a metaphor for all the stuff that

01:08:01.923 --> 01:08:07.284
[SPEAKER_02]: the company went through, just trying to pick itself up after the CM Punk disaster.

01:08:07.864 --> 01:08:16.326
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of the people just trying to, you know, erase what happened in the past and forging a new path.

01:08:17.047 --> 01:08:26.549
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like the story that Swerve and Hangman had was a proxy to that kind of story where, you know,

01:08:27.783 --> 01:08:29.484
[SPEAKER_02]: page that down on collision upset.

01:08:29.884 --> 01:08:32.145
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing what I should have done two years ago.

01:08:32.805 --> 01:08:39.387
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you can't read between the lines on that one, I feel like you should try and read between the lines on that one.

01:08:40.428 --> 01:08:51.052
[SPEAKER_02]: Swirv and Hangman were intricately, intricately involved in crafting of this storyline, and you need to keep the tell of the care and precision that they worked with.

01:08:51.492 --> 01:08:59.578
[SPEAKER_02]: and Tony Connor presenting the right way of making their story feel like the most important story in all in AEW.

01:08:59.878 --> 01:09:05.121
[SPEAKER_02]: And Hangmen have always meant to be the guy they build, the production round, but sort of never was.

01:09:05.702 --> 01:09:12.626
[SPEAKER_02]: And Quarve has made himself unmistakably essential to the company.

01:09:12.766 --> 01:09:16.929
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, if Omega wasn't able to go tomorrow,

01:09:18.731 --> 01:09:21.873
[SPEAKER_02]: would re-terrible and we would be really sad.

01:09:22.714 --> 01:09:26.757
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think it would be more okay to say it's worth couldn't go tomorrow.

01:09:27.538 --> 01:09:30.560
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's kind of how I feel about who we're right now.

01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:38.606
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just an absolute cog to the creative forces that are here in AEW.

01:09:40.663 --> 01:09:41.524
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get back to this match.

01:09:42.704 --> 01:09:45.987
[SPEAKER_02]: Hangman page, gashed mock with a fork, almost immediately.

01:09:46.767 --> 01:09:49.049
[SPEAKER_02]: Just blood pumping everywhere.

01:09:49.689 --> 01:09:53.732
[SPEAKER_02]: In return, mockly gashed page with a barbed wire to the face.

01:09:53.752 --> 01:09:55.653
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're very clear here.

01:09:55.974 --> 01:09:57.515
[SPEAKER_02]: This is what this is going to be.

01:09:59.777 --> 01:10:03.480
[SPEAKER_02]: Mark then brought a barbed wire chair to the ring, stuff into the corner.

01:10:04.020 --> 01:10:07.903
[SPEAKER_02]: They began to fight in the corner with table to the rim side all around them.

01:10:08.544 --> 01:10:11.286
[SPEAKER_02]: Marina Schiffier pulls out a tub of broken glass.

01:10:12.890 --> 01:10:15.491
[SPEAKER_02]: Monthly Drats page all the way through this.

01:10:16.151 --> 01:10:19.853
[SPEAKER_02]: Monthly dragging him through hell, sending him up for a power bomb for the top rope.

01:10:20.393 --> 01:10:33.859
[SPEAKER_02]: Hangman taped a barbed wire, dragging on a back and while monthly is celebrating, Paige gives him a power bomb through two steel chair set up with the backside side by side.

01:10:33.879 --> 01:10:36.980
[SPEAKER_02]: I like what I like to call the painful way of taking the chair to the back.

01:10:39.995 --> 01:10:46.257
[SPEAKER_02]: We were then came out to attack page ineffectively and then page gave mockly the angel we in taffords.

01:10:47.377 --> 01:10:52.278
[SPEAKER_02]: Page then send Shafir through a table and she tried to interfere with the buck shot where it.

01:10:52.918 --> 01:10:57.299
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was going to take Marina Shafir through the map through the end of the match, but oh no.

01:10:57.860 --> 01:11:02.001
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no, she is super human and she could recover from a table spot.

01:11:04.482 --> 01:11:08.790
[SPEAKER_02]: Dead eye into glass, offbreak comes out to help in the deathwriter's get there.

01:11:09.591 --> 01:11:15.762
[SPEAKER_02]: Kid gave off for a package, piled driver, moxley gave a suplex to page through the barbed wire.

01:11:16.783 --> 01:11:23.008
[SPEAKER_02]: Complete blood bath, off-brahe is pulmonized by Cesaro during all this.

01:11:23.568 --> 01:11:36.779
[SPEAKER_02]: The paramedics come out and make a show of getting him onto the stretcher so you know that he is out of commission and you feel like hangman page has nothing left.

01:11:36.879 --> 01:11:39.361
[SPEAKER_02]: He is bone.

01:11:40.181 --> 01:11:41.563
[SPEAKER_02]: But then all of a sudden,

01:11:42.592 --> 01:11:45.834
[SPEAKER_02]: you see Darby coming down from the rafters.

01:11:46.394 --> 01:11:52.577
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you see Brian Danielson and a blue Panther mask give the Buseco knees.

01:11:53.597 --> 01:12:08.465
[SPEAKER_02]: And all of a sudden, you realized that Marcus Cinegost, dead eye through a table, Danielson and Darby queer the ring of the death writers, the butt then show up and give Paige an EVP trick.

01:12:09.612 --> 01:12:16.554
[SPEAKER_02]: Monthly then stomps him into a bed of nails, and then giving him a death writer, D.D.T.

01:12:17.174 --> 01:12:18.835
[SPEAKER_02]: And he is going to wrap this thing up.

01:12:18.915 --> 01:12:21.936
[SPEAKER_02]: He tells Marina, hey, go get the briefcase.

01:12:22.296 --> 01:12:23.036
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do this thing.

01:12:23.396 --> 01:12:28.457
[SPEAKER_02]: And so she goes around to the ring announced area and grabs the briefcase.

01:12:28.517 --> 01:12:32.879
[SPEAKER_02]: And when she comes back, she realizes she's handcuffed to the table by Prince Nauna.

01:12:33.459 --> 01:12:34.219
[SPEAKER_02]: And he comes back.

01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:35.499
[SPEAKER_02]: He does this little dance.

01:12:36.020 --> 01:12:36.440
[SPEAKER_02]: And as the,

01:12:37.716 --> 01:12:45.187
[SPEAKER_02]: And the bulk of spent the time counting whether Paige is going to make the ten count or whether Molks is truly going to kill him.

01:12:46.088 --> 01:12:53.819
[SPEAKER_02]: Swerve shows up from the bat side with that chain from collision wrapped around with rest and give a good walk to both of the young bucks.

01:12:54.982 --> 01:13:06.113
[SPEAKER_02]: and then he looks a page, pages on all fours, wide-eyed that that crazy man hangman page look, and he sees Gwerve, and Gwerve throws him the chain.

01:13:07.294 --> 01:13:16.083
[SPEAKER_02]: That's Gwerve got from him at Collision in the locker room, and after he incapacitated the buck from there, page use of it.

01:13:17.331 --> 01:13:27.906
[SPEAKER_02]: Knocked Blockly gets an opportunity for a buckshot area in which Blockly takes it to the buckshot area right on the bed of nails and then hangman page.

01:13:28.968 --> 01:13:31.791
[SPEAKER_02]: Wrap that chain around him and just like in revolution.

01:13:33.008 --> 01:13:54.368
[SPEAKER_02]: Twenty, twenty, two, twenty, twenty, three, whenever it was in San Francisco, he hung John Malkley from the top of the ring overhead, like a hangman, to win his second AEW World Heavyweight title as John Malkley, ferociously taps out.

01:13:55.068 --> 01:13:58.432
[SPEAKER_02]: And afterward, hangman page, click in the ring,

01:13:59.557 --> 01:14:02.578
[SPEAKER_02]: with a bloody hand trying to open up the briefcase.

01:14:02.638 --> 01:14:04.739
[SPEAKER_02]: And he finally, you think you're not going to do it?

01:14:04.799 --> 01:14:10.341
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just a clarity to start weeping as he pulls out the belt.

01:14:10.481 --> 01:14:13.942
[SPEAKER_02]: But we haven't seen since October, twenty twenty four.

01:14:14.562 --> 01:14:26.726
[SPEAKER_02]: And he holds it high overhead, a swerve strickland with a slight smile on his face, stand right inside, knowing maybe, just maybe they're hoped for us all.

01:14:28.127 --> 01:14:28.627
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know what?

01:14:29.725 --> 01:14:30.805
[SPEAKER_02]: What a hell of a match.

01:14:31.385 --> 01:14:37.347
[SPEAKER_02]: A hell of a way to wrap up year five of AEW, the biggest show of the year.

01:14:38.347 --> 01:14:43.068
[SPEAKER_02]: And I tend to think that we're in a good place going forward.

01:14:44.048 --> 01:14:50.590
[SPEAKER_02]: So let's see what the hangman press conference had in store for us before we talk about what's going on in the future for AEW.

01:14:52.427 --> 01:14:53.208
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, fine, okay.

01:14:53.228 --> 01:14:53.908
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the one you want.

01:14:53.948 --> 01:14:55.549
[SPEAKER_02]: Hangman, Tony asks if he's okay.

01:14:55.589 --> 01:14:59.511
[SPEAKER_02]: Hangman says, no, he is not an emotional page near tears.

01:14:59.591 --> 01:15:02.633
[SPEAKER_02]: As he talked about, how he's so proud of what he's done for the last six years.

01:15:03.333 --> 01:15:05.415
[SPEAKER_02]: Tony thanked Paige for being the face of the company.

01:15:06.155 --> 01:15:07.436
[SPEAKER_02]: Paige said he had to win tonight.

01:15:07.616 --> 01:15:11.678
[SPEAKER_02]: He thought he had reached a downhill trajectory in life after winning the world title the first time.

01:15:12.218 --> 01:15:13.259
[SPEAKER_02]: He had to prove himself.

01:15:13.299 --> 01:15:14.860
[SPEAKER_02]: He still had the potential to do more.

01:15:16.637 --> 01:15:25.748
[SPEAKER_02]: Page asked today, if today is a vindication of the first reign, Page says when you first won it, his goal was to just win it and he never thought about the morning after.

01:15:26.329 --> 01:15:30.254
[SPEAKER_02]: This time you understand what it meant to hold the title and what tomorrow will be like.

01:15:31.343 --> 01:15:35.128
[SPEAKER_02]: Patrick says he's very proud of this and the company and he has expectations of himself.

01:15:35.848 --> 01:15:37.550
[SPEAKER_02]: Page asked about his mobile surf tonight.

01:15:38.311 --> 01:15:38.952
[SPEAKER_02]: Long calls.

01:15:39.653 --> 01:15:43.097
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going back to think about that for a long time before I have an answer he says.

01:15:43.858 --> 01:15:46.161
[SPEAKER_02]: In character, he talks about how they ruined each other's lives.

01:15:46.821 --> 01:15:50.045
[SPEAKER_02]: Tonight, he chose to just honor going to make my life better.

01:15:51.026 --> 01:15:54.788
[SPEAKER_02]: Page says he doesn't know Swerve did it for him, AEW, or Swerve himself.

01:15:55.369 --> 01:16:01.132
[SPEAKER_02]: He may never figure that out, but he feels good to be able to let go of a little bit of the past to be excited about the future.

01:16:01.852 --> 01:16:06.995
[SPEAKER_02]: Page asked about MJF, reporter says he has Page's number, which Adam takes steps to.

01:16:07.235 --> 01:16:08.416
[SPEAKER_02]: He has my number.

01:16:08.976 --> 01:16:15.280
[SPEAKER_02]: So he's not afraid of MJF in the clinic yet, not that MJF is in a formidable challenger, so there's nothing they can do to take the title from him.

01:16:16.635 --> 01:16:19.177
[SPEAKER_02]: Page I is about getting in the headspace for these death matches.

01:16:19.837 --> 01:16:22.199
[SPEAKER_02]: Page I says, you can't get in the headspace until you're physically in it.

01:16:22.619 --> 01:16:25.001
[SPEAKER_02]: He slept eight hours, the last three or four nights.

01:16:25.381 --> 01:16:28.123
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been an absolute mess all week in space today.

01:16:28.543 --> 01:16:29.243
[SPEAKER_02]: He shocked at me.

01:16:29.263 --> 01:16:30.224
[SPEAKER_02]: He creeps went well.

01:16:30.804 --> 01:16:33.006
[SPEAKER_02]: Page I said, he's crying so much this week, but he's proud of that.

01:16:33.086 --> 01:16:35.628
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the first time I'm wrestling a man, I've gotten applause for crying.

01:16:36.228 --> 01:16:38.930
[SPEAKER_02]: Someone bring my dad to act alive and show him this.

01:16:39.630 --> 01:16:40.271
[SPEAKER_02]: That's Trevor name.

01:16:40.911 --> 01:16:46.895
[SPEAKER_02]: Page shots about smelling blood in this mattress as he was scared when he did want to get starched, but discovered that he liked them.

01:16:47.455 --> 01:16:48.696
[SPEAKER_02]: Because he shouldn't be hot to do them.

01:16:49.116 --> 01:16:53.138
[SPEAKER_02]: A big deep, long emotional Tony hanger hug.

01:16:55.500 --> 01:16:56.881
[SPEAKER_02]: Give me one second here.

01:17:02.124 --> 01:17:06.286
[SPEAKER_02]: After that, Tony's on a tone.

01:17:06.967 --> 01:17:08.868
[SPEAKER_02]: He says, thanks for the fans to

01:17:10.324 --> 01:17:23.452
[SPEAKER_02]: coming in for four days straight called tonight their best event ever certainly the best ending they're most fans of the US and they're most lucrative Tony says they're coming home Chicago and they're gonna have a great time and that is where we're up there

01:17:25.002 --> 01:17:28.263
[SPEAKER_02]: So we have a lot to look forward to.

01:17:28.343 --> 01:17:35.045
[SPEAKER_02]: There was, in fact, nothing announced for Dynamite on Wednesday.

01:17:35.745 --> 01:17:44.728
[SPEAKER_02]: But what I do have is someone who is at the show and we're going to wrap up the show with some live reactions from one Kevin Ealy.

01:17:45.610 --> 01:17:55.612
[SPEAKER_02]: who, as you all know, was a former guest, also a former host on the boom, which was our AEW recaptured.

01:17:55.672 --> 01:17:56.812
[SPEAKER_03]: And we got him here tonight.

01:17:57.052 --> 01:17:58.873
[SPEAKER_03]: He's never really done that.

01:17:58.933 --> 01:17:59.753
[SPEAKER_03]: What's up, can you hear me?

01:18:00.573 --> 01:18:01.633
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

01:18:01.653 --> 01:18:02.373
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

01:18:02.833 --> 01:18:07.534
[SPEAKER_03]: I am a live from Fortillos in Denton, Texas.

01:18:08.014 --> 01:18:10.575
[SPEAKER_03]: That theme is very authentic.

01:18:10.755 --> 01:18:11.515
[SPEAKER_03]: The famous piece.

01:18:15.273 --> 01:18:16.574
[SPEAKER_02]: So you were at the show?

01:18:19.396 --> 01:18:21.418
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, the long, long show.

01:18:21.438 --> 01:18:25.821
[SPEAKER_02]: Good powers, almost without the pre-show.

01:18:26.061 --> 01:18:30.945
[SPEAKER_03]: So eight, eight for me, because we got there at the beginning of the pre-show.

01:18:30.965 --> 01:18:36.248
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, and it's a long show that you've ever been to.

01:18:38.930 --> 01:18:39.331
[SPEAKER_03]: Easily.

01:18:39.971 --> 01:18:40.331
[SPEAKER_03]: Easily.

01:18:40.792 --> 01:18:42.053
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

01:18:42.513 --> 01:18:44.935
[SPEAKER_02]: What about the best show you've ever been to?

01:18:48.913 --> 01:19:06.332
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's start to say I don't I think it probably will be There's some dynamites that I had a really great evening, but I've talked about there's that I mean this was the top you know just start to finish

01:19:07.288 --> 01:19:08.829
[SPEAKER_03]: She felt like there was a whole story.

01:19:09.829 --> 01:19:12.170
[SPEAKER_03]: People were losing their mind.

01:19:12.270 --> 01:19:19.733
[SPEAKER_03]: I lost my mind when I became a child when Brian Denson came out.

01:19:19.873 --> 01:19:22.154
[SPEAKER_03]: People were pointing up with the rafters for Darby.

01:19:22.174 --> 01:19:23.474
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it was everything.

01:19:23.514 --> 01:19:24.175
[SPEAKER_03]: It all happened.

01:19:24.595 --> 01:19:25.375
[SPEAKER_03]: It all happened.

01:19:26.435 --> 01:19:29.777
[SPEAKER_02]: So what was the moment for you that you're going to remember?

01:19:31.210 --> 01:19:32.311
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, in all of this.

01:19:32.711 --> 01:19:38.774
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, the iconic moments that you're going to wake up tomorrow is like, man, I can't believe I saw it.

01:19:41.895 --> 01:19:45.377
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, a lot of ultraviolence.

01:19:47.358 --> 01:19:49.459
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and let's see.

01:19:54.301 --> 01:19:57.123
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, honestly, just seeing will last free come out for the first time.

01:19:57.143 --> 01:20:03.127
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I've ever seen him before and just getting the full entrance with a pyro and everything.

01:20:04.248 --> 01:20:06.690
[SPEAKER_03]: That match was great.

01:20:07.431 --> 01:20:11.774
[SPEAKER_03]: Really though, the moment for me was hanging open up that briefcase, the paid off grade.

01:20:12.388 --> 01:20:23.135
[SPEAKER_03]: It really paid off great in the room for as much as we complained about the death writers gimmick and along was a slog getting here like it all paid off so well in the arena.

01:20:25.036 --> 01:20:25.697
[SPEAKER_03]: Just people were.

01:20:27.263 --> 01:20:42.296
[SPEAKER_03]: Just the, you know, I had a buddy that came down with us who doesn't give a rip of our wrestling and doesn't know anything and we've, we're on a three hour drive to the show and we're priming him by just telling the entire backstory of the entire hanging stage saga from five years ago to now.

01:20:43.417 --> 01:20:48.021
[SPEAKER_03]: And so by the end of it, he's like, we're just going to come out to help him, isn't he?

01:20:49.150 --> 01:20:50.951
[SPEAKER_03]: And he was predicting all the things.

01:20:51.031 --> 01:20:59.894
[SPEAKER_03]: And so when he would he held that belt up like my buddy who had never been interested in before it was like validated wildly.

01:20:59.935 --> 01:21:00.835
[SPEAKER_03]: So it was great.

01:21:01.675 --> 01:21:01.935
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

01:21:02.075 --> 01:21:02.356
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

01:21:02.416 --> 01:21:06.197
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's that worth match and should have been on collision.

01:21:09.739 --> 01:21:12.840
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the I think most of the pre show should have been bought.

01:21:14.520 --> 01:21:17.882
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they should have put the women's gauntlet in the pre show.

01:21:21.685 --> 01:21:25.226
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think you could have bumped the TNT title match.

01:21:26.386 --> 01:21:31.827
[SPEAKER_03]: But it was a great moment.

01:21:32.087 --> 01:21:35.488
[SPEAKER_03]: Like no chair about the match everyone was ready to press during the match.

01:21:36.109 --> 01:21:38.249
[SPEAKER_03]: You could just tell I was what I took a walk.

01:21:38.849 --> 01:21:43.531
[SPEAKER_03]: I took a walk and I was walking through the halls of wood to the men's room and like no one was even talking to each other.

01:21:43.931 --> 01:21:44.811
[SPEAKER_03]: People were just down.

01:21:45.831 --> 01:21:47.932
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we were like sitting there saying,

01:21:48.786 --> 01:21:51.467
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, maybe they had to win.

01:21:51.587 --> 01:21:53.207
[SPEAKER_03]: Not thinking it was going to actually happen.

01:21:54.087 --> 01:22:04.250
[SPEAKER_03]: But when he did, and everyone of the, you know, who knows what we'll actually find out, but everyone in the arena, the people around us got the impression Dustin didn't know he was winning.

01:22:05.591 --> 01:22:09.772
[SPEAKER_03]: That like the spot was for Sammy to break up the pin and Sammy didn't break it up.

01:22:10.692 --> 01:22:11.452
[SPEAKER_03]: That's interesting.

01:22:11.472 --> 01:22:16.714
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, you know, that's whether it just got lost in the moment or whether it was just us, you know,

01:22:17.648 --> 01:22:29.866
[SPEAKER_02]: getting worked and in a great way or I mean it was a great moment right like you just it just felt like very genuine it was it was the right call we were talking about it earlier in the show in that

01:22:31.808 --> 01:22:45.541
[SPEAKER_02]: After the Adam Cole moment, right, which is absolutely devastating on like I'm so many loves like everyone watching it had the same just gutterle like devastating like you just your heart felt for this guy.

01:22:45.701 --> 01:22:49.725
[SPEAKER_02]: You weren't going on and then you did and it was just all bad.

01:22:51.367 --> 01:22:54.870
[SPEAKER_02]: Kyle Fletcher would have been forgotten completely.

01:22:56.045 --> 01:22:56.885
[SPEAKER_02]: Like him winning.

01:22:56.905 --> 01:22:57.206
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:22:57.646 --> 01:22:59.387
[SPEAKER_02]: No one and no one.

01:23:00.027 --> 01:23:01.968
[SPEAKER_02]: You give someone a shock feel good moment.

01:23:02.148 --> 01:23:04.549
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone just assumed Kyle Fletcher was just going to win this match.

01:23:05.029 --> 01:23:07.530
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're just going to move full steam ahead now.

01:23:07.830 --> 01:23:10.231
[SPEAKER_02]: You're giving people that ducked in moment.

01:23:10.271 --> 01:23:13.073
[SPEAKER_02]: You've finished his story, if you will, right?

01:23:14.073 --> 01:23:19.034
[SPEAKER_02]: And in two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, fluttering me like, I was owed a one-on-one match.

01:23:19.575 --> 01:23:22.115
[SPEAKER_02]: And he gets his one-on-one match and we're right back to it.

01:23:22.675 --> 01:23:34.179
[SPEAKER_02]: And you still get this moment where from complete devastation, you got the Texas sun and everyone's just like, stocked out into smiling against.

01:23:34.659 --> 01:23:36.679
[SPEAKER_02]: And everyone's just like, that's good booking.

01:23:37.220 --> 01:23:41.081
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you may think it's hot-shotting, but you had to do something.

01:23:41.141 --> 01:23:41.881
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good hot-shotting.

01:23:42.648 --> 01:23:43.809
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.

01:23:45.330 --> 01:23:46.971
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was the right way to get a positive.

01:23:47.031 --> 01:23:47.392
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody.

01:23:47.412 --> 01:23:48.573
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

01:23:49.093 --> 01:23:49.813
[SPEAKER_03]: I've got it.

01:23:49.833 --> 01:23:51.855
[SPEAKER_02]: I've gotten your funeral for two of my holding you up.

01:23:52.576 --> 01:23:53.416
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it would.

01:23:54.897 --> 01:23:56.138
[SPEAKER_03]: There we just just got it.

01:23:56.218 --> 01:23:56.879
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's it.

01:23:56.919 --> 01:23:57.479
[SPEAKER_03]: There's my guy.

01:23:58.400 --> 01:23:59.481
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright.

01:24:00.502 --> 01:24:04.284
[SPEAKER_02]: That is that is the queue to say thank you so much for popping in.

01:24:04.645 --> 01:24:06.986
[SPEAKER_02]: It was great to get some feedback live from the show.

01:24:07.447 --> 01:24:11.430
[SPEAKER_02]: And would you recommend people going to the big AEW show next year?

01:24:14.270 --> 01:24:14.830
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

01:24:15.430 --> 01:24:15.870
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

01:24:15.971 --> 01:24:17.571
[SPEAKER_03]: It was super long, but it was worth it.

01:24:18.631 --> 01:24:19.531
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

01:24:20.152 --> 01:24:21.272
[SPEAKER_02]: Kevin, thank you.

01:24:21.392 --> 01:24:22.692
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been too long, my man.

01:24:22.792 --> 01:24:30.655
[SPEAKER_02]: And I hope that you join me on a podcast soon so we can shop it up, talk about AEW because I do truly miss talking to you about this stuff.

01:24:31.715 --> 01:24:32.655
[SPEAKER_03]: I did to my friend.

01:24:32.735 --> 01:24:34.316
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.

01:24:34.476 --> 01:24:35.356
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll check in one day.

01:24:35.516 --> 01:24:35.876
[SPEAKER_02]: One day.

01:24:36.676 --> 01:24:37.897
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe not more of a one day.

01:24:39.217 --> 01:24:39.417
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

01:24:40.077 --> 01:24:40.957
[SPEAKER_02]: All the best you buddy.

01:24:41.037 --> 01:24:41.397
[SPEAKER_02]: Take care.

01:24:41.417 --> 01:24:42.438
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

01:24:42.758 --> 01:24:42.938
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.

01:24:46.305 --> 01:24:50.110
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, we got one more guy here for us tonight.

01:24:50.170 --> 01:24:54.935
[SPEAKER_02]: We got BJ Bethel joining us at BJ.

01:24:55.015 --> 01:24:59.441
[SPEAKER_02]: We are just wrapping up the show here, but we have gone through the media scrum.

01:24:59.501 --> 01:25:01.383
[SPEAKER_02]: We have gone through the show.

01:25:02.024 --> 01:25:03.345
[SPEAKER_02]: We have gone through everything.

01:25:03.385 --> 01:25:05.508
[SPEAKER_02]: And I want to hear what did you think about this show?

01:25:07.534 --> 01:25:09.896
[SPEAKER_01]: It's AWLiver's on his paper.

01:25:10.136 --> 01:25:11.097
[SPEAKER_01]: I missed quite a bit.

01:25:11.337 --> 01:25:14.579
[SPEAKER_01]: I was, we had thunderstorms in the area, which is one reason.

01:25:14.599 --> 01:25:17.281
[SPEAKER_01]: I was trying struggling to get on with you.

01:25:18.602 --> 01:25:20.963
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for having patience and waiting.

01:25:20.983 --> 01:25:25.387
[SPEAKER_01]: We're at least catching me here at the end, but they just deliver.

01:25:25.407 --> 01:25:31.171
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw a lot of comparisons with the end, because you know, yet run-ins, you had things like that.

01:25:31.251 --> 01:25:34.273
[SPEAKER_01]: They're comparing it to the Cody Manium match, but

01:25:37.079 --> 01:25:40.201
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the big show at the end of the year.

01:25:40.261 --> 01:25:41.762
[SPEAKER_02]: You're supposed to get sick out.

01:25:41.902 --> 01:25:51.908
[SPEAKER_01]: But also I think it goes back to maybe all out twenty twenty one when they had coal and Danielson and in Ruby so almost basically debut at the same exact moment.

01:25:52.468 --> 01:25:53.969
[SPEAKER_01]: You know kind of feeding instead.

01:25:54.349 --> 01:25:58.272
[SPEAKER_01]: What really surprised me this show was you had you had no free agent debuts.

01:25:59.072 --> 01:26:05.536
[SPEAKER_01]: But you had all these like surprises like in the women's and men's matches where he just had people yet seen in a while.

01:26:06.317 --> 01:26:08.198
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were super over when they appeared.

01:26:08.478 --> 01:26:17.224
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that really speaks well to how they've managed to roster, how they've changed momentum, gotten a fan's face back in the product.

01:26:18.165 --> 01:26:20.206
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought hey man, Moxley was great.

01:26:21.607 --> 01:26:25.169
[SPEAKER_01]: Moxley's probably the best peel in the business, best peel the decade.

01:26:26.707 --> 01:26:29.856
[SPEAKER_01]: People have really been down on this run and I think people don't understand it.

01:26:31.512 --> 01:26:34.353
[SPEAKER_01]: The job of the heels, not to get you to like them.

01:26:35.253 --> 01:26:37.093
[SPEAKER_01]: And Mox understands that very well.

01:26:37.253 --> 01:26:43.774
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's also a guy who's very old school taught in his use of ring side colleges and his promos.

01:26:43.794 --> 01:26:46.315
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy who's been through less thatcher school.

01:26:46.335 --> 01:26:54.797
[SPEAKER_01]: This is somebody who really learned to deep down kind of old school southeast, crockett style, mid-Atlantic wrestling.

01:26:54.837 --> 01:27:01.198
[SPEAKER_01]: And then kind of turned it, used that ability to storytelling through that in the hardcore and made his own kind of thing with it.

01:27:02.138 --> 01:27:08.762
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you look at ratings, if you look at YouTube numbers, I think Movesley's kind of the MVP of the company.

01:27:10.303 --> 01:27:16.687
[SPEAKER_01]: Just over the last year, he's built something for them to like make baby faces off of and get other people over.

01:27:16.747 --> 01:27:21.310
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's spilled over into, you know, other aspects of the company.

01:27:21.330 --> 01:27:23.691
[SPEAKER_01]: I think another great example that's Mercedes.

01:27:24.852 --> 01:27:26.233
[SPEAKER_01]: Also Tony Storm.

01:27:27.988 --> 01:27:32.472
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I mean, you want to show a nice like, wow, all these guys are stars.

01:27:33.369 --> 01:27:37.870
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're setting up that women's division pretty well.

01:27:37.930 --> 01:27:43.011
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you put the eight women in matches with each other for the last three months, right?

01:27:43.651 --> 01:27:47.912
[SPEAKER_02]: And by the time you got them into the casino gauntlet, they don't work with each other.

01:27:47.992 --> 01:27:50.053
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't spend time with each other.

01:27:50.073 --> 01:27:53.714
[SPEAKER_02]: And when it was a big stage time, they could go.

01:27:54.374 --> 01:28:00.055
[SPEAKER_02]: And there wasn't that lack of organic chemistry between them.

01:28:00.115 --> 01:28:01.416
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they were familiar with everything.

01:28:01.456 --> 01:28:03.036
[SPEAKER_02]: And even like Thunder Rosa, you know,

01:28:04.817 --> 01:28:13.140
[SPEAKER_02]: She's lost everything when she's not in Texas, but for whatever reason when she's in Texas, she's able to tap into whenever it was that made her what she is.

01:28:13.640 --> 01:28:17.982
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I thought everybody generally delivered when it came to those casino golic.

01:28:18.022 --> 01:28:23.884
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be asking this, which casino golic do you think delivered more on future potential?

01:28:23.904 --> 01:28:25.545
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the women's did.

01:28:26.668 --> 01:28:35.211
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I just think the way just, you know, just almond auto, just in failure, the way they battled back, you know, yeah, Billy starts getting involved with Athena.

01:28:35.231 --> 01:28:46.815
[SPEAKER_01]: I think just having Athena went in, it kind of finally established that, okay, she's in the main event in AWS now after three years of basically carrying a ROH on her back.

01:28:48.455 --> 01:28:55.898
[SPEAKER_01]: And with Bandit, it was, and to catch this off, especially after the fantastic match they had, you know, a super card I think that,

01:28:57.908 --> 01:29:02.571
[SPEAKER_01]: They won't need her as much, so this is her chance to really climb in it, but in that card.

01:29:03.031 --> 01:29:03.791
[SPEAKER_01]: I was surprised.

01:29:03.891 --> 01:29:04.551
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell me one.

01:29:04.632 --> 01:29:11.155
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that was a smart move, but I think as far as the gauntlet where you look at the future, you look at how that was set up.

01:29:11.795 --> 01:29:14.416
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of wondering where Stattlander goes from here.

01:29:16.783 --> 01:29:20.705
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think she's somebody that should be in the main event scene.

01:29:20.745 --> 01:29:22.325
[SPEAKER_01]: She's got that physical ability.

01:29:22.345 --> 01:29:23.866
[SPEAKER_01]: She's got the physical charisma.

01:29:24.266 --> 01:29:28.448
[SPEAKER_01]: She's not a promo like Mercedes or Tony, but you don't have to be that.

01:29:28.888 --> 01:29:30.929
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, she can get over on her wrestling.

01:29:32.169 --> 01:29:35.011
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, anybody can do four, fifty splashes like she can.

01:29:35.831 --> 01:29:41.356
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and just is big and athletic and as strong as she is, and you know, just care is manic.

01:29:41.416 --> 01:29:52.467
[SPEAKER_01]: I think she's, you know, somebody to watch out for, but I just thought, watching both, I thought, I thought the men's was great, but I thought the women's probably set them up better for the next, you know, several months.

01:29:53.352 --> 01:29:55.833
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm looking at the women's division.

01:29:55.873 --> 01:30:00.615
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like there's four people on that concept of a breakout.

01:30:01.395 --> 01:30:06.077
[SPEAKER_02]: And that would be Athena, Megan Bane, Stoutlander and Willow.

01:30:06.858 --> 01:30:10.119
[SPEAKER_02]: Now Willow is my belt her.

01:30:10.719 --> 01:30:13.740
[SPEAKER_02]: She is all the money in the company to me.

01:30:13.821 --> 01:30:17.002
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, and I thought she looked like a million bucks and she has been

01:30:18.302 --> 01:30:20.023
[SPEAKER_02]: working tremendously out of effort.

01:30:20.443 --> 01:30:26.026
[SPEAKER_02]: Working tremendously hard on all aspects of her presentation to be as made of that as possible.

01:30:26.406 --> 01:30:26.626
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

01:30:27.226 --> 01:30:31.748
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, she's been the only woman that they've mastered against Marina.

01:30:32.729 --> 01:30:40.993
[SPEAKER_01]: So that tells you where they see her as far as star level Mercedes when she got her it was wrestling.

01:30:42.032 --> 01:30:54.379
[SPEAKER_01]: It was wrestling willow in New Japan and this was a couple years ago before Willow was getting established and she was already this great charismatic, amazing baby face with the winningest smile and wrestling.

01:30:55.269 --> 01:31:00.511
[SPEAKER_01]: But Mercedes made the call to give her the New Japan strong title in the middle of the ring.

01:31:00.651 --> 01:31:02.192
[SPEAKER_01]: That wasn't supposed to happen.

01:31:02.692 --> 01:31:03.232
[SPEAKER_01]: She got hurt.

01:31:03.292 --> 01:31:09.914
[SPEAKER_01]: She could have very easily just rolled it, willow up and you know, when limped out the ring and then just dropped the belt, no, she gave her the belt.

01:31:10.655 --> 01:31:15.677
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it tells you to just respect the other women having the division for her.

01:31:15.717 --> 01:31:19.278
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think she's probably at some point it's gonna be her title.

01:31:20.918 --> 01:31:22.039
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be interesting road.

01:31:22.319 --> 01:31:23.820
[SPEAKER_01]: The way they've been booking things, it's been,

01:31:25.678 --> 01:31:27.899
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been things where I'm going, man, what are they thinking?

01:31:27.919 --> 01:31:29.680
[SPEAKER_01]: But it ends up paying off.

01:31:31.101 --> 01:31:33.342
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's really looking at where.

01:31:33.362 --> 01:31:38.284
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're playing things out right, but they're also wrapping things up in the right manner.

01:31:38.344 --> 01:31:40.405
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the way they did the, ending a night.

01:31:40.485 --> 01:31:45.487
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was going to have that we needed with as much as they put into the deathwriter story line.

01:31:45.527 --> 01:31:47.988
[SPEAKER_01]: It really had to have this kind of ending to it.

01:31:48.388 --> 01:32:13.999
[SPEAKER_01]: because it's been a gang battle and those are always the best wrestling story lines and it whether it's the four horsemen against Dusty and Magdum or if it's you know the Russians and the road warriors or if it's the NW and WCW or if it's Vince and whoever he's got against you know Austin and baby faces or you know I mean that's always the bullet let me look at New Japan in the bullet club you know

01:32:15.740 --> 01:32:19.402
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in chaos and Suzuki Goon and all of that.

01:32:19.422 --> 01:32:25.525
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, when AEW really was rolling was right from the beginning, a lot of that was because of the inner circle versus the elite.

01:32:26.125 --> 01:32:36.130
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that those, that always seems to be the best storylines that fans can get involved in, because it's kind of this all-encompassing drama thing where, you know, the baby faces are desperate.

01:32:36.170 --> 01:32:39.672
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's, they did a really good, great job of presenting that.

01:32:39.692 --> 01:32:41.973
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the MVP of that would be Will Osprey.

01:32:42.513 --> 01:32:57.298
[SPEAKER_01]: because he was just trying to talk to Swerve like how important it was that one of those one of the three of them when that time had to be one of them right wasn't like presented in a WWE way where everybody's kind of their own individual self

01:32:58.058 --> 01:33:00.139
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, and then you know, we do tag matches.

01:33:00.780 --> 01:33:09.825
[SPEAKER_01]: We do these angry tag matches together before our actual paper view main event, which I haven't really done for a while, but I don't like the characterization of much.

01:33:09.845 --> 01:33:16.648
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was much more human, much more relatable in AEW, and I thought that really paid off in the last year's suspects.

01:33:16.969 --> 01:33:20.190
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Osprey's, Osprey's clear in a way going to be the star of the future.

01:33:20.210 --> 01:33:23.672
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm worried about Osprey personally.

01:33:25.378 --> 01:33:36.103
[SPEAKER_02]: I know that there's an idea, I know that there's an idea that in nine months positioning him to be the top guy is clearly a good idea.

01:33:37.144 --> 01:33:45.028
[SPEAKER_02]: But you are taking no count that he doesn't get injured and with his work rate style, that's one hundred percent of risk.

01:33:45.968 --> 01:33:53.392
[SPEAKER_02]: And how many times can you put him in a position to not win the big one?

01:33:54.595 --> 01:33:58.967
[SPEAKER_02]: in scenarios in the past and keep him feeling special.

01:34:00.587 --> 01:34:01.508
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a great point.

01:34:01.748 --> 01:34:07.631
[SPEAKER_01]: I think if anybody can keep that going, because you gotta, I mean, I look, and this is New Game Boy.

01:34:07.691 --> 01:34:08.071
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

01:34:08.131 --> 01:34:10.873
[SPEAKER_01]: Rotos reaction when he got the title.

01:34:11.673 --> 01:34:15.535
[SPEAKER_01]: Like they kind of needed to go to him, but he was always the guy who never wanted.

01:34:15.555 --> 01:34:20.198
[SPEAKER_01]: And then when he wins it, he wins over the crowd, he becomes a draw.

01:34:20.898 --> 01:34:29.163
[SPEAKER_01]: I think if anybody can keep that going and play the underdog role, I think it's probably harder to be an underdog as far as Osprey goes.

01:34:29.743 --> 01:34:31.065
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's natural charm.

01:34:31.545 --> 01:34:34.949
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he has such natural charm and it's like you watch him in the ring.

01:34:35.009 --> 01:34:37.272
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, okay, this guy's the greatest wrestler in the world.

01:34:37.672 --> 01:34:38.013
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:34:38.293 --> 01:34:44.400
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's nobody better than I mean, there's maybe some guys that are as good as him, but there's nobody better and

01:34:46.010 --> 01:34:49.811
[SPEAKER_01]: You, I mean, I was, I mean, one of my, I, I always liked these kind of story.

01:34:49.831 --> 01:34:52.392
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, my favorite in New Japan story line.

01:34:52.452 --> 01:34:53.513
[SPEAKER_01]: One of them was in the Honda.

01:34:53.533 --> 01:34:56.014
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he couldn't win a match for like a year.

01:34:56.034 --> 01:34:57.554
[SPEAKER_01]: He gets an attack.

01:34:57.594 --> 01:34:58.395
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't want to match.

01:34:58.835 --> 01:35:00.215
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he still can't win a match.

01:35:00.235 --> 01:35:01.036
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's winning.

01:35:01.356 --> 01:35:03.657
[SPEAKER_01]: He's just barely losing against all these stars.

01:35:03.697 --> 01:35:09.259
[SPEAKER_01]: He's losing to everybody, you know, then he gets in the New Japan tag league and some miracle run and they ended up

01:35:09.999 --> 01:35:16.581
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, winning the New Japan tag titles and then WWE stills that storyline with he's later in Rhino.

01:35:17.682 --> 01:35:21.343
[SPEAKER_01]: But, but it's like I like that style.

01:35:21.403 --> 01:35:23.424
[SPEAKER_01]: I like to think, okay, can he win the big one?

01:35:23.464 --> 01:35:24.284
[SPEAKER_01]: Can he win the big one?

01:35:24.304 --> 01:35:26.205
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's a question, the greats all face.

01:35:26.265 --> 01:35:27.525
[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Jordan faced that.

01:35:29.066 --> 01:35:30.266
[SPEAKER_01]: John L. way faced that.

01:35:30.286 --> 01:35:34.307
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, pay it on your face if you don't face it and you're not great.

01:35:34.467 --> 01:35:35.788
[SPEAKER_02]: If you can't write for the moment,

01:35:36.491 --> 01:35:43.474
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you know, you, I mean, I think I'd be a great build up, you know, build it back up to then and, you know, we'll see.

01:35:43.874 --> 01:35:44.974
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, but I will say this.

01:35:45.034 --> 01:35:56.478
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, his style when he has been injured is you get injured bad and especially doing the high risk stuff, but yeah, that's definitely a big concern.

01:35:56.518 --> 01:36:00.200
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, look, how many people thought we'd only have one Daniels and a mega match?

01:36:01.179 --> 01:36:03.239
[SPEAKER_01]: when Danielson went there in twenty twenty-one.

01:36:03.719 --> 01:36:05.620
[SPEAKER_01]: We're now in the middle of twenty twenty five.

01:36:05.660 --> 01:36:07.940
[SPEAKER_01]: We've had one Danielson omega match, right?

01:36:09.060 --> 01:36:11.021
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think we're only getting one.

01:36:11.461 --> 01:36:13.561
[SPEAKER_01]: Then I probably the only one we're ever getting.

01:36:13.621 --> 01:36:15.462
[SPEAKER_01]: He would have ever thought that was the case.

01:36:16.082 --> 01:36:22.143
[SPEAKER_02]: When we had that match, it, you know, there were a long time BJ where we'd ever thought we would ever get that match.

01:36:22.523 --> 01:36:23.463
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:36:23.563 --> 01:36:27.564
[SPEAKER_02]: That goal poker constantly shifting in a positive direction, which I like.

01:36:28.247 --> 01:36:54.132
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that's one thing when you have two companies that are paying good money and offering and they're doing well creatively and they're doing well with their audiences and I think that's one plus of it is that you can get a lot of these matches based on if you can pull over the right people that match and do well with your stuff and work with your company guys or if they have the right chemistry and some of it's unexpected.

01:36:54.612 --> 01:37:06.738
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he would have thought for Strickland coming over and hangman page would just have the most chemistry of maybe anybody working together creative their creative ability with each other because they have worked on a lot behind the scenes.

01:37:07.059 --> 01:37:21.126
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I know that they worked on getting Ricochet over and a couple of like they were very, um, they are very, very, interestingly tied to a lot of the top creative processes in in AEW and they don't have to do that.

01:37:21.666 --> 01:37:21.847
[SPEAKER_01]: They,

01:37:23.264 --> 01:37:32.189
[SPEAKER_01]: their thought process on this stuff, Swerve and Hangman is so much above everybody else.

01:37:32.789 --> 01:37:35.210
[SPEAKER_01]: It is, yeah, they're thoughtful.

01:37:35.931 --> 01:37:37.932
[SPEAKER_01]: They take in the consideration each other.

01:37:39.223 --> 01:37:45.805
[SPEAKER_01]: They, and if you look at this feud, it's like, you know, we've been waiting for, you know, them to get the redemption, each of them.

01:37:46.265 --> 01:37:48.726
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're only getting it pieces at a time.

01:37:49.506 --> 01:37:56.708
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's been one good thing about this is that, you know, it's like even a night, you know, you don't know if Swerb's gonna hit.

01:37:58.189 --> 01:38:04.779
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I mean, the pop would not have came out popped up out from behind the desk and it handcuffed.

01:38:05.400 --> 01:38:06.421
[SPEAKER_01]: She fear was just.

01:38:12.570 --> 01:38:16.051
[SPEAKER_01]: Even a thought Prince Naughty would add one of the biggest pops in the main event.

01:38:16.671 --> 01:38:17.991
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he did.

01:38:18.892 --> 01:38:20.272
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though there was a ton of pop.

01:38:20.292 --> 01:38:21.952
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was just a great one.

01:38:22.313 --> 01:38:22.773
[SPEAKER_01]: It was funny.

01:38:22.793 --> 01:38:27.794
[SPEAKER_01]: I was reading a lot of WWE fan reaction and they were like, wow, this is a lot like the bloodline story line.

01:38:27.814 --> 01:38:30.795
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's actually blood and they said it.

01:38:31.335 --> 01:38:36.416
[SPEAKER_01]: It was funny because people react to you because you're not getting music when these people are coming down, which A.W.

01:38:36.456 --> 01:38:38.757
[SPEAKER_01]: typically does music for the run-ins.

01:38:39.577 --> 01:38:40.558
[SPEAKER_01]: But they didn't deny it.

01:38:40.578 --> 01:38:43.059
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought it really played much better that way.

01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:45.720
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never been a fan of too much music during the run-ins.

01:38:45.840 --> 01:38:50.543
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they did a bunch of music for the other ones that, you know, it just didn't play very well.

01:38:50.583 --> 01:38:59.867
[SPEAKER_02]: Like when Copeland came out and he did the pentastial entrance and missed to go to the pentastial entrance, you're actually really happy when Mina came out and she liked she didn't dance.

01:38:59.887 --> 01:39:02.469
[SPEAKER_02]: She just came out and started beating some ass.

01:39:03.149 --> 01:39:04.230
[SPEAKER_02]: And so like,

01:39:05.070 --> 01:39:11.591
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't a time for the rest of us to be sobering themselves like they were out there with the purpose of helping.

01:39:12.112 --> 01:39:19.653
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like we're not we're not waiting for big flash and all this and with Copeland, there's kind of you can say there's some storyline behind it.

01:39:19.693 --> 01:39:25.675
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not all right with Cage, but you know, I'm not going to say, I'm going to let you just kind of maybe die for a second.

01:39:25.715 --> 01:39:27.595
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I want to let you be on the verge of death.

01:39:27.915 --> 01:39:32.059
[SPEAKER_01]: Then I'm going to come down, save you, and kind of rub it in your face, and I'm going to walk out.

01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:34.522
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, it's funny.

01:39:34.582 --> 01:39:38.145
[SPEAKER_01]: ECW really started that stuff, and it seemed to work better there.

01:39:38.205 --> 01:39:38.886
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why.

01:39:38.906 --> 01:39:50.178
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's maybe because it was fresher by thinking that smaller environment, and you're also using kind of really, I mean, using songs like interim sandman and natural born killers, it just kind of

01:39:50.738 --> 01:39:56.464
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are epic cults really iconic songs that some of these wrestlers were really identified with.

01:39:56.924 --> 01:40:06.053
[SPEAKER_01]: It just gets over almost in a more experienced level, but I liked how they did the main event where they didn't do any of that.

01:40:06.653 --> 01:40:15.402
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought putting a Darby promo in from Mount Everest and then having Danielson run in, you know, and everyone's like,

01:40:15.962 --> 01:40:19.785
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, what's going on and then, you know, and announces really kept it over.

01:40:19.825 --> 01:40:21.966
[SPEAKER_01]: We, you know, he was forced out of retirement.

01:40:22.007 --> 01:40:23.287
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know she can do this.

01:40:23.668 --> 01:40:27.871
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like Holda, Hague Man's team of help.

01:40:29.072 --> 01:40:29.612
[SPEAKER_02]: What's that?

01:40:29.632 --> 01:40:30.773
[SPEAKER_02]: The Portland Trailblazers.

01:40:34.095 --> 01:40:35.236
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it was, man.

01:40:35.296 --> 01:40:37.778
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like they should have had his paper view in Portland.

01:40:38.712 --> 01:40:41.653
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, just all the Washington guys are there.

01:40:41.833 --> 01:40:43.533
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you're quite correct.

01:40:43.893 --> 01:40:44.873
[SPEAKER_02]: Here to help hang man.

01:40:45.393 --> 01:40:47.834
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody but Clyde Drexler was out there, man.

01:40:47.894 --> 01:40:57.095
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, I think that we are in heading in a really solid direction for the entirety of AEW in general.

01:40:57.155 --> 01:41:03.956
[SPEAKER_02]: When I was watching Hangman come out tonight, I felt like there was, it was like a metaphor.

01:41:04.036 --> 01:41:04.797
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mentioned the earlier.

01:41:04.837 --> 01:41:06.397
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like a metaphor for

01:41:07.919 --> 01:41:31.706
[SPEAKER_02]: The entirety of AEW healing itself from a really traumatic last few years and the entirety of this show just felt like a writing of a ship and the shows probably all the way back to worlds and have felt like a slow intrinsic course correction getting back to what AEW needed to be and I feel like this evening

01:41:32.526 --> 01:41:40.769
[SPEAKER_02]: This show today was a mission statement from AEW that reminded them of this is who, like, they are.

01:41:41.289 --> 01:41:44.770
[SPEAKER_02]: And WWE could do whatever they wanted tonight, right?

01:41:44.870 --> 01:41:46.431
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they can have their show.

01:41:46.491 --> 01:41:53.413
[SPEAKER_02]: They can do whatever AEW intentionally went longer to fuck with them after everything that they did tonight.

01:41:53.613 --> 01:41:55.073
[SPEAKER_02]: And I couldn't be happier for it.

01:41:55.453 --> 01:41:56.994
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they're gonna sit down or show?

01:41:57.254 --> 01:41:58.214
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, does it suck?

01:41:58.534 --> 01:41:59.915
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, do I want it all the time?

01:42:00.275 --> 01:42:01.797
[SPEAKER_02]: No, but I get why they did it.

01:42:01.937 --> 01:42:03.619
[SPEAKER_02]: I got no issue.

01:42:03.880 --> 01:42:13.572
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was interesting that Triple H had a, I don't know, I'm guessing somebody in the office uses a count and put up a promo for bass in the other three shows and

01:42:15.451 --> 01:42:19.354
[SPEAKER_01]: He got, I don't know if you're familiar with the Twitter term ratio.

01:42:19.374 --> 01:42:20.515
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I'm a way.

01:42:20.535 --> 01:42:25.619
[SPEAKER_01]: But he got ratioed like a, you know, a bad math class.

01:42:25.699 --> 01:42:26.700
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how else to put it.

01:42:26.780 --> 01:42:36.689
[SPEAKER_01]: He just, it was, I mean, there was just hundreds of people posting A, W gifts and just, you know, just graphics of all in and all this stuff.

01:42:36.709 --> 01:42:41.493
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was just like, it was like the fans were belling back like, you know, we know what you're doing.

01:42:43.012 --> 01:42:44.413
[SPEAKER_01]: and we don't like it.

01:42:45.093 --> 01:42:53.519
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think that fans at this point are educated of what WWEF WWE's done in the past to other companies.

01:42:54.059 --> 01:42:56.561
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, when people would say, you know, that's their right to do that.

01:42:56.601 --> 01:42:57.981
[SPEAKER_01]: It's their competition to do that.

01:42:58.042 --> 01:43:02.444
[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, it's like, well, remember when WCW did it, how did they react?

01:43:02.885 --> 01:43:04.045
[SPEAKER_01]: They wind and cried.

01:43:04.486 --> 01:43:05.526
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what are we gonna do?

01:43:05.546 --> 01:43:08.208
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna make sure our mocks and pages hangman match.

01:43:08.628 --> 01:43:10.990
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna make sure our mocks and hangman match.

01:43:11.670 --> 01:43:17.395
[SPEAKER_01]: goes right into the first in front into that Saturday night main event show and I don't blame on one bit for that.

01:43:18.155 --> 01:43:38.291
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a great strategy by AEW and the biggest self owned by WWE and all of this truly is that they put on three shows that combined ticket sales did not match the sales for the one AEW show on the weekend and they potentially will lose

01:43:39.495 --> 01:43:43.937
[SPEAKER_02]: actual over the air rated as a result of the AEW show.

01:43:44.357 --> 01:43:55.760
[SPEAKER_02]: It may not show up on peacock, but you may see some numbers in which the retirement of Goldberg doesn't look quite so attractive on the actual Neil's rated as it should.

01:43:56.421 --> 01:43:57.501
[SPEAKER_02]: And that kind of way the game.

01:43:58.731 --> 01:43:59.031
[SPEAKER_01]: It is.

01:43:59.792 --> 01:44:10.662
[SPEAKER_01]: Meltzer said they could, they would have like a record like a very strong paper view by rate if they got just eighty thousand buys, which would be low generally low for an A, W paper view.

01:44:11.503 --> 01:44:18.990
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's going to do much better than I think Tony Khan kind of handed in the presser that it was going to be, it was one of their best shows.

01:44:24.125 --> 01:44:30.809
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it would have to be, I don't think it would be, I can't imagine it would be that much going up against so much WWE competition.

01:44:30.849 --> 01:44:33.431
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think they've done a hundred and fifty since they've had punk.

01:44:33.991 --> 01:44:35.612
[SPEAKER_01]: Punk was amazing.

01:44:35.672 --> 01:44:38.634
[SPEAKER_02]: It would be, you'd better in their cap if that was the number they'd be.

01:44:39.455 --> 01:44:53.484
[SPEAKER_01]: If they get that, if they get that number, and if they get that number, and let's say, I think get around thirty thousand walk up, do around thirty or thousand or more walk up with the, with the tickets.

01:44:54.768 --> 01:45:00.852
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I, you got WWE's got a really kind of look back and wonder, is it really worth it to do this?

01:45:01.593 --> 01:45:05.315
[SPEAKER_01]: Because, you know, they're losing, they're not making, I mean, it doesn't matter.

01:45:05.335 --> 01:45:12.500
[SPEAKER_01]: They got more money and got at this point so they can do what they want, but I mean, when you're doing shows like this and you're hot shotting

01:45:13.180 --> 01:45:16.062
[SPEAKER_01]: just to run interference against another company.

01:45:16.122 --> 01:45:18.183
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to affect your creative process.

01:45:18.763 --> 01:45:25.848
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to really hurt, you know, having to go over a match kind of really help because that's just the one off that you can stick in there.

01:45:26.308 --> 01:45:33.252
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of having a hot shot, a match that for two early in a few, or something that you were expecting to go better on a PLE.

01:45:36.514 --> 01:45:37.234
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, creative.

01:45:37.254 --> 01:45:38.995
[SPEAKER_01]: They seem to be on the downside.

01:45:39.455 --> 01:45:39.635
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

01:45:40.095 --> 01:45:43.136
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, that's, that's yeah, but for the rest of the business, right?

01:45:43.216 --> 01:45:45.397
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's normal.

01:45:45.437 --> 01:45:46.797
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they were on a hottest streak.

01:45:46.837 --> 01:45:48.678
[SPEAKER_01]: They've ever had for two, three years.

01:45:48.898 --> 01:45:53.299
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's been, there's been a numerous things that's popped up to cause that.

01:45:54.060 --> 01:45:57.221
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I think one of it's to just, I don't think they've really ever.

01:45:58.601 --> 01:46:02.203
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they really fully embraced Cody is the top guy.

01:46:03.184 --> 01:46:05.545
[SPEAKER_01]: There's always seemed to be a little bit of hesitancy there.

01:46:06.386 --> 01:46:11.329
[SPEAKER_01]: And even after he won the title, the focus was on what's happening with the bloodline.

01:46:13.620 --> 01:46:29.742
[SPEAKER_01]: we'll see what happens there maybe that you know the scene of title run hasn't been great um... even though he's finally got over the baby face but um... yeah it's it's gonna be interesting to see what there by think if you're a w think right now he got to think okay who's our heels

01:46:30.934 --> 01:46:33.556
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think right now, Don Callos family set up to do that.

01:46:33.576 --> 01:46:35.478
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if Moxley's going to take a break or not.

01:46:35.498 --> 01:46:40.342
[SPEAKER_01]: I imagine he will because he's been basically running hedge strong all out for months.

01:46:41.443 --> 01:46:42.624
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got to be exhausted.

01:46:43.665 --> 01:46:45.886
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some other people in the death writer step up.

01:46:46.887 --> 01:47:07.682
[SPEAKER_01]: maybe they focus more on the women maybe I don't know but she's like he's using a challenge hanging man you know what's gonna happen from here on out and they probably have some of that plan to go already that seems to be they seem to be a lot of forethought putting in what they're doing and I mean I can't imagine they just decided to quit doing it at all and I'm sure they got some things moving forward to got plans for

01:47:09.425 --> 01:47:12.509
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking forward to the next six months of AEW.

01:47:12.609 --> 01:47:14.391
[SPEAKER_02]: PJ, I got to wrap this up.

01:47:14.631 --> 01:47:16.093
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to thank you so much for.

01:47:16.213 --> 01:47:24.863
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I want to say your trooper for being on here for an hour and forty seven minutes, cranking this out for your fans and a great job man.

01:47:25.163 --> 01:47:26.845
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe in myself.

01:47:26.865 --> 01:47:28.007
[SPEAKER_02]: That could give me your plug.

01:47:29.417 --> 01:47:55.116
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... well you can read my stuff it as he scoops dot comie can also check me out at bbethel bbethel dot sub stack dot comie want to check some of my interviews out and also uh... i'm always on twitter if uh... if you see an annoying people going crazy is a good chance it's something about i wrote about something i wrote but thanks thanks thank you sir thanks for having me on and you guys are always awesome and big fan of the show

01:47:56.460 --> 01:47:58.581
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for sticking around for a minute.

01:47:58.961 --> 01:48:02.022
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll talk to you off the air, but thank you to everybody.

01:48:03.263 --> 01:48:05.784
[SPEAKER_02]: This has been an excellent paperview recap.

01:48:06.124 --> 01:48:08.625
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you to everyone who joined in the comments.

01:48:09.025 --> 01:48:15.688
[SPEAKER_02]: We had Crash TV, Maria Fernando Esteban, bleach fan.

01:48:16.548 --> 01:48:18.409
[SPEAKER_02]: Who's the guy at the top that I'm missing?

01:48:18.449 --> 01:48:20.430
[SPEAKER_02]: Jonathan Messager for an enterprise.

01:48:20.490 --> 01:48:21.770
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much, everybody.

01:48:21.790 --> 01:48:25.252
[SPEAKER_02]: We will see you next time and peace out.

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