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3:26

forgo all of the plugs. We

3:29

got Alex Palosky, we got John Alba here.

3:32

John, how you

3:34

feeling after that angle on AW

3:36

Dynamite? It was an angle.

3:44

I'll tell you what, you know, regardless

3:46

of what you thought of that angle,

3:49

you know Tony Khan has waited 40

3:51

years for that moment. He

3:54

has waited 40 years to be able

3:56

to take that first bump. of

4:00

what you think of it. That was, I'm

4:02

sure, no doubt, a very fulfilling moment for

4:04

him. I thought

4:06

there were a lot of small details in it

4:08

that were great. There was

4:10

some other stuff that definitely got

4:13

a good chuckle out of me. But

4:15

I guess, you know what, at this rate, I've

4:17

had a few wrestlers text me even since this

4:20

happened. All

4:23

the sentiment seems to be Tony

4:25

finally accepted he's a character on the show. Got

4:28

it. That's not he

4:31

gets as much heat if

4:35

not as much. He gets

4:37

more heat than anybody on his show. Alex,

4:41

what were your thoughts seeing this as we

4:45

saw this at the stage for everybody.

4:47

We saw the elite arrive

4:49

to the building, and we're talking Okada, the

4:51

Young Bucks, Jack Perry. We saw

4:53

them go into Tony Khan's office, including this

4:56

look at the camera from Jack Perry.

5:00

Tony Khan agreed to meet Jack Perry in the ring

5:02

at the end of the show. Jack

5:05

Perry encouraged him to shake his hand,

5:07

reinstate him, and make history with him.

5:10

And then they beat the living shit out of it.

5:14

Well, Tony Khan did shake

5:17

the hand, which I'm assuming is

5:19

a non-verbal agreement. That's

5:21

basically like signing a contract. Jack Perry

5:23

has been reinstated. And then immediately thereafter,

5:25

he punched him in the gut with

5:28

a microphone. And then the Young

5:30

Bucks came in going, what are you doing? Let

5:32

us do it instead. And

5:34

this segment made me positively giddy.

5:37

I was literally dancing in

5:39

my living room cackling. Like

5:41

when Jack Perry just gave

5:44

the look, the Jack Perry

5:46

look while hugging him, I was like, this is

5:48

going to be too. When they, I

5:50

just thought they were going to do the EVP

5:52

trigger, when they both did

5:55

like the 450 milter driver

5:57

thing, I was just out.

6:00

They're very loud. Laughter is something

6:02

so beautiful that Tony com seeking

6:04

a meltzer driver of ah yes

6:06

I was if anything because I

6:08

mean listen they're gonna be people

6:10

that think this is the greatest

6:12

thing in the world. Those can

6:14

be people that swears is gonna

6:16

kill a w I was so

6:19

thoroughly entertained by this I. Screamed

6:23

and last end all kinds of

6:25

things over this because I couldn't

6:27

believe it was actually have. You

6:30

know, I really like. He.

6:32

Has been adamant about not being

6:34

like in one stream character you

6:37

it's can showed up in this

6:39

shares dog, that is what is

6:41

when his. Walked. Out

6:43

and looking or much? What is

6:45

it? I just him. Just deficits

6:47

are you asking me? I. Thought

6:52

needs to be in the war room tomorrow with a

6:54

with a neck brace on. This. Assault

6:56

Fully Commit. That. That the

6:58

world's are colliding between his two worlds.

7:00

That to do it. Yeah

7:02

down would be sincerely hilarious. ss

7:04

of us are sean of Tell

7:06

Him and other thing I really

7:08

did like about all this. I've

7:11

I've been a long proponent of this that I

7:13

felt that either you could really really improve our

7:16

know and honestly the times that we see a

7:18

most is when the young bucks or not. Is

7:20

the show long story on me a

7:23

story. And they did a really

7:25

good job at that with this particular

7:27

story where multiple times throughout the night

7:29

you were reminded of what's going on

7:31

and they built to it in the

7:33

main event and I'm curious to see

7:35

how that's reflected by the i thought

7:37

that was a really really effective way

7:39

of building them and when Tony came

7:41

out a smiley mcgee their you knew

7:43

that you knew something was going, was

7:45

gonna come in his way. Oh

7:47

yeah they had do to counter that.

7:50

See was way too excited about this.

7:52

He was way too excited to have

7:54

Jack Perry back and I'll say like

7:56

the what we've seen at of Jack

7:58

Perry since. Really? Since

8:00

the footage air. I. Think

8:02

he's done a great job in Chicago.

8:04

Either it is a java or the

8:07

reveal. the other night I thought was

8:09

fun up on his facial. our reactions

8:11

there and I thought and I was

8:13

very good do I didn't expect Tony

8:15

kind of take a bath bob off.

8:18

now I know the ribs. Not

8:22

he is he's is do either. I

8:27

want says has I'm leveling I'm not

8:29

laughing cause it's. I'm.

8:32

Not laughing at him and laugh exact

8:34

Can't believe this however you have to

8:36

be and ridiculous this of the fact

8:38

that this actually happened and I enjoyed

8:40

it so far. as if any of

8:43

the herbs you know what it is

8:45

one of the alley of it was

8:47

is a H E dell be used

8:49

braun throwing Roman army unloading dog attack

8:51

nephew the gurney I have not react

8:53

to something on on on wrestling television.

8:56

Like. That probably sets Bronze Strawman through

8:58

a dummy on a on a journey

9:00

off a loading dock. And then

9:03

they pretended it was Roman Reigns. They lifted an

9:05

ambulance. I was. I was just as the. Ah

9:09

guy. I would have loved it if Jack

9:11

Perry went numb. Media li turnover semi truck

9:14

backstage. That would have. Really,

9:16

really, just kept me going. Wrote. On

9:19

his leg of eyes as yeah, I mean

9:21

it's. Wilde. But this actually

9:23

happened. It's it's a matter now. like. How.

9:26

Frequently as Tony seen on Tv. what is

9:28

his presentation of you know it's it's not

9:30

Austin Stunning Mcmahon because that was a clear

9:32

baby face in a clear heal her aware

9:34

of it where you're kind of seen the

9:37

inverse on that. And if Tony Khan is

9:39

on Tv presented as a baby face is

9:41

that something people are going to embrace? I

9:43

don't know about that because crowd went nuts

9:45

for this. they are ago. We want to

9:47

see Tony get beat up so I that's

9:49

going to be interesting to it's it's tried

9:52

and true. I mean really happened with Vincent.

9:54

Man it's happened with every authority figures. happened

9:56

with dixie carter he now the i don't know that's

9:58

a comparison you ever want to draw It

10:01

happened with Eric Bischoff. And I see

10:04

a guy who – I'm not even

10:06

going to allude to him, but saying,

10:08

like, well, that's usually the sign to

10:10

the end. Well, no, when Eric Bischoff

10:12

did it, it was the sign of

10:15

shit getting really hot. When Vince McMahon did it,

10:17

it was a sign of shit getting really hot.

10:19

When Dixie did it, not so much. It was

10:21

the beginning of a dissent there

10:23

as well. But

10:25

I mean – listen, I was entertained

10:28

and intrigued by this segment, especially

10:30

the shot of the Elite up

10:32

there because Jack Perry gets heat.

10:36

The Young Bucks get heat, and

10:38

Okada is everything that Tony

10:40

Khan and AAW thought he would be. Tony

10:43

Khan saw Okada as a top-level

10:45

heel American TV guy for years

10:47

before he had the opportunity to

10:49

get him, and so far he

10:52

has delivered. And

10:55

we're talking about a landscape where hopefully

10:58

there's upward trajectory on Adam Cole

11:00

coming back, hopefully. Probably not anytime

11:02

soon. MJF,

11:04

hopefully, around the corner. Kenny

11:08

Omega will be back next week, but I think

11:10

that'll just be a, hi, Winnipeg, how you doing

11:12

type of thing. Honestly, I think it'll probably be

11:14

him getting his ass whipped by the Elite right

11:16

now. I mean, at least an angle if he

11:18

can't actually – if he's not there to take

11:20

physical stuff, an angle where he's like, I can't

11:22

even be here right now. I've got to go.

11:25

Kind of a thing. He confronts

11:27

them, and they leave

11:29

without physicality if he can't take a bump. If

11:32

he can't take a bump, he's getting his ass whipped. Yeah,

11:34

I think that's probably what we'll see there, and

11:37

I kind of like it, man. It is

11:41

one of the more loaded, as far

11:43

as heel top

11:46

groups that AAW has had. I

11:49

don't feel like they're going to go the

11:51

way of the pinnacle. I don't think that

11:53

we will – the

11:55

inner circle is obviously successful in its time,

11:58

but – But, John – AEW

12:00

is built on the back of the elite, right?

12:03

Like that's why AEW exists in the first

12:05

place. And regardless of what people want to

12:07

say about the bucks, they

12:09

were the fabric of the company.

12:11

And when the elite is hot

12:14

and people are talking about it, it

12:17

is something that can help support

12:20

all the other stories that go on around

12:22

it in the company. So, look, we're not

12:24

going to overreact here. This is one night.

12:27

This is one angle. But there's

12:30

definitely evidence in Jack

12:32

Perry's reactions and receptions here that

12:35

people are intrigued by this presentation

12:37

of the elite. Yeah. Yeah,

12:40

something there. There's something to that. I

12:43

am certainly intrigued by this.

12:47

By this version

12:50

of the elite. But man, what

12:52

a what a show closer there.

12:54

What a show closer. But John, I want to thank you

12:56

for filling in for me. Of course, I'm going to go

12:58

blow my nose for half an hour now. I'm glad that

13:01

you had to put yourself over and get yourself out here,

13:03

even though you said you weren't going to be here. So

13:05

I know I had to. After after

13:08

the way I died laughing at the end

13:10

of this show, did that clear your sinuses

13:12

up? Yeah, it did a little bit like

13:14

it gave me the energy to push

13:17

through. I'm like I'm

13:19

like the starting pitcher these days who goes

13:21

to innings. That's the

13:23

opener, the opener. There

13:26

you go. That's me. I'm the opener. I

13:28

hate openers. Good. Good.

13:33

You're coming up with I know you're trying to do here. I know what

13:35

you're about to do. Yeah, go ahead and say it. I

13:38

know you're about to do. I know you're about to do. You

13:41

who doesn't open. Yeah, it is. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,

13:44

there's a huge ego. Yeah. OK, there is.

13:46

Yeah, he doesn't need to open. Goodbye, Sean.

13:48

See you later. Bye. I was going to

13:50

actually disconnect him. Alex. No, he knew it.

13:52

He knew when to get out. Leave

13:55

him wanting more. Man, we got so many super

13:57

chats and humper chats here. Keep Sending them in.

13:59

guys are we gotta get some of these just

14:01

to get them out away here now I'd to

14:03

Parker Hide. same time when when I like the

14:05

ever for an assault. seriously that came out of

14:07

nowhere. Color me. Intrigued. Then.

14:10

At Philip the final boss Shad Khan

14:12

is now was crazy that shan't on

14:15

showed up I did they are that

14:17

one that one took me out man

14:19

I could not believe the sad time

14:21

with their literally looked like what has

14:24

happened to my fat but she didn't

14:26

understand any of this like and it

14:28

looked like if if he had to

14:31

be explained what professional wrestling was like

14:33

like somebody had to explain that to

14:35

not just the angle. But. What

14:37

is all of this one is my son

14:39

been doing with all the money I get

14:42

rid of that sets us. It's feel like

14:44

my son paid all this money to get

14:46

beat up with. Live with that. What is

14:48

this. For primed rhymes

14:50

A Dk deserves liberal who's Derek A. segments

14:52

as on ugly the on his fault So

14:54

oh he will. We will talk all about

14:57

that I want to keep burning through is

14:59

because we got so many Just About You

15:01

segment. Ah. Ra. Im sayin the

15:03

bugs or good christian boys Tony

15:05

deserves that for suspending are scapegoat

15:07

shod your up next and him

15:10

that. This. Is what actually

15:12

turning chicken shit into chicken salad looks

15:14

like Wild? They went there with Tk.

15:16

It's almost like does reading these and

15:18

even as we're still kind of processing

15:21

it's just like a shock factor to

15:23

it. Yes, I mean,

15:25

I didn't think that we're going to go this

15:27

far. I thought maybe I thought maybe like it

15:29

takes a clothesline bump or something like a simple

15:31

short I'm Larry. It. And everybody runs

15:34

in and gets Jeopardy out of there and.

15:36

Whatever. But I didn't. I think there

15:38

were gonna go for now. T K Driver.

15:41

They've. They've since changed the name. I forgot

15:43

about that so now it's a perfect name

15:45

for it pisses the thing that due to

15:47

Tony com um. By. A little

15:49

bit of gonna go fair. ah

15:51

I'm as and then a though

15:53

M F that being sorted out.

15:55

Also the bucks like methanococcus jackson

15:57

up being like thank you everybody

15:59

secretary. The church know what a great proud

16:01

of. Thank you so much Dailies Place with a

16:03

short up they were do when. They.

16:06

Were doing that. The the Tony Con

16:08

waves goodbye to the allowed saying oh.

16:11

Do. You stare because he couldn't be. That's

16:13

what. What do a whore and the Holy

16:15

V P characters? They've been mocking Tony Com

16:17

mannerisms the entire time. it's been so good.

16:19

I. Didn't lot of people who don't like it. I.

16:22

Don't understand I mean like was and of else

16:24

if you're if you're a are a bad face

16:26

I hated missing a to be does I actually

16:28

don't watch the show On to anybody like that

16:31

those kind of people have no time for you

16:33

but if you for what he watches the show.

16:35

And. You don't enjoy what this

16:37

angle is. Frankly, I don't understand

16:39

like, but maybe it's like I

16:42

just want more. Jimmy.

16:44

More wraps give you more. Just great

16:46

wrestling. I don't need any other other

16:48

stuff around it and. That's fine, but

16:50

I feel like. And. I

16:52

agree to an extent, but I

16:54

feel like the stuff they're doing

16:56

with stories when it's good stories

16:58

that only enhances. All. The

17:00

other stuff around it we're We're gonna

17:03

get amazing wrestling. Every week on

17:05

a W television leading up to

17:07

amazing Westland on the pay per

17:09

views. If you can do something

17:11

with this fried. Of

17:13

a wrestling match that I think can

17:15

only enhanced the overall product. Nice. Exact

17:17

is what this is doing alright modes.

17:20

You get the bad faith that are

17:22

was a will. There's no stories being

17:24

told and a new have I'm a

17:26

very substantial story being told they are

17:28

and then it will be Will Tony

17:30

shouldn't be out there bumping and well

17:32

yeah I mean it's it's. definitely. A

17:34

lot of people want. It was a good one. Bump:

17:36

It's one bump. But. I think really

17:39

adds to that's now the

17:41

The Elite. The new elite.

17:43

Are. Are the big bags

17:45

for like for sure in the

17:47

company They're gonna be in control

17:50

now I'll I'll have enough and

17:52

you see Tony Con on screen

17:54

again for all know long line

17:56

in what that services Alex is

17:58

it's services that eventual. The whenever

18:00

that may come, whether it's blood and

18:02

guts or whatever it is Less right

18:05

you're gonna get this uprising from with

18:07

then you have a bunch of baby

18:09

face is that can be elevated by

18:11

something like that. Us I toppling the

18:13

authority per se and and maybe Tony

18:16

Com comes off the top rope and

18:18

a doomsday device in that match whenever

18:20

that happens. But whatever it may be

18:22

a you're that you're setting up an

18:24

opportunity to. Elevate some baby

18:26

faces into a prominent position. Eventually

18:29

not yet. It's. Some time away.

18:32

That this is not an angle that should be

18:34

burned through that to be rushed through with ya

18:36

to take time. But it

18:38

definitely. Is is

18:40

something that is is going to happen

18:42

over a period of time. In my

18:44

opinion, we got more suffragettes. Delay grads,

18:47

Young Bucks attack Tk. When do we

18:49

chance? Cm Punk? I. Met. Seat

18:51

Matty same had to find a way to get Jackboot

18:53

this was it's they were lot of people that were

18:55

just into the excitement of the angle I feel I've

18:57

I've yes I think that they are under the to

19:00

with to like oh my god I can't believe I'm

19:02

watching this. Or that's certainly what I felt

19:04

like. I was at home the I didn't see him the

19:06

a read. I have no idea what I would have done.

19:08

That Like So so. I fully get

19:10

that she thinks that. Next.

19:12

Week. If and when.

19:15

They. Do the same thing the Kenny

19:17

Omega. You people.

19:20

Are going to Blue? You. Know what

19:22

I mean. Like down to twenty conn

19:24

officers that I can't believe what I'm

19:26

watching. Next week they will get serious

19:28

seat for your only for Kenny Omega

19:30

coming out sticking up for a w

19:32

the place that eight bucks man nicht

19:34

we built this. what are you doing

19:36

I can understand this at them they

19:38

attack him everyone's gonna get a good

19:40

him in Winnipeg nonetheless. internet pegged to

19:42

yeah so that that definitely. I agree

19:44

with you on that one Ryan said

19:47

I love the ending. It's time a

19:49

lean into it all vaccine Tk has

19:51

to. Wear. An actress and the Nfl

19:53

draft though. Save Us If is truly

19:55

committed. To. The Big Jordan agrees with use

19:57

of the bucks are tacking Kenny next week if.

20:00

Then take it. We don't know, We don't know if it I

20:02

actually physically. Take. The the bump.

20:04

A force of will. I love all this.

20:06

The elite had taken the roles of Vince

20:08

attitude era level heels. And. It

20:10

is amazing. Small snippets of life. The

20:13

Jack Perry smirk is the best as

20:15

that. Add that is my new favorite

20:17

face in in wrestling. That particular smile.

20:20

Is going to carry him far. You

20:24

think? It's a spoof of the.

20:27

Punk. Meme. I'll.

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20:52

if it's. A

20:55

Dive into Zoe Gala Super just so get

20:57

to that. Promise you we will! ah because

20:59

they're just so many and this is a

21:01

huge angle that as a lot of people

21:03

talking and and will show out. Started with

21:05

the lead in Jack Perry arriving at the

21:07

arena. I wanna get too. Far into that,

21:09

Sean already told you what happened, but interesting

21:11

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he challenges Trent to a parking lot

22:54

brawl, which of course is a nice

22:56

callback to the famous best friend's

22:58

parking lot brawl with PMP. I

23:03

enjoyed the angle, but the placement of it

23:05

felt very odd for me for this to

23:07

be starting the show, especially coming off a

23:09

pay-per-view where you just crowned a new world

23:11

champion. Right. I

23:14

agree. Frankly, I was

23:16

surprised I didn't have any sort

23:18

of mic time whatsoever. But

23:23

I don't know. I feel like you come out, everyone

23:26

loves, you hear the Orange, you

23:28

hear Jane by Starship, and

23:30

you're like, okay, here comes Orange Cassidy. We're

23:32

getting into it, especially Daily's Place. Just like,

23:35

they're the crowd who was there the whole time

23:37

through the pandemic. They saw the rise of Orange

23:39

Cassidy. It's a kind of a cool thing. Like

23:41

if it wasn't Jacksonville, maybe they do it something

23:43

different. But the idea that we're

23:46

gonna get to see Orange Cassidy, cool, I mean,

23:48

he gets thrown down the ramp by

23:50

Trent, and all of a sudden like, oh, we're in a hot

23:52

angle here. And I think that perhaps

23:55

you do that. I see, I don't know where

23:57

a good spot is, because like you

23:59

have this. Jotlet thing which we'll talk

24:01

about which nobody even the commentators think to

24:03

know what the hell that was about And

24:06

and there's a lot of other things

24:08

like a swerves first matchup for

24:10

being the champion There's like there's

24:12

there's a bunch of stuff that they did in

24:15

the show. I'm not sure where else I would

24:17

have put it I think it ended up being

24:21

Being the right thing because everyone was super

24:23

into Chuck Standing up

24:25

for himself versus Trent They

24:27

were into Chuck and him saying a hard shit

24:29

on air too was it was a big thing

24:31

That was a big moment, but

24:33

I don't know man. I just I felt like

24:36

coming off of The

24:38

pay-per-view where you had so many

24:40

different Major talking

24:42

points that you could have started the show

24:45

on a really really intriguing note on I

24:48

Wasn't sure that this was the segment to start it with

24:50

now. I'm not sure the show it is what it is

24:52

You know, that's right. Call I Just

24:55

you got a new champion Osprey

24:57

Danielson was the greatest match on American

24:59

soil ever You

25:01

had this elite story which we got

25:03

the peak of in the very beginning It

25:06

just seemed a little out

25:08

of place to start the show But

25:10

nonetheless, it was an intriguing angle in

25:12

my opinion Especially starting off with the

25:14

brawl and I love I don't

25:17

know about you man. I've been there for

25:19

wrestling many times I think dailies place is such

25:21

a fantastic pro wrestling venue. It's very unique

25:23

I like I like that about it for

25:25

sure and and it really Opens

25:27

itself up to some unique shots.

25:29

So then we got the AW World Championship

25:32

Eliminator match between swerve and

25:35

Kyle Fletcher This

25:38

was an interesting match Alex because it

25:41

really more than anything was

25:43

used as a device to tell

25:46

the story of the Don Callis

25:48

family more than even just

25:50

swerve having a Successful

25:52

first matches champion. What

25:55

do you think of the approach here? I Expected

25:58

swerve to get on the mic after after he won

26:00

the match and Daley's place to give

26:02

him his flowers, you know, while he talked about

26:05

his plans as champion. They've

26:07

said we're going to reveal next week who

26:10

his challenger will be a double or nothing. And

26:14

I guess

26:17

I don't pay attention to the rankings. I

26:19

figured we would have a few more matches

26:22

for everybody else to sort that out. And

26:24

then whoever's number one in like,

26:27

since it's, it's

26:29

literally a whole month from

26:31

now, I'm looking at the calendar, like

26:33

it's a whole month from now, maybe two more

26:35

weeks of matches where we sort everything out. And

26:37

then we go, oh, so-and-so is number one in

26:39

the rankings. Now we got two weeks to build

26:41

the pay-per-view match as opposed to we're just going

26:44

to name it. And so that

26:46

seems odd as well to me, but

26:49

I'm here for it, depending, I guess, on who it is. But

26:54

I just thought they would be more like, welcome

26:56

your new AW world

26:59

champion, Swerve Strickland. And that didn't, didn't feel like

27:01

we got a lot of that. I liked the

27:03

match. I think Kyle Fletcher is great. And,

27:07

you know, Swerve beat him as you knew he would. Um,

27:10

uh, I- Again, the story

27:12

emphasis was on him ignoring

27:14

Don Callis's instructions. Don called

27:16

a play and Kyle ignored it.

27:19

And, uh, he said, uh, I don't know

27:22

what one, two, and three is. I'm assuming Sydney

27:24

Perth and Adelaide, but like Melbourne,

27:26

that's number four. And, uh,

27:29

yeah, five is Brisbane. Like

27:32

they're all named after cities in Australia.

27:34

And so he played

27:36

before is get a table and put Swerve through

27:38

it. Which wouldn't

27:40

help you win the match. Cause you wouldn't be,

27:43

wouldn't help you win the match, which is odd. Um,

27:46

but Kyle decides to go into business for himself,

27:48

I guess. And decides to win it the right

27:50

way, which, uh, Callis doesn't

27:53

like. I realized now I do have

27:55

a limit on how much

27:58

Don Callis I can have on commentary. It

28:00

is one match one match is the limit

28:02

of how much Don Callis I can have on

28:04

commentary That's one match there was there was a

28:06

lot of Don Callis on the show that is

28:08

for sure There was a lot of Don Callis,

28:10

but I agree the match is good I thought

28:12

they told a good story too with the selling

28:14

of the ankle That

28:17

got us to Thunder Rosa Being

28:19

backstage and she was being interviewed and

28:21

she kind of insinuated that Deanna parrott

28:23

so got in her business in the

28:25

pay-per-view match in which she lost to

28:27

Tony storm then Deanna came out

28:29

and Confronted her there was

28:32

a pull apart You

28:34

know Deanna. I love Deanna as a performer.

28:36

I think she's fantastic The

28:38

character in which she was presented

28:41

and she came in as a babyface With

28:44

no clear definition of what her virtuoso

28:46

moniker truly means within the context of

28:48

a W I think

28:50

that this backstage segment is to set

28:53

up Some change with that

28:55

and maybe take her on a different direction. What

28:58

say you? well,

29:00

I mean Rosa and and for also are

29:04

Now this is this is what I've been what I was

29:06

hoping for is we're gonna get a

29:08

high profile I hope and fairly

29:11

lengthy Non title

29:13

women's feud between two top women. That's

29:15

great That's great for women's division that

29:17

you should be able to do that Not every

29:19

feud you do should have to be based

29:21

around one of the two titles This

29:24

is that this could be really good. I think they'll

29:26

work really well together. I think you'll probably see Deanna

29:31

Maybe given a little bit more to the Jersey

29:33

side and and and maybe she'll I don't know

29:35

attacks on a Russell with a tire Iron, I

29:37

don't know Yeah

29:42

as a Jersey guy, yeah, no,

29:45

I am deeply offended I Was

29:50

in fact casting aspersions directly at you

29:53

So I I think this should be

29:55

a lot of fun. Deanna will probably wind up being the heel in it

29:57

I should be a really fun feud. So

29:59

it's on rampage Saturday that's I

30:02

don't feel like oh it's on rampage

30:04

on Saturday goodbye folks the mat the

30:06

feud is over but that's it

30:08

that's a probably a taste they're probably

30:10

gonna brawl the double

30:12

count out something that's going to shim

30:15

shmazi thing that's gonna lead to

30:17

a longer feud to me well

30:22

you you have any idea of who you

30:25

think could end up coming out on top

30:27

there like who would you I

30:31

guess it all depends on what they're doing

30:33

with with Tony storm a double or nothing

30:36

because maybe they want that person

30:40

positioned whoever goes on top to be challenging

30:42

for the for the championship and if Tony

30:44

storm loses it you want the heel coming

30:46

after it if you if Tony storm wins

30:48

you want thunder Rosa declaring I want it

30:50

I want another shot at it whether or

30:53

not she gets it so I

30:55

would assume thunder Rosa will be positioned over Deanna

30:57

Perrozzo at the end of the feud I just

31:00

I hope it's a kind of a cool like we get like

31:03

three matches we're 1-1

31:05

going to the rubber match and we'll see what happens

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32:11

Lightbeer saying, I love this

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32:15

man, it really is such a great

32:17

venue to watch wrestling in Daily's Place. If you

32:20

haven't had a chance to definitely make sure that

32:22

you do Jambeard. Also saying, not gonna lie, this

32:24

felt like a new era episode for AW. You

32:26

agree with that? Yeah, certainly

32:29

could be. We

32:31

could look very... We

32:38

could look back on this night as the

32:40

beginning of something huge, as an

32:42

angle. We also may look back on it and the

32:44

beginning of like, if this fizzles

32:46

out and they don't handle the angle right,

32:48

we could look back on this and go,

32:51

we were so excited on that night, and

32:53

like six weeks later it looked bad. So

32:55

I don't know. I'm hoping for it. I'm

32:57

hoping for it to be this really cool thing going forward. We

33:01

saw an Osprey versus Danielson

33:03

video recap really putting over

33:06

the enormity of the match

33:08

and also Osprey maybe

33:11

having a little remorse about hurting Danielson

33:13

in which the way that he did, which

33:16

was a little breadcrumb. Yes.

33:19

Yeah, no, that looks to be a thing

33:22

where it'll be leading through everything. It's

33:26

cool that it's an angle that will

33:28

probably affect Danielson going forward. Like

33:30

it's a thing like, holy crap. Now

33:33

I need to think about when my retirement date is,

33:35

how much longer can I do this? I'm

33:38

going to retire, but oh crap, I almost really

33:40

got hurt. And

33:43

also Osprey refusing to go for

33:45

the kill, apparently is something

33:47

that Don Callis cannot abide. So that's

33:50

probably going to lead more to their

33:52

breakup. I would agree with that. Minashirikawa

33:55

with Mariah May in her corner,

33:57

defeated Anna Jang. There's

34:00

a beat down after the match. Tony

34:02

storm makes the save. And

34:05

then as Tony storm makes the save Serena

34:07

div comes out and says she is

34:09

coming for the AW women's championship.

34:11

There was a lot going on in this

34:14

segment. Odd. I

34:16

was cool with the match. I really,

34:18

I think

34:21

Mariah may has

34:23

added a lot of

34:26

dynamic to the AW women's

34:28

division. She's a very versatile

34:30

player and she plays the Tony storm

34:32

wannabe role that she comes out here and she's

34:34

in a totally different role with her club Venus

34:36

stuff. And, you know,

34:39

as far as trying to get someone like Mina

34:42

over with this audience, you know, having her

34:44

associated with her helps Tony

34:46

makes saves. Then Serena div coming

34:49

out and they cut the promo in a very

34:51

unique way where she's kind of staring into the

34:53

camera and she says, I'm not touching this belt.

34:55

Cause the next time I do is when I'm

34:57

going to be champion. Yeah. Moving

34:59

pieces can be good. Sometimes they overlap

35:01

one another, but for the most part,

35:03

Alex, I was pretty cool with the

35:05

execution of this. What's so you, I

35:08

like this too. That there's this, there's this Mina

35:11

thing. That's like a wrinkle within the story. It's

35:13

a story within the story. It's going to help

35:15

the Mariah may Tony storm

35:18

character. Anna J has been

35:20

this thing's kind of. Flitting

35:22

here and there around this Tony storm thing, Mariah

35:25

may, she really doesn't like Mariah may at all.

35:28

Um, so there's that as well

35:30

as, as this, um,

35:32

as Mariah may, I think,

35:36

uh, blooms more to somebody we're going to be

35:38

rooting for. Cause I do think

35:40

it's coming down to Mariah may versus Tony storm

35:42

for that title, um, with

35:44

Mariah may beating Tony storm for it.

35:46

But here's the thing out. Tony storm

35:49

is so obviously a baby face. She's

35:52

a baby face in her actions. She's

35:56

still. But

35:58

she is a baby face. Yeah,

36:01

she does give everybody's

36:03

reactions. She's a nominally

36:06

a heel, but we enjoy everything

36:08

that she does. And that's possible.

36:12

I mean, that's certainly what...

36:14

I don't think we should have her... But

36:17

here's the problem. I'm not going to cut you off, I

36:19

apologize, but it is affecting

36:21

the way that her matches

36:23

are ingested by these

36:25

audiences, because they're rooting for her

36:28

over the baby faces. They're rooting for

36:30

her over Diana Perazzo. She was mostly

36:33

rooted for over Thunder Rosa. And

36:35

that's where I think you have to look in the

36:37

mirror and say, well, maybe there's somewhat of a pivot

36:39

here that has to happen where then Mariah May becomes

36:42

the heel out of this rather than the baby face.

36:45

Right. I think that

36:47

the character is ripe for

36:50

an abrupt shift into

36:53

paranoia and

36:55

abuse towards Mariah May.

36:59

Okay. And if

37:01

you were to go that way, we would

37:03

see the crowd switch pretty quick, because I

37:05

think everybody also really likes Mariah May. So

37:07

if that's the rub they're going to go with, I

37:09

think you can do that. I would say she was

37:11

definitely cheered more over Diana, because Diana

37:13

was new to that crowd, and

37:16

also came across as to

37:18

the uninitiated as kind of

37:21

arrogant, maybe. But

37:23

I do think there was at least a

37:25

50-50 split on Thunder Rosa because the

37:27

crowd still loves her from years ago. There's

37:30

that kind of thing. But I don't disagree with

37:32

you, but I think there's a

37:34

really easy way to make her go

37:36

even more insane in a

37:38

way that we don't like as opposed to a way that

37:40

we do like. That's fair. What

37:44

do you think about Serena Deeb here, presumably being

37:46

a potential number one contender? She came back

37:48

months ago and immediately said, I'm the final

37:50

boss here. I'm the leader of the locker

37:52

room. I'm coming for titles. And

37:55

now she's just finally said, this is

37:57

the one I'm coming for. I'm coming

37:59

after you. And that's good. I

38:02

want there to be more story now. This

38:04

is truly the match. We're doing a double or nothing.

38:07

Now let's figure out how to get there from here. Tony

38:11

seems just completely shocked. I

38:13

do not know who this woman is, basically. Like

38:18

Serena Deeb is so no nonsense

38:20

as she is, and straight faced

38:22

and completely deadpan. To

38:24

have Tony Storm doing promo

38:26

segments with her could be a lot of fun with

38:28

her. It could be. No selling all of the craziness.

38:30

It certainly could be. A lot of moving pieces in

38:33

that division. We're gonna get to more on that in

38:35

a second. I wanna get this super chat in from

38:37

Scott real quick. After an awesome pay

38:39

per view, this is exactly what AAW needs, a

38:41

really good follow up to keep fans tuned in.

38:43

Also, shout out to my wife Rosie, it's our

38:45

anniversary. She the best. Happy anniversary to Scott. Sending

38:47

you all the best and all

38:49

the happiness. So a

38:52

rarity for AAW here, back to back

38:54

women segments on this show. We

38:57

got Willow Nightingale having

38:59

her AWTBS title celebration,

39:02

which was lots of

39:04

pomp and circumstances by Stokely, by Statlander.

39:07

Even Caprice Coleman got a little wrap

39:09

in and commentary.

39:12

I love Caprice, love me some ice. And

39:15

Willow's kind of fiery baby face

39:18

promo and she is once again

39:20

interrupted by Mercedes Monet. And commentary

39:22

reiterates again that this is like the

39:25

fifth time that Mercedes Monet has stolen

39:28

Willow's spotlight. And Willow says

39:30

that the last time

39:32

she beat Mercedes, it was because of

39:34

the injuries. She didn't like those

39:36

circumstances. Now she wants to beat her clean.

39:39

And Mercedes says that this is her

39:41

chance to enjoy her last month as

39:43

TBS champion, because it's gonna be her

39:45

next. They get in

39:47

a little intense stare down, some

39:50

jaw jacking. And Mercedes goes to

39:52

slap. Well,

39:57

I should take that back. Statlander

39:59

interjects. And then Mercedes

40:01

slaps thinking that it was willow,

40:04

but it was actually stat lander So there's some

40:06

more moving pieces here to Alex where? Not

40:09

only are they building this willow versus Mercedes

40:11

match, but also Dissension

40:14

with Chris stat lander here with willow. Yeah

40:19

We I

40:21

think there's something here that I've

40:24

been I've somebody in our chat The

40:26

sort of paragraph shed on playful select I think came

40:28

up with this and I've now I've I've glommed on

40:31

to it And it's the only thing I want out

40:33

of this Because

40:35

it's just so evil at

40:38

double or nothing it's revealed

40:40

that Stokely and Stat lander

40:43

have been working with Mercedes The

40:46

whole time. Oh, I think that's exactly where

40:48

this is going and and Mercedes says you

40:50

took everything from me And I

40:53

have taken everything from you your

40:55

title your best friend your man

40:58

Somebody would just know the best race for you is

41:00

a rate based on you with all Not

41:02

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today picture everything So

42:00

that when you have Willow lose the

42:02

title after a month to

42:04

Mercedes, now the story becomes

42:06

about Willow by herself clawing

42:09

her way back to that title. And

42:11

if it takes eight months for her

42:14

to do it, then that's the story

42:16

of the TBS championship. I think exactly.

42:19

And it's a vulnerability storyline. Like

42:21

the babyface was vulnerable. She had to take

42:23

advantage of and now you have to climb

42:25

back. I mean, that's, I really do believe

42:27

that's exactly where it's going. Especially since in

42:30

the promo, they emphasized that Willow

42:33

didn't really like Stokely at first, but she

42:35

learned to trust him. So I

42:37

think that was very much laid there on purpose.

42:40

Steph, the writer saying love Mercedes, but I'm annoyed.

42:42

They made us wait so long for Willow's moment

42:45

and it's going to be so short. But if there is

42:47

more to come from it, Alex, it could be different. I

42:51

think you're going to get two title reigns out of this. The

42:54

first one is going to be short and

42:56

the ending of that title will be

42:59

brutal and sad. And

43:01

then you're going to get Willow as the great

43:03

babyface. She is doing

43:06

everything, her power to get back to that

43:08

title match and Mercedes,

43:10

making sure that path back to it

43:13

as difficult as possible with mercenary after

43:15

mercenary standing in her way, all this

43:17

stuff, because Monet makes the world go

43:19

round. Monet talks and that's what she's

43:21

going to do. She's going to pay

43:24

off all these people to stop Willow

43:26

from doing it. But when Willow finally

43:28

gets that match after eight,

43:30

10 months and beats Mercedes

43:34

for the title and gets it the second time,

43:36

then you'll see a lot a longer title reign

43:38

because she'll finally have that in her rear view

43:40

mirror. I think that that's what they should do.

43:43

She's such a great babyface and we haven't even

43:45

truly scratched the surface with her either. So

43:48

hoping there's more to come for I thought she was

43:50

great on the Mike Mercedes. There

43:52

were some parts of this that felt like bad

43:54

high school theater at times in the segment in

43:56

general, I mean, but

43:58

I love the. confidence from Willow

44:00

at the very least Which

44:03

is a good thing to hang on Alex

44:05

Marvez Interviewing the elite Matt

44:08

Jackson announces that there's gonna be

44:10

a meeting in the ring Which

44:12

then got us and I'm just gonna

44:15

let you roll with this here man

44:17

It got us to our casino gauntlet

44:19

for the international title contendership They

44:22

did not Explain any

44:24

rules go into this this map was

44:26

not promoted. It was not and Will

44:29

Ospreay wins it to set up an

44:31

international championship match with Roderick Strong But

44:33

please take us through the madness that

44:36

was this gauntlet They

44:39

kept telling us over and over again Excalibur,

44:41

Taz, Shivani That

44:43

they had no idea what this match was. They didn't

44:46

even know it was on the card before the show

44:48

started Now I don't know how

44:50

much of that is true, but it

44:52

certainly wasn't Advertised

44:54

if somebody had said a couple

44:57

of days ago, they put this on Twitter. There's gonna be

44:59

a Casino

45:01

gauntlet match Where

45:04

guys are gonna keep coming in until the

45:06

first dude gets a pinfall and the winner

45:08

of that pinfall gets Roddy Strong at Double

45:13

or nothing you would have seen all of ae

45:15

w twitter Coming up with who

45:17

they want to see in the match who they

45:19

think will win it all this It would have

45:21

been gotten a lot of buzz going around it.

45:23

Cuz also I think it's a great idea for

45:26

a match. I've never Contemplated

45:28

this but they keep they kept saying

45:30

during it We don't even know how many

45:33

people are gonna come down here and by the end they

45:35

were like we're told it's a maximum Of 21 guys

45:38

and I was like, is this that is this that's how

45:40

many guys are in the locker room tonight? Is that I

45:42

don't what what is I how I don't that's how many

45:44

guys flew into Jack? Was

45:46

I think the word it was we've got 21 guys

45:49

in the back prepared to come out here

45:51

there you go Yeah, they should have been

45:54

Ned Flanders in the chat. Hi, Dolly

45:56

ho he says There

45:59

was should be a countdown That would have been nice for the crowd.

46:02

That would have been nice. But I

46:04

think that the idea of the match is

46:06

a lot of fun. Yeah. It's the first time I've ever seen

46:08

it. I wouldn't mind if this was how

46:11

the international title challenger was

46:13

decided. Just as a formal, this is how

46:15

we decide who's coming for the international title

46:18

next. I wouldn't mind that at all. But

46:21

when we saw Jay

46:23

White started out, Dante Martin, Kyle

46:27

O'Reilly, Penta, Kyle O'Reilly came in there,

46:29

I was like, Kyle O'Reilly with a haircut. Yes, he did. Kyle

46:34

O'Reilly's probably winning this because

46:36

Roddy Strong would never give him a rematch. Right?

46:40

So that's how he gets his rematch and

46:43

that's how he wins the international title from

46:45

Roddy Strong, a double or nothing. But

46:49

then when Will Ospreay's music hit, I was like,

46:51

what is happening? Listen,

46:54

Orange Cassidy had an amazing run

46:56

with the international title, but it

46:59

just kind of felt like it's

47:01

Orange Cassidy's title that he

47:04

carries with him in a Jan sport, has

47:06

great matches. But they were telling the story

47:08

of he kept getting more and more banged

47:10

up. He lost to Moxley, whatever.

47:13

But it didn't really ever feel like this was

47:15

on par with the TNT title. And

47:18

I think that with Will

47:21

Ospreay winning this and

47:23

saying, I want this

47:25

title, he's beating Roddy Strong

47:27

for it. Let's all be honest. You all know that right

47:29

now. That immediately

47:32

puts the international title on the same

47:34

level as the TNT title because Will

47:36

Ospreay is holding it. If Will Ospreay

47:38

wants this title, it becomes the title

47:41

you want to get because getting it

47:43

means you beat the best in the

47:45

world. Also, what

47:48

this does is

47:50

if he's basically the greatest

47:53

intercontinental champion in AEW

47:55

history, if that's where they're going to

47:57

position him as, it allows

47:59

strong. Wharf to keep the belt through

48:01

all in Because will

48:04

Osprey will come in wearing that title and

48:06

defend it against an amazing opponent. We don't

48:08

know who it is yet It'll be almost

48:10

like a double It'll

48:14

be leveling up that champion leveling up

48:16

that championship If he carries it for

48:19

9 12 months and

48:21

has amazing feuds for it really great matches

48:24

It makes that title way more prestigious

48:27

Especially if that championship is like known

48:29

as the will Osprey title will Osprey

48:31

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48:33

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comm slash Fightful Thank

49:44

you so much for that Sean We got so

49:46

many super chats to get to and I promise you guys we're

49:48

gonna get to him almost all of them are about The main

49:50

event so I want to get to those but gonna burn through

49:53

some of these from Tom right here Congrats

49:56

to mark brisk own his wife on the new baby

49:58

today Matthew J. Minp you so a nice Uh,

50:01

I'll allusion to his late

50:03

brother, of course, uh, Tracy, one of

50:05

the only times I've been here live,

50:07

welcome Tracy, because of the live West

50:10

coast feed of AWI PM PST. You

50:13

think they'll consider this moving forward? Uh,

50:15

no, I don't think so. I don't usually

50:18

have cable runs. No, that's generally not how

50:20

it runs. Absolutely. Uh, but we're

50:22

glad that you're here. We really

50:24

appreciate you being here. Thank you for being here. That's for

50:26

sure. Uh, let's keep going

50:28

here. Um, oh, they

50:30

also, by the way, they, they made this

50:33

official, uh, bullet club gold versus, versus

50:36

top flight and Andretti action

50:39

on Dredi on collision for the trios titles. That

50:41

was really fun. So yeah, that should be a

50:43

fun match here. Um,

50:48

goodness, I gotta, I gotta find the exact

50:50

thing. I want everyone to see this one,

50:52

but I'll, I'll read it as I find

50:54

it. A dong phallus saying, yes. My new

50:56

ring of honor trios belt design just before

50:58

unification. I don't know. I

51:01

don't know, uh, what, what's that,

51:03

what the new belts are going to look

51:05

like if they're going to, you know, I'm

51:08

not sure. I honestly don't know what the deal

51:10

was with that. When the decision was to make,

51:12

made it to be unified or how that's going

51:14

to work. Unfortunately,

51:16

move count 1980 saying in the spirit of tonight's AW

51:18

dynamite on TVS, I will crank my white noise machine

51:21

up to max volume so that I can't hear most

51:23

of what you guys say. I did

51:25

not have any audio issues. I didn't have

51:27

any audio issues either. I have no idea.

51:29

Like, it must've been a different

51:31

service than what I was. The TVS thing, Tony

51:34

concept was a TVS thing, but I,

51:36

so I watch it because in the

51:38

room I typically work from, I don't have a TV. So I watch

51:40

it on my computer and I had

51:42

the TVS stream on my computer and I

51:44

didn't have any issues. Yeah,

51:46

neither. So, uh,

51:48

that's, that's interesting. That's funny that I heard,

51:50

I've read a whole lot of people complaining

51:53

about it. But am I just watching, am

51:55

I watching the wrong episode? Like

51:57

I didn't know what I was, what I was missing,

51:59

but yeah. Yeah, I everything

52:02

ended up working out fine for me. Real

52:04

quick on the Mercedes front,

52:07

United Slapnut says, should the CEO join the

52:09

elite as she turns? I

52:11

mean, CEO certainly

52:14

sounds like it, like let's make it an

52:16

actual title, obviously in kayfabe, I don't know.

52:19

Couldn't, I mean, it wouldn't be a bad thing

52:21

for her to at least have an informal alliance

52:23

with them. Like that might be

52:25

fun to like just show like a little boardroom thing where

52:28

like Matt and Nick Jackson are shaking

52:30

hands with her, giving like the big cheesy grand

52:32

and the thumbs up. That could be fun. We

52:35

had Shabbat calling

52:38

out Jericho for the FTW title. And

52:42

that brought us Chris Jericho, where

52:45

he is explaining the learning

52:47

tree, which is in fact going to be

52:49

a faction. He has a

52:52

new theme song and

52:54

who is to interrupt but

52:56

none other than big bill, who

53:00

does the bait and switch. And

53:02

he says that he in fact has

53:04

so much he can learn from Chris Jericho.

53:07

Yes. And Chris Jericho is nodding along as in

53:09

yes, yes you can. So

53:12

Alex, the decision here that

53:14

they're making is to lean into the bit as

53:16

hard as they can. There was

53:18

that, that's not a decision. You have to

53:20

do that. So

53:22

they're gonna do the whole Bo Dallas thing

53:25

where Chris Jericho really believes genuinely in his

53:27

heart that he is the savior of the

53:29

universe here, helping the rest of AW find

53:32

their footing. I've

53:34

never heard you have any opinions on Chris Jericho.

53:36

So I'm really curious in what you have to

53:38

say about this. So,

53:43

okay. So here we go. We

53:45

got a couple of humping chats here about Chris Jericho.

53:48

I'm gonna read it or this document. I'm

53:50

sorry, but I have absolutely no

53:52

interest in Jericho's new Mr. Rogers

53:54

routine. Welcome to Sesame Street learning

53:57

tree gimmick. Plus he's dragging

53:59

big bill into. being his Big Bird sidekick, just need

54:01

him to go away for a bit, maybe to

54:03

PBS with that gimmick says Jordan Scott. And

54:06

Newlax City says, Alex, you know, you're my

54:08

guy, and I've been on the anti Jericho

54:10

crusade for a long time. But

54:13

if we have to have Jericho around,

54:15

this might be the best way. A

54:18

heel with no self-awareness. It's actually not

54:20

a bad gimmick. I

54:24

guess my point is I don't feel like we need to have

54:26

him around. So

54:29

like, this is we'll see where this goes

54:31

and who he corrupts. Like,

54:33

I think Big Bill is an incredibly talented

54:35

big man, one of the most talented big

54:38

man, when you consider the charisma with which

54:40

he performs in the ring.

54:42

I think he's incredibly

54:44

talented. And unlike what Jericho

54:46

says about how when people come

54:49

are drawn into the Jericho vortex,

54:51

they come out much better. Like,

54:54

the reason we called it the Jericho

54:56

vortex, and he stole that from us,

54:58

is because the opposite happened. Right. Well, they

55:00

should have a bunch of people, they should

55:03

have a bunch of

55:05

talent who are like, Yeah, I gained

55:07

nothing from working with Chris Jericho. Right.

55:10

So so I just hope Big

55:12

Bill does not come

55:14

out worse for wear, like, literally everybody

55:16

else who's ever been a part

55:18

of the like, we never got to see Proud

55:21

and Perilful be the tag team champs, because

55:23

they had to back up Chris Jericho,

55:25

whenever stupid faction wars he

55:27

was a part of, we never got to see

55:29

them go out and have tag team title run.

55:32

There was they just nobody

55:34

could do anything else. Because Jericho was

55:36

there, you had to be the Jericho

55:38

lackeys. So Big Bill coming out, what

55:40

I sincerely hope won't happen is this

55:42

is all a smokescreen run by Big

55:44

Bill to like, allow

55:47

for that he's insincere about

55:49

this, because it did

55:51

feel like William Morrissey. Thought

55:54

this was the crack of crap. Like, so

55:57

I don't know, we'll see. This

55:59

this was Definitely not for me

56:01

watching Shibata lose to Jericho in

56:03

an FTW rules match will not

56:06

be for me But I

56:09

guess this is just this is the thing in a

56:11

W That's always gonna confound me is

56:13

that there will always be something for me to hate or

56:15

be sour about With

56:18

a W as long as Jericho is

56:20

still a performer there because I did

56:23

like Shibata Complimenting Renee Paquette's rhinestone heart.

56:26

I did I do wonder I do worry for

56:28

his safety though If box liver watches these interviews.

56:30

Oh My

56:35

goodness Jam

56:39

beard saying not gonna lie a fun tag team that

56:42

could join the learning tree the work horsemen and He

56:45

says no let them be hoopers against FTR and

56:47

collision now. I love I

56:49

love the work horsemen I've

56:52

been watching the work horsemen for six

56:54

seven years. I want to say now JD

56:57

Drake is one of the most underutilized

56:59

performers in all of a W and

57:02

Anthony Henry is as good as

57:04

anyone you're gonna see from

57:06

a peer wrestling standpoint, so I Would

57:09

advocate for more of them on TV. I

57:12

don't know I mean not if they're like

57:16

Taking pins for Jericho. Well, I'm sorry. I don't I

57:18

don't know how I feel about them in this group

57:20

That's what I'm saying. Like I want to see him more on TV, but

57:22

not if they're like, don't worry boss We

57:24

got it and they don't got it like that's

57:27

big We don't we don't we don't need them

57:29

to be imperium for Jericho's Gunther because that ruined

57:31

imperium to the foot They had to break them

57:33

up. So yeah, I don't need that. Yeah,

57:37

I feel up that

57:39

got us to the IWGP

57:41

world heavyweight championship match

57:43

John Moxley defeated powerhouse

57:45

Hobbs the the

57:49

reasoning for this essentially was

57:52

Callous said he set up the

57:56

Alpha Omega match back in 2018 for

57:58

New Japan and they owed him So he

58:01

was able to get an IWGP title

58:03

match for Hobbs on dynamite So

58:05

that was a an interesting roundabout way of

58:07

getting into that I suppose Yeah,

58:10

physical match. I think this was

58:12

kind of exactly what you'd expect it to be. I've always

58:15

liked Hobbs unfortunately, I think

58:17

Hobbs is just kind of pigeonholed in a

58:20

certain role in AW and Maybe

58:24

he'll be able to get past that one day. I

58:26

hope he can he's very talented But

58:28

you know, I mean look it's not a bad spot to

58:31

be in by any means a championship match against John Moxley

58:33

But I'd say business was

58:35

done and it accomplished what it needed to Yeah,

58:38

I'm worried about Hobbs that looked like that. He

58:40

wasn't putting any weight on that So yeah, the

58:43

cell that looked like that looked like he wrecked

58:45

his knee and he was trying to fight through it Yeah, we

58:47

did get a super chat. I'm trying to find it

58:50

here is from James He said anyone have

58:52

an update on Hobbs he looked hurt. I have not

58:54

heard anything He was putting zero.

58:56

Yeah weight on that thing when

58:58

when you're selling you're able to actually

59:00

move around the ring You're just doing a limp.

59:02

You're playing a limp. He wasn't playing anything. He

59:04

couldn't put weight on that foot So

59:07

I'm maybe he's he's not

59:09

badly injured Maybe Sean

59:11

Ross Sapp will have an update on that

59:13

soon Of course with it's

59:15

with injuries Sean always puts that to the

59:18

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59:20

news Fightful Select comes your place to get

59:23

that that's five dollars in wrestling Of course wrestling a coin

59:25

now, but comms are really good five dollars, too It's actually

59:27

a $4.99, but that's besides the point

59:29

we talked about that Sean and I we debate that

59:31

every now and then alongside Bruce Springsteen to which

59:33

he's a he's a dick about but

59:36

that got us to our main event segment

59:38

that we talked a lot about already, but

59:41

Jack Perry is out. He says he

59:43

always wants the best for a W

59:45

Tony Khan comes out Tony

59:48

Khan like I said before he's smiley McGee.

59:50

He's so excited to be out there in

59:52

Jacksonville his home Jack

59:54

Perry wants to bury the hatchet move

59:57

forward have himself reinstated big old

1:00:00

Over-exaggerated cartoonish handshake.

1:00:03

It was like the mega powers exploding,

1:00:05

you know very reminiscent to Eric Bischoff

1:00:07

and Vince McMahon shaking hands by the

1:00:09

way the parallels Between

1:00:11

some of the stuff that has happened in

1:00:14

the past life of Eric Bischoff and

1:00:16

the current life of Tony Khan It's just

1:00:18

so funny to me and in

1:00:20

a super meta level obviously, but um

1:00:24

They they shake hands big

1:00:27

exaggerated hug Then

1:00:29

we get the Jack Perry smirk

1:00:32

and you know that shit's about to go down

1:00:34

and he Gut

1:00:37

punches him with the microphone. Tony

1:00:39

somehow takes a back bump and then Flips

1:00:42

forward then he starts selling his

1:00:45

his gut the elite come out What

1:00:48

are you doing? What are you doing? Let's help Tony up teasing?

1:00:51

They're gonna hit the EVP trigger No,

1:00:54

we would never do that and then Okada picked

1:00:56

him up And I thought they were gonna tease

1:00:58

the Rainmaker which they didn't do it, but then

1:01:01

he was like, uh No,

1:01:03

and then they do the the TK

1:01:05

driver full-on They

1:01:09

do the TK driver and Tony

1:01:11

Khan dies a death Mmm

1:01:14

all the the elite backtrack up

1:01:16

the entranceway. What are you gonna do?

1:01:18

You know, it's been great to see

1:01:20

your Jacksonville Thank

1:01:23

you great crowd. Thank you Then

1:01:28

the baby faces come to the ring to check

1:01:30

on Tony might have been cool So baby faces

1:01:32

like helped Tony before that happened, but that's the

1:01:34

point. They were all they were all in catering

1:01:37

Hey, well, you know all 21 of them Did

1:01:41

part of that go up and they're very tired.

1:01:43

That's right. And then Again

1:01:46

shot Khan makes his official in

1:01:49

cannon debut Here

1:01:51

checking on Tony Jambeard said shotgun

1:01:53

about to set linebacker Josh Allen

1:01:55

on Jack Perry Suppose

1:01:58

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to Alba subscribers by the way and a

1:03:46

Piple Select subscriber, says I'd

1:03:48

love it if Tony Khan was out injured

1:03:50

next week and the whole Dynamite episode was

1:03:52

kayfabe booked and produced completely by the new

1:03:54

heel elite which they've done some stuff Alex

1:03:57

where it's like the elite directing the

1:03:59

segment. They interrupted that FTR

1:04:02

video package. So I think that could be a

1:04:04

fun creative way to take this Yeah,

1:04:06

no, I I love that idea.

1:04:09

They should like he should be out And

1:04:12

not at the show and who's next in

1:04:14

line to run the show But the young

1:04:17

bucks who get to fully book

1:04:19

the show would do whatever they want and everybody

1:04:21

has to like beg them for

1:04:23

a spot on the card and everything

1:04:25

and you know, like well We

1:04:28

do have a Kenny Omega segment that we

1:04:31

did promise the people of Winnipeg And so

1:04:33

we're gonna do a Kenny Omega segment by

1:04:35

beating the crap out of Kenny Omega I don't know. There's

1:04:37

a lot of stuff that they could do there, but I

1:04:40

love that idea Yeah, I

1:04:42

think that could be a lot

1:04:44

of fun Irene saying Kenny's return next week

1:04:46

involves him confronting the lead is the only

1:04:48

baby face with any authority Just to get

1:04:50

jumped since he has surgery soon. So that

1:04:52

would be the way of putting Kenny on

1:04:54

the shelf permanently. She's suggesting so Yeah,

1:04:57

I mean that's that's definitely Plausible

1:05:00

they could do it that way Corey saying they're taking

1:05:02

Kenny out so he can get surgery aren't they? So

1:05:04

a lot of people seem to be thinking

1:05:06

about that Johnny big man I'm

1:05:09

trying here. Sorry. The the stream is being

1:05:11

a little laggy here guys the Bucks take

1:05:13

over booking AW versus the elite They kill

1:05:15

Kenny next week. They book Jack Perry versus

1:05:17

swerve the face versus the man bringing the

1:05:19

downfall. I Didn't

1:05:22

think about Jack Perry versus swerve What

1:05:25

do you make it up? I mean, that's certainly What

1:05:29

the I mean if

1:05:32

you like I don't like the cut

1:05:34

of your gypser like it's not what swerve

1:05:36

does It is not more than does you

1:05:38

know what I mean? So I feel

1:05:40

like that might be the way but I feel

1:05:42

like Jack Perry is definitely coming after a single title

1:05:44

with the young Bucks backing Curtis

1:05:47

PhD TK deserve this for not giving

1:05:49

us commemorative pay-per-view chairs of Dynasty Also

1:05:51

Jericho made me go on my phone.

1:05:53

Not good. Sorry. You didn't get your chair there pal

1:05:57

Another one and Simmons 211 my only gripe

1:05:59

with this is storyline is they kept

1:06:01

Kenny a secret and he came out as

1:06:03

a surprise I think next week would hit

1:06:05

much harder for me. While I understand that

1:06:08

being in Winnipeg promoting that seems

1:06:10

like something that would help the live

1:06:13

crowd push tickets. It was also the

1:06:15

venue to put that out first and

1:06:18

then AEW confirmed it so maybe there was

1:06:20

going to be a surprise but

1:06:22

they you know so but once once

1:06:25

the venue was like hey we know

1:06:27

a secret Kenny Omega is gonna be

1:06:29

here they're like yeah there's a reason

1:06:31

it was a secret but

1:06:34

okay yes Kenny Omega will be there. Chai

1:06:39

down Spurs I absolutely dreaded this

1:06:41

angle but the execution was so good

1:06:43

I think it's gonna pay off so

1:06:45

some optimism there. Jordan

1:06:50

same for a second I thought Tony was taking a

1:06:52

Rainmaker I think that they wanted you to think that.

1:06:54

Yeah that was exactly it we

1:06:56

got so many super chats to get here

1:06:59

sorry Corey say Max MJF could

1:07:01

come back to save AEW from the elite

1:07:03

what a turn that would be huh mm-hmm

1:07:07

yeah yeah that's

1:07:09

certainly certainly a possibility

1:07:11

I don't know how long he'll be out we have not

1:07:13

gotten an update on on

1:07:16

how but those were not like

1:07:18

light injuries like no

1:07:20

he was dealing with a lot of bad stuff so I

1:07:22

don't know how long he'll be out. Yeah

1:07:24

another one from Corey saying I just stopped

1:07:26

laughing and then at the shotgun showed up

1:07:28

and I lost it again it was shotgun

1:07:30

showed up was a legendary moment that was

1:07:32

a absolutely that Sawyer

1:07:34

saying I was about to put over how

1:07:37

the women's division suddenly became the best thing

1:07:39

in AEW and then that final segment happened

1:07:42

what a damn show. Did

1:07:46

you feel that way about the show Alex? I

1:07:49

thought that I was very excited for for

1:07:53

Tony versus Serena Mariah May

1:07:55

involved Thunder Rosa versus Gianna

1:07:57

as a non-title feud I love

1:08:00

What I firmly believe at this point is

1:08:02

going to be Mercedes-Manet

1:08:04

and Willow story

1:08:07

enveloping Statlander and probably some other ones

1:08:09

as well for the next, all the

1:08:11

way until 2025 at

1:08:13

this point. So like, I was

1:08:15

very excited for Lumis Division. I thought this is an

1:08:17

awesome show to show what we have brewing there. And

1:08:20

then the last segment really did make me

1:08:23

forget about almost everything on the show. Like,

1:08:25

as I was walking up the stairs after that

1:08:28

segment, I was like, what else happened? Oh right,

1:08:30

Osprey versus Roderick Strong, which is a friggin' dream

1:08:32

match for me. Okay, like it

1:08:34

was a great show, but that last one

1:08:36

man overshadowed everything. Here's a good idea from notorious

1:08:39

Greg. Tony needs to be kayfabe heard till after

1:08:41

double or nothing, the Bucks do the presser for

1:08:43

him. Okay, such a great

1:08:45

idea. Fucking great idea. Stella

1:08:49

and Jesse Lopez, I've invested in an AEW angle for the

1:08:52

first time in a long time, the way he sold the

1:08:54

mic shot, as if he was shanked at me in tears.

1:09:00

I tell you, you know Tony Khan has been waiting

1:09:02

since he was seven years

1:09:04

old to sell something in pro wrestling. So

1:09:07

that was a big mowing for him. C.

1:09:09

Delgado, six, loved it, but TK better sell

1:09:12

during the NFL Draft. Well, he sold the

1:09:14

moves. That is for damn sure. Richard,

1:09:17

that was on the level of Bischoff being powerbombed by

1:09:19

the outsiders. You're willing to go that far, Alex? I

1:09:23

mean, that's a long time ago. We

1:09:28

have the benefit of hindsight on that. So

1:09:31

I will say, let's see

1:09:33

where we're at at all

1:09:35

in, where all of this has gone. If

1:09:39

Tony Khan is,

1:09:42

you know, just, okay, well, this didn't

1:09:44

work and we're not, he'll be a...

1:09:46

If Tony Khan's like, that was great, I had a

1:09:48

taste of being an on-air performer. The show is about

1:09:50

me now. I mean, I don't think

1:09:53

he's going to do it. But

1:09:55

that would be terrible. Like

1:09:57

there's a lot of stuff where this could go wrong. But

1:10:00

if they play this right, I think we'll look

1:10:02

back on tonight as a huge step for for

1:10:04

AW. Apparently Mercedes tweeted about

1:10:06

TK being attacked and said say hello

1:10:09

to your new CEO. So there you

1:10:11

go. Well, Hidden Network says correct me if I'm

1:10:13

wrong, but did TK mention that he will not

1:10:16

be involved as an on screen character? There's been

1:10:18

a lot of things TK said since the beginning

1:10:20

of AW. Five years ago, like, listen, I think

1:10:22

I think he had no plans when this thing

1:10:25

started for him to ever be an on screen

1:10:27

character. I think

1:10:29

plans change and I think this was at

1:10:31

this point a very

1:10:33

good decision because it because it's going to

1:10:35

make the elite into this new

1:10:37

elite thing into the most talked about

1:10:40

thing on the show. Yeah,

1:10:42

I mean, he also said when they launched that the

1:10:44

Jaguars would have no involvement with AW and we

1:10:47

know that was not the case there. The

1:10:49

White Lama shown. No, I was picturing Tony Khan

1:10:51

getting attacked and suddenly from the back walks, Eric

1:10:53

Bischoff with a shit eating grin. I

1:10:57

promise you long term

1:10:59

storytelling. I promise you with every

1:11:01

fiber of my existence that that

1:11:04

was never the plan will never be

1:11:06

the plan. And man,

1:11:10

yeah, never, never go. But that would have been

1:11:12

a work, work, work, work any work if that's

1:11:14

what it was. Yeah,

1:11:16

I assure you, that's not the case. RJ,

1:11:19

I want to see TK sells injuries tomorrow.

1:11:21

Talk about the draft there. Shadow

1:11:24

saying the elite put out a video saying why

1:11:26

they beat up Tony Khan. Obviously, we've been on

1:11:28

air. So if anyone I haven't seen it. So

1:11:30

if anyone has any details on that, please let

1:11:32

us know, because I definitely would like

1:11:35

to have some idea of

1:11:38

what the deal is with that. Jake,

1:11:40

if Tony Khan doesn't show up at a

1:11:42

draft in a wheelchair neck brace and yell

1:11:45

at Adam, chef, they're going to riot. That

1:11:48

would be fun. Yeah,

1:11:52

DNC Digital, I'm interested if this is where

1:11:54

they were going to be. If

1:11:56

this is where they were going by playing the footage, I can

1:11:58

admit my opinion of it being a bad. idea was

1:12:00

wrong. Has everyone talking... you think this

1:12:02

was the plan when they set up

1:12:04

the footage? I think

1:12:07

it was to like, to

1:12:11

like start this

1:12:13

whole Jack Perry thing. Jack

1:12:15

Perry having a reason to come

1:12:18

back to join forces

1:12:20

with the Young Bucks to then

1:12:22

get to this point may have

1:12:24

been a justification

1:12:29

for showing the footage, but I do feel like

1:12:31

it was a direct response to the CM Punk

1:12:33

interview, and they're trying to justify

1:12:36

that with also story stuff as well. So

1:12:39

they're saying basically Jack Perry was mad he had

1:12:41

eight months stolen from him and his attack on

1:12:43

TK was payback. That's what the video... That makes

1:12:45

sense. That's certainly a just

1:12:49

a in Perry's mind,

1:12:51

a justified response. Yeah,

1:12:53

for sure. We

1:12:55

got Meat-Normous, Sub-Pacnas,

1:12:58

sometimes they do the Nana, Danson, Elevators or during

1:13:00

Burger King commercials to catch the Mox will be

1:13:02

a meat fest. Can't wait. They did set that

1:13:04

up. I didn't mention that. That should

1:13:06

be an excellent match. That's going to

1:13:09

be amazing. Yeah, that's that's I'm

1:13:11

really looking forward to seeing how

1:13:13

Mox fits into all of this.

1:13:15

Yeah. Because Mox has been one

1:13:17

of the main characters who's always,

1:13:20

for better or for worse, had

1:13:22

AEWs back. He's here. John Cena.

1:13:24

Absolutely. Like there's a lot of

1:13:27

stuff that they could do there.

1:13:29

There's he were he feels to

1:13:31

me like the DDP against the

1:13:33

NWO type of thing. So

1:13:36

that could be Max too. That could be Max

1:13:38

too. Like we'll see where all this if

1:13:41

it becomes like the

1:13:43

new elite versus Team

1:13:45

AEW and you have

1:13:47

very different types of

1:13:49

Team AEW all

1:13:51

putting it together in like a team

1:13:54

blood and guts match. Whenever

1:13:56

that happens, Alex, and

1:13:59

we see Team AEW. You backstage sting

1:14:01

better be there brick leading them.

1:14:03

Yeah with a rah-rah speech like

1:14:05

yeah Oh, how great would

1:14:07

that be? That'd be awesome

1:14:10

Irene another one if the elite are the

1:14:12

top heel faction what a bait what babyface

1:14:14

faction opposes them BCC this bowl Club gold

1:14:16

turn face does osprey form a united empire

1:14:18

in AW know I think it's just gonna

1:14:20

be like a team AW Sort of thing

1:14:22

and like all these people who have been

1:14:26

Right put down by the new elite and

1:14:28

and leading I mean we both agree. That's

1:14:30

where this is headed eventually, right, right? Yeah,

1:14:32

I mean I just feel like

1:14:34

it's got to I I do not know

1:14:36

how long it will take But I

1:14:38

feel like I feel like the end result of

1:14:40

this is the bad guys

1:14:42

team elite Which probably ends up adding a

1:14:45

couple more dudes? versus

1:14:48

team aew In

1:14:50

a blood-and-gust match I feel like that's the end the

1:14:52

end game of this I just don't know how long

1:14:55

that's gonna take before we get to that end game

1:14:57

that could be at all in For

1:14:59

all we know could be months down the line could

1:15:02

be even further Down the line

1:15:04

than that. There was one from jam beat earlier

1:15:06

since both John and Sean Sean was here What

1:15:08

are you guys takes on the US banning non

1:15:10

compete clauses? So Jimmy van

1:15:12

and I spoke at length about that on the

1:15:14

hump today so if you haven't checked

1:15:16

it out over on the fightful YouTube, please

1:15:19

do you can get the full answer there, but If

1:15:22

the Cliff notes both Jimmy and

1:15:24

I didn't think this is gonna

1:15:26

affect pro wrestling very much ultimately

1:15:29

Yeah, especially probably not. Yeah, WWE

1:15:31

does pay out during their non

1:15:33

competes, too, right? No, I don't

1:15:35

foresee that really having too much

1:15:39

I would love to see somebody especially

1:15:41

now with this ruling Take

1:15:43

them to court Because now

1:15:46

they have this ruling that like further

1:15:48

backs up their case in court But it

1:15:50

would take a crazy amount of legal fees

1:15:52

to do it I don't know if anybody's

1:15:54

actually gonna ever do it. It's a I

1:15:56

would like to see what happens because people

1:15:58

have been talking about Whether or

1:16:00

not this is legal since they're independent contractors

1:16:03

for a long time I would

1:16:05

like to see how that how that shot at how that's turned

1:16:07

out. So I want to This

1:16:09

wasn't a super chat. I want to post this up before

1:16:11

we we bounce here This is a really interesting idea man

1:16:13

Well saying double or nothing will

1:16:15

be TK betting his control of AW

1:16:17

against the elite survivor series style The

1:16:19

betting theme fits the story. I really

1:16:21

like that I Kind

1:16:25

of cool. Yeah kind of

1:16:27

dig that last super chat of the night old hanger will

1:16:29

probably be involved in the elite storyline killer anime or 90

1:16:31

says Maybe

1:16:34

maybe at some point but probably not right

1:16:36

away. I think not work is probably the

1:16:38

direction for him first Sure

1:16:43

We have some humper chats here that I'm going to

1:16:45

be please Yeah

1:16:49

bucks should bring back hangman to take on

1:16:51

swerve That

1:16:53

he's their guy that they take that they have they bring in

1:16:55

to take on swerve as though Perhaps

1:16:57

I mean, we'll see where that goes as well

1:17:01

Powerbomb me Wardlow says TK

1:17:04

should wear a neck brace in case they show the Jags

1:17:06

War Room this weekend for the draft coverage Everyone

1:17:08

seems to have that idea. I love it. He

1:17:10

should definitely do it Ryan

1:17:14

dub says I love that ending. It's time

1:17:16

to lean into it all Freddie McCowan says

1:17:18

not nuts on Tony doing

1:17:20

it on camera thing But it

1:17:22

was nicely done Where was the

1:17:24

baby faces to save the beloved TK? They

1:17:27

didn't and they kept and they kept them keeping

1:17:29

them out of the ring with chairs or something

1:17:32

Having dad there was a nice get he sold

1:17:34

it. Well, he really did he said God had

1:17:36

no idea what's going on Maybe

1:17:38

that's what made his selling great. Yeah.

1:17:41

Yeah Well, that's interesting

1:17:43

from Sean Martin. Give Jack Perry

1:17:45

the real world championship. It's still around dust

1:17:47

it off Give that to Jack Perry. Let

1:17:49

him carry that around goodness and

1:17:52

then Kylie

1:17:56

says dynamite

1:17:58

was fun. I hello Albonzer

1:18:00

Polowski dynamite was fun swerve is my

1:18:02

champion. I love osprey Jack is cool

1:18:05

So um could there give me some

1:18:07

Linder give me some quick words

1:18:09

of encouragement encouragement for work today Some

1:18:12

quick words of encouragement. That's all I've got we've

1:18:14

got to get out of here We've got to

1:18:16

get it to incur I'm encouraging you tightly have

1:18:18

a great with a of what? Anything

1:18:24

else Alex Polowski no no I think I

1:18:26

think that was a Really

1:18:29

fun show there's a lot. I don't want I don't want

1:18:31

to get this let this get lost Will

1:18:33

osprey versus Roderick strong is

1:18:35

going to be very using natural double

1:18:37

nothing and that's really going to suck

1:18:41

Will osprey off on an amazing

1:18:43

trajectory moving forward in 2024 already.

1:18:45

It's gonna be great. I Agree

1:18:48

with you entirely guys make sure you

1:18:50

find full select calm. That's your place.

1:18:52

That's your place best five dollars in

1:18:54

wrestling I get them them scoops and

1:18:57

Thank you, man. Well, that's much appreciated for

1:18:59

that It was a great idea great

1:19:01

idea that you had there, and I'm curious to see if

1:19:04

they end up rolling with that quite frankly But

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