A BAFFLING Title Change But What A Match! | AEW Dynamite 2/11/26 Review

changes there. We got two of them here tonight on this show, including one in the main event, which saw Chris Statlander defending the AW Women's World Championship in a strap match against Tecla, a woman that she had already beaten, and she effectively was coerced into agreeing to give Tecla

a rematch for the women's championship. She was the one who chose the stipulation, made a strap match and up getting beat and Tekla the Toxic Spider is the new AW Women's World Champion, with a little assistance from her her friends Julia Hart and sky Blue. One of the funniest moments. All night was watching them come out and do a ref distraction during a match where there were

no disqualifications. I don't really understand that the title change though. Honestly, when you really think about it, we all should have seen this coming because there was no reason for this match to be happening if not for a title change. She already got beat Why run the match back again?

Why have Chris Statlanders so cavalierly said Okay, yeah, I'll give you another title shot unless there was going to be some fuckery going on, and there was, And now Chris Statlander, after one hundred and forty five days, I believe as the Women's Champion is champion no more. And there's going to be a lot of talk about the kind of run that she had and how underwhelming it felt,

and I can't even disagree. And it's a weird thing for me to sit here and say that, because when you look back at how it all started, she won the championship. It was in a four way match, but she took the championship from timeless Tony Storm, after which she got a win over the unbeatable Mercedes Monet, and

she got to win over Jamie Hayter. So look at that trifecta there that Chris Statlander was able to beat from the moment she won the championship right on through the end of twenty twenty five, Tony Storm, Mercedes Monet, and Jamie Hater, some of the biggest names in the entire division. And yet I sit here and it still feels like, Man, what an underwhelming run. And I don't

blame Chris Statlander for that. They just did not put her in the right situations where it mattered, where coming off big wins like that, you know, kind of sustained that momentum. They didn't do that, And I think that's why I'm sitting here right now and it feels like, Man, this run when I look back at it. You know, over the last few months she got some big wins, but it doesn't really feel like a big run. So my hope is that, you know, she'll get the belt

back at some point in the next few months. I hope, because I think there's still more work to be done. This is an incomplete run for Chris Statlander. If the idea was to get the championship on a heel like Techla and then have Statlander Chase to get the belt back. There's nothing wrong with that. That's fine, that's wrestling one oh one. Not everybody has to have a year plus as the champion. But I just hope that that is the path that they are taking with her. And Techla's great.

Don't get me wrong, there's something about Tecla. She's got this unique characteristic about her that makes her a little bit different than just everybody else, and she's a good wrestler. So I don't mind her getting a run with the championship so long as they are going to circle back around stat Lander because there is more work for her to be done here as the champion, I think, so

not too surprised by what they did there. I was far more surprised at the fact that we have a brand new TNT champion days after Tamaso Champa debuted in this company. Days after Tamaso Champa beat Mark Briscoe to win the TNT Championship, Tamaso Champa is TNT Champion no more and once again TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher. They actually took the title off of Champa tonight, which is a head scratching decision. No shade on Fletcher Obviously, Kyle Fletcher

is great. Clearly they wanted the championship on him heading into Grand Slam because Grand Slam is in his hometown of Sydney, and he even said after he won the belt tonight that he made the promise that when he came back home he would be the champion, and so he is. There were other ways though, to get him in a big match, a big title match in Sydney this weekend without taking the title tonight off of Tomaso Champa. That was a head scratching decision. But what we got

with the two of them was an excellent match. It was not without criticism. There was an issue, and if you watch these shows you can probably figure what it was. My one big critique of the match, but it was an excellent match, one of the best TV matches, really, one of the best matches, not even TV matches, one of the best matches we've had so far this year, and the year obviously is still very young. But they

had a tremendous back and forth battle between them. I do want to cut people off when they say, well, I can't believe that Tony Berry champion tonight. Yeah, you could take that shit somewhere else. Again. We go through this periodically where we have to sort of educate people about what it is to be buried and what it is to not be buried and just lose a matching a match does not mean buried. The jury is still out.

We will see where Tomaso Champa goes from here. The man calls himself the Psycho Killer, So if this unlocks the Psycho Killer, then there is still fun to be had with Tomaso Champ in terms of where they could take this. The key will, as always, will always be in the follow up here. I do not want to see Tomaso Champa, after coming in with all this fanfare, just kind of slip back down into the abyss with so many other people on this roster. We had a

tag team tonight that made their return on Dynamite. We have not seen Private Party since January of last year, and no nobody was out hurt. They just disappeared and then like a magic trick, they reappeared here on Dynamite tonight. They didn't win, but they disappeared. Now the back. I don't want to see Champa end up in that sort of vortex where he's just sort of forgotten about. He came in like a b to lightning, and now he's kind of in the place where you would expect him

to be. So we'll see what the follow up is to this. But I just I saw Fletcher win the championship in a match that easily could have gone to the time limit, and I think in many ways would have made sense for it too. And then you run it back this weekend and they didn't do that. Maybe it'll make more sense when we see what they do

on the Grand Slam show on Saturday. Because one thing that was very noticeable tonight, right before that title match, there was a hint that there could be and not I don't even think it's imminent necessarily, but sort of a hint at a potential rift between Kyle Fletcher and Don Kallis in terms of him wanting to go out there by himself, not wanting anybody's help, and so naturally what ends up happening. Don Kallus goes out there to do commentary and Lance Archer is standing at ringside like

a fucking bodyguard. Again, I I don't book it. So there were some there were some head scratching things about this show, but I cannot hate on that match. That was easily the best match on the entire show. Very heavy on the end ring tonight. We've had shows like this over the last several weeks where it'll be very heavy on the end ring, very light on the story, and then they get a little bit heavier on the story and then they kind of slide back to this. This was a good show. It was not a show

without a perfect show. It was not a show without its flaws, and we will get into them, but the end ring is really what carried this show. A little bit of story progression, not a whole lot. This show really was geared towards building to the matches that are on the card for Saturday. You know, it's not a pay per view, but they're basically treating it like a

pay per view. So this was the go home show, and they treated it in many ways like you would a pay per view go home show, where they were trying to, you know, give that little bit of a push, that final push here before the key matches on the show, a grand slam. So that's what we got tonight. That's pretty much what the rest of it was. But I did think it was a good show. Overall, especially that TNT title match. We will talk about it. This is

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feels incomplete. Who better than this guy right here? You know how much wrestling I watch at a given week. You know how much wrestling I've watched in my life? Who better to talk about wrestling? Come on, anyway, let's get into this show. Here. I should point out Brian Danielson was back, which is very interesting because Brian Danielson had been missing from the announced team for the last several weeks, and I believe because of the effect that's

been having on his neck. Evidently he was doing pretty well neck wise. He's feeling pretty good. He had talked to Adam Copeland, who had recommended some story I don't if it was a doctor or a masseuse or whoever it was to kind of work on his neck, and so he was kind of sleeping through the night a little bit better. He was feeling good. Then he started doing Coming and Terry weekly in aaw and flying around and traveling, and he said that it really wreaked Tavoc

with his neck and he got far worse. So I assume that was going to be it, except maybe for pay per views. But there he was. Now they were out west tonight, they were in California. I believe he's still living in Washington. Is an Aberdeen? Is he in Aberdeen? He's built from Aberdeen. I don't know if he's actually living in Aberdeen or if he's in California. So it may have been that he didn't have a far distance to travel. I'm not expecting him to make the trip

to Australia. I don't want him to do anything that's going to make his neck any worse than it already is. But it was good to have him back on the show tonight with Tony Shavanni in ex caliber. Tony Shavanni was already in the ring to open the show and he was out there to introduce two men, two men who we found out are going to be butting heads next week. We were wondering when this match was going

to happen. Now we have our answer, but it was Kenny Omega and it was Swerve Strickland, so they came out to the ring for a face to face. This was after the confrontation they had last week after Omega had lost to Andrade and they had gotten up at each other's face because Swerve had come out to stop him from using the screwdriver. All that ended up doing was distracted the referee. Kenny got kicked low and so

tempers flared. So here we are here in this segment and he goes to Swerve first, and Shavanni asks him, you know about what's been going on lately. Swerve says that a lot of the tension or Shravanni says, a lot of the tensions seems to be coming from you. Swarve says, it's been lingering for a while. Five years ago, Kenny was on top of the industry and that was the last time that he happened to be the AW World Champion, which I guess is true. Hasn't been five

years wow, twenty one. Yeah, it's been a while since we've had Kenny as the champion. Everyone outside of AAW was scratching and clawing to come here to face Omega Swerve was one of those people, and finally, in twenty twenty two, he makes his way to aaw By the time he makes it to the top, though, where's Kenny Omega? He says, where's the cleaner? Where's the best bout machine? The so called god of pro wrestling? He was nowhere to be found. He's either laid up in a hospital

bed or suspended. He said, sounds like a false prophet to me. In Kenny's absence, the congregation started looking for a new prophet to follow. Every city they go to, the church sings Swerve's house. Now Kenny wants to march back in here and insert himself into the title picture. It almost feels like Kenny is using his EVP power.

He's had to fight some EVPs in the past, actually for the past two years who liked to abuse their power, and he ended that last summer he said, if Kenny uses his power to step in front of him, he's going to put him down. Then it was Kenny's turn. He wanted to correct Swerve on one little detail. He never once called himself the god of pro wrestling. He says,

that is a name that people gave him. They come out, they make signs, they wear t shirts, they chant, they cheer, and they know that if they see a Kenny Omega match, they're going to get the absolute best. Whether you call that the power of a god or not, that's in the eye of the beholder. But he takes their beliefs as a great responsibility. It may be Swerve's house, maybe the lights are on in that house, but no one's home. And if you need someone else to burn down that house,

he's got just the friend who's had experience doing that. Yes, the arsonist himself another crime committed on AW television, to say nothing of the kidnap that we saw last week with Darby Allen being left for dead in the desert. We'll get to him a little bit later on, but he says he doesn't need EVP influence. He's been getting wins and if it wasn't for Swerve last week, it would have been him going to Australia and then going on to challenge for and win the AW World title.

What he's asking from Swerve is for a fight. He's seen the way that he looks at him with disrespect. He sees him talking strategy with Prince Nana, whispering sweet nothings in his ear, planning and plotting. If you want the match, you got it, So Swerve, he's gonna make it simple, accept or yield. What video game is that from? I'm sure with Omega it's always some kind of a video game reference. Swerve said, Kenny's just scared because their generation,

they're already ahead of him. You want to go face to face with me, the most dangerous man in adew And then Kenny cut him off and said, the most dangerous man in AW right now, isn't you. It's Brody King. Well, what Swerve was gonna say? How about he puts Kenny back in the hospital bed and this time he's not getting up out of it. And Kenny said, well that's a heck of an idea, and he smacks the shit out of him. So Swerve, now he removes his jacket, he's got his back turned to Omega. He said, well,

it looks like you've made your choice. Whatever happens next, that's on you, and he took him down, so they fought out to the floor. Swerve sent Omega into the barricade and then into the ring steps. Omega, though, came back by throwing Swerve over the barricade into the crowd. He hit him with a chair. Now they're brawling through the crowd, and they're going through all the fans. They brawl all the way back over to the entrance ramp. And I'm watching this and I'm like, there's nobody coming out.

Every single week when we watched these shows, whether it's Dynamite, whether it's raw SmackDown. If you so much as spit in the direction of the other person and there's not a match going on, you've got all kinds of security geeks and officials and agents and people running out to break things up within a second. These guys have been fighting in the ring, they've been fighting on the floor, they've been fighting in the crowd, they're fighting on the

entrance ramp. I don't see a single referee. I don't see a single security part, which is great. Inconsistent, but it's great. I'm just watching this going where they locked in a room somewhere. I mean, you got two of the biggest stars in this company who are practically killing each other out here, and nobody is coming out. I'm like,

let's see how long this goes on for. So they're brawling on the stage now, and Swerve is down on his knees and he's right in front of the giant video wall, and omegabacks up and he comes charging in with a v trigger and he blasts Swerve in the head and knocks him into the his head into the

video wall. Still nobody's out here. So Kenny then gets him up on his shoulders for a one winged angel, possibly off the ramp, getting not a long distance, but you know they're up there, whatever three feet maybe, So he's getting ready to do it, and then Swerve begins stabbing at his head. And now I couldn't tell. He had something in his hand. I couldn't tell what it was. I don't know if it might have been a screwdriver. Again,

I couldn't tell. I mean, I know that's Don Kallis's gimmick, but whatever it was, he was stabbing Omega in the head with it. So he gets back to his feet and then he spears Kenny off the stage and they both go crashing through two tables down below, and like as soon as you see the impact, crash, impact, and they hit the floor. Here come all the officials. Now the bodies pour out from the back to try to separate these two and check on these two guys, like,

where the hell were you before this? Anyway, this was obviously degenerated into chaos here. I mean, the back and forth was fine. This is a match, is a big time match. And when we talked about this last week, I said, you know, Omega and Swerve, that could be a Revolution match. It could be a number one contenders match a Revolution and the winner of that match can

get the next shot right coming out of Revolution. Whoever wins between MJF and Hangman, or MJF and Andrede, whatever the match is, and then maybe it's Kenny an MJF and Vancouver, and it may well all work out that way. There is now talk that Kenny Omega will not be available for Revolution. That's not confirmed. I would imagine they're trying to work that out, but instead of waiting, they're

doing the match on TV next week. We got the announcement a few minutes later that on Dynamite next week in Sacramento it is going to be Kenny Omega against Swerve Strickland. And they didn't say there was, you know, like a number one Contenders match or anything like that. It's just the big match, and it doesn't mean that we have to get a winner next week. It could

degenerate into chaos the way that it did. Hear, you could have other people running out because there's six or eight different people right now who are gunning for MJF in that championship. So there's no guarantee that we're going to get a winner, a clean winner in the match next week. This could be the first of two matches between them, and then maybe they do end up doing a rematch a Revolution, so we'll see. I'm not expecting a clean Winter next week because to me, it doesn't

really make any sense to do it. Like if Swerve beats Omega next week, you've just killed Kenny's arc at least for a few more months. And it's like, okay, great, Swerve beat Omega, but he's not getting the shot at Revolution. The earliest he would even get his shot would be Dynasty. So to have a clean winner next week honestly doesn't even make any sense. It's rare that I will sit here and argue for anything but a clean finish, But if I were a betting man, I would say we're

not getting one next week. I also think by the way, they could have done a better job at the very end of the show tonight of really pushing that match. I think it was mentioned almost in passing at the end by ex Caliber, but when they were like rushing off the air, I think they should have done an even better job there, like a real big hard sell on commentary, bigger than they did for that match, because

that's a big deal. Nel Swerven Omega is one of the bigger matches that you will see in aw the backstage, Kyle Fletcher was with Don Kallis. They were being interviewed by Renee and Fletcher asked, Callous do me a favor. Let me go out there against Tomaso Champa tonight for the TNT title by myself. I'm gonna do this by myself, and Callous was okay. He goes, okay, yeah, no problem, ilogist, I'll chill on commentary. I'll let you do your thing. He was cool with it. So that match was later

in the show. First up, though, we had the Death Riders and Barry shout out to Barry in the chat he says he was there in person. Dynamite was great. I'll say this much about the crowded they were in Ontario, California tonight. The crowd was loud. Crowd was very loud and into the show, which always helps enhance the show. So good on you Berry, Good on all the people in Ontario, California. They could be back in California next week.

We'll see if Sacramento is the same way. So we had the Death Riders, John Moxley, we had Claudio, and we had Pack. They were taking on Kenoski, Takeshta, Josh Alexander and Mark Davis representing the Don Kallis family. These two groups have been feuding now for years, I mean weeks, feels like years, but they've gone back and forth now for a while. Pack and Mark Davis, they kicked things off. Moxley tagged in pretty quick and he was matching up

with Davis. He landed some punches and chops in the corner. Davis fired back huge chop of his own. Down goes Moxley. Claudio gets in, Takesha tagged in a couple of minutes later. So they're going back and forth. So the action spills out to the floor. Big brawl breaks out with all six men. Pack ends up the legal man. He gets isolated by the heels in their corner Takeshta. He shut down a comeback attempt by pulling Pack down to the

floor as he was going for a springboard. Josh Alexander tagged in and he lost focus due to Moxley, so Pack was able to make a tag to Claudio. He got in uppercuts to Davis and Alexander. Alexander took a giant swing Davis, though interrupted it. Claudio then delivered a big power slam to Davis for a near fall. Moxley into Qushta. They end up as the legal men trading. Now they're wrestling this weekend for the Continental title, so

they're trading haymakers. They both go down. Moxley went for a death rider, Davis broke it up and Takeshta lands an exploder on Moxley for a near fall. They they did keep the interaction between them to a minimum, so we got some action from Moxley and Takesha, but they again, you will save most of it for the match, so they tried not to give too much away here. Death riders took turns taking shots at Takeshta. Moxley made a cover after a cutter. Davis, though broke it up again.

Davis was in the middle of everything here in this match, and again I feel bad for Mark Davis because I felt like for him especially he had a good thing going that was only really first getting going with him and Jake Doyle, and then Doyle tore his bicep. He's gone for a while, so it's like, well, what the hell happens now with Mark Davis. Davis is good, you know,

he's just he's that. He's that brawler type who goes out there, has these kind of big impact, sudden move I like when he grabs somebody into that pile driver, how sudden it is. Again, he reminds me of like a Bradshaw back in the APA days, a right at, a little bit bigger, a little bit wider. But I like, I like him, and I hope they find a role for him, even if it's just, you know, in multiman

matches like this, just to keep him in the mix. Yeah, because I would imagine when Doyle comes back, they might want to restart the team again. And that's fine six months from now, but what do you do in the meantime, right, But he was all over the place here in this match, But it ended with Moxley delivering a Death Rider to

Josh Alexander for the win. Dare I say, I can't even believe that I'm sitting here and going to even say this, But dare I say that the Death Riders have been more in enjoyable or tolerable when the entire show is not essentially built around them. They've become more tolerable than they were six or eight months ago. And

that's all I wanted. I wanted them. I wanted the focus away from them, and the focus in the world title scened to be on someone other than John Moxley and something other than the title being kept in a briefcase, hidden away and hearing that fucking music come on in the main event every single week. So I don't even mind the fact that they still exist. Kind of surprised that they're even still around, and it's very clear that

they're not going anywhere. We all know, like a lot of us thought, right, we all thought a few months ago, Okay, the downfall of the Death Riders is coming. And I don't feel that way at all anymore. I think that they're comfortable with the Death Riders continuing to exist. Maybe they'll even add new members in the future. They go back and forth between Heel and Babyface. People still cheer John Moxley, but they're booing the shit out a Wheeler,

Yuda and Marina Shaffir. It doesn't make any fucking sense. But as long as they're not the primary focus of the show, they're a lot more digestible. But they've been trading wins, these two groups back and forth now for a while. If you remember last week we had a trios match, Takeshta pinned Daniel Garcia in that match, I mean, who doesn't beat Daniel Garcia, So they got the win last week. Moxley picks up the win here not Takeshta to give him a little bit of an edge heading

into their title match on Saturday. As far as where I think that goes, I think we're getting a title change. That's what I think. That's what I would do. Get that continental title on Kenoski Takeshta, and then pick up with the story that I would like to see more than any other outside of the world title stuff. And they've gotten away from it, which is Okata and Takeshta. You have to circle back around to it. And if you're gonna do that. Let's say for a revolution, Okata

is still the International champion. Takesha has no title, he doesn't even have the IWGP title anymore. But if you put the continental title on him, you get champion against champion, and when Takeshta beat him, then you unify them again. You bring back the unified title. Two becomes one, right, just like the Spice Girl said, when two becomes one,

there's a reference for you. You know, I've been talking of Lincoln Park a lot lately, and I felt like I had to throw a Spice Girl's reference in there. You never know what is going to come out on these streams. You never know who's going to get name dropped here. I don't know how I was talking about John Moxley and I ended up on fucking Spice Girls.

But in any event, let's talk about the best part of the entire show, which was the TNT Championship match Tamaso Champa against Kyle Fletcher with Lance Archer in his corner and Don Kallis sitting in on commentary. Fletcher literally just asked to go it alone. And not only is callous out there on commentary, but Lance Archer is standing there at ringside. I don't I don't understand. Maybe he meant you can observe, just don't physically get involved in

my match. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Champa just debuted two weeks ago on this very show. This was already the third Championship match that he was involved in in eleven days. Mind you, they traded chops early on. Champa, though, got an early advantage with a DDT. He tossed Fletcher out to the floor into the barricade. Fletcher replied with a half and half. Champa came back with a very gnarly air raid crash on the flat part of the ring steps. Fletcher crawled back into the ring.

Champa delivered a running knee to the side of the head. Later on, Fletcher delivered a huge lagger bomb for a near fall, and Champa was able to avoid the brainbuster. He tried to leap out onto Fletcher on the floor. Fletcher, though, delivered an apron power bomb, so there was nearly a referee bump in the corner. Champa, though, avoided it, and then Fletcher blindsided him with I think it was a halluva kick and a brain buster. Only got a two point nine count out of it. It was that closed.

It was razor thin, but he kicks out. Fletcher then tried for his avalanche brainbuster on the ropes. Champa, though countered out into a German souplex. Champa followed up with two more running knee strikes. That's how he won the championship with a knee strike, so he went for two more,

both for near falls. Kyle Fletcher is still alive. Both men were down at this point, as Justin Roberts alerted us that there were five minutes left in this match, So fifteen had gone by five minutes remaining, and I'm thinking at this point, okay, this is going to go the distance. It's going to go the distance, and they could always run it back, right, I'm kind of seeing where it looks like it's going here. It's just this very even back and forth battle. Fletcher picks up Shampa.

He lawn darts him into the corner head first. Champa landed another running knee strike, and again he covered him for yet another near fall. Fletcher kicks out. Fletcher fired up. He delivered a Mitchinoku driver, followed by a lariat and one final brain buster, and Kyle Fletcher, for the second time in his career, is the TNT champion. After the match, Fletcher was interviewed in the ring by Renee What's next? He said, What's next is that I'm coming home with

the TNT title. Fletcher said that he was showing up to Sydney and he would finally get the heroes welcome that he deserved to get last year, and he would defend his title on that show against anyone from anywhere. And I'm like, get ready to fly. No, that would have been something though, if we would have heard that music. But now he's extending here's the open challenge again, right anyone anywhere. I'll put my title on the line. Mark Briscow walks out on stage. We're back to this again.

We're back to this yet again. Mark Briscow is out and he congratulates Fletcher. He said he didn't know if his ass could cash the check that his mouth was writing. He said that they were three for three in six battles so far. I was like, that sounds about right, because I feel like I've seen this at least half a dozen times, and in fact, we have seen it half a dozen times. So but they're even three wins apiece,

which means he wants the rubber match. He wants game seven, he says, and he'll even give Fletcher a home field advantage for game seven. Fletcher said, look, I am sick of you, but I did say I would fight anyone. So he accepts, but he goes, if we're going to do this, you're going to reach for the sky game seven, then it's going to have to be bigger than all

the rest. And so it will be Kyle Fletcher and Mark Prescow for the TNT Championship Game seven in a ladder match, and I have to go back and watch it again. I believe Don Kallis had a look on his face like he might not have been happy with that decision from Kyle Fletcher's, which again feeds into what I said before about their potentially being a rift forming between Fletcher, which honestly, I can't even say a rift form.

I think that the seed was already planted back at World's End in the Continental Classic when he was going fishing around for the screwdriver and the turnbuckle and he couldn't find it. So I feel like there are already little hints of it. And breadcrumbs that they've been dropping that'll feed into a larger story at some point. Let me talk about the match first. The match was a fantastic battle and the fans were super into it. Just

a great wrestling match, and it fell victim. The one critique I have it fell victim to one too many near falls where they just go overboard with it. And sometimes I don't mind, and then other times I'm sitting here going come on. Tonight, I was sitting here going come on. I think that they would have been better served to just shave a couple of those off. Right.

You have a couple of dramatic near fall, but they just they just take it too far and it just gets to a point where it's like, come on, now right, and then boom, the finish comes from out of nowhere. So I didn't like that. I wish they would have shaved some of those off. But what a fucking match this was, right. I can't otherwise say enough good things about this match. I was stunned. I was stunned to

see Champa lose this match. I did tweet during the match before it was over, and I stand by this. I mean, to me, it's plain as day watching him on TV, that Tomaso Champa. Ever since he showed up here, Inaaw has been reinvigorated, like he is a guy with a chip on his shoulder who looks and feels like he is out there to prove a point. And as he has said in interviews recently, where people are always saying to him, oh, black and gold Champa, black and gold,

Champa missed that guy twenty eighteen missed that Champa. He's like, you know what, fuck you man, Like, I'm better than that guy. I'm gonna go out and show you. And in these last eleven days, you look at the matches that he's had, whether it was against Brisco, whether it was that was a three way I think right with Claudio and Roddy. This match here, he's been killing it and I'm like watching this going long, may it continue. But I didn't expect him to lose the fucking thing

here in this match after he just won it. So I see Kyle Fletcher get the three count and I'm like, what the fuck. And then he's talking about going home. I'm going home to Sydney. I'm gonna have a big match on the show, right, big title match? On the show, and you could have gotten there the same way by allowing this to go the distance they had gone over fifteen minutes. They were right there. Let the match go to a time limit, draw, run the match back on Saturday,

a grand slim. You could even do the same ladder match stipulation and we get Fletcher against Champa with an actual winner. So I don't know why they decided, well, we got to go back now to brisco and Fletcher. I guess because they're tied, I guess, But I mean, it's just it's old hat at this point. I would have much rather just seen Fletcher and Champa run it back for a second time, then Fletcher and brisco run it back for a seventh time. It was, I guess,

the best of seven series. We just didn't know it. And no shade on Mark Briscoe. And obviously I like Mark Briscoe and they had really great matches together, but that's just not the match that I was hoping to say. It just feels like we're taking a step back by going back to this again. I mean, you heard what Fletcher said at the beginning of his Pro Bowl, like I'm sick of you and I'm like, you know what,

he's not wrong. Meanwhile, as all of this is going on and they're cutting promos on each other, they cut to Champa who's just sitting on the ground outside, up against the barricade with his head in his hands, And I'm watching this and my only thought is I really hope that you know, he doesn't just fade down the car this soon. His nickname is Psycho Killer. You can very easily rope him back into the mix here by having him get involved in that ladder match on Saturday.

And honestly, it could go either way. You know, he could assist Mark Briscoe in beating Kyle Fletcher for the championship because he's just upset he lost to Kyle Fletcher. Or he could cost Mark Briscoe the match because he's a fucking psycho and heal. Champa is probably the best Champa. So if he turns, I would say turning is the right word. But if he costs Mark Briscoe the TNT title, right getting it back, then Fletcher he'll go on to

do whatever he's gonna do with the championship. At least Champa then has somebody to work with in Mark Briscoe. But if he's such a psycho killer, then show it, show it. Let him show up during the ladder match and wrek havoc and get involved. I want him to stay in that team anti title mixed in some way. That's the key. Tony was very insistent on bringing Champa in in grand fashion, which he did, wins a championship right away, has these kick ass matches. Okay, well, how

do you keep that momentum going? I know you don't do, but how do you keep that momentum going if you are not going to put the belt back on him? And I'm not even sure I want them to, because now you're playing hot potato with the belt that's going from Briscoe to Champa, from Champa to Fletcher, back to Champa. You want to keep it on Kyle Fletcher for a while, Go right ahead. Just I hope that there's something solid, you know, for Champa to really sink his teeth into.

He has shown him these last few matches that he is every bit as good as he says he is. He's a lot of fun to watch. He's one of those guys when you watch him in the ring, he's very intense. There are a few guys like that. He'li get Dragonov is probably number one on that list in terms of the most intense wrestlers in the ring these days. But he just he has that you know quality to him. It just makes his matches a lot of fun to watch. So yeah, very head scratching decision there to take the

belt off him in the way that they did. But I look, I can't say enough good things about the match itself. These guys went out there and they stole the show, plain and simple. What did not steal the show was Roderick Strong and Orange Cassidy taking on Daniel Garcia and Clark Connors, who is officially with AW And

there's the connection there with the Death Riders. Of course they're friendly with the war Dogs, right, Bullet Club war Dogs, Gabe Kid, Clark Connors, So Connors was teaming up tonight with with Daniel Garcia, So Connors and Strong they kicked things off. Cassidy tagged in later he and Roddy. They had an argument about it. Now, Roddy doesn't like Orange Cassidy, right, This has been established now for a while, so they weren't exactly on the same page here. Cassidy sent both

Garcia and Connors to the floor. Strong, though walked away from the ring. When Orange Cassidy went for a tag, he pulled the old sid on Hogan's spot and he walked out on his tag team partner. Moxley was on commentary for this match, and he just was He was cackling on commentary when he saw this. Connor's and Garcia they doubled up on Cassidy in the corner. Connors delivered a big spear through the ropes onto the apron and he shut down a comeback attempt by Cassidy. He went

for a second spear on the floor. He ran himself though into the barricade where Darby Allen appeared. He was on the other side of the barricade and he pulled Connors over and into the crowd. Now, I would love to know how was Darby Allen rescued after he was left for dead in the middle of the desert last week. We need the backstory to that. I need to know why. I need to know how the man was rescued and found his way back. But there he was, so he

went off with Connor's. Cassidy managed to roll up Garcia in the ring to get the wind, so even two on one, Daniel Garcia still loses. After the match, Tony Storm, she was suddenly up in one of the luxury boxes in the crowd. She says she made peace with her choices, because again she's gonna be teeming with orange cassidy this weekend.

She's made peace with her choices, calling Marina Shaffir a mixed martial asshole, and she said that she deserved to get her head shaved if she managed to knock her out her being Tony, right, I deserve to get my head shaved. But if Tony manages to be Marina, she would shave her head so bald that they would sell her. At Spirit Halloween, Tony started to address Wheeler Udah, who walked out on stage, and he's screaming. Marina appeared all of a sudden, and this looks so ridiculous. She walks

out there. She has mina shirakawa in her finishing hold right mother's milk. It looked like she was carrying like an oversized child. They have these things, you know, parents have these things where whatever the hell they're called, and the kids like on their chest, like if they're walking around to Disney World or something that's kind of what

this reminded me of. She's like walking out there with her child, who happens to be adult size, you know, sucking on her you know what here, mother's milk for Mina Shirakawa. And as she is being held in this hold, Wheeler Yudah, they decide to clip the ponytail or cut her extensions. But they clip her ponytail. They cut off a piece of her hair. With her trapped in this hold and obviously up in the luxury box, Tony looked horrified by this, and so that was their final little

bit of hype for this tag team match. We're getting a tornado match on Saturday. Whoever loses the fall is going to get their head shaved. And I'm looking at everybody in this match. You've got two women, neither of whom I think want to go bald. You've got Orange Cassidy, And realistically, if you shave his head, who gives a shit. The one who needs to get his head shaved is Wheeler da I mean, that thing gets longer and longer and longer every week. He's got a mop on his head.

So I think it's safe to say that Wheeler Youda is getting a haircut this weekend. But as far as like the Roderick Strong Orange Cassidy stuff, yeah, it's just one of the mid card conglomeration things. This time Roddy bailed on him. So where it's gonna go? Honestly, I don't care. It's one of those stories I just can't bring myself to care about or get invested in. Doesn't really do anything for me. Darby Allen though, again I need to know how the fuck did he get back

from the desert. Backstage, Andrade and don Kallus are together, you know, Androde Hangman and MJF and Brody King. We're all involved in these like pre tap clearly pre tape video promos tonight. My guess is that they're all either in transit or they are all already in Australia because they were not physically live in the ring on TV tonight. But Androtte and Callous were backstage and told Hangman Page he was in the way and they would take him out.

The Hangman had a chance to respond his own video said I'm not getting the match that I wanted against Kenny Omega, who was the man that he beat to win his first world title back in twenty twenty one, and while he acknowledged that Andrade was one of the best in the world, he wouldn't let him interrupt his path to regaining the AW World Championship. Next up was the party match of the night, and good luck to all the people who take notes on this shit. There's

really no point in a match like this. You just kind of sit back and just watch all the chaos unfold. But the winners of this match would be in line for a shot at the AW Tag team titles. It was a three way match with the Young Bucks, the Rascals, this was their in ring Dynamite debut, and a mystery wild card team. The wildcard turned out to be the returning Private Party. There's a name that you haven't heard on Dynamite in a very long time. Do you know

why that is? Because the last time they wrestled in an aw raing was January twenty second of twenty twenty five. It has been over a year since Private Party wrestled in aaw It has been almost a year since they wrestled anywhere. Because the last match before tonight that they had was in House of Glory and that was in March of last year and they haven't wrestled anywhere since then. And again I don't think there was any injury issues

or anything like that. They just they were gone, they disappeared, and tonight, just like magic, they reappeared and there they were. But that was when they got just decimated by the Hurt Syndicate. They had won the tag team titles from Private Party, won the titles from the Young Bucks. Remember, I can't even call it a run. Can you even call what they had a run as tag team champions?

It was an embarrassment, unfortunately, and then they basically got squashed by the Hurt since to get and we didn't see them again. It was like they were shamed and they were sent away. So it's good to see them back. You know. Private Party is a pair of aw originals. They were there from day one, so they turned out to be the wild card here in this match. And it was rapid fire offense here right from the beginning. Things broke down very quickly. We had multiple dives. XO says, wow,

that party really is private? Oh it was, it was exclusive. They take the whole Private Party thing very seriously, very very literally, it was so private nobody was invited, so we got rapid fire offense Desmond Xavier. He hit a shooting star press onto a pile of guys outside the ring. The Bucks control the action as Matt Jackson delivered some locomotion Northern Light suit plexus to private party and then

sliced bread to Isaiah. Nick delivered a bulldog combo to private party, who made a comeback with a double team cutter on Nick. Xavier broke it up. Nick delivered a destroyer to Isaiah and then everybody ended up down, so the Bucks cleared the deck. They went for a double team driver. The Rascals, though, broke that up and they delivered splashes to Matt. They covered him. Nick, though, was

able to break it up at the last second. Everybody flew around the ring and the Bucks they connected on a BTE trigger to Mark Quinn and then they delivered a meltzer driver to win the match. Is it still the meltzer driver? Was it ever officially renamed the TK driver? Is it back to being the meltzer driver. I'm just gonna call it an assisted tombstone, how about that? And that's how they won the match. When it was over.

FTR made their way out. They were feeling Stokely halfway down to ringside and Dax in Cash they get in the ring. They leave Stokely out on the floor in his chair, and Dak says, look, we've come in peace. He said there were eighteen World Tag Team championships between the two teams, and he admitted that at one point he was jealous of them. He was, but now that the Young Bucks are definitely the second best tag team

of all time. He asked if it bothered them that they had to create their own company just to be successful. Unlike them who have achieved success across multiple promotions, the Young Bucks had to create their own in order to find success. At that point, Matt had enough of him running his mouth kicked him in the face and he did the same thing to Cash Wheeler did Nick Jackson.

They went outside, they were going to go leave, and they were threatening Stokely hathaway and then they made they were gonna do a double super kick to him, and Stokely just winced. He seized up in his chair, but they ended up pulling. They pulled back. They were gonna cut him some slack this time, maybe not next time. They didn't actually say when this match is going to take place. Maybe Revolution, I guess that would make sense. But we're back to the Bucks in FTR again. Now.

We have not gotten a straight two on two match between FTR and the Young Bucks in almost a full two years, so it's actually been a while. The last time they had a proper like regular tag team match, you would have to go all the way back to Dynasty in twenty twenty four. Since then, they have been involved in a three way, they've been involved in a four way, so they've wrestled each other since then. But

I'm talking like just straight up two on two. It's been a while, and yet it still feels like, Man, we're going back to this again. We're going back to this. Well, like the Rascals just debuted and this was their first match together on Dynamite, and the Rascals are fun to watch. It would have been something different because we all know what we're waiting for here. We all know where this is going. We're waiting for Adam Copeland and Christian Cage

to come back. And my understanding is that Copeland is still filming whatever that TV show is. I think it's a TV show that he's filming, Percy, Percy Watson, Percy Jackson, Percy Pringle, whatever the fuck it is. He's still filming and they're waiting, and I think filming will conclude in a few weeks, and at that point we'll see the two of them back, and then they'll have to remind us all over again about what the hell happened the last time when they laid out Beth Phoenix. But we

know that's the destination here. We're going to get that match at some point, probably for the tag team titles. So what's the harmon sending them out there for a match against a team like the Rascals, other than well, the young Bucks are bigger stars and we got to get them on the show, and we're gonna do FTR in the Bucks again. It's like, well, okay, same old shit. I guess, not that they have bad matches, but just at some point you want to see some new blood

in there. Private Party just came back tonight. I wasn't realistically expecting them to win, or the Rascals for that matter, but I was kind of hoping they would. So anyway, so we're back to this again, and I don't know I don't know, man. I mean for a while there it felt like, man, this Tag Team Division is starting to really, you know, heat up again, and look at all these teams. And then they lost some teams. They lost the Hurt Syndicate because Bobby Lashley got hurt, and

now poor Shelton Benjamin isn't even around anymore. Lucasaurus got hurt, so there goes a Jurassic Express. Davis and Doyle. They just put them together, and then Davis is without a partner because Doyle got injured like in one fell swoop.

They lost like three or four teams and now it feels like we're right back to where we were before, where the Tag team Division, which was building nicely is you know, it's been wounded now and now things aren't as exciting as it felt before, which kind of sucks because it was really starting to heat up again. I hope they can get back there. We got a will

Osprey video package. We got one last week too. This was a different one and he was wondering, you know, when he comes back, can I be the same, and well the fans still cheer for me. That was sort of the crux of it. When he returns, he'll answer every question. I like this. I mean, you get the impression that they must think he's coming back somewhat soon if they're starting to run vignettes for him on the show.

I just it wouldn't make sense, frankly, to be doing this unless he was coming back in these next I don't know, a couple of months, which seems early to me. But there's got to be a reason why they're airing these now and they're not holding off on them. But I mean, it was well done for what it was

supposed to be. We got another video package also promoting the MJF Brody King title match for this weekend a Grand Slam, and they showed highlights of MJF losing in spectacular fashion less than sixty seconds to Brody on the show last week, basically being squashed. When mjf's back is up against the wall, that's when the devil is the most dangerous, and Grand Slam Australia is when he makes King his bitch. They did a good job of at least showing you why Brody King should be taken seriously

as a threat. Beat the champion, Beat the champion in sixty seconds dropped them on his head, choked him out and dropped them on his head. There's really nothing more you can do. He's got as much credibility as he's gonna have going into this match this weekend. They closed the show with Chris Statlander defending her aw Women's World Championship against Tekla, who already beat but she agreed to give her another shot. This time it was going to

be in a strap match. And they started this match like right at the top of the hour, so right away we know we're getting an overrun here. Before a break, they were outside the ring again. They're bound by the wrist. Tecla yanked her folk. She was on one side of the steps and she yanked Statlander face first into the ring steps on the other side, so we couldn't see the damage, right, And they kept the camera on Tekla for like twenty seconds, and I'm like, ah, Statlander must

be u She's going to town. On the other side, they got the orders keep the camera off of her. Sure enough, when the cameras went back on her, she was busted open and it didn't look too bad, but the blood was starting to pour down her forehead. So Tekla went over and she started raining some forearm shots down on her head, trying to open her up even more. When they came back from commercial, at Lander was just covered in blood and Tecla was whipping her hard with

the strap. Tecla went to do her upside down spider pose in the middle of the ring, and Statlander just yanked the strap and so down she went. She caught Techla with a snap power slam for a two count. Statlander went to the ropes. Tecla, though, whipped her and climbed up with her, and Tecla ended up in a tree of woe. But she rises up and she lashes Statlander three times in a row and then hits a spider suplex. Statlander was able to come back with a

discus lariat. Now they're fighting from their knees. Tecla spits right in her eye. I mean, she hawked a fucking loogie right in this woman's eye. Statlander whips the shit out of her in response, and then there's a blue thunderbomb. We get a one count, we get a two count. Tecla kicks out. Tecla got the wrapped around Statlander's neck and she was gonna try for a curb stomp, but as she came off and attempted for the stomp, Statlander moved instead. She starts to wrap Tekla's body up with

the strap so she can't move. Then she picks her up and she delivers the Saturday Night Fever, which is her finish. And that should have been it, except here come Julia Hart and Sky Blue running down to the ring. Sky Blue runs out to distract Aubrey Edwards and Julia

Hart went for a spear she missed. She ate a shot with the strap, and so after fighting both of them off, Statlander turns around right into a spear from Tecla and then she ties Statlander's hands behind her back, and Tecla hits a curb stomp and she covers and Tekla is the new AEW Women's World Champion. Now they mentioned on commentary that Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron they already left for Australia, or they may already be there.

Those are Statlander's friends, so she had no friends to come out to help fight off the Sisters of Sin. Here she was all by herself, and so she ends up losing her title. Only after do we have the reinforcements on their way to the ring, because here comes Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor, who were a new team. By the way, what are they calling themselves? The Birds of somebody remind me of their name? And the Chad the Birds of Prey. What the fuck is their name?

I don't know where they came up with this name. I mean, I don't mind them as a team, but I hope this doesn't last very long, because Jamie Hayter should not be in a tag team. The Birds of the Birds of What help me out here? Somebody needs to know the name of this team. Hmm. There we go the brawling Birds as opposed to the brawling brutes. We have the brawling the Brawling Birds. Yeah, it's not

a good name anyway. Only after she loses the championship do the Brawling Birds run down to the ring and they run out and they chase off Teckl and her crew with a pipe and a hammer. I guess they were doing some maintenance work in the back and somebody said, oh shit, Statlander's in trouble, so they come running out with their tools. I have no idea why sky Blue needed to distract the referee. With this being a notice qualification match, I don't even know why they needed to

stay in the back. Quite frankly, they should have already been out there. They could be interfering. It will what's Aubrey Edward's gonna do. She's not gonna do shit. She can get up in their faces, she could wave her arms around and try to make a big scene. She can't do shit, So that was kind of silly. These ladies, though, they beat the tar out of each other with that leather strap they had. I thought it was a solid match.

It was not as strong as some of the other matches that we had on the card, but it was solid. And again, coming into this show, it just felt to me like the likelihood of a title change was very high because Tekla was already beaten and then they decided to give her another match for really no legitimate reason other than Statlander wants to be a fighting champion, And it's like, well, why would you run this match back just to beat Tecla again? Right, That doesn't really make

a lot of sense. So it felt like probably going to be like I never would have predicted a TNT title change on this show, but a women's title change. Yeah, that sounds about right. So I wasn't surprised and I liked Tekla, and that's great if you want to put the title on a heel for a few months. I don't know how long she'll end up with that championship. She may not have it as long as Statlander had

it in her first reign. But that's fine provided the idea is that Statlander is going to come back and win her belt back, whether it's Revolution or Dynasty Double or nothing. If the idea is that Statlander now has to scratch and claw and fight her way back to a match with Tekla, who she already beat once, right, so now they're tied, so you actually have a reason to run this back again and have a rubber match

between the two, then that's fine. But I just it's such a weird run that she had because again, the names that she beat, Tony Storm, Mercedes Monete, Jamie Hayter, some of the biggest names in that women's division, and

Chris Statlander went in there and she beat them. She was like a world beater out there, and she's no longer the champion, And I'm like, well, when we look back and evaluate this run that she was on, I don't know it's missing something, it's missing just she never really felt like a real week to week presence on this show, like a real meaningful like she got the main event spot tonight. But I mean, how many times during this run did she get the main event spot.

I mean, she may have had it one other time. I didn't feel like she was having them many times week to week. In terms of her segments on Dynamite, I don't know there was something missing there where it feels like they dropped the ball and I hope that she gets the ball back because she should be in that mix. Eventually, the time will come that Mercedes will be back, and I'm sure Mercedes will get her belt finally.

It would actually kind of makes sense, frankly if it was from Statlander, because they've had a whole bunch of matches now and she couldn't beat stat Lander a few months ago. So I hope that that's the idea here, is that when Tecla loses, she loses it back to Chris Statlander, because I think at Lander is very good and she she deserves some more time, you know, with that championship. But the idea of her losing in and

of itself doesn't mean she can't get it back. I've talked about long title runs over you know, over the last few months. This subject has come up because we get so many of them these days, and they love, you know, telling us how many days this person has been championed for and you listen to it and it's like six hundred days, eight hundred days, four hundred days, a thousand of fucking Athena right, eleven hundred days. Whatever it is is the ring of honor, champion, and it's like,

when did this start? You know what I mean? Like, there's there's a happy medium between hot shotting a title where you just play hot potato with it every other week and having these long, boring, extended runs. Like if you want to have one or two solid, lengthy runs, that's fine, But when this becomes the norm as we've seen it wrestling in the last few years, it gets boring. So I don't even mind them. Like surprising people, it kind of keeps us on our toes. Oh shit, we

have new champion. I didn't see that coming. Like that's not inherently a bad thing. I just hope that for some of these people like Champa and Statlander. They have a solid plan ready for them going forward, because I'd like to see more of them on these shows, especially a Champa just for his music alone. He's got some of the best music in the entire company. Anyway, this was a show that was very heavy on the Inn

ring tonight. Light on the story side. There was some, but it was a very light on the story side. But thankfully for them, the Inn ring is what really carried the day. If you only have time for one match, taking nothing away from the ladies in the main event, watch the TNT title match again. It might frustrate you some of the near fall badness there at the end, but that aside, it was an excellent match. Let's take

a look at the Twitter poll here. Then we're going to come back and do predictions because we got a big show to preview for this weekend. What did you think of Dynamite before Grand Slam? Sixty five point eight almost sixty six percent thumbs up, eighteen point five percent thumbs in the middle, and fifteen point seven percent thumbs down, So that is actually a very positive score for Dynamite. It was a good show. It was not by no means was it the best dynamite in years? But it was.

It was a good show. Now let's run down this Grand Slam Australia card. I am thinking about going live on Saturday night. We'll see. I'm fifty to fifty right now. I'm leaning towards doing it and going live. It is a big card. It'll be airing on tape delayed by like I don't know what, fourteen hours, sixteen hours, So if you are allergic to spoilers, you might have to keep yourself off social media. But here's the card. Orange Cassidy and Tony Storm putting their hair on the line

against Wheeler Yuda and Marina Shaffir Tornado match. Loser gets their head shaved. I'm going with Orange Cassidy and Tony Storm and Wheeler Yuda is getting a haircut. We have John Moxley and Kenoski Takeshta the Continental Championship. I'm going with the title change here. Now I know we had two title changes tonight. I'm still gonna stick to my predictions that I talked about on Sunday. I think we get a new Continental champion here. I think Takeshta wins it.

So when he wrestles Okada. They both have belts going into that match. Now. The other one was the Babes of Wrath putting their women's tag team titles on the line against Megabad, Meghan Bain and Penelope Ford. I think we get a title change there as well. I know it's Harley in Australia. What a horrible thing to beat Harley Cameron in Australia. I think we get new tag team champions. I think it's about time that Meghan bay And gets some gold in this company. We've got Kyle

Fletcher and Mark Briscoe. Just added Game seven ladder match the TNT Championship. I this could go either way. This could go either way. I'm gonna say that Kyle Fletcher retains. I don't want to see the belt go immediately right back to Mark Briscoe after we just got two title changes in the last two weeks. That would be very dumb. I'm gonna say Fletcher wins. I'm gonna say that Tomaso Champa gets involved cost Mark Briscoe because he feels he's

owed a rematch, not Mark Briscoe. So that's my prediction. There. We have Hangman Adam Page against Andrade Ledelo. The winner will challenge for the World Championship at Revolution on March fifteenth. I actually don't mind either of these guys winning. I really don't now who do I think is going to win. I think who's going to win is Hangman Adam Page, because that's where the story is. That's where the real

story is. Hangman is the one who came out and if you ask, MJF cost him the title, or not the title, but cost him the match the eliminator match with Brody on the show last week and resulted in Brody King getting a title shot. That's Hangman's fault because he walked out and distracted him last week and all the matches they had together last year, both of them

Hangman beat MJF. It's time for MJF to get his and I think he gets that a Revolution, even though I will agree it's not the it's not the most attractive title match they could be doing on that show, and I would love to see Tony go outside the box on this one. I think he's going to stick to what the story is here, which is Hangman winning and then MJF and Brody King for the aw World championship. Look, there's not going to be a title change here. I

floated the name Buddy Matthews the other day. We haven't heard much about him recently. It was a year ago on this Grand Slam show that he hurt his ankle and on a damaged ankle because it happened during the entrances. On a damaged ankle, he went out there for fourteen minutes and had a pretty good match with Okada and made it a lot worse. I'm sure that's why we still haven't seen him back yet. But I think it would be cool if he showed up on this show

right for Marl support. He's gonna support his boy. This is Brody's big night, and in the end him being there in some way ends up costing Brody king mjf retains and we can get a Buddy and Brody feud coming out of it as a way to re establish Buddy Matthews on the ROSS. That's my idea. I throw it out there, let's see what happens. But that's the card as I assume they're not going to add anything more, but at to AW you never know. They got two and a half hours, so I think it's eight pm Eastern.

I think it's eight to ten thirty. I believe, and I'll keep you guys posted if I go live. I put together artwork today, a layout and everything as if I am going to go live, but I'll let you guys know ultimately if I do, it's a big show though, We're definitely going to be watching and if nothing else, reviewing on the sound Off this weekend. See Martin likes the potential Buddy angle, so do I. It really all

depends on where he's at in his rehab. Last update I heard was I don't know a couple months ago and it wasn't sounding great. But these days, you know, I mean, what's real and what's not, what's true and what's false? We don't know. You know, they want to shock you when they show up on TV. But that's my idea. Brody and Buddy. Joseph Stewart, I wish you a very happy Wednesday. I'm glad you were with us, and yes, rest in peace to James Vanderbeek. It was very sad to hear that he had passed away. I

know that he was only forty eight years old. From Dawson's Creek. If you don't know who that was, and that he was in some movies as well, got all these football movies. They just kind of run together, was it, Remember the Titans. I don't remember the name of that movie, but Dawson's Creek is probably what he is most well known for. But yeah, he was diagnosed I think a couple of years ago, maybe a year and a half ago,

with stage three color rectal cancer. And it's very said because his family apparently sank all of their money, all of their savings into his treatment and they're just trying to save their home. So I know, there's like a whole go fundme set up. Last I checked, it was already over I think three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

But it's just sad, you know, the way that you all it takes is one illness and it just bankrupts an entire family like that, you know, and it shouldn't be that way, but you you hear stories about that, and it just it's infuriating. Called Varsity Blues, thank you, as that's the movie I'm thinking of Varsity Blues. But yeah, so his family now is left with all of these medical expenses and they're just trying to save their house

and put the kids through college. It's very sad, Justph says, do you thing Harley Cameron is the next big breakout star in AEW to go mainstream? No, she's very talented though. He's a great ventrilo quest. Do you know why Tony Kahan continues to let the same wrestlers in AW, like Darby Allen and Orange Cassidy do media for AW because he trusts them. They've been there from day one. He's you know, he looks at them as two of his biggest stars, and he trusts them to go out there

and do press for the company. If he didn't trust him, he wouldn't send him. Do you remember Shaquille O'Neal's video game shaq Fu on Super Nintendo? Yes? I do. Do you remember his movie Steele? I remember Sam. I don't remember Steal. Have you seen the AI video online of the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Shredder in April O'Neil in WWE lead having a wrestling match. Yeah, I've seen it. I mean, I'm really tired of all this AI shit. I gotta be honest with you. I actually fucking despise

it now. Because you can't. You can't look at anything on like if you open up like Instagram or TikTok or x or anything these days, Like I have to question every single thing that I see now, even like a nice video or a funny video. I stop myself. I'm like, wait a minute, is this is this? And sure enough I look in the comments and it's like it was fucking AI. I'm like, fuck, motherfucker. I fucking hate it. I really do. It's it's gotten very, very bad.

What are your thoughts on Dom giving Live hours in candy for Valentine's Day on Raw? I thought that was a very slick move on his part, and if you remember what Live told him after that, you'll get your gift later. See. Dom knows what he's doing. He's not stupid. Do you think Undertaker is booking Triple A better than Triple H is booking Raw and SmackDown. I don't watch Triple A week to week, so I can't say, can't

give you an honest answer on that. I'm not into the Triple A product the way that I am the WWE product or the aw product. I'm aware generally of what's going on there. I'm not watching the weekly shows. I don't know all the players, so I really can't compare the two. And he says, I hope you're having a great week. Have a blessed day you as well, Joseph, I hope you have a great Thursday. Dry Chicken, says Kyle Fletcher against Tomaso Champa Tee Ante title match tonight

was a banger. Yes it was. Private Party is back. I would love to see them win Tag Team gold again, a ew Ring of Honors, CMLL rev Pro or New Japan. They have plenty of options. Don't forget hog don't forget hog punch. It's all good. It's all good. It's it's more the the AI video stuffs. There's so much of it now, I can't distinguish between like what's like there could be a really nice like cat video, you know what I mean. Like, and I'll watch that and I'm like, man,

that was that was funny. I believe the cat did that. And I'm like, wait a minute, and sure enough, like it'll be like the second comment, how come that person socks were a different color at the end than it was at the beginning. And I go back and I watch it again and I'm like, son of a bitch, like you can't trust anything you see anymore. And that's how it is now. Imagine how it'll be three years

from now. Rhea Ripley and EO. Sky should lose the tag team titles on purpose with an intentional botch so they don't have to wrestle the bellatoy. They throw the match. They could do that on Friday against Nya Jackson Lash Legend. They could throw the match. My girl, the Toxic Spider Tekla is the new AEW Women's World Champion. To break out the beer, the steak, and the beef burgers. She drives me wild. You'll have to fight Clark Connors for her.

That's his lady, and he says, excrement my my excitement level, My excitement level for Tecla winning is like skeletor raising his arms up. That's like me misreading that super chat. What I appreciate Tekla is her grit, her fem fatale beauty, and her cool personality. Definitely not her excrement level, although some people might be into that, but those people are fucking sick. Oh my god, refresh this list and move

on from that. Says I'm going to make the most dairy prediction, Andrade beats Hangman and then he beats MJF A revolution. Well, that is pretty bold. I could see them wrestling, but I do not see him beating MJF. I think that's a little too bold for Tony Kahn to be doing. I don't see him doing that. Isaac thoughts on double Ard, how thing possibly coming to Queens, New York. Oh, I'm thinking that a House of Glory is gonna have to piggyback off this. They're coming to

our backyard. I think we're gonna have to run a show. That's what I think. Arabian Night two thousand happy private parties back and hopefully they stay. Pieces are there? AW has eight to ten legit teams now. I hope Tony Kahan puts the effort in because WWE sure isn't. Yeah, the tag ting division in WWE on the men's side on both brands is dog shit right now, no effort whatsoever. We got two bucks here from oh says one time only.

Will you be covering Grand Slam Australia. Probably, I'm definitely gonna watch it and talk about it on the sound off. But as far as live I'm leaning towards it. Yes, I just didn't realize it was going to be two and a half hours. I thought it was gonna be two bender mc simpson, Is this the start of the Kyle Fletcher face turn. I believe we are seeing bits and pieces of what will end up being a Kyle Fletcher face turn. Yes in the next few months. And

he says, what does Shampa do now? Well, hopefully Champa goes full on Psycho killer and he will cost Mark Briscoe that ladder match on Saturday Arabian Night. Love Kyle, but his matches with people like Will and especially brisco he does too many big moves in near falls with little selling. He should slow down a tad. For me, it's more just the the overabundance of near falls and kicking out of finishers. That's what annoys me. Fabian Garcia says,

what if they try Grand Slam New Orleans next year? Hey, as someone who's been to New Orleans for wrestling two different times, I say, the more wrestling in New Orleans, the better. New Orleans is fucking great. I think honestly though, I think they could do a much bigger event in New Orleans. I think you gotta go bigger than Grand Slam. I think they could take one of their main paper used to New Orleans next year. WWE is going to be in New Orleans on Labor Day weekend this year

for money in the bank. That's like the latest money in the bank they've ever done. That was the make good for taking WrestleMania away from them. This year they get money in the bank six months later. I think aw should do a pay per view in New Orleans. All right, let's check and see if we hit our goal for tonight. The goal was four hundred, and we are at four twenty one. We did indeed, Yes, we could be getting ready for a big, easy WrestleMania in

two months. I'll be honest with you, if WrestleMania was in New Orleans this year, I would probably be on my way to New Orleans, probably to meet some of you, have a big meetup events, make a big spectacle out of it. And then they said, no, you know, on second thought, we're not going to go to New Orleans. There's too much money to make. We've got to scout people. Now. There's something like twenty percent behind where they were this time last year in ticket sales. That's a shame. It's

time to be the booker. So let's do it, ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. Hey Punch, I'm glad you're a big fan of hog. We got a big show coming up, not this Friday, but next Friday, February twentieth. We got mjf coming in. I guess the only question is will he be theaw world champion when he comes in? That depends on what

happens with Brody King in Australia this weekend. All right, we're kicking things off with grand Master sex A and Scottie too Hottie, too Cool are in be the booker. They will be stepping into the ring against Tyson Kidd and Csorrow, who were actually a very good team, so I will give that the bell. They weren't together long enough before Tyson got hurt, but they were a very good team. All right, women's be the booker. We have Rosa Mendez. Rosa Mendez. Oh, we have not seen her

in quite some time, but there she is. Not only did Private Party return tonight we had the return of Rosa Mendez. And when that happens, there really is no point in even going any further with women's Be the booker, so we move on to the main event. That's what we do, be the booker. Oh no, oh my god, we just went from Rosa Mendez to the Wyatt six. Be the Booker is over. After the Wyatt six massacred the roster. I can't believe we just went back to

back with those two things. We hit the goal and everything, and it all comes down to this, It comes crashing down. I can't believe that. That may well be that we've done a lot of these, but that may well be the worst round of be the Booker. Start to finish, and I know I gave that first match to the bell, but still this may have been the worst round to be the Booker that we've ever had. Didn't even get to pick in two different rounds in the men's and

women's round. We never even got to pick all of the people. Look, I mean, that's the risk that we run. That's the way it goes sometimes. Unfortunately it's out of my hands. I have no control over it. You never know what you're gonna get and be the booker. The only thing you could do is just wait for Friday and hope for a better outcome, because that's the next time that we'll be live for SmackDown, actually a very big SmackDown on Friday night, Cody Road, Jacob Fatu and

Sammy's Ain. Only one man can go to the elimination Chamber. We're gonna find out who it is. And then of course we have Alexa Bliss, Julia and Selina Vega. That's gonna be the women's Elimination Chamber qualifier. So a big, big show coming up on Friday. I hope you will join me for that, and then possibly live again Saturday night for Grand Slam Australia. The sound Off episode nine fifty one coming up on Sunday, dropping as always, and

then next week we start over again. We have Raw Monday Night, we have The Uncrowned Wrestling Show dropping wherever you get your audio podcast. That'll be Tuesday evening, and then Tuesday Nights of course is TNT, and then we have Dynamite and boy, what was who was the wrestler in WWE? His nickname was No Days Off? Is it Darren Young? I think it was Darren Young. Well I'm stealing his name. Now that's now my name. I'm taking it from myself. All right, be well, stay safe, have

yourself a great rest of your night. I will be back with you live on Friday night for the SmackDown post show, and I will see you right back here, and hopefully we'll get to uh make up for that horrendous edition of Be the Booker. Take care, guys,