AEW Dynamite 2/18/26 Review | Swerve VICIOUS HEEL ATTACK On Kenny Omega!

what is carrying these shows story wise. Right now, it is the world title scene in AW because all of these different challengers have been lined up for MJF and you could see other ones also kind of oft in the distance, will Ospray and people like the Darby Allen. Eventually, I'm sure they'll circle back to him. But Kenny and Swerve have been very very clear in their intentions that

they want to be the champion again. So tonight they went one on one and what we got here in this match is actually something that I was not expecting, but it is something that I am very happy that we got because Swerve is the best Swerve and that is what we had at the end of Dynamite tonight.

Whether or not it ends up being a full on heel turn or not, I guess we'll have to wait and see, but it sure felt like it because everybody loves Kenny Omega and those fans were boo in the hell at a Swerve Strickland when this show was over.

These two guys went out there one week after Tamaso Champa and Kyle Fletcher had the best television match of the year, and they said, hold my beer, and they went out and they topped it, and they had so far the best television match of the year, an excellent main event with a major angle to close the show.

So not just a great match, right, We've got plenty of great matches on Dynamite any given week, but we actually had a major angle here to close out the show with Swerve Strickland doing whatever it takes to beat Kenny Omega. We got a decisive winner in this match. It wasn't sure how they were going to handle this. We've heard rumors about Kenny Omega potentially not being available for Revolution this year. He's going to be over in Japan.

We don't know if they're going to try to work it out where maybe he can be back in time for Revolution. He may not be. In fact, it looks like he probably won't be based on what they did tonight because they wrote him off the show. But this was a match that had world title implications because you would think whoever came out of this match would very likely be the number one contender after Hangman gets his

shot at Revolution, although they never actually said that. But Swerve beats Kenny Omega and then he lays a beating on this man and actually puts him through the announced

desk with a vertebreaker. He killed Kenny at the end of Dynamite tonight, and so we have He'll Swerve back and as I look ahead now at where we're going with this, because we also tonight on the show had a face off between champion and challenger MJF and Hangman page face to face in the ring, laying it down as far as Revolution is concerned, teasing a special stipy for the match that will likely end up being Texas

Death because it's Hangman. But a stipulation was also added to the match which we have not seen here in aw in a very long time, and it is a stipulation that was utilized by one Cody Rhoads many years ago in the infancy of AAW and it did not work out very well for Cody Roads, and Cody Roads was rendered unable to ever challenge for the AW World title ever again, something that Cody himself, I believe, has said was a mistake because it boxed them into a

corner with one of their biggest stars right in the infancy of the company, Like why would you do that? And of course it's pro wrestling, so you could always just go back on your word or figure out a way around it if you really want to. But they went back to that well tonight with Hangman Page, who said, look, I'm willing to put it all on the line against you, so if I can't beat you, then I can never

again challenge for the AW World Championship. He didn't say, so long as you're the champion, he said, ever again. And I don't know why they would do this again to themselves. I don't know why they would box themselves into a corner. Of course, the biggest difference now is that, unlike when Cody Rhoads was there in twenty nineteen, they have a hell of a lot more belts on this roster, so It's not like Hangman. He's got no shortage of championships that he could challenge for if he can't go

after the world title. So that was also unexpected, not something I really am a big fan of. Unlike that main event tonight, which I was a huge fan of. We also had a TBS title fatal four way match, which I enjoyed. I thought it was actually a very fun match. Willow Nightingale still the TBS champion, although you know, watching the magic did feel to me like they were potentially setting up Megan Bain for a singles opportunity, which I'm still holding out hope is the case. But there

were also some faces missing on this show. You know, we had Lena CROs the Australian independent star making her debut official debut at Grand Slam this weekend, actually coming to the aid of Megan Bain and Penelope Ford. She was nowhere to be founding to think she was mentioned, she was nowhere to be found on the show tonight. I mentioned Tomaso Champa, right, who was TNT champion last week at that great match lost not even mentioned on

the show this week, nowhere to be found. So I don't know if that means he's going to be relegated to Collision from here on out or not. I was hoping we would see some sort of follow up with him on the show tonight, and unfortunately we did not have that. But we also know who John Moxley is putting his Continental title on the line against that Revolution, and if you saw Grand Slam this past weekend, it

really shouldn't be all that big of a surprise. It will beat Kenoski Takeshta, only this time there will be no time limit for their match. And after mentioning that they've done little if anything since World's End to really further the story between Takeshta and Okada, we did have a little something tonight. Takesha was not on the show tonight. Okada was very briefly like blinking, you missed it, but

you can kind of see where things are headed. It's just not going to happen at Revolution with Takeshta and Okada, and I have a feeling we're gonna have to wait quite some time to see that rematch between those two. But I enjoyed the show a lot. I felt like in the second hour. Second hour was a little bit weak. I mean Obviously the main event was the best part of the entire show, but there was some stuff in the second hour that kind of slowed it down a

little bit. They're trying to feature as many people as they can. Again, there's so many people on this roster. There's no way that you're going to be able to feature all the people that you would like for them too, or everybody frankly that they need to and should be featuring, like Champa coming off that big loss last week. But we had like the debut of the Brawling Birds tonight, which is the new team of Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor because they're trying to you know, increase the level

of competition in the women's tag team division. Kevin Knight, all right, look at someone like the Jet Kevin Knight, young star, super talented, somebody that has been rubbing shoulders with some of the bigger names in recent weeks. Right, he wrestled Swerve even for example, not that long ago, and he had a great showing in the Continental Classic. You know, the key with really trying to build up somebody like that is getting him airtime on the main show. Right.

Collision is one thing Dynamite is their a show. Dynamite is the most viewed show, and so you want to try to get him as much screen time on that show as possible. So they threw a match out there tonight between him and the Beast Mortos. Right, it's one of those random matches. But you know, you look at that it's important to get people like him on TV

as much as possible. But it's just it's a struggle because again, there's only so much airtime here on this shown by no means of my sitting here advocating for you know, Dynamite to go three hours. But you just have to do a good job of rotating people in and out and not keeping them off the show for too long. So, you know, we saw some some different faces on the show tonight. I thought that the it was a smaller venue. It kind of reminded me. I think somebody said this in the chat. It kind of

had a like a Hammerstein vibe to me. I think they were in Sacramento tonight, so it was a small venue. But when like John Moxley came into the beginning of the show and he walks in through the back of the crowd, it looked pretty packed in there, so I just thought, as smaller venues go visually on TV, I thought it looked good. But when the show was over the main event, the women's four way match, I thought, you know, the segment with MJF and Hangman, you know,

was solid for what it needed to be. As far as their main event of Revolution, I enjoyed the show. It feels like Dynamite over the last few weeks especially, has gotten into a rhythm here that I felt like I wasn't feeling before that. But the last few weeks things have definitely been in improvement and it helps over the last two weeks to have the two best TV matches of the year. And we will talk about that main event. We will talk about everything on this show,

because that's what we do. I'm like Triple h That's what we do. It's what we do. We talk about Dynamite. This is your aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday, February eighteenth, twenty twenty six. I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you guys for hanging out with me here on a Wednesday night and like and subscribe. Super chats are open so if you would like to support the channel, if you have a question or a comment about tonight's show, send it on in and I will read them a little

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Tonight I saw we had like I don't know what we had, one twenty or one thirty before I even went live. I feel like it's going to be a good night. As far as the wheel, I got a good feeling about it. Find out four thirty two, which I believe is doable. So four hundred and thirty two likes, that is the goal for tonight. So you see there in that super Chat Super Super Saiyan John Cena, I want you all to kind of hulk up like John Cena there and get me to four hundred and thirty

two likes. That's your homework assignment. That dynamite came on the air tonight with ex Caliber, Tony Shavanni and Brian Danielson, And I wonder if Danielson is working these shows because they're out on the West Coast, because that's where I believe he dwells, because he has talked about, Yeah, the travel has really wreaked havoc on his neck. But they're in California. I think they're in California last week. I think they're in California for the next few weeks. They're

in California for Revolution. So I wonder if we'll be seeing him more often on TV. And we had comments backstage, rapid fire comments from various competitors here on the show tonight, including Mina Shirakawa. I'll give you one guess what happened to poor Mina here on this show? What do you think happened to Mina? What do you think Mina's one job was? Key were job here on the show? It was always good to see Mina. She was one of the four participants in the TBS title fatal four way.

Willow Nightingale talked about not having to be pinned to lose her championship tonight, but she realizes that comes with the territory. And of course we cut the swerve of Strickland and Kenny Omega for some comments on their main event. So after that we went to Renee who was in the back with Orange Cassidy. This was from earlier today, and she asked about Roderick Stromp walking out on him in their tag team match last week. He said, thankfully,

the Conglomeration has a lot of members. Oh yes, but not as many as the don Kallis family. But the Conglomeration has a lot of members, and so tonight he's going to be teamy with this man and in walks Tomohiro, is she okay? They dust him off every now and then he pops up on Dynamite, so he was going to be tagging with him against Gabe Kid and Clark Conners. That's later. First up, though, he had John Moxley against Mark Davis Continental Title eliminator match. Moxley's been having these

weekly on TV. I have to say, I am glad that they are using Mark Davis on television, even though his tag team partner got hurt and it would be very easy for them to just kind of relegate him to the back burner right now. I he never wins, Okay, he never wins, but he's a fun brawler and I've actually taken to enjoying his matches even though he never wins. So when I saw that it was Davison and Moxley, I mean, obviously I already knew how this was going to go, but I said, okay, this could be This

could be an interesting clash year between these two. So Moxley escaped to the floor early. David still followed and he lined him up right against the post. He was gonna give him a punch, and Moxley ducked, and Davis full on punches the post and the sound that this made and immediately you know, he grabs his hand. Davis, he busted his hand open. On that shot, you can see the blood comingly in between his fingers. So of course for Boxley it's like, you know, chum in the

water here. Oh fuck, I see blood and it's not mine. Wow, I got some catching up to do. So of course he goes right over to the hand and he starts, you know, he's separating the fingers and he's biting the bloody fingers because he's a sick fuck. Then he placed the hand on the steel steps that he stomped on it. They had a close up at one point of Davis's hand and his finger just looked all gnarly to me.

So it's entirely possible that he really did break his hand or some fingers on his hand, which is the last thing that he needs is another injury. He's already had a couple in the past. So they went to a break. When they came back, Moxley was sitting in a chair outside in the corner near the barricade. Davis charged in at him and mostly whiffed on what would have been a hip attack. So he's going back. Moxley

is after the bloody fingers and the bloody knuckles. They get back in the ring, he hits them with a superplex. Davis came back. He attempted to larry it and Moxley ducked it and hit a cutter. Tried for a sleeper that didn't work out too well. A little bit later on, Davis sea turned a gut wrench into a pile driver for a near fall. So now they're trading shots. Moxley was able to take him down. He got the bulldog choke applied, and not long after that he got the

tap out. Surprise, surprise, John Moxley beats Mark Davis. I mean you could have predicted that ten times out of ten that result will be the same. So we know that the Callous Family and the death Rids have been squabbling now for many, many weeks. This was an extension of that because Mark Davis is a member of the don Kallis family. But if you saw Grand Slam on Saturday, it was Moxley and Takesha. They went to a twenty minute draw, so there was no winner in their Continental

title match. And if you joined me in the review, I said, well, this whole time, I was just assuming because they've made us wait this long that the match for Revolution would be Okada and Takeshta. Revolution is typically one of their top three biggest shows of the year. A few years ago, it was probably their top show of the year if you want to count the Sting retirement.

So it's a big show. It's the perfect time to run this back right a few months after the Continental Classic, and they've done nothing since the Continental Classic to further things along with Takeshta and Okada. They've done nothing, which was very strange. And then I saw what they did on Saturday and I said, Okay, we're obviously going to get a rematch, and it feels to me like that is what the rematch is going to be, which makes me think that he takes the Continental title from Moxley,

which I would like to see. And now he's got a belt. Ohcott has got a belt. He was making fun of him tonight. Oh he's not here and I have a belt and he doesn't. So they're both gonna have belts and eventually have a unification match. But then when does that unification match happen? And I could see Tony wanting to hold off on that until they get to Wembley but that's in August. We are in February. That's a long gap. I would rather not wait that

long to get this match. But it kind of feels to me like he may look at that as one of the marquee matches on that car and it would be. It would be one of the marquee matches on that show. But man, is that's a long time to wait. You could have Takeshta defend against a few different challengers to kill time between now and then, but that is a long gap there. We have to wait to get that match. Later in the show, John Moxley, he was backstage with the Death Riders and he said that I'm not done

with Takeshta. He said, Revolution, Hollywood, no time limits one way or the other. There must be a winner as long as it takes. And then it was made official. We got the graphic and everything. That match will happen. No time limit for the title of Revolution. Now, after this, we had FTR wheeling Stokely Hathaway still in the wheelchair out to the ring. An ex Caliber is talking about, Oh, this is not on the format, this is not on

the format. I don't know what's going on here. Dax Harwood was barely able to speak before a chance of shut the fuck up rained down upon him. They brought up how the Young Bucks called themselves the best team in the world ten years ago, but cut to today and they're sitting comfortably in second place. Said that truth be told, it pisses him off that last week on Dynamite,

the Young Bucks shook hands with the Rascals. They shook hands with Private Party, which is interesting because the Bucks tried to run Private Party out of the company about a year and a half ago, but now all of a sudden, they're good. Said that fakeness is what he hates about aw that fakeness is what he hates about pro wrestling. It's true, pro wrestling is fake. No lives detected. So at the top of ftr's hate list is Matt and Nick Jackson. Right underneath them are their parents, followed

by their delinquent kids running around backstage. So as he's speaking, the Bucks slip into the ring behind him, take out FTR. Now they're beating up FTR. I think they superkicked him,

and like the ring is bouncing around. Stoke Lea's in the chair with his back turned as if he is completely oblivious to this, and then he kind of realized this is something's going on behind me, so he turns around and he starts backtracking, and the crowd, of course wants the superkicks, so he gets knocked out of his chair with the pair of kicks and the Bucks hold

up the tag belts. They officially issued the challenge to FTR for a title match of Revolution, which of course is going to be in LA It's basically in their backyard, and we were told later that Tony kh has made this official now for the pay per view. I wish we were n't back to this again. Not that the Bucks in FTR do not have good wrestling matches. They do.

We've seen it many times. I mean, look, there was a point years ago where I said the same thing about the Ussos and the New Day, and more often than not the Usos in the New Day they would go out there and have really good matches. But you just get to a point where it's like, all right, I'd like to move beyond this. Now. I will tell you that this will be the first time since Dynasty in twenty twenty four, almost a full two years ago, that these two teams are squaring off two on two.

A couple of other times they've been involved in like a three way or four way, but this is actually the first straight tag team match that these two teams have had in two years. It doesn't feel that long to me, but it is the first time in two years. I just I wish that there, you know, was something else we could go to. There really is no other team though right now that's built up to be in this spot. And whatever's going on with Cope and Christian,

I mean, maybe they'll come back, maybe they won't. I don't really give a shit at this point, but there's no one who's really built out for this spot right now. And also they've been hampered by injuries, right I mean, you got to take into account the hurt syndicate. Bobby Lashley's out hurt, there is no hurt syndicate. They reunited Jurassic Express, Lutrosaurs got hurt, There is no Jurassic Express. Mark Davis and Jake Doyle just got put together. Doyle

is done, he's injured. Davis is on his own, no more tag team, so that hasn't helped. So this is what we're left with. But it is the first time in a while that we're gonna get it. You know, as far as who wins, I still don't think the belts are coming off FTR until Copen Christian come back. I don't envision the title change in this match. Now. They cut back to a promo that was shot in Australia backstage at Grand Slam with Bandido was there, but it was Brodie King. He was I think sitting on

top of production crate or something. This was after his loss to MJF. He came this close to winning the AW World Championship. He fell short, and so he was not very happy about it. But he talked about how he was so close he could taste it. But he's not going to sit around feeling sorry for himself. He says, bring the biggest and bring the baddest. February twenty fifth, he's coming back. That's next week on Dynamite, and he's getting back into the world title hunt and he's looking

for a fight. And this ties in with what I said at the beginning of the stream here about the world title scene right now in AAW where even people that had their shot and lost right and Bendido got a shot last month Now Brody had his shot. He lost, but that doesn't mean he's out of the mix, right, he still wants to be in the hunt for the World Championship. Everything revolves around the AW World title. That's like their power source. Right, what Hogan used to do.

He would point to the middle of his hand, right the power. The power lies right here, brother, right here, that's the AW World title. And everybody wants a piece of the AW World Title. Everybody wants a piece of MJSS, including Brody King. And actually, given what they did at the end of Dynamite Tonight and I'm looking ahead to Revolution, they're in Los Angeles who want to get Brodiy King a match on that show? I think they may have set up an opponent for him at the end of

Dynamite Tonight. If Kenny Omega's not back in time to be at Revolution, we could be looking at a swerve strict Lombardi King match on that show now that I think about it. But we had a four way after this for the TBS Championship, Willow Nightingale defending against Meghan Bain, Mina Sheikawa, and Marina Shafir. Now Meghan Bain and Penelope Ford were unsuccessful in their bid to win the women's tag team titles on Saturday, which are held by Willow

and Harley Cameron. So Willow has two titles, as does Hangman. I'm sorry, well, if Hangman wins a Revolution, he would have two titles, but Willow at the moment has two championships. So here there was no Harley. She wasn't. I think she's still in Australia. Marina, though quickly sent Mina to the outside, turned things into a handicap match. Her and Megan were targeting Willow, who ended up sending both women out over the top to the floor. There was a

cannonball that connected off the apron. Mina followed with a huge crossbody off the top rope onto the pile. Later on, Bain picked up Mina and she just chucked her out of the ring onto the floor, onto Marina and Willow. As they cut to a brake, Bain missed a sentan on Mina and she squashed Marina. That allowed Mina to nail Megan with a sling blade. Willow flattened everybody with spinebusters, and the scraps came down and all four women rose

and they were trading shots. Marina no souled Mina initially, but then she ate the backfist Bain and Nightingale. They wiped out Marina and Mina, and then they collided with each other on a double clothesline spot into a reset. Willow was up first. She spiked Baine with a DVD. Marina was there though, with a uranagi. So everyone's outside now and Bain takes out the pile with a tope

out to the floor. So Bain blocked a cake. She powerbombed Marina onto there's a table in the timekeeper's area, and she power bombed her onto the table, which didn't break, and then Marina just sort of she just sort of fell over the table and then splatted on the floor back inside. Bain went up top four. I possibly a moon salt. I think maybe she was trying for Willow cut her off, and Willow Nightingale drops Meghan Bain with

an avalanche German suplex that looked absolutely terrifying. I shrieked when Megan Baine landed on the mat and she was able to twist and get herself over just enough where she didn't either land on her head or directly on her face. It kind of looked like she did land on her face. Very very scary, and even she had a look on her face. You go back and watch, she had this look could like just shock on her face, like her life just flashed before her fucking eyes. So yes,

that was very scary. Mina flew off the top with a shotgun dropkick, hit a backfist on Willow, and she went for the figure four. Willow, though, caught her with a flash cradle for the pin to retain the title. You know, I was watching this finish here and I realized that no one in this company consumes more calories from all the pins that she eats than Mina Sheikau. Yeah, there's a song that says all I do is win,

and Mina is the opposite of that. She should come out to the exact opposite entrance music, because all she does is lose and take the pin and take the losing fall. In these it's getting exhausting. She's over people like her. She's got this bubbly personality, She's very charismatic, so people like Mina. She just never wins, so this was no different. I thought it was actually a really fun match. Otherwise, a few hiccups here and there, but

I had fun with this one. Outside of that one Avalanche German to Megan Bain, which again was scary as all hell. I would have given her the win here. Now I look ahead to Revolution. If we get a match for the TBS title on that show, maybe we do,

maybe we don't. It felt to me like maybe they were building her towards that Megan Bain specifically, because I felt like she was the one who kind of looked the best coming out of this match, and they protected her in as much as she didn't take the pin here. You could do a singles match between them, and if they do a singles match, then great, they could put the belt on her there. I just I liked the idea of her being the one to win the TBS title. I know Willow hasn't had it for a long time,

but Willow has a tag title. Willow is already a champion. If Willow were to lose one or the other, if she was to lose the TBS title, it's not the end of the world. She's still a champion in this company, in a division that they are trying to build up. You know, we didn't see the inspiration on this show, but they just signed the inspiration right to be in the tag team division. They put Jamie Hater now in

a tag team. They're trying to build up their women's tag team division, so it's not like she's got nothing going on. If she drops the TBS title, didn't happen tonight. Maybe it could happen a revolution, but I think Megan Bain would be a good choice for that now at this point in the show, on La Night wins more than Mina, does you know what? You might not be too far off with that, Jay, What would the win loss record be for a La Night Mina Shirakawa team?

Would they win? Would they win a match? I'm not sure, probably not. But on commentary they cut to the announcers or ringside and ex Caliber got all serious and he mentioned that they just lost a big name in the wrestling community. Kerwin Silphie's who if you don't know, For decades he was a director, if not the director in

the truck on the production end for WWE. He started with the company in nineteen eighty five and worked with them through the pandemic era, and then he got furloughed, so he was with them for a very long time, very very key figure behind the scenes. And obviously many people who are now working for AW not just talent on the roster or announcers, but again people on the production end. Mike Mansteri, for example, who I know works I believe he's the head of production for AW, likely

would have worked very closely with Kerwin. So there were a lot of people there who were clearly very emotional. Tony Shavani spoke because he mentioned that for really the one full year he spent in WWE, because he would have come in if it wasn't eighty nine. Maybe he came in the end of eighty eight, but he specifically mentioned nineteen eighty nine because by early ninety Tony was gone. But he got to work with Kerwin and he had nothing but positive things to say about his experience working

with him. Brian Danielson got all choked up. He was getting very emotional. He said that he didn't know anything about TV production before working with Kerwin in WWE, and so he extended his condolences to his family. I thought this was a very classy tribute to someone who many viewers would have no idea who they are. You know he was behind the camera. He was behind the scenes, he was not in front of the camera, and I think in his case, that's the way he wanted it.

You didn't really get to see him very often. If you watch that Peacock documentary The Making of Wrestle Minnie and Nine, I think he's fairly prominently featured in that one. So this wasn't something that they had to do, but they did. I'm glad they did. It was a very

classy thing for them to do. Now, at the top of the hour, we had Hangman Adam Page out to the ring, followed by the AEW World champion MJF, fresh off his win this weekend over Brody King, and there was a promise of no physicality between the two of them. They will meet it Revolution for the world title. MJF went first and he said that this is no infomercial for Revolution. This is just a fact. He hates Hangman's guts, He hates everything about him, and he hates all of

these dumb white trash hicks. Do they have hicks in Sacramento? All these dumb white trash hicks, he said, for thinking that Hangman is on mjf's level and having the gall to call Hangman the main character when the main character of aaw very clearly is him, and the fact that Hangman holds two wins over him makes him want a puke. He said, Hangman's not better than him, He's just a lucky shot. But he can smell it on him, he

can see it in his eyes. There's something off about him, maybe because his two boyfriends, Kenny and Swerve, are fighting, or maybe because he had the chance to be at the top of the mountain twice and both times he crumbled under the pressure. Maybe he's wondering if he wins this title for a third time and he crumbles again, is everyone going to realize that he's always been nothing but a fraud. Who's to say, But the man that he's looking at right now is not the man that

he faced a revolution last year. Hangman is a lucky shot, but he's also all out of bullets. But on March fifteenth, on his birthday, yes, MJF is crossing over from his twenties to his thirties. He's changing decades. On March fifteenth, he can't think of a better gift. And then, finally ending the myth of Hangman, Adam Page and his cowboys shit, So now it was Hangman's turn. See they were very nice, allowing each other the time to speak and not interrupt

each other. Hangman took offense to being called the lucky shot, says the man who beat the absolute dog shit out of MJF twice last year. If there's a lucky shot in the ring right now, it's the man who had a guaranteed shot at the world title, took it home, sat on it, returned with a new head of hair thicker than Mark Davis. Look at Hangman with the jokes here Mark Davis catching strays. He already has a fucked up hand. Now he's got to catch strays from Hangman

here in this promo. But a man who inserted himself into a match between three other men who already hated each other, who waited on the floor, picked his ass, slid into the ring, kicked him in the balls, and collected the spoils of greater men, says MJF. Says he hates him, But he hates MJF so much worse. And it's not because of any of that or all of the years of lying and cheating. It's because when he looks at MJF. He has never met someone more like him,

says mjf's desperation for love and acceptance. He's no better than that, and he hates it. And he knows how loyal MJF is to aw it feels just like him. And as much as everyone wants that championship, the two of them, they have always needed it. A revolution. He wants to end this for good, forever, and he thinks. MJF knows that this cannot be any normal wrestling match, says, he feels it, he knows it, So think about a stipulation,

pitch it. Let him hear it, because he has always known what this match should be, and they should let the fans decide what this match should be. Well, that is a terrible idea. You cannot allow the fans to determine these things. That's not a good idea. So the fans started chanting Texas death. At least they didn't start shouting exploding barbed wire deathmatch. Last time they did one

of those, it didn't turn out well. MJF says that if you think that we're going to do anything but a normal professional wrestling match for my title, you're out of your damn mind. Hangman thought he would say that because he's scared. He's always been a coward. So Max, if you will agree to this, I will give you something. I will give you my word. I will give the fans my word that if I do not win this match, then I will never again challenge for the aw World

title so long as I live. So MJF at that point he cracked a smile and he told him, you got yourself a deal, cowboy, But as far as the stipulation goes, he's gonna need a week to think it over, because unlike Hangman, he doesn't shoot first and ask questions later. And Hangman told him to think it over, but he

already knows the answer. Revolution Texas death s him a little confused here because he offered to put his ability to ever challenge for the title again on the line in this match if MJF gives him what he wants, which is a Texas deathmatch. And MJF said, you have a deal, but I need a week to think of a stipulation. He just told you the stipulation. I don't know that part of the problem was a little confusing to me. But uh, Texas death. I mean, look, Texas,

his death is Hangman's go to stipulations. To no surprise there. I guess we'll see if ultimately, you know, MJF decides on something different. But I don't think they would flat out say Texas death and not deliver it, right, I mean, Tony knows what the fans now, what their expectations are, and what they're looking for. They're looking for blood and guts and gore and violence and thumbtacks and staple guns and drinking blood and all the other shit that we

see in these Texas deathmatches. But the other stipulation, that other stipulation did not work out well for Cody Rhodes and it really hamstrung him and maybe even frankly played a role in his downfall in that company in terms of the fans started, you know, they started to boo him and they started to kind of sour on Cody because you couldn't tell the obvious story. Look at how well the story worked for him in WWE. It was literally it was the story, right, I got to finish

my story. They built an entire WrestleMania two WrestleMania main events they built around his story. There was no story to tell like that for him in aw because in the very first year that that company existed, he snatched it away and for what To this day, I still don't really understand why they made that decision. It was dumb,

It was completely unnecessary. And I feel like they're doing the same thing here now, you know, with Hangman, where it just feels to me like they're boxing themselves into a corner, you know, unnecessarily. So I am not a fan of the stipulation. I don't know if anybody even still really truly believes that Hangman now is gonna win. Hangman is not going to win the Championship of Revolution and go three and oher on MJF and end his

run this soon, Like there's just no way. I mean, that would be booking malpractice if they take that title away from him on the fifteenth, let alone on the man's birthday, for crying out loud. Can't do that. So yeah, I don't really understand why they're doing it. But and I joked about it before, but it's true. I mean, the one big difference now in twenty twenty six as compared to twenty nineteen, there are a lot of other championships for Hangman to compete for. In fact, he's holding

one right now. He's got a Trio's belt. But they got the TNT title, and they got the continental title, and they got the International title, and they have the national title. It's not like he doesn't have anything to fight for. But you call him the main character in aw He's one of their top stars, two time world champion, and to say, well, I'll never again be able to challenge for the world title. It's just one of those things where they're trying to really drive interest in the

match and sweeten the pot as much as possible. There are other ways to do that, you know, with other stipulations to make the match appealing without having to go down that road. I understand it adds an element of drama to the match now because you would hope with some of those near falls, like people are hanging on to every near fall. Oh my god. You know Hangman's you're never going to be able to challenge again, And I get that's what they're going for, but I just

feel like it's unnecessary, it's not heated. You have Rodericks says Hangman will be an awesome National champion, Sure, he wants to trade down instead of trading up. He'll be feuding with Ricochet for the national title. We had the conglomeration Orange Cassidy and Tomohiro ish against the war Dogs Gabe Kid and Clark Connors. There was a spot late in the match where Connors tags in Is she is the legal man, and he charges towards is she and

Is she collapses, grabs his leg, grabs his hamstring. It looks like and he just buckles to the match, but he stayed in it. He looked like he was in pain. He got back up to his feet. He was moving very very slow and very gingerly. But then again, that's kind of ischy most of the time. He avoided a suplex. He planted Connors with a backdrop suplex e. She struggled to his feet, but he still turned Kid inside out with a lariat. Connors, though, hit a snap power slam

Orange Cassidy, who I think had been dumped outside. He returned, having no idea that his partner was injured, spiked Connors with a spinning DDT and a topey suicida on Gabe Kid. So both men now brawl into the crowd. Darby Allen pops up and he kidnaps kid deep into the crowd. Another kidnapping on this show. That's at least two that I think. I feel like I may have missed one.

That's at least two. Cassidy returned to the ring. He hit an orange punch on Connor's who stumbled back in to what they said was a brainbuster by e. She It was not a brainbuster. It was a fucking vertical souplex, is what it was. But they called it a brainbuster, and is she got the win. And when the match was over, Cassidy and Rick Knox they went over to check on him. He just looked like he was in rough shape. He was in very rough shape. On commentary,

they speculated that she may have torn his hamstring. I rewound it too earlier in the match, just to see. To me, there was no noticeable moment in the match where he would have and we don't know that he tore his hamstring. That's just it looks like that probably is what happened here, or maybe some other muscle. There was no obvious spot where it happened, so I don't know. But she is older, and my god, the fucking Wars that this guy has been in. Is it really shocking

if he fucking pulled a hamstring here? I mean, look at the way the guy moves when he's healthy. But hey, I mean look, he's a tough sob. He was able to get back up and finish the match, but it definitely looked like he pulled something or tore something because he was in agonizing pain. It looked like they're at the end. We have the Don Kallis family for half the family shown backstage beating up a bunch of randos as Josh Alexander as he was cutting his promo, he

had somebody in an ankle lock. We couldn't see who, but they accept the challenge that the Death Riders had issued. Don Callis walks in. He accepts Moxley's challenge on behalf of Kenoski Takeshta, who is not there tonight. He's in Australia, still celebrating with Kyle Fletcher after Fletcher's win over Mark Briscoe on Saturday. So then Okada walks in and he's

got his international title over his shoulder. He said he would love to be celebrating with Kyle in Australia, but he showed up here to do his job because he's champion, unlike Takeshta. So Kada then welcomed in Andrede Liedelo, who was unsuccessful against Hangman on Saturday, and he referred to Andrade did Okada as the uncrowned champion. There's only one

uncrowned champion right here. And on that note, you could listen to The Uncrowned Wrestling Show, Episode number two is now up on the Aerial Helwani show feed cheap plug. So yes, Androdi is the uncrowned champion. So he took his shades off and he says that his eyes are on the AW World title. So here's another example of someone who came out of Australia on the losing end, but they are still laser focused on being the AW

World champion. Brodie King is Andrade is. And I mentioned this on the show this week, and I said, you know, sure would have been a great match at Revolution, and it would have been different to see Andrade in there against MJF. It's not the match that makes sense right now. I think a better place to do that match is in June or whenever they're going back to Arena Mexico. I know, Tony Kanna said they were definitely going back. We're going to do another Grand Slam Mexico. The one

they did last year was a big hit. If they do Grand Slam Mexico again this year, Androte and mjf on that show at Arena Mexico. That makes more sense to me. So hopefully he'll get his shot at some point. But then to the end of all this, Callus said that he sees Claudio Castignoli. He's walking around with his CMLL world title, which would look incredible on the mantle of the Callus family. And then Don Callus, Ocata, androde Alexander, Lance Archer, El Clone, Rocky Romero all cackle like evil

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wix dot com slash Harmony. Then we had a promo from Hook, who reminded us that in the absence of Samoa Joe, who I saw, I believe he's in a concussion protocol. So we don't know when Joe is going to be back, but best wishes to him. But he's out hurt, he's not cleared. So in his place, he has anointed Hook as the leader of the OPS. Now Samoa Joe is out and Shabbat is not around because Hook here in this promo said that he sent Shabbata

back to Japan to recruit. They're looking to recruit new members of the Ops, and of course they are because there is no members anymore. There are no members anymore. Joe is out hurt, Shabbata is on the other side of the world, and then there's Hook eating his chips, so they have no other members. I could just picture Shabbata on the fucking street corner with a giant sign. You know, hey, you want to join the OPS. I mean, I don't know where they're recruiting from, but apparently they're

they're trying to recruit some new members here. But then Hook calls himself the great, this second generation wrestler of all time. I know, Samoa Joe may be in concussion protocol right now, but evidently AW does not give cognitive tests to the members of the OPS. Perhaps they should start. We had the Brawling Brutes or the Brawling Birds. Actually, that'd be a hell of a match, the Brawling Brutes against the Brawling Birds. We had Jamie Hayter and Alex

Windsor taking on Viva Van and Beca. I know these two ladies. They have appeared before in House of Glory. Actually beca man when Becca was in House of Glory. Trying to think if it was the first time we had her in this would have been three years ago. I think she suffered a pretty serious knee injury. But Becca Beca's very good. But this was the TV debut of Hater and Windsor as a team. They have been airing vignettes on television now for a few weeks building

up to the debut of this new tag team. They gave Becka and Viva more time than they probably had to here, but they got some time to shine, did the other team. But the Birds took out Viva Van on the apron that they hit a heart attack finish to win it, and on that heart attack Hater just blasted over the clothes line, so they win the match. Tony Shavani said their finisher is called two Birds one Stone. Again.

I think that Jamie Hayter is someone who should be in contention for the TBS title, well the world title. I know she had her shot at World's End, but still she is somebody who should be in that mix. But they have a tag ting division that they have to build up. They have women's tag team titles that they just introduced a few months ago, and I don't want it to go the way of the WWE women's Tag team division for so many years now, only over the last six months or so has WWE actually started

to take their women's tag devs. Seriously. I don't know what it was that caused them to have this epiphany that hey, we should start doing something, but they've actually taken an interest. Frankly, at the expense of the rest of the division on both shows. But AW just introduced these titles, so they have to build up some new teams, and we're going to see more of this, either bringing in new teams or putting two people together who aren't

actively involved in a major program. Okay, let's put them together and let's at least try to get something going there. I mean, the women's tag team scene right now in AW was probably at least as strong as the men's, maybe more so, especially with the injuries that have plagued the men's division. Now. Renee was backstage with Chris stat Lander and a returning thunder Rosa. Have not seen Thunder Rose's face on TV in a very long time. I thought we were about to be introduced to a new

tag team here. Renee said that Statlander is still not medically cleared to wrestle for a few weeks. Statlander said that she doesn't want to wrestle, she wants to fight Tecla. She lost her title last week to Tecla. Rosa said that she was cleared officially today and she doesn't like what's been happening to Statlander. So while Statlander isn't cleared, Rosa is and she wants a match, and Statlander Warren Rosa just be careful, be careful of what Tecla is

capable of. It's good to see Thunder Rosa back on TV. She hasn't wrestled at all, not a single match since All in Texas last year, and that was in the Gauntlet, Gauntlet, Battle Royal, whatever it was. I think they did the Gauntlet. That was the last time that she wrestled. I know she was dealing with an injury. I don't know what the nature of the injury was. I think it was an unspecified injury. I know many years ago she had a bad back injury. I don't know that this was

a back injury, but she had that. And then there was some news a few months ago that her and her husband of fourteen years they split up. So you know, she's been dealing with some shit. But now she's cleared and now she's back on TV. But she's also another addition to a pretty stacked women's division, the exact opposite of what we're seeing right now on WWE television. The aw women's division has a massed just a wealth of talent. And then you and I'm not even including someone like Athena,

who really is a Ring of Honor talent. Why she still is I have no fucking idea, but she is. But they have a wealth of talent in that women's division. They just introduced Lena Cross on the Saturday show even though she was nowhere to be found on the show tonight. I guess she'll be a Collision exclusive. I guess is what Lena Cross will end up being. But there's been talked that Tony he signed more people than even we know of, and again we may have seen one of

those people on Saturday, and who knows who else. I mean, there could be multiple other women who have been signed that we don't even know about yet. But he's got a wealth of talent in that division to work with. We had the Jet Kevin Knight against the Beast Mortos. Knight entered with Mike Bailey. There are two thirds of

the Trios champions. We got an inset promo that aired where Kevin Knight said that if the Beast can beat him tonight, Lafoxion Ingo Bernable would get a Trios title shot on Collision and I was like, Okay, Mortos winning a match, now that's fucking hilarious, like okay high comedy here from Kevin Knight. Mortos worked overnight during the commercial break and he launched Night over the top and flattened him with a Torneo dive and the crowd popped for I mean, look, Mortos is fun to watch and he

goes out there and crowds into his matches. Never fucking wins, but he's fun to watch. Back inside, Morto's spiked Night with a huge pop up simon drop. Knight managed to battle back with a huge dropkick and he used his I mean, he was flying all over the ring and ended up taking the beast down hit a leaping splash. Mortos avoided leaping DDT. He went to the corner. Knight met him with a leaping hurr karana and then a pendulum DDT and then he went up top and he

hit the UFO splash. He picked up the win. Not a long match here, and it was one of those matches it felt like a collision match in that it was just sort of thrown out there. A couple guys who don't really get a lot of airtime on this show on Wednesday, but Kevin Knight is one of those guys who I think has the potential to be to them what Kyle Fletcher has become. Where Kyle Fletcher who also has become a good promo, and Kevin Knight I

think could also end up in that category. He's one of those super talented younger guys who's very flashy in the ring and is fun to watch and as a babyface, whereas Fletcher is a heel but probably as a babyface, could get over his big star, one of those big up and coming young rising stars for them. But you just got to give him the right focus and attention, which is what they did to Fletcher, and it paid off for them because Fletcher, They've turned Fletcher into a

real star here on this roster. Kevin Knight has the potential, you know, to be someone like that, but in order to do that, you know, you got to give him matches on the show, and you would hope over time they could do a little bit better than the Beast Morta's who never wins. But at least they're getting him airtime.

You know, like if you were to say to me, hey, we got Speedball and we got Kevin Knight, and we're only gonna have time they're not going to do a tag match, but we only have time to put one of them on the show tonight. I'm gonna say it should be Kevin Knight. Speedball does not need to be in that spot. Kevin Knight mes to, you know, have those opportunities on the show coming out of that Continental Classic. I really think that you have to stick the landing

and just get him consistently on the show. And these matches are okay, but preferably get him involved in a real story with somebody. But he's one third of the Trios Champions, So with the Trio's nonsense, that's not gonna that's not gonna cut it. I actually feel like the Trio's belts have become more of a detriment than anything else. It's like, oh, we have these Trios belts, so we have to we have to occupy them somehow. Hey, we'll put Hangman together with Jet Speed and there'll be the

Trios Champions. It's like, Okay, I don't really know what purpose that serves. I feel like it might be more of a hindrance than anything else. Should be building these guys up for a Tech team title shot. We got another will Osprey Vinette where he was talking about if you think he'll be half the animal he was when he returns. No, this is where the wrestle, It's where the Billy Goat wrestles. Every week, we are getting new

vignettes with him. So unless they're going to just continue to do this for the next four or five months, it sure feels like he's coming back relatively soon. It feels to me like they're expecting him to be back in time for the Owen, But the Owen probably is not going to start until probably June, you know what. I think that's doable. I think that's possible. But that's

what it feels like to me. And then if you want him in the Owen and he could win the Owen, then you can send him to Wembley to challenge for the championship. But I feel like you want to you want to take your time, you know, telling that comeback story. Is there really gonna be enough time, you know, depending on exactly when he's cleared. Do you tell that story even if it's kind of quick, for all in this year, or do you take your time with it and maybe

tell it for next year. It's not like there's any lack of competition at the time. Top of the card right now, Oh my god, what are they going to do. We're not gonna have Osprey back in time. Well, you got like this whole line of people that you could plug into that spot. Some people think AJ Styles can end up on that list. There is some smoke to that fire. I don't know how realistic it is. There's definitely chatter about it. I talked about that this weekend.

We'll see what they do with AJ and the retirement ceremony on Monday, but there's been no news on whether or not he's actually still signed with him or not. Backstage, Ricochet in the Gates of Agony, we're talking about finally putting Jack Perry in the ground. Last week before talking about Kevin Knight getting lucky against Morte's tonight, Bishop Kahn is furious that Kevin Knight and Mike Bailey are having singles matches and not defending the trios titles. Well, they

got a legitimate right there. I'm with Goa on that they absolutely have every reason to be pissed off about that. Total Iona said that this Saturday, be prepared to be in deep waters against the sharks and Ricochet. He turned around. They were walking towards their dressing room and on the door of the dressing room there's a knife that is stabbed into the door and Ricochet. He is concerned initially about this, and then he he laughs it off because the knife you see is the calling card of jungle

Boy Riveting. I know, main event on this show. This was riveting. This was Kenny Omega for the first time ever, going one on one against Swerve Strickland, two former AEW World champions going one on one. Crowd started the holy Shit chans right from the opening bell. Both men were smacking each other in the face. Swerve fired off some four. He ran right into a standing hurricanana from Omega that

sent him outside. Omega wanted a terminator dive Swerve, they'll cut him off and hit a Fosberry flop, So Swerve got sent into the crowd. Omega. He briefly stumbled, but then hit a moon salt off the barricade into the crowd. Got one final ad break here. Later on in the matro, Omega connected on the Yuchan escape. Strickland, though kicked out at too, and then he sidestepped a charge in the corner.

He brought Omega up in the corner. Took too long though, for a top rope hurricanana that allowed Omega to slide out and plants him face first onto the post. Brian Danielson on commentary said, he sees that look in Swerve's eye. He sees that look, and he slammed Omega repeatedly into the buckles. Strickland wanted a vertebraker on the apron, thankfully for Kenny in his neck. He didn't get it. He wanted a snapdragon, though he got it. Omega gave a long look at the floor and looked back at Swerve.

He wanted to give him a snap dragon from the apron to the floor. Swerve, though he fought him off. Omega switched to head butts. He went right back to it, though, and he tried for a snap dragon off the apron, and he got it, except that Swerve landed on his feet and Omega fell backwards off the apron and landed flat on his back. But Swerve landed on his feet and ended up hitting a rolling suppleax. Really it was

into a brainbuster on the floor. So after throwing Omega back inside, Stricklin hit a four fifty to the back, Omega kicked out both men counter big Pressure and snap dragons respectively. Omega connected on an avalanche dragon suplex as Swerve then called over to Aubrey Edwards as if his shoulder may have been dislocated, and it's like, oh boy, just what they need, right, another injury here on this show.

So he calls her over. Aubrey comes over to check on him, but as this is happening, Omega he is charging in for a V trigger and at the very last second, Swerve grabs Aubrey Edwards and pulls her into the line of fire and Omega blasts her with a V trigger and this got a big reaction. This got

booze from the crowd. And I just love on commentary, the announcers and Brian Danielson in particular, who won the award by the way, he won the Wrestling Observer twenty twenty five award for Best Wrestling Announcer Best Wrestling Commentator of the Year. Chimed in to tell us, I don't think he did that intentionally, and I'm like, yes, he did.

Although if you don't think he did it intentionally, that's fine, But that just means you need to go see your op topic a trist and you got fucking cataracts in your eyes because he very clearly pulled her in the line of fire and got booed for it. So at this point, after the initial shock war off and Kenny saw what he did, He's like, well, one can't grieve forever. The match must go on. So he attempts to go

for a one winged angel. Strickland rolls through. He hits a house call kick and Swerve has the visual pin. But there's no referee. So Prince Nana goes over to check on Aubrey, which is good because nobody came out to do so. No other referee came out to check on her. Apparently the other referees maybe don't like her very much. There were no medics who came out to check on her. She just laid there dead in the ring for I mean, it could have been a good

ninety seconds two minutes. Other than Nona, nobody bothered to come over and check on her. Swerve went up top. He hit a swerve stomp to Omega on the apron and Omega's face took the brunt of that. Strickland took off the protective there's a protective cover one of the beams that connects the turnbuckle to the ring post, and he had a slingshot, so he sent Omega up face first right into the steel beam, and more booze from the crowd because he's being very heelish here in this match.

See now, at this point, it's like, Okay, he's acting kind of heelish, but he's trying to win a fucking match, right, So he's not a heel just because he's doing this. But you know, the fans, they like Kenny Omega and they're not very happy with what he's doing here. Still no medics, I should point out. Strickland called for another referee, and finally Paul Turner runs out right as Strickland hits a swerve stomp, but Omega kicks out and the crowd

goes nuts. Strickland is sitting there and we got the zoomed in camera shot of the shock look on his face. He can't believe it, so he rises to his feet. He wants to house call kick Omega. He ducks into a snap dragon and then a v trigger to the back poison Rana. Omega wanted the one winged Angel, Strickland escaped,

he ran into another v trigger Omega wanted another one. Strickland, though, hit a charging house call kick and then Big Pressure spiked Omega down on the back of his neck and he got the win right in the center of the ring.

Swerve Strickland in their first meeting pins Kenny Omega. That now makes Andrade and Kenny Omega also lost here to Swerve, So two big losses in this story arc for Kenny Omega, who said at the very beginning of this year, it's time that I pursue the World Championship again for the first time in a very long time. I'm gonna earn it. No one's gonna be able to say, oh, you're an EVP, like I'm gonna earn my way into the world title picture. And now he's had two pretty big setbacks, so there's

no need to rush this story, you know. With Kenny. I'm glad we got an actual finish here to this match, But when it was over, I just thought to myself, well, that's one way to go out there and have the best television main event of the year so far. Holy shit. And I thought last week's match was it was for about seven days and now we have a new number

one now, but we weren't done yet. So the match is over, Nana is dancing and Swerve he slowly turns back around to Omega and he pounces on him and he is raining blows down upon this man, and even Nana is like, what are you doing here? And the fans are booing Swerve. This is where the heel turned was cemented. Not because he, you know, did some nefarious things in the match, and yes he pulled Aubrey Edwards

in the way, but but this cemented it. This cemented the heel turn because now the match is over and now he's just putting a beatdown on Kenny Omega. He's trying to get rid of the competition here. He wants the world title back. He is just trying to eliminate the competition as much as he can, which actually, now that I think about it makes me wonder you want

to eliminate some competition from the world title scene. I could think of something for Swerve to do a revolution now that a hangman went and added that stupid stipulation to his match. If he really wants to clear the field a little bit, he could cost Hangman his match with MJF and then Hangman can never again challenge for the World Championship. And then Hangman could just go back on his word and say, well, he cheated, he cost

me my match. That therefore I'm going to ignore the stipulation and I am going to challenge for the world title because I didn't lose. Swerve cost me my match. See that at least would make sense. So then not only was he beating up Kenny Omega, he tossed Paul Try out of the ring, just threw him out of the ring like a sack of garbage. Strickland took the chain from Nana because when Swerve comes out, now he

has that he has that chain. Takes the chain, He wraps the chain around Omega's neck, throws him over the top rope and he is hanging him with the chain by his throat, and the fans are booing Swerve and Brian Danielson on commentary is being all dramatic. You're better than this, Swerve, what are you doing? You're better than this, so Omega. He lets go and Omega collapses to the floor,

but he's not done yet. Swerve goes outside he cleans off the announced desk and Danielson is still yelling, you've proved your point. He sets up the ring steps right next to the desk, and he executes a vertebreaker to Kenny Omega from the steps through the announced desk, which does explode and Kenny is dead. Has killed Kenny to close out the show, but the camera gets right up in Swerve's face and he's looking at the camera and

he's like, I needed this, I needed this. So this is where I could I could potentially see them playing it very you know, tweener like where maybe it's not a full blown heel turn. I tend to think it is, but if they wanted to, there could be some shades of gray in there. He's just doing what he feels he needs to do, you know, to get back into that number one contender spot for the world title. But again,

it's all about the world title. The match itself was excellent, best television match of the year, exactly the kind of match you would expect these two to go out there and have, you know, very pay per view quality esque. I felt like they got a pretty good amount of time. I didn't clock it, but I feel like they got a pretty good amount of time to do what they needed to do. And now again the world title scene, which was already pretty compelling, becomes that much more compelling

now that we have a swerve. Heal turn, He'll swerve is the best version of swerve, And now we have that. And as I was saying, where do they go from here? Because they wrote Kenny Omega off television? This was the angle they did in Philadelphia at the ECW Arena last year, or Kyle Fletcher put Kenny through the table I think from the apron, which was never followed up on, by the way, I'll just point that out. So this is the second time now they've done an angle like this

to write Kenny off of TV. I mentioned the event, the Gaming Convention in Japan that he committed to a very long time ago. Kenny is going to be the guest of honor there in mid March. He was supposed to be there through the day of revolution. It is possible that if they could work something out, maybe he can come back home earlier and be it revolution. But I'm looking at this and I'm like, I don't think they're expecting him at revolution. So that's why I said

maybe you do like a Swerve Brody king right. You could even be honestly, you could even build to that as like a number one contenders match if you wanted to. That doesn't really make too much sense because Swerve just beat Kenny Brody lost already to MJF. But it would at least give him something to do on the show. I feel like, just by virtue of beating Kenny Omega that Swerve Strickland that makes him the number one contender

after Revolution. The way things are looking to me right now, Kenny is probably not going to be at Revolution, and Swerve may very well play a role in Hangman not winning his match and Hangman losing the chance to ever again compete for the title. And it might be Swerve getting the shot at Dynasty Dynasties where he won his first world title. I mean, I was thinking Dynasty for Kenny just because of the Vancouver connection, But for Kenny, I don't think you need to rush it. I really don't.

If he's not going to be at Revolution, it actually kind of makes sense because you could do Swerve and MJF at Dynasty, but you have the hook of, like, well, the main event of Revolution could conceivably go either way now, because if Swerve is next in line, you could absolutely see Swerve and Hangmen, or you could see Swerve in MJF, which is a match they still have never done. They've

never done it. It's like Punk and Roman. They were technically in the same match together last year, but this is the first time at WrestleMania this year that we're getting a singles match between them. There's never been a singles match before between MJF and Swerve Strickland, so that may well be the Dynasty match. But you have this added wrinkle now of what Swerve did to Kenny Omega tonight.

Kenny Omega, of course good friends with Hangman Page. What's Hangman gonna think of what Swerve did to Kenny tonight? Hangman just said on TV last week, Kenny, I wanted it to be you. I wanted to be wrestling you now Andrade in Australia. And then he's going to see what Swerve did tonight. So we'll see if we get an interaction maybe between him and Hangman on TV next week. But it just makes things that much more interesting. It was it was an angle that I was not expecting

at the end of the show. But I'm glad they did it because it just makes things a lot more interesting than it was before. So I enjoyed Dynamite. I thought it was a good show tonight. Let's see if the Twitter poll agrees. Holy shit, take a look at this, almost nine hundred over eight hundred votes in so far, seventy eight point two percent thumbs up, twenty one point eight percent thumbs down. When was the last time we had almost eighty percent thumbs up for Dynamite? So I

guess I'm not alone. Good show tonight. Should probably open the superchat's page so you don't get a black screen. That would probably be helpful. Let's go to your superchats now, answer your questions, your comments. If you got any, send get them on in. I want to hear from you guys. Oh, how many likes do we have? The goal was four thirty two, right, we're a four point thirty four, so we just eclipsed the goal. Very good, Very good. Flamethrower

fluffs Salisbury with a five dollars superchat. Just curious, when will we be getting hog in Florida. We're definitely gonna be venturing down there at some point in the not too distant future. I don't have a date for you. We do have a school down there now in the Orlando Ovido area, Hog South, Hog North. At some point we'll have a show down there. I don't have a specific date for you just yet. Johnny Burnie does Tony Kahn here Page's stipulation and think, well he's leaving. I've

heard nothing about Hangman's contract status. I would think he's got Hangman for a little while yet, So I'm gonna say no. Try Chicken says, the aw production four letters, one word grit, TNA production hard. The WWE production neat. The WWE production is very polished. There's nothing gritty about WWE television. WWE television is the opposite of gritty. Not to be confused with that ugly mangy mascot from Pennsylvania. Dry Chicken says it would not surprise me once will

Osprey returns. He's going after John Moxley and his continental title, and also your thoughts on the women's division. Well, I gave my thoughts earlier on the women's division. Yeah, I mean him coming back and going after the continental title doesn't really appeal to me as much as that story about him going after the world title. But if his comeback is, you know, later in the spring, there may not be enough time, honestly to tell the right story

for him in the world title. I'm not convinced Moxley is going to be Continental champion beyond Revolution. I think he drops it as I sit here right now, I feel like he drops it to Takeshta. So I'm not even sure you're talking about him still being the champion in August, and I don't know about that. I'm not feeling that. Steve Joseph, are you going to double or nothing? No plans right now, got to be here for the review at the moment, undecided, but probably not unless something changes.

Dry Chicken He'll Swerve is back. Yes, He'll Swerve is the best swerve Terry with a five. Kyle versus Speedball TV match was fantastic in January Continental Classic Tournament Hi Hi. Continental Classic was in December, not January, and that was a great match. Duffsvid's George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey

get together to make a movie. George says I'll direct, Leonardo says I'll act, Matthew McConaughey says, all right, all right, I'll right, all right, all right, I'll right, mister Rod, thank you for the five no message. Thank you, my friend dried chicken without flavor. Tony Kahan should create a tag team tournament cup. Oh great, more prizes to fight for. We already have the Owen belts, we have the Gauntlet contracts. Now you want cups? You know what? Should have a cup?

Besides all the people who get kicked in the dick on TV, the Continental Classic should have a cup. There should be the Continental Cup and no continental type Continental Cup and a World Championship guaranteed World Championship match bender mc simpson. I'm not sure where Tony Kahan is going with Hangman's proposition. I don't want MJF to drop the belt so soon. And yes more heel swerve Please, MJF cannot lose that title of revolution. I mean that would

just be ridiculous. U MJF is mid, says excited to watch MJF against Zillapha two on Triller. Love your new podcast. It's my favorite pod of the week. Your shows are not mid. No, They're definitely not mid. There's a lot of mid podcasts out there, Mine eight one of them. Thank you brother. It's gonna be a good match on Friday night. You know we're all this talk about MJF and Hangman a revolution. It might all be moot. It might it might be rendered completely moot on Friday night.

If Zillafa two wins the AW world title and signed his AW contract in the middle of the ring, can you imagine, Hey, anything can happen? Oh with a five dollars super chat. Did you hear what Ian Ricabonni said about Ring of Honor? All these sudden signings are starting to make sense. I did not see what Ian Ricabonni said, but if you have been listening to some of the recent shows, I did make a comment a few weeks ago about all of these sudden signings that we're hearing about,

and I wonder if something is a miss. I wonder if something is going on with a Ring of Honor. I wonder if they feel like there might be an actual TV deal in the works for Ring of Honor. So I don't know what Ricabonni said, but if it's something to that effect, I would not be surprised. I had the same thought you know when I read about all these new signings and Tuxedo tis fifteen dollars, super chat,

no message, just showing love. I love it, And Alex says brother solo by rent Cell, Buy rent Cell. On your favorite Cody match versus Roman at WrestleMania forty, says Dustin at Double or Nothing twenty nineteen, Him and Dustin

against Roman and Seth at Battleground twenty thirteen. I would go WrestleMania of forty and I would rent on the Double or Nothing, and I would sell on the tag But all three matches were great, and actually the the Seth Rolins cell of the Crossroads in that tag match is still the best cell I've ever seen on the Crossroads. I know there was that one extra h. It was

on an episode of SmackDown who took a Crossroads? I mean he took this fucking exaggerated bump for it, which was great, But that role and cell, that's still the best one. What is Hangman's record in Texas deathmatches. I don't think he's undefeated, but he's got a winning record. I know that. I think his record is pretty good, but yeah, there it is a house of Glory. No

turning back. If you can't be at the NYC Arena on Friday nights, and there are still limited general admission seats available, and actually I can't even say seats general admission tickets. You'll probably be standing. But if you can get to the building, get to the building, because this is not going to be a show that you're gonna want to miss. All five rows are sold out, stage seating has sold out. GA ticket are still available, but

you can watch it on Triller TV Plus. On the one side, you see MJF defending the aw World Championship against Zillafatu and then Andrede Alitelo, who has been collecting world championships in multiple promotions around the world Mexico, Puerto Rico, Germany. He's the new heavyweight champion in the German Wrestling Federation and now he is coming for Charles Mason's Hog World Championship. So those are two of the big matches on Friday nights.

I will be there, I will be on the call, probably be running around doing a whole bunch of different things. It's gonna be a big night and because of that, I will not be here for the SmackDown review on Friday nights, so just be aware of that. But see, I have a good excuse, though, I do have a good excuse. All Right, you hit the goal. Let's be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to

beat the Booker. Yeah, Hangman lost to Swerve, but I'm pretty sure he's got a winning record otherwise in Texas death matches he's done pretty well. Beat Moxley in one to win the world title last year. All right, we were talking about tag teams before. Well here's a tag team right here, the dream Team of Brutus, Beefcake and Greg the Hammer Valentine. Look at the swag on Valentine. Look at this guy, purple shirt, buttons are open, shades are hanging, look at the Look at the rolex on

his wrist, gold in his lap. Look at this guy, and the dream team takes on. Well, some might call this a dream team Stone Cold, Steve Austin and Dude Love against Valentine and Beefcake. See now those are tag team titles. Those are what tag team titles should look like. He reconcern, what's going on? Fifty one months in a blue skull? As hog commish, have you talked to TK yet If not, how do you get other promotions wrestlers? Oh, I can't share trade secrets here. They want to come

to House of Glory. I can't divulge of those secrets, says PS. Let's go Yankees, And now I'm definitely not going to tell you. I was thinking about it, and I said should I? And then I saw let's go Yankees, and I said, now, now he doesn't deserve it. Women's be the booker. We have Soria who has actually been training for an n ring comeback lately where we don't know, but she is training for a comeback. Sorea is going to go one on one with Victoria. How are we

feeling about this? I put it to the chat Victoria and Sorea. I'll give it a bell, But how are we feeling about this? Hog? Unreal? There'll be no breaking kfabe in this company. We've got to keep k fabe at all times. All right, made a vent time? Oh, we have r Cassidy in the main event. It's basically like me, I'm in the main event. Basically Orange Cassidy in the main event against Batista. I don't know what main event that would be, h what pay per view?

That we've been main eventing, but not mine. Sorry, Dave Batista in Orange Cassidy is not a main event in my promotion. Row Row Roman reigns gently down the stream. Row Row Roman reigns gently down the stream. Oh we almost had a clean sweep, almost, but not quite. Bobby's World with a twenty one thank you brother. Eli delivers box box contains Jericho. GMS ship the box around forever.

They finally opened the box to find Jericho expired. What follows is manslaughter trials for Eli, the GMS, and whoever sent the box WWE story. Oh maybe TK sent the box because you want him? Here you go, now you can have them. I would watch those trials. If they put those trials on like Court TV during the day, I would watch those trials and I would review them on the sound off each day. Every week there would be a trial review segment. That'd be a riveting audio

for the podcast. Moore said, Solo Swerve choked Kenny out with a chain when Dynamite went off the air. It is clear that this is a full heel turn. It's what I felt, but I was an entirely sure. But that's good to know. Good, good, he should be full heel. He's at his best when he's a heel. He's at his most sinister when he's a heel. I guess we won't have a chance to redeem ourselves on the be the Booker stuff until Monday, so that'll be on the Raw Review. That's the next time I'll be live with you.

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