AEW Dynamite 2/21/24 Review - FORMER WWE WRITER MAKES THE JUMP AND WHY SHE LIKELY DID SO

Hey w Dynamite. Tonight was a show carried not by the matches in the ring. It was a show carried by the promos. A lot of promo work on tonight's show as they continued the build to Revolution, which is well less than two weeks away. I guess it's coming on not this weekend, but next Sunday. We had tonight a promo involving Christian Cage and Daniel Garcia after we got the official announcement that at Revolution it will be Daniel Garcia,

not Adam Copeland, challenging for the TNT Championship. So in fact, it was exactly like what I figured last week with that Cocerto angle that was done as a way to write off Copeland, and so they're going to wait a little bit longer before they put him in Christian back in the ring together. Instead, Daniel Garcia is going to get the shot. Daniel Garcia went out there tonight and he had a live mic on Dynamite and he cut what I

thought was a pretty decent promo. It's not the sort of thing that he's used to doing, but it's the sort of thing that he needs to do more of, and he has been mildly getting over more and more each week with the crowds. So that was one promo segment on the show. We also had a segment evolving Sting in Darby Allen, and they were not in the arena live tonight, but we did hear from Sting for the first time

since he was attacked by the Young Bucks a few weeks ago. Him and his kids were attacked by Matt Nick, and it was a very kind of low key, subdued intense promo. Subdued and intense are two words that kind of run counter to each other, but that's the best way I could describe it. He looked dead in the camera and he cut one hell of a promo, and he also made the announcement that his father had just recently passed away, so unfortunately his father will not be able to see his final match.

But I thought it was another good hard sell for that tag team match that is the real main event coming up at Revolution next weekend. It's not the three way for the aw World title. It's the Sting Darby Allen, the Young Bucks tag team match, the final match of Sting's career, and I thought he did a hell of a job in that promo tonight and somebody else who did a hell of a job I thought was Wardlow. Now this undisputed Kingdom is on life support right now. No Adam Cole on the show.

They didn't wheel him out there tonight. We did get the Kingdom. We got Matt Tavid and Mike Bennett. Mike Bennett was the one wrestling tonight, and like Matt Tavan last week, he lost. Wardlow comes out by himself, though later in the show he takes a live mic and he proceeds to cut the best promo I've ever seen him cut in his entire career, in aaw just burying anybody in everything, talking about how pissed off he is. I'm glad that Wardlow on TV is pissed off. I was pissed off

for him. Watching him fall from grace from where he was at one time in this company to where he is now is a disgrace. And frankly, I've been wondering why is it taking this long for Wardlow to get pissed off on TV? If I were him, I would have come out there on television have been pissed off a long time ago. But now they send him out there now they have him playoff of what I'm sure is some very real emotion, because if anybody has a right to feel frustrated and pissed off,

it's Wardlow. When you look at the trajectory of his career over the last two years, I mean, holy shit. But I thought he did a hell of a job with his promo too. Now what it's leading to in the near term, I don't know. I don't know where he fits into this world title picture. And we'll talk about what he said and more importantly, who he mentioned in his promo. But there were also two potential injuries

coming out of this show. One involved Madison Ring, who came into the show tonight having not wrestled in an AAW match in over a year, and it's been a little bit less than that, but still, she hasn't wrestled a Ring of Honor match since August, so I'm not sure she's had any ring time since the summer. Now, maybe that would account for some of

the the ring rust, if you want to call it that. She didn't look good in that ring tonight at all in her match with Deanna Parazzo, and that was before she dropped herself on her head a very scary spot, but according to aw it was the move of the night. And then at the end of the main event tonight Big Trios match, it was Samoa Joe, Swerve, Strickland partners. Can they coexist out there teaming up with Brian Cage against Hangman, Page Hook and Rob Van Dam. We need somebody to

do the job. Let's call RVD. You can imagine how that match ended. But at the very end of the match it looked like Hangman may have suffered a legitimate injury. I hope not, and Tony Kahn hopes not because he's one third of your World Heavyweight Title Magic Revolution. He's the guy that I have. You know, we talked about this last week. He's the

guy that I have taking the loss in that match. And so all of a sudden, if Hangman is seriously hurt and unable to wrestle at the pay per view, that leaves you with Samoa Joe and Swerve one on one, and I'm not so sure that Tony Kahan is ready just yet put the title on Swerve. That could create some very big problems. If Hangman is hurt, We'll talk about what happened and what Hangman was saying audibly to the cameraman near the end of that match. But we also have some other news.

We had news that actually broke before tonight's episode of Dynamite. Now, some of you may have seen the news last week that Jennifer Pepperman. She has worked as a senior writer and producer for a number of years, going back to twenty seventeen in WWE. Last week, Adam Pierce actually put a tweet out putting her over and thanking her for her time. It was pretty clear that she had left or she was leaving, and had some supporters, you

know, wishing her well on her way out. So she was with WWE for a number of years and primarily was involved, I guess with the SmackDown Women's division at least more recently. But it was said to be her decision. This was not a situation where she was let go. She was fired for some reason. She made a choice that she wanted to leave WWE,

and now we know why. Aw issued a press release earlier this evening announcing that Jennifer Pepperman has joined the company as its new Vice president of Content Development. She will be working alongside Tony Kahn on development of content for Dynamite, Rampage and Collision. She's won multiple Emmy Awards. She comes from the soap opera world, so she's written for soap operas in the past before her time

in wrestling. Now, Meltzer last week mentioned that she's very close with Mercedes Manet, and of course it just so happens that Mercedes is very likely I'm going to be making her aw debut in Boston next month at their big, big Business show, Big Business at set of Dynamite that's coming up on March thirteenth, And so all of a sudden, it seems to make a lot

of sense. Not only does this woman in Mercedes, is she getting the big debut treatment from Tony Khan, but now she's bringing a friend along that I'm sure she's going to be working very closely with if that's the case behind the scenes in aaw so, she's getting the star treatment here from Tony Khan as well she should. But it's not just a good move for Mercedes.

It's a good move for Tony Khan to get somebody in there who has experience in wrestling, working with the women you know, and working with the women's division somewhere else, and I think if that's what she's going to be doing, And it didn't say anything in the press release about her working specifically with the Ladies only, but I do think getting somebody like that behind the scenes to help him can only be a plus for Tony Kana, whether it's her

or whether it's somebody else, whether it's a male, whether it's a female, him bringing in more help when it comes to the content the creative to help out, because we are we've heard the stories about Tony Kahn, right, he's responsible for this. He's doing Ring of Honor stuff, he's got three different aw shows, and he's got Fulham and he's got a statistics company.

He's got all these things going on, all these irons in the fire, and a lot of people have been talking about the aw creative direction for a while now and how it's very Jekyll and Hyde, you know, as far as the creative direction of this company, And so I think him bringing in help like that can only be a positive thing. And I can't speak to this woman specifically because I don't know what story she was working on in her time with WWE, you know, I don't know what credit she gets

for certain stories in that company, you can. I mean, you have writers in that company who may have come up with stories that suck, and you have people that may have come up with stories that were fantastic, and they'll never get any credit for those because their name isn't attached to it. It's not like an artist who can sign his or her name in the corner of the painting. It doesn't work that way. So I can't speak to her specifically, but I do think this is the sort of move that's going

to be a big positive for AW Now. It is worth mentioning the fact that Pepperman was also one of the many defendants named in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by another former WWE rider, who I talked about previously on the podcast, Britney Abraham's last April. So it's less than a year ago that she brought that lawsuit against the company. Eventually, the lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice,

which means it cannot be refiled at a later date. A lot of people took that to mean that she must have settled, and when her lawyer was reached for comment at the time, the only thing that her lawyer would say is that they resolve things in an amicable way. So that says to me settlement anyway. That's just a little side note there that she was one of many people, including Vince and Stephanie and other writers who were named in

that lawsuit. But I'll bet that's what Vince McMahon is hoping for when it comes to the Janelle Grand suit, hoping for some settlement to make that go away. The only thing is when you got the Feds poking around settlement or no settlement, that ain't gonna go away so fast. This is your aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday, February twenty first, twenty twenty four. I am the solo monster. Thank you for joining me here. Please do

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That is news. That is what we call news. Leave that to me. I will report the news to you. That's why it's being mentioned. If it wasn't worth your time, I wouldn't mention it. I got you covered. I'm not going to waste your time. Don't worry. All right, here we go, let's get into the review here. We kicked things off with the Blackpool Combat Club, John Moxley and Claudio Castignoli coming out for a match against FTR, and what a way to kick off the show here

tonight. This was the best match on the entire show, and they kicked off with it. Tonight. Harwood had a bunch of athletic tape on his right shoulder. I feel like both members of FTR are just kind of constantly in a state of injury, all kinds of tape all over their body. Moxley hit a suicide dive that was meant for cash Wheeler. Harwood, though, shoved his partner out of the way and he took the bullet instead.

Back inside. FTR isolated Moxley and there were some audible booze from the crowd, and I think Taz even admonished the Crop on commentary for booing these two men. So Moxley came back with a big clothes line. He tagged out. Claudio worked over Harwood. He was setting up for the giant swing. Wheeler ran in. Claudio ended up picking up both members of FTR in a

show of strength and he dumped them both on their back. They ended up outside BCC did with Harwood and they connected on a spike pile driver to Dacks on the floor and that took us into the commercial break. Wheeler put Moxley down after the break with a brain buster. Justin Roberts announces that fifteen minutes have gone by in this match. Didn't feel like it. Fifteen minutes have

gone by. We now have five minutes remaining. FTR set up for their sup plex and splash combo, the powerplex combo, Shout Out, Power and glory. Castignoli, though broke it up. Would ended up sending Claudio into the corner which crouched Moxley, and then he superplexed Moxley. Wheeler hit a top rope splash, but Moxley got the knees up. Claudio got a giant swing on Dax, who ate a kick from Moxley in mid swing and he covered Dax for another near fall. Moxley put Harwood in a chokehold and Wheeler

entered the ring to try to stop it. Claudio, though, put him in a chokehold and Wheeler powered up. Claudio sent him crashing into Moxley to break the hold. Harwood put Moxley in a sharpshooter. Claudio kicked Harwood once, nothing, He kicked Harwood a second time, nothing. Harwood would not release the hole, so Claudio puts cash Wheeler in a sharpshooter and he's facing Harwood. They're staring at each other. Those two end up exchanging slaps.

They let go of their respective holes. Harwood put Claudio down with a pile driver. Moxley then flipped off Dax. He hit the ropes and as he's coming off, FTR is about to hit him with the shatter machine. But before Dax could get Moxley up for the move, the bell rings, so he picks Moxley up, but like in mid move, he just stops.

Instead of following through on the movie, he just stops. He has no idea what's going on, but we get the announcement that the match has ended in a time limit draw, and of course the crowd booze because that's not the finish. They wanted to see crowd chanted for five more minutes, but fuck you, you don't get five more minutes. That's not how this works.

Both teams started brawling. Wrestlers ran out, producers ran out, security ran out, try to separate them, and they did for a little while, but then they got loose outside the ring and just a peer six brawl broke out. And the crowd here in Oklahoma was for it. They were cheering this. They love this. So this was an awesome match. A wild postmatch brawl we see, you know, pull apart brawl all the time,

but this was well done. Crowd was super into it. This was basically a tornado match because I kind of lost track at different points of who the legal man was, and they didn't seem to care either, which is not exactly a rare problem, it's actually quite common in aaw So even though it wasn't technically a tornado match, that's basically what this ended up being. Now. I didn't even realize that they were that close to the time limit

until Justin Roberts made that time call. And look, it's a good reason to give these two teams, you know, an explanation for why they would have a rematched revolution, which clearly they're setting up a rematched revolution. We'll get to that in a second. So it's a good reason to give us a rematch, but it shouldn't make a habit out of this. We just had a thirty minute time limit draw two weeks ago with Hangman and Swerve right, that was a great match. This was also a great match, and

so I don't mind them doing it here. But I also don't want to see them make a habit out of doing the time limit draw thing two offen, because then you've run it into the ground. So hopefully that that doesn't become a common occurrence here. But you know, a well placed time limit

draw every now and then is fine. One thing that AW does the WWE does not do that I like is they have normalized the time announcements, so you know, sometimes it may feel a little disruptive, but you have Justin Roberts usually at the fifteen minute mark announcing fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, if it's a longer match, twenty five minutes, and so they remind you that

the time limit is a normal thing in WWE. When we get the occasional time limit draws, it's just patently obvious what they're doing because they don't draw any attention to it, because it's just not something that they have that they've

done over the years. Only when you know it's going to a draw will they draw attention to Oh, wait, we only have so much time left in the match, right, I mean, so I like the fact that they normalize it, and so when it does happen and again it should be a rare occurrence, but it just feels like a normal part of the show and it's not like, you know, they're trying to insult your intelligence, like, oh, we're doing a draw tonight, really because you never mentioned

the time limit before. So I like that now. Renee was in a hallway backstage with Orange Cassidy. Doc Samson was standing by. We were gonna

need the good Doctor many times here on this show tonight. So Renee started to run through a laundry list of Orange Cassidy's very hectic schedule that he has been keeping over the last several weeks, including a trip to the UK because he just went to the UK with Darby and Tony Khan to promote All In at Wembley, and there was a couple of photos online of Cassidy and Darby. I guess they were the guests of Tony Khan. Was it a Fullham game? Might have been a Fullham game. I don't know. I don't

know if it's in season. They went to a game and they did. They look completely unenthusiastic to be there. But while they were there, they stopped at a RevPro show and Orange Cassidy also, I think it was a title defense, defended his international title in a seven way match at the RevPro show. Tony Kahan was there too. He was up in the VIP box and he was, you know, geeking out at different points and getting into it because he's a fan. So she's running down all these different things.

By the way, they'll probably count that Rev Pro match in the rankings, I'm sure the doctor said the Cassidy h he meets their requirements, the minimum requirement, the minimum requirement to be cleared medically. But he does meet the bar so he can wrestle tonight. And I gotta I gotta give a shout out to Bliss fan here because I noticed Bliss fan made the comment in the chat that these aw doctors, if they could, would clear Triple H to

have a match. I'm pretty sure that's pretty bang on. Like a Triple H was on this show. Doc Samson would look at this guy, right, he would draw some blood, all right, he would check for his heartbeat, pulse up, sounds good, blood pressure looks good. All right, you can get in there. You're cleared. It wouldn't take that much. I wouldn't think to get that guy in the ring. He's good to

go. Put that man in the ring. Alex Marvez was backstage with FTR, and FTR said that they came here to kick the Blackpool Combat Club's asses. Dax suggested another match a Revolution. When Moxley and Claudio showed up. Now they were being held back, they were being restrained, and that FTR had to be restrained. And so again we had a little pole apart situation

here between the two teams, and we got no clarity. We got no further clarity on the challenge, at least not in this segment for Revolution. But obviously we're getting a rematch a Revolution, and I'm all for it. Again. I thought the match tonight was great, so imagine what they can do on the pay per view. Speaking of Orange Cassidy, he was an Action Next title against Mike Bennett of the Undisputed Kingdom with Matt Tavan in his

corner no Adam Cole. This week, the announcers talked about how the Undisputed Kingdom laid out Chuck Taylor, they laid out Rocky Romero, and then based on what we saw at the end of the show last week, tren Bretta was not cleared, so that left Cassidy flying solo tonight. He charged up the ramp before the match even began. Bennett tried to hit him with a belt shot. Cassidy ducked and he made a bee line towards Matt Tavan who was behind him, and he dropped him. He blasted him with an orange

punch, so the match officially began. In the ring, Bennett quickly took over on offense. Cassidy, though hit the stun Dog Millionaire spinning DDT Roderick Strong hit the ring. He distracted the referee long enough for Bennett to hit Cassidy low and he hit a pile driver for a two count. Bennett controlled through the entire commercial break, and then he grabbed a headset from commentary like he's the rock. He puts the headset on, he's cutting the promo and

the fans are booing him. Well, that little distraction there wasted time, and so when he turned his attention back to the match, Cassidy caught him with a pair of suicide dives. Bennett responded with a spinebuster on the apron and a death valley driver on the floor back inside, Bennett took too long to follow up, and Cassidy exploded out with a desperation orange punch. Bennett was able to fight off the beach break. He hit a Gotch style pile

driver for a close near fall. Cassidy countered another pile driver attempt into a beach break out of nowhere and picked up the wind. So another loss here for the undisputedly mediocre Kingdom. Here on this show, Matt Tavin hit the ring with Roddy. They just pounced on this guy when all of a sudden, we hear music. I don't know who's mused this is. I have no fucking idea, but I look up at the tron and the fans are

cheering. The fans are going nuts here. And I look up at the tron and I see Jake Hager, and I said, my brain couldn't comprehend the reaction that I was hearing and the name Jake Hager, And it took me a few seconds to remember that they were in Oklahoma tonight, and that Jake Hager is from Oklahoma. He's not from Tulsa, where they were, but he's from Perry, I believe, Perry, Oklahoma. He's an Oklahoma boy, hometown boy. So he got a hometown reaction on his way out.

Thankfully, no stupid bucket hat on his head, although he did come out wearing shades and no shirt and Jim Schwartz, which is that's certainly a look. And he ran down to the ring. He took out Matt Tavian, he took out Mike Bennett, Roddy bailed, and the place went nuts because again hometown hero tonight for one mat only. And he helped Orange Castidy

to his feet as they began to play this man's music. Ex Caliber on Commentary says that Tony Khan has informed him that on Rampage this Friday, the match is made and it's going to be Jake Hager one on one with Roderick Strung, and not only did they make the announcement, but they had the graphic up on screen already. They already had the little graphic up in the

corner of the screen ready to go. So are we supposed to are we supposed to process this as the match had already been made but not announced, And so Hagar came down to the ring to make the save and more so

to attack Roddy because Roddy is his scheduled opponent for Friday. Or are we supposed to believe that this man here in his hometown, his home state, came out to make the save as a surprise for Orange Cassidy And in the span of literally twenty seconds, if that Tony Khan made the match announcement and they got the graphic whipped up, I'm not sure which either way, it was very silly, but that match is official now for Rampage, which of

course is being taped tonight. So Hager gets to match in his home state. No Jim Ross on the show, even though they were in Oklahoma. For those who don't know Jim Ross's recovering, he suffered a broken hip and he is on the mend, so best wishes to JR. I don't know what that means as far as his chances of, you know, being at Revolution in a few weeks. It's not even a few weeks, like I

said, it's next weekend. I know he and Tony Shravanni were hoping to, if not do the pay per view, they were hoping to at least call Stings match in the main event. I don't know if he'll physically be able to do that, which would be a shame because JR and Shravanni were the announced team for the first thing in Rick Flair match in that building back in nineteen eighty eight, so it would have been nice, yeah, a little callback there to have the two of them doing it. But if he

physically can't do it, then he physically can't do it. But all the best to JR. So Renee was back stage with Angelo Parker and she was asking him are you ready? Are you finally ready? And I'm like ready for what she said, are you ready to finally go on that first date with Ruby? Soho and I had completely forgotten about this storyline, but they have been doing that storyline for a little while, and Ruby showed out and she was all dressed up like she was ready to go out for a night

on the town. As they went to go leave, a white escalade pulled up behind them, and Ruby turns around and sees this, and she says, is that for us? And he says, no, I actually called the lift. I don't see anything wrong with that. So they walk off to go find the lift. Meanwhile, the camera is still focused on the escalade and they're shooting and I love this, and again I know why they do it. I'm just again I'm picking knits here, but they do this

on every wrestling show. Cameraman walks up to the escalade and instead of just having the cameraman stand there and shoot the shot of the door, he shoots the feet like he's got his cue. You got to shoot the feet and then you do the dramatic right the raise up so you can see who it is. And the person who steps out of the car is Rick Flair. Now, we have not seen Rick Flair on television, thank god, in

many weeks, which he doesn't have to be on television every week. When Tony con announced that Flair was going to be a part of Sting's retirement right, I want to hitch my wagon to use thing. I want to be a part of this retirement tour. I was a little worried that they were going to put Flair on TV every week, which would have gotten old like Flair, but they haven't. They've kept him off TV for a while. They bring him back in doses here and there. So he was by himself

and he was walking into the building when they return live. Renee caught up with Flair inside the arena and she said, you know, Revolution is just around the corner, and she wanted some thoughts on Sting's final match that was coming out, and Flair was uncharacteristically solemn and subdued, and he's very serious, and he said that he was actually very disappointed because when he signed up for this, he thought that he would be more involved. I could,

by the way, I could totally believe that that's true. This was like the realist Rick Flair promo I've heard in a while like that. I could totally see Flair being upset that they're not doing more with him, like legitimately. So he said he feels that he should be right in the middle of everything again again workshoot right there. I'm sure he really does feel that way, and he said that he hasn't been around the last three or four weeks,

so that's been very disappointing. So now he's just going to explore his options. And he went knocking on someone's door and the Young Bucks opened the door. They want to know, what are you doing here? And Flair asked them if they had some time, and they welcomed him into their locker room. This was actually a real to me because one of the things I've been talking about one of the things that I was kind of afraid of that Tony kh might do, and not that he still can't do it, but

they kind of, I think, took that away. Tonight is we get the swerve at Revolution, where if Sting wants to lose. I really think that Tony Khan is willing to give Sting whatever he wants. He lets Sting pick his opponent for his final match. He wanted the Young Bucks. Sting probably wanted Flair to be along for the ride. Kevin Nash talked this week about Sting called him up and said, hey, I want you to come to the show and be a part of my last match. Probably just like

in the front row or something, and Nash said that he couldn't. He asked WWE and it was a no go. They're not actually going to let him be there. So I think Tony Khan is going to let Sting do whatever he wants. And if Sting says, look I gotta lose, I got to go out on my back it's the right thing to do, then Sting is going to go out on his back. And I'm thinking, Okay, Flair might just turn on Sting one last time he helps the Young Bucks

win. Maybe they do a deal where Sting challenges him to a match on the spot, they do an impromptu match right to send the fans home happy or something. The fact that they had Flair here walk into the Young Bucks locker room as if he might actually side with the Young Bucks, I think takes that possibility away. It makes that a lot less likely, which is good because I've already seen Rick Flair turn on Sting five thousand times before,

I don't really need to see it again. But now we're left to wonder what exactly are they talking about there in that locker room. That Tony Schavani was up next in the ring and he welcomed Daniel Garcia to the ring for a special interview here. By the way, I just to go back to the Nation thing for a second, Like I get that Kevin Nash, I'm sure he's signed to a Legends deal. All these guys are signed to Legends deal except Flair. Flair used to be apparently didn't pay enough so he wanted

out of it. But even still in a situation like this now, I don't know ultimately who's making the final call here. It may be Nick Con. Yeah, Triple H is the chief content officer. Triple H is not running the company per se. I don't know who that final decision rests with, if it's Nick Con, if it's a combination of the two of them.

But you would think as close as Triple H and Nash are, and this being a special circumstance, if Kevin Nash, a member of the Click, picks up the phone and calls WWE or reaches out directly to Hunter, and I would think that if anybody, he would have reached out directly to his buddy Paul, and they still won't let him be a part of the show, just to even be there, not even necessarily be a part of anything physical or not that he could do anything physical at this point. But

I mean, how ridiculous is that. Think about the amount of time relative to his entire career the Nash actually spent in WWE. It's actually a relatively short period of time. Came into the company in ninety three, he left the company in early ninety six. He came back in two thousand and two. That didn't last all that long, right, that went basically into three. The majority of his career was spent in WCW and in TNA more than WWE. And yet WWE is like, Nope, you can't go. We

got you under lock and key. I guess he doesn't want he doesn't want to give up the paychecks. So there you go. Sting won't have Kevin Nash there for his final match. I guess we won't get that Wolfpack reunion a revolution. That's too bad. So Daniel Garcia comes down to the ring and he said a week ago, Garcia and Adam Copeland, they fought to decide on a number one contender for the TNT Championship, and we all saw

what happened. Shavanni mentioned that Copeland on the shelf after the concerto from Christian he is unable to compete. However, However, at Revolution, Daniel Garcia is getting his TNT title match one on one against Christian Cage, and he congratulated him and the crowd chanted you deserve it. At Garcia Garcia said, a lot of the time he feels he doesn't deserve it, so he genuinely

thanked the fans for saying that. It means a lot to him. Says people always told him that he was going to be great, but he started to lose that confidence a few months ago when he was at his lowest point. But he knew that going through all of that three seconds, three seconds, it's all that it takes. It's all he needed. And at the end of the Continental Classic, he said, he got those three seconds and it changed his life. Every time he got down, the fans picked him

back up. Every time he danced, they danced with him. He thanked the fans for helping him restore that feeling. And Adam copelands, he says, no one knows how that match between you and I would have ended before the patriarchy ran in and interfered, but he has full confidence that he would have made him tap out, and he said he's going to see him again, but the next time he'll be holding the TNT title, and that brings

him to Revolution. He had a message for Christian, but before he could get it out, Christian and the rest of the patriarchy interrupted walked out on stage. We had Mother Wayne, We had Nick Wayne. We had Wayne Newton and Wayne Gretzky and whatever other Wayne Wayne Hart, Right, isn't their heart brother named Wayne. They got about sixteen of them, so I'm sure one of them's named Wayne. They had Wayne, they had Smith, they had Dean, they had Owen, they had Bruce, they had Brett,

whom I missing. Is at least six more of them so anyway, and Killswitch can't forget the Dinosaur. He was out there as well. Christian said that Copeland will never have another shot at his TNT title ever again. He said Garcia stands there as the number one contender for his title at Revolution.

Says that Garcia has been on a hell of a run recently, racking up wins left and right, but as much as he would love to step into the ring with him, he really doesn't think that it should happen at Revolution, so It's not that he doesn't think he's not worthy, he just doesn't think he's ready. He likes his dance moves, he says. Garcia likes his dance moves and his girations, but they're just distractions. He just wants to entertain the fans. Christian just wants to leave the arena every night as

the most dominant TNT champion of all time. He said, he knows something that these people don't know. That Daniel had a pretty dark childhood, didn't you, Daniel? At that point you just knew, uh, oh, we know where this is headed. He says, you didn't have so many happy memories. Do you know a Jackie Garcia that lives and he gave a specific address. Do you know a Jackie Garcia that lives in Buffalo, New York? And can you confirm to me that Jackie was married to David Garcia?

And I understand that David Garcia is your father and your father is dead. Now wouldn't it be a fairy tale ending at revolution for you to hold that title above your head in memory of your father. But your father wasn't so great now was? He says, your father was actually a piece of crap. He was a loser, alcoholic who lost his life to the bottle, and unlike him, I don't want to hurt you, Daniel. I want to help you. Unlike him, I want to make sure you realize

your full potential. So revolution I don't want to be your opponent, Daniel, he goes, I want to be your father. This man is a menace. Garcia said, Yeah, I would have thought that by now i'd kind of be tired of this, but I'm really not. Actually, I fucking love Christian Cage. Every time he comes out and picks up the mic, I sit here and pay attention to every single word the man says it.

Even though I could see the line coming from a mile away. The one thing is it's become very predictable, and so again you would think, like, all right, it's not gonna really hit the way that it used to. I could see it coming, and even still when it hits, it hits like fucking crack. I love it. I love it. Garcias said, since you know so much about my dead father, why don't you come down to the ring, And he said He'll put Christian in the ground

right next to him, which was a pretty pretty badass line there. Christian sent Nick Wayne to the ring instead, and Garcia immediately took him down and put him in a sharpshooter kill. Switch was down to the ring next, but before he could get inside, Matt Menard hit him in the back with a chair and made the save. He and Garcia held court in the ring. Each one would steal chairs. They held back the patriarchy. There it is the non ranked Daniel Garcia, nowhere to be found in the rankings,

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a three way like the world title match. I'm glad it's one on one, and i don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that we're gonna get a new TNT champion a revolution. Yeah, I'm not ready to commit one way or the other to a prediction on who I think is ultimately gonna win. Kind of on the fence right now, leaning towards Christian, but Daniel Garcia can walk out of there with that TNT title of Adam Copeland was

to show up and play a role in the finish of that match. If kill Switch and or Nick Wayne tries to get involved, and Copeland makes his triumphant return to stop that from happening. And Daniel Garcia, who is riding a I don't want to say a wave of momentum, like you know, he's the biggest star in the business right now, he's not, but he's getting more and more fan support as time goes on as a babyface, especially coming out of the Continental Classic, you know, kind of the underdog coming

out of that tournament. He does the stupid, silly dance, but the people have been getting a little bit more behind him. But he is one of those young guys on the roster that Tony Khan is obviously very high and he's very talented in the ring. They have been trying with him to have him with the dancing stuff, you know, be a little more charismatic and show off a little more of his personality, which he has to. I

think that's a good thing. But you know what, if you want to get over one of your young guys, you're young quote unquote homegrown guys, well this is the way to do it. Somebody like Christian Cage, who I love Christian's whole stick right now and I think he's great. But if you want to put over one of the young guys. You have one of the vets go in there and do the honors for it, and you put that TNT title on Daniel Garcia, because that's really what that title should be

for. It should be a championship that helped elevate people like Daniel Garcia, who are right there in that middle of the card level, but you want to try to elevate them to upper mid card. You want to try to elevate them to that next level. When the TNT title started out, that's

not really what it was necessarily designed for. You had people like Cody Rhodes and Darby Allen, and Cody in particular, because he couldn't wrestle for the world title because he made that dumb decision that while I lost, so I can never again challenge for the aw title, he made the TNT title his own. You know, Cody was one of the biggest stars in the company. He was one of the EVPs, so you couldn't really call it a

mid card title at the time. But I think that's really what that title now is designed to try to do, or should be, is to try to l someone like a Garcia or like a Ricky Starks or like a Powerhouse hops to that next love. I thought that would be the case with Wardlow. We'll get to him later. Didn't quite work out that way for Wardlow. But they're obviously saving the Copeland Christian rematch for Double or Nothing. Who says it has to be from the TNT title. Why do we need to

see Adam Copeland go on to become TNT champion. We already saw it. We saw it at World ten. He won the title already. Now, granted it was only for a few minutes, but so what, he held his first gold since twenty eleven. It's already been done. He doesn't need a title. What the fuck do you need to put a title on him for? So? Yeah, I think they could easily take that title off of Christian and still do Christian and Copeland in some kind of gimmick match at

Double or Nothing. There's nothing wrong with that. Rene was backstage with Hangman, Page Hook and Rob Vandam ahead of their trio's main event tonight. Page said that they wouldn't be there if RBD had beaten Swerve in their hardcore match. A while back. RBD rambled on about something I don't know what he was talking about. It sounded like he maybe was celebrating a little too early. He catched my drift, but then again, he always sounds like that.

We had timeless Tony Storm in a warm up match for Revolution non title against Sidney Winnell. Tony hit a corner splash and then a running bulldog. She hit the running hip attack in the corner. She hit the Storm zero

pile driver. Could have ended it right there, chose not to. She applied an ankle lock, which she is dubbed break a leg, and then she let go and she opted instead to pull back on both arms and Winnell gave up immediately in the Venus de Milo submission, that is, of course, Diana Parrazzo's submission instantly gave up, so an easy win for the champion, and that brought out her challenger, her opponent at Revolution, Deanna Parazza, who we were also told would be an action tonight, and we got

this awesome split screen shot as Dianna made her way down to the ring. She and Tony. As she was entering, Tony looked like she was leaving and they cross pads and they had on screen half the screen on the Dianna side was in color. Half the screen on the Tony side was in black and white. That was awesome, And I have to really compliment their production because with this Tony Storm character, some of the things that they have done

with the black and white stuff, I think has just been fantastic. So that was a great shot. Parazzo wel one on one with the returning Madison Rain and this was not good at all. This was not a good match. There was a terrifying spot where Madison spiked herself. She did it to herself, she spiked her right on top of her head. But even before that, you can't even blame it on the injury. Even before that, she was very sluggish, moving in slow motion. I don't know what was

going on now. Again, I mentioned it earlier. This is her first AW match televised match in over a year. You have to go back all the way to last February, the last time she had an AAW match. She had a Ring of Honor match last in August. I don't know that she's wrestled any matches since then. You know, she works as like a coach or an agent for the women behind the scenes in the company. So maybe you could chalk it up to Ring Russ and the fact that she just

hasn't been working a lot. I don't know, you can attribute it to whatever you want. She did not look good here in this match Prazzo and Rain. They did a double clothesline spot and then came the spot that I was referring to where Deanna looked like she was going for a flat line. That's what it looked like to me. She wasn't really doing it any differently than any normal flat liner that you would see. And for whatever reason, Madison tucked her head on the way down and she landed right on top of

her head. And it was not even just that she landed. She spiked herself down into the mat right on top of her head. And just to give you a sense of what this looked like here, that was the moment of impact as she landed right on her head and as you could see there, they made it the move of the night. This was their move of the night, presented by TurboTax. Are these people for real? This was the move of the night. A near death experience here for Madison, Rain

and Doc Samson was at Ring, so he came over. He didn't get into the ring, but he came over immediately to ask the referee if he was needed. And Madison must have told Paul Turner that she was okay because she called the doctor off. I mean only went another fifteen seconds anyway. She probably just wanted to get the finish done. There's no way that she was okay after this. I mean, I'm hoping, you know, nothing's broken or fractured or anything like that or can cussed. But at the very

least she obviously rang her bell. I mean, how could she not look at this? So they went right to the finish anyway, which was Deanna applying an ankle lot which is the break of leg submission that Tony storm uses, and Madison tapped out. So this was bad, but hopefully she's okay. The most important thing is that hopefully she is all right. That was very, very scary. After the match, Tony tried and attack Dianna, knocked her down and then Pirazzo went after Mariah May In doing so, that

allowed Tony to apply the break a leg on Pirazzo's left ankle. Referee managed to pull Tony off and Tony started. She's laying on the mat up against the ropes, looking at Dianna who was sitting on the mat against the ropes on the opposite side, and we got another cool shot where they again right down the middle, one half of the screen in color, the other half of the screen in black and white, and Tony begins to smear lipstick all

over her face. She's doing her best Chelsea Green as Laurel van Ness and TNA impression, smearing it all over her face, and then she rolled out to the floor. I just I still can't believe they chose that as their move of the night. That was certainly a choice. Holy shit, who

made that call? They replayed the Young Bucks attack from two weeks ago, that great angle at the end of the show, after Stinging Darby won the tag team titles, where they laid out Darby and Sting and stings offspring, Stinger number one and Stinger number two, and then they cut to a pre taped Darby promo and he he ends Sting. He said, have been looking at some old photographs, and he looked, I guess over at Sting off camera and asked for Thing's permission if it was okay if he showed the Bucks

some of these photos and Sting said it was okay. And he showed a photo of Sting and his sons Garrett and Stephen back when and Darby said, at that time they were the same age that your kids are now, Matt and Nick. And it looked like a photo from the Wolfpack era because thing was there. He had the red face paint on, so this was obviously from probably ninety nine or something. Then Sting walked into camera frame and he was very reserved and subdued, but he just had this intense look in his

eyes as he was staring into the camera. He said, in all his years in wrestling, no one has ever messed with his own flesh and blood until the young Bucks. He said, He's had lots going on in his personal life over the last few weeks. Besides this, he said, seven days ago or so, another family member of his father passed away. Christ don't let Christian know. He said, he was a hero to him. He taught him right. He makes him think a lot about his own mortality.

He used to think he was so invincible. The time catches up with everyone, and it caught him up. It caught up to him for sure. He said, he knows truly that he is not invincible. But one thing he does know also is that everything he's got left in him he is bringing to revolution and it's going to meet the Bucks face to face. He says, they have a fight on their hands, the fight of their lives.

This is a great segment and also condolences to Sting. Obviously, that is very shitty news and shitty timing too, because he's got his final match coming up, and I'm sure he would have wanted his I don't know if his mother is still alive, but he would have wanted his father, I'm sure to if not be there to see his final match, and now he won't be able to. But that's very sad. But he showed some great

intensity here and fire, but again in a way that's different. When I say somebody shows fire and intensity in a promo, he thinks Samoa Joe going out there and looking into the camera and screaming and just you know, putting people in their place. This was different though. This was a different type of intensity, and it's hard. It can be hard to emote in a mask or with face paint on. I couldn't tell if he was tearing up

or crying or not. But just looking dead into the camera and as serious as could be, delivering a stern message to the young bucks, basically saying that, you know, in so many words, like I'm going to kill you revolution. That's what I read from the look on this man's face. And that's exactly what this should have been when you considered the attack two weeks ago. He beat up Stinging Darby, but these two bozos beat up the man's kids, So Sting should be upset. And Sting doesn't have to come

on here and scream and shout. All he needs to do is come on here and do exactly what he did and say, look, I've been through a lot of personal shit recently. What you did is something that nobody has ever done to me in my entire career. And so I make this vow, I make this promise to you that I'm coming for you and it's going to be the fight of your life. Perfect all this needed to be. And I am actually very much looking forward to this match. I'm a little

worried because I don't know what Sting is going to do. We've seen some things that Sting has done in matches before. He usually makes it out not all the time, he usually makes it out unscathed. The last time when he jumped off that ladder and he undershot the table was ridiculous and I think he knocked out some of his teeth. But whatever he's got planned, this

is it for him, and I truly believe that. I know we kind of make fun of wrestling retirements sometimes like it's the end for now and then be back. No, I trust that this is it and he realizes it. So there's no telling what he's going to do in his final match, but I am very much looking forward to it, and again, make no mistake about it, that is your main event. I was wondering a few weeks ago if they would close with that, but there's no doubt that they're

going to close with that match, and it is. It's the right main event for that show. And frankly, it's another reason why I'm not expecting a world title change on the show. I don't think there should be one, but if there was going to be, how do you not close the show with that? If you're going to change the world title, it just doesn't make sense. So the timing for that doesn't even it doesn't even fit after a break Tony Shavani was back in the ring. And now we go

from that great promo to another great promo. And it's almost like the tale of two promos, because I just got done talking about Sting being very subdued, a subdued intensity from Sting. This was not a subdued promo from wardlow Wardlow was his guest. He came out by himself, well no other members of the Undisputed Kingdom. He immediately got in the ring, grabbed the mic and told Tony that he needs to get his old ass out of there if

he doesn't want to get knocked down again. He said that he was pissed, and you could tell because he was pacing back and forth and he was very angry about something. He said. He was pissed because two years ago he had thousands upon thousands of people chanting his name city after city in a manner that hasn't been heard or seen in decades. He was the next big

thing. They strapped the rocket to his back, but apparently they strapped the rocket to his back upside down, which I actually thought that was a funny line because that is kind of what they did. They strapped the rocket upside down. Instead of going up, it sent him the other way. Ever since, he's been driven into the ground and screwed over and over and over

again. You would think the one true homegrown a megastar would have been champion a long time ago, and yet he's never received an opportunity for the heavyweight title. And people back there need to be fired and jailed for that fact. There might be some people in WWE who need to be fired and jailed, although for very different reasons. But I stopped myself here and I said, wait a minute, wit a minute, Hold on a second. It

is true that Wardlow has never gotten an aw World championship. Correct me if i'm roy it's been a few years. Was there not after CM Punk? I believe it was after CM punk wrecked his foot, and maybe it was the second time he got hurt. I don't know. But there was a situation where there was a Battle Royal and the winners or the final two, and the Battle Royal went on to have a singles match I think to crown

a number one contender for the interim title. It was some hodgepodge like that, And if I remember, I don't think Wardlow either was in the match. Or maybe there was a promo where he said he didn't want to get a shot that way, or that's not the real time or something like that. I just remember vaguely, like, why would Wardlow at that time and that situation not want to be part of something like that. It didn't make

any sense to me. So I was thinking to myself here, Yeah, but you may have passed on an opportunity once before, but it is true he has never had the chance to compete for a world title in adem. He said. There's been a lot of met arounds here, he refused. Okay, see I knew I wasn't crazy, he refused, That's what happened on TV, he refuse. He turned down the tournament. So I don't want to hear this nonsense about how I've never gotten an opportunity. You fucking

idiot. You turned down an opportunity. I remember it now. It's right. We ranted about that at the time. How stupid it was he shot it down. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Don't think we didn't forget about that. I mean I kind of forgot a little bit, but he reminded me. So thank you. He said, there's been a lot of men around here claiming to be the best. There's kings, there's gods.

So what does that make him? Because the best in the world, the real world heavyweight champion, I beat his ass like nobody has in his entire career. He said, his body is still falling apart from me, which brings me to our former champion, the guy who's better than you and you know it. I squashed him like an insect, and I beat him like nobody ever has in his entire career, which brings me to the most dangerous man in the room, the King, the current aw world champion,

Samoa Joe. Can somebody remind me what happened when him and I were in the ring? That's right, I choked his ass out and I beat him too. Oh and by the way, he says, big shiny titles and custom suits look a hell of a lot better on me. So again I ask, and again I'm not going to replicate the screaming that he was them. He was loud and angry as he was running through this promo, a lot angrier than I sound right now. So again I ask, what does

that make me? Because it sounds like I'm the best in the world. It sounds like I'm better than you, and you know it. It sounds like I'm the most dangerous man in the room. I am the uncrowned aw king and it's time that I start eating like one because I have been starving and I am done being fed scraps. He said, look at me, Look at me, and he pointed up to the tron, and they showed

him and he was looking and admiring himself. He's looking at himself. He says, I'm the baddest son of a bitch to lace up a pair of boots. There is no one that can stop me. If anybody wants to get in my way, just know this is no longer wrestling. This is war. Holy shit, where has that guy been? Where's that wardlow bit? This is the guy that I've been waiting for for a while. That

was the best promo I've ever seen him cut. And I love that they had him rightfully call attention to the shit booking that he has had to deal with for the past two years. I like the fact that they're at least acknowledging it, because everybody else is already acknowledging it. May you can't ignore it. You may as well embrace it and use it as part of his stories, part of his character arc. Why wouldn't Wardlow be pissed off and upset about the way that he has been treated in aw over the last two

years. He has every right to feel that way, and we've seen it. We watched when he hit the peak of his popularity. It was the night that he powerbombed MJF ten fucking times and double or nothing, and he beat the piss out of that guy. He went out, remember the upside down oxygen mask. They had to carry him out right. That was the peak for Wardlow. And at that point it's like a fork in the road, you're gonna go left, you're gonna go right. He didn't go left,

he didn't go right. He dug a hole and he jumped inside and he's been buried ever since that. There have been things that have happened. I remember at one point they had their international tour and they went to Canada last year. He couldn't go, I think because his car was broken into at one point, and his passport was stolen, and there was an injury at one point. So it's been a combination of bad booking and bad luck.

But the last two years for this man has been absolute dog shit, and he was getting genuine reactions from the crowd, like big star reactions from people who liked this guy and wanted to get behind him, and they could have done something with him, and they did nothing with him. He had the TNT title. I think he had it three times. I can't remember anything memory about any of the times he had the TNT title. It's all

just a blur. The fact that Tony Kahn squandered something that he organically had in this man is one of his greatest booking failures in the last five years of aw Wardlow is right there at the top of the list. So he should come out here and he should be pissed off now. He talked about beating these men. He never beat cmpunk. Cmpunk and Wardlow never had a match where Wardlow pinned him or beat him that he did. I think beat up cm punk. I think it was during the feud with MJF. He

probably power bombed him. That's what he was referring to. So you know, technically, I don't think he actually beat cmpunk, But the MJF thing is just ridiculous. And if you think back to what happened that weekend. Again, it was all about MJF because he no showed an appearance and then there was a lot of talk about his contract status, and unfortunately all of that ended up completely overshadowing Wardlow. MJF showed up on television that Wednesday like

nothing ever happened. The guy got power bomb ten times and needed oxygen and he showed up on dynamite, not a stitch, not a bruise. He cut that promo. He called Tony Khanna fucking Mark. Everybody was talking about him in that promo. Nobody was talking about Wardlow, and he never recovered from it. And I'm not putting all the blame on MJF for that, because Tony Khan is as responsible, if not more, for not following up.

But he was never the same. I mean, you could draw a straight line to that double or nothing pay per view in twenty twenty two, I guess it would have been and it's just been downhill ever since. So this is the intensity and this is the promo. I've been waiting for this guy to cut. He came back, and what has he been doing. He's been doing the same thing he did at the beginning of his career. He comes out, he powerbombs guys, and he leaves. I've been waiting

for him to get on the mic and say what he said here. So I thought this was great. And now the question, of course, is what's next for Wardlow. That's a great promo, But how are you gonna follow up on this? It's not like he's getting a world championship match of Revolution. So what are they gonna do if Samoa Joe retains a revolution? You can do Samoajoe against Wardlow, two heels against each other for the world

title, a double or nothing. I don't think so. Now instead of Revolution, they're doing what they I think ex Caliber on commentary said is something called meet madness, and they laughed because they had no idea what that meant. But I assume he'll be in there with somebody like Miro or Hobbs or some big guys. Meet madness is what we're gonna get with him at Revolution. I don't care about meat madness so much. I care about what happens

after meat Madness. How are they gonna follow up on this promo? How are they gonna keep this guy hot as an attraction? And as a possible number one contender, especially if he's not getting a shot for a while. You know what do they have lined up for him? Going fok? He is still a heel. He is still part of the Undisputed Kingdom, even

though he was out there by himself tonight. But it goes back to what Adam Cole said when he first cut that promo and they had their mission statement right, he said, the Kingdom have the Ring of Honor world tag team titles. Wardlow is gonna win the World Championship and then he's gonna hand it to me. Remember that was the story. Wardlow goes after the world title and when he wins it, he gives it to me. Remember Wardlow's reaction at that time, it was like, yeah, okay, they planted that

seed. The only question is when does he go after that world time? Now Swerve wor to win the title at Revolution, they could set up Swerve and Wardlow for double or nothing. I just don't see that title changing hands yet, and I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't take it off Joe. So as long as you have a heeled Samoa Joe as the world champion, you gotta still keep Wardlow out of the picture until you get that belt back on a babyface. But this was great, This was long overdue. Rene

was backstage again and this time she was with the Don Callus family. You know Skate Takeshta Powerhouse, Hobbes. Callous talked about Takeshta facing Will Osprey is coming up at Revolution, said that they would both be part of the Callus family when it was over. Callus said that even Tony Khan was there to

watch Osprey over the weekend at the Rev Pro show. He said everyone thought Osprey would fly back to the United States with Tony, but the Callus family will pick him up in the UK and bring him back for the match. And Callus spoke about Hobbes briefly, and then he called Sammy Gavara a little cuck and that got a rise out of everybody in the live crowd. Callus said they had a score to settle and he would be keeping an eye on Gavar. That led us to our main event of the night. Samoa Joe

Swerve Strickland opponents of Revolution tag team partners to and can they coexist? Teaming up with Brian Cage the Mogul Embassy taking on Hangman, Page, Hook, and the returning Rob Van Dam. Kind of a weird collection of people here thrown into this match. I was waiting to see what they would do. Hook wanted to start out with Samoa Joe, and so they did, and Joe slammed Hook down multiple times. Hook switched to body shots and a flying

clothesline that took Joe down. Joe was able to turn the tables on him tagged in Brian Cage, Hook was able to escape and made a tag to RVD, and he had a little back and forth with Brian Cage. After a series of switches, Page made the blind tag and he came face to face with Swerve. After RVD sidestepped a flatliner attempt after a commercial break, it was Hook being held up in a delayed vertical supplex by Brian Cage for

a two cop. Cage wanted a death Valley driver, but Hook countered enough into a DDT, which led to a hot tag from RVD that pissed off Hangman that he didn't get the tag. RBD ran wild hit rolling thunder on Swerve in a five star frog splash on Brian Cage for a two count. Joe argued with the referee Rbrey Edwards as Swerve blindsided Hangman on the apron with a running boot. We got some quick tags from Team Joe that took us

into the second commercial break here of this match. RVD was isolated the entire commercial break before Joe missed the charge and RBD hit a spin kick into the double down Page and Cage. They made the double tag and Page sprinted right at Swerve trying to get his revenge before dropping Brian Cage with a Hurrican Rana swerve sidesteff the slingshot died. Page though hit a pump kick to counter a

rolling flatliner by Swerve. Back inside, Hangman dropped Brian Cage with a death valley driver and Samoa Joe was there to clabber him with a running boot, so things broke down. Everybody was hitting big moves at this point, and there was a moment here where Hangman Page had the chance to end the match. He had the chance to go and hit the buckshot to Brian Cage, or he could hit the Orihara moonsalt on swerve, and he chose swerve, so he went up top. Cage cut him off though before he could hit

the move and Hook was there. We ended up getting a tower of doom spot with Hangman on the worst end of it. He got sup flexed over Hook sank in red rum on Brian Cage, who made a blind tag to Joe Hook Ate a pop up power bomb from Cage and a house call kick from Swerve. Hangman flew in with a Buckshot lariat to Brian Cage, so Joe, Swerve and Hangman were left alone in the ring. Swerve and Joe took out Hangman, who rolled to the floor. Joe hit a tope.

Swerve went for a pump kick off the apron, but he missed Hangman. He took out Joe by accident, and Hangman grabbed Swerve and he power bombed him off the apron through the announced table and the table shattered upon impact. Joe ducked the Buckshot back inside and he hit a snap power slam for two. RVD took out Brian Cage with a slingshot Splash made the tag. Joe was waiting but did not see Hook waiting and he ate an exploder. RBD

went up top for the five star frog splash. Brian Cage shoved him off and wiped out Hook with the discus lariat, Joe sank on the the Coqina clutch, RVD faded and passed out, so RBD eat the losing fall here. No surprise there, but there was a spot here where Joe went for the musclebuster to Hangman page and Hangman slipped out of it. So Joe didn't do anything. Hangman slipped out when he landed on his feet, though it looked like he tweaked his ankle and he stumbled forward, and that's when he

made the tag to UH. I guess it would have been RVD. So Hangman was a non factor for the remaining minute or so of the match. He went out to the floor. Joe's holding up the aw world title in the ring and celebrating. Swerve is on the outside. He's smarting. He's staring up at Joe. He doesn't look very happy. Meanwhile, I'm looking if you look at the hard camera view, I'm looking directly ahead to see on the other side of the ring outside if there are people around Hangman,

and there's nobody around Hangman. But the cameraman goes over to Hangman and he's got the camera on him. So I'm waiting for them to switch the camera shot, and they do. When they put the camera on Hangman, Hangman is clutching his ankle and he's looking up at the cameraman, maybe not realizing he's on TV yet, and he is waving him off, and he's waving the guy off and he's telling him stop, stop, don't shoot me. Don't shoot me, like like the cops of Theirs or something. That's not

good. It didn't look good when he landed on his feet and he fell forward. It looked like he may have tweaked his ankle or he tweaked his knee. The fact that he was waving off the cameraman, don't shoot me. He's clutching the ankle. I'm hoping that he just maybe rolled it sprained it. And look, you could have a really bad sprain too. I don't want to minimize an ankle sprain, because there is some serious ankle sprains that take a long time to recover. From my point is hopefully is nothing

serious, because the timing could not be any worse. If Hangman is hurt, hurt enough that he can't work. You know, he is one third of your world title match on the pay per view, which is less than two weeks away, so the timing would not be great. It is a three way match, so if Hangman were to go down, he could turn

into a singles match with Joan Swerved. But again, the dynamic here is such that I was not expecting anybody except Hangman to take the losing fall on that match, and so if you take him out of the equation, and it really wouldn't make sense to put anybody in his place. It's a world

title match, You're not just gonna put somebody in there. It presents an interesting conundrum for Tony Kahn because I would not be beating Swerve, but I also don't think it's the right time yet to put the title on Swerve. So it really spruce things up. If I'm right and Hangman is in there to take the losing fall, it really potentially messes things up here. But that did not look good. Hangman, interestingly was still playing babyface for much

of the match, and the crowd was mostly cheering for him. They were not booing him, although that one spot where he elected to try to hit the moon Salt on Swerve instead of getting the wind again, it just illustrates how obsessed he is with getting revenge on this man. So if he is going to go full heel, and maybe he won't, but if he is, I don't expect that transformation to happen until revolution, and that's assuming he'll

even be a revolution. But I will say, you know, I was waiting to see what they would do here in this match because the match when they announced that last week just felt thrown together. And now having watched the match, I don't really see what the point of this was other than just to put these guys in some kind of match just to get them on TV. It didn't do anything to further my excitement for that match. You know, I was already looking forward to it. I think, you know,

it's going to be a very good match. But I can't say that what they did here did anything for me. Didn't really serve much of a purpose as far as furthering that story much. It was kind of more of the same. We know Hangman is obsessed with Swerve. I didn't need them to do what they did here to tell me that. So it was a fine main event though otherwise, RVD Hook, Brian Cage, they were just background players in the overall story. And that's how dynam I went off the air.

It was it was a very up and down show. I thought it was a decent show. Again, it was very promo heavy, but the promo stuff on the show was very good. It was very good, especially the Sting stuff and the Wardlow stuff, more so than the Daniel Garcia one. But I thought that that stuff was the highlight of the show. The best match was the opening match with FTR and the BCC. So it was good. It was good, but it was also one thing I didn't like

about it. And they've done a good job of slowing things down a little bit on most weeks because this show, I mean, it just had this reputation for going one hundred miles an hour, and they don't give you a chance to just stop and really process what you just saw. You know, I'm looking at my notes as I'm going along here and I'm like, wait a minute, I'm like two segments behind, like what they're moving on to

the next one already. You know, you go to Renee sixteen times in the back and then you come back and boom, boom boom, and they just don't give things a chance to breathe. And they had been doing a better job of that recently, and tonight it was right back to that just frenetic pace that I don't like. I just wish they would slow down and maybe not try to fit so much stuff into the show. And I didn't

even mention everything. I mean, there was a segment that was very quick, like a quick hit in the back with the Bang Bang Scissor Gang to set up something for Rampage who gives a shit? So there were a couple of things I left out that just weren't really worth mentioning here. But yeah, just noticeable how much they try to really squeeze in and they just go

boom, boom boom from one to the other. Here. Well, let's check out the poll now, if you didn't see the RAAR review I did on Monday night, I'm doing the polls a little bit differently, at least for the weekly shows. I might do thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs in the middle for the pay per views, but I'm doing a star rating system now. I only have four options on Twitter, so I can't go five stars. It's four stars, three stars, two stars, one star.

I did that for Raw and Rostell did a pretty good score. Let's see how Dynamite, did tonight not nearly good? Wow? Twenty eight percent of you gave tonight's show for so well, this was not a four star show. I agree with the thirty five percent that gave it three stars. I think that's fair. Seventeen point eight percent two stars and eighteen point eight percent one star. That is with over one thousand votes in so far at Sola Monster. Let me know how many stars do you give? Give Dynamite

all the stars or no stars? You let me know. We're gonna go this so we're gonna do our own little star ratings from now on, change things up. It was something that someone suggested and I thought that was an interesting idea, so that is what we are going to do. It was a very story driven episode to that, but not everything hit the way that they probably hoped that it would. Right here with orhon and by the way,

the the gold tonight was four hundred likes. Do hit that thumbs up if you have not done so, we are currently sitting at three sixty ish, so we got a waste to go there. Orhan says, uh, buy or sell eight to ten, eight to ten, it's my dumbass, my mistake, buy or sell eight to ten Orton or Tribal Chief Roman Reigns. I mean, I look, I love the the Orton characters stuff that he was doing in nine, not so much the WrestleMania match that he had

with Triple eight. I don't know. It's tough because Orton was full time at that time and we don't get to see Roman very much. I was enjoying Roman's stuff more than I am now until it just started to get a little long in the tooth. But I know they're both great. You know, they're both great characters. I think if I had to choose, though, between the two of them, I would go at Roman, but Randy was doing some pretty good work during that period. I'd go at Roman Reigns

myself. Noel Mulligan says, all right, boy, Solomonster. That's quirk slang for hello Hello. What was your first wrestling event? Mine was Dublin nineteen ninety five, the best year. My first wrestling event was Madison Square Garden the day after Christmas nineteen eighty seven. That was my first live event. Bender mc simpson. On Monday, someone asked who swings a chair harder than the rock balls Mahoney in ECW swung the hardest chair shots I have ever

seen. Well, you were probably watching more balls at the time that I was, so I probably didn't see a lot of Balls's. I probably didn't see a lot of Mahoney's work from that period. I've seen obviously some of his stuff, but I wasn't like a huge ECW guy, So you're probably right, But I still say the rock is somewhat The rock was an absolute menace with that chair. Barry says aw was about to put out four new songs based off eras of Sting will be on YouTube an hour after I send

this super chat. Well, then by now they should probably be up right, that was fifty seven minutes ago, so it should be going up four new songs based on the eras of Sting. I mean, they don't have the rights to the best song of all, So I mean, if you're not going to have man called Sting, what are we even doing here? He does this, he does that. I mean, the lyrics are just

legendary. The real CS says, in my opinion, these constant time limit draws, which starting to get far more annoying than the cheap DQ finishes. It's getting repetitive. Well, we've only had two of them recently, but my point still stands. I agree in that you don't want to overdo it. So if we get another one in the next few weeks, I'll start worrying at that point because then they're just going to run it into the ground. I don't mind it yet, but you can have too much of a

good thing. Barry just saw from Wrestle ops on Twitter that a taped episode of Collision will go head to head with Night one of Wrestle Maybe good luck with that. Good luck? Well, look, I mean, they don't make those decisions. It's a network thing, so you know it's probably out of their hands, but obviously they're gonna have their work out for them that night. Food Hive with the nineteen ninety nine good to Hear from food Hie Long Time. The restaurant I am a chef at was visited by TikTok food

critic Keith Lee when he visited Dallas, and I'm in the video. I'm the one with a beard and a hat, spoken like a true wrestling thing. Brunch of Halics is the restaurant. We've been busy as fuck. Thank god. Well that's awesome. Congratulations Is the video up? I assume the video must be up. Now send me a link. Send me a link, and I'll look for the guy in the beard and the hat. I want to see this brunch of halicks. That's very cool. Libido Bell has

been fined by Brian Danielson. Actually no, that's hbk C eighty three was fined by Brian Danigelson. This super chat is sponsored by the energy drink Solo Monster Surge. Flavors include Gunthar, grape Breeberry, Popstar popsicle, and Blisspan Banana. Oh, blissban definitely banana. You got that one right, hey, Libido Bell, Thank you, Mancy. Those flavors, those flavors would sell. I think we may be onto something. I think we may be

onto something here. You got Lady Fire Panda Lemon, right, we can come up with some other ones or han. Why did Triple H beat CM punk in twenty eleven, who then lost two more paper beats? What are you asking me for? I didn't book that shit. I talked about it, I ranted about it at the time. There's still no good reason for it. There's still no good reason for it. Chris Manson with the ten

dollars super Chat says, honestly, what do you do with Warden? Swerve has to be the next champion, then after Swerve maybe Osprey, so possibly Wardlow can take it from Osprey. But that seems like early next year at best. Now, I mean you could have if Swerve gets it next maybe Wardlow beats him for it, and then Osprey could beat Wardlow. What you don't have to put the belt on Osprey so soon. There's no need to rush the belt onto him. Like Tony Kahan. He got his guy,

and I'm sure he's got him locked in for a few years. Like Ospray will get the belt at some point, but you don't have to rush it onto him. Hbk C eighty three is Christian undoubtedly the greatest TNT champion of all time. He is in my book. He is in my book Wapatappa. I should damn, I should have listened to you, so I should always listen to me. I'm looking out for you, guys. I don't steer you guys in the wrong direction. You should always look out for good

advice that I'm trying to give you, good life advice. Should always listen to me, I have your best interest in mine, Isaac. Have you seen open AI's text video model Sora. Everything that you just said to me in that super chat is a foreign language. I have no idea what you're talking. So the answer is no, I have not. And Marios rumileotis dropping ninety nine cents. Marios, thank you very much. I think that might have been his. Was that his first one? That was third?

His third super chat ever? Thank you, Marios, much appreciated. Let's see where we are on the goal right now. We are at four three. Boy, just getting in there at the last second, aren't you, guys? Huh, just getting in there at the last second. I see you, guys. All right, let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. Hey, Dara, I think Dara's right. I think that super chat may have been written by Ai. You never know these days, You just never know these days. All

right, be the booker. Time. Let's do it. Let's kick things off tag team style. That's the way we do things around here. This is it, this is how we do it. And we are going to begin here with the former former tag team champions undisputed tag team champions Cody Rhodes and his oose j So. Main event jay Usso. Here we go. I like the way we're kicking this off. Cody Rhodes and jay Usso gonna be taken on Damian Priest and Finn Balor of the judgment day. I feel

like that's wasn't that the match? Isn't that the match that we saw? Or I guess the judgment they beat them to get the belts be the booker is very in tune with w W booking to give us Cody and j Usso against Finn Valor and Damian Priest. It's a very appropriate match. All right, women's beat the booker. Time. Let's see here. We begin with Trish Stratus WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus, the lovely Trish Stratus, Lovely as always, always good to see Trish. Trish Stratta is gonna go one

on one with Bailey Bailey challenging for the WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania. That never happened, did it? We never did get Trish against Bailey. I don't believe we did. I don't think so. I think we only got it. Maybe in tag team for him, but never in a singles form. Okay, so what is that? That's two for two? Right? We had a clean sweep on Monday, didn't We didn't we? I'm keeping my mouth shut. I'm not saying anything. That's it. That's all I'm

gonna say. I'm not saying a word. Let's see, let's see how we do. Men's be the Booker. We begin with the man called Sting, one of the many eras of Sting. This is the era of Sting that I grew up on, Surfer Sting, Surfer Sting with that hair and that face paint. Look at the who's interviewing him. Look who's there in the corner, Tony Schavann, Your little baby face, Tony Shavanni. He

doesn't look a day over twenty two. Very appropriate that we talked about Sting on this show tonight, and Sting is in Be the Booker, and now we find out his real retirement match. Who is going to be his final opponent? Sting one on one with the man they call Vader, Yes, sing Invader. One of my favorite all time feuds from WCW, The White Castle of Fear, Strap Match, The King of Cable tournament final. These two men had three fantastic matches in WCW nineteen ninety two Sting Invader, and

that means tonight we got ourselves the clean sweet Sting Invader. I mean, what a fucking match, what a main event. You can't get any better than that. As far as like a Sting opponent, Vader's got to be his best opponent ever. Those two those matches that they had. By the way, if you are a newer fan, or if you weren't watching WCW at that time, if you got a peacock subscription, just do yourself a

favor, go look those matches up. Those matches were fantastic. They had some bangers, said the Juliet Yes they were, Yes, they were agreed. Vader has been on fire, has been fire, and be the booker. That's right, we did. What was the other match that we did? Vader was in the main event on Monday? He was who was it against? I forgot, I ever forgot who it was against? Was it Brock? Because Vader and Brock is like it. That's that's like that would

have been the dream match right there. But who did Vader land on for an opponent on Monday. Remind me somebody you uh you do that? While I look up some of these other super chats here Bender mc simpson, it was Brock. Okay, so it was Brock. Yeah, Oh my god, Brock Invader's thing. Invader. We need one more opponent now for Vader on Friday. Vader against who on Friday? Who should it be? Try

to think of who else's who else is in there? Maybe Bobby Lashley, Maybe, I don't know who would be like to see Vader against and be the booker on Friday. Well, if we if we go three for three on Friday, that's our first full, full week clean sweep, which we've never done before. We came very close last week and then I screwed it all up. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything else because I end up jinxing these things. Bender says, what do you think of having Okata

and Mercedes come in as a power couple? Mercedes can do most of the talking, and they have money themes a power couple. H I don't think that's necessary. I don't know that we we need them as a power couple romantically or otherwise. I don't I don't think we need to do that. I don't think it's necessary. Zachariah sitchen Osha Jackson Junior's comments about AEW is valid. And also I knew Tony Khan would flip out and call him out with a tweet. For all that is good and decent, someone take away

Tony Kahan's phone. He did make some good points and I will talk more about that probably on Sunday, as I will what the Juliette mentioned here in his super chat. Have I seen seen his comments on Howard sterned by Vince McMahon. Yes, you can go on my Twitter to find out what I thought about that, but I will be talking about that more extensively on Sunday.

It's not something it's not appropriate for me to get into it on the Dynamite stream, but I did post something on Twitter earlier today, so you can go and check it out there. Friday night, here's the way things are going to go down. Friday night is a taped SmackDown, but I am planning on going live when it's over, so that'll be Friday night. The plan for Elimination Chamber on Saturday. It's a five am Eastern start for

the pay per view I'm planning on going live around noon. It'll be some time between twelve and one during lunchtime in the afternoon, so that'll give people some time to watch the show wake up. I think that's a better time to do it, so that is when I will be live. It'll be

a rare early afternoon scream on Saturday. Episode eight hundred and fifty of these things it's dropping on Sunday, and then of course live again for the raw review on Monday night, so you guys have a lot of content Thursday tomorrow really is my only day off between now and Monday, so you got plenty of solemn, moster content coming your way. Thank you for hanging out with me here for the Dynamite stream. I appreciate it. We'll come back and

do it again next Wednesday. Until then, be well, stay safe. I'm gonna go get some sleep and I will see you back here for the SmackDown stream on Friday night, an elimination chamber on Saturday. Until then, take care, guys,