AEW Dynamite 5/7/25 Review | TWO Eliminator Matches And Ospreay Offers WWE Roster Thoughts

of the Hammerstein Ballroom. Yeah, I said last week when I came on here was talking about Dynamite, and I said that we need some clarity this week because we still had a few weeks left to go before we get to Double or Nothing, which is on the twenty fifth, And I said, we need to get some clarity starting this week as far as what some of the other matches are going to be, because the only thing we

know so far are the two owen Hart finals. We know Will Ospury and Hangman Page on the men's side, and we know Mercedes and Tony or Jamie Hater rather on the other side, and we don't know anything else. We could assume we could infer from past Double or Nothing's that we're going to get anarchy in the arena, but nothing's really been made official yet, and so I was expecting to get a little more clarity on the

show tonight. Well, we still don't know anything. We are basically still in the same position that we were in last week. We had a women's four way eliminator match on this show where the champion was involved Tony Storm, and she won, so it wasn't even a case where somebody else won. And now we have a number one contender in the meantime, you know, before we get to Texas, Tony just won. In fact, we had two eliminator matches on this show and the champions won both of them.

Okada won his, so no real clarity on that end. As far as to the number one contenders for double or nothing are going to be for one title or the other. I don't even know that Okada is going to be defending his title. Honestly, he may end up in anarchy in the arena. Does he even need to

defend his title? I mean, if all the championships that you could assume are not changing hands between now and then, I would even argue, more so than Moxley, Okadas is the most obvious because you know they're not doing anything until we get him in Omega. So in a way, it kind of doesn't matter. But it's kind of sad, you know that I feel that way. But all the

other directions for the show are still very fuzzy. We did have some ojo in the main event tonight and he is going to be challenging John Boxley next Wednesday on the Beach Break episode inside a steel cage for the aw World Championship. So tonight was more of a tune up match him and Claudio in the main event MJF and the Hurt Syndicate. That storyline is continuing. We still have no thumbs up or thumbs down from Bobby Well,

we've had nothing but thumbs downs. But Bobby Lashley's decision will be rendered next week on Beach Break as far as whether or not he will allow MJF into the Hurt Syndicate. He took Bobby's advice. He laid out top flight tonight and evidently in his mind that was enough to show Bobby Lashley that he hurts people. But we're gonna have to wait seven days to find out. And I think I have a sense of where things may be headed as far as the Hurt Syndicate stuff goes.

And we got a stripped down version of the All Star match that we got last week, and we had that All Star eight man tag match last week which was just NonStop insanity and spotfests and everything. So we basically got that but a slightly stripped down form of it with a couple of less people. Instead of eight men, we had six men, but they basically gave you the same kind of match this week, and that was That was the story of Dynamite. I mean, that was the show.

It was, as I would describe it, a perfectly average episode with some good wrestling. But you know, you get great wrestling on most weeks on these shows. It was a perfectly average show with some good wrestling. As we continue to wait to find out what other matches are going to end up on what has traditionally been one of their biggest shows of the year, and it doesn't

feel that way right now. Still a couple of weeks to go, but one you can cross one more week off the calendar, and I feel like we're in the exact same position that we were in a week ago. This is your l's aw Dynamite review. It is Wednesday. It is May seventh, twenty and twenty five. I am the Sola Monster. Thank you for hanging out with me for what will be the first I believe, first Dynamite stream right for the month of May. I do believe last week was the final one for April. This is

our first one for the month of May. Like and subscribe super chats are open. I do have to give a very special soundof shout out this image right here. It's the best one that I could find. But and no, that is not a Josh Alexander sign. But we had a sounduff sign spotting. We had a spotting in the crowd tonight in Detroit. Shout out to Liam and Jackie gave me a heads up they were going to be in the crowd tonight. I didn't know where, but when I saw the sign, I knew it was them. So

we got people all over the country. We have people all over the world. Liam, Jackie, thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed the show tonight, and thank you for showing the sound UF some love. I always love seeing it. No matter where you may be, you can't get away from it. Josh Alexander walked out tonight he was probably what though, what's that someone's jacking my logo. Let's talk about the beginning of the show, because before we even get into the opening segment, they have a

new song for Dynamite. Now, if you remember, they kicked off the year with a new song and it didn't last very long. Some forty one, man, I think is Some forty one. It takes me back, It takes me back to the nineties. And some forty one is no more. The band just wrapped up their retirement tour, just had their last tour I think a couple months ago. But it is a some forty one song that opened us

up here for Dynamite tonight. Their song You Wanted War from their album Heaven and Hell that opened the show tonight. So even though some forty one is no more, their song will live on, at least for a few weeks until Tony Khan changes his mind again. We remember we began the year with the Pointer sisters, and then Tony got bullied and mocked online for it and it disappeared they bullied him out of the song. So now Dynamite

has a new opening theme song. That was not the only little production note here to mention at the beginning. There was a point at least once. I think it happened more than once, but there was a point on the show tonight where there was a spider on the screen. Did I say nineties? What I said ninety? I know, old man, Yeah, make fun of me, old man. Old Man Monster. All right, so I'm thinking early two thousands, cut me some slack, late nineties, early twoh I get

them all. I'd bunch them all up together. Okay, we're thinking some forty one, We're thinking the Goo Goo Dolls. We're thinking all these different and all these different bands. Sugar Ray, I kind of lumped them all together. Yes, you are correct, early two thousands. Hey, Duff's what's going on? Duffs Vis wants to know what was the song you wanted war? It's not a bad song. You could look it up. It's not a bad song. I suppose people will probably enjoy it more as a good fit for

the show than the Pointer sisters. What I was gonna say is that there was a spider. A little graphic would drop down. It was an animated spider at different points during the show. And the belief now, I would assume that it is for a debuting superstar. And I didn't even put two and two together initially until somebody mentioned it to me. But there has been a lot

of chatter about thecla. It was a very popular female performer from stardom, and the belief is that she is aw bound and apparently thekla's nickname is the Toxic Spider, so the belief is that the Spider might be a little preview for thekla's pending debut. She's very likely all elite, so if you're wondering what the hell is the Spider doing on the screen, that's probably what it is. Either that or Tony Kainn is bringing Spider Man into aw to save the day. I don't know, but I would

assume THEKLA is on her way in. We didn't get THEKLA in the opening segment, but we got Hangman Adam Page, who does not look as good as THEKLA does, but he's what we got, and he opened the show here. He got a big win in the main event last week, a hell of a main event, a better main event than we got this week between him and Kyle Fletcher in the semi final round of the owen Hart Tournament

last week, so he is going to the finals. Hangman said he's never understood why even one fan would want to cheer for him after everything that he's done, and that got him a cowboy shit chant, and he told the fans that it does make a difference, it does mean something to him. Page said he thought that he would feel closure when he took a man's hopes and dreams and nearly killed him, but he felt nothing. Nothing. After he beat Swerve in the cage that was it

all out last year. He said he thought that if he went back to the ring and finished the job that it would help. But he couldn't do it. And Page said that he doesn't know why. He said he took that anger and he bottled it up, unleashed it on anybody who got in his way, and he said it made things bad for everybody around him. Then he looked into the camera to address Swerve. Strickland said, Swerve, I will never forget what you did to me, and I will probably never forgive you for it. But for me,

I will have to put it behind me. See, this is a man. He's gone through all of the stages of grief. He's gone through sadness and anger and now he's in the closure stage of this whole story with him and Swerve. So he said, he entered the owen Hart Cup Tournament. He beat Kyle Fletcher last week in front of his family. They were in Virgini. He said he will now face the man that people call the

best wrestler in the world, Will Ospray. Osprey's music interrupted, he made his way out to the ring to chance of Happy birthday. Yes, will Ospray turns thirty two years old today, I should mention this. Ospray made a little bit of news today. He did an interview with The Daily Star. He said a lot of things. He basically and this will get a lot of people, you know, it'll get their hair standing up it. I'll get a

lot of people talking and debating online. He basically said he doesn't like WWE, like the product they put out. You know, he respects all the talents there and their aspects and production elements of the show that he enjoys, but he just doesn't enjoy the WWE product. And then he also said this, I respect WWE and I admire everybody there. A lot of people think I hate Triple H and I really don't. I've never met the guy

before in my life. For me, there is always this little bit of rivalry where I'll be like, yeah, you guys are the biggest, you guys draw the bigger houses, you guys got the bigger deals. But the moment the bell rings, I think we're better than all of them. On my worst day, I am better than a lot of the guys in ring promos. You guys have a bunch of guys. Punk is sick, Rains is sick. There are still things I need to catch up on in ring. I generally don't think there is anybody from that side

that matches any of our guys. Now, look, he's flying the flag of AW and there's nothing wrong with flying the flag of the promotion that you work for. And that may be the way that he honestly feels. You know, would he be singing that tune if he would have made a different decision and signed with WWE. Probably not, but he may, you know, because there's a lot of talent in AW. Is a wealth of talent in AW that Bell to Bell are among the best in the world.

And the funny thing is Ospray is in that category. So by any measure, if I had to sit here and make a short list of who I think are the best wrestlers, especially Bell to Bell, but the best wrestlers in the world, Ospray if he's not at the top of the list, he's on my list. Okay, Ospray is fantastic, But to you know, to say that in ring, I don't really think their guys can match me or our guys. That's his opinion. Obviously I disagree with that opinion.

There are lots of great talents in WWE, bell to bell or when you incorporate other elements. He mentioned promos and stuff you could seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre and Gunther and EO. Sky. Right, there's plenty of talents on the WWE side, whether he believes that or not. But here's the thing that you got to understand. He's talking in ring bell to bell, He's talking moves, He's talking

exciting wrestling matches, fast paced wrestling matches. I do chuckle when he says, you may be bigger, you may have the bigger houses, you may have the bigger numbers, you may be doing bigger business and have the bigger deals. But Bell to Belle in the ring were the best, and we're better than you. And if he believes that, that's great. But all those things he kind of waved

off are kind of the most important things. Right when you have a company that has bigger numbers, and that has bigger deals, and has bigger houses and all of those things. That's pretty important, but that's not what he's focused on. He's strictly talking in ring talent, and I'm just saying, even then, you can't just wave away, you know, the WWE talent, because they have a lot of really good people, both male and female. So we're not just

talking on the men's side. But I'm sure these comments are going to lead to World War three on social media. So that was from The Daily Star. I'm sure you'll be hearing more about that in the days to come. It's his opinion. You can agree with it, you can disagree with it, just don't kill each other over it. So Osprey joined Paige in the ring, and he apologized

for interrupting his little therapy session. He said it was very strange that this is the first time for all the years that they've either been working for the same company or have sort of cross paths with each other, that this is the first time that they've actually spoken to one another after all these years, and he said, it was a pleasure to meet you. Osprey said one of his favorite moments in wrestling is when Hangman took

the dork order. I'm sorry, dark order, but he took the dark order, and he showed them the leadership and what it takes to be a cowboy. He said it was perfect when Page took the support that he got from them and became aw world champion. He said, things changed for Paige and he gets it. He said that he and the fans saw something last week though, when

Hangman beat Kyle. Fletcher said, you smiled again, and he added that as much as people want to see Hangman beat the demons and regain the title, he has a problem with that. He says, I'm not losing. He said, while Page was trying to find himself, he tore the place apart, and Osprey mentioned what Page did to Jeff Jarrett, what he did to Christopher Daniels and Will's friend swore of Strickland. Osprey's been doing Paige's job of media calls,

meet and greets, photos with kids and families. But the best part about it when the bell rings, Osprey still shows that this is where the best wrestle. And if Page thinks that he found his smile, that doesn't mean cowboys shit to him. This is not about Hangman's redemption. This is about Osprey's ascension, which I thought that was that was a good line to close on. Alice walked

out on stage. He was flanked by Kenoski, Takeshta, Lance Archer, Josh Alexander, Trent Burretta, Rocky Romero, and Callus talked about how Osprey shows him just how stupid he is every single day. Callous asked Osprey if he knew what he was standing in the ring with. Do you know who you are in the ring with right now? He goes, that is a violent, mentally unstable sociopath who put his

mentor in a retirement home. Osprey stopped Hangman from going out after Callous, and he put his arm on Hangman's chest, so Paige very slowly pulled Osbury's hand off of his chest. Callous saw this, and Callus said, look at that, Look at that. The two of you can't even get through one segment without wanting to kill each other. He said, you know what, I will take any two members of my family and put them in the ring against the two of you, assuming Page doesn't have another mental breakdown

before next week. And we did get confirmation later in the show that next week it will be Hangman and Osprey. Can they coexist? They're going to be Tag team partners on the Beach Break episode next week, taking on the don Kallis family. I mean, this was fine. They're trying to build tension between the two men in the finals of the Owen. We still have a few weeks left to go, so I would have expected them to do something like this, to do something like, you know, can

they coexist? They both are well liked, they're both baby faces in the eyes of the crowd. You have to build tension between them somehow. This is their way of doing it. This was their first interaction with each other. It was mostly Osprey talking, right. Hangman didn't really say anything after Osprey came out. So maybe next week or even tomorrow night on Collision, Hangman may get his chance. But I thought this was fine for what it was. Stokely, Hathaway and FTR they came out out. They kind of

came out of nowhere. They were in the crowd, so where the announcers were positioned in this building, it looked like they were sitting in the crowd, or at least they had their backs to the crowd in a way that made it look like they were kind of sitting in the crowd. So all of a sudden, there's Stokely, Hathaway and FTR because he is their new agent, and they walk up to Tony Shavanni at the announced desk and Hathaway asks if Tony or Nigel mcguinnis have an

issue with FTR. He said, FTR apologize to both you guys, but Shavanni still has negative things to say about them. Every week. Stokely called Chevanny a decrepit, pasty piece of shit, or as he was about to say the word shit, Tony kind of stopped him. He stood up. He said, that's enough. Are we gonna end up getting like a tuxedo match? Remember the tuxedo matches that WWE did with Howard finkel In Harvey Whippleman many years ago. We don't

need that. I don't need to see Tony Shavanni involved in anything physical, frankly, but it made me think of that for some reason. So Hathaway shoved Shavanni backwards into his chair. Shravanni stood back up, but Harwood and Wheeler they stood in front of Stokely. Wheeler told Shavanni relax, okay, and then he turned to the camera and he shifted

their focus to Daniel Garcia's issues with them. Wheeler said that whatever is happening at AW Collision on Thursday, because the show is airing on Thursday this week tomorrow night, and I believe it's on TBS as well, not TNT. He said, whatever's happening on Collision, it would hurt them more emotionally than it would hurt Garcia. Harwood told Shavanni to tell Nigel that we will see him on Thursday

at Collision. Nice try trying to get people to tune into Collision to see what's going to happen here with FTR and Daniel Garcia. I wish I could care. We have a four way here to talk about. We had a four way eliminator match for the AW Women's World Championship with the champion, Timeless, Tony Storm, Penelope Ford, thunder Rosa, and Ana J, who was openly talking in the back

before this match. She was in the back with her a good friend, ana J. Anna J was in the back with her good friend Harley Cameron talking about her big ass is what she said. She's got a big ass. I think Anna J is a beautiful woman, and you know what if she thinks she can use that to her advantage in her matches, then more power to her. So if anybody but Tony wins this, the idea is that that person would become the number one contender for

the AW World Championship. Jay and Ford they brawled to the floor immediately right at the That left the former Thunderstorm or I guess thunder Tits as Tony would call them, Tony Storm and a thunder Rosa alone in the ring together to duke it out. There was a fisher woman suit plex that got broken up by Penelope, who kicked Storm low. Taz wondered if does that mean Tony is

wearing a cup. Ford wiped out Jay and Storm with a moon salt off the apron, but then Rosa hit a torneo dive onto the pile that took us into the commercial back from the break, Ford went up top landed in Orihara moonsalt onto the pile, and then Penelope missed her corner handspring on Anna, who connected on a spin kick. But Tony was there to wipe them both out with some sweet cheek music. Rosa launched off Storm's

back poetry in motion style. They were cooperating with each other here briefly for a drop kick in the corner. Thunder Tits, though they could not get Ford up for a double suit plex, which I mean, you couldn't get Penelope Ford up for a a double suplex? Really is it that difficult? So that was kind of ridiculous, But they tried to get her up for one. But what they were doing was they were stalling for Meghan Baine to come out. So the Megasis makes her way out,

lays out Tony and thunder Rosa. Because again in a four way match, as with a triple threat, it is no disqualification. Refree can't do anything. So Anna escaped Fate's descent, which is her f five to finish. Four tried to attack from behind. Baine, though, laid Anna out with a sitout power bomb. Here comes Harley Cameron, who was in the back with Anna Jay as I mentioned earlier, getting Anna pumped up for the match. She comes out with a pipe and she close lines and Meghan Baine to

the outside blasts her repeatedly. I mean she is laying pipe on this woman left and right, and the two of them end up fighting off to the back. In the ring. Ford had Anna trapped in an Indian death lit allowing Tony to get some revenge. She stomped Ford low. The champion then sank in a cross faced chicken wing and got Ford to tap out, and when the match was over, rosa hug Storm and then handed her the women's title. Ex Caliber then informed us that Tony is

now twelve and zero in eliminator matches. I thought, good stuff here from all four of all the ladies here, Tony Storm is the one who was mostly you know, in a position where she took a back seat and allowed the others a chance to shine, especially Penelope Ford. I thought had a chance to shine in this match. But the champion wins anyway, and I don't really understand it.

Maybe it'll make more sense in a week or two, but I don't really understand what the point of this was if they weren't going to use this to set up a direct challenger for her at double nothing, because you have a four way situation here, because last week we had Tony in a singles match against Yamashda and then she had another eliminator match against Lady Frost. So now they added more people, they turned it into a four way, and I said, well, there must be a

reason for this, somebody can win. They don't have to necessarily pin the champion, right. She could lose the match but not take the losing fall, and that's how they set up a number one contender and then she won. So she just keeps beating people left and right in these eliminator matches. So they did not make it really any clear what her next direction is going to be.

Outside of whoever wins the oen is going to challenge her in Texas in July, we know that, but as far as double or nothing, we really don't know what they're doing. Now. I'm guessing Megan Bain's involvement in this match is an indicator that maybe they're going to go for a rematch from Dynasty and we're gonna get Tony and Megan again. You know, it's it's it could mean that even though she didn't touch Tony, I don't you know, she didn't really go after her here in this situation,

we could end that with Megan in that match. Again, I think Penelope could be added and probably should be added, So I don't know if that would make it a triple threat if you want to do a handicapped match type of situation, because then in that match, see if you did it that way, Penelope can take the losing fall, so Megan doesn't have to. Because Megan already lost. It's not great to send her back in there with Tony

and just have her get beat flat. If Penelope is in there, even in a two on one situation, she could take the fall, you know, and that could even lead to a split between Megan and Penelope. So yeah, Bain doesn't win the belt. Nobody really expects her to if she gets a rematch anyway, because if she was gonna win it, she would have won it last month.

But she doesn't have to take the losing fall. But again, we'll just have to wait and see because there wasn't any more clarity given to what the next challenger is going to be for Tony Storm. But we had the Hurt Syndicate out to the ring. Next, we had Bobby Lashley, we had Benjamin Shelton, and we had MVP. MVP said that they had an official announcement here. He introduced his allies with him and he said that they are the

AW Tag Team Champions. He said AW was worth the best wrestle and he asked why teams were not stepping up for a shot at the tag team titles. He asked, is anybody going to step up top Flight? Did Dante and Darius Martin they walk out onto the stage, and Darius said, they've been down in their luck lately. He said teams like Leo Rush in Action Andretti, who they did show in the crowd, were afraid to step up

to the Hurt Syndicate because they hurt people. Darius said that they get knocked down, but they get up again. Ah see, there's another one. There's another one, Chumba Wamba. We're talking about the bands earlier, from the late nineties, in the early two thousands. Man I mentioned some forty one. I mentioned Goo Goo Dolls. I mentioned Sugar Ray. Who am I missing? Oh? Savage Garden? That was another one, Savage Garden and Tumba Wumba a little bit of tub thumping.

It's the only fucking song of theirs. I know. You get knocked down, but you get up again. I don't even know if Top Flight was born when that song became a hit. How old are Darius and Dante? Maybe I don't want to know how old are Darius and Dante? More? Were they born when Tumba Wumba had tub thumping, because that had to be like ninety seven, right, ninety seven ninety eight. I don't even know if they were alive, oh Man. Anyway, Dante said they've held their own with

championship caliber teams in the past. He knows that they can do it again. Of course, he failed to mention that they have yet to win gold, but they've held their own in there before. So Darius asked the fans if they wanted to see a miracle. So MJF ran out as the top flight is standing there with their backs turned. MJF runs out. He's wearing a white tank top. He's got his fists taped up, and he attacks them

from behind. He runs Darius into the ring post, and Dante ended up bleeding after he got run into the ring steps, not like a gusher, but he had blood on his forehead. MVP held him, held him up, or MJF rather held him up and showed the bloody head to the hurt syndicate, almost like a trophy, and then he powered bombed Dante onto the ring apron. So MJF gets into the ring and he goes face to face with Bob and MVP hands MJF a microphone and MJF says, I hurt people, and Lashly tells him, I'll have an

answer for you next week. I don't. I think it is a coincidence that in less than an hour, Cedric Alexander is going to be a freeman. His ninety day non compete from WWE will officially be up. And I know this because we got his first match on Friday in Chicago for House of Glory. So he's going to start getting out there now doing independent dates. But as

of midnight, he will be a freeman. And it's very interesting that, you know, the Hurt Syndicate is one of the top attractions right now in this company, and there's something missing now. The Hurt Syndicate as it is right now is actually quite great. They don't necessarily need to add anybody, but it does feel incomplete if you think back to the original Hurt business. And it just so

happens that Cedric is about to become available. Lashley is telling him next week, beach break, I'll have a decision for you. I'll have an a answer for you. I think we're about to get the full band back together, where MJF fits into all this. Next week, I'm assuming the answer will still be no, and it can very well still lead to him costing them the tag team

titles the next time they defend them Double or Nothing whenever. Again, I've talked about this before the match for Double or Nothing, which they are going to have to start setting up soon. If they're going to do it, should be them against FTR. You have MJF cost them the titles and then you know, continue the story on from there. I don't know if that's what they're going to do, but I do think we're probably gonna end up with a proper Hurt Business

reunion next week. That's what I'm thinking now. The Young Bucks and Kazuchka Okada were shown in the back. Ex Caliber pitched it to the EVPs not very enthusiastically, and they called them out for it. So Okada had a few words for his opponent tonight and the other eliminator, Kevin Knight. He said that Kevin Knight is not actually he said, Kevin Knight, have a good night, bitch, and he walked off like Okada when I see him now, and God bless the guy. Okada is just the walking

embodiment of I'm cashing these checks. I don't have to take the kind of abuse on my body that I was doing in Japan, and I'm loving life. I show up to work, I say bitch, I have a good match on television. I go home. I don't have to work house shows. I don't have to be on the road every day. I don't have to break my back anymore. I don't have to work strong style anymore. I say bitch, people laugh. I do my little rain maker pose. I

flip people off. I get paid millions of dollars. I don't want to say he doesn't give a shit anymore. But when I see him, that's what I see. And it's not bad work if you can get it. And certainly the abuse that he has put his body through over the years and all the classic matches that he had, if that's what he wants to do, Like I said, God bless the guy. And I'm sure when they get to Texas, he and Kenny are going to kill it.

You know, when he's motivated enough and he's in there with the right opponent, he could still go out there and you could still see flashes of the old Okada. But when I see him that is what I see. So anyway, he walked off at that point after he said bitch, he walked off and Ricochet walked in, and Ricochet said the six man match that he and the Bucks have tonight, that was his idea, said, he knows the Bucks have a swerve problem, and he's got his number,

just like he does Mike Bailey. So if they follow his lead, they'll be on their way to victory. And Ricochet leaves and the Bucks then open their door to their locker room, and inside they find a darkened room, but sitting in the room are the Death Riders, and Matt Jackson asks, is there's something we can help you with? And as they walk, Marina Shaffir slams the door shut behind them. So we have a little bit of intrigue here. We have a little bit of intrigue, only it involves

the Death Riders. So for me, anyway, there's actually very little intrigue here. I can't really bring myself to care. But they're going for the intrigue factor. You know, what are they talking about behind closed doors? Actually, what I'm assuming is that this little meeting has to do with the elite getting involved in the cage match next week and helping to cost Somemoa Joe the AW world title.

That then leads directly into anarchy in the arena where we have the Death Riders and the Elite partnered up to take on Team AW the AW Avengers. That's where I assume this is leading quizzical. Which story you're referring to, says Sean Ross. Snapp has said the wrestle purist story is false and has been debunked by AW itself, but you didn't mention which story you're talking about. Nick Wayne was about to make his entrance for a Ring of

Honor television title defense. As soon as he walked out, he was immediately cut off by Christian Cage's music always has to overshadow him. Christian walks out with Mother Wayne and keep Sabian and we were told that Nick will be facing off with someone from Christian's past, and that someone turned out to be the Man Beast Rhino, who got a really nice reaction because they were in Detroit. He of course is from Detroit, so naturally they wanted

to save him as a surprise for this show. He really wasn't a surprise though, because Rhino and AAW publicly acknowledged all week, maybe even last week, that he was coming into work some dates, so we already knew he was coming in. And if you put two and two together and you said, oh, Detroit, you could pretty much figure he was going to be on this show and probably on Collision. If I had a bet he'll be on Collision as well tomorrow night would be my guess. Oh the e Jane Oh yes, okay, the e Jane

Nduka story. I did see that. Well, was that a there's a story out there about how he had such a great physique? Right, was the story? He had such a great physique, he was so ripped and chiseled. They didn't want him in the ring, standing next to certain people making them look bad. I saw something like that floating around, and I said that that doesn't even make any sense, Like that's just a weird story. I don't know where that came from. Rhino comes out though Christian

has a big smirk on his face. Nick used his speed early on. He hit a miss little drop kick out of the corner. Wayne kept Rhino grounded, but he was a little too cocky and he missed the standing moon salt. They mentioned how Nick Wayne is heading to Japan tomorrow for the Best of the Super Junior's Tournament. Rhino delivered a big belly to Belly before signaling for the Gore and Kip Sabian. He jumped up on the apron to run distraction, allowing Cage to trip up Rhino.

Nick charged him, but he got flattened by a spinebuster and his Rhino went for the Wayne's side stepped him, which allowed Nick to hit a kill switch. He used Christian's move and he pinned Rhino. It's a very short match it went. I didn't time it. Maybe it was I don't know, three minutes somewhere in that neighborhood. It was short. But honestly, it's the way you used somebody like Rhino in this situation. It didn't have to be

anything prolonged. I think he'll probably end up on Collision tomorrow and if he wrestles, you know, it may be something a little bit longer. But he got a nice little cameo here. But they used him the way they

should have used him now. When the match was over, Wayne went to go rip the ROHTV title away from Christian, who faked like he was about to wrap it around Nick's waste, but instead he stared at it, and then he the title down on the mat, right at Nick's feet, and he left the ring with Kipsavian mother Wayne stayed

behind to comfort her son. So the slow burn continues between Christian and Nick Wayne, and I am still sitting here wondering if what many of us believe, if what I believe to be true is what happens, which is that in Texas we get a tag team match with Copeland and Christian reunited on their biggest event of the year, their biggest possible live audience. You get a Copeland and Christian reunion. They take on FTR. You've got two months now, Okay, it is May seventh, all in is July twelfth, so

we're about two months away. Now, You've got two months to figure out how you're gonna get these two guys back together after all of the animosity and all of the acrimony and the back and forth, and Christian screwed him twice out of the World Championship in two months?

Can they reasonably get these two back together at a time no less, where the story they're building is between Christian and Nick Wayne, I can't imagine Christian being anything resembling a Babyface in the next two months, and I don't see him being like, I'm not talking like Smiley white meat babyface, but babyface enough to even put his differences aside with Cope and agree to tag with him.

That's what I'm most curious about. If that's what they're doing, how do they get there without it feeling completely rushed because the direction right now doesn't even feel like that. You know, maybe that's not the direction. I can't imagine that it isn't because look at the way Copeland got taken out. When he comes back, he's going to target FTR and he's not going to do it by himself, right, it would have to be Christian if it's the only

thing that makes sense. Christian and Nick Wayne, though, when they do that, when does that split? When does the bottom fall out from the relationship between those two. There's no pay per view next month. There's a bunch of big episodes of Dynamite. They're doing Fight for the Fall, and there's no actual pay per view next month, so really we go to double or nothing, and then the next big event would be Texas. That's what the calendar looks like in the past, we've had Forbidden Door in June.

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months free ExpressVPN dot com slash slo Monster. They aired highlights of Sammy Guevara making his return to AW. He's been banished for a while to Ring of Honor doing tag matches Tag Team Champions with Dustin Rhodes, but he was back on AW television winning a four way on Collision this past Saturday for one hundred thousand dollars, so more money again the stakes being raised here in these matches on TV. Sammy won that match. Then they went to a Roose promo and Ruche was very upset. He

was standing in the stairwell. He blamed Kevin Knight. They were both part of that match, and he blamed Kevin Knight for costing him one hundred thousand dollars. And Ruch said, when you mess with the bull, you get the hearns. I'm just saying it the way he says it, because I like the way he says it. When you mess with the bull, you get the hearns. So he said he was coming for Kevin Knight. Kevin Knight didn't have

to wait very long. He got him later in the show. Now, last week we had an all star eight man tag team match. It was who was it? Omega was in there, Speedball was in there, Kevin Knight was in there, Mark Briscoe was in there, and on the opposing side you had Ricochet and you had the Elite. So this week they gave us a slightly stripped down version of that. Instead of eight men, it was six men, and this time it was Swerve Strickland with Speedball and Mark Briscoe

taking on Ricochet and the Young Bucks. Ricochet wanted to kick things off until he realized that it would be against Swerve. Then he wasn't so happy about that. He tried to bail out the Bucks were not having any of it. That led to swerve kicking Ricochet's ass. Later on in the match, the Bucks hit stereo slingshot sentence as Ricochet did a float over sent on. During all of their posing though Strickland, Briscoe, Bailey, they all recovered.

Ricochet thought that they would all head back into the ring together as a united front. The Bucks did not agree. They did not feel the same way, so Ricochet was all on his own. Bailey nailed Ricochet with a pump kick that caused him to fall onto the Bucks. Strickland and brisco then followed with double dives out onto the Bucks and back inside. Ricochet got picked apart by some redneck kung fu and taekwondo from Briscoe and from Bailey.

The Bucks hit the double stump bounce back power bomb combo to Bailey a short time later, who was draped over the top until Matt Jackson did a huge dive out onto Mark Briscoe and there was a slingshot four fifty splash by Ricochet that CAPTO. I mean, there was just one. I actually gave up trying to jot down like some of the bigger spots here, like in the middle of this match. There was so much going on here. I mean, it was just the usual chaos that you

get in a multimin match on this show. If you've seen one, you know you've seen them all. Brisco was dominated through the commercial break. Finally, though, he was able to break free two Speedball, who ran wild with some kicks. There's a running shooting star on Matt Jackson that got in near fall. The match broke down, everybody hit a wild move of some sort. Again. I just stopped taking some individual notes here, because what's the fucking point. It

was a bunch of big spots. The fans enjoyed it because they love the manic nature you know of these types of matches. It's just constant motion. Boom boom, boom, boom boom. So the live crowd eats it up. One thing aw does well as far as their audience, the audience that is there. They know their audience, you know. Tony kahn Is is very much in tune with what his existing hardcore audience wants and expects from his shows.

And so when you watch these shows and he will throw out a match, whether it's it could be anything. I mean, it could be a gauntlet match. It could be a multi man tag match like this, whatever it may be, and you get that that manic kind of match where it's just one big spot after another. Somebody kIPS up, counters out of something, we get some sort of you know, double or triple or quadruple down, and everybody is on their feet, like we see that a lot on the show. It's not for everybody. He knows

what they want because it's the same thing he wants. Now, whether it grows the audience is really of no consequence or of any concern to him. He just wants to give the existing fans what he thinks they love, and this is what they love. You can just look at the crowd tonight, you know, during the high kind of peak of the match, you know, and how loud they were. Strickland,

They'll caught Ricochet with a house call kick. Nick ran in with a destroyer, which swore briefly no soul before it can act on another house call for the reset. The Bucks went for a double superkick on Bailey, who roundhouse bolt their legs away. Matthew did a little matrix move out of a superkick, but Bailey took out the Bucks before Swerve made the tag and finally he was able to get his hands on both Bucks before delivering a springing uppercut double sup plex. Followed that, Ricochet flew

in for a springboard her krana. Strickland held on, though empowered him into a spinning power slam. Briscoe was in with a rolling death valley driver on matt Bailey followed with the back flip double knees. Brisco connected on a froggy bow. Nicholas, though saved his brother. Strickland wanted to end the match. Matthew caught him with a small package and he pinned him. He got him with a flash

pin out of nowhere. The Bucks in ricochet. They scurry away like rats, basking in the after glow of their victory. Here Swerve just sits there in utter display. He got caught and he can't believe it. He's stunned by what just happened. I didn't see Swerve being the one to take the losing fall here, so that surprised me as well. But this will play into the story. He's trying to get his hands on these two. He's trying to get

his revenge on the Bucks. There's been bad blood between them going all the way back to when Swerve was champion and the Elite started that initial angle where they were kind of taking over things in aw and this is all gonna culminate. I do believe in a tag team match at all in where we're gonna get Swerve and Hangman, and you saw it in the opening segment where Hangman was saying, look, you know, Swerve, I'm never gonna forget. I'm never gonna forgive, but I'm gonna put

it aside. I have an eye towards the future. So if he's not going to win the Owen and he's not going to be the one to challenge John Moxley, what we're getting is Swerve and Hangman together as one unified front against the young Bucks. That's what this is building to. So this all feeds into that larger story. The match itself, you know, again, it was fun for what it was. It was virtually the same thing we saw last week, and I thought last week's match was better,

but it was virtually the same thing. Live crowd went nuts for part parts of it, you know, when they were going one hundred miles an hour with all the spotfest stuff. So it was what you would expect from the six men here in this match. Now, Rene was backstage with will Osprey and asked him about the Hangman match coming up a double or nothing. He was interrupted very quickly by MJF who shilled his dynamite diamond ring that you can now purchase. This is a real thing.

I had to go check it out myself. And if you go to a cheap plug here, if you go to shop AW, you too can own your own dynamite diamond ring replica. It's up for one hundred and forty nine dollars and ninety nine cents and you can own this. Look at this thing here. Material is zinc. What is this size? Eleven MJF size designed by the diamond Chic of Luxe Jewelers. So there you go. If you want to have your own dynamite diamond ring, that's the place to go. Now I have a question for you. Here's

my question. How is it that AW can produce a dynamite diamond ring replica to sell but they can't market their own Mini Mercedes mone dolls? How is that possible? There is a fan online that has made his own many Monet puppets, or he made one, and he has leftover material, and he's talking about making more of them and then donating the pro seeds of what he makes to the charity of Mercedes and Harley Cameron's Choice, which

I think is a very cool thing. But the thought occurred to me because it just makes me think of the Lily doll that Alexa Bliss carries around. She's been carrying that fucking doll around for at least three years, and WWE has made an absolute fortune off that thing. That's why when she came back after two years, she was still carrying that frickin' doll. How is it possible that they're making bank off that doll? Aw has this mini monet thing and they're not making their own dolls, Like,

what do we do? We got the ring here, but no dolls. What are we doing here? They got to get that shit out asap. I feel like they've already missed the peak. It may be too late by the time it comes out. Maybe it's in the works, but if they have the Dynamite Diamond ring replica, then soon enough, if we should see those little dolls, and I guarantee you they'll make a lot of money off them. Unless they're just made completely cheaply that they fall apart. That's

also possible. People are going to be playing with their mini monet dolls. Freaking hair is going to be falling out, arms gonna fall off, like what is this made of? Where is this material from? It's leftover material from all those hologram masks. So MJF told Osprey that he hopes he wins the owen Hart Tournament, and he hopes he goes all the way to the Learning Tree or Joshua Tree. Fuck that tree, Fuck that tree. Indeed, Oh it's Liam. Oh, look who it is. It is Liam. We got to

give them cheers. It's our friend Liam. Liam is the one who had the soundoffs signed tonight. He was in Detroit. He was at the show. I will read his message, says a great show tonight, collision tomorrow, looking to be a banger. The wife was geeked to see that you tweeted our sign. I'm glad I saw it. Some people brought it to my attention that because I had looked down initially, I didn't see it, so I rewound and

saw it myself. But I knew I was on the lookout for it because he gave me a heads up, you know, but you never know. Sometimes it's hard, you know, it's hard to get them to capture it on camera. It's happened a few times before where we've been able to get the sound off logo or sign on TV. Somebody's like right there and it's like, all right, that's fucking great. So yeah, there it was so Liam, Thank

you both of you. I very much appreciate that you guys are awesome and I'm glad you had a good time. So anyway, MJF wants to see well Ospray go to Texas. He wants him to be the one to beat John Moxley and win the aw World Championship because it's gonna make things so much easier for him. It'll be an easy dub for him to go in there and beat Ospray,

which he's done before. Right that roughly sixty minute match they had on Dynamite almost a year ago, Osprey asked why MJF was not in the owen Hart Tournament, but he realizes that if he entered, Osprey would drop him right on his head, just like he did at Wembley last year. And on that note, he said, how's the power in your arms these days. Max MJF said, Osprey is the reason they put instructions on shampoo bottles. But if they ever wrestle again, he'll find out that there

is no one on the level of the devil. He went to go leave, and Osprey pulled him back in and said he is because Will Osprey is on another level. Hey, David, what's going on to? David says they have a commemorative What is we hold on a second, what does I say? They have a commemorative lucha mask for aw all In? Now, what do you mean a commemorative lucha mask for all In? They have a hologram mask. They have another mask for who you know? They should sell. They should sell the

Beast Morte's his mask. That'd be pretty cool. They got to start selling that WWE. If they're not already doing it, they need to start selling those Jacob Fat to Samoan werewolf masks. I haven't checked to see, but that's another one. Should make little knockoff versions. Anyway, Renee was backstage for her sit down interview with Jamie Hayter, who did not do anything this week to kill off the Daphne from

Scooby Doo comparisons. Honestly, I'm like, I'm looking at like a screenshot of Jamie sitting there talking to Renee, and it looks like something if I were thumbing through like my parents' old photo albums with photos from the nineteen seventies, I feel like this would have been a polaroid that would have been in the album. It's certainly a choice. Renee talked about her Owen Heart Foundation Finally double or

Nothing against Mercedes. Monet Hayter said this means more to her than it does to Mercedes, who talked nonsense last week. Hayter said she wants to get to know the real Mercedes, the human behind the hype, not the brand or the egotistical woman that we've seen today. Rene said, Mercedes said last week that Hater reminds her of herself, and Hater said, well, that's an insult. Mercedes ran away last week like she owed her money, but Hater doesn't have Mercedes resume. What

she does have is grit and truth. This isn't about gold or glory. This is about showing that Mercedes is not untouchable, She is not the second Coming, and brought up the back injury for Jamie Hayter. Jamie didn't want to talk about that. She immediately deflected away. She said, I'm fine, the back is fine. I don't want to talk about that. At that point, Mercedes burst into the shot.

She attacked from behind, and then she ran away. They were brawling briefly, but she ran away and Jamie chased her. They ended up in the box seats back inside the arena and Mercedes tried to run again. Hater got in a couple of shots. She tried for a haterade, Mercedes ducked it and she escaped to the back, so instead of chasing her to the back, Jamie just gave up and she turned it. She looked into the camera to

talk to Mercedes, who wasn't there anymore. She had disappeared to the back, and because she turned her back, it was actually quite comical. Ida why it was so funny to me? But Mercedes runs back out and she attacks Jamie from behind, and she knocks her down, leaves her laying, puts her in the statement maker and gets pulled off by referees. I don't know why I found it so funny, the way she ran. I'm back out there and attacked

her from behind. Jamie not wanting to talk about her back is interesting because I think that was put in there. It will be a focal point, I think of the match, and it could be an out. If Jamie is going to lose this match, and I really hope she doesn't,

but she probably will. I know she probably will. It could be that they're going to create an out for her with the back, and if Mercedes works it over enough, it'll factor into the finish of the match and she can not that she'll she'll use it as an excuse, but like the announcers might use it as an excuse. You know, she fought valiantly, but you know, the pain was just too much. They could be setting up, you know,

for something like that, it double or nothing. We've still got two weeks left before the pay per view, so we'll see how they occupy those two weeks, because we still have some time, you know, before we get there. I don't think that we want to see too many angles like the one we saw tonight. You don't want to do that for the next two weeks. So we'll see what they come up with. Okay, So the Luca mass that aw has is decorated for all in Texas.

It looks like a knockoff of the El gra of the El Grande Americano mask and Mister America mask from back in the day. Hey, you know what, there's something else that ww WE needs to sell. They're usually pretty on point like anything they can make money off of, Like it's up instantly. I've said before if they if they could stamp a fucking logo on their mother's ass and sell her on the website, they would. So if it's not already up, I would be kind of surprised

if El Grande Americano. I know he's got a T shirt up, but if they don't get his mask up soon, he's the new speed Champion. By the way, I should mention I mentioned this on Monday night and we were we were kind of celebrating, and so I have to bring it up again that El Grande America got his first taste of gold and he is the WWE Speed Champion. This is something that is being celebrated throughout the world of Lucha Libre. This is a groundbreaking, landmark event and

it deserves to be celebrated. I don't have my moroccos with me, but if I did, we'd be having a party right now. I'm gonna let this music play for a little bit as I talk about the next segment. Because we had Alicia at toot backstage with Willow, Nightingale brings up her ongoing issue. Am I gonna be able to make it through this segment without just absolutely breaking down? So Alicia brings up Willow's ongoing issues with the death Riders.

Willo said that she knows the list of people wanting revenge on the deaths is growing, but wants to be the first one to put her fist in their faces. Chris Statlander then walks in, and Willow said that she knows Statlander is sorry and asks if she's just feeling remorseful over losing the Owen. Nightingale reminds Statlander that she could have won the Owen last year but didn't because

of Statlander, So Nightingale stops Statlander from leaving. Instead, if Statlander wants to settle things in the ring, how about tomorrow on Collision. There's a lot of sickos, that's what she said. This is what they call themselves. There's a lot of sickos wanting to see them wrestle again, and Statlander accepts the challenge and the two of them shake hands. Honestly, that's the one interesting thing that they have added to

the show tomorrow. Chris Statlander against Willow Nightingale. They had a hell of a match it all out last year, so that'll be very good. Then we had Kazuchka Okada against Kevin Knight in a continental title eliminator match. Am I the only one who's in the mood to go dancing right now? He's in a very dancing mood. So during Kevin Knight's entrance, Rush attacked from behind. Remember what he said earlier, if you messed with the bull, you

get the herons. So he attacked him from behind, violently sent him into the ring steps as Dralistico is out to watch the beating and Rush is choking him out with some of the cables, television cables, until Mike Bailey runs out to make the save and fight off Draalistiko. Aubrey Edwards is asking Kevin Knight if he still wants to wrestle, and Knight says he does, and Aubrey tells Mike Bailey, Okay, you've got to You've got to go

to the back. So while all of this is happening, the expression on Ocada's face as all of this is taking place is absolutely going to be turned into a new meme. He was so nonplused by the whole thing, it was just comical. So the bell sounds and Okada quickly spikes Night with a DDT for a close near fall. Night got a roll up of his own. Okada was up first, though, hit a huge flapjack and Night got

in a few shots. He tried a monkey flip, only for Okada to turn him around and hit his signature drop kick, which caused Night to tumble outside, heading into the commercial break. So Night fought back with a sky high as Okada scurry to the corner. Night though met him with a standing hurri kanana and a leaping follow up splash for a two count. Night went for a leaping DDT. Okada, though countered into an air raid crash

on the knee, and then he went up top. He hit his elbow drop before the rain maker flip off to all of the fans, so the rain maker attempt after that was countered into an inside cradle by Kevin Knight. Knight then leapfrog a rain maker back into a backflip kick, but as he went for the UFO splash, Okada got the knees up. Okada missed his dropkick. Night connected successfully

on his and then he wanted a springboard clothesline. Okada the drop kicked him out of mid air and followed with a rain Maker flash and he picked up the wind. After the match was over, Okada delivered two more rain Makers and was about to deliver a third when Knight just collapsed and Bailey ran back out to make the save, and Ocada smiled as he went to the back. So another great showing here for Kevin Knight, who I think has been making the most of his minutes right or

as they say, maximize your minutes, right. We've heard wrestlers say that before. He's been doing that. You know, he goes out there and he's part of these matches and he is off in the highlight. You know, he's doing what he can to stand out. So I thought so for him, it was a great showing. The postmatch stuff, it wasn't anything particularly vicious, but if he's flying to Japan to be part of the best of the super Juniors,

this felt like a write off. Until he's ready to come back, so I would not expect to see him again for a while if that's if that's the idea, you know, they keep him off TV for a while because he may not be around, So this was their way of writing him off. And they closed the show with Samoa Joe, the number one contender for the aw

World Championship, taking on Claudio cast Ignoli. Let's skip ahead to the post commercial break because nothing of any note happened before the commercial, but it was all Claudia throughout the final break. He had a cobra clutch applied, Joe fought free. He pulled off the Manhattan Drop, big boot running sent on combo that Joe is known for, but Claudio again went to the eyes and he followed with a wild uppercut. H a picture perfect springboard uppercut, did Claudio.

He signaled for the giant swing, but Joe fired off an upkick, causing Claudia to fall right into the cocina clutch and immediately tapped out. This was like Gonther tapping to ja usso wrestle media. It was so quick, there was no time. It was just tap, tap, tap, and that was the end of that you know, look in this case to show that just like that, it can end that quickly. If you're John Moxley, your AW World championship is in jeopardy because it could just be over

within the blink of an eye. If this man gets that show applied, and if it does, then that means we would have a new AW World champion. We should all be so lucky. So Joe stood tall as Wheeler Yuda and Marina Shaffir and John Moxley appeared at ringside Powerhouse. Hobbs, though, appeared with a chair to provide some backup. Hobbs waffled Claudio in the back with a chair repeatedly as Moxley just looked on, had no real emotion or expression on his face. He's just watching on from the outside. And

Joe then set the chair up. We've seen this before. He set the chair up upside down with the legs facing up, and he delivered a front face suit plex to Claudio onto the chair, crushing his ribs. This was payback for what they did to Katsiuri Shibata last week

and then hooked the week before that. Joe stared down Moxley while holding the chair high in the air, they plugged the cage match for next week, so I thought it was a solid enough main event tonight, not nearly as good as the main event we got last week. I mean, no great wonder here that Joe would get the win. Wouldn't make sense to do it any other way because Joe is heading into a championship cage match on the show next week. The postmatch stuff I thought

was actually very underwhelming. Now they could always do something tomorrow. They could shoot another angle tomorrow because they are doing Collision in the same building they're going to be live on TBS. I thought, overall, top to bottom, this was a perfectly the average show. There was some good wrestling on the show. We get good wrestling on the show every single week, but there are certain weeks where the show just clicks like it did a few weeks ago

in Boston. This was not that. It was a very average show, and we really are no closer to knowing what the key matches outside of the Owen are going to be on the double or nothing card. We still don't know. Now. Beach Breaks should clear a little bit of that up, because you know it's a big show

next week. As far as the main event, and I think you know the decision that Bobby Lashley is gonna make, so I would suspect coming out of next week's show we'll have a lot more clarity on the key matches we're gonna have to But as far as that show next week, what we know so far is really just two things, well three things. Lashley's gonna make his decision. I think we're going to see the AW debut of Cedric Alexander. It's just what I think. I haven't been

told that or anything. That's just my thoughts on that. Hangman Page and Will Osprey are gonna be teaming up to take on Kenoski Takeshta, and Josh Alexander and John Moxley will defend the AW World Championship against Samoa Joe inside of a steel cage. I think the best part of this, the best news to come out of this, is that there was no mention of next week being a four hour show, so it looks like they're going

to divide it up. Two hours on Wednesday, two hours on Thursday would be my guess, because if it was going to be some big four hour blockbuster back to back, Dynamite and collision. They would have said that, and they didn't. Thank God. That's a good thing. So that'll be Beach break next week. Here's a Twitter poll, what did you think of Dynamite from Detroit? Thirty five percent thumbs up for tonight's show, twenty one point two percent thumbs in

the middle, and forty four percent thumbs down. So that is an overall thumbs down for Dynamite tonight with well north of twelve hundred votes. And you can vote at Solo Monster. I'm just stating the results. It's all on you. You guys can go vote. Don't look at me. Let's take a look at your super chats before we get on out of here. Where we at on the likes, I have not mentioned the likes. We are at three hundred and seventy three. That's terrible. We've done so much better before.

We need at least twenty more. What am I saying twenty We need at least the twenty twenty three more if we want to do be the Booker. Otherwise there is no be the Booker, and then I am not back live with you again until Saturday night for backlash. So get those thumbs up. Let's take a look at the early super chats here we are going to kick off with our boy, David Davide, best of luck for Hog this Friday. Commissioner liking the card. You even dropped

a nice tease for a big announcement. Hopefully you're able to catch one z of sleep this weekend, David, I don't even know if I'm gonna get one z. I don't even know if one z is going to be possible. I'm gonna try. Friday is going to be a very hilacious day. It's a very very early day for me. Gabriel Boss says, if you think Jamie should beat Monet, and then you must know that Monette is not losing back to back pay per views, so you will be

upset that Athena will lose to her. It is hard to imagine Mercedes losing one match, let alone two, so you are not wrong. In we got dried Chicken with us, I'm making a funny prediction and WWE and Triple A will be tempted to do it. Eland Americano wins the Triple A Mega Championship this year. I could totally see that. I'm predicting. Also that Tony Conwell signed SHANEA Basler, Braun Stroman, Gallas, The Good Brothers and Elena Black to ro Oh temporarily.

I don't see Braun going to aw or Ring of Honor. Braun Stroman's not going to Ring of Honor. I don't think he's going to a w either or. Yeah, AW says he thinks Tony Storm, Mariah May, Tiffany Stratton, Harley Cameron, and Carmen Petrovic they are his favorite blondes in wrestling. I thought I was your favorite blonde in wrestling, motherfucker. What are you talking about? Now? You're getting me high. Boy, He's a fan of a lot of people, says Jamie Hayter,

Becky lynch Isila, don Jaikar Jackson, GG Dolan. Those are his favorite redhead gingers in pro wrestling. But he's got to give AW somehow they handle their champions and title belts. I know they have too many belts, but the champions are not overexposed. Yeah, they just throw them in eliminator matches when they don't know what else to do with them. Jerome Jenio Osprey versus Hangman is the real main event

for me. It is Doug Lover, says I hope you stubbed your toe tonight, Salom Austin, thank you for the money. I'll wrap my toe in the dollar bills. Joseph Stewart says, buy or sell Luke Skywalker or Anakin Skywalker? How about I don't give a shit Skywalker. I don't watch Star Wars, but since you asked the question, I will go. Luke Skywalker was never a Star Wars guy. I don't know that.

Captain Kirk always bothered me. Also, do you know why WCW had to change their logo in nineteen ninety nine as well as the nitro said, I don't think they had to do anything. I think it was just a choice on their part to change things up. I thought that logo absolutely sucked. That like space looking logo. When they change it in ninety nine, I hate that fucking logo. I was not a fan of that at all. Trill Mexican.

I will listen to the review tomorrow, but the simple fact that Sola Monster played back to Love by Ultra Boss tells me this Dynamite review will be one for the history books. Good Night everyone. I know Trell Mexican enjoys him some Ultra Boss. It's a great song. I don't blame you, Joseph says, were you a fan of Macho Man Randy Savage changing his look in nineteen ninety nine, as well as him forming Team Madness with Gorgeous George Medusa Is Madness aka Molly Holly and later Sid Vicious. No,

and no, I wasn't. I gotta be honest with you. I was not a fan of really anything that the Macho Man did in those last couple of years or so that he was in WCW. He got so big, he was so roided up, and you add to that his knees were just beaten to shit so he could barely move. So now he could barely move, and he's far too big, and he's doing all this weird stuff. Like you said, he's got all these women around him and stuff like this. Was not the Macho Man that

I enjoyed watching, you know, in his heyday. He was a shell of what he used to be. It was sad to see him like that. It was even worse those couple of appearances he made, or the one appearance in TNA that was even sadder. So I try not to even really go back and watch any of his like late stage WW stuff because I just I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like anything he was doing back then. The last really good thing to me that he did in WCW was the feud

with DDP. That was the last thing he did in WCW that I really cared about that was good stuff. Project libertad Am I the only one that thinks eliminator matches are a dumb concept. Why haven't mad on regular TV and then have it again a few weeks later

in a pay per view? Yeah, I mean, I'm not a fan of them if it was like an every now and then thing, But I feel like they lean on them far too often when they just don't have anything any other creative ideas for what the champions should be doing, instead of coming up like they had a great story with Tony and Mariah right that played out over a period of months, and not every story can be like that, but instead of like coming up with another story, even if it's only a short term one,

you know, before we get to all in, let's just throw her out there and have these random eliminator matches every single week. It's just lazy, you know. And we had two of them on the show tonight. I just think it's lazy MGM ball and celebrating ten months of membership doesn't feel real. Being a Knicks fan right now incredible. I don't know how they pulled off two wins in Boston, but good for them. Then it's exciting. It's an exciting

time to be a New York sports fan. I don't know how long it's going to last, but let's enjoy it. Let's enjoy it while it lasts. Yeah, that was a hell of a It was a hell of an end to the first game, and it was a hell of an end to the second game too. Joseph Stewart, I want to make a prediction, Dominic Mysterio, bron Breaker, and Jacob Fought too will be top three faces of WWE

in the future. I can agree with that Griga. Of all the inventions of over the last one hundred years, the dry erase board has to be the most remarkable. Keep up the great work solo, So not the portable phone with the one little pane of glass that you just touch and you could do everything on it. The dry erase board is more remarkable than that. I don't know if I agree with that. Joseph Stewart, where do you think Bo Dallas or when do you think Bo

Dallas will return? He'll return whenever the Wyatt six returns. When does the Wyatt six return? Helif I know I stopped Karen a long time ago, at this point, I don't. I don't even care they're back. When they're back, they lost a ton of steam. I don't know that they're going to be able to get it back. Tuxedo. Thank you for the twelve I appreciate that. DUP's VIDs as well. Four ninety nine. What did one hat say to the other hat? You wait here, I'll go on ahead, Thank you,

DUFs fitz ed Swoggle. A lumberjack went to chop down a tree when the tree said you can't, I'm a talking tree. Lumberjack said, you may be a talking tree, but you're gonna die a log. You're gonna die a log. Duff's VIDs. Why do French people eat snails? They don't like fast food? Thank you? Also, did you hear about the guy who invented the knock knock joke? He won the No Bell Prize. That's definitely a dad joke. That is the definition of a dad joke. Joseph says, were

you a fan of the Adams family? Uh? Yeah, not a huge fan, but I saw the first movie and yeah, I guess there was a TV show too, But yeah, I mean I wasn't like, uh, I was like a big dick Tracy guy Adam's family. Yeah, Adam's Family's cool, but I wasn't like a huge fan or anything like that. Duff's VIDs says, what does a nosy pepper do gets? Jalepeno business gets Hallepina bit very good Oz and Glorias says, a limp biscuit. When we were talking about late nineties

and early two thousands bands, you know Lincoln Park. I know they have a new lead singer now, but you can put Lincoln Park in there too. He mentions Biscuits and Prodigy. Of course, I got the system of a down god smack mud vein soil. Duffs viz. How do you keep a bagel from getting away? Put locks on it? Ozen Glorious also says the Cardigans and Matchbox twenty oh God, Matchbox twenty wallflowers right one headlight so long ago, I don't remember when. That's when they say I lost my

only friend drowning Pool. Incub Oh my god, Incubis Drive was one of my favorite songs there for a while. Song Drive by Incubus Creed Justin Gene no love for Die Totin Hosen Si back to Foodie. I have absolutely no idea what language you're speaking in the super chat, but thank you Justin. Thoughts on Nickelback, I think Nickelback got a lot of very unnecessary hate. There are many Nickelback songs that I enjoyed, even the one they use on Raw There for a while, Hoffmann says, Darius equals

nineteen ninety nine, Dante equals two thousand and one. No cat e Jane Deduka has not been presented on AW because his physique outshines most of the roster. Reportedly does the roster need to bulk up? Well, apparently that report has been debunked. I mean that report sounded ridiculous to

me when I read it. Dried Chicken says predicting an MJF versus Bobby Lashley match at all in that's funny you mentioned that, since I've predicted that very thing in the last few weeks on the streams stuffs VIDs, rest in peace to boiling water. You will be missed. Oz glorious kind of kills me. That the by far best reaction or best faction, rather a set of reaction. Best faction in aw is a Vince McMahon creation. The Hurt Syndicate. We need j White, juice and the guns back for

a feud. Yeah, that'd be fine, but Jay White keeps getting hurt. He can't seem to get out of his own way. That's the problem. If it's not Jay White, it's juice. And when juice is not I heard it to Jay White, it's always one of the other. Oh, there's justin. It's d totin hosen to you English speakers, I'm getting my German citizenship. Oh very cool. Did I enjoy the anonymous raw GM laptop? No Ah, says Mother Wayne can comfort me too. Do you ever need a

shoulder to cry on? Mother Wayne will be there, terrible dried chicken, says Mother Wayne. Will get a piece of chocolate from Stokely Halthaway very soon and turn on Christian Cage. I'd rather see Mother Wayne join the Hurt Syndicate than I would Stokely and Fdr Little Baby fire Pen to look at this drop in fifty dollars. Oh my goodness. Wow. Thoughts on Nakita Lyons were you expecting to see her on the list of releases? Also? Did you see her

in Evolve? She was spamming taunts during her introduction and it was super cringe and awful. I have not seen a Nikeita Lions match in many months. I don't know if there have been improvements from what I saw last time. Evidently they see something in her or she would have been included in this latest round of cuts. I think it was telling that she effectively got demoted from NXT

to Evolve. Yeah, it's one of those things where I look at what I've seen of her in the past and when I think of what we see on television on the main roster every week and the talents that those women have, there's a disconnect there. Has she made the necessary improvements to kind of get closer to that level? I can't give you an honest answer one way or

the other. I don't think so. But if they feel like she's worth investing in and can make the money down the line, they may be a little more patient with her than they would be for someone like a Dakota Kai, which is not even fair to say Dakota honestly,

because d Coda is very good. Whatever it was about Dakota, whether it was the injuries or whatever, it's a better example would be, you know, any number of NXT talents that ended up on that list, or even you know some of the women who were on the main roster. But we're from NXT and you know, may not have the experience level of some of the veteran talents. Yeah, there are some people that they're just not going to be as patient with as they would others. And evidently

that's how they feel about Nikita. So beyond that, I really don't have any opinion. Liam, Again, thank you for the twelve and thank you again for the sign. That was the coolest part of tonight's show. Honestly, we got Slow King. Oh you got me, brother, you got me dude, Thank you, Slow King. David Theory and with the twenty one dollars super chat the Lucha mask at aw oh we read this one already. Yes, David pointed out that they have another Luca mask that is decorated for all

in Texas. They love their masks. Did they make a Harley Graham mask as well b COMC. Clearly I still want Kevin Knight. Tell him solo please, I can't. He's going to Japan, He's not gonna be around you. Gotta tweet him yourself. Bread Heart, hater, hater do where are you? We have some work to do now, do I see you? We need some help from you now, Thank you, Brettheart. Justin g gifted a membership to Andre Israel, so Andrea is now a channel member. Very cool, Oz says, love

this jam. The name of the Mariachi track, I don't know. I don't have it in front of me. It's from the YouTube library safety use. Quite catchy, though, Michael Darcy. Not only is it Osprey's birthday today, but it's also Owen Hart's Kevin Owens and my birthday today. Thanks for all that you do, Sola well, Happy birthday, Michael. I forgot that's right. May seventh is Owen's birthday. His birthday

is in the same month that he passed away. Dried Chicken says we need to order El Godande Americano, some rice with Hot Pepper's, Haco's American beer, and tea Maana to celebrate. Oh, I'm sure the celebration is on. I'm sure he's celebrating as only he can. But you see, he's got to maintain his physique. He keeps himself in good shapes. If he eats all of this food, he's gonna walk around with a pot belly, and we can't have that. HBKC eighty three. When can we get a

video or reel of Solemn Monster's funniest moments? I did a video. I think it was like an end of the year video in twenty twenty, twenty twenty or twenty twenty one, with a lot of kind of humorous clips from the year. There's a lot of work I haven't I haven't done one since I actually have a lot of these clips saved. As far as putting together a real I'm sure the occasion will come at some point, but it's gonna be a lot of work to go through. All you gotta do is tune into the live streams.

You're almost guaranteed to have at least one every single night, Arabian Night. I agree with Will the Aw's talent in ring are better, but only the men. AW also allows their wrestlers more in ring time. WWE, though, has better women's division. It's a fair point. We've got Drew Mackincock sending a super chat to extend the review. You've achieved that. Well, we already we did hit the like Skull, so we are going to be doing be the Booker Warhawk, Rambo

better heel. MJF or Gunther two different kinds of heels, but both of them rock, two generational heels, no doubt. Yeah, I mean they're two totally different styles. So I don't feel comfortable saying one is a better heel than the other. I think sometimes there are times where it feels like MJF tries a little too hard, and then there are times where you know he's the best heel in the business. Gunther is fantastic in his role. So I like the

I like them both as heals. But if you were to ask me right now, at this moment, the answer is Gunther. At this moment that you were asking me this question, my answer is Gunther. Uh the Juliette, no new Pope yet, only black Smoke. Interesting. Okay, I haven't really been paying attention, but thank you for the I haven't been paying attention to anything in the news, so to be fair, that included uh, terrible dried Chiga. Why did the hairdresser win the race? He knew a short cut?

Uh huh, very good, very good Arabian night. Mariah could say now that her friend Thekla is in, well, her other friend Mina is on the way. But I think the heart wants what the heart wants, and I think what the heart wants in this case is to go to WWE, and that is where I think she's going to end up. More. Do you agree with JD's rants? I find some dramatic. Some of them are dramatic, they're his, they're not mine. So but do I agree? Well, if you watch TNT every week, we agree on some things

and we disagree on others. That's what makes the show work. But he has his style and I have mine. What works for him would not work for me. Mister rub Dog, show me on the doll where NX he hurts you? Where NX he hurt me? Where did NXT hurt me? I have no idea what that's about. By the way, there was a great match on Tuesday, a very hard hitting match between Jordan Grace and Julia that if you

did not see, you should check out. Fried Chicken. Why couldn't the bad sailor learn the alphabet because he always got lost at C? And last one, why did the weather man's cheeks turn pink? He saw the climate change? Thankfully that's the last one from Dried Chicken, No Offense and Ufman Entertainment re Nude his membership for forty nine months. Also a mega happy birthday, he says, Megah, happy birthd shout out to missus Uf whose birthday is now technically

tomorrow Friday. She's currently watching now because she is a solemn monster girl. Well that right there, that's how you know she's the one, she's the smart one. Well, I want to say hello to missus Oof, and I want to wish a very happy birthday to her as well. I hope that you give her everything she wants and you make her very happy, happy wife, happy life, as

they say. But thank you off been forty nine months. Man, he's right there, He's like right at the top of the of the pile, right there and become see clearly, would Kevin Knight let me hug him? I don't know, Probably not with it. Probably take out a restraining order is what he would do with all these messages. My goodness, I know that's what I would do. He wouldn't let

you within fifty feet of him. You got to calm down there, be I mean, you're literally in your name it says be calm, and you're doing the exact opposite. You need to calm down. I'm a little worried about you. He'll be back from Japan soon enough. He's gotta go do some super junior stuff. Well, we did hit the proper likes goal tonight, although it took a while to get there, but we did hit it. So let us go ahead and be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker. Let us go

and be the booker. It is time. We will not find this anywhere else but right here. Gotta make some updates to this soon. I just haven't had time. Tag team be the booker. We get to do the hard job. It's not easy being the booker. Everybody's always criticizing you. Everyone's always second guessing your decisions. You want to make money, you wanna you know, move tickets. The pressure it's just overwhelming. So we book three matches every time we do this.

We try to have a women's match, a men's match, and a tag team match, and we try to book the best possible matches that we can. And what we're starting with here is El gand I mean that Chad Gable and otis the former raw tag team champions Alpha Academy kicking us off. See otis looks weird here without the beard. He's clean shaven in this image, and it just it feels wrong. It just feels wrong. Blue Onion, Blue Neon, I don't know why I call you Blue

Onion all you should change your name, Blue Onion. There should be a manager section for be the Booker. Well, it's funny you mentioned that, because that is one of the ideas that I have considered, and also possibly adding a round to be the booker of matches like WWE just inducted its first match into the Hall of Fame, for example, and I'm thinking that we have a special round maybe of be the Booker where we throw in some matches good and bad, just to add a little

flavor to it. Let me know what you think. There's some potential additions and updates coming to be the Booker in the future, so stay tuned. But it's going to be Alpha Academy against Techno Team two thousand. I was optimistic until we landed on Techno Team two thousand. Who is that other I always forget who that other guy is? This is Eric Watts, but who the hell is that guy on the left? Got his fucking name? All right, Women's beat a booker? Marcus is what the fuck are

those guys? Marcus was not watching WWE in nineteen ninety five. You should be very very fortunate. Can consider yourself lucky that you weren't, because that's where that gimmick is from. We have all read everything, Eva Marie kicking us off on the women's end, all read everything. Oh, Chad Fortune, that was the guy, Chad Fortune and Eric Watts. Techno Team two thousand was nineteen ninety No, they weren't. Techno Team two thousand was nineteen ninety five. What are you

talking about? It's gonna be Eva Marie against Willow Nightingale, and I gotta tell you something. Willow. Willow is good enough to bring that I think to a good match. I'm a fan of Willow, and I think Willow can can try to turn chicken shit into chicken salad. So I'm giving that the bell Willow is awesome. And in our main event, we have the indie god, the Deathmatch King, Matt Cardona. Let's see who he's gonna be facing, mister Chelsea Green in the main event. Live Morgan gives you

her room key. Now, pick a stipulation, So we have to pick a stipulation. If we want to go to Live's room, we have to pick a stipulation. So of course I'm picking a fucking stipulation. I mean, my god, well, I mean, Cardona fancies himself the death Match King, so we probably need some sort of hardcore stipulation here, right, Oh man, a lumberjack match? I know, I know what I'm pushing here. I know I know what button I'm about to push. After the drum roll, Matt Cardona against

the Ultimate Warrior in a lumberjack match? Awful. How long do you think the Warrior would tell cardonah, the match is gonna go sixty seconds. You think he allows it to go longer than sixty seconds? How long did he give Triple H at WrestleMania twelve. That's about how long this match would go. Oh man, Hey, Markel, what's going on? Markell's with us was at the show just came back. I liked it. Markell was at the show in Detroit tonight. It's good to hear from you, brother. I'm glad you

enjoyed it. One out of three. Yeah, it's not a good night. Not a good night for being the booker. And we'll have to just regroup do better on Saturday because I am not going to be here on Friday night. Just to remind you, I will be in Chicago at House of Glory. We have Waging War twenty twenty five and a pretty darn good card if I do say some myself. Cedric Alexander in Action against Mike Santana. This is Cedric's first match since leaving WWE. We have Indye

Heartwell back. She's gonna be wrestling Miu Yamashta, really one of the pillars of Tokyo Joshi Pro. We just saw her on Dynamite last week. Rich Swan takes on Charles Mason. We got Zillafa two defending his Crown Jewel title against Matt Riddle, and a lot more, a lot more than that, And I might even have a special announcement to come out and make on this show. We may have a little announcement to make so if you can't be their live, try to be their live because it is always fun.

Tickets are still available, but you can also stream the show on Triller TV Plus. So that is where I will be on Friday night. That's why the next time I'm with you live will not be until Saturday night. That'll be after Backlash. Hey, Wanald Compo is with us. Wan says, got a whole bunch of catering for Friday, So I won't be able to see you in Chicago for HAG unfortunately. Hope you come back soon. Tell Charles

to oh I will, I'll be sure to do so. Uh. Will Zillafato go to WWE in the future, I'm sure he will. Yes, Dried Chicken Randy Orton will beat John Cena at Backlash, but he will not walk out with the title belt. Well, if you don't walk out with the title, that's a loss. Uh. There's the Triple H statue. Fucking thing is the stuff a nightmares? How that was ever approved? I'll never know If anybody ever made a statue that looked like that of me, I would burn it.

Dried Chicken Matt Cardona against the Ultimate Warrior Chelsea Green as the special guest referee justin g imagine saying tomorrow, we only we own, we only belled Eva Marie. Yeah, that's pretty bad, Like the only match I gave a bell to and be the booker an even a rematch and Duff's VIDs. Why should you always knock on the refrigerator before opening because the salad dressing? Because this because the salad dressing. Okay, oh god, delayed reaction, suck it.

It took me almost ten seconds to get that one, and then it just hit me there was a delayed reaction there. Oh man, that was pretty bad. All right, Well, thank you guys. This We had a longer stream this Wednesday than we did last Wednesday, so this was This was fun again. The next time I'm with You Live is Saturday night after WWE Backlash, the fire match between John Cena and Randy Orton, or so they claim. I don't know John Sena is on the Saturday Night's main event.

At the end of the moment, I won't be here for that, but he'll be wrestling on Saturday Night's main event, most likely wrestling. He'll be on the show. I don't know what he'll be doing. I imagine he'll be wrestling, so it's always possible we get some kind of fuck finish this weekend. And maybe this won't be the final John Cena Randy Orton match. Maybe they'll run it back again later this month. But if you want my Backlash predictions, they're up on the channel in a separate video, so

be sure to go check that out. Be well, stay safe, Thank you, Eron Aaron says, have a safe trip. See you guys for the Backlash review this weekend and episode nine to twelve of the sound Off. Until then, take care,