AEW Dynamite Grand Slam 2024 Review | MVP DEBUTS And Bryan Danielson Battles Nigel McGuinness!

into this match with Brian Danielson. It was a very bizarre way to build to a match that was fifteen years in the making. It was a very lackluster build to this match, very rushed. They took a very bizarre path to get there, and there was some question about whether or not we were actually going to get a match. I was promoted as will Brian Danielson be medically cleared? Will he be able to compete in the ring tonight?

But Tony Kahn is not one who usually will get to a bait and switch where he'll promise a match and that he won't give it to you, or he'll dangle the carrot, but then he won't actually give it to you when you go to take the bait. There was no bait and switch, there was no angle. We got an actual match tonight between these two men, Brian Danielson and Nigel mcginnison, not only went out there and had a match. These two men went out there and

they had a twenty minute match to open tonight's show. Obviously, it was not the hard hitting, knockdown, drag out physical destruction that many of their earlier matches were from a Ring of honor fifteen years ago. Nor should anybody have expected that that is what this would have been, especially in the case in Nigel, you know, given that he hasn't been in the ring very much in a very long time, and Brian Danielson is being held together apparently

by bobby pins and rubber bands. That's the story they're telling with him every time we see him in the ring. You know, he's basically being held by a thread. He's about to fall apart. What we got from these two men tonight, despite the less than stellar build, shall we say, and the rush nature of how we got here, and the lack of any interaction between the two of them

on television coming into tonight. What we ended up getting here was a very good professional wrestling match between two men who cut their teeth and Ring of Honor many years ago made a name for themselves as two of the best technical wrestlers in the world, and here they are now, all these many years later. They got to go out there, They got to dance with each other

one more time in the middle of the ring. They had a decent crowd there to do it, eight thousand people here in New York, the same city where they had many of those battles, not that far not that far from where they were tonight in Queens over in Manhattan, many a battle they had many years ago. So it was kind of appropriate for them to get back in the ring of all places, here in New York City.

But it was the story of two men whose careers for a while there paralleled one another, and they left Ring of Honor at the same time, with the expectation that they would travel the same roads and they would end up in the same place together. You have, on the one hand, Brian Danielson, you know, a man who went on to leave Ring of Honor and went on to superstardom in his career. Headline WrestleMania, won multiple world championships,

made a lot of money. On the other hand, you have Nigel mcginnison man who should have gone on to superstardom and because of various circumstances medical circumstances, it did not work out that way for him. That was really the story that we were left with coming into this match here today. The other big story other than these two finally clashing in the ring coming out of tonight, is that John Moxley is now the new number one

contender for the AAW World Heavyweight Championship. It was Darby Allen. John Moxley said I want your shot, and Darby agreed to put his shot on the line in a match. But Darby had already become number one contender for the world title by winning the Royal Rampage many many weeks ago. He was supposed to get the shop tonight against Brian Danielson. Instead, he willingly gave it up to John Moxley in a match that he lost. And so now John Moxley is

going to wrestle Dream. John Moxley is going to Darby Allen's home state to headline in the main event and to challenge for the aw World Heavyweight Championship. Darby Allen

looks like the biggest dweeb in the entire world. Now that we could take a step back here and see what they did, and we see the outcome of that main event tonight, putting his World championship match on the I know he's a fighting babyface, but putting his World Championship match on the line when he did not have to, when the man who he was supposed to challenge and supposedly was in no condition to defend the title. Here

on this show. Not only was Brian Danielson on the show, but he went out there and he wrestled a twenty minute match in the opener. So the award for the biggest fucking moron goes to Darby Allen. Now that this show was over, I don't really see how this show, frankly, did a whole hell of a lot to make Darby Allen look smart or make Darby Allen look any better than he did coming into this show. I just shook my head when it was over and I said, what can you say? You know, what is there really to

be said? The biggest surprise of the show. You know, sometimes on these shows you get a surprise debut or return. Brian Danielson debuted in the ring. His very first match in AAW was against Kenny o'mea it was that Grand Slam, the one Grand Slam show that I went to a couple of years ago. Sorea made her AW debut and came out and got a big reaction. All right, Britt Baker was out in the ring and outcomes Soreya. Great Mooda made an appearance to come to the aid of

Sting on that show. So they usually give you something on these shows. The big surprise tonight was the arrival of MVP, and he's been dropping little hints you know that we might see him popping up somewhere else very soon. I think a lot of us figured this is going to be the place where he and Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin are going to end up landing. We did not see Bobby Lashley, we did not see Shelton Benjamin.

What we did see MVP. There was the other thing I noticed also in this show, a surprising lack of promotion for next week's five year anniversary show. Now, if Tony Kahn went last week and announced a big match with will Osprey against Ricochet their first AW match, their first match in many years, and that's the clearly the big match should be the main event on next week's show. But outside of a Britt Baker's Serena Dee match for next week, there was nothing else announced for next week.

And we didn't even get Ricochet on the show tonight. You know, he wasn't even there. So that was surprising to me because you know, this show tonight and next week are two big episodes of Dynamite. You would think they would have given it a little more of a push, but strikingly that did not happen tonight. X Caliber mentioned something else that I have to bring up here. He

mentioned this later in the show. Ex Caliber said that br Live Bleacher Report is shutting down their streaming service, pay per view service, whatever it is, they're shutting it down, and so starting with Wressel Dream, you can order the AW pay per view at least domestically. I don't know it might be different internationally, but at least here in this country, you'll have to order the pay per view on trailer TV, YouTube or PPV dot com, but you will no longer be able to watch the shows. On

BR Live and I say, good good. You know why BR Live is shutting down because it's shit. That's why rest and piss. This is your AW. Grand Slam Dynamite twenty twenty four Review. I am the Solomn Monster. It is Wednesday, September twenty fifth, twenty and twenty four. Welcome. Good to be with you here on a Wednesday night. They were in my backyard tonight they were I'm in Brooklyn. They were in Queens so not that far away from where I am. But I had to be here with

all of you tonight. Wouldn't have it any other way because AW did not waste any time kicking things off Tonight. Grand Slam opened with Nigel McGinnis making his way down to the ring. He was not, in fact played to the ring live by Oasis. Remember there was some confusion about a comment he made a few weeks ago about how Oasis is going to play me down to the ring, and I knew what he meant when he said it, but some people may have taken that the wrong way.

So no, they were not there tonight, but they were not wasting any time already going into Nigel and Brian. So Nigel comes out again, fifteen years since the last match that these two men had, eighteen years since their first match against each other, So the history was there. Could have done a better job again of exploiting that, really playing that up with the two of them, you know, live on TV in the weeks leading up to it. But clearly a lot of history there between these two.

Jim Ross was there tonight. He joined on commentary for the opening match and the main event, and he sounded good, so it was good to hear Jr. Tonight. So Nigel's in the ring and he is waiting for Brian Danglson, and all of a sudden, they play his music and there's no Brian Danielson. Nobody comes out. There is no

world champion. Nigel takes the microphone. He says that the American coward just dropped the ball, and he demands that the referee count him out and he wants Brian to be stripped of the aw World Championship, even though this is not a title match. He wants him to be stripped of the title instead. We hear the final countdown and then Brian Danielson comes out. Looks fine. I guess he just wanted to make the big dramatic entrance. Now, Nigel has been in the ring one time in the

last thirteen years before tonight. We saw him in the Casino Gauntlet Wembley Stadium. All in looked good. That's the only time that we have seen Nigel McGinnis in the ring in the last thirteen years, so I'm going to cut him a little bit of slack. But I have to say, even though on the whole I thought he looked very good. Early in this match, he was throwing some slaps and strikes. These were embarrassing. They may have

been palm strikes. I think they were just slaps, but my god, I mean, I have seen six year old girls in ballpits, okay at the Carnival throwing harder slaps at the other kids. Then Nigel was throwing at Brian Danielson. Here. I'm not saying, dislocate the man's jaw, but for fuck's sake, Nigel, come on, really, really again. I was not expecting the knockdown, drag out physicality that we got fifteen years ago from these two, which probably took years off their career. But

these were embarrassing. I'm sorry, these were just embarrassing. Strikes. Yeah, it woke Danielson up. He smacked the shit out of Nigel. Nigel kind of smiled. McGinnis pulled Daniels into the outside, targeted the right arm, which was previously broken in the match he had with Okada last year. Nigel tried to drop the steps the ring steps onto the arm, but Brian was able to move his arm out of the

way at the last second. They channeled back to their ring of honor days and they teased the spot, pulling each other into the ring post. Thankfully neither man went headfirst into the ring post, because we don't have to see that ever again. Back inside, McGinnis supplied the old London Dungeon top wrist lock. Nigel then tried a Tower of London, but Danielson escaped into the Busichu knee, but he landed on the bad arm. McGinnis fought off a Labell lock by slamming the injured arm on the mat.

Danielson tried an uppercut with the injured arm and he collapsed. But then he did his moon Salt push off the top row. You know, he gets whipped into the corner, he does that little flip over only for McGuinness to club him with a lariat, covered him. Danielson, they'll kick out of one. So we got anvil elbows here for McGinnis or by mcguinnis who hit the Tower of London

for a near fall. McGinnis almost applied a London Dungeons surfboard combo, but Danielson rolled through into the anvil elbows of his own, and for the finish, Danielson worked at Labell Locke. Now it didn't look like it was sunk in very tight, but he had the hole applied and Nigel is fighting it a little bit. And after initially fighting the hole, trying to fight his way out of it, he appeared to say. Oh. First he appeared to say

the words fuck you before tapping out. Jim Ross on commentary said, oh, it looks like he said thank you, thank you. So I went back and I watched. It actually did look like he said thank you, So I'm pretty sure that that's what he said, even though TBS censored the audio, and they did that a few times during this match, because Nigel was cussing up a storm. So I just assumed that he must have told Danielson fuck you. Why else would they censor it, but I'm

pretty sure he said thank you. Yes, the censor's got a little trigger happy. Tonight, after the match, Christian Cage walked out by himself because Daniel again Danielson got him to tap out. So the match is over. Brian Danielson wins. Here comes Christian Cage by himself. The rest of the

patriarchy we're not there. He walks out with his Casino Gauntlet contract and he pulls out a pen just like this one here, and he teases signing the contract, but you see behind him, Kip Sabean sneaks up behind him and he snatches the pen out of his hand and he runs backstage with it, so Christian chases after him. I'm gonna stop here for a second. Why didn't Christian sign the contract? If there's a contract inside, why didn't he sign the contract the night that he won it?

Why is he walking around with a contract that has no signature on it? What? That's something that I would think he would correct very quickly so he could avoid this situation to get in the future. But I just thought that was weird, Like, why wouldn't the contract already be signed, like I would have put my signature on it on night one, right, save some time in the future when I want to go out there and cash it in. So that was weird. So when Christian the

camera followed him. When Christian ran through the tunnel, he ran into Claudio and Pac who were standing there blocking his path. He put the brakes on, ended up going around them in his pursuit of Kipsabian. As far as the match itself, Nigel, let's talk about Nigel here. Nigel, he busted out the greatest hits. We saw the London Dungeon, we saw the Tower of London, we saw the rebound Lariot. So a lot of the old school moves that were part of Nigel McGinnis's arsenal, he pretty much busted out

all those moves here with the finish they did. You know what it felt to me like it felt like the closure that Nigel was looking for, especially him saying thank you, you know, before tapping out to Danielson. But I think it was the closure he was looking for after all these years, because I mean, he legitimately wanted this match for a very long time, and I don't know that that means that he's done. He got it out of his system and he's retired now. He's never

going to wrestle again. He probably will, I don't know how often, but I would think that we'll see Nigel back in the ring still at least from time to time. But he got the match that he wanted and he made the most of it. He went twenty minutes with the world champion. It's very different than going in there in a gauntlet match with twelve other people. This was one one. There was no safety net, there was not a handicapped match. It was not a tag team match.

It was not a blood and guts match with ten people. It was two men. He had Nigel McGinnis on one side, Brian Danielson on the other, who was still one of the best wrestlers in the entire world, even as he is winding down his full time career. He's the world champion and Nigel was in their step for step with him for twenty minutes. That's not an easy thing to do when you have not had a singles match in thirteen years. So I thought, all things considered, Nigel McGinnis

looked very good. Obviously he slowed down a little bit, but he looked very good. You know here in this match outside of those awful slaps, which I just again, I can't review this match and not bring up how just atrocious that was. So I enjoyed it. I thought it was a very good match. I only wish that they would have taken more care with the path they chose, because that was likely the last time we're we're going

to see them in the ring against each other. This was it was probably the end, the final chapter for Brian Danielson and Nigel McGinnis, and I just think it deserved a better television build. It would have been more fun. And this is the point that I made the other night on the podcast. I made it on TNT last night. Everybody who is a hardcore wrestling fan, or if you're an old school Ring of Honor fan, right, yes, you are already aware of the history between these two men.

You don't need Tony Kahan to hold your hand and explain to you why Nigel McGinnis would be upset at Brian Danielson or the fact that they had a lot of matches back in the day and there's a history there. But it's what makes wrestling fun, right, It's the journey,

it's the journey. It's the car ride getting there instead of just pushing a button and beaming yourself to the locate, which would be great, but pushing a button and beaming yourself to where you want to go, sometimes you just want to take a step back and just enjoy the ride. And that's why you know what I look for when

it comes to these wrestling shows week to week. These promotions have many hours each week of wrestling TV of phil and so you expect that on those shows, building to whatever the big match is going to be, you would have a segment like a face off or a contract signing, a meeting of the minds in the ring with them. It was hard for not Nigel goes out there and he has to just cut promos on a

man who isn't even there. I don't know if there was some legitimate family reason why Danielson could not be on Dynamite the last three weeks, even the last two weeks, but there was really no good excuse for him not to be there at least once. So we can get these two men face to face, no physicality, but just get them face to face and let them talk about their past, let them talk about how one guy went this way with his career. The other guy went the

other way. That should have been me. You had the career that I should have had. I resent you for it, I hate your gut. And then we get to hear where Brian Danielson has to say all we ever heard from was Nigel McGinnis. We never heard a word from Brian Danielson, not one word. That's what was missing from this. That's what some people don't understand. You know, they get very upset, they get very offended if you know the

slightest bit of negativity. They're very trigger happy. But that's what was missing from there, and you can't get that back. You know, we had the match tonight, it was very good, but you can't get that back. That, to me, was the biggest disappointment about this entire thing. But I'm happy for Nigel because he went out there and he had the match that he wanted for a very long time. I'm glad he got that opportunity, and I think New York City was a great place for it to happen.

Wembley I think would have been better in front of fifty thousand people as opposed to eight, but New York City was a very appropriate place for these two to write their final chap. We had Roderick Strong challenging Hook speaking of New York City, Saint Mark's place. Right Hook is very well acquainted with New York City. Maybe we can make Hook the mayor. Maybe maybe we can vote for Hook to be the mayor of New York City.

Right Hook will take care of things. You can make Taz his chief of staff FTW title on the line. Matt Tavan and Mike Bennett were outside in Roddy's corner. They got involved a whole bunch of times. The numbers got to be too much, which led to Roddy launching Hook into the ring post that took us into a commercial break. Tavan threw a chair into the ring as Roddy wedged it in the corner. That allowed Roddy to escape red Rum and drive Hook into it again. It's

FTW rules, All of this is legal. Strong placed two chairs together, hooked, though hit a judo throw through them. Roddy hit a fireman's carry gutbuster onto the chair, and then a sick kick for a close to count of his own. Hook floated over an end of heartache attempt into red rum and he got Roddy to tap out and Hook retains the FTW title. Pretty paint by number stuff as far as Hook matches go, wasn't terribly long, wasn't terribly special. Yeah, by the standards of Roderick Strong,

We've seen Roddy have much better matches than this. But again, pretty paint by number of stuff. No, when the match was over, Strong put his hand out, No, he's a heel, put his hand out for a handshake. Hook accepted the other members of the Kingdom. They gave him a nod out of respect as they left, So that was surprising.

I was not expecting to see that. Tony Shavanni got up at ringside from the announced desk and Hook went over to be interviewed by Tony Shavanni on the outside, and he brought up this being the eleventh defense for Hook and how the FTW Championship was created just a short drive from where they were tonight in Queens by his father. And for those who don't know the FT's title, the first appearance of the FTW title when Tas first debuted it, it was May of nineteen ninety eight, and

it was actually at an ECW event. It was at the Elks Lodge in Queens and it was an event called it Ain't Seinfeld. Now why would ECW have an event called it Ain't Seinfeld? Well, because the night of the show was the night of the Seinfeld series finale, which had just I don't have the number in front of me, but it did a ridiculous audience on NBC was probably like fucking sixty million people tuned in to

see the Seinfeld finale. I don't know how many people were tuned into that show because Seinfeld was just a phenomenon back then, but anyway, that was the name of the show. That was the first appearance of the FTW title. So Hook said, all good things come to an end, and he thanked everybody that competed for the championship, all the fans who supported the championship. But from this moment on, the FTW title is officially retired. The FTW title is

no more. And I do believe that, I mean personally, I don't know if you might disagree, but I believe at warrnce a yes chant. Finally, he then presented the title to his dad, who got up from the announced desk and went over and hugged his boy, and Taz had just tears in his eyes. He was wiping away the tears. So it was a nice moment here with father and son, only a few miles from where the title was born. Thankfully, though, that marks the end of

the FTW title once and for all. It's the right move. It's something You've heard me call for this now for months. Okay, if you listen to these reviews, this is nothing new. I've been calling for this now for a while. I've been calling for it really since all In because all In when Hook had that great moment with he and his father where they you know, his father was outside

the ring, Hook was inside the ring. But they applied those stereotas missions at the same time, and they got a big pot from all the people at Wembley Stadium and Hook retained. And I thought, man, that right there would be the perfect blowoff to the FTW championship. Retire the title. It doesn't get any better than that. You know, he got to share that moment with his dad, who created the title. What a great moment, and Hook can now move on to potentially bigger things. And then he

just kept defending the title. But evidently it was because they wanted to retire the title in New York City, where the championship was born, and I'm okay with that because in the end, we got to the place where we needed to be continuing to defend the FTW title. While I'm sure he thought it would be a cool thing, because look, I'm sure he likes to pay homage to his father, I'm sure that's a very cool thing for Hook,

it doesn't do him any good anymore. If they wanted to use the title as a tool to help establish him, they've done that already. The establishment phase is over. Now it's time for Hook to stand on his own two feet and try to move on and move on to bigger things and try to set bigger goals for himself than the belt that his dad made that isn't even really an aw recognized title like the other ones are.

It's time for him to move on. You know, he can't move away from this and climb higher if all he's going to continue to do is defend the FTW Championship. So this was a necessary move. I'm glad that they did it, and it was a nice moment here at the end of this match. That is Hook's ceiling, says DP. We'll see. We'll see what his ceiling is in AAW.

There was some talk many months ago that he had a contract coming up soon that he might want to explore his options, but I have not heard anything about that since, so I don't know what his contract status is. Hook going to the PC, though, would be would be very interesting. Hook was red hot there for a while, and you knew it wasn't going to last. And even in the match here tonight with Roddy, I mean you could tell he still is very inexperienced. You know, you

kind of forget how young he still is. He's not the youngest guy there, but he's still very you know, very young and rough around the edges. What his ceiling is, you know, at his current experience level, it's probably not that high. I still think he needs some more seasoning, you know, it might take some more time. Do I see Hook though, as a TNT champion one day if

he sticks around, Yeah, I do. I do. Beyond that, it's hard to say, you know, I don't look at Hook and think, Okay, this is a future AW world champion, So he's so far away from that. If that was to ever happen, and this company is so overloaded with talent right now, Thatt. Unless you're bouncing that world title around to different people every other month, you know you're not gonna see hook at that level of AW World Champion, TNT Champion one day though, Yeah, I could see that.

So so far, so good up to this point, I thought, for Grand Slam and then we had the AW World Tag Team Championships on the line, we had the Young Bucks defending their titles against the team of Will Osprey and Kyle Fletcher, who won a casino tag team gauntlet match to earn the shot. I thought that this was

the best Young Bucks match in forever. There's just been something about their matches, at least going back to Dynasty, and a big part of it is that they didn't defend the titles for four months, so that that kind of played a role. But for months now, the Young Bucks, it's not like they go out there and have bad matches, but they just go out there and there's just none of these matches that they've been having have really pulled me in as a viewer. It's just kind of there.

There was nothing terribly fun, there was nothing terribly exciting. About them. Tonight was the best Young Bucks match in a very very long time, as far back as I could remember this year, and a big part of that was will Ospray was in the match. And to take nothing away from Kyle Fletcher in the Bucks, I mean they were all great. All four men are great, but will Ospray it's impossible for him to go out there

and have a bad match. So when you hear me say, oh, this was an excellent match and you see that will Ospray was involved, nobody is surprised by that. He elevates every match that he is a part of because he's a special performer and he's super over with the crowds. So these eight thousand people that they had there and Arthur Ash tonight were hot for this match. They were into this match in a major way, in a way that people haven't been. I feel like these crowds with

the Young Bucks in a very long time. Don Kallis joined on commentary. He said that tonight will be the biggest night of his career. Spoiler he lied, the action was fast and furious in this match, just NonStop. Ospray signaled for a hidden blade after a standing sky twister, pressed to Nick Jackson. Nick though dodged into a corkscrew kick. The Bucks hit the swanton bounce back powerbomb spot for two. Ospray kicked up out of an EVP trigger attempt into

a double oscutter. Fletcher turned the Bucks inside out with a double clothesline. Nick Jackson countered a liger bomb into a facebuster. Osprey then flew in with a four to fifty splash. Nick then followed that with a destroyer to Ospray, the impact of which knocked him back into a standing position, and before he could fall down, Ospray fell forward and knocked him out with a hidden blade. And now we

had all four men were down. This was just a wild sequence and it had the entire crowd on its feet, giving these guys a standing ovation. The Bucks later dropped Kyle Fletcher with a spike tombstone on the apron, and they looked to be content to take a count out win. Kyle Fletcher looked like he might not make it back into the ring in time, but of course he did just barely made it back in. The Bucks tried a

TK driver. Ospray and Fletcher, though both countered into simultaneous I think it was Styles clashes to a big pot but only got two out of it. Ospray connected with hidden blade and a storm breaker, but Nick broke up the count. Ospray signaled for the Tiger Driver, but Nick Jackson saved his brother with a superkick. Fletcher comes in with multiple snap dragons. Matt Jackson meets him with a running bulldog. Ospray cuts off more bang for your buck.

Nick Jackson looks to spring for a TK driver, but Ospray flew in with a cutter. An oscutter in mid air, Corey Allis connects that's the OSSI open finish. Matt Jackson, though kicks out. Osprey calls for Fletcher to end it.

This is it. Let's go for the kill here, right, Let's go for the titles and Osprey hits or they hit the corner Brainbuster, which of course is the spot that softened up Gunther for his first loss on the main roster when he lost to Sammy's Ain't a WrestleMania was the top ro Brainbuster, but Nick Jackson barely broke up the pin, saved his brothers, saved his titles. Nick got sent outside with Ospray, Fletcher flew out with a dive.

Rick Knox, who of course is the referee for every Young Bucks match and is one of the biggest just goofball referees. The way that they book him in these matches is it's quite ridiculous, So of course he's in there. He goes to check on Nick. Don Kallus gets up from commentary and he goes over to Kyle Fletcher and he hands Kyle Fletcher the screwdriver, the dreaded screwdriver, not

the drink, the actual screwdriver. Callous then goes over to the other side of the ring and he takes the referee and distracts him, which is not very hard to do. All you really need to do with Rick Knox is just shine one of those little laser lights, those laser pointers on the floor, and that's you know, Rick Knox is basically out of commission for the next twenty five minutes. So while the referee is distracted, Fletcher is about to use the screwdriver and he's rearing back to use it

and Osprey blocks him. He stops him from using the screwdriver. That results in Fletcher getting clobbered with one of the tag team belts by Nick Jackson, which of course Rick Knox did not see, and then the BTE trigger connects for the win and the Young Bucks retain their titles. The announcers brought up that if Don Kallas did not intervene here, very likely that his guys would have won the match. Very likely they would have walked out with

those titles. This was an excellent match. They went kick out crazy down the stretch. I was not a fan of that at all. I thought that was just I didn't like that. I don't want to say didn't mess up the entire match. I still thought it was an excellent match. But it's just one of those things where there are matches where there are a lot of near falls and it's okay because they kind of just hit that right number. And then you've got matches and I've seen this in a lot of will Osprey matches. I've

seen this in a lot of Young Bucks matches. They just go so crazy with it. You get to that point where they go one, two, three, four kickouts too far and it's just like, come on, Like some of the shit they kick out of it is ridiculous, and you because you want that reaction where the crowd is like, oh my god, you bring them to that crescendo and then you just go two kickouts too many to where you almost shake your head like all right, you know, like you had it and then you just took it

over that line. You went a little too far with it. So I wish they would have cut some of those out towards the end. It didn't take away from my enjoyment of the match though, like I said, the best Young Bucks match I've seen in a very long time. Now, the story they told her, because there was a story that played out here. The story they told and the announcers flat out told it was that Don Kallas got involved.

Had he not done, so, it's very likely that will ospr and Kyle Fletcher right now would be the aw World Tag Team Champions. But that ignores the other story here, which is that will Ospray stopped Kyle Fletcher from using the screwdriver. Had he let his partner cheat and use the screwdriver, they would all almost guaranteed be the new Aworld Tag Team Champion. So there's multiple different ways that

they can go with this story now going forward. Whether they blame callous and that's Kyle Fletcher's way of separating from Don Kallous, or they go the opposite way, which is that they hold will Osprey responsible and they turn their back on him because they blame him and say, look, had you not gone soft, and if you would have let Kyle do what I told him to do and what he was ready to do, you guys would be

champions right now. Now. Of course you've got your title, but poor Kyle over here, now he has no title because will Osprey is already the International champion, he doesn't need to be tag team champion. This means more to Kyle Fletcher because he's the one who has no gold right now. So you could take that story in that

direction if you want. Now, will Osprey is wrestling Ricochet next week on the five year Anniversary show, and I think the best way to go with it, considering how quickly they're throwing this match out there, what I would do. I would have those two wrestle to a no contest of some kind. Now, we saw will Osprey go to a nearly a time limit draw. It was like two seconds shy of a time limit draw with mjf in July, and so doing another time limit draw so soon after

that one. I don't know that I would do that. I certainly wouldn't do a sixty minute one. And if there was a sixty minute time limit for that International title match, I'm assuming that this match next week will also have a sixty minute time limit. Then you can't you can't do another one. You can't have another sixty minute match. I just I wouldn't do that. You know, your five year anniversary show, you do want to spread the wealth. I think you want to have a fuller

card than that would allow. Although they've only announced two things next week right so, right now, as of this moment, we are only aware of two matches on the show next week. So it's not like there isn't plenty of room for them to go another sixty if they wanted to. But whatever they do, I would not have a decisive finish in this match next week. I don't think you give that away next week. I mean you're already going to it a month into too Ricochet's run. Don't give

them a clean finish. Will Osprey is not going to lose the international title. I just want it back. And Rikoshet just came into the company. You're gonna put a belt on him already, So the best thing to do here is not have any clean finish at all, and maybe you shoot that angle next week. If they are going to turn their backs on will Ospra, you do it next week. Doesn't even have to be the cause of the no contest, but it could be after the match.

But I think if it were me, I personally liked the idea of Kyle Fletcher and Takeshna and Callous, all of them turning on will Osprey and blaming him when they really should put the blame on Callous, but they put it on a Will instead. Kyle Fletcher could use that harder edge. I think the other reason I like the idea is what you can do coming out of this is have Ospray and Ricochet as allies. They could be partners, not like as a permanent team, but they

could be on the same side together. They could be allied, and now you can have Ricochet wrestling Kyle Fletcher. You could have Ricochet having a match with Kenoskate Takashta. Put that separation for a while between Ospray and Ricochet. Eventually you can circle back to it. You do a rematch sometime early next year with them maybe at that point

Ricochet beats Ospray. Maybe. I mean, if it were me, I would be going into twenty twenty five with the idea that by the time we get to Texas for all in, I'm putting the world championship on will Ospray. They didn't do it this year, I would do it next year. So I don't even know that I would have him lose to someone like Ricochet, but he's going to have to lose the title at some point. But you create that separation. Now they're on the same side,

they're not enemies. Now they have a common cause to fight for, and eventually you circle back to it. That's how I would book it. Also, keep in mind that we have not seen Mark Davis in a very long time. I feel like it's been almost a year. You know, the other half of Ossie Open here, Kyle Fletcher's tag

team partner. He could be back soon. And if he's going to come back soon, maybe all the more reason to go ahead and you know, do a split between Osbury and Fletcher, Fletcher and Davis maybe reunite, we get Ossie Open back together their heels. So again that there's a few different ways you can go with this, but I feel like that's the direction that I would favor as far as that goes. But I definitely would not give away a clean finish with Rikoshe and Ospray next week.

I'm not doing it, Joey. I'm telling you, man. Joey says, well, Ospray and Rikoshet as tag team champions, you could do that. You could do that. You can have them win the

tag team titles at some point. But I mean think about what I'm saying though, and especially for the people who don't like the fact that Tony Kah is giving this match away so soon, it will allow you to really build out their story a little bit more, right because if they're allied for a while and maybe they do win the tag team titles, eventually that will come to an end and you'll have a fuller story just an AW alone forget whatever they did before they came

into AW. You'll be able to flesh that story out a little bit more so when they finally end up back in the ring at Revolution or a Double or Nothing or Dynasty or you know, whatever show it might be in the first half of next year, I feel like it will be a bigger deal even than it is next week. You know, to the people who think it's a big deal. Some people may not think it's

a big deal. But for the people who maybe don't think that it's that big of a deal that these two guys are wrestling next week again, you flush that story out a little bit more, take it down a different path for a while, come back to it, and at that point it might feel like a bigger deal. I don't see the downside to it. I really don't. Will Osprey is going to be their guy. Ricochet just signed. He's signed a multi year deal. He's not going anywhere.

He's not like, you don't have to give away the store. You really don't. Tony Shiavanni was on stage and he brought out New York City's own Prince Nana no Swerve Strickland. But the reason that Prince Nana was here was to give us an update on the condition of Swerve Strickland, who we have not seen since all out when he

had his cage match with Hangman Page. He said, mentally, there's nothing that can stop the most dangerous man in aw but physically he is not clear to come back, but he's fighting hard every single day, for each and every one of the fans. Then he was interrupted by a voice, a very familiar voice, a voice we have not heard on TV in a while. It was the voice of MVP who came walking out. He was dressed in a suit. He had his cane with him that

we saw him last with in WWE. So he walks out, got a nice reaction from the crowd, who sounded surprised to see him. He walked out there, and he agreed that Swerve is the most dangerous man in aw Not only that, but he thinks Swerve is the most phenomenal talent to ever set foot in an AW ring eight months without being pinned or submitted. Scot wins over Samoa, Joe oh Roderick Strong, Christian Cage, will Osprey, and he

was watching. He says he saw all of it, But he also saw a Swerve lose the AW World Championship at all in and he also saw a Swarve's childhood home burn to the ground. So his question is, why are these people still walking around? Why is the man who beat Swerve still walking around? Why is the man who burned his home to the ground. Why do I hear Bremode in my ear stand the man. I hope you are having a great day as well, Stan, thank you very much. See Stan just says he wants to

make sure I'm having a great day. I'm having a good day, and I hope you are having a great day. Oh my guys, it just ends a chill up my spine every time I hear it. But he wants to out why are these men still walking around after what they have done to Swerve. He sees that as more of a failure, not of Swerve but of his management, who he says, is busy shucking and jiving. So when Swerve is ready to be taken seriously again, please give him MVP, he says, Please give him my business card.

He hands the business card to Prince Nana, let him know that I will be ready to talk. And with that he also said that he will be ready to talk business with an emphasis on the word business. And he walked off and Prince Nana had a very conflicted look on his face. So it is happening, Oh, it's happening all right. The Hurt business or the Hurt Syndicate, that's probably the name they'll end up using. They can say the word business here, but that can't be the

name of the group. They'll probably be the Hurt Syndicate. But they're on the way. They're on the way. MVP is in, Bobby Lashley likely now on his way in. Shelton Benjamin is likely on his way in. Cedric Alexander is not on his way in because he has not that long ago re signed I believe with WWE, so Cedric will not be joining them. And look, you know lash and Shelton, who are super talented. They would be too solid additions to the roster. You can't say that

there would be a bad addition to the roster. Shelton Benjamin is not going to be a bad addition to anyone's roster, and neither is Bobby Lashley. Do they need to fifty year old ex WWE guys right now? Do they need them? No? No, they don't. They don't need them. There's a lot of things that Tony Kahan probably doesn't need.

Doesn't mean that he's not going to do it, doesn't mean he's not going to bring them in, try to find a role for them, and I think if he finds the right role for them, I think it could be fun we talked about the Hurt business run in WWE. It was fun while it lasted. I think it did help elevate the guys in that group. The main guy it was intended to elevate, though, was Bobby Lashley. It served its purpose. That's why Vince lost interest and said, okay,

it accomplished its goal. He doesn't give a shit about Shelton, Benjamin. He doesn't give a shit about Cedric Alexander. You think he cares? Please, what's that famous story about him having a meeting in the back with talent. Somebody stood up. I can never remember who it was, and yeah, him Tally has a great question Shelton, Only it wasn't Shelton, it was somebody else. You think he gives a fuck

about Shelton Benjamin. The whole point of the Hurt business was to get Bobby Lashley in a position where he would be the WWE champion and guess what he was? He was and then that was the end of the Hurt business. So it's been a few years. People, some people have been clamoring. MVP we know has been clamoring for a return of the Hurt business, and of course he would be because what has MVP been doing since the Hurt business went down. Nothing. He was repping Omas

for a while. Triple H doesn't give a fuck about Omas. That's why we don't see him on TV. So we haven't seen MVP on TV in years. So of course he wants to bring back the Hurt business because that was I mean, that was really the peak for him since he came back, was him and the Hurt business. That was his peak run there, and they want to

try to recreate that here in AW. And Tony Kahan obviously feels the same way, and he's going to give them the opportunity to go out and do that, even though he's got other talent that he's not using that's just sitting at home right now that should be used frankly, but that's always been a problem. But the bottom line is, I think it could be fun, and I think Bobby Lashley certainly deserves to get a run somewhere. If it's not going to be WWE, then I'm all for seeing

him get a run here in AW. MVP was really underused the last couple of years, and I think we saw here in this segment how effective he can be in the managerial role. He came out and he put over Swerve Strickland in a major way. So we know the value that he brings as someone's mouthpiece, as someone's manager.

I don't really have any interest in seeing him back in the ring, I just don't, But I think in this role is where he shines, and WWE should have done a better job of taking advantage of that while they had him under contract because they just did nothing. They just weren't using him. It was just like, Okay, I don't mind not seeing Omas on TV every week, but like, you can find something else for MV to do. You know, he had the VIP Lounge for a while.

But just and maybe I'm just a sucker for old school wrestling managers because I grew up, and I grew up. I feel like in the golden era of wrestling managers, I feel like I was totally spoiled as a young wrestling I mean, you had everybody back then. Man, you had like Fred BLASTI was on the tail end. Actually he was just out of it when I really started watching.

But yeah, you had him, and you had Albano, and you had Jimmy Hart, and you had Bobby Heenan and you had Slick, and you had Sherry, on and on and on, and there were a bunch of other ones too, Oliver, Humperdink and mister Fuji. But just like the golden age of wrestling managers and you see the value that they can bring, especially the people who may be talking is not their strong suit. Maybe going out there and talking about themselves and representing themselves is not their strong suit.

That's where a manager could really have great value. And it became a lost star for the longest time, and in recent years it's kind of made a comeback. And I like Prince Nana would Swerve Strickland. I don't want to see them break up that duo. So I don't see Swerve, I hope not ditching Prince Nana and then going and playing second fiddle. Let's say to Bobby Lashley,

if Lashley comes into to the company. So this to me, as I'm watching this, it just felt more like it was setting up a possible program for Swerve when he comes back. It's intriguing to see where they might take this. And when Swerve is actually going to be back, they're going to be in his home state for a pay per view in a couple of weeks. You know, hard to imagine that he wouldn't be on that show. But we only got one Is it one more Dynamite or two?

We have two more? Two more Dynamites before Wressel Dream. We have the five year anniversary next week, and then the following Tuesday is when Dynamite is head to head with NXT, and then it's Wrestle Dream. So we'll see if we get Swerve back in time for Wrestle Dream. I'm not even sure what the match would be even if he was back in time for the pay per view. I do not want to see them bring back Swerve and throw him right back in the ring with Hangman Page.

That would be the worst thing they could do. That would be the dumbest thing for Tony Kahan to do. You need to have separation now for a while between them. I don't want to see those two back in the ring until and unless Hangman is the aw World Champion and Swerve has worked his way back up into title contention and to get the belt back he has to beat Hangman. That's the only time I want to see

them back in the ring together. You can't just go right back to that so what they have Swerve doing, I don't know, but I think we may have gotten a glimpse of it here on the show Tonight Tell You Man. There were a lot of great managers back in the day. Managers were like one of the most fun parts of wrestling, and then the evil Irish asshole took it away for so long. Fuck him the way. Mariah May one on one with a Yuka Sakazaki for

the AAW Women's World Championship. Sakazaki she flew off the top with a dive before Mariah could even get into the ring and took her out on the floor. Mariah tried for may Day, Sakazaki rolled through into a backslide for what looked like a three count. This was later in the match and Mariah didn't really get her shoulder up. Aubrey Edwards, though didn't make didn't make the count. Instead, we got a rolling penitenth for a series of two counts.

Mariah didn't get much of a spinning sit out slam when she tried for it because Yuka fired a thrust kick into a Northern Lights bomb. Yuka wanted the Magical Girl splash. Mariah got her knees up, though on the landing and followed with a knee strike and then Storm zero for the win. After the match, just as Mariah was about to level Yuka with her women's title, Willow

nightingale right and makes the save. And after a stare down between Mariah and Willow, Mina Shira cow Is music hits and outwalks Mina onto the stage and oh my goodness, she was wearing black leather tonight. See this woman knows what she's doing. She's not stupid, she knows what she's doing. Happy birthday, by the way, belated birthday to Mina for those who don't know Mina. I saw this on social

media the other day. Mina celebrated her I think it was her thirty sixth birthday the other day, But happy birthday to Mina. Shirakawa. Very happy to see Mina back on TV, so she walked out on stage and Mariah. Because of this distraction, this brief distraction, Willow turned her attention to the aisleway it allowed Mariah to waffle her right in the back of the head with the women's title. So Mariah then ran down the aisle into the arms of a very confused Mina Sherikawa and Mina seemed to

be disappointed by Mariah's actions. Yuka ran down the aisle towards Mariah and she was right there, and then she just stopped for I don't know why she just stopped and she stared at Mina instead. We had a little staring action going on here with Mina and Yuka. This was the I mean, outside of thirty seven. Is she thirty seven? It's either thirty six or thirty sent either way,

she she looks fantastic. Happy birthday to meet. This was the low point of the show, I mean, mash wise, This was the low point of the show though compared to everything else that we got, and largely because while the people in the building did seem to like Yuka, like when she first came out and they played her music, she got nice little pop, so I think they liked her, but they're not invested in her challenging for the Women's Championship.

She's not a consistent presence on television, and she isn't someone who everybody is going to be familiar with. She's not on Dynamite all the time. So the lack of investment in her as challenger and the lack. Let's be honest here, the lack of anyone really believing that she had a shot at winning this championship, and that didn't help. Those two things did not help. Crowd was kind of dead for this. Can't really blame them. But I like seeing Willow out there because I like Willow. I think

Willow Nightingale is great. If we get Willow against Mariah at some point, I'm all for that. But I love seeing Mina back, and there is a story there. There's a history between them, and so there's definitely a storyline playing out between Mina and Mariah that will lead to a championship match. I would expect it to be a wrestle dream. I don't know that this friendship is going to last much longer on TV. Look, we saw what Mariah did to Tony Storm. Okay, so you can't trust

this woman as being your best friend. What she did to Tony Storm is one of the greatest things in the history of dynamite. She will not hesitate to do the same thing to Mina. Serri Cow I assure you they closed the show because we're already at the main event here. They closed the show with John Moxley against Darby Allen with Darby's aw World Championship shot on the line that he earned by winning the Royal Rampage what

feels like a lifetime ago. Moxley was just killing this guy from really much of the match, but at the beginning of the match he was just killing Darby and he busted Darby's mouth open, so he had blood pouring out of his mouth. This was in the opening two minutes, by the way, and we had blood and it did

not belong to John Moxley. There was an Irish whip across the ring where Moxley sent Darby into the far side and he went soaring through the ropes, but like as he barreled towards the corner, it was like he went through the ropes and hit the post and spun and then hit the steps on the way down and hit the floor and it's just like, I mean, the worst possible impact you could imagine, to the point where they showed a replay of it. So think about that

they showed a replay of an Irish whip. Okay, that tells you how vicious this was. Darby Dove fought back. He had a coffin dropped to the floor. Darby went to go set up Moxley on a chair outside marina. Shafir stood in his way, and that little delay allowed Boxley to hit a body slam on the apron. Moxley took the referee as Shafir got some cheap shots in. Darby later on exposed one of the top turn buckles in the ring. We'll get back to that. Coffin splashed

from Darby, who applied a Fujiwara armbar. Moxley, though rolled out transitioned into a guillotine. Shaffir helped Moxley remove the protective mats outside the ring. Moxley was screaming, he's you know the Darby asked for this. You asked for this. Actually, Moxley asked for this for being honest, He's the one who asked for this in the first place. So Moxley wanted a death rider on the floor. Alan, though floated

over and Moxley ran into the ring steps. So Darby went into the ring and he tried for a suicide dive tried, being the opera of worried well, I mean, technically I guess he did dive, but he didn't hit his intended target. John Moxley was the intended target. The target that he actually hit was the floor. Now, remember they had pulled up the protective mats and it looked like there were some other kind of mats underneath. But even still, I'm sure it didn't feel very good when

Darby went splat on the floor outside back inside. Moxley ran into the exposed turnbuckle from earlier in the match and Darby schoolboyed him for two. Darby tried a call and drop but jumped into the waiting arms of John Moxley, who sank in the rear naked choke and then transitioned into the bulldog choke. Darby was visibly fading. His eyes were open, but he had that like dead look in his in his eyes. So he was fading, and I thought he might go out here and this was gonna

be where they were gonna end the match. Instead, Darby begins to smile and he begins like spitting up all over. I mean, he was just fucking gross. He's got fucking gobs of spit hanging out of his mouth, and oh, come on. So he crawls over to the bottom rope and gets the rope break. A little while later, Darby wanted a super plex. Marina Shaffir Tho jumped up on

the apron for the distraction. That delay was enough for Moxley to reverse into an avalanche death rider and he spiked him right on top of his head on the way down. And that's all she wrote, folks, John Moxley pins Darby Allen and guess what Darby is? Shit out of luck. And John Moxley now has an aw World Championship match that is now official for Wrestle Dream, so he is now the number one contender for the world title. After the match, doctors ran out to go check on Darby.

As that was going on. A hooded figure ran into the ring, and then we saw that it was no hooded figure. It was no ordinary man. It was the American Dragon, Brian Danielson, who had a necktie, and he began choking Jean Moxley with the necktie. I like the callback. At least this time he doesn't have to worry about being fired and losing his job, so he's choking this man out. Shaffir tried to stop him and couldn't. Hack goes out there and Claudio runs out there. They finally

pulled him off. Here comes private party and command Commando commander not command commander. I wish it was commando, Private party and commander. They run down to the ring to make the save and guess what, folks, guess what happened. They were easily dispatched, just like they were last week, like scrubs. They come out to make the save and they get their asses beat. So Danielson was about to hit a bussaiku knee on Moxley. Claudio, though, pulled him

out of the ring to safety. So now they're fleeing through the crowd. Danielson asked for a microphone and he says, if John Moxley wants a war, then I declare war. And Danielson said, come Wrestle Dream. He's going to kick Moxley's fucking head in which they censored, and that was how the show went off there. The challenge was accepted. The match is official and at wrestled Dream in Tacomba, Washington, it will be Brian Danielson in his home state defending

the world Championship against John Moxley. Darby took his usual punishment here, you know, he took his usual sick bumps, although these actually felt tame compared to what we've seen from him this year. I mean the abuse he put himself through, the bump through the glass outside, and the match with staying stings retirement, I mean, I mean, it's just I think in terms of just idiotic, dumb, dangerous, stupid bumps. I don't think this year that one for

Darby is going to be topped. It only would have been topped. I think by the stupidity of him climbing Mount Everest, and then the broken foot saved him from doing that. But he's gonna climb next year, so he's gonna climb that damn out and he's already said nothing is gonna stop him. So this was tame by Darby Allen standards, even though he took some Hillasia's bumps here, but it was mostly Darby working from underneath. You know.

He was just being bounced around like a rubber ball, and then he would make various comebacks throughout the match. But again, I go back to what I said at the beginning of this review, Darby Allen looks like a

damn fool. I'm sorry you could talk about babyface pride, you know, and never ducking a challenge and all that, But he earned a World Championship match that he had originally for tonight for tonight, And even if Brian Danielson was not going to be medically cleared, and they thought he wasn't going to be medically cleared, nobody said he had to put that championship on the line against John Moxley. But damn it, Darby is not one to say no

to a challenge. Well, who's the full now he just looks like an idiot for losing what would have been for him a guarantee championship match, if not tonight, in the main event of the next pay per view in his home state. Now, I'm not even sure he'll be on the show. He doesn't have any be His role on that Wrestle Dream Show doesn't mean that he won't,

but right now he has none. Now as far as this show tonight, they had originally advertised an open challenge for the trios titles where Claudio Pack and Youda were going to defend those titles against someone. That did not happen. Instead, they just went and they put a graphic up at the end of the show and they just announced that on Collision, which I'm sure, the match has already been taped. It's going to be Claudio Pack and you to defending

against Private Party and Commander. Now, I'm assuming they did that in part because they decided to have an open challenge for the TNT titles. So Jack Perry will be defending the TNT title on Saturday in an open challenge. And I'm not going to give away any spoilers on who accepted the open challenge, but there's been a lot of crazy, wild rumors going around about who it might be, or returning talents or whatever. Don't get your hopes up,

That's all I'll say. Don't get your hopes up. But maybe they changed their mind because they wanted to do another open challenge. I don't know. I was left just wondering who the fuck wants to see Commander and Private Party challenging for the Trios titles after the way that they've been booked over the last two weeks. Last week, they got their asses kicked. Commander literally got gorilla pressed into the fucking crowd. Mark Quinn I think it was, or maybe it was Isaiah, one of them, I forget

which one it might have been. Mark Winn got his hand smashed with a hammer. Okay, so they got their asses kicked. They come out here tonight to make the save. What happens they get laid out again? Who wants to see these guys challenging for championships? Who could possibly care about this match? You can't book them strong for one week. Let them go over on the other guys in a strong way, put them down with some big you know,

double team move or something anything. What they actually did here wasn't much, So I can't say that I'm terribly excited to see them challenging for the Trios title. So I'm sorry, but that match is going to happen on Collision on Saturday. Also on Collision, Okada is going to wrestle Sammy Gavara is an eliminator match. If Sammy beats him, Sammy will get a shot at the Continental title on

Dynamite next week on the five year Anniversary show. But that would mean that Sammy Gavara would have to beat Okada, who has not been beaten since he signed with AW. That would be very dumb, and it should be Continental rules, even though the title's not on the line, which means no interference or anything like that. So it should be just a straight up one on one match, fair and square.

I mean, it's got to be an Okada win. You could take Sammy Gavara, who lost to Ricochet on TV a few weeks ago and presently is wrestling in Ring of Honor, is one of the Ring of Honor, you know, one half of the tag team champions, and have him be the first person to handle a loss. I don't think so. Hangman Page against Jeff Jarrett, it will be a lumberjack strap match, because a lumberjack match or a

strap match, it just wasn't enough. We have to combine the two, so it will be a lumberjack strap match. I thought that was gonna actually happen tonight on the show, but it's happening on Saturday. Chris Jericho, Big Bill and Brian Keith are going to take on the Conglomerate and Jamie Hayter is wrestling Sorea in a Soreya's Rules match. Sorea's rules match is very simple. The rules don't apply to Sorea, only to Jamie Hayter. Jamie Hayter has to, you know, adhere to the ten count. She has to

follow the rules, break by five, all that stuff. Soreya, though, can do anything she wants. So those are the matches coming up on Saturday. Now. Next week is the five year anniversary of Dynamite. Will Asp is wrestling Ricochet for the International title. Britt Baker returns. She will be going one on one with Serena deeb. Be aware I will not be here next week, so there will be no Dynamite review next week. We will be back in two weeks the following Wednesday. Hold on a second, though, hold on,

there is no Dynamite the following Wednesday. I will keep you guys informed about what my plans are as far as the following week. I was going to possibly watch NXT and Dynamite simultaneously and do a double review like I did last year, but I wanted to kill myself after I did that. It's not fun, so I might not do that, So I will have to decide which show I will be going live to review on October eighth. I don't know Randy Orton is wrestling Javon Evans that night.

We'll wait and see, but there will be no Dynamite review next week, so just be aware of that. Here's the poll for Grand Slam. What did you think of the Grand Slam episode of Dynamite sixty four percent thumbs up, thirty five point seven percent thumbs down. Not the best score, but overall it is a positive score. It is a thumbs up. I thought it was a thumbs up show. It definitely was not a thumbs down show tonight. Can't give this show a thumbs down. I thought, on the whole,

it was actually very good. We got some really good matches on this show. There were some stories that were forwarded, enjoyed seeing MVP, curious to see where that story is going to go. So there wasn't a lot of frills on the show tonight. There weren't a lot of backstage segments. There were one or two. It was mostly just matches, you know, boom boom boom, like you would see on a pay per view. But I thought overall it was very good. It was not their best Grand Slam show.

Definitely not a thumbsdown. Let's take a look at your super chats. We got a bunch of them here to go through. We'll read your messages here, see what's going on. Yes, it's just an update on the schedule for next week, so there won't be a Dynamite review on Wednesday, and there's no TNT next week either, but I am gonna be live next Monday and Tuesday and Friday, so the

raw review will be as normal. I'm gonna review NXT, which is that first CW show Julia's first match, well not her first match, but her title match with Roxane. I will be live after that show and then for SmackDown that Friday, and then bad Blood is that Saturday. It's my birthday weekend, so that's what we are covering for next week, so just be aware of that. Where are we on the likes? I need a likes update in the live chat. How close are we to the goal?

Are we doing be the booker tonight or not? Where are we at three forty two? So I guess the answer is no, probably not, But let's see where we are here when we get to the end of the superchat. A Sidrow, Oh boy, our pal Sidrow, Our pal Sidrow is with us and he is starting us off. Last night, I dreamt I was a muffler. I woke up exhausted. Also, before the crowbar was invented, crows had to drunk at home. You suck said drug These crowds are getting routier. These

crowds are gonna get violent soon. Oh my god, he's got another one. Did you hear about the archaeologist who got fired? His career was in ruins? Also, why did Darth Vader go to the dermatologist he had star warts suck? Oh my goodness, brother Fluff Salisbury, save me, he says. Do you think that Darby's girlfriend knows that he stole her coat and has been wearing it on TV? It looked like a bathrobe the first time I saw it.

Are we sure it's not a bathrobe? And it's an actual jacket, so it looks like a bathrobe to me? Jerome Mugenio. Love them or hate them, the Bucks are still the best tag team out there. They are certainly still one of the best tag teams in the world. I just have not been terribly excited by some of the matches they've been having over the last few months, and it didn't help that we went so many months

without there being a tag team title match. Prince Vegeta Moxley has beaten Danielson in every match they have been in in aaw even tagging together. Brian takes the losing fall. What a fucking injustice. Well maybe it's been building to this point where dream he'll finally, you know, get that wing. I don't know. I'm trying to trying to look positively

on this and see a silver lining and all that. Hey, Jake Jones dropped a fifty dollars super chap before I went live and early bomb from the true best tag team of all time. I think it's too early for Danielson to drop the belt, But when and who should he drop it too? When do you think Darby should get the belt since now he's been kind of screwed out of his chance. I don't think Darby's going to

get the belt for a while. I wouldn't put it on him for a while, especially if he really is serious about climbing this mountain next year and he's got his eye on that and he may need some time off for that. I'm not putting my world title on him. It's too much of a risk. I'm not putting my world title on him. I would put it on Hangman page I think Hangman should be the one to be Brian for the belt retro Koh At this point, rye Back and Rikishi should start a new podcast, call it

Feed Me Shit. Let them both gripe together about Triple H and w w A. Is Rye back still complaining that he is a shadow band on social media? Is he still crying into the abyss about that shouting into the void Bobby's world mantar in a sixty minute iron Man match? Is the rodent control? I never knew I needed play that match at the rats and roaches will run screaming from your home. They'll never come back either. I may have to try that. I've had I've had

issues with both this summer. Hey George again, Happy birthday brother. Happy fifty ninth birthday to George Sekman, who dropped a fifty nine dollars super chat. I hope you had a great birthday. My friend Alex with the twenty two Brothers solo with Roman appearing on almost every SmackDown episode from October eleventh through November twenty second. Do you see this as a sign that wargames will be even more pivotal

this year compared to last year. I don't know about more pivotal, but he's got to be here if he's going to be in wargames, So whether it's Bloodline against Bloodline or Roman, Cody, Randy and Ko against the Bloodline. Roman will be in wargames, so we need him on TV. We need him to be around. You're going to be in the match, then you need to be on TV to promote the match. So I'm happy that they've added more dates. It's gonna be the most that he's worked

in many many months. Luis f that tree? And where is Jericho? Who gives a shit? Jericho was backstage. They taped his match for Collision tonight, so that's where Jericho was. Stand the Man? How do he sol a monster? I hope you were having a good day. Thank you, Stan. I hope you are too. Stand the Man. There's l Masse Elle Masse with the fifteen dollars super chat. Whenever I feel my job is overwhelming, I just imagine the guy who had to edit Meltzer's segments during the McMahon documentary,

and I don't feel bad anymore. I've only watched the first episode, so I've already seen Dave on my screen. I don't know how much more he's going to be on my screen. I'm sure an episode two he will be because he was on the Donahue show, which I'm sure they cover. But yeah, I saw Dave on screen in the first episode. I said, there he is. I'm sure when Vince saw the early cut he was very happy to see Melcher's face on there. Anthony went to Grand Slam, and I am still here. Collision is taping.

The show is going to end after midnight. Why when did Collision get boring? Collision got boring a long time ago. That's why I stopped, you know, paying too much attention to it. I watch parts of it that look interesting to me, but it's not a musty show. It hasn't been for a very long time. And see, that's the problem I had when I went to Grand Slam. I went to Grand Slam. Dude, we had Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs. These guys were out there having a kick

ass match. It was almost one o'clock in the morning. I mean, people were standing up watching so that when the bell rang they could just get the hell out of there. Ridiculous. Literally, their match was ending. It was like twelve forty eight am. It's just like it's it's just ridiculous. The Juliet three, sixteen thoughts on Bleacher Report ending. I think I made my thoughts on that very clear at the beginning of the stream. I don't think I could be any more clear than I was at the

beginning of the stream. Ozen Glory is doing birthday stuff with the families, so I can't hang live, but wanted to pop in and say Dynamite was a good time, much loved Sola Monster. Thanks guys. Well, I'm assuming if it's if it's your birthday, Happy birthday. I got a lot of birthdays. I'm I'm almost there myself, but not quite. And Sidrow, Now, Sidrow says, what do you call a couple of chimpanzees sharing an Amazon account? Primemates also name the kind of tree that you can hold in your

hand a palm tree. You suck. It's always that guy at the end. Ooh, you suck, Sindro. You're not winning them over, You're not winning them over all. Right, Well, where are we we are at three eighty seven? Well we fell short. Well we shall try again for our goal on Friday nights. Leave it to leave it to aw for us to fail in our goal. We've been firing on all cylinders now the last week and a half. And then we hit dynamite and it's boom. We hit a wall. But nonetheless, I thought that this was a

fun show tonight. And I will be back with you live for the post show for SmackDown. That'll be on Friday night. That is the next time that I will be live here on this channel with all of you. And episode eight eighty one of the SoundOff is coming up this weekend. As I mentioned, I've only watched the first episode so far of the Vince McMahon documentary. I just the day got away from me, just had too much work to do. I'm hoping by Friday I can finish it and then I'll figure out, you know, kind

of the when and where. As far as recording a review, I really would I would prefer to review it on the SoundOff this weekend. I don't know if that's going to be possible, but I will review it once I'm done, so will you will get my thoughts on that only when I am done with the documentary, but I promise I will do a recap on that, so that is something to look forward to. But I see that we have magically shot up here to four hundred and thirteen likes.

Look at that It's like magic. How did that happen? I guess that means that we have to be the booker before we could just skip in and wait until Friday. I think we'll do that all right, I'll see you guys. How I'm just kidding ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. I'm just pulling your leg. No need to get upset. Say his name, Say his name. You should be saying Joe Hendry's name. I'm gonna be calling my first Joe Hendry match at the House of

Glory show on Sunday six pm. Trailer TV. It's gonna be Joe Hendry against Joey Janella. Right now, we're starting to be the booker out with some chronic. You guys want some chronic. You got some chronic here. Brian Clark and Brian Adams, they didn't last very long in Wweight. I think they lasted one match and it was so bad they were not brought back after that. That was the end of their run. It's gonna be chronic taking on the mega maniacs of Hulk Hogan and Brutus the

Barber Beefcake. Nope, not on my card. Onward we go Women's be the Booker? Which one died? Brian Adams died crush. He passed away many years ago. Women's Being the Booker? We begin with, Oh, it's Beth Phoenix. It's angry Beth Phoenix. Ah, she's so angry. Look how angry she is. She's so angry. I don't even remember who she was angry at? Who was she at? What was it Ria? I assume it was Ria Ripley. Angry Beth Phoenix. I'm gonna be stepping into the ring with Dakota Kai. How are we feeling

about this? Beth Phoenix and Dakota Kai. I'm gonna give that the bell. I think I think that deserves a bell. Oh the Mizz and Maurice. Okay, that's right, that's right. I forgot about that. So it was it was the miss and Maurice or was it real? I don't know. I I've getten conflicting messages now from you people. I think it might have been Miss and Maurice. Anyway, made event time. Mend's be the Booker? Oh boy, look who showed up to work. Everybody. It's Miro. I just got

done talking about this guy on the podcast. This weekend. I can't believe he actually showed up to work. Yeah, so it's gonna be Miro or one on one with Hook. Oh wait, wait a minute, hold on, Hold on my earpiece. I'm being told, okay, all right, yeah, yeah, I got yeah, I got it. All right. Well, unfortunately, I've been told that Miro did not approve of this creative and he has left. He has gone home. Apparently he's bought a

ticket back to Bulgaria. So he said that doesn't work for him, brother, which means that we have to book a new opponent. We have to book a new opponent for Hook because Miro did not approve of the creative. Hook taking on Shingo Takagi. Shingo will make that match good. Sh Shingo's like a wizard in that ring. Man. Shingo is the fucking man when it comes to putting together a great match. You can depend on Shingo. I have

faith in Shingo. Breaks my heart though. To see that belt compared to the previous IWGP belt, that just it breaks my heart. Why would you change away from greatness? Why would you do that? I'll never understand it, I really won't. Hey, Robert, Robert, Fox with the five dollars super chest. No Mercedes Monet on Dynamite Tonight's Hallelujah. Everything about her in aw has been awful so far. Uh you. I'm a little surprised that I don't even think she

was mentioned. But yeah, no Mercedes tonight. You got a reprieve from her this week? Yeah, I mean that previous IWGP belt. I guess it's like version four is. Uh, it's just a gorgeous belt. I just don't know why you would change joy from it. Mar Kwa nineteen seventy six. Tell Miro he can't leave. We bought his house. That's right. That's right, the fans bought his house. Well, thank you guys for helping me hit our goal tonight and all of your support and hanging out with me on a

Wednesday night was up, Harry. I hope you're having a good night as well. I won't. I won't be looking for that video either. Tuxedo Tuxedo t services. I won't be looking for that video. Yeah, I'm sure I'll be tagged in it, but I won't be looking for it myself either. Anyway, As if he couldn't get any weirder. Friday, night. Come on back here, we'll talk about smack Down. We'll see what's next for Roman Reigns and Cody Rhoads. Right, we'll find out. I guess we have a bad blood

coming up, so something's got to give. Take care, guys,