🎉 Solomonster's New Year's Countdown 2026 - NEW TBS Champion Crowned On Dynamite!

a row. Can you believe that? So for all the people out there who usually don't celebrate New Years or maybe this year, you don't have any particular place to go, you don't have any plans, you can hang out with yours truly tonight, and I'm gonna take you guys all the way to midnight here the New Year's celebration.

twenty twenty six. So let me just say to really all of you, Happy New Year, Happy early New Year. This has been the biggest year yet for the Channel. Of course, the channel is only a small part of what I do here. Of course I've been doing the podcast for eighteen years, but the channel has been building each and every year, or of course, less than three hundred subs away from ninety thousand, which we will hit next month hopefully, And.

There was the RevPro Championship a few weeks ago that she lost over in the UK to Alex Windsor, and then tonight she defended the TBS Championship against the very familiar face. It was the woman that she beat to become the TBS champion, long time ago. I believe it was double or nothing. In fact of twenty twenty four, Willow Nightingale, who also happens to be one half of the new aw Tech Team champions in the women's division. So they booked this match for tonight Mercedes in Athena.

They were unsuccessful and trying to beat Willow and Harley Cameron at World's End on Saturday, and Mercedes had a gigantic crash out and she said that she was gonna fuck Willow up, and they made this match for the New Year's Smash episode of Dynamite. And I'm looking at this and I'm just thinking, you know, it would make sense to hold off on her losing the TBS championship until she has ideally until she has lost all of these other independent titles that she's running around with, and

then she could drop the TBS title. And that's kind of where I thought, Okay, it makes sense for it to kind of happen that way. But I knew there was a chance that they could do a title change tonight,

I just wasn't really expecting it. Well, they went out there tonight in the main event, and they sent this show and really their entire year out with a bang, because these two women went out there and they had a pay per view quality main event on this show, and when it was over, Willow Nightingale, the woman who lost the TBS Championship to her, regained the TBS Championship. Five hundred eighty five days later, Willow is once again the TBS Champion. Now why they chose to go in this direction?

of course she's going to win. But that's so long into the future. I mean, honestly, at the earliest, all in at Wembley Stadium next year, not before that, all in Wembley. Yes, I could see her challenging for the women's title and winning at this time. Whether it's from Statland, I would be very surprised if Chris Statlander is still the champion at that point, whether it's Statlander, whether it's

Jamie Hayter, whether it's Tony Storm. Probably Tony Storm, she will win the world title at some point down the road. So we got a great main event tonight. But also on the show tonight, we had a match between John Boxley, who of course is the new continental champion, him and Josh Alexander.

Maybe then he'd have some more credibility as much as somebody with you know, fucking you know, beast mask on his head or bull mask or whatever it is, could have credibility. Minute tar Centaur, I don't know whatever kind of fucking mask it is. They had a good match. So there were a series of good matches here on the show tonight. MJF also has his Triple B back, The Big Birdberry Belt is back. Now he's the world champion against so of course he has to have his own custom title.

him because he's legitimately hurt. I don't know what the injury could be, but I said, that's a guy who clearly there's something wrong and they don't want him doing a.

apparently got hurt on their holiday tour this week. Michin who is scheduled or was scheduled, I guess, to wrestle Jade Cargill in a non title match on that first three hour SmackDown coming up on Friday. It looks like that match is out the window now. She also got hurt. She hurt her shoulder, and we don't know the severity or the extent of the injury, but if she hurt her shoulder, it's safe to say she's probably not wrestling

on Friday. And you know, I've talked about this recently, this plague primarily in WWE, but this plague of shoulder injuries, call it the shoulder Demon. The shoulder Demon has been very busy this year, and not even this year. It's like the last six months, five or six months, and in just the last like half of the year, we've had said there were so many names. When I listed them out on Twitter, I was like, did I miss anybody?

Because I thought maybe I missed somebody. Seth Rollins right, obviously, he lost the World Heavyweight Championship because of a shoulder injury. Seth Rollins, Chad Gable, Live, Morgan, Seamusho. We just learned underwent shoulder surgery, so we're not going to see him for a while. He was in Birmingham. Penta, Thankfully it wasn't too serious. Penta just came back. He only missed what five weeks maybe, but Penta had a shoulder injury.

It deprived us of a Lucha Brothers reunion. A couple of weeks ago at the Triple A show, Dominic Mysterio out with a shoulder injury that he sustained at the Triple A show that Penta was supposed to wrestle on. In fact, the match that Penta inter feared in and got involved in was the match where Dom hurt his shoulder. Thankfully, he dodged a bullet, and it sounds like he's not going to need surgery, and we should have Don back on television within about four weeks. He'll be back in

time for the Rumbles, So that's good news. But he's out right now because of his shoulder injury. And now we find out, of course about Meechen, and now we find out about Lucasarus. Apparently the Shoulder Demon is a free agent. He's not bound by any contract or any kind of noncompete, and he can bounce around from promotion to promotion as needed. So now he has jumped ship to aw and the Shoulder Demon is now affecting people

in this company as well. I don't know what it is specifically about the shoulder, but this has been a real problem here for the last few months. And so now, unfortunately for Jack Perry, after this big Jurassic Express reunion after so many years, it looks like he's basically back to the singles ranks again. But anyway, we'll talk about this whole show, but also go in and out here with your messages as we count down to the new year, and keep me posted in the chat in case I lose myself here.

to hit tonight live is four hundred. We almost always exceed that, but hopefully tonight we will not, although again there's going to be a lot of people who are not here that usually are here because they are elsewhere. Super chats are open. I will be reading your messages, so please get them on in and of course your support is always appreciated. But as far as Dynamite goes, let's take it to the top and we'll start there

Jay White. By the way, somebody mentioned Jay White. Was it a shoulder injury?

He said, Swerve Strickland is the franchise, Samoa Joe is the Samoan submission machine, Hangman Page is the main character. All three men that he beat on Saturday. He said, that's cute, But he's MJF the AW World champion. So he took the AW title and he chucked it out of the ring, just threw it outside the ring, and Tony Shrevanni lost his shit. He was very outraged by this. So in the ring they had a display stand and clearly there was a belt under a tarp. G I wonder,

I wonder what's underneath the clock. Tony Shravanni's like, yeah, why is he throwing the belt out of the ring? Oh, G Tony, I don't know. I can't figure it out. So he pulls the tarp off to reveal, of course, the triple B or I guess he said, the new or the new would improved triple B, which just looks a lot like the old triple B, the big Birdberry belt that he had during his first run as champion.

It is back, and he said, you know, you either step up or you get stepped on, called himself a stallion, said that he's done slow trotting around, so the donkeys in the back can keep up. From now on, it's a sprint and no one is going to catch him, as he's going to go down as the greatest of all time. So Kenny Omega appears on the big screen from I guess his home said that he's sorry to interrupt,

said that MJF made him feel a certain way. He made him feel a certain way, but he made him feel like the old Kenny Omega is reaching the end of his career more than he is the beginning of it, which is a stone that he hates leaving unturned because it makes him think, you know what, if what if he can become the AW world champion again? What if they met in the ring today and not like they did the last time, which was a collision match when MJF beat him. Actually that was the match where MJF

became the longest rainning champion in AW history. He goes, it wouldn't be MJF against the cleaner or the best bout machine or the belt collector. He said, they he's not collecting belts. He's going for one and whether it's next week or if he has to claw his way to a title shot, MJF is going to be seeing a lot more of him. And then he bid us Ado and that was the last we heard or saw

of Kenny Omega on this show. So in the ring, MJF said that the dumb schmuck fans chanting Omega's name, they could do that all they want to, but Omega was not mad enough to come out and say it to his face. So then we see in the crowd, different parts of the crowd. Hangman Adam Page is there, he's got a chain, Swerve Strickland is there, he's got tuxedo, t servo. My goodness, he didn't bring a chain. He

brought Oscar with him. Thank you Tuxedo. That gets us up to three out of fifteen on the bonus superchag Gold and I thank you brother and Happy New Year. And by the way, thank you to Devil's Fan Brodure for five. That's right, one, two, three, four five channel membership about that. Congrats to all the new channel members. Thank you to Devil's Fan. You're awesome. So here come Hangman and here comes Hangman and Swerve and they head to ringside. They get held back by security. MJF tells

them to relax. He's a professional wrestler who believes wins and losses matter, and he said, if they start winning matches, they can talk to Tony Khann and he'll whitbolt their asses like he did at World's End. And he quickly escapes into the crowd. Because they were able to I know this is going to be a shock to all of you, but they were able to bust through the security geeks at ringside and get into the ring. And by this point MJF was already halfway out of town,

so he was gone at that point. But then Hangman and Swerve they're beating up the security geeks. At one point, they each grabbed the end of the chain like one chain and they used it to close line some security geeks and then they power bomb them. Actually it was a double power bomb. And then we got the assisted buckshot lariot where he actually rolled off of Swerve's back into the buck shot and then that guy got a

house call kick. I'm telling you, these two would make a great tag team if they wanted to go after the tag team titles. So Hangman took the mic and said that when he gets ahold of MJF, he's going to strangle him with his ugly ass belt. Swerve said that MJF better pray that Hangman gets to him before he does. Says the hunt is on and may the worst man win. And Samoa Joe popped up with the ops on the big screen and he said they deserve nothing.

Joe said that he deserves to be the number one contender. He has the answer for the obstacles that are in his way. Hangman and Swerve had the audacity to put their hands on hook, the greatest second generation wrestler of all time. And as he said, this hook ate a potato chip, because that's just what he does so. He said that he has ordered Hook if he finds them

to drop them on site, choke them out. Hobbs is coming for Swerve, while Hook is targeting Hangman next week, and Hangman said that it's New Year's same dumbass and he begs Joe please, I beg of you send Hook and Strickland said, next week it's going to be a tag team match, no holds barred, lights out, and then we got the announcement a little while after that that Tony Kahan made it official that we will have a lights out match on Dynamite next week. That'll be the

first Dynamite of the New year. As I said on the sound off this past weekend, MJF winning the title at World's End the right decision to make. And he's got several challengers already lined up. We already know he's got the match with Bandido in two weeks, so he'll beat Bandido.

maybe this is what he was talking about. You know, maybe what he's talking about is I got to get my ass back in contention for the world title. Now we have our answer, and that's great because he's really been phased down as far as like a singles star in the last few months. It'll be nice, assuming he's healthy enough to kind of get back into the swing

of things on his own and start wrestling. He doesn't have to wrestle every week on TV, but it would be nice to get an Omega match every now and then on TV and then get some big pay per view matches out of him. And so I don't know if they're going to build to him as the first challenger after Bandido and do this at Revolution. It's kind of what it felt like to me that maybe Omega and MJF is a Revolution match. It could be a

double or nothing match. I think there's a story there in you know, as Omega said, like the climb back to the world title or back into world title contention. So I don't think they need to rush into that match. You know, you could, you could save it, you know for the spring. But then there's well Osprey of course, so there's a number.

with a judo throw. Tony was signaling for a giant swing at one point and Garcia booted her in the face, which got him Honestly, probably got him as much heat as Gunther had coming out on Raw Monday night, which is not really to say that he got nuclear heat, but rather to illustrate that already the bloom is coming off the rose with all this supposed heat that Gunther was going to get for tapping out John Seene, I'm still waiting to see what was all this Megga heat

that people were saying he was going to get. I don't hear it, do you hear it? But he got heat for booting her in the face here. So Cassidy flew in with an orange punch, but turned into mother's milk from Shaffir. Roddy pulled her off and then dropped his wife with a backbreaker across the knee. Claudio laid out strong and rolled through a top rope crossbody from Oc,

who countered into a stun dog Millionaire. Claudia then took the referee and that distraction allowed for Wheeler you to, who was not in this match, to hang up Cassidy on the top rope, which led to a big upper cut from Claudio.

in the match. Although this stuff with Orange Cassidy and Tony on Saturday got a reaction, but the fans have been into it. So I just wonder if they if they're actually preparing to do a match between the two of them. I don't know if that's where it's headed or not. Beyond that, I don't know where they're where they're taking this stuff, but pretty much just a re thread of what we saw Saturday with a different outcome. So after this, we had the Ring of Honor World

Champion and the Dynamite Diamond Ring winner. Finally, somebody else has a diamond ring. Now will be Bandido. He went one on one against the Beast Mortos, and right away the announcers remind us that Bandido has a guaranteed shot at MJF and the AW World Championship coming his way in two weeks at what they're calling the maximum carnage episode of Dynamite. So Bandido he comes out, he has a cape on, and at the beginning of this match here he used his entrance cape to play bullfighter, and

so the Beast Mortos took the bait. He missed some charges, but not the headbutt that put a stop to all the silliness. Morto's then connected with a tornado dive through the ropes to the floor.

It was a lariot that turned Bandido inside out. Mortos went for a corkscrew moon salt, but he missed and Bandido managed to get Mortos up into the X knee and then followed with the twenty one plex for the wins. So, you know, it was a good showcase for Bandidel because they are prepping him for a World Championship match, so it makes sense they would give him something to do here on this show. And look, I mean, the Beast Mortos. It's a silly, funny gimmick, but he's actually a really

fun wrestler to watch. He just never wins, So it would be nice if, you know, we got to see him on this show and not just on Collision or Ring of Honor. If they could actually feed him. They'll feed the Beast some wins against lower level talent and just let him go out there and smash guys. Even if you just goes in there and loses to like the you know, the guys higher up on the card. I just feel like he always loses, and so it's like all right, as soon as you see him, you

already know the outcome of the match. But as far as the match itself, you know, it was a good match. I don't really have much else to say about it. It was It was a competitive match to a point, but it was a showcase for Bandido. So I'm just looking at the clock here, forty six minutes to go here until we hit the new year. Are you excited? Are you excited? Is tomorrow going to feel any different

to you than today? Probably not. Suplexus says that Mortos has booked as strong as Daniel Garcia this year.

the aw World title and becomes Bandido two belts. And when that happens, Brody said that he's getting the first shot, but until then, he's got some business of his own to handle. Even though we were told that John Moxley's match was coming up next, they go to the next match and fucking Lee Johnson is in the ring and I'm like, okay, I guess the plans change. And on commentary they said, well, you know, sometimes we got a standby match here on the show, like they had extra

time to fill all of a sudden. So it was Brody King against Lee Johnson and what we got here was a good old fashioned squash match. Before Brody even got into the ring, Johnson hit a dive out onto him. All that did was piss him off, so he demolished Johnson. Inside the ring, Johnson got turned inside out with a massive lariot and then the big cannonball in the corner that led to a gonzo bomb for the win.

In twenty twenty five, he stood atop Mount Everest, and in twenty twenty six he wants to stand atop a w but not before he can defeat all of the death Riders, because he says he's beaten them all except for one, and that one that he has yet to beat is Pack. He doesn't know when or where, but he needs to get that win to finally put an end to this so that he can set himself free. Pack, by the way, again, was not on the show. He was not there on Saturday. He was not on the

show tonight either, And I have no idea why. I don't know if he went back home. I don't. I don't think he's hurt, but he just hasn't been there the last couple of shows, and I don't know when we're gonna see him again. Doesn't really feel like Moxley is leaving the Death Riders anytime soon? Does it? Yeah? When you have Darby cutting promos saying you know, I've

beaten all the Death Riders. They've all been losers to me except this one guy, and that guy is pack, It's like, Okay, well, I guess a turn on Moxley right now really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. So yeah, I don't get the sense that it certainly didn't happen tonight, didn't happen on Saturday. It didn't happen tonight, And I did not get any impression whatsoever that it's coming anytime soon. There's been no hint of anything. There's

been no teas of anything. There's been no crooked look that anybody has given him, there's been no comment under someone's breath. The Death Riders are all aligned, they're all on the same page, and I guess everything is copasetic and we're just waiting for Pac to come back. So there you go, because Moxley has lost to Darby, just like all the rest of them have. The fuck are they going to attack Moxley for he's the only one with a belt? I guess other than Claudio. He's got

the CMLL belt. Why would you kick out the one guy who actually has an aw title in your group. It's like, now they can't kick him out. It wouldn't make any sense. They're only in the third inning. Yes, oh, we're only in the third inning of this game. We got a continental title eliminated match with John Moxley, the new champion, facing Josh Alexander. There is a new wrinkle to these eliminator matches, and now they all have twenty

minute time limits. That's not like a new thing, but the wrinkle to it now is that if you go to a twenty minute draw, it is as good as winning the match, because if you win the match, then you get a title shot against the person that you just beat, which, by the way, these eliminator matches are

very dumb. They are very stupid, but they continue to do them where you have to wrestle the champion and then beat the champion to get a title shot, so that you have to wrestle the champion for a second time.

Instead of five minutes, which is what you would get with the beat the clock shit, it's twenty minutes. But if you can last twenty minutes, then you get a championship match. So this is now aw's version of beat the clock. And you know how I feel about beat the clock, So that's the new wrinkle in things. Moxley came up with a barricade through the crowd and he

kind of feigned that he almost slipped and fell. He was wincing from the ankle that was worked over World's End on Saturday, so continuing to sell the bad leg from the match with Fletcher and then the match with Okada, and Alexander attacked him at the bell immediately was wrenching at the mouth, and they pointed out that Moxley broke

his tooth in the match. You know, it's it's such a it's such a strange thing because we see all of the abuse that Moxley puts himself through right in these matches, and he's always bleeding and taking forks to the head and barbed wire and just all this nonsense and all these weapon shots and of all things, if you saw how he broke his tooth during the match

with h Fletcher. I think it was the first match, like he was wedged in between he was like by the ring steps outside and then he just sort of fell and he just so happened to land I guess tooth first, like right on top of the ring steps. And it wasn't even like he got picked up and dropped like, you know, face down. It didn't look like anything really out of the ordinary. So it was like the most like the what looked like the most minor

spot of the entire match. And the guy's walking around with a tooth that looks like its split right on the middle. So anyway, they pointed that out. As he was wrenching at Moxley's mouth, Alexander shot a single leg. He targeted the bed wheel. Moxley went to the eyes until he got back dropped over the top to the floor, so it was all Alexander during the commercial break, and when things came back Moxley he briefly got a rear

naked choke. Alexander slid out into an ankle lock. Moxley teased tapping out, but he made the ropes, rolled out to the apron. Alexander went out with him and they were trading supplex and pile driver attempts until Alexander slipped behind and Moxley's leg got kicked out and Alexander hit a world strongest slam on the apron. So back inside,

Alexander missed a moonsalt, Moxley missed a paradigm shift. He fired off a cutter for a two count that he sank in a bulldog choke, which Alexander countered into a back suplex, so Moxley popped up and he delivered a backdrop driver. He turned Alexander in side out with the lariat. Both men are down.

He was bleeding from the head. I didn't see exactly how it happened, but he he had a fair amount of blood actually coming from his the forehead or the top of the head. Alexander did and he ended up in the choke and he passed out in the rear naked choke. So John Moxley defeats Josh Alexander, and what

was a good match. And again Moxley's here playing the role of babyface peril, you know, for the fans to cheer as he's selling the bad leg and trying to make this triumphant comeback, and then in the end he does.

So it was a good wrestling match, but you know, it's just it's just weird how he's still part of a group that the people boo like we had this Mixed Nuts rematch earlier in the Night with the Death Riders, who are clearly the heels, but Moxley, for whatever reason, this story they've told with him where he has been taking. You know, he took a lot of losses in recent months, and he was teasing, tapping out. He was tapping out.

He tapped out to Hangman and then to Darby and then to Kyle O'Reilly, and he started cutting all these babyface promos in the Continental Classic, and the fans just took to him as a babyface. I don't know how

long they're going to keep this dynamic up for. I don't know if the idea is to slowly turn the rest of the Death Riders into again, if not Babyfaces, more of a tweener faction that at least doesn't go around trying to murder people with plastic bags, if that's the plan, or if they have something else in mind and what they plan to do with Pack when he comes back, because again, right now, it looks like the idea of Moxley no longer being associated with the Death

Riders that ain't gonna happen. The Death Riders are locked in step together and where one goes the others go. Whether that's as good guys or bad guys, I don't know. Best I could say is at least they don't have a stranglehold on the world title anymore. At least that's something. But after the match was over, we weren't done yet

because MVP and Shelton Benjamin they come sauntering out. They strolled out onto stage, onto the stage here and they are staring down Moxley from afar, and we are reminded on commentary that Benjamin came awfully close to making it to the semi finals in the Continental Classic last year, So now we know who was made official. Later on, Moxley and Shelton they're gonna have an eliminator match next

week on Dynamite. They're gonna go one on one, which again as a match, sounds like a really good match, and maybe that'll go to a time limit draw and then that way they don't need him to beat the champion just to wrestle him again. If they go to a draw, he'll get a title match out of it, because that's the new rule. And I don't mind Shelton Benjamin being involved with a championship because Shelton. Benjamin is fucking great, And my concern was Bobby Lashley is done.

Bobby Lashley is hurt bad enough that apparently he is gone for months, so we're not going to see him for a while. It would be very easy for Shelton to end up on the back burner and getting a random match here and there on Collision. He's too good

for that. He's too good for that. So I'd like to see him still be involved in the mix, whether it's with the Continental title, if it's with the National title or the TNT title against Mark Briscoe or something something that has some sort of significance here on this show. So if he's going to be involved in this, then that's good. I'd rather that than just him not being on the show at all. But then later in the show,

in the back, we had a death Rider's promo. They were all together and John Moxley said that Shelton and the people who hurt people, you don't have to come out to look at me like you feel some kind of way. I'm easy to find. So then Wheeler you'd spoke up and he said the Darby Allen, if you want to get to pack You've got to go through.

They're just they're gonna blow through it on Collision, so Darby will get his win over Willer Dah on that show. I mean, like, I heard this and I'm like, is this supposed to be some kind of threat? So then Daniel Garcia said, it doesn't matter who you are the Death Riders, it's us against the world in twenty twenty six. Yeah, that doesn't sound like John Moxley is going anywhere anytime soon with this group. I think that pretty much confirms it. I do have to say this about John Moxley though,

and I said this on TNT the other night. John Moxley's second half of twenty twenty five was a lot better than his first half. The first half, the first half of this year when he was really in the thick of that world title run and they were killing people, attempting to kill people, napping the Rock and Roll Express and all this goofy bullshit. They were doing worst pay per view main event in aw history of revolution with him and Copeland.

But I just think that like the weekly television with the Death Riders and the music hits and they come out and they got the belt and the briefcase, and it's like it just got to a point where it just how long are we going to stretch this out for just to get to the big moment, right, you knew the big moment was going to come, whether it was Hangman or Osprey or Darby or whoever it was going to be. It's like, oh my god, this is

just dreadful. In the second half of the year though, right the world title, they were away from the world title and Moxley was losing to this guy. He was losing to that guy. The blood and guts match stuff, the stuff with Kyle O'Reilly again where he's like teasing. He's just like definitely afraid of tapping out to him the way that he did to Darby, and they were

telling a story with him. And then he has this Continental Classic, and then of course he has that match of Fletcher on Saturday, which was the match of the tournament. They fucking tore the house down. And so now I reflect back on this year now that it's over in a few minutes, and it's like I can sit here and say that there was a lot more from John Moxley in the second half that I either liked or could tolerate, a lot better than what we got in

the first half, which was just fucking dreadful. And now as we head into the beginning of next year. Hopefully, hopefully what they're going to do with him, I guess is a baby face. Hopefully that we'll make for good television. Two week that's all I ask, Just give us good television. We don't get enough story told with the Death Writers though, as far as like interactions conversations between them, like you know, backstage John's screen. I know they do some social media

stuff every now and then. I think it would be nice to have some of that featured on the actual television show, but they don't. They don't do that. You know, they come through the crowd and you'll get these promos like from Moxley where they're standing behind him and he's talking at us. He's talking to us, not so much interacting with the other members and kind of trying to flesh out the relationships between the different members of the group. I know some people are going to say, oh, that's

a WWE thing. No, it's it's character building and storytelling is what it is. And I think it's okay, you know, to do some of that with the Death Writers. That's just something that they really haven't done a lot of. If that bothers you or offends you. I'm sorry. Happy New Year, and to a countdown clock. Check here what time is it? What time is it? It's twenty seven minutes until midnight. We are less than half.

unified title. So he's defending the national title against jungle Jack Perry, who was out with Lucasaurus Total Leona and Lucasaurus. They had an early face off at ringside Bishop Kahn. He tripped up Jack Perry, which allowed Lucasaurus to go at him, but Leona attacked from behind. That distraction, though, gave Rikoshet a chance to send Perry outside and hit

a dive. So after a break we were told that Total Leona had attacked Lucasaurus and took him backstage, very similar to what happened on the pre show on Saturday during the zero hour, so Ricochet wanted vertigo. Perry floated over and we got a series of switches that led to a comeback lariot by Perry for a close near fall.

Later in the match, Perry signaled for his sacrifice knee. Ricoschet, though, took the referee and that allowed Bishop to trip up Perry, which gave Ricochet a chance to hit the spirit gun

for the win. So Ricochet retains the national title. After the match was over totallyona, he carries Lucisaurus back out okay, onto the stage and is slamming a guardrail piece of like the guardrail is slamming it down on top of him and his left arm is outstretched, and they placed the guardrail over Lucisaurus's arm, and at that point in the ring, Ricochet hits Perry with another spat gun, this time from behind to the back of the head. So he knocks him out and he gives the high sign

to goa like do it. And so at that point they I think it was Bishop who takes a steel chair and while the guardrail is laying down after it was slammed on top of Lucasaurus's left arm. He is repeatedly smacking the guardrail with a steel chair, and Lucasaurus is just he's screaming out in agony, and so a bunch of security geeks come out, and of course they get slammed onto the guardrail and in turn on Lucasaurus's arm, and he's screaming more. The match itself, the match was

very much hampered by the interference. Constant interference by Goa basically ruined the match. I don't have a lot to say about the match itself as far as Lucasaurus is concerned. Again, if you miss the little update here at the beginning, he is hurt. According to fight Ful, he has a shoulder injury. I don't know how serious it is, but the fact that they did an angle to write him off of television tells me that he is going to be gone for some length of time. Whether that means

surgery or not, I don't know. And it's too bad because they reunited, you know, Jurassic Express a few months ago, not.

What is different now that wasn't the case a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, where we're reading about like half a dozen different reports over a period of a few months of shoulder injuries, some of which are serious enough to keep people out for months and have them undergo surgery. I don't know what the difference is now. Very strange. Rene was backstage with MJF asking how does it feel to have all of these contenders locked in

on your aw world title. MJF said that he's about to make his first title reign look short in comparison to this one. So Brodido walked in and Brody King said that Bandido will make that triple be Bandido's big belt, and then they did their little handshake and the gun salute, and then off they went. Isn't that very similar to what the Gun Club does with the whole gun salute? I don't know, but that was the end of that segment. MJY have did not do anything dastardly to Bandida. Maybe

they're saving that for next week. And then they closed the show and their year with the TBS Championship on the line. Mercedes Monet defending against the former champion and one half of the women's tag team champions, Willow Nightingale. These two have had matches in the past and they work very well together. I mean, obviously, the first match they ever had is the one in h was in New Japan where god, I remember where they were working.

It must have been had to be one of the New Japan shows out in California, I think, But that was the match where Mercedes got hurt. Actually, no, that would have been the match where I guess where they crowned the first ever God was it the new Japan Strong Women's Champion. I believe it was, and it was going to be Mercedes, but she got hurt during that match. But then the last match they had was really good.

So you know, as far as the match, I was looking forward to it, I just was not expecting the title change to take place tonight. So she doesn't have as many men holding her titles. As she walks down to the room, there's still a lot of belts, but she shed a few recently, so Justin Roberts did the big fight introductions for this. Mercedes immediately hit a series of low drop kicks that sent Willow outside, and Mercedes opted to do her little Ceo dance outside before going

for a meteora up against the barricade. And that was a mistake because Willow moved and her knees went directly into the barricade, and then she launched Monette into the railing with a pounce. So back inside, Willow cartwheeled out of the corner, hit an overhand shop and shotgun drop kick off the middle rope. There was a big cannonball in the corner and then Monette rolled outside, where Willow caught her with a cannonball off the apron to the floor.

So they went to the final commercial break here of the show. Willow tried to spinebuster, Monette escaped and then charged, only to be launched with another pounce. Death Valley Driver connects, Monette kicks out it too. There was a backstabber that staggered Willow a little bit. Monette again charge ran right into a doctor bomb, but she got her foot on the ropes, so Nightingale went up top missed the moon salt and that gave Monet rather a chance to try

frog splash. Willow got her knees up on the landing, though, so they go to the apron. Willow connects with a death Valley driver and she drops Mercedes, and it looked more like Mercedes hit the edge of the apron and then she lands on the floor outside and her head is underneath the ring skirt, so her head is underneath the ring, and I'm just thinking, man, I could just

see her laying underneath the ring. Nobody can see her face, and she's just like fuck because the way she hit the edge of the ring, I'm sure that didn't feel too good. So Nightingale threw her lifeless body into the ring. Monette again rolled outside, So Willow decided, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go for another cannon ball off the apron. She went to it one too many times. She came flying off the apron. There was nobody home,

and Willow went splat right on the ground. So Monette hit two of the three amigos on the floor, and Aubrey Edwards is in the ring and she's counting both women. Willow fought off a third amigo slammed Monnette into the apron. She broke the count to reset the count. Then she goes over and she starts cleaning off the announced desk. So Willow brings Monette up on top of the desk and Mercedes is begging off here. Willow was going to go for a doctor bomb on top of the desk,

probably would have killed this woman. Monette got free and she ended up hitting a third suplex on the table, but the table did not break, and so Willow she landed hard and she kind of bounced off the table landed on the floor. Aubrey is putting the count on both women, and Willow ended up breaking the count just at the nine count, like almost ten. So both women are trading pen attempts. Monette tried for a statement maker, Willow powered to her feet, and Monette tried the Monette maker,

but she got smashed into the corner repeatedly. Mercedes got a jackknife pin Willow. I thought she was going to bridge out of it. She didn't bridge out of it. Instead she rolled over and she just transitioned like smoothly into position for a doctor bomb, and she got Mercedes

up for it. She dropped her with the doctor bomb and she got the one, two, three, And after five hundred eighty five days, Willow Nightingale has ended the TBS title reign the longest rain in an AW history with that belt of Mercedes Monette, the woman who beat her for it, she got her belt back and now she has two titles instead of one. So after the match, purple confetti is raining down. Harley Cameron runs out to

celebrate with her partner Orange Cassidy and Jet Speed. They rush down to the ring to celebrate and hug Willow and Chris Statlander is in the ring. They're like, oh, Chris Statlander's in the ring, So we have a little face off between the two, right, these two friends or former friends, and of course they end up everyone's.

she goes to each one. She may have a successful defense here and a successful defense there and then come back and lose the belt. So without knowing, because I'm sure Tony Kahan he may have in his head knew, Okay Willow is going to be the one that I want this belt back on eventually, and we're going to do it at the end of the year. He may

have had all of this mapped out. What he does not have mapped out, because despite what other people may tell you, he does not control the booking in any of these independent promotions, is when this woman is going to necessarily lose each and every single one of these other titles. So instead of waiting for her to do so, which could take months, he decided, you know what, we're

gonna change the title now. And if that's the case, I can understand it because then the title is not in this state of sort of arrested development where you know, you're kind of handcuffed because Mercedes has beaten almost everybody else, So what is she gonna do. She's had it for five hundred and eighty five days, Does she hold it for another one hundred another two hundred three hundred days?

Is she going to rain with this belt the way that Athena has rained with the Ring of Honor Women's belt?

so maybe they were going to go with her. But you know what, I don't have an issue with Willow being the one. It's just I don't understand why then, if you knew this was the plan, why does she need two belts? Now? Like? Why did they need to win the tag team titles. If let's say Tony Kahan had this all mapped out, and I believe he had it mapped out at least for a couple of months, maybe he didn't know at the beginning of all this that Willow was going to be the one to get

the belt back at the end of all this. But they only won the women's tag belts like a month ago. I don't understand why she had to win that if you knew you were going to put this belt on her, that's just I don't know. It seems unnecessary to me. We are going from one woman who had multiple championships and now we have another woman who has multiple championships, and it's like, all right, we have Bandido talking about it.

He's going to be Bandido two belts. I mean, when did this become a regular thing where everybody has to have multiple belts, Like it should be reserved as a special thing for like one person every few years that they walk around with multiple championships. When you have multiple people who walk around with multiple championships, it loses a little bit of luster. But these two women went out there.

They had a pay per view caliber main event, here on this show, they killed it, and I thought this match was a hell of a way for them to close out their twenty twenty five Take a look at the Twitter pulse if you guys chimed in here with your thoughts, what as you think of the final dynamite of the year. Sixty one point six percent thumbs up for tonight's show, seventeen point four percent thumbs in the middle, and about twenty one percent thumbs down.

in a few weeks. All right, so we got about eleven minutes to go. We'll break into some of your super chats and questions and comments here. We'll go back and forth, so we don't miss the big countdown here certainly don't want to do that. So if you're drinking tonight, you gotta get your champagne or maybe you got some, a little bit of the bubbly, you got some. I

don't know, zema. What do people drink nowadays? Mike's hard lemonade, Jack and coke, bud light, a real American bit and that don't drink the real American beer, stone cold ipa, whatever it may be. Get it ready, Docs in the Central time zone. All right, so you're well, we got people also on the West coast, so it's not gonna.

I love shit like that. Like to me when this Vault channel first launch, like that's the kind of shit that I wanted to see more of So.

got a good one there. The Bearded Elf sixty nine been a fan for a couple of years. First time writing on here. Hope your New Year's Eve is going well. My question is if owen Hart did not pass away and did the gimmick that he did, would he have been a future WWE champion. No, owen Hart was not going to be w W champion. If owen Hart was ever going to be w W champion, he had two

opportunities for it. One was in ninety four where he could have beaten Brett before SummerSlam, in that little summer period between King of the Ring when he won and SummerSlam where he lost in the cage, he could have won it even if it was on like a live event or something, and then it was like, oh, shocking, breaking news. You know, Owen beat Brett short of that, or when he first came back in ninety seven when he went after Shawn Michaels, but that was also never

really realistically going to happen. Like he was not going to win the world title intercontinental. He was going to win that the night he died. But world champion now, now, it's funny if Owen Owen, it's almost as if he was a little ahead of his time in this way.

If Owen was still young enough to be active, like really active during that period in like the mid two thousands where they split the brands and they had two world titles, I would have a different answer for you, and I would say, you know what, I could see Owen as a world heavyweight champion, But Owen hard is the WWF champion at that time that he was active. No,

he was never going to happen. Great as he was, they were never going to put the belt on him, right, So we got the three minute warning here, three minute warning. And I'm not talking about Jamal and Rosie. It's almost midnight.

I hate to say it, but that's gonna that's gonna be the last Duff's joke here of the year. I wish, I wish you were going out on a higher note, but we got one minute to go. Am I gonna do my predictions for the new year.

Here we go, everybody. This is it right here, six five, four three two, And a very happy new year to all of you, as I welcome you all to two thousand and twenty six. See now this was a three D stream be coming right out at you.

Look at this. You got a whole confetti bath here just for you, guys, just for you, the New Year's baby here. You got everything, you got everything. Oh man, So now we begin anew. This is officially now the first stream of twenty twenty six.

I think you are officially the first sub of twenty twenty six. Hopefully you will enjoy your stay. Bryant Finley says, so, Willow winning is a bad decision. Hold on, let me move this up here. Willow winning is a bad decision. Yet another dual champion. She gains nothing from beating Mercedes and no proper build up to it. Athena or Billy Starks would have made much more sense. Yeah, well, I've given up on them. Getting that other fucking title off

Athena Billy Starks. Billy Starks has not been established on AW television, so it would almost be like starting from scratch with her. And if that means another four months of Mercedes as the champion, and then you know what, probably.

appreciate you and the content it says. Be safe out there. Happy new year, Happy new year, Michael. It's not the new year yet for Michael. He's out in Arizona, fallen exposure. Thanks for all the work you do. Enjoy a cup of coffee and have a blessed new year. Not a coffee guy, but I will I will salute you with what I have here, which is not coffee.

of all the little creepy crawlies there. Every It's like every video I see on like ig or TikTok or wherever it may be, like spiders, and I'm like, oh my, I cannot. I just cannot. I cannot deal with that. I don't know some of the things I see in these videos from down Under. I'm telling you, man scares the Bejesus out of me. Power Spying Games three forty eight am in London is I will try to stay awake tonight.

honestly don't think they ever had a bad match. I enjoyed their Backlash match, which was the rematch from wrestle Media fifteen. Even the wrestle Media fifteen matches, it's a good match. But seventeen would be the best and the worst one. You know what the worst one would be Probably they had a match on Rawn ninety not on Row. They had a match in ninety seven at the DX in your House pay per view where Austin never took

his best off until the match was over. It was the one where he backdropped Dilo Brown onto the windshield of the car at ringside that wasn't much of a match. I'll call that one the worst. That Ian joke is old. I heard it as a child. Yes, these jokes have been around for ages. So where does he get them from? Before I get too deep into all the newer ones, let me just go back and just zip through the

Joseph ones. I don't know if I have answers for all of his questions, but let me at least try to tackle these, and then we'll get back to yours again.

men and he was in the Departed. Yeah, he departed.

Pokemon is going to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. Yeah, I was not a bit I'm not a big Pokemon guy. I've told the story of when I was a camp counselor and it was really blowing up. Everybody would bring their Pokemon cards in and I would just confiscate all of them, like, you're not here to play fucking Pokemon cards. Give me all of your cards. They are not allowed. Those are the rules.

be my pick. None of them would be a good choice. But if I had to choose between those three, I would go Kurt Angle would not make a good Jack Nicholson. Did you know Haffe and Batman Returns came out the same year and Danny DeVito was in both movies and did not know that? And that Joseph ends, thank you so much for the birthday wishes, Sola, Monster and everyone. I really appreciate it so much. Have a blessed, safe and wonderful New Year you as well, Joe's you as well,

my friend. I wish you all the best. We have Samash Pendergrass with a twenty dollars super chats. Yes, Sidra makes a good point that supposedly, as of seventeen minutes ago, bris Jericho is a free agent for the first time in what six years, is Paul Leveck already on the phone with him as we speak. Are they having that phone conversation right now ironing out the details for Monday in Brooklyn?

would have been firing on all cylinders back then. That was right in the middle of that. Tanahashi and Okada run there for both of them. In Nito, ROH was still its own independent thing. PWG was doing its thing, and the takeovers were fucking amazing. So you're not wrong. Happy New Year, Solo, Love you brother. What in the world are you wearing? It's called a shirt stadium j Get with the program, brother. You know, when it comes

to these special occasions. You can't dress like a fucking slob like a lot of other people do on YouTube. I'm no slob, I'm no solo snob. Somebody has to set an example around this set, this freaking vast wasteland here that we stream in. Duffsvid says, what's a crackhead's favorite song?

The story that the match really would have been MJF and Lashly and Lashly being gone now for however many months, It just there's no point and even there's no point in it now, Duffsvid says, how are Hillbilly's children tak to wear their underwear yellow in the front, brown in the back. Happy New Year's solo and chat Happy New Year. Duff's fids Spencer Dunnings with the fifteen. Happy New Year,

Salo the Monster, my guys, bringing back memories. Twenty twenty six will be my tenth year listening to the sound off and following all the content on the YouTube channel. Much love and cheers to a great twenty twenty six. Fien, Fien, Fien. I was gonna wish you a happy New Year, but then you you launched into the fiend there. I'm gonna have to take that back. Now, I'm gonna have to throw you into the interrogation room. That's what I'm gonna have to do. Duffs VID's what's the best part of

having a twin spare parts the ufmanten. Basically, Bendido said that he will be the first Mexican born aw champion. It's a direction you can fuck And that was mjf's respect to that comment from Bandido, but he says that was the gist of his promo. He was all fired up when he said it, so he said it with great conviction. I just I didn't know what he was actually saying, but thank you for the translation. Just cruise, Happy New Year's Solo. Thanks for everything you do. I

don't reach out often. Wanted to share my occasional thanks from under the van Wick. Your content has been a presence for me for almost a decade.

twenty six be the booker goal. Happy new Year and congrats to Willow were becoming the double champion. Yes, so I mentioned earlier Willow Nightingale the new TBS champion. We've got Elijah Davis just saying happy New Year to everyone. I mean the middle of a forty eight hour shift, so I'm not going home anytime soon. Glad I can ring in the new year here. Wow, that's rough. Forty eight hour shift is no fun, but I'm glad you could ring the.

I'll allow cinepals, you can forget the rest. Paul Carpenter, Happy New Year's Can I get a happy birthday? Also? My boss won't let me go home to enjoy. Well you new year's workers. Be safe. Yes, happy birthday, Paul. I don't know what the magic number is, but I hope that this birthday is very good to you. Yeah, nobody should be working forty eight hours straight. That should be against the law, and probably in some states it is. Thomas Solo. I'm drunk. Here's five bucks. I will take

that five bucks. You won't remember giving it to me, but I will happily accept it. Jane Love first count of seven thousand for Revolution six thousand four Dynasty.

getting to like eight, nine thou ten thousand. That's what happened. I think when they did Full Gear in New Jersey and.

that out. During Dynamite, I dropped in on it to see what was on. They were showing stuff from WrestleMania three and does z Paul SENTI WWE two K fourteen Symposium is the most classic drunken mess in WWE history. If Flair were not there, would Jr. Still be at WWE? I don't think he would be by now. He would have been there longer than he was, but at this point I don't think. I don't think he would be there. If it wasn't that, it would have been something else.

I think they probably wanted him out of there. Honestly, they were just looking for an excuse to get rid of him. Shawnee in the Wrestling Happy New Year solo, thanks for bringing the best and most consistent part of my or being the most he said, bring the best and most consistent part of my week. Here's the Vault releasing Jake Roberts DDT on Hogan in twenty twenty six. You know, I don't think that we're ever going to

see it. I really, I really don't. I was kind of hoping that it would be part of the video they released.

gonna blow it up bigger than ever in twenty twenty six. Yeah, in that video, now, they didn't They didn't include the funeral parlor where Warrior got locked in the casket. They included the one where Jake slammed the lid of the casket on Jake's hand, They included the Brother Love Show where Earthquake squashed Hogan and the Brother Love Show where Rick Martel sprayed arrogance in Jake's eyes. There were a lot that there was a lot that got left out.

I was kind of hoping. I didn't necessarily expect it, but I was kind of hoping that maybe they would include the Jake Hogan thing from I had to be filmed in eighty six. But you know, ever since they released the Brett Hart Tom McGee match, this is now like, this is the one, This is the one that this is the rare footage that everybody is waiting on that I don't know that we're ever going to get to see,

assuming they didn't delete that shit. Vince was like, immediately destroy that footage so that it never sees the light of day. Oh man, did they include the one where Brother Love introduced Paul Bear. No, No, there's a lot that was not included in that. It would have been like a two hour video if they included everything in there. We got Boss Toys with the Here we go with the Man. This list is so long. Here uh, Here's

to a bigger and better year. And speaking of the new year, Moxley should lock Wheeler Da into the briefcase for a few months like he did he did.

We know, Vince and Sena are still very good friends, and Vince thinks the world of him, So I actually think he probably would have gotten a better retirement run under Vince than he did under Triple H. With that being said, I'm very happy that Vince was not back to book it because Vince does not need to be back. Tone C says Happy New Year, Solo, Happy new Year, brother, the average grunt. Happy new year to you as well. Thank you for the Canadian two Alex with the twenty

five says brother solo. Here is the first of many bre modes for you in twenty twenty six. Happy new year, brother, and to everyone here, well said, Well said Tuxedot Servo ring in the new year with OSCA and we have about fifteen times tonight. David Rice, thank you, you and JD and Jesse have inspired me to start my own YouTube channel. That's awesome. Just make sure you're starting it

for the reasons. Make sure you're starting it because it is genuinely something that you have a passion to do because you think it would be fun and that you are ready to invest the time into it. Because without consistent content, it will not work. So just as long as you check all those boxes and you you really, you know, you get your mindset on it, and you got a battle plan for it, then attack it. Man. It's not easy, but it's a grind, but it could

be a fun one. Toya says. I'm still stuck in twenty twenty five Central time or Pacific time, Ellie, Ellie Lazardi, Happy New Year. Shout out to my Superman Cam who got me into wrestling and also introduced me to your reviews. Glad to be starting twenty twenty six with you.

me switch over to something different here. How about this get a different tune going here? Kogi the antagonists says, I have yet to meet you at a House of Glory show, but I plan too soon. You may not remember, but you helped me deal with my mom's death last year and again on the anniversary of her death this year, and I can't thank you enough. Well, that's very kind of you to say that, and I'm glad. I'm glad that I could be of some help. Obviously I can

only do so much. But anytime you know that, And yeah, I mean, one of these days you'll have to say hello. If you see me at the House of Glory show, I'm always I'm always there to definitely say hello and maybe we'll grab a photo.

but not really where she needed to be. And I think by working with Becky, Becky helped get her there. And she's trying to do the same thing now with Maxine, and the jury is out on whether or not it's gonna work, but I mean they're doing everything they need to be doing as far as Maxine is concerned. You know, they they did vignettes for her, They're giving her live mic time in the ring, they put a belt on

her again. I don't know if it's gonna work, but you know, Becky working with Becky can only be of help to her.

my face. You're a very you're a very optimistic fellow. Thank you, robotech guy. Uh Sidrow, what do you call a sleepwalking nun?

want to enjoy their time together, that's great. All I'm saying is that if I were married and I was enjoying a good scheme with my wife, I don't know that I would be listening to me, But I wish you both a very happy new year enjoying a good steam. Oh my goodness. Uh oh we had Oh we have a little guest here who dropped in in the chat. We have JD from New York is in the chat here. Four old fashions, tonight lightweight. That's it. It's already twelve

forty five. That should be at least double that by now. Well, he's slowing down, slowing down in his old age. Just wanted to wish the Monster and the sound Off family a happy new year. Thank you for the support, and I hope Jason and I are making you guys proud with TNT. Love you brother. Yes, indeed, we had what I believe to be our longest watch time yet for

a TNT last night, almost an hour. So like if you if you live stream and if you do content like that on YouTube, you know, watch time, the average viewer time is one of the key metrics that you look at. It's like pretention time. You know, how long are people sticking around for? And I think it was fifty eight minutes. It's a long fucking time like that. That's that's a high number. So we're very proud of that. And the way things have been going on Tuesdays has

been tremendous. So we both thank all of you for that, and here's to blowing it up even bigger and better in twenty twenty.

I don't disagree with you on that. I think that Becky Becky is number one when it comes to that. See Wressell Rans, He knows good Fashion. Thank you Wreussell Rans JR vasher Happy New Year Sola Monster, We Love you solo, Thank you Jr.

having that conversation right now. Z Paul says, of course Austin became stone cold in WWE because, as Flair said at the two K fourteen symposium, who could work for WCW and not drink? Paul van Summer in, Happy New Year's brother, Thanks for what you do. Thanks for rating in JD on Tuesday nights as well. You're very welcome. Drew Mackincox says, bangor year from Solo twenty twenty six will be my ten year anniversary. Difference between a chickpea and a garbonzo bean? Oh my god, what is the

difference between a chickpea and a garbonzo bean? I've never had a garbonzo bean on my chest, Oh my god. Yeah. With the saddest part about that is he's not even drunk and he came up with that. Uh Navy forty one eighty one. Imagine the count, the count as a ref one nah Tua hoc tua. Yeah, that would be Uh.

There are some referees who count that way, and then you also have referees who do whatever the fuck it is that Paul Turner did the other night at World's End, Jeremy Rose with A twenty two says, I'm confused, partly to the res for WWE's pettiness and always going head to head with AW. I understand business, but in the wrestling industry, I would think that people like Triple H would understand competition is better for industry. It's not how

it works. Brother, their mo has always been to frustrate and stomp out the competition.

The answer is yes. We have a brand new school in Orlando, the Orlando O Vito Areas, so it's pretty safe bet that we're probably gonna end up there at some point. Anderson Blitz, thank you solo for a great twenty twenty five and here's to twenty twenty six. Cheers here. I'll raise my mug to that. The Mount Vernon Kid says, Real Talk Boss, one of my favorite content creators here on YouTube in twenty twenty five, Lamar Wilson. And the sad part about it is how he died. Please everybody,

if something is wrong, mentally reach out to someone. Yes, that is a very good mention, good thing to mention. Was he the one that I heard about? God? What kind of reviews did he do? Was it was it food? Was it food related reviews? It was somebody?

although he had a great one. Man, he had so many great ones, but he had a great one with Omega too.

that disgusting Vince mcmahonshitt from the lawsuit. I remember reading through every page of the lawsuit, the Janelle Grant suit when it dropped, So yeah, I mean, maybe it's recency biased, but I might have to go with that one, honestly, because the stuff that I was reading, the most salacious stuff from that lawsuit, was absolutely revolting. It's like, how do you even talk about that stuff? The mount Vernon kid, because I love you Solo, but no shade against Dashi?

Is it dashy or Dashi? I think I don't know how to pronounce it? And what does he review? I've never heard of him before. The Uffman says, Oscar is yelling falise anno nuevo. There are you my designated translator now? Duffs Vid says, I was in the hospital. The nurse said I couldn't feel anything below the waist, so I felt her chest. I was escorted out after. I'll bet I'll bet you were. You were escorted right to a jail cell. That's duves VID's We got Dane, Dane and Dalizak.

This is the new wrestling commentary channel of Thanks Well, that's the the best compliment that I could be paid. Thank you, Dane. I wish you a very happy New Year, and I hope you enjoyed the content. We got swamp Witch with the twenty. I love you Solo in my best Jacob Fatu voice.

Johnny Burnie. Of course, the fireworks wake me up. Happy New Year.

on those shows. Chris Lloyd, did you know Jimmy wang Yang painned aj Styles on the first ever TNA show and Trinity was the first TNA knockout to challenge for a men's title. It was for the X Division Championship with Kid Cash. I did not know that, Thank you, Chris, but there's no way he was Jimmy wang Yang by that name on that show, right, Dane says best not New Wheeler Yudah looks like a hairball. He does. He

does look like a hairball. I like the other idea though that was mentioned earlier about Moxley should stuff him in the briefcase instead of the belt and carry him around for the next six months. I can endorse that idea. I like that idea. We got z Ray with a fifty dollars bomb. Happy New Year, Solo. I just got back into WWE this year, and I have been away since two thousand and seven, so it was nice to

find you this year. I'm glad you did. Thank you for all your content and your insight, and here's to another great year. Z Ray, thank you very much. That is a lot of money, and I appreciate that very much. Falcon Star says Sola Monsters said, gotta catch them all as he takes away their cards. That's what I should have said, as I went around collecting all their cards. Gotta catch them all. Here's the garbage right over there, power spying games. I don't know if I can stay

up for the whole stream this year. I have work in twelve hours. I will have to catch up later. Happy New Year's Solo and the chat, well, it'll be here, It'll be archived here and i'll get the audio up tomorrow. So I got you covered. Did I ever watch Adam the Wu He just passed away at fifty one in his sleep. You know, he's another one who passed away recently. I did not watch him, though I think I was aware of him, but I just never I never watched him.

The Mount Vernon kid, What do you think of Mercedes going through some changes after this loss, and she becomes unhinged. Monett, even with the new hairstyle, she's already become unhinged. I mean, if you saw the segment at World's End the other night after they lost the tag team match, she was literally in the back in her locker room, just screaming and breaking a mirror and trashing all kinds of stuff.

If you want her to change her appearance, I mean, the only thing I could think of is maybe, you know, one day she comes out and her hair's all like frazzled and shit. But like, I mean, she's not going to radically change the way she looks. But she has been slowly becoming more unhinged. It's just not a constant thing. She kind of goes in and out of it. I'd like to see them ratchet that up a little bit

more now. I think they will at some point. Like it doesn't make sense for her to be so confident and full of herself after she's lost three or four championships, you know what I mean, Like there has to be this slow descent into madness. The Juliette December must have been the month for shoulder injuries. Michen reportedly injured hers during the holiday tour. Yes, we talked about this earlier Miechen, and now Lucasaurus has a shoulder injury as well.

That way, we can get a sense of where everybody is from I'm curious here at one a m. Eastern time, where everybody is from Dominic, Happy New Year, salad monster in New York. Happy New Year, Dominic. There he is, there's Superscian Sina. There he is activated super Sena with that ten spot. Oh my god, the chat now was

going so it's coming too fast. We got Toronto, we got California, We got Pennsylvania, Virginia, Long Island, Nasau or Suffolk, Michigan, Indiana, Bethlehem, Pa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Canada, Hawaii, Tennessee, Alabama. We got two from Alabama, South Carolina, Syracuse, Sacramento, Ohio, Fayetteville, Wisconsin, England, Milwaukee, Australia. From Texas but currently in Illinois, Mount Vernon, New York, Toronto, Ohio, Montebello, California, Cleveland, Japan.

Well it's almost Sapean, yeah, of course, Japan. Three oh three pm in the afternoon in Japan. See, we got a much bigger variety than I even thought in the chat. Look at this Phil the truth. Happy New Year to all as we celebrate the new year, new opportunities, new memories, and new findings and untapped strength. Did you write this pill or was this Ai? Happy twenty twenty six? Happy New Year, Phil, and we got Sammy in the chef

from Saudi Arabia. You got a royal rumble coming up, Johnny Boy Vocaro, what's going on?

but you don't have to. I got you covered or at least when you can't. And when you do watch, you come over here and we all talk about it.

are moving along. Don't forget us a little, people, and thank you for the support. I appreciate that.

Right now, it would be soy or almond. I got, I got all in my fridge right now. Retro Koah, Happy New Year, from Vietnam. Okay, we can just added Vietnam to the list. I made the worst decision and went to the mall. Horrible mistake. Well, I mean that was your first mistake. You went to the mall at the worst time of year. No less. By the way, I don't know how it is in Vietnam, but you don't go to the mall around the holidays here. You just don't do it. Nothing good can be gained from that.

And now everybody's gonna have all their shit that they have to return. So like, if you have a need to go to a mall, you may as well wait until at least mid January. Jedi Joker ninety three says, Yo never really sent you a super chat, but I've been watching you. I'm from JD's community. I've grown to respect your takes. Happy New Year, brother, Well I appreciate that, Jedi Joker. I appreciate that very much. I'm glad you enjoy the takes or the content. Welcome, don't be a stranger.

Feel free to drop in whenever you want, and I'm wishing you a very happy New Year wherever you may be. Super cam Fit with a ten shout out to Ellie in the chat. Let me take you out. So, oh, look at this guy. Look at this guy.

and chicken with flavor. Says Happy New Year's Solo, Monster. Happy New Year to you as well. Speaking of regulars here on the channel, he's with us every week. Hey, you guys killed it and then he had one more. He says. Congratulations to Willow Nightingale for winning the TBS title. Also Stranger Things franchise the greatest show in the twenty first century. Thank you, Duffer Brothers. Yeah, I know they're having like a Stranger Things tie in with Raw this Monday.

I don't know what that is about. I don't know what that's gonna look like. I am very behind on these new parts from the latest season, so I've only seen the first episode from part one that dropped like Thanksgiving. So I have a lot of catching up to do. And Alfonso, Happy New Year, Solo. May twenty twenty six be the best year yet for you in the channel and all your future endeavors. Ps. Did you ever watch

k Pop Demon Hunters and did you sing along? I have not watched Kate Pop Demon Hunters yet because I'm trying to catch up with Stranger Things first, and I just finished another show called Pluribus, which is a new Apple TV show at Rhea Sehorn is the star. She was She was Kim. If you are familiar with the show, better call Saul. She's great. It's a Vince Gilligan show and it's a very very slow It's not a bad show,

but it's just a very slow burn. So the first season now is over and there's about like eight episodes I think, so I was watching that so I just wrapped that up.

a chance. You know, the problem is with these shows, like I was curious, like, okay, when when is season two coming out? And like, season two isn't coming out for like three years, and I promise you, like three years from now, I'm gonna forget every fucking thing I watched on that show and they'll have the little recap at the beginning. But you know, it's like, what is with these three year waits in between seasons? Like what, like why why does every show feel like you gotta wait three years?

you have to rewatch everything. I feel like I have to go back and rewatch at least the most recent season, which I did not have time to do.

is going up because she's super talented. I talked about her a few weeks ago. Somebody asked me about her in the mailbag on the podcast, so I talked about Kendall Gray, and I had nothing but positive things to say about her.

confiscating kids Pokemon cards? Did he give them back? Why did he do this as a counselor, because it was becoming a real issue with all of the groups, and we were told that if you know they're being played with, you have to just you have to take them away. And eventually they were returned to them, but you know, there were certain activities where you're not supposed to be doing that. So it's like up to the counselors to confiscate the cards if the kids don't listen. Of course,

kids don't listen because they never do. So you have to have somebody assertive in a position of authority who could put their foot down and say, okay, that's it. And I was the head counselor, so I had to be the bad guy. It's fine. I enjoy being the bad guy. It's fun. Jarvis Harrison says, thank you for everything. Happy New Year's stay golden. Thank you brother. I'll give you a not really a kazoo. It doesn't make any noise, but there you go. It should make noise, right, this

is supposed to make noise. I don't know why it doesn't make noise. Slushy Glue ninety one sixty seven says, like The Wire only had one year wait each season, well that that would be fantastic. A year I can do. I could do that, but like three years, like why it's too long? Super Pony. If you haven't seen Dexter, I highly recommend it. It's my favorite television show of all time. I have not seen Dexter. That is one that for whatever reason, I just never I never watched it.

Dry Chicken says, to honor Avenger Doomsday coming out this year, which wrestler do you see being the Doctor Doom of WWE? And AW? I mean for a w wouldn't it be like MJF the Doctor Doom of WWE, Victor von Doom. I don't know who would be the Doctor Doom of WWE. I don't know. I don't think about that. Gunther Oh gun said, Yeah, you know what, gun the maybe Gunther Gunther probably would be the best answer to that. Retro says, I can relate solo. I got to heal it up

on my students when they don't listen. They're into Pokemon today like I was in nineteen ninety nine. See, I just miss that. I just miss like the Power Rangers in the Pokemon that was like after me. I just missed that that whole craze again. My whole thing was like he Man, ThunderCats, Turtles like that. That was me wrestling WWF. Moore says, check severance if you haven't and all timers, you know, I keep hearing this from people.

So I watched the first episode and like, I fell asleep towards the end of it, and I just never went back to it. I was kind of bored, honestly, So like, is it worth it to like keep up with it? Does it get better? Because I was pretty fucking bored. I'm not gonna lie to you. Everybody everybody raves about that show. I'll give it a second chance. I just I wasn't compelled enough to go back and finish what I started. Devin says, buy or sell Kim

Wexler or Skuyler White. Kim Wexler, I gotta buy on Kim.

that's no fun. Really. Oh wait, no I can, Oh I can't. Okay, yeah, fuck it. We may not. We may not hit this, but what the fuck, We'll do a double double. We'll do a second double round. How about this, We'll do a second double round with all intergender matches, intergender tag, intergender women, well, I mean intergen Yeah, you know what I mean. We'll do three of them if we hit this bonus bonus goal. I'm just gonna be I'm gonna be a little crazy with this one here.

Probably won't hit this one, but whatever, we'll see. You have until the end of the stream here to surprise me. There you go, let's send that out into the universe. All right, but we're gonna get those two rounds in here in a second, let me catch up with these super Oh look who's back. He's back. Yes, Joseph is back. The birthday boy is back. Joseph Stewart's Joseph. How is your birthday? I hope it was very good? Says I'm back,

Solom Monster. Happy New Year, buy or sell Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffer in Haffa or Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa in The Irishman. I'm gonna go Jack Nicholson on that one in I'm gonna go Jack Nicholson in HAFA. To answer your question, it's just been a New Year's mood here of me. Have that all low. There you go.

Julia against Jade. Just go out there, go out there and you just do your thing. It's go'd be a bad night for Jade if they let Julia be Julia Eminem. Happy New Year, Solo and the rest of the family. I learned something this past holiday. My puppy's favorite holiday song is Feales Naughty Dog.

arcade anymore. They either have a PS five, they have a switch right, or they have games on their smartphone. Does anybody go to the arcade anymore? Is that even a thing? See, when life was simpler, going to the arcade was like a fun experience. You had ski ball, you had the little basketball hoops, you had the fucking thing with the hammer for to test your strength, and then you had all the arcade stuff. That's how I played wrestle Fest, That's how I played the Mortal Kombat

and X Men and all that stuff. I know they didn't say do they exist? I know they exist. I'm just saying, is it really? Are they as popular as they used to be? I own an arcade, so do I I have one of those arcade one ups, the Mortal Kombat one? Oh man, Hey, shout out to Matthew email me, better to email me if you have a question like that. The Solemn Monster at gmail dot com. How often do I get recognized in public? From the podcast and the streams, I get recognized sometimes, It's not

like every day, but like at the gym. I've been recognized. Where was I? It was a few months ago, it was like two months ago. I was actually walking down the street on like the main avenue, and I don't remember where I was coming back from, but I was walking right by the pizza place and somebody had gotten out of their car and came out and they were coming towards me, and I was like, Okay, what's going on here? And it was somebody who recognized me from

the streams, just like randomly walking down the street. And I'm like and he's like explaining to me, and I remembered I think like what he was telling me, and I'm like, that's pretty that's pretty freaking cool. We actually, you know, So it happens. Yeah, it happens. I'm not you know, Leonardo DiCaprio or anything like that, but it definitely happens. The Pats Number one fan says, would you rather have had Brett versus Austin at WrestleMania fourteen? Yes,

the answer is yes. Joseph says. I played Big Let Me start over again. I played Big Lebowski pinball machine game at the arcade. I didn't even know they had a big Lebowski pinball machine. Oh, pinball, Yeah, I used to play. That's the other thing. Also pinballs. You know, my favorite thing is about playing the fucking pinball machines.

Is my favorite part of playing pinball. When you hit the ball and the ball goes straight up and there's nothing you can do, and you're flipping, the little flippers are going. You're hitting the flippers and the flippers are going, and the ball just goes right down the fucking middle. He used to piss me off. Joseph says, twenty twenty six will be Live Doms year. I feel like this year was Live Doms here. Like every year it's like Dom and Rhea, Dom and Live. Who will Dom be

with next year? Maybe he'll be with Blake Monroe. You know, he'll trade up from Live to Blake. They're good for him though. Link Master X they got Danish. I'm gonna pick them up for bell m super Pony. That picture of Big Show frightens me good. That's the point. It's meant to scare you. Just be lucky. You're only seeing it from the chest up. I have the full image. It's far scarier. I actually did you guys a favor by lowering it. Link Master says, Maury's wigs never come off.

He's still on the air. God, I remember when he used to host a current Affair. Let's see how many of you old heads in here remember a current affair. Everyone knows Maury is like the guy like you are the father, And I'm like, I knew Maury before that, when he was more of like a straight news guy. The irate observer. He says, Happy New Year, solemn monster. This is Faisal from Kuwait. Hey, Faisal, what's going on? Man? I'm heading to Japan tomorrow night to attend Russell Kingdom.

Oh that's awesome. Decided to go see Tanahashi's retirement over the royal rumble in ryod. I can't wait. We'll keep you posting. You know what, brother, that's I think you made the right choice. I think you made the right choice, because that's gonna be special to be able to like say that you were there for Tanahashi's last match and it's against Okada. I know Omega is there. That's why he wasn't on Dynamite tonight. Omega is in Japan. Osprey's in Japan. They're going to be there for the I

guess he's having like a retirement ceremony. So I would love to go to a Wressell Kingdom one year, enjoy the show, super Pony. You're way better than DiCaprio solo. He's a fraud. I don't know. He's made some great movies. I can't I can't crap on the movies he's made a great actor. Now, Wrestle Kingdom is Sunday. Wrestle Kingdom is January fourth. Joseph says, Hafa is one of my favorites Jack Nicholson, who I could tell, I could tell that it is. Uh. Do you think Hafe is one

of Jack Nicholson's underrated movies? No?

content to just be with AW. He still wants to get back in the ring. He wants to have like a final run. He has the rights he has or Tony Kahan has obtained the rights to the Captain insay no character that he still wants to portray from the water Boy fucking thirty years ago. And so he's gonna at some point do something in AW. I mean, last time we saw him in a match, he could barely fucking move. I don't have any interest in seeing him

back in the ring. I don't think there's any need for him to be back in the ring, But I don't see WWE allowing him back in the ring. So he's gonna do it. He's gonna do it in AW. Here we go tag team be the booker. If you have not seen this before, it's totally it's just it's such a random thing, but people love it. And I did everything you're seeing here. I created this. It's mine, it's my creation. We have the Briscos, Jay and Mark, one of the great tag teams of our time, of

all time. Really thirteen times, right, I believe, thirteen times tag team champions, The Briscos. I got to call their very last match ever together. It's crazy. The Briscos are going to take on choose two single stars to form a make shift team. Okay, then I guess that's what we have to do. We have to choose two single stars. So we're gonna get it completely random team here. This should be interesting. Uh oh, look who it is, everybody. It's the bald Fraud as a punk called him. The

Rock wants your soul. He wants your soul. I want your soul, County, give it to me. I want your soul. Well, the Rock is going to be on this team because he just took that spot. So he's getting one spot. We know this, hey, the Brisco. That means the Briscos are going to share the ring with the Rock, So now we find out who the Rocks tag team partner is going to be. Ooh, it's going to be The Rock and Bobby Lashley against the Briscoes. Who you got in that match? I don't know, man, Rock and Lashle

is a pretty formidable team. It's a pretty good match, right there. I like that. Actually, I think the stipulation actually enhanced the match. All right, Now we got a women's match here and be the booker Sky Skylars is too bald frauds. Oh no, two bald frauds for the price of one. I will I will never call Lashley a fraud. We have Well, look at this, it's evil Alexa. We have Alexa Bliss. This is from the Fiend Days, right, this is where she's as a Bliss fan would say,

she is the Fiends. Here we have Evil Alexa and she will be taking on Mommy is mad. Pick a stip to make her happy. Mommy is mad. That's not good. Uh oh, we got to pick a stipulation for this match. We'll pick a stip and then we'll pick an opponent. Oh my god, Alexa Bliss does not belong in a brawl for all match, But that's what we're doing, we're doing, We're doing the bral for all everybody. I feel bad for Alexa Bliss. I don't think this is gonna end

well for her. Well, maybe we'll land on somebody that's like more her size, right, maybe maybe it won't be so bad. Alexa Bliss in a brawl for all match against Chelsea Green. Okay, now that's you know, as far as somebody that won't you know, overpower her, it's not bad. But as a match, no, that that I do not want to see that match. I do not want to see a brawl for all match between Alexa Bliss and

Chelsea Greed. It's fucking awful. All right, our first main event here, we have one more round to go after this. Here we go. Chelsea gonna come out of that brawl for all match having to wear her face mask again. Oh yeah, oh yeah, here we go. Here we go, baby, Iliya Dragonov. Look at this guy. Look at look at the Look at the wound over his eye. Every match that this guy has, he is wearing the wounds of war. He's got welts on his chest, or he's bleeding, or he's got some cut on his fucking face.

getting on Friday? Oh no, it's an ambulance match. We're getting an ambulance match on SmackDown Friday. Between Alistair Black and Damien Priest. At this point, I feel like those two guys are going to run through every possible stipulation that there is for a wrestling match. We had Last Man Standing, We've had I think we've had a regular match. We have an ambulance match, and then we'll probably get a cage match, and then maybe we'll get an eye quit match. How long is this few going to go

on for? Usually we start with tag teams. This is not really a stipulation that lends itself well to tag teams. So we're gonna go with the ladies match. How about that? It'll be a ladies stretcher match. Priscilla Kelly former GG Dolan Okay in a stretcher match against Camille? Yeah, what the hell happened to Camille? What does she just vanished her off the face of the earth. Apparently Tony Kahan is paying Britt Baker, and he's paying Camille, He's paying

Dan Housen. He's paying all these people to just sit home and do nothing. Not a bad job if you can get it, But I would imagine these people would like to actually work for their money. But hey, it's not my money, I guess he'll spend it how he wants to spend it. I don't get it, but that's how it is. All right, Match number two we have Oh god, not this again? Oh my god? If ever there was a sound effect for this. Yeah, this is the second time this week, by the way, that I

have picked the Punjabi prison. Well, I guess we're doing the men's match because I can't do a tag team match and Punjabi prison. Oh my god? Why why we have so many stipulations in there? Why do we keep landing on this one? This is how we're starting twenty twenty six. But they Punjabi prison. Dominic mysterio is going to be in the punjab be prison. He will be defending his intercontinental title. But who will it be against Cain? You lost me at Cain and Punjabi prison. I just cannot.

I cannot in good conscience give that a bell. I'm sorry. It is them. Is simply not possible. It is not possible. It is not possible.

have Kenny Omega Ankota Ibushi. Okay, this this image right here, this is like peak for these two guys, Omega and Eboushie. This is actually exactly the kind of match I would expect Ebushi to be in, more so than Kenny Ibushi would totally be in.

some booze? Let's see, let's get to these final super chats here. You got something to say if you want to show some love, get him on in we end the sixth annual. Make it till midnight, make it till midnight. It's almost two am. Let's see here we have Ghost of Achilles. Thank you. Solo thoughts on Nolan's Odyssey. Can't really chime in on it. I can definitely give you thoughts on Nolan's Batman trilogy. Give you my thoughts on that link Master, fifty shades of Captain Insaneoh my god,

please no, please know. Joseph says, I played the Jurassic Park arcade game today. That's cool. Thank you again for the birthday wishes and everything. Really appreciate and have a wonderful New Year you too, Joseph. I will see you on the streams. Cameron Spencer to get oba over. You have him as the leader of a group with Waller, the miz Kaiser, Omas Mia Yim and Ivy Nile. He can be a heel world champion leading the group. That's dope.

Are you down for that. Did you just suggest that the way to get oba Femi over was to have him lead a faction with a bunch of mid carters and in some cases people that could not buy television time like No, I think that would be a terrible idea. I would keep him far far away from most of the people that you just mentioned. All due respect to those people. That is not the way to get oba fe Me over. That is the exact opposite of what

I would do to get Obafemi over. I mean, you might be trying to uplift the other people, which is noble, but no, that is not how you get Obafemi over. Cameron. I do wish you a happy new Year, though, but I can't get on board with that. Luis says, happy new Year, solo. It's been a rough year personally, but your content helped me escape and stay centered. Thank you for all that you do. I salute you. I'm here for you with all the content every single week and if it can be of any help, that's what I

love hearing. I don't think he is trolling. I think he was being serious. Thunder Force, I think the Undertaker versus John Cena WrestleMania with the streak intact never happened because Vince would only do it if Sina was going to win. Well, then he's a fucking idiot because that was a huge missed opportunity. I mean I ranted about it years ago before the streak was even broken. I'm like, do the match, do the match? Why are they not doing the match? And then they never did the match.

Toya says, thank you, this was fun. Happy New Year, Toya, thank you for hanging out with us tonight. Let me get through a bunch of these member chats because again they're just they're not listed in the same columns, so they end up kind of being shuffled off until the end.

the year contender. I mean, everybody's raving about Kamatani in twenty twenty five, so I'm looking forward to seeing this match. Could it be a match of the year contender? Sure? I don't have a lot of faith they're going to give them a lot of time. I pointed this out.

I did a whole preview, preview and predictions for Wrestle Kingdom not this week last week, and I brought up the fact that like even if you go back a couple of years or three years, whatever it was when Kyrie was wrestling on the show and they got like five minutes, and then even the match on the Tokyo Dome show last year, I think got less than ten. If that, I don't know that they're going to give the women enough time to go out there and have a match of the year contender if they if they

get enough time. Sure, I don't know that they're going to get time. That's the only thing that you know, kind of worries me about that. Joey says, Happy New Year, great stuff this year, looking forward to the next, So am I you ever know what to expect? Eight minutes intros includement probably probably get like six minutes terrible Starboy Bebop. I know Stephanie is more than just the Devil's Kiss, But do you think a way to stop her from doing it and letting her show more of her skills

is turning her heel and maybe feud with Rhea. I don't think turning her heel is a good idea. I don't think people would buy it. I don't think she would be a good heel right, not right now? Anyway. Yeah, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it anyway.

hopefully you can join me for that. I'm going to be live with you on Friday night talking about the first three hours SmackDown. I know, oh my god, but we'll be here talking about that on Friday, and then this weekend first sound off of the New Year, episode nine five, which will include predictions, a look back at last year's predictions, what I got right, what I got wrong, and a look ahead to the world of wrestling in twenty twenty six, plus all the news of the week.

So it's going to be a good weekend and I will hopefully see all of you here on Friday night.

to have to let you guys go. But assuming that doesn't happen, I will probably be here with you for year number seven and we'll do it all over again at the end of twenty twenty six. So be well, stay safe, and again for all of you, I wish you all a very happy new year. Wrestle Kingdom, Yes, thank you. So Wrestle Kingdom is on Sunday, and my my plan, my attempt, because of course I record the

podcast on Sunday morning. My attempt is going to be to at least watch the key matches, like the top two matches, try to watch them before I do the podcast. So I am hoping I could do sort of a quick review on Sunday, but if not, I will I will get to it at some point, but I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to work it in there. I'm sorry. If Sabrina comes, Colin Man I priorities, Man, priorities, you'll understand it's all good. Or maybe I'll have her on here with me. Oh yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, let's pull

up a chair. That'd be great. Then my numbers will really go up. Hey, Justin, Justin Hesse with a nineteen ninety nine right right, I ad the buzzer here. He wanted to have he wanted to have the last word. He wanted to have the fun, final big super chat here on this New Year's evestream. Got your wish justin Happy New Year into all of you, Happy New Year,