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AEW Collision Review: Owen Hart Cup Semi-Finals Set

Jul 04, 202340 min
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In this episode, AEW Collision that aired July 1st, 2023 is reviewed by Memphis Mark & Maverick.

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Hello, everyone, this is Memphis Mark along with Maverick, and it's maintenance Maverick from now on. That I'm correct. Yeah, so you're absolutely correct. All right, Well, I'll make sure I try to remember that I don't want to piss off a service guy immediately starting a show. So we will go and which look, I mad, we are here for the Collision review on seven to one, and well, yeah, you know, the only way I know to do it is just kind of dive right into it,

I guess. And they started off with the interviews setting up for the Owen Heart Memorial Tournament, of course, but you know, interviews weren't that budget Hobbs and Dustin and Roderick Strong and Samoan Joe. I mean, what do you think of the start offs? So I really enjoyed once again we're

seeing just straight into these interviews. It's kind of like a cold open of just any TV show, no opening theme or anything, you just go straight into it and it just shows a little bit of what we have to come, showing everybody and their opponent just talking back and forth to each other. I really enjoyed hearing Dustin Rhodes his opening just talking about that he was a friend of Owen Hart, and that he is doing it for Owen this uh

this tournament. I really really enjoyed hearing that, just because it shows how long he's been in this business, and it shows how much he has given and how he's still around. Almost all of the guys who were around back then, they're not wrestling anymore, at least not on a weekly basis like he is. What did you think of that parting, Yeah, you know, you're exactly right. I mean, if you look at this these matches coming up, Hobbs was probably a kid if we are a baby one.

Owen Hart had his tragic accident, and you know, Dustin's the only one in that group that you know, could have had the tents who wrestled with him. So and Dustin's good man, it's just his time and his booking. It just never really worked out. Now when he was younger, man, he got a half cup of push, had cup of push, and h you saw him in championships matches quite a bit, uh, in the

NBA and and and and down in Alabama and Georgia. Uh So, I mean it's just a lot of people don't realize what he did, and they just know his father and now his brother. Imagine that your younger brother and your dad, you're all almost living in uh in those shadows. That's that can't be easy. That can't be easy, right, I mean, you've got uh he for so long he was just kind of seen as his gold

dust who and I mean no disrespect to Dustin with this. He was kind of just a jobber that wwe kind of threw around every once in a while, like he was on their version of ECW and everything. He just never really got the chance. Man, I hate that Vince kind of I say, he kind of wastes him. I'm gonna say it, but yeah, you know that that could have gone really deep. That could have been some getting back at Dusty. And there's a lot we could That's a whole nother

show man. We could go into that. But uh man, uh, they come out with m J f uh from the start. So we had the champ and he's going against a wait minute, what is this right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, moorst more stuff. Okay, we're just going to refer to him as Jabroni number one, but he was in it. It was his hometown there in Hamilton's uh you know, is it Hamilton Alberto? Is it? I mean Alberto Ontario. I believe Alberto birth thought that Erio was taking over the country. Uh, this match was was just what

you expected it to be. It's a modified squash match. I can I can call the match really quick. It's a leg move, corkscrew, boom boom bam. It's over. We'll go ahead and start into that. I mean, I mean, what did you think of Javroni number one? I felt like Jabroni number one was just it could have been anybody in the arena, really, it could have pulled somebody from the crowd just been like, hey, you want to be on TV for five minutes and that's really all

this guy was. It felt like he didn't really get to do much. I kind of felt bad for him. I always feel bad for people on the receiving end of a squash match, but it felt like more of just an extension of the promo that was to come. What did you think now, man, I have seen a guy getting ready to go out and get squashed by I believe I can't remember what naming was using here locally, but he ended up being Verissa Varissa Visa Rissi yeah, that's what you said.

But yes, I once actually had to throw the Woofie D and Jamie Dundee out of a place and uh and Wolfie was being polite trying to get Jamie out, and I turned around and U I was staring at almost almost at a belly button. And I'm not a short guy, but the guy I just look up, thinking the worst is about to happen. And he was as cool as cool could be, very nice, and he apologized and wanted to make sure that Dundee wasn't messing them on coming back to the cluffs.

So that's that's my old cool story for the first the moment. But then you have him calling him out, you know, doing the crowd, doing the old school. Nobody in this arena, nobody from Hamilton could do it. And we have the appearance of mister Ethan Page and he comes out and before he can get all the words out, m JF is trying to say that he's not on his level, and Ethan interrupts and and you know, does some good work on the stick. I mean, I think, at

least what do you think? So I'll be honest, I don't really know much about Ethan page, but seeing how he came into the ring and the way that he smacked the mic out of his hand to go into this promo, I really enjoyed that. I thought, Okay, this guy is actually working with this character. Whatever it is. I guess it's all ego, which I like that he's showing off a little bit more with who he is. The way he went about it and the way he went into that ego

we're into the promo, I should say it was very enjoyable. I really liked seeing it. It kind of felt like almost a typical baby face sort of promo, but hey, it worked for the guy and it led into a pretty good match. I really enjoyed seeing these two go at each other. Something that really highlights me was Ethan Paige doing a handstand the turnbuckle and

then taking a kick to the face. That's something I've never really seen before because I've seen people do that handstand before, like an old what was his name, Jack Gallagher used to be an NXT and I remember him. I remember seeing him do the handstand turnbuckle for the first time. I don't know how he would feel taking a kick to the face at the same time,

you know, what do you think about it? Well, first of all, if you go on Bill Street past four o'clock at night, you might see somebody doing But other than that, yeah, you're correct, I haven't seen that actually. In the Ring and Ethan Paige gets a big black eye at one point time, I think one of the kicks, and it could have been that kick, the heel or something caught him in his eye and that eye started swelling up pretty quick. But I do like the fact that

they are bringing back some of the basic moves and making it. I don't care if they call it popsicle or whatever, I don't care whatever. Like if there's a single leg crab, I mean just a single uh, you know, just something as simple as that. Uh, and m JF made it look good and made it look effective. Um, I mean, you know, I like him JF. I mean and his angle with uh, you know, his contract being up. I mean, I think it's all

pure genius. And uh, he's the one guy. I think when the guys from you know that, you know that that other place when they're he's the one guy they're going and he's but it just MJF. It doesn't have that size sometimes to fit in and over there with the giants, But man, he might he might prove me wrong. But so something that I think about m JF and w w E, I'm not sure if they would ever want to sign thing because the character that is over the character of the fans

love it is basically the Miz on steroids, but so much better. And I feel like if w got we were to hire him, how would they fit him in? Are they gonna put him in the mids together? Are they gonna make it so it's okay these guys are on separate shows or are they just gonna try to make it so it's avoiding those two being near each other because it feels like it's it's just a Miz, but so much better. There's the guy has talent, you know, kind of like my uncle

the Gardner. You know, he's got the opinion that the miss is the worst person on Earth. I don't really think that as much. But I don't like his performances as much. But I mean, you see NJF walk out, It's Canada Day. He's wearing the stars and bars ring gear. Come on, man, that is classic heel stuff. I really loved it.

What do you think going more into Nja's character. Yeah, man, I just I think everything about him just glows and and yeah he is as is it the nez Uh you know, Okay, I could see a little bit of that, you know, but uh, I just think he's uh, he just has an old school he from. I bet you you could go back if I had the time was set down. I bet you I could find three old hills. Uh that he I don't know that he took from those guys, but he does sound a lot like them. And uh

man, Uh there was another guy other than Rick Flair. There was another guy that they they were grooming that didn't make it. His name was Buddy Landell, and he was kind of a Rick Flair had the rich angle, but he was more like Uh he was better for the small towns because he could just really get under the crowds and everything. But uh, he reminds me a little bit of Buddy Landell. Uh, you know, and and

and and I know Rocky. I think me and Rocky have had a conversation uh about him, and uh and I know me and Michael have or several times. But I do have to say, uh, mav we got uh, we got into all this now we ended. Uh uh, let's see, well, we'll go back real quickly to the Ethan Page and Evan JF. But I did not mention that, uh, we will not have, of course, Rocky and Michael with us this week, because both of them, uh, Michael's on assignment and Rocky I believe had to do some uh

do some big deals. So he was he had to stay in and do a little work. So sometimes the crew gets moved around, and uh and we're just lucky to have MAV that was available and uh and we had to wait to do it for me to get available. So I just wanted to say Rocky and uh math we I mean Rocky and Michael. Uh, we hope to see you back next week if all possible. Uh. That RL stuff is some real stuff there, man. All right, so right, so we go back. We got Ethan Page, we got to m JF.

Their match was pretty good. Like I said, I liked the basic some of the basic moves. I like the big black guy, but it ends up with m JF pulling out the win, of course. But I think I think Ethan Page kind of get a little turn trying to do a little baby face. So I mean, you know, you don't know a lot about him, but what did you think after seeing this match? So honestly, I feel like this guy is a main event contender. After seeing

this match, I feel like it was very good match over all. It boosts both sides, I want to say, seeing that this guy can just come out just straight up in his hometown. It was nice to see that he got to perform in front of everybody. It's sad that both the guys from out of hometown had to loose tonight, but you know what it is, what it is, it's the business, and he showed that he belongs there to night. In my opinion, what do you think of him there?

Mark Man, I totally agree. I totally agree. So now that was the That was the match before we get into the Owen Heart Tournament. And the first one that we get in the Owen Heart Tournament is power House Hobbs with qt Ma Shale uh and and Dustin mister Dustin Rhodes um and and look man, uh Dustin is the teacher for sure, and he's he's guiding this match. I'm pretty sure he's telling uh, you know, controlling the

match, and and and and making the flow good. But they were definitely trying to to high light Hobbes as much as they can because he's their young guy, he's our future. But Hobbs had a Hobbs had to screw up. He had that. He went to do the press with Dustin, and I'm sure the sweat and then and the match I've had something to do with it too. But Dustin's long, man, he's a tall guy. And uh so after that, they have to you know, they have to do what they do on Auw Man. They got to bust that head man,

you bust that. So Dustin was the first one to open up to us and uh and so you know, the match pretty good though, I mean, come on, man, give me give me this, uh this younger age opinion of the old guy, the old bull, and the young bull. What I was seeing was this match told a story from beginning to end. It felt like in the beginning there was a lot of striking, but almost no grappling. It seemed like it was a lot of thrown to the corner. I'm going to hit you a few times, and then he fights

back a little bit. You know. I was just going back and forth like that, And at first I was kind of bored by it. I'm like, what is this? And then I start to see they slowly start bringing out these grappling moves, and it's sorry to come apparent to me. The story that's unfolding in front of me is, yeah, I've been around for a long time. Speaking from Dustin Rhodes voice or head, whatever you want to call it, his side is saying, I've been around forever,

but I can still go. I can still be in this match. I can still be a contender with you. Even though you're probably twice my strength and you know, half my age, I'm still able to keep going with you. That's what I was seeing throughout it, seeing the strikes going back and forth, the way it was it may not have been extremely apparent, but the way that the moves and the match was moving, that's what I was seeing. And especially seeing Dustin Rhodes hitting Big Red that surprised me.

I you know, growing up watching him almost as gold dust, he never really saw anything special out of him, But tonight I was very impressed with Dustin Rhodes. I really really enjoyed that. The match itself. If I could create it, I would give it four out of five Powerhouse, Hobbs in him. They took care of it business. But there was one thing that I noticed during it, which was a little strange. I watched the Fight TV app through that You're not supposed to get commercials mid match, You're

supposed to get picture and picture. So I get to just see still what's going on in the ring as you guys are seeing commercials. It at one point cuts to commercial still, so I was a little bit lost, thinking why is this going on? I think it may have been just a rest point or something for this time in the show. But I'll bring that up again later because it happened again in another match. So do you have any

more thoughts on that mark on that match? Yeah, I would. I would have loved to hear JR. Going go Rid, Go Rid, go Rid. Absolutely, you know, QT gets involved, Yeah, Dustin opens up and Hobbs wins, you know, and after that they got to do you know, they got another match coming up in the and the Owen Heart Tournament. So it's Roderick Strong and Samo and Joe. The promo was okay, I mean, you know, do you know the little spot I'm talking about? Right after the match, I mean, you know, not so

bad. Yeah, you're talking about a small Joe and Roger Strong, correct, Yeah, yeah it was. Yeah, So what I saw from that, it looked like the spot after Joe took care of rogect Strong. For sure, he made sure that he hit just enough of the chair to get the effect and everything, maybe the sound of the chair just to hit. But you were not going to hurt Roger Strong that way? Did you see that as well? Well? I did during the match. Now, I

was just referring to the promo that they did after that. You know, they had the little short promo before the Muro, the big Neuro match, you know, the big Miro match, the big opponent, you know, Jim Browning number two. What was it Anthony Anthony Henry I believe was the name if I got that right, but name really but yeah, yeah, yeah it sounds like an eighties hanger band guy. He was a bass player.

But anyway, yeah, uh jib Brownie. Oh no wait a minute, wait a minute, actually, actually I am I didn't write this down, but I remember now, Uh wasn't he wasn't Jabroni number two actually a pretty decent uh yeah he was. He was a pretty decent independent uh wrestler. I think he was an a tag team. I'm not sure the name or anything, but actually because he you know, he had some moves and you know they were Muro's gotta sell and and you know, and he did

sell. He merely. I think it showed me every side. He the the killer, the the the plan to the crowd, the baby face, how do you know what he's gonna do? He's insane and all the way, you know, kind of all the aspects, I mean, the clidoscope, I guess you would say of a of a wrestler. I mean, what what what did you sect of the match? Okay, so Anthony Henry. At first I was just thinking, oh, they're getting a little overbearing with these squash matches now. And then as the match went on, I

actually put in my notes this is a squash. It's a pretty long squash because it didn't really feel like one. It seemed like we can't have this guy completely buried. But he is facing Miro. Miro is a giant, so he's still going to beat him in the end. And they didn't make it too long. You know, the match it wasn't great, which when it's that short, you can't really get all that much out of it. But I feel like it did its job, which is build up Miro and

just show enough of this Anthony Henry. It was barely a taste of him. I felt like I didn't really get to see enough of it. So yeah, I couldn't really think too much of it. Not having enough of it, That's kind of how I felt it let me want anymore? Man, what are your thoughts? Yeah, yeah, you know, they're definitely doing the Miro Demon, but they're they're doing doing his bill give them his push. So I mean, I see something a little bit later on with

Siam Punk or somebody. They got to go big after after I guess Switchblades probably going to be next. But speaking of and you know what, I may have been a little quick on the Jabbroni number two. Uh, maybe we'll do Jabroni with a small jake, not quite Jabroni. Yeah, you know, we'll make it look kind of legit. But after that, you've got you've got Juice and the Bullet Club and FTR and the Whole King doing their promo and finding out that they are not able to be ringside with Ricky

Starks and Juice Robinson during their match. So, uh, you know, good little start, all these angles, all, you know everything. So I mean, what do you think where we're at right now in the show. So as I was watching this in my notes, I was saying that looks like the Guns have joined the Bullet Club. I kind of feel like they could change the name at this point and it really wouldn't make that much of a difference, but they still want to keep the Bullet Club tie.

You know, maybe give them just a little bit of a distinction as they're in aw with these two, because I just don't feel like they're true bona fide Bullet Club members, seeing as who has walked through those doors with that logo. I did enjoy the promo. I really kind of got to giggle

out of when the Guns were saying we have two words for you. Then you hear the crowd going out d X the moniker, which I will not say being that the show is TEG but I enjoyed that they corrected the crowd saying no, no, no, it's guns up, and you know, just everybody having that moment of I guess shock once again, both sides going at each other from both teams. It was just still very good. I

enjoyed hearing God who wasn't I said something about shooting blanks. It was somebody on FTR said something about man the bullets or the gun club has been shooting blanks for a long time and you're just now getting anywhere, something along those lines. I really enjoyed that. And during that I also saw a sign in the crowd that said where did Savog? I'm not sure why, but that just it caught my eye and I thought it kind of funny. What

do you think Mark? I missed the sign, I missed the sound, and I try to watch him a lot, but yeah, I think they're doing good with all of this, all the build up and everything. And something about Juice just makes me laugh every time. And I didn't know he was married to Tony Storm, that they broke that out. But yeah, every time I see Juice, it's like when he starts talking, I just see some guy telling me, knock that back, you know, knocked the

milk jugs down, and you know you win a prize. But we go into the match, man, and hey, the matches, it's good. The match is good because I love a match. When a screw up happens, and they make it look good. And Ricky starked, starts tripped h and when Juice went down to the ground when he was going over me, tripped a little bit, went into the ropes, started playing it immediately,

and then Juice immediately goes, we're smart. They covered it up. It's like somebody punched a hole in the wall and the next time you looked at the wall, it was repaired. Now that is some professionals. I mean, my my humble opinion, sir, what did you think? I agree that botch was very well covered up by Juice Robinson. I enjoyed seeing him laying down and just posing, and I think he buyed a finger or something

at him as well. With it just makes it so much more entertaining, and it makes you feel like was this part of the show or was this really a strup because part of me wasn't sure in the moment, and you're saying that it was a botch. I'm honestly kind of on the fence. I'm not completely sure, but it was very enjoyable. Throughout the match. I kept thinking the skills like they set up a big move, but then they counter it. It's a lot of almost big moves happen, you know

what I mean, Mark, Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And the match was it was great, and the and the way they let Starts pull it off, I mean great. But when they jumped Starts after the match and U and the running by CM and FTR, now that it made me feel old because them it was like, you know, they were waiting for the door to open on the small disabled bus and they ran down there with their walkers and it just it was the weakest run in in a whole while.

All right, I agree with you, it was kind of weak the way they did it. They could have been a little quicker with coming down. It's like we're coming, you know, and they sent it on telegraph. But uh yeah, it makes me think of the movie Deadpool. I don't know if you've seen it. It's a comic book character, but the character's pretty sarcastic and he's hunting down people for information. At one point, he's yelling to somebody in an ice cream you're gonna get run over by a zamboni

in five minutes. Just slowly chick them down and the zamboni. It's pretty funny. That's what you talking about that makes me think of actually, to tell you the truth, they did look like some Zamboni's coming down there. You know, Actually that's pretty good. I like that. We go we got Lucasaurs and Christian a course, coming out doing their little deal, and Christian, you know, putting the thumb in the eye, and an interview like he can do verbally so well. But you got spears coming down.

You've got Sean Spears coming down, perfect tend and I'm not gonna do it ten times, but anyway, Yeah, he comes down, and I think he does does pretty good. He does good enough that he makes Luca source gravel. So I mean, why did you think of the interview? So I thought it was goofy in the beginning. Once again we're seeing Christian and Lujasaurus. Christian is taking all the fame. Oh yes, I we are the champion type of thing, and then seeing uh, spears come down.

I'll be honest, man, I forgot his name when he came out this time because between him and w WE and here. Now, wasn't he like t J Perkins or something like that before? Oh yeah, I think he was something that probably had Tom Selleck played in the eighties. Yeah, I can't remember the exactly that it was. It was something, yeah, something right, But yeah, I enjoyed seeing him. I enjoyed his promo. I thought he seems pretty confident in the way he was speaking, and that's

what I enjoy It shows that you're less likely to slip up. In my opinion, Christian has to be one of the funniest heals that I've seen in a while, with this promo or with this whole angle that he's pulling right now, him and Lucasaurus just being almost co champions at this point when Blucha Source is the real belt holder. I don't understand why he keeps on with like, well, I am the champ. When somebody says, well I want to speak to the champ, It's like, come on, man,

step to the side. It's a good it's a great heel angle. I'm really enjoying it, but sometimes my brain just kind of messes with me on it and how to enjoy it. But anyways, yeah, enjoyable. So the next match was Lady Frost versus Chris Statlander. Correct, yes, sir, so a man, I I'm gonna start with you, Mark, what did you think about this going off man. It was not my favorite.

It was a TBS Championship match and Lady Frost, I did hear him say that her grandfather used to a tag with Bruno Sam Martino, and I did not, you know, I did not know his name off the cuff there, but I needed I should have looked it up myself. But I tell you the one thing I do like, Yes, as far as the match, I just don't think their timing was there. I think, you know, I just don't think everything was great on this match, But I do

respect the crap out of Chris strat Lander. My mother was deaf and she does a little sign language every time she comes out, and I don't know if she's speaking to someone or if she's just getting the word out, but I appreciate it myself very nice. So as soon as I saw Lady Frost step out, my initial reaction in my notes was is this the female version of the glacier her? And I know my uncle the gardener would be lapping a little bit if he knew about that, But with her performance, I

may have been right from what I was seeing. I don't know if her timing was off or what, but it felt like she was botching left and right, and I felt bad for stat Lander because seeing what she was kind of dealing with, it felt like I don't know what the female version of a JABRONI would be. Besides, you know, whatever this was tonight this, Yeah, I guess so. But so during it, once again I saw a few botches. One of them was supposed to be on the waist

lock. It looked like Lady Frost's leg went in between christat Lander's legs instead of both of them around the waist like it was supposed to. I saw after that it was like both of them were slowly getting up, and I saw stat Lander pull Frost's head to her and it looked like she's using a hair to kind of cover whatever she was trying to say to her. And then after couple of seconds, a w went to commercial again. I'm not supposed to get commercials in Fight TV, so that threw me off once again.

I'm starting to think Aw' is learning how to hide things that were messed up in the live recording and just trying to make sure that the whole audiences don't see it. But the live audience still obviously can, and they're gonna remember and potentially tell people. But yeah, overall that was it was a rough match to watch, and I felt really bad for Stallent because I'm a fan of First. I have been since the first time I saw her, I believe it was on Rampage, and yeah, I've been a big fan

of First. But man, this just this match was bad. Yeah. Yeah, And Chris of course wins the match, and and who knows if we'll see Lady Frost again. But we go into the promo about z Mask with a House of Black, and I'm gonna ask you, Maverick, who who who else is in this interview? The little yeah what? He And I liked the interview. I liked, uh, I just I like Andrady. I really wish they could figure the right stuff to do with him.

But hey, maybe it is against the House of Black, because you know, that could be the angle that they need, you know, But um, I just remember when he was hollering the mask. You know, I

just I loved it. I thought it was great, you know, I just liked a little gown or what was that treasure or treasure island de Plaine de playing he wanted his mask on a fantasy island, A little dude, Yeah, he wanted his mask, but uh, yeah, no, I mean, what did you think of the gentleman that you so namely said correctly? So he's a very good performer, even just these short promos. I am impressed by, uh seeing the way that the House of Black is playing

us out. I I'm not sure which angle is going to happen, but I feel like on Friday is going to dissent into madness somehow. It's going to be some sort of dark turn for him. I think it's gonna be a great angle. I feel like the storyline is gonna go somewhere and it's gonna be really good. We may even go that supernatural route. We may see something like a I don't know, maybe something similar to The Undertaker in

a way, you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, And uh, look we go into the the actual President of Collision, which is Sampunk. I know, I'm just getting a Sampunk is calling the next match to see who his opponent will be. And it's a Roderick Strong versus some Joe h and uh. I like it. I like the way the Strong comes out, like moving around and trying to stay mobile, and and Joe's like very slow and methodical, and uh, I mean a good match and kind

of done the way you would expect the match done. You know, Roger Strong gets his spots, but the size experience, And at one point in time, I believe sam Punk said the big melon head of Samoa Joe. It's provided But what did you What did you think, my friend? So they are building this up extraordinarily well for CM punk versus Samoa Joe again because I believe they had a rivalry back in two thousand and six they mentioned in

roh many moons ago. But I'm enjoying seeing the way that they're playing this out. The match itself, it wasn't bad, but I'm not sure if it was me or what was going on, but I felt a little bit of a hard time focusing on it. At certain times. I felt like I was focusing more on just what CM punk was saying rather than the match. And I'm not sure why. It's kind of bothering me that I didn't

really want or and I didn't really pay attention as much. The fans were chanting at one point just for CM Punk mid match instead of Samoa Joe or Roger Strong, and that kind of I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, you know, seeing that going on, but you know,

hatch happened didn't seem bad or anything. I really enjoyed the chairs a little bit at the end, with a CM Punk and Samo Joe both picking them up at the end play hey, I've got one too, come on, buddy, And then seeing how Samoa Joe doing that ending spot against Rodrick Strong. It wasn't necessarily bad the way he did it. He made sure to take care of Roderick, and I really can appreciate that. Then afterwards, seeing Adam Cole step out kind of made me questions he's trying to pull the

ultimate face or something here. What did you think, Mark oh Man? I think it was played Memphis Wrestling Style nineteen seventy nine. I think it's getting carded out. You know, you have Adam Page, you know, Adam coming out or Adam call, I mean coming out and uh uh baby

and uh checking on his you know, they had legit looking EMTs. Uh. Nobody jumped him after the match, you know, and the uh Samoa seemed to leave, you know, after a certain he kind of left quickly up the ramp on on one of those angles I saw also made it. It played it to the crowd like, hey, was this for real? Because he got knocked up, he got knocked out, so I mean hat

and the ref has to stop the match. And it was so bad there were so many people mad that a rock waller just randomly just started barking. Uh So, you know what did you think of how I mean, this is this is the last of the match, this is how we go off there. Uh. I kind of thought, you know, it kept people watching to the end. Yeah, I agree, it kept us kept a schlue to our seats. Really, as we're watching at the end, we're

kind of just seeing these EMTs coming out. There was only a couple of things that really hinted to me that this wasn't legitimate, and that was just seeing certain people being in the way, the way the camera was just in Roger Strong's face while the EMTs are like trying to get him on the stretcher and everything. That immediately told me, okay, it's a cell right now. But they did a very good job with it. I think anybody in the live crowd may have been questioning did he really just get hurt? And

I think they played it very well. Overall, match was good. I feel like Samoa Joe is just a great performer. I really have appreciated him since the T and A days back in once they have two thousand and eight or nine, I would really start watching back then, between him and Jay Lethal and all those guys that were there, And I'm just really appreciated watching his career develop over time. I really always seeing SMO Joe very correction old

person in the ring. What do you think of Samoa Joe there? Mark, I like some moment Joe. I mean he is uh, you know, he's built himself up. He is uh stayed with his his image or his stick, and he's perfected it and and I think he does great. Uh either way it goes. He's just a little injury prone. Uh you know. Other than that, you know, I love him. But man, like I said, the ref stops the match, Samoa Joe will be facing see him Punk for the second time on AW coming up next week.

So I mean that's going to be our matches Hobbes and uh, oh, I'm sorry, who was it who will Hobbs to be facing next week? Uh? Who wasn't? Oh? I feel terrible now, I can't. I can't even look at him. Uh. So you got Samoa Joe and see him punking and hobbs and uh oh my oh. Anyway, it doesn't matter because they're gonna tell us a hundred million times before this match actually comes up, so we will hear about it. I hear about it and hear about it. So man, that that does pretty much the show there,

my friend and uh, I think we pulled it off. I was, I was really. I didn't have to call Rocky and ask him anything, So we did good there. We didn't bug Rocky and we left Michael alone, so I think we did okay. What do you think there, my bud, I think we did all right. I think we covered the show pretty well. So then the show. Do you have any shout outs for anybody or anything you want to do before we close it up? Oh man,

I'm too old for shout outs. If I do, my teas might fall out all My friend, well, I actually want to give a shout out to Gardner Michael Gross just for getting me into this kind of stuff. I just wanted to get that out real quick. Also, you guys can reach me on Twitter at a maintenance mav I've changed my handle of that recently, so you guys would all be able to uh talk to me. Hey,

message me, let me know how I'm doing. If you guys think that I can do something better, or maybe that I'm you know, just screwing up on something, let me know. I want to know so I can improve. Let me know what the people are thinking, guys. Uh so yeah, that's all for me. What do you got? Mark? I like sometimes you might want not want to hear, uh, but it

is. Yeah. Hey, look man, I've enjoyed the show. Uh, I missed Rocky and uh and a Michael, but day we'll be back um next week and uh and as I said, if we didn't have to call Rocky one time, although I think I have to call Rocky after the show. But anyway, look, it's of course there's the n x T show every week, uh that we that I host and and other than that, and it is all straight up just love from us here. So guys, we'll just fold it up and uh and and this is Memphis Mark with

Maverick with maintenance Maverick. That is, uh, we're going to close it out. If you can rescue and spay a neuter and other than that, my friends, we are out

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