AEW Full Gear 2024 Did Not Disappoint

sanctioned Thursdays? Honestling, what's fready? What's up? Everybody? Welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays. I'm drinking green tea because the house I'm in Australia has a weird coffee machine that I don't know how to work, and I got up too early to do this show to even go get coffee. So we're doing the Asian vibe today, feeling very Japanese, Chinese, very Korean, very Asian in general. I'm going to be very respectful on this episode, very disciplined. I'm going to

be make everything perfect the way Japan does. Hopefully you guys like the show. So let's start with some news and an update. I told you, guys, I'm a man with a TV deal who doesn't have a promotion. That's where I'm at right now. I have a TV deal. How does this happen? How does how do I get this back? How do I do everything backwards? I have the TV deal in place without the promotion, And again I can't I almost said everything. I can't say too

too much. But on the last update I said, we were speaking with somebody and we were talking more about acquisition than than say, creation from scratch, right, something that already exists. Some of you had guessed what those promotions might be. You all guessed wrong. I saw, I saw that. I saw the comments. Everybody was wrong, so ha ha in your face. The people we were speaking with, I

think got a little bit of cold feet. There would have been a lot of travel involved for me too, which would have been tough, but I would have done it. But anyway, that deal is quickly going away into the world of into the void of shows that never got to be on TV. I was super bummed. I was in Australia when I got the news. I was on set out here. We're doing that. I know what you did last summer movie and Super Bummed, and the girl that I was working with, she was like, what's wrong?

Whole energy just changed. And we had just been talking about wrestling because her dad was a wrestling fan. He's from Detroit, Good Wrestling City. Letting her know she knows more than you guys know that the deal I was ninety nine percent sure was going to fall apart. My boss or my partner I guess in this case, texted me while I was talking to her, and so after we spoke, he said, but what about Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom? And he named like four or five other

promotions that are looking for TV deals. I said, look, I'm receptive to four of the five that you said. There was one there that I felt was trying to do the same thing that I was trying to do. And I'm not going to go in there and step on their toes and be like, well, what you wanted to do, even though it's the same as what I want to do sucks. We're going to do what I want to do. No, they should be able to chase

their own dream and try to pull that off. But there were four other places that they mentioned that are all looking for a TV deal or a new TV deal, one or the other, and he thought they might be receptive to us coming in and talking to them about a creative refreshment. And here's a television deal for you. So that's the update. That's where we're at. I have to start over once again. I'm going to have to

meet with new people once again. I'm going to have to pitch myself to these promotions once again and earn their trust once again. But hopefully I'll be able to do it. I've been able to do it in the past. I've done it. We haven't been told no by anybody from what I was bringing to the table. It was more a financial thing, which is where the no was coming from. But the creative has been cool so far. So I feel confident in that. I have to just remain diligent and stay on the path and not let

setbacks get me down. I'm telling you, man, when I first got the text, you get these thoughts in your head, like, well, maybe maybe this isn't what I'm supposed to do. Maybe I'm maybe I'm just supposed to act. Maybe I'm supposed to to stay in my lane, as they say, and all these negative thoughts. Your brain fucking lies to you. It's Thursday. We can cuss. I'm not straight edge. Your brain lies to you. Man. Your heart inspires you, your brain lies to you. Your brain says you can't do it.

Your brain says it's too dangerous. Your brain says it's too risky. Don't ask that girl out. She's just gonna say no. Don't chase your dream, man, You don't have time to do that. Yes, you freaking do, even if you have a full time job. You might have to sacrifice some other bullshit in your life, but it's bullshit, so sacrifice it and chase your damn dreams. But everybody, everybody deals with doubt that's created by our minds. My

brain lies to me. It has my whole life. It's told me maybe two true things in my life, and those are both guesses on what Christmas presents would be when I was a kid. Other than that, it just lies. I don't know if yours brain's worked the way I mind does, but that's what my brain does. So I was going through a lot of like weird, funky stuff and then pulled myself out of it and said, Okay, yeah, fine, if I have to start over. I'll start over again.

I don't give a shit. This is what I want to do, this is what I'm meant to do, this is what I'm going to do. So I'm back on the path. I'm working it again. I would love it if I could get a deal done for no other reason than I can tell you, guys all the places that I failed at, all the people who said no, all the people who were nice, all the people who were jerks. And there was one lady that literally was just like, can we just make it a reality show? I was like, that's not what what do you mean?

You just want me on a reality show? It's a wrestling program. But we'll get into all that. But once I finally get a deal, and I will because I believe in the power of positivity. Like Bo Dallas once said, you've got to bow lee real ones know that. Anyway, let's get into aw fool Year. What a card, what a show, what a pay per view? And god damn does it feel good to be right all the time? Oh God, it just feels so amazing. So we're gonna

get into it right now. First up, the AEW Tag Team Championship four way match, a four way tag match, no way Private Party can retain. There's no way Private Party can retain right, right, wrong, as Charlie Murphy said, wrong, He's an habitual line stepper. He was talking about Rick James. Private Party was going Jeff. You know, Jeff picked the Black throwne he loves the Black Throne, and Alex he also picked the Black Throne. But your boy Freddie picked

Private Party to win, and everyone was against me. But what kind of a title run would it have been. I'm trying to give you guys the philosophies on my picks here, so you guys can start making picks without my help, and then you don't need me anymore. Then you don't need this show. And then we have to do on sanctioned Fridays because Thursdays will be canceled. But anyway, it wouldn't have been much of a run. And it really doesn't get your tag team over if as soon

as they win it, they lose it. So this had to be a match that Private Party had to win. Otherwise, why did you give them those belts in the first place. It would have been a horrible mistake and an absolute waste of everybody's time. That was my philosophy behind picking them, and it was proven correct. Fun match. Hard to have eight people in a ring and tell a singular story as far as what everyone wants, but I thought they pulled it off. Not a big fan of four ways,

three is the most that I usually like. Still a good match. Private Party wins, But we move on to MJF versus Roderick Strung and the winner was MJF. We all knew this though. This was an easy pick. Everybody pick even Jeff got this one right. Jeff, way to go bro. Our producer Alex also picked MJF because he knows what time it is and this was an easy match. MJF came out, he looked awesome. Roderick Strong looked awesome. MJF tried to break his arm. Adam Cole runs out.

Everybody loves Adam Cole. Beabey, he came out. Kyle O'Reilly was like, yo, man, what's up with you? Dude? You kind of heal a baby face. Get out of my face. So they'll have some beef in the future. But we got to deal with the MJF story first. We all picked them. JF and if you picked MJF. You made money as well. The ae W TBS Championship match. Just time to talk to the ladies. We have Mercedes Monday

versus Chris Statlander. Now look, I've got money, I got mone You know that our producer Alex picked Statlander and Jeff picked Money as well. The philosophy on this one, I guess I didn't explain the philosophy and MJF, but that was pretty easy. The match is Adam Cole and Max, not Adam Colean Rodrick Strung, so that was why I picked that. But they haven't given Mercedes enough yet. Since she's been in aw she hasn't been given the story.

I think the story was her and Britt Baker, but if you believe the backstage stuff, some drama happened that put that on the on the back burner. If you don't, then maybe Brit got hurt and they just couldn't complete that story, so they put Chris in there. Britt I think could have beaten Mercedes. They could have even gone back and forth with it. They're both high level, but

that didn't happen. So my philosophy was, if that didn't happen, they're waiting for that to happen now that she's back, and Mercedes has to have the belt to make that mean something. So that was the philosophy on that. Of course I was right because I'm almost always right, and this week I was Jay White versus Adam Hangman Page, the man with would you call it a top ten clothes line of all time? His Buckshot Lariot, I don't know.

Maybe the best is JBL. JBL's got the best clothes line ever because it came from hell and everything from Hell is just all awesome. See you and here. Anyway, I picked Jay White. The story was he kind of has Hangman's number and he for whatever reason, he's just able to sneak out wins over Adam Page, and Adam has gotten a victory over him. But it's it's it's been more one sided. I thought that would remain true.

Page has seemed to be wanting to help other guys out and and put other guys over since he came back outside of Swerve, which was the right story. I love when wrestlers do this. I don't talk a lot of Hangman Page, but what he's been doing in the ring I feel like has been the right thing since he came back, his characters kind of off off the off, out of his gourd right now, out of his mind. He's just crazy because of what happened with him and Swerve,

and he's really stayed true to that character. When you when you go through the things he's gone through, I think you're more susceptible to mistakes, and that's how he's been losing matches. So I think they've been doing a really smart job with it. Yeah, we all picked j White or no. Jeff picked Hangman Page because he loves him, and he was wrong wrong, you know, Alex and your Boyfriddie were ready. Kyle Fletcher, Kyle, I'm in your country

right now, Sydney, Australia, which is where you're from. I supported you throughout this. I love this country. I love this city. I love the food, I love the weather. It's summertime here, so it's nice and warm. I've got my endless summer. The waves weren't very good while I was out here, so no surfing and my family came out. There's also sharks in Australia, which frightened me, even though they're nice ones like nurse sharks things like that. But

I picked Kyle Fletcher. I knew he was gonna win. You can't. You can't build this kid up to beat him. And they've changed his character. He shaved his head, he's changed his clothes, he's changed his persona. He's willing to cheat to win and do the don Kallis dirty deeds that are necessary to get these evil victories. And he had a loss to Will Ospray when they were both wrestling under the don Kallis flag. As like this sort of showcase that he would do where he was showing

how his wrestlers are better than everyone else's wrestlers. And Will won that match. So I thought it was Kyle's turn, and I felt really really confident in this pick. Knew this match would bring the house down, knew it would steal the show. This was my favorite match of the pay per view. This happened two weeks ago. I still remember the match really, really well, even though I've seen a ton of wrestling since then. When Kyle Fletcher got the win, Jeff picked Will because he loves Will Ospray.

Everybody loves Will Ospray. I love Will Ospray, but it was not will Osprey's night. It was Kyle Fletcher's night and Kyle Fletcher got the win. And if you went with Alex and Freddie, then you made no. If you didn't, then you got the big no. Moving on ae WTNT Championship match, Daniel Garcia Versus formerly known as Jungle Boy, almost called him Luke Perry, Jesus christ Freddy Jack Perry. So glad he got rid of the moniker jungle Boy. He's a man's man now. This again, this was an

easy pick for me. The Daniel Garcia story was the ultimate underdog, blue collar. If you're familiar with the Diehard franchise, he's John McClain, right, He's the everyman cop. He's the guy that you watch in the movie and you go, yeah, I would do the same thing. If terrorists tried to take over my workplace, I'd be the one that saves the day. Who That's who Daniel Garcia is. I always almost call him Ryan Garcia. He's way cooler than Ryan Garcia.

But yeah, this was the story. This was the match that I think the fans probably cared about the most because they're so behind Daniel right now, and they give him this great segment where he's like listening to a message from his mom on his voicemail that his mom left him reminding him of how she raised him. But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I thought it was beautiful. I loved this story. I love Daniel Garcia. I'm completely I used to not like the dance move.

I was like, man, I don't think he needs that. I feel like he's better than that. What the fuck do I know? Now I'm sitting there ready to do the dance with him. I just think it's awesome. He completely changed me. I was down on the babay too when it was in NXT, and now I'm saying babe all the time. So when wrestlers do great things, my opinions change, and I like it when I'm wrong. I'm not wrong on my picks, though, Baby, because Daniel Garcia won and he is your new TNT champion, I can't

wait to see where they go with this. Babyfaces usually don't get to hold mid titles as long as heel champions do because it's more fun to watch the faces chase the heel and it's not representative of the company because it's not the main championship. So I feel like that's usually more of a heel thing, but it'll be a fun run. Daniel's really really good on the mic, and he's great in the ring, and he really knows how to make people care about him. He's just so early.

That's the best way to describe him, ernest. If you don't know what that word means, or you think you know, look it up anyway and it'll literally will be a picture of Daniel Garcia Swerve Strickland versus Bobby Friggin Lashly and this was I thought the most generous outside of Adam Page, the most generous match of the night from a wrestler. You had to make Bobby look like the strongest, biggest, baddest, toughest wrestler in the world. It couldn't be a fifty

to fifty match. It had to be this is how great this dude is. And he's got help from Shelton Friggin Benjamin, and he's got help from MVP, top manager in the game today. He had to look great, and Swerve had to look like he was overmatched and overwhelmed, and both men played their parts perfectly. We all picked Bobby. Bobby won the match, and Bobby looked great and Swerve was left beaten and broken, which he should have been in order to make the Hurt Syndicate mean something again.

I'm talking the philosophy behind the pick. If you love Swerve Strickland and you picked him, I'm sorry. I love Swerve Strickland. Two two time guests on the show think he's awesome. This was the right decision, the right outcome, the right match. Not sure what's next for Bobby. I think they've got to recruit one more since it wasn't Swerve. I think I mentioned two weeks ago that maybe Hobbs Powerhouse Hobbs could be a good addition to that group.

I still think that, So maybe that's the extra guy that they bring in. Yeah. I loved this match. I love the way they made Bobby look and I can't wait to see what they do next with him. And now our main event, John Moxley, the original Werewolf. If you listen to this show frequently us you know who the squosen one Freshly Squeezed Orange Cassidy. All of us

picked John Moxley. The philosophy behind it being you can't have the death writers not inflicting death and riding away, otherwise they're not the Death Writers, and this was very similar with Private Party, Like why would you put the belt on John just to have him lose it right away, especially after all the promos he cut, Like those are promises and for him to not be able to keep any of those promises and to break each and everyone would have just been horrible for his character. He had

to win this match. Orange Cassidy can afford to lose because we love Orange, we believe in Orange. He's he's, you know, one of us, one of us. It's that kind of vibe. But there was no way he could climb this mountain. There was just too much outside interference. The Death Writers are too much and we were right once again. It led to Darby at the end. So I guess it'll be Darby versus mox next. I may pick mox again just because I think this championship needs

to last a while. But I don't know. I might be wrong. Maybe I'll switch. We'll see Moxley won. He's the man. Can't wait to see his promo. These shows air on Thursdays, so we'll have already seen Dynamite by then if you listen to him when they come out, and we'll see his response to Darby Allen sort of attack there at the end of the match outside, But yeah, we went a perfect twenty for twenty. There weren't twenty matches, but we were perfect, And if you bet with me,

you were perfect, just like mister perfect. Throw one hundred yard passes and catching them because you don't even need a wide receiver, throwing up half court shots like Steph Curry before Steph Curry was even born, and looking away like Larry Bird because you know it's cash. That's how perfect we were this week. So if we made you money, cool. If not, get to betting, don't bet more than you

wouldn't spend on a night out. That's a good rule for gambling, by the way, Like however much dough you have, if like sixty bucks, go out, check out a movie, get some popcorn, get a drink, that kind of thing.

Don't bet more than sixty If you got a little more cash and you can drop, you know, two three hundred bucks on a nice dinner with your lady, or maybe you're taking your friends out and you had a good week of work and you're picking up the check and you're gonna drop two hundred fifty bucks don't bet more than two hundred and fifty bucks. That's a good way to manage your gambling if you're a gambler. I'm not much of a gambler, although in my twenties I was.

I liked a little black jack, but as I got older, I'm not much of a gambler. But I think that's the right rule. So be responsible if you bet, don't bet more than you have, and don't bet more than you would spend on a night out. But definitely bet. When you listen to Unsanctioned Thursdays and Wrestling with Freddy, stay tuned for next week's episode, next Thursday's episode. I'll always try to give you guys updates on the Federation and give you guys as much information as I can.

I just don't like announcing things before they're done, because otherwise you look like an asshole. It's a dun't do you. Nope, not wrong. So yeah, So I'll keep working and grinding on that and giving you guys updates, and I hope you guys tune in each and every week. I'm half a Jeff, Die and O are awesome Producer Alex, I'm Freddie Prince Junior, saying peer Yes. This has been a

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