Solo Dolo with Hollywood

0:00 It's just gonna happen. Like I'm don't probably what's this? It's this gonna happen. We gotta do shipp in Hello this chance oh like ship ship Hey there guys, so what is going on? It has been too long honestly, and the weight is over. We are here, well we being me me your boy, Hollywood. Jacobe is here to discuss a very very fascinating weekend in pro wrestling. I'm here solo dolo tonight, Solo dolo tonight, No t bish, no javon, Happy birthday too. Jay Rock though gave him the night off. So I decided, Hey, you know, we want to get some content out for sure, so let's let's just take the reins here and do it ourselves. You know, very exciting times. I

1:33 should add right now for aw fans. Um Full gear happened on Saturday, as we all know, and we had some cool different results, different results here. So I'm gonna go through the matches, you know, real quick, kind of just give some brief thought on them, this this and that, um, you know, just to get a quick pot out, just get some content back in the in the in the flow for the fans. Because I am a man of the people, you know, despite despite how how t bish and then like to like to present me. So it's gonna be a little odd. Obviously, there's not gonna be a lot of band term just kind of kind of keep it to the analysis. So that might not be for you, and I completely understand that. But in the meantime, I think we're gonna have some fun, so let's get it kickstarted here.

2:22 So like to kick it off, I wanted to obviously like get me the fans. They'll tell you. They'll tell you straight up here that I am always nitpicky when it comes to a e w's women's division because I just I have a hard time with the booking directions and different things that we that we have with this brand. So I am just kind of I'm I don't want to know, I don't really know. Um, So I'm gonna I'm gonna go through all three of the women's messages to kick off. Why not, let's just do it that way, give them give them some shine, because I mean, I'm not gonna lie. Some of them weren't as good as the others, but I was very pleased with one of them in particular, and I'll save that one for last, so but I do want to kick start. We're gonna kick off on a kind of a downer, but it'll get progressively better from here. Right. The TBS Championship match. Right, Jade Cargill versus Nila Rose for the title. Jade Cargill. The story leading into this was that Jade had her title stolen literally by Nila Rose, who had been presenting herself as the TBS Champion despite not actually winning the title, which is a tough thing to pull off anyway, but when you give it the perspective of having Vicky Guerrero and the way they presented as kind of like a a little brother, little sister, like stole my you know, scarf or Soul, my favorite hoodie and I'm just trying to get it back.

3:50 It was cool. It was interesting. I think that there is something there with Nyla's character in that aspect, which is a good thing, because I just don't see the long term potential in the I'm a Beast, I'm a Monster like the Naya Jack's booking, because we obviously saw how that turned out. I mean, people just didn't get really behind it, and there's a reason for that right, it's because we've seen it so many times with the men, like to see it in a gender swap. It should work, but it just doesn't work right. And I can also say the same thing about Jade, right, So think about it, like Jade's forty two and L as of right now, which is Tuesday, the twenty second, Jade forty two and L forty two and oh and isn't being treated as such in my opinion, And I get it, like she has the women's mid card title, I guess is what we would consider this. But like just because that's the case, does it means that she can't have like the Oscar treatment or the Goldberg treatment. I think they try, but I think that they're so concerned about like not stealing things and trying to be a little bit like different, like so obsessed with not being WWE, that they want to kind of stray from that, which is kind of hypocritical because like the way they booked the men is very similar to how WWE books, But there are some simulances. There's some sprinkles in here that we'll see throughout the night for different comparisons that I'm gonna draw. But going back to this Jade Nila.

5:16 I mean it was not an entertaining match, definitely like a d like not even a star ranking match. I mean it was just it was brutal to watch. It wouldn't on the way too long, which is frustrating because I'm like, look like these Beast Goldbird characters, like they can't be in matches that are longer than like six minutes, just because like it kind of defeats the purpose. And I get Nila Rose is like a bigger challenger, like this isn't like she's wrestling Diamante for example, Like this is a real competitor, right, this is or at least says what she should be. But the way the booking was, Jade should be pissed off, right, Jade should come into this match being super pissed and all this kind of stuff and then just kick her in the face and go home. I think it should be that easy, right, It's not a lot to ask for, But here we go. She's just you know, she's she's coming out, and they're just they're going longer and longer, and it's just you can tell Jade's getting tired. You can tell Nyila's getting tired, and it shows in the matches. I just I'm excited. Well, that's the wrong term. I look forward to seeing what happens with Jade Cargio moving forward. I don't know exactly who the next opponent's going to be, but I do think that there's stuff here for her to capitalize on. Obviously being forty two and oh, let's see if she makes it the fifty. I think she can. But on the other side of the coin, like, I think that this Nila Vicky thing, they have something here with that kind of like annoying character.

6:40 Like it's kind of like what if Vicky Guerrero could wrestle, And that's what I like about this booking. But at the same time too, like, if that's the case, then the matches just need to be kind of squashy, which can damage her. But at the same time, like, I don't think there's anything else that she could be doing at this point too, so I think that this is just a way better way for her to get over with crowd, like by being that comedic kind of like annoying character. So we'll see what they do keep moving forward. I do also want to shout out the homages in the in the cosplay. Obviously, Jade is infamous for her her cosplays and shed the steak. She did um ThunderCats, right, she did Lionel in the Thundercatch, which is dope, dope. I probably a little bit before my time. I mean I was born in ninety six, so whatever. But at the same time too, like looking at Nila, Nila played homage to Eddie Guerrero by coming out in the in the Hydraulic, which I thought was dope. So I was a fan of that for sure. Not a fan of the match, but a fan of that.

7:40 But now, like, let's kind of build up on this, right, so we get the grudge match. The grudge match, Siah, excuse me, Sirea made that mistake already. We're not gonna make it again though, Soirea versus Britt Baker, Right, the build for this was frustrating for me as we as we've know, it's been documented on the podcast that this has these two have kind of already overshadowed the women's interim title, and that's a problem for me. It really is. It's a problem for me. But this match really didn't do anything spectacular for me either, Like I didn't really I don't know. This was kind of like a kind of like a oh, okay, let's see how Sireha does you know what I mean, in her first match in five years. I didn't think it was kind of cool. It's like symbolic, like she retired five years ago around this time, and now we're back. I thought that britt Baker was the right choice.

8:35 Obviously, these are the two of the biggest women on the roster in terms of stardom, and they put on a show. I don't know, Like, to me, it was kind of a c match. I wasn't too excited. I mean, I wasn't like too impressed, like blown away as much as I was with the interim title match, which we'll get to, but like, I don't know, man, Like every time Sariah took a neck bump, like she took a neck breaker off the apron onto the outside part, and I was just I cringe so hard. I was just like, oh my god, I just it's hard to watch sometimes. And like I don't know, Like they had a ten count spot where her brothers Zac Zodiac, who was in the stands for this, he is like acting right, He's like being like, oh my gosh, get in the ring, get back in the ring, get back in the ring, all this stuff, and I'm like, okay, yeah, like totally sure. I mean, you're she's trying. He's trying to sell it for her, and I agree with that. But like there were some instances like that ten count spot where I really thought, like she's got ring rusted a b like, you know, if she actually hurt, like there's always gonna be that kind of concern for a while. It's the same same thing I have with Danielson, But like, I don't know, man, Like it took her two of those uh two of those hold up ddts to win, and I was like, okay, and they didn't even like hit like this, the one that she pinned Britt Baker on I felt like, wasn't even that like strong of an impact to really seal the match, if that makes sense. So I just I don't know, I expect more. I don't know really what

10:05 what they do with these characters moving forward. I think, obviously, like, knowing what we know, Britt Baker has a direction, but Soriyah, I just I don't think that she's in a spot right now where she should be put in the title picture right, like as as like Jamie Hayter's next challenger, you know, um so I'm just just curious if she's, like I've she's gonna have to be on Wednesday right to celebrate and all that kind of stuff. But like ultimately, I just there's a lot of curiosity, a lot of curiosity. I'll put it at that, just to kind of keep it, keep it, keep it somewhat positive. Uh, let's go. Let's let's now go to the cream of the crop for the night for the women. In my opinion, it was the interim title match between Tony Storm and Jamie Hayter. We all know how I feel about the interim title label. I think it's awful because it's just it kind of takes away the prestige, right, like you know, interim champion. Like it's like you're not actually the champion, which is bull Like thunder Rosa's not wrestling, so how can she be champions still? You know, Like it's just it like that kind of stuff just irritates me. And they do this all the time in aw and I don't like it. But now that's neither here nor there.

11:13 So Tony Storm defends against Hayter. They have history together, right, That was the build into this. They have the history they have, you know, they have this like thing that goes all the way back to the UK scene and all this kind of stuff in the indies, and that's cool, Like, yeah, that's cool. It works. There's obviously ring chemistry that I saw within them that was very well portrayed throughout. This is probably one of the best women's matches I've seen all year from AW I was very pleased with this. This was definitely like, this was definitely like a B B match for them for sure, which is good, which is good. I need everybody to clarify, like that's that's good. Hater. Hater just needed to win this match. I can't really like, I'll due respect to Tony, like unfortunately she got stuck with this like title run that kind of felt illegitimate, and they never really treated her as the champion, which was frustrating to watch as a Tony Storm fan. But like to me personally, yo, like I could not I could not get behind it, and I just I expected Jamie to come in and win, and she was. She was super over. I felt bad for Tony because like obviously this crowd wanted to see Hayter win and they got what they wanted, right, Hater wins with some interference whatever we're gonna call it. But I do want to kind of show that, like I do want to kind of showcase that Tony Storm held her own in this match. Like Tony Storm, this kind of felt like a gu Johnny Gargano an x T match to me, right, and

12:45 to further explain, like this felt like when Gargano would go against Cole or go against Champa more particularly with Cole back in the day, back at those NXT takeovers and stuff. And like the reason I say that is because she's sitting here and she's taking spot after spot after spot after spot after spot and still finding the will to kick out, and like, I don't know, it just helped me build, like it helped me build this kind of like, Okay, Tony still has it, like she still has that thing that made her so charismatic and so likable in the next day, and so it was pleasant to see, but I did feel bad for her because ultimately, like we knew it was Jamie's night coming into this, and sure enough that held up. But I guess the other So shout out to her, But to move forward in this, like the curiosity that I have relies more in Britt Baker, right because Britt Baker's the one that helped her win the title.

13:37 Britt Baker's the interference that she needed to win, which is frustrating because like, obviously I like clean winds, especially for heels, because they just have more bragging rights. At that point, well, this didn't happen. It didn't happen. Rebel gets thrown aside, and so they're like, okay, maybe this is done. Britt comes out supports Jamie Hayder all this kind of stuff. But the question that I have is why, right, why are we supporting Jamie Hayter right now? If you're a Brit Baker, I get it right, that's your girl, you know, are you putting on a facade? Though? Like are we like, okay, now that you're the champion, you're gonna give me first DIBs right right? That? I don't know that I don't know because if I'm Jamie Hayter, I'm like, whoa, I've been backing you up, so now as your turn to kind of back me up. And if I'm Bret Baker, I'm like I'm no psydekick, I'm no psychick. I got everybody in the stadium yelling DMD whenever I put my finger in the air. That's not happening. Sorry, Like it's just not a thing. It's not gonna be a thing, and good luck, god speed, and thanks for trying. I just to me, they have a lot of booking options that they can do for this, and I wish that Javon was kind of here and I'm gonna get his thoughts on the next time we get him on here, because you know, he's our resident booker. But like to me personally, like I don't, I just I find it fasting. They're kind of like any of avenues they could do to really hone in this one and make it a fun storyline moving forward.

15:07 So we'll see what happens with it. It definitely holds that intrigue, but we won't know more until Wednesday at least. I hope. That's the thing too about this women's division. It's like I can always say, like, oh, we'll find no no about Wednesday, we find out Ovensday, will we though? Will we? Though? Tony, Like I need that kind of like confirmation, like hey, like we're going to get more than just a women's match, because like I've been let down before by this company in terms of their bookings. So that's kind of all I have to say about the women's matches so far. Like it is what it is. I know that we're getting Jade Cargill on Wednesday right now because of bow Wow and like this beef that she has, the super random beef with Calvin Cambridge, But like do we care? Ultimately, like wrestling fans like come on, like, come on, guys, do we care? Do we care? I want to see her whoop his ass, don't get it twisted like forty three and oh beating bow Wow in the real the ring. I think that'd be awesome, be hilarious too, but like do we care? Like what does it do for her? Like what does it do for her? So what she beat the kid from like Mike, who cares? Who gives a shit?

16:15 Like to me, it doesn't help her case, Like it doesn't help her case. Now if you wanted to like try to be like, oh um, you know, if you want her to start feuding with dudes, that that that's totally fine with me. You know what I mean? If you want her to kind of throw around jobbers like of all gender. That's totally fine, totally understandable, totally fine, and it works. Trust me, China was able to do it and work and she was the intercominal champion. Like I'd be totally about that booking. But I just don't think that that's what they're doing. I think they're just trying to get cheap pops from a celebrity that's not really a celebrity. I mean, God, the last thing I've watched him in was like lottery ticket maybe, Like you know, like that's kind of a problem, kind of a problem. So um, you know, we're gonna put a pin in this conversation for sure, you know, until after Wednesday. But I don't know, guys, I don't know. Let's take a let's take a quick little sidebar here, and we'll come back and we'll start really kicking into the men. Okay, we have to talk about it. We have to. We have to talk about it, guys. Come on, I'm gonna kick this off with the final cum punk conversation we're gonna have surrounding this com company for now until he shows up at WrestleMania. Right the Elite are back. Yes, yes, yes, yes, applause, applause, a pause, all the good stuff. The Elite a back. Keith came in his pants, shout out, shout out

17:47 to Prince Petty Man. I hope he's doing good. Um and Death Triangled tried their damnedest, you know what I mean. Like Pack cut a great promo on Wednesday at the Go Home Show about like how they're not running from anybody. You know, they're actually ready to stomp on everyone's parade, right to to make this less about the Elite and more about the the reign of the Death Triangle, which was cool. That's a very cool, unique thing for them, um for for just heels in general. UM to kind of like brace the challenge. Obviously there's foul play, which we'll get into, but the thing that stands out the most and we have to talk about it. Like I said, the Elite have a new theme song. Kansas is carry on My Wayward son Um is their new theme which you know, all the BT fans whatever. I'm sure it won't be like this forever, but let's talk about why. Right. Let's it's kind of dive more deep into the lyrics, and I did tweet this out obviously, but like so the lyrics go as follows, right, carry on my wayward son, There'll be piece when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest, and don't you cry no more? Right well, what did see him Punks say at the scrum during his little media tantrum? He said, I'm just I'm just fucking tired. I'm just fucking tired of these children of wrestling children. Right,

19:17 well, you can lay your weary head to rest and don't cry no more. Carry on our wayward son, which is probably like a plus trolling. Like, let's just be honest, that's like a plus trolling. I cannot with these dudes, bro. I like for them to take it to that level of Petty on a national pay per view level while see him Punk's calling these like amateur MMA fights right now, Like, I just it kind of brought me joy. I'm not gonna lie like that is Prince Petty approved for sure, And I just it's such a subtle way to do it, like you just wouldn't even know if you really didn't like listen to the lyrics.

20:00 But goddamn, dude, like that is that is just some good stuff, bro. I can't. I can't even deny it. I can't even deny it. But let's get to the let's get to the actual match, right, spots spots, spots, spot spots, but some things that stuck out to me. Right, So Nick Jackson gets on the outside of the ring and a fan offers him like some of his soda or something like, and he totally takes a sip of it. It's like thanks, and like it goes back again. I really loved that. I loved the I mean, it's just fun spots. You know how buck matches are, and we've obviously seen Bucks versus Luca Bros. Before And like we've seen this in that. That's great, we love that, But like I also we have to talk about the death triangle angle of this too, wherein Kenny Omega took the pin from Phoenix. Why did he do that because he was given a rock hammer right from like Shashank Redemption. I think, feel free to correct me if if that's not what it is, but that's what it looked like, is the little rock hammer he uses to like chisel his way out of prison.

21:03 Pack gives him this hammer and he's like hesitant to use it, right, he doesn't use it right away. He's like, I don't want to do this one to do this clean, YadA, YadA, YadA. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. Well, you're about to get the one win Angel, so what are you gonna do? You obviously can't squirm your way out, right, So he gets the hammer from Pack, and Pack slips it to him. He pulls it out, and he clabbers Kenny in the head and gets the one two three cheap rick. You know the ref doesn't see it, and yeah, yeah, you know it goes. So it's really about like the corruption, right, Penta and pac have corrupted young Phoenix into thinking that that's the only way, right, Like that's like the only way they could do these things, and that's the only way they can win and retain and live their happy champion lives. But I don't know if it's gonna mean that the Phoenix heel turns on its way, or if eventually it's going to be Phoenix versus Penta versus Pack and the death the death triangle angle. I'm not sure, but it does hold some level of intrigue, and that is worth a shout. Out.

22:07 I think I don't have grades for men's matches. They really don't. Um, I just didn't care enough. Like I know that sounds shitty. I know it sounds lazy, but like, come on, now, we give everything grades like letter grades, and I give the women ones, and as I'm doing it for the women, I'm just like, I don't want it, like unless it's like a really good match, which there were some pretty fun ones or pretty some There were some pretty good ones, but like I wouldn't consider this an a match for sure. I'm sure that like Meltzer and then would give it like four stars or whatever. But like me personally, man, I liked it. It was just it was It wasn't my favorite match of the night. How about that this one wasn't my favorite match of the night either, though it was the TNT title triple threat. I love the result, I loved the showcase from the former incumbent champion, And yeah, it's about it. It's like all I got. So Joe wins via choke out right on Hobbes. It's tales all this time right wardlow head to learn it. Never trust anyone's champ. We fanned that out when Samojo jumped him from behind. Right, You just never can trust anybody when you're the champion. It's a tale that goes back to before, goes back to really anybody, right, goes back to the Megapowers, it goes back to Sean and Triple H. Like it goes back. Do you know you run it run it back each time, right, and ultimately, like I still got a shout out Wardlow man, Like I can't not be a fan of Wardlow. I love the nine one one gimmick. I love the power bombs.

23:41 I think he was up to like five power bombs, four or five. You don't have to correct me on Hobbes, which is a shout out to Hobbes, by the way, great selling throughout the match for him. Unfortunately, he was pin fodder, That's what I call it. He's just in the match to take the pen. So it sucks, but hey, somebody's got to do it, and it wasn't gonna be Warlow, and it wasn't gonna be Joe. But like we also got like Warlow hitting a whisper in the wind allah Jeff Hardy during that match, which you shouldn't see you from somebody that weighs like two fifty two forty five. Yeah, that's some big time talent. And Warlow is everything as advertised. Shout out to their scouting department, shout out to whoever brought his ascid in Barrow. He is.

24:26 He has the complete package. In my opinion, I think that obviously like the Mike skills or whatever, but like the character that he plays currently, I just I love it. But ultimately, like with those kind of characters and like those kind of like baby face big guys, baby face athletic big guys, they're better on the chase than the arts champions. It's sad, but it's true. They're better at the chase than they are being champion. So it's gonna be good now that the titles on Joe, who's an established heel, who is going to be somebody that can rival Wardlow, and we're gonna get a fucking awesome feud, and I'm excited for it. I'm excited for that. I imagine it'll probably be on Revolution for the Ultimate Penultimate Final a finale, but like Warlow versus Joe Man, that's gonna be tough for me personally because I love Samoa Joe and I love Warlow, so I'm excited to see how that how that's going to play out. But I did think this was the best decision for business for sure. Get the title off of him, get the title on Joe. Joe now holds the roh Television and the TNT, so he's just the master of TV at this point, which hey, I can get behind. So we'll see what happens. I liked the match, but I didn't love it. I liked it more because of my biases as opposed to actual critical wrestling analysis. But that's neither gonna be there. Let's talk about let's go to this jungle Boy Lucasaurus match, right, hooray, hooray. I haven't written my notes hooray because I thought

25:59 that coming into this, like this is it, this is gonna be it. He's finally gonna get the nail in the coffin and we'll never see this happen again. And we're done. We're done. We're done, We're done, and I cannot wait for this to be over. Well, I'm very wrong. I don't think it's over. I think it's done maybe in this chapter, but I definitely think that this isn't the season finale for this one. Um, Christian isn't healthy as we've seen, but I do question his stealth skills. Um. I think this is like that guy that you play in D and D who basically like is invisible with how high his sneak level is or whatever it's called. Like you know that rogue that you play with that you like can't even be spotted on the map by the DM. That's how high his invisibon, like his level is almost like he's invisible. I guess that's what Christian's got going on, man, because like he dead ass walked over to the to the to the ref there, to the official and like took the keys like right out of his pocket or like right off of his key loop, like the fuck, Like this is a crippled ass dude, and like he's just like able to quit, like get that shit out of here, bro. Like that was a tad frustrating for me. I was just like, Okay, we're not even gonna try to sell this all right, perfect love that that's what we're doing here. Ultimately, like it got him eliminated, Like it got him like ejected, I should say, like from ringside, but I don't know, I don't know, man, like you're trying trying to help out your Dynoh, I get that. But like, and that's another thing too, Like I always kind of grew up thinking that cage matches were like, Okay, if you step foot out of

27:30 the ring, you win. But in this one, I guess it was more of a no holds barred in a steel cage match, because that didn't happen like I thought, you know, when the door opened, Luca's hours was gonna walk out and that would be the end of the match. Well that's not at all what happened. They just started brawling on the outside like and I was like, oh okay, cool, like and then they started bringing weapons like the chair and all that kind of stuff, and that chair spot was pretty dope with the chair like kind of collapsed, like I thought that was cool. The table spot at the end was cool, like the little like, hey dad, this is for you, Like I'm gonna kill this dinosaur like that was cool. He wins with the macho man elbow off the top of the cage Jungle Boy does on Lucasaurus. But I don't think this is done. I really don't, and it sucks because like I really do want this to be done, Like I want Jungle Boy to like fight somebody else, because it feels like this has been going on all year at this point, which is not productive. Like I'm kind of exhausted of seeing seeing him versus Christian, him versus Luca, like all this kind of stuff.

28:26 Like I'm just kind of over it at this point, and I think I think a lot of fatigue is settling in so the fact that I still have this aching feeling that just because he beat Lucasaurus, does I mean he beat Christian, you know, so Unfortunately, I don't think we're done, ladies and gentlemen. We'll have to suffer through some more together. And I mean that as as an insult. Actually, I mean that as an insult. I just don't find this few interesting at all. I don't, I really don't I find this. I find this like bullying at this point. But it's not even like I'm rooting for the nerdy guy to like overcome. I'm just kind of rooting for the beld Ring and us to go back to class. Like I'm just so over it, Like I care about so many other things on this on this card, I care about so many other people in this company that like I could care less about this, like it holds no stakes, Like what's gonna happen? Like Christians still hurt, He's still pretending to be heard or whatever the story maybe and like Jungle Boys, like what he's gonna wrestle Christian again and finally be rid of it and then do what because everybody else that was a pillar or is currently a pillar um are doing far more interesting things. And we're gonna actually, speaking of pillars, let's get into that one. Darby Allen and Staying wrestled against Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal at full gear, and it was one of the high octane matches that are now becoming like a patent of Darby in the best way, like

29:56 critically, like in the best way, Like I love the I love these matches. I think that they're super refreshing and that they're just for fun, like they like I like think about it like this, right, so like obviously, like there's a grudge match, right, Jeff Jarrett was brought in because Jay Lethal like wants to get in Darby's head and like sting and all this kind of stuff, So he brings in Jeff Jarrett to kind of like mess with them and all that kind of stuff, Like that's cool, that's a super cool thing to do, given Jeff Jarrett and Sting's history with one another. But like, while I think Jungle Boy, Lujasurists and Kirstian is uninteresting, this is fucking interesting. And I think it's because I know that Jeff Jarrett's not gonna be their long term at least at this point, Jeff Jarrett's not gonna be their long term, you know what I mean. So like and that's what I like about it, as crappy as it sounds, like, I'm totally into the idea of them not be like of this because I know it's a one off, and like that's what made it, I think, maybe subconsciously, like that's what made it that much more fun.

30:57 Like Sting was able to do a ton of cool shit in this match, Like he gave the Scorpion death drop to Sing, which was dope. He did a sting or splash from the crowd on the lethal and dutt which was sick like. And then Derby on the other hand, like Darby freaking killed it like as always, Like I don't see Darby as a champion. I just see Darby's entertaining his shit, and I think that that makes the character, is the fact that he's just willing to do everything, which he at this point. Kudos to him, man, Like I don't think, like I said, I don't think that's going to be good enough to win the aw world title someday, but I do think that that's a good enough thing to like help fans like get out of their seats and give him a memory.

31:38 I mean god, Like he literally cough and dropped into Jeff Jarrett's guitar like midswing, like that's awesome. That is so kick ass, dude. And then he does a hard core suicido like he does all the time where he just flies full body weight into a barricade from the ring, like just just literally leaps over there, just trying to hit the barricade, not even trying to hit the dude does that take him out? Comes back in the ring, hits the quickest coffin drop of all time. Like you could just tell he was just like working, I mean working his ass off like in a good way though, Like he was just working and that was all he needed to do. And guess what they get the pin, they get the win, everybody's like going bananas. Everybody's like, yeah, this is awesome, this is so cool, so dope, And that's the kind of shit that I love. That's one of the things I love about wrestling is like you get like these awesome like matches with this randomly put together and like not all I shouldn't say that there was some story eating into this is like that that Lethal's been kind of terrorizing them and all this kind of stuff, but like no, like you get like these random pairings and you're like, okay, whatever, like two old dudes now, like they blow the roof off the place because people still love these dudes and they're so likable. And I know that there are people that are calling for like Darby and Sting to break up, and I understand the reasoning, right, you can't compete for singles titles with Sting around. Yet I get that. I totally get it.

32:54 But at the same time, too, I gotta enjoy it while it's here, Like it's so good, it's so much on and I just it brings me joy. It brings me joy. I don't care what anyone says. Brings me joy. I love watching these two kind of just together, like the father and son relationship. Man, I'm all about it, I really am. Let me tell you what else I'm about though, the ROH fatal four way between the Ocho Chris Jericho right, defending against his boy Sammy Gavara, Claudio Castanoli and Brian Danielson. Right. So let's like for a little little bit of background here, Chris Jericho has been going around beating every single ROH champion he can find in one on one matches, defending it, but beating them, right, So he's beating Colt Cabana, He's beating guys like Dalton Castle all that cool stuff, which shout out Dalton Castle, by the way, like they need to bring him in full time like that dead ass.

33:51 But it is what it is. But he's also been like mocking the what ROAH stands for and what the title stands for, and I just I love it. I think it's I think it's so healish, especially to that niche group of people, you know, the ones that throw the ribbons, the ones that were disheartened when Adam Cole got kicked out a bullet club, the ones that you know that boot see him punk when he when he when he uh when he signed his ww contract in the middle of the roach ring, like all that kind of stuff. It's just it's so cool to me, right, and like I totally get it. But like then you bring in Jericho, who is the you know, he's a sports entertainer, right, He's a he's a he's a sports entertainer. Man. Like he's just he's that WWE guy that comes in and they give him the title, t and a style and and he's just he's just rubbing it in everyone's face.

34:36 And I just I love that. I love that trolling man. It's so good. He's so good. That's why he's one of my favorites man of all time. Um, he ends up winning, he ends up he ends up winning with a judas effect on Claudio. I believe for a clean pin victory. Dope cool, love it. That's the thing about Fatal four ways, right, anybody can go by anywhere and it doesn't really affect him because he just did battle with three other dudes, So I think everybody was pretty well protected in this match. But like, there were upper cups, there were chops galore. I mean, freaking Jericho and Danielson's chests were about as red as I don't know, red as uh you know, red as the crayon, red as red as my spaghetti sauce, or red as the apple fallen from the tree. I guess like they was just like they It just looks so brutal, man like they had gone to war. Chris Jerick or excuse me, Samon Gavara out here doing his high spots. Got he did a nice It was so sick. He did a nice um. Oh what is it called Evan Borne used to do it all the time. Oh, no, shooting star press, That's what it was. He did this awesome shooting star press and like didn't come up with the pin and then like everybody was kind of like, Okay, what are we gonna do? Like what are what are what are Gavara and Jericho could do? How averything can co exist? Like what are they can do? They both want the title.

35:57 I think that they found a way to co exist, obviously, like Sammy didn't get pinned. But I also like there were some cool spots in this one where Jericho was like giving the walls to somebody and then stops doing that, kicks the other guy that just comes in the rain gives in the walls too, like it's ready to e for everybody, which I loved. But heading back to the Gavara Jericho thing, it's kind of like, okay, well, if I can't have the ROH title, how am I going to succeed in the JS? Like what's the point of being in the JS if I can't pursue singles interests? Like if I can't, you know, it's not like Jericho told him not to compete in this. But at the same time too, like he's got to kind of feel a little betrayed, you know, or a little like, Okay, well, what's the point of me still being a part of this group if I'm not getting titles or getting title shots? Ready got a title shot, but I'm saying like, not being given titles or being given support to win the title. So that's something that holds some intrigue for me at least, And you know, if you guys feel the same way, just kind of let me know. Maybe maybe I'm looking at it another way. I don't know. Here comes the bad news, ladies, gentlemen, This comes. There comes the bad news.

37:06 It has been established that I am a fan of the Acclaimed. I have the shirt, I love the Acclaimed, I look forward to them. I actually was able to scissor Anthony Bowen after the Norfolk show. Do not look up that meaning, because that's not exactly what I'm talking about. But like, so they're dusting it. Swerven our Glory, who are absolutely carrying by the way, and I hate to admit it, but it's the truth. They're carrying this entire match with selling. They're carrying it with storytelling. You know. Um Bowen does a really good job of selling his shoulder injury throughout the match, which I liked, but and I appreciate it and want to shoutter it out. But on the other end, you have Swerven our Glory, which are selling the breakup right Sweve's doing his heelshit, Keith Lee's like, we don't even need to do this. I'm Keith Lee like, just let me be me and we can win this fucking match. Guess what Swear It's like, nah, bro, we're gonna do this my way and you're gonna either comply or get out of the way. And uh, needless to say, your boy did not appreciate that one and walks off and leaves him to defend to go for the titles two on one in a handicap match.

38:19 Swear, I can't pull it off. Doesn't have to pull it off, right, Daddy asked, comes out, I don't know, Like there's a lot of different things, you know, swears trying to goad him into getting them disqualified, all this kind of shit. But I think that the thing is that we have to talk about at this point too, is the acclaim to need to find their niche in the ring. Outside of the ring, they got it, they got it, Castors, wraps, Fire Bowen's engaging with the crowd always so Fire super over because of they're out of the r antics. But when they're in the ring, I find it a little stale. And I'm not kidding, like, I think that ultimately they need to be able to do both, and if they have to sacrifice some of the outside of the ring stuff to do that, I'd be okay with it.

39:10 There is a world where they can do both. I just don't think that it's a quick enough fix, and I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up with them losing the titles. Like if this steam on the train kind of wanes for Revolution or maybe at Revolution. As crappy as that sounds, I just think that AW has such a rich tag team division with guys that you know, are really good at both and could use a title to kind of help them. Like obviously, you know, you look at it, got FTR, you got the Lucha Bros, you got JS, you got best Friends, you got the Hardy Boys, when Jeff comes back, you got the gun Boys. With the firm you have, you know, you have different things, You have different people around that could use title shots, and that could you know, get the title. I don't really want to see the ass Boys get it, just because we've seen that story already play out.

40:05 But I'm just saying like there are other people, Like, there are other things that they can do, Like even if they wanted to give BCC, which I don't know if we're gonna have a BBCC moving forward, but you know, if they wanted to kind of put together a makeshift tag team kind of like swerving our glory again for a run, I'd be okay with that. But I just don't see the long term. And I mean, if they're gonna keep selling me, they're gonna keep telling merch and like they're not going to take the titles off of them. But at the same time, I do think that they thrive better in situations where they are the underdog, not the favorites, and not the current champions. So that's just something that I think would be interesting to see, is like kind of like, Okay, are they going to kind of get better because the in ring product just isn't captivating enough to convey that they can beat any tag team in the world. Like, put them against the Bucks, the Bucks out wrestle them ten out of ten times. That's just me being honest, and it sucks to say that. It's sucks to say that, but when you're dealing with tag teams in a tag team division like this, it's kind of expected you either show up or you go home. And the thing is, I just don't see a timeline where they can just kind of show up and outshine.

41:19 That's just not what's going to happen against these guys, against certain tag teams on this roster. So it sucks to say. If you disagree, let me know, follow me on Twitter. At the hardest part of the ring, excuse me at the hardest underscore pod feel free to comment any disagreements. I'd you know, i'd be I'd love to hear it, but at this point, I just don't I find it. Like I said, Like I said, just back, just rewind. That's exactly how I feel. I just feel like they have it to a team, but when it comes to the in ring stuff, it's just it's not as captivating as i'd love it to be. So say what you will, call me a hater, Please don't call them hater. I'll still rock the shirt for sure. But you know I had to air it out. I had to air it out, guys. I had to be honest for y'all. So let me take a quick break. I'm gonna take a sip of as pepsi because when we come back, we have to talk about the main event. So last match, the last match, just stick tight, stay tight. We got it.

42:16 I'm gonna loosen it up, not even joking, joke intended. So take a quick break. I'll come back, and then we will dive into the main event. It's finally time. Yes, it's finally time to talk about the main event. But it's also finally time too. I'm stealing this from Roman Acknowledge Maxwell Jacob Friedman as your new a e W Heavyweight Champion of the World. I'm gonna say that one more time. M JF is the ae W World Heavyweight Champion. Does that require applause? Maybe if he earned it like he said he was going to Oh oh, oh Jacobe, Oh Hollywood?

43:09 Why why why are we? Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? I'm gonna let you know why we're doing this because I'm the guy that likes to hold people accountable to what they say within the squared circle, right, I'm the guy that's gonna sit here and be like, Oh, m JF. You told us you were gonna earn it, and you didn't earn it the right way. Sure, you walked out with the title, but you didn't earn it. You didn't earn it, you know what I mean. Like, Okay, before we get to that, we have to talk about this crowd, right, we have to talk about Jersey.

43:49 Jersey, Baby, I get it. You're close to New York where he's from. You're close to uh to Long Island where he's from, right close to Nassau Coliseum. I guess closer than you. Artisans and Addie at least. I don't like being like O m jiff head home Field, but like, let's be honest, that entire crowd was very pro heel in a way that I feel like AW crowds are normally because they kind of just appreciate the art of being a heel. But we also can't neglect the the pure professionalism of John Moxley. Throughout this match. They're yelling mjfter heeling, fuck you mox they're yelling for MJF. They're completely booing Moxley, and Moxley doesn't care. He just immediately pivots like Allah rock Hogan. Right. I believe that was Rustlemania twenty. Was it twenty? No? I don't know.

44:49 I don't know. Please roast me, Please roast me. I don't I don't remember. It might have been eighteen, maybe eighteen. It doesn't matter. Roast me. I don't care. That's Javon's job what we need to talk about. And when I mean professionalism, I mean he literally is in the ring. It is eighteen. I just looked it up. I just looked it up. All you nerds. It's eighteen. And that was my last guest. It wasn't my first guest, but it was the last guest because I corrected myself. You see, ladies and gentlemen, this is America, this is the this is the country for opportunity, for second chances.

45:30 Okay, so rock with me here, Okay, rock with me here. We're almost done. We're almost done. You know what I mean. We've made it this far. Okay, made it this far. Let me use your chill. But MJF fed into this crowd so so lively. He fucking he comes out to a rigorous applause, rigorous screams, rabid fans that are just aching to hear him. Hear that, bena benabam, you know what I mean. They're all wearing their bar barbary scarves. They're all just out here, just supporting their guy. And then he's like naaaa, and he runs to the back again, and he runs back out, and sure enough, everybody goes even crazier for him, and he's just loving he's living it up. He's living it up so much that he actually goes over to this woman. He consentually asks her if he can motor boat and she lets him on live paper view television. If that doesn't mean you're over, I don't know what being over is at that point, shout out to him for going for it. By the way, like I don't know many people in twenty twenty two that would even consider asking, let alone doing it. So shout out to him. But like, okay, all the other thing too, because I know that Toronto is probably gonna appreciate this. Moxley wrestling and sweatpants kind of takes away from kind of takes away from the illusion of pro wrestling.

46:59 I'm not gonna lie to you like it's not good ring attire. I'm just being honest. Like he's literally in red sweatpants that say mox on it. It's like, yo, like come on, man, this is a pay per view of a van like this is this is aw bro, This isn't a not to be rude. But this isn't like Impact. This isn't like VCW, This isn't like backyard like nick Gage match from circa two thousand's five, Like this isn't this ain't it bro? Like these red sweatpants like they got to go. They gotta go, Renee, you gotta help out your boy here with with this ring attire. Um, I just okay, fine, let's just talk about it. Let's just talk about it. I'm not even talk about mgf' wrestling. I'm just gonna talk about the finish.

47:46 Literally. Okay. So the ref's knocked down because he made a glass. He's piecing himself back together like Humpty Dumpty style. MOX has him in a choke. MJF taps visibly. Right, we've seen it. We've seen it a million times, taps immediately, We're like, okay, cool, hopefully he can do it again when the ref's actually paying attention and not putting himself back together. Also, where was Aubrey? Come on, Aubrey, we need you to come down here for these situations. You're the most accountable ref. Then he's like, all right, cool, we gotta get the ref back up. Regal also is like, yo, get the ref back up. What the fuck are you doing? Because remember remember he's remember of BCC.

48:30 William Regal is also a remember of BCC in the Blackpool Combat Club for anybody that doesn't know, but remember mjf's big spiel before this, and I mentioned it earlier multiple times. He was like, I'm gonna earn it. I'm gonna earn it. That's why he chat cashed in the chip before this match. We cashing the poker chip before this match, just claiming he was going to earn it in an honorable fashion. Well, he gets out of the choke. Moxley's obviously checking out this reff trying to get his bass back up do his next thing. You know, we see him reaching the pants and there's the ring. There's the diamond ring, that ring he's won every year because for some reason it matters, and it really doesn't matter, and I really think they should get rid of it, and it should just be a part of his costume or a part of his ring attire, like pinky ring rich douchebag. It makes sense, makes sense. He pulls it out, William Regals, if you put that away, put that away. Remember you said you were going to earn it. And I'm sitting there at home in my chair and I'm like, yeah, exactly. He said he was gonna earn it. Throw it away, and he does. He throws it away, and next thing, you know, you're a boy. William Regal takes out these brass knuckles and slide it to MJF, who then gets a knockout punch while the ref's not looking for a quick one two three, William Regal turns his back on BCC to help MJF become the new AEW champion.

49:55 It offers more questions, for sure, it offers more intrigue for Wednesday, that's for damn sure. But is it the right way to do? This is a good question to ask you as we're wrapping up here, because quite frankly, I don't think it is. I'm not saying I wanted I wanted MJF to be a face. MJF is should never be a face. MJF should be the biggest dick in the world all the time. That's just his character, that's what he should be at this point. But like, I can't deny the fact that with how over he is to not turn him face, especially with their not being a real face left for him to wrestle against.

50:45 Honestly, unless you wanted to, like do Kenny versus MGF, because like Paige really isn't even in the question at this point. I mean, you could probably do Danielson. Danielson would kind of make sense, but like you're the a W champion now, you know, like you're the a he's the ae W champion and he wrestles less than brock Lesner, but he's on TV every week. I have so many questions, man, I have so many questions. What does this mean for Blackpool Combat Club? What does it mean for Moxley? Is Moxile gonna get a rematch? Or were gonna run it back? I am I even okay with a run it back at this point? Like do we want Moxley to win the title for a fourth time?

51:35 I don't know. I don't know about that one, chief, I'm just being honest. What does it mean for Max? Max didn't earn it, but like Max is just gonna turn his back on Stokeley to go with Regal, the guy that made him want to kill himself, like back in the day, back when he was nineteen or whatever this whatever it was six years ago, I guess, so when he's twenty, you know, with an email like he literally said that on TV. He was like, he was like, Regal, your email maybe want to fucking kill myself? And Regals like, but I saw something and you know, with my you know what that email did made you into this man? And I can't believe I'm beyond proud of you, right, Like he just all this kind of stuff.

52:17 It's like, okay, if that was the hint that he was gonna turn like, I mean, that's good storytelling. But at the same time too, like I don't know, man, like especially for a heel to kind of like neglect or forgive that quickly, I don't know, that's kind of like something that a face would do, forgive somebody that made them feel so low. But I guess that's a pretty fair trade. No, Like, you know, oh, at one point you maybe want to try to you made me feel suicidal, but you at least help me win the title, and I have to, like, I guess that. In the postgame, MJF was very like, oh, I can't believe you believe me.

52:58 Can't believe you believe me. I can't believe whatever. Call me naive, make fun of me, please, I guess. But like when you throw around that kind of stuff like suicide and all that kind of junk, like, I don't know, I kind of take it. I take it kind of stuff seriously. Man, it's somebody that's battled with those kind of depressents and like that kind of fight, Like, I don't know, I just think that's import taste personally, but it is what it is, you know. But I also want to shout out this too, Like while we're on the subject of his post match conference, which was kind of entertaining. It was like two minutes of just a promo where he's just being a dick, like a dick, you know. He literally is kind of taking like all these heelss tropes that we have in wrestling, right, like Hollywood and stuff.

53:49 Like he's literally, I'm gonna go to the movie set because nobody else know w does movies but me, like, brother, go fuck yourself. But at the same time, like I can't deny what he said. I mean, he's like, he's like, it's now Musty TV on Wednesday if you want all the answers, and like I mentioned earlier, there's a bunch of questions. So well, we'll see what happens. But I don't know, you guys tell me and that there's gonna wrap it up, folks, it's gonna wrap it up. We're gonna try to get back on track this week. It is a holiday week, however, so it might be a little bit more difficult. I know, we have something in store for you on Sunday, the twenty seventh with our good friend m Aarc So keep a lookout for that and the hardest part of the watch. I'm gonna get this spliced up and edited as fast as possible for the fans. Remember this, Hollywood is for the people. Okay, for the people in the best way.

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55:28 Quick stack correction too, jungle Boy one in the Snare Trap did not win Viet pin Fall. That is entirely on me, but goes to show you. You know, people make mistakes, even people as famous as me, So go easy on me comments. Please go easy on me and Twitter or don't, I don't care. See you next time