Sit Down Shut Up Mark Out Ep. 108

May 9

The latest episode of Sit Down Shut Up Mark Out dives deep into the fallout from Wrestling Dontaku Night 2 and the growing realization that the partnership between AEW and New Japan Pro-Wrestling may fundamentally change the way modern wrestling stories are told. Blade Daily and returning guest host Antione Raphael discuss how Will Ospreay’s decision to align himself with the power and philosophy of The Death Riders immediately created ripple effects throughout multiple companies and factions. Callum Newman’s actions, the rising importance of United Empire, and the connections to The Dogs all point toward a wrestling landscape where no promotion exists in isolation anymore. Instead of occasional crossover appearances, wrestling now feels like a fully interconnected world where actions in one company can instantly reshape narratives somewhere else.

The fellas also discuss the latest developments from AEW Dynamite, Darby Allin’s increasingly chaotic and compelling World Championship reign, and why wrestling suddenly feels unpredictable again in the best possible way. For years, fans have wanted promotions to embrace the scale and potential of their partnerships rather than treating them like temporary novelties. Now, with AEW and NJPW willing to let stories evolve across borders, stables, and rosters, the possibilities feel endless. Whether it’s faction warfare, shifting alliances, or long-term storytelling stretching across multiple promotions, Sit Down Shut Up Mark Out explores why this current era may become one of the most creatively ambitious periods in pro wrestling history.

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Sickos Club.
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Hey, come here.
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You like pro wrestling?
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We got a little something something for you.
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Two fans, 3,000 miles away.
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We've each been watching for more than 30 years.
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Celebrate the art form.
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The homoeroticism.
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We hate great magic.
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We hate analyzing stories.
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We hate experts.
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We just sit down, shut up, and mark.
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Everybody and welcome to another edition of sit down, shut up, mark out a pro wrestling podcast about pro wrestling.
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I am Blay Daily and I am joined by my friend from Jacksonville.
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Antoine.
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Antoine. Hello. Hello, everybody.
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Wonderful sickos and family.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Thank you so much for joining.
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It's been a minute, friendo, but I'm so happy to have you here.
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We've been doing this for two years.
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This show.
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This is like kind of low key our second year anniversary episode because we believe that pro wrestling podcast should be talking about, you know, the wrestling that takes place on the shows that we watch instead of ratings or ticket sales or demo rankings or whatever other shit people drone on about on these things.
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And it turned out we were right.
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If you feel the same way, make sure you hit subscribe on whatever podcast platform you're listening to us on.
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Hit that like button.
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Leave a comment.
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Tell me why I'm wrong about whatever it is I'm going to say because I even I don't know.
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But I didn't realize it was two years.
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Book says the same thing.
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That's crazy.
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It does feel like yesterday.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's incredible.
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Oh, my God.
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Look at this.
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Look at this one.
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Hi, guys.
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I just wanted to share my daughter was fan of the night at Collision in Peoria.
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It was awesome.
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That is awesome.
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Gary.
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That is awesome.
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Gary.
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Thank you for sharing that with us.
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Gary.
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That is rad.
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Another thing that was awesome while we're talking about awesome things is a second episode of pro wrestling forever debuted on Monday.
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We were live on Monday on the pro wrestling forever channel.
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That's pro wrestling forever pod.
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Make sure you subscribe to that.
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We were talking all about factions and Antoine you as somebody I've talked to many times about factions on and off screen.
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We had a lot of fun on that episode disagreeing with each other vehemently.
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You called me out for being an elite lover.
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And you're not wrong.
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A little bit.
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You're not wrong.
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You're not wrong.
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It's true.
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It's true.
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The scare glow Antoine.
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I know the answer to this question.
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Have you had a chance to see any R.O.H. shows in Florida?
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Yes I did.
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I didn't get to go to this set of tapings for May because they were early in the month.
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They were like two three weeks right after the others.
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So but April or the month before I can't remember it was March.
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I went to it was April.
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Yes I went to those set of tapings.
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It was about four to five hours.
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And it was amazing.
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It was I had Athena a foot and a half from me.
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We had to have a girl a little girl move to the back row because Athena threw my girl so hard that she hit the little girl and little girl went flying.
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Holy crap.
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So yes I love the cozy atmosphere.
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I love where it's at.
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And also the place that they're filming happens to be a public broadcasting station.
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Yeah that's what it is going to something that actually matters.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well and there's you know they also did improve the look a bit from the first set of tapings.
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And I've noticed that it's continued to improve.
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So it's you know whatever reservations people might have had about it from the very start.
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It's it's a work in progress but they're building something really cool there.
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And it's nice for our way to have its own look and to have a crowd that's there to see our way instead of a tired crowd that's already watched a long wrestling show trying to watch our way to you know exactly.
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I felt like it gave a spotlight to those specific ring of honor wrestlers.
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I think the only thing that they'll probably need to work on is the locker room because it was tiny.
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You could hear him in the back cursing up a storm having all the fun in the world.
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I got to see A.R. Fox have fun too as well.
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And walked past what was it Blake Christian.
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Yeah I think it was Blake Christian.
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It's so tiny where they have to get dressed so I see that getting better.
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But yeah the atmosphere the fans were so into it like I don't know how the fan react.
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I don't know how the reaction was at home but for us live it was it was wild for five hours.
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It's it's you know like I said it's a lot better than that first set of tapings.
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You know they had that big white screen that was just there like you know it was just kind of ugly and unexplainable really.
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And I know it was just to cover something up but it's like you couldn't have called any more attention to that area than a giant white screen.
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Gary adds that it was so cool Arkady interviewed her and she met her favorite wrestler Willow.
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That is so cool.
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It couldn't have ended with a better ending because a perfect wrestler you'd want a child to meet a girl to meet a hero.
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That was awesome.
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Hell yeah.
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Now before we move off ROH stuff real quick Antoine I just want to get your way in because we got super card.
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Is it super card?
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That's the event next weekend.
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Yeah okay.
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So it's next Friday and that's Friday the 15th and we got Bandito versus Blake Christian.
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Now let me ask you something.
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Did they introduce this whole swerve thing because swerve is going to use his quote unquote power to screw Bandito out of the world title.
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What swerve is going to do next is almost even unclear to me.
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I ring of honor with their pay-per-views they don't do a lot of nonsense.
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I wouldn't call it nonsense.
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They don't do a lot of run ins a lot of angle setups.
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It really is going to be Blake Christian versus Bandito.
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So I would lean my answer would say no.
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Okay.
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But I wouldn't be surprised if somebody got involved on Blake Christian's behalf.
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Yeah.
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Because you got Jay lethal.
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You got God what's his name?
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I can never remember his name tag team partner swirl.
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God damn it partner Lee Johnson Lee Johnson.
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Thank you.
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It's just a very normal sounding name.
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And so I had to lose it sometimes.
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Yeah.
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You got Lee and you've got Jay lethal.
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And so you there's possibilities there.
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That's kind of the only way I could see Blake Christian winning this match.
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Otherwise on paper, it looks a little predictable to me personally.
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But we'll get we'll get some takes on that.
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We'll get some takes on that.
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But I'm down for the swirl to get a push.
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I'm down for Blake Christian to get a push.
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I'd be down for him to be champion under the right circumstances.
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You know, I absolutely would.
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I actually thought that they were going to take the belt off of Bandito already.
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And so for me, him having it is after having that shoulder injury, I watched that show in CML in Mexico where he got injured.
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It was bad.
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He's got to take some time off soon.
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And it's all going to go down to when they want him to drop the title.
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Yeah.
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Well, and I think it's it's he's unless you're going to get a TV show for our age, Bandito should be an AW probably.
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And I think that, you know, the problem with the Ring of Honor, the men's world title anyway, is that the champion, whoever it is, is usually not on the show anyway.
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And so it's like, put it on somebody who's going to be on the show.
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You know, that would be better than kind of the situation would be very, you know, that would be very nice to actually see the Ring of Honor men's world champion on the show.
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Yeah, it was wonderful seeing the Ring of Honor men's women's world champion on the show.
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I cannot see him.
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Exactly.
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Tell me.
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So even though I don't think it's going to happen, I really honestly don't.
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I would not be surprised if Blake Roshan walks out of this with the title because I think Bandito needs some time off.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I hate to say that because I want Bandito to be.
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Oh, and then they can use swerve to maul him and just destroy him.
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That's a potential thing they could do.
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Well, let's let's let's get upbeat about something, huh?
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Because as people know, Bandito is my wrestle son.
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And so the thought of him getting destroyed is is a little painful.
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I know I didn't want to give you the bad news, but you know, it's all right, man.
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I mean, it's got to do it, man.
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It's OK.
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I got to put him down.
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I got to save him from myself right now because I was ugly looking, dude.
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And I'm like, you ain't take no time off.
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I've had that injury and it still hurts me today.
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Like, what are you doing?
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I know.
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I know.
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You know, these guys, you got to drag them away.
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It's terrible.
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OK, so after dynasty, Will Osprey made the surprising decision to put his burden with John Moxley down
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and not to join the Death Riders as he's made clear sense, but to let them train him to get his neck to full strength and help him become basically the ultimate killing machine.
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Right.
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But Antoine, this comes with a lot.
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And I mean, a lot of baggage.
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Right.
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Because first things first, he is a member of the United Empire.
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Right.
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Which he founded.
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That's his group.
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He founded it.
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And he had already been in Japan when Callum Newman won the IWGP World Championship from Toyota Tsuji.
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And he very much did not approve of the way that Callum won the belt.
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Right.
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He was pretty adamant that that was not the way to do it.
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And Callum just kind of brushed him off.
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Right.
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And so we go to wrestling Dantaku night too.
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Right.
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Callum is going to defend the belt against my boy, Shingo Takagi, who will never get the fucking do he deserves.
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That's another matter entirely.
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That is another matter for another day.
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It is.
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It is.
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But earlier in the night, Will Hanare and Gredo Kahn win the never six man tag titles from Goto Yoshi Hashi and Oleg Bolton.
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Bolton Oleg.
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Bolton Oleg.
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What?
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Why do I have his name written backwards?
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Bolton Oleg.
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I knew that didn't sound right.
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Anyway, they win the six man tag titles from him.
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From them.
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Right.
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That's kind of cool that Ospreay is like pretty regularly, you know, regularly schmegular.
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He's never won.
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He's never been a tag champion before.
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So it was something that was kind of cool that he's never done before.
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And so just being there in New Japan means more than people realize.
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Well, it means a lot.
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And so they have that occurs earlier in the night.
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But, you know, you've had this tension building within, you know, Hanare has been acting like a heel, like a big ass heel.
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They're all acting like heels to some varying degrees.
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Right.
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Gredo Kahn's acting heelish.
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They're beating people up after matches for no reason, really.
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Right.
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Especially people Callum Newman wrestles, which brings me to the next point.
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Shingo Takagi and Callum Newman have a very good match.
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A very good match that had a terrible ending to me.
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Well, they are kind of House of Torturing Callum Newman, aren't they?
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Like, have you not noticed that?
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Like, I'm going to make a hopefully my people you get this out there, but he reminds me of Chris Paul.
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There's a lot of known as a nut puncher in basketball.
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I didn't actually know that was his reputation.
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Interesting.
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Yes, he had a reputation for punching other players in the nuts.
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And it's from the players.
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They don't like him.
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Wow.
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Or better yet, Shinsuke.
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That's right.
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Right.
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And yeah, so he kicks people in the balls a lot.
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And in this match, he kicked Shingo in the balls and hit him with his finisher and it didn't pin him.
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And then he did it basically the exact same thing again.
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And it did pin him.
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And, you know, they're trying to make Shingo look strong or whatever.
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But I was not happy.
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When Japan booze like that, you made them error.
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Yeah.
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Well, and there's some angles to all of this that we'll get into.
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But after the match, Will Ospreay is not happy.
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You know, he's not happy.
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Shingo and he have been respectful rivals.
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Right.
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For seven years.
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When Will had to give the title up because of injury, this is something that's also going to play into the entire story.
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Will was the IWGP world heavyweight champion.
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I believe he was the second one.
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He had to immediately relinquish the title.
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So he never got to be a real true IWGP champion.
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The next champion was Shingo.
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Right.
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Right.
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So Kota Ibushi initially unified the Intercontinental and heavyweight titles to make the world title.
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And then Ibushi got hurt.
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And so he dropped the belt to Will Ospreay.
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Who got hurt.
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And then Ospreay immediately got hurt and he dropped the belt.
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He didn't even drop the belt.
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He vacated the belt.
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Yeah.
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He had to vacate.
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It was Shingo versus Kazuchika Okada.
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And Shingo beats Okada.
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He hit him with one of his finishers on the floor.
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I mean, that was a nasty business.
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That was I recommend speaking on a rant or on a side note.
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Y'all got a way to see that match.
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That was awesome.
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Yeah.
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If you got a new Japan world, go watch that match.
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It's a real good.
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It gives an idea of what Okada looks like when he's not being booked as invincible.
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Right.
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When he's not on the dominant run.
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Right.
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Bucky Mama two times says there are compilations of Chris Paul being a habitual ball checker on YouTube.
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It's hilarious work.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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And fuck you.
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Mama.
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Two times.
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Once.
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Also said shout out Antoine, my fellow Florida man, brethren.
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Oh, brother.
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You were in Florida.
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I didn't even know that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Hey, man.
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You know, the sickos are everywhere, baby.
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But so so we've got this situation now.
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Osprey is not happy with Callum Newman again.
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Right.
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But Callum Newman isn't just, you know, taking this shit lying down.
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Right.
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He calls him.
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He tells him he wants him to hit Shingo after the entire United Empire come in and start
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beating the shit out of out of Shingo, except one guy who's not there.
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But we'll get to that later.
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They start beating the shit out of Shingo.
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And then he's like, no, well, you, you hit Shingo and we'll go.
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No, I'm not going to do it.
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I'm not going to do it.
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They're friends.
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Right.
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Like, well, and she go or at least respectful rivals, like I said.
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And then he goes, then he goes, come on.
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Come on, Death Rider and will like, and then he goes and he hits a hidden blade right
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in the goddamn face.
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Shingo Takagi knocks him out.
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Done.
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Boom.
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Then he kind of looks at him like, you happy now?
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You happy?
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There are so many layers to where this could go and where it appears this will
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go.
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And there's literally so many layers that they could swallow themselves because this
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is the kind of storytelling I have been waiting for with this partnership.
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It is storytelling that has been woven together using a group that was started by
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Will in New Japan when he didn't have any, there was no indication he was coming to America.
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And to be able to take all of this, tie it together, add AEW, add the internal
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factions that are all working together.
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All these machinations is unbelievable.
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I love trying to keep up with it.
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Oh, yeah.
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No, I mean, it's crazy.
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And I, I wrote this out and it's, it's a mouthful, man.
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It is a real mouthful.
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Damien directly is with us.
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Finally getting to catch the show live.
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Damien, welcome.
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Finally.
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Welcome.
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Welcome.
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We are happy to have you here, friend.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Thanks for joining us.
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But listen to this.
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So this comes with a lot of baggage.
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The Death Riders are enemies of the United Empire.
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They just had that big match a couple of weeks back when they came to back
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Will up, right?
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Before Dynasty.
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The Death Riders are also working with the dogs who had a fucking blood
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feud with the United Empire and ran Will Osprey out of New Japan.
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Correct.
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And that ended in the one of the most bloodiest cage matches I've seen
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New Japan put on.
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They usually don't put on matches like that.
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It was wild.
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It was a very long match as well.
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Yes, it was probably the best match I've seen the dogs in period.
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And it also, I believe, resulted in the end of Alex Coughlin as a wrestler.
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Yeah, he indirectly.
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I would.
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Yeah, it did.
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Pretty much.
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Let's just keep it simple and kayfabe.
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They have blamed Osprey and the United Kingdom for this.
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Okay.
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So that's plays into it, too.
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The Death Riders have been friendly and deadly in their relationship with
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the Calais family.
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But Andrade El Idolo is the new New Japan Global Heavyweight Champion
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and a member of the Calais family.
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How does that work?
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Because the Calais family.
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Also what he's a member of United Empire.
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That's what I'm saying.
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That's what I'm saying.
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So Andrade is the money man of the United Empire.
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But he's also in the Calais family.
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So now you have all these tethers, all these ties, right?
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And how they're going to fit together is anybody's guess.
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But the way this is unfolding, they are not forgetting anything.
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Not a single piece of it.
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I love with Dynamite how they had the wherewithal to just sneak in Andrade
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for a cameo to show his displeasure.
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Because he's also a member of the United Empire and he's holding gold.
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Yeah.
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Why don't you respect me?
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Right.
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Why isn't Don respecting him?
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And they've been alluding to him being pissed off at Don for a while now.
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Right.
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Damien directly goes, I agree that War Dogs vs.
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United Empire feud was the turning point for my opinion of the dogs.
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You know, as long as they don't have David Finley being called the leader
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and he's not talking that much.
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I like the dogs.
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Yeah.
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I like the dogs.
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He just can't speak.
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He just can't speak.
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That's all.
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The guy who's been blowing my mind, honestly, since they've been in AEW is Clark.
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Like he's looked incredible.
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Like he's looked really, really good.
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So that's some crazy shit.
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So now you've got Callum Newman as the IWGP heavyweight champion.
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Will is the supposed leader who is not really leading.
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He's come in and been very deferential to Callum in a lot of ways.
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Right.
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Because right.
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He knows that this is a new United Empire still with some of the same
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boys.
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He wins the trio titles with some of his boys that he brought in.
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He brought in Aaron Hanari.
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He brought in Great Old Khan.
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But I like the way that he is recognizing it and sort of deferring to Callum
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because he knows that Callum is not the leader.
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Things have changed since she'd been gone, son.
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He's the champ now.
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When you notice when they were on Dynamite, Will called Callum his little
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bro, his little brother.
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He didn't like that.
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Callum did not like that.
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Whatever my qualms with Callum's matches right now, he is doing a good job
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of acting, I think.
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And his character work has been very solid.
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And I think this is what I mean.
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I mean, so far, this is New Japan's biggest story of the year.
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Right.
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Is they have all these intersecting things with United Empire.
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And I think it's pretty compelling stuff, especially because it's going to be
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storytelling told through multiple promotions, multiple super shows on
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multiple continents.
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You know what I mean?
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That's pretty awesome.
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Over multiple months.
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While said promotion puts on tournaments.
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Right.
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Separately.
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We got the G1 coming up.
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You know, we've got the Owen coming up.
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We've got Super Junior.
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We got that next week.
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Yeah.
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That's the Super Junior's is next week.
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And not to be outdone, though, on night one, the main event.
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Andrade won the Global Heavyweight Championship from Yota Tsuji in a match
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that was by far, in my opinion, the match of the nights.
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Both nights.
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Oh, by far.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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By far, by far.
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So I would tell anybody if you were to watch that pay-per-view that night
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one, skip it.
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You can watch the main event.
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Yeah, basically.
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Yeah.
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The main event is so good.
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It's like a 35, 38 minute match.
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Something like that.
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It's long.
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The finish was so brutal.
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My fucking God.
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They are up on the top turnbuckle.
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It looks for a minute like Yoda is going to superplex Andrade back into the
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ring. But Andrade gets the upper hand, grabs Yoda and falls backwards.
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Andrade drops from the top to the fucking floor floor.
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And Yoda gets DDT on a ring post.
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I have never seen that before.
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I had never seen that in my entire life.
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That was brutal.
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It made me go out so many times.
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Unbelievable.
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Unbelievably cool.
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And then Andrade comes back in.
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I mean, you could pin Yoda right there, right?
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But Andrade has got to finish with his move, right?
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So then he hits the DM, which he's been trying to hit that whole match.
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And he gets the win.
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And Yoda gets helped out of the ring.
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And Andrade gets up and he gives a really good speech.
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I really enjoyed Andrade's speech.
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I think he's just perceived a little bit differently over there just because he
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spent a lot of time in New Japan.
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Yeah, they know him well.
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They know him well.
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But there is this humility and this guy is a born baby face right now.
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This version of Andrade, this is a baby face.
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Everybody likes him too much.
493
00:25:27.090 --> 00:25:28.350
This is the Andrade.
494
00:25:28.350 --> 00:25:33.010
I always, we didn't see this Andrade in the first run.
495
00:25:33.050 --> 00:25:34.010
No, we did not.
496
00:25:34.470 --> 00:25:36.250
I've never seen this Andrade in WWE.
497
00:25:36.510 --> 00:25:37.050
Have you?
498
00:25:37.570 --> 00:25:44.210
No, I saw so much potential in Andrade when he was the NXT champion because he
499
00:25:44.210 --> 00:25:49.750
was having so many great matches with Gargano and Drew McIntyre and all these
500
00:25:49.750 --> 00:25:50.330
different people.
501
00:25:50.510 --> 00:25:53.370
I thought he was so good when he lost the title to Aleister Black.
502
00:25:53.610 --> 00:25:55.990
I thought that was a great few great match.
503
00:25:57.230 --> 00:26:00.710
So I always saw a lot of potential, but the character work was never there.
504
00:26:00.730 --> 00:26:02.210
It was never like this.
505
00:26:03.050 --> 00:26:06.890
He still had Zelina Vega to talk for him.
506
00:26:07.850 --> 00:26:14.230
When he cuts this promo, he is cutting this as a humble, grateful man who is
507
00:26:14.230 --> 00:26:17.810
so honored to have this title and to be the champion.
508
00:26:18.290 --> 00:26:24.850
And he says both New Japan and CMLL and AEW, these companies are in my
509
00:26:24.850 --> 00:26:28.970
blood, you know, and you could tell how much this means to him.
510
00:26:29.810 --> 00:26:33.190
And he says, so whoever, go ahead.
511
00:26:34.310 --> 00:26:38.090
So he says, whoever's in the back who wants to challenge me for this title,
512
00:26:38.190 --> 00:26:38.910
come out here.
513
00:26:40.170 --> 00:26:41.290
And who comes out?
514
00:26:41.350 --> 00:26:46.250
Drilla Maloney comes out and I'm like, yeah, yeah, I want to see this.
515
00:26:46.470 --> 00:26:48.770
And then like him, I do like Drilla.
516
00:26:49.250 --> 00:26:53.570
But then that little shit bag, Shota Umino comes out too.
517
00:26:54.110 --> 00:26:56.510
And Trilla is like, you can't just be jumping in front of the line.
518
00:26:56.650 --> 00:26:58.370
I like, I've been, I was standing here first.
519
00:26:59.070 --> 00:27:00.790
And then they both walked down to the ring together.
520
00:27:00.870 --> 00:27:01.750
Trilla's like piss.
521
00:27:01.770 --> 00:27:03.150
Trilla like, what the hell is this?
522
00:27:03.550 --> 00:27:03.910
Right.
523
00:27:04.650 --> 00:27:06.530
And Andrade says, look, I'll fight you both.
524
00:27:06.710 --> 00:27:08.270
Why don't we do a triple threat for the belt?
525
00:27:08.330 --> 00:27:10.630
You tell me the day, the place, the time I'll be there.
526
00:27:10.990 --> 00:27:11.350
Right.
527
00:27:11.650 --> 00:27:13.590
So, you know, you got that match coming up.
528
00:27:14.910 --> 00:27:18.430
You know, you got Drilla Maloney on the rise in the singles division.
529
00:27:18.450 --> 00:27:21.910
And quite honestly, they should be focusing on him more than Shota right now.
530
00:27:23.310 --> 00:27:28.470
Because Shota's just, I don't know what Shota's got to do, but the fans ain't there yet.
531
00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:32.660
He's just got to find his niche at this point.
532
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.060
He does.
533
00:27:37.020 --> 00:27:38.880
It's he's just not there.
534
00:27:39.080 --> 00:27:40.200
He's just not there yet.
535
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.140
Hey, Justin's in the chat.
536
00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:43.120
What's up, buddy?
537
00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:44.680
Good to have you with us, man.
538
00:27:44.800 --> 00:27:46.420
Good to have you with us.
539
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.800
So with all of this going on, this is the template.
540
00:27:51.800 --> 00:27:55.140
This is the layout with this Osprey and Callum Newman thing, right?
541
00:27:55.260 --> 00:28:00.160
Where is Osprey going to end up challenging for the IWGP World Heavyweight title?
542
00:28:01.040 --> 00:28:06.300
Is Osprey going to be challenging for the AEW World Heavyweight title at All In?
543
00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:11.060
People almost feel like that has a certainty, right?
544
00:28:11.100 --> 00:28:15.360
Because he's healthy and he's back and they're doing a lot of storytelling with him.
545
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:17.420
I got a couple of questions for you.
546
00:28:17.420 --> 00:28:18.020
One.
547
00:28:18.300 --> 00:28:19.340
Am I healthy?
548
00:28:19.580 --> 00:28:21.920
Let's let's say healthy enough.
549
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:25.700
In case in case he's semi healthy, I think he's doing all right.
550
00:28:26.260 --> 00:28:36.580
But when did you ever expect Will Osprey to be this layered of a guy who's telling stories like this when he was in Japan?
551
00:28:37.280 --> 00:28:47.580
Will, the one knock that Will had on him in Japan was that he was all flash and no substance.
552
00:28:48.220 --> 00:28:50.800
It was the one thing that always used to frustrate me.
553
00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:52.540
He could fly all over that ring.
554
00:28:52.860 --> 00:28:57.140
He could do stuff you would never believe unless you saw it with your own two eyes.
555
00:28:57.560 --> 00:29:01.260
But his mic work was horrible.
556
00:29:03.080 --> 00:29:08.700
His ability to have extended long matches was not very good.
557
00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:15.620
And I wouldn't say he got a reputation for hurting people, but he did hurt people.
558
00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:18.660
And I know it hurt him that he hurt people.
559
00:29:18.660 --> 00:29:41.560
And to see this layered of a Will so emotional that he is willing to face his own fact that he doesn't have the killer instinct he needs to be the champion of either AEW or New Japan at this point has been a revelation.
560
00:29:42.540 --> 00:29:47.540
Tony Khan and everybody, Triple H, Triple K.
561
00:29:48.080 --> 00:29:49.700
That's what I feel like calling him.
562
00:29:51.140 --> 00:29:58.060
Once had a damn he actually thought this guy couldn't talk.
563
00:29:59.420 --> 00:30:03.360
All he had to do was be given the chance to and the right person to do it.
564
00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:08.220
This guy had watched a shit ton of American wrestling when he was a kid.
565
00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:15.820
You can tell he did because he was so ready for it from the second that he got there.
566
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:17.820
He was so ready for it.
567
00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:22.280
You know, he knew how to speak to the camera to an American audience.
568
00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:25.140
He just he just inherently got it.
569
00:30:25.140 --> 00:30:26.580
You know, he was eager.
570
00:30:27.300 --> 00:30:29.960
We got some so we got some spicy shit.
571
00:30:32.300 --> 00:30:33.740
It's gonna make you mad.
572
00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:36.280
Osprey wins the IWGP title.
573
00:30:36.580 --> 00:30:38.000
Kenny was a W title.
574
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.520
All in title versus title.
575
00:30:41.860 --> 00:30:43.200
That's from blurry line.
576
00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:45.040
I love y'all.
577
00:30:45.860 --> 00:30:46.460
Okay.
578
00:30:47.120 --> 00:30:48.280
All right.
579
00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:49.280
That's it.
580
00:30:49.320 --> 00:30:49.980
That's it.
581
00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:51.260
I'm gonna let them.
582
00:30:51.260 --> 00:30:53.080
I'm just I'm gonna let be.
583
00:30:53.740 --> 00:30:54.620
No, I can't.
584
00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:56.000
This is not happening.
585
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:58.080
No, it is not.
586
00:30:59.700 --> 00:31:02.980
It will not be all in title versus title.
587
00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:11.240
The I don't think I don't think there is a problem with the other parts happening.
588
00:31:11.820 --> 00:31:13.140
But title versus title.
589
00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:14.720
Not in a million years.
590
00:31:17.180 --> 00:31:17.700
No.
591
00:31:18.060 --> 00:31:18.600
All right.
592
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.420
All right.
593
00:31:20.540 --> 00:31:25.600
Blurry lines continues the struggles of COVID and difficulty traveling ended up being amazing for Will.
594
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.800
He had genuine hardship that he didn't need to act to cut a promo about.
595
00:31:29.860 --> 00:31:31.460
He could just be honest and be himself.
596
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:32.560
Good point.
597
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:33.740
That's a good point.
598
00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:39.160
That is that is very true because that was around the time that the United Empire started form.
599
00:31:39.380 --> 00:31:44.940
And he was with B priestly at a time and you know who he's with now.
600
00:31:45.840 --> 00:31:50.960
And that time helped him more than it actually hurt him.
601
00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:51.280
Yeah.
602
00:31:51.660 --> 00:31:52.580
In a lot of ways.
603
00:31:52.980 --> 00:31:53.420
Yeah.
604
00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:54.980
Blurry line continues.
605
00:31:55.040 --> 00:31:58.340
And it got people to think of him as a fully grown man, not just a flippy kid.
606
00:31:58.820 --> 00:31:59.280
Absolutely.
607
00:32:00.060 --> 00:32:00.580
Absolutely.
608
00:32:00.580 --> 00:32:05.120
I remember when Will came back and he wrestled Kota Ibushi for the Never title.
609
00:32:05.760 --> 00:32:08.780
And it was the first time I ever saw him do the hidden blade.
610
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:09.960
Yes.
611
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:12.700
And he gave Kota a concussion in that match.
612
00:32:13.080 --> 00:32:15.240
He can cuss the living shit out of Kota Ibushi.
613
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:21.160
And then they showed Kota, you know, nowadays when you get a concussion, they don't fucking put the camera on you.
614
00:32:21.280 --> 00:32:22.700
But they put the camera right on Kota.
615
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:24.780
And he literally was lying on the mat doing this.
616
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:27.520
Like he looked terrible.
617
00:32:27.820 --> 00:32:28.880
It looked bad.
618
00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:29.720
It was scary.
619
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.200
But Kota was knocked off.
620
00:32:32.500 --> 00:32:32.800
Fuck out.
621
00:32:33.740 --> 00:32:35.740
And Will won the Never open weight title.
622
00:32:36.740 --> 00:32:38.540
But Will had put on a lot of muscle.
623
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:42.800
And I remember thinking like, oh, this is somebody else.
624
00:32:42.840 --> 00:32:44.780
Now this is this is interesting.
625
00:32:45.460 --> 00:32:46.340
Very interesting.
626
00:32:47.740 --> 00:32:52.620
Justin said when Will was henshin himself up, he was also working more on his in ring and promos.
627
00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:53.520
100 percent.
628
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:55.880
Yes, I absolutely agree.
629
00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:56.620
Yeah.
630
00:32:56.620 --> 00:33:00.080
And this was around the time when Will was healing it up with United Empire.
631
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:11.360
And that's the part that a lot of people forget that Will was a heel in the United Empire started as heels because he turned on Okada and left chaos.
632
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:16.680
That's that's why I remember him saying fuck you to like Okada.
633
00:33:16.740 --> 00:33:19.260
Like he just you say how much he hated him.
634
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:21.620
And Jesus Christ, it was bad.
635
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:26.720
Also, he's not said the C word yet on American TV, which is amazing.
636
00:33:27.100 --> 00:33:29.260
For Will, especially that is genuine.
637
00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:30.740
That is true.
638
00:33:31.980 --> 00:33:32.500
Yeah.
639
00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:34.240
I'm surprised he hasn't.
640
00:33:34.340 --> 00:33:36.360
The brother can be trusted with a live mic.
641
00:33:36.540 --> 00:33:38.680
I think him and Tecla are the biggest risks.
642
00:33:39.140 --> 00:33:41.640
And they're both the best jobs.
643
00:33:41.760 --> 00:33:45.640
And they're they're both killing it on promos each and every time they get a mic.
644
00:33:46.340 --> 00:33:48.580
Like Tecla hasn't had a stinker promo yet.
645
00:33:48.580 --> 00:33:49.740
I mean, she's just been.
646
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:53.920
Holy shit.
647
00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:55.620
Tecla is her.
648
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.060
And when he had a match versus Marifuji and Noah.
649
00:34:00.320 --> 00:34:01.060
Yeah, that's right.
650
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:01.860
That's right.
651
00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:03.400
Justin continues.
652
00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:06.880
Very apparent that he was perfecting his craft and paid off after he became all elite.
653
00:34:06.900 --> 00:34:07.580
100 percent.
654
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:12.380
And him betraying Okada was a risk NJPW took.
655
00:34:12.380 --> 00:34:13.960
And I'm glad they made a story out of it.
656
00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:14.280
Yep.
657
00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:16.360
That was a big major risk.
658
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:18.840
That really truly was.
659
00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:21.820
They were both beloved so much.
660
00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:24.580
Did you really want to split your fan base that bad?
661
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:34.659
And for Will to buy into it and accept it and to not have a problem with being hated.
662
00:34:35.100 --> 00:34:36.739
Made that work.
663
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:44.460
I think Will recognized that for him to truly become his own entity as a wrestler.
664
00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:47.620
He had to get out from under Okada and he did.
665
00:34:48.520 --> 00:34:55.100
And it changed everything, you know, and and yeah, and he wasn't even a heel very long.
666
00:34:55.219 --> 00:34:56.480
You know, it's funny.
667
00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:00.460
Ospreys had like a couple very brief heel turns in New Japan.
668
00:35:00.700 --> 00:35:03.820
Remember when he turned heel on Hiromu?
669
00:35:05.220 --> 00:35:06.220
I do.
670
00:35:06.620 --> 00:35:08.840
And he started dying his hair black and shit.
671
00:35:09.300 --> 00:35:13.520
And at first he was so happy that Hiromu was back and then he turned heel on him.
672
00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:18.040
And and then Hiromu, because Hiromu had come back from the neck injury.
673
00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:28.380
And Hiromu, rest in peace friend, leaving the wrestling business to go to the land of.
674
00:35:29.060 --> 00:35:31.020
I don't want to talk about that.
675
00:35:31.680 --> 00:35:43.500
But I do want to say the one time that Will was absolutely effective as a heel was when he absolutely I didn't see it coming.
676
00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:46.500
When he absolutely dropped the priestly like that.
677
00:35:46.500 --> 00:35:47.800
Oh, that's right.
678
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:49.400
I totally forgot.
679
00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:51.060
I forgot.
680
00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:52.740
He lost saying he punt.
681
00:35:52.940 --> 00:35:54.420
They punished her.
682
00:35:54.600 --> 00:35:55.140
Mm hmm.
683
00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:56.120
Yeah.
684
00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:57.360
Yeah, totally.
685
00:35:58.960 --> 00:35:59.480
Blair's line.
686
00:35:59.540 --> 00:36:05.080
It's a shame that he had all that potential but couldn't cut in the big leagues and had to settle for the minor league part timer schedule.
687
00:36:07.180 --> 00:36:10.540
And people wonder why Okada is a heel in AEW.
688
00:36:10.540 --> 00:36:10.800
LOL.
689
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:12.300
He's tired of betrayals.
690
00:36:12.300 --> 00:36:13.560
I mean, fair enough.
691
00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:15.560
Fair enough.
692
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:19.440
Call a call a motherfucker a cat one too many times.
693
00:36:19.780 --> 00:36:20.340
Yes.
694
00:36:20.580 --> 00:36:20.860
Yes.
695
00:36:21.160 --> 00:36:21.720
No.
696
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.680
Okada, man.
697
00:36:23.720 --> 00:36:26.400
There's some interesting stuff going on with Okada right now, too.
698
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:27.540
But we'll get into that.
699
00:36:28.740 --> 00:36:36.720
But needless to say, there is so much going on just really kind of wrapped around Will Ospreay right now.
700
00:36:36.720 --> 00:36:38.760
And the United Empire and the United.
701
00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:41.580
The United Empire feel bigger than they've ever felt.
702
00:36:41.580 --> 00:36:42.960
Right this minute.
703
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:43.800
Yes.
704
00:36:44.140 --> 00:36:49.700
I got heated up so fast, you know, with Will coming back and Andrade being added.
705
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.600
And here's the thing.
706
00:36:52.860 --> 00:37:00.100
Hinnari was out for at least, Justin may know the exact amount of time, but I'd say about a year he was out.
707
00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:02.800
So you got him back fresh, the muscle.
708
00:37:03.100 --> 00:37:06.060
And you bring everybody back the way that they are.
709
00:37:06.060 --> 00:37:13.220
And Callum to see the transformation of Callum moving over the past, what, year and a half, two years.
710
00:37:13.220 --> 00:37:14.600
He was tiny.
711
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:15.720
I'm sorry.
712
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:21.800
He did earn that nickname little brother from Will Ospreay and see him now.
713
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.560
He's filled out the boys.
714
00:37:24.600 --> 00:37:25.140
Thick boy.
715
00:37:25.600 --> 00:37:26.340
He's a big boy.
716
00:37:26.900 --> 00:37:27.280
Yeah.
717
00:37:27.380 --> 00:37:28.440
It's a muscle on.
718
00:37:28.660 --> 00:37:29.740
He looks great.
719
00:37:30.680 --> 00:37:33.760
And when I heard he won the title, I hadn't seen him for a while.
720
00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:38.860
So, like, when I saw him, I was like, Whoa, that is a very different dude than the guy I thought I was going to see.
721
00:37:39.640 --> 00:37:40.040
Yeah.
722
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.820
Prince that used to run the roads back and forth, back and forth, like crazy.
723
00:37:44.060 --> 00:37:44.460
Yeah.
724
00:37:46.700 --> 00:37:48.940
Still don't like.
725
00:37:52.370 --> 00:37:54.730
I still got some smoke for you, Callum.
726
00:37:56.890 --> 00:37:57.690
But yeah.
727
00:37:57.690 --> 00:38:00.050
So, like, like I said, wrestling is a global language.
728
00:38:00.050 --> 00:38:15.150
It's so amazing to have somebody like Tony Khan with the resources that he has alongside Tana Hashi in New Japan, alongside Okada in Stardom and Salvador Luterov in CMLL, who've already been doing this for decades.
729
00:38:15.670 --> 00:38:15.730
Right.
730
00:38:16.150 --> 00:38:16.750
Yes.
731
00:38:16.750 --> 00:38:27.530
And for everybody, the thing that I love about the partnership, even more so, is the insertion of AEW.
732
00:38:28.510 --> 00:38:45.130
But also the fact that Tony loves this sport so much and he's clearly influenced by the Japanese wrestling even more so that they're able to work together for the good of all three, not just one.
733
00:38:45.810 --> 00:38:47.530
Nobody's a puppet in this.
734
00:38:47.570 --> 00:38:49.670
Nobody's bought anybody out.
735
00:38:49.930 --> 00:38:54.330
These are all three separate companies who have to agree.
736
00:38:54.630 --> 00:38:57.010
AEW is not the big brother here.
737
00:38:57.390 --> 00:38:59.150
And then we got a little brother situation.
738
00:38:59.350 --> 00:39:00.470
This is a partnership.
739
00:39:01.330 --> 00:39:05.990
Well, and this is Tony's the best kind of rich kid.
740
00:39:06.290 --> 00:39:06.590
Right.
741
00:39:06.590 --> 00:39:14.930
Where he can, like, sign somebody to a dual contract so that he can help you retain talent that you need and keep them.
742
00:39:14.930 --> 00:39:15.890
Tony, when I was a kid.
743
00:39:16.190 --> 00:39:16.750
Yeah, exactly.
744
00:39:16.890 --> 00:39:17.470
No shit.
745
00:39:17.970 --> 00:39:25.650
But Tony can keep CMLL from getting poached, you know, so Mystico isn't going anywhere.
746
00:39:26.210 --> 00:39:28.210
And Persephone is under contract.
747
00:39:29.270 --> 00:39:33.290
And, you know, Mascara Dorado is in Stardom.
748
00:39:33.390 --> 00:39:33.910
Right.
749
00:39:34.190 --> 00:39:34.610
Right.
750
00:39:34.610 --> 00:39:39.590
And so you've got people who are going to stay in the system.
751
00:39:40.190 --> 00:39:47.450
And even when Tony has signed people away, like Will Ospreay or Okada, those guys were leaving one way or the other.
752
00:39:47.670 --> 00:39:48.670
They had to.
753
00:39:48.890 --> 00:39:50.370
They had to go after the big bag.
754
00:39:50.550 --> 00:39:50.950
Right.
755
00:39:51.210 --> 00:39:51.690
Yes.
756
00:39:52.010 --> 00:39:52.970
They'd be stupid.
757
00:39:53.330 --> 00:39:55.190
Especially Okada at his stage in his career.
758
00:39:55.230 --> 00:39:55.910
He's what?
759
00:39:56.110 --> 00:39:57.190
In his mid 30s.
760
00:39:57.310 --> 00:40:00.630
He's done everything literally in New Japan.
761
00:40:00.670 --> 00:40:01.670
What do you want to be?
762
00:40:01.670 --> 00:40:10.150
And who just sold out the Tokyo Dome with Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada.
763
00:40:12.120 --> 00:40:18.160
So Tony has been pretty fair with the way that he's he's retained a lot of that talent.
764
00:40:18.220 --> 00:40:20.080
They were going to lose one way or the other.
765
00:40:20.220 --> 00:40:20.440
Right.
766
00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:21.040
Yes.
767
00:40:21.160 --> 00:40:23.460
And then he's let them use that talent again.
768
00:40:23.620 --> 00:40:26.340
So, like, it's not a bad deal.
769
00:40:26.660 --> 00:40:29.400
All things considered, it's still less than ideal.
770
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:34.380
I wish New Japan had the payroll to just pay these people what they wanted.
771
00:40:34.700 --> 00:40:35.180
Right.
772
00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:36.660
But you're right.
773
00:40:36.740 --> 00:40:41.680
Okada, like, even if they did, he would still be the same guy.
774
00:40:42.080 --> 00:40:43.040
He'd still be the same guy.
775
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:52.520
Even if they paid him what he was worth, it still wouldn't have been enough, I think, at that stage in his career to prevent him from coming to America.
776
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:57.720
And I'm just glad AW was here to get him, not the other place.
777
00:40:57.740 --> 00:40:58.460
Oh, my God.
778
00:40:58.460 --> 00:40:58.960
Yeah.
779
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:04.340
Yes, it was always going to happen.
780
00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:07.480
I wish New Japan would get it.
781
00:41:07.500 --> 00:41:08.740
I think they are.
782
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:11.460
I think it's going to start turning around.
783
00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:12.960
There was a big turnout for downtown.
784
00:41:13.380 --> 00:41:19.560
The wrestling has been really good this year, even though night one, I say you can skip to the last.
785
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:21.480
The show is not a bad show.
786
00:41:21.520 --> 00:41:23.560
No, no, it's tag heavy.
787
00:41:23.740 --> 00:41:27.100
And there's a few featured matches or whatever.
788
00:41:27.100 --> 00:41:27.520
Yeah.
789
00:41:27.580 --> 00:41:33.320
But I'd be like, it's something I throw on a Sunday afternoon and halfway watch.
790
00:41:34.060 --> 00:41:52.940
But I feel like with the inclusion of stardom and with the improvement in the wrestlers that they have in their own company,
791
00:41:52.940 --> 00:42:04.000
not the dual contractors, that it's going to not only increase profits locally, it's going to increase the revenue of Forbidden Door,
792
00:42:04.340 --> 00:42:08.800
which increases the revenue for what New Japan receives from that.
793
00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:16.120
Well, and I think that if you look at the partnership with CMLL, particularly this last year,
794
00:42:16.120 --> 00:42:24.480
I've watched more Lucha in this last year than I had ever watched before in my life because I had a good idea of what their roster was.
795
00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:30.560
Right. I kind of usually only watch Fantastica Mania, New Japan and CMLL.
796
00:42:30.660 --> 00:42:35.900
But that's the only time I admit it and I am being better about it.
797
00:42:35.940 --> 00:42:38.020
Hey, we only got so much time.
798
00:42:38.060 --> 00:42:39.500
Watch wrestling when you can.
799
00:42:39.540 --> 00:42:41.360
Right. That's the most I can ask of you.
800
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:44.860
Right. Even if you only watch AEW, just watch something.
801
00:42:45.640 --> 00:42:53.260
But what I would say is like New Japan is going to have that same effect if they are able to work more with AEW.
802
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:57.400
AEW is a proven winner when it comes to bringing new eyes to people's product.
803
00:42:59.080 --> 00:43:03.460
And anytime the AEW people are announced for a CMLL show, the show sells out.
804
00:43:04.300 --> 00:43:08.360
And they're getting to that point where they can actually claim that now.
805
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:13.080
So when Takeshita is on a show, I think they sell more tickets.
806
00:43:15.700 --> 00:43:18.500
Certainly when Okada is on a show, they sell more tickets.
807
00:43:19.080 --> 00:43:21.420
Yes, I think Okada is the outlier.
808
00:43:22.020 --> 00:43:27.480
Takeshita, I kind of felt for a little bit, it definitely was half and half.
809
00:43:29.660 --> 00:43:33.600
And you have to ingratiate yourself in the right type of way.
810
00:43:33.620 --> 00:43:38.920
And I think that he has and Don Taku kind of proved it.
811
00:43:39.080 --> 00:43:41.100
He's definitely going in a new direction.
812
00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:44.780
He's baby facing all the way.
813
00:43:45.140 --> 00:43:47.540
He is absolutely baby facing all the way.
814
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:51.020
And they're going to reap the rewards of this.
815
00:43:51.180 --> 00:43:53.180
It's just taking a long damn time.
816
00:43:53.740 --> 00:43:56.000
Yeah, yeah. So that was the other thing I was going to talk about.
817
00:43:56.140 --> 00:44:03.460
So with the other foreign stars, you know, you have Bolton Oleg, who's like very good, fantastic wrestler.
818
00:44:03.720 --> 00:44:05.000
Very good, big man.
819
00:44:05.340 --> 00:44:05.900
I really enjoy him.
820
00:44:06.200 --> 00:44:09.280
The only wrestler from Kazakhstan.
821
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.260
The only wrestler from Kazakhstan, which is kind of his gimmick.
822
00:44:12.260 --> 00:44:14.540
He's like, I'm from Kazakhstan and I'm very large.
823
00:44:14.980 --> 00:44:19.940
I would love to hear him do an interview or something, even if it needed to be translated or whatever.
824
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:23.460
Just so you have a better idea of who he is.
825
00:44:24.060 --> 00:44:26.380
Yes, he speaks perfect Spanish.
826
00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:29.560
He speaks perfect Japanese in the backstage interviews.
827
00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:34.860
I've never heard him speak his native language or English, but just Japanese.
828
00:44:34.860 --> 00:44:38.720
Yeah, yeah, but I've been very impressed by him.
829
00:44:39.700 --> 00:44:50.880
So but the foreign talent is somewhat lacking when you have to have Chase Owens as your opponent for a pay-per-view against Kanosuke to catch the chase.
830
00:44:51.040 --> 00:45:01.200
I can see that as a tag team match, maybe or maybe even let's go with no, I can't.
831
00:45:01.200 --> 00:45:05.580
No, no, that was not.
832
00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:12.940
I love Chase and it's no disrespect to the chase and his longevity.
833
00:45:13.420 --> 00:45:18.520
He's the only one who saw all the errors of the Bullet Club or one of the only ones.
834
00:45:20.140 --> 00:45:22.480
But Kanosuke to catch the dessert better.
835
00:45:23.200 --> 00:45:25.960
Yeah, he needs he needs a better opponent than Chase Owens.
836
00:45:25.980 --> 00:45:26.480
I'm sorry.
837
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:32.200
It's just, you know, you got I think Justin just said exactly what we're all thinking.
838
00:45:32.220 --> 00:45:33.580
I didn't want to say.
839
00:45:33.580 --> 00:45:34.640
Uh huh.
840
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:35.480
Uh huh.
841
00:45:36.460 --> 00:45:38.620
Justice says Chase should just go.
842
00:45:38.640 --> 00:45:43.940
Larry Lyons says Chase Owens continued employment as a marvel of modern wrestling, modern wrestling.
843
00:45:44.300 --> 00:45:47.380
And oh, gosh, the other one.
844
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:48.100
Oh, yeah.
845
00:45:48.100 --> 00:45:49.440
I can't move.
846
00:45:49.500 --> 00:45:50.780
I don't even move anymore.
847
00:45:51.640 --> 00:45:52.160
Yeah.
848
00:45:52.160 --> 00:45:52.840
Oh, God.
849
00:45:53.220 --> 00:45:53.880
You draw.
850
00:45:54.060 --> 00:45:55.160
Oh, you draw.
851
00:45:55.340 --> 00:45:56.280
All right.
852
00:45:56.720 --> 00:45:59.660
That dude is literally one of the worst wrestlers I've ever seen.
853
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:01.020
He just sucks.
854
00:46:01.940 --> 00:46:07.280
And I remember he was in a G1 years ago because they were really scraping the bottom
855
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:08.840
of the barrel during COVID.
856
00:46:10.220 --> 00:46:12.380
And he had a match with Shingo.
857
00:46:12.900 --> 00:46:19.260
And I remember I noticed Shingo had to slow everything he does down.
858
00:46:21.720 --> 00:46:25.520
So that Takahashi knew where to be and knew how to take it.
859
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:31.460
Like, yes, I know exactly what you mean because I might have to disagree with you a little
860
00:46:31.460 --> 00:46:37.260
bit on the pandemic thing just because the pandemic actually strengthened my love
861
00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:38.480
for New Japan.
862
00:46:40.260 --> 00:46:45.420
Because of that reason, they scraped the barrel and had to and still somehow made
863
00:46:45.420 --> 00:46:45.900
it work.
864
00:46:46.040 --> 00:46:46.380
Yeah.
865
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:48.840
Well, they I mean, they had good good things.
866
00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:52.900
It was that G1 where it was like four brackets or four.
867
00:46:53.200 --> 00:46:53.700
Yes.
868
00:46:53.780 --> 00:46:54.500
Four brackets.
869
00:46:54.700 --> 00:46:56.980
It was it was kind of a messy G1 that year.
870
00:46:57.180 --> 00:47:03.760
And so and and yeah, Yuzuru just that man belongs nowhere near a G1.
871
00:47:04.060 --> 00:47:07.700
I mean, it's like watching the Brooklyn Brawler in a G1.
872
00:47:07.860 --> 00:47:09.480
Like he just it doesn't.
873
00:47:10.740 --> 00:47:13.700
In fairness, he's probably a better wrestler in the Brooklyn Brawler.
874
00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:17.140
Definitely a little bit better, a little bit better.
875
00:47:17.140 --> 00:47:19.360
You heard it here first, folks.
876
00:47:19.560 --> 00:47:24.440
Yuzuru Takahashi is definitely a little bit better than the Brooklyn Brawler.
877
00:47:24.460 --> 00:47:24.920
Yes.
878
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:33.480
Justin says, only thing we need for TK is to formalize TJPW DDT partnership as
879
00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:33.840
well.
880
00:47:34.140 --> 00:47:38.280
They've collaborated collaborating so many times that I'm surprised that no former
881
00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:41.120
partners, no formal partnership has been established.
882
00:47:41.680 --> 00:47:42.280
Agreed.
883
00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:44.400
Because they have they have worked together.
884
00:47:45.200 --> 00:47:46.300
I agree.
885
00:47:46.300 --> 00:47:50.440
I would love to see check no conflicts with the other JP promotions, too.
886
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:51.500
So that's even better.
887
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.400
I would love to see Tokyo Joshi Pro thrown in.
888
00:47:55.540 --> 00:48:00.620
To be honest for me, if I could pick any one of the other ones, it would be Marigold.
889
00:48:01.500 --> 00:48:01.980
Yeah.
890
00:48:02.080 --> 00:48:07.340
But I think they did let go Tommy Hayashi stuff, and I might have to change my mind
891
00:48:07.340 --> 00:48:07.780
on that.
892
00:48:07.860 --> 00:48:08.340
Yeah.
893
00:48:08.340 --> 00:48:12.360
Well, and I think Rossi is going to make that impossible.
894
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:17.680
I don't think I don't think anybody wants to work with Rossi.
895
00:48:17.780 --> 00:48:22.220
And even the other Japanese promotions don't really want to work with Rossi.
896
00:48:22.220 --> 00:48:23.660
He can stay in the bag.
897
00:48:24.020 --> 00:48:24.500
Yeah.
898
00:48:25.040 --> 00:48:26.660
He needs to go the fuck away.
899
00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:28.340
Retire old hat man.
900
00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:29.400
Retire.
901
00:48:29.780 --> 00:48:30.800
Women suffer.
902
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:34.520
It truly felt like they'd kind of pushed Okada to be old before his time.
903
00:48:34.520 --> 00:48:35.780
It did in New Japan.
904
00:48:35.780 --> 00:48:37.800
It did because he had done everything.
905
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:39.760
It wasn't that he was actually old.
906
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:41.180
It was just that like.
907
00:48:41.180 --> 00:48:42.040
Yeah.
908
00:48:42.420 --> 00:48:45.340
He can't just be the guy forever.
909
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:50.180
When he came from TNA back to Japan and started, what was he?
910
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:54.620
19, 20, 21, 20 something.
911
00:48:54.700 --> 00:48:55.520
He was young.
912
00:48:56.100 --> 00:48:57.500
He won the world title.
913
00:48:57.680 --> 00:48:59.500
He had to have been older than Callum.
914
00:48:59.780 --> 00:49:00.560
Callum's 23.
915
00:49:00.600 --> 00:49:00.900
Yeah.
916
00:49:00.900 --> 00:49:01.120
He was.
917
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:03.300
He was definitely older than Callum.
918
00:49:03.930 --> 00:49:04.700
24, 25.
919
00:49:05.080 --> 00:49:05.520
Yeah.
920
00:49:05.740 --> 00:49:06.320
Yeah.
921
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:13.140
So I don't want to say oversaturation, but it was oversaturation though.
922
00:49:13.140 --> 00:49:13.960
It was.
923
00:49:14.180 --> 00:49:15.480
And it's not Okada's fault.
924
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:20.800
It's like he just kept getting pushed as the unbeatable guy.
925
00:49:21.480 --> 00:49:23.500
And that gets old after a while.
926
00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:29.460
Wrestling is about time and timing, you know, and Hiroshi Tanahashi kind of,
927
00:49:29.460 --> 00:49:34.260
in my opinion, actually got pushed down the card a little before that you had to.
928
00:49:34.260 --> 00:49:38.220
And that's not a bad thing.
929
00:49:39.180 --> 00:49:43.760
That's not a bad thing necessarily because you never got sick of him being the top guy.
930
00:49:45.540 --> 00:49:48.360
But Okada like took his job from him.
931
00:49:48.500 --> 00:49:51.880
Basically, you know, like on his first day.
932
00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:52.160
Yeah.
933
00:49:52.160 --> 00:49:53.100
On his first day.
934
00:49:53.140 --> 00:49:53.300
Yeah.
935
00:49:53.300 --> 00:49:57.920
New kid walks in the office, shoves his nuts in your face and dances for you.
936
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:01.440
And then you have to sniff them every day for the rest of your life.
937
00:50:01.740 --> 00:50:02.120
Right.
938
00:50:02.120 --> 00:50:03.340
There's no happy ending there.
939
00:50:03.340 --> 00:50:04.040
There's no happy ending.
940
00:50:05.500 --> 00:50:06.160
No revenge.
941
00:50:06.500 --> 00:50:07.860
That works on so many levels.
942
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:14.820
Blarry Line, like he had that last New Japan run where he was just kind of this embittered vet who smashed up the Alliance.
943
00:50:15.680 --> 00:50:16.500
You know what, Joe?
944
00:50:16.620 --> 00:50:17.540
You know what, Blarry Line?
945
00:50:17.700 --> 00:50:21.120
I will absolutely agree with you 100%.
946
00:50:21.740 --> 00:50:28.040
That's a great astute observation because he was a surly asshole that last year.
947
00:50:28.260 --> 00:50:29.680
But I kind of liked it.
948
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:35.400
Because it wasn't it wasn't normally what he was.
949
00:50:35.980 --> 00:50:40.460
And you could tell that all these young people coming in were just pissing them off.
950
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:41.240
Yeah.
951
00:50:41.640 --> 00:50:43.800
And it was time for him to go.
952
00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:49.620
But I'm glad he's kind of brought some of that over to AEW and kept the heel.
953
00:50:49.940 --> 00:50:50.600
Mm hmm.
954
00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:51.740
Mm hmm.
955
00:50:52.220 --> 00:50:53.800
Jumping ahead in the chat a little bit.
956
00:50:53.940 --> 00:50:57.620
Justin says, I will never forgive House of Torture for what they did to Son of Strong Style.
957
00:50:57.620 --> 00:50:59.600
Ren Narita agreed.
958
00:51:00.040 --> 00:51:01.220
Rest in power, Ren.
959
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:02.640
Rest in power.
960
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.920
It's been a long time now, too.
961
00:51:06.080 --> 00:51:06.900
It's been a long time.
962
00:51:07.080 --> 00:51:09.280
You know, the one talent is gone.
963
00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:13.620
The one person that I do feel they've helped actually is show.
964
00:51:13.980 --> 00:51:16.500
And not because he wrestles better.
965
00:51:17.160 --> 00:51:20.880
It's because he has an actual character that he can express clearly.
966
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.730
OK, that does make them more employable.
967
00:51:24.340 --> 00:51:26.460
And you can always use you.
968
00:51:26.460 --> 00:51:31.800
And when he's done in House of Torture, I would love it if he left House of Torture and killed the rest of them.
969
00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:38.840
Not really killed them, but like just destroyed the rest of the group and then had a great career after that because he's good.
970
00:51:39.140 --> 00:51:39.920
He's such a weasel.
971
00:51:40.020 --> 00:51:50.220
He is so good, but he's such he's so great at playing a weasel that if you can't help kind of laugh at him, if he turned face and did that, I would be heavy.
972
00:51:50.220 --> 00:51:53.740
I saw the first.
973
00:51:55.260 --> 00:51:58.120
The first round of the Super J Cup, the last one they did.
974
00:51:58.140 --> 00:51:59.180
I was front row.
975
00:51:59.380 --> 00:52:02.260
It was Liger's last time in North America.
976
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:06.240
And I saw Osprey versus Amazing Red.
977
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.140
But I also saw show beat.
978
00:52:11.220 --> 00:52:12.340
Oh, God damn it.
979
00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:14.340
What am I? What is it with me in names today?
980
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:17.000
The Bone Soldier.
981
00:52:18.160 --> 00:52:19.980
Oh, my God.
982
00:52:20.200 --> 00:52:23.240
How did I for this is a comedy of errors here.
983
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:24.200
I need you more.
984
00:52:24.560 --> 00:52:25.100
Is she more?
985
00:52:25.240 --> 00:52:28.660
Yes, I saw a show in Ishi Mori Russell and show beat each morning.
986
00:52:29.020 --> 00:52:31.520
And it was real good.
987
00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:32.460
Like it was.
988
00:52:32.460 --> 00:52:33.960
That was a fantastic match.
989
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:35.680
I also saw Mystico.
990
00:52:35.740 --> 00:52:40.580
But at the time he was Christico live at that time.
991
00:52:40.580 --> 00:52:42.000
It was very good.
992
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:42.600
Blair line.
993
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:43.840
Hey, you're right.
994
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:47.680
At least Tonga Loa will soon be a free agent so he can tear it up in the G one.
995
00:52:49.980 --> 00:52:55.720
Now, I'm going to welcome him back with open arms because his usage, what they did,
996
00:52:56.060 --> 00:52:58.600
I don't know what they thought they were going to get.
997
00:52:58.600 --> 00:52:59.820
I understand money.
998
00:52:59.820 --> 00:53:04.360
And it must have been just the money because they did nothing with them.
999
00:53:04.700 --> 00:53:05.220
Nothing.
1000
00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:09.720
I think with Tonga Loa, him without Tama is a mess.
1001
00:53:09.720 --> 00:53:12.620
Like, he's not very good.
1002
00:53:13.340 --> 00:53:15.740
Yes, Tama was the one.
1003
00:53:16.980 --> 00:53:18.160
Let me make sure Tama.
1004
00:53:18.260 --> 00:53:19.740
Tama has the curly hair, right?
1005
00:53:20.100 --> 00:53:21.100
So, yeah, Tom.
1006
00:53:21.340 --> 00:53:23.400
He was more breaking.
1007
00:53:24.160 --> 00:53:26.140
He was the original OG Bullet Club guy.
1008
00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:26.880
Okay.
1009
00:53:26.940 --> 00:53:28.960
We had the stuff originally.
1010
00:53:30.100 --> 00:53:30.600
Yeah.
1011
00:53:30.680 --> 00:53:31.080
Mm hmm.
1012
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:34.080
And Tonga Loa was in NXT as Camacho.
1013
00:53:34.660 --> 00:53:38.340
And then he got released and he came over and they formed God.
1014
00:53:40.640 --> 00:53:45.300
So Tonga Loa is the bigger one, basically.
1015
00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:46.820
Tonga Loa is the bigger one.
1016
00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:49.720
Tama Tonga is the one who had the better singles career.
1017
00:53:50.220 --> 00:53:52.900
He had a singles career and he's good.
1018
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:53.920
Yeah.
1019
00:53:54.140 --> 00:53:54.920
He's very good worker.
1020
00:53:54.940 --> 00:53:55.500
Yeah.
1021
00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:57.920
So I do agree.
1022
00:53:58.420 --> 00:54:00.880
Tonga Loa is going to have a bit of a struggle.
1023
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:09.100
He started to a little bit with, I believe it was the New Japan Cup
1024
00:54:09.100 --> 00:54:14.260
and I got to see him a little bit, but he's going to have a hard time.
1025
00:54:14.340 --> 00:54:14.580
Yeah.
1026
00:54:14.580 --> 00:54:15.780
If he comes back.
1027
00:54:17.300 --> 00:54:19.360
I hope he's made a bunch of money, man.
1028
00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:22.740
I just hope he did, too.
1029
00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:24.840
GOG hasn't been gone very long.
1030
00:54:25.040 --> 00:54:25.520
You know what I mean?
1031
00:54:25.640 --> 00:54:29.920
Unless one of my homies in the chat have a suggestion.
1032
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:32.800
I mean, I don't see a reason to bring Tonga Loa back.
1033
00:54:33.040 --> 00:54:33.780
Hang it up, bro.
1034
00:54:35.980 --> 00:54:39.300
Damien directly says the fact that Shingo, who is borderline weight class
1035
00:54:39.300 --> 00:54:42.600
for a while and fighting cruiserweights in Dragon Gate, had to dull his edge
1036
00:54:42.600 --> 00:54:46.400
that much just so Yujiro Takahashi could look somewhat decent is sad.
1037
00:54:46.820 --> 00:54:50.000
Look, Shingo is the man.
1038
00:54:50.300 --> 00:54:53.400
OK, he is my favorite guy in New Japan.
1039
00:54:53.660 --> 00:54:54.060
All right.
1040
00:54:54.120 --> 00:54:57.060
He had to do the same a little bit for Callum Newman.
1041
00:54:57.600 --> 00:54:59.960
Yeah, he did last year during the G1.
1042
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:00.800
Yeah.
1043
00:55:00.980 --> 00:55:01.660
Mm hmm.
1044
00:55:01.660 --> 00:55:03.940
And he lost to him, too.
1045
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:12.060
Shingo is he's one of the biggest just wow out of nowhere when he joined
1046
00:55:12.060 --> 00:55:15.040
a L.I.J. I loved him immediately.
1047
00:55:15.040 --> 00:55:16.660
And he was a cruiserweight.
1048
00:55:17.300 --> 00:55:19.820
That's what people don't use a light heavyweight.
1049
00:55:20.700 --> 00:55:24.880
And he was kicking ass that much and then got all the way to heavyweight.
1050
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:29.220
And he's still kicking ass that much and still can move exactly the same.
1051
00:55:29.220 --> 00:55:32.460
Well, and Shingo's Shingo and I are close in age.
1052
00:55:32.860 --> 00:55:34.600
So this dude is as good as he is.
1053
00:55:34.600 --> 00:55:37.160
And he's like 45 years old, I believe.
1054
00:55:37.460 --> 00:55:37.900
Yeah.
1055
00:55:38.560 --> 00:55:40.540
You got a few years and that's it.
1056
00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:42.880
But God damn, give him a go to run.
1057
00:55:43.180 --> 00:55:43.800
You know what I mean?
1058
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:44.700
You could do it for God.
1059
00:55:44.780 --> 00:55:46.600
You can't do it for Shingo.
1060
00:55:47.040 --> 00:55:51.480
That's why I am putting the kibosh on the title versus title
1061
00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:57.580
and the winners of those titles because of him specifically and go to also
1062
00:55:57.580 --> 00:56:00.440
the Revolutionary Army didn't form for nothing.
1063
00:56:00.740 --> 00:56:01.920
Mm hmm.
1064
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:03.040
All right.
1065
00:56:03.040 --> 00:56:03.760
Let's see.
1066
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:05.180
We're in the chat here.
1067
00:56:05.220 --> 00:56:05.540
Wow.
1068
00:56:05.680 --> 00:56:07.360
We kicked off this New Japan stuff.
1069
00:56:07.460 --> 00:56:08.400
We don't talk New Japan.
1070
00:56:08.520 --> 00:56:09.280
I love it.
1071
00:56:09.420 --> 00:56:10.340
I love it.
1072
00:56:10.420 --> 00:56:14.760
There's the chap like begging us like Taiji Ishimori.
1073
00:56:14.860 --> 00:56:15.520
I know.
1074
00:56:15.660 --> 00:56:17.300
That's all that.
1075
00:56:18.020 --> 00:56:18.680
Thank you.
1076
00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:19.620
I appreciate you.
1077
00:56:19.620 --> 00:56:20.680
Yeah, I appreciate you.
1078
00:56:20.700 --> 00:56:21.000
Yeah.
1079
00:56:21.260 --> 00:56:23.660
I also need to point out that William Regal said he was the most
1080
00:56:23.660 --> 00:56:26.800
talented guy in NXT during his first run as Kamacho.
1081
00:56:26.800 --> 00:56:30.280
He called Tonga Loa the most talented guy in NXT.
1082
00:56:31.140 --> 00:56:35.560
I saw him in NXT and he sucked then when he was Kamacho.
1083
00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:37.760
William Williams should know better.
1084
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:38.800
William Schmillium.
1085
00:56:39.620 --> 00:56:40.100
Okay.
1086
00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:40.900
The guy.
1087
00:56:40.900 --> 00:56:42.560
Look, he's great at a lot of things.
1088
00:56:42.660 --> 00:56:43.960
Maybe not scouting talent though.
1089
00:56:45.120 --> 00:56:45.640
No.
1090
00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:48.180
Tama and Towa together.
1091
00:56:48.180 --> 00:56:49.040
I saw them in London.
1092
00:56:49.060 --> 00:56:49.940
They were fucking sick.
1093
00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:50.360
Yeah.
1094
00:56:50.460 --> 00:56:52.660
Thomas got awesome together.
1095
00:56:53.720 --> 00:56:54.700
They are so great.
1096
00:56:54.700 --> 00:56:56.880
I love the Gorillaz of Destiny to me.
1097
00:56:57.020 --> 00:57:00.080
When they work together, the Gorillaz of Destiny were the best
1098
00:57:00.080 --> 00:57:04.660
damn tag team in the world hands down.
1099
00:57:04.660 --> 00:57:05.460
They're a lot of fun.
1100
00:57:06.060 --> 00:57:09.320
And that's where Tonga like somebody like that is going to
1101
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:15.400
succeed with aura and presence because you can have, you know,
1102
00:57:15.580 --> 00:57:19.980
you can have Tama Tonga in there doing all the actual work and
1103
00:57:19.980 --> 00:57:22.980
then have him come in and just do a hot tag,
1104
00:57:22.980 --> 00:57:25.520
hit some big moves and get the fuck out of the ring again.
1105
00:57:25.800 --> 00:57:26.140
You know,
1106
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:27.840
Flex some muscles.
1107
00:57:27.940 --> 00:57:28.860
Yeah, exactly.
1108
00:57:29.100 --> 00:57:30.220
He's cause he's scary.
1109
00:57:30.460 --> 00:57:31.360
That's for sure.
1110
00:57:31.740 --> 00:57:32.640
It's very scary.
1111
00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:35.840
Damien directly Tonga Lois ceiling is a floor right now.
1112
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:37.800
That is very true.
1113
00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:39.260
It's so true.
1114
00:57:39.260 --> 00:57:42.120
It is actually kind of sad, but it's true.
1115
00:57:42.700 --> 00:57:43.300
My friend,
1116
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:45.020
BJ Dixon in the chat.
1117
00:57:45.020 --> 00:57:47.020
What up, brother?
1118
00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:48.280
Good to see you, man.
1119
00:57:49.460 --> 00:57:51.560
Justin Shingo deserves a title run with people cheering,
1120
00:57:51.560 --> 00:57:52.680
not just COVID clapping.
1121
00:57:53.080 --> 00:57:53.420
Come on.
1122
00:57:53.540 --> 00:57:54.400
Yes. Amen.
1123
00:57:54.920 --> 00:57:57.060
That's, that's really how it should have been said.
1124
00:57:57.440 --> 00:57:59.420
We've been, we've been waiting for the way.
1125
00:57:59.860 --> 00:58:03.440
Justin, you have saved us all because nobody was cheering.
1126
00:58:03.680 --> 00:58:05.520
And that hurt my heart for Shingo.
1127
00:58:06.020 --> 00:58:08.240
Cause I loved that title run.
1128
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:10.340
I think why I love the,
1129
00:58:10.340 --> 00:58:15.440
the wrestling itself during COVID was from new Japan was
1130
00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:15.700
amazing.
1131
00:58:16.160 --> 00:58:16.580
It was.
1132
00:58:16.720 --> 00:58:19.820
So he deserves to be in front of people and had that title
1133
00:58:19.820 --> 00:58:20.600
around his waist.
1134
00:58:20.600 --> 00:58:24.620
Do you remember him in Tana Hashi having a five star match in
1135
00:58:24.620 --> 00:58:26.860
front of like, I, there were actually people there.
1136
00:58:26.860 --> 00:58:29.880
It was like in front of like 300 people or something in a
1137
00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:30.120
huge.
1138
00:58:30.220 --> 00:58:32.860
Yeah. That's when they started to bring people back just a
1139
00:58:32.860 --> 00:58:33.540
little bit,
1140
00:58:33.680 --> 00:58:37.980
but they had just on like one of Tana Hashi's last,
1141
00:58:38.180 --> 00:58:41.320
like truly fantastic matches.
1142
00:58:41.420 --> 00:58:44.400
I have to go back and look through what I,
1143
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:45.780
I know they had multiple,
1144
00:58:45.780 --> 00:58:46.400
multiple,
1145
00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:50.360
multiple five star matches during the pandemic.
1146
00:58:51.240 --> 00:58:53.080
That weren't seen by anybody.
1147
00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:55.420
Unless you were watching.
1148
00:58:55.700 --> 00:58:57.520
I would read about, I would, you know,
1149
00:58:57.520 --> 00:59:00.180
I would get updates on what happened and then I go watch the
1150
00:59:00.180 --> 00:59:01.260
matches that I wanted to see.
1151
00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:02.400
I wouldn't watch whole shows.
1152
00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:04.080
Cause it was a little weird.
1153
00:59:05.040 --> 00:59:07.360
Two clear Wessels X Tungalow will do fine in TNA.
1154
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:10.500
Probably they would bring them in as a huge star.
1155
00:59:10.540 --> 00:59:12.280
That's not a bad idea. Honestly.
1156
00:59:12.820 --> 00:59:14.060
That's actually not.
1157
00:59:14.060 --> 00:59:17.680
You know, him and Alistair black could form a hell of a team.
1158
00:59:18.200 --> 00:59:18.800
Okay.
1159
00:59:19.660 --> 00:59:23.440
So NJPW currently navigating a post bullet club roster is very,
1160
00:59:23.460 --> 00:59:25.580
very interesting to see unfold a hundred percent.
1161
00:59:25.580 --> 00:59:27.700
It has been, it has been.
1162
00:59:27.780 --> 00:59:31.400
And they're kind of plugging United empire into that bullet club
1163
00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:32.000
sized hole.
1164
00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:33.180
You know,
1165
00:59:33.720 --> 00:59:34.560
Cause it's,
1166
00:59:34.560 --> 00:59:38.300
it's very massive to not have the guy Jen stable there.
1167
00:59:39.120 --> 00:59:43.540
That are heels to help play off of that.
1168
00:59:43.540 --> 00:59:46.240
And I think that the rest of the roster can always go to instead
1169
00:59:46.240 --> 00:59:47.620
of fighting each other.
1170
00:59:47.640 --> 00:59:48.080
Yeah.
1171
00:59:48.500 --> 00:59:49.600
A hundred percent.
1172
00:59:49.600 --> 00:59:50.420
A blurry line said,
1173
00:59:50.460 --> 00:59:52.860
hearing ain't nobody realer than grill has seen those two come
1174
00:59:52.860 --> 00:59:55.000
out with the heavyweight tag titles and Tom will be in the
1175
00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:55.320
mouthpiece.
1176
00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:57.840
There was so much more than the sum of their parts.
1177
00:59:57.840 --> 00:59:58.400
A hundred percent.
1178
00:59:58.400 --> 00:59:59.540
They really were.
1179
00:59:59.660 --> 01:00:00.700
They had a presence.
1180
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:03.900
They had an aura when they were in the bullet club as
1181
01:00:03.900 --> 01:00:05.320
great as Kenny was.
1182
01:00:05.860 --> 01:00:07.020
And excuse me.
1183
01:00:07.140 --> 01:00:08.300
If books is here.
1184
01:00:08.620 --> 01:00:12.680
Great as Kenny is great as the bucks are.
1185
01:00:14.140 --> 01:00:20.900
And I actually do believe that it was the presence of the
1186
01:00:20.900 --> 01:00:25.000
gorillas that helped to bring them along and let them realize
1187
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:27.360
that they can shine as well.
1188
01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:34.400
And I loved watching them actually mentor in sort of a way
1189
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:38.160
and also have like a gentleman's rivalry against the
1190
01:00:38.160 --> 01:00:38.440
bucks.
1191
01:00:39.380 --> 01:00:39.580
Yeah.
1192
01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:40.180
Yeah.
1193
01:00:40.180 --> 01:00:40.440
Well,
1194
01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:42.120
I mean, that was what was cool about bullet club.
1195
01:00:42.300 --> 01:00:45.640
I have to say for a faction that got as large as they did,
1196
01:00:46.900 --> 01:00:50.540
they had rivalries with each other in the grid.
1197
01:00:50.560 --> 01:00:51.620
You know, that was cool.
1198
01:00:51.820 --> 01:00:53.520
That was a lot of fun.
1199
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:55.900
A blurry line echoing a lot of my sentiments here.
1200
01:00:55.980 --> 01:00:58.140
Shingo is my new Japan forever goat.
1201
01:00:58.580 --> 01:01:00.700
I remember the first Russell kingdom I saw live had the
1202
01:01:00.700 --> 01:01:02.100
Shingo versus Jeff Cobb match.
1203
01:01:02.620 --> 01:01:05.760
And even my brother who had never saw NJPW before was
1204
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:06.140
amazed.
1205
01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:09.580
Shingo is one of the greatest workers I've ever seen.
1206
01:01:09.580 --> 01:01:10.540
Just period.
1207
01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:16.940
And that is actually not any sort of stretch of an
1208
01:01:16.940 --> 01:01:18.040
imagination at all.
1209
01:01:18.140 --> 01:01:19.880
Like there's no hyperbole.
1210
01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:20.320
Right.
1211
01:01:20.820 --> 01:01:23.640
That guy can get a crowd into anything that he's doing
1212
01:01:23.640 --> 01:01:25.520
no matter who his opponent is.
1213
01:01:25.980 --> 01:01:28.320
And that's my guy.
1214
01:01:28.860 --> 01:01:28.960
Yeah.
1215
01:01:29.180 --> 01:01:29.460
Yeah.
1216
01:01:29.660 --> 01:01:30.960
And I,
1217
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:33.840
I have the last especially the last 10 years that I
1218
01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:38.800
have seen Shingo Takagi is one of the absolute greatest
1219
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:39.380
of all time.
1220
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:40.640
And I don't even think it's debatable.
1221
01:01:40.680 --> 01:01:41.220
Like he is.
1222
01:01:41.220 --> 01:01:42.900
He's just fantastic.
1223
01:01:43.180 --> 01:01:44.040
He's fantastic.
1224
01:01:44.140 --> 01:01:45.020
Never be number one.
1225
01:01:45.060 --> 01:01:46.040
There's always some now.
1226
01:01:46.140 --> 01:01:47.540
He named Tetsuya Naito that.
1227
01:01:50.500 --> 01:01:50.980
Nice.
1228
01:01:51.260 --> 01:01:51.640
Nice.
1229
01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:54.060
Plus his match at Royal quest three against Ishii
1230
01:01:54.060 --> 01:01:56.480
literally got four standing ovations when I was there.
1231
01:01:56.740 --> 01:01:57.420
That's dope.
1232
01:01:57.600 --> 01:01:58.460
He saw that live.
1233
01:01:58.660 --> 01:01:59.840
That's I love those.
1234
01:01:59.920 --> 01:02:01.680
You saw that live.
1235
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:02.700
That rules.
1236
01:02:02.860 --> 01:02:03.540
That rule.
1237
01:02:03.580 --> 01:02:04.940
I love those world quest shows.
1238
01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:07.400
They always are so wild.
1239
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:09.540
The crowds are crazy.
1240
01:02:10.500 --> 01:02:12.020
One of my favorite matches,
1241
01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:15.600
if I may, is were you there?
1242
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:19.860
I don't think it was at three for the Minoru Suzuki
1243
01:02:19.860 --> 01:02:22.280
Kazuchika Okada title match.
1244
01:02:22.740 --> 01:02:25.640
That was my favorite match at Royal quest.
1245
01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:26.820
Wasn't that the three?
1246
01:02:26.940 --> 01:02:28.320
I think it was one or two.
1247
01:02:30.100 --> 01:02:30.660
Yeah.
1248
01:02:32.710 --> 01:02:33.690
That was a great match.
1249
01:02:33.770 --> 01:02:34.750
I do remember that.
1250
01:02:34.890 --> 01:02:35.730
I do remember that.
1251
01:02:35.730 --> 01:02:39.350
Nuclear Wessel's ex thought Osprey further injured Danielson's neck.
1252
01:02:39.490 --> 01:02:41.390
Then Mox finished Brian Danielson's career.
1253
01:02:41.750 --> 01:02:44.370
Now Mox is helping Osprey come back from a neck injury.
1254
01:02:45.270 --> 01:02:45.870
Interesting.
1255
01:02:46.150 --> 01:02:47.290
That's a little bit of story.
1256
01:02:49.770 --> 01:02:50.970
That's interesting.
1257
01:02:51.690 --> 01:02:52.730
Very interesting.
1258
01:02:53.330 --> 01:02:56.650
That just put my career at an end.
1259
01:02:58.070 --> 01:03:00.430
But like he almost did the same thing to Osprey,
1260
01:03:00.450 --> 01:03:04.550
but he's actually making the opposite decision to like
1261
01:03:04.550 --> 01:03:07.030
redeem himself maybe a little bit.
1262
01:03:07.530 --> 01:03:08.130
Who knows?
1263
01:03:08.610 --> 01:03:09.270
Who knows?
1264
01:03:09.750 --> 01:03:12.210
Just don't let him poke you in the tummy.
1265
01:03:12.370 --> 01:03:13.550
That seems lethal.
1266
01:03:14.150 --> 01:03:15.210
Like when Mox was like,
1267
01:03:16.970 --> 01:03:18.210
to pack.
1268
01:03:18.550 --> 01:03:20.190
That was really weird.
1269
01:03:22.130 --> 01:03:25.410
Look, and I'm a weird person and I love weird.
1270
01:03:25.810 --> 01:03:27.090
But that was definitely weird.
1271
01:03:28.230 --> 01:03:28.510
Okay.
1272
01:03:29.190 --> 01:03:30.070
I'll tell you my language.
1273
01:03:30.390 --> 01:03:31.250
Out of character.
1274
01:03:33.090 --> 01:03:34.590
Weird can be good or bad.
1275
01:03:34.690 --> 01:03:36.330
It just depends on the context.
1276
01:03:37.210 --> 01:03:40.130
Shingo versus ZSJ during the pandemic was a low key banger.
1277
01:03:40.330 --> 01:03:41.110
It absolutely was.
1278
01:03:41.310 --> 01:03:41.930
Yes, it was.
1279
01:03:42.270 --> 01:03:43.230
Zach Sabre Jr.
1280
01:03:43.790 --> 01:03:45.350
has a way and he's one of,
1281
01:03:45.450 --> 01:03:51.010
I mean he made like long form technical matches.
1282
01:03:51.890 --> 01:03:53.790
One of the coolest things in the fucking world.
1283
01:03:55.170 --> 01:03:58.090
Something to do that.
1284
01:03:58.110 --> 01:04:00.510
He made them something that is cool again.
1285
01:04:00.770 --> 01:04:01.290
Yeah.
1286
01:04:01.290 --> 01:04:04.790
Well, but it's only him that can really do it that way.
1287
01:04:05.230 --> 01:04:05.650
Right.
1288
01:04:06.290 --> 01:04:09.650
We're talking about in a day and age of very short intention spans
1289
01:04:09.650 --> 01:04:11.770
and he can make a 45 minute match
1290
01:04:11.770 --> 01:04:13.750
and have me sitting on my hands like this
1291
01:04:13.750 --> 01:04:15.290
looking at the TV or my laptop.
1292
01:04:15.590 --> 01:04:17.510
That match him and Ricochet had
1293
01:04:17.510 --> 01:04:20.530
when he was the champion at Dynasty.
1294
01:04:22.610 --> 01:04:23.450
Not Dynasty, I'm sorry.
1295
01:04:23.530 --> 01:04:25.790
It was New Japan, AEW.
1296
01:04:25.870 --> 01:04:26.550
Was it Dynasty?
1297
01:04:28.070 --> 01:04:29.530
What was that joint show they did?
1298
01:04:29.710 --> 01:04:30.630
It was Dynasty.
1299
01:04:30.630 --> 01:04:33.150
It was Dynasty, but it's not AEW Dynasty.
1300
01:04:33.370 --> 01:04:36.570
It was New Japan X AEW Dynasty,
1301
01:04:36.990 --> 01:04:40.030
but they did that and that match
1302
01:04:40.030 --> 01:04:42.670
where Ricochet and Zach went at each other
1303
01:04:42.670 --> 01:04:45.010
was my favorite match on the show.
1304
01:04:45.190 --> 01:04:46.710
Aside from Kenny and Gabe,
1305
01:04:47.130 --> 01:04:50.350
but like that was so fucking good.
1306
01:04:50.910 --> 01:04:51.650
That was great.
1307
01:04:52.630 --> 01:04:53.570
I love anytime Trevor.
1308
01:04:54.250 --> 01:04:55.250
I would go ahead.
1309
01:04:55.290 --> 01:04:56.410
I would actually agree with you.
1310
01:04:56.410 --> 01:04:58.850
I think that was the second best match on the show.
1311
01:04:58.850 --> 01:05:00.410
Besides the obvious one.
1312
01:05:00.870 --> 01:05:03.090
That was just a masterpiece of a match.
1313
01:05:03.670 --> 01:05:04.670
But like, shit.
1314
01:05:04.930 --> 01:05:06.650
I mean, to be on that same show
1315
01:05:06.650 --> 01:05:08.670
and be in the same ballpark,
1316
01:05:08.870 --> 01:05:10.250
pretty good, pretty good.
1317
01:05:10.910 --> 01:05:11.570
You did pretty good.
1318
01:05:12.370 --> 01:05:13.010
Let's see.
1319
01:05:13.810 --> 01:05:15.030
So what in the world is going on
1320
01:05:15.030 --> 01:05:16.310
with Unbound Company again?
1321
01:05:16.930 --> 01:05:17.950
They exist.
1322
01:05:18.630 --> 01:05:20.650
They're Hontai under a different name, right?
1323
01:05:21.390 --> 01:05:23.170
They're Unbound Company.
1324
01:05:23.970 --> 01:05:26.610
They're pretty much the remains of L.I.J.
1325
01:05:26.610 --> 01:05:28.350
and the Bullet Club.
1326
01:05:29.610 --> 01:05:31.830
And kind of sort of thrown in there
1327
01:05:31.830 --> 01:05:35.490
with Daiki Nagai and Gaido.
1328
01:05:35.990 --> 01:05:40.190
And it's this cauldron of stuff
1329
01:05:40.190 --> 01:05:41.790
they're trying to make work.
1330
01:05:42.150 --> 01:05:42.570
I don't know.
1331
01:05:42.790 --> 01:05:46.530
I haven't gotten into the...
1332
01:05:46.530 --> 01:05:47.970
It's led by Yota Tsuji.
1333
01:05:48.050 --> 01:05:49.530
That's Yota Tsuji's group.
1334
01:05:50.610 --> 01:05:53.330
And Gabe Pitt was a part of that group.
1335
01:05:54.250 --> 01:05:55.910
Which is more...
1336
01:05:55.910 --> 01:05:58.330
It's always been more face,
1337
01:05:58.390 --> 01:06:01.050
more friendly now when they combine together.
1338
01:06:01.310 --> 01:06:04.010
So how's that going to work when it's not?
1339
01:06:04.490 --> 01:06:04.970
Right.
1340
01:06:06.910 --> 01:06:07.150
All right.
1341
01:06:07.150 --> 01:06:08.170
I'm going to read a few more chats
1342
01:06:08.170 --> 01:06:10.350
and then we got a few more things to cover here.
1343
01:06:10.870 --> 01:06:15.350
What a great fucking audience chatters we've had.
1344
01:06:15.530 --> 01:06:16.630
This is so much fun.
1345
01:06:17.370 --> 01:06:18.410
I'm just so happy.
1346
01:06:18.610 --> 01:06:19.510
Is this your first one?
1347
01:06:19.570 --> 01:06:21.570
Is this your first live stream?
1348
01:06:22.010 --> 01:06:23.770
Live stream being asked questions, yes.
1349
01:06:23.890 --> 01:06:24.170
Yeah.
1350
01:06:24.170 --> 01:06:25.430
I think this is the first one.
1351
01:06:25.470 --> 01:06:27.110
I couldn't remember if it was.
1352
01:06:28.330 --> 01:06:30.070
I love that we moved to this format
1353
01:06:30.070 --> 01:06:31.170
because I think that it...
1354
01:06:31.170 --> 01:06:31.610
I really do.
1355
01:06:31.770 --> 01:06:32.650
I think it's done.
1356
01:06:33.610 --> 01:06:36.410
The format and the type of people we are
1357
01:06:36.410 --> 01:06:38.590
and like to communicate with.
1358
01:06:39.470 --> 01:06:40.170
It's involvement.
1359
01:06:40.690 --> 01:06:40.950
Yeah.
1360
01:06:41.310 --> 01:06:42.630
It's community, baby.
1361
01:06:42.950 --> 01:06:43.390
It's community.
1362
01:06:43.490 --> 01:06:44.630
We got each other.
1363
01:06:45.290 --> 01:06:46.730
Okada was not there at three.
1364
01:06:47.330 --> 01:06:48.290
It was the summer.
1365
01:06:48.310 --> 01:06:49.370
He was really banged up.
1366
01:06:49.410 --> 01:06:51.010
So that would have been...
1367
01:06:51.010 --> 01:06:51.990
Ok.
1368
01:06:52.310 --> 01:06:52.650
Gotcha.
1369
01:06:52.930 --> 01:06:55.410
That would have been two.
1370
01:06:57.090 --> 01:06:58.990
I think it was two or one.
1371
01:07:00.830 --> 01:07:02.670
It was one or two.
1372
01:07:02.730 --> 01:07:03.630
I can't remember.
1373
01:07:03.870 --> 01:07:05.990
I'm not going to fight it
1374
01:07:05.990 --> 01:07:07.690
because it's going to take me five minutes.
1375
01:07:08.370 --> 01:07:08.810
All right.
1376
01:07:09.750 --> 01:07:11.830
Book says long-term storytelling.
1377
01:07:12.410 --> 01:07:13.670
It's a wonderful thing.
1378
01:07:14.170 --> 01:07:15.490
It really is.
1379
01:07:16.490 --> 01:07:17.950
Justin says, just got a shout out.
1380
01:07:17.950 --> 01:07:20.070
ZSJ and Chris Brooks from DDT are helping
1381
01:07:20.070 --> 01:07:21.230
bring some much needed chatter
1382
01:07:21.230 --> 01:07:22.950
about Southeast Asian wrestling.
1383
01:07:23.490 --> 01:07:24.450
They're going back to Manila
1384
01:07:24.450 --> 01:07:26.070
to continue the story versus JDL.
1385
01:07:26.210 --> 01:07:27.070
That's so dope.
1386
01:07:27.610 --> 01:07:27.990
That's so dope.
1387
01:07:28.130 --> 01:07:29.890
We got to get JDL back on the show.
1388
01:07:30.830 --> 01:07:32.750
You know, something that I actually want to point out
1389
01:07:32.750 --> 01:07:34.810
that I had a conversation with.
1390
01:07:35.410 --> 01:07:37.610
Ring of Honor is one of the matches
1391
01:07:37.610 --> 01:07:39.990
at Ring of Honor Supercard of Honor
1392
01:07:39.990 --> 01:07:42.590
is going to be Viva Van versus Red Velvet.
1393
01:07:43.150 --> 01:07:46.230
And I saw Ring of Honor's page on Facebook
1394
01:07:46.230 --> 01:07:48.470
and I just commented because I love Viva Van.
1395
01:07:48.470 --> 01:07:52.550
I can't stand the fact that she always loses.
1396
01:07:53.690 --> 01:07:55.710
And I was just happy and I said,
1397
01:07:55.830 --> 01:07:58.930
hey, Viva Van's finally getting the spotlight
1398
01:07:58.930 --> 01:08:00.030
that she deserves.
1399
01:08:00.170 --> 01:08:02.710
She was belt collecting on the West Coast.
1400
01:08:03.450 --> 01:08:07.690
This woman has brought pro wrestling back to Vietnam.
1401
01:08:09.170 --> 01:08:10.610
So she means something.
1402
01:08:11.050 --> 01:08:12.570
And there was just this idiot
1403
01:08:12.570 --> 01:08:14.790
who just kept going back and forth, just going,
1404
01:08:14.790 --> 01:08:15.670
who?
1405
01:08:15.930 --> 01:08:18.370
I was just like, you're the worst.
1406
01:08:19.290 --> 01:08:19.790
Yeah.
1407
01:08:20.890 --> 01:08:21.029
The worst.
1408
01:08:21.689 --> 01:08:24.870
It's, you know, I posted today
1409
01:08:24.870 --> 01:08:28.189
that WWE thinks that if they get rid of AEW,
1410
01:08:28.310 --> 01:08:30.410
more people will want to consume WWE,
1411
01:08:30.649 --> 01:08:32.270
but less people will watch wrestling.
1412
01:08:32.830 --> 01:08:34.029
And I got, you know,
1413
01:08:34.069 --> 01:08:37.250
so many reply guys just in there trying to tell me.
1414
01:08:37.450 --> 01:08:37.490
Yeah.
1415
01:08:37.490 --> 01:08:38.850
It's like, you know what?
1416
01:08:39.350 --> 01:08:41.689
That's probably true.
1417
01:08:42.910 --> 01:08:45.310
And why does it have to be a fact?
1418
01:08:45.770 --> 01:08:49.010
Well, and the thing is like, I'm not saying you or me.
1419
01:08:49.069 --> 01:08:50.850
I would still want you or me.
1420
01:08:50.910 --> 01:08:51.210
Yeah.
1421
01:08:51.590 --> 01:08:54.770
But just there is a large group of people
1422
01:08:54.770 --> 01:08:56.830
that love AEW that would just stop watching
1423
01:08:56.830 --> 01:08:58.670
because they don't want to watch WWE
1424
01:08:58.670 --> 01:09:01.130
and maybe they don't know the Indies that well,
1425
01:09:01.229 --> 01:09:01.590
you know?
1426
01:09:02.810 --> 01:09:05.779
And so let's power run through a few things here.
1427
01:09:06.770 --> 01:09:10.729
One thing I did notice in light of what happened
1428
01:09:10.729 --> 01:09:14.350
at Dantaku, Yota Tsuji, he looks like a made man
1429
01:09:14.350 --> 01:09:16.830
and ready to be an ace for this company.
1430
01:09:17.529 --> 01:09:20.590
I was surprised to see him lose both those titles so fast,
1431
01:09:20.590 --> 01:09:22.250
but it kind of makes sense too,
1432
01:09:23.210 --> 01:09:25.630
because usually your first title runs kind of short.
1433
01:09:26.550 --> 01:09:29.210
Your first world title run historically,
1434
01:09:29.450 --> 01:09:31.250
like Naito was champion I think for a month
1435
01:09:31.250 --> 01:09:32.710
when he first won the title.
1436
01:09:32.890 --> 01:09:33.970
Yes he was.
1437
01:09:33.970 --> 01:09:34.189
Yeah.
1438
01:09:34.390 --> 01:09:36.350
Also straight at directly at the next pay per year.
1439
01:09:36.670 --> 01:09:36.910
Yep.
1440
01:09:37.149 --> 01:09:37.450
Yep.
1441
01:09:37.450 --> 01:09:42.010
And then he lost both titles pretty quick.
1442
01:09:42.810 --> 01:09:43.850
Quick succession.
1443
01:09:44.710 --> 01:09:46.470
If I may on Yota,
1444
01:09:47.090 --> 01:09:52.450
because you did mention that he seems like he's on his way
1445
01:09:52.450 --> 01:09:54.310
to becoming an ace of the company
1446
01:09:54.890 --> 01:09:58.840
and I can't believe I'm saying it.
1447
01:09:58.840 --> 01:09:59.520
I disagree.
1448
01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:04.540
I think this was a sign to me
1449
01:10:04.540 --> 01:10:06.920
that Yota got some work to do
1450
01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:09.540
because they had to take both of them off of him.
1451
01:10:09.540 --> 01:10:13.340
And I think it's going to help storylines anyway.
1452
01:10:14.320 --> 01:10:18.480
And we needed to freshen up so Callum can grow too.
1453
01:10:19.220 --> 01:10:25.620
But I think it's time for Yota to do more
1454
01:10:25.620 --> 01:10:29.460
without being in the face of the company
1455
01:10:29.460 --> 01:10:31.280
to grow a little bit.
1456
01:10:31.480 --> 01:10:34.540
Kind of almost like Shota but not to that level.
1457
01:10:36.080 --> 01:10:37.660
Yeah, I don't think it's anywhere near
1458
01:10:37.660 --> 01:10:38.880
to the degree of Shota.
1459
01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:43.720
I thought his main event seemed convincing.
1460
01:10:44.260 --> 01:10:45.340
I think that...
1461
01:10:45.340 --> 01:10:46.440
Yeah, they're very good.
1462
01:10:47.580 --> 01:10:49.660
It's just that word, ace.
1463
01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:51.500
Is he ready to be an ace yet?
1464
01:10:52.180 --> 01:10:53.580
If you are,
1465
01:10:54.020 --> 01:10:56.300
I wouldn't think they'd take both titles off of him.
1466
01:10:56.580 --> 01:10:58.460
Well, it's a fair point.
1467
01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:00.800
What I would say is I think they see the money
1468
01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:02.520
in the Callum Will story.
1469
01:11:03.080 --> 01:11:04.480
And that has a lot to do with it.
1470
01:11:04.540 --> 01:11:07.120
And Andrade winning the belt is a part of that story.
1471
01:11:07.120 --> 01:11:08.220
Absolutely.
1472
01:11:08.380 --> 01:11:11.040
Money keeps the company actually running.
1473
01:11:12.340 --> 01:11:13.560
We got to have the money.
1474
01:11:14.080 --> 01:11:15.760
I've been accused in the chat of hating Kenny.
1475
01:11:15.980 --> 01:11:19.180
I think everyone can attest to that not being true.
1476
01:11:20.440 --> 01:11:22.400
He hates Kenny books.
1477
01:11:22.420 --> 01:11:23.040
I'm sorry.
1478
01:11:23.320 --> 01:11:23.880
What?
1479
01:11:26.360 --> 01:11:28.180
I heard it.
1480
01:11:28.740 --> 01:11:29.640
No, no.
1481
01:11:29.820 --> 01:11:32.320
I've never once said I hate Kenneth Durham Omega.
1482
01:11:32.400 --> 01:11:33.220
He's my hero.
1483
01:11:33.300 --> 01:11:34.020
I'm sorry.
1484
01:11:34.420 --> 01:11:34.700
What?
1485
01:11:36.280 --> 01:11:36.760
Wow.
1486
01:11:37.320 --> 01:11:38.960
Do me dirty, man.
1487
01:11:40.660 --> 01:11:43.600
Nuclear Wessex recently watching old WCCW
1488
01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:45.400
and seeing the crowds they pulled in back then.
1489
01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:46.080
Blade is right.
1490
01:11:46.360 --> 01:11:46.660
Yes.
1491
01:11:46.860 --> 01:11:47.840
Less people will watch wrestling.
1492
01:11:48.400 --> 01:11:48.880
Period.
1493
01:11:48.980 --> 01:11:50.280
Less people will watch wrestling.
1494
01:11:50.740 --> 01:11:54.720
And you know freaking Blade loves the elite.
1495
01:11:55.820 --> 01:11:58.060
I annoy the shit out of you with it sometimes.
1496
01:11:58.480 --> 01:11:59.400
I know I do.
1497
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:00.260
It's OK.
1498
01:12:00.360 --> 01:12:00.900
I know I do.
1499
01:12:02.500 --> 01:12:03.940
I like love them.
1500
01:12:03.940 --> 01:12:04.620
Yeah.
1501
01:12:04.620 --> 01:12:05.720
I like love them.
1502
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:06.300
I know.
1503
01:12:06.300 --> 01:12:06.960
I know.
1504
01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:08.600
I know the respect is there.
1505
01:12:08.900 --> 01:12:12.500
And I know you get sick of how much everybody else loves them too.
1506
01:12:13.100 --> 01:12:14.340
It's all right.
1507
01:12:14.660 --> 01:12:16.680
Yota Tsuji is so boring in my honest opinion.
1508
01:12:16.740 --> 01:12:17.340
Nuclear Wessex.
1509
01:12:17.420 --> 01:12:19.580
You know, I kind of honestly think he is.
1510
01:12:19.720 --> 01:12:22.860
I think that a part of that actually affects me
1511
01:12:22.860 --> 01:12:25.560
because you win a title with Boston Crab.
1512
01:12:27.100 --> 01:12:28.540
They went too far with that.
1513
01:12:29.400 --> 01:12:32.260
I think a lot of his moves.
1514
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:37.400
He's a very modern, Americanized wrestler
1515
01:12:37.400 --> 01:12:40.540
without ever having wrestled in the West.
1516
01:12:40.900 --> 01:12:43.260
But he's a very Western style type of wrestler.
1517
01:12:44.020 --> 01:12:46.760
And you're doing the spear and the stomp
1518
01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:50.040
and the Boston Crab for some reason
1519
01:12:50.040 --> 01:12:51.800
is one of your premier moves.
1520
01:12:52.060 --> 01:12:52.540
And you're right.
1521
01:12:53.080 --> 01:12:54.720
They took it too far.
1522
01:12:56.360 --> 01:12:56.560
Yeah.
1523
01:12:56.560 --> 01:12:57.860
I think the crab thing.
1524
01:12:57.860 --> 01:12:59.020
That should have.
1525
01:12:59.080 --> 01:13:01.960
I could see it being that one match where it worked
1526
01:13:01.960 --> 01:13:04.160
because he came up through the New Japan system
1527
01:13:04.160 --> 01:13:05.340
and Takeshita didn't.
1528
01:13:05.360 --> 01:13:07.100
And that's like.
1529
01:13:07.440 --> 01:13:08.280
Yeah, I get that part.
1530
01:13:08.420 --> 01:13:08.720
Yeah.
1531
01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:09.840
There's some poetry.
1532
01:13:10.060 --> 01:13:11.200
I'm bringing a point here.
1533
01:13:11.400 --> 01:13:11.840
Yeah.
1534
01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:13.580
There's some poetry to that.
1535
01:13:13.820 --> 01:13:18.060
But I didn't get it when he was like beating Andrade with it
1536
01:13:18.060 --> 01:13:20.140
and he was beating, you know, like that.
1537
01:13:20.220 --> 01:13:21.800
That's when I was like.
1538
01:13:22.100 --> 01:13:23.720
Like it's a Boston Crab.
1539
01:13:24.320 --> 01:13:25.360
Boston Crab.
1540
01:13:25.480 --> 01:13:25.740
Yeah.
1541
01:13:25.740 --> 01:13:26.140
Come on.
1542
01:13:26.140 --> 01:13:26.960
Come on.
1543
01:13:28.460 --> 01:13:29.340
Let's see.
1544
01:13:29.580 --> 01:13:30.540
Justin says Yoda.
1545
01:13:30.660 --> 01:13:33.240
Maybe the storyline is about him trying to keep the vestiges
1546
01:13:33.240 --> 01:13:34.460
of Nito's L.I.J.
1547
01:13:34.780 --> 01:13:35.780
but failing to do so.
1548
01:13:35.780 --> 01:13:37.580
Hence a little bit of reinvention.
1549
01:13:38.040 --> 01:13:40.680
I feel like Unbound Company is just a transient faction.
1550
01:13:41.200 --> 01:13:42.280
I mean, yeah, it is.
1551
01:13:42.980 --> 01:13:46.580
I will say I agree wholeheartedly with the fact
1552
01:13:46.580 --> 01:13:51.500
that there are a transition faction.
1553
01:13:52.380 --> 01:13:52.720
Absolutely.
1554
01:13:52.760 --> 01:13:55.100
It's where you go when you're between things.
1555
01:13:55.100 --> 01:13:56.520
It's not a stat gap.
1556
01:13:57.800 --> 01:13:58.400
Stop gap.
1557
01:13:58.740 --> 01:13:59.420
Stop gap.
1558
01:14:01.540 --> 01:14:04.620
I don't know what they're going to do,
1559
01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:10.300
but Unbound Company itself as it's constituted will not last.
1560
01:14:10.920 --> 01:14:12.120
No, there's no way.
1561
01:14:12.500 --> 01:14:13.680
It's interesting though,
1562
01:14:13.820 --> 01:14:15.740
because like when they show people in the crowd
1563
01:14:15.740 --> 01:14:16.760
with the signs and stuff,
1564
01:14:16.940 --> 01:14:19.660
there's people with the sign Unbound, you know.
1565
01:14:20.860 --> 01:14:22.840
I like it, but then I can't.
1566
01:14:22.840 --> 01:14:23.760
I see that.
1567
01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:26.000
I see ghetto come out with them all the time.
1568
01:14:26.080 --> 01:14:28.140
I'm like, how long is this?
1569
01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:32.300
Literally fucking hanging out with the fucking devil.
1570
01:14:32.300 --> 01:14:35.000
And you're just like, well, he's not in a faction right now.
1571
01:14:35.460 --> 01:14:35.960
Come on.
1572
01:14:36.280 --> 01:14:36.880
Come on.
1573
01:14:37.160 --> 01:14:38.680
I think Yoda is like mostly there.
1574
01:14:38.700 --> 01:14:41.400
He needs that tiny bit of polish and a bit of a better aesthetic.
1575
01:14:41.740 --> 01:14:42.520
That's fair.
1576
01:14:44.740 --> 01:14:47.720
Oh, books is saying thank you for saying I hate Kenny
1577
01:14:48.420 --> 01:14:49.820
and that I love Don.
1578
01:14:49.880 --> 01:14:50.880
I do love Don.
1579
01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:51.940
Look, the whole thing.
1580
01:14:52.460 --> 01:14:53.680
Like, look, all I'm saying.
1581
01:14:54.020 --> 01:14:54.520
I love Don too.
1582
01:14:54.880 --> 01:14:56.940
I will go ahead and back that.
1583
01:14:57.100 --> 01:14:57.700
I love Don.
1584
01:14:58.000 --> 01:14:58.740
I love Kenny.
1585
01:14:59.160 --> 01:15:03.700
And the thing about it is if Kenny had just given Don a little more respect,
1586
01:15:04.360 --> 01:15:05.560
none of this would have happened.
1587
01:15:05.920 --> 01:15:06.780
It is Kenny's fault.
1588
01:15:07.140 --> 01:15:09.700
But even so, I couldn't forgive the man.
1589
01:15:10.120 --> 01:15:10.700
You know what I mean?
1590
01:15:10.900 --> 01:15:11.760
I love him still.
1591
01:15:12.740 --> 01:15:12.880
Yeah.
1592
01:15:12.920 --> 01:15:14.200
Can we just move on?
1593
01:15:14.360 --> 01:15:14.500
Yeah.
1594
01:15:14.500 --> 01:15:15.800
Can we just move on?
1595
01:15:17.580 --> 01:15:18.940
Justin talking about Yota Tsuji.
1596
01:15:18.940 --> 01:15:21.080
His move set isn't cohesive enough, in my opinion.
1597
01:15:21.260 --> 01:15:24.020
It's as if a powerhouse luchador learned some high flying lucha.
1598
01:15:24.340 --> 01:15:26.600
The only thing that makes sense is his gene blaster spear.
1599
01:15:27.700 --> 01:15:28.140
Lanzarse.
1600
01:15:28.320 --> 01:15:29.040
Lanzarse, eh?
1601
01:15:29.400 --> 01:15:29.920
I don't know.
1602
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:31.480
Yeah, because of his height.
1603
01:15:32.140 --> 01:15:34.100
He's almost awkward a little bit.
1604
01:15:34.180 --> 01:15:35.360
He's like a football player.
1605
01:15:35.440 --> 01:15:36.680
He's built like a football player.
1606
01:15:36.700 --> 01:15:38.280
Yes, he really is.
1607
01:15:38.280 --> 01:15:39.700
He played American football.
1608
01:15:40.280 --> 01:15:41.320
Yeah, I thought I heard that.
1609
01:15:41.400 --> 01:15:41.840
Yeah.
1610
01:15:42.020 --> 01:15:43.720
I remember when he was Ta-Nehisi's young boy.
1611
01:15:44.400 --> 01:15:48.060
I remember thinking he's way bigger than the other guys.
1612
01:15:48.060 --> 01:15:50.320
He's a big dude.
1613
01:15:52.020 --> 01:15:54.280
Justin says, Tsuji is an ace in training with the Young Lions.
1614
01:15:54.600 --> 01:15:54.800
Acumen.
1615
01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:55.520
This is my...
1616
01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:55.960
Okay.
1617
01:15:56.080 --> 01:15:57.440
That's my entire issue with him.
1618
01:15:57.860 --> 01:16:04.100
Well, I think the thing is when Takeshita did that first G1, he exposed all the
1619
01:16:04.100 --> 01:16:05.060
rising stars.
1620
01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:06.480
He exposed Uminos.
1621
01:16:06.480 --> 01:16:06.980
All of them.
1622
01:16:07.200 --> 01:16:09.960
He exposed Tsuji really bad.
1623
01:16:11.020 --> 01:16:16.860
Tsuji's the only one at that time that I felt like really raised his game to that
1624
01:16:16.860 --> 01:16:21.280
next level after that, because I think Tsuji was the one who really understood he
1625
01:16:21.280 --> 01:16:22.000
got exposed.
1626
01:16:24.480 --> 01:16:28.720
But my guys, those Young Lion guys that I'm really into, are the two that are
1627
01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:34.260
getting the least amount of push, which is Yuya Uemura and Oiwa.
1628
01:16:34.720 --> 01:16:35.660
Those are my guys.
1629
01:16:36.740 --> 01:16:40.060
And that's changing, particularly with shows.
1630
01:16:40.180 --> 01:16:41.480
I watch just constantly.
1631
01:16:43.120 --> 01:16:44.480
Yuya is loved.
1632
01:16:44.480 --> 01:16:47.420
They had a couple of shows in his hometown.
1633
01:16:47.460 --> 01:16:49.240
He got the main event.
1634
01:16:49.340 --> 01:16:51.280
It was just awesome.
1635
01:16:51.680 --> 01:16:58.460
I think Yuya is a better fit right now to lead because he has that charisma.
1636
01:16:58.560 --> 01:17:00.500
Something is missing from Yoda.
1637
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:05.880
And I think Justin hit probably a male just a little bit perfectly.
1638
01:17:06.500 --> 01:17:10.480
Blurry Lion says, if he loses the Carmen San Diego aesthetic, it doesn't call his
1639
01:17:10.480 --> 01:17:12.320
move the fucking gene blast.
1640
01:17:12.320 --> 01:17:14.320
Still be good, because that means jizz.
1641
01:17:18.580 --> 01:17:20.520
Little life soup there for you.
1642
01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:22.000
Tony Montoya, my cousin.
1643
01:17:22.200 --> 01:17:23.480
Blady talking shit about my boot.
1644
01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:24.980
Kenny Omega is not your boo.
1645
01:17:25.620 --> 01:17:26.180
Okay, Tony.
1646
01:17:28.460 --> 01:17:30.400
And then Book says shame.
1647
01:17:30.540 --> 01:17:31.540
She says shame again.
1648
01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:32.480
She says shame again.
1649
01:17:33.320 --> 01:17:37.720
Justin, talk versus Uemura for the IWGP World Heavyweight title would have been
1650
01:17:37.720 --> 01:17:38.520
a banger.
1651
01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:39.800
Same for Oiwa.
1652
01:17:40.480 --> 01:17:41.000
Agreed.
1653
01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:43.840
Uemura has such Tanahashi vibes to me.
1654
01:17:44.540 --> 01:17:48.960
They don't do the same moves, just like his demeanor is very similar to
1655
01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:50.080
Tanahashi to me.
1656
01:17:51.160 --> 01:17:52.480
And I'm a huge fan.
1657
01:17:52.720 --> 01:17:53.760
Huge, huge fan.
1658
01:17:55.740 --> 01:17:58.220
And I think Oiwa is right there.
1659
01:17:58.520 --> 01:17:59.960
He's got the look already.
1660
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:02.020
He's getting so close.
1661
01:18:02.660 --> 01:18:07.680
I'm really a fan of them more so than I am of Shota or Yoda.
1662
01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:11.180
I really am in terms of long term prospects.
1663
01:18:11.180 --> 01:18:11.900
I agree.
1664
01:18:12.320 --> 01:18:12.660
I agree.
1665
01:18:12.820 --> 01:18:14.880
And I think all four of them can get there.
1666
01:18:15.380 --> 01:18:17.780
I still think Umino can get there, too.
1667
01:18:18.740 --> 01:18:20.720
I still think Rin Narita can get there.
1668
01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:23.180
Yeah, he's got to have a heel.
1669
01:18:23.280 --> 01:18:25.120
Yeah, he's still young enough to get there.
1670
01:18:25.360 --> 01:18:26.720
Yeah, he's still young enough.
1671
01:18:27.440 --> 01:18:28.260
Gotta have a bad guy.
1672
01:18:28.540 --> 01:18:30.640
Book's presumably talking about Kenny.
1673
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:32.740
Kenny claims him as her boo.
1674
01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:39.280
Well, this has been a great chat about Yota Tsuji, but it's time to talk
1675
01:18:39.280 --> 01:18:41.260
about something a little different.
1676
01:18:41.320 --> 01:18:43.280
Ted Turner fucking died.
1677
01:18:44.020 --> 01:18:44.860
Onto one.
1678
01:18:45.500 --> 01:18:49.340
And I made a little video and put my thoughts together about it already.
1679
01:18:49.480 --> 01:18:52.900
But I know that you grew up as a WCW kid.
1680
01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:54.580
Yes, I did.
1681
01:18:54.720 --> 01:18:55.140
Yeah.
1682
01:18:55.140 --> 01:19:04.280
I grew up in a household that loved Dusty Rose and Rick Flair and Sting
1683
01:19:04.280 --> 01:19:08.080
and all of those guys, not necessarily the other guys.
1684
01:19:09.160 --> 01:19:12.280
I grew up watching WCW.
1685
01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:21.000
So Ted Turner was a big part of my experience as a young teenager,
1686
01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:24.740
a teenager and a young adult.
1687
01:19:25.720 --> 01:19:27.260
And then poof, gone.
1688
01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:31.820
I think he's a billionaire.
1689
01:19:32.900 --> 01:19:37.700
There's likely, we always say there's no such thing as a good billionaire,
1690
01:19:38.200 --> 01:19:40.860
but at least you can try to do something good with your money.
1691
01:19:41.140 --> 01:19:46.240
He was a good old boy who loved wrestling, loved it, didn't understand it.
1692
01:19:46.600 --> 01:19:49.700
The business side too much, but I knew he wanted it on his TV.
1693
01:19:49.700 --> 01:19:54.320
I mean, we wouldn't have cable television having so many games on,
1694
01:19:54.360 --> 01:19:58.000
if not for him building the Superstation to begin with.
1695
01:19:58.940 --> 01:20:04.680
Well, and funny story, Ted Turner, you know, obviously grew up.
1696
01:20:05.340 --> 01:20:07.160
I think his dad was a billboard guy.
1697
01:20:07.460 --> 01:20:11.220
Like he owned billboards just all over the place.
1698
01:20:12.280 --> 01:20:15.260
And so he was born into wealth.
1699
01:20:16.200 --> 01:20:19.040
But he took that wealth and did so much more with it, obviously.
1700
01:20:19.040 --> 01:20:24.000
He did change the world with it.
1701
01:20:24.080 --> 01:20:24.600
Really did.
1702
01:20:24.680 --> 01:20:26.800
Changed kids' lives with it.
1703
01:20:27.200 --> 01:20:28.060
Changed my life.
1704
01:20:28.140 --> 01:20:28.980
Point blank.
1705
01:20:29.320 --> 01:20:32.820
I don't look at Ted Turner as a bad billionaire at all.
1706
01:20:32.860 --> 01:20:35.380
Yeah, he's not a saint by any stretch.
1707
01:20:36.200 --> 01:20:38.060
You know, I'm not going to...
1708
01:20:38.060 --> 01:20:41.100
To be a billionaire, I think you got to do some bad things
1709
01:20:41.100 --> 01:20:43.100
to get to be a billionaire, you know what I mean?
1710
01:20:44.100 --> 01:20:44.560
Yes.
1711
01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:45.160
Yeah.
1712
01:20:46.100 --> 01:20:52.600
But as billionaires go, at least he tried to do something good.
1713
01:20:52.660 --> 01:20:53.260
Yes.
1714
01:20:53.340 --> 01:20:53.980
And different.
1715
01:20:54.600 --> 01:20:54.780
Yeah.
1716
01:20:54.780 --> 01:20:56.840
I don't know if you guys remember the Goodwill Games.
1717
01:20:56.900 --> 01:20:58.760
That was a...
1718
01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:01.000
I had to watch the Goodwill Games as a kid.
1719
01:21:01.160 --> 01:21:01.560
Yes.
1720
01:21:01.860 --> 01:21:06.040
And it was really something about unifying the world around sport.
1721
01:21:06.040 --> 01:21:06.580
Right.
1722
01:21:07.160 --> 01:21:09.940
And very similar to the Olympics, but not the Olympics.
1723
01:21:10.140 --> 01:21:12.780
And then, you know, he owned the Falcons.
1724
01:21:12.780 --> 01:21:15.740
He owned the Braves.
1725
01:21:15.780 --> 01:21:16.540
He owned the Braves.
1726
01:21:16.640 --> 01:21:19.160
I mean, how many Braves games did you see part of
1727
01:21:19.160 --> 01:21:20.920
because you were waiting for WCW to come on?
1728
01:21:21.240 --> 01:21:23.900
He's the reason that they have regional sports networks
1729
01:21:23.900 --> 01:21:27.980
and regional sports networks have contracts with the teams
1730
01:21:27.980 --> 01:21:30.320
to be shown on national television.
1731
01:21:30.340 --> 01:21:30.680
Right.
1732
01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:33.860
He did that shit because he turned the Braves national.
1733
01:21:34.780 --> 01:21:41.920
And he also was the first guy to nationalize any pro wrestling at all.
1734
01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:42.360
Okay.
1735
01:21:42.360 --> 01:21:46.940
Way before Vince, it was Ted Turner with WTBS.
1736
01:21:47.380 --> 01:21:52.000
Georgia Championship Wrestling was a national promotion in the 70s.
1737
01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:52.700
Yes, it was.
1738
01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:55.540
Because cable was so hard to get.
1739
01:21:55.620 --> 01:21:57.960
That was the only reason it wasn't a big problem.
1740
01:21:58.720 --> 01:22:02.360
But a lot of people don't know that Georgia didn't just run Georgia.
1741
01:22:02.440 --> 01:22:03.700
They ran a lot in the South.
1742
01:22:03.740 --> 01:22:04.460
They ran Alabama.
1743
01:22:04.520 --> 01:22:06.100
They ran other places.
1744
01:22:06.480 --> 01:22:10.880
But they also ran Ohio because that was an abandoned territory.
1745
01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:16.180
And they were at least able to be watched on TV on TBS.
1746
01:22:16.680 --> 01:22:18.360
So they ran up there.
1747
01:22:18.940 --> 01:22:21.520
And that's Ole Anderson running that shit.
1748
01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:21.860
Okay.
1749
01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:23.120
Way back in the day.
1750
01:22:24.020 --> 01:22:28.800
Then McMahon comes in and buys Georgia Championship Wrestling's time slot.
1751
01:22:28.840 --> 01:22:30.800
That's when you get the Black Friday thing.
1752
01:22:31.180 --> 01:22:34.840
And then McMahon has the programming for about eight months.
1753
01:22:35.380 --> 01:22:37.140
Ted Turner goes, you got to get the fuck out of here.
1754
01:22:37.200 --> 01:22:38.620
You said you were going to give me new programming.
1755
01:22:38.900 --> 01:22:40.140
You're just showing reruns.
1756
01:22:40.140 --> 01:22:41.360
Fuck you.
1757
01:22:41.620 --> 01:22:45.160
Vince sells the time slot to Jim Crockett.
1758
01:22:45.260 --> 01:22:47.920
And that's how Crockett gets his national exposure.
1759
01:22:48.960 --> 01:22:56.600
And Vince uses the money, allegedly uses the money for one million dollars that he got from that sale to do WrestleMania.
1760
01:22:57.920 --> 01:23:04.560
So Ted Turner is the nexus upon which pro wrestling turned for a very long time.
1761
01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:10.280
Especially as it turns into what it stands to the West as it looks today.
1762
01:23:11.140 --> 01:23:19.680
And I thought it was so fucking classy and so fucking cool for AEW to pay tribute to Ted the way they did.
1763
01:23:20.620 --> 01:23:23.440
Again, we're not calling the man a saint.
1764
01:23:24.220 --> 01:23:26.060
You know, I'm sure he did ugly things.
1765
01:23:26.080 --> 01:23:28.620
I'm sure he had some ugly beliefs or whatever.
1766
01:23:29.060 --> 01:23:29.540
Right.
1767
01:23:29.540 --> 01:23:35.060
But man, he made a big difference in the world of professional wrestling.
1768
01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:39.040
And he deserves to be memorialized as such.
1769
01:23:39.460 --> 01:23:45.620
He probably belongs in every wrestling Hall of Fame, you know, because he changed the business.
1770
01:23:46.340 --> 01:23:47.200
He's not Vince.
1771
01:23:47.280 --> 01:23:48.000
That's all I know.
1772
01:23:48.280 --> 01:23:49.120
Yeah, he ain't Vince.
1773
01:23:49.300 --> 01:23:49.880
That's for sure.
1774
01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:52.120
Yeah.
1775
01:23:54.080 --> 01:23:55.280
Like, I swear in London.
1776
01:23:55.480 --> 01:23:56.880
Oh, we're talking about Yoda real quick.
1777
01:23:56.880 --> 01:23:58.420
This is from Blair Lynn.
1778
01:23:58.640 --> 01:23:59.220
Like, I swear in London.
1779
01:23:59.280 --> 01:24:00.840
He came through the crowd to the Death Riders theme.
1780
01:24:01.040 --> 01:24:02.240
And like, everyone was hyped.
1781
01:24:02.260 --> 01:24:03.720
That's where he was around 2023.
1782
01:24:04.220 --> 01:24:05.960
He just seemed like he was on the up.
1783
01:24:06.120 --> 01:24:06.780
A hundred percent.
1784
01:24:06.840 --> 01:24:07.180
Shooter.
1785
01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:10.480
Yes, shooter.
1786
01:24:10.900 --> 01:24:12.180
That was when he was shooter.
1787
01:24:12.780 --> 01:24:17.660
Those fucking promos that Moxley did with him when Moxley was in the G1.
1788
01:24:18.080 --> 01:24:18.940
You can watch him now.
1789
01:24:18.960 --> 01:24:20.820
They are still like gut busting.
1790
01:24:21.300 --> 01:24:21.700
They're awesome.
1791
01:24:21.700 --> 01:24:22.480
They're so fun.
1792
01:24:22.580 --> 01:24:23.900
I'm not going to lie.
1793
01:24:23.900 --> 01:24:25.540
I was thinking about that match.
1794
01:24:25.540 --> 01:24:31.100
Just, you know, the Davis Queen, him, Moxley and Juice Robinson at the G1.
1795
01:24:31.400 --> 01:24:34.760
And how after the match, he grabbed Shota.
1796
01:24:34.980 --> 01:24:36.880
And that was the start of it all.
1797
01:24:36.940 --> 01:24:38.440
And he claimed him as his young boy.
1798
01:24:38.740 --> 01:24:40.100
He's like, you're my young boy.
1799
01:24:40.600 --> 01:24:43.880
And Shooter would just be beaten up and just like could barely stand.
1800
01:24:43.980 --> 01:24:46.720
And Moxley would be talking to him, slapping him on the back and stuff.
1801
01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:51.300
That's some of Mox's best shit he ever did.
1802
01:24:51.300 --> 01:24:55.600
Yeah, he ingratiated himself to the Japanese world in that G1.
1803
01:24:55.640 --> 01:24:56.720
He absolutely did.
1804
01:24:57.240 --> 01:25:03.120
I think a lot of that has to be understood with the partnership too,
1805
01:25:03.760 --> 01:25:09.800
is the fact that Japan and New Japan, they take it very seriously.
1806
01:25:09.820 --> 01:25:14.140
They take it to their heart and they do their traditions are very serious.
1807
01:25:15.040 --> 01:25:20.720
So taking that into account, working with them and being able to honor those is just
1808
01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:23.000
an exceptional, awesome achievement.
1809
01:25:23.180 --> 01:25:23.580
Yeah.
1810
01:25:24.140 --> 01:25:24.300
Yeah.
1811
01:25:24.380 --> 01:25:25.040
For everybody.
1812
01:25:27.140 --> 01:25:30.940
Larry Lyons said, as far as those kind of wealthy people go, he was one of the better ones.
1813
01:25:30.980 --> 01:25:31.380
Totally.
1814
01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:34.640
He was an old school, rich liberal, you know.
1815
01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:39.120
All I know is, yeah, he was just an old school, rich liberal.
1816
01:25:39.220 --> 01:25:42.460
But all I know is, just to make it for a simple conversation,
1817
01:25:43.080 --> 01:25:46.420
I appreciate him for his contributions to professional wrestling.
1818
01:25:46.580 --> 01:25:46.980
100%.
1819
01:25:46.980 --> 01:25:50.060
Because I'm not the same person if that didn't happen.
1820
01:25:50.060 --> 01:25:50.660
Yeah.
1821
01:25:50.900 --> 01:25:51.300
Totally.
1822
01:25:51.640 --> 01:25:55.380
I mean, can you imagine if Jim Crockett went out of business in 1988
1823
01:25:55.900 --> 01:26:00.780
and it just buckled and went under and Ric Flair just goes to WWF
1824
01:26:00.780 --> 01:26:03.720
and maybe the Four Horsemen go to the WWF,
1825
01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:07.900
but most of that roster is just unleashed on the independents.
1826
01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:13.220
And there's no national competition in the 90s.
1827
01:26:13.380 --> 01:26:18.140
WWF may not be around, you know, like they may have gone out of business.
1828
01:26:18.900 --> 01:26:19.340
Yeah.
1829
01:26:20.320 --> 01:26:20.760
Yeah.
1830
01:26:21.540 --> 01:26:26.300
Blair Lyons says, in a world of Musks, Trumps, Bezos's, McMahons, I'd take a Turner every time.
1831
01:26:26.580 --> 01:26:27.020
Yeah.
1832
01:26:27.020 --> 01:26:30.760
You know, so this is kind of a weird point to make.
1833
01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:35.560
And it's not my main point here, but like, yeah, I think about this sometimes.
1834
01:26:36.220 --> 01:26:36.660
Yeah.
1835
01:26:36.880 --> 01:26:42.800
If I was like rich like that, why the fuck would I just want to do what every other rich guy does?
1836
01:26:42.900 --> 01:26:45.260
That's what the Musks and all worry.
1837
01:26:45.820 --> 01:26:50.020
I don't understand why they all do the same thing and they all do it together.
1838
01:26:50.660 --> 01:26:52.640
I get tired of seeing each other.
1839
01:26:52.660 --> 01:26:55.240
It's just a human centipede of rich guys.
1840
01:26:55.420 --> 01:26:55.800
You know what I mean?
1841
01:26:55.900 --> 01:26:58.460
Ted Turner was like, let's do something crazy.
1842
01:26:58.660 --> 01:26:59.200
You know what I mean?
1843
01:26:59.440 --> 01:27:02.560
Like, let's do some crazy ass shit.
1844
01:27:02.620 --> 01:27:04.200
And he did do that, you know.
1845
01:27:04.300 --> 01:27:06.260
He was like an oil salesman.
1846
01:27:07.040 --> 01:27:07.920
Tony Montoya.
1847
01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:09.380
Go Braves.
1848
01:27:10.200 --> 01:27:11.220
They're having a bad year.
1849
01:27:11.500 --> 01:27:11.720
Sorry.
1850
01:27:11.820 --> 01:27:12.400
Go Marlins.
1851
01:27:12.400 --> 01:27:13.060
Yeah.
1852
01:27:14.040 --> 01:27:15.200
I like the Marlins.
1853
01:27:15.200 --> 01:27:17.060
Hey, fucking shout out baseball.
1854
01:27:17.740 --> 01:27:19.120
But shout out to my boys.
1855
01:27:19.340 --> 01:27:23.680
The greatest three pitching, you know, triple threat of pitchers ever.
1856
01:27:23.900 --> 01:27:25.660
Greg Maddux, Tom Glavin and John Smolls.
1857
01:27:25.860 --> 01:27:26.840
Come on.
1858
01:27:27.060 --> 01:27:27.220
Come on.
1859
01:27:27.240 --> 01:27:27.800
You got to give me that.
1860
01:27:28.100 --> 01:27:29.140
They were awesome.
1861
01:27:29.540 --> 01:27:32.060
Greg Maddux might have been the greatest of all time.
1862
01:27:32.100 --> 01:27:32.760
That's all they got.
1863
01:27:33.560 --> 01:27:34.000
Yeah.
1864
01:27:34.480 --> 01:27:34.640
Yeah.
1865
01:27:34.780 --> 01:27:38.640
Plus they went to the playoffs way too many times not to win more World Series.
1866
01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:42.180
Blair Lyon 7 Vince's life work was basically convincing the world that he
1867
01:27:42.180 --> 01:27:44.260
changed the world of wrestling and that Ted did nothing.
1868
01:27:44.620 --> 01:27:48.340
Whereas Ted was arguably leaving an even bigger legacy in wrestling events.
1869
01:27:49.100 --> 01:27:52.440
And wrestling was just like a tiny part of what Ted did.
1870
01:27:53.100 --> 01:27:53.680
You know what I mean?
1871
01:27:54.560 --> 01:27:59.260
I mean fucking Jimmy is the only one that championed having
1872
01:27:59.260 --> 01:28:00.400
wrestling on TV.
1873
01:28:00.400 --> 01:28:00.720
Yeah.
1874
01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:01.700
What's the end particularly?
1875
01:28:02.240 --> 01:28:02.760
Yeah.
1876
01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:06.100
They the younger generation that was coming in.
1877
01:28:06.100 --> 01:28:10.100
Everybody wanted to get rid of WCW.
1878
01:28:10.820 --> 01:28:17.400
It took a corporate merger in which he lost a lot of control of those companies for
1879
01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:19.000
a WCW to die.
1880
01:28:19.600 --> 01:28:22.160
You know, otherwise Ted was all in on it.
1881
01:28:22.280 --> 01:28:30.340
You know, WCW would have never died if Ted would have had the time to find a
1882
01:28:30.340 --> 01:28:33.260
way to ensure it lives on past him.
1883
01:28:33.260 --> 01:28:41.260
But once he died or once he invested away and they were able to get out and
1884
01:28:41.820 --> 01:28:43.700
sell it for a couple million bucks.
1885
01:28:43.700 --> 01:28:44.200
Yep.
1886
01:28:45.120 --> 01:28:46.660
Less than what Kevin Nash was making.
1887
01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:47.320
Yeah.
1888
01:28:47.380 --> 01:28:48.490
I mean, it's just God.
1889
01:28:49.260 --> 01:28:49.900
Yeah, totally.
1890
01:28:49.960 --> 01:28:51.100
That's great point.
1891
01:28:52.020 --> 01:28:58.260
Now, one part that they don't ever say is that Vince agreed to buy a
1892
01:28:58.260 --> 01:29:01.400
certain amount of advertising over a certain amount of years that amounted to
1893
01:29:01.400 --> 01:29:04.980
more like 20 million dollars as part of that deal.
1894
01:29:05.060 --> 01:29:06.680
But it barely matters.
1895
01:29:07.000 --> 01:29:09.220
You know, it was still a pittance.
1896
01:29:10.620 --> 01:29:11.580
All right.
1897
01:29:12.920 --> 01:29:15.700
After hearing you guys talk about him, plus Giovanni's speech before the
1898
01:29:15.700 --> 01:29:19.440
10 bell salute, I think that that was a genuine wrestling person and an
1899
01:29:19.440 --> 01:29:21.000
advocate of the people backstage.
1900
01:29:21.040 --> 01:29:21.520
RIP.
1901
01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:22.620
He really was.
1902
01:29:22.920 --> 01:29:23.660
He really was.
1903
01:29:23.780 --> 01:29:25.720
You know, he had that part.
1904
01:29:26.260 --> 01:29:29.880
And he, you know, when you think of this elite motherfucker, right, who
1905
01:29:29.880 --> 01:29:35.060
like, you know, could just like sit in his ivory tower and never interact
1906
01:29:35.060 --> 01:29:37.080
with the normies ever.
1907
01:29:37.420 --> 01:29:38.740
He could have done just that.
1908
01:29:39.180 --> 01:29:40.640
He wasn't a snob.
1909
01:29:40.660 --> 01:29:41.840
He wasn't a pretentious asshole.
1910
01:29:41.980 --> 01:29:43.140
He's like pro wrestling's awesome.
1911
01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:48.760
He got Jimmy Carter watched wrestling on TBS, like as when he was the
1912
01:29:48.760 --> 01:29:49.520
president.
1913
01:29:50.840 --> 01:29:52.280
That's my type of president.
1914
01:29:52.620 --> 01:29:52.960
Yeah.
1915
01:29:53.240 --> 01:29:53.760
Yeah.
1916
01:29:54.200 --> 01:29:54.720
OK.
1917
01:29:54.920 --> 01:29:56.620
Last bit of speed run here.
1918
01:29:56.840 --> 01:29:58.120
Darby Allen rules.
1919
01:29:58.120 --> 01:30:01.100
He had another incredible match on Dynamite against Kevin Knight.
1920
01:30:01.460 --> 01:30:04.380
The jet was fantastic match.
1921
01:30:05.120 --> 01:30:06.120
Both guys looked amazing.
1922
01:30:07.040 --> 01:30:09.020
Knight is moving up the card so fast.
1923
01:30:09.040 --> 01:30:12.800
I say it every week, but it really is something to behold because it feels
1924
01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:13.200
earned.
1925
01:30:13.720 --> 01:30:16.240
It feels like Tony absolutely earned.
1926
01:30:16.520 --> 01:30:21.980
I don't know what happened between the fact that I used to complain out
1927
01:30:22.800 --> 01:30:28.740
on threads or to myself or to the room that Kevin Knight was not getting
1928
01:30:28.740 --> 01:30:31.160
enough time into Japan even.
1929
01:30:31.920 --> 01:30:37.940
And for it to be like to go from nothing to boom has been.
1930
01:30:39.980 --> 01:30:45.240
It's been one of my favorite developments, especially this year.
1931
01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:48.040
Final Destination says feel sorry for Speedball.
1932
01:30:48.160 --> 01:30:48.940
He's being left behind.
1933
01:30:49.140 --> 01:30:50.200
I don't think he is.
1934
01:30:50.200 --> 01:30:54.450
I think there's something more that's going to happen between those two and
1935
01:30:55.140 --> 01:30:55.960
somebody is going to go.
1936
01:30:56.240 --> 01:30:57.100
It's one of them.
1937
01:30:57.100 --> 01:30:59.500
I'm no longer convinced that it's going to be Kevin Knight.
1938
01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:03.200
I was because of the storytelling at the time with swerve.
1939
01:31:03.940 --> 01:31:07.740
But now I'm like it could go either way because Kevin Knight's really
1940
01:31:07.740 --> 01:31:08.300
popular.
1941
01:31:09.200 --> 01:31:14.480
So I think Speedball could turn honestly to be honest.
1942
01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:17.880
Actually, it made me you made me just think of something.
1943
01:31:17.880 --> 01:31:24.600
I don't know how anybody else felt, but watching the match with AR Fox and
1944
01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:29.540
Speedball, I felt that AR Fox had to slow down for Speedball for most of
1945
01:31:29.540 --> 01:31:30.040
that match.
1946
01:31:30.400 --> 01:31:31.080
They seemed off.
1947
01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:33.520
They seemed off of each other.
1948
01:31:34.000 --> 01:31:37.100
I didn't see that, but I admit I wasn't beginning.
1949
01:31:37.600 --> 01:31:39.100
I don't know why I felt that way.
1950
01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:44.860
Then after this amazing match, they announced that Darby is going to be
1951
01:31:44.860 --> 01:31:47.860
facing Kazuchika Okada next Wednesday on Dynamite.
1952
01:31:49.060 --> 01:31:51.860
Darby Allen versus Kazuchika Okada.
1953
01:31:52.820 --> 01:31:53.840
God bless you, Darby.
1954
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:54.840
On Dynamite.
1955
01:31:55.980 --> 01:31:56.900
What the fuck?
1956
01:31:57.260 --> 01:31:59.460
And I'm freaking out because this match with.
1957
01:31:59.700 --> 01:32:02.280
Oh, and that's if.
1958
01:32:03.080 --> 01:32:05.580
If he beats Pack this fucking Saturday.
1959
01:32:10.830 --> 01:32:12.850
I don't know what this dude is doing.
1960
01:32:13.150 --> 01:32:14.670
I love that little crazy white boy.
1961
01:32:14.850 --> 01:32:15.390
I swear to God.
1962
01:32:15.470 --> 01:32:15.890
I do too.
1963
01:32:16.290 --> 01:32:18.430
You little fucking crazy white boy.
1964
01:32:18.430 --> 01:32:19.290
That is right.
1965
01:32:19.430 --> 01:32:20.310
Holy shit.
1966
01:32:20.990 --> 01:32:22.490
So you got Darby.
1967
01:32:22.490 --> 01:32:26.850
Allen is on one of the greatest world title runs I've ever seen, and
1968
01:32:26.850 --> 01:32:28.690
he's been champion for like three weeks.
1969
01:32:29.790 --> 01:32:31.030
It's a lot of right.
1970
01:32:31.150 --> 01:32:35.050
It's a lot of fun to watch, you know, and making the most of every
1971
01:32:35.050 --> 01:32:38.710
single second and every one of these matches has been a banger so far.
1972
01:32:38.730 --> 01:32:40.410
You know, these next two are going to be bangers.
1973
01:32:41.010 --> 01:32:45.370
So obviously they're trying to build up to this rematch with them.
1974
01:32:45.370 --> 01:32:48.610
Who's been saying I want to rematch and Darby keeps saying, well,
1975
01:32:48.610 --> 01:32:50.250
I need you to put something up.
1976
01:32:50.330 --> 01:32:53.570
Well, MJF didn't win the TNT title, so he couldn't put that up.
1977
01:32:53.850 --> 01:32:55.410
So he has to think of something else.
1978
01:32:55.410 --> 01:32:56.110
I'll give you money.
1979
01:32:56.370 --> 01:32:56.850
No.
1980
01:32:58.990 --> 01:32:59.810
What do you want?
1981
01:33:00.530 --> 01:33:02.130
I want your diamond ring.
1982
01:33:02.450 --> 01:33:03.770
I'll give you the dynamite diamond ring.
1983
01:33:03.970 --> 01:33:07.310
No, I want your fucking hair.
1984
01:33:07.490 --> 01:33:10.150
And the reaction for Max was so great.
1985
01:33:10.890 --> 01:33:11.890
Max doesn't even say yes.
1986
01:33:11.890 --> 01:33:13.890
He just drops the mic and walks away.
1987
01:33:13.890 --> 01:33:16.710
I'm so glad that he actually just left.
1988
01:33:16.710 --> 01:33:18.890
He didn't say nothing.
1989
01:33:19.210 --> 01:33:25.910
No, and just left it because everybody knows I have never seen somebody
1990
01:33:25.910 --> 01:33:30.130
get a hair transplant who has been more transparent and used it for
1991
01:33:30.130 --> 01:33:33.070
effect more than Max like ever.
1992
01:33:33.550 --> 01:33:37.070
I have never seen a guy who admitted that.
1993
01:33:37.110 --> 01:33:38.470
Yeah, I did.
1994
01:33:38.810 --> 01:33:39.150
Yeah.
1995
01:33:39.490 --> 01:33:40.210
Yeah.
1996
01:33:40.210 --> 01:33:41.470
He did.
1997
01:33:42.170 --> 01:33:44.310
You know, you see pictures of him from two or three years ago.
1998
01:33:44.350 --> 01:33:45.010
It's pretty obvious.
1999
01:33:45.210 --> 01:33:45.530
He did.
2000
01:33:45.730 --> 01:33:46.130
It's obvious.
2001
01:33:46.490 --> 01:33:49.250
And it looks great and everything.
2002
01:33:49.470 --> 01:33:52.490
But like Kenny brought it up.
2003
01:33:52.770 --> 01:33:54.250
Like, oh, the hair plugs look great.
2004
01:33:54.370 --> 01:33:57.390
Max, you know, like, I mean, it's been brought up by a bunch of
2005
01:33:57.390 --> 01:33:59.450
different people for a year, different people.
2006
01:33:59.490 --> 01:34:05.150
And he's been OK with letting them use that and not getting pissed.
2007
01:34:05.210 --> 01:34:05.510
Yeah.
2008
01:34:05.610 --> 01:34:07.630
I'm like, I would be pissed.
2009
01:34:08.230 --> 01:34:08.430
Yeah.
2010
01:34:08.430 --> 01:34:12.510
I would actually be straight up pissed.
2011
01:34:12.830 --> 01:34:13.530
Mm hmm.
2012
01:34:13.830 --> 01:34:14.670
Mm hmm.
2013
01:34:14.890 --> 01:34:20.110
Books and body slam says I will be there live, which lucky lady.
2014
01:34:20.630 --> 01:34:22.210
Which show is that?
2015
01:34:22.290 --> 01:34:26.230
Is that fairway to hell or is that fairway to hell is in Florida?
2016
01:34:27.250 --> 01:34:31.550
And then and then next Wednesday must be in.
2017
01:34:31.550 --> 01:34:32.350
Oh, it's in Carolina.
2018
01:34:32.530 --> 01:34:32.830
Yeah.
2019
01:34:32.950 --> 01:34:33.290
All right.
2020
01:34:33.350 --> 01:34:35.410
So you're going to see Okada and Darby.
2021
01:34:35.410 --> 01:34:36.150
They're not.
2022
01:34:36.330 --> 01:34:36.550
Yeah.
2023
01:34:36.690 --> 01:34:37.090
They're not.
2024
01:34:37.770 --> 01:34:38.790
That's unfortunate.
2025
01:34:38.890 --> 01:34:42.110
I come into Florida because if it was, I'd be there.
2026
01:34:42.270 --> 01:34:43.250
Oh, yeah.
2027
01:34:43.470 --> 01:34:44.290
Hell, yeah.
2028
01:34:44.730 --> 01:34:45.690
Oh, my God.
2029
01:34:46.510 --> 01:34:46.750
Yeah.
2030
01:34:47.030 --> 01:34:47.470
Awesome.
2031
01:34:47.710 --> 01:34:48.090
Yeah.
2032
01:34:48.910 --> 01:34:52.370
Justin says him getting pushed is a great example on how to create stars.
2033
01:34:52.550 --> 01:34:55.990
Being Buddy Wayne and Shabata trained helps a lot, too.
2034
01:34:56.290 --> 01:34:56.670
Yeah.
2035
01:34:57.250 --> 01:35:00.690
And just having the raw physical tools that Kevin Knight has.
2036
01:35:01.430 --> 01:35:01.490
Yeah.
2037
01:35:01.930 --> 01:35:03.670
Having the raw tools that Kevin Knight has.
2038
01:35:03.670 --> 01:35:05.290
I was so lucky.
2039
01:35:05.470 --> 01:35:06.570
I got to see him.
2040
01:35:06.930 --> 01:35:15.250
It was like his last Indy run and him and fucking the time traveler did a little bit.
2041
01:35:16.170 --> 01:35:16.770
Kishida.
2042
01:35:17.070 --> 01:35:21.690
Shida and Kevin Knight team to get the Bollywood boys in a defy show.
2043
01:35:22.510 --> 01:35:23.790
So much fun.
2044
01:35:23.910 --> 01:35:24.550
Oh, my.
2045
01:35:24.730 --> 01:35:27.030
Such a good acting together for years.
2046
01:35:27.230 --> 01:35:28.250
I saw Kevin Knight.
2047
01:35:28.250 --> 01:35:29.770
I'm like third row.
2048
01:35:29.950 --> 01:35:32.550
OK, like I'm 10 feet away from the guy.
2049
01:35:32.550 --> 01:35:39.230
I saw that man hit a standing drop kick and could not believe the fucking height he got.
2050
01:35:39.530 --> 01:35:40.830
It was it was crazy.
2051
01:35:41.410 --> 01:35:41.870
Crazy.
2052
01:35:42.910 --> 01:35:49.470
That's what gets me between him and my homie with the rascals, the height they get.
2053
01:35:49.470 --> 01:35:50.110
Oh, my God.
2054
01:35:50.210 --> 01:35:51.950
Is it Myron that you're talking about?
2055
01:35:52.370 --> 01:35:52.950
Myron Reed.
2056
01:35:53.490 --> 01:35:53.990
Oh, my God.
2057
01:35:54.190 --> 01:35:54.670
Unbelievable.
2058
01:35:55.170 --> 01:35:55.430
Unbelievable.
2059
01:35:56.150 --> 01:36:00.410
Tony Montoya cousin Speedball has an advantage knowing Taekwondo just like me.
2060
01:36:00.410 --> 01:36:04.130
Yeah, you and yeah, you and people are just the same.
2061
01:36:04.510 --> 01:36:04.770
Exactly.
2062
01:36:06.490 --> 01:36:10.310
Whatever scare glow between the match and commentary.
2063
01:36:10.390 --> 01:36:12.730
They told a hell of a story in the Kevin Knight and Darby match.
2064
01:36:12.770 --> 01:36:13.390
They did.
2065
01:36:13.810 --> 01:36:14.310
They did.
2066
01:36:14.330 --> 01:36:16.930
That was a really, really good match.
2067
01:36:17.170 --> 01:36:24.790
What Kevin Knight is that fucking clothesline to the table on Darby from the ropes.
2068
01:36:25.490 --> 01:36:27.350
I just could not believe it.
2069
01:36:27.350 --> 01:36:33.490
And I actually ended up rewinding and watching like half the match again because it was so awesome.
2070
01:36:33.490 --> 01:36:33.890
Me too.
2071
01:36:33.890 --> 01:36:44.270
Like right before that to the segment to that to right after it was just it was all connecting and flowing.
2072
01:36:44.330 --> 01:36:47.310
And the way that flowed was so fantastic.
2073
01:36:47.310 --> 01:36:50.790
That was that's out of this world.
2074
01:36:51.590 --> 01:36:55.710
So Darby Darby says he's going to put the title up against Max's hair.
2075
01:36:56.650 --> 01:36:59.890
Max didn't accept, but we know that's the match, right?
2076
01:37:00.070 --> 01:37:03.130
Like they don't put that out there and Max doesn't do it.
2077
01:37:03.930 --> 01:37:09.910
Does anyone think there's any chance that Darby beats Max?
2078
01:37:14.110 --> 01:37:15.410
Because I do.
2079
01:37:16.650 --> 01:37:22.670
I think there's been thinking about it too much yet.
2080
01:37:22.670 --> 01:37:36.670
But I do think that he has a shot to do this because this is such a good little rivalry between them two.
2081
01:37:38.530 --> 01:37:50.550
And having Darby as champion brings so many different challengers and such a different dynamic for a guy my size trying to go out there and win the world heavyweight title.
2082
01:37:50.550 --> 01:37:51.790
You know what I'm saying?
2083
01:37:51.850 --> 01:37:52.810
That's not normal.
2084
01:37:55.070 --> 01:37:58.290
But I think he has a shot to do so.
2085
01:37:58.590 --> 01:38:04.850
I think they're building up the him having so many matches is like there's no way he's going to be able to beat MJF.
2086
01:38:05.030 --> 01:38:11.950
And that's we're like, hey, MJF, if you've got to cut that shit off, at least you know where you can go to get it done again.
2087
01:38:12.210 --> 01:38:13.430
Yeah. Yeah.
2088
01:38:14.110 --> 01:38:15.450
Scare Glow asks a great question.
2089
01:38:15.550 --> 01:38:17.270
Can you shave hair plugs and do no damage?
2090
01:38:17.350 --> 01:38:18.610
I have no idea.
2091
01:38:19.050 --> 01:38:22.890
But Max is the kind of crazy fucker who would do it.
2092
01:38:23.030 --> 01:38:23.270
Yeah.
2093
01:38:23.390 --> 01:38:26.170
And maybe he's got a movie that he's got to go do where he's got to be.
2094
01:38:26.270 --> 01:38:32.150
We have no problem with just embracing the fact that, you know, it looks good this way.
2095
01:38:34.450 --> 01:38:37.970
Cousin says, yeah, Pops isn't afraid of using science to help his hair.
2096
01:38:37.970 --> 01:38:39.690
What are you talking about?
2097
01:38:41.410 --> 01:38:42.210
Dynamite. Yeah.
2098
01:38:42.210 --> 01:38:43.950
OK, so books is going to Dynamite.
2099
01:38:44.090 --> 01:38:45.170
Also speaking to Darby.
2100
01:38:45.290 --> 01:38:49.010
Justin says, I can't wait for MJF to lose his championship to attempt to plus his hair.
2101
01:38:49.610 --> 01:38:50.150
Yes.
2102
01:38:52.090 --> 01:38:54.270
Justin question for you.
2103
01:38:54.670 --> 01:38:59.110
Did you see Tana Hashi at this last at Don Taku?
2104
01:38:59.630 --> 01:39:09.370
Did this man not go from looking like Hiroshi fucking Tana Hashi in January to looking like battered grandpa in like.
2105
01:39:10.210 --> 01:39:16.590
15 minutes like the minute it was over, he like he just looks he just looks his age.
2106
01:39:16.590 --> 01:39:18.170
I'm not saying he looks bad.
2107
01:39:18.870 --> 01:39:19.950
The man can barely walk.
2108
01:39:20.150 --> 01:39:21.610
He can barely walk.
2109
01:39:21.730 --> 01:39:23.450
He's hunched over his back.
2110
01:39:23.450 --> 01:39:24.810
His body is right.
2111
01:39:24.950 --> 01:39:31.210
When you when you're not doing all that stuff, working out all day, every day, keeping that stuff loose, making the muscles work.
2112
01:39:31.210 --> 01:39:31.630
Yeah.
2113
01:39:31.910 --> 01:39:34.810
They start going, hey, how old are you?
2114
01:39:34.890 --> 01:39:35.270
Really?
2115
01:39:35.690 --> 01:39:36.150
OK.
2116
01:39:36.590 --> 01:39:37.710
Settle into this.
2117
01:39:37.710 --> 01:39:40.570
He's looking like how old is he?
2118
01:39:41.210 --> 01:39:42.850
He's almost he's got to be 50.
2119
01:39:42.930 --> 01:39:43.430
50.
2120
01:39:43.610 --> 01:39:45.010
Yeah, it's got to be.
2121
01:39:45.190 --> 01:39:45.570
Yeah.
2122
01:39:45.750 --> 01:39:51.110
I just like with the haircut and everything, like now it's like, oh, homie is.
2123
01:39:51.850 --> 01:39:55.210
Yeah, homie is looking a little old these days.
2124
01:39:55.470 --> 01:39:57.050
But, you know, I mean.
2125
01:39:58.670 --> 01:39:59.790
I love Tana Hashi.
2126
01:40:00.890 --> 01:40:04.310
You and I did the Tana Hashi tribute episode, you know, like.
2127
01:40:04.570 --> 01:40:04.790
Yes.
2128
01:40:05.490 --> 01:40:08.470
There's one thing that's undefeated by the time.
2129
01:40:08.470 --> 01:40:09.910
Yeah, 100 percent.
2130
01:40:10.070 --> 01:40:11.190
Time does no jobs.
2131
01:40:11.450 --> 01:40:15.050
My favorite and only quote from Bruce Prichard that I ever liked.
2132
01:40:16.210 --> 01:40:17.710
Books of Body Slam says C.N.
2133
01:40:17.710 --> 01:40:19.630
Okada and Darby makes up for no Kenny again.
2134
01:40:19.690 --> 01:40:22.350
I know you have real bad luck with Kenny.
2135
01:40:23.270 --> 01:40:23.770
BJ.
2136
01:40:26.210 --> 01:40:28.790
I was like you ain't missing shit.
2137
01:40:29.070 --> 01:40:30.150
BJ Dixon.
2138
01:40:30.610 --> 01:40:31.710
Max might lose this match.
2139
01:40:31.710 --> 01:40:34.930
He's been referencing a movie with Universal Studios in the last couple of
2140
01:40:34.930 --> 01:40:35.730
interviews he's given.
2141
01:40:36.830 --> 01:40:37.310
Yeah.
2142
01:40:37.850 --> 01:40:38.030
Yeah.
2143
01:40:38.030 --> 01:40:40.410
He has been talking about his opportunities.
2144
01:40:43.110 --> 01:40:44.190
Justin says they better do this.
2145
01:40:44.190 --> 01:40:45.250
I want his hair gone.
2146
01:40:46.290 --> 01:40:47.550
It would be funny.
2147
01:40:47.850 --> 01:40:48.890
It would be funny.
2148
01:40:49.610 --> 01:40:51.230
Max would definitely go through with it.
2149
01:40:51.230 --> 01:40:54.750
I don't if he wins, it's not because he wasn't willing to cut his hair.
2150
01:40:55.330 --> 01:40:55.810
I.
2151
01:40:55.810 --> 01:40:56.030
Yeah.
2152
01:40:56.110 --> 01:40:57.290
That's a commitment.
2153
01:40:57.630 --> 01:40:58.290
He does.
2154
01:40:58.390 --> 01:40:58.910
He does.
2155
01:40:58.910 --> 01:41:00.310
And he loves fucking A.W.
2156
01:41:00.370 --> 01:41:00.670
man.
2157
01:41:01.030 --> 01:41:03.530
That last title run he just had was better than his first one.
2158
01:41:03.530 --> 01:41:04.490
It was half as long.
2159
01:41:05.010 --> 01:41:07.010
Like it was a great title run.
2160
01:41:07.590 --> 01:41:08.390
Tony Montoya.
2161
01:41:08.830 --> 01:41:09.050
All right.
2162
01:41:09.150 --> 01:41:09.350
All right.
2163
01:41:09.350 --> 01:41:10.110
Never mind.
2164
01:41:11.190 --> 01:41:11.990
That 10.
2165
01:41:12.450 --> 01:41:14.250
Gary Parciak.
2166
01:41:15.090 --> 01:41:16.890
Scare Glow thinks Darby's going to beat Max.
2167
01:41:17.050 --> 01:41:17.810
Darby has the heart.
2168
01:41:17.870 --> 01:41:18.990
Everyone is betting against him.
2169
01:41:19.010 --> 01:41:20.030
The pop would be huge.
2170
01:41:20.110 --> 01:41:20.850
It would be.
2171
01:41:20.950 --> 01:41:22.270
It'd be a massive pop.
2172
01:41:22.990 --> 01:41:23.390
Massive.
2173
01:41:23.610 --> 01:41:25.070
In Max's hometown, though.
2174
01:41:27.030 --> 01:41:28.390
There you go.
2175
01:41:28.910 --> 01:41:29.350
Oof.
2176
01:41:29.350 --> 01:41:31.530
Ta-Nehisi needs to start getting stem cells for his knees.
2177
01:41:31.550 --> 01:41:32.350
He does.
2178
01:41:32.870 --> 01:41:33.870
Just walk, brother.
2179
01:41:34.010 --> 01:41:34.430
That's all.
2180
01:41:34.430 --> 01:41:34.890
That's it.
2181
01:41:35.930 --> 01:41:38.390
Oh, I want to get him a cane or something.
2182
01:41:39.410 --> 01:41:40.910
Don't leave my boy alone.
2183
01:41:42.850 --> 01:41:45.130
Justice says, sadly, he looks in suits.
2184
01:41:45.410 --> 01:41:45.610
Yeah.
2185
01:41:45.610 --> 01:41:46.350
Maybe that's it.
2186
01:41:46.370 --> 01:41:47.770
I'm just not used to seeing him in a suit.
2187
01:41:47.910 --> 01:41:49.290
I'm gonna watch y'all get old.
2188
01:41:50.210 --> 01:41:50.330
Both.
2189
01:41:50.810 --> 01:41:52.830
He looks younger than me currently.
2190
01:41:53.850 --> 01:41:54.290
Specifically.
2191
01:41:54.630 --> 01:41:55.030
All right.
2192
01:41:55.170 --> 01:41:56.870
He's only like four years older than me.
2193
01:41:56.870 --> 01:41:57.150
All right.
2194
01:41:57.150 --> 01:41:58.730
He looks younger than I do.
2195
01:41:58.850 --> 01:41:59.550
No question.
2196
01:41:59.870 --> 01:42:01.370
He kicked my fucking ass.
2197
01:42:01.490 --> 01:42:02.110
No question.
2198
01:42:02.670 --> 01:42:03.230
Justin.
2199
01:42:03.250 --> 01:42:06.130
But he's been modeling for athleisure in Japan and he looks great.
2200
01:42:06.250 --> 01:42:09.250
Oh, he's a sexy man.
2201
01:42:09.590 --> 01:42:14.130
Speaking of hair, I guess we need to heavily praise Dante Martin for no longer looking
2202
01:42:14.130 --> 01:42:15.350
like Art Garfunkel.
2203
01:42:20.240 --> 01:42:21.140
I agree.
2204
01:42:21.660 --> 01:42:24.100
I love the haircut that he got.
2205
01:42:24.580 --> 01:42:25.520
Dante's haircut.
2206
01:42:26.020 --> 01:42:27.120
It looks like a grown man.
2207
01:42:27.720 --> 01:42:28.920
And I like that.
2208
01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:31.960
Not like this kid who doesn't know what he's trying to be.
2209
01:42:32.880 --> 01:42:34.280
Like he looks like top flight.
2210
01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:37.860
Just wrestling is an aesthetic business.
2211
01:42:38.020 --> 01:42:38.460
Okay.
2212
01:42:38.640 --> 01:42:40.160
It's just the way it is.
2213
01:42:40.560 --> 01:42:42.200
It's an aesthetic business.
2214
01:42:43.200 --> 01:42:44.680
That haircut made so much look.
2215
01:42:44.940 --> 01:42:45.640
We'll get to you.
2216
01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:48.580
It made so much of a difference just for him cutting the hair off.
2217
01:42:48.580 --> 01:42:49.960
It just made such a difference.
2218
01:42:50.580 --> 01:42:51.740
It looks like a man.
2219
01:42:51.860 --> 01:42:52.940
He looks like it looks like a man.
2220
01:42:53.040 --> 01:42:54.080
Looks like a grown ass man.
2221
01:42:54.260 --> 01:42:54.580
Yeah.
2222
01:42:54.780 --> 01:42:55.640
I want to see top flight.
2223
01:42:55.700 --> 01:42:56.760
Go somewhere this year.
2224
01:42:56.760 --> 01:42:57.360
You know.
2225
01:42:57.360 --> 01:42:59.460
Top flight don't look like kids no more.
2226
01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:00.360
That's right.
2227
01:43:01.040 --> 01:43:01.540
Because they're not.
2228
01:43:01.540 --> 01:43:02.320
They're not children.
2229
01:43:02.800 --> 01:43:03.600
They are young.
2230
01:43:04.260 --> 01:43:05.100
So I expect.
2231
01:43:05.260 --> 01:43:05.440
Yeah.
2232
01:43:05.460 --> 01:43:06.320
That's a good point.
2233
01:43:06.660 --> 01:43:10.360
I expect them over the next few years to start really rising back up.
2234
01:43:10.400 --> 01:43:11.200
Not this time.
2235
01:43:11.260 --> 01:43:12.340
Anytime this year.
2236
01:43:13.100 --> 01:43:14.600
But we got them under contract.
2237
01:43:14.960 --> 01:43:15.580
Thank God.
2238
01:43:15.880 --> 01:43:16.420
Do we.
2239
01:43:16.700 --> 01:43:18.660
Do we like sky flight?
2240
01:43:20.220 --> 01:43:20.780
Yes.
2241
01:43:20.780 --> 01:43:22.920
Because I like my boy.
2242
01:43:23.000 --> 01:43:23.480
Scorpio.
2243
01:43:23.760 --> 01:43:24.300
I like.
2244
01:43:24.300 --> 01:43:26.640
I love Scorpio sky.
2245
01:43:26.700 --> 01:43:27.980
He's one of either.
2246
01:43:28.300 --> 01:43:33.440
He is an original and deserves some some spot on the roster.
2247
01:43:33.580 --> 01:43:35.660
I don't care what it is doing whatever you want.
2248
01:43:36.220 --> 01:43:38.380
And so does.
2249
01:43:38.600 --> 01:43:39.600
So does Vega.
2250
01:43:39.920 --> 01:43:40.480
So does.
2251
01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:42.720
So does the entire group.
2252
01:43:42.940 --> 01:43:46.300
And they get a very good reception.
2253
01:43:46.940 --> 01:43:50.680
When they were there at the Ring of Honor tapings.
2254
01:43:50.860 --> 01:43:51.460
I know that.
2255
01:43:51.460 --> 01:43:52.040
Mm hmm.
2256
01:43:52.180 --> 01:43:52.720
Mm hmm.
2257
01:43:52.720 --> 01:43:53.360
Yeah.
2258
01:43:53.360 --> 01:43:53.980
Zeta Steel.
2259
01:43:54.220 --> 01:43:54.520
I like.
2260
01:43:54.860 --> 01:43:56.520
They're more Zeta Steel.
2261
01:43:56.740 --> 01:43:59.400
I just really, really love her.
2262
01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:04.740
And I think they're going to be in Ring of Honor for a while.
2263
01:44:05.300 --> 01:44:06.000
They sit there.
2264
01:44:06.060 --> 01:44:06.760
They really do.
2265
01:44:07.140 --> 01:44:07.240
They do.
2266
01:44:07.240 --> 01:44:07.780
No, they do.
2267
01:44:08.120 --> 01:44:09.020
And they're young enough.
2268
01:44:09.040 --> 01:44:10.640
You can keep them there for a while.
2269
01:44:11.020 --> 01:44:11.340
All right.
2270
01:44:11.340 --> 01:44:14.800
I got a couple of comments in the chat here and we're going to have to.
2271
01:44:14.800 --> 01:44:17.940
We're going to have to wrap it up here, folks, because I got to mix this shit.
2272
01:44:17.940 --> 01:44:20.080
So it's live tomorrow.
2273
01:44:21.480 --> 01:44:22.440
Scare Glow.
2274
01:44:22.600 --> 01:44:24.460
Beating Max in his hometown is even better.
2275
01:44:24.520 --> 01:44:25.680
He beat Kenny in Canada.
2276
01:44:25.780 --> 01:44:26.520
He deserves it.
2277
01:44:26.820 --> 01:44:28.460
I was thinking the same thing.
2278
01:44:29.560 --> 01:44:30.280
Thinking the same thing.
2279
01:44:30.500 --> 01:44:34.640
Justin says Sky Flight needs an excursion to DDT or Dragon Gate or even
2280
01:44:34.640 --> 01:44:38.100
NJPW versus several units just to rejuvenate.
2281
01:44:38.960 --> 01:44:41.060
I would love to see them in World Tag League.
2282
01:44:42.020 --> 01:44:43.280
I would love to see that.
2283
01:44:43.300 --> 01:44:47.820
But I would like to see them more in Ring of Honor first.
2284
01:44:48.460 --> 01:44:54.700
Let's let's get your feet underneath you and let's get some time where you're
2285
01:44:54.700 --> 01:44:59.140
not injured for an extended period of time before we do that.
2286
01:44:59.240 --> 01:44:59.600
Could they?
2287
01:44:59.880 --> 01:45:02.780
Could they feud with grizzled young vets?
2288
01:45:03.140 --> 01:45:04.660
That'd be a fun feud.
2289
01:45:05.060 --> 01:45:05.860
That's a fun.
2290
01:45:06.100 --> 01:45:06.440
Yeah.
2291
01:45:06.900 --> 01:45:07.660
Those guys are fun.
2292
01:45:07.840 --> 01:45:08.720
Clash of styles.
2293
01:45:08.940 --> 01:45:10.120
Clash of aesthetics.
2294
01:45:11.380 --> 01:45:12.340
Pretty good.
2295
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You know, ghost white Englishmen versus, you know.
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You can't mistake who's who.
2297
01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:23.300
That is for sure, bro.
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01:45:23.940 --> 01:45:27.580
I mean, sometimes like I think you probably see grizzled young vets and you're
2299
01:45:27.580 --> 01:45:29.680
like, who brought these ghouls here?
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01:45:29.780 --> 01:45:32.200
You're like, what realm are you from, sir?
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01:45:32.360 --> 01:45:36.460
And then then they're just like, it's just us the grizzled young vets.
2302
01:45:37.320 --> 01:45:37.800
Okay.
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01:45:39.000 --> 01:45:43.140
Well, Antoine, Raffaella, love having you here, buddy.
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01:45:43.360 --> 01:45:44.940
And we're going to do this more.
2305
01:45:45.200 --> 01:45:45.900
You know, we will.
2306
01:45:46.480 --> 01:45:47.160
You know, we will.
2307
01:45:47.160 --> 01:45:49.480
Love talking New Japan with you, man.
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01:45:49.980 --> 01:45:53.200
I think New Japan and AW, the collaboration is.
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01:45:53.600 --> 01:45:54.000
Yes.
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01:45:54.720 --> 01:46:00.840
We don't get to talk enough about them in my opinion.
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01:46:01.820 --> 01:46:02.960
And so I do.
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01:46:03.420 --> 01:46:03.780
Yes.
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01:46:03.780 --> 01:46:04.260
Yes.
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01:46:04.500 --> 01:46:05.240
Well, I saw that.
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01:46:05.560 --> 01:46:09.400
And New Japan is in an exciting position right now.
2316
01:46:09.500 --> 01:46:14.080
You know, I really do love where they're going right now.
2317
01:46:14.080 --> 01:46:19.260
And yes, you see the future happening kind of right before your eyes.
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01:46:19.260 --> 01:46:20.500
It's pretty cool.
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01:46:21.480 --> 01:46:23.500
We're past the scary part.
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01:46:23.900 --> 01:46:24.380
Yes.
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01:46:24.700 --> 01:46:26.380
Like what the hell happens next.
2322
01:46:26.580 --> 01:46:27.220
Yeah, totally.
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01:46:30.780 --> 01:46:34.500
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01:46:49.940 --> 01:46:52.780
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01:46:54.700 --> 01:46:55.760
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01:46:55.980 --> 01:46:57.520
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01:46:57.680 --> 01:46:58.720
Till next time.
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01:46:59.000 --> 01:46:59.940
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And I am Antoine Raphael.
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