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At US Customs and Border Protection, we go beyond to protect more than borders from ship to shore, air to ground, cities to local communities. CBP agents and officers are keeping people safe. Join US Customs and Border Protection and go beyond for something far greater than yourself. Learn more at cbp.gov/careers. What is going on everybody? Welcome in here to the Fightful YouTube channel. It is a Saturday night, July 20th, 2024. Rick Uchino here tonight. Meridian and Kresta. They are working elsewhere this evening. So I brought in the only man that I could do this show with. There is no doubt in my mind there was only one person when I realized that I was either going to be riding solo or I could go out and get my tag team partner for the last. How long we've been working together now? Three, four years at this point we've been doing shows together. Time just frickin' flies. I had to call him a man SP3. He is here on a Saturday night. It's actually Sunday morning, very early Sunday morning where he's at right now. But this man is committed like you read about and he is here ready to talk about AEW collision. What's going on SP3? Hey, I am barely medically cleared to be on this show and I am still here on a Saturday night. It's all right to fight. Rick gave me the message, the call last night and it changed my entire Saturday plan. I was planning on watching TNA Slim Reversary Live and then watching collision in the morning because I'm probably going to have to review it for my channel. But nope, he made me switch up my whole thing. I had the double screens going on. I was more focusing on collision because we had to review this show. But I was very happy to fill in for the great Arityan and Kresta. I don't know if I'll be able to fit the beauty and grace and knowledge portion that they feel very, very well. But sarcasm and talking loud. I got my new moniker is that I'm the exo Foley of wrestling media. I just look very loud and I'm black. That's very accurate. That's very accurate. Like, dang, that is incredibly, incredibly accurate. I appreciate, I appreciate you hopping on tonight. What a show we had tonight. A lot of great in-ring action. We have new Trio's champs in the patriarchy and what was a really, really good main event tonight. When we get there, I'll give Christian Cage all of his flowers because that man is a heel through and through and he did it again tonight. The cherry on top of the Sunday of this main event was that man grabbing all three Trio's championships and holding him up and not letting, not letting kill switch or Nick Wayne even sniff those bad boys. But we do appreciate everybody who is joining us here on a Saturday night or Sunday morning depending on where you're at. We got Terrence checking in from West Quebec, Canada right now. We appreciate that sound off. Where are you at everybody? If you want to guarantee to get your comment read on the air, got to send in super chat or humper chat, get a man guaranteed. I will read every single one of them throughout the entirety of the show tonight before we get off the air or Drew is going to give me 10 lashes after the show if I do not do it. But Drew will stay on me to make sure that I get this done. We got people from Texas up and hey, Texas, perfect, perfect for tonight's show. And honestly, the next several here in the summer here, SP three, what did we think about the first show from the e-sports stadium tonight? Much smaller venue than what AEW typically runs. Kind of a more intimate setting. I had a real nice house show, independent show kind of feel. And I don't mean that in a bad way whatsoever. This is something that, you know, Sean Ross at our fearless leader here on Fightful was was hoping AEW would do, you know, instead of running the bigger venues and only selling out the lower bowl while they're figuring out the ticket situation and everything that they're trying to get through right now. I was hoping they would run some smaller venues. It just felt like, I don't know, it just it felt right tonight. It felt like that smaller, intimate, you know, club style setting. And this was a crowd in Arlington, Texas that that was into the show tonight. That was the my first main takeaway is I really liked the set. I really like how how it looked, how it felt, the crowd felt energetic, felt like they were into everything. I heard it was a sellout. And they only needed what 1300 to sell out this place. So that that's a good number. That's what they need to do more, especially with a show like collision. I think that you can try to, you know, do the 5000 cedars that maybe sometimes even the 10,000 cedars for dynamite, but collision, you know, you need to establish some type of identity. So if they can get some type of regency with another, you know, state or city, I think that's the thing to do to do like a 13, a 1300 cedar. And it looked good. It had an intimate feel to it. The only things I would have changed is I thought that they should have like lightened up the crowd a little bit more. And I know they were going for more of an intimate feel and darkening the crowd is a little, little things that they do. But put some light on the crowd. I want the old EEW back and change the camera view to like it doesn't look like, you know, TNA, it was very TNA with the with the camera facing the entrance way and the video screen, TNA or AAA, because they do that as well. But that was new to me because I don't get, I don't watch a whole lot. Like people know, people who've watched me on the channel said this for Thursdays, my off day, like that is my day that I take off from wrestling because I, you know, I'm watching it six days a week. So I'd rather watch Dexter or something else just a nice little palate cleanser. So I don't get to watch a whole lot of of TNA or ring of honor or any of those. So that was actually new for me tonight. So, you know, seeing that I was like, Oh, that's interesting. I actually like the different camera angles. But I guess this is something that, you know, the wrestling sickos are used to. Yeah, I'm one of those wrestling sickos. The only, the only night I take off is Tuesday night because I don't have to watch NXT live. I pretty much have to watch every other show live. So I take, and I, you know, I take, I set it on a couple of different channels and I'll say it here. Monday Night Raw, since I'm in in the UK, I watch it until carrying cross is announced for a match. If it's carrying cross talking, I'm all, I mean, I'll hear for it. But if you say carrying cross as a match, I'd be like, Oh, time for my bedtime. But Thursday is, you know, I do see, you know, ROH live and then review it here. And then afterwards on Friday morning, I watch TNA. And they always have the camera facing the entranceway. So that's why kind of felt like I said, TNA ish. But I like the intimate feel. I think that's what they need to go for. I think this is also the set and how it's laid out is also going to help ROH television when they start filming there as well. But I like this for collision. And I think I'm going to enjoy this run in Arlington up until all in. Yeah, and I hope every single one of these are sold out. And I hope that they're having to, and this is going to sound mean when I say this, but like, I hope they're having to like turn some people away because they are sold out, like make it feel like a hot ticket again. And really, like, if you can put together a string of like really, really great shows, all of a sudden you can turn Arlington into an AEW, you know, city. And you can book a bigger venue and all of a sudden now you're packing in three, four, five thousand. Yeah, because Texas has always been, you know, a good area for a w they always are some of their loudest crowds. And I heard for like, pretty much a year or two now for fans that have been wanting Texas to get a pay-per-view. And you know, Sean this week on Fightful Select reported that they're, you know, his sources are saying that AEW is looking at, you know, the Dallas Arlington Fort Worth area for a stadium show next year. You're right. You're 100% right that they have to kind of make it a hot ticket as they're there for this residency that's going to help them parlay into that announcement. If they are going to make that announcement because Tony Khan wants to deny stuff, he's like, I don't got my, I don't got my T's cross and my, and my eyes dot is Sean. Thanks. So let me deny this real quick in the most big way possible. But I think they got to make it a high ticket for this residency before they make that announcement for the stadium show. So at this crowd was really good tonight. I really, I really liked it. And it added a lot to a couple of the matches on the card. Yeah, a little echo-y as far as when people were talking. So sometimes it made a little difficult to hear. But you know, technical difficulties. You got plenty of what next six weeks or so, whatever it is. You got plenty of time to figure out the technical difficulties. And you got plenty of time to sit down and talk with the sports commission there in Dallas and get that stadium show locked up next year for sure. Although it's a busy time for Tony Khan right now. He's still trying to nail down the new TV right steel. He got training camp that's starting up for the Jaguars. So this man's about to be very, very busy. So hopefully he gets all his teas and eyes dotted and crossed here very, very soon. Again, get those super chats in. Get your hopper chats in guys. We're going to read every single one of them before we get off the air tonight. Let's dive into the action here SP three great opening contest. I thought here tonight Darby Allen against the Beast Mortos. Look man, Beast lived up to his name in this one. That is one big, tough, strong dude. That was a very, very clean, sick pop up Samoan drop that we saw on Darby Allen tonight that there were multiple spots in this match where like my eyes just bugged out of my head. And I'm like, holy shit. Because Darby was just taking the fight. Just he's like, give me all the stiff bumps. Yeah, slam my head against the steel, the steel ring steps. Give me a pop up Samoan drop. Chuck me into the ring ape. It doesn't matter. He he was taking every single one of them because he's he's just he's a sick bastard is what he is. And he doesn't care. He's got blood and guts coming up in four days. This was this was very, very hard hitting. This was a typical Darby Allen match. I was very impressed with beast. And every time I see beast in the ring, I'm very impressed with him. What was your take on our opening contest here? The artist formerly known as Black Toreuse is one of my favorite kind of luchadors out there because he's like the perfect base for all the high fliers. So I thought it was a very interesting match that they announced here with Darby facing him in Darby's official, you know, in ring singles return since anarchy in the arena. I thought that it was a very well done match up. My favorite spot you talk about the pop up Samoan drop. It had to be Beast Martell's specialty is signature gorilla press slam off the top rope because no one else. It seems like no one else in the business even wants to try that. But Beast Mortell's does it's so clean. It looks so good. And for someone like Darby, who's one of the best bumpers and sellers in the business today, it just he sold it perfectly. It was just so well done. I like Darby hitting the crucifix bomb off the top rope. Yeah, that was a clock and drop at the end. That was really good spot. This was a lot of fun. This was a fun opener to set the tone for the rest of the show. And I thought it was going to be like a great show after this opener here because I was like, you starting off really well. There's some other good matches on the card. So I really enjoyed this one. And I even enjoyed Darby's Darby's getting better on his promos as well with the post match with him, you know, talking about blood and guts, talking about the EVPs. He was saying a couple of stuff that he said in like interviews on podcasts and he was saying it here as far as the yum bucks not advertising and doing interviews like he is promoting AEW. And that AEW is his home. And I really liked him, you know, not only just not saying he's gonna like wait for blood and guts, but he starting the bill to all in for himself as well with him challenging Jack Perry for the TNT championship. And that makes a world of sense. Two of the pillars, the TNT title is something that's synonymous with Darby and his AEW run. So that makes a world of sense for Jack Perry versus Darby Allen at all. Yeah, I got to agree real quick here with a pile driver. The fact that he's able to do that standing press lamb on the top rope with a freaking minotaur. Like that like I appreciate Tony Shivani like on commentary talking about how can he breathe in that thing, man? I'm like, breathe, how can he see in that damn thing? Not only that, but get up on like the top rope. Like, okay, SB three. I'm afraid of heights. All right, so when I trained the short amount of time that I did the year and a half that I did it before I fucked up my back, like getting up on the top rope, that would I don't think I ever fully stood on the top rope, right? Like I was, I was definitely that. All right, I'm halfway up and I'm jumping it off, right? Like I never actually stood all the way up. This man stands up presses a dude with a minotaur head on and just jumps down a lens. Who does that shit? How is that a thing? How is that possible? But that's why he's doing what he's doing. You know, that's just so good. He's so good. I don't, I don't think he's ever going to get like the big push in a place like AEW, but he can have a good match with pretty much anybody, especially the high fliers and the smaller competitors. He's just a great base for their style and he just throws them all over the place. I thought this was probably his best match since coming to AEW outside of the the match he had with Ray Phoenix. I think that was also on collision. That was probably my favorite one that he's had so far, but this was second to that. We got a super chat in from Van Twinblade, always appreciated. He says, "It's Boy's Night." We wish Sky is speedy recovery. Yeah. God, I hope that's okay. We'll get to it here in a few minutes, but yeah, if you missed it, Sky Blue looked like she tweaked her knee on a dive to the outside in her match with Acarashita tonight. So hopefully she is okay. She could not finish that match. Also talking about Jack and Darby at all end, presumably, if that match gets made. Inside a cage or a hardcore match, which would you prefer their SP3? I would say like a cage match or a hardcore match. No, not the cage match because you're you're doing blood and guts. So I think that would be kind of convoluted things doing a cage match right after blood and guts. So a hardcore match up or a Darby specialty, a coffin match. Yeah, I would go. I would go with a coffin match for sure. I did like Darby's promo afterwards. I love him kind of like taking ownership of AEW and saying this really felt like, man, this just felt like flip a middle finger to the EVP night because it seemed like anybody who got on a microphone was talking shit about the young bucks. In fact, that they never show up the collision. They're always sending Brandon Cutler or they're sending a memo or an email or some BS like that. It's almost like they're the anonymous raw general or manager when it comes to when it comes to collision on Saturday nights. They ain't showing up to fight on a Saturday night. But like him diving in and really kind of being the the heart and soul of of team AEW for this blood and guts match on Wednesday. Like he he was needed like swerve makes sense. But Darby being in there with some of the other guys being out hurt right now, getting him back is big. Getting MJF back is big. Getting Britt Baker back has been big. It really feels like and this is the one I'm going to take from from Sean from Sean Ross. Like it feels like AEW over the last few weeks is really starting to get the the heart and soul of its roster back on television. And it's really, really great to see Darby Allen was badly needed for this this blood and guts match on Wednesday. Yeah, they're getting their identity back because I feel like the end of 2023 started a period of AEW having an identity crisis. They didn't know what they wanted to be. They leaned into like sports entertainment with the whole better than you Bay Bay storyline with MJF and Adam Cole. Then to start the year they kind of wanted to go all the way back to the like the original AEW with rankings and stuff like that. And they kind of had to find like the middle ground of honoring the older AEW, but you're not the same AEW that you were in 2019-2020. You're now five years old now. So you have to develop. You have to integrate these new stars. You have to bring back the old stars that kind of bring that AEW feeling back. And Sean and you were right like Darby coming back, Britt coming back, MJF being back. That's the that's the kind of the heart. So hang man on a page. Another one that's like day one AEW people. We got pack around a lot more than he was previously. Kenny Omega is like the one person where I'm like, I've really wished that he could come back, but he's gonna he's gonna be a little bit while longer. But I really like where AEW is at direction wise. My only nitpick and I do agree with you Darby was needed for blood and guts and to be against the elite with his history with, you know, Jack Perry and the young bugs, but really wish they didn't bring him back on a random 30 second BS that they did two weeks ago on Dynamite. And they just would have had him come back on Wednesday coming down from the Raptors. That's a more effective return than him beating up branding Cutler. Branding Cutler may be very talented. And I know there's probably somebody out there that likes him and cares about him. But me personally, I did not care that Darby Allen was beating up Brandi Cutler. Everybody beats a friend of Tyler. Everybody beats like he that's what he does best. He gets his ass kicked. Like that's that's what the man does. And that's his sole purpose in AEW is to be physically emotionally abused. And he does it so well that they do it to him every single time he's on television. Um, what do you think blood and guts this Wednesday could do for the acclaimed? Um, man, there's a lot of people who feel a lot of, let me just say this, they say everybody loves the acclaimed. Not everybody seems to love the acclaimed nowadays. There are a lot of people that I see on social media who are, I don't know, they feel the acclaimed or stale. They're sick of the acclaimed act, right? And you had daddy ass backstage after this opening match up tonight. Telling his, his guys, look, it's time to nut up or shut up. Be the best wrestler in the world. Be a badass. We got to go handle business. It's not about being a rapper. It's not about, you know, scissoring and all that stuff anymore. It's time to get serious. Could the and yes, Apollo is right. Like the crowds love them. The live crowds love the acclaimed. The internet crowd, not so much. So it's a very interesting dynamic and take that with a grain of salt because we know the internet tends to swing more negative than positive. We've been down this road with, you know, MJF at the end of 2023. Like I was saying before, like they were every time he came out in the building, he was getting the biggest pop he sounded. If you just watched the show, he looks like he was the top babyface. But then when you read online, there was a lot of people that were negative about that run. So it's not always a direct correlation to what, you know, the internet fan. Passion, drive and patience. The formula for winning championships is also what keeps your ride or die alive. eBay Motors has everything you need to maintain your vehicle and level it up to peak performance. Superchargers, roof racks, exhaust kits, LED headlights and more. Whether you're into speed, power or style, eBay Motors has you covered. 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It's feeling and what the actual crowds are feeling and I agree, the acclaim are still over with the live crowds. But to me, personally, they feel like a very stale act, like a lot of the acts that were over, that got over in 2022, they've evolved. And I don't think that the acclaim has evolved. And my main gripe against the acclaim and I kind of zeroed in on it because I was quite annoyed that they got added to the blood and guts matchup to be fairly honest with you. I've been talking for weeks that I was like, oh, it could be this person. It could be that person just to avoid it not being the acclaimed in this blood and guts matchup. But they're in it now. And my issue has been with the acclaim is that they are not being, you know, this feud with the young books, they are not being elevated to be, you know, one of the top tag teams in AEW again. They feel like they have dragged the young books and the whole elite storyline down to the mid card. Like it feels like that. And it feels like it's back to back feuds for the acclaim where they did not, you know, go up to where their opponents or rivals were at. They drug them down lower down the card and into the mid card. They did that with Bullet Club Gold earlier in the year. And now they're doing it with the young books in the entire elite angle to me. But hey, they're in the matchup. And I think that it could do some good for them to show a different side of themselves and to evolve within our blood and guts. I was going to say, because like, could this be the kind of matchup that creates like, sort of a palate cleanser when it comes to them to show that aggressive, that serious side, to show how good these guys are. Again, I mean, to maybe create one of those, those memorable spots, you know, like inside of blood and guts that that just live like rent-free in our head, like, you know, Angelo Parker hanging upside down, like he was just, you know, skinned in predator too, you know, kind of a situation, you know, those kind of spots that just live rent-free in our heads. Could that, could that kind of be something that this match creates an opportunity for them to do? Yeah, you could see, like Max Casser doing like his elbow drop off the, off the cage or something like that, or Anthony Bowens, you know, spreading and dripping blood all over the place, having a gutsy performance. I think that, you know, Anthony Bowens is the guy that I think is going to be the star out of the two, because I think that Max Casser's social media game is a little too problematic. But Anthony Bowens is very talented. He has been a very underrated in-ring performer for years. He's a good talker as well. When he gets fired up, he can do that fired up babyface promo, and he always does that for the acclaim. And I liked the little segment with Daddy Ass kind of telling them to get serious, because I think that Anthony Bowens will take that to heart, and he will show a different side of himself in this matchup. I'm just like, I'm just a little, I'm a little worried about that addition in this matchup. We'll see if they can come through and elevate themselves within blood and guts. And I mean, I'm thankful that one of the promos on this show made me brief a sigh of relief, because I honestly thought they were going to wait to do acclaimed and bucks for the tag team titles until all in. But thankfully, we got some good news on this show. And we'll get to that in just a second. Delayed grads asking, turn the acclaimed heel again, Max Casser is a natural heel. Only problem with that is Anthony Bowens is a natural babyface. So it's a very interesting dynamic. If anything, I'd say split them up. But dang, then you're basically leaving two tag teams at that point in the game. Like, I'm just sitting here. I'm like, Oh, you know, really, you're the motor city machine guys. They're sitting right there. There's old young vests. They're out there. I'm just saying, the same. Hey, you missed out on the motor city machine gun sweepstakes. So go in, go all in on the G. Y. B. So sweet sex, sir. We were supposed to get her a sheet of versus sky blue tonight. Unfortunately, early on in this match, like right as we went to the commercial break, her care, she did a crossbody onto the outside and it looked like Sky's knee buckled. Also, look like she could have hurt her elbow or her head like it was hard to tell what exactly she hurt on impact. But it did believe turned out to be I believe Tony Khan said it was her ankle that she ended up hurting. So that's unfortunate. Man, this just sucks. She was not able to continue the match halted right there. This is something I'm really, I was really looking forward to. I always love seeing her. She though when she's going and sky blue is somebody who continues to get better and better every single time she's out there. So, you know, best wishes there. Thankfully, SP three, we're going to be getting more sheet of very, very soon, because we saw her later on where she said, I'm pissed off. I wanted to fight tonight. I want to fight and I want to fight. Oh, Britt Baker, because hello, you want a shot at the TBS championship? Get in line, Miss DMD. And yeah, we're going to get that match on Wednesday. So, as if blood and guts wasn't enough for me to tune in, Sheeda versus Britt Baker and Britt's return match since coming back from injury, sign me the hell up. Let's go on fire it up. Let's get the Wednesday, please. I thought this was one of her car. She does best promos. Like she, she, she's been really working on her English. And this was really well done. It was not Mike the best. And like you said, they'll figure out those type of issues. But yeah, I thought that she, she performed this promo very well. And it got me excited for Britt and Sheeda. I still remember their match up back in. I think it was 2020. I think it was during the Alana tapings when they were taping out of QT, Marcell's gym, where she busted Britt's nose. So I like her bringing that up. You also have the history that her car, she does a year-long run with the AEW Women's World Championship was ended by Dr. Britt Baker, DMD. So they have so much history together. That's the perfect person for Britt to have her in-ring return against and get a big win before she eventually challenges Mercedes Monet for the TBS championship at all. Make sure to get those super chats in, get those humper chats in guys. That is the only guaranteed way to get your comment read on the air tonight. Like I said, Drew is going to make sure I read every single one of them before we get off the air tonight. What do we make of Lance Archer who we see backstage and he is just beating the hell out of some random dudes. I loved the guy who walked in at the end like, Oh, I'm not supposed to be here. Oh, and then gets to steal door. Oh, that would be me. That would be like, I'm not even supposed to be here right now. Like that would be me and I just walk into my day off. Dude got fired on his day off. How's that even happen? But Lance Archer beats the hell out of these dudes. And then says, I think people forgot who the murder hawk is. Everybody dies. Time to remember time for people to remember who the hell I am. And honestly, my first reaction was, well, hot damn, it's great that Tony Khan remembered who the hell you are because you have been on you have been a W for four years now at this point. And does this man outside of the one time he beat John Moxley for the IWGP United States championship and the Texas tornado death match or whatever it was. Does he have another big win outside of that? Because it feels like he has just taken on the role of like, here's this big unstoppable monster. Oh, he lost again. Like, oh, he lost again. Oh, he lost. Lance Archer is Cain in the 2010s. He is Cain in the 2010s of a w it's it's sad because he there was it was people like me back in 2020 that thought he should have been the first ever TNT champion that he should have beat Cody in that tournament and been the first TNT champion. They've had other times where they build them up for these big title matches, whether it be with Moxley or hangman Adam Page and he always puts on good performance. But I don't see them ever kind of pushing him to where he needs to be. I thought he's been on bring of honor as of late teaming up with the righteous in the trio's division and he's done well there. But being Kate always talk about they could be doing more with Lance Archer as a single star because ROH lacks singles talent. That's why we always need a guest star from the AEW roster to go against the floor of the Ring of Honor World Championship, Roger Strong. Like you have Lance Archer there every single week. Why not give him a couple of singles matches and heat him up to verse Mark Briscoe at a pay-per-view. That can also work. But I don't think they're ever going to push him that way. And I only think that he got this segment for him to probably get a squash win next week to set him up to lose to a baby face on their way to all in. And he's only being used here because they're in Texas and he's a Texan. Yep. Sounds about right. We had Tony Nice and Ray Phoenix on the show tonight. Tony Nice getting his hands on a microphone calls the audience fat. I resemble that remark. Thank you for that. But says they don't have any real athletes to look up to and that's why they're they're packing on the pounds. Takes a little cheap shot at the Texas Rangers. Man, this match was a lot of fun. Ray Phoenix just continues to be one of the just the more impressive performers that not only AEW has but just period. This was a mismatch in the chops department when they started that back and forth early on. And like as Jack does Tony is like I don't know if Lee like he needs to cup his hand better but the sound effects just weren't hitting. And then it doesn't matter the fact that the Phoenix comes in over the top of it. And it just sounds like a shotgun shell every single time that that man just lays it in. It was incredible to watch. But Nice got a chance to really showcase his athleticism a beautiful 450 splash. Ray Phoenix though overcomes the numbers games does the walks the type rope excuse me top rope kicks the man frog splash for the win. Again I had I had fun with this one. It was nice to see Tony get a chance to kind of shine here. And anytime Ray is on TV I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hate it. This was the match that really surprised me because when I saw the graphic for Tony needs versus Ray Phoenix I was like that'd probably be like a quick late three minute matchup. Ray Phoenix gets the win. But they gave him some time that I think they went through a commercial break. You had the involvement of Smart Mark Sterling and him getting punted in the head was a part of the whole match up. And then they they really showed off some strong chemistry with one another. They was going at it. The little reversal sequence into the the super kick from Ray Phoenix and the whole finishing stretch was really well done. Ray Phoenix with the pun off the head. And it's how quick he got up to the top rope for that frog splash. And that frog splash was it made Eddie Guerrero smile from from the heavens. He was like that's me. He's like he like abducted Ray Phoenix's body had hit that frog splash. Eddie Guerrero s it was so beautiful. So great. I really like them showcasing Ray Phoenix here. I would have liked this more if it was premium premier athletes versus the Lucha Bros. Because I didn't you know they you had the Lucha Bros get the win on rampage against private party. Maybe Penta could have make the trip to Arlington here. We got worldwide travel issues going on especially in the wrestling world. So maybe that is something to do with it. But I want to see the Lucha Bros back in the tag team division because then we'll have three teams. Rick will have three teams instead of two. Now, what's the latest with Penta's contract situation because wasn't his supposedly up soon? His is up in August or September. Okay. So if I'm if I'm if I may E. W. I give him a big match on all in and be like, hey, look, yeah, we love you. We love you. Yeah, you're great. You're great. We love you. We love you, baby. We don't we don't want you to go anywhere. One of the three tag teams that they currently have. Well, we have three right now. We're talking about if they split up the claim. That's why we're saying that they dropped out of two. But anyway, so we have three right now. We saw one of the three in FTR. They came out to talk to to Tony Shivani. And I guess they had a little bit more time than what they were originally going to be going to be getting tonight. That's what cash Wheeler alluded to. And that led cash. Do something he's been wanting to do for a little bit and get get some stuff off of his chest and talked about not directly but indirectly about his arrest last year, which was a road rage incident where he was accused of, I believe, brandishing a firearm on the highway at a driver and cutting them off and doing all those other things. Those charges have since been dropped. I believe the case was dismissed. So there's no more legal problems for for cash Wheeler. But he was very open and honest saying, hey, look, man, the last year, it has been a lot of stress. It has been not a fun time for me personally outside of the ring. And this has always been my escape. And you know, like this is coming here and being able to perform for you guys and and having you guys continue to be behind us was was very, very big for cash. And then he turned around and he parlayed that into very similar to Darby. And Darby talking about earlier how, you know, I would rather be here getting kicked in the face than being a bagger or whatever the heck it was that he was doing before he started doing this. And, you know, again, you get one of these we love professional wrestling promos from FTR and how Dax when he got on the mic talked about how disappointed he was over the six weeks that he was recovering from his hematoma saying, look, I want the young bucks to elevate this tag team division and they did not they didn't even defend the damn titles while they were out. So they turned, you know, say this is how much pro wrestling means to us and parlayed that into fuck the young bucks, basically, basically, basically. I enjoyed this promo. I thought we got like a real glimpse into the real people and man, I said, I said it last week about last week's collision. Cash Wheeler, whatever he did, whoever he, he, um, eight during his six weeks off to get his arms like that. Oh, my God, he, he is jacked to the gills. He ate the damn dumbbells is what he did. Like he stopped lifting him. And he just, he just ingested them, and he just put it in and he's looking jacked to the gills. I like, you know, him addressing the whole, you know, legal issues that he had because, you know, always when I first heard the story, I was like, Oh, why would he do something like that? So I understand him, you know, coming out and saying like, yeah, I didn't do any of that. That was BS. I'm past that now. And then Dax Hardwood talking about the big moments that they had in 2022, 2023, the feud with the press goes, the 58 minute matchup with bully club gold, winning the tag team championships, holding four different heavyweight tag team title titles. And now they're going to start their road back to the tag team titles next week. And they want to win the titles at all in. This is why I said before, I want the lucha bros to start getting some wins as well, because I agree with humble with the chat. I do not want to see a fifth time of FTR in the young books when we just got that in April, I'm sorry. And we got that last year at all in, the you you are kind of trying to kind of kind of milk this cow dry, don't milk this cow dry, separate, bring some time in between when these two teams are going at it. And I would love it to be a three way matchup with the lucha bros, the three greatest teams in AEW history going at it, the lucha bros, the young bucks and FTR. I think that's a much more interesting matchup that will sell some tickets than just doing another round of FTR and the young bucks. I think it's too soon to go back to that. Well, I do want to see FTR in that tag team title scene because they're always make it feel like the most important title. I think the young bucks are playing very effective heels, but you got to throw in the lucha bros in there, in my opinion, to make this a fresher match up than just another round of FTR in the box. Yeah, that was one of the going to be my next question is this TK going back to the well one too many times. It feels very new day usos esque, right? Like where it's like you just continuously going back to that because frankly, we don't have any other options. And it's like, okay, well, let's start creating other options. And this is a drawback to having tag team titles and trios titles, because now you're, you know, you got teams like House of Black, which could be in the tag team title hunt, you have the guns who have really, really won me over since joining Bullet Club Gold, right? Like this, this was a team that I could give two shits about honestly before they joined Bullet Club Gold. And now I'm sitting here, I'm like, holy shit, these guys are over. And I like them. What is going on? We'll talk about that match coming up, obviously. But yeah, like you have talented tag teams, but it's like they're split. And there's not enough, there's not enough trios and tag teams to cover all the divisions. And it just feels like this is the only direction that TK can go for a big major show is like, okay, well, yeah, let's do Young Box versus FTR again, which, and look, we can sit here and we can over analyze and we say, do we really need that for a fifth time, but come Wembley, when that match is going on, we're going to be sitting here going, damn, this is freaking awesome. These guys are great. Yeah, I am one of the rare fans that have enjoyed every, every young bucks in FTR match up. I enjoyed the ladder match. I enjoyed Wembley last year. I think their best match was the match up. I believe it was in Philly, or Philly or Boston in 2022 when they fought for the. What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading accounting, consulting and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. 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I even enjoyed the pandemic matchup at full gear 2020. So no, I at the end of the matchup, when the bell rings a second time, I will probably say, yeah, I enjoyed that matchup too, but I don't think we needed this close after the last time they faced. And I think it's more interesting if you throw a third team in there. I saw people saying maybe the grizzle young vets because it's going to be in the UK and they can get that UK pop. I wouldn't mind that either, but I feel like the LUTRA bros are probably the third best tag team in AEW history. So throwing them in there and also helping pen to make a decision and be like, hey, we like you. We like you. We elevate you. We think you're one of the best tag teams in the world with your brother. You get to stick around with your brother and AEW needs to not only have tag teams, but utilize them better. So utilize the one of the best tag teams in the world, the LUTRA bros, who haven't really been utilized to their, to their peak potential as of late. So I think that they, that, that should be the direction that they go instead of just buying another tag team or trying to outbid WWE for most city machine guns, elevate, depend on Ray Phoenix. Why don't make sure to get those super chats and get your humper chats in guys. The only way to guarantee you get your comment read on the show, just like just Ricardo. Appreciate it says hi guys at work. Love you see you guys later tonight. Well, we appreciate you stopping by for just a quick moment and hope you enjoy on your, you know, rewatch this later. Do us a favor, though, if you're checking out the show right now, make sure to engage with us again. Like I said, get your super chats in, get your humper chats in, get your regular chats in. We'll bring a few of those into play as well. 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And even that really wasn't working at the end because all it took was this big monster to throw an elbow out there and just slam him into the ground. Roddy was bumping his ass off in this matchup. These guys really told the story in there. They made this match work. I understand if this isn't your cup of tea. I try to find enjoyment in everything. This isn't normally my cup of tea either, but there was just something about the way that ECE was no selling every blow that Roddy threw his way. That was making me crack up throughout the entirety of this. Roddy does end up getting the win with the undisputed kingdom. Hey, there's another tag team you could elevate and throw into the, into the mix for AEW tag team champions, by the way. Roddy hits a low blow, hits the knee for the win. I know this is, this is your shit. SB three, you enjoyed this one. Hey, I'm a huge fan of ECE and no, he's not the guy that he was back in 2017, 2018, or even 2015, 10 years ago, he was, he was probably one of the like instant when he's in a matchup, he's going to give you an banger. Now it's kind of like, it depends on the person he's going against, but they chose the right person for him to go against here with Roderick Strong. Roderick Strong sold the ECE character very well, where ECE does try to go to into doing these hard hitting matches and trading for our arms or chops with them. And Roddy tried it for a while. Roddy's has one of the best chops in the game. And then ECE just said, Nope, I'm just going to back you into the corner. I'm going to grab onto both sides of the rope and I'm just going to dare you to keep hitting me. And Roderick got scared at one point. He gets out of the ropes. He's like, no, I don't want to do it. And then ECE is like, Nope, hit me. Hit me. Hit him. It's so great. He was just so entertaining. And you could see his chest getting red. You could see ECE chest getting red. But ECE still knows that like ECE does the perfect video game boss selling, where he like, it takes, it takes multiple shots. It takes some of your biggest shots. And all he goes down is just like a little meter. It's just a little meter. It's like slightly, slightly affected after you hit him with multiple big shots. And I even like the finish to the match up with them protecting ECE here with the distraction from undisputed kingdom, the low blow, the rising knee strike, which I don't know if Roddy should be using that rising knee strike after what we got the news earlier in the day. Dalton Castle will be out the rest of the year after getting cateau knacked last week from that rising knee strike. But hey, it's effective. It puts someone out. I hope Roddy Roddy mentions that using in storyline be like, hey, that rising knee strike is the KO. It took out Dalton Castle for the rest of the year. So that's how I'm going to beat Mark Briscoe at depth before dishonor. But this was a really, really good matchup, a really hard hitting intense matchup. And it fit the what ECE is. And I really like their chemistry together here. Mark Briscoe and Kyle O'Reilly run down to help ECE and save him from a post match attack. So that storyline is obviously going to continue here for a little while longer. Real quick, got to hear a quick message from our good friend Sean Rossapp. Is your sex life stuck in developmental? Well, get ready for a call up with bluechoo.com and the code FIFIL. Same active ingredients as Viagra and Cialis. But how about this? No awkward in-person visits, no trips to the pharmacy, it's shipped straight to your door in a discreet package. But let me tell you, if your package is not going to be discreet, maybe use bluechoo and the code FIFIL helps to give you that confidence, that performance to take you straight to the main event, if you know what I'm saying. 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Neither one of those two gentlemen, if you couldn't tell, were hologram in the ring tonight. Coming down, giving me some some kickass vibes with how he was, how the mask looks, the get up and everything was looking tonight. But I'll tell you what, dude special. He's got some skills, obviously athleticism. He flies around with ease. He had some some some unique like he hit like a backwards head scissor takedown early on in this matchup against Gringo Loco, who I thought was a great first opponent for him, an excellent base to allow him to do the moves that that he wanted to showcase ends up getting the win with a spinning blue thunder bomb, which, you know, just straight to my heart, somebody winning a match with a blue thunder bomb. Yeah, look, I don't know. He got the crowd behind him toward the end here. I don't know what this character is. I don't know what he's supposed to be. I'm intrigued though. I'm interested to see where it goes from here. I ultimately, I don't know how successful it's going to be. But according to body slam, you know, dot net. And this was something that Sean talked about on Fightful Select as well, just $5. This is a character that's been in the works. At least it's been an idea, a thought for for a year at this point. We finally get the debut tonight. What were your thoughts? Oh, this was a lot of fun. This was just a blast to watch. Hologram immediately comes out and does freaking a stand at a freaking, a figure foot stand on Gringo Loco shoulders. And you're absolutely right that Gringo Loco was the perfect opponent for a high flyer like Hologram here. He just came out. He was really fast and Gringo Loco hitting some nice moves of his own, being the base god that he is. This was the perfect type of matchup for Hologram to highlight what he was really good at, which he's really fast paced in the ring. And he has innovative moves. He does the high flying very well and smooth in the ring. And that finisher, you're underselling it by saying it's a blue thunder bomb. No, it's an airplane spin into a blue thunder ball. Like, I never see that. I was like, that was great. And then they gave it a name at the end of the portal, the portal bomb. And I was like, yeah, that was right. That was nice. That was a nice touch. This was a good introduction for Hologram. Now I'm interested to see what the follow up is. Like, how is he going to be used? Is he just going to be used like the other luchadors that we have? You know, it was, it was good to see, you know, someone like commander when he first came in, and he's doing the rope walk spots, but the rope walk squad kind of became a crutch for him that he always wanted to use. And then eventually he just started losing to too many people that it wasn't as interesting again. So I hope that they can use, you know, Hologram in a better way, since they did the vignettes to introduce him. Hopefully they can give him a strong push, especially during this summer series. And he can be a character that you can see, go up the card and face like major stars, like your wool off sprays. Eventually, when Ricochet comes into AEW, maybe he's another one that they can have face Hologram. I want to see him against these high fliers on the upper mid card to main event, like a pack. People like that. So we can see what he can do against kind of the best wrestlers in the world on this roster. Man, Hologram and Prince Puma just throwing down. Okay, that's my jam. That's my jam. I know what your jam is. Any match that has thunderosa in it, we saw her against Deanna Perrasso tonight in a lumberjack match. I appreciate them calling it a lumberjack match and not a lumberjill match. Anywho, a lot of the ladies from the AEW Women's Division and Ring of Honor surrounding the ring. And if I'm going to be nitpicky about this, because anytime Deanna and Thunder Rosa are in the ring together, it's going to be a good time. These two have really, really good chemistry with one another. And I thought that this match was a good one tonight. There was a lot of focus on the lumberjacks themselves in this match, which I can appreciate. Like, there's a lot you're trying to accomplish in this one. I'm kind of like 95% should be a focus on what's happening inside the ring. But they were trying to establish some things and set some stuff up on the outside. So I can kind of appreciate that as well. And especially if it leads to a more prominent role for Tyya Valkyrie, who who has the biggest role of any of the lumberjacks on the outside, where she chucked the turnbuckle, a turnbuckle in to Deanna Perrasso to allow her to crack Thunder Rosa over the head and get the win with this. I don't know if I've ever seen a turnbuckle be used in a match before. I can't remember one. My memory is nowhere near as good as yours. So I like seeing new shit. I thought this was a good match. Maybe they were trying to do a little too much with it. But at the same time, I appreciate the effort into it. And hopefully this leads to bigger things for Tyya on AEW TV, because she's too damn good to not be utilized. I thought this match was solid, but I was very confused when you see the finish. Because I thought the point of this Lumberjack match is you got Thunder Rosa in Texas, you give her a win here against Deanna Perrasso, then it's a 2-2 series. You could further push this feud if you want to continue it, or you can end it there with the babyface going over. It was just like, why would you do this match up if Deanna is going to win a third straight match up against Thunder Rosa? Also, why are you going to do this match up? And it's not as good as the NoDQ match. NoDQ match was very good to me. And it had one of my favorite spots of the year with Thunder Rosa doing that table walk up as a drop kick into the corner. Like that was a fun match up that felt like more of a blow off than this did with the finish. It feels like this feud is going to continue now with Deanna aligning with Taya Valkyrie. That I will say is fun. It's two former and two of the greatest TNA knockout world champions coming together under the AEW umbrella going up against Thunder Rosa, who has been seemingly kind of aligning with kind of the lower card women like your Rachel Hellerring, like Lady Frost. She had a moment with on the outside. So maybe we can get more of a prominent role for your Rachel Hellerring and Lady Frost who are both very talented, especially Lady Frost. She's one of my favorites. Anytime she gets a match up, she stands out in a big way. So I wouldn't mind her teaming up with Thunder Rosa and going at Taya and Deanna. I like like what the in a vacuum. This was well, this was done good because I do want to see what they're going to do with Taya and Deanna together. But I have other lingering questions coming out of this. So did you really need to do this? And did you really need to have Thunder Rosa lose in Texas? You get the best reaction possible when you have Thunder Rosa win in Texas. But I can also acknowledge the fact that that's probably my Thunder Rosa bias. And I never liked seeing her lose. Yeah. That's totally fair. Look, we all have people we see through rose color glasses. And we have to calmly assess and go, OK, we all have that one person. But anyway, yeah, maybe it's not going to be Deanna and and Thunder Rosa that continue. Maybe they decide to push Thunder Rosa and Taya now. So maybe that was more of the start for that feud. But then you're kind of ending Thunder Rosa and Deanna on a little bit of a fizzle. But I guess you could read, like I said, I don't know, to be continued. I guess we'll see how we'll see what the follow up is to that. But yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Hopefully we get some more next week. Finally, we get to our main event tonight. It was for the Trios at championships that the Bang Bang Gang had, but they were stripped. It goes for some reason. They didn't want to do the free bird rule, whatever. It sets up this match, the patriarchy, the Bang Bang Gang. And like I said, off at the top of the show, Christian Cage is just the perfect heel. He is the perfect heel from wrestling in a turtleneck, which in and of itself is annoying. But it's also brilliant. He has all his sons do all of the dirty work. And he takes all of the credit, just the opening part of the matchup where he teases getting in there early and juices white hot and they're chanting for juice. They want to see juice and Christian lock up and he dances around and all of a sudden he just kind of like fades back and he like, Oh, no tags in kill switch and kill switch comes in and just, you know, get gets that kind of reaction. But you know, all throughout the match, like everything that this guy does, if you just watch him, it is the most just despicable way to wrestle a match. But it tells a brilliant story every single time that he does it everything. Everything that Christian Cage does has purpose and it's with character when he's when he's in a match. He's very, very good at what he does. His timing, his pacing, you can you can tell his his fingerprints are all over the matches that he lays out. And that was that was kind of the thing that I saw from this matchup. I can tell that Christian had a hand and laying this matchup out because like you said, he was the best heel possible in this matchup. He's very sneaky. He's conniving. He cheats at the right time. He knows where the referee is going to be to get away with different stuff. He's just so good. Yeah, this was a good matchup. I was really impressed with Juice Robinson, who like six, six, seven years ago, I was telling people, yo, Juice Robinson, you might not be watching New Japan, but Juice Robinson is one of the best baby faces in the business. He's very underrated. So to see him now in this bullet club gold, bang, bang, gang style, wild man character, but he's still a great baby face and had this Arlington crowd behind him when he made the hot tag and he's doing the juice, Juice, Juice, he just has an offense that the crowd can get behind and very well done. Colting gun is probably one of the most improved wrestlers on the entire AEW roster. And he just screams. He is his father's son. He is Billy Gunn in 1994, 1995, the way he moves in the ring, the way he does splashes, the way he shows his off his athleticism with the drop kicks and stuff. He's so, so much of Billy Gunn, a young Billy Gunn in that ring. He's very well, well established. Austin Gunn is more of like the charismatic of the team of the duo with them. So he doesn't have the same athletic ability and the same improvement that I've been seeing from Colton in the ring, but he kind of makes up for that. He's the road dog. He's the road dog. Yeah, he very much is the road dog up there, dude. Oh, for sure. But he had the cell of the match for me, though, when he ran full steam into the corner and got basically heated up in the end. And then this man just completely launched himself into the turnbuckle like face first and then flew to the outside. I'm like, God damn, Austin, Jesus, that hurt me just watching it. But he committed to it 100%. And like, you want to talk about FTR looking jacked? Like, holy shit, Austin is really like putting on some bulk as well. These two guys are putting in work and it is noticeable. Again, just a couple of years ago, these guys were the bathroom break match for me. Like, I could not care less about the guns. And now I'm sitting here, I'm like, okay, these guys got something. They got me now. They got the crowd behind them. And then, you know, the them being a part of the man, when they put them with with JY when he came in, and I'm just like, okay. I know so many people. I know so many people that were down on that are like, weren't sure about that. I was not one of them. I knew that was the best move for them. I was like, they are heels JY and Juice Robinson. They are too entertaining that people. Everyone has their own idea of wealth. Our BOK Financial Wealth Management team is here to help make yours a reality. BOK Financial is a trademark of BOKF NA, member FDIC, equal housing lender. What if you could have a career where the opportunities are as fast as our nation, where it's not about mission statements, but a shared mission? 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I missed that at first because the camera angle was like perfectly lined up in sync, which it was a bad camera angle for the spot because all of a sudden I just see Bryce in between them like, why is Bryce trying to break these dudes up? It wasn't until the replay where I saw that Christian actually reached in and pulled Bryce in to allow Mama Wayne to spray the hairspray and allow Christian to get the win. If anybody was confused, I wrote down a whole note. I'm like, what the is Bryce doing in this? This whole ending was a clusterfuck. Then I look at it and I'm like, oh, no, he got pulled in. I'm like, all right, let's just scratch all that out. I had something I was going to complain about. I'm glad I didn't tweet it out because I want to look like an idiot, but regardless, I just something I missed. Glad I saw it on the replay, but yeah, I'm just it might be ending afterwards. Yeah. I'm just still pissed off at them stripping them up the titles because it makes no sense. It makes no sense now. You should have just had juice be the replacement and then the first match that they defend the titles with the replacement, they lose the titles to the patriarchy. That's more of a story that makes sense to me than stripping them of the titles for no reason only to put them in a title match the very next week. That is just oh my god. I had people in the comments for our ROA review because Kate made me realize that these are not the AEW Trio championship. The years are the AEW unified Trio championships, meaning that the ROA six man tag team titles are a part of this, meaning that you had the ROA tag team titles being defended by one guy last year only to have the ROA six man tag team titles not be able to be defended because JY is art and you strip them of the titles. It makes no sense. So I'm not going to get myself upset. I'm not going to do a rant like I did on Thursday. No, I have people in the comments who said I look like I was going to have a heart attack. I'm not going to annoy myself, even though Christopher Daniels is the worst authority figure in a business that has Adam Pierce as an authority figure. It's just it just doesn't make any sense. Like the patriarchy should have beat the bang bang gang as the champions and become the new champions instead of making it vacant champions only to make new champions the very next week. It makes no sense. Calm down, you're going to give yourself an aneurysm. You know, like, yeah, no, it was a move that didn't make any sense to me. Like, this is something that, you know, Kresta Iridian and myself, we talked about it's like, when juice came back and you had JY who's going to be competing in the Owen heart, well, it's like, okay, well, yeah, just just use the free bird rule and let let juice defend the trio's titles since Jay is going to be doing his single stuff. And it's problem solved. It just felt like there was an easy solution there. And you just decided to take the convoluted route just for the hell of regardless. We got new trio's champions. Again, my favorite part of this, though, was much like when Lucha Sora excuse me, kill switch won the TNT championship and Christian never let him touch it. This was very similar tonight where Christian after he at least he got the pinfall victory this time tainted as it was. He grabs all three trios titles and he is holding him high up again up in the air, not letting kill switch, touch him, not letting Nick Wayne touch him. I want this man to come out now next week with one around his waist, one on both shoulders, just walking out, holding all three of the trio's championships, the titles that he gave to his family that he's holding on to for himself. And I want him. I want him to give a title to Nick Wayne and then have Mother Wayne hold kill switches. Don't let go switch on the title. That's the gimmick. Don't let him kill switch, hold the title. What did we make of the lights flickering there at the end? I think that was House of Black because they did say they were going to do their direction to all in. So I thought at the end they would do the lights out and then they would show up and attack the patriarchy because we didn't get a follow up for that tease last week. But I guess the flicker was them indicating that they are coming for the patriarchy now that they are trio champions. We're right here. We're right here. All right. Well, that's the show, guys. We appreciate everybody who chimed in in the chat who sent in a super chat or a humper chat sp3. What you got going on? Where can they find your stuff? True Heel Heat, all that good stuff. You can follow me on the Twitter machine at True Heel sp3. I think the only note that we missed on was the Dustin Rode, Vaughn Eric's segment, which was very wholesome, very touching. I want to see what they do with, since they're going to, we heard from the Vaughn Eric's on their podcast that they're going to be with AWROH while they're in Arlington. So I'm interested to see if they can get in the mix for this trio's division because I will say before Christopher Daniels proved himself to be the worst authority figure last week. The collision was a good place where they were re-establishing the trio's division as his own division with teams kind of popping up patriarchy, House of Black, Bang Bang Gang. And now we can have Dustin and the Vaughn Eric. So I think that would be a nice addition as well. But yeah, follow me on the Twitter machine at True Heel sp3. True Heel Heat YouTube channel. We did our flagship podcast earlier today. So go over and check that out. We had great discussions talking about who's winning the free agency war of 2024 between WWE and AEW with the potential signing of Motor City machine guns, the WWE. 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