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So you can get big flavors and big savings, King Super's, fresh for everyone. Fuel restrictions apply. Everybody welcome to Beyond the Bell. I'm Andrew Zarin. I'm joined by a remote rich Stambolian. What's going on, Rich? I am the most involved. I'm on a different player with you. I'm on a different planet today. How about you? How are you doing? I am doing great big weekend for professional wrestling, big weekend for AEW. Our producer, MG, I'm going to task you with something right now. You are going to have to do all the switching and you're going to have to listen and you're going to have to pay attention and you're going to have to have to hit the buttons perfectly. All right, so let's do this. Go to Rich. Switch to Rich right now. There you go. Now back to me. There you go. Okay. Thank you. I did it. His fingers are working for that. That's a big note for me, dog. His fingers are working. His fingers are staying. Oh, man, we are doing the show remote. I'm headed to the US Open after this. Yeah, you got a couple of matches today. I got a couple matches. I'm playing one of these. I'm going to do one of those. Can you explain tennis scoring to me? Because I have a zero concept. There's no, there's no rhyme or reason. They just make up the numbers, right? That's how it works. So sometimes it's 15. Sometimes it's 45. Sometimes it's 30. Sometimes it's zero. Yeah. They just make it up as they go along. Isn't that how it works? I have no idea. That's why I asked it. Like because it's like 15 love. There's a love in there somewhere. I'm also I'm also getting sick. That's also a problem I have. Well, you got that that that boat nastiness in you. Dude, I was on a cruise. I have to tell you, they're disgusting cruises. All right. They're gross. They're gross. What cruises? Yeah, gross. When was the last time you went on a cruise? 2007. Wow. So like almost 20 years ago, almost 20 years ago. Yeah, they're gross. I'm not a fan of it, but I did it. I did. I had a beautiful room. I got a suite. It was beautiful, but too many people, too many. I saw how how the world really is. A lot of grossness. I really thought you were going to jump off the boat because at one point, I won't pull the curtain back a little bit at one point. I'm getting texts from this guy on his cruise going. I can't deal with this anymore. This is where I am and you're at like the top of the ship. And I was like, yeah, this is it. And I wonder if he's I wonder if he's tempted to do the old big sploosh. I was going to go swimming with the sharks. But we had a we had a it was a good time. It was a lot of fun. Let's talk about all in big weekend for professional wrestling. I thought it was a really good show. I enjoyed all of it. Oh, yeah. A top to bottom really fantastic pro wrestling show, especially when you add in that zero hour. You know, it was long. You know, that they had a two hour pre show, which you saw them changing. It felt like a big sport feel. They did it properly. I thought a lot of production advances this year over last. Some issues, but you could see the changes happening. The crowd was hot. They enjoyed everything. You know, 55,000 people probably not building last year. I don't even know what that number was anymore. It's been revised a few times, but let's say 75. Let's say 80. Yeah. Um, you know, a lot of criticism online about look, they couldn't even draw their 30,000 people less. And I keep and first of all, yeah, who cares? But do we not remember that five years ago? The task of having 10,000 people in a building for a professional wrestling show was unheard of. It was not happening. The prior to that, I mean, the last time we had anybody that in North America, I mean, listen, granted, this is not North America, right? We're in the UK, but yeah, for somebody outside of WWE to draw like this has never happened. It has never happened in the history of wrestling. You know, you could talk about some stuff that WCW did. You could talk about some stuff that that world class did, but never to this level. Nobody has ever been able to do it to this level. And, you know, you got to give them kudos on this. And it's just, it's fascinating to me that people and also, what are you doing? Are you watching to see curtained off sections? Are you watching to see wrestling? You know, you got to pick it. People love to hate watch and it's an unfortunate byproduct of the pro wrestling business is, you know, for every one positive thing. And you've been on the receiving end of this for every one positive thing somebody says or mentions 45 people will come out of the woodwork and poo poo the thing that you just said or the stats or listen. I watched the show. What a great show. What a great time. The last thing on my mind was, oh, look at those empty seats up there. Listen, but, but everybody views it differently. You know, um, I. I'm sorry. I'm also getting sick here. So it's been, uh, very difficult to talk the last two days. I would feel like watching this. Why am I concentrating on the negativity? Do I like this? Do I want to watch it? Why I don't, I don't subscribe to hate watching. I don't have enough time in my day. You know, the commit four or five hours to a wrestling show is a lot of ask for me, even though I absolutely love professional wrestling. Yeah. And I, and I think it is a big ask for a lot of people. I don't, I'm not going to waste five hours on a Sunday when I can be doing everything else to hate watch something. Same goes for WWE. Same goes for A.W. I love pro wrestling. You love pro wrestling and that's why you watch it. That's why we talk about it for free. Yeah, you know, I, I'm, I'm ranting a little bit because I haven't done a show in a couple of weeks, but not only, I got all that for food anger. Not only are we doing it for free. We're doing it for free twice a week, twice a week. Well, we're doing it more. I know four times. I mean, listen, for full disclosure, I make a couple bucks, but guess where that money goes? Right. To my producers. I don't make profit from this. I never, I actually, I can, I'd choose not. I don't want to make money from this because this is far in the red. We're in the red. We're in the red. We're averaging money. We're averaging money here. Way in the red. But, you know, I went, it's, it's so fascinating because, you know, I post a very simple thing, the greatest of all time. I posted a picture of Brian Danielson. Yeah. Okay. That man, in my opinion, is the greatest pro wrestler alive. He is, and you know what? That doesn't mean that Greg Flair is in the greatest of all time. That doesn't mean Hulk Hogan isn't the greatest of all time. That doesn't mean Steve Austin is every, but you could. It's, he's a very different cat. And I, and I take great enjoyment out of watching that man perform. He's, he is my favorite guy to see Russell. Yeah, it became a whole disco. You're out of your mind. He's, you're telling me he's better than this. Yeah, nuts. Who's your favorite of all time? Do you have one? Who's your greatest of all time? My, I have, I have a list. You know, it's an ever-changing rotating. It's an ever-changing list because it's subjective. You know what I mean? Like, catch me on a Thursday. And I'll say, Oh, I dig your arrow is the best of all time. You know, sure. Yeah. You know, catch me on like another day. I'll be like, you know, that Rick Flair fella. He's got something. You know, you know, Danieson is the modern goat. Rich, you know, I was at, I was at the garden. 1991 summer slings. And I'm next to Stu Hart. And I look at him like, see that kid in the ring right there? And I point out bright and I'm, and I'm six. And I go, that kid's got it. He has it. And I gave him a wink and I, and I tip my hat to him. I was also smoking a cigar. I was going to say like you live up a cigar back then. It was okay for six year olds to smoke cigar. Oh, yeah. Yeah. At the garden, you have to. Six year olds had to smoke cigarettes at the garden. They give him to you at the door. Here you go, kid. Light it up at the main event. Let's talk about this. Let's go into the show. MG, is there. Oh, let's talk about Sid actually before we go into this. Sid. Sid Vicious. The justice psycho Sid passed away. His son made an announcement yesterday at 63 years old. He was battling cancer and he has passed away. What a look, what a force. Yeah. You know, I, the first memory I have of Sid is my grandmother bought me the toy. Like remember the WCW action figures that didn't move. Yes. They were like this or like this. She got, she got me like a bunch of them and she got me to Steiners. She got me Ric Flair and she got me Sid. And I was like, oh, this guy's big. Who is he? And, you know, he came to WWE and that was a big part of it. Fascinating guy. Just what a look. Nobody looks like that still intense. Yeah, intense. I, yeah, the Remco toys. There you go. Chris Reed in our chat room. Remco. Yeah, the Remco toys. Yeah. What was your memory of Sid? Just, you know, it's funny. Like my memory is juxtaposed to when you see Sid on TV, you're absolutely terrified by the guy, right? And then I remember some wrestling magazine where it had a shot of him just like smiling and I was like, oh, that's so funny. The presentation is everything, right? Where like this dude had a million dollar smile. But when you see the guy on TV, man, he looked insane, like completely insane. Yeah, really, really something. Best wishes go to the family, obviously. Oh, we said to hear someone passing away, especially at 63 years old, very young, too young to pass away. You know, I want everybody living till 300. Oh, I want to, I don't want to see people, you know, it's, it's very sad. His son was in big brother, right? Wasn't that? I don't know. I never watched it. I think he was. I think he was. All right, let's go into this show. I want to, I want to talk about all of them because this is very, I mean, this is a very important show for the company. They, this is the beginning of the series of big announcements. Obviously, they announced this show. They announced that they're going to be in Texas in 2025, going back to Wembley in 2026 for bitten doors in London. They're doing Australian February for Grand Slam. Oh, yeah. A lot of announcements this weekend, you pick where you want to go. Well, might as well start at the top because it was a long and packed show and that zero hour, man, that zero hour usually delivers for AW and this was no different. You had R.J. city, Renee Paquette and Jeff Jarrett on the panel. Jared's doing a lot of work. And I love seeing that guy in TV, regardless of what capacity. Tommy Billington, Kip Sabian, Rocker, Americana Fletcher, Action Andretti, Leo Rush, top flight versus J. lethal, Santam Singh, Aria Devar, Anthony Gogo, private party, John Silver and Alex Reynolds was at the 16 man tag to open the show. Classic New Japan booking, get everybody on the show at the first hour of the show. Yeah. So, you know, you want to get these guys. There were a lot of talent that were off last year. They weren't on the show and, you know, treat this like a WrestleMania. Get everybody that payday. I don't know if they do a rev split. I don't know if they have an appearance fee or how they're doing it. I, it was good to see everybody on it. Just how many, they had that, they had that match. And then they had that 15 man match or 10 man match after this. Yeah. What do you think it's, Tommy Billington? Yeah, he's great. I think he put on a little more size since we last saw my AW television. I'm with it, man. I'm with it. I'm with it. I'm with the move set. I'm with the homage to his uncle. I think he's great. Do you think he should be profiled more? You know, I want to see what he's. He's very small and that's, that's going to affect them. You know, that match with Jericho that he had on where was it? Was it on Dynamite? MJ or was it on Collision? Which one the Tommy Billington Jericho match? Uh, gosh, I think it was on Collision. Collision is like, because I watched it all on that same day. Oh, I was on, I was on a boat, remember, and I had, uh, yeah, I had a naughty link sent to me so I could see it. Oh, yeah. We just on the waterslide on the boat is watching wrestling. Yeah, it was on, yeah. Yeah. John or other producers attempting to fix our side by side shot, but it seems like something is broken here and it will not. Oh, there's rich. Okay. Something broke. He's hell's he's fixing it. Okay. Big blow. I, you know, I like seeing these guys, uh, kept seeing being got a big pop. Obviously, Rocky Romero, Kyle Fletcher's total stud now. Uh, Anthony, a go go long time. We haven't seen him. He was in this. Uh, it was fun. It was a fun match. It was a lot of fun. You had a nice spot between Santa saying and Leo Rush. Yeah, that was a big spot. You know what? I kind of want to see that match now. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So that's, that's the thing, you know, you mentioned, um, Tommy Billington being a small guy, whereas Leo Rush is a small guy. He's arguably the smallest guy, but he's also the biggest guy. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Uh, Willa Nightingale and Tomahira Eishi defeated Chris Statlander and Stokely Hathaway. Uh, Stokely's great. Oh yeah. I, you know, this was far more fun than I thought it would be. Um, you know, this is leading up to Willow and Chris at all out. And again, good way to get everybody on the card. Uh, it was a lot of fun. We also got Tony Shivani on the ramp. We welcome Tony Khan and Dr. Martha Hart, who wished, uh, wished the Owen Hart Foundation cup winners. Good luck. Uh, okay. It was what it was. Again, pre-show. This was cool. Okay. Now this very cool. All right. Yeah. Dustin Rhodes as Deadpool. Yep. Sammy Guevara as Wolverine. Yeah. At Shabbata. Ross and Marshall Von Eric. They defeated Mike Bennett, Matt Taven. Brian Cage as another Wolverine variant. Bro, Bishop Khan and totally owner. How funny is that? Do you think there was a conversation backstage where somebody was like, bro, you will ring, but I'm Wolverine. I, I think they did it. Like, you know, at first I saw it and I made the joke. I'm like, why are there two Wolverine variants? Like I don't know. Uh, obviously it was, it was a play on the Deadpool movie and all the Wolverines in that movie, but. Uh, I thought, I thought it was a fun match. Dustin looks great, man. It's so nice to see you. You know, and he's he's double champion. How interesting is that? That's very interesting. I, I like that he's getting this little run at the end of his career. So Raya came out to the stage with Harley Cameron and the entire night family. This led to Jamie Hader returning to a massive, massive reaction. She looked like a million freaking bucks. Oh, yeah. She looked incredible, incredible, um, very talented. I, I'm, I like that this is, they're going to emphasize and she, she, she looked, I mean, totally toned and in, you know, the hair look great, the outfit look great, uh, very cool to see her back. And they did something fascinating here at the end of zero hour that I got a kick out of. Okay. Yeah. So the timers happening and there's like six minutes and 50 seconds left before this match is going to happen and they start start. They start the match, the opening match of all in with all the entrances on zero hour and it leads right into the main show. Yeah, very much like this. It was very interesting. Yeah, I, I thought it was a good way to do it yet pack Claudio and Wheeler, you know, defeating the patriarchy, uh, the bang bang gang with juice Robinson Austin and Colton gun and the house of black and a in the London ladder match to win the E.W. Trio's title. This was a car crash, right? This, I mean, that's pretty much what it was. Yeah, but it was a, it was a fun car crash. I feel like there were a few missed spots, but who cares? You know, like you like seeing these guys all together, you know, like this is a good, like, wow, look at how much. We have on this roster. Yeah, I like, you know, these are all great guys. The story was that Christian wanted to get the titles himself instead of kill switch. They're still leading that, that story that, you know, he has a problem with kill switch. This is going to play in the end also in another match here. Very interesting. Mariah made a feed at Tony storm with Luther. What did you think of this? Oh, I loved it. I loved it. I love Tony storm. I also want her, if she takes time off, which I think she needs some time off, just, she's been really going at it for the last like year and a half. I wanted to come back as like time traveling Tony storm. Oh, you know what, like, what is she like a space man? She's like from the future somehow. And it kind of like like timelessness Tony storm where like she's just she's stuck in different eras. Oh my God. So she becomes she becomes like a like a flapper from the 20s. Yeah. She becomes a star Trek and she's a star Trek. Yeah. Yeah. And then like a caveman. Oh, yeah. I might I'm kind of into this 80s Tony storm. Oh, timeless timeless and and then she comes out with the little, little thing in the baseball hat. You know, she should steal the DeLorean from the time splitters. I would love that too. There's space people, right? They're back to the futures. They're back to the futures. I think, oh, look at that. We got our camera working. Oh, look at that. There we go. Now, now I'm back to normal. Our wonderful producer, John, the greatest of all time. Yeah. Thanks, bud. Yeah, he threw you under the bus on that one. Yeah, he said that you suck. Sorry. I already know. Thank you. All right. I'm meeting him now. Now I could concentrate. I like this match. Mariah Mae look great. She slapped her old mom big spot there. She was bleeding. Tony couldn't bring herself to use the shoe, which led to the ending. And Tony was dancing out of the ring. Did you see your arena? She's doing the dance out of the whole building. Very good stuff. It was fantastic. Really, really fun. Really quality match. What what a what a more. There's no more a deserving champion than Mariah Mae, I think. That's just the build over the last few months has been absolutely tremendous. Well, that women's division now. The women's division AEW is tremendous with Jamie Hader returning with Mercedes Monet with Britt Baker returning with, you know, I hope. Sariah does some good stuff there. Her contract should be ending soon, right? Yeah, but you have such great talent there. Camille. Yeah, it's they built this. It's a very different company for the women's position. And I think it's very needed. I think it's necessary for them. Very much like it. Where are we now? I lost my hook. Hook. They gave hook the flat line Taz entrance. They did and I thought they were going to play the song. Why didn't they do it? Nah, they got it. Like I like I like the homage and I was like, oh shit, that popped me like like big time as like an old school ECW guy. So Hook defeated Chris Jericho with Big Bill and Brian Keyes to win back the FTW title for the third time. I like this match a lot. For some reason, this really did it for me. I like hook a lot. I'm a fan of his. He's a good long island boy. Yeah, same, you know, I think he has something, you know, he has something there. He's not. He's. Oh God, my now my computer screaming at me. I like him and I like the FTW title still being represented. I know that we got a weird question in the scrum that caused controversy and the guy actually apologized about it. The test because he almost I God, do you do you have it in front of you? If the chat has it, I think he was like essentially eluding that it to joke title. Oh, and Tony got mad like Tony just ran down the entire lineage of the FTW title and how important it is. And, you know, it was. Taz got upset, but he he he understood. He was like, listen, you misspoke. You know, so that's smart though. That's smart though. You know, like I'm like, oh, good. Another person got yelled at by Taz and then on me. As long as you're not getting yelled at by Taz, you're fine. Yeah, I think he just yelled at everybody at one. I get I I have continued my my my my life's goal of getting constantly getting yelled at by ECW, former ECW wrestlers. Belbury Dudley is yelled at me. Taz is yelled at me multiple times 14 year old me got terrified when Taz yelled at me because some kids were playing like rough housing in the line to meet them. And I was like just standing there and he came out and he goes, can you stop something like that? I forgot what it was. And then he yelled at us about a T-shirt design that he thought it was so similar to him because we had the same guy that make make our T-shirts. Stevie Richards says yelled at me and I get yelled at by Lance Storm every single Sunday. Every single week, just don't say Sean Mikey's. I cannot say Sean Michaels. He might Mikey's. He did not like that joke. Denies just shot Mikey's joke. I did call Lance Archer Lance Storm and he got a kick out of that one. Yeah. This was fun, man. The hook, I feel like, you know, put all the titles on hook. Dude, he's he's fun. I like him. He's different. Young Bucks defeated the acclaimed and FTR. I'm it was all right. It was fine. I do like to set up because you had the grizzled young vets come out. James Drake and Zach Wilson at the end, you know, which they had a nice pop because they're from Liverpool. Good. Stare down with the bucks. I think that's cool. You know, like the bucks are such an interesting anomaly and people. You don't love them or hate them. People either love them or hate them, but they are so good at what they do and they are so good at flipping that switch when they need to. So like you could easily have baby face young bucks and they'll be the most over in the company or you could have heal young bucks and they'll be the most hated in the company. Yeah, I listen, they're very talented. I but I do understand the. Is it is it that people are tired of the bucks? Is it that they're tired of the bucks not doing what they want? You know, these are this is a different character for them. They're not is a very different gimmick for them and they're revolving, they're attempting to evolve and they're in a different position here. I don't mind it at all. I think it's fine. I just want to see them rustle. You know, they haven't they really haven't wrestled and hopefully they're healthy and they continue doing it because you know, let's talk about this. This was fun. Yes. Christian won the gauntlet. I do I I okay, you know, I thought this was a ton of fun. I don't I was shocked at Christian one. So yet, or in the city. You had Ocada. You had Nigel McGinnis. My God, my God, return and he looked like a million bucks. He did all of his best ofs. 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Visit King Super's dot com slash vaccines for more restrictions and exclusions apply seaside for details at King Super's pharmacy care is making it easy to get vaccinated care is helping you stay protected from flu, COVID and RSV seasonal vaccines are available seven days a week with evening hours care is giving you a shot at staying healthy this season. Walk in whenever is best and get multiple vaccines in one visit at your local King Super's pharmacy so come and get the protection you need while protecting those around you King Super's a world of care is in store. Visit King Super's dot com slash vaccines for more restrictions and exclusions apply seaside for details. Man I love it love it. I posted when he came out during the Danielson match I was like what is Billy from Stranger Things doing here. Strange things hangman page looks gnarly Jeff Jarrett pop of the night he looked put the title on him I want to see him with the title I don't care anymore you know what I don't. Have a feud with hook for the FTW title you had the debut of ricochet sorry my in here is terrible today this thing is constantly what do they do ricochet showed up you look great Christian cage obviously in Lucas Saurus. It looked like Lucas Saurus was going to attack Christian but it was another swerve and he would help Christian pen Kyle O'Reilly. This was so much fun that I watched it twice I watched it when it aired and I watched it when the show is over because it was over so nice and early I rewound the feed and watch this again I feel like this was like for me personally I felt like this was such a love letter to pro wrestling. Yeah I listen I thought it was fun I just don't think Christian should have won it I you know we'll find out where this heads to where this goes and how they do this but Christian is not going to be the spoiler for Brian Danielson I'll tell you that. No no do you not going to go ahead who would you have who would you have wanted to win in that mix. Yeah let me look here. Jeff a hangman or Jeff Jarrett. I would have gone Nigel I would have loved Nigel but I feel like that would have been too easy Nigel McGinnis hangman and I would say you know what would have been a. What would have been super interesting Zack Sabre junior like coming out of his G1 win and then winning this. You know it's it just because you look at this right. Almost every single person here someone that you would want to see. Danielson have a great match with absolutely you know like if you look at this lineup it's almost every single one of them. I thought it was I thought it was the guys in the match were proper I liked it I just think that they could have I'm not thrilled about the Christian win but we're going to see where that goes because I don't know the creative there so. I it could be it could be something greater could be something terrible it could lead it lead to Adam Copeland returning and doing something I don't know I don't know where this is going to head to. So will I spray MJF what a match will I spray came out with a great intro assassins creed I guess sponsored the the entrance he is so good and MJF is so fantastic what a great deal did you like the 60 minute or did you like this one better. I enjoyed this one a lot more I cringed every single time they did a high on the neck a JPW style move oh my god the tombstones yeah yeah a lot of next spots in this and I was like oh no oh no. I really enjoyed it and I did like the fact that he waved off the title and got his title like the inter intercontinental title back. Yeah yeah the intercontinental title is back yeah I thought it was fantastic I thought it was a great match we also got Mercedes Monet the feeding doctor Britt Baker to retain the title you know I don't know if it was the placement of this or what because the crowd was dead and it wasn't a bad match like. I listen I watched it like everybody else and I watched it like a fan because I was not distracted I wasn't doing a watch along I was sitting on my couch by myself watching this and yeah I thought it was fine could Brit have had a couple more matches prior to this yeah I think she could have but yeah it was a fine match I just think that the crowd the placement of this was really dead. I agree with you but I think and I don't want to catch any poop for this but I do think they could have pulled a page out of the WWE book and have right before this match do a comedy promo segment. To slow things down a little bit to slow things down a little bit let the crowd take a breath let the crowd go to the bathroom and then oh cool there's a comedy promo bit between so and so and so like anybody you know like our city and Orange Cassidy. And you know they ended the show like five o'clock on the dot. Oh yeah like they they ended that show they're like all right we gotta go. I don't know if it was like the timing and the way that. I'm sorry what is that MJ. Apparently they had a hard out they had a hard out. Yeah yeah yeah. You actually. Okay okay. I don't know if that played a part I don't think it was a bad match I think it was just the placement and. But what we had seen prior you know you're you're going from Will Osprey MJF into this and the crowd was you know very invested. Could have been timing could have been placement whatever but Mercedes one I don't think that's the end of this program I think they'll continue something now. I want to see what Camille does now she's fantastic outfits look great the intros look great everything was fine. Darby Allen defeated I'm sorry Jack Perry defeated Darby Allen for the TNT title in a coffin match. Great. Jack Perry won and after the match Sting returned to save Darby. He came out to Metallica. Yeah fantastic very cool. It was it was great it was it was good to see Sting back and now we're at the mean event. Yeah there's a fun match I got to say like that was a really fun. Yeah yeah Brian and it was short it was very quick and I guess they ran out of time here because they needed to give this some time. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. I think it's a really fun match. They want to be the man. They want to give other people an opportunity. It's bizarrely unselfish of them but it plays a big part. This is a company that is heading into a new TV deal. This is a company that is attempting to do stadiums now multiple. You need to have a guy that is recognizable to a crossover audience as your champion. If there was anybody in that company that has crossover appeal to a casual viewer that has not really tuned into wrestling in the last 10 years, Brian Danielson is one of those. They had seen him. He was obviously the guy but Brian Danielson is the closest thing you have to that. Best move to do putting the title on Danielson now that he's at the end. Is this going to be a long run? I don't think so. But man, what a match and you got to give it to Swerve. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Swerve's run I feel like should have been longer. But the timing of Danielson's win was pretty perfect considering the retirement. Yeah, I, you know, he's still adamant that he never wanted the title, which is interesting. The first Montreal dude. I really wanted them to do it. I really wanted them to just shut the lights and run out of the room. I'm curious to see where this goes now because he has a number of opponents. Obviously Grand Slam is a big show here in Queens in a couple of weeks. You have all out happening. You also have the show in Seattle. Yeah, Russell Dream happening. Well, I'm excited. I'm excited for being spoiled that we're going to be going to Grand Slam next month and Danielson's probably going to headline. Yeah, he's a champion. I mean, great. I really can't wait for that. I wonder if it's going to help with the ticket sales a little bit because this has been struggling. I would hope so. R.D. Ash Stadium. You would think so at R.D. Ash. So one great match. Fantastic match. You did see Hangman playing a part in this. Oh, yeah, so, you know, that's going to be part of the story that he was so, and he's crazy looking. I love pissed off angry hanging. Oh, he looks insane. Hangman looks like a nut job now, which fantastic. Great stuff. He's a bad boy now. He's a bad boy. He tried to murder. He tried to murder Jeff Jarrett's wife. He tried to murder Jeff Jarrett's wife. Yeah. He's crazy. He's a nutty guy. Media highlights. Marime did a eulogy for Tony Storm. Brian Danielson said that he hasn't decided on his future just yet and he'll likely make some sort of announcement this Wednesday. Dave, with the question of the night, he tried to trick Bertie into letting her dad wrestle longer by offering her a trip to Australia. Did you hear that? Yeah. Dave was like, "Do you want to go to Australia? Do you want to go to Japan?" I thought it was well done. Also, Osprey popped to see Dave Meltzer. Yeah, that was fun. Fun stuff. Overall, man, great show. I'm looking for what they do on Wednesday with this. Yeah. You know, because they're laying it out. I think it really reunited a fire that needed to happen. You know, like everything. A lot of good stuff came out of the show. A lot of progressions of the storylines. You know, like wrestling's fun, dude. Like wrestling is fun. Like stuff like this makes you be like, "Ah, this is the best." Yeah. Do you want it? You have to be out of here in 10 minutes. I got to be out of here in about 12 minutes. Okay. Do you want to start with questions? We got a couple of supers. Yeah. You know what? Yeah. Let's go into questions. Do you want to read them? I can't get them on the screen, but we could read them, guys. And I really, really appreciate the super chats. So, Shightown Spurs. Thank you. His question or their question. Felt like a lot of stuff was on the pre-show or rushed because they had a hard curfew right at 10. I wish I knew that they had a hard curfew at 10s. I asked number of people because I had to record a show afterwards that I couldn't get going to do it live. Yeah. But if I had known that this had a hard out of five, I could have probably peer recorded and sent it to the radio station. I liked that they had a hard out. I liked that it was a quick-paced show. Yeah. Some stuff felt rushed, but I would take this way over a marathon of a show. Because if you think about it, if it's 10 p.m., right, if this descended 10 o'clock UK time. Yeah. London time. That's what they call it over there. It's London time. London time. I thought it was fine. Was it rushed? Sure. Could they have done something else? Sure. But I felt that it was done well. It was jam-packed. Let's say that. What do you guys rank it? Give me like a number one out of five. You know, give me your star rating over all for the show. What do you place it at? I'll give it. Can we do out of 10? I'll give it out of 10. Yeah. I'll give it a nine out of 10. You give it a nine? I thought it was fun. It was a fun show. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give it a nine out of 10. I was very satisfied, but a lot of factors went into it. You know, I had a couple of people over that I hadn't seen in a while. We had a couple of drinks. We had some food. You know what I mean? Like, so the way you're watching it kind of helps it. And I think it was, and these are not wrestling fans at all, but they enjoyed it. Listen, I like wrestling and I like different wrestling and I don't, I don't like one style. I like different styles. So for me, this was a lot of fun. I got to see, you know, guys that I'm, that I'm invested in doing some cool stuff. So I see it. We got another super chat here from I Touch Squirrels. Oh, wonderful. Great name. SRS mentioned a few weeks back that Danielson is legitimately injured. How long do you see his title reign lasting? Christian can cash in his title whenever he wants. So he's going to pick a spot and steal this title. Man. He is, he is heard. He needs, he needs his neck fixed. This guy's been hurt forever. Yeah. You know, and man, if Christian beats him and wins the title, that's a lot of heat. But I, is that, is that, is that like, I don't want to see this heat or is it like, oh, you dastardly heal. How could you do this? But, and then what happens? Is his lead into, you know, Adam Copan returning and beating Christian and winning that title and becoming world champion? Maybe eventually. I don't know. But I think Danielson needs to hold his, hold on to this belt for at least six months, right? No, that's not. I can't see that. I don't think so, man. I don't think so, man. I think before the year's over. But again, that's not me knowing anything. That's just me feeling. Okay. And you know, that's just me feeling, um, something. Okay. I, I don't, listen, I wanted to hold the title forever, uh, so I'm a little biased here. I can, I can tell you that I'm very biased for Brian Danielson. I really enjoy him as champion. I really enjoy watching him wrestle. I'm curious what this is going to do to TV ratings if this is going to change anything and who's coming back to challenge him. You know, these are all really good questions. I think our first opponent firm is going to really matter though. You can't have it. Oh, yeah. Another cane angle. Right. Right. Right. It's got to, but you know, it's going to be good. It doesn't matter who it is. It's going to be awesome. What if it's Ocada? What if you get Danielson Ocada again? Oh, dude. I would love it. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. We got, we got a Tekken sports super chat. Number one. Great. A lot of folks in the chat are saying nine out of 10, nine point five out of 10, eight out of 10. Nine out of 10. Yeah. Hasein al-Bana says as a West Asian, it's so fun to watch a pay-per-view live at night instead of dawn, which yeah, yeah, all wrestling should be early. I, what else do we have here? Do you think this is from big man dogs? Okay. Do you think Christian should have cashed in right after the main event? No, absolutely not. You want people to go home happy. Okay. You want them to go home happy. That's really what it comes down to. There is a Tekken sports here. My question is Warner Brothers discovery is the television partner for AEW in India? Can we get a W live event in India? I think it's the logistics that, that make it very expensive. So I don't know if that, that'll happen, you know, WWE was planning on traveling to India Bunch and that, you know, it's, it's sporadic. I think the logistics of the travel is, is part of the issue. Well, also didn't at that time, when they did that massive India show, wasn't great colleague involved and he like sold out wherever they were, like tremendously. No, I, I, it wasn't, no, it was gender, right? They were banking it on gender. They did another one for gender later on. Yeah. Is that the one? Is that the one that gender was the champion and he held the title and colleague took it from him and he held the title in his hands and then I remember that. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was like the guest on that one. This is from Boris or AEW where of the backlash online about Sariah and her pay cut. Also pay. No. Ronnie. Sariah. Ronnie, her boyfriend. That's the musician. No words that people got upset at online. Yeah. So I don't know. I, I, I didn't follow this or I have no idea. I don't. Yeah. Everybody says dumb crap occasionally. I don't know. I don't know anything about them or their relationship. This is from Matt James. Do you think we'll get Daniels and Nigel at all out? Yeah. You know, if you're going to do it, I mean, that's a great match to do it all out. People would be very invested into seeing that because they built a program for over a year. So I, I think you got to get it out of the way before anything bad happens, right? So that, that's all out. What's the next pay per view? Oh, I'm not a hundred. We got all out. We got full gear. We got Wrestle dream and we got world's end. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's in October. This is from Eddie Gomez or Eddy Gomez, any update on when Lucha brothers and Motor City machine guns debut and guys like award low mural Malekai Black, Keith Lee and Ricky Starks, will they jump ship to WWE? I, I think Lucha bros in WWE will be tremendous for them. Oh, yeah. They will, they'll do great. I don't know what the story with Miro is. Uh, he's, he's a fascinating case study for AEW because they did really, it was so much stop and go. It was so much of him not on TV when he was on TV. He's great. Yeah. The redeemer. Hey, weird. Right? Remember like the best friend gimmick that he had? Yeah. And he was video game buddies. Yeah. And he was the best man. Yeah. That's right. He was the best man. And from, um, it's really interesting how wrestling works. This guy goes from coming out at WrestleMania on a tank to fight John Cena to being like a video gamer. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I don't know, man, I would love to see something with Miro. I don't, I don't know what, what he's going to do. Like, you know, he probably could go back to WWE and have a, and be in a great position there. Uh, I think so. Yeah. A hundred percent. I, I, you know, he's a great wrestler. He left due to frustration more than anything else. And I think now it's a very different opportunity there. Yeah. No, I'll agree with that. Uh, but yeah, you never know. You never know. You can't quantify as much as you like a wrestler. You can't quantify what's going on inside, you know, uh, would you want to see Danielson and Nigel happen at Wrestle Dream? I, I was told a match. Okay. I don't know if that's the match. Uh, I, I think Nigel should happen now. I think Nigel should, like on Wednesday should come out and start trashing Danielson sooner than later, right? Sooner than later. Like you gotta get, because remember it's, it's in people's minds. You want to wait another month to do this. Yeah. Maybe Nigel and Christian come up with some sort of plot. I don't know. I don't think it should, I think they should do it immediately. Yeah. I agree with you. I agree with you on that one. Uh, let's see here, uh, this is from Amdrag. You said about media deal being imminent. Any more details? Nope. That's it. That's the, that's the latest that I have. I have no other information that I know that the attorneys are looking at it. I know that it's a very detailed contract. It's very long, um, uh, everybody wants this done and it will be done. It just depends on, you know, your corporate stuff happening. You know, sometimes they take a while, but it's, I expected done soon. Yeah. I mean, I said imminent and that's the word that I was used to me. So yeah, imminent. It's going to happen guys, imminent domain, someone's taking it. That's what I meant. It's imminent domain. Uh, here's a good one that I think we should end on. Yeah. Lo-fi lit. What did you think of JBL and GCW? Okay. Fantastic. How it, he, it, I like when someone debuts, like when Sid debuted in ECW, right? He doesn't fit there. Oh yeah. JBL does not fit in GCW. He murdered Effie. Yes. Murdered Effie. So I get, are they going to have a match? Oh, I would love that. Just one, one last match. Are you sure? Effie versus JBL. I, I, he, he, he, he closed lined him straight to hell. Oh yeah. Yeah. Really? Who's the other one? Oh yeah. Gender. Yeah. Gender. Yeah. That's right. Well, GCW does a, they do, I think after the Cardona thing, they're just like, ooh, let's put these odd puzzle pieces into our, into our roster and see what happens. Cardona worked. Big time for them. Yeah. And it heightened that company. Yeah. And heightened that company. Yeah. Very, very cool stuff. Yeah. The wrestling's fun, man. Wrestling is a lot of fun. I want to see what they do tomorrow. We also have a pay-per-view on Saturday, which is another afternoon pay-per-view battle in Berlin. The Bash in Berlin. Isn't it? The Bash in Berlin. Why did you write battle in Berlin? The year is 1939. The battle for Berlin has begun. The Allied troops have begun to march eastward. Someone fell asleep watching the history channel. It's the Bash in Berlin. Geez. That's this weekend, right? That's this weekend. You have Gunther and Rainy Orton for the WWE title. You have the undisputed champion Cody going up against Kevin Owens. You have a mixed tag match, Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley against Dominic and Liv. You have a strap match with CM Punk and Drew McIntyre, WWE women's tag match on Holy Union vs Bianca and Jade. All right, it'll be a nice, quick show, one, two, three, four, five matches, unless there was something announced yesterday that I did not see on this. And then NXT's on Sunday. More wrestling. Give me all your wrestling. Yeah. Give me all the wrestling. All right, guys. That's it for this week. I'm out the door. I'm head of the Arthur Ashe. I'm going early. The Grand Slam. Enjoy. Enjoy. I'm just going to wait there. Huh? Are you going to work? That's just what I'm wearing. I'm wearing short shorts and a button down. It's gorgeous outside, by the way. Ah, perfect. Awesome. So enjoy. Goodbye, everybody. See you next time. When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping king supers for thousands of appetizing ingredients that inspire countless mouthwatering meals. No matter what tasty choice you make, you'll enjoy our everyday low prices, plus extra ways to save, like digital coupons worth over $600 each week and up to $1 off per gallon at the pump with points so you can get big flavors and big savings, king supers, fresh for everyone, fuel restrictions apply. [BLANK_AUDIO]
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