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A Flamethrower In Wrestling! | AEW Dynamite Review 5/22/24 | SRS & Alex

Duration:
1h 4m
Broadcast on:
23 May 2024
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Sean Ross Sapp and Alex Pawlowski review AEW Dynamite for May 22, 2024

- Sting's son wrestling?

- Preview of Willow Nightingale vs. Mercedes Mone at AEW Double or Nothing

- FTW Title Eliminator 3-Way: HOOK vs. Bryan Keith vs. Katsuyori Shibata

- Kyle O'Reilly vs. Malakai Black

- Toni Storm & Mariah May vs. Saraya & Harley Cameron

- Will Ospreay & Orange Cassidy vs. Trent Beretta & Roderick Strong

- Bullet Club Gold (Jay White, Colten Gunn, Austin Gunn) will appear

- Jon Moxley will appear

- Nick Wayne vs. Swerve Strickland

- Bryan Danielson vs. Satnam Singh

- Konosuke Takeshita vs. Matt Sydal

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Yeah, I'm very excited for that and also this weekend, we have our Sands of Blind review where I don't watch the Saudi show and Kate does and then she tells me what happened but she peppers in three lies and I have to decide where those, what the lies are. It's our most popular select show on Sour Grabs and everyone is looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it as well. FightfulSelect.com, that is our lifeblood. If you've never given a shot or if you have, please subscribe. It's a Patreon platform, the most subscribed and wrestling history. We break all kinds of wrestling news over there. We told you a couple of, or actually a few Double or Nothing matches that were going to happen but today we had a very interesting piece of news. Steve Borden, the son of Sting who portrayed the Wolfpack version is training to be a pro wrestler. I spoke with Darby Allen today. He didn't bring his flame thrower although he absolutely was wearing that pink jacket which seems incredibly flammable by the way. That does. Seemed very flammable. Not only said that Steve Borden was training with him but was living in a tent in Darby's yard. Alex. Listen, this man is the son of Sting. Can we not get him some proper accommodations? I know Darby is training him so he was like, "Listen, Darby says, 'I was homeless when I was training so this is all I know and you must do as I did, young Padawan. You must live as I live. You must train as I train.'" And so maybe that's it. Maybe that's the whole thing. Vicki says, "Hello, SRS and Alex. Thank you, SRS for making my day with the Sting news. Thank you, Alex, for hating Jericho. Thank you, TK, for driving Darby. Thank you, Darby, for being an insane son of a bitch. Osprey Busted Open was new tonight. Thank you for all." It's funny, because when you do this for a living, you recognize when something is going to blow up. It's so funny. When Nick Housman was interviewing Seth Rollins and he went off on the CM Punk rant, he looks over at me and Denise, like, "Do you guys see this 2000 retweet post that's about to happen?" He looks at us like that mid-interview. When Darby told me that Sting's son was training, I was like, "Oh my God, that's new. We didn't know that." And I have known who Sting's son was for a very, very long time, because he played college football about three miles from where I am right now. And even then, you'd look at him and you'd go, "Oh, well, one day that's got to happen. One day that's got to happen." And I was shocked to learn that he wasn't the big one. That's the insane thing. The one that played college football division one as it tied in is not the big one. And the big one's a game streamer. Go figure. There you go. There you go. I love it. Listen, I am an unapologetic Sting fan. Listen, right up there, you've got Sting's final water bottles. The last time he will ever drink water again, you guys are going to want to check out this Darby interview. We'll talk more about it tonight, but all the early notes are on FightfulSelect.com, including when he got cleared, how he made this happen. He did pitch this to Tony Khan, this double or nothing thing happening. But the full interview drops Thursday at noon. It is up early access for tier two members, but I think it's one of the best interviews we've done all year. That man, he's really good at those media interviews, but Matthew Hook says have a big collision with people not at double or nothing. We're going to have our friend Luis, the moderator, who has done such a great job at all time and is going to this weekend, let us know what is added to collision as well. Newlack City said, actually, we already read that one on The Hump Today, Luis. After I complimented him, Luis, after I complimented you, my God, we had Trent Beretta and Roderick Strong defeating Will Osprey in Orange Cassidy. Well, I expect Trent Beretta and Will Osprey to both win this weekend, but this match got Roderick Strong a win, it got Trent a win. I think that the Trent push is in full effect and I'm sure they'll have another match after double or nothing, which is set as a straight wrestling match. I was kind of hoping that Trent Beretta just did clean sweep over Orange Cassidy. I understand Orange Cassidy is one of the most protected wrestlers in the company, but also I think that if you're going to clean sweep Orange Cassidy, it should be somebody who can benefit from it. And I really think that Beretta can, yeah, he really can. Every fiber of my being has to believe that the endgame of this weird Don Callis being obsessed with Orange Cassidy thing is that the guy who ends up with Don Callis is Trent Beretta because that doesn't make any sense for Orange Cassidy to turn heel and end up being with Don Callis. So that it's to sucker in Orange Cassidy into thinking that Don Callis is on his side, which honestly we just make Orange Cassidy look very dumb because I don't know how anybody would believe that. But I feel like at that point, maybe then Trent can actually get some more stuff and become over as a heel in a singles capacity because he won't be with best friends anymore. So maybe that's where we go after all of this. Like did mention 2021, he said, it's listed as a straight, straight up wrestling match, but I don't know if I trust that Trent Beretta. So maybe they like at the last minute, switch the stipulation, make it something else. It's weird that Tony would say that specifically about that. I like, I like the call of how the whole thing happened. I enjoyed Wardlow running down and just hitting a huge lariat on the back of Osprey's head the way he sold it made it seem important. I do feel like Osprey probably wins versus Roderick Strong. And maybe soon after that, you get a Wardlow versus Will Osprey match, which Will Osprey will make into something amazing. My favorite part of the whole night was the entrances of Will Osprey and Orange Cassidy, where Will Osprey is doing his run across the ring and flinging himself into the ropes for the Osprey, Osprey and Orange Cassidy kind of like half heartedly joins him and kind of like throws up one hand and then yes, or whatever. That had me in stitches. I really enjoyed this. I think this is the perfect use of a one heel and another heel are having matches against one baby face and another baby face and they're going to have a tag match in the go home show. We see that a lot. I think this actually hit all the beats perfectly and got some good progression to storylines as well. Yeah, United Kingdom or Undisputed Kingdom attack Osprey after the match. Listen, I've been saying this for a while. I am not buying the MJF shoulder surgery thing going around. You mean to tell me that that guy wasn't doing appearances? Then he gets shoulder surgery. Then he does appearances. Listen, I know that guy really well and first off, he'll tell me and everybody else and coming back anytime soon, but he's not above lying to anybody. Oh, no. It's who he is. Remember his first mentor in AEW was Cody Rhodes. Who taught Brian Danielson how to lie. You know what I mean? He learned from the best. Yeah. Listen, sorry if I'm blowing his cover or something, but not like he's ever worried about blowing up a spot for me doing airplane motions at double or nothing and all that stuff. But Jambeard says, what if it's all a swerve and Trent joins it, Don? That's what I'm hoping. That's not going to be it. Yeah, because there's no powerhouse Hobbes anymore. So I think Fletcher will side with Osprey and all this. Then Mark Davis will come back and I like the idea of like Takeshda and Trent Beretta with Don Callis a lot more. I think both of those guys can benefit. We got bullet club gold appearing backstage and then we've got debt or not backstage. They're in the ring rather. And death triangle is back together. This is something that Fightful Select had reported today, best $5 in the business. This is one of the matches that was considered. Lord Zifers says, have AEW moved away from bullet club gold? I may have missed something now, but it seems like they are only referred to as the bang bang gang. I'm looking into this. I should be able to find out tomorrow or Friday, but what I can tell you is at least on the AEW official roster page, they are still bullet club gold. They are still selling bullet club gold merchandise. Well, they're bang bang gang collectively on there unless something's changed. Nope, they have been changed on the roster page to bang bang gang. So that got changed in the last week because I answered this question on the last Q&A and they were still bullet club gold. So I like still referring to the fans as the gold members. I like that. And I think that everybody will still call them. Like a lot of people will still call them bullet club gold and you can kind of get away with people knowing them as that, but not officially recognizing them as that. But I liked the segment. I liked them coming out with all of their tag belt, trios belts in a wagon. That was fun. I like Pac. I did like JY having to do a huddle twice to determine whether it was Pac or Pac. I thought that was very funny. JY JY underrated in the comedy. He's got a really good timing and cadence like in the way that he just does a little understatement of stuff. Very funny. But Pac showing up or is it Pac showing up on the Titan Tron or whatever they call their Tony Tron with back to his old self. Oh, here I am. You got me feeling things again, boys. May I introduce you to me some egos like I'm like, okay, that's great. And then people in the sour grabs discord were going crazy saying Phoenix, eight Phoenix because that dude has been spending the entire time not having a visa that works. Apparently, his membership to the gym still works because he came back and did like and like he got traps for days, a giant striations in his delts striations man, he to your point about JY there's just a plethora of talent who became prominent guys in talent in Japan and almost like had a reputation for not being able to cut promos. Then they go to Japan and whether it be Finn Balor, AJ Styles, I mean, Cody Rhodes never necessarily had that. But I mean, so I wouldn't qualify him, but Will Osprey switchblade JY now gave kid like there's a whole bunch of these people that became great promo guys after that time there. But death triangle back together, very, very happy for that, Luis our producer says, Taz also calls him bullet club goal during their matches and appearances. Kylie says dynamite was fun. Hey, Shawn, I beat karate kid N.E.S. I don't think I've played that game in decades. I need to need to see what it's like. We also, I think we saw the bullet club gold backstage accepting the challenge. Yeah. Then we got hook and cats, the Yuri Shabbatah beating Brian Keith. So I'm glad Brian Keith finally got a win on collision because I was like, yes. What bounties is he collecting at this point? He's like the worst bounty hunter. He collected a bounty on a boulder and that's hard to do. That's hard to do. Let me tell you, if there's one primary criticism I have of AEW, I brought it up last week, I feel like they should limit their pay per views to about eight matches and then take those extra four or five and pepper them throughout dynamite, collision, other shows because I need more unpredictable finishes on the show. Now I'll say this, both of Brian Keith's matches over the last week have been unpredictable because the way that they brought out Boulder, I was like, maybe they're going to have Boulder win and have him take the L tonight. But Brian Keith won that and then the double finish tonight. I didn't quite see that happen that way, but it was immediately after Joe Coffey, Wesley doing the same thing. Yeah. I mean, yeah, but there are levels. I've never been a big fan of what two guys won the triple threat. Well, how is that possible? Because we've seen it happen enough that you're not allowed to be shocked if you're Tony Shivani, that it happens because it happens enough. Last night, Wesley pinned another man's heels to the mat and not his shoulders. And that's really not how you win. So that one is weird. I mean, it's weird. So if their shoulders are also pinned, there's nothing in the rules that says that listen, I was a cat wrestler to name it, your wrestler for a long time. And it's not practical or logical or plausible, but it is legal. Yeah. It's legal. Tonight, I, again, in the sauerkraps discord, we had somebody who was like, I smell Brian Keith losing at both Shibata and hook winning. And I was like, would they really, but the way they did it, like honestly kind of made sense with the double submission and Brian Keith, obviously tapping out to both because he tapped out on Shibata's leg and tapped out on Hook's arm at the same time. He was tapping out absolutely to both moves, no, no up in the air there. So like, you know, I honestly, I thought they would, they handled it well. And like the maddening part will be when Jericho retains against both Hook and Shibata this weekend. That'll be the maddening part. Uh, I got to say Jericho, so we had a report on Fightful Select. This past weekend where we discussed that Jericho did see the reactions coming at Dynasty. Now, listen, you can say that it was responsible or irresponsible for one, them to go through with it, them to book it. Him saying, I just needed some more camera time because you guys know how much I love that. I was like, okay. All right, also this savvy son of a bitch being like, Hey, I'm going to run a concert in London. And by the way, Swerve's going to be there doing his first live concert in London as well. Listen, he's a savvy guy. I'll give him that. Listen, if he sappies his way into the all in title match versus Swerve, I'm never going to forgive everyone. So I, listen, we don't have the bet online odds for double or nothing yet. Those are a little unusually late, but I would love to see Shabbatah win this FTW title. I would love it. And then hook and Jericho to cost each other that also, how do you think Taz felt whenever he saw that Jericho defaced the FTW title because another thing we reported on Fightful Select.com, Jericho didn't have that approved. He didn't run that by anybody, Alex, that is the same belt they used in the 90s. It's the same belt. There's not, there's not replicas of those out there. Like it's the same one. That's it. Yeah. You don't, you know, a lot of the don't do that. I was hoping we would get more Samoa Joe involvement after last week when Samoa Joe was like, like, but, you know, being a real mentor to hook about how, what are you doing with any of this stuff? You know, you can't trust this guy. He's just going to screw you over. So let's get getting, give me more Samoa Joe. There are people that are making replica FTW titles. Now, listen, they ain't exactly quality, but you can choose whether you want the brass to be two or four millimeters, which is never a good sign on the quality there, right? But I'll go through my picks as we get, get into these. I've got Osprey winning. I imagine he's going to be a monster favorite on the bed online AG odds, and I've got Trent winning. I think he'll be a sizable favorite on the bed online AG odds. I've got Shabbata winning, but I think Hook might be the betting favorite. This might be one of them where I think that bed online AG may look at it as Hook or Jericho instead of Shabbata. And I'll probably, I would make that probably one of my underdog picks because I think that Shabbata winning would make a lot of sense, and Tony Khan loves him some Shabbata. The night when CM Punk showed up on WWE, the only thing he worried about clarifying to me was that Shabbata would be back. That was it. I, listen, I, I would, yeah, I would love it if Shabbata won. I'd also would love it if Hook won. I feel like there's, to me, I don't, I don't understand any of this. If Jericho, any of what they've been doing, if Jericho doesn't retain here, in a triple threat match where he can bring his giant guy who can interfere throughout the entire match to the ring with him, like it, it seems weird if Cass, if, if I say Cass, big bill isn't just choke slamming both Shabbata and Hook left and right through this whole thing. Jambir says simply for Alex's reaction Jericho versus double J for the FTW title, I unironically would probably enjoy that because I think they would do some very stupid psycho things that they wouldn't be physically capable of doing and it would be entertaining. Figure out what, what signature weapon that Jericho can bring to the ring to, to, to combat the signature guitar, sure. 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So if I had to pick three in AEW, I would say revolution, double or nothing. And all in at this point are my three picks. Yeah, it used to be all out. Now it's all in. Now they're moving it a week later. I want to see what they do with an extra week to build from all in to all out. There's a lot of stuff they could do there that is, that is different. But I say double or nothing for sure. The other one being all in right now and a third one. Maybe at world's end, I try and like make that one the last one of the year, like a big deal, but currently I think it is revolution. Yeah, I again, if I had any say over it, I would be like eight matches per show and then give some value to these other events, so to speak, like the AEW dynamites collision rampage. Because right now we've got like what shows do we have? We had revolution, dynasty, double or nothing forbidden door, all in all out wrestle dream full gear worlds in nine shows. I know Tony has talked about opening it up to 10. No show in January or February. I feel like February would be a good month for AEW to run one. There's sort of a little lull in WWE between Royal Rumble and yeah, I think they could capitalize there. I wouldn't mind them not running early April and January because listen, there are some times that you're going to get swallowed up by the WWE monster and that's one of those times when the buzz is going to be a lot. We get the preview of Willow Nightingale and Mercedes. Every day we rise, challenging ourselves to work for what we believe in. At U.S. Border Patrol, protecting our borders is more than a job. It's a calling. Let's answer the call, working together to keep our country and communities safe. If you're ready for a new mission, join U.S. Border Patrol and go beyond. Learn more at cbp.gov/careers. Every day we rise, challenging ourselves to work for what we believe in. At U.S. Border Patrol, protecting our borders is more than a job. It's a calling. Agents answer the call, working together to keep our country and communities safe. If you're ready for a new mission, join U.S. Border Patrol and go beyond. Learn more at cbp.gov/careers. When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping king supers where you'll find over 30,000 mouthwatering choices that excite your inner foodie. 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. You can also save up to $1 off per gallon at the pump with fuel points. More savings and more inspiring flavors make shopping king supers worth it every time. King supers, fresh for everyone, fuel restrictions apply. Double or nothing, you know, proud I was when we said that line two weeks ago, I mentioned my wife said it and then it got used and it got a huge pop. The smile on her face, oh, I was so proud. How shocked would you all be if Willow retains? I expect Mercedes to be a sizable favorite in the bed online AG odds. I would be very surprised and I think Willow will be further entrenched as a baby face. I think we can see maybe some changes to her entourage as well, whether it be Stokely or whether it be Stokely with Mercedes would be so good too, but Stokely with Chris doing her own thing, being like, I don't play third fiddle to anybody, second fiddle, whatever the hell fiddle, Camille or Megan Bain or some integration of somebody here. I would be surprised. I think that Mercedes is going to go heal. I think that she wants to go heal too. She's one and two since before she started. Mercedes is already healed. She's already healed. I mean, like the idea of that just because she's not, you know, I don't know, sneaking into people's houses and intimidating babies doesn't mean she's not healed already. She's working against Willow, she's healed. So fully commit to going dastardly after this weekend, but she's already been working here. Tequesta defeated Matt Seidel. This was pretty to the point that Tequesta wins with the big forearm. What I liked about this was Callis actually managed, like he was telling Tequesta moves to do specifically and that added a little bit more credibility than just a guy out there smiling and all that stuff. Then Moxley comes out and confronts Tequesta and cracks him. Sometimes it's all you need just Moxley standing there with the mic and realizing there was nothing he really needed to say. So he hit him with the microphone. What more could he say than what he said on the 100th episode of Hey, W, which I found hilarious because he treated it like it was just a regular interview and RJ was just trying to bust his lines and he was like, no, no, no, this is what I'll do. No. Phenomenal. Madeleine black, defeated Kylo Riley. This match was mine. Yes. Like I love this. Great stuff, man. Oh boy. Oh boy, that man, give me more of this Kylo Riley. Oh man, I just, I just throw in kicks, it's great. This was so good. And I loved like Malachi being wobbly on his feet right before he hit the end. Like, like they were kicking each other in the face and all of a sudden he just brought out his, his big gun and you don't get up from that. So like that was, and also Kyle's cell on the final shot. Like he just, he was out while standing up, collapsed. So good, man. Loved it. This was very much my kind of matches. That thing I like, they spar around. I bet they didn't probably didn't go over it much before the, before they were just like, this is what we're going to do. And we'll, we'll wing it. Oh, I love that. I love seeing that out of here. Probably Malachi's best singles match since his rivalry with Cody, maybe his only one. But the real story is what happened after. Yeah. I don't know how I feel about this other than I'm glad that it happened. I can't wait to post these pictures in here. Let me get. Okay. Malachi is standing in the middle of the ring and induces blood spatter that Gil Grissom has wet dreams about. Like, oh my God. It hit so hard, Alex, that like there were angles of the ring that were completely covered and then parts of the ring that were just completely clean because the blood splatter was so much. There were two specific streams. Yeah. And when I saw it, how hard it came down, I said that felt personal. Whoever, whoever did these props, I don't know who set this up and turned it on 11. But there's two of them. Those two of them. Those are solid. Like those look like the ropes used to climb in gym class. Those do not look liquid at all. Oh my God. Look at that. Look, he fell off the edge of the atmosphere and evaporated into the ground, just exploded. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. What the hell? Well, first off, I want to say I saw people immediately saying, this is very WCW 2000. No, it's WWF 1999 is literally what it was because that's when Edge was in WWF. I said, oh no, it's Brood Edge. We're like, we're going to call him Brood Edge, but we don't think Gengrelle anybody will know who he is. Edge is somewhere running around like. He's so spooky, Alex. Yes, also that is that good cranberry sauce that you get for Thanksgiving that does not shape like a can. It's got whole cranberries in it. That's what they, somebody threw that at him. That was not dropped gently from the rafters. Somebody propelled it like out of a gun at the ground. That was crazy. Like for it to maintain that velocity from wherever they dropped it, like it wasn't poured. Alex violently shot. It was propelled toward the ring from the, from the rafters. You got to love it. You got to love it. Like I'm sorry. This is this ruled, this ruled so much. Tom LaValley says, SRS, please look into Gengrelle appearing, please. I mean, the guy is still active. He is still very active. I want Gengrelle, Christian and Edge versus House of Black, just to do it. Ryan says, Sean, any update on Malachi's contract status, since there's rumors online, his option time is closed. Do you know more? He signed in early July, 2021, he, WDB fudged up and only gave him a 30 day non compete. That's right. Uh, I, I mean, listen, I know that regardless of what I say, Malachi went online and said that people incorrectly reported his contract. Listen, it's what Tony Khan said on the radio. It's Tony Khan, the owner of the company saying, we have, we have five years on him. Well, he's got three years and then AEW has the option for two more years as best I've heard that option for AEW would be coming up soon. Now, it's all dependent on what they want to do. I mean, I know at one point they were willing to pay him to be home, get, you know, get his care and all that stuff, but they didn't want to just hand him over to WWE. Maybe that, that line of thinking has changed. I don't know. 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Yeah, go to humper chats.com, h-u-m-p-e-r chats.com. You can send them there. Swerve is backstage and meets with the young bucks who are handing out there. Their Darby isn't allowed in here, uh, signs and Swerve puts his gum in one and he's being like disrespectful to them. They are like avoiding confrontation with him at any point. They're like, hit his music, you're a great guy, you're a great world champion. Like Swerve is trying to instigate and they're not having it. No. What do you think? I mean, he's the champ. They're trying to get Christian to become champ and at that point they could do whatever they want to Swerve, but he is the champion and they don't want it like he's the, it's a business and they're, they're champion. They can't, you know, so they can, they can try and politics to get the champion to not be champion anymore, but if he's the champion, they got to be seen to be good bosses and everything and just hope and pray that he's no longer the champ after something. Swerve defeated Nick Wayne and I love it. He did it with the house call, which is one of my favorite moves in a W that kick always looks incredible. And I, I love this, uh, because one, Nick Wayne did not need a 15 minute match against Swerve at this stage of his career. It needed to be short. Yeah. Swerve needed to control the majority of it. A move that isn't his finish, finishing it, I'm all for that. He's been finishing guys with the house call or the Swerve stomp. I love that he's able to, you, your top dudes in your company, the guys who are champs should finish people with multiple, yes, because they're the top guys, they should be able to finish guys with almost anything. Sammy's aim was a blue thunder bomb, Baron Corbin with a deep six, when you got a move that looks that good finished people with it. So I'm glad he's done that. Then Christian comes out and ends up running all the way to the back and tries to get in his vehicle, but Prince Nana is back to a huge pop. Oh, it's great. And blocked him in. He's got the coffee, he perfectly pulls up and then like, I love it. This is also what I love, taking things out of the venue every so often, especially when you're on the West Coast, the sun's still out, it looks good out there. And you know, Swerve gets the upper hand here. I thought all this was great, Prince Nana is back, he'll be able to lead Swerve at double or nothing as well. I thought this was an appropriate setup and go home segment. So I loved all of that. It's a direct, okay, first kill switch, Luchis Louris guy comes out, is messing with Swerve in the corner and Swerve tosses him out of the ring. And then when Christian runs, Swerve is running after him and as he runs by, he does a house call on kill switch, it doesn't break stride. That was awesome. So I love that it's a direct call back to Christian running from Adam Copland hijacking a car, getting in it and driving away. We've already seen him do that once. So I love that Swerve had that move scouted. He's like, if I chase him, he's going to try and hijack a car. And then we'll have Nana there just waiting to block him in perfect. And then beating him up on top of the car was great, this was all excellent. I loved it. Really really dug that, really enjoyed it. Almost as much as I enjoy a good night's sleep, Alex. And before I found Helixsleep.com/fightful, I didn't get many of them. But Helix mattresses are designed for everybody and a helixsleep.com/fightful. Right now they have a great sale, Memorial Day sale, 30% off their Lux and Elite mattress models using code fightful or take 25% off site wide using the code fightful. Each mattress comes with two free dream pillows, which is a $150 value. Take that sleep quiz right now. May say, what the heck is a sleep quiz and why do I need to take it? Well, if you don't feel like running around to mattress stores, rolling around a mattress that other people have been on, take their quiz. 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What I would love to see is if you could figure out a way to do it, we're like the winner of such and such match on that collision gets a match for an undercard title on the on the Sunday paper view, do something like that. You have casino gauntlets, casino ladder matches, casino battle royals. To me, there's no reason you can't pepper a few of these on the night before collisions every time and show people this is something worth watching for, especially on a double or nothing weekend. The casino thing has been a tradition that double or nothing for a while. You should do that. Yeah, yeah, I think specifically for the casino themed stuff, yeah, Jambeard says it was a jam bath. Taz said he also got covered. Yeah, it was on the LED barricade during the meriah, maybe there was there's no way people in the front row did not get spatter on their faces. Yeah, do you have an ad you could throw to or no, we're not doing it. Not tonight. Oh boy, uh, well then Tony storma, Mariah may defeated Saraya and Harley Cameron. There was a double smooch spot here. There was looked like one of them was a working smooch and the other one was a shoot smooch. Tony and Saraya look at a working smooch. God damn it boy, aren't you working on a smooch? Are they smooching? I said, God damn kid, Harley Cameron, Mariah may had the shoot smooch. Tony and Saraya had the working smooch. Tony came out wrapped in the, the, the Serena deep flag there. Tony and Mariah get the win. Listen, I just got to say, man, I have been consistently impressed with Harley Cameron of late because that woman got thrown into the fire. Yeah, she was good. Like three weeks ago, they were like, Hey, you with less than two dozen matches, you're going to be on dynamite the next three weeks. And all your matches are going to be like seven to 10 minutes. And she said, bet, let's go and I haven't seen any bad spots out of her. I haven't seen anything like that. You would never be able to tell that she had that she has had like two dozen matches and like, and like six on TV, maybe she's doing a great job. On top of that, like her, her backstage stuff, her promo stuff, the character work is out of sight. She's a performer, man. She's a real performer. And now she's getting better and better with these reps on TV, like in a year who knows what she'll be. Like, I'm really, really impressed with how little she had a little ring time she's had and how great she is in these matches. I mean, listen, if we had to break it down, I don't think that AEW needs that. I think I got about five titles I could do without, you know what I mean? Like, sure. But I would have loved women's world tag team titles because I like the idea of somebody like Saraya working with Harley Cameron because somebody like Saraya working with Harley Cameron is going to help her immensely in a number of ways. Also, there's two piled drivers filthy love them. Tom LaValley says Tony forgot her own advice. Watch for the shoe because Serena deep comes out and dare I say her best segment in this entire feud was tonight coming out and attacking with the shoe. This is the fire I wanted to see out of her. But what do you think? I missed the mid 90s WCW when woman or Elizabeth or anybody, they had the shoe. I got out of the shoe. Watch out for the shoe. I love that she came out with the chair and immediately took out Luther. Yes. Let's get him out of the way first. Luther who a lot of people were like favor higher for Chris Jericho. Sure. Yeah. Has become a fantastic producer in the company and is really killing this role. I like her using a lot of her using the shoe. It's a nice hoisted by my own petard thing. This is good stuff. And I think the match should be a lot of fun between her and Tony Storm. Tony is doing such incredible work across the board in every way that she really has become one of the top stars male or female for A.W. And I mean one of my most beloved I love watching everything she does across all wrestling. She's one of the tops for me. We got young bucks banning Darby from the building. Yeah. Now a reminder guys, check out my interview with Darby Allen. It drops on Thursday. It'll be on podcast platforms everywhere as well as as well as YouTube of course. But AEW double or nothing is this Sunday. We've got Anna Cree in the arena. I think the elite end up winning that match. I think that online will have them favored. Check out our partners at bed online. They will have odds. And I'll I'll give you my underdog locks later this week on Fightful Select and the discord whenever I get those but bed online AG earliest lines can bet big industries best bonuses whether we NHL UFC MLB NBA or AEW and WWE. I know some of you looking you say there ain't no way you can bet on wrestling. Well you can and not only can you. If you listen to us and me saying Samoa Joe is going to win the title. Bet on it. Okay. And then you hear me say sting ain't losing that retirement match bet on it. Okay. Rey Mysterio ain't losing at WrestleMania bet on it. Okay. I think there were a couple more for Dynasty as well. I think I had two underdog picks there. It makes me so happy when people tell me that they've won money on wrestling because of our tips there. Bet online AG they're good sports about it too. They know that we're getting the word out but they also know that we're going to give you guys the these good underdog locks but they have a lot of popular games. They're trusted by millions payouts are in minutes is a safe and secure environment. Check it out bet online AG the way that I look at it. I think they'll probably have Adam Copeland as a favor. I think Adam Copeland is winning that barbed wire steel cage match. I think Tony Storm beats Serena Deeb as I look at things. The club gold. I kind of want them to win because I don't want them to split up those damn titles. I don't know if it's one title two titles for this. They said it's for the unified. It's the undisputed. Yes. Death triangle. I went death triangle to win then. There we go. Okay. There we go. There we go. Because I want J.Y. to do something else. But we have Brian Daniels in defeating sat NEM Singh via DQ well the bar was low but this is the best sat NEM Singh match that ever existed. This was a lot of fun. It's Brian Daniels. If there's one thing I love it is a good let's make something out of nothing match. I love the art of it honestly. Tony Miller said actually well all the super chats are about Darby so what I don't like is sat NEM could have just tapped out. Yeah I don't know what the objective is. How many matches has that guy had are we protecting him for a title one he's going to have later this year like we got to keep him undefeated like I don't know what we're doing with the like I mean he like listen he moves around pretty good for a dude his size we've seen we've seen a guys that size who are absolute stiff so he moves around pretty well for a guy that size. I mean he ain't undertaker or Kane but I mean also he's like five inches taller. Yeah he's like he's a half a foot taller than the undertaker you know what I mean? He's a big dude. So like yeah I think that he certainly he acquitted himself very well in this scenario. I do think that it does feel like if you're going to do a uh general sense basically said I'll face anybody you send anybody you want after me I'll beat him and the guy they pick is the biggest guy on the roster. And like I get that part but like you need more really big dudes that you can choose from if the one guy you have available to you is a guy who doesn't wrestle on TV ever. You know what I mean like he so so it would be nicer if there was somebody who were like oh we've seen this guy. He was on he was on revolution and all out like he's got a couple things I guess in singles matches you know yeah I don't I think he's maybe only had one or two singles matches ever. So I would third singles match of his life right which is awesome that he did so well in this. I think that this this went as bad as well as you possibly can except for Sanjay apparently has the strength of the incredible Hulk and tore apart the announce desk when he wasn't supposed to. So they couldn't do the announce desk spots that was weird but I was so stupid it was so stupid. I don't I don't know why why Danielson puts him in the level lock and we got to protect sat nam singing that was my thing. Yeah I agree I agree and I mean this is his first real like match match because I mean he beat Jimmy Jacobs really quickly and then he beat Sir Pentico on the cruise really quickly right but he died with that table came apart but then they said oh well you know they're just collecting the bounty blah blah blah and I was like yeah all right but no I don't see any reason why Brian Danielson of all people can't just beat him. There's nothing wrong with it like a loss is a loss so well then the elite come out and they're trying to make the attack and Darby Allen shows up with a flamethrower. He shows up in a in a car driven by Tony Khan yes and Tony Khan fist bumps him Tony Miller says big tk announcement I gave Darby a flamethrower that honestly that would have been hilarious if Tony Khan rolled up and he's like I have a huge announcement Darby has a flamethrower. Yeah I would have popped for that. Lupinke vices surely this allows cash to bring a whole ass gun right surely I mean it's a step down at this point you know what I mean like listen he is all the charges were dropped there and we are we are I'll say this we are actively looking into that situation because there's something very not right about that entire situation and let me let me tell you it favors cash wheeler an awful lot like about the the very I'm surprised it got as far as it did based on what I've heard they were a load bearing who cans yeah they're very heavy they're very heavy yeah Jesus Christ meet Norma says sup fellas let's crank the flamethrowers like Drew sword it looks cool but we know you ain't using it and he should be a hoot yeah I remember when the berserker would come out there on time like are you trying to stab people yeah we need the repo man to take that from him like what are we doing meet Norma's what do you feel confident you could cook with a flamethrower oh risk it Parker Heinz is neither near over under on the line on Darby setting someone on fire listen I think they should pre tape him setting someone on fire they can this and in the arena like let him go somewhere I don't know who it is probably Jack it's probably Jack I mean you know what we know it's too bad what's too bad is that they've gotten away from like Brandon Cutler hanging out with the Bucks Brandon Cutler as a personal assistant who's a gopher who brings them coffee and then you could set Brandon Cutler on fire during anarchy in the arena or Brandon Cutler puts out the fire with cold spray well that's good too I like that a lot or that actually makes it worse because it might be flammable it probably is it probably is honestly because it's aerosol yeah oh my god Louise Louise is got a good idea he's typing up matty nice as how do you gimmick a flamethrower what an elemental episode of dynamite we got fire we got blood we got gas from Jericho talking great show crappy crowd praying BBG versus DT is on the main show I think it will be Luis says Nakazawa uses body oil again and he gets the flamethrower listen I would love to see them pre tape something like that and like a hidden room in the arena yeah and then cut to it also it's it's kind of hilarious that like Tony the owner of the company is like hey make sure you don't forget your flame thrower I think the sad look does they hurt his neck yes I think the saddest part of all of this is that is that this the the guy with the flamethrower should have been Eddie Kingston which would have been unnatural escalation from we already tried to burn a guy with a gas can what could he possibly do to top that a friggin flamethrower I like the idea that Darby and Eddie Kingston are in the same grand theft auto game and Eddie just left it behind for Darby to collect that's right yeah that's good I like that man the X 31 by the way guys get in your super chats get in your humper chats we are heading down the home stretch right here man that says make wrestling stupid again TK dropping off Darby like he's going to the mall in 2003 with a flamethrower to hang out with other emo friends 10 out of 10 I've really enjoyed it he's going to his part-time job at Hot Topic yep well guys I will be back here Saturday and Sunday for king and queen of the ring as well as double or nothing but you're gonna want to subscribe to FightfulSelect.com I've got a bunch of stories coming up that you guys have been asking and awful lot about it so FightfulSelect.com spread the word if you like it please tell the people because we are largely publicly funded by you guys we've got Lucha Brothers versus Gun Club announced for collision as well as some other interesting things for rampage as well we got you covered Alex tell the people where they can find you you can find me on the Twitter I'm not gonna call it X at Alex our grabs Friday will do something because rampage is on a different time but we're we're definitely gonna do again Sands of Blind we call it where I don't watch the Saudi show but Kate does then she tells me what happened but she lies to me three times and I have to suss out where the lies are that's a lot of fun everyone loves that show then on Sunday we're gonna do a full double or nothing review as well back on Monday for for the post king and queen of the ring raw show and then Tuesday and Xt and then back here again for dynamite Stephanie Chase will have a predictions and preview show for all that stuff guys again if you want to leave humper chats before we go on the air you can do that over at humper chats.com Luis will collect them and all that stuff again we want to interact with you guys we want to hear from you guys we want to hear what you guys like what you don't like you're gonna see some changes on Fightful in the near future like from a visual standpoint freshening things up leave us a thumbs up guys until next time we're out. 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