Speaker 1: There is a scenario where he could win, and he says,
Speaker 1: every championship match is my last. If I lose, I'm out.
Speaker 1: If I win, I'm in. And I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be under contract. I'm just gonna be your ae W champion.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
Speaker 1: Shut up? Bouts, I hit the fan.
Speaker 3: Welcome to sanctioned Thursdays, arestling with ready.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays. Let's start the show.
Speaker 1: It's prediction time, mister Die prediction.
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to make the people some money?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I got my h I got my crystal ball ready,
Speaker 2: It's all locked and loaded.
Speaker 3: I've been doing terrible at this, so let's see if
Speaker 3: my crystal ball can get better.
Speaker 1: There's one that's going to be impossible for me to pick,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just gonna kind of like ABC D
Speaker 1: it so, but I'll be I'll be transparent about which
Speaker 1: one that is. But outside of that, I feel highly
Speaker 1: confident that I can call the whole card. How confident
Speaker 1: are you feeling right now?
Speaker 3: Not very Here's the thing, like Jeff Die varies when
Speaker 3: it comes to wrestling. You know, I'll be like watching
Speaker 3: so much WWE, watching little videos about WWE, and then like,
Speaker 3: because of that, AW doesn't get as much as my focus.
Speaker 3: And then there'll be other times where I'm watching so
Speaker 3: much AEW and so much Internet about AW and then
Speaker 3: WWE kind of fades a little.
Speaker 2: So I'm in my WWE phase.
Speaker 1: I don't have to travel every week and entertain people
Speaker 1: and make them laugh, so I have way more time
Speaker 1: to watch wrestling. Don't worry, I got you covered. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Chris Jericho, the ft for the world is
Speaker 1: such an a whole thing to just change somebody's championship.
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho champion versus Hook. This is a very easy,
Speaker 1: easy prediction for me to make. This story has been
Speaker 1: anti Hook pro The Learning Tree almost called him the
Speaker 1: Giving Tree. He's giving. He's very giving.
Speaker 2: That's that's what the Learning Tree is.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's a giver. They have been all over Hook.
Speaker 1: They practically kill Somemo Joe. They killed my man what's
Speaker 1: the Japanese guy's name, Shabata. They killed Shabata or killed
Speaker 1: his arm anyway, drove some ojo through a wall, burnt
Speaker 1: out Hook's eye. He's still he last week and and
Speaker 1: Dynamite said, I I can't even see out of my eyes,
Speaker 1: so a bitch, and I did it just like that.
Speaker 1: It was it was money and a little better than mine.
Speaker 1: And to me, the only way this story ends in
Speaker 1: London is with everyone's favorite Hook going over and beating
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho and becoming once again the real FTW champion.
Speaker 1: Oh for the world, bullshit it, but yeah, So that's
Speaker 1: that's why I pick I pick Hook defeats Chris Jericho.
Speaker 3: How about you, sir, I am gonna go against you
Speaker 3: and pick Chris Jericho.
Speaker 1: Don't you want to win once?
Speaker 3: Joe, Well, then we'd be tying on the pick if
Speaker 3: I if I pick Cook. Yeah, so I'm gonna pick
Speaker 3: Chris Jericho. He's the current one. Maybe we can get
Speaker 3: more story out of this. Maybe we can drag it
Speaker 3: on longer. I've been enjoying watching You just want Taz
Speaker 3: to get into ball, that's what you are.
Speaker 2: We went, well, where's he been? You know, help out
Speaker 2: your boy.
Speaker 1: From the ring where anytime Chris comes out because Chris
Speaker 1: is afraid of him, you know you might.
Speaker 3: You gotta flex those Taz muscles. So I'm going Chris Jericho.
Speaker 3: Keep this feud going all right.
Speaker 1: Next up is the impossible one for me to pick
Speaker 1: one because I don't even know who they're wrestling yet.
Speaker 1: It's the Young Bucks, the Tag Team Champions, the World
Speaker 1: Tag Team Champions versus either the Acclaimed or FTR or
Speaker 1: the Acclaimed and FTR. But I don't know. So the
Speaker 1: only thing I know for certain is the two dudes
Speaker 1: that are going to be in the match named the
Speaker 1: Young Bucks, right, I know they're gonna be in the
Speaker 1: match no matter what. So I'm picking the Young Bucks
Speaker 1: to win. But do not go with me on this
Speaker 1: unless you already know who they're going against and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Young Bucks. They're not dropping them yet, so
Speaker 1: that's why.
Speaker 3: I don't know who they're going against. But I am
Speaker 3: I allowed to pick the field.
Speaker 1: You can take the field yet the.
Speaker 3: Field Young Bucks. I'm not a huge fan of the
Speaker 3: Young Bucks. I never have been a fan of the
Speaker 3: Young Bucks. The Young Bucks are gonna be like my
Speaker 3: miz of aw like once they have been doing it
Speaker 3: for thirty years, I'll have to be the guy that's like,
Speaker 3: I'll give it to him. They've always been around, all right,
Speaker 3: They've earned my res so I'm gonna pick the field,
Speaker 3: and I love the acclaimed, so I hope it's there.
Speaker 3: Everybody loves the acclaimed, all awesome. Next step the Trios Championships,
Speaker 3: the World Trios Championships.
Speaker 1: The patriot. This is an easy pick, the patriarchy versus
Speaker 1: another field, Jeff, And as as smart as the field
Speaker 1: pick was, I don't think it's gonna play this time.
Speaker 1: I don't see anybody beating the genius mind of Christian
Speaker 1: Cage the Patriarchy. He's got help his lady. The Patriarch
Speaker 1: shall come in with the hairs of the aquinet, skit
Speaker 1: you in the eyes. Maybe she gets a lighter like
Speaker 1: we do in the eighties, and oh yeah, I love
Speaker 1: that burn that shit. You know you might get another
Speaker 1: fireball there. So I think they're gonna have some Shenanigans.
Speaker 1: And the Patriarchy beats the field, that means they beat
Speaker 1: everyone else in ae W what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's funny, you say.
Speaker 3: When I was a teenager, the local grocery stores would
Speaker 3: be like, why is this young boy buying so much hairspray?
Speaker 3: And it's because I love fire and I love it.
Speaker 3: For this, it's an easy, no brainer pick for Jeff. Dye.
Speaker 3: I've always been a straight white male, and I've always
Speaker 3: loved the patriarchy. I'm picking the patriarchy. It's never failed Mignet,
Speaker 3: and it won't fail me at.
Speaker 2: This event either.
Speaker 3: So here we go, Jeff Dine picking the patriarchy, and
Speaker 3: you can bet on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah you could. You could take that shit to the bank.
Speaker 2: I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Next up is Jack Perry, the champion, the TNT champion.
Speaker 1: Because our man Edge got hurt. Hope Edge gets well
Speaker 1: soon comes back and whip your ass Jack Perry. But
Speaker 1: right now he's fighting Darby all Yeah, tell you that's
Speaker 1: our boy, Jack Perry versus Darby Allen in a coffin match.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Here's the thing. The champion has certain advantages,
Speaker 1: but in a coffin match, what the fuck? His advantages
Speaker 1: go out the window. And Darby Allen is kind of
Speaker 1: a coffin kind of dude. He does the coffin drop.
Speaker 1: I've seen him land on a coffin dented and practically
Speaker 1: break his spine like a like a cannon of pringles.
Speaker 1: So I would assume he has the advantage. That said,
Speaker 1: Jack Perry's evil. He changed his music. It's more dramatic,
Speaker 1: he's he's he takes his hair band out much more
Speaker 1: really used to. That shows a lot of evil, and
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do something evil in this match
Speaker 1: and he's going to get to win. Remember it wasn't
Speaker 1: so long ago that he was the one that was
Speaker 1: gonna get lit on fire by Darby. I feel like,
Speaker 1: because he took that one and had to look like
Speaker 1: the victim in that one, that he's gonna get it
Speaker 1: up on him this time. So I'm picking Jack Perry.
Speaker 1: That's my philosophy behind it. Anyway to beat Darby Allen
Speaker 1: in the coffin match for the TNT Championship. I know
Speaker 1: you're going the opposite direction and you're gonna be wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, our little cave boy has really grown up to
Speaker 3: become the grumpy band gang Jack Perry. You know, pist,
Speaker 3: You and everybody not a fan don't like it, thundersized
Speaker 3: under I don't need him.
Speaker 2: I don't I like a Darby Allen.
Speaker 3: And the simple fact that it's a coffin match makes
Speaker 3: me go, hey, this is a no brainer. When Darby
Speaker 3: Allen you just referenced it against a swerve, when he
Speaker 3: just literally threw his whole body on his swarf's hand
Speaker 3: was still out of the little thing.
Speaker 2: It was amazing, big fan.
Speaker 3: If I'm betting with my heart, I picked Darby Allen
Speaker 3: because he's cooler. I like him better. He's cooler, and
Speaker 3: it's a coffin match. However, I'm gonna bet with my
Speaker 3: brain and I think Jack Perry Wentz.
Speaker 1: Coming to the dark side. That's my brain, my heart
Speaker 1: making money, all right. Next Tony Storm versus maybe my
Speaker 1: new favorite guest, Mariah May, super friggin smart, crazy eye
Speaker 1: for the business plan this, this destruction of Tony Storm
Speaker 1: from day one. Still keeps the bloody shoe in her
Speaker 1: bag when she travels, just to remind her how the
Speaker 1: hell could she lose this match in front of her
Speaker 1: own peace? Are you kidding me? Now? I know some
Speaker 1: of you were thinking, well, wait a minute, that's the
Speaker 1: perfect time to lose. No, no, no, no no. Tony's
Speaker 1: had a long time with the championship, a very long
Speaker 1: time with the championship. I think she's ready to give
Speaker 1: it up. I think where she draws the line, Mariah
Speaker 1: May hasn't even gotten started, and Mariah May is going
Speaker 1: to become your ae W Women's Champion. What let's go
Speaker 1: miss Mariah May. What do you say, Jeff?
Speaker 3: I know, all right, well you know what, Alex are
Speaker 3: producers too shy to say it, Freddy or two's polite.
Speaker 2: To say it.
Speaker 3: The whole this whole stupid business is too polite. Said,
Speaker 3: But Jeff said, Mariah May is hot.
Speaker 2: That is hot.
Speaker 1: Everybody says that you're not.
Speaker 2: Tries to be polite. Oh no, it's your Japanese strong style.
Speaker 3: Listen, she's a smoke show and I like what she
Speaker 3: If anybody hasn't listened to our interview with her, go
Speaker 3: back and listen to it. She's awesome and she's smart.
Speaker 3: I think she's gonna win this, dude. She convinced me.
Speaker 1: Next up the American Championship. That son of a bitch MJF. Yes,
Speaker 1: everybody hates MJF. He's being mean to British people all
Speaker 1: over the place, no matter where he goes. He's being
Speaker 1: mean to Americans wherever he goes. He takes hats off
Speaker 1: of children, he spills beers and guys. He doesn't even
Speaker 1: give him free merch after he son of a But
Speaker 1: he's a champion and he's fighting the former champion, will
Speaker 1: Ospray everybody's favorite wrestler does the illest shit in the
Speaker 1: ring you've ever seen, and he does it like it's nothing,
Speaker 1: like it's a piece of cake, and in front of
Speaker 1: his hometown in London. Now, normally, if this was WWE,
Speaker 1: one of them's got to lose, Jeff, they won't let
Speaker 1: both hometown heroes win. That's the WW thing. They never
Speaker 1: would do it. But this is aw and it's a
Speaker 1: whole new will Ospray is going to take the title
Speaker 1: back from MJF. And this could start a whole rivalry
Speaker 1: where they start going back and forth like Randy Orton
Speaker 1: and John Cena back in like two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: back and forth, and they make this title mean something,
Speaker 1: perhaps even more than the aw World Championship if they're
Speaker 1: awesome enough. So I pick will Ospray to defeat that
Speaker 1: scumbag MJF who talks nothing but shit about the fine
Speaker 1: people of England and the United Kingdom and all our
Speaker 1: British listeners out there. I have love for you, and
Speaker 1: will Ospray wins. What do you say, Jeff, Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I've never once voted against MJF. In fact, you'll never
Speaker 3: ever hear me say anything bad about MGF or pick
Speaker 3: against him. Listen, will Ospray might be one of the
Speaker 3: best wrestlers in the business, but nobody has my loyalty
Speaker 3: more than MJF. I think he will stay the champion.
Speaker 3: I think he will humiliate those people and on this
Speaker 3: everyone off in England or the way he deals with
Speaker 3: will Ospray, which will further fuel that flame. There's nothing
Speaker 3: better than being a bad guy getting to be like
Speaker 3: talking trash in England. It's gonna be amazing, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be awesome, and they're gonna be pissed at MJF because
Speaker 3: he's gonna leave that building with the bell.
Speaker 2: That's what I think.
Speaker 1: You almost talked me into changing my vote was It's
Speaker 1: gonna be perfect.
Speaker 3: It's gonna piss him off so bad. It's just Huntings
Speaker 3: the heel.
Speaker 1: You pissed me off by almost changing my mind. So
Speaker 1: I'm staying with Osprey just despite you, and you're you're
Speaker 1: just as bad as MJF. That's what I think. I
Speaker 1: love him. It's the best is next up Mercedes Monday,
Speaker 1: the champion, the TBS champion with a pretty cool finisher
Speaker 1: by the way, versus the dentist Britt Baker D m D.
Speaker 1: She's back. We love her. She's cutting emotional promos in
Speaker 1: the ring. She's dressing up in costumes and whipping people's asses.
Speaker 1: She has to deal with more than just Mercedes. Now
Speaker 1: she has to deal with their muscle as well. It's
Speaker 1: not looking good, however, however, she's got a chance, Jeff.
Speaker 1: She's got a chance she had. She didn't make any
Speaker 1: promises like the babyface makes promise, so there's a chance
Speaker 1: she could lose. There's a chance she could win. This
Speaker 1: is a hard one for me to pick, Jeff, But
Speaker 1: I don't see a world where Mercedes can't still be
Speaker 1: champion yet. And I think there's gonna be some interference
Speaker 1: and BRIT's gonna get screwed by Camille Brickhouse. They just
Speaker 1: call her Camille.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: She's gonna have to deal with Camille, deal with Camille.
Speaker 1: It's a sitcom from the eighties and not a good one.
Speaker 1: Got canceled after three episodes, but I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: cause her the loss, and she's gonna have to get
Speaker 1: it in Chicago a few weeks later and everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: love it. So I'm going with Mercedes Monday to retain,
Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna disagree.
Speaker 3: No, I love Britt Baker and I love Sasha Banks.
Speaker 3: I won't call her Mercedes Monete. I love that they
Speaker 3: brought in Camille. I love that they brought her like
Speaker 3: it's yeah, I don't know if it's a coincidence, but
Speaker 3: it feels like Mercedes Monet is like best mic work
Speaker 3: or best kind of stuff since since.
Speaker 2: The addition of her.
Speaker 3: I think that Mercedes Monet will retain her championship. There's
Speaker 3: gonna be some shenanigans, but I think that that's how
Speaker 3: that's how it's gonna go down. And then if she
Speaker 3: loses the belt, you know, I think it'll be in
Speaker 3: the weeks to come, it will be to Britain.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: Just not It's just not just not yet London, all right.
Speaker 1: The final match of the night the ae W World
Speaker 1: Championship two time guests Swerve Strickland the champion versus Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson in a career versus title match. It Brian loses,
Speaker 1: he will never wrestle again. I wish he wouldn't have
Speaker 1: said that if he wins, he can keep wrestling as
Speaker 1: long he won't be under contract, but he'll be the champion. Now,
Speaker 1: the business mind goes, he's not gonna win, he's retiring,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna win. He's gonna give us a great match.
Speaker 1: Somebody will come in, maybe interrupt the match, and that
Speaker 1: way he goes, oh, it was a disqualification. I didn't lose,
Speaker 1: so I can still wrestle from time to time after
Speaker 1: I have surgery. But your heart believes in Brian Danielson
Speaker 1: because the Yes movement was real, Jeff, the Yes movement
Speaker 1: was real. Wwe buried Brian Danielson, buried him then known
Speaker 1: as Daniel Bryan, and the crowd was not having it
Speaker 1: because he was John McClain from the Diehard series. He
Speaker 1: was that movie you see where you go, Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do, and I'd save the day,
Speaker 1: even though most of us would be that guy Ellis
Speaker 1: from Dieharden, that's just doing cocaine and he shot in
Speaker 1: the head later, right, But we believe in John McLean
Speaker 1: and that's who Brian is. That's that's what he represents.
Speaker 1: He's the everyman. He's the Yeah, if I would have
Speaker 1: put in the work, if I would have worked hard,
Speaker 1: I could have done that too, and that's why we'd
Speaker 1: love it. And because of that, it makes it so
Speaker 1: freaking hard to pick against him when he says something
Speaker 1: like I'll never wrestle again, because my brain can't process
Speaker 1: that yet. I wish I had a better relationship with Brown.
Speaker 1: You know, we only worked together for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I wish we would have traded numbers and I kept
Speaker 1: in touch all these years because I'd just be like, dude, no, like,
Speaker 1: just wrestle once a year. Who can All that said,
Speaker 1: there is a scenario where he could win, and he says,
Speaker 1: every championship match is my last. If I lose, I'm out.
Speaker 1: If I win, I'm in, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be under contract. I'm just gonna be your ae W champion.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe that story that I'm pitching you
Speaker 1: right now, but I'm just saying it could happen. All
Speaker 1: that bullshit aside, Swerve Strickland is retaining the championship. Oh,
Speaker 1: after all that, After all that, Swerve Strickland is retaining
Speaker 1: the championship because I think that he can't do it.
Speaker 1: He can't win if he's retiring, he can't win.
Speaker 3: If I'll put one little piggyback on one of the
Speaker 3: things you said too about the the Yes movement and yeah,
Speaker 3: Brian Daniel Brian that maybe people have kind of misremembered
Speaker 3: Brian Danielson or at the time Daniel Bryant was small.
Speaker 2: Now this wasn't a common thing. Now everyone at AEW
Speaker 2: is five foot five.
Speaker 3: This this guy was this little like you said, he
Speaker 3: was diehard was he was?
Speaker 2: He was he was writing to be this and he
Speaker 2: became the star.
Speaker 3: Because if you have that many people chanting yes and
Speaker 3: they got to put you over, they say, oh, hey,
Speaker 3: the numbers don't lie.
Speaker 2: This is amazing. This guy is over.
Speaker 3: He did it himself and so he's awesome and I'll
Speaker 3: never disrespect him.
Speaker 2: My love this guy a lot. I think he wins.
Speaker 1: But also you're gonna make me change my mind.
Speaker 2: I think he wins. But here's here's what I will say.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be a great bad guy move?
Speaker 3: Like as a heel This is totally separate from this
Speaker 3: worst trick when versus Brian Anderson match, But like, wouldn't
Speaker 3: it be a great bad guy move to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's a retirement match.
Speaker 2: I just don't know. I'm not doing that, but he tire.
Speaker 2: You make me like Union, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, it's such a good idea, shave your hair match,
Speaker 3: and then you're like, you lose the match.
Speaker 2: I'm not shaving my hair. Just just don't. That's such
Speaker 2: the bad guy, perfect bad guy move.
Speaker 3: That being said, I think Brian Danison wins and we
Speaker 3: don't have to worry about that. He's gonna retire, he's
Speaker 3: gonna get the next surgeries, he's gonna do all those things.
Speaker 3: But I don't think he would ever just say I'm
Speaker 3: not going to wrestle again. I think it's ridiculous stipulations,
Speaker 3: and the stipulations are so ridiculous that I think he wins.
Speaker 1: All right, hold on, I might flip and.
Speaker 2: Then he might give the belt up.
Speaker 3: You know, he'll like, in three weeks, I'll have some
Speaker 3: tiery goodbye about how he needs next surgery and he's
Speaker 3: got to raise his daughter and he wants to be present,
Speaker 3: and then he'll just give the belt away and they'll
Speaker 3: do some tournament to get the rights to fight for
Speaker 3: the belt, and then Swerve will be like this was
Speaker 3: mine all the time, and so they'll you know, but
Speaker 3: I think that we make a big to do about
Speaker 3: Brian Danielson's going away, but I don't think that to
Speaker 3: do is him losing to swerve strickling.
Speaker 1: Fine, I switched Brian Danielson wins. Yeah, we got them.
Speaker 1: You almost got me with MJF two, but you did
Speaker 1: it so ha. All right, y'all, that's all the matches
Speaker 1: for all in I kind of wish I was there
Speaker 1: in Amazing, But the next one's at Texas. Jeff, You're
Speaker 1: going to Texas. Love for us, some love for us.
Speaker 1: We could do a little field trip.
Speaker 2: Me, you and our giant producer Alex.
Speaker 1: We could all make it. That would be pretty crazy,
Speaker 1: but anyway, enjoy the pay per view. Make sure you
Speaker 1: guys tune in every week. We love that you guys
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