Speaker 1: Now you're made even introducing the hosts are wrestling with for.
Speaker 2: Ready Chef died hand of Fready prints soon.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Thursday. It's bonus content Day, and
Speaker 1: you're lucky and so are we, because there was a
Speaker 1: cool pay per view which a lot of you got
Speaker 1: to see called Forbidden Door, the door that Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: refuses to open, but Tony Kahan leaves wide open, and
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool. However, I recently got rid
Speaker 1: of Direct TV and don't know how to order.
Speaker 3: The pay per views.
Speaker 1: I have now since found out you can't do Bleacher
Speaker 1: Report on an Xbox, so that didn't work for me.
Speaker 1: And my wife does all the apps on the TV
Speaker 1: because I don't know how to work technology, so I
Speaker 1: will no longer miss anymore because she has since installed
Speaker 1: it and put it up properly. But fortunately our man
Speaker 1: in the field, Jeff di flew all the way to Japan.
Speaker 1: No I didn't, but he did watch the pay per view.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to introduce these matches to the people.
Speaker 1: You're going to get him down. But this is also
Speaker 1: a Thursday where we can kind of talk about whatever
Speaker 1: we want, so any side quest that you want to
Speaker 1: go on. Jeff, I don't care if you want to
Speaker 1: talk old cars or that cool motorcycle you had with
Speaker 1: the sidecar and you just put your dog in it.
Speaker 1: That was pretty dope. With goggles, we could talk about anything. Also, guys,
Speaker 1: don't forget subscribe to PSN, the Premier Streaming Network. It's
Speaker 1: an app on your phone. You can download it, subscribe.
Speaker 1: It is the best of independent wrestling brought to you.
Speaker 1: So they have a home, so they have a place
Speaker 1: where you can watch, where you can learn about your
Speaker 1: favorite wrestlers before they were in AEW, before they were
Speaker 1: in WWE. Also, September ninth, we will announce the Premier
Speaker 1: Streaming Networks Champion. The Premier Champion. I can't. I don't
Speaker 1: think I can tell you who the two wrestlers are
Speaker 1: in it yet, but as soon as I know for
Speaker 1: sure I can, I will. But that's September ninth in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. So go there, Go to Premier Streaming Network,
Speaker 1: get the app. You can get tickets to the event
Speaker 1: if you want. And if I ain't working, I might
Speaker 1: even be there. That's not me formally announcing it. That's
Speaker 1: just me saying I might be there too. There you go, Jeff,
Speaker 1: the Forbidden Door. This is when, for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: when the American promotions take on the new Japan Pro
Speaker 1: Wrestling promotion. And this is something that ww fans had
Speaker 1: always wanted and will never never get. Although they've sent
Speaker 1: they signed Japanese wrestlers, and they've sent American wrestlers over
Speaker 1: there before, but this is on the show where you
Speaker 1: have to decide is your guy going to lose to
Speaker 1: their guy basically, and that's a lot of pride and
Speaker 1: character protection and things like that go along with it.
Speaker 1: So a lot of compromises have to be made, and
Speaker 1: then there's obviously some jobs that have to be done. Again,
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to watch this card because I'm technically stupid,
Speaker 1: but you were. And they started the match off with
Speaker 1: MJF going against and I want to get all these
Speaker 1: names right, you guys. I really respect the culture. It's
Speaker 1: just hard for me sometimes, but I'm going to do
Speaker 1: my best. Hiroshi Tamahashi, he beat him, he retains his
Speaker 1: AW World Championship.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody was surprised by that. Jeff, what
Speaker 3: did you think of the match?
Speaker 2: MGF is a star and the best. I also loved
Speaker 2: the way he build up to this. It was a
Speaker 2: delicious build up if you will, for him to just
Speaker 2: be like, it's a second rate, crappy independent league. I
Speaker 2: don't even know why we're doing this dumb paper, which
Speaker 2: is if you think about it, what they've done with
Speaker 2: the Forbidden Door. It's like when we were younger and
Speaker 2: we were like, wouldn't it be cool if they made
Speaker 2: a Mortal Kombat versus Street Fighter? Wouldn't be cool if
Speaker 2: they had like DC and Marvel fought each other, Like
Speaker 2: we had all these dreams of what would later become true.
Speaker 2: We were able to do these things and Tony Kahn.
Speaker 2: Credit to him, man, he made this cool thing happen.
Speaker 3: He isn't.
Speaker 2: It's not like necessarily WWE versus ae W, but it's
Speaker 2: something and it's fun and for like these wrestling fans
Speaker 2: who really follow all these other markets, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of dream matches. Some are saying on the internet, this
Speaker 2: was the best pay per view ever.
Speaker 3: That's that's a lot. That's a lot to say. However,
Speaker 3: that's heavy.
Speaker 1: That makes me feel like I missed something and there's
Speaker 1: no way, there's no way I missed something.
Speaker 3: That damn good.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of good stuff, and like I said,
Speaker 2: maybe not the best ever. I don't think it's the
Speaker 2: best ever, but that's what people saying on the internet.
Speaker 3: Was solid. And also people on the internet they say a.
Speaker 2: Lot of things, so whatever, but that's just I read
Speaker 2: that a lot and I was going, okays.
Speaker 3: Called me some pretty some pretty mean names over there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's all wrong. All that practice not.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing Tanahashi is is he's old, and
Speaker 2: but he's a legend. His reputation is as respected as
Speaker 2: as any, but he's up there in age. He's not
Speaker 2: as young and as relevant and as strong and as
Speaker 2: good as MJF is currently. But the match was good
Speaker 2: and MJF sold it outside of the ring and inside
Speaker 2: of the ring called him old, did all of his things.
Speaker 3: The match. The match was, The match was good.
Speaker 2: It held up and also MGF was hilarious and said
Speaker 2: I told him, if I was going to do it,
Speaker 2: put it first so I can get out of here.
Speaker 3: I just want to go home.
Speaker 2: I don't want to I thought that was a funny
Speaker 2: way to justify that. He was forced to do it
Speaker 2: by Tony KAHK.
Speaker 1: Next up, CM Punk defeated Satoshi Kojima in an Owen
Speaker 1: Hart tournament match, and I'll be damned if you weren't right.
Speaker 1: I thought cmpunk would be celebrated in every city that
Speaker 1: he went to and everyone would be happy. And you said, no,
Speaker 1: it's just because it's in Chicago as and granted there
Speaker 1: were cm punk chants, but every time there was one,
Speaker 1: the boo birds would come out and they would outlast
Speaker 1: the chant. The booze was shut down the chant, and
Speaker 1: I really didn't expect that. So my first question is
Speaker 1: cmpunk versus Satoshi who was the babyface and who was
Speaker 1: the heel?
Speaker 2: Uh? They both kind of took turns doing this sort
Speaker 2: of thing, so it was like, uh, also not to mention, uh,
Speaker 2: Kojima looks one hundred years old in the face like
Speaker 2: he these these these look like two old dogs.
Speaker 3: But seeam punk looked young? You think he's on ozempic something.
Speaker 2: It looks like Seampunk was surprised he was getting booed,
Speaker 2: like in a way like he was kind of like,
Speaker 2: what you're booing me?
Speaker 3: But like maybe that was the character. Maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Maybe he was.
Speaker 1: I think it's the character because he did it on
Speaker 1: on collision as well, and he really leaned into it,
Speaker 1: and so kudos to him for that. I know I
Speaker 1: was critical of him last week, but the way he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, I'll be a heel, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, all right, you're not. You're not being mad
Speaker 1: that they're booing. Good exactly. We'll see how long it lasts,
Speaker 1: but good.
Speaker 3: And it was fun.
Speaker 2: And also the shirt he wore out there, I don't know,
Speaker 2: talk about merch a lot. I like that shirt. I
Speaker 2: would buy and wear that shirt. Big fan of the
Speaker 2: It was the pink and black, kind of like Brett
Speaker 2: Hart colors, but had a good graphic on it.
Speaker 3: I liked it.
Speaker 2: It was fun to watch him get the fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty boos, and it was fun to watch these two
Speaker 2: knuckle it out in there. I was.
Speaker 3: I was very impressed with the match, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up, Orange Cassidy defeats Ring of Honor Pure champion
Speaker 1: Katsuyori Shibata, njpw TV champion Zach Saber Junior and Daniel Garcia,
Speaker 1: who was doing this weird dance thing that I haven't
Speaker 1: seen him do until recently, and I'm not liking it.
Speaker 1: To retain the AEW International title. The squos in one
Speaker 1: freshly squosed Orange Cassidy with the victory. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of Orange Cassidy.
Speaker 2: If you don't count Kenny Omega and Osprey, this was
Speaker 2: my match of the night, match of the week.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It was NonStop, It just kept going. It was very
Speaker 2: very fun, high action. I don't know, it just felt
Speaker 2: like every part of the match. You'd go, like I
Speaker 2: just popped for every single thing they did. And also,
Speaker 2: like you said, we've I mean, we continue to keep
Speaker 2: talking about it, but I feel like Orange Cassidy is
Speaker 2: slowly becoming the real deal. Like it's not just a community,
Speaker 2: it's not just a game with him, we're and like
Speaker 2: he's perfectly became.
Speaker 3: This real deal. So I liked it a lot. It
Speaker 3: was a good match.
Speaker 1: Wrestlers love working with him. I've spoken to a few
Speaker 1: different people and they all just seeing him the highest
Speaker 1: praise man, they really really did. They say he's a
Speaker 1: good dude, really giving, really generous, like just super cool.
Speaker 1: So I like him more and more each week.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next up was Sonata with Doki. I hope I said
Speaker 1: that right, and they defeated Jungle boy Jack Perry. I'm
Speaker 1: still not liking Jungle Boy, and then I think it
Speaker 1: should just be Jack Perry. And at the end of
Speaker 1: this match, Jack Perry was very Hollywood bro. It's almost
Speaker 1: like his dad was in the business or something, and
Speaker 1: he just was total dick move not only turned his
Speaker 1: back but just destroyed and backstabbed his best friend. God,
Speaker 1: what a scumbag. That never has happened to me in
Speaker 1: this business. Three different times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he Jungle Boy is no longer Jungle Boy, just
Speaker 2: just Jack Perry at this point Jack Perry. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also he is a jerk. I really believe it.
Speaker 3: It seems like a jerk just because he's doing a
Speaker 3: good job. Now you hate it, well, No, I told you.
Speaker 2: I saw him in that wrestling cruise and he was
Speaker 2: just like, didn't talk to anyone, he didn't do anything,
Speaker 2: he didn't shake any hands. He seemed just like, I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be a great heel because I don't
Speaker 2: know if he's introvert.
Speaker 3: You should have been a little funnier, Jeff.
Speaker 2: No, he didn't even come to the comedy shows. I
Speaker 2: think he's just maybe introverted, shy over it. Maybe he
Speaker 2: was maybe having a bad weekend. It's hard to say
Speaker 2: what happened, so sour grapes because Sonata defeats Jungle Boy, right,
Speaker 2: so he's already like kind of grumpy, but then he
Speaker 2: gets pulled out of the ring kind of walked up
Speaker 2: by hook. If anybody reads like the Sheets or Dave
Speaker 2: Meltz or any of these things, you knew they were
Speaker 2: going to turn Jungle Boy Jack Perry into a heel.
Speaker 2: So I didn't even avoid that spoiler on Twitter, but
Speaker 2: I kept wait for it during the match. I kept
Speaker 2: waiting for, like kind of a classic thing. But he
Speaker 2: went and he got to the top of the ramp. Uh,
Speaker 2: Jungle Boy just closed lines hook, the belt goes flying.
Speaker 2: He holds up the belt and then throws it down
Speaker 2: at throws it down at hook And what sold it
Speaker 2: through that belt was like you said, you like the
Speaker 2: way Jay Usso reveals on his face, Dude, the looks
Speaker 2: from the crowd. Even though the aw fans are the
Speaker 2: most dialed in wrestling fans in the world, there's no
Speaker 2: way they didn't all see this coming. But they had
Speaker 2: some great reaction shots of fans being like, what look,
Speaker 2: I'm shocked, And then a lot of fans that were
Speaker 2: like laughing because they like they like Jack Perry even
Speaker 2: though he just turned and then they shoot to Taz
Speaker 2: and Taz takes off his glasses and just completely sells
Speaker 2: it like what just happened?
Speaker 3: Like it was it was a perfect cell by That's awesome.
Speaker 3: I freaking love Taz by the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, perfect cell by task, perfect cell by the crowd.
Speaker 2: It was all great, but it was if I'm honest,
Speaker 2: nothing in the Ropes impressed me as much as the
Speaker 2: way they were able to sell that kind of moment.
Speaker 3: At the top of the top of the ramp.
Speaker 1: Well, let's skip around and get to a match that
Speaker 1: you did like between the ropes. Will Osprey defeating Kenneth
Speaker 1: Omegath to win the iwgp US title was this year
Speaker 1: Match of the Night cert Match of the Week.
Speaker 2: The Yes Osprey, I'm I'm only aware of him from
Speaker 2: like highlights that I'll watch because we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: him on the next week. You know, I don't see
Speaker 2: a lot of his matches, But it seems like every
Speaker 2: time I'm talking about a great, great, great great match,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's with Kenny Omega. Whether Kenny Omega loses
Speaker 2: or whether Kenny Omega wins. I feel like I'm constantly
Speaker 2: talking about Kenny Omega for for the best matches. At
Speaker 2: least that's what I feel like. I think Kenny Omega
Speaker 2: is my low key wrestling man crush.
Speaker 1: This guy's so stakid you have to get more more hipped.
Speaker 1: I'm just started getting hip to him when he came
Speaker 1: back from that injury and was doing those trios matches,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know why people talk
Speaker 1: shit on this guy. Dude good as fuck. I didn't
Speaker 1: understand what the hate was. But I'm not hip to
Speaker 1: all his matches except I saw one old one with
Speaker 1: him in will Osprey.
Speaker 2: Will Ospray wins, which I wasn't expecting. I think that's
Speaker 2: another reason I popped so big. It's like, what Beat's
Speaker 2: why Forbidden Doors cool? Because if you have somebody who's
Speaker 2: willing to do the job, then you get that kind
Speaker 2: of a wait what he lost? And then now the
Speaker 2: other promotion has the belt like it's it's a really
Speaker 2: cool thing, man. That's why I always hope that WW
Speaker 2: would do it, but they never will. It was fascinating,
Speaker 2: to say the least, that this lived up to the
Speaker 2: exact hype that everybody was saying it would and uh
Speaker 2: and it was awesome, very very good match. Kenny Omega
Speaker 2: my man Crush.
Speaker 1: And now it's time for Jeff Dashnter over the Week. Yay.
Speaker 2: Well, I know that this Thursday episode was all about
Speaker 2: the greatest pay per view in the world according to
Speaker 2: Twitter aew, but my hot tag of the week is
Speaker 2: about the Bloodline. It's easy to come on here and
Speaker 2: tell you what you read on the sheets and what
Speaker 2: Dave Meltzer says is gonna happen. It's also easy, maybe
Speaker 2: to predict what's gonna happen when you worked and flew
Speaker 2: and hung out with and cool with Vince McMahon Freddie.
Speaker 2: But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 2: what I wish would happen if I was booking this
Speaker 2: Bloodline story.
Speaker 3: You got the Ussos versus Solo Sequoia, and.
Speaker 2: You got Roman reins, and they're in there and it
Speaker 2: looks like things are gonna go down, and we build it.
Speaker 2: It takes what twenty five minutes for all of their
Speaker 2: intros by the time they get in the ring, Give
Speaker 2: them microphones, let them jot each other, say is this
Speaker 2: is what's gonna happen, the Bloodline separating like everyone thinks
Speaker 2: is gonna happen, like everyone is expecting, right, because it's
Speaker 2: a match. That's how these thing's work. You want turmoil
Speaker 2: in the Bloodline. And then someone comes in to do
Speaker 2: some micwork named Paul E.
Speaker 3: Hayman. And what do they do.
Speaker 2: The usos in stereo give them a super kick, knock
Speaker 2: Paul Hayman out. Roman Reins does a move move on
Speaker 2: Paul Hayman like gives them a gives them a super punch.
Speaker 2: They basically so Soka gives them the Samoa spike with
Speaker 2: the big thumb. They turn Paul Hayman. They put the
Speaker 2: belts on the shoulders USO's hug Roman reigns. Roman Reins
Speaker 2: holds their head like I'm sorry, buddy, I love you boys.
Speaker 2: I've been I've lost my mind, I've went crazy. They
Speaker 2: hug Sosa and guess who comes out? Guess who's music
Speaker 2: kids Rakishi as the new manager of the Bloodline, as
Speaker 2: the Bloodlines guy. They put the belts on Rakishi. They
Speaker 2: all do the crazy wise man yes, and they do
Speaker 2: the crazy dance and we uh and we don't need
Speaker 2: a main event of that, we get a pure bloodline,
Speaker 2: we get we get rid of Paulie Hayman, which you
Speaker 2: can now put with a different superstar. We already know
Speaker 2: Paul Hayman can make people incredibly better by being there.
Speaker 3: Not everyone, but damn near almost.
Speaker 2: But also, the bloodlines are so over they don't need
Speaker 2: Paul Haymon to keep doing so great. But let's use
Speaker 2: Paul Hayman put other people over the way we use
Speaker 2: MJF every three weeks to try to get some wrestler
Speaker 2: over at AW. So that's not what's gonna happen, it's
Speaker 2: what I wish would happen. And in a week where
Speaker 2: I was watching a lot of wrestlers that I'm not
Speaker 2: that familiar with because of they were there in Japan Wrestling,
Speaker 2: and then I'm not even I'm familiar with like half
Speaker 2: of the roster of AEW, I didn't have a good
Speaker 2: aw hot take. So I'm just bringing it right back
Speaker 2: to SmackDown for the hot take take of the week.
Speaker 2: Love you Freddie, Love your Federation.
Speaker 3: That's my hot tach.
Speaker 1: It's shift ass hot taarg of the week. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening. Everybody, appreciate y'all We'll see you guys
Speaker 1: next Wednesday with a brand new episode of Wrestling with Friends.
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