Speaker 1: And now you're made even introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy,
Speaker 1: Jeff Dye, Handy Bresjunior ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to a
Speaker 1: brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy. We don't have
Speaker 1: mister Jeff Dye today. We miss him dearly. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: surprise us and jump in. You never know. Anyway, here's
Speaker 1: the news. Ring of Honor World Champion Eddie Kingston defeated
Speaker 1: Jay Letho by pinfall, Claudio Castagnoli defeated Buddy Matthews by submission,
Speaker 1: and the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship MJF
Speaker 1: and Samoa Joe defeated the Guns by submission. Does this
Speaker 1: guarantee Samoa Joe a championship match against the reigning defending
Speaker 1: for three hundred and sixty five days plus? Now, Maxwell
Speaker 1: Jacob Friedman here is wrestling with Freddy. Ah, what's up everybody?
Speaker 1: I have to pretty much hold my breath when I
Speaker 1: do that annoying voice, and so if I go long
Speaker 1: like that, I get lightheaded and I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: about to fade. So if you hear a loud thump,
Speaker 1: that's the big front bone on my forehead smashing against
Speaker 1: the keyboard. Hi everyone, how are you? It was a
Speaker 1: lovely pay per view weekend. AEW's full gear from the
Speaker 1: Kia Forum here in Los Angeles. I was unable to go.
Speaker 1: My daughter had a dance convention this weekend and was
Speaker 1: competing and had her first solo and family's very, very
Speaker 1: proud of her. And dancing is a lot like wrestling.
Speaker 1: There's choreography, there's grace, there's balance, there's strength. Fortunately, they
Speaker 1: don't let little kids do it well. They probably do
Speaker 1: have a little kid wrestling promotion somewhere. But we had
Speaker 1: a good weekend as a family, but I did miss
Speaker 1: my wrestling. I got to watch the pay per view.
Speaker 1: I am fully educated upon it. I almost threw up.
Speaker 1: There was so much blood. I cheered when I saw
Speaker 1: will ospray. And we're going to get into it all
Speaker 1: right now. The show started with Adam Copeland, the Rated
Speaker 1: R Superstar, Darby Allen and Sting and they were wrestling
Speaker 1: Christian Cage, Lucasaurus and Nick Wayne. For those of you
Speaker 1: who just listen to the show and don't really watch wrestling,
Speaker 1: you just you just are like, Ah, this guy digs
Speaker 1: what he's talking about, and you feel that passion and
Speaker 1: you connect. Sting for me is what your childhood hero
Speaker 1: was to you. When I was a kid watching wrestling
Speaker 1: with my grandma in Puerto Rico every Christmas break, every
Speaker 1: summer vacation, that's where I would go to boc rom
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico and we would watch wrestling and Sting was
Speaker 1: her favorite, just her. She loved him. She was in
Speaker 1: love with him because he was handsome. Guys, for those
Speaker 1: who don't know he was, he was handsome, especially surfer surfer.
Speaker 1: Sting is the one I'm talking about. That was my
Speaker 1: introduction to him. And he had cool face paint. He
Speaker 1: was super jacked, like bodybuilder, and he had cool hair,
Speaker 1: was like a blonde, spiky haircut, and he just looked
Speaker 1: like super California. And I loved him. And he was
Speaker 1: the only guy to my knowledge that could power out
Speaker 1: and no sell the Rick Flair chop like it would
Speaker 1: hurt sometimes, but every once in a while he just
Speaker 1: ahh in the corner and Rick Blair would be like,
Speaker 1: oh my God, somebody's powering out of my chop. This
Speaker 1: was a lovely match for the nostalgia reasons. Neither of
Speaker 1: the old guys got hurt. That's right, Adam Copeland, I
Speaker 1: called you an old guy. What it was? The right
Speaker 1: guys won. The good guys won the match, and Christian
Speaker 1: Cage is still super jacked and Darby Allen. I don't
Speaker 1: know how long he's going to be able to keep
Speaker 1: doing this, but as long as he's doing it, I'll
Speaker 1: keep watching it. I wish there was a way to
Speaker 1: have fake steps to slam him into from forty feet
Speaker 1: up her eye up. He is Those days are not
Speaker 1: here with us, so I want him to be healthy.
Speaker 1: I definitely have to look away sometimes because I'm a
Speaker 1: forty seven year old father. I have a son who
Speaker 1: likes to dive and drop elbows on me because I
Speaker 1: hit him with the La Night elbow all the time.
Speaker 1: So that stuff worries me. But the right guys won.
Speaker 1: We'll move on Orange Cassidy versus John Moxley for the
Speaker 1: International title. There have been some injuries. I know Moxley
Speaker 1: had one and it sort of affected the timetable and
Speaker 1: the plan and the story that they were trying to
Speaker 1: do with this belt. So there hasn't been much of
Speaker 1: a story. But I do think they managed to salvage enough.
Speaker 1: And this is more on John Moxley's This is more
Speaker 1: due to John Moxley than anyone else. His continued hatred
Speaker 1: for Orange Cassidy, whether even though he's defeated him and
Speaker 1: was the champion before he got hurt, has maintained good
Speaker 1: heat is the term that the wrestlers, that the wrestlers
Speaker 1: like to use, and that Bence would use enough heat
Speaker 1: to keep me interested in the match, and these guys
Speaker 1: went hardcore. John Moxley always bleeds and I can't. Man.
Speaker 1: When I was in my twenties, I didn't even blink. Now,
Speaker 1: unless it's like my kid's blood, I freak out. My
Speaker 1: kids buy I just hustle to get them cleaned up.
Speaker 1: But if it's anyone else's real blood, I just oh ah,
Speaker 1: it grosses me out. And that's not even the bloodiest
Speaker 1: match of the night. Y'all, Let's go to the match
Speaker 1: that I think, the women's match that everybody was definitely
Speaker 1: interested in, the Tony Storm versus Hikaroshida. And Tony Storm
Speaker 1: has done this new gimmick that I know Jeff's not
Speaker 1: the biggest fan of. And I've seen it work and
Speaker 1: I've seen it not work. I love the black and
Speaker 1: white thing. I think that's smart that they do that,
Speaker 1: and I love the premise around it, wrapped around it.
Speaker 1: I don't think every scene they do is as good
Speaker 1: as it could be, but this is relatively knew, and
Speaker 1: I think you should be allowed to make mistakes and
Speaker 1: be given a lot of latitude in the wrestling business,
Speaker 1: considering all the things you have to work with and
Speaker 1: all the obstacles that are in your way. So I
Speaker 1: try to give more latitude to those that said. The
Speaker 1: character itself of Tony Storm this sort of iconic old
Speaker 1: school movie star, Like if anybody remembers the old Madonna
Speaker 1: Vogue video where she's doing all the poses and it's
Speaker 1: like the lighting only shows the eyes and things like that,
Speaker 1: and that's what Tony Storm is doing. She's recreating that
Speaker 1: video basically with all these poses, and it's really worked
Speaker 1: for her. She's made it her own. She didn't steal
Speaker 1: it or anything like that, but she's captured the essence
Speaker 1: of what Betty Davis and Rita Hayworth and all that
Speaker 1: old school diva stuff was. And she's wrestling against Hikiroshida,
Speaker 1: who's a three time Women's champion, really qualified wrestler. I
Speaker 1: love Shida, I follow Sheeta on Instagram. She's super cool,
Speaker 1: but there was no way she was going to win
Speaker 1: this match. Too many people are behind Tony Storm. Too
Speaker 1: many people are behind this new character that she's come
Speaker 1: up with. I think people are just glad she's finally
Speaker 1: found a character that she can do, that she can
Speaker 1: do well, that they can get behind or hate, depending
Speaker 1: on what sort of take she she has on it,
Speaker 1: and it's working for so she won this match. She
Speaker 1: won it in a very dramatic, diva Hollywood way with
Speaker 1: a shoe and the heel of one. But it was
Speaker 1: It was a good match. And I like Tony Storm
Speaker 1: a lot. I like I like she to even more.
Speaker 1: But Tony's the right person to have the title right now.
Speaker 1: The title should go to that, to that hot hand
Speaker 1: when you're still establishing titles. AW is still a young company.
Speaker 1: It's still growing, it's and it's doing well. It may
Speaker 1: not be growing as fast as as Tony Kahn wants
Speaker 1: or some fans wont, but it's growing. It's not it's
Speaker 1: not shrinking. So yeah, so the right the right person.
Speaker 2: One Will Austry will Ausprey, you guys, he's coming.
Speaker 1: He's come into America. Osprey and it's not Wwe. He
Speaker 1: chose ae W. I don't know the details of his deal.
Speaker 1: I don't like to divulge details of people's deals. People's
Speaker 1: money is their money. But I couldn't be happier. I
Speaker 1: really like this guy. I was not educated on him
Speaker 1: outside the Instagram clips that everybody sees of him getting
Speaker 1: flipped off the top turnbuckle landing on his feet in
Speaker 1: New Japan, which is really sick. And I've seen other
Speaker 1: stuff too on Instagram. But I had never seen a
Speaker 1: will Osprey match until late and got hip to him
Speaker 1: and fell in love with what everybody else has fallen
Speaker 1: in love with. He is British, he is rough around
Speaker 1: the collar. He is handsome in a in a ruggish way.
Speaker 1: He's very tom hardy is the best way for me
Speaker 1: to just describe him. And he's and he's cool, he's
Speaker 1: he'll get hot with the crowd if if he feels
Speaker 1: like it, whether they like it or not, and by
Speaker 1: the time he's done they like it. It's really powerful.
Speaker 1: He made a speech and they tried to boo for
Speaker 1: a second just because they wanted to see him sooner
Speaker 1: he was. He was saying, hey, I won't be able
Speaker 1: to wrestle right away. I have to finish my contract.
Speaker 1: And he got after them more than they got after him,
Speaker 1: and then they were like the crowd Legit was like, okay,
Speaker 1: our bad our bad's that's right. So he has a
Speaker 1: lot of command. He has a lot of presence on
Speaker 1: the microphone, a lot of presence in the ring. You
Speaker 1: have to listen in because his accent is a rough British.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not the Queen's English. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: profit's down him. I so you have to. You have
Speaker 1: to pay attention and listen when he's when he's going in,
Speaker 1: and you'll catch up. It's like like any accent. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he's worth He's worth watching if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen him. All the hardcore fans are like, dude,
Speaker 1: we know, we knew before you. Okay, chill now, I know.
Speaker 1: Now I'm telling the other people who don't know, all right,
Speaker 1: because you weren't saying it loud enough. Will aspr Tag
Speaker 1: Team Action, y'all, ladder match. I thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: hate this match, and I ended up loving it. I
Speaker 1: don't know how they pulled this off. Check this out,
Speaker 1: you guys. It's for the tag team titles a ladder match.
Speaker 1: So there's already gonna be at least four people in
Speaker 1: the ring. I say at least because it was Ricky
Speaker 1: Stark's and Big Bill, it was who else, it was
Speaker 1: Rush and his partner, it was FTR, and it was
Speaker 1: the House of Black, and they're all going after it.
Speaker 1: So there's eight dudes in the ring, three ladders, all
Speaker 1: different heights, two titles hanging from a hook. Whoever gets
Speaker 1: up there both and removes both titles wins the match.
Speaker 1: I would always like to see a match. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have, maybe I had someone out there
Speaker 1: can let me know where one of the titles is released.
Speaker 1: But then like the guy gets knocked off the ladder
Speaker 1: and now everybody's fighting for one remaining title and whoever
Speaker 1: gets it like wits. I don't know how they would
Speaker 1: pull that off one hundred percent, but I always kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to see that anyway. You guys know this podcast, Jeff,
Speaker 1: myself and everybody now are huge fans of Ricky Starks.
Speaker 1: Excellent Mike work, excellent wrestler sells like nobody's business. Great
Speaker 1: match with Brian Danielson this year, just a great match
Speaker 1: Super Bloody, the almost threw but still a great match.
Speaker 1: The right guys won. It was Big Bill, who guys
Speaker 1: like seven feet tall. If you haven't seen him, If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen him, he's a psych to behold, the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that Vince McMahon would say, if you
Speaker 1: saw him at an airport, you take notice. That's what
Speaker 1: That's what Jeff said last week. He's one of those guys,
Speaker 1: and they won. They retained the championship, which means Ricky
Speaker 1: gets to have a great promo next time he's on
Speaker 1: TV and talk to everybody about how right he was
Speaker 1: and how awesome he is. If you guys hear that
Speaker 1: beeping outside, I apologize. We called it here. Julia Hart
Speaker 1: defeats Chris Statlander and sky Blue, although I should say
Speaker 1: defeat sky Blue for Chris Statlander's championship because the exact
Speaker 1: way we broke down the match is the exact way
Speaker 1: the match was executed. Did we choreograph it? Did we
Speaker 1: call in? Was Jeff there? Because he was in Ontario
Speaker 1: at that show. Jeff drove all the way to Ontario
Speaker 1: to go to the show and then couldn't make it
Speaker 1: to the pay per view, which is like thirty minutes
Speaker 1: from his house. We said that the best way to
Speaker 1: protect Chris Statlander because she's a really good wrestler. She
Speaker 1: just hasn't had any sort of character at all, any
Speaker 1: sort of gimmick, no story, nothing, just go out there,
Speaker 1: defend the championship and then we'll do it again next week.
Speaker 1: And that's a disservice to her. All wrestlers deserve a character,
Speaker 1: and when those characters do well, then all those characters
Speaker 1: deserve a story, multiple stories. That's what longevity's all about.
Speaker 1: But we knew Julia Hard was gonna win. We knew it,
Speaker 1: and we said why, and we described how the match
Speaker 1: would go down, and the finish was what we said
Speaker 1: it was. So that's a point to the Wrestling with
Speaker 1: Friends podcast. If you keep and scorts, well, we got
Speaker 1: we got a point. You guys probably have a few.
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland, y'all, Swerve Strickland and Hangman Adam Page. This
Speaker 1: is the grossest match I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland was bleeding so much it looked like the
Speaker 1: blood was neon. It looked like anime. It was I
Speaker 1: couldn't I love Swerve Strickland. Okay, I love Swerve Strickland.
Speaker 1: We've been singing his praise. Jeff likes Adam Page a
Speaker 1: lot too, so there's there's love going in for this match.
Speaker 1: We all wanted Swerve to win. We felt like he
Speaker 1: deserved a big win over one of the bigger names.
Speaker 1: Adam Page is that name. I didn't wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: they were going to give it to him, but I
Speaker 1: was leaning that way, and I certainly hope they did
Speaker 1: and he won this match. But you guys, he must
Speaker 1: have bled. I mean, if there was a bucket and
Speaker 1: it was measured in gallons, it must have been a
Speaker 1: half gallon of blood. Of blood. It's crazy, though it'll
Speaker 1: be on social media and just watch and then imagine that.
Speaker 1: But for thirty minutes straight like that's it was. It
Speaker 1: was insane. I wanted it to be my match of
Speaker 1: the night because what the story they told in the
Speaker 1: ring was amazing, But it was so much blood, and
Speaker 1: I'm so much softer than I used to be. Man,
Speaker 1: I just can't I can't hack it. I can't hack it.
Speaker 1: So it's off my list of best of the night.
Speaker 1: But Swear Strickland one. I don't know where he's going
Speaker 1: to go from here, but I'm excited to find out.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see who's next on the list
Speaker 1: for him, because I think he's a special talent and
Speaker 1: he's getting served well. Swerve is getting served, but served well.
Speaker 1: The Golden Jets were not and the Golden Jets are
Speaker 1: not my match of the league. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of the Golden Jets name. It makes me laugh.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's supposed to less ex Gods was probably not
Speaker 1: meant to be taken so seriously, but of the Golden Jets,
Speaker 1: which basically means the Old Guys versus the Young Bucks,
Speaker 1: which means the Young Guys. If Jericho and Kenneth Omega
Speaker 1: win the match, they get the Young Bucks title opportunity,
Speaker 1: which is in any time, anywhere title opportunity for the
Speaker 1: Tag Team Championships. And if the Golden Jets lose, then
Speaker 1: they can never tag team together again, and Kenny Omega
Speaker 1: will be expected to rejoin the Young Bucks and become
Speaker 1: the Elite so they can go after the Trios Championship.
Speaker 1: I was surprised the Young Bucks did the job and
Speaker 1: the Old Guys won the match, earning them the opportunity
Speaker 1: at the Tag Team Championships. Yeah, I mean I wasn't
Speaker 1: too hype for the match. They didn't have much of
Speaker 1: a story. They didn't have time to tell a story.
Speaker 1: I think they had three weeks total and didn't give them.
Speaker 1: Didn't give them too much outside of a backstage promo
Speaker 1: or a backstage segment I should say. So we're moving
Speaker 1: on to my match of the night. Maxwell Jacob Friedman
Speaker 1: MJF the aew WOR Heavyweight Champion versus Switchblade Jay White,
Speaker 1: the man who stole the championship. And as you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of stolen championship storylines. They've
Speaker 1: even had moments in the story where an official was
Speaker 1: holding up the aw championship and gave it back to
Speaker 1: the guy that stole it instead of just going no,
Speaker 1: I'm an official. This belongs to the champions going to
Speaker 1: the champ. A couple holes in this story as it developed. However,
Speaker 1: the story they told on the day in the pre
Speaker 1: show because Max had to wrestle twice, he had to
Speaker 1: defend the tag team championships and he had to defend
Speaker 1: his World Heavyweight Championship on the same night, and friggin
Speaker 1: did so, which is amazing, But in the first match.
Speaker 1: He gets beat up after the match bad. They take
Speaker 1: a chair to his leg and he gets in an
Speaker 1: ambulance and they're taking him away and Adam Cole's there.
Speaker 1: Adam Cole kind of saves the match in the tag
Speaker 1: team match, and as he's getting hauled away in the ambulance,
Speaker 1: he's screaming, don't let him take my title, Adam, Please,
Speaker 1: just don't let him take my championship. Please, man, promise me,
Speaker 1: I promise, bro, I promised. It's Adam Cole. That's exactly
Speaker 1: how he executed it, like a stud. Sure enough, they
Speaker 1: go to give Jay White the belt and here comes
Speaker 1: Adam Cole and he's going to wrestle on a surgically
Speaker 1: repaired ankle while he's still in the boot. He doesn't care.
Speaker 1: He's going to give it all he's got. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we hear the sirens. And this is
Speaker 1: about three hours later in the show, and the ambulance
Speaker 1: comes back. Mgf's driving the ambulance. He stole it, that's
Speaker 1: how much he cares about his championship. His legs all
Speaker 1: taped up and he hobbles his ass into the ring
Speaker 1: just in time to wrestle for his championship and Jay
Speaker 1: White goes to town on his leg just right away.
Speaker 1: He's merciless. He's a total jerk Jay White. Just even
Speaker 1: though I'm not a fan of the story, Jay White
Speaker 1: has been frigging great in the story. Like, both dudes
Speaker 1: have really committed to this and made me want to
Speaker 1: watch the match even though I was against it fundamentally.
Speaker 1: So the match was incredible. I think it was probably
Speaker 1: another thirty minutes. It's my match of the week, match
Speaker 1: of the month. It was just the story was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Adam Cole's ringside cheering his best bro on, getting the
Speaker 1: crowd hyped, bringing them into the match multiple times, the
Speaker 1: story of the bad leg and him just constantly relying
Speaker 1: on adrenaline to get a move off, only to punish
Speaker 1: himself almost as much as Jay White's punishing him. It
Speaker 1: was just awesome. They did a great figure for a
Speaker 1: leglock spot where it gets reversed. It was a really
Speaker 1: beautiful match. Both guys are they're not even in their prime.
Speaker 1: They're still really young dudes. They're just great wrestlers and
Speaker 1: couldn't have been it couldn't have been impressed more. Man.
Speaker 1: I really really loved it, loved the story that they
Speaker 1: tried to tell and just thought that it was just
Speaker 1: thought that it was special. It definitely definitely made me
Speaker 1: look forward to what's next for MJF from Samoa Joe
Speaker 1: and beyond. What's next for Jay White because he was
Speaker 1: just at the top of the mountain and you don't
Speaker 1: want him to go down too far, especially when he
Speaker 1: proved he can do it. What's next for Swerve Strickland.
Speaker 1: You know, there's nobody coming out the tunnel going I'm
Speaker 1: the next guy for you, So he's going to want
Speaker 1: to challenge somebody, and I have no idea who that's
Speaker 1: going to be. I will hope. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it would be Max, but that would be crazy to
Speaker 1: see them already go at it will. Ausprey is coming
Speaker 1: in two months, like February January February to AW, he
Speaker 1: should be in the title picture right away, but obviously
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You got to give him someone
Speaker 1: who's he going to wrestle. I mean, this is like
Speaker 1: AW is set up in a really nice position. Now,
Speaker 1: granted they can mess it up right. Booking is the
Speaker 1: key to this, but they're in such a nice position
Speaker 1: with their talent and the story they've told with MJF
Speaker 1: of having no friends, like Wardlow wants to kill him.
Speaker 1: He owes Samoa Joe a match. Everybody will what's going
Speaker 1: to this? Happened with him and Adam Cole. Eventually there's
Speaker 1: going to be a conflict there when Adams foots better.
Speaker 1: He's sacrificed a lot to be Max's friend. There's that
Speaker 1: storyline of the devil, like Max has six different options,
Speaker 1: like six different roads he could go down. It's Aw's
Speaker 1: in a really, really nice spot right now. They're going
Speaker 1: to give Julia Heart a chance to run with the
Speaker 1: Women's TBS Television Championship. She's a young girl. I almost
Speaker 1: called her a kid. She's a young girl. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of responsibility, it's a lot of pressure. Is she
Speaker 1: going to be able to handle that? Will she be
Speaker 1: able to have the promo to back it up? Or
Speaker 1: will Malachi be the one who's kind of speaking on
Speaker 1: the microphone. Like there's a lot of cool questions right
Speaker 1: now for AW, a lot of good challenges for their
Speaker 1: talent and for Tony Kahn and I really hope that
Speaker 1: they're up for it, and I think they will be.
Speaker 1: They like I said, even if I didn't love that story,
Speaker 1: a lot of people did and it's lasted a long time.
Speaker 1: And if something's not working, you get rid of it.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying it didn't work. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: it didn't click with me because I as a promoter,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, man, give me that time. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the pay per view, y'all. Don't forget Thursdays, your
Speaker 1: episodes Thursdays, and we're going to be breaking down WAH
Speaker 1: games in the WWE pay perview that's coming up, So
Speaker 1: you guys will get two pay per view breakdowns and
Speaker 1: then two pay per view reviews in a row, back
Speaker 1: to back. Appreciate you guys for listening. Don't forget to
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